Eureka Magazine has a story about the latest NASA 2017-2018 software catalog. From the report: "NASA has released its 2017-2018 software catalogue free of charge to the public, without any royalty or copyright fees.
Seems to me the software was already paid for by me. Or does NASA think their budget grows on a money tree in space?
I do, and I remember all the freakouts over the lack of SCSI and ADB ports, and on the Windows side of the aisle everyone insisting manufacturers NOT kill the PS/2 ports. Ultimately, the technology advances, and old ports aren't needed any more
Yes, but the point is technology advances from evolution to better standards. The ports are dropped because everyone has moved on, and they are a waste to keep on the device. The difference is the market driving the change, not one company that just wants to "think different" than the rest of the world.
You don't get to choose the limits for sending to recipients. The receiving server is the one that decides what they'll accept.
Why don't know invent a way to teach Joe Six Pack about appropriate resolution and quality of photos. I'm sick of dealing with people who want to know why they can't send 20 photos, each much larger than they will ever really need thanks to the megapixel race, through email.
They don't seem to get why someone would not want to down a huge batch of files they will likely look at only once and only at the resolution of their screen they are viewing their email on. Just do your friends a favor and post them in an album online, and send people a link to it.
However, we are concerned by the alleged findings you had conducted
Piffle! That's a totally wrong spin! According to TFA, most of the other 50% is soy — the famously humane and environment-friendly replacement for meat.
If Subway wants to serve 50/50 soy/chicken "meat" they are welcome to. They have to stop calling it chicken, though. If I'm paying for chicken, I expect to get chicken, regardless of healthiness/environmental factors.
Internet Explorer 11 requires Windows 7 SP1 for higher. Microsoft would be quick to point out that that have offered free upgrades to Windows 10, featuring their new, more secure Edge browser, for over a year now.
who knew that the part of iOS 10 many people laughed at, iMessage stickers, would be a smash ht for Apple that had Google scrambling...
If Stickers is such a "smash hit" why have I not heard of this feature before now? I know people with iPhones and they never mention it. While I'm not a mobile gamer, I certainly am aware of Pokemon Go, Super Mario Run, and the new Fire Emblem mobile games Nintendo is releasing.
Is this feature a "smash hit" according to anyone not drunk on Apple Kool-Aid?
Unorganized individual home wi-fi owners and users on one size. Mega telecom companies with deep pockets full of government lobbyists, money and politicians on the other side. Both allowed to use the home wi-fi spectrum. You don't have to be Einstein to see what is going to happen.
So you don't think the FCC should side with the telecom companies carrying people's emergency calls vs. the home users posting shit on Facebook?
What would help sales of manga is making more of it available in an open digital format. Physical manga takes up a lot of space given its entertainment value/time to read. The larger format, superior contrast to standard pulp paper, and higher portability (without a proprietary "reader" application or constant internet connection to read on a website) makes the scannlator's "product" superior.
I recently contributed to a Kickstarter for a certain manga title that has had trouble getting an official English release because it has met some controversy in the West. I'm getting a digital edition. I already have a fully scannlated copy of the original work, so the almost $100 I spent to get this officially-licensed translation wasn't really needed. What's more, the official licensee hired the original scannlator to handle the localization -- so the old argument about "inferior fan translation vs. professional" is bupkis. I'm buying a "version 2" of the same guy's work.
What made me contribute was 1) I could get it digital 2) It's an open format (no DRM). The title uses stenography or some other watermarking to tie my personal copy to my purchase in case I should share it. I can use any normal comic reader app to view it.
This unfortunately is a minority of English-language manga release. Most require online web-viewing or only come in dead-tree edition.
The reason this should not happen are exactly the same as when AT&T wanted to buy T-Mobile -- there would be one less cell phone company, meaning less choice for consumers and competition among carriers.
The recent activity on "Unlimited" plans (T-Mobile makes one with some dumb restrictions, Verizon makes another that's a little more expensive, but without those limitations, T-Mobile comes back with less restrictions than before to compete, Sprint comes out with a new plan, AT&T says "me too" because they are looking like a bunch of douches now) -- this is a prime example of what competition does. Competition that wouldn't be happening with fewer players.
If the houses are that close together, maybe that's why they can't get good coverage. Coverage requires towers and capacity feeding them. No place to put up towers in an area jam-packed with NIMBYs.
If you piss of your user base they will leave, at which point you have nothing further to sell on the other side of your business.
The thing about corporate-controlled social networks -- they only let you talk to other people on that network. The userbase will not leave until they start to leave en masse, because if they leave they will be cut off from all their "friends" and family also on the network. It's not like email where you can change your provider and write to all the same people from a new address.
People will not have this mass-exodus until something new comes along that everyone else is moving to because its the "hip new thing". There are still lots of people on MySpace and it is long, long past being the place to be and had its mass exodus. Facebook has its audience pretty captive at this point.
>The "curator" business is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
It's just an extension of trying to make things sound more upscale to justify higher prices. Do you make these thingamajigs? What? No. We craft this product.
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Yeah. And the ISS was in part paid by me, so I want a ticket on the next ride there to inspect my property!
Just because something is funded by taxes doesn't mean that it automatically lands in the public domain. Sorry.
Most appropriate response.
Eureka Magazine has a story about the latest NASA 2017-2018 software catalog. From the report: "NASA has released its 2017-2018 software catalogue free of charge to the public, without any royalty or copyright fees.
Seems to me the software was already paid for by me. Or does NASA think their budget grows on a money tree in space?
I do, and I remember all the freakouts over the lack of SCSI and ADB ports, and on the Windows side of the aisle everyone insisting manufacturers NOT kill the PS/2 ports. Ultimately, the technology advances, and old ports aren't needed any more
Yes, but the point is technology advances from evolution to better standards. The ports are dropped because everyone has moved on, and they are a waste to keep on the device. The difference is the market driving the change, not one company that just wants to "think different" than the rest of the world.
You don't get to choose the limits for sending to recipients. The receiving server is the one that decides what they'll accept.
Why don't know invent a way to teach Joe Six Pack about appropriate resolution and quality of photos. I'm sick of dealing with people who want to know why they can't send 20 photos, each much larger than they will ever really need thanks to the megapixel race, through email.
They don't seem to get why someone would not want to down a huge batch of files they will likely look at only once and only at the resolution of their screen they are viewing their email on. Just do your friends a favor and post them in an album online, and send people a link to it.
In Soviet Wardriving, hotspot drives to YOU.
Why didn't they charge him with battery?
Piffle! That's a totally wrong spin! According to TFA, most of the other 50% is soy — the famously humane and environment-friendly replacement for meat.
If Subway wants to serve 50/50 soy/chicken "meat" they are welcome to. They have to stop calling it chicken, though.
If I'm paying for chicken, I expect to get chicken, regardless of healthiness/environmental factors.
Not sure how you can call a phone compact that most people could not fit in their pocket without it sticking out.
Internet Explorer 11 requires Windows 7 SP1 for higher. Microsoft would be quick to point out that that have offered free upgrades to Windows 10, featuring their new, more secure Edge browser, for over a year now.
Why is that in a directory labeled "streetfighter"?
who knew that the part of iOS 10 many people laughed at, iMessage stickers, would be a smash ht for Apple that had Google scrambling...
If Stickers is such a "smash hit" why have I not heard of this feature before now? I know people with iPhones and they never mention it. While I'm not a mobile gamer, I certainly am aware of Pokemon Go, Super Mario Run, and the new Fire Emblem mobile games Nintendo is releasing.
Is this feature a "smash hit" according to anyone not drunk on Apple Kool-Aid?
I feel like almost all reporting is negative nowadays.
Hasn't that always been the case?
People don't want to read good news. Humans interest stories are seen as fluff pieces. "If it bleeds, it leads"?
Subpoena Alexa/Amazon as a witness, then.
She might need an interpreter.
I'm imagining the testimony being submitted as a written statement -- made up of a few bank boxes of paper covered with binary code.
Unorganized individual home wi-fi owners and users on one size. Mega telecom companies with deep pockets full of government lobbyists, money and politicians on the other side. Both allowed to use the home wi-fi spectrum. You don't have to be Einstein to see what is going to happen.
So you don't think the FCC should side with the telecom companies carrying people's emergency calls vs. the home users posting shit on Facebook?
>I seem to recall an awful lot of Apple Haters whining about a certain new MacBook Pro that had dropped the built in SD reader...
You just keep on using your slow vestigial reader while us MacBook Pro owners stay at the forefront of technological advance.
You'll only get that if you buy the Sony card, though. So you have no choice in hardware vendor now. /smirk
But I guess you're used to that.
What would help sales of manga is making more of it available in an open digital format. Physical manga takes up a lot of space given its entertainment value/time to read. The larger format, superior contrast to standard pulp paper, and higher portability (without a proprietary "reader" application or constant internet connection to read on a website) makes the scannlator's "product" superior.
I recently contributed to a Kickstarter for a certain manga title that has had trouble getting an official English release because it has met some controversy in the West. I'm getting a digital edition. I already have a fully scannlated copy of the original work, so the almost $100 I spent to get this officially-licensed translation wasn't really needed. What's more, the official licensee hired the original scannlator to handle the localization -- so the old argument about "inferior fan translation vs. professional" is bupkis. I'm buying a "version 2" of the same guy's work.
What made me contribute was 1) I could get it digital 2) It's an open format (no DRM). The title uses stenography or some other watermarking to tie my personal copy to my purchase in case I should share it. I can use any normal comic reader app to view it.
This unfortunately is a minority of English-language manga release. Most require online web-viewing or only come in dead-tree edition.
They must think the E.U. is having trouble seeing things their way.
If this doesn't work they'll use 24 points to make a bigger impact.
The bad news is that the EMF file can be hidden in other documents, such as DOCX, and can be exploited via Office, IE, or Office Online, among many.
Can we hear about other attack methods? So far this sounds like an issue that isn't going to impact people not using Microsoft Office or DOCX files.
The reason this should not happen are exactly the same as when AT&T wanted to buy T-Mobile -- there would be one less cell phone company, meaning less choice for consumers and competition among carriers.
The recent activity on "Unlimited" plans (T-Mobile makes one with some dumb restrictions, Verizon makes another that's a little more expensive, but without those limitations, T-Mobile comes back with less restrictions than before to compete, Sprint comes out with a new plan, AT&T says "me too" because they are looking like a bunch of douches now) -- this is a prime example of what competition does. Competition that wouldn't be happening with fewer players.
But why the hell would I want to listen to commercial FM radio?
Doesn't matter if it's free, its full of ads and rarely playing music I want to hear.
If the houses are that close together, maybe that's why they can't get good coverage. Coverage requires towers and capacity feeding them.
No place to put up towers in an area jam-packed with NIMBYs.
If you piss of your user base they will leave, at which point you have nothing further to sell on the other side of your business.
The thing about corporate-controlled social networks -- they only let you talk to other people on that network. The userbase will not leave until they start to leave en masse, because if they leave they will be cut off from all their "friends" and family also on the network. It's not like email where you can change your provider and write to all the same people from a new address.
People will not have this mass-exodus until something new comes along that everyone else is moving to because its the "hip new thing". There are still lots of people on MySpace and it is long, long past being the place to be and had its mass exodus. Facebook has its audience pretty captive at this point.
I still haven't updated my Yahoo settings on my tablet from the last time I had to reset my password (because of one of their hacks).
Autoplay video has been on every year's "Top 10 Web Don'ts" list since at least 1998.
Why would Facebook care what users think of the practice? They aren't Facebook's customers.
>The "curator" business is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
It's just an extension of trying to make things sound more upscale to justify higher prices.
Do you make these thingamajigs?
What? No. We craft this product.