Amazon still uses pages for their oncall, because pagers still have a better SLA than cellphones. However, it comes at a price: their communications are unencrypted, and work on a broadcast basis. Also, they don't do a store-and-forward type thing (their "redundancy" is done by just broadcasting each message a certain number of times spaced apart), so if you're outside of the coverage area when a page goes off you'll never get it (unlike with SMS where most carriers will hold on to it until it's been delivered) so it's still not totally reliable.
Personally I would recommend setting up a Twilio app that sends the message to email and SMS, and if not responded to within a certain period of time, starts calling phone numbers and using their text-to-speech API.
You can also just store the data in a less-efficient way using QR codes or other such encodings that allow you to recover the data from the patterns of the pixels. And you can split large data files up into many many smaller chunks, and even store the index for the chunks in another image file.
Feature requests can grow infinitely, as can the number of duplicates of existing bugs. Unless you're diligently closing/merging duplicates and triaging feature requests, you're never going to plateau.
Once upon a time I found that old, obsolete AT power supplies made for a pretty good more-or-less-regulated high-wattage DC power supply for powering all sorts of random circuits which needed more amperage than any typical wallwart that one had lying around.
All of the spammy job postings I get are for things like "DB2 admin in Podunktown, Anywhere" when my resume hasn't even listed DB2 in well over a decade.
I love how lately people are trying really hard to look like they're reading my LinkedIn profile before contacting me (and going so far as to contact me via an email address listed on a site linked to from said profile), but they don't even bother to get my first name right or proofread to the extent of even noticing red squiggles underneath obvious tpyos.
GNOME shell exposes performance issues and driver bugs, which in principle means that those performance issues and driver bugs will (hopefully) be fixed, making the drivers more robust and performant down the road. How's this a problem?
Sadly, for quite some time people actually believed that was real. I had several well-intentioned friends trying to convince me that I should drop C++ and learn [insert fad language here] because Stroustrup was being evil when he designed C++.
I see it as being beneficial mostly to the vast majority of web designers who don't actually know HTML and just export stuff directly from DreamWeaver or whatever. Also, I haven't looked at this particular player, but I would hope it has a nicer set of controls than the default HTML5 video container's controls.
Nearly everyone seems to be missing the point to this. It's not something the user installs, it's something that content providers use to provide their video on the server side. This is a GOOD THING - it makes it much easier for websites to transition to HTML5 without alienating users who don't have HTML5-capable browsers.
And how do you expect them to store the digital video or watch it? In 50 years, DVD players will be even less common than VHS players are now, and those are ubiquitous - could you really expect any current storage media to be readable?
They did at least give Counter-Strike a passing mention, but the lack of Team Fortress, and even moreso the lack of Threewave CTF seem like major ommissions.
Also, that site seems to be optimized for getting as many pageviews as possible. There's no reason that article needed to be split up into 12 slow-loading banner-loaded pages.
Subaccounts exist so that you can allow other people to buy games/movies/etc. from your wallet, while limiting the amount of money they spend per month. These TOS restrictions have nothing to do with whether people can use their own (master) accounts on your PS3, or play the games you purchase from your PSN account while logged in to your system, or whatever.
Further, I'm actually glad for them to make explicit a policy of wanting to remove abusive griefers. Lately I've stopped playing PSN games online with non-friends simply because I keep on running into asshats with Bluetooth headsets and too much time on their hands, which make the whole experience horrible. By giving possible consequences for peoples' actions, it makes it possible that people might actually, you know, not be complete dipshits.
In the optical media era, Sony brought out the Playstation, Sega gave us the Saturn, and Nintendo hung onto cartridges for one more generation with the N64.
From the context in the article, it sounds like he's saying the Saturn was the second-place one in that race.
If that theoretical box also supported free video podcasts and HD content, I'd be SO all over it.
Of course, they already make something that does all that, though it's a bit pricier than $200 (and there's no built-in tuner, though you can get addon tuners for it pretty cheaply now, including a rather nice miniature ATSC/ClearQAM HD tuner for $250ish).
So, does the Honey Nut Cheerios bee have any deep, dark secrets he'd like to get out in the open? Anything to do with the fact that honey bee drones are all female?
How does setting a VCR show up on the Nielsen ratings? Does that mean all of our VCRs are collecting our viewing data and sending it back to Nielsen Media Research?
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Amazon still uses pages for their oncall, because pagers still have a better SLA than cellphones. However, it comes at a price: their communications are unencrypted, and work on a broadcast basis. Also, they don't do a store-and-forward type thing (their "redundancy" is done by just broadcasting each message a certain number of times spaced apart), so if you're outside of the coverage area when a page goes off you'll never get it (unlike with SMS where most carriers will hold on to it until it's been delivered) so it's still not totally reliable. Personally I would recommend setting up a Twilio app that sends the message to email and SMS, and if not responded to within a certain period of time, starts calling phone numbers and using their text-to-speech API.
You can also just store the data in a less-efficient way using QR codes or other such encodings that allow you to recover the data from the patterns of the pixels. And you can split large data files up into many many smaller chunks, and even store the index for the chunks in another image file.
Feature requests can grow infinitely, as can the number of duplicates of existing bugs. Unless you're diligently closing/merging duplicates and triaging feature requests, you're never going to plateau.
yet another person who has never heard of buggy implementations and privilege escalation
you obviously are bereft of pop culture as a common reference to the rest of society
Once upon a time I found that old, obsolete AT power supplies made for a pretty good more-or-less-regulated high-wattage DC power supply for powering all sorts of random circuits which needed more amperage than any typical wallwart that one had lying around.
All of the spammy job postings I get are for things like "DB2 admin in Podunktown, Anywhere" when my resume hasn't even listed DB2 in well over a decade.
I love how lately people are trying really hard to look like they're reading my LinkedIn profile before contacting me (and going so far as to contact me via an email address listed on a site linked to from said profile), but they don't even bother to get my first name right or proofread to the extent of even noticing red squiggles underneath obvious tpyos.
Remember, that delicious tap water was once pooped in by a dinosaur.
GNOME shell exposes performance issues and driver bugs, which in principle means that those performance issues and driver bugs will (hopefully) be fixed, making the drivers more robust and performant down the road. How's this a problem?
Sadly, for quite some time people actually believed that was real. I had several well-intentioned friends trying to convince me that I should drop C++ and learn [insert fad language here] because Stroustrup was being evil when he designed C++.
Whatever happened to the already-existing "cite" element and attribute that have been a standard part of HTML for years?
I see it as being beneficial mostly to the vast majority of web designers who don't actually know HTML and just export stuff directly from DreamWeaver or whatever. Also, I haven't looked at this particular player, but I would hope it has a nicer set of controls than the default HTML5 video container's controls.
Nearly everyone seems to be missing the point to this. It's not something the user installs, it's something that content providers use to provide their video on the server side. This is a GOOD THING - it makes it much easier for websites to transition to HTML5 without alienating users who don't have HTML5-capable browsers.
And not only will there be no "egg" on their faces but you might expect they would send out "new" stock to deal with this issue.
And even DVI is already starting to go away.
And how do you expect them to store the digital video or watch it? In 50 years, DVD players will be even less common than VHS players are now, and those are ubiquitous - could you really expect any current storage media to be readable?
They did at least give Counter-Strike a passing mention, but the lack of Team Fortress, and even moreso the lack of Threewave CTF seem like major ommissions. Also, that site seems to be optimized for getting as many pageviews as possible. There's no reason that article needed to be split up into 12 slow-loading banner-loaded pages.
Further, I'm actually glad for them to make explicit a policy of wanting to remove abusive griefers. Lately I've stopped playing PSN games online with non-friends simply because I keep on running into asshats with Bluetooth headsets and too much time on their hands, which make the whole experience horrible. By giving possible consequences for peoples' actions, it makes it possible that people might actually, you know, not be complete dipshits.
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Hey, now, I'm sure IRS employees pay taxes too. It's not like they get a customer discount or anything.
Of course, they already make something that does all that, though it's a bit pricier than $200 (and there's no built-in tuner, though you can get addon tuners for it pretty cheaply now, including a rather nice miniature ATSC/ClearQAM HD tuner for $250ish).
So, does the Honey Nut Cheerios bee have any deep, dark secrets he'd like to get out in the open? Anything to do with the fact that honey bee drones are all female?
How does setting a VCR show up on the Nielsen ratings? Does that mean all of our VCRs are collecting our viewing data and sending it back to Nielsen Media Research?