The funny thing is they apparently had a picture of the kid and his facebook profile, which would lead me to believe they could have at least tracked his last FB update to an ISP. Instead they all show up at 8am making a scene freaking everyone out instead of showing up at the kids house before he even leaves. It kind of reeks of a scare tactic, with all of the research they could have put into this even as far as looking into his email address paired with his profile, names used, etc they could have found the kids name at least. If he was ready to do something as drastic as what they say he was then the kid needs help rather than let him show up so they can arrest him and show him on the evening news for the next couple of months. Kids say stupid things and they also do stupid things but if they tell you before hand in what ever way then they had the opportunity to take the kid aside before the flag waving in front of the entire school and possibly get his life back on track. Instead they opt to screw the kid in the long run. The article says the police found the kid when he got to school but funny how it doesn't mention they found him with anything resembling a fire arm. None of this makes and sense and this kid is now up the flag pole, what the hell are these guys doing?
Doesn't it make you wonder, if these foriegn jobs were moved back to North America then people would have jobs to pay for these products even if the costs for said products increased. While I doubt putting 3/4 million people out of work will some how stem the suicide rate, people overe here need jobs and our industiries are paying everyone else but us to do work maybe if we did the work we could also afford to pay the inflated prices to procure them?
That's very true. Shouldn't be hard to archive at least. It would be like giving an entire civilization a psychiatric examination. Then at least we can figure out what went so horribly wrong.
Strategy I would guess. Apple has been a big push in the h264 direction and flash on mobile devices would provide an end run on app creation and distribution. Flash on mobile devices would be tricky as well since there would have to be some sort of collaboration between adobe and apple on hardware specs. Right now iOS3/4 splits everything nicely amongst the gpu/CPU going with flash adobe would have to have a say on the API which we know sir jobs wouldn't like. There's much more to silicon valley then tech.
We are still in the infancy of the Internet we need someone to build a bigger infrastructure. These are the same companies that charge grandma for unlimited plans when she uses at most 20mb/month and raking their supposed 98% of users who rarely make it half way to 30gb/month for unlimited plans. If fair is fair then why not refund the difference to grandma for her usage?
Can't argue with that. Bought a laserjet 6l last year for $50CDN with a full toner still haven't put a dime into it. Best printer purchase I've ever made.
You have obviously never programed before. Programming is all done before hand, before you hit the road, before you get out of the driveway even before you get in the car. When you write a program you are plotting a course, you are saying I am going to approach this highway at exactly X Km/h and continue at this course for exactly Y amount of time. The program is written in stone and will continue to use the same highways at the same speeds for the same amount of time for infinity that is the idea. People who do not program don't truly understand the frustration felt by developers when things like this happen after we spend all this time writing, debugging and catering to end users trying to make everyone happy and now your users/clients call you up making you look like an iddiot because files don't save, screens don't load and work isn't getting done. Now that happens enough with changing system libraries, stupid users, dumber sysadmins and failing ancient hardware. Now you get a good thing going, things are humming along and then someone comes along and thows your dinner on the floor saying we changed our mind? Fuck that.
If you have the recipe then just goto a microbrewery. You can get a batch made quite easily, you do have to make a bit to make it worth while maybe split the cost with a couple of buddies. Sounds like I might do the same.
Who gives a shit about downloading a movie. They have painted you into a corner now that mpaa and the riaa have allowed the monitoring of the so called open channels of the Internet now they will section off audio and video into seperate billing codes and fnish you off that way. Take it another step and regulators will step into control the video and audio a la FCC once it is regulated as such and all your YouTube swearing will come out as bleeps. Americans made the Internet and the broke it no harm no foul.
I know this could be considered tin foil talk and all but that is what I was thinking as well. With a country that is as much into security theater as the west in their position I would likely put a passive radio for each active into each ap. This way I could monitor a huge amount of data just incase some terrorist sends a tweet saying "we set them up the bomb".
As long as maximizing profits is an incentive and these cryptic EULAs exist it's really a no brainer. Any sufficiently popular group will incite the same outcome. As it tends to create an implosion maybe it mimics reality and evolution like everything else. It is way too easy to sell data as it is a proven asset to many in many different aspects of business, governament and social curiosity. I belive once we get rid of these long winded "agreements" and people can weigh dynamically and in real time people will continue to be baited en-masse into situations like this.
Wow my first troll mod! It actually feels pretty good!
I'd like to start by thanking all the little people in my life, you all helped to make this day happen. My principal in high school for showing me how to use the soap in the gym showers, the doctor for my first rectal exam, GNAA for all their great posts and informative commentary. I couldn't have done it with out all your support!
As AstroTurf goes that's nice. Now how can you say that these providers have some sort of right to do with their service as they please when it is the governament that has provided them the platform they do business on? Ever wonder why there are only two wires that enter into your home (twisted pair and coax)? Is it because these private entities were so ingenious it was their sole brain child to send signals via a conductor? Not even close. Now years after they have been milking their gift from the governament and the people they want to limit the crap out of it to stem competition on telephone and television communications and say if you don't like it we are taking our ball and going home. I would rather rip out the coax and the twisted pair replace them with one set of fibre wires and let them see how long they last. None of these companies have provided anything even marginably valuable but have continued to exist solely because they refuse anyone access to their wiring.
You have to admit from a consumers stand point right now most providers have a vested interest in telephone, Internet and television and right now each is sold seperately and they will lose money if you were able to find another business to supply your services. I could buy one monthly Internet account for approx $50 and the buy a voip line for approx $20 monthly and eventually online cable providers will get on board. Even if you pay the exact same amount for each service you will not in many cases be paying it to them. So as long as they can screw with your Internet connection the can ensure no one else can cash in on these other services. They have so much vested in your connection getting filtered how can you truly believe them?
Depending on what you consider HD content you will only be able to feed one or two end points at a time. You also have to remember that with the G spec it will serve all clients at the lowest common connection. This means if you have a device at the fringe of your signal it will drop from 54Mb to everyone. So connecting to your WLAN from the backyard will kill all the media in the house. After trying many times anything over DVD rip quality is messy at best, Ethernet over power receptical is really the way to go IMHO.
Any site that posts speculation about anything Apple gets the same attention Giz is just more noteworthy for it. I have to agree it's fishy that they went all this way to try to be somewhat "credible" by outting the engineer when they could have broke open the device and started taking pictures. It looks like maybe they did stumble upon a real prototype and Apple sacrificed the engineer so Giz would still have some type of street cred. If any other site on the planet found anything that resembled a prototype that puppy would be in pieces in a heart beat with so many pictures they would have to take out a mortgage for the hosting fees.
To me it sounds like Giz called Apple before they posted and Apple negotiated this outcome. This lame cluster fuck looks crap on Giz more than Apple but hey they both got attention so I guess they got what they wanted.
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The don't patent just anything that hasn't been patented just patent anything from those with the most money, work the details out in the court room.
The funny thing is they apparently had a picture of the kid and his facebook profile, which would lead me to believe they could have at least tracked his last FB update to an ISP. Instead they all show up at 8am making a scene freaking everyone out instead of showing up at the kids house before he even leaves. It kind of reeks of a scare tactic, with all of the research they could have put into this even as far as looking into his email address paired with his profile, names used, etc they could have found the kids name at least. If he was ready to do something as drastic as what they say he was then the kid needs help rather than let him show up so they can arrest him and show him on the evening news for the next couple of months. Kids say stupid things and they also do stupid things but if they tell you before hand in what ever way then they had the opportunity to take the kid aside before the flag waving in front of the entire school and possibly get his life back on track. Instead they opt to screw the kid in the long run. The article says the police found the kid when he got to school but funny how it doesn't mention they found him with anything resembling a fire arm. None of this makes and sense and this kid is now up the flag pole, what the hell are these guys doing?
Maybe he talks in monotone?
Doesn't it make you wonder, if these foriegn jobs were moved back to North America then people would have jobs to pay for these products even if the costs for said products increased. While I doubt putting 3/4 million people out of work will some how stem the suicide rate, people overe here need jobs and our industiries are paying everyone else but us to do work maybe if we did the work we could also afford to pay the inflated prices to procure them?
That's very true. Shouldn't be hard to archive at least. It would be like giving an entire civilization a psychiatric examination. Then at least we can figure out what went so horribly wrong.
Strategy I would guess. Apple has been a big push in the h264 direction and flash on mobile devices would provide an end run on app creation and distribution. Flash on mobile devices would be tricky as well since there would have to be some sort of collaboration between adobe and apple on hardware specs. Right now iOS3/4 splits everything nicely amongst the gpu/CPU going with flash adobe would have to have a say on the API which we know sir jobs wouldn't like. There's much more to silicon valley then tech.
And if someone drops a nuclear warhead on someone eventually it will be great lake farmland when do you say we start?
We are still in the infancy of the Internet we need someone to build a bigger infrastructure. These are the same companies that charge grandma for unlimited plans when she uses at most 20mb/month and raking their supposed 98% of users who rarely make it half way to 30gb/month for unlimited plans. If fair is fair then why not refund the difference to grandma for her usage?
Can't argue with that. Bought a laserjet 6l last year for $50CDN with a full toner still haven't put a dime into it. Best printer purchase I've ever made.
You have obviously never programed before. Programming is all done before hand, before you hit the road, before you get out of the driveway even before you get in the car. When you write a program you are plotting a course, you are saying I am going to approach this highway at exactly X Km/h and continue at this course for exactly Y amount of time. The program is written in stone and will continue to use the same highways at the same speeds for the same amount of time for infinity that is the idea. People who do not program don't truly understand the frustration felt by developers when things like this happen after we spend all this time writing, debugging and catering to end users trying to make everyone happy and now your users/clients call you up making you look like an iddiot because files don't save, screens don't load and work isn't getting done. Now that happens enough with changing system libraries, stupid users, dumber sysadmins and failing ancient hardware. Now you get a good thing going, things are humming along and then someone comes along and thows your dinner on the floor saying we changed our mind? Fuck that.
If you have the recipe then just goto a microbrewery. You can get a batch made quite easily, you do have to make a bit to make it worth while maybe split the cost with a couple of buddies. Sounds like I might do the same.
Exactly like liberty.
Who gives a shit about downloading a movie. They have painted you into a corner now that mpaa and the riaa have allowed the monitoring of the so called open channels of the Internet now they will section off audio and video into seperate billing codes and fnish you off that way. Take it another step and regulators will step into control the video and audio a la FCC once it is regulated as such and all your YouTube swearing will come out as bleeps. Americans made the Internet and the broke it no harm no foul.
You talk about this like getting the shit beaten out of you on the way home from work is inevitable. Is that really the case?
It will never be gone as long as there is a demand.
I know this could be considered tin foil talk and all but that is what I was thinking as well. With a country that is as much into security theater as the west in their position I would likely put a passive radio for each active into each ap. This way I could monitor a huge amount of data just incase some terrorist sends a tweet saying "we set them up the bomb".
As long as maximizing profits is an incentive and these cryptic EULAs exist it's really a no brainer. Any sufficiently popular group will incite the same outcome. As it tends to create an implosion maybe it mimics reality and evolution like everything else. It is way too easy to sell data as it is a proven asset to many in many different aspects of business, governament and social curiosity. I belive once we get rid of these long winded "agreements" and people can weigh dynamically and in real time people will continue to be baited en-masse into situations like this.
"Unless you have something to hide."
Wow my first troll mod! It actually feels pretty good!
I'd like to start by thanking all the little people in my life, you all helped to make this day happen. My principal in high school for showing me how to use the soap in the gym showers, the doctor for my first rectal exam, GNAA for all their great posts and informative commentary. I couldn't have done it with out all your support!
You mean their respecive founders right? Amirite? Do I get a prize?
As AstroTurf goes that's nice. Now how can you say that these providers have some sort of right to do with their service as they please when it is the governament that has provided them the platform they do business on? Ever wonder why there are only two wires that enter into your home (twisted pair and coax)? Is it because these private entities were so ingenious it was their sole brain child to send signals via a conductor? Not even close. Now years after they have been milking their gift from the governament and the people they want to limit the crap out of it to stem competition on telephone and television communications and say if you don't like it we are taking our ball and going home. I would rather rip out the coax and the twisted pair replace them with one set of fibre wires and let them see how long they last. None of these companies have provided anything even marginably valuable but have continued to exist solely because they refuse anyone access to their wiring.
You have to admit from a consumers stand point right now most providers have a vested interest in telephone, Internet and television and right now each is sold seperately and they will lose money if you were able to find another business to supply your services. I could buy one monthly Internet account for approx $50 and the buy a voip line for approx $20 monthly and eventually online cable providers will get on board. Even if you pay the exact same amount for each service you will not in many cases be paying it to them. So as long as they can screw with your Internet connection the can ensure no one else can cash in on these other services. They have so much vested in your connection getting filtered how can you truly believe them?
Depending on what you consider HD content you will only be able to feed one or two end points at a time. You also have to remember that with the G spec it will serve all clients at the lowest common connection. This means if you have a device at the fringe of your signal it will drop from 54Mb to everyone. So connecting to your WLAN from the backyard will kill all the media in the house. After trying many times anything over DVD rip quality is messy at best, Ethernet over power receptical is really the way to go IMHO.
Winner winner chicken dinner!
Is that eighty-seven thousand or Eighty-seven with acuracy to the third decimal place?
Any site that posts speculation about anything Apple gets the same attention Giz is just more noteworthy for it. I have to agree it's fishy that they went all this way to try to be somewhat "credible" by outting the engineer when they could have broke open the device and started taking pictures. It looks like maybe they did stumble upon a real prototype and Apple sacrificed the engineer so Giz would still have some type of street cred. If any other site on the planet found anything that resembled a prototype that puppy would be in pieces in a heart beat with so many pictures they would have to take out a mortgage for the hosting fees.
To me it sounds like Giz called Apple before they posted and Apple negotiated this outcome. This lame cluster fuck looks crap on Giz more than Apple but hey they both got attention so I guess they got what they wanted.
Not really sure, should we find out?