How do we know when they occur? Will there be a Snowden-like person to leak things on a city, county, state etc.. level to let us know when our rights/privacy have been compromised? Please do tell when we're supposed to deal with a problem we don't know exists?
What kind of bugs do you have with Google Drive? My company uses it for a spreadsheet that 3-4 people make changes to with another 3-4 additional viewers. The one problem I have is the constant pauses and disconnects. I'm sick of the "working" and "ooooops we lost all your shit" messages. I've taken to keeping notepad open and typing everything in there and pasting it from there when it starts acting up.
I haven't been keeping up on other free alternatives - if there's something better out there I'll switch the company over. Although in a few months the spreadsheet won't be needed anymore *shrug*
Could I set up a Steam Box shop myself, or would Valve only let licenced vendors sell em? My guess is it would be fine.
I totally read it wrong before but yes - looks like you'll have to license it if you want to sell it with hardware but it's free to do that:
From the website: http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/
SteamOS will be available soon as a free download for users and as a freely licensable operating system for manufacturers. Stay tuned in the coming days for more information.
.. and Myst was pretty damn boring. Oh look, a picture you can click on. You go north, you are eaten by a grue now in full color! That about sums up the level of enjoyment for me.
I also don't like dungeons and dragons and tabletop war games.
I don't think "switching to SteamOS" is even the point of the OS. Sounds like it's basically just an open OS primarily designed for steam branded hardware. I'm sure there will be nothing preventing others from using it in more traditional setting but I don't think Valve expects that to be a big thing.
The goal here isn't to solely make an OS for Steam branded hardware. If you visit the website: http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/ you'll see it's to be made available for off the shelf hardware for anybody to install on their computers and to manufacturers with a small licensing fee. Obviously they'd put in the effort to make this compatible with both AMD/Nvidia offerings and presumably for Intel IGPs as well to appeal to the largest base possible. The more people install the OS the higher the chance they'll be buying and playing steam enabled games.
If you can run also run streaming software for local/online media that would be all I'd need for an OS in the livingroom. Some people might want TV tuner compatibility as well which I see no reason why it can't work. Give me XBMC and Netflix for Steam OS and I'm sold.
What about taking your equipment to another country without restrictive rules and regulations which would allow you to do the testing? Although that would probably be expensive - if you had any friends in foreign countries you could ask them for help but you'd have to really trust them I suppose.
Yes, I ran into that problem in the past as well but then I realized I was emailing the FreeBDSM mailing list. Needless to say, I've since switched to Linux and I'm being fulfilled in ways you can't imagine.
I've used Calibre for awhile now and it's an impressive piece of software. I've been meaning to for awhile but I finally went ahead and made a donation.
Full disclosure: I'm drunk and I'm always more generous when I'm drunk.
Also, you should see The World's End - great movie.
I owned the original Nook with the small lcd screen along the bottom and the newer simple touch nook. I'm a tall guy with larger hands and the original nook was a good fit for me but I like the simple touch for the weight of it. As far as compelling differences between the Kindle and Nook line up - I don't see a huge difference besides compatibility with different formats. It seems like the Nook has better open standard support. This can be alleviated by using a program like Calibre to convert the books http://calibre-ebook.com/ though. Also, I believe the touch screen Kindles do not have hardware buttons.
As of right now there is no reason for me to upgrade to anything newer since I can read any book I want now on my simple touch. I don't like using an LCD screen to do any marathon reading as it is harsh on the eyes so an LCD for me is out of the question. I read a lot of books - one series alone was 40 books long - try that with an LCD screen and my eyes would hate me.
Now, if they came out with a hybrid e-ink / LCD device I can get on board with that:
Color E-ink for the E-ink screen so I can read books in b&w or other documents in color in the bright light or for long periods of time. Possibly have a glowlight as well?
LCD for when indoors / regular tablet functions
Give me that and I'll definitely buy that new device as long as it's implemented properly with sharpness and clarity for both functions. One of the complaints with the Nook w/glowlight was a slightly more washed out look to the screen in comparison to the regular simple touch. I bought one of the glowlights from Radioshack for $30 when it got clearanced out and gave it to my brother as it just didn't have the same sharpness. I think Amazon won with backlighting - looked like a superior technology with better viewing options.
The only reason I run Windows at home at all for is gaming, Stevesie is clearly trippin'
Maybe they should take him to that "farm" out in the country where he can "roam free" with other useless CEOs a little sooner?
That wasn't a quote from Steve Balmer it was from Ben Kuchera...
Ben Kuchera at the Penny Arcade Report points out that this could mean Microsoft will try to re-enter markets it has abandoned. He asks the company to "stay the hell away from PC gaming."
Actually, all hyperbole aside, my thoughts were "why are they stopping this and why aren't WE in the US doing this?"
It sounds like a great idea. If someone is going to die anyway, after exhausting the judicial system (again speaking for the US), why waste these organs that could go to help the many people on the waiting lists?
This is a terrible idea. Some serial killer prisoner has his/her organs harvested and given to an unsuspecting person in need of a new organ. That unsuspecting person then starts acting strangely and before you know it they're a serial killer too. Now, consider how many people made use of the prisoner's organs!! Oh my god.
Years and years ago when they were relevant. I think the most expensive item I bought was a refurbished digital camera that didn't work - they did take it back though and issue credit which I used for a different one that did work - bit of a long process though which didn't give me much faith in their stock. I probably bought some crappy keyboards too. They've had a couple sales over the years where the deals were lukewarm enough that I considered purchasing but by and large what they offered was a "decent discount". That about sums it up. Unfortunately for them I could get decent discounts from anybody and awesome discounts from a few other online retailers. There was also some issue a while back where they were hacked and I think some credit cards may have been compromised.
What they should have done was leverage their inventory using other online retailer's tools. Tigerdirect, Best Buy and other retailers have a presence on Amazon, Buy.com/Rakuten, Ebay etc.. the more exposure you have the more you can sell.
That's how my wife had to do it. This was for a radiological technologist degree (x-ray). Had to pay for the program / units / books and work a 40 hour internship for a year unpaid. Luckily for us they just stopped paying students a stipend so completely unpaid yay! This was after an unpaid externship which was about 6 months (2 or 3 days a week full shifts). Total program length was about 2 years where her ability to make an income was close to impossible.
The shitty part was - at the hospital she worked at the volunteers which came in once in awhile were given free lunches and other benefits whereas she worked 40 hours a week and didn't get jack - wait I take that back. I think she got 10 - 20% off in the cafeteria. Yes, she was learning valuable skills and getting signed off on requirements for her certification but still - she did the work of any paid employee making high 20's / low 30's per hour. What's a couple bucks for gas money for that kind of value?
So they had it set to a high level of encryption like maybe 256.
There is so much wrong with that statement I dont even know where to begin.
"Encryption" isnt the word you want for this, since sending a static, encrypted message would be highly vulnerable to a replay attack. You want "authentication", which if its using a rolling code can be highly secure. But assuming youre talking about a 256-bit key, thats still not something you can just throw out as a "we can crack this". How fast you can brute-force it depends on how long it takes to attempt one key; any sane system would limit it to 1 attempt per 0.5 seconds or something, which would make it utterly infeasible to brute-force.
I know exactly where to begin: Wrong, parent was correct except I think it was higher encryptions like 512.
It was never hard to break in for someone skilled. It was time consuming.
Technically all computer security is "easy" if you have an infinite length of time to work with, but we're talking about time scales in the billions of years with a lot of modern computer security. We have the ability to have perfectly secure systems, the flaws are often in the implementation. With simple systems (ie, only access through an RF signal), your chances of getting security right are a lot higher.
Most of the things you listed are irrelevant. You are the owner of the device in all of those examples, so you must necessarily have all of the keys to access the content in question. Accessing a car is different; you need more than access to "the car" to break in unless you feel like disassembling the car, disassembling the internal computer, and reverse engineering the ROM chip inside.
Wrong again, take for instance a dog. 7 dog years = 1 human year. How many years would it be for a digital dog @ 4.4GHZ? Exactly. Your billions of years suddenly turned into seconds with digital dog decryptographic technique. Don't even get me started on applying quantumn mechanics to this because it would blow your mind. Is there a car, is there a key? Is it locked or unlocked?!
As a consumer I expect to pay less for digital media as opposed to physical media. I understand the cost of distributing physical media is much higher and involves several more processes in that distribution chain. Pricing should reflect that.
I see pricing digital and physical media close together as an artificial construct put in place to take advantage of new processes that reduce overhead. If you made X% on the physical book previously then yes you should make a similar percentage on the digital book.
I remember when I used to buy books in a store and they weren't $9 - $10 for a paperback. They were maybe $4-$5. I understand that costs have gone up since I was a teenager but a gallon of water doesn't cost $2. It's gone up maybe 15 - 20 cents. A bean burrito costs maybe 20 cents more. If consumed goods have gone up 20% then why has media gone up 200% when it costs even less to distribute them digitally? Bring the cost down and sales will increase.
When allofmp3.com was around I spent quite a bit there as I thought I was getting my money's worth. I refused to pay a couple bucks for one song that I only listen to a couple times. I've since bought some music after that disappeared but surely not as much as I did previously in the same span of time. I don't go out and buy movies on dvd but I will pay for Netflix and have been paying for it for years as I feel it's good price for consuming media. They're making money and the people that made the movie are making money - so why can't the same work for books?
I might not be the norm when it comes to consumers and what they're willing to pay but I assure you there are others like me (cheap bastards). Look at humble bundle and the like where the minimum is $1 but there are plenty who paid more and they sold thousands and thousands of bundles with games you'll probably never play but it was so cheap people ehhh why not it's only a dollar. I think $4- $5 is a good price point for a book and that's what I'm willing to pay. Can we cut out the publisher though? Hard to say - some books wouldn't be as popular as they are now without somebody pushing them in your face and most authors can't do that without a publisher.
Steam and Netflix need to have a baby and it needs to sell books.
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How do we know when they occur? Will there be a Snowden-like person to leak things on a city, county, state etc.. level to let us know when our rights/privacy have been compromised? Please do tell when we're supposed to deal with a problem we don't know exists?
+1 Informative this post if you think senior citizens should date and +1 insightful this post if you think this needs more discussion
What kind of bugs do you have with Google Drive? My company uses it for a spreadsheet that 3-4 people make changes to with another 3-4 additional viewers. The one problem I have is the constant pauses and disconnects. I'm sick of the "working" and "ooooops we lost all your shit" messages. I've taken to keeping notepad open and typing everything in there and pasting it from there when it starts acting up.
I haven't been keeping up on other free alternatives - if there's something better out there I'll switch the company over. Although in a few months the spreadsheet won't be needed anymore *shrug*
Could I set up a Steam Box shop myself, or would Valve only let licenced vendors sell em? My guess is it would be fine.
I totally read it wrong before but yes - looks like you'll have to license it if you want to sell it with hardware but it's free to do that:
From the website: http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/
SteamOS will be available soon as a free download for users and as a freely licensable operating system for manufacturers. Stay tuned in the coming days for more information.
.. and Myst was pretty damn boring. Oh look, a picture you can click on. You go north, you are eaten by a grue now in full color! That about sums up the level of enjoyment for me.
I also don't like dungeons and dragons and tabletop war games.
I don't think "switching to SteamOS" is even the point of the OS. Sounds like it's basically just an open OS primarily designed for steam branded hardware. I'm sure there will be nothing preventing others from using it in more traditional setting but I don't think Valve expects that to be a big thing.
The goal here isn't to solely make an OS for Steam branded hardware. If you visit the website: http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/ you'll see it's to be made available for off the shelf hardware for anybody to install on their computers and to manufacturers with a small licensing fee. Obviously they'd put in the effort to make this compatible with both AMD/Nvidia offerings and presumably for Intel IGPs as well to appeal to the largest base possible. The more people install the OS the higher the chance they'll be buying and playing steam enabled games.
If you can run also run streaming software for local/online media that would be all I'd need for an OS in the livingroom. Some people might want TV tuner compatibility as well which I see no reason why it can't work. Give me XBMC and Netflix for Steam OS and I'm sold.
What about taking your equipment to another country without restrictive rules and regulations which would allow you to do the testing? Although that would probably be expensive - if you had any friends in foreign countries you could ask them for help but you'd have to really trust them I suppose.
Bureaucracy is a bitch.
Yes, I ran into that problem in the past as well but then I realized I was emailing the FreeBDSM mailing list. Needless to say, I've since switched to Linux and I'm being fulfilled in ways you can't imagine.
... and it's actually a website wtf
..A bullet might be a little bit overkill..
Actually, a bullet would be exactly kill. I've never heard of someone being 110% dead before.
Holy Department of Redundancy Department, Batman!
Holy Department of Redundancy Department, Batman!
Holy Shit, Superman!
I have two words on the timing of this intercept in relation to new countries to invade:
Convenient
The second word was intercepted.
Why?
The same reason why you need 2560x1600 on a 13" Macbook Pro... because.
I've used Calibre for awhile now and it's an impressive piece of software. I've been meaning to for awhile but I finally went ahead and made a donation.
Full disclosure: I'm drunk and I'm always more generous when I'm drunk.
Also, you should see The World's End - great movie.
I owned the original Nook with the small lcd screen along the bottom and the newer simple touch nook. I'm a tall guy with larger hands and the original nook was a good fit for me but I like the simple touch for the weight of it. As far as compelling differences between the Kindle and Nook line up - I don't see a huge difference besides compatibility with different formats. It seems like the Nook has better open standard support. This can be alleviated by using a program like Calibre to convert the books http://calibre-ebook.com/ though. Also, I believe the touch screen Kindles do not have hardware buttons.
As of right now there is no reason for me to upgrade to anything newer since I can read any book I want now on my simple touch. I don't like using an LCD screen to do any marathon reading as it is harsh on the eyes so an LCD for me is out of the question. I read a lot of books - one series alone was 40 books long - try that with an LCD screen and my eyes would hate me.
Now, if they came out with a hybrid e-ink / LCD device I can get on board with that: Color E-ink for the E-ink screen so I can read books in b&w or other documents in color in the bright light or for long periods of time. Possibly have a glowlight as well?
LCD for when indoors / regular tablet functions
Give me that and I'll definitely buy that new device as long as it's implemented properly with sharpness and clarity for both functions. One of the complaints with the Nook w/glowlight was a slightly more washed out look to the screen in comparison to the regular simple touch. I bought one of the glowlights from Radioshack for $30 when it got clearanced out and gave it to my brother as it just didn't have the same sharpness. I think Amazon won with backlighting - looked like a superior technology with better viewing options.
The only reason I run Windows at home at all for is gaming, Stevesie is clearly trippin'
Maybe they should take him to that "farm" out in the country where he can "roam free" with other useless CEOs a little sooner?
That wasn't a quote from Steve Balmer it was from Ben Kuchera...
Ben Kuchera at the Penny Arcade Report points out that this could mean Microsoft will try to re-enter markets it has abandoned. He asks the company to "stay the hell away from PC gaming."
So.. Firefox OS?
So.. Windows Phone 8?
Actually, all hyperbole aside, my thoughts were "why are they stopping this and why aren't WE in the US doing this?"
It sounds like a great idea. If someone is going to die anyway, after exhausting the judicial system (again speaking for the US), why waste these organs that could go to help the many people on the waiting lists?
This is a terrible idea. Some serial killer prisoner has his/her organs harvested and given to an unsuspecting person in need of a new organ. That unsuspecting person then starts acting strangely and before you know it they're a serial killer too. Now, consider how many people made use of the prisoner's organs!! Oh my god.
Source: B movies.
Years and years ago when they were relevant. I think the most expensive item I bought was a refurbished digital camera that didn't work - they did take it back though and issue credit which I used for a different one that did work - bit of a long process though which didn't give me much faith in their stock. I probably bought some crappy keyboards too. They've had a couple sales over the years where the deals were lukewarm enough that I considered purchasing but by and large what they offered was a "decent discount". That about sums it up. Unfortunately for them I could get decent discounts from anybody and awesome discounts from a few other online retailers. There was also some issue a while back where they were hacked and I think some credit cards may have been compromised.
What they should have done was leverage their inventory using other online retailer's tools. Tigerdirect, Best Buy and other retailers have a presence on Amazon, Buy.com/Rakuten, Ebay etc.. the more exposure you have the more you can sell.
What's next, ovens that are just as hot on the outside as they are on the inside?
We already have that, it's called Arizona.
Source: Just moved here :(
That's how my wife had to do it. This was for a radiological technologist degree (x-ray). Had to pay for the program / units / books and work a 40 hour internship for a year unpaid. Luckily for us they just stopped paying students a stipend so completely unpaid yay! This was after an unpaid externship which was about 6 months (2 or 3 days a week full shifts). Total program length was about 2 years where her ability to make an income was close to impossible.
The shitty part was - at the hospital she worked at the volunteers which came in once in awhile were given free lunches and other benefits whereas she worked 40 hours a week and didn't get jack - wait I take that back. I think she got 10 - 20% off in the cafeteria. Yes, she was learning valuable skills and getting signed off on requirements for her certification but still - she did the work of any paid employee making high 20's / low 30's per hour. What's a couple bucks for gas money for that kind of value?
So they had it set to a high level of encryption like maybe 256.
There is so much wrong with that statement I dont even know where to begin.
"Encryption" isnt the word you want for this, since sending a static, encrypted message would be highly vulnerable to a replay attack. You want "authentication", which if its using a rolling code can be highly secure. But assuming youre talking about a 256-bit key, thats still not something you can just throw out as a "we can crack this". How fast you can brute-force it depends on how long it takes to attempt one key; any sane system would limit it to 1 attempt per 0.5 seconds or something, which would make it utterly infeasible to brute-force.
I know exactly where to begin: Wrong, parent was correct except I think it was higher encryptions like 512.
It was never hard to break in for someone skilled. It was time consuming.
Technically all computer security is "easy" if you have an infinite length of time to work with, but we're talking about time scales in the billions of years with a lot of modern computer security. We have the ability to have perfectly secure systems, the flaws are often in the implementation. With simple systems (ie, only access through an RF signal), your chances of getting security right are a lot higher.
Most of the things you listed are irrelevant. You are the owner of the device in all of those examples, so you must necessarily have all of the keys to access the content in question. Accessing a car is different; you need more than access to "the car" to break in unless you feel like disassembling the car, disassembling the internal computer, and reverse engineering the ROM chip inside.
Wrong again, take for instance a dog. 7 dog years = 1 human year. How many years would it be for a digital dog @ 4.4GHZ? Exactly. Your billions of years suddenly turned into seconds with digital dog decryptographic technique. Don't even get me started on applying quantumn mechanics to this because it would blow your mind. Is there a car, is there a key? Is it locked or unlocked?!
That's too big to be.. no wait that's actually a good size.
Yes, the start menu looks different but it still works the same way and based on stats, many people rarely used it anyway.
Which stats were those again? Did they poll everybody's Grandma? I'm not even sure my Grandma knows how to turn her computer on.
As a consumer I expect to pay less for digital media as opposed to physical media. I understand the cost of distributing physical media is much higher and involves several more processes in that distribution chain. Pricing should reflect that.
I see pricing digital and physical media close together as an artificial construct put in place to take advantage of new processes that reduce overhead. If you made X% on the physical book previously then yes you should make a similar percentage on the digital book.
I remember when I used to buy books in a store and they weren't $9 - $10 for a paperback. They were maybe $4-$5. I understand that costs have gone up since I was a teenager but a gallon of water doesn't cost $2. It's gone up maybe 15 - 20 cents. A bean burrito costs maybe 20 cents more. If consumed goods have gone up 20% then why has media gone up 200% when it costs even less to distribute them digitally? Bring the cost down and sales will increase.
When allofmp3.com was around I spent quite a bit there as I thought I was getting my money's worth. I refused to pay a couple bucks for one song that I only listen to a couple times. I've since bought some music after that disappeared but surely not as much as I did previously in the same span of time. I don't go out and buy movies on dvd but I will pay for Netflix and have been paying for it for years as I feel it's good price for consuming media. They're making money and the people that made the movie are making money - so why can't the same work for books?
I might not be the norm when it comes to consumers and what they're willing to pay but I assure you there are others like me (cheap bastards). Look at humble bundle and the like where the minimum is $1 but there are plenty who paid more and they sold thousands and thousands of bundles with games you'll probably never play but it was so cheap people ehhh why not it's only a dollar. I think $4- $5 is a good price point for a book and that's what I'm willing to pay. Can we cut out the publisher though? Hard to say - some books wouldn't be as popular as they are now without somebody pushing them in your face and most authors can't do that without a publisher.
Steam and Netflix need to have a baby and it needs to sell books.