All I want is to have encrypted connections. Why do I have to pay a shit-ton of money for connections to my server to be properly encrypted and not to be treated like a criminal by browsers? Let's Encrypt does this. Yes, they're not verified very well; neither are standard SSL certificate (I know; I bought some with pretty much zero verification).
- stareing, day in and day out with awe and amazement at the ultimate shitfest that is WordPresses application architecture and wondering how we as a human race even got this far... That's just from the top of my head.
How I envy you for the days when Wordpress seemed daunting. Alas, Magento2 has crossed my path and I felt my youthful innocense torn away.
When I'm typing on my keyboard and some application thinks it's important enough not just to pop up in front of all the other windows but also move the cursor to its windows.
Especially funny when you're entering an internal password with a customer looking over your shoulder.
This has been a complaint I've had since the earliest versions of Windows. I don't think it's the application controlling this, but the OS, which makes it even more egregious as the OS can actually know the keyboard is being used in another application.
It's not. It's up to Google, Microsoft, Apple and Mozilla. If they are on board, it'll get implemented no matter how much opposed. If they aren't, the standard is dead on arrival.
There are certainly positive outliers. For example season finales or particularly well-advertised episodes.
Anyway, next time some episodes airs during the superbowl, advertisers can trust the predicted number of viewers being correct, thanks to the excellent practice of excluding negative outliers.
Yes, it's fraud. Ask yourself; are they also excluding positive outliers?
Pharma companies don't measure how many people who take their drug get healthy, they measure how many people get healthy because they take their drug. That's why they have to eliminate external factors from their data.
Nielsen ratings measure how many viewers shows have on average. Nothing is stopping the TV channels from not providing any data to Nielsen, providing mode averages, putting in the extra work to explain the outliers and offer reduced advertising rates for these special situations or even simply tell the advertisers that they are excluding low rating episodes. Instead, they intentionally undermine a rating system they claim to support.
I think the underlying truth is that advertisers really don't mind being defrauded if is saves them the effort of actually doing research into cost/benefit.
The centralization/decentralization cycle has been going on since before I was born, and will continue to do so long after I die.
As some point, the BA folk will understand that putting data outside your control has a number of significant legal problems. They'll start moving the data in-house again. They'll call it "The ground" or something equally meaningless and all the BA's will consider in a revolution in computing history.
You cannot reasonably say anything about the suit's origin and the chef just looks like any regular person, nor would either preclude their ability to make a good steak if they were true.
Why did you type this and press the "Submit" button?
Photobucket costs "ad views". That may not be valued at $400 a year, but it's certainly more than $0 a year. At $0 a year, the users got exactly what they paid for and are still getting exactly what they're paying for.
Since forever. A person can't simply decide not to work and die instead. Labor isn't a supply & demand market; it's supply (laborers) is fixed, giving the demand (employers) limitless bargaining power. That is why there are things such as social wellfare and minimum wages.
I understand what you're saying and in my own carreer I'm able to balance it more towards earning less and having more fun, but this isn't an option for the vast majority of people. Think of all those dozens of coal miners whose jobs have been saved for a few more years; you really think they have the option of just taking another job or working shorter weeks while still making enough money to support their family?
Actually, most people prefer compressed music. That's why they are selling it.
Just because people don't have a choice, doesn't mean they prefer the only option they have. If CD's were available in the flavors of "As intended by the artist" or "Post-processed by the record company", which do you think people would prefer? People buy "director's cut" movies. How about "musician's cut" music?
CD sucks not because of the technology, but because of idiot mastering. Vinyl is better because even the noise of vinyl records isn't as bad as absurd compression. SACD is better because the SACD standard put limits on the amount of compression allowed.
I get why they do it, to make the song louder over FM radio, but that makes no sense at all in the world of high bandwidth digital streaming and distribution.
Very few people actually want vinyl. People want recordings that aren't compressed to the point where the music itself becomes mostly noise and vinyl is pretty much the only way to get those recordings.
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Why would someone donate their brain if they didn't think they had damage?
Because they were religious and thought they needed their brains to get to heaven.
So in essence, this research had a self-selection bias AGAINST brain damage ;)
All I want is to have encrypted connections. Why do I have to pay a shit-ton of money for connections to my server to be properly encrypted and not to be treated like a criminal by browsers? Let's Encrypt does this. Yes, they're not verified very well; neither are standard SSL certificate (I know; I bought some with pretty much zero verification).
Who want's to work for such a dickhead?
A whore.
Who are you replying to?
There's nobody up higher in this thread.
There are no previous comments by you on this article.
's all I can say.
- stareing, day in and day out with awe and amazement at the ultimate shitfest that is WordPresses application architecture and wondering how we as a human race even got this far ... That's just from the top of my head.
How I envy you for the days when Wordpress seemed daunting.
Alas, Magento2 has crossed my path and I felt my youthful innocense torn away.
Then just renegotiate a better deal when the current contract runs out or take the 25% profit loss and stop distributing your music on YouTube.
When I'm typing on my keyboard and some application thinks it's important enough not just to pop up in front of all the other windows but also move the cursor to its windows.
Especially funny when you're entering an internal password with a customer looking over your shoulder.
This has been a complaint I've had since the earliest versions of Windows.
I don't think it's the application controlling this, but the OS, which makes it even more egregious as the OS can actually know the keyboard is being used in another application.
People who use spaces instead of tabs are 4 to 8 times less efficiënt.
Yes, they are.
And by the way; are non-Chinese companies banned from exporting forklifts, mopeds and small delivery vehicles to China?
It's not. It's up to Google, Microsoft, Apple and Mozilla.
If they are on board, it'll get implemented no matter how much opposed.
If they aren't, the standard is dead on arrival.
There are certainly positive outliers. For example season finales or particularly well-advertised episodes.
Anyway, next time some episodes airs during the superbowl, advertisers can trust the predicted number of viewers being correct, thanks to the excellent practice of excluding negative outliers.
Lies, damn lies and statistics.
Yes, it's fraud.
Ask yourself; are they also excluding positive outliers?
Pharma companies don't measure how many people who take their drug get healthy, they measure how many people get healthy because they take their drug. That's why they have to eliminate external factors from their data.
Nielsen ratings measure how many viewers shows have on average. Nothing is stopping the TV channels from not providing any data to Nielsen, providing mode averages, putting in the extra work to explain the outliers and offer reduced advertising rates for these special situations or even simply tell the advertisers that they are excluding low rating episodes. Instead, they intentionally undermine a rating system they claim to support.
I think the underlying truth is that advertisers really don't mind being defrauded if is saves them the effort of actually doing research into cost/benefit.
What incentive do they have?
This is fraud, plain and simple.
I thought you were joking, but... oh dear lord... are we at the end of this centralization/decentralization 5-yearly cycle already?
The centralization/decentralization cycle has been going on since before I was born, and will continue to do so long after I die.
As some point, the BA folk will understand that putting data outside your control has a number of significant legal problems. They'll start moving the data in-house again. They'll call it "The ground" or something equally meaningless and all the BA's will consider in a revolution in computing history.
On what exactly are you hosting your own data?
A webhosting plan?
VPS server?
Managed server?
There are few paid services quite as simple as uploading something to photobucket and posting a link elsewhere.
There are.
For instance; Photobucket.
I think Photobucket users, no matter how tech-unsavvy, would be able to find Photobucket.
You cannot reasonably say anything about the suit's origin and the chef just looks like any regular person, nor would either preclude their ability to make a good steak if they were true.
Why did you type this and press the "Submit" button?
Photobucket costs "ad views".
That may not be valued at $400 a year, but it's certainly more than $0 a year.
At $0 a year, the users got exactly what they paid for and are still getting exactly what they're paying for.
Being more capable at making decisions is not necessarily a good thing.
For instance; I very much want homicidal maniacs not ever to make decisions.
Since forever.
A person can't simply decide not to work and die instead.
Labor isn't a supply & demand market; it's supply (laborers) is fixed, giving the demand (employers) limitless bargaining power.
That is why there are things such as social wellfare and minimum wages.
I understand what you're saying and in my own carreer I'm able to balance it more towards earning less and having more fun, but this isn't an option for the vast majority of people. Think of all those dozens of coal miners whose jobs have been saved for a few more years; you really think they have the option of just taking another job or working shorter weeks while still making enough money to support their family?
Actually, most people prefer compressed music. That's why they are selling it.
Just because people don't have a choice, doesn't mean they prefer the only option they have.
If CD's were available in the flavors of "As intended by the artist" or "Post-processed by the record company", which do you think people would prefer?
People buy "director's cut" movies. How about "musician's cut" music?
This.
CD sucks not because of the technology, but because of idiot mastering.
Vinyl is better because even the noise of vinyl records isn't as bad as absurd compression.
SACD is better because the SACD standard put limits on the amount of compression allowed.
I get why they do it, to make the song louder over FM radio, but that makes no sense at all in the world of high bandwidth digital streaming and distribution.
Very few people actually want vinyl. People want recordings that aren't compressed to the point where the music itself becomes mostly noise and vinyl is pretty much the only way to get those recordings.