From a recent pastebin post allegedly from a Microsoft person, the DRM scheme appears to be actually better for consumers. How often are people screwed by selling their used games for pennies on the dollar? The XBOX One scheme actually does two things: it provides consumer protection in the used game market by elevating prices and it appears to also provide minimal (and nominal) revenue for publishers when a game is resold.
This model seems to work on Steam and TODAY nobody is bad-mouthing Steam after over a decade of DRM-encumbered operation.
Well, there is that pesky nickel smelting problem for the nickel foam thing that is required by the vehicles that you Earth-Firsters think is going to save the world.
Exactly how is this different from USB 3.0? Or even the Nook Color and Nook Tablet's 12-pin 1.9 amp micro-USB connector that optionally charges at 1.9 amps with the appropriate connector, but regular USB with a 5-pin connector?
Flash Video is not Adobe Flash. It's just VP6 and H.264, among other codecs, that are using Flash as a container. On Apple iOS devices, Adobe Flash isn't even in the picture--it's just H.264.
More likely YouTube, too, is being throttled or at least left in a state of benign neglect. Verizon FiOS, supposedly to be the fastest anywhere, consistently has trouble delivering YouTube videos. I work on many different networks and peering points but the only one that has trouble with YouTube is Verizon FiOS. Even if the YouTube video is serving from a local edge server (Ashburn) it will pause within the first twenty seconds each and every time.
Oddly enough, and likely because we are only down the road from AWS-East, we never have trouble with Netflix or Amazon Instant Video on our FiOS connection.
Cox never had any sort of problem but that might be a lack of customers since FiOS came into town.
Skip all the Raspbian instructions. Instead, use the RPI Chameleon distribution for retro gaming on the Pi. Users are presented with a nice console-style menu screen after the system powers on with a ton of different emulators for not just consoles and arcade games but computers, too.
The/. post blurb mentions that Softlayer "[has] a dark past" but I don't see here, nor do I recall, what this dark past might actually be. Did the blurb poster mean hacking/spidering, or are they referring to some sort of clandestine intelligence role?
Can someone enlighten us on what this "dark past" is?
I recently encountered a project that states that it is being managed as "Agile." One of the developers told me that their version of Agile is more like a really, really short Waterfall process. I didn't see any reason to disagree with that so I was wondering what Agile really meant in the actual Real World(TM).
Does that mean we're doing it wrong? I'm not sure. It seems to work well enough for our internal and external customers.
You can blame Facebook for much of this green datacenter hype--some of which is arguably greenwashing.
Facebook was under the gun for opening its own data centers that were, and still somewhat are, powered by electricity generated by coal.
To answer this unwanted attention they bent over backwards to reduce power consumption at all costs, so much that they even designed their own "Open Data Center" servers to reduce power consumption at the cost of discarding nearly everything we already know works fine in conventional data centers.
And, to top it off, they greenwashed by buying carbon credits and energy that appears to come from non-coal sources.
Google and Microsoft are doing this the right way. Data centers should be in cold climates and supplied by truly renewable power.
I still have to differ with this comment. Amtrak does not run any commuter services. For some lines where applicable, like out of Washington DC, they offer "$10 step-up" fares for those trains that are inbound or outbound during rush hour but they can't really be called commuter services.
There are extensive commuter operations run by state transportation agencies. None are operated by Amtrak but a very small handful are operated by Amtrak crews under contract for the state agencies, like certain MARC lines.
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It may not have been renovated in thirty years, but like most Amtrak rolling stock it has been overhauled and rebuilt several times in thirty years.
This is simply not true and I'm baffled trying to understand what you're referring to.
First, Amtrak is not and has never been a commuter service. It's a passenger rail service.
Second, please show us where the Amtrak "commuter rail car," as you put it, is accompanied by freight. Amtrak did have a mail and express freight business but it was stopped decades ago.
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The NEC is not "the only part of the national rail system Amtrak actually owns."
Amtrak "actually owns" 224 miles of other lines in addition to the Northeast Corridor. Let's try to keep our facts straight.
1) Philadelphia to Harrisburg Main Line, approx. 104 miles.
2) Empire Corridor (portions a.k.a. Empire Connection) from New York Penn Station to Spuyten Duyvil, New York, 11 miles.
3) Michigan Line (a.k.a. Chicagoâ"Detroit Line), 98 miles.
The simple solution is one that has clear benefits: leasing.
1) You refresh your hardware every three years. 2) You don't end up with eight-year-old legacy systems that threaten to die at any time. 3) You're forced to keep your software "fresh." 4) Each new generation uses far less energy for far more computing power.
A popular and unverifiable legend repeated by anti-IP folks states that a farmer was sued by a patent owner when the farmer's non-patented crops were cross-pollenated with the patented ones. It was claimed the farmer was aware and also unwilling to destroy the tainted crops.
By "Outwit" you mean he gets the laptop back, or, at least, the perpetrator is apprehended. Neither of these things has apparently happened yet as I write this so, other than the usual "Look what the thief is doing through my webcam" posts, this is not a story.
This is a media story engineered to generate goodwill. I would not go so far as to call it a gimmick, but it sounds and feels like one.
FTTH, as it's known, costs between $5,000 and $12,000 per home in the rural market and only exists through subsidy. By comparision, FTTH is between $1,500 and $3,000 in suburban markets which is recouped by annual customer commitments.
The only way these costs are made affordable is through government subsidies. Google is subsidizing these customers in a similar way. As with many subsidies, unless they are bonafide charity/goodwill missions, they are not sustainable. This is okay as long as Google has the goodwill of the overall financial markts, by, e.g., having such a huge P/E ratio that they enjoy enough excess money to spend on things like driverless cars, imaging satellites, and hot tub airplaines.
Speeds comparable to FTTH can be achieved for so much less money by using Fiber to the Neighborhood instead of to the home. While I'm no fan of local cable TV monopolies, they already do this today. The problem many local cable TV companies is that they still carry local channels in analog. If they were to convert to all-digital carriage their existing cable plant could compare with FTTH using DOCSIS 3.x but this dream inexplicably escapes them.
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Yes, that's right, my post really had little to do with the article in question.
From a recent pastebin post allegedly from a Microsoft person, the DRM scheme appears to be actually better for consumers. How often are people screwed by selling their used games for pennies on the dollar? The XBOX One scheme actually does two things: it provides consumer protection in the used game market by elevating prices and it appears to also provide minimal (and nominal) revenue for publishers when a game is resold.
This model seems to work on Steam and TODAY nobody is bad-mouthing Steam after over a decade of DRM-encumbered operation.
FWD.us made me think of the defunct VoIP service known as FreeWorldDialup and run by Jeff Pulver. Nevermind, then.
Well, there is that pesky nickel smelting problem for the nickel foam thing that is required by the vehicles that you Earth-Firsters think is going to save the world.
It is never called "The WA Post." It's "The Washington Post." WA is a state on the Pacific coast.
Exactly how is this different from USB 3.0? Or even the Nook Color and Nook Tablet's 12-pin 1.9 amp micro-USB connector that optionally charges at 1.9 amps with the appropriate connector, but regular USB with a 5-pin connector?
There's lots of prior art.
That'd be a neat trick since they are busily building a huge, private AWS cloud for the CIA right now.
Flash Video is not Adobe Flash. It's just VP6 and H.264, among other codecs, that are using Flash as a container. On Apple iOS devices, Adobe Flash isn't even in the picture--it's just H.264.
More likely YouTube, too, is being throttled or at least left in a state of benign neglect. Verizon FiOS, supposedly to be the fastest anywhere, consistently has trouble delivering YouTube videos. I work on many different networks and peering points but the only one that has trouble with YouTube is Verizon FiOS. Even if the YouTube video is serving from a local edge server (Ashburn) it will pause within the first twenty seconds each and every time.
Oddly enough, and likely because we are only down the road from AWS-East, we never have trouble with Netflix or Amazon Instant Video on our FiOS connection.
Cox never had any sort of problem but that might be a lack of customers since FiOS came into town.
But does the dye really go away from the filter? Non-road diesel fuel dyes the fuel filter so you can't get away with it, even with one fill-up.
Skip all the Raspbian instructions. Instead, use the RPI Chameleon distribution for retro gaming on the Pi. Users are presented with a nice console-style menu screen after the system powers on with a ton of different emulators for not just consoles and arcade games but computers, too.
Check it out here: http://chameleon.enging.com/
The /. post blurb mentions that Softlayer "[has] a dark past" but I don't see here, nor do I recall, what this dark past might actually be. Did the blurb poster mean hacking/spidering, or are they referring to some sort of clandestine intelligence role?
Can someone enlighten us on what this "dark past" is?
I recently encountered a project that states that it is being managed as "Agile." One of the developers told me that their version of Agile is more like a really, really short Waterfall process. I didn't see any reason to disagree with that so I was wondering what Agile really meant in the actual Real World(TM).
Does that mean we're doing it wrong? I'm not sure. It seems to work well enough for our internal and external customers.
This problem isn't new to anyone. If it's new to you, then you need to get involved in the digital preservation movement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_obsolescence
You can blame Facebook for much of this green datacenter hype--some of which is arguably greenwashing.
Facebook was under the gun for opening its own data centers that were, and still somewhat are, powered by electricity generated by coal.
To answer this unwanted attention they bent over backwards to reduce power consumption at all costs, so much that they even designed their own "Open Data Center" servers to reduce power consumption at the cost of discarding nearly everything we already know works fine in conventional data centers.
And, to top it off, they greenwashed by buying carbon credits and energy that appears to come from non-coal sources.
Google and Microsoft are doing this the right way. Data centers should be in cold climates and supplied by truly renewable power.
I still have to differ with this comment. Amtrak does not run any commuter services. For some lines where applicable, like out of Washington DC, they offer "$10 step-up" fares for those trains that are inbound or outbound during rush hour but they can't really be called commuter services.
There are extensive commuter operations run by state transportation agencies. None are operated by Amtrak but a very small handful are operated by Amtrak crews under contract for the state agencies, like certain MARC lines.
It may not have been renovated in thirty years, but like most Amtrak rolling stock it has been overhauled and rebuilt several times in thirty years.
This is simply not true and I'm baffled trying to understand what you're referring to.
First, Amtrak is not and has never been a commuter service. It's a passenger rail service.
Second, please show us where the Amtrak "commuter rail car," as you put it, is accompanied by freight. Amtrak did have a mail and express freight business but it was stopped decades ago.
The NEC is not "the only part of the national rail system Amtrak actually owns."
Amtrak "actually owns" 224 miles of other lines in addition to the Northeast Corridor. Let's try to keep our facts straight.
1) Philadelphia to Harrisburg Main Line, approx. 104 miles.
2) Empire Corridor (portions a.k.a. Empire Connection) from New York Penn Station to Spuyten Duyvil, New York, 11 miles.
3) Michigan Line (a.k.a. Chicagoâ"Detroit Line), 98 miles.
4) Post Road Branch (upstate New York), 12 miles.
The simple solution is one that has clear benefits: leasing.
1) You refresh your hardware every three years.
2) You don't end up with eight-year-old legacy systems that threaten to die at any time.
3) You're forced to keep your software "fresh."
4) Each new generation uses far less energy for far more computing power.
A popular and unverifiable legend repeated by anti-IP folks states that a farmer was sued by a patent owner when the farmer's non-patented crops were cross-pollenated with the patented ones. It was claimed the farmer was aware and also unwilling to destroy the tainted crops.
By "Outwit" you mean he gets the laptop back, or, at least, the perpetrator is apprehended. Neither of these things has apparently happened yet as I write this so, other than the usual "Look what the thief is doing through my webcam" posts, this is not a story.
This is a media story engineered to generate goodwill. I would not go so far as to call it a gimmick, but it sounds and feels like one.
FTTH, as it's known, costs between $5,000 and $12,000 per home in the rural market and only exists through subsidy. By comparision, FTTH is between $1,500 and $3,000 in suburban markets which is recouped by annual customer commitments.
The only way these costs are made affordable is through government subsidies. Google is subsidizing these customers in a similar way. As with many subsidies, unless they are bonafide charity/goodwill missions, they are not sustainable. This is okay as long as Google has the goodwill of the overall financial markts, by, e.g., having such a huge P/E ratio that they enjoy enough excess money to spend on things like driverless cars, imaging satellites, and hot tub airplaines.
Speeds comparable to FTTH can be achieved for so much less money by using Fiber to the Neighborhood instead of to the home. While I'm no fan of local cable TV monopolies, they already do this today. The problem many local cable TV companies is that they still carry local channels in analog. If they were to convert to all-digital carriage their existing cable plant could compare with FTTH using DOCSIS 3.x but this dream inexplicably escapes them.
Bad move. Opera should have stuck with Presto. Their recent and now fatal decision completely removes the whole point of using Opera at all.
Make sure they don't turn the lights on. Remember what happened to the Tsien when it landed on Europa.