HTTPS is the modern equivalent of an on/off switch. It doesn't matter if it's for the country of USA or a single company, it is still insignificant beyond "they turned on HTTPS".
It's an authentication thing, not a total revamp of a website.
the man actually reads the bills that come in front of him, and he's actually honest about why he makes a vote.
we don't get that out of other republicans and democrats, almost universally. they just toe the party vote and/or remain as anonymous (and opaque) as possible.
I'd like to see him up top (pres), but I think he needs time to build some reputable people with him. aka folks who don't whore themselves out to the most expensive lobbyist/corporation.
as anon posted, if you can't tell the difference between the social commentary and subtle jokes in shows today and how they draw/are inspired from shows like I dream of jeanie, bewitched, etc, then you are indeed the homer simpson of our era.
it applies to buying music period or letting any of your money go towards music. it's your money, and your purchases represent something if you want them to.
I don't see a compelling reason to buy music for any artist that you only like but - but don't feel you like enough to support, honestly. Otherwise you're wasting money on "Eh they're okay" bands or "they're pretty good bands".
Artists that connect with fans get my full support, cds, concerts, etc, but the rest? f em. You think (insert platinum artist here) is going to give a crap about their fans? no. They're all about $$, which isn't all about music.
getting windows to run on arm was certainly no small feat, but applications is another beast altogether. You know how much of an issue windows *still* has with trying to use UAC to show where people have continually practiced bad development.
now we have another platform so to speak, and the same issues will come up again and again, assuming people even consider coding for it (and those that don't, well, there's also that fun segment)
so you're saying based on a single anecdotal experience you have with 1 arm processor, that all of them are specialized and can only do specific feature sets?
Uh, RISC can handle misses in ways X86 doesn't. Cache misses matter far far less.
Arm has been catching up bigtime, and has been putting atom to shame already. Considering Atom's about all intel's got right now that's improving, that's a big deal.
ARM is already performing as well as core2 stuff from Intel. ARM also has no issues decoding H264, but apparently you were unaware that ARM processors can be coupled with graphics like the SGS and Tegra stuff.
not only do they not have exclusivity, they can't even enforce it. It's like trying to create their own DRM to profit from and humorously failing.
All people have to do is install the regular google market APK and boom. goodbye amazon.
How easy does amazon choose to make this? I have no idea, depending on the device, but considering how easy it is to root an android device I'm guessing it will be trivial.
look at how many android devices we have. All of them run linux. Yet you don't hear about it being calculated in global OS marketshare all the time, yet they're there. Counted separately as "mobile OS".
If people stop adding a device to the "Year of linux" thing, they'd realize that from probably 2008-now has easily been "years of explosive linux growth across the board".
I think the wording of the article is a bit extreme, but the message is clear:
PC's are being disrupted and arm/android is taking over a lot of the result.
I don't expect gaming, development, or PC's themselves to go away (if ever), but to expect the market to focus elsewhere is exactly what I got from the article.
Whether you're impressed with cellphones or not, you're missing the explosion of performance that has come with them. ARM chips, in the past 3-4 years, have gone from 400-450mhz Pentium 3 equivalents to having the performance of a PS3. At the rate they are going the chips will perform faster than Intel processors in no more than a couple, maybe 3 years at best. ARM already runs on linux, so microsoft "eventually offering ARM" will already be behind on their offering. First to market is critical.
Who is positioned the least to deal with ARM? Intel and Microsoft. AMD is not mentioned because they still have graphics and integrated graphics for the time being. Nvidia is not mentioned for the same reasons, as well as being involved with a ton of ARM.
If you are streaming videos for free you have never paid royalties, and even if you are doing so for pay you have a pretty big threshold to hit before you even start paying royalties.
that's not the issue. The issue is that there are still parts you can have to pay royalties on.
If it isn't free, then it's not free. there is no imbetween just because the end user doesn't have to pay.
Meanwhile, if people implement VP8 encoders/decoders? There's no question of "how much do I have to pay?" People just do it. That's the difference. That's the only way it will ever work cross platform. Think you can implement a windows or mac decoder/encoder without paying for it? think again.
This matters because: decoders and encoders are not fucking magic and every general purpose device built in the last 10 years can be made to support it in some way but is only hindered due to legal concerns.
I don't get why they mention vista though. vista by itself does nothing, it's all the parts on top of it. IE, filtering, user privileges, UAC, whatever, but that's not "vista".
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I'd love to see the new york times answer that question.
lately however, they've been pretty much not covering anything the gov't doesn't want them to.
HTTPS is the modern equivalent of an on/off switch. It doesn't matter if it's for the country of USA or a single company, it is still insignificant beyond "they turned on HTTPS".
It's an authentication thing, not a total revamp of a website.
So scale doesn't mean shit, jackass.
not only that, but they'll submit it to the government to water it down because they don't want to rock the boat or actually do journalistic work.
the man actually reads the bills that come in front of him, and he's actually honest about why he makes a vote.
we don't get that out of other republicans and democrats, almost universally. they just toe the party vote and/or remain as anonymous (and opaque) as possible.
I'd like to see him up top (pres), but I think he needs time to build some reputable people with him. aka folks who don't whore themselves out to the most expensive lobbyist/corporation.
it won't pass.
companies will fight this bigtime, and it incurs a huge cost upon the companies (and a huge liability).
So unless government wants to pay for it I highly doubt the ISP's will be willing to do it.
yes, and they're taking the ITC loophole, which is only used whenever someone is going for damage (but not to actually prove anything in court)
because you're adding value to their products!
how dare you emphasize that they're missing the chance to let people watch their channels outside their country! /sarcasm.
quite accurate, and agreed, most certainly.
however, for all the education and lock-in these people try to keep going forever, the more people just innovate around them time and time again.
we're screwed until the old people die, at a minimum.
it's sad, but that's what it takes.
as anon posted, if you can't tell the difference between the social commentary and subtle jokes in shows today and how they draw/are inspired from shows like I dream of jeanie, bewitched, etc, then you are indeed the homer simpson of our era.
way to make an ignorant comment. doh.
no, they said birgitta and other people are in the group of those that supposedly had access.
as opposed to the reality, that it's an office in a big ass building and anyone could get in.
it's a joke of a speculation at best.
that may be the point, but the reality is that it doesn't' work.
it applies to buying music period or letting any of your money go towards music. it's your money, and your purchases represent something if you want them to.
I don't see a compelling reason to buy music for any artist that you only like but - but don't feel you like enough to support, honestly. Otherwise you're wasting money on "Eh they're okay" bands or "they're pretty good bands".
Artists that connect with fans get my full support, cds, concerts, etc, but the rest? f em. You think (insert platinum artist here) is going to give a crap about their fans? no. They're all about $$, which isn't all about music.
getting windows to run on arm was certainly no small feat, but applications is another beast altogether. You know how much of an issue windows *still* has with trying to use UAC to show where people have continually practiced bad development.
now we have another platform so to speak, and the same issues will come up again and again, assuming people even consider coding for it (and those that don't, well, there's also that fun segment)
so you're saying based on a single anecdotal experience you have with 1 arm processor, that all of them are specialized and can only do specific feature sets?
Uh, RISC can handle misses in ways X86 doesn't. Cache misses matter far far less.
Arm has been catching up bigtime, and has been putting atom to shame already. Considering Atom's about all intel's got right now that's improving, that's a big deal.
hahahaha what? Is this a troll?
ARM's are running over 1ghz and are now onto dual cores with plans and support for more cores.
ARM is also substantially more efficient and runs better than X86.
ARM is already performing as well as core2 stuff from Intel. ARM also has no issues decoding H264, but apparently you were unaware that ARM processors can be coupled with graphics like the SGS and Tegra stuff.
It is already being predicted that arm will be faster in 2-3 years. It's catching up must faster than Intel is moving forward.
not only do they not have exclusivity, they can't even enforce it. It's like trying to create their own DRM to profit from and humorously failing.
All people have to do is install the regular google market APK and boom. goodbye amazon.
How easy does amazon choose to make this? I have no idea, depending on the device, but considering how easy it is to root an android device I'm guessing it will be trivial.
look at how many android devices we have. All of them run linux. Yet you don't hear about it being calculated in global OS marketshare all the time, yet they're there. Counted separately as "mobile OS".
Microsoft is hurting from this, bigtime. Seeing Execs drop like flies is an enormous sign of looming problems.
If people stop adding a device to the "Year of linux" thing, they'd realize that from probably 2008-now has easily been "years of explosive linux growth across the board".
I think the wording of the article is a bit extreme, but the message is clear:
PC's are being disrupted and arm/android is taking over a lot of the result.
I don't expect gaming, development, or PC's themselves to go away (if ever), but to expect the market to focus elsewhere is exactly what I got from the article.
Whether you're impressed with cellphones or not, you're missing the explosion of performance that has come with them. ARM chips, in the past 3-4 years, have gone from 400-450mhz Pentium 3 equivalents to having the performance of a PS3. At the rate they are going the chips will perform faster than Intel processors in no more than a couple, maybe 3 years at best. ARM already runs on linux, so microsoft "eventually offering ARM" will already be behind on their offering. First to market is critical.
Who is positioned the least to deal with ARM? Intel and Microsoft. AMD is not mentioned because they still have graphics and integrated graphics for the time being. Nvidia is not mentioned for the same reasons, as well as being involved with a ton of ARM.
cross platform native OS frameworks? do you realize the contradiction in the phrase, by definition?
that's not the issue. The issue is that there are still parts you can have to pay royalties on.
If it isn't free, then it's not free. there is no imbetween just because the end user doesn't have to pay.
Meanwhile, if people implement VP8 encoders/decoders? There's no question of "how much do I have to pay?" People just do it. That's the difference. That's the only way it will ever work cross platform. Think you can implement a windows or mac decoder/encoder without paying for it? think again.
This matters because: decoders and encoders are not fucking magic and every general purpose device built in the last 10 years can be made to support it in some way but is only hindered due to legal concerns.
framework support only works for that OS.
that is the wrong way to do it, for that exact reason.
can you do the same things in firefox/chrome on every OS? yes, you can. that's the point.
I don't get why they mention vista though. vista by itself does nothing, it's all the parts on top of it. IE, filtering, user privileges, UAC, whatever, but that's not "vista".
sounds like marketing hype or fud or something.
all this means is nobody's going to work with amazon.
really, there's already an android market, it does well, nobody gives a fuck if amazon makes one as well.