really original stuff is getting written, it's just not made into movies. the reason is that the backers of such movies have discovered something. simply having a story line that people are familiar with on any level is more important to a movie's success than an original, well written story.
and hey, don't do something that would lower the rate of heart attacks on a different day of the year. you read that part right?
A 2008 Swedish study found a higher incidence of heart attacks in the first three workdays after the clocks 'spring forward.'
Researchers chalked it up to a lack of sleep, and did find a similar decrease in the number of heart attacks when clocks 'fall back' later in the year.
that's f-secure's (the authors of the report) mobile app that costs $10.58. you think it's just coincidence that it's always someone with a product to sell that's behind these reports?
i assume you "parsed as a unit". "unitary" doesn't mean that.
anyway, you are wrong. only humans separate time and date. if you have ever dealt with data+time in a computer, it's always stored as a single unit. a unix time stamp (milliseconds since the epoch), or an iso-formatted date string.
are you really that sheltered? how about the millions in the service industry that have their work hours decided by when customers want their services?
Every time I have to deal with timezones I wish everyone was UTC
why? knowing that it's XX:XX absolutely across all time zones means nothing you can't relate it to the "effective time". e.g., i can call for a meeting at 14:30, but i still have to understand if that is within normal working hours in bangalore and beijing and if it's lunch time for anyone.
what we have now is a common frame of reference. we know people work around 8am-5pm. we know that people eat lunch around noon. we know that we eat dinner around 6pm, and go to bed around 10pm. or whatever. you get the idea. you lose that frame of reference completely if you go to UTC.
Makes much more sense to me to reverse that completely. 12:00:00 8th day 3rd month 2013 parses naturally. Your order only makes sense to a computer.
you didn't reverse it completely. now you have the less-significant time first, but the units of time are most to least significant, but the date is least to most significant. for what you said to make sense, you'd have to write time like this: ss:mm:hh. which would be bad because no one writes time like that, and it'd confuse people because if i wrote 12:03:01, you have no way of knowing what i meant.
also, people are used to writing numbers with digits that are most to least significant.
It would be minimal effort for regular people, and one patch to get rid of the stupid system on computers
you need to think beyond your windows laptop. non-connected embedded devices would never get updated, and even most connected devices aren't going to support OTA flashing. those devices are either junked, or would require a herculean effort 2x a year to reset the date.
I'd be more than happy to get in there and flip that switch or check that box
look beyond your computer. there are many embedded devices that would require firmware updates to make this work. in many cases, that would never happen, at worst junking them and at best requiring manual intervention 2x a year.
It wasn't broken; it didn't need "fixed"
it's not broken now.
while i agree that it should have never existed, clearly the least effort is to just leave it as-is. gaining or losing one hour over the weekend is trivial to our bodies, and every device out there that deals with clock time already handles it gracefully.
I can say with some certitude that kids don't walk to school these days.
i hope you don't think that what you observe out of the basement window doesn't reflect all of society. i live in a major city and i see many kids walking and taking buses, trains to school. even elementary.
I don't know how complicated the load/save thing is, but If we are luckey, save just serialize the data and send it to the server, and load just get the same serialized stream back. If they do it that way, making a pirate save function should be rather simple.
otherwise it would be far too easy to cheat by hacking client-based logic.
it is quite easy to cheat. what's hard is getting away with it. they have sophisticated detection mechanisms along with an army of real people that monitor the online world for strange happenings.
if you don't agree with copyright law, then we don't have much more to talk about here do we?
society has laws that are supposed to be for the common good. you can make arguments that this one isn't, but i hope you do some deep thinking about the logic of disregarding every law you don't agree with. what you get is lawlessness, because in the end most people are going to act in ways that benefit themselves at the expense of others. not surprisingly, your choice here entitles you to consume all digital media you want, regardless of copyright law or the wishes of the person that created the content. yay for you!
or, are you one of the few really intelligent people that can be entrusted to police themselves? i guess it's just coincidence that your strong beliefs on copyright law happen to benefit you immeasurably here huh?
That's not our problem. If their business model isn't working out, they need to come up with one that does.
if you are selling widgets, and i keep breaking into your garage every night and stealing them and handing them out for free on the street corner to anyone who asks thereby making those same people uninterested in buying them from you, does that mean my business model isn't working out?
regardless, whether they want to find a new business model is up to them, not you. you don't need their media to survive, to thrive, or to be happy. if you don't like their business model, don't participate in it.
For other people who don't care about ownership, give them a one-stop shop with every single movie available for streaming at $15/month
that'd be nice wouldn't it? do you have any evidence one way or the other that would allow them to even break even? while we are at it, let's make all porsches cost $1000.
"How I want it" was your question, not mine, and it's a question I've already answered
you missed the point. nobody is doubting YOUR high morals here, but to most people "how i want it" means "free". the fact is that it's delivered in a package that is anything less than free is enough for many people to continue to steal it. so, spend a year developing SonyFlix, and at the end of the day most of the people are still stealing it.
comcast is not the government. in their dealings with you, comcast is not bound to provide due process. they can terminate your service at any time they want for whatever reason they want. they are a company selling you a product, and they are presenting you with a new TOS that outlines a new condition under which they will stop selling you service or alter the service provided (e.g., throttled bandwidth).
the only way we can battle this is with competition in the ISP space, of which there is little or none unfortunately.
Enforce their rights by actually putting the content out there in a controlled fashion
translation: package your product how i want it or i'll steal it.
now let's define "how i want it". pretty hard to do in a universal fashion. for a good portion of the population, it means "free". there's a lot more people with more time than money than the other way around.
not to mention, it's getting hard to beat the torrents on ease of use and convenience.
and they will always have much deeper pockets than you
with file sharing, there isn't 1 or 2, or even 100 people to go after. there are hundreds of thousands. they can't afford to sue all those people. in most cases they won't even break even on the legal fees. their approach so far has been to try and get some high-profile judgements to scare the masses, but it has not worked.
that's why we are seeing 6 strikes. it's a way for the ISP to make money through the appeals process, and for the **AA to force people to stop sharing without involving the costly legal system. everyone profits!
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Why aren't they writing really original stuff?
really original stuff is getting written, it's just not made into movies. the reason is that the backers of such movies have discovered something. simply having a story line that people are familiar with on any level is more important to a movie's success than an original, well written story.
Lots of people work shift work.
no they don't. the vast, vast majority of people in the world working during the day and sleep at night.
and hey, don't do something that would lower the rate of heart attacks on a different day of the year. you read that part right?
A 2008 Swedish study found a higher incidence of heart attacks in the first three workdays after the clocks 'spring forward.'
Researchers chalked it up to a lack of sleep, and did find a similar decrease in the number of heart attacks when clocks 'fall back' later in the year.
OMFG MALWARES! sigh ...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fsecure.ms.dc&hl=en
that's f-secure's (the authors of the report) mobile app that costs $10.58. you think it's just coincidence that it's always someone with a product to sell that's behind these reports?
i assume you "parsed as a unit". "unitary" doesn't mean that.
anyway, you are wrong. only humans separate time and date. if you have ever dealt with data+time in a computer, it's always stored as a single unit. a unix time stamp (milliseconds since the epoch), or an iso-formatted date string.
but hey, don't take my word for it,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
the morons that designed ISO-8601 probably didn't put much thought into it, right?
are you really that sheltered? how about the millions in the service industry that have their work hours decided by when customers want their services?
That's why it's nearly impossible to do business across the time zones.
i wouldn't talk about this during your next job interview.
Every time I have to deal with timezones I wish everyone was UTC
why? knowing that it's XX:XX absolutely across all time zones means nothing you can't relate it to the "effective time". e.g., i can call for a meeting at 14:30, but i still have to understand if that is within normal working hours in bangalore and beijing and if it's lunch time for anyone.
what we have now is a common frame of reference. we know people work around 8am-5pm. we know that people eat lunch around noon. we know that we eat dinner around 6pm, and go to bed around 10pm. or whatever. you get the idea. you lose that frame of reference completely if you go to UTC.
Makes much more sense to me to reverse that completely. 12:00:00 8th day 3rd month 2013 parses naturally. Your order only makes sense to a computer.
you didn't reverse it completely. now you have the less-significant time first, but the units of time are most to least significant, but the date is least to most significant. for what you said to make sense, you'd have to write time like this: ss:mm:hh. which would be bad because no one writes time like that, and it'd confuse people because if i wrote 12:03:01, you have no way of knowing what i meant.
also, people are used to writing numbers with digits that are most to least significant.
We in the U.S. will adopt metric if the Europeans start driving on the right
almost all europeans drive on the right side of the road,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Countries_driving_on_the_left_or_right.svg
brits and some of their colonies are the exception.
It would be minimal effort for regular people, and one patch to get rid of the stupid system on computers
you need to think beyond your windows laptop. non-connected embedded devices would never get updated, and even most connected devices aren't going to support OTA flashing. those devices are either junked, or would require a herculean effort 2x a year to reset the date.
I'd be more than happy to get in there and flip that switch or check that box
look beyond your computer. there are many embedded devices that would require firmware updates to make this work. in many cases, that would never happen, at worst junking them and at best requiring manual intervention 2x a year.
It wasn't broken; it didn't need "fixed"
it's not broken now.
while i agree that it should have never existed, clearly the least effort is to just leave it as-is. gaining or losing one hour over the weekend is trivial to our bodies, and every device out there that deals with clock time already handles it gracefully.
I can say with some certitude that kids don't walk to school these days.
i hope you don't think that what you observe out of the basement window doesn't reflect all of society. i live in a major city and i see many kids walking and taking buses, trains to school. even elementary.
like say, requiring iTunes to load content onto your iDevice, or requiring an iDevice to sync data from iTunes?
I don't know how complicated the load/save thing is, but If we are luckey, save just serialize the data and send it to the server, and load just get the same serialized stream back. If they do it that way, making a pirate save function should be rather simple.
let me guess ... manager?
otherwise it would be far too easy to cheat by hacking client-based logic.
it is quite easy to cheat. what's hard is getting away with it. they have sophisticated detection mechanisms along with an army of real people that monitor the online world for strange happenings.
if you don't agree with copyright law, then we don't have much more to talk about here do we?
society has laws that are supposed to be for the common good. you can make arguments that this one isn't, but i hope you do some deep thinking about the logic of disregarding every law you don't agree with. what you get is lawlessness, because in the end most people are going to act in ways that benefit themselves at the expense of others. not surprisingly, your choice here entitles you to consume all digital media you want, regardless of copyright law or the wishes of the person that created the content. yay for you!
or, are you one of the few really intelligent people that can be entrusted to police themselves? i guess it's just coincidence that your strong beliefs on copyright law happen to benefit you immeasurably here huh?
That's not our problem. If their business model isn't working out, they need to come up with one that does.
if you are selling widgets, and i keep breaking into your garage every night and stealing them and handing them out for free on the street corner to anyone who asks thereby making those same people uninterested in buying them from you, does that mean my business model isn't working out?
regardless, whether they want to find a new business model is up to them, not you. you don't need their media to survive, to thrive, or to be happy. if you don't like their business model, don't participate in it.
For other people who don't care about ownership, give them a one-stop shop with every single movie available for streaming at $15/month
that'd be nice wouldn't it? do you have any evidence one way or the other that would allow them to even break even? while we are at it, let's make all porsches cost $1000.
"How I want it" was your question, not mine, and it's a question I've already answered
you missed the point. nobody is doubting YOUR high morals here, but to most people "how i want it" means "free". the fact is that it's delivered in a package that is anything less than free is enough for many people to continue to steal it. so, spend a year developing SonyFlix, and at the end of the day most of the people are still stealing it.
"And personally, as a pirate, my logic is "I'm entitled to see exactly what I am spending my money on before I spend it."
And personally, as a pirate, my logic is "I'm entitled to see exactly what I am spending my money on before I spend it."
yep, rationalization is a powerful tool for removing blame and guilt.
you are confused.
comcast is not the government. in their dealings with you, comcast is not bound to provide due process. they can terminate your service at any time they want for whatever reason they want. they are a company selling you a product, and they are presenting you with a new TOS that outlines a new condition under which they will stop selling you service or alter the service provided (e.g., throttled bandwidth).
the only way we can battle this is with competition in the ISP space, of which there is little or none unfortunately.
Enforce their rights by actually putting the content out there in a controlled fashion
translation: package your product how i want it or i'll steal it.
now let's define "how i want it". pretty hard to do in a universal fashion. for a good portion of the population, it means "free". there's a lot more people with more time than money than the other way around.
not to mention, it's getting hard to beat the torrents on ease of use and convenience.
http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/Birthday_Song
and they will always have much deeper pockets than you
with file sharing, there isn't 1 or 2, or even 100 people to go after. there are hundreds of thousands. they can't afford to sue all those people. in most cases they won't even break even on the legal fees. their approach so far has been to try and get some high-profile judgements to scare the masses, but it has not worked.
that's why we are seeing 6 strikes. it's a way for the ISP to make money through the appeals process, and for the **AA to force people to stop sharing without involving the costly legal system. everyone profits!