they're on the side of "oh crap the bad economy is making our donation-based income take a nose dive, let's show some drowning polar bears or something".
right. and they would have to put effort into getting information against a person's wishes. but they can freely ask whatever questions they want. the court order is for compelling the release of that information, or the forcible search for such information, etc.
I second this motion. You can immediately start USING Octave and Maxima. You're a math student, so just start doing math. You'll quickly uncover some bugs and limits. And as said above, you can see the bug reports for both. At that point, get to work.
I think you're missing the point. Here, you see a filesize decrease from 10-60%. For most pictures, the difference takes careful inspection to find. That means that the average user sees more or less the same picture, but it's smaller. What that means: Facebook saves a few petabytes in image storage every year. I mean, how many photos of the kids with grandma get uploaded daily. Do you think anyone looking at it cares if there are a few background artifacts? Nope. But facebook cares if they need to keep adding storage for those files. If you have to have a lossy format anyway, it looks like a win to me.
I'll add a second anecdote: I have a hacked Wii. I have my whole (20-30, 90% used from gamestop) game library loaded on a hard drive. I like the convenience. At this moment, I could pull out any game disc for anything on my hard drive you'd like to see. For me, it's about convenience. The same reason people want a media library of ripped DVDs even through they own all 400 the discs. Heck, it's even easier to FIND the game you want when the count gets high. I first figured out the USBloader process after my 4 year old rendered the Wii sports disc unreadable. (it was able to rip, luckily). could I replace a disc? probably. is there a convenient way for me to avoid needing to replace discs and avoid that hassle? yes. so that's all I need.
Then again, I also don't know you. so you're point stands. maybe you just need friends with a bit more moral fiber.
The problem is that now they're making YOU the walled garden. They will only let certain things come to you. The 'free market' side of things would render this a non-issue because it would be the equivalent of selling someone reduced quality internet for the same, or maybe higher price, than what they pay now. Consumers would use their infinite freedom of product choice to choose the one that gives them the best access per dollar spent.
It also creates questions of whether they're using a monopoly in one market to unfairly affect competition in another market. If you consider the ISP market (where many providers hold monopoly positions) separate from the content market, it could be the case.
I remember the case of disks for my C64. Almost all of them were cracked. And almost all of them had a hacker splash screen when you started the game. I'm not sure how old I was before I realized that those weren't part of the original game. I think it was long after the C64 was collecting dust.
you've got it spot on. it's a neat new material. no mention of applications anywhere in the abstract, where people will often at least hint of an application if they've got a concrete one to sell.
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the puppeteers did a pretty good job sorting it out.
they're on the side of "oh crap the bad economy is making our donation-based income take a nose dive, let's show some drowning polar bears or something".
unprotected WAP? sure, I hacked my old cell phone to get WAP without paying verizon. but I think the good folks up above were talking about WiFi.
actually, you shouldn't put windows and open source OSes on the same side of the equation.
controlled platform = OSX
varied hardware platform, consistent software interface = Windows
varied hardware platform, varied software interfaces = OSSOS's.
the common interface is the key to successful third party developer participation.
right. and they would have to put effort into getting information against a person's wishes. but they can freely ask whatever questions they want. the court order is for compelling the release of that information, or the forcible search for such information, etc.
I second this motion. You can immediately start USING Octave and Maxima. You're a math student, so just start doing math. You'll quickly uncover some bugs and limits. And as said above, you can see the bug reports for both. At that point, get to work.
yeah, remember that 'click to activate this control' crap? thats the type of fix you'll pay for.
according to wikipedia, that myth didn't begin until 2000.
almost?!?
I think you're missing the point. Here, you see a filesize decrease from 10-60%. For most pictures, the difference takes careful inspection to find. That means that the average user sees more or less the same picture, but it's smaller. What that means: Facebook saves a few petabytes in image storage every year. I mean, how many photos of the kids with grandma get uploaded daily. Do you think anyone looking at it cares if there are a few background artifacts? Nope. But facebook cares if they need to keep adding storage for those files. If you have to have a lossy format anyway, it looks like a win to me.
you need a special character, too. And that better not be all uppercase.
"we just don't want to get sucked in by nice artwork and a bogus description that turns into an almost-immediate lunchbag letdown"
anyone who bought SimCity for the Commodore platform understands exactly what you mean.
I'll add a second anecdote: I have a hacked Wii. I have my whole (20-30, 90% used from gamestop) game library loaded on a hard drive. I like the convenience. At this moment, I could pull out any game disc for anything on my hard drive you'd like to see. For me, it's about convenience. The same reason people want a media library of ripped DVDs even through they own all 400 the discs. Heck, it's even easier to FIND the game you want when the count gets high. I first figured out the USBloader process after my 4 year old rendered the Wii sports disc unreadable. (it was able to rip, luckily). could I replace a disc? probably. is there a convenient way for me to avoid needing to replace discs and avoid that hassle? yes. so that's all I need.
Then again, I also don't know you. so you're point stands. maybe you just need friends with a bit more moral fiber.
I predict a Kartman song in the near future...
enders game + a diamond?
The problem is that now they're making YOU the walled garden. They will only let certain things come to you. The 'free market' side of things would render this a non-issue because it would be the equivalent of selling someone reduced quality internet for the same, or maybe higher price, than what they pay now. Consumers would use their infinite freedom of product choice to choose the one that gives them the best access per dollar spent.
It also creates questions of whether they're using a monopoly in one market to unfairly affect competition in another market. If you consider the ISP market (where many providers hold monopoly positions) separate from the content market, it could be the case.
'fuck you sony' seems quite appropriate here. turn off sigs and be quiet. I haven't had them on in... well... forever.
I remember the case of disks for my C64. Almost all of them were cracked. And almost all of them had a hacker splash screen when you started the game. I'm not sure how old I was before I realized that those weren't part of the original game. I think it was long after the C64 was collecting dust.
the man's a genius!
maybe he uses a search engine that customizes results based on your past searches. sounds like somebody has some explaining to do.
As always, with the lawyers. Who do you think will benefit the most from the class-action lawsuit?
blah blah luggage blah blah
here's a link to the actual journal article (abstract only, need to pay for fulltext)
http://www.nature.com/nchem/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nchem.724.html
Or
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nchem.724
you've got it spot on. it's a neat new material. no mention of applications anywhere in the abstract, where people will often at least hint of an application if they've got a concrete one to sell.
when they're trying to figure out if the library will sink with and without the book load.
that and Mafia Wars