I would imagine they can parse filesystems so that they aren't dependent on OS support. A dumb drive will probably be nice once the OS support is complete and consistent--until then one way to ensure your drive works well with every system is to implement an extra layer of logic.
Android on Choice: "Let the user choose what programs and features they want to run? Yay freedom!" Microsoft on Choice: "Option to turn feature on? Users are too stupid to be trusted with extra features!"
I have found that ego is usually inverse proportional to talent. It's those who are mostly inept who seem to have the biggest chip on their shoulders. While there is a lot of BSing in hollywood there is also a lot of talented professionals who only got to where they are through a lot of hard work and experience. Such a brutal thinning process of reputation/skill tends to weed out the egotistical assholes more than something like accounting where you just have to impress the HR person.
It's such a small industry that if you're an asshole and you are replaceable you probably won't have someone vouch for you on the next project.
Out of curiosity (and no I'm not trying to be snarky but actually curious) what sorts of experiments are people looking to carry out in 5 minutes of free fall? Doesn't seem like a lot of time.
Let's be clear. There is NO INDICATION this actually for Windows 8 and not just a pretty looking tech demo. The article for some reason seems to latch onto the idea this might be Windows 8 but ignores every other tech demo in the movie.
6th In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial [...] to be confronted with the witnesses against him [...]
Ummmmm... so because I said the judge didn't want to set a precedent on a device he hasn't verified as a reliable source of evidence I know nothing about precedents? Fascinating.
Yeah but you're all missing the elephant in the room: Canonical is fucking Genius!!!
I was always curious about Ubuntu's end game. It just didn't make any sense to me on why they would invest so much money and effort into Ubuntu (Free DVDs etc).
Pushing an MP3 store to every single 'free' customer who they then get 10% of? Spend $120 a year and canonical gets $12 per user per year.
/sunday morning quarterbacking that nobody would probably actually do:
Should have played hard ball. If you point out that the reduced fine would be smaller than the Judge's time then you could point out that by their own admission your crime was worth less than meeting with the judge and should therefore be $0, or they could spend the extra. Leave on the probationary clause though to make them feel like it's a fair trade.;)
Its a story about how no judge is going to establish a precedent wherein evidence not under the court's or police department's control will be admitted. Its the same sort of hissy fit they throw when you video some cop doing dirt [slashdot.org].
Or it's a story about a judge who is presented evidence that could very well be fabricated but didn't need it so ruled as he would have ruled anyway and ignored the piece of information which would then have to be vetted, analyzed and contested by expert witnesses.
"Your honor I wasn't speeding because I had the particular Radar Gun re-calibrated by a certified repair facility and it was 15mph fast. Also I have tinfoil underwear which gives me the illusion of looking like I'm moving faster than I am." "I dismiss the speeding ticket against you... but I do so ignoring the claim about your underwear." "OMG IT WAS THE UNDERWEAR!"
Obviously preview doesn't meet the desires of the users since people constantly fail to use it.
Slashdot can keep their heads up their asses and deny there is a problem even though in practice the system is flawed or they can acknowledge that the status quo is inadequate.
It's trivial to create some simple solutions to the problems perma-posting attempts to address: - Only allow edits before a reply. - Only allow edits before a moderation is applied. - Check to ensure when replying that the post hasn't changed while writing a reply and alert the user.
It doesn't have to be stupid. Google already dumped the status bar. It's smart though, if you hover over a link it'll pop up. If you hover over a link in the bottom left it'll pop up on the bottom right to not cover it up.
Something similar could be done with the address bar. As the mouse gets close to the top of the window have it pop down a little Bump it and it drops down ready to be clicked.
Actually mathematic proofs are based on assumptions as well.
Absolute knowledge is impossible since ultimately all methods of observation are subjective. But since all is subjective you have to sort of agree to accept the more obvious empirical data or reject *all* data.
Yeah but my phone isn't busy while I sleep, it's plugged in and I bet Cell Phone companies aren't worried about tower overload since everyone is more spread out in their individual homes (hopefully on wifi nonetheless).
I only just finished filling up my 32GB Zune player with music from Zunepass. It took me about 3 years of selecting songs I wanted to listen to. With a subscription service like Zune it really makes sense to just fill the device to the brim and then delete unlistened to music.
If it takes what I have chosen and creates a playlist it's usually very good with SmartDJ. I could see that working perfectly for music.
Honestly though based on my Netflix behavior I imagine they could make a very well educated guess as to what I might stream next. Most people have about 4-5 shows they watch. Once TV shifts almost exclusively to TCP/IP then every week you'll probably download the same 4-5 shows.
What I would really like to see is to shift more service databases to local ISPs. Why should Netflix have a server in everybody's hometown? How large is their h264 library? 100TB? Instance a copy of likely films to the ISP so that they can stream it directly to their customers.
Yeah I bought a 'dumb' phone when I got my latest plan so that I would always have 'a phone' in case my smart phone died or I wanted a global phone.
Picked up a global phone for $49. I can't imagine that they are getting more than $5 profit off of that thing. And you would as you say have to sell one to every third person to make a profit.
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You can't change a sociopath's attitude with any amount of prison time. You *might* change their calculated risk/reward judgement.
You mean like Android or Chrome or...
The search Business is all about defaults. Google developed an operating system in order to be the default search engine.
They do support WebM, Silverlight is portable (hence moonlight) and DRM is sort of by necessity closed is it not?
I would imagine they can parse filesystems so that they aren't dependent on OS support. A dumb drive will probably be nice once the OS support is complete and consistent--until then one way to ensure your drive works well with every system is to implement an extra layer of logic.
It's even worse since it also goes:
Android on Choice: "Let the user choose what programs and features they want to run? Yay freedom!"
Microsoft on Choice: "Option to turn feature on? Users are too stupid to be trusted with extra features!"
I have found that ego is usually inverse proportional to talent. It's those who are mostly inept who seem to have the biggest chip on their shoulders. While there is a lot of BSing in hollywood there is also a lot of talented professionals who only got to where they are through a lot of hard work and experience. Such a brutal thinning process of reputation/skill tends to weed out the egotistical assholes more than something like accounting where you just have to impress the HR person.
It's such a small industry that if you're an asshole and you are replaceable you probably won't have someone vouch for you on the next project.
Out of curiosity (and no I'm not trying to be snarky but actually curious) what sorts of experiments are people looking to carry out in 5 minutes of free fall? Doesn't seem like a lot of time.
Let's be clear. There is NO INDICATION this actually for Windows 8 and not just a pretty looking tech demo. The article for some reason seems to latch onto the idea this might be Windows 8 but ignores every other tech demo in the movie.
6th
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial [...] to be confronted with the witnesses against him [...]
Speedy and Public could be the next day.
Ummmmm... so because I said the judge didn't want to set a precedent on a device he hasn't verified as a reliable source of evidence I know nothing about precedents? Fascinating.
It's called Shadow Copy in windows.
Yeah but you're all missing the elephant in the room: Canonical is fucking Genius!!!
I was always curious about Ubuntu's end game. It just didn't make any sense to me on why they would invest so much money and effort into Ubuntu (Free DVDs etc).
Pushing an MP3 store to every single 'free' customer who they then get 10% of? Spend $120 a year and canonical gets $12 per user per year.
Ingenious!
/sunday morning quarterbacking that nobody would probably actually do:
Should have played hard ball. If you point out that the reduced fine would be smaller than the Judge's time then you could point out that by their own admission your crime was worth less than meeting with the judge and should therefore be $0, or they could spend the extra. Leave on the probationary clause though to make them feel like it's a fair trade. ;)
Its a story about how no judge is going to establish a precedent wherein evidence not under the court's or police department's control will be admitted. Its the same sort of hissy fit they throw when you video some cop doing dirt [slashdot.org].
Or it's a story about a judge who is presented evidence that could very well be fabricated but didn't need it so ruled as he would have ruled anyway and ignored the piece of information which would then have to be vetted, analyzed and contested by expert witnesses.
"Your honor I wasn't speeding because I had the particular Radar Gun re-calibrated by a certified repair facility and it was 15mph fast. Also I have tinfoil underwear which gives me the illusion of looking like I'm moving faster than I am."
"I dismiss the speeding ticket against you... but I do so ignoring the claim about your underwear."
"OMG IT WAS THE UNDERWEAR!"
Obviously preview doesn't meet the desires of the users since people constantly fail to use it.
Slashdot can keep their heads up their asses and deny there is a problem even though in practice the system is flawed or they can acknowledge that the status quo is inadequate.
It's trivial to create some simple solutions to the problems perma-posting attempts to address:
- Only allow edits before a reply.
- Only allow edits before a moderation is applied.
- Check to ensure when replying that the post hasn't changed while writing a reply and alert the user.
I'm saddened that your rebuttal is that it was fine to steal the images but the crime was that they didn't properly cite their stolen property.
I thought artists didn't deserve copyrights anymore and lived on a "failed business model".
Always hard to always stay up to date on the current common wisdom of Slashdot.
Historically speaking pilots make excellent hostages.
They employed hardware DRM on their consoles:
They made the hardware too slow and ancient to be worth hacking for any other purpose.
It doesn't have to be stupid. Google already dumped the status bar. It's smart though, if you hover over a link it'll pop up. If you hover over a link in the bottom left it'll pop up on the bottom right to not cover it up.
Something similar could be done with the address bar. As the mouse gets close to the top of the window have it pop down a little Bump it and it drops down ready to be clicked.
In defense of Zune's $10 vs LastFM's $3 Zune gives you 10 free DRM free MP3s per month and you can listen to the music offline.
Last.Fm doesn't block me from installing *other* applications on my computer though outside of their control.
Actually mathematic proofs are based on assumptions as well.
Absolute knowledge is impossible since ultimately all methods of observation are subjective. But since all is subjective you have to sort of agree to accept the more obvious empirical data or reject *all* data.
Yeah but my phone isn't busy while I sleep, it's plugged in and I bet Cell Phone companies aren't worried about tower overload since everyone is more spread out in their individual homes (hopefully on wifi nonetheless).
I only just finished filling up my 32GB Zune player with music from Zunepass. It took me about 3 years of selecting songs I wanted to listen to. With a subscription service like Zune it really makes sense to just fill the device to the brim and then delete unlistened to music.
If it takes what I have chosen and creates a playlist it's usually very good with SmartDJ. I could see that working perfectly for music.
Honestly though based on my Netflix behavior I imagine they could make a very well educated guess as to what I might stream next. Most people have about 4-5 shows they watch. Once TV shifts almost exclusively to TCP/IP then every week you'll probably download the same 4-5 shows.
What I would really like to see is to shift more service databases to local ISPs. Why should Netflix have a server in everybody's hometown? How large is their h264 library? 100TB? Instance a copy of likely films to the ISP so that they can stream it directly to their customers.
Yeah I bought a 'dumb' phone when I got my latest plan so that I would always have 'a phone' in case my smart phone died or I wanted a global phone.
Picked up a global phone for $49. I can't imagine that they are getting more than $5 profit off of that thing. And you would as you say have to sell one to every third person to make a profit.