The fallacy is, for that concept to work, then all books must have some initial purchase price (covering the months or years spent on it) to acquire them from the author. It's not like the author can write a book, publish it, make $150 in sales and then Google takes it and gives it away for free forever.
The plumber has a set rate for a fixed piece of work. The author has no up-front payment unless they sell it to a publisher, which is becoming less and less common these days. So the entire attempt at the author:plumber analogy is false.
The better, for the/. crowd analogy is software sales. Postulate a world in which there are no micro-transactions or in-game purchases to cover costs after the fact. Now, how do you make a living at making software?
Do you spend a year writing it in your home office and then release it and as soon as you do, someone else (with the largest audience and distribution system on the planet) makes it available fro free? You don't see any issues with that?
One day it's going to be our grand kids saying "Why in this day and age do some (older) people insist on taking out their cards and paying with cards? When will they get the corporate funded implants to track their purchases. Old people suck!"
I've been drawing smiley faces, emojis, "no one checks this" and other stuff on the signature pad for years. Did you know that most of them have a line drawing limit? You can't start at one side and fill in the entire thing black. They must be storing the vector version:)
I decided many years ago that since no one ever looks at the signature and they prove nothing unless you had me personally on camera when it was signed, that I refused to bother signing them. It's a bad feature and unworthy of the time, effort, hardware support, storage and systems built to support it.
As an interesting aside, the current trend in DSLRs is away from mirror solutions and to mirror-less cameras. The mirror represents an unnecessary mechanical component in the device that contributes to camera shake and adds a mechanical point of failure.
I have one of the new iPad pros (the 12.9 with the new hardware same as the new 10" but larger screen).
Common Sense -It's not a laptop, expecting it to be one is starting from a false premise. -Slashdot users are not a representative sample of the target audience for the product. -For someone who has no computing electronics other than a phone, this would be able to take care of anything that common user would likely need in a laptop. email, browsing, word processor, spreadsheets, paying their bills online, etc.
The Good -I have some visual issues, so bigger is literally better for me and that was part of my decision to purchase. -It's big enough to read comics at full size without having to sit in front of my desktop. I can read books with less eye strain. -The pen is amazing. The wife is a graphic artist and she is really loving it. -We both enjoy coloring using Pigment. That's close to being the killer app for the pad/pencil for us.
The Not So Good -It's biiiig. I'll retain my ipad Air for travel. not getting this out to use on a plane. -Any game that forces you to use it in portrait mode makes you feel ridiculous, even when you are alone
The Wait and See -iOS 11 has some interesting things coming. -The new file manager is very interesting, and seeing how companies can work apps with that. Could completely change using dropbox with the pad. - I'm still hoping for some more powerful photo editors for the ipad now that the hardware is improving. There's a bajillion of them out there but they all have like 20 features and 90% feature overlap between each one. We need something with 80% of photoshop, not another editor just like all the rest.
I'm at a loss to understand why a 90 day travel ban, with the stated purpose of creating time to get a "proper set of rules and procedures into place" is what we're fighting about several months later.
Shouldn't the full fledged version be ready for review/vetting by now, making this whole thing a travesty of taxpayer money and the SCs time?
Offering short term unlimited and removing it later is somewhat common. Lure folks in, get them hooked and then adjust the offering once they are sticky attached to the service.
Assumption: Referenced on other sites, Mellennials make up 23.3% of the US populace. Claiming 45% including 16 and younger skews the rest of the "data"
Claim: 40% of millennials prefer watching esports to traditional sports So 40% of 24.3% (so we're looking at 9.32%) prefer esports to sweaty sports. Isn't that terribly easy to skew? Survey question: "Do you prefer esports or real sports?". If I cannot say "Neither, you insensitive clod" then it skews quickly towards esports. If forced to choose with a BFG to my head, the one I can play in the background on my monitor and ignore while I do other things is the choice.
Claim:26% of millennial eSports enthusiasts reported a significant uptick in eSports viewing over the past year So 26% of the "enthusiasts" saw an uptick. Umm, define enthusiasts. Even if the assumed full 9.32% that chose esports over sports, 26% of that is just 2.4% Come on, 2.4% of the populace started watching more esports and the rest seems like inflated presentation.
to applaud your on your witty post buy then I realized it could be seen as applauding you for the participation of posting and things go so meta so fast that I nearly had a seizure.
There's a huge difference between saying that trailers are making movies worse and saying that trailers may give away some spoilers.
Do trailers make movies worse? Absolutely not. Except perhaps a few rare cases like the aforementioned Suicide Squad,the movie is the movie regardless of the trailers. Obsessing over trailers leading to worse movies seems silly.
I also find it hard to take anything in TFA seriously when it starts with:
"I'm not going to see "Spider-Man: Homecoming" this July. You're probably thinking I'm one of those anti-Marvel snobs who calls movies "films" and refers to foreign films by their non-English titles. It's not that. It's that I basically saw the whole movie already, when I caught the trailer before watching "Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2."
Seriously? You decided you saw the whole thing in 2 minutes? It has nothing left to offer? If this is how you view the world, your opinion is worthless to me on movies, and perhaps on any topic at all.
They need to collectively get the job rolls for those companies and make this a jobs issue. That's a topic that has traction these days and will make it a political issue that has to be discussed.
I'd think the more flexible solution would be to build the encryption tools to have -optional- have two passwords for a volume. Each accesses a different file table. If you provide keys, noone can ever prove if the keys were to the "one volume I set up" or to the "hidden portion of the secure volume"
When I got out of college with an IT degree in '89...
1st job: Low paying job setting up a network, scored the job purely because an old boss worked there and knew I was back in town 2nd job: Medium/Low paying job driving around the state, working 80 hour weeks installing computers for a power company. 3rd job: Medium paying job at a software company where I joined in Tech Support to get a job in my chosen field. 4th job: 2 years later at the software company I was running the development side of the business.
Having a degree does not entitle you to get a job doing what you want to do. It gives you improved odds to get the opportunity to work your ass off to learn the real world and get your foot in the door and prove yourself.
While I find the abusive techniques being reported as abhorrent as the next fellow, I would challenge the assertion that it's their job to disclose security issues.
I'm not saying that they morally are not obligated. They are morally obligated to do so, in my personal opinion, to maintain the general fabric of security for the country.
But I'm not so sure that they have a legal obligation to do so.
There are some pretty convincing cases where they could argue that an obscure exploit can be disclosed and upgrade the digital security of the nation by 0.01% or they could hold onto it and use it to help prevent specific bad actors with big plans.
So yes, while I'd like to think we're all above board and working towards a bright shiny future with full disclosure, I'm not sure that the charter for agencies running covert ops lists vulnerability disclosure as their operational mandate.
Slashdot Mirror
/golfclap
Man selling autonomous car parts says big things about autonomous cars.
The fallacy is, for that concept to work, then all books must have some initial purchase price (covering the months or years spent on it) to acquire them from the author. It's not like the author can write a book, publish it, make $150 in sales and then Google takes it and gives it away for free forever.
The plumber has a set rate for a fixed piece of work. The author has no up-front payment unless they sell it to a publisher, which is becoming less and less common these days. So the entire attempt at the author:plumber analogy is false.
The better, for the /. crowd analogy is software sales.
Postulate a world in which there are no micro-transactions or in-game purchases to cover costs after the fact. Now, how do you make a living at making software?
Do you spend a year writing it in your home office and then release it and as soon as you do, someone else (with the largest audience and distribution system on the planet) makes it available fro free? You don't see any issues with that?
One day it's going to be our grand kids saying "Why in this day and age do some (older) people insist on taking out their cards and paying with cards? When will they get the corporate funded implants to track their purchases. Old people suck!"
I've been drawing smiley faces, emojis, "no one checks this" and other stuff on the signature pad for years. Did you know that most of them have a line drawing limit? You can't start at one side and fill in the entire thing black. They must be storing the vector version :)
I decided many years ago that since no one ever looks at the signature and they prove nothing unless you had me personally on camera when it was signed, that I refused to bother signing them. It's a bad feature and unworthy of the time, effort, hardware support, storage and systems built to support it.
As an interesting aside, the current trend in DSLRs is away from mirror solutions and to mirror-less cameras. The mirror represents an unnecessary mechanical component in the device that contributes to camera shake and adds a mechanical point of failure.
I have one of the new iPad pros (the 12.9 with the new hardware same as the new 10" but larger screen).
Common Sense
-It's not a laptop, expecting it to be one is starting from a false premise.
-Slashdot users are not a representative sample of the target audience for the product.
-For someone who has no computing electronics other than a phone, this would be able to take care of anything that common user would likely need in a laptop. email, browsing, word processor, spreadsheets, paying their bills online, etc.
The Good
-I have some visual issues, so bigger is literally better for me and that was part of my decision to purchase.
-It's big enough to read comics at full size without having to sit in front of my desktop. I can read books with less eye strain.
-The pen is amazing. The wife is a graphic artist and she is really loving it.
-We both enjoy coloring using Pigment. That's close to being the killer app for the pad/pencil for us.
The Not So Good
-It's biiiig. I'll retain my ipad Air for travel. not getting this out to use on a plane.
-Any game that forces you to use it in portrait mode makes you feel ridiculous, even when you are alone
The Wait and See
-iOS 11 has some interesting things coming.
-The new file manager is very interesting, and seeing how companies can work apps with that. Could completely change using dropbox with the pad.
- I'm still hoping for some more powerful photo editors for the ipad now that the hardware is improving. There's a bajillion of them out there but they all have like 20 features and 90% feature overlap between each one. We need something with 80% of photoshop, not another editor just like all the rest.
That's an interesting tidbit that had not made it into the main newsfeeds.
Thanks!
I'm at a loss to understand why a 90 day travel ban, with the stated purpose of creating time to get a "proper set of rules and procedures into place" is what we're fighting about several months later.
Shouldn't the full fledged version be ready for review/vetting by now, making this whole thing a travesty of taxpayer money and the SCs time?
Mmmmmm Saaaaalaaaaddd!
YEAH! Better that they should do NOTHING instead of something!
And you sir, you dedicated what fraction of your wealth to green projects?
Hey kid. C'mere. Try this out. First hit's free.
Offering short term unlimited and removing it later is somewhat common. Lure folks in, get them hooked and then adjust the offering once they are sticky attached to the service.
"The reason I and my friends watch sports is to see feats that we can't perform"
You could sit on a bench for free and watch people go to work.
(said entirely in jest, because it's too good a jab to pass up) :)
Tired of the general populace subsidizing sports channels.
https://www.outkickthecoverage...
"porn magazines"
Dude, You're showing your age. :)
Assumption: Referenced on other sites, Mellennials make up 23.3% of the US populace. Claiming 45% including 16 and younger skews the rest of the "data"
Claim: 40% of millennials prefer watching esports to traditional sports
So 40% of 24.3% (so we're looking at 9.32%) prefer esports to sweaty sports.
Isn't that terribly easy to skew? Survey question: "Do you prefer esports or real sports?". If I cannot say "Neither, you insensitive clod" then it skews quickly towards esports. If forced to choose with a BFG to my head, the one I can play in the background on my monitor and ignore while I do other things is the choice.
Claim:26% of millennial eSports enthusiasts reported a significant uptick in eSports viewing over the past year
So 26% of the "enthusiasts" saw an uptick. Umm, define enthusiasts. Even if the assumed full 9.32% that chose esports over sports, 26% of that is just 2.4%
Come on, 2.4% of the populace started watching more esports and the rest seems like inflated presentation.
I was going to post:
"/golfclap
well done"
to applaud your on your witty post buy then I realized it could be seen as applauding you for the participation of posting and things go so meta so fast that I nearly had a seizure.
"Together millennials -- ages 17-34 -- and Generation Z peers -- age 16 and under -- comprise 45% of America's consumer base"
Whats the entertainment spending power of that group as a percentage compared to others?
And since Suicide Squad was such a box office flop... oh, wait a second...
There's a huge difference between saying that trailers are making movies worse and saying that trailers may give away some spoilers.
Do trailers make movies worse? Absolutely not. Except perhaps a few rare cases like the aforementioned Suicide Squad,the movie is the movie regardless of the trailers. Obsessing over trailers leading to worse movies seems silly.
I also find it hard to take anything in TFA seriously when it starts with:
"I'm not going to see "Spider-Man: Homecoming" this July. You're probably thinking I'm one of those anti-Marvel snobs who calls movies "films" and refers to foreign films by their non-English titles. It's not that. It's that I basically saw the whole movie already, when I caught the trailer before watching "Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2."
Seriously? You decided you saw the whole thing in 2 minutes? It has nothing left to offer? If this is how you view the world, your opinion is worthless to me on movies, and perhaps on any topic at all.
They need to collectively get the job rolls for those companies and make this a jobs issue. That's a topic that has traction these days and will make it a political issue that has to be discussed.
I'd think the more flexible solution would be to build the encryption tools to have -optional- have two passwords for a volume. Each accesses a different file table. If you provide keys, noone can ever prove if the keys were to the "one volume I set up" or to the "hidden portion of the secure volume"
Effectively a decoy keyset
I share my name with :
A current well know actor
AND
A famous writer
Good luck finding me in the mass of information you'll be swamped with.
When I got out of college with an IT degree in '89...
1st job: Low paying job setting up a network, scored the job purely because an old boss worked there and knew I was back in town
2nd job: Medium/Low paying job driving around the state, working 80 hour weeks installing computers for a power company.
3rd job: Medium paying job at a software company where I joined in Tech Support to get a job in my chosen field.
4th job: 2 years later at the software company I was running the development side of the business.
Having a degree does not entitle you to get a job doing what you want to do. It gives you improved odds to get the opportunity to work your ass off to learn the real world and get your foot in the door and prove yourself.
While I find the abusive techniques being reported as abhorrent as the next fellow, I would challenge the assertion that it's their job to disclose security issues.
I'm not saying that they morally are not obligated. They are morally obligated to do so, in my personal opinion, to maintain the general fabric of security for the country.
But I'm not so sure that they have a legal obligation to do so.
There are some pretty convincing cases where they could argue that an obscure exploit can be disclosed and upgrade the digital security of the nation by 0.01% or they could hold onto it and use it to help prevent specific bad actors with big plans.
So yes, while I'd like to think we're all above board and working towards a bright shiny future with full disclosure, I'm not sure that the charter for agencies running covert ops lists vulnerability disclosure as their operational mandate.