It's important to remember that a lot of people aren't yet focused on bluray. DVD ripping was a must have and many different open-source and closed-source programs popped up over the years because DVD had critical mass.
I think the manufacturers have failed to realize that the market finds some products "good enough" for the majority of the people purchasing it. Not to say there aren't many people buying BR products, but most people aren't into the whole HD experience.
After the music CD became the mainstream format, several attempts at creating higher quality formats have been made such Mini Disc and Super Audio CD but only a select set of audiophiles picked up on it.
Most people like to watch TV, but to the average person the price between performance gain isn't really that motivating for them to spend more money on upgrading existing equipment. They can watch movies "well enough" now and for many they are fine with the way things are.
That said, tv on demand, digital downloads, and DVRs are taking off because of their price and convenience to the consumer.
Or just maybe, it's not that hard to desensitize a person towards killing. And if it's done in a non-disciplined setting, especially something like a video game where you get some type of reward for instigating indiscriminate murder, the line will get blurry for quite a few people if they get upset, or are in an emotionally charged situation.
I dunno. Maybe humans aren't hardwired to refuse to kill when told to do so by an authority fictional or real.
Basically if someone else in authority tells it is ok to go kill innocent children, then most of us won't feel bad that we went out and did it as long as our authorities and society don't tell us any different.
This is how we evolved for thousands of years. The Greeks, Romans, Eygtians, and then latter the Europeans and Ottomans all committed genocide during their reigns almost all the time.
Hell... In the Bible after the Isrealites basically were told to murder entire cities by their god and they didn't bat an eye.
I think people fail to realize that the Germans running the death camps weren't psychopaths as we make them out to be. They were just like you and me trying to make a living trying to please society in ways they were told were right.
Some of them realized that it wasn't all peachy and had serious issue with what they did, but in the end most of them went along with it.
The scary truth is that every single human can be made in mass murderers by an authority figure.
That said, censorship is not the answer. Freedom of information and entertainment is the only way to keep authority figures from hiding the facts of what they are trying to get the population to do.
Make no mistake: if Linux were as widely used as Windows, there would be bugs galore to be a-cleaning in Linux land. I love Linux (heck, "I'm rinsing in it now!"), and have used it as my primary desktop and server platform since '94, but bulletproof it ain't.
I think by bullet proof they mean mitigate stupid user and developer tricks which still happen in Linux but you have to try harder.
I mean the first thing I did when first trying out Linux in 1997 was to learn it while logged in as root because that was how you logged into Windows NT.
That said, I strongly disagree that OS usage is directly correlated to viable exploits on a device.
Take the iPhone for example. Its used by a lot of people but its nigh impossible to exploit simply because its locked down.
Now you sacrifice a lot of usability, but that is the price you pay in terms of security.
I mean if Microsoft Wrote an OS that would not allow the user or their programs to write to anywhere else except the user home directory and programs could not starup other programs or modify their files, then you would never see any other viruses again on the Windows platform.
Of course this would break all the legacy programs and you wouldn't really be running windows anymore in a sense... But wouldn't it be worth it?;)
Just like supernova before em. Well that's the end of that..
Well not really. It will be called something else except they probably won't have a cool name.
Personally I don't really approve of piracy because it hurts Open Source alternatives and wouldn't trust anything downloaded from PB to not have trojans on it these days.
That said, I think as a political movement they are something else. Hopefully that money will be used to help the EU Pirate Party in future elections.
Of course, the study took place in Canada. Skinny, underweight people dying faster in the cold of Canada just seems like a no brainer. I'd like to see the study replicated in the tropics to see if the numbers stand up somewhere that extra insulation doesn't help as much.
Standardization is the sort of thing that benefits pretty much everyone over the long term, but can be a PITA for interested players at the time it's started up. So absent of some external impetus, it often just doesn't get started.
Why not just use USB?
I mean my iPhone and iPod use the same charger interchangeably and I saved myself buying a second cable when taking a device too and from work for an older model.
Now the iPhone end of the USB device isn't universal but that could be resolved.
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Open source development has always been notably bad at user interfaces, and more generally, at design; it is no accident that the most successful open source projects are all clones of some other software, or implementations of back-end protocols like HTTP.
I know the OP is being a bit hostile, but with many Open Source projects UI are basically "what would I like to have" following then "what would my user's like to have" and followed "what my user's should have but don't know they need" last.
I think more thought should be done to the interface via a graphic design and human nature standpoint rather than simply doing what you are the user asks for.
I'm not saying that the developers or users are stupid, it is just that often when asked they really want, they don't know what they really want so they throw everything in and end up with feature UI bloat.
Sometimes less is more, and if you work from a standpoint of what you shouldn't or can't do, and work around that, then sometimes you will make users less frustrated when having to remember what random command or finger swipe gesture does what.
That said, if my iPhone resets its damn icon order again because I had my finger on the screen too long I'm GOING TO THROW IT VERY HARD!!
Also... Forgot to mention what he also said about money tranactions.
Once we setup the LLC in Delaware would have to get the EID from the IRS and use that to setup a bank account in the state of Delaware and all transactions would have to go through there.
So the LLC is treated as a person who has an address and a bank account in the state of Delaware. It just happens to send you personal income which gets income tax rather than sales tax.
Again talk with a lawyer if you ever wanted to do something like that.
There are many many thousands of corporations registered in DE for business purposes, but don't think for a second that those corporations are not required to file and pay sales taxes in the states where they have a physical presence.
IANAL but I talked to one about this issue once but the project never went through so I never went through with it.
The answer is "depends" on where the business is done.
Basically the registered agent is the business address of your business in Delaware. It is basically a company that gets your bills, legal documents, and court subpoenas (if you happen to have to go to court) and in all legal sense the business is in Delaware.
You usually have to either pay an official registered agent or know someone who lives in Delaware that you trust to receive your mail.
The income passes through the LLC and goes to you as regular income so the states can still tax you for income while you reside in their state, but they can't charge you for a sales tax if there was never any business in the state.
However, this doesn't mean you can open up a shop downtown Raleigh, NC and not pay business taxes but rather if your actions do not happen inside the state borders than it should not "in theory" be liable for taxation purposes.
Now the issue that we discussed with him was that the business owner was in one state, the webserver in another, and the LLC would be in Delaware.
That said, he said he'd have to research that scenario because it might be best if the web server was moved to Delaware too because if you did have to go to court the "shop" was located where the web server was located which might, in some cases, have business taxes applied to it.
This was a few years ago and things might have changed so if you really need advice go talk with a business lawyer in Delaware and one in your home state and they can review it for you.
Of course you could just beat the whole system and move to Delaware and be your own web host and registered agent.
And why the hell didn't I give marijuana a try when I was in college? What the hell was I so scared of? Of course, now I'm old, and I don't have access to pot, so I can't try it.
You could take a trip to a nation that has legalized/decriminalized it.
2. Time for the referral businesses in NC to relocate. Or close up shop. We'd be happy to have them (and their income & property tax revenues) here in NJ.
Society rewards greatness in competitive, valuable fields. Writing music may not be as valuable as curing cancer, but no one in this comment thread could write/sing a song as well as he. So that's why we reward him, despite his personal shortcomings.
Yeah, but isn't that the problem with society?
We reward the wrong competitive that in the end really wastes our limited resources. Its not his fault that society liked his songs, but rather shouldn't we realized that in the end we shouldn't just be sheeple ingoring our own plight.
I mean its the same thing with sports stars.
These people aren't doing anything that will enrich humanity over the long term in tangible benefits other than entertainment.
In fact this behavior actually puts us in danger. We need to find engineering solutions in the future for catastrophic events that will eventually happen.
Will a pop star be able to save us in the event of a meteor impact? What about global warming, tsunami, outbreak of a virus, nuclear proliferation, global famine, and what about the samll things?
Like old age, cancer, car accidents, peak oil (well this isn't small but it won't kill us) and so on...
We need math, science, and engineering for these solutions and it saddens me that society puts so much into stuff that in the end won't save us when it chips are down.
Some people have the record for growing the world's biggest pumpkin, but I'm more concerned with people working on solutions to stop world hunger and cure cancer.
I hate to say this, but things like this (and Anna Nichole Smith) make me weep for humanity.
We put too much interest in people whose saving grace is that they can put a song together when there are so many other problems in the world that need resolving.
Do you think world would have paid as much attention to Stephen Hawking if he died?
I'd doubt it but he's probably made a greater contribution to mankind over the long term compared to MJ.
Secondly, MJ kind of screwed the pooch when it came to financial responsibility. The guy was known to publicly throw tantrums at his personal assistants when they told him to stop buying everything in the store and spent millions on stuff like paintings, statues, and luxuries that none of us could ever afford.
Hell... For all the grief we give about Bill Gates, at least he is doing something for humanity that is good other than spend money on luxuries. The guy is not a hero and we should not look to him for inspiration. Plenty of other people in streets of Iran to look for that.
What TFA is suggesting is probably one of the dumbest ideas I've heard since... EVER. That said, the dots are a usability issue -- I've got plenty of otherwise very smart users who screw up passwords constantly.
Despite what they say about Lotus Notes (its the spawn of satan), it did have that cool feature where the random icons would change as you typed your password and that when you had the right one that you could recognize that you had typed it.
Or at least it looked familiar so you knew before you pressed enter if you made a mistake.
More importantly, there's usually nobody looking over your shoulder when you log in to a website. It's just you, sitting all alone in your office, suffering reduced usability to protect against a non-issue.
What do you mean office? Its either the cube or my parents basement.
And mom always looks over my shoulder when she does laundry...
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It's important to remember that a lot of people aren't yet focused on bluray. DVD ripping was a must have and many different open-source and closed-source programs popped up over the years because DVD had critical mass.
I think the manufacturers have failed to realize that the market finds some products "good enough" for the majority of the people purchasing it. Not to say there aren't many people buying BR products, but most people aren't into the whole HD experience.
After the music CD became the mainstream format, several attempts at creating higher quality formats have been made such Mini Disc and Super Audio CD but only a select set of audiophiles picked up on it.
Most people like to watch TV, but to the average person the price between performance gain isn't really that motivating for them to spend more money on upgrading existing equipment. They can watch movies "well enough" now and for many they are fine with the way things are.
That said, tv on demand, digital downloads, and DVRs are taking off because of their price and convenience to the consumer.
Or just maybe, it's not that hard to desensitize a person towards killing. And if it's done in a non-disciplined setting, especially something like a video game where you get some type of reward for instigating indiscriminate murder, the line will get blurry for quite a few people if they get upset, or are in an emotionally charged situation.
I dunno. Maybe humans aren't hardwired to refuse to kill when told to do so by an authority fictional or real.
Basically if someone else in authority tells it is ok to go kill innocent children, then most of us won't feel bad that we went out and did it as long as our authorities and society don't tell us any different.
This is how we evolved for thousands of years. The Greeks, Romans, Eygtians, and then latter the Europeans and Ottomans all committed genocide during their reigns almost all the time.
Hell... In the Bible after the Isrealites basically were told to murder entire cities by their god and they didn't bat an eye.
I think people fail to realize that the Germans running the death camps weren't psychopaths as we make them out to be. They were just like you and me trying to make a living trying to please society in ways they were told were right.
Some of them realized that it wasn't all peachy and had serious issue with what they did, but in the end most of them went along with it.
The scary truth is that every single human can be made in mass murderers by an authority figure.
That said, censorship is not the answer. Freedom of information and entertainment is the only way to keep authority figures from hiding the facts of what they are trying to get the population to do.
What common malware behaviour do you think can't be done as a regular user ?
My point was to restrict the user so that the virus can't do any damage either.
Make no mistake: if Linux were as widely used as Windows, there would be bugs galore to be a-cleaning in Linux land. I love Linux (heck, "I'm rinsing in it now!"), and have used it as my primary desktop and server platform since '94, but bulletproof it ain't.
I think by bullet proof they mean mitigate stupid user and developer tricks which still happen in Linux but you have to try harder.
I mean the first thing I did when first trying out Linux in 1997 was to learn it while logged in as root because that was how you logged into Windows NT.
That said, I strongly disagree that OS usage is directly correlated to viable exploits on a device.
Take the iPhone for example. Its used by a lot of people but its nigh impossible to exploit simply because its locked down.
Now you sacrifice a lot of usability, but that is the price you pay in terms of security.
I mean if Microsoft Wrote an OS that would not allow the user or their programs to write to anywhere else except the user home directory and programs could not starup other programs or modify their files, then you would never see any other viruses again on the Windows platform.
Of course this would break all the legacy programs and you wouldn't really be running windows anymore in a sense... But wouldn't it be worth it? ;)
Why is it a bad habit? The browser should facilitate the user, it shouldn't be the other way around.
Which user then? If we please every single user we'll have a big pile of bloat ware and no user will be happy.
The piratical application involves man sized recepticals and a sign that "Get off my lawn! Trespassers will used to tell time!"
The only difference is that it all needs to be paid up-front, rather than the disposal cost being paid after the product's useful life.
What if product is never disposed of or the price of disposal drops in the future?
You're required to pay a $50 processing fee for all old electronics. This includes computers, televisions, and basically anything larger than an iPod.
Lately I have found it more cost effective to dissemble old electronics and mail them to the people living in 3rd world nations.
Well there will be the damn dirty apes!
But they won't give a damn either about us.
;)
Just like supernova before em. Well that's the end of that..
Well not really. It will be called something else except they probably won't have a cool name.
Personally I don't really approve of piracy because it hurts Open Source alternatives and wouldn't trust anything downloaded from PB to not have trojans on it these days.
That said, I think as a political movement they are something else. Hopefully that money will be used to help the EU Pirate Party in future elections.
Of course, the study took place in Canada. Skinny, underweight people dying faster in the cold of Canada just seems like a no brainer. I'd like to see the study replicated in the tropics to see if the numbers stand up somewhere that extra insulation doesn't help as much.
Or it could be their health care.
Standardization is the sort of thing that benefits pretty much everyone over the long term, but can be a PITA for interested players at the time it's started up. So absent of some external impetus, it often just doesn't get started.
Why not just use USB?
I mean my iPhone and iPod use the same charger interchangeably and I saved myself buying a second cable when taking a device too and from work for an older model.
Now the iPhone end of the USB device isn't universal but that could be resolved.
Open source development has always been notably bad at user interfaces, and more generally, at design; it is no accident that the most successful open source projects are all clones of some other software, or implementations of back-end protocols like HTTP.
I know the OP is being a bit hostile, but with many Open Source projects UI are basically "what would I like to have" following then "what would my user's like to have" and followed "what my user's should have but don't know they need" last.
I think more thought should be done to the interface via a graphic design and human nature standpoint rather than simply doing what you are the user asks for.
I'm not saying that the developers or users are stupid, it is just that often when asked they really want, they don't know what they really want so they throw everything in and end up with feature UI bloat.
Sometimes less is more, and if you work from a standpoint of what you shouldn't or can't do, and work around that, then sometimes you will make users less frustrated when having to remember what random command or finger swipe gesture does what.
That said, if my iPhone resets its damn icon order again because I had my finger on the screen too long I'm GOING TO THROW IT VERY HARD!!
Many of TPB's ads are for shady porn sites.... that'll have to go if this will be the sort of place I tell my family view my videos at.
Considering a lot of TPB's content is porn... Not that I know anything about that... It would make sense to have adult ads.
Though one wonders if you were going to TBP to download free porn would you spend money on porn advertisers?
Unless maybe they are aiming for the Adobe downloader crowd?
Also... Forgot to mention what he also said about money tranactions.
Once we setup the LLC in Delaware would have to get the EID from the IRS and use that to setup a bank account in the state of Delaware and all transactions would have to go through there.
So the LLC is treated as a person who has an address and a bank account in the state of Delaware. It just happens to send you personal income which gets income tax rather than sales tax.
Again talk with a lawyer if you ever wanted to do something like that.
There are many many thousands of corporations registered in DE for business purposes, but don't think for a second that those corporations are not required to file and pay sales taxes in the states where they have a physical presence.
IANAL but I talked to one about this issue once but the project never went through so I never went through with it.
The answer is "depends" on where the business is done.
Basically the registered agent is the business address of your business in Delaware. It is basically a company that gets your bills, legal documents, and court subpoenas (if you happen to have to go to court) and in all legal sense the business is in Delaware.
You usually have to either pay an official registered agent or know someone who lives in Delaware that you trust to receive your mail.
The income passes through the LLC and goes to you as regular income so the states can still tax you for income while you reside in their state, but they can't charge you for a sales tax if there was never any business in the state.
However, this doesn't mean you can open up a shop downtown Raleigh, NC and not pay business taxes but rather if your actions do not happen inside the state borders than it should not "in theory" be liable for taxation purposes.
Now the issue that we discussed with him was that the business owner was in one state, the webserver in another, and the LLC would be in Delaware.
That said, he said he'd have to research that scenario because it might be best if the web server was moved to Delaware too because if you did have to go to court the "shop" was located where the web server was located which might, in some cases, have business taxes applied to it.
This was a few years ago and things might have changed so if you really need advice go talk with a business lawyer in Delaware and one in your home state and they can review it for you.
Of course you could just beat the whole system and move to Delaware and be your own web host and registered agent.
And why the hell didn't I give marijuana a try when I was in college? What the hell was I so scared of? Of course, now I'm old, and I don't have access to pot, so I can't try it.
You could take a trip to a nation that has legalized/decriminalized it.
2. Time for the referral businesses in NC to relocate. Or close up shop. We'd be happy to have them (and their income & property tax revenues) here in NJ.
Or they could setup a proxy LLC in Delaware through a registered agent.
It just struck me reading that... it must really, REALLY suck being the first person to ever have a particular disease.
What if we have it backwards?
What if she is the first person not to have the disease we all have and that she is aging but really really slow?
So in 100 years she will have the body of an 18 year old?!
I mean if you think about it, old age is a disease.
Society rewards greatness in competitive, valuable fields. Writing music may not be as valuable as curing cancer, but no one in this comment thread could write/sing a song as well as he. So that's why we reward him, despite his personal shortcomings.
Yeah, but isn't that the problem with society?
We reward the wrong competitive that in the end really wastes our limited resources. Its not his fault that society liked his songs, but rather shouldn't we realized that in the end we shouldn't just be sheeple ingoring our own plight.
I mean its the same thing with sports stars.
These people aren't doing anything that will enrich humanity over the long term in tangible benefits other than entertainment.
In fact this behavior actually puts us in danger. We need to find engineering solutions in the future for catastrophic events that will eventually happen.
Will a pop star be able to save us in the event of a meteor impact?
What about global warming, tsunami, outbreak of a virus, nuclear proliferation, global famine, and what about the samll things?
Like old age, cancer, car accidents, peak oil (well this isn't small but it won't kill us) and so on...
We need math, science, and engineering for these solutions and it saddens me that society puts so much into stuff that in the end won't save us when it chips are down.
How about having the biggest selling album ever?
And this improves our lives how?
Some people have the record for growing the world's biggest pumpkin, but I'm more concerned with people working on solutions to stop world hunger and cure cancer.
I hate to say this, but things like this (and Anna Nichole Smith) make me weep for humanity.
We put too much interest in people whose saving grace is that they can put a song together when there are so many other problems in the world that need resolving.
Do you think world would have paid as much attention to Stephen Hawking if he died?
I'd doubt it but he's probably made a greater contribution to mankind over the long term compared to MJ.
Secondly, MJ kind of screwed the pooch when it came to financial responsibility. The guy was known to publicly throw tantrums at his personal assistants when they told him to stop buying everything in the store and spent millions on stuff like paintings, statues, and luxuries that none of us could ever afford.
Hell... For all the grief we give about Bill Gates, at least he is doing something for humanity that is good other than spend money on luxuries. The guy is not a hero and we should not look to him for inspiration. Plenty of other people in streets of Iran to look for that.
What TFA is suggesting is probably one of the dumbest ideas I've heard since... EVER. That said, the dots are a usability issue -- I've got plenty of otherwise very smart users who screw up passwords constantly.
Despite what they say about Lotus Notes (its the spawn of satan), it did have that cool feature where the random icons would change as you typed your password and that when you had the right one that you could recognize that you had typed it.
Or at least it looked familiar so you knew before you pressed enter if you made a mistake.
More importantly, there's usually nobody looking over your shoulder when you log in to a website. It's just you, sitting all alone in your office, suffering reduced usability to protect against a non-issue.
What do you mean office? Its either the cube or my parents basement.
And mom always looks over my shoulder when she does laundry...