I haven't heard about the Bird Flu for a while, the panic has past.
Sorry, no. It's seasonal. Bird Migration for example being a factor. You hadn't heard much about it since last season. This is the new Bird flu season. Now's the time the reports will increase again.
It's certainly true that changes in elements of an ecosystem due to for example, changes in food supply, can restore a degree of natural balance over a number of years.
However, this is in no way guaranteed or necessarily a "natural" system. There is (I'm afraid) no evidence of a Mother Nature. Species die out. Species have been failing and dying out spectacularly since the beginning of life.
While mankind has been spectacularly destructive and exploitative in the past few hundred years, we aren't to blame for most of the species exctinctions. Excluding Dicks-in-Timemachines we are wholly innocent of any dinosauricides.(McSoylent Really Big Mac anyone?)
This being why this book is a useful reminder that we should take care, and do all we can to prevent systems where virii can thrive. A virus wiping out a sizeable chunk of Humanity is not implausible.
Saying please or thank you most certainly does make you a man. Not saying them, makes you a pig. Take for example your Army's much vaulted hero, John Wayne. As an archetype he is most decidedly rich in testosterone, most certainly a man's man, and most certainly a gentleman too. Can you imagine him not saying please or thank you, because I can't.
If you are serious, and I'm not convinced you are, I think perhaps you have a little too much testosterone, and too little education (maybe you think book learnin is for girls too huh?). Being masculine and tough doesn't mean you need to behave like an animal, nor does it mean you need to go a-guntoting and a-killin and a-whuppin some good ol boys. You can be not only tough, strong and manly but also kind and compassionate at the same time.
And I think your concept of economics may be flawed too. Just a guess, but you may find your employees work a little better when you treat them with courtesy, you may also find that if you continue to treat them rudely that one day they may just turn and sabotage your operation. Just a thought...
Sorry, but no. A keyboard is relatively easily useable by a left hander (such as myself). However, a standard keyboard layout does indeed show right handed bias - the position of the numeric keypad and arrow keys as an example.
While it is perfectly possible to use those with your left hand, it isn't as organic as for a right hander, and using your right hand instead would result in a lack of speed and possibly errors, since this is a weaker hand.
Generally, if I am doing a lot of numeric input I have to either reposition the keyboard or my chair, a right hander does not need to do that.
Answer: yes. And in the few days since the last Wikipedia-related Slashdot article, not much has changed. It feels like a dupe over and over again, but its actually different articles each time. Yet they all say the same thing.
And the really curious thing about all the Slashdot related posts on Wikiality is "why?".
There's no "news for nerds" story here. No more than there should be in the validity of the content of MySpace, or YouTube, or Craigslist, or whatever else.
It's not a technology story. It's not a geek story. It's not even news. It's a magazine article best left to journalists on a slow news day - presumably where all these wiki submissions are coming from. The only good thing about these stories is that there is some chance that a few more people will realize how utterly untrustworthy Wikipedia is, and finally stop quoting it for any and all reasons - as many sadly still do on Slashdot.
And my answer to the question is... the day Wikipedia is accepted as a valid source on anything other than anarchic trivia is the day that Fox News has finally won the battle for Truthiness. We geeks must forever fight in that battle on the side of truth light and justice. For the good of all beings Truthiness and Wikiality must lose.
I applaud Google's actions here. Censorship is never a good thing, it can seriously mask the level of problems, especially where the evil of racial hatred is concerned.
For example, as a foreigner living in Germany I am constantly aware and reminded daily of the growing Nazi problem here (I've given up on using the prefix "Neo" since it's still the same old problem that never went away). My feeling is that the German Government's censorship of Nazi related things has made things much worse. It has added attraction by deeming such things forbidden. It makes it difficult to openly talk about the situation and to ridicule the Nazi position, thus to some degree dissipating the threat. Not to mention the fact that the application of anti-fascist laws are so utterly fascist that a man was given 7 years in prison for selling anti-nazi badges depicting a swastika with a red line through it. That's just plain dumb... or a fascist conspiracy... hmmm, which I don't entirely throw out as a possibilty... stranger things have happened.
Perhaps worst of all though, it blinds Germans to how big the problem really is. A few instances such as the recent Afghanistan skull f**king photos, etc do make the news but they seem few and isolated.
The truth is that there are lesser incidents every day, all over Germany. There are parts of this country that, as a foreigner, it would not be safe for me to travel to. The Nazi problem is still growing, and unlike in many countries it is not just a symptom of a band of lunatic disgruntled extremists. Here it has broad appeal and a significant percentage of the population is still sympathetic to many of the Nazi ideals. Secretly, because they can't talk about it and neither can anyone else.
Presumably - after it is again too late - someone is going to deal with the problem. Hopefully for once it's the Germans themselves this time and not the Soviet AF, USAF and RAF. Until the Germans remove this problem internally it will never go away. It has remained partially hidden since 1945, and it's not going anywhere soon, except to positions of greater strength.
So, yes, Google protecting free speech is good, but it would be better if it were consistent, bearing in mind that Google censors free speech in Germany. Which is part of the problem, not a solution.
It's not just in Orwellian fiction. In East Berlin the FDJ - an equivalent of the Scouts - used to do many things to aid the state in keeping the Proles on-message.
Not the least of which was turning TV antennae back to face the East to stop people watching Western TV.
Course, this is a major step towards civilisation from the Hitler Youth a few years earlier. And not surprisingly - and fortunately, since there's still a big problem - German kids are forbidden from wearing uniforms in organisations these days. Otherwise, they'd probably be doing a completely different sort of DVD burning...
Coincidently I read 1984 again a few days ago. It struck me that Orwell's vision of the future was completely wrong. The 80's were freedom, spending and decadence. Should he instead have named it 2004 then it would've beem painfully close to the truth. Are we at war with Eastasia or Eurasia again? I forget...
You're actually missing Steve's point. He's not saying wireless sharing of music isn't a useful feature, he's saying that it's too complicated to be useful right now.
Indeed, and I strongly agree with one point of Steve's from TFA about how the success of the iPod is related to its simplicity.
Consumer products are too feature rich and packed full of redundant bells and whistles to be useful or desirable long term. Cell phones being the prime example of feature-noiseware. I would love an Apple phone. Simple, pretty and white. I can use it to make calls, send sms and store useful phone numbers. No other functionality required. No crappy camera, no mp3 crap, no radio, no bluetooth, no internet, no TV, no swiss army knife, no god knows what else... Leave all that to Belkin and Griffin to come up with add-on hardware for those who need it.
Build one, and I for one will buy it tomorrow. Even at twice the price (though half would be preferred, of course).
I don't think it is entirely corporate imperialism (though likely that is a factor).
For example, before Google there was Altavista. Hands up everyone who has used Altavista in the past 5 years. Exactly. Web things are still fickle - you can be the biggest site on the net today, and toast tommorrow. A new search technology comes along and Google could crash and burn if it relied on that alone. Startups are small, fast and can turn on a dime to attract new customers, corporations are like turning supertankers.
Thus, there is a need for corporations to buy up anything that looks promising to minimise threat and to broaden their base if they get serious competition.
Also, it's much cheaper to have R&D effectively outsourced in this manner. Why pay folks to research new technologies when you can wait for something out there to be successful and just snap it up. In some cases it will be cheaper to do this. Though, I doubt that You Tube or Skype were in any way bargains - eBay's share price has still not yet recovered from the Skype purchase.
That said the imperialism thing is the most distasteful factor. My feeling is that most corporations are not so much like Big Brother as like the Roman Empire, long and complex lines of communication, dictatorial delusional madmen in charge, heavily outsourced and dependent on slave labor. All CEO's should have Gibbons as required reading.
A malware company vs a web industry that generally loads its pages with popups and uses deceptive linking/indexing techniques. Come on, do we HAVE to root for one of them to win?
Please take the time to read some of the posts from adult webmasters elsewhere in this thread, and take this opportunity to learn and grow as a person.
Some adult webmasters are unethical. They are, in my experience, (as an adult webmaster and occasional performer in the fetish industry) very much in the minority. Most people involved in the adult industry that I have met personally are honest and hard working individuals.
In fact, I quit my job working in a very large and well-known international corporation because the things asked of me were far less honest and ethical than anything I have been asked to do in the adult industry. So, before you cast any stones Dilbert...
Please understand that those of us working in the adult industry are under far far more scrutiny from the authorities than any other legal business. We need satisfied customers (take the pun anyway you like) as much as any other business. Thus, using adware, deceptive linking techniques, and (does anyone still?) gazillions of pop-ups, is not a good business strategy.
I know that some webmasters do this, but so also do many from other realms too. Even companies like BMW have used SEO companies to forge page ranking. And don't even get me started on the music industry...
Porn is, in my opinion, far more honest and ethical than most other industries. So, enjoy it knowing that you are supporting hard working small businesses everywhere.
Um, as an American currently living in Switzerland, I have to ask... do you know how big the Netherlands are (is? that's a tricky one)?
Greater Chicago Metropolitan Population = 9,443,356
Netherlands Population = 16,336,346
In fact the Netherlands is the second most densly populated country in the World after Bangladesh. So, enjoy your time in Switzerland, you may wish to get out and about and learn some things while you are here - or at least take a quick look in an atlas before you post anything. Of course, I'm sure you know a lot about the US - though perhaps not Chicago...
Props for figuring out that The Netherlands is in Yurp though.
After reading the current list on the Mozilla feature brainstorming page, if even a few of these features get built into Fx 3 is going to be too heavy to be practical. I am already concerned about Fx 2.0. Such things as built in spellchecker is fine in an extension, but I have no need of it (screw you grammar nazis, spelling isn't standardised between countries and hasn't been standardised at all for much more than a century). I have not yet upgraded to the RC, and not entirely sure if I should.
I have a big fast powerful machine, and run only a few extensions. For me, there has been a profound drop off in performance from my first steps with version 0.8something and 1.5.
But I adore Firefox and want to keep it. I just wish it was leaner and faster.
It seems to me that the true beauty of OSS is that it does not need to pander to the marketing twats. There is absolutely no need for free software to pack in yet more features every version.
When speed, efficiency and stability are perfected, then by all means consider new features. Otherwise, that is why extensions were created, and why Seamonkey was created.
Google can expect legal action from a whole bunch of people... some of it justified.
Justified? Insightful, or flamebait? Well, that's a matter of opinion isn't it?
It assumes that one agrees with copyright laws. Not everyone does. There is no constitutional right anywhere that says an artist has the right to make money from his art, and even less so, the middle men that parasitically sell it.
The vast majority of writers, painters and scultpors do not gain from their work in their lifetimes. So, what makes film makers and musicians special? Just their lawyers and their vultures - nothing else.
and to use your cell phone whilst driving is rightly banned in some countries - e.g. The UK. The email thing doubtless would be there too, and might even encourage new legislation in countries that didn't have it before.
It's a really dumb idea right off the bat. Some VCs clearly have more money than sense.
Lucas states that for the price of one $200 million feature movie, 'I can make 50-60 two hour movies
...or, more talented writers and directors for the mere price of a few hours of TV one can make a really damned good feature SciFi movie - Serenity, for example, and there are others.
Lucas has way too much money and not enough ideas. The format, be it TV or Features, won't change that.
So from the founders of a company that portmanteaus the words "scalp" and "hype" to give you Skype, we now get the Venice project. A project that although once being very pretty is now slowly sinking into unpleasant smelling heavily polluted waters?
Yes, but since the major preoccupations of anyone who works in Corporatia are, "covering your ass" and "passing the buck", I don't think that anyone will have any use for email you can't store and use as a future weapon against one of your backstabbing brown-nosing colleagues.
I have an MLB.TV web suscription. Last year, and for the two previous years I was a happy customer. The feed was pretty good all things considered. This year however...
They switched to using Microsoft's DRM on the feed, which means I can no longer use Firefox, nor my Mac to access the content. They made no announcement, I only found out why I couldn't connect by reading a Register article explaining the DRM switchover. Their website stated the wrong information for a long time after the switch - not sure if it is even correct now. They have no email based Customer Support. (the form on their website doesn't actually submit mail to them) They have phone based CS, but I live in Germany, so that's not an option.
The feed has become incredibly unstable, at the beginning of the season it was impossible to watch a complete game without interruption - It has marginally improved since then, but there are still frequent issues.
This year too it seems to be impossible for them to consistently get the aspect ratio correct on every game. Some games are broadcast in 16:9 but squashed to 4:3 by MLB.TV. It was fine before, so it's artifact, not a tech issue.
They now cut to a screen saver during commercial breaks. I actually miss the Aflac and Geico ads. They don't always come back to the game at the start of a half inning, sometimes it's in the middle of action. Worse, however, is that now they are broadcasting canned music in between innings. The same music. All. The. Time. If I ever hear Yellow Bird again.... it's playing right now...aaaarrrgh!!!
Seriously, they could just broadcast ads and save me money on my suscription, as well as my sanity.
And this is on a powerful PC with a fast DSL connection. So am I surprised that the mobile version is a dismal failure? Why no, not at all...
I think our political system is in desperate need of reform, and not just a few simple Band-Aids.
I think the most unproductive thing about US Government is the pressure from Lobbyists and the Religious Right. Take for example the following, in the same vein as the Gambling thing:
War on Alcohol (prohibition) - was a complete failure at the time and led to a massive increase in organized crime that lasts to this day.
War on Drugs - complete and total failure at the expense of billions. There are more drugs than ever. Even despite carpet bombing the opium poppy fields of Afghanistan.
War on Terror - resulted in a massive rise in terrorist incidents globally and has left the whole planet in fear - one which we will take decades to recover from, even if it stops today.
War on Gambling - Just what will happen, I wonder? (See prohibition)
Japan started the fight and they would not surrender. Very conservative estimates of an invasion of Japan's homeland put American deaths at a million and Japanese deaths as a multiple of that. As horrific the destruction caused by the 2 atomic bombs, those bombs saved American and Japanese lives.
My understanding, based on second hand accounts I read for a paper at university, was that what you say may indeed be true for the Hiroshima bomb. However, after that the Japanese were ready to surrender and had indicated this through diplomatic channels. The Nagasaki bomb was the plutonium based one, being different from the initial uranium. The purpose of the second bombing was security - simply emphasis of the might of the US, and also a live test of the plutonium weapon.
Thus the second bombing didn't really save lives at all, at least not directly.
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However, this is in no way guaranteed or necessarily a "natural" system. There is (I'm afraid) no evidence of a Mother Nature. Species die out. Species have been failing and dying out spectacularly since the beginning of life.
While mankind has been spectacularly destructive and exploitative in the past few hundred years, we aren't to blame for most of the species exctinctions. Excluding Dicks-in-Timemachines we are wholly innocent of any dinosauricides.(McSoylent Really Big Mac anyone?)
This being why this book is a useful reminder that we should take care, and do all we can to prevent systems where virii can thrive. A virus wiping out a sizeable chunk of Humanity is not implausible.
Are you joking...?
Saying please or thank you most certainly does make you a man. Not saying them, makes you a pig. Take for example your Army's much vaulted hero, John Wayne. As an archetype he is most decidedly rich in testosterone, most certainly a man's man, and most certainly a gentleman too. Can you imagine him not saying please or thank you, because I can't.
If you are serious, and I'm not convinced you are, I think perhaps you have a little too much testosterone, and too little education (maybe you think book learnin is for girls too huh?). Being masculine and tough doesn't mean you need to behave like an animal, nor does it mean you need to go a-guntoting and a-killin and a-whuppin some good ol boys. You can be not only tough, strong and manly but also kind and compassionate at the same time.
And I think your concept of economics may be flawed too. Just a guess, but you may find your employees work a little better when you treat them with courtesy, you may also find that if you continue to treat them rudely that one day they may just turn and sabotage your operation. Just a thought...
But don't worry, your President has enough spare to act as a donor for all who need it.
While it is perfectly possible to use those with your left hand, it isn't as organic as for a right hander, and using your right hand instead would result in a lack of speed and possibly errors, since this is a weaker hand.
Generally, if I am doing a lot of numeric input I have to either reposition the keyboard or my chair, a right hander does not need to do that.
There's no "news for nerds" story here. No more than there should be in the validity of the content of MySpace, or YouTube, or Craigslist, or whatever else.
It's not a technology story. It's not a geek story. It's not even news. It's a magazine article best left to journalists on a slow news day - presumably where all these wiki submissions are coming from. The only good thing about these stories is that there is some chance that a few more people will realize how utterly untrustworthy Wikipedia is, and finally stop quoting it for any and all reasons - as many sadly still do on Slashdot.
And my answer to the question is... the day Wikipedia is accepted as a valid source on anything other than anarchic trivia is the day that Fox News has finally won the battle for Truthiness. We geeks must forever fight in that battle on the side of truth light and justice. For the good of all beings Truthiness and Wikiality must lose.
I applaud Google's actions here. Censorship is never a good thing, it can seriously mask the level of problems, especially where the evil of racial hatred is concerned.
For example, as a foreigner living in Germany I am constantly aware and reminded daily of the growing Nazi problem here (I've given up on using the prefix "Neo" since it's still the same old problem that never went away). My feeling is that the German Government's censorship of Nazi related things has made things much worse. It has added attraction by deeming such things forbidden. It makes it difficult to openly talk about the situation and to ridicule the Nazi position, thus to some degree dissipating the threat. Not to mention the fact that the application of anti-fascist laws are so utterly fascist that a man was given 7 years in prison for selling anti-nazi badges depicting a swastika with a red line through it. That's just plain dumb... or a fascist conspiracy... hmmm, which I don't entirely throw out as a possibilty... stranger things have happened.
Perhaps worst of all though, it blinds Germans to how big the problem really is. A few instances such as the recent Afghanistan skull f**king photos, etc do make the news but they seem few and isolated.
The truth is that there are lesser incidents every day, all over Germany. There are parts of this country that, as a foreigner, it would not be safe for me to travel to. The Nazi problem is still growing, and unlike in many countries it is not just a symptom of a band of lunatic disgruntled extremists. Here it has broad appeal and a significant percentage of the population is still sympathetic to many of the Nazi ideals. Secretly, because they can't talk about it and neither can anyone else.
Presumably - after it is again too late - someone is going to deal with the problem. Hopefully for once it's the Germans themselves this time and not the Soviet AF, USAF and RAF. Until the Germans remove this problem internally it will never go away. It has remained partially hidden since 1945, and it's not going anywhere soon, except to positions of greater strength.
So, yes, Google protecting free speech is good, but it would be better if it were consistent, bearing in mind that Google censors free speech in Germany. Which is part of the problem, not a solution.
It's not just in Orwellian fiction. In East Berlin the FDJ - an equivalent of the Scouts - used to do many things to aid the state in keeping the Proles on-message.
Not the least of which was turning TV antennae back to face the East to stop people watching Western TV.
Course, this is a major step towards civilisation from the Hitler Youth a few years earlier. And not surprisingly - and fortunately, since there's still a big problem - German kids are forbidden from wearing uniforms in organisations these days. Otherwise, they'd probably be doing a completely different sort of DVD burning...
Coincidently I read 1984 again a few days ago. It struck me that Orwell's vision of the future was completely wrong. The 80's were freedom, spending and decadence. Should he instead have named it 2004 then it would've beem painfully close to the truth. Are we at war with Eastasia or Eurasia again? I forget...
Consumer products are too feature rich and packed full of redundant bells and whistles to be useful or desirable long term. Cell phones being the prime example of feature-noiseware. I would love an Apple phone. Simple, pretty and white. I can use it to make calls, send sms and store useful phone numbers. No other functionality required. No crappy camera, no mp3 crap, no radio, no bluetooth, no internet, no TV, no swiss army knife, no god knows what else... Leave all that to Belkin and Griffin to come up with add-on hardware for those who need it.
Build one, and I for one will buy it tomorrow. Even at twice the price (though half would be preferred, of course).
I don't think it is entirely corporate imperialism (though likely that is a factor).
For example, before Google there was Altavista. Hands up everyone who has used Altavista in the past 5 years. Exactly. Web things are still fickle - you can be the biggest site on the net today, and toast tommorrow. A new search technology comes along and Google could crash and burn if it relied on that alone. Startups are small, fast and can turn on a dime to attract new customers, corporations are like turning supertankers.
Thus, there is a need for corporations to buy up anything that looks promising to minimise threat and to broaden their base if they get serious competition.
Also, it's much cheaper to have R&D effectively outsourced in this manner. Why pay folks to research new technologies when you can wait for something out there to be successful and just snap it up. In some cases it will be cheaper to do this. Though, I doubt that You Tube or Skype were in any way bargains - eBay's share price has still not yet recovered from the Skype purchase.
That said the imperialism thing is the most distasteful factor. My feeling is that most corporations are not so much like Big Brother as like the Roman Empire, long and complex lines of communication, dictatorial delusional madmen in charge, heavily outsourced and dependent on slave labor. All CEO's should have Gibbons as required reading.
They all fall eventually. That's the good news.
Some adult webmasters are unethical. They are, in my experience, (as an adult webmaster and occasional performer in the fetish industry) very much in the minority. Most people involved in the adult industry that I have met personally are honest and hard working individuals.
In fact, I quit my job working in a very large and well-known international corporation because the things asked of me were far less honest and ethical than anything I have been asked to do in the adult industry. So, before you cast any stones Dilbert...
Please understand that those of us working in the adult industry are under far far more scrutiny from the authorities than any other legal business. We need satisfied customers (take the pun anyway you like) as much as any other business. Thus, using adware, deceptive linking techniques, and (does anyone still?) gazillions of pop-ups, is not a good business strategy.
I know that some webmasters do this, but so also do many from other realms too. Even companies like BMW have used SEO companies to forge page ranking. And don't even get me started on the music industry...
Porn is, in my opinion, far more honest and ethical than most other industries. So, enjoy it knowing that you are supporting hard working small businesses everywhere.
Netherlands Population = 16,336,346
In fact the Netherlands is the second most densly populated country in the World after Bangladesh. So, enjoy your time in Switzerland, you may wish to get out and about and learn some things while you are here - or at least take a quick look in an atlas before you post anything. Of course, I'm sure you know a lot about the US - though perhaps not Chicago...
Props for figuring out that The Netherlands is in Yurp though.
I agree wholheartedly.
After reading the current list on the Mozilla feature brainstorming page, if even a few of these features get built into Fx 3 is going to be too heavy to be practical. I am already concerned about Fx 2.0. Such things as built in spellchecker is fine in an extension, but I have no need of it (screw you grammar nazis, spelling isn't standardised between countries and hasn't been standardised at all for much more than a century). I have not yet upgraded to the RC, and not entirely sure if I should.
I have a big fast powerful machine, and run only a few extensions. For me, there has been a profound drop off in performance from my first steps with version 0.8something and 1.5.
But I adore Firefox and want to keep it. I just wish it was leaner and faster.
It seems to me that the true beauty of OSS is that it does not need to pander to the marketing twats. There is absolutely no need for free software to pack in yet more features every version.
When speed, efficiency and stability are perfected, then by all means consider new features. Otherwise, that is why extensions were created, and why Seamonkey was created.
It assumes that one agrees with copyright laws. Not everyone does. There is no constitutional right anywhere that says an artist has the right to make money from his art, and even less so, the middle men that parasitically sell it.
The vast majority of writers, painters and scultpors do not gain from their work in their lifetimes. So, what makes film makers and musicians special? Just their lawyers and their vultures - nothing else.
and to use your cell phone whilst driving is rightly banned in some countries - e.g. The UK. The email thing doubtless would be there too, and might even encourage new legislation in countries that didn't have it before.
It's a really dumb idea right off the bat. Some VCs clearly have more money than sense.
and you forgot to mention that it is slow, unreliable, expensive and the screens too small.
Lucas has way too much money and not enough ideas. The format, be it TV or Features, won't change that.
So from the founders of a company that portmanteaus the words "scalp" and "hype" to give you Skype, we now get the Venice project. A project that although once being very pretty is now slowly sinking into unpleasant smelling heavily polluted waters?
Yes, but since the major preoccupations of anyone who works in Corporatia are, "covering your ass" and "passing the buck", I don't think that anyone will have any use for email you can't store and use as a future weapon against one of your backstabbing brown-nosing colleagues.
I have an MLB.TV web suscription. Last year, and for the two previous years I was a happy customer. The feed was pretty good all things considered. This year however...
They switched to using Microsoft's DRM on the feed, which means I can no longer use Firefox, nor my Mac to access the content. They made no announcement, I only found out why I couldn't connect by reading a Register article explaining the DRM switchover. Their website stated the wrong information for a long time after the switch - not sure if it is even correct now. They have no email based Customer Support. (the form on their website doesn't actually submit mail to them) They have phone based CS, but I live in Germany, so that's not an option.
The feed has become incredibly unstable, at the beginning of the season it was impossible to watch a complete game without interruption - It has marginally improved since then, but there are still frequent issues.
This year too it seems to be impossible for them to consistently get the aspect ratio correct on every game. Some games are broadcast in 16:9 but squashed to 4:3 by MLB.TV. It was fine before, so it's artifact, not a tech issue.
They now cut to a screen saver during commercial breaks. I actually miss the Aflac and Geico ads. They don't always come back to the game at the start of a half inning, sometimes it's in the middle of action. Worse, however, is that now they are broadcasting canned music in between innings. The same music. All. The. Time. If I ever hear Yellow Bird again.... it's playing right now...aaaarrrgh!!!
Seriously, they could just broadcast ads and save me money on my suscription, as well as my sanity.
And this is on a powerful PC with a fast DSL connection. So am I surprised that the mobile version is a dismal failure? Why no, not at all...
Thus the second bombing didn't really save lives at all, at least not directly.