Yea, except the kid doesn't "decide" to go fight a war. The politician decides to fight a war, then he sends the poor who had little choice but join the military [while hoping politicians wouldn't be douche bags].
This sounds like the classic "we saw the same thing and came to different conclusions" scenario.
He's saying "the desktop PC is legacy because everyone uses laptops now" period.
You're saying "lots of people use a laptop in a desktop environment (ie, as a desktop)".
I don't think that he claimed that wasn't the case. He was just saying the PC form factor is a diminishing slice of the pie.
Granted, ever since "the PC is dying" BS started many of us knew that it was BS. Even my home machine is a laptop that barely ever moves, simply for the convenient size and energy consumption - with the bonus that it can move easily if I want it to. I wouldn't have much of a problem with someone referring to PC/desktop/laptop/computer interchangeably at this point. The extra detail helps, and is nice to have, but doesn't carry a ton of "meaning".
If you buy a rhinoceros horn your create a market for that. So when someone shoots a rhino for it's horn you ARE responsible for creating the market. Are you physically responsible for another's actions, no - but you sure as hell directly influenced the action.
Same damn thing here. If you remove the market for "shit human's shouldn't do" then you remove motivation to do it.
Will an occasional rhino still get shot, sure, but hopefully a lot less than now.
Will children still get raped, yes, but hopefully a lot less than now.
The goal is to approach zero.
I didn't read the article, but if the guy was storing his pR0n in email so he could claim his computer was smut-free you've gotta admire the ingenuity. I think Google is certainly capable of coming up with a script to scan email attachments for kiddie porn, and respect that they turned him in. I'm fine with that. If it were planted in such a way that things were backdated I think that could be revealed. It's pretty tough to get away with that. Now if all of the emails are dated 2 days ago, well that would look "planted".
this is what shopping carts were invented for. i'm not sure if itunes has those or not though.
on a website i generally have the option to logout, most in app purchases don't have a log out option so i'm stuck with that 15 minute vulnerability window.
No, the much easier solution is adding a damn dropdown to the login page. The login is for "how long do you want to be remembered?" If you select "forget me immediately" you will get prompted at the next in app purchase. Or you can select 1,2,5,15,30,60 minutes. That would solve a hell of a lot of problems and still allow a ton of use cases.
If Tiger Woods wants to let his kids blow $2,000 playing some game that's fine. If my kid blows $200 on in app purchases her ass is grass.
The onus is, and should be, on the parent/user. But deceptive business practice is a problem, and should be dealt with swiftly. It just needs to be done in a way that doesn't penalize people who aren't be deceptive.
That's what they keep saying, except there are plenty of people who use Linux on the Desktop. I dual boot my laptop over to Windows less than 6 times a year (averaging once every 2 months, and I would say that's high). I generally just suspend lubuntu and hitting power prompts for my password and I'm back in session. I rarely reboot at all.
I use Windows at work, and I have a surface pro 3 (which is still windows for the time being, but has linux in a VM). I use an android phone, i have 2 android tablets, and an ipad.
I find it difficult to pay the Apple premium for hardware, and difficult to pay MS for OS upgrades. It's not that I can't afford it, there are just better alternatives. Free and interesting is better in my opinion. However, I support other's freedom to choose those paths.
>"I can take my Office Lens App, use the camera on the phone, take a picture of anything, and have it automatically OCR recognized and into OneNote in searchable fashion."
Ha, let him try that with a Surface Pro 3!
see answers.microsoft.com for more info on how the SP3 has a fixed focus lens that can't take a readable picture of a page of text.
Though I do recognize that he specifically said "phone".
numbers are purple
strings are yellow
variables are white
functions are blue
reserved words are pink
the background is black
It's not that there are too many colors, it's just not my color scheme of choice.
I know that the information can be found, but is there a nice easy list of IP range and what region they belong to?
I know:
ARIN - North America
LACNIC - South America
APNIC - Asia
AFRINIC - Africa
AUNIC - Australia
But other that typing an IP in and seeing which one it says (which I could automate), but I would think that info is already somewhere...I just don't know where.
They should have seen the income opportunity here and said we will license it out for headstones/memorials at a cost of $X. Then he would have to go raise that much more for his monument. Done deal. They still look like dicks, but then everyone can have their way if they're willing to cough up the cash.
Does it only happen when I have 3 walls that the waves can bounce off of? Because that would not work in an open water setting, only in enclosed settings. It makes me think of pool (billiards) where you could make a ball come toward you by hitting the que off two walls then into the back of the target ball.
If you can repeat it from arbitrary points and arbitrary distances then you start to have something useful. If you can repeat it with other wave sources then it gets more useful.
I too was wondering how this is any different than the big console launches lately. It seemed like half of the xboxes leaving Best Buy were being listed on Ebay. All these a-holes are doing is creating false demand and a shortage for people who actually want one. If someone is willing to pay more to get it from the a-hole rather than waiting for the store to get more then so be it. Honestly, I don't see a good way to only sell it to the people who actually want the product.
I think the main reason that this got attention is because this was in "China". But it's also because the company did something about it by saying "fine. we won't sell any more if they're just going to end up on chinese ebay." The better solution is to produce more so those who want them can get them through official channels, but that's up to them.
If I don't need to pay attention to what's going on I'm perfectly happy with 30 MPH. And that way when it does fail people don't need to die (it's built by man and maintained by man, it will fail in some way, shape, or form at some point). If I smack the ground at 150 MPH I splat, it's a done deal. If I hit the ground at 30 MPH it hurts like hell, but I have a good chance to survive.
... on a computer ... on the internet ... on a mobile device ... in a car (is that coming, or should that just be considered a mobile device [if not a bad pun]) ... with a brainwave scanner, or did i get ahead of myself?
That the thought they would never get caught is an example of that. I too don't understand why they design a good device then cheapen it by cutting corners. The word of mouth advertising and good faith that your consumers would have if you kept producing the good product should not be so easily trifled with.
It's a shame that when shopping for a new hard drive I need to consider "who's putting out a decent product now", meaning who hasn't put of crap recently. This is exactly the kind of thing that falls into the latter.
When I measured my Cable STB (probably around 10 years ago) it used 22 Watts while on and between 20-22 while "off". This was not even a DVR, but I'm pretty sure it was Scientific Atlanta. I'll have to check my current box, which is a DVR.
It's very insulting that a box that's always plugged in should use as much power while off as when it's on. I've always hated the stereos that put on a friggin "light show" when you turn it "off", they suck a lot of vampire power too.
Adding insult to injury is that cable boxes take 20 minutes to "boot up". To me it looks like it's doing a PXE boot and downloading the whole OS just because I unplugged it for 30 seconds. It would be faster to check the date and checksum vs the server and only download when a difference is present.
When a cable box is off it should still keep the "network" up to update it's guide, and maybe check for updates. It needs to monitor the time for recording purposes (only if it's a DVR). And monitor the IR sensor so when I hit the remote it turns on. It does not need to decode the cable signal on either tuner or push a video signal to the tv. I think those functions should able to be handled in a 2-8 Watt range, and I'm happy to see that it's moving in that direction.
I also remember that my gaming tower PC used around 200W. The original xbox was at 180. The PS3 was 150 i think. Laptops were surprisingly low somewhere in a 12-40 range. The microwave was 1000 when running, the toaster was 1150. Of course YMMV. Most things dropped to 0 when off, but certainly at 2 or less.
It would be nice to track down that list and compare my current equipment to against it. And yes, the kill-a-watt rocks.
All very true, good points. I was just thinking that not all of the devices need to be cameras in the traditional sense, but sensors.
If a backup camera on a car gets rain on it seeing becomes difficult, but rain on a "blind spot detector" doesn't cause a problem (to my knowledge).
So if you have a sensor that can "see" through a mud caking then you've got yourself a winner. Place that in conjunction with a camera so i can see in a traditional sense and fall back on the sensor when needed, or have the sensor overlay additional info over the camera view - then you're really talking.
I do believe that it's adoption has been slow because of the switch to hex rather than decimal.
4 numbers less than 300 are fairly easy to remember. 8 sets of 1 to A taken 4 at a time certainly is much harder to remember.
Of course we don't need to remember an IP in our head very often, but perception is everything and we as a culture often avoid anything even perceived as hard. It's amazing that we revere those things that were hard and did get done then avoid hardship ourselves. We are wonderful hypocrites.
There are plenty of conveniences for when an IP does matter. Copy/Paste, email, text, hosts files, take a picture, but when you do need to type it that would suck.
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Yea, except the kid doesn't "decide" to go fight a war. The politician decides to fight a war, then he sends the poor who had little choice but join the military [while hoping politicians wouldn't be douche bags].
If I knew what made it superior I'd be sending a resume, not writing this post.
This sounds like the classic "we saw the same thing and came to different conclusions" scenario.
He's saying "the desktop PC is legacy because everyone uses laptops now" period.
You're saying "lots of people use a laptop in a desktop environment (ie, as a desktop)".
I don't think that he claimed that wasn't the case. He was just saying the PC form factor is a diminishing slice of the pie.
Granted, ever since "the PC is dying" BS started many of us knew that it was BS. Even my home machine is a laptop that barely ever moves, simply for the convenient size and energy consumption - with the bonus that it can move easily if I want it to. I wouldn't have much of a problem with someone referring to PC/desktop/laptop/computer interchangeably at this point. The extra detail helps, and is nice to have, but doesn't carry a ton of "meaning".
I agree.
If you buy a rhinoceros horn your create a market for that. So when someone shoots a rhino for it's horn you ARE responsible for creating the market. Are you physically responsible for another's actions, no - but you sure as hell directly influenced the action.
Same damn thing here. If you remove the market for "shit human's shouldn't do" then you remove motivation to do it.
Will an occasional rhino still get shot, sure, but hopefully a lot less than now.
Will children still get raped, yes, but hopefully a lot less than now.
The goal is to approach zero.
I didn't read the article, but if the guy was storing his pR0n in email so he could claim his computer was smut-free you've gotta admire the ingenuity. I think Google is certainly capable of coming up with a script to scan email attachments for kiddie porn, and respect that they turned him in. I'm fine with that. If it were planted in such a way that things were backdated I think that could be revealed. It's pretty tough to get away with that. Now if all of the emails are dated 2 days ago, well that would look "planted".
this is what shopping carts were invented for. i'm not sure if itunes has those or not though.
on a website i generally have the option to logout, most in app purchases don't have a log out option so i'm stuck with that 15 minute vulnerability window.
No, the much easier solution is adding a damn dropdown to the login page. The login is for "how long do you want to be remembered?" If you select "forget me immediately" you will get prompted at the next in app purchase. Or you can select 1,2,5,15,30,60 minutes. That would solve a hell of a lot of problems and still allow a ton of use cases.
If Tiger Woods wants to let his kids blow $2,000 playing some game that's fine. If my kid blows $200 on in app purchases her ass is grass.
The onus is, and should be, on the parent/user. But deceptive business practice is a problem, and should be dealt with swiftly. It just needs to be done in a way that doesn't penalize people who aren't be deceptive.
That's what they keep saying, except there are plenty of people who use Linux on the Desktop. I dual boot my laptop over to Windows less than 6 times a year (averaging once every 2 months, and I would say that's high). I generally just suspend lubuntu and hitting power prompts for my password and I'm back in session. I rarely reboot at all.
I use Windows at work, and I have a surface pro 3 (which is still windows for the time being, but has linux in a VM). I use an android phone, i have 2 android tablets, and an ipad.
I find it difficult to pay the Apple premium for hardware, and difficult to pay MS for OS upgrades. It's not that I can't afford it, there are just better alternatives. Free and interesting is better in my opinion. However, I support other's freedom to choose those paths.
>"I can take my Office Lens App, use the camera on the phone, take a picture of anything, and have it automatically OCR recognized and into OneNote in searchable fashion."
Ha, let him try that with a Surface Pro 3!
see answers.microsoft.com for more info on how the SP3 has a fixed focus lens that can't take a readable picture of a page of text.
Though I do recognize that he specifically said "phone".
numbers are purple
strings are yellow
variables are white
functions are blue
reserved words are pink
the background is black
It's not that there are too many colors, it's just not my color scheme of choice.
I know:
But other that typing an IP in and seeing which one it says (which I could automate), but I would think that info is already somewhere...I just don't know where.
I'm thinking of ships in the open sea, where having something to reflect off of is impractical.
They should have seen the income opportunity here and said we will license it out for headstones/memorials at a cost of $X. Then he would have to go raise that much more for his monument. Done deal. They still look like dicks, but then everyone can have their way if they're willing to cough up the cash.
Does it only happen when I have 3 walls that the waves can bounce off of? Because that would not work in an open water setting, only in enclosed settings. It makes me think of pool (billiards) where you could make a ball come toward you by hitting the que off two walls then into the back of the target ball.
If you can repeat it from arbitrary points and arbitrary distances then you start to have something useful.
If you can repeat it with other wave sources then it gets more useful.
I too was wondering how this is any different than the big console launches lately. It seemed like half of the xboxes leaving Best Buy were being listed on Ebay. All these a-holes are doing is creating false demand and a shortage for people who actually want one. If someone is willing to pay more to get it from the a-hole rather than waiting for the store to get more then so be it. Honestly, I don't see a good way to only sell it to the people who actually want the product.
I think the main reason that this got attention is because this was in "China". But it's also because the company did something about it by saying "fine. we won't sell any more if they're just going to end up on chinese ebay." The better solution is to produce more so those who want them can get them through official channels, but that's up to them.
If I don't need to pay attention to what's going on I'm perfectly happy with 30 MPH. And that way when it does fail people don't need to die (it's built by man and maintained by man, it will fail in some way, shape, or form at some point). If I smack the ground at 150 MPH I splat, it's a done deal. If I hit the ground at 30 MPH it hurts like hell, but I have a good chance to survive.
Or aim it downhill
That's what I was thinking.
They could just as easily be describing Larry Ellison or Bill Gates.
... so a black van can roll up, grab them, and cart them away.
... on a computer
... on the internet
... on a mobile device
... in a car (is that coming, or should that just be considered a mobile device [if not a bad pun])
... with a brainwave scanner, or did i get ahead of myself?
Who's this "we" you speak of?
The common slob is plenty stupid.
That the thought they would never get caught is an example of that. I too don't understand why they design a good device then cheapen it by cutting corners. The word of mouth advertising and good faith that your consumers would have if you kept producing the good product should not be so easily trifled with.
It's a shame that when shopping for a new hard drive I need to consider "who's putting out a decent product now", meaning who hasn't put of crap recently. This is exactly the kind of thing that falls into the latter.
When I measured my Cable STB (probably around 10 years ago) it used 22 Watts while on and between 20-22 while "off". This was not even a DVR, but I'm pretty sure it was Scientific Atlanta.
I'll have to check my current box, which is a DVR.
It's very insulting that a box that's always plugged in should use as much power while off as when it's on. I've always hated the stereos that put on a friggin "light show" when you turn it "off", they suck a lot of vampire power too.
Adding insult to injury is that cable boxes take 20 minutes to "boot up". To me it looks like it's doing a PXE boot and downloading the whole OS just because I unplugged it for 30 seconds. It would be faster to check the date and checksum vs the server and only download when a difference is present.
When a cable box is off it should still keep the "network" up to update it's guide, and maybe check for updates. It needs to monitor the time for recording purposes (only if it's a DVR). And monitor the IR sensor so when I hit the remote it turns on. It does not need to decode the cable signal on either tuner or push a video signal to the tv. I think those functions should able to be handled in a 2-8 Watt range, and I'm happy to see that it's moving in that direction.
I also remember that my gaming tower PC used around 200W. The original xbox was at 180. The PS3 was 150 i think. Laptops were surprisingly low somewhere in a 12-40 range. The microwave was 1000 when running, the toaster was 1150. Of course YMMV. Most things dropped to 0 when off, but certainly at 2 or less.
It would be nice to track down that list and compare my current equipment to against it. And yes, the kill-a-watt rocks.
If you got it to one of the blades would the blade "chop" it, splattering it and creating a general mess or potentially damaging the blade?
But I agree that you're more likely to miss and splatter your car in the parking lot.
All very true, good points. I was just thinking that not all of the devices need to be cameras in the traditional sense, but sensors.
If a backup camera on a car gets rain on it seeing becomes difficult, but rain on a "blind spot detector" doesn't cause a problem (to my knowledge).
So if you have a sensor that can "see" through a mud caking then you've got yourself a winner. Place that in conjunction with a camera so i can see in a traditional sense and fall back on the sensor when needed, or have the sensor overlay additional info over the camera view - then you're really talking.
+1, score this post up
I do believe that it's adoption has been slow because of the switch to hex rather than decimal.
4 numbers less than 300 are fairly easy to remember. 8 sets of 1 to A taken 4 at a time certainly is much harder to remember.
Of course we don't need to remember an IP in our head very often, but perception is everything and we as a culture often avoid anything even perceived as hard. It's amazing that we revere those things that were hard and did get done then avoid hardship ourselves. We are wonderful hypocrites.
There are plenty of conveniences for when an IP does matter. Copy/Paste, email, text, hosts files, take a picture, but when you do need to type it that would suck.