I don't have that big a problem with the law itself, but the size they chose. Having a hard limit of 16oz is very small for a cold drink. It should have been set at 20oz or something more reasonable.
The logic being presented here is very flawed. The root of the argument is this quote:
"There's a productivity gap when [users] come into the workplace and have to switch operating systems to work with 'in house' software versus 'mobile' software. Windows 8 bridges that gap. Same device at home as at work. Same software. Same cloud back end. Same identity system," wrote reader "moarsauce123."
This post is wrong on so many levels.
- Odds of most large corporations upgrading to Windows 8 any time in the next 2-3 years is slim to none. Windows 8 is a huge paradigm shift and there is simply zero reason for them to endure that kind of re-training cost.
- Odds of most large corporations allowing you to cloud-sync your work machine with your home machine is also slim to none. I can't even plug in my own USB thumb drive at work, you think they are going to allow me to cloud-sync my OS? Crazy town.
- Your company does not want you using the same 'identity system" at work as at home. You think my company wants me logging into Windows with my hotmail address?
.. because it is developed by multiple vendors, and combined they represent the majority of web users. Furthermore, most of the standards are also supported by Mozilla and Gecko, and also Opera.
When all of Apple, Google, Mozilla, and Microsoft agree on a web standard, and the W3C keeps dragging its heels, then they have no one to blame but themselves. Web developers *AND* users demand rapid progress on web standards, the web is not something that can sit in a standards committee for 6 months while people debate what the meaning of "is" is in the specification.
People on slashdot need to realize that in general, they make way too big a deal about ads, and their views are certainly not shared by the general public, nor are they with the whole slashdot audience
I don't give a crap about ads, as long as they are unintrusive and let me keep working. The whole by-line of "Advertisers can't control my eyeballs or ears." is bull-crap to me, because personally I consider myself a bit more intelligent than the average monkey, and I am pretty sure that advertising does not impact my purchasing process in any way whatsoever.
I assume it is L2 specifically because it is a mission staging area. Launches to other planets will be easier and use less fuel if done from L2 because they will not have to navigate around the moon, and because they will be that much closer to the target.
Re-read your chip & PIN liability statements. Chargebacks with chip & PIN are very difficult to do and weighed heavily against the cardholder.
By default, if a transaction is conducted via chip & PIN, the consumer is liable for all charges. The use of a PIN constitutes, in the eye of the bank, de-facto shift of liability for the transaction. In the event of a dispute, it is up to THE CONSUMER to provide evidince that he / she did not perform the transaction. This is a marked shift from the old magstripe / signature liability, where it was up to the merchant to prove that it was you making the purchase in a dispute. Now, it is up to the consumer to prove it WASN'T you - good luck with that!
I am glad people are finally waking up to this because I avoided chip & PIN as long as possible due to this, but it is being rammed down our throats, along with this liability shift, and no one is noticing.
Terrorism is usually something done in a very short time window. I don't think the hijackers on 9/11 took a coffee break to cook up some ramen in the middle of the flight.
It's only 80-90 people per square mile. This is nothing compared to other countries. There is no reason the US could not have distributed paper ballots.
And 10x the polling stations to spread it out, and the volunteerism available.
The "too many votes to count" is a red herring in the US. The US population is not that dense. If anything the regional population density in Canada is on average GREATER which makes the whole argument silly.
Locale for Android won the Google Android student competition in August 2008, and existed far before that. I am quite certain that it could be easily proven that Locale existed prior to the date of this filing, and it enables the ability to change settings based on location (among a plethora of other things)
I can tell from your post you have never actually used a Samsung Android phone at all.
There are a number of things in Samsung's phones that are not available in the iPhone NOR were they available in Android for a long time. In fact a lot of the stuff Google adds into Android was first pioneered by Samsung. One such example is the automagic panorama photo in ICS - Samsung had it first, in it's Galaxy line, years before. There are many many other examples.
You are doing all this cloak-and-dagger, then you expect to log into your credit card account online to check the balance?
Also, if you do have credit cards - they are some of the fastest ways to get large sums of cash. Skip the bank, consider that money gone - if they want you they know it is the first place you will visit. Visit a series of ATMs instead and take out large cash advances, most cards let you take out $500 / transaction and a max of thousands / day, and most people have many credit cards.
Yes, because it is much worse for Google to know I prefer a BMW to a Toyota and serve me ads appropriately, vs. having someone use the same information to steal my identity, take out a second mortgage on my home, and leave me destitute.
You can take my house, but PLEASE don't ask me what my car preference is!
Can we tone down the hyperbole please? Comparing using personal data for marketing vs. using it to steal from innocents is just stupid.
What defines a TV in the UK? If I have a 50" flatscreen hooked to my PC and never use it to watch TV (very common), does that mean it is not a "TV"? Is it anything with a tuner? It's harder and harder to get a large flatscreen without a tuner these days.
I say "profile away". I would rather see ads for geek toys and software than ads for stories about Brit-Brit and coach bags and other nonsense.
I am very confident in the fact that no company is going to advertise it's way into my wallet. I do my own research on products before I buy anything, and the most an ad would ever do is make me aware of a product I did not know existed (which IMO is a good thing and is the purpose of ads). If other sheeple can't control their own spending and get brainwashed into buying things they don't want or need, then a) that is not my problem, and b) me running adblock on my own machine is not going to stop that.
Not really - you can't compare the two. There is a big difference between having to buy a giant, ugly, noisy PC to leave in the living room to play games, and plugging a tiny little cable that is otherwise hidden into the phone you already own.
If you can't see the difference here, then you are not married.
Scenario - I am an average geek who already owns a Galaxy Tab 2, or a Transformer Prime, or a Galaxy S3, or any other modern Android device that has HDMI out.
Why would I buy this console? There is nothing novel about it. The chipset is not that great - in fact it is the same CPU and GPU that ship on most devices (inferior actually to some). And I don't need their controllers when I can just walk into Gamestop and buy PS3 controllers to use with my games. And the games are just Android games which will in all liklihood be in the main Android market as well (if their publisher wants to make any money anyways). So what is the point?
From what I can see the Ooya is a bit late to the game. If this idea had been fleshed out and released a couple of years ago when Android first came out, they would have something. But, the specs on this box will be eclipsed by bargain-basement phones before it is even manufactured - forget about 1 year down the road! And most people don't want to buy a console that's outdated in a year.
At first glance the idea is a total rip-off of PSXDroid and a multitude of other emulators available for iOS and Android.
But if you look at the patent detail one of the concepts is to add a pressure sensor beneath the capacitive touch glass, which allows you to not only sense where the input is coming from, but also the amount of pressure being applied - thus allowing an analog input using the capacitive touch display. That could give new capabilities for gaming.
But, most of the claims in this patent have ample prior art.
People talk about calling up your ISP and demanding IPv6 support as if it is simply some switch to be flipped.
Consider a software product that is multiple millions of lines of code built over a decade, that is required for business, but for the most part is underpinned by IPv4 data structures. This is not some simple "find and replace" operation to add IPv6 support to a product like this. The effort will take years worth of man-hours and tens of millions of dollars, and also require hardware four times more powerful to run (due to the increased size of the IPv6 data structure) - and in the end, offer no tangible new features.
Now, multiply this by not only one software package, but more likely several dozen, all of which are provided by outside vendors. Some of these V6 porting projects have been in the works for a very long time already, others are on hold - but they are all very expensive and DO NOT happen overnight.. they will happen when the cost justifys the enormous expenditure.
PR Stunts like IPv6 day are not going to change the situation.
RELATIVE brain size is closely correlated with intelligence - not absolute brain size. The brain size of a whale is MUCH larger than yours, but that is because it has a lot more body to regulate. Dolphins have larger brains than humans and much larger than chimps, and while they obviously have some intelligence, there is no evidence that they are more intelligent than humans or chimps.
It's not THAT difficult. There are all kinds of WYSIWYG edtiors for wikicode already! The fckeditor plugin for mediawiki is one example, TinyMCE is another, and there are other examples as well.
Yes, none of them are perfect, but that is partially because they have no champion project backing them. If Wikipedia adopted one of these, they could make it "perfect enough" in very short order.
I can not even remember the last time I paid $60 for a new game, let alone $70. Thank goodness Walmart exists to keep game companies honest, because gamestop certainly does not put up much of a fight in the price department (new releases routinely are $60 or $70 on Gamestop pre-order, but on actual day of release, Walmart puts em out at $49.99
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I don't have that big a problem with the law itself, but the size they chose. Having a hard limit of 16oz is very small for a cold drink. It should have been set at 20oz or something more reasonable.
The logic being presented here is very flawed. The root of the argument is this quote:
"There's a productivity gap when [users] come into the workplace and have to switch operating systems to work with 'in house' software versus 'mobile' software. Windows 8 bridges that gap. Same device at home as at work. Same software. Same cloud back end. Same identity system," wrote reader "moarsauce123."
This post is wrong on so many levels.
- Odds of most large corporations upgrading to Windows 8 any time in the next 2-3 years is slim to none. Windows 8 is a huge paradigm shift and there is simply zero reason for them to endure that kind of re-training cost.
- Odds of most large corporations allowing you to cloud-sync your work machine with your home machine is also slim to none. I can't even plug in my own USB thumb drive at work, you think they are going to allow me to cloud-sync my OS? Crazy town.
- Your company does not want you using the same 'identity system" at work as at home. You think my company wants me logging into Windows with my hotmail address?
.. because it is developed by multiple vendors, and combined they represent the majority of web users. Furthermore, most of the standards are also supported by Mozilla and Gecko, and also Opera.
When all of Apple, Google, Mozilla, and Microsoft agree on a web standard, and the W3C keeps dragging its heels, then they have no one to blame but themselves. Web developers *AND* users demand rapid progress on web standards, the web is not something that can sit in a standards committee for 6 months while people debate what the meaning of "is" is in the specification.
People on slashdot need to realize that in general, they make way too big a deal about ads, and their views are certainly not shared by the general public, nor are they with the whole slashdot audience
I don't give a crap about ads, as long as they are unintrusive and let me keep working. The whole by-line of "Advertisers can't control my eyeballs or ears." is bull-crap to me, because personally I consider myself a bit more intelligent than the average monkey, and I am pretty sure that advertising does not impact my purchasing process in any way whatsoever.
I assume it is L2 specifically because it is a mission staging area. Launches to other planets will be easier and use less fuel if done from L2 because they will not have to navigate around the moon, and because they will be that much closer to the target.
Re-read your chip & PIN liability statements. Chargebacks with chip & PIN are very difficult to do and weighed heavily against the cardholder.
By default, if a transaction is conducted via chip & PIN, the consumer is liable for all charges. The use of a PIN constitutes, in the eye of the bank, de-facto shift of liability for the transaction. In the event of a dispute, it is up to THE CONSUMER to provide evidince that he / she did not perform the transaction. This is a marked shift from the old magstripe / signature liability, where it was up to the merchant to prove that it was you making the purchase in a dispute. Now, it is up to the consumer to prove it WASN'T you - good luck with that!
I am glad people are finally waking up to this because I avoided chip & PIN as long as possible due to this, but it is being rammed down our throats, along with this liability shift, and no one is noticing.
Seriously? I can't think of a reason.
Terrorism is usually something done in a very short time window. I don't think the hijackers on 9/11 took a coffee break to cook up some ramen in the middle of the flight.
It's only 80-90 people per square mile. This is nothing compared to other countries. There is no reason the US could not have distributed paper ballots.
And 10x the polling stations to spread it out, and the volunteerism available.
The "too many votes to count" is a red herring in the US. The US population is not that dense. If anything the regional population density in Canada is on average GREATER which makes the whole argument silly.
For 500 bucks at Ikea you could not only buy yourself a decent desk and office chair, but also a couch to boot.
Locale for Android won the Google Android student competition in August 2008, and existed far before that. I am quite certain that it could be easily proven that Locale existed prior to the date of this filing, and it enables the ability to change settings based on location (among a plethora of other things)
Access to the prime lending library is the thing keeping me with Kindle at the moment.
I can tell from your post you have never actually used a Samsung Android phone at all.
There are a number of things in Samsung's phones that are not available in the iPhone NOR were they available in Android for a long time. In fact a lot of the stuff Google adds into Android was first pioneered by Samsung. One such example is the automagic panorama photo in ICS - Samsung had it first, in it's Galaxy line, years before. There are many many other examples.
You lost me at the lawyer / credit card part.
You are doing all this cloak-and-dagger, then you expect to log into your credit card account online to check the balance?
Also, if you do have credit cards - they are some of the fastest ways to get large sums of cash. Skip the bank, consider that money gone - if they want you they know it is the first place you will visit. Visit a series of ATMs instead and take out large cash advances, most cards let you take out $500 / transaction and a max of thousands / day, and most people have many credit cards.
Yes, because it is much worse for Google to know I prefer a BMW to a Toyota and serve me ads appropriately, vs. having someone use the same information to steal my identity, take out a second mortgage on my home, and leave me destitute.
You can take my house, but PLEASE don't ask me what my car preference is!
Can we tone down the hyperbole please? Comparing using personal data for marketing vs. using it to steal from innocents is just stupid.
What defines a TV in the UK? If I have a 50" flatscreen hooked to my PC and never use it to watch TV (very common), does that mean it is not a "TV"? Is it anything with a tuner? It's harder and harder to get a large flatscreen without a tuner these days.
I say "profile away". I would rather see ads for geek toys and software than ads for stories about Brit-Brit and coach bags and other nonsense.
I am very confident in the fact that no company is going to advertise it's way into my wallet. I do my own research on products before I buy anything, and the most an ad would ever do is make me aware of a product I did not know existed (which IMO is a good thing and is the purpose of ads). If other sheeple can't control their own spending and get brainwashed into buying things they don't want or need, then a) that is not my problem, and b) me running adblock on my own machine is not going to stop that.
Not really - you can't compare the two. There is a big difference between having to buy a giant, ugly, noisy PC to leave in the living room to play games, and plugging a tiny little cable that is otherwise hidden into the phone you already own.
If you can't see the difference here, then you are not married.
Scenario - I am an average geek who already owns a Galaxy Tab 2, or a Transformer Prime, or a Galaxy S3, or any other modern Android device that has HDMI out.
Why would I buy this console? There is nothing novel about it. The chipset is not that great - in fact it is the same CPU and GPU that ship on most devices (inferior actually to some). And I don't need their controllers when I can just walk into Gamestop and buy PS3 controllers to use with my games. And the games are just Android games which will in all liklihood be in the main Android market as well (if their publisher wants to make any money anyways). So what is the point?
From what I can see the Ooya is a bit late to the game. If this idea had been fleshed out and released a couple of years ago when Android first came out, they would have something. But, the specs on this box will be eclipsed by bargain-basement phones before it is even manufactured - forget about 1 year down the road! And most people don't want to buy a console that's outdated in a year.
They already have an injunction against it in the US, and due to various WTO agreements Apple will probably get that applied elsewhere.
At first glance the idea is a total rip-off of PSXDroid and a multitude of other emulators available for iOS and Android.
But if you look at the patent detail one of the concepts is to add a pressure sensor beneath the capacitive touch glass, which allows you to not only sense where the input is coming from, but also the amount of pressure being applied - thus allowing an analog input using the capacitive touch display. That could give new capabilities for gaming.
But, most of the claims in this patent have ample prior art.
People talk about calling up your ISP and demanding IPv6 support as if it is simply some switch to be flipped.
Consider a software product that is multiple millions of lines of code built over a decade, that is required for business, but for the most part is underpinned by IPv4 data structures. This is not some simple "find and replace" operation to add IPv6 support to a product like this. The effort will take years worth of man-hours and tens of millions of dollars, and also require hardware four times more powerful to run (due to the increased size of the IPv6 data structure) - and in the end, offer no tangible new features.
Now, multiply this by not only one software package, but more likely several dozen, all of which are provided by outside vendors. Some of these V6 porting projects have been in the works for a very long time already, others are on hold - but they are all very expensive and DO NOT happen overnight.. they will happen when the cost justifys the enormous expenditure.
PR Stunts like IPv6 day are not going to change the situation.
RELATIVE brain size is closely correlated with intelligence - not absolute brain size. The brain size of a whale is MUCH larger than yours, but that is because it has a lot more body to regulate. Dolphins have larger brains than humans and much larger than chimps, and while they obviously have some intelligence, there is no evidence that they are more intelligent than humans or chimps.
It's not THAT difficult. There are all kinds of WYSIWYG edtiors for wikicode already! The fckeditor plugin for mediawiki is one example, TinyMCE is another, and there are other examples as well.
Yes, none of them are perfect, but that is partially because they have no champion project backing them. If Wikipedia adopted one of these, they could make it "perfect enough" in very short order.
I can not even remember the last time I paid $60 for a new game, let alone $70. Thank goodness Walmart exists to keep game companies honest, because gamestop certainly does not put up much of a fight in the price department (new releases routinely are $60 or $70 on Gamestop pre-order, but on actual day of release, Walmart puts em out at $49.99