IF they ever come up with the perfect DRM then I will stop downloading BUT I will not start purchasing their shit. I'll simply look for other forms of entertainment.
If the entertainment is so shitty it's not worth paying for, why are you wasting your time on it?
If it's worth spending your time to download and watch, is it not worth ensuring that the people who actually created the content (or sponsored its creation, most likely) get the benefit for having done so?
I beg to differ. I always have Firefox *and* Chrome open, but I spend most of my time in Firefox. 1) Firefox can scroll tabs. 2) Firefox will open a pdf or other document just by clicking on it
I always turn that off? Why would you *want* that? One well-crafted malicious PDF coupled with a flawed PDF reader, and you're SOL. Allowing pdfs to be automatically opened in-browser makes that a very easy attack vector - one you could run across without ever realizing it happened.
Yeah it's an extra click or two, but I'd rather make sure I know what my browser is opening on my behalf.
I agree with your other two points, though, and also prefer FF.
There is a perception that there is risk from additional volume - so people react accordingly, and that's what begins the slowdowns. Once *started* they show the same pattern as the asshat lookie-loo slowdowns. Keep in mind this is based on my observations here in my east-coast region, around I-95. Certainly it's possible (such as in SF) that there are situations where the highways really ARE at capacity, in which case there really is no good answer.
(And the people who go around me almost inevitably end up further behind me when the traffic resolves. Jumping into empty spaces seldom pays off over any distance)
I think what GP meant to say was that - while heuristic-guided brute force solves the puzzle - it's not a "pure" solution in that the solution wasn't deduced logically.
The holy grail of sudoku solvers is one that can universally solve any given puzzle using only heuristics - and no brute force/trial and error element. So far, none have been created.
And personally - I think when you're sitting encased in a ton or two of steel and combustable fluids, automaton behavior should be avoided as much as possible. Even though it takes extra effort to avoid it.
Fair enough. That's improved in newer phones w/ more memory, but it really shouldn't have been happening to begin with.
I'm actually looking at an S3, but that's mostly because I'll be getting a free BB10 device upgrade - currently have an alpha device - for completing some app development for the platform anyway. If I weren't, I'd probably hold off on AT&T contract renewal to pick one up. The problem I have with Android is that it doesn't handle actual multitasking - I find task switching cumbersome in a way that it isn't on the BB (both old BB and upcoming BB10).
That said, it's foolish to limit myself to doing just BB dev - not when RIM's future is this uncertain. I'll still dev for it, but plan to expand into android as well when I pick up the S3.
Curious why you say the browser is terrible? It's a webkit browser and compliance wise ranks among the top mobile browsers out there.
Usually statements like these indicate that someone has had experience with a device from a couple-few years ago - os5 or earlier -and hasn't ever looked back at the platform since.
In about 90% of cases in my experience - as long as it hasn't come to a complete halt fora long stretch - it can be done. Don't get all butthurt because you haven't figured out how yet;)
It's a shame that we need technology to do something that most of us should be doing automatically - and yet most fail to do.
That’s because adaptive cruise control (ACC) is better at pacing the car ahead without continual brake, speed-up, brake cycles.
I see this all the time and odn't understand it. When I'm in traffic, I hang back - I try to stay at a constant speed. This has a couple of interesting effects: 1) I almost never use my brakes and consequently avoid the resultant acceleration - better gas mileage 2) Unless it's a complete traffic stoppage such as from a full road closure, I never need to stop. 3) It seems to influence people behind me to do the same thing. I tend to create a small island of slow-but-steadily moving traffic until the overall slowdown is done, while everyone else follows the brake/accelerate cycle.
Yes: there are asshats who weave in and out. They get impatient and zoom around me (and promptly slam on the brakes when they realize they really can't go anywhere). They also get impatient and cut back out from in front of me when they get stopped again, so it's zero-sum as far as I can see. Don't get me wrong - I love driving fast, but there are appropriate times and places.
I don't understand the mentality of people who follow the "accelerate/brake/accelerate" cycle. LOOK at the road ahead of you, LOOK at what hte cars are doing. Don't accelerate if you see that a car or three ahead everyone is stopped - there's no point. If you want to change lanes to get ahead fine - but LOOK - observe more than that empty space and make sure you're really going to go somewhere.
Then again, I've come to expect nothing more from most drivers. They're capable of looking as far as the end of their hood and a few inches beyond - no further. I'm amazed only that so many people survive to old age.
Our problem was with a third party monitoring solution - its daemon process brought every single one of our servers to a near halt by consuming all available cpu cycles at the stroke of gmt midnight.
The OS itself was fine. This monitoring software is common enough that it likely was behind a lot of the issues seen around the 'net.
Speaking from experience, I can safely say that model simply is not sustainable for a one-person operation, if the system you've made achieves any degree of usage, but the not enough paying customers to allow you to devote yourself to it full time. In addition the types of people willing to pay for support are the same type who will need SLAs to be maintained.
In addition - as a solo operation, your time is necessarily limited. Which means the time you spend supporting and helping people is time you are *not* spending improving your product.
My point was that a cashless economy can and does exist, without anonymity. So why is/should be anonymity a criteria for it to be a valid cashless economy?
Is basic elementary school-level reading comprehension really THAT hard?
in fact, tracable.
Irony thy name is Muphry.
Though to be fair you didn't mention the ability to *write*, only to read.
If you'd replied without the insults, I would have spent this time replying to your post in a meaningful way instead of engaging in pot/kettle/black games.
So we can expect sweeping reductions in the cost of medical care? No doubt spurred by the massive reduction in the number of people seeking medical care unnecessarily in ers? Somehow this seems unlikely. On both counts.
I can't understand why - at any price - someone would by a device that allows you to play content from one (1) provider. Yet overwhelming numbers of people do (thus reducing the options available for those of us who actually give a shit) so who knows...
Slashdot Mirror
IF they ever come up with the perfect DRM then I will stop downloading BUT I will not start purchasing their shit. I'll simply look for other forms of entertainment.
If the entertainment is so shitty it's not worth paying for, why are you wasting your time on it?
If it's worth spending your time to download and watch, is it not worth ensuring that the people who actually created the content (or sponsored its creation, most likely) get the benefit for having done so?
I beg to differ. I always have Firefox *and* Chrome open, but I spend most of my time in Firefox. 1) Firefox can scroll tabs. 2) Firefox will open a pdf or other document just by clicking on it
I always turn that off? Why would you *want* that? One well-crafted malicious PDF coupled with a flawed PDF reader, and you're SOL. Allowing pdfs to be automatically opened in-browser makes that a very easy attack vector - one you could run across without ever realizing it happened.
Yeah it's an extra click or two, but I'd rather make sure I know what my browser is opening on my behalf.
I agree with your other two points, though, and also prefer FF.
Bottom posters drive me insane. Making me re-read through a bunch of crap just to see their measly two-word additions.
Cue the "it sucks", "why bother", "too expensive" whinges.
*looks up*
Oh, too late. Already started.
The problem is one of perception.
There is a perception that there is risk from additional volume - so people react accordingly, and that's what begins the slowdowns. Once *started* they show the same pattern as the asshat lookie-loo slowdowns. Keep in mind this is based on my observations here in my east-coast region, around I-95. Certainly it's possible (such as in SF) that there are situations where the highways really ARE at capacity, in which case there really is no good answer.
(And the people who go around me almost inevitably end up further behind me when the traffic resolves. Jumping into empty spaces seldom pays off over any distance)
I think you left out the part where google has paid the actual content owners for the right to make advertising money off of those songs.
The above best read using Cartman's voice for China, and Mr Mackey's voice for US.
I think what GP meant to say was that - while heuristic-guided brute force solves the puzzle - it's not a "pure" solution in that the solution wasn't deduced logically.
The holy grail of sudoku solvers is one that can universally solve any given puzzle using only heuristics - and no brute force/trial and error element. So far, none have been created.
This is what it takes to get modded informative?
I guess technically he informed as as to his thoughts...
I was talking about highways though.
And personally - I think when you're sitting encased in a ton or two of steel and combustable fluids, automaton behavior should be avoided as much as possible. Even though it takes extra effort to avoid it.
Fair enough. That's improved in newer phones w/ more memory, but it really shouldn't have been happening to begin with.
I'm actually looking at an S3, but that's mostly because I'll be getting a free BB10 device upgrade - currently have an alpha device - for completing some app development for the platform anyway. If I weren't, I'd probably hold off on AT&T contract renewal to pick one up. The problem I have with Android is that it doesn't handle actual multitasking - I find task switching cumbersome in a way that it isn't on the BB (both old BB and upcoming BB10).
That said, it's foolish to limit myself to doing just BB dev - not when RIM's future is this uncertain. I'll still dev for it, but plan to expand into android as well when I pick up the S3.
You mean except for the partwhere he never said what was attributed to him in the summary?
Curious why you say the browser is terrible? It's a webkit browser and compliance wise ranks among the top mobile browsers out there.
Usually statements like these indicate that someone has had experience with a device from a couple-few years ago - os5 or earlier -and hasn't ever looked back at the platform since.
In about 90% of cases in my experience - as long as it hasn't come to a complete halt fora long stretch - it can be done. ;)
Don't get all butthurt because you haven't figured out how yet
It's a shame that we need technology to do something that most of us should be doing automatically - and yet most fail to do.
That’s because adaptive cruise control (ACC) is better at pacing the car ahead without continual brake, speed-up, brake cycles.
I see this all the time and odn't understand it. When I'm in traffic, I hang back - I try to stay at a constant speed. This has a couple of interesting effects:
1) I almost never use my brakes and consequently avoid the resultant acceleration - better gas mileage
2) Unless it's a complete traffic stoppage such as from a full road closure, I never need to stop.
3) It seems to influence people behind me to do the same thing. I tend to create a small island of slow-but-steadily moving traffic until the overall slowdown is done, while everyone else follows the brake/accelerate cycle.
Yes: there are asshats who weave in and out. They get impatient and zoom around me (and promptly slam on the brakes when they realize they really can't go anywhere). They also get impatient and cut back out from in front of me when they get stopped again, so it's zero-sum as far as I can see. Don't get me wrong - I love driving fast, but there are appropriate times and places.
I don't understand the mentality of people who follow the "accelerate/brake/accelerate" cycle. LOOK at the road ahead of you, LOOK at what hte cars are doing. Don't accelerate if you see that a car or three ahead everyone is stopped - there's no point. If you want to change lanes to get ahead fine - but LOOK - observe more than that empty space and make sure you're really going to go somewhere.
Then again, I've come to expect nothing more from most drivers. They're capable of looking as far as the end of their hood and a few inches beyond - no further. I'm amazed only that so many people survive to old age.
Thanks for posting, I came across this info after my earlier post. I suspect you're correct.
Troll article is trolling. Nothing to see here.
Our problem was with a third party monitoring solution - its daemon process brought every single one of our servers to a near halt by consuming all available cpu cycles at the stroke of gmt midnight.
The OS itself was fine.
This monitoring software is common enough that it likely was behind a lot of the issues seen around the 'net.
Speaking from experience, I can safely say that model simply is not sustainable for a one-person operation, if the system you've made achieves any degree of usage, but the not enough paying customers to allow you to devote yourself to it full time. In addition the types of people willing to pay for support are the same type who will need SLAs to be maintained.
In addition - as a solo operation, your time is necessarily limited. Which means the time you spend supporting and helping people is time you are *not* spending improving your product.
But then the question must be asked...
[queue Psycho screeching violins]
How are you posting this now!
I should have been more clear.
My point was that a cashless economy can and does exist, without anonymity. So why is/should be anonymity a criteria for it to be a valid cashless economy?
Is basic elementary school-level reading comprehension really THAT hard?
in fact, tracable.
Irony thy name is Muphry.
Though to be fair you didn't mention the ability to *write*, only to read.
If you'd replied without the insults, I would have spent this time replying to your post in a meaningful way instead of engaging in pot/kettle/black games.
There's been a lot of hype around Sweden going almost cashless, but most transactions there use easily traceable credit and debit cards
Since when does "cashless" mean "untraceable"?
So we can expect sweeping reductions in the cost of medical care? No doubt spurred by the massive reduction in the number of people seeking medical care unnecessarily in ers? Somehow this seems unlikely. On both counts.
I can't understand why - at any price - someone would by a device that allows you to play content from one (1) provider. Yet overwhelming numbers of people do (thus reducing the options available for those of us who actually give a shit) so who knows...