It's not a form of robbery, it's what happens in a free market, and if people don't buy the food (seriously, you think they'll starve after a week? I don't know how long flour lasts though). Unless it's happening all over the board then they can get other forms of food. If they all die then the scalpers would lose all their customers anyway, so they'll bring their prices down until most people can actually afford it. Yes, some people will still not be able to afford it, but that's how these things work in non socialist countries. Otherwise by your reasoning anyone that ever makes a profit is simply a robber and a parasite. In this case the scalper doesn't really add any value, but what he is doing is not illegal, and the townsfolk can also go to a different source, unless they guy has some kind of monopoly (which is in fact illegal).
Nope.. if the townspeople simply refuse to buy the flour at that price (either doing without flour for the week or buying from a different location), the asshole is down $40. If people know that most of what they're paying is pure profit and yet still pay the price, they're simply idiots. This is exactly how a free market is supposed to work.
Then simply don't buy the overpriced tickets, and these guys will go out of business very quickly. If people are stupid enough to pay the hiked up prices, why shouldn't these guys do it? I fail to see anything illegal in what they're doing any more than if a supermarket buys up a whole bunch of coffee or rice and sells it on to their customers at a higher price, or McDonalds and Burger King making insane profits on their drinks.
It's the principal of the thing!:P HD DVDs are around 27MBPS I think, so 3 full HD streams will almost max out your connection even if you are on a zero contention line. Plenty of households have 2TVs, and of those that have 2TVs they're almost definitely going to have at least one computer too.
Any excuse for them to play with their tabletop Transformers roleplaying kit. I thought Megatron had given up on trying to harvest the power of the sun anyway?
actually scratch that, Spotify now supports up to 320kbps MP3s for premium users.. shall have to seriously consider it! Though there is no PS3 client (PS3 is what I use for listening to music at home), and it definitely won't work in my car.. with ubiquitous high speed wireless then eventually all that will be possible though:)
Was just trying to point out the sort of things I think that we will have "soon", ie say the next 5 years. You can get 3D webcams already, and a few HD streams flying around would quickly saturate a 100MB connection, 3D TVs will start being adopted this year or next (especially in places like Japan where they actually are going to have a 3D Sky service), etc. A server with thousands of clients probably isn't typical at the moment either no, but I can imagine MMO companies partially distributing their server load among clients if the connections are fast enough and the users don't object too much. Could be an opt-in thing, and would result in you having no latency so some people might see it as a benefit (I would).
It is stuff that only rich people can afford now, but in the future it will be commonplace, and having your own server will not even be necessary once the bandwidth is common and cheap enough. In reality there is no point in everyone ripping their own CDs or storing their own MP3s if it can be streamed in lossless from some commercial server. I would subscribe to something that let me play basically any song ever made for a reasonable flat rate per month. Services like Spotify are pretty decent, but currently the quality is too low for my liking.
Without more information, this really sounds like they just had a horribly-slow-but-at-least-it-works algorithm in the first place and now done some work on making it more efficient. They don't even say what type of processing was being done on the data..
Again, I was fine with mouse and keyboard for these. There were key bindings for moving your camera view up and down while driving, and looking left/right/back. The console version isn't really much better for that stuff (though GTA IV is the only one I've played on a console, whereas I played all of the GTA III series on PC), IIRC you still have to hold the stick in place if you want to raise or lower the view..
I actually prefer the mouse and keyboard for everything but the driving.
Wow, you first state something completely off base without looking it even up, misspell wary, then hypocritically tell people to look stuff up. Then when given a page with a good summary with 47 citations - most from peer reviewed sources, you get snarky and complain about lack of peer reviewed sources.. perhaps you should think for a while about whether you really want people to think you're that much of an asshole.
I don't see the point of mandating that everyone have access that fast when it's fairly obvious that we don't need it right now and there's no reason to think we will anytime soon
One household with a few "normal" users and a couple of power users could simultaneously have people doing hi def 3D chat, or on demand 3D TV, internet radio in 5.1 or 7.1 (pointless for most pop music but you can get some music in surround sound and in future probably it may become more common as we get more storage space and bandwidth to play with), hosting their own website and games servers with possibly thousands of clients, using bit-torrent, downloading updates, backing up their data to an off-site server, hosting your media collection for streaming to mobile devices when you're out and about etc (why bother to get an iPod with 1TB of storage or have to synchronise your collection on multiple devices when you can stream it all from one main server?).
So there's plenty of useful stuff that we could be doing right now if we had a better network infrastructure. And If we don't upgrade the infrastructure now, we won't be able to do those things, and neither will we be able to even have the right mindset to design new applications that can make use of the extra bandwidth.. it's a bit of a chicken/egg scenario, and it's great to have some companies pushing forward despite the usual naysayers.
Actually I use Ubuntu as my primary OS both at work and home. But yes, it's a pretty fucking stupid place to start considering a lot of people first get interested in Linux simply because it's free. Windows and Mac users are much more likely to actually buy their software (IMO) because they don't know any better.
Fair enough, I had things the wrong way round. I wish there were an equivalent to the Android or Apple app stores for distributing normal desktop software though. Maybe there already is? How easy is it to get your software into something like Steam?
You have things completely the wrong way round.. the only things this will do is provide a content delivery system for exchanging apps for money.
I think it's a great idea. Having to register, design and build my own website, link up to some online payment service and write my own content delivery system has always made the idea of writing a commercial app seem a bit of a pain in the ass to me (I know I could do it, but I can't be bothered) - but with this kind of service available it takes a lot of hassle out of things. Now whenever I think about writing a commercial application, I will be slightly more inclined to actually do so as I know that the distribution would require minimal effort on my part, and I only have to be concerned with writing the actual application.
I do think this is a shameful situation, but it's really not YouTube's fault any more than it's Slashdot's fault that people post up ASCII pictures of Goatse, or it would be Google's fault for finding pages full of racial hate or porn or whatever when you search using ambiguous words, etc. These are high traffic public sites and simply would not function with any need for pre-approval.
Sure, people might upload something to a webpage that you don't want to be there. But they could just as easily email it, IM it, print it out and send it out by snail mail or put it in a self published magazine or newspaper. People are going to be assholes no matter what you do, and punishing the 99.999% of users who aren't abusing services in such a manner because of occasional abuse of the service is IMO simply wrong. By even considering such draconian censorship, you're just letting the assholes win.
Which is all reviewed and handpicked before being printed. And is very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very (very) limited in scope even in a daily paper compared to reviewing every video and comment posted to youtube each day. Online services work much better on a post facto moderation basis, otherwise the internet would be a very slow moving place and require almost as many moderators as users. It simply would not work.
What the hell are you talking about? Google removed the video as soon as there was a complaint, and then helped the Police to track down the offenders.
This is nothing to do with privacy going down the drain - unless you are bothered about Google giving out details of the offending account holder, perhaps?
Probably would also get users plugging in their devices and never installing the proper drivers. But open interface standards for basic sound, graphics, networking etc would be truly fexcellent.
As for the differences between that and a local application, yes you will still have to read in the layout for any application window, although for local apps the format is usually a lot more flexible than HTML (and I'd say is much more likely to be WYSIWYG than anything that is going to be viewed on multiple browsers). I should have also mentioned that JavaScript is interpreted (even by your definition), and that even now the DOM is slow, messy and underpowered compared to what you can do with most local graphics APIs.
We'd be better off with something that has been designed from the ground up to do cross platform applications, and not something that has been hacked together on top of documents that were originally meant to simply be static pages. I accept that this is the best option we have for now though, and it does work.. in a twisted sort of way.
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It's not a form of robbery, it's what happens in a free market, and if people don't buy the food (seriously, you think they'll starve after a week? I don't know how long flour lasts though). Unless it's happening all over the board then they can get other forms of food. If they all die then the scalpers would lose all their customers anyway, so they'll bring their prices down until most people can actually afford it. Yes, some people will still not be able to afford it, but that's how these things work in non socialist countries. Otherwise by your reasoning anyone that ever makes a profit is simply a robber and a parasite. In this case the scalper doesn't really add any value, but what he is doing is not illegal, and the townsfolk can also go to a different source, unless they guy has some kind of monopoly (which is in fact illegal).
understand the illegality yet?
Nope.. if the townspeople simply refuse to buy the flour at that price (either doing without flour for the week or buying from a different location), the asshole is down $40. If people know that most of what they're paying is pure profit and yet still pay the price, they're simply idiots. This is exactly how a free market is supposed to work.
Then simply don't buy the overpriced tickets, and these guys will go out of business very quickly. If people are stupid enough to pay the hiked up prices, why shouldn't these guys do it? I fail to see anything illegal in what they're doing any more than if a supermarket buys up a whole bunch of coffee or rice and sells it on to their customers at a higher price, or McDonalds and Burger King making insane profits on their drinks.
And that other programming language also called Go..
Yep, it's not bad as far as UK connections go - not a patch on places like Sweden or Tokyo though of course!
It's the principal of the thing! :P HD DVDs are around 27MBPS I think, so 3 full HD streams will almost max out your connection even if you are on a zero contention line. Plenty of households have 2TVs, and of those that have 2TVs they're almost definitely going to have at least one computer too.
Any excuse for them to play with their tabletop Transformers roleplaying kit. I thought Megatron had given up on trying to harvest the power of the sun anyway?
Fair point. I <3 our dedicated 10/10 connection at work :) At home it's something like 12/2 so there are occasional issues with lag..
actually scratch that, Spotify now supports up to 320kbps MP3s for premium users.. shall have to seriously consider it! Though there is no PS3 client (PS3 is what I use for listening to music at home), and it definitely won't work in my car.. with ubiquitous high speed wireless then eventually all that will be possible though :)
Was just trying to point out the sort of things I think that we will have "soon", ie say the next 5 years. You can get 3D webcams already, and a few HD streams flying around would quickly saturate a 100MB connection, 3D TVs will start being adopted this year or next (especially in places like Japan where they actually are going to have a 3D Sky service), etc. A server with thousands of clients probably isn't typical at the moment either no, but I can imagine MMO companies partially distributing their server load among clients if the connections are fast enough and the users don't object too much. Could be an opt-in thing, and would result in you having no latency so some people might see it as a benefit (I would).
It is stuff that only rich people can afford now, but in the future it will be commonplace, and having your own server will not even be necessary once the bandwidth is common and cheap enough. In reality there is no point in everyone ripping their own CDs or storing their own MP3s if it can be streamed in lossless from some commercial server. I would subscribe to something that let me play basically any song ever made for a reasonable flat rate per month. Services like Spotify are pretty decent, but currently the quality is too low for my liking.
Without more information, this really sounds like they just had a horribly-slow-but-at-least-it-works algorithm in the first place and now done some work on making it more efficient. They don't even say what type of processing was being done on the data..
Again, I was fine with mouse and keyboard for these. There were key bindings for moving your camera view up and down while driving, and looking left/right/back. The console version isn't really much better for that stuff (though GTA IV is the only one I've played on a console, whereas I played all of the GTA III series on PC), IIRC you still have to hold the stick in place if you want to raise or lower the view..
I actually prefer the mouse and keyboard for everything but the driving.
I found Lego Star Wars fine with just a keyboard.. don't remember it being a problem. Lego Indiana Jones on my PS3 seems pretty much exactly the same!
Wow, you first state something completely off base without looking it even up, misspell wary, then hypocritically tell people to look stuff up. Then when given a page with a good summary with 47 citations - most from peer reviewed sources, you get snarky and complain about lack of peer reviewed sources.. perhaps you should think for a while about whether you really want people to think you're that much of an asshole.
Or, you could look it up yourself.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_AIDS
I don't see the point of mandating that everyone have access that fast when it's fairly obvious that we don't need it right now and there's no reason to think we will anytime soon
One household with a few "normal" users and a couple of power users could simultaneously have people doing hi def 3D chat, or on demand 3D TV, internet radio in 5.1 or 7.1 (pointless for most pop music but you can get some music in surround sound and in future probably it may become more common as we get more storage space and bandwidth to play with), hosting their own website and games servers with possibly thousands of clients, using bit-torrent, downloading updates, backing up their data to an off-site server, hosting your media collection for streaming to mobile devices when you're out and about etc (why bother to get an iPod with 1TB of storage or have to synchronise your collection on multiple devices when you can stream it all from one main server?).
So there's plenty of useful stuff that we could be doing right now if we had a better network infrastructure. And If we don't upgrade the infrastructure now, we won't be able to do those things, and neither will we be able to even have the right mindset to design new applications that can make use of the extra bandwidth.. it's a bit of a chicken/egg scenario, and it's great to have some companies pushing forward despite the usual naysayers.
Actually I use Ubuntu as my primary OS both at work and home. But yes, it's a pretty fucking stupid place to start considering a lot of people first get interested in Linux simply because it's free. Windows and Mac users are much more likely to actually buy their software (IMO) because they don't know any better.
Fair enough, I had things the wrong way round. I wish there were an equivalent to the Android or Apple app stores for distributing normal desktop software though. Maybe there already is? How easy is it to get your software into something like Steam?
You have things completely the wrong way round.. the only things this will do is provide a content delivery system for exchanging apps for money.
I think it's a great idea. Having to register, design and build my own website, link up to some online payment service and write my own content delivery system has always made the idea of writing a commercial app seem a bit of a pain in the ass to me (I know I could do it, but I can't be bothered) - but with this kind of service available it takes a lot of hassle out of things. Now whenever I think about writing a commercial application, I will be slightly more inclined to actually do so as I know that the distribution would require minimal effort on my part, and I only have to be concerned with writing the actual application.
I do think this is a shameful situation, but it's really not YouTube's fault any more than it's Slashdot's fault that people post up ASCII pictures of Goatse, or it would be Google's fault for finding pages full of racial hate or porn or whatever when you search using ambiguous words, etc. These are high traffic public sites and simply would not function with any need for pre-approval.
Sure, people might upload something to a webpage that you don't want to be there. But they could just as easily email it, IM it, print it out and send it out by snail mail or put it in a self published magazine or newspaper. People are going to be assholes no matter what you do, and punishing the 99.999% of users who aren't abusing services in such a manner because of occasional abuse of the service is IMO simply wrong. By even considering such draconian censorship, you're just letting the assholes win.
Which is all reviewed and handpicked before being printed. And is very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very (very) limited in scope even in a daily paper compared to reviewing every video and comment posted to youtube each day. Online services work much better on a post facto moderation basis, otherwise the internet would be a very slow moving place and require almost as many moderators as users. It simply would not work.
What the hell are you talking about? Google removed the video as soon as there was a complaint, and then helped the Police to track down the offenders.
This is nothing to do with privacy going down the drain - unless you are bothered about Google giving out details of the offending account holder, perhaps?
With Youtube comes great power :)
Probably would also get users plugging in their devices and never installing the proper drivers. But open interface standards for basic sound, graphics, networking etc would be truly fexcellent.
As for the differences between that and a local application, yes you will still have to read in the layout for any application window, although for local apps the format is usually a lot more flexible than HTML (and I'd say is much more likely to be WYSIWYG than anything that is going to be viewed on multiple browsers). I should have also mentioned that JavaScript is interpreted (even by your definition), and that even now the DOM is slow, messy and underpowered compared to what you can do with most local graphics APIs.
We'd be better off with something that has been designed from the ground up to do cross platform applications, and not something that has been hacked together on top of documents that were originally meant to simply be static pages. I accept that this is the best option we have for now though, and it does work.. in a twisted sort of way.