I agree, and what's more, the use of the term "weightiest" would be perfectly cromulent had we been discussing weight. However massiest would probably have been even cromulenter.
Real developers use available APIs instead of cluster fucking 35 different versions of shit and different libraries into their OS for fun (like Linux).
Do you really think there isn't a "cluster fucking 35 different versions of shit and different libraries" on your windows box?
If you really believe that, I would like to invite you to check out %windir%\WinSxS; it is part of a mechanism designed to resolve traditional Windows DLL hell but can become VERY bloated over time It's where system libraries are actually stored and then are linked to from other directories. Due to the past DLL hell, it is rare that anything ever gets deleted from WinSxS in order to prevent DLL hell by inadvertantly deleting a library that might be marked by the registry as unused, but is actually relied upon by a seldom-used app. So, what happens is as you install and upgrade your various applications, system drivers, and whatnot, a ton of files often get written to in WinSxS when installers don't check for dependencies - how many times have applications forced installs of components you know are already in place? Why does this happen? Because all too many release engineers don't understand system administration, how the OS works at the low level, so they don't know how to check for preexisting components. Why is this? Because hiring managers are all too focused on specific tool (Rational Clearcase and Clearquest, Installshield, Visual Studio, Ant, Eclipse, or a specific language, etc) and not on what really matters, i.e., system administration, coordinate development and QA, manage the build platform and a build a clean net, etc. Too much emphasis is based on knowing a specific application, rather than the process and ability to learn a tool quickly. Individual tools are relatively easy to learn very quickly; system administration and basic scripting skills are relatively difficult to pick up quickly. I never focused on learning all the tools out there; I learned the individual tools as I needed to, so my installers were always rock-solid because I knew the requirements for the underlying system, and my installers didn't force unnecessary component updates which bloat a system.
So, your Windows vs. Linux argument is kind of moot; you may not realize it, but even though you might not see libfoo.so.0.2.1, libfoo,so.0.2.1 and libfoo.so.0.4.1 (and a symlink from libfoo.so.0.4.0 to libfoo.so.0.4.1 since it's compatible and the install creator decided to save you space but not break your system in the process) in/usr/lib on Windows, but if you have installed and over time upgraded various applications you easily have 5 to 10 different copies of various libraries - often identical versions, cluttering up WinSxS.
Unix-based systems are easy to clean, maintain, and if you do break/usr/lib, very easy to fix in comparison to Windows. Now tell me - after reading those articles, if you have the Unix experience you claim to have, after learning how Windows deals with various library versions, which system is better and more logical? Don't get me wrong; Microsoft has done a fantastic job making Windows a hell of a lot more stable than it used to be, but this "fix" is still a major hack which doesn't fix the root problem: shitty release engineers not developing and adequately testing installers until they're rock solid.To work around install developer incompetence, we have come to a point where WinSxS may contain gigabytes' worth of old cruft that is no longer used on a Windows box.
The cause of this is that early in the history of our nation the courts started layering precedent over constitutional law, and use that as a basis for determining future cases, even in cases where the decision is obviously a poor one. In this case, it's the State Secrets Privilege which one would argue is a gross violation of the Constitutional right to freedom of exrpession, and also can be used to eliminate accountability of the government to the People.
When you layer enough of these precedents on top of the Constitution and use those precedents to filter your view, the Constitution can become meaningless and irrelevant in cases, and that is how we arrive at the existence of situations such as this, the grossly unconstitutional patriot act, "john doe" lawsuits and warrants, "assault weapons" bans, and the like. Accountability of the government which is supposed to be of the people, by the people, for the people gradually over time becomes government of the sheeple, by the elite, for the elite, and eventually over time the system distills into a two-party or even one-party system where a few elite hand-pick candidates which are distinguished only by spin, and not truly by methodology or ideals, and put them out for election. Oh, we may still have grassroots-supported candidates now and then (Ron Paul, H. Ross Perot, and so on) but we have become so entrenched in the two party system with corporate-sponsored candidates that we (almost) never pick anyone outside of the two major parties for anything other than local government, never quite coming to the realization that we have been victims of social engineering by the media to believe there really is a difference between republican and democrat politicians, when in reality although their spin on issues may sound different, the ultimate goal is personal gain, increasing pork in legislation, and putting the screws to consumers.
And, these politicians of course, being chosen horses for the courses, never even attempt to correct the judicial system but instead take advantage of the established corrupt system to implement their sponsors' preferred policies.
And yet, we see a great divide between republican and democrat voters, who are convinced that the two parties really are different. Doesn't it strike anyone as odd that most of the larger corporate entities who hire lobbyists contribute to not just one candidate's campaigns, but usually one candidate from each party? They really don't care which candidate wins; they just care that one of the bought-and-paid-for candidates gets onto the ballot, then either way they win.
Yes, our rights are eroding at an alarming rate, and it's because we won't open our eyes, realize what has been going on for decades, and simply vote out ALL career politicians and replace them with true leaders; with "leader" being defined as one who is willing to serve. The mark of a truly great leader has been a servant attitude. We as a people have long since forgotten that.
I'll end this with a few great quotes:
"A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation." ~James Freeman Clarke, Sermon
"Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason." (unknown)
"And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." - John F. Kennedy
And for the last one, which is the one I adhere to for most elections:
"Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against." ~W.C. Fields
This is a problem that was solved years ago - the solution became commonplace on PocketPC/Windows Mobile PDAs, and more recently, the iPhone 3GS. The screens offer very good contrast in normal light, and are very viewable in direct sunlight. What needs to happn is for this type of screen tech to become more commonplace.
Americans, get your heads out your collective arses,
A lot of us see Homeland Stupidity, er, Homeland Security Theater for what is is: an opportunity to get rich on the backs of taxpayers, and gain power in the process with little to nothing in return. Some of us prefer to go with Israeli-style security which actually works (you know, actually TALK to people and observe their reactions, and apply this scientific principle called PROFILING) which would preserve our freedoms.
However, many more of us have been suckered and buy into the idea that the KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) method won't work because it would "offend" possible terrorists since it requires profiling, so instead we require sexual assault of babies and adolescents, kiddy pornographic pictures, and humiliating parapelegics and mentally challenged by forcing them to leave their wheelchairs if they want to fly, and we have bought into the idea that it needs to cost hundreds of billions of dollars for the kiddy pron machines which flood passengers with ionizing radiation levels far higher than that of the Fukushima reactor leaks. Those same people think it is acceptable to exchange essential liberties for a little temporary apparent safety.
Not all of us have our heads up our asses- we're simply out-voted on election days.
Hydrogen Hydroxide is probabily also known to the State of California to cause cancer. When that warning is plastered on everything it ceases to have any meaning to anyone except for comedians.
Adjustable-height monitors still exist, too. I just bought a replacement stand for mine last year that has both height and rotate. For $50.
They are not as common as they were when larger flatscreens first hit the market.
Anyway, that isn't the "screen height" the article refers to, which you would know if you had RTFA. It refers to the terminal height; you know, columns x rows/lines? Standard "screen height" is 24 lines but you can customize your terminal session to page by varying numbers of rows/lines.
I'd still choose the Samsung, because it will likely have a high-contrast Samsung LCD panel, and of course Samsung customer service, and out-of-warranty repairs are often covered by Samsung but when not, quake-induced shortages aside, it's usually easier to get replacement parts from Samsung than Apple.
Whereas the AppleTV-embedded TV will probably be orphaned in 2-3 years and no longer work because the new AppleTV firmware will no longer support the older model, and besides, out-of-warranty repairs will be pricey because parts will be hard to come by. Oh, and there will be no slots for memory cards, no USB ports, and certainly no cablecard ports.
Seriously though, I would stick with Samsung because televisions is what Samsung does best, and I'd go to Apple for a smartphone because smartphones are what Apple does best, even despite the "walled garden" mentality.
Right now there is no market for ipv6 because no one is on it. But, no one is on it because there is no market for it, so dominant ISPs don't offer it.
It's a chicken-and-egg syndrome. The IPV4 crunch should move things along, you would think, but does your cable, DSL, or fibre "broadband" provider offer IPV6? Does your consumer router even support it? I've seen a lot of hasbro routers and even entry-level "enterprise" routers which still today do not offer IPV6 functionality. Plus, there is probably a lot of entrenched legacy systems in place quietly passing packets along, forgotten long ago by system administrators as personnel has overturned, so cutting over to ipv6 overnight could potentially introduce lengthy outages as old networks are traced and old equipment replaced - or very expensive firmware updates+service plans are purchased.
Plus, ipv4 is easy to manage; your average network engineer has IPs memorized for when things break, or at least a somewhat logical addressing scheme so it's super-easy to guess the IP of a specific component when DNS breaks or is inaccessible, to be able to log into the device and fix it. the dot-quads make things really easy, four integers with a max of three digits (people memorize numbers and spelling most easily when broken down into chunks of three or less) per integer. It's going to require a lot of training, documenting, and large financial cost. It should have been done up front in 1998-1999 when the ipv6 spec was largely finalized, prototyped and tested, before broadband became truly mainstream. It would have been much cheaper to do the work as much of the Internet infrastructure was still being built, but it wasn't deemed profitable then because even right up to the dot-com bubble business analysts still insisted the Internet was just a fad. Now it's quite necessary, but ISPs don't want to do it because the expense could be immense.
There are reasons the cutover hasn't even been attempted yet. It's going to be costly in many ways.
And yet if you watch closely you will notice the advertisements are always in absolutely perfect critical focus, but the feature film is inevitably severely front- or back-focused,
And how do you propose they recoup the lost confidence from their developers and publishers [slashdot.org]?>
Stop being so evil, for starters.
Sony's motto as of late seems to be: "Do as much evil as possible."
And now they are reaping what they have sown. I don't agree with the script kiddies' actions against Sony (i'm partial to destroying them economically through large-scale boycott) but Sony did have it coming to them. Taking away the OtherOS option (which is fraud; a bait-and-switch move by removing one of the key selling points) and then suing a customer who decided to take the functionality back was probably just the final straw. After installing rootkits (infringing on GPL'd code copyrights in the process) to customers' systems (a felonious act; accessing computer systems without authorization), falsely advertising product, building shoddy product and having some of the worst customer service in existence, are they actually surprised they are the target of script kiddies everywhere?
For one, simply keeping recipes secret in the food department.
You can keep the proportions and preparation process secret but you have to disclose the ingredients due to health concerns (allergies and intolerances). Unfortunately many restaurants refuse to disclose the info despite the FDA requiring them to upon request, and worse, companies like Hershey have been lobbying to be allowed to not be forced to disclose soy and other allergen content.
I am all for keeping proportion and process info secret if these companies so desire, to protect their business interests, but not for hiding ingredients.
It fails the obviousness test, and it also fails prior art. After all, the button is merely a hyperlink to an app purchase page, and that has been present in shareware and trialware applications for nearly two full decades, and that in itself is a very minor update over older shareware which displayed an ASCII order form which cvould be printed and mailed to the vendor to purchase the full version of the application.
This is not an invention deserving protection as patent law defines it, and this patent surely does not meet the Constitutional guideline:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
because granting a government-enforced monopoly on prior art does not "promote the progress of Science and useful Arts" but hinders such progress.
I'd love to choke the hell out of the next wank who takes an old idea and files a patent for "$foo, on a $bar device" then sues all the little guys using that prior art. Unfortunately killing those who need killing is illegal these days. Progress is great and all, but isn't it nice sometimes to dream of frontier law making a comeback?
This is why China and everyone else is leaping ahead: American companies have long since forgotten the principle of long term investments and real engineering and science R&D but have instead decided to become bottom feeders and litigate rather than innovate, and pat themselves on the back for calling litigation innovation. Disgusting. I often wonder if I should go back to school and become an attorney so I can fight against the insanity of IP law.
t. CentOS is just stealing from Red Hat and you can't expect it to be up to date.
I'm puzzled. How can you "steal" GPL software if you make your source available upon distribution as the license requires?
By your standard, RedHat should shut down because they "stole" work from Linus Torvalds, Novell, Caldera/SCO, SGI, IBM, HP, and many, many others who have contributed to various parts of the overall "linux" software stack,. including of course Linux itself (the kernel). Thanks to the magic of the GPL, RedHat is required to make its changes to Linux (and related GPL components) freely available so that others may either use those changes for free, or redistribute them for free or for profit. The only requirement is that the GPL components remain open and source is made available so others can enjoy the same freedom RedHat did. In fact you would be well within your rights to re-brand RedHat, brand it as "myEnterpriseOS" and charge <pinkyfinger>ONE BILLION DOLLARS </pinkyfinger> if you so desire (good luck finding someone willing to pay for it though)
2. They're not going to pay me to do their work, nor are they going to discount if I use this, or self-checkout, so I've only used self checkout a handful of times.
As time goes on vendors cut services while maintaining high prices. I'll be damned if I'm going to be an enabler encouraging this trend.
They are the last known strains. That does not mean they don't exist in nature, or might not be uncovered in an archeological dig, or by a SCUBA diver or snorkeler finding some in a jar in a shipwrek, and an absolutely miniscule chance that there are viable viruses. Those are unlikely scenarios depicted in dramas on TV, but it isn't completely impossible that it could exist. Why not keep the one weapon we have against smallpox infection so cultures can be made to continue producing vaccines?
The problem is that although the Constitution is the supreme law of the land, courts do not look at it that way.
They layer precedent upon precedent upon precedent over the laws, which are in turn laid over the Constitution, and what you end up with is a murky soup prone to corruption, injustice, abuse and even tyranny in case.
I think you know I am referring to FM + AM bands, not streaming IP audio over 3G/LTE.Suggesting otherwise is merely engaging in a pedantic argument. Yes, yes, 3G and LTE are technically radio, but is obviously not what I was referring to.
Screw you Music Industry Lobby! I how ALL of you lose your jobs when artists go independent of your labels.
"Artists" are in a catch-22 when it comes to the music industry: the labels are evil (see the music label "who owns who" chart and read "Some of your friends are already this fucked"/"The Problem With Music") but they have a near-monopoly on radio stations (they still engage in payola/pay-for-play or simply own the stations outright through holding companies), on ticket outlets, and so the advertising and distribution media you want to use are locked down pretty tight.
Going independent and retaining or re-acquiring ownership of your work is possible when you achieve the kind of success that The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Elton John, Aerosmith, Queen, and other uber-successful bands and artists have achievef, where YOU can call the shots with the record label and put a stop to their trashing your work by distributing it in ways you believe destroys artistic integrity,. but to achieve that level of success you first need to get your work known. You can do it the hard way and go on gruelling, life-consuming tours and hopefully gain some mass appeal at the grassroots level in clubs, or you can enjoy a minimal success pandering to true indie labels and college radio stations, or take the "easy" road and play ball with the labels, knowing they're ass-raping you up front through hollywood accounting, assigning a metric fuckton of debt to you, but if you're marketable enough (if you're a guy be a freak, or if you're a chick be willing to whore it up and let your tits hang out on stage) you might have a snowball's chance in hell of not only recouping the "debt" you've incurred, but achieve a decent income, and if you become a real hit with a couple of successful albums in a row, and have a strong following, you might be able to get enough clout to regain control of your work from the label, and instead assign distribution rights only, on specific media to the label, and reserve all other rights to yourself.
Playing ball with the labels is the only realistic way of getting even a small shot at stardom in the music business, aside from blind luck or the grace of god.
Last month, I used 350gb of traffic; all of which was legitimate, split between services like NetFlix for television and movies, Steam for gaming, iTunes for music and podcasts, and the rest of normal day-to-day traffic. I may be on the extreme end for most people at this point in time, but the point is that technology keeps moving, and eventually usage like mine will be the norm, not the exception.
See, that's the problem. You're not being a good little consumer thinking that you should be so lucky to have interweb access at all, but actually expect the vendor to deliver what they promised you, and that they should be doing that at reasonable rates and thank you for your patronage because you and I subsidized their infrastructure (see: mandatory FCC fees).
What makes it worse is more and more people will be wanting to do what you do; go to any content provider or service or communications system you like, cutting them out of the loop so that as far as you are concerned they are "just" an ISP, and not your telephone provider nor your cable TV provider any more. They just can't have that.
It'd be about as safe as methane (natural gas) distribution.
I just don't see how they can store and distribute hydrogen economically, considering it will leak out the absolute smallest of openings, pores, etc. and to be stored in a tank requires a massive cooling system (to keep it below 20.2K), which in turn consumes a massive amount of energy to keep the hydrogen cool enough that it won't simply evaporate and migrate through the seals and hoses.
There is an easily solution to portable energy needs though, a relatively safe and very convenient method of storing and delivering energy. You could use hydrogen bonded with carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and various other elements so that it is in a liquid form, and that can be transported and stored with ease, in a relatively compact system which is fairly 1stable in temperatures ranging from arctic to tropical and desert climates.
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I agree, and what's more, the use of the term "weightiest" would be perfectly cromulent had we been discussing weight. However massiest would probably have been even cromulenter.
Do you really think there isn't a "cluster fucking 35 different versions of shit and different libraries" on your windows box?
If you really believe that, I would like to invite you to check out %windir%\WinSxS; it is part of a mechanism designed to resolve traditional Windows DLL hell but can become VERY bloated over time It's where system libraries are actually stored and then are linked to from other directories. Due to the past DLL hell, it is rare that anything ever gets deleted from WinSxS in order to prevent DLL hell by inadvertantly deleting a library that might be marked by the registry as unused, but is actually relied upon by a seldom-used app. So, what happens is as you install and upgrade your various applications, system drivers, and whatnot, a ton of files often get written to in WinSxS when installers don't check for dependencies - how many times have applications forced installs of components you know are already in place? Why does this happen? Because all too many release engineers don't understand system administration, how the OS works at the low level, so they don't know how to check for preexisting components. Why is this? Because hiring managers are all too focused on specific tool (Rational Clearcase and Clearquest, Installshield, Visual Studio, Ant, Eclipse, or a specific language, etc) and not on what really matters, i.e., system administration, coordinate development and QA, manage the build platform and a build a clean net, etc. Too much emphasis is based on knowing a specific application, rather than the process and ability to learn a tool quickly. Individual tools are relatively easy to learn very quickly; system administration and basic scripting skills are relatively difficult to pick up quickly. I never focused on learning all the tools out there; I learned the individual tools as I needed to, so my installers were always rock-solid because I knew the requirements for the underlying system, and my installers didn't force unnecessary component updates which bloat a system.
So, your Windows vs. Linux argument is kind of moot; you may not realize it, but even though you might not see libfoo.so.0.2.1, libfoo,so.0.2.1 and libfoo.so.0.4.1 (and a symlink from libfoo.so.0.4.0 to libfoo.so.0.4.1 since it's compatible and the install creator decided to save you space but not break your system in the process) in /usr/lib on Windows, but if you have installed and over time upgraded various applications you easily have 5 to 10 different copies of various libraries - often identical versions, cluttering up WinSxS.
Check these out:
http://www.ghacks.net/2010/07/24/the-winsxs-folder-explained/
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2008/09/17/what-is-the-winsxs-directory-in-windows-2008-and-windows-vista-and-why-is-it-so-large.aspx
Unix-based systems are easy to clean, maintain, and if you do break /usr/lib, very easy to fix in comparison to Windows. Now tell me - after reading those articles, if you have the Unix experience you claim to have, after learning how Windows deals with various library versions, which system is better and more logical? Don't get me wrong; Microsoft has done a fantastic job making Windows a hell of a lot more stable than it used to be, but this "fix" is still a major hack which doesn't fix the root problem: shitty release engineers not developing and adequately testing installers until they're rock solid.To work around install developer incompetence, we have come to a point where WinSxS may contain gigabytes' worth of old cruft that is no longer used on a Windows box.
The cause of this is that early in the history of our nation the courts started layering precedent over constitutional law, and use that as a basis for determining future cases, even in cases where the decision is obviously a poor one. In this case, it's the State Secrets Privilege which one would argue is a gross violation of the Constitutional right to freedom of exrpession, and also can be used to eliminate accountability of the government to the People.
When you layer enough of these precedents on top of the Constitution and use those precedents to filter your view, the Constitution can become meaningless and irrelevant in cases, and that is how we arrive at the existence of situations such as this, the grossly unconstitutional patriot act, "john doe" lawsuits and warrants, "assault weapons" bans, and the like. Accountability of the government which is supposed to be of the people, by the people, for the people gradually over time becomes government of the sheeple, by the elite, for the elite, and eventually over time the system distills into a two-party or even one-party system where a few elite hand-pick candidates which are distinguished only by spin, and not truly by methodology or ideals, and put them out for election. Oh, we may still have grassroots-supported candidates now and then (Ron Paul, H. Ross Perot, and so on) but we have become so entrenched in the two party system with corporate-sponsored candidates that we (almost) never pick anyone outside of the two major parties for anything other than local government, never quite coming to the realization that we have been victims of social engineering by the media to believe there really is a difference between republican and democrat politicians, when in reality although their spin on issues may sound different, the ultimate goal is personal gain, increasing pork in legislation, and putting the screws to consumers.
And, these politicians of course, being chosen horses for the courses, never even attempt to correct the judicial system but instead take advantage of the established corrupt system to implement their sponsors' preferred policies.
And yet, we see a great divide between republican and democrat voters, who are convinced that the two parties really are different. Doesn't it strike anyone as odd that most of the larger corporate entities who hire lobbyists contribute to not just one candidate's campaigns, but usually one candidate from each party? They really don't care which candidate wins; they just care that one of the bought-and-paid-for candidates gets onto the ballot, then either way they win.
Yes, our rights are eroding at an alarming rate, and it's because we won't open our eyes, realize what has been going on for decades, and simply vote out ALL career politicians and replace them with true leaders; with "leader" being defined as one who is willing to serve. The mark of a truly great leader has been a servant attitude. We as a people have long since forgotten that.
I'll end this with a few great quotes:
"A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation." ~James Freeman Clarke, Sermon
"Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason." (unknown)
"And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." - John F. Kennedy
And for the last one, which is the one I adhere to for most elections:
"Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against." ~W.C. Fields
This is a problem that was solved years ago - the solution became commonplace on PocketPC/Windows Mobile PDAs, and more recently, the iPhone 3GS. The screens offer very good contrast in normal light, and are very viewable in direct sunlight. What needs to happn is for this type of screen tech to become more commonplace.
A lot of us see Homeland Stupidity, er, Homeland Security Theater for what is is: an opportunity to get rich on the backs of taxpayers, and gain power in the process with little to nothing in return. Some of us prefer to go with Israeli-style security which actually works (you know, actually TALK to people and observe their reactions, and apply this scientific principle called PROFILING) which would preserve our freedoms.
However, many more of us have been suckered and buy into the idea that the KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) method won't work because it would "offend" possible terrorists since it requires profiling, so instead we require sexual assault of babies and adolescents, kiddy pornographic pictures, and humiliating parapelegics and mentally challenged by forcing them to leave their wheelchairs if they want to fly, and we have bought into the idea that it needs to cost hundreds of billions of dollars for the kiddy pron machines which flood passengers with ionizing radiation levels far higher than that of the Fukushima reactor leaks. Those same people think it is acceptable to exchange essential liberties for a little temporary apparent safety.
Not all of us have our heads up our asses- we're simply out-voted on election days.
Hydrogen Hydroxide is probabily also known to the State of California to cause cancer. When that warning is plastered on everything it ceases to have any meaning to anyone except for comedians.
They are not as common as they were when larger flatscreens first hit the market.
Anyway, that isn't the "screen height" the article refers to, which you would know if you had RTFA. It refers to the terminal height; you know, columns x rows/lines? Standard "screen height" is 24 lines but you can customize your terminal session to page by varying numbers of rows/lines.
Good starting points:
http://linux.die.net/man/1/setterm
http://linux.die.net/man/1/xterm
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/console-resolution-vga-values-432910/
When you do it right, you will hang in the air much in the way that bricks don't.
I'd still choose the Samsung, because it will likely have a high-contrast Samsung LCD panel, and of course Samsung customer service, and out-of-warranty repairs are often covered by Samsung but when not, quake-induced shortages aside, it's usually easier to get replacement parts from Samsung than Apple.
Whereas the AppleTV-embedded TV will probably be orphaned in 2-3 years and no longer work because the new AppleTV firmware will no longer support the older model, and besides, out-of-warranty repairs will be pricey because parts will be hard to come by. Oh, and there will be no slots for memory cards, no USB ports, and certainly no cablecard ports.
Seriously though, I would stick with Samsung because televisions is what Samsung does best, and I'd go to Apple for a smartphone because smartphones are what Apple does best, even despite the "walled garden" mentality.
Right now there is no market for ipv6 because no one is on it. But, no one is on it because there is no market for it, so dominant ISPs don't offer it.
It's a chicken-and-egg syndrome. The IPV4 crunch should move things along, you would think, but does your cable, DSL, or fibre "broadband" provider offer IPV6? Does your consumer router even support it? I've seen a lot of hasbro routers and even entry-level "enterprise" routers which still today do not offer IPV6 functionality. Plus, there is probably a lot of entrenched legacy systems in place quietly passing packets along, forgotten long ago by system administrators as personnel has overturned, so cutting over to ipv6 overnight could potentially introduce lengthy outages as old networks are traced and old equipment replaced - or very expensive firmware updates+service plans are purchased.
Plus, ipv4 is easy to manage; your average network engineer has IPs memorized for when things break, or at least a somewhat logical addressing scheme so it's super-easy to guess the IP of a specific component when DNS breaks or is inaccessible, to be able to log into the device and fix it. the dot-quads make things really easy, four integers with a max of three digits (people memorize numbers and spelling most easily when broken down into chunks of three or less) per integer. It's going to require a lot of training, documenting, and large financial cost. It should have been done up front in 1998-1999 when the ipv6 spec was largely finalized, prototyped and tested, before broadband became truly mainstream. It would have been much cheaper to do the work as much of the Internet infrastructure was still being built, but it wasn't deemed profitable then because even right up to the dot-com bubble business analysts still insisted the Internet was just a fad. Now it's quite necessary, but ISPs don't want to do it because the expense could be immense.
There are reasons the cutover hasn't even been attempted yet. It's going to be costly in many ways.
And yet if you watch closely you will notice the advertisements are always in absolutely perfect critical focus, but the feature film is inevitably severely front- or back-focused,
Stop being so evil, for starters.
Sony's motto as of late seems to be: "Do as much evil as possible."
And now they are reaping what they have sown. I don't agree with the script kiddies' actions against Sony (i'm partial to destroying them economically through large-scale boycott) but Sony did have it coming to them. Taking away the OtherOS option (which is fraud; a bait-and-switch move by removing one of the key selling points) and then suing a customer who decided to take the functionality back was probably just the final straw. After installing rootkits (infringing on GPL'd code copyrights in the process) to customers' systems (a felonious act; accessing computer systems without authorization), falsely advertising product, building shoddy product and having some of the worst customer service in existence, are they actually surprised they are the target of script kiddies everywhere?
They invited it through their actions.
I almost feel bad for Sony.
Almost.
You can keep the proportions and preparation process secret but you have to disclose the ingredients due to health concerns (allergies and intolerances). Unfortunately many restaurants refuse to disclose the info despite the FDA requiring them to upon request, and worse, companies like Hershey have been lobbying to be allowed to not be forced to disclose soy and other allergen content.
I am all for keeping proportion and process info secret if these companies so desire, to protect their business interests, but not for hiding ingredients.
This patent needs killed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_elements_test
It fails the obviousness test, and it also fails prior art. After all, the button is merely a hyperlink to an app purchase page, and that has been present in shareware and trialware applications for nearly two full decades, and that in itself is a very minor update over older shareware which displayed an ASCII order form which cvould be printed and mailed to the vendor to purchase the full version of the application.
This is not an invention deserving protection as patent law defines it, and this patent surely does not meet the Constitutional guideline:
because granting a government-enforced monopoly on prior art does not "promote the progress of Science and useful Arts" but hinders such progress.
I'd love to choke the hell out of the next wank who takes an old idea and files a patent for "$foo, on a $bar device" then sues all the little guys using that prior art. Unfortunately killing those who need killing is illegal these days. Progress is great and all, but isn't it nice sometimes to dream of frontier law making a comeback?
This is why China and everyone else is leaping ahead: American companies have long since forgotten the principle of long term investments and real engineering and science R&D but have instead decided to become bottom feeders and litigate rather than innovate, and pat themselves on the back for calling litigation innovation. Disgusting. I often wonder if I should go back to school and become an attorney so I can fight against the insanity of IP law.
I'm puzzled. How can you "steal" GPL software if you make your source available upon distribution as the license requires?
By your standard, RedHat should shut down because they "stole" work from Linus Torvalds, Novell, Caldera/SCO, SGI, IBM, HP, and many, many others who have contributed to various parts of the overall "linux" software stack,. including of course Linux itself (the kernel). Thanks to the magic of the GPL, RedHat is required to make its changes to Linux (and related GPL components) freely available so that others may either use those changes for free, or redistribute them for free or for profit. The only requirement is that the GPL components remain open and source is made available so others can enjoy the same freedom RedHat did. In fact you would be well within your rights to re-brand RedHat, brand it as "myEnterpriseOS" and charge <pinkyfinger>ONE BILLION DOLLARS </pinkyfinger> if you so desire (good luck finding someone willing to pay for it though)
So again: How is CentOS stealing from RedHat?
I won't use this for two reasons:
1. It costs Americans jobs.
2. They're not going to pay me to do their work, nor are they going to discount if I use this, or self-checkout, so I've only used self checkout a handful of times.
As time goes on vendors cut services while maintaining high prices. I'll be damned if I'm going to be an enabler encouraging this trend.
They are the last known strains. That does not mean they don't exist in nature, or might not be uncovered in an archeological dig, or by a SCUBA diver or snorkeler finding some in a jar in a shipwrek, and an absolutely miniscule chance that there are viable viruses. Those are unlikely scenarios depicted in dramas on TV, but it isn't completely impossible that it could exist. Why not keep the one weapon we have against smallpox infection so cultures can be made to continue producing vaccines?
The problem is that although the Constitution is the supreme law of the land, courts do not look at it that way.
They layer precedent upon precedent upon precedent over the laws, which are in turn laid over the Constitution, and what you end up with is a murky soup prone to corruption, injustice, abuse and even tyranny in case.
Excuse me while I go patent the hyperlink as a method of selecting product or content for purchase or rental.
I am not greedy; I seek only 0.575% of US revenue.
I think you know I am referring to FM + AM bands, not streaming IP audio over 3G/LTE.Suggesting otherwise is merely engaging in a pedantic argument. Yes, yes, 3G and LTE are technically radio, but is obviously not what I was referring to.
How is that flamebait by any stretch of the imagination?
"Artists" are in a catch-22 when it comes to the music industry: the labels are evil (see the music label "who owns who" chart and read "Some of your friends are already this fucked"/"The Problem With Music") but they have a near-monopoly on radio stations (they still engage in payola/pay-for-play or simply own the stations outright through holding companies), on ticket outlets, and so the advertising and distribution media you want to use are locked down pretty tight.
Going independent and retaining or re-acquiring ownership of your work is possible when you achieve the kind of success that The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Elton John, Aerosmith, Queen, and other uber-successful bands and artists have achievef, where YOU can call the shots with the record label and put a stop to their trashing your work by distributing it in ways you believe destroys artistic integrity,. but to achieve that level of success you first need to get your work known. You can do it the hard way and go on gruelling, life-consuming tours and hopefully gain some mass appeal at the grassroots level in clubs, or you can enjoy a minimal success pandering to true indie labels and college radio stations, or take the "easy" road and play ball with the labels, knowing they're ass-raping you up front through hollywood accounting, assigning a metric fuckton of debt to you, but if you're marketable enough (if you're a guy be a freak, or if you're a chick be willing to whore it up and let your tits hang out on stage) you might have a snowball's chance in hell of not only recouping the "debt" you've incurred, but achieve a decent income, and if you become a real hit with a couple of successful albums in a row, and have a strong following, you might be able to get enough clout to regain control of your work from the label, and instead assign distribution rights only, on specific media to the label, and reserve all other rights to yourself.
Playing ball with the labels is the only realistic way of getting even a small shot at stardom in the music business, aside from blind luck or the grace of god.
See, that's the problem. You're not being a good little consumer thinking that you should be so lucky to have interweb access at all, but actually expect the vendor to deliver what they promised you, and that they should be doing that at reasonable rates and thank you for your patronage because you and I subsidized their infrastructure (see: mandatory FCC fees).
What makes it worse is more and more people will be wanting to do what you do; go to any content provider or service or communications system you like, cutting them out of the loop so that as far as you are concerned they are "just" an ISP, and not your telephone provider nor your cable TV provider any more. They just can't have that.
It'd be about as safe as methane (natural gas) distribution.
I just don't see how they can store and distribute hydrogen economically, considering it will leak out the absolute smallest of openings, pores, etc. and to be stored in a tank requires a massive cooling system (to keep it below 20.2K), which in turn consumes a massive amount of energy to keep the hydrogen cool enough that it won't simply evaporate and migrate through the seals and hoses.
There is an easily solution to portable energy needs though, a relatively safe and very convenient method of storing and delivering energy. You could use hydrogen bonded with carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and various other elements so that it is in a liquid form, and that can be transported and stored with ease, in a relatively compact system which is fairly 1stable in temperatures ranging from arctic to tropical and desert climates.