That's a download of a bluray disc every day of the month. I don't think anyone streams in anything near that quality. But I'm sure your argument wasn't just the number.
Is Comcast offering things through this service that they do not offer through their regular cable service? It's just their on-demand shows. The only difference is that it goes over IP to an XBox, instead of digital cable to a cable box.
As it stands, nobody else can offer their services through Comcast's digital cable lines, and there are no laws that would make them.
Why does it matter that this exact same service is now offered via a different protocol? The service doesn't ever touch the internet.
This is akin to AOL's special features back in the day. You could get to the internet through their service, but they had other non-internet offerings at the same time. Nobody argued that that was unethical or violated the spirit of the internet or anything like that. (The term 'net neutrality' hadn't been coined yet.) How is this any different?
Why do we get so crazy when data is sent over IP rather than another way? If they had done this with their cable lines and not used TCP/IP, nobody would bat an eye. In fact, that's how content was always served in the past. When they decide to cut costs and use the newer, better infrastructure for the old stuff, people freak out.
A company serving their own service over their own lines is nothing to freak out about.
I will agree that if they were doing this with other companies' data, it would be worrisome. But not their own.
When I was a kid, my parents bought a very expensive set of hardback encyclopedias. When I got my second PC Clone, it came with a free copy of Encarta.
One day, I needed to do a report and cite references, so I looked up the same entries in each. They were absolutely identical.
Crap as it may be, it was the same as paper encyclopedias when it first came out, except that it also had video.
I posted news of this kickstarter campaign to Facebook and my *sister* replied, "We played the **** out of Wasteland!"
Wasteland has the distinction of being the one game from my childhood that was too hard to beat, AND that I came back years later to finally beat it when I had the skills. I can't think of another game that I came back to beat later. It's definitely in my top 5, if not top 2 games from childhood.
"The man claims he was demoted and then let go for promoting his views on intelligent design,"
"alleges that he was discriminated against because he engaged his co-workers in conversations about intelligent design and handed out DVDs on the idea while at work."
Notice that he doesn't claim he was fired for having the belief. He claims he was fired for promoting it. His version of 'promoting' might be everyone else's version of 'harassment'.
"In the lawsuit, Coppedge says he believes other things also led to his demotion, including his support for a state ballot measure that sought to define marriage as limited to heterosexual couples and his request to rename the annual holiday party a "Christmas party.""... So it wasn't just ID. He also spouted hate and political correctness.
""The question is whether the plaintiff was fired simply because he was wasting people's time and bothering them in ways that would have led him to being fired regardless of whether it was about religion or whether he was treated worse based on the religiosity of his beliefs," said Volokh."... And wasting people's time at work.
"He sued in April 2010 alleging religious discrimination, retaliation and harassment and amended his suit to include wrongful termination after losing his job last year."
And he was already suing before he was fired, so this is an on-going thing. I think with a lawsuit in progress, they'd have to be pretty ballsy to fire him over the thing he was suing about, unless they had really, really good reason for it. A court will have to make that determination, though, as we don't have all the evidence. What evidence I've seen isn't pointing in a direction he'd like, though.
I think that's an artifact of having to make it human-accessible. If you make it too complicated, too many people will complain about how hard they are. If you make them too simple, computers can solve them easily.
Unfortunately, what usually happens is that both of the above are true at the same time, which means there's no good solution there. You either let computers in, or you keep some humans out.
Looking at the samples on the screen as he was talking, I think those would be fun to write a decoder for... And possibly even easier than image captchas.
Why? Because they're moving, and you have a better chance to figure out the outline of each shape because of it. Also, you can use traditional techniques on each frame of the video and submit the one that has the highest confidence, and you could do that with existing tech.
Honestly, I don't see this being better than what we have.
Very few game devs are PS3-exclusive. The majority of them already have to deal with a few different architectures. Anything that brings one of the outliers closer to the rest of the pack is probably good for them.
Sony's never been known for having good software to work with. Microsoft is apparently quite a lot better about that. So I wouldn't bet that the PS3 ever gone anything to help with that situation. At least, not from Sony.
Good parody. When I think about the PS3's processor, I always remember them bragging at launch that devs will still be trying to optimize for the PS3 when it's lifetime is over. I'm still astounded that they thought that was something to brag about.
My trip was indeed a long one... Over 24 hours each way. With more than half of that time spent on the older trains.
And yeah, on shorter trips, I probably wouldn't have minded. In fact, if they just fixed the seats, i'd have been okay. (The track rumble and noise didn't actually bother me, even when I was trying to rest.) But they didn't, and probably won't.
The higher cost over driving was acceptable because I could *do* things on the train, where in a car I can only drive. (Especially alone.)
My reason for the train was also the TSA. I doubt I'd have considered it if it weren't for their antics. (And this was quite a few years ago now.)
Interesting. I worked phone support for a company, and their systems would occasionally do this. The delay was anywhere from a fraction of a second to a couple seconds, randomly for each call it happened to. It is really, really annoying, but I always assumed it made me stop talking because I was trying to be polite to the customer and when I hear a voice from their end, I'd stop and listen.
It took me about a week to learn to just keep talking when I heard my own voice, and not someone else's.
After having lived in Florida most of my life (no public transport other than horrible busses) I recently visited NY and Boston. I was pretty impressed with both of them. If that kind of system existed here, I'm sure I'd use it.
But as you point out, 'mass transit' in America is largely a joke. It only exists in the largest population centers, and even there it's pretty lame.
Also, I took a train to NY and Boston when I went. That was pretty bad, too. Half the line had cars that I wouldn't use again on a bet, and the other half was just adequate. No wonder so few people will use a train here! And... I looked up the route for a trip I wanted to take later this year. You apparently can't get there from here, despite rail stations existing at both ends. Ugh.
I couldn't find anything in it to suggest they had actually done a double-blind trial, or even a half-assed blind trial, so their results are purely correlation, and not causation, despite the time they spent talking about causation. They do suggest that 'hangovers' from the drugs are a cause of traffic accidents and such, though, so they at least thought of that.
I'm okay with infinite backlog. I simply make sure that I know at any given time what my first and second priorities are (in case I finish the first, or get stuck) and then start working. They can change priorities all the want. I told them there was one thing they had to mind, and it was that changing tasks in the middle of something was extremely stressful, and they shouldn't do that if they can help it. Since then, new priorities are always 'after you finish what you're on' and everything is fine. They change their priorities every day, so long as I can get out of what I'm doing that quickly.
That's what they pay me for, and they appreciate it.
While I disagree that "Agile" never works, I totally agree that "agile" always works. If it's not working, then you're not "agile"... The very definition is to do what works best and not do what doesn't. Unlike "Agile" which has a set of prescribe methods to do things, just like Waterfall does.
I think it's worth noting that #1 could indicate you're screwing yourself, and could still be dealing with a reputable company. If you're not asking for a good enough deal, then the decision is quite a bit easier to make for the VC.
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Actually, I think you'll find it was rounded down to $.00. ;)
Because you want to know who was lazy with your private information, so you can deal with that situation.
That's a download of a bluray disc every day of the month. I don't think anyone streams in anything near that quality. But I'm sure your argument wasn't just the number.
Is Comcast offering things through this service that they do not offer through their regular cable service? It's just their on-demand shows. The only difference is that it goes over IP to an XBox, instead of digital cable to a cable box.
As it stands, nobody else can offer their services through Comcast's digital cable lines, and there are no laws that would make them.
Why does it matter that this exact same service is now offered via a different protocol? The service doesn't ever touch the internet.
This is akin to AOL's special features back in the day. You could get to the internet through their service, but they had other non-internet offerings at the same time. Nobody argued that that was unethical or violated the spirit of the internet or anything like that. (The term 'net neutrality' hadn't been coined yet.) How is this any different?
I agree.
But Sony's an information black-hole, and they never tell you anything before it's finished.
Why do we get so crazy when data is sent over IP rather than another way? If they had done this with their cable lines and not used TCP/IP, nobody would bat an eye. In fact, that's how content was always served in the past. When they decide to cut costs and use the newer, better infrastructure for the old stuff, people freak out.
A company serving their own service over their own lines is nothing to freak out about.
I will agree that if they were doing this with other companies' data, it would be worrisome. But not their own.
I imagine your usage of that password will be just as ethical as theirs, too. So yeah, fair trade.
When I was a kid, my parents bought a very expensive set of hardback encyclopedias. When I got my second PC Clone, it came with a free copy of Encarta.
One day, I needed to do a report and cite references, so I looked up the same entries in each. They were absolutely identical.
Crap as it may be, it was the same as paper encyclopedias when it first came out, except that it also had video.
I posted news of this kickstarter campaign to Facebook and my *sister* replied, "We played the **** out of Wasteland!"
Wasteland has the distinction of being the one game from my childhood that was too hard to beat, AND that I came back years later to finally beat it when I had the skills. I can't think of another game that I came back to beat later. It's definitely in my top 5, if not top 2 games from childhood.
I can't freaking wait. :D
"The man claims he was demoted and then let go for promoting his views on intelligent design,"
"alleges that he was discriminated against because he engaged his co-workers in conversations about intelligent design and handed out DVDs on the idea while at work."
Notice that he doesn't claim he was fired for having the belief. He claims he was fired for promoting it. His version of 'promoting' might be everyone else's version of 'harassment'.
"In the lawsuit, Coppedge says he believes other things also led to his demotion, including his support for a state ballot measure that sought to define marriage as limited to heterosexual couples and his request to rename the annual holiday party a "Christmas party."" ... So it wasn't just ID. He also spouted hate and political correctness.
""The question is whether the plaintiff was fired simply because he was wasting people's time and bothering them in ways that would have led him to being fired regardless of whether it was about religion or whether he was treated worse based on the religiosity of his beliefs," said Volokh." ... And wasting people's time at work.
"He sued in April 2010 alleging religious discrimination, retaliation and harassment and amended his suit to include wrongful termination after losing his job last year."
And he was already suing before he was fired, so this is an on-going thing. I think with a lawsuit in progress, they'd have to be pretty ballsy to fire him over the thing he was suing about, unless they had really, really good reason for it. A court will have to make that determination, though, as we don't have all the evidence. What evidence I've seen isn't pointing in a direction he'd like, though.
I think you'll find that it's so roundly rejected *because* it's already been researched properly and didn't hold up.
I think that's an artifact of having to make it human-accessible. If you make it too complicated, too many people will complain about how hard they are. If you make them too simple, computers can solve them easily.
Unfortunately, what usually happens is that both of the above are true at the same time, which means there's no good solution there. You either let computers in, or you keep some humans out.
Looking at the samples on the screen as he was talking, I think those would be fun to write a decoder for... And possibly even easier than image captchas.
Why? Because they're moving, and you have a better chance to figure out the outline of each shape because of it. Also, you can use traditional techniques on each frame of the video and submit the one that has the highest confidence, and you could do that with existing tech.
Honestly, I don't see this being better than what we have.
Very few game devs are PS3-exclusive. The majority of them already have to deal with a few different architectures. Anything that brings one of the outliers closer to the rest of the pack is probably good for them.
Sony's never been known for having good software to work with. Microsoft is apparently quite a lot better about that. So I wouldn't bet that the PS3 ever gone anything to help with that situation. At least, not from Sony.
Good parody. When I think about the PS3's processor, I always remember them bragging at launch that devs will still be trying to optimize for the PS3 when it's lifetime is over. I'm still astounded that they thought that was something to brag about.
My trip was indeed a long one... Over 24 hours each way. With more than half of that time spent on the older trains.
And yeah, on shorter trips, I probably wouldn't have minded. In fact, if they just fixed the seats, i'd have been okay. (The track rumble and noise didn't actually bother me, even when I was trying to rest.) But they didn't, and probably won't.
The higher cost over driving was acceptable because I could *do* things on the train, where in a car I can only drive. (Especially alone.)
My reason for the train was also the TSA. I doubt I'd have considered it if it weren't for their antics. (And this was quite a few years ago now.)
Interesting. I worked phone support for a company, and their systems would occasionally do this. The delay was anywhere from a fraction of a second to a couple seconds, randomly for each call it happened to. It is really, really annoying, but I always assumed it made me stop talking because I was trying to be polite to the customer and when I hear a voice from their end, I'd stop and listen.
It took me about a week to learn to just keep talking when I heard my own voice, and not someone else's.
After having lived in Florida most of my life (no public transport other than horrible busses) I recently visited NY and Boston. I was pretty impressed with both of them. If that kind of system existed here, I'm sure I'd use it.
But as you point out, 'mass transit' in America is largely a joke. It only exists in the largest population centers, and even there it's pretty lame.
Also, I took a train to NY and Boston when I went. That was pretty bad, too. Half the line had cars that I wouldn't use again on a bet, and the other half was just adequate. No wonder so few people will use a train here! And... I looked up the route for a trip I wanted to take later this year. You apparently can't get there from here, despite rail stations existing at both ends. Ugh.
I couldn't find anything in it to suggest they had actually done a double-blind trial, or even a half-assed blind trial, so their results are purely correlation, and not causation, despite the time they spent talking about causation. They do suggest that 'hangovers' from the drugs are a cause of traffic accidents and such, though, so they at least thought of that.
No mention about mental stability that I saw.
It'll be a long time before we can be sure it's safe.
However, it could be offered as a way to cut their sentence, or as part of their rehab. I'd fully support them having the option.
I'm okay with infinite backlog. I simply make sure that I know at any given time what my first and second priorities are (in case I finish the first, or get stuck) and then start working. They can change priorities all the want. I told them there was one thing they had to mind, and it was that changing tasks in the middle of something was extremely stressful, and they shouldn't do that if they can help it. Since then, new priorities are always 'after you finish what you're on' and everything is fine. They change their priorities every day, so long as I can get out of what I'm doing that quickly.
That's what they pay me for, and they appreciate it.
While I disagree that "Agile" never works, I totally agree that "agile" always works. If it's not working, then you're not "agile"... The very definition is to do what works best and not do what doesn't. Unlike "Agile" which has a set of prescribe methods to do things, just like Waterfall does.
The collector will be orbiting, too.
Why did they bar him from using the internet? What are they afraid he'll do, start another illegal website?
If they're afraid he'll try to hide evidence, they'd have to cut him off from all contact, since others could easily just do the hiding for him.
Do they bar people accused of telephone fraud from using the telephone?
I'd understand if it was a car or gun, where he could do something stupid with it, but the internet?
I think it's worth noting that #1 could indicate you're screwing yourself, and could still be dealing with a reputable company. If you're not asking for a good enough deal, then the decision is quite a bit easier to make for the VC.