True, but those things don't need to be continually resupplied as coal plants do. The whole concept behind renewable energy sources is that extracting the energy can be done cleanly once you have the facilities in place. Well technically that's more of a pleasant side effect (we'll run out of coal long before we run out of sun), but regardless it kicks the crap out of coal.
Your view also calls into question the existence of sites like this: http://clubseventeen.com/ [clubseventeen.com] (warning nudity). In that country, the Netherlands, 17 is the legal age of consent, so no crime has been committed in any of those photos
All persons depicted in Club Seventeen were over the age of 18 years at the time they were photographed or filmed.
So, um, yeah. Valid point, bad example.
As for the other example... yes, it's happened. Children have been taken away by CPS from parents who have taken pictures of their young kids in the bath - you know, the ones that every single family has. And while I'm inclined to generally agree with your viewpoint, I do take at least some issue with the second site which sells videos (and damned expensive ones, at that) of nudist activities that very clearly contains children. While clearly non-pornographic and non-harmful in nature, you know some people are getting off to it. No harm no foul I'd say, but it's certainly sleazy even if it's not technically illegal - and I'd have no trouble finding people that would say it IS illegal (not that their opinion matters unless they happen to be a juror).
And for the record, I'm blaming you if I get arrested now.
Chrome and Safari use the same rendering engine (Webkit), and both support html5 video (I think Chrome supports H.264 and OGG though I'm having trouble confirming that; Safari is of course H.264 only). Firefox has supported OGG video since 3.5, and at least some versions of Opera do as well (source). As usual, IE is lagging behind here - and Microsoft tends to make the argument - validly so - that they don't want to incorporate new features until the standards are set. As it stands now, I think the only thing NOT decided upon is the codec(s) that must be supported by browsers. If W3 just calls it in favor of OGG, then it's a safe bet Apple will add OGG support in the next version of Safari even if they continue to support H.264 as well (IE9 would likely do the same).
Handily, you can embed multiple src files in a video element (hell, you can even embed a flash-based fallback by effectively wrapping the original embed tag in a video tag).
It's not ideal and you shouldn't have to export multiple video types to get cross-browser compatibility, but then again I shouldn't have to hack around the plethora of IE bugs to make my sites usable in IE6/7. Given that the former is fixed with a tiny shell script and the latter takes hours of guesswork and dumb luck, I consider it tolerable enough until one side gives in. Obviously though, that's a lot more practical for sites with one or two videos so storage isn't much of a concern than creating two or three different versions of every video uploaded to Youtube/Vimeo/etc.
You jest, but all of the urban sprawl isn't doing us any good - and our easy access to transportation is the biggest enabler. All of the green hippie bullshit aside, we'd do well to get off of our fat asses to walk or bike to the local store, but it's just not practical in most locations because everything is so spread out.
I don't care about Google ads, just all of the flashing obtrusive crap. The fact that I have to block* google ads to prevent that other stuff is in my eyes unfortunate, since they don't annoy me and help support the publishers of content that I like (not to mention support Google, who pretty much owns my entire digital life)
*I'm sure I could adjust the filterset somehow to whitelist text-based adsense, but I'm too damn lazy to do it once, never mind across all of my systems.
Speaking as someone in the industry... there's a lot of reasons. The barriers to entry are extremely high (and that's before you realize that your competition is a multi billion dollar giant with massive market and mindshare), there's a huge amount of legal BS that you have to deal with, and the banking industry is painfully slow and outdated to work with.
I AM surprised that other payment gateways don't do more in consumer-facing work, but there's plenty of very good reasons that they'll be staying strictly B2B for the foreseeable future
If you can't check e-mail, facebook, IM, etc, then I think it's fair to claim you're out of touch.
Yes, but that doesn't require 3G access to work. They're effectively making the claim that your phone is useless without 3G coverage, which is not at all the case. Not only is there no 3G coverage where I live (I only started getting reliable signal *at any speed* a couple of months ago), but I've been using the original iPhone since it came out. 2.5G isn't fast by any stretch of the imagination, but more often than not I'm slowed down far more by the performance of the device itself (JS-heavy pages are awful, whether on EDGE or 10+Mbit WiFi) than the actual bandwidth. Hell, I'm only able to get 1/4 of the download and ping performance of my home connection over WiFi on the iPhone (3Mbit, 109ms vs 12Mbit, 24ms).
IM certainly isn't a data-intense application, nor is most of Facebook or email. Mapping is probably the worst, though I almost never use YouTube which would probably win. Honestly, bandwidth only seems noticeably poor when using the app store, since it's a straight-up download of a large file, rather than procedurally rendering HTML as it comes in or waiting for a few KB of JSON.
Latency is far and away the worst offender in terms of making things feel slow, but 3G does very little to address that.
Don't get me wrong - I want faster and more reliable coverage, and more bandwidth is almost always better. But in my experience, most of the bandwidth-heavy applications of smartphones seem to get bogged down by the hardware before the bandwidth.
Yes, but the 64-bit architecture has nothing to do with it. They took steps to increase security and only applied them to the 64-bit version because that was going to wreak enough havoc on compatibility that they might as well go all the way at that point.
True, but how does one define a "trusted" source - especially in this day and age where shareware is thrown about every which way? Until I've spent some time on the platform, I'm not going to know which companies I can trust to download software from, and even then there's no great way to know that their website hasn't been compromised*. Yeah, obviously don't run executables that came from a porn site, but someone could put together an official-looking website in a few hours to make a trojan or virus-laden app look legit.
*Yes, of course there are ways to do it. But if someone managed to replace a download with an infected binary on a site I trust, there's a very good chance I'd miss it. Few sites provide checksums, and of those that do, I've checked maybe twice in my life (and if you can compromise the binary, chances are you can also compromise the listed checksum)
You'd probably be charged with something (and reasonably so, in my opinion), though it may vary by jurisdiction. Aiding and abetting, being an accomplice, some sort of failure to inform the police, recklessness, probably plenty of other things. IANAL - but it would seem to fall along the lines of the bartender getting charged (or at least sued) in relation to a drunk driving death for not cutting the driver off or calling a cab for him.
Why, do you own a gun store? More importantly, am I the target?
And yet, the rather flamebait-ish response is completely valid and correct. A lack of incentive will lead to a lack of success - so you need to address that before you can address the actual problem (and once you do, traditional approaches will probably work fine). Wasting time on people that don't give a damn is just that - wasting time.
That said, if the patients are so into gaming, that would be a good place to start looking to FIND motivation. No, I don't have any advice in this area, as it was primarily people chatting in video games that drove me away from online gaming.
I don't think this protocol will replace QoS on your local network - more likely, it will intelligently select peers based off of external network (Internet) factors
You have to have a monopoly before you can engage in monopolistic practices. Even in the portable music player market, Apple with its vast marketshare doesn't constitute anything near a monopoly, as there are dozens if not hundreds of competing products.
As for Microsoft... I can't speak as to whether them doing such a thing would be illegal, but it would certainly be stupid. They use other people's hardware sales to leverage their own software sales, while Apple uses their and others software to leverage their own hardware sales.
Sort of. The $30 Snow Leopard is a Leopard upgrade license; the $170 SL/iLife/iWork pack is generally advertised as "For computers without Leopard", though the system requirements specifically state that you need an Intel Mac.
In practice, every Snow Leopard disc is identical, whether it comes in the cheap upgrade version or the "Mac Box Set" (above), or a family pack of either (aside from a sticker on the box, there's nothing in the family packs about licensing). As such, the installation EULA is going to be the same, and I don't think there's any doubt that Psystar is in violation of the EULA - just whether doing so can constitute copyright infringement by tripping this "unauthorized" clause.
If you're going to spend $19/month, you might as well import DVDs and/or buy from iTunes (unless you have other use for the VPS). I, for one, have no intention of spending well over $200 a year to watch free content.
Doing that for hours on end probably increases eyestrain and fatigue tremendously. I can't say that I've ever been bored enough to try holding my finger in front of my left eye for half a day, but I'd imagine the effects are similar to being in very bright, contrasty, or dark places for extended periods.
Wait, Apple overprices their server distro? The cheapest version of Windows Server that I could find was 2003 R2 Standard, which is $1000 for five seats. OS X Server is $500 for unlimited seats.
Of course compared to a Free Unix/Linux box both are overpriced, but if spending five hundred bucks saves your sysadmin a couple of hours tinkering around (it may or may not - I have very little experience with OS X Server and no experience as a sysadmin), it's paid for itself.
And chances are that you've never seen a battery explode from being overloaded either. But both can and do happen. While I've never heard of a vehicle spontaneously combusting, I've heard of more gasoline/other combustable-related incidents than electrical/charging issues (including the wave of widely publicized but overall quite rare exploding laptop batteries a couple years ago), and the electrical ones also tend to cause much less damage.
Shoddy charging circuitry can be just as dangerous as worn fuel lines. It's also just as preventable (and lord knows that there would be SOME sort of safety regulations in place to prevent manufacturers from making unsafe compromises) - so overall, it should hardly register on your list of concerns about this tech.
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True, but those things don't need to be continually resupplied as coal plants do. The whole concept behind renewable energy sources is that extracting the energy can be done cleanly once you have the facilities in place. Well technically that's more of a pleasant side effect (we'll run out of coal long before we run out of sun), but regardless it kicks the crap out of coal.
Your view also calls into question the existence of sites like this: http://clubseventeen.com/ [clubseventeen.com] (warning nudity). In that country, the Netherlands, 17 is the legal age of consent, so no crime has been committed in any of those photos
All persons depicted in Club Seventeen were over the age of 18 years at the time they were photographed or filmed.
So, um, yeah. Valid point, bad example.
As for the other example... yes, it's happened. Children have been taken away by CPS from parents who have taken pictures of their young kids in the bath - you know, the ones that every single family has. And while I'm inclined to generally agree with your viewpoint, I do take at least some issue with the second site which sells videos (and damned expensive ones, at that) of nudist activities that very clearly contains children. While clearly non-pornographic and non-harmful in nature, you know some people are getting off to it. No harm no foul I'd say, but it's certainly sleazy even if it's not technically illegal - and I'd have no trouble finding people that would say it IS illegal (not that their opinion matters unless they happen to be a juror).
And for the record, I'm blaming you if I get arrested now.
Chrome and Safari use the same rendering engine (Webkit), and both support html5 video (I think Chrome supports H.264 and OGG though I'm having trouble confirming that; Safari is of course H.264 only). Firefox has supported OGG video since 3.5, and at least some versions of Opera do as well (source). As usual, IE is lagging behind here - and Microsoft tends to make the argument - validly so - that they don't want to incorporate new features until the standards are set. As it stands now, I think the only thing NOT decided upon is the codec(s) that must be supported by browsers. If W3 just calls it in favor of OGG, then it's a safe bet Apple will add OGG support in the next version of Safari even if they continue to support H.264 as well (IE9 would likely do the same).
Handily, you can embed multiple src files in a video element (hell, you can even embed a flash-based fallback by effectively wrapping the original embed tag in a video tag).
It's not ideal and you shouldn't have to export multiple video types to get cross-browser compatibility, but then again I shouldn't have to hack around the plethora of IE bugs to make my sites usable in IE6/7. Given that the former is fixed with a tiny shell script and the latter takes hours of guesswork and dumb luck, I consider it tolerable enough until one side gives in. Obviously though, that's a lot more practical for sites with one or two videos so storage isn't much of a concern than creating two or three different versions of every video uploaded to Youtube/Vimeo/etc.
You jest, but all of the urban sprawl isn't doing us any good - and our easy access to transportation is the biggest enabler. All of the green hippie bullshit aside, we'd do well to get off of our fat asses to walk or bike to the local store, but it's just not practical in most locations because everything is so spread out.
I don't care about Google ads, just all of the flashing obtrusive crap. The fact that I have to block* google ads to prevent that other stuff is in my eyes unfortunate, since they don't annoy me and help support the publishers of content that I like (not to mention support Google, who pretty much owns my entire digital life)
*I'm sure I could adjust the filterset somehow to whitelist text-based adsense, but I'm too damn lazy to do it once, never mind across all of my systems.
Speaking as someone in the industry... there's a lot of reasons. The barriers to entry are extremely high (and that's before you realize that your competition is a multi billion dollar giant with massive market and mindshare), there's a huge amount of legal BS that you have to deal with, and the banking industry is painfully slow and outdated to work with.
I AM surprised that other payment gateways don't do more in consumer-facing work, but there's plenty of very good reasons that they'll be staying strictly B2B for the foreseeable future
If you can't check e-mail, facebook, IM, etc, then I think it's fair to claim you're out of touch.
Yes, but that doesn't require 3G access to work. They're effectively making the claim that your phone is useless without 3G coverage, which is not at all the case. Not only is there no 3G coverage where I live (I only started getting reliable signal *at any speed* a couple of months ago), but I've been using the original iPhone since it came out. 2.5G isn't fast by any stretch of the imagination, but more often than not I'm slowed down far more by the performance of the device itself (JS-heavy pages are awful, whether on EDGE or 10+Mbit WiFi) than the actual bandwidth. Hell, I'm only able to get 1/4 of the download and ping performance of my home connection over WiFi on the iPhone (3Mbit, 109ms vs 12Mbit, 24ms).
IM certainly isn't a data-intense application, nor is most of Facebook or email. Mapping is probably the worst, though I almost never use YouTube which would probably win. Honestly, bandwidth only seems noticeably poor when using the app store, since it's a straight-up download of a large file, rather than procedurally rendering HTML as it comes in or waiting for a few KB of JSON.
Latency is far and away the worst offender in terms of making things feel slow, but 3G does very little to address that.
Don't get me wrong - I want faster and more reliable coverage, and more bandwidth is almost always better. But in my experience, most of the bandwidth-heavy applications of smartphones seem to get bogged down by the hardware before the bandwidth.
Yes, but the 64-bit architecture has nothing to do with it. They took steps to increase security and only applied them to the 64-bit version because that was going to wreak enough havoc on compatibility that they might as well go all the way at that point.
True, but how does one define a "trusted" source - especially in this day and age where shareware is thrown about every which way? Until I've spent some time on the platform, I'm not going to know which companies I can trust to download software from, and even then there's no great way to know that their website hasn't been compromised*. Yeah, obviously don't run executables that came from a porn site, but someone could put together an official-looking website in a few hours to make a trojan or virus-laden app look legit.
*Yes, of course there are ways to do it. But if someone managed to replace a download with an infected binary on a site I trust, there's a very good chance I'd miss it. Few sites provide checksums, and of those that do, I've checked maybe twice in my life (and if you can compromise the binary, chances are you can also compromise the listed checksum)
You'd probably be charged with something (and reasonably so, in my opinion), though it may vary by jurisdiction. Aiding and abetting, being an accomplice, some sort of failure to inform the police, recklessness, probably plenty of other things. IANAL - but it would seem to fall along the lines of the bartender getting charged (or at least sued) in relation to a drunk driving death for not cutting the driver off or calling a cab for him.
Why, do you own a gun store? More importantly, am I the target?
And yet, the rather flamebait-ish response is completely valid and correct. A lack of incentive will lead to a lack of success - so you need to address that before you can address the actual problem (and once you do, traditional approaches will probably work fine). Wasting time on people that don't give a damn is just that - wasting time.
That said, if the patients are so into gaming, that would be a good place to start looking to FIND motivation. No, I don't have any advice in this area, as it was primarily people chatting in video games that drove me away from online gaming.
I don't think this protocol will replace QoS on your local network - more likely, it will intelligently select peers based off of external network (Internet) factors
You have to have a monopoly before you can engage in monopolistic practices. Even in the portable music player market, Apple with its vast marketshare doesn't constitute anything near a monopoly, as there are dozens if not hundreds of competing products.
As for Microsoft... I can't speak as to whether them doing such a thing would be illegal, but it would certainly be stupid. They use other people's hardware sales to leverage their own software sales, while Apple uses their and others software to leverage their own hardware sales.
Sort of. The $30 Snow Leopard is a Leopard upgrade license; the $170 SL/iLife/iWork pack is generally advertised as "For computers without Leopard", though the system requirements specifically state that you need an Intel Mac.
In practice, every Snow Leopard disc is identical, whether it comes in the cheap upgrade version or the "Mac Box Set" (above), or a family pack of either (aside from a sticker on the box, there's nothing in the family packs about licensing). As such, the installation EULA is going to be the same, and I don't think there's any doubt that Psystar is in violation of the EULA - just whether doing so can constitute copyright infringement by tripping this "unauthorized" clause.
Probably because up until about five minutes ago, it wasn't a valid address.
If you're going to spend $19/month, you might as well import DVDs and/or buy from iTunes (unless you have other use for the VPS). I, for one, have no intention of spending well over $200 a year to watch free content.
Doing that for hours on end probably increases eyestrain and fatigue tremendously. I can't say that I've ever been bored enough to try holding my finger in front of my left eye for half a day, but I'd imagine the effects are similar to being in very bright, contrasty, or dark places for extended periods.
And finally, dyslexics everywhere finally come to appreciate Goggle's^W Google's branding.
I'm not talking about just HFCS, although that's probably the most well-known example. There's something like four or five dozen different things created from corn. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maize#Chemicals_and_medicines is a start, though The Omnivore's Dilemma(Amazon link) goes into MUCH more detail.
Most modern societies also worship corn - they just process the hell out of it first.
Obviously - he had to ask about sarcasm tags. He must be reading with the old slashdot engine that doesn't auto-inject them.
Wait, Apple overprices their server distro? The cheapest version of Windows Server that I could find was 2003 R2 Standard, which is $1000 for five seats. OS X Server is $500 for unlimited seats.
Of course compared to a Free Unix/Linux box both are overpriced, but if spending five hundred bucks saves your sysadmin a couple of hours tinkering around (it may or may not - I have very little experience with OS X Server and no experience as a sysadmin), it's paid for itself.
And chances are that you've never seen a battery explode from being overloaded either. But both can and do happen. While I've never heard of a vehicle spontaneously combusting, I've heard of more gasoline/other combustable-related incidents than electrical/charging issues (including the wave of widely publicized but overall quite rare exploding laptop batteries a couple years ago), and the electrical ones also tend to cause much less damage.
Shoddy charging circuitry can be just as dangerous as worn fuel lines. It's also just as preventable (and lord knows that there would be SOME sort of safety regulations in place to prevent manufacturers from making unsafe compromises) - so overall, it should hardly register on your list of concerns about this tech.
I mean, how many societies have plumbers as heroes?
Well, we (America) did - at least during the 2008 election.