Ten years ago, hard drives could last ten years, easily. (I've got plenty of drives from the late 90s that still work fine) As of five years ago, hard drives can't reliably last five years. (I have one working five-year old drive) As of two years ago, hard drives are not reliable for more than six months. (I've replaced enough now to know: Yeah, it 'could' last five years, but it's statistically unlikely)
it's targeted at windows because of market share. If you're being told "run this executable", and you do it, it doesn't matter if it hides its results in C:\WINDOWS\system.dll or in/home/acoward/.bashrc
I didn't give this show as much of a chance as I intended to. I watched five seconds, in which all the characters had to run naked across a highway for some reason. In that five seconds, I saw twenty things which conflicted with established continuity from the movies.
"Oh, |/FOX\| is running some vaguely-scifi show which uses the name "Terminator" in a shallow attempt to gain ratings, while pulling cheap stunts to make people giggle."
Scribd sucks. every time I've seen a link to it, it seems like it's trying to be as crippled and useless as possible. The whole site seems to operate on "allow users to upload someone else's copyrighted work, display it to people in such a useless fashion that any copyright holder who might complain would assume it's some officially sanctioned DRM-loaded crapware"
I'm not on either side of the fence, but I'm fairly certain that a lot of people weren't killing a lot of other people just to be nice, before anyone ever wrote it in stone.
Keep in mind: by the time you need any backups for the purposes of convenience, new technologies may have come around which will be far easier or far faster than the encoding process you went through previously.
"only have to renew if it's worth it" is bullshit. The ONLY reason to have copyright last beyond ten years is for the case of people for whom what they have created isn't worth it, yet.
Something like 10 years, non-renewable, starting from the time the work becomes generally available, might be sane. This means that someone who has been shopping around for a publisher for 10 years won't wake up one day to find that the first publisher to reject him has just started selling his book (in electronic form) at no risk and pure profit.
if the worry is that people don't trust the current models, wouldn't now be the perfect time to pursue studies in that field? Who wants to learn a bunch of things that people are certain of?
A friend mailed me some Red Hat CDs, but they broke in the mail, so I bit the bullet and spent a week downloading replacements. I stayed on windows, but it was great as a web/ftp server.
if it's from a company you originally did business with, and now they're sending you spammy e-mails, opt-out will probably work. If you've ever done business with them, they probably already assume your address is legitimate, so the "opt-out" ("unsubscribe", "email settings", etc) button's only purpose would be to stop the e-mails.
And for the love of fuck, don't be automatically afraid of opt-out buttons. Many people, having heard "opt-out is always a scam to verify your address", automatically click "this is spam" instead of "opt-out" whenever they want to ensure that they're not on a mailing list. Having recently implemented Feed Back Loops on our mailing list at work, the very first "this is spam" report we received was from a booking confirmation. People see an option to unsubscribe from a mailing list (which they five seconds ago had clicked a check box to subscribe to), but are trained "opt out is a scam!", and so click "this is spam" instead.
Of course, if it's a company you've done business with before, and now they're spamming you, a two-hit combo of "opt-out" and "this is spam" is an even better solution. Companies really do pay attention to who unsubscribes after a mailing, and "oh shit, 20% of our list just unsubscribed!" can very easily wake them up and get them to reconsider what they send.
Competition is good and all.. but $99 a month? Only 80 channels? That's what you're fighting to keep? You need higher standards. I got at double that for half that when I was with Comcast.
Meanwhile, I'm guessing this guy is piss-poor at explaining things, because he seems to be saying: "The cable company wants to add two conditions which don't prohibit what we're doing, and also something which exempts us from those conditions anyway. Clearly this would stop people from doing what we're doing."
Those two conditions, by the way, make perfect sense:
1) Cities can't use broadband service as a backdoor-tax for other things. That is, they can't charge more than they need to run the service, then use the excess for unrelated things.
2) Cities can only support broadband service with fees, that is, they can't raise taxes in general and then pretend to have "free broadband"
Nowhere does this guy complain about anything which would hurt Greenlight or anything like it, unless Greenlight/is/ just a big tax scam (which he explicitly claims it is not)
I've tried it by accident, disabled it immediately. How is something which interprets vague motions such as "diagonal towards the upper left corner" or "arc from right to left" or "decreasing spiral towards a target" as entire commands a good thing? If I move the mouse, it's probably because I wanted to have the mouse be somewhere. I don't want to need to think about "I'd better move the mouse like this, otherwise it will think I want to do something else", follow a maze to each target, etc. Moving the mouse to click on something is already slow enough, why make it even slower by adding a lot of traps?
Yes, this is a real report of actual problems which happen when I actually sit down in front of a computer which uses mouse gestures, this is not just "FUD" which I came up with due to not liking new things. I have absolutely NEVER used a system which has mouse gestures enabled without accidentally triggering one. Yes, I have left them on for a week to see if I got used to them, or liked using them. In all cases, they were always either too complicated to be useful (moving in two complete circles is slower than clicking a button of ANY size), or too simple to avoid triggering accidentally (a quarter-circle arc? really? The most common motion ever made with a mouse?). Not to mention the stupidity of having the cursor itself move essentially randomly, meaning you need to go find it again afterwards, as opposed to knowing "it's on the 'back button'" after you have gone back.. more and more and more.
Of course, it's not like ravenous philosophy isn't in there too. My windows are always set to "focus follows click", not "focus follows pointer", because a mouse pointer is used to point at things, not to cause things to happen. The same general gripe exists for both: Flicking the cursor out of the way to read what's underneath should absolutely NEVER cause anything meaningful to happen. Just get the thing out of the way so I can keep working, that's all.
Can't wait for this to be (jailbroken? is that an applicable term?) opened up. As in, really, I can't wait, so I asked Nintendo how to become a developer "officially". Still waiting for a response, not expecting one.
Why do people lock down hardware? I definitely wouldn't have bought one myself without a clear path to being able to develop things for it:/
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Ten years ago, hard drives could last ten years, easily. (I've got plenty of drives from the late 90s that still work fine)
As of five years ago, hard drives can't reliably last five years. (I have one working five-year old drive)
As of two years ago, hard drives are not reliable for more than six months. (I've replaced enough now to know: Yeah, it 'could' last five years, but it's statistically unlikely)
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it's targeted at windows because of market share. If you're being told "run this executable", and you do it, it doesn't matter if it hides its results in C:\WINDOWS\system.dll or in /home/acoward/.bashrc
Somehow I picked up on both that, /and/ that it was a cheap stunt to put naked people on the screen.
They were talking about robots, too. The existence of robots is established continuity, and just as irrelevant to what I was talking about.
I haven't seen it yet! You ruined the movie!
I didn't give this show as much of a chance as I intended to. I watched five seconds, in which all the characters had to run naked across a highway for some reason. In that five seconds, I saw twenty things which conflicted with established continuity from the movies.
"Oh, |/FOX\| is running some vaguely-scifi show which uses the name "Terminator" in a shallow attempt to gain ratings, while pulling cheap stunts to make people giggle."
end of program
try clicking the links.
Scribd sucks. every time I've seen a link to it, it seems like it's trying to be as crippled and useless as possible. The whole site seems to operate on "allow users to upload someone else's copyrighted work, display it to people in such a useless fashion that any copyright holder who might complain would assume it's some officially sanctioned DRM-loaded crapware"
I'm not on either side of the fence, but I'm fairly certain that a lot of people weren't killing a lot of other people just to be nice, before anyone ever wrote it in stone.
easily? Name any instance of someone being sued for downloading.
you've never actually had negative karma, have you?
Keep in mind: by the time you need any backups for the purposes of convenience, new technologies may have come around which will be far easier or far faster than the encoding process you went through previously.
congratulations, you've corrupted a mirror'd image of the disk, and now they can prove you've tampered with the data
Why don't we all just use HURD, then?
"only have to renew if it's worth it" is bullshit. The ONLY reason to have copyright last beyond ten years is for the case of people for whom what they have created isn't worth it, yet.
Something like 10 years, non-renewable, starting from the time the work becomes generally available, might be sane. This means that someone who has been shopping around for a publisher for 10 years won't wake up one day to find that the first publisher to reject him has just started selling his book (in electronic form) at no risk and pure profit.
if the worry is that people don't trust the current models, wouldn't now be the perfect time to pursue studies in that field? Who wants to learn a bunch of things that people are certain of?
A friend mailed me some Red Hat CDs, but they broke in the mail, so I bit the bullet and spent a week downloading replacements. I stayed on windows, but it was great as a web/ftp server.
if it's from a company you originally did business with, and now they're sending you spammy e-mails, opt-out will probably work. If you've ever done business with them, they probably already assume your address is legitimate, so the "opt-out" ("unsubscribe", "email settings", etc) button's only purpose would be to stop the e-mails.
And for the love of fuck, don't be automatically afraid of opt-out buttons. Many people, having heard "opt-out is always a scam to verify your address", automatically click "this is spam" instead of "opt-out" whenever they want to ensure that they're not on a mailing list. Having recently implemented Feed Back Loops on our mailing list at work, the very first "this is spam" report we received was from a booking confirmation. People see an option to unsubscribe from a mailing list (which they five seconds ago had clicked a check box to subscribe to), but are trained "opt out is a scam!", and so click "this is spam" instead.
Of course, if it's a company you've done business with before, and now they're spamming you, a two-hit combo of "opt-out" and "this is spam" is an even better solution. Companies really do pay attention to who unsubscribes after a mailing, and "oh shit, 20% of our list just unsubscribed!" can very easily wake them up and get them to reconsider what they send.
Competition is good and all.. but $99 a month? Only 80 channels? That's what you're fighting to keep? You need higher standards. I got at double that for half that when I was with Comcast.
Meanwhile, I'm guessing this guy is piss-poor at explaining things, because he seems to be saying: "The cable company wants to add two conditions which don't prohibit what we're doing, and also something which exempts us from those conditions anyway. Clearly this would stop people from doing what we're doing."
Those two conditions, by the way, make perfect sense:
1) Cities can't use broadband service as a backdoor-tax for other things. That is, they can't charge more than they need to run the service, then use the excess for unrelated things.
2) Cities can only support broadband service with fees, that is, they can't raise taxes in general and then pretend to have "free broadband"
Nowhere does this guy complain about anything which would hurt Greenlight or anything like it, unless Greenlight /is/ just a big tax scam (which he explicitly claims it is not)
Yeah, when the little guys like the UK are out-pacing billion-dollar companies, what is the world coming to?
Using the power of the swarm, we've already signed up 52,560 people who are willing to spend 30 minutes in jail.
Can I have an anti-theft system for my music, so that nobody can copy it but anybody who wants to can buy it and listen to it?
I've tried it by accident, disabled it immediately. How is something which interprets vague motions such as "diagonal towards the upper left corner" or "arc from right to left" or "decreasing spiral towards a target" as entire commands a good thing? If I move the mouse, it's probably because I wanted to have the mouse be somewhere. I don't want to need to think about "I'd better move the mouse like this, otherwise it will think I want to do something else", follow a maze to each target, etc. Moving the mouse to click on something is already slow enough, why make it even slower by adding a lot of traps?
Yes, this is a real report of actual problems which happen when I actually sit down in front of a computer which uses mouse gestures, this is not just "FUD" which I came up with due to not liking new things. I have absolutely NEVER used a system which has mouse gestures enabled without accidentally triggering one. Yes, I have left them on for a week to see if I got used to them, or liked using them. In all cases, they were always either too complicated to be useful (moving in two complete circles is slower than clicking a button of ANY size), or too simple to avoid triggering accidentally (a quarter-circle arc? really? The most common motion ever made with a mouse?). Not to mention the stupidity of having the cursor itself move essentially randomly, meaning you need to go find it again afterwards, as opposed to knowing "it's on the 'back button'" after you have gone back.. more and more and more.
Of course, it's not like ravenous philosophy isn't in there too. My windows are always set to "focus follows click", not "focus follows pointer", because a mouse pointer is used to point at things, not to cause things to happen. The same general gripe exists for both: Flicking the cursor out of the way to read what's underneath should absolutely NEVER cause anything meaningful to happen. Just get the thing out of the way so I can keep working, that's all.
In other news: GRAAaaaAAAAaAaAaAAAAAAAAAAAR!!!!
Can't wait for this to be (jailbroken? is that an applicable term?) opened up. As in, really, I can't wait, so I asked Nintendo how to become a developer "officially". Still waiting for a response, not expecting one.
Why do people lock down hardware? I definitely wouldn't have bought one myself without a clear path to being able to develop things for it :/
or you could stop watching HBO and get back to reality