They will slow down once they reach everyone else's version number. Of course they wont make it sound like the whole point was to play version-number-catch-up. They'll spin it, but since we all* like Firefox, everyone* will believe it.
Just think of all the air fresheners, perfumes, candles, and other things that humans have created to give off artificial scent. Do they ever smell like their labels? There are only a few scant smells that have ever accurately been recreated.
I don't knock the technology behind this. I just knock humans ability to put enough proper smells into the thing to make it function and make it believable.
If it works, it makes me think of that aviation ride at Disneyland. That was always my favorite, and they did a pretty good job on the smell part of that ride. Granted they needed to recreate very few smells.
And once you've tossed it without looking inside and I open said old filled box barely fitting in the top of your garbage can and find all the gold from a sunken Spanish ship, then what?! Because once you've tossed it, it's in the public domain!
And it doesn't waste extra space even if space is cheap.
Dare I say 90% of people don't even have the equipment to tell the difference between a 320/VBR bitrate MP3 and FLAC anyway. I've heard both on rather high end equipment and to be honest, I didn't even really notice any negligible difference. This mad rush for everyone to use FLAC always humors me. To me it seems to be more "The bits are more pure!" than "It actually sounds better!". To that I say, "So what?"
It was said earlier that each gTLD to be sold will be manually handled and the registrant needs to prove that they have legitimate claim to the name, not to mention there is like a $200k price tag. So I have my doubts that many phishing sites will be getting them.
This has been pointed out and proven wrong a dozen times already in the comments. Only the British Library gets one automatically, the other libraries may request a free copy.
Do you know what trade secrets are and how misappropriating them is looked at by law?
Here in the States, it's a federal crime, regardless of who the victim is. It's probably similar in China, and when we're talking about a victim like Foxconn, the government is going to make an example out of these people.
Whether or not you feel doing things to a corporation should not be anything but a civil matter, there are catches and they're not necessarily out of line.
Well they can just cry and moan about it and we can move on. I have absolutely no idea what skype is like these days (stopped using it so many years ago) but you can't expect to use an old version forever. Even if they did reinstate it, there will come a time where it has to go. It just didn't have to go yet. And even if the forced change isn't entirely necessary then so what? People will just have to learn to deal.
I remember the older versions of uTorrent, and wish so much that I could use them. But since they're old, most trackers I use blacklist them. I cried, but got over it.
Currently it costs roughly 10 to 20 times the normal cost of real meat (granted due to research), and once all is said and done, not only will it not be cheaper than regular meat, but it will be around the same price.
What incentive would there be for someone decide to eat turds over meat again? You can't play the vegetarian card, I doubt you could play the taste card, I mean if it were half the price of meat or lower then maybe I can see a market, but the only market I can see is those kind of people who like to crawl in mobile outhouses and just...wait.
This reminds me of the Digg 4 redesign. Why change something that isn't broken in the first place and turn it into complete crap in the process? I sincerely hope Netflix actually accepts the negative criticism and tries to fix it instead of thinking it knows better than its users.
Isys said it filed for tradmark registration of the ChromiumPC name in June 2010, receiving interim approval in October 2010, and claimed to have been using the name for 18 months. Google first announced the Chrome OS in 2009.
Isn't it a bit of a stretch that they apparently used that name with the intent to run Google's OS nearly a year before news of the OS even went public? You'd think lying on these kind of documents would nullify the registration.
In this hypothetical scenario, he only chose not to drive home because he could have been caught. Meaning he acknowledged he's likely over the legal limit for driving while intoxicated no matter how sober he thinks he is at the moment. Remember that many people outright drunk think they are safe to drive home, when in fact they are not.
Had there not been a hypothetical checkpoint, he would have driven home on his own.
The correct choice every time should have been to take a cab home, if he even thinks for a moment a checkpoint might result in a DUI.
I don't know about Silverlight, but.NET is not going anywhere. They've built up an armada of C# developers on the Windows platform. Seeing as C# is pretty much tied to the CLR, there isn't a chance in hell they're going to just abandon it.
Silverlight never did catch on as well as it could have, so I do feel sorry for those developers who use it, if something should happen.
I'm certainly not one to defend Steve Jobs, but that is business as usual. You don't want to be forced to move out because you ran out of room and the city wont let you have more.
No Mighty Boot (plain weapon melee), 2 weapon equip limit, (realistically) very inaccurate weapons unless you aim down the sight.
I wasn't expecting a miracle with this game, and to be quite honest I expected it to be a let down, but I'm downright puzzled that they took the tried and true gameplay of the old Duke games and threw it away in favor of the modern like-every-other-game fare we have now. It really feels a lot more like Call of Duty: Halo than Duke Nukem in terms of gameplay. It might look like Duke but it certainly doesn't feel like it.
Am I the only person who finds it sad that Sony is letting itself be victimized by so called "script kiddies"? or should it only be news when someone who actually knows what they're doing does it?
I don't see where the extortion comes from, unless someone involved in any of the hacking actually said they had to apologize. I think what the GP was suggesting would be if Sony, on their own, came out and apologized for being so negligent. Of course that will never happen.
Not having jobs in town is only an issue if there's no public transit in or out, and if it is ridiculously far from the rest of civilization. There are many places around the world like this (though not "green") that function well.
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They will slow down once they reach everyone else's version number. Of course they wont make it sound like the whole point was to play version-number-catch-up. They'll spin it, but since we all* like Firefox, everyone* will believe it.
Just think of all the air fresheners, perfumes, candles, and other things that humans have created to give off artificial scent. Do they ever smell like their labels? There are only a few scant smells that have ever accurately been recreated.
I don't knock the technology behind this. I just knock humans ability to put enough proper smells into the thing to make it function and make it believable.
If it works, it makes me think of that aviation ride at Disneyland. That was always my favorite, and they did a pretty good job on the smell part of that ride. Granted they needed to recreate very few smells.
And once you've tossed it without looking inside and I open said old filled box barely fitting in the top of your garbage can and find all the gold from a sunken Spanish ship, then what?! Because once you've tossed it, it's in the public domain!
I do.
And it sounds fine.
And it doesn't waste extra space even if space is cheap.
Dare I say 90% of people don't even have the equipment to tell the difference between a 320/VBR bitrate MP3 and FLAC anyway. I've heard both on rather high end equipment and to be honest, I didn't even really notice any negligible difference. This mad rush for everyone to use FLAC always humors me. To me it seems to be more "The bits are more pure!" than "It actually sounds better!". To that I say, "So what?"
This is basically $3.99/month to merely host your music away from your home, but with weird terms like mandatory iTunes.
What the hell is the point? They were definitely right when they suggested it's more of a "me too" service than something properly thought out.
It was said earlier that each gTLD to be sold will be manually handled and the registrant needs to prove that they have legitimate claim to the name, not to mention there is like a $200k price tag. So I have my doubts that many phishing sites will be getting them.
the fact that it's only *slightly* more secure than a public folder on a shared network
Holy exaggerations, batman?
This has been pointed out and proven wrong a dozen times already in the comments. Only the British Library gets one automatically, the other libraries may request a free copy.
Do you know what trade secrets are and how misappropriating them is looked at by law?
Here in the States, it's a federal crime, regardless of who the victim is. It's probably similar in China, and when we're talking about a victim like Foxconn, the government is going to make an example out of these people.
Whether or not you feel doing things to a corporation should not be anything but a civil matter, there are catches and they're not necessarily out of line.
Well they can just cry and moan about it and we can move on. I have absolutely no idea what skype is like these days (stopped using it so many years ago) but you can't expect to use an old version forever. Even if they did reinstate it, there will come a time where it has to go. It just didn't have to go yet. And even if the forced change isn't entirely necessary then so what? People will just have to learn to deal.
I remember the older versions of uTorrent, and wish so much that I could use them. But since they're old, most trackers I use blacklist them. I cried, but got over it.
Damn he mad.
Currently it costs roughly 10 to 20 times the normal cost of real meat (granted due to research), and once all is said and done, not only will it not be cheaper than regular meat, but it will be around the same price.
What incentive would there be for someone decide to eat turds over meat again? You can't play the vegetarian card, I doubt you could play the taste card, I mean if it were half the price of meat or lower then maybe I can see a market, but the only market I can see is those kind of people who like to crawl in mobile outhouses and just...wait.
This reminds me of the Digg 4 redesign. Why change something that isn't broken in the first place and turn it into complete crap in the process? I sincerely hope Netflix actually accepts the negative criticism and tries to fix it instead of thinking it knows better than its users.
You are a disappointment to grammar nazis everywhere. Please turn in your membership card.
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Isys said it filed for tradmark registration of the ChromiumPC name in June 2010, receiving interim approval in October 2010, and claimed to have been using the name for 18 months. Google first announced the Chrome OS in 2009.
Isn't it a bit of a stretch that they apparently used that name with the intent to run Google's OS nearly a year before news of the OS even went public? You'd think lying on these kind of documents would nullify the registration.
In this hypothetical scenario, he only chose not to drive home because he could have been caught. Meaning he acknowledged he's likely over the legal limit for driving while intoxicated no matter how sober he thinks he is at the moment. Remember that many people outright drunk think they are safe to drive home, when in fact they are not.
Had there not been a hypothetical checkpoint, he would have driven home on his own.
The correct choice every time should have been to take a cab home, if he even thinks for a moment a checkpoint might result in a DUI.
I don't know about Silverlight, but .NET is not going anywhere. They've built up an armada of C# developers on the Windows platform. Seeing as C# is pretty much tied to the CLR, there isn't a chance in hell they're going to just abandon it.
Silverlight never did catch on as well as it could have, so I do feel sorry for those developers who use it, if something should happen.
I wish I had mod points to mod you up with.
I would love to read some of that back and forth, good sir.
Considering you're posting AC, I'm going to assume you have nothing to back up this story.
I'm certainly not one to defend Steve Jobs, but that is business as usual. You don't want to be forced to move out because you ran out of room and the city wont let you have more.
No Mighty Boot (plain weapon melee), 2 weapon equip limit, (realistically) very inaccurate weapons unless you aim down the sight.
I wasn't expecting a miracle with this game, and to be quite honest I expected it to be a let down, but I'm downright puzzled that they took the tried and true gameplay of the old Duke games and threw it away in favor of the modern like-every-other-game fare we have now. It really feels a lot more like Call of Duty: Halo than Duke Nukem in terms of gameplay. It might look like Duke but it certainly doesn't feel like it.
Am I the only person who finds it sad that Sony is letting itself be victimized by so called "script kiddies"? or should it only be news when someone who actually knows what they're doing does it?
I don't see where the extortion comes from, unless someone involved in any of the hacking actually said they had to apologize. I think what the GP was suggesting would be if Sony, on their own, came out and apologized for being so negligent. Of course that will never happen.
Not having jobs in town is only an issue if there's no public transit in or out, and if it is ridiculously far from the rest of civilization. There are many places around the world like this (though not "green") that function well.