You're using a tablet with 1GB of RAM as your main computer? You want to run a 13yo operating system? XP Tablet edition? You are the very definition of a stubborn old man.
Modern Pentium chips are decent for small business applications, MS Office, internet, email, those kinds of things. Unfortunately I.T. purchasers still think of Pentiums as ancient technology, and order i5 boxes for secretaries.
The T&C still gives creators a way to hold onto the money. Kickstarter has just shuffled some words around to make it appear as though they have some kind of control. Kickstarter is weird. People throw money at an unproven idea with literally zero chance of financial reward.
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Being in IT sales, I am often required to surf HP's website. Their site is consistently painfully slow. You would think that a company like HP would make sure their servers could serve up webpages faster than a snail.
With SlingBox, you are your own cable company. Within your own household, it really wouldn't be considered public rebroadcasting.
If you gave your neighbor access to your SlingBox, now you are rebroadcasting to the public, and as per this ruling, you are the same as a cable company and have to pay the appropriate fees to the original broadcaster.
And because of all that, the Supreme Court ruled it's a violation of copyright law. Aside from the copyright issues, OTA broadcasters make their money via local advertising revenue. Local advertising doesn't mean much if the programming is being sent to the other side of the country.
If you really want to access OTA TV through your web browsers, buy an OTA TV tuner + antenna + Slingbox.
Yes, because we all know that incarceration would be very beneficial to a 16yo. It will give him 5 years to interact and socialize one-on-one with the scum of the earth, and when he turns 21 he will come out as a model citizen.
Or (and this is just a hypothetical), we could be more civilized, make him do a ton of community work, and actively work at rehabilitating him.
In a ground combat scenario, autonomous weapons could be a good thing. Right now, soldiers are tasked with protect others as well as themselves, and in most situations the safest resolution is to kill the antagonist. A machine or robot wouldn't suffer from emotional lapses in judgment (anger, hostility). A robot may have better weapons skills, so instead of a kill shot, may only need to wound. A robot would be more willing to put itself in harms way to protect a living person.
The programming required for such a machine would be incredibly complex, but controllable with defined precision. A human soldier can't be controlled or programmed, and history shows that humans make a lot of bad decisions when it comes to the use of deadly force.
On a side note, it's sad that they exploding Pinto myth continues to be perpetuated. The Ford Pinto was just as safe (or just as dangerous) as every other average car on the road at that time. The urban legend of how deadly the Pinto was really needs to die in an exploding ball of fire.
Sounds like a good opportunity to utilize the Oculus Rift. Trick the brain into thinking they are on a beach on Earth for a few hours. Have custom programs within a virtual environment. It would be almost like Holodeck v.1.0. (now, let the Oculus/Facebook jokes commence)
If you are going to title your post "Enough of the stupidity", you may want to educate yourself about DST first.
DST takes an hour of sunlight in the morning and moves it to the evening. Here in Toronto, the longest day of the year (June 21) has the sunrise at 4:30am and sunset at 8pm under STANDARD time. Under DST, that becomes a 5:30am sunrise and 9pm sunset.
This has nothing to do with school kids. This is all about shifting our clocks so that we have more sunlight during our awake hours. When we switch to DST in March, sunrise shifts from 6:40am to 7:40am. Sunset shifts from 6:15pm to 7:15pm. It works out very well. So why don't we stay in DST?
Well, on the shortest day of the year (Dec 21) sunrise is 7:48am and sunset is 4:44pm. DST would give us a 8:48am sunrise. DST during the winter would be really frickin' depressing.
Although, to be fair, Saskatchewan here in Canada is perpetually in DST time. They've aligned their time zone permanently with one zone to the east. Their sunrise on Dec 21 is almost 9am!
This is not pay for support. This is pay for firmware updates.
How is a firmware update not support? How would you define support?
Who pays the cost to fix old, out-of-date drivers and firmware? Is HP supposed to do it out of the goodness of their heart? At what point do they stop patching problems? An easy metric is how many support contracts they have in place for a specific piece of hardware. And the people who do pay for ongoing support shouldn't have to be subsidizing those who don't want to pay.
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You're using a tablet with 1GB of RAM as your main computer? You want to run a 13yo operating system? XP Tablet edition? You are the very definition of a stubborn old man.
Modern Pentium chips are decent for small business applications, MS Office, internet, email, those kinds of things. Unfortunately I.T. purchasers still think of Pentiums as ancient technology, and order i5 boxes for secretaries.
If you as a publisher self-censor to "protect your staff", then you can't complain when the government wants to censor you to "protect the country".
Now every terrorist organization around the world will see how easy it is to control North American media.
Just because you don't understand what it's good for, doesn't mean it is important to others.
The T&C still gives creators a way to hold onto the money. Kickstarter has just shuffled some words around to make it appear as though they have some kind of control. Kickstarter is weird. People throw money at an unproven idea with literally zero chance of financial reward.
Uh, wut? The entry level iPhone 6 is 16GB.
Burn them to M-Disc. As long as there is a DVD player somewhere, no worries. M-Disc doesn't degrade like magnetic media or dye-based optical media.
Being in IT sales, I am often required to surf HP's website. Their site is consistently painfully slow. You would think that a company like HP would make sure their servers could serve up webpages faster than a snail.
With SlingBox, you are your own cable company. Within your own household, it really wouldn't be considered public rebroadcasting. If you gave your neighbor access to your SlingBox, now you are rebroadcasting to the public, and as per this ruling, you are the same as a cable company and have to pay the appropriate fees to the original broadcaster.
And because of all that, the Supreme Court ruled it's a violation of copyright law. Aside from the copyright issues, OTA broadcasters make their money via local advertising revenue. Local advertising doesn't mean much if the programming is being sent to the other side of the country. If you really want to access OTA TV through your web browsers, buy an OTA TV tuner + antenna + Slingbox.
Unless your CD jewel cases and tower are hermetically sealed, oxygen can still get in there and potentially cause problems.
Yes, because we all know that incarceration would be very beneficial to a 16yo. It will give him 5 years to interact and socialize one-on-one with the scum of the earth, and when he turns 21 he will come out as a model citizen. Or (and this is just a hypothetical), we could be more civilized, make him do a ton of community work, and actively work at rehabilitating him.
In a ground combat scenario, autonomous weapons could be a good thing. Right now, soldiers are tasked with protect others as well as themselves, and in most situations the safest resolution is to kill the antagonist. A machine or robot wouldn't suffer from emotional lapses in judgment (anger, hostility). A robot may have better weapons skills, so instead of a kill shot, may only need to wound. A robot would be more willing to put itself in harms way to protect a living person.
The programming required for such a machine would be incredibly complex, but controllable with defined precision. A human soldier can't be controlled or programmed, and history shows that humans make a lot of bad decisions when it comes to the use of deadly force.
At least, that's what Will Smith told me.
On a side note, it's sad that they exploding Pinto myth continues to be perpetuated. The Ford Pinto was just as safe (or just as dangerous) as every other average car on the road at that time. The urban legend of how deadly the Pinto was really needs to die in an exploding ball of fire.
Yes, LEGO can be used in multiple ways, but the markup on formed plastic chunks is insane.
Most likely the majority of those floppy disks will have issues. Magnetic media doesn't last forever.
Canada = 1.4-1.8/100k
U.S. = 4.7-6.6/100k
It's amazing how some people will defend the American way of life while being completely blind to the American way of death.
We don't let people work crazy hours because it allows employers to take advantage of the desperate, poor, and ignorant.
Tight labour laws are not something to be feared.
Sounds like a good opportunity to utilize the Oculus Rift. Trick the brain into thinking they are on a beach on Earth for a few hours. Have custom programs within a virtual environment. It would be almost like Holodeck v.1.0. (now, let the Oculus/Facebook jokes commence)
If you are going to title your post "Enough of the stupidity", you may want to educate yourself about DST first.
DST takes an hour of sunlight in the morning and moves it to the evening. Here in Toronto, the longest day of the year (June 21) has the sunrise at 4:30am and sunset at 8pm under STANDARD time. Under DST, that becomes a 5:30am sunrise and 9pm sunset.
This has nothing to do with school kids. This is all about shifting our clocks so that we have more sunlight during our awake hours. When we switch to DST in March, sunrise shifts from 6:40am to 7:40am. Sunset shifts from 6:15pm to 7:15pm. It works out very well. So why don't we stay in DST?
Well, on the shortest day of the year (Dec 21) sunrise is 7:48am and sunset is 4:44pm. DST would give us a 8:48am sunrise. DST during the winter would be really frickin' depressing.
Although, to be fair, Saskatchewan here in Canada is perpetually in DST time. They've aligned their time zone permanently with one zone to the east. Their sunrise on Dec 21 is almost 9am!
Should I even both installing it? With Google's track record, I'm sure this one will be dead within a couple years.
This is not pay for support. This is pay for firmware updates.
How is a firmware update not support? How would you define support?
Who pays the cost to fix old, out-of-date drivers and firmware? Is HP supposed to do it out of the goodness of their heart? At what point do they stop patching problems? An easy metric is how many support contracts they have in place for a specific piece of hardware. And the people who do pay for ongoing support shouldn't have to be subsidizing those who don't want to pay.