(It only uses these recordings when itÃ(TM)s very sure itÃ(TM)s a spam call.)
If you're never going to fix the character encoding, fine. But for fuck's sake, "editors", preview the stories before posting. This shit is embarrassing. It's not like this isn't a known issue here.
The problem isn't that it makes you look like amateurs. The problem is it makes you look like you don't give a shit.
The headline says "More people bought physical CDs and vinyl than songs on iTunes" but the numbers given are "total download sales in 2018 [were] a little more than $1 billion", "Purchases of full album downloads likewise fell, by 25%", and finally "Sales of physical media... totaled $1.15 billion".
So are we talking about number of people, as said in the headline, or song sales, or album sales, or money?
I clicked through to the report and the most shocking thing to me was that people spent $25 million on ringtones and ringbacks in 2018.
As far as I can tell, the numbers don't account for any second-hand sales of physical media at all, which may not be a thriving market but also isn't trivial, at least in terms of unit sales. Money-wise, it's probably pretty low, due to high supply and low demand resulting in low prices.
Regardless of what they counted or how, I'm pretty sure most artists are still getting fucked.
You know what's a really nice, responsive, fast OS? A clean install of Win95 on a Pentium 100 with 32 MB RAM. Add a few basic apps and it's still fine. Sadly, it gets worse over time, after a few months and after installing many apps. But a fresh install felt better than XP on a 1 GHz PIII. But my personal favorite for power, features, and stability was Windows 2000. All the good stuff from Win95/98, the stability of NT, and none of the gunk of XP. I used that for as long as it was viable. (Which is to say, about 5 years longer than anyone else did.)
I had Win95 on a Compaq 3060 and it was unusually stable for Windows. I used a batch file to log boots and uptime was typically a month or more. It was on 24/7 and I just darkened the screen when not in use.
"The drop in Bitcoin prices from around $6,500 throughout much of October to below $4,000 now has increasingly pushed margins further and further negative for just about every region except low-cost Chinese miners," the analysts said, offering the caveat that their cost estimates may be skewed to the high side due to spotty data and conservative efficiency assumptions. The cost figures exclude equipment. "The drop in Bitcoin prices from around $6,500 throughout much of October to below $4,000 now has increasingly pushed margins further and further negative for just about every region except low-cost Chinese miners," the analysts said, offering the caveat that their cost estimates may be skewed to the high side due to spotty data and conservative efficiency assumptions. The cost figures exclude equipment.
New Slashdot feature: rather than making readers wait a couple days for a dupe, dupes are now included in the initial entry.
Rather than making readers wait a couple days for a dupe, dupes are now included in the initial entry.
If other people want gigantic phones, that's fine, but I don't. I work with computers all day. My phone is not my primary computing device. It's not even my secondary computing device. For a phone, I want something that is comfortable to hold and easy to use with one hand. I can easily hit every corner of my SE with my thumb without adjusting my grip. The biggest thing I'd want would be an SE-sized phone with an XR-style* edge-to-edge screen, but even that would be pushing it, in terms of ease-of-one-handed use. But I'm sure such a phone like that would "only" sell a few tens of millions of units per year so I doubt Apple will make one.
Personally, I was very surprised when Apple quit making the SE. Apple is all about keeping products around forever: the Mac mini from 2014 (just recently updated), the Mac Pro from 2013 (FINALLY scheduled to get an update in 2019!), the iPad Mini from 2015 (still for sale!), the non-retina MacBook Air from 2015 (also just recently updated). 3-plus years without an update or price drop is common now for their lesser-loved products. I figured the SE would stay around forever.
* And I specified 'XR' because I'd want it to be 2x LCD, not 3x OLED. The XR *kills* the XS phones on battery life.
Never say never. Walled gardens provide SOME security. No system is perfect. This is as useless as saying "Locks provide no safety. Break-ins still happen." or "Seat belts provide no safety. People still die in car crashes."
"I think it's time to officially declare walled garden computing a failure from a security standpoint."
Well then, by your logic, I guess we can declare EVERYTHING EVER MADE a failure from a security standpoint because exploits still happen, right?
Follow-up question: are walled gardens more secure, about the same as, or less secure than totally open systems?
Remember when Windows came out, and it had tons of shitty security assumptions and bad default settings in place, and then MS had to spend decades cleaning up that mess? Good times.
In the early 2000s, Google should have been smart enough to know that "by default, just let anyone do anything" was a bad place to start.
CEMETARIES!!! There's another idea whose time has passed! Saving all the dead people up for one part of town?! What the hell kind of a medieval, superstitious, religious, bullshit idea is that?! Plough these motherfuckers up, plough into the streams and rivers of America; we need that phosphorous for farming! If we're going to recycle, LET'S GET SERIOUS!!!
I love when people use numbers that appear big, except when compared to *really* big numbers.
...it drains enough water from rings to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool every 30 minutes...
OH NO! Except...
... the entire ring system will be gone in 300 million years...
300,000,000 years * 365 days * 48 half-hours in a day = 5,256,000,000,000. So there are 5.256 TRILLION swimming pools worth of water up there. I'm not going to lay awake tonight worrying about this.
This paves the way for my lawsuit against Ford, who for decades has advertised "5.0" liter engines that are 4,942cc, or "4.9" liters, if you're going for one-decimal accuracy. I'll be rich!
First of all, dickheads, you don't need to say "about" when describing a dimension to the ten-thousandth of an inch. Secondly, anyone who can spot the difference, unaided, between a 5.8-inch screen and a 5.6875-inch screen at arm's length wins a free trip to Uranus.
The iPhone XS display has rounded corners that follow a beautiful curved design, and these corners are within a standard rectangle. When measured as a standard rectangular shape, the screen is 5.85 inches diagonally (actual viewable area is less).
And their lawyers are better than yours, so I'm sure that's enough to get this suit tossed out on its metaphorical ass.
Not entirely frivolous. How many people learned a few things about configuring DOS or setting up networks while trying to make a game work? How many people wound up with a career in computers thanks to the gateway drug known as level editing?
> You do need to be sure that its gmail.com and not gmale.com, > part of being an adult netizen.
Ah yes, blame the user. Because it's their fault if they don't have perfect eyesight and can't spot the flaw in https://www.grnail.com/ or https://www.googIe.com. I can't wait to hear you blame your parents for being stupid when they get scammed.
SCAMMERS ARE ASSHOLES. We need a strong, MULTI-LAYERED DEFENSE against them. Not just "you'd better know what you're doing."
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If you're never going to fix the character encoding, fine. But for fuck's sake, "editors", preview the stories before posting. This shit is embarrassing. It's not like this isn't a known issue here.
The problem isn't that it makes you look like amateurs. The problem is it makes you look like you don't give a shit.
1. Have you met msmash? Do you two ever talk?
2. Do you read Slashdot?
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The headline says "More people bought physical CDs and vinyl than songs on iTunes" but the numbers given are "total download sales in 2018 [were] a little more than $1 billion", "Purchases of full album downloads likewise fell, by 25%", and finally "Sales of physical media... totaled $1.15 billion".
So are we talking about number of people, as said in the headline, or song sales, or album sales, or money?
I clicked through to the report and the most shocking thing to me was that people spent $25 million on ringtones and ringbacks in 2018.
As far as I can tell, the numbers don't account for any second-hand sales of physical media at all, which may not be a thriving market but also isn't trivial, at least in terms of unit sales. Money-wise, it's probably pretty low, due to high supply and low demand resulting in low prices.
Regardless of what they counted or how, I'm pretty sure most artists are still getting fucked.
> Funny, cause reddit is also one of the networks with the highest quality of comments.
So true. Comments on Reddit can get upvoted to the hundreds, even thousands, but I've never seen a comment on Slashdot go past 5.
You know what's a really nice, responsive, fast OS? A clean install of Win95 on a Pentium 100 with 32 MB RAM. Add a few basic apps and it's still fine. Sadly, it gets worse over time, after a few months and after installing many apps. But a fresh install felt better than XP on a 1 GHz PIII. But my personal favorite for power, features, and stability was Windows 2000. All the good stuff from Win95/98, the stability of NT, and none of the gunk of XP. I used that for as long as it was viable. (Which is to say, about 5 years longer than anyone else did.)
I had Win95 on a Compaq 3060 and it was unusually stable for Windows. I used a batch file to log boots and uptime was typically a month or more. It was on 24/7 and I just darkened the screen when not in use.
2b + 3b = 5b
"The drop in Bitcoin prices from around $6,500 throughout much of October to below $4,000 now has increasingly pushed margins further and further negative for just about every region except low-cost Chinese miners," the analysts said, offering the caveat that their cost estimates may be skewed to the high side due to spotty data and conservative efficiency assumptions. The cost figures exclude equipment. "The drop in Bitcoin prices from around $6,500 throughout much of October to below $4,000 now has increasingly pushed margins further and further negative for just about every region except low-cost Chinese miners," the analysts said, offering the caveat that their cost estimates may be skewed to the high side due to spotty data and conservative efficiency assumptions. The cost figures exclude equipment.
New Slashdot feature: rather than making readers wait a couple days for a dupe, dupes are now included in the initial entry.
Rather than making readers wait a couple days for a dupe, dupes are now included in the initial entry.
"basic HTML" mode FTW.
If other people want gigantic phones, that's fine, but I don't. I work with computers all day. My phone is not my primary computing device. It's not even my secondary computing device. For a phone, I want something that is comfortable to hold and easy to use with one hand. I can easily hit every corner of my SE with my thumb without adjusting my grip. The biggest thing I'd want would be an SE-sized phone with an XR-style* edge-to-edge screen, but even that would be pushing it, in terms of ease-of-one-handed use. But I'm sure such a phone like that would "only" sell a few tens of millions of units per year so I doubt Apple will make one.
Personally, I was very surprised when Apple quit making the SE. Apple is all about keeping products around forever: the Mac mini from 2014 (just recently updated), the Mac Pro from 2013 (FINALLY scheduled to get an update in 2019!), the iPad Mini from 2015 (still for sale!), the non-retina MacBook Air from 2015 (also just recently updated). 3-plus years without an update or price drop is common now for their lesser-loved products. I figured the SE would stay around forever.
* And I specified 'XR' because I'd want it to be 2x LCD, not 3x OLED. The XR *kills* the XS phones on battery life.
Never say never. Walled gardens provide SOME security. No system is perfect. This is as useless as saying "Locks provide no safety. Break-ins still happen." or "Seat belts provide no safety. People still die in car crashes."
"I think it's time to officially declare walled garden computing a failure from a security standpoint."
Well then, by your logic, I guess we can declare EVERYTHING EVER MADE a failure from a security standpoint because exploits still happen, right?
Follow-up question: are walled gardens more secure, about the same as, or less secure than totally open systems?
Remember when Windows came out, and it had tons of shitty security assumptions and bad default settings in place, and then MS had to spend decades cleaning up that mess? Good times.
In the early 2000s, Google should have been smart enough to know that "by default, just let anyone do anything" was a bad place to start.
FACT — the reason why Americans have to worry about a government shutdown is because Obama refuses to pass a budget.
—Donald J. Trump, 9 Aug 2013, 11:33 AM
CEMETARIES!!! There's another idea whose time has passed! Saving all the dead people up for one part of town?! What the hell kind of a medieval, superstitious, religious, bullshit idea is that?! Plough these motherfuckers up, plough into the streams and rivers of America; we need that phosphorous for farming! If we're going to recycle, LET'S GET SERIOUS!!!
George Carlin, 1992.
I love when people use numbers that appear big, except when compared to *really* big numbers.
...it drains enough water from rings to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool every 30 minutes...
OH NO! Except...
... the entire ring system will be gone in 300 million years...
300,000,000 years * 365 days * 48 half-hours in a day = 5,256,000,000,000. So there are 5.256 TRILLION swimming pools worth of water up there. I'm not going to lay awake tonight worrying about this.
> It causes skin cancer in everyone who doesn't die of something else first.
Technically, everything kills everyone who doesn't die of something else first.
This paves the way for my lawsuit against Ford, who for decades has advertised "5.0" liter engines that are 4,942cc, or "4.9" liters, if you're going for one-decimal accuracy. I'll be rich!
First of all, dickheads, you don't need to say "about" when describing a dimension to the ten-thousandth of an inch. Secondly, anyone who can spot the difference, unaided, between a 5.8-inch screen and a 5.6875-inch screen at arm's length wins a free trip to Uranus.
Thirdly, Apple has this note right on their page, directly below the dimensions:
The iPhone XS display has rounded corners that follow a beautiful curved design, and these corners are within a standard rectangle. When measured as a standard rectangular shape, the screen is 5.85 inches diagonally (actual viewable area is less).
And their lawyers are better than yours, so I'm sure that's enough to get this suit tossed out on its metaphorical ass.
Screen brightness all the way down, WiFi off, booted into Safe Mode, running Notepad.
Not entirely frivolous. How many people learned a few things about configuring DOS or setting up networks while trying to make a game work? How many people wound up with a career in computers thanks to the gateway drug known as level editing?
Ah, thanks for clearing that up. I thought all their phones were going to come with sour cream and tomatoes.
IDKFA IDDQD.
I can't remember my mom's birthday but I still know those two codes. :-/
Because that's what you want in a space program -- rushing to hit a date.
> You do need to be sure that its gmail.com and not gmale.com,
> part of being an adult netizen.
Ah yes, blame the user. Because it's their fault if they don't have perfect eyesight and can't spot the flaw in https://www.grnail.com/ or https://www.googIe.com. I can't wait to hear you blame your parents for being stupid when they get scammed.
SCAMMERS ARE ASSHOLES. We need a strong, MULTI-LAYERED DEFENSE against them. Not just "you'd better know what you're doing."