If I ever get a VM host where I can spin up Windows 2000 without it being hacked to pieces, I'm tempted to put my old school chat/discussion server up.
I do miss that old clunky 1999 style where conversation was king and everyone knew everyone else.
The shadow ban was innovative when I first saw it done on a Minitel network in 1993, today it's nothing new and very effective when used sparingly. (It was called "isolation" back then)
Sparingly is the key word, moderators don't seem to understand the concept of moderation lately. In-fact, I actually think moderators encourage trolling by being heavy handed.
The task scheduler is the preferred method for launching tasks now.It's a robust unified interface with logging capabilities and error handling.
I can see the old registry entries being ignored in the future with the ability for the OS to detect and create tasks when an installer tries to write to them.
No, because the restricted behavior isn't bundling, it's changing search providers without prompting.
It's mentioned in the article in about every single sentence, so I can see how you missed it.
The Bing toolbar doesn't change search settings without prompting, and is not removed. Same with the Google toolbar.
At the end of the month, I still have that $10 CD or those 10 MP3's, which means I have some value in my collection.
Granted, it's not much, if I sold all my CD's I doubt I would get enough to pay for a year of music streaming, but at least I can loan them out, give them away or just play them wherever I want, online or offline.
No, it's the same mechanism; just think of the third-party developers as "your" employees (share-cropping is quite an apt comparison). If they write their cool apps in a language only your platform uses, they are much less likely to port it to other platforms. You get more "exclusive" content, and your share-croppers/valuable partners are less able to leave for better terms elsewhere.
Just watch that episode, it is a.o. about big tobacco (ab)using similar "free trade" agreements. I don't remember if he explicitly mentions TPP, but I believe he does.
There are always outliers.
The average iTunes user spends under $15/year on music. That number is misleading, since it includes all iTunes accounts, but there's no way that number is over $120/year for people who just buy music. Streaming music services, for most, are not cost effective.
Let's assume that Apple isn't going $14.99/mo and it's going to be the usual $9.99
Imagine a family of where 2 adults both spend $10/mo, heck, $240 a year? That can buy you over 200 tracks a year, that you will get to keep. If you want to save more, buy used CD's and rip them.
You already have tons of music ripped, everyone does, do you really think you're going to spend $120 a year on new singles?
Apart from the pretty colors, it's pretty badly designed. There's only the one video explaining why it's bad, no text, no in-depth analysis, no outside opinions, no nothing. There isn't even (that I could find) a link to the text of the TPP.
Even members of the US Congress only get extremely limited access to the text of the TPP:
Only members of the House and Senate are currently allowed to view the text of the deal, and even they are forbidden from discussing what it contains. As a new report from Politico published Monday details, "If you’re a member who wants to read the text, you’ve got to go to a room in the basement of the Capitol Visitor Center and be handed it one section at a time, watched over as you read, and forced to hand over any notes you make before leaving."
You basically have to be a negotiator or a representative of large business interests to get full access. Some chapters (5 out of 31) of the text have been made available via Wikileaks until now.
Anyone know and want to elaborate on what this TPP is?
The best, and definitely the most enjoyable, primer on the potential for abuse of the TPP (based on abuse of previously negotiated similar trade agreements) and the underhanded way it's being negotiated, is probably John Oliver's segment on it.
Many people don't use mods and never play on servers. Of course, you don't meet them online, so it's not strange you'd get the impression they aren't out there.
To me the fun is designing and building stuff. Having other people around is mostly a distraction. If there's anything I'd like it's a more consistent challenge; better zombie and villager AI, for instance, to make larger structures meaningful.
I appreciate software is different than engineering, but the collaboration, mentoring, and comorodory of an open office environment really helps build the business for us. While I do have an office
You like the open office environment, although you have your own office... how nice. Open offices are really nice as long as it is someone else dealing with being packed in like cattle.
Living longer won't mean you have more kids. So far the trend has if anything been the reverse.
And "reverse aging" != "live forever". There's still plenty of non-age-related things that can, and eventually will, kill you. In fact, if "reversing aging" does not include "cure cancer" the overall effect on average lifespans will not be particularly large at all.
I suspect this is a complete non-problem.
Modeling paged and segmented memories is tricky business. -- P.J. Denning
