Comment Re:"News" for nerds? (Score 1) 173
Computer evolution is a liberal myth! It's time intelligent computer design theories be properly covered in our educative system!
So, it all started with a forbidden apple...
Computer evolution is a liberal myth! It's time intelligent computer design theories be properly covered in our educative system!
So, it all started with a forbidden apple...
The carriers make a lot of money off those, obviously they won’t ban the premium rate sms themselves.
Google will never do anything to anger or disturb the carrier's revenue stream, so they will never ban all premium-rate SMS on Android.
to monetize is to turn a profit. If Louis CK paid all of the salaries of all the workers (including himself), paid all appropriate fees and whatnot, and sent all of the surplus from the gross proceeds to charity, he didn't monetize. Al Perry is right in saying that he didn't monetize, because there was nobody to turn that profit over to.
Actually, my understanding from wikipediaing is that monetizing is the process of converting some property in some sort of currency. If I dont monetize, lets say, my digitally recorded music, then it's not a crime to copy it because it has no value.
If I do monetize it, then it is a crime to copy it because it's as bad as copying money.
It does not seem to be a popular definition but I think this is indeed how studios see it. They use a word that intentionally sounds luring to creators (we will monetize your stuff!! Does that not sound like you will get money?!) While internally they are telling each other what they actually mean in keywords.
The studios here are just trying to make creators think they would be missing in even more money than CK made if they don't monetize the way they did.
I can see it now: Studio exec talks to creator:
Hey Bob, what you rather do... profit of your music... or monetize your music? Seriously, what sounds like would make the most money to you?
Apple has done notyhing to close the web. They offer an app market, and yes, it's closed, but what does that have to do with the open web?
You know who is closing the web? Every net-neutrality free wireless carrier. Thanks to google.
The biggest enemies of open web are the wireless carriers, but Google is too afraid of them to say anything about THOSE, instead it just joins the club and helps them further to achieve their controlled-web interests.
One of the claims in the case is that Honeywell patented things that were so obvious that they were simultaneously re-invented within Honeywell itself, by entirely separate and independent teams. These re-inventions that nearly prove the "invention" is too obvious to be patented where hidden and lied to during the patent process to make sure they would be granted.
At least that's Nest's claim. I do am curious how they got their hands on such internal Honeywell information, but if true this is indeed worse than patent trolling. For lack of a better legal term, I’d say this is fraud against the patent office.
That is why it's worse than a patent troll: because it's used to do what patents are supposed to do: co#(block fair competition.
If that's the news this article attempts to cover, then they are frigging late. When you download their CSV and sum all their 4:3 resolutions you will find that 16:9 beat it in July 2011.
This seems to be the current distribution for aspect ratios:
16:9 - 32.98%
8:5 - 24.85%
4:3 - 21.47%
5:4 - 7.36%
5:3 - 3.74%
3:4 - 2.05% ?? Portrait mode iPads using desktop browser user agents? They area ll 768x1024.
7.58% Unknown/Other(some may fit in above categories but unidentified in CSV)
Writing this comment on an iPad with a 2048x1536 screen.
If vaccines caused autism, we all would be autists!
Amazon provides you a return label. You seal up the box, put on the label, drop it at a UPS Store or some other such place. No lines, less fuss.
Granted for me there's a UPS Store on my way to work, so it's easier than most other stores, but even if that wasn't the case, the lack of waiting in line is a plus. Particularly at Fry's, where every return has to be approved by multiple people, and sometimes you have to take a form back to the register to get your actual money or credit back. While Fry's is good about taking just about anything back for any reason, the process is a nuisance.
The one UPS near me closes at 6. There is another one further away that closes at 7 but that's a big detour.
Best Buy closes at 9:30pm.
I have never entered a UPS and seen no line, the lines seem especially lengthy during lunch hours and after 4pm and weekends, the only windows of time I'd have to visit one of their stores. It seems too many people are restricted to similar windows.
Best Buy return lines tend to be dead after 7. I have returned plenty of stuff to Best Buy, no hassle, just walk in after 7, return the stuff and leave.
It has never been a hassle for me to return anything at a Best Buy.
UPS tend to have very limited parking space, too. Every time I go to one I have to walk quite a while after giving up finding a reasonably close parking. I guess I can use the exercise BUT I can just park rather near in one of Best Buy's huge parking lots.
Then there is the fact of the money being back into my bank account within 24 hours of the return, while with a mail in return I will have to wait until arrival for the money to be refunded. If I wanted to buy an alternative product, I would be forced to wait for the item to get to them, hope they accept it, the refund to go through, then order the new item and wait for it to arrive on the mail.
In a Best Buy I just walk to the floor and grab a different item.
To be honest, not even should you hate human interaction does Amazon offer a more convenient return process.
Not saying these are reasons why to buy on Best Buy over Amazon, pricing alone is a reason to buy in Amazon, but I still tend to buy in Best Buy precisely due to my fear of having to return what I just purchased. I will not pay a huge premium for this convenience, but should the difference only be sales tax and a couple of dollars off, I’ll just go to Best Buy.
There is at least one sensible reason (even if it does not outnumber the reasons for them to just unlock)
There are quite a few people out there that don't care that much for their credit history. They will gladly go there, get a phone under contract, then stop paying, have their service canceled and never pay the penalty fee, just walking with their now unlocked phone to some other GSM carrier.
There are also cases with foreigners and identity theft during the small background check they do to see if they can give you the phone without an up-front deposit. A foreigner can come over and snatch a lot of phones with "contract" only to leave the country and go sell them somewhere else. Such individuals can cost a lot of money to the phone companies.
The percentage of cases like these are likely small, but the fear is high enough to justify them from inconveniencing every customer,
Final reason I can think off: the only reason you would need to "legitimately" unlock your phone while still being under contract is if you plan to travel out of the US and buy a prepaid GSM card while there, and as far as they care, they rather overcharge you for roaming than give you that convenience.
From my perspective, only the last one is a real scumbag reason, even if it can be considered "a reason."
Exactly. This is going to end up being a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Google decided to compete with Apple in fear of being excluded from the mobile arena (what they rightfully think is the future.) They still went into bed with Apple, though, and made loads of money.
Problem is: now Apple is not happy about their "partner" also being a competitor. Give it 2 years tops, Apple will end up switching to Open Maps and perhaps switching to Bing as the default search engine. Google won't be locked out of the App Store, but they will lose a lot of ground in arenas they consider important, all for their fear of something that was not happening.
Don't take me wrong, I'm glad Android exists and really like my Galaxy Player, but the way they approached this was too paranoid.
BTW, if things keep going the way they are going, Android will soon end up being controlled by Samsung instead of Google.
I used to think the same until I bumped as a young teen into fecophilia porn via a rickrolling "joke". I didn’t want to get near a computer for a month.
I also had a leg broken as a kid in a car accident. Given I can still walk and even run, I guess it was unfair of us to swue the guy that hit me, after all there was no lasting damage.
Sorry, but I'm not a fan of "for the children" nonsense.
You care a lot about the masturbator's lost minutes, though. I ponder what is a bigger nonsense.
I don't agree with the legistlation in question but for real reasons: too much burden in the ISP that can go as far as driving small providers out of the market and cause a monopoly. The "time wasted" or "burden of opting in" is plainly absurd.
Google's search engine isn't an ISP.
Irrelevant to the matter of "opt-in". Dont ignore the rest of the post where I did address how this is a burden for ISPs.
Don't worry. Even if a child sees such things, I don't think they'll turn into scared little rapists. In fact, they'll probably be 100% fine unless something was wrong with them before. I honestly don't see the problem...
I used to think the same until I bumped as a young teen into fecophilia porn via a rickrolling "joke". I didn’t want to get near a computer for a month.
In the end, it'll likely just end up annoying people who want to view pornography (they'll have to waste their time opting-in) and children will remain the same as they were previously.
Yes... because the slight inconvenience of a porn surfer is more important than worrying about the possibility of kids being exposed to videos and photos of same sex orgies, fecophilia or bestiality, among all other types of sick porn that is all over the web. How dare anyone dare delay some porn hunter his solo playtime by a minute or two!!!! The horror!
My computer can beat up your computer. - Karl Lehenbauer
