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Comment Stop conflating Blu-Ray Theatrical and Director's (Score 2) 116

by UnknownSoldier (#49955213) Attached to: Amazon Overhauling Customer Reviews

The reviews are (mostly) fine the way they are.

What really needs an overhaul is Amazon lumping together the Theatrical release and Director's cut of Blu-Rays. The first edition picture quality (PQ) of Gladiator was total garbage. Enough people complained that they got the studio to re-release it with proper picture quality. Lumping together LotR (Lord of the Rings) Theatrical and Director's Cut makes it hard to tell what is where.

Submission + - AMD Reveals Radeon R9 Fury X Specs And Preliminary Benchmark Performance Results (hothardware.com)

Submitted by MojoKid
MojoKid writes: AMD announced new Radeon R9 and R7 300 series of graphics cards earlier this week, and while they are interesting, they're not nearly as impressive as AMD's upcoming flagship of AMD GPU, code named Fiji. Fiji will find its way into three products this summer: the Radeon R9 Nano, Radeon R9 Fury, and the range-topping (and water-cooled) Radeon R9 Fury X. Other upcoming variants like, AMD's dual-Fiji board, were teased at E3 but are still under wraps. However, while full reviews are still under embargo, the official specification of the Radeon R9 Fury X have been revealed, along with an array of benchmark scores comparing the GPU to NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 980 Ti. Should the numbers AMD has released jibe with independent testing, the Radeon R9 Fury X looks strong and possibly faster than Nvidia's GeForce GTX 980 Ti.

Comment Re:And we wonder why music is such crap these days (Score 5, Informative) 301

by UnknownSoldier (#49946921) Attached to: UK's Legalization of CD Ripping Is Unlawful, Court Rules

> Thank you, pirates. You got your freebies, but you destroyed everything in the process and killed the music industry as a whole.

Gee, let's conveniently ignore the facts:

* http://www.bbc.com/news/techno... or http://www.wired.co.uk/news/ar...
* https://torrentfreak.com/bitto...
* http://business.time.com/2013/...

All the numbers relating piracy to lost sales are complete imaginary and bullshit. There has never been a financial statement listing the dollar amount of piracy.

Submission + - Product Mortality

Submitted by pubwvj
pubwvj writes: Sonny is killing off their robot Aibo (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/18/technology/robotica-sony-aibo-robotic-dog-mortality.html?_r=0) stranding the 150,000 or so owners with no support, repairs or parts other than cannibalism.

Now we have another Japanese company, SoftBank, releasing a robotic 'child' (http://apnews.excite.com/article/20150618/as--japan-robot-6771acf4a6.html) Eventually they too will discontinue the production of parts and support beginning the process of killing off all those 'children' that are spawned.

As robotics become (far) more advanced at what point will it be murder for a company to discontinue a product line?

This leads to the thought that it is time for all products that are discontinued to be forced into the public domain, to be open sourced. If a company is going to discontinue something then they need to release all the information for the production and support of the product so that others who want to do so can pickup the project and continue it's useful life. This should reach back retroactively and is needed to support all those systems that are in place as companies drop support or go out of business.

Submission + - IMAX Tries To Censor Arstechnica over SteamVR Comparison

Submitted by Cutting_Crew
Cutting_Crew writes: From the article:

"Last week, Ars published a story about the newest version of SteamVR, a virtual reality system made by Valve Software. The piece includes interviews with game designers praising the new system as well as writer Sam Machkovech's own experience using SteamVR at Valve's office in Bellevue, Washington. On June 16, Ars Technica was contacted by IMAX Corporation. The company said our story required a retraction because it included a brief reference to IMAX—included without IMAX's permission. "Any unauthorized use of our trademark is expressly forbidden"

If you look at the letter from the lawyer you will notice that it mentioned trademark and seems to think that merely using the name "IMAX" is somehow an infringement of that trademark. It sounds like someone is a little too scared of Valve. Apparently, they(IMAX) has never heard of or experienced the Streisand Effect. Here is a quick link to the PDF sent by the 'lawyer'.

Submission + - Assange's Stay In Embassy Has Cost British Taxpayers $17 Million

Submitted by HughPickens.com
HughPickens.com writes: Harriet Alexander reports in The Telegraph that Julian Assange's three-year stay in the Ecuadorian embassy has cost British taxpayers more than $17 million for around the clock. police surveillance at the embassy. The Metropolitan Police refused to discuss how many policemen were deployed to the embassy, but they did confirm the cost. The Met said the figure included $10.3m of what they termed "opportunity costs" – police officer pay costs that would be incurred in normal duties – and $4.3m of additional costs such as police overtime. A further $1.7m was put down to "indirect costs" such as administration. Assange challenged his extradition order to Sweden through the courts, but when his appeals failed he absconded and sought refuge inside the embassy of Ecuador – a country whose president has spoken publicly of his support for the 43-year-old computer hacker. Ecuador granted him asylum in August 2012, but as soon as he sets foot outside the building Britain will deport him to Sweden. He has been indoors ever since.

The Swedish director of public prosecutions, Marianne Ny, has grown impatient. In March she said that she would consent, reluctantly, to interview Assange inside the embassy – because the statute of limitations for some of the alleged crimes runs out in August. "Now that time is of the essence, I have viewed it therefore necessary to accept such deficiencies to the investigation and likewise take the risk that the interview does not move the case forward, particularly as there are no other measures on offer without Assange being present in Sweden."

Submission + - The Endless Scroll. I Hate the Show More button!

Submitted by l810c
l810c writes: You have all seen it.

What do you think of the updates to many websites that seems to be accelerating.

Even main layout seems geared towards tablets and phones.

Pages that were once accessible with a hover and a sub menu require multiple clicks.

Stories used to be organized by subject or date.

Now we get the Endless Scroll. Click Show More, drool, Click Show More, etc. It's becoming disorganized.

And what about Slideshow web stories.

What are your thoughts? Is this Web 3.0?

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