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Or it could be a power issue brought on by this little bigger than average blizzard that will hit the Boston area the hardest where, incidentally, Akamai is located.

But sure, couple of script kiddies might be responsible as well. It's usually one or the other.

Don't you see any problem with the silence in terms of safety?

There is a reason bicycles need to have a bell. Because these you also cannot hear when they approach you.

Although, it would be funny seeing a Tesla with a nice little bell and the tacked on law that you have to use it to alarm others in front of you that you are approaching. That'll be a sight to behold.

I think it is not so much the legacy code that is the problem.

I think it is the fact that more and more features are being introduced and many seem to have effects on each other in a way apple has not foreseen.

Like the Wifi issue seems to have something to do with the ad-hoc networks being used for handoff or for making telephone calls from your Mac etc.

Ever since iCloud and its background services was introduced it seems the bugs happen more and more frequently. I think we need a maintenance release of Mac OS this year instead of yet another set of new features that will clash with the existing ones.

This sounds almost exactly what the GEMA is doing in Germany in regards to music. They get to collect money for songs being made public. Prime example in the digital age is now youtube. And they also have something called the GEMA assumption. They do not even need to check if the author or general right holders to a particular song are represented by them. They do not even need to check if the song in question is public domain. They can just assume they are responsible and thus make youtube block basically all music on their site proactively. And then, an individual can come forward and proof that a particular song needs to be unblocked cause it is public domain or they hold the rights to it and they are not associated with GEMA to do their bill collecting.

In essence, if I were to write a song, record it and put it on youtube and it gets enough exposure, the GEMA will find it and make youtube to block it because they did not pay the GEMA for this use. Even though I am not a member of GEMA and have never told them to be my intellectual property rights enforcer.

>I wonder how my day-to-day activities would change if I knew I was constantly eating away at my monthly limit.

That takes me back to my days with dial up with the best plan available being "100 hours of surfing for 100 bucks"

That was before a flat rate was ever available and it beat the other plans where you paid literally by the minute and it came out to much more than 100 bucks for 100 hours of online time.

Oh, how I remember setting an egg timer during the week so I don't surf longer than the time I allowed myself just so I had like 8 hours on Saturdays and Sundays to surf uninterrupted.

I still haven't got a clue what needs to be done if I used a component with, say MIT license which in turn uses a dependency lib that is LGPL licensed.

That components vendor of course then has to make the source of the LGPL dependency available on request. But what about me?

What would I need to do if I wanted to sell a closed source product that uses this MIT licensed component which is of course totally permitted my the MIT license. Would I have to stop using this MIT licensed component unless I also want to provide the source code of a dependency lib that I might not even be aware of?

Okay, what about copyrights? I have already seen logos used on TV shows being put on a shirt where the profits all go to the owner of the campaign. Somehow I doubt the network that own the show or the shows creators themselves would not have a problem with some fan starting campaigns like this for their own personal gain.

Then people should spend an additional minute thinking about what they are going to do and if that actually has reason for success.

Developing a calculator that sits in the NOTIFICATION area of an OS does not strike me as thought out. Especially seeing as how gigantic this particular one is.

Is it surprising to you that Apple has an issue with an app that makes a mockery out of their notification center by completely obscuring literally every notification in there?

And here I thought devs were smart enough to read "Notification Center with widget ability" and figure "Well, I guess I could put a notification widget in there" and not "Ooh, sweet. that's where my calculator goes"

No, I'm also in Germany, got the new site right away. Opened amazon.de in another tab to compare the changes made. Now we'll see how long it takes until amazon.de changes as well.

and meanwhile, something seemingly "uncuil" like DuckDuckGo is still around and is being included as an optional search engine in most modern browsers. One really can't predict what makes the cut in the end based on name alone...

I recently found this: # snow leopard theme for 10.9 Mavericks http://rhubarb-leaf.deviantart.com/art/SnowLeopard-theme-v2-...

I hope something like this is possible on Yosemite at some point in the future.

>D) Remove the app from sale and submit a new app. You're wiping your slate with links, app reviews, etc. You also lose customers, who don't find out about your shiny new version

Um, how about this: Since your encoder is 100% faster you obviously did some substantial engineering on it. So why would this be just an update to the existing app? Even if you could charge for it?

The easy option you didn't mention is: F) Keep the old app in the store and start selling your "Encoder2" as well. "But I wrote 'customers don't find out about your shiny new version' you are now thinking" Well, you know there is the option of having users of the old app being notified about your new offerings, right? Don't tell me you have never seen such a popup in an app telling you about that companies new app.

So now you have two apps in the store and it is up to you to make sure how they differ and how the new one is an improvement over the old one. Now the customer has the choice which to get. For them nothing changes.

Which is also why, I think, the F1 games that are out there are severely lacking.

Especially all the circus around the race seems to be an afterthought at best. What I want to be able to experience in such a game/simulation is not just the race itself, but also the things that go on besides the track.

I want to be able to drive out of the box, through the pit, minding the speedlimit and then enter the track to set a time. Simply seeing my car be driven onto the track or even worse just flat out starting on the track takes away the immersion.

Also, after the race on the podium, I'd love be able to experience this as well but the games nowadays deem it enough to simply show the end result, maybe a shot of the people of the podium and that's it.

I think simulations like this one mentioned in the article is an important part if you want to personally immerse yourself in racing, but a lot of the entertainment for the user also comes from the surrounding circus.

I'd love to see a game incorporate all of this. Especially seeing as non of this is too far out or technically not possible. It is just a matter of having or not having it in the game.

It is the part of the CEO that really gets me. Was the employee in the wrong? Certainly. But the way the CEO handled this is just god awful.

When you see a pissed of shopper going off on a sales person, the sales person knows they have to stay calm and must not reply with the same kind of attitude that they are met with. Because whatever they say may reflect negatively on the company. You would think a CEO would also know how to do that. So now I know that the CEO of reddit is a bad example of a CEO. No professionalism to speak of and has no problem getting petty in public just cause he is personally pissed of. With all that money he recently received he should think about taking some PR or general management classes in order to learn how to handle things like this cause he is clearly as incompetent in that area as he accuses this ex employee to be in the area he was hired in.

Congrats on downvoting a legitimate reply. If this is what people around here do once they get this ability I shouldn't even bother writing anything. And it is still people behaving as a child when they should pay for education that will further their careers. I hope they have fun using overhead projectors that are already 40 years old for the next couple of decades!

It still seemed petty when that "biggest gap of all" has a monetary value of about 20 bucks a week. For a higher education, mind you. I am willing to bet that the average student tends to spend more over the weekend in various nightclubs.

And that just made me wonder if they really value their weekly nightly outing more than their own education. I came to the conclusion that it just came down to something like "But the generation before us didn't have to pay. I don't want to pay also".

Also, if these fees were to be used exclusively for investing in infrastructure for higher learning, the students would profit from this. With fees like this is it of course easy that they get funneled into other funds but originally, these fees, small as they were, were supposed to be used to make upgrades in the universities. You'd think students would like to use better equipment. Because now, that they pay as little as their parents did, namely nothing, they probably will also get to use the exact same equipment their parents used.

Looking forward to the next windows. Windows 360. Oh no, Windows 365. Yeah, that's better. Comes bundled with Office 365 and you have to rent it for a monthly fee. And if you are behind with a payment, the thing refuses to boot or will only let you view your files in read-only mode or something.

If that were true it would show exactly how messed up the Windows kernel is. To drag compatibility from 1995 around is just messed up if it is linked to the "Product Name". Not the kernel version or even the working title. nope. The customer facing, cooked up by marketing, product name.

>Is this really the best we can do

Perhaps in places like github. With central versioning systems where the server is under our control we simply run daemons that check the copyright. Each user can define how it should work for them. If copyright is not okay the user can either a) have the submit fail so he is notified that it needs fixing or b) let it be fixed automatically by the daemon.

This fixing also includes adding a copyright notice to new files that didn't have any. Nicely defined depending on the file type.

The implementation was a one time effort which now saves us from doing exactly what they are doing now. Manually going through thousands of files to fix a copyright.

Yeah, poor. How dare they go through their long established QA for something like this? How dare they do what literally every other company does.

Seriously, why do you think companies like Microsoft rather write workarounds to issues on their website instead of putting out a 2 line code fix for a given issue? Couldn't possibly be that their QA process would take so long that it is easier to just publish the work around, right?

Let me guess, Apple could not have done right by your standards. Had they just published a how-to in order to update bash by hand, you would bitch that this is insufficient. Had they published unstable versions of the fix (like your mentioned "other distros" did just so they could say they already have a fix) you would have piped up along the lines of "nice going publishing unstable fixes that probably introduce more leaks than they fix"

All in all I feel that the market is basically seeking equilibrium.

For years, you had to buy at least a laptop if you wanted your mother to be able to use facebook to stay in touch with the family that maybe moved away. Even back then, for such a usecase a laptop was overkill. But it was still a sale for the vendor.

Now, phones and tablets cover these things very nicely so it is only logical that sales of laptops decline. What also helps explaining the lower sales is that quite frankly, for many many usecases where you might prefer a laptop over a tablet, a laptop from a couple of years ago is still very much sufficient to get the job done. There is simply no need to upgrade as frequently as we did in the past. Edge cases like heavy duty movie editing or rendering of course still require a more up to date machine, I imagine.

So, if I were to go to such a site with noscript activated, I would be okay? I mean, noscipt would probably set up to allow ebay.com so the site actually works, but this different domain will most likely be blocked, yes?

Really surprised to hear they still allow that. I haven't done business with eBay in years.

Way back when, I felt pretty smart when discovering that I could just add extra pictures I served from some other webspace into my listings. Because eBay would charge you extra if you wanted to add more pictures. But I always thought that if people can add anything to such a listing, how is that different than visiting some malware invested site? Just add the payload and you have a website distributing your malware and all you need to do is choose a popular item to sell and you immediately have a very large audience.

Well, then these people are very nearsighted. Virtual Reality could very well become the next big thing. And not just in gaming. Apart from gaming there is simulation training and yes, communication for example. This could lead to some incarnation of a Holodeck if you will. Virtual meetings where you actually can see the other person and not just some avartar but the actual HD picture somehow modeled onto a virtual model in a way that makes it indistinguishable from real life. That may be decades down the road but it could happen.

And facebook, being in the communication business is now trying to push this forward by backing Oculus. Trying to make VR be just about gaming is sort of like trying to make the TV be all about displaying your xbox picture. When in fact the TV can be used as a medium for much more.

Someone should tell EA about this. They already claimed to be working on bringing game apps to the watch...

The first thing I thought was, other than tic tac toe, what game could you possibly display on a display that small?

I also think, a watch like that is good first and foremost as a quick check on what going on regarding your phone in our pocket.

But for this usecase, I think the price point of this watch is a bit much. I would love to have my watch buzz when getting a new text on my phone. And with a quick glance I can see if it is important or not without having to take my phone out of my pocket. This would be neat. But I don't think I would spend 350 dollars for this convenience.

To be honest, I thought the same thing about the earbuds of the iPod or the iPhone. You know, the signature, white earbuds. I thought to myself, "if I have these on, everybody will know I have an iPhone"... this was back when iPhones still were a kind of status symbol because of carrier lock-in and still costing a lot etc.

At least with the watches, if you wear long sleeved shirts, nobody will see it. Only while wearing tshirts it would be visible.

As far as mugging potential goes, I think nowadays you could attempt to mug any person on the street and chances are pretty high that they carry a smartphone which has at least a value of 350 dollars. Android or iOS. So, I don't really think that theft would be a bigger problem than it already is with smartphones.

Yes, I would have also thought that since this was a presentation to the general consumer and not just a tech demo ala WWDC where these things don't matter yet, that they would have addressed this issue by showing a person taking the watch from one wrist and putting it on the other and thus showing the device can be turned around and used just like before.

Does Android really not provide an auto upload of snapped pictures to the cloud? I was under the impression that they did this way before iCloud even came up. First it was to Picasa or some place, then to the google+ place somewhere.

Either way, I don't even remember if the iCloud upload was default or not. When it was introduced I took an interest to find out how to deactivate that in case it was enabled by default. Don't remember if it was. All I know is, it is disabled on my device and it'll stay that way because I really didn't want to use this.

I just checked the arstechnica one and all items there were also tagged as negative.

That sounds right. Especially given the rumor that Apple is cooking up their own mobile payment service.

I guess when you try to do something like this, the lawyers and other higher ups need to figure a lot of things out first. And this bitcoin business looks like it falls somewhere either within this scope or at least very very close to it.

I think they needed this time to get a comprehensive look what they were planning re: mobile payments and how bitcoin dealing might be affected by this.