All is good until a "friend" takes out a license plate and puts it on your car, as a prank or simply to get you in trouble.
Just as you can steal a plate to put some people in trouble so can others do it to you.
The problem is simply the fact that the number is easy to exchange.
For example, you could probably solve this problem by actually writing the number on the full car, in an infrared visible color. Or painting a pattern on the car, like the pattern used to prevent copying machines from copying bank notes. Or the pattern made by color laser printers with yellow dots.
I can also think of another solution, like placing (micro) speed bumps at 2-3KM intervals, preventing people from reaching a speed higher than the maximum allowed.
He should just create another domain like company-license.com which is for the sole purpose of showing the CC license. Then just snail mail a letter saying the license is this and that and online at company-license.com and get his data...
The windows hiding part was done to mentain compatibility with some Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 programs that abused some window positioning API functions to determine if they were minimized or not instead of using the proper API. It was also needed to make Windows run with several monitors not just one. There's lots of posts about this on Raymond Chen's blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/)
He needs the laptop running a light OS just to input some text in the laptop from time to time.
Battery won't be drained in 5 minutes, and would probably last longer simply because the video card is running in text mode, no wifi, usb and other drivers loaded (maybe those devices arent even enabled)
Oh, they're too cheap to add a station because it costs them let's say 1000$ a month rent?
It costs about 7 cents per message here in Romania and about 15 cents for a one minute call. In three years of having a phone, maybe I sent 2 or 3 SMS messages. I just pick up the phone and talk for a minute with the other person.
Anyways, the costs are very high, especially if the other party also pays. This would never work here, quite opposite, we're starting to get companies offering plans with hundreds of minutes in any GSM network for around $25.
I would have to say Amazon post would be more effective.
Send a letter or an email and it could go directly in the trash bin, or to some EA division like marketing which doesn't care about people. So no result.
On the other hand, post a negative review on Amazon and everybody can see it, including Amazon and studios, it hurts their sales, other game studios may have second thoughts about letting themselves bought by EA in the future and so on, studios thinking about implementing something like this may stumble upon the comments...
Sorry, not that one, I thought those were real keys. But others have well defined keys, like this one, nice big keys and screen that doesn't need much power:
I'm not sure what network AT&T is, CDMA or GSM, but if I were to select something for a blind person, I would get a simple cellphone with very few keys, for example something like this one:
It's the TV stations' fault for not giving plenty of power to the transmitters. They're going cheap and giving just enough electricity to the antennas.
With electricity, the costs don't vary a lot in time and if you increase your usage, you pretty much know what to expect after the first bill.
I mean, your computer won't suddenly require twice the electricity it uses, and if you buy a second computer, after the first bill you can estimate how much it will cost each month.
You won't suddenly increase your consumption twice or three times, something that is possible with bandwidth (just get a movie rental account and get a few hd movies each week).
With bandwidth, you get a large amount initially and then you pay a lot for a small amount. For example you have 100GB of bandwidth for 20$ or something and then for each 1GB you pay 1$. This is not reasonable.
So I agree that the analogy is not very good, but it's close enough.
Would you like to have the electricity cut off at your house when you go over some amount in a month?
Right now, that limit may very well be enough for you, but what will happen in a year or so?
Returning to the electricity analogy, the power company sets the limit to a value they determine in let's say September, at a house where two old people live.
Everything's fine but summer comes and you turn air conditioning on, or maybe you have a kid and the kid starts watching tv 6 hours a day. Or maybe you start working from home instead of working at the office.
Once you accept limits and restrictions, the only way it's towards more restrictions and limitations.
User perceives the address bar as not belonging to the page because they're used to how tabs work in Windows.
Each tab in a property page usually has different settings, not a thing that repeats on each page, so at first it would seem weird to have the address bar under each tab.
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All is good until a "friend" takes out a license plate and puts it on your car, as a prank or simply to get you in trouble.
Just as you can steal a plate to put some people in trouble so can others do it to you.
The problem is simply the fact that the number is easy to exchange.
For example, you could probably solve this problem by actually writing the number on the full car, in an infrared visible color. Or painting a pattern on the car, like the pattern used to prevent copying machines from copying bank notes. Or the pattern made by color laser printers with yellow dots.
I can also think of another solution, like placing (micro) speed bumps at 2-3KM intervals, preventing people from reaching a speed higher than the maximum allowed.
Without users, Google would not have incentive to keep the bots running.
Without users, Google would not have incentive to keep the bots running. There won't even be sites so what should it crawl?
The author usually gives the full distribution rights to the publisher so the author can't post on his website the books.
The contracts are partially responsible for this situation, but the author usually has no choice as usually all publishers impose the same conditions.
Buy the used book if it's cheap, and donate it to someone else that's needs it.
Then just go and get the pirated version.
Good karma from donation balanced bad karma from pirating :)
"You answered 15 out of 33 correctly â" 45.45 %"
and I'm not even American or interested in becoming American, just filled it because I was curious.
I don't know what to say except that this kind of test should be passed by anyone reading about American history for a couple of days.
He should just create another domain like company-license.com which is for the sole purpose of showing the CC license.
Then just snail mail a letter saying the license is this and that and online at company-license.com and get his data...
There will be plenty of live streams with it on Ustream.TV
On last debate there were over 4000 simultaneous viewers on a stream and it worked fine.
The windows hiding part was done to mentain compatibility with some Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 programs that abused some window positioning API functions to determine if they were minimized or not instead of using the proper API.
It was also needed to make Windows run with several monitors not just one.
There's lots of posts about this on Raymond Chen's blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/)
At 4 GB of memory, you usually don't need swap at all in usual computer work, so a small fixed amount like 1GB would be more than enough.
I have 2GB of memory and the swap file is fixed at 1536MB (1.5GB) and it's quite enough.
It's not recommended to disable swap, if you have enough memory just leave it a small size.
Of course, this doesn't apply to Windows Vista. If you have Vista, stay on the safe side and keep it double the size of your memory.
He needs the laptop running a light OS just to input some text in the laptop from time to time.
Battery won't be drained in 5 minutes, and would probably last longer simply because the video card is running in text mode, no wifi, usb and other drivers loaded (maybe those devices arent even enabled)
Better yet, how about FreeDOS?
Then they should just add more f**king stations.
Oh, they're too cheap to add a station because it costs them let's say 1000$ a month rent?
It costs about 7 cents per message here in Romania and about 15 cents for a one minute call. In three years of having a phone, maybe I sent 2 or 3 SMS messages. I just pick up the phone and talk for a minute with the other person.
Anyways, the costs are very high, especially if the other party also pays. This would never work here, quite opposite, we're starting to get companies offering plans with hundreds of minutes in any GSM network for around $25.
I would have to say Amazon post would be more effective.
Send a letter or an email and it could go directly in the trash bin, or to some EA division like marketing which doesn't care about people. So no result.
On the other hand, post a negative review on Amazon and everybody can see it, including Amazon and studios, it hurts their sales, other game studios may have second thoughts about letting themselves bought by EA in the future and so on, studios thinking about implementing something like this may stumble upon the comments...
Sorry, not that one, I thought those were real keys. But others have well defined keys, like this one, nice big keys and screen that doesn't need much power:
http://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_motofone_f3-1794.php
I'm not sure what network AT&T is, CDMA or GSM, but if I were to select something for a blind person, I would get a simple cellphone with very few keys, for example something like this one:
http://www.gsmarena.com/lg_ku990_viewty-2070.php
By the way, the site above has pictures for quite a lot of phones so you should be able to find several easy to use ones.
It's the TV stations' fault for not giving plenty of power to the transmitters. They're going cheap and giving just enough electricity to the antennas.
With electricity, the costs don't vary a lot in time and if you increase your usage, you pretty much know what to expect after the first bill.
I mean, your computer won't suddenly require twice the electricity it uses, and if you buy a second computer, after the first bill you can estimate how much it will cost each month.
You won't suddenly increase your consumption twice or three times, something that is possible with bandwidth (just get a movie rental account and get a few hd movies each week).
With bandwidth, you get a large amount initially and then you pay a lot for a small amount. For example you have 100GB of bandwidth for 20$ or something and then for each 1GB you pay 1$. This is not reasonable.
So I agree that the analogy is not very good, but it's close enough.
Would you like to have the electricity cut off at your house when you go over some amount in a month?
Right now, that limit may very well be enough for you, but what will happen in a year or so?
Returning to the electricity analogy, the power company sets the limit to a value they determine in let's say September, at a house where two old people live.
Everything's fine but summer comes and you turn air conditioning on, or maybe you have a kid and the kid starts watching tv 6 hours a day. Or maybe you start working from home instead of working at the office.
Once you accept limits and restrictions, the only way it's towards more restrictions and limitations.
That 5$ per month account would probably get disabled "excessive processor usage" as soon as 20-30 people start streaming a video.
For streaming on site:
1.
Convert your movie to MP4 with AAC sound and use some free, open source flash video player like http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_FLV_Player for streaming.
2.
Use Vimeo. Very good quality.
3.
Offer Youtube clip and Vimeo and downloads on the same page.
Regarding bandwidth:
1. Offer the movie in 3-4 sizes
2. Use a torrent tracker (either on the server or something like PirateBay), it helps.
If you don't want to use bittorrent and he expects lots of simultaneous downloads, buy a dedicated server with a lot of bandwidth.
For example, FDCServers.net offers some servers with up to 15 TB (avg 50mbps) of download pretty much guaranteed, at about 150-170$.
Keep in mind though, if he wants quality bandwidth (not really needed in this case), 100 mbps link (33TB) usually goes for about 500$ a month.
It works for me.
Type manually in the browser about:% and you'll see.
Yeah, it still has problems...
And regarding a tab not being able to crash the whole application... here's a page that will nuke your Google Chrome browser:
http://www.definethis.org/temp/chrome/index.html
It's nothing malicious, and doesn't do squat in Firefox, only Chrome has this issue (maybe some url handling issue)
Here are all the images in a zip file:
http://www.definethis.org/temp/chrome/chrome.zip
Server crashed on me 3 or 4 times while I viewed them so I hope this helps unload it.
User perceives the address bar as not belonging to the page because they're used to how tabs work in Windows.
Each tab in a property page usually has different settings, not a thing that repeats on each page, so at first it would seem weird to have the address bar under each tab.
My 2 cents anyway...