PC Gamers aren't exactly in the clear either. Had a friend ask me why he couldn't burn a CD and it turned out to be some crapware DRM that was installed with one of the games. Solution: Reinstall Windows.
At least you know you have a restricted device with consoles rather than finding out some shitty company decided to render your general-purpose computer useless...
If you can't figure out how to patch XP, you probably shouldn't be patching anything.
Uh, I think he was referring that the code is not available to the public, and people that know how to patch these vulnerabilities can't, even if they wanted to. One of the benefits of open source is that if the vendor doesn't want to fix something, you can fix it yourself (if you know how.)
Ah, the memories... I think I was ten when we got the TRS-80. Anyone remember Dungeons of Daggorath? That one even got my mother and her boyfriend addicted.
I'd really like to see it brought to North America and specifically Canada, where I can use it. It's really spectacular and more of the revolution in music listening than anything we've seen in a long while.
I don't know about that. 3G data services are still expensive over here. After looking at Roger's website, non-iPhone devices is $25 for 500 meg of 3G traffic. For the iPhone, the cheapest is $60 for 1 gig, both plans charge 3 cents/meg if you go over. If you stream a lot of music, it could get expensive quickly. I really wish we dirt cheap cell phone prices like elsewhere in the world...
Ya, it was long distance and I was on hold for awhile. Plus side was that I got to listen to the Halo theme song rather than some bland elevator music.
Strange, a friend of mine is on his eighteenth (yes, not a typo) 360 and he always called the toll-free number. Oddly enough, mine hasn't failed yet *knocks on wood*.
Finally, my office is in the finished basement of my house. If I tried to have a conference call with clients using my cell phone, I'd get dropped calls 90% of the time.
I have an iPhone on the Rogers network. They have those silly commercials where some guy comes out of a subway/tunnel/etc talking on the phone. This phone is noted for dropping calls left and right, but it always works in basements/tunnels/parkades/elevators. Now if only it would work properly everywhere else!
Given the users I've seen using systems where I work, the computer could say it'll format or shut itself down and users will ignore it and click whatever to make it go away. I've seen the shutdown one personally several times....
I would expect Mozilla also to agree with this, so I doubt that other poster's claim that FF3.5 presumes to make itself the default browser [slashdot.org] and would like to see that claim substantiated.
Well, a couple of days ago I upgraded my Firefox 2.x install to 3.5 (I don't use Windows that often) and it asked me if I wanted to make it the default browser. There was a checkbox (that was by default checked, but it may have been because my FF 2.x install was default? dunno) that I could have unselected had I wanted to.
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It may be a silly campaign, but I was actually searching for where to buy it. Boy, was I disappointed.:(
I dare you to suck on the tailpipe of any internal combustion vehicle. Please have paramedics on standby before you do.
While I agree this is a really stupid thing to do, sometime last year I read a news article saying someone tried to off himself with the gases in his new green Civic and it failed. It made him really, really sick, but it didn't kill him. I can't seem to find that article online, so I might have read it in one of the local papers here.
Yes, but in another episode of Top Gear (Season 7, Episode 5), Clarkson said you could race the McLaren F1 with the Veyron, letting the McLaren F1 get to 120 MPH before the Veyron sets off, and the Veyron will beat it to 200 MPH. That's phenomenal acceleration. It's not terribly quick off the line (most all wheel drive cars are slower off the line than their two wheel drive counterparts.)
I don't know what planet you're from, but that's not the case. It's a hydraulic system. It does get the benefit of a vacuum booster while the car is running, but the brakes still work after the car's engine dies.
Not really, as many airplan crashes caused by severed hydraulic lines show. And more often than not all three hydraulic lines were cut.
Yes, but in most of those situations it was an outside factor causing the lines to be severed (bomb blast, midair collisions and the like.) One that I can remember had to do with the cargo door popping off and pulling the cabin floor down and severing the lines.
In the case of the AirBus, if all of the computer systems truly did fail, as some are speculating, you'd have a complete disconnect of the controls of the plane. Even in the case of a engine failure, a small hydraulic pump and impeller would deploy to power the hydraulic controls, giving the pilot some control over his plane.
A bad car analogy would be replacing all cars' hydraulic brakes with electric brakes. I've actually had my car stall at highway speeds thanks to a broken gas gauge--I sure am fortunate that the brakes worked with the engine not working.
No, I'm not a pilot. But I sure am interested in the cause of this crash. While the computers likely had something to do with it, I don't think they are completely at fault. Hopefully they'll recover the black box and voice recorder, but I think the time is getting awfully short to be doing that.
Not a good comparison, you can't say the new thing that is the same thing as the old thing indicates the death of the old thing, because paradoxically you would be inferring that the new thing is death to things like the new thing, which is like the old thing, but not the old thing, its the same thing - but better.
I must be getting tired, 'cause I had to read that like three times before I understood it. Too many 'thing's. Ugh.
the stupid menus and FBI warnings you can't bypass
There are DVD players such as this one that allow you to bypass it. It's odd that it doesn't have that in its features list. You can even make it region-free quite easily.
Back "before the internet" we had these things called floppy disks which were quite capable of delivering a copied group of bytes to a buddy in another state by a process now known as "snailmail".
Am I the only one that remembers the DRM on the floppy discs? Both 5.25" and 3.5" could use it. I do believe it tried to fake bad sectors, so a disk-to-disk copy would fail every time. You could get an 8-bit ISA card that you could connect your floppy drives to, and then make perfect copies again.
I never made that connection until just now, but that was DRM as well. The only reason it's in the spotlight now is because it's affecting the general user who can't play their music for whatever reason.
I can see it now: a backpack full of iPhones for some poor kid to make a living while he's going to school.
Don't you think whoever is monitoring will notice 20 phones within a metre of each other? I know there's a lot of population over there and things are crammed together, but that's a little silly.
But being installed by default with no opt-out and with the uninstall/disable options removed from the user, is either bad customer care or plain malice (though for all the noise my inner tin-foil-hat is making I can't think of anything logical that such malice would achieve for MS, so "not caring about the customer" is the more likely option).
Someone should tell this to Adobe too - installing Reader 9 installs AIR and Acrobat.com with no way to disable it, unless you use some switches on the command line. Most users don't bother (of course, there's no GUI options.) It also installs an annoying icon on your desktop. This is 2009, not 1992.
What I find odd is that Microsoft has a bunch of these stupid types of patents. There's prior art for even this, and now that it has come to this, even if they win they will basically make a large majority of their patents useless.
I just don't understand how Microsoft thinks (actually, I don't really want to know anyhow.) But this doesn't seem like a really smart move. They could wind up shooting themselves in the foot, in more ways than one.
I also work for a nonprofit organization, and TechSoup is an invaluable resource. They offer software and hardware that has been donated by various companies (such as Sage, Microsoft, Symantec, Cisco, Intuit, and many others) that is only available for nonprofits. They do have CRM software buried in there somewhere. I strongly suggest you check it out, especially for things such as antivirus, where it can save literally thousands off of existing charity pricing.
It's not so much fanboys. When you develop for something, you want to develop for a stable feature set. If there's going to be a dozen forks of a database, it becomes much more work to test all the versions and apply patches.
It now makes far more sense to develop using a different DBMS.
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PC Gamers aren't exactly in the clear either. Had a friend ask me why he couldn't burn a CD and it turned out to be some crapware DRM that was installed with one of the games. Solution: Reinstall Windows.
At least you know you have a restricted device with consoles rather than finding out some shitty company decided to render your general-purpose computer useless...
Uh, I think he was referring that the code is not available to the public, and people that know how to patch these vulnerabilities can't, even if they wanted to. One of the benefits of open source is that if the vendor doesn't want to fix something, you can fix it yourself (if you know how.)
Ah, the memories... I think I was ten when we got the TRS-80. Anyone remember Dungeons of Daggorath? That one even got my mother and her boyfriend addicted.
I don't know about that. 3G data services are still expensive over here. After looking at Roger's website, non-iPhone devices is $25 for 500 meg of 3G traffic. For the iPhone, the cheapest is $60 for 1 gig, both plans charge 3 cents/meg if you go over. If you stream a lot of music, it could get expensive quickly. I really wish we dirt cheap cell phone prices like elsewhere in the world...
Strange, a friend of mine is on his eighteenth (yes, not a typo) 360 and he always called the toll-free number. Oddly enough, mine hasn't failed yet *knocks on wood*.
I have an iPhone on the Rogers network. They have those silly commercials where some guy comes out of a subway/tunnel/etc talking on the phone. This phone is noted for dropping calls left and right, but it always works in basements/tunnels/parkades/elevators. Now if only it would work properly everywhere else!
Given the users I've seen using systems where I work, the computer could say it'll format or shut itself down and users will ignore it and click whatever to make it go away. I've seen the shutdown one personally several times....
Well, a couple of days ago I upgraded my Firefox 2.x install to 3.5 (I don't use Windows that often) and it asked me if I wanted to make it the default browser. There was a checkbox (that was by default checked, but it may have been because my FF 2.x install was default? dunno) that I could have unselected had I wanted to.
It may be a silly campaign, but I was actually searching for where to buy it. Boy, was I disappointed. :(
I'd buy one just to use to open boxes. Heh.
While I agree this is a really stupid thing to do, sometime last year I read a news article saying someone tried to off himself with the gases in his new green Civic and it failed. It made him really, really sick, but it didn't kill him. I can't seem to find that article online, so I might have read it in one of the local papers here.
Yes, but in another episode of Top Gear (Season 7, Episode 5), Clarkson said you could race the McLaren F1 with the Veyron, letting the McLaren F1 get to 120 MPH before the Veyron sets off, and the Veyron will beat it to 200 MPH. That's phenomenal acceleration. It's not terribly quick off the line (most all wheel drive cars are slower off the line than their two wheel drive counterparts.)
You assume wrong; I don't live in the US. Citroen used to be here in the 70s or so but hasn't been since the early 80s I believe.
Ah, that makes more sense now. Over where I live, we don't have manufacturers that do that to my knowledge (unless Kia or something does.)
I don't know what planet you're from, but that's not the case. It's a hydraulic system. It does get the benefit of a vacuum booster while the car is running, but the brakes still work after the car's engine dies.
Yes, but in most of those situations it was an outside factor causing the lines to be severed (bomb blast, midair collisions and the like.) One that I can remember had to do with the cargo door popping off and pulling the cabin floor down and severing the lines.
In the case of the AirBus, if all of the computer systems truly did fail, as some are speculating, you'd have a complete disconnect of the controls of the plane. Even in the case of a engine failure, a small hydraulic pump and impeller would deploy to power the hydraulic controls, giving the pilot some control over his plane.
A bad car analogy would be replacing all cars' hydraulic brakes with electric brakes. I've actually had my car stall at highway speeds thanks to a broken gas gauge--I sure am fortunate that the brakes worked with the engine not working.
No, I'm not a pilot. But I sure am interested in the cause of this crash. While the computers likely had something to do with it, I don't think they are completely at fault. Hopefully they'll recover the black box and voice recorder, but I think the time is getting awfully short to be doing that.
I must be getting tired, 'cause I had to read that like three times before I understood it. Too many 'thing's. Ugh.
There are DVD players such as this one that allow you to bypass it. It's odd that it doesn't have that in its features list. You can even make it region-free quite easily.
Am I the only one that remembers the DRM on the floppy discs? Both 5.25" and 3.5" could use it. I do believe it tried to fake bad sectors, so a disk-to-disk copy would fail every time. You could get an 8-bit ISA card that you could connect your floppy drives to, and then make perfect copies again.
I never made that connection until just now, but that was DRM as well. The only reason it's in the spotlight now is because it's affecting the general user who can't play their music for whatever reason.
I read that as the systems were leaking fibre, I'd say it's time for a secret diaper.
Given the youth I've seen around here, they'd likely forget to wear pants before they forget to take their cell phone with them.
Don't you think whoever is monitoring will notice 20 phones within a metre of each other? I know there's a lot of population over there and things are crammed together, but that's a little silly.
Someone should tell this to Adobe too - installing Reader 9 installs AIR and Acrobat.com with no way to disable it, unless you use some switches on the command line. Most users don't bother (of course, there's no GUI options.) It also installs an annoying icon on your desktop. This is 2009, not 1992.
What I find odd is that Microsoft has a bunch of these stupid types of patents. There's prior art for even this, and now that it has come to this, even if they win they will basically make a large majority of their patents useless.
I just don't understand how Microsoft thinks (actually, I don't really want to know anyhow.) But this doesn't seem like a really smart move. They could wind up shooting themselves in the foot, in more ways than one.
I also work for a nonprofit organization, and TechSoup is an invaluable resource. They offer software and hardware that has been donated by various companies (such as Sage, Microsoft, Symantec, Cisco, Intuit, and many others) that is only available for nonprofits. They do have CRM software buried in there somewhere. I strongly suggest you check it out, especially for things such as antivirus, where it can save literally thousands off of existing charity pricing.
It's not so much fanboys. When you develop for something, you want to develop for a stable feature set. If there's going to be a dozen forks of a database, it becomes much more work to test all the versions and apply patches.
It now makes far more sense to develop using a different DBMS.
Note: I've never installed or used PostgreSQL.