what I think is more ridiculous is that these companies charge you for not reporting it or take you to court- normally if say, I lost my wallet I would expect it lost and offer a reward for the safe return-
if someone was rigging the ATM then by all means they should be busted, but other ppl that use the ATM after the fact- that is a loss that the company needs to take a hit on like any other business with faulty equipment and a poor patrolling policy.
I have been dealing with worse for a while- when I was in college I was given a grant for 3k that was supposed to be 2995.00- no one ever notified me and A while back I was given a bill for 1k in late fees and fees for not contacting them to pay the $5 overpayment when I didn't know it existed- and the money was a student grant- not a loan- so my tax refunds have been being garnished since I refuse to pay out of pocket for some idiot in the state that payed me $5 extra over in $ that I wasn't supposed to pay back over 10 years ago.
how are any of these contracts or eulas actually binding when you are shown a copy but are not provided with a physical copy of the terms- applications should generate a pdf file for review and you should have a "save" option required on web contracts- honestly if someone said- hey application X that you have installed has this in the contract- how can I confirm this? Once you have clicked OK it goes away and the only way to see it again is to re-install. I can say for certain that if I bought a car or house or applied for a loan or even got a cellphone that if the seller said- sign this contract and then took it away and refused a copy they would be sued in a big way (especially if they said- you can see it again when you buy another one), you have to provide a physical copy of the contract to both parties for it to be legal or it is not binding.
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it reminds me of a story my boss told us about how when he worked at oracle they spent gobs of $ on a team to name their internal DB server app and after months and hundreds of thousands came up with WebDB in arial 12 point font.
one thing that I think would solve this as well would be a receipt with a # that you could check by phone or online to make sure that your vote was counted and counted correctly- if it was incorrect you could as well have a assigned complaint # that you could punch in as well to file your vote as "miscounted"
none of those support audio and video editing and composing applications the way that directx does- directx libraries are easily accessed by host applications for audio especially and do an incredibly efficient job at handling multiple streams- also it is easier to code to so stable application support for audio apps is pretty much a given- it is a 1-stop place to do a ton
granted I use open GL for 3d since it is nicer and I actually have the HW to support it nowadays- but for everything else it is all bout directx, otherwise you are stuck with driver conflicts and crashes and HW incompatibilities for peripheral devices (midi, surface boards, input devices etc.)
I am still waiting for mac and linux distros to have a directX or compatible directX-like platform that makes multimedia apps cross platform and hardware interface universal- if something like that could happen (where all 3 platforms can run the same engine for audio, video and 3d and used shared libraries as you do in directX audio and video apps) then it would seriously be a preference game- right now it really is the one thing that separates windows from the other 2 for me.
that is the biggest problem with the linux community- there are a lot of snob coders that aren't interested in the multimedia/graphics/audio/video/3d_development side of computing and put it down all of the time. That is what keeps me from switching (and trust me I would love to if it was realistic) but there is no way that I could do in multimedia/graphics/audio/video/3d (hell I can't even on a mac with as little software and hardware support) that I can in windows, though vista can't do a lot of it either so there goes that- I guess my xp system will end up like my atari st and amiga were- holding on for as long as they can until the world realizes what it left behind.
From it's inception, directX was considered inferiour to openGL by all of the big gaming houses. DirectX's popularity is a product of marketing. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_OpenGL_ and_Direct3D for some background). sorry- directX is far superior to open GL- open gl does 3d great- but audio and video editors and sequencers run on directx as well (and incredibly well I might add- have you ever used ableton live?)- directX is a multimedia platform and not a game platform- games just use the platform
absolutely- I mean you can make a weak argument that everyone that wants it should pay $25 for a cd of music (though it is still too high) but to expect an average person to pay $900-$2k for a s/w package is pretty unrealistic- most will not or can not pay for it if it is not used for professional purposes. seriously if someone wants to increase the # of sales a piece of s/w needs to be in the $49-$299 range (and you will lose people at the $299 range) Every piece of s/w that I have bought personally (a lot I have been given licenses through various work situations, when contracting I have been able to often expense licenses or upgrades) has been in the $99-$299 range and the higher the cost the more I consider piracy.
we have the majority of our servers hosted there- the fact of the matter is that to run something here in SF you pretty much have to have your data hosted somewhere like this- fire codes and power constraints keep you from being able to put that many servers in a commercial or residential building.
most of them were moved there (some were already hosted) after we blew out 3 circuits in our on site server room and we had to pay the building something like 50k to get it fixed.
For some reason it made perfect sense to them to move the computers from a stable location with inexpensive labor and cheap reliable power(Texas is on it's own grid, with a plethora of power plants, and energy executives always give themselves cheap power) to a location that was earthquake ridden we have had 2 major earthquakes here in 100 years- and no other major disasters- how many tornadoes, thunderstorms, floods etc. has Texas had?
my company certainly won't switch in the next year- too many holes, too many hardware upgrades, too many s/w incompatibilities no clear advantage to upgrading- plus I work in a very secure environment and everyone is scared of the regular reporting (in fact a number of our machines are in a closed offline network that wouldn't even work with vista without a crack). Our company would much sooner move to a complete linux environment (since we are sort of a half unix half windows world) with the exception of a few limited machines than to move to a vista environment.
sorry, but back then I owned both an amiga and an atari ST- the st was an AWESOME music and 3d machine- the amiga was an AWESOME video/graphics/gaming machine each was far superior to the other in those areas- so it depends on what you wanted to do with it
that makes zero sense- when you encode for a minidisc you can use various levels of compression including up to 24bit in the later models- - bits are bits and maybe the player made a difference-
XP was useless IMO and added little to nothing to the OS I agree with everything up to the quoted- win2k was good once it had all of the service packs- xp is still the best windows with all of it's service packs- the thing about xp off the bat that I liked was HW/driver support and improved network support over win2k. I didn't switch off of win2k to xp until sp1 came out because before then it was a buggy mess when it came to networking but once that was fixed I was more than happy to use it for it's hardware support (since I do a lot of multimedia/audio and device support was great).
vista is the complete opposite for me- I don't want to go there unless I am forced to- HW support is limited- it is required to be online it is a memory hog- poor software support- iit really makes me wish that linux had the software and hardware support I need because I would love to switch to it at some point (I use it at work so I am familiar with the environment already) but the focus on multimedia development, audio development, 3d and animation are not there
the residential housing in the university of kansas though in the center of the university is close enough on both the north and south sides to have a repeater set up for a wi-fi network- someone should go in and set up a LAN for students to connect to outside of the university network- maybe charge a couple of bucks a month to cover costs
I think you missed what I meant- what I was saying is that it is exponential- the article says that it was giving $10 for every 1$ put in due to an exchange rate problem- that means that if 1 person did it six times with 1$ (put in a dollar cashed it out and put the 10 back in- repeat) they would get 100k - that would take about 2-3 minutes which means that since they lost 475k if you had 4 people do that (since someone never did it 7 times or it would break the loss #) that would take about 15 minutes with switchover time. apparently this machine was left for hours and "dozens" of people played it so the mass cashing scenario doesn't add up. there were a lot of people who must not have known the difference and just put there $ in and played.
that's why I usually play penny multicard keno machines- high payout to investment and you don't play against casino set odds- you play against the algorithms and probability. You always have lower odds but if you hedge your cards you can be pretty consistent in payouts.
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what I think is more ridiculous is that these companies charge you for not reporting it or take you to court- normally if say, I lost my wallet I would expect it lost and offer a reward for the safe return-
if someone was rigging the ATM then by all means they should be busted, but other ppl that use the ATM after the fact- that is a loss that the company needs to take a hit on like any other business with faulty equipment and a poor patrolling policy.
I have been dealing with worse for a while- when I was in college I was given a grant for 3k that was supposed to be 2995.00- no one ever notified me and A while back I was given a bill for 1k in late fees and fees for not contacting them to pay the $5 overpayment when I didn't know it existed- and the money was a student grant- not a loan- so my tax refunds have been being garnished since I refuse to pay out of pocket for some idiot in the state that payed me $5 extra over in $ that I wasn't supposed to pay back over 10 years ago.
how are any of these contracts or eulas actually binding when you are shown a copy but are not provided with a physical copy of the terms- applications should generate a pdf file for review and you should have a "save" option required on web contracts- honestly if someone said- hey application X that you have installed has this in the contract- how can I confirm this? Once you have clicked OK it goes away and the only way to see it again is to re-install. I can say for certain that if I bought a car or house or applied for a loan or even got a cellphone that if the seller said- sign this contract and then took it away and refused a copy they would be sued in a big way (especially if they said- you can see it again when you buy another one), you have to provide a physical copy of the contract to both parties for it to be legal or it is not binding.
display port.
it reminds me of a story my boss told us about how when he worked at oracle they spent gobs of $ on a team to name their internal DB server app and after months and hundreds of thousands came up with WebDB in arial 12 point font.
one thing that I think would solve this as well would be a receipt with a # that you could check by phone or online to make sure that your vote was counted and counted correctly- if it was incorrect you could as well have a assigned complaint # that you could punch in as well to file your vote as "miscounted"
none of those support audio and video editing and composing applications the way that directx does- directx libraries are easily accessed by host applications for audio especially and do an incredibly efficient job at handling multiple streams- also it is easier to code to so stable application support for audio apps is pretty much a given-
it is a 1-stop place to do a ton
granted I use open GL for 3d since it is nicer and I actually have the HW to support it nowadays- but for everything else it is all bout directx, otherwise you are stuck with driver conflicts and crashes and HW incompatibilities for peripheral devices (midi, surface boards, input devices etc.)
I am still waiting for mac and linux distros to have a directX or compatible directX-like platform that makes multimedia apps cross platform and hardware interface universal- if something like that could happen (where all 3 platforms can run the same engine for audio, video and 3d and used shared libraries as you do in directX audio and video apps) then it would seriously be a preference game- right now it really is the one thing that separates windows from the other 2 for me.
more likely it will be a .....remember way back when....
that is the biggest problem with the linux community- there are a lot of snob coders that aren't interested in the multimedia/graphics/audio/video/3d_development side of computing and put it down all of the time. That is what keeps me from switching (and trust me I would love to if it was realistic) but there is no way that I could do in multimedia/graphics/audio/video/3d (hell I can't even on a mac with as little software and hardware support) that I can in windows, though vista can't do a lot of it either so there goes that- I guess my xp system will end up like my atari st and amiga were- holding on for as long as they can until the world realizes what it left behind.
absolutely- I mean you can make a weak argument that everyone that wants it should pay $25 for a cd of music (though it is still too high) but to expect an average person to pay $900-$2k for a s/w package is pretty unrealistic- most will not or can not pay for it if it is not used for professional purposes. seriously if someone wants to increase the # of sales a piece of s/w needs to be in the $49-$299 range (and you will lose people at the $299 range) Every piece of s/w that I have bought personally (a lot I have been given licenses through various work situations, when contracting I have been able to often expense licenses or upgrades) has been in the $99-$299 range and the higher the cost the more I consider piracy.
we have the majority of our servers hosted there- the fact of the matter is that to run something here in SF you pretty much have to have your data hosted somewhere like this- fire codes and power constraints keep you from being able to put that many servers in a commercial or residential building.
most of them were moved there (some were already hosted) after we blew out 3 circuits in our on site server room and we had to pay the building something like 50k to get it fixed.
my company certainly won't switch in the next year- too many holes, too many hardware upgrades, too many s/w incompatibilities no clear advantage to upgrading- plus I work in a very secure environment and everyone is scared of the regular reporting (in fact a number of our machines are in a closed offline network that wouldn't even work with vista without a crack). Our company would much sooner move to a complete linux environment (since we are sort of a half unix half windows world) with the exception of a few limited machines than to move to a vista environment.
sorry, but back then I owned both an amiga and an atari ST- the st was an AWESOME music and 3d machine- the amiga was an AWESOME video/graphics/gaming machine each was far superior to the other in those areas- so it depends on what you wanted to do with it
that makes zero sense- when you encode for a minidisc you can use various levels of compression including up to 24bit in the later models- - bits are bits and maybe the player made a difference-
more likely a better way to do this is to install it leave it on for a month and just log- since vista reports every 2 weeks i believe
that's odd- normally the machines print a ticket- which would have the same cash effect-
There are a lot of people who like to have the paper in their hands, though, so newspapers are holding on e-paper with rss will take care of this.
I didn't switch off of win2k to xp until sp1 came out because before then it was a buggy mess when it came to networking but once that was fixed I was more than happy to use it for it's hardware support (since I do a lot of multimedia/audio and device support was great).
vista is the complete opposite for me- I don't want to go there unless I am forced to- HW support is limited- it is required to be online it is a memory hog- poor software support- iit really makes me wish that linux had the software and hardware support I need because I would love to switch to it at some point (I use it at work so I am familiar with the environment already) but the focus on multimedia development, audio development, 3d and animation are not there
the residential housing in the university of kansas though in the center of the university is close enough on both the north and south sides to have a repeater set up for a wi-fi network- someone should go in and set up a LAN for students to connect to outside of the university network- maybe charge a couple of bucks a month to cover costs
that is very true- in most windows diagnostic software you have mac address changing tools- and most of it is freeware
what if it was a gay roommate irritating you because he was bringing home boys and keeping you up all night?
I think you missed what I meant- what I was saying is that it is exponential- the article says that it was giving $10 for every 1$ put in due to an exchange rate problem- that means that if 1 person did it six times with 1$ (put in a dollar cashed it out and put the 10 back in- repeat) they would get 100k - that would take about 2-3 minutes which means that since they lost 475k if you had 4 people do that (since someone never did it 7 times or it would break the loss #) that would take about 15 minutes with switchover time. apparently this machine was left for hours and "dozens" of people played it so the mass cashing scenario doesn't add up. there were a lot of people who must not have known the difference and just put there $ in and played.
that's why I usually play penny multicard keno machines- high payout to investment and you don't play against casino set odds- you play against the algorithms and probability. You always have lower odds but if you hedge your cards you can be pretty consistent in payouts.