Why is it Cnet doesn't say who told them to do that? Some subhuman MafiAA goon lawyer wants to remain anonymous. How typical of them.
I never hear names on the RIAA side when these things are reported. It's no surprise that the language starts to get interesting when journalists are still so evasive this late in the game.
I recently worked on a customer's Sony VAIO laptop. The system wasn't cooling properly and was shutting down hard with increasing frequency.
Sony support advised backing up the user's data before shipping it to them. Duh. However, I couldn't pull the drive to retrieve the data without voiding the warranty. The damn thing wouldn't stay powered up for more than 10 minutes. By the time we actually (hopefully) transferred everything we needed, it wouldn't boot the OS because it had been scrambled by so many hard crashes.
They should have been responsible for the customer's data with such a draconian policy. Not that I'd trust them to do it properly (or at all).
Can you even correlate the deficiency in math with owning a calculator, or is this *all* just technophobic crap along the lines of claims that cell phones cause bone/brain cancer? Alarmists and cynics are a dangerous mix, especially when they become afraid of something and feel a general lack of purpose. Go back to the trees.
I've always been fond of the pre-logon scan feature that Avast has. I haven't seen that in any other free AV package, and I've caught many infected items that couldn't be detected with the user profile running.
OTOH, I've also encountered weird rogue anti-viruses that could only be detected *while* they were running.
MSE seems like a good program but I haven't seen it put to the test yet, that is, finding or cleaning malware. A particular point in its favor is that its license allows corporate use. However, it's a management nightmare in an organization with many computers. Microsoft does state that it's not designed for business use.
I had one client with 6 computers running a custom application. The computers' system drives were small, and there wasn't enough space to accommodate their usual AV client. A staff technician had installed MSE on these computers as a temporary solution. I had to remote to each machine to exclude the custom application's paths and its many processes because the SpyNet feature that submits new processes to Microsoft would cause it to crash. It also happened that a crash would ruin an entire days' work, since the purpose of the software was result collection in a lab environment. So, it's convenient for home users, Might be OK for small businesses... not recommended in an enterprise environment. And I'm eager to see how effective it is against malware.
That is a wild assumption. Where I come from, we learn about the culture before traveling to a foreign country to study, and almost all the foreign students I have met here did the same. I can't think of one from my own experience that didn't.
Before software, the idea of agreeing to any terms before you even saw the product was ludicrous. Anything that might begin "Upon the opening of this package..." would have been called a "grift."
I've noticed that Comcast's approach to advertising also indicates an assumption that their customers are dim bulbs and don't know what's good for them. There are at least these two types of TV commercials:
1) You, the customer, are a dim bulb and have no idea what our "Internet service" is. Just buy it. Whatever it is, we assure you that it's fast and you have no other choice.
2) Our competitors are hapless morons.
They may boil down to a couple more similar bases, but those two stand out in my mind. Moreover, telecommunications advertising is a dirty, competitive game.
I recently purchased a house. During this adventure I spoke with a loan officer about credit, and told me that your credit score drops 2 points every time it gets checked. If they keep track of your credit by checking it using your SSN provided for "security purposes," then you may be able to sue a company for using your SSN to check your credit score, thereby lowering it, without your express permission. If nothing else, you could complain that the entire policy can cause a consumer losses if they choose to shop around for different services in a short amount of time. That is even assuming one could handle the headache of changing these services with any frequency.
If I recall my experiences using windows XP, doesn't it just automatically connect to any unsecured wireless connection that it finds? I would bet that most people don't even realize they're stealing somebody else's internet bandwidth, since chances are their OS isn't even showing a connect dialog by default.
There have always been doomsayers, people who stand on the corners insisting that people abandon their decadent lifestyles and embrace something they feel is better-tempered (or, insisting that people likewise bow and grovel). Religions lost their insight thanks to politics, I hope scientists don't lose any insight from the same thing. It's all the same search for meaning, as far as history cares.
Even if the climate gets ugly, I have faith that the truly rational thinkers will find the means for everyone to survive, even change to a better-tempered lifestyle. Coincidentally, I don't drive a car. It's not so bad. A guy in a bar told me this is the attitude of a true sheep, and if this is so, then "baaaa"
Why hasn't anybody anywhere mentioned fair use? In the comments beneath the response from MXTabs.com, folks were talking about Weird Al's parodies, and the legality therein. If, in order to parody a song, copying the music is legal, MXTabs.com's business model should be legal as well. Al parodies a song, the artist gets the negotiated (or compulsory) royalties for the use of the music. Al gets the royalties for the words. All of this can happen whether or not the artist approves, but Weird Al asks every artist out of respect (except for the misunderstanding with Coolio.
I don't mean to veer off topic, but if parodies work acceptably as such under fair use, so should written interpretations of recorded music. I'd like to see somebody try to prove that a written interpretation of a song by a listener/fan/student would have the long-term effect of preventing artists from wanting to create more music. Isn't that one of the reasons copyright exists, to help keep the creators connected to their respective Muses?
So the net continues to cause tectonic shifts in the world of information, blah blah, &c. &c. As MXTabs.com points out, the people buying the printed tab aren't the same ones interested in another musician's interpretation. Paper music publishers have a choice of either adjusting to the inevitable widespread exchange of individuals' ideas, or cause a whole heap of trouble kicking and screaming through it. Maybe even set rotten legal precedents that blow the whole thing back a couple decades while they're at it.
Because of certain others (cough, cough) and their failure to adjust, recorded music in the audio format has been devalued to almost nothing. It's all about the live performance, that's where the money is to be made, for artists and the businesses that support and promote them. And let's not forget T-shirt sales!
I'd also like to share a very valuable link. When things get hairy in the USA, the internet can always take you someplace better for it.
The collapse of the public school system would cause a very long-running disaster in the USA. Some countries' governments afford so little for public schooling that many children work in construction or as a maid for the upper classes as soon as they turn 13. These countries see generations of wealthy children receiving sufficient education to function in the middle or upper class. They also see members of the (much larger) low-income population functioning on their own level of the economy, legitimate or not. This sort of thing keeps those countries in a 3rd-world or developing status, and would plunge the US into the same place, plenty further down the road.
And killing the public school system wouldn't forestall the rising tide of senseless alarm that put this Asian gamer on ice. That's cultural, with causes so multiple and distant that it's hard to analyze properly from one perspective. So many people dismiss it too simply as some form of lesser mental capacity or lack of insight.
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Why is it Cnet doesn't say who told them to do that? Some subhuman MafiAA goon lawyer wants to remain anonymous. How typical of them.
I never hear names on the RIAA side when these things are reported. It's no surprise that the language starts to get interesting when journalists are still so evasive this late in the game.
I recently worked on a customer's Sony VAIO laptop. The system wasn't cooling properly and was shutting down hard with increasing frequency.
Sony support advised backing up the user's data before shipping it to them. Duh. However, I couldn't pull the drive to retrieve the data without voiding the warranty. The damn thing wouldn't stay powered up for more than 10 minutes. By the time we actually (hopefully) transferred everything we needed, it wouldn't boot the OS because it had been scrambled by so many hard crashes.
They should have been responsible for the customer's data with such a draconian policy. Not that I'd trust them to do it properly (or at all).
Unless it was staged by the "victim" to vilify this "terrorist group"
Just throwing it out there, who knows
This Barbie has a new hat!
Somebody should make that graph on graphjam. I would but I suck at making graphs.
Can you even correlate the deficiency in math with owning a calculator, or is this *all* just technophobic crap along the lines of claims that cell phones cause bone/brain cancer? Alarmists and cynics are a dangerous mix, especially when they become afraid of something and feel a general lack of purpose. Go back to the trees.
Perfect Online Resource Kontrol - PORK
Do they know, "kontrol" doesn't start with a K... /singing
C'mon. Mod parent off topic. You fucking dorks and your irrelevant loyalties.
I've always been fond of the pre-logon scan feature that Avast has. I haven't seen that in any other free AV package, and I've caught many infected items that couldn't be detected with the user profile running. OTOH, I've also encountered weird rogue anti-viruses that could only be detected *while* they were running.
MSE seems like a good program but I haven't seen it put to the test yet, that is, finding or cleaning malware. A particular point in its favor is that its license allows corporate use. However, it's a management nightmare in an organization with many computers. Microsoft does state that it's not designed for business use. I had one client with 6 computers running a custom application. The computers' system drives were small, and there wasn't enough space to accommodate their usual AV client. A staff technician had installed MSE on these computers as a temporary solution. I had to remote to each machine to exclude the custom application's paths and its many processes because the SpyNet feature that submits new processes to Microsoft would cause it to crash. It also happened that a crash would ruin an entire days' work, since the purpose of the software was result collection in a lab environment. So, it's convenient for home users, Might be OK for small businesses... not recommended in an enterprise environment. And I'm eager to see how effective it is against malware.
That is a wild assumption. Where I come from, we learn about the culture before traveling to a foreign country to study, and almost all the foreign students I have met here did the same. I can't think of one from my own experience that didn't.
Eh, at least they'll finally find out that almost everyone and their grandmother smokes marijuana.
they can be even worse than PHBs.
Would somebody please mod this guy offtopic? I don't see what Dungeons & Dragons has to do with any of this.
Erm... Have you ever been to Duluth this time of year..?
Before software, the idea of agreeing to any terms before you even saw the product was ludicrous. Anything that might begin "Upon the opening of this package..." would have been called a "grift."
So wait... is Bill going to be the PC, and Jerry the Mac..?
I've noticed that Comcast's approach to advertising also indicates an assumption that their customers are dim bulbs and don't know what's good for them. There are at least these two types of TV commercials:
1) You, the customer, are a dim bulb and have no idea what our "Internet service" is. Just buy it. Whatever it is, we assure you that it's fast and you have no other choice.
2) Our competitors are hapless morons.
They may boil down to a couple more similar bases, but those two stand out in my mind. Moreover, telecommunications advertising is a dirty, competitive game.
I recently purchased a house. During this adventure I spoke with a loan officer about credit, and told me that your credit score drops 2 points every time it gets checked. If they keep track of your credit by checking it using your SSN provided for "security purposes," then you may be able to sue a company for using your SSN to check your credit score, thereby lowering it, without your express permission. If nothing else, you could complain that the entire policy can cause a consumer losses if they choose to shop around for different services in a short amount of time. That is even assuming one could handle the headache of changing these services with any frequency.
Xerox Business Plan 1.0:
1) GUI
2) GI Joe
3)
4) Profit!
Muah ha ha, wow! This is so cool! It's like some convention of super-old programmers! Thank you, Lucas123, for making Cryptonomicon come alive!
If I recall my experiences using windows XP, doesn't it just automatically connect to any unsecured wireless connection that it finds? I would bet that most people don't even realize they're stealing somebody else's internet bandwidth, since chances are their OS isn't even showing a connect dialog by default.
There have always been doomsayers, people who stand on the corners insisting that people abandon their decadent lifestyles and embrace something they feel is better-tempered (or, insisting that people likewise bow and grovel). Religions lost their insight thanks to politics, I hope scientists don't lose any insight from the same thing. It's all the same search for meaning, as far as history cares.
Even if the climate gets ugly, I have faith that the truly rational thinkers will find the means for everyone to survive, even change to a better-tempered lifestyle. Coincidentally, I don't drive a car. It's not so bad. A guy in a bar told me this is the attitude of a true sheep, and if this is so, then "baaaa"
Why hasn't anybody anywhere mentioned fair use? In the comments beneath the response from MXTabs.com, folks were talking about Weird Al's parodies, and the legality therein. If, in order to parody a song, copying the music is legal, MXTabs.com's business model should be legal as well. Al parodies a song, the artist gets the negotiated (or compulsory) royalties for the use of the music. Al gets the royalties for the words. All of this can happen whether or not the artist approves, but Weird Al asks every artist out of respect (except for the misunderstanding with Coolio.
I don't mean to veer off topic, but if parodies work acceptably as such under fair use, so should written interpretations of recorded music. I'd like to see somebody try to prove that a written interpretation of a song by a listener/fan/student would have the long-term effect of preventing artists from wanting to create more music. Isn't that one of the reasons copyright exists, to help keep the creators connected to their respective Muses?
So the net continues to cause tectonic shifts in the world of information, blah blah, &c. &c. As MXTabs.com points out, the people buying the printed tab aren't the same ones interested in another musician's interpretation. Paper music publishers have a choice of either adjusting to the inevitable widespread exchange of individuals' ideas, or cause a whole heap of trouble kicking and screaming through it. Maybe even set rotten legal precedents that blow the whole thing back a couple decades while they're at it.
Because of certain others (cough, cough) and their failure to adjust, recorded music in the audio format has been devalued to almost nothing. It's all about the live performance, that's where the money is to be made, for artists and the businesses that support and promote them. And let's not forget T-shirt sales!
I'd also like to share a very valuable link. When things get hairy in the USA, the internet can always take you someplace better for it.
The collapse of the public school system would cause a very long-running disaster in the USA. Some countries' governments afford so little for public schooling that many children work in construction or as a maid for the upper classes as soon as they turn 13. These countries see generations of wealthy children receiving sufficient education to function in the middle or upper class. They also see members of the (much larger) low-income population functioning on their own level of the economy, legitimate or not. This sort of thing keeps those countries in a 3rd-world or developing status, and would plunge the US into the same place, plenty further down the road.
And killing the public school system wouldn't forestall the rising tide of senseless alarm that put this Asian gamer on ice. That's cultural, with causes so multiple and distant that it's hard to analyze properly from one perspective. So many people dismiss it too simply as some form of lesser mental capacity or lack of insight.