Yes, you can (well, should be able to) do what you want with it. However, they can always modify their product to try and stop you. If you don't agree with what they're doing, then you always have the freedom to not buy what they're selling.
There are many "better" things that, for whatever reason, just aren't as popular compared to other "inferior" things.
The PNG and GIF situation is like the OGG and MP3 situation. Sure, OGG may be better, but everyone already knows what MP3 is, has all their songs in MP3 format, has programs that know what do wo with MP3s, has players that know what MP3s are, etc. etc.
Sure, that would be nice, if you hate getting good prices on things.
Rebates allow sale items to be so cheap because the stores know that some people will file them wrong and some will forget to file them at all. Therefore, if they want to charge $80 for an item, they can do it for $65 with a rebate and possibly even make more profit.
If you remember to send it in, actually follow the directions, and keep a backup copy just in case, you'll get your money just fine, and end up with quite a deal sometimes - and I, for one, love a good deal. Sure, I'd prefer one without rebates, but it's quite rare to find a no-rebate deal that's as good as one with rebates.
to get customers and meet their needs while making a tidy profit
That's the thing, they don't want these customers because they don't make any profit off of them! They buy items, file for rebates, and then return the item. Honestly, is there a problem with "firing" customers who never shop at your store except when they want to abuse you?
Anyone who has ever worked retail will tell you that there is a certain group of customers that you DON'T want shopping at your store.
The solution is going to be to turn off the default security options and go back to browsing like they did before.
You're assuming that people actually know how to turn off the security settings. I'd say that most of the people who don't know any better will have no clue how to turn them off, and the people who do know better will, well, know better than to turn them off. Sure, there are a few people who know just enough to be dangerous, but they're a huge minority compared to the amount of people who don't even know what "right-click" means.
Any sites who actually care about having their users stay will fix their site instead of telling their users to "fix" their browser. People are REALLY lazy - if the site they're on doesn't work, they'll just say "screw it" and go to one of the other 5,000 sites on the web that can give them the same content rather than putting any effort towards changing settings.
Plus, I'd hope that people wouldn't trust any website that tells them to change their security settings, but that's probably putting too much faith in them.
You can already get an 8x dual-format DVD burner for $70, which (IMO) is very cheap as it is for a DVD burner. If you don't mind going slower, you can get a 4x for around $50, or slower ones for even cheaper. And if you go refurbished...
What I'd like to see is concentration on faster drives and, more importantly, faster and cheaper MEDIA! We already have 12x drives and dual-layer drives, but that doesn't help us if nobody can find and/or afford the fast/high-capacity media to burn in those drives!
Whether it's good or bad, though, IE sort of takes that bad HTML and displays it without any problems. Text isn't overlapping, everything is aligned properly, etc. Sometimes in Firefox it will load and not even be readable due to the text overlapping all over the place.
Don't get me wrong, it was very easy to install and get running. The problem was KEEPING it running - it just randomly started pegging the CPU at 100% and stayed that way until I ended the process. Trying to figure out what the hell was causing it was the trouble.
How many users actually know what Internet Explorer is? How many of those users will hear about this message? How many of those users will know where to get an alternative browser? How many of those users will be motivated enough to actually want to switch browsers? How many of those users will be competent enough to download and install a new browser? How many of those users will be competent enough to handle any problems that come up instead of just saying "this sucks" and switch back to IE?
I recently switched to FireFox because of this horrible security hole, and even though I'd consider myself a very advanced user, I had a couple problems getting things running smoothly. It would randomly lock up and crash on me - turns out that importing old IE settings is what caused it. Oh, and you want to reinstall it to get rid of your problems? Have fun hunting down that user profile directory that you don't know exists and doesn't automatically remove itself on uninstall. Configuring the UI is a huge pain in the ass.
Ironically, it doesn't display Slashdot right sometimes, either.
Of course, you do have to take into account the fact that everyone in the world already knows how to use Windows. If you're a company looking at which OS to use, there are a LOT more things that factor into overall cost (like training, hiring knowledgeable admins, lost productivity during learning period, etc.) than purchase price alone. Things like that make it a bit of a tougher decision.
1. Application Support.// Windows has, by far, the most applications available. What good is an OS if you can't do what you need to on it?
2. Standard UI.// Windows 95 - XP all have the same UI, and everyone already knows how to use it. How many different UIs have you seen on different Linux boxes? If you took 100 random people and put 50 in front of Linux boxes and 50 in front of Windows boxes, which do you think would be more productive?
3. Hardware support.// Windows users never need to worry about whether a piece of hardware will work in their system.
Actually, there's a better reason for them to block babelfish - it can be used to get around the filters. Page blocked? Just translate it through babelfish - hot hot proxy action.
A vaccine exists, but IIRC, nearly nobody is actually vaccinated against smallpox, so the simple fact that the vaccine exists won't really help anyone much in an attack.
I also seem to remember the vaccine being a HUGE pain in the ass, and many soldiers complaining about the care it took and getting sick because of it.
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That is, of course, assuming that a link to them doesn't get posted here - otherwise you may be waiting quite a bit longer.
Ugh, I'm not sure I want shirts with animation. A lot of t-shirts are annoying enough already ;)
Yes, you can (well, should be able to) do what you want with it. However, they can always modify their product to try and stop you. If you don't agree with what they're doing, then you always have the freedom to not buy what they're selling.
There are many "better" things that, for whatever reason, just aren't as popular compared to other "inferior" things.
The PNG and GIF situation is like the OGG and MP3 situation. Sure, OGG may be better, but everyone already knows what MP3 is, has all their songs in MP3 format, has programs that know what do wo with MP3s, has players that know what MP3s are, etc. etc.
It's their product. You have no "rights" that can determine what they do with their product.
You do have the right to not buy it, though.
It has multiplayer deathmatch with, I believe, up to a whopping 4 players.
Only the XBox version has cooperative mode, unfortunately.
Oh, and going to id.com won't help you much. idsoftware.com, on the other hand, is probably what you're looking for.
Now id has quite an incentive to not push back the release date.
It's okay, the source code is in assembler, so all the script kiddies will just look at it in confusion like it's some strange alien language.
Some rebates only require a copy of the UPC. This usually happens if there's a manufacturer rebate AND a store rebate.
Sure, that would be nice, if you hate getting good prices on things.
Rebates allow sale items to be so cheap because the stores know that some people will file them wrong and some will forget to file them at all. Therefore, if they want to charge $80 for an item, they can do it for $65 with a rebate and possibly even make more profit.
If you remember to send it in, actually follow the directions, and keep a backup copy just in case, you'll get your money just fine, and end up with quite a deal sometimes - and I, for one, love a good deal. Sure, I'd prefer one without rebates, but it's quite rare to find a no-rebate deal that's as good as one with rebates.
to get customers and meet their needs while making a tidy profit
That's the thing, they don't want these customers because they don't make any profit off of them! They buy items, file for rebates, and then return the item. Honestly, is there a problem with "firing" customers who never shop at your store except when they want to abuse you?
Anyone who has ever worked retail will tell you that there is a certain group of customers that you DON'T want shopping at your store.
Phew, I'm safe. I'm using MS-DOS 5.0
Nothing to see here, time to get back to editing autoexec.bat and config.sys to try and eek out another couple K of conventional memory...
The solution is going to be to turn off the default security options and go back to browsing like they did before.
You're assuming that people actually know how to turn off the security settings. I'd say that most of the people who don't know any better will have no clue how to turn them off, and the people who do know better will, well, know better than to turn them off. Sure, there are a few people who know just enough to be dangerous, but they're a huge minority compared to the amount of people who don't even know what "right-click" means.
Any sites who actually care about having their users stay will fix their site instead of telling their users to "fix" their browser. People are REALLY lazy - if the site they're on doesn't work, they'll just say "screw it" and go to one of the other 5,000 sites on the web that can give them the same content rather than putting any effort towards changing settings.
Plus, I'd hope that people wouldn't trust any website that tells them to change their security settings, but that's probably putting too much faith in them.
You can already get an 8x dual-format DVD burner for $70, which (IMO) is very cheap as it is for a DVD burner. If you don't mind going slower, you can get a 4x for around $50, or slower ones for even cheaper. And if you go refurbished...
What I'd like to see is concentration on faster drives and, more importantly, faster and cheaper MEDIA! We already have 12x drives and dual-layer drives, but that doesn't help us if nobody can find and/or afford the fast/high-capacity media to burn in those drives!
it simply tries to fit into the existing paradigm
Allright, he used the word "paradigm", that makes his opinion automatically invalid.
Whether it's good or bad, though, IE sort of takes that bad HTML and displays it without any problems. Text isn't overlapping, everything is aligned properly, etc. Sometimes in Firefox it will load and not even be readable due to the text overlapping all over the place.
Don't get me wrong, it was very easy to install and get running. The problem was KEEPING it running - it just randomly started pegging the CPU at 100% and stayed that way until I ended the process. Trying to figure out what the hell was causing it was the trouble.
Of course, on the flipside, if you manage to integrate it into a scope, it could be a very useful tool for snipers as well.
Yeah... it's not going to change much.
How many users actually know what Internet Explorer is?
How many of those users will hear about this message?
How many of those users will know where to get an alternative browser?
How many of those users will be motivated enough to actually want to switch browsers?
How many of those users will be competent enough to download and install a new browser?
How many of those users will be competent enough to handle any problems that come up instead of just saying "this sucks" and switch back to IE?
I recently switched to FireFox because of this horrible security hole, and even though I'd consider myself a very advanced user, I had a couple problems getting things running smoothly. It would randomly lock up and crash on me - turns out that importing old IE settings is what caused it. Oh, and you want to reinstall it to get rid of your problems? Have fun hunting down that user profile directory that you don't know exists and doesn't automatically remove itself on uninstall. Configuring the UI is a huge pain in the ass.
Ironically, it doesn't display Slashdot right sometimes, either.
but it looks like the ISS is back to having attitude stability
Did they put it on Prozac?
Of course, you do have to take into account the fact that everyone in the world already knows how to use Windows. If you're a company looking at which OS to use, there are a LOT more things that factor into overall cost (like training, hiring knowledgeable admins, lost productivity during learning period, etc.) than purchase price alone. Things like that make it a bit of a tougher decision.
1. Application Support. // Windows has, by far, the most applications available. What good is an OS if you can't do what you need to on it?
// Windows 95 - XP all have the same UI, and everyone already knows how to use it. How many different UIs have you seen on different Linux boxes? If you took 100 random people and put 50 in front of Linux boxes and 50 in front of Windows boxes, which do you think would be more productive?
// Windows users never need to worry about whether a piece of hardware will work in their system.
// nuff' said.
2. Standard UI.
3. Hardware support.
4. Games.
Those are just a few for starters...
Actually, there's a better reason for them to block babelfish - it can be used to get around the filters. Page blocked? Just translate it through babelfish - hot hot proxy action.
A vaccine exists, but IIRC, nearly nobody is actually vaccinated against smallpox, so the simple fact that the vaccine exists won't really help anyone much in an attack.
I also seem to remember the vaccine being a HUGE pain in the ass, and many soldiers complaining about the care it took and getting sick because of it.
Would YOU want a missile named "Satan" hitting YOU?
These things were set up to carry either nuclear warheads or the smallpox virus. I'd say "Satan" is a pretty appropriate name for them.