FTA: "The government archaeological agency said Wednesday it will decide by next week whether Starbucks should pay any fees. "
Has anyone thought yet to ask where the images came from? It seems obvious to me that what could have happened was that Starbucks took photographs taken by the government archaeological society, which the society may have used for post-cards, t-shirts, or other tourism items and placed them on Starbucks mugs without paying fees to the Mexican government for those photographs.
Those photographs would then be copyright, just as any photograph would.
M$ isn't looking to return back on investment for one year, or even a few years when it comes from R&D. They're looking for another alchemist's stone, which has the power to turn bullshit into gold.
That's what they had with Windows and the home PC.
It doesn't have to do with loss of a customer, but rather the loss of a customer before they've held the contract long enough that they pay back the phone that they got at a steep discount with the contract.
The discounts are so steep because smart phones are so expensive, that's why they require smart phone plans and other BS to increase service costs to cover those phones, and also why they have a higher cancellation fee to cover the difference that the service plan wouldn't have if the customer cancelled early.
The original complain states that he did not have unsupervised access to telephones, internet, or outside communication, so you are likely correct in your doubts.
"Is this a WHQL certified driver or a bleeding edge driver? Might try a WHQL."
It's a WHQL. It has something to do with their nv4_disp.dll library.
"IRQ conflicts? Are those even possible on modern hardware and OS--what version of Windows are you running? Anyway, you could always slipstream drivers onto a Windows CD, it's really not bad to do."
Win XP pro. It's on a DFI Lanparty UT CFX3200 Mobo, so you can determine if that's modern or not.
I'm still looking into slipstreaming the drivers and how that might affect my install.
I updated my video drivers 2 days ago, and since then, I BSOD every time I try to start up Fallout 3.
I also BSOD after 10 hours or so due to IRQ conflicts, which cannot be resolved until I buy a floppy drive so that windows can install RAID driviers in the most archaic way possible.
"You have a very simplistic view of this problem. Seriously, if it was simply as easy as arming a merchant ship, don't you think they would have done it already?"
You mean like they did for the past few hundred years up until fairly recently (mid 1940s)?
It worked fairly well back then, and that was with government sponsored pirates and war ships, not just 10' fishing boats and angry Somalians.
Pirates have GUNS. If they wanted to stop a ship, they could just shoot at the cabin. Why would they be piddling around with some expensive non-lethal rope-shooter?
Even though Jagex has gone through extensive measures to limit the ability of hackers to harm their prey, there is still a plague of hacks from merchanting clans and account sellers that specifically attack those people who do not yet have a bank pin.
The idea is that some private clan performs a buyout on some item, then when the item crashes, the inside members hack other accounts, then use the hacked player to buy the crashing items. Typically, the hacker then drops the crashing items on the other player's account to reduced evidence or just to be mean.
It's not as uncommon as you would think. I partly run the Discuss Item clan chat as part of a proactive means to help players without the trolling and otherwise undesirable immaturity that is typically found on the Forums. We get players panicking several times per week after finding that their RS savings have been replaced by a few thousand 300% inflated crashing potions or runes.
Account selling is even simpler. They target pures or exceptionally wealthy players, then sell their accounts cheaply to new players.
Personally, as a player with substantial in-game wealth, I make sure to deposit *all* of my items into the bank behind a pin before I log out.
I don't think anyone was arguing that logic and philosophy (faith being in the realm of philosophy) are separate.
That's not what the OP was arguing either. He was saying that you must have some form of faith to even accept your reality as stable such that you can observe with the scientific method to make your conclusions in the first place.
It's simply difficult to have a motivation to find a formula representing a natural system if you have no faith that there is even order in the first place.
That doesn't mean that it cannot be derived without faith, but simply that human nature, for the most part, would not allow it. After all, we are animals, not computers, and are preconditioned to seek for some goal with that goal in mind, not stumble blindly through logical conclusions until we find useful knowledge.
"It's usually a business of maximizing productive features versus minimizing cost and time."
That might have been true 10 years ago, but most technical managers now realize that to minimize cost and time, you must first thoroughly test, maintain, and understand all code that is written.
In the corporate software development world, it's constantly drilled that a small overhead in development for maintainability is orders of magnitude less expensive and time consuming than dealing with problems in the future.
The only thing that keeps borking that principle up are lazy developers that make broad assumptions and check their code off as correct.
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The article doesn't say what kind of claim the Mexican government is making.
It doesn't go one way or the other.
FTA: "The government archaeological agency said Wednesday it will decide by next week whether Starbucks should pay any fees. "
Has anyone thought yet to ask where the images came from? It seems obvious to me that what could have happened was that Starbucks took photographs taken by the government archaeological society, which the society may have used for post-cards, t-shirts, or other tourism items and placed them on Starbucks mugs without paying fees to the Mexican government for those photographs.
Those photographs would then be copyright, just as any photograph would.
M$ isn't looking to return back on investment for one year, or even a few years when it comes from R&D. They're looking for another alchemist's stone, which has the power to turn bullshit into gold.
That's what they had with Windows and the home PC.
That's what they're searching for now.
No but you can borrow my collection of GBA games from those series, almost all of which have open ended plotlines for future expansions of the series.
The Anonymous posters above is correct.
It doesn't have to do with loss of a customer, but rather the loss of a customer before they've held the contract long enough that they pay back the phone that they got at a steep discount with the contract.
The discounts are so steep because smart phones are so expensive, that's why they require smart phone plans and other BS to increase service costs to cover those phones, and also why they have a higher cancellation fee to cover the difference that the service plan wouldn't have if the customer cancelled early.
The original complain states that he did not have unsupervised access to telephones, internet, or outside communication, so you are likely correct in your doubts.
I explicitly set a /nopae flag in my boot.ini, rebooted, and tried to run Fallout 3.
I BSOD'ed about a second later than normal (soon as I exited Vault 183 is it?).
That's interesting. Once I figure out where I can turn it off, I'll let you know if it's on. :p
XP Pro
"Is this a WHQL certified driver or a bleeding edge driver? Might try a WHQL."
It's a WHQL. It has something to do with their nv4_disp.dll library.
"IRQ conflicts? Are those even possible on modern hardware and OS--what version of Windows are you running? Anyway, you could always slipstream drivers onto a Windows CD, it's really not bad to do."
Win XP pro. It's on a DFI Lanparty UT CFX3200 Mobo, so you can determine if that's modern or not.
I'm still looking into slipstreaming the drivers and how that might affect my install.
I updated my video drivers 2 days ago, and since then, I BSOD every time I try to start up Fallout 3.
I also BSOD after 10 hours or so due to IRQ conflicts, which cannot be resolved until I buy a floppy drive so that windows can install RAID driviers in the most archaic way possible.
Thanks Windows
"So in the scenario that your method of identifying pirates is "shoot at them" and see what happens, you're likely to get a fatal surprise."
Notice, I said shoot back, not shoot at them, or shoot preemptively.
I.E., wait for sign of aggression, and respond with aggression.
If they're fishermen, they won't be shooting at you to get your attention.
If they're pirates and not posing a threat (against the fundamentals of pirating), then they can be ignored.
"You have a very simplistic view of this problem. Seriously, if it was simply as easy as arming a merchant ship, don't you think they would have done it already?"
You mean like they did for the past few hundred years up until fairly recently (mid 1940s)?
It worked fairly well back then, and that was with government sponsored pirates and war ships, not just 10' fishing boats and angry Somalians.
Easy way to become 100% accurate is to shoot back.
Remember, pirates are there to intimidate first so that they get what they want with no danger to themselves.
It should be pretty obvious that boats with guns and RPGs blazing are probably not local fishermen.
Pirates have GUNS. If they wanted to stop a ship, they could just shoot at the cabin. Why would they be piddling around with some expensive non-lethal rope-shooter?
Note the hyphen which can be used as a compound modifier. It's Aluminum-Ice fuel, as in, Aluminum and Ice.
Not as in crystallized solid Aluminum.
5$/month for me :D
Even though Jagex has gone through extensive measures to limit the ability of hackers to harm their prey, there is still a plague of hacks from merchanting clans and account sellers that specifically attack those people who do not yet have a bank pin.
The idea is that some private clan performs a buyout on some item, then when the item crashes, the inside members hack other accounts, then use the hacked player to buy the crashing items. Typically, the hacker then drops the crashing items on the other player's account to reduced evidence or just to be mean.
It's not as uncommon as you would think. I partly run the Discuss Item clan chat as part of a proactive means to help players without the trolling and otherwise undesirable immaturity that is typically found on the Forums. We get players panicking several times per week after finding that their RS savings have been replaced by a few thousand 300% inflated crashing potions or runes.
Account selling is even simpler. They target pures or exceptionally wealthy players, then sell their accounts cheaply to new players.
Personally, as a player with substantial in-game wealth, I make sure to deposit *all* of my items into the bank behind a pin before I log out.
Typo'ed out a word. My bad.
Should read: "that logic and philosophy (faith being in the realm of philosophy) are not separate."
I don't think anyone was arguing that logic and philosophy (faith being in the realm of philosophy) are separate.
That's not what the OP was arguing either. He was saying that you must have some form of faith to even accept your reality as stable such that you can observe with the scientific method to make your conclusions in the first place.
It's simply difficult to have a motivation to find a formula representing a natural system if you have no faith that there is even order in the first place.
That doesn't mean that it cannot be derived without faith, but simply that human nature, for the most part, would not allow it. After all, we are animals, not computers, and are preconditioned to seek for some goal with that goal in mind, not stumble blindly through logical conclusions until we find useful knowledge.
Because Democrats fear right wing hawks and therefore vote with Republicans?
Com'on now. At least give him credit for not being a muppet and having the balls to vote the way he thinks, which was in support of that plan.
I mean, that's why he's President as a leader of our nation now right? Because he acts upon his beliefs?
No, and he obviously also shares no connection, responsibility, or support of that package.
We can keep playing this game.
Why does everyone keep doing calculations with 114 TB?
The article says 144 TB.
114<144
"It's usually a business of maximizing productive features versus minimizing cost and time."
That might have been true 10 years ago, but most technical managers now realize that to minimize cost and time, you must first thoroughly test, maintain, and understand all code that is written.
In the corporate software development world, it's constantly drilled that a small overhead in development for maintainability is orders of magnitude less expensive and time consuming than dealing with problems in the future.
The only thing that keeps borking that principle up are lazy developers that make broad assumptions and check their code off as correct.
"Legal scholars" wrote:
"Lisa Stone, on the other hand, is even worse. She is lashing out like a crazy-white-lady mom..."?
Seems like the original article has more professionalism.
No, it is a multi-billion DOLLAR, multi trillion YEN goal.
Yen cost is ~2 trillion. Dollar cost is 21 billion.