Oh please. We all know Steve Jobs will just backdate his stock options to exploit any profits' impact on stock price, ultimately negatively affecting all other stock holders.
The first thing I do when I get a phone is put sticky tape over the fucking water sensors.
They've been known to go off if you leave them on the counter while you take a shower.
Realistically, the dots are just there so when you take your phone in saying "It's broken" they can take it in the back to do some bullshit "test" that actually involves an eyedropper full of water. "Oh, water damage, no warranty, sorry. Buy a new phone!"
There's a reason they 're calling it a decision engine, not a search engine.
In a few years, they may be able to do the following:
"Why is Windows so Expensive?" "It's not. You're thinking of Macs. Macs are expensive. Here's some reasons why."
And you know what? They'd be fucking right to do it. 99% of the time, the user is, in fact, a moron.
This is no different than Google drumming up Youtube hits or Wikipedia hits (search for any noun, Wikipedia is in the top page if there's an article on it). This is no different than Google correcting my spelling, grammar, etc.
The goal is to take what the user says, find out what the user means, and present the user with what they want.
Google does Says -> Means well. MS is focusing on the other half, Means -> Wants.
Play around with their airline ticket thing and you'll see what I mean.
Any definition of hack, except for the real one. You know, with an axe or such, that's still legal. Provided what you're hacking is RoHS compliant I suppose.
They DO have a right to stop you. Read the DMCA.
You're just completely WRONG about this.
Early PS3s have a PS2 inside them and still play PS2 games. Later PS3s had software backwards compatibility, and I believe it was removed because it sucked ass. PS3s after that have no support for PS2 games.
Yes. The trial is doing the treatment, then hauling their ass off to the looney bin when they break down in anxiety, or giving them a pat on the back and saying "you're cured" when they realize they've been morons all along.
It doesn't matter if it's for profit. Going around the encryption schemes is against the DMCA. Reverse engineering is against the DMCA.
The only cases where it's been allowed involved researching shit to get a clone/emulator going for hardware that is no longer available/supported.
Bitch all you want about how you think the law is wrong or the punishments too severe. I agree completely. But there's no question at all that hacking your consoles is illegal. Running emulators (for any system with built-in copy protection/code signing/etc, i.e., all modern consoles, handhelds, and arcade units) is illegal (Bleem! was the last one to get in just before the DMCA).
That's the way it is. I don't like it. But I don't feign shock and outrage when some fool gets caught because he was being too open and too large-scale about it.
Dumb. You don't know who he's doing the installs for. It is not always appropriate to slap a generic image onto a PC, nor is it time effective to maintain hundreds of different images.
Disk imaging is a terrible solution. You have to have identical or nearly identical hardware for that to work, then you still have to go through the first-run shit (you ARE using sysprep, right?), then you've got to update all the apps on your month-old image, get the security updates, etc. Might as well just do a fresh install. It takes pretty much the same amount of time (time where you're actively doing something), and you're left with a cleaner system in the end.
Disk imaging is for backups and wide-scale, same-image deployment on identical hardware. And you have to constantly maintain that image.
Other "solutions" have similar issues. Remember Rembo (now Tivoli)? Yeah, fuck that shit. Installing Windows then adding on packages took fucking ages. Sure you could do a bunch of PCs at once, but that was only useful since we were a computing lab.
When you have different clients, different licenses (cd-keys), different preferences, applications, etc., a fresh install is the best method. You can automate as much or as little of the setup as you need to, and you can include an ass ton of drivers on the disc (windows will only install the drivers for the hardware you actually have), you can slap on security updates, you can configure end-of-installation scripts, first-run scripts, etc.
Or you know, by putting them in a double blind trial, and then when they fail, take them to your office to discuss the results.
See, you got about 50% right. Like you were guessing. Half the time you said you felt symptoms there was nothing to cause it. Half the time you felt nothing there were 20 routers running.
It's all in your head. Stop being retarded. Look, we have 100 routers running right here in this very room. Right in that closet. Open it up, if you dare.
They just swap out motherboards with others they have lying in the back room. It's all refurbished crap, and that's why you always get recurring problems.
Getting a free new laptop? You got fucking lucky. Apple Care didn't do shit for my girlfriend's iPod. They simply didn't give a shit.
No, he bought it because it was the only media player that supports tailoring bills. As a duck owner myself, I know how difficult it can be to get bills fitted manually.
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Because you can't fucking trust the client for shit, anything client side should be minimal.
basically, yes
My phone works fine.
The dot says otherwise.
That you're a dipshit?
Son, we know that TODAY.
Oh please.
We all know Steve Jobs will just backdate his stock options to exploit any profits' impact on stock price, ultimately negatively affecting all other stock holders.
OH NOES PALLADIUM WILL EAT YOUR PC AND RAPE YOUR CHILDREN
Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING. THAT'S BECAUSE I'M YELLING
The first thing I do when I get a phone is put sticky tape over the fucking water sensors.
They've been known to go off if you leave them on the counter while you take a shower.
Realistically, the dots are just there so when you take your phone in saying "It's broken" they can take it in the back to do some bullshit "test" that actually involves an eyedropper full of water. "Oh, water damage, no warranty, sorry. Buy a new phone!"
There's a reason they 're calling it a decision engine, not a search engine.
In a few years, they may be able to do the following:
"Why is Windows so Expensive?"
"It's not. You're thinking of Macs. Macs are expensive. Here's some reasons why."
And you know what?
They'd be fucking right to do it.
99% of the time, the user is, in fact, a moron.
This is no different than Google drumming up Youtube hits or Wikipedia hits (search for any noun, Wikipedia is in the top page if there's an article on it). This is no different than Google correcting my spelling, grammar, etc.
The goal is to take what the user says, find out what the user means, and present the user with what they want.
Google does Says -> Means well.
MS is focusing on the other half, Means -> Wants.
Play around with their airline ticket thing and you'll see what I mean.
Every PS3 system says on the box whether or not is supports PS2 games.
That advertisement is definitely not in effect.
Any definition of hack, except for the real one. You know, with an axe or such, that's still legal. Provided what you're hacking is RoHS compliant I suppose.
They DO have a right to stop you.
Read the DMCA.
You're just completely WRONG about this.
Early PS3s have a PS2 inside them and still play PS2 games.
Later PS3s had software backwards compatibility, and I believe it was removed because it sucked ass.
PS3s after that have no support for PS2 games.
None of this was a secret.
Why?
How would you improve on a spider's general design?
What would you point to as an obvious weakness?
Shit like spiders and sharks have stayed relatively the same for hundreds of millions of years because what they have works.
I'm currently trying to get a refund for Wipeout HD.
Surprise surprise, the support jockey claims no refunds and tells me to read the EULA.
Sucks for them - I've got nothing better to do than to bitch endlessly about it.
This shit easily classifies as consumer fraud.
"A guy is given the power to shoot people"
No.
They're given orders, and they're expected to follow them.
I think YOU need to.
He still should have vetoed it.
What's the point of rolling over and saying "Oh they'll override my veto anyway."?
Yes.
The trial is doing the treatment, then hauling their ass off to the looney bin when they break down in anxiety, or giving them a pat on the back and saying "you're cured" when they realize they've been morons all along.
My post includes the trials part.
It doesn't matter if it's for profit.
Going around the encryption schemes is against the DMCA.
Reverse engineering is against the DMCA.
The only cases where it's been allowed involved researching shit to get a clone/emulator going for hardware that is no longer available/supported.
Bitch all you want about how you think the law is wrong or the punishments too severe. I agree completely. But there's no question at all that hacking your consoles is illegal. Running emulators (for any system with built-in copy protection/code signing/etc, i.e., all modern consoles, handhelds, and arcade units) is illegal (Bleem! was the last one to get in just before the DMCA).
That's the way it is. I don't like it. But I don't feign shock and outrage when some fool gets caught because he was being too open and too large-scale about it.
You can thank Bill Clinton for the DMCA.
Plastics.
Dumb.
You don't know who he's doing the installs for.
It is not always appropriate to slap a generic image onto a PC, nor is it time effective to maintain hundreds of different images.
Disk imaging is a terrible solution. You have to have identical or nearly identical hardware for that to work, then you still have to go through the first-run shit (you ARE using sysprep, right?), then you've got to update all the apps on your month-old image, get the security updates, etc. Might as well just do a fresh install. It takes pretty much the same amount of time (time where you're actively doing something), and you're left with a cleaner system in the end.
Disk imaging is for backups and wide-scale, same-image deployment on identical hardware. And you have to constantly maintain that image.
Other "solutions" have similar issues. Remember Rembo (now Tivoli)? Yeah, fuck that shit. Installing Windows then adding on packages took fucking ages. Sure you could do a bunch of PCs at once, but that was only useful since we were a computing lab.
When you have different clients, different licenses (cd-keys), different preferences, applications, etc., a fresh install is the best method. You can automate as much or as little of the setup as you need to, and you can include an ass ton of drivers on the disc (windows will only install the drivers for the hardware you actually have), you can slap on security updates, you can configure end-of-installation scripts, first-run scripts, etc.
Or you know, by putting them in a double blind trial, and then when they fail, take them to your office to discuss the results.
See, you got about 50% right. Like you were guessing. Half the time you said you felt symptoms there was nothing to cause it. Half the time you felt nothing there were 20 routers running.
It's all in your head. Stop being retarded.
Look, we have 100 routers running right here in this very room. Right in that closet. Open it up, if you dare.
Eating your own meat also involves a lot of flexibility.
They just swap out motherboards with others they have lying in the back room. It's all refurbished crap, and that's why you always get recurring problems.
Getting a free new laptop? You got fucking lucky. Apple Care didn't do shit for my girlfriend's iPod. They simply didn't give a shit.
No, he bought it because it was the only media player that supports tailoring bills. As a duck owner myself, I know how difficult it can be to get bills fitted manually.
There's an app for that