When will they learn that this is an outdated and flawed plan? I mean, it's a lot harder to illegally download a Kindle than an E-book; they should focus on the products that they have more control over.
From TFA: "(First-time players might spend $500 for a quality electric guitar.)"
If you're a first time player, you aren't likely to go out and buy a "quality" guitar for $500 unless you're a rich kid or something. More likely, you'd go out and buy a $50 used strat from the pawn shop.
My high school had CCTV in the hallways, and this ways nearly 10 years ago. They would have been really handy once when I got hurt in school. I was walking down the hallway and someone shoved me into a textured wall and cut my head open. I don't know who did it, if it was malice or accident, and there just happened to not be a camera pointed at the spot where it happened so no one got in trouble for it.
I could see this being a good thing in classrooms for similar reasons, and I find it hard to imagine what you'd be doing in class that you're afraid of being recorded on camera...
I paid $5 for Death Magnetic brand new at Hot Topic the day it came out, and it actually had a real nice package, not just the standard jewel case and booklet. Didn't seem like much of a rip off to me. Seems like Metallica is at least TRYING to give some extra value to the physical media, and now they are left scratching their heads figuring out how to beat p2p and get their market back.
I remember a game way back when I was in grade school (late 80s) on the Apple IIc which taught some agricultural concepts. Things like crop rotation, plowing patterns, etc. I don't remember what it was called, or that it was all that fun or educational at the time, but it must have some effect if I still remember to plow your fields against the slope of your hill 20 years later.
Also, the reason why conduit and wiring boxes should be metal is that it provides a ground in case a wire did become exposed somehow. In theory, the metal casing should be a path all the way to the service panel ground, so if you had a wire touch it, a breaker should trip and cut off the power. That's also one reason why the ground wire is a set of wires is usually just bare solid copper with no insulation (that, and its cheaper to not insulate it).
Pest control is probably part of it, but I think the main reasons are fire prevention and safety issues. Rubber insulation is great, but its not impervious, a nice steel pipe around it is much more resilient. Plus if you get a major power surge, like a lightning strike or something, your wires are much less likely to melt and start a fire inside your walls if they are in conduit. In my state anyway, you're not legally allowed to run wiring in a commercial building exposed, ie, not in conduit.
You can do this, but the results might depend on who your neighbor is. I used to work in a video store in a shopping center, next door to a Wal-Mart. One day the landlord calls up and says we've been reported for excessive vermin by Wal-Mart, and the rats are becoming a problem to them. We, a video store, who rents movies, were drawing more rats than Wal-Mart, that sells various things including food? Not likely, but guess who got to pay the exterminator anyway?
How do you fill out registration cards if you never open the boxes? Seriously though, you have a good point. Remember back in the day when you used to get STUFF with games? Like a real book, maps, posters, figurines, etc? Those days it was totally worth it to go buy the game, you can't download or copy the nifty stuff (maybe posters or books, but anyway..) If they want to sell more stuff, they should make something worth selling and keeping.
I'll take your bet, if I get to pick the hospital. In a rural type area, sure you might have more people that injure themselves with tools than guns, but go to some inner city hospital in Detroit and ask them how many hammering accidents they've seen today. Any tool becomes exponentially more dangerous when you use it improperly, and I think much less people use guns properly (ie, for purely defensive purposes) than people who use hammers properly (for hitting/pulling nails and things).
I was referring to your 'real WTF' remark, but anyway, never mind. Your way just seems like more work and more complication both of which are bad in software and UI design. You must know as well as I do that not every user knows to count the dots/asterisks on password input forms. Hell, a lot of people can't even look at the screen while they're typing. Input should be sanitized before processing for sure, but that usually involves escaping characters more so than just ignoring them. So why take the time to do the extra work of filtering passwords, which is just going to annoy the user anyway?
#1 you're on the wrong site, and #2 if you let someone enter ' pass123 ' but you silently store 'pass123' then the user will have no idea why their clever password doesn't work.
The better question is, why care if they type spaces before or after their password? You can store a string of spaces just as easily as printable characters...
No, if they SOLD it, it would be par for the course. You have a good point if it was bundled with the OS, they could just make the OS resistant to viruses, but if you have to BUY the module to prevent viruses...
1. Develop OS vulnerable to viruses 2. Monopolize the OS market 3. Sell anti-virus software. 4. Profit!
Since when is diagonal != straight? I think you're confusing diagonal with curved... Anyway, interesting comparison there, but do you think any pre/teenager would read that far in to it?
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When will they learn that this is an outdated and flawed plan? I mean, it's a lot harder to illegally download a Kindle than an E-book; they should focus on the products that they have more control over.
Luckily neither he nor his cohorts ever thought to set up shop outside of Gotham City.
"What do you mean the radio is dead?"
"Sorry sir, these iPods really suck the batteries!"
So parasites are not living things?
From TFA: "(First-time players might spend $500 for a quality electric guitar.)"
If you're a first time player, you aren't likely to go out and buy a "quality" guitar for $500 unless you're a rich kid or something. More likely, you'd go out and buy a $50 used strat from the pawn shop.
My high school had CCTV in the hallways, and this ways nearly 10 years ago. They would have been really handy once when I got hurt in school. I was walking down the hallway and someone shoved me into a textured wall and cut my head open. I don't know who did it, if it was malice or accident, and there just happened to not be a camera pointed at the spot where it happened so no one got in trouble for it.
I could see this being a good thing in classrooms for similar reasons, and I find it hard to imagine what you'd be doing in class that you're afraid of being recorded on camera...
Charley Chan talked?
This isn't his first ball game.
I paid $5 for Death Magnetic brand new at Hot Topic the day it came out, and it actually had a real nice package, not just the standard jewel case and booklet. Didn't seem like much of a rip off to me. Seems like Metallica is at least TRYING to give some extra value to the physical media, and now they are left scratching their heads figuring out how to beat p2p and get their market back.
I'd download it.
Could this be the first time the Streisand Effect is considered a national security issue?
If I were working on a dying game, I'd take more accounts and characters in game any way I could get them.
No, its more like them billing HIM for the chair because they gave him one that was too nice.
I remember a game way back when I was in grade school (late 80s) on the Apple IIc which taught some agricultural concepts. Things like crop rotation, plowing patterns, etc. I don't remember what it was called, or that it was all that fun or educational at the time, but it must have some effect if I still remember to plow your fields against the slope of your hill 20 years later.
Also, the reason why conduit and wiring boxes should be metal is that it provides a ground in case a wire did become exposed somehow. In theory, the metal casing should be a path all the way to the service panel ground, so if you had a wire touch it, a breaker should trip and cut off the power. That's also one reason why the ground wire is a set of wires is usually just bare solid copper with no insulation (that, and its cheaper to not insulate it).
Pest control is probably part of it, but I think the main reasons are fire prevention and safety issues. Rubber insulation is great, but its not impervious, a nice steel pipe around it is much more resilient. Plus if you get a major power surge, like a lightning strike or something, your wires are much less likely to melt and start a fire inside your walls if they are in conduit. In my state anyway, you're not legally allowed to run wiring in a commercial building exposed, ie, not in conduit.
You can do this, but the results might depend on who your neighbor is. I used to work in a video store in a shopping center, next door to a Wal-Mart. One day the landlord calls up and says we've been reported for excessive vermin by Wal-Mart, and the rats are becoming a problem to them. We, a video store, who rents movies, were drawing more rats than Wal-Mart, that sells various things including food? Not likely, but guess who got to pay the exterminator anyway?
Sounds a lot like the funeral home business. Now wouldn't THAT be scary?
"It is now safe to bury your grandmother."
How do you fill out registration cards if you never open the boxes? Seriously though, you have a good point. Remember back in the day when you used to get STUFF with games? Like a real book, maps, posters, figurines, etc? Those days it was totally worth it to go buy the game, you can't download or copy the nifty stuff (maybe posters or books, but anyway..) If they want to sell more stuff, they should make something worth selling and keeping.
I'll take your bet, if I get to pick the hospital. In a rural type area, sure you might have more people that injure themselves with tools than guns, but go to some inner city hospital in Detroit and ask them how many hammering accidents they've seen today. Any tool becomes exponentially more dangerous when you use it improperly, and I think much less people use guns properly (ie, for purely defensive purposes) than people who use hammers properly (for hitting/pulling nails and things).
I was referring to your 'real WTF' remark, but anyway, never mind. Your way just seems like more work and more complication both of which are bad in software and UI design. You must know as well as I do that not every user knows to count the dots/asterisks on password input forms. Hell, a lot of people can't even look at the screen while they're typing. Input should be sanitized before processing for sure, but that usually involves escaping characters more so than just ignoring them. So why take the time to do the extra work of filtering passwords, which is just going to annoy the user anyway?
#1 you're on the wrong site, and #2 if you let someone enter ' pass123 ' but you silently store 'pass123' then the user will have no idea why their clever password doesn't work. The better question is, why care if they type spaces before or after their password? You can store a string of spaces just as easily as printable characters...
"oishisou"
No, if they SOLD it, it would be par for the course. You have a good point if it was bundled with the OS, they could just make the OS resistant to viruses, but if you have to BUY the module to prevent viruses...
1. Develop OS vulnerable to viruses
2. Monopolize the OS market
3. Sell anti-virus software.
4. Profit!
Since when is diagonal != straight? I think you're confusing diagonal with curved... Anyway, interesting comparison there, but do you think any pre/teenager would read that far in to it?