A lot of the problem stems from the 'good majority' silently abetting the bad few. If police were more willing to, dare I say, police their own, rather than holding the thin blue line, I think a lot of the animosity would go away.
Also, there's a fair amount of basic human psychology at play. 'Us and Them' always becomes 'Us Versus Them.' See the Stanford Prision Experiment. Abu Girab for a more recent example.
I'll say this: I've bought games on GOG.com that I could turn around and pull off of my shelf. Why? Well, generally a) for the convenience of having a nice, all in one installer rather than, say, floppies or old scratched up CDs or whatever, and b) the work of setting up DosBox, getting rid of nonfunctional copy protection, and all that jazz is done.
The only thing I'd change is to make games more amenable to custom DosBoxing. Wing Commander, for example, had a great General MIDI score. But you can't activate it in the GOG version, as the installer/configurer isn't included, and the settings file isn't really human-editable.
They certainly use excessive spectrum; the 900 mhz versions, for example, tend to be spread spectrum, non sampling; they just start blazing up and down the frequency range. Very unpleasant.
It can run serious note taking software like One Note.
Damn. I'll have to go remove One Note from my iPhone, and One Note for iPad from my iPad.
That said, I've been convinced for quite a while that the next step will be a laptop-style docking port for iDevice. an iPad 3 has more than enough juice for the vast majority of office and home computing tasks. Get home, plop it in a dock, and there's your monitor and keyboard. Undock and bugger off, and there's your portable computing experience.
Of course, Microsoft did this ten years ago, with tablet computing. And has done it again, with Surface. But for whatever reason, it won't really 'catch' until Apple does it. Poorly, but still.
The problem is, Mars is an awfully big place, and you'll have a hard time policing all of the available landing sites. Also, what will you do with ships that refuse to pay the fees? Open fire? Glare angrily?
In my mind, it's not so much a matter of inconvenience, but lost money.
In that case, the submitter doesn't say 'we can't spend thousands of dollars.' He says 'We've run a cost analysis, figured out that being down for a weekend, busiest time of year, and moving to pen/paper will cost us X amount of dollars. We've had it happen Y times over the last five years. Therefore, we're willing to spend X*Y amount of money for a solution that will eliminate Y and last for five+ years. Cost must include ongoing maintenance and what not over those five years.'
Nah, the submitter is just one of those people who honestly thinks that you can have all three of 'fast, working, cheap.' TANSTAAFL.
"I'd like the performance of a Bugatti, the lines of a Lamborghini, the gas economy of a Prius, and the price of a moped." False assumptions and spelling incorrectness on purpose, as part of the point.
Then you get somebody who things 'woohoo, I'm all up to date!' and doesn't wind up actually restarting the program in question for however long, and is vulnerable.
Sorry, me watching my Grandmother get, at various points in the last thirty years, custom-fit behind the ear hearing aids must have confused me.
As to the other, if hearing aids could be made cheaper, but of similar quality, wouldn't somebody do it? I can't imagine there's that much price fixing going on. I hear 'it should be cheaper!' for so many different products, with no rhyme or reason, that I start to tune it out.
To respond to each and every 'automated system' response: Oh hell no.
For one thing, people are, in general, stupid. For another thing, hearing is a funny thing. Ever have the audiology test where they play high-pitched sounds into your head, and you click the button when you hear them, or think you hear them?
Finally, hearing aids still tend to go to old people. The vast majority of them will not be able to use an automated system.
And the behind the ear models still have custom-fit moulding and what not.
Ok, to change the analogy, they want not to have to stand at a counter and service customers, constantly asking 'Would you like fries with that? Supersize your order?' after accepting a job to do so.
It's a bit hypocritical to have a paid model complain about people commenting on her attractiveness while on the job. It's one thing for her to be out for drinks, casually say 'Oh, I'm a model' and immediately be treated differently. Quite another to be explicitly hired to show off her body, then complain when people a) look, or b) compliement.
You, as the user, can generate a key. You can then reboot the computer, hit 'f2' or whatever to get into the bios, specifrically enable 'allow self-signed keys', and type in a given key, after acknowledging all the various warnings.
Much like self-signed ssl certs for personal webpages.
Anybody who gets an email that says 'screenshot of sexy babes! To view, reboot computer, enter bios, and do the following things,' and does, deserves to get whatever is coming to them at that point.
Note that you cannot require this, assuming this is in America (and I didn't bother reading the submission all that closely. Though I probably could have in the time it's taken to type this disclaimer. Especially the time to write about the time it would have taken. Oh deary me.) FCC OTARD
Other than that, I agree completely. Don't get into the building ISP business. And don't contract with a specific provder to do it either, if you can avoid it. Choice is good. But if you really want to do it, the method would be to put either a DSLAM on the building phone wires and provide DSL, or a CMTS on the RG-6 and provide cable internet. Don't do any of the powerline stuff. Just don't.
Yup. If you can't translate thick Indian(of various flavours), Chinese (of various flavours) or Eastern European (Romanian, in my experience) accents, you're not going to communicate well with a lot of developers.
No, he's saying that while the takedown notice was legit, it was sent out with zero regard to the circumstances of the infringer; had he realized she was a disabled person, or whatever, he might have contacted her directly rather than hitting the big red button and forgetting about it.
Have you tried calling their tech support line, and explaining the problem? Nowhere in the original submission does it say that this has been attempted.
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A lot of the problem stems from the 'good majority' silently abetting the bad few. If police were more willing to, dare I say, police their own, rather than holding the thin blue line, I think a lot of the animosity would go away.
Also, there's a fair amount of basic human psychology at play. 'Us and Them' always becomes 'Us Versus Them.' See the Stanford Prision Experiment. Abu Girab for a more recent example.
I'll say this: I've bought games on GOG.com that I could turn around and pull off of my shelf. Why? Well, generally a) for the convenience of having a nice, all in one installer rather than, say, floppies or old scratched up CDs or whatever, and b) the work of setting up DosBox, getting rid of nonfunctional copy protection, and all that jazz is done.
The only thing I'd change is to make games more amenable to custom DosBoxing. Wing Commander, for example, had a great General MIDI score. But you can't activate it in the GOG version, as the installer/configurer isn't included, and the settings file isn't really human-editable.
They certainly use excessive spectrum; the 900 mhz versions, for example, tend to be spread spectrum, non sampling; they just start blazing up and down the frequency range. Very unpleasant.
Still, not harmful.
Actually, it's more 'if I'd ever used it on a Microsoft Tablet.' Which I haven't, I admit.
Damn. I'll have to go remove One Note from my iPhone, and One Note for iPad from my iPad.
That said, I've been convinced for quite a while that the next step will be a laptop-style docking port for iDevice. an iPad 3 has more than enough juice for the vast majority of office and home computing tasks. Get home, plop it in a dock, and there's your monitor and keyboard. Undock and bugger off, and there's your portable computing experience.
Of course, Microsoft did this ten years ago, with tablet computing. And has done it again, with Surface. But for whatever reason, it won't really 'catch' until Apple does it. Poorly, but still.
The problem is, Mars is an awfully big place, and you'll have a hard time policing all of the available landing sites. Also, what will you do with ships that refuse to pay the fees? Open fire? Glare angrily?
Under the Larkin Decision, yes, but only so long as you or your people stay there and maintain physical ownership.
In that case, the submitter doesn't say 'we can't spend thousands of dollars.' He says 'We've run a cost analysis, figured out that being down for a weekend, busiest time of year, and moving to pen/paper will cost us X amount of dollars. We've had it happen Y times over the last five years. Therefore, we're willing to spend X*Y amount of money for a solution that will eliminate Y and last for five+ years. Cost must include ongoing maintenance and what not over those five years.'
Nah, the submitter is just one of those people who honestly thinks that you can have all three of 'fast, working, cheap.' TANSTAAFL.
"I'd like the performance of a Bugatti, the lines of a Lamborghini, the gas economy of a Prius, and the price of a moped." False assumptions and spelling incorrectness on purpose, as part of the point.
Because the loudest or most persistant voice can win over the correct voice.
Then call up Creative Labs and complain that they bought up and killed off Aureal's A3D technology.
Then you get somebody who things 'woohoo, I'm all up to date!' and doesn't wind up actually restarting the program in question for however long, and is vulnerable.
Sorry, me watching my Grandmother get, at various points in the last thirty years, custom-fit behind the ear hearing aids must have confused me.
As to the other, if hearing aids could be made cheaper, but of similar quality, wouldn't somebody do it? I can't imagine there's that much price fixing going on. I hear 'it should be cheaper!' for so many different products, with no rhyme or reason, that I start to tune it out.
Oh, I agree that it's a poor choice of word, mainly because it's too brutally accurate.
Let me get this straight. You pass on the cost of doing business to the customer, just like every other company? Sounds like par for the course.
To respond to each and every 'automated system' response: Oh hell no.
For one thing, people are, in general, stupid. For another thing, hearing is a funny thing. Ever have the audiology test where they play high-pitched sounds into your head, and you click the button when you hear them, or think you hear them?
Finally, hearing aids still tend to go to old people. The vast majority of them will not be able to use an automated system.
And the behind the ear models still have custom-fit moulding and what not.
Ok, to change the analogy, they want not to have to stand at a counter and service customers, constantly asking 'Would you like fries with that? Supersize your order?' after accepting a job to do so.
It's a bit hypocritical to have a paid model complain about people commenting on her attractiveness while on the job. It's one thing for her to be out for drinks, casually say 'Oh, I'm a model' and immediately be treated differently. Quite another to be explicitly hired to show off her body, then complain when people a) look, or b) compliement.
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Don't forget to change the password on all the other accounts with the same password on various websites and services that you use.
You, as the user, can generate a key. You can then reboot the computer, hit 'f2' or whatever to get into the bios, specifrically enable 'allow self-signed keys', and type in a given key, after acknowledging all the various warnings.
Much like self-signed ssl certs for personal webpages.
Anybody who gets an email that says 'screenshot of sexy babes! To view, reboot computer, enter bios, and do the following things,' and does, deserves to get whatever is coming to them at that point.
Note that you cannot require this, assuming this is in America (and I didn't bother reading the submission all that closely. Though I probably could have in the time it's taken to type this disclaimer. Especially the time to write about the time it would have taken. Oh deary me.) FCC OTARD
Other than that, I agree completely. Don't get into the building ISP business. And don't contract with a specific provder to do it either, if you can avoid it. Choice is good. But if you really want to do it, the method would be to put either a DSLAM on the building phone wires and provide DSL, or a CMTS on the RG-6 and provide cable internet. Don't do any of the powerline stuff. Just don't.
Yup. If you can't translate thick Indian(of various flavours), Chinese (of various flavours) or Eastern European (Romanian, in my experience) accents, you're not going to communicate well with a lot of developers.
It also proves that the Cylons were right. "All of this has been posted before, and will be posted again."
What, '10 year low' sounds like a stretch?
No, he's saying that while the takedown notice was legit, it was sent out with zero regard to the circumstances of the infringer; had he realized she was a disabled person, or whatever, he might have contacted her directly rather than hitting the big red button and forgetting about it.
Have you tried calling their tech support line, and explaining the problem? Nowhere in the original submission does it say that this has been attempted.