Who pirates a 99cent game? I'm betting no one. More likely, they just realised they could get more revenue per install with an ad-supported + spyware model and knew Apple wouldn't let them put spyware in the app store. Lets do a quick test... android market.. dead trigger.. permissions.. Oh look, "READ PHONE STATE AND IDENTITY - Allows the app to access the phone features of the device. An app with this permission can determine the phone number and serial number of this phone, whether a call is active, the number that call is connected to and the like." and "RETRIEVE RUNNING APPS - Allows the app to retrieve information about currently and recently running tasks. Malicious apps may discover private information about other apps." and "AUTOMATICALLY START AT BOOT
Allows the app to have itself started as soon as the system has finished booting. This can make it take longer to start the tablet and allow the app to slow down the overall tablet by always running. Allows the app to have itself started as soon as the system has finished booting. This can make it take longer to start the phone and allow the app to slow down the overall phone by always running."...... Yep, nothing suss here, a FRACKIN VIDEO GAME totally needs those permissions.
Keep your 'free' crap. And next time, at least TRY to mask your dishonesty a bit better. This bullshit isn't fooling anyone.
I've seen far more believable bots sitting in random irc channels than this thing. It loses track of context easily, repeats itself a lot, can't introspect or infer and misuses common words but accurately uses big long words. And none of these in the way a 13yr old would.
'What's up?'
'I don't understand that. Where do you work again? I must have missed it.'
'Um, you never asked me'
'Never say never! That's what my gandma says.'
'You never had a grandma'
'This is true. Where do you work again? I must have missed it.'
a) incredibly obvious bot
b) eerily sounds like an info scraper for some marketing crap...../really/ insists on knowing where I work?
Too bad it's still $600 here in AU for the 16gb playbook ($800 for the 64gb). Despite our dollar being slightly stronger than the US. Maybe if RIM weren't imposing foreigner tax on everyone they might do a bit better.
And lets not forget that the requested features *already exist* within the driver code base. AMD just doesn't turned them on when building the linux package! This isn't the same as having to write interface code for a different window manager or library or kernel interface or something that requires an actual porting effort, this is internal code that talks to their firmware to send/receive data and process it on their hardware. It already does this for h264 THERE and turned on when building for windows. All they have to do is change a #ifdef and suddenly linux support catches up with windows in their driver. This really is a f*cking retarded situation and people are right to be angry at AMD for artificially limiting their experiences. Under the table agreements with a particular REALLY large software maker much? It seems to be the only explanation that causes this situation to make any kind of sense.
If you do alter your mouse settings to give you more screen movement per inch of physical movement, you'll just reduce your accuracy and end up hurting yourself in more localised mouse action instead.
That's why every modern (and not so modern) OS on earth also has a setting for "mouse acceleration" that makes this issue moot. You can cover a large swath of the screen and still retain very high fine movement accuracy with ease once you tune this right for your personal comfort. I've never had a problem hitting single pixels or going from one corner to it's diagonal partner to trigger expose and workspaces on OSX and their equivalents in Gnome and KDE. And I never have to move my arm to do so, nor stretch or strain anything. Been using WIMPs for decades and my tendons are just fine:)
As a lawyer, she should have known that to get her sites reinstated all she had to do was contact GoDaddy herself and file a claim of non-violation of the DMCA, at which point GoDaddy are required to reinstate the site while the 2 parties let the courts nut it out.
As PEr the terms of the DMCA, upon initial filing of the takedown GoDaddy have to disable access to the content. But the onus is then on the would-be defendant to dispute the charge to reinstate access and which point it's out of GoDaddy's hands and up to the courts unless both parties decide to settle the matter themselves.
We know the germans used IBM counting machines to classify and track jews too. Maybe we should hand in our computers. Tyrants use media to brainwash and spread propaganda so we should throw out or TVs and unplug the internet. See the problem with such arguments is that while indeed being facts, they completely fly in the face of common sense with their rationales.
Do you have children? I'm guessing not. When someone grabs at your child wanting to touch them all over, adrenaline and rage take over all cognitive function and I doubt any TSA rentacop has reflexes to reciprocate.
Yeah because drug mules so often try to hijack airplanes instead of trying to lay low and not attract attention to themselves. Also a gropedown doesn't detect internal objects, which is how said drug mules do it - swallowing condoms of substance. Any other method gets picked up by dogs pretty damned quick
No shit. I can promise you right now if anyone ever did that to my daughter they wouldn't be breathing for long after. TSA, cop, a judge, The Pope, The Queen, I don't really care who it is they would be dead before they hit the ground. Duress is applicable when it's your child being attacked and molested.
Speaking of early Voyager, I decided to watch some recently. In one very early episode they made a reference to 'warp particles'.. and suddenly all Star Trek looks daft now and no amount of Q can fix it.
It makes perfect sense. Corporations run the country. Didn't you know? It's only fitting they should control the military assets and IP since they control all other aspects of government now.
I think they basically blackmailed the EU, threatening to require Visa for all Europeans, announcing special controls and harassment of European travelers if they EU would not comply, etc.
This is already the case. For everyone. The only thing they could do that would have any more effect on Europeans than others is to deny entry completely.
The symptoms of 'GPU Failure' are wide and varied. While 'flickering' is the most VISIBLE symptom it is by no means the only one. The effects of such a scenario can range from silent random occasional memory corruption that could go unnoticed for months and be mistaken as dodgy software or driver issues, to excessive overheating resulting in the chip exploding (RARE but I've seen it once. Keep in mind the amount of current these things draw..) and everything in between.
I'm glad Apple replaced your laptop, but we're not talking about your case here are we? We're talking about this other guy's case where Apple actually refused to keep good on their pledge which had effectively become a warranty (now/validated in court).
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Did anyone else stop and think 'That's not really fair, Mountain Lion isn't THAT bad' when they read the headline?
Who pirates a 99cent game? I'm betting no one. More likely, they just realised they could get more revenue per install with an ad-supported + spyware model and knew Apple wouldn't let them put spyware in the app store. Lets do a quick test... android market.. dead trigger.. permissions.. Oh look, "READ PHONE STATE AND IDENTITY - Allows the app to access the phone features of the device. An app with this permission can determine the phone number and serial number of this phone, whether a call is active, the number that call is connected to and the like." and "RETRIEVE RUNNING APPS - Allows the app to retrieve information about currently and recently running tasks. Malicious apps may discover private information about other apps." and "AUTOMATICALLY START AT BOOT Allows the app to have itself started as soon as the system has finished booting. This can make it take longer to start the tablet and allow the app to slow down the overall tablet by always running. Allows the app to have itself started as soon as the system has finished booting. This can make it take longer to start the phone and allow the app to slow down the overall phone by always running." ...... Yep, nothing suss here, a FRACKIN VIDEO GAME totally needs those permissions.
Keep your 'free' crap. And next time, at least TRY to mask your dishonesty a bit better. This bullshit isn't fooling anyone.
*loses* billions of dollars a year. There, fixed that for you.
I'd upvote if i had mod points. Getting tired of being caught in the middle of 2 extremist views, each one labelling me as being the other.
I've seen far more believable bots sitting in random irc channels than this thing. It loses track of context easily, repeats itself a lot, can't introspect or infer and misuses common words but accurately uses big long words. And none of these in the way a 13yr old would.
/really/ insists on knowing where I work?
'What's up?'
'I don't understand that. Where do you work again? I must have missed it.'
'Um, you never asked me'
'Never say never! That's what my gandma says.'
'You never had a grandma'
'This is true. Where do you work again? I must have missed it.'
a) incredibly obvious bot
b) eerily sounds like an info scraper for some marketing crap.....
Ahh, so you're a waffle guy!
Too bad it's still $600 here in AU for the 16gb playbook ($800 for the 64gb). Despite our dollar being slightly stronger than the US. Maybe if RIM weren't imposing foreigner tax on everyone they might do a bit better.
damn, typo'd a and lost a sentence fragment.. oh well
And lets not forget that the requested features *already exist* within the driver code base. AMD just doesn't turned them on when building the linux package! This isn't the same as having to write interface code for a different window manager or library or kernel interface or something that requires an actual porting effort, this is internal code that talks to their firmware to send/receive data and process it on their hardware. It already does this for h264 THERE and turned on when building for windows. All they have to do is change a #ifdef and suddenly linux support catches up with windows in their driver. This really is a f*cking retarded situation and people are right to be angry at AMD for artificially limiting their experiences. Under the table agreements with a particular REALLY large software maker much? It seems to be the only explanation that causes this situation to make any kind of sense.
If you do alter your mouse settings to give you more screen movement per inch of physical movement, you'll just reduce your accuracy and end up hurting yourself in more localised mouse action instead.
That's why every modern (and not so modern) OS on earth also has a setting for "mouse acceleration" that makes this issue moot. You can cover a large swath of the screen and still retain very high fine movement accuracy with ease once you tune this right for your personal comfort. I've never had a problem hitting single pixels or going from one corner to it's diagonal partner to trigger expose and workspaces on OSX and their equivalents in Gnome and KDE. And I never have to move my arm to do so, nor stretch or strain anything. Been using WIMPs for decades and my tendons are just fine :)
As a lawyer, she should have known that to get her sites reinstated all she had to do was contact GoDaddy herself and file a claim of non-violation of the DMCA, at which point GoDaddy are required to reinstate the site while the 2 parties let the courts nut it out. As PEr the terms of the DMCA, upon initial filing of the takedown GoDaddy have to disable access to the content. But the onus is then on the would-be defendant to dispute the charge to reinstate access and which point it's out of GoDaddy's hands and up to the courts unless both parties decide to settle the matter themselves.
Been using octave and gnuplot on my droid3 for a while now. yay for debian chroot and a native X server now
Perhaps you all missed the point of 'duress' in my statement. You don't serve time for acting in duress.
We know the germans used IBM counting machines to classify and track jews too. Maybe we should hand in our computers. Tyrants use media to brainwash and spread propaganda so we should throw out or TVs and unplug the internet. See the problem with such arguments is that while indeed being facts, they completely fly in the face of common sense with their rationales.
And if you by chance do have children and lack this primitive, important instinct then something is seriously, seriously wrong with you
Do you have children? I'm guessing not. When someone grabs at your child wanting to touch them all over, adrenaline and rage take over all cognitive function and I doubt any TSA rentacop has reflexes to reciprocate.
Astroturfing, I'd wager
Yeah because drug mules so often try to hijack airplanes instead of trying to lay low and not attract attention to themselves. Also a gropedown doesn't detect internal objects, which is how said drug mules do it - swallowing condoms of substance. Any other method gets picked up by dogs pretty damned quick
No shit. I can promise you right now if anyone ever did that to my daughter they wouldn't be breathing for long after. TSA, cop, a judge, The Pope, The Queen, I don't really care who it is they would be dead before they hit the ground. Duress is applicable when it's your child being attacked and molested.
Yes but how many Libraries of Congress is that?
Speaking of early Voyager, I decided to watch some recently. In one very early episode they made a reference to 'warp particles'.. and suddenly all Star Trek looks daft now and no amount of Q can fix it.
The problem here is more subtle than that: He's EXERCISING! And therefore is one of those non-geek jock types and clearly a fraud.
It makes perfect sense. Corporations run the country. Didn't you know? It's only fitting they should control the military assets and IP since they control all other aspects of government now.
I think they basically blackmailed the EU, threatening to require Visa for all Europeans, announcing special controls and harassment of European travelers if they EU would not comply, etc.
This is already the case. For everyone. The only thing they could do that would have any more effect on Europeans than others is to deny entry completely.
The symptoms of 'GPU Failure' are wide and varied. While 'flickering' is the most VISIBLE symptom it is by no means the only one. The effects of such a scenario can range from silent random occasional memory corruption that could go unnoticed for months and be mistaken as dodgy software or driver issues, to excessive overheating resulting in the chip exploding (RARE but I've seen it once. Keep in mind the amount of current these things draw..) and everything in between.
/validated in court).
I'm glad Apple replaced your laptop, but we're not talking about your case here are we? We're talking about this other guy's case where Apple actually refused to keep good on their pledge which had effectively become a warranty (now