In Malaysia (where I live, also a pirate heaven), the dominant pirate gang have for years inserted their own unskippable 10 second video, asking viewers to buy their 'gold-color-plated' pirated DVD instead of some rival gang's 'blue-color-plated' DVD disc (prob some DVD-R), with a short video comparison clip over why their quality is better. So yeah, the pirates are one-up on the game years ago.
Maybe it is your sort of attitude (that is the way it works!!- stfu, loser! we are making tons of profit aren't we? we don't need great products, just need to be less painful than the rest!) that is contributing to the malaise.
The thing is their products are agile in price since they have high fixed costs and low marginal costs. Airlines are classic example of this.
Um... airlines have low marginal costs? Where did you get that from? I think what you are getting at is the ability to execute price differentiation. Having a low marginal cost of course helps you execute this because you can drop all the way to zero, but I don't think you can call running flights low-cost!
Yes, they used to be very good, but they have gone all terrible. First, they started hiding all evidence to their free version from their website (you have to know to go to free.grisoft.com otherwise there is no link from their main website, though it is back up now), misleading licensing, then their version 8 started doing all sort of crap like hogging resources, scanning every weblink and generating massive amount of web traffic (though it can be turned off), and having bugs every week like marking legitimate files as infected and irritatingly requiring a computer restart every time you turn it on (requires a reinstall to fix it).
They have gone all shite, and I'm massively put off by them now, and I will recommend anyone against buying or using their stuff. They are just plain sloppy now, and frankly you don't want your first or second line of defence to be sloppy.
After our current license term expires, my company will be switching away to another vendor.
Parent is exactly right. Insulting religion is an easy excuse and makes for an easy target to charge someone in this country when nothing else sticks. The actual reasons are entirely political.
What was left unsaid is that RPK was a persistent thorn in the side of the present government: he has published an ongoing series called 'The Khairy Chronicles' about the allerged corruption and abuse of power of the outgoing prime minister's son-in-law (PM Abdullah Badawi, now being forced out), and have publicized much of the allerged evidence linking the next incoming prime minister (equivalent:president) to the grisly and ghastly sex-and-murder case of a Mongolian interpreter who was brokering a weapons deal (the private investigator hired by Najib's goons confessed in an affidavit that future-PM Najib have said that the interpreter likes anal sex, and she was blown up with C4 explosives by the police detail assigned to protect Najib, using C4 explosives obtained only from the army where Najib is the Defense Minister. The trial is ongoing but Najib was never charged even when many roads point to him. The PI & his family promptly disappeared the day after the affidavit and was never seen again).
Yep, this dude has been anointed to be our next prime minister by the ruling party, and there is nothing they can do about it for now. Lovely country, ain't it, put your Ted Stevens to shame:)
A correction: His party did not lose their majority. As of now, they lost their 2/3 majority which they have held for a very long time. The party still form government with simple majority, elects the Prime Minister, and can pass any law they wishes if voting enbloc.
Why is the 2/3 so significant, considering in most matured democracy getting 60% itself is considered a landslide? There are a few reasons:
- The ruling party is very dominant and had always held on to power since independence by large margins,
- The ruling party affliated companies owns most mainstream media and controls it tightly, so even with rampant corruption and abuse of power, all these are surpressed and the opposition made to look like weak and ineffectual,
- The last time the 2/3 majority was lost in 1969 - racial riots ensued, lots of people were killed, emergency rule was declared, and the government made a deal with an opposition splinter to join the coalition when parliament reconvened a few years later thus regaining the 2/3. So the government use this event (called the May 13 1969 riots) to scare and warn the populace: that to deny the ruling party 2/3 majority is to invite racial bloodshed again,
- With 2/3 majority the government have made more than 160 amendments to the constitution as they liked and wish. A recent one was to extend the Election Commissioner's tenure even when he was supposed to step down (some allerge that this is so that he can be trusted to skew the results in the government's favour).
- Internal politics within the ruling party is very intense with multiple 'camps', strong vested interest due to concentration of money and power, and ineffectual whips. Each camp is waiting to pounce to secure the crown of Prime Ministership.
Despite all these, the ruling party still managed to lose the 2/3 majority even with tight control of mainstream media (who denounce the opposition mercilessly before the elections). The explanation most pundits agree is that for once, the younger people have internet access to alternative media exposes of all the many scandals that came to light in the past few years.
This is a typical knee-jerk and panic reaction by the government that is bewildered and shaken that its tight grip on people's ears and eyes are loosening (it even got a Kafkesque Ministry of Information), and instead of cleaning up its act, feel like they must master the PR game that is now shifting to the internet.
Do Hollywood studios have the right to question Ebert on his methodology? No!- if you get a crappy review, too bad. All these is protected First Amendment free speech. I don't see why Google should be required by law to publish how they rank.
Some other forms of ranking (like university rankings) disclose their methodology because it gives them more credibility, not because the law requires them to do so. It is to their own interest to do so. On the other hand, Google doesn't - for trade secrecy, and to avoid it being gamed. All these in in TFA.
Right now Google basks in its credibility - that it is the most relevant search engine around, which they achieved without needing to disclose their methodology. We trust Google's 'review' enough to not bother how it is achieved.
Your reasoning is correct, but it is flawed because having this MD5-exploit does not make it practically any easier to get away with publishing your exploits.
1) Even without this 'MD5-exploit', if the distributor is malicious from onset, then it is easy to just distribute a driver with a hidden exploit and sign it off as valid. Exploits can be written such that it functions like it is supposed to most of the time but provides a backdoor.
2) If you say that injecting this hidden exploit instantly show up in a code audit so the publisher can't get away with it -- then wouldn't a code audit also detect the verbiage that needs to be tacked on to the good.exe to make the MD5 match with the evil one, and also raise a red flag?
Could it be that the teacher (who asked to put it on Wikipedia) is just plain lazy, and would rather get the whole world to screen and grade her pupil's work?:>
The atmosphere is really good.. but the game sucks. The control is sucky, and the gameplay... which is mostly traipsing about hunting for Key C to fit in Lock C... no thanks!
Your (and Contact's) analogy is deeply flawed, because it confuses personal beliefs with fact.
'Did you love your father?' may be in the same class of 'Do you believe in God?' but who cares what you believe or feel.
The question should have been a more categorical and factual like 'Does God exists?' that does not depend any 'unprovable' opinions by factoring you in.
As to what constitutes a proof - my opinion is that it is a probability judgements based on scientific principles. After all - even gravity is a probability judgement because, hey, you can't proof gravity exists. But who cares what my opinion is right:)
This is not going to be a popular viewpoint - but SCO posted a very valid suspicion, something I share as well as I find it quite incredulous that someone can devote so much time to this cause (not that I am on SCO's side). It will definitely answer things if PJ stand up to the allegations, but unfortunately or conveniently, she is 'shy'.
And pointing at them and saying 'nyeh-nyeh you do it too' does nothing to address the original suspicion.
The XMLHTTPRequest documentation has been readily available on MSDN for a looonnnggg time already, plus several other guides on how to use it, and I am pretty sure since 2001.
But yup, it wasn't cross-platform, simply because the same thing doesn't exist for other browsers (not without jumping through hoops anyway).
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Perfect for Republicans Rednecks who threaten to move elsewhere to avoid gay marriages and the commie bastards taking over the government!
In Malaysia (where I live, also a pirate heaven), the dominant pirate gang have for years inserted their own unskippable 10 second video, asking viewers to buy their 'gold-color-plated' pirated DVD instead of some rival gang's 'blue-color-plated' DVD disc (prob some DVD-R), with a short video comparison clip over why their quality is better. So yeah, the pirates are one-up on the game years ago.
Maybe it is your sort of attitude (that is the way it works!!- stfu, loser! we are making tons of profit aren't we? we don't need great products, just need to be less painful than the rest!) that is contributing to the malaise.
The thing is their products are agile in price since they have high fixed costs and low marginal costs. Airlines are classic example of this.
Um... airlines have low marginal costs? Where did you get that from? I think what you are getting at is the ability to execute price differentiation. Having a low marginal cost of course helps you execute this because you can drop all the way to zero, but I don't think you can call running flights low-cost!
Yes, they used to be very good, but they have gone all terrible. First, they started hiding all evidence to their free version from their website (you have to know to go to free.grisoft.com otherwise there is no link from their main website, though it is back up now), misleading licensing, then their version 8 started doing all sort of crap like hogging resources, scanning every weblink and generating massive amount of web traffic (though it can be turned off), and having bugs every week like marking legitimate files as infected and irritatingly requiring a computer restart every time you turn it on (requires a reinstall to fix it).
They have gone all shite, and I'm massively put off by them now, and I will recommend anyone against buying or using their stuff. They are just plain sloppy now, and frankly you don't want your first or second line of defence to be sloppy.
After our current license term expires, my company will be switching away to another vendor.
Parent is exactly right. Insulting religion is an easy excuse and makes for an easy target to charge someone in this country when nothing else sticks. The actual reasons are entirely political.
What was left unsaid is that RPK was a persistent thorn in the side of the present government: he has published an ongoing series called 'The Khairy Chronicles' about the allerged corruption and abuse of power of the outgoing prime minister's son-in-law (PM Abdullah Badawi, now being forced out), and have publicized much of the allerged evidence linking the next incoming prime minister (equivalent:president) to the grisly and ghastly sex-and-murder case of a Mongolian interpreter who was brokering a weapons deal (the private investigator hired by Najib's goons confessed in an affidavit that future-PM Najib have said that the interpreter likes anal sex, and she was blown up with C4 explosives by the police detail assigned to protect Najib, using C4 explosives obtained only from the army where Najib is the Defense Minister. The trial is ongoing but Najib was never charged even when many roads point to him. The PI & his family promptly disappeared the day after the affidavit and was never seen again).
Yep, this dude has been anointed to be our next prime minister by the ruling party, and there is nothing they can do about it for now. Lovely country, ain't it, put your Ted Stevens to shame :)
A correction: His party did not lose their majority. As of now, they lost their 2/3 majority which they have held for a very long time. The party still form government with simple majority, elects the Prime Minister, and can pass any law they wishes if voting enbloc.
Why is the 2/3 so significant, considering in most matured democracy getting 60% itself is considered a landslide? There are a few reasons:
- The ruling party is very dominant and had always held on to power since independence by large margins,
- The ruling party affliated companies owns most mainstream media and controls it tightly, so even with rampant corruption and abuse of power, all these are surpressed and the opposition made to look like weak and ineffectual,
- The last time the 2/3 majority was lost in 1969 - racial riots ensued, lots of people were killed, emergency rule was declared, and the government made a deal with an opposition splinter to join the coalition when parliament reconvened a few years later thus regaining the 2/3. So the government use this event (called the May 13 1969 riots) to scare and warn the populace: that to deny the ruling party 2/3 majority is to invite racial bloodshed again,
- With 2/3 majority the government have made more than 160 amendments to the constitution as they liked and wish. A recent one was to extend the Election Commissioner's tenure even when he was supposed to step down (some allerge that this is so that he can be trusted to skew the results in the government's favour).
- Internal politics within the ruling party is very intense with multiple 'camps', strong vested interest due to concentration of money and power, and ineffectual whips. Each camp is waiting to pounce to secure the crown of Prime Ministership.
Despite all these, the ruling party still managed to lose the 2/3 majority even with tight control of mainstream media (who denounce the opposition mercilessly before the elections). The explanation most pundits agree is that for once, the younger people have internet access to alternative media exposes of all the many scandals that came to light in the past few years.
This is a typical knee-jerk and panic reaction by the government that is bewildered and shaken that its tight grip on people's ears and eyes are loosening (it even got a Kafkesque Ministry of Information), and instead of cleaning up its act, feel like they must master the PR game that is now shifting to the internet.
To which I say... good luck to them!
They told us
All they wanted
Was a sound that could kill someone
From a distance.
Instead, it killed the rockets!
Do Hollywood studios have the right to question Ebert on his methodology? No!- if you get a crappy review, too bad. All these is protected First Amendment free speech. I don't see why Google should be required by law to publish how they rank.
Some other forms of ranking (like university rankings) disclose their methodology because it gives them more credibility, not because the law requires them to do so. It is to their own interest to do so. On the other hand, Google doesn't - for trade secrecy, and to avoid it being gamed. All these in in TFA.
Right now Google basks in its credibility - that it is the most relevant search engine around, which they achieved without needing to disclose their methodology. We trust Google's 'review' enough to not bother how it is achieved.
There is a corresponding Bull Argument that argues the Counterpoint - each with its own rebuttal of the other argument.
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So much for Motley Fool writing off Microsoft. Typically - guess which article gets highlighted in
Your reasoning is correct, but it is flawed because having this MD5-exploit does not make it practically any easier to get away with publishing your exploits.
1) Even without this 'MD5-exploit', if the distributor is malicious from onset, then it is easy to just distribute a driver with a hidden exploit and sign it off as valid. Exploits can be written such that it functions like it is supposed to most of the time but provides a backdoor.
2) If you say that injecting this hidden exploit instantly show up in a code audit so the publisher can't get away with it -- then wouldn't a code audit also detect the verbiage that needs to be tacked on to the good.exe to make the MD5 match with the evil one, and also raise a red flag?
Could it be that the teacher (who asked to put it on Wikipedia) is just plain lazy, and would rather get the whole world to screen and grade her pupil's work? :>
All Hail Galactus, Devourer of Worlds!
The atmosphere is really good .. but the game sucks. The control is sucky, and the gameplay... which is mostly traipsing about hunting for Key C to fit in Lock C... no thanks!
Wait till the end of the month.
;)
I've been back from the future, and there's another way better compression algorithm coming up that will knock the socks off this one
Your (and Contact's) analogy is deeply flawed, because it confuses personal beliefs with fact.
:)
'Did you love your father?' may be in the same class of 'Do you believe in God?' but who cares what you believe or feel.
The question should have been a more categorical and factual like 'Does God exists?' that does not depend any 'unprovable' opinions by factoring you in.
As to what constitutes a proof - my opinion is that it is a probability judgements based on scientific principles. After all - even gravity is a probability judgement because, hey, you can't proof gravity exists. But who cares what my opinion is right
(.)(.)
./ reader and this one always puzzled me
I am a regular
Everyone stand clear! Don't answer that one!
It's a boobie-trapped question!
So do you believe that many more simply don't believe there is a God... or do you simply don't believe that many simply don't believe there is a God?
This is not going to be a popular viewpoint - but SCO posted a very valid suspicion, something I share as well as I find it quite incredulous that someone can devote so much time to this cause (not that I am on SCO's side). It will definitely answer things if PJ stand up to the allegations, but unfortunately or conveniently, she is 'shy'.
And pointing at them and saying 'nyeh-nyeh you do it too' does nothing to address the original suspicion.
The XMLHTTPRequest documentation has been readily available on MSDN for a looonnnggg time already, plus several other guides on how to use it, and I am pretty sure since 2001.
But yup, it wasn't cross-platform, simply because the same thing doesn't exist for other browsers (not without jumping through hoops anyway).
Why so many?
Just one will do:
chair = new Object("MSCHAIR");
chair.throw();
Note to submitters/editors: Not everyone lives in US/Canada.
I certainly wouldn't want to scratch *that*...