Seriously, kinda harsh with the one year ban thing,...It shouldn't be that hard to insert artifacts into each theaters films to see where the pirated ones are coming from. Then stake out that theater.
So what point will a "national emergency" of some kind emerge and compel them to turn over data? Could the Government then force Google, yahoo, etc, to turn over the requested search results for say...aids clinics?
Its amazing to me that one decision could destroy your company and alienate your customers in one fell swoop.
Rather than build great game after great game and make money, they would rather stifle development of new games. BUT they want to keep the same level of income (or higher) for much less work.
Hey I actually have experience with this! I work for a little computer store in New Orleans and we were able to rescue data from wet computers for about three weeks after Katrina. After three weeks the rust and other chemical junk ate up boards and components.
First, open the devices up as much as you can, and get them in a climate controlled room. If you have a dehumidifier use it to suck every drop of moisture out of the air and dry the electronics to the bone.
The next step is to blow out as much garbage as possible with compressed air or use a static free vacuum (for electronics) if you can.
After that your odds are somewhere around 50/50. Getting the parts bone dry is the key.
We had some nasty computers power up, even some that were 100% under. The drives stayed sealed, their was no power, and no chemicals ate up the boards. Now the case was all rusty, but we popped out the drive and it spun up on a test machine to do a data dump. Once we had the data we went for it and the old pc powered up! It happened alot, but after about three weeks the rust and corrosion was so bad it just was not possible anymore.
good luck
Figure out the cost of down time (parts, lost money, etc), VS the cost of properly cooling that room. Then sell it to management as a cost saving strategy.
A lady nabbed people that stole her MAC by connecting back to it and snapping pictures with a webcam.
If you know the IP address, go to http://www.ip-adress.com/ and it will tell you the city / county it is in. Go to that city / county police department and file a report. Call the ISP they are using and get the physical address. Have the cops go pick it up.
it does when your product is well know, advertised aggressively, and demanded at more than one level of consumer (students, white collar professionals, and business owners).
I would argue that Unix, while very useful, is only desirable to an niche market that can pay $20K for an os, albiet a powerful os, but anyone could drop $99 on office.
its still kinda apples to oranges but i think you know what i mean.
Selling office 97 pro for $99 to the consumer, and licensing it to universities for $1 a copy is reaping HUGE benefits right now. An entire generation of people, college educated people, grew up with office 97 and now demand it at home and in the workplace.
I see at some point thumb print access to records, even at a cafeteria checkout. Imagine putting your thumb on a scanner to pay for your food, and then a warning pops up that says "Opps that slice of pie has sugar in it and you cant have sugar because of your condition, go back and get a yellow slice it has splenda in it".
You could make it chastise you at a supermarket checkout, perhaps in your mother voice, "Do you really need the big bag of cookies? Go get the 100 calorie pack right now mister". A sample if Jillian's voice form the biggest loser would do it for me.
I think a slower more deliberate development of this kind of database will provide much more useful. As long as these records are secure and modular, you can build cheap internet access to them that might just return warning flags instead of actual specific medical data, thus solving the privacy and usefulness arguments.
If you go on a cruise or stay at a hotel, you scan your thumb and the staff know you need a sharps container in your room, or you have a history of motion sickness, or that you have an allergy to Dial soap so make sure none is in the room.
I started my IT carrier setting jumpers on motherboards, in an un-air conditioned warehouse in New Orleans...in the summer.
A laser printer would print an order, we would pull the board from stock, set the jumpers for clock and voltage, and pass it down. A chip puller would install ram and a cpu, and a tester would test post the board. Once you "advanced" from that area, you would work assembling the pc's with the now assembled board, then an "expediter" would dupe a windows 95 pre-install to the hard drive and finish the windows setup. Shipping would pack up the pc and load it into a big UPS trailer.
I did that for 3 years, and at lunch would sit in my car and study for microsoft exams, because I knew I did not want to do that forever. I made it to inside repair (repairing what got mailed back to us). The company got bought out, I got laid off (newly married and a 6 month old child) because I made the most of all the techs ($10 an hour in 1999).
Got on with a local break fix IT company and made it all the way to partner. Got my BS in CIS in 2005, and I am working on my MBA right now (at night) at a top 50 (for Business) University in New Orleans.
It all worked out, but THAT was a bad IT job. A little foresight can turn a bad job into a stepping stone.
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They are from the Government, and they are here to help us!
Invade them!
Seriously, kinda harsh with the one year ban thing,...It shouldn't be that hard to insert artifacts into each theaters films to see where the pirated ones are coming from. Then stake out that theater.
That is a lot of SETI@home power!
If Microsoft would just make light weight, fast, effective, good software to begin with, none of this would even be a problem for them.
So what point will a "national emergency" of some kind emerge and compel them to turn over data? Could the Government then force Google, yahoo, etc, to turn over the requested search results for say...aids clinics?
Handguns?
Recounts?
Recall election?
Its amazing to me that one decision could destroy your company and alienate your customers in one fell swoop.
Rather than build great game after great game and make money, they would rather stifle development of new games. BUT they want to keep the same level of income (or higher) for much less work.
Your kidding right? Did you see anything they did on the internet? /not my guy but mad props to his campaign...
Hey I actually have experience with this! I work for a little computer store in New Orleans and we were able to rescue data from wet computers for about three weeks after Katrina. After three weeks the rust and other chemical junk ate up boards and components.
First, open the devices up as much as you can, and get them in a climate controlled room. If you have a dehumidifier use it to suck every drop of moisture out of the air and dry the electronics to the bone.
The next step is to blow out as much garbage as possible with compressed air or use a static free vacuum (for electronics) if you can.
After that your odds are somewhere around 50/50. Getting the parts bone dry is the key.
We had some nasty computers power up, even some that were 100% under. The drives stayed sealed, their was no power, and no chemicals ate up the boards. Now the case was all rusty, but we popped out the drive and it spun up on a test machine to do a data dump. Once we had the data we went for it and the old pc powered up! It happened alot, but after about three weeks the rust and corrosion was so bad it just was not possible anymore. good luck
Could you develop a device to "listen" to the small changes in electrical power to decode the data going back and forth?
Perhaps this will finally be the down fall of Quantas
how many signals do they fly threw every day? How much extra solar radiation and solar junk hits the plane?
Da, Comrade. Where is the problem?
Probable cause? What a novel idea.
Figure out the cost of down time (parts, lost money, etc), VS the cost of properly cooling that room. Then sell it to management as a cost saving strategy.
I found a 2GB external scsi jazz drive in my closet. IT still works. Hell I bet they are still on ebay in 25 years...
this
A lady nabbed people that stole her MAC by connecting back to it and snapping pictures with a webcam. If you know the IP address, go to http://www.ip-adress.com/ and it will tell you the city / county it is in. Go to that city / county police department and file a report. Call the ISP they are using and get the physical address. Have the cops go pick it up.
mmmmm.....pie.
it does when your product is well know, advertised aggressively, and demanded at more than one level of consumer (students, white collar professionals, and business owners).
I would argue that Unix, while very useful, is only desirable to an niche market that can pay $20K for an os, albiet a powerful os, but anyone could drop $99 on office.
its still kinda apples to oranges but i think you know what i mean.
Selling office 97 pro for $99 to the consumer, and licensing it to universities for $1 a copy is reaping HUGE benefits right now. An entire generation of people, college educated people, grew up with office 97 and now demand it at home and in the workplace.
These are not the droids your looking for.
How much would that bee in Al Gore Carbon Credits? like double right?
/looks in wallet
I see at some point thumb print access to records, even at a cafeteria checkout. Imagine putting your thumb on a scanner to pay for your food, and then a warning pops up that says "Opps that slice of pie has sugar in it and you cant have sugar because of your condition, go back and get a yellow slice it has splenda in it".
You could make it chastise you at a supermarket checkout, perhaps in your mother voice, "Do you really need the big bag of cookies? Go get the 100 calorie pack right now mister". A sample if Jillian's voice form the biggest loser would do it for me.
I think a slower more deliberate development of this kind of database will provide much more useful. As long as these records are secure and modular, you can build cheap internet access to them that might just return warning flags instead of actual specific medical data, thus solving the privacy and usefulness arguments.
If you go on a cruise or stay at a hotel, you scan your thumb and the staff know you need a sharps container in your room, or you have a history of motion sickness, or that you have an allergy to Dial soap so make sure none is in the room.
And when the $1 ends up in a bank in Nigeria, then what?
I started my IT carrier setting jumpers on motherboards, in an un-air conditioned warehouse in New Orleans...in the summer. A laser printer would print an order, we would pull the board from stock, set the jumpers for clock and voltage, and pass it down. A chip puller would install ram and a cpu, and a tester would test post the board. Once you "advanced" from that area, you would work assembling the pc's with the now assembled board, then an "expediter" would dupe a windows 95 pre-install to the hard drive and finish the windows setup. Shipping would pack up the pc and load it into a big UPS trailer. I did that for 3 years, and at lunch would sit in my car and study for microsoft exams, because I knew I did not want to do that forever. I made it to inside repair (repairing what got mailed back to us). The company got bought out, I got laid off (newly married and a 6 month old child) because I made the most of all the techs ($10 an hour in 1999). Got on with a local break fix IT company and made it all the way to partner. Got my BS in CIS in 2005, and I am working on my MBA right now (at night) at a top 50 (for Business) University in New Orleans. It all worked out, but THAT was a bad IT job. A little foresight can turn a bad job into a stepping stone.