How do I deauthorize all of my computers?
If you have authorized five computers, a button labeled "Deauthorize All" will appear in your Account Information screen. This button will deauthorize all computers associated with your account. You can then reauthorize up to 5 computers. Note: You can only use this feature once a year.
The creators of the car-parts incubator say that an incubator found in any neonatal intensive care unit in the US could cost around $40,000
Something tells me that as long as you aren't restricting the cars utilized for this to brand new Mercedes-Benz or Hummers, the cost isn't going to be as high as the current ICU equipment.
But that still doesn't prove that it is 100% secure, only that it can withstand those kinds of attacks.
Think scientific theories. You can perform individual tests to see if the theory holds true, but you can never say with 100% certainty that something is true.
I forget the exact reasoning, but languages tend to reflect that which is most prominent/important within the culture that uses it. Think Eskimos and their 200 or so words for snow.
In an unrelated note, has anyone ever noticed how many ways you can refer to masturbation/sex in the English language?
"Oh, so mother nature needs a favor? Well, maybe she should have thought of that when she was besetting us with droughts and floods and poison monkeys."
To add a bit of my own to this, we require nature to survive, nature does not require us. That's not to say that we cannot play by the same rules in order to game the system so-to-speak. But if we should end up failing, nature will just keep on going.
Yeah, those 11 million WoW players don't count. In THE YEAR 2009!!!1 they'll all use WINE to play WoW in Ubuntu:rollseyes:
You do know that WoW is available for OSX, right? Obviously, there are not 11 million WoW players that play on a Mac, but your claim that there are 11 million WoW players that play on a Windows OS is flawed.
The process is completely self generating meaning they use energy from the process to run the system.
In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
Seriously though, I'm curious to know what you mean by that, because how I'm interpreting it now seems to indicate that it is some sort of perpetual motion machine.
I once got a cease and desist notice served to me via email.
How else where they supposed to serve it?
Serious notices should be served in person
You just answered your own question. They could serve it to you next time you did whatever it was they wanted you to stop. If they don't like it, tough. The internet is not some magical device where if someone wants someone else to stop doing something, you click a button and forget about it.
Just because they understand it was a joke, that doesn't mean they can't still post what DND actually stands for in this context (although I suppose it would have helped for them to mention they knew it was a joke).
I for one am grateful that they posted what it stood for, for I would not have known otherwise.
Getting upset that people are pirating your games is perfectly understandable. Wanting to stop it is also understandable. But believing that DRM actually does you any good when it gets cracked before the game even goes on sale is simply ludicrous.
When I switched to Linux, I had to read a huge book and several hundred man pages along the way, and it was a big paradigm shift in how I managed a computer system.
And therein lies the key point. Managing a system (ie, setup/maintenance) is totally different from an end user using it (email, web surfing, word processing, spreadsheets, audio listening, video watching).
Perhaps a more apt analogy can be created with/.'s favorite analogy object, the car. Cars may all have a standard set of controls, but they all have their own set of quirks that set them apart. The brakes/gas/steering can all handle differently between vehicles, but given a bit of time you learn to adapt.
I was thinking something similar. Forget the problems of intermittent internet connections, what I'm wondering about is will Microsoft revoke access to the apps once the students graduate from school?
Although I guess that only matters if the students get to keep the laptops or if they go back to the school.
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How do I deauthorize all of my computers?
If you have authorized five computers, a button labeled "Deauthorize All" will appear in your Account Information screen. This button will deauthorize all computers associated with your account. You can then reauthorize up to 5 computers. Note: You can only use this feature once a year.
The creators of the car-parts incubator say that an incubator found in any neonatal intensive care unit in the US could cost around $40,000
Something tells me that as long as you aren't restricting the cars utilized for this to brand new Mercedes-Benz or Hummers, the cost isn't going to be as high as the current ICU equipment.
But that still doesn't prove that it is 100% secure, only that it can withstand those kinds of attacks.
Think scientific theories. You can perform individual tests to see if the theory holds true, but you can never say with 100% certainty that something is true.
Or the driver of the car in front is a teenager. :P
Alternatively, just because they are generating profit does not mean those people actually ran a red light.
NYCL addressed this in an earlier thread.
I forget the exact reasoning, but languages tend to reflect that which is most prominent/important within the culture that uses it. Think Eskimos and their 200 or so words for snow.
In an unrelated note, has anyone ever noticed how many ways you can refer to masturbation/sex in the English language?
"Oh, so mother nature needs a favor? Well, maybe she should have thought of that when she was besetting us with droughts and floods and poison monkeys."
To add a bit of my own to this, we require nature to survive, nature does not require us. That's not to say that we cannot play by the same rules in order to game the system so-to-speak. But if we should end up failing, nature will just keep on going.
Perhaps it was intentional, y'know? Further proving how much they aren't the computer-type nerd.
Just because GP mentioned George Lucas doesn't mean they thought that George Lucas had anything to do with Star Trek previously.
Yeah, those 11 million WoW players don't count. In THE YEAR 2009!!!1 they'll all use WINE to play WoW in Ubuntu :rollseyes:
You do know that WoW is available for OSX, right? Obviously, there are not 11 million WoW players that play on a Mac, but your claim that there are 11 million WoW players that play on a Windows OS is flawed.
The process is completely self generating meaning they use energy from the process to run the system.
In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
Seriously though, I'm curious to know what you mean by that, because how I'm interpreting it now seems to indicate that it is some sort of perpetual motion machine.
Indeed. If that were the case, we'd have lost South Park years ago.
Perhaps, in relation to your sig, the government really is your daddy, when you are an employee of theirs that is.
Don't forget storage size.
I once got a cease and desist notice served to me via email.
How else where they supposed to serve it?
Serious notices should be served in person
You just answered your own question. They could serve it to you next time you did whatever it was they wanted you to stop. If they don't like it, tough. The internet is not some magical device where if someone wants someone else to stop doing something, you click a button and forget about it.
Just because they understand it was a joke, that doesn't mean they can't still post what DND actually stands for in this context (although I suppose it would have helped for them to mention they knew it was a joke).
I for one am grateful that they posted what it stood for, for I would not have known otherwise.
Except they want you to like their product, not run in terror every time you hear its name.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul is wrong, whether Paul is a corporation or an individual.
So what's Peter?
I was actually thinking "when'd they release the Direct-To-Brain conversion kit, and where can I get mine installed?"
Here's an artist's rendition.
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If you can't tell, it's been split down the center and pulled apart.
Getting upset that people are pirating your games is perfectly understandable. Wanting to stop it is also understandable. But believing that DRM actually does you any good when it gets cracked before the game even goes on sale is simply ludicrous.
When I switched to Linux, I had to read a huge book and several hundred man pages along the way, and it was a big paradigm shift in how I managed a computer system.
And therein lies the key point. Managing a system (ie, setup/maintenance) is totally different from an end user using it (email, web surfing, word processing, spreadsheets, audio listening, video watching).
/.'s favorite analogy object, the car. Cars may all have a standard set of controls, but they all have their own set of quirks that set them apart. The brakes/gas/steering can all handle differently between vehicles, but given a bit of time you learn to adapt.
Perhaps a more apt analogy can be created with
Europeans not knowing American geography is not the same thing as Americans not knowing American geography.
Not saying it's true, just playing the stereotypes.
I was thinking something similar. Forget the problems of intermittent internet connections, what I'm wondering about is will Microsoft revoke access to the apps once the students graduate from school?
Although I guess that only matters if the students get to keep the laptops or if they go back to the school.