If you haven't read it, Almost Perfect is a good (free) book about the rise and fall of WordPerfect from the guy that ran the company for quite a while.
Actually this is interesting, the school has clearly established the punishment for doing this. So the easy way to protest this would be get a sizable percentage of the student body to swear on their twitter accounts. What is the school going to do? Expel 30+% of their student body? If they did, it would make national headlines and the people that run that school would become a laughing stock. It would also energize the debate enough where we could finally sort this out. And if they don't expel them, they can't expel this student.
That is kind of what I was thinking. The officers got off very easy, they probably should have been fired. The IAD officers should be disciplined as well for their poor handling of the case. Even if the arresting officer didn't know (which is no excuse) that what Gilk was doing was legal, IAD certainly should have.
There currently are petitions to name the next unnamed planned Ford-class carrier (CVN-80) Enterprise. I personally hope CVN-80 will be named Enterprise.
You aren't wrong and I haven't and won't buy their games that have this DRM in it. The problem is they will just blame the low sales on piracy and not on the fact that they are making a bad product people don't want. They just won't get it.
But hey maybe that means they'll get out of the PC games business which maybe wouldn't be a bad thing. They can leave it to people that understand the PC business better.
What is going to happen to the price of electricity when suddenly everyone is charging their cars at home and demand spikes? Gas prices might not be the only thing that will go up in the future. I'm not saying gas is better than electric but all that electricity has to come from some where.
The controls on the PC in the menus were more sluggish until a few updates ago and they adjusted some of the key bindings to be more in line with typical PC games in terms of navigating the menus. I've also ran into the bug where you can't exit a conversation with someone by pressing tab and have to click on the icon of the tab key in the bottom right of the screen to exit the conversation.
This is one area where Steam is certainly nice since it automatically updates; I just happen to notice the version number keeping going up in the menu and some bugs getting fixed.
Your assuming he tried to assert that right and was denied. The defendant doesn't have to assert that right if they don't want to. For all we know the defense has been getting their ducks in a row and have been using the extra time.
To me the cost per GB of an SSD really makes it tough to justify in a lot of cases especially if you want to store large programs like games where you'll need at least a 100GB SSD. However one area place I have started to use low capacity (8 or 16GB) SSDs are in low noise and/or low power environments. If you team them with an ITX Atom board and the right power supply you can build a small computer with no moving parts whatsoever. And the computer will have a very low power usage for applications like HTPCs or network appliances (like firewalls) where the machine might always be powered on.
The ending showed that the drug/virus spread among humans all over the world, supposedly wiping most of them out. I thought it was kind of silly that they started to play the credits and then showed a scene that hinted at that. It should have been more apart of the last act of the movie, not just an after thought.
Or you know... You do a university level class in high school, not the other way around. Then you take the test and if you prove you actually learned the material you get university credits for completing it. And the reason it isn't done just because it can be done is that it is *hard* (and rightfully so) for a lot of high school students. Even if you take an AP class, if you don't score high enough on the test you don't get the credits.
Mozilla has become Netscape. It is no longer useful. Just a bunch of over paid douche bags who sit around and write code they want to write rather than actually producing something useful.
Its too bad they didn't do a better job of cleaning house the last time netscape failed, looks like they left enough of the old guard that its happened again.
All of this has happened before and will happen again.
I don't want to hate on them either but that is kind of the vibe they are putting out. Fixing bugs can be boring and tedious but it has to get done to maintain a quality product. I like Firefox and have been using it since it was called Firebird but since 3.6 I think they are starting to lose touch with what users care about and are just copying whatever other people (read: chrome) are doing.
Firefox 4 hasn't been out long and if Google keeps with the browser support schedule. Starting August 1st they won't support Firefox 3.6 anymore. I am all for getting people to upgrade but it seems like they'll be dropping support for Firefox versions pretty fast if Mozilla can keep up with their rapid release schedule.
It is happening. In a comment above someone posted a link to an article about it on The Inquirer and the comments are funny and sad. People are really upset that they can't play their call of duty.
A lot of the comments indicate people are suffering from a severe case of not knowing all the facts. But that shouldn't surprise anyone. They can't see the big picture and understand that their anger should be directed at Sony. I'm not saying DoSing the PSN is the best approach but it would be effective if people were actually upset at Sony. Based on the comments on that article people think GeoHot is a criminal that should go to jail.
This isn't the first group that has gotten upset at Top Gear. They have a pretty long list. The BBC goes to bat for them almost without fail, not surprising since the show has an estimated viewing audience of 350 million worldwide.
It also should be noted that in the episode in question, they also feature a test drive of the Honda FCX Clarity, Honda's hydrogen powered car. And they liked it a lot.
While I totally agree with you that Microsoft making gold a requirement to use Netflix sucks. If you do still want it, you can get a year of gold membership for 30-35 dollars usually. Just keep an eye out on slickdeals and other websites for sales on the 1 year prepaid cards. Still a real annoyance but at least it isn't as expensive.
As a developer with experience in both C# and Java, C# is the spiritual sequel to J++. It was MS' answer to the then-war with Sun over Java on Windows, and a sad effort at that. A language tied directly to a single OS = BAD. As a Java coder, I can get a job developing on desktop PCs, Web applications, smartphones, Blu-Ray players and TVs, or Martian rovers.
C# is tied to one OS? Huh, I guess no one bothered to tell the guys that make Unity that, seeing how their product uses C# and is cross platform.
You shouldn't be able to copyright or trademark a number. That is just absurd. In your example you mention a list of numbers and a math equation, sure you are in good faith but if Sony has a copyright or a trademark on that number it still doesn't stop them from taking you to court and making you fold simply because they have the resources to tie you up in court for years. So you might be in right but because you don't have millions of dollars to spend to defend yourself, you'll lose. Since we use numbers to represent everything at some basis or another, they shouldn't be allowed to be copyrighted or trademarked.
If I came up with some interesting math question to which that number was the solution, it would be infringing if displayed by itself.
Isn't that just crazy, you are saying that just displaying a specific number shouldn't be allowed? So if a lottery happened to come up with the same number as Sony's encryption key, in your world Sony would be justified and in the legal right to sue them for infringement?
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If you haven't read it, Almost Perfect is a good (free) book about the rise and fall of WordPerfect from the guy that ran the company for quite a while.
Actually this is interesting, the school has clearly established the punishment for doing this. So the easy way to protest this would be get a sizable percentage of the student body to swear on their twitter accounts. What is the school going to do? Expel 30+% of their student body? If they did, it would make national headlines and the people that run that school would become a laughing stock. It would also energize the debate enough where we could finally sort this out. And if they don't expel them, they can't expel this student.
That is kind of what I was thinking. The officers got off very easy, they probably should have been fired. The IAD officers should be disciplined as well for their poor handling of the case. Even if the arresting officer didn't know (which is no excuse) that what Gilk was doing was legal, IAD certainly should have.
There currently are petitions to name the next unnamed planned Ford-class carrier (CVN-80) Enterprise. I personally hope CVN-80 will be named Enterprise.
See: http://ussenterp.epetitions.net/signatures.php?petition_id=1870 and http://www.petitiononline.com/CVN80ENT/petition.html
Except the TSA body scanners... those are very safe. Unlike the food coloring in cola that is cancer in a bottle.
You aren't wrong and I haven't and won't buy their games that have this DRM in it. The problem is they will just blame the low sales on piracy and not on the fact that they are making a bad product people don't want. They just won't get it.
But hey maybe that means they'll get out of the PC games business which maybe wouldn't be a bad thing. They can leave it to people that understand the PC business better.
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What is going to happen to the price of electricity when suddenly everyone is charging their cars at home and demand spikes? Gas prices might not be the only thing that will go up in the future. I'm not saying gas is better than electric but all that electricity has to come from some where.
People care more about their money than their freedom.
The controls on the PC in the menus were more sluggish until a few updates ago and they adjusted some of the key bindings to be more in line with typical PC games in terms of navigating the menus. I've also ran into the bug where you can't exit a conversation with someone by pressing tab and have to click on the icon of the tab key in the bottom right of the screen to exit the conversation.
This is one area where Steam is certainly nice since it automatically updates; I just happen to notice the version number keeping going up in the menu and some bugs getting fixed.
While that is true, if a tool continually gets abused by those wielding it maybe it isn't worth having.
Your assuming he tried to assert that right and was denied. The defendant doesn't have to assert that right if they don't want to. For all we know the defense has been getting their ducks in a row and have been using the extra time.
To me the cost per GB of an SSD really makes it tough to justify in a lot of cases especially if you want to store large programs like games where you'll need at least a 100GB SSD. However one area place I have started to use low capacity (8 or 16GB) SSDs are in low noise and/or low power environments. If you team them with an ITX Atom board and the right power supply you can build a small computer with no moving parts whatsoever. And the computer will have a very low power usage for applications like HTPCs or network appliances (like firewalls) where the machine might always be powered on.
The ending showed that the drug/virus spread among humans all over the world, supposedly wiping most of them out. I thought it was kind of silly that they started to play the credits and then showed a scene that hinted at that. It should have been more apart of the last act of the movie, not just an after thought.
That is a great picture. How about adding a link to the original image?
Or you know... You do a university level class in high school, not the other way around. Then you take the test and if you prove you actually learned the material you get university credits for completing it. And the reason it isn't done just because it can be done is that it is *hard* (and rightfully so) for a lot of high school students. Even if you take an AP class, if you don't score high enough on the test you don't get the credits.
Mozilla has become Netscape. It is no longer useful. Just a bunch of over paid douche bags who sit around and write code they want to write rather than actually producing something useful.
Its too bad they didn't do a better job of cleaning house the last time netscape failed, looks like they left enough of the old guard that its happened again.
All of this has happened before and will happen again.
I don't want to hate on them either but that is kind of the vibe they are putting out. Fixing bugs can be boring and tedious but it has to get done to maintain a quality product. I like Firefox and have been using it since it was called Firebird but since 3.6 I think they are starting to lose touch with what users care about and are just copying whatever other people (read: chrome) are doing.
Firefox 4 hasn't been out long and if Google keeps with the browser support schedule. Starting August 1st they won't support Firefox 3.6 anymore. I am all for getting people to upgrade but it seems like they'll be dropping support for Firefox versions pretty fast if Mozilla can keep up with their rapid release schedule.
It is very refreshing to read this. Maybe all hope is not lost if the court system is finally wising up to this behavior.
It is happening. In a comment above someone posted a link to an article about it on The Inquirer and the comments are funny and sad. People are really upset that they can't play their call of duty.
A lot of the comments indicate people are suffering from a severe case of not knowing all the facts. But that shouldn't surprise anyone. They can't see the big picture and understand that their anger should be directed at Sony. I'm not saying DoSing the PSN is the best approach but it would be effective if people were actually upset at Sony. Based on the comments on that article people think GeoHot is a criminal that should go to jail.
This isn't the first group that has gotten upset at Top Gear. They have a pretty long list. The BBC goes to bat for them almost without fail, not surprising since the show has an estimated viewing audience of 350 million worldwide.
It also should be noted that in the episode in question, they also feature a test drive of the Honda FCX Clarity, Honda's hydrogen powered car. And they liked it a lot.
While I totally agree with you that Microsoft making gold a requirement to use Netflix sucks. If you do still want it, you can get a year of gold membership for 30-35 dollars usually. Just keep an eye out on slickdeals and other websites for sales on the 1 year prepaid cards. Still a real annoyance but at least it isn't as expensive.
As a developer with experience in both C# and Java, C# is the spiritual sequel to J++. It was MS' answer to the then-war with Sun over Java on Windows, and a sad effort at that. A language tied directly to a single OS = BAD. As a Java coder, I can get a job developing on desktop PCs, Web applications, smartphones, Blu-Ray players and TVs, or Martian rovers.
C# is tied to one OS? Huh, I guess no one bothered to tell the guys that make Unity that, seeing how their product uses C# and is cross platform.
You shouldn't be able to copyright or trademark a number. That is just absurd. In your example you mention a list of numbers and a math equation, sure you are in good faith but if Sony has a copyright or a trademark on that number it still doesn't stop them from taking you to court and making you fold simply because they have the resources to tie you up in court for years. So you might be in right but because you don't have millions of dollars to spend to defend yourself, you'll lose. Since we use numbers to represent everything at some basis or another, they shouldn't be allowed to be copyrighted or trademarked.
If I came up with some interesting math question to which that number was the solution, it would be infringing if displayed by itself.
Isn't that just crazy, you are saying that just displaying a specific number shouldn't be allowed? So if a lottery happened to come up with the same number as Sony's encryption key, in your world Sony would be justified and in the legal right to sue them for infringement?
The "unlimited" data plan is limited to 5GB a month. After you go past 5GB your throttled way down, AFAIK.