It's a free to play game in this case, so I doubt there's really even a shrink wrap license to begin with. But for the sake of argument, let's say that the license issue is a non-starter. If you get banned, you're no longer authorized to access that computer service, and unauthorized access to a computer system is illegal under its own set of laws. IANAL so I don't know if this logic has actually been put to the test in court.
Not sure if it went anywhere, but Blizzard was trying to sue a cheat producer a while back. Basically, the logic was "the EULA is a license to use this copyrighted work, if you break the EULA then you no longer have a license, thus cheaters are pirates". So making a video on how to cheat could very well be some kind of contributory copyright infringement. Not saying I agree with it or that it's not an overreaction, but I'm certainly not going to rush to defend an avowed cheater, 14 y/o or otherwise.
Partially this, but also because the Cydia repos went downhill fast, with the package pages becoming more and more bloated with annoying ads. Once a bunch of packages (even really basic stuff) started to become paid packages I decided I’d had enough. And I know it wasn’t an issue of “we need money to fund development” because in many cases, those same exact packages used to be free.
Not necessarily. The data can just stay in whatever structure it’s in. As for software, you can always start with virtualization and gradually look for alternatives.
Guess what: ANY software I install on my PC has free reign to do whatever it wants with my browser (and the rest of my software too). Rather than crippling admins for the rest of us, just don’t install software (browser admins or otherwise) that you don’t trust.
Because with ownership, you can sell it later. This is especially important with houses, where in many markets they appreciate rather than depreciate. Your “rent” is effectively your interest plus insurance and property taxes (not including utilities and the like).
No, I’d rather pay a reasonable amount (like 20 or 30 a month) and get the everything service. Do you know what people do with the more specific services that they only watch one show from? They finish watching that show, cancel their subscription, and then sign up again when the next season starts. Having a single $20/month service I could subscribe to for the entire year instead of 6 different $20/month services that I subscribe to for 2 months at a time gives the content creators the same amount of revenue and is more convenient for me.
For power supplies, the answer is pretty simple. Different power standards across the world mean they would have to make even more configurations to accommodate those. Whereas with external power supplies, not only can they just ship a different brick with the machine, they often reuse the same power supply across multiple models. Not to mention external is a lot easier to replace if something goes wrong.
This was my main disappointment with Android. I had hoped that it would be google, not the carrier or handset manufacturer providing updates. The manufacturer would provide drivers for the hardware, but Google would take care of the rest, similar to how MS rather than a PC manufacturer handles Windows updates. Instead it’s a fragmented mess.
For me, it's not the chiclet keyboard, it's the layout. It's especially irritating on some of the laptops where there's clearly enough space to put more keys up top, but there's just empty plastic instead. Also, what the hell is with the print screen key location? I'd hazard a guess that there are numerous buttons used more often than printscreen and thus are more deserving of a dedicated button.
I think his point is that the combination itself doesn't make much sense nowadays, not that having a hotkey for that is bad. All of the other window management button combinations are either WinKey+something, or are semi-standardized combos like Ctrl-W.
Except for the fact that unlike other forms of advertising, much internet advertising is pay-per-click rather than pay per impression. People who take a hardline stance against ads were probably the least likely to click said ads to begin with. In addition, the issue here is targeting, but ads have already been targeted for decades simply on the basis of where the ad would appear. E.g. Put ads for computers in computer magazines. You get targeting without invasion of privacy. Alternatively, if yo want to track me, give me something tangible in return, like how supermarket reward cards work.
It would presumably be like the current solution, where there's a limited time window after which it will only allow passcode unlock. There's also now the ability to mash the touch sensor 5 times to require a passcode. I'm curious as to how they'll do it with face recognition, but since it makes you look at the phone they could have some kind of secret duress point you can choose where if you look at that point on the screen, it would disable face entry.
The issue for me isn't the key feel - the new ones feel fine, and I can look past the chiclet part. The issue is that they went from having a top-tier keyboard layout to having a below average layout. They've made slight improvements but it's still poorly designed.
They extrapolate annual failure rates. You divide the number of failures by the total amount of time the drive has been in service (sum of all drives - i.e. 100 drives for 50 days = 5000 drive-days), then multiply by 1 year. In this case, those 400 drives have been in service for a total of 6k days (average of 15 days/drive). If 1.25% of drives crap out in 15 days, you can probably see how that becomes a 30% annual failure rate. Granted, there's some bathtub curve going on here, so that particular statistic isn't very reliable - it may as well be interpreted as "this drive has a 1.25% chance of being DOA"
It makes sense. They extrapolate an annual failure rate, since failure rates over time need some kind of time period to be useful. Using your example, if 5 drives fail over 5998 total days of drive time, that means any given drive has a 30% chance to fail in a given one-year period. As an example, if there were 50 drives in that sample, that would mean they ran those 50 drives for 120 days, and in that time 10% of them died, which is terrible reliability.
I would assume a self-driving car could just recognize the lights and sirens that emergency vehicles would already have, and could pull over autonomously.
Also, considering that even 15+ year old cars know if someone is in them (to remind everyone to put a seatbelt on), I don't think an empty car would be much of an issue either. Incapacitated drivers could maybe be an issue, but many cars already know if the driver is distracted/fatigued/etc.
That presupposes that the close button is the negative/regressive/cancel option. A trivial counter example would be an alert dialog - both the OK button and the close button do the exact same action. In the scope of a workflow, the close button usually means "I'm done with this", I.e progress to the next thing I want to do, thus it IS the positive/affirmative option.
I hope that's just meant to serve as a rough example, because it really doesn't tick many of the boxes. I count two antenna holes, so you can't even 3x3. You'll also need to source signal combiners so you can run 5 and 2.4 on the same pair of antennae. You also need the wifi cards themselves, and good ones aren't cheap. Selecting the wifi option on that one increases the price by $4 which is certainly not going to get a wifi card worth using AP-side. In fact, reading the specs it looks like the first mPCIe slot is USB-only, and the second is SATA-only which is yet another deal breaker.
Disclaimer: I own an Omnia, and it's pretty good at being a solid pre-packaged solution without losing any customizability. I'm sure you COULD find something that beats it in terms of value, but some random aliexpress box probably isn't the way to do it. That also says nothing of current and future expandability, where if need be you could upgrade the omnia to 4x4 wifi or jury rig all sorts of stuff into it.
I've seen a decent solution floated for this: bandwidth caps per tier. e.g. unlimited low-priority, 200gb medium, 20gb high per month. Clients who abuse priorities would just hit their caps faster.
Easy: if MS takes private information, I can't put that cat back in the bag. If ransomware effectively deletes all my files, worst case I can treat it like a failed drive and restore from a backup.
The simple solution to the first concern is to make lenders only consider things like school, degree program, etc. No race/sex, no "how rich are your parents" questions. It would be even better if they just posted transparent rate schedules for every covered college and degree, since that would make it easier to shop around and compare (both for loan providers and colleges).
Not necessarily true. What if none of the networking devices work out of the box? There's also often oddball hardware that requires a driver than Windows doesn't find automatically, or even hardware where Windows tries to install too new of a driver version (as the new version dropped support for that particular piece of HW).
And that's the point of TFA. More email senders have to set up DMARC, et al. When enough have set up DMARC, then it will be possible for your server to reject most spam.
DMARC isn't really a spam filtering system (nor are its components SPF and DKIM), just an "is this email from foo@bar.com actually from bar.com". If I'm getting spam from ilovespam.com it's not going to do much good.
I'm pretty sure it's bullshit, otherwise the laptop manufacturers that don't lock it down would have been sued over it by now. Even my old MacBook (when it still had a plain old miniPCIe slot) will accept any card.
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It's a free to play game in this case, so I doubt there's really even a shrink wrap license to begin with. But for the sake of argument, let's say that the license issue is a non-starter. If you get banned, you're no longer authorized to access that computer service, and unauthorized access to a computer system is illegal under its own set of laws. IANAL so I don't know if this logic has actually been put to the test in court.
Not sure if it went anywhere, but Blizzard was trying to sue a cheat producer a while back. Basically, the logic was "the EULA is a license to use this copyrighted work, if you break the EULA then you no longer have a license, thus cheaters are pirates". So making a video on how to cheat could very well be some kind of contributory copyright infringement. Not saying I agree with it or that it's not an overreaction, but I'm certainly not going to rush to defend an avowed cheater, 14 y/o or otherwise.
Partially this, but also because the Cydia repos went downhill fast, with the package pages becoming more and more bloated with annoying ads. Once a bunch of packages (even really basic stuff) started to become paid packages I decided I’d had enough. And I know it wasn’t an issue of “we need money to fund development” because in many cases, those same exact packages used to be free.
Not necessarily. The data can just stay in whatever structure it’s in. As for software, you can always start with virtualization and gradually look for alternatives.
Guess what: ANY software I install on my PC has free reign to do whatever it wants with my browser (and the rest of my software too). Rather than crippling admins for the rest of us, just don’t install software (browser admins or otherwise) that you don’t trust.
Because with ownership, you can sell it later. This is especially important with houses, where in many markets they appreciate rather than depreciate. Your “rent” is effectively your interest plus insurance and property taxes (not including utilities and the like).
No, I’d rather pay a reasonable amount (like 20 or 30 a month) and get the everything service. Do you know what people do with the more specific services that they only watch one show from? They finish watching that show, cancel their subscription, and then sign up again when the next season starts. Having a single $20/month service I could subscribe to for the entire year instead of 6 different $20/month services that I subscribe to for 2 months at a time gives the content creators the same amount of revenue and is more convenient for me.
For power supplies, the answer is pretty simple. Different power standards across the world mean they would have to make even more configurations to accommodate those. Whereas with external power supplies, not only can they just ship a different brick with the machine, they often reuse the same power supply across multiple models. Not to mention external is a lot easier to replace if something goes wrong.
This was my main disappointment with Android. I had hoped that it would be google, not the carrier or handset manufacturer providing updates. The manufacturer would provide drivers for the hardware, but Google would take care of the rest, similar to how MS rather than a PC manufacturer handles Windows updates. Instead it’s a fragmented mess.
For me, it's not the chiclet keyboard, it's the layout. It's especially irritating on some of the laptops where there's clearly enough space to put more keys up top, but there's just empty plastic instead. Also, what the hell is with the print screen key location? I'd hazard a guess that there are numerous buttons used more often than printscreen and thus are more deserving of a dedicated button.
I think his point is that the combination itself doesn't make much sense nowadays, not that having a hotkey for that is bad. All of the other window management button combinations are either WinKey+something, or are semi-standardized combos like Ctrl-W.
Except for the fact that unlike other forms of advertising, much internet advertising is pay-per-click rather than pay per impression. People who take a hardline stance against ads were probably the least likely to click said ads to begin with. In addition, the issue here is targeting, but ads have already been targeted for decades simply on the basis of where the ad would appear. E.g. Put ads for computers in computer magazines. You get targeting without invasion of privacy. Alternatively, if yo want to track me, give me something tangible in return, like how supermarket reward cards work.
It would presumably be like the current solution, where there's a limited time window after which it will only allow passcode unlock. There's also now the ability to mash the touch sensor 5 times to require a passcode. I'm curious as to how they'll do it with face recognition, but since it makes you look at the phone they could have some kind of secret duress point you can choose where if you look at that point on the screen, it would disable face entry.
The issue for me isn't the key feel - the new ones feel fine, and I can look past the chiclet part. The issue is that they went from having a top-tier keyboard layout to having a below average layout. They've made slight improvements but it's still poorly designed.
They extrapolate annual failure rates. You divide the number of failures by the total amount of time the drive has been in service (sum of all drives - i.e. 100 drives for 50 days = 5000 drive-days), then multiply by 1 year. In this case, those 400 drives have been in service for a total of 6k days (average of 15 days/drive). If 1.25% of drives crap out in 15 days, you can probably see how that becomes a 30% annual failure rate. Granted, there's some bathtub curve going on here, so that particular statistic isn't very reliable - it may as well be interpreted as "this drive has a 1.25% chance of being DOA"
It makes sense. They extrapolate an annual failure rate, since failure rates over time need some kind of time period to be useful. Using your example, if 5 drives fail over 5998 total days of drive time, that means any given drive has a 30% chance to fail in a given one-year period. As an example, if there were 50 drives in that sample, that would mean they ran those 50 drives for 120 days, and in that time 10% of them died, which is terrible reliability.
I would assume a self-driving car could just recognize the lights and sirens that emergency vehicles would already have, and could pull over autonomously.
Also, considering that even 15+ year old cars know if someone is in them (to remind everyone to put a seatbelt on), I don't think an empty car would be much of an issue either. Incapacitated drivers could maybe be an issue, but many cars already know if the driver is distracted/fatigued/etc.
That presupposes that the close button is the negative/regressive/cancel option. A trivial counter example would be an alert dialog - both the OK button and the close button do the exact same action. In the scope of a workflow, the close button usually means "I'm done with this", I.e progress to the next thing I want to do, thus it IS the positive/affirmative option.
I hope that's just meant to serve as a rough example, because it really doesn't tick many of the boxes. I count two antenna holes, so you can't even 3x3. You'll also need to source signal combiners so you can run 5 and 2.4 on the same pair of antennae. You also need the wifi cards themselves, and good ones aren't cheap. Selecting the wifi option on that one increases the price by $4 which is certainly not going to get a wifi card worth using AP-side. In fact, reading the specs it looks like the first mPCIe slot is USB-only, and the second is SATA-only which is yet another deal breaker.
Disclaimer: I own an Omnia, and it's pretty good at being a solid pre-packaged solution without losing any customizability. I'm sure you COULD find something that beats it in terms of value, but some random aliexpress box probably isn't the way to do it. That also says nothing of current and future expandability, where if need be you could upgrade the omnia to 4x4 wifi or jury rig all sorts of stuff into it.
I've seen a decent solution floated for this: bandwidth caps per tier. e.g. unlimited low-priority, 200gb medium, 20gb high per month. Clients who abuse priorities would just hit their caps faster.
Easy: if MS takes private information, I can't put that cat back in the bag. If ransomware effectively deletes all my files, worst case I can treat it like a failed drive and restore from a backup.
The simple solution to the first concern is to make lenders only consider things like school, degree program, etc. No race/sex, no "how rich are your parents" questions. It would be even better if they just posted transparent rate schedules for every covered college and degree, since that would make it easier to shop around and compare (both for loan providers and colleges).
Not necessarily true. What if none of the networking devices work out of the box? There's also often oddball hardware that requires a driver than Windows doesn't find automatically, or even hardware where Windows tries to install too new of a driver version (as the new version dropped support for that particular piece of HW).
And that's the point of TFA. More email senders have to set up DMARC, et al. When enough have set up DMARC, then it will be possible for your server to reject most spam.
DMARC isn't really a spam filtering system (nor are its components SPF and DKIM), just an "is this email from foo@bar.com actually from bar.com". If I'm getting spam from ilovespam.com it's not going to do much good.
I'm pretty sure it's bullshit, otherwise the laptop manufacturers that don't lock it down would have been sued over it by now. Even my old MacBook (when it still had a plain old miniPCIe slot) will accept any card.