* Buying the book on Half.com: $5 after shipping, and it's mine forever to donate, loan, or carve out and hide whiskey inside * Renting the book from Amazon: $10, not including amortizing the cost of the $300 device?! Also requires battery power.
eBook rentals restricted in such a manner should cost substantially less if anything. The weight savings is not worth that much to me. I'll carry around the dead tree version.
The book industry is retarded and frustrating to me. Here's one fun thing my University does: * Hire Pearson Custom Publishing to compile a book containing 3 chapters each of 4 books * Buy this book for somewhere in the range of $48-$64 based on the information on Pearson's site * Require this book and sell it for $162 (paperback!!), telling the students you're saving them the cost of buying 4 books
Since it's a custom compilation you can't get it anywhere online used. But the 4 component books are each available for under $15 on Half.com, and then I get the whole book instead of just three chapters of it, AND I can resell them later. Well, thanks for that.
I would feel motivated to cut off the binding and scan each page & seed it as a torrent.
Basically yes. If your data is protected by 'security through obscurity' I reckon you pretty much have what's coming when people quickly figure out how to easily subjugate it.
But that doesn't really apply in this case, does it? Because it's not even like they're linking to data that's supposed to be hidden behind a javascript password verifier. Just regular pages on a site.
On a 486/33. It was awesome, so once I acquired a CDROM I got a RedHat CD.
Ultimately I stopped using linux due to the lack of support for devices. I'd get a new computer to initially be greeted by VESA 640x480 in X, no sound, and no USB devices.
Bafflingly, I had one on-board sound card that, in linux, the sound output would come out the mic in. In Windows it worked as normal.
It's not like they're going to be caught and prosecuted. Although if possible, why not go for a FOSS solution? Personally I do tend to try to compensate people who write cool software that I use.
Ocassionally I get emails from Chinese users asking for a serial for one of our products. I asked one if there was not an accessible store from which to purchase it. He responded, basically, yeah, there's a couple, but no one buys software in China, they just download it. So there you have it!
Sadly we're not popular enough for anyone to have made a keygen that I can find.
It seems like an insult that the e-version is actually more expensive per-copy than the paper and snailmail version. Our convenience is your tax, I suppose.
I understand the plight of users not knowing what features they're going to want, but I still feel like more OS bloat is the last thing I need. Especially when the features are ones that expect that I am stupid and are based upon the OS knowing what I want to do before I do it (like loading frequently used programs into memory). I kind of just prefer that the computer do what I tell it to instead of try to Ouija board me.
I especially don't want visual features. One of my first tasks on any Windows computer is usually to set everything to "no animations, Win95 mode." In general, actually, I prefer to do many things from the command line, although I do like drag-and-drop for file organization. In this aspect Mac OS X seems reasonable and desirable to me.
The (feature?) side effect of this would be that people would immediately assume their TV was broken and buy another one (which would then have a digital tuner??).
Here's how to really annoy and confuse people:
Add subtitles.
If you've ever worked in a video store you know what I mean!
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Exactly.
* Buying the book on Half.com: $5 after shipping, and it's mine forever to donate, loan, or carve out and hide whiskey inside
* Renting the book from Amazon: $10, not including amortizing the cost of the $300 device?! Also requires battery power.
eBook rentals restricted in such a manner should cost substantially less if anything. The weight savings is not worth that much to me. I'll carry around the dead tree version.
The book industry is retarded and frustrating to me. Here's one fun thing my University does:
* Hire Pearson Custom Publishing to compile a book containing 3 chapters each of 4 books
* Buy this book for somewhere in the range of $48-$64 based on the information on Pearson's site
* Require this book and sell it for $162 (paperback!!), telling the students you're saving them the cost of buying 4 books
Since it's a custom compilation you can't get it anywhere online used. But the 4 component books are each available for under $15 on Half.com, and then I get the whole book instead of just three chapters of it, AND I can resell them later. Well, thanks for that.
I would feel motivated to cut off the binding and scan each page & seed it as a torrent.
So much for just having sex with intelligent, healthy, good-looking women. Oh, also, I for one welcome our new bioengineered baby overlords.
Don't about Conficker Lisp -- it overflows your buffers with parentheses.
How would one know when they were about to be charged for roaming? I've never encountered this, but I do also use prepaid cellular.
Reading plaintext unsafe. News at eleven.
Basically yes. If your data is protected by 'security through obscurity' I reckon you pretty much have what's coming when people quickly figure out how to easily subjugate it.
But that doesn't really apply in this case, does it? Because it's not even like they're linking to data that's supposed to be hidden behind a javascript password verifier. Just regular pages on a site.
I was all excited that someone had made an OO extention to the B programming language. We can only imagine the horror!
as a result, but apparently you can't divide by zero.
Please place your phone in a dark place to reset.
Or,
(walks under tree) Can you hear me now?
(that is all.)
That spammers couldn't just be very selective in their targeting. "Oh, sweet, I just got an e-mail about cheap Canadian b33r!"
Dibbs!! "huevOS: it's a kick in the eggs!"
On a 486/33. It was awesome, so once I acquired a CDROM I got a RedHat CD. Ultimately I stopped using linux due to the lack of support for devices. I'd get a new computer to initially be greeted by VESA 640x480 in X, no sound, and no USB devices. Bafflingly, I had one on-board sound card that, in linux, the sound output would come out the mic in. In Windows it worked as normal.
How does it handle locking conflicts? Well, think about it, how do you handle locking conflicts in your program? That is your answer.
Synchronized blocks around the entire program?
It's not like they're going to be caught and prosecuted. Although if possible, why not go for a FOSS solution? Personally I do tend to try to compensate people who write cool software that I use.
Ocassionally I get emails from Chinese users asking for a serial for one of our products. I asked one if there was not an accessible store from which to purchase it. He responded, basically, yeah, there's a couple, but no one buys software in China, they just download it. So there you have it!
Sadly we're not popular enough for anyone to have made a keygen that I can find.
It seems like an insult that the e-version is actually more expensive per-copy than the paper and snailmail version. Our convenience is your tax, I suppose.
It says I have the Win32.Net virus! I *knew* .NET was bad.
I understand the plight of users not knowing what features they're going to want, but I still feel like more OS bloat is the last thing I need. Especially when the features are ones that expect that I am stupid and are based upon the OS knowing what I want to do before I do it (like loading frequently used programs into memory). I kind of just prefer that the computer do what I tell it to instead of try to Ouija board me. I especially don't want visual features. One of my first tasks on any Windows computer is usually to set everything to "no animations, Win95 mode." In general, actually, I prefer to do many things from the command line, although I do like drag-and-drop for file organization. In this aspect Mac OS X seems reasonable and desirable to me.
I want the most bytes per MOLE next time I shop for a hard disk!
I'm already working on the application to play the accompanying ragtime piano.
The (feature?) side effect of this would be that people would immediately assume their TV was broken and buy another one (which would then have a digital tuner??). Here's how to really annoy and confuse people: Add subtitles. If you've ever worked in a video store you know what I mean!
welcome our stem-cell powered superhuman overlords.