What an intriguing way to wipe out virtually all computer/console gaming by your own company! I had never thought that anyone would patent business suicide. Way to go Microsoft!
Can't wait to see Balmers avatar running around with his head stuck up his backside, that's going to be a total roflmao moment. I promise to take screenshots.
You really like finding ways to be insulted, don't you?
He was using an example of a vision impared individual that he personally knows that can perceive the loss of quality in the current videos despite the lack of visual acuity.
This has nothing to do with your age, sex, progenitor proclivity, or computer linguistic skills.
To answer your question, it would look something like, "Even my father can see a reduction in picture quality and he's got cataracts".
This has nothing to do with racism (which has nothing to do with sexism, by the way), or any characterization of anybody being incompetent with anything.
Now I have spoken with (and got abused while trying to help) numerous other people with the same psychological issues you are displaying in your post. My advice is simple. STOP IT ! Most people aren't out to dis, abuse, harm, rip off, or perform any other negative interaction. You are acting hypersensitive to the point where you are imagining insults and disrespect where not only are they not intended, but are totally nonexistant. Go see a professional psychiatrist IMMEDIATELY ! You need some serious help, and possibly drugs, or whatever they do for cases like yours.
Thank you for listening, now go get a life. [rant terminated]
I have to agree, our current crop of company shills have no idea how to actually use the money we (through the government) make available to them unless we give them very specific instructions. Without those instructions, barring any loopholes, they just feather their nests.
An image of a rabid vulture sitting in a giant pile of down just ran through my mind... Disturbing, yet appropriate...
If it were a chemical or biological agent, that would release it into the air. Was the agent wearing a proper hazard suit and mask?
Second, shotguns won't set off plastic explosives. Neither will a high powered rifle. But if a shotgun pellet hit a blasting cap it will definitely explode the whole thing. From what I hear, terrorist improvised explosive devices tend to be made with more unstable stuff (blasting caps) rather than more stable things (c4). By the way, forget everything you've ever seen in a movie about explosives, it's total B.S. Also, all the E.O.D. guys I know of doing a 'disposal' will either move it to a 'safe' location or at least sandbag the snot out of it before dealing with it. (You know those new bomb robots that have the built in gun? It's for shooting at the control mechanism, not the explosives, and if you don't know where both those parts are, you don't shoot at it unless you want to buy a new robot. Last E.O.D. robot I played with cost $2.5 million. Nobody wants that coming out of their paychecks.)
Yes, I know what I'm talking about when it comes to those substances, I really was a Munitions Systems Specialist in the military. (Job kinda sucked, so did the co-workers, but it had it's good points.)
Either way you look at it, they pumped 3 rounds into just to be pricks and F with the girl.
It is not reasonable to allow spurious or unfounded litigations simply because the target does so themselves. That would set a very bad precedent.
Now as to this case, I have no idea if it's a load of b.s. since I can't seem to get the article to load. Maybe it got slashdotted.:)
Personally, I'm sick of the software patent scams, just slap them back to copyrights like it used to be. As long as we're wishing for things, eliminate business patents also.
... Screw the geeks, dweebs, nerds, and awkward kids and adults, give it away free to the popular people...
Guess what, we are NOT the popular people out there. Do you really want to subsidize them?
As to the celebrity thing, I don't much like it, they get paid lots of money, they can afford to buy their own freaking PS3, and the house to put it in, but that at least falls under advertising. However, making it a form of industry wide pricing scheme, that has to be illegal. (And if it isn't, it should be.)
"I'm sorry mam, according to the index, nobody really likes you, so we have to charge you 3 times as much for that."
Too much silence if even more distracting for some people, myself included.
Music makes good background, and can be easily tuned out. On the other hand, conversations are something I can't help but respond to, especially when it's a question. Even worse, a questions of a technical nature regarding computers.
Without out that list, how could parents ever know that an M rated game wasn't appropriate for kids? I mean, it's not like there is a rather visible ESRB M logo which says Mature 17+ on the front or back of the game case, if not both. Or that most stores tend to post an ESRB list by their games. Or even that the ESRB has been around for 15 years. I mean really... if even one of those things had been true, that list would be totally inane.
Errr, sorry what? Are you sure? No, really, it can't be... Ummm... Excuse me everyone, apparently I was mistaken. It seems that all of those, um, examples are in fact true. Boy is my editors face red for letting that one slip through. I'll return you to your previously viewed ranting as soon as you stop reading this. >^_^<
I love that "...then secretly installing their command and control infrastructure." statement. When was the last time a criminal came up to your admin and said, "Hi, I'm going to install my unwanted rootkit on your server now so I can use it as a botnet."? Yeah, it's like saying a burglar secretly robbed your house... Like he's really going to send you a postcard saying, "Tonight when you go to the movies, I'm going to pillage your apt.".
Sorry, but helping the clueless or unfortunate users from something that wasn't created, distributed, or sanctioned by Microsoft isn't a Microsoft Bailout even if the users are running MS Windows.
If Macs were the big dog in the OS world, would you then be calling it an Apple Bailout?
By the way, don't buy into the apple myths. They have malware and bugs aplenty, they just don't have enough population density to encourage easy transmittal, or even be a tempting target for malware creators. Those scum want to get as many machines as possible, so only niche diehards or those who want to prove a point bother to infect anything with less than a 40% market share. Guess what that means... yeah, that's right, they go after Windows. If you flip-flop the percentages, you'll see a total shift in what they target. And that's not guesswork or rhetoric.
Personally I know of many reasons to complain about Microsoft, and Apple, and the Linux community. None are perfect, and all have nuts, fanatics, and total wackjobs. Pick your poison and learn how to use it safely.
Some of the recent studies show that it's incomplete magnetic field is actually accelerating the loss of atmosphere. Apparently those magnetic domes that were once thought to help retain atmosphere are now acting like ski ramps to help the solar winds blow off more air than if Mars had no magnetic field whatsoever. That's really gotta suck.
Of course, that doesn't preclude the existence of some form of extremophile. After all, it's had millions of years to adapt to the changing environment that is Mars. On the other hand, that doesn't mean there is any life on Mars, just that we can't rule it out at this time.
So anyhow, do you know where I can get some more nurplex? This one lost it's flavor years ago...:-)
People have made these statements before. The exact wording was different, because it's usually in a different language, but it's the same meaning. Usually it's just before a totalitarian regime takes over. That kind of thinking is always evil. We've fought Wars of various kinds to block it.
Privacy isn't just a nicety, it's guaranteed in various forms by the Constitution of the United States of America. Even that isn't it's origin as it's been accepted and expected by most of the worlds populace since time immemorial.
Don't let that evil blowhard get away with this, tell him your opinions. Small bit of advice, be civil about it or they'll just round-file your messages. (A thousand profanity filled attacks are worth less than one polite and reasoned statement.)
Having missing or 'weak' fingerprints is enough to get arrested. There are several cases of this in the USA in the last few years.
So far they've all ended up being attributed to disease or professions that have the side effect of diminishing or eliminating fingerprints.
Having a lack of fingerprints is not illegal, but the cops excuses have always been, "If'n ya ain't got dem fingerprints, ya must be upz ta no good...". (Extreme hick accent intended for purposes of parody.)
Publicity, and sticking it to the jerk that is trying to (maybe illegally?) infringe upon their legal trade.
What do you think the local bars (or theaters, or whatever) would do if some jerk sent out letters to the attendees of a conference telling them not to use their services.
Of course that 'ancient' map is not accepted for a very simple reason. It is heavily suspected of being a fake. Additionally, it's not even an original, since even it's discoverer (forger or dupe?) claimed it was a copy of a copy of an ancient map.
To put it simply, it's provenance is insufficient. Please don't try to use such unsubstantiated fluff as 'proof', you'll just hurt your argument.
Often there is an unspecified leeway to account for unavoidable imprecision because we are all just human, and even our machines aren't 100% accurate.
Don't forget that traffic isn't a steady state situation, it's a dynamic one.
My uncle got pulled over for being 10mph over the limit when he thought he was going the correct speed. The cop didn't ticket him, but pointed out that his obviously new tires weren't the same diameter as the factory ones. Then told him to get his odometer recalibrated for the new tires. Seems your speedometer and odometer are directly linked to the number of rotations of tires of a specific diameter, change that and they read the wrong values. That's just one example where violations occur because of stuff you don't know about. It happens to cops too.
Of course, cops have another reason to not bother with tiny infractions. It wastes too much of their time in court arguing with joe blow that 4mph over the limit is still a violation. Even cops don't like standing in court all day dealing with stupid s###.
Exactly, and I might add, the more complicated the system or device, the more likely something will go wrong. Please note that the LHC is a horribly complicated device with very little tolerance for screwups. It's kinda of amazing we lowly humans can even expect to get something like that working... (Persistent buggers, aren't we....)
Of course they could just build a chicken wire cage around the propellers preventing the ropes from ever reaching them in the first place. Then they could use the money for brand spanking new water jet engines for something else, like more rockets to shoot at the idiots flinging ropes at them...
My ex tried this a while back without asking me. She started trying to cancel it within two weeks. It took over 3 months before they would actually cancel it, and that was like pulling teeth with tweezers. She must have sent 20 emails and spent 40 hours on the phone trying to get them to cancel.
That is either Massive incompetence, or total scam. I really don't care which, but I'd advise you to not use Video Professor. Besides, their stuff is really basic. You'd be better off taking an introductory course at your local college, or just checking out stuff at your local library. (Either of those options will be cheaper as well.)
Considering this 'new' suit is just an old suit with the arms removed doesn't really qualify as an advancement. I would even consider the loss of capability combined with no additional advantages a setback rather than advancement.
By their logic, If I took a 3 year old computer, removed the second drive and cut the memory in half, that would be a new computer with the advantages of lower cost and weight...
Sorry, but removing the arms from a power suit just degrades it's support & enhancement capabilities way too much. That student needs to go back to class.
If you've seen the damage the average dorm-rat causes, you'd understand why I say it would be just the thing for the dorms. (Both College and Military);P
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What an intriguing way to wipe out virtually all computer/console gaming by your own company!
I had never thought that anyone would patent business suicide.
Way to go Microsoft!
Can't wait to see Balmers avatar running around with his head stuck up his backside, that's going to be a total roflmao moment.
I promise to take screenshots.
You really like finding ways to be insulted, don't you?
He was using an example of a vision impared individual that he personally knows that can perceive the loss of quality in the current videos despite the lack of visual acuity.
This has nothing to do with your age, sex, progenitor proclivity, or computer linguistic skills.
To answer your question, it would look something like, "Even my father can see a reduction in picture quality and he's got cataracts".
This has nothing to do with racism (which has nothing to do with sexism, by the way), or any characterization of anybody being incompetent with anything.
Now I have spoken with (and got abused while trying to help) numerous other people with the same psychological issues you are displaying in your post. My advice is simple. STOP IT ! Most people aren't out to dis, abuse, harm, rip off, or perform any other negative interaction. You are acting hypersensitive to the point where you are imagining insults and disrespect where not only are they not intended, but are totally nonexistant. Go see a professional psychiatrist IMMEDIATELY ! You need some serious help, and possibly drugs, or whatever they do for cases like yours.
Thank you for listening, now go get a life. [rant terminated]
Maybe now some of the rank & file will begin to understand the evils of pervasive DRM, even if only in Germany.
Doesn't matter if they are on his side or not, when the whacked out monkey starts slinging poo everywhere, it's best to take cover.
I have to agree, our current crop of company shills have no idea how to actually use the money we (through the government) make available to them unless we give them very specific instructions. Without those instructions, barring any loopholes, they just feather their nests.
An image of a rabid vulture sitting in a giant pile of down just ran through my mind... Disturbing, yet appropriate...
If it were a chemical or biological agent, that would release it into the air.
Was the agent wearing a proper hazard suit and mask?
Second, shotguns won't set off plastic explosives. Neither will a high powered rifle.
But if a shotgun pellet hit a blasting cap it will definitely explode the whole thing.
From what I hear, terrorist improvised explosive devices tend to be made with more unstable stuff (blasting caps) rather than more stable things (c4).
By the way, forget everything you've ever seen in a movie about explosives, it's total B.S.
Also, all the E.O.D. guys I know of doing a 'disposal' will either move it to a 'safe' location or at least sandbag the snot out of it before dealing with it.
(You know those new bomb robots that have the built in gun? It's for shooting at the control mechanism, not the explosives, and if you don't know where both those parts are, you don't shoot at it unless you want to buy a new robot. Last E.O.D. robot I played with cost $2.5 million. Nobody wants that coming out of their paychecks.)
Yes, I know what I'm talking about when it comes to those substances, I really was a Munitions Systems Specialist in the military.
(Job kinda sucked, so did the co-workers, but it had it's good points.)
Either way you look at it, they pumped 3 rounds into just to be pricks and F with the girl.
It is not reasonable to allow spurious or unfounded litigations simply because the target does so themselves.
:)
That would set a very bad precedent.
Now as to this case, I have no idea if it's a load of b.s. since I can't seem to get the article to load.
Maybe it got slashdotted.
Personally, I'm sick of the software patent scams, just slap them back to copyrights like it used to be.
As long as we're wishing for things, eliminate business patents also.
... Screw the geeks, dweebs, nerds, and awkward kids and adults, give it away free to the popular people...
Guess what, we are NOT the popular people out there.
Do you really want to subsidize them?
As to the celebrity thing, I don't much like it, they get paid lots of money, they can afford to buy their own freaking PS3, and the house to put it in, but that at least falls under advertising.
However, making it a form of industry wide pricing scheme, that has to be illegal.
(And if it isn't, it should be.)
"I'm sorry mam, according to the index, nobody really likes you, so we have to charge you 3 times as much for that."
Too much silence if even more distracting for some people, myself included.
Music makes good background, and can be easily tuned out.
On the other hand, conversations are something I can't help but respond to, especially when it's a question.
Even worse, a questions of a technical nature regarding computers.
Without out that list, how could parents ever know that an M rated game wasn't appropriate for kids?
I mean, it's not like there is a rather visible ESRB M logo which says Mature 17+ on the front or back of the game case, if not both.
Or that most stores tend to post an ESRB list by their games.
Or even that the ESRB has been around for 15 years.
I mean really... if even one of those things had been true, that list would be totally inane.
Errr, sorry what? Are you sure? No, really, it can't be...
Ummm...
Excuse me everyone, apparently I was mistaken.
It seems that all of those, um, examples are in fact true. Boy is my editors face red for letting that one slip through.
I'll return you to your previously viewed ranting as soon as you stop reading this.
>^_^<
I love that " ...then secretly installing their command and control infrastructure." statement.
When was the last time a criminal came up to your admin and said, "Hi, I'm going to install my unwanted rootkit on your server now so I can use it as a botnet."?
Yeah, it's like saying a burglar secretly robbed your house... Like he's really going to send you a postcard saying, "Tonight when you go to the movies, I'm going to pillage your apt.".
Sorry, but helping the clueless or unfortunate users from something that wasn't created, distributed, or sanctioned by Microsoft isn't a Microsoft Bailout even if the users are running MS Windows.
If Macs were the big dog in the OS world, would you then be calling it an Apple Bailout?
By the way, don't buy into the apple myths. They have malware and bugs aplenty, they just don't have enough population density to encourage easy transmittal, or even be a tempting target for malware creators. Those scum want to get as many machines as possible, so only niche diehards or those who want to prove a point bother to infect anything with less than a 40% market share. Guess what that means... yeah, that's right, they go after Windows. If you flip-flop the percentages, you'll see a total shift in what they target. And that's not guesswork or rhetoric.
Personally I know of many reasons to complain about Microsoft, and Apple, and the Linux community. None are perfect, and all have nuts, fanatics, and total wackjobs. Pick your poison and learn how to use it safely.
Some of the recent studies show that it's incomplete magnetic field is actually accelerating the loss of atmosphere.
:-)
Apparently those magnetic domes that were once thought to help retain atmosphere are now acting like ski ramps to help the solar winds blow off more air than if Mars had no magnetic field whatsoever. That's really gotta suck.
Of course, that doesn't preclude the existence of some form of extremophile.
After all, it's had millions of years to adapt to the changing environment that is Mars.
On the other hand, that doesn't mean there is any life on Mars, just that we can't rule it out at this time.
So anyhow, do you know where I can get some more nurplex? This one lost it's flavor years ago...
People have made these statements before.
The exact wording was different, because it's usually in a different language, but it's the same meaning.
Usually it's just before a totalitarian regime takes over.
That kind of thinking is always evil.
We've fought Wars of various kinds to block it.
Privacy isn't just a nicety, it's guaranteed in various forms by the Constitution of the United States of America.
Even that isn't it's origin as it's been accepted and expected by most of the worlds populace since time immemorial.
Don't let that evil blowhard get away with this, tell him your opinions.
Small bit of advice, be civil about it or they'll just round-file your messages.
(A thousand profanity filled attacks are worth less than one polite and reasoned statement.)
Having missing or 'weak' fingerprints is enough to get arrested.
There are several cases of this in the USA in the last few years.
So far they've all ended up being attributed to disease or professions that have the side effect of diminishing or eliminating fingerprints.
Having a lack of fingerprints is not illegal, but the cops excuses have always been, "If'n ya ain't got dem fingerprints, ya must be upz ta no good...".
(Extreme hick accent intended for purposes of parody.)
Publicity, and sticking it to the jerk that is trying to (maybe illegally?) infringe upon their legal trade.
What do you think the local bars (or theaters, or whatever) would do if some jerk sent out letters to the attendees of a conference telling them not to use their services.
Of course that 'ancient' map is not accepted for a very simple reason.
It is heavily suspected of being a fake.
Additionally, it's not even an original, since even it's discoverer (forger or dupe?) claimed it was a copy of a copy of an ancient map.
To put it simply, it's provenance is insufficient.
Please don't try to use such unsubstantiated fluff as 'proof', you'll just hurt your argument.
Often there is an unspecified leeway to account for unavoidable imprecision because we are all just human, and even our machines aren't 100% accurate.
Don't forget that traffic isn't a steady state situation, it's a dynamic one.
My uncle got pulled over for being 10mph over the limit when he thought he was going the correct speed. The cop didn't ticket him, but pointed out that his obviously new tires weren't the same diameter as the factory ones. Then told him to get his odometer recalibrated for the new tires. Seems your speedometer and odometer are directly linked to the number of rotations of tires of a specific diameter, change that and they read the wrong values. That's just one example where violations occur because of stuff you don't know about. It happens to cops too.
Of course, cops have another reason to not bother with tiny infractions. It wastes too much of their time in court arguing with joe blow that 4mph over the limit is still a violation. Even cops don't like standing in court all day dealing with stupid s###.
Exactly, and I might add, the more complicated the system or device, the more likely something will go wrong.
Please note that the LHC is a horribly complicated device with very little tolerance for screwups.
It's kinda of amazing we lowly humans can even expect to get something like that working...
(Persistent buggers, aren't we....)
Guess we should all calm down and order something from Costa Nostra Pizza.
[Snow Crash reference for those that don't know.]
Of course they could just build a chicken wire cage around the propellers preventing the ropes from ever reaching them in the first place.
Then they could use the money for brand spanking new water jet engines for something else, like more rockets to shoot at the idiots flinging ropes at them...
My ex tried this a while back without asking me.
She started trying to cancel it within two weeks.
It took over 3 months before they would actually cancel it, and that was like pulling teeth with tweezers.
She must have sent 20 emails and spent 40 hours on the phone trying to get them to cancel.
That is either Massive incompetence, or total scam.
I really don't care which, but I'd advise you to not use Video Professor.
Besides, their stuff is really basic. You'd be better off taking an introductory course at your local college, or just checking out stuff at your local library.
(Either of those options will be cheaper as well.)
Considering this 'new' suit is just an old suit with the arms removed doesn't really qualify as an advancement.
I would even consider the loss of capability combined with no additional advantages a setback rather than advancement.
By their logic, If I took a 3 year old computer, removed the second drive and cut the memory in half, that would be a new computer with the advantages of lower cost and weight...
Sorry, but removing the arms from a power suit just degrades it's support & enhancement capabilities way too much. That student needs to go back to class.
If you've seen the damage the average dorm-rat causes, you'd understand why I say it would be just the thing for the dorms. ;P
(Both College and Military)
I would have to agree with you on that.