In an age where firmware upgrades to game consoles still result in bricked devices, I shudder to think what would happen if a bad update to nano devices in every human were pushed through (either mistakenly or maliciously).
Besides, if everyone else has nanites to prevent disease, I won't have to worry about it either...
I would even call it a good thing, if those that fall prey to advertising of unhealthy things end up at a lifespan disadvantage, over time the stronger willed / more intelligent of our species will survive, and we will ultimately have less sheeple...
Actually a small ($5ish) online fee sounds quite reasonable. It's also a form of quality control, people will ask themselves if their app is truly worth "getting out there" at this point and time before typing in their credit card number...
Or, you could offer people the option of investing time in it... like you must play a pointless flash game of breakout or minesweeper to avoid losing the app. Next to the "target score" indicator could be a "just pay the fee already" button...
That is the most awesome anti-piracy ad I have ever heard of... I mean, of course it's excessive, but at least it's interesting and attention grabbing, and not a bunch of lawyer-speak by high school students, and is entertaining it its own rite...
It also makes things easier on the client. Joining a class saves time compared to having to take a day or two off from work to go to court, which could cost you more in lost wages than paying for the repair anyway.
Wow... I mean, I expect third party developers to ignore it, but not MS... unless this is a ploy to encourage upgrading to Windows 7. Well, my XP 64 install boots after the dots make 1.5 trips across the bar, I have yet to see any Vista (or XP 32) do it with less than 3. It's going to take a lot more than this to get me to upgrade, you hear!
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Not sure what you're driving at, but if you're a Catholic, cremation is A-OK (not directly stated but a conclusion you can obviously draw from this article, I was too lazy to find a better source).
As for other Christian religions, I can't begin to understand why they still claim otherwise...
I want a USB spec that can actually power my external devices, on any computer. On my desktop I have to turn off the backlight on my keyboard just so that my external hard drive will work. On my laptop I need to unplug the external mouse. Anything that doesn't solve this type of issue by mandating higher minimum power requirements/port is fairly useless IMO...
so long as it works properly. Many times I take my headphones off to order food, talk to a bank teller, etc and then three hours later, I find it has been playing the entire time. This will do wonders for battery life...
But what is more likely to happen is the contact mechanism will wear out in six months and it will be difficult to get them to play at all...
Eh? I always tell Sprint CSRs and sales agents that I do this whenever I get asked if I want to upgrade (my contract has long since ended). They say that it is grandfathered in or something to that effect, so it is a strong disincentive for me against upgrading the phone or getting a new contract.
It works completely out of the box, even after a hard reset, using the "Phone as Modem" app right on the "Programs" menu, and was a selling point for me when getting the phone in the first place (they did not have dedicated tethering plans at the time).
Apparently now that there are dedicated tethering plans, it is no longer free, but that does not change my particular setup.
I do not appreciate being called a thief by someone who knows nothing of the situation. It would do well for you to correct your attitude when you do not know all of the facts.
Eh? I've had Sprint tethering to my PPC 6700 for three years now, no hacks no mods, with the $10 vision plan.
Apparently with WM6 and higher a registry hack is needed, but WM5's Sprint ROM has it right out of the box, which is why I'm using this phone until they stop replacing it when it breaks...
That sounds like an argument a 'young earth' proponent would use.
The various different methods of dating old things all corroborate each other.
Though, to throw in the belief card, the Catholic Church doesn't even support 'young earth' any more...
My company uses Open Source wherever it can precisely because of monetary free. Any component (such as OO vs MS Office) that costs $0, when scaled upward and duplicated across multiple sites, still costs $0.
Seriously?? Unsurprisingly, that is not indicated anywhere at all (at the very least it should be on the screen resolution dialog box!). I had the same issue, and after getting nowhere with ctrl+alt+(+/-) I gave up and edited Xorg.conf from the command line to not allow the low resolution... The inability to move a window up beyond the top boundary of the screen is just stupid, it is far more intuitive than guessing that 'alt' lets you scroll...
I ditched Ubuntu for Debian Etch (now Lenny) and am much happier, there is no expectation for things to 'just work' so anything that screws up the gui at a normal user level is fixed with a ctrl+alt+backspace...
People would then wait for the eventual DRM-free release, hurting the early adoption rate, hurting the chances of a DRM-free release ever happening...
It's the same reason why TV show DVDs shouldn't release full series sets with "even more special features!" than the individual seasons. It discourages people from buying early. Use the same special features, or maybe even strip some out.
Eh? $88 GE at Wal-Mart, no fancy LED or remote, just two mechanical switches for power and fan speed, and a mechanical thermostat that you can hear click even if it is unplugged.
That would be annoying for Linux users... while updating flash is not difficult, it is... awkward for less technically inclined users who had someone else set it up for them. As one who has set up such installs for people, I don't want to have to walk them through manually copying a new libflashplayer.so into their/usr/lib/blah/plugins directory every time a flash update happens.
The problem with the freedom to be stupid is that it usually leads to someone else having to clean up after your mistake. The police have to work a lot harder to track down someone who actually stole your laptop than to just hand it back to you.
Not to say that they're right in this regard, but at the very least they're saving taxpayer money by reducing the amount of work they have to do.
What possible open source developments could be so amazing that getting the story out "first" or "with up to the minute coverage" would have any benefit (to either the project or the news outlet) that is greater than the benefit of getting a well rounded response after waiting a day or two...
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Ah, like an Illegal Number...
In an age where firmware upgrades to game consoles still result in bricked devices, I shudder to think what would happen if a bad update to nano devices in every human were pushed through (either mistakenly or maliciously). Besides, if everyone else has nanites to prevent disease, I won't have to worry about it either...
I would even call it a good thing, if those that fall prey to advertising of unhealthy things end up at a lifespan disadvantage, over time the stronger willed / more intelligent of our species will survive, and we will ultimately have less sheeple...
Or, you could offer people the option of investing time in it... like you must play a pointless flash game of breakout or minesweeper to avoid losing the app. Next to the "target score" indicator could be a "just pay the fee already" button...
That is the most awesome anti-piracy ad I have ever heard of... I mean, of course it's excessive, but at least it's interesting and attention grabbing, and not a bunch of lawyer-speak by high school students, and is entertaining it its own rite...
How do people forget a password in three days?
Duh, the janitor who comes in on holidays keeps throwing out the post-its taped to the monitors!
They either paid for the botnet access, or created it themselves, which has a time cost to it. Time has value, too...
It also makes things easier on the client. Joining a class saves time compared to having to take a day or two off from work to go to court, which could cost you more in lost wages than paying for the repair anyway.
Wow... I mean, I expect third party developers to ignore it, but not MS... unless this is a ploy to encourage upgrading to Windows 7. Well, my XP 64 install boots after the dots make 1.5 trips across the bar, I have yet to see any Vista (or XP 32) do it with less than 3. It's going to take a lot more than this to get me to upgrade, you hear!
Not sure what you're driving at, but if you're a Catholic, cremation is A-OK (not directly stated but a conclusion you can obviously draw from this article, I was too lazy to find a better source). As for other Christian religions, I can't begin to understand why they still claim otherwise...
I want a USB spec that can actually power my external devices, on any computer. On my desktop I have to turn off the backlight on my keyboard just so that my external hard drive will work. On my laptop I need to unplug the external mouse. Anything that doesn't solve this type of issue by mandating higher minimum power requirements/port is fairly useless IMO...
But what is more likely to happen is the contact mechanism will wear out in six months and it will be difficult to get them to play at all...
Eh? I always tell Sprint CSRs and sales agents that I do this whenever I get asked if I want to upgrade (my contract has long since ended). They say that it is grandfathered in or something to that effect, so it is a strong disincentive for me against upgrading the phone or getting a new contract. It works completely out of the box, even after a hard reset, using the "Phone as Modem" app right on the "Programs" menu, and was a selling point for me when getting the phone in the first place (they did not have dedicated tethering plans at the time).
Apparently now that there are dedicated tethering plans, it is no longer free, but that does not change my particular setup. I do not appreciate being called a thief by someone who knows nothing of the situation. It would do well for you to correct your attitude when you do not know all of the facts.
Eh? I've had Sprint tethering to my PPC 6700 for three years now, no hacks no mods, with the $10 vision plan. Apparently with WM6 and higher a registry hack is needed, but WM5's Sprint ROM has it right out of the box, which is why I'm using this phone until they stop replacing it when it breaks...
That sounds like an argument a 'young earth' proponent would use. The various different methods of dating old things all corroborate each other. Though, to throw in the belief card, the Catholic Church doesn't even support 'young earth' any more...
My company uses Open Source wherever it can precisely because of monetary free. Any component (such as OO vs MS Office) that costs $0, when scaled upward and duplicated across multiple sites, still costs $0.
Seriously?? Unsurprisingly, that is not indicated anywhere at all (at the very least it should be on the screen resolution dialog box!). I had the same issue, and after getting nowhere with ctrl+alt+(+/-) I gave up and edited Xorg.conf from the command line to not allow the low resolution... The inability to move a window up beyond the top boundary of the screen is just stupid, it is far more intuitive than guessing that 'alt' lets you scroll... I ditched Ubuntu for Debian Etch (now Lenny) and am much happier, there is no expectation for things to 'just work' so anything that screws up the gui at a normal user level is fixed with a ctrl+alt+backspace...
People would then wait for the eventual DRM-free release, hurting the early adoption rate, hurting the chances of a DRM-free release ever happening... It's the same reason why TV show DVDs shouldn't release full series sets with "even more special features!" than the individual seasons. It discourages people from buying early. Use the same special features, or maybe even strip some out.
Hmm it looked ok in the preview... should be: Any different than an << insert race here >> gamer's site?
But would it be any different than an > gamer's site? Or a Black McDonald's site for that matter...
Eh? $88 GE at Wal-Mart, no fancy LED or remote, just two mechanical switches for power and fan speed, and a mechanical thermostat that you can hear click even if it is unplugged.
That would be annoying for Linux users... while updating flash is not difficult, it is... awkward for less technically inclined users who had someone else set it up for them. As one who has set up such installs for people, I don't want to have to walk them through manually copying a new libflashplayer.so into their /usr/lib/blah/plugins directory every time a flash update happens.
Right there with ya. Though, if hell freezes over and the gas is banned, perhaps some medicinal marijuana is in order?
The problem with the freedom to be stupid is that it usually leads to someone else having to clean up after your mistake. The police have to work a lot harder to track down someone who actually stole your laptop than to just hand it back to you. Not to say that they're right in this regard, but at the very least they're saving taxpayer money by reducing the amount of work they have to do.
What possible open source developments could be so amazing that getting the story out "first" or "with up to the minute coverage" would have any benefit (to either the project or the news outlet) that is greater than the benefit of getting a well rounded response after waiting a day or two...