Also, consider that any given teenager might not be interesting in programming (SHOCKER!) and prefers to draw. This can pretty easily lead into free 3D modeling tools like DAZ Studio, where you can make a fair bit of change just being good at crafting and skinning objects. (Don't worry about buying a copy of Photoshop, the kid'll take care of that.;) Then there's game modding, level design, etc. etc. If an indie game catches his/her eye, they are off to the races.
I grew up on Apple BASIC, QuickBASIC, DOS Batch, Turbo ASM/Pascal/C, and finally decided there wasn't any satisfaction for me in building applications, only using them. Especially after watching the coding lifestyle of friends and family in the field. So I became an expert in that. Now I'm a professional graphic and web designer, and get to hire programmers to do the mathy stuff I don't wanna.:)
That's because it is built on *nix. I am fairly certain you could get Microsoft to share a larger percentage of their system level APIs (by asking, or court order) than you could from Apple.
Maybe I want a copy of what I'm copying to remain on the hard drive for easy retrieval and reuse later?
Missing the point. The copier's hard drive is basically a black box in most cases. A) The copier probably already has a save to network, and send via e-mail function. Why wouldn't you choose that? B) In most cases the copier's hard drive is by default completely inaccessible to the end user. There's no browse feature. C) To access the data, you need to purchase a support package and use a proprietary tool. D) To delete the data, you need to purchase a support package and use a proprietary tool.
This is a cash grab for the copier manufacturers. A safety net that most people don't know existed unless they place a frantic support call. The reporting expose proved that there is no promise that the manufacturer will wipe drives after their lease is up, and if you do not know it exists, how can you plan to wipe it yourself if you re-sell it?
On my local public transit, one of the buses is outfitted with cell phone advertising. I noticed a three foot wide section that advises people to yank out the battery if the phone ever locks up. So battery resets are now part of the public lexicon.
If you click the checkbox that says "I am involved in criminal activities" when registering the device, then it only moves files to the trash bin.
Since this can be a useful feature for inexperienced users a little too quick on the draw with the wipe utility, it's checked by default, right below the e-mail newsletter opt-in.
Hard drive is connected to another circuit in one of X possible number of places. If hard drive does not receive keyphrase from circuit after powering on, then bootstrap sequence is programmed to immediately wipe control sectors, then whole drive if it has the time.
Alternate configuration would be more true to the name where the hard drive must constantly have power and circuit connections. Very difficult to remove all possible pieces at once. Any data stored by this method is probably valued enough to be on a mainframe somewhere, so the laptop is expendable.
Anything can be patched around with enough time, of course. But the effort involved to remove platters or memory in order to extract the data, would probably mean that what you are suspected of doing is very bad indeed.
Speaking of which, if I crack open a SSD hard drive in my dusty garage, how tough is it to transplant the memory without damage?
Downloadable content is the future, not bits permanently etched into chips or optical disks.
Not only is that choice of words inaccurate from an archival data management standpoint, it highlights a weakness that only downloadable content has: It can vanish at any time without warning.
I heard there were some Kindle owners pretty upset about that. Imagine if Sony could delete games off your PS3... whether you purchased them legitimately or not. What makes anyone think they don't have that ability right now?
Please elaborate about how are Diablo, Warcraft and Starcraft not interesting at all without paying a subscription service.
Indeed. If you just want to mess around, you don't even need to pay for WoW (see: funservers), but certain countries take their Blizzard games pretty seriously. Subscription is the wrong term for the GP post to use, I think. The issue is matchmaking and avoiding cheaters, which Blizzard is leveraging to be a tightly knit closed service. I read on a website somewhere that people stay at home on their computers all day, so it's hard to make friends.
Kidding aside, I'm getting royally bored and annoyed with playing strangers, and am seriously considering starting a gaming club at my University. Mario Kart nights could certainly bring out the sororities. Zerg rushing is cool and all, but I think the world would be a better place with more Mario Kart leagues.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a completely different disease that only has partial symptom overlap with addiction. You should maybe consider reading up on it sometime as it probably afflicts someone you know (1 in 200 adults).
Including myself (going on 25 years, though at that time few doctors believed children could manifest it). Thank you for understanding and expressing the distinction eloquently. You got friended.
For the record I absolutely am a compulsive "alerts" checker for email and the like, which is why I normally turn off notifications. But that's not OCD or an addiction because I know I can make a conscious and voluntary decision to avoid email and computers and phone calls when desired. That is more than I can say for a lot of other people I know.
If anything, the little compulsions help keep my brain preoccupied so that more disruptive and uncontrollable patterns don't manifest. I suppose that could be chalked up as a predisposed defence mechanism.
When will I start turning down other activities because I have to get back on/.?
Dinner with friends is nice, but do you mean to say that you have never used/. to procrastinate something you didn't want to do?
Replace/. with World of Warcraft (not an entirely terrible idea) and tell us that online escapism isn't something that affects brain chemistry and social lives. Notice I didn't say affects in a negative way. Negative is a relative concept.
It's much bigger than spam. Thousands upon thousands of other websites will let you log in by using only your facebook credentials. It takes two clicks (easily automated). If you don't already have an account, it typically just creates one for you.
Now think about what those other websites might be. Now think about what those websites do with information in order to sell you things. Now think about what kind of information people would put on those other websites, knowing that "only facebook" has weird privacy policies.
Thousands of computers testing thousands of permutations with facebook accounts and other websites. Every nightmare scenario you can imagine about identity theft and fraud is at work here.
At which point prices will have to drop significantly because you're no longer selling a game; you're selling a subscription to a game.
Aha. Think a PC game can't cost you $50 *and* $15 a month? Sounds like you don't play Warcraft. (Never mind the exclusive DLC items that cost up to $25(!!!) each.) Which is why the publishers are so happy to be supporting third party infrastructures like OnLive and Gaikai. We pay them for the subscription to stream games to our screens, so the publishers don't catch any flak for double dipping. We still pay the publishers whatever premium they wish to set for playing their AAA title at launch, vs. six months later, vs. pay-per-play. Full profits, full lockdown, and no physical product to be manufactured or stocked. They are hoping to hell that OnLive works out.
Both of your questions are answered by staying offline. (Eventually new game discs will have a mandatory firmware update included as well.) You agree to the EULA of the firmware version that you are using. There is no EULA for the hardware. It's not much different than refusing a policy update from a web service like PayPal. The condition (or "price" if you prefer) of using a service is compliance with its rules.
You can do whatever you want with the hardware you bought. But you can't do it in Sony's yard.
As mentioned elsewhere, male breasts are generally not considered a private part, regardless of who they are attractive for.
Which is clearly a cultural and societal double-standard that topfree-rights advocates oppose. Of course back in my day, males didn't have breasts, they had pecs. Lets use this example: Is a pierced male nipple somehow less sexual than a pierced female nipple, purely because a man can display his chest freely? The result and motivation for the wearer is arguably the same regardless of gender or sexual preference. Sexy is whatever gets you hot, not what a ratings board or a family advocate group says.
"The decision by Amazon to give a consumer a partial refund is clearly between Amazon and the consumer, but we do not expect the decision to have a legal basis and we have no plans to compensate retailers."
They have just publicly said they don't have Amazon's back. It will likely take a court ruling for them to kiss and make up.
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Also, consider that any given teenager might not be interesting in programming (SHOCKER!) and prefers to draw. This can pretty easily lead into free 3D modeling tools like DAZ Studio, where you can make a fair bit of change just being good at crafting and skinning objects. (Don't worry about buying a copy of Photoshop, the kid'll take care of that. ;) Then there's game modding, level design, etc. etc. If an indie game catches his/her eye, they are off to the races.
I grew up on Apple BASIC, QuickBASIC, DOS Batch, Turbo ASM/Pascal/C, and finally decided there wasn't any satisfaction for me in building applications, only using them. Especially after watching the coding lifestyle of friends and family in the field. So I became an expert in that. Now I'm a professional graphic and web designer, and get to hire programmers to do the mathy stuff I don't wanna. :)
Is that what they call brokewards compatibility?
"I can't force quit you..." /cries
Who has a neck like that? Seriously dude.
Someone that makes a lot more money than you. I'm just guessing.
That's because it is built on *nix.
I am fairly certain you could get Microsoft to share a larger percentage of their system level APIs (by asking, or court order) than you could from Apple.
Maybe I want a copy of what I'm copying to remain on the hard drive for easy retrieval and reuse later?
Missing the point. The copier's hard drive is basically a black box in most cases.
A) The copier probably already has a save to network, and send via e-mail function. Why wouldn't you choose that?
B) In most cases the copier's hard drive is by default completely inaccessible to the end user. There's no browse feature.
C) To access the data, you need to purchase a support package and use a proprietary tool.
D) To delete the data, you need to purchase a support package and use a proprietary tool.
This is a cash grab for the copier manufacturers. A safety net that most people don't know existed unless they place a frantic support call.
The reporting expose proved that there is no promise that the manufacturer will wipe drives after their lease is up, and if you do not know it exists, how can you plan to wipe it yourself if you re-sell it?
On my local public transit, one of the buses is outfitted with cell phone advertising. I noticed a three foot wide section that advises people to yank out the battery if the phone ever locks up. So battery resets are now part of the public lexicon.
(Also this carrier doesn't offer iPhones yet.)
If you click the checkbox that says "I am involved in criminal activities" when registering the device, then it only moves files to the trash bin.
Since this can be a useful feature for inexperienced users a little too quick on the draw with the wipe utility, it's checked by default, right below the e-mail newsletter opt-in.
A laptop Dead Man's Switch? Thus:
Hard drive is connected to another circuit in one of X possible number of places. If hard drive does not receive keyphrase from circuit after powering on, then bootstrap sequence is programmed to immediately wipe control sectors, then whole drive if it has the time.
Alternate configuration would be more true to the name where the hard drive must constantly have power and circuit connections. Very difficult to remove all possible pieces at once. Any data stored by this method is probably valued enough to be on a mainframe somewhere, so the laptop is expendable.
Anything can be patched around with enough time, of course. But the effort involved to remove platters or memory in order to extract the data, would probably mean that what you are suspected of doing is very bad indeed.
Speaking of which, if I crack open a SSD hard drive in my dusty garage, how tough is it to transplant the memory without damage?
and engine placement at the rear of the plane instead of on the wings.
Rear wheel drive? Nuh-uh. Bigger chance of hydroplaning. ;)
Or as they like to say on WestJet... "should this flight become a cruise..."
Marrying vast spaces of discs... is that like marrying into huge tracts of land?
Downloadable content is the future, not bits permanently etched into chips or optical disks.
Not only is that choice of words inaccurate from an archival data management standpoint, it highlights a weakness that only downloadable content has: It can vanish at any time without warning.
I heard there were some Kindle owners pretty upset about that.
Imagine if Sony could delete games off your PS3... whether you purchased them legitimately or not.
What makes anyone think they don't have that ability right now?
Please elaborate about how are Diablo, Warcraft and Starcraft not interesting at all without paying a subscription service.
Indeed. If you just want to mess around, you don't even need to pay for WoW (see: funservers), but certain countries take their Blizzard games pretty seriously. Subscription is the wrong term for the GP post to use, I think. The issue is matchmaking and avoiding cheaters, which Blizzard is leveraging to be a tightly knit closed service. I read on a website somewhere that people stay at home on their computers all day, so it's hard to make friends.
Kidding aside, I'm getting royally bored and annoyed with playing strangers, and am seriously considering starting a gaming club at my University. Mario Kart nights could certainly bring out the sororities. Zerg rushing is cool and all, but I think the world would be a better place with more Mario Kart leagues.
Of course, most people really are too ignorant to understand that art is a desirable quantity for reasons other than simple entertainment.
It's a good thing video games aren't considered art. ...wait, what?
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a completely different disease that only has partial symptom overlap with addiction. You should maybe consider reading up on it sometime as it probably afflicts someone you know (1 in 200 adults).
Including myself (going on 25 years, though at that time few doctors believed children could manifest it). Thank you for understanding and expressing the distinction eloquently. You got friended.
For the record I absolutely am a compulsive "alerts" checker for email and the like, which is why I normally turn off notifications. But that's not OCD or an addiction because I know I can make a conscious and voluntary decision to avoid email and computers and phone calls when desired. That is more than I can say for a lot of other people I know.
If anything, the little compulsions help keep my brain preoccupied so that more disruptive and uncontrollable patterns don't manifest. I suppose that could be chalked up as a predisposed defence mechanism.
When will I start turning down other activities because I have to get back on /.?
Dinner with friends is nice, but do you mean to say that you have never used /. to procrastinate something you didn't want to do?
Replace /. with World of Warcraft (not an entirely terrible idea) and tell us that online escapism isn't something that affects brain chemistry and social lives. Notice I didn't say affects in a negative way. Negative is a relative concept.
a faceless corp like facebook.
/irony thread complete
iFind: Apple tells you what you want instead of what you think you want to find.
Then apparently I want some sort of magic tapping screen instead of a robustly functional tablet.
I'm as surprised as anyone.
Actually, he might be on to something. I just printed this article out and it's a helluva lot funnier in print.
And on paper you can't be modded down.
Clearly you've never had to grade first year university essays.
It's much bigger than spam. Thousands upon thousands of other websites will let you log in by using only your facebook credentials. It takes two clicks (easily automated). If you don't already have an account, it typically just creates one for you.
Now think about what those other websites might be.
Now think about what those websites do with information in order to sell you things.
Now think about what kind of information people would put on those other websites, knowing that "only facebook" has weird privacy policies.
Thousands of computers testing thousands of permutations with facebook accounts and other websites.
Every nightmare scenario you can imagine about identity theft and fraud is at work here.
At which point prices will have to drop significantly because you're no longer selling a game; you're selling a subscription to a game.
Aha. Think a PC game can't cost you $50 *and* $15 a month? Sounds like you don't play Warcraft. (Never mind the exclusive DLC items that cost up to $25(!!!) each.)
Which is why the publishers are so happy to be supporting third party infrastructures like OnLive and Gaikai. We pay them for the subscription to stream games to our screens, so the publishers don't catch any flak for double dipping. We still pay the publishers whatever premium they wish to set for playing their AAA title at launch, vs. six months later, vs. pay-per-play. Full profits, full lockdown, and no physical product to be manufactured or stocked. They are hoping to hell that OnLive works out.
Both of your questions are answered by staying offline. (Eventually new game discs will have a mandatory firmware update included as well.)
You agree to the EULA of the firmware version that you are using. There is no EULA for the hardware.
It's not much different than refusing a policy update from a web service like PayPal. The condition (or "price" if you prefer) of using a service is compliance with its rules.
You can do whatever you want with the hardware you bought. But you can't do it in Sony's yard.
... that basically just simulate what I could do with trn in a terminal window 20 years ago?
Disagree. The ASCII boobies are much better now with variable width fonts.
As mentioned elsewhere, male breasts are generally not considered a private part, regardless of who they are attractive for.
Which is clearly a cultural and societal double-standard that topfree-rights advocates oppose. Of course back in my day, males didn't have breasts, they had pecs.
Lets use this example: Is a pierced male nipple somehow less sexual than a pierced female nipple, purely because a man can display his chest freely? The result and motivation for the wearer is arguably the same regardless of gender or sexual preference. Sexy is whatever gets you hot, not what a ratings board or a family advocate group says.
Therefore it will Amazon (in this case) that come knocking on Sony's door for a refund, not Joe Public. Sony may have a harder time brushing them off.
In all the comment soup you seem to have missed TFA: http://www.thinq.co.uk/news/2010/4/14/sony-refuses-to-sanction-ps3-refunds/
"The decision by Amazon to give a consumer a partial refund is clearly between Amazon and the consumer, but we do not expect the decision to have a legal basis and we have no plans to compensate retailers."
They have just publicly said they don't have Amazon's back. It will likely take a court ruling for them to kiss and make up.