Just because a fax *can* be printed out to paper at the receiving end or may be scanned from paper at the sending end doesn't mean that either end is required to use paper.
I would think that most faxes these days are 100% electronic (e-mail to fax or print to fax and vice versa)
How is fax any more or less restrictive than e-mail?
I am sure that Flowers By Irene are just using a fax to e-mail service anyway so the end result is the same: an e-mail box full of FOIA requests and spam.
Not *so* much the keyboard that is the advantage. Though, I think the access to 5x the number of keys could make it an advantage. I think the real advantage here is mouse control of the camera view.
Well... that's great an all, but what would be really cool is if we could take out that whole human intervention and get the diagnostic code directly. An Internet connection to your dryer should do the trick...
Another quite simple reason is the app-bloat we're alle experiencing on our cellphones
Well maybe not everyone. I have 64GB of internal storage (no sd card slot) and have 67% free space currently. I have roughly 120 apps total on the phone (when looking at the apps storage page in settings). The major users of space are the NES roms, podcasts and photos.
I am sure others use their phone way more than I do though. Mine is usually on the charger.
This whole PWA thing just sounds like a reason not to use Chrome to me. It sounds intrusive as well as a security hole. A web browser that can reach into my device at a low level? I am a little uncomfortable with that.
No kidding. For me, the more I try to avoid thinking about the embarrassing thing, the more acute it gets as my brain forces me to relive the moment over and over again.
TBH, this is why I don't hang around people, I always end up saying or doing something that I later analyze and construe as hyper embarrassing, even if it wasn't really. It's probably a medical condition of some kind...
Sometimes (a lot actually) the thought will come on so suddenly and so strongly that I make a weird non-verbal sound, whimper or exclamation, which is itself embarrassing if I am near people.
I just assumed that the reason external drives were forbidden in the first place was for copy protection and to make it harder to hack save game data.
As far as I am aware (and I am not aware of much in this area) some of the more notorious hacks for PS games are from people exporting save game data on older systems to external hard drives then cracking it and re-importing.
The depravation of property is only one definition of the term "theft"
You are glomming on to that facet of the definition and pretending that the word has no other meaning.
Definition of theft
a. The act of stealing; specifically the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it b. An unlawful taking (as by embezzlement or burglary) of property
Also, note the wording "intent to deprive" in the first meaning. That doesn't mean you DID actually deprive the rightful owner only that you intended to.
Yeah, but the game maker probably paid to have that game bundled.
It's like an advertiser "cracking down" on people who record a broadcast ad and then play it on youtube. You are just shooting yourself in the foot. If I am not going to play the game, wouldn't you rather the game get in front of someone who will play it? That person may then go on to purchase other games you make....
Well, I guess I am just going to be the sucker that pays for your pirate habits. Obviously, the world needs suckers like me otherwise there would be nothing to pirate.
I was thinking the same thing. I always uncheck all those boxes when I launch WMP for the first time.
Though really, I don't think I have launched WMP in years... why bother when you have VLC?
VLC is associated with all of the file media file types that Windows knows about so is the DRM laden WMV (or whatever) able to call WMP explicitly when you launch it? I don't think that is how it works. Even if it did, if you have never run WMP before, you will get the first run dialog which has the option you mention plain as day as a checkbox.
Seems like this tracking mechanism is to catch total morons.
Did you just come out of your cozy cave where you were hibernating for the last year? The world doesn't work the same way now as when you went in. Welcome to the future... we have Moon Pies.
I remember when I was with Frontier they told me "sure, you can have your own modem, but you still have to pay the rental fee". This is even when I offered to return my modem to them.
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Wait... faxes aren't electronic media?
Just because a fax *can* be printed out to paper at the receiving end or may be scanned from paper at the sending end doesn't mean that either end is required to use paper.
I would think that most faxes these days are 100% electronic (e-mail to fax or print to fax and vice versa)
How is fax any more or less restrictive than e-mail?
I am sure that Flowers By Irene are just using a fax to e-mail service anyway so the end result is the same: an e-mail box full of FOIA requests and spam.
How is it any harder to send a fax? You can do it as easy as sending an e-mail (I am sure there are even e-mail to fax gateways out there)...
I get it, it's an old technology. But so is e-mail.
Oh, I forgot that cronyism and nepotism aren't swamp-like characteristics...
Not *so* much the keyboard that is the advantage. Though, I think the access to 5x the number of keys could make it an advantage. I think the real advantage here is mouse control of the camera view.
Well... that's great an all, but what would be really cool is if we could take out that whole human intervention and get the diagnostic code directly. An Internet connection to your dryer should do the trick...
Our new Orange Overlord will be making this not-great thing great again along with all the other things which are now becoming great (again).
Only if you are a Chrome user...
Dude, you're getting a Lenovo
Another quite simple reason is the app-bloat we're alle experiencing on our cellphones
Well maybe not everyone. I have 64GB of internal storage (no sd card slot) and have 67% free space currently. I have roughly 120 apps total on the phone (when looking at the apps storage page in settings). The major users of space are the NES roms, podcasts and photos.
I am sure others use their phone way more than I do though. Mine is usually on the charger.
This whole PWA thing just sounds like a reason not to use Chrome to me. It sounds intrusive as well as a security hole. A web browser that can reach into my device at a low level? I am a little uncomfortable with that.
No kidding. For me, the more I try to avoid thinking about the embarrassing thing, the more acute it gets as my brain forces me to relive the moment over and over again.
TBH, this is why I don't hang around people, I always end up saying or doing something that I later analyze and construe as hyper embarrassing, even if it wasn't really. It's probably a medical condition of some kind...
Sometimes (a lot actually) the thought will come on so suddenly and so strongly that I make a weird non-verbal sound, whimper or exclamation, which is itself embarrassing if I am near people.
I just assumed that the reason external drives were forbidden in the first place was for copy protection and to make it harder to hack save game data.
As far as I am aware (and I am not aware of much in this area) some of the more notorious hacks for PS games are from people exporting save game data on older systems to external hard drives then cracking it and re-importing.
This is not a problem for satirists. I would say that this is a golden age for satirists.
This is a problem for news outlets that also have a satire column.
If they draw Mohammed, they're either not muslim or not devout enough of a jihadi to be a concern.
Or... SO devout that they can justify anything in the name of jihad!
Congrats, you just weeded out all EXCEPT the teris...
The depravation of property is only one definition of the term "theft"
You are glomming on to that facet of the definition and pretending that the word has no other meaning.
Definition of theft
a. The act of stealing; specifically the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it
b. An unlawful taking (as by embezzlement or burglary) of property
Also, note the wording "intent to deprive" in the first meaning. That doesn't mean you DID actually deprive the rightful owner only that you intended to.
Yeah, but the game maker probably paid to have that game bundled.
It's like an advertiser "cracking down" on people who record a broadcast ad and then play it on youtube. You are just shooting yourself in the foot. If I am not going to play the game, wouldn't you rather the game get in front of someone who will play it? That person may then go on to purchase other games you make....
I think the last bundled game I actually played was Wipeout XL... in like 1999 or somewhere around there.
Bundled games are crap for the most part.
Well, I guess I am just going to be the sucker that pays for your pirate habits. Obviously, the world needs suckers like me otherwise there would be nothing to pirate.
You're welcome.
I was thinking the same thing. I always uncheck all those boxes when I launch WMP for the first time.
Though really, I don't think I have launched WMP in years... why bother when you have VLC?
VLC is associated with all of the file media file types that Windows knows about so is the DRM laden WMV (or whatever) able to call WMP explicitly when you launch it? I don't think that is how it works. Even if it did, if you have never run WMP before, you will get the first run dialog which has the option you mention plain as day as a checkbox.
Seems like this tracking mechanism is to catch total morons.
Or use a TOR hardware device to make sure ALL traffic headed out your NIC is anonymized...
then Trump will take the blame./quote
Did you just come out of your cozy cave where you were hibernating for the last year? The world doesn't work the same way now as when you went in. Welcome to the future... we have Moon Pies.
we are the first generation in a long time who will not leave a better life for our children.
And also, kids today are lazy and don't want to work and things don't last as long as they used to and get a belt for your pants for Pete's sake!
For Trump, it would be easy... he would just tell the ocean to pay for it.
I have found no compelling reason to switch off of FF for my daily driver. It works fine.
I remember when I was with Frontier they told me "sure, you can have your own modem, but you still have to pay the rental fee". This is even when I offered to return my modem to them.