How about keeping the system as is, but provide a secondary "black box" which contains a duplicate record. Any flight staff would be able to hit a button (placed in several different areas throughout the plane) to eject the secondary black box in the event that they knew they were in trouble.
The secondary black box would have a GPS tracking system, floatation, etc etc
If they accidentally eject it... oh well, not THAT big of a deal and we still have the primary system.
I know... here, buy this car for thousands of dollars... and, oh hey, bonus, you also get to pay $80/month to keep your car connected to the Internet... lucky you!
That you can make unlimited unauthorized copies of them for free does not make their unique value disappear.
Actually, it kind of does. Value is traditionally based on supply and demand and/or need.
If you can create unlimited copies of something with no loss of quality and no production cost, then that thing is worthless in a traditional model.
We are trying to shoehorn digital goods into the old economic model.
I think that the issue is not so much that people aren't making money off of digital works, it is that they aren't making as much as they were when these were physical products.
The control has shifted out of the hands of the content silos and into the hands of the people and big business can't have that.
I feel your pain. I think it is so dumb how systems limit the length of a password to some arbitrary size. Is it really that much harder to store a 32 character password than it is to store an 8 character password? Come on.
I use a password manager in lieu of the post-it but I do find it very aggravating that sites won't even let me use a randomly generated long password.
Oh, come on, ye of little imagination. Make a policy which requires 2 or more password changes a day (32 character minimum length), forcefully logs users out of their computers randomly and swaps mouse button functions around without warning.
Dang it, why can't I use Windows to chop onions?! MS always telling me what I CAN'T do with their system! Jerks!
There are already tons of systems where I cannot use a particular password because it doesn't meet complexity requirements... why is this different than that?
I used to work for a fortune 500 company who farmed out all server operations to CSC... I was on a core applications support team and would often need to work with CSC to spin up new servers or do restores or refreshes. I would say that 1 in 3 times the results of a request were actually what was expected. Most of the time something would go wrong and we would have to go into damage control mode.
There was one time where we requested some new servers be brought up.... which they did... by reformatting production servers... I was always amazed at the novel ways in which CSC would screw things up.
I got the impression that CSC probably had some competent people, they would have to in order to architect and maintain that level of server infrastructure, but we (the customer) never got to talk to those people. We dealt with the drones.... who were less than impressive.
I rarely see point of sale software that isn't doing non-standard things like replacing the shell or locating files in user inaccessible file locations or directly accessing hardware.
UAC and file system permissions are the biggest problems to older code written for XP and earlier. Another issue is non-signed executables.
Hell, QuickBooks was a piece of software that completely snubbed Windows best practices for well into the Windows Vista days, locating key configurations in HKLM and C:\Program Files (both not user-writable)
Perhaps you mean the white X inside the red square?
But, yeah, this is the kind of thing that malware authors use. It's pretty shady.... if people don't want to upgrade, they don't want to upgrade. You gave them the box and you downloaded (and expanded) all of the files... you have already done everything you can to "promote" Windows 10 (intrusively) on people's computers...
Why are you stooping to this Microsoft?
You may as well just not give people a "choice" at all and just install the damn thing... why the pretense of having a user click something?
You will buy this game on nostalgia alone. You will play it once and convince yourself that you are having fun. During this time, someone will come into the room and you will be embarrassed that you are playing pac-man and you turn it off in favor of one of your 10 1st person shooter games.
The Pac-man game will then move its way to the end of your home row, unplayed, until one night while drunk and hanging with a few equally drunk friends, you bust it out and have a blast playing pac-man with each other.
That moment will be nearly forgotten by the next day and, despite trying to recapture that experience a few more times, you will never succeed.
Ultimately, you will delete the game from your console altogether.
By that time a remake of Asteroids will come out and the cycle will begin anew.
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You can experience the virtual world... while walking around in the real world...
Try not to get hit by a bus... Or ... whatever, go ahead..
How about keeping the system as is, but provide a secondary "black box" which contains a duplicate record. Any flight staff would be able to hit a button (placed in several different areas throughout the plane) to eject the secondary black box in the event that they knew they were in trouble.
The secondary black box would have a GPS tracking system, floatation, etc etc
If they accidentally eject it... oh well, not THAT big of a deal and we still have the primary system.
I find that Bing maps is really snappy and has a better street view than GMaps.
I like the interface better too.
They keep trying to say that these things are virtual assistants but all they seem to be is a front-end for a standard search engine.
I am probably doing something wrong...
I know... here, buy this car for thousands of dollars... and, oh hey, bonus, you also get to pay $80/month to keep your car connected to the Internet... lucky you!
Just reprogram the Google apps and solve the problem without doing all that working-with-other-humans stuff.
That you can make unlimited unauthorized copies of them for free does not make their unique value disappear.
Actually, it kind of does. Value is traditionally based on supply and demand and/or need.
If you can create unlimited copies of something with no loss of quality and no production cost, then that thing is worthless in a traditional model.
We are trying to shoehorn digital goods into the old economic model.
I think that the issue is not so much that people aren't making money off of digital works, it is that they aren't making as much as they were when these were physical products.
The control has shifted out of the hands of the content silos and into the hands of the people and big business can't have that.
I feel your pain. I think it is so dumb how systems limit the length of a password to some arbitrary size. Is it really that much harder to store a 32 character password than it is to store an 8 character password? Come on.
I use a password manager in lieu of the post-it but I do find it very aggravating that sites won't even let me use a randomly generated long password.
Oh, come on, ye of little imagination. Make a policy which requires 2 or more password changes a day (32 character minimum length), forcefully logs users out of their computers randomly and swaps mouse button functions around without warning.
How's that for more user-unfriendly?
Dang it, why can't I use Windows to chop onions?! MS always telling me what I CAN'T do with their system! Jerks!
There are already tons of systems where I cannot use a particular password because it doesn't meet complexity requirements... why is this different than that?
I think men just want something else they can hurt...
bam! out pedanted!
You mean they had telemetry which told them people's behavior? On Windows 7? But I thought Windows 7 was safe!
And if it can actually help you find things in the AppStore, I am sure that all Apple users will get one out of necessity...
Still easier than trying to optimize for hundreds of hardware targets (PC Gaming) I would think.
So, you are saying that we can victim blame 10% of the time then?
I used to work for a fortune 500 company who farmed out all server operations to CSC... I was on a core applications support team and would often need to work with CSC to spin up new servers or do restores or refreshes. I would say that 1 in 3 times the results of a request were actually what was expected. Most of the time something would go wrong and we would have to go into damage control mode.
There was one time where we requested some new servers be brought up.... which they did... by reformatting production servers... I was always amazed at the novel ways in which CSC would screw things up.
I got the impression that CSC probably had some competent people, they would have to in order to architect and maintain that level of server infrastructure, but we (the customer) never got to talk to those people. We dealt with the drones.... who were less than impressive.
I rarely see point of sale software that isn't doing non-standard things like replacing the shell or locating files in user inaccessible file locations or directly accessing hardware.
UAC and file system permissions are the biggest problems to older code written for XP and earlier. Another issue is non-signed executables.
Hell, QuickBooks was a piece of software that completely snubbed Windows best practices for well into the Windows Vista days, locating key configurations in HKLM and C:\Program Files (both not user-writable)
You probably had never changed Windows 7 from the default behavior of automatically installing recommended updates.
The issue is that MS moved the Win10 upgrade into the recommended updates channel a while back, causing all these auto-installs.
I actually almost didn't catch it in my organization. We use WSUS and I nearly approved the Windows 10 upgrade by accident...
I don't suppose her computer has an Asus motherboard?
There was a recent Windows 7 update that disables secure boot. Asus motherboards have secure boot enabled by default.
This results in a non-bootable computer and could seem like data loss.
Might be something to check into anyway.
Perhaps you mean the white X inside the red square?
But, yeah, this is the kind of thing that malware authors use. It's pretty shady.... if people don't want to upgrade, they don't want to upgrade. You gave them the box and you downloaded (and expanded) all of the files... you have already done everything you can to "promote" Windows 10 (intrusively) on people's computers...
Why are you stooping to this Microsoft?
You may as well just not give people a "choice" at all and just install the damn thing... why the pretense of having a user click something?
I think that the middle of a corn field would also work.
This is still the main marketing touch point?
I am starting to believe all the "Apple is starting to stagnate" hype...
Apple, I think it's time to reformulate the sales pitch...
Thinking outside the box is not tolerated.
You will buy this game on nostalgia alone. You will play it once and convince yourself that you are having fun. During this time, someone will come into the room and you will be embarrassed that you are playing pac-man and you turn it off in favor of one of your 10 1st person shooter games.
The Pac-man game will then move its way to the end of your home row, unplayed, until one night while drunk and hanging with a few equally drunk friends, you bust it out and have a blast playing pac-man with each other.
That moment will be nearly forgotten by the next day and, despite trying to recapture that experience a few more times, you will never succeed.
Ultimately, you will delete the game from your console altogether.
By that time a remake of Asteroids will come out and the cycle will begin anew.
Pull the plug on the app by the end of next year after all of the developers move on to shinier projects...