Sony never removed backwards compatiblity from any customers machine. I had purchased a 60 gig machine and it had backwards compatiblity up untill it was stolen from me out of the back of a truck. What they did was stop including the PS2 "emotion engine" graphics chip inside new PS3s as a cost cutting move. They announced this publically. People understood what they were buying. I think you are confusing things with Linux.
Price, exclusive games, and difficulty. I was looking to purchase a Gaming PC a few weeks ago and every site I came across told me not to build one instead of buying one from a vendor. The consensus is that companies like Alienware gouge on price and include components with high numbers instead of good components. The prices were also higher than console prices. Most of those machines also ran Windows 8 (yuck) You can hardly go into a best buy and purchase good gaming pc either.
Depends on where the attacker is. If the attacker is withing 15 degrees of the runway then the planes movement will have little effect. They will have several minutes to paint the front of the aircraft with the pointer. By wiggling the beam they can paint a larger area of the cockpit with the beam over those minutes. Multiply that by the fact the attacker is targeting aircraft as a hobby over the course of the year.
Lanza is a copycat killer. He killed children because Anders Breivik killed students. Anders Breivik killed students for political reasons. (the students were at a polictical camp) Also trying to find a reason for something a crazy person does is foolish. A metally ill person may not have rational reasons for thier actions. I have a relative who had phycotic episodes before thier doctor found the correct medication. I found my relative walking down the middle of the street with a butter knife. They were on their way to a friends house to convice them to stop smoking. Brain chemistry, hormones, "Don't Smoke" propaganda, and lots of confusion is what lead to that incident. My family doesn't show violent media to this person. No guns, sharp things, or alchohol is kept in the house. (medicine locked up)
A government is nothing but a social institution given the right to kill people by its citizens. All governments have the right to kill people in general. Killing citizens from another country is generally the definition of war. Most nation will kill each others spies in time of peace. (or trade them for things under the threat of killing them)
What the summary is describing is espionage. Spies have been killed for stealing tech and breaking things for hundreds if not thousands of years. Just because a spy can program doesn't give them special status.
Cyber attacks falls under espionage. Nations have been killing spies for thousands of years. There is always a risk when killings spys of killing a civilion. They generally don't use bombs to do it though.
As programmers it is our ethical duty to destroy our own job. We reuse open source code because it take less hours to reuse code than to reinvent it. We test our code, so there is less bugs, so we bill less hours to the client. We write good documentation so other people can understand our code when we leave. We use standards and design metaphors for the same reason. Training other people is the same concept. We do a good job so we can move on to other things. Things that are more interesting and worth our large paychecks.
The Copyright Act they were looking at was based on Common Law. Congress basically codified what was before a self-evident personal property right. The Supreme Court based their opinion on a Common Law interpretation of the Copyright Act.
People who sell things can use it to identify customers who walk into the store. The pushy sales people at Best Buy will wear these. It will tell them what items you were shopping for on Amazon earlier in the day.
Police will use it to search for wanted criminals. They will have about 1000 local wanted posters downloaded on their phones. Google Glass will check everyone's face against those 1000 photos in real time.
There are older versions of Sim City that are single player. Maybe you should play one of those games. Making a new game means changing things. I suppose they could of just changed released Sim City 2000 with hi res textures. But I think that would of been a failure as well. Adding multiplayer is a reasonable change. Selling more copies of the game than you have servers for is stupid.
The cases grow out of an internal examination by NSF's Office of Inspector General (IG) of every proposal that NSF funded in fiscal year 2011
It seems to me they are running the tool against things that are already funded. Wouldn't it make more sense to run the tool when recieving any proposal and then pass on the results to whoever is deciding if a proposal should be funded?
I can't wait to earn free money by wearing by my Google Glass. Collect bounties just by having them turned on. If someone with a warrent is spotted the app will send your location and a photo to the goverment. The app splits the reward with you 50/50. I am sure there will also be an auto census application that gives you money. Turn it on and the application counts the number of people in your location, includes stats on gender and wealth. Free money.
Replace used with preowned. Preowned items exist in digital. These media companies sold people goods in stores. People purchased things using "Buy" buttons. They recieved reciepts for their purchases. The licencing of these goods is legal fiction. Judges in Europe have already ruled that resale rights exists. So it makes sense for these companies to start implimenting solutions before they get fined.
There is no discernable difference between the products when you use them. This is not true for physical goods like cameras, cars, houses, etc.
This is simply not true for books. A used physical book is no different than a new physical book. They both contain the same words. The both deliver the same data to the user. With music it might be true. Scratches on disk cause data to be lost. But it was never true for books.
Collect all the phone books. Instead of dropping them off at the phone company drop them off at the local pizza place. You need to to target the source of income for these books.
This is the problem with treating companies like people. Ubisoft is collection of people. The positions of a company changes when people are hired or let go.
Good Point. But those turrets are not a human rights issue. Missles and mortars don't have human rights. I suppose they could shoot down the occasional plane that attempt to dive bomb a carrier. I also suppose they could be repurposed to shoot at people. But I think that would kill more friendly troops than enemy.
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They announced that it was a box.
To be fair there were alot of combo DVD/VHS players made when DVD came out.
Sony never removed backwards compatiblity from any customers machine. I had purchased a 60 gig machine and it had backwards compatiblity up untill it was stolen from me out of the back of a truck. What they did was stop including the PS2 "emotion engine" graphics chip inside new PS3s as a cost cutting move. They announced this publically. People understood what they were buying. I think you are confusing things with Linux.
Price, exclusive games, and difficulty. I was looking to purchase a Gaming PC a few weeks ago and every site I came across told me not to build one instead of buying one from a vendor. The consensus is that companies like Alienware gouge on price and include components with high numbers instead of good components. The prices were also higher than console prices. Most of those machines also ran Windows 8 (yuck) You can hardly go into a best buy and purchase good gaming pc either.
They are ditching PS3 support. Mainly so they can move to a PC architecture.
No but if shoot laser pointers at the drivers of school busses near a school then I might expect 30 months of prison.
Depends on where the attacker is. If the attacker is withing 15 degrees of the runway then the planes movement will have little effect. They will have several minutes to paint the front of the aircraft with the pointer. By wiggling the beam they can paint a larger area of the cockpit with the beam over those minutes. Multiply that by the fact the attacker is targeting aircraft as a hobby over the course of the year.
Lanza is a copycat killer. He killed children because Anders Breivik killed students. Anders Breivik killed students for political reasons. (the students were at a polictical camp) Also trying to find a reason for something a crazy person does is foolish. A metally ill person may not have rational reasons for thier actions. I have a relative who had phycotic episodes before thier doctor found the correct medication. I found my relative walking down the middle of the street with a butter knife. They were on their way to a friends house to convice them to stop smoking. Brain chemistry, hormones, "Don't Smoke" propaganda, and lots of confusion is what lead to that incident. My family doesn't show violent media to this person. No guns, sharp things, or alchohol is kept in the house. (medicine locked up)
Nah. They can just fire those people. And then never travel to France.
A government is nothing but a social institution given the right to kill people by its citizens. All governments have the right to kill people in general. Killing citizens from another country is generally the definition of war. Most nation will kill each others spies in time of peace. (or trade them for things under the threat of killing them)
What the summary is describing is espionage. Spies have been killed for stealing tech and breaking things for hundreds if not thousands of years. Just because a spy can program doesn't give them special status.
Cyber attacks falls under espionage. Nations have been killing spies for thousands of years. There is always a risk when killings spys of killing a civilion. They generally don't use bombs to do it though.
As programmers it is our ethical duty to destroy our own job. We reuse open source code because it take less hours to reuse code than to reinvent it. We test our code, so there is less bugs, so we bill less hours to the client. We write good documentation so other people can understand our code when we leave. We use standards and design metaphors for the same reason. Training other people is the same concept. We do a good job so we can move on to other things. Things that are more interesting and worth our large paychecks.
The Copyright Act they were looking at was based on Common Law. Congress basically codified what was before a self-evident personal property right. The Supreme Court based their opinion on a Common Law interpretation of the Copyright Act.
Go ahead, save a buck by finding the girl who has had 8-10 drinks already
who will be the ones needing the most drinks on your dime for future outings.
I think he is looking for a one night stand.
Protestors will wear Google Glass and get punched in the face by cops.
People who sell things can use it to identify customers who walk into the store. The pushy sales people at Best Buy will wear these. It will tell them what items you were shopping for on Amazon earlier in the day.
Police will use it to search for wanted criminals. They will have about 1000 local wanted posters downloaded on their phones. Google Glass will check everyone's face against those 1000 photos in real time.
There are older versions of Sim City that are single player. Maybe you should play one of those games. Making a new game means changing things. I suppose they could of just changed released Sim City 2000 with hi res textures. But I think that would of been a failure as well. Adding multiplayer is a reasonable change. Selling more copies of the game than you have servers for is stupid.
The cases grow out of an internal examination by NSF's Office of Inspector General (IG) of every proposal that NSF funded in fiscal year 2011
It seems to me they are running the tool against things that are already funded. Wouldn't it make more sense to run the tool when recieving any proposal and then pass on the results to whoever is deciding if a proposal should be funded?
I can't wait to earn free money by wearing by my Google Glass. Collect bounties just by having them turned on. If someone with a warrent is spotted the app will send your location and a photo to the goverment. The app splits the reward with you 50/50. I am sure there will also be an auto census application that gives you money. Turn it on and the application counts the number of people in your location, includes stats on gender and wealth. Free money.
Replace used with preowned. Preowned items exist in digital. These media companies sold people goods in stores. People purchased things using "Buy" buttons. They recieved reciepts for their purchases. The licencing of these goods is legal fiction. Judges in Europe have already ruled that resale rights exists. So it makes sense for these companies to start implimenting solutions before they get fined.
There is no discernable difference between the products when you use them. This is not true for physical goods like cameras, cars, houses, etc.
This is simply not true for books. A used physical book is no different than a new physical book. They both contain the same words. The both deliver the same data to the user. With music it might be true. Scratches on disk cause data to be lost. But it was never true for books.
Collect all the phone books. Instead of dropping them off at the phone company drop them off at the local pizza place. You need to to target the source of income for these books.
Ubisoft is schizophrenic when it comes to DRM
This is the problem with treating companies like people. Ubisoft is collection of people. The positions of a company changes when people are hired or let go.
Good Point. But those turrets are not a human rights issue. Missles and mortars don't have human rights. I suppose they could shoot down the occasional plane that attempt to dive bomb a carrier. I also suppose they could be repurposed to shoot at people. But I think that would kill more friendly troops than enemy.