In what way did the patch that removed the "Other OS" crippled the PS3?
It is in the sense of To disable, damage, or impair the functioning of
Lately this became a common slang for features/functionality available on a device but purposely disabled for the end user in order to achieve some marketing gig.
For example, 6 years ago I paid extra to get a groundbreaking bluetooth-enabled cell phone from Verizon. When I tried to tap the latter, It turned out that Verizon disabled (crippled) this feature, even though it was available on this phone model when purchased from manufacturer. This was most likely done to prevent me from uploading phone pictures to my PC, because the alternative service from Verizon cost 25 cents per picture at the time. There was a class action suit initiated and won against Verizon on this account, and I think I was entitled to some pocket change. Let's say it was a lot less than the extra $60 I sunk for it.
As for your PS3 argument: maybe you don't care about this feature, but some users did, yet some purchased the product for the sole reason of it. For them it is pretty crippled now. It's like when Amazon pulled an already purchased book from user's Kindles. The congress and courts are up in arms when someone dares to make an unauthorized copy of some deep pocket corp's IP, but when purchased and paid for IP is swiped from under people's feet the judge fails to see a problem.
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Excellent article badly in need of modding up. This phenomenon is known as the "Dutch Disease", although the reasoning about the middle class being suppressed is new to me. Do you think there is a similar issue in US, where the rich-poor gap is growing by the year?
They issued a patch that crippled PS3, but no patch available to update graphics card driver on my Vaio. (Yes, they need to take it from Nvidia, re-brand it and put it up for download), It keeps BSOD-ing in video games. After giving their support a run for the money, their response was to "reset it to factory setting". Seems to be a universal response from all merchants when they are not capable of resolving a support issue.
...after being tasered in an earlier incident on their land for allegedly resisting arrest, they brandished weapons at the officers who came to seize the cows.
So sounds like a tazer-happy "occifer" barged on their land first.
Preaching about "how to treat a lady" does nothing but perpetuate the myth that there's a difference between men and women.
If you or your lady is a woman has no differences from a man: physical, intellectual or emotional, that makes your situation an exception, not a rule. A majority of men prefer a "womanly" woman, not one "with no differences".
The evolution of mathematics education
1980's
A farmer sells a bag of potatoes for $10. His production costs are $8 and his profit is $2. Underline the word "potatoes" and discuss with your classmates.
*- so says my wife, who wanted the return of TV in our living room for some time. She did not want to "watch stuff from the internet", but "sit on the couch, relax, and watch whatever is on". So I hooked up the air antennae and showed her how to switch to our LCD panel to "TV mode" -- "But... there is nothing on", was the argument, and the "TV mode" was never used again
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the problem! We want to relax and just watch what we want, when we have time, and preferably without 50% of show time sold to commercials.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_on_Strike#Lawsuit ... Kyle convinces the world leaders to give Canada a consolation prize of gumballs and Bennigan's coupons. The strike is settled.... Aboutman throws a party to celebrate end of the strike, treating it as a great victory for Canada, but Terrance and Phillip realize that the gumballs and coupons are worth $3,008, whereas Canada lost $10.4 million by striking.
when the typical result of a class action lawsuit is the people who were actually wronged making a buck
How were they wronged, exactly? That the Ticketmaster website did not state that those $1.50 are "processing fees", among the other legal mambo-jumbo that nobody reads? THIS is the problem, not the layers getting paid.
Despite the fact that the layers do get an incentive of having this dragged out for years and collecting their lawyer-ly fees; the whole idea of a class action suit that is based NOT on on fraud, but a formality is a load of BS. Another example of someone playing the system.
Your material and lebor example is botched beyond repair. The worker spent 6 hours to make one widget, and got paid $50/h. A widget cost 6 * $50 = $300 labor. OK.
But our capitalist wants to make more money, so he makes his worker work 12 hours instead of 6
12 hours instead of of 6 to make one widget? That's no way to make more money! You mean makes him work longer hours, but then it's 12 hours instead of 8, not 6. Your example goes beyond that:
which are now $500 in materials, $50 in labor
So the widget, which cost $250 in material now costs $500? And he still managed to turn $50 profit? Incredible! Ah, wait, the $300 in labour now became $50, so he made his worker work 6 times harder for no additional pay. No wonder Marxists took to arms!
Regardless of what you think about communism, Marx's theories of capitalism need to be taken seriously, because the guy was predicting, in the 1870's, a lot of the economic behavior we see today.
Except he predicted nothing. They had exact same problems in 1870's. Communist revolutions did not happen over some vague prediction of the future, but the real situation of that time.
The yellow light means stop unless one is unable to safely do so.
In the New York City yellow "means slam your breaks into the ground and dig asphalt with the nose of your car." There is, unfortunately, a difference between what they are supposed to mean and what they do. In the suburbs the yellow lasts around 10 seconds, so I can safely drive through them, but in the city it is about ~1 second, so if you see yellow, the odds of entering intersection on red (and getting caught on camera) are high.
As for the bit about police funding, police departments don't generally get to keep the citation money for that very reason.
Please explain then, why every end of month police cruisers are ambushing people EVERYWHERE for every minor infraction. By everywhere I mean at least 3 states where I normally drive. At one point it got ridiculous: The right lane was standing traffic, while the left lane was "left turn only". The fact that it had this restriction became apparent only at the intersection itself, when it is too late to change lanes. There were three police cruisers stopping cars every two minutes and issuing them multiple citations: I got "failure to turn" and "obstruction of traffic". Did I mention it was end of month? Someone got to keep that money!
Looks like major car damage for a very minor and harmless infraction. Why not just use an automatic barrier that is visible and does not pop an unsuspecting driver into the air?
Those who look can find plenty of stuff of the web for the rest of us, who try and deploy common sense the timing is enough:
1971 - Julian Assange is born
1988 - Julian Assange reached age where he is physically and emotionally capable of committing a sex crime
2007 - Wikileaks published first "sekret" US govt document.
2010 - allegations of sexual crimes against not one, but TWO different women.
Tendency to commit a crime before US govt got framed: 0 in 22 years
Tendency to commit a crime after US govt got framed: 2 in 3 years
Either use your brain or join the masses: "raped two different women overnight.... bastard!"
Yes, a US agency hired two random women to have sex with Assange only to report about it to police shortly. Is that what you mean?
If not, care to explain why these two events "randomly" happened at the same time?
It's not like you can deploy a SWAT team in front of the driver in time to stop him from running the light and never know if he would actually have done it.
Can delay the green on the crossing street, or even put up an alarm with flashing blinkers so no one enters the intersection. The flashers can be implemented with the existing traffic lights, so not that expensive. What is expensive is setting up the cameras linked to a central computer on every intersection. They kind of doing it already with the red light cameras though.
The plan consists of creation of two new dedicated enforcement units:
1. MAFIA Secirity (MAFIA'S) - a dedicated unit charged with protection of music and movie mafia interests. This will solve the shortcomings of former feeble attempts to protect Megacorps of England from the people of England.
2. Microsoft Windows National Guard - dedicated agents 008 through 9800 will protect Windows security loopholes around the world. License to Kill will be granted indiscriminately to resolve all outstanding security issues, similar to the way Microsoft Security Essentially operates in US.
This is a famous letter written in 1845 to the government in response to new trade tariffs protecting candle makers:
http://bastiat.org/en/petition.html
Please watch the civilian execution in the Manning video. Killing 20+ civilians with a press of a button. He did not even see them first-hand, they were hazy images on his little computer screen. Now tell me that's not a video game. The operator definitely sounded like it was.
To take it to a more abstract level, there were psychology studies carried out, that discovered that when the person(s) you are harming are remote and impersonal, the ease of pressing the trigger fast approaches that of a video game.
So despite the people you hang out with knowing better, the fact is that killing civilians with today's military technology is as easy as playing a video game. Also, judging by the Manning video it is also as desirable, as the dude with the button clearly could not tell the two apart.
300GHZ = 3*10^11 Hz
Speed of light / 3*10^11 Hz = 1 mm wavelength, which should have no problem bypassing particles less than 0.5 mm in diameter.
By comparison, visible light is 400-700 nm, that's 4/10000 mm, so fog and rain that limit our field of vision should pose little to no problems for a 300GHZ wave.
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In what way did the patch that removed the "Other OS" crippled the PS3?
It is in the sense of To disable, damage, or impair the functioning of
Lately this became a common slang for features/functionality available on a device but purposely disabled for the end user in order to achieve some marketing gig.
For example, 6 years ago I paid extra to get a groundbreaking bluetooth-enabled cell phone from Verizon. When I tried to tap the latter, It turned out that Verizon disabled (crippled) this feature, even though it was available on this phone model when purchased from manufacturer. This was most likely done to prevent me from uploading phone pictures to my PC, because the alternative service from Verizon cost 25 cents per picture at the time. There was a class action suit initiated and won against Verizon on this account, and I think I was entitled to some pocket change. Let's say it was a lot less than the extra $60 I sunk for it.
As for your PS3 argument: maybe you don't care about this feature, but some users did, yet some purchased the product for the sole reason of it. For them it is pretty crippled now. It's like when Amazon pulled an already purchased book from user's Kindles. The congress and courts are up in arms when someone dares to make an unauthorized copy of some deep pocket corp's IP, but when purchased and paid for IP is swiped from under people's feet the judge fails to see a problem.
we do have real choices and who gets elected
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Excellent article badly in need of modding up. This phenomenon is known as the "Dutch Disease", although the reasoning about the middle class being suppressed is new to me. Do you think there is a similar issue in US, where the rich-poor gap is growing by the year?
They issued a patch that crippled PS3, but no patch available to update graphics card driver on my Vaio. (Yes, they need to take it from Nvidia, re-brand it and put it up for download), It keeps BSOD-ing in video games. After giving their support a run for the money, their response was to "reset it to factory setting". Seems to be a universal response from all merchants when they are not capable of resolving a support issue.
...after being tasered in an earlier incident on their land for allegedly resisting arrest, they brandished weapons at the officers who came to seize the cows.
So sounds like a tazer-happy "occifer" barged on their land first.
Preaching about "how to treat a lady" does nothing but perpetuate the myth that there's a difference between men and women.
If you or your lady is a woman has no differences from a man: physical, intellectual or emotional, that makes your situation an exception, not a rule. A majority of men prefer a "womanly" woman, not one "with no differences".
I would be much more interested in an opensource electric car design.
...that can be replicated using a 3d printer 3d printer
The evolution of mathematics education 1980's A farmer sells a bag of potatoes for $10. His production costs are $8 and his profit is $2. Underline the word "potatoes" and discuss with your classmates.
*- so says my wife, who wanted the return of TV in our living room for some time. She did not want to "watch stuff from the internet", but "sit on the couch, relax, and watch whatever is on". So I hooked up the air antennae and showed her how to switch to our LCD panel to "TV mode" -- "But... there is nothing on", was the argument, and the "TV mode" was never used again
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the problem! We want to relax and just watch what we want, when we have time, and preferably without 50% of show time sold to commercials.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_on_Strike#Lawsuit
... Kyle convinces the world leaders to give Canada a consolation prize of gumballs and Bennigan's coupons. The strike is settled .... Aboutman throws a party to celebrate end of the strike, treating it as a great victory for Canada, but Terrance and Phillip realize that the gumballs and coupons are worth $3,008, whereas Canada lost $10.4 million by striking.
... there's something wrong with the system
yes
when the typical result of a class action lawsuit is the people who were actually wronged making a buck
How were they wronged, exactly? That the Ticketmaster website did not state that those $1.50 are "processing fees", among the other legal mambo-jumbo that nobody reads? THIS is the problem, not the layers getting paid.
Despite the fact that the layers do get an incentive of having this dragged out for years and collecting their lawyer-ly fees; the whole idea of a class action suit that is based NOT on on fraud, but a formality is a load of BS. Another example of someone playing the system.
Now it does make sense, except for the very strange and arbitrary approach of quoting cost/profit per 2 widgets.
But our capitalist wants to make more money, so he makes his worker work 12 hours instead of 6
12 hours instead of of 6 to make one widget? That's no way to make more money! You mean makes him work longer hours, but then it's 12 hours instead of 8, not 6. Your example goes beyond that:
which are now $500 in materials, $50 in labor
So the widget, which cost $250 in material now costs $500? And he still managed to turn $50 profit? Incredible! Ah, wait, the $300 in labour now became $50, so he made his worker work 6 times harder for no additional pay. No wonder Marxists took to arms!
Regardless of what you think about communism, Marx's theories of capitalism need to be taken seriously, because the guy was predicting, in the 1870's, a lot of the economic behavior we see today.
Except he predicted nothing. They had exact same problems in 1870's. Communist revolutions did not happen over some vague prediction of the future, but the real situation of that time.
The yellow light means stop unless one is unable to safely do so.
In the New York City yellow "means slam your breaks into the ground and dig asphalt with the nose of your car." There is, unfortunately, a difference between what they are supposed to mean and what they do. In the suburbs the yellow lasts around 10 seconds, so I can safely drive through them, but in the city it is about ~1 second, so if you see yellow, the odds of entering intersection on red (and getting caught on camera) are high.
As for the bit about police funding, police departments don't generally get to keep the citation money for that very reason.
Please explain then, why every end of month police cruisers are ambushing people EVERYWHERE for every minor infraction. By everywhere I mean at least 3 states where I normally drive. At one point it got ridiculous: The right lane was standing traffic, while the left lane was "left turn only". The fact that it had this restriction became apparent only at the intersection itself, when it is too late to change lanes. There were three police cruisers stopping cars every two minutes and issuing them multiple citations: I got "failure to turn" and "obstruction of traffic". Did I mention it was end of month? Someone got to keep that money!
Looks like major car damage for a very minor and harmless infraction. Why not just use an automatic barrier that is visible and does not pop an unsuspecting driver into the air?
Tendency to commit a crime before US govt got framed: 0 in 22 years
Tendency to commit a crime after US govt got framed: 2 in 3 years
Either use your brain or join the masses: "raped two different women overnight.... bastard!"
there really are two completely random women
Yes, a US agency hired two random women to have sex with Assange only to report about it to police shortly. Is that what you mean?
If not, care to explain why these two events "randomly" happened at the same time?
It's not like you can deploy a SWAT team in front of the driver in time to stop him from running the light and never know if he would actually have done it.
Can delay the green on the crossing street, or even put up an alarm with flashing blinkers so no one enters the intersection. The flashers can be implemented with the existing traffic lights, so not that expensive. What is expensive is setting up the cameras linked to a central computer on every intersection. They kind of doing it already with the red light cameras though.
Don't forget the cost of Intelligent DRM Design! And of course the Kindle Remote Kill switch -- priceless!
The plan consists of creation of two new dedicated enforcement units:
1. MAFIA Secirity (MAFIA'S) - a dedicated unit charged with protection of music and movie mafia interests. This will solve the shortcomings of former feeble attempts to protect Megacorps of England from the people of England.
2. Microsoft Windows National Guard - dedicated agents 008 through 9800 will protect Windows security loopholes around the world. License to Kill will be granted indiscriminately to resolve all outstanding security issues, similar to the way Microsoft Security Essentially operates in US.
And here is the random number generator in action: http://search.dilbert.com/comic/Random%20Number%20Generator
Scientology goes after critics for decades and they are just fine.
This is a famous letter written in 1845 to the government in response to new trade tariffs protecting candle makers:
http://bastiat.org/en/petition.html
Please watch the civilian execution in the Manning video. Killing 20+ civilians with a press of a button. He did not even see them first-hand, they were hazy images on his little computer screen. Now tell me that's not a video game. The operator definitely sounded like it was.
To take it to a more abstract level, there were psychology studies carried out, that discovered that when the person(s) you are harming are remote and impersonal, the ease of pressing the trigger fast approaches that of a video game.
So despite the people you hang out with knowing better, the fact is that killing civilians with today's military technology is as easy as playing a video game. Also, judging by the Manning video it is also as desirable, as the dude with the button clearly could not tell the two apart.
300GHZ = 3*10^11 Hz
Speed of light / 3*10^11 Hz = 1 mm wavelength, which should have no problem bypassing particles less than 0.5 mm in diameter.
By comparison, visible light is 400-700 nm, that's 4/10000 mm, so fog and rain that limit our field of vision should pose little to no problems for a 300GHZ wave.