If don't understand the concept behind inconveniencing people to rally them to your cause. If you put a banner up, I might read it and support your cause, if you piss me off, I certainly won't.
If the point is to demonstrate the consequences of the law, well, I think I am quite capable of imagining what it means for a site to be shutdown. Or perhaps you are trying to emulate the stupid filmmaker who thought he had to demonstrate that eating to much will cause you to gain weight, as if this wasn't obvious.
You forget, you know technology. Joe Q. Public does not. The point of these blackouts is to show Joe Q. Public (who is known to be somewhat apathetic about politics) what the Internet will be like if these bills pass. The hope is to get them to get mad at their representatives for inconveniencing them for a day (or less than, depending on the site).
It's completely illegal and really ought to be the focus of an antitrust probe. You can't send a letter demanding payment for allegedly infringing upon a patent and be required to sign an NDA to see the patent. That's not a legitimate move and quite frankly, the MS execs that thought of that ought to be dragged out into the street and beaten severely with chairs.
Patents are public information for a reason, one should be able to look them up to figure out if one is or isn't violating one.
Have you paid attention to the B&N vs Microsoft lawsuit currently ongoing? The patents ARE revealed, at least in that case. B&N's trying to get an antitrust probe in play and are saying that MS is engaging in patent misuse. Its all over on Groklaw.
There's a quest out in Storm Peaks in WoW (one of the zones you can play in), where your character essentially multiboxes. You're given a set of 4 shaman that attack anything you do. Its quite fun. (Specific quest: http://www.wowhead.com/quest=13005).
Its interesting, this is the second time this year where a company basically fights the internet. The previous one being the debate about whether a recipe is copyrighted or not (or as the publisher thought, everything on the internet was for free).
I got an email last night talking about this breach with links to reset my password and part of that involved setting up their Mobile Authenticator. They also gave everyone a bag of goodies in-game and 3 days of play time (supposed to be for active subscribers, but it appears it have activated my account for 3 days). Much better than the Sony breach where a lot of the affected people were first learning it from the news before they got their notifications.
For those who get to this far down in the threads, NameCheap also has a coupon of BYEBYEGD.
Disclaimer: I have no domain, so can't say whether they're good or not (the Reddit thread has lots of happy people, their Social Media contact involved, quite a few people switching to them and directions for how to get off of GD as well).
If Asus keeps the same software on the Prime that they had on the OG TF, you'll already have a remote desktop viewing application pre-installed. Its part of the MyCloud app, the MyDesktop section. It runs a version of the Splashtop software, the streamer version is free on their website. Splashtop themselves have their own app on the market (which is actually what I use, just because I like to keep up with their updates without waiting for Asus to update) as well.
I'd love it if the Market stopped pushing the permissions in everyone's faces for every update of an app (even if the permissions didn't change) and allow the notes of WHAT changed to be visible on that screen. But, I feel like I'm in the minority on that one.
It depends on the suburbs/residential areas. Apartment complexes are great places to find lots of wi-fi networks (and annoyingly, my complex have savvy enough people to have spread across all the available channels), but some of the ritzier sections of town (I'm thinking of a place here in Cincinnati where the minimum lot size is in the couple acre area) would cause more problems than the poor sections of town, due to density.
Checks you say.... I haven't written one of those in months.
I write void on them when I setup an ACH account. I guess I could just keep a copy/scan of one but then I would never use them.
I remember when I got my first check book. It was the key to my first bank account. I could write an amount on a piece of paper, sign my name and people would give me stuff. Then electronic payments via credit cards/ACH/etc. came. Bill payments seemed like the last to give in. The check book started as something wonderful to me and then ended with the memory of paying bills.
My CU has all the necessary information for ACH accounts online, no checkbook needed. I still write checks though, once a year for the DMV.
That's part of the problem though; its a crap shoot whether your phone will be supported. I was unlucky and bought an HTC Hero. It had one major update, but that was it. They stopped supporting my phone less than 1 year into my 3 year contract. Looking at the graph, its sad to see that there is no clear "winner" in terms of manufacturers that support their phones. It seems that they decided to maintain only some of their phones (eg. Motorola Droid, HTC Evo, and Samsung Galaxy). When I buy my next phone, how do I know if I'm buying an Evo or a Hero? Do I just pray that my phone is the one deemed worthy of support?
I know that Asus hasn't really marketed the Transformer, but I really would recommend you go look it up, especially the bits of information we have on the Transformer Prime, before you complain about Android tablets not having a keyboard (or secondary storage).
Wait, so the fact that the OS was announced 24 hours ago, its not been released on any phone/device/etc yet and people are STILL whining that the source is not released?! I want their time machine!
I know you're going to label me a "fanboy" for arguing with you on this, but have you actually READ the articles on why Google hasn't released the source for Honeycomb (3.0)?!
Or watch their local news? I know when this story first broke a couple of days ago, our local news had it plus multiple other locations. The companies involved are big enough names to have the story go beyond niche websites.
Well, considering those are the same users who typically have their desktop so full of icons that the wallpaper's indistinguishable and a gazillion icons in the system tray to make launching those program faster, why not kill wallpapers too? (Personally, I'm more of a minimalist and have no icons on my desktop and try and keep my system tray pruned to the bare minimum, so the start menu is very important to me).
And adblock and no script doesn't work with this new upgrade.
Ohh, guess it didn't work with the previous one too.
Chrome or Firefox? Notscripts and ABP are working beautifully in all my Chrome installs (stable and dev builds).
Hopefully, enough people will associate the word "tablet" with all these touchscreen devices and let TabletPCs die a peaceful death, never to be remembered.
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If don't understand the concept behind inconveniencing people to rally them to your cause. If you put a banner up, I might read it and support your cause, if you piss me off, I certainly won't.
If the point is to demonstrate the consequences of the law, well, I think I am quite capable of imagining what it means for a site to be shutdown. Or perhaps you are trying to emulate the stupid filmmaker who thought he had to demonstrate that eating to much will cause you to gain weight, as if this wasn't obvious.
You forget, you know technology. Joe Q. Public does not. The point of these blackouts is to show Joe Q. Public (who is known to be somewhat apathetic about politics) what the Internet will be like if these bills pass. The hope is to get them to get mad at their representatives for inconveniencing them for a day (or less than, depending on the site).
He's been disbarred though, notice how he's been a smidge quieter recently?
It's completely illegal and really ought to be the focus of an antitrust probe. You can't send a letter demanding payment for allegedly infringing upon a patent and be required to sign an NDA to see the patent. That's not a legitimate move and quite frankly, the MS execs that thought of that ought to be dragged out into the street and beaten severely with chairs.
Patents are public information for a reason, one should be able to look them up to figure out if one is or isn't violating one.
Have you paid attention to the B&N vs Microsoft lawsuit currently ongoing? The patents ARE revealed, at least in that case. B&N's trying to get an antitrust probe in play and are saying that MS is engaging in patent misuse. Its all over on Groklaw.
There's a quest out in Storm Peaks in WoW (one of the zones you can play in), where your character essentially multiboxes. You're given a set of 4 shaman that attack anything you do. Its quite fun. (Specific quest: http://www.wowhead.com/quest=13005).
Its interesting, this is the second time this year where a company basically fights the internet. The previous one being the debate about whether a recipe is copyrighted or not (or as the publisher thought, everything on the internet was for free).
Same here, but I also truly dislike their Metro styling and those massive tiles on the home screen.
I got an email last night talking about this breach with links to reset my password and part of that involved setting up their Mobile Authenticator. They also gave everyone a bag of goodies in-game and 3 days of play time (supposed to be for active subscribers, but it appears it have activated my account for 3 days). Much better than the Sony breach where a lot of the affected people were first learning it from the news before they got their notifications.
For those who get to this far down in the threads, NameCheap also has a coupon of BYEBYEGD. Disclaimer: I have no domain, so can't say whether they're good or not (the Reddit thread has lots of happy people, their Social Media contact involved, quite a few people switching to them and directions for how to get off of GD as well).
If Asus keeps the same software on the Prime that they had on the OG TF, you'll already have a remote desktop viewing application pre-installed. Its part of the MyCloud app, the MyDesktop section. It runs a version of the Splashtop software, the streamer version is free on their website. Splashtop themselves have their own app on the market (which is actually what I use, just because I like to keep up with their updates without waiting for Asus to update) as well.
I'd love it if the Market stopped pushing the permissions in everyone's faces for every update of an app (even if the permissions didn't change) and allow the notes of WHAT changed to be visible on that screen. But, I feel like I'm in the minority on that one.
It depends on the suburbs/residential areas. Apartment complexes are great places to find lots of wi-fi networks (and annoyingly, my complex have savvy enough people to have spread across all the available channels), but some of the ritzier sections of town (I'm thinking of a place here in Cincinnati where the minimum lot size is in the couple acre area) would cause more problems than the poor sections of town, due to density.
On top of that, if you bought the phone yesterday, it was $111.11. Today? Its $300.
Checks you say.... I haven't written one of those in months.
I write void on them when I setup an ACH account. I guess I could just keep a copy/scan of one but then I would never use them. I remember when I got my first check book. It was the key to my first bank account. I could write an amount on a piece of paper, sign my name and people would give me stuff. Then electronic payments via credit cards/ACH/etc. came. Bill payments seemed like the last to give in. The check book started as something wonderful to me and then ended with the memory of paying bills.
My CU has all the necessary information for ACH accounts online, no checkbook needed. I still write checks though, once a year for the DMV.
That's part of the problem though; its a crap shoot whether your phone will be supported. I was unlucky and bought an HTC Hero. It had one major update, but that was it. They stopped supporting my phone less than 1 year into my 3 year contract. Looking at the graph, its sad to see that there is no clear "winner" in terms of manufacturers that support their phones. It seems that they decided to maintain only some of their phones (eg. Motorola Droid, HTC Evo, and Samsung Galaxy). When I buy my next phone, how do I know if I'm buying an Evo or a Hero? Do I just pray that my phone is the one deemed worthy of support?
Simple, buy a Nexus.
I know that Asus hasn't really marketed the Transformer, but I really would recommend you go look it up, especially the bits of information we have on the Transformer Prime, before you complain about Android tablets not having a keyboard (or secondary storage).
There was a lawsuit filed against Verizon specifically because of this several months ago, though that lawsuit was more focused on tethering rather than locked bootloaders. Source: http://www.droid-life.com/2011/06/06/tethering-complaint-filed-with-fcc-by-free-press-against-verizon/
Wait, so the fact that the OS was announced 24 hours ago, its not been released on any phone/device/etc yet and people are STILL whining that the source is not released?! I want their time machine!
I know you're going to label me a "fanboy" for arguing with you on this, but have you actually READ the articles on why Google hasn't released the source for Honeycomb (3.0)?!
Or watch their local news? I know when this story first broke a couple of days ago, our local news had it plus multiple other locations. The companies involved are big enough names to have the story go beyond niche websites.
Well, considering those are the same users who typically have their desktop so full of icons that the wallpaper's indistinguishable and a gazillion icons in the system tray to make launching those program faster, why not kill wallpapers too? (Personally, I'm more of a minimalist and have no icons on my desktop and try and keep my system tray pruned to the bare minimum, so the start menu is very important to me).
And adblock and no script doesn't work with this new upgrade. Ohh, guess it didn't work with the previous one too. Chrome or Firefox? Notscripts and ABP are working beautifully in all my Chrome installs (stable and dev builds).
However, if you're NOT logged into Facebook.... (as GP said they were not logged in).
So, your home ISP is not implementing caps either? Lucky!
Hopefully, enough people will associate the word "tablet" with all these touchscreen devices and let TabletPCs die a peaceful death, never to be remembered.
Whats your email address, I'll send you one