They should be required by law to provide a valid return email account so I can e-mail them back and tell them how little I appreciate them sending me their shit.
Not sure that is accurate. Written as an algebraic expression, perhaps. Expressed as a method or a device (ie: drug) then a formula is able to be patented. Formulas as software (as pointed out by AC) is another avenue, such as MPEG. A formula is simply a mathematical expression, which describes a lot of software that is now patented, and as it stands now, software can be patented, at least in the US.
Browsing isn't what it used to be. For many people, browsing means playing Farmville on Facebook, which will eat up a lot of CPU and memory. And no, Zinga programmers don't really care about efficiency on your computer, only on their servers.
Sort of correct, but that isn't the same at converting. Even being born a Catholic (as I was) you must be Baptized, receive Communion and Confirmation to "be" Catholic as an adult. You are welcome to hang out in the pews, but you aren't officially a part of the Church. Can you lie? Sure, but that's not the point. The point is you don't just sign up, go to a couple weeks of Confirmation classes and "become" Catholic, according to the dogma of the church.
I know many people who went through being Catechumen to become Catholic. It took a lot of classes and a several months. Of course, this was almost 20 years ago, back when I was a Catholic. Leaving the Catholic Church was much easier than joining it.
here are Catholic churches everywhere. It's easy to be confirmed, and take regular communion.
Not to nitpick, but you can't just get confirmed and be instantly converted to Catholic, at least in the eyes of the Church. You become a Catechumen to convert to Catholocism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catechumen for starters.
The government is also invested in the companies that put this one out of business.
The companies that will pick up the slack are in China. Other US solar companies are in just as much trouble. And the US doesn't own part of the Chinese manufacturing complex, sorry. The Chinese DO own a lot of our treasuries, however.
Yes I have. Haven't bought an Apple product in 15 years. Haven't felt deprived in the least. Pretty sure I'm not the only one who won't buy Apple, for a variety of reasons either.
And I can't control what the masses do, only what I do. Doing things "for the right reasons" often puts a person in the minority.
We are free employees, we use their system for free, and the system itself is an aggregate of all of our previous clicks, so when you search for "test tube" (for example), Google is just listing the most commonly clicked items that other people have selected. We are all sharing our experiences to make your search easier, Google is just compiling that info, and making money off people who want to cheat just a little and pay to be in the sponsored area. Pretty worth while trade for me as user, I would say.
I will reply since I'm out of mod points for the first day in two weeks, and you are 100% correct. All she was *really* claiming is that the company thinks that eventually they will have one "as big as 2tb" in that same form factor size. No more, no less. And yes, it is obvious that she is only vaguely (and likely, incorrectly) parroting back something that someone else told her.
There is no 2tb stick in that size, only the hopes or plans that they will someday in that same size. Obviously, this story should not have even made it to the front page of/.
In rural areas, there is less opportunity to spread because of math: there are less hosts. Additionally, there would be less prostitution since it is less profitable of an occupation in an area where there are 2 people per km2. As for the other places, there already is higher HIV in Africa but not as much from a lack of information as the populations not believing the information they are given.
And HIV isn't with us forever anymore than smallpox is. It is with us until we find a way to eradicate it, then it will only be in test tubes in select labs. Until then, keep your dick wrapped and stay away from high traffic partners.
HIV is relatively easy to contain since it isn't airborne and actually requires some effort to spread, although it does take a little personal responsibility. It might be 100 years or so until it is gone from the human race, but for someone who "understands how disease works" you seem to have forgotten your history about how far we have come in the last 100 years with other diseases. Just imagine where we will be in another 100.
Since Taco left?? It has only been a couple of days. To say that the headlines have just recently changed to more commercial than when Taco was here grossly overestimates the consistency of Slashdot, as well as the consistency of news in general. It isn't like every day 4.3 new products are introduced, and 2.3 websites violate someone's privacy, etc. It runs in waves.
Seriously, give it a month, then count the headlines.
The problem with Microsoft changing the system to make it easier for most people, is that most people are not power users. The 5% of us that are constantly have to suffer through the changes that make it harder and harder to use Windows, and yet we literally have no choice because of the software that we *must* run. (no, Wine doesn't run everything).
I miss the simplicity and ease of setting up menus in Win95. Networking was simpler, there were almost no Wizards to get in between you and the meat of the OS, and it was trivial to customize the look and feel. Again, I don't want a pretty OS, I want the OS to get the hell out of my way, and simply make it easy to configure so I can run APPLICATIONS.
Even in Linux, I can't stand Gnome or KDE anymore, and have migrated to ICE, for the exact same reasons.
Several other have already articulated why this *was* a mistake, and it certainly was. What matters most is that they admitted it was a mistake, and instead of punting the blame, or being miserly in dealing with it, they put their money where their mouth was and instantly stopped the practice AND compensated everyone who was affected with something that was worth much more than the original coupon, arguably twice the value since the coupon was good for any game, plus the buy1/get1 on used, any used.
Companies are going to screw up from time to time, there is no way around that. What makes them a good company or a bad one is if they admit a mistake, and how they compensate for the mistake. In this instance, I think they were very fair, and it would appear that many people agree with that assessment.
My last 5 comments were modded troll, not just this one. IE: drive by modding by someone who does like me. The system is supposed to be designed to notice this and deny mod points in the future to people who use points like this. I can karma to burn, so it doesn't hurt me, just shows how petty some people are.
In all fairness, what they are offering sounds much better than the coupon they took out. Unlike the Sony asshats that offered a free month (zero cost to themselves) for unleashing your credit card data all over the net.
IMHO, this seems like a fair deal and an honest attempt to correct a mistake. After all, no one bought the game originally just to get the coupon, so most of the purchasers are getting way more than they paid for.
And...... of course it is a coupon for their own company, plus BOGO offer on used. The people who missed out on the coupon were *already customers*, so it isn't like the $50 will go to waste. In this instance, it seems like they really are trying to fix a mistake.
I'm pretty sure that when you are using 200,000 hard drives, you can engineer in reliability, durability, speed as well as capacity. Just a guess, but I'm betting it won't be a RAID 0 configuration.
You young whippersnappers will soon learn that one reason so many of us older folks get exercise is that it reduces the amount of pain in old bones. I won't go to the gym to save my life, but I will work in the yard, garden some, mow the law, haul water in a 5 gallon bucket, wheel barrel stuff off, etc. Nothing too dramatic, but enough that it reduces the pain and inflammation in the joints and you really do feel better. The least amount is around 30 minutes a day of just moving around doing light work to get the benefits, preferably in the A.M. Ask anyone with arthritis, you will get the same answer.
Yes, except there may be laws that vary from state to state that regulate what you can claim is "new". In some states, having 'saves' on a game might run afoul of the law. Removing the coupon? Likely not, even if it is chickenshit.
If you haven't had a credit card number "borrowed" at least once a year, you're not shopping online. And not going to restaurants either.
Never had a number lifted or borrowed, and I put well over 100k a year on two different cards for personal and work, and have for many years. And I use my cards for everything, never use cash, never buy local what I can order online. Even pizza is ordered and paid online. Seldom a day goes buy without purchasing something small on the Visa although Amex is my card of choice, yet never a fraud charge.
I didn't think that would be a big issue either, however, as others pointed out, making it a simple password would be the equivalent of having a latch on a screen door. Just enough to keep out the majority of unauthorized users looking for a free connect, but not enough to keep out people serious enough that they could bypass tougher security anyway. A reasonable 90%-95% solution.
People always ask me for cites and such, and I can't provide them.
The rest of the comment is irrelevant since you are making extraordinary claims.
Maybe the publisher figured out it was a typo and had the books withdrawn. Maybe you read it wrong. Maybe there is a giant conspiracy to hide these facts so every copy was destroyed ala "1984". Or not. So now I can believe some random anonymous guy on the internet, or my own 30 years experience. You know the rest.
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They should be required by law to provide a valid return email account so I can e-mail them back and tell them how little I appreciate them sending me their shit.
They are. The law just isn't enforced.
Formulas can't be patented,
Not sure that is accurate. Written as an algebraic expression, perhaps. Expressed as a method or a device (ie: drug) then a formula is able to be patented. Formulas as software (as pointed out by AC) is another avenue, such as MPEG. A formula is simply a mathematical expression, which describes a lot of software that is now patented, and as it stands now, software can be patented, at least in the US.
Browsing isn't what it used to be. For many people, browsing means playing Farmville on Facebook, which will eat up a lot of CPU and memory. And no, Zinga programmers don't really care about efficiency on your computer, only on their servers.
Yes, it is an overused cliche that is wrong as often as it is right.
Sort of correct, but that isn't the same at converting. Even being born a Catholic (as I was) you must be Baptized, receive Communion and Confirmation to "be" Catholic as an adult. You are welcome to hang out in the pews, but you aren't officially a part of the Church. Can you lie? Sure, but that's not the point. The point is you don't just sign up, go to a couple weeks of Confirmation classes and "become" Catholic, according to the dogma of the church.
I know many people who went through being Catechumen to become Catholic. It took a lot of classes and a several months. Of course, this was almost 20 years ago, back when I was a Catholic. Leaving the Catholic Church was much easier than joining it.
here are Catholic churches everywhere. It's easy to be confirmed, and take regular communion.
Not to nitpick, but you can't just get confirmed and be instantly converted to Catholic, at least in the eyes of the Church. You become a Catechumen to convert to Catholocism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catechumen for starters.
The government is also invested in the companies that put this one out of business.
The companies that will pick up the slack are in China. Other US solar companies are in just as much trouble. And the US doesn't own part of the Chinese manufacturing complex, sorry. The Chinese DO own a lot of our treasuries, however.
Yes I have. Haven't bought an Apple product in 15 years. Haven't felt deprived in the least. Pretty sure I'm not the only one who won't buy Apple, for a variety of reasons either.
And I can't control what the masses do, only what I do. Doing things "for the right reasons" often puts a person in the minority.
We are free employees, we use their system for free, and the system itself is an aggregate of all of our previous clicks, so when you search for "test tube" (for example), Google is just listing the most commonly clicked items that other people have selected. We are all sharing our experiences to make your search easier, Google is just compiling that info, and making money off people who want to cheat just a little and pay to be in the sponsored area. Pretty worth while trade for me as user, I would say.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely, in other words. The best way to not tempt the govt. is to never given them the power to start with.
I will reply since I'm out of mod points for the first day in two weeks, and you are 100% correct. All she was *really* claiming is that the company thinks that eventually they will have one "as big as 2tb" in that same form factor size. No more, no less. And yes, it is obvious that she is only vaguely (and likely, incorrectly) parroting back something that someone else told her.
There is no 2tb stick in that size, only the hopes or plans that they will someday in that same size. Obviously, this story should not have even made it to the front page of /.
In rural areas, there is less opportunity to spread because of math: there are less hosts. Additionally, there would be less prostitution since it is less profitable of an occupation in an area where there are 2 people per km2. As for the other places, there already is higher HIV in Africa but not as much from a lack of information as the populations not believing the information they are given.
And HIV isn't with us forever anymore than smallpox is. It is with us until we find a way to eradicate it, then it will only be in test tubes in select labs. Until then, keep your dick wrapped and stay away from high traffic partners.
HIV is relatively easy to contain since it isn't airborne and actually requires some effort to spread, although it does take a little personal responsibility. It might be 100 years or so until it is gone from the human race, but for someone who "understands how disease works" you seem to have forgotten your history about how far we have come in the last 100 years with other diseases. Just imagine where we will be in another 100.
Since Taco left?? It has only been a couple of days. To say that the headlines have just recently changed to more commercial than when Taco was here grossly overestimates the consistency of Slashdot, as well as the consistency of news in general. It isn't like every day 4.3 new products are introduced, and 2.3 websites violate someone's privacy, etc. It runs in waves.
Seriously, give it a month, then count the headlines.
The problem with Microsoft changing the system to make it easier for most people, is that most people are not power users. The 5% of us that are constantly have to suffer through the changes that make it harder and harder to use Windows, and yet we literally have no choice because of the software that we *must* run. (no, Wine doesn't run everything).
I miss the simplicity and ease of setting up menus in Win95. Networking was simpler, there were almost no Wizards to get in between you and the meat of the OS, and it was trivial to customize the look and feel. Again, I don't want a pretty OS, I want the OS to get the hell out of my way, and simply make it easy to configure so I can run APPLICATIONS.
Even in Linux, I can't stand Gnome or KDE anymore, and have migrated to ICE, for the exact same reasons.
Several other have already articulated why this *was* a mistake, and it certainly was. What matters most is that they admitted it was a mistake, and instead of punting the blame, or being miserly in dealing with it, they put their money where their mouth was and instantly stopped the practice AND compensated everyone who was affected with something that was worth much more than the original coupon, arguably twice the value since the coupon was good for any game, plus the buy1/get1 on used, any used.
Companies are going to screw up from time to time, there is no way around that. What makes them a good company or a bad one is if they admit a mistake, and how they compensate for the mistake. In this instance, I think they were very fair, and it would appear that many people agree with that assessment.
Why was parent modded troll?
My last 5 comments were modded troll, not just this one. IE: drive by modding by someone who does like me. The system is supposed to be designed to notice this and deny mod points in the future to people who use points like this. I can karma to burn, so it doesn't hurt me, just shows how petty some people are.
In all fairness, what they are offering sounds much better than the coupon they took out. Unlike the Sony asshats that offered a free month (zero cost to themselves) for unleashing your credit card data all over the net.
IMHO, this seems like a fair deal and an honest attempt to correct a mistake. After all, no one bought the game originally just to get the coupon, so most of the purchasers are getting way more than they paid for.
And...... of course it is a coupon for their own company, plus BOGO offer on used. The people who missed out on the coupon were *already customers*, so it isn't like the $50 will go to waste. In this instance, it seems like they really are trying to fix a mistake.
I'm pretty sure that when you are using 200,000 hard drives, you can engineer in reliability, durability, speed as well as capacity. Just a guess, but I'm betting it won't be a RAID 0 configuration.
In other words, where there is power, there are lies.
You young whippersnappers will soon learn that one reason so many of us older folks get exercise is that it reduces the amount of pain in old bones. I won't go to the gym to save my life, but I will work in the yard, garden some, mow the law, haul water in a 5 gallon bucket, wheel barrel stuff off, etc. Nothing too dramatic, but enough that it reduces the pain and inflammation in the joints and you really do feel better. The least amount is around 30 minutes a day of just moving around doing light work to get the benefits, preferably in the A.M. Ask anyone with arthritis, you will get the same answer.
Yes, except there may be laws that vary from state to state that regulate what you can claim is "new". In some states, having 'saves' on a game might run afoul of the law. Removing the coupon? Likely not, even if it is chickenshit.
If you haven't had a credit card number "borrowed" at least once a year, you're not shopping online. And not going to restaurants either.
Never had a number lifted or borrowed, and I put well over 100k a year on two different cards for personal and work, and have for many years. And I use my cards for everything, never use cash, never buy local what I can order online. Even pizza is ordered and paid online. Seldom a day goes buy without purchasing something small on the Visa although Amex is my card of choice, yet never a fraud charge.
I didn't think that would be a big issue either, however, as others pointed out, making it a simple password would be the equivalent of having a latch on a screen door. Just enough to keep out the majority of unauthorized users looking for a free connect, but not enough to keep out people serious enough that they could bypass tougher security anyway. A reasonable 90%-95% solution.
The First World War called, they want their idea back.
People always ask me for cites and such, and I can't provide them.
The rest of the comment is irrelevant since you are making extraordinary claims.
Maybe the publisher figured out it was a typo and had the books withdrawn. Maybe you read it wrong. Maybe there is a giant conspiracy to hide these facts so every copy was destroyed ala "1984". Or not. So now I can believe some random anonymous guy on the internet, or my own 30 years experience. You know the rest.