So in other words, it's a torrent site? Sketchy, dangerous, and exploit-running ads are a staple of torrent sites, as far as I've seen. If you go to any of them without noscript, you're insane.
They set themselves up for this. The iPhone was the most friendly, advanced phone out there a long time ago. Now that something roughly equal in quality and features is out there, their pissed off customers are switching to it. It was so overtly obvious that you were stuck in all-encompassing, mega-overlord obsessed with getting every last penny out of you they can. Without competition, they could do whatever the hell they wanted and did. 1 price, 1 store, and they can delete anything they want at any time. Android is a small bit better so that's what people use. Also their outrageous device prices were a tipping point.
Speaking of that, does ANYONE have actual information on how long and where I will still be able to get Windows 7? I mean seriously, I need to know if we need to replace 30 XP computers in the next month or before April 8th 2014.
That is pretty true these days. How many games get released with 1000 flaws that are patched over the next couple months just because the parent company sends an e-mail to the programmers that says "WE WANTZ MOAR MONEYZ NOW!" and they use the end users as testers. If there's not even time to finish the product, there certainly isn't time to make it safe once it runs properly...except if you know anything about the SDLC, that'd be considered a "feature creep" unless of course you put checks and safeties into the project from the get go. That would assure it would get done.
I think that in people's minds it was more like:
a. they're doing a good job
b. they're not doing a good job so when they see people vote for this option, they will step up their security to even more ridiculous levels
Seriously, I don't think it's outrageous to say that people realistically thought if they voted no, security would get more intrusive
What they really mean is they were too lazy to write "catch code." They spend all that time making it hyperintelligent then lazy out and don't write any checks and stops and tests into it. Just a tiny bit of heuristics would have detected that as a trade that maaaaybe might need a human to review for a second first. Even every version of Halo is the same way. Yes, is "shouldn't" happen but put in a check in the movement engine to see if the player is currently moving faster than running or falling should allow. Tada, no "superbounce" glitch. For MW3, if someone gets a score of 15 kills and 0 deaths with 100% accuracy, MAYBE they might be cheating and should be booted from the game. A little AI goes a long way, people. But nope, programmers are just too lazy. Once the product is "done," they're out of there!
The fact that (TFA quote): "Google had previously told these users they would automatically be opted out of such tracking." Actually that's from TF summary.
I don't think Google "said" they would honor it. I think they actually said they wouldn't. They're being sued over the Safari thing because they said they wouldn't track people using it then did anyway. So mostly the fine is for lying, not the tracking.
if Ford put in a GPS tracking device in your car but called it an update/recall despite it having nothing to do with the operation of the product they sold you, they'd be arrested.
I'm not too thrilled with either of them. Does that make me an independent? lol. You seem to have forgotten that...when God created the Earth, he did not intend for people to argue over which company was better:-P Aaaaand cue Flame WWIII.
Congratulations! I knew some Apple fanboy would try and turn this comment about Apple wrongdoing into a rant about how Apple isn't in the wrong for dumping Safari on everyone - but you came right out of that troll cave and did it.
Now if only they'd fine Apple for installing Safari as a trojan semi-silently in the background while calling it an iTunes update on the surface. That's illegal about a dozen different ways.
It was intended to reach a Pennsylvania gun shop, according to TFA. But they could use a TV too. By the way, since when is it legal to buy a gun on Amazon in the US? They can't see your ID or even prove the name on the account or the person who actually clicked the mouse, especially with their 1-click payment or whatever.
AT&T is mostly stuck at 6Mbps so they aren't close but Time Warner is conveniently hovering at 8 Mbps on most of their standard plans. Just a month or two ago they upped it to 10Mbps but didn't retroactively apply it to any customers, as far as I know, just did it for new ones. So that definitely throws off the numbers.
That was exactly the conclusion I came up to as well. Newton's 144th law of motion states that if you skip a number in the countdown, the device will crash and explode. It's a concept known as "jinxing" lol.
KFC imports 8 million chickens for their new "Clucker Bowl"
I believe KFC cuts off the chickens' heads to instantly kill them but I believe Mexico's method was even more effective: they made them drink the water:-P
Bernie Madoff wasn't ranked #1 in the world at Modern Warfare 3. I am not kidding. Look at Kim Dotcom's wikipedia page (which may be kidding but it does say that). So yeah, you gotta send in the helicopters lol.
The boot times are obnoxiously long on my very new PC with a 1TB spinning drive:( but I've also heard of people adding a tiny little 30-60GB high read speed, low write speed SSD like a Crucial M4 as a secondary drive to install just games directly to. You want to see DDO and Skyrim load and skin stuff fast? It's incredibly simple that way! Plus, it's all read operations so the drive won't be "written to death."
Let me correct that. Anything ending in a 1-3 is a catastrophe. The new Agility and Vertex 4's are supposed to be practically invincible. Low voltage writes, RAID arrays made out of the internal chips themselves, base-8 arrangement or whatever to get 128GB instead of 120, 9000+ write cycles, under $100! Yeah, those kick ass...except as of right now, they will fall out of BIOS detection repeatedly and blue screen and cause nonstop chaos and hell on Earth unless you update them to the 1.5 firmware, which takes approx 30 seconds. Newegg drives are shipping out with 1.4.0, infotel/systemax/Tiger Direct are shipping with 1.5 preinstalled. So just flash them and they operate perfectly. I have 2 laptops and 3 PCs all with the Agility 4's and every single one had problems before flashing and every single one has operated fine for over a month after flashing.
P.S. the Agility 4's don't come anywhere near their rated speed and are almost half the speed of a Maplecrest, Pyro, or HyperX (but double the speed of a typical spinning hard drive)
SSD aren't just for high end systems. Out of my 300 or so past customers, approx 3 filled their hard drives to over 60GB total. I built several Kingston HyperX 90Gb and OCZ Agility 4 128GB drives without problems and they were all $500-600 final cost. I use an H77MA-G43 from MSI + 4GB Gskill 1333-CL7 memory and i3-2100 or 4GB 1333-CL9 and a Pentium B940-960. Put it in a decent $30-40 case, use an Antec VP450 or Basiq or other respectable but medium end PSU, and wait for a sale on Win7 64-bit OEM copies for $80 instead of $100 and you've got yourself an unbeatable, 7 year anticipated lifetime machine. Here's the kicker.
I have an i5 (sandy) ridiculous gaming computer with a GTS450, 8GB of CL7 RAM, P67 chipset, and a pretty fast 7200 RPM 1TB Seagate main drive. It's custom built and would be around $1000 retail at my shop (at the time at least). It takes over a minute to log in and it takes forever to load games.
I also built a system I'm selling for $520 with a Pentium B950, 4GB of pretty standard RAM, and a Maplecrest 60GB SSD. It logs into Windows in 4 seconds. The glowing balls don't even touch while loading the Windows 7 logo.
SSDs are not for high end systems only! They're specifically exactly the opposite. They're the best way to make a really cheap budget PC seem extremely fast.
I beat the system by having no significant medical records in the last 10 years:P One finger X-ray (no break, yay) and like 2 appointments for allergies. Good luck blackmailing me with that, lol. I just stay exceptionally healthy. Take that, hackers! lol.
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So in other words, it's a torrent site? Sketchy, dangerous, and exploit-running ads are a staple of torrent sites, as far as I've seen. If you go to any of them without noscript, you're insane.
They set themselves up for this. The iPhone was the most friendly, advanced phone out there a long time ago. Now that something roughly equal in quality and features is out there, their pissed off customers are switching to it. It was so overtly obvious that you were stuck in all-encompassing, mega-overlord obsessed with getting every last penny out of you they can. Without competition, they could do whatever the hell they wanted and did. 1 price, 1 store, and they can delete anything they want at any time. Android is a small bit better so that's what people use. Also their outrageous device prices were a tipping point.
And then there was AT&T as a carrier lol.
Speaking of that, does ANYONE have actual information on how long and where I will still be able to get Windows 7? I mean seriously, I need to know if we need to replace 30 XP computers in the next month or before April 8th 2014.
That is pretty true these days. How many games get released with 1000 flaws that are patched over the next couple months just because the parent company sends an e-mail to the programmers that says "WE WANTZ MOAR MONEYZ NOW!" and they use the end users as testers. If there's not even time to finish the product, there certainly isn't time to make it safe once it runs properly...except if you know anything about the SDLC, that'd be considered a "feature creep" unless of course you put checks and safeties into the project from the get go. That would assure it would get done.
I think that in people's minds it was more like:
a. they're doing a good job
b. they're not doing a good job so when they see people vote for this option, they will step up their security to even more ridiculous levels
Seriously, I don't think it's outrageous to say that people realistically thought if they voted no, security would get more intrusive
What he really means is, when it gets done, 1 group wants to give it out for free and the other wants to charge lots of money and DRM it lol.
What they really mean is they were too lazy to write "catch code." They spend all that time making it hyperintelligent then lazy out and don't write any checks and stops and tests into it. Just a tiny bit of heuristics would have detected that as a trade that maaaaybe might need a human to review for a second first. Even every version of Halo is the same way. Yes, is "shouldn't" happen but put in a check in the movement engine to see if the player is currently moving faster than running or falling should allow. Tada, no "superbounce" glitch. For MW3, if someone gets a score of 15 kills and 0 deaths with 100% accuracy, MAYBE they might be cheating and should be booted from the game. A little AI goes a long way, people. But nope, programmers are just too lazy. Once the product is "done," they're out of there!
The fact that (TFA quote): "Google had previously told these users they would automatically be opted out of such tracking." Actually that's from TF summary.
I don't think Google "said" they would honor it. I think they actually said they wouldn't. They're being sued over the Safari thing because they said they wouldn't track people using it then did anyway. So mostly the fine is for lying, not the tracking.
if Ford put in a GPS tracking device in your car but called it an update/recall despite it having nothing to do with the operation of the product they sold you, they'd be arrested.
I'm not too thrilled with either of them. Does that make me an independent? lol. You seem to have forgotten that...when God created the Earth, he did not intend for people to argue over which company was better :-P Aaaaand cue Flame WWIII.
Congratulations! I knew some Apple fanboy would try and turn this comment about Apple wrongdoing into a rant about how Apple isn't in the wrong for dumping Safari on everyone - but you came right out of that troll cave and did it.
The titlebar of the update app saying "iTunes Software Updates." That isn't what it is.
Now if only they'd fine Apple for installing Safari as a trojan semi-silently in the background while calling it an iTunes update on the surface. That's illegal about a dozen different ways.
It was intended to reach a Pennsylvania gun shop, according to TFA. But they could use a TV too. By the way, since when is it legal to buy a gun on Amazon in the US? They can't see your ID or even prove the name on the account or the person who actually clicked the mouse, especially with their 1-click payment or whatever.
AT&T is mostly stuck at 6Mbps so they aren't close but Time Warner is conveniently hovering at 8 Mbps on most of their standard plans. Just a month or two ago they upped it to 10Mbps but didn't retroactively apply it to any customers, as far as I know, just did it for new ones. So that definitely throws off the numbers.
That was exactly the conclusion I came up to as well. Newton's 144th law of motion states that if you skip a number in the countdown, the device will crash and explode. It's a concept known as "jinxing" lol.
yeah, cuz people LOVE jungles and snakes and 120F + 99% humidity and bugs and everything trying to eat you and unfriendly natives and polluted water.
KFC imports 8 million chickens for their new "Clucker Bowl"
I believe KFC cuts off the chickens' heads to instantly kill them but I believe Mexico's method was even more effective: they made them drink the water :-P
Bernie Madoff wasn't ranked #1 in the world at Modern Warfare 3. I am not kidding. Look at Kim Dotcom's wikipedia page (which may be kidding but it does say that). So yeah, you gotta send in the helicopters lol.
The boot times are obnoxiously long on my very new PC with a 1TB spinning drive :( but I've also heard of people adding a tiny little 30-60GB high read speed, low write speed SSD like a Crucial M4 as a secondary drive to install just games directly to. You want to see DDO and Skyrim load and skin stuff fast? It's incredibly simple that way! Plus, it's all read operations so the drive won't be "written to death."
Let me correct that. Anything ending in a 1-3 is a catastrophe. The new Agility and Vertex 4's are supposed to be practically invincible. Low voltage writes, RAID arrays made out of the internal chips themselves, base-8 arrangement or whatever to get 128GB instead of 120, 9000+ write cycles, under $100! Yeah, those kick ass...except as of right now, they will fall out of BIOS detection repeatedly and blue screen and cause nonstop chaos and hell on Earth unless you update them to the 1.5 firmware, which takes approx 30 seconds. Newegg drives are shipping out with 1.4.0, infotel/systemax/Tiger Direct are shipping with 1.5 preinstalled. So just flash them and they operate perfectly. I have 2 laptops and 3 PCs all with the Agility 4's and every single one had problems before flashing and every single one has operated fine for over a month after flashing.
P.S. the Agility 4's don't come anywhere near their rated speed and are almost half the speed of a Maplecrest, Pyro, or HyperX (but double the speed of a typical spinning hard drive)
SSD aren't just for high end systems. Out of my 300 or so past customers, approx 3 filled their hard drives to over 60GB total. I built several Kingston HyperX 90Gb and OCZ Agility 4 128GB drives without problems and they were all $500-600 final cost. I use an H77MA-G43 from MSI + 4GB Gskill 1333-CL7 memory and i3-2100 or 4GB 1333-CL9 and a Pentium B940-960. Put it in a decent $30-40 case, use an Antec VP450 or Basiq or other respectable but medium end PSU, and wait for a sale on Win7 64-bit OEM copies for $80 instead of $100 and you've got yourself an unbeatable, 7 year anticipated lifetime machine. Here's the kicker.
I have an i5 (sandy) ridiculous gaming computer with a GTS450, 8GB of CL7 RAM, P67 chipset, and a pretty fast 7200 RPM 1TB Seagate main drive. It's custom built and would be around $1000 retail at my shop (at the time at least). It takes over a minute to log in and it takes forever to load games.
I also built a system I'm selling for $520 with a Pentium B950, 4GB of pretty standard RAM, and a Maplecrest 60GB SSD. It logs into Windows in 4 seconds. The glowing balls don't even touch while loading the Windows 7 logo.
SSDs are not for high end systems only! They're specifically exactly the opposite. They're the best way to make a really cheap budget PC seem extremely fast.
I beat the system by having no significant medical records in the last 10 years :P One finger X-ray (no break, yay) and like 2 appointments for allergies. Good luck blackmailing me with that, lol. I just stay exceptionally healthy. Take that, hackers! lol.
They would pass any fee straight to their customers.