I had a problem with my cell phone, where the battery had become loose, and the guy at the store was all, "Oh, we've seen this a lot in phones that people have dropped." And I just stood there, and I told him in no uncertain words, "I've never dropped my phone." Then he almost insists that I had to have dropped it, and I said, "No, I didn't, and I'm offended that you would accuse me of that."
Then he suggested that I could buy a $50 leather covering or something like that for the phone, and that should fix the problem, and I'm dumbstruck, and I said, "I'm not buying something else, to make my phone work, when it should have the first time."
Eventually, I managed to convince him that I needed a replacement phone, and of course, I ended up getting shafted for a hefty sum, (my fault, didn't return the phone) but they sent the matter to a collection agency. GAH! They STILL piss me off.
Anyways, the collection agency was pretty good about it, because I almost immediately paid it off (in the alloted time that it wouldn't end up on my record.) I think they also extended the deadline a bit, because I told them straight up that I'd need a bit more time to come up with the money. (Good to know they're not like the mob, or I'd have been walking around in crutches.)
Basicly, this is why I've refused to get another cell phone, even though I really do need one. (usually I'm never around to answer my home phone.)
Basicly, that I couldn't disable RPC and still get what I needed out of the computer.
Why doesn't everything use something like Unix sockets or something like that that doesn't get exposed to the network, so you can turn this stuff off?:P (basicly my point)
In Linux and OSX, I can turn off portmapper/whatever OSX uses, and not threaten my computer more than I have to, but basicly in Windows, I'm stuck.
Yeah, that was my first thoughts. "If a worm got there, why couldn't something else?"
I suppose that's the problem with writing something that can spread from some random user's desktop onto a couple ATMs.... (running Windows or a number of Linux services on an ATM.)
I mean, first of all... RPC on an ATM machine? Why? Oh, because Windows NEEDS it to be open. (I had a machine at a lan party the other day, and I was just like, "How do you turn off RPC?" and they laughed and said, "You can't.")
Also note that/. is munging the code; it insists on inserting a "&nbs p;" that shouldn't be in there. I can't seem to get rid of it. Gotta love buggy software.
That's intentional, and is part of the anti-page-widening-post code. It prevents really long lines causing the page to overflow.
Exactly what I was going to say. I've submitted this bug at least once, but probably twice, and I keep getting hammered with, "it's not a bug, it's a feature."
You know, because since the renderer is going to reduce the entire html-character code into a single character, it should obviously be treated as a group of 4 characters by SlashCode.
You know, not that I'm bitter or anything about them ignoring something that's as easy to fix as adding an alternative in a regular expression./(\w{N}\w*/ ->/((\w|\&\w+\;){N}\w*/
There's your half-line fix... well, to some degree... don't blame me entirely, I don't like perl. Fact of the matter is that it's a fairly simple regular expression change, and it will treat &...; as a single character, which it should.
My computer architecture teacher said that Cray has always been driven by the speed-of-light. Literally, they couldn't be overclocked, or the signals wouldn't be there in time to use them.
Thus, Crays could only get faster by decreasing the size.
Ah, I understand your position better now. Yeah, I might find issues with the DRM if I tried to use it anywhere outside of an Apple approved device, but then I don't play music on anything but an Apple approved device. (If I were to have a portable MP3 player, it'd be an iPod)
And it does suck that the average joe, who won't do anything wrong with the stuff, gets shafted because some dweeb thinks it's cool to share his collection on the intarweb.
But as always laws and restrictions don't exist for those who have it in their heart.:P
What? Are you suggesting something like: "Those who would give up freedom for convienence deserve neither?":P I don't listen to my music on anything but a mac, or over the airwaves in my car. I listen to popular music, the same recycled beats music, what-have-you, because I _ENJOY_ it.
You can go and scream and cry that you don't like it, but if the record companies weren't making the most money they can off recycled beats, and repetative songs, then they'd be doing it some other way. Fact is, most people enjoy popular music. That's why it's popular.
Anyways, I'm getting a bit off-topic from DRM... I will concede some rights to get convience, as I will pay more for convienence and I will give up some rights for safety.
If me not being able to poke some guys eyes out means that he can't do the same to me, then I'll give up that right. If me purchasing music at a decent price means that eventually I can make money for what I do, then I"ll give up the right to be able to get it free.
Call me old fashioned but I tend to perfer the old way to do things. I've never made copies of what I've purchased to use for "private use." While I've had friends, who would regularly purchase items, make copies, then return them.
I'd rather go into a bank and see a face, than put my money into some computer that may or may not register what I'm doing.
Until recently I never used a pay-at-the-pump gas, but since they've started requiring you to pay first, out of not wanting to deal with that hassle, I've learned. But given an option, I'd still rather fill up my tank and pay with real cash to a person.
That's me. And if I bought music (which I don't, because I enjoy what radio stations play for free), then I'd look for a way to buy it on my Mac, as that's what I use, and I'd go for the easiest way to go. iTunes Music Store. And as far as I care, it will work with my computer, and I don't care to run it on anything else, in my car, I have a radio.
Heck, I watch my friends play their games. Most of them are much better at the games than me, and I find it quite enjoyable to sit there and watch them kick ass, rather than be the one on the recieving end. Hehe...
Anyways, yeah, I totally agree with you. You watch other people because you admire their skill, and wish you could be that good yourself.
Three of the four (mainland) Scandinavian languages belong to this branch: (Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish). Swedish has tones, unusual in European languages. The fourth Scandinavian language, Finnish, belongs to a different family.
The Slavic languages are famed for their consonant clusters and large number of cases for nouns (up to seven).
Not information on cases in the Indic branch. (That branch which contains Sanskrit.)
No, Finnish is not a "Scandanavian" language. It's a part of Scandanavia but the Scandanavian languages are a set of Indo-European languages, which share a number of similarities that were they not seperate countries, would define them as a single language with a number of dialects.
The only Scandanavian languages I know to exist are Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, and Icelandic.
Finnish is not Indo-European and is Uralic, like Estonian, and has a large number of cases ( >5, 5 being the limit on Indo-European cases) Thus, it can't be strictly included in the Scandanavian languages, even though Finland is in Scandanavia.
Apple has consistantly had a stance against DRM, and this is the first time I've ever heard of the copy-protection in iTMS as DRM.
I suppose at SOME level, every copy protection qualifies as DRM, but come on. I view DRM with the connotation of "draconian" restrictions on what a user can do with it.
Apple doesn't prevent you from making a backup copy of the file, or distributing the file to other computers, it just restricts certain computers from playing it, if they haven't purchased it.
I personally don't see anything wrong with such an approach, it's called LEGAL.
Now, writing a system that breaks the second you touch the file with anything but a DRM approved player, or for that matter, working it into the OS so you CAN'T do anything with it at all. That's stepping over the line.
People have to make money at this at some point, and for the almost painless restrictions that iTMS puts on their music, it's one our side, and their side. A good comprimise in convienence and protection, where if you REALLY want to get it free, then you can get online and grab it anywhere else easier than you can break their protections. And they make money because you pay for the convience of being able to just *click* and download.
There are a lot of them. The one I currently go with (for English) is first and last, then every significant word. Well, what's a significant word? Out-Of-The-Box could expect capitalization on each element, even though some of the elements in most cases would not.
It's an editorial choice, and title should be saved as case retentive, so that the author or editor can make a decision on what is to be capitalized and when.
BTW: The German title capitalization rules are easy. First and then every noun, just like every other sentence.:P
Swedish (and perhaps others of the Scandanavian languages) also has an interesting article usage, where the ended "-et" or "-en" is suffixed to the noun to indicate the definate article. The choice in which, is determined by the gender of the noun.
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Who wouldn't want to get slashdotted... It's like bragging right amoung geek groups.
Not to mention that there are a number of OSS projects that have become abandoned.
Sure, if you need an update, you can just go download the source code, and presumably fix it yourself.
But if that's not the objective of your company, then what are you going to do? Pay a small subset of programmers (who you might not even usually higher) to fix your bug? Higher a contractor?
OSS can fall just as easily into this pitfall as closed source software.
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What app was this? Because I want to avoid it...
From what you say, it'll end up as a piece of sh... crap.
I had a problem with my cell phone, where the battery had become loose, and the guy at the store was all, "Oh, we've seen this a lot in phones that people have dropped." And I just stood there, and I told him in no uncertain words, "I've never dropped my phone." Then he almost insists that I had to have dropped it, and I said, "No, I didn't, and I'm offended that you would accuse me of that."
Then he suggested that I could buy a $50 leather covering or something like that for the phone, and that should fix the problem, and I'm dumbstruck, and I said, "I'm not buying something else, to make my phone work, when it should have the first time."
Eventually, I managed to convince him that I needed a replacement phone, and of course, I ended up getting shafted for a hefty sum, (my fault, didn't return the phone) but they sent the matter to a collection agency. GAH! They STILL piss me off.
Anyways, the collection agency was pretty good about it, because I almost immediately paid it off (in the alloted time that it wouldn't end up on my record.) I think they also extended the deadline a bit, because I told them straight up that I'd need a bit more time to come up with the money. (Good to know they're not like the mob, or I'd have been walking around in crutches.)
Basicly, this is why I've refused to get another cell phone, even though I really do need one. (usually I'm never around to answer my home phone.)
Some poor guy in India.
Yeah, that's basicly what they said...
:P (basicly my point)
Basicly, that I couldn't disable RPC and still get what I needed out of the computer.
Why doesn't everything use something like Unix sockets or something like that that doesn't get exposed to the network, so you can turn this stuff off?
In Linux and OSX, I can turn off portmapper/whatever OSX uses, and not threaten my computer more than I have to, but basicly in Windows, I'm stuck.
Yeah, that was my first thoughts. "If a worm got there, why couldn't something else?"
I suppose that's the problem with writing something that can spread from some random user's desktop onto a couple ATMs.... (running Windows or a number of Linux services on an ATM.)
I mean, first of all... RPC on an ATM machine? Why? Oh, because Windows NEEDS it to be open. (I had a machine at a lan party the other day, and I was just like, "How do you turn off RPC?" and they laughed and said, "You can't.")
Actually kernel preemption has been around for quite a while also... just only if you had an SMP system.
I've always enjoyed the responsiveness of my SMP system in Linux, and I was more happy when I learned that you didn't have it on a UP system.
Now I'm still even more happy that those on UP systems can see the responsiveness that I've been enjoying for a long time.
Exactly what I was going to say. I've submitted this bug at least once, but probably twice, and I keep getting hammered with, "it's not a bug, it's a feature."
You know, because since the renderer is going to reduce the entire html-character code into a single character, it should obviously be treated as a group of 4 characters by SlashCode.
You know, not that I'm bitter or anything about them ignoring something that's as easy to fix as adding an alternative in a regular expression.
There's your half-line fix... well, to some degree... don't blame me entirely, I don't like perl. Fact of the matter is that it's a fairly simple regular expression change, and it will treat &...; as a single character, which it should.
My computer architecture teacher said that Cray has always been driven by the speed-of-light. Literally, they couldn't be overclocked, or the signals wouldn't be there in time to use them.
Thus, Crays could only get faster by decreasing the size.
Ah, I understand your position better now. Yeah, I might find issues with the DRM if I tried to use it anywhere outside of an Apple approved device, but then I don't play music on anything but an Apple approved device. (If I were to have a portable MP3 player, it'd be an iPod)
:P
And it does suck that the average joe, who won't do anything wrong with the stuff, gets shafted because some dweeb thinks it's cool to share his collection on the intarweb.
But as always laws and restrictions don't exist for those who have it in their heart.
What? Are you suggesting something like: "Those who would give up freedom for convienence deserve neither?" :P I don't listen to my music on anything but a mac, or over the airwaves in my car. I listen to popular music, the same recycled beats music, what-have-you, because I _ENJOY_ it.
You can go and scream and cry that you don't like it, but if the record companies weren't making the most money they can off recycled beats, and repetative songs, then they'd be doing it some other way. Fact is, most people enjoy popular music. That's why it's popular.
Anyways, I'm getting a bit off-topic from DRM... I will concede some rights to get convience, as I will pay more for convienence and I will give up some rights for safety.
If me not being able to poke some guys eyes out means that he can't do the same to me, then I'll give up that right. If me purchasing music at a decent price means that eventually I can make money for what I do, then I"ll give up the right to be able to get it free.
Call me old fashioned but I tend to perfer the old way to do things. I've never made copies of what I've purchased to use for "private use." While I've had friends, who would regularly purchase items, make copies, then return them.
I'd rather go into a bank and see a face, than put my money into some computer that may or may not register what I'm doing.
Until recently I never used a pay-at-the-pump gas, but since they've started requiring you to pay first, out of not wanting to deal with that hassle, I've learned. But given an option, I'd still rather fill up my tank and pay with real cash to a person.
That's me. And if I bought music (which I don't, because I enjoy what radio stations play for free), then I'd look for a way to buy it on my Mac, as that's what I use, and I'd go for the easiest way to go. iTunes Music Store. And as far as I care, it will work with my computer, and I don't care to run it on anything else, in my car, I have a radio.
Heck, I watch my friends play their games. Most of them are much better at the games than me, and I find it quite enjoyable to sit there and watch them kick ass, rather than be the one on the recieving end. Hehe...
Anyways, yeah, I totally agree with you. You watch other people because you admire their skill, and wish you could be that good yourself.
Important information:
Not information on cases in the Indic branch. (That branch which contains Sanskrit.)
Source: http://www.krysstal.com/langfams_indoeuro.html
Hm... I know you're right about Latin, I'll take your word for Sanskrit, and I have no idea about the Slavic languages.
Yes they are all Indo-European... and this confuses me because I learned that Indo-European languages have at most 5 cases.
Perhaps it was "less than 10." Of course, this could just be me loosening my statement to a value that no one can say, "HA! But what about this?!"
I meant Definite... I'm a horrible speller, but I am American.
:P
And you knew exactly what I meant.
Stupid vowels in English don't match with what sounds they make anymore... ask anyone who's learned to speak a language with "pure" vowels well.
No, Finnish is not a "Scandanavian" language. It's a part of Scandanavia but the Scandanavian languages are a set of Indo-European languages, which share a number of similarities that were they not seperate countries, would define them as a single language with a number of dialects.
The only Scandanavian languages I know to exist are Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, and Icelandic.
Finnish is not Indo-European and is Uralic, like Estonian, and has a large number of cases ( >5, 5 being the limit on Indo-European cases) Thus, it can't be strictly included in the Scandanavian languages, even though Finland is in Scandanavia.
See, I still learned that the first AND last word are significant. Thus, both should be capitalized, even if they're four or fewer letters, thus:
"Where To?" would be the title of a book, not "Where to?"
Apple has consistantly had a stance against DRM, and this is the first time I've ever heard of the copy-protection in iTMS as DRM.
I suppose at SOME level, every copy protection qualifies as DRM, but come on. I view DRM with the connotation of "draconian" restrictions on what a user can do with it.
Apple doesn't prevent you from making a backup copy of the file, or distributing the file to other computers, it just restricts certain computers from playing it, if they haven't purchased it.
I personally don't see anything wrong with such an approach, it's called LEGAL.
Now, writing a system that breaks the second you touch the file with anything but a DRM approved player, or for that matter, working it into the OS so you CAN'T do anything with it at all. That's stepping over the line.
People have to make money at this at some point, and for the almost painless restrictions that iTMS puts on their music, it's one our side, and their side. A good comprimise in convienence and protection, where if you REALLY want to get it free, then you can get online and grab it anywhere else easier than you can break their protections. And they make money because you pay for the convience of being able to just *click* and download.
Which title rules?
:P
There are a lot of them. The one I currently go with (for English) is first and last, then every significant word. Well, what's a significant word? Out-Of-The-Box could expect capitalization on each element, even though some of the elements in most cases would not.
It's an editorial choice, and title should be saved as case retentive, so that the author or editor can make a decision on what is to be capitalized and when.
BTW: The German title capitalization rules are easy. First and then every noun, just like every other sentence.
Swedish (and perhaps others of the Scandanavian languages) also has an interesting article usage, where the ended "-et" or "-en" is suffixed to the noun to indicate the definate article. The choice in which, is determined by the gender of the noun.
Who wouldn't want to get slashdotted... It's like bragging right amoung geek groups.
GOD DAMN IT PEOPLE!!! IT'S A JOKE!!!
Us New Mexicans (yes, I live in New Mexico) have been getting this for YEARS...
One of us goes and makes a joke about it, and you all make it out as FLAMEBAIT.
Moderators on Slashdot suck.
(BTW, this is a rant, not a flame, not a troll... so go bite your mod points!)
New Mexico isn't even a state in the US. :P
How'd you get this? Did you ask google calculator for 1 Astronomical in metric craploads?
I've gotten a Cease and Desist letter from nVidia, because I had some of their IP shared on the internet.
It contained no timeframe (to my recollection), but I still complied as soon as I could.
Duh, I didn't want to risk getting sued by some corporation.
Not to mention that there are a number of OSS projects that have become abandoned.
Sure, if you need an update, you can just go download the source code, and presumably fix it yourself.
But if that's not the objective of your company, then what are you going to do? Pay a small subset of programmers (who you might not even usually higher) to fix your bug? Higher a contractor?
OSS can fall just as easily into this pitfall as closed source software.