The drive is more my concern. In my (last model before the current) 15" MBP I have replaced the stock drive with a 512G seagate hybrid and replaced the optical drive with a 1TB WD drive giving me twice what you can buy the new one with.
If it were actually maintenance then perhaps I would agree with you. I think that they're fighting to get their real money AH online, which I couldn't care less about. I want to play...not to get a message almost every day that the bloody thing is down.
If something has yet to be decided in court then it can't be quite so cut and dry can it.
Are you an American, just out of curiosity? Have you forgotten 'Innocent until proven guilty'?
Or do you have inside information or even detailed information on how Apple was able to determine that such a crime has taken place...evidently more information than the courts themselves. Your attitude certainly implies such.
The app's future sale and distribution has been blocked, just like Galaxy tablets, XBoxes, iPads, and many other products that are banned from sale until patent issues are worked out.
The difference is that in this case the court evidently didn't order Apple to stop sales or distribution which would be the case for what you're referring to when you talk about other products that are banned from sale.
Did you even read the summary? This is not a case of censorship which Apple has done in the past. This is a case of a legal dispute of patents and ownership. If it was on the Android or WP7 or BB store it would have been the same. Apple will put it back on sale once the developer and claimant resolve their dispute. This is the same knee jerk reaction when Apple pulled VLC. The first reactions were Apple was hostile to GPL when reality was one of the developers of VLC objected to his code being deployed in the App store because he felt it was not compliant with GPL.
Sounds like a mechanism any cash rich company can use to throttle competition for any applications being distributed via Apple's system. Start a lawsuit and bang! apple will pull the app.
Apple is wrong here. They should have left it up for sale unless ordered to do so by the court.
I don't particularly mind the Internet connection aspect of it. I mind that two or three days a week I can't play because they're doing 'maintenance' (which is probably them trying to get the RMAH online) and they're bloody maintenance window falls on the part of the day when I can play.
I bought Diablo 3, but have had 3 separate occasions where my "single player" game was unavailable for multiple hour long "maintenance" windows. Not being able to blow off steam in a dungeon crawler so Blizzard can get more value out of its players is leaving a SERIOUSLY bad taste in my mouth.
Who the hell is going to pay real money for gear in a single player game?
I'm actually reading this because D3 is yet again unavailable. Hell...I'm annoyed and I didn't even pay for the game. If I had paid for it instead of getting it free as part of a promotion (wow annual pass) I'd be asking for my money back.
IANAE but my understanding is that 'the market' works under the premise that supply will increase to the level required by demand, and prices will be set wherever the points meet.
If the situation is that there are people in the US who qualify for the jobs, then the industry must not be willing to pay enough to get these people to work.
If the situation is that there are not enough people in the US who qualify for the jobs, then we should see industry paying much more than would otherwise be expected to fill the jobs and we should see younger people flooding the training and education facilities relevant to the jobs in question in order to get paid this premium (at least until the premium comes down as supply goes up, assuming demand remains constant).
My belief is that the first situation applies and that there are Americans who can do the work, but who want / need to get paid more than industry wants to pay.
The alternative would imply that ignorance and laziness are rampant in the US to the point where honest companies just can't find good employees no matter how much they're willing to pay.
For long business trips I sometimes stay in hotels for weeks on end. I instruct them to change the sheets and towels twice a week, as more than that is a waste.
You should make a list of contacts and get in touch with them, find out if they know of any needs that you might fill, either as an independent consultant or as an employee.
I also strongly suggest using linked-in and building your contact network, your resume, getting recommendations, joining groups that might be useful, etc. It's an excellent business networking tool.
My results on checking (I've removed my addressing for obvious reasons):
Your IPv4 address on the public Internet appears to be Your IPv6 address on the public Internet appears to be
The World IPv6 Launch day is June 6th, 2012. Good news! Your current browser, on this computer and at this location, are expected to keep working after the Launch. [more info]
Congratulations! You appear to have both IPv4 and IPv6 Internet working. If a publisher publishes to IPv6, your browser will connect using IPv6. Your browser prefers IPv6 over IPv4 when given the choice (this is the expected outcome).
Your DNS server (possibly run by your ISP) appears to have no access to the IPv6 Internet, or is not configured to use it. This may in the future restrict your ability to reach IPv6-only sites. [more info]
A few bags of Reese's Pieces spread around the field could be an effective way to confuse the rats. I haven't heard of rats being trained to ignore food when they are working like dogs. Another option would be if the mine could be triggered by a rat digging coat it with food smells. You loose a mine but you take out an expensive trained rat.
You could still use this technique in non wartime situations to find mines left from previous engagements. It's brilliant, regardless if it's new or old hat now, and if it saves a few children's legs I'm all for it.
...The only possible reason for doing this is to avoid discovery of infection somewhere particularly sensitive. I wonder who the lucky person or nation-state is?
Or to limit legal and political liability as much as possible should it actually come back to them?
"Much of the manufacturing of Heckler & Koch weapons is carried out under licensed production agreements, either for the armed forces of the producing country or for export. Such agreements have been made with a number of EU countries and also Burma (now Myanmar), Iran, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Turkey and Thailand. Heckler & Koch have stated that the agreements with Burma and Iran have lapsed." http://www.caat.org.uk/resources/publications/armsfairs/dsei-2003-report/hecklerandkoch.php
Sure, all this business with Flame is absolutely fascinating. But even more fascinating: why are European and American software companies doing business with Iran in the first place?
So that European and American governments have a vector to install malware...?
I should add that in addition to Egypt not necessarily being an ally anymore, that Saudi Arabia, while technically an allied country, has no shortage of people willing to be enemies of America.
It seems possible that Flame is checking the system time and that any system with GMT offsets that fall into the target part of the world are subject to infection.
Trying to imagine how many people will be trying to share spectrum at a busy station during rush hour and even with multiple access points in each location on all the available channels that don't overlap I'd have to think there won't be enough to go around.
With regard to "...no cost to fare or tax payers.”' it seems probable that they've put out to bid to WiFi Internet providers to see who gets to sell the service to customers after the Olympics. In all probability London Underground will get a take of the proceeds once free service terminates and normal billing / roming charging begins.
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The drive is more my concern. In my (last model before the current) 15" MBP I have replaced the stock drive with a 512G seagate hybrid and replaced the optical drive with a 1TB WD drive giving me twice what you can buy the new one with.
If it were actually maintenance then perhaps I would agree with you. I think that they're fighting to get their real money AH online, which I couldn't care less about. I want to play...not to get a message almost every day that the bloody thing is down.
If something has yet to be decided in court then it can't be quite so cut and dry can it.
Are you an American, just out of curiosity? Have you forgotten 'Innocent until proven guilty'?
Or do you have inside information or even detailed information on how Apple was able to determine that such a crime has taken place...evidently more information than the courts themselves. Your attitude certainly implies such.
The app's future sale and distribution has been blocked, just like Galaxy tablets, XBoxes, iPads, and many other products that are banned from sale until patent issues are worked out.
The difference is that in this case the court evidently didn't order Apple to stop sales or distribution which would be the case for what you're referring to when you talk about other products that are banned from sale.
Did you even read the summary? This is not a case of censorship which Apple has done in the past. This is a case of a legal dispute of patents and ownership. If it was on the Android or WP7 or BB store it would have been the same. Apple will put it back on sale once the developer and claimant resolve their dispute. This is the same knee jerk reaction when Apple pulled VLC. The first reactions were Apple was hostile to GPL when reality was one of the developers of VLC objected to his code being deployed in the App store because he felt it was not compliant with GPL.
Sounds like a mechanism any cash rich company can use to throttle competition for any applications being distributed via Apple's system. Start a lawsuit and bang! apple will pull the app.
Apple is wrong here. They should have left it up for sale unless ordered to do so by the court.
I don't particularly mind the Internet connection aspect of it. I mind that two or three days a week I can't play because they're doing 'maintenance' (which is probably them trying to get the RMAH online) and they're bloody maintenance window falls on the part of the day when I can play.
I bought Diablo 3, but have had 3 separate occasions where my "single player" game was unavailable for multiple hour long "maintenance" windows. Not being able to blow off steam in a dungeon crawler so Blizzard can get more value out of its players is leaving a SERIOUSLY bad taste in my mouth.
Who the hell is going to pay real money for gear in a single player game?
I'm actually reading this because D3 is yet again unavailable. Hell...I'm annoyed and I didn't even pay for the game. If I had paid for it instead of getting it free as part of a promotion (wow annual pass) I'd be asking for my money back.
IANAE but my understanding is that 'the market' works under the premise that supply will increase to the level required by demand, and prices will be set wherever the points meet.
If the situation is that there are people in the US who qualify for the jobs, then the industry must not be willing to pay enough to get these people to work.
If the situation is that there are not enough people in the US who qualify for the jobs, then we should see industry paying much more than would otherwise be expected to fill the jobs and we should see younger people flooding the training and education facilities relevant to the jobs in question in order to get paid this premium (at least until the premium comes down as supply goes up, assuming demand remains constant).
My belief is that the first situation applies and that there are Americans who can do the work, but who want / need to get paid more than industry wants to pay.
The alternative would imply that ignorance and laziness are rampant in the US to the point where honest companies just can't find good employees no matter how much they're willing to pay.
For long business trips I sometimes stay in hotels for weeks on end. I instruct them to change the sheets and towels twice a week, as more than that is a waste.
Hotels could save money on housekeeping services, presumably.
Not that Spain needs to be cutting any more employment of course.
Lack of personal responsibility and self control? There's an app for that!!
You should make a list of contacts and get in touch with them, find out if they know of any needs that you might fill, either as an independent consultant or as an employee.
I also strongly suggest using linked-in and building your contact network, your resume, getting recommendations, joining groups that might be useful, etc. It's an excellent business networking tool.
Been waiting for those x-ray glasses since I was a kid...
Any product like this will never be willingly or knowingly allowed in my house.
"...they're breaking the law to up hold the law?! String them up and hang the bodies in public as an example."
Doesn't sound very legal either...
A nice website has been set up for this: http://test-ipv6.com/
My results on checking (I've removed my addressing for obvious reasons):
Your IPv4 address on the public Internet appears to be
Your IPv6 address on the public Internet appears to be
The World IPv6 Launch day is June 6th, 2012. Good news! Your current browser, on this computer and at this location, are expected to keep working after the Launch. [more info]
Congratulations! You appear to have both IPv4 and IPv6 Internet working. If a publisher publishes to IPv6, your browser will connect using IPv6. Your browser prefers IPv6 over IPv4 when given the choice (this is the expected outcome).
Your DNS server (possibly run by your ISP) appears to have no access to the IPv6 Internet, or is not configured to use it. This may in the future restrict your ability to reach IPv6-only sites. [more info]
A few bags of Reese's Pieces spread around the field could be an effective way to confuse the rats. I haven't heard of rats being trained to ignore food when they are working like dogs. Another option would be if the mine could be triggered by a rat digging coat it with food smells. You loose a mine but you take out an expensive trained rat.
You could still use this technique in non wartime situations to find mines left from previous engagements. It's brilliant, regardless if it's new or old hat now, and if it saves a few children's legs I'm all for it.
Anyone else think of the movie 'Wanted' when they read this?
Talk about your wet dream situation for an Intelligence Agency of some acronym.
FTFY :-)
...The only possible reason for doing this is to avoid discovery of infection somewhere particularly sensitive. I wonder who the lucky person or nation-state is?
Or to limit legal and political liability as much as possible should it actually come back to them?
Are you sure this is still the case?
"Much of the manufacturing of Heckler & Koch weapons is carried out under licensed production agreements, either for the armed forces of the producing country or for export. Such agreements have been made with a number of EU countries and also Burma (now Myanmar), Iran, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Turkey and Thailand. Heckler & Koch have stated that the agreements with Burma and Iran have lapsed."
http://www.caat.org.uk/resources/publications/armsfairs/dsei-2003-report/hecklerandkoch.php
Sure, all this business with Flame is absolutely fascinating. But even more fascinating: why are European and American software companies doing business with Iran in the first place?
So that European and American governments have a vector to install malware...?
I should add that in addition to Egypt not necessarily being an ally anymore, that Saudi Arabia, while technically an allied country, has no shortage of people willing to be enemies of America.
Egypt isn't an necessary ally of the US anymore.
It seems possible that Flame is checking the system time and that any system with GMT offsets that fall into the target part of the world are subject to infection.
Trying to imagine how many people will be trying to share spectrum at a busy station during rush hour and even with multiple access points in each location on all the available channels that don't overlap I'd have to think there won't be enough to go around.
With regard to "...no cost to fare or tax payers.”' it seems probable that they've put out to bid to WiFi Internet providers to see who gets to sell the service to customers after the Olympics. In all probability London Underground will get a take of the proceeds once free service terminates and normal billing / roming charging begins.