Zerth's Generalization As any thread grows, it shall approach the output of an infinite amount of monkeys typing randomly. All past and current pet peeves shall come into play, many bad analogies shall occur, and someone will compare the topic to something else of a magnitude that is completely out of proportion.
Blackberry executables are signed with a key you buy from RIM, verizon has nothing to do with it. I'm reasonably sure there are some dev roms out there, though.
New OS versions leak all the time, and if your model is the same as another networks, you usually can use that one instead.
You can download the java codebase right off, along with emulators. I keep meaning to get a dev key, but I've enough on my plate already and most of my itches are scratched by existing free apps.
One caveat, Verizon doesn't seem to cripple the newer blackberries, although they are dog slow about approving OS updates. Any BB put out in the last year that has a full GPS is usually unlocked for other mapping applications. Ditto with mp3 ringtones and bluetooth functionality.
And unlike other Verizon phones, you can get a dev license from RIM for 30 bucks and write your own code without asking mother-may-I.
The clever bit is that they made a bunch of disparate applications into views of one model. email=RSS=blog=IRC=USENET=document. Yourserver+push+threads+chat+categories+changelogs
The part where they brought up a client that looks like mail(or maybe pine) was the best bit.
Bing does have that "see bits of videos straight from the search page by hovering over the image" feature. I'm sure they'll remove it as soon as publishers and porn sites complain.
Hell with the imaginary children, think of the hit to the Japanese economy!
Kanchu arcade game makers will go out of business, software houses will close, a whole class of hookers will have to find a new fetish, and the porn industry will have to find a new way to make a bunch of blurry mosaics titillating.
I don't think they realize how much of the country is funded by this.
Oddly enough, I wasn't talking about windows. I was talking about MSDOS, so same ballpark.
Yes, I once worked at a place still running(under layers and layers of interfaces) on MSDOS in 200X.
PCI asks "do you rotate your passwords". Sure we do. They're even hashed & salted. But anyone can read and write to the damn password file because it is bloody MSDOS.
The only thing keeping that system safe is antiquity and the rational assumption nobody would be dumb enough to do such a thing.
PCI is just troweling mortar on a crumbled foundation. Sure, it covers all the really boneheaded stuff, like using decent authentication and applying patches, but there is no part of it that says "don't use badly made(but it is expensive, it must be good) software on a fundamentally broken OS"
You need the publisher less than you need a retailer.
A publisher (mainly) provides publicity, editing, manufacturing, and, the only thing they are really good at, getting your dead tree into brick&mortars. You can contract editors, you can do publicity on the internet, and small run print options have almost reached parity with bigger presses. Most bookstores will even order PoD books now and some even take PoD returns on the theory that if you were interested enough to order it at a store, someone else might be interested enough to make a casual purchase.
Having your publisher be your store would limit you to people who mainly read books from your publisher, as opposed to readers of your genre. Doing it directly yourself would be even worse, unless you were already a name. I'd rather not fill in my CC info on a few hundred authors' websites, or even a dozen publishers'.
And you probably don't want to have to deal with CC payment processors, especially with the chargeback fees that retailers generally eat for you. I haven't read the Kindle contract closely, but I don't remember it being as binding as most publishers' contracts. Their PoD services seemed a little demanding on minimum quantities.
PS, put your books online, if you are at all popular, otherwise someone else will first. Probably a "fan".
The real problem is that, while they have added features, they cut out 80% of the features added by expansion packs from the previous version and will rerelease most of those as expansion packs for this version.
People I know who like this series have mostly said they'll just wait for the all-in-one version in a year or two, if at all, as they feel shorted having to buy it all again.
They are effectively their own root, they just start with somebody else's list as a base because that's what their users want.
If they wanted to, they could start offering to replace popular names for the right amount of money, register unused ones, etc. But they don't, because that isn't their goal.
People like it because that's what they sign up for that voluntarily, instead of getting it forced on them.
Every country should start up their own DNS, redirect all.com/.net/etc addresses to either their ccTLD equivalents, or start up a new round of "DNS goldrush" and make McDonalds et al rebuy their branding in every country they want to do business in.
Slashdot Mirror
20 years ago, how many people got internet access and used Usenet? Most. Now, almost none(as a percentage).
But how many ISPs still have a Usenet feed? Now most people subscribe to separate Usenet providers because it is a relatively niche interest.
The same should happen to cable channels.
Plus, some of us only pirate foreign media, which actually keeps the money in our economy!
Zerth's Generalization
As any thread grows, it shall approach the output of an infinite amount of monkeys typing randomly. All past and current pet peeves shall come into play, many bad analogies shall occur, and someone will compare the topic to something else of a magnitude that is completely out of proportion.
Blackberry executables are signed with a key you buy from RIM, verizon has nothing to do with it. I'm reasonably sure there are some dev roms out there, though.
New OS versions leak all the time, and if your model is the same as another networks, you usually can use that one instead.
You can download the java codebase right off, along with emulators. I keep meaning to get a dev key, but I've enough on my plate already and most of my itches are scratched by existing free apps.
Everything you said is true.
One caveat, Verizon doesn't seem to cripple the newer blackberries, although they are dog slow about approving OS updates. Any BB put out in the last year that has a full GPS is usually unlocked for other mapping applications. Ditto with mp3 ringtones and bluetooth functionality.
And unlike other Verizon phones, you can get a dev license from RIM for 30 bucks and write your own code without asking mother-may-I.
The clever bit is that they made a bunch of disparate applications into views of one model. email=RSS=blog=IRC=USENET=document. Yourserver+push+threads+chat+categories+changelogs
The part where they brought up a client that looks like mail(or maybe pine) was the best bit.
Around pi * 318,309.886 m^2
By being gene-linked to a higher propensity for promiscuity.
That's what I'm assuming. To cliche it, that's like asking buggy-whip makers to attest to the success of automobile accessory industry.
Bing does have that "see bits of videos straight from the search page by hovering over the image" feature. I'm sure they'll remove it as soon as publishers and porn sites complain.
Hell with the imaginary children, think of the hit to the Japanese economy!
Kanchu arcade game makers will go out of business, software houses will close, a whole class of hookers will have to find a new fetish, and the porn industry will have to find a new way to make a bunch of blurry mosaics titillating.
I don't think they realize how much of the country is funded by this.
Oddly enough, I wasn't talking about windows. I was talking about MSDOS, so same ballpark.
Yes, I once worked at a place still running(under layers and layers of interfaces) on MSDOS in 200X.
PCI asks "do you rotate your passwords". Sure we do. They're even hashed & salted. But anyone can read and write to the damn password file because it is bloody MSDOS.
The only thing keeping that system safe is antiquity and the rational assumption nobody would be dumb enough to do such a thing.
No, publishers exist to provide advance money and get you into brick&mortars.
Reviews, word-of-mouth, and liberal chargeback policies exist to seperate the wheat from the chaff.
It does an interesting job with just "quote"
PCI is just troweling mortar on a crumbled foundation. Sure, it covers all the really boneheaded stuff, like using decent authentication and applying patches, but there is no part of it that says "don't use badly made(but it is expensive, it must be good) software on a fundamentally broken OS"
Or a metal box full of thermite with a recessed ignition switch in the shape of a USB plug. Stick that on the top of your rack:)
To my knowledge, none of the USB based tools is forensically acceptable and all of them are trivial to screw up when attached to a running system.
The only acceptable method is duplication of all storage with a read-only adapter.
You need the publisher less than you need a retailer.
A publisher (mainly) provides publicity, editing, manufacturing, and, the only thing they are really good at, getting your dead tree into brick&mortars. You can contract editors, you can do publicity on the internet, and small run print options have almost reached parity with bigger presses. Most bookstores will even order PoD books now and some even take PoD returns on the theory that if you were interested enough to order it at a store, someone else might be interested enough to make a casual purchase.
Having your publisher be your store would limit you to people who mainly read books from your publisher, as opposed to readers of your genre. Doing it directly yourself would be even worse, unless you were already a name. I'd rather not fill in my CC info on a few hundred authors' websites, or even a dozen publishers'.
And you probably don't want to have to deal with CC payment processors, especially with the chargeback fees that retailers generally eat for you. I haven't read the Kindle contract closely, but I don't remember it being as binding as most publishers' contracts. Their PoD services seemed a little demanding on minimum quantities.
PS, put your books online, if you are at all popular, otherwise someone else will first. Probably a "fan".
Not if you get the "slow boat from china" shipping. I said "quarterly" because it takes about 2-3 months to get here.
Hong Kong post will mail anything for cheap, but since they only send once they have a full container ship, it'd be faster to use a rowboat.
Yah, this is less like WP pining stars on CoS and more like the Jews telling the Nazis to go bother someone else for awhile.
I imagine it may work out slightly better, but if I was WP, I'd be expecting a DoS(network, legal, or R2-45)
Lowest price plus shipping.
I always look forward to my quarterly shipment from Hong Kong.
The real problem is that, while they have added features, they cut out 80% of the features added by expansion packs from the previous version and will rerelease most of those as expansion packs for this version.
People I know who like this series have mostly said they'll just wait for the all-in-one version in a year or two, if at all, as they feel shorted having to buy it all again.
I know better, they said that last time as well:)
Funny, all the guys who fix presses around here come from Heidelburg.
They are effectively their own root, they just start with somebody else's list as a base because that's what their users want.
If they wanted to, they could start offering to replace popular names for the right amount of money, register unused ones, etc. But they don't, because that isn't their goal.
People like it because that's what they sign up for that voluntarily, instead of getting it forced on them.
Every country should start up their own DNS, redirect all .com/.net/etc addresses to either their ccTLD equivalents, or start up a new round of "DNS goldrush" and make McDonalds et al rebuy their branding in every country they want to do business in.