For the same reasons that the market only reacts to short-term performance instead of looking at the big picture. Your company can be on track for a record-breaking year for revenue & sales, but if you have a single quarter that misses expectations by one cent per share, it'll kill your stock price.
Should computers be logically tied to the person that they're currently assigned to, or does that just cause unnecessary work when a machine changes hands?
The machine should be reimaged when it changes hands, so resetting the name will add about 5 seconds to the setup process. Not a big deal.
RCA thought they had a breakthrough, when they showed Disney executives a cassette they had developed. It was designed for rental and could only be played once. A mechanical locking arrangement was engaged when the cassette had finished playing. The consumer would then have to return it to the rental store, which had the special tool needed to unlock and rewind it.
I always like to ask what version control they use... as long as they use something instead of shrugging, life should be okay.
I was hired into my present job in part because the answer to that question was a shrug. One of the bullet points on my resume was a Visual SourceSafe implementation I'd done at my previous employer (we were a Windows shop, it was 1999, we didn't know how bad it was for 4 or 5 years), and my current employer was looking to get some version control in place.
In fact, every single business concept ever present in the US has come to Britain eventually - a lot of places aspire to be "just like a US company" (because, obviously, that means they'll be succesful...:-P )
Back in the days of WP 5.1, it was the standard word processing program for the legal industry.
WP is still used by a lot of law offices. One of my lawyers sent me a WP document just a couple months ago (the other one uses Word, or at least distributes DOC files).
Even worse wonder if there is a school shooting (Unfortunately there seems to be a lot of those these days), and a student needs to call the police for help or instructions on what to do?
This is actually not what the police want in this situation. People on the inside with cell phones are an uncontrolled information conduit. If the school is in "lockdown", they don't always want the people inside to know why (knowing could incite panic). And they want to very carefully control the information coming out of the situation and going to the parents, media, etc.
If someone is paying to see how many Offenders are around them at any given time, rather than just a school, public area, or permanent residence, I'm seriously concerned with their possible intentions.
How about a real estate agent, using it to show off to their client that there are no offenders registered within a certain radius of the house they're showing?
You're free to keep using the government's website(s) to look up the data. They're charging you not for the data, but for an application which will point out where the offenders are registered as living based upon where you're standing at that moment, without you having to perform a manual search.
That's a failing with the US legal system, not copyright itself. Here in the UK, in most civil cases the damages you can generally ask for are no more than would be necessary to put you back in the same position had the situation never occurred.
Which is basically what the RIAA is trying to do. They're saying "we lost X amount of revenue for each song this person shared/downloaded."
It's just a ridiculous amount when you consider the number of people involved in each file-sharing "transaction."
In 11 years (present age of SC), will Blizzard still be running SC2 servers so you can play against your friend next door? I can do that with SC today - pop in the disc & play a few rounds head to head, no trouble.
Look at what happened to people who'd bought music from MS or Yahoo when they shut down the DRM servers. This sort of DRM only harms the customer - if the server goes away, the software you've purchased (yeah, I know it's only a license, blah blah) becomes crippled or completely non-functional.
It's about a guaranteed income stream for as long as Blizzard feels like keeping it around, just like WoW. It's not to stop piracy, it's to force people to pay them to use their servers. If anything, you'd expect Blizzard to want people copying the game itself, because they'll subsequently sign up for online play.
EZ-Pass already knows every time I get onto a toll road & every time I get off. No GPS tracking, just a simple clock-in/clock out.
What really pisses me off about it is that my NY tolls don't just pay for my NY toll roads, they are also the primary revenue stream which pays for the canal system (the NY canal system is owned by the NY Thruway Authority).
The NYS Thruway was actually paid off over 15 years ago (the tolls were meant to cover the cost of construction), and was supposed to become free after that - instead, they're paying for maintenance and a totally unrelated line of "business".
They'll know if you remove the GPS device altogether. Instead, what you do is get a re-radiating antenna and program it to only show a 10% change in your position while you're moving. Have that override the signal the official device's antenna picks up.
You're instantly transformed from a road warrior to the little old lady who only drives to temple on Saturday, and the hacked antenna is easily removed for inspection time.
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For the same reasons that the market only reacts to short-term performance instead of looking at the big picture. Your company can be on track for a record-breaking year for revenue & sales, but if you have a single quarter that misses expectations by one cent per share, it'll kill your stock price.
The machine should be reimaged when it changes hands, so resetting the name will add about 5 seconds to the setup process. Not a big deal.
Cell phones in elementary school? Seriously?
I always knew that if "pure evil" was going to be created, it would happen in Troy, NY. What a horrible place.
Linear vs. Angular Velocity FTW!
See also the original DIVX. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIVX_(Digital_Video_Express)
Thundercougarfalconbird.
I was hired into my present job in part because the answer to that question was a shrug. One of the bullet points on my resume was a Visual SourceSafe implementation I'd done at my previous employer (we were a Windows shop, it was 1999, we didn't know how bad it was for 4 or 5 years), and my current employer was looking to get some version control in place.
And no, I did not use VSS again.
But you guys gave us ITIL.
WP is still used by a lot of law offices. One of my lawyers sent me a WP document just a couple months ago (the other one uses Word, or at least distributes DOC files).
This is actually not what the police want in this situation. People on the inside with cell phones are an uncontrolled information conduit. If the school is in "lockdown", they don't always want the people inside to know why (knowing could incite panic). And they want to very carefully control the information coming out of the situation and going to the parents, media, etc.
But 10 spaces before Free Parking, you're only visiting, you're not locked up.
Have a look at who contributes the most dollars to your Congresscritter's (re)election campaigns
How about a real estate agent, using it to show off to their client that there are no offenders registered within a certain radius of the house they're showing?
You're free to keep using the government's website(s) to look up the data. They're charging you not for the data, but for an application which will point out where the offenders are registered as living based upon where you're standing at that moment, without you having to perform a manual search.
Which is basically what the RIAA is trying to do. They're saying "we lost X amount of revenue for each song this person shared/downloaded."
It's just a ridiculous amount when you consider the number of people involved in each file-sharing "transaction."
Don't forget about all of the applications that depend upon MSHTML.DLL and all of its oddities too.
Failure is a much better teacher than success.
Assuming that the tooling, parts & skills are all available to do so in the time required.
It's called fdisk
In 11 years (present age of SC), will Blizzard still be running SC2 servers so you can play against your friend next door? I can do that with SC today - pop in the disc & play a few rounds head to head, no trouble.
Look at what happened to people who'd bought music from MS or Yahoo when they shut down the DRM servers. This sort of DRM only harms the customer - if the server goes away, the software you've purchased (yeah, I know it's only a license, blah blah) becomes crippled or completely non-functional.
It's about a guaranteed income stream for as long as Blizzard feels like keeping it around, just like WoW. It's not to stop piracy, it's to force people to pay them to use their servers. If anything, you'd expect Blizzard to want people copying the game itself, because they'll subsequently sign up for online play.
EZ-Pass already knows every time I get onto a toll road & every time I get off. No GPS tracking, just a simple clock-in/clock out.
What really pisses me off about it is that my NY tolls don't just pay for my NY toll roads, they are also the primary revenue stream which pays for the canal system (the NY canal system is owned by the NY Thruway Authority).
The NYS Thruway was actually paid off over 15 years ago (the tolls were meant to cover the cost of construction), and was supposed to become free after that - instead, they're paying for maintenance and a totally unrelated line of "business".
They'll know if you remove the GPS device altogether. Instead, what you do is get a re-radiating antenna and program it to only show a 10% change in your position while you're moving. Have that override the signal the official device's antenna picks up.
You're instantly transformed from a road warrior to the little old lady who only drives to temple on Saturday, and the hacked antenna is easily removed for inspection time.
Or they're siloed that they refuse to share any data, and demand redundancy in the name of government inefficiency.