This practice was accepted by the masses even though the end user didn't choose to install it. Apple profited from leveraging their EULA.
Not exactly. The end users were up in arms and complained. Apple changed the installer to put it in a different section as "additional software" that didn't update by default.
The only way Apple profited was that the outrage the situation generated made more people aware of both Safari, and that a Windows version had been released.
But the returns for the amount of work needed to attack 3 or 4 different OS's definitely wouldn't be as high, and the incentive for creating malware would be much less.
Good think Nokia is LGPL-ing the new version of Qt then.
All those malware authors will need a good crossplatform library.
Yes, he spent $36000 up front on the system, which means that even with 25 year life on the panels an eventual payback is uncertain.
Yes, but assuming the both the price and efficiency of panels go up, would he be able to either outright replace the panels for a fraction of the initial outlay, tapping into the other components that the installation needed (and selling the panels on a "used" market to recoup a piece of the cost), or add a second set of panels onto the array with, again, a relatively small outlay compared to the initial cost for the whole system?
Agreed. I'd also suggest bringing at least two decks of playing cards and your favorite 3-8 player game or two (I'd recommend something like Fluxx. It takes a game to pick up, but its small (figure a double deck of playing cards), and is a fun game for 2-6 players and definitely falls in the "Beer and Pretzels" category.
Warning: Poor parenting leads to disaffected members of society.
Bingo.
I have a friend who is a police officer, his wife works, but both are very involved in the raising of their child. His kid is ~8 years old. He is one of the most polite and respectful children I know.
He is also allowed to play "M" video games, by himself or with his father, however the father ALWAYS asks other parents, before their children come over, what they are, or are not allowed to play.
If it was any older than 12 (twelve), I'd reject them. *I* did this, and I don't even consider myself to be a programmer.
Not disagreeing, but I'd point out that a number of us might not have had access to a computer when we 12 (mainframe access was tough and more restricted in those days I guess).
Sad to hear. Off the top of my head I can think of three different ways to answer that question though, depending on the context.
Its comforting to hear that these are the sort of questions that get asked in interviews. I've been either lucky or unlucky enough to never have really gone on one (working in the field for ~12 years). I've usually just picked up a new job through a contact and have gotten hired entirely on the word of who was bringing me in (and a lite HR interview or two).
Not to burst your bubble, but quite a lot of more rural places have small airfields with little checking.
Some friends used to have one in back of their property that was shared by covenant between the 10 or 12 houses that shared the complex.
Everyone pitched in to maintain the grass airstrip. They had a windsock at the end, no lights or instruments, and it was listed on local aviation charts (along with lots of other like-rated strips).
Taking off in a plane wouldn't be the problem. Once you hit a high enough altitude, ATC will pick you up, that's when you'll start to have problem (unless you know what you're doing). Landing though is usually the part of flying that is the most difficult, even for a trained amateur, so I don't see "Joy flying" as being a big repeat sport (for the untrained).
Ah. Thanks, I wondered where Walter went. I've been playing on the PS3 since it came out, and have been enjoying being relatively "spoiler free" by not visiting any sites.
Outside of Walter disappearing, I haven't seen any other glitches (that I'm aware of:) ).
Guess I'm glad that I already finished his quest, but its too bad, I was saving up scrap metal hoping for his return.:/
I agree with almost everything you've said, however:
They are modularized for convenience and functionality, not because they need be by some Commandment of Computer Science.
While that is technically true, the concepts of Modularity for the purposes of understanding, testing, and reuse SHOULD be a Commandment of Computer Science.:)
The 600 replaced the 500 which had the same footprint/form-factor and came out ~4 years before it.
Of course I still miss my A1000. It was so great having a computer for work processing, but all my teachers insisted I hand in my assignments instead of giving them dot-matrix printouts.:)
First China switches to Linux, then Vietnam, next thing you know the entire South East Asia is falling like a chain of Dominos, and your buying pirated copies of CentOS in India!
In practice, assuming they are trying to force MS to offer lower pricing, then it makes more and more sense for foreign governments to mandate OSS use.
1) Cheaper licensing cost, plus they no longer have the "stigma" in the foreign community of harboring/contributing to Software Pirates (in the legitimate use of the word).
2) Any money spent on maintenance, upkeep, customization are kept "local" in country, instead of lining MS's pockets.
3) The use of OSS forces more people to become used to it, which will (most likely) increase its adoption in the home market (especially where OSS excels at running on "older" or more cost restricted hardware)
4) The fact that OSS provides the source encourages local entrepreneurship, both for government use, and for the home sector. This could (I didn't say "Will") jumpstart a larger technological industry (games, utilities, support/servicing, virus writing and protection, teaching).
Of course I'm pulling these arguments out of thin air, so who really knows.
Yes, it was a legitimate key. No, it wasn't an OEM key.
Never heard you had to wait six months between activations to avoid a problem, but its an odd thing to me that there is even an issue.
I did notice when I moved to new hardware ~1 year ago that I DIDN'T have a problem that time despite having one the time before so perhaps enough time had elapsed
I've also had colleagues who used XP in a VM environment, had legitimate non OEM copies, and had to go through hell to get the licenses turned back on because they had "reinstalled too many times".
In the same way, the government can give Verizon (or similar) 60% of the cost to wire California with fiber to the house.
Sounds like a worthwhile goal.
It's enough to convince Verizon to undertake the project in the first place and to gather funding from other sources so that they can complete it.
Except that Verizon already received lots of money to provide for an upgraded infrastructure. They essentially just squandered (or squirreled) the money away. I don't see them having any incentive to actually do what they say this time.
Once complete, they're providing a service that wasn't there beforehand, and is well worth buying.
Okay. Good idea.
The project after that would be sustained by the subscribers, and it could be sold for less money per month since Verizon doesn't have as much money to recoup.
Which would also give them an "unfair advantage" against any other competing operators (cable, CLEC, etc.), and if not regulated will most likely result in Verizon charging the most they can get away with. The less per month is only how much the system actually costs THEM to put in place and maintain, not how much they'll charge US.
Not all of the jobs which were created for that project will stick around, but more jobs will be created due to the higher available bandwidth in the area.
You lost me completely on this one. Why would the creation of a higher speed network automatically translate into more jobs created in an area?
It MIGHT mean more people telecommuting. It also might mean more people running bittorrent at faster speeds. Additionally considering the onerous terms of most ISPs, the most likely outcome of this is one major thing: more profit for the telco.
Windows 98 wasn't bad. XP is near the edge between good and bad.
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Reinstall 98 and you need a key. Sure its easy to bypass, but a legitimate user never experiences a diminishment in functionality from reinstalling and using the product they purchased.
Reinstall XP and you need a key. That key may or may not authorize. To even find out, you either need an internet connection (not too hard in this day and age), or a telephone connection and you have to sit on the phone and wait. If the system doesn't automatically reauthorize (I had this happen the third time I upgraded my system when the motherboard had blown and it meant I had to replace the Motherboard, CPU and memory), then you have to call and explain to them why you should be allowed to use the product you purchased, even though you are installing a legitimate key.
The line that MS crossed was deciding that legitimate keys could only be used "so many times" some where in an algorithm. This is a diminution of services, and is about the only major erk with XP I currently have. Fortunately they carried it forward to Vista which made my upgrade path more of a migration issue to another OS.
Sorry, tend to "spell out" acronyms in my head, not "read them out", "FYI=F.Y.I., like F.B.I". Since F is phonetically starts with a vowel, it should have "an" before it, not "a". If I had written out "For Your Information" then you would certainly be correct.
It was a fairly clever sketch, but the first gag for me was the perhaps unintentional joke that Americans don't know how to properly pronounce "Iraq".
Definitely true that most US citizens have issues with foreign languages (including place/people names), however in this case I was under the assumption that while the iRack pronunciation is less correct, it was used for the sake of comedy and political satire.
So far we're on track for paying off our 30 in 15, but if I or my wife loses a job, then we can cut back without immediately worrying about losing our home.
Interesting. What's the SI unit of religious zealotry, and what type of apparatus is used to measure it?
The Jihadi. It is nominally defined as the rate at which the zealot can destroy knowledge.
1 Jihadi = 1 Burning Library of Congress (BLoC) per fortnight.
Would that make the Crusade the Imperial unit? And if so, what's the conversion equation?
Yes, the Crusade is the Imperial Unit. Of course like most other Imperial Units it is out of favor world-wide except in the US.
As for conversion, they both start out from the same reference point, such that zero Jihads= 0 Crusades, and 1 Jihad = 1 Crusade.
After that the a conversion factor is needed since Crusades scale as per the number of vassals you have available and the number of Knights they are required to send forth, while Jihads are a direct correlation with relevant population as divided by the number of Zealots/Million.
In general the first follows a more linear progression, while the latter falls more into a Geometric progression (often offset by future population to the detriment of the involved).
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Not exactly. The end users were up in arms and complained. Apple changed the installer to put it in a different section as "additional software" that didn't update by default.
The only way Apple profited was that the outrage the situation generated made more people aware of both Safari, and that a Windows version had been released.
Good think Nokia is LGPL-ing the new version of Qt then.
All those malware authors will need a good crossplatform library.
Yes, but assuming the both the price and efficiency of panels go up, would he be able to either outright replace the panels for a fraction of the initial outlay, tapping into the other components that the installation needed (and selling the panels on a "used" market to recoup a piece of the cost), or add a second set of panels onto the array with, again, a relatively small outlay compared to the initial cost for the whole system?
Thanks for reminding me.
iForgot.
Agreed. I'd also suggest bringing at least two decks of playing cards and your favorite 3-8 player game or two (I'd recommend something like Fluxx. It takes a game to pick up, but its small (figure a double deck of playing cards), and is a fun game for 2-6 players and definitely falls in the "Beer and Pretzels" category.
Bingo.
I have a friend who is a police officer, his wife works, but both are very involved in the raising of their child. His kid is ~8 years old. He is one of the most polite and respectful children I know.
He is also allowed to play "M" video games, by himself or with his father, however the father ALWAYS asks other parents, before their children come over, what they are, or are not allowed to play.
So whitespace block delineation is finally out, in favor of braces? :P
Not disagreeing, but I'd point out that a number of us might not have had access to a computer when we 12 (mainframe access was tough and more restricted in those days I guess).
Sad to hear. Off the top of my head I can think of three different ways to answer that question though, depending on the context.
Its comforting to hear that these are the sort of questions that get asked in interviews. I've been either lucky or unlucky enough to never have really gone on one (working in the field for ~12 years). I've usually just picked up a new job through a contact and have gotten hired entirely on the word of who was bringing me in (and a lite HR interview or two).
Not to burst your bubble, but quite a lot of more rural places have small airfields with little checking.
Some friends used to have one in back of their property that was shared by covenant between the 10 or 12 houses that shared the complex.
Everyone pitched in to maintain the grass airstrip. They had a windsock at the end, no lights or instruments, and it was listed on local aviation charts (along with lots of other like-rated strips).
Taking off in a plane wouldn't be the problem. Once you hit a high enough altitude, ATC will pick you up, that's when you'll start to have problem (unless you know what you're doing). Landing though is usually the part of flying that is the most difficult, even for a trained amateur, so I don't see "Joy flying" as being a big repeat sport (for the untrained).
Ah. Thanks, I wondered where Walter went. I've been playing on the PS3 since it came out, and have been enjoying being relatively "spoiler free" by not visiting any sites.
Outside of Walter disappearing, I haven't seen any other glitches (that I'm aware of :) ).
Guess I'm glad that I already finished his quest, but its too bad, I was saving up scrap metal hoping for his return. :/
Umm ... have you considered switching to AT&T or T-Mobile?
Both run GSM networks in the US, and quite a number of the phone on each are "world ready".
You'll still have to swap out the SIM card for a local one (unless you want to be gouged for roaming long distance), but its an option.
Verizon might theoretically have more coverage in general, but I have rarely found anywhere I've travelled that hasn't had reception with T-Mobile.
I agree with almost everything you've said, however:
While that is technically true, the concepts of Modularity for the purposes of understanding, testing, and reuse SHOULD be a Commandment of Computer Science. :)
Whippersnapper. ;)
The 600 replaced the 500 which had the same footprint/form-factor and came out ~4 years before it.
Of course I still miss my A1000. It was so great having a computer for work processing, but all my teachers insisted I hand in my assignments instead of giving them dot-matrix printouts. :)
Now I see what that sneaky penguin is doing.
First China switches to Linux, then Vietnam, next thing you know the entire South East Asia is falling like a chain of Dominos, and your buying pirated copies of CentOS in India!
Now where have I heard this before?
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In practice, assuming they are trying to force MS to offer lower pricing, then it makes more and more sense for foreign governments to mandate OSS use.
1) Cheaper licensing cost, plus they no longer have the "stigma" in the foreign community of harboring/contributing to Software Pirates (in the legitimate use of the word).
2) Any money spent on maintenance, upkeep, customization are kept "local" in country, instead of lining MS's pockets.
3) The use of OSS forces more people to become used to it, which will (most likely) increase its adoption in the home market (especially where OSS excels at running on "older" or more cost restricted hardware)
4) The fact that OSS provides the source encourages local entrepreneurship, both for government use, and for the home sector. This could (I didn't say "Will") jumpstart a larger technological industry (games, utilities, support/servicing, virus writing and protection, teaching).
Of course I'm pulling these arguments out of thin air, so who really knows.
Yes, it was a legitimate key.
No, it wasn't an OEM key.
Never heard you had to wait six months between activations to avoid a problem, but its an odd thing to me that there is even an issue.
I did notice when I moved to new hardware ~1 year ago that I DIDN'T have a problem that time despite having one the time before so perhaps enough time had elapsed
I've also had colleagues who used XP in a VM environment, had legitimate non OEM copies, and had to go through hell to get the licenses turned back on because they had "reinstalled too many times".
Sounds like a worthwhile goal.
Except that Verizon already received lots of money to provide for an upgraded infrastructure. They essentially just squandered (or squirreled) the money away. I don't see them having any incentive to actually do what they say this time.
Okay. Good idea.
Which would also give them an "unfair advantage" against any other competing operators (cable, CLEC, etc.), and if not regulated will most likely result in Verizon charging the most they can get away with. The less per month is only how much the system actually costs THEM to put in place and maintain, not how much they'll charge US.
You lost me completely on this one. Why would the creation of a higher speed network automatically translate into more jobs created in an area?
It MIGHT mean more people telecommuting. It also might mean more people running bittorrent at faster speeds. Additionally considering the onerous terms of most ISPs, the most likely outcome of this is one major thing: more profit for the telco.
I sent away for my FBI records, but they claimed that there weren't any.
The tinfoil hat must be working.
(editing and emphasis mine)
Reinstall 98 and you need a key. Sure its easy to bypass, but a legitimate user never experiences a diminishment in functionality from reinstalling and using the product they purchased.
Reinstall XP and you need a key. That key may or may not authorize. To even find out, you either need an internet connection (not too hard in this day and age), or a telephone connection and you have to sit on the phone and wait. If the system doesn't automatically reauthorize (I had this happen the third time I upgraded my system when the motherboard had blown and it meant I had to replace the Motherboard, CPU and memory), then you have to call and explain to them why you should be allowed to use the product you purchased, even though you are installing a legitimate key.
The line that MS crossed was deciding that legitimate keys could only be used "so many times" some where in an algorithm.
This is a diminution of services, and is about the only major erk with XP I currently have. Fortunately they carried it forward to Vista which made my upgrade path more of a migration issue to another OS.
Sorry, from the way you presented it, I misunderstood the criticism of the sentence as a grammar issue.
I'll buy that as a legitimate critique, and I agree. In the future I'll probably just start with "FYI ..." :)
Sorry, tend to "spell out" acronyms in my head, not "read them out", "FYI=F.Y.I., like F.B.I". Since F is phonetically starts with a vowel, it should have "an" before it, not "a". If I had written out "For Your Information" then you would certainly be correct.
Definitely true that most US citizens have issues with foreign languages (including place/people names), however in this case I was under the assumption that while the iRack pronunciation is less correct, it was used for the sake of comedy and political satire.
Exactly.
So far we're on track for paying off our 30 in 15, but if I or my wife loses a job, then we can cut back without immediately worrying about losing our home.
Contingency planning is nice.
As an FYI on the above joke: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcjLEwZqcQI
Truly funny MadTV skit.
That's what vitamin supplements are for.
Lots of people live perfectly healthy lives and go their whole life with a vegetarian diet.
Yes, the Crusade is the Imperial Unit. Of course like most other Imperial Units it is out of favor world-wide except in the US.
As for conversion, they both start out from the same reference point, such that zero Jihads= 0 Crusades, and 1 Jihad = 1 Crusade.
After that the a conversion factor is needed since Crusades scale as per the number of vassals you have available and the number of Knights they are required to send forth, while Jihads are a direct correlation with relevant population as divided by the number of Zealots/Million.
In general the first follows a more linear progression, while the latter falls more into a Geometric progression (often offset by future population to the detriment of the involved).
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