"Statistically speaking, it's likely that a sizable percentage of these students download copyrighted material from the Internet. Do you think any of them are concerned about IP rights then?"
Agreed. Looks nice, and brown is an "in" colour. Certainly preferable to some of the garish Apple options. Remember the dalmatian and flower power iMacs? They were u.g.l.y.
Count me in too. I work on my machine non-stop, loads of browser windows open, Outlook, Photoshop, running a web application server and IIS at all times, plus MySQL and so on. I hibernate it and very rarely even power it down (maybe once a month tops).
I can not remember the last time the machine crashed. Can't remember having any problems this year. *shrug*
Do any of these options have an inbuilt FTP application so I can edit files on a live server? (No "editing live is suicide" responses please, I don't have time.)
Shared host Crystaltech have just announced that they're no longer supporting the auto-forwarding of email from their hosted accounts to ComCast email addresses I think (I'm not in the US, so I might be confusing them with another ISP). ComCast would auto-blacklist on spam received, even if it was just being forwarded by a CT customer.
I'm definitely a dormant gamer. I would really like to have the time on top of work, partner and socialising to play more of the PC games I used to (the demos of BF2 and UT2006) and Xbox. Right now, my gaming is restricted to the occasional Halo2 or FIFA night with friends, but that's it.
Sometimes I actually feel like I'm letting game developers down by not making the time to try out their offerings. That said, I've never really bought many games, so I doubt they're all that bothered.
Story approvals should be weighted to favour those that contribute quality comments too. Comments are what, IMO, would bring people back more than anything else.
My story - bought some electronics in the vicinity of $200-250. Item was specified as brand new and in the box. Arrived scratched with dog hair attached - obviously second-hand and/or stolen - seriously, no doubt about it. When I suggested that it was not a new product as promised, I was given a bait and switch routine for another second-hand product ("pay a bit more, and get this upgraded model which is second-hand" - that sort of thing). I refused and asked for a refund. Thought it was important to leave this information as feedback for future buyers to read.
What do you know? Negative feedback saying that I was difficult and had made factless accusations.
Contacted eBay and just got bullshit responses.
As others have already said, it's a den of thieves and they're not going to change. Long gone are the days when you could reliably find a bargain. Now it's just not worth the risk.
In the US, for example, the difference between working a traditional job and running ad-blogs or scams might not be that different. In other countries, the difference might be significant because while their traditional job is usually pegged to the local economy, earning USD from AdSense or scams is not. The risk (especially spamming or gaming search engines) is virtually zero, so while kids might pick up computer skills along the way, they may be difficult to coax into a more legitimate and netiquette-friendly career.
That is exactly my concern. These people will have a choice between gaining literacy and skills, and maybe starting businesses to further their local economy, or gain literacy and skills to spam and scam once they learn that the rewards outweigh the risks for them.
And we thought there were a lot of spam, AdSense blogs and phishing now. Wait until x% of four million new computer users catch wind of a way to get their hands on more USD than is open to them via legal means.
Legitimate Windows users have to put up with WGA. Legitimate Adobe Creative Suite users have to put up with activation processes that are a pain in the butt if you have a deadline and needed to reinstall on a new laptop because your previous one died. Legitimate DVD purchases have to put up with hard or impossible to skip FBI warnings before the actual content, while pirated versions either physical or downloaded have nothing of the sort.
Once upon a time, games had a finish point. You might play Quake through a few times, but there was an end line.
The main issue I see is that many emerging games are persistent. You don't play x, then y, y again on a harder setting, then z. Many are playing x, x and more x.
I haven't tried WoW and maybe it's just safer that way!
I am currently looking to hire the sort of person who drinks tequila while wearing a lampshade on their head. Sounds like I'll have to have a look at FaceBook...
Anyone else read that bit about limits and trusted computing and wonder if we're heading towards a future where some computers will be illegal because of their sheer power?
It's not just you. The ad is crap and would be money wasted - looks amateur and pushes a shoddy message. People want something that's cheap, works, not bloated, and can open/save common formats - who cares about past leaders?!
Buffett feels that most stock trades are recommended and made primarily to benefit the brokers rather than the investors and has stated that he feels that the world would benefit if each person had a lifetime maximum number of stock trades (e.g. ten or twenty trades).
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I disagree. That designer perfume would be highbrow is it required a certain nose to appreciate its complexity.
Rosie's perfume would be lowbrow is it was appreciated by a common nose with no training in subtle odours.
Tu quoque...
Agreed. Looks nice, and brown is an "in" colour. Certainly preferable to some of the garish Apple options. Remember the dalmatian and flower power iMacs? They were u.g.l.y.
That's my question too. $30m! Even if there was a paid, pro version, who actually buys those to download files?!
Count me in too. I work on my machine non-stop, loads of browser windows open, Outlook, Photoshop, running a web application server and IIS at all times, plus MySQL and so on. I hibernate it and very rarely even power it down (maybe once a month tops).
I can not remember the last time the machine crashed. Can't remember having any problems this year. *shrug*
What's Taco basing his comment/joke on?
Cheers. Yes, I use, like, and recommend FileZilla.
I always use CFStudio for my editing, but sometimes the FTP component is a bit vague.
Do any of these options have an inbuilt FTP application so I can edit files on a live server? (No "editing live is suicide" responses please, I don't have time.)
Shared host Crystaltech have just announced that they're no longer supporting the auto-forwarding of email from their hosted accounts to ComCast email addresses I think (I'm not in the US, so I might be confusing them with another ISP). ComCast would auto-blacklist on spam received, even if it was just being forwarded by a CT customer.
I'm definitely a dormant gamer. I would really like to have the time on top of work, partner and socialising to play more of the PC games I used to (the demos of BF2 and UT2006) and Xbox. Right now, my gaming is restricted to the occasional Halo2 or FIFA night with friends, but that's it.
Sometimes I actually feel like I'm letting game developers down by not making the time to try out their offerings. That said, I've never really bought many games, so I doubt they're all that bothered.
Story approvals should be weighted to favour those that contribute quality comments too. Comments are what, IMO, would bring people back more than anything else.
Voting in the US is already handled by depositing a token into a container. The tokens are coins, the container is the government's pocket!
+1
My story - bought some electronics in the vicinity of $200-250. Item was specified as brand new and in the box. Arrived scratched with dog hair attached - obviously second-hand and/or stolen - seriously, no doubt about it. When I suggested that it was not a new product as promised, I was given a bait and switch routine for another second-hand product ("pay a bit more, and get this upgraded model which is second-hand" - that sort of thing). I refused and asked for a refund. Thought it was important to leave this information as feedback for future buyers to read.
What do you know? Negative feedback saying that I was difficult and had made factless accusations.
Contacted eBay and just got bullshit responses.
As others have already said, it's a den of thieves and they're not going to change. Long gone are the days when you could reliably find a bargain. Now it's just not worth the risk.
Swap out Blogger and put Geocities in there, at least. You're right - definite big influence years back. Irrelevant now.
Sorry, my point wasn't very clear.
In the US, for example, the difference between working a traditional job and running ad-blogs or scams might not be that different. In other countries, the difference might be significant because while their traditional job is usually pegged to the local economy, earning USD from AdSense or scams is not. The risk (especially spamming or gaming search engines) is virtually zero, so while kids might pick up computer skills along the way, they may be difficult to coax into a more legitimate and netiquette-friendly career.
That is exactly my concern. These people will have a choice between gaining literacy and skills, and maybe starting businesses to further their local economy, or gain literacy and skills to spam and scam once they learn that the rewards outweigh the risks for them.
And we thought there were a lot of spam, AdSense blogs and phishing now. Wait until x% of four million new computer users catch wind of a way to get their hands on more USD than is open to them via legal means.
Legitimate Windows users have to put up with WGA. Legitimate Adobe Creative Suite users have to put up with activation processes that are a pain in the butt if you have a deadline and needed to reinstall on a new laptop because your previous one died. Legitimate DVD purchases have to put up with hard or impossible to skip FBI warnings before the actual content, while pirated versions either physical or downloaded have nothing of the sort.
How are they all getting it so very wrong?
Once upon a time, games had a finish point. You might play Quake through a few times, but there was an end line.
The main issue I see is that many emerging games are persistent. You don't play x, then y, y again on a harder setting, then z. Many are playing x, x and more x.
I haven't tried WoW and maybe it's just safer that way!
I am currently looking to hire the sort of person who drinks tequila while wearing a lampshade on their head. Sounds like I'll have to have a look at FaceBook...
Attention owners of Engrish-humour websites - start looking for a new job!
Anyone else read that bit about limits and trusted computing and wonder if we're heading towards a future where some computers will be illegal because of their sheer power?
New RIAA scheme:
1. Start RIAA insurance company
2. Wait for P2P-using "pirates" to sign up
3. Send each of them a settlement offer for $2k
Maybe it was put together in Open Office?
It's not just you. The ad is crap and would be money wasted - looks amateur and pushes a shoddy message. People want something that's cheap, works, not bloated, and can open/save common formats - who cares about past leaders?!
I remember $20,000 CD burners. Funny to think about that now!
In Soviet Russia, your ultra-portable computer lugs you.