I've been to the national gallery in London - they have security posted at every single door of all the rooms (all entrances) and do not allow photography in most (not all) rooms.
That is reductionism at its finest. I would agree software patents are generally bad - because they are overly broad (One Click [tm] for example), but not because they involve math. If you used this argument in the physical world it seems to fall apart however, and that's what has me question its validity. At a fundamental level the physical world can be described with chemistry (atoms, physics etc) - and since you can't patent atoms (as far as I know) anything made from them can't be patented - which is everything patented including software because its just bits of atoms recorded in magnetic medium which can be described using chemistry.
Take the most recent NCSoft Vs. Worlds.com - in which they are claiming (from what I understand) to have patented a system for displaying and updating avatar positions in a 3d world and scaling this based on view. Its not a trivial concept at all.
But if you were an engineer at NCSoft working on an MMO and you were trying to crack this problem (of displaying avatars in a 3D world) - how else could you go about it?
Or One Click from Amazon - basically click on a purchase and use stored information about the buyer to complete the transaction - something most ANY point of sale system made in the last 20 years can do. My local pizza place has been doing this since they opened for business.
Not quite - I was born in 1976 in Utah, but the first part of my SSN is Oregon range. You'd have to be born in 1989 or 1990 or later for this to work as SSN's weren't issued automagically until then (I got my SSN when I was like 15 or 16 as an example).
Maybe its because Linux and BSD aren't popular platforms for most home users. OSX is 8% - which is large, but considering the rest of that is Windows (most people pin Linux at around 1% on the desktop it seems).
Oh please - we spend more on healthcare through our private option than any other country on earth spends through their government run option - with worse results. That monthly 300-700$ (or more!) taken out of your paycheck for your HMO isn't called a tax, but if it were people would be a lot more pissed about the service they get than they are now.
If you want to start saving money in government stop giving away more tax breaks to corps than you take in from taxes from them, get rid of corporate minimum income tax and stop our run-away military budget (28%!). Under TARP - they managed to give away 2.7 billion dollars of benefits to Captian Morgan - yeah that really helps our economy.
One thing the military could do is start closing the huge amounts of bases they have all over the world - read Howard Zinn's book "A people's history of the United States" to get a perspective on how many bases we are talking about here - it really does border on crazy.
Yes I do actually:). Almost all the tape decks I ever owned used them (piano style keys connected to all kinds of levers inside), until the very end when I had a Pioneer deck that had full logic keys and transports. It was only a few years after that they became kind of obsolete.
Believe it or not - I can remember a time when tape decks didn't have an auto-reverse feature which is about the same period the original walkman came out.
Yeah most of these crooks just bought crap. I'm with you - I'd start my own space program or something, my own personal harem with a castle on a private island.
I remember when the walkman and similar cassettes came out. I did not know what the metal/normal switch was for, and I was more than 13. It did not seem that long until the auto reverse feature was common. I wonder how many people in the 90's, who never grew up with albums, really understood that there were two tracks, or sides, on a tape.
I certainly did - for one thing the song titles were labeled on both sides so I guess it was elementary deduction.
I don't think there were portable 8-track players. The other problem with them was head alignment. Other than those two things it was a brilliant invention:).
I talked to a gold farmer on WoW, and through his broken English I found the following things out (in case your curious - I just replied to some level 1 warrior trying to sell gold in trade channel). He makes about 5-20 dollars a month (depending on how hard he works), 12+ hours a day, and lives in a dormitory with about 30 other people. After all that he said I should go to China and go work for them.
I dunno - I don't think I could play any game on those conditions.
Most mmo's you pay at the start of the month, FFIX you pay at the end. If I don't pay my bill to Blizzard - they just shut off my account and end of story. My character is still there, and when I want to play again I can buy more time no questions asked. I know this is the same way CCP bills customers too.
From what I understand If I don't pay my FFIX account they bill me anyhow, and it eventually send it off to collections and it goes against your credit record. Oh and they delete your character (I've never played the game, but I heard the leveling process and grind is truly epic) - plus they charge you more money for the more characters you have. Those few extra kilobytes in their database must add up I guess.
Yes MMO's encourage you to play with other people - its kinda fun (at least I think its kinda fun). Sounds like you didn't have fun and now have an axe to grind.
Honestly I wouldn't mind if symantec and mcaffee left us alone - most customers don't understand the whole subscription to definition update model and are hopelessly out of date. If anything this particular program is a sign that Microsoft is no longer trusting 3rd parties to take care of their platform anymore and is probably a good thing.
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I've been to the national gallery in London - they have security posted at every single door of all the rooms (all entrances) and do not allow photography in most (not all) rooms.
FreeDOS probably would boot on this machine.
I actually know the machine you're talking about - except I had a HDD. I know for a fact the thing will run MS-DOS 5.0.x
That is reductionism at its finest. I would agree software patents are generally bad - because they are overly broad (One Click [tm] for example), but not because they involve math. If you used this argument in the physical world it seems to fall apart however, and that's what has me question its validity. At a fundamental level the physical world can be described with chemistry (atoms, physics etc) - and since you can't patent atoms (as far as I know) anything made from them can't be patented - which is everything patented including software because its just bits of atoms recorded in magnetic medium which can be described using chemistry.
Take the most recent NCSoft Vs. Worlds.com - in which they are claiming (from what I understand) to have patented a system for displaying and updating avatar positions in a 3d world and scaling this based on view. Its not a trivial concept at all.
But if you were an engineer at NCSoft working on an MMO and you were trying to crack this problem (of displaying avatars in a 3D world) - how else could you go about it?
Or One Click from Amazon - basically click on a purchase and use stored information about the buyer to complete the transaction - something most ANY point of sale system made in the last 20 years can do. My local pizza place has been doing this since they opened for business.
Not quite - I was born in 1976 in Utah, but the first part of my SSN is Oregon range. You'd have to be born in 1989 or 1990 or later for this to work as SSN's weren't issued automagically until then (I got my SSN when I was like 15 or 16 as an example).
Article never says they lied - just says Tesla says the battery never went below 20% - so its just a he said/she said situation.
That the car only went about 50 miles or so with an 18 hour charge time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG3bMKR5eXk
Maybe its because Linux and BSD aren't popular platforms for most home users. OSX is 8% - which is large, but considering the rest of that is Windows (most people pin Linux at around 1% on the desktop it seems).
Even then - there are viruses for the Mac
There's also plenty of evidence to suggest OSX really isn't all that secure.
I wonder how many of these stories are true though? I've only been in one gas station that sold porn, but I don't think its all that common.
I dunno - Asteroids is pretty hard to mess up - movie tie in might be an opportunity for a budding designer out there ;).
I've never had a job where health coverage was that low sadly :(.
My last job was 320$ a month, and I'm single and in good health. A colleague with 4 kids was spending almost 700 at the same job.
Oh please - we spend more on healthcare through our private option than any other country on earth spends through their government run option - with worse results. That monthly 300-700$ (or more!) taken out of your paycheck for your HMO isn't called a tax, but if it were people would be a lot more pissed about the service they get than they are now.
If you want to start saving money in government stop giving away more tax breaks to corps than you take in from taxes from them, get rid of corporate minimum income tax and stop our run-away military budget (28%!). Under TARP - they managed to give away 2.7 billion dollars of benefits to Captian Morgan - yeah that really helps our economy.
One thing the military could do is start closing the huge amounts of bases they have all over the world - read Howard Zinn's book "A people's history of the United States" to get a perspective on how many bases we are talking about here - it really does border on crazy.
Look - just because you put a handle on it - doesn't make it portable.
Yes I do actually :). Almost all the tape decks I ever owned used them (piano style keys connected to all kinds of levers inside), until the very end when I had a Pioneer deck that had full logic keys and transports. It was only a few years after that they became kind of obsolete.
Believe it or not - I can remember a time when tape decks didn't have an auto-reverse feature which is about the same period the original walkman came out.
Yeah most of these crooks just bought crap. I'm with you - I'd start my own space program or something, my own personal harem with a castle on a private island.
I remember when the walkman and similar cassettes came out. I did not know what the metal/normal switch was for, and I was more than 13. It did not seem that long until the auto reverse feature was common. I wonder how many people in the 90's, who never grew up with albums, really understood that there were two tracks, or sides, on a tape.
I certainly did - for one thing the song titles were labeled on both sides so I guess it was elementary deduction.
I don't think there were portable 8-track players. The other problem with them was head alignment. Other than those two things it was a brilliant invention :).
I talked to a gold farmer on WoW, and through his broken English I found the following things out (in case your curious - I just replied to some level 1 warrior trying to sell gold in trade channel). He makes about 5-20 dollars a month (depending on how hard he works), 12+ hours a day, and lives in a dormitory with about 30 other people. After all that he said I should go to China and go work for them.
I dunno - I don't think I could play any game on those conditions.
Most mmo's you pay at the start of the month, FFIX you pay at the end. If I don't pay my bill to Blizzard - they just shut off my account and end of story. My character is still there, and when I want to play again I can buy more time no questions asked. I know this is the same way CCP bills customers too.
From what I understand If I don't pay my FFIX account they bill me anyhow, and it eventually send it off to collections and it goes against your credit record. Oh and they delete your character (I've never played the game, but I heard the leveling process and grind is truly epic) - plus they charge you more money for the more characters you have. Those few extra kilobytes in their database must add up I guess.
Good thing Blizzard doesn't make people play...
Yes MMO's encourage you to play with other people - its kinda fun (at least I think its kinda fun). Sounds like you didn't have fun and now have an axe to grind.
If you uninstall "message center plus" it fixes it.
Good thing you have a choice where you can buy a laptop (or a desktop) from...
I guess my Dell was made in Malaysia now that I look at it.
I have an S10 ideapad - and yeah the "don't show this ad again" checkbox doesn't work. Whats worse is this app has never actually worked for the S10.
Probably last Lenovo laptop I buy (and I've had several all the way back when they were badged IBM machines).
Honestly I wouldn't mind if symantec and mcaffee left us alone - most customers don't understand the whole subscription to definition update model and are hopelessly out of date. If anything this particular program is a sign that Microsoft is no longer trusting 3rd parties to take care of their platform anymore and is probably a good thing.
Good thing its not the only thing Microsoft is doing security wise to protect their OS ehh? ;).