right so you'd think they would have tested this activation thing and gotten it right BEFORE launch. no excuses, it's just piss poor.
None of the activation problems have anything to do with the method. It's ATT not being able to be flexible. They, like all phone companies, are so used to screwing over their customers that it's built into the fabric. Now that they have these new rules the system simply can't handle it 100% smoothly.
Montana, which has an ethnic makeup similar to Canada, has a lower crime rate than Canada does. Philadelphia, which has an ethnic makeup decidedly different than Canada has a much higher crime rate.
Are you saying that certain ethnicities are inherently more criminal?
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I think Apple is trying to do what it always does, make a product that just works and is simple.
Which is, as has been made obvious by all the horrible phones, the hard part. A big steaming pile of features is not the right way to measure the usefulness of a tool. But it's the "easy" way. It's very hard to quantify a well designed device. It's much easier and tempting to just make a checklist, despite the fact that it doesn't really serve.
his is the truth for anyone who wants to make a name for themselves. 90% are forgotten within their own lifetime. 90% of the remaining are forgotten within a generation. Rinse and repeat until we have just a few names from history.
And the attributes that make people temporarily extremely popular are almost completely different from the attributes that last.
after all the paper ballots are of high quality and likely designed specifically so a machine can count them. But since we know its a law of the universe that only voting machines not vote counting machines are susceptible to abuse there is nothing to worry about at all.
If it sorts them into piles it's easy to do quick spot-checks simply by weighing the piles.
Seriously, though - do you really think that you can pirate games just because their original manufacturer or licenser is not making the hardware required to play them?
Well, yeah. The purpose of copyright is make more works available. It's a temporary monopoly granted by the public. If a work is instead not available then that monopoly should also not be available.
I realize this is notion not in accord with current copyright law. I also think copyright law has ceased being for the benefit of the people. If a law is not good for the populace it ought to be changed.
It screws people like me who don't mod, who purchase games legitimately who shoulder the burden of these freeloaders.
I'm not defending this guy, but I don't think you're paying more because of guys like this. Games sell for what they can get. The price isn't, say, $59.95 (or whatever) because it's the result of some complex cost analysis, but rather because that's what they've found people are willing to pay.
The other possibility is that there would be more games available. That's a lot less clear, but I doubt the small percentage of people with modded boxes would have otherwise spent enough money to make that difference.
Since karma maxes out, and I'm likely already at that point (since from what I can tell it's pretty low), it's not something I exactly care about when posting.
Back when it used to give you the actual number it would max out at 50. Assuming that hasn't changed, then you're right, it's not very hard to achieve. (Any mods above 50, by the way, were discarded, so it was (is?) possible to have a mostly positively moderated comment actually reduce your karma.)
I noticed that they were not on the desktop anymore (yea! I hate using the desktop for anything but wallpaper)....Is the finder sidebar the only place you will be able to find them now?
Apparently hate is not big motivator for you. I suppose that's a good thing. Anyway, you can already choose (in preferences) which items appear on your desktop. And an answer to your other question is in the Go menu.
What you meant to say was that netiquette is a portmanteau
OK, now my vote for the most irritating word is portmanteau. Shortening is a perfectly reasonable way to say it, and much less likely to get you punched in the face.
Facts don't have owners, but specific compilations do. You can compile your own database of facts, but you can't copy and distribute someone else's
Certainly you can. A fact is a fact. If you've summarized them in some clever way I can't copy your summary, but I can extract all the facts and summarize them myself.
As for the inserted "facts," that's not to demonstrate copyright infringement, but rather to help enforce some other agreement, such as "I'll show you my list of facts of you agree not to redistribute them." In that case you've broken your agreement, but it's not copyright infringement.
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Sheesh Man. Just put the word I at the front of it and it all makes sense. Surely you could have figured that out.
Considering that it already runs on two completely different processors, why does running on an ARM make it not OS X?
And all melty.
So then if I were standing at the north pole and stepped up onto on a little pile of snow I'd be going further north?
I think Apple should demand money from Universal for each CD purchased. After all, chances are that it's going to end up on an iPod anyway.
None of the activation problems have anything to do with the method. It's ATT not being able to be flexible. They, like all phone companies, are so used to screwing over their customers that it's built into the fabric. Now that they have these new rules the system simply can't handle it 100% smoothly.
Are you saying that certain ethnicities are inherently more criminal?
You're apparently also not alone in people who say that don't want to hear about it, and yet read the replies and post comments.
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Which is, as has been made obvious by all the horrible phones, the hard part. A big steaming pile of features is not the right way to measure the usefulness of a tool. But it's the "easy" way. It's very hard to quantify a well designed device. It's much easier and tempting to just make a checklist, despite the fact that it doesn't really serve.
And the attributes that make people temporarily extremely popular are almost completely different from the attributes that last.
If it sorts them into piles it's easy to do quick spot-checks simply by weighing the piles.
I'll bet they had trouble getting their mail.
Well, yeah. The purpose of copyright is make more works available. It's a temporary monopoly granted by the public. If a work is instead not available then that monopoly should also not be available.
I realize this is notion not in accord with current copyright law. I also think copyright law has ceased being for the benefit of the people. If a law is not good for the populace it ought to be changed.
I'm not defending this guy, but I don't think you're paying more because of guys like this. Games sell for what they can get. The price isn't, say, $59.95 (or whatever) because it's the result of some complex cost analysis, but rather because that's what they've found people are willing to pay.
The other possibility is that there would be more games available. That's a lot less clear, but I doubt the small percentage of people with modded boxes would have otherwise spent enough money to make that difference.
In Apple's set-up demo video one of the screens deals with keeping your existing number. But that's all I know.
Back when it used to give you the actual number it would max out at 50. Assuming that hasn't changed, then you're right, it's not very hard to achieve.
(Any mods above 50, by the way, were discarded, so it was (is?) possible to have a mostly positively moderated comment actually reduce your karma.)
From TFA: "In addition, iPhone customers can choose from any of AT&T's standard service plans."
So it seems you can keep your current agreement.
Yes, I know that I'm twisting the comparison.
Maybe. The * is optional, though.
Apparently hate is not big motivator for you. I suppose that's a good thing. Anyway, you can already choose (in preferences) which items appear on your desktop. And an answer to your other question is in the Go menu.
You're right. I don't know what I was thinking. ;-)
OK, now my vote for the most irritating word is portmanteau. Shortening is a perfectly reasonable way to say it, and much less likely to get you punched in the face.
Certainly you can. A fact is a fact. If you've summarized them in some clever way I can't copy your summary, but I can extract all the facts and summarize them myself.
As for the inserted "facts," that's not to demonstrate copyright infringement, but rather to help enforce some other agreement, such as "I'll show you my list of facts of you agree not to redistribute them." In that case you've broken your agreement, but it's not copyright infringement.