The point is Amazon can delete books you purchased from devices you own, for whatever reason, without your consent. That you think the deletion in this case was justified does not make people more trusting of this Orwellian ability to make publications disappear.
We can use the vacuum test chamber to see how Time Warner Cable executives breathe at 100,000 feet altitude, film it and charge $1 pay per view. I'm thinking recovery of the 350 million won't take long.
There comes a time when the jewels cease to sparkle, when the gold loses its luster, when the throne room becomes a prison, and all that is left is a nerd's love for his antiquated computing platform.
Hawking:...this means, in a sense, that there are no black holes. Only what I call "Hawking surfaces".
Layman: Does this mean it's possible to travel faster than the speed of light?
Hawking: Sure, why not.
not being able to use the word "candy" in the names for children's clothes and games affects your ability to communicate?
Yes. How else am I supposed to describe my "Stealing Candy from Babies" game and line of clothing if I can't use the generic word candy? If they want exclusivity, they should stick to made up words like bonerific and tasticle.
Which is fine. Avoiding a rush to implement a.0 release for anything critical is sound advice, regardless of vendor or closed/open source. But if nobody runs it, you do not uncover bugs and you never get a.1 release.
The problem is not the chips or cooling, it's the "good enough" techniques Quanta uses to attach them to to a system board.
The case I described had a detailed investigation by Nvidia, who claimed responsibility and reported the materials problem in the chip package. They payed hundreds of millions to settle. The chip in question was used by multiple vendors, all of which had the same failures.
Given those facts, it is hard to see how you come to the conclusion Apple/Quanta is responsible.
Apple has shown they will replace whatever is necessary, if there is a defect. When the Nvidia 8400M chip was defective (material in chip package caused solder ball fracture due to thermal expansion), they replaced main boards. Dell used the same chip in XPS laptops (I had one and it did die), and supplied the same fix. Of course, in that instance they got some reimbursement from Nvidia.
Smart corporations know to do the right thing or take a righteous bitch slapping from consumers and lawyers.
This is the same principle that makes heavy customization of OS installations not worth while. If you have to move between a large number of machines, you can't count on that certain editor being installed or your favorite key mapping configured. After a while, you give up and get accustomed to the least common denominator.
When all the Shell Infrastructure Windows servers got shut down at Venezuela directly from Redmond after the compayy's subsidiary there got nationalized...
This is very interesting to me, and I've never head of it. I've done some googling and come up with nothing. Do you have any links to share?
The Woody Character in Cheers, the wise ignoramous who is shown as being smarter than Doctor Frasier Crane who is portrayed as an aloof buffoon.
You came away with the wrong impression. Woody is the good natured ignoramus, who sometimes benefits from his sunny disposition when smarter characters get hung by their cynicism. He also regularly fails spectacularly due to his lack of knowledge. Frasier (and Dianne) are portrayed as pompous, but frequently show that education and skills have their benefits when the rest of the crowd does something spectacularly stupid.
I generally agree with your point, but your take on Cheers is simplistic and just plain wrong.
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The point is Amazon can delete books you purchased from devices you own, for whatever reason, without your consent. That you think the deletion in this case was justified does not make people more trusting of this Orwellian ability to make publications disappear.
We can use the vacuum test chamber to see how Time Warner Cable executives breathe at 100,000 feet altitude, film it and charge $1 pay per view. I'm thinking recovery of the 350 million won't take long.
...they've just been changing random things in some horrible mockery of genetic drift.
The first time I encountered Ubuntu Unity, I did think of Aliens 4: Resurrection and the lab full of failed clones begging for death.
The Magic 8 Ball remembers Outlook, do you remember the Magic 8 Ball?
...why are people so *angry* all the time?
There comes a time when the jewels cease to sparkle, when the gold loses its luster, when the throne room becomes a prison, and all that is left is a nerd's love for his antiquated computing platform.
If Christ turns water into wine, does the Anti-Christ turn wine into water?
Que syrah syrah, what ever will be will be.
Next thing you know the RNC will favor marijuana and homosexuality.
Only for themselves, everyone else who engages in that is a sinner.
MacPaint source code here...
From the fine source:
; ;IS THE MONKEY ACTIVE ?
; FUNCTION Monkey: BOOLEAN;
TST MonkeyLives
Any relation to this?
Hawking: ...this means, in a sense, that there are no black holes. Only what I call "Hawking surfaces".
Layman: Does this mean it's possible to travel faster than the speed of light?
Hawking: Sure, why not.
...arrest of a rich kid with poor self discipline.
clicky clicky!
DM: What class is your character?
Noob: Vulcan! Spock is wicked cool.
My magic die of irrationality came up pi.
not being able to use the word "candy" in the names for children's clothes and games affects your ability to communicate?
Yes. How else am I supposed to describe my "Stealing Candy from Babies" game and line of clothing if I can't use the generic word candy? If they want exclusivity, they should stick to made up words like bonerific and tasticle.
That's a candy assed move. Government, please stop giving exclusive use of language to corporations. Some of us still use it for communication.
...open Metro apps in a normal window in desktop mode
A "nuke it from orbit" entry on a restored start menu that makes the Metro window disappear in a mushroom cloud would be fun.
And Windows XP as Windows 11.
Ha! Spinal Tap reference! Imagine Steve Ballmer dancing around an 18" Stonehenge.
I'll wait for the x.1 release
Which is fine. Avoiding a rush to implement a .0 release for anything critical is sound advice, regardless of vendor or closed/open source. But if nobody runs it, you do not uncover bugs and you never get a .1 release.
The problem is not the chips or cooling, it's the "good enough" techniques Quanta uses to attach them to to a system board.
The case I described had a detailed investigation by Nvidia, who claimed responsibility and reported the materials problem in the chip package. They payed hundreds of millions to settle. The chip in question was used by multiple vendors, all of which had the same failures.
Given those facts, it is hard to see how you come to the conclusion Apple/Quanta is responsible.
Correction: 8600M
Apple has shown they will replace whatever is necessary, if there is a defect. When the Nvidia 8400M chip was defective (material in chip package caused solder ball fracture due to thermal expansion), they replaced main boards. Dell used the same chip in XPS laptops (I had one and it did die), and supplied the same fix. Of course, in that instance they got some reimbursement from Nvidia.
Smart corporations know to do the right thing or take a righteous bitch slapping from consumers and lawyers.
Then sometime around 2006 to 2008, the whole "Web 2.0" phenomenon started. It flooded the industry with hipsters.
Fiber is OK for the masses, but the bits sound "warmer" when transported by avian carriers.
This is the same principle that makes heavy customization of OS installations not worth while. If you have to move between a large number of machines, you can't count on that certain editor being installed or your favorite key mapping configured. After a while, you give up and get accustomed to the least common denominator.
When all the Shell Infrastructure Windows servers got shut down at Venezuela directly from Redmond after the compayy's subsidiary there got nationalized...
This is very interesting to me, and I've never head of it. I've done some googling and come up with nothing. Do you have any links to share?
The Woody Character in Cheers, the wise ignoramous who is shown as being smarter than Doctor Frasier Crane who is portrayed as an aloof buffoon.
You came away with the wrong impression. Woody is the good natured ignoramus, who sometimes benefits from his sunny disposition when smarter characters get hung by their cynicism. He also regularly fails spectacularly due to his lack of knowledge. Frasier (and Dianne) are portrayed as pompous, but frequently show that education and skills have their benefits when the rest of the crowd does something spectacularly stupid.
I generally agree with your point, but your take on Cheers is simplistic and just plain wrong.
Endorsed by Daleks everywhere as an alternative to NSA tainted American products!