Ohio is stupid when it comes to sexual predator laws. In Cincinnati, a man cannot be in public without a shirt on. If he gets arrested for it, he has to register as a sexual predator for the rest of his life. While one could probably argue that discouraging 200lb overweight men from walking around without a shirt on is a good idea, how's that for a fair punishment?
I've reread the different pieces, and while I think the DoA Forums are a large basis of work, people need to read Kate Turabian's on how to cite research because I don't see this as plagiarism in the whole - just poorly cited.
Which is exactly the opposite of everything they teach you in school. If you don't cite your sources, you are plagiarizing. Claiming incompetance by poorly citing your work is no excuse...
Did this actually happen? I have a launch PS2 that I've had vertical since I bought it (fits nicely between all my components). No problems with scratching discs. I've never heard about it before. I'd say I'd flop it over so its horizontal, but at this point it probably makes no difference.
It occurrs to me that some of those titles may not be scheduled for backwards compatibility because they are to be release native for the 360. Burnout Revenge comes to mind, and I'm sure a Splinter Cell will make it. Perhaps Microsoft is trying to force everyone to buy the latest version (native to the 360, of course) of many of the popular series titles?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't XM do away with commercials on the music channels about a year ago? I don't have commercials on any of the music channels I listen to. I think Sirius does the same thing.
I don't know if it was "minimal" elsewhere, but it hit GE Transportation really hard. We had two sites go down completely (no network, no computers), including HQ in Cincinnati. The sites went completely offline around 3pm, and I can only assume the poor techies had to stay all night to patch each computer on campus manually (because they won't stay on, always rebooting). When I got to work the next day, we all had a specific set of instructions to do to complete the patching process. They really lost a fortune on this one.
Maybe, but Microsoft would have to prove then that they invented it before Apple invented it, not when Apple shipped.
In any case, I don't really see what the patent has to do with the iPod in the first place. It is a system for generating a playlist using a series of positive and negative seeds, which the iPod has never had. Apple's patent is for another part of the touchwheel interface (which is already covered by several patents). I don't see how they relate.
And unfortunately for Microsoft, the iPod was out before they filed for their patent, which invalidates it. It's only common sense. Otherwise, I could go to the store and buy some amazing device, notice it doesn't have patent protection, patent the device myself, then sue the original designer out of business. It doesn't work that way, and that's why this is a non-story.
So, in other words, you have to update system files in order to get it to work? Nope, that doesn't sound anything like "would need to obtain updates" at all!
I know this is off-topic, but it may help you out a bit. A third-party developer was able to implement something very similar to Apple's two-finger scrolling on older PowerBook and iBook machines called iScroll2. It works on all the G4s, and I believe some machines older than that. Anyway, it works extremely well and is a good stopgap until its time to upgrade that PowerBook.
That is, of course, if you have a Power/iBook... you never really say.
It's likely that they keep a log of every serial number ever distributed. So even if your entered CD key or whatever they use is valid, they look it up in their little list and see that that particular number has never been issued, signaling that the copy is pirated. That would be the efficient way to do it...
The problem is probably that is was just a cold or something incredibly common like that with no real treatment, but patients get upset when their doctors tell them to just wait it out, so they prescribe them something so they feel better. It's only recently we're beggining to understand the ramifications of such an approach, and all current medical students are grilled over and over not to prescribe medicine needlessly.
I can just see the conversation when they make it to their practices... "I have a sore throat and you tell me to get some rest and drink carbonated beverages?!? Why did I even come in here?"
Then how do they always end up with the top spot for reliability for their machines? I've seen a few posts claiming that a pretty big number of machines bought in batches were defective.
I've had some troubles with a PowerBook, myself. Though they've had the top spot in Consumer Reports for like 3 years in a row.
Nah, I've never had a problem buying anything open-box. TVs (not display models, that's just stupid), DVD Players, RAM, Hard Drives, Motherboards, Monitors, a ReplayTV... no power supplies, though. Of course, I'm not buying anything that would deserve the label of "cheap", as in your #1. Each of those was a quality component that was well-researched ahead of time. Each and every one of them is running to this day, and in the case of the TV and DVD player, that's about 4-5 years of use.
If you're careful in your selection, there's no reason for someone who knows what they're looking for to not buy open-box items. Hell, I've had multiple DOA new motherboards. Even if its open-box they take it back if it doesnt work. There's little risk there.
True, but I have found that the vast majority of Micro Center employees genuinely care about the products they are selling. I once talked with a guy in the computer components section for 30 minutes about the various differences between 3 motherboards I was considering. Not only did he know them in detail, he took one look at an open-box item I was considering and recommended I not buy it. Why you ask? One of the capacitors was loose. How many Best Buy employees have you seen that could pick out a loose capacitor on a single glance, let alone a decent computer off the shelf?
If any computer store could succeed with this, it is Micro Center.
Yes, most of your points are right. The library login does, inexplicably, use your SSN. A few other systems still do as well, with no explaination as to why.
Although I would like to point out that the 16 digit Student ID numbers are assigned serially, not converted from SSN. Even though the number is 16 digits long, they all currently have 5 zeros in the middle along with a 5 digit number at the end. They also include a 6-digit prefix, which appears to be static by class and college, although its difficult to tell without going around and asking random people what their ID numbers are.
Yes, of course... but that doesn't mean the server containing all that information has to be sitting off the publicly accessable internet.
UC has a number of servers behind a specific firewall and on a private portion of the LAN that cannot be accessed from the internet. I know because I have to travel to campus daily to use several of them. Why this server wasn't in that group, I guess would have been the more appropriate question.
Student ID numbers at UC are a 16 number string present on your ID card. The University explicitly prohibits using the SSN as your student ID by any professors, etc.
That still doesn't explain why they were all sitting on that server.
The XBox, in terms of profit, has been an incredible failure. I seriously doubt their recent profits near the end of its life have offset the huge losses they took during the beginning of its cycle. They only stick with it because they're determined to own the game console, and therefore set-top-box, market.
MS got into the PDA market just in time to see it crumble. How many PDAs does Best Buy carry now? What, 4, 5? And no accessories whatsoever. I went to try to find a case for mine, and found they didn't carry a single one. PDAs, except for specialized services, are dying.
Nobody mentioned IE, though I'm sure you were happy to throw that one in there. The parent did mention MSN Explorer, which failed quite miserably.
Everything else looks valid, though. Microsoft, like any business, fails all the time. They quietly sweep the failures under the rug while trumpeting their successes, just like everyone else.
That's not true. Nearly all of the current drives are unable to play CDs or in some cases any burned media. My XBox is only 5 months old, came with the supposedly "best" drive, the Samsung, and still doesn't play a variety of media. Compatibility has gotten worse, not better.
I really like Spotlight, but you've hit on a couple of the things that annoy me as well. I mean, why in the hell doesn't Command-Q work on the full Spotlight window? Oh yea, because you can't close it. It really IS a pain to manage. The fact that I can't easily see the path is a major shortfall.
But about your first point... couldn't MS just make a Spotlight plugin that allows Spotlight to search within its Email database file? You'd think Apple would have anticipated such a case, and included some hooks that allow such access. Maybe not, though, I'm no expert.
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It's true, I can't even view the first entry. It's in pretty poor shape on Safari. The others look nice, though.
Ohio is stupid when it comes to sexual predator laws. In Cincinnati, a man cannot be in public without a shirt on. If he gets arrested for it, he has to register as a sexual predator for the rest of his life. While one could probably argue that discouraging 200lb overweight men from walking around without a shirt on is a good idea, how's that for a fair punishment?
This player is capable of bypassing HDCP protection. HDCP is definately DRM.
I've reread the different pieces, and while I think the DoA Forums are a large basis of work, people need to read Kate Turabian's on how to cite research because I don't see this as plagiarism in the whole - just poorly cited.
Which is exactly the opposite of everything they teach you in school. If you don't cite your sources, you are plagiarizing. Claiming incompetance by poorly citing your work is no excuse...
Did this actually happen? I have a launch PS2 that I've had vertical since I bought it (fits nicely between all my components). No problems with scratching discs. I've never heard about it before. I'd say I'd flop it over so its horizontal, but at this point it probably makes no difference.
It occurrs to me that some of those titles may not be scheduled for backwards compatibility because they are to be release native for the 360. Burnout Revenge comes to mind, and I'm sure a Splinter Cell will make it. Perhaps Microsoft is trying to force everyone to buy the latest version (native to the 360, of course) of many of the popular series titles?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't XM do away with commercials on the music channels about a year ago? I don't have commercials on any of the music channels I listen to. I think Sirius does the same thing.
why should Google be responsible for monitoring ALL the internet for ALL companies looking for abuse of their property?
I don't know if it was "minimal" elsewhere, but it hit GE Transportation really hard. We had two sites go down completely (no network, no computers), including HQ in Cincinnati. The sites went completely offline around 3pm, and I can only assume the poor techies had to stay all night to patch each computer on campus manually (because they won't stay on, always rebooting). When I got to work the next day, we all had a specific set of instructions to do to complete the patching process. They really lost a fortune on this one.
Maybe, but Microsoft would have to prove then that they invented it before Apple invented it, not when Apple shipped.
In any case, I don't really see what the patent has to do with the iPod in the first place. It is a system for generating a playlist using a series of positive and negative seeds, which the iPod has never had. Apple's patent is for another part of the touchwheel interface (which is already covered by several patents). I don't see how they relate.
And unfortunately for Microsoft, the iPod was out before they filed for their patent, which invalidates it. It's only common sense. Otherwise, I could go to the store and buy some amazing device, notice it doesn't have patent protection, patent the device myself, then sue the original designer out of business. It doesn't work that way, and that's why this is a non-story.
So, in other words, you have to update system files in order to get it to work? Nope, that doesn't sound anything like "would need to obtain updates" at all!
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Sorry, just feeling sarcastic...
I know this is off-topic, but it may help you out a bit. A third-party developer was able to implement something very similar to Apple's two-finger scrolling on older PowerBook and iBook machines called iScroll2. It works on all the G4s, and I believe some machines older than that. Anyway, it works extremely well and is a good stopgap until its time to upgrade that PowerBook.
That is, of course, if you have a Power/iBook... you never really say.
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It's likely that they keep a log of every serial number ever distributed. So even if your entered CD key or whatever they use is valid, they look it up in their little list and see that that particular number has never been issued, signaling that the copy is pirated. That would be the efficient way to do it...
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I bet they just look for the top 5 pirated keys
The problem is probably that is was just a cold or something incredibly common like that with no real treatment, but patients get upset when their doctors tell them to just wait it out, so they prescribe them something so they feel better. It's only recently we're beggining to understand the ramifications of such an approach, and all current medical students are grilled over and over not to prescribe medicine needlessly.
I can just see the conversation when they make it to their practices... "I have a sore throat and you tell me to get some rest and drink carbonated beverages?!? Why did I even come in here?"
Then how do they always end up with the top spot for reliability for their machines? I've seen a few posts claiming that a pretty big number of machines bought in batches were defective.
I've had some troubles with a PowerBook, myself. Though they've had the top spot in Consumer Reports for like 3 years in a row.
Nah, I've never had a problem buying anything open-box. TVs (not display models, that's just stupid), DVD Players, RAM, Hard Drives, Motherboards, Monitors, a ReplayTV... no power supplies, though. Of course, I'm not buying anything that would deserve the label of "cheap", as in your #1. Each of those was a quality component that was well-researched ahead of time. Each and every one of them is running to this day, and in the case of the TV and DVD player, that's about 4-5 years of use.
If you're careful in your selection, there's no reason for someone who knows what they're looking for to not buy open-box items. Hell, I've had multiple DOA new motherboards. Even if its open-box they take it back if it doesnt work. There's little risk there.
True, but I have found that the vast majority of Micro Center employees genuinely care about the products they are selling. I once talked with a guy in the computer components section for 30 minutes about the various differences between 3 motherboards I was considering. Not only did he know them in detail, he took one look at an open-box item I was considering and recommended I not buy it. Why you ask? One of the capacitors was loose. How many Best Buy employees have you seen that could pick out a loose capacitor on a single glance, let alone a decent computer off the shelf?
If any computer store could succeed with this, it is Micro Center.
Yes, most of your points are right. The library login does, inexplicably, use your SSN. A few other systems still do as well, with no explaination as to why.
Although I would like to point out that the 16 digit Student ID numbers are assigned serially, not converted from SSN. Even though the number is 16 digits long, they all currently have 5 zeros in the middle along with a 5 digit number at the end. They also include a 6-digit prefix, which appears to be static by class and college, although its difficult to tell without going around and asking random people what their ID numbers are.
Apple PPC version is what you linked to. This story is about the Intel version.
Yes, of course... but that doesn't mean the server containing all that information has to be sitting off the publicly accessable internet.
UC has a number of servers behind a specific firewall and on a private portion of the LAN that cannot be accessed from the internet. I know because I have to travel to campus daily to use several of them. Why this server wasn't in that group, I guess would have been the more appropriate question.
Student ID numbers at UC are a 16 number string present on your ID card. The University explicitly prohibits using the SSN as your student ID by any professors, etc.
That still doesn't explain why they were all sitting on that server.
The XBox, in terms of profit, has been an incredible failure. I seriously doubt their recent profits near the end of its life have offset the huge losses they took during the beginning of its cycle. They only stick with it because they're determined to own the game console, and therefore set-top-box, market.
MS got into the PDA market just in time to see it crumble. How many PDAs does Best Buy carry now? What, 4, 5? And no accessories whatsoever. I went to try to find a case for mine, and found they didn't carry a single one. PDAs, except for specialized services, are dying.
Nobody mentioned IE, though I'm sure you were happy to throw that one in there. The parent did mention MSN Explorer, which failed quite miserably.
Everything else looks valid, though. Microsoft, like any business, fails all the time. They quietly sweep the failures under the rug while trumpeting their successes, just like everyone else.
That's not true. Nearly all of the current drives are unable to play CDs or in some cases any burned media. My XBox is only 5 months old, came with the supposedly "best" drive, the Samsung, and still doesn't play a variety of media. Compatibility has gotten worse, not better.
I really like Spotlight, but you've hit on a couple of the things that annoy me as well. I mean, why in the hell doesn't Command-Q work on the full Spotlight window? Oh yea, because you can't close it. It really IS a pain to manage. The fact that I can't easily see the path is a major shortfall.
But about your first point... couldn't MS just make a Spotlight plugin that allows Spotlight to search within its Email database file? You'd think Apple would have anticipated such a case, and included some hooks that allow such access. Maybe not, though, I'm no expert.