I'm not surprised. I'll probably get modded troll or flamebait, but my experience has been horrible with pretty much every piece of apple software I've ever used on a windows platform.
Every single version of quicktime for the last decade had caused me one problem or another on dozens of different machines with completely different configurations. The last 2 versions of itunes have been a PITA for my wife.
I have no doubt that they can write a great OS, and that they can write great software for their own OS, but when it comes to writing for Windows, my opinion is they are either incompetent or just outright don't care enough to do it right.
Presumably they wouldn't be publicly displaying the backup, just pulling some other data off of it. If it were your account being restored, I'd hope they have a system in place to notify a user that his/her account required a restore and that anything done in the previous X days may be lost. That's the only sane way to do a restore, because those users need a chance to attempt to replace lost data before it gets purged from other systems.
Hopefully this doesn't double post...looks like I screwed up and lost it the first time.
Well like most sexual predator hysteria, this is yet another case where they ignore the most important (though sad and disturbing) fact which is: The vast majority of sexual predators are "friends of the family" if not family themselves, and thus don't need Google or anything else to find their victims.
Besides that very relevant fact, the whole idea of this is silly. It's what I like to refer to as the internet-predator-turned-private-investigator. If you were some sick perv and wanted to do a kid, your options are:
1) Find a photo of a random kid on the internet, figure out who the kid is, where he lives, who he/she is with at what time of day each day, where, who is around, when he/she will be alone, and then finally perform the abduction, all in a manner fitting of some crappy movie. or...
2) find a random kid alone and abduct him/her
I don't doubt that #1 has happened. It's a big world, and pretty much anything that could happen has. However, I think the fact is your kid is probably many times more at risk of being trampled in a stampede of elephants that falling victim to such an elaborate and illogical abduction scenario. At least 99.99999% of pervs are either going to go for scenario 2, or find someone in the family they can molest, or even find a kid in a chat room willing to hand out all the necessary info on request.
If there is a danger out there, it isn't automatically tagged photos.
But the difference we are talking about is less than 1 year on average. You typically don't see much change in value over a year.
However, that's beside the point. What I was really getting at (but didn't come right out and say explicitly) is that people will often choose to pay more overall if that larger amount is split over time, because it doesn't seem as costly, even though it is more costly.
Example: I can buy something in the store for $100 plus a 10% tax, which means I pay $110 out of pocket. Or I can buy it for $107 with no tax now and owe a 10% tax a year later, for a total outlay of $117.70. So saving $3 now means spending $7.70 more overall . 99% of people would be hard pressed to make $3 now turn out to be more than $7.70 in a year from now, so time value of money isn't really a factor. Paying less now is the worse idea, but for many people it FEELS like it's cheaper (or they are bad at math, or don't even bother to think about what they are going to owe in a year), so they are drawn to that route.
Nobody is missing anything...well, except you. You've completely missed why this whole thing came about. The state of New York has asserted that having affiliates located in the state constitutes a business presence in the state. That's what Amazon's lawsuit is about.
You make it sound like the state is blatantly and intentionally violating the law, when the fact of the matter is there is a dispute over the law and that needs to be clarified in court. Until it is clarified, each company can choose how it wants to proceed. Amazon has temporarily complied. Newegg has temporarily resisted. Overstock has just completely sidestepped the issue.
I don't think I agree with the state's assertion, but I don't think it's a silly assertion either. In some ways, on a certain level, it does make a bit of sense. It's not as ridiculous as saying something like "your website is accessible in the state, therefore you have a presence in the state".
If you want a stream of data to come through at a certain rate, and you don't care whether it starts now or 1 second later, just as long as it comes through at that rate, then latency isn't a concern.
On the other hand, if you want to read something from memory and have it available in a few clock cycles, then latency is a concern.
No, that's exactly it. It save newegg the effort, and also increases their business from customers who intend to avoid paying the tax themselves.
It will even increase business from customers who DO intend to pay what they owe for 2 reasons:
1) Something you will owe later doesn't FEEL as costly to many people as something you have to pay now.
2) Many states (I'm not a new yorker, so I don't know if this applies to them) understand the difficulty in tracking your sales, and offer a flat tax option. If you intend to pay this way, then it's sort of like an all you can eat buffet. Once you've paid the flat rate, it's in your best interest to find as many retailers as you can that don't collect tax.
Wow. I thought it was excellently done. There was nothing at all unintuitive about the game, and I played it all the way through. Yes, it was challenging to figure out some of what you need to do, but it's a puzzle game. I didn't think it needed much in the way of reflexes. I mean, sure my grandma couldn't complete it, but anyone reasonably agile with a mouse and only average reflexes could accomplish what needs to be done. Figuring out the solutions was way more challenging than executing them.
Uhhh. I think you missed the point where he indicated that they'd still be under copyright. In other words, he said "it's still under the legal copyright term, and I think they deserve that copyright since they are still making use of it".
He said nothing about extending copyright as long as you are selling the item. He was merely saying they are using the copyright, so they aren't even a good example for what many people suggest SHOULD be the law: use it or lose it.
Thats for your insight, and for coming to my defense. Of course, I have no idea if any of what you said is true, but since I read it on the internet, I'm going to assume it must be:-)
It may have to do with regulations for individual sports. Each individual sport has its own set of rules and committees. Is has been made obvious this week, gymnastics doesn't allow ties, but I believe swimming does (IIRC, during the first few days we had a tie for bronze). If 1/100 second is the accepted resolution for swimming and any smaller interval is considered a tie, there doesn't serve much purpose in taking more photos. Each photo would be precisely timed to take place exactly as the clock ticked over. Anything more might be useful for a pissing contest, but by the regulations is unnecessary, and perhaps even undesirable (as the media might try to push one as being the true winner, rather than just accept the tie and giving both their due).
At what point did I say "security video"? It could just as well be a photo from a friend's camera phone.
Really...if you wanted to attack my post, you would have been better off pointing out that the judge would bang his gavel AFTER announcing the verdict.
Well, that definitely sounds like a recycled business number. I really can't believe the phone company would be THAT efficient at selling new business contact details. I mean, come on. 30 seconds?
If you watched one of the interviews a few days ago, they pointed out one of the problems with the scoring system. Any country that has an athlete in the competition is excluded from the judging. That is done to prevent biased judges from altering the outcome, but it has a negative side effect. You can end up having the competition judged entirely by countries that don't have top not gymnastics programs. Those judges aren't accustomed to such incredible performances and with having to pick out such minute details, and they miss a lot more mistakes.
In the girls defense, that just wouldn't go over. Not only with the way the Chinese government is about this stuff, but their families, too. The announcers even mentioned several times that one of the girls (don't remember which one) wanted to quit the sport 2 years ago but her parents wouldn't let her, because keeping her in it could change the lives of her entire family.
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I'm not surprised. I'll probably get modded troll or flamebait, but my experience has been horrible with pretty much every piece of apple software I've ever used on a windows platform.
Every single version of quicktime for the last decade had caused me one problem or another on dozens of different machines with completely different configurations. The last 2 versions of itunes have been a PITA for my wife.
I have no doubt that they can write a great OS, and that they can write great software for their own OS, but when it comes to writing for Windows, my opinion is they are either incompetent or just outright don't care enough to do it right.
Presumably they wouldn't be publicly displaying the backup, just pulling some other data off of it. If it were your account being restored, I'd hope they have a system in place to notify a user that his/her account required a restore and that anything done in the previous X days may be lost. That's the only sane way to do a restore, because those users need a chance to attempt to replace lost data before it gets purged from other systems.
Hopefully this doesn't double post...looks like I screwed up and lost it the first time.
Besides that very relevant fact, the whole idea of this is silly. It's what I like to refer to as the internet-predator-turned-private-investigator. If you were some sick perv and wanted to do a kid, your options are:
1) Find a photo of a random kid on the internet, figure out who the kid is, where he lives, who he/she is with at what time of day each day, where, who is around, when he/she will be alone, and then finally perform the abduction, all in a manner fitting of some crappy movie. or...
2) find a random kid alone and abduct him/her
I don't doubt that #1 has happened. It's a big world, and pretty much anything that could happen has. However, I think the fact is your kid is probably many times more at risk of being trampled in a stampede of elephants that falling victim to such an elaborate and illogical abduction scenario. At least 99.99999% of pervs are either going to go for scenario 2, or find someone in the family they can molest, or even find a kid in a chat room willing to hand out all the necessary info on request.
If there is a danger out there, it isn't automatically tagged photos.
Email the editors and tell them remove my post or you'll get a call from my dads lawyer buy Friday and then hell will rain down on you.
Stuff like that is already covered by the FCRA
I'm well aware of the time value of money. That wasn't my point. Look at the following post I just made:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=901615&cid=24768545
But the difference we are talking about is less than 1 year on average. You typically don't see much change in value over a year.
However, that's beside the point. What I was really getting at (but didn't come right out and say explicitly) is that people will often choose to pay more overall if that larger amount is split over time, because it doesn't seem as costly, even though it is more costly.
Example: I can buy something in the store for $100 plus a 10% tax, which means I pay $110 out of pocket. Or I can buy it for $107 with no tax now and owe a 10% tax a year later, for a total outlay of $117.70. So saving $3 now means spending $7.70 more overall . 99% of people would be hard pressed to make $3 now turn out to be more than $7.70 in a year from now, so time value of money isn't really a factor. Paying less now is the worse idea, but for many people it FEELS like it's cheaper (or they are bad at math, or don't even bother to think about what they are going to owe in a year), so they are drawn to that route.
Nobody is missing anything...well, except you. You've completely missed why this whole thing came about. The state of New York has asserted that having affiliates located in the state constitutes a business presence in the state. That's what Amazon's lawsuit is about.
You make it sound like the state is blatantly and intentionally violating the law, when the fact of the matter is there is a dispute over the law and that needs to be clarified in court. Until it is clarified, each company can choose how it wants to proceed. Amazon has temporarily complied. Newegg has temporarily resisted. Overstock has just completely sidestepped the issue.
I don't think I agree with the state's assertion, but I don't think it's a silly assertion either. In some ways, on a certain level, it does make a bit of sense. It's not as ridiculous as saying something like "your website is accessible in the state, therefore you have a presence in the state".
It depends on the application.
If you want a stream of data to come through at a certain rate, and you don't care whether it starts now or 1 second later, just as long as it comes through at that rate, then latency isn't a concern.
On the other hand, if you want to read something from memory and have it available in a few clock cycles, then latency is a concern.
No, that's exactly it. It save newegg the effort, and also increases their business from customers who intend to avoid paying the tax themselves.
It will even increase business from customers who DO intend to pay what they owe for 2 reasons:
1) Something you will owe later doesn't FEEL as costly to many people as something you have to pay now.
2) Many states (I'm not a new yorker, so I don't know if this applies to them) understand the difficulty in tracking your sales, and offer a flat tax option. If you intend to pay this way, then it's sort of like an all you can eat buffet. Once you've paid the flat rate, it's in your best interest to find as many retailers as you can that don't collect tax.
Milk in a bag:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB4hPjRvzu4
Wow. I thought it was excellently done. There was nothing at all unintuitive about the game, and I played it all the way through. Yes, it was challenging to figure out some of what you need to do, but it's a puzzle game. I didn't think it needed much in the way of reflexes. I mean, sure my grandma couldn't complete it, but anyone reasonably agile with a mouse and only average reflexes could accomplish what needs to be done. Figuring out the solutions was way more challenging than executing them.
I think you might be getting mixed up with patents. The copyright term (for a corporation) for the period in question would be 95 years.
Uhhh. I think you missed the point where he indicated that they'd still be under copyright. In other words, he said "it's still under the legal copyright term, and I think they deserve that copyright since they are still making use of it".
He said nothing about extending copyright as long as you are selling the item. He was merely saying they are using the copyright, so they aren't even a good example for what many people suggest SHOULD be the law: use it or lose it.
Thats for your insight, and for coming to my defense. Of course, I have no idea if any of what you said is true, but since I read it on the internet, I'm going to assume it must be :-)
Inconclusive? You could clearly see a gap between cavic's finger and the wall. Whereas phelps fingers were bent back a bit from contacting the wall.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/0808/oly.phelps.sequence/content.5.html
At 1:25 into the video I think he pretty clearly says "every two-thousandth of a second".
It may have to do with regulations for individual sports. Each individual sport has its own set of rules and committees. Is has been made obvious this week, gymnastics doesn't allow ties, but I believe swimming does (IIRC, during the first few days we had a tie for bronze). If 1/100 second is the accepted resolution for swimming and any smaller interval is considered a tie, there doesn't serve much purpose in taking more photos. Each photo would be precisely timed to take place exactly as the clock ticked over. Anything more might be useful for a pissing contest, but by the regulations is unnecessary, and perhaps even undesirable (as the media might try to push one as being the true winner, rather than just accept the tie and giving both their due).
At what point did I say "security video"? It could just as well be a photo from a friend's camera phone.
Really...if you wanted to attack my post, you would have been better off pointing out that the judge would bang his gavel AFTER announcing the verdict.
Well, that definitely sounds like a recycled business number. I really can't believe the phone company would be THAT efficient at selling new business contact details. I mean, come on. 30 seconds?
They don't need to be 16. They need to turn 16 in the year of the olympics.
Well, they haven't worked their alleged "evil" ways on this one yet (credit to karate3409 on digg):
Original:
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:lKKNqX5NgnwJ:www.sport.chengdu.gov.cn/escpecial/detail.asp%3FEventClassID%3D030308%26ID%3D28022+site:cn+%E4%BD%95%E5%8F%AF%E6%AC%A3+1994+%2B.gov&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us
Translated:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2F64.233.167.104%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dcache%3AlKKNqX5NgnwJ%3Awww.sport.chengdu.gov.cn%2Fescpecial%2Fdetail.asp%253FEventClassID%253D030308%2526ID%253D28022%2Bsite%3Acn%2B%25E4%25BD%2595%25E5%258F%25AF%25E6%25AC%25A3%2B1994%2B%252B.gov%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26cd%3D3%26gl%3Dus&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=zh-CN&tl=en
If you watched one of the interviews a few days ago, they pointed out one of the problems with the scoring system. Any country that has an athlete in the competition is excluded from the judging. That is done to prevent biased judges from altering the outcome, but it has a negative side effect. You can end up having the competition judged entirely by countries that don't have top not gymnastics programs. Those judges aren't accustomed to such incredible performances and with having to pick out such minute details, and they miss a lot more mistakes.
PS. Don't forget about the individual vault too.
In the girls defense, that just wouldn't go over. Not only with the way the Chinese government is about this stuff, but their families, too. The announcers even mentioned several times that one of the girls (don't remember which one) wanted to quit the sport 2 years ago but her parents wouldn't let her, because keeping her in it could change the lives of her entire family.