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In fact, the only thing reliable about their products is making my daughter cry after the toy crashes for the third time in five minutes!
My 4 year old son has both a My First Leappad and the Leappad plus Writing, and both work flawlessly. He's not particularly careful with it either (drops in on the floor when he's done with it, pops the cartridges in and out with the power on, etc). The Leappad writing system is new to him, so we'll see how that works, but he's had the other one for over a year with no problems.
1. Merge with well respected company with original content. 2. Destroy all original content and replace with mindless crap. 3. Disassociate yourself with merged company. 4. Profit??
That's pretty much it, except for the "profit" part.
The whole merger was basically so G4 could gain marketshare, since many cable/satellite systems carried TechTV, but few carried G4. Mission accomplished, but it won't last long. Who actually watches this crap (I loved TechTV when it actually had an ounce of "tech")
If the people running G4 had any sense, their business plan would have been:
1. Merge with well respected company with original content. 2. Dump least popular TechTV shows, and replace with popular G4 shows. 3. Profit!
But alas, I'm sure some douchbag executives lined their pockets and bailed long before the G4TechTV downfall.
"Surely the Secret Service would encrypt anything important?"
Probably encrypted, but maybe not always if it's not a considered a very sensitive communication.
FTFA:
Twenty-one year-old Nicolas Jacobsen was quietly charged with the intrusions last October, after a Secret Service informant helped investigators link him to
sensitive agency documents that were circulating in underground IRC chat rooms.
I think the grandparent has a point. Maybe not use their own dedicated network, but there is certainly email encryption software available on any PDA, that would probably have been useful here.
You'd think that if 2% of the calls are monitored for quality control purposes... then QC would actually improve in the long run. In my experience, phone support/service is generally about the same (or less) quality as it was many years ago.
No, no, no. You misunderstand.
They are monitoring the call to gauge the quality of their *customers*. The more annoying their customers appear to be, the more likely it is that your call is mysteriously dropped when they "transfer" you to another department.
A number of people have mentioned H&R block finding additional deductions they wouldn't have thought of on their own. Anyone care to be specific?
The reason I ask is that I've always done my own taxes, either by hand (way back when) or with TurboTax or TaxAct. My tax situtation isn't overly complicated but isn't overly simple either (mortgage, small business, investments, etc).
I've never felt like the tax code was too complicated for me to find deductions I was entitled to. All the tax programs ask you specific questions related to all areas where you might find deductions. I'm just wondering what are these elusive deductions that H&R block is able to find that couldn't be found with a little bit of homework.
Now please tell me, why clicking once on a "Download it!" link is difficult for the average user? What part of "Download it!" would be difficult to understand?:)
I never said clicking Download It would be difficult. Clearly, once the proverbial cat is out of the bag, its relatively easy for decrypted DVD files to be shared P2P.
The difficult part is cracking the DRM. Presumably this scheme will be somewhat more difficult to crack than CSS was.
If the eye can see it, or the ear can hear it....It can be recorded/copied.
When are they going to learn?
Well of course it *can* be copied. Just like you *could* repair your car when it breaks down. But guess what. Most people don't repair their cars because it's usually too damn difficult for the average person.
That's exactly the point of these DRM schemes. Of course it won't prevent *all* copyright infringement or whatever other bulls#$t restrictions they have in mind. But it will make it difficult for the average user.
What's the old saying? Information wants to be free?
New saying - Bandwidth wants to be free!
Newest saying - WiFi phonecalls want to be free.
...which of course they will be once someone captures enough WiFi packets to crack the encyption and clone their own phone to someone elses Vonage account.
Meeting requests, polls, ability to recall messages, view other peoples calendars, etc.
Exactly.
As much as I'd like to eliminate Outlook/Exchange from where I work (primarily because of the cost), until there is something available to integrate these functions into a single mail client, it just isn't going to happen.
Of course, you can't sell an item that belongs to blizzard.
You are merely charging them a fee for transfering the item to their player.
They can simply change their TOS to say "you agree not to sell, or facilitate the transfer of..."
If the MMOG companies don't want you to trade items outside of their virtual space, why do they build such facilities into the game in the first place? Why not allow transfer of items among players who actually meet up and are present, not via a messaging system that is easy to exploit.
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Oddly, they don't bother to tell you what it is on either the main page or under Features.
A little digging here reveals:
In fact, the only thing reliable about their products is making my daughter cry after the toy crashes for the third time in five minutes!
My 4 year old son has both a My First Leappad and the Leappad plus Writing, and both work flawlessly. He's not particularly careful with it either (drops in on the floor when he's done with it, pops the cartridges in and out with the power on, etc). The Leappad writing system is new to him, so we'll see how that works, but he's had the other one for over a year with no problems.
So I guess now we can hang the banner back up?
1. Merge with well respected company with original content.
2. Destroy all original content and replace with mindless crap.
3. Disassociate yourself with merged company.
4. Profit??
That's pretty much it, except for the "profit" part.
The whole merger was basically so G4 could gain marketshare, since many cable/satellite systems carried TechTV, but few carried G4. Mission accomplished, but it won't last long. Who actually watches this crap (I loved TechTV when it actually had an ounce of "tech")
If the people running G4 had any sense, their business plan would have been:
1. Merge with well respected company with original content.
2. Dump least popular TechTV shows, and replace with popular G4 shows.
3. Profit!
But alas, I'm sure some douchbag executives lined their pockets and bailed long before the G4TechTV downfall.
Probably encrypted, but maybe not always if it's not a considered a very sensitive communication.
FTFA:
I think the grandparent has a point. Maybe not use their own dedicated network, but there is certainly email encryption software available on any PDA, that would probably have been useful here.
You'd think that if 2% of the calls are monitored for quality control purposes... then QC would actually improve in the long run. In my experience, phone support/service is generally about the same (or less) quality as it was many years ago.
No, no, no. You misunderstand.
They are monitoring the call to gauge the quality of their *customers*. The more annoying their customers appear to be, the more likely it is that your call is mysteriously dropped when they "transfer" you to another department.
Back in the MS-DOS days, they had MSAV which did exactly that. I'm not sure why they ditched it when they made Windows 95 tho.
Clearly, Windows95 was so advanced, it didn't need antivirus software.
Like this?
A number of people have mentioned H&R block finding additional deductions they wouldn't have thought of on their own. Anyone care to be specific?
The reason I ask is that I've always done my own taxes, either by hand (way back when) or with TurboTax or TaxAct. My tax situtation isn't overly complicated but isn't overly simple either (mortgage, small business, investments, etc).
I've never felt like the tax code was too complicated for me to find deductions I was entitled to. All the tax programs ask you specific questions related to all areas where you might find deductions. I'm just wondering what are these elusive deductions that H&R block is able to find that couldn't be found with a little bit of homework.
Now please tell me, why clicking once on a "Download it!" link is difficult for the average user? What part of "Download it!" would be difficult to understand? :)
I never said clicking Download It would be difficult. Clearly, once the proverbial cat is out of the bag, its relatively easy for decrypted DVD files to be shared P2P.
The difficult part is cracking the DRM. Presumably this scheme will be somewhat more difficult to crack than CSS was.
Uh oh... here come the FEDs!
It's their new plan to monitor and prosecute copyright violations.
"This is the FED9000. Cancel that illegal music download and step away from the computer"
If the eye can see it, or the ear can hear it....It can be recorded/copied.
When are they going to learn?
Well of course it *can* be copied. Just like you *could* repair your car when it breaks down. But guess what. Most people don't repair their cars because it's usually too damn difficult for the average person.
That's exactly the point of these DRM schemes.
Of course it won't prevent *all* copyright infringement or whatever other bulls#$t restrictions they have in mind. But it will make it difficult for the average user.
Yes, 25 years does seem a bit harsh.
The Feds arrested him after he flashed a police helicopter searching for the source of the beam.
Besides, one would imagine going through life being *that* stupid should be punishment enough.
Bahhh.... asteroids are for wimps.
I'd be more worried about this 2029 event
So Y2K would be the year the world cooled down to 2 Kelvin. We'll all be icecubes by the time that ever happens.
Ahhh, so that's when hell freezes over.
Erm, controller design, custom logic, any sort of medium-to-large scale digital electronics project
New saying - Bandwidth wants to be free!
Newest saying - WiFi phonecalls want to be free.
My roommate spent $6000 on a G$ - I mean a G5.
Close one. Thought you meant G string
(hey, I grew up with BASIC)
Meeting requests, polls, ability to recall messages, view other peoples calendars, etc.
Exactly.
As much as I'd like to eliminate Outlook/Exchange from where I work (primarily because of the cost), until there is something available to integrate these functions into a single mail client, it just isn't going to happen.
I, for one, welcome our little green dirt cleaning overlords.
I'd also like to see if we could slow down the Earth to create 30 hour days
Ok, on the count of 3, everybody outstretch your arms.
Of course, you can't sell an item that belongs to blizzard.
You are merely charging them a fee for transfering the item to their player.
They can simply change their TOS to say "you agree not to sell, or facilitate the transfer of..."
If the MMOG companies don't want you to trade items outside of their virtual space, why do they build such facilities into the game in the first place? Why not allow transfer of items among players who actually meet up and are present, not via a messaging system that is easy to exploit.
For that to have a severely negative effect, it would need to cross your heart
Don't forget "and hope to die"
All I'm getting is a blank screen.
YES! We have a winner!
Uh, and how does that help out? Maybe I'm being dense, but that doesn't seem like it'll diagnose any kind of problem that would matter..
1. It doesn't
2. Not dense at all (see the Insightful mod)
3. It won't
-and sorry, but I can't resist-
4. You must be new here