Then you have to ask yourself the question "How does this article assist me, a wikipedia editor, to increase my edit count and by extension the size of my penis?"
"So, in light of this embarassing breach, what have you done to ensure the security of Ohio residents' personal information?"
"Well, we spent three million dollars on the best encryption software that we could find. We haven't actually installed any of it, and it is causes some incompatibilities with our existing procedures so we probably never will take it out of the box, and if we do chances are that we will just do a half-assed installation which leaves most of the key features disabled, but gosh darn it we got a budget to address this issue and we sure spent it."
"Good job. I'm sure that the voters will sleep well tonight."
Yeah, doing a better job with free software that just works would have been nice, but it doesn't put high enough numbers on the spreadsheets. That's what happens when your job becomes more about covering your butt than getting things done.
No, that's like arguing that Open Source licenses may restrict source-code from being distributed in modified form only if the license allows the distribution of "patch files" with the source code for the purpose of modifying the program at build time, and that they must explicitly permit distribution of software built from modified source code.
It's beyond me why people are so quick to spill their most personal secrets on a social networking site
It's because they're hoping to score with Hot Internet Chicks. Why is this hard to understand?
If playing every Mario game ever made has taught me anything it's that guys will do anything, even eating strange mushrooms and jumping head first into sewer pipes, for the vague possibility of impressing women.
Well they're certainly not going to blame anything as unpleasant as drug or alcohol abuse. That kind of thing never happens to sweet, innocent South Koreans. It must be electric fans that are killing them.
Darl Mcbride not only managed to drive a somewhat successful company totally into the ground in the space of 3 or 4 years but also managed to totally alienate them from the entire industry and turn the company name into a pariah.
Yup. It seems some people will go to any lengths to win a bet.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with paper books.
Really? Okay, I'll just toss these ebooks in the fire and stuff a dozen hardcover books into my jacket pocket. While I'm walking home in the rain I will open one up and yell "SEARCH, DAMN YOU!" at it until it flips open to the page I need. When I get home I will tear out the pages I need, fold them up and slip them into the CD-ROM drive on my PC, hoping that it will somehow figure out how to import the a few sentences and a diagram into a paper that I'm working on...
And then I'll go out and search for some more non-existant benefits to using eBooks.
Don't get me wrong, I like real books just find and am quite happy lugging around big stacks of paper, but there are many cases where eBooks are much more convenient than traditional printed volumes.
How about free? Provided, of course, that you provide your own Blackberry, Palm, Smarter-Than-Thou-Phone, PC or other geek-faux-wang. If you don't already have one you can probably find something acceptable at or near your $100 price point. It won't have the big e-Paper screen that the Kindle does, but I have no troubles using a smaller display.
* Books have to be half the price of print books or lower.
e-Book pricing is all over the place right now, with titles ranging anywhere from free, free, or free, all the way to about the same as printed books. As the market grows expect to see more pressure on prices which should force things down a bit, but don't hold your breath.
+ No bullshit DRM. I better be able to back the content up, copy it to my ipod, save it on my hard drive. Whatever.
Some books ship with bullshit included while others come pas-des-merde-des-vasche. With a good reader you can feed it anything from flat ASCII text, HTML or PDF files through to insanely encrypted tracts of bull and have something readable come out the other end. The choice is yours.
+ I better be able to resell it, just like I can resell a used book. Otherwise, all of this is just a run-around way for the publishing industry to attacked the used book trade, which they hate more than almost anything else on earth (including their loathing of public libraries).
Yes, you can absolutely resell the hardware that you read books on just like you resell a used book. Reselling _data_ is a trickier problem, as it is nothing like a used book. Besides, the only way for second hand ebooks to have any value would be if they included "Bullshit DRM". Which do you want, resale or steerpoopage?
Slashdot Mirror
"I don't believe in it anyway!"
"What?"
"IP."
"Just a conspiracy of network engineers, then?"
Perhaps in Denmark.
Or Spain
Or, hey, maybe you should produce videos for Greenpeace, threatening anyone who doesn't agree with them. I'm sure that would help.
But it makes a _perfectly_ straight line, and that can't be an accident.
Then you have to ask yourself the question "How does this article assist me, a wikipedia editor, to increase my edit count and by extension the size of my penis?"
"KDE 3.5 Was A Major Memory Hog"
...if only they had a little bit more class with how they modified the HTTP data.
Finagle, actually. Murphy's Law has a subtly different meaning.
Interestingly enough, referring to Finagle's Law as Murphy's is itself an example of Murphy's Law in action.
"So, in light of this embarassing breach, what have you done to ensure the security of Ohio residents' personal information?"
"Well, we spent three million dollars on the best encryption software that we could find. We haven't actually installed any of it, and it is causes some incompatibilities with our existing procedures so we probably never will take it out of the box, and if we do chances are that we will just do a half-assed installation which leaves most of the key features disabled, but gosh darn it we got a budget to address this issue and we sure spent it."
"Good job. I'm sure that the voters will sleep well tonight."
Yeah, doing a better job with free software that just works would have been nice, but it doesn't put high enough numbers on the spreadsheets. That's what happens when your job becomes more about covering your butt than getting things done.
AMDs, WMDs... What's the difference, really?
Yeah. Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true.
As I recall the saying goes something like "Power corrupts, but absolute power is pretty freakin' cool".
Or next year's MacBooks.
Think about who you're talking to.
No, that's like arguing that Open Source licenses may restrict source-code from being distributed in modified form only if the license allows the distribution of "patch files" with the source code for the purpose of modifying the program at build time, and that they must explicitly permit distribution of software built from modified source code.
You could even argue that that's part of the definition of Open Source.
It's because they're hoping to score with Hot Internet Chicks. Why is this hard to understand?
If playing every Mario game ever made has taught me anything it's that guys will do anything, even eating strange mushrooms and jumping head first into sewer pipes, for the vague possibility of impressing women.
You'd think that with what the CEO of Activision makes he could afford more than $200 for a PS3.
Well they're certainly not going to blame anything as unpleasant as drug or alcohol abuse. That kind of thing never happens to sweet, innocent South Koreans. It must be electric fans that are killing them.
Is that any more surreal than a form of "entertainment" in which people get shot at or blown up every five minutes or so?
Yup. It seems some people will go to any lengths to win a bet.
But man is he ever enjoying that $20.
Really? Okay, I'll just toss these ebooks in the fire and stuff a dozen hardcover books into my jacket pocket. While I'm walking home in the rain I will open one up and yell "SEARCH, DAMN YOU!" at it until it flips open to the page I need. When I get home I will tear out the pages I need, fold them up and slip them into the CD-ROM drive on my PC, hoping that it will somehow figure out how to import the a few sentences and a diagram into a paper that I'm working on...
And then I'll go out and search for some more non-existant benefits to using eBooks.
Don't get me wrong, I like real books just find and am quite happy lugging around big stacks of paper, but there are many cases where eBooks are much more convenient than traditional printed volumes.
Yeah. Somebody should try that some time.
How about free? Provided, of course, that you provide your own Blackberry, Palm, Smarter-Than-Thou-Phone, PC or other geek-faux-wang. If you don't already have one you can probably find something acceptable at or near your $100 price point. It won't have the big e-Paper screen that the Kindle does, but I have no troubles using a smaller display.
e-Book pricing is all over the place right now, with titles ranging anywhere from free, free, or free, all the way to about the same as printed books. As the market grows expect to see more pressure on prices which should force things down a bit, but don't hold your breath.
Some books ship with bullshit included while others come pas-des-merde-des-vasche. With a good reader you can feed it anything from flat ASCII text, HTML or PDF files through to insanely encrypted tracts of bull and have something readable come out the other end. The choice is yours.
Yes, you can absolutely resell the hardware that you read books on just like you resell a used book. Reselling _data_ is a trickier problem, as it is nothing like a used book. Besides, the only way for second hand ebooks to have any value would be if they included "Bullshit DRM". Which do you want, resale or steerpoopage?
Does that mean it's Tuesday again?
Yes, they would have to have watched Hudson Hawk to do that. That narrows the field considerably.
They wouldn't be able to do that if you would stop broadcasting your IP address all over the Internet.
I'm impressed he could even get it to load on an Xbox. As the article clearly says, it is designed for the Xbox _360_.
Doesn't anybody even read the system requirements before going to court?