I hope the people who are responsible for this attack which is technically terrorism
I'm sure people are absolutely terrified of some degradation of connectivity on the Internet. I know I am! Think of all them poor packets getting lost!!!!1
(not withstanding the fucking sysadmins who haven't patched their boxen for over 6 months, of course)
This is the most amazing thing I've seen in all my life! The way it goes up, gets put through such a lot of strain and still lives! And it's still flying! I wonder what hardware they're using.
I used to work for a contracting company similar to yours; a clause in each contract was I was not allowed to be employed by the same clients for 12 months after I stopped contracting with that company - whether with another contracting company or freelance.
You may find you're going to have to find a complete set of new clients.
I thought the EFF was here to defend, first, the people rights online over those of the companies, even more unethical ones.
The real point is - who decides what you see what is on your screen when you visit a website?
If it is the website owner, this sets a very bad precident for protecting consumers from crap like popups and excessive adverts (ahem, he says on/.).
If Gator looses this action, it is likely that ad-blocking software (did anyone say Mozilla?) will be liable to similar actions. The point being Gator is contending that the User should decide what is on her screen when visiting a website.
This doesn't detract from the fact that Gator are shady, near-fraudulent scamsters who need a jolly good beating with a cluestick.
Here's the unadulterated statement by BMG. No shit. This has not been altered in anyway.
Sourced from the register article:
"we are sorry you have troubles with our copy protection technology. The copy protection reacts on the special new technology that is build in in burners. Unfortunately htis technics was built in many new CD players, even if they can't copy a cd.
"The copy protection yet does not recognize wheather that burner technics is build in a cd player or in a burner. That's why the cd playern might not play a copy protected CD. Since burner technics are also built in car radios, this may be the reason, why you can't listen to a copyprotected cd in your car.
"As far as we were adviced, our copy protection is according to the Red Book Standart as well as all labelling on the cd.
"A standart home CD player is one that has no burner technics built in. Our Cds play on all Cd players without burner technics.
"There will be no cd manufactured without copyprotection any more."
If there was any doubt whether they're doing this due to stupidity or malice, I hope it has gone given the language and general fuckwittedness of their statement.
My dad got one of the Acer's a few days ago in order to test his company's software on it. I had a go in the local cybercafe down the road.
Pro's:
Nice feeling pens (there are two)
The swivel idea is nice, abeit a little fiddly.
It looks cool!
It's pretty small and light
Windows Journal is very nice
Con's:
Windows XP is as slow as a dog! I don't know what spec the machine is, but there is very noticable latency between clicking and menu's appearing for example. This might have something to do with it having an absolute shitpile graphics card.
There is no positive feedback that you have clicked. A tiny click sound would improve usability 110%. This is where the whole thing really fails. I found myself reverting to the touchpad in a few minutes because it was just so frustrating to try and double-click.
The onscreen keyboard is good, but the handwriting recognition is both crap and slow (about 1.5 seconds delay after writing 'jpixton').
The screen has a protector on it which makes it rather reflective.
Fiddly as fuck for clicking anything small. They really need to realise you can't just use a pen with windows which was designed to be used with a mouse. They need to alter the user interface to be more usable with a pen!!
Do you want a ticket sent to you monthly cause some camera caught you doing 55 in a 50 zone without your seat belt on since they were hard pressed to reach thier violation quota for the month?
Erm, so you're saying you should be able to break the law if there isn't a cop around?
And are you saying that you'd resent getting caught breaking two laws by a machine as opposed to a person?
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I think you miss the point. People don't use alternative browsers because of bullshit like this.
Isn't MSN meant to be commerically independent of Microsoft?
The Sun JRE is 9.5MB. Add that to the base install of 3.3MB and what do you get?
They're crazy I tells ya!
(not withstanding the fucking sysadmins who haven't patched their boxen for over 6 months, of course)
I'm thinking perhaps as an oarswoman on the river Styx? Rumours are that Charon is hiring!
Shorter wavelengths are significantly harder to produce using *LED technology because the... [should have listened in Physics classes].
Shurely not!
Another retarded open proxy problem
If they can get this to a decent level of authenticity, this could be cool for witness protection.
Not to mention the possiblities to those who want to disappear.
Oh, the videos of the rockets are OK too.
*rimshot*
You may find you're going to have to find a complete set of new clients.
If it is the website owner, this sets a very bad precident for protecting consumers from crap like popups and excessive adverts (ahem, he says on /.).
If Gator looses this action, it is likely that ad-blocking software (did anyone say Mozilla?) will be liable to similar actions. The point being Gator is contending that the User should decide what is on her screen when visiting a website.
This doesn't detract from the fact that Gator are shady, near-fraudulent scamsters who need a jolly good beating with a cluestick.
God, I'm lame.
Kind of like this?
Pro's:
Nice feeling pens (there are two)
The swivel idea is nice, abeit a little fiddly.
It looks cool!
It's pretty small and light
Windows Journal is very nice
Con's:
Windows XP is as slow as a dog! I don't know what spec the machine is, but there is very noticable latency between clicking and menu's appearing for example. This might have something to do with it having an absolute shitpile graphics card.
There is no positive feedback that you have clicked. A tiny click sound would improve usability 110%. This is where the whole thing really fails. I found myself reverting to the touchpad in a few minutes because it was just so frustrating to try and double-click.
The onscreen keyboard is good, but the handwriting recognition is both crap and slow (about 1.5 seconds delay after writing 'jpixton').
The screen has a protector on it which makes it rather reflective.
Fiddly as fuck for clicking anything small. They really need to realise you can't just use a pen with windows which was designed to be used with a mouse. They need to alter the user interface to be more usable with a pen!!
And are you saying that you'd resent getting caught breaking two laws by a machine as opposed to a person?
Or even:
MAKE Version 5.2 Copyright (c) 1987, 1999 Inprise Corp.
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Someone is expressing their opinion I see ;)
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