Cripes, you normally would generate one Fedex Overnight(tm) lawyer nastygram from a litigous corporation with a website, now you can generate dozens, if not scores of them all helping to keep those legal departments employed.
EULAs are probably boilerplate by now. This came up recently over the Roxio Toast EULA flap over in the Apple section a few weeks back.
Because they are boilerplate, companies can avoid paying legal fees or keeping so many lawyers on staff, which saves them money. There are your damages.
My wife was once an H1-B worker (non-engineering). The employer was supposed to pay the prevailing wage for the profession, so the employer reported the wage to the appropriate authorities and paid a totally different amount to the employee.
Woe be to the employee that whistleblows, it's hard finding an employer to sponsor a visa because of the hassles of dealing with immigration attorneys and the INS. As an employee, you had better have another sponsor lined up to hire you the moment you are fired/laid off/quit or you risk losing your visa. Making these workers salaried and requiring many hours overtime was a common practice from what I saw.
A 4-year degree and a 3.5+ GPA in Quality Management earned less than 21K/year on a 60 hour workweek and ruined her health. What fun.
Basically, the worker gets screwed here, bith the H1-B and the permanent resident/citizen.
Yes, they are now checking if the referrer is majcher.com.
But it still works. Call up the random login generator and save it as an HTML file on your local computer. Now every time you want to register, load that HTML file in a browser window.
No more problems. Try it from my webserver.
I didn't even modify any code in it. The author said to distribute it, I suggest we spread it around.
Granted the PC could not run x86 (meaning MS apps) by not supporting a non-Apple OS, but think of the other possibility:
VirtualPC running under OS X for intel.
Faster execution because the x86 code can run natively on the CPU, so no real big performance hit unlike the current version.
Connectix makes a similar product for Windows today that allows a user to run several virtual PCs on top of Windows.
True, when I started using Win2k I felt that Microsoft finally got a clue and released the best Windows ever. Enough to get this Windows-hater (I'm an old Team OS/2 member) to actually complement and recommend the OS to others for its speed and reliability. It's still my MS operating system of choice.
Then XP was released and I realized Win2k was just temporary insanity on Microsoft's part.
The beach ball is (in my case) caused by applications. Internet Explorer does this frequently when reading Slashdot in OS X. The beach ball will go away if you switch to another application.
I have not had the beach ball cause me problems under the Finder unless I am connecting to a slow-ass computer on a network with tons of files. And when the Finder does this, life begins to suck.
Methinks you have a misbehaving/inefficient application. When I see a persistent beach ball I switch to something else while the computer sorts itself out in the background.
The main problem Microsoft has is that they feel their Mac division is somewhat wasted; Apple isn't advertising their products enough to justify the expense of creating and maintaining Office/IE and whatever else they may be doing.
Apple doesn't seem to advertise on TV to reach me, I pretty much gave up on watching TV ages ago. As for Apple pushing Office X, they have been pushing it. It's listed on the Apple website on nearly every page hawking Apple stuff, and they had a $100 rebate if you got Office X along with a new Mac. I think that rebate price was good for upgrades as well.
As for cost, I purchased an Academic license after it first was released. I then had to wait nearly two months after the ship date to get my copy, just after finals started. I also read about reports of invalid serial numbers shipped with products. If this doesn't bring about ill will, I don't know what would.
I later picked up a second copy through my school's licensing program. 20 bucks for the full legit version, can't beat that.
This kind of combat is expensive, and probably ineffectual.
How much would it cost to outfit a large force of these machines?
How much would it cost to train and equip a human recruit?
We don't need to worry about building recruits, we seem to supply enough of those already.
As for effectiveness, a low-yield nuclear burst would pretty much wipe out all the nearby electronics with the EMP. Or better yet, build one of those cool devices they had on Ocean's 11.
If you ever wind up on the battlefield facing one of these contraptions, [obscure quote] just turn sideways. It messes them up then you can make jukeboxes out of them. [/obscure quote]
BTW: That brings up another point, never never never trust a spam From: Header, you should always track it down to the system sending the spam, not rely on what the From: Header says.
I was Joe-jobbed on my hotmail account last month. It was fascinating to watch the inbox fill up with bounces to invalid emails over the period of a week.
What suprised me is that I received *zero* complaints from people who got the spam, I thought I would have gotten a few hate-mails from people who don't read headers. Examples of the spam didn't even show up on Usenet's net-abuse forums.
Hotmail itself didn't communicate with me at all, except to tell me my mailbox was dangerously full and would I like to pay them for more space.
The headers showed the mail coming from an open relay on Earthlink, the mail advertising "You Won" in the subject.
Either apathy is worse than I thought, of everyone had a clue. Somhow I think it is the previous. Still it was a refreshing departure from the penis/breast enhancements, hot snatch, life-experience diplomas and toner/inket cartridges I get every day.
Maybe it was called an MP3 player because it stores and plays internally compressed digital music. Sony doesn't help by using MP3 as a marketing term for their MD players and the Digital Walkman (neither of which actually play MP3's). Imagine a concept sorta like trademark dilution. It happens all the time:
MP3 player for digital music player Band-Aids(TM) for bandages Kool-aid(TM) for fruit punch Velcro(TM) for hook-and-loop tape Coke(TM) for sodas Playboys(TM) for skin mags Kleenex(TM) for masturbatory cleanup tissues
Hardware: Remember back when apple supported BeOS? Ever wonder why they dropped it? Because they realized that if people could run a MacOS on IBM hardware, they'd abandon Apple's hardware like investors from Arthur Anderson
Just to nitpick: Pimped-out? OS X is basically NeXTSTEP/Openstep, I've run the NeXT hardware and OS's and it's very obvious. NeXT ran a real BSD Unix. NeXT's OS ran on 4 different platforms, Intel, HP, Sun, and NeXT (68k) hardware. I'm pretty sure OS X retains some of this ability, although at Apple's whim.
Arthur Andersen was not an issue back in the mid-late 90's. Clients are running away from them, not investors. We had enough problems back then to choose from, here are a few examples:
The failed Pink OS, Taligent, PHRP and CHRP PowerPC fiascos, Apple getting its head stuck firmly up its ass and in a death spiral, Intel Pentium bugs, Wordperfect being sold again and again until no one cared about it anymore, the sad whimpering death of OS/2 and Atari getting bled dry by the Tramiels and sold to a hard drive manufacturer.
What I haven't seen brought up is the fact that just about all MPAA broadcasts are already degraded.
In order to broadcast over the public airwaves in the US, you need to adhere to certain broadcast standards, so certain words, body parts, reproductive activity and bodily functions are not allowed to be on boradcast TV.
This pretty much degrades most films by simple "editing for TV".
The pirate does not get a "perfect copy" of an MPAA broadcast, but can of various made-for-TV type programs.
The pirate can get heavily edited, time-compressed, censored versions. Those that want flawless "perfect" copies of MPAA material can go to the DVD counter at the local store.
After a little google research I found that regular multimedia cards work. Another thread states that MM cards are not as fast as SD cards and are not recommended. What seems implied is that the Magellan does NOT use the DRM features of the card, only the added speed.
Then I suppose Garmin would suit your needs, they have a non-secure proprietary flash memory. As an added bonus, they sell them at proprietary prices too! (approx $2/MB on-line prices)
Just because Sony and MM-card formats have versions that support DRM does not mean you should boycott all forms of the format. There's plenty of support for the Meridian and the SD-cards in the GPS forums because it gets away from low availability of media and lowers prices for both the manufacturer and the consumer.
And what do these formats mean to you as a camera user? MM, SM, CF, MS are all standard, the only time they become a burden is when you wish to change camera models to one that uses a competing format. I've never seen a camera that enforces DRM on the removable media (and that includes Sony). DRM and secure cards are in the realm of portable music players, especially those by major manufacturers. Heck, even Sony allows non-secure memory sticks to play MP3's in it's MP3-playing Clie palm units, they require Magic Gate only for the ATRAC3-format files.
These various formats exist for reasons other than who is making them or DRM-style screwing-over of consumers, namely size. Standards are great, but we cannot always make do with one-size fits all. Just refuse to support the DRM versions of the cards. Simple enough.
Prolly not, he used to rent cars, and he loved to warm up the Ford Tarus in the cold mornings by keeping it in park and bouncing the engine off the rev-limiter.
They don't need to do this, car manufacturers are doing this already.
Ever see those cute commercials where the guy is stranded out in the middle of nowhere and locks his keys ouf of his SUV? Well with a cell phone he can get it unlocked, so can the police with a court order.
Such a system can call 911 if the air bags deploy, and track stolen vehicles via satellite. It is not much of an extension to add these systems to all new cars along with an engine kill switch via legislative mandate.
Granted, cops don't need these services since they can attach GPS tracking devices to cars, they did this recently in Orange County to track a suspect who was allegedly placing razor blades in children's playgrounds. But what about people they can't find, or are hard to get to?
It will be easier because if these systems become commonplace:
Cops decide to look for someone
Cops contact Onstar and request tracking start
Onstar locates the vehicle and relays tracking info to the cops in real-time
Cops tail vehicle
As an option for felony stops, cops can request the engine be killed remotely,
It would've worked great for the slow-speed OJ Bronco chase. Perhaps they can also add EU-style data retention, say the last year or so of GPS waypoints. That way when the next kidnapping/murder occurs, they can just check the database to generate a list of suspects so see who was at the crime scene, and who was also at the site where they dumped the victim/body.
It gives a whole treasure-trove of circumstantial evidence to mine.
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Cripes, you normally would generate one Fedex Overnight(tm) lawyer nastygram from a litigous corporation with a website, now you can generate dozens, if not scores of them all helping to keep those legal departments employed.
Because they are boilerplate, companies can avoid paying legal fees or keeping so many lawyers on staff, which saves them money. There are your damages.
Woe be to the employee that whistleblows, it's hard finding an employer to sponsor a visa because of the hassles of dealing with immigration attorneys and the INS. As an employee, you had better have another sponsor lined up to hire you the moment you are fired/laid off/quit or you risk losing your visa. Making these workers salaried and requiring many hours overtime was a common practice from what I saw.
A 4-year degree and a 3.5+ GPA in Quality Management earned less than 21K/year on a 60 hour workweek and ruined her health. What fun.
Basically, the worker gets screwed here, bith the H1-B and the permanent resident/citizen.
But it still works. Call up the random login generator and save it as an HTML file on your local computer. Now every time you want to register, load that HTML file in a browser window.
No more problems. Try it from my webserver. I didn't even modify any code in it. The author said to distribute it, I suggest we spread it around.
The only thing they changed is that they check if the ZIP code is valid. If it's 99999, then they refuse. Change it to a valid ZIP and it works.
PC-FX, PC-Engine, Turbo-Duo, FM-Towns Marty, Famicom, Super Famicom, Mega Drive, PC-88, MSX, MSX-2, and some early "Red-X" Saturn titles.
Methinks that this is a clever, yet popular riddle for geek shows.
VirtualPC running under OS X for intel.
Faster execution because the x86 code can run natively on the CPU, so no real big performance hit unlike the current version. Connectix makes a similar product for Windows today that allows a user to run several virtual PCs on top of Windows.
Then XP was released and I realized Win2k was just temporary insanity on Microsoft's part.
I'm now a happy OS X (and occasional Win2k) user.
I have not had the beach ball cause me problems under the Finder unless I am connecting to a slow-ass computer on a network with tons of files. And when the Finder does this, life begins to suck.
Methinks you have a misbehaving/inefficient application. When I see a persistent beach ball I switch to something else while the computer sorts itself out in the background.
My wife was watching Road Rules on MTV last weekend where the Road Rules group competes with the mtv.com group in "stepping".
The mtv.com group looked like Apple commercial rejects, I kid you not.
As for cost, I purchased an Academic license after it first was released. I then had to wait nearly two months after the ship date to get my copy, just after finals started. I also read about reports of invalid serial numbers shipped with products. If this doesn't bring about ill will, I don't know what would.
I later picked up a second copy through my school's licensing program. 20 bucks for the full legit version, can't beat that.
If they do that, you'll probably have to install some drivers/software to get it to work. Any guesses as to what OSes will be supported?
I'll give a hint: it won't be Linux.
How much would it cost to outfit a large force of these machines?
How much would it cost to train and equip a human recruit?
We don't need to worry about building recruits, we seem to supply enough of those already.
As for effectiveness, a low-yield nuclear burst would pretty much wipe out all the nearby electronics with the EMP. Or better yet, build one of those cool devices they had on Ocean's 11.
If you ever wind up on the battlefield facing one of these contraptions, [obscure quote] just turn sideways. It messes them up then you can make jukeboxes out of them. [/obscure quote]
What suprised me is that I received *zero* complaints from people who got the spam, I thought I would have gotten a few hate-mails from people who don't read headers. Examples of the spam didn't even show up on Usenet's net-abuse forums.
Hotmail itself didn't communicate with me at all, except to tell me my mailbox was dangerously full and would I like to pay them for more space.
The headers showed the mail coming from an open relay on Earthlink, the mail advertising "You Won" in the subject.
Either apathy is worse than I thought, of everyone had a clue. Somhow I think it is the previous. Still it was a refreshing departure from the penis/breast enhancements, hot snatch, life-experience diplomas and toner/inket cartridges I get every day.
MP3 player for digital music player
Band-Aids(TM) for bandages
Kool-aid(TM) for fruit punch
Velcro(TM) for hook-and-loop tape
Coke(TM) for sodas
Playboys(TM) for skin mags
Kleenex(TM) for masturbatory cleanup tissues
Pimped-out? OS X is basically NeXTSTEP/Openstep, I've run the NeXT hardware and OS's and it's very obvious. NeXT ran a real BSD Unix. NeXT's OS ran on 4 different platforms, Intel, HP, Sun, and NeXT (68k) hardware. I'm pretty sure OS X retains some of this ability, although at Apple's whim.
Arthur Andersen was not an issue back in the mid-late 90's. Clients are running away from them, not investors. We had enough problems back then to choose from, here are a few examples:
The failed Pink OS, Taligent, PHRP and CHRP PowerPC fiascos, Apple getting its head stuck firmly up its ass and in a death spiral, Intel Pentium bugs, Wordperfect being sold again and again until no one cared about it anymore, the sad whimpering death of OS/2 and Atari getting bled dry by the Tramiels and sold to a hard drive manufacturer.
Apple's killed promotions mid-stream when new products are ready for release. They've done it last year with the Powerbook.
In order to broadcast over the public airwaves in the US, you need to adhere to certain broadcast standards, so certain words, body parts, reproductive activity and bodily functions are not allowed to be on boradcast TV.
This pretty much degrades most films by simple "editing for TV".
The pirate does not get a "perfect copy" of an MPAA broadcast, but can of various made-for-TV type programs.
The pirate can get heavily edited, time-compressed, censored versions. Those that want flawless "perfect" copies of MPAA material can go to the DVD counter at the local store.
After a little google research I found that regular multimedia cards work. Another thread states that MM cards are not as fast as SD cards and are not recommended. What seems implied is that the Magellan does NOT use the DRM features of the card, only the added speed.
(approx $2/MB on-line prices)
Just because Sony and MM-card formats have versions that support DRM does not mean you should boycott all forms of the format. There's plenty of support for the Meridian and the SD-cards in the GPS forums because it gets away from low availability of media and lowers prices for both the manufacturer and the consumer.
And what do these formats mean to you as a camera user? MM, SM, CF, MS are all standard, the only time they become a burden is when you wish to change camera models to one that uses a competing format. I've never seen a camera that enforces DRM on the removable media (and that includes Sony). DRM and secure cards are in the realm of portable music players, especially those by major manufacturers. Heck, even Sony allows non-secure memory sticks to play MP3's in it's MP3-playing Clie palm units, they require Magic Gate only for the ATRAC3-format files.
These various formats exist for reasons other than who is making them or DRM-style screwing-over of consumers, namely size. Standards are great, but we cannot always make do with one-size fits all. Just refuse to support the DRM versions of the cards. Simple enough.
In 1992, I had a 2400 baud modem that was replaced by a 14.4k modem sometime soon afterwards.
Prolly not, he used to rent cars, and he loved to warm up the Ford Tarus in the cold mornings by keeping it in park and bouncing the engine off the rev-limiter.
Ever see those cute commercials where the guy is stranded out in the middle of nowhere and locks his keys ouf of his SUV?
Well with a cell phone he can get it unlocked, so can the police with a court order.
Such a system can call 911 if the air bags deploy, and track stolen vehicles via satellite. It is not much of an extension to add these systems to all new cars along with an engine kill switch via legislative mandate.
Granted, cops don't need these services since they can attach GPS tracking devices to cars, they did this recently in Orange County to track a suspect who was allegedly placing razor blades in children's playgrounds. But what about people they can't find, or are hard to get to?
It will be easier because if these systems become commonplace:
- Cops decide to look for someone
- Cops contact Onstar and request tracking start
- Onstar locates the vehicle and relays tracking info to the cops in real-time
- Cops tail vehicle
- As an option for felony stops, cops can request the engine be killed remotely,
It would've worked great for the slow-speed OJ Bronco chase. Perhaps they can also add EU-style data retention, say the last year or so of GPS waypoints. That way when the next kidnapping/murder occurs, they can just check the database to generate a list of suspects so see who was at the crime scene, and who was also at the site where they dumped the victim/body.It gives a whole treasure-trove of circumstantial evidence to mine.