Wasn't about the same thing said for the DVD protection system? All security systems like this fall apart when the user had the device being hacked in his hands.
And what if it's a WD drive they are talking about? The life of those is so low they had to drop their warranty to 1 year because they admitted 3 years would put them out of business. (The reason I only use Segate 5 year warranty drives).
Oh, come on, in three years even the average consumer will have started to pick up on the importance of 1080i if not 1080p. Introducing this technology without at least a choice that includes one of these resolution options will create a perception that it's a second class technology and doom it before it even gets a start.
Thanks. This was very helpful, and also makes it very clear that this is much more serous than something that just deals with animated cursors. In fact, I'm at a loss to understand why the community is attaching the aminated cursor reference to it.
Does anyone have a link to any information that actually explains how thi exploit works? I've been reading about it for over a week, but can't find any susbtantial information Just warning that it can hit you from web page content or html e-mail reading. But what that has to do with animated cursors is not at all clear. I've never yet seen an html page that could change my user selected cursor, so how is it that this exploit actually affects the user's computer?
Yea, funny and even cute, until you figure that as they look at new science books for state public schools, the state will be more concerned with the books promoting the official state version of the planetary population than they will be with overall quality or cost to the taxpayers.
What could go wrong here, with millions of mercury containing floresent bulbs soon finding their way to landfills all over Australia? But at least it's being done in the name of the environment.
Yea, I did RTFA, but I still have no idea what these 3 price cuts written about are or what I should now expect to pay for various AMD cpus. So much hype, so little information.
Oh, come on The consumer gets screwed big time in these suits, we see it over and over again. The often end up with no more than a worthless coupon good only at the manufacturers website for items bought at "full retail"(in other words at whatever price the seller wants to set) and not even available for use with any other offer, while the lawyers make millions. If the claim that the consumer suffered no real harm could be made, then the party being sued would have made it and the lawyers would have had no validity in filing the suit in the first place. Clearly they frequently sell out the public in order to make their own profits.
So when do we start the law suits against the lawyers who screw the average guy by filing lawsuits on their behalf and then making all the profits and getting us coupons? Seems like a lawsuit that the jury couldn't help but award to us.
Actually, the current e-bay ownership is the primary reason I will not use it. You may feel otherwise, but I think they are one of the most evil companies on the Internet (after MS, of couurse).
Skype started out well enough, but as it gained pouplarity it was bought by the Electronic bay of theives, the people who know about all sorts of shill bidding and purchases to defraud people but do nothing about it unless it gets so much media attention that it brings down heat that threatens their cut. There are one or two people not happy about abuses of paypal, another thing they bought with their ill gotten gains. And I expect the list continues to grow.
Not that that is important to support the concern that this action is wrong. Stealing information from your system and sending it home to be tracked, and not even disclosing that action, should be enough to concern anyone in this age of privacy violations and idenity theft. Looks like this is just another black mark on this corporation's record.
Without kicking in $100-$200 against the price of the phone, Cingular can discount the service
But wouldn't this lead others to want discounted service if they supply their own non-Apple phones? If an Apple Iphone user gets a discount for supplying his own phone, shouldn't a user who just wants to use a less expensive phone be able to supply it and buy the service at a fair price too? That would ruin the business model of the cel companies. The current business model of all of them, even though they are prohibited by anti-trust laws from all agreeing on how to screw the consumer. Isn't going to happen. Sure, there might be some claims of this, but new ways to screw the consumer will be created at the same time to make up for it.
Come on, the industry knows that the iPhone people are exactly the people who have too much money, they are not going to be giving them a break, at least not a real one.
Yea, you wouldn't want to make a product like this available to people openly. That would only result in a greater availability of software for it and help reduce costs for all devices due to economy of scale. Much better to have questionable governments and other organizations buy them at a discount and rather than put them in the hands of those they are intended for sell them at inflated prices on the electronic bay of theives, with the market boosted by no legitimate channel to buy them, increasing the black market profit and having a negative effect on the olpc program.
I certainly don't think I'm "owed" anything here, the author has a complete right to pull the links and not allow further downloading of the program he has made freely available. But doing so does seem rather mercenary, when he could provide a link to a mirror or a torrent that would cost him nothing. And yes, I can continue to use the version I am now using, but I have not agressively downloaded every update. In fact the version that I have has some bugs (there is stuff stuck in the output queue that will not delete or send). And unfortunately I only have a Windows version. With the Slashdot announcemet that Pegasus was circling the drain I had hoped to get a final version and perhaps a Linux version, but it's not really circling the drain, it's deliberately flushed and I see a message that it will take a very expensive plumber to recover it. This just seems like a petty sad end to a great program.
I have used the program for a long time; still use it. While the author is to be respected for giving it freely for so long, I have to say that I'm apalled by the way it has been pulled. No announcement, no chance to get the final version. The website is now just a "I would work on it if paid" page. The removal of the ability to get the current version leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Yes; I understand that at shut-down the author doesn't want to suddenly incur large bandwidth fees and he could get hit with a lot of requests for the final version after making such an announcement, but one would think that he could at least post links to mirrors or even a torrent for the final version of the program. Without such an effort I'm left with a bit of a negative feeling for a programming effort I've long respected.
the wrist strap broke and caused the remote to leave the user's hand
So the wrist strap broke, all on it's own, and that caused that remote to leave the user's hand???? This spontanious breaking of writs straps is amazing, as is that it would cause users to then release the remote from their hands. Or could there be another more likely sequence of events?
You're asking the wrong question. Of course you should buy a 64 bit system if you're building a new system, unless you have a specific need for a 32 bit system and plan on replacing it within the year. Ther real questions are: Do I want dual core chips (and the really slick hardware virtualization that comes with the dual core chips)? Do I want Intel or AMD? (I'm a long time AMD fan but the Intel dual core chips are getting better buzz than the AMD dual core chips, although you may want to price out the whole systems, not just the CPUs, to get a real idea. And, have other have mentoned here, do I want to run a 64 bit OS or a 32 bit OS? Even with a 32 bit OS you can switch to 64 later (at no cost if you use Linux) as long as you started with a 64 bit CPU.
That's the turkey. Yea, play games by numerical keypad, not controler, what else could anyone want? Bad even by the standards of the day. And the other one I was trying to remember was named in a post below mine. Hard to imagine either of these avoiding a 10 lamest list with the games that did make the list. I'll have to remember this as one of the 10 lamest lists I've ever seen.
So somehow as a taxpayer in the U.S.A. who funded that research I should still be charged outrageous skyrocketing prices if I need it, but somehow people in foregin countries somehow deserve it more than I do and should have it given to them? I might well accept an argument that public funded medical research should have certain restrictions put on it's prices, but those restrictions should start with saying that the taxpayers who funded it should be charged no more than others who did not fund it (including Canadians and Europeans), not allow the patent holders to charge even more locally to offset giving the stuff away to "the poor". Lets not even get into discussions of how such giveaways usually enrich a corrupt government and seldom get to the targeted people, it's not even relivant in this case.
Oh, come on. Sure, the systems mentioned here all fell short in some way or another, but calling these the 10 lamest game consoles, ever completely destroys the credability of the author Scott Steinberg as well as that of the submitter. This list doesn't even come close to some of the real turkeys, like the RCA console that was released in the 70's, an overpriced and extremely crude resolution cartridge based console that offered B&W graphics at the same time the Fairchild F8 and the Atari 2600 were offering color, not to mention that none of the games were any fun. This turkey certainly belongs on any list of the ten lamest, if not at the very top.
I also recall a B&W LCD cartgidge based game that preceeded the Nitendo B&W handheld console that I would put on the list, if I could only recall it's name.
Actually, many of the games listed in the article were far from lame, but they were poorly marketed (nat at all as poorly as the RCA game however). While no two people in a reasonable sized pool would be likely to come up with a perfectly matching list, this list seems to be more a personal disapointment list and a list of the cases where the author couldn't properly judge the market than a list of the 10 worst systems ever.
...going to be the push finally to switch everything from IPv4 to IPv6..
Yea, right. My ISP and may others are out there port blocking so that I can't share any files on my Windows boxes across the Internet with normal Windows file sharing techniques, and somehow we are expected to believe that with Vista will come a drastic change in mindset, rather than going out of their way to block ports to stop us from doing something, ISPs will suddenly expend effort to make connectivity better? Yea, sure, I believe that as much as I believe anything Microsoft says.
They did a study to support their decision, they didn't get the result they wanted, so they are delaying the vote (can't have it now right before the election) and then will decide to do exactly what they want to do in spite of the study. Nothing to see here, business as usual, move on, don't protest or risk arrest.
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And what if it's a WD drive they are talking about? The life of those is so low they had to drop their warranty to 1 year because they admitted 3 years would put them out of business. (The reason I only use Segate 5 year warranty drives).
It was done to steal the election. What else is new?
Oh, come on, in three years even the average consumer will have started to pick up on the importance of 1080i if not 1080p. Introducing this technology without at least a choice that includes one of these resolution options will create a perception that it's a second class technology and doom it before it even gets a start.
Thanks. This was very helpful, and also makes it very clear that this is much more serous than something that just deals with animated cursors. In fact, I'm at a loss to understand why the community is attaching the aminated cursor reference to it.
Does anyone have a link to any information that actually explains how thi exploit works? I've been reading about it for over a week, but can't find any susbtantial information Just warning that it can hit you from web page content or html e-mail reading. But what that has to do with animated cursors is not at all clear. I've never yet seen an html page that could change my user selected cursor, so how is it that this exploit actually affects the user's computer?
Yea, funny and even cute, until you figure that as they look at new science books for state public schools, the state will be more concerned with the books promoting the official state version of the planetary population than they will be with overall quality or cost to the taxpayers.
What could go wrong here, with millions of mercury containing floresent bulbs soon finding their way to landfills all over Australia? But at least it's being done in the name of the environment.
Yea, I did RTFA, but I still have no idea what these 3 price cuts written about are or what I should now expect to pay for various AMD cpus. So much hype, so little information.
So when do we start the law suits against the lawyers who screw the average guy by filing lawsuits on their behalf and then making all the profits and getting us coupons? Seems like a lawsuit that the jury couldn't help but award to us.
Actually, the current e-bay ownership is the primary reason I will not use it. You may feel otherwise, but I think they are one of the most evil companies on the Internet (after MS, of couurse).
Skype started out well enough, but as it gained pouplarity it was bought by the Electronic bay of theives, the people who know about all sorts of shill bidding and purchases to defraud people but do nothing about it unless it gets so much media attention that it brings down heat that threatens their cut. There are one or two people not happy about abuses of paypal, another thing they bought with their ill gotten gains. And I expect the list continues to grow. Not that that is important to support the concern that this action is wrong. Stealing information from your system and sending it home to be tracked, and not even disclosing that action, should be enough to concern anyone in this age of privacy violations and idenity theft. Looks like this is just another black mark on this corporation's record.
But wouldn't this lead others to want discounted service if they supply their own non-Apple phones? If an Apple Iphone user gets a discount for supplying his own phone, shouldn't a user who just wants to use a less expensive phone be able to supply it and buy the service at a fair price too? That would ruin the business model of the cel companies. The current business model of all of them, even though they are prohibited by anti-trust laws from all agreeing on how to screw the consumer. Isn't going to happen. Sure, there might be some claims of this, but new ways to screw the consumer will be created at the same time to make up for it.
Come on, the industry knows that the iPhone people are exactly the people who have too much money, they are not going to be giving them a break, at least not a real one.
Yea, you wouldn't want to make a product like this available to people openly. That would only result in a greater availability of software for it and help reduce costs for all devices due to economy of scale. Much better to have questionable governments and other organizations buy them at a discount and rather than put them in the hands of those they are intended for sell them at inflated prices on the electronic bay of theives, with the market boosted by no legitimate channel to buy them, increasing the black market profit and having a negative effect on the olpc program.
I certainly don't think I'm "owed" anything here, the author has a complete right to pull the links and not allow further downloading of the program he has made freely available. But doing so does seem rather mercenary, when he could provide a link to a mirror or a torrent that would cost him nothing. And yes, I can continue to use the version I am now using, but I have not agressively downloaded every update. In fact the version that I have has some bugs (there is stuff stuck in the output queue that will not delete or send). And unfortunately I only have a Windows version. With the Slashdot announcemet that Pegasus was circling the drain I had hoped to get a final version and perhaps a Linux version, but it's not really circling the drain, it's deliberately flushed and I see a message that it will take a very expensive plumber to recover it. This just seems like a petty sad end to a great program.
I have used the program for a long time; still use it. While the author is to be respected for giving it freely for so long, I have to say that I'm apalled by the way it has been pulled. No announcement, no chance to get the final version. The website is now just a "I would work on it if paid" page. The removal of the ability to get the current version leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Yes; I understand that at shut-down the author doesn't want to suddenly incur large bandwidth fees and he could get hit with a lot of requests for the final version after making such an announcement, but one would think that he could at least post links to mirrors or even a torrent for the final version of the program. Without such an effort I'm left with a bit of a negative feeling for a programming effort I've long respected.
So the wrist strap broke, all on it's own, and that caused that remote to leave the user's hand???? This spontanious breaking of writs straps is amazing, as is that it would cause users to then release the remote from their hands. Or could there be another more likely sequence of events?
You're asking the wrong question. Of course you should buy a 64 bit system if you're building a new system, unless you have a specific need for a 32 bit system and plan on replacing it within the year. Ther real questions are: Do I want dual core chips (and the really slick hardware virtualization that comes with the dual core chips)? Do I want Intel or AMD? (I'm a long time AMD fan but the Intel dual core chips are getting better buzz than the AMD dual core chips, although you may want to price out the whole systems, not just the CPUs, to get a real idea. And, have other have mentoned here, do I want to run a 64 bit OS or a 32 bit OS? Even with a 32 bit OS you can switch to 64 later (at no cost if you use Linux) as long as you started with a 64 bit CPU.
Those considering buying a Zune (and/or Vista) would be wise to consider the advice of the great philosphers Mr. T and Nelson.
That's the turkey. Yea, play games by numerical keypad, not controler, what else could anyone want? Bad even by the standards of the day. And the other one I was trying to remember was named in a post below mine. Hard to imagine either of these avoiding a 10 lamest list with the games that did make the list. I'll have to remember this as one of the 10 lamest lists I've ever seen.
So somehow as a taxpayer in the U.S.A. who funded that research I should still be charged outrageous skyrocketing prices if I need it, but somehow people in foregin countries somehow deserve it more than I do and should have it given to them? I might well accept an argument that public funded medical research should have certain restrictions put on it's prices, but those restrictions should start with saying that the taxpayers who funded it should be charged no more than others who did not fund it (including Canadians and Europeans), not allow the patent holders to charge even more locally to offset giving the stuff away to "the poor". Lets not even get into discussions of how such giveaways usually enrich a corrupt government and seldom get to the targeted people, it's not even relivant in this case.
I also recall a B&W LCD cartgidge based game that preceeded the Nitendo B&W handheld console that I would put on the list, if I could only recall it's name.
Actually, many of the games listed in the article were far from lame, but they were poorly marketed (nat at all as poorly as the RCA game however). While no two people in a reasonable sized pool would be likely to come up with a perfectly matching list, this list seems to be more a personal disapointment list and a list of the cases where the author couldn't properly judge the market than a list of the 10 worst systems ever.
Yea, right. My ISP and may others are out there port blocking so that I can't share any files on my Windows boxes across the Internet with normal Windows file sharing techniques, and somehow we are expected to believe that with Vista will come a drastic change in mindset, rather than going out of their way to block ports to stop us from doing something, ISPs will suddenly expend effort to make connectivity better? Yea, sure, I believe that as much as I believe anything Microsoft says.
They did a study to support their decision, they didn't get the result they wanted, so they are delaying the vote (can't have it now right before the election) and then will decide to do exactly what they want to do in spite of the study. Nothing to see here, business as usual, move on, don't protest or risk arrest.
Oh, don't worry, I have it on good authority that the elections will be fixed here.