You know, I was all ready to harp on you for saying "incentivize", but dictionary.com says it's a word. Stupid American Heritage Dictionary. Sheesh, next thing you know, "veep" will be a word....
Uh, I'm not sure what Apple software you're referring to. The OS has never done this; in fact, I'd be suprised if the OS even had a serial number somwhere in it.
You may be referring to third-party apps. If that's the case, recall that the Mac version of Office _stopped_ doing this after one of the updates.
The last app I remember that did this was Adobe Premiere 4.2. I'm not sure if the "latest version" still checks.
Overall, your comment is pretty good, and I'm M2-ing the M1 as fair, but I'm pretty sure those who hold the porn industry in low esteem aren't the the moral minority. Except maybe on college campuses.
Surprisingly, this doesn't appear to be mentioned, unless it's below my threshold.
In any case, my concern is slightly more basic than technological security issues. Has anyone considered that this system will likely track who voted for whom, and that that information will possibly be accessable by a third party?
Granted, with any luck it will simply involve deleting a voting ID from a list, and putting the vote in a separate list, but there's no guarantee that's going to happen, is there?
Hey, I just checked, and your numbers are off. That should be 244,000,000 and 0.06. Frightening, isn't it?
Oh yeah, on topic stuff. Well, what I find particularly irratiting is when a company releases a game in the US, but doesn't release everything that goes with the game, making the game not worth buying.
And yes, I am referring to the trance vibrator for Rez (as mentioned on gamegirladvance.com). Seemed like a good idea for the girlfriend, but the guy at Sega said he'd never heard of it.
I would agree with you, except they made the Finding Nemo poster for the demo. So I would have to assume that they used filters most professionals would use.
Of course not. It makes it a bucket of shit. But at least everyone knows it's a bucket of shit.
The comparison here (I think) is to nVidia and ATI, who leave it to the gaming community to figure out why it is that each company's cards outperform the other's.
I don't think anyone's really arguing that most of Apple's improvements weren't catch up. Heck, when Steve Jobs was on stage he was saying how everything they added was "the latest PC standard". How could it not be catching up if it's already a standard on the PC?
The reason the Mac users are happy about all this is because we already knew we were way behind, and we've been begging Apple to catch up!
Even considering all the benchmarks, which may or may not be accurate, the simple fact remains that this Mac is much faster than the previous Mac. Which is good news for Mac users. And presumably the crowd at the keynote was full of Mac users.
Actually, the take of the guy who did the article in the previous story was that the Mac software was heavily optimized, and that the Wintel software wasn't.
Which leaves one to wonder why the software makers would do such a thing.
Keep in mind one other thing: the Bible doesn't generally mention slaves unless they are pertinent to the story at hand. Noah (and his sons) may well have had slaves, and in fact, I would hope they did, considering the number of animals they must have taken care of! Of course, there would be no point in mentioning them in the story. They weren't the holy ones.
Uh, yeah. As someone pointed out to me recently, "pure logic" dictates that something isn't until you can prove it is. My personal issue with this, though, is that until recently, humans did not have a bottleneck 70,000 or so years ago. Read that again if it made sense.
Anyway, I think what you really meant to say is that no research exists to make a claim one way or another, and that it isn't fair to assume there isn't one simply because no research has been done.
That's another issue I have with the "pure logic" crowd. If I don't know for certain about something, I have to assume it isn't the case. Find someone using "pure logic" and conspiracy theory and you can forget about useful conversation.
Oh, and I can't prove the article is true, because I don't have proof the source is true, and I can't prove that the article was written without bias, etc.
I had a landline account with Verizon about three years ago. I used it for dialup internet. I dialed each access point to see which were local. In the suburbs, if something was local you only needed to dial the seven digits. If it involved an additional charge, you need to dial one and the area code.
Apparently, it was different closer to the city. You could dial just the seven digits and be billed for a "non-local" call. I got a bill for several hundred dollars.
Upon calling customer service, they said it was too bad and that I would have to pay the whole thing. After a bit of complaining, they decided to cut it in half. I said that was still not acceptable. I never paid. I got a cell phone as my only phone and cable internet from AT&T. I ignored the collection notices from Verizon. Eventually, I moved out.
I wonder if they're still trying to collect on that account. One thing's for sure, I'm never using Verizon again.
That sort of raises the question, though, what's the difference between an auction with a set price and simply selling an item at a set price? Nobody ever thought to sell something over the internet before that? (And if they did, is that the sort of thing that can be patented?) Or are we simply making the arbitrary distinction that this is an "auction"?
I did look at the patent- quickly- but somehow I missed the fact that it was with regard to the buy it now concept.
eBay was founded in September 1995. Patent was filed in November 1995. Was eBay doing something other than auctions?
What? /.'s target audience isn't only in the US?
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Ah well, thanks for sharing it with us, guys. Too bad I'll be at work anyway. With any luck the webcast will be archived on the site and I'll be able to watch it later.
Oh, they'll draw conclusions all right. Something like, "See? It's piracy! Our CD's are being pirated because they're so popular! No one can pirate the other CDs because they don't know where to find them!"
What's the saying? Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers?
More like, never underestimate the stupidity of powerful people in large numbers.
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You know, I was all ready to harp on you for saying "incentivize", but dictionary.com says it's a word. Stupid American Heritage Dictionary. Sheesh, next thing you know, "veep" will be a word....
(Look it up.)
Uh, I'm not sure what Apple software you're referring to. The OS has never done this; in fact, I'd be suprised if the OS even had a serial number somwhere in it.
You may be referring to third-party apps. If that's the case, recall that the Mac version of Office _stopped_ doing this after one of the updates.
The last app I remember that did this was Adobe Premiere 4.2. I'm not sure if the "latest version" still checks.
I wonder how many dead hardcore Diablo 2 characters this one is good for. I also doubt Blizzard would do a rollback. :)
And job tension is directly tied to a lack of productivity and loss of competitive edge.
I thought that was hunger! Isn't Snickers the cure?
After all, customers need a real person to argue with.
Wow. I never thought that would ever be even vaguely on topic.
Overall, your comment is pretty good, and I'm M2-ing the M1 as fair, but I'm pretty sure those who hold the porn industry in low esteem aren't the the moral minority. Except maybe on college campuses.
Surprisingly, this doesn't appear to be mentioned, unless it's below my threshold.
In any case, my concern is slightly more basic than technological security issues. Has anyone considered that this system will likely track who voted for whom, and that that information will possibly be accessable by a third party?
Granted, with any luck it will simply involve deleting a voting ID from a list, and putting the vote in a separate list, but there's no guarantee that's going to happen, is there?
Hey, I just checked, and your numbers are off. That should be 244,000,000 and 0.06. Frightening, isn't it? Oh yeah, on topic stuff. Well, what I find particularly irratiting is when a company releases a game in the US, but doesn't release everything that goes with the game, making the game not worth buying. And yes, I am referring to the trance vibrator for Rez (as mentioned on gamegirladvance.com). Seemed like a good idea for the girlfriend, but the guy at Sega said he'd never heard of it.
Actually, this Mac user just says, "Half Life? So what?"
I would agree with you, except they made the Finding Nemo poster for the demo. So I would have to assume that they used filters most professionals would use.
Of course not. It makes it a bucket of shit. But at least everyone knows it's a bucket of shit.
The comparison here (I think) is to nVidia and ATI, who leave it to the gaming community to figure out why it is that each company's cards outperform the other's.
I don't think anyone's really arguing that most of Apple's improvements weren't catch up. Heck, when Steve Jobs was on stage he was saying how everything they added was "the latest PC standard". How could it not be catching up if it's already a standard on the PC?
The reason the Mac users are happy about all this is because we already knew we were way behind, and we've been begging Apple to catch up!
Even considering all the benchmarks, which may or may not be accurate, the simple fact remains that this Mac is much faster than the previous Mac. Which is good news for Mac users. And presumably the crowd at the keynote was full of Mac users.
I assume you're talking about Photoshop, et al.
Actually, the take of the guy who did the article in the previous story was that the Mac software was heavily optimized, and that the Wintel software wasn't.
Which leaves one to wonder why the software makers would do such a thing.
Uh, isn't milk fortified with vitamin D? I didn't think that was natural.
Keep in mind one other thing: the Bible doesn't generally mention slaves unless they are pertinent to the story at hand. Noah (and his sons) may well have had slaves, and in fact, I would hope they did, considering the number of animals they must have taken care of! Of course, there would be no point in mentioning them in the story. They weren't the holy ones.
Uh, yeah. As someone pointed out to me recently, "pure logic" dictates that something isn't until you can prove it is. My personal issue with this, though, is that until recently, humans did not have a bottleneck 70,000 or so years ago. Read that again if it made sense.
Anyway, I think what you really meant to say is that no research exists to make a claim one way or another, and that it isn't fair to assume there isn't one simply because no research has been done.
That's another issue I have with the "pure logic" crowd. If I don't know for certain about something, I have to assume it isn't the case. Find someone using "pure logic" and conspiracy theory and you can forget about useful conversation.
Oh, and I can't prove the article is true, because I don't have proof the source is true, and I can't prove that the article was written without bias, etc.
Allow me to add example 3:
I had a landline account with Verizon about three years ago. I used it for dialup internet. I dialed each access point to see which were local. In the suburbs, if something was local you only needed to dial the seven digits. If it involved an additional charge, you need to dial one and the area code.
Apparently, it was different closer to the city. You could dial just the seven digits and be billed for a "non-local" call. I got a bill for several hundred dollars.
Upon calling customer service, they said it was too bad and that I would have to pay the whole thing. After a bit of complaining, they decided to cut it in half. I said that was still not acceptable. I never paid. I got a cell phone as my only phone and cable internet from AT&T. I ignored the collection notices from Verizon. Eventually, I moved out.
I wonder if they're still trying to collect on that account. One thing's for sure, I'm never using Verizon again.
Well, there's a version of iTunes coming out for Windows at some point. Presumably the Music store would too.
That sort of raises the question, though, what's the difference between an auction with a set price and simply selling an item at a set price? Nobody ever thought to sell something over the internet before that? (And if they did, is that the sort of thing that can be patented?) Or are we simply making the arbitrary distinction that this is an "auction"?
I did look at the patent- quickly- but somehow I missed the fact that it was with regard to the buy it now concept.
eBay was founded in September 1995. Patent was filed in November 1995. Was eBay doing something other than auctions?
Ah well, thanks for sharing it with us, guys. Too bad I'll be at work anyway. With any luck the webcast will be archived on the site and I'll be able to watch it later.
It is? Mine copied just fine. Of course, I have to put the CD-R in a CD-ROM drive (which doesn't know it's an -R) in order for War3 to accept it.
Oh, they'll draw conclusions all right. Something like, "See? It's piracy! Our CD's are being pirated because they're so popular! No one can pirate the other CDs because they don't know where to find them!"
What's the saying? Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers?
More like, never underestimate the stupidity of powerful people in large numbers.
Fingered? Is that a typo or a joke?