Otherwise the conclusion I have to draw is that urban and suburban people are widely genetically inferior in regards to allergies and possibly their immune systems in general.
Maybe. Maybe that's why they moved away from grass and trees and animals and stuff.
That copy is rarely "acceptable quality", and even a close-to-acceptable quality is very hard to produce using this method. DRM is mostly aimed at stopping casual copying by the general public, and so those applying it are probably not that concerned (comparatively) with this "DDDDDDDDDDDADA" copy
To top it all off, I wont be able to browse the internet or insert CDs without some twat at Microsoft building the program to assume that I dont know what the fuck I'm doing with my computer? Sounds like a brilliant security strategy.
Maybe it is a brilliant strategy. Maybe they've realized that the biggest problem with Windows XP is not that the OS is insecure and unreliable, it's that the users are insecure and unreliable. So what to do? Fix the users. Make them more secure. Train them to be the ideal users that they want.
It brings up a good point though, since cameras are moving away from film to memory cards and pixels: just what constitutes an image?>
Well in this case it's pretty clear-cut - it's whatever the flickr creators want to have on their website. I guess that could result in some "unfair" "censorship" but meh: their site, their rules.
I don't think it's their conscience their agonizing about. They're agonizing about the potential gains from providing censored results to China vs. their overall public image (which has a big effect on their profits). Basically their agonizing over if they made the right business decision.
Online coverage of World Cup predicted to cause increase in bandwidth usage across the globe.
See, if they said something like that, then everyone would go "duh - I thought the news was supposed to tell me stuff I didn't know".
Instead, they make up some headline suggesting something extraordinary like "OMG! The "other" football is going to make teh Interweb MELT! Run for the hills! Details at 10.". And then "discuss" in the article about how that something extraordinary is very unlikely to happen, and really all that will happen is "Online coverage of World Cup predicted to cause increase in bandwidth usage across the globe".
Voila, perfect formula for making up a news article if you have no other news to report.
Don't really know why anybody care about this or is complaining about this. They can sell whatever they want, and as others have pointed out, they're not including it as part of the OS. This might mean they can purposely introduce bugs into Windows to continue the sales of such a service, but hey, that's up to them. It's a business decision - they have to balance how good Windows is vs. potential sales of maintenance services to maximize profit. And maximizing profit at the expense of product quality is certainly something every company has the right to do.
Microsoft got where they are today by playing the business game right, so they deserve to exploit whatever advantages the free market gives them in their position. If you want to blame anything, blame the way our market works. I certainly don't blame Microsoft for trying to make money.
Then it doesn't have proper saving - simple enough
It seems as though the parent means that pausing the game itself is not enough to "save progress". Proper saving would include saving your own state of mind, adrenaline levels, etc at the time of pausing. And that's really hard.
Personally the reason why I would have chosen the winning design over the runner-up is the use of rounded borders in the winning design. I can glance at it and go "oh it's slashdot", while at the same time look at something more aesthetically pleasing than the current design.
. As a limited user, a virus can delete your MP3s and porn. As admin, a virus can reformat your entire hard drive, install a rootkit, etc
Or stated differently, as a limited user, a virus can delete your address book, last 6 months work on a research paper, etc. As admin, a virus can additionally mess up your installed programs - which you have copies of on CD anyways.
OK, cool, but even if the author falsely believes his own stories to be true, cannot the work itself be judged as a work of fiction, just like other works of fiction?
How bad do you think MS's programmers are? I think some of the top programmers in the world work at Microsoft. But how much can top programmers do with bad designs, existing legacy software/architecture, and intense working conditions?
My dermatologist hadn't the time to be arsed, so I did this all myself with trial and error like the above poster.
Which is really all you can do to find the specific methods of controlling the symptoms for your body. Your dermatologist can't be with your 24 hrs a day to find out what works for you, and every dermatologist I've seen tells me the same thing - "experiment with environmental factors and diet, and see what you can do to reduce the symptoms". What works for you likely won't work as well for me, or it might even make my symptoms worse.
Dermatologists know that diet and environment can worsen/improve symptoms of eczema, but the treatment method for using diet/enviroment control is really up to the patient. What works for one person doesn't necessarily work for another. And that's because the underlying problem (that you have this skin disease) is still there. In your case (and for others who have found succesfull methods of symptom control), it's "almost as good as gone", because if you can control its symptoms relatively easily, then who cares if you have the skin disease or not, right? But there's still a lot to be learnt about skin diseases, and how to cure them.
I find that the symptoms of eczema (I really don't know what eczema is, despite having it since I was born) are fairly easy to control, if you know what specific irritants/allergens affect your specific body. A lot of people find some combination of diet control and/or topical treatment that almost gets rid of the symptoms entirely (good for them) and then go and claim that they've found the MIRACLE CURE FOR EZCEMA!!! and all DOCTORS AND DERMATOLOGISTS ARE USELESS AND CONSPIRING AGAINST YOU!!!.
The thing is, no one is any closer to finding out what causes eczema in the first place. The question is why do you break out in rashes after eating a lot of salt? Can you really say that it's the salt that *causes* eczema, or is it the condition that *causes* you to be sensitive to salt?
Anyways, for those looking to control the symptoms of eczema (until we learn more about the disease), you just have to find out what sensitivities to food and environmental elements have manifested in your specific body due to eczema. I've seen many dermatologists and they say the same thing - "yes, food A may cause the rashes to become worse, or it may not, it depends on your body". They don't give you the secret "miracle cure" of avoiding alfafa sprouts and sugar because it's not a miracle cure. It just happens to be the combination of sensitivities that eczema causes in the bodies of some specific group of people.
Yes that's true but surely those people *also* know that their personal information they have provided to mySpace is available for anyone to see - it's not that they don't know, they just don't care or don't have a problem with it.
They might not realize that any information they upload to such a service will be available forever to companies like Google and Microsoft, regardless of what their privacy policies might say.
Is that really a technological issue? Or is it more of an issue of just being familiar with how businesses and government works in modern society? I would still argue that being "computer-literate" (which, by the way, is become increasingly meaningless, based on my own personal observations - everyone is "computer-literate") does not have much to do with it.
Also, I still stand by my other point - that people who are "literate" enough to actually know about and use these services also know enough about modern society, business, and government to come to pretty much the same conclusions as "us". Of course there will always be people who don't think of the risks, but those are the same people who give personal information to strangers over the phone, and those people aren't "phone-illiterate".
As computer-literate individuals, it is our duty to talk to our less computer-savvy friends and relatives about these types of services
How does being computer-literate have anything to do with the "privacy aspects of these services"? Secondly, people aren't dumb ok? If *you* realize the pitfalls of storing archived tax filings on these drives, so does *everyone else* that knows enough about modern society to use such an online service.
Older people who live in retirement villages are ridiculously similar to college students. (My grandfather was in one)
You have people who have massive amounts of time
Umm what kind of college students have massive amounts of time? As far as I've seen, most college students I know who have graduated have *way* more free time with a full time job than they had doing their degree.
Via the MSDN Academic Alliance, almost any university gives away free licensed copies of software such as Windows XP Pro, Visio, Visual Studio.NET or whatever, MS Virtual PC, MapQuest, UNIX Services for Windows, etc... to all its students.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe. Maybe that's why they moved away from grass and trees and animals and stuff.
That copy is rarely "acceptable quality", and even a close-to-acceptable quality is very hard to produce using this method. DRM is mostly aimed at stopping casual copying by the general public, and so those applying it are probably not that concerned (comparatively) with this "DDDDDDDDDDDADA" copy
Maybe it is a brilliant strategy. Maybe they've realized that the biggest problem with Windows XP is not that the OS is insecure and unreliable, it's that the users are insecure and unreliable. So what to do? Fix the users. Make them more secure. Train them to be the ideal users that they want.
Well in this case it's pretty clear-cut - it's whatever the flickr creators want to have on their website. I guess that could result in some "unfair" "censorship" but meh: their site, their rules.
In particular, not all jobs are equal in time/effort/stress/pay. Job A could be the equivalent of 2 Job Bs.
[My wii] is the thing I bring out when I have a few friends over and we want to screw around Sorry I couldn't resist. Ok mod me flamebait.
I don't think it's their conscience their agonizing about. They're agonizing about the potential gains from providing censored results to China vs. their overall public image (which has a big effect on their profits). Basically their agonizing over if they made the right business decision.
See, if they said something like that, then everyone would go "duh - I thought the news was supposed to tell me stuff I didn't know".
Instead, they make up some headline suggesting something extraordinary like "OMG! The "other" football is going to make teh Interweb MELT! Run for the hills! Details at 10.". And then "discuss" in the article about how that something extraordinary is very unlikely to happen, and really all that will happen is "Online coverage of World Cup predicted to cause increase in bandwidth usage across the globe".
Voila, perfect formula for making up a news article if you have no other news to report.
As a side note, I think this has something to do with Nintendo's mindset...
And there's 2 kinds of people, those who understand jokes, and those who don't
Microsoft got where they are today by playing the business game right, so they deserve to exploit whatever advantages the free market gives them in their position. If you want to blame anything, blame the way our market works. I certainly don't blame Microsoft for trying to make money.
It seems as though the parent means that pausing the game itself is not enough to "save progress". Proper saving would include saving your own state of mind, adrenaline levels, etc at the time of pausing. And that's really hard.
Personally the reason why I would have chosen the winning design over the runner-up is the use of rounded borders in the winning design. I can glance at it and go "oh it's slashdot", while at the same time look at something more aesthetically pleasing than the current design.
What if, due to some mutation, some animal gave birth to a chicken (not via egg)? Then that chicken gave birth to an egg, etc....
Or stated differently, as a limited user, a virus can delete your address book, last 6 months work on a research paper, etc. As admin, a virus can additionally mess up your installed programs - which you have copies of on CD anyways.
OK, cool, but even if the author falsely believes his own stories to be true, cannot the work itself be judged as a work of fiction, just like other works of fiction?
Why is a work of fiction supposed to be evaluated on the basis of factuality? Do you think George Lucas believes the future will be like Star Wars?
How bad do you think MS's programmers are? I think some of the top programmers in the world work at Microsoft. But how much can top programmers do with bad designs, existing legacy software/architecture, and intense working conditions?
Which is really all you can do to find the specific methods of controlling the symptoms for your body. Your dermatologist can't be with your 24 hrs a day to find out what works for you, and every dermatologist I've seen tells me the same thing - "experiment with environmental factors and diet, and see what you can do to reduce the symptoms". What works for you likely won't work as well for me, or it might even make my symptoms worse.
Dermatologists know that diet and environment can worsen/improve symptoms of eczema, but the treatment method for using diet/enviroment control is really up to the patient. What works for one person doesn't necessarily work for another. And that's because the underlying problem (that you have this skin disease) is still there. In your case (and for others who have found succesfull methods of symptom control), it's "almost as good as gone", because if you can control its symptoms relatively easily, then who cares if you have the skin disease or not, right? But there's still a lot to be learnt about skin diseases, and how to cure them.
The thing is, no one is any closer to finding out what causes eczema in the first place. The question is why do you break out in rashes after eating a lot of salt? Can you really say that it's the salt that *causes* eczema, or is it the condition that *causes* you to be sensitive to salt?
Anyways, for those looking to control the symptoms of eczema (until we learn more about the disease), you just have to find out what sensitivities to food and environmental elements have manifested in your specific body due to eczema. I've seen many dermatologists and they say the same thing - "yes, food A may cause the rashes to become worse, or it may not, it depends on your body". They don't give you the secret "miracle cure" of avoiding alfafa sprouts and sugar because it's not a miracle cure. It just happens to be the combination of sensitivities that eczema causes in the bodies of some specific group of people.
Yes that's true but surely those people *also* know that their personal information they have provided to mySpace is available for anyone to see - it's not that they don't know, they just don't care or don't have a problem with it.
Is that really a technological issue? Or is it more of an issue of just being familiar with how businesses and government works in modern society? I would still argue that being "computer-literate" (which, by the way, is become increasingly meaningless, based on my own personal observations - everyone is "computer-literate") does not have much to do with it.
Also, I still stand by my other point - that people who are "literate" enough to actually know about and use these services also know enough about modern society, business, and government to come to pretty much the same conclusions as "us". Of course there will always be people who don't think of the risks, but those are the same people who give personal information to strangers over the phone, and those people aren't "phone-illiterate".
How does being computer-literate have anything to do with the "privacy aspects of these services"? Secondly, people aren't dumb ok? If *you* realize the pitfalls of storing archived tax filings on these drives, so does *everyone else* that knows enough about modern society to use such an online service.
Umm what kind of college students have massive amounts of time? As far as I've seen, most college students I know who have graduated have *way* more free time with a full time job than they had doing their degree.
Via the MSDN Academic Alliance, almost any university gives away free licensed copies of software such as Windows XP Pro, Visio, Visual Studio.NET or whatever, MS Virtual PC, MapQuest, UNIX Services for Windows, etc... to all its students.