Microsoft doesn't even sell media playback devices. They sell an operating system. I don't think they would sell any less copies if they couldn't play some new fangled high def video format. I think BluRay depends a lot more on Windows than the other way around.
I think this is the way all consoles will eventually end up. Games only available for download. No slots at all for plugging anything in, and the motherboard encased in black epoxy. Completely unmoddable. I think the general public has no interest in modding consoles. They will lose a few sales, but they will have exactly what they want.
Sounds to mean like how Cory Doctorow started committing his novel writings to an source control repository. That way, you can see how his novel develops as he writes it. A lot of information is lost about how authors write when they write on computers, because you are often only left with a final copy. When it was done on typewriter, or via pen and paper, there was often multiple hardcopy revisions historians and others could look back on to see what they were thinking while writing a book.
The datacenter edition doesn't take any more resources than any other version of windows. It possibly takes less, because if it's anything like the server versions for 2008, it won't have the fancy Aero UI on by default. It lets you use more resources if you happen to have them, but just the fact that you install the datacenter version doesn't mean that it will take more resources.
What media. Most computers ship with a partition that will restore the computer back to factory default. If MS was being really nice, they would make companies ship computers with a real CD with just the OS on it, so people could install just the operating system from scratch if they see fit.
As long as you make it clear and consice that anything and everything can be shared, and that the user agrees to this, I see no problem with programs like these operating. What it's really designed to stop is P2P applications getting installed that don't tell the user they are sharing the whole C: drive by default. As long as you tell the user exactly what is happening, and they agree to it, there is no problem.
Here's a thought. What if MS refused to put in any DRM for BluRay. Now Sony (owners of BluRay) have a few choices. Don't let people using Windows use BluRay. Which may be a good idea, People don't need super high def on a computer screen, if they want hi-def, they can go buy a set top box. BluRay encryption would have been better protected without any ability to play it on computers. Or, build some software BluRay player for windows that either used a USB dongle to do the decoding, so that they keys never existed in software at all, and Windows wouldn't need support for any special DRM modules in and of itself.
even though I've seen people obviously texting while they're driving
Doesn't matter that it's illegal. People don't always obey the laws, especially traffic laws. People speed/ forget to signal/ drive drunk all the time.
If you don't have enough network capacity to deal with the number of users, the solution would be to stop accepting new customers. Either that, or raise prices so either you can improve your network, such that it will handle the number of people using the network. The network does have limited capacity. This means that if your network is going beyond capacity, you need to expand the network, or kick some people off. Everybody complains when their ISP throttles their internet connection, or when they don't get the speeds they are supposed to due to an overloaded network. I don't see how this is any different.
I think the unions have priced themselves out of the jobs. When bus drivers can make over $100 K a year (search for bus operator) (welcome fellow canadian, I'm from ottawa) it's no wonder that all the companies are filing for bankruptcy. Menial jobs that require little or no training make more than those that require university education.
Not sure about the situation in the US, but in Canada, if you can afford the rent on a place, you can most likely afford to pay the mortgage on the same place. Renting is for people who live in apartment buildings. If you live in a house, and are paying $1500 a month for rent (not unrealistic for a nice home) you might as well go out and get a mortgage and own the house, instead of giving your money to some landlord.
Exactly. Cities like Toronto have had great success with lowering and in some cases eliminating homework for students. I don't think homework should really be all that necessary for students to learn the material they do. They spend quite a bit of time in school, if you can't teach them the skills in that amount of time, homework probably won't add a lot to the understanding.
Actually, in you followed the site, you would know that they seriously discourage questions with no real or definitive answer. Ask a question like "VI vs. EMACS" and your question will be immediately flagged as subjective, and probably deleted. There's a few questions that get by while still being subjective, but for the most part they are frowned upon.
The question is, would the community activity have been there had the site had a worse design. The amount of community activity is in direct relation to how well the site works. I mean, had they screwed it up as bad a experts exchange, requiring people to pay to see content, or scroll for hours, would the community be willing to spend any time on the site. The fact that there is so much community involvement is because the site is such a nice design.
While I probably think you go a bit too far, I think that a lot of games don't quite have enough consequence. For instance, A lot of old driving games I used to play, such as Need For Speed IV, used to actually damage and degrade the driving ability of your car when you crashed. It seems like this has gone away, and that now there isn't really any driving skill in these games, and it's more about trying to run people off the road, rather than try to race without destroying your car as you would have to do in real life.
You might want to check out the titles on WiiWare. While big name commercial games you buy in the store are quite expensive, a lot of casual games on WiiWare are $10 or under. And a lot of them are really high quality games.
Not sure about EU or US, but in Canada, the rules for cheese are as follows. You can have many different kinds of Feta including Greek Feta, Bulgarian Feta, French Feta, Canadian Feta. Now you can't call something Greek Feta unless it actually comes from Greece. The only confusing part is that you can call your product Greek Style Feta, which usually mean's it's made from sheep milk, but doesn't mean it actually comes from any specific country (granted, the country of origin has to be printed elsewhere on the label anyway, as with all food products).
There's too much to check for anyway. If you require that the student has a TI-83, they can probably store any number of things in any number of ways. You could store a bunch of cheat notes in some variable. There isn't evough time to walk around to every students desk before the exam and check for the existence of programs anyway. There was 200 students in my Year 1 calculus course in university. They mostly showed up 10 minutes before the exam started. There was no time to verify that they don't have any programs on the TI. Also, there was some required programs to do certain questions. And there wouldn't be any time to verify that it was the proper code running and that there wasn't some special input, that would tell the program to go into some other section of the code, where tons of other functionaliy was available. So our math courses have basically 2 options with this. Make it so that you can do the exam on a TI-30, and only allow these or similar, so that you couldn't program them, and therefore cheat. Or 2, require that they use the TI-86, but design the test such that you assume they are cheating, and make it so that it won't help them anyway.
Probably because it has a full keyboard. Anyway, I can't really see why they would want to overwrite the OS for the TI calculators. You can write your own programs in assembly, or in Basic. I don't really see a need to overwrite the entire OS when it doesn't really stop you from running anything you want to anyway.
You'd probably get a lot of good from reading about Berentain Bears Learn About Strangers. Sure kids are vulnerable. Bad things could and may happen to them. But there's such a thing of being too scared and too cautious. Basic moral of the story is this: You should wary and careful around strangers, but most people aren't all that bad, and you shouldn't go around living your life in fear. I'm not sure how something like this wouldn't be used as a leash. If you really have to know the exact pinpointed location of your kids every second of the day, then you have too much fear.
That's quite arguable. With the track record of consoles, I don't think it would be unreasonable to expect a console to die within 12 months. It would be stupid to spend so much money on something that would die so fast, but it wouldn't be unreasonable to expect it would die. Who get's to determine how long one should expect a product to last for? Should I expect a console to last for 20 years (my old Nintendo is still going strong), or should I expect it to die in 3 months (like the xBox 360 seems to do)?
I seem to remember quite a few people with worn out analog sticks on their N64. Although I'm not completely sure if those were official Nintendo controllers, I seem to think they were. Also, the Wii doesn't have any problems because it doesn't heat up. It's actually hotter when it's in standby (with the WiFi still on) then when it's playing games, because the fan turns off.
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Microsoft doesn't even sell media playback devices. They sell an operating system. I don't think they would sell any less copies if they couldn't play some new fangled high def video format. I think BluRay depends a lot more on Windows than the other way around.
I think this is the way all consoles will eventually end up. Games only available for download. No slots at all for plugging anything in, and the motherboard encased in black epoxy. Completely unmoddable. I think the general public has no interest in modding consoles. They will lose a few sales, but they will have exactly what they want.
Sounds to mean like how Cory Doctorow started committing his novel writings to an source control repository. That way, you can see how his novel develops as he writes it. A lot of information is lost about how authors write when they write on computers, because you are often only left with a final copy. When it was done on typewriter, or via pen and paper, there was often multiple hardcopy revisions historians and others could look back on to see what they were thinking while writing a book.
On what planet does MS have aa meager presence in the market? They are convicted monopolists. They, by definition, own too much of the market.
The datacenter edition doesn't take any more resources than any other version of windows. It possibly takes less, because if it's anything like the server versions for 2008, it won't have the fancy Aero UI on by default. It lets you use more resources if you happen to have them, but just the fact that you install the datacenter version doesn't mean that it will take more resources.
What media. Most computers ship with a partition that will restore the computer back to factory default. If MS was being really nice, they would make companies ship computers with a real CD with just the OS on it, so people could install just the operating system from scratch if they see fit.
As long as you make it clear and consice that anything and everything can be shared, and that the user agrees to this, I see no problem with programs like these operating. What it's really designed to stop is P2P applications getting installed that don't tell the user they are sharing the whole C: drive by default. As long as you tell the user exactly what is happening, and they agree to it, there is no problem.
Here's a thought. What if MS refused to put in any DRM for BluRay. Now Sony (owners of BluRay) have a few choices. Don't let people using Windows use BluRay. Which may be a good idea, People don't need super high def on a computer screen, if they want hi-def, they can go buy a set top box. BluRay encryption would have been better protected without any ability to play it on computers. Or, build some software BluRay player for windows that either used a USB dongle to do the decoding, so that they keys never existed in software at all, and Windows wouldn't need support for any special DRM modules in and of itself.
Doesn't matter that it's illegal. People don't always obey the laws, especially traffic laws. People speed/ forget to signal/ drive drunk all the time.
If you don't have enough network capacity to deal with the number of users, the solution would be to stop accepting new customers. Either that, or raise prices so either you can improve your network, such that it will handle the number of people using the network. The network does have limited capacity. This means that if your network is going beyond capacity, you need to expand the network, or kick some people off. Everybody complains when their ISP throttles their internet connection, or when they don't get the speeds they are supposed to due to an overloaded network. I don't see how this is any different.
I think the unions have priced themselves out of the jobs. When bus drivers can make over $100 K a year (search for bus operator) (welcome fellow canadian, I'm from ottawa) it's no wonder that all the companies are filing for bankruptcy. Menial jobs that require little or no training make more than those that require university education.
Not sure about the situation in the US, but in Canada, if you can afford the rent on a place, you can most likely afford to pay the mortgage on the same place. Renting is for people who live in apartment buildings. If you live in a house, and are paying $1500 a month for rent (not unrealistic for a nice home) you might as well go out and get a mortgage and own the house, instead of giving your money to some landlord.
Exactly. Cities like Toronto have had great success with lowering and in some cases eliminating homework for students. I don't think homework should really be all that necessary for students to learn the material they do. They spend quite a bit of time in school, if you can't teach them the skills in that amount of time, homework probably won't add a lot to the understanding.
Actually, in you followed the site, you would know that they seriously discourage questions with no real or definitive answer. Ask a question like "VI vs. EMACS" and your question will be immediately flagged as subjective, and probably deleted. There's a few questions that get by while still being subjective, but for the most part they are frowned upon.
The question is, would the community activity have been there had the site had a worse design. The amount of community activity is in direct relation to how well the site works. I mean, had they screwed it up as bad a experts exchange, requiring people to pay to see content, or scroll for hours, would the community be willing to spend any time on the site. The fact that there is so much community involvement is because the site is such a nice design.
While I probably think you go a bit too far, I think that a lot of games don't quite have enough consequence. For instance, A lot of old driving games I used to play, such as Need For Speed IV, used to actually damage and degrade the driving ability of your car when you crashed. It seems like this has gone away, and that now there isn't really any driving skill in these games, and it's more about trying to run people off the road, rather than try to race without destroying your car as you would have to do in real life.
You might want to check out the titles on WiiWare. While big name commercial games you buy in the store are quite expensive, a lot of casual games on WiiWare are $10 or under. And a lot of them are really high quality games.
Not as bad as Scott Hanselman saying I'm going to Google that on Bing. Can't remember what the date was, but he said it on his podcast.
Not sure about EU or US, but in Canada, the rules for cheese are as follows. You can have many different kinds of Feta including Greek Feta, Bulgarian Feta, French Feta, Canadian Feta. Now you can't call something Greek Feta unless it actually comes from Greece. The only confusing part is that you can call your product Greek Style Feta, which usually mean's it's made from sheep milk, but doesn't mean it actually comes from any specific country (granted, the country of origin has to be printed elsewhere on the label anyway, as with all food products).
There's too much to check for anyway. If you require that the student has a TI-83, they can probably store any number of things in any number of ways. You could store a bunch of cheat notes in some variable. There isn't evough time to walk around to every students desk before the exam and check for the existence of programs anyway. There was 200 students in my Year 1 calculus course in university. They mostly showed up 10 minutes before the exam started. There was no time to verify that they don't have any programs on the TI. Also, there was some required programs to do certain questions. And there wouldn't be any time to verify that it was the proper code running and that there wasn't some special input, that would tell the program to go into some other section of the code, where tons of other functionaliy was available. So our math courses have basically 2 options with this. Make it so that you can do the exam on a TI-30, and only allow these or similar, so that you couldn't program them, and therefore cheat. Or 2, require that they use the TI-86, but design the test such that you assume they are cheating, and make it so that it won't help them anyway.
Probably because it has a full keyboard. Anyway, I can't really see why they would want to overwrite the OS for the TI calculators. You can write your own programs in assembly, or in Basic. I don't really see a need to overwrite the entire OS when it doesn't really stop you from running anything you want to anyway.
I do have kids, I still think these watches are a bad idea.
You'd probably get a lot of good from reading about Berentain Bears Learn About Strangers. Sure kids are vulnerable. Bad things could and may happen to them. But there's such a thing of being too scared and too cautious. Basic moral of the story is this: You should wary and careful around strangers, but most people aren't all that bad, and you shouldn't go around living your life in fear. I'm not sure how something like this wouldn't be used as a leash. If you really have to know the exact pinpointed location of your kids every second of the day, then you have too much fear.
That's quite arguable. With the track record of consoles, I don't think it would be unreasonable to expect a console to die within 12 months. It would be stupid to spend so much money on something that would die so fast, but it wouldn't be unreasonable to expect it would die. Who get's to determine how long one should expect a product to last for? Should I expect a console to last for 20 years (my old Nintendo is still going strong), or should I expect it to die in 3 months (like the xBox 360 seems to do)?
I seem to remember quite a few people with worn out analog sticks on their N64. Although I'm not completely sure if those were official Nintendo controllers, I seem to think they were. Also, the Wii doesn't have any problems because it doesn't heat up. It's actually hotter when it's in standby (with the WiFi still on) then when it's playing games, because the fan turns off.