Possibly because they thought that such a simple idea couldn't possibly be patented. It's not that much of a novel idea. It probably doesn't deserve a patent. If everybody had to research every measly little feature they developed to find out if it infringed on some patent, then no products would ever get released.
But the reason they removed it, is because there was too many false positives. How long until we see "This copy of windows has been pirated" on a billboard, or during an important presentation with clients, or during a speech by Steve Ballmer (watch out for chairs). Being locked out of your data kind of sucks. However, having a message being displayed on your screen can be just as harmful. Many places would be embarrassed to have such a message on their computers. But this fix doesn't do anything about the false positive rate. In many situations, having the computer be non-operational would be a better fallback than displaying a message saying that it is pirated.
However, I don't think that most people would want to read a book twice. Maybe if it was a really good book, but still, maybe not more than 2 or 3 times. With music, you may listen to the same song/album multiple times a month, if not multiple times a week. Unless it's a reference book, I probably wouldn't read most books more than once.
Exactly. People who are pirating, know they are pirating. They won't care about the message that says they are pirating the software. If MS really did keep this kind of stuff in Vista, it would stop a lot of people from using it. I imagine there would be a lot of people who would have a dual boot machine with pirated vista installed just to play the games that required vista.
Blue tooth seems kind of finicky as for which devices work with which receivers. I know there's a few receivers that don't work with with the WiiMote. I think it has something to do with some companies (either the device or receiver manufacturers) not making everything according to the specs, or there may just be ambiguity in the specs. Most BlueTooth devices should work with most receivers, but I could understand why Logitech would write in the manual that their keyboard may not work with all receivers. With the millions of different receivers on the market, it's impossible to test on all of them, and even if they follow the standard exactly, there's always going to be some receiver that doesn't work.
We built a simulator of a vital signs monitor in Rational Rose RealTime in university as a class assignment. Somebody got the idea of sending ^G (I think \a in C) to the console every time the heart beat to add realism to the simulator. We had lots of fun with that project.
How do you know the keyboard wasn't just a specialized designed super encryption wireless keyboard in a standard casing that happened to look the same as the one they sold to regular goes? The manufacturer could have easily taken an existing wireless keyboard, and added extra encryption in the same case.
10 metres away though what kind of material? 10 metres away through air wouldn't surprise me. However, in my apartment building, there's concrete floors/ceilings. How easily would the signal travel through that?
Just because the iPod can technically do it, doesn't mean the OGG file format doesn't take more CPU power. My iPod can also do cover flow, but if I flick back and forth through the covers the entire time, my battery will drain a bit faster. Same with using OGG. The iPod can do it, but only at the expense of battery power.
That's what I've always understood it to meant. I also thought it was one of those things that's often misunderstood, such as the learning curve. People often say something has a steep learning curve when it is hard to learn, yet something with a steep learning curve is actually very easy to learn, while something with a less steep learning curve would be harder to learn.
Like the people who spend thousands of dollars on miracle pills (that don't work), exercise machines (that don't get used), and fad diets (which don't work, or work but then they gain the weight back), or other things that people seem to waste their money on in hopes to make them live longer. I see how this information could end up being beneficial, and that some people would take advantage of the information. However, I think that the majority of the people will just get their DNA tested will just do so for the coolness/novelty factor, and do absolutely nothing of use with the results.
I highly doubt it. Millions of Americans continue to eat unhealthy and not exercise, and therefore become obese, leading to heart disease, diabetes, and many other problems, and they do nothing about it. People continue to smoke even though we know all the bad things it can do to you. People continue to take on high stress jobs even though we know your life will likely be shortened by working in high street situations. I don't see why this would be that much different.
Why not just collect everybody's DNA at birth, or whenever they become permanent residents of the united states? If you're going to start holding the DNA of everybody who has been arrested, even if the charges were dismissed, why not just have the DNA of everybody. Seems kind of unfair to those who were found innocent to have their DNA on file, while other innocent people do not have their DNA in a database. Also, on a completely unrelated note, does the DNA database support chimeras?
So wait, they're adding a bunch of features, making it multiplatform (via QT4) and it's going to be faster. Maybe they can pass on some programming pointers to Microsoft. I'm amazed how quickly Compiz Fusion runs on my discount laptop, I only wish Vista would run as quickly. Flashy doesn't have to mean slow.
I still use two spaces after all my sentences. I imagine anyone that started typing before the internet was all hip and cool does the same. When I was typing up documents in highschool using wordperfect, my teachers expected our documents to be formatted correctly, with 2 spaces after the periods, and proper paragraph and sentence structure. I can't believe that using 2 spaces after periods is seen as an antiquated practice.
Probably because you can replace the entire computer for $500 (or less). If your car breaks down, and the options are, spend $1000 on repairs, or buy a new car for $15,000, then the choice is pretty simple. However, when you go into a computer shop, your computer is 2 years old, and they tell you it will cost $100 to fix it, the many people will just choose to buy a new one. If computer techs cost $80 an hour like mechanics, nobody would ever get a computer repaired.
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Don't worry if the guards come, you can just jump on their heads.
But there's so much crap in the patent system, that it's not feasible to go through searching for patents on every feature you come up with.
Possibly because they thought that such a simple idea couldn't possibly be patented. It's not that much of a novel idea. It probably doesn't deserve a patent. If everybody had to research every measly little feature they developed to find out if it infringed on some patent, then no products would ever get released.
But the reason they removed it, is because there was too many false positives. How long until we see "This copy of windows has been pirated" on a billboard, or during an important presentation with clients, or during a speech by Steve Ballmer (watch out for chairs). Being locked out of your data kind of sucks. However, having a message being displayed on your screen can be just as harmful. Many places would be embarrassed to have such a message on their computers. But this fix doesn't do anything about the false positive rate. In many situations, having the computer be non-operational would be a better fallback than displaying a message saying that it is pirated.
However, I don't think that most people would want to read a book twice. Maybe if it was a really good book, but still, maybe not more than 2 or 3 times. With music, you may listen to the same song/album multiple times a month, if not multiple times a week. Unless it's a reference book, I probably wouldn't read most books more than once.
Not a lot of games that required it, but there's quite a few games that require it for setting the games at the highest detail level.
Exactly. People who are pirating, know they are pirating. They won't care about the message that says they are pirating the software. If MS really did keep this kind of stuff in Vista, it would stop a lot of people from using it. I imagine there would be a lot of people who would have a dual boot machine with pirated vista installed just to play the games that required vista.
That's why I use a trackball. You don't have to worry about cables so much when you don't move the pointing device around so much.
Blue tooth seems kind of finicky as for which devices work with which receivers. I know there's a few receivers that don't work with with the WiiMote. I think it has something to do with some companies (either the device or receiver manufacturers) not making everything according to the specs, or there may just be ambiguity in the specs. Most BlueTooth devices should work with most receivers, but I could understand why Logitech would write in the manual that their keyboard may not work with all receivers. With the millions of different receivers on the market, it's impossible to test on all of them, and even if they follow the standard exactly, there's always going to be some receiver that doesn't work.
We built a simulator of a vital signs monitor in Rational Rose RealTime in university as a class assignment. Somebody got the idea of sending ^G (I think \a in C) to the console every time the heart beat to add realism to the simulator. We had lots of fun with that project.
How do you know the keyboard wasn't just a specialized designed super encryption wireless keyboard in a standard casing that happened to look the same as the one they sold to regular goes? The manufacturer could have easily taken an existing wireless keyboard, and added extra encryption in the same case.
10 metres away though what kind of material? 10 metres away through air wouldn't surprise me. However, in my apartment building, there's concrete floors/ceilings. How easily would the signal travel through that?
By the time we finish arguing about this, MP3 will be patent free.
Just because the iPod can technically do it, doesn't mean the OGG file format doesn't take more CPU power. My iPod can also do cover flow, but if I flick back and forth through the covers the entire time, my battery will drain a bit faster. Same with using OGG. The iPod can do it, but only at the expense of battery power.
That's what I've always understood it to meant. I also thought it was one of those things that's often misunderstood, such as the learning curve. People often say something has a steep learning curve when it is hard to learn, yet something with a steep learning curve is actually very easy to learn, while something with a less steep learning curve would be harder to learn.
I don't think you know what 10 fold means. If the markup was 10 fold, the cost price of the $20 cables would have been 2 cents.
Like the people who spend thousands of dollars on miracle pills (that don't work), exercise machines (that don't get used), and fad diets (which don't work, or work but then they gain the weight back), or other things that people seem to waste their money on in hopes to make them live longer. I see how this information could end up being beneficial, and that some people would take advantage of the information. However, I think that the majority of the people will just get their DNA tested will just do so for the coolness/novelty factor, and do absolutely nothing of use with the results.
On the other hand, humans and chimps share 96% of the same DNA.
I highly doubt it. Millions of Americans continue to eat unhealthy and not exercise, and therefore become obese, leading to heart disease, diabetes, and many other problems, and they do nothing about it. People continue to smoke even though we know all the bad things it can do to you. People continue to take on high stress jobs even though we know your life will likely be shortened by working in high street situations. I don't see why this would be that much different.
Why not just collect everybody's DNA at birth, or whenever they become permanent residents of the united states? If you're going to start holding the DNA of everybody who has been arrested, even if the charges were dismissed, why not just have the DNA of everybody. Seems kind of unfair to those who were found innocent to have their DNA on file, while other innocent people do not have their DNA in a database. Also, on a completely unrelated note, does the DNA database support chimeras?
Which brings up my question. What was the cost of registering a .com domain back in the early days of the internet?
What's the difference between Microsoft and a scammer? They keep on spouting lies, and the majority of people keep on falling for them.
So wait, they're adding a bunch of features, making it multiplatform (via QT4) and it's going to be faster. Maybe they can pass on some programming pointers to Microsoft. I'm amazed how quickly Compiz Fusion runs on my discount laptop, I only wish Vista would run as quickly. Flashy doesn't have to mean slow.
I still use two spaces after all my sentences. I imagine anyone that started typing before the internet was all hip and cool does the same. When I was typing up documents in highschool using wordperfect, my teachers expected our documents to be formatted correctly, with 2 spaces after the periods, and proper paragraph and sentence structure. I can't believe that using 2 spaces after periods is seen as an antiquated practice.
Probably because you can replace the entire computer for $500 (or less). If your car breaks down, and the options are, spend $1000 on repairs, or buy a new car for $15,000, then the choice is pretty simple. However, when you go into a computer shop, your computer is 2 years old, and they tell you it will cost $100 to fix it, the many people will just choose to buy a new one. If computer techs cost $80 an hour like mechanics, nobody would ever get a computer repaired.