Oddly, no, never... There was once a student that had a CD explode in the drive. I guess it was cracked or something... I eventually got the drive working again once I had removed all the little shards of CD from it.
I work in the computer labs in a university, and every semester I have some crying girl come to my door begging me to recover her work. Meanwhile, all the computers have CD-Burners, we sell blank CD's in the labs (albeit at university lab prices, but nothing prevents them from using their own), and we allow USB drives... Hopefully, no more students come asking for help, unfortunately, no more paid lunches from thankfull students I guess...
Seriously, they aren't making much of a case for themselves. In fact they are making more of a case for FOSS. By crippling windows, they are giving people an incentive to use FOSS since no Linux or *BSD that I know of is crippled like this. No one has ever attempted Apache-lite or some other equally ridiculous idea for a reason.
The stock is being held high. I don't pretend to know what I am doing on the stock market but, when people are bidding $35 on a stock valued at ~$5, something is fishy. It's also interesting to see the stock jump 10% 10 minutes before closing every day as well.
Such an accurate statistic! One can't help but feel that all of the points they tout for their software, are complete BS, and would probably fall to a false advertising suit.
If MS did offer a bounty on bugs instead of a bounty on those exploiting them, the first few claims would probably be from the same people, the exploit writers. Much money might be saved in handing out a smaller amount, rather than a quarter mil that still leaves the problem in place.
<naiveté>Some might even conceivably make some sort of living at it, rather than writing exploits </naiveté>
After having read the first 7 replies, I will simply reply to myself since I don't want to reply to you all. I have to admit, I agree with you all. I've never had an interest in mobile gaming, hence my not being Nintendo's target market. None of the games have ever appealed to my gaming tastes. You all seem to make the same point that a device should do one thing well rather than several poorly, which I totally agree with. The only feature which I would personally want, at least as an option, on any device is MP3/OGG. The rest to me is a waste since I too would probably tire quickly of the mediocre quality of all the other features. I'm a strange breed though. I have no cell phone, no digital camera, no PDA. No electronic portable devices at all, except for the pager, but that's job related and I remove it any time I don't HAVE TO be wearing it. I so often find that my friends with such devices become slaves to them, or simply irritating in their social behaviour. I choose not to be, convenience be damned.
We do have a method of dealing with "voter intent". I worked an election years ago, and here is how it's dealt with. Pencils are provided so everyone uses the same. They have no erasers, so no one is erasing. You are also told that you either make a checkmark, or an 'X', anything else is discarded. We discarded some with circles, happy faces, pentagrams, Xs that had been scratched out and filled in elsewhere, hybrid x-checkmarks etc. It's voter responsibility to do this right. It's also not a huge problem. Some people spoil their vote deliberately, for that there is nothing you can do other than provide better candidates. Smudging was not at all an issue, we don't go rubbing the ballots, and the ballots are counted at the polling station and only the results are sent to the elections board. The ballots themselves are then placed in some envelope (or box, it's been years and I've forgotten) sealed, all 4 people at the table sign the seal so it is obvious if it is opened, and sent to the elections board should they need to be recounted. There are 4 people involved in counting each ballot box, and each have to agree on every ballot. In total, at my polling station we discarded only about 10 votes per ballot box. What can you do, it's your right to not vote, or to vote incorrectly.
It basically comes down to this: If you want to vote, do it properly, it's not rocket science. For the illiterate, You may have someone (a friend family member etc) read the ballot for you. After that you simply put an X or a check in the little white circle next to the candidate's name. Spoiled votes are simply non votes. Some people would rather note vote at all, and spoiled votes are simply a way for these people to make sure no one else votes in their place.
We recently voted in Canada. I was in and out of the polling center in less than 3 minutes, I almost felt cheated. Somehow it felt that it should have taken longer.
Unless this thing has an MP3 player, a phone and a digital camera like pretty much all the new toys, which can also play games, I don't imagine it will be that hot of a seller. Then again, it's Nintendo, they know the market, I'm obviously not their target market.
Haven't we essentially just gone back to the ballot method, with the extra overhead of having to get a receipt from the machine first? I've never given much thought to how an electronic election might be held, so I won't propose a solution, but this seems like it's not really solving anything. To verify the electronic votes, the paper ballots would have to be checked against the machine tallies.
It has become my belief that electronic voting will really only benefit those producing these machines.
I don't know what US ballots look like, but here in Canada, you are handed a little piece of paper, you go hide in a cubicle, make a mark with a pencil, return to the person who handed you the ballot, and you stuff it in the box, where 4 people are making sure you have only used one ballot. No one knows who you voted for except you.
When it comes time to opening the ballot boxes, I would even go as far as to locally televise the counts, if for no other reason to keep the counters honest.
Maybe I'm wrong on the last part, but I see zero advantage to these electronic machines, and certainly even less in following them up with a paper trail. Is it just the government trying to "get with the times"?
IF you had found bits of stolen code in Windows, would you stick your neck out and admit to having seen the windows code? What kind of trouble do you think it would have caused if, say, Linus had found stolen code?
What are you talking about? A 30 minute drive in just about any direction from downtown Montreal and you are in the country. The city is an island, take a bridge, or the tunnel.
Oh I agree whole heartedly, hence the "scream out loud" part (I knew I should have put "rip your hair out"). I do wish that pkgtool would at least passively warn about dependancies. Something along the lines of "Hey you want to install FOO but we notice that you don't have BAR installed, you might want to install that or else FOO migght not work right" Just as a reminder that FOO needs an other package, which is now up to the user to install later.
We don't want "simple stupid". We want "works well". The simple stupid method will make a few users happy, but will impose aritificial limits on others.
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Oddly, no, never... There was once a student that had a CD explode in the drive. I guess it was cracked or something... I eventually got the drive working again once I had removed all the little shards of CD from it.
BTW: fp?
Seriously, they aren't making much of a case for themselves. In fact they are making more of a case for FOSS. By crippling windows, they are giving people an incentive to use FOSS since no Linux or *BSD that I know of is crippled like this. No one has ever attempted Apache-lite or some other equally ridiculous idea for a reason.
Here's to hoping...
The stock is being held high. I don't pretend to know what I am doing on the stock market but, when people are bidding $35 on a stock valued at ~$5, something is fishy. It's also interesting to see the stock jump 10% 10 minutes before closing every day as well.
Such an accurate statistic! One can't help but feel that all of the points they tout for their software, are complete BS, and would probably fall to a false advertising suit.
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<naiveté>Some might even conceivably make some sort of living at it, rather than writing exploits </naiveté>
After having read the first 7 replies, I will simply reply to myself since I don't want to reply to you all. I have to admit, I agree with you all. I've never had an interest in mobile gaming, hence my not being Nintendo's target market. None of the games have ever appealed to my gaming tastes. You all seem to make the same point that a device should do one thing well rather than several poorly, which I totally agree with. The only feature which I would personally want, at least as an option, on any device is MP3/OGG. The rest to me is a waste since I too would probably tire quickly of the mediocre quality of all the other features. I'm a strange breed though. I have no cell phone, no digital camera, no PDA. No electronic portable devices at all, except for the pager, but that's job related and I remove it any time I don't HAVE TO be wearing it. I so often find that my friends with such devices become slaves to them, or simply irritating in their social behaviour. I choose not to be, convenience be damned.
It basically comes down to this: If you want to vote, do it properly, it's not rocket science. For the illiterate, You may have someone (a friend family member etc) read the ballot for you. After that you simply put an X or a check in the little white circle next to the candidate's name. Spoiled votes are simply non votes. Some people would rather note vote at all, and spoiled votes are simply a way for these people to make sure no one else votes in their place.
We recently voted in Canada. I was in and out of the polling center in less than 3 minutes, I almost felt cheated. Somehow it felt that it should have taken longer.
Unless this thing has an MP3 player, a phone and a digital camera like pretty much all the new toys, which can also play games, I don't imagine it will be that hot of a seller. Then again, it's Nintendo, they know the market, I'm obviously not their target market.
It has become my belief that electronic voting will really only benefit those producing these machines.
I don't know what US ballots look like, but here in Canada, you are handed a little piece of paper, you go hide in a cubicle, make a mark with a pencil, return to the person who handed you the ballot, and you stuff it in the box, where 4 people are making sure you have only used one ballot. No one knows who you voted for except you. When it comes time to opening the ballot boxes, I would even go as far as to locally televise the counts, if for no other reason to keep the counters honest.
Maybe I'm wrong on the last part, but I see zero advantage to these electronic machines, and certainly even less in following them up with a paper trail. Is it just the government trying to "get with the times"?
$83000 for a bottle of Windex.
IF you had found bits of stolen code in Windows, would you stick your neck out and admit to having seen the windows code? What kind of trouble do you think it would have caused if, say, Linus had found stolen code?
Does that mean I work in the armory?
What are you talking about? A 30 minute drive in just about any direction from downtown Montreal and you are in the country. The city is an island, take a bridge, or the tunnel.
Now that MS has a To-Do list patent, shouldn't we keep quiet about this and not give them people to sue?
Ok people, when Microsoft is about to "shoot themselves in the foot" be quiet about it and LET THEM!
Oh I agree whole heartedly, hence the "scream out loud" part (I knew I should have put "rip your hair out"). I do wish that pkgtool would at least passively warn about dependancies. Something along the lines of "Hey you want to install FOO but we notice that you don't have BAR installed, you might want to install that or else FOO migght not work right" Just as a reminder that FOO needs an other package, which is now up to the user to install later.
the others have answered your question, and I'll even add this, it even comes with RPM, should you feel the need to scream out loud.
We don't want "simple stupid". We want "works well". The simple stupid method will make a few users happy, but will impose aritificial limits on others.
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Personal, but also public, otherwise phonebooks would be illegal as well no?
Maybe we should ask him...
Bill, what do you think?