> From the patent: 'As a few non-limiting examples, the word 'giant' can get very large; the word 'lion' can morph into a line drawing of a lion; the word 'toss' can morph into a hand that animates a ball toss; the word 'bees' could show bees flying around with or without a 'buzz' sound effect'.
Yeah, like that isn't going to be frakking annoying.
> By this logic Qbert was the filthiest game ever made.
By the same logic, Winnie the Pooh was the filthiest children's book ever. "Oh bother."
Parenthetically, why "republicans" in the tags? According to the PTC website, the filthiest network is Fox. Which side is supposed to be republican? Just wonderin'.
Screw those guys. Inkjets are a ripoff. It's not just the cost per ounce of the ink, it's how the cartridges dry up with disuse, and how the printer uses up half a cartridge during a print head clean cycle, how the printer can't get through an 8x10 without at least one row error. The cost per page is prodigious with these printers, due to supply cost and designed-in high amounts of waste.
If you must use inkjets, it's worth looking at the economics of just throwing the printer away when the demo cartridges are empty. The cost of these printers is heavily subsidized (because they make their money on the ink), and by buying a new one each time you're also getting the benefit of new technology.
Consider a color laser printer. I have been using a color laser printer for three years and my cartridges are still at 80%. The important part of that statement is that my cartridges have been in the printer for three years and have not dried out. Because powder toner doesn't dry out.
...and when I absolutely need to have some professional quality photos printed, the Kodak kiosk at the grocery store does a better job than any inkjet.
But if you must have a photo-capable printer in the house, go with pigment based inks (Kodak, Epson) instead of dye-based inks (what the article is talking about). Pigment based inks do a better job printing photographs and don't dry up as fast. You'll get better results and you'll save a fortune in ink.
Really, there is no reason to ever buy another Inkjet, ever. Never ever. Tell all your friends. It's the biggest sucker game in the computer industry today. Buy a memory stick instead, and do your printing at the nearest Fed-Ex/Kinkos. Anything. Just don't buy another inkjet.
If a couple thousand people in Australia started calling themselves "geekgirl", this issue would probably go away. It could even get in the dictionary.
"geekgirl" gets 70,000 hits on Google. The trademark owner must be really really prolific.
That's true, especially in this economy. Find the company that gets all the now-useless hardware from companies that have outsourced their IT. Hardware up to three years old, but still good by today's standards.
"no free loaders from the last person leaving before the time is up"
I think I could make a case that having to buy 15 minutes of time for a four minute transaction, and the next person has to buy 15 more minutes that overlap my minutes, the city is the one freeloading.
I think the argument could be made that Photoshop and Premiere users are more interested in continuing to use Photoshop and Premiere than what the icons look like or whether they hop up and down. I think we forget sometimes that it's not the computer, it's the use to which it is put.
Adobe could sweeten the deal with some reasonable incentives to switch to the Winders version, but what it comes down to is this: I need Photoshop. I prefer to run Photoshop on my Mac. If I can't run Photoshop on my mac, then I'll have to run Photoshop on some other platform, or in an emulator, or something. Switching to Apple Paint or whatever is not acceptable.
It's not the computer, it's the applications. What's the most well known application on the Mac? Who is Apple screwing with? Yeah, that's not going to end well.
There's an easy solution to this. Adobe simply announces that the next version of Creative Suite will not be supported on OSX. Then, we see who blinks first.
Downtown Portland Oregon got rid of their curbside parking meters. Used to be, you got out of your car and put in a quarter or a dime (or a nickel if you're an old fogey), twisted the little thingy and went on your way.
Now you get out of your car, lock the doors (this is Portland...), walk a half block to the ticket vendor machine, and go through the five discrete steps necessary to print a ticket. Assuming you're successful, you walk back to your car, unlock the door (this is Portland...) affix the ticket to your window with the sticky back, lock the door, and go on your way.
During rush hour, you may wait in line for a significant amount of time to get your ticket. Especially if the moron in front of you can not read directions, but I digress. Parenthetically, what happens if the meter maid happens by while you're in line for your ticket? I haven't had this experience yet.
When you get back to your car, peel off the ticket and throw it on the ground. Just kidding, you're supposed to hunt for a trash can, or throw it on the floor of your car along with the empty coffee cups and breakfast burrito wrappers, but looking at the gutters downtown it appears that a lot of people just drop them on the ground.
So we've replaced the purely mechanical, non-waste-producing (but generally hated) parking meter with an electronic, waste-producing, geographically distant, ticket vending machine that's even more hated.
I'm ambivalent about this. Clearly a crime is being committed, and that needs to be pursued, but the mule is often unaware that they are committing one. This is especially bad in a down economy, when desperate people are more likely to sign up.
A good friend of mine was so proud that she had finally found a job, and one she could do at home (bonus) and wouldn't be kicked out of her apartment after all. It was difficult to tell her that she was being hired to be a money mule and was almost certainly laundering money from illegal enterprises.
Often, these people aren't being dishonest or lazy, they're honestly trying to make rent. (Cross-reference to stories about low income jobs being hit hardest in this economy.) None of us here would fall for it, but they're not trying to hire IT professionals; they're trying to hire out-of-work nonprofessionals who don't have the education or life experience to know better.
Nailing a few mules won't really affect anything except arrest records (for those keeping score). There will always be more naive people to be suckered in, and the real criminals continue their operations. It seems like a better strategy would be for law enforcement to take the mule into their confidence and use them to trap the real criminals in return for amnesty. But that would be too much like real work, wouldn't it?
"The BSA president said, "Few if any industries could withstand the theft of $51 billion worth of their products." It's unclear whether that was a brag about the industry's robustness, or a result of the industry's low cost of goods sold."
Or, it could be an open admission that they're making it all up.
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By extension, does this mean that walk-throughs also violate the license agreement?
Cool!
> From the patent: 'As a few non-limiting examples, the word 'giant' can get very large; the word 'lion' can morph into a line drawing of a lion; the word 'toss' can morph into a hand that animates a ball toss; the word 'bees' could show bees flying around with or without a 'buzz' sound effect'.
Yeah, like that isn't going to be frakking annoying.
Wouldn't that be %major-hardware-vendor%? Or %major-~1~dor%?
Ummm... just about anything?
Say it with me. "Windows Mobile on the tablet". You know it'll happen.
I didn't say it'd SELL.... but it will happen. You know Microsoft has to dominate this market or find a way to destroy it.
> By this logic Qbert was the filthiest game ever made.
By the same logic, Winnie the Pooh was the filthiest children's book ever. "Oh bother."
Parenthetically, why "republicans" in the tags? According to the PTC website, the filthiest network is Fox. Which side is supposed to be republican? Just wonderin'.
Screw those guys. Inkjets are a ripoff. It's not just the cost per ounce of the ink, it's how the cartridges dry up with disuse, and how the printer uses up half a cartridge during a print head clean cycle, how the printer can't get through an 8x10 without at least one row error. The cost per page is prodigious with these printers, due to supply cost and designed-in high amounts of waste.
If you must use inkjets, it's worth looking at the economics of just throwing the printer away when the demo cartridges are empty. The cost of these printers is heavily subsidized (because they make their money on the ink), and by buying a new one each time you're also getting the benefit of new technology.
Consider a color laser printer. I have been using a color laser printer for three years and my cartridges are still at 80%. The important part of that statement is that my cartridges have been in the printer for three years and have not dried out. Because powder toner doesn't dry out.
But if you must have a photo-capable printer in the house, go with pigment based inks (Kodak, Epson) instead of dye-based inks (what the article is talking about). Pigment based inks do a better job printing photographs and don't dry up as fast. You'll get better results and you'll save a fortune in ink.
Really, there is no reason to ever buy another Inkjet, ever. Never ever. Tell all your friends. It's the biggest sucker game in the computer industry today. Buy a memory stick instead, and do your printing at the nearest Fed-Ex/Kinkos. Anything. Just don't buy another inkjet.
If a couple thousand people in Australia started calling themselves "geekgirl", this issue would probably go away. It could even get in the dictionary.
"geekgirl" gets 70,000 hits on Google. The trademark owner must be really really prolific.
Porn in Australia will have to be local.
That's true, especially in this economy. Find the company that gets all the now-useless hardware from companies that have outsourced their IT. Hardware up to three years old, but still good by today's standards.
Freedom from porn? I thought that was freedom of porn. What else are those motion sensors for?
"possible" is not the same as "available". AT&T could still decide not to provide the feature, or at a prohibitively unpopular price.
"no free loaders from the last person leaving before the time is up"
I think I could make a case that having to buy 15 minutes of time for a four minute transaction, and the next person has to buy 15 more minutes that overlap my minutes, the city is the one freeloading.
You know how often it rains here?
I think the argument could be made that Photoshop and Premiere users are more interested in continuing to use Photoshop and Premiere than what the icons look like or whether they hop up and down. I think we forget sometimes that it's not the computer, it's the use to which it is put.
Adobe could sweeten the deal with some reasonable incentives to switch to the Winders version, but what it comes down to is this: I need Photoshop. I prefer to run Photoshop on my Mac. If I can't run Photoshop on my mac, then I'll have to run Photoshop on some other platform, or in an emulator, or something. Switching to Apple Paint or whatever is not acceptable.
It's not the computer, it's the applications. What's the most well known application on the Mac? Who is Apple screwing with? Yeah, that's not going to end well.
There's an easy solution to this. Adobe simply announces that the next version of Creative Suite will not be supported on OSX. Then, we see who blinks first.
Downtown Portland Oregon got rid of their curbside parking meters. Used to be, you got out of your car and put in a quarter or a dime (or a nickel if you're an old fogey), twisted the little thingy and went on your way.
Now you get out of your car, lock the doors (this is Portland...), walk a half block to the ticket vendor machine, and go through the five discrete steps necessary to print a ticket. Assuming you're successful, you walk back to your car, unlock the door (this is Portland...) affix the ticket to your window with the sticky back, lock the door, and go on your way.
During rush hour, you may wait in line for a significant amount of time to get your ticket. Especially if the moron in front of you can not read directions, but I digress. Parenthetically, what happens if the meter maid happens by while you're in line for your ticket? I haven't had this experience yet.
When you get back to your car, peel off the ticket and throw it on the ground. Just kidding, you're supposed to hunt for a trash can, or throw it on the floor of your car along with the empty coffee cups and breakfast burrito wrappers, but looking at the gutters downtown it appears that a lot of people just drop them on the ground.
So we've replaced the purely mechanical, non-waste-producing (but generally hated) parking meter with an electronic, waste-producing, geographically distant, ticket vending machine that's even more hated.
Time marches on.
I'm ambivalent about this. Clearly a crime is being committed, and that needs to be pursued, but the mule is often unaware that they are committing one. This is especially bad in a down economy, when desperate people are more likely to sign up.
A good friend of mine was so proud that she had finally found a job, and one she could do at home (bonus) and wouldn't be kicked out of her apartment after all. It was difficult to tell her that she was being hired to be a money mule and was almost certainly laundering money from illegal enterprises.
Often, these people aren't being dishonest or lazy, they're honestly trying to make rent. (Cross-reference to stories about low income jobs being hit hardest in this economy.) None of us here would fall for it, but they're not trying to hire IT professionals; they're trying to hire out-of-work nonprofessionals who don't have the education or life experience to know better.
Nailing a few mules won't really affect anything except arrest records (for those keeping score). There will always be more naive people to be suckered in, and the real criminals continue their operations. It seems like a better strategy would be for law enforcement to take the mule into their confidence and use them to trap the real criminals in return for amnesty. But that would be too much like real work, wouldn't it?
That's brilliant. I think Vaportheft is my new favorite word!
"The BSA president said, "Few if any industries could withstand the theft of $51 billion worth of their products." It's unclear whether that was a brag about the industry's robustness, or a result of the industry's low cost of goods sold."
Or, it could be an open admission that they're making it all up.
Isn't that a possible hacking vector?
Could you use 32 bit drivers in XP compatibility mode?