It's common knowledge that geeks tend to disdain tech support and like to (and have the skills to) fix their own problems. Why shouldn't Linksys try to take advantage of this pre-existing market segmentation? They didnt *have* to keep the router flashable, they could have saved even more money by cancelling the model entirely and only selling the one with too little RAM.
The face isn't just an organ, it's a large part of your personal identity and how you distinguish yourself from the rest of the world. It's the only part of the body that is almost universally exposed to general scrutiny, and it's how you are known by others. I'm no psychologist, but I can imagine there's a difference between looking in a mirror and saying "that used to be me", no matter how mangled you are now, and looking in a mirror and saying "that is someone else".
The ethical implications would come from the process of removing the identity from someone who may or may not be dead and effectively erasing the identity of the recipient when the transplant is complete and he looks like someone different.
Do you expect the average hobbyist or electronics store grunt will be able to do that? If modding is sufficiently difficult there won't be enough modded boxes out there to support the sort of community the Xbox 1 had.
No, if they reported just the facts in an objective manner it would be a story. It's a "story" because the headline was made grossly inaccurate just to make MS look bad. It could just as easily have been titled "Xbox 360 Problems Reported", but then the slashbots would be jumping all over the editors for "buying into the hype machine".
I can only hope that next time someone finds a bug in the Linux kernel the story is entitled "Linux Development Process Fundamentally Flawed", but somehow I doubt this will happen.
Music isn't "inherently abundant". For music to be copied, it must first be created. Composing skills are not inherently abundant. Talent at playing instruments is not inherently abundant. Creativity isn't inherently abundant. The fact that it's typically placed in a form that can be copied for virtually zero cost doesn't have any effect on the cost of the first copy of a completely new piece of music.
The manufacturer is irrelevent, because no matter what else the box promises, once you're tired of playing the games it'll end up in the back of the closet, covered with hardened Cheeto grease, dust, a few dents from being kicked when things didn't go quite to plan in a game and utterly forgotten until Garage Sale Season.
That would be true except that you seem to have ignored the fact that new games will be constantly released for the system for at least the next 4-5 years.
No matter how good it is, the PS3 isn't coming out for several months (at least). And we adults don't have to beg mommy for an advance on our allowance to get a console any more. The idea that console platforms are mutually exclusive and buying into one makes all others "the enemy" is obsolete.
And yet, the majority of Hollywood movies for the past decade at least have featured people that could easily be described as "hackers" being oppressed by, fighting to resist, and ultimately defeating huge corporations. Hollywood may have desires of their own but the ultimate dictator of their content is what the audience wants to see.
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That's because most of the time it really is that they just don't feel like paying attention. The ones who are "so smart the class is not engaging their attention" are the rare exception.
Worth pointing out that both creating a new user and enabling remote apple events require authentication from an existing admin account, so it would be extremely difficult to perform them remotely with just a current-user remote code exploit.
This what the record labels are really afraid of. Right now, ITMS sales are a small part of their revenue, so they can afford to put pressure on Apple or survive a threat like this if Apple went through with it. But if Apple ever grew enough that pulling out of the ITMS was too expensive, the record labels would be stuck and Apple would be able to effectively dictate terms to them. This is what their relationship to Wal-Mart is like right now, and they really don't want it to happen again.
The MacBeth comic book quite good, and despite the inaccurate description and reviews on Amazon it is not abridged or altered in any way- the complete text of the play is contained in the captions and word balloons.
It's still possible to add cars and levels and do it badly. The cars could be unbalanced, badly modeled, or not fun to drive. The levels could be poorly designed or unbalanced or full of gameplay flaws. If that happened the sequel would not deserve as high a score as the original.
Like another reply says, if there are absolutely zero complaints about the game then there's no reason not to give it the maximum score (and if a game with absolutely zero problems does not receive the maximum score, it just begs the question of what does).
The problem is, if you're ever going to allow *anyone* onto your network, you can't stop malicious agents from getting in. Sooner or later some authority will pick up on the word of mouth around campus. Like so many people love to say around here, security through obscurity is not sufficient.
Yeah, the word "underrated" is being somewhat misused here. Most of the games are merely "unpopular"- the majority got very good scores from the critics and simply failed to sell well.
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It's common knowledge that geeks tend to disdain tech support and like to (and have the skills to) fix their own problems. Why shouldn't Linksys try to take advantage of this pre-existing market segmentation? They didnt *have* to keep the router flashable, they could have saved even more money by cancelling the model entirely and only selling the one with too little RAM.
YOUR WEB HOST'S INTERNET CONNECTION IS NOT OPTIMIZED!!!!
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The face isn't just an organ, it's a large part of your personal identity and how you distinguish yourself from the rest of the world. It's the only part of the body that is almost universally exposed to general scrutiny, and it's how you are known by others. I'm no psychologist, but I can imagine there's a difference between looking in a mirror and saying "that used to be me", no matter how mangled you are now, and looking in a mirror and saying "that is someone else".
The ethical implications would come from the process of removing the identity from someone who may or may not be dead and effectively erasing the identity of the recipient when the transplant is complete and he looks like someone different.
Do you expect the average hobbyist or electronics store grunt will be able to do that? If modding is sufficiently difficult there won't be enough modded boxes out there to support the sort of community the Xbox 1 had.
If we're talking about nontechnical users, it's more like 10 syllables (double-you double-you double-you dot).
No, if they reported just the facts in an objective manner it would be a story. It's a "story" because the headline was made grossly inaccurate just to make MS look bad. It could just as easily have been titled "Xbox 360 Problems Reported", but then the slashbots would be jumping all over the editors for "buying into the hype machine".
I can only hope that next time someone finds a bug in the Linux kernel the story is entitled "Linux Development Process Fundamentally Flawed", but somehow I doubt this will happen.
Music isn't "inherently abundant". For music to be copied, it must first be created. Composing skills are not inherently abundant. Talent at playing instruments is not inherently abundant. Creativity isn't inherently abundant. The fact that it's typically placed in a form that can be copied for virtually zero cost doesn't have any effect on the cost of the first copy of a completely new piece of music.
Do you expect any new PC games to be released that could run at full quality on a system you bought in 2001?
The manufacturer is irrelevent, because no matter what else the box promises, once you're tired of playing the games it'll end up in the back of the closet, covered with hardened Cheeto grease, dust, a few dents from being kicked when things didn't go quite to plan in a game and utterly forgotten until Garage Sale Season.
That would be true except that you seem to have ignored the fact that new games will be constantly released for the system for at least the next 4-5 years.
No matter how good it is, the PS3 isn't coming out for several months (at least). And we adults don't have to beg mommy for an advance on our allowance to get a console any more. The idea that console platforms are mutually exclusive and buying into one makes all others "the enemy" is obsolete.
And yet, the majority of Hollywood movies for the past decade at least have featured people that could easily be described as "hackers" being oppressed by, fighting to resist, and ultimately defeating huge corporations. Hollywood may have desires of their own but the ultimate dictator of their content is what the audience wants to see.
That's because most of the time it really is that they just don't feel like paying attention. The ones who are "so smart the class is not engaging their attention" are the rare exception.
Worth pointing out that both creating a new user and enabling remote apple events require authentication from an existing admin account, so it would be extremely difficult to perform them remotely with just a current-user remote code exploit.
What they don't tell you is that the entire extra four hours is just Captain Kirk saying "...AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA..."
The best movie->game in recent memory is Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay.
This what the record labels are really afraid of. Right now, ITMS sales are a small part of their revenue, so they can afford to put pressure on Apple or survive a threat like this if Apple went through with it. But if Apple ever grew enough that pulling out of the ITMS was too expensive, the record labels would be stuck and Apple would be able to effectively dictate terms to them. This is what their relationship to Wal-Mart is like right now, and they really don't want it to happen again.
I don't know what version of OS X you're running, but the lipo manpage is present on all my Tiger and Panther machines.
Even a laptop that shocks you when you make spelling errors seems more evil to me
If you don't see that this is not in fact evil but actually one of the best inventions ever, you need to spend more time on IRC and web forums.
Wrong play. Hamlet clearly used a wallhack against Polonius.
The MacBeth comic book quite good, and despite the inaccurate description and reviews on Amazon it is not abridged or altered in any way- the complete text of the play is contained in the captions and word balloons.
It's still possible to add cars and levels and do it badly. The cars could be unbalanced, badly modeled, or not fun to drive. The levels could be poorly designed or unbalanced or full of gameplay flaws. If that happened the sequel would not deserve as high a score as the original.
Like another reply says, if there are absolutely zero complaints about the game then there's no reason not to give it the maximum score (and if a game with absolutely zero problems does not receive the maximum score, it just begs the question of what does).
Wait until your kids get an eyeful of the commercials.
The problem is, if you're ever going to allow *anyone* onto your network, you can't stop malicious agents from getting in. Sooner or later some authority will pick up on the word of mouth around campus. Like so many people love to say around here, security through obscurity is not sufficient.
Yeah, the word "underrated" is being somewhat misused here. Most of the games are merely "unpopular"- the majority got very good scores from the critics and simply failed to sell well.
Because Apple's IOKit is one of the things they did *not* inherit from BSD and is in fact radically different from every other driver SPI out there.