After July 29, involuntary automatic upgrades to Windows 10 will include automatically searching the user's data (local or cloud-based) for credit card numbers or other financial accounts to bill for the upgrade. Expect a Windows Update KB patch in July to implement this additional feature in the GWX subsystem.
The only way this could possibly get better is if Apple started selling his music -- his original compositions originally self-recorded onto local storage and then involuntarily moved to the cloud -- to other Apple Music customers without his consent. That would be the cherry on top of the milkshake.
I wonder if this might actually be happening? Would Apple be that arrogant?
should be viewed as illegal and deceptive by the courts.
Instead of yanking unsupported hypotheticals out of your cavernous ass and pretending they have some value (other than entertainment), how's about you hitch up your teensy tiny bollocks and actually take Brave to court and actually have a judge say that.
Oh, wait, that's right. You have just enough functional brain cells to understand that you'll actually lose. Humiliatingly, in fact.
Keep barking, yappy dog. Your teensy tiny teeth intimidate no one, and you're trapped behind the fence of your outdated business model anyway.
Nest could be forced to define "lifetime" as the life span of the purchaser. In which case, to stop supporting the Revolv product line, they'd have to brick human beings instead of computer hardware.
Bricking human beings is harder. It can't be done with remote electronic self-help. At least, not yet.
In a lot of software development regimes, unit tests are one-shot affairs. If a bug requires continuous operation to manifest, you won't see it until at least subsystem integration, and if the program is pressed for schedule integration burn-in will be shortened and you won't see the bug (if you're unlucky) until the full-up integrated checkout before acceptance testing... the last bastion before it goes to deployment.
So, on one hand, congratulations to the program on capturing it before fielding, but OTOH, I am disappoint. It really should have been caught during development, not in full integration qualification.
But if you are talking about history or anatomy, well, the entire subject is about memorization.
Well, you forget that as this is Slashdot, the basement-dwelling shoe-gazing trogs don't think those subjects should be taught or tested either, because TECHNOLOGY!.
Well, the $99 is a small barrier to entry. Considering Cryptowall has garnered nearly a third of a billion dollars, there is probably some good money to be had if an enterprising blackhat can get a working ransomware trojan running on OSX long enough to do the trick. More than enough to justfy several $99 developer registrations.
but somehow, I never pictured Lionshead getting shut down, even by our benevolent overlord Microsoft Studios. It was too iconic. It's a fixture. Hell, if it inherited just a tiny part of Peter Molyneux's ego, it should have been immortal.
I suppose the idea of Yet Another MMORPG getting shut down isn't a shocker, though. If you want to kill a good game idea dead, attempt to implement it as an MMO. And, to be completely sure, develop it at Microsoft Studios, the great elephant graveyard of gaming. It's the gaming equivalent of lifting off and nuking it from space.
Oh, yeah, original summary doesn't have a linky. Linky.
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"You're clearly lying."
"HOW DARE YOU! HOW. DARE. YOU. I am HURT and HUMILATED!"
"So you are, indeed, a liar."
THAT'S BESIDE THE POINT!"
Yeah. This seems familiar.
That's a good point.
After July 29, involuntary automatic upgrades to Windows 10 will include automatically searching the user's data (local or cloud-based) for credit card numbers or other financial accounts to bill for the upgrade. Expect a Windows Update KB patch in July to implement this additional feature in the GWX subsystem.
The only way this could possibly get better is if Apple started selling his music -- his original compositions originally self-recorded onto local storage and then involuntarily moved to the cloud -- to other Apple Music customers without his consent. That would be the cherry on top of the milkshake.
I wonder if this might actually be happening? Would Apple be that arrogant?
Instead of yanking unsupported hypotheticals out of your cavernous ass and pretending they have some value (other than entertainment), how's about you hitch up your teensy tiny bollocks and actually take Brave to court and actually have a judge say that.
Oh, wait, that's right. You have just enough functional brain cells to understand that you'll actually lose. Humiliatingly, in fact.
Keep barking, yappy dog. Your teensy tiny teeth intimidate no one, and you're trapped behind the fence of your outdated business model anyway.
No, seriously.
I hope Reddit doesn't pretend this is something new and innovative, since it's been around since the 1980s.
It really could be worse.
Nest could be forced to define "lifetime" as the life span of the purchaser. In which case, to stop supporting the Revolv product line, they'd have to brick human beings instead of computer hardware.
Bricking human beings is harder. It can't be done with remote electronic self-help. At least, not yet.
Someone needs to post some Google Deep Dream images and watch Facebook's image recognition algorithm collapse.
More accurately, don't buy a self-driving car by a competitor of Google that Google will buy out.
Oh, wait, that requires precognition.
But definitely, dick move by Google.
Odd metonym, using the name of the security barrier to name the technique to breach that barrier.
Back in my day, we called the breaching technique "sneaker-net". Of course, we only did it when it was authorized. :)
Several types of predators migrate alongside their prey. You go where the meat is.
If ATT could find a way to keep charging you for not using their wares, don't you think they would?
Hells yeah! Fight the power! Stick it to the Man!
Keep speaking Truth (incoherently) to Power!
Yes. It's the "Mission Accomplished" strategy.
workmen cleaning up in the HITOMI clean bay are overheard saying "look at all these extra screws and bolts!"
When the Singularity comes, the AIs will look upon the internet and, at that moment, decide they must eradicate the troll^h^h^h^h^h human race.
In a lot of software development regimes, unit tests are one-shot affairs. If a bug requires continuous operation to manifest, you won't see it until at least subsystem integration, and if the program is pressed for schedule integration burn-in will be shortened and you won't see the bug (if you're unlucky) until the full-up integrated checkout before acceptance testing... the last bastion before it goes to deployment.
So, on one hand, congratulations to the program on capturing it before fielding, but OTOH, I am disappoint. It really should have been caught during development, not in full integration qualification.
"Embrace, Extend, Extinguish."
But if you are talking about history or anatomy, well, the entire subject is about memorization.
Well, you forget that as this is Slashdot, the basement-dwelling shoe-gazing trogs don't think those subjects should be taught or tested either, because TECHNOLOGY!.
TV Rerun Advertising Corollary: "If it's new to you, it's not a rerun!"
Well, the $99 is a small barrier to entry. Considering Cryptowall has garnered nearly a third of a billion dollars, there is probably some good money to be had if an enterprising blackhat can get a working ransomware trojan running on OSX long enough to do the trick. More than enough to justfy several $99 developer registrations.
Populous II really could have been improved with Peter Molyneux's head on a stake somewhere on the map.
but somehow, I never pictured Lionshead getting shut down, even by our benevolent overlord Microsoft Studios. It was too iconic. It's a fixture. Hell, if it inherited just a tiny part of Peter Molyneux's ego, it should have been immortal.
I suppose the idea of Yet Another MMORPG getting shut down isn't a shocker, though. If you want to kill a good game idea dead, attempt to implement it as an MMO. And, to be completely sure, develop it at Microsoft Studios, the great elephant graveyard of gaming. It's the gaming equivalent of lifting off and nuking it from space.
Oh, yeah, original summary doesn't have a linky. Linky.
What's the difference between a self-proclaimed rockstar developer and God?
God knows he's not a developer.
We could ask the Chinese. They likely designed and built the thing.
Said like a true business leader!
FTFY.
I like Zoidberg's approach to peer review:
"Your design's bad and you should feel bad!"