The DRM was that you couldn't download it. You had to watch it on their website. If you use the "rent" feature, this is OK. If you use the "buy" feature, you expect that (even if you can't download it, and have to log in to view your video) you'll always be able to watch it. Especially for a company like Google - can't they afford to stream the shows that people bought, basically forever? Apparently not.
Instead people get some credit that they can't turn into cash. The shows they bought, they no longer have - maybe they can find it elsewhere for more.
1) No, they don't interpret it correctly - it's just that their own usage is unxder the fair usage policy's secret limit. If you asked them, they would say that it meant that you could download as much as you want.
2) I've seen it in home broadband offerings. (e.g. Sky). They have an asterisk saying "fair usage policy applies".
3) In the contract, it says they can take any measures against somebody overusing their connection (with no way to find out what "overusing" is until it happens to you), typically including blocking ports, throttling some types of connection, limiting your overall speed (often to below-modem levels) and cutting you off without compensation.
4) If they don't put any number, and ask you to call them to get the number appropriate to your area, then what? Oh yeah... they don't do it because they prefer to advertise "unlimited" while actually giving you limits. Limits that you can't compare between ISPs.
1) The advertisement never says "unlimited time", just "unlimited".
2) Other companies with several price plans have "5GB (basic), 10GB (premium), unlimited (super premium)"
3) Only in the advertising does it say "unlimited", not in the contract
4) It doesn't say in the Fair Usage Policy "limits may be applied at our discretion over 20GB of usage in any billing month" - just that they can do whatever they like
"After achieving a quality product, the article states, Microsoft's big goal with 7 is to recapture a regular release schedule for their operating system product."
Vista *was* that quality product. Windows 7 is going to be the first of their OSes on their new "regular release schedule".
If they're going to release so regularly, why make such major revisions? Seems to me that with the new networking and sound subsystems, and some major changes to printing, they could start going 6.1, 6.2 etc.
To play a modern slots, you don't just "pull the arm" like a one-armed bandit.
There's a coin return button, some "hold" buttons, buttons to decide how much money you will play at a time, and plenty of buttons designed to lengthen your game and increase your apparent chances of winning. (i.e. "it's not quite over yet! If I hold these two and roll again... oh, damn.")
These people put in $1, and saw it said "credit: $10" on the machine. (Or there was a sign saying "1 credit $1, maximum payout $5,000 [etc]"). Then *they just pressed the coin return button* and got $10. Then they repeated it to get more money.
"technologies used by publishers or copyright holders to control access to or usage of digital data or hardware, as well as to restrictions associated with specific instances of digital works or devices. The term is often confused with copy protection and technical protection measures, which refer to specific technologies that control or restrict the use and access of digital content on electronic devices. Such technologies act as components of a full-blown DRM design." [the wiki]
Is it copy protection? Yes, you can't copy it on like you would copy on (squirt) a track from your own library.
Is it used to usage of digital data? Yes, you can only hear it three times.
Whether the file is technically changed to a DRM format on the disk is irrelevant. The point is, the file is irretrievable.
Their is a compelling reason - most new motherboards only have 1 port! I also got one of the dead cheap HP OEMs and it had no IDE ports at all. The local store didn't even have any SATA burners.
"because a program insists on aborting the shutdown procedure until it finishes what it's working on."
Vista doesn't allow apps to do that any more.
Anyway, there's nothing you can possibly do to speed up that process' shutdown. It's not like you have the source code or anything. It could have simply been because, say, you had a Control Panel dialog open, and that process deals with Control Panel dialogs. It could be practically anything.
And (2) anyway, half a second is almost impreceptible in Vista's shutdown time.
You should have seen the talk at consumerist.com when Verizon changed their SMS prices from 10 to 15 cents. (Seems in Americ you have to pay to recieve them, too.)
Stories included having to fax them your copy of the contract, claiming the increase is not "materially adverse" (which is not defined in their contract), claiming you have to wait until after the change is introduced (the contract clearly says that if you do so you have agreed to the change), and claiming that the fare hasn't increased at all.
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+ really is a better format, though.
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The media network is completely seperate from the flight systems.
Point still stands though.
500 * (80/(40+hours of down time))
http://www.spoj.pl/ranks/users/ (bottom of page)
The 500 multiplier was added just to look cooler.
DIVX was the first semi-major example. This is the second.
The DRM was that you couldn't download it. You had to watch it on their website. If you use the "rent" feature, this is OK. If you use the "buy" feature, you expect that (even if you can't download it, and have to log in to view your video) you'll always be able to watch it. Especially for a company like Google - can't they afford to stream the shows that people bought, basically forever? Apparently not.
Instead people get some credit that they can't turn into cash. The shows they bought, they no longer have - maybe they can find it elsewhere for more.
Whoops, I used that on a few computers - can anybody link me to reports of problems?
1) No, they don't interpret it correctly - it's just that their own usage is unxder the fair usage policy's secret limit. If you asked them, they would say that it meant that you could download as much as you want.
2) I've seen it in home broadband offerings. (e.g. Sky). They have an asterisk saying "fair usage policy applies".
3) In the contract, it says they can take any measures against somebody overusing their connection (with no way to find out what "overusing" is until it happens to you), typically including blocking ports, throttling some types of connection, limiting your overall speed (often to below-modem levels) and cutting you off without compensation.
4) If they don't put any number, and ask you to call them to get the number appropriate to your area, then what? Oh yeah... they don't do it because they prefer to advertise "unlimited" while actually giving you limits. Limits that you can't compare between ISPs.
How about this:
1) The advertisement never says "unlimited time", just "unlimited".
2) Other companies with several price plans have "5GB (basic), 10GB (premium), unlimited (super premium)"
3) Only in the advertising does it say "unlimited", not in the contract
4) It doesn't say in the Fair Usage Policy "limits may be applied at our discretion over 20GB of usage in any billing month" - just that they can do whatever they like
Well, that's the situation now.
"After achieving a quality product, the article states, Microsoft's big goal with 7 is to recapture a regular release schedule for their operating system product."
Vista *was* that quality product. Windows 7 is going to be the first of their OSes on their new "regular release schedule".
If they're going to release so regularly, why make such major revisions? Seems to me that with the new networking and sound subsystems, and some major changes to printing, they could start going 6.1, 6.2 etc.
Nothing like marketing I guess.
To play a modern slots, you don't just "pull the arm" like a one-armed bandit.
There's a coin return button, some "hold" buttons, buttons to decide how much money you will play at a time, and plenty of buttons designed to lengthen your game and increase your apparent chances of winning. (i.e. "it's not quite over yet! If I hold these two and roll again... oh, damn.")
These people put in $1, and saw it said "credit: $10" on the machine. (Or there was a sign saying "1 credit $1, maximum payout $5,000 [etc]"). Then *they just pressed the coin return button* and got $10. Then they repeated it to get more money.
How is that not DRM?
"technologies used by publishers or copyright holders to control access to or usage of digital data or hardware, as well as to restrictions associated with specific instances of digital works or devices. The term is often confused with copy protection and technical protection measures, which refer to specific technologies that control or restrict the use and access of digital content on electronic devices. Such technologies act as components of a full-blown DRM design." [the wiki]
Is it copy protection? Yes, you can't copy it on like you would copy on (squirt) a track from your own library.
Is it used to usage of digital data? Yes, you can only hear it three times.
Whether the file is technically changed to a DRM format on the disk is irrelevant. The point is, the file is irretrievable.
Their is a compelling reason - most new motherboards only have 1 port! I also got one of the dead cheap HP OEMs and it had no IDE ports at all. The local store didn't even have any SATA burners.
Hashcash! My favourite anti-spam solution.
If only somebody would use it...
Just use your time machine to retroactively slip in an article just before they start the database dumps.
"because a program insists on aborting the shutdown procedure until it finishes what it's working on."
Vista doesn't allow apps to do that any more.
Anyway, there's nothing you can possibly do to speed up that process' shutdown. It's not like you have the source code or anything. It could have simply been because, say, you had a Control Panel dialog open, and that process deals with Control Panel dialogs. It could be practically anything.
And (2) anyway, half a second is almost impreceptible in Vista's shutdown time.
"because a program insists on aborting the shutdown procedure until it finishes what it's working on." ...which Vista no longer allows anyway.
That font dialog is still in Vista, believe it or not.
You should have seen the talk at consumerist.com when Verizon changed their SMS prices from 10 to 15 cents. (Seems in Americ you have to pay to recieve them, too.)
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Stories included having to fax them your copy of the contract, claiming the increase is not "materially adverse" (which is not defined in their contract), claiming you have to wait until after the change is introduced (the contract clearly says that if you do so you have agreed to the change), and claiming that the fare hasn't increased at all.
http://consumerist.com/consumer/readers/verizon-3
There's plenty of product placement on british telly, even on BBC shows (which get free props instead of money).
The more interesting part is how the creativity of Myspace and the spartan/clean layout of Facebook has attracted entirely different personalities.
But only out of security concerns from Microsoft, not out of any sort of antitrust related effect.
So this result benefited who exactly?
"I was wondering what, if any, advancements in battery technology they used."
How about the advancement of lying about the battery life? They do it with their laptops, after all.
Helping people fix their car over the phone, if people knew cars like they knew computers:
"OK, so you've got the car now, can you open the front for me?"
Customer: "Yes, here it is"
"Can you see a red thing?"
Customer: "No, my dog's here"
"That's the back of the car. You want the other side"
Customer: "They should be labelled *mutter mutter* OK, I'm going to need to leave the phone hanging now..."
*techie sighs secretly* "OK..."
"They seem to understand the concept of nondisclosure quite well, and have more respect for privacy than I've seen in any other company of its type."
Especially when they release photos of people standing outside strip clubs!