Kittridge says he overlooked one key feature in Fahrenheit: copy protection. That fact, combined with his three-day, money-back guarantee, has resulted in lots of unauthorized copying and lost revenue, he says.
Imagine.. criminals making un-authorized copies of software? If he's such a whiz kid why didn't he see that one coming? You'd think he'd be smart enough to put some copy protection in there.
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I wouldn't say its a need most people don't have.. I can see myself using a device like this alot.... I think the problem is, who in their right mind would pay "Under $2000" for something like this when they can buy a full fledged laptop. That could service my needs better but its just not as portable.
Any idea what the battery life on this thing is? If its like a laptop, ala 2hours, then i'd definately pass.
in the theatre. I've frankly almost given up on going to the movie theatres and cell phones are the least of my issues.
The biggest issue for me is the number of rude and inconsiderate people out there these days. Talking in movies, letting their kids run wild and most annoying of all, people who laugh at everything.
I went to see the last Star Trek movie and this 'lady' (hard to tell sometimes in low light) would cackle at everything Data said. It was this every annoying, extremely loud laugh.
You can ask people to stop talking, etc... but if they are the type that consciously do these things in a theature then they quite frankly couldn't give a rat's ass what you think. So unless your willing to get in a fight, move to another seat (most times not possible) then you have to live with it. My solution, 51" TV and nice sound system.
supplied by work. I travel to work via motorcycle and before I had the Targus bag I used a regular backpack (cost 10 bucks). The Targus has better padding surrounding the laptop and has the nice little slip but other than that I don't see/feel a big difference. I don't think i've worn it for more than an hour tho.
I would think that the Targus would be more comfortable for longer trips since it has that belly strap which helps take the load off your shoulders. I've had it for over a year and it still looks as good as the day I received it. I would have to say that it appears to be very well made. However, if I had to pay for a backpack i'd still be using my el'cheapo backpack I got at a flea market.
Yeah the iPod was successfull because it played music well (and a good ad campaign) but in all seriousness most people don't have 40+ gigs of music files. So that extra space is either useless or can be used for other purposes such as backups or carrying around important files (like your resume). Personally I think its an excellent idea...
I have a 2 meg digital camera and have taken about 7k pictures of the past couple of years.. Thats still less than 10 gigs of space. With this device I could carry around all my music and picture files with room to grow.
Alot of family members don't have computers and since we don't print pictures anymore it would be nice to show them a few pics when were visiting. Or even let them record it to their VHS so they can keep a copy.
Its easy to tell from the replies why there are stigma's against so many types of addiction. Just because you aren't addicted to something or don't believe its possible, doesn't mean it can't happen.
Personally, I don't understand gambling or alcohol addictions but yet I know that it is possible and has ruined many lives. There are many research papers by qualified people that say games are addictive.. So who am I going to believe? My personal experiences, educated professions or someone that goes by the name of G-Funk? Hrmmm....
Check out the yahoo group EQ widows... Read some of the horror stories there and tell me there is no such thing as video game addction.
Personally I played Asheron's Call and other MMORPGS for years... When I look back on it, I was addicted. I suffered mood swings, anger when I couldn't play. Every moment I could spare was in front of the computer. May times I went to work the next day on a couple hours of sleep... My relationships with my wife and kids started to suffer. Luckily I clicked in before they were unrecoverable.
Even to this day I get the urge to play and have to force myself not to resubscribe. If thats not an addiction I don't know what is.
I wish I had a link to an article I once read that was prepared by a psychology student which compared MMORPGS to positive re-enforcement (or some such..) It made perfect sense as to why these games are addictive and why companies design them that way.
Just curious but the shuttle encounters alot of heat upon re-entry... Is spaceship one designed to be able to handle that as well? How much higher does the shuttle go on normal missions? Does it encounter that much extra heat because of the height difference?
I'm far from a professional but I have owned a kodak digital camera for the past 2 years and have taken about 7k pictures with it. I'm very satisfied with it.
Recently I was in the market for a new digital camera and tried a number of different brands. Specifically Canon since all my friends have one and love them. The new Kodaks actually have decent lenses in them and the colors are far better than the canon.
Like I said, i'm far from a professional but I returned the canon's and sony's I tried and settled on another kodak. Maybe its because of the larger screen but its alot easier to tell if the pictures are clear than on the tiny canon screens.
Thats true but they'll be kicking themselves in the arse when one of these 'ventures' finds something valuable on another planet. Then these new ventures will be the next Boeing and Lockheed Martin's.
I honestly don't expect these companies to have a fully funded space program but I would expect that they put a few dollars from R&D in this area. I'm sure they do, we probably just haven't heard about it.
If he's in such a position that the company will provide him with a porche boxster as a company car, then he's making enough bucks to be driving his own fancy rig. In other words, he doesn't need that cash unless there is something we don't know about.
Also, he mustn't be married cause there's no way his wife would let him drive her around in a focus over a boxster.
Granted, I haven't tried to write anything but is it that hard to really write a good virus? I would think a good security 'professional' with years of experience defending such attacks would be a better candidate then an 18 year old kid. If they aren't, well, maybe they should be more worried about finding suitable employee's.
I don't think the article still exists but Forbes.com had a piece where they talked about google.. they mentioned the following..
From Forbes.com:Most recently Google scored a company called Applied Semantics, whose content-scanning techniques can be used to tailor ads not just based on the words a user searches, but also on the actual pages he reads on the Internet.
I would assume that they could easily put this technology into a browser.
Don't forget about management.. Maybe its just my company but I get told all the time what products were going to be using. They formed an architecture group to help make these decisions but managment doesn't invite them to the evaluation meetings. Well, they did once but the tech guys asked too many questions so they we told to shutup and weren't invited back.
We support quite a few 3rd party applications and were rarely asked by managment how it will integrate with our current architecture and for support estimates.
if its setup properly and bayes is enabled. Since Aug. 1st i've recieved 1800 emails flagged as spam... A few false positives but I have my threshold set pretty low. About 140 emails have gotten through and soon i'll take that folder and process it. Before I started processing spam that wasn't caught by spamassassin about 4-5 were getting through a day.. Now its once every few days.
Unfortunately in todays society people really don't understand the consequences of their actions unless its associated with a dollar value. Money is an excellent deterent.
Exactly, Oracle wants access to the customers because the software is a POS. I'm sorry, I had to say it but i've been the unlucky DBA assigned to support our Psft CRM implementation.
Why? Because chances are most people don't have the experience inhouse to debug and solve the problem even if they discover a bug.
Yes, having the source is a nice thing but most companies don't want to mess around with it. If they discover a bug they want to call the vendor and get it fixed.
Sometimes I have to laugh at the mentality of some/. posters. This is the _real_ world people.
Actually I would say production environments are running on older versions of software for 2 reasons:
1-If it ain't broke, don't fix it. People are lazy and upgrading apps is alot of work.
2-They are afraid they are going to fsck something up. Either its a complex environment or they don't trust their knowlege of the system enough to do it. ie, not many people in the real world stick their necks out if they don't have to, especially if htey have families at home.
What you say is interesting but i'm curious how in reality some of this stuff would work given the attention spans of most players.
Ie, say a group of people are operating a ship looking for other vessels to pray on. What is infantry grunt person going to do while waiting?
In theory alot of things for MMORPGS are nice but in reality it simply isn't possible for a number of reasons. While it may be nice to require a couple of people to run a ship I know from playing other games with requirements like this is that its not as fun as it should/could be. Take WWIIOnline for example... Some tanks required multiple people to use to its full effectiveness. (You could operate them solo as well) But I couldn't count how many times the driver was on acid or something and we kept going the wrong way, or he'd rush right into a battle and we'd get creamed after a few seconds.
I find this fairly amusing:
In the USA the right to keep and bear arms is not associated with crime control. It is State Control. The reason the State wants gun control is it is getting predatory.
It must be clear to all that removing the quills from porcupines does not enhance the safety of porcupines. It only favors the predators. This is also true regards the State. (State = Nation for those who cannot read the dictionary)
Realistically now, do you think you even stand a chance of standing up to your government? There are 2 things you fail to understand, most people lack the cohones to stand up to government by using force and 2, you'd get quashed by the police state so fast you wouldn't have time to reload.
What your saying is all nice in theory but as we have seen in many countries around the world you don't stand a chance. Once a country crosses the line they rarely go back without outside intervention.
What it comes down to is that the US culture is obsessed with guns. How else do you explain the number of homocides and gun related crimes as compared to places like Canada, Britian and other European countries?
What we see in the US is when an arms race goes bad. A criminal gets a gun for a crime, so homeowners start buying guns, so more criminals get guns, then other criminals get guns because other criminals have guns and so on. I'd hate to see what would have happened if the cold war went bad.
Seriously.... We moved to a new city 7 years ago and we new a few people who moved here from our hometown and university. But most weekends we just rented movies and stayed at home cause we didn't really know anyone.
That is, until our daugther started school last september.. she would be invited to birthday parties or play dates and one of us would stay, hit it off with her friend's parents. It would steamroll from there. There hasn't been a weekend in ages that we have stayed home alone.
Yes, because we all know that there are plenty of landing strips in the jungle. If you watching a movie that closing for 'perceived' advertisments why do you even bother to go?
I could care less if an actor/actress in a movie sucks back a pepsi or bud (they have to drink something) but I don't think many (if any) movies were altered for better ad placements.
Not sure about AC2 but AC is 100% under Turbines control now.
The problem with Turbine was that when they first started they were lured to the dark side by Microsoft. In what was otherwise an awesome game I think MS's mismanagment. They refused to market the game.
AC2 was a huge flop, graphics and environment was awesome but there was something missing. Magic was still too powerfull and the only way to balance it was to give all mobs the ability to use some sort of magic or missile.
It will be interesting to see how they balance the classes with MOE.
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Imagine.. criminals making un-authorized copies of software? If he's such a whiz kid why didn't he see that one coming? You'd think he'd be smart enough to put some copy protection in there.
Any idea what the battery life on this thing is? If its like a laptop, ala 2hours, then i'd definately pass.
The biggest issue for me is the number of rude and inconsiderate people out there these days. Talking in movies, letting their kids run wild and most annoying of all, people who laugh at everything.
I went to see the last Star Trek movie and this 'lady' (hard to tell sometimes in low light) would cackle at everything Data said. It was this every annoying, extremely loud laugh.
You can ask people to stop talking, etc... but if they are the type that consciously do these things in a theature then they quite frankly couldn't give a rat's ass what you think. So unless your willing to get in a fight, move to another seat (most times not possible) then you have to live with it. My solution, 51" TV and nice sound system.
I would think that the Targus would be more comfortable for longer trips since it has that belly strap which helps take the load off your shoulders. I've had it for over a year and it still looks as good as the day I received it. I would have to say that it appears to be very well made. However, if I had to pay for a backpack i'd still be using my el'cheapo backpack I got at a flea market.
I have a 2 meg digital camera and have taken about 7k pictures of the past couple of years.. Thats still less than 10 gigs of space. With this device I could carry around all my music and picture files with room to grow.
Alot of family members don't have computers and since we don't print pictures anymore it would be nice to show them a few pics when were visiting. Or even let them record it to their VHS so they can keep a copy.
Personally, I don't understand gambling or alcohol addictions but yet I know that it is possible and has ruined many lives. There are many research papers by qualified people that say games are addictive.. So who am I going to believe? My personal experiences, educated professions or someone that goes by the name of G-Funk? Hrmmm....
Personally I played Asheron's Call and other MMORPGS for years... When I look back on it, I was addicted. I suffered mood swings, anger when I couldn't play. Every moment I could spare was in front of the computer. May times I went to work the next day on a couple hours of sleep... My relationships with my wife and kids started to suffer. Luckily I clicked in before they were unrecoverable.
Even to this day I get the urge to play and have to force myself not to resubscribe. If thats not an addiction I don't know what is.
I wish I had a link to an article I once read that was prepared by a psychology student which compared MMORPGS to positive re-enforcement (or some such..) It made perfect sense as to why these games are addictive and why companies design them that way.
Just curious but the shuttle encounters alot of heat upon re-entry... Is spaceship one designed to be able to handle that as well? How much higher does the shuttle go on normal missions? Does it encounter that much extra heat because of the height difference?
I'm far from a professional but I have owned a kodak digital camera for the past 2 years and have taken about 7k pictures with it. I'm very satisfied with it. Recently I was in the market for a new digital camera and tried a number of different brands. Specifically Canon since all my friends have one and love them. The new Kodaks actually have decent lenses in them and the colors are far better than the canon. Like I said, i'm far from a professional but I returned the canon's and sony's I tried and settled on another kodak. Maybe its because of the larger screen but its alot easier to tell if the pictures are clear than on the tiny canon screens.
I honestly don't expect these companies to have a fully funded space program but I would expect that they put a few dollars from R&D in this area. I'm sure they do, we probably just haven't heard about it.
Also, he mustn't be married cause there's no way his wife would let him drive her around in a focus over a boxster.
Granted, I haven't tried to write anything but is it that hard to really write a good virus? I would think a good security 'professional' with years of experience defending such attacks would be a better candidate then an 18 year old kid. If they aren't, well, maybe they should be more worried about finding suitable employee's.
I don't think the article still exists but Forbes.com had a piece where they talked about google.. they mentioned the following.. From Forbes.com: Most recently Google scored a company called Applied Semantics, whose content-scanning techniques can be used to tailor ads not just based on the words a user searches, but also on the actual pages he reads on the Internet. I would assume that they could easily put this technology into a browser.
We support quite a few 3rd party applications and were rarely asked by managment how it will integrate with our current architecture and for support estimates.
I'm hoping its just my company tho.
I haven't heard of it before.. I'll do a google after but does anyone have any comparisons of dspam vs spamassassin? tnx.
if its setup properly and bayes is enabled. Since Aug. 1st i've recieved 1800 emails flagged as spam... A few false positives but I have my threshold set pretty low. About 140 emails have gotten through and soon i'll take that folder and process it. Before I started processing spam that wasn't caught by spamassassin about 4-5 were getting through a day.. Now its once every few days.
Unfortunately in todays society people really don't understand the consequences of their actions unless its associated with a dollar value. Money is an excellent deterent.
Exactly, Oracle wants access to the customers because the software is a POS. I'm sorry, I had to say it but i've been the unlucky DBA assigned to support our Psft CRM implementation.
Why? Because chances are most people don't have the experience inhouse to debug and solve the problem even if they discover a bug. Yes, having the source is a nice thing but most companies don't want to mess around with it. If they discover a bug they want to call the vendor and get it fixed. Sometimes I have to laugh at the mentality of some /. posters. This is the _real_ world people.
1-If it ain't broke, don't fix it. People are lazy and upgrading apps is alot of work.
2-They are afraid they are going to fsck something up. Either its a complex environment or they don't trust their knowlege of the system enough to do it. ie, not many people in the real world stick their necks out if they don't have to, especially if htey have families at home.
What you say is interesting but i'm curious how in reality some of this stuff would work given the attention spans of most players.
Ie, say a group of people are operating a ship looking for other vessels to pray on. What is infantry grunt person going to do while waiting?
In theory alot of things for MMORPGS are nice but in reality it simply isn't possible for a number of reasons. While it may be nice to require a couple of people to run a ship I know from playing other games with requirements like this is that its not as fun as it should/could be. Take WWIIOnline for example... Some tanks required multiple people to use to its full effectiveness. (You could operate them solo as well) But I couldn't count how many times the driver was on acid or something and we kept going the wrong way, or he'd rush right into a battle and we'd get creamed after a few seconds.
What your saying is all nice in theory but as we have seen in many countries around the world you don't stand a chance. Once a country crosses the line they rarely go back without outside intervention.
What it comes down to is that the US culture is obsessed with guns. How else do you explain the number of homocides and gun related crimes as compared to places like Canada, Britian and other European countries?
What we see in the US is when an arms race goes bad. A criminal gets a gun for a crime, so homeowners start buying guns, so more criminals get guns, then other criminals get guns because other criminals have guns and so on. I'd hate to see what would have happened if the cold war went bad.
That is, until our daugther started school last september.. she would be invited to birthday parties or play dates and one of us would stay, hit it off with her friend's parents. It would steamroll from there. There hasn't been a weekend in ages that we have stayed home alone.
I could care less if an actor/actress in a movie sucks back a pepsi or bud (they have to drink something) but I don't think many (if any) movies were altered for better ad placements.
The problem with Turbine was that when they first started they were lured to the dark side by Microsoft. In what was otherwise an awesome game I think MS's mismanagment. They refused to market the game.
AC2 was a huge flop, graphics and environment was awesome but there was something missing. Magic was still too powerfull and the only way to balance it was to give all mobs the ability to use some sort of magic or missile.
It will be interesting to see how they balance the classes with MOE.