This is the same kind of developer Retardovision which has become endemic over the last few months with Gnome and Ubuntu also pushing crap on users that don't want it.
I can't easily tell exactly what the bug is here, but it appears to require that you have your password algorithm set to blowfish and use passwords with non-ASCII characters? That doesn't seem a likely combination on any modern Linux installation.
Let's see if any Democratic group has the stones to mount a primary challenge. I'm not really impressed by any of the Republican candidates. See if you can get Hillary to give it another go.
Hilary Clinton vs Sarah Palin at the next election would be hilarious and an unbeatable demonstration that America has totally jumped the shark.
On the other hand, if you observe the history of changes in iOS devices since their debut, the number of features that started out missing(including minor niceties like cut and paste, and 3rd party applications that had been around for years on other platforms) and "came in a future update" is pretty large.
Apple's approach seems to be to tell you that you don't need that feature and then release it later, whereas companies who can't get away with implying that their customers are idiots have to promise to release it later.
If I've worked the same job for the past 5 years and it's a 10 mile commute, and I think I'll be working it for the next 5 years then why should I pay for a 30 mile battery that fits the "average driver"?
Around here you'd do it because that '10-mile battery' probably wouldn't get you ten miles when it's 40C with the air conditioning on, or -40C with the heater on. Or at night in the rain when the lights and wipers are running and you're stuck in traffic due to an accident blocking the road.
Simple fact is there's no such thing as a '10 mile battery' or a '30 mile battery' and the range can be halved or worse in bad circumstances.
Denialists are the only ones who have "everything figured out". Their adherence to their pet theory is immune to any criticism and when was the last time you saw error bars on a trend line from a denialist?
Indeed, I always laugh at the Climate Change Denialists when they claim that only humans can cause the climate to change and otherwise it would be completely static. Just look at the 'Hockey Stick', for example; we're supposed to believe that the planet's temperature was basically constant for centuries before humans came along, which is simply ludicrous.
Though admittedly I've seen at least one version of the graph which had error bars so enormous that it was easily consistent with the Medieval Warming Period; but you don't see those when it's reused in newspapers and documentaries.
Until the Copyright Police smash down your door and drag you off to Pound-Me-In-The-Ass Prison. That might not happen if you're publishing posts from Joe Nobody's blog, but big media will not take kindly to people selling books claiming to be part of their franchise.
Amazon and Sony treat their customers like criminals. But it's downright naive to believe that every player in the game does.
Amazon aren't the ones putting DRM on ebooks: the publishers are. And even many people working for the publishers have said that DRM is moronic but the people at the top demand it.
Most ebooks on Amazon are DRM-free. Of course most ebooks on Amazon are either unreadable self-published novels (I'd say about 1% are worth reading) or spam.
There was one plaintive message from some poor soul on the West Coast who writes a blog on the subject--the "book" in question had simply gone into her blog and lifted posts out of it.
Shouldn't they have sued Amazon for copyright infringement?
I know Smashwords rejects PLR books and does a web search for copied text in submitted books. Amazon are probably going to have to start doing something similar.
Another option is to require ISBNs for ebooks, which would dramatically increase the cost of submitting twenty books a day. Though they'd need some method of verifying that the ISBN is real.
It's exactly what I think when I see those ads on tv. You know, the ones that come on at 2am -
Reminds me of the 'property developers' buying unfinished apartments to sell when they were complete. 'But they told me it would be worth twice as much by the time the building was finished. And they gave me a $10,000 discount because I went to that property development seminar that I paid $20,000 for'.
I'm constantly amazed by the number of people who seem to believe that companies are just lining up to give them free money when if the 'amazing profit' was such a sure bet the company could have made that money itself instead.
Wait I also installed Ubuntu 11.04 last night and on bootup it had at least 100 megs of updates. and 11.04 only like what 28 days old or something. THAT's some patchin right there!
Windows Update generally only updates the operating system and a few Microsoft apps. Ubuntu updates the operating system and thousands of applications (or whichever of those thousands you have installed).
And the big problem with Windows Update is not the amount it downloads, but the fact that it constantly wants to reboot after installing an update and thrashes the disk like a two dollar whore while it's installing so I usually can't do anything else.
I can think of about half a dozen other digital download services for PCs and I spend more money on one of those than I do with Steam. So I can't see where there 'monopoly' comes from.
and that reflects in the stupid prices it commands for titles.
That's true. Thanks to Steam sales I rarely pay more than $5 for a game these days; and because Steam is so popular, other sites have to compete with similar sales.
Sun cycles are 10 year data cycles that don't explain 100 year trends in the slightest.
Uh, I take it you've never heard the words 'Maunder Minimum'?
The only place that long-term solar changes don't appear to affect temperatures is in 'Global Climate Warming Disruption Change' models. Or whatever they're calling it today.
I dare you to actually make a meaningful falsible claim instead of putting words in the mouth of people you disagree with.
I'd love to see one of the computer modelers making a meaningful falsifiable claim about 'Global Climate Warming Disruption Change'.
Nissan should seriously consider a package without the GSM radio, carwings..etc... some people who would otherwise purchase a leaf may be disinclined to do so due to all the creepy unecessary features.
But they probably make at least a 50% profit margin on those 'creepy unnecessary features'.
I have no that that a large number of cargo containers really do fall off during bad weather or whatever, but I wonder what percentage of that 10,000 are lost at sea vs. "lost at sea" while the dock workers look the other way.
While some of the contents of my shipping container mysteriously vanished on the way across the Atlantic, I can't help but feel that someone is going to notice if a dock worker tries to drive out of the docks with a forty-foot container sticking out of the trunk of their car.
And people care about some moron congressman tweeting his penis and dumb Sarah Palin. Glad to know the media is focusing on what is important.
But Obama is a Marxist, so anything he does is wonderful.
The funny part is that the left seem to believe that discrediting Palin would help them, whereas the right-wing Americans I know only like Pailn because she pisses off the left so much; they'd never actually vote for her, but she's a useful distraction.
Even if the data is encrypted, if you're using a virtual server in The Cloud, then the server requires the key to decrypt it, and anyone with access to that virtual machine can then read the data.
Encryption would only make the data safe if you're reading it back from The Cloud, processing it, and sending updates back to The Cloud. Which would seem an odd way to do things unless you want to have access to the same data from multiple sites around the world.
Your post fails to consider the completely reasonable choice of not handing your data off to a third party in the first place. ..
That is not a reasonable choice if you're a manager who's going to get a big bonus for shipping your data off to 'The Cloud' so you can close down your own data center.
Or start firing your representatives, and hiring new ones. THEY are the ones not doing their jobs. It's called an election, and they happen every 2 years.
Yeah, because that's worked just so well in the past.
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Fork 3.6? What's wrong with v4/v5? You don't like the speed and memory efficiency improvements?
Don't like using an interface designed for a tablet or mobile phone on a desktop with a 1200 pixel high screen?
4 and 5 are basically identical
So, uh, why do we need FF5?
This is the same kind of developer Retardovision which has become endemic over the last few months with Gnome and Ubuntu also pushing crap on users that don't want it.
I can't easily tell exactly what the bug is here, but it appears to require that you have your password algorithm set to blowfish and use passwords with non-ASCII characters? That doesn't seem a likely combination on any modern Linux installation.
Video and ebooks however continue to be wrapped in layers of DRM and little forward motion to push DRM out of those fields seems to be underway.
Most ebooks do not have DRM, though perhaps most ebooks from big publishers do.
Let's see if any Democratic group has the stones to mount a primary challenge. I'm not really impressed by any of the Republican candidates. See if you can get Hillary to give it another go.
Hilary Clinton vs Sarah Palin at the next election would be hilarious and an unbeatable demonstration that America has totally jumped the shark.
On the other hand, if you observe the history of changes in iOS devices since their debut, the number of features that started out missing(including minor niceties like cut and paste, and 3rd party applications that had been around for years on other platforms) and "came in a future update" is pretty large.
Apple's approach seems to be to tell you that you don't need that feature and then release it later, whereas companies who can't get away with implying that their customers are idiots have to promise to release it later.
If I've worked the same job for the past 5 years and it's a 10 mile commute, and I think I'll be working it for the next 5 years then why should I pay for a 30 mile battery that fits the "average driver"?
Around here you'd do it because that '10-mile battery' probably wouldn't get you ten miles when it's 40C with the air conditioning on, or -40C with the heater on. Or at night in the rain when the lights and wipers are running and you're stuck in traffic due to an accident blocking the road.
Simple fact is there's no such thing as a '10 mile battery' or a '30 mile battery' and the range can be halved or worse in bad circumstances.
Denialists are the only ones who have "everything figured out". Their adherence to their pet theory is immune to any criticism and when was the last time you saw error bars on a trend line from a denialist?
Indeed, I always laugh at the Climate Change Denialists when they claim that only humans can cause the climate to change and otherwise it would be completely static. Just look at the 'Hockey Stick', for example; we're supposed to believe that the planet's temperature was basically constant for centuries before humans came along, which is simply ludicrous.
Though admittedly I've seen at least one version of the graph which had error bars so enormous that it was easily consistent with the Medieval Warming Period; but you don't see those when it's reused in newspapers and documentaries.
It depends on how many of these $0.99 books are actually selling. You can get 1,000 ISBNs for $1,000.
Even that is another three copies you have to sell for each spam book; and a $1,000 up-front cost.
Plus Amazon do 'returns' for ebooks, don't they? So if everyone who buys your spam returns it then you won't even make those three sales.
Comedy + a few dollars for the effort.
Until the Copyright Police smash down your door and drag you off to Pound-Me-In-The-Ass Prison. That might not happen if you're publishing posts from Joe Nobody's blog, but big media will not take kindly to people selling books claiming to be part of their franchise.
Amazon and Sony treat their customers like criminals. But it's downright naive to believe that every player in the game does.
Amazon aren't the ones putting DRM on ebooks: the publishers are. And even many people working for the publishers have said that DRM is moronic but the people at the top demand it.
Most ebooks on Amazon are DRM-free. Of course most ebooks on Amazon are either unreadable self-published novels (I'd say about 1% are worth reading) or spam.
There was one plaintive message from some poor soul on the West Coast who writes a blog on the subject--the "book" in question had simply gone into her blog and lifted posts out of it.
Shouldn't they have sued Amazon for copyright infringement?
I know Smashwords rejects PLR books and does a web search for copied text in submitted books. Amazon are probably going to have to start doing something similar.
Another option is to require ISBNs for ebooks, which would dramatically increase the cost of submitting twenty books a day. Though they'd need some method of verifying that the ISBN is real.
It's exactly what I think when I see those ads on tv. You know, the ones that come on at 2am -
Reminds me of the 'property developers' buying unfinished apartments to sell when they were complete. 'But they told me it would be worth twice as much by the time the building was finished. And they gave me a $10,000 discount because I went to that property development seminar that I paid $20,000 for'.
I'm constantly amazed by the number of people who seem to believe that companies are just lining up to give them free money when if the 'amazing profit' was such a sure bet the company could have made that money itself instead.
Wait I also installed Ubuntu 11.04 last night and on bootup it had at least 100 megs of updates. and 11.04 only like what 28 days old or something. THAT's some patchin right there!
Windows Update generally only updates the operating system and a few Microsoft apps. Ubuntu updates the operating system and thousands of applications (or whichever of those thousands you have installed).
And the big problem with Windows Update is not the amount it downloads, but the fact that it constantly wants to reboot after installing an update and thrashes the disk like a two dollar whore while it's installing so I usually can't do anything else.
It's rapidly becoming a monopoly on the PC
I can think of about half a dozen other digital download services for PCs and I spend more money on one of those than I do with Steam. So I can't see where there 'monopoly' comes from.
and that reflects in the stupid prices it commands for titles.
That's true. Thanks to Steam sales I rarely pay more than $5 for a game these days; and because Steam is so popular, other sites have to compete with similar sales.
Sun cycles are 10 year data cycles that don't explain 100 year trends in the slightest.
Uh, I take it you've never heard the words 'Maunder Minimum'?
The only place that long-term solar changes don't appear to affect temperatures is in 'Global Climate Warming Disruption Change' models. Or whatever they're calling it today.
I dare you to actually make a meaningful falsible claim instead of putting words in the mouth of people you disagree with.
I'd love to see one of the computer modelers making a meaningful falsifiable claim about 'Global Climate Warming Disruption Change'.
Nissan should seriously consider a package without the GSM radio, carwings..etc... some people who would otherwise purchase a leaf may be disinclined to do so due to all the creepy unecessary features.
But they probably make at least a 50% profit margin on those 'creepy unnecessary features'.
I have no that that a large number of cargo containers really do fall off during bad weather or whatever, but I wonder what percentage of that 10,000 are lost at sea vs. "lost at sea" while the dock workers look the other way.
While some of the contents of my shipping container mysteriously vanished on the way across the Atlantic, I can't help but feel that someone is going to notice if a dock worker tries to drive out of the docks with a forty-foot container sticking out of the trunk of their car.
Do you have a link to that incident?
He does, but unfortunatley the cloud server is down.
And people care about some moron congressman tweeting his penis and dumb Sarah Palin. Glad to know the media is focusing on what is important.
But Obama is a Marxist, so anything he does is wonderful.
The funny part is that the left seem to believe that discrediting Palin would help them, whereas the right-wing Americans I know only like Pailn because she pisses off the left so much; they'd never actually vote for her, but she's a useful distraction.
Even if the data is encrypted, if you're using a virtual server in The Cloud, then the server requires the key to decrypt it, and anyone with access to that virtual machine can then read the data.
Encryption would only make the data safe if you're reading it back from The Cloud, processing it, and sending updates back to The Cloud. Which would seem an odd way to do things unless you want to have access to the same data from multiple sites around the world.
Your post fails to consider the completely reasonable choice of not handing your data off to a third party in the first place. . .
That is not a reasonable choice if you're a manager who's going to get a big bonus for shipping your data off to 'The Cloud' so you can close down your own data center.
Or start firing your representatives, and hiring new ones. THEY are the ones not doing their jobs. It's called an election, and they happen every 2 years.
Yeah, because that's worked just so well in the past.
It's a 10-year old operating system.
This isn't Windows 95 we're talking about: you could still buy PCs with XP last year.
And I don't get the Windows 7 love myself; I don't see what it gives me other than more pointless eye candy and the poorly designed UAC nonsense.
Rather than lawsuits and payouts, though (which punishes the wrong people), I'd prefer just to fire everyone in management at the school.
Surely the best solution would be to make the people who made these decisions pay the damages? To encourage the others, and all that.