There is theoretically a discount for people who live closer to power plants. The problem is that even if you live next to a power plant, your power may not come from it! In any case, on my energy bill, there is a charge for the actual energy, and a seperate line item for the delivery of the energy.
1) this will encourage people in the future to settle if they think they'll get paid off
Even if he manages to recollect all $12,000 (which I doubt will occur), he still hasn't been "paid off". He's only not lost all of his money. He would be no better off than he was before if all of the settlement is donated back to him.
Great "insightful" comment, but your wild speculation has no actual argument behind it. Why exactly is him saying that someone reported a bug every 700,000 IPs going to change anything? Do you seriously think that the people who want to make port-scanning illegal didn't already know you could scan massively large blocks of IPs? What makes the statement so dangerous that he "shouldn't have mentioned" it?
Bunch of animals, those Banzi creatures, and everyone like them... no, I take that back... most animals are sincere... humans have the corner on the liars market.
What about animals such as the Angler Fish or the like, which use tricks to capture prey?
I'm not knocking them off because they're being pro-active. I'm knocking them off because they release patches without proper testing.
A lot of people have said this in the thread. But where does "proper testing" end, and "took too long to get the patch out" begin? Furthermore, this patch caused a conflict with 3rd party software, not something of Microsofts. Do you expect them to test every app that runs on Windows when they release a patch? Criticize all you want, but I haven't seen one person with a constructive answer about how Microsoft could have prevented this without the vague "more testing". If you ever took an SE course, you know that testing is an infinite process. Let me repeat: There is no "end" to testing.
Wacky conflicts and bugs happen. You can't test for every situation. It happens in every OS, every day. Why is this any different?
You've mixed up some terms. It's possible for a show to be "edgy" and not original. It's possible for a show to be "well-written" and not original, etc. You may think CSI isn't well written, but 20 million people each week disagree with you (I personally have never seen it). To assume that something that is good or popular is automatically not well-written is the sort of elitist bullshit that gives geeks a bad name.
Newsflash: Nothing is original. Not your precious Mallrats, or even Clerks! *gasp*
For example, there are plenty of universities who license software for discounted or free student use and yet software piracy is rampant on campuses
The problem with this, based on my experience at Rutgers, is that the software is not always the newest version, and you must run a program in the background to verify licences. Also, when one goes home for the weekend/break/etc., the program will not start because the Keyserver will only verify you if you are physically in a dorm.
Why run crippled Photoshop 6 and a Keyserver client when I can have no restrictions Photoshop 7 in an hour?
Yes the typical response. I'm not asking for release quality in every aspect of the product. I'm just asking that it can handle the basic function of installing itself.
Another thing, if it's so "pre-alpha", why does almost everything else work so well?
Phoenix/Firebird needs to stop working on other things, and fix the installers. I have to manually remove my phoenix directory before installing, and I can't use my old profile? Call it a troll, but I've been using.5 for a while, and am not going to upgrade until I can use my old data reliably. It took enough playing around to get some plugins working right the first time around. I don't want to play the game again.
ObWarning: I am not a lawyer and I am not licensed to practice law. I am the son of a judge. And I have seen, firsthand, what happens to people who think they can take on lawyers.
That's because your dad, like all judges, doesn't like to see money taken away from his buddies the trial lawyers when someone tries to do things themselves.
The webmaster's response to the letter is moot. It won't make a difference either way.
For me, it really depends on who I'm buying from. If I'm at a conglomostore like Walmart or McDonald's, screw em for hiring substandard workers. If I'm at the corner market, or a smaller store, I will tend to correct them if I notice an error in my favor. Of course, I always correct anyone who makes an error in the store's favor.
That's right they are unwanted. But you must understand that by recieving the ads, you are "paying" for whatever service you are using. You aren't naieve enough to think that google and slashdot magically work for free, are you? By blocking ads, you are only hurting the sites you visit, not helping yourself.
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Moz/Phoenix has an internal list of servers not to load images from. Drop in the server list that kazaa uses, and you should have the same functionality, just not automatically updated.
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Well it's not really that I have a problem with his opinion, just the way he says it. If he had said what you did, I'd have had no problem.
Let me simplify your logic a bit.
"I don't like Windows."
"I am so smart."
Therefore, "Windows is flawed."
QED
There is theoretically a discount for people who live closer to power plants. The problem is that even if you live next to a power plant, your power may not come from it! In any case, on my energy bill, there is a charge for the actual energy, and a seperate line item for the delivery of the energy.
It's completely unreasonable. 95% of their IP use can be handled by private addresses, if not more.
Finally we will see the crazy world domination/electrocution game first unveiled in Never Say Never Again.
1) this will encourage people in the future to settle if they think they'll get paid off
Even if he manages to recollect all $12,000 (which I doubt will occur), he still hasn't been "paid off". He's only not lost all of his money. He would be no better off than he was before if all of the settlement is donated back to him.
Great "insightful" comment, but your wild speculation has no actual argument behind it. Why exactly is him saying that someone reported a bug every 700,000 IPs going to change anything? Do you seriously think that the people who want to make port-scanning illegal didn't already know you could scan massively large blocks of IPs? What makes the statement so dangerous that he "shouldn't have mentioned" it?
Bunch of animals, those Banzi creatures, and everyone like them... no, I take that back... most animals are sincere... humans have the corner on the liars market.
What about animals such as the Angler Fish or the like, which use tricks to capture prey?
How long has it been since you've seen a rotary telephone in use?
A long time, but if I flip the switch on my phone, I can still call anyone. Backwards compatibility doesn't exist in the IP phone switchover.
The idea is to make sure that something like this never happens.
No one is that naieve. The idea is to minimize the occurance of things like this. Trying to make them never happen is like a War on Terror.
I'm not knocking them off because they're being pro-active. I'm knocking them off because they release patches without proper testing.
A lot of people have said this in the thread. But where does "proper testing" end, and "took too long to get the patch out" begin? Furthermore, this patch caused a conflict with 3rd party software, not something of Microsofts. Do you expect them to test every app that runs on Windows when they release a patch? Criticize all you want, but I haven't seen one person with a constructive answer about how Microsoft could have prevented this without the vague "more testing". If you ever took an SE course, you know that testing is an infinite process. Let me repeat: There is no "end" to testing.
Wacky conflicts and bugs happen. You can't test for every situation. It happens in every OS, every day. Why is this any different?
You've mixed up some terms. It's possible for a show to be "edgy" and not original. It's possible for a show to be "well-written" and not original, etc. You may think CSI isn't well written, but 20 million people each week disagree with you (I personally have never seen it). To assume that something that is good or popular is automatically not well-written is the sort of elitist bullshit that gives geeks a bad name.
Newsflash: Nothing is original. Not your precious Mallrats, or even Clerks! *gasp*
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me
I think you got this one wrong.. last time I heard it, it went like this: "Fool me once.. shame on... shame on you. Fool me.. can't get fooled again."
Get it right or pay the price.
For example, there are plenty of universities who license software for discounted or free student use and yet software piracy is rampant on campuses
The problem with this, based on my experience at Rutgers, is that the software is not always the newest version, and you must run a program in the background to verify licences. Also, when one goes home for the weekend/break/etc., the program will not start because the Keyserver will only verify you if you are physically in a dorm.
Why run crippled Photoshop 6 and a Keyserver client when I can have no restrictions Photoshop 7 in an hour?
but it still is and always has been theft.
No. It still is, and has always been, copyright infringement.
From what I've read, people have had 50/50 success with getting flash working correctly.
If people didn't want Flash working, why would they post that they had (success|failure) getting it to work?
Yes the typical response. I'm not asking for release quality in every aspect of the product. I'm just asking that it can handle the basic function of installing itself.
Another thing, if it's so "pre-alpha", why does almost everything else work so well?
Phoenix/Firebird needs to stop working on other things, and fix the installers. I have to manually remove my phoenix directory before installing, and I can't use my old profile? Call it a troll, but I've been using .5 for a while, and am not going to upgrade until I can use my old data reliably. It took enough playing around to get some plugins working right the first time around. I don't want to play the game again.
ObWarning: I am not a lawyer and I am not licensed to practice law. I am the son of a judge. And I have seen, firsthand, what happens to people who think they can take on lawyers.
That's because your dad, like all judges, doesn't like to see money taken away from his buddies the trial lawyers when someone tries to do things themselves.
The webmaster's response to the letter is moot. It won't make a difference either way.
At that time, there was no picture of the new note. Hence, no story.
Get a changepurse.
For me, it really depends on who I'm buying from. If I'm at a conglomostore like Walmart or McDonald's, screw em for hiring substandard workers. If I'm at the corner market, or a smaller store, I will tend to correct them if I notice an error in my favor. Of course, I always correct anyone who makes an error in the store's favor.
That's right they are unwanted. But you must understand that by recieving the ads, you are "paying" for whatever service you are using. You aren't naieve enough to think that google and slashdot magically work for free, are you? By blocking ads, you are only hurting the sites you visit, not helping yourself.
Or a -5: overused Simpson Reference.
Moz/Phoenix has an internal list of servers not to load images from. Drop in the server list that kazaa uses, and you should have the same functionality, just not automatically updated.