I used to work at a small OEM computer manufacturer, and we got those TTY calls occasionally. It wasn't too hard to tell they were scamming us. They wanted FedEx to pick up the shipment (as opposed to having us handle the shipping), and as soon as I suggested anything the response was "Yes, we want that!" - Although their grammer wasn't nearly that good...
I remember one call where I told them "We have a system that costs $900." They immediately responded with "Yes, we want twenty of those." No haggling, no questions about CPU, RAM, or anything else. I just told them the price and they said they wanted twenty. At this point I told the operator to tell them to stop calling us, and that we're not stupid enough to fall for their scam (I think that was the third time I'd talked to them).
Hey! Don't go giving my physics prof. any ideas. I'm having enough trouble without having to worry about the mass of the rope and the friction of the pully. I like massless ropes and frictionless pulleys!
As I understand it Disney has certain licensing rights granted to them by their contract with Pixar but Pixar still owns the movies as well as all the rights to do what they want with the movies (except maybe some merchandising or other things that could have been granted exclusively to Disney).
Surely 99 cents per song is more than some people make for a day of back breaking labor in some parts of the world, but really isn't much more than pocket change in most of the first world countries.
But, do you think that people that are getting $1.00 a day for backbreaking labor are also going to have computers to download music with? Not to mention a CD-Burner and some blank CDs...Do you think that these people (or their neighbors) would even have CD players anyway?
Most of the people that you cite probably haven't even heard of the Internet. Music sharing for them is dragging their drums into their neighbor's back yard.
I did. All in twenties, in five different packages (one of which was from "Bath and Body Works" - yeah I was pretty confused about what my parents might have bought for me there, fortunately it turned out to be a twenty), and I also got a twenty dollar iTunes gift certificate.
BTW anybody noticed how many security updates there have been for Safari since the final release? I think they're up to 2. There have been that many for IE in the last month.
As a side note I've only been using Macs since last November. Before that I was one of the people that always made fun of them. Then I actually used OS X and realized just how much Windows sucks.
I did a little WarDriving on the freeway between Victorville, CA and Los Angeles. Did you know that the Disney Channel building has an unsecured wireless LAN?
I laughed every time I came up with an access point where the SSID was 'linksys' AND it was unsecured. I think the final tally was fifteen of those. I got a total of thirty hits going down the freeway and only five were using any sort of encryption. Granted they could have been secured via MAC address, but I was just playing around, and didn't feel like checking (besides I think CHP would have arrested me for stopping in the middle of the freeway just to check for an open node).
That's because you're going to Weber State. Transfer to Utah Valley State College and you'll never complain about your wireless connection again (available bandwidth on the other hand...).
I'm connected to their campus-wide wireless LAN and it seems that the only place I can't get a connection is the cafeteria - maybe it's to keep people from dripping gravy onto their keyboards.
...with iChat A/V and Safari. Apple did a public beta release of both products. I'm currently using the final releases of both and they work great. I have literally NEVER had problems with either product. One very nice feature that was built into the betas was a very convenient "bug report" button.
Now I'm not saying that EVERYONE should release their betas to the world, but maybe a limited public beta would be a good idea. iChat and Safari were planned to be free/included in the OS products from the get go, so releasing those in a public beta didn't hurt any revenue sources. If you're developing a game or some new app a limited public beta is the way to go. Lucasarts did exactly that with Star Wars: Galaxies. They did a limited public beta. You had to sign up and they only took a limited number of people to try the product out. That way they were able to get REAL user feedback from the consumers. Not just from the QA guys going down a list and testing each component. I read some interviews with some of the game designers, and they made a LOT of changes to the game based on user feedback from the public beta.
Frighteningly enough George Lucas is planning on remaking the original Star Wars trilogy in 2017. So we won't have to wait until 2077 after all! Although in 2099 we'll have to see Jar-Jar again...
Yeah! Now it just takes a screen shot! What kind of sadistic troll would make it do something like that?! Hey, I just thought of a use for it! Take a screen shot of a coworkers' desktop while they're gone, stuff everything on their desktop into a folder in the root (created for this purpose of course), hide the task bar, and set the screenshot to be their background and sit back and watch the hilarity (for even more fun install PC Anywhere and remotely control their mouse while you're at it!).
O.K. I admit it. I got the idea out of a magazine...still maybe I'll do that to my boss tomorrow. I think he'd find it funny...maybe...I hope...I guess we'll find out when my next paycheck arrives won't we?
Yeah, it was the same for me. I'm just feeling really...um...rude tonight. I thought that it would tell you System Requirements (or at least what your system had) for several years...and yet I never attempted to see what it would actually do...strange.............I like periods.......see?...
I remember the computer lab we had at my elementary school in '89. If you pushed the ESC you were automatically logged out. No "Are you sure you want to log out?" just a sudden realization that those damn computers didn't work the way the rest of the world did, and that whatever you just did was no longer done.
Ha! I read it before there were any comments here on/. I was starting to wonder if there was something wrong with the message. I had never seen a message on/. without ANY comments...it was like I'd found...um...something...really...amazingly...surp risingly...um...good.
I thought the same thing...once...when I was about 5...and then I realized that that wasn't even remotely possible...expecially not now (O.K. I guess it is possible, but it's a whole lot easier to just print it on the box)
The tilde still has some limited use in C++ (don't know about other C-based programming languages since I don't know any of the others...yet). It's how you indicate to the compiler that this is the destructor function for programmer-defined class. That way the instructions in the destructor are automatically executed when an object of the class goes out of scope (usually used for returning dynamically allocated memory).
Example:
MyClass();//CONstructor
~MyClass();//DEstructor
I think you're giving it too much time. It's probably allready been done. Seriously, how hard could it be? The movies are stored locally on a hard drive and it won't be too tough to crack whatever DRM is present.
I work as a computer tech in a local computer store. It's amazing how often the crashes are a result of one of the twenty programs with an icon in the system tray. It's frightening how much crap some people have running in the background on their Windows boxes (and how much of it is literally crap).
How much does MS make a year?
Do they need the additional revenue from forcing people to pay for bug fixes?
Last time I checked the only updates I've had to pay is the yearly fee for my Norton Anti-Virus (and yes I know that there are free alternatives to that).
I've got quite a few computer games, all of which have patches released, and I don't recall paying for any of them.
What Mr.Bill wants us to do is to pay for the updates that are technicly a result of his own screwups. HOw many of you out there think that this is a cash grab? If this backfires, it could end up with thousands of users migrating to somthing that is less costly to keep "Up to date"
I'm pretty much a partial switcher, but something like this would put me all the way into the Mac camp. I've had one foot on each side for a while now.
Ever read the copyright info pertaining to movies you buy/rent? Did you know that it is a violation of copyright law to show any movie you buy/rent to anyone who is not a member of your immediate family? Talk about infringing on fair use rights. It's not just Apple. It's US copyright laws!
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I used to work at a small OEM computer manufacturer, and we got those TTY calls occasionally. It wasn't too hard to tell they were scamming us. They wanted FedEx to pick up the shipment (as opposed to having us handle the shipping), and as soon as I suggested anything the response was "Yes, we want that!" - Although their grammer wasn't nearly that good...
I remember one call where I told them "We have a system that costs $900." They immediately responded with "Yes, we want twenty of those." No haggling, no questions about CPU, RAM, or anything else. I just told them the price and they said they wanted twenty. At this point I told the operator to tell them to stop calling us, and that we're not stupid enough to fall for their scam (I think that was the third time I'd talked to them).
Hey! Don't go giving my physics prof. any ideas. I'm having enough trouble without having to worry about the mass of the rope and the friction of the pully. I like massless ropes and frictionless pulleys!
As I understand it Disney has certain licensing rights granted to them by their contract with Pixar but Pixar still owns the movies as well as all the rights to do what they want with the movies (except maybe some merchandising or other things that could have been granted exclusively to Disney).
Mine is just a string of hexadecimal numbers
Surely 99 cents per song is more than some people make for a day of back breaking labor in some parts of the world, but really isn't much more than pocket change in most of the first world countries.
But, do you think that people that are getting $1.00 a day for backbreaking labor are also going to have computers to download music with? Not to mention a CD-Burner and some blank CDs...Do you think that these people (or their neighbors) would even have CD players anyway?
Most of the people that you cite probably haven't even heard of the Internet. Music sharing for them is dragging their drums into their neighbor's back yard.
I did. All in twenties, in five different packages (one of which was from "Bath and Body Works" - yeah I was pretty confused about what my parents might have bought for me there, fortunately it turned out to be a twenty), and I also got a twenty dollar iTunes gift certificate.
It's been just over half an hour and we've allready launched the unintentional DDoS on the poor guy's server.
Thank you annonymous coward...
BTW anybody noticed how many security updates there have been for Safari since the final release? I think they're up to 2. There have been that many for IE in the last month.
As a side note I've only been using Macs since last November. Before that I was one of the people that always made fun of them. Then I actually used OS X and realized just how much Windows sucks.
So, in conclusion...BITE ME!!!
I did a little WarDriving on the freeway between Victorville, CA and Los Angeles. Did you know that the Disney Channel building has an unsecured wireless LAN?
I laughed every time I came up with an access point where the SSID was 'linksys' AND it was unsecured. I think the final tally was fifteen of those. I got a total of thirty hits going down the freeway and only five were using any sort of encryption. Granted they could have been secured via MAC address, but I was just playing around, and didn't feel like checking (besides I think CHP would have arrested me for stopping in the middle of the freeway just to check for an open node).
That's because you're going to Weber State. Transfer to Utah Valley State College and you'll never complain about your wireless connection again (available bandwidth on the other hand...).
I'm connected to their campus-wide wireless LAN and it seems that the only place I can't get a connection is the cafeteria - maybe it's to keep people from dripping gravy onto their keyboards.
...with iChat A/V and Safari. Apple did a public beta release of both products. I'm currently using the final releases of both and they work great. I have literally NEVER had problems with either product. One very nice feature that was built into the betas was a very convenient "bug report" button.
Now I'm not saying that EVERYONE should release their betas to the world, but maybe a limited public beta would be a good idea. iChat and Safari were planned to be free/included in the OS products from the get go, so releasing those in a public beta didn't hurt any revenue sources. If you're developing a game or some new app a limited public beta is the way to go. Lucasarts did exactly that with Star Wars: Galaxies. They did a limited public beta. You had to sign up and they only took a limited number of people to try the product out. That way they were able to get REAL user feedback from the consumers. Not just from the QA guys going down a list and testing each component. I read some interviews with some of the game designers, and they made a LOT of changes to the game based on user feedback from the public beta.
Frighteningly enough George Lucas is planning on remaking the original Star Wars trilogy in 2017. So we won't have to wait until 2077 after all! Although in 2099 we'll have to see Jar-Jar again...
I think that by the time ROTK starts I wouldn't be able to see clearly, think straight, or understand English (and that's the only language I know!)
Yeah! Now it just takes a screen shot! What kind of sadistic troll would make it do something like that?! Hey, I just thought of a use for it! Take a screen shot of a coworkers' desktop while they're gone, stuff everything on their desktop into a folder in the root (created for this purpose of course), hide the task bar, and set the screenshot to be their background and sit back and watch the hilarity (for even more fun install PC Anywhere and remotely control their mouse while you're at it!).
O.K. I admit it. I got the idea out of a magazine...still maybe I'll do that to my boss tomorrow. I think he'd find it funny...maybe...I hope...I guess we'll find out when my next paycheck arrives won't we?
Yeah, it was the same for me. I'm just feeling really...um...rude tonight. I thought that it would tell you System Requirements (or at least what your system had) for several years...and yet I never attempted to see what it would actually do...strange.............I like periods.......see?...
I remember the computer lab we had at my elementary school in '89. If you pushed the ESC you were automatically logged out. No "Are you sure you want to log out?" just a sudden realization that those damn computers didn't work the way the rest of the world did, and that whatever you just did was no longer done.
Ha! I read it before there were any comments here on /. /. without ANY comments...it was like I'd found...um...something...really...amazingly...surp risingly...um...good.
I was starting to wonder if there was something wrong with the message. I had never seen a message on
I thought the same thing...once...when I was about 5...and then I realized that that wasn't even remotely possible...expecially not now (O.K. I guess it is possible, but it's a whole lot easier to just print it on the box)
The tilde still has some limited use in C++ (don't know about other C-based programming languages since I don't know any of the others...yet). It's how you indicate to the compiler that this is the destructor function for programmer-defined class. That way the instructions in the destructor are automatically executed when an object of the class goes out of scope (usually used for returning dynamically allocated memory). Example: MyClass(); //CONstructor
~MyClass(); //DEstructor
I think you're giving it too much time. It's probably allready been done. Seriously, how hard could it be? The movies are stored locally on a hard drive and it won't be too tough to crack whatever DRM is present.
I work as a computer tech in a local computer store. It's amazing how often the crashes are a result of one of the twenty programs with an icon in the system tray. It's frightening how much crap some people have running in the background on their Windows boxes (and how much of it is literally crap).
How much does MS make a year? Do they need the additional revenue from forcing people to pay for bug fixes?
Last time I checked the only updates I've had to pay is the yearly fee for my Norton Anti-Virus (and yes I know that there are free alternatives to that). I've got quite a few computer games, all of which have patches released, and I don't recall paying for any of them.
I'm pretty much a partial switcher, but something like this would put me all the way into the Mac camp. I've had one foot on each side for a while now.
Ever read the copyright info pertaining to movies you buy/rent? Did you know that it is a violation of copyright law to show any movie you buy/rent to anyone who is not a member of your immediate family? Talk about infringing on fair use rights. It's not just Apple. It's US copyright laws!