Just ignore the demand. Its not like they will take her to court. If she was stupid enough to give them a credit card number and they debited her account, then she should phone her bank and tell them there's been an unauthorised debit made on her account.
>> Better and stronger cables are urgently needed to avoid a re-occurrence of the 2008 outages."...Except I seem to recall that it appeared to be deliberate sabotage, as in both big cases of the Mediterranean outages, multiple key cables all went down within hours of each other after years of no problems.
Just laying stronger cables obviously won't make much of a difference if it was indeed sabotage.
Darl is probably personally taking much more money home than most of us, so of course he's gonna continue as long as he can.
I bet SCO aren't really selling their assets on an open-market basis. They're far more likely to be selling them to another corporate branch of their holding company at a knock-down price, so that the holding company gets to keep SCO's few remaining assets yet SCO can go bankrupt and screw their debtors.
The only good thing about this is that probably most of their debts are to the same greedy lawyers that have been dragging this case out as long as they can.
The only thing that will work is to vote with our wallets. Don't put up with any DRM at all in your life. Just don't buy any media, software, operating system or even device that implements DRM.
I'm guessing EA are already suprised by a large difference in estimated and real profits of spore. In fact I hope they actually made a net loss on it after development costs. They need to get the clear message that people didn't buy it because of the DRM and not just blame their low sales on the game being crap or the recession or something.
As soon as comapnies like EA realise they will actually lose sales just by using DRM, DRM will go away. It seems Apple/I-Tunes got the message recently. Hopefully EA will be next.
Invent something world-changing first then worry about it, as the chances are it will never happen.
Bottom line: if you invent something world-changing then don't tell anyone at school. Then decide to either quit your course or wait till your course is over before you capitalise on your idea. Don't ever admit to anyone you even had the original idea during the time you were at school. It all happened after you left.
How can someone so factually clueless as Deborah Taylor Tate ever get to be in charge of anything, let alone something so critical as the FCC? If this isn't an indicator that the system is totally broken and badly needs repair, then nothing is.
I feel really sorry for her (now pensionless) husband, he probably worked hard all his life to get that money. She just sounds like a real moron, and also incredibly deceitful to rip off her own husbands pension without telling him.
>> it's usually the US out in the front, leading the way.
LOL whatever. Have you ever lived in any other first-world country? I'd bet not from your statements. In mostly any country all you hear how that country is leading the world, except in the US they ram it down their kids throats so hard they actually believe it. The reality is that most large science/tech advances are international efforts these days.
I'm sure lots of people in China do surf a lot. Hardly suprising when its probably the only way they can get access to actual news rather than heavily biassed and censored proaganda.
If I was cynical I'd say this is simply just a made-up study for the chinese government to justify further censorship or even a total ban on internet access to all people of china except presumably, government officials.
Perhaps this is a sign that Creative are fearing for their existence. I mean, with high quality onboard audio (7.1, dolby etc) now pretty much standard on even budget motherboards, aren't the days of buying a separate soundcard history now?
Other than musicians perhaps, I can't think that anyone, even gamers/power users would still consider a separate soundcard as a 'required' upgrade, or even necessary at all.
Thats too high-level. The utility you mention only scans files, meaning degradation in unused or 'system' areas of the CD wouldn't get reported. Also, it only reports errors after any lower-level error-recovery strategy has failed. Consequently it does a good job of hiding actual disk degradation.
The type of utility that is needed to give an accurate, unaffected report of degradation is a whole-disk scan that reports errors even before any error-recovery strategy is attempted.
I can see why Microsoft like this, but the thing I don't get is of what benefit this whole approach is to the USER. None that I can think of, plus a whole lot of negatives besides.
I'm guessing that IT dept. managers will perceive this as a way to get an easy life by having to do less complex setups or support. At nearly everywhere I've worked most IT/IS dept. managers are so owned by Microsoft they will mindlessly believe in and adopt whatever Microsoft promotes.
Consequently its my guess that the adopters of this will nearly all be doing it for those reasons rather than there being any actual benefit to end-users, or even if there are disadvanteages to end-users.
Isn't it more than a bit arrogant and unrealistic to think the US is the only country with these technologies? I mean, I know many Americans like to believe the US invented absolutely everything and are ahead of everyone else technologically, but in fact they really didn't and aren't.
The only reason the US economy is shot to hell, is because of the cost of several ongoing wars it is still fighting, none of which are defending America or really much to do with anything other than oil. "The fight against Terrorism" (tm) is really just an excuse for the Bush's desire to remove rights from citizens and to finish what his daddy started.
If the US stopped appointing themselves as world police the whole planet would be better off.
For this to happen, we need to break the dependency on oil, because the only reason we give a crap about the middle east is to guarantee our oil supply. Otherwise we could just pull out and let them all fight and kill each other and the world would be a better place for it.
For that to happen the government needs to force car manufacturers to get off their asses and make decent range of hydrogen and electric-only cars available, and the government need to pay for the infrastructure to go with it, because no-one else will get the ball rolling. (paying for some hydrogen and electric stations would be a fraction of the cost of the war).
US car companies are currently only paying lip-service to fuel-efficient cars to placate the masses but aren't actually making any progress because they'd prefer to kill the planet than change themselves. They are used to making new models by taking the same 20-year old car and adding different body panels evyer year, so converting to a totally different technology is a massive change for them, that they don't wat to make. All ther investment is in making gas-powered cars and they don't want to face the cost of re-tooling as long as they percieve they don't have to. Again, the gov. needs to step in and force them to action for all our sakes.
>> However it is the 5% that would stop me, this weekend I intend to drive from Burlington, VT to Lewis, NY
I'd like to buy a pure EV. And for those very infrequent 200 mile+ raodtrips, I intend to just rent a hertz car or whatever. That seems to make more sense to me than having to buy a car that has the extra weight and cost of a gas engine that isn't used 98% of the time.
I guess the other alternative is just to take some extra batteries along on your roadtrip.
>> the aim is to raise awareness of the damage to software innovation that Microsoft says is caused by piracy
Thats funny, coming from Microsoft. They haven't been innovative for years, and are stifling software innovation even more by patenting every non-original idea they can get away with.
The bottom line is that companies make statements and decisions based on figures, and the obvious logical problem is that you can't calculate the number of lost sales so EA just ignore it. (Actually I was looking forward to buying Spore but didn't, only because of the DRM, but EA will never know that).
Having said that, no statistic where people and choice are involved at all is ever as high as 99.8%, people just aren't that conformist in anything. Even a CEO should know that. So his claim is a strong indicator that he's just outright lying and saying what he wants people to believe, rather than what he actually knows is the truth. He is the CEO of EA after all, so he has to put on a good show for his shareholders and can't ever admit to making a bad decision if he wants to keep his multi-million dollar performance bonusses.
It may sell in Japan, but why the heck should they assume everyone outside of Japan also has to put up with this stupid cutesy styling everywhere? I for one want a car with some balls.
Ive got this theory that the big car manufacturers are actually trying to make hybrid flop. They are used to making a whole new model just with a few cosmetic changes to an existing one. Its cheap for them. They hate real innovation as it is costly and means big changes to their production lines. It might explain why nearly all hybrid cars (including the Prius) are very ugly and totally devoid of any masculine appeal. Its like their whole target demographic is tasteless hairdressers. Even hybrid seems to be too much of a compromise to me. Actually what I want is an affordable, stylish, completely electric car with say 150 mile range and equal-to-gas performance. The tesla would be reat if it wasn't so stupidly expensive. I'm not interested in burning gas at all and imagine the cost and weight saving of taking away the gas engine part. But the gasoline engine is what the car manufacturers are set up to make so they want to force one into everything somehow, so my dream won't be around for years even though all the technology is available today.
So because I criticise one aspect of the US you feel I criticised the whole country enough that you had to make a totally unassociated point in praise? It seems you at least verified the existence of the damaging culture I wrote about, except that suprisingly its coming from a European.
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Just ignore the demand. Its not like they will take her to court.
If she was stupid enough to give them a credit card number and they debited her account, then she should phone her bank and tell them there's been an unauthorised debit made on her account.
>> Better and stronger cables are urgently needed to avoid a re-occurrence of the 2008 outages." ...Except I seem to recall that it appeared to be deliberate sabotage, as in both big cases of the Mediterranean outages, multiple key cables all went down within hours of each other after years of no problems.
Just laying stronger cables obviously won't make much of a difference if it was indeed sabotage.
Darl is probably personally taking much more money home than most of us, so of course he's gonna continue as long as he can.
I bet SCO aren't really selling their assets on an open-market basis. They're far more likely to be selling them to another corporate branch of their holding company at a knock-down price, so that the holding company gets to keep SCO's few remaining assets yet SCO can go bankrupt and screw their debtors.
The only good thing about this is that probably most of their debts are to the same greedy lawyers that have been dragging this case out as long as they can.
The only thing that will work is to vote with our wallets.
Don't put up with any DRM at all in your life.
Just don't buy any media, software, operating system or even device that implements DRM.
I'm guessing EA are already suprised by a large difference in estimated and real profits of spore. In fact I hope they actually made a net loss on it after development costs. They need to get the clear message that people didn't buy it because of the DRM and not just blame their low sales on the game being crap or the recession or something.
As soon as comapnies like EA realise they will actually lose sales just by using DRM, DRM will go away. It seems Apple/I-Tunes got the message recently. Hopefully EA will be next.
Just download them from here (legally and for free) and play on your pc.
http://www.infocom-if.org/downloads/downloads.html
Invent something world-changing first then worry about it, as the chances are it will never happen.
Bottom line: if you invent something world-changing then don't tell anyone at school.
Then decide to either quit your course or wait till your course is over before you capitalise on your idea.
Don't ever admit to anyone you even had the original idea during the time you were at school. It all happened after you left.
How can someone so factually clueless as Deborah Taylor Tate ever get to be in charge of anything, let alone something so critical as the FCC?
If this isn't an indicator that the system is totally broken and badly needs repair, then nothing is.
I feel really sorry for her (now pensionless) husband, he probably worked hard all his life to get that money.
She just sounds like a real moron, and also incredibly deceitful to rip off her own husbands pension without telling him.
>> it's usually the US out in the front, leading the way.
LOL whatever.
Have you ever lived in any other first-world country? I'd bet not from your statements.
In mostly any country all you hear how that country is leading the world, except in the US they ram it down their kids throats so hard they actually believe it.
The reality is that most large science/tech advances are international efforts these days.
I'm sure lots of people in China do surf a lot. Hardly suprising when its probably the only way they can get access to actual news rather than heavily biassed and censored proaganda.
If I was cynical I'd say this is simply just a made-up study for the chinese government to justify further censorship or even a total ban on internet access to all people of china except presumably, government officials.
Perhaps this is a sign that Creative are fearing for their existence. I mean, with high quality onboard audio (7.1, dolby etc) now pretty much standard on even budget motherboards, aren't the days of buying a separate soundcard history now?
Other than musicians perhaps, I can't think that anyone, even gamers/power users would still consider a separate soundcard as a 'required' upgrade, or even necessary at all.
Thats too high-level. The utility you mention only scans files, meaning degradation in unused or 'system' areas of the CD wouldn't get reported. Also, it only reports errors after any lower-level error-recovery strategy has failed. Consequently it does a good job of hiding actual disk degradation.
The type of utility that is needed to give an accurate, unaffected report of degradation is a whole-disk scan that reports errors even before any error-recovery strategy is attempted.
I can see why Microsoft like this, but the thing I don't get is of what benefit this whole approach is to the USER. None that I can think of, plus a whole lot of negatives besides.
I'm guessing that IT dept. managers will perceive this as a way to get an easy life by having to do less complex setups or support. At nearly everywhere I've worked most IT/IS dept. managers are so owned by Microsoft they will mindlessly believe in and adopt whatever Microsoft promotes.
Consequently its my guess that the adopters of this will nearly all be doing it for those reasons rather than there being any actual benefit to end-users, or even if there are disadvanteages to end-users.
Isn't it more than a bit arrogant and unrealistic to think the US is the only country with these technologies?
I mean, I know many Americans like to believe the US invented absolutely everything and are ahead of everyone else technologically, but in fact they really didn't and aren't.
The only reason the US economy is shot to hell, is because of the cost of several ongoing wars it is still fighting, none of which are defending America or really much to do with anything other than oil. "The fight against Terrorism" (tm) is really just an excuse for the Bush's desire to remove rights from citizens and to finish what his daddy started.
If the US stopped appointing themselves as world police the whole planet would be better off.
For this to happen, we need to break the dependency on oil, because the only reason we give a crap about the middle east is to guarantee our oil supply. Otherwise we could just pull out and let them all fight and kill each other and the world would be a better place for it.
For that to happen the government needs to force car manufacturers to get off their asses and make decent range of hydrogen and electric-only cars available, and the government need to pay for the infrastructure to go with it, because no-one else will get the ball rolling. (paying for some hydrogen and electric stations would be a fraction of the cost of the war).
US car companies are currently only paying lip-service to fuel-efficient cars to placate the masses but aren't actually making any progress because they'd prefer to kill the planet than change themselves. They are used to making new models by taking the same 20-year old car and adding different body panels evyer year, so converting to a totally different technology is a massive change for them, that they don't wat to make. All ther investment is in making gas-powered cars and they don't want to face the cost of re-tooling as long as they percieve they don't have to. Again, the gov. needs to step in and force them to action for all our sakes.
Do what you boss wants, but anonymously tip off the sites that you're scraping and having multiple accounts with. Let them deal with it legally.
>> However it is the 5% that would stop me, this weekend I intend to drive from Burlington, VT to Lewis, NY
I'd like to buy a pure EV. And for those very infrequent 200 mile+ raodtrips, I intend to just rent a hertz car or whatever. That seems to make more sense to me than having to buy a car that has the extra weight and cost of a gas engine that isn't used 98% of the time.
I guess the other alternative is just to take some extra batteries along on your roadtrip.
There's one just like this in Milwaukee already, in the museum in town. I went about a year ago.
>> the aim is to raise awareness of the damage to software innovation that Microsoft says is caused by piracy
Thats funny, coming from Microsoft. They haven't been innovative for years, and are stifling software innovation even more by patenting every non-original idea they can get away with.
The bottom line is that companies make statements and decisions based on figures, and the obvious logical problem is that you can't calculate the number of lost sales so EA just ignore it. (Actually I was looking forward to buying Spore but didn't, only because of the DRM, but EA will never know that).
Having said that, no statistic where people and choice are involved at all is ever as high as 99.8%, people just aren't that conformist in anything. Even a CEO should know that. So his claim is a strong indicator that he's just outright lying and saying what he wants people to believe, rather than what he actually knows is the truth. He is the CEO of EA after all, so he has to put on a good show for his shareholders and can't ever admit to making a bad decision if he wants to keep his multi-million dollar performance bonusses.
just stop buying stuff advertised by spam already.
I wonder if it also uninstalls itself then?
I've found to have your pc run most quickly and efficiently simply delete or disable all the Microsoft craplets like this.
It may sell in Japan, but why the heck should they assume everyone outside of Japan also has to put up with this stupid cutesy styling everywhere? I for one want a car with some balls.
Ive got this theory that the big car manufacturers are actually trying to make hybrid flop. They are used to making a whole new model just with a few cosmetic changes to an existing one. Its cheap for them. They hate real innovation as it is costly and means big changes to their production lines. It might explain why nearly all hybrid cars (including the Prius) are very ugly and totally devoid of any masculine appeal. Its like their whole target demographic is tasteless hairdressers.
Even hybrid seems to be too much of a compromise to me. Actually what I want is an affordable, stylish, completely electric car with say 150 mile range and equal-to-gas performance. The tesla would be reat if it wasn't so stupidly expensive. I'm not interested in burning gas at all and imagine the cost and weight saving of taking away the gas engine part. But the gasoline engine is what the car manufacturers are set up to make so they want to force one into everything somehow, so my dream won't be around for years even though all the technology is available today.
So because I criticise one aspect of the US you feel I criticised the whole country enough that you had to make a totally unassociated point in praise? It seems you at least verified the existence of the damaging culture I wrote about, except that suprisingly its coming from a European.