Well duh, good things that happen are the result of the hard work of the last republican president. Bad things are the result of the last democratic president. If Clinton had been a republican they'd be blaming the state of the economy on Carter.
Actually, if Clinton had been republican it would mark the only time in recent history that a republican president didn't post record breaking deficits.
It's also strange how volatile the display consoles on the bridge are, they seem to explode in a shower of sparks at the slightest provocation, killing the attendant (who, by sheer luck, is never one of the regular crew).
Try being colorblind sometime. I've had several that I had to take a screenshot of, paste into photoshop and play with the contrast until i could read it.
And even the ones without problem colors like red and green usually take several tries.
Why does my car need gps navigation? Why does my cell phone need a camera? Why does my belt need to be adjustable? Why does my TV need a remote? Why does my alarm clock need a radio? Why does my lawn tractor need a cup holder?
They don't. It's a matter of convenience, just like accessing my thermostat from work would be a convenience.
Minorities aren't stupid, yet we treat them like they are.
Minorities in general are just as stupid as the average white person. Thanks to the "black leaders" (who aren't interested in racial equality, if there were racial equality they'd all be out of jobs and the national spotlight) way too many blacks have a victim mentality and will often seek out and find racism where there is none.
I see nothing wrong with choosing words carefully, or just avoiding racial slurs altogether.
So I assume you've found the privacy invasion code in the Chrome codebase? You know, because it is open source, so your claims that Chrome does something malicious or invasive can be proven (or disproven), i'm guessing you did the legwork before going off on your little rant, right?
I agree, DRM makes me a pirate also. Like you it's not a money issue, I have plenty of disposable income.
I don't download games, partly because of security issues but mostly because I just don't care that much about most games. I buy a game here and there, but even the minor cd-in-tray requirement that most games have gets on my nerves, it's just an unnecessary inconvenience that only affects paying customers and just further turns me off. Spore is one of the few games that I was excited about and planned on buying, but decided to download it instead after reading about the DRM. After finding some reviews on the game itself and how it was dumbed down to barely resemble what was promised, I canceled the download and decided I just didn't care.
With music, I had bought over 500 songs on iTunes before I realized what I was doing. When the iTunes Plus deal came out, many of those were converted to DRM-free versions, however it was a small portion (maybe 1/5th of them) so i'm still stuck with 400 protected AAC files. I've been slowly replacing those songs with mp3's from filesharing networks/torrent sites, not sure on the legality of it but I did pay for the songs already so to hell with em.
I bought Adobe CS3 this summer for $1800.00 . What I got for that chunk of change has been a DRM nightmare. It's been a huge pain trying to get rid of the half dozen (or more) continuous processes it installs without crippling the software. Processes that always run, whether I am using a CS3 app or not, most of which restart themselves when they're killed or cause CS3 to tell me I need to re-install, it feels like i'm trying to fight off a malware infection. I've got much of it disabled now but not all of it, it's licensing service crap to verify my "digital rights", pdf services to enforce "digital rights" on pdf files or something, software updaters, and who knows what else. And on top of it all, every few days I get a licensing error and have to go through authentication all over again.
So that's what paying customers get from Adobe, I will not make the mistake of buying their products from them again, i'm certain the pirated versions are much more user friendly.
Well, apparently, from TFA it is cached on disk (flash, whatever). That's my question, hy not just create it directly into RAM and release it after the effect? What purpose is there to saving the screenshot beyond the second or so it takes to show the animation?
So, you're saying that since there are other problems nobody should tackle this one? This reminds me of the argument that we've all seen that law enforcement should have "better things to worry about" than investigating relatively minor offenses like copyright violations while murderers and rapists are walking free.
I've never been asked to provide a credit card as identification, for anything, ever. Who would ever even consider it valid ID? All it is is a piece of plastic with my name on it. The closest I can think of is sometimes if I forget my checkbook i'll provide the bank teller with my debit card so (s)he can look up my account.
Credit cards are a convenience, but it certainly wouldn't be hard to live without them, and they're by no means required for getting phone or cable service or utilities, or starting a business, or anything else for that matter. What company would ever say "you need a credit card to be our customer"?
Religion belongs in history class, not science class. I'd have no problem with teaching more about all the wonderful things religion has brought to the world, but the bible thumpers don't want education, they want converts.
If we teach Christianity's creationist theory in science class, do we also teach Marshall Applewhite's Halley's comet theory? They believed as much or more than any Christian, hell they all died for their beliefs, so why shouldn't their theory be covered? Should the ancient Greek gods be covered in science class also? How about the Flying Spaghetti Monster?
There are alternatives for just about any faith where you can send your kids to learn whatever you chose, but public schools need to remain neutral.
I agree, this doesn't seem right. Regardless of any moral or legal implications, I would just simply have no desire to steal business data or passwords or open backdoors for myself. I can't imagine that i'm in the minority, what use would it be?
I can't believe 88% of those surveys would steal data simply because they were layed off, presumably to turn to a life of crime that would likely pay less than just getting another IT job. We're not talking about janitors stealing trash liners here, IT Admins make a nice chunk of change and what we're talking about here could send them to prison, it just doesn't add up.
Like most nerds I build my own PC's, but I also help teach non-techie friends and family to order parts and assemble their own pc's.
They're all surprised when they find out it's not rocket science, and they end up with a better pc than they'd get at Best Buy for a fraction of the cost, custom built to their needs and sans bloatware. Many have gone on to build their next generation pc without my help.
I think that's a bigger threat to retail PC sales than removing bloatware, the current generation who are growing up with gadgets and computers will be even more likely to take on building their own computers. It really makes no sense to buy a retail pc, they cost more, they come with stuff you don't need, they're missing stuff you do need, they're little more than marketing in a box. I think the only reason people buy them is because they are intimidated by the prospect of building their own, or don't realize they're being gamed.
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Well duh, good things that happen are the result of the hard work of the last republican president. Bad things are the result of the last democratic president. If Clinton had been a republican they'd be blaming the state of the economy on Carter.
Actually, if Clinton had been republican it would mark the only time in recent history that a republican president didn't post record breaking deficits.
I see pro sports leagues eating this up... yankees.mlb, twins.mlb, playoffs.mlb, dolphins.nfl, etc.
It's also strange how volatile the display consoles on the bridge are, they seem to explode in a shower of sparks at the slightest provocation, killing the attendant (who, by sheer luck, is never one of the regular crew).
naw it's not even creative, it's a ripoff: http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=222961&mc=6&forum_id=2#3387236
Try being colorblind sometime. I've had several that I had to take a screenshot of, paste into photoshop and play with the contrast until i could read it. And even the ones without problem colors like red and green usually take several tries.
It looks like we'll either stagnate or evolve completely randomly, in all directions that don't outright kill us.
Well that isn't even true, because we're working fervently to "cure" the genetic mutations that do kill us.
(but isn't he just weird, and not really technical?)
Dude, he's fluent in Javascript AND Klingon.
Thank god the moral police have arrived.
Kind of like your cell phone with a camera, gps, mp3 player, email client, web browser, calendar, im client, video player, and a clock?
I hear there's a vacant one room cabin just outside Lincoln, Montana.
Why does my car need gps navigation? Why does my cell phone need a camera? Why does my belt need to be adjustable? Why does my TV need a remote? Why does my alarm clock need a radio? Why does my lawn tractor need a cup holder?
They don't. It's a matter of convenience, just like accessing my thermostat from work would be a convenience.
Minorities in general are just as stupid as the average white person. Thanks to the "black leaders" (who aren't interested in racial equality, if there were racial equality they'd all be out of jobs and the national spotlight) way too many blacks have a victim mentality and will often seek out and find racism where there is none.
I see nothing wrong with choosing words carefully, or just avoiding racial slurs altogether.
So I assume you've found the privacy invasion code in the Chrome codebase? You know, because it is open source, so your claims that Chrome does something malicious or invasive can be proven (or disproven), i'm guessing you did the legwork before going off on your little rant, right?
I agree, DRM makes me a pirate also. Like you it's not a money issue, I have plenty of disposable income.
I don't download games, partly because of security issues but mostly because I just don't care that much about most games. I buy a game here and there, but even the minor cd-in-tray requirement that most games have gets on my nerves, it's just an unnecessary inconvenience that only affects paying customers and just further turns me off. Spore is one of the few games that I was excited about and planned on buying, but decided to download it instead after reading about the DRM. After finding some reviews on the game itself and how it was dumbed down to barely resemble what was promised, I canceled the download and decided I just didn't care.
With music, I had bought over 500 songs on iTunes before I realized what I was doing. When the iTunes Plus deal came out, many of those were converted to DRM-free versions, however it was a small portion (maybe 1/5th of them) so i'm still stuck with 400 protected AAC files. I've been slowly replacing those songs with mp3's from filesharing networks/torrent sites, not sure on the legality of it but I did pay for the songs already so to hell with em.
I bought Adobe CS3 this summer for $1800.00 . What I got for that chunk of change has been a DRM nightmare. It's been a huge pain trying to get rid of the half dozen (or more) continuous processes it installs without crippling the software. Processes that always run, whether I am using a CS3 app or not, most of which restart themselves when they're killed or cause CS3 to tell me I need to re-install, it feels like i'm trying to fight off a malware infection. I've got much of it disabled now but not all of it, it's licensing service crap to verify my "digital rights", pdf services to enforce "digital rights" on pdf files or something, software updaters, and who knows what else. And on top of it all, every few days I get a licensing error and have to go through authentication all over again.
So that's what paying customers get from Adobe, I will not make the mistake of buying their products from them again, i'm certain the pirated versions are much more user friendly.
Well, apparently, from TFA it is cached on disk (flash, whatever). That's my question, hy not just create it directly into RAM and release it after the effect? What purpose is there to saving the screenshot beyond the second or so it takes to show the animation?
So, you're saying that since there are other problems nobody should tackle this one? This reminds me of the argument that we've all seen that law enforcement should have "better things to worry about" than investigating relatively minor offenses like copyright violations while murderers and rapists are walking free.
Someone cares, even if you don't.
Based on what?
I've never been asked to provide a credit card as identification, for anything, ever. Who would ever even consider it valid ID? All it is is a piece of plastic with my name on it. The closest I can think of is sometimes if I forget my checkbook i'll provide the bank teller with my debit card so (s)he can look up my account.
Credit cards are a convenience, but it certainly wouldn't be hard to live without them, and they're by no means required for getting phone or cable service or utilities, or starting a business, or anything else for that matter. What company would ever say "you need a credit card to be our customer"?
LOL
Religion belongs in history class, not science class. I'd have no problem with teaching more about all the wonderful things religion has brought to the world, but the bible thumpers don't want education, they want converts.
If we teach Christianity's creationist theory in science class, do we also teach Marshall Applewhite's Halley's comet theory? They believed as much or more than any Christian, hell they all died for their beliefs, so why shouldn't their theory be covered? Should the ancient Greek gods be covered in science class also? How about the Flying Spaghetti Monster?
There are alternatives for just about any faith where you can send your kids to learn whatever you chose, but public schools need to remain neutral.
I think it's like saying the "survey is bollocks", if that helps. Freakin limeys...
as for who they actually ... who knows?
300 felons recently paroled for computer and technology related crimes.
I agree, this doesn't seem right. Regardless of any moral or legal implications, I would just simply have no desire to steal business data or passwords or open backdoors for myself. I can't imagine that i'm in the minority, what use would it be?
I can't believe 88% of those surveys would steal data simply because they were layed off, presumably to turn to a life of crime that would likely pay less than just getting another IT job. We're not talking about janitors stealing trash liners here, IT Admins make a nice chunk of change and what we're talking about here could send them to prison, it just doesn't add up.
Like most nerds I build my own PC's, but I also help teach non-techie friends and family to order parts and assemble their own pc's.
They're all surprised when they find out it's not rocket science, and they end up with a better pc than they'd get at Best Buy for a fraction of the cost, custom built to their needs and sans bloatware. Many have gone on to build their next generation pc without my help.
I think that's a bigger threat to retail PC sales than removing bloatware, the current generation who are growing up with gadgets and computers will be even more likely to take on building their own computers. It really makes no sense to buy a retail pc, they cost more, they come with stuff you don't need, they're missing stuff you do need, they're little more than marketing in a box. I think the only reason people buy them is because they are intimidated by the prospect of building their own, or don't realize they're being gamed.