Perhaps Best Buy should do away with their policy of taking returns, repackaging them, and selling them on as new. If returns were only resold as open-box mechandise, the problem would disappear for both customer and store.
The kind of PC builders who enjoy their system through their games, rather than their games through their system. It's about pushing the technical envelope. Kind of like audiophiles, but with technical competence and objective benchmarking tools.
Wikipedia's credibility problem largely stems from its readers' inability to critically evaluate information. Veropedia does the critical thinking on its readership's behalf, therefore the usual sort of credibility-ruining cockups* are avoided.
*e.g. news "researchers" passing on uncited, unlikely Wikipedia factoids to newsreaders
He was also applying it to products which come with an EULA which specifically allows the creation of a backup copy, though. And (IIRC) people in the UK have a statutory right to create a single backup copy of any software they own regardless.
His bar association have started investigating complaints against him, with a view to disciplining or disbarring him, so in response he took the Florida Bar Association to court. Thompson later withdrew his complaint voluntarily, but it has already proven that the complaints against him have substance.
String theory does dominate the theoretical landscape as far as outsiders are concerned, so it's probably best that people have some clue what it's actually about, so they can make better "expanding to occupy all available grants" jokes at its expense.
The headline in this rather implies that Italy as a nation is behind moves to limit blogs in general, when it would be more accurate to say that certain parts of the Italian government approve of moves to limit blogs in their country. Can we be a bit less gung-ho with the article titles, please?
The legendary Stuart Campbell interviewed ELSPA's (Europe's ESRB, basically) then-boss on the grey legality of backup devices ages ago. His stance was that you buy a single copy of the physical medium, and that's it - regardless of the law, and what many game manuals say ("this product is licenced, not sold...") they were going to prohibit all of the consumers's copyrights. Asked what customers should do when, by no fault of their own, the physical medium becomes unusable, he unrepentantly said they were stuffed and they'd have to buy it again.
Yeah, I could've phrased that better. However my point stands: the case was never meant to make Microsoft's interoperability information freely available, just available to their marketplace competitors. If you're looking for a massive Microsoft-crumbling legal assault, this was the wrong place to look, so I don't understand your reaction.
But the fact that there is any fee at all means that the information is not public, and this will likely exclude open source competitors, which is what Microsoft wants most of all.
Well, it's not meant to be about putting Microsoft's products in the public domain, is it? If you think that the case was supposed to throw open the gates and allow free software to just sweep onto Microsoft's turf, you've misled yourself. It's about providing a reasonably level playing field for Microsoft's marketplace competitors.
Alas, by the time I met Tingle, I had already lost about 20000 Rupees as overspill due to not having found the wallet upgrades until relatively late in the game. If I used a strategy guide, it would've gone smoothly as you like as I could've seen it coming, but I don't use strategy guides.
Anyone recall Zelda: The Wind Waker's sublime game-lengthening (two dungeons were cut for time, fact fans!) twist, where you not only had to track down eight maps, but had to get them translated for $tedious by the loathesome Tingle? How fun was that, really? Developers, if your action RPG's combat isn't fun, forcing players to fight in order to get past some checkpoint isn't going to make it better. Even if the combat is fun, forcing players to grind is going to make them get bored of it prematurely. Cut it out.
I've been quite happy with Windows Update, leaving it on Automatic all the time and frequently authorising "Optional" updates when I was prompted that they were available. That lasted until Windows Update felt the need to install a new display driver while I was logged in, rather than when I was, say, restarting my PC. End result: 15 minutes of twiddling my thumbs and blind-typing to my IM contacts as my PC struggled install the new driver (I got a black screen, then a tiny-resolution, screen, then a full-resolution screen with no mouse pointer, then nothing but the mouse pointer...) and eventually fell over. Anyone else got some fun stories on that front?
The majority of end-users simply don't trust their computers to do as they're told, as we've seen with stories of people checking and double-checking file copies to make sure they've actually "stuck", and any disaster can reset that trust. By handing such a potentially dangerous process (as far as users who can't find the Device Manager and revert things are concerned) over to the computer, Microsoft's making a big gamble.
I believe that the unskippable logos are a requirement of the licences for the Dolby Digital SDK and whathaveyou. The logo has to be on screen for a mimimum amount of time at every boot, just as it has to be printed at a certain size of the game box and in the manual.
Also, Europe had a 60GB version with hybrid hardware/software back compatability, and Korea had an 80GB with (I think) full backwards compatability. That gets us up to 6.
It's worse than that, TFA in the original post is about them considering a route to authorising animal-human hybrids. We passed that stage a long time ago. "Olds for nerds"?
It's one of those things that's typical of rocket science, I'd say. Look at the Voyager or Pioneer programs, or the Mars rovers. Astronomy gearheads are geniuses at getting extra mileage out of their projects.
And of course, if you're writing up your final year dissertation, you can pretty much guarantee it's not right in the grand scheme, regardless of what your results may suggest.
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Perhaps Best Buy should do away with their policy of taking returns, repackaging them, and selling them on as new. If returns were only resold as open-box mechandise, the problem would disappear for both customer and store.
Ah, that's a far better analogy, and it allows us to bring in the case modding scene as well.
The kind of PC builders who enjoy their system through their games, rather than their games through their system. It's about pushing the technical envelope. Kind of like audiophiles, but with technical competence and objective benchmarking tools.
Wikipedia's credibility problem largely stems from its readers' inability to critically evaluate information. Veropedia does the critical thinking on its readership's behalf, therefore the usual sort of credibility-ruining cockups* are avoided. *e.g. news "researchers" passing on uncited, unlikely Wikipedia factoids to newsreaders
He was also applying it to products which come with an EULA which specifically allows the creation of a backup copy, though. And (IIRC) people in the UK have a statutory right to create a single backup copy of any software they own regardless.
His bar association have started investigating complaints against him, with a view to disciplining or disbarring him, so in response he took the Florida Bar Association to court. Thompson later withdrew his complaint voluntarily, but it has already proven that the complaints against him have substance.
Yeah, there are plenty of far better examples out there. Dick Van Dyke is a keen computer graphics hobbyist for a start.
String theory does dominate the theoretical landscape as far as outsiders are concerned, so it's probably best that people have some clue what it's actually about, so they can make better "expanding to occupy all available grants" jokes at its expense.
The headline in this rather implies that Italy as a nation is behind moves to limit blogs in general, when it would be more accurate to say that certain parts of the Italian government approve of moves to limit blogs in their country. Can we be a bit less gung-ho with the article titles, please?
The legendary Stuart Campbell interviewed ELSPA's (Europe's ESRB, basically) then-boss on the grey legality of backup devices ages ago. His stance was that you buy a single copy of the physical medium, and that's it - regardless of the law, and what many game manuals say ("this product is licenced, not sold...") they were going to prohibit all of the consumers's copyrights. Asked what customers should do when, by no fault of their own, the physical medium becomes unusable, he unrepentantly said they were stuffed and they'd have to buy it again.
Yeah, I could've phrased that better. However my point stands: the case was never meant to make Microsoft's interoperability information freely available, just available to their marketplace competitors. If you're looking for a massive Microsoft-crumbling legal assault, this was the wrong place to look, so I don't understand your reaction.
Sad but true. This is about a decade too late.
But the fact that there is any fee at all means that the information is not public, and this will likely exclude open source competitors, which is what Microsoft wants most of all. Well, it's not meant to be about putting Microsoft's products in the public domain, is it? If you think that the case was supposed to throw open the gates and allow free software to just sweep onto Microsoft's turf, you've misled yourself. It's about providing a reasonably level playing field for Microsoft's marketplace competitors.
Are they pumping Aperture Science stock?
It forgot where the memory went, mind you, but it's the thought that counts.
Alas, by the time I met Tingle, I had already lost about 20000 Rupees as overspill due to not having found the wallet upgrades until relatively late in the game. If I used a strategy guide, it would've gone smoothly as you like as I could've seen it coming, but I don't use strategy guides.
Anyone recall Zelda: The Wind Waker's sublime game-lengthening (two dungeons were cut for time, fact fans!) twist, where you not only had to track down eight maps, but had to get them translated for $tedious by the loathesome Tingle? How fun was that, really? Developers, if your action RPG's combat isn't fun, forcing players to fight in order to get past some checkpoint isn't going to make it better. Even if the combat is fun, forcing players to grind is going to make them get bored of it prematurely. Cut it out.
I thought that Intelligent Redaction was the Discovery Institute's explaination for why they don't release any research.
I've been quite happy with Windows Update, leaving it on Automatic all the time and frequently authorising "Optional" updates when I was prompted that they were available. That lasted until Windows Update felt the need to install a new display driver while I was logged in, rather than when I was, say, restarting my PC. End result: 15 minutes of twiddling my thumbs and blind-typing to my IM contacts as my PC struggled install the new driver (I got a black screen, then a tiny-resolution, screen, then a full-resolution screen with no mouse pointer, then nothing but the mouse pointer...) and eventually fell over. Anyone else got some fun stories on that front? The majority of end-users simply don't trust their computers to do as they're told, as we've seen with stories of people checking and double-checking file copies to make sure they've actually "stuck", and any disaster can reset that trust. By handing such a potentially dangerous process (as far as users who can't find the Device Manager and revert things are concerned) over to the computer, Microsoft's making a big gamble.
I believe that the unskippable logos are a requirement of the licences for the Dolby Digital SDK and whathaveyou. The logo has to be on screen for a mimimum amount of time at every boot, just as it has to be printed at a certain size of the game box and in the manual.
Also, Europe had a 60GB version with hybrid hardware/software back compatability, and Korea had an 80GB with (I think) full backwards compatability. That gets us up to 6.
It's worse than that, TFA in the original post is about them considering a route to authorising animal-human hybrids. We passed that stage a long time ago. "Olds for nerds"?
It's one of those things that's typical of rocket science, I'd say. Look at the Voyager or Pioneer programs, or the Mars rovers. Astronomy gearheads are geniuses at getting extra mileage out of their projects.
And of course, if you're writing up your final year dissertation, you can pretty much guarantee it's not right in the grand scheme, regardless of what your results may suggest.
They killed irony!