'Use of GPL software could subject certain portions of our proprietary software to the GPL requirements, which may have adverse effects on our sales of the products incorporating any such software,' McAfee said in the report filed last month with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Translation: "We fucked up and didn't do our homework."
This strikes me as "Help! We know we're dying. Please give us a clue how to not get eaten by the imports." Would GM be going to this trouble is they were making the progress Toyota is? Or had the brand loyalty Honda does? They've seen what happened to Chrysler, and Ford is struggling. They dug they own grave, and their continued failure to put more R&D toward alternative fuel/hybrid vehicles is their undoing.
I wonder if any retailers will begin offering HDTV's at "reduced pricing" to those folks with these government issued coupons...:-) I know the difference as to many others, unfortunately there are many out there that do not and rely on anything a geek says at Worst Buy as gospel truth.
What you'll see is market forces come into play. Once analog really is no longer an option, the "luxury tax" of HD will stop working, and prices will fall through the floor out of necessity. We've already seen quite a drop over the last couple years. The real suckers in this are the consumers who are buying before its necessary. Watch everyone by the same TV for $250+ less after the transition.
What makes you think they are going to start giving you a free static IP just because they transition to IPv6? Right now most providers charge for a static IP, they have no reason to give away a revenue stream.
Where did you see anything about a clergyman or a bureaucrat? Marriage is a ceremony where you and a partner confirm and celebrate your love, possibly in front of friends.
The accepted definition of "getting married" in western society involves a marriage license and the two parties entering what is essentially a legal agreement. It's a little more than just two people exchanging vows. Otherwise I would ask what the difference is in their relationship before and after they got married.
In short, you are trying to make some silly point about individualism by pissing all over something that obviously made this guy happy.
No, actually I was playing along with the "and how is this a change of mind?" joke queue, and pointing out the absurdity that the institute of marriage has become when so many people rush into something they are rarely that committed too, and are then forced to go to great effort and expense to get out of. When half of all marriages end in divorce, and no-fault divorce being a ready route, it makes the whole notion of being married, and the commitment it was meant to imply, rather watered down. The question is why third parties are needed to pass judgment on personal feelings.
That's a really crass and disrespectful thing to do.
Your opinion is noted.
By the way, are you single?
Yes. Not that I see it as having any bearing on this. I do know a few people who are/were involved in unhealthy marriages, and are seemingly stuck in them for one reason or another. I can't help but note how much easier they could escape if they hadn't set everything into a government and traditional foundation that locks you into the relationship.
Can anyone explain how the VCR's box is gonna know "record channel 10 at 8pm, and channel 12 at 10pm, and channel 15 at 2am" ??? Am I going to have to program the second decoder with parallel multiple programs to the VCR? Or will these boxes have time-programs?
You set the VCR to record channel 3 (or whatever the digital tuner box outputs too) for all time frames. The digital tuner is the one that has to change channels multiple times on its own.
Or does this kill multiple timed recording completely?
If the box doesn't have the ability to change channels itself at a prescribed time, yes. Welcome to the digital future! Isn't this better than the analog past?
Note to science and tech journalists: please stop stringing together "millions" and "billions" in an attempt to make the numbers seem large, impressive, and incomprehensible.
Joe Sixpacks digest technobabble at a rate that is relevant to them. While few would know what an Exabyte is, most would know what a Gigabyte is since they deal with numbers that size in relation to their own computing systems. I think it's less writing for sensationalism than it is writing in a language your audience will understand.
In a simple ceremony I married my sweet heart with whom we'd been together for 8 years.
So you changed your mind about government's place in your personal relationships?
The eight years of love you shared wasn't enough, and you now needed a clergyman, or at least a state bureaucrat, to declare the two of you were truly "together".
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the word "equally", but we have 35% vs. 14%. Add the IE6 users, the number becomes 79%.
The key phrase is "equally likely to move to" as in people who were using IE 6 and changed off of it. Think of the people who were delaying new PC purchases because they were waiting for Vista to come pre-installed, they got IE7 with their new PC even if they were wanting to keep using IE6. Installing Firefox is an extra step no matter who you're talking to. Plus, wasn't IE 7 made a "critical" update at some point recently? So lots of people who may not even be using their IE at all still downloaded IE 7 because Microsoft told them it would make their PC safer.
And the funny thing is after listening to a computer read the entries, I became more aware of all the punctuation mistakes in the summaries. For example: missing commas; because the computer was not pausing correctly in the flow of reading where it should have, but I had been subconsciously correcting the article when I read it myself.
Think how much less messy office politics will be as I try and work my way up, as my worth will now be mathematically calculated based on my productivity, efficiency, and company history.
After reading stories like this I've again made up my mind not to purchase a Mac. Apple, enough of your hedonistic practices. It surprises me that Apple is resorting to such practices in the midst of a place which we cite for unmatched consumer friendliness.
Playing devil's advocate here: Have you ever had this situation happen to you with your existing pre-made PCs (assuming you have one, maybe you build your own)? You assume this is some special Apple experience, where I imagine a Dell customer would have the exact same problem.
Tying bonuses to company performance, get rid of golden parachute clauses that allow the executive to make more money by leaving the company than staying. Those would be my first two suggestions.
The excuse of the techs is like the plumber saying he wanted to find a screwdriver as an excuse to pillage your bedroom.
Well, its likely the techs will find bulky multimedia files on people's PCs today with the popularity of digital media files. It generally not the same with screwdrivers being in bedrooms (although my toolbox is in mine).
Another interesting point is that by burning files on customer hard drives to DVD without knowing what they are, they may be committing copyright infringement. What happens with Geek Squad takes copies of your iTunes Plus tracks and sets them up on Limewire? The RIAA comes looking for the person who's information is embedded in them - you.
Its like crying privacy rights if I ask a plumber to come fix my kitchen sink, I take off to run errands, and when I get back I am arrested for having murdered victims in my bedroom. Did the plumber violate my privacy and thus charges be thrown out?
That's actually not a good comparison. The computer techs were looking for something to burn to DVD to test the drive to make sure it was working properly. The plumber would have no reason to be in your bedroom if he was fixing your kitchen sink. So yeah, I would consider it an invasion of privacy in the plumber case.
Also, if the techs need to test hardware like that, they should have some kind of content provided by their employer they can stick on the PC, burn, and remove from the HD afterwards. Just have it on a 4GB flash drive. "We needed to find some data to burn" just sounds like making up excuses to go looking through customer documents for stuff to pilfer.
Fully agreed. The advertising to music ratio is already horrible in most Canadian cities, you'd be lucky to hear more than two songs before they dive into another 5-10 minute advertising binge. And those 2 songs are almost always crap anyway.
Ah, well in the U.S. you'll get a block of several songs, but then a block of almost the same amount of advertising. So you might easily take a trip across town and not hear anything but ads the whole way. This wouldn't be a problem so much, but when a single corporation is allowed to own most of the radio stations in your area *cough* the result is all the radio stations run the advertising at the same time so changing the station when the ads start doesn't help, in some cases you find the exact same ad playing in unison on another station.
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Perhaps they are giving the formatted capacity.
I know. I don't believe it either.
Translation: "We fucked up and didn't do our homework."
This strikes me as "Help! We know we're dying. Please give us a clue how to not get eaten by the imports." Would GM be going to this trouble is they were making the progress Toyota is? Or had the brand loyalty Honda does? They've seen what happened to Chrysler, and Ford is struggling. They dug they own grave, and their continued failure to put more R&D toward alternative fuel/hybrid vehicles is their undoing.
What you'll see is market forces come into play. Once analog really is no longer an option, the "luxury tax" of HD will stop working, and prices will fall through the floor out of necessity. We've already seen quite a drop over the last couple years. The real suckers in this are the consumers who are buying before its necessary. Watch everyone by the same TV for $250+ less after the transition.
What makes you think they are going to start giving you a free static IP just because they transition to IPv6? Right now most providers charge for a static IP, they have no reason to give away a revenue stream.
The accepted definition of "getting married" in western society involves a marriage license and the two parties entering what is essentially a legal agreement. It's a little more than just two people exchanging vows. Otherwise I would ask what the difference is in their relationship before and after they got married.
No, actually I was playing along with the "and how is this a change of mind?" joke queue, and pointing out the absurdity that the institute of marriage has become when so many people rush into something they are rarely that committed too, and are then forced to go to great effort and expense to get out of. When half of all marriages end in divorce, and no-fault divorce being a ready route, it makes the whole notion of being married, and the commitment it was meant to imply, rather watered down. The question is why third parties are needed to pass judgment on personal feelings.
Your opinion is noted.
Yes. Not that I see it as having any bearing on this. I do know a few people who are/were involved in unhealthy marriages, and are seemingly stuck in them for one reason or another. I can't help but note how much easier they could escape if they hadn't set everything into a government and traditional foundation that locks you into the relationship.
You set the VCR to record channel 3 (or whatever the digital tuner box outputs too) for all time frames. The digital tuner is the one that has to change channels multiple times on its own.
If the box doesn't have the ability to change channels itself at a prescribed time, yes. Welcome to the digital future! Isn't this better than the analog past?
Joe Sixpacks digest technobabble at a rate that is relevant to them. While few would know what an Exabyte is, most would know what a Gigabyte is since they deal with numbers that size in relation to their own computing systems. I think it's less writing for sensationalism than it is writing in a language your audience will understand.
So you changed your mind about government's place in your personal relationships?
The eight years of love you shared wasn't enough, and you now needed a clergyman, or at least a state bureaucrat, to declare the two of you were truly "together".
I use Google-SMS. It's cheaper than paying for web access on my cell phone.
BTW, it's 46645, you don't need the 3.
Knot Drafting Elves? Perhaps...
The key phrase is "equally likely to move to" as in people who were using IE 6 and changed off of it. Think of the people who were delaying new PC purchases because they were waiting for Vista to come pre-installed, they got IE7 with their new PC even if they were wanting to keep using IE6. Installing Firefox is an extra step no matter who you're talking to. Plus, wasn't IE 7 made a "critical" update at some point recently? So lots of people who may not even be using their IE at all still downloaded IE 7 because Microsoft told them it would make their PC safer.
That's pretty cool.
And the funny thing is after listening to a computer read the entries, I became more aware of all the punctuation mistakes in the summaries. For example: missing commas; because the computer was not pausing correctly in the flow of reading where it should have, but I had been subconsciously correcting the article when I read it myself.
They were all using their iPhones on T-Mobile.
A law isn't worth the paper its printed on unless there's a DA willing to prosecute for its violation.
In a few years, we can get that same warm feeling when we look at the the AOL icon.
Aren't Easy-Bake Ovens fun!
I, for one, will welcome my new robot overlord.
Think how much less messy office politics will be as I try and work my way up, as my worth will now be mathematically calculated based on my productivity, efficiency, and company history.
Playing devil's advocate here: Have you ever had this situation happen to you with your existing pre-made PCs (assuming you have one, maybe you build your own)? You assume this is some special Apple experience, where I imagine a Dell customer would have the exact same problem.
Tying bonuses to company performance, get rid of golden parachute clauses that allow the executive to make more money by leaving the company than staying. Those would be my first two suggestions.
Well, its likely the techs will find bulky multimedia files on people's PCs today with the popularity of digital media files. It generally not the same with screwdrivers being in bedrooms (although my toolbox is in mine).
Another interesting point is that by burning files on customer hard drives to DVD without knowing what they are, they may be committing copyright infringement. What happens with Geek Squad takes copies of your iTunes Plus tracks and sets them up on Limewire? The RIAA comes looking for the person who's information is embedded in them - you.
That's actually not a good comparison. The computer techs were looking for something to burn to DVD to test the drive to make sure it was working properly. The plumber would have no reason to be in your bedroom if he was fixing your kitchen sink. So yeah, I would consider it an invasion of privacy in the plumber case.
Also, if the techs need to test hardware like that, they should have some kind of content provided by their employer they can stick on the PC, burn, and remove from the HD afterwards. Just have it on a 4GB flash drive. "We needed to find some data to burn" just sounds like making up excuses to go looking through customer documents for stuff to pilfer.
Ah, well in the U.S. you'll get a block of several songs, but then a block of almost the same amount of advertising. So you might easily take a trip across town and not hear anything but ads the whole way. This wouldn't be a problem so much, but when a single corporation is allowed to own most of the radio stations in your area *cough* the result is all the radio stations run the advertising at the same time so changing the station when the ads start doesn't help, in some cases you find the exact same ad playing in unison on another station.
Correction: It was a space station.
I'd just like to say, whoever tagged this 'jetsvssharks', I salute you for bringing Broadway musicals into a story about eBook readers.