No, but the EULA is displayed when you want to install the game
Ohhhh, you mean the click-through "contract" that is only available for viewing AFTER the game is purchased and rendered non-returnable. Gotya.
So, care to explain to me what I should do the next time I do not agree to an EULA? I prefer a solution that won't get me laughed out of a store or off the phone, if you could.
They are only distinct for nit-pickers.
For everyone else, in practical terms they are completely conflated.
Appealing to the wisdom of "everyone else" doesn't make Digital TV signals require a HDTV, nor does it suddenly make everyone's analog TV incompatible with the digital cable signals that they already receive through their converter boxes.
For every 100 people that are raising hell about this costing them money, I'm confident that 98 of them already receive a digital signal from their cable or satellite provider.
It's interesting that a post can be modded insightful when the author doesn't even grasp the differences between High Definition TV, Digital TV, and Analog TV.
Sure, he used snazzy abbreviations like "OTA." That doesn't mean he knows what he's talking about.
Here's the first hit from the cluebat: DirecTV users don't need converter boxes. They already have one.
I have no problem whatsoever with 50% of the population not using a piece of software, or computers in general. If they can't understand it, or at least some basic principles associated with it, then they shouldn't use it.
Far more than half the population can't do advanced mathematics. Should someone redesign those concepts so that a drunk bum off the street can understand them?
What? There is absolutely no reason for a learning curve? All software should be instantly usable by any person, regardless of education, culture, or intelligence?
I should go ahead and demand a refund for any IDE I've ever bought or used.
Physicians and car mechanics, on the other hand, seem to have somehow avoided the worst of this erosion. At least, that's what I've observed. I can't explain what, if anything, might set them apart from other technical professionals.
Perhaps it's a lack of proximity with "businessmen" as colleagues?
If I remember correctly, all of Kuwait's Internet access is filtered through WebSense, of all things. All it takes is an entry for "http://*youtube.com/*"
At least they won't poison the BGP tables like Pakistan did.
The bigger benefit to analyze is uptime. If a server dies, uptime is impacted unless it happens to be running an application with some form of clustering or other failover ability. Not all applications provide this.
Unscheduled downtime due to server failure is something many companies try their best to avoid, even as far as going into severe diminishing returns on the money they pour into the environmental controls. If $10 provides 90% uptime, $100 provides 99% uptime, $1,000 provides 99.9% uptime, and so forth, many companies are still going to seriously consider dropping that $100,000 on 5-9s.
Oh, so you think that someone has to wait until they're detained in Gitmo under false pretenses before they can get a lawyer and sue? We've seen how well that works out, haven't we?
Well, if you want to go that route, ordinary citizens can't legally imprison anyone. The only exception is citizen's arrest, which only applies to felonies the person witnesses at the time. Citizen's arrest also carries full liability, e.g., if you're wrong you can be charged with false imprisonment.
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No, but the EULA is displayed when you want to install the game
Ohhhh, you mean the click-through "contract" that is only available for viewing AFTER the game is purchased and rendered non-returnable. Gotya.
So, care to explain to me what I should do the next time I do not agree to an EULA? I prefer a solution that won't get me laughed out of a store or off the phone, if you could.
Pfft! And they try to gain cred by claiming to be "Pro Bono". I bet they've never even MET Bono. :-)
They're actually pro-SONNY Bono, considering their apparent view on copyrights and trademarks.
They are only distinct for nit-pickers. For everyone else, in practical terms they are completely conflated.
Appealing to the wisdom of "everyone else" doesn't make Digital TV signals require a HDTV, nor does it suddenly make everyone's analog TV incompatible with the digital cable signals that they already receive through their converter boxes.
For every 100 people that are raising hell about this costing them money, I'm confident that 98 of them already receive a digital signal from their cable or satellite provider.
...but that's what you get when you offend a horde of gadget fetishists :)
No, it's what happens when someone is dead wrong. HD vs SD. Digital vs Analog. These are 2 separate and distinct classifications.
It's interesting that a post can be modded insightful when the author doesn't even grasp the differences between High Definition TV, Digital TV, and Analog TV.
Sure, he used snazzy abbreviations like "OTA." That doesn't mean he knows what he's talking about.
Here's the first hit from the cluebat: DirecTV users don't need converter boxes. They already have one.
Marx? Is that you?
"Install Chrome" is the answer to crappy design?
Wow. You must have been one of those kids that would have been "helped" by the 50% policy, huh?
A curve is different. If this was a curve, then students who perform at 60% would receive an A.
I have no problem whatsoever with 50% of the population not using a piece of software, or computers in general. If they can't understand it, or at least some basic principles associated with it, then they shouldn't use it.
Far more than half the population can't do advanced mathematics. Should someone redesign those concepts so that a drunk bum off the street can understand them?
What? There is absolutely no reason for a learning curve? All software should be instantly usable by any person, regardless of education, culture, or intelligence?
I should go ahead and demand a refund for any IDE I've ever bought or used.
Physicians and car mechanics, on the other hand, seem to have somehow avoided the worst of this erosion. At least, that's what I've observed. I can't explain what, if anything, might set them apart from other technical professionals.
Perhaps it's a lack of proximity with "businessmen" as colleagues?
I don't prefer either. And the two personality types are not mutually exclusive.
I'd venture a guess that to a certain extent they actually correlate.
Login, please.
If I remember correctly, all of Kuwait's Internet access is filtered through WebSense, of all things. All it takes is an entry for "http://*youtube.com/*"
At least they won't poison the BGP tables like Pakistan did.
Did you just scold someone with a 2 digit UID for not reading the article?
You must be... ahh, screw it.
The bigger benefit to analyze is uptime. If a server dies, uptime is impacted unless it happens to be running an application with some form of clustering or other failover ability. Not all applications provide this.
Unscheduled downtime due to server failure is something many companies try their best to avoid, even as far as going into severe diminishing returns on the money they pour into the environmental controls. If $10 provides 90% uptime, $100 provides 99% uptime, $1,000 provides 99.9% uptime, and so forth, many companies are still going to seriously consider dropping that $100,000 on 5-9s.
Psst... wanna know which servers the military usually uses in its tents?
The same ones you use. If they want to have a "rugged" server, they just load a server OS on a Toughbook.
Don't hate the player, hate the game.
What, did I accidentally go to MTV.com instead of slashdot.org? Are you seriously trying to equate Apple with some moronic half-breed "gangbanger"?
Does the company have a right to demand their domain back?
That's an invalid question, as the company never owned the domain to begin with.
Oh, so you think that someone has to wait until they're detained in Gitmo under false pretenses before they can get a lawyer and sue? We've seen how well that works out, haven't we?
Your use of the word "you" in the original post was absurdly ambiguous, even within the context. And flamebait, to boot.
Not by an ordinary citizen they can't â" legally
Well, if you want to go that route, ordinary citizens can't legally imprison anyone. The only exception is citizen's arrest, which only applies to felonies the person witnesses at the time. Citizen's arrest also carries full liability, e.g., if you're wrong you can be charged with false imprisonment.
If that were the case, a presidential pardon would be unconstitutional.
A presidential pardon is not an act of Congress.
I didn't know that. I was not previously aware that the immunity bill was unconstitutional, on top of being morally bankrupt.
Learn something new every day!
I've called Afghanistan quite a few times. Surely they listened in on that a time or two.