I'm sorry; I was taking what I knew about Massachusetts and mistakenly generalized.
In Massachusetts, however, challenging tickets is widely viewed as a good way to aviod paying, as generally the officer does not show up to court and the ticket is dropped. This is accepted enough that it was taught in my (not too reputable but state approved) driving school class.
(if you fight it in court, they go back to charging you with the actual speed, rather than the reduced one, and if you lose, you get the corresponding increased fine and demerit points)
This seems like a neat idea, as in the US there is no reason not to challenge every ticket you get (if you have the time). I'm just not sure if it would be legal here, as a defense of "the cop who pulled me over wrote 90 km/h on the ticket. Why are you charging me with 100 km/h?". Perhaps make the penalty to discourage challenging be part of the law instead of a workaround?
They almost certainly already compile different versions of the binaries. And even if they don't, making the functionality depend on a compile-time switch instead of a registy entry is actually easier.
I would probably take this and center the right panel on my desk. I would work on that monitor and put docs and notifications (im, music, email) on the left. Not too good for gaming but fine for working.
Registry entries are just settings. It would be silly to claim that you don't have the right to change the settings on software you purchased on your own machine. If they had properly crippled the product they would have compiled the features out, but they didn't.
Linux is far far away from such easy installation and no, apt-get doesn't count, since that doesn't work with third party software, but only with official Debian.
You can set apt to look anywhere you want for packages so you don't have to stick with "official debian". Debian has a non-free section though, and most mirrors have it, so if your 3rd party software can't get into Debian standard because of liscence issues, you can probably still pull it down with apt-get.
Gentoo is looser in its requirements, so most things that Debian would put in non-free of contrib go in with the rest with their liscence info noted in the ebuild. And for programs like java and flash which are 3rd party and have liscences that prevent redistribution portage gives you a link and requests that you fetch the package. Then it does the rest, managing dependencies.
If you know the name of your program, "apt-get name" or "emerge name" is a lot faster than the Windows way of searching through sketchy download sites (downloads.com, tucows, etc).
Microsoft made it possible for you to steal from them
How is changing two bytes to unlock hidden functionality "stealing"? When people decide to intentionally cripple a product, they deserve what they get if people figure out how to uncripple it.
Companies in general are better customers, so it makes sense to court them. They tend to have in-house support so you have fewer clueless people calling vendor tech support. And while they may only be ordering one monitor now, they usually have a lot more to buy than the avearage home user and so getting and keeping their business is worth more.
Unfortunately capitalism is NOT set up to offer the best value to the consumer, it is set up to push the market to the lowest value still acceptable by consumers.
But the lowest value still acceptable to consumers is still acceptable to consumers. Why pay extra for a product that more than meets your needs?
What about a standard ps/2 keyboard and a hardware keylogger. You'd need to hack a bit for power (5 volts DC) but it wouldn't be too bad. And you could hide the logger and batteries inside the empty plastic of the case to give the patented "it's a looney typing on a disconected keyboard" impression.
Both are true; the wattage of the power supply is a max and the MHz of the CPU is not directly proportional to its processing power. The general idea is true, however, and a P4 needs much more power than a 386 does to keep running.
While MHz/Watt is not good for old computers, most of the time you don't use anywhere near the full power of a new machine. If a 386 running at 100 Watts and it does what you need, why should you switch to a 350 Watt p4? You'd get better MHz/Watt but more Watts overall.
And you would currently trust photographs as evidence? What with Photoshop and similar programs photographic evidence forgery has been simple for quite a while now.
In Star Trek the people using the systems have had extensive training with them as they are ones that they will be using regularly. GUIs and labeled keys help beginners and people who are self-teaching but slow down trained and regular users.
Of course you also have to consider that spending money to paint labels on consoles that are just going to blow up anyway is inneficient.
The FCC order, approved by a 4-0 vote, requires local phone companies to provide access to their E-911 networks -- those that enable emergency operators to identify the location and telephone number of the caller -- to any telecommunications carrier.
Which I think is supposed to mean that the 911 system would be opened up as well.
Or you can make a fully decentralized system and pay no heed to cheating. You don't need to have a global idea of stats to have a good game. Each player can run a server component. Different servers correspond to different parts of the world, with a registration/transfer system. Sort of like the web with hyperlinks. Let players decide which servers they like. A server can keep stats, protect names, restrict avatars, or not. Servers with silly rules won't get used. Let econ do the work for you.
Would this be policy debate? There are some forms, such as parley, where people talk to convince their audience, and 300+wpm is not terribly convincing. And having to write the speech as you give it precludes such annoying speed.
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In Massachusetts, however, challenging tickets is widely viewed as a good way to aviod paying, as generally the officer does not show up to court and the ticket is dropped. This is accepted enough that it was taught in my (not too reputable but state approved) driving school class.
This seems like a neat idea, as in the US there is no reason not to challenge every ticket you get (if you have the time). I'm just not sure if it would be legal here, as a defense of "the cop who pulled me over wrote 90 km/h on the ticket. Why are you charging me with 100 km/h?". Perhaps make the penalty to discourage challenging be part of the law instead of a workaround?
They almost certainly already compile different versions of the binaries. And even if they don't, making the functionality depend on a compile-time switch instead of a registy entry is actually easier.
I would probably take this and center the right panel on my desk. I would work on that monitor and put docs and notifications (im, music, email) on the left. Not too good for gaming but fine for working.
With two you can put your documentation on one screen and your code on the next.
Registry entries are just settings. It would be silly to claim that you don't have the right to change the settings on software you purchased on your own machine. If they had properly crippled the product they would have compiled the features out, but they didn't.
No, they're not exploiting you.
You can set apt to look anywhere you want for packages so you don't have to stick with "official debian". Debian has a non-free section though, and most mirrors have it, so if your 3rd party software can't get into Debian standard because of liscence issues, you can probably still pull it down with apt-get.
Gentoo is looser in its requirements, so most things that Debian would put in non-free of contrib go in with the rest with their liscence info noted in the ebuild. And for programs like java and flash which are 3rd party and have liscences that prevent redistribution portage gives you a link and requests that you fetch the package. Then it does the rest, managing dependencies.
If you know the name of your program, "apt-get name" or "emerge name" is a lot faster than the Windows way of searching through sketchy download sites (downloads.com, tucows, etc).
I would think that he wouldn't even get to pumping the gas. If there were no contract at all then he'd be trespassing and stealing.
How is changing two bytes to unlock hidden functionality "stealing"? When people decide to intentionally cripple a product, they deserve what they get if people figure out how to uncripple it.
It would be interesting if vendors let you purchase items without tech support.
Companies in general are better customers, so it makes sense to court them. They tend to have in-house support so you have fewer clueless people calling vendor tech support. And while they may only be ordering one monitor now, they usually have a lot more to buy than the avearage home user and so getting and keeping their business is worth more.
But the lowest value still acceptable to consumers is still acceptable to consumers. Why pay extra for a product that more than meets your needs?
What about a standard ps/2 keyboard and a hardware keylogger. You'd need to hack a bit for power (5 volts DC) but it wouldn't be too bad. And you could hide the logger and batteries inside the empty plastic of the case to give the patented "it's a looney typing on a disconected keyboard" impression.
Both are true; the wattage of the power supply is a max and the MHz of the CPU is not directly proportional to its processing power. The general idea is true, however, and a P4 needs much more power than a 386 does to keep running.
While MHz/Watt is not good for old computers, most of the time you don't use anywhere near the full power of a new machine. If a 386 running at 100 Watts and it does what you need, why should you switch to a 350 Watt p4? You'd get better MHz/Watt but more Watts overall.
And you would currently trust photographs as evidence? What with Photoshop and similar programs photographic evidence forgery has been simple for quite a while now.
There might be some speedups when you make a large number of frames with the same objects.
Of course you also have to consider that spending money to paint labels on consoles that are just going to blow up anyway is inneficient.
Or you can make a fully decentralized system and pay no heed to cheating. You don't need to have a global idea of stats to have a good game. Each player can run a server component. Different servers correspond to different parts of the world, with a registration/transfer system. Sort of like the web with hyperlinks. Let players decide which servers they like. A server can keep stats, protect names, restrict avatars, or not. Servers with silly rules won't get used. Let econ do the work for you.
Would this be policy debate? There are some forms, such as parley, where people talk to convince their audience, and 300+wpm is not terribly convincing. And having to write the speech as you give it precludes such annoying speed.