"...the wrist strap broke and caused the remote to leave the user's hand"
This is backwards. The remote left the user's hand and caused the wrist strap to break.
This case should be thrown out of court.
It has just about as much merit as someone suing a free-weight manufacturer because a person was overzealous in his/her workout and threw a weight which in turn caused destruction to property.
Does no one remember all the branded versions of IE 5.5? Comcast had one, SBC DSL had one, I'm sure there were hundreds.
I don't see why Microsoft would get upset at this; this is why they released the kit in the first place. A company is more likely to distribute a browser if they can brand it and what does Microsoft want? You got it, more people using IE7. Only a select few morons are going to mistake a Google branded IE7 as "Google's internet browser". Everyone else will continue to know that it is Microsoft's Internet Explorer but Google is happy to get its name in all the places it can.
Does Apple sell iMacs with the option of no OS? Why do people flip out when a PC manufacturer does something but no one brings up Apple even though they may have been doing the same thing for a longer time?
"No, I think it should be mandated that computers can be purchased OS-free for a price that is less than the price of one with the OS by a difference of the retail price of the OS. I think people should have the choice."
That is absolutely ridiculous! HP doesn't pay retail price for every copy of Windows they put on their computers so why should they dock that price?
Having Windows XP on a new computer probably only raises the price $10-$25 if even that much.
That's a good point. When I was a young lad delivering pizza's there was a similar concern.. Turn your car off every time you drop a pizza off or leave your car running? Best thing is to leave it running. Ya you use up a drop of gas leaving your car idling for 3 minutes but starting your car 20-30 times a day is killer wear on your starter.
A sysadmin with a clean background check could just be a sysadmin who has never been caught. Doesn't mean they won't read your email or plant a logic bomb.
By standardizing, they can provide a less expensive alternative to the tens of millions of dollars and several years it takes to currently develop an MMO.
Yay! So instead of each MMO being a drastically different experience we can expect all the MMOs from this company to be horrible rehashes of their prior product with some new graphics. As if the MMO market wasn't becoming flooded with crappy games already, now we can expect this company to churn out horrible MMO's at a rate of 1 or 2 a year!
Something reminding you of something else you have experienced isn't deja vu. I drink a redbull and the aftertaste makes me think of some sort of candy, like cotton candy; that isn't deja vu.
Dictionary.com defines it as "The illusion of having already experienced something actually being experienced for the first time."
Well think of the bright side, you may have gotten more hits from people looking for warez... Since they could not find any on the first page, you may have gotten subsequent page hits while they scour your site for download links.
So I read this rumor that on popular television stations they use prime advertising slots to advertise other TV shows or the upcoming news in such key slots as during the end credits of a TV show (when the screen splits and you have the credits on one portion and an ad on the other) and that they won't even sell these kinds of ad slots.
Does that mean all of these TV stations have a "silent monopoly"? simply because they use key ad slots to advertise their own business?
What about all those DVDs you buy that come with previews or trailers for other movies? You're not going to see a movie from a competing production company on your DVD, is that a "silent monopoly"?
How about the movie theater, they put ads up for a half hour before a movie starts but right before the movie is about to start, the key advertising slot, they show you the ad with the dancing popcorn and soda for their consession stand.
Is that a "silent monopoly" ? If not, then why is google any different other than "because it is google" ?
The better your amp and speakers the more noticable artifacts are.
If they are using $50 dollar speakers or headphones then no duh they can't tell the difference because you are being limited by your equipment, not the compression. if your speakers can't produce a certain frequency then you won't notice the difference between a song that uses that frequency and a compression of it that doesn't.
Audiophiles are going to be using much higher end equipment where it is way more noticeable.
The U.S. government is just dicking with the general population. Everyone knows that the elected officials are just puppets for the people who run the show from behind the curtain, but they are now testing how stupid the general population is.
First Jesse Ventura, a fake wrestling champion, becomes governor of Minnesota, someone who probably didn't know lick about holding office. Of course he did a fine job though, because he didn't have to do anything since it was all being controlled behind the curtain.
Next Arnold Schwatzenegger, a body building champion turned action film star as governor of California. California hasn't broken off of the continent yet and shows no sign of doing so.
Now if Bill Gates runs for president, and wins, this will just fund the conspiracy even more. I'm sure that you will find that President Gates will do a fine job running the country, or at least just as fine a job as any of his predecessors. Why? Because he isn't really doing anything as president.
As if there isn't something to gripe about EVERY president that has been and will be. The presidency is just a name that people can associate with a time, and when a new name rolls in it will give them hope for a new time. If there was no name, and no president then the U.S. would run just as well as it ever has, but people would get sick of it because there is no hope for change, and that would lead to a change and an overthrow of the government.
--End Conspiracy Theory--
P.S. I can't wait for Windows PE (Presidential Edition)
Vista, to the average consumer, is just a visual upgrade from XP and with large performance hits to boot.
This is just like Windows ME was comparatively to Windows 98; a few extra features with nothing noteworthy, and performance hits.
If history repeats itself then a new server edition of windows will come out in about 2 years and then 2 years following that we will have another version of Windows whose features and stability will be welcome by all (except the obligatory anti-windows folk)
Pretend that you're driving down the street throwing water balloons at people on the sidewalk. You are doing this because you have a store at the end of the street that advertises selling dry shirts. You're coming up to a spot where there is 1 person on the left side of the road and a group of 10 people on the right side of the road. Your goal is to get as many people wet as possible; which target do you throw your water balloon at?
Exploiting vulnerabilities is becoming less pure malicious intent (hitting someone because they say neener neener) and more about financial benefit. This has been made obvious by various previous articles pointing out the moving trend of exploits.
Sure there may be a few people who will try to exploit a Mac just for the sake of it, but a few people isn't enough. Obviously I'm going to pull this next statistic out of my ass but lets say that 3% of the people who actively attempt to find and exploit a vulnerability actually succeed (probably a generous number). 3% of a few is far less than 3% of a lot.
I think 18 defects per million for LEGO pieces is a lot more impressive than you think.
-You might think of it in terms of exploding batteries, 18 batteries that will explode out of a million. Impressive? Maybe, but still a risk. -What about tires, 18 out of a million where the tread will fall off, thats a very dangerous 18. -Lets look at something a little less dangerous to the consumer, how about 18 of 1 million pixels on an LCD display being dead, that would be more than enough to annoy the shit out of me.
When it comes to LEGO pieces, 18 out of a million is not bad at all considering their small size and ease to replace.
Hell, between my dog and my mom's vacuum cleaner I probably lost 18 LEGO pieces every time I busted my set out.
I think that most of the allure to MMOs is that you are playing with other real people, of course if you compare MMO results to an offline game there is going to be a staggering difference.
Why do people get "addicted" to MMOs? I think it is because of the interaction with other people. Someone joins a guild, they play with other people frequently, they become friends with people in their guild. Now they aren't just playing a video game, they are playing a video game WITH FRIENDS.
I play MMOs quite a bit and played World of Warcraft for over a year. When my RL friends stopped playing the game became boring to me because I was no longer playing with friends. I might have a looser type of addiction to MMOs as I can't wait for the next one to come out so that I can play it with my friends. I also tend to quit MMOs maybe a month or 2 after my friends stop playing because I do befriend some of my guildmates. I find myself logging onto the game and checking my friends list; if no one is on then I quit the game, if someone is on then I talk to them and play.
Other people, the people you would consider hardcore addicts, might not have many RL friends so the people in their guilds become good friends, maybe even best friends and talking nearly every day. These people will continue to play as long as their internet friends are playing and if their internet friends are in the same low-friend-count situation then they will keep playing which leads to a group of people whose playing habits become dependent of each other. Since one person will only quit if the other quits, and visa versa, no one ever quits. Perhaps when an unforeseen event occurs, such as a person losing internet access or their computer breaking, then one person is forced to stop playing and the dependent counterpart person decides to stop playing because his friend is no longer playing.
I don't buy into this B.S. about the game making addicts because you can "never beat the last boss" and never truly win the game. These people are addicted, yes, but not to the game. They are addicted to something that the game can give them: a friend, fame, or anonymity.
A man walks up to the barkeep, "I'm looking for a man, goes by the name of Wilson. "Seen him come around here, maybe you've heard of him?" The barkeep grumbles back, "Maybe, let me check my Drivers License Scanner Database". The barkeep then prints out a page of the aforementioned license information and gets proper compensation from the stranger.
Not exactly how it usually goes down in the movies, but if this keeps up then maybe in the near future movies will look a little more like this.
It is not a bug with firefox, it is a bug with myspace. I doubt you will find many places other than myspace where this "bug" will be exploited. Why? Because most sites that host user generated content are responsible enough to remove the users ability to post potentially-malicious markup language on the site. These sites strip almost all (if not all) markup and only allow a small handful of decoration tags like BOLD. (Slashdot is a perfect example of allowed html markup)
The problem is that the code on myspace is shoddy at best, and the fact that users can put any kind of html on their myspace page was an accidental result of such. Then when users figured out they could customize their page with css and other markup code they were happy, and so myspace left it in. Nowadays everyone is so used to myspace letting them customize their page (in a shitty hack sort of way) that if they were to take that aspect away I think myspace would die in a month (I know a lot of girls who only go on myspace so that they can upgrade their page and make it look better by customizing it) so they are not likely to ditch this "feature" of their site.
I would also highly recommend deep freeze. many school in the Sacramento area use it with great success and I myself have deployed it on several machines I oversee at public study-hall areas for apartment complexes in a college town.
Every time the computer reboots it resets itself to how it was when you first installed it, so even if you have no further access prevention (although I would recommend Microsoft's tool which helps you put extra access prevention, just to discourage that sort of behavior) you can simply restart the computer to get it back to how it was (nothing extra installed, no malware or viruses etc)
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"...the wrist strap broke and caused the remote to leave the user's hand"
This is backwards. The remote left the user's hand and caused the wrist strap to break.
This case should be thrown out of court.
It has just about as much merit as someone suing a free-weight manufacturer because a person was overzealous in his/her workout and threw a weight which in turn caused destruction to property.
Does no one remember all the branded versions of IE 5.5?
Comcast had one, SBC DSL had one, I'm sure there were hundreds.
I don't see why Microsoft would get upset at this; this is why they released the kit in the first place.
A company is more likely to distribute a browser if they can brand it and what does Microsoft want? You got it, more people using IE7.
Only a select few morons are going to mistake a Google branded IE7 as "Google's internet browser". Everyone else will continue to know that it is Microsoft's Internet Explorer but Google is happy to get its name in all the places it can.
Does Apple sell iMacs with the option of no OS?
Why do people flip out when a PC manufacturer does something but no one brings up Apple even though they may have been doing the same thing for a longer time?
"No, I think it should be mandated that computers can be purchased OS-free for a price that is less than the price of one with the OS by a difference of the retail price of the OS. I think people should have the choice."
That is absolutely ridiculous! HP doesn't pay retail price for every copy of Windows they put on their computers so why should they dock that price?
Having Windows XP on a new computer probably only raises the price $10-$25 if even that much.
Where can I buy one of these Anti-Evolution Suits?
Will it protect my DNA from evolving and prevent my offspring from, say, developing a 3rd eye?
That's a good point.
When I was a young lad delivering pizza's there was a similar concern.. Turn your car off every time you drop a pizza off or leave your car running? Best thing is to leave it running. Ya you use up a drop of gas leaving your car idling for 3 minutes but starting your car 20-30 times a day is killer wear on your starter.
A sysadmin with a clean background check could just be a sysadmin who has never been caught.
Doesn't mean they won't read your email or plant a logic bomb.
By standardizing, they can provide a less expensive alternative to the tens of millions of dollars and several years it takes to currently develop an MMO.
Yay! So instead of each MMO being a drastically different experience we can expect all the MMOs from this company to be horrible rehashes of their prior product with some new graphics. As if the MMO market wasn't becoming flooded with crappy games already, now we can expect this company to churn out horrible MMO's at a rate of 1 or 2 a year!
Something reminding you of something else you have experienced isn't deja vu.
I drink a redbull and the aftertaste makes me think of some sort of candy, like cotton candy; that isn't deja vu.
Dictionary.com defines it as "The illusion of having already experienced something actually being experienced for the first time."
Well think of the bright side, you may have gotten more hits from people looking for warez...
Since they could not find any on the first page, you may have gotten subsequent page hits while they scour your site for download links.
So I read this rumor that on popular television stations they use prime advertising slots to advertise other TV shows or the upcoming news in such key slots as during the end credits of a TV show (when the screen splits and you have the credits on one portion and an ad on the other) and that they won't even sell these kinds of ad slots.
Does that mean all of these TV stations have a "silent monopoly"? simply because they use key ad slots to advertise their own business?
What about all those DVDs you buy that come with previews or trailers for other movies? You're not going to see a movie from a competing production company on your DVD, is that a "silent monopoly"?
How about the movie theater, they put ads up for a half hour before a movie starts but right before the movie is about to start, the key advertising slot, they show you the ad with the dancing popcorn and soda for their consession stand.
Is that a "silent monopoly" ? If not, then why is google any different other than "because it is google" ?
You make a good point, lets expand your theory even farther.
Lets make it so no cars can be sold for less than $20,000. That way there will be less idiots on the road.
WoW players already pay this tax. It is called "subscription fee" and it is 14.49 a month.
The better your amp and speakers the more noticable artifacts are.
If they are using $50 dollar speakers or headphones then no duh they can't tell the difference because you are being limited by your equipment, not the compression. if your speakers can't produce a certain frequency then you won't notice the difference between a song that uses that frequency and a compression of it that doesn't.
Audiophiles are going to be using much higher end equipment where it is way more noticeable.
Just how much money are they spending developing, producing and deploying all of these biometric ATMs for "India's poor and illiterate"
Wouldn't it be more cost effective to just teach them how to use the ATM when they sign up for an ATM card?
--Queue Conspiracy Theory--
The U.S. government is just dicking with the general population. Everyone knows that the elected officials are just puppets for the people who run the show from behind the curtain, but they are now testing how stupid the general population is.
First Jesse Ventura, a fake wrestling champion, becomes governor of Minnesota, someone who probably didn't know lick about holding office. Of course he did a fine job though, because he didn't have to do anything since it was all being controlled behind the curtain.
Next Arnold Schwatzenegger, a body building champion turned action film star as governor of California. California hasn't broken off of the continent yet and shows no sign of doing so.
Now if Bill Gates runs for president, and wins, this will just fund the conspiracy even more. I'm sure that you will find that President Gates will do a fine job running the country, or at least just as fine a job as any of his predecessors. Why? Because he isn't really doing anything as president.
As if there isn't something to gripe about EVERY president that has been and will be. The presidency is just a name that people can associate with a time, and when a new name rolls in it will give them hope for a new time. If there was no name, and no president then the U.S. would run just as well as it ever has, but people would get sick of it because there is no hope for change, and that would lead to a change and an overthrow of the government.
--End Conspiracy Theory--
P.S. I can't wait for Windows PE (Presidential Edition)
Vista, to the average consumer, is just a visual upgrade from XP and with large performance hits to boot.
This is just like Windows ME was comparatively to Windows 98; a few extra features with nothing noteworthy, and performance hits.
If history repeats itself then a new server edition of windows will come out in about 2 years and then 2 years following that we will have another version of Windows whose features and stability will be welcome by all (except the obligatory anti-windows folk)
Pretend that you're driving down the street throwing water balloons at people on the sidewalk. You are doing this because you have a store at the end of the street that advertises selling dry shirts. You're coming up to a spot where there is 1 person on the left side of the road and a group of 10 people on the right side of the road. Your goal is to get as many people wet as possible; which target do you throw your water balloon at?
Exploiting vulnerabilities is becoming less pure malicious intent (hitting someone because they say neener neener) and more about financial benefit. This has been made obvious by various previous articles pointing out the moving trend of exploits.
Sure there may be a few people who will try to exploit a Mac just for the sake of it, but a few people isn't enough. Obviously I'm going to pull this next statistic out of my ass but lets say that 3% of the people who actively attempt to find and exploit a vulnerability actually succeed (probably a generous number). 3% of a few is far less than 3% of a lot.
I think 18 defects per million for LEGO pieces is a lot more impressive than you think.
-You might think of it in terms of exploding batteries, 18 batteries that will explode out of a million. Impressive? Maybe, but still a risk.
-What about tires, 18 out of a million where the tread will fall off, thats a very dangerous 18.
-Lets look at something a little less dangerous to the consumer, how about 18 of 1 million pixels on an LCD display being dead, that would be more than enough to annoy the shit out of me.
When it comes to LEGO pieces, 18 out of a million is not bad at all considering their small size and ease to replace.
Hell, between my dog and my mom's vacuum cleaner I probably lost 18 LEGO pieces every time I busted my set out.
I think that most of the allure to MMOs is that you are playing with other real people, of course if you compare MMO results to an offline game there is going to be a staggering difference.
Why do people get "addicted" to MMOs? I think it is because of the interaction with other people. Someone joins a guild, they play with other people frequently, they become friends with people in their guild. Now they aren't just playing a video game, they are playing a video game WITH FRIENDS.
I play MMOs quite a bit and played World of Warcraft for over a year. When my RL friends stopped playing the game became boring to me because I was no longer playing with friends. I might have a looser type of addiction to MMOs as I can't wait for the next one to come out so that I can play it with my friends. I also tend to quit MMOs maybe a month or 2 after my friends stop playing because I do befriend some of my guildmates. I find myself logging onto the game and checking my friends list; if no one is on then I quit the game, if someone is on then I talk to them and play.
Other people, the people you would consider hardcore addicts, might not have many RL friends so the people in their guilds become good friends, maybe even best friends and talking nearly every day. These people will continue to play as long as their internet friends are playing and if their internet friends are in the same low-friend-count situation then they will keep playing which leads to a group of people whose playing habits become dependent of each other. Since one person will only quit if the other quits, and visa versa, no one ever quits. Perhaps when an unforeseen event occurs, such as a person losing internet access or their computer breaking, then one person is forced to stop playing and the dependent counterpart person decides to stop playing because his friend is no longer playing.
I don't buy into this B.S. about the game making addicts because you can "never beat the last boss" and never truly win the game. These people are addicted, yes, but not to the game. They are addicted to something that the game can give them: a friend, fame, or anonymity.
The French are always wrong, does this mean that open source is NOT the way to go for governments?
As a user and supporter of open source I find myself confused and not knowing what to think.
This is like as if AOL, a known evil, made something good.
I just don't know.
How big in MB is the TIFF file?
Instead of printing it out and scanning it, why not transfer it on a USB stick?
A man walks up to the barkeep, "I'm looking for a man, goes by the name of Wilson. "Seen him come around here, maybe you've heard of him?"
The barkeep grumbles back, "Maybe, let me check my Drivers License Scanner Database". The barkeep then prints out a page of the aforementioned license information and gets proper compensation from the stranger.
Not exactly how it usually goes down in the movies, but if this keeps up then maybe in the near future movies will look a little more like this.
It is not a bug with firefox, it is a bug with myspace.
I doubt you will find many places other than myspace where this "bug" will be exploited. Why? Because most sites that host user generated content are responsible enough to remove the users ability to post potentially-malicious markup language on the site. These sites strip almost all (if not all) markup and only allow a small handful of decoration tags like BOLD. (Slashdot is a perfect example of allowed html markup)
The problem is that the code on myspace is shoddy at best, and the fact that users can put any kind of html on their myspace page was an accidental result of such. Then when users figured out they could customize their page with css and other markup code they were happy, and so myspace left it in.
Nowadays everyone is so used to myspace letting them customize their page (in a shitty hack sort of way) that if they were to take that aspect away I think myspace would die in a month (I know a lot of girls who only go on myspace so that they can upgrade their page and make it look better by customizing it) so they are not likely to ditch this "feature" of their site.
I would also highly recommend deep freeze.
many school in the Sacramento area use it with great success and I myself have deployed it on several machines I oversee at public study-hall areas for apartment complexes in a college town.
Every time the computer reboots it resets itself to how it was when you first installed it, so even if you have no further access prevention (although I would recommend Microsoft's tool which helps you put extra access prevention, just to discourage that sort of behavior) you can simply restart the computer to get it back to how it was (nothing extra installed, no malware or viruses etc)