Dicks are sometimes hired on purpose, sometimes by accident. You hire a lawyer because you are clueless on law, and this should be a lesson in not being such a sucker in life. It's the subsequent action that the CEO took on realizing his mistakes that damn him, not his earlier actions. The desire to hide the suit from public scrutiny, the lack of any apology, that stuff.
Call me a conspiracy theorist but I think they're sabotaging the quality of DVD to make the BR stand out even more. Certainly they do that for those comparison videos I see at the shops - the ones where they split the screen in order to show DVD on one side and BR on the other. And they probably did do it earlier to promote DVD sales over VCD - in my region VCDs are still popular, and sell for half the price of DVDs
Mod up. The reason you got your windows cheap from Dell is because they willingly took on the support contract for all issues with windows. So even when Microsoft screws up, Dell is the one that has to fix your problem.
It's bad news for Microsoft at so many levels - 1. it's a 17-year-old bug 2. The disclosure and proof-of-concept attack was done by Google, clearly not Microsoft's best friend 3. Microsoft was forced to release a patch that is not fully tested 4. The cure is worse than the illness 5. Lots of windows users find out they have been compromised for how long? Nobody really knows! 6. The only remedy now is to restore your computer to it's previous state, which means you carry on using your computer in it's compromised state
So 20% of your customers try to screw with you. Check around, you'll find that to be true in most industries. And guess what, it's very likely they'll try to screw you anyway, even when you deliver as promised.
Assuming you're the same a.c. as the gp, what you are saying is that it's microsoft trying to screw people out of money for... software that they are currently using and didn't pay for. I fail to see what is the problem here. Computers from any OEM should come with installation CDs, which don't require validation thanks to the machine certificates that are already pre-validated. They come with stickers on their boxes so that you can install even from a CD of another OEM - yes, you don't even need the CD from the same company, but this one you'll have to activate either on the internet or over the phone. It's not really hard to prove that a person didn't buy the version of Windows that they are using you know.
"For while we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last." - JFK. Solving the national debt issue may be important, but so is securing the future. In any case, if you were serious about ending debt then you should be looking at the war expenses first anyway - it is several orders of magnitude higher than anything else you are spending money on.
“Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.” - George Bernard Shaw, a notable atheist btw.
So what you're saying is, instead of dying from something in a Bruce Willis movie changing my altitude, I could be dying from something in a James Bond movie changing my altitude?
on all versions of windows, %userprofile% will get you to your home directory - even if you didn't install your windows on C:, have multiple versions installed on the same partition, or tried to obscure stuff in any way.
But keeping your shit where your shit ought to be is a key best practice - you can't reasonably expect to change that now. Imagine if programmers were to throw their files all over the system directories and requiring all kinds of administrator privileges to run. Now imagine users needing the same rights just to get to their files.
Can someone with an idea comment on this? It's clear - the patent does seem to cover this gesture, but it's also clear that prior art is trivial to locate. The patent was filed in September 2006, the youtube video is from February 2006 (and presumably, the implementation should have been around for much longer)
I remember the scene where Alia practices with spinning flying knives things and then takes her clothes off to talk to her brother. Whereas the book version made sense (she was taking a bath, became frustrated and restless, and decided to do some practice), when interpreted like it was in the movie, it was completely gratuitous and nonsensical.
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So now Valve is trying to involve /. in their ARG?
Dicks are sometimes hired on purpose, sometimes by accident. You hire a lawyer because you are clueless on law, and this should be a lesson in not being such a sucker in life. It's the subsequent action that the CEO took on realizing his mistakes that damn him, not his earlier actions. The desire to hide the suit from public scrutiny, the lack of any apology, that stuff.
And you wonder why they were pissed? Lots of money was spent on making food that didn't mess up the works in a zero-g environment, you know.
So how did it turn out at those other firms?
And in any case it's hopeful they get their IP back. Cuz it's important, right?
Call me a conspiracy theorist but I think they're sabotaging the quality of DVD to make the BR stand out even more. Certainly they do that for those comparison videos I see at the shops - the ones where they split the screen in order to show DVD on one side and BR on the other. And they probably did do it earlier to promote DVD sales over VCD - in my region VCDs are still popular, and sell for half the price of DVDs
It runs _slow_. Gets to the point where many people I know purposely choose to do a shutdown w/o updates rather than "install updates and shut down".
And accuse school officials of pedophilia. This will be fun...
Well the joke's on them, I was trying to torrent Rick Astley!
with the full backing and support of the president. Why are we even talking about this?
oblig PA
Mod up. The reason you got your windows cheap from Dell is because they willingly took on the support contract for all issues with windows. So even when Microsoft screws up, Dell is the one that has to fix your problem.
It's bad news for Microsoft at so many levels -
1. it's a 17-year-old bug
2. The disclosure and proof-of-concept attack was done by Google, clearly not Microsoft's best friend
3. Microsoft was forced to release a patch that is not fully tested
4. The cure is worse than the illness
5. Lots of windows users find out they have been compromised for how long? Nobody really knows!
6. The only remedy now is to restore your computer to it's previous state, which means you carry on using your computer in it's compromised state
Given your nick I'd be a bit worried there.
So 20% of your customers try to screw with you. Check around, you'll find that to be true in most industries. And guess what, it's very likely they'll try to screw you anyway, even when you deliver as promised.
Assuming you're the same a.c. as the gp, what you are saying is that it's microsoft trying to screw people out of money for... software that they are currently using and didn't pay for. I fail to see what is the problem here. Computers from any OEM should come with installation CDs, which don't require validation thanks to the machine certificates that are already pre-validated. They come with stickers on their boxes so that you can install even from a CD of another OEM - yes, you don't even need the CD from the same company, but this one you'll have to activate either on the internet or over the phone. It's not really hard to prove that a person didn't buy the version of Windows that they are using you know.
Machines? Who needs machines?
"For while we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last." - JFK. Solving the national debt issue may be important, but so is securing the future. In any case, if you were serious about ending debt then you should be looking at the war expenses first anyway - it is several orders of magnitude higher than anything else you are spending money on.
“Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.” - George Bernard Shaw, a notable atheist btw.
So what you're saying is, instead of dying from something in a Bruce Willis movie changing my altitude, I could be dying from something in a James Bond movie changing my altitude?
on all versions of windows, %userprofile% will get you to your home directory - even if you didn't install your windows on C:, have multiple versions installed on the same partition, or tried to obscure stuff in any way.
But keeping your shit where your shit ought to be is a key best practice - you can't reasonably expect to change that now. Imagine if programmers were to throw their files all over the system directories and requiring all kinds of administrator privileges to run. Now imagine users needing the same rights just to get to their files.
again, my bad - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89sz8ExZndc
i was using my work connection, which bans youtube.
Can someone with an idea comment on this? It's clear - the patent does seem to cover this gesture, but it's also clear that prior art is trivial to locate. The patent was filed in September 2006, the youtube video is from February 2006 (and presumably, the implementation should have been around for much longer)
I remember the scene where Alia practices with spinning flying knives things and then takes her clothes off to talk to her brother. Whereas the book version made sense (she was taking a bath, became frustrated and restless, and decided to do some practice), when interpreted like it was in the movie, it was completely gratuitous and nonsensical.