Honestly, last time I saw, Sasktel has their router's defaulted to WEP, for compatibility reasons (a certain videogame console manufacturer whose name starts with N apparently hasn't figured this whole wireless security thing out yet), so we don't have every Tom, Dick, Harry, and Jane calling in demanding to know why their stuff won't work with the wireless.
I have doubts as to the importance of the "the batteries are gonna wear out" problem, being as Toyota is giving people a 10 year warranty on the batteries.
Also, this is an old story guys. Come on. You don't remember the one about Sony and an exploding battery recall? Get it together, people!
No, this is a separate defect from the other exploding batteries problem. IIRC, the exploding batteries was caused a short in the battery itself. This is a short somewhere else.
This would make me strongly consider not buying anything Sony if I wasn't already boycotting them for general wankery (rootkit, membership in various undesired groups, etc.) and the fact they seem to have fired their entire QA department.
Legalese is only English in either a vague or a technical sense. If laws and contracts were written in common English, we wouldn't need lawyers to interpret/write them.
Expecting the average person to fully understand legalese is like expecting a python hotshot to correctly maintain a monstrosity written in raw x86 assembler.
Exactly. Searching my real name returns about 58k results on google. The first 2 are about me (it's my firefox addons account), but I can't find any others that are actually about me (there's apparently a resort somewhere in Mexico with my name on it, which hurls a lot of noise into the results.).
Whereas I have about 3 online aliases I go by and 2 of which are strictly online (this one for instance).
It's only entrapment if it's the government doing it. I think there is a similar defense in civil court, though damned if I can remember what it's called.
As others above have stated, it pretty comes out to a quality vs. quantity matter. The man has a fixed amount of resources (where resources could be food, shelter, social status, money, etc.), so it becomes a matter of "have lots of kids with lots of mothers, and hope that by sheer probability that at least some of them will survive to reproduce" or "have a few kids with one mother and concentrate my resources on those few, virtual guaranteeing they will survive to reproduce.".
Which of those will be most advantageous (will result in more children surviving to reproduce) varies on the resources available and other externalities, which would explain why neither has "won out".
Several of the rules have a reasonable basis (pigs and the occasional intestinal parasites that occasionally find their way into the meat (supposedly bloody rare now, but prior to modern), or not cutting meat and vegetables with the same knife), so that suggests to me it went "people got sick/died after doing this, so god must not want us to do that" or "...i'll tell people god said not to do that, so that'll protect them".
That's difficult to say, as the incubation period is really, really long in humans (30+ years), so identifying a human outbreak really makes for a serious horse-gone-shut-the-door situation, hence the test-everything reaction by most of the rest of the world.
But, if someone buys a complete game on a media, that should be their copy.
In that case, they should not attempt to prevent me from making (a) legitimate and functional backup copy(s).
Data or product. Pick one.
1. I do. And you seem to be oblivious to the fact that requirements aren't everything. I've had a few games simply not work, at all. They would simply restart the computer when you tried to start them (not a BSOD, no error at all. just kicks it over), i suspect a conflict with something (firewall, antivirus, and pretty much everything else ruled out) and whatever "protection" they put in. Also, see #5.
2. Sure for multiplayer online games, but this directly points to 9 in regards to single-player games.
for POTS, you've got power effectively indefinitely. I worked for a term at the local telco (Sasktel) and the backup power set up is fairly impressive. The batteries alone will run the entire phone infrastructure for 24 hours at maximum load (that is, practically everyone in the city using the phones, to the limit of exchange equipment.), and to shore that up, a diesel generator the size of my car with roughly 2 weeks worth of fuel (if you can't get more fuel by then, things are REALLY fucked up and residential phone service is likely not a matter of high importance.)
Truthfully...how many of you actually suck down 250GB per month?
I certainly don't (My bandwidth meter says just over 258GB for the last 6 months), but share that among a family of 4+ and things would get considerably tighter.
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Honestly, last time I saw, Sasktel has their router's defaulted to WEP, for compatibility reasons (a certain videogame console manufacturer whose name starts with N apparently hasn't figured this whole wireless security thing out yet), so we don't have every Tom, Dick, Harry, and Jane calling in demanding to know why their stuff won't work with the wireless.
Diesel is cheaper here. Gas is sitting at 138.9 and diesel is at 130.9 (cents per litre. $5.25 and $4.94 per US gallon respectively)
I have doubts as to the importance of the "the batteries are gonna wear out" problem, being as Toyota is giving people a 10 year warranty on the batteries.
You greatly overestimate the accuracy of WGA and associated measures. It gives plenty of false positives, and nearly as many false negatives.
Development is not the problem. The issue is deployment.
Also, this is an old story guys. Come on. You don't remember the one about Sony and an exploding battery recall? Get it together, people!
No, this is a separate defect from the other exploding batteries problem. IIRC, the exploding batteries was caused a short in the battery itself. This is a short somewhere else.
This would make me strongly consider not buying anything Sony if I wasn't already boycotting them for general wankery (rootkit, membership in various undesired groups, etc.) and the fact they seem to have fired their entire QA department.
Legalese is only English in either a vague or a technical sense. If laws and contracts were written in common English, we wouldn't need lawyers to interpret/write them.
Expecting the average person to fully understand legalese is like expecting a python hotshot to correctly maintain a monstrosity written in raw x86 assembler.
Exactly. Searching my real name returns about 58k results on google. The first 2 are about me (it's my firefox addons account), but I can't find any others that are actually about me (there's apparently a resort somewhere in Mexico with my name on it, which hurls a lot of noise into the results.).
Whereas I have about 3 online aliases I go by and 2 of which are strictly online (this one for instance).
Don't worry. There are plenty of designers who aren't.
Do you happen to have a statute or case to cite for that?
It's only entrapment if it's the government doing it. I think there is a similar defense in civil court, though damned if I can remember what it's called.
As others above have stated, it pretty comes out to a quality vs. quantity matter. The man has a fixed amount of resources (where resources could be food, shelter, social status, money, etc.), so it becomes a matter of "have lots of kids with lots of mothers, and hope that by sheer probability that at least some of them will survive to reproduce" or "have a few kids with one mother and concentrate my resources on those few, virtual guaranteeing they will survive to reproduce.".
Which of those will be most advantageous (will result in more children surviving to reproduce) varies on the resources available and other externalities, which would explain why neither has "won out".
Several of the rules have a reasonable basis (pigs and the occasional intestinal parasites that occasionally find their way into the meat (supposedly bloody rare now, but prior to modern), or not cutting meat and vegetables with the same knife), so that suggests to me it went "people got sick/died after doing this, so god must not want us to do that" or "...i'll tell people god said not to do that, so that'll protect them".
Likely several years from showing symptoms. CJD has an very long (30+ years) incubation period in humans.
That's difficult to say, as the incubation period is really, really long in humans (30+ years), so identifying a human outbreak really makes for a serious horse-gone-shut-the-door situation, hence the test-everything reaction by most of the rest of the world.
Pork won't, but it occasionally contains other nastiness, presumably the reasoning why pork isn't kosher.
But, if someone buys a complete game on a media, that should be their copy.
In that case, they should not attempt to prevent me from making (a) legitimate and functional backup copy(s).
Data or product. Pick one.
1. I do. And you seem to be oblivious to the fact that requirements aren't everything. I've had a few games simply not work, at all. They would simply restart the computer when you tried to start them (not a BSOD, no error at all. just kicks it over), i suspect a conflict with something (firewall, antivirus, and pretty much everything else ruled out) and whatever "protection" they put in. Also, see #5.
2. Sure for multiplayer online games, but this directly points to 9 in regards to single-player games.
What is the point of a boycott if you don't make it completely and publicly plain why you are boycotting?
for POTS, you've got power effectively indefinitely. I worked for a term at the local telco (Sasktel) and the backup power set up is fairly impressive. The batteries alone will run the entire phone infrastructure for 24 hours at maximum load (that is, practically everyone in the city using the phones, to the limit of exchange equipment.), and to shore that up, a diesel generator the size of my car with roughly 2 weeks worth of fuel (if you can't get more fuel by then, things are REALLY fucked up and residential phone service is likely not a matter of high importance.)
AFAICT, not significantly. The variance here is a good bit smaller than the margin of error in those methods.
No, I got it, but the LGA guys quote a $999 site-license fee or a $99 single-machine fee.
Truthfully...how many of you actually suck down 250GB per month?
I certainly don't (My bandwidth meter says just over 258GB for the last 6 months), but share that among a family of 4+ and things would get considerably tighter.
Actually, it's a $999 licensing fee. Or just $99 for a single system.
You can have it if you want.
And then traded photographs of them.