Ie? Spyglass. Let others innovate, and just sell their hard work as yours. Kaching$$
except that they don't "sell" it, because it's bundled freely. part of the agreement with Spyglass was that Spyglass would get some percentage of the profits from selling IE, little did they know it'd be a percentage of 0 (more infoz)
this is the part where we find out the hard way that some hackers have bought mlt.edu isn't it?
seriously, a month from now we're going to find out that this was really some sort of security study to determine the true power of the herd mentality on Slashdot
I have had discussions with Theo about trying to get my current employer (at the time) to open up documentation so OpenBSD could write drivers for our hardware. Lets just say I failed (Sorry Theo - I really tried, to the point that my annual raise was affected by it). However I found Theo to be very supportive and personally agreeable to me - I assume he realized I was trying to help and doing the best I could.
a nice guy is someone who's nice even when you don't have something that they want, an asshole can certainly act nice if it profits him. it doesn't sound like your experience was one where an asshole and a nice guy would necessarily give a different impression, i'm sure that BSD would have benefitted from having your hardware opened
i think the short/long wait thing has more to do with how many people have it near the top of their list than "where i am in line", because in order to have a line like you're proposing they'd either have to not send you an alternate movie while you wait for that one to be ready or they'd have to hold the ones that they get back until some indeterminate future date when the next person in line returns what he's watching now. i think the actual method is some combination of the two. i've seen my delivery wait a day when i'm waiting on a "short wait" movie, rather than sending me an alternate immediately.
the window that they give you into their queue is so small that it's pretty difficult to do anything but guess at what's going on. it's not that surprising that conspiracy theories would spring up to try to explain the parts that you can only guess at.
i'm curious when you put things in your queue and if this is always happening or just occasionally and it's standing out in your mind anyway. my luck has been pretty decent with getting first-run movies, but i quite often queue them when they first come out in the theater and i return several movies in the morning Monday (the distribution center is a 1-day mailing away) so that they're ready to send me one on Tuesday when the new releases are there. still, it's neither 0% or 100% but it seems like a fair rate and i'm a regular-to-heavy user watching 4 or 5 movies a week on the 3-movie plan for 14 months now.
they clearly cannot have enough copies on-hand to have one for everyone on the day that it releases (the Blockbuster store can do this because of special deals with the movie companies), and i think i remember reading a statement from them that they try to evenly distribute first-runs. maybe you're having a different experience, but i know that i'm getting a much better deal than Blockbuster was giving me previously and probably better than any other legal alternative.
i'm sticking with Netflix because of the dramatic change that they caused in the market for rentals. clearly Netflix wouldn't be offering these prices if there wasn't a Blockbuster, but if Blockbuster can sink (or buy) Netflix it will surely be back to $4 "3 night rentals" that are really 2 nights and the following morning. if Blockbuster were a far better deal, i'd switch back to them (i used to have the in-store unlimited offer, but i watched everything worthwhile in the entire store), but while it's as close as this i'm going to stick with the one that created this price competition.
it wasn't so tough once you realized that you could run from one base to the next faster than they can make a throw between two bases, so you could extend any single to be an inside-the-park homerun.
the thing that struck me most about this recreation is how deadeningly slow they had to go, with huge pauses between pitches to simulate the real thing. maybe that's why real baseball is so excruciating to watch
that's why they're so successful really, myspace lets you see a million websites that look absolutely awful and make you feel better than those million people that made them. youtube lets you look at the video that some kid made of himself rapping, to let you feel a million times cooler than that kid. people like to have their own feelings of superiority fulfilled, that's your key to success in web 2.0.
hell, even wikipedia is appealing to that on two levels: mod powers let megalomaniacs blow away articles created by other people that don't meet their standards, editing powers let the brainiac types attempt to show off their deeper knowledge of some useless subject
Considering that Windows firewall today is a simple matter of clicking yes/no on a popup dialog. Go into Windows XP SP2 with firewall turned on, open ftp and connect to a site. Instantly a message pops up along the lines of "You are attempting to make an outgoing connection on Port 21, by application FTP. Would you like to allow outgoing communications on this yes? Yes/Once/No/Never"
for the complete picture, here's what happens if you're not logged in as admin. "connection failed". look at your modem to make sure that lights look ok, try again: "connection failed". refresh your browser and click around a few places to make sure that you can hit websites, try again: "connection failed". switch user to login as admin, open firewall settings manually, and your app will be on the list of apps for which you can turn off firewall blocking: "connection complete"
i think the point to be looking at is when you do make a mistake in either vehicle, in which vehicle does the mistake cause the most injury? they don't call them donor-cycles in the ER for nothing
all that adds up to safety for you, but what about for the hundreds of children that are running in front of your car in their attempt to buy ice cream from you
And a security breach by physical access to a machine is often much more easy and timely to detect than a physical access to the written down password. Stick-It notes don't log access, as far as I remember;)
the solution is simple! cover your desk in a sea of Post-It notes containing various usernames and passwords, make some of the usernames be accounts with no real password listed on the desk, and check those accounts regularly for attempted logins. it's like personal steganography. if it's too hard to remember which notes have the right passwords, you can write down a reminder for yourself on another Post-It that you stick under your desk
Yeah, I had a feeling someone would come along and score a few mod points with that angle... but still... there is a difference.
Each of those crimes you outline is separate, would be charged as separate, and you'd be convicted and punished for each of them "separately". (even if all in one trial).
The difference here is that the ToS is one "contract". Violating one term or all of them or doing it x50 has exactly the same net effect -- you trigger their reaction to cancel and ban your account(s) when they catch you, that's it. Once you've broken it you've pretty much exposed yourself to the maximum penalty. Breaking a few more of them doesn't really change anything.
Better analagies would be is if you are already going 5 over the limit... why not 7 over? or 10? (But there is a limit... at 150 over, you're breaking new laws, with higher consequences.)
i look at it as a Letter of the Law vs Spirit of the Law issue. there's a speed limit because we need something in stone so that a policeman can pull over someone for driving like an idiot. 5 miles an hour over, 7 miles an hour over, and 150 over all violate the letter of that law. 5 miles an hour over may not violate the spirit of the law, because if you're in control and the people around you aren't put in a situation by your speed that they can't handle than it's "ok". 150 over, violates both the spirit and letter of the law, and probably the warranty on your engine.
the OP was originally posting about using a second eBay account to overcome the fact that the seller of an item can hold the buyer hostage in order to get dishonest feedback. you analogized that to using two accounts to give feedback to yourself. both those actions violate the letter of the law that says you can't have two accounts, but clearly the spirit of the law is not to prevent people from giving honest feedback.
my analogy of taking speeding as a gateway to drunken driving and random shootings was an exagerration, but i think yours was also
i thought pretty much the same thing to myself when i was driving home last night at 5 over the speed limit. so i cracked open a beer, and did some drive-by shootings near the local elementary school. i mean, c'mon, i was already speeding.
And since kids (and adults) do spend massive ammounts of time playing WoW (and taking drugs, and...), due to your statement we must assume that something is wrong and the parents are not able to fix it without help, so what's the solution?
maybe they don't want to fix it. or maybe the issue isn't that they are unable to do the job of parenting, but that they don't even know what the job of parenting involves. i'm not sure that there is a fix for this, unqualified and/or uncaring people having kids is always going to happen.
"Play games while encoding music or scanning for viruses"
Even as a desktop replacement that's just not sensible. Unless you're playing games from 1998 you're still going to need every teeny little bit of power that thing has, and you'd still be alt-tabbing out of games to check the other tasks, which will do nothing for them.
my World of Warcraft machine is a Media Center PC, so i'm quite often doing a WoW raid in Molten Core while running TeamSpeak in the background, recording some TV show or another, and sometimes watching a previously recorded show in the Windows Media Player (ok, i admit it, but keep this hush-hush from my guildleader).
WoW, for one, does not require every single bit of power from my PC (a single-core 3.4GHz P4), runs in windowed mode, and works sensibly on a machine with two monitors (ok, i get the occasional graphics glitch when also watching something in WMP). with a nice dual core, i could more safely do a task like ripping DVR-MS files to MP4 for archiving while i was playing, it's really compute-bound processes like that where i get the most interference with my gameplay. Norton used to interfere spectacularly on my old machine that had slower harddrives and no RAID, so it can be a pest but you're right that single-vs.-dual core has little to do with it
no true country fan would be anti-DRM, the genre is just bursting with odes to DRM. check out this short list:
(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Stole My Cellphone Ring Song - BJ Thomas
(Pay Me Royalty Fees) Forever and Ever Amen - Randy Travis
Your Downloadin' Heart - Patsy Cline
Stand By Your DRM - Tammy Wynette
If My Heart Only Ran On Windows - George Jones
I Paid for All the Music I've Loved Before - Willie Nelson
Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Haxxorz - Willie Nelson
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so when the time comes, what's going to be your indicator that Netcraft is dead?
this is the part where we find out the hard way that some hackers have bought mlt.edu isn't it?
seriously, a month from now we're going to find out that this was really some sort of security study to determine the true power of the herd mentality on Slashdot
i think the short/long wait thing has more to do with how many people have it near the top of their list than "where i am in line", because in order to have a line like you're proposing they'd either have to not send you an alternate movie while you wait for that one to be ready or they'd have to hold the ones that they get back until some indeterminate future date when the next person in line returns what he's watching now. i think the actual method is some combination of the two. i've seen my delivery wait a day when i'm waiting on a "short wait" movie, rather than sending me an alternate immediately.
the window that they give you into their queue is so small that it's pretty difficult to do anything but guess at what's going on. it's not that surprising that conspiracy theories would spring up to try to explain the parts that you can only guess at.
some more possible applications :
6. burn the heck out of ants on the sidewalk
7. further exploration of the stress points for Peeps
8. the production of tray after tray of wonderful chocolate brownies, in a fraction of the time that it takes to make them in an easy-bake oven
i'm curious when you put things in your queue and if this is always happening or just occasionally and it's standing out in your mind anyway. my luck has been pretty decent with getting first-run movies, but i quite often queue them when they first come out in the theater and i return several movies in the morning Monday (the distribution center is a 1-day mailing away) so that they're ready to send me one on Tuesday when the new releases are there. still, it's neither 0% or 100% but it seems like a fair rate and i'm a regular-to-heavy user watching 4 or 5 movies a week on the 3-movie plan for 14 months now.
they clearly cannot have enough copies on-hand to have one for everyone on the day that it releases (the Blockbuster store can do this because of special deals with the movie companies), and i think i remember reading a statement from them that they try to evenly distribute first-runs. maybe you're having a different experience, but i know that i'm getting a much better deal than Blockbuster was giving me previously and probably better than any other legal alternative.
i'm sticking with Netflix because of the dramatic change that they caused in the market for rentals. clearly Netflix wouldn't be offering these prices if there wasn't a Blockbuster, but if Blockbuster can sink (or buy) Netflix it will surely be back to $4 "3 night rentals" that are really 2 nights and the following morning. if Blockbuster were a far better deal, i'd switch back to them (i used to have the in-store unlimited offer, but i watched everything worthwhile in the entire store), but while it's as close as this i'm going to stick with the one that created this price competition.
it wasn't so tough once you realized that you could run from one base to the next faster than they can make a throw between two bases, so you could extend any single to be an inside-the-park homerun.
the thing that struck me most about this recreation is how deadeningly slow they had to go, with huge pauses between pitches to simulate the real thing. maybe that's why real baseball is so excruciating to watch
hell, even wikipedia is appealing to that on two levels: mod powers let megalomaniacs blow away articles created by other people that don't meet their standards, editing powers let the brainiac types attempt to show off their deeper knowledge of some useless subject
they just invented the perfect tool for the programmer with Cheeto-hands, and now you get on a soap box about junk food?
oh, don't worry, those are next
i think the point to be looking at is when you do make a mistake in either vehicle, in which vehicle does the mistake cause the most injury? they don't call them donor-cycles in the ER for nothing
all that adds up to safety for you, but what about for the hundreds of children that are running in front of your car in their attempt to buy ice cream from you
p.s. this research was brought to you by 3M
they could use the voice modulator from WarGames, but that might encourage people to have their own PCs rooted
the OP was originally posting about using a second eBay account to overcome the fact that the seller of an item can hold the buyer hostage in order to get dishonest feedback. you analogized that to using two accounts to give feedback to yourself. both those actions violate the letter of the law that says you can't have two accounts, but clearly the spirit of the law is not to prevent people from giving honest feedback.
my analogy of taking speeding as a gateway to drunken driving and random shootings was an exagerration, but i think yours was also
WoW, for one, does not require every single bit of power from my PC (a single-core 3.4GHz P4), runs in windowed mode, and works sensibly on a machine with two monitors (ok, i get the occasional graphics glitch when also watching something in WMP). with a nice dual core, i could more safely do a task like ripping DVR-MS files to MP4 for archiving while i was playing, it's really compute-bound processes like that where i get the most interference with my gameplay. Norton used to interfere spectacularly on my old machine that had slower harddrives and no RAID, so it can be a pest but you're right that single-vs.-dual core has little to do with it
no true country fan would be anti-DRM, the genre is just bursting with odes to DRM. check out this short list :
(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Stole My Cellphone Ring Song - BJ Thomas
(Pay Me Royalty Fees) Forever and Ever Amen - Randy Travis
Your Downloadin' Heart - Patsy Cline
Stand By Your DRM - Tammy Wynette
If My Heart Only Ran On Windows - George Jones
I Paid for All the Music I've Loved Before - Willie Nelson
Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Haxxorz - Willie Nelson