I swear they act like little kids demanding a do over, and you know what i think? I think there is a little voice inside their head telling them they paid too much money
I'm reminded a bit of the console wars and more specifically Yahtzee Croshaw's Mailbag Showdown, particularly after the 3:00 mark.
I'm torn.
We *SHOULD* support them for selling hardware where you can install whatever software you like.
IMHO that's far more important than whatever bad decsisions they make with the bundled software.
Problem is, that risks getting into a debate about how nice the flower they shove up your ass has to be rather than stating you don't want ANYTHING shoved up there. Compromise is nice, how much can one compromise with a surprise firmware update hijack plus EULA addition that reserves the right to spy on everything you do?
I'm more concerned with someone in politics saying that without realizing what it's saying about themselves. It's not just that idiocy and signing things without reading them is widespread, it's that it's so pervasive that they don't even realize it's a problem.
A madman who knows he's not normal might at least be receptive to help. A madman who thinks he's an average joe who's "being picked on" isn't ever going to change.
Did you disable hibernation (assuming you don't use it)? Frees up some space used by hiberfil.sys. On a system with a lot of RAM, hiberfil.sys can eat up a decent slice of an SSD.
The triominoes will be boring, the pentominoes will be very, very hard.
And how: http://www.cathelius.co.uk/flash/pentrix I gather the author had to add the 'settling' mechanic because otherwise it was as friendly as one of those statistically-worst piece Tetris games.
Here's a thought.... What if you made a game where you could choose an upper and lower bound on the piece size? Set it to 4 and 4 and you have Tetris, but set it to, say 3 and 5 and you'd have a mix of tri-, tetr-, and pentominoes. Is it still infringing if the config options can be tweaked to mimic Tetris?
Cory Doctorow had it right. They want computers to be appliances like toasters or TVs, that you can do ONE approved thing with. The War on General Computation
I personally didn't feel like "figuring it out" across three different platforms for something I only used about twice a month.
Honestly, if I'm listening to an interview or a standup routine from Youtube, I don't NEED the video of someone talking. And if I'm anywhere where bandwidth is limited or just plain sucks, I appreciate having an MP3 converter two clicks away that doesn't require me to horse the video across a line that's struggling to stay above dialup levels.
Is this gonna be another Wintel thing? Because I can't think of a good portmanteau. Gooola? Motogle? Androla? Mandroid? Motoroid? (Wow, that last one sounds horrific.)
Think about this anecdote: kids are on a school trip (at least, that's how I remember it). Their professors don't want them to leave their rooms during the night, so they put small pieces of tape on the door of the kids' rooms. This way, they think it'll be easy to spot the rooms whose door has been opened, the next morning. One night, some clever kids get out of their room and, to cover up their tracks, instead of attempting to repair the tape on their own door, open everybody else's door.
As a metaphor for a person in power so busy looking for threats internally (students leaving rooms) that they leave themselves wide open to external threats (all the bedroom doors are unlocked for easy access to sleeping children), it's great.
I don't know, vote the wrong party in and homosexuality might be illegal again. And then the logs of anyone who visited certain websites in the past 5 years will become very useful....
Are you by chance insinuating that the government isn't made up of perfect beings? That's preposterous! No government in history has ever done anything that could be deemed as wrong by anyone!
More than preposterous, it's treasonous. And the archives show he once visited a site often frequented by subversives. I think we have a terrorist sleeper agent on our hands.
I always figured, from what little work with retail stores I have done, that most such things went back and got processed by them rather than at the POS.
Depends on the size of the reseller. AFAIK:
Huge (Walmart-sized): Things go back or are thrown out and reported to the company as defective and destroyed.
Big (national or large regional chains): Goes back or is resold as open-box.
Small (less than 10 stores, say): Can't go back, ever. The mfgrs and suppliers won't take ANYTHING back unless it's verified as failed and not physically damaged. Hell, even then the DOA period is sometimes as short as a week. (After that it's a normal warranty claim, 2-12 weeks to process depending on supplier.) Everything non-defective returned is sold open-box unless it's a shifty outfit that counts on the user not knowing what's in the box.
I think that Microsoft should just go full intended awkward and hire Tim & Eric.
Then people will just start bashing them for repeatedly hiring comedians who haven't done anything funny in years (or ever) to make commercials that aren't funny.
Just what I was thinking. You'd think the compromise would be more like someone has to go over the images of a "sensitive facility" by hand to make sure there's no faces left visible, not a giant flag screaming THIS IS PROBABLY A SHELTER! If there's any doubt, well, most of the other blurred facilities (Google Translate sez: schools, hospitals, retirement nursing homes, shelters, courts and prisons) publicly advertise the fact, so it shouldn't be hard to type the address of the suspicious place into... well, Google, and see if it comes up or not. Hell, if local Streetview is any reference, then the non-shelters will all have a nice little arrow-thing on the screen or on the inset overhead map saying what it is!
I have on occasion. Some people are suited to it and others not. But these girls would have a far easier time them some. I am sure they do not get many angry yelling people like the rest of the world's customer service people.
No, instead of angry people who they can't tell to fuck off they just get pervy people who they can't tell to fuck off. It's not really an improvement.
- your searches will be read, this is the opposite of what you want to achieve
If he does nothing, the cops will get to read them anyway. This makes it not worth their while to do it. Protesters garner attention from the police all the time. Does that mean one should not protest?
- you may stop the police from catching real terrorists by making such a stupid thing
Not sure if trolling or diving face first into the Kool-Aid.
They work 8 hour days, with 1/3 of the time being BREAK TIME.
Citation needed. And even if it was, try spending 5 hours 20 minutes smiling in a way that doesn't look fake. While standing, in heels.
It's not the worst job on the planet, sure, but the "you shouldn't be allowed to complain because children are starving in Africa" argument is a load of bull. Someone asked them how they felt about the job and they told the guy. They're more entitled to bitch than 99% of the bloggers out there.
And when they are working all they have to do is stand and smile, and they think they have it hard and that they are doing real work.
Spoken like someone who doesn't work with the public.
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I swear they act like little kids demanding a do over, and you know what i think? I think there is a little voice inside their head telling them they paid too much money
I'm reminded a bit of the console wars and more specifically Yahtzee Croshaw's Mailbag Showdown, particularly after the 3:00 mark.
Problem is, that risks getting into a debate about how nice the flower they shove up your ass has to be rather than stating you don't want ANYTHING shoved up there. Compromise is nice, how much can one compromise with a surprise firmware update hijack plus EULA addition that reserves the right to spy on everything you do?
Yes, this line of thought hasn't caused ANY problems recently in regards to audio or video recordings.
Hey, that SWAT team was protecting our freedom from message board assholes! Open routers are terrorism!
Thus they have simply resorted to attacking peer to peer itself.
It's worse than that. These could be the first salvos in a war on general-purpose computing.
A madman who knows he's not normal might at least be receptive to help. A madman who thinks he's an average joe who's "being picked on" isn't ever going to change.
Did you disable hibernation (assuming you don't use it)? Frees up some space used by hiberfil.sys. On a system with a lot of RAM, hiberfil.sys can eat up a decent slice of an SSD.
The triominoes will be boring, the pentominoes will be very, very hard.
And how: http://www.cathelius.co.uk/flash/pentrix I gather the author had to add the 'settling' mechanic because otherwise it was as friendly as one of those statistically-worst piece Tetris games.
Here's a thought.... What if you made a game where you could choose an upper and lower bound on the piece size? Set it to 4 and 4 and you have Tetris, but set it to, say 3 and 5 and you'd have a mix of tri-, tetr-, and pentominoes. Is it still infringing if the config options can be tweaked to mimic Tetris?
Cory Doctorow had it right. They want computers to be appliances like toasters or TVs, that you can do ONE approved thing with. The War on General Computation
Give it up, Google - If I can see (or hear) it, I already have a copy. I thought you understood that better than the Big Media morons.
Google: Big. Youtube: Media.
Are you sure that Google isn't Big Media?
I personally didn't feel like "figuring it out" across three different platforms for something I only used about twice a month.
Honestly, if I'm listening to an interview or a standup routine from Youtube, I don't NEED the video of someone talking. And if I'm anywhere where bandwidth is limited or just plain sucks, I appreciate having an MP3 converter two clicks away that doesn't require me to horse the video across a line that's struggling to stay above dialup levels.
Makes me think of motorized hemorrhoids, for some reason. Which seems like it would be incredibly painful.
Is this gonna be another Wintel thing? Because I can't think of a good portmanteau. Gooola? Motogle? Androla? Mandroid? Motoroid? (Wow, that last one sounds horrific.)
I knew it! Theater managers are one-eyed pirates with wooden legs!
Some of the people in the industry already act like Scooby-Doo villains, might as well look the part.
Dunno, I've seen some abstinence only sex-ed that claims that's already happened.
Though they didn't call it "evolution". They hinted at really SMART ninja/MacGyver sperm
Think about this anecdote: kids are on a school trip (at least, that's how I remember it). Their professors don't want them to leave their rooms during the night, so they put small pieces of tape on the door of the kids' rooms. This way, they think it'll be easy to spot the rooms whose door has been opened, the next morning. One night, some clever kids get out of their room and, to cover up their tracks, instead of attempting to repair the tape on their own door, open everybody else's door.
As a metaphor for a person in power so busy looking for threats internally (students leaving rooms) that they leave themselves wide open to external threats (all the bedroom doors are unlocked for easy access to sleeping children), it's great.
I don't know, vote the wrong party in and homosexuality might be illegal again. And then the logs of anyone who visited certain websites in the past 5 years will become very useful....
Are you by chance insinuating that the government isn't made up of perfect beings? That's preposterous! No government in history has ever done anything that could be deemed as wrong by anyone!
More than preposterous, it's treasonous. And the archives show he once visited a site often frequented by subversives. I think we have a terrorist sleeper agent on our hands.
I always figured, from what little work with retail stores I have done, that most such things went back and got processed by them rather than at the POS.
Depends on the size of the reseller. AFAIK:
Huge (Walmart-sized): Things go back or are thrown out and reported to the company as defective and destroyed.
Big (national or large regional chains): Goes back or is resold as open-box.
Small (less than 10 stores, say): Can't go back, ever. The mfgrs and suppliers won't take ANYTHING back unless it's verified as failed and not physically damaged. Hell, even then the DOA period is sometimes as short as a week. (After that it's a normal warranty claim, 2-12 weeks to process depending on supplier.) Everything non-defective returned is sold open-box unless it's a shifty outfit that counts on the user not knowing what's in the box.
I think that Microsoft should just go full intended awkward and hire Tim & Eric.
Then people will just start bashing them for repeatedly hiring comedians who haven't done anything funny in years (or ever) to make commercials that aren't funny.
Thank you for saying exactly what I was thinking, before I could fully articulate it.
Just what I was thinking. You'd think the compromise would be more like someone has to go over the images of a "sensitive facility" by hand to make sure there's no faces left visible, not a giant flag screaming THIS IS PROBABLY A SHELTER! If there's any doubt, well, most of the other blurred facilities (Google Translate sez: schools, hospitals, retirement nursing homes, shelters, courts and prisons) publicly advertise the fact, so it shouldn't be hard to type the address of the suspicious place into... well, Google, and see if it comes up or not. Hell, if local Streetview is any reference, then the non-shelters will all have a nice little arrow-thing on the screen or on the inset overhead map saying what it is!
I have on occasion. Some people are suited to it and others not. But these girls would have a far easier time them some. I am sure they do not get many angry yelling people like the rest of the world's customer service people.
No, instead of angry people who they can't tell to fuck off they just get pervy people who they can't tell to fuck off. It's not really an improvement.
which is rather contraproductive:
The word is "counterproductive" and no it isn't.
- your searches will be read, this is the opposite of what you want to achieve
If he does nothing, the cops will get to read them anyway. This makes it not worth their while to do it. Protesters garner attention from the police all the time. Does that mean one should not protest?
- you may stop the police from catching real terrorists by making such a stupid thing
Not sure if trolling or diving face first into the Kool-Aid.
They work 8 hour days, with 1/3 of the time being BREAK TIME.
Citation needed. And even if it was, try spending 5 hours 20 minutes smiling in a way that doesn't look fake. While standing, in heels.
It's not the worst job on the planet, sure, but the "you shouldn't be allowed to complain because children are starving in Africa" argument is a load of bull. Someone asked them how they felt about the job and they told the guy. They're more entitled to bitch than 99% of the bloggers out there.
And when they are working all they have to do is stand and smile, and they think they have it hard and that they are doing real work.
Spoken like someone who doesn't work with the public.
I'm still disappointed that's not what this is about. Vader's already a giant put-together man with an unliving wife, he'd be PERFECT!