I to love how people have no problem with police videotaping you/preventing you from videotaping with an excuse of terrorism just to cover their asses while everyone panics over a google streetview of a public area.
considering that S-E wouldn't have to develop it, and someone else already did? Tons.
S-E could take 10 percent, and they'd still rake in a fortune. 10% profit off of something that costs you 0 as you didn't even have to develop it, is a pretty good profit. Even better than patents/copyright/trademarks.
very simple answer: it is not ad block, if it does not block ads.
I already mailed him of my first boycott. This proposal, if it goes through, will be the second mailing. I'm definitely not planning to go back to adblock with these two ideas.
The reason he's doing it is greed. This is a surefire sign that the addon is going downhill. Maybe if the guy didn't have the addonload his homepage every time you download an update, he wouldn't have crazy bandwidth costs, duh.
Really? What's the fraud, technically they might be able to say something about costing man-hours, but really the same 1 sek is going both ways. In fact if the money given out wasn't returned at the "accidental charge" request, they would very likely be legally obligated to return the money. Of course the catch is that I imagine there are ways for this to be done to TPB as well.
Some of them were avid watchers of the show, although I'm sure they weren't trekkies. Just simply nobody said as a movie by itself and/or in general, that it was good. I don't watch star trek in any fashion (no interest), so I don't care either way.
Maybe it's my personal experience, but every single person I have talked to has said it is not faithful in it's representation of star trek and was not worth viewing.
well that too. I hope you realized I was being sarcastic, and talking about what someone else replied to me below about (the whole WGA calls legit users pirates, and pirates don't get locked out)
eh, I like this part. " Williams gave the example of one piracy exploit that caused more than a million reported system crashes on machines running non-genuine Windows Vista before Microsoft was able to resolve it." versus the "WGA was broken and so only the people who had non-genuine copies were able to use Vista".
I've flown both domestic and internationally. The only time the engines are noticably loud is during take-off and landing. The rest of the time, not so much.
Oh not to mention, for security reasons (this was overseas from new york to israel) we made phonecalls mid-flight using those crap-phones. Plane is pretty quiet, really.
What would be wrong with having a designated calling area on a plane, similar to smoking areas?
People seem to have no problem doing this attempting to have a convo on a busy street (times square for example), whats the big deal other than people complaining as if they have some logical reasoning? Sure, you don't want to hear about someone's gonorrhea, I get that. People don't tend to scream at the top of their lungs in an airplane, plus it is pressurized to reduce the need to scream further.
If everyone has small chatter it actually creates a bit of a whitenoise effect = sleep.
Of course there isn't a lot wrong with vista. But that doesn't mean there's a lot right with it, nor does it mean that we have some motivation to jump to 7 now. What with the whole shareware equivalent if you use the RC for windows 7 for the whole trial period. Shut down after 2 hours?
geting faster from beta to release and/or not having any significant increase from vista to 7 = 2 things. 1: why would anyone from vista give a crap to switch, and 2: that it's basically vista. They're just trying to sell vista twice since it already failed once.
All of this is basically not compelling for the average user, meaning people won't have interest to buy this. It has been admitted in the past that 7 is built off of vista in the first place instead of starting from scratch and fixing stuff as they should have done.
Umm, what if someone decides that your blog is "severe" enough. Severe is a subjective word with no definition, which is exactly the problem with this. Severe is akin to "I don't like you, thus I find your content objectionable" and suddenly you committed a felony.
Slashdot headlines can be a bit over the top, but I wouldn't assume that any blog is magically not objectionable even if there are no swear words or hostile phrases.
Some folks will say that "oh, it's beta, its an excuse" up to and including release. Not saying you, but we all know how illogical some people can get.
I have high doubts that microsoft wants, intends, or will fix it at launch or even afterwards. They have every incentive to produce a broken version. It even fits in with embrace extend extinguish, as we're at the last phase of XP with that now. Really, 7 is all about forcing people into vista, as 7 is mostly Vista, redressed with fixes and features that people have been asking for the whole freakin time with Vista.
I'm not saying we couldn't use people migrating from XP, but giving them a broken solution is not the way to do it. virtualXP works, but MS's solution doesn't or I wouldn't have made my comment. Expect huge amounts of backlash as plenty of XP-based games among other things, will not run in 7. Gamers/enthusiasts are the first in the consumer crowd to pay to adopt new technologies so that needs to be put into perspective.
The thing is, even in beta, the virtual XP support is nothing short of horrible. It doesn't work.
7 by itself is decent, but people are going to be mighty pissed switching to something with false assurances that it will enable them to use XP dependent software.
What they are claiming is the startup price. Bluray wasn't.005/GB to start out. This holographic storage is like 20 years in the making I believe, and 500GB is less than half of the capability.
This would be quite the revolutionary step though, as you wouldn't really need the internet to fileshare, just bring a single unobtrusive disk.
Uh? What delicious offers is not SAS. SAS is closer to virtualization or cloud computing, all 3 are pretty much somewhat similar (and equally misunderstood) concepts. The difference is that SAS is like virtualization but you have no control over the host machine. The concept of "don't put all your eggs in one basket" is pretty much what cloud and SAS do. The host makes all the decisions, control, and you are forced to abide irregardless of all conditions. That would be called a horrible business and economic decision.
This would be akin to giving the keys to your car to your chaffeur. Sure, they might drive you everywhere, but if that car gets stolen, whose car is lost? If they choose a route different than your own, it's no longer your choice. Surely not the chaffeurs fault, as you give them the keys. In the case of this access/control can also be applied to the software. This is less ownership than renting something, merely for the purpose of lowering cost.
Those who give up all quality for efficiency/economy deserve neither.
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I to love how people have no problem with police videotaping you/preventing you from videotaping with an excuse of terrorism just to cover their asses while everyone panics over a google streetview of a public area.
How is that a change?
Sounds like the university of gothenberg should just go walk nibbler.
I swear, I've never heard of kubuntu before.
This of course, represents exactly what our government wants:
They seek a dictatorship, we seek freedom. People will always be at ends with the government that they are a part of if they are intelligent people.
considering that S-E wouldn't have to develop it, and someone else already did? Tons.
S-E could take 10 percent, and they'd still rake in a fortune. 10% profit off of something that costs you 0 as you didn't even have to develop it, is a pretty good profit. Even better than patents/copyright/trademarks.
very simple answer: it is not ad block, if it does not block ads.
I already mailed him of my first boycott. This proposal, if it goes through, will be the second mailing. I'm definitely not planning to go back to adblock with these two ideas.
The reason he's doing it is greed. This is a surefire sign that the addon is going downhill.
Maybe if the guy didn't have the addonload his homepage every time you download an update, he wouldn't have crazy bandwidth costs, duh.
Really? What's the fraud, technically they might be able to say something about costing man-hours, but really the same 1 sek is going both ways. In fact if the money given out wasn't returned at the "accidental charge" request, they would very likely be legally obligated to return the money. Of course the catch is that I imagine there are ways for this to be done to TPB as well.
Some of them were avid watchers of the show, although I'm sure they weren't trekkies. Just simply nobody said as a movie by itself and/or in general, that it was good. I don't watch star trek in any fashion (no interest), so I don't care either way.
I agree though, people can decide for themselves.
Hmm?
Maybe it's my personal experience, but every single person I have talked to has said it is not faithful in it's representation of star trek and was not worth viewing.
well that too. I hope you realized I was being sarcastic, and talking about what someone else replied to me below about (the whole WGA calls legit users pirates, and pirates don't get locked out)
eh, I like this part. " Williams gave the example of one piracy exploit that caused more than a million reported system crashes on machines running non-genuine Windows Vista before Microsoft was able to resolve it." versus the "WGA was broken and so only the people who had non-genuine copies were able to use Vista".
uh what?
I've flown both domestic and internationally. The only time the engines are noticably loud is during take-off and landing. The rest of the time, not so much.
Oh not to mention, for security reasons (this was overseas from new york to israel) we made phonecalls mid-flight using those crap-phones. Plane is pretty quiet, really.
What would be wrong with having a designated calling area on a plane, similar to smoking areas?
People seem to have no problem doing this attempting to have a convo on a busy street (times square for example), whats the big deal other than people complaining as if they have some logical reasoning? Sure, you don't want to hear about someone's gonorrhea, I get that. People don't tend to scream at the top of their lungs in an airplane, plus it is pressurized to reduce the need to scream further.
If everyone has small chatter it actually creates a bit of a whitenoise effect = sleep.
Of course there isn't a lot wrong with vista. But that doesn't mean there's a lot right with it, nor does it mean that we have some motivation to jump to 7 now. What with the whole shareware equivalent if you use the RC for windows 7 for the whole trial period. Shut down after 2 hours?
geting faster from beta to release and/or not having any significant increase from vista to 7 = 2 things. 1: why would anyone from vista give a crap to switch, and 2: that it's basically vista. They're just trying to sell vista twice since it already failed once.
All of this is basically not compelling for the average user, meaning people won't have interest to buy this. It has been admitted in the past that 7 is built off of vista in the first place instead of starting from scratch and fixing stuff as they should have done.
Umm, what if someone decides that your blog is "severe" enough. Severe is a subjective word with no definition, which is exactly the problem with this. Severe is akin to "I don't like you, thus I find your content objectionable" and suddenly you committed a felony.
Slashdot headlines can be a bit over the top, but I wouldn't assume that any blog is magically not objectionable even if there are no swear words or hostile phrases.
That's what grand theft auto/hot coffee is for.
I hope they are ready to go national, because they just made a plan that everyone around the country would love to have.
Any bets on if comcast/TWC/etc will raise the bar as a result (albeit unlikely)?
Some folks will say that "oh, it's beta, its an excuse" up to and including release. Not saying you, but we all know how illogical some people can get.
I have high doubts that microsoft wants, intends, or will fix it at launch or even afterwards. They have every incentive to produce a broken version. It even fits in with embrace extend extinguish, as we're at the last phase of XP with that now. Really, 7 is all about forcing people into vista, as 7 is mostly Vista, redressed with fixes and features that people have been asking for the whole freakin time with Vista.
I'm not saying we couldn't use people migrating from XP, but giving them a broken solution is not the way to do it. virtualXP works, but MS's solution doesn't or I wouldn't have made my comment. Expect huge amounts of backlash as plenty of XP-based games among other things, will not run in 7. Gamers/enthusiasts are the first in the consumer crowd to pay to adopt new technologies so that needs to be put into perspective.
The thing is, even in beta, the virtual XP support is nothing short of horrible. It doesn't work.
7 by itself is decent, but people are going to be mighty pissed switching to something with false assurances that it will enable them to use XP dependent software.
ha, I get what you mean. How about "storing bookmarks online is not SAAS"? (6 words, or 9 expanded)?
What they are claiming is the startup price. Bluray wasn't .005/GB to start out. This holographic storage is like 20 years in the making I believe, and 500GB is less than half of the capability.
This would be quite the revolutionary step though, as you wouldn't really need the internet to fileshare, just bring a single unobtrusive disk.
All of this though, I'll believe when I see it.
That's because enabling corruption started more like 30 years ago in a variety of forms.
Uh? What delicious offers is not SAS. SAS is closer to virtualization or cloud computing, all 3 are pretty much somewhat similar (and equally misunderstood) concepts. The difference is that SAS is like virtualization but you have no control over the host machine. The concept of "don't put all your eggs in one basket" is pretty much what cloud and SAS do. The host makes all the decisions, control, and you are forced to abide irregardless of all conditions. That would be called a horrible business and economic decision.
This would be akin to giving the keys to your car to your chaffeur. Sure, they might drive you everywhere, but if that car gets stolen, whose car is lost? If they choose a route different than your own, it's no longer your choice. Surely not the chaffeurs fault, as you give them the keys. In the case of this access/control can also be applied to the software. This is less ownership than renting something, merely for the purpose of lowering cost.
Those who give up all quality for efficiency/economy deserve neither.