you know it's technically illegal to kill someone, but the law allows for justifiable homicide.
this guy took over the system to protect it from the rest of the idiot users who, like the rest of the City employees, are incompetent.
I WISH I was on the jury. I'd vote innocent of all charges.. until he was acquitted or the judge declared a hung jury. I can understand his position. My mother does not get admin privs on her machine..
but $16/per isn't exactly a hefty penalty.. so if that's "all they had to pay" vs building out their infrastructure.. they will continue to take the lawsuits. $16 settlement is comcast taking their subscribers out to lunch. once....look at it this way. how many people have to die/get injured before an auto manufacturer issues a recall? it's cheaper for them to pay settlement(s) than recall X number of cars. they won't fix the problem until the cost of the lawsuits exceeds the cost of a recall.
they should have been forced to refund all the subscription fees they collected while they were throttling.
The app was initially blocked because it contains Shepard Fairey's famous "Hope" poster, from Obama's 2008 election campaign. While the subject of its own rights controversies, Apple initially cited the art as simply inappropriate, due to ridiculing public figures. The classification was paradoxical, as Obama himself has been a supporter of Fairey's work.
...well, let's say you're a closeted homosexual with access to classified information. that could put you in a position to be blackmailed. someone threatens to out you if you don't give them whatever they want.
it doesn't make it OK.. just a little easier to understand.
your sexual orientation probably doesn't determine your eligibility for a job, but i assume it's a factor in the level of clearance you get.
i had to answer similar questions for a friend of mine who's MOS was intelligence (in the Air Force). simple phone interview by the FBI.
cheesetrap - why don't you spend some time looking into it before you claim that all the content can be found with google.
it's what the author decides to put into the LP. Yes, you can google it, unless it's never been released before. I'm not saying every LP contains exclusive material, but it's not necessarily the run-of-the-mill stuff you can find with a google image search.
since the downloads are HUGE (can be 500MB) I suspect there are more than just a few text files and images.. and not a DVD menu
this guy bought 2 and pulled them apart.. so "in case anyone was wondering" read the story from someone that actually did a little work.. instead of cheese who apparently gets all his info from google search results.
If I buy a TI or anything else, how is that STEALING from the people that made it. they asked for a fair price, I paid. what difference does it make to them what I use it for once they have their money.
does that mean I can't install linux on my computer without being called a cyberterrorist?
dude.. if Zeke or whatever submitted your resume to us, and we decided we liked you enough to bring you on, we'd do a background check (we're obligated to, due to the nature of our work, and the Federal regs around the kind of people we can hire). we'd check those references independent of your headhunter. if there was an inconsistency (like the dates for your previous jobs) we'd fire you on the spot.. like escort you from the building, we'll send your stuff along in a week or so fired.
Zeke is not only costing you work, but he's costing his company money too.
"We had agreed with Apple to remove basic from the application, but as we believed it would be possible to convince Apple to let it in later on, we left it in the app to be activated remotely by us when we had âoegoâ from Apple."
you sure the lag isn't your network? what difference does the zone make if the players aren't on your screen?
Blizz is keeping the hardware requirements low so the game is playable by as many people as possible. I'm sure they could make it look cutting edge, but their subscriber ship would drop
"ANYTHING else, including these "stealth" features, were utterly secondary."...well, not quite secondary. According to the wikipedia "Reiman Horton said he mixed charcoal dust in with the wood glue to absorb electromagnetic waves (radar), which could have shielded the aircraft from detection by British early warning ground-based radar known as Chain Home. This application was tested by Northrop-Grumman in early 2009 and found to have been successful, making the Ho-229 the first aircraft to successfully incorporate "stealth technology" in its design.[1]"...stealth was probably an added bonus, but they did at least one thing to try to capitalize on the reduced radar signature inherent in the basic design.
shiny and new is one thing, but there are features in 3.0 (such as voice dialing) that REQUIRE the faster processor in the 3GS.
this is just another example of the business model failing to keep up with the technology.
hardware refresh on an annual cycle, and a 2 year contract makes NO sense for devices that are more computers than phones (that goes for all devices in the "smart phone" class - not just iphones)
AppleTV lets you play your DRM'd content from iTunes, and you can sync the same content to multiple iPods.
PS3 and PSP allow remote play (some games on the PS3 are playable on the PSP) DRM is preserved because the game needs to be registered to the same account on both sides. i think the remote play games are limited because of hardware constraints on the PSP side (you're not going to be able to play CoD4 on the PSP because the PSP can't handle it)
360 and Zune integration is just the MS flavor of PS3/PSP remote play.
5. their app reviewers are mostly offshore (non native english speakers) who are taking their guidelines a too literally. they're erring on the side of caution. bad word (regardless of content/context) = reject, and we'll sort it out after an appeal by the developer. if you've seen the email exchange between Apple and the Eucalyptus reader devs (KamaSutra-Gate), all the responses from apple were boilerplate/scripted - which tells me the devs not dealing with folks that are empowered to make a command decision. i'll bet the initial app reviewers are "just doing their jobs" by sending the boilerplate response and at the same time, escalating the problem to the "senior/empowered" reviewers here in the States.
we have offshore resources in my company. the golden rule for those guys is CODE TO SPEC. period. as a result we get typos (from the requirements) in our prod codebase. it's really fucking annoying when QA finds a blatant typo, but if the typo is in the requirements, our devs did their job (or at least followed the guidelines) - and they can't really be "blamed"
i don't know how many apps are submitted every day, or how much time they spend on each one, but i suspect the volume is pretty god damn high. a bad review will slip through from time to time. think of your own experiences with tech support. you get some first level guy answering the phone who steps you thorough 10 SCRIPTED troubleshooting steps and only AFTER you've performed those steps will they escalate to the next level support guys. you will follow those ten steps even if your problem is clearly hardware.
if you ever have a problem with a Mac, make an appointment at the genius bar. it's a pain in the ass, but that's the quickest way to get a repair ticket opened. A genius says your machine is broken, then it's broken. first level phone support will have you reinstall your OS to see if that fixes the broken hinge on your laptop. slashdotters hate the scripted responses because we've already done all that shit before we picked up the phone. it's just a way to weed out the idiots who don't know how to diagnose a user error.
yeah, but the album has that EXPLICIT sticker on it, so everything's OK, right?
If the app has the lyrics in the code, then the chorus "I want to fuck you like an animal" probably triggered the bad word alarm and the app got immediately rejected on that basis alone.
i don't think there's competing ideologies here. the presence of the explicit label 'protects' Apple from any legal backlash from selling such "subversive" content. until there's a rating system in place for software other than games, i can see why they err on the side of caution.
Music, movies and games are rated by a committee, there's no such committee for generic software.
apple can't establish a widely accepted rating system on their own - they'd need the blessing and input from the "dontcorruptmykids.org" zealots. do you really want every single app to go through committee to see what rating it's going to get - approvals take long enough as it is.
one solution that would probably work is for apple to extend the OSX parental controls to the phone OS. Apple or the devloper can flag apps as explicit, and a new setting on the phone lets the user decide if they want to prompt for 4 digit numeric code to launch the app - similar to the parental controls on your cable/satellite box.
parental controls = porntube.app coming to a phone near you!
maybe netflix won't send you discs if you live overseas or let you stream if you're coming from a foreign IP, but I doubt they geolocate site visits.
to the OP: the movie has been out for a couple of weeks in the UK (12/12), Brazil (12/25), Germany (12/11) and Iceland (12/26). away with the tin foil hat - the internet is somewhat larger than the United States.
FYI there are 900 reviews on imdb. take a look at the first page of user comments. all from the UK or Germany ('cept for the one guy from Buffalo)
what? Cerro Torre is only 10k feet. ONE THIRD the height of Eversest. Everst doesn't even start to get dangerous until about 15k feet (that's a MILE higher than the peak of Cerro Torre). @15k feet, you're only HALF way to the summit.
the death zone on Everest STARTS at 26 thousand feet. the summit attempt starts at 1AM, because you have to be out of the death zone by sundown.. yeah. sundown. that's how long it takes to climb the last 6000 feet (summit and back)
how about LEGO Robototics (Mindstorm)
Is this class voluntary or mandatory? If it's mandatory, you might want to lower the bar a little due to varied levels of interest.. what kid doesn't like LEGO?
Mindstorm let's kids build a robot out of standard components and write a program that gives the robot instructions. the results are immediately tangible (make robot do stuff) and problems are easy to identify (robot didn't do it right)
the LEGO site has teaching aids but here's more general info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms
bonus: teacher would have a blast creating they syllabus
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you know it's technically illegal to kill someone, but the law allows for justifiable homicide.
this guy took over the system to protect it from the rest of the idiot users who, like the rest of the City employees, are incompetent.
I WISH I was on the jury. I'd vote innocent of all charges.. until he was acquitted or the judge declared a hung jury. I can understand his position. My mother does not get admin privs on her machine..
but $16/per isn't exactly a hefty penalty.. so if that's "all they had to pay" vs building out their infrastructure.. they will continue to take the lawsuits. $16 settlement is comcast taking their subscribers out to lunch. once. ...look at it this way. how many people have to die/get injured before an auto manufacturer issues a recall? it's cheaper for them to pay settlement(s) than recall X number of cars. they won't fix the problem until the cost of the lawsuits exceeds the cost of a recall.
they should have been forced to refund all the subscription fees they collected while they were throttling.
it's pretty much implied. if you settle for 16 bucks, you can't sue them again. you settled.
http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/21/obama.art.controversy/
The app was initially blocked because it contains Shepard Fairey's famous "Hope" poster, from Obama's 2008 election campaign. While the subject of its own rights controversies, Apple initially cited the art as simply inappropriate, due to ridiculing public figures. The classification was paradoxical, as Obama himself has been a supporter of Fairey's work.
...well, let's say you're a closeted homosexual with access to classified information. that could put you in a position to be blackmailed. someone threatens to out you if you don't give them whatever they want.
it doesn't make it OK.. just a little easier to understand.
your sexual orientation probably doesn't determine your eligibility for a job, but i assume it's a factor in the level of clearance you get.
i had to answer similar questions for a friend of mine who's MOS was intelligence (in the Air Force). simple phone interview by the FBI.
a bunch of hairy geeks?
don't forget 24 - jumped the shark after season 2 (and I stopped watching after season 3)
serious gaming? on a mobile device? c'mon. games on a phone are at best, distractions or time killers (babysitters).
the LAST thing I want to do is get heavy into a game and get a fucking call.
it will always be the device that shall not be named in my book
cheesetrap - why don't you spend some time looking into it before you claim that all the content can be found with google.
it's what the author decides to put into the LP. Yes, you can google it, unless it's never been released before. I'm not saying every LP contains exclusive material, but it's not necessarily the run-of-the-mill stuff you can find with a google image search.
since the downloads are HUGE (can be 500MB) I suspect there are more than just a few text files and images.. and not a DVD menu
this guy bought 2 and pulled them apart.. so "in case anyone was wondering" read the story from someone that actually did a little work.. instead of cheese who apparently gets all his info from google search results.
http://jayrobinson.org/2009/09/11/some-notes-on-itunes-lp/
whatthefuck?
If I buy a TI or anything else, how is that STEALING from the people that made it. they asked for a fair price, I paid. what difference does it make to them what I use it for once they have their money.
does that mean I can't install linux on my computer without being called a cyberterrorist?
dude.. if Zeke or whatever submitted your resume to us, and we decided we liked you enough to bring you on, we'd do a background check (we're obligated to, due to the nature of our work, and the Federal regs around the kind of people we can hire). we'd check those references independent of your headhunter. if there was an inconsistency (like the dates for your previous jobs) we'd fire you on the spot.. like escort you from the building, we'll send your stuff along in a week or so fired.
Zeke is not only costing you work, but he's costing his company money too.
dump him.
meh. arrogant developers left BASIC in when it's a clear violation of the terms.
this was on their blog, but it's gone now
http://www.manomio.com/index.php/blog/c64_the_wait_is_over
"We had agreed with Apple to remove basic from the application, but as we believed it would be possible to convince Apple to let it in later on, we left it in the app to be activated remotely by us when we had âoegoâ from Apple."
maaaaaybe an M82.
you sure the lag isn't your network? what difference does the zone make if the players aren't on your screen?
Blizz is keeping the hardware requirements low so the game is playable by as many people as possible. I'm sure they could make it look cutting edge, but their subscriber ship would drop
is there information that suggests the Taliban knew he was a reporter?
"ANYTHING else, including these "stealth" features, were utterly secondary." ...well, not quite secondary. According to the wikipedia "Reiman Horton said he mixed charcoal dust in with the wood glue to absorb electromagnetic waves (radar), which could have shielded the aircraft from detection by British early warning ground-based radar known as Chain Home. This application was tested by Northrop-Grumman in early 2009 and found to have been successful, making the Ho-229 the first aircraft to successfully incorporate "stealth technology" in its design.[1]" ...stealth was probably an added bonus, but they did at least one thing to try to capitalize on the reduced radar signature inherent in the basic design.
shiny and new is one thing, but there are features in 3.0 (such as voice dialing) that REQUIRE the faster processor in the 3GS.
this is just another example of the business model failing to keep up with the technology.
hardware refresh on an annual cycle, and a 2 year contract makes NO sense for devices that are more computers than phones (that goes for all devices in the "smart phone" class - not just iphones)
but precedents have already been set.
AppleTV lets you play your DRM'd content from iTunes, and you can sync the same content to multiple iPods.
PS3 and PSP allow remote play (some games on the PS3 are playable on the PSP) DRM is preserved because the game needs to be registered to the same account on both sides. i think the remote play games are limited because of hardware constraints on the PSP side (you're not going to be able to play CoD4 on the PSP because the PSP can't handle it)
360 and Zune integration is just the MS flavor of PS3/PSP remote play.
5. their app reviewers are mostly offshore (non native english speakers) who are taking their guidelines a too literally. they're erring on the side of caution. bad word (regardless of content/context) = reject, and we'll sort it out after an appeal by the developer. if you've seen the email exchange between Apple and the Eucalyptus reader devs (KamaSutra-Gate), all the responses from apple were boilerplate/scripted - which tells me the devs not dealing with folks that are empowered to make a command decision. i'll bet the initial app reviewers are "just doing their jobs" by sending the boilerplate response and at the same time, escalating the problem to the "senior/empowered" reviewers here in the States. we have offshore resources in my company. the golden rule for those guys is CODE TO SPEC. period. as a result we get typos (from the requirements) in our prod codebase. it's really fucking annoying when QA finds a blatant typo, but if the typo is in the requirements, our devs did their job (or at least followed the guidelines) - and they can't really be "blamed" i don't know how many apps are submitted every day, or how much time they spend on each one, but i suspect the volume is pretty god damn high. a bad review will slip through from time to time. think of your own experiences with tech support. you get some first level guy answering the phone who steps you thorough 10 SCRIPTED troubleshooting steps and only AFTER you've performed those steps will they escalate to the next level support guys. you will follow those ten steps even if your problem is clearly hardware. if you ever have a problem with a Mac, make an appointment at the genius bar. it's a pain in the ass, but that's the quickest way to get a repair ticket opened. A genius says your machine is broken, then it's broken. first level phone support will have you reinstall your OS to see if that fixes the broken hinge on your laptop. slashdotters hate the scripted responses because we've already done all that shit before we picked up the phone. it's just a way to weed out the idiots who don't know how to diagnose a user error.
yeah, but the album has that EXPLICIT sticker on it, so everything's OK, right? If the app has the lyrics in the code, then the chorus "I want to fuck you like an animal" probably triggered the bad word alarm and the app got immediately rejected on that basis alone. i don't think there's competing ideologies here. the presence of the explicit label 'protects' Apple from any legal backlash from selling such "subversive" content. until there's a rating system in place for software other than games, i can see why they err on the side of caution. Music, movies and games are rated by a committee, there's no such committee for generic software. apple can't establish a widely accepted rating system on their own - they'd need the blessing and input from the "dontcorruptmykids.org" zealots. do you really want every single app to go through committee to see what rating it's going to get - approvals take long enough as it is. one solution that would probably work is for apple to extend the OSX parental controls to the phone OS. Apple or the devloper can flag apps as explicit, and a new setting on the phone lets the user decide if they want to prompt for 4 digit numeric code to launch the app - similar to the parental controls on your cable/satellite box. parental controls = porntube.app coming to a phone near you!
maybe netflix won't send you discs if you live overseas or let you stream if you're coming from a foreign IP, but I doubt they geolocate site visits. to the OP: the movie has been out for a couple of weeks in the UK (12/12), Brazil (12/25), Germany (12/11) and Iceland (12/26). away with the tin foil hat - the internet is somewhat larger than the United States. FYI there are 900 reviews on imdb. take a look at the first page of user comments. all from the UK or Germany ('cept for the one guy from Buffalo)
what? Cerro Torre is only 10k feet. ONE THIRD the height of Eversest. Everst doesn't even start to get dangerous until about 15k feet (that's a MILE higher than the peak of Cerro Torre). @15k feet, you're only HALF way to the summit. the death zone on Everest STARTS at 26 thousand feet. the summit attempt starts at 1AM, because you have to be out of the death zone by sundown.. yeah. sundown. that's how long it takes to climb the last 6000 feet (summit and back)
Mark Inglis reached the summit. HE HAS NO LEGS. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0883680/
how about LEGO Robototics (Mindstorm) Is this class voluntary or mandatory? If it's mandatory, you might want to lower the bar a little due to varied levels of interest.. what kid doesn't like LEGO? Mindstorm let's kids build a robot out of standard components and write a program that gives the robot instructions. the results are immediately tangible (make robot do stuff) and problems are easy to identify (robot didn't do it right) the LEGO site has teaching aids but here's more general info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms bonus: teacher would have a blast creating they syllabus