And even if they understand DRM, some will still go for the ease of use. My girlfriend understands the gist of DRM, knows some of her songs won't play after her last computer was taken from her. But she continues to use iTunes because it's easy to use.
I use Amazon because I like having basic consumer rights when I purchase music.
I for one welcome our new masters of intergalactic litigation. That is assuming (and hoping) they practice law in a courtroom and not with a death-ray.
Without a degree, I started as a tech and was an administrator for a Mitel PBX, Symantec Corporate, Exchange, and a number of other things I can't think of off the top of my head. When my director was leaving, he was going to promote me to his level then our boss brought in his software engineer friend (which by no means makes you qualified to be an IT director, very true in this case) and made him director. I ended up fixing his "improvements" over a few weeks and outright quit with no notice when he and I had it out.
Instead of paying one driver per truck (and probably way too much to drive a truck), you're paying one tech to control a number of them? Wait, isn't Obama going to fix stuff like this?
This is something I tell many people when it comes to every election and it's something they just don't want to hear. Really, you know what today is? The same as it was yesterday and a month ago. Had it not been my day off I still would've went to work this morning, divorce rates are as they were, there will be more violence in schools, the Dow fell again, and more houses were foreclosed on today.
I read either here or elsewhere EA will ban people for even talking about the DRM features of Spore 3. So where's the line here? I think there used to be a government established that supported such practices of bitter censorship, but the United States effectively annihilated them. Remember the Taliban and Hussein?
I can get another 45 minutes to an hour out of my Thinkpad T60p with Ubuntu because it isn't spinning the hard disk like Vista (it's dual boot) seems to do when I'm idle. On top of that, it's great when I'm on the go through airports or a day of class when I'm suspending the laptop often. Set your power setting right in Ubuntu and with its package management it's a nice choice.
My thoughts exactly. Wouldn't it be cheaper in the long run? Give them a DRM-free copy and forget about it. It's not like DRM is a big fad amongst customers. Last I heard Windows Media Player backing up licenses was a bigger thrill than the Xbox 360.
My firewall comes up and asks "Hey, do you want suchandsuch.exe to have internet access? Just this once? No? Always yes?" Why not do something like that with UAC allowing users to mark a prompt "yes, always alow"?
This is just an expected downfall to DRM. Why sell something you'd have to continue supporting when you could just sell something with little or no support such as DRM-free music? It's for the better. Every time I hear those three letters I roll my eyes.
yeah, I want something cool.. like a HUD on my contact lenses. Why? RSS to slashdot. I work in healthcare, so being able to look at patient status on the fly would be good too.
A company I worked for used microwave to communicate between our offices. They were only a few miles apart, but it worked great for data and voice. However, this was in the Florida Keys where the air was salty so corrosion was always a concern and during busy hurricane seasons I'd find myself scaling a building with no convenient roof access to reposition the misaligned antennas every other week.
The sheriff's department (or so I heard, could be someone else) there now uses something similar. Every few miles on the highway you find a large antenna pointing in either direction. It connects the entire 100+ miles of islands and is a great example of a large scale project and large-budgeted project.
While I love linux as a server/development environment, Windows has paid my bills when I worked in IT, its office software has gotten me through school, and kept me entertained with its gaming support.
A faster boot time would make for some really positive reviews for a new Windows. A critic would be tickled pink if his evaluation copy of Windows started up as fast as my Ubuntu laptop.
Now one very simple request I have, which I'm boggled as to why Microsoft has either refused or neglected to implement over the years, is being able to rearrange the windows on the taskbar. Really, I can move tabs around in Firefox (even IE!) but I can't organize myself on the taskbar?
And it doesn't work that way. So go with "no party affiliation." You start some interesting conversation with primaries roll around and someone asks you if you voted and you can tell them no.
I don't shop much on eBay anymore due to other problems like excessive shipping, but I'd leave too if they required you to use paypal. I was screwed by a paypal merchant and Paypal pretty much told me it wasn't their problem and I'd have to: 1, contact the merchant who wasn't returning my emails and had a bogus phone number; or 2, file I claim with my bank. So I filed a claim with my bank, the bank ruled in my favor, and only then Paypal went after the seller when some of their own cash was at stake. I immediately closed my account after they unfroze my account with a negative balance.
Really, there's no single way to ensure your data. Redundancy is key. For a simple application, I'd back up to at least one external hard disk (NAS works great, too, and some use RAID) and then backup to an online backup service. There's a lot of backup software out there that'll backup to your external drive. Those fail, so it maybe a good idea to get more than one. The online backup service will ensure your data is safe if something happens to the device in your home (fire, theft, the general unthinkable).
From my experience, frequently used recordable CD/DVDs last about a year until deterioration takes its toll on them. I read somewhere that they'll last about 5 years on the shelf. Albeit this is a cheaper route, you get what you pay for.
Really, it's just a matter of time before someone loses this device and someone reverse engineers it and starts selling it on eBay. What microsoft genius asshole came up with this brilliant accident waiting to happen?
I upgraded to Hardy from Gutsy on my laptop. I have to say I do like the seemless wifi support on my Lenovo T60. On Gutsy, I'd have issues with WPA networks and have to use another application beside the applet on the gnome toolbar, which isn't going to attract mainstream users. Also, my laptop will suspend on Hardy unlike on Gutsy where it fails due to a kernel problem. However, when I bring the system out of suspend none of the network interfaces come back to life. I'm procrastinating on bug reporting it, which is something I think a mainstream user may be less likely to appreciate doing.
The interface is a little warmer than Gusty, which people seem to like nowadays. I remember typing in DOS commands and meticulously editing files in linux with ed, so I'm happy with functional point and click.
Not all clients are innocent. In fact, most I've dealt with would lay blame quicker than I could. I got more calls from my supervisor over things I didn't even do: changing someone's password for laughs when it really expired; blocking someone's account when they failed to authenticate more than 5 times; turning off someone's phone when they really spilled coffee on it and broke it. The list goes on and on. I wasn't a bully. I'd do my job so I could go home at 5 and out on my boat on the weekends, however I was the IT guy who wouldn't keep such a client's justified stupidity a secret.
My Thinkpad T60 has a matte screen. My father had a Toshiba Satellite with the glossy screen and (never mind the rest of what I didn't like about the satellite) the dimmest light would cause a blinding glare over whatever you're working on.
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It'll likely be Tim Cook. The guy had control the last time and Jobs can obviously trust him.
And even if they understand DRM, some will still go for the ease of use. My girlfriend understands the gist of DRM, knows some of her songs won't play after her last computer was taken from her. But she continues to use iTunes because it's easy to use. I use Amazon because I like having basic consumer rights when I purchase music.
I for one welcome our new masters of intergalactic litigation. That is assuming (and hoping) they practice law in a courtroom and not with a death-ray.
Without a degree, I started as a tech and was an administrator for a Mitel PBX, Symantec Corporate, Exchange, and a number of other things I can't think of off the top of my head. When my director was leaving, he was going to promote me to his level then our boss brought in his software engineer friend (which by no means makes you qualified to be an IT director, very true in this case) and made him director. I ended up fixing his "improvements" over a few weeks and outright quit with no notice when he and I had it out.
Instead of paying one driver per truck (and probably way too much to drive a truck), you're paying one tech to control a number of them? Wait, isn't Obama going to fix stuff like this?
I dunno, my black neighbor says since his mom is white the black community has only one foot in the door of the White House.
This is something I tell many people when it comes to every election and it's something they just don't want to hear. Really, you know what today is? The same as it was yesterday and a month ago. Had it not been my day off I still would've went to work this morning, divorce rates are as they were, there will be more violence in schools, the Dow fell again, and more houses were foreclosed on today.
I read either here or elsewhere EA will ban people for even talking about the DRM features of Spore 3. So where's the line here? I think there used to be a government established that supported such practices of bitter censorship, but the United States effectively annihilated them. Remember the Taliban and Hussein?
I can get another 45 minutes to an hour out of my Thinkpad T60p with Ubuntu because it isn't spinning the hard disk like Vista (it's dual boot) seems to do when I'm idle. On top of that, it's great when I'm on the go through airports or a day of class when I'm suspending the laptop often. Set your power setting right in Ubuntu and with its package management it's a nice choice.
My thoughts exactly. Wouldn't it be cheaper in the long run? Give them a DRM-free copy and forget about it. It's not like DRM is a big fad amongst customers. Last I heard Windows Media Player backing up licenses was a bigger thrill than the Xbox 360.
My firewall comes up and asks "Hey, do you want suchandsuch.exe to have internet access? Just this once? No? Always yes?" Why not do something like that with UAC allowing users to mark a prompt "yes, always alow"?
This is just an expected downfall to DRM. Why sell something you'd have to continue supporting when you could just sell something with little or no support such as DRM-free music? It's for the better. Every time I hear those three letters I roll my eyes.
Doesn't that work out in the DOJ's favor?
yeah, I want something cool.. like a HUD on my contact lenses. Why? RSS to slashdot. I work in healthcare, so being able to look at patient status on the fly would be good too.
A company I worked for used microwave to communicate between our offices. They were only a few miles apart, but it worked great for data and voice. However, this was in the Florida Keys where the air was salty so corrosion was always a concern and during busy hurricane seasons I'd find myself scaling a building with no convenient roof access to reposition the misaligned antennas every other week.
The sheriff's department (or so I heard, could be someone else) there now uses something similar. Every few miles on the highway you find a large antenna pointing in either direction. It connects the entire 100+ miles of islands and is a great example of a large scale project and large-budgeted project.
While I love linux as a server/development environment, Windows has paid my bills when I worked in IT, its office software has gotten me through school, and kept me entertained with its gaming support.
A faster boot time would make for some really positive reviews for a new Windows. A critic would be tickled pink if his evaluation copy of Windows started up as fast as my Ubuntu laptop.
Now one very simple request I have, which I'm boggled as to why Microsoft has either refused or neglected to implement over the years, is being able to rearrange the windows on the taskbar. Really, I can move tabs around in Firefox (even IE!) but I can't organize myself on the taskbar?
And it doesn't work that way. So go with "no party affiliation." You start some interesting conversation with primaries roll around and someone asks you if you voted and you can tell them no.
I don't shop much on eBay anymore due to other problems like excessive shipping, but I'd leave too if they required you to use paypal. I was screwed by a paypal merchant and Paypal pretty much told me it wasn't their problem and I'd have to: 1, contact the merchant who wasn't returning my emails and had a bogus phone number; or 2, file I claim with my bank. So I filed a claim with my bank, the bank ruled in my favor, and only then Paypal went after the seller when some of their own cash was at stake. I immediately closed my account after they unfroze my account with a negative balance.
Really, there's no single way to ensure your data. Redundancy is key. For a simple application, I'd back up to at least one external hard disk (NAS works great, too, and some use RAID) and then backup to an online backup service. There's a lot of backup software out there that'll backup to your external drive. Those fail, so it maybe a good idea to get more than one. The online backup service will ensure your data is safe if something happens to the device in your home (fire, theft, the general unthinkable).
From my experience, frequently used recordable CD/DVDs last about a year until deterioration takes its toll on them. I read somewhere that they'll last about 5 years on the shelf. Albeit this is a cheaper route, you get what you pay for.
So how do you think they're going to kill off the verizon guy in the alltel commercials?
This is certainly a pressing issue. Anyone hear about that war in Iraq?
Really, it's just a matter of time before someone loses this device and someone reverse engineers it and starts selling it on eBay. What microsoft genius asshole came up with this brilliant accident waiting to happen?
I upgraded to Hardy from Gutsy on my laptop. I have to say I do like the seemless wifi support on my Lenovo T60. On Gutsy, I'd have issues with WPA networks and have to use another application beside the applet on the gnome toolbar, which isn't going to attract mainstream users. Also, my laptop will suspend on Hardy unlike on Gutsy where it fails due to a kernel problem. However, when I bring the system out of suspend none of the network interfaces come back to life. I'm procrastinating on bug reporting it, which is something I think a mainstream user may be less likely to appreciate doing. The interface is a little warmer than Gusty, which people seem to like nowadays. I remember typing in DOS commands and meticulously editing files in linux with ed, so I'm happy with functional point and click.
Not all clients are innocent. In fact, most I've dealt with would lay blame quicker than I could. I got more calls from my supervisor over things I didn't even do: changing someone's password for laughs when it really expired; blocking someone's account when they failed to authenticate more than 5 times; turning off someone's phone when they really spilled coffee on it and broke it. The list goes on and on. I wasn't a bully. I'd do my job so I could go home at 5 and out on my boat on the weekends, however I was the IT guy who wouldn't keep such a client's justified stupidity a secret.
My Thinkpad T60 has a matte screen. My father had a Toshiba Satellite with the glossy screen and (never mind the rest of what I didn't like about the satellite) the dimmest light would cause a blinding glare over whatever you're working on.