I wonder if all employees have to use the company software.:-)
Also from their website:
Another differentiating factor between 180solutions and its competitors is that 180solutions is committed to only showing an average of 2-3 ads per day per user. We have also made the uninstall process easy for those who choose not to use 180solutions' products.
I wonder if the 2-3 ads per day is total or per user installation. Also, many programs that come with spyway/adware won't run if they can't find said spyware/adware. Consequentially people reinstall the program again getting back to where they started.
I've seen offers for your own satalite, fighter jets, underground lairs and even weapons grade plutonium so a space shuttle wouldn't seem unreasonable!
I agree that with rational thought those things are not worthless I think the parent was thinking of a senario such as: "If you have have a choice between something that costs a little and something that is free and you are looking for quality not cost which do you choose?" I'm sure your subconsious thought is that if it is free it is for a reason and would probably go for the option that costs a little, even if the free option might be of equal or higher quality.
You know, when I was reading the parent post, my first thought was the Fight Club style "If the cost of the recall is more than the number of out of court settlements, then we don't do one". I totally agree with the justification, it was the realisim of being able to do it I was thinking about!
However loss of life is usually considered more important than loss of data, and if you have faulty brakes do you get them replaced free of charge when you take them to the garage to get them changed?
Instead of writing code, read someone else's code and then modify it. Modifying existing code is an excellent way for newbies to learn to program.
Provided it is simple enough to understand of course.:-) I agree that modifying existing code can help understand a language, however I've found that tutorials on how to do specific things, like loops, arrays etc are more useful in the initial stages of learning a language. Once you get a feel for how to do the basic structures in a language then modifying an existing program helps a great deal. If you "Don't know where to start" then jumping into a program isn't always the best way to go!
Maybe it is the bank you have, I'm pretty sure I can request that the bank block payments to specific people/companies. What should happen is that the money will be blocked from being transfered and you will get a warning letter from AOL or whomever you blocked saying you have failed to make payments. I used to have direct debit payments for home insurance, which I cancelled when I moved. As well as informing them by letter that I wished to cancel (and getting a return recipt for the letter) I blocked the direct debit to their company, which stopped the monthly transaction fine.
Whether it is windows or not doesn't change the pricetag stated in the summary, considering the budget he is mentioning is for extra hardware, not the overall cost of the system.
"Of course, how many/.'ers actually leave BitTorrent enabled on their phones/PDAs".
Just thinking, Wow! I want a phone/PDA like that!
On topic however, I'm wondering if it will start to cause interference with other BT devices, if it becomes really widespread. You can get BT wireless earpieces for phones for example, so if BT is incorporated into more and more devices I wonder how long before broadcasting ads causes major problems with people trying to connect different devices together. Sort of like, "Yeah, accept connections from Nokia 3360... hey, I didn't want to accept this advert for a free phone upgrade!?!"
Beating for people with masochistic tendencies.:-)
Hmmm, unless by positive punishment you mean that they inflict the punishment on someone else. Kinda like, "if you do well then you get to decide the punishment of those who don't". Motivation to do well through fear of your peers.
Southern Tunisia, mid august can get to about 50 centigrade. Cacti in the desert for example probably hit conditions near that as well. I agree with you though about it being farenheit. 10 centigrade is pretty hot compared to space.:-) Then again, I wonder how quickly that temprature drops as you move away from the equator.
Who do you think is better of for the more "exotic trips"?
You could look at it from a different perspecitve. For longer holidays where you are not staying in the same place for a long time (backpacking etc) having everything on a couple of SD cards instead of 25 individual 35mm films is much more convinient.
Then again, I view every precaution I've done as basic common sense, hardly paranoia. It took about 10 minutes to set up, everything is automated so it is hardly a hassle. Is there a particular reason not to use security mechanisims that are available even if something is less prone. The firewall I have is at the router of my network so it is on whether I'm running windows or linux. Just because an OS is more or less secure doesn't mean one should neglect basic security.
Sure - Extreme Marketing 101, coupled with a lack of scruples, and a general trend in the mid-90s to think cheaper is better. MS brought the financial price of rolling out desktops in an enterprise down, but the externalities have been awful, mostly due to poor design in their OpSys. Sell it on features, not on integrity.
Unforturnatly all of those are still legitimate reasons..
I'm almost exclusivly a Windows user, although I do use Ubuntu a bit as well, and I certainly think WinXP SP2 serves my needs pretty well. While many many scream of viruses/spyware etc which plauge windows, I haven't had any problems from them (on my computer anyway!) for months. If you use windows properly (updating, using virus scanner, firewall etc) then the majority of problems disappear. While I use firefox and Thunderbird instead of IE and outlook (I prefer both from a users point of view, and would have changed regardless of the security reasons) the OS as a whole is pretty good.
What happens if you don't ban their votes just their ability to see the correct rating of something? If you can create trust links between peers (ie A votes something positive and so does B then A has a higher than normal trust of B and his vote is weighed more) If A downloads a file which is a fake and rates is as a fake then his trust of everyone who voted it positivly is reduced dramatically. Like in society, one has to work hard to build up a reputation but one error can undo a lot of good work except from their closest friends.
Mapping that concept to a peer to peer system, combined with sending false information to low trusted users could result in people having to be honest to get reliable ratings. Kind of like an eye for an eye system where the more you lie the less reliable the information you get back is. If groups of people all work to produce false high ratings, they will recieve those positive ratings between themselves but people not in that circle will see almost an inverse of that as they are not trused within their social group. As such spammers shouldn't be able to tell how reliable there ratings are.
Why not? replayability is surely the main reason for getting something on DVD? If you are not taking replayability into account then rental prices would be a better comparison.
I certainly agree that $60 for a game (£34.99 for the average PC game here in the UK) is not a lot when you consider the amount of entertainment one gets out of it. I dread to think how much time i've spent playing multiplayer games for example, I just don't think comparing it to a single use example like cinema is a good example. Of course one could argue that it is the experience one is paying for, and that at $9 you are gambling much less for your predicted enjoyment of whatever you are watching. I for one have bought a few games that I regretted buyijng after playing them for a while, and the £30+ I spent on them were definitly expensive. However others like Half Life, Diablo 2, Total Annhilation (sp?) etc I've played so much that £30 was nothing compared to the amount of enjoyment I've got out of them.
while IANAL, I suppose they could argue along similar grounds as the case against Napster. A centralised system that points to the sources. Not content holding but strongly aiding in the distribution.
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Yeah, if I remember correctly honey was used by the ancient Egyptians to cover wounds to stop them getting infected.
Far Cry has a mode in the video settings to play the game in cartoon mode, that count?
I wonder if all employees have to use the company software. :-)
Also from their website:
Another differentiating factor between 180solutions and its competitors is that 180solutions is committed to only showing an average of 2-3 ads per day per user. We have also made the uninstall process easy for those who choose not to use 180solutions' products.
I wonder if the 2-3 ads per day is total or per user installation. Also, many programs that come with spyway/adware won't run if they can't find said spyware/adware. Consequentially people reinstall the program again getting back to where they started.
More info about the split is on their site
Seems a perfectly reasonable ad to me.
I've seen offers for your own satalite, fighter jets, underground lairs and even weapons grade plutonium so a space shuttle wouldn't seem unreasonable!
I agree that with rational thought those things are not worthless I think the parent was thinking of a senario such as: "If you have have a choice between something that costs a little and something that is free and you are looking for quality not cost which do you choose?" I'm sure your subconsious thought is that if it is free it is for a reason and would probably go for the option that costs a little, even if the free option might be of equal or higher quality.
You know, when I was reading the parent post, my first thought was the Fight Club style "If the cost of the recall is more than the number of out of court settlements, then we don't do one". I totally agree with the justification, it was the realisim of being able to do it I was thinking about!
However loss of life is usually considered more important than loss of data, and if you have faulty brakes do you get them replaced free of charge when you take them to the garage to get them changed?
Instead of writing code, read someone else's code and then modify it. Modifying existing code is an excellent way for newbies to learn to program.
:-) I agree that modifying existing code can help understand a language, however I've found that tutorials on how to do specific things, like loops, arrays etc are more useful in the initial stages of learning a language. Once you get a feel for how to do the basic structures in a language then modifying an existing program helps a great deal. If you "Don't know where to start" then jumping into a program isn't always the best way to go!
Provided it is simple enough to understand of course.
No No No, its hydrogen monoxide that you have to be careful of :-)
will it still target me or maybe just my pants?
Adjusting aim... just below waistline, should be a vital target spot...
Maybe it is the bank you have, I'm pretty sure I can request that the bank block payments to specific people/companies. What should happen is that the money will be blocked from being transfered and you will get a warning letter from AOL or whomever you blocked saying you have failed to make payments. I used to have direct debit payments for home insurance, which I cancelled when I moved. As well as informing them by letter that I wished to cancel (and getting a return recipt for the letter) I blocked the direct debit to their company, which stopped the monthly transaction fine.
Total cost of extra hardware - less than $1000.
Whether it is windows or not doesn't change the pricetag stated in the summary, considering the budget he is mentioning is for extra hardware, not the overall cost of the system.
Ok, I misread as:
/.'ers actually leave BitTorrent enabled on their phones/PDAs".
"Of course, how many
Just thinking, Wow! I want a phone/PDA like that!
On topic however, I'm wondering if it will start to cause interference with other BT devices, if it becomes really widespread. You can get BT wireless earpieces for phones for example, so if BT is incorporated into more and more devices I wonder how long before broadcasting ads causes major problems with people trying to connect different devices together. Sort of like, "Yeah, accept connections from Nokia 3360... hey, I didn't want to accept this advert for a free phone upgrade!?!"
Beating for people with masochistic tendencies. :-)
Hmmm, unless by positive punishment you mean that they inflict the punishment on someone else. Kinda like, "if you do well then you get to decide the punishment of those who don't". Motivation to do well through fear of your peers.
Maybe they were using US English :-)
Southern Tunisia, mid august can get to about 50 centigrade. Cacti in the desert for example probably hit conditions near that as well. :-) Then again, I wonder how quickly that temprature drops as you move away from the equator.
I agree with you though about it being farenheit. 10 centigrade is pretty hot compared to space.
Who do you think is better of for the more "exotic trips"?
You could look at it from a different perspecitve. For longer holidays where you are not staying in the same place for a long time (backpacking etc) having everything on a couple of SD cards instead of 25 individual 35mm films is much more convinient.
Then again, I view every precaution I've done as basic common sense, hardly paranoia. It took about 10 minutes to set up, everything is automated so it is hardly a hassle. Is there a particular reason not to use security mechanisims that are available even if something is less prone. The firewall I have is at the router of my network so it is on whether I'm running windows or linux. Just because an OS is more or less secure doesn't mean one should neglect basic security.
Sure - Extreme Marketing 101, coupled with a lack of scruples, and a general trend in the mid-90s to think cheaper is better. MS brought the financial price of rolling out desktops in an enterprise down, but the externalities have been awful, mostly due to poor design in their OpSys. Sell it on features, not on integrity.
Unforturnatly all of those are still legitimate reasons..
Or just trying to be a wise ass. :-)
I'm almost exclusivly a Windows user, although I do use Ubuntu a bit as well, and I certainly think WinXP SP2 serves my needs pretty well. While many many scream of viruses/spyware etc which plauge windows, I haven't had any problems from them (on my computer anyway!) for months. If you use windows properly (updating, using virus scanner, firewall etc) then the majority of problems disappear. While I use firefox and Thunderbird instead of IE and outlook (I prefer both from a users point of view, and would have changed regardless of the security reasons) the OS as a whole is pretty good.
Ah, but does it conform to The infinite monkey protocol?
ok, so you ban all those users
What happens if you don't ban their votes just their ability to see the correct rating of something? If you can create trust links between peers (ie A votes something positive and so does B then A has a higher than normal trust of B and his vote is weighed more) If A downloads a file which is a fake and rates is as a fake then his trust of everyone who voted it positivly is reduced dramatically. Like in society, one has to work hard to build up a reputation but one error can undo a lot of good work except from their closest friends.
Mapping that concept to a peer to peer system, combined with sending false information to low trusted users could result in people having to be honest to get reliable ratings. Kind of like an eye for an eye system where the more you lie the less reliable the information you get back is. If groups of people all work to produce false high ratings, they will recieve those positive ratings between themselves but people not in that circle will see almost an inverse of that as they are not trused within their social group. As such spammers shouldn't be able to tell how reliable there ratings are.
not accounting for replayability.
Why not? replayability is surely the main reason for getting something on DVD? If you are not taking replayability into account then rental prices would be a better comparison.
I certainly agree that $60 for a game (£34.99 for the average PC game here in the UK) is not a lot when you consider the amount of entertainment one gets out of it. I dread to think how much time i've spent playing multiplayer games for example, I just don't think comparing it to a single use example like cinema is a good example. Of course one could argue that it is the experience one is paying for, and that at $9 you are gambling much less for your predicted enjoyment of whatever you are watching.
I for one have bought a few games that I regretted buyijng after playing them for a while, and the £30+ I spent on them were definitly expensive. However others like Half Life, Diablo 2, Total Annhilation (sp?) etc I've played so much that £30 was nothing compared to the amount of enjoyment I've got out of them.
while IANAL, I suppose they could argue along similar grounds as the case against Napster. A centralised system that points to the sources. Not content holding but strongly aiding in the distribution.
True, although I'm betting if it were negative and tied to Microsoft it would have the MS logo.