Devils advocate here, I still think it's a dick move, and I think that forfeiture of access to PSN is borderline illegal as the PS3 more or less implied that you would have permanent access to it, but you do have to factor in future games are not a guaranteed access. Much like it wasn't illegal for Nintendo to require you to purchase the memory expansion for the N64 to play some games etc... or in the same regard NES owners had to buy a super Nintendo to play Super Mario world. A console is only legally obligated to be able to play the games that are out for it at the time of purchase, after that all future games just need to have what is required to play them, listed on the box. Upcoming games are just that, unpredictable vapor-ware. If you bought your gamecube to buy duke nukem forever, which was an upcoming title expected to be released for the system, the fact that the game never came to be for the system is not grounds for a refund.
Correction.. Especially during an election year. The largest crowd of voters is the group most easily manipulated by a combination of advertisements and the media. Taking money from said media to get biased news coverage, and applying that money towards your own commercials is getting free votes, The voting population won't know what rights they are giving away, because the media doesn't have to cover it. To top it off, when this bill gets signed, it may also put a huge dent in independent online news. "I suspect that Slashdot is plagiarizing our CNN tech site as they both reported on the same topic". Once that goes on they can start systematically shutting down competing news sources, which in turn lets them mask who is doing it in their normal reporting etc...
Why re-invent the wheel? The option of a full ad-block is within the program, you just have to tick one extra box to enable it, at which point it will most likely stay for every update until you chose to disable it. IMO this is not a horrible idea, The reason people started using ad-blockers wasn't because they abhorred the idea of their free sites having the nerve to post advertisements to fund themselves, it was because the advertisements kept getting more and more obtrusive as they went from small images, to large images, to images with popups to obnoxious sounds, at least a few people aren't opposed to a middle ground where they revert back to small banners on the page.
One thing that would be nice is if ad-block could be designed to adjust the loading order however, IE the advertisement loads after the page.
Assuming they can keep the good ideas and shed the bad parts of them at the same time of course. The vulnerabilities attached to many of Flash's features, would be even more disastrous if it were a standard feature of the browser.
Basically people are upset over using an ideal model that 0 people look like, instead of using traditional models that 1 in 10 million people can look like? It's ok to have an unrealistic standard of beauty when one person with the perfect genetic makeup manages to do it, but when it's a fake person it is entirely wrong?
Political speech is speech done by a politician. Not speech too a politician. Politicians themselves have the largest degree of protection, and if the message is just a complaint then they will call it harassment, and if the message against them has anything resembling a threat, it won't just be the police, it will be homeland security.
Campaigns aren't but law enforcement is. Legislators don't send their private body guards after you, they send the police, or the FBI or whatever other organizations they can get in on it.
Indeed removing CO2 is the harder part, though that also can be done and has been done, hence part of why we aren't sending weekly oxygen shipments to the international space station, our bigger problems are still navigating, fuel, Surviving cabin fever etc.. Really I don't think landing a man on mars is really that far out of our technological level, we just lack a cold war or anything to really justify the spending and effort needed to make a government invest heavily in it.
I don't know, until we see it we won't know much on the performance levels of it, but I do think there is a market for even a slugish cheap tablet. Durring the tablet craze, I got myself an netbook for $99, it's a cheap piece of crap, barely can handle flash games, but for basic utility purposes, reading, browsing the web etc... I still cannot wrap my head around the tablet craze or what makes them worth $500, to me they seem to be a fairly comfortable device, that can do almost as much as a low end laptop, almost the same size as middle end laptop, at the price of... a middle of the line laptop, but hey you can get a keyboard for it for only $20-$80 extra and make it even closer to a laptop!
That depends, if the job specifically requires you to carry the phone and answer questions, and you would likely be written up or lose that job if you did not answer the phone, or respond to the message, then yes you did work overtime. If your job requires you to be on call and available, then you should be compensated for doing the extra work.
2 scenarios here. 1. If a doctor is given a pager and informed that he must come in when it beeps, he should be compensated if it beeps and he has to come in
2. If a doctor is working clinic duty, Feels concerned for a patient, and gives her his celphone number, and says "If you have any concerns call me", and that patient calls him for advice on her toe fungus, he should not be compensated as that is a favor he volunteered to do, without being told by the hospital to do so.
Perhaps he's meaning this is one of the few cases of pro-active protection. Skunks, stink bugs, squids etc... use chemicals to defend themselves as a fire off at the last second defense, rather then a lace your home with it type of protection.
Some not all, actually if I recall there was sort of an unofficial line with wealthier people on one side, and less wealthy on another, another thing to note, not everyone with a $400 phone is a self entitled ass, many OWS protestors are fresh college graduates (IE people who have racked up enough student loan debt to keep them in a position of paying off loans until there 40's IF they actually can get something better then a minimum wage job). I don't know the origin of the quote but someone said "I am angry with the previous generation, they continued to push me saying if I didn't go to college, study and keep my grades up I would wind up working at McDonalds, now that I've done all those things and acquired $15,000 of debt, they now say I'm a self entitled jerk because I don't want to work at McDonalds. In other words many of the protestors are just off of the free ride, last point where parents cover you, and hit the point where everything they have worked hard for, they finally could be independent, but the economy and job market are in such chaos, they have nowhere to go but down.
True, but accidental in a horrendous way. "We only intended to hurt him by bashing his head into the pavement with the club, we had no intention of killing him". I agree the death toll will be negligible if it even exists, but at least a few people have taken some serious beatings that could cause permanent damage
Indeed, 50 years ago all the decrease in need for labor was expected, but predicted to work differently. They origionaly expected the standard of living for the average person to stay the same, and everyone to work 3-4 hour workdays, instead of people working half the hours, we decided to opt for half the people to work and half to starve.
Well in microsofts defense judging by what I've seen of MSE, it is so far better on resources then the most popular AVs (Note I said most popular not the better ones, that not enough people are smart enough to chose). One thing I do think though, when it comes to norton and McAfee, their lack of effectiveness isn't as much due to their coding or security holes being larger then the competition, just simply because they are the known AV's to work around. about 60% of users who pay for an AV use norton, and probably 20%ish use mcaffee, hence they are the lead targets for a virus to write around, just like why windows is the star platform to target virus for. When windows comes with an AV that is on 75% of home PCs (assuming about 20% for pushy salesmen like geeksquad shoving webroot down peoples throats, 5% for people who go out of their way to use an AV they prefer).
And who's property is the internet? Or are you meaning the pipes to access them that were paid for with tax dollars, and then the gateways given to a handful of companies that were then granted a government mandated monopoly?
Indeed, the bottom line is he said to not draw the attention of aliens that are centuries ahead of us technologically. If we happen to land on a planet that has a population that appears to be in the middle ages, or even near identical timeline to us that is a different matter altogether.
Most likely the way Microsoft cut deals with everyone. I believe the rumor is that microsoft tells the phone manufacturers every dollar they spend on the android patents, will come back to them in free WP8 licenses/marketing for windows phones etc... So basically for the other companies the options are A. Spend money on invalidating it, receive no refund, B. Spend money on something you don't need, get it all back. More or less without fighting they lose nothing unless WP8 completely fails to sell at all. Think of it as if you had a utility company, the electic company says you need to pay them $20 a month for your internet access they don't provide, but they will subtract $20 from your power bill. Does it matter to you? B&N and Amazon would be the few companies that have motivation to fight it, Microsoft has nothing to offer them unless B&N wants to make a windows powered reader later on as well.
Politicians are ages behind on technology usually, In general they have interns/PR people tending to their facebook twitter etc... Top that off with in house in government offices there should be a proxy server filtering content (which typically block advertisements as well).
Well it depends if the guy clearly has a sign out front that says "Hit-man for hire", and you walk in and hand him a big wad of money and say, My ex-wife is about to sue me for 5 years of alimony, I will give you $10,000 if she does not make it to court. You didn't directly ask him to break the law, but you darn well knew that is how he is going to do it. Just like if you find a company that is willing to manufacture a part that should take 5 man hours each, and they are willing to do it for $1. Then you know darn well that , but you accept the deal, and then make no effort to send a single person to actually look around the manufacturing facility before signing the deal, you should IMO be held liable.
I don't get the concept of everything needing to be quantified. Does the team accomplish what the goals of having the team are? Does it get developed in a fair timeframe? Is everyone on the team pulling their own weight, or are there complaints of someone slacking off? In the end if the product works then the team is doing well, if the product isn't there should be at least one hybrid manager/coder that actually works with the team members sees who is committing what and can tell off the bat if there is or isn't a weak link dragging the rest down. Actually putting a pen and paper number on a complex project is silly. Do authors get judged by the number of pages they write in a day, no they get paid by the success or failure of the book. You can't judge by the number of lines of code, bugs per line ratio or anything like that, because it is all subjective and has little to no bearing on the end product.
Unfortunately that is mainly because they love screwing over the long-term for the short term, verison's 4G allows a more or less instant ability to be self paid for. "Oh you want to use the new 4G in your town, just sign a new 2-3 year contract so we can upgrade your phone. The problem is ISP's need to actually start upgrading their infrastructure to allow themselves to continue to go their current speed (well actually at this point to get closer to their own advertised speeds), and well investing money to actually deliver what you advertise, just isn't as fun as an upgrade that lets you make even more claims.
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Devils advocate here, I still think it's a dick move, and I think that forfeiture of access to PSN is borderline illegal as the PS3 more or less implied that you would have permanent access to it, but you do have to factor in future games are not a guaranteed access. Much like it wasn't illegal for Nintendo to require you to purchase the memory expansion for the N64 to play some games etc... or in the same regard NES owners had to buy a super Nintendo to play Super Mario world. A console is only legally obligated to be able to play the games that are out for it at the time of purchase, after that all future games just need to have what is required to play them, listed on the box. Upcoming games are just that, unpredictable vapor-ware. If you bought your gamecube to buy duke nukem forever, which was an upcoming title expected to be released for the system, the fact that the game never came to be for the system is not grounds for a refund.
Correction.. Especially during an election year. The largest crowd of voters is the group most easily manipulated by a combination of advertisements and the media. Taking money from said media to get biased news coverage, and applying that money towards your own commercials is getting free votes, The voting population won't know what rights they are giving away, because the media doesn't have to cover it. To top it off, when this bill gets signed, it may also put a huge dent in independent online news. "I suspect that Slashdot is plagiarizing our CNN tech site as they both reported on the same topic". Once that goes on they can start systematically shutting down competing news sources, which in turn lets them mask who is doing it in their normal reporting etc...
Why re-invent the wheel? The option of a full ad-block is within the program, you just have to tick one extra box to enable it, at which point it will most likely stay for every update until you chose to disable it. IMO this is not a horrible idea, The reason people started using ad-blockers wasn't because they abhorred the idea of their free sites having the nerve to post advertisements to fund themselves, it was because the advertisements kept getting more and more obtrusive as they went from small images, to large images, to images with popups to obnoxious sounds, at least a few people aren't opposed to a middle ground where they revert back to small banners on the page. One thing that would be nice is if ad-block could be designed to adjust the loading order however, IE the advertisement loads after the page.
Assuming they can keep the good ideas and shed the bad parts of them at the same time of course. The vulnerabilities attached to many of Flash's features, would be even more disastrous if it were a standard feature of the browser.
Basically people are upset over using an ideal model that 0 people look like, instead of using traditional models that 1 in 10 million people can look like? It's ok to have an unrealistic standard of beauty when one person with the perfect genetic makeup manages to do it, but when it's a fake person it is entirely wrong?
Must be a Chinese knockoff
And he also wants to monitor Facebook posts, Imagine reading that drivel all day. I'd almost prefer youtube comments
Political speech is speech done by a politician. Not speech too a politician. Politicians themselves have the largest degree of protection, and if the message is just a complaint then they will call it harassment, and if the message against them has anything resembling a threat, it won't just be the police, it will be homeland security.
Campaigns aren't but law enforcement is. Legislators don't send their private body guards after you, they send the police, or the FBI or whatever other organizations they can get in on it.
Indeed removing CO2 is the harder part, though that also can be done and has been done, hence part of why we aren't sending weekly oxygen shipments to the international space station, our bigger problems are still navigating, fuel, Surviving cabin fever etc.. Really I don't think landing a man on mars is really that far out of our technological level, we just lack a cold war or anything to really justify the spending and effort needed to make a government invest heavily in it.
I don't know, until we see it we won't know much on the performance levels of it, but I do think there is a market for even a slugish cheap tablet. Durring the tablet craze, I got myself an netbook for $99, it's a cheap piece of crap, barely can handle flash games, but for basic utility purposes, reading, browsing the web etc... I still cannot wrap my head around the tablet craze or what makes them worth $500, to me they seem to be a fairly comfortable device, that can do almost as much as a low end laptop, almost the same size as middle end laptop, at the price of... a middle of the line laptop, but hey you can get a keyboard for it for only $20-$80 extra and make it even closer to a laptop!
To do this in todays times... Guantanamo anyone?
2 scenarios here. 1. If a doctor is given a pager and informed that he must come in when it beeps, he should be compensated if it beeps and he has to come in
2. If a doctor is working clinic duty, Feels concerned for a patient, and gives her his celphone number, and says "If you have any concerns call me", and that patient calls him for advice on her toe fungus, he should not be compensated as that is a favor he volunteered to do, without being told by the hospital to do so.
Perhaps he's meaning this is one of the few cases of pro-active protection. Skunks, stink bugs, squids etc... use chemicals to defend themselves as a fire off at the last second defense, rather then a lace your home with it type of protection.
Some not all, actually if I recall there was sort of an unofficial line with wealthier people on one side, and less wealthy on another, another thing to note, not everyone with a $400 phone is a self entitled ass, many OWS protestors are fresh college graduates (IE people who have racked up enough student loan debt to keep them in a position of paying off loans until there 40's IF they actually can get something better then a minimum wage job). I don't know the origin of the quote but someone said "I am angry with the previous generation, they continued to push me saying if I didn't go to college, study and keep my grades up I would wind up working at McDonalds, now that I've done all those things and acquired $15,000 of debt, they now say I'm a self entitled jerk because I don't want to work at McDonalds. In other words many of the protestors are just off of the free ride, last point where parents cover you, and hit the point where everything they have worked hard for, they finally could be independent, but the economy and job market are in such chaos, they have nowhere to go but down.
True, but accidental in a horrendous way. "We only intended to hurt him by bashing his head into the pavement with the club, we had no intention of killing him". I agree the death toll will be negligible if it even exists, but at least a few people have taken some serious beatings that could cause permanent damage
Indeed, 50 years ago all the decrease in need for labor was expected, but predicted to work differently. They origionaly expected the standard of living for the average person to stay the same, and everyone to work 3-4 hour workdays, instead of people working half the hours, we decided to opt for half the people to work and half to starve.
Well in microsofts defense judging by what I've seen of MSE, it is so far better on resources then the most popular AVs (Note I said most popular not the better ones, that not enough people are smart enough to chose). One thing I do think though, when it comes to norton and McAfee, their lack of effectiveness isn't as much due to their coding or security holes being larger then the competition, just simply because they are the known AV's to work around. about 60% of users who pay for an AV use norton, and probably 20%ish use mcaffee, hence they are the lead targets for a virus to write around, just like why windows is the star platform to target virus for. When windows comes with an AV that is on 75% of home PCs (assuming about 20% for pushy salesmen like geeksquad shoving webroot down peoples throats, 5% for people who go out of their way to use an AV they prefer).
And who's property is the internet? Or are you meaning the pipes to access them that were paid for with tax dollars, and then the gateways given to a handful of companies that were then granted a government mandated monopoly?
Indeed, the bottom line is he said to not draw the attention of aliens that are centuries ahead of us technologically. If we happen to land on a planet that has a population that appears to be in the middle ages, or even near identical timeline to us that is a different matter altogether.
Most likely the way Microsoft cut deals with everyone. I believe the rumor is that microsoft tells the phone manufacturers every dollar they spend on the android patents, will come back to them in free WP8 licenses/marketing for windows phones etc... So basically for the other companies the options are A. Spend money on invalidating it, receive no refund, B. Spend money on something you don't need, get it all back. More or less without fighting they lose nothing unless WP8 completely fails to sell at all. Think of it as if you had a utility company, the electic company says you need to pay them $20 a month for your internet access they don't provide, but they will subtract $20 from your power bill. Does it matter to you? B&N and Amazon would be the few companies that have motivation to fight it, Microsoft has nothing to offer them unless B&N wants to make a windows powered reader later on as well.
Politicians are ages behind on technology usually, In general they have interns/PR people tending to their facebook twitter etc... Top that off with in house in government offices there should be a proxy server filtering content (which typically block advertisements as well).
Well it depends if the guy clearly has a sign out front that says "Hit-man for hire", and you walk in and hand him a big wad of money and say, My ex-wife is about to sue me for 5 years of alimony, I will give you $10,000 if she does not make it to court. You didn't directly ask him to break the law, but you darn well knew that is how he is going to do it. Just like if you find a company that is willing to manufacture a part that should take 5 man hours each, and they are willing to do it for $1. Then you know darn well that , but you accept the deal, and then make no effort to send a single person to actually look around the manufacturing facility before signing the deal, you should IMO be held liable.
I don't get the concept of everything needing to be quantified. Does the team accomplish what the goals of having the team are? Does it get developed in a fair timeframe? Is everyone on the team pulling their own weight, or are there complaints of someone slacking off? In the end if the product works then the team is doing well, if the product isn't there should be at least one hybrid manager/coder that actually works with the team members sees who is committing what and can tell off the bat if there is or isn't a weak link dragging the rest down. Actually putting a pen and paper number on a complex project is silly. Do authors get judged by the number of pages they write in a day, no they get paid by the success or failure of the book. You can't judge by the number of lines of code, bugs per line ratio or anything like that, because it is all subjective and has little to no bearing on the end product.
Unfortunately that is mainly because they love screwing over the long-term for the short term, verison's 4G allows a more or less instant ability to be self paid for. "Oh you want to use the new 4G in your town, just sign a new 2-3 year contract so we can upgrade your phone. The problem is ISP's need to actually start upgrading their infrastructure to allow themselves to continue to go their current speed (well actually at this point to get closer to their own advertised speeds), and well investing money to actually deliver what you advertise, just isn't as fun as an upgrade that lets you make even more claims.