What you've said is not entirely true. In many instances, yes, the better product sells. But lets say tomorrow I create a newer, better version of an iPod that could blow it out of the water, and try to market it and create it myself. Who's going to win here? Apple. Because they have the current marketplace, money, and other resources needed to squash my idea, reverse engineer it, and have a better version out, which pushes me out of business. However, if I've patented my new iPod clone, I can prevent Apple from doing this (theoretically).
Sears used to do this, unfortunately, with Craftsman tools. They'd find a small little tool someone was selling out of their garage and make it themselves and makes billions (RoboGrip was done this way). The little guy in the garage had nothing to stand on except his patent.
So, yes, our current patent system is in bad shape, but it still can help the little guy who has been truly wronged by some big corporation somewhere.
My point is when someone uses a radically different font, such as the Ransom Font, Snap ITC, or something such as that and does their entire site in it, or uses a custom font. Verdana, Arial, and the like are common fonts that most websites use, and are acceptable to me. In addition, when using a font such as Verdana for your default font, it tends not to break your site if a user chooses to make their browser default override. Using Comic Sans in size 20, however, has a drastically changed appearance when your browser defaults that back to a different font.
I don't think I'm explaining myself extremely well at all, but hopefully, you'll get what I'm saying.
Personally, I like to change my default font to Verdana. I do this on my website, and in my browser. I simply hate Times New Roman, and am not overly fond of Helvetica either. Personally, I see why in logos and things users may want to use other fonts, but since these are typically images, the problem of users not having a font is a moot point. For the rest of websites, though, typically, most decent websites use a standard font such as arial, verdana, helvetica, or Times New Roman.
While this is extremely close-minded and un-artistic, this is honestly the way I prefer it. I hate it when my browser is taken over by someone else's fonts, cursors, or popups. To me, they're all the same intrusive, annoying thing, and are all on the same level of annoyance.
Same thing, but all of my corporations 60,000 employees use the same outgoing IP address... My friends at work have been known to click on ads, and they'll all show up as the same IP, but that isn't fraud...
Personally, where I work, personal mp3 players and cameras are banned (we obviously have cameras for business use, not mp3 players). We also have our USB ports locked out. You can't just plug in a flash drive or anything without prior admin approval, so even if you brought your mp3 player in from home, it wouldn't work. Companies simply need to implement this to solve this problem. I know there are always ways around it, but this would simply be a step in the right direction.
I love my FireFox. I really do. But I completely agree. Every browser has problems. Internet Explorer causes vulnerabilities, FireFox isn't compatible, Opera has ads, etc etc etc.
I'm a diehard FireFox fan. I have it installed on every computer I touch (except work), and use it 99% of the time. Unfortunately, since I still have to open IE to use anything related to work (Java problems with FireFox), or open IE to listen to musical content (WMP is not compatible with FireFox, yet), I still use IE sometimes. This is honestly why I'm waiting on IE7. From what I've seen, Microsoft is making sincere efforts at becoming the best again. If IE7 is better than FireFox, I'll use it. Otherwise, I'll stick with Firefox. But unfortunately, even once 1.5 comes out, and 7 comes out, we'll still have problems, and neither one will be perfect.
Does Kart DS have the Block Fort vs. track from the N64 version? The GameCube version has the horrid version of it that isn't any fun, and its honestly my favorite track. Can anyone tell me if it is available?
I agree with your statement completely. A SmartCard style authentication device which is also required would be no worse than having to use an ATM card at an ATM. I would applaud any bank here that required a similar device to log-in. Bank of America, at the very least, uses SmartID to login (which isn't much better), but there's still a long way to go to make it more secure.
I, personally, use Dish Network's DVR, and am quite appalled with it. Not only do I have to pay an additional $10 a month to use it (its supposed to be $5, but they give you a hidden fee), but its fairly unreliable. The system powers itself off if its not used in awhile. Thats not a bad feature. The thing is, if it does this, it doesn't record programs once its off. Quite annoying. To top this off, it will sometimes say it has recorded a program, but it didn't. So, when you try and re-record it (if you're this lucky), it will cancel the new recording because it will say its a duplicate. To add insult to injury, the box itself can become quite noisy, as it heats up a good bit, and the fans are loud. The Dish Network service is great, it rarely goes down, and is great, except for some occasional lags between the video and audio, but I'd be glad to trade my DVR in for a computer-based version any day of the week (mostly for DVD burning capability).
I can understand why some people would want to do this, but I think they would need to provide more than a 33% discount. If it was less than half the original price, I'd go for it. Why? I get less than half back at the end of the year anyway. Plus, the ability to use a search function like you can in text documents would be a plus.
And if you also think about it, if it is accessed online, the professor could make updates to it throughout the semester if mistakes were found.
I think this COULD have good use, but not the way they're trying to push it now.
Just because its JavaScript now, doesn't mean it will be in the future. IMHO, this is just the first step. Today, its a javascript check. Tomorrow, who knows what they'll do.
The biggest annoyance to me when upgrading to 1.0.5 was that I had to uninstall my extensions due to incompatibilities. I reinstalled the same version of the extensions, and they worked fine. Now I suppose I get to do this again! *sigh*
I understand these are all bug fixes, but it is getting old having to manually install each time as well. The update tool usually hangs on everything but extensions.
The way its supposed to work is that since there are over 1,000 different possible images, if you were a fake site, you couldn't possibly randomly display the right image. To top it off, the phrase is created by you and must also match, so its even harder to randomly create that. So, as a BoA member who uses this service, I know that if I don't see my image with my self-made phrase below, something is wrong, and I know to not login. I also know that if I don't see the sitekey option at all, I'm not at a BoA site and to not login.
The system IMHO is to prevent phishers from getting your login information in the first place, not so much to keep them from logging on as you. Its not perfect, and its still easily beatable, but as a BoA member, seeing them do anything at all to try and save their rep as the worst bank for security is nice.
Just imagine. IE is already the browser most known for succombing to popups. Now Microsoft is going to own the company who makes them.
Either Microsoft is doing something smart by trying to buy the technology BEHIND the popups, making them easier to block... (yeah right)...
Or soon, MS will launch a Google-like system that sees us running OpenOffice, and pops up a dialog for MS Office. We'll be running Winamp, and see a popup for WMP.
Just imagine! Windows popups! How fun will that be.
*runs and hides from the evil Windows*
So if you look at it that way, burn your first copy, and use it to burn your first three. On your third, keep it, and hand out the first copy you made instead of the third. That way, you're always copying from your copy (not damaging your first, possibly), and you can still make unlimited copies. You're probably going to eventually degrade in quality, and its confusing, but hey, it works.
So first Bank of America has a security breach to lose all my personal data including bank accounts and the like, and now Microsoft will be incharge of my National ID? Great. I'm just ecstatic about this one.
Would it just save us some trouble if they made a webpage where we could submit our personal information to all the thieves and everyone to save them the time?
Its because no one knows anything about the battery life yet. There isn't any data strong enough to let anyone say anything. They'd rather not comment than say something completely wrong.
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What you've said is not entirely true. In many instances, yes, the better product sells. But lets say tomorrow I create a newer, better version of an iPod that could blow it out of the water, and try to market it and create it myself. Who's going to win here? Apple. Because they have the current marketplace, money, and other resources needed to squash my idea, reverse engineer it, and have a better version out, which pushes me out of business. However, if I've patented my new iPod clone, I can prevent Apple from doing this (theoretically).
Sears used to do this, unfortunately, with Craftsman tools. They'd find a small little tool someone was selling out of their garage and make it themselves and makes billions (RoboGrip was done this way). The little guy in the garage had nothing to stand on except his patent.
So, yes, our current patent system is in bad shape, but it still can help the little guy who has been truly wronged by some big corporation somewhere.
Microsoft also is in support of DRM, but released a patch to prevent Sony's rootkit from working.
Microsoft = double standard.
My point is when someone uses a radically different font, such as the Ransom Font, Snap ITC, or something such as that and does their entire site in it, or uses a custom font. Verdana, Arial, and the like are common fonts that most websites use, and are acceptable to me. In addition, when using a font such as Verdana for your default font, it tends not to break your site if a user chooses to make their browser default override. Using Comic Sans in size 20, however, has a drastically changed appearance when your browser defaults that back to a different font.
I don't think I'm explaining myself extremely well at all, but hopefully, you'll get what I'm saying.
Personally, I like to change my default font to Verdana. I do this on my website, and in my browser. I simply hate Times New Roman, and am not overly fond of Helvetica either. Personally, I see why in logos and things users may want to use other fonts, but since these are typically images, the problem of users not having a font is a moot point. For the rest of websites, though, typically, most decent websites use a standard font such as arial, verdana, helvetica, or Times New Roman.
While this is extremely close-minded and un-artistic, this is honestly the way I prefer it. I hate it when my browser is taken over by someone else's fonts, cursors, or popups. To me, they're all the same intrusive, annoying thing, and are all on the same level of annoyance.
Same thing, but all of my corporations 60,000 employees use the same outgoing IP address... My friends at work have been known to click on ads, and they'll all show up as the same IP, but that isn't fraud...
This entire lawsuit has flawed logic.
Personally, where I work, personal mp3 players and cameras are banned (we obviously have cameras for business use, not mp3 players). We also have our USB ports locked out. You can't just plug in a flash drive or anything without prior admin approval, so even if you brought your mp3 player in from home, it wouldn't work. Companies simply need to implement this to solve this problem. I know there are always ways around it, but this would simply be a step in the right direction.
I love my FireFox. I really do. But I completely agree. Every browser has problems. Internet Explorer causes vulnerabilities, FireFox isn't compatible, Opera has ads, etc etc etc.
I'm a diehard FireFox fan. I have it installed on every computer I touch (except work), and use it 99% of the time. Unfortunately, since I still have to open IE to use anything related to work (Java problems with FireFox), or open IE to listen to musical content (WMP is not compatible with FireFox, yet), I still use IE sometimes. This is honestly why I'm waiting on IE7. From what I've seen, Microsoft is making sincere efforts at becoming the best again. If IE7 is better than FireFox, I'll use it. Otherwise, I'll stick with Firefox. But unfortunately, even once 1.5 comes out, and 7 comes out, we'll still have problems, and neither one will be perfect.
I was so upset that they included the crappy rendition with Double Dash, it ruined Double Dash for me, as I see no real good tracks.
Does Kart DS have the Block Fort vs. track from the N64 version? The GameCube version has the horrid version of it that isn't any fun, and its honestly my favorite track. Can anyone tell me if it is available?
I agree with your statement completely. A SmartCard style authentication device which is also required would be no worse than having to use an ATM card at an ATM. I would applaud any bank here that required a similar device to log-in. Bank of America, at the very least, uses SmartID to login (which isn't much better), but there's still a long way to go to make it more secure.
I, personally, use Dish Network's DVR, and am quite appalled with it. Not only do I have to pay an additional $10 a month to use it (its supposed to be $5, but they give you a hidden fee), but its fairly unreliable. The system powers itself off if its not used in awhile. Thats not a bad feature. The thing is, if it does this, it doesn't record programs once its off. Quite annoying. To top this off, it will sometimes say it has recorded a program, but it didn't. So, when you try and re-record it (if you're this lucky), it will cancel the new recording because it will say its a duplicate. To add insult to injury, the box itself can become quite noisy, as it heats up a good bit, and the fans are loud. The Dish Network service is great, it rarely goes down, and is great, except for some occasional lags between the video and audio, but I'd be glad to trade my DVR in for a computer-based version any day of the week (mostly for DVD burning capability).
Pete, this sounds like a wonderful idea (using a hosts file). Might I ask how you do this, as I am curious about using the same setup on my end.
I can understand why some people would want to do this, but I think they would need to provide more than a 33% discount. If it was less than half the original price, I'd go for it. Why? I get less than half back at the end of the year anyway. Plus, the ability to use a search function like you can in text documents would be a plus.
And if you also think about it, if it is accessed online, the professor could make updates to it throughout the semester if mistakes were found.
I think this COULD have good use, but not the way they're trying to push it now.
Just because its JavaScript now, doesn't mean it will be in the future. IMHO, this is just the first step. Today, its a javascript check. Tomorrow, who knows what they'll do.
The biggest annoyance to me when upgrading to 1.0.5 was that I had to uninstall my extensions due to incompatibilities. I reinstalled the same version of the extensions, and they worked fine. Now I suppose I get to do this again! *sigh*
I understand these are all bug fixes, but it is getting old having to manually install each time as well. The update tool usually hangs on everything but extensions.
The way its supposed to work is that since there are over 1,000 different possible images, if you were a fake site, you couldn't possibly randomly display the right image. To top it off, the phrase is created by you and must also match, so its even harder to randomly create that. So, as a BoA member who uses this service, I know that if I don't see my image with my self-made phrase below, something is wrong, and I know to not login. I also know that if I don't see the sitekey option at all, I'm not at a BoA site and to not login.
The system IMHO is to prevent phishers from getting your login information in the first place, not so much to keep them from logging on as you. Its not perfect, and its still easily beatable, but as a BoA member, seeing them do anything at all to try and save their rep as the worst bank for security is nice.
Just imagine. IE is already the browser most known for succombing to popups. Now Microsoft is going to own the company who makes them. Either Microsoft is doing something smart by trying to buy the technology BEHIND the popups, making them easier to block... (yeah right)... Or soon, MS will launch a Google-like system that sees us running OpenOffice, and pops up a dialog for MS Office. We'll be running Winamp, and see a popup for WMP. Just imagine! Windows popups! How fun will that be. *runs and hides from the evil Windows*
So if you look at it that way, burn your first copy, and use it to burn your first three. On your third, keep it, and hand out the first copy you made instead of the third. That way, you're always copying from your copy (not damaging your first, possibly), and you can still make unlimited copies. You're probably going to eventually degrade in quality, and its confusing, but hey, it works.
So first Bank of America has a security breach to lose all my personal data including bank accounts and the like, and now Microsoft will be incharge of my National ID? Great. I'm just ecstatic about this one.
Would it just save us some trouble if they made a webpage where we could submit our personal information to all the thieves and everyone to save them the time?
I haven't tried it, because everything I've seen has said Comcast has it blocked. I'd love to help out, though.
I use Comcast, and want to run my own server, but Comcast blocks the ports you would need. Do you think Tor could be used to get around this?
If you're in a right to hire/right to fire state, leave.
Its because no one knows anything about the battery life yet. There isn't any data strong enough to let anyone say anything. They'd rather not comment than say something completely wrong.
I checked to see if I'm honestlty that dumb, and yes, I did have everything right so far as I could tell...
The one thing I still can't find any information about is a tentative US launch date and the US launch price. Anyone have this information yet?