Contrary to how people see it, there are pretty much always more than two candidates on the ballot.
The fact, that people tend to stay focused on the two "main" ones, despite an alternative being present, speaks volumes about how they feel about actually wanting to embrace change.
I mean: you all (at least the majority did) know that you don't want a republican to win. Most of you also know that Obama didn't live quite up to his promises or your expectations.
Why not choosing a third (or fourth or sixth) alternative? Can it really be worse?
I would dearly love to know what kind of spyware this was then.
Even a "simple wipe" in my opinion means a format/reinstall.
If spyware survived that and was capable of SENDING information back to whomever installed it in the first place, then it's really scary. Consider what has to be done for the spyware to send something: - Either the OS has to exist or spyware is somewhere below it - If Spyware is below the OS, then it has to have direct access to HW in order to be able to do capture and sending of information on that PC
OS wipe would at the very least have re-set the config options regarding where the spyware was supposed to be sending the data. This wasn't some sort of a worm that we're discussing here, that would have the destination settings hard-coded. It's (supposedly) a configurable piece of software and configurations are (normally) easy to corrupt.
If it was an accident, then I think that IT department did nothing, when dad gave them the PC to wipe. Or, like suggested above, FBI may have been lying.
You could also argue that if HIB became (at least temporarily) a platform where even big names feel like they can get some value. Then it is absolutely invaluable to small developers? Of course it's up to the site owners to make sure that Indie developers still get their proper representation. But if the platform changes into Humble (Indie-in-name-only) Bundle, then it will collapse on it's own anyway and another alternative will pop up somewhere that will be bigger and better.
This excursion into "big leagues" certainly won't make me any less likely to buy the next Indie bundle that HIB will offer. It may in fact make it more likely that additional people will do so as well, since the word has spread a bit further now than it did before.
Well I was thinking about getting Company of Heroes for a while and Saints Row was always nagging at me.
Now I have them all together, plus some bonus games. I absolutely LOVE how Steam works and even though the other bundles always had non-DRM options I hardly ever used those binaries (mostly if I wanted to give a copy to someone). I was actually a bit disappointed whenever there wasn't Steam key accompanying a release.
So even though this release is not Indie and it has DRM I see it as a good thing, since it brings money to charity, it allows me to have fun and it may even help out THQ to swim out of the problems that they've fallen into. And from what I've seen so far, the games are of good quality. The fact that they're a few years old only makes my laptop handle them easier with less hot air out of the exhaust:-)
So what's wrong with a simple password or a PIN, that could be used for all of this as well? Without indiscriminately tracking you when you don't want to be tracked?
Forced by law? In my country only primary school (from age of 6 to 14) is mandatory. After that it's your choice to go to high school (from 14 to 18) or higher.
Of course pretty much every kid goes to high school but it's by no means a must.
So if someone marks her song as a favorite in Pandora and rewinds it several times, that's a good indicator for her, right? And if Pandora can provide her with a generic demographic information, then she can get what she needs, I don't see how that impacts you, as a listener, negatively in any way.
But with actual sale, she would generally know at least how many copies of her work were sold at which location. Here she just knows that all over the world (or wherever Pandora is available currently) her song or songs were played X amount of times. While this can make her happy if X is a great number, it doesn't give her insight into where (and with that, at least partially, who) her audience is. If she's an artist that not only wants to create art, but also wants to be commercially successful then such information could be quite helpful. She doesn't want to force a relationship on YOU but she does want to make an informed decision on where she should turn in order to have the highest success rate in forming relationships.
I find it funny how/. crowd seems to chastise musicians and music industry in how they don't move along in their ways and how they're fixed in old business models. Here someone tries to get ahead of the game with a new approach and it's considered a bad move.
The thing is that ambulance drivers are above-average trained drivers.
I would say that majority of people on the road have absolutely no clue what to do if the situation occurs that their car loses grip on the surface. Most of the time they will simply either slam on the brakes or do absolutely nothing. And most of the time the end result will be crash, with consequences proportional to the initial speed with which they were going.
ABS is usually considered a good thing in the car. But a lot of the drivers will tell you that if you have a feel for when your car looses grip, when you break, you'll break more efficiently without ABS than with it. In order to do that, however, you have to test emergency breaking scenarios a few times. If not: Serious shit -> full slam on the brakes with no ABS -> probably crash after you watch the obstacle in front of you coming closer and you're without any control over you'r vehicle, that you're aware of...
For a vast majority of drivers "crap" like ABS, ESC and the like will be life-savers. For some above-average, they will be a hindrance or a danger.
I, myself, do not smoke. But I'm often present when people go on smoke breaks. Why? Because we discuss work-related issues. I honestly would have hard time saying that in more than 1/5 of all time spent on such breaks topics didn't have to do with work.
And in any case, I have a real issue with perception-based judgments. If I have a job to do, and it's done, then it's not up to you to grouch about when and how I'm doing it. As long as it's done by the set deadline and the way it's supposed to be done, leave me alone. And I'll do the same to you. If you can do all your tasks by 10AM, the more kudos to you.
Sure. But if the activity is legal, you should have absolutely no business asking me if I partake in said activity or not!
This would go along the same lines as asking me about my religious views, my intention to have children in the future or not, my political affiliation and so forth.
If I'm doing something that's illegal, police will come and take me away. At that time I'll probably loose my job. If I'm simply doing something that YOU, as my employer, do not like, outside of working hours, and it has no impact on my job performance, then kindly fuck off, please.
If this is something similar to what we have, then it's called "election silence" or equivalent. In my country the law states that on last 24 hours before election day and on election day itself it's illegal to have any sort of activity that relates to promotion of the candidates in any way. Idea is to allow the people to "breathe" easier and have the ideas that were thrown at them settle down, before they vote. Also, of course, the idea is to prevent any influence directly on the voting day, that could tamper with the voters with various gimmicks.
No, it's actually just the opposite of what you said.
Download = getting the file to your local PC from the cloud, which also relates to inability to create the documents in the mentioned older formats. What follows is that customers that cannot open newer formats like.docx and rely on.doc will not be able to receive the documents created with Google docs anymore.
You will still be able to open the old files, but the files will be automatically "upgraded" to the.***x version.
On the other hand I have to say, that I find it surprising that this would actually still be a major issue. Whether we like it or not, MS formats are a de-facto standard for document distribution world-wide for a really long time now. The.***x formats have been introduced with Office 2007, so it's been about 5 years now that they are around. At the same time, if I recall correctly there are plugins for older MS Office versions that allow for work with the new formats. I can understand that some organizations may not like MS but in that case they are the ones causing problems to the rest of the ecosystem of which they are part and not really the other way around.
I'm not sure if you're from Europe yourself, or if you are, which country you're from. But there are at least a few countries in EU where locking a phone is prohibited by law and it may actually be an EU directive that prevents that. So in practice, I don't think I've heard of a locked phone now for quite a while.
On the second point, while roaming charges WERE in some cases prohibitively expensive, things are much better now and will continue to improve. Since 2007 there is regulation in effect that forces all mobile providers within EU and EEC countries to have fixed maximum roaming charges. And you know what? Prices are going down every year! Currently/highest/ prices (without VAT) for roaming within EU (if you have a contract in any other EU country) are as follows: - Making a call EUR 0,29/min (EUR 0,19/min in 2014) - Receiving a call EUR 0,08/min (EUR 0,05/min in 2014) - Sending a text message EUR 0,09/min (EUR 0,06/min in 2014) - Receiving a text message - free of charge Source Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_on_roaming_charges_in_the_European_Union#Prices
So I don't think that the inconvenience of having to switch SIMs and with that phone numbers is a realistic thing anymore. Especially if you travel on business and even if you travel privately and exercise a bit of care.
At the end of the day, with you examples, you have money and you're miserable, while at the same time you teach those around you that this approach is how you should spend the rest of your days.
Myself, I'm happy. I'll never be the richest guy around, but I won't feel hate for the people I work with or under. Mostly we'll work well together and when we achieve something we'll toast with couple of beers.
I hope you earn as much as you want. I'll rather enjoy life.
I've seen other "copy protection" approaches that blocked printers, screen-capture capabilities and such. It seems none of them ever heard of virtualization.
As usual, copy protection makes things harder for average people, but will do nothing of any significance for anyone who has some degree of skill and more than an hours' worth of time.
Used as the phrase may be, money actually is NOT everything!
Money is means to achieve goals that you have set for yourself in life. If you can achieve those goals reasonably quickly with the amount of money you earn and not suffer while earning it, then that's ideal. Not many get to do that. There are people that kill themselves to earn more, than they would otherwise (like the parent, above) but they don't like how they live their life. Then there are also people who simply don't have choice and have to do whatever they can, just to survive.
My main criteria for a job is like this: if I wake up every day in a week and think "why do I have to go to THIS job", then it's time to think about switching employers. It's as simple as that.
I must say that I don't quite get US speed limits.
In Europe speed limit on the highways is 130 kph, pretty much everywhere, which is roughly 80 mph. In my country you most likely won't be stopped by police if you're not driving more than 160 kph (about 100 mph). And to my knowledge speeding on the highway is not a major source of accidents. Speeding on other roads is much more of a safety issue, but not highways.
And let's not even talk about certain parts of Germany, where there are NO speed limits on their autobahns at all. There you can literally go as quickly as your car will go without any legal issues. And it's surprising how well that works out.
In essence I have to say that I agree with the above statement.
The only thing is that I'm not sure that we're quite there yet with our knowledge of genetics to be DEFINITIVELY able to say that a particular gene or sequence of them is responsible for a trait such as "psychopathy". Things like eye color or something along these lines are one thing but complex psychological features that are often combination of multiple factors are quite something else. Until that is well established all such discussions, while interesting and controversial, are very moot. I simply wouldn't subject my (future) offspring to guesses that tend to change with some frequency.
How often do you check the contents of your "backup" drives?
Last time I was looking into this, hard drives were not supposed to be very good at storing data, if they're turned off. Data is supposed to become corrupted if the disk isn't in use.
Actually antelopes jumping high have at least two extremely good reasons for doing so: 1. Showing that they are fit and energetic, thus making it clear to potential predators that they will be a hard catch. Or at least significantly harder, than an older specimen that is not as agile. 2. If actually chased those jumps can literally save its butt at a crucial moment.
I'm not sure what the deal is with a peacock, but antelopes' behavior helps its survival. It doesn't hinder it.
This would probably depend on how you use your email.
But even if you don't sort your mails into folders or categories, I never had any problems with Outlook search, whatsoever. With advanced search, especially, I've always been able to find exactly what I was looking for and, at most, I had to click about 3 or 4 settings, if I wanted a more strict filtering of my results.
I use Gmail web interface as primary private email client, pretty much since it was released and Outlook as a primary work email client pretty much since it was released also. I honestly cannot say which one works better for me in regards to searching. I can, however, say that I like that you can sort your results by whatever parameter you choose in Outlook, which you cannot do in Gmail web interface.
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Contrary to how people see it, there are pretty much always more than two candidates on the ballot.
The fact, that people tend to stay focused on the two "main" ones, despite an alternative being present, speaks volumes about how they feel about actually wanting to embrace change.
I mean: you all (at least the majority did) know that you don't want a republican to win. Most of you also know that Obama didn't live quite up to his promises or your expectations.
Why not choosing a third (or fourth or sixth) alternative? Can it really be worse?
I would dearly love to know what kind of spyware this was then.
Even a "simple wipe" in my opinion means a format/reinstall.
If spyware survived that and was capable of SENDING information back to whomever installed it in the first place, then it's really scary.
Consider what has to be done for the spyware to send something:
- Either the OS has to exist or spyware is somewhere below it
- If Spyware is below the OS, then it has to have direct access to HW in order to be able to do capture and sending of information on that PC
OS wipe would at the very least have re-set the config options regarding where the spyware was supposed to be sending the data. This wasn't some sort of a worm that we're discussing here, that would have the destination settings hard-coded. It's (supposedly) a configurable piece of software and configurations are (normally) easy to corrupt.
If it was an accident, then I think that IT department did nothing, when dad gave them the PC to wipe. Or, like suggested above, FBI may have been lying.
Why?
You could also argue that if HIB became (at least temporarily) a platform where even big names feel like they can get some value. Then it is absolutely invaluable to small developers? Of course it's up to the site owners to make sure that Indie developers still get their proper representation. But if the platform changes into Humble (Indie-in-name-only) Bundle, then it will collapse on it's own anyway and another alternative will pop up somewhere that will be bigger and better.
This excursion into "big leagues" certainly won't make me any less likely to buy the next Indie bundle that HIB will offer. It may in fact make it more likely that additional people will do so as well, since the word has spread a bit further now than it did before.
Well I was thinking about getting Company of Heroes for a while and Saints Row was always nagging at me.
Now I have them all together, plus some bonus games. I absolutely LOVE how Steam works and even though the other bundles always had non-DRM options I hardly ever used those binaries (mostly if I wanted to give a copy to someone). I was actually a bit disappointed whenever there wasn't Steam key accompanying a release.
So even though this release is not Indie and it has DRM I see it as a good thing, since it brings money to charity, it allows me to have fun and it may even help out THQ to swim out of the problems that they've fallen into. And from what I've seen so far, the games are of good quality. The fact that they're a few years old only makes my laptop handle them easier with less hot air out of the exhaust :-)
So what's wrong with a simple password or a PIN, that could be used for all of this as well? Without indiscriminately tracking you when you don't want to be tracked?
Forced by law?
In my country only primary school (from age of 6 to 14) is mandatory. After that it's your choice to go to high school (from 14 to 18) or higher.
Of course pretty much every kid goes to high school but it's by no means a must.
So if someone marks her song as a favorite in Pandora and rewinds it several times, that's a good indicator for her, right? And if Pandora can provide her with a generic demographic information, then she can get what she needs,
I don't see how that impacts you, as a listener, negatively in any way.
But with actual sale, she would generally know at least how many copies of her work were sold at which location.
Here she just knows that all over the world (or wherever Pandora is available currently) her song or songs were played X amount of times. While this can make her happy if X is a great number, it doesn't give her insight into where (and with that, at least partially, who) her audience is. If she's an artist that not only wants to create art, but also wants to be commercially successful then such information could be quite helpful.
She doesn't want to force a relationship on YOU but she does want to make an informed decision on where she should turn in order to have the highest success rate in forming relationships.
I find it funny how /. crowd seems to chastise musicians and music industry in how they don't move along in their ways and how they're fixed in old business models. Here someone tries to get ahead of the game with a new approach and it's considered a bad move.
Depends where you live.
In my country hard drives fall under the same regulation as the blank CDs/DVDs/memory sticks and so on.
So there's no way that you can create something and not paying the "pirate" tax.
The thing is that ambulance drivers are above-average trained drivers.
I would say that majority of people on the road have absolutely no clue what to do if the situation occurs that their car loses grip on the surface. Most of the time they will simply either slam on the brakes or do absolutely nothing. And most of the time the end result will be crash, with consequences proportional to the initial speed with which they were going.
ABS is usually considered a good thing in the car. But a lot of the drivers will tell you that if you have a feel for when your car looses grip, when you break, you'll break more efficiently without ABS than with it. In order to do that, however, you have to test emergency breaking scenarios a few times. If not: Serious shit -> full slam on the brakes with no ABS -> probably crash after you watch the obstacle in front of you coming closer and you're without any control over you'r vehicle, that you're aware of...
For a vast majority of drivers "crap" like ABS, ESC and the like will be life-savers. For some above-average, they will be a hindrance or a danger.
I, myself, do not smoke. But I'm often present when people go on smoke breaks. Why? Because we discuss work-related issues. I honestly would have hard time saying that in more than 1/5 of all time spent on such breaks topics didn't have to do with work.
And in any case, I have a real issue with perception-based judgments. If I have a job to do, and it's done, then it's not up to you to grouch about when and how I'm doing it. As long as it's done by the set deadline and the way it's supposed to be done, leave me alone. And I'll do the same to you.
If you can do all your tasks by 10AM, the more kudos to you.
Sure. But if the activity is legal, you should have absolutely no business asking me if I partake in said activity or not!
This would go along the same lines as asking me about my religious views, my intention to have children in the future or not, my political affiliation and so forth.
If I'm doing something that's illegal, police will come and take me away. At that time I'll probably loose my job. If I'm simply doing something that YOU, as my employer, do not like, outside of working hours, and it has no impact on my job performance, then kindly fuck off, please.
Disclaimer: I'm not and have never been a smoker.
Not really censorship.
If this is something similar to what we have, then it's called "election silence" or equivalent. In my country the law states that on last 24 hours before election day and on election day itself it's illegal to have any sort of activity that relates to promotion of the candidates in any way.
Idea is to allow the people to "breathe" easier and have the ideas that were thrown at them settle down, before they vote.
Also, of course, the idea is to prevent any influence directly on the voting day, that could tamper with the voters with various gimmicks.
No, it's actually just the opposite of what you said.
Download = getting the file to your local PC from the cloud, which also relates to inability to create the documents in the mentioned older formats. .docx and rely on .doc will not be able to receive the documents created with Google docs anymore.
What follows is that customers that cannot open newer formats like
You will still be able to open the old files, but the files will be automatically "upgraded" to the .***x version.
On the other hand I have to say, that I find it surprising that this would actually still be a major issue. Whether we like it or not, MS formats are a de-facto standard for document distribution world-wide for a really long time now. The .***x formats have been introduced with Office 2007, so it's been about 5 years now that they are around. At the same time, if I recall correctly there are plugins for older MS Office versions that allow for work with the new formats.
I can understand that some organizations may not like MS but in that case they are the ones causing problems to the rest of the ecosystem of which they are part and not really the other way around.
I'm not sure if you're from Europe yourself, or if you are, which country you're from. But there are at least a few countries in EU where locking a phone is prohibited by law and it may actually be an EU directive that prevents that. So in practice, I don't think I've heard of a locked phone now for quite a while.
On the second point, while roaming charges WERE in some cases prohibitively expensive, things are much better now and will continue to improve. Since 2007 there is regulation in effect that forces all mobile providers within EU and EEC countries to have fixed maximum roaming charges. And you know what? Prices are going down every year! /highest/ prices (without VAT) for roaming within EU (if you have a contract in any other EU country) are as follows:
Currently
- Making a call EUR 0,29/min (EUR 0,19/min in 2014)
- Receiving a call EUR 0,08/min (EUR 0,05/min in 2014)
- Sending a text message EUR 0,09/min (EUR 0,06/min in 2014)
- Receiving a text message - free of charge
Source Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_on_roaming_charges_in_the_European_Union#Prices
So I don't think that the inconvenience of having to switch SIMs and with that phone numbers is a realistic thing anymore. Especially if you travel on business and even if you travel privately and exercise a bit of care.
I honestly feel sorry for you, man.
At the end of the day, with you examples, you have money and you're miserable, while at the same time you teach those around you that this approach is how you should spend the rest of your days.
Myself, I'm happy. I'll never be the richest guy around, but I won't feel hate for the people I work with or under. Mostly we'll work well together and when we achieve something we'll toast with couple of beers.
I hope you earn as much as you want. I'll rather enjoy life.
Exactly!
I've seen other "copy protection" approaches that blocked printers, screen-capture capabilities and such. It seems none of them ever heard of virtualization.
As usual, copy protection makes things harder for average people, but will do nothing of any significance for anyone who has some degree of skill and more than an hours' worth of time.
Why, oh why?
Used as the phrase may be, money actually is NOT everything!
Money is means to achieve goals that you have set for yourself in life. If you can achieve those goals reasonably quickly with the amount of money you earn and not suffer while earning it, then that's ideal. Not many get to do that.
There are people that kill themselves to earn more, than they would otherwise (like the parent, above) but they don't like how they live their life. Then there are also people who simply don't have choice and have to do whatever they can, just to survive.
My main criteria for a job is like this: if I wake up every day in a week and think "why do I have to go to THIS job", then it's time to think about switching employers. It's as simple as that.
I must say that I don't quite get US speed limits.
In Europe speed limit on the highways is 130 kph, pretty much everywhere, which is roughly 80 mph. In my country you most likely won't be stopped by police if you're not driving more than 160 kph (about 100 mph). And to my knowledge speeding on the highway is not a major source of accidents. Speeding on other roads is much more of a safety issue, but not highways.
And let's not even talk about certain parts of Germany, where there are NO speed limits on their autobahns at all. There you can literally go as quickly as your car will go without any legal issues. And it's surprising how well that works out.
Which crap are you referring to?
The underlying system which has problems (much, much less than it used to have 15 or even 10 years ago) or the GUI?
If you want to change to entrails it doesn't have to have impact on how users see it, feel it and use it.
In essence I have to say that I agree with the above statement.
The only thing is that I'm not sure that we're quite there yet with our knowledge of genetics to be DEFINITIVELY able to say that a particular gene or sequence of them is responsible for a trait such as "psychopathy". Things like eye color or something along these lines are one thing but complex psychological features that are often combination of multiple factors are quite something else.
Until that is well established all such discussions, while interesting and controversial, are very moot. I simply wouldn't subject my (future) offspring to guesses that tend to change with some frequency.
How often do you check the contents of your "backup" drives?
Last time I was looking into this, hard drives were not supposed to be very good at storing data, if they're turned off. Data is supposed to become corrupted if the disk isn't in use.
Gmail alone does not have such an option. Google apps for business, on the other hand, do.
Actually antelopes jumping high have at least two extremely good reasons for doing so:
1. Showing that they are fit and energetic, thus making it clear to potential predators that they will be a hard catch. Or at least significantly harder, than an older specimen that is not as agile.
2. If actually chased those jumps can literally save its butt at a crucial moment.
I'm not sure what the deal is with a peacock, but antelopes' behavior helps its survival. It doesn't hinder it.
This would probably depend on how you use your email.
But even if you don't sort your mails into folders or categories, I never had any problems with Outlook search, whatsoever.
With advanced search, especially, I've always been able to find exactly what I was looking for and, at most, I had to click about 3 or 4 settings, if I wanted a more strict filtering of my results.
I use Gmail web interface as primary private email client, pretty much since it was released and Outlook as a primary work email client pretty much since it was released also.
I honestly cannot say which one works better for me in regards to searching. I can, however, say that I like that you can sort your results by whatever parameter you choose in Outlook, which you cannot do in Gmail web interface.