Even if I'm sat there next to them and ask them what the window they just closed was I just get "I don't know, it just always appears when I do that".
If I repeat the error and point out that it says (eg.) "printer isn't switched on" they'll sheepishly turn on the printer and apologize for wasting my time but will they learn anything and read the next message that appears?? Dream on....
I dunno, colored puppies sounds like a good idea: "I saw a funny red puppy waving at me" but I'm jaded and don't have a lot of faith in end users.
I agree...if you want to drive you need to pay insurance/tax/parking, etc., ie. act like a member of the society you're so happy to leech off. Oh, and pay for the car as well - they catch loads of stolen cars or cars where people don't make payments.
ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) cameras are widespread in the UK and they definitely get my vote.
What if a certain group of crackers decides to DOS the servers?
This could easily happen and make the game unplayable for 48 hours after launch....plenty of time to crack it *AND* piss off all the people who went and paid for it.
People can grab copies of whatever people download from the servers and put it in the local cache. Once you have a complete working game in your PCs memory you have a complete working game, period.
I think you're overestimating how hard it will be. Cracking this will be as easy as cracking any other game, ie. it will be a torrent in around 24 hours, certainly within 48 hours.
This will be cracked as fast as any other game. All you need is a fake server running on the local machine and redirect the game to it. The rest of the hacking process is business as usual for people who do that sort of thing.
Blu-Ray drives have pretty much the same stuff inside them but they cost much more. All else being equal they should only cost a couple of dollars extra to buy.
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"Was it a burp noise or a farting noise? Oh, a vomiting noise...that means there's no paper left."
Might work.
UV radiation is ionizing, microwaves aren't.
If nothing else he'll save a lot on heating bills!
The worry will have more effect on your health than the actual microwaves.
If you have the slightest worry about the physics involved then it's not right for you.
...and nobody's PROVED that the Loch Ness Monster, Easter Bunny and God don't exist either.
Maybe there's a logical fallacy about proving non-existence in your non-assumptions.
Yep, I get this all the time
Even if I'm sat there next to them and ask them what the window they just closed was I just get "I don't know, it just always appears when I do that".
If I repeat the error and point out that it says (eg.) "printer isn't switched on" they'll sheepishly turn on the printer and apologize for wasting my time but will they learn anything and read the next message that appears?? Dream on....
I dunno, colored puppies sounds like a good idea: "I saw a funny red puppy waving at me" but I'm jaded and don't have a lot of faith in end users.
If it's really converting 86% of the incident light into electricity then they're going to last quite a bit longer than a soda bottle.
So? Nobody's denying you the privilege but you have to drive a car you can afford, pay the insurance and park it properly when you arrive.
From what I've seen though, "living within your means" isn't what Americans are best at.
I agree...if you want to drive you need to pay insurance/tax/parking, etc., ie. act like a member of the society you're so happy to leech off. Oh, and pay for the car as well - they catch loads of stolen cars or cars where people don't make payments.
ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) cameras are widespread in the UK and they definitely get my vote.
When you're selling hundreds of millions of units the R&D is soon recovered.
What if a certain group of crackers decides to DOS the servers?
This could easily happen and make the game unplayable for 48 hours after launch....plenty of time to crack it *AND* piss off all the people who went and paid for it.
And pigs may fly...
People can grab copies of whatever people download from the servers and put it in the local cache. Once you have a complete working game in your PCs memory you have a complete working game, period.
This is another perfect example of how DRM *only* hurts legal, paying customers.
Want to be legal and play it on a laptop away from home? You're out of luck if you have a legal copy of the game.
Mr. Pirate...? He won't be affected at all.
I think you're overestimating how hard it will be. Cracking this will be as easy as cracking any other game, ie. it will be a torrent in around 24 hours, certainly within 48 hours.
In a few years it will be 100% cracked...
This will be cracked as fast as any other game. All you need is a fake server running on the local machine and redirect the game to it. The rest of the hacking process is business as usual for people who do that sort of thing.
It's usually pretty obvious which are the fakes/trojans if you read the user comments..
Is it just me or do the clouds have massive depth-sorting problems at 1 minute 45 seconds...?
Blu-Ray drives have pretty much the same stuff inside them but they cost much more. All else being equal they should only cost a couple of dollars extra to buy.
PS: "Brakes"...
Most file systems work by clusters, not sectors.
NTFS partitions use 4k clusters by default so you already have this problem.
Use multiple video projectors - no bezels.
That baby must have sicked up terabytes/min at its peak. You can probably trace global warming back to Rick Astley if you try.
I've written a program which writes other computer programs, all it needs is a description of the goal in plain English.
It's the last program that will ever need to be written. As of today all programming jobs are obsolete.