Many schools, fitness centres and local councils have also banned them over fears about privacy and misuse.
I find it suprising they don't concern themselves with cameras the government or private corporations put up and the ramications those impose! Somehow they fear cell phones because they are somehow 'innocuous' and therefore capable of great harm. What about the cameras stores already put in the dressing rooms? Or the ones taping 24/7 in public areas?
That aside, won't this impair the functionality of a camera phone? ["It's not a bug, it's a Feature!"] It would drain the battery some, you'd have no way of turning it off, and now you'd have to add a halogen bulb and a powerful capacitor - that may or may not leak - into the design, ruining the life expectancy of the phone, making it larger and hence less convenient, and more expensive. I'm sorry but this seems like a knee jerk reaction to me.
Lastly, you can't even stop the detemined people, who will use Duct Tape to get around it anyway, thus inconveniencing everyone BUT the targets. I understand not wanting a camera in a Top Secret environment, but I don't want some mother's coalition ruining a product I am paying money for, out of misguided fear no less.
Yes, he has tried that. An e-mail to them has gone unanswered, I am guessing it is the load. I would expect a bit better service, especially immediately after rollout.
This is one of the reasons I think all purchases should be tangible. In this situation, it is the same as if he bought something from Itunes and moved to Canada. True, if he were one of the/. crowd he could hack it and get it to work, but he isn't a techie. End users are the ones getting hurt here, that's one reason I won't pay for Half Life 2 until it gets sub $5, the same as I did with Half Life 1.
Despite the fact they are breaking from traditional methods and distributors (Vivendi scam), the end users are being treated the same way, if not worse. No middlemen, but same junk.
Most of you are lucky you never had to recover a password off of the Steam network. A friend of mine purchased the game online, and since then he uninstalled CS to focus on his studies. Now he can't recover his password!
If he uses the 'lost password' procedure in Steam he gets an Operation Incomplete error, and so far he hasn't managed to get a single human person to assist him at Steampowered. I was never a big fan of activation, but this cinches it.
However, at a meeting hosted by
the Polish government on the 5th of this month, everyone including
representatives of the Polish Patent Office, SUN, Novell, Hewlett-Packard
and Microsoft, as well as various patent lawyers, confirmed that the present
proposal of the EU Council does make all software potentially patentable.
That's pretty interesting. Poland said that they would not stand for pattenting of business methods, and that's why they were against it - that's the same mess that makes '___ on the web' pattentable here in the US. I think that was a good call on their part.
Also, when in a room with Microsoft & Co., they admitted it WOULD allow pattenting of everything. I think that says something. I only regret that Poland's only issue is the pattentability of code that can "run on an average personal computer", not code in general. As soon as they fix that issue, Poland looks like they will side with it next time around.
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Many schools, fitness centres and local councils have also banned them over fears about privacy and misuse.
I find it suprising they don't concern themselves with cameras the government or private corporations put up and the ramications those impose! Somehow they fear cell phones because they are somehow 'innocuous' and therefore capable of great harm. What about the cameras stores already put in the dressing rooms? Or the ones taping 24/7 in public areas? That aside, won't this impair the functionality of a camera phone? ["It's not a bug, it's a Feature!"] It would drain the battery some, you'd have no way of turning it off, and now you'd have to add a halogen bulb and a powerful capacitor - that may or may not leak - into the design, ruining the life expectancy of the phone, making it larger and hence less convenient, and more expensive. I'm sorry but this seems like a knee jerk reaction to me.
Lastly, you can't even stop the detemined people, who will use Duct Tape to get around it anyway, thus inconveniencing everyone BUT the targets. I understand not wanting a camera in a Top Secret environment, but I don't want some mother's coalition ruining a product I am paying money for, out of misguided fear no less.
Yes, he has tried that. An e-mail to them has gone unanswered, I am guessing it is the load. I would expect a bit better service, especially immediately after rollout.
/. crowd he could hack it and get it to work, but he isn't a techie. End users are the ones getting hurt here, that's one reason I won't pay for Half Life 2 until it gets sub $5, the same as I did with Half Life 1.
This is one of the reasons I think all purchases should be tangible. In this situation, it is the same as if he bought something from Itunes and moved to Canada. True, if he were one of the
Despite the fact they are breaking from traditional methods and distributors (Vivendi scam), the end users are being treated the same way, if not worse. No middlemen, but same junk.
Most of you are lucky you never had to recover a password off of the Steam network. A friend of mine purchased the game online, and since then he uninstalled CS to focus on his studies. Now he can't recover his password!
If he uses the 'lost password' procedure in Steam he gets an Operation Incomplete error, and so far he hasn't managed to get a single human person to assist him at Steampowered. I was never a big fan of activation, but this cinches it.
However, at a meeting hosted by the Polish government on the 5th of this month, everyone including representatives of the Polish Patent Office, SUN, Novell, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft, as well as various patent lawyers, confirmed that the present proposal of the EU Council does make all software potentially patentable.
That's pretty interesting. Poland said that they would not stand for pattenting of business methods, and that's why they were against it - that's the same mess that makes '___ on the web' pattentable here in the US. I think that was a good call on their part.
Also, when in a room with Microsoft & Co., they admitted it WOULD allow pattenting of everything. I think that says something. I only regret that Poland's only issue is the pattentability of code that can "run on an average personal computer", not code in general. As soon as they fix that issue, Poland looks like they will side with it next time around.