Yes they have double standards, they are only protecting you from "other" apps, My point is the verification seems already in place, why is this news just for Opera?
Seems FUD, I downloaded other Safari-based browsers and they give a warning since you can get to adult content via the browser. I'm over 17, but I just had to say "OK" in the message box to proceed, Seems pretty reasonable...
Not quite as exciting, but I had the same problem with a sizable desktop laser printer occasionally disabling the wired USB mouse/keyboard in the nearby computer. After months or replacing hardware, moving the computer to the other side of the monitor fixed the problem.
A few months ago I specifically asked how will Windows 7 differ from Vista to a friend of mine who happens to be a Project Manager in the Windows team. He obviously couldn't go into too many details, but admitted that the changes are "evolutionary", not "revolutionary", so it's NOT going to be anything like the 3.1 to 95 or XP to Vista transitions. It's more like Windows 95 to 98 (my friend confirmed my analogy was appropriate).
You can call it repackaging if you want, and it may not even be worth an upgrade, but it could work well enough for people to move on from XP. There's a chance, after all Windows 2008 is better than Windows 2003, and mostly because it's more nimble and modular when you install it.
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Indeed, it doesn't happen to everyone but to enough people to have a several threads about it in the forums, and no suggestion like "lower settings" or "update drivers" seems to have worked for me so far.
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I believe Mount & Blade does have DRM. When you buy it, you have to provide an activation key. They said they used the least intrusive protection they could to provide a free demo, then unlock the full version. It's not like Stardock's "as long as you have the files it will work" system at all.
That said, I like the game. Of course I don't play it since after I paid for it I found out that "big battles" crash my system (and many others) and even caused problems after I restarted. Hopefully version 1 will fix. Then I pre-ordered Spore. Maybe I'll just stick to consoles.
Some of us don't pirate even though we strongly disagree with their bully-like, blanket, fair-use-destroying tactics. I never downloaded music illegally (and I know how), but I also stopped buying it. Web radio was fun while it lasted, but Soundexchange is killing that too (Pandora is about to close because of their new fees).
Piracy is not cool in my book, but their methods of fighting it are akin to a police state stripping all your rights in order to catch a few more criminals. It's not about crime at that point, it's about abuse of power with an excuse.
Your points above have a value, but attacking everyone as if they have the same extreme view is not a reasonable way to articulate your point. Although it sure seems to work in politics.
Dupe! Oh, maybe not. I thought the UK already spied on everything? And Australia censored everything? And the US tasered everyone? And Italy ate all the pasta?
I also worked in a research lab (ASU's CUbiC, to be precise), and I second your assessment. It LOOKS like your phone does those same things, but if you actually have someone with special needs try and use it, they will have numerous challenges.
Also, phones without a subsidized phone service cost almost that much too! Smartphones normally run $500+ without a contract.
Indeed. Also about the speed, I have had their middle tier service for a while, and in the end it depends on where I am. My first apartment was fine, then got horrible, I moved, and the new place is great: I get up to 400kbps+ on bittorrent and 1000kbps+ from a fast normal server (like MSDN Subscription downloads).
My former roommate at the old apartment complained and complained, and eventually they added capacity to his area as well, which really made a difference. It's unsettling how variable it is, but it's really fast if you get lucky...
Just beware of the bandwidth caps (posted on their site, just Google it).
Something that I do to help me sort things out is this: I split my account of 4 movies into 2 queues, one with 3 movies at the same time and one with just 1. They let you do this to have different family members have their own queue, but I hijacked it as follows. I put normal movies into the 3-movie queue, but if I want to watch a TV series I put it in the 1-movie queue so I don't have to manually rearrange stuff just have one at home at a time, and I get the next one pretty fast when I'm done with it. You could similarly put lower-priority movies in a different queue so that you could go trough different queues at different paces. Not perfect, but it helps.
Ah, indeed. About the 2-day Access app, it was most appreciated by our operations manager (which doesn't look at or decide about IT), while the rest of our "generic" work was good and appreciated by other people (my boss, director of MIS and the company president as well). I also made many "2 day fixes" to many other applications in virtually every department, so they are all like "I suffered about this (bug, whatever) for years, but I told you and two days later my job is so much better!".
You have a good point in general, but in my case I have no job security concerns: both me and the company know that I'm moving back to Europe in a couple of years after I make their IT department nice and smooth to run, so it works. Working in a small company when you know (and trust) all the executives (we have virtually no bean counters, it's a family business, although not my family) it's quite an advantage.
Besides the obvious limitations in our little budgets, outsourcing is in place and will be in the future. We are architecting new software, but outsourcing the development (I'm the only programmer in the whole company), and we'll be outsourcing things like risk analysis (for disaster recovery plans) and security evaluation, as well as occasional very techincal issues we can't figure out (did I mention we're 100% Windows-based?). But most of the work is quite manageable (little coding in my spare time and standard helpdesk). The problem with outsourcing is also the quesion I submitted: how do you PROVE to non-technical managers that spending X dollars to outsource implementation of this obscure acronym will save us more than X, and be more cost-effective than doing it ourself (the easy part I suppose)?
I personally work with every grunt and VP in the office (less than 50 people in all) all the time, and they let me know we've been doing a great job so far (it was pretty bad before, now we're passable). But often they don't know how much better it could be ("what, you don't have to gather data by hand and type it into excel to make this report?"), so they're not all that hard to please if you ask me. So how do I pick between OLAP cube-based reporting or software crew scheduling? Not by asking them in those terms, of course. All helps to get their job done, but who knows how much exactly?
This is definitevely good as far as IT goes, but as a construction company only a fraction of our business is in the office (450 field people, 50 office, 3 IT), the rest is guys digging trenches and pouring concrete. How can you relate money saved on graders or hours of guys driving in a truck to good IT (both system and software development, which we outsource the development of, but I architect myself with our management team)?
For example, one of our great successes last year was not getting better servers and dramatically increase uptime and all kinds of good IT things, but was spending a couple of days writing a small Access app to import budgets from one system to another via ODBC so we can tell if we are losing money on the field or not. That's what really matters in the end! But how do you quantify such things?
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Reminds me of that joke "Oh, I always wanted to meet another solipsist!"
Yes they have double standards, they are only protecting you from "other" apps, My point is the verification seems already in place, why is this news just for Opera?
Seems FUD, I downloaded other Safari-based browsers and they give a warning since you can get to adult content via the browser. I'm over 17, but I just had to say "OK" in the message box to proceed, Seems pretty reasonable...
Not quite as exciting, but I had the same problem with a sizable desktop laser printer occasionally disabling the wired USB mouse/keyboard in the nearby computer. After months or replacing hardware, moving the computer to the other side of the monitor fixed the problem.
They tried that once, it's not pretty... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_APL#Keyboard
In Soviet Singularity, everything everythings everything!
People up there have no idea how to make pizza. Go near Naples, that's the real stuff. Light and not oily, I can eat two!
This reminds me of the first time my mom used a mouse. I told her to move the cursor up, and she lifted the mouse off the table.
She was surprisingly good at using the computer after that.
Steve Jobs doesn't care about Mac people.
Let's see, Paperdisk stores 1MB per page, so he would need to store more than 500,000 pages of paper somewhere. Not all that convenient.
Indeed. http://xkcd.com/481/
A few months ago I specifically asked how will Windows 7 differ from Vista to a friend of mine who happens to be a Project Manager in the Windows team. He obviously couldn't go into too many details, but admitted that the changes are "evolutionary", not "revolutionary", so it's NOT going to be anything like the 3.1 to 95 or XP to Vista transitions. It's more like Windows 95 to 98 (my friend confirmed my analogy was appropriate).
You can call it repackaging if you want, and it may not even be worth an upgrade, but it could work well enough for people to move on from XP. There's a chance, after all Windows 2008 is better than Windows 2003, and mostly because it's more nimble and modular when you install it.
Indeed, it doesn't happen to everyone but to enough people to have a several threads about it in the forums, and no suggestion like "lower settings" or "update drivers" seems to have worked for me so far.
I believe Mount & Blade does have DRM. When you buy it, you have to provide an activation key. They said they used the least intrusive protection they could to provide a free demo, then unlock the full version. It's not like Stardock's "as long as you have the files it will work" system at all.
That said, I like the game. Of course I don't play it since after I paid for it I found out that "big battles" crash my system (and many others) and even caused problems after I restarted. Hopefully version 1 will fix. Then I pre-ordered Spore. Maybe I'll just stick to consoles.
Some of us don't pirate even though we strongly disagree with their bully-like, blanket, fair-use-destroying tactics. I never downloaded music illegally (and I know how), but I also stopped buying it. Web radio was fun while it lasted, but Soundexchange is killing that too (Pandora is about to close because of their new fees).
Piracy is not cool in my book, but their methods of fighting it are akin to a police state stripping all your rights in order to catch a few more criminals. It's not about crime at that point, it's about abuse of power with an excuse.
Your points above have a value, but attacking everyone as if they have the same extreme view is not a reasonable way to articulate your point. Although it sure seems to work in politics.
Dupe! Oh, maybe not. I thought the UK already spied on everything? And Australia censored everything? And the US tasered everyone? And Italy ate all the pasta?
I also worked in a research lab (ASU's CUbiC, to be precise), and I second your assessment. It LOOKS like your phone does those same things, but if you actually have someone with special needs try and use it, they will have numerous challenges. Also, phones without a subsidized phone service cost almost that much too! Smartphones normally run $500+ without a contract.
It's a specialized phone for blind people with voice activated commands only. The price is not that crazy if you consider that.
Indeed. Also about the speed, I have had their middle tier service for a while, and in the end it depends on where I am. My first apartment was fine, then got horrible, I moved, and the new place is great: I get up to 400kbps+ on bittorrent and 1000kbps+ from a fast normal server (like MSDN Subscription downloads). My former roommate at the old apartment complained and complained, and eventually they added capacity to his area as well, which really made a difference. It's unsettling how variable it is, but it's really fast if you get lucky... Just beware of the bandwidth caps (posted on their site, just Google it).
Something that I do to help me sort things out is this: I split my account of 4 movies into 2 queues, one with 3 movies at the same time and one with just 1. They let you do this to have different family members have their own queue, but I hijacked it as follows. I put normal movies into the 3-movie queue, but if I want to watch a TV series I put it in the 1-movie queue so I don't have to manually rearrange stuff just have one at home at a time, and I get the next one pretty fast when I'm done with it. You could similarly put lower-priority movies in a different queue so that you could go trough different queues at different paces. Not perfect, but it helps.
Ah, indeed. About the 2-day Access app, it was most appreciated by our operations manager (which doesn't look at or decide about IT), while the rest of our "generic" work was good and appreciated by other people (my boss, director of MIS and the company president as well). I also made many "2 day fixes" to many other applications in virtually every department, so they are all like "I suffered about this (bug, whatever) for years, but I told you and two days later my job is so much better!".
You have a good point in general, but in my case I have no job security concerns: both me and the company know that I'm moving back to Europe in a couple of years after I make their IT department nice and smooth to run, so it works. Working in a small company when you know (and trust) all the executives (we have virtually no bean counters, it's a family business, although not my family) it's quite an advantage.
No, we're in Arizona. Californians can't move here fast enough :)
Besides the obvious limitations in our little budgets, outsourcing is in place and will be in the future. We are architecting new software, but outsourcing the development (I'm the only programmer in the whole company), and we'll be outsourcing things like risk analysis (for disaster recovery plans) and security evaluation, as well as occasional very techincal issues we can't figure out (did I mention we're 100% Windows-based?). But most of the work is quite manageable (little coding in my spare time and standard helpdesk). The problem with outsourcing is also the quesion I submitted: how do you PROVE to non-technical managers that spending X dollars to outsource implementation of this obscure acronym will save us more than X, and be more cost-effective than doing it ourself (the easy part I suppose)?
I personally work with every grunt and VP in the office (less than 50 people in all) all the time, and they let me know we've been doing a great job so far (it was pretty bad before, now we're passable). But often they don't know how much better it could be ("what, you don't have to gather data by hand and type it into excel to make this report?"), so they're not all that hard to please if you ask me. So how do I pick between OLAP cube-based reporting or software crew scheduling? Not by asking them in those terms, of course. All helps to get their job done, but who knows how much exactly?
This is definitevely good as far as IT goes, but as a construction company only a fraction of our business is in the office (450 field people, 50 office, 3 IT), the rest is guys digging trenches and pouring concrete. How can you relate money saved on graders or hours of guys driving in a truck to good IT (both system and software development, which we outsource the development of, but I architect myself with our management team)?
For example, one of our great successes last year was not getting better servers and dramatically increase uptime and all kinds of good IT things, but was spending a couple of days writing a small Access app to import budgets from one system to another via ODBC so we can tell if we are losing money on the field or not. That's what really matters in the end! But how do you quantify such things?