I bought a couple of books on iBooks until I figured out that they were crippled by DRM. Naturally I couldn't view them on my Nexus 7, so I did two things:
1. I found torrents to decrypted copies of the books I purchased. 2. Never bought another book from iBooks.
I still buy DRM-laden books from Kobo, but I can still decrypt those with ePUBee. The minute I can't do that any more, I won't buy from them either.
As a bit of a kudo, any SF nuts out there, head over to Baen, who has a big chunk of their catalog available as non-DRM ePubs (along with other formats as well).
Yes, but at least in the enterprise, downgrade rights will be around for a while, so whether Windows 8 ships with a unit or not, it seems likely to me that most businesses will be pushing out Windows 7 anyways.
No shit! These "improvements" do little more than make what seemed like Windows 2 or Presentation Manager act like Windows 3. I want the old desktop interface back. I don't give a fuck about Metro, and from everything I can tell, no one else does either.
My first paid programming job was a point of sale system I wrote for my boss, who had just bought a gym. It had basic functionality; a cash register function, inventory function and a Z tape-style dump that they could run at the end of the day. It was good enough to be used to catch one of the employee's stealing protein drinks. I was paid a whopping $250. QBasic was a bit slow and the startup parameters a bit hoakey so I convinced my boss to pick up a copy of QuickBASIC 4.5 and compiled the beast into exe.
First experience with programming was my uncle teaching me a few commands in C64 BASIC. Where I really learned to program was on a Radio Shack MC-10 with 4k onboard and a 16k cartridge for a whopping 20k! Say what you will about the quality of the Radio Shack/Tandy computers, but they had some of the best manuals going, and I must have read my MC-10 BASIC manual from cover to cover a hundred times.
Where I think I really crossed the line and became an actual programmer was when I was loaned a VIC-20 with a bunch of RAM expansion modules and I decided one day, for no real reason that I can remember, to develop my own BASIC interpreter written in Commodore BASIC. I never got it much more complex than being able to do user input, store variables and do some basic branching, but it taught me much of what I know about array handling, string tokenization and even some low level stuff like a pretty primitive stack and program counter.
Prior to the Classical Greek era there was no philosophy that really even vaguely resembled modern science. Not even the Greeks possessed actual science, but at least they tried out different methodologies.
Proof is for mathematics and liquor. Science provides the best explanation based on current data, and there best explanation at the moment is that CO2 emissions from manmade sources are a major cause of observed climate change.
Look at this way. If you get a letter from anyone threatening legal action and demanding some sort of a payment to avoid it, you are a fool not to seek legal council. Whether this is a copyright troll, or a mean-spirited neighbor, even if you can't afford a lawyer, you can't afford not to retain one.
The point of this is to frighten the foolish into paying. The foolish will not be aware that for the price of a letter from a lawyer stating "Send all further correspondence to the Firm of XXXX, YYYY and ZZZZ" (the first time I used a lawyer to do that, it cost me $150), these copyright trolls will go away. This is about extorting money from those ignorant of the legislative limits to damages.
That's some pretty bizarre behavior, considering, at least on my personal Google account, I've been on GMail and Google Docs on my desktop, notebook, iPhone and Nexus 7 all at the same bloody time without any issue.
I guess it depends on what you expect out of an email system. One thing is for sure, Exchange was always a rickety beast, and the level of codependency between Exchange and other elements of Windows over the last few versions have gone through the roof. For basic email and scheduling, I'd gladly leave Exchange behind, but we have a government contract (I'm in Canada) which strictly prohibits the storage of certain highly sensitive data outside of Canada, and the last time I contacted Google about it, they just brushed it off. So, here I am, getting ready to upgrade to Exchange 2013.
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I bought a couple of books on iBooks until I figured out that they were crippled by DRM. Naturally I couldn't view them on my Nexus 7, so I did two things:
1. I found torrents to decrypted copies of the books I purchased.
2. Never bought another book from iBooks.
I still buy DRM-laden books from Kobo, but I can still decrypt those with ePUBee. The minute I can't do that any more, I won't buy from them either.
As a bit of a kudo, any SF nuts out there, head over to Baen, who has a big chunk of their catalog available as non-DRM ePubs (along with other formats as well).
Nuke them from orbit. It's the only way...
Yes, but at least in the enterprise, downgrade rights will be around for a while, so whether Windows 8 ships with a unit or not, it seems likely to me that most businesses will be pushing out Windows 7 anyways.
No shit! These "improvements" do little more than make what seemed like Windows 2 or Presentation Manager act like Windows 3. I want the old desktop interface back. I don't give a fuck about Metro, and from everything I can tell, no one else does either.
My first paid programming job was a point of sale system I wrote for my boss, who had just bought a gym. It had basic functionality; a cash register function, inventory function and a Z tape-style dump that they could run at the end of the day. It was good enough to be used to catch one of the employee's stealing protein drinks. I was paid a whopping $250. QBasic was a bit slow and the startup parameters a bit hoakey so I convinced my boss to pick up a copy of QuickBASIC 4.5 and compiled the beast into exe.
I remember having to do that with MFM drives on our Tandy 6000 mini-computer. That's the beast that I gained my *nix chops on.
First experience with programming was my uncle teaching me a few commands in C64 BASIC. Where I really learned to program was on a Radio Shack MC-10 with 4k onboard and a 16k cartridge for a whopping 20k! Say what you will about the quality of the Radio Shack/Tandy computers, but they had some of the best manuals going, and I must have read my MC-10 BASIC manual from cover to cover a hundred times.
Where I think I really crossed the line and became an actual programmer was when I was loaned a VIC-20 with a bunch of RAM expansion modules and I decided one day, for no real reason that I can remember, to develop my own BASIC interpreter written in Commodore BASIC. I never got it much more complex than being able to do user input, store variables and do some basic branching, but it taught me much of what I know about array handling, string tokenization and even some low level stuff like a pretty primitive stack and program counter.
Because that's what humans do... over and over and over again.
They have medications for your condition.
Yes but... look Malvinas!
Yes, but they don't have a ground plug, so jacking off in the can while plugged in greatly increases the risks of severe electric shock.
And maybe that's part of intelligence. Catching yourself being stupid is infinitely smarter than not catching yourself being stupid.
If he has no money to fight his legal battles, he has no money to sue Google or anyone else. So I think the appropriate response should "Fuck off."
Indeed. Would somebody please put this worthless piece of crap in jail.
Prior to the Classical Greek era there was no philosophy that really even vaguely resembled modern science. Not even the Greeks possessed actual science, but at least they tried out different methodologies.
Proof is for mathematics and liquor. Science provides the best explanation based on current data, and there best explanation at the moment is that CO2 emissions from manmade sources are a major cause of observed climate change.
100% of people thought the earth was flat and the sun revolved around it for the longest time too.
No learned person in the western world phase thought the world was flat for well over 2500 years, I wish this moronic meme would do.
Look at this way. If you get a letter from anyone threatening legal action and demanding some sort of a payment to avoid it, you are a fool not to seek legal council. Whether this is a copyright troll, or a mean-spirited neighbor, even if you can't afford a lawyer, you can't afford not to retain one.
The point of this is to frighten the foolish into paying. The foolish will not be aware that for the price of a letter from a lawyer stating "Send all further correspondence to the Firm of XXXX, YYYY and ZZZZ" (the first time I used a lawyer to do that, it cost me $150), these copyright trolls will go away. This is about extorting money from those ignorant of the legislative limits to damages.
That's some pretty bizarre behavior, considering, at least on my personal Google account, I've been on GMail and Google Docs on my desktop, notebook, iPhone and Nexus 7 all at the same bloody time without any issue.
He's saying he's a fucking moron. He's just doing it in an obtuse, roundabout way.
I guess it depends on what you expect out of an email system. One thing is for sure, Exchange was always a rickety beast, and the level of codependency between Exchange and other elements of Windows over the last few versions have gone through the roof. For basic email and scheduling, I'd gladly leave Exchange behind, but we have a government contract (I'm in Canada) which strictly prohibits the storage of certain highly sensitive data outside of Canada, and the last time I contacted Google about it, they just brushed it off. So, here I am, getting ready to upgrade to Exchange 2013.
If you can't grow a market, just buy one.
Good, another reason to avoid Ubuntu like the plague.
Are you kidding? It's illegal if David even figures out how to beat Goliath.