"but the company are offering refunds to customers requesting them."
Customers? Whaaa?! You mean to tell me that there are people out there that would actually have a need to purchase software for an x86 that emulates software on OS X?
I mean sure I would like to look at an apple up in my left hand corner of my PC screen for a novelty, but there aint no damn need for me to spend money to get it to be so.
I mean did someone purchase Final Cut Pro or Photoshop for the Mac and realize that they needed a different OS after realizing it wouldn't run on WinXP and thought purchasing an emulator would fix their problem?!!!
Um... One wouldn't have the locksmith thrown in jail, but rather taken to local court for losses.
I think the anology would be better like this (this is a fictional story):
A locksmith in the town sold these new fancy locks to all sorts of people through out the town claiming that they were secure and you would be safe. However a local theif found that if you just pushed on the door and jiggle the handle the door would come right open.
This ingenious theif tells his friends about the exploit and through the town they rob everyone blind. Later they are caught but have no money for the people since they spent it all on crack and heorin, but they faced ample jail time.
However the lock manufacture who claimed that their locks was secure was brought into civil court by the towns citizens on the fact that the locks themselves were not secure and were supposed to be such as that.
I think the point is that if you have a lock on your door you are not supposed to giggle it and it just fall apart. Yes it would be reasonable to say it's not the locksmiths fault if someone dig bring a large drill or a blowtorch, but if the locks were insecure to begin with then the locksmith is to blame as well as the perp. And the perp goes to jail and the locksmith is sued in civil court for monetary loss.
I haven't figured this out, but on my 10.2.x at home doesn't have spell available for Firefox like it does Safari, but it works fine for all other apps including 3rd party apps for LJ clients and various other ones.
I'd rather use Firefox since it tends to run 10x faster than Safari does, but really miss this feature. Maybe it's only me and I just need to dig deeper or upgrade to Tiger.
I couldn't agree more. I actually had a conversation with a customer over the phone this week while we were rebooting his Winxp box to see if a reg hack worked (He was having word 2003 issues) and he asks me what I use at home.
I paused because it seemed rather awkward at the moment but I finally replied:
"I use a Mac."
And he seemed rather surprised as I was awkward because we are a major Microsoft software support group and to them we seem to do amazing things to get our clients machines back up and running (reg hacks, spyware removal, getting Outlook and Word to function correctly and Winxp tcp/ip stacks to work again).
"Why?" was exactly his answer and then there was silence.
I thought for a bit and then replied "I don't want to take my work home with me."
He chuckled at that and I elaborated "Just because I can fix anything on a Windows computer doesn't mean I want to spend the time fixing it on my own."
That and I noticed ever since I've got an Xbox (and later a DS) is that I don't use the PC's that I do have. If I need to do constructive things like Word, Excel, Email (Thunderbird), Surf (Firefox), Photoshop, IM then I always use the Mac.
I'm glad you think that way. Tell me where you live and break in to your home.
Well I don't know where you live, but most houses in Center City Philadelphia (USA) have bars on their windows. Not having them is foolish.
If someone yanked those bars off or the dead bolt on our door failed to work properly I would blame the contractor who installed them for crappy workmanship. (Unless of course I left the door unlocked or someone used a blow torch. If someon wanted in that bad... Well...)
The chances of catching a perp around here are slim to none. Think of the internet as the ghetto only everyone is banging on your doors 24/7.
BUT a lawbreaker does not mean that a person is evil or doing an immoral action.
If a law is unjust by an unfair government and someone breaks it then kudos to them.
Like say those who got burned at the stake for being Protestant Christians in the 1600's when the government said the only legal one was being Catholic. (Not saying one religion is better than the other, but this is the first example I can think of that everyone would agree on lawbreaking is just).
I think the problem with this thinking is that one must think that College must cost uber amounts of money in our society.
And while at a convention I talked with a Norwegian who said that in her home country that you only have to live there to get free college with plenty of persons from the UK there doing so (with minimal Norwegian she added).
Of course one must accept Socialism as an alternative. You know like higher taxes... And Socialized health care. Which isn't going to happen in the States.
But if I really wanted that myself I could move to Norway.
Barring that the only other solution would be to stop having children (see China's one child policy).
The rest of the world doesn't know anymore about the United States than the United States knows about the rest of the world.
And all this time I was under the impression the problem was that people from the United States couldn't point out their own hometown on a US map nor name their own state capital.;)
1. EULA's are aren't not moral codes of conduct and may not be even legal binding documents in some countries. So, even though it is their legal right to sue... Doing so may be an immoral action.
2. No. That would be "infidel dogs" and "capitalist pigs".
...detroit adapted and learned how to make a better product.
Have you been to Detroit lately?
No seriously... Have you been to Detroit and walked around the streets during the day? I didn't think such a place existed in the United States until just a few months ago. Entire neighborhoods of suburbia abandoned... Houses burnt down... Blocks and blocks of abandoned car warhouses. Crackhead zombie bums straggling in the streets. They even have these "Food Vans" that go around handing food out to the homeless.
Cheap place to live though.
Most of the car manufactures have moved elsewhere... Like to the southern states and Mexico where the taxes are cheaper. There is still the nice GM corporate building and the nice monorail that no one uses.
I was always a big fan of Tribes 1 and didn't mind the mods, but one thing that comes to mind even though it wasn't really Tribes itself.
When Counter-Strike came out I was pissy because there weren't enough good servers out there and I was pissed off that one map was taken out of official rotation.
So I went down to a local ISP and started my own game server. This was back in the days when you had thousands mom and pop local ISP's around the nation. They has decent connection and the server was always packed and I had a good time being the admin.
Now a days you can rent your own servers etc etc or if you are lucky enough to happen to have a 1.5 mb down and up DSL connection you can do it for free.
So yes the community on a whole will still suck but when you have the ability to create your own server and carve out your little niche. This isn't like an MMORPG where you have no control over the situation. It just takes a little effort and DYI.
Rule five: The AI will not be allot to communicate to any human. (which ruins the point of AI)
There is always the fact that a machine can become so smart it can out reason any human to a point where the humans will do anything for the machine becuase the machine has mastered social engineering like tricking others into murdering in it's name or fooling the humans into doing things on it's behalf.
However if an AI cannot talk with humans then what is the point of developing it?
C:\WINNT\system32>cscript c:\cupholder.txt Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.6 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1996-2001. All rights reserved.
Input Error: There is no script engine for file extension ".txt".
So I have saved your text to c:\>cupholder.txt and then ran it as seen above and it gave mt the error. Still no luck.
Now lets say they stop making CD's. Where does that leave me ?
Oh don't worry... I have promised that on my indie label (see my link) that I will always release in Audio CD format even if it means we will be last label on the planet doing so.
Of course, I hope you like listening ear hurting speaker ruining German Industrial Noise Music for the next 75 years!
If the employees are getting their paychecks and can quit whenever they like, it isn't slave labor...
A slave can quit working whenever they want, too.
Of course may get beaten, tortured, left to starve to death, or executed at that point in time depending on who is their captors.
The problem is that people automatically assume that if you are paid money then you are not a slave. If you work out of fear of starving to death or the fact your supervisors will send you to a worse camp in artic cirlce in Siberia even if you are paid money... I would still assume that is slave labor because you have no choice in the matter.
The same could be said about capitalism if you are afraid to loose your job. Like the bad social stigma and the fear of not having money force many people to work in low paid positions that they feel they have no choice in.
This is not so bad as one can simply wake up one morning and decide that they can live without income and go into work and tell them they no longer want to work there. However most people will not over come this fear even though no one is physically putting them into a labor camp. They might as well emotionally be in one.
When I throw things into the trash can in my kitchen, it doesn't magically jump out the side of my house.
Yeah.... I had to use an aircompressor and extra pvp piping to pull that off.
Yeah, but... When 99% of your user base is going to be clicking yes 99%, your going to be at their desk 100% of the time removing spyware.
Of course installing Java should be locked down, but sometimes you can't help it if the inhouse webdevs have to use it for some ungodly reason.
So yes... In my eyes it is a Java thing, because unless you figure out some method of mind control or physical punishment everytime someone clicks 'yes' then they will be clicking yes and causing the tech grief no matter how much help desk tries to drive home not to click it.
You can't fix 2,000 years of bad social engineering!
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I guess the horticultural societies of Britain and Belgium owe the CSIRO 500,000 francs.
Wow. I think they can buy a pack of cigarrettes for that much these days.
"but the company are offering refunds to customers requesting them."
Customers? Whaaa?! You mean to tell me that there are people out there that would actually have a need to purchase software for an x86 that emulates software on OS X?
I mean sure I would like to look at an apple up in my left hand corner of my PC screen for a novelty, but there aint no damn need for me to spend money to get it to be so.
I mean did someone purchase Final Cut Pro or Photoshop for the Mac and realize that they needed a different OS after realizing it wouldn't run on WinXP and thought purchasing an emulator would fix their problem?!!!
So when will they stop being dicks about releasing unpatched, old-school server/rules...
When EA releases an unpatched unregulated PVP server for Ultima Online that was just like it was in 1998. OH SNAP!
Um... One wouldn't have the locksmith thrown in jail, but rather taken to local court for losses.
I think the anology would be better like this (this is a fictional story):
A locksmith in the town sold these new fancy locks to all sorts of people through out the town claiming that they were secure and you would be safe. However a local theif found that if you just pushed on the door and jiggle the handle the door would come right open.
This ingenious theif tells his friends about the exploit and through the town they rob everyone blind. Later they are caught but have no money for the people since they spent it all on crack and heorin, but they faced ample jail time.
However the lock manufacture who claimed that their locks was secure was brought into civil court by the towns citizens on the fact that the locks themselves were not secure and were supposed to be such as that.
I think the point is that if you have a lock on your door you are not supposed to giggle it and it just fall apart. Yes it would be reasonable to say it's not the locksmiths fault if someone dig bring a large drill or a blowtorch, but if the locks were insecure to begin with then the locksmith is to blame as well as the perp. And the perp goes to jail and the locksmith is sued in civil court for monetary loss.
I haven't figured this out, but on my 10.2.x at home doesn't have spell available for Firefox like it does Safari, but it works fine for all other apps including 3rd party apps for LJ clients and various other ones.
I'd rather use Firefox since it tends to run 10x faster than Safari does, but really miss this feature. Maybe it's only me and I just need to dig deeper or upgrade to Tiger.
I couldn't agree more. I actually had a conversation with a customer over the phone this week while we were rebooting his Winxp box to see if a reg hack worked (He was having word 2003 issues) and he asks me what I use at home.
I paused because it seemed rather awkward at the moment but I finally replied:
"I use a Mac."
And he seemed rather surprised as I was awkward because we are a major Microsoft software support group and to them we seem to do amazing things to get our clients machines back up and running (reg hacks, spyware removal, getting Outlook and Word to function correctly and Winxp tcp/ip stacks to work again).
"Why?" was exactly his answer and then there was silence.
I thought for a bit and then replied "I don't want to take my work home with me."
He chuckled at that and I elaborated "Just because I can fix anything on a Windows computer doesn't mean I want to spend the time fixing it on my own."
That and I noticed ever since I've got an Xbox (and later a DS) is that I don't use the PC's that I do have. If I need to do constructive things like Word, Excel, Email (Thunderbird), Surf (Firefox), Photoshop, IM then I always use the Mac.
What we have here is a model of authority that is culturally implanted in each of us.
That's why I wear black SWAT BDU's, combat boots, and mirror sunglasses to work.
I'm glad you think that way. Tell me where you live and break in to your home.
Well I don't know where you live, but most houses in Center City Philadelphia (USA) have bars on their windows. Not having them is foolish.
If someone yanked those bars off or the dead bolt on our door failed to work properly I would blame the contractor who installed them for crappy workmanship. (Unless of course I left the door unlocked or someone used a blow torch. If someon wanted in that bad... Well...)
The chances of catching a perp around here are slim to none. Think of the internet as the ghetto only everyone is banging on your doors 24/7.
A person breaks the law and you offer kudos?
IMO I would not give this person kudos.
BUT a lawbreaker does not mean that a person is evil or doing an immoral action.
If a law is unjust by an unfair government and someone breaks it then kudos to them.
Like say those who got burned at the stake for being Protestant Christians in the 1600's when the government said the only legal one was being Catholic. (Not saying one religion is better than the other, but this is the first example I can think of that everyone would agree on lawbreaking is just).
I think the problem with this thinking is that one must think that College must cost uber amounts of money in our society.
And while at a convention I talked with a Norwegian who said that in her home country that you only have to live there to get free college with plenty of persons from the UK there doing so (with minimal Norwegian she added).
Of course one must accept Socialism as an alternative. You know like higher taxes... And Socialized health care. Which isn't going to happen in the States.
But if I really wanted that myself I could move to Norway.
Barring that the only other solution would be to stop having children (see China's one child policy).
What amount of spam propagation is necessary?
I don't know that answer, but I know "beyond necessity" is 1.
The rest of the world doesn't know anymore about the United States than the United States knows about the rest of the world.
;)
And all this time I was under the impression the problem was that people from the United States couldn't point out their own hometown on a US map nor name their own state capital.
1. EULA's are aren't not moral codes of conduct and may not be even legal binding documents in some countries. So, even though it is their legal right to sue... Doing so may be an immoral action.
2. No. That would be "infidel dogs" and "capitalist pigs".
...detroit adapted and learned how to make a better product.
Have you been to Detroit lately?
No seriously... Have you been to Detroit and walked around the streets during the day? I didn't think such a place existed in the United States until just a few months ago. Entire neighborhoods of suburbia abandoned... Houses burnt down... Blocks and blocks of abandoned car warhouses. Crackhead zombie bums straggling in the streets. They even have these "Food Vans" that go around handing food out to the homeless.
Cheap place to live though.
Most of the car manufactures have moved elsewhere... Like to the southern states and Mexico where the taxes are cheaper. There is still the nice GM corporate building and the nice monorail that no one uses.
I was always a big fan of Tribes 1 and didn't mind the mods, but one thing that comes to mind even though it wasn't really Tribes itself.
When Counter-Strike came out I was pissy because there weren't enough good servers out there and I was pissed off that one map was taken out of official rotation.
So I went down to a local ISP and started my own game server. This was back in the days when you had thousands mom and pop local ISP's around the nation. They has decent connection and the server was always packed and I had a good time being the admin.
Now a days you can rent your own servers etc etc or if you are lucky enough to happen to have a 1.5 mb down and up DSL connection you can do it for free.
So yes the community on a whole will still suck but when you have the ability to create your own server and carve out your little niche. This isn't like an MMORPG where you have no control over the situation. It just takes a little effort and DYI.
But it is of course dishonest to both your customers and shareholders.
Name me one multi-national multi-million dollar corporation that is both honest to their customers and to their shareholders.
Take your time. I'd really like to do business with them.
Rule five:
The AI will not be allot to communicate to any human. (which ruins the point of AI)
There is always the fact that a machine can become so smart it can out reason any human to a point where the humans will do anything for the machine becuase the machine has mastered social engineering like tricking others into murdering in it's name or fooling the humans into doing things on it's behalf.
However if an AI cannot talk with humans then what is the point of developing it?
Thus, it will always be an unavoidable.
I'm getting this...
C:\WINNT\system32>cscript c:\cupholder.txt
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.6
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1996-2001. All rights reserved.
Input Error: There is no script engine for file extension ".txt".
So I have saved your text to c:\>cupholder.txt and then ran it as seen above and it gave mt the error. Still no luck.
Now lets say they stop making CD's. Where does that leave me ?
Oh don't worry... I have promised that on my indie label (see my link) that I will always release in Audio CD format even if it means we will be last label on the planet doing so.
Of course, I hope you like listening ear hurting speaker ruining German Industrial Noise Music for the next 75 years!
I write software for a living, and guess what? I care about money more than software.
Hey! I thought EA employees were not allowed to post to Slashdot at the office!
If the employees are getting their paychecks and can quit whenever they like, it isn't slave labor...
A slave can quit working whenever they want, too.
Of course may get beaten, tortured, left to starve to death, or executed at that point in time depending on who is their captors.
The problem is that people automatically assume that if you are paid money then you are not a slave. If you work out of fear of starving to death or the fact your supervisors will send you to a worse camp in artic cirlce in Siberia even if you are paid money... I would still assume that is slave labor because you have no choice in the matter.
The same could be said about capitalism if you are afraid to loose your job. Like the bad social stigma and the fear of not having money force many people to work in low paid positions that they feel they have no choice in.
This is not so bad as one can simply wake up one morning and decide that they can live without income and go into work and tell them they no longer want to work there. However most people will not over come this fear even though no one is physically putting them into a labor camp. They might as well emotionally be in one.
You have never worked in a call center have you?
You sir, have not found how to make effective use of the hold button.
Like software or music, all over again.
Except that the RIAA never had self replicating spider robots fueled on the flesh of lawyers to contend with!
When I throw things into the trash can in my kitchen, it doesn't magically jump out the side of my house. Yeah.... I had to use an aircompressor and extra pvp piping to pull that off.
Yeah, but... When 99% of your user base is going to be clicking yes 99%, your going to be at their desk 100% of the time removing spyware.
Of course installing Java should be locked down, but sometimes you can't help it if the inhouse webdevs have to use it for some ungodly reason.
So yes... In my eyes it is a Java thing, because unless you figure out some method of mind control or physical punishment everytime someone clicks 'yes' then they will be clicking yes and causing the tech grief no matter how much help desk tries to drive home not to click it.
You can't fix 2,000 years of bad social engineering!