Whats the consequence in this case? The freeloaders go somewhere else, opening up more tables for paying customers? I wouldn't be afeared of those consequences none at all.
That being said, I'd at least try the "free access for everyone" model first. Requireing a purchase, printing access codes on reciepts, etc all add another level of headaches and problems to the whole wi-fi thing. It's probably cheaper to put up with a moderate amount of freeloading then to implement restrictions.
So when is Payroll Clerk Appreciation Day, or Staffing Manager Appreciation Day, or Database Administrator Appreciation Day, or appreciation days for any of the other vital positions that keep a company functioning? Why are Sys Admins (and secretaries, I suppose) singled out for their own special day?
There's nothing moronic about it. This will probably get expanded to a class-action suit, and then settled out of court. Rockstar will not admit to any wrongdoing, but will offer to replace the game for anyone who bought it with a new version that has the offending parts removed.
Oh, and Rockstar will agree to pay the plaintiffs legal fees of x.y million dollars. Net result: Rockstar loses lots of money, some legal firm makes lots of money, and the consumers who were "wronged" get jack. Remind me to opt out of this suit when it happens.
It's too bad, because I'd love to see this Grandma in court. Lets show the jury a few choice scenes from the game, including the language, the gratuitious violence, the cop-killing, the glorification of organized crime and general anti-social behavior. Then we'll ask her if she had no objection to any of that content being put in the hands of her 14-year-old grandson.
"So for my personal goal of being identified in the case of an accident, it does work for me."
Yeah, if someone decides to try swiping a RFID reader over your charred remains to ID them. Which isn't terribly likely, since you're the only idiot in the world who has a RFID chip in his arm.
While we're at it, lets figure the odds of RFID chips surviving some disaster that will destroy fingerprints and dental records.
Crean says Xerox and the government have a good relationship. "The U.S. government had been on board all along--they would actually come out to our labs," Crean says.
The guy sounds absolutely grateful that the Government would deign to come out to their labs and help them put this plan into action. No worries about their customers, though... lets just do whatever the Government wants and keep them happy.
She's probably after the same voting bloc, though. If you accept the theory that she'll be running for president in 2008, she'll need to start moving closer to the middle. Jumping on the videogame bashing bandwagon is a good start.
Proof of purchase doesn't mean proof of legitimate copy of Windows. You might have bought a budget system from some strip mall store somewhere, and they could be putting the same copy of Windows on every system they sell. In that case, MS wants to see proof that they charged you for Windows without installing a licensed copy. That lets MS sic their lawyers on the store.
If you didn't need proof that you paid *someone* for your copy of Windows, then everyone who wanted to buy XP would install a pirated copy, fail the security check, and grab the discount.
Sorry, I'm siding with the ESRB on this one. You can't look at the Hot Coffee thing as an isolated incident. Instead you have to take it as a precedent for the whole rating system. R* released a game to the market that had content that the didn't inform the ESRB about. Had the ESRB known about that content, the game would have been rated differently.
You can argue that the player has to hack their game files to access the hidden content, that the difference between an "M" and an "AO" rating is splitting hairs, and that reclassifying the game because of a few pixelated sex scenes is absurd, and those are all valid points. But the ESRB has to look at the situation generically. Any time a game has content that would change the games rating, and that content is accessible to the player, the ESRB needs to rerate the game.
I'd just like to state that I find it highly suspicious that the first post in this thread is an ad for a Thinkgeek product. And that it's modded up to +5.
Since this is GreaseMONKEY, wouldn't throwing poo be more appropriate?
Yeah, a security hole that lets a hacker read any file on your HD seems pretty serious. OTOH, it's a problem in an extension, not with Firefox itself, so I don't know how much blame should be directed to the 'fox team.
All I know is that since I don't use Greasemonkey, this doesn't affect me. Unlike most IE or Windows bugs, which seem to affect pretty much everyone.
Targeted commercials. Why not? Tivo already knows that you're interested in new cars and golf clubs and beer. It makes sense (and makes them more money) to show you more of those kind of ads then ads for stuff you're totally disinterested in.
The alternative to the ESRB isn't no rating system at all. The alternative is some god-awful government controlled rating board that will be horribly slow, totally clueless, and about 30 years behind the time. You'll also see the game ratings become law, with fines and penalties for anybody who sells a game to someone who isn't legally permitted to purchase it.
What'll that do to the "adult" game market? I don't know, but I can't seen it having a positive effect.
does the fact that you can remain compatible with today's applications and data on hardware that is almost a decade old, impede PC sales?
Sure it does. Are we looking for someone to blame? How about the hardware industry, for spending all that money to make speedy whizbang processors and huge warehouselike hard drives that hardly anybody needs?
If you lie to the public and you know its a lie, then that is fraud.
That definition seems a leeeeetle bit broad. Wouldn't that make anyone who ever told a lie to two or more people guilty of fraud?
However, I'd say that trying to sell or license a product when you're fully aware that you have no ownership rights to said product is a pretty clear case of fraud. Thank you Microsoft for paying SCO that $10 million, since it'll make the total amount of money SCO defrauded their clients out of much more impressive.
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Whats the consequence in this case? The freeloaders go somewhere else, opening up more tables for paying customers? I wouldn't be afeared of those consequences none at all.
That being said, I'd at least try the "free access for everyone" model first. Requireing a purchase, printing access codes on reciepts, etc all add another level of headaches and problems to the whole wi-fi thing. It's probably cheaper to put up with a moderate amount of freeloading then to implement restrictions.
So when is Payroll Clerk Appreciation Day, or Staffing Manager Appreciation Day, or Database Administrator Appreciation Day, or appreciation days for any of the other vital positions that keep a company functioning? Why are Sys Admins (and secretaries, I suppose) singled out for their own special day?
Half-Life 2: Exploding barrels
Painkiller: Exploding barrels, boxes, chests, etc
Boxes, I can understand. I look around my office, my house, I see lots of boxes. Exploding barrels, or even the non-exploding kind... not so much.
Asking people to think before they post has the potential to spoil a lot of my entertainment.
There's nothing moronic about it. This will probably get expanded to a class-action suit, and then settled out of court. Rockstar will not admit to any wrongdoing, but will offer to replace the game for anyone who bought it with a new version that has the offending parts removed.
Oh, and Rockstar will agree to pay the plaintiffs legal fees of x.y million dollars. Net result: Rockstar loses lots of money, some legal firm makes lots of money, and the consumers who were "wronged" get jack. Remind me to opt out of this suit when it happens.
It's too bad, because I'd love to see this Grandma in court. Lets show the jury a few choice scenes from the game, including the language, the gratuitious violence, the cop-killing, the glorification of organized crime and general anti-social behavior. Then we'll ask her if she had no objection to any of that content being put in the hands of her 14-year-old grandson.
Quote from TFA:
"So for my personal goal of being identified in the case of an accident, it does work for me."
Yeah, if someone decides to try swiping a RFID reader over your charred remains to ID them. Which isn't terribly likely, since you're the only idiot in the world who has a RFID chip in his arm.
While we're at it, lets figure the odds of RFID chips surviving some disaster that will destroy fingerprints and dental records.
Scientists think that, one day, robots could fool us into believing they were human
Way to go out on a limb there,guys. Though that's a shocking prediction, I find it hard to argue against it.
Crean says Xerox and the government have a good relationship. "The U.S. government had been on board all along--they would actually come out to our labs," Crean says.
The guy sounds absolutely grateful that the Government would deign to come out to their labs and help them put this plan into action. No worries about their customers, though... lets just do whatever the Government wants and keep them happy.
Why should the Government be concerned about the expense? It's not like they have to pay for it.
She's probably after the same voting bloc, though. If you accept the theory that she'll be running for president in 2008, she'll need to start moving closer to the middle. Jumping on the videogame bashing bandwagon is a good start.
Proof of purchase doesn't mean proof of legitimate copy of Windows. You might have bought a budget system from some strip mall store somewhere, and they could be putting the same copy of Windows on every system they sell. In that case, MS wants to see proof that they charged you for Windows without installing a licensed copy. That lets MS sic their lawyers on the store.
If you didn't need proof that you paid *someone* for your copy of Windows, then everyone who wanted to buy XP would install a pirated copy, fail the security check, and grab the discount.
Anyone know how much the discount is?
...but I gotta.
IT Managers get zero chicks. Lifeguards get tons of chicks. What happens when then two are combined in the same person?
(unless of course, you are a chick yourself, in which case I apologize for my blatantly sexist remarks)
Sorry, I'm siding with the ESRB on this one. You can't look at the Hot Coffee thing as an isolated incident. Instead you have to take it as a precedent for the whole rating system. R* released a game to the market that had content that the didn't inform the ESRB about. Had the ESRB known about that content, the game would have been rated differently.
You can argue that the player has to hack their game files to access the hidden content, that the difference between an "M" and an "AO" rating is splitting hairs, and that reclassifying the game because of a few pixelated sex scenes is absurd, and those are all valid points. But the ESRB has to look at the situation generically. Any time a game has content that would change the games rating, and that content is accessible to the player, the ESRB needs to rerate the game.
I'd just like to state that I find it highly suspicious that the first post in this thread is an ad for a Thinkgeek product. And that it's modded up to +5.
I think you wanted a ";" after your print command to suppress the CrLf. Maybe not.
I remember playing Micro Warrior on an old chiclet-key PET when I was going to college. Amazing what they could fit into 8K of memory.
Starting bid of $100 for this banned game.
Since this is GreaseMONKEY, wouldn't throwing poo be more appropriate?
Yeah, a security hole that lets a hacker read any file on your HD seems pretty serious. OTOH, it's a problem in an extension, not with Firefox itself, so I don't know how much blame should be directed to the 'fox team.
All I know is that since I don't use Greasemonkey, this doesn't affect me. Unlike most IE or Windows bugs, which seem to affect pretty much everyone.
Targeted commercials. Why not? Tivo already knows that you're interested in new cars and golf clubs and beer. It makes sense (and makes them more money) to show you more of those kind of ads then ads for stuff you're totally disinterested in.
The alternative to the ESRB isn't no rating system at all. The alternative is some god-awful government controlled rating board that will be horribly slow, totally clueless, and about 30 years behind the time. You'll also see the game ratings become law, with fines and penalties for anybody who sells a game to someone who isn't legally permitted to purchase it.
What'll that do to the "adult" game market? I don't know, but I can't seen it having a positive effect.
does the fact that you can remain compatible with today's applications and data on hardware that is almost a decade old, impede PC sales?
Sure it does. Are we looking for someone to blame? How about the hardware industry, for spending all that money to make speedy whizbang processors and huge warehouselike hard drives that hardly anybody needs?
We control the vertical.
Who knew they were talking about markets?
I don't need a reason to stay home on Friday nights. I need a reason to go out on Friday nights, and there just aren't any.
Besides, I'm this>close to getting my Tauren Druid up to level 34!
Yep. I guess I'll have to take a long lunch and check the Frys in Japan.
If you lie to the public and you know its a lie, then that is fraud.
That definition seems a leeeeetle bit broad. Wouldn't that make anyone who ever told a lie to two or more people guilty of fraud?
However, I'd say that trying to sell or license a product when you're fully aware that you have no ownership rights to said product is a pretty clear case of fraud. Thank you Microsoft for paying SCO that $10 million, since it'll make the total amount of money SCO defrauded their clients out of much more impressive.
Sounds like the Blu-Ray people have the clearly superior product. I guess I'll be stopping by Frys on my way home from work to pick one up.
On second thought, they'll probably all be gone if I wait that long. I'd better swing by during lunch.