The entire system is heavily reliant on the people not knowing that there are various different copies of the document. The differences can be as subtle as using a dash instead of a colon, placing a comma elsewhere in a sentence, misspelled words, etc. Therefore, any change in the document would render it more or less untraceable. The method's only strength is its simplicity and subtlety.
If you actually read further down in the comments, the reviewer had said "You'll basically be paying 300 dollars to play a puzzle game."
When I went to the store to buy my PSP, the total charged to my card for the value pack and Lumines was $311. He was not wrong, the editor just can't read.
It's usually used with journalists, whose whole integrity issue is making sure they don't distort the facts. Also, the people receiving these documents are usually suits who don't really think about that possibility.
Well, given the choice between deciding that either there has to be some purpose or that the people at Apple are flaming morons, I'd say it's a safe bet to go with the former... I mean, boatloads of cash aren't usually wrong.
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The canary trap IIRC. Tom Clancy made a big deal about that with his main character throughout most of his novels. Apparently the way it works was to make many different copies of the documents, using a program to vary the punctuation and word choice. It's a remarkably elegant solution, and if Apple isn't doing this now, I don't know what the hell their problem is.
The difference is, in those situations it's something that you actually _gave_ to the person: "Here are some earrings." It's the same as having your girlfriend move in with you. You own the house, and if things go south, she sure as hell can't have it. Anything registered in his name isn't really a gift, he's just letting her use it.
> I am safely the legal owner of the domain despite its being her first and last name
Sorry, I thought that meant that you had registered it with her first and last name, not that it was firstlast.com. In that case, you own the sucker. If she brings it up in court saying it was a gift, just ask why it doesn't have her name on the whois in that case. Also, hearsay isn't acceptable in a court of law.
If you're concerned about the fact that it's her name, read up on the guy who bought bosleymedical.com
That's why you should never buy something like that in someone else's name, especially becuase she would never have known anyway. If you ever end up doing that again, register it in your name.
The things he listed are all luxuries. Coincidentally, so are all those extra features that users supposedly won't pay for. Personally, I make enough money that if the cost is modest, I'll support a startup by purchasing their product with those luxuries preinstalled rather than going out and finding it all myself.
People are willing to pay more money than you would think if it means saving time.
That's the job of one of the first extensions I downloaded. I originally used Maxthon, and I was disappointed with the tab issues with FF, but then I got that extension and haven't had problems since.
Actually, the way that the XBox (and the PSP for that matter) was priced, Microsoft lost money on every unit sold, because their business model banked on making up the lost profits through LIVE subscriptions. This is why the community that was working on hacking the XBox got so many friendly letters in the mail, and it's also why Sony isn't planning on opening up the UMD format - they are relying on post-console purchase sales to make the profit. Selling the unit alone is not enough.
You're probably right, but it still is disappointing to be lumped into that demographic. I'm curious as to what the gap is in profits that companies make off of mainstream gamers vs. hardcore gamers (there are more mainstream gamers, hardcore gamers buy more games). If they're marketing their products like this, the gap must be pretty large.
I don't know if I was planning on getting an XBox whateverthefuck anyway, but I don't know if I'm going to boycott it because their PR department is a steaming pile of shit - I'm moving in with two friends who are as technophilic as myself, so if we see something we like, we're going to get it.
All in all, though, it does make me sad to see that. Hopefully they can make up for this lame marketing move with an abundance of mature games (and no kids, mature doesn't just mean blood and tits).
I think they had something like that a few years ago. Then I think they cut everything out except the 30-second snatches of "music" on TRL.
The thing that makes me sad is that MS views people that watch MTV as their target audience. I don't even want people that ingest that filth sharing any sort of demographic with me.
Lumines is considered to be the best game for the system if you enjoy puzzle games at all. As for those people who are saying it didn't sell well, At least six of my friends and I went out and bought it within three days of launch. Due to some funky law in our school which disallows "electrically operated signalling devices," PSPs can be used in class since they operate off of batteries (chemical)... and there's someone with a psp in every class.
For the record, the Rio Carbon Uses a USB cable that plugs into a small converter which plugs into an outlet, which means only one hole for charging/data transfer.
I was hoping it was something stupidly simple like a commented line in the source or maybe the validate function it calls is just plain text in one of the js files.
while everyone knows servers are one day going to be water-cooled, no one wants to be first, believing that if their competitors still claim they are fine with air cooling, the guy who goes to water cooling will rapidly drop back in sales until others admit it is necessary
So everybody knows that it's necessary, but they're just waiting for the other guy to do it first so that they don't have to take any risks? Sounds familiar to me.
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The entire system is heavily reliant on the people not knowing that there are various different copies of the document. The differences can be as subtle as using a dash instead of a colon, placing a comma elsewhere in a sentence, misspelled words, etc. Therefore, any change in the document would render it more or less untraceable. The method's only strength is its simplicity and subtlety.
I read the comment on the page before I saw it here, and I could have sworn that had "unjustifiably imperious slashdotter" written all over it.
If you actually read further down in the comments, the reviewer had said "You'll basically be paying 300 dollars to play a puzzle game."
When I went to the store to buy my PSP, the total charged to my card for the value pack and Lumines was $311. He was not wrong, the editor just can't read.
It's usually used with journalists, whose whole integrity issue is making sure they don't distort the facts. Also, the people receiving these documents are usually suits who don't really think about that possibility.
Well, given the choice between deciding that either there has to be some purpose or that the people at Apple are flaming morons, I'd say it's a safe bet to go with the former... I mean, boatloads of cash aren't usually wrong.
The canary trap IIRC. Tom Clancy made a big deal about that with his main character throughout most of his novels. Apparently the way it works was to make many different copies of the documents, using a program to vary the punctuation and word choice. It's a remarkably elegant solution, and if Apple isn't doing this now, I don't know what the hell their problem is.
The difference is, in those situations it's something that you actually _gave_ to the person: "Here are some earrings." It's the same as having your girlfriend move in with you. You own the house, and if things go south, she sure as hell can't have it. Anything registered in his name isn't really a gift, he's just letting her use it.
> I am safely the legal owner of the domain despite its being her first and last name
Sorry, I thought that meant that you had registered it with her first and last name, not that it was firstlast.com. In that case, you own the sucker. If she brings it up in court saying it was a gift, just ask why it doesn't have her name on the whois in that case. Also, hearsay isn't acceptable in a court of law.
If you're concerned about the fact that it's her name, read up on the guy who bought bosleymedical.com
That's why you should never buy something like that in someone else's name, especially becuase she would never have known anyway. If you ever end up doing that again, register it in your name.
8.3% is almost 10%! That's some pretty aggressive rounding you have going on there.
The things he listed are all luxuries. Coincidentally, so are all those extra features that users supposedly won't pay for. Personally, I make enough money that if the cost is modest, I'll support a startup by purchasing their product with those luxuries preinstalled rather than going out and finding it all myself.
People are willing to pay more money than you would think if it means saving time.
Well, it follows them more closely than IE at least, but it failed the Acid2 test.
Hell, while we're wishing on stars, maybe they'll make it even MORE standards compliant.
That's the job of one of the first extensions I downloaded. I originally used Maxthon, and I was disappointed with the tab issues with FF, but then I got that extension and haven't had problems since.
Fair enough. I stand corrected.
Actually, the way that the XBox (and the PSP for that matter) was priced, Microsoft lost money on every unit sold, because their business model banked on making up the lost profits through LIVE subscriptions. This is why the community that was working on hacking the XBox got so many friendly letters in the mail, and it's also why Sony isn't planning on opening up the UMD format - they are relying on post-console purchase sales to make the profit. Selling the unit alone is not enough.
You're probably right, but it still is disappointing to be lumped into that demographic. I'm curious as to what the gap is in profits that companies make off of mainstream gamers vs. hardcore gamers (there are more mainstream gamers, hardcore gamers buy more games). If they're marketing their products like this, the gap must be pretty large.
I don't know if I was planning on getting an XBox whateverthefuck anyway, but I don't know if I'm going to boycott it because their PR department is a steaming pile of shit - I'm moving in with two friends who are as technophilic as myself, so if we see something we like, we're going to get it.
All in all, though, it does make me sad to see that. Hopefully they can make up for this lame marketing move with an abundance of mature games (and no kids, mature doesn't just mean blood and tits).
I think they had something like that a few years ago. Then I think they cut everything out except the 30-second snatches of "music" on TRL.
The thing that makes me sad is that MS views people that watch MTV as their target audience. I don't even want people that ingest that filth sharing any sort of demographic with me.
Lumines is considered to be the best game for the system if you enjoy puzzle games at all. As for those people who are saying it didn't sell well, At least six of my friends and I went out and bought it within three days of launch. Due to some funky law in our school which disallows "electrically operated signalling devices," PSPs can be used in class since they operate off of batteries (chemical)... and there's someone with a psp in every class.
For the record, the Rio Carbon Uses a USB cable that plugs into a small converter which plugs into an outlet, which means only one hole for charging/data transfer.
Well in the parent's case, he just wanted their name, so that the system could assign them resources.
We could have inferred that last line anyway. It's not like anyone else would have that opinion aside from actual HR types.
I was hoping it was something stupidly simple like a commented line in the source or maybe the validate function it calls is just plain text in one of the js files.
But it's not.
while everyone knows servers are one day going to be water-cooled, no one wants to be first, believing that if their competitors still claim they are fine with air cooling, the guy who goes to water cooling will rapidly drop back in sales until others admit it is necessary
So everybody knows that it's necessary, but they're just waiting for the other guy to do it first so that they don't have to take any risks? Sounds familiar to me.
Japan would be the first country to build a walking robot that shoots stuff.