$70k a year? Is that what you think helpdesk monkeys make? Try $12-16 an hour. And that figure is continually going down, as companies realize they can hire on high school grads through temp agencies for cheaper and cheaper rates. Those companies that haven't gone to India yet, that is.
So only the richest of people should expect to own their own home? What third world nation do you live in? So if everyone else takes your advice and sells all their assets off, who are they selling them to? Corporations? The state? Sounds like communist rhetoric to me. Everyone should live in state owned housing developments and not own their own homes. Everyone should not own cars but take state owned transportation everywhere they need to go. Don't buy a TV, DVD player, or music players, computers, nice clothes, or anything else that's fun, but not quite necessary for survival. Sounds like a great fricking life to me. Sounds like Russia, 1950. Don't worry about your low wages and suck-ass life comrade, the State will take care of you. You want to raise your kids like that?
The Indians would have a better chance of getting away with it, living on the other side of the world, in another country, with near lawlessness it seems. (remember, this is the same country where they seem to allow disgruntled husbands to disfigure their wives with hot oil or acid) That, and I get the distinct feeling most Indians don't like us too much right now, especially the Muslim ones.
Funny, I have zero DRM problems on my PC. We're probably not performing the same tasks I guess? The PC I use for gaming and media related tasks is Windows based, older 5000 series nVidia card. Plays all the new games my kids want to play. All I do is rip my DVD's and music, but no problems there ever. I honestly don't bother with that stuff on my *nix-based boxes.
One guy says there's no "casual" link, and your natural conclusion is to take him completely at face value and make the assumption that they were all getting together after hours and building a nuclear reactor in someone's basement??
So if you worked in that building, and seven of your coworkers suddenly got brain tumors at the same time, you'd have no worries at all, eh?
5 years? Ha. With what this guy now knows, he'll be lucky to ever see sunlight again. They're going to lock him in solitary somewhere for life. I have no doubt they'll find a way. He'll probably be labelled as a "terrorist" and the details of his court case will become classified for "national security".
They flat refused to sell him a new drive without him bringing the machine in so they could install it saying that in order for his warranty to remain valid they had to send the failed drive back to Apple for testing. He asked what would happen if he bought a 3rd party drive and replaced it himself and was told that his warranty would be voided and he could be subject to up to $20,000 in fines for violating his "customer agreement".
If this story is true, then that reseller was blatantly lying, and needs to be bitchslapped for consumer fraud. This is not the way Apple works things. Now, about sending the dead drive back, yes, they do have to send defective parts back *if they replace them under warranty*. However, if he just bought one straight out, even a 3rd party one (yes a standard PC version of a CD/DVD drive will work!), they can just sell it to him, at a slightly higher cost (as they don't get a discount by sending the broken one back). And, there is no such thing as a fine for adding your own hardware, or voiding a warranty. That's such bullshit. The problem is, they don't make much money on hardware sales. They make their money on labor. So they end up fucking Apple customers, and dragging Apple's name through the mud to make a profit. Personally, I'd tell your friend to report that store to whatever consumer protection agency handles your state. They probably didn't break any laws, but lying to consumers about made-up fines and their rights is not acceptable.
This could very well be a mistake on my part in that I have never seen or heard of anyone able to do that. Probably. Most all Macs take standard PC memory. Since almost the beginning. Even the first PowerMacs used a slight variation of normal SIMMs. Many brands of PC memory worked in them. Add to that how easy the cases on Macs open up, I get the feeling you've probably just never seen and played with a Mac up close.
On top of that, I thought that their machines had a temperature sensor that would trigger it to internally mark itself as VOIDED if the case was open and the temperature in the room wasn't low enough. Yeah, not sure where you got that from. They have no special hardware in them like that at all. And, I can't remember ever seeing a Mac with a sticker on it to keep you from opening the case. I've opened up pretty much every PowerMac ever made, was an Apple certified tech at a store for a few years. They really have no clue if you open the case and put in your own ram, harddrive, PCI/video card, NIC, modem, etc. All of these devices can be bought 3rd party, and there is no rule that I've ever heard about installing these voiding warranty. We sold 3rd party hardware all the time, and told them how to install it if they asked.
"Hypothesis" actually. Until someone gathers some data to back it up. Which they may have, I just haven't bothered to look into it lately.
It almost sounds like you're saying that no one other than a scientist is allowed to posture about science. I guess we should all just accept whichever most common theory is spoonfed to us and not use our own intellect at all. They must be completely right, it's not like major scientific theories aren't re-written all the time or anything. I'm not writing journal papers or teaching classes, so I'm allowed to form my own opinions and hypotheses about the way the universe works if I choose. And I'm free to share those ideas with others, even at the expense of being berated by people like you.
Don't think of it as creating matter so much as freeing matter. Think about a black hole, or super-massive blackhole. Where does all the matter go that it sucks in? Probably not some other dimension. It's probably being packed together in an ever increasing mass. After so much comes together, there's probably a breaking point that releases it. Conjecture of course, but it goes toward explaining your question. And it's the explaination that makes the most sense to me. No matter is truly created or destroyed, and it would explain where the "bangs" come from.
They're just NOW getting around to this line of thought? Please tell me the majority of academia is not that glaringly stupid. So they suddenly now believe it more likely that the universe doesn't have a single beginning or end, but is cyclical in nature? I've been screaming this for nearly a decade. The idea that it all started with a single "big bang" is preposterous. Nothing in nature has a true beginning and end, everything is part of a larger cycle. It's only common sense that if there were one "bang" there were probably more before it.
I'm thinking, that probably blackholes create these bangs. After they attain a certain threshold of mass, as in several super-blackholes combine, they explode again. But then, I'm not an astro-physicist and have no data to back this up.
If I create a patch that makes Minnie Mouse and Daisy Duck naked in a Disney game, will the ESRB re-label that game as "M" and force Disney to pull it off the shelves? ESRB are morons.
Programmers are not exempt either, unless they are direct managers, and spend some of their time actually managing people. Or they make a large enough salary to begin with (which is about 100k+). In fact, ONLY managers, supervisors, & execs are truly OT exempt employees. Corporate America sure as hell doesn't want their employees knowing that fact.
My last company actually changed all of us from salaried to hourly for this very reason. Even though we had no real overtime qualms, they didn't work us like dogs. They claimed that it was now not "legal to make a non-manager salaried", which was an obvious lie, as what they meant to say was "we can no longer skip paying you overtime because you're not a manager". So, everyone went hourly, and a sudden OT ban went into effect. I'm guessing somebody ratted them out to the state board.
So we've all been lied to since the 80's? Damn Nintendo and Sega, they tricked me into thinking their single player role based games were RPG's! All those hundreds of titles, all single player, all lies. Oh no, it goes back even further! I played D&D RPG games on my C64. Damn you Commodore! You tricked me. Since RPG's didn't actually exist until the late 90's, apparently. These game companies have been smoking crack 25 yrs ago to think they knew what an RPG was. Wait, maybe they considered having your friends over to watch your TV as you played to be the audience, so therefore you were performing a role for someone. Aha, the loophole. What if I'm schizophrenic and I believe that the NPC's are real people? Then I'm performing for an audience, and it becomes a real RPG to me.
Seriously though, I do not think the presence or lack of an audience is what makes an RPG.
So far, it's not illegal to modify your own hardware (I say "so far" because it hasn't been tested in court yet), but it is illegal to sell such modifications or the hardware to make them. The closest test to this that I know of, is when DirecTV/Dish Network were sending out intent to sue letters to people who purchased card programmers. Which in itself was pretty ridiculous, considering card programmers are perfectly legal, and they had no evidence said people had used them for illegal purposes. Most of those were settled out of court though.
eh, the only thing I even really watch is science channel, and that's when I'm laying in bed at night. Oh, what a horrible grip their educational programs have on me!
Who's talking content? We own the hardware. That includes the remote and the controls on the TV. Who owns my remote? Me, or the content provider? If I want to change the channel and watch something else, that's my right.
Until my TV comes with a EULA stating that I am not buying the hardware, and that I'm just licensed to use the hardware however Fox network sees fit. And that is the day I stop buying TV's.
Who pays for the content? The same people who always pay for the content. Skipping commercials is not stealing television content. Nobody knows if you even watch the commercials, the networks still get paid by their advertisers. Hell, even downloading TV shows is not stealing content. It's no different than time shifting it. The only time this really infringes is if they're selling the boxed set of this show/season. But if you're only downloading it to watch the episode you missed, and not to collect the whole season, that's not infringement in my eyes.
That's the #2 reason I copy my DVD's. Remove the menus, ads, previews, extra crap, and the dvd just goes straight to playing the movie without having to hit anything. Handy for the kids. Kids destroying my DVD's is the #1 reason I copy them.:)
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$70k a year?
Is that what you think helpdesk monkeys make?
Try $12-16 an hour. And that figure is continually going down, as companies realize they can hire on high school grads through temp agencies for cheaper and cheaper rates. Those companies that haven't gone to India yet, that is.
So only the richest of people should expect to own their own home? What third world nation do you live in? So if everyone else takes your advice and sells all their assets off, who are they selling them to? Corporations? The state? Sounds like communist rhetoric to me. Everyone should live in state owned housing developments and not own their own homes. Everyone should not own cars but take state owned transportation everywhere they need to go. Don't buy a TV, DVD player, or music players, computers, nice clothes, or anything else that's fun, but not quite necessary for survival. Sounds like a great fricking life to me. Sounds like Russia, 1950. Don't worry about your low wages and suck-ass life comrade, the State will take care of you.
You want to raise your kids like that?
The Indians would have a better chance of getting away with it, living on the other side of the world, in another country, with near lawlessness it seems. (remember, this is the same country where they seem to allow disgruntled husbands to disfigure their wives with hot oil or acid)
That, and I get the distinct feeling most Indians don't like us too much right now, especially the Muslim ones.
The winner is pretty damn boring. I guess they were going for "simple" over "stylish".
As has already been said, I like the curent layout better.
Funny, I have zero DRM problems on my PC. We're probably not performing the same tasks I guess? The PC I use for gaming and media related tasks is Windows based, older 5000 series nVidia card. Plays all the new games my kids want to play. All I do is rip my DVD's and music, but no problems there ever. I honestly don't bother with that stuff on my *nix-based boxes.
One guy says there's no "casual" link, and your natural conclusion is to take him completely at face value and make the assumption that they were all getting together after hours and building a nuclear reactor in someone's basement??
So if you worked in that building, and seven of your coworkers suddenly got brain tumors at the same time, you'd have no worries at all, eh?
5 years? Ha. With what this guy now knows, he'll be lucky to ever see sunlight again. They're going to lock him in solitary somewhere for life. I have no doubt they'll find a way. He'll probably be labelled as a "terrorist" and the details of his court case will become classified for "national security".
They flat refused to sell him a new drive without him bringing the machine in so they could install it saying that in order for his warranty to remain valid they had to send the failed drive back to Apple for testing. He asked what would happen if he bought a 3rd party drive and replaced it himself and was told that his warranty would be voided and he could be subject to up to $20,000 in fines for violating his "customer agreement".
If this story is true, then that reseller was blatantly lying, and needs to be bitchslapped for consumer fraud. This is not the way Apple works things.
Now, about sending the dead drive back, yes, they do have to send defective parts back *if they replace them under warranty*. However, if he just bought one straight out, even a 3rd party one (yes a standard PC version of a CD/DVD drive will work!), they can just sell it to him, at a slightly higher cost (as they don't get a discount by sending the broken one back). And, there is no such thing as a fine for adding your own hardware, or voiding a warranty. That's such bullshit. The problem is, they don't make much money on hardware sales. They make their money on labor. So they end up fucking Apple customers, and dragging Apple's name through the mud to make a profit.
Personally, I'd tell your friend to report that store to whatever consumer protection agency handles your state. They probably didn't break any laws, but lying to consumers about made-up fines and their rights is not acceptable.
This could very well be a mistake on my part in that I have never seen or heard of anyone able to do that.
Probably. Most all Macs take standard PC memory. Since almost the beginning. Even the first PowerMacs used a slight variation of normal SIMMs. Many brands of PC memory worked in them. Add to that how easy the cases on Macs open up, I get the feeling you've probably just never seen and played with a Mac up close.
On top of that, I thought that their machines had a temperature sensor that would trigger it to internally mark itself as VOIDED if the case was open and the temperature in the room wasn't low enough.
Yeah, not sure where you got that from. They have no special hardware in them like that at all. And, I can't remember ever seeing a Mac with a sticker on it to keep you from opening the case. I've opened up pretty much every PowerMac ever made, was an Apple certified tech at a store for a few years. They really have no clue if you open the case and put in your own ram, harddrive, PCI/video card, NIC, modem, etc. All of these devices can be bought 3rd party, and there is no rule that I've ever heard about installing these voiding warranty. We sold 3rd party hardware all the time, and told them how to install it if they asked.
"Hypothesis" actually. Until someone gathers some data to back it up. Which they may have, I just haven't bothered to look into it lately.
It almost sounds like you're saying that no one other than a scientist is allowed to posture about science. I guess we should all just accept whichever most common theory is spoonfed to us and not use our own intellect at all. They must be completely right, it's not like major scientific theories aren't re-written all the time or anything.
I'm not writing journal papers or teaching classes, so I'm allowed to form my own opinions and hypotheses about the way the universe works if I choose. And I'm free to share those ideas with others, even at the expense of being berated by people like you.
Don't think of it as creating matter so much as freeing matter.
Think about a black hole, or super-massive blackhole. Where does all the matter go that it sucks in? Probably not some other dimension. It's probably being packed together in an ever increasing mass. After so much comes together, there's probably a breaking point that releases it.
Conjecture of course, but it goes toward explaining your question. And it's the explaination that makes the most sense to me. No matter is truly created or destroyed, and it would explain where the "bangs" come from.
They're just NOW getting around to this line of thought? Please tell me the majority of academia is not that glaringly stupid. So they suddenly now believe it more likely that the universe doesn't have a single beginning or end, but is cyclical in nature?
I've been screaming this for nearly a decade. The idea that it all started with a single "big bang" is preposterous. Nothing in nature has a true beginning and end, everything is part of a larger cycle. It's only common sense that if there were one "bang" there were probably more before it.
I'm thinking, that probably blackholes create these bangs. After they attain a certain threshold of mass, as in several super-blackholes combine, they explode again. But then, I'm not an astro-physicist and have no data to back this up.
If I create a patch that makes Minnie Mouse and Daisy Duck naked in a Disney game, will the ESRB re-label that game as "M" and force Disney to pull it off the shelves?
ESRB are morons.
They proved on mythbusters that an MRI will not rip metal out of your body. It is damn strong though.
Programmers are not exempt either, unless they are direct managers, and spend some of their time actually managing people. Or they make a large enough salary to begin with (which is about 100k+).
In fact, ONLY managers, supervisors, & execs are truly OT exempt employees. Corporate America sure as hell doesn't want their employees knowing that fact.
My last company actually changed all of us from salaried to hourly for this very reason. Even though we had no real overtime qualms, they didn't work us like dogs. They claimed that it was now not "legal to make a non-manager salaried", which was an obvious lie, as what they meant to say was "we can no longer skip paying you overtime because you're not a manager". So, everyone went hourly, and a sudden OT ban went into effect. I'm guessing somebody ratted them out to the state board.
Is it the fact that you play a role of a character throughout the game.
the characters you play develop over the course of the game
the player has some control and influence over HOW the chracter develops (skills and abilities etc.) over the course of the game
That's how I define an RPG. Audience is not a consideration.
So we've all been lied to since the 80's? Damn Nintendo and Sega, they tricked me into thinking their single player role based games were RPG's! All those hundreds of titles, all single player, all lies.
Oh no, it goes back even further! I played D&D RPG games on my C64. Damn you Commodore! You tricked me.
Since RPG's didn't actually exist until the late 90's, apparently. These game companies have been smoking crack 25 yrs ago to think they knew what an RPG was.
Wait, maybe they considered having your friends over to watch your TV as you played to be the audience, so therefore you were performing a role for someone. Aha, the loophole.
What if I'm schizophrenic and I believe that the NPC's are real people? Then I'm performing for an audience, and it becomes a real RPG to me.
Seriously though, I do not think the presence or lack of an audience is what makes an RPG.
So far, it's not illegal to modify your own hardware (I say "so far" because it hasn't been tested in court yet), but it is illegal to sell such modifications or the hardware to make them.
The closest test to this that I know of, is when DirecTV/Dish Network were sending out intent to sue letters to people who purchased card programmers. Which in itself was pretty ridiculous, considering card programmers are perfectly legal, and they had no evidence said people had used them for illegal purposes. Most of those were settled out of court though.
eh, the only thing I even really watch is science channel, and that's when I'm laying in bed at night.
Oh, what a horrible grip their educational programs have on me!
Who's talking content? We own the hardware. That includes the remote and the controls on the TV.
Who owns my remote? Me, or the content provider? If I want to change the channel and watch something else, that's my right.
Until my TV comes with a EULA stating that I am not buying the hardware, and that I'm just licensed to use the hardware however Fox network sees fit. And that is the day I stop buying TV's.
Since the game will now generate ad revunue, that means they can sell them a little cheaper right?
*cue game company execs staring idly at the ceiling tiles
er, pay the hardworking programmers and developers a bit more?
*more tile counting
Oh, line executive coffers and retirment plans?
*CEO and CFO highfive
I'll feed the troll.
Who pays for the content? The same people who always pay for the content. Skipping commercials is not stealing television content. Nobody knows if you even watch the commercials, the networks still get paid by their advertisers.
Hell, even downloading TV shows is not stealing content. It's no different than time shifting it. The only time this really infringes is if they're selling the boxed set of this show/season. But if you're only downloading it to watch the episode you missed, and not to collect the whole season, that's not infringement in my eyes.
That's the #2 reason I copy my DVD's. Remove the menus, ads, previews, extra crap, and the dvd just goes straight to playing the movie without having to hit anything. Handy for the kids. :)
Kids destroying my DVD's is the #1 reason I copy them.
I don't think I've ever read a EULA past the first sentence. Mostly because I don't care what it says. I'll do whatever I want with the software.
there actually exists some people in college who believe it is unacceptable to smoke marijuana and drink alcohol.
What an amazing discovery? This is Nobel prize material, no doubt.
Screw cancer, let's work on the evil video game industry.