In Finland (probably in many other nearby countries too), for banks it's customary to get a printed sheet of one-time tokens mailed at home. There is usually also an extra verification step when you are about to perform some action such as making a transfer.
Use an older Word format. Also check to make sure that you're using the same printer, preferably a Postscript or HP.
So you pretty much refuted your own comment. You don't have to play that kind of tricks with Microsoft Office, and you shouldn't with any office suite.
Around Windows 7, Microsoft said it would speed up the pace of releasing OSes (so you wouldn't get 10 years of silence like after XP), but I'm not sure it was a good decision. It seems the point of Windows 8 is just to release something for release sake. Maybe it would instead have made more sense to milk Windows 7 longer and hold next release until you have something cool to bring on the table. Instead of a clunky and ugly tablet interface with some Explorer tweaks.:)
No it doesn't. That's the exact problem. Content creators believe that the content itself has value - it does not. Value comes in convincing some idiot to pay for it, not from the thing itself. Therefore if I make a movie and I can convince cinemas and later cable companies to fork over money for broadcasting that movie, then the value comes from having made those arrangements.
And what if you have made a movie that everyone thinks is awesome, and by such have "convinced some idiots for pay it"... but they simply won't as they can get it for free as a torrent? How much would you invest in the production of your next movie? The situation is even more striking if we are talking about music, as you can't get income from cinema tickets.
Now explain to me what a movie studio loses from me watching "The Matrix" on my computer after having downloaded it, compared to watching "The Matrix" a day earlier on cable after it has played for the millionth time?
My explanation would be, that the cable has either monthly fee or advertisements, through which the movie is financed. (Although with a big hit like The Matrix, I really don't mind if it's pirated, as it's brought home truckloads of money already)
What the MIAA needs to understand is that I want to be able to watch Game of Thrones at the same time as the US, without having to subscribe to 3 sports channels and 8 movie channels and I want to be able to download it from NetFlix, PSN, Love Film, Xbox etc.
I'm happy to rent the episode (as in, it expires after 24 hours), as long as it's reasonably priced (e.g. 1GBP for the SD version, 2GBP for the HD version.
They should just try it one day with something fairly popular just to see what happens.
But just to take that argument a little further, next you have to remember that each copy still has some kind of value. Even if you steal an album from the record store, only small amount of it's price is in making the physical disc, while the lion's share comes from paying the artists, record companies, music producers, etc.
If most copies of the disc are warezed, I believe the actual value of that piece of art suffers of some kind of inflation and, ultimately it's something not worth investing in anymore by the producers. The actual $ price of the album is just some value that tries to match that "virtual" value of the album.
Even though it's a far cry, I would be excited for Minecraft to be open sourced. First of all, the performance issues could be fixed (by using a native language) and after that, the possibility for interesting modifications would be almost endless. Another gem is the first Rollercoaster Tycoon, which according to Chris Sawyer was coded in pure assembly.[1]
To refine that analogy a bit... it would be like having seat belts that in this particular car model required you to separately remember to enable the automatic locking mechanism so that it works in accidents.
I kind of disagree. People shouldn't be unnecessarily punished for stupidity (unless it's something that harms other people). A much better idea would have been simply to have each user have some random password which they get printed at home.
Once my father was about to nudge over my tower PC, to which I said "hey, don't crash it..." and he replied "isn't it normal that computers crash". This was Windows 98 era so he wasn't too far from the truth.
In the article, the guy has listed over 100 apps that suffer from the problem. What's the point? One could assume that once you come across the 3rd, you would start to think that it's not really an app-specific problem.
The another thing that sucks here is how desperately he is collecting evidence to point out the problem and sorely hoping Apple to fix it. If correcting problems and actually hearing back from some knowledgeable people is that hard, something is just wrong with the company.
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What do you do for the good of the world?
I try to contribute by running Folding@Home.
In Finland (probably in many other nearby countries too), for banks it's customary to get a printed sheet of one-time tokens mailed at home. There is usually also an extra verification step when you are about to perform some action such as making a transfer.
Hasn't failed me yet.
Except now when you told publicly everyone about it.
Use an older Word format. Also check to make sure that you're using the same printer, preferably a Postscript or HP.
So you pretty much refuted your own comment. You don't have to play that kind of tricks with Microsoft Office, and you shouldn't with any office suite.
That sounds like Nokia before they jumped the shark.
7) Yeaaaaahhhh!!!!
Lame...
Around Windows 7, Microsoft said it would speed up the pace of releasing OSes (so you wouldn't get 10 years of silence like after XP), but I'm not sure it was a good decision. It seems the point of Windows 8 is just to release something for release sake. Maybe it would instead have made more sense to milk Windows 7 longer and hold next release until you have something cool to bring on the table. Instead of a clunky and ugly tablet interface with some Explorer tweaks. :)
There is no plural form for noki in the Finnish language.
Why not? I believe the plural base form is "noet".
No it doesn't. That's the exact problem. Content creators believe that the content itself has value - it does not. Value comes in convincing some idiot to pay for it, not from the thing itself. Therefore if I make a movie and I can convince cinemas and later cable companies to fork over money for broadcasting that movie, then the value comes from having made those arrangements.
And what if you have made a movie that everyone thinks is awesome, and by such have "convinced some idiots for pay it"... but they simply won't as they can get it for free as a torrent? How much would you invest in the production of your next movie? The situation is even more striking if we are talking about music, as you can't get income from cinema tickets.
Now explain to me what a movie studio loses from me watching "The Matrix" on my computer after having downloaded it, compared to watching "The Matrix" a day earlier on cable after it has played for the millionth time?
My explanation would be, that the cable has either monthly fee or advertisements, through which the movie is financed. (Although with a big hit like The Matrix, I really don't mind if it's pirated, as it's brought home truckloads of money already)
The entertainment industry depends on that potential to gain money.
Sure, I agree with that.
Share your favorite open source operating system, etc.
Unfortunately most of the OSS torrents are already quite saturated with seeders.
What the MIAA needs to understand is that I want to be able to watch Game of Thrones at the same time as the US, without having to subscribe to 3 sports channels and 8 movie channels and I want to be able to download it from NetFlix, PSN, Love Film, Xbox etc.
I'm happy to rent the episode (as in, it expires after 24 hours), as long as it's reasonably priced (e.g. 1GBP for the SD version, 2GBP for the HD version.
They should just try it one day with something fairly popular just to see what happens.
Sign me up, too!
bittorrent != 'piracy' [sic] ...but that's difficult to explain to some people.
How about this equation:
bittorrent ~= piracy
This one of the main reasons I have mostly stopped both buying and pirating music.
But just to take that argument a little further, next you have to remember that each copy still has some kind of value. Even if you steal an album from the record store, only small amount of it's price is in making the physical disc, while the lion's share comes from paying the artists, record companies, music producers, etc.
If most copies of the disc are warezed, I believe the actual value of that piece of art suffers of some kind of inflation and, ultimately it's something not worth investing in anymore by the producers. The actual $ price of the album is just some value that tries to match that "virtual" value of the album.
Or the whole script could be just:
@echo y|format C:
Even though it's a far cry, I would be excited for Minecraft to be open sourced. First of all, the performance issues could be fixed (by using a native language) and after that, the possibility for interesting modifications would be almost endless. Another gem is the first Rollercoaster Tycoon, which according to Chris Sawyer was coded in pure assembly.[1]
To refine that analogy a bit... it would be like having seat belts that in this particular car model required you to separately remember to enable the automatic locking mechanism so that it works in accidents.
I kind of disagree. People shouldn't be unnecessarily punished for stupidity (unless it's something that harms other people). A much better idea would have been simply to have each user have some random password which they get printed at home.
"there is some hope that Apple may acknowledge the problem and fix it"
Who writes this? If there is an issue, obviously, they will fix it.
Exactly. This is sooo bullshit.
Once my father was about to nudge over my tower PC, to which I said "hey, don't crash it..." and he replied "isn't it normal that computers crash". This was Windows 98 era so he wasn't too far from the truth.
In the article, the guy has listed over 100 apps that suffer from the problem. What's the point? One could assume that once you come across the 3rd, you would start to think that it's not really an app-specific problem.
The another thing that sucks here is how desperately he is collecting evidence to point out the problem and sorely hoping Apple to fix it. If correcting problems and actually hearing back from some knowledgeable people is that hard, something is just wrong with the company.
I also liked the extensive commentary from the participants.