Actually, it was crap going on at the time surrounding several products and not just WordPerfect. The worst part wasn't that Microsoft was using undocumented APIs for an advantage, but that if someone else started to use them, Microsoft would remove those APIs to break their software. It's been a long time, so I don't recall all of the different packages that ran into issues, but it happened several times.
The only thing unpredictable about Star Trek is figuring out if it is the episode where they are screwed until the last 5 minutes of the show when Scotty miraculously fixes the warp drive by kicking it or the one where they go back in time and change history yet somehow claim to have a continuity that can later be screwed with.
No...because people care more about having music in a format that is convenient for them than sound quality. Since the format of DVD versus Blu-Ray is the same, it's not the same phenomenon.
Remember when Infinium Labs was working on their Phantom console and were touting the idea of content all being downloaded? Everybody laughed and said that it would never happen. Nobody would want to download their games. Who would want to give up their DVDs?
Here we are, less than 10 years since that initial announcement and PC games are mostly sold by services like Steam, GOG, and Impulse, services like Gametap are popular, and all three major consoles sell a lot of games via their online marketplaces. There is even a spiritual successor to the Phantom in the OnLive game system which is more or less a terminal server/VNC/Citrix client.
First of all, as has already been said, you may be violating a ton of policies as well as HIPAA by putting that machine on the network.
In most instances, IT has control of every piece of equipment that connects to the wire, even if they don't officially support the software or hardware. However, I know of plenty of exceptions to this rule. There are times when it is desirable to exclude IT from having access to a piece of equipment or server for a variety of reasons. Said equipment is generally supported by either a local department resource or an outside vendor directly. These arrangements are pretty much always in writing though. If you want to keep your server outside of IT control, you'll no doubt need to work that out with them.
I'm guessing that the IT department told him they don't support iPhones. They probably have the software tools to do so, but are either unwilling or unable to do it.
Bud, sit down. Let me tell you the story of the Ferguson. Now these babies were made in Maine, you know, at the little Ferguson factory. It's the Stradivarius of toilets. And my Dad could play it like a violin.
Yup, I'll never forget the time my dad took me to Maine to visit the factory. I had to go to the bathroom. And I begged him to pull into a truck stop. He said no, wait until we get there! It'll be worth it! It was!
Is the keyboard on the Blackberry really that much better?
Most BB users will tell you it absolutely is. We had a heck of a time getting people to move off of Blackberries on onto other devices for this very reason.
In my experience, the keyboard is really better than most other phones. The OS and navigation gimmick (whether ball, pad, or wheel) are only meh at best. But they do work, are pretty resilient, and the BES makes them great from an enterprise standpoint (though other phones can be managed via Good, Trust Digital, or other products as well.)
Having done wireless installs in warehouses, I can tell you that baby formula is the worst (liquid in metal cans stacked in boxes.) We'd do our thing and have good coverage. Later on we'd get a call saying that they have a huge hole in the coverage somewhere. We'd go back and find that they stacked baby formula right next to the AP. It was by far the most challenging item to deal with.
The government does things that would be illegal for the average citizen all the time in the process of law enforcement or intelligence gathering. We entrust them with this power and even put in some checks and balances to prevent it from being abused (stop laughing.) By its very nature, having someone go undercover pretty much demands that some illegal activities are committed in order to get the information required to catch the bad actors before they do something worse. The difference here (if we believe Al and honestly it isn't like his story is really out there or anything) is that they were using an outside resource so they could walk away with clean hands.
He chose to ignore all the taxes that employees at all those companies he owns stocks in pay. All the money he is investing in those companies that's paid out in taxes is all ignored when he says that.
I think that he "chose to ignore" it because he doesn't pay those taxes. The people that make that money pay the taxes on it just like corporations should be paying taxes on the money that they make.
Corporations don't get out of paying taxes because people that they pay money to (employees, other companies, etc) pay taxes. I don't get out of paying taxes because my mechanic pays taxes. If that were the case, there would be one person in the entire country that ended up paying taxes because everything would eventually trickle down to them.
I agree except for one thing...pictures are not going to do it unless the woman is going to use "The pretty blue one" as her basis of choice and that is unlikely in this case. You'd need to take her down to Best Buy, Office Max, or whatever and have her look at them, try the keyboards, etc. Pictures will not tell her if the screen is large enough, the laptop feels too heavy, or the keyboard annoys her.
Once you get a good feel for the physical preferences, you can work on the guts and find the exact specs that you want (or if the OP is happy remaining generally ignorant of hardware specs...not judging by any means, most people are...just buy whatever is right there at the store that the wife liked.)
Or even in a city like Pittsburgh, PA where geography becomes a limiting factor. There is a lot of area that isn't built on because it simply isn't practical to build there. Never mind that you would not only have to transplant all of the people, but also all of the industry which has grown away from the downtown area (including things like a couple of still functional steel mills.)
Not so much. Microsoft is going to look at these companies and figure that if they are doing $x of business and not buying y licenses, they must be pirating. Being in foreign countries, Microsoft may not have the ability to just swoop in and audit them. However, under these laws they can just sue you anyway and force you to do the work for them.
No, having explicit conversations with adults is illegal if they are trying to make you believe that they are under 18.
While I'm glad that these people are being identified, I'm not real happy with the methodology involved. The crimes that they are charged with are always something to do with a minor and yet a minor is never involved. How do you charge someone with soliciting a minor if the person they were actually soliciting is a 35 year old man?
I don't buy your product. You don't make 10 bucks. I try your product, decide it is crap and don't buy it. You don't make 10 bucks. I borrow your product from a friend. You don't make 10 bucks. I create a duplicate your product. You don't make 10 bucks. I improve your product. You don't make 10 bucks. I use your product for some other purpose. You don't make 10 bucks. I make my own version of your product. You don't make 10 bucks.
Now, if we were talking about, say...hedge trimmers, nobody would be arguing about this. But since we are talking about a song, all of these things are suddenly supposed to be theft? I'm not buying it.
Don't get me wrong, I believe whole heartedly that good artists should be compensated for their work (bad artists, like bad businesses should fail...there is no right to success.) But this whole thing that every potential dollar lost is theft is pure crap. You can't be deprived of something that you weren't going to get in the first place.
Per the commentary the movie was made that way intentionally so there wouldn't be these kinds of conversations. They went the artistic route and blatantly ignored the technical details. I thought that it worked well. Seeing a bunch of people in a room staring at a CLI isn't very interesting.
AFAIK, no rooting required on current devices. You just enter the old Konami code and it is in developer mode which allows you to load in whatever you like.
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Actually, it was crap going on at the time surrounding several products and not just WordPerfect. The worst part wasn't that Microsoft was using undocumented APIs for an advantage, but that if someone else started to use them, Microsoft would remove those APIs to break their software. It's been a long time, so I don't recall all of the different packages that ran into issues, but it happened several times.
The only thing unpredictable about Star Trek is figuring out if it is the episode where they are screwed until the last 5 minutes of the show when Scotty miraculously fixes the warp drive by kicking it or the one where they go back in time and change history yet somehow claim to have a continuity that can later be screwed with.
I've never had my pawns mine metal in chess before.
No...because people care more about having music in a format that is convenient for them than sound quality. Since the format of DVD versus Blu-Ray is the same, it's not the same phenomenon.
Remember when Infinium Labs was working on their Phantom console and were touting the idea of content all being downloaded? Everybody laughed and said that it would never happen. Nobody would want to download their games. Who would want to give up their DVDs?
Here we are, less than 10 years since that initial announcement and PC games are mostly sold by services like Steam, GOG, and Impulse, services like Gametap are popular, and all three major consoles sell a lot of games via their online marketplaces. There is even a spiritual successor to the Phantom in the OnLive game system which is more or less a terminal server/VNC/Citrix client.
First of all, as has already been said, you may be violating a ton of policies as well as HIPAA by putting that machine on the network.
In most instances, IT has control of every piece of equipment that connects to the wire, even if they don't officially support the software or hardware. However, I know of plenty of exceptions to this rule. There are times when it is desirable to exclude IT from having access to a piece of equipment or server for a variety of reasons. Said equipment is generally supported by either a local department resource or an outside vendor directly. These arrangements are pretty much always in writing though. If you want to keep your server outside of IT control, you'll no doubt need to work that out with them.
I'm guessing that the IT department told him they don't support iPhones. They probably have the software tools to do so, but are either unwilling or unable to do it.
Bud, sit down. Let me tell you the story of the Ferguson. Now these babies were made in Maine, you know, at the little Ferguson factory. It's the Stradivarius of toilets. And my Dad could play it like a violin.
Yup, I'll never forget the time my dad took me to Maine to visit the factory. I had to go to the bathroom. And I begged him to pull into a truck stop. He said no, wait until we get there! It'll be worth it! It was!
Non-competes are not uncommon in many areas such as sales and development. I even had to sign them back when I was a field service tech.
Is the keyboard on the Blackberry really that much better?
Most BB users will tell you it absolutely is. We had a heck of a time getting people to move off of Blackberries on onto other devices for this very reason.
In my experience, the keyboard is really better than most other phones. The OS and navigation gimmick (whether ball, pad, or wheel) are only meh at best. But they do work, are pretty resilient, and the BES makes them great from an enterprise standpoint (though other phones can be managed via Good, Trust Digital, or other products as well.)
Having done wireless installs in warehouses, I can tell you that baby formula is the worst (liquid in metal cans stacked in boxes.) We'd do our thing and have good coverage. Later on we'd get a call saying that they have a huge hole in the coverage somewhere. We'd go back and find that they stacked baby formula right next to the AP. It was by far the most challenging item to deal with.
The government does things that would be illegal for the average citizen all the time in the process of law enforcement or intelligence gathering. We entrust them with this power and even put in some checks and balances to prevent it from being abused (stop laughing.) By its very nature, having someone go undercover pretty much demands that some illegal activities are committed in order to get the information required to catch the bad actors before they do something worse. The difference here (if we believe Al and honestly it isn't like his story is really out there or anything) is that they were using an outside resource so they could walk away with clean hands.
He chose to ignore all the taxes that employees at all those companies he owns stocks in pay. All the money he is investing in those companies that's paid out in taxes is all ignored when he says that.
I think that he "chose to ignore" it because he doesn't pay those taxes. The people that make that money pay the taxes on it just like corporations should be paying taxes on the money that they make.
Corporations don't get out of paying taxes because people that they pay money to (employees, other companies, etc) pay taxes. I don't get out of paying taxes because my mechanic pays taxes. If that were the case, there would be one person in the entire country that ended up paying taxes because everything would eventually trickle down to them.
Lexmark stunk when IBM owned them, so I wouldn't expect that they became better when spun off onto their own.
I agree except for one thing...pictures are not going to do it unless the woman is going to use "The pretty blue one" as her basis of choice and that is unlikely in this case. You'd need to take her down to Best Buy, Office Max, or whatever and have her look at them, try the keyboards, etc. Pictures will not tell her if the screen is large enough, the laptop feels too heavy, or the keyboard annoys her.
Once you get a good feel for the physical preferences, you can work on the guts and find the exact specs that you want (or if the OP is happy remaining generally ignorant of hardware specs...not judging by any means, most people are...just buy whatever is right there at the store that the wife liked.)
Or even in a city like Pittsburgh, PA where geography becomes a limiting factor. There is a lot of area that isn't built on because it simply isn't practical to build there. Never mind that you would not only have to transplant all of the people, but also all of the industry which has grown away from the downtown area (including things like a couple of still functional steel mills.)
Not so much. Microsoft is going to look at these companies and figure that if they are doing $x of business and not buying y licenses, they must be pirating. Being in foreign countries, Microsoft may not have the ability to just swoop in and audit them. However, under these laws they can just sue you anyway and force you to do the work for them.
You don't think that happened in Iraq too?
No, having explicit conversations with adults is illegal if they are trying to make you believe that they are under 18.
While I'm glad that these people are being identified, I'm not real happy with the methodology involved. The crimes that they are charged with are always something to do with a minor and yet a minor is never involved. How do you charge someone with soliciting a minor if the person they were actually soliciting is a 35 year old man?
What can you request them to take down? They don't host any content.
I don't buy your product. You don't make 10 bucks.
I try your product, decide it is crap and don't buy it. You don't make 10 bucks.
I borrow your product from a friend. You don't make 10 bucks.
I create a duplicate your product. You don't make 10 bucks.
I improve your product. You don't make 10 bucks.
I use your product for some other purpose. You don't make 10 bucks.
I make my own version of your product. You don't make 10 bucks.
Now, if we were talking about, say...hedge trimmers, nobody would be arguing about this. But since we are talking about a song, all of these things are suddenly supposed to be theft? I'm not buying it.
Don't get me wrong, I believe whole heartedly that good artists should be compensated for their work (bad artists, like bad businesses should fail...there is no right to success.) But this whole thing that every potential dollar lost is theft is pure crap. You can't be deprived of something that you weren't going to get in the first place.
Per the commentary the movie was made that way intentionally so there wouldn't be these kinds of conversations. They went the artistic route and blatantly ignored the technical details. I thought that it worked well. Seeing a bunch of people in a room staring at a CLI isn't very interesting.
Hackers? Really? You thought that was supposed to be a realistic representation?
I have a niggling feeling that the top PC maker worldwide (based on PC shipments) sells a few more than 5,000 PCs a year. Must be at least 5,003.
AFAIK, no rooting required on current devices. You just enter the old Konami code and it is in developer mode which allows you to load in whatever you like.