If the coffee shop didn't want them there, they wouldn't be there. Most customers won't say "Hey there's ten people in there, but only five have coffee." Instead, they say "Hey that place is popular, it must be good." Just because they're not buying doesn't mean they're not helping the business.
, and it never fails to boggle my mind that what the constitution protects from government interference, it doesn't protect from private sector lawyers.
Because the first amendment is there to protect us from the government, not from each other. Go figure.
elegance - don't have to deal with the freakin' wall wart from a larger drive.
Even standard sized hard drives are small. Cut a panel into your wall, build a platform between the studs - you can include a fan that way as well, and have room for many standard hard drives. Even a micro-atx... in-wall SAN! Anyway, I digress. Close it up - camouflage it to look like a normal wall; or gussy it up as suits you.
Also, WD says the WD TV is optimised to work with WD passport drives.
If the public is ever going to see and understand what DRM is, and the danger it represents, we need more incidents like this. Especially incidents noteworthy enough to get mainstream media coverage. As things stand now, the average electronic device user has no clue about DRM. Articles and issues like this can hopefully change this... eventually.
Neverwinter Nights 2 does work in later builds -- but you can also fix it in the RC by replacing dxdiagn.dll with a version from Vista. Performance-wise, I find NWN2 on par with Windows XP under Win7 if not slightly better on Win7 -- something that surprised me.
Don't get your panties in a bunch, there's a difference between aged and unmaintained... they aren't synonyms. At 11 years old, Starcraft is aged. It is also (apparently) maintained.
Oops, missed your reply. That's more or less what I'm advocating -- if someone chooses to make bad design choices (including using non-accessible content) then this something they have to live with the consequences of.
The consequences may be competition - or it may be several emails from pissed off customers which force them to wake up and so "oh crap, what did we do?".
I just don't see a valid reason to say "you can't do this as an official part of the standard" that isn't self-correcting given time.
Not that it's still entirely safe, but if you're going to do it anyway..
This is the mentality that causes accidents in the first place isn't it? Why would you be doingit anyway? I hate to break it to you, but there's very little in life that's so urgent that you simply must deal with it NOW, damn the consequences. And in the rare event where something/is/ that urgent, why wouldn't you pull over to deal with it - and give it the attention it deserves?
Understand - I'm a crackberry addict. Can't go a day without having it attached to me - access to all of my remote servers and shells, web sites, email, etc. Nonetheless -- you won't ever see me driving down the road and typing on it. (Traffic lights are another story;) And that's with a full qwerty that can be navigated by touch.
Please don't contrive ridiculous corner cases to justify this -- in everyday usage, what justification is there for placing your own sense of urgency above the lives and safety of the people you share the road with?
BUT BE WARNED! I was part of an educational experiment in which honors students (such as myself) were placed in an 6th-grade English class with, well, the criminal class.
Phew! Thanks for warning me about your participation! (j/k...)
. But... something that downloads something from the internet and pushes it through a browser without asking anyone human first looks a wee bit problematic for me.
Yeah, hate it when browsers pull down images and text without my permission.
he web page in the example really has no place specifying the exact font which should be used, as people with visual impairments, people with low-res portable devices, or people whose native language isn't based on a latin script, might have extreme difficulty reading it.
And if they want to exclude those people from reading their web pages, why should they not be able to? It's their loss in the end - because sure as heck there will soon be a competitor which/does/ consider accessibility.
It's a good thing breathing is an involuntary action, cause there are a lot of people out there who'd forget to.
You know, it was the weirdest thing. For about an hour after my general anesthesia wore off (surgery...) I actually had to remind myself to breathe - felt like if I didn't do it consciously, I wouldn't do it at all. And even worse -- once I got home, I had to remind myself not to reply to spam!
OT I know, but does your sig compensate for your profound inability to actually find the checkbox marked "Post Anonymously" ?
No, it's my dig at all the people who post anonymously for "obvious reasons" -- not realizing that the things we say here really aren't that important in the grand scheme of things. And not realizing how (usually) trivial their "obvious reasons" are. Not to mention that in most cases, your randomly chosen user name is just as anonymous as a true AC post.
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Drivers here will actually try to prevent you from passing them and will flip you off if you do
Dude, that's drivers everywhere.
If the coffee shop didn't want them there, they wouldn't be there. Most customers won't say "Hey there's ten people in there, but only five have coffee." Instead, they say "Hey that place is popular, it must be good." Just because they're not buying doesn't mean they're not helping the business.
I didn't say anything about "cool", it's about shunning traditional aspects of society and being on the cutting edge. I'd say that's most of us here.
Here I thought it was about being yourself and using the right tools for the tasks at hand...
Mod that shit up! I agree 100%.
That right there is a lot of what's wrong with the mod system...
, and it never fails to boggle my mind that what the constitution protects from government interference, it doesn't protect from private sector lawyers.
Because the first amendment is there to protect us from the government, not from each other. Go figure.
the exploit demo they link to does not work in 3.5, so it seems the bypass gap was closed...
elegance - don't have to deal with the freakin' wall wart from a larger drive.
Even standard sized hard drives are small. Cut a panel into your wall, build a platform between the studs - you can include a fan that way as well, and have room for many standard hard drives. Even a micro-atx... in-wall SAN! Anyway, I digress. Close it up - camouflage it to look like a normal wall; or gussy it up as suits you.
Also, WD says the WD TV is optimised to work with WD passport drives.
Now that's just silly...
If the public is ever going to see and understand what DRM is, and the danger it represents, we need more incidents like this. Especially incidents noteworthy enough to get mainstream media coverage. As things stand now, the average electronic device user has no clue about DRM. Articles and issues like this can hopefully change this... eventually.
n/t
That's great, but... if only someone could crack the ipod classic hard drive secrets as easily. rockbox needs your help.
Hm, let's fix the URL above - and this time uncheck "post anon" which automatically got checked for no apparent reason.
Neverwinter Nights 2 does work in later builds -- but you can also fix it in the RC by replacing dxdiagn.dll with a version from Vista. Performance-wise, I find NWN2 on par with Windows XP under Win7 if not slightly better on Win7 -- something that surprised me.
Don't get your panties in a bunch, there's a difference between aged and unmaintained... they aren't synonyms. At 11 years old, Starcraft is aged. It is also (apparently) maintained.
Can you hack a barebones lynx?
Well duh - lynx is written in C, which is perfectly safe. It's C++ that's the problem.
his was Novell in this case who could easily have sued MS
Probably true legally, but given how deeply into MS's pockets Novell is... it seems an unlikely turn of events.
The consequences may be competition - or it may be several emails from pissed off customers which force them to wake up and so "oh crap, what did we do?".
I just don't see a valid reason to say "you can't do this as an official part of the standard" that isn't self-correcting given time.
Not that it's still entirely safe, but if you're going to do it anyway..
This is the mentality that causes accidents in the first place isn't it? Why would you be doingit anyway? I hate to break it to you, but there's very little in life that's so urgent that you simply must deal with it NOW, damn the consequences. And in the rare event where something /is/ that urgent, why wouldn't you pull over to deal with it - and give it the attention it deserves?
Understand - I'm a crackberry addict. Can't go a day without having it attached to me - access to all of my remote servers and shells, web sites, email, etc. Nonetheless -- you won't ever see me driving down the road and typing on it. (Traffic lights are another story ;) And that's with a full qwerty that can be navigated by touch.
Please don't contrive ridiculous corner cases to justify this -- in everyday usage, what justification is there for placing your own sense of urgency above the lives and safety of the people you share the road with?
"Most people don't think they're doing something wrong. " no, most of the time they know they are doing something wrong.
I'd say there's a difference between knowing you're doing something "wrong" (eg: smoking pot) and knowing you're doing something wrong (slitting throats).
That aside: if you spend your life being raised among and by ignorant cutthroats and thugs, when precisely do you learn that it is wrong to be a thug?
BUT BE WARNED! I was part of an educational experiment in which honors students (such as myself) were placed in an 6th-grade English class with, well, the criminal class.
Phew! Thanks for warning me about your participation! (j/k...)
In addition, thinking that the company has no influence over the development done by the foundation is a bit naive...
. But ... something that downloads something from the internet and pushes it through a browser without asking anyone human first looks a wee bit problematic for me.
Yeah, hate it when browsers pull down images and text without my permission.
he web page in the example really has no place specifying the exact font which should be used, as people with visual impairments, people with low-res portable devices, or people whose native language isn't based on a latin script, might have extreme difficulty reading it.
And if they want to exclude those people from reading their web pages, why should they not be able to? It's their loss in the end - because sure as heck there will soon be a competitor which /does/ consider accessibility.
homosex is sinful, you dirty fucking sodomite.
So says "Reasoned Mind". Funny.
It's a good thing breathing is an involuntary action, cause there are a lot of people out there who'd forget to.
You know, it was the weirdest thing. For about an hour after my general anesthesia wore off (surgery...) I actually had to remind myself to breathe - felt like if I didn't do it consciously, I wouldn't do it at all. And even worse -- once I got home, I had to remind myself not to reply to spam!
OT I know, but does your sig compensate for your profound inability to actually find the checkbox marked "Post Anonymously" ?
No, it's my dig at all the people who post anonymously for "obvious reasons" -- not realizing that the things we say here really aren't that important in the grand scheme of things. And not realizing how (usually) trivial their "obvious reasons" are. Not to mention that in most cases, your randomly chosen user name is just as anonymous as a true AC post.
Ballot, Soap, Jury, Ammo; they should be used in that order.
Comma he said, apropos of nothing at all .