Bureaucratic Messes are usually related to poorly written laws. Or laws that did not anticipate the future.
Well, that's why normally you don't make laws with retroactive effect. In this case, new materials would require adaptations for those who are not 100% able to use the course material, and the materials that already exist would remain unchanged.
To me this looks like theuniversity decided they've had enough of the Freemium model and decided to paywall their content. The law might be a good excuse, and they might rely on people not reading the fine print, or in my case, RTFA, to see if it is indeed a good justification.
Your comment just led me to a very sad thought: When there is not enough market for goods and services, the armed forces can be deployed to destroy what exists and trigger nation-building projects.
Now take a moment to think about what this feature, once it's enabled by default, will mean for Steam. [...]
Will it mean that Steam will be a freeware application that you get from the store rather than from steampowered.com? I get the impression that Steam game installation and activation hides plenty of things that are happening with my machine, but in essence it's running a setup.exe in silent mode. Am I missing something?
Outside of direct and malicious interference from MS which has been pointed out by others here, why can't Steam have a freeware application without paying MS, like I think is happening with free to download apps in Google Play and iTunes store? Is Amazon paying Google 30% of purchases made via the Android app?
The idea of duress passwords sounds right, but requires some changes to the device/software. If we simply keep another account of the same type that authenticates with the device and syncs to a different set of contacts, map history, browser history, then it should be as plausible as what the security guy finds on the account for someone who is not a very regular user of the "smart" part of their phone.
I don't know about Huawei, but my current phone is Lenovo and does the job just fine: 16GB storage when Samsung low-end all had less than that; Dual SIM is a nice to have for data only SIMs abroad; RAM and CPU are OK for what I need, and it does a good job as a sat nav.
I don't feel I need to pay for sponsorship on Chelsea FC shirts nor high rents in California for the design department if in the end it's some Chinese company that does the bulk of the work. By buying Lenovo I get the product I need without that sort of overheads.
On the other hand, the first lot will have even more attention from Tesla, and all their people who doesn't want to be linked with a PR disaster. If you dislike telemetry, these cars won't be right for you.
I wonder if there's any possibility of this ship being used for civilian purposes? If it's good enough for carrying armed aircraft and hundreds of crewmen, it should be OK for doing the same minus the weapons. Or... after all those years in service, will the Enterprise still have any shipbuilding secrets worth hiding?
Apart from the obvious use as a supervillain HQ, a large ship with helicopters and airplanes could be useful for rescue operations and support to places needing help following natural disasters (the "UNICEF aircraft carrier").
We can always take lessons from the past and compare auto industries with whatever we like (in good/. tradition!). Nevertheless there are significant differences... and that's just taking the examples from the summary.
Facebook is not an early internet company... they've turned up after others looked mature enough to get some cash from their products/services... but failed. Amazon is an early internet company (IMHO) but which industry cycle pattern applies if they went on a huge horizontal expansion and then vertical integration that leads them to where they are today? Google I don't understand and never will... Microsoft does not get a mention even though they've been an early internet-related company before 3 out of 4 in the list, and now gets a higher sales total now than when their OS was in 90%+ of devices. They've become a smaller fish in a much larger pond. The company formerly known as Apple Computer made their greatest product line by beating established companies in a mature market.
What cycles do we see there if these companies are all actors in multiple markets precisely to avoid being overtaken by newcomers? The patterns are not *that* obvious and predictable as the grandparent poster suggests. If some new company invents something really great that gets them millions of paying customers, net neutrality rules changing will be a pain but won't stop them completely. More likely the hurry to be acquired will be a bigger factor.
I did try that, out of curiosity. MS Word really does not allow much formatting on the Line Number Style. Font and size is OK, but the placement of line numbers seems to be fixed. Then I had a look at the WordPerfect instructions (normal and Reveal Codes) and... the same. Odd.
Perhaps there is a legal convention that line numbers should always be on the right hand side of the paragraph? When searching for this I saw a few people trying to number lines on the outside and being asked to use Hebrew language in MS Word as a workaround. That's one kludge and a half!
At least that is the reason I think they decided to push updates rather than hoping people take a moment to approve them. On my work PC it's always on Friday mornings, at home I see no pattern, only that sometimes the "shutdown" menu is different: Update and power down or Update and restart. It works OK for me but I'd be annoyed if it stopped me working randomly.
Well calling I.S.I.S. Islamic State is not ideal either. There are several other islamic states around the world. "Daesh" might be a useful name to use, while the BBC's choice of "so-called islamic state" is a bit of a mouthful.
Yep, that's what we've all done in different decades and centuries. Hopefully the biggest part of the harm won't be reserved for those who get the smallest part of the helpfulness..
Team Rock Radio was the only station I listened to when I had DAB in the car. Then they decided not to renew the £1M per year rent for the use of that space, and a religious organisation took over their frequency. Just before Christmas 2016 they had to shut down what was left of the business. Internet radio is also a tough place to be, even without paying rent to the DAB people.
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Star Trek actor Anton Yelchin's Jeep Cherokee rolled back into him and killed him myseriously...
Nothing mysterious there. He died of natural causes.
ie: his Jeep ran him over, naturally he died.
Same here! practically 100% theft-proof!
No smart TV because of this "threat"? LOL
Just skip those bargain-bin deals and get one from a trustworthy manufacturer.
My TV is a Sony and they would never allow any stupid malware to go through their QA.
I don't have a hydroelectrical power plant handy to find out. What happens?
Bureaucratic Messes are usually related to poorly written laws.
Or laws that did not anticipate the future.
Well, that's why normally you don't make laws with retroactive effect. In this case, new materials would require adaptations for those who are not 100% able to use the course material, and the materials that already exist would remain unchanged.
To me this looks like theuniversity decided they've had enough of the Freemium model and decided to paywall their content. The law might be a good excuse, and they might rely on people not reading the fine print, or in my case, RTFA, to see if it is indeed a good justification.
Your comment just led me to a very sad thought: When there is not enough market for goods and services, the armed forces can be deployed to destroy what exists and trigger nation-building projects.
Now take a moment to think about what this feature, once it's enabled by default, will mean for Steam.
[...]
Will it mean that Steam will be a freeware application that you get from the store rather than from steampowered.com?
I get the impression that Steam game installation and activation hides plenty of things that are happening with my machine, but in essence it's running a setup.exe in silent mode. Am I missing something?
Outside of direct and malicious interference from MS which has been pointed out by others here, why can't Steam have a freeware application without paying MS, like I think is happening with free to download apps in Google Play and iTunes store? Is Amazon paying Google 30% of purchases made via the Android app?
Using the diamonds and lasers looks complicated and unreliable when they could just ask Chuck Norris to grab the hydrogen and give it a squeeze.
The idea of duress passwords sounds right, but requires some changes to the device/software.
If we simply keep another account of the same type that authenticates with the device and syncs to a different set of contacts, map history, browser history, then it should be as plausible as what the security guy finds on the account for someone who is not a very regular user of the "smart" part of their phone.
It's all good... if you're commenting on Trappist aliens it's only right that you drink a few beers as you type. :)
I don't know about Huawei, but my current phone is Lenovo and does the job just fine: 16GB storage when Samsung low-end all had less than that; Dual SIM is a nice to have for data only SIMs abroad; RAM and CPU are OK for what I need, and it does a good job as a sat nav.
I don't feel I need to pay for sponsorship on Chelsea FC shirts nor high rents in California for the design department if in the end it's some Chinese company that does the bulk of the work. By buying Lenovo I get the product I need without that sort of overheads.
Only if it really is the needful.
Kind retards,
Bazorg.
On the other hand, the first lot will have even more attention from Tesla, and all their people who doesn't want to be linked with a PR disaster. If you dislike telemetry, these cars won't be right for you.
OK... I get the idea...
Could this one be the ship you saw in the news: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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I wonder if there's any possibility of this ship being used for civilian purposes? If it's good enough for carrying armed aircraft and hundreds of crewmen, it should be OK for doing the same minus the weapons.
Or... after all those years in service, will the Enterprise still have any shipbuilding secrets worth hiding?
Apart from the obvious use as a supervillain HQ, a large ship with helicopters and airplanes could be useful for rescue operations and support to places needing help following natural disasters (the "UNICEF aircraft carrier").
We can always take lessons from the past and compare auto industries with whatever we like (in good /. tradition!).
Nevertheless there are significant differences... and that's just taking the examples from the summary.
Facebook is not an early internet company... they've turned up after others looked mature enough to get some cash from their products/services... but failed.
Amazon is an early internet company (IMHO) but which industry cycle pattern applies if they went on a huge horizontal expansion and then vertical integration that leads them to where they are today?
Google I don't understand and never will...
Microsoft does not get a mention even though they've been an early internet-related company before 3 out of 4 in the list, and now gets a higher sales total now than when their OS was in 90%+ of devices. They've become a smaller fish in a much larger pond.
The company formerly known as Apple Computer made their greatest product line by beating established companies in a mature market.
What cycles do we see there if these companies are all actors in multiple markets precisely to avoid being overtaken by newcomers? The patterns are not *that* obvious and predictable as the grandparent poster suggests. If some new company invents something really great that gets them millions of paying customers, net neutrality rules changing will be a pain but won't stop them completely. More likely the hurry to be acquired will be a bigger factor.
I did try that, out of curiosity. MS Word really does not allow much formatting on the Line Number Style. Font and size is OK, but the placement of line numbers seems to be fixed. Then I had a look at the WordPerfect instructions (normal and Reveal Codes) and... the same. Odd.
Perhaps there is a legal convention that line numbers should always be on the right hand side of the paragraph? When searching for this I saw a few people trying to number lines on the outside and being asked to use Hebrew language in MS Word as a workaround. That's one kludge and a half!
(d) the botnet herder.
At least that is the reason I think they decided to push updates rather than hoping people take a moment to approve them. On my work PC it's always on Friday mornings, at home I see no pattern, only that sometimes the "shutdown" menu is different: Update and power down or Update and restart. It works OK for me but I'd be annoyed if it stopped me working randomly.
Exactly that. To see the view like the pilgrims did is the lamest excuse I've seen in a long time.
Good question. I'll phone them next time I have a haircut :)
... and who's going to pay for that?
Well calling I.S.I.S. Islamic State is not ideal either. There are several other islamic states around the world. "Daesh" might be a useful name to use, while the BBC's choice of "so-called islamic state" is a bit of a mouthful.
Yep, that's what we've all done in different decades and centuries. Hopefully the biggest part of the harm won't be reserved for those who get the smallest part of the helpfulness..
I hope they call it karma police.
Team Rock Radio was the only station I listened to when I had DAB in the car. Then they decided not to renew the £1M per year rent for the use of that space, and a religious organisation took over their frequency. Just before Christmas 2016 they had to shut down what was left of the business. Internet radio is also a tough place to be, even without paying rent to the DAB people.