Gamers bleat that 4000dpi is needed for that "uber" control. It's not. Not even close. The day any human being on this planet shows me manual dexterity with an object weighing half a pound capable of precision control to within SIX THOUSANDTHS OF A MILLIMETRE is the day I'll personally fund the construction of an 8000dpi mouse just for you.
I want to tell you just how fine that resolution is. SHORT head hairs on an ANT measure 0.006mm.
You could survive on 1000dpi at the most, if not less. But that doesn't sound elite. Gamers are like audiophiles - it's just that their gadgets aren't as expensive.
Well, other than Microsoft offering as a condition of the deal $1.5B earmarked for employee retention. Seems like, from that, the employees walking would be the ones who chose to. The poster above you is right, this is pretty much all about what's good for the ego of Yahoo's board, not their shareholders or anyone else. They've all got their golden parachutes arranged (some freshly sweetened up even since the beginning of these acquisition talks), and they ignored a deal of nearly fifteen per cent above market cap. I would be very surprised if there wasn't major upset from their shareholders, particularly the institutionals, even a shareholder lawsuit.
Wow. Every stock analyst on the street says that the Microsoft offer was good value, but along comes a Slashdot Yahoo, pardon the pun, and decides that the real value is $180 billion, close to five times the market cap.
Completely leaving aside the rights or wrongs of billing her, you'll find in the details that she'll not be being billed, but his estate will, of which she is possibly the inheritor/executor/both/similar. It's just that the practical effect is the same, but I can understand their perspective in this detail alone.
It didn't become the responsibility of the state until it started demanding taxes for the upkeep of such services. Chicken and egg situation, to be sure, but once the government decided it was going to create varying SAR services, and fund them with the money I pay in taxes, it took on at least a passing moral obligation to come search-and-rescue me. That's why I paid for the service, not as (yet another) pork barrel. (From the government perspective - having observed SAR services in action, I have nothing but the utmost in respect.)
Amusing analogy. Spot the fanboy. More accessories will work, not less, due to more expansion options. Games will work better, due to orders of magnitude better graphics card. You failed to spout a single coherent comparison that makes this far weaker than the original, despite your crappy analogy attempt.
LOL. Really. Your honest assessment is that "Oh, the Psystar computer WONT BE WORKING half the day, every day"? Seriously, what are you smoking?
"With an unsupported system, you are literally eating into your profits" - uhh, hrm, let's think about that. The only way any system, supported or not, eats into your profits is when it is not working. Now, notwithstanding your ridiculous 'pulled out of my ass' figure of 'four out of eight hours downtime for the ohnoes-unsupported system by virtue of well, uhh, I can't think of a single cogent reason other than because I said so', one, what is it exactly that you think "just won't work" magically because it's on a different system? Two, who do you think won't support you with the Psystar system? Hardware failure? Commodity parts, buy them at any retailer, have them installed in the same time your Apple Genius Bar will, if not quicker (let's not hope you're in NY or any other 'megacity', as that's often where there are delays in Apple support, due to backlog). OS failure, or FCP failure? I'm struggling to see this. And three, laughingly, just how does an Apple system NOT eat into your profits when its down? I'm pretty damn sure there ain't no SLA on your systems.
You haven't made a very good argument, not at all.
1 - Show me where on Apple's Store you have the option to buy any Apple system with zero RAM. Oh, wait, you can't. So you're going to get gouged on it, and that's quite alright to all the fanboys in this thread defending it (and there are, of course, several of you). I mean, I have pretty much zero impetus to believe that, oh/that/ RAM that you have to buy isn't being gouged either.
Before anyone rushes in and makes some trollish remark about "being able to afford it", that ain't a problem - the problem is people who seek all manner of justifications to attempt to defend what is, quite simply, highway robbery.
That's the most pathetic excusing I've ever seen - you can't buy a system without RAM/HDD from Apple, so you just have to suck it up, huh? And then go buy your RAM elsewhere. Great. And you (and every other fanboy that uses this argument) has the unmitigated gall to blame the user - "anyone who buys RAM from Apple is an idiot/fool"... right.
True. And that plugs in to what I'm saying. Where one will not cover, and another will. That's fine. (Although admittedly, this whole thing is murky). What I was more referring to is... "Say your co-pay/deductible for 'x' is $1000", you cannot use or get insurance that will cover the same thing as another of your policies, AND have them both pay out to reduce your costs, if not give you money.
I have a fairly wide experience with differing health systems. I was born in the UK under the guise of the NHS and its universal coverage, then I moved to Australia and experienced their Medicare system, and the hybridized private insurance system there, then I moved to the US and got married and starting paying for my healthcare.
My experiences? A few years ago I was afflicted with acute non-specific arthritis/gout, to the point I was nearly passing out with pain. At midnight on a Friday night I trundled in to ER, and within three hours I'd been through ER and admitted into Rheumatology. I ended up spending 8 days there. I had IV analgesia. I had a consultant rheumatologist work with me for several days. I had a physical therapist working with me. I came out with supplies of steroids, of painkillers and anti-inflammatories. My bill for this stay, out of pocket? $21. $8 of that was for TV rental.
Another set of experiences including paying $50 for my wife's yearly gyno exam. $80 for analgesic prescriptions at the pharmacy. Requiring pre-approval of ambulance travel.
Have a guess from the above: in which case was I talking about the Australian health care system, and in which case was I talking about the US?
You'd like to think that it works that way, but it doesn't.
You can 'maximize' your coverage, but you will not be allowed to "over insure" to cover gaps between coverage payouts and out of pocket expenses. There are mechanisms in place to detect this and treatment facilities WILL report it to the insurer.
The logic is that 'getting sick isn't meant to be winning the lottery', and applies to the hypthothetical idealistic vision of insurance as 'pure risk mitigation'.
My knowledge? I write claims management software for the health insurance industry.
.mac "just works"? Come on. There are a multitude of people who have issues with every single part of.mac - from Apple's neglect of it, from huge issues with sync, usability. Good idea, if in need of much polishing and TLC, but really? "just works"? No.
Easily taken over? Absolutely. Haven't you seen the Air Force recruiting ads? "Not many people know that the air force has its own space program! And we have twice as many launches in a week as NASA in a month!"
Twitter, don't be disingenuous and act like you had a fucking clue who this guy was before this story broke. "Oh, yeah, he's got a good reputation, he's been in this game for years".
This is one of the cruxes of the issues with Wikipedia today. The policy is, even explicitly in some places, "Verifiability/citability, not truth!" - doesn't matter what you say, as long as you can find a "Reliable Source" that said it first. A "Reliable Source" is often a nebulous concept too, where if it's what the majority want to hear (or you're able to argue more successfully), can be the most podunk little newsletter, or if it's what the majority don't want to hear (witness Jimmy Wales' recent issues with Rachel Marsden), supposed pillars of the journalistic world (The Guardian, NYT, WSJ, etc) can all be slammed as "having descended into scurrilous gossip-whoring and rumor-mongering".
Remember, not truth. Everything is what you make of it, or what you want it to be.
I raised the issue via the usual channels and got no satisfactory answer. The vague implication was essentially that it hadn't been a problem so far. Well, it is now.
Not surprising. Querying "the way things are done here" usually gets one of several responses:
being ignored
told that "you don't understand what we are doing here"
"less policy wrangling, more encyclopedia writing" (one of my favorites, again, malleability: WP is NOT an encyclopedia when it's awkward or inconvenient, and "no one ever said that it was" - despite the tagline on the home page, and it IS an encyclopedia when it lends more credibility, authenticity, etc)
blocked as a "disruptive troll"
hand waving dismissal of your comments, even in the face of evidence
Your son, just turned 2, would have understood whether he wanted to "Delete all Linux partitions on the drive, all partitions, or other"? Whether he wanted to install Grub on/dev/hda or/dev/hda1?
Whether he wanted SELinux on or off?
Whether to use DHCP on his network card, or manually assign an IP address?
Forgive my skepticism, but there's a world of difference between "Daddy telling you what buttons to press" and "being able to do an install".
We've had people switch off good SSL certificates from very valid authorities to self-signed certificates.
For curiosity's sake, please advise how a self-signed certificate being used for an SSL transaction is any weaker than a certificate signed by a third-party agency. Bonus points will be given for explaining how issues such as addressing how numerous instances in the past of third party "very valid" agencies falling victim to social engineering or outright fraud and issuing certificates to parties with nefarious or ill intent are a non-problem.
You missed his point - indeed, it took me a while to realize. There is nothing wrong with it, it is legal if it meets the definition of a bona fide arms-length setup.
But, but it wasn't Monster Cable International, Ltd, that issued him with the letter and claim. It was Monster in the US, so keen to litigate that they did something they had no onus to do ("on behalf of") - they completely forgot that their corporate shell game had given the patents to a company in Bermuda, and that they had no right to claim patent infringement when they weren't the patent owners.
More clear now?
"That, that's not ours! We don't have to pay tax on it! Oh, wait, you're using this thing of... uh... not ours... and we... uh... they... can't have that!"
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Gamers bleat that 4000dpi is needed for that "uber" control. It's not. Not even close. The day any human being on this planet shows me manual dexterity with an object weighing half a pound capable of precision control to within SIX THOUSANDTHS OF A MILLIMETRE is the day I'll personally fund the construction of an 8000dpi mouse just for you.
I want to tell you just how fine that resolution is. SHORT head hairs on an ANT measure 0.006mm.
You could survive on 1000dpi at the most, if not less. But that doesn't sound elite. Gamers are like audiophiles - it's just that their gadgets aren't as expensive.
Well, other than Microsoft offering as a condition of the deal $1.5B earmarked for employee retention. Seems like, from that, the employees walking would be the ones who chose to. The poster above you is right, this is pretty much all about what's good for the ego of Yahoo's board, not their shareholders or anyone else. They've all got their golden parachutes arranged (some freshly sweetened up even since the beginning of these acquisition talks), and they ignored a deal of nearly fifteen per cent above market cap. I would be very surprised if there wasn't major upset from their shareholders, particularly the institutionals, even a shareholder lawsuit.
Now, are all these analysts wrong, or are you?
Completely leaving aside the rights or wrongs of billing her, you'll find in the details that she'll not be being billed, but his estate will, of which she is possibly the inheritor/executor/both/similar. It's just that the practical effect is the same, but I can understand their perspective in this detail alone.
It didn't become the responsibility of the state until it started demanding taxes for the upkeep of such services. Chicken and egg situation, to be sure, but once the government decided it was going to create varying SAR services, and fund them with the money I pay in taxes, it took on at least a passing moral obligation to come search-and-rescue me. That's why I paid for the service, not as (yet another) pork barrel. (From the government perspective - having observed SAR services in action, I have nothing but the utmost in respect.)
Amusing analogy. Spot the fanboy. More accessories will work, not less, due to more expansion options. Games will work better, due to orders of magnitude better graphics card. You failed to spout a single coherent comparison that makes this far weaker than the original, despite your crappy analogy attempt.
"With an unsupported system, you are literally eating into your profits" - uhh, hrm, let's think about that. The only way any system, supported or not, eats into your profits is when it is not working. Now, notwithstanding your ridiculous 'pulled out of my ass' figure of 'four out of eight hours downtime for the ohnoes-unsupported system by virtue of well, uhh, I can't think of a single cogent reason other than because I said so', one, what is it exactly that you think "just won't work" magically because it's on a different system? Two, who do you think won't support you with the Psystar system? Hardware failure? Commodity parts, buy them at any retailer, have them installed in the same time your Apple Genius Bar will, if not quicker (let's not hope you're in NY or any other 'megacity', as that's often where there are delays in Apple support, due to backlog). OS failure, or FCP failure? I'm struggling to see this. And three, laughingly, just how does an Apple system NOT eat into your profits when its down? I'm pretty damn sure there ain't no SLA on your systems.
You haven't made a very good argument, not at all.
Before anyone rushes in and makes some trollish remark about "being able to afford it", that ain't a problem - the problem is people who seek all manner of justifications to attempt to defend what is, quite simply, highway robbery.
That's the most pathetic excusing I've ever seen - you can't buy a system without RAM/HDD from Apple, so you just have to suck it up, huh? And then go buy your RAM elsewhere. Great. And you (and every other fanboy that uses this argument) has the unmitigated gall to blame the user - "anyone who buys RAM from Apple is an idiot/fool"... right.
Thanks, Alex, but you didn't need to post that anonymously.
True. And that plugs in to what I'm saying. Where one will not cover, and another will. That's fine. (Although admittedly, this whole thing is murky). What I was more referring to is ... "Say your co-pay/deductible for 'x' is $1000", you cannot use or get insurance that will cover the same thing as another of your policies, AND have them both pay out to reduce your costs, if not give you money.
My experiences? A few years ago I was afflicted with acute non-specific arthritis/gout, to the point I was nearly passing out with pain. At midnight on a Friday night I trundled in to ER, and within three hours I'd been through ER and admitted into Rheumatology. I ended up spending 8 days there. I had IV analgesia. I had a consultant rheumatologist work with me for several days. I had a physical therapist working with me. I came out with supplies of steroids, of painkillers and anti-inflammatories. My bill for this stay, out of pocket? $21. $8 of that was for TV rental.
Another set of experiences including paying $50 for my wife's yearly gyno exam. $80 for analgesic prescriptions at the pharmacy. Requiring pre-approval of ambulance travel.
Have a guess from the above: in which case was I talking about the Australian health care system, and in which case was I talking about the US?
You can 'maximize' your coverage, but you will not be allowed to "over insure" to cover gaps between coverage payouts and out of pocket expenses. There are mechanisms in place to detect this and treatment facilities WILL report it to the insurer.
The logic is that 'getting sick isn't meant to be winning the lottery', and applies to the hypthothetical idealistic vision of insurance as 'pure risk mitigation'.
My knowledge? I write claims management software for the health insurance industry.
.mac "just works"? Come on. There are a multitude of people who have issues with every single part of .mac - from Apple's neglect of it, from huge issues with sync, usability. Good idea, if in need of much polishing and TLC, but really? "just works"? No.
Easily taken over? Absolutely. Haven't you seen the Air Force recruiting ads? "Not many people know that the air force has its own space program! And we have twice as many launches in a week as NASA in a month!"
Why not use EvE Online? MMORPG. Set in space. Source code "released" last week! Simple!
Twitter, don't be disingenuous and act like you had a fucking clue who this guy was before this story broke. "Oh, yeah, he's got a good reputation, he's been in this game for years".
Remember, not truth. Everything is what you make of it, or what you want it to be.
Not surprising. Querying "the way things are done here" usually gets one of several responses:
Welcome to Wikipedia!
Your son, just turned 2, would have understood whether he wanted to "Delete all Linux partitions on the drive, all partitions, or other"? Whether he wanted to install Grub on /dev/hda or /dev/hda1?
Whether he wanted SELinux on or off?
Whether to use DHCP on his network card, or manually assign an IP address?
Forgive my skepticism, but there's a world of difference between "Daddy telling you what buttons to press" and "being able to do an install".
Pft. Raven's Brew, FTW. Who could go past "Three-Pecekered Billy Goat"?
2000 called, they want your old meme back. That was eight years ago, you realize?
For curiosity's sake, please advise how a self-signed certificate being used for an SSL transaction is any weaker than a certificate signed by a third-party agency. Bonus points will be given for explaining how issues such as addressing how numerous instances in the past of third party "very valid" agencies falling victim to social engineering or outright fraud and issuing certificates to parties with nefarious or ill intent are a non-problem.
Each and every single one's status: "For Testing Only".
Very useful.
Of course. His way allows him to be a pretentious coffee afficionado. Yours doesn't.
But, but it wasn't Monster Cable International, Ltd, that issued him with the letter and claim. It was Monster in the US, so keen to litigate that they did something they had no onus to do ("on behalf of") - they completely forgot that their corporate shell game had given the patents to a company in Bermuda, and that they had no right to claim patent infringement when they weren't the patent owners.
More clear now?
"That, that's not ours! We don't have to pay tax on it! Oh, wait, you're using this thing of ... uh ... not ours ... and we ... uh ... they ... can't have that!"