Actually, I've read all the books (and some fanfic that pretended to be the books) and watched all the movies... I still couldn't decide if he was kidding or not.
Seriously, though. The same way you always did: Footwork. You need to actually talk to real people to verify things. Just taking the word of a reporter/journalist/blogger/whatever is never enough.
Unless, of course, it doesn't really matter. Then you can just take their word for it and apologize later when they are found wrong. (And you, since you copied them.)
Yes, but count tonnage per passenger and I think you'll find the cars are a lot worse for efficiency, so the accelerating and stopping per passenger is a lot worse for the personal vehicles.
These are convenient only for places they go, as well. They either need to be as big and safe as a car, or they need tracks like a train.
As far as I can tell, the only thing they have going for them is being electric instead of fuel, and being so ugly nobody would try to steal it.
And yet, some of us just want to read the books, not treasure them as eternal keepsakes. That's what eBooks are about.
I won't say I don't have books that I treasure because of who gave them to me (Grandma's gift of Mark Twain) but those books are few and far between. I read a -lot- of books, and 12 years ago or ago, I had so many that it wasn't possible to move to a new house without getting rid of some. I moved across the country. Most of my books were sold then, with only a precious few kept.
Had I had eBooks, I'd still have most of the those books instead of the $.50 each I got from them. And yes, I'd probably re-read most of them.
So now I buy eBooks. I can read them whenever I want and they weigh nothing. If I lose them, I can re-download them for free and all I might lose is a bookmark. (Losing a book while reading it would be an odd event, though.)
What I'm trying to say is that you're closing off the idea of eBooks without ever having given them a chance. There will always be things that real books do better, but eBooks have things as well.
If someone wanted to force me to bundle my product with someone else's, especially when everyone screams that the current bundling should be illegal, then I'd oppose it also.
'Monopoly' is a business model. Like it or not, governments already decide whether business models are 'wrong' or not.
The government's job is to protect the people. Everyone disagrees on exactly how this is done, but quite a few think that businesses should not be able to dictate what people do with products that they buy.
Others, think that IP rights are more important and that businesses should be able to tell their consumers what they can do with things they have purchased.
This is actually one of the biggest battles our court system is facing right now: The rights of the buyer vs the rights of the creator. (Or at least, IP-holder.)
I was just coming to see if anyone else had any sense. Thank you.
I can't believe -anyone- believes the Inquirer actually has a clue about this. I don't think -SONY- knows yet. The PS3 is a '10 year' console that is 2 years old. Anything Sony designs now is subject to massive changes in every component.
8.04 gets Long Term Support from the developers, where 8.10 gets more limited support. You can expect them to upgrade to 10.04 since it'll be the next one with LTS.
My argument was not that they did everything right, only that they were honest. They didn't attempt to hide that 4.0 was not ready for general use. They specifically noted the problems!
I agree that '4.0' used to mean something in particular, and they broke a convention. But conventions change. Beta used to be an internal-only thing, and not we have public Betas all the time. We even have public Alphas now and that's insane.
The problem is that Window isn't doing uncommon things, the programs are. They are designed with WindowsXP-do-anything-you-like-as-admin philosophy, instead of restricting their business to their own areas.
In my experience, Vista seems to Admin Popups than Linux because the apps are doing stupid things, not because Vista was designed wrong. When I think about when Vista pops things up, it's the same times I'd be required to sudo in Linux: Installing/changing/deleting stuff globally for all users.
I don't use many apps now that haven't been updated for Vista, so I don't see the annoying behavior on Vista any more than on Linux.
The KDE 4 team was completely honest about it. The problem was that the fans ran with what was essentially an alpha. The KDE 4 team repeatedly said that 4.0 will not have all the features, and that 4.1 won't either. 4.2 still doesn't have all of them, but it's getting there.
The fans saw '4.0' and started installing it on everything, and even the distro designers used it when it wasn't ready. In fact, I think they shouldn't even be pushing 4.2 yet. 4.3 would have been a lot smarter move.
Are you serious? Did you check out your link at all?
"If you would like to add your WISP to BWE's National WISP Directory, the cost is $250 per calendar year. If you want to update your listing, you'll need to make sure that you have paid the 2007 listing fee. If you have not paid for the 2007 listing, you can do so by clicking here."
They charge for listings and probably don't promote at all, and they haven't updated in 2 years!
I even searched the areas that I've live in recently. Of the 5 or 6 areas I looked at, only the largest had any listings at all. 1 was a dead link, the other sells equipment. It's not even a provider!
Everyone is acting like this spy has done a horrible thing. I say what they did was neither good nor bad.
It was just playing the game!
BoB had apparently stalled. They had become complacent and just had way too much stuff. So now they are forced to play the game again to try to regain their ground.
It's amazing how much this is like real life, with each side hating the other and thinking the other is wrong to the point that they do things that -could- be considered 'evil'. At least, if it wasn't a game.
I broke my MMO addiction years ago, so I can see more of this than the people in it. I understand the addictiveness, the possessiveness... The pain from having things taken that you think are rightfully yours.
But I also see that it's just a game, and games are to have fun, not to 'win'. Anybody that joined BoB because they wanted to be on the winning side joined for the wrong reason. They're now learning a valuable lesson.
As an aside, I still yearn to play a couple of the games I used to be addicted to, but I realize I'll only have fun for a week or 2, and then I'll just be wasting my money again. So I don't go back. It really is much like a physical addiction in that sense. Thankfully, it's much easier to break again if you slip.
Naming a god to the post of IT advisor is certainly a newsworthy move, at any rate. (For the unintiated, Vivek is a god in the Elder Scrolls universe, as well as a city that was named after him.)
If I were there, I would have sued. There's no way to be sure that they were clean or would not bite. Especially with his words "There is no reason only poor people should be infected." it's a deliberate terrorist act, even if he did everything he could to make it safe.
I'm not a Gates hater. I use Windows regularly and don't have any hangups about it.
I find it odd that it'll work on Blackberries and other phones, but not the G1 phones yet. Must have been something that's been in the works for a while and they haven't had time to rework it for the G1.
The G1 actually already has an app (on the market, Locales I think it is) that will watch your location and enable and disable features on the phone. I use it to set my phone on vibrate at work automatically, and turn it back on afterwards. It turns my Wifi on at home and off everywhere else.
It shouldn't be too hard to make another app that replicates the 'friend gps tracking' functionality on the G1. And if you lose your phone, you know where it was last time it was on.:D
What he said makes sense because most people aren't in a position to use it, either because they can't or don't want to. I was an ace stockclerk at Publix. Definitely in the top 10%. There are many other jobs that I would be in the top 10% in as well. I don't really want to do them, and I have a much better job... I'd like to -think- I'm in the top 10% of this job, too, but I doubt that's true. I'm certainly not paid like that's true.
If what you are looking for is stability, finding a job that's beneath your skills is the way to go.
On the other hand, if you want to love your job and get paid well, find a job that you're just better than average at.
This is definitely DRM'd and you have to register individual computers with the DRM service.
They do limit you by area... It says right on the page you must be in the US and have a US credit card.
On the other hand, the price is half that of what these games normally are. For some, that's enough. Personally, I just want to play the game... As long as it doesn't harm my computer, I'm okay with DRM when I get a discount. It's not like the full versions have no DRM anyhow.
It's not terribly different than BigFishGames' service. BFG doesn't require you to name the computer, or specify which one will be downloading, though.
BFG allows you to download each game you buy on up to 3 computers. I even emailed them, and that's how they responded, so it's not a loophole or anything.
They also allow you to subscribe for a year and pay only $7 per game, as opposed to the $20 regular price or $10 Amazon price. (You must purchase 12 tokens, 1 per month minimum, while you are subscribed. You can quit early if you get to 12 before 12 months, or you can save your tokens indefinitely. Or give them to other people.)
Amazon's TOS says that each game's EULA specifies how many times you can download it, but then doesn't provide a way to see that EULA from the site. I assume a Demo will show the EULA, but I don't know that for sure.
So yes, there's DRM. You're free not to buy these games if you don't like that. It's not invasive 'destroy your hardware' drm like certain others out there.
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Actually, I've read all the books (and some fanfic that pretended to be the books) and watched all the movies... I still couldn't decide if he was kidding or not.
I seriously hope you are kidding. None of those names stand out as odd to anyone more than a few hundred miles from there.
Check Wikipedia!
Seriously, though. The same way you always did: Footwork. You need to actually talk to real people to verify things. Just taking the word of a reporter/journalist/blogger/whatever is never enough.
Unless, of course, it doesn't really matter. Then you can just take their word for it and apologize later when they are found wrong. (And you, since you copied them.)
Yes, but count tonnage per passenger and I think you'll find the cars are a lot worse for efficiency, so the accelerating and stopping per passenger is a lot worse for the personal vehicles.
These are convenient only for places they go, as well. They either need to be as big and safe as a car, or they need tracks like a train.
As far as I can tell, the only thing they have going for them is being electric instead of fuel, and being so ugly nobody would try to steal it.
And yet, some of us just want to read the books, not treasure them as eternal keepsakes. That's what eBooks are about.
I won't say I don't have books that I treasure because of who gave them to me (Grandma's gift of Mark Twain) but those books are few and far between. I read a -lot- of books, and 12 years ago or ago, I had so many that it wasn't possible to move to a new house without getting rid of some. I moved across the country. Most of my books were sold then, with only a precious few kept.
Had I had eBooks, I'd still have most of the those books instead of the $.50 each I got from them. And yes, I'd probably re-read most of them.
So now I buy eBooks. I can read them whenever I want and they weigh nothing. If I lose them, I can re-download them for free and all I might lose is a bookmark. (Losing a book while reading it would be an odd event, though.)
What I'm trying to say is that you're closing off the idea of eBooks without ever having given them a chance. There will always be things that real books do better, but eBooks have things as well.
If someone wanted to force me to bundle my product with someone else's, especially when everyone screams that the current bundling should be illegal, then I'd oppose it also.
'Monopoly' is a business model. Like it or not, governments already decide whether business models are 'wrong' or not.
The government's job is to protect the people. Everyone disagrees on exactly how this is done, but quite a few think that businesses should not be able to dictate what people do with products that they buy.
Others, think that IP rights are more important and that businesses should be able to tell their consumers what they can do with things they have purchased.
This is actually one of the biggest battles our court system is facing right now: The rights of the buyer vs the rights of the creator. (Or at least, IP-holder.)
I was just coming to see if anyone else had any sense. Thank you.
I can't believe -anyone- believes the Inquirer actually has a clue about this. I don't think -SONY- knows yet. The PS3 is a '10 year' console that is 2 years old. Anything Sony designs now is subject to massive changes in every component.
I thought so, too, so I looked it up before posting. For some reason, it's 2 years this time. Maybe to re-sync with kubuntu?
LTS.
8.04 gets Long Term Support from the developers, where 8.10 gets more limited support. You can expect them to upgrade to 10.04 since it'll be the next one with LTS.
Wow I guess you don't know how to read . "So don't install Google Earth."
I said nothing about uninstalling.
My argument was not that they did everything right, only that they were honest. They didn't attempt to hide that 4.0 was not ready for general use. They specifically noted the problems!
I agree that '4.0' used to mean something in particular, and they broke a convention. But conventions change. Beta used to be an internal-only thing, and not we have public Betas all the time. We even have public Alphas now and that's insane.
So don't install Google Earth.
Wow, that was easy!
The problem is that Window isn't doing uncommon things, the programs are. They are designed with WindowsXP-do-anything-you-like-as-admin philosophy, instead of restricting their business to their own areas.
In my experience, Vista seems to Admin Popups than Linux because the apps are doing stupid things, not because Vista was designed wrong. When I think about when Vista pops things up, it's the same times I'd be required to sudo in Linux: Installing/changing/deleting stuff globally for all users.
I don't use many apps now that haven't been updated for Vista, so I don't see the annoying behavior on Vista any more than on Linux.
The KDE 4 team was completely honest about it. The problem was that the fans ran with what was essentially an alpha. The KDE 4 team repeatedly said that 4.0 will not have all the features, and that 4.1 won't either. 4.2 still doesn't have all of them, but it's getting there.
The fans saw '4.0' and started installing it on everything, and even the distro designers used it when it wasn't ready. In fact, I think they shouldn't even be pushing 4.2 yet. 4.3 would have been a lot smarter move.
Are you serious? Did you check out your link at all?
"If you would like to add your WISP to BWE's National WISP Directory, the cost is $250 per calendar year. If you want to update your listing, you'll need to make sure that you have paid the 2007 listing fee. If you have not paid for the 2007 listing, you can do so by clicking here."
They charge for listings and probably don't promote at all, and they haven't updated in 2 years!
I even searched the areas that I've live in recently. Of the 5 or 6 areas I looked at, only the largest had any listings at all. 1 was a dead link, the other sells equipment. It's not even a provider!
Everyone is acting like this spy has done a horrible thing. I say what they did was neither good nor bad.
It was just playing the game!
BoB had apparently stalled. They had become complacent and just had way too much stuff. So now they are forced to play the game again to try to regain their ground.
It's amazing how much this is like real life, with each side hating the other and thinking the other is wrong to the point that they do things that -could- be considered 'evil'. At least, if it wasn't a game.
I broke my MMO addiction years ago, so I can see more of this than the people in it. I understand the addictiveness, the possessiveness... The pain from having things taken that you think are rightfully yours.
But I also see that it's just a game, and games are to have fun, not to 'win'. Anybody that joined BoB because they wanted to be on the winning side joined for the wrong reason. They're now learning a valuable lesson.
As an aside, I still yearn to play a couple of the games I used to be addicted to, but I realize I'll only have fun for a week or 2, and then I'll just be wasting my money again. So I don't go back. It really is much like a physical addiction in that sense. Thankfully, it's much easier to break again if you slip.
Anyone else have a Morrowind flashback or 2?
Naming a god to the post of IT advisor is certainly a newsworthy move, at any rate. (For the unintiated, Vivek is a god in the Elder Scrolls universe, as well as a city that was named after him.)
If I were there, I would have sued. There's no way to be sure that they were clean or would not bite. Especially with his words "There is no reason only poor people should be infected." it's a deliberate terrorist act, even if he did everything he could to make it safe.
I'm not a Gates hater. I use Windows regularly and don't have any hangups about it.
This is just not acceptable.
I find it odd that it'll work on Blackberries and other phones, but not the G1 phones yet. Must have been something that's been in the works for a while and they haven't had time to rework it for the G1.
The G1 actually already has an app (on the market, Locales I think it is) that will watch your location and enable and disable features on the phone. I use it to set my phone on vibrate at work automatically, and turn it back on afterwards. It turns my Wifi on at home and off everywhere else.
It shouldn't be too hard to make another app that replicates the 'friend gps tracking' functionality on the G1. And if you lose your phone, you know where it was last time it was on. :D
I just checked and it's apparently '15', not 'unlimited'... But that's still way better than 3. Thanks for the info!
Technically, it's:
"what is six times nine"
What he said makes sense because most people aren't in a position to use it, either because they can't or don't want to. I was an ace stockclerk at Publix. Definitely in the top 10%. There are many other jobs that I would be in the top 10% in as well. I don't really want to do them, and I have a much better job... I'd like to -think- I'm in the top 10% of this job, too, but I doubt that's true. I'm certainly not paid like that's true.
If what you are looking for is stability, finding a job that's beneath your skills is the way to go.
On the other hand, if you want to love your job and get paid well, find a job that you're just better than average at.
Sounds like it isn't for you, then.
This is definitely DRM'd and you have to register individual computers with the DRM service.
They do limit you by area... It says right on the page you must be in the US and have a US credit card.
On the other hand, the price is half that of what these games normally are. For some, that's enough. Personally, I just want to play the game... As long as it doesn't harm my computer, I'm okay with DRM when I get a discount. It's not like the full versions have no DRM anyhow.
It's not terribly different than BigFishGames' service. BFG doesn't require you to name the computer, or specify which one will be downloading, though.
BFG allows you to download each game you buy on up to 3 computers. I even emailed them, and that's how they responded, so it's not a loophole or anything.
They also allow you to subscribe for a year and pay only $7 per game, as opposed to the $20 regular price or $10 Amazon price. (You must purchase 12 tokens, 1 per month minimum, while you are subscribed. You can quit early if you get to 12 before 12 months, or you can save your tokens indefinitely. Or give them to other people.)
Amazon's TOS says that each game's EULA specifies how many times you can download it, but then doesn't provide a way to see that EULA from the site. I assume a Demo will show the EULA, but I don't know that for sure.
So yes, there's DRM. You're free not to buy these games if you don't like that. It's not invasive 'destroy your hardware' drm like certain others out there.