I admit I didn't read every last reply but have you considered uVNC single click? It comes default with an encryption plugin and you simply email the no-install exe to your relative. Or I suppose you could host it on a web site. This app ends itself once the intended helper disconnects. It solves the port problem on the customer side, is secure, and simple. The only caveat is, it's windows only.
I also live in Ann arbor and I have a child in high school there. The school system leaves a lot to be desired but not once have I heard my child or anyone else complain about the technology.
The schools asking for more money is asinine. They get all of the regular income including already ridiculously high school taxes of any given school district plus they get a nice windfall for every home game for the UofM football team. The high school is across from the stadium and they sell parking in the monstrous field in front of the school at about $50 per spot for tailgating and even more for RV parking. The field is filled every game. Even the Appalachian state game.
Did they first rule out the earth's gravitational pull as the cause of these small delicately formed features? I am guessing not since it was not mentioned in the article.
Heck, why don't they just put these intelligent pills in the meds, thereby creating a mandatory monitoring system if you take a prescription drug? If they're so cheap it won't impact the cost of the meds significantly. Since we'll all be on federal welfare health care soon; this, I'm sure, will be on the top of the to-do list. (Referring to US health care of course. All you other suckers around the world are already screwed with national healthcare.)
I read advertisements on the billboards and bumper-stickers to prevent myself from being distracted by all of these technological gadgets in my car. I love having a foolproof method to keep myself from getting distracted. There's an endless supply of billboards and bumper-stickers to read out there.
Basic science does not develop "practical" stuff. It discovers and explores the framework under which those practical things CAN occur. The people who do basic science are best at what they do, and there are plenty of other people out there that will take that knowledge and create practical things from it which would not have been possible otherwise. Do not impune the value of a basic science program because it didn't pop out your next technology convenience. Instead, take a look at your cell-phone or your car or your local airport or hospital, and ask "What laboratory developed the theories that made this possible?" Sure your phone might say Motorola on the face, but Motorola didn't figure out how to transmit signals over radio waves.
Enjoy your brief life as you are slowly cooked from the inside out.
Actually you would be cooked from the outside in. Since the frequencies that are used for such communications are all within the range that is absorbed by water and other materials quite easily, you wouldn't find any of the EM energy penetrating very far past the skin. If you knew anything about EM or physics you would be able to understand that the EM radiation is quite harmless as far as cancer goes. Only once you get up to UV frequencies does anything start to be a problem. Not even visible light has the power to cause cancer to any degree that we can measure. Communications are all done on frequencies lower than visible light. With that in mind I think that any reasonable person can conclude that wireless signals are just as safe (or in some cases safer) as your mother's milk.
Right, This is just what we need. Focus more on marketing your game. Forget about the content. If you spend enough money and time on marketing it will pay off. Sad but true.
They are responsible for looking up every patent and making sure that what they are producing does not infringe. Just like you or I have that same responsibility if we are doing something "innovative". I sh** you not. Of course everyone has time to go sifting through the millions of patents out there, so it's really not a big deal...
Well, technically you could eat the cookies, or you could analyze the cookies and "reverse engineer" them to get the recipe.
Really, if you decline the EULA, and the software installs, then what they are doing is giving you a free pass to do ANYTHING you want with the software. It becomes YOURS free and clear with all rights persuant with posession just like any other non-IP product. The installer was designed to give you the software with or without the contract, so it's your choice whether you want to bind yourself to it or not.
You're forgetting how welfare has completely eliminated poverty!
Seriously though. People, we need to see this as an opportunity to contact our represtentatives in Congress. You know what happens when a site gets slashdotted right? Well, imagine if we all made an effort to intelligently and realistically inform our government about this issue. They would be swamped with the facts and backlogged for weeks! That might make a difference.
Go here to get started:
http://www.firstgov.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml
That has got to be the best analogy I have ever heard for such a situation. It's always an uphill battle with users since they tend to believe the "official" hardware vendor before they believe "some guy that thinks he knows computers". I've noticed a huge slide on Dell's part down from the hilltop upon which they used to stand. Now they're in the gutter just like the rest of the OEM vendors as far as providing a no-nonsense system.
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I admit I didn't read every last reply but have you considered uVNC single click? It comes default with an encryption plugin and you simply email the no-install exe to your relative. Or I suppose you could host it on a web site. This app ends itself once the intended helper disconnects. It solves the port problem on the customer side, is secure, and simple. The only caveat is, it's windows only.
I also live in Ann arbor and I have a child in high school there. The school system leaves a lot to be desired but not once have I heard my child or anyone else complain about the technology. The schools asking for more money is asinine. They get all of the regular income including already ridiculously high school taxes of any given school district plus they get a nice windfall for every home game for the UofM football team. The high school is across from the stadium and they sell parking in the monstrous field in front of the school at about $50 per spot for tailgating and even more for RV parking. The field is filled every game. Even the Appalachian state game.
Let's talk about SOE (Sony) who did almost this exact thing with one of their major releases.
Did they first rule out the earth's gravitational pull as the cause of these small delicately formed features? I am guessing not since it was not mentioned in the article.
The entire sum of human existence shouldn't be forgotten for nothing, you know?
No. That's why we sent out voyager with those discs.
Heck, why don't they just put these intelligent pills in the meds, thereby creating a mandatory monitoring system if you take a prescription drug? If they're so cheap it won't impact the cost of the meds significantly. Since we'll all be on federal welfare health care soon; this, I'm sure, will be on the top of the to-do list. (Referring to US health care of course. All you other suckers around the world are already screwed with national healthcare.)
I read advertisements on the billboards and bumper-stickers to prevent myself from being distracted by all of these technological gadgets in my car. I love having a foolproof method to keep myself from getting distracted. There's an endless supply of billboards and bumper-stickers to read out there.
Basic science does not develop "practical" stuff. It discovers and explores the framework under which those practical things CAN occur. The people who do basic science are best at what they do, and there are plenty of other people out there that will take that knowledge and create practical things from it which would not have been possible otherwise. Do not impune the value of a basic science program because it didn't pop out your next technology convenience. Instead, take a look at your cell-phone or your car or your local airport or hospital, and ask "What laboratory developed the theories that made this possible?" Sure your phone might say Motorola on the face, but Motorola didn't figure out how to transmit signals over radio waves.
Because they didn't and still don't have physical access to your home to monitor tapes being copied.
Right, This is just what we need. Focus more on marketing your game. Forget about the content. If you spend enough money and time on marketing it will pay off. Sad but true.
Don't you mean RC1? ;)
Yes, and usually jokes are only funny if they are at least partially factually accurate.
...that some people will use more than they use the rest of their house!
They are responsible for looking up every patent and making sure that what they are producing does not infringe. Just like you or I have that same responsibility if we are doing something "innovative". I sh** you not. Of course everyone has time to go sifting through the millions of patents out there, so it's really not a big deal...
Well, technically you could eat the cookies, or you could analyze the cookies and "reverse engineer" them to get the recipe. Really, if you decline the EULA, and the software installs, then what they are doing is giving you a free pass to do ANYTHING you want with the software. It becomes YOURS free and clear with all rights persuant with posession just like any other non-IP product. The installer was designed to give you the software with or without the contract, so it's your choice whether you want to bind yourself to it or not.
You're forgetting how welfare has completely eliminated poverty! Seriously though. People, we need to see this as an opportunity to contact our represtentatives in Congress. You know what happens when a site gets slashdotted right? Well, imagine if we all made an effort to intelligently and realistically inform our government about this issue. They would be swamped with the facts and backlogged for weeks! That might make a difference. Go here to get started: http://www.firstgov.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml
That has got to be the best analogy I have ever heard for such a situation. It's always an uphill battle with users since they tend to believe the "official" hardware vendor before they believe "some guy that thinks he knows computers". I've noticed a huge slide on Dell's part down from the hilltop upon which they used to stand. Now they're in the gutter just like the rest of the OEM vendors as far as providing a no-nonsense system.