As much as I hate Comcast, and really I do, I think this is much more likely to be an actual technical glitch by somebody, and given that it appears not to be isolated to them, I'd wager that it really is just a coincidence and will be fixed in the near future by whomever is responsible. There's no way that Comcast is going to open itself up to being sued out of existence for failing to catch every copyright material being distributed without proper license that goes over its pipes.
I'd be surprised if Comcast was going to open themselves up to lawsuits like that. Since they haven't been filtering connections for infringing materials they haven't been liable for infringement. If they started to filter for materials and block sites for it without being ordered to do so by a court, they'd be opening themselves up to all sorts of liability.
And how do they do that if they're not allowed on streets? It's a serious question, you can't simulate that sort of craziness in a lab or on a test track.
Sigh, yeah, well, I think there'd be fewer motorists looking to pop cyclists if the cyclists would actually observe the rules of the road. If they can keep up with traffic fine, otherwise they should be ticketed for impeding the flow of traffic. I don't know about other places, but around here if they want to drive in traffic they're required to follow the normal rules, if they want to rid on the sidewalk, same deal ride in a way that's compatible with pedestrians.
And don't get me started on those dumb asses that rid around at night without any lights at all. I almost got run over by one a few years back, because the dumb ass didn't have any lights at all, by the time I saw him he was a half foot away from me.
Not really, there is little substantial difference between a plane carrying engineers and equipment and one carrying passengers. Whereas there is a real difference between a car driving on a test track and one that's driving in the real world. You just can't adequately simulate that to do the final stage testing and adjustment.
Actually, long straight roads are a great place to start. You really don't want to even think about driving in town that way until you can drive those sorts of country roads. Plus, there's always the risk of somebody falling asleep at the wheel to worry about.
But yes, a huge portion of the car accidents do happen at intersections, and that's a good reason not to go there until most of the other areas have been dealt with, even if imperfectly.
I take it you haven't used Linux or Windows lately. I've spent an awful lot of time over the years on things in Windows which would be very quick to address in other OSes, but I can't conveniently deal with because I didn't spend more money on the better copy of Windows. As much shit as I give Apple, at least they've its got the decency not to release multiple OSes for the same market. Sure you can get a device with the iOS, OSX or whatever specific one they now use for servers, but it's pretty clear that if you're using a mobile what you have and if you're using a desktop/laptop what you have.
I've been kicking around the idea for a while that MS ought to be paying us to use their OS, given that they don't seem to have managed to get one out of beta in all the years that I was using them. I'm in the process of backing up my data so that I can leave Windows for good, dual booting only for games until games no longer are supported under XP. It's gotten to the point where, finally, the last few things that I needed Windows for can be done under Linux.
It's not just the lack of consistency, it's the lack of documentation and the inconsistent documentation. The Home version of their OSes will often times contain information meant for the Professional line, with very little to indicate that the Home version lacks the functionality. But, more than that it's rather insulting to the user that they get charged more for the Professional line despite the fact that it actually costs MS less to make than it does to yank those features from Home.
Not to mention the times when things just break, and there's only an obscure error code to hint at the problem.
I'd hate to hear what they think of those of us that take our OS license with us with computer upgrades. I'm still using the same one I got with a purchase back in 2004.
Have you seen the student rates on some of those bits of software? It's not unusual for companies to ask hundreds of dollars for the student version. Now, if they let the students use it for a couple quarters before paying, that would be one thing, but paying that kind of money without knowing if he's going to like the class is just greedy. It's great when corporations are so short sited as to gouge students because they might not have a chance to gouge them later.
The GP is right, and for my part I haven't pirated enough software either. We all need to do our part. I for one do not want to be cowed by those thuggish oafs.
Citation necessary. The marginal cost of copies after the first is precisely zero for software. Same goes for digital music and photos. Infringement costs developers money the same way that refusing to buy the product costs them money. Which is to say that it doesn't cost them any money because it was never money they would have gotten in the first place. More often than not it's money that doesn't even exist.
You can't say that some sales and income were undoubtedly lost without some sort of citation or evidence that it's the case. You assume that, in the absence of piracy, that some of those people would have purchased, but there's no basis for the assumption beyond the notion that somebody likely would have paid. Maybe somebody would or maybe somebody wouldn't have, but it's completely speculative as we don't know what would have happened.
OTOH if you're spending resources on support that would be completely different.
Honestly, I think it was a good move for them, which is why I'm opposed to the acquisition. I just see this as way too easy for them to abuse to make it a head ache for folks that want to run other OSes.
Which they likely will because it's passe to prevent mergers from going through. It would be less problematic if the DoJ would make companies stick to the promises they made in order to get regulatory approval for the transaction. It might happen, but in practice it doesn't seem to be very common.
Perhaps, but most crashes are the result of pilot error, and unless something has changed, Airbus planes won't even let the pilot assume full manual control. Boeing planes will, but it's only for rare circumstances when there's a serious malfunction. And just look at the technology that's gone into drones, it shouldn't too hard, comparatively speaking, to scale those up to the size of a small plane, or scale the larger planes down to cover that gap.
I'm going to have to call bullshit on that. Despite what you might see on NCIS, you cannot tell all of that from a photo of a dead man. You need a lot more forensic evidence than that to determine that the individual was shot from an elevate position rather than just coincidentally with a similar angle. Even just a simple angle, is really tough to tell just by looking at a photo without having several more with which to compare it.
Yes, there was an incredibly high barrier to him surrendering, but unless you've got actual evidence to support the accusation, you really shouldn't be spreading conspiracy theories.
They will eventually be released, documents of this sort always are. The problem is that there's nothing to gain by releasing them. Al Qaeda already acknowledges that the raid killed Osama bin Laden. Which is ostensibly the reason for releasing the photos, since they agree with the government that Osama bin Laden is dead, there's no reason to release the documents for the benefit of the same group that still thinks that the President isn't a natural born citizen like his opponent John McCain.
However if they do release them now, all it's going to do is stoke suspicions and validate the view that we in the US view these killings as trophy killings and give further ammunition with which to slander us.
And that seems reasonable? For all intents and purposes if you have to move out of state to change ISPs it means that it's impossible. Very few people would argue that it's a functioning market if the only way to imagine competition is to have people competing nationally. I could also move to Korea or Sweden, both of which apparently have better connections than I do, I'm not sure that it would be reasonable to suggest that I therefore have the option of getting the fastest speeds on the planet, just because I could move to where ever that is at the time.
That's a point that a lot of people here have missed completely. Wikileaks doesn't release material complete without redactions, the redactions might not be sufficient, but it's hard to say how much should be released when the party that doesn't want them released at all refuses to negotiate or participate.
The measures there are primarily to ensure that they are finished before they make it to the press. I doubt very much that it'll ever get to the point of legal proceedings.
It's neither hypocritical nor ironic. They've never said that they would provide all the documents without redaction, in fact they've gone to great lengths to redact information that's not necessary and would be likely to reveal the sources.
But, given all the people around here that can't imagine that Wikileaks is anything other than a terrorist organization, I would think those sorts of idiots something to crow about.
Not that it solves the problem, but you can, and probably should, keep a copy of the downloaded files, that way you just have to copy them to the correct directory and have Steam revalidate them.
Bullshit. There are 2 providers here, and they cover the entire state as far as I can tell. In order to change to somebody else I'd literally have to find a new job out of state or commute 8 hours both ways to work.
I doubt very much that most people are going to be in a situation where they would do that or have a shorter commute in order to make that happen.
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As much as I hate Comcast, and really I do, I think this is much more likely to be an actual technical glitch by somebody, and given that it appears not to be isolated to them, I'd wager that it really is just a coincidence and will be fixed in the near future by whomever is responsible. There's no way that Comcast is going to open itself up to being sued out of existence for failing to catch every copyright material being distributed without proper license that goes over its pipes.
I'd be surprised if Comcast was going to open themselves up to lawsuits like that. Since they haven't been filtering connections for infringing materials they haven't been liable for infringement. If they started to filter for materials and block sites for it without being ordered to do so by a court, they'd be opening themselves up to all sorts of liability.
And how do they do that if they're not allowed on streets? It's a serious question, you can't simulate that sort of craziness in a lab or on a test track.
Sigh, yeah, well, I think there'd be fewer motorists looking to pop cyclists if the cyclists would actually observe the rules of the road. If they can keep up with traffic fine, otherwise they should be ticketed for impeding the flow of traffic. I don't know about other places, but around here if they want to drive in traffic they're required to follow the normal rules, if they want to rid on the sidewalk, same deal ride in a way that's compatible with pedestrians.
And don't get me started on those dumb asses that rid around at night without any lights at all. I almost got run over by one a few years back, because the dumb ass didn't have any lights at all, by the time I saw him he was a half foot away from me.
Not really, there is little substantial difference between a plane carrying engineers and equipment and one carrying passengers. Whereas there is a real difference between a car driving on a test track and one that's driving in the real world. You just can't adequately simulate that to do the final stage testing and adjustment.
Actually, long straight roads are a great place to start. You really don't want to even think about driving in town that way until you can drive those sorts of country roads. Plus, there's always the risk of somebody falling asleep at the wheel to worry about.
But yes, a huge portion of the car accidents do happen at intersections, and that's a good reason not to go there until most of the other areas have been dealt with, even if imperfectly.
I take it you haven't used Linux or Windows lately. I've spent an awful lot of time over the years on things in Windows which would be very quick to address in other OSes, but I can't conveniently deal with because I didn't spend more money on the better copy of Windows. As much shit as I give Apple, at least they've its got the decency not to release multiple OSes for the same market. Sure you can get a device with the iOS, OSX or whatever specific one they now use for servers, but it's pretty clear that if you're using a mobile what you have and if you're using a desktop/laptop what you have.
I've been kicking around the idea for a while that MS ought to be paying us to use their OS, given that they don't seem to have managed to get one out of beta in all the years that I was using them. I'm in the process of backing up my data so that I can leave Windows for good, dual booting only for games until games no longer are supported under XP. It's gotten to the point where, finally, the last few things that I needed Windows for can be done under Linux.
It's not just the lack of consistency, it's the lack of documentation and the inconsistent documentation. The Home version of their OSes will often times contain information meant for the Professional line, with very little to indicate that the Home version lacks the functionality. But, more than that it's rather insulting to the user that they get charged more for the Professional line despite the fact that it actually costs MS less to make than it does to yank those features from Home.
Not to mention the times when things just break, and there's only an obscure error code to hint at the problem.
Slashdot editors failed 3rd grade? That's unpossible.
I'd hate to hear what they think of those of us that take our OS license with us with computer upgrades. I'm still using the same one I got with a purchase back in 2004.
Have you seen the student rates on some of those bits of software? It's not unusual for companies to ask hundreds of dollars for the student version. Now, if they let the students use it for a couple quarters before paying, that would be one thing, but paying that kind of money without knowing if he's going to like the class is just greedy. It's great when corporations are so short sited as to gouge students because they might not have a chance to gouge them later.
The GP is right, and for my part I haven't pirated enough software either. We all need to do our part. I for one do not want to be cowed by those thuggish oafs.
Citation necessary. The marginal cost of copies after the first is precisely zero for software. Same goes for digital music and photos. Infringement costs developers money the same way that refusing to buy the product costs them money. Which is to say that it doesn't cost them any money because it was never money they would have gotten in the first place. More often than not it's money that doesn't even exist.
You can't say that some sales and income were undoubtedly lost without some sort of citation or evidence that it's the case. You assume that, in the absence of piracy, that some of those people would have purchased, but there's no basis for the assumption beyond the notion that somebody likely would have paid. Maybe somebody would or maybe somebody wouldn't have, but it's completely speculative as we don't know what would have happened.
OTOH if you're spending resources on support that would be completely different.
Honestly, I think it was a good move for them, which is why I'm opposed to the acquisition. I just see this as way too easy for them to abuse to make it a head ache for folks that want to run other OSes.
Which they likely will because it's passe to prevent mergers from going through. It would be less problematic if the DoJ would make companies stick to the promises they made in order to get regulatory approval for the transaction. It might happen, but in practice it doesn't seem to be very common.
That was a good movie, it's a shame that they never made any sequels.
Perhaps, but most crashes are the result of pilot error, and unless something has changed, Airbus planes won't even let the pilot assume full manual control. Boeing planes will, but it's only for rare circumstances when there's a serious malfunction. And just look at the technology that's gone into drones, it shouldn't too hard, comparatively speaking, to scale those up to the size of a small plane, or scale the larger planes down to cover that gap.
I'm going to have to call bullshit on that. Despite what you might see on NCIS, you cannot tell all of that from a photo of a dead man. You need a lot more forensic evidence than that to determine that the individual was shot from an elevate position rather than just coincidentally with a similar angle. Even just a simple angle, is really tough to tell just by looking at a photo without having several more with which to compare it.
Yes, there was an incredibly high barrier to him surrendering, but unless you've got actual evidence to support the accusation, you really shouldn't be spreading conspiracy theories.
They will eventually be released, documents of this sort always are. The problem is that there's nothing to gain by releasing them. Al Qaeda already acknowledges that the raid killed Osama bin Laden. Which is ostensibly the reason for releasing the photos, since they agree with the government that Osama bin Laden is dead, there's no reason to release the documents for the benefit of the same group that still thinks that the President isn't a natural born citizen like his opponent John McCain.
However if they do release them now, all it's going to do is stoke suspicions and validate the view that we in the US view these killings as trophy killings and give further ammunition with which to slander us.
And that seems reasonable? For all intents and purposes if you have to move out of state to change ISPs it means that it's impossible. Very few people would argue that it's a functioning market if the only way to imagine competition is to have people competing nationally. I could also move to Korea or Sweden, both of which apparently have better connections than I do, I'm not sure that it would be reasonable to suggest that I therefore have the option of getting the fastest speeds on the planet, just because I could move to where ever that is at the time.
That's a point that a lot of people here have missed completely. Wikileaks doesn't release material complete without redactions, the redactions might not be sufficient, but it's hard to say how much should be released when the party that doesn't want them released at all refuses to negotiate or participate.
The measures there are primarily to ensure that they are finished before they make it to the press. I doubt very much that it'll ever get to the point of legal proceedings.
It's neither hypocritical nor ironic. They've never said that they would provide all the documents without redaction, in fact they've gone to great lengths to redact information that's not necessary and would be likely to reveal the sources.
But, given all the people around here that can't imagine that Wikileaks is anything other than a terrorist organization, I would think those sorts of idiots something to crow about.
Which is inefficient and leads to wasted capacity at times of the day when people are sleeping or at work or otherwise not likely to be online.
Not that it solves the problem, but you can, and probably should, keep a copy of the downloaded files, that way you just have to copy them to the correct directory and have Steam revalidate them.
Bullshit. There are 2 providers here, and they cover the entire state as far as I can tell. In order to change to somebody else I'd literally have to find a new job out of state or commute 8 hours both ways to work.
I doubt very much that most people are going to be in a situation where they would do that or have a shorter commute in order to make that happen.