Probably a smart move, talk to the press before the FBI goes to court an obtains a gag order. It might not keep him out of court, but at least it gives people the idea that this is happening.
And until 51% of the voters in at least 60% of the districts grow a pair and stop voting for fascism, it's not going to happen. I swear, America has become a nation of wusses that vote red whenever somebody suggests that they might possibly at some future time have to worry about dieing.
Because in the meantime if you haven't mastered Facebook's privacy settings a stranger might think you actually belong to those groups. Which isn't a problem until said stranger is in the position of offering or not offering you a job. Or deciding whether to do a more thorough investigation prior to a lawsuit or charges being filed.
A bit offtopic, but Firewire was a serious security problem. It allowed a device direct access to the system's memory. Sure that made it blazing fast compared with USB, and did have other uses, but it was somewhat problematic in that you had to trust anything you stuck in there, even things which didn't have user writable memory. And unfortunately it wasn't every particularly well advertised that what one was risking.
Nintendo only few games for the NES which could use the trackpad, assuming that you can get one. The Wii has the advantage of being able to have some physical activity involved. Which at that age is almost certainly more valuable than the money is, provided the GP is able to afford it.
Sigh, I wish that meme would die a horrible death. Fennec is new and they haven't worked all the bugs out of it, but the whole firefox ZOMG memory leaks thing is really, really old.
I've tried the portable version and it does have issues, but I haven't seen any evidence of leaks yet. Although admittedly since I've been using daily builds, I haven't been using it very much.
If they did that, there'd definitely be antitrust suits in the future for them. They could probably get around it by releasing enough XPS documentation for other platforms, but still that'd be risky.
What exactly do we need it for? The only things that I can think or are as a bandage fix for what's ultimately MS' refusal to comply with the standards, and at this point it looks like that might start changing in the foreseeable future.
It would make more sense for them to discontinue Photoshop altogether than to cut the OSX version. It would be much more likely that MS would sell the rights to Photoshop than discontinuing the OSX version, given that the professionals that use Photoshop mainly use OSX.
And MS cut the Mac version of IE and Windows as well. They'd have a much harder time cutting the Apple version of Photoshop than they would cutting the Windows version.
I think the implication is that if the media costs less, then the cost needs to be justified in some other way, otherwise we're getting screwed. And I think there is a bit of that going on, I doubt that the PC version of Fallout 3 would've been released back then, because nobody would want to play a game that buggy. And there wasn't the mentality to fix it later that seems to permeate these days.
There's nothing inherently wrong with that. However anybody that does that and doesn't put any work into making sure that it works with the latest hardware is being a dick. There is legitimately some work that needs to be done to keep games functioning over a lifespan that long.
But the question is are we getting a better value for the money? In the past patches to released software were few and far between. Reason being that it had to be a significant bug in order to justify fixing it, and it had to also not be noticeable during the QA phase of things.
These days companies frequently seem to assume that you're paying to beta test their crap. As much as I liked Fallout 3, it was unreasonably buggy, the PS3 version was quite a bit better, but quite frankly the PC version should never have been released.
Also, from the inception of shareware you've always been able to get a demo of some sort, that is until relatively recently where it's suddenly become difficult to get demos again.
You need to go and get a refund for Econ 101. Becuase clearly you didn't understand it.
1. What you're suggesting is that just because you can commit fraud and somebody is willing to pay for it there's justification. Clearly not otherwise we wouldn't have laws against fraud. These are PS3s which are preupgraded, not at the insistence of the customer.
2. It is free, it is quite literally clicking one button, you're quite literally spending more of the customers money trying to get paid than doing the service. Back when quality service meant something, a store would frequently be willing to do the one click just to have positive word of mount. Fair exchange really.
3. So, they value their time at more than $60/hour so they drive down the Bestbuy to save them less than a minute before the install routine does everything else for them? I'm sorry but that's moronic at best.
4. No, the IT industry is there so that people don't have to spend large amounts of time learning how to do everything for themselves. There's no reason why most people need to know how to go in and fix the Windows registry, install a new component or fix a broken install. It's more efficient to pay a specialist to do it.
5. Only because you're completely wrong on every one of your other points.
If the computer your grandma is hypothetically taking in has a "click here to clean the gunk out of the DVD, defrag the harddrive and update the drivers" button then that would be an apt analogy. But, I'm not aware of any hardware manufacturer that includes such technology. Not even Steve Jobs has managed to include it with an Apple release.
Not really, you're charging somebody a fee so that they don't have to spend the hours of time that it would take to learn to do it themselves. Plus the time it takes to keep current. IT is basically just a specialization of labor situation.
This on the other hand is charging somebody $30 to click I agree and a small amount of bandwidth. Anybody not capable of doing that themselves probably shouldn't be buying a PS3 as that's marginally less complicated than starting up a game.
I got a 3 pack of 12ft cables for, $20 from woot, shipping included. They're made by whoever RCA is these days. The key thing though is that they're certified to perform to the standards required and by a relatively major manufacturer.
Meaning that if they do break your equipment and they turn out not to be up to spec, you've got recourse.
As for Bestbuy, they're dicks. If you need more than just a physical box with the items in it, including help selecting, you're better off going elsewhere.
That's not a good idea. First off, the government does issue it's own money. The federal government is the only entity which is allowed to issue money for the US. Hence why you've got government officials that head up what is otherwise a private institution.
Secondly, if you take the job of the federal reserve away from the fed, who is going to do it? Somebody has to be the lender of last resort or banks could very easily run out of money at times.
The real problem is that the people who have been appointed are not very good at economics. Willing large amounts of money into being always results in inflation. Keeping the rates artificially low leads to entities making unwise investments in infrastructure that isn't needed. Basically it becomes more expensive to save and less expensive to spend. We've seen that in China where they've adopted a lot of our bad ideas.
The government can't issue money interest free in the way that you suggest. What you get is inflation, probably the best examples are Zimbabwe recently, and the Wimar Republic period of German history a while back. Where the money was more valuable as fuel than as a currency.
That doesn't work. You're just shuffling chairs around. You've reduced the national debt by converting it into state debt, state debt which gets paid at a higher interest rate than federal bonds. With the added bonus that nearly all states have a balanced budget requirement.
Which sounds good, until you realize that there are times when deficit spending is legitimate and necessary for the good of all those that are concerned. It's just when you start wasting money on things like pointless wars and tax breaks for the rich that you start to run into trouble.
On that note, the other way we could reduce the national debt would be to go back to taxing the rich. I know that people get outraged by it, but the fact is that even if we put the tax rate on them back at say 40% it's still far lower than what it was when Reagan took office in early '81. Back thing it was 73% IIRC.
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Probably a smart move, talk to the press before the FBI goes to court an obtains a gag order. It might not keep him out of court, but at least it gives people the idea that this is happening.
And until 51% of the voters in at least 60% of the districts grow a pair and stop voting for fascism, it's not going to happen. I swear, America has become a nation of wusses that vote red whenever somebody suggests that they might possibly at some future time have to worry about dieing.
Maybe he'll get disbarred, I mean it did happen to Thompson and Nifong, this is sort of like watching the world's slowest train wreck.
Because in the meantime if you haven't mastered Facebook's privacy settings a stranger might think you actually belong to those groups. Which isn't a problem until said stranger is in the position of offering or not offering you a job. Or deciding whether to do a more thorough investigation prior to a lawsuit or charges being filed.
Because "friends" lists are the new huge schlong.
Now that you mention it, wasn't there already a game show from the early 90s that featured MS' brilliant technology? Oh, whatever was it called?
No worries, MS now owns a controlling interest in companies that make chairs and companies that fix holes in walls.
A bit offtopic, but Firewire was a serious security problem. It allowed a device direct access to the system's memory. Sure that made it blazing fast compared with USB, and did have other uses, but it was somewhat problematic in that you had to trust anything you stuck in there, even things which didn't have user writable memory. And unfortunately it wasn't every particularly well advertised that what one was risking.
Nintendo only few games for the NES which could use the trackpad, assuming that you can get one. The Wii has the advantage of being able to have some physical activity involved. Which at that age is almost certainly more valuable than the money is, provided the GP is able to afford it.
Sigh, I wish that meme would die a horrible death. Fennec is new and they haven't worked all the bugs out of it, but the whole firefox ZOMG memory leaks thing is really, really old.
I've tried the portable version and it does have issues, but I haven't seen any evidence of leaks yet. Although admittedly since I've been using daily builds, I haven't been using it very much.
If they did that, there'd definitely be antitrust suits in the future for them. They could probably get around it by releasing enough XPS documentation for other platforms, but still that'd be risky.
What exactly do we need it for? The only things that I can think or are as a bandage fix for what's ultimately MS' refusal to comply with the standards, and at this point it looks like that might start changing in the foreseeable future.
It would make more sense for them to discontinue Photoshop altogether than to cut the OSX version. It would be much more likely that MS would sell the rights to Photoshop than discontinuing the OSX version, given that the professionals that use Photoshop mainly use OSX.
And MS cut the Mac version of IE and Windows as well. They'd have a much harder time cutting the Apple version of Photoshop than they would cutting the Windows version.
I think the implication is that if the media costs less, then the cost needs to be justified in some other way, otherwise we're getting screwed. And I think there is a bit of that going on, I doubt that the PC version of Fallout 3 would've been released back then, because nobody would want to play a game that buggy. And there wasn't the mentality to fix it later that seems to permeate these days.
There's nothing inherently wrong with that. However anybody that does that and doesn't put any work into making sure that it works with the latest hardware is being a dick. There is legitimately some work that needs to be done to keep games functioning over a lifespan that long.
But the question is are we getting a better value for the money? In the past patches to released software were few and far between. Reason being that it had to be a significant bug in order to justify fixing it, and it had to also not be noticeable during the QA phase of things.
These days companies frequently seem to assume that you're paying to beta test their crap. As much as I liked Fallout 3, it was unreasonably buggy, the PS3 version was quite a bit better, but quite frankly the PC version should never have been released.
Also, from the inception of shareware you've always been able to get a demo of some sort, that is until relatively recently where it's suddenly become difficult to get demos again.
You need to go and get a refund for Econ 101. Becuase clearly you didn't understand it.
1. What you're suggesting is that just because you can commit fraud and somebody is willing to pay for it there's justification. Clearly not otherwise we wouldn't have laws against fraud. These are PS3s which are preupgraded, not at the insistence of the customer.
2. It is free, it is quite literally clicking one button, you're quite literally spending more of the customers money trying to get paid than doing the service. Back when quality service meant something, a store would frequently be willing to do the one click just to have positive word of mount. Fair exchange really.
3. So, they value their time at more than $60/hour so they drive down the Bestbuy to save them less than a minute before the install routine does everything else for them? I'm sorry but that's moronic at best.
4. No, the IT industry is there so that people don't have to spend large amounts of time learning how to do everything for themselves. There's no reason why most people need to know how to go in and fix the Windows registry, install a new component or fix a broken install. It's more efficient to pay a specialist to do it.
5. Only because you're completely wrong on every one of your other points.
I don't know about that, I can't recall the last time I got syphilis from masturbation.
If the computer your grandma is hypothetically taking in has a "click here to clean the gunk out of the DVD, defrag the harddrive and update the drivers" button then that would be an apt analogy. But, I'm not aware of any hardware manufacturer that includes such technology. Not even Steve Jobs has managed to include it with an Apple release.
I don't know about these days, but as of the mid 90s, Dominoes still did.
Not really, you're charging somebody a fee so that they don't have to spend the hours of time that it would take to learn to do it themselves. Plus the time it takes to keep current. IT is basically just a specialization of labor situation.
This on the other hand is charging somebody $30 to click I agree and a small amount of bandwidth. Anybody not capable of doing that themselves probably shouldn't be buying a PS3 as that's marginally less complicated than starting up a game.
I got a 3 pack of 12ft cables for, $20 from woot, shipping included. They're made by whoever RCA is these days. The key thing though is that they're certified to perform to the standards required and by a relatively major manufacturer.
Meaning that if they do break your equipment and they turn out not to be up to spec, you've got recourse.
As for Bestbuy, they're dicks. If you need more than just a physical box with the items in it, including help selecting, you're better off going elsewhere.
That's not a good idea. First off, the government does issue it's own money. The federal government is the only entity which is allowed to issue money for the US. Hence why you've got government officials that head up what is otherwise a private institution.
Secondly, if you take the job of the federal reserve away from the fed, who is going to do it? Somebody has to be the lender of last resort or banks could very easily run out of money at times.
The real problem is that the people who have been appointed are not very good at economics. Willing large amounts of money into being always results in inflation. Keeping the rates artificially low leads to entities making unwise investments in infrastructure that isn't needed. Basically it becomes more expensive to save and less expensive to spend. We've seen that in China where they've adopted a lot of our bad ideas.
The government can't issue money interest free in the way that you suggest. What you get is inflation, probably the best examples are Zimbabwe recently, and the Wimar Republic period of German history a while back. Where the money was more valuable as fuel than as a currency.
That doesn't work. You're just shuffling chairs around. You've reduced the national debt by converting it into state debt, state debt which gets paid at a higher interest rate than federal bonds. With the added bonus that nearly all states have a balanced budget requirement.
Which sounds good, until you realize that there are times when deficit spending is legitimate and necessary for the good of all those that are concerned. It's just when you start wasting money on things like pointless wars and tax breaks for the rich that you start to run into trouble.
On that note, the other way we could reduce the national debt would be to go back to taxing the rich. I know that people get outraged by it, but the fact is that even if we put the tax rate on them back at say 40% it's still far lower than what it was when Reagan took office in early '81. Back thing it was 73% IIRC.