Why would I want the best games incumbered by Steams DRM? I refuse to buy any game with this DRM, and if enough people did then DRM would wither and die. Most of the/. community seems to understand the evils of DRM, it continues to amaze me that they become such sheep when Steam is mentioned.
I guess one man's flamebait is another man's insightful. I do like Steam and have a few games on it, but the consolation I had to make when getting those games is that one day they'll suddenly disappear.
I have the same concern that the original poster has about us getting lured in with candy. It's worthy of discussion, therefore not flamebait.
No, I haven't. Has that device ever reached customer hands?
As for bending the truth, let's say the Joo Joo is even closer looking to the iPad than the Tab, that aisle of tablets still shows how easy it would have been to not need to copy an existing design. Shameful.
It's not a matter of intelligence, it's just interest level. I don't think many people, intelligent or not, are very curious about how a microwave works.
Actually I did have an incident once where I asked a coworker to bring my iPad down to my location. When he stopped by I reached for the device he had under his arm and attempted to take it. He shrugged me off and asked what I was doing. Turns out he didn't bring my iPad, he forgot. He had his Tab under his arm and I had mistaken it for my device.
Honestly I don't really think much of Samsung, here. It's obvious just from walking down the tablet aisle that Samsung went out of their way to copy the iPad in as much detail as they thought they could get away with. I have yet to run across one other tablet that I would have this confusion with.
I own both and, no, that ratio isn't that significant when you're, say, walking over to the desk and reaching for it. On several occasions I've reached for one when meaning to grab the other. This has not been the case with my HP Touchpad.
The big differentiater between the two is that the Tab doesn't have the home button on the front. They really are strikingly similar.
Are each of those requests for data from one user each? Or is it something like one request per SMS message? Could they be trying to collect whole conversations one request at a time?
I'm just trying to figure out if these 500k requests mean 500k individuals being investigated or of it's more like 1,000 people across the whole country.
I am not convinced that is the case. I know lots of people who refresh their iphone as soon as a new version come on the market.
Since this thread was founded on anecdotalism I'd like to chime in: I have a coupla friends who follow the iPhones and do the upgrades, but they also sell their previous phone to pay for it. Those phones have presumably gone on to live full lives in somebody else's hands. Also, in my case, I did do an immediate upgrade, but my old phone now lives its life as a mini-tablet sitting next to the couch where it enjoys constant use. The big plus? If my phone breaks, I have a backup ready to go. My old phones aren't sitting inactive in a drawer somewhere.
I'm assuming any of you would care because if the device is still in active use it's not as big of an environmental threat. Yes, two are sold in a year, but none have gone to the dumpster yet and won't for the foreseeable future. Maybe that logic is flawed, I dunno, but I would point out that mobile devices like smartphones and tablets, being that they're mobile and appliance-like, are easier to repurpose than a desktop computer would be. I think you're being a little generous calling an iPhone a computer. I mean, you're right, but I don't have to maintain one of those like I do a computer. Apple's line of mobile devices are more like appliances to me.
That isn't a bug, that was a design choice for Windows. File names in Windows are not case sensitive. You can't have a folder and a file with the same name either because Microsoft said "Nope, we don't allow this." Both are annoying in some contexts, niether are bugs.
No, it isn't a bug because Windows does not take case into consideration. You cannot have two sub-folders named 'mozilla' and 'Mozilla' in the same folder because, philosophically, Windows was intentionally designed to not see the difference. Windows is behaving per the design spec, Thunderbird wasn't.
I think the hilarious thing about the "bug" is that there is an operating system in this day and age that can't handle upper/lower case in filenames correctly. I'm spilting the blame 50/50 between Windows and Thunderbird.
Although this is a problem unique to Windows, it's not really a Windows bug. You can tell Windows to do the rename in those circumstances and it will. Thunderbird was the one that barfed.
What happened was that Thunderbird was written to ask if a file exists before doing the rename. Windows, ignoring the case said "Yep!" and so it refused to do the rename. This is expected behaviour. The fix is just to check if the names are the same if they're both lcase'd, and to skip the existence check if it's true, then tell Windows to do the rename.
This isn't really the sort of thing where a bug report would be sent to Microsoft.
I don't use Thunderbird so I really don't have anything useful to add to the discussion. But I did want to ask a semi-off-topic question:
I use GMail now and one of the features I love the most is being able to Google search through my messages. If I type a coworker's name, for example, almost immediately I see a list of all the emails I had pertaining to that person. One of the reasons I moved to GMail is because the same task in Outlook involved several minutes of sifting through all my emails and digging up results.
So here's my question: Let's say I wanted to ditch GMail and instead have all my email sitting on my computer, like I went back to Outlook or switched to Thunderbird or something like that. Is there a client out there that can do Google'esque searches with the same approximate speed?
In theory, though, an SDR cell phone could transition from 3G to 4G-LTE to true 4G with nothing but a software update.
Please forgive my ignorance on this topic, but wouldn't processing power on-board the device still be a limiting factor? Is it possible that to leap from 3g to 4g that you'd have to get something with a much faster processor? Or is this the sort of thing where the processors are already fast and cheap enough?
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Why would I want the best games incumbered by Steams DRM? I refuse to buy any game with this DRM, and if enough people did then DRM would wither and die. Most of the /. community seems to understand the evils of DRM, it continues to amaze me that they become such sheep when Steam is mentioned.
I guess one man's flamebait is another man's insightful. I do like Steam and have a few games on it, but the consolation I had to make when getting those games is that one day they'll suddenly disappear.
I have the same concern that the original poster has about us getting lured in with candy. It's worthy of discussion, therefore not flamebait.
No, I haven't. Has that device ever reached customer hands?
As for bending the truth, let's say the Joo Joo is even closer looking to the iPad than the Tab, that aisle of tablets still shows how easy it would have been to not need to copy an existing design. Shameful.
What is misleading about the title?
The title reads like Samsung is trying to pass the buck, the use of quotes doesn't help a whole lot.
It's a sensationalist headline.
It's not a matter of intelligence, it's just interest level. I don't think many people, intelligent or not, are very curious about how a microwave works.
Some people have no sense of humor.
It's not everybody else's fault your joke wasn't funny. Believe me, I'm an authority on un-funny jokes.
Heh.
Actually I did have an incident once where I asked a coworker to bring my iPad down to my location. When he stopped by I reached for the device he had under his arm and attempted to take it. He shrugged me off and asked what I was doing. Turns out he didn't bring my iPad, he forgot. He had his Tab under his arm and I had mistaken it for my device.
Honestly I don't really think much of Samsung, here. It's obvious just from walking down the tablet aisle that Samsung went out of their way to copy the iPad in as much detail as they thought they could get away with. I have yet to run across one other tablet that I would have this confusion with.
I own both and, no, that ratio isn't that significant when you're, say, walking over to the desk and reaching for it. On several occasions I've reached for one when meaning to grab the other. This has not been the case with my HP Touchpad.
The big differentiater between the two is that the Tab doesn't have the home button on the front. They really are strikingly similar.
What would selective breeding really tell us about ET? That if we find another Earth maybe we'll find arsenic based life bred by human counterparts?
Crimes, not criminals. I have the same question about your statistic!
Sprint gets 500,000 requests per year.
Are each of those requests for data from one user each? Or is it something like one request per SMS message? Could they be trying to collect whole conversations one request at a time?
I'm just trying to figure out if these 500k requests mean 500k individuals being investigated or of it's more like 1,000 people across the whole country.
Ha! Not with the way I'm holding my ph
You mean like smartphone fanboyism?
I am not convinced that is the case. I know lots of people who refresh their iphone as soon as a new version come on the market.
Since this thread was founded on anecdotalism I'd like to chime in: I have a coupla friends who follow the iPhones and do the upgrades, but they also sell their previous phone to pay for it. Those phones have presumably gone on to live full lives in somebody else's hands. Also, in my case, I did do an immediate upgrade, but my old phone now lives its life as a mini-tablet sitting next to the couch where it enjoys constant use. The big plus? If my phone breaks, I have a backup ready to go. My old phones aren't sitting inactive in a drawer somewhere.
I'm assuming any of you would care because if the device is still in active use it's not as big of an environmental threat. Yes, two are sold in a year, but none have gone to the dumpster yet and won't for the foreseeable future. Maybe that logic is flawed, I dunno, but I would point out that mobile devices like smartphones and tablets, being that they're mobile and appliance-like, are easier to repurpose than a desktop computer would be. I think you're being a little generous calling an iPhone a computer. I mean, you're right, but I don't have to maintain one of those like I do a computer. Apple's line of mobile devices are more like appliances to me.
My biggest fear when I die is that my wife won't be taken care of.
Sure, but what if you travel to the outer rim?
That isn't a bug, that was a design choice for Windows. File names in Windows are not case sensitive. You can't have a folder and a file with the same name either because Microsoft said "Nope, we don't allow this." Both are annoying in some contexts, niether are bugs.
No, it isn't a bug because Windows does not take case into consideration. You cannot have two sub-folders named 'mozilla' and 'Mozilla' in the same folder because, philosophically, Windows was intentionally designed to not see the difference. Windows is behaving per the design spec, Thunderbird wasn't.
Remember when you took your date for dinner and she super-sized without asking? It's sorta like that.
Thank you!
I think the hilarious thing about the "bug" is that there is an operating system in this day and age that can't handle upper/lower case in filenames correctly. I'm spilting the blame 50/50 between Windows and Thunderbird.
Although this is a problem unique to Windows, it's not really a Windows bug. You can tell Windows to do the rename in those circumstances and it will. Thunderbird was the one that barfed.
What happened was that Thunderbird was written to ask if a file exists before doing the rename. Windows, ignoring the case said "Yep!" and so it refused to do the rename. This is expected behaviour. The fix is just to check if the names are the same if they're both lcase'd, and to skip the existence check if it's true, then tell Windows to do the rename.
This isn't really the sort of thing where a bug report would be sent to Microsoft.
I don't use Thunderbird so I really don't have anything useful to add to the discussion. But I did want to ask a semi-off-topic question:
I use GMail now and one of the features I love the most is being able to Google search through my messages. If I type a coworker's name, for example, almost immediately I see a list of all the emails I had pertaining to that person. One of the reasons I moved to GMail is because the same task in Outlook involved several minutes of sifting through all my emails and digging up results.
So here's my question: Let's say I wanted to ditch GMail and instead have all my email sitting on my computer, like I went back to Outlook or switched to Thunderbird or something like that. Is there a client out there that can do Google'esque searches with the same approximate speed?
In theory, though, an SDR cell phone could transition from 3G to 4G-LTE to true 4G with nothing but a software update.
Please forgive my ignorance on this topic, but wouldn't processing power on-board the device still be a limiting factor? Is it possible that to leap from 3g to 4g that you'd have to get something with a much faster processor? Or is this the sort of thing where the processors are already fast and cheap enough?
So how does it feel to have played a pivotal role in finding particles that travel faster than light?
The Supreme Court elected W as our president.
I would love to take comfort in that idea, but really, that situation didn't happen because of the SC, it happened because half of us are idiots.
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