USB3 is backward compatible with USB/USB2. USB failed to keep up with storage medium speeds, necessitating eSATA. USB was never intended to replace display connections.
So nice try at painting USB as a failure, it really isn't. Thanks to USB you no longer have 2x PS2, 2x COM and 1x Parallel ports wasting space on your motherboard. Instead you have 6x USB, 2x Ethernet, and other smaller and much more useful ports to play with.
But I'm sure someone could dig you up a motherboard that has all those clunky old ports on them, since clearly USB did nothing at all to help.
DRM/Authentication? I've not heard of any such thing. Perhaps your friend is just getting replacements that don't meet the required wattage output the laptop needs for full power operation? I was borrowing a friends Dell Latitude D600, and it refused to go faster than 600MHz on power because the brick was an iGo brand replacement that was short about 15 watts. Those bricks don't have any fancy signaling electronics in them. They just supply power.
I think you're missing the forest for the trees. If the new computer consumes less energy than the computer it replaces, then it *is* a conservation of energy. Your whole theory revolves around the assumption that "nothing goes offline, it's just one more thing added" and that is faulty. When it comes to racks of servers, replacing old units with new ones with more efficient PSUs and less power hungry components males quite an impact on how much *less* energy is consumed overall. As long as everything we do pushes the older inefficient stuff out to be replaced by the more efficient models, then we continue to reduce our power consumption.
Except that the establishment kept $25, the waiter $2, and each of the 3 guys each got $1 back, equaling $30.
I hate stupid math problems that use obtuse means to try to trick people.
Scratch that, I hate the way math can be used to do gymnastics to create answers that are not real.
No, scratch that again, I hate math period. Fuck it right in the neck, sideways, with a rusty 3" pipe. Filled with powdered asbestos. And covered in ground glass.
Amazon bought another site and it's software. They didn't invent a fucking thing. IMO that should immediately make it impossible for them to have claimed to have invented anything. They may own it, but they didn't make it.
Just another example of our wonderfully and horribly broken patent system.
...is that despite all the wild claims of lost revenue, the *made* revenue continues to be more than enough to R/D new hand-helds and continue the dev of new games for both older and newer hand-held systems. I think that speaks much more loudly than these retarded arm waiving FUD campaigns about piracy. Clearly piracy isn't hurting anyone that bad, clearly business is more than good enough to continue being a market worth creating for.
...as public officials, anything they do while on the clock is public record, and should be recordable by any means at any time. There is no sound logic or reason why they should be able to record us at will, but not the other way around.
People need to stop cowing to these people, and put them back in their place as workers for the public at large, not keepers of the public at large. They are elected officials, not elected rulers. We have given up far too much authority and power to all of these agencies, and they are abusing the shit out of it.
Sadly, I don't think it's going to get better anytime soon, the youth and young adults of today are far too enamored with self importance and giving up all kinds of information with stupid crap like twitter and the like. Lambs to the slaughter they are, and they blindly/happily march straight to the slaughterhouse.
XP may be close to EOL, but it has massive support behind it still. There are numerous applications that extend its features, make it very easy to customize, etc. Not to mention most of the bugs and such that are left are well documented and easy to fix or work around.
The knife on the topic is a chef's knife, not a meat cleaver. A meat cleaver would be a terrible choice for the task at hand. Far too thick and clumsy.
Yeah, I was going to say, this just sounds like when a mob family moved into a neighborhood and started charging for "protection" when said protection was really from the mob family itself. We need a judge or court bracket to get their balls out of whatever velvet bag they're hidden in, and call MS on this BS tactic. Tell them to put up or shut up. Stop making empty threats, produce hard proof of infringement, or stfu. Plain and simple. No lawerly bending of laws, no mental/logical gymnastics, just "papers please" and nothing more. If MS can't provide said proof immediately (which they should if these companies oh so clearly infringe) then they should be enjoined to never make such a claim again unless they have clear proof of such things. Same goes for all other common bully companies. Basic punishment for making claims simply to try to dogpile a competitor bia litigation should be to have to pay for equally expensive counsel for the "opponent," or to pay all of the "opponents" legal fees, no if's, and's, or but's. I think that would reduce occurrences of bullshit of this proportion quite nicely.
A hearty chuckle? Are you high? This instance was a joke of sorts, but it was do to, and make, a clear point. many coprorations aren't so jovial about it, and write all kinds of crap into the clauses that lock you into all kinds of things that if you actually read you wouldn't agree to. Not to mention most of these things give the company every right to fuck you siz was from Sunday, but you can't do shit about it but cry to an "impartial" (my ass) arbiter and hope that they are actually impartial and not taking kickbacks under the table to see it $Megacorps way.
Having a "hearty chuckle and moving on" is exactly what these corps wan the little sheeple to do, because it's good for business and nobody else.
I completely agree, and this is basically the first thing i thought when reading how they dump this in the consumer's lap for not reading. Sure, we *should* be paying attention. But if everyone actually stopped to read everything, and required someone to clarify every point that was hard to understand because it was so tightly knotted up in legal mumbo jumbo, sales would be held up. People would stop buying as much because it was too much of a pain. Companies need to realize they can't do something like this and say "haha stupid consumers!" when really it's "haha stupid corporations being shortsighted!" Seriously, get a grip, and stop wrapping everything in thousands of words of complete crap.
Are you a moron? Verizon pitches a $29.99 per month UNLIMITED data plane, which they describe thus:
Best if you need mobile Internet for:
* Frequently sending & receiving email
* Heavy web browsing, updating social networking sites, downloading multiple applications and viewing video
They made the choice to set an unlimited plan for $30/mnth targeting the heavy users. If they didn't mean unlimited, or they didn't want heavy users on their network, then they shouldn't have made this plan and worded it this way.
Please to be kindly removing your head from your rectal orifice now, thx.
Developers: Lets put DRM in our software so that we can be certain our game will never be pirated!:>
Management: Brilliant!:D:D:D
Pirates: LULZ! Hack/crack ALAKAZAM! >:D
Customers: Why doesn't my game work right? >:O
Management: Developers, I'm sorry but customer outrage over our draconian DRM scheme has caused sales to tank, so we have to lay you off.:-/
Developers: We should have left DRM out of the equation.;_;
DRM does not work, period. It fucks up users machines, slows down games, or causes a game to be pirated more than bought. Nobody likes being told what to do with something they bought and paid for. I bought, it's mine, I'll do as I please with it. Try to tell me otherwise, and you'll regret it one way or another. It's really not rocket science, Jr.
The lottery terminals are all Flash on top of Linux, and they're all touch screen only. At worst they stop responding for a moment while processing a large transaction.
...I guess we'd better pt a ban on the current way o running prisons. I mean, the Warden is tasked with giving orders to the Deputies and COs, right? That mimics gang behavior in the same way. And what about our government? Shall we ban that too, since we have the President who is tasked with giving orders to the various branches of govt., including the Armed Forces, which would also have to be banned because they each have the one joint chiefs of staff who directs the rest of the military branch, much like gang behavior.
I guess Ban America sums it up. Our entire social structure mimics gang behavior.
While what you say is interesting, and may very well have some merit, I still think this whole thing is as obvious as we all notice it to be. I didn't need juvenile hall, however, I always managed to find others like myself anywhere I went. Juvenile hall merely gave me access to those who knew more and had done worse.
But in the end, what is being pointed out rings true, and it is rather scary how obvious it should have been.
Edit: Lameness filter? Wow, talk about fucking dumb. "Boom, Headshot" is supposed to be in all caps. 'Cause, you know, it *is* meant to denote yelling.:rolleyes:
Seriously, get back to me when you can do this accurately without removing power sources and other standard bits of equipment which add to the background EMI. It is one thing to detect keystrokes from a keyboard hooked up to a laptop using a battery (IE the most ideal conditions for producing the result you want), and another to detect those keystrokes with a tower and requisite LCD(s)/CRT(s) before it (dealing with real life factors and interference). Not saying it would be impossible to do, but this kind of comes off as fear mongering to me. "Look what we can do under the perfect conditions!" As if perfect conditions are found everywhere.
I'm also curious about the slow and heavy keystrokes used to type things out. Who types out at 1 character per 2 seconds, with the stroke of a hammer? I'm not a touch typist, and I type between 50 and 60 wpm. Could that program fetch my keystrokes amidst the noise of my 2 CRTs and my PC?
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USB3 is backward compatible with USB/USB2. USB failed to keep up with storage medium speeds, necessitating eSATA. USB was never intended to replace display connections.
So nice try at painting USB as a failure, it really isn't. Thanks to USB you no longer have 2x PS2, 2x COM and 1x Parallel ports wasting space on your motherboard. Instead you have 6x USB, 2x Ethernet, and other smaller and much more useful ports to play with.
But I'm sure someone could dig you up a motherboard that has all those clunky old ports on them, since clearly USB did nothing at all to help.
DRM/Authentication? I've not heard of any such thing. Perhaps your friend is just getting replacements that don't meet the required wattage output the laptop needs for full power operation? I was borrowing a friends Dell Latitude D600, and it refused to go faster than 600MHz on power because the brick was an iGo brand replacement that was short about 15 watts. Those bricks don't have any fancy signaling electronics in them. They just supply power.
Welcome to modern politics.
I think you're missing the forest for the trees. If the new computer consumes less energy than the computer it replaces, then it *is* a conservation of energy. Your whole theory revolves around the assumption that "nothing goes offline, it's just one more thing added" and that is faulty. When it comes to racks of servers, replacing old units with new ones with more efficient PSUs and less power hungry components males quite an impact on how much *less* energy is consumed overall. As long as everything we do pushes the older inefficient stuff out to be replaced by the more efficient models, then we continue to reduce our power consumption.
Except that the establishment kept $25, the waiter $2, and each of the 3 guys each got $1 back, equaling $30.
I hate stupid math problems that use obtuse means to try to trick people.
Scratch that, I hate the way math can be used to do gymnastics to create answers that are not real.
No, scratch that again, I hate math period. Fuck it right in the neck, sideways, with a rusty 3" pipe. Filled with powdered asbestos. And covered in ground glass.
Amazon bought another site and it's software. They didn't invent a fucking thing. IMO that should immediately make it impossible for them to have claimed to have invented anything. They may own it, but they didn't make it.
Just another example of our wonderfully and horribly broken patent system.
...is that despite all the wild claims of lost revenue, the *made* revenue continues to be more than enough to R/D new hand-helds and continue the dev of new games for both older and newer hand-held systems. I think that speaks much more loudly than these retarded arm waiving FUD campaigns about piracy. Clearly piracy isn't hurting anyone that bad, clearly business is more than good enough to continue being a market worth creating for.
I lol'd
...as public officials, anything they do while on the clock is public record, and should be recordable by any means at any time. There is no sound logic or reason why they should be able to record us at will, but not the other way around.
People need to stop cowing to these people, and put them back in their place as workers for the public at large, not keepers of the public at large. They are elected officials, not elected rulers. We have given up far too much authority and power to all of these agencies, and they are abusing the shit out of it.
Sadly, I don't think it's going to get better anytime soon, the youth and young adults of today are far too enamored with self importance and giving up all kinds of information with stupid crap like twitter and the like. Lambs to the slaughter they are, and they blindly/happily march straight to the slaughterhouse.
XP may be close to EOL, but it has massive support behind it still. There are numerous applications that extend its features, make it very easy to customize, etc. Not to mention most of the bugs and such that are left are well documented and easy to fix or work around.
...in the proper names of knives.
This is a meat cleaver: http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/7438/895028-z707520_large.jpg
This is a chef's knife: http://www.bjsknives.com/image_manager/attributes/image/image_3/_6863858_full.jpg
The knife on the topic is a chef's knife, not a meat cleaver. A meat cleaver would be a terrible choice for the task at hand. Far too thick and clumsy.
Yeah, I was going to say, this just sounds like when a mob family moved into a neighborhood and started charging for "protection" when said protection was really from the mob family itself. We need a judge or court bracket to get their balls out of whatever velvet bag they're hidden in, and call MS on this BS tactic. Tell them to put up or shut up. Stop making empty threats, produce hard proof of infringement, or stfu. Plain and simple. No lawerly bending of laws, no mental/logical gymnastics, just "papers please" and nothing more. If MS can't provide said proof immediately (which they should if these companies oh so clearly infringe) then they should be enjoined to never make such a claim again unless they have clear proof of such things. Same goes for all other common bully companies. Basic punishment for making claims simply to try to dogpile a competitor bia litigation should be to have to pay for equally expensive counsel for the "opponent," or to pay all of the "opponents" legal fees, no if's, and's, or but's. I think that would reduce occurrences of bullshit of this proportion quite nicely.
A hearty chuckle? Are you high? This instance was a joke of sorts, but it was do to, and make, a clear point. many coprorations aren't so jovial about it, and write all kinds of crap into the clauses that lock you into all kinds of things that if you actually read you wouldn't agree to. Not to mention most of these things give the company every right to fuck you siz was from Sunday, but you can't do shit about it but cry to an "impartial" (my ass) arbiter and hope that they are actually impartial and not taking kickbacks under the table to see it $Megacorps way.
Having a "hearty chuckle and moving on" is exactly what these corps wan the little sheeple to do, because it's good for business and nobody else.
I completely agree, and this is basically the first thing i thought when reading how they dump this in the consumer's lap for not reading. Sure, we *should* be paying attention. But if everyone actually stopped to read everything, and required someone to clarify every point that was hard to understand because it was so tightly knotted up in legal mumbo jumbo, sales would be held up. People would stop buying as much because it was too much of a pain. Companies need to realize they can't do something like this and say "haha stupid consumers!" when really it's "haha stupid corporations being shortsighted!" Seriously, get a grip, and stop wrapping everything in thousands of words of complete crap.
Are you a moron? Verizon pitches a $29.99 per month UNLIMITED data plane, which they describe thus:
Best if you need mobile Internet for:
* Frequently sending & receiving email
* Heavy web browsing, updating social networking sites, downloading multiple applications and viewing video
They made the choice to set an unlimited plan for $30/mnth targeting the heavy users. If they didn't mean unlimited, or they didn't want heavy users on their network, then they shouldn't have made this plan and worded it this way.
Please to be kindly removing your head from your rectal orifice now, thx.
Here's how your scenario looks in reality:
Developers: Lets put DRM in our software so that we can be certain our game will never be pirated! :>
Management: Brilliant! :D :D :D
Pirates: LULZ! Hack/crack ALAKAZAM! >:D
Customers: Why doesn't my game work right? >:O
Management: Developers, I'm sorry but customer outrage over our draconian DRM scheme has caused sales to tank, so we have to lay you off. :-/
Developers: We should have left DRM out of the equation. ;_;
DRM does not work, period. It fucks up users machines, slows down games, or causes a game to be pirated more than bought. Nobody likes being told what to do with something they bought and paid for. I bought, it's mine, I'll do as I please with it. Try to tell me otherwise, and you'll regret it one way or another. It's really not rocket science, Jr.
The lottery terminals are all Flash on top of Linux, and they're all touch screen only. At worst they stop responding for a moment while processing a large transaction.
...I guess we'd better pt a ban on the current way o running prisons. I mean, the Warden is tasked with giving orders to the Deputies and COs, right? That mimics gang behavior in the same way. And what about our government? Shall we ban that too, since we have the President who is tasked with giving orders to the various branches of govt., including the Armed Forces, which would also have to be banned because they each have the one joint chiefs of staff who directs the rest of the military branch, much like gang behavior.
I guess Ban America sums it up. Our entire social structure mimics gang behavior.
While what you say is interesting, and may very well have some merit, I still think this whole thing is as obvious as we all notice it to be. I didn't need juvenile hall, however, I always managed to find others like myself anywhere I went. Juvenile hall merely gave me access to those who knew more and had done worse.
But in the end, what is being pointed out rings true, and it is rather scary how obvious it should have been.
...really?
I didn't realize music pirates were so dangerous these days.
Gettin' rough out there on the bleeding edge of the internet...
How about "Boom, Headshot!". ;)
Edit: Lameness filter? Wow, talk about fucking dumb. "Boom, Headshot" is supposed to be in all caps. 'Cause, you know, it *is* meant to denote yelling. :rolleyes:
Why not 8/80? I'd rather work 4 10 hour days myself. Have 3 day weekends, or 6 full days off at a shot. ;)
You don't say?
Seriously, get back to me when you can do this accurately without removing power sources and other standard bits of equipment which add to the background EMI. It is one thing to detect keystrokes from a keyboard hooked up to a laptop using a battery (IE the most ideal conditions for producing the result you want), and another to detect those keystrokes with a tower and requisite LCD(s)/CRT(s) before it (dealing with real life factors and interference). Not saying it would be impossible to do, but this kind of comes off as fear mongering to me. "Look what we can do under the perfect conditions!" As if perfect conditions are found everywhere. I'm also curious about the slow and heavy keystrokes used to type things out. Who types out at 1 character per 2 seconds, with the stroke of a hammer? I'm not a touch typist, and I type between 50 and 60 wpm. Could that program fetch my keystrokes amidst the noise of my 2 CRTs and my PC?
Actually, I think Postal2 was more of a parody of games of this genre than Serious Sam was.