Yep. Half a second delay is the end of the world. Age of Linux as SaaS...or whatever buzzwords are in play here.
I'm up for a good Microsoft rant any time, any place, but if a small batch of users have to take a performance hit to improve the experience in the end for all users, isn't that a positive thing? You can't really beta test this stuff. You can try running simulations, but nothing beats real world numbers.
Would we view this any different if Apple tried it? Google?
(Disclaimer: This is a logic exercise. In reality, I doubt there's actually much MS could and would do to their site to improve my experience using it.)
Clearly you've never dealt with Windows on Dell systems. They have to customize that install and reinstalling results in pain most of the time.
For one, those Broadcom wired NICs and Intel wireless NICs so popular on the Optiplex and XPS M#### lines? Not plug 'n play. I used to have to keep a USB flash key with those drivers before I slipstreamed an OEM disc with those drivers.
And support? Well, I don't know about windows persay, but 99% of the hardware calls I make result in "load the diagnostic partition and read me back the error code." Anyway, they could just say 'No operating system support' if they really wanted to.
Now...what Dell would REALLY lose is the bundling. McAfee or Norton (whichever is their default) and whatever flavor of the month toolbar and Roxio and Sonic would be left in the dust and that would end up bringing up the price of the system.
Of course the cases are focusing on "breaking copyright infringment" because if they filed a suit saying "they stole this" the **AAs would be laughed out of court even by the most plaintiff sympathetic judge on the planet.
However, if you've ever seen one of those "You wouldn't steal a car..." ads, they ARE trying to make a mental parallel between downloading media and stealing a tangible object even though the two are entirely different legally.
So, let's repeat the mantra: No one is deprived of physical property when copyright is infringed. Again: no one is deprived of physical property when copyright is infringed.
If I read the report right, they coded the thing to never actually fail in the first place. It'll always return what can be passed off as a legitimate answer.
Mocking medical conditions isn't really a good way to endear yourself.
Further, these people weren't exactly garbage men, plumbers or others who have to expect green haze during the daily grind. This is cube farm work. These people didn't expect to be drenched in the foul odor of Beelzebub's flatulence when they clocked in.
Finally, when you get a call about an office keeling over from smells, are you going to (a) figure out what happened or (b) make sure the people are all right? I'm not the most humanitarian person but I'm going to pick (b) and err on the side of caution.
The one cleaning had allergies and wasn't affected. Good. But maybe she just has a poor sense of smell through genetics? Some people can't taste broken aspirin. Others...can.
Smell alone can cause violent reactions. While I was in the kitchen one time, for some reason the smell of the cut tomatoes got to me and I started getting very ill.
The tomatoes were perfectly fine, there was nothing toxic in the air, but the tomato smell was just so incredibly overpowering I was a hair's width away from puking.
Peculiar, eccentric, those are more probable. Fake is also a valid definition but that probably doesn't apply. (Queer fiver as opposed to a queer scientist)
Never underestimate the level of dickishness the **AAs will stoop to.
That being said, the very first case they try against a teacher for showing a movie in class would pretty much destroy them. Especially if it's a beloved teacher.
"10 points extra credit to whoever helps me clip this section of this movie off this DVD."
Can guarentee in any school where teachers are actually concerned about pulling clips off a DVD at least 5 students will know how to do that right then and there.
Camcorder method requires setting up the camcorder, TV or projector, lighting, you'll likely need to do this in a spare room or after hours. Then you have to edit it in to whatever the teacher wanted to use it for.
Acceptable or not, it's a large number of hoops for something that, if you're allowed to copy off the DVD, can otherwise be done in 10 minutes.
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So, by that logic, music given away as a promotion can be freely copied because it was obtained at zero cost to the recipient?
Yep. Half a second delay is the end of the world. Age of Linux as SaaS...or whatever buzzwords are in play here.
I'm up for a good Microsoft rant any time, any place, but if a small batch of users have to take a performance hit to improve the experience in the end for all users, isn't that a positive thing? You can't really beta test this stuff. You can try running simulations, but nothing beats real world numbers.
Would we view this any different if Apple tried it? Google?
(Disclaimer: This is a logic exercise. In reality, I doubt there's actually much MS could and would do to their site to improve my experience using it.)
Clearly you've never dealt with Windows on Dell systems. They have to customize that install and reinstalling results in pain most of the time.
For one, those Broadcom wired NICs and Intel wireless NICs so popular on the Optiplex and XPS M#### lines? Not plug 'n play. I used to have to keep a USB flash key with those drivers before I slipstreamed an OEM disc with those drivers.
And support? Well, I don't know about windows persay, but 99% of the hardware calls I make result in "load the diagnostic partition and read me back the error code." Anyway, they could just say 'No operating system support' if they really wanted to.
Now...what Dell would REALLY lose is the bundling. McAfee or Norton (whichever is their default) and whatever flavor of the month toolbar and Roxio and Sonic would be left in the dust and that would end up bringing up the price of the system.
Of course the cases are focusing on "breaking copyright infringment" because if they filed a suit saying "they stole this" the **AAs would be laughed out of court even by the most plaintiff sympathetic judge on the planet.
However, if you've ever seen one of those "You wouldn't steal a car..." ads, they ARE trying to make a mental parallel between downloading media and stealing a tangible object even though the two are entirely different legally.
So, let's repeat the mantra: No one is deprived of physical property when copyright is infringed. Again: no one is deprived of physical property when copyright is infringed.
In one ear and out the other, though, I bet.
Period isn't a sentence? Curses.
If I read the report right, they coded the thing to never actually fail in the first place. It'll always return what can be passed off as a legitimate answer.
Hrm, no idea why I've never run across that before. Sometimes the Google-fu just fails. Thanks.
Mocking medical conditions isn't really a good way to endear yourself.
Further, these people weren't exactly garbage men, plumbers or others who have to expect green haze during the daily grind. This is cube farm work. These people didn't expect to be drenched in the foul odor of Beelzebub's flatulence when they clocked in.
Finally, when you get a call about an office keeling over from smells, are you going to (a) figure out what happened or (b) make sure the people are all right? I'm not the most humanitarian person but I'm going to pick (b) and err on the side of caution.
The one cleaning had allergies and wasn't affected. Good. But maybe she just has a poor sense of smell through genetics? Some people can't taste broken aspirin. Others...can.
OpenDNS also redirects google searches to their own site. www.google.com was broken for me until I took OpenDNS out of my list.
What I'd love is my own DNS Server but I can't find one free for XP anywhere...
Smell alone can cause violent reactions. While I was in the kitchen one time, for some reason the smell of the cut tomatoes got to me and I started getting very ill.
The tomatoes were perfectly fine, there was nothing toxic in the air, but the tomato smell was just so incredibly overpowering I was a hair's width away from puking.
Queer has more definitions than gay.
Peculiar, eccentric, those are more probable. Fake is also a valid definition but that probably doesn't apply. (Queer fiver as opposed to a queer scientist)
So a 1cm cube, i.e., 1 cubic centimetre, would weigh 130 tonnes / 1000, or 130kg.
They're just reducing the figures. The math still holds.
And who pays those AP/Reuters reporters?
Never underestimate the level of dickishness the **AAs will stoop to.
That being said, the very first case they try against a teacher for showing a movie in class would pretty much destroy them. Especially if it's a beloved teacher.
Teachers also have students in their classroom.
"10 points extra credit to whoever helps me clip this section of this movie off this DVD."
Can guarentee in any school where teachers are actually concerned about pulling clips off a DVD at least 5 students will know how to do that right then and there.
Camcorder method requires setting up the camcorder, TV or projector, lighting, you'll likely need to do this in a spare room or after hours. Then you have to edit it in to whatever the teacher wanted to use it for.
Acceptable or not, it's a large number of hoops for something that, if you're allowed to copy off the DVD, can otherwise be done in 10 minutes.
Just because my PDFs play in winamp doesn't mean they're music files!
Well, depending on the coin, a PCGS rating would be #1 on my list.
What about authentic fakes?
Anyone stupid enough to think things like that on eBay lacking a complete pedigree are real deserve to get burned.
There's a reason in the art world if a painting cannot be tracked through it's whole life it's first considered a fake.
Schrodinger's Article.
autorun.inf
(although...didn't think you could get shares to do this. Maybe if they were mapped...)
Gives new definition to the phrase French tickler...
Rhyming categories, anagrams, the dreaded Before and After, slightly stupid answers, one letter off...
There's loads of categories they come up with that don't just rely on trivia knowledge but how to interpret the question.
I'd much rather watch four hours of cinema that actually interests me than three 90 minute pieces of dreck that regularly gets shoveled at us.
And, lest you forget, there's a pause button on your remote. It's the one that looks like a logical or.
Mea culpa.
Actually I think I intended to just say 'Lucas' but I just seem to instinctivly add 'arts' after it. Maybe it's one of those conditioned responces...