You have a very high regard for this 'market' you speak of... The market goes there because there's fuck all else. Circuit City? Closing stores. CompUSA? Gone. Fry's? Rare and worse than Best Buy even.
So by logical extension, never keep private data on your computer, ever, cause what if you can't power it on to remove it before leaving it with someone?
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That doesn't absolve them of informing her promptly that it's been lost and risking the chance that someone else would find it.
Yeah, $100,000 is pocket change to Best Buy. The thing is, what's to stop Best Buy from changing their policies after something like this? Do the equation.
Number of lost laptops a year = A Cost of a lawsuit over a lost lawsuit = B
Cost of implimenting policies to track customer hardware = X
If A * B < X, why bother changing policy?
This is the same reason the return on the McDonald's coffee case was so high. Simply telling a company to change isn't enough. Gotta hit them where it hurts: the threat of repeat, expensive lawsuits.
how is Raelyn Campbell's situation any different from anyone else's who has had a computer stolen from them?
A) It was left at a trusted* location, hence where it was was assumed to be known. B) It wasn't stolen, persay. Officially, it was lost. C) It took three months for Best Buy to fess up to losing it.
Normally when your laptop gets stolen from you, you have a pretty good idea when that happens, I would wager within 24 hours you'd know it's missing. You don't sit down at a meeting one day and realize, "Holy crap, my laptop was stolen three months ago! I better start doing something about that!"
*Let's not quibble over the definition of trusted. It was believed to be a trusted location at least, and that's what matters.
Why are backups a topic in this case? It's not a matter of her losing the information, it's a matter of someone else GETTING her information.
If a bank loses a laptop with customer data on it, does the bank just go, "Don't worry, we've got backups of the data. Your information isn't lost."? Just because it's one person shouldn't make notification any different.
you are suggesting that Vista breaks the standard for the convenience of its users.
At least it'd be a broken standard that actually does some good for a change...
Seriously though, if you're diagnosing an IPv6 problem, you're probably smarter than a user so I'm going to assume that. If you're trying to hit facebook through IE, you probably just want to get to facebook, hence your browser should make that as easy as possible.
If you're pinging though, that's not as user friendly a program. My thinking would be to try it based on the stacks you have turned on. Hence pinging "www.facebook.com" would do a default ping to an ipv6 resolved IP and an ipv4 resolved IP. If you only have v6 turned on, only v6 would be attempted, same with v4.
If you do a ping 2001:500:2f::f, for example, then it'll only try v6, since it's an explicit address. Same with a specific ipv4.
Telnet.exe is 75 freakin K of space. No reason not to have it there. It's a very simple, vanilla tool that harms no one. Are we that strapped for space that we can't let a 4,000,000,000 byte install become 4,000,075,000?
HTML is a standard. There are strict guidelines it has to adhere to. There is no standard under HTML that you can fall back on. Hence, if HTML fails, it fails.
IPv6 is a standard. IPv4 is also a standard. In this case, if one standard fails, you can gracefully fall back on another standard and try getting the job done.
Interesting tactic...even if the level of copyright infringement stays the same, now they can claim even more in losses.
Maybe if some of those execs went to a press release wearing only a barrel with suspenders instead of Ralph Lauren Black Label suits I might, MIGHT, feel a twang of pity...
The gist of the article is that when Vista sets aside more than 2GB for the game, the game would crash. (This is expected given the 2gb split between application space and OS space.) XP, running the exact same demo would not crash though.
Hence, Vista was allocating much much more ram to the game than XP was, and the end result is the game would crash in Vista and not in XP.
But none of the teens took any of the CDs, even though they were free. "That was the moment we realized the game was completely up," an EMI exec told the magazine.
Maybe the teens were thinking, "It's a trap. Remember what Sony did?"
Yea, what's really bugging them is the hit it's taken since the start of the new year. News Flash, lots of company stock has been taking hits lately. Wait it out, day-traders!
Fischer watched chess matches on Icelandic TV and phoned in a responce to one match even. He might not have been as sharp as before, but he was still seeing moves.
But apparently ignorance is an acceptable excuse to make thoughtless comments.
You can't imagine what it was like in his head, nor can I. If you don't have full capacity of controlling your mind, how can you be held accountable for what it does?
When I compare Fischer's early life to that of his later, it seems to parallel another brilliant nutcase: Ted Kaczynski (The Unabomber). The man had like three degrees, published over ten papers, and then spent his life in a cabin sending out bombs.
While two cases don't make a solid trend, you wonder how many slip under the radar.
Well, technically it is a real binary number, as it contains only 1s and 0s. It is not, however, representative of how 2047 would be stored in a computer. That'd be the Year 65536 bug.
Get over it! It's just a canvas with paint splattered on it! Get over it! Just a piece of cardboard with a photo on it! Get over it! Just a circuit board with wires and stuff on it!
Why do paintings sell for millions? Why do baseball cards go in the thousands? Because people perceive them as having value and hence are investments. There will be no shortage of trekkies, so sometime in the future, he would be able to auction that visor off himself for a return, assuming it's an original.
Just because it doesn't make sense to you, personally, doesn't make it accurate. So you wouldn't get it. Big deal. Neither would I, but I'm sure someone else out there would.
How about going with 'Ordering a pizza online.' They don't have to hire someone for the phone, it's built into the billing system, inserted into the queue automatically.
Apple took the standard "...over the internet" patent addendum and tossed in "wirelessly."
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You have a very high regard for this 'market' you speak of... The market goes there because there's fuck all else. Circuit City? Closing stores. CompUSA? Gone. Fry's? Rare and worse than Best Buy even.
So by logical extension, never keep private data on your computer, ever, cause what if you can't power it on to remove it before leaving it with someone?
That doesn't absolve them of informing her promptly that it's been lost and risking the chance that someone else would find it.
Yeah, $100,000 is pocket change to Best Buy. The thing is, what's to stop Best Buy from changing their policies after something like this? Do the equation.
Number of lost laptops a year = A
Cost of a lawsuit over a lost lawsuit = B
Cost of implimenting policies to track customer hardware = X
If A * B < X, why bother changing policy?
This is the same reason the return on the McDonald's coffee case was so high. Simply telling a company to change isn't enough. Gotta hit them where it hurts: the threat of repeat, expensive lawsuits.
how is Raelyn Campbell's situation any different from anyone else's who has had a computer stolen from them?
A) It was left at a trusted* location, hence where it was was assumed to be known.
B) It wasn't stolen, persay. Officially, it was lost.
C) It took three months for Best Buy to fess up to losing it.
Normally when your laptop gets stolen from you, you have a pretty good idea when that happens, I would wager within 24 hours you'd know it's missing. You don't sit down at a meeting one day and realize, "Holy crap, my laptop was stolen three months ago! I better start doing something about that!"
*Let's not quibble over the definition of trusted. It was believed to be a trusted location at least, and that's what matters.
Why are backups a topic in this case? It's not a matter of her losing the information, it's a matter of someone else GETTING her information.
If a bank loses a laptop with customer data on it, does the bank just go, "Don't worry, we've got backups of the data. Your information isn't lost."? Just because it's one person shouldn't make notification any different.
you are suggesting that Vista breaks the standard for the convenience of its users.
At least it'd be a broken standard that actually does some good for a change...
Seriously though, if you're diagnosing an IPv6 problem, you're probably smarter than a user so I'm going to assume that. If you're trying to hit facebook through IE, you probably just want to get to facebook, hence your browser should make that as easy as possible.
If you're pinging though, that's not as user friendly a program. My thinking would be to try it based on the stacks you have turned on. Hence pinging "www.facebook.com" would do a default ping to an ipv6 resolved IP and an ipv4 resolved IP. If you only have v6 turned on, only v6 would be attempted, same with v4.
If you do a ping 2001:500:2f::f, for example, then it'll only try v6, since it's an explicit address. Same with a specific ipv4.
Telnet.exe is 75 freakin K of space. No reason not to have it there. It's a very simple, vanilla tool that harms no one. Are we that strapped for space that we can't let a 4,000,000,000 byte install become 4,000,075,000?
HTML is a standard. There are strict guidelines it has to adhere to. There is no standard under HTML that you can fall back on. Hence, if HTML fails, it fails.
IPv6 is a standard. IPv4 is also a standard. In this case, if one standard fails, you can gracefully fall back on another standard and try getting the job done.
The Gameboy's still showing games fine. You actually broke your eyesight, np.
I dunno about the flexible bit. Bend fiber too much and the line goes snap. Cat5 I can practically tie into a knot and it'll still work.
Interesting tactic...even if the level of copyright infringement stays the same, now they can claim even more in losses.
Maybe if some of those execs went to a press release wearing only a barrel with suspenders instead of Ralph Lauren Black Label suits I might, MIGHT, feel a twang of pity...
The gist of the article is that when Vista sets aside more than 2GB for the game, the game would crash. (This is expected given the 2gb split between application space and OS space.) XP, running the exact same demo would not crash though.
Hence, Vista was allocating much much more ram to the game than XP was, and the end result is the game would crash in Vista and not in XP.
This isn't really charted, but it's explained.
http://www.anandtech.com/gadgets/showdoc.aspx?i=3034
(although the first page with charts I see is here: http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=3044&p=1 )
If Vista has better memory management than XP, then explain how the same program uses 250 to 500MB MORE on Vista than XP.
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Maybe the teens were thinking, "It's a trap. Remember what Sony did?"
Yea, what's really bugging them is the hit it's taken since the start of the new year. News Flash, lots of company stock has been taking hits lately. Wait it out, day-traders!
Fischer watched chess matches on Icelandic TV and phoned in a responce to one match even. He might not have been as sharp as before, but he was still seeing moves.
But apparently ignorance is an acceptable excuse to make thoughtless comments.
You can't imagine what it was like in his head, nor can I. If you don't have full capacity of controlling your mind, how can you be held accountable for what it does?
When I compare Fischer's early life to that of his later, it seems to parallel another brilliant nutcase: Ted Kaczynski (The Unabomber). The man had like three degrees, published over ten papers, and then spent his life in a cabin sending out bombs.
While two cases don't make a solid trend, you wonder how many slip under the radar.
Well, technically it is a real binary number, as it contains only 1s and 0s. It is not, however, representative of how 2047 would be stored in a computer. That'd be the Year 65536 bug.
Oh sure, you can go through my laptop. And here're my other drives. 5TB of random characters. Enjoy!
Get over it! It's just a canvas with paint splattered on it!
Get over it! Just a piece of cardboard with a photo on it!
Get over it! Just a circuit board with wires and stuff on it!
Why do paintings sell for millions? Why do baseball cards go in the thousands? Because people perceive them as having value and hence are investments. There will be no shortage of trekkies, so sometime in the future, he would be able to auction that visor off himself for a return, assuming it's an original.
Just because it doesn't make sense to you, personally, doesn't make it accurate. So you wouldn't get it. Big deal. Neither would I, but I'm sure someone else out there would.
How about going with 'Ordering a pizza online.' They don't have to hire someone for the phone, it's built into the billing system, inserted into the queue automatically.
Apple took the standard "...over the internet" patent addendum and tossed in "wirelessly."
Soon, I'll have stolen ALL the world's music!! No one will get so much as a treble clef without going through me!
But don't think I'm ALL bad...if you buy a C and an E, I'll toss in a G for free. Same octave only, no exchanges if you decide to change key.