This guy was being sneaky, but it looks to me like he did nothing wrong to obtain this land.
It's wrong in the same sense that insider trading is wrong. Perhaps it's not explicitly wrong, (I doubt their EULA has "You may not change URLs at the auction site") but it is implicitly wrong since he is taking advantage of knowledge that the public does not have.
What about your rights? According to a recent poll at the Washington Post 63% of people approve of keeping phone records if it's for security.
I dunno, this all seems to remind me of some moment in history...where a small group of people were fed up with being manhandled by the government and staged a rebellion against them. Heck if I can remember what that was though... Curse me for not remebering past mistakes.
It never ceases to amaze me how underpaid geeks somehow can't get it into their skulls that the guy is not stupid, he's a bloody doctor/lawyer/diplomat/you name it, for crying out loud.
And they tend to be the worst, because they expect us TO solve the problem in five seconds. Look, I don't know anything about medicine, law, politics, accounting, but I know computers. That's why you're calling me. Don't play the computer admin card with me, otherwise you wouldn't be calling me in the first place.
Tech support would be a lot more support staff friendly if people would start taking responsibility for their actions, but I think it's a proven fact through court cases and laws passed that "taking responsibility" is a lost art in this country.
My favorite call on this sort of situation involved a user calling in wanting me to join his new Dell to his company's domain. Never called us for advice, never even told us he'd be getting a new system. Dell rep sells him on "Media Center 2005." He gets pissed at me when I tell him that it can't be done.
"But the Dell rep said it's what I needed! You're the tech guy, fix it!" "I can't. That's how Microsoft wrote it."
It eventually had to be escalated to a super. Just sad.
Wow. I've learned something. I didn't see Hackers first til I was fully ingrained in web culture, so I was just assuming it meant browser cookies, and given the entire insanity of the whole thing it made sense that they'd screw something over that simple.
Makes about as much sense as aliens invading the planet and then just keeling over from the common cold. Wait, that was done too...War of the Worlds, considered a classic.
I've never understood how frothing mad people can get at this film. Sure, it's no Star Wars, but it's leaps and bounds above such science butchers as Armageddon and Day After Tomorrow. For all it's flaws, Independence Day works on it's level.
Honestly, that's the worst depiction of computers in film that I've ever seen
It'd be better to spend the money not spent on gaming on tickets to a traveling Broadway play or a live concert.
There's a better ROI on a video card though. If you want to go to a play or concert, that's one time. Not to mention additional costs in getting there, parking, outfit (especially for the play. Not every nerd has a spare tuxedo floating around.) Plus, if you have to pee, you lose part of your ticket price and it's impossible to get that back.
Video cards are used daily. There's minimal extra cost. (You're already paying for the electricity, minimal travel involved, and who cares what you wear.) And if you have to pee, you can pause and not lose anything.
Do parents feel good about this?
You'd have to ask Congress. They're the ones parenting now.
...Google Beta 5.0, 'an innovation factory that produces a torrent of new Web-based services, including Gmail, Google Desktop, and Google Base. More than likely, Beta 6.0 is around the corner.
Gah, as clarification, I'm saying Doom and TR are the knockoffs; their atmosphere and style has been tried and does work, so there should be no reason why the movies suck as hard as they do
but the writers don't focus on those aspects, instead mixing certain aspects from game trailers and superfluous action sequences when the best thing they could do is just play the damn game for a week.
Disagree 100%.
I get the feeling that after watching these things that the scriptwriters and director(s) simply read the summary on the back of the box, maybe read the manual and pulled the rest from their nether regions. Thus, they don't understand the *feel* of the game.
I firmly believe many games made into movies had something going for them, other than German tax breaks. Doom? Oddly, yes. Alien worked. Course, that deveated so far from the original it barely deserves the name. Tomb Raider? Indiana Jones worked. What'd they do wrong? Hmm, oh yea, made it NOT like IJ and more like one of the last two Bond films...(gag).
They would manage to screw up Half-Life, and that one practically gives you the script as you play it.
Still seems to me the best one made so far is Mortal Kombat. It didn't take itself seriously, at all. Decent action, music, enough of a plot to move along... and it was short.
This would be an issue if PS3 games came out of the box demanding >75% of the processing capacity. I doubt that game programmers will be fluent enough working with all those cells this early in the production cycle to actually make use of all that power.
It's not the amount of the cells you use, it's how you use em!
I remember back when the 360 was getting ready to come out that it was rumored Sony was going to drop the price on the PS2 to compete since the PS3 wasn't ready yet. At that time I told myself, the instant the PS2 hits $100, I'd get one.
So I have another 2 years to wait? Sony's already *lost* the money on the production of these things. Least they can do now is try to recoup some of it so the losses on the PS3 will hurt slightly less.
2nd, the price of XPhome+office student&teacher edition is about 325$ retail.
If you want to speak legality, the student/teacher version is supposed to be just that. You are, in theory, supposed to provide proof on purchase that you are either attending or work at an educational institution.
Course, they should just rename that thing "Home" edition like Windows and configure it so it works independently of domain restrictions (or just strip Exchange compatibility out of "Outlook Home"...that'll make it useless at businesses...)
I don't see any problem with the Apollo missions. Those were NASA and manned.
The shuttle came into play when NASA decided to send up experiments with the astronauts. The bay gave them a massive storage space to play with. Problem is the shuttle burned out long ago. It's well past warranty and needs a replacement badly...cept we're stuck with the shuttle until the ISS is finished since parts are built with the shuttle's bay in mind.
No other rocket in service has the storage space like the shuttle does if I remember right
As far as success with unmanned missions... NASA gets burned hard when they lose a probe and Mars is up to what, 3 lost now? These rovers are starting to cancel the memory of those out.
MS: Yea, I'd sure hate to see somethin happen to that nice pretty hard drive... *waves magnet menacingly close* Wouldn't want to be swimmin with the penguins now would we?
if you come up with a way to manufacture widgets that no one else has before, and that innovation has cost you a certain amount in development costs, should you not have the right to protect that investment? If your competition can just steal your methods, then you would have no incentive to innovate.
No. You would patent the widget and recoup the costs of the R&D through sales of the widget (or licencing to companies with larger factories).
In cases like this, this is stifiling competition because what keeps businesses afloat that provide similar services is the customer service and pricing. It's not methods that should be patented, it's product. You wouldn't expect a computer chip company to patent "a methodology of reducing the size of gates in diagrams to a smaller size". No, someone just found out how to shrink 120nm to 80nm, patented the hardware and left the work up to them.
Patenting methods lock people out of improving on it or emulating the same method with a better plan and thereby create a monopoly (illegal). All method patents show is that companies are becoming stagnant or lazy and are preferring legal ways to protect their market share than continuously innovating and improving the customer experience.
If you can't beat em...don't let them compete in the first place.
Not if you have a green arrow. That means they'd have a red and are required to stop.
If you have a solid green, yes. You yield to oncoming traffic (because they could go straight instead).
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This guy was being sneaky, but it looks to me like he did nothing wrong to obtain this land.
It's wrong in the same sense that insider trading is wrong. Perhaps it's not explicitly wrong, (I doubt their EULA has "You may not change URLs at the auction site") but it is implicitly wrong since he is taking advantage of knowledge that the public does not have.
That's amazing! I have the same combination on my suitcase!
Will they also instill a fear of water into the baby so he doesn't want to leave his island?
What about your rights? According to a recent poll at the Washington Post 63% of people approve of keeping phone records if it's for security.
I dunno, this all seems to remind me of some moment in history...where a small group of people were fed up with being manhandled by the government and staged a rebellion against them. Heck if I can remember what that was though... Curse me for not remebering past mistakes.
It never ceases to amaze me how underpaid geeks somehow can't get it into their skulls that the guy is not stupid, he's a bloody doctor/lawyer/diplomat/you name it, for crying out loud.
And they tend to be the worst, because they expect us TO solve the problem in five seconds. Look, I don't know anything about medicine, law, politics, accounting, but I know computers. That's why you're calling me. Don't play the computer admin card with me, otherwise you wouldn't be calling me in the first place.
Tech support would be a lot more support staff friendly if people would start taking responsibility for their actions, but I think it's a proven fact through court cases and laws passed that "taking responsibility" is a lost art in this country.
My favorite call on this sort of situation involved a user calling in wanting me to join his new Dell to his company's domain. Never called us for advice, never even told us he'd be getting a new system. Dell rep sells him on "Media Center 2005." He gets pissed at me when I tell him that it can't be done.
"But the Dell rep said it's what I needed! You're the tech guy, fix it!"
"I can't. That's how Microsoft wrote it."
It eventually had to be escalated to a super. Just sad.
4) Profit!
Will the IRS allow a one time, tax free gift to your in-game spouse for up to 100k plat?
If you destroy a no-drop item can you get a refund?
How bout deductions for funding your own crafting business?
Are repairs business expenses?
So many questions... and why do I think all the CPAs are going to be Druids?
(Sorry, no WoW experience, all EQ1 based references...cept the repairs)
Wow. I've learned something. I didn't see Hackers first til I was fully ingrained in web culture, so I was just assuming it meant browser cookies, and given the entire insanity of the whole thing it made sense that they'd screw something over that simple.
And knowing is half the battle!
Makes about as much sense as aliens invading the planet and then just keeling over from the common cold. Wait, that was done too...War of the Worlds, considered a classic.
I've never understood how frothing mad people can get at this film. Sure, it's no Star Wars, but it's leaps and bounds above such science butchers as Armageddon and Day After Tomorrow. For all it's flaws, Independence Day works on it's level.
Honestly, that's the worst depiction of computers in film that I've ever seen
Clearly you haven't seen Hackers. TYPE COOKIE!!
It'd be better to spend the money not spent on gaming on tickets to a traveling Broadway play or a live concert.
There's a better ROI on a video card though. If you want to go to a play or concert, that's one time. Not to mention additional costs in getting there, parking, outfit (especially for the play. Not every nerd has a spare tuxedo floating around.) Plus, if you have to pee, you lose part of your ticket price and it's impossible to get that back.
Video cards are used daily. There's minimal extra cost. (You're already paying for the electricity, minimal travel involved, and who cares what you wear.) And if you have to pee, you can pause and not lose anything.
Do parents feel good about this?
You'd have to ask Congress. They're the ones parenting now.
...Google Beta 5.0, 'an innovation factory that produces a torrent of new Web-based services, including Gmail, Google Desktop, and Google Base. More than likely, Beta 6.0 is around the corner.
Fixed.
Gah, as clarification, I'm saying Doom and TR are the knockoffs; their atmosphere and style has been tried and does work, so there should be no reason why the movies suck as hard as they do
but the writers don't focus on those aspects, instead mixing certain aspects from game trailers and superfluous action sequences when the best thing they could do is just play the damn game for a week.
Alien worked. The premise is similar to Doom. (more of an alien/alien2 mix...)
Indiana Jones worked. Premise is similar to (Ok, exactly the same as) Tomb Raider.
Even knockoffs can be entertaining while not being great, but I think the writers just missed the point entirely when making the game based films.
Disagree 100%. I get the feeling that after watching these things that the scriptwriters and director(s) simply read the summary on the back of the box, maybe read the manual and pulled the rest from their nether regions. Thus, they don't understand the *feel* of the game. I firmly believe many games made into movies had something going for them, other than German tax breaks. Doom? Oddly, yes. Alien worked. Course, that deveated so far from the original it barely deserves the name. Tomb Raider? Indiana Jones worked. What'd they do wrong? Hmm, oh yea, made it NOT like IJ and more like one of the last two Bond films...(gag). They would manage to screw up Half-Life, and that one practically gives you the script as you play it. Still seems to me the best one made so far is Mortal Kombat. It didn't take itself seriously, at all. Decent action, music, enough of a plot to move along... and it was short.
...and just what, exactly, do we import from Cuba?
Well...other than baseball players?...
However, if we did import, I'm sure there'd be a lucrative market for cigars and rum.
Fortunatly, lobotomies are now tax deductable.
This would be an issue if PS3 games came out of the box demanding >75% of the processing capacity. I doubt that game programmers will be fluent enough working with all those cells this early in the production cycle to actually make use of all that power.
It's not the amount of the cells you use, it's how you use em!
I remember back when the 360 was getting ready to come out that it was rumored Sony was going to drop the price on the PS2 to compete since the PS3 wasn't ready yet. At that time I told myself, the instant the PS2 hits $100, I'd get one.
So I have another 2 years to wait? Sony's already *lost* the money on the production of these things. Least they can do now is try to recoup some of it so the losses on the PS3 will hurt slightly less.
2nd, the price of XPhome+office student&teacher edition is about 325$ retail.
If you want to speak legality, the student/teacher version is supposed to be just that. You are, in theory, supposed to provide proof on purchase that you are either attending or work at an educational institution.
Course, they should just rename that thing "Home" edition like Windows and configure it so it works independently of domain restrictions (or just strip Exchange compatibility out of "Outlook Home"...that'll make it useless at businesses...)
I don't see any problem with the Apollo missions. Those were NASA and manned.
The shuttle came into play when NASA decided to send up experiments with the astronauts. The bay gave them a massive storage space to play with. Problem is the shuttle burned out long ago. It's well past warranty and needs a replacement badly...cept we're stuck with the shuttle until the ISS is finished since parts are built with the shuttle's bay in mind.
No other rocket in service has the storage space like the shuttle does if I remember right
As far as success with unmanned missions... NASA gets burned hard when they lose a probe and Mars is up to what, 3 lost now? These rovers are starting to cancel the memory of those out.
From what I remember, RIM had ~$450M in a war chest for a settlement with NTP, and the difference of $200M was easily covered by recent sales.
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MS: Yea, I'd sure hate to see somethin happen to that nice pretty hard drive... *waves magnet menacingly close* Wouldn't want to be swimmin with the penguins now would we?
if you come up with a way to manufacture widgets that no one else has before, and that innovation has cost you a certain amount in development costs, should you not have the right to protect that investment? If your competition can just steal your methods, then you would have no incentive to innovate.
No. You would patent the widget and recoup the costs of the R&D through sales of the widget (or licencing to companies with larger factories).
In cases like this, this is stifiling competition because what keeps businesses afloat that provide similar services is the customer service and pricing. It's not methods that should be patented, it's product. You wouldn't expect a computer chip company to patent "a methodology of reducing the size of gates in diagrams to a smaller size". No, someone just found out how to shrink 120nm to 80nm, patented the hardware and left the work up to them.
Patenting methods lock people out of improving on it or emulating the same method with a better plan and thereby create a monopoly (illegal). All method patents show is that companies are becoming stagnant or lazy and are preferring legal ways to protect their market share than continuously innovating and improving the customer experience.
If you can't beat em...don't let them compete in the first place.
Not if you have a green arrow. That means they'd have a red and are required to stop. If you have a solid green, yes. You yield to oncoming traffic (because they could go straight instead).