I think the true "Fatal Flaw" would be when the average user figures out that their machine won't play MP3s, DVDs, connect to their iPod, etc.
I hope Dell and other PC builders would consider ways to bring that sort of licensing to the Linux platform, that you could purchase as an option when buying the PC.
I had a machine that I upgraded piece-by-piece. I changed hard drives, upgraded to gigabit ethernet, put in a faster CPU, changed graphics cards and eventually upgraded the motherboard.
Microsoft India told me that I had "reached the limit" on that license and that they could "no longer issue a code for that Windows XP ID number". I shouted the guy down for 10 minutes (yes, I lost it) and eventually asked him for a supervisor.
I told the supervisor that I was a technical person, changed my hardware often and was sick and tired of being bothered every time I made a legitimate hardware change and could they just remove my number from validation checking altogether?
They told me there was "absolutely no way" they could remove a Windows ID from validation.
That copy of XP has NEVER asked for validation since...no matter what hardware changes I make.:)
If I open my Greek New Testament, I see manuscript evidence going back to the 1st Century, you know, the people that walked with Christ. I can trace the versions backward through time and see where each mistake happened, how it was copied to manuscript families after it and figure out why. Mistranslations (such as several places in the King James) ARE obvious, and have been corrected in later translations that went back to earlier manuscripts (NASB, NIV, etc.), with MUCH protest by those that love the King James version. Still, Christianity HAS faced up to its problems and corrected them, despite the criticism!
But, if you think the mistranslations of the Bible are of a nature that causes people to go to war or something, you are deceiving yourself. The mistakes and mistranslations have to do mostly with extra explanatory comments or extra verses in memorized passages such as the Lord's Prayer or the position of women in the church or with the nature of the afterlife for the unsaved (which never includes heaven anyway), mundane things like that.
Similarly for the Old Testament, before finding the Dead Sea Scrolls, the newest version of Isaiah was from 1000 AD. In the Dead Sea Scrolls was a copy from the time of Christ, 1000 years earlier. Scholars waited with baited breath to see what had changed in 1000 years. The differences? Mostly the names of musical instruments, fruit and animals and a couple place names. Again, no changes in fundamental doctrines or belief systems.
Not to attack you personally, because I know that many people believe as you do thanks to the DaVinci Code, but what you are saying as fact came from a FICTIONAL NOVEL, and is by no means even close to accurate, any more than Superman or Star Wars.
And, as you study church history, you will find that the more educated Christians are, the less likely they are to go to war. It is when the educated can manipulate the uneducated that most wars happen. The only times Christians advocate war are in situations like the American Revolution, to gain freedom to worship God free from the influence of the Church of England or the Civil War, because Abraham Lincoln, as a Christian fundamentalist, could not bear to see his fellow man enslaved. It was wrong and needed to be stopped and his Christian convictions gave him the strength to see it through despite opposition and war. And we still celebrated his birthday this week, the only president other than the first to hold such an honor.
Now, mind you, this only holds for Christianity and Judaism, which encourage study of the Bible, including the most accurate original documents we can possibly find. Islam, however, allows no such textual criticism of the Koran.
If you write drivers, then you should know how difficult this is for manufacturers since Microsoft changes the driver architecture every single time an OS comes out...
It may be annoying to you when the Mormons or Jehovah's Witnesses come to your door or when you have to skip that Christian channel on your TV, but it isn't like they are stalking you or giving everyone missile coordinates to your house!
If the rumors about how much Universal execs hate Sony is true, this could be a very long format war, with the winners being Total HD and players like the LG.
Think about it. If every movie came with both formats and every player played both formats, would anybody really care anymore? Nobody does with DVD+-R.
We routinely ignore and brush to the side any evidence that does not fit the current Evolution/Big Bang model. That's not to say the Catholic church didn't do the EXACT same thing with the Flat Earth-Centered Universe (often to the point of killing detractors).
But like the Flat-Earth situation, it will take a long time to find the truth if we say things like, "Students are not allowed to even investigate whether it appears man has been designed by a higher intelligence." Why not? What better way to teach kids to examine and weigh evidence. After all, if Intelligent Design truly is hogwash, then what is everyone afraid of? Won't the scientific method disprove it quickly anyway?
But throwing out potential evidence because we don't agree with the lifestyle or religious beliefs of the people it is coming from is NOT using the scientific method at all.
Which takes us back to people doing anything to maintain their kingdoms, even at the expense of knowledge and truth...
I recently had a problem on my Windows machine where it didn't want to keep my profile when I joined the new domain at work. Since all my user settings were in there, I needed to copy my settings over from my old profile. We're talking, it would take me a couple weeks to get everything set back up and I had a deadline. This used to be easy on 2000 but on XP they have really made it difficult. I spent 6 hours talking to various levels of support in India.
Finally, they agreed to call me back the next morning. When their callback was late, I started looking at the problem a little more intently (based on a single statement made during the 6-hour phone call). I finally fixed the problem in about 10 minutes. When they called, they asked me if I could tell them the solution I used. I jokingly told them that it would cost them $29.95, but I told them anyway. He ended up giving me the free book of my choice from Microsoft Press ($59.95) and not charging me for the phone call because I fixed it myself.
I guess you could call that good support, but I did end up fixing the problem myself. I'm just mad I didn't think of the solution right away and save the 6 hours.
My friend's dad works for Boeing and has spent the better part of a year testing exactly that. That cell phones have an immeasurably small effect on the plane's controls or radios. There simply is zero problem there.
The cell phone companies would have a little more of a problem if they hadn't all solved it already. To my understanding, high-speed switching is no longer a problem on the new networks.
Here, let me sum it up for you.
Currently, the only way to make a call on a plane is to use a Verizon Airfone at $4 connection fee and $4 a minute.
If Verizon puts a cell tower on the plane, they can continue to charge you $4 connection fee and $4 a minute.
If cell phones are allowed to connect to the towers on the ground, they can't charge you that.
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We all know that this is complete and utter
I think the true "Fatal Flaw" would be when the average user figures out that their machine won't play MP3s, DVDs, connect to their iPod, etc.
I hope Dell and other PC builders would consider ways to bring that sort of licensing to the Linux platform, that you could purchase as an option when buying the PC.
I absolutely resent that statement!
Not EVERY Californian is on drugs or insane! We just keep getting outvoted by those who are.
Nope, this kind of stomping on parody by big business never happens in the US:
http://thelactivist.blogspot.com/2007/02/overzealo us-big-pork-stomps-on.html
I don't know these people, just saw it on a rights blog.
Note that they have still never used the slogan beyond the original 2 T-Shirt sales...
It's not even the same as that, because driving more than 20 MPH lower than the posted speed limit is illegal.
I had a machine that I upgraded piece-by-piece. I changed hard drives, upgraded to gigabit ethernet, put in a faster CPU, changed graphics cards and eventually upgraded the motherboard.
Microsoft India told me that I had "reached the limit" on that license and that they could "no longer issue a code for that Windows XP ID number". I shouted the guy down for 10 minutes (yes, I lost it) and eventually asked him for a supervisor.
I told the supervisor that I was a technical person, changed my hardware often and was sick and tired of being bothered every time I made a legitimate hardware change and could they just remove my number from validation checking altogether?
They told me there was "absolutely no way" they could remove a Windows ID from validation.
That copy of XP has NEVER asked for validation since...no matter what hardware changes I make. :)
Hidden in this is the assumption that the competitors treat their customers better...
It's more like this:
But he knew full well the South would probably leave and it would probably end in war when he made the Emancipation Proclamation.
If I open my Greek New Testament, I see manuscript evidence going back to the 1st Century, you know, the people that walked with Christ. I can trace the versions backward through time and see where each mistake happened, how it was copied to manuscript families after it and figure out why. Mistranslations (such as several places in the King James) ARE obvious, and have been corrected in later translations that went back to earlier manuscripts (NASB, NIV, etc.), with MUCH protest by those that love the King James version. Still, Christianity HAS faced up to its problems and corrected them, despite the criticism!
But, if you think the mistranslations of the Bible are of a nature that causes people to go to war or something, you are deceiving yourself. The mistakes and mistranslations have to do mostly with extra explanatory comments or extra verses in memorized passages such as the Lord's Prayer or the position of women in the church or with the nature of the afterlife for the unsaved (which never includes heaven anyway), mundane things like that.
Similarly for the Old Testament, before finding the Dead Sea Scrolls, the newest version of Isaiah was from 1000 AD. In the Dead Sea Scrolls was a copy from the time of Christ, 1000 years earlier. Scholars waited with baited breath to see what had changed in 1000 years. The differences? Mostly the names of musical instruments, fruit and animals and a couple place names. Again, no changes in fundamental doctrines or belief systems.
Not to attack you personally, because I know that many people believe as you do thanks to the DaVinci Code, but what you are saying as fact came from a FICTIONAL NOVEL, and is by no means even close to accurate, any more than Superman or Star Wars.
And, as you study church history, you will find that the more educated Christians are, the less likely they are to go to war. It is when the educated can manipulate the uneducated that most wars happen. The only times Christians advocate war are in situations like the American Revolution, to gain freedom to worship God free from the influence of the Church of England or the Civil War, because Abraham Lincoln, as a Christian fundamentalist, could not bear to see his fellow man enslaved. It was wrong and needed to be stopped and his Christian convictions gave him the strength to see it through despite opposition and war. And we still celebrated his birthday this week, the only president other than the first to hold such an honor.
Now, mind you, this only holds for Christianity and Judaism, which encourage study of the Bible, including the most accurate original documents we can possibly find. Islam, however, allows no such textual criticism of the Koran.
I thought it used HFS until Enable Disk Use was checked in which case it converts to FAT32 (could be wrong on that).
In any event, I never found it to be particularly slow.
If you write drivers, then you should know how difficult this is for manufacturers since Microsoft changes the driver architecture every single time an OS comes out...
This should be the case in every digital IP field:
music, video games, television, movies, etc., etc., etc.
If it's not worth enough to an organization to continue making an item available for sale, then how can the item have enough value to protect?
And if the item becomes popular again in the future, it is almost always a derivative work anyway.
It may be annoying to you when the Mormons or Jehovah's Witnesses come to your door or when you have to skip that Christian channel on your TV, but it isn't like they are stalking you or giving everyone missile coordinates to your house!
Let's get some things straight:
Think about it. If every movie came with both formats and every player played both formats, would anybody really care anymore? Nobody does with DVD+-R.
http://www.lavistachurchofchrist.org/Pictures/Tr easures%20of%20the%20Bible%20(Divided%20Kingdom)/t arget9.html
Although, that may have something to do with molecular cohesion instead.
Am I missing something here?
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:VnxqXuMZmM0J:h ddvd.highdefdigest.com/feature_ucontrolupclose.htm l+u+control+firmware+hd-dvd&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd =1
We routinely ignore and brush to the side any evidence that does not fit the current Evolution/Big Bang model. That's not to say the Catholic church didn't do the EXACT same thing with the Flat Earth-Centered Universe (often to the point of killing detractors).
But like the Flat-Earth situation, it will take a long time to find the truth if we say things like, "Students are not allowed to even investigate whether it appears man has been designed by a higher intelligence." Why not? What better way to teach kids to examine and weigh evidence. After all, if Intelligent Design truly is hogwash, then what is everyone afraid of? Won't the scientific method disprove it quickly anyway?
But throwing out potential evidence because we don't agree with the lifestyle or religious beliefs of the people it is coming from is NOT using the scientific method at all.
Which takes us back to people doing anything to maintain their kingdoms, even at the expense of knowledge and truth...
Many people choose morality according to the Bible, with the thinking that God knows more than we do....
No joke.
I recently had a problem on my Windows machine where it didn't want to keep my profile when I joined the new domain at work. Since all my user settings were in there, I needed to copy my settings over from my old profile. We're talking, it would take me a couple weeks to get everything set back up and I had a deadline. This used to be easy on 2000 but on XP they have really made it difficult. I spent 6 hours talking to various levels of support in India.
Finally, they agreed to call me back the next morning. When their callback was late, I started looking at the problem a little more intently (based on a single statement made during the 6-hour phone call). I finally fixed the problem in about 10 minutes. When they called, they asked me if I could tell them the solution I used. I jokingly told them that it would cost them $29.95, but I told them anyway. He ended up giving me the free book of my choice from Microsoft Press ($59.95) and not charging me for the phone call because I fixed it myself.
I guess you could call that good support, but I did end up fixing the problem myself. I'm just mad I didn't think of the solution right away and save the 6 hours.
My friend's dad works for Boeing and has spent the better part of a year testing exactly that. That cell phones have an immeasurably small effect on the plane's controls or radios. There simply is zero problem there.
The cell phone companies would have a little more of a problem if they hadn't all solved it already. To my understanding, high-speed switching is no longer a problem on the new networks.
Here, let me sum it up for you.
Yep, that about sums it up.
That depends. Did the strap break and cause the mouse to fly out of your hand?
If so, sue Ninten....err... Logitech.
WarGames was very realistic and based loosely on a real person and a real situation.
The only other somewhat realistic computer movie is Sneakers.
Having worked as the IT person in charge of a University database...
...and that's just off the top of my head.
Decode the bars and you'll find that it's true.
So, if you barcoded my SSN and forced me to wear it on my hand or forehead... Bingo, 2000-year-old prophecy fulfilled!