If you don't have private health insurance, you'll end up with RealSurgeon, that fills you with tracking devices, then starts buffering data endlessly and kills you in the process.
Just what kind of further study to they need to do to figure out the privacy concerns? They know what information is made available, and they know the potential consequences (both positive and negative) of having that information in the public domain. Making a yes or no decision based on that is hardly rocket science.
I had to reactivate my copy of Windows Vista Ultimate after updating an NVIDIA network controller driver via Windows Update. Not a huge pain, but it simply shouldn't happen. Ever.
I guess I can see why they made this a 'stealth' update on Windows XP/Server 2003. I had to perform a fresh install of Windows Vista last week, and the first time I fired up Windows Update, it gave me a prompt which ran something along the lines of:
"Windows Update needs to download an update so that it can update to provide you with updates".
I felt so dizzy trying to comprehend that, I just clicked 'OK'.
Maybe they could make arcade boxes. Street Fighter 14?
That would be no fun, you'd completely paste the other guy, then just as you were about to finish him off, all your health would disappear... YOU LOSE.
Time for major BitTorrent trackers to start moving to Germany I guess - A good excuse not to log IPs and user details is exactly the kind of loophole they've been looking for to keep the RIAA and MPAA at bay.
I'm not sure it's quite a sinister as that - I would imagine that they simply don't want to offer this tool for free to people who haven't already shelled out hundreds of dollars on Microsoft Office already.
Personally, I don't see the RIAA giving up just like that. Thus, perhaps the more worrying question is - What are they going to try next to dissuade the 'pirates'? More MediaDefender-esque practices? Viruses or Malware on P2P networks? Ninja assassins? Either way, I'm sure it won't be pretty. Or do them any good from a PR perspective.
Are we really sure we want to train people to be able to kill a bunch of people, decapitate enemies, stalk people etc. without getting an elevated heart rate? Myabe this would be a great serial killer training device.:D
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If you don't have private health insurance, you'll end up with RealSurgeon, that fills you with tracking devices, then starts buffering data endlessly and kills you in the process.
Just what kind of further study to they need to do to figure out the privacy concerns? They know what information is made available, and they know the potential consequences (both positive and negative) of having that information in the public domain. Making a yes or no decision based on that is hardly rocket science.
Now I can back up the data I couldn't store to space I don't have.
I had to reactivate my copy of Windows Vista Ultimate after updating an NVIDIA network controller driver via Windows Update. Not a huge pain, but it simply shouldn't happen. Ever.
Heh, I was about to ask whether they had to use the whole of Japan's electricity supply to fire it.
I misread the word 'Sputnik' and sat here thinking "But I already do that every night"...
"Waiter, there's a chair in my soup..."
You're right, there's no way an MPAA lawyer would say that - It's bound to constitute copyright infringement from some cheesy movie or other.
I guess I can see why they made this a 'stealth' update on Windows XP/Server 2003. I had to perform a fresh install of Windows Vista last week, and the first time I fired up Windows Update, it gave me a prompt which ran something along the lines of:
"Windows Update needs to download an update so that it can update to provide you with updates".
I felt so dizzy trying to comprehend that, I just clicked 'OK'.
...all anti-spam software is reading your mail. Yes, even Microsoft's.
Maybe they could make arcade boxes. Street Fighter 14?
That would be no fun, you'd completely paste the other guy, then just as you were about to finish him off, all your health would disappear... YOU LOSE.
Time for major BitTorrent trackers to start moving to Germany I guess - A good excuse not to log IPs and user details is exactly the kind of loophole they've been looking for to keep the RIAA and MPAA at bay.
They have to allow for the probable boot time of the successor to Windows Vista.
Favourably comparing Microsoft to Apple? With Vista as an example no less? You must be new here. ;)
I'm not sure it's quite a sinister as that - I would imagine that they simply don't want to offer this tool for free to people who haven't already shelled out hundreds of dollars on Microsoft Office already.
Personally, I don't see the RIAA giving up just like that. Thus, perhaps the more worrying question is - What are they going to try next to dissuade the 'pirates'? More MediaDefender-esque practices? Viruses or Malware on P2P networks? Ninja assassins? Either way, I'm sure it won't be pretty. Or do them any good from a PR perspective.
You're not taking into account the rejection of the rejected rejection.
I've been told it's a little more complicated than just doing that.
Time to become a transsexual.
Microsoft calculated the cost per user of these shares in Excel 2007, and found that every user of Facebook would pay them several thousand dollars.
Are we really sure we want to train people to be able to kill a bunch of people, decapitate enemies, stalk people etc. without getting an elevated heart rate? Myabe this would be a great serial killer training device. :D
Jack Thompson, is that you?!
Does this mean we can expect to see Fatal1ty branded anti-perspirant on the market soon?
Considering the probable male to female ratio of said parties, I think I'll pass on that one...
They'd still need to write a DirectX-based renderer for the Xbox 360...
Anyways, it would be nice if NASA allowed Color Blind people to also fly and become astronauts.
;)
It would be nice until they ask you to press the green 'launch' button, and you press the red 'self-destruct' button instead.
(P.S. I'm colour-blind myself, so I figure I'm allowed to make bad jokes like that)