"or who may have knowledge of the distribution or sale of this software."
So like everyone in the entire fucking world, then? Good job, Sony. I don't have a PS3 and I don't ever plan to have a PS3, but you've just ensured that I'll find this software and keep it handy, just because you don't like it enough to sue some John Does over it.
"MIT's technology blog argues that ebook sales represent 'only six pecent of the total market for new books.'"
When people have the option of paying $x for a physical object or (0.9)x for some electrons that represent the physical object, they're probably going to pick the physical object.
When the price of ebooks reflects the cost of manufacturing and publishing them, they'll sell better.
Security through obscurity is worthless. I think what you mean is "security WITH obscurity," which is one of the levels of layered security everyone should use.
It's been my experience that Flash is "shockingly bad" on any platform, but that doesn't mean Jobs was right. If users want a bad web experience, who is he to tell them they can't do it?
"They resign due to "personal reasons" or because "they thought that it would be best for the company", etc. And they're paid millions of dollars for it. That way they can get another job being the CEO of another company and the process repeats every few months."
After I was laid off from $VLTCWWN (very large American telecom company which wasn't Nortel), I enjoyed reading the various internal emails which were still hitting my.forward file there and redirecting to my personal account for another year. These emails frequently contained passwords for sensitive systems, like switch software repositories. And switches. Of course I wasn't surprised at the lack of an email password policy or account cleanup for departed employees, given the stupidity of the unix admin in the department that worked out of the same cube farm we did. He didn't know how to add user accounts in Solaris, so he gave the root password to everyone else in his department.
I knew this because one of my ex-coworkers moonlighted with this other department for extra overtime pay. And when someone fat-fingered something and locked the root account out, he called me asking how they could fix it. This was after I'd been laid off. This was some time ago, but to the best of my recollection my response was something like this: "BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA (*snort*) AAAAAAAAHHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
EA is really good at sucking, and not just on PC. I downloaded the X360 demo of Madden 2011 to see if it was as good as it was 15 years ago on the Genesis (Madden 94/95?), and EA wanted me to create an account on their server just to find out whether I liked the demo enough to give them money for the full game. End result is no EA account and 2GB more free space on my drive.
"Shoulda looked at the reviews [google.com] first I guess."
GTA4 appears to be the highest rated game of all time across all platforms. Not sure looking at reviews would have helped you avoid it, unless you enjoy F-rated games. I don't personally get the high ratings it enjoys, but facts are facts.
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No one ever seems to check references these days, do they? On the next iteration of my resume I'm listing the Pope and the Queen of Denmark.
"You didn't really think that Skapare was my real name and 16644 was my real number, did you?"
I did not, Phil.
"or who may have knowledge of the distribution or sale of this software."
So like everyone in the entire fucking world, then? Good job, Sony. I don't have a PS3 and I don't ever plan to have a PS3, but you've just ensured that I'll find this software and keep it handy, just because you don't like it enough to sue some John Does over it.
"MIT's technology blog argues that ebook sales represent 'only six pecent of the total market for new books.'"
When people have the option of paying $x for a physical object or (0.9)x for some electrons that represent the physical object, they're probably going to pick the physical object.
When the price of ebooks reflects the cost of manufacturing and publishing them, they'll sell better.
"'The good news is that if you have EMET enabled ... it blocks this exploit,'"
You know what else blocks this exploit? Not using Acrobat Reader.
Better yet, run AirPwn to push lemonparty and catch the cheaters based on who gasps and/or giggles.
"While that might sound a bit been there, done that, the Inspiron Duo can be used as a tablet or opened up to offer a keyboard."
So...like multiple other tablet/laptops already on the market. Thanks for the Dell commercial.
"Funny how the cops never seem to think of going to the local magnetic-decals-of-cable-companies shop and asking questions, isn't it?"
It's a conspiracy.
Security through obscurity is worthless. I think what you mean is "security WITH obscurity," which is one of the levels of layered security everyone should use.
"Because Turing-machines can't produce art."
I would argue that by definition, they can.
"Thank you for giving us a green light to print money, Pentagon." --The Publishers
"content is what's driving this. THAT fails more often than not."
I don't care what you say, I bet Piranha3D is going to be an insightful and thought-provoking instant classic.
"The rest of us emerged from the theater groggy."
Not all of us. Some of us stopped watching because it was a godawful trainwreck of an utterly shitty movie.
Ebaumsworld did real good.
It was a joke, but I imagine it was hard for you to tell with Mr. Jobs' balls in your mouth.
It's been my experience that Flash is "shockingly bad" on any platform, but that doesn't mean Jobs was right. If users want a bad web experience, who is he to tell them they can't do it?
Know how I knew he was a Democrat? Because they let companies write large parts of the health care bill too.
The only thing worse than the dems are the Republicans. Fire the whole fucking lot.
"[...] fly like an aircraft to avoid roadside bombs."
Because most roadside bombs are clearly labeled.
Nice work, Pentagon.
"They resign due to "personal reasons" or because "they thought that it would be best for the company", etc. And they're paid millions of dollars for it. That way they can get another job being the CEO of another company and the process repeats every few months."
See also: Carly Fiorina.
That sounds suspiciously like the plot to Superman 3, where Richard Pryor steals a red stapler.
After I was laid off from $VLTCWWN (very large American telecom company which wasn't Nortel), I enjoyed reading the various internal emails which were still hitting my .forward file there and redirecting to my personal account for another year. These emails frequently contained passwords for sensitive systems, like switch software repositories. And switches. Of course I wasn't surprised at the lack of an email password policy or account cleanup for departed employees, given the stupidity of the unix admin in the department that worked out of the same cube farm we did. He didn't know how to add user accounts in Solaris, so he gave the root password to everyone else in his department.
I knew this because one of my ex-coworkers moonlighted with this other department for extra overtime pay. And when someone fat-fingered something and locked the root account out, he called me asking how they could fix it. This was after I'd been laid off. This was some time ago, but to the best of my recollection my response was something like this: "BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA (*snort*) AAAAAAAAHHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
OK. Now ask yourself this question: what does any of that have to do with a Finnish company selling wiretap-capable equipment to Iran?
Yes. They'll learn to blame poor sales on piracy and use that to justify more DRM, copyright lobbyists, etc. etc.
EA is really good at sucking, and not just on PC. I downloaded the X360 demo of Madden 2011 to see if it was as good as it was 15 years ago on the Genesis (Madden 94/95?), and EA wanted me to create an account on their server just to find out whether I liked the demo enough to give them money for the full game. End result is no EA account and 2GB more free space on my drive.
"Shoulda looked at the reviews [google.com] first I guess."
GTA4 appears to be the highest rated game of all time across all platforms. Not sure looking at reviews would have helped you avoid it, unless you enjoy F-rated games. I don't personally get the high ratings it enjoys, but facts are facts.