The only reason I run Windows at home at all for is gaming, Stevesie is clearly trippin'
Maybe they should take him to that "farm" out in the country where he can "roam free" with other useless CEOs a little sooner?
That wasn't a quote from Steve Balmer it was from Ben Kuchera...
Ben Kuchera at the Penny Arcade Report points out that this could mean Microsoft will try to re-enter markets it has abandoned. He asks the company to "stay the hell away from PC gaming."
Actually, all hyperbole aside, my thoughts were "why are they stopping this and why aren't WE in the US doing this?"
It sounds like a great idea. If someone is going to die anyway, after exhausting the judicial system (again speaking for the US), why waste these organs that could go to help the many people on the waiting lists?
This is a terrible idea. Some serial killer prisoner has his/her organs harvested and given to an unsuspecting person in need of a new organ. That unsuspecting person then starts acting strangely and before you know it they're a serial killer too. Now, consider how many people made use of the prisoner's organs!! Oh my god.
Source: B movies.
Years and years ago when they were relevant. I think the most expensive item I bought was a refurbished digital camera that didn't work - they did take it back though and issue credit which I used for a different one that did work - bit of a long process though which didn't give me much faith in their stock. I probably bought some crappy keyboards too. They've had a couple sales over the years where the deals were lukewarm enough that I considered purchasing but by and large what they offered was a "decent discount". That about sums it up. Unfortunately for them I could get decent discounts from anybody and awesome discounts from a few other online retailers. There was also some issue a while back where they were hacked and I think some credit cards may have been compromised.
What they should have done was leverage their inventory using other online retailer's tools. Tigerdirect, Best Buy and other retailers have a presence on Amazon, Buy.com/Rakuten, Ebay etc.. the more exposure you have the more you can sell.
What's next, ovens that are just as hot on the outside as they are on the inside?
We already have that, it's called Arizona.
Source: Just moved here
That's how my wife had to do it. This was for a radiological technologist degree (x-ray). Had to pay for the program / units / books and work a 40 hour internship for a year unpaid. Luckily for us they just stopped paying students a stipend so completely unpaid yay! This was after an unpaid externship which was about 6 months (2 or 3 days a week full shifts). Total program length was about 2 years where her ability to make an income was close to impossible.
The shitty part was - at the hospital she worked at the volunteers which came in once in awhile were given free lunches and other benefits whereas she worked 40 hours a week and didn't get jack - wait I take that back. I think she got 10 - 20% off in the cafeteria. Yes, she was learning valuable skills and getting signed off on requirements for her certification but still - she did the work of any paid employee making high 20's / low 30's per hour. What's a couple bucks for gas money for that kind of value?
So they had it set to a high level of encryption like maybe 256.
There is so much wrong with that statement I dont even know where to begin.
"Encryption" isnt the word you want for this, since sending a static, encrypted message would be highly vulnerable to a replay attack. You want "authentication", which if its using a rolling code can be highly secure. But assuming youre talking about a 256-bit key, thats still not something you can just throw out as a "we can crack this". How fast you can brute-force it depends on how long it takes to attempt one key; any sane system would limit it to 1 attempt per 0.5 seconds or something, which would make it utterly infeasible to brute-force.
I know exactly where to begin: Wrong, parent was correct except I think it was higher encryptions like 512.
It was never hard to break in for someone skilled. It was time consuming.
Technically all computer security is "easy" if you have an infinite length of time to work with, but we're talking about time scales in the billions of years with a lot of modern computer security. We have the ability to have perfectly secure systems, the flaws are often in the implementation. With simple systems (ie, only access through an RF signal), your chances of getting security right are a lot higher.
Most of the things you listed are irrelevant. You are the owner of the device in all of those examples, so you must necessarily have all of the keys to access the content in question. Accessing a car is different; you need more than access to "the car" to break in unless you feel like disassembling the car, disassembling the internal computer, and reverse engineering the ROM chip inside.
Wrong again, take for instance a dog. 7 dog years = 1 human year. How many years would it be for a digital dog @ 4.4GHZ? Exactly. Your billions of years suddenly turned into seconds with digital dog decryptographic technique. Don't even get me started on applying quantumn mechanics to this because it would blow your mind. Is there a car, is there a key? Is it locked or unlocked?!
That's too big to be.. no wait that's actually a good size.
Yes, the start menu looks different but it still works the same way and based on stats, many people rarely used it anyway.
Which stats were those again? Did they poll everybody's Grandma? I'm not even sure my Grandma knows how to turn her computer on.
As a consumer I expect to pay less for digital media as opposed to physical media. I understand the cost of distributing physical media is much higher and involves several more processes in that distribution chain. Pricing should reflect that.
I see pricing digital and physical media close together as an artificial construct put in place to take advantage of new processes that reduce overhead. If you made X% on the physical book previously then yes you should make a similar percentage on the digital book.
I remember when I used to buy books in a store and they weren't $9 - $10 for a paperback. They were maybe $4-$5. I understand that costs have gone up since I was a teenager but a gallon of water doesn't cost $2. It's gone up maybe 15 - 20 cents. A bean burrito costs maybe 20 cents more. If consumed goods have gone up 20% then why has media gone up 200% when it costs even less to distribute them digitally? Bring the cost down and sales will increase.
When allofmp3.com was around I spent quite a bit there as I thought I was getting my money's worth. I refused to pay a couple bucks for one song that I only listen to a couple times. I've since bought some music after that disappeared but surely not as much as I did previously in the same span of time. I don't go out and buy movies on dvd but I will pay for Netflix and have been paying for it for years as I feel it's good price for consuming media. They're making money and the people that made the movie are making money - so why can't the same work for books?
I might not be the norm when it comes to consumers and what they're willing to pay but I assure you there are others like me (cheap bastards). Look at humble bundle and the like where the minimum is $1 but there are plenty who paid more and they sold thousands and thousands of bundles with games you'll probably never play but it was so cheap people ehhh why not it's only a dollar. I think $4- $5 is a good price point for a book and that's what I'm willing to pay. Can we cut out the publisher though? Hard to say - some books wouldn't be as popular as they are now without somebody pushing them in your face and most authors can't do that without a publisher.
Steam and Netflix need to have a baby and it needs to sell books.
Wrong, they're called anchor stores because they are shaped like anchors.
Sounds good to me. And make sure they wear bright red uniforms so their easy to spot. *ducks
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