To keep margins high and the revenue stream flowing, publishers screw with pagination in order to create "new" editions every year, turning textbooks into useless piles of paper the moment they're purchased. This is why the tutors at my college tell us to look up the relevant section in the index. That way, it doesn't matter what edition of the textbook you're using, you'll still have access to the same information as everyone else in the class. I guess indices are the next thing that textbook publishers will get rid of.
In order to be compiant with the Russian Internet Bloggers Law the following changes will be implemented to Russian Intel® Developer Zone community as of January 1st 2015: Blog post contributions will be disabled Forum contributions will be disabled All commenting will be turned off for Russian content The new law relates to visitors, not contributors. In order to not register their name and still be compliant with the law, Intel needs to shut down its Russian blogs and forums altogether.
They've also unilaterally changed my TOS to give then the right to involuntarily "upgrade" me at no cost with 30 days notice. What I would do in this scenario is get on the phone and tell them to remove that provision or you'll leave for Google Fiber. If they say the provision is in the contract by virtue of being in the ToS, point out that it's one-sided, doesn't have your agreement, and no consideration has been offered by them in light of the fact that they can arbitrarily switch you over to a more expensive 'service'. Then when Google Fiber finally rolls out to your side of town, you move anyway on the basis that AT&T has proven how little it cares about its customers during its attempts to retain them. Simples!
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To put that question in another way: If a Panavia Tornado creates a sonic boom while flying over Antarctica and no research scientists are around to hear it, does it break the sound barrier?
"My television is misbehaving. It spontaneously jitters, mutes, and freeze-frames." My TV's doing that right now. Have I been hacked, or is it simply the case that digital signals just don't travel through high winds as good as analogue signals used to?
Not a problem. If they say "This call may be recorded for monitoring purposes" as they often do, that is a clear implication that you may record the call to monitor the quality of their service. Simples!
The Son¥ hack was very likely to have been committed by a disgruntled former employee. After all, who is more likely to have known of their continuing shoddy 'security' practices?
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Well, with the version of 'supply and demand' you seem to admire, Thomas Cook et al. are soon going to price themselves out of the market given that in this age of artificial austerity (thank you, ConDems), family holidays abroad are already unaffordable for most people.
Personally, I want to see the prices of package holidays stay the same mid-range price all year round rather than being low much of the time, then shooting up just in time for the only periods when it's legal for children to be out of school. I don't even have kids, but I can understand why more and more of them are being home educated...
A big 'well done' to EA SimCity BuildIt is a ^fantastic^ demonstration of why people should stay away from games with in-app purchases. You want to know the worst thing? I never even had to download the game to leave the above review, I simply had to start then halt the download process for the option to come up. Simples!
I really, really hope that Uber's application makes it, then they can use their patent to keep prices of all types of products and services stable. People in the US would use Lyft, and I'll keep using buses (free) and local taxis (no more than £5.00) to get around.
"And as some have already warned, Title II is going to lead to a slowdown, if not a hold, in broadband build out, because if you don’t know that you can recover on your investment, you won’t make it." Indeed. That's why, because of the lack of investment and build out under Title II regulations, phone services are landline only, and they're priced so highly that only rich people can afford them. Amirite?
I actually followed the link to the article about the game so I could find out what it's called and search Google Play for it, then saw that it wants phone ID permission. Nice hypocrisy of the makers to want the freedom to satirise a political figure yet they refuse the rest of us basic privacy. Ukik deserves to get pulled for that alone!
I admit to having no idea whom 'Big Broadband's Hail Mary' is, but here goes: Hail Mary, bereft of Grace, the FCC is no longer(?) with thee. Censured art thou among service non-providers, and hated is the fruit of thy lobbying, 'information services'. Stupid Mary, for the love of God, allow us to have net neutrality now and at the hour of our browsing. Amen.
So why not go to court and get a subpoena to either get the defamatory material directly deleted and/or the posters' IP addresses handed over rather than demand that a single search engine delete links to the posts you find problematic? Simples!
Still, is it any surprise that the industry famous both for its fictional "Hollywood Endings" and "Hollywood Accounting" where a hit movie like one of the Harry Potter films can bring in nearly a billion dollars, but still have a "loss" for accounting purposes, would create a made-up scenario in which everyone pretends many tens of millions of dollars are paid due to "infringement"? That's the real reason Son¥ kicked up such a stink about the hack, isn't it? Because people are now able to find out what Son¥-produced music and films really made as opposed to what the company claims they grossed.
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This is why the tutors at my college tell us to look up the relevant section in the index. That way, it doesn't matter what edition of the textbook you're using, you'll still have access to the same information as everyone else in the class. I guess indices are the next thing that textbook publishers will get rid of.
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Not doing enough
Blog post contributions will be disabled
Forum contributions will be disabled
All commenting will be turned off for Russian content
The new law relates to visitors, not contributors. In order to not register their name and still be compliant with the law, Intel needs to shut down its Russian blogs and forums altogether.
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What I would do in this scenario is get on the phone and tell them to remove that provision or you'll leave for Google Fiber. If they say the provision is in the contract by virtue of being in the ToS, point out that it's one-sided, doesn't have your agreement, and no consideration has been offered by them in light of the fact that they can arbitrarily switch you over to a more expensive 'service'. Then when Google Fiber finally rolls out to your side of town, you move anyway on the basis that AT&T has proven how little it cares about its customers during its attempts to retain them. Simples!
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My TV's doing that right now. Have I been hacked, or is it simply the case that digital signals just don't travel through high winds as good as analogue signals used to?
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Good evidence here
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On the post: In The Spirit Of The Holidays: It's Not Too Late For Uber To Avoid Stupid Patent Of The Month
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My review on Google Play
SimCity BuildIt is a ^fantastic^ demonstration of why people should stay away from games with in-app purchases.
You want to know the worst thing? I never even had to download the game to leave the above review, I simply had to start then halt the download process for the option to come up. Simples!
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Mathew Ingram
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Think of the possibilities...
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Indeed. That's why, because of the lack of investment and build out under Title II regulations, phone services are landline only, and they're priced so highly that only rich people can afford them. Amirite?
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Hail Mary,
bereft of Grace,
the FCC is no longer(?) with thee.
Censured art thou among service non-providers,
and hated is the fruit of thy lobbying, 'information services'.
Stupid Mary,
for the love of God,
allow us to have net neutrality now
and at the hour of our browsing.
Amen.
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On the post: Sony Hack Reveals That MPAA's Big '$80 Million' Settlement With Hotfile Was A Lie
The real problem
That's the real reason Son¥ kicked up such a stink about the hack, isn't it? Because people are now able to find out what Son¥-produced music and films really made as opposed to what the company claims they grossed.
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