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Phobeste posted:one fewer bit, much leaner i'm working with a client who needs data sent to them in a .csv file with: 1. fixed length fields 2. decimals stripped out 3. all numbers left padded to X length with zeros 4. if the number is positive, the last number (hundredths position), it's one of nine ascii characters to represent that number and denote a positive number (ex. }), if the number is negative, it's a different set of ascii characters legacy systems suck loving dick
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quote:California man Eric Lundgren, an electronic waste entrepreneur who produced tens of thousands of Windows restore disks intended to extend the lifespan of aging computers, lost a federal appeals court case in Miami after it ruled "he had infringed Microsoft's products to the tune of $700,000," the Washington Post reported on Tuesday. Per the Post, the appeals court ruled Lundgren's original sentence of 15 months in prison and a $50,000 fine would stay, despite the software being freely available online and only compatible with valid Windows licenses: "The appeals court upheld a federal district judge's ruling that the disks made by Eric Lundgren to restore Microsoft operating systems had a value of $25 apiece, even though they could be downloaded free and could be used only on computers with a valid Microsoft license. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit initially granted Lundgren an emergency stay of his prison sentence, shortly before he was to surrender, but then affirmed his original 15-month sentence and $50,000 fine without hearing oral argument in a ruling issued April 11." All told, the court valued 28,000 restore disks he produced at $700,000, despite testimony from software expert Glenn Weadock that they were worth essentially zero.
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Apr 25, 2018 15:07
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lol jesus
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Apr 25, 2018 15:12
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msoft looking out for their oems 
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Apr 25, 2018 16:24
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dont copy that floppy
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Apr 25, 2018 16:31
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15 months in prison for that seems ridiculously punitive.
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Apr 25, 2018 16:50
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remember when the riaa claimed damages against someone that amounted to more than the accumulated capital in the entire world?
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Fame Douglas posted:15 months in prison for that seems ridiculously punitive. yeah, seems like they're just going out of their way to reprimand someone for interfering in matters where people might have otherwise bought a new pc and gotten microsoft more money apparently the main issue was that his restore discs looked too authentic and professional, and used copyrighted logos like for windows. apparently he'd have been fine with dvd-r's written on in sharpie univbee fucked around with this message at 17:58 on Apr 25, 2018 |
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Apr 25, 2018 17:00
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Microsoft is cool again
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Apr 25, 2018 17:53
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Ahh, the return of the turn of the millennium evil mikkkro$oft
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Microsoft azure fun and games: if you don’t have access rights to create vms or compute instances but do have access to azure data bricks it will do fun stuff like create a resource group for you (even though you can’t create resource groups normally). you also can’t view this new resource group since you don’t have the necessary permissions  populate said group with vms also even you normally can’t create them in the data brick parent resource group all to the low low tune of $1.5 (per minute if not in use)
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Boiled Water posted:Microsoft azure fun and games: if you don’t have access rights to create vms or compute instances but do have access to azure data bricks it will do fun stuff like i recently found out much to my confusion that IAM roles which delegate contributor for specific components (e.g. Data Factory) do not delegate permissions to register the required resource provider. so if you delegate these kinda perms someone with the subscription-level Contributor role needs to register the providers first otherwise your users cant do poo poo. kinda obtuse imo
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Apr 26, 2018 16:58
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3 days in I stopped postponing my required reboot, and jesus wept
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the spring creators update is now the April 2018 Update and should get pushed out on monday https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/04/27/make-the-most-of-your-time-with-the-new-windows-10-update/ they would've rolled it out on patch tuesday but there were problems with it so lol if you install it right away on monday
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cool timing michaelsoft
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Apr 27, 2018 23:55
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lol @ beta testing for MS. wait that storm out i say
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Last Chance posted:lol @ beta testing for MS. wait that storm out i say pro tip: avoid the storm completely by using a unix on the desktop instead
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Krankenstyle posted:pro tip: avoid the storm completely by using a unix on the desktop instead but video games
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Dongslayer. posted:but video games you have friends and/or its not that important
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People should only invite others to theire houses for important and serious matters and not for satanic video games or entertainment. but should your friend be so far from the light, you should be ok with playing tux racer with them, and just tux racer May god bless the GNU/HURD/LINUX gods and the prophet richard stallman and forgive those who sin
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Apr 28, 2018 02:36
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i play dice with my friends, boardgames with my family, and computer games with myself. whoa i didnt realize it but that is true
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Apr 28, 2018 03:17
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the only game I play with myself requires a joystick luckily it came bundled
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Apr 28, 2018 03:20
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Dongslayer. posted:but video games https://store.steampowered.com/search/?category1=998%2C996&os=mac%2Clinux&filter=topsellers
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FrozenVent posted:the only game I play with myself requires a joystick lol if you didnt splash for the cobra
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Apr 28, 2018 03:55
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love all these added pointless loving features in these gigantic os updates that they think people want 4 times a year
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Apr 28, 2018 04:24
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nb: eric lundgren is a bullshitter
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Apr 28, 2018 07:36
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Gazpacho posted:nb: eric lundgren is a bullshitter
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Apr 28, 2018 07:48
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Krankenstyle posted:i play dice with my friends, boardgames with my family, and computer games with myself. more like bored games
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Gazpacho posted:nb: eric lundgren is a bullshitter that is the swedishest name in history Wheany posted:more like bored games no u
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Apr 28, 2018 08:27
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macos is unix and has plenty of great games like Fortnite
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pram posted:macos is unix and has plenty of great games like Fortnite Unix for amateurs, maybe. Certainly not a good operating system.
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Apr 28, 2018 10:47
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computers arent for gaming except maybe emulators or a single player campaign once in a while
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Gazpacho posted:nb: eric lundgren is a bullshitter from the verge interview quote:My other companies are suffering. I’m in the process of building the world’s longest-range electric semi that I want to drive from the West Coast to the East Coast on a single charge, and I’m actually building that. 
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Apr 28, 2018 14:42
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Ah yes the electric semi to transport his counterfeit discs
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his one mistake was his cackling email where he repeatedly describes his actions as a crime and complains that his isn't making enough criminal dollars out of the crime he is currently doing
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microsoft is innovating bold new metrics in their neverending quest to avoid telling their investors exactly how bad the xbox program is financiallyquote:According to Nadella, the Xbox One is the “highest-engagement console in the marketplace.” Any time a new game releases, whether it’s first or third-party, “the fact that Xbox is where the best engagement is driven benefits” Microsoft. As a platform owner, that’s a “great growth area” for the company.
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Apr 28, 2018 15:40
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please nadella, dont innovate'm
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Gazpacho posted:nb: eric lundgren is a bullshitter this is incredible but i wonder how lundgren pulled that sweet PR campaign that got him looking as the poor underdog victim? it can't have been his own doing because based on those e-mails he sounds like an actual idiot. maybe the media just leaned in on it way too hard?
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the best part is that microsoft informed the court of a lower value for his knock-offs ($ ,000) than what the court eventually held, and way less than what the government claimed in charging him. No thanks for small favors I guess.
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