It pisses me off to see government and/or private organizations saying that we can do this in 40 years. What a fucking cop out, its like saying, "Our children will fix this as soon as we pass control on to them and then we can live out our remaining years with the benifits." I for one think that no government office should be allowed to project more than 10 years, if it can't be done in ten years then you can't brag about it.
I guess I should have mentioned that I have been a devote PlayStation, PS2 and PSP owner as well as various other Sony products. I'm just not an early adopter, and now I have kids so gaming is less of a priority, thus a longer justified wait for the PS3.
So, I am a customer; a customer that Sony worked hard to get through years of fantastic innovation and marketing, and in my eyes they have let a law firm throw all that away.
For years I have been planning to get a PS3, but I'll be damned if I'm gonna give a penny to a company that is going to use the money to sue me and my peers... Guess I'll just have to buy used.
The site linked to in this story doesn't appear to support OS's other than windows and mac for streaming video. Maybe (hopefully) I'm not looking hard enough but at first glance their is no linux support. Good thing I have a telescope.
I find it a little bit offensive that this article refers to the patrons as cheaters rather than referring to the organization that implemented this technology as short-sighted. If I have a fever, I take a fever reducer to, well, REDUCE my fever. It's not cheating, its common sense.
I am in a constant battle with both newsrooms about content. To me, quantity is most important because more stories means more clicks means more ad views and so on. To the newsrooms it is all about quality and because of this we often fill out our websites with AP content.
As far as being critical and everything, I think we are. We are a capitol city newspaper company and are expected to be very critical.
I work for a newspaper company and we are going through this exact thing right now. The newspaper industry has gotten used to seemingly endless financing and now sites like Craigslist and Google are doing a better job at what makes newspapers money.
There is no money in journalism. The money comes from classifieds and sponsorship. Now that people can easily get their news from just about anywhere companies are not as willing to shell out major payments for newspaper ads.
Don't get me wrong, a paywall is a TERRIBLE idea but the news industry isn't cheap and people take it for granted. What other ideas are out there to keep news journalism profitable?
This move my M$ is intended to remove creative solutions from the table. Granted, many creative solutions are used to undermined widely used software security, but this isn't the right solution. Unfortunately, I don't have any better ideas.
Whatever route you choose, keep in mind that hard drives as a whole have terribly high failure rate (about 1 in 8 fail in my experience). Also, regardless of your chosen media, be sure to research the lifespan of your storage. If you are looking for long term (more than a couple years) and dependability you are going to be spending more than you would on a cheap raid box.
As much as I HATE to say it, magnetic tape is the ONLY storage media that has not failed me yet.
My company has had the same issue. We just wrote out a single item feed that explained that the feed had been discontinued and provided a link to the homepage. We wrote this feed over all the feeds to be taken down.
Interestingly, in the weeks following this action, our homepage views spiked followed shortly after by increased hits on more active feeds.
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the only time i use 8 and 4 is when im driving with my knees
I live in West Virginia.
Wow, I got married the same day Ubuntu was born. Awesome.
It pisses me off to see government and/or private organizations saying that we can do this in 40 years. What a fucking cop out, its like saying, "Our children will fix this as soon as we pass control on to them and then we can live out our remaining years with the benifits." I for one think that no government office should be allowed to project more than 10 years, if it can't be done in ten years then you can't brag about it.
I guess I should have mentioned that I have been a devote PlayStation, PS2 and PSP owner as well as various other Sony products. I'm just not an early adopter, and now I have kids so gaming is less of a priority, thus a longer justified wait for the PS3. So, I am a customer; a customer that Sony worked hard to get through years of fantastic innovation and marketing, and in my eyes they have let a law firm throw all that away.
Buying used still increases the scarcity of PS3's, allowing Sony to keep the price of a new unit high.
Agreed, and realistically I would have no reason to buy one now that the Other OS option is not supported.
Not that individuals acting alone have any impact anyway...
Also agreed, however I feel rather confident that I'm not the customer Sony has lost over this.
SSSHHHHH!!
For years I have been planning to get a PS3, but I'll be damned if I'm gonna give a penny to a company that is going to use the money to sue me and my peers... Guess I'll just have to buy used.
Farmville has nothing in Harvest Moon (SNES).
This easily the best application that Facebook has ever been used for.
If you have cable the NASA channel will also have a live feed.
cable? thats still a thing? ;)
Hurray for the NASA channel.
The site linked to in this story doesn't appear to support OS's other than windows and mac for streaming video.
Maybe (hopefully) I'm not looking hard enough but at first glance their is no linux support.
Good thing I have a telescope.
http://www.lgshort.com/asciiportal-1.0-win32.zip http://www.lgshort.com/asciiportal-1.0-osx-univ.zip http://www.lgshort.com/asciiportal-linux32.tar.gz http://www.lgshort.com/asciiportal-1.0-linux-x64.tar.gz
To think that a digital user of any product will retain the same or more privacy than the analog equivalent is simply ridiculous.
I find it a little bit offensive that this article refers to the patrons as cheaters rather than referring to the organization that implemented this technology as short-sighted. If I have a fever, I take a fever reducer to, well, REDUCE my fever. It's not cheating, its common sense.
I'm going to show your post to my boss... I might be a viable idea.
I should first clarify, I work for a newspaper company as a web developer, not as a journalist.
I would suggest that you take a look for yourself.
The Charleston Gazette
The Charleston Daily Mail
I am in a constant battle with both newsrooms about content. To me, quantity is most important because more stories means more clicks means more ad views and so on. To the newsrooms it is all about quality and because of this we often fill out our websites with AP content.
As far as being critical and everything, I think we are. We are a capitol city newspaper company and are expected to be very critical.
I work for a newspaper company and we are going through this exact thing right now. The newspaper industry has gotten used to seemingly endless financing and now sites like Craigslist and Google are doing a better job at what makes newspapers money.
There is no money in journalism. The money comes from classifieds and sponsorship. Now that people can easily get their news from just about anywhere companies are not as willing to shell out major payments for newspaper ads.
Don't get me wrong, a paywall is a TERRIBLE idea but the news industry isn't cheap and people take it for granted. What other ideas are out there to keep news journalism profitable?
This move my M$ is intended to remove creative solutions from the table. Granted, many creative solutions are used to undermined widely used software security, but this isn't the right solution. Unfortunately, I don't have any better ideas.
We by hard about 30 hard drives a week, and the failure stats on the drives purchased reflects roughly a 12% failure rate within four weeks.
I guess I should clarify a couple things...
In my experience, 1/8 of hard drives fail within a month
RAID is not a valid backup method.
I am speaking on the behalf of long-term, zero maintenance storage
Whatever route you choose, keep in mind that hard drives as a whole have terribly high failure rate (about 1 in 8 fail in my experience). Also, regardless of your chosen media, be sure to research the lifespan of your storage. If you are looking for long term (more than a couple years) and dependability you are going to be spending more than you would on a cheap raid box.
As much as I HATE to say it, magnetic tape is the ONLY storage media that has not failed me yet.
Despite the undeniable fact that there are in fact devices that use or are capable of using UWB, it is no more alive than dial-up.
My company has had the same issue. We just wrote out a single item feed that explained that the feed had been discontinued and provided a link to the homepage. We wrote this feed over all the feeds to be taken down.
Interestingly, in the weeks following this action, our homepage views spiked followed shortly after by increased hits on more active feeds.
I work for the Charleston Newspaper Company and our server cluster is named after the characters in Ocean's Eleven. I am posting the from Reuben.