As much as I don't like EA in general and battlefield in particular, people whine A LOT when patches are released too late because of q&a. Now they whine because they are released too early and didnt get through the whole q&a process, which would have meant that people would have played with the shitty ingame browser for another 2 months until the patch goes out to whine because the patch is late and they now want -insert gameplay/bugfix/feature-. And to think that people drop some cash in order to go into that hell just to play another lame game!
In many european countries the labels dont own the copyrights as there arent any copyrights. There are other completly different systems. In many countries, the labels just get the distribution rights.
Can you understand that many people who are not tech savy are using the CD that they bought and that this CD is not SP2 enabled? Those persons don't download the SP2 either, since there is windows update to do that, they probably don't know they can and if they have to reinstall their OS, it means it is already compromised. I didnt believe such declarations either, until i did the test in january this year:
blank vanilla XP -> dsl -> 4 mns -> ads popups -> AV check -> rootkit detected. Come on! What can a beginner do?
But a patched Windows XP SP2 machine behind a personal firewall/router with current anti-virus/anti-malware protection can be a secure system. This sentence is self-defeating. Translated it says: when you have put into the OS all the security that should be already there, then it's perfectly safe until the next time.
I know that you had no negative intent, and I agree with all that you said, mostly, I just pointed out myself that, in my opinion, it is not the same wave and going the majors way first is not a prerequisite to what he did.
Having worked for a big major in a small country (cbs records the year it was bought by sony and the year after), my knowledge of the problem is that you also forget one part of the equation: they don't promote... creative works. No, they dont. What they do is that they find creative artists and turn them into uncreative products that they market accordingly. Only the top of the iceberg of such artists will be treated and respected as doing creative work and only as long as they stay on top of charts because they are the creative alibi of such companies. I was there and I saw them, and yes, they are that cynical. Even worse. At the time I worked there, in one year it meant that only a few artists were treated as such, aka the 2 or 3 local top sellers and Michael Jackson. The rest were obeying the marketing plans or be gone.
So maybe if you put that data into the landscape, you might actually see that, maybe, he didnt just capitalized on past fame, but, maybe more cleverly managed to ride a wave that is not as high as fame, but is more rewarding in term of self respect, of self confidence and of personnal independance. Which is exactly what he claims.
And those guys who search for artists, contrary to you, actually do believe a lot in word of mouth and such, as that is what they follow to get to the next big thing, and they try to sign them before they get out of their reach. So i'm quite sure the internet and everything that is independent, efficient and fast to communicate worry them a lot, and this explains a lot more their attitude toward internet movements than always saying "they don't get it, they are stupid".
Actually, the biggest problem in such a trial would be that no matter the trial is about, it would lead to the ring being returned to its "rightfull" owner: sauron, since everyone agree that it is really his ring.
As President a lot of people were bashing him, even mocking him and it's only after he went into human rights that he truely revealed his stature as a big man. And now he is going into the superhero turf! What a man! I can't wait until more is known about the cartermobile and the cartercave.
I bought a high quality 380W power supply for ~60 euros. It is a tagan and it is an incredible piece of work, not one thing in the box wasnt high quality. As for the sound, it went from the equivalent of a jet taking off to a quiet humming. I put it in a ~70 euros very good powerless box. In my other room, i put the same tagan in a 35 euros with powersupply box. It is twice as loud. Quieter than before the tagan, but twice as loud.
So their prices look quite high, but 30$ for a box is not that good a price either. For twice that, you get a lot more than double the comfort. It is a breeze to open, i can remove the box containing the hd all together, the airflow is nice, it comes with 2 of those fans you mentionned, it is solid and very silent. Only downside, it is very heavy.
Gnome (not surprisingly) seems to take the Gnu philosophy of "here are some tools, do something with them." This is untrue. If it had been true, there would have been a functionnal "file selector" in Gnome for years as it is a fundamental tool of any desktop and UI based app. Instead, it was usable only with the keyboard, defeating its GUI nature. Then, as a more mature "file selector" was done, it was then impossible to use it with the keyboard without advanced configurations (which the gnome projects claims are bad and therefore remove from being reachable by the front-end user). From worst to just bad.
The Unix philosophy of having simple efficient tools that are the bricks of more complex ones doesnt relate in a GUI envirronment with "here are some libs, do what you want". It should have been "here are the basic tools any UI will need, do what you need". In that regard, KDE did better and that's why I and lot of other desktop font-end users have switched wawy from gnome. Look at konqueror in that aspect, it is the perfect example of a good major Unix tool, the terminal, translated into a GUI envirronment: it is just a frame where anything can be accomplished. It is not a browser, nor a file manager.
The wide acceptance of gnome has nothing to see with respecting the Unix philosophy, it is tied to economics, politics and ideology. Some distros have invested heavily in gnome for ideological reasons when it was sound to do it, then refused to change course when it wasnt necessary anymore for the unreasonable love of anything that doesnt start with a G.
From my trolling point of view, my equation is pure genius, but from any other point of view and especially good sense and good taste, it's pure crap. But hey, i got moderated as interresting!! So i was probably right!
It's also good to forbid stress during digestion, especially since one hour isnt enough. At least try to have your belly have some rest after this probably poor meal that you stuffed in it too fast. So yes, a quiet card game is very good for that.
IBM did believe in the desktop PC market (they built one). What they didn't believe in was the power of a standard operating system to create a commodity hardware market. Yes, they built one OS, but they didnt believe there would be such a huge home market, and that it was going to be so decisive to elect the master of the enterprise desktop market. Otherwise, they wouldnt have let microsoft take it from them that way.
Microsoft controls 90% of people's browsing experiences through Internet Explorer today. They believed in it pretty quickly. Not that quickly, since they had to use quite heavy warfare in order to destroy netscape (see the "finding of fact" of the anti trust trial). So yes, they did it rather quickly once they realized they were wrong, but it was only on the browser field. And they still didnt get it for the internet as a whole. The bill gates quote about people not going to use a public unsecure network was pretty enlightening in the matter. And i'm not sure they get it now. My take is that they are still after a private network in the form of the xbox live. The xbox becoming more and more a multimedia box and locking at the same time users into xboxLive. Why wasting billions of dollars otherwise?
As for Google, they use free software, but I wouldn't say it's the basis of their business model. They mostly rely on home grown proprietary software, and use free software operating systems and languages to create their own proprietary code. They re-release some of their changes back to the community but usually keep the core bits to themselves. This is a good point. Maybe being a big user doesnt make them a big backer of free software, maybe you're right.
So sure, there's free software in there, but they rely heavily on highly-paid, high-optioned engineering talent to make it work. I don't see the point here, it's true for many IT companies, wether successfull or not.
Maybe you know that there is linux in those clusters? Imagine the fee it would have been in a proprietary os. So it's part of their developpment strategy from the beginning.
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Sounding like Vince Vega is the opposite of cool. This guy got shot with his pants down.
Infinite supply of pOrn, you bet!
In some legends the hydra had 9 heads.
They cut only 8.
As much as I don't like EA in general and battlefield in particular, people whine A LOT when patches are released too late because of q&a.
Now they whine because they are released too early and didnt get through the whole q&a process, which would have meant that people would have played with the shitty ingame browser for another 2 months until the patch goes out to whine because the patch is late and they now want -insert gameplay/bugfix/feature-.
And to think that people drop some cash in order to go into that hell just to play another lame game!
In many european countries the labels dont own the copyrights as there arent any copyrights. There are other completly different systems.
In many countries, the labels just get the distribution rights.
We might mark the whole page as "-1 Redondant" also.
He just pressed the wrong key.
Can you understand that many people who are not tech savy are using the CD that they bought and that this CD is not SP2 enabled?
Those persons don't download the SP2 either, since there is windows update to do that, they probably don't know they can and if they have to reinstall their OS, it means it is already compromised.
I didnt believe such declarations either, until i did the test in january this year:
blank vanilla XP -> dsl -> 4 mns -> ads popups -> AV check -> rootkit detected. Come on!
What can a beginner do?
But a patched Windows XP SP2 machine behind a personal firewall/router with current anti-virus/anti-malware protection can be a secure system.
This sentence is self-defeating.
Translated it says: when you have put into the OS all the security that should be already there, then it's perfectly safe until the next time.
Pffew, i feel better, i was getting worried that they might actually be unable to do it.
http://www.nofrag.com/2005/jun/30/18062/#c
No, the first story said where the reactor would be build and this one where the fusion would take place.
Those are not dupe article!
Who would need any runtime to only patch an app?
Any news about cairo?
shhh, keep cool and low profil, Fidel, they have been destroying whole countries for less than that recently.
why on earth do you need the .NET runtime in order to patch an app?
I know that you had no negative intent, and I agree with all that you said, mostly, I just pointed out myself that, in my opinion, it is not the same wave and going the majors way first is not a prerequisite to what he did.
Having worked for a big major in a small country (cbs records the year it was bought by sony and the year after), my knowledge of the problem is that you also forget one part of the equation: they don't promote ... creative works. No, they dont.
What they do is that they find creative artists and turn them into uncreative products that they market accordingly.
Only the top of the iceberg of such artists will be treated and respected as doing creative work and only as long as they stay on top of charts because they are the creative alibi of such companies.
I was there and I saw them, and yes, they are that cynical. Even worse.
At the time I worked there, in one year it meant that only a few artists were treated as such, aka the 2 or 3 local top sellers and Michael Jackson. The rest were obeying the marketing plans or be gone.
So maybe if you put that data into the landscape, you might actually see that, maybe, he didnt just capitalized on past fame, but, maybe more cleverly managed to ride a wave that is not as high as fame, but is more rewarding in term of self respect, of self confidence and of personnal independance.
Which is exactly what he claims.
And those guys who search for artists, contrary to you, actually do believe a lot in word of mouth and such, as that is what they follow to get to the next big thing, and they try to sign them before they get out of their reach.
So i'm quite sure the internet and everything that is independent, efficient and fast to communicate worry them a lot, and this explains a lot more their attitude toward internet movements than always saying "they don't get it, they are stupid".
Actually, the biggest problem in such a trial would be that no matter the trial is about, it would lead to the ring being returned to its "rightfull" owner: sauron, since everyone agree that it is really his ring.
As President a lot of people were bashing him, even mocking him and it's only after he went into human rights that he truely revealed his stature as a big man. And now he is going into the superhero turf!
What a man!
I can't wait until more is known about the cartermobile and the cartercave.
I bought a high quality 380W power supply for ~60 euros.
It is a tagan and it is an incredible piece of work, not one thing in the box wasnt high quality. As for the sound, it went from the equivalent of a jet taking off to a quiet humming.
I put it in a ~70 euros very good powerless box.
In my other room, i put the same tagan in a 35 euros with powersupply box. It is twice as loud. Quieter than before the tagan, but twice as loud.
So their prices look quite high, but 30$ for a box is not that good a price either. For twice that, you get a lot more than double the comfort.
It is a breeze to open, i can remove the box containing the hd all together, the airflow is nice, it comes with 2 of those fans you mentionned, it is solid and very silent.
Only downside, it is very heavy.
Gnome (not surprisingly) seems to take the Gnu philosophy of "here are some tools, do something with them."
This is untrue.
If it had been true, there would have been a functionnal "file selector" in Gnome for years as it is a fundamental tool of any desktop and UI based app.
Instead, it was usable only with the keyboard, defeating its GUI nature.
Then, as a more mature "file selector" was done, it was then impossible to use it with the keyboard without advanced configurations (which the gnome projects claims are bad and therefore remove from being reachable by the front-end user).
From worst to just bad.
The Unix philosophy of having simple efficient tools that are the bricks of more complex ones doesnt relate in a GUI envirronment with "here are some libs, do what you want". It should have been "here are the basic tools any UI will need, do what you need".
In that regard, KDE did better and that's why I and lot of other desktop font-end users have switched wawy from gnome.
Look at konqueror in that aspect, it is the perfect example of a good major Unix tool, the terminal, translated into a GUI envirronment:
it is just a frame where anything can be accomplished.
It is not a browser, nor a file manager.
The wide acceptance of gnome has nothing to see with respecting the Unix philosophy, it is tied to economics, politics and ideology.
Some distros have invested heavily in gnome for ideological reasons when it was sound to do it, then refused to change course when it wasnt necessary anymore for the unreasonable love of anything that doesnt start with a G.
From my trolling point of view, my equation is pure genius, but from any other point of view and especially good sense and good taste, it's pure crap.
But hey, i got moderated as interresting!! So i was probably right!
It's also good to forbid stress during digestion, especially since one hour isnt enough. At least try to have your belly have some rest after this probably poor meal that you stuffed in it too fast.
So yes, a quiet card game is very good for that.
KDE: 24
Gnome = 12 gnome + 15 gaim + 14 ubuntu + 13 fedoracore + 16 mono = 70 Gnome.
IBM did believe in the desktop PC market (they built one). What they didn't believe in was the power of a standard operating system to create a commodity hardware market.
Yes, they built one OS, but they didnt believe there would be such a huge home market, and that it was going to be so decisive to elect the master of the enterprise desktop market. Otherwise, they wouldnt have let microsoft take it from them that way.
Microsoft controls 90% of people's browsing experiences through Internet Explorer today. They believed in it pretty quickly.
Not that quickly, since they had to use quite heavy warfare in order to destroy netscape (see the "finding of fact" of the anti trust trial).
So yes, they did it rather quickly once they realized they were wrong, but it was only on the browser field.
And they still didnt get it for the internet as a whole. The bill gates quote about people not going to use a public unsecure network was pretty enlightening in the matter.
And i'm not sure they get it now. My take is that they are still after a private network in the form of the xbox live. The xbox becoming more and more a multimedia box and locking at the same time users into xboxLive. Why wasting billions of dollars otherwise?
As for Google, they use free software, but I wouldn't say it's the basis of their business model. They mostly rely on home grown proprietary software, and use free software operating systems and languages to create their own proprietary code. They re-release some of their changes back to the community but usually keep the core bits to themselves.
This is a good point.
Maybe being a big user doesnt make them a big backer of free software, maybe you're right.
So sure, there's free software in there, but they rely heavily on highly-paid, high-optioned engineering talent to make it work.
I don't see the point here, it's true for many IT companies, wether successfull or not.
Maybe you know that there is linux in those clusters?
Imagine the fee it would have been in a proprietary os.
So it's part of their developpment strategy from the beginning.