We could hook the cows up up Matrix style, a tube in both ends, capture the methane and run our little contraptions. It's not like we're that far away anyways with Confined Feeding Operations. When they stop putting out, we flush them into the grinder for hamburger. SOLVED.
Yes this is sarcastic..
Or is it..
I like their image search, the vid thing is cool, and the travel wizard is quick and easy even if just for guestimate trips. I see it as another resource but not a Google search, email, or online doc replacement.
Argue the right or wrong about MS and the browser bundling.. ok. but when MS says..ok.. we'll NOT do what you said we are doing and thats not good enough.. it just seems like a piss fight that the EC *knows* they can win and will make it unbearably obvious for the mere purpose of rubbing MS (and by inference the US) nose in it. We're big, we're bad. and we make a difference now that we're all together. I think it ticked em off when MS said fine we wont squirm for you any more, we'll just screw you back with no browser at all.
In my support positions, I have found that the general secretary/clerical pc user whines about things being broke and then the choir chimes in and it becomes less of a tech issue and more of a bonding issue... "Oh really.. well last month my yadayada did *this* and it took forever".. "oh that's nothing My thingydoodad was out for a WEEK when blahblahblah..
It was pretty rare in my experience that the end user wasn't happy to see me, and if they're not happy when you leave, then that's usually an interpersonal and not technical prob..unless you're just plain incompetent and even then good people skills will get you a looong way..
Well, just the PPV for them but you know, online..
Oh..
Right before they go to DVD
Oh..
And only if your cable company subscribes to this..
Oh..
So if I already have cable with PPV, why do I need this again? Is it that the cable companies who do sign up wont have these available as regular PPV? I doubt it..
They also conveniently don't take into account the sales they receive when someone actually likes what they've downloaded enough to go buy the CD/DVD/Whatever. It's all a black pity hole of lost sales...
I worked at a University in the support division, not networking. The key to making anything happen is to get the professors ticked enough to make waves. Find a nice high profile professor and make him understand what that little "Security Agent" means, such as, nothing on that computer will be private, and you may have a chance of killing it. The tech support at a University could not care less about you, you are gone in 2-6 years. They will be there forever.
I dumped cable and live a-la-web tv. I pay for Netflix streaming and find it is worth it.
If Hulu got rid of the stupid 5 trailing episodes thing and had full catalogs of the shows, got some decent movies, and got rid of the commercials I would pay. I *will not* pay for a special section that gets a few bones thrown in every month or if I have to put up with their 8 commercials over and over and over..holy crap water torture over and over.
I had a domain and had good intentions of using it but never got around to it for around a year. The company who contacted me had a completely different business than I *would* have used it for, but I was broke so I weighed out what I thought it was worth, trying to be fair (hay it was a pretty good domain name) and asked for $5000. I figured they would negotiate me down and prolly take 1/2 or less. TBH, would have been happy if they took it or not. They lawyered up and after a few nasty certified letters I let it go since I couldn't afford the legal coverage. Kinda sucked to be sued out of it...
This has been a coming since the first root servers.. the power struggle for DNS.. as countries get more technologically capable and see the real power of what that means, either it will be controlled by everyone or we will end up with a segmented DNS as they run off and do their own..
If you put it on the internet, it is no longer private. You can wrap it in as much "security" as you want, circle it in good intentions, sprinkle it with best wishes, but as soon as you take YOUR info and throw it in the web-cesspool you should envision it on a display in a court room before pressing submit.
I think this issue is one of the problems with old laws governing new technologies.
It would seem that being able to generate money from someone else's trademark, copyright, etc.. would be an abuse without the owner's consent, however, trying to run a search engine without them would kill a critical function of the Internet. Web searches
Now the choice is.. do we allow it for functionality or do we deny it on principle, or, as is really happening, just deny the use when you bring in enough lawyers.
Although they have focused on the dark and creepy, I bet ID could brainstorm their way into doing Duke justice. It just feels like one of the old-school developers should do this and put some closure on this mess for us old-timers.
I agree that the no-fail thing had a lot to do with it as well in the early (first 3-4 years) years. Surely frustration set in early as ID ran laps around them and the upcoming EA behemoth made the days of garage development, their roots, a thing of the past.
They were bleeding edge when DN3D came out and there was no way for them to get back there without selling out or working their asses off, neither of which made coming to work a fun thing any more.
I think the decision that DNF would never see the light came a lot earlier than most think. I believe around year 5 or so it was all just keeping the property worth enough to license.
I was one of those obsessed followers for the first 3-4 years after DN3D until I came up with what *I* figured happened. Hell, I even bought all the action figures...
I believe they made a name with Duke 3D and had good intentions of making a sequel..at first. Then along came licensing rights. Easy money. Then came some noteable side-tracks. Max Payne for one. Then came some more licensing. Then it really didn't make sense to work that hard any more. The money (anyone with a buck to buy licensing) just called on the phone, the lawyers did their work, and the money showed up in the bank.
Here is some of what we got instead of DNF..
Duke Nukem 64
Duke Nukem - Game Boy Color
Duke Nukem - Land of the Babes
Duke Nukem - Manhattan Project
Duke Nukem - Time to Kill
Duke Nukem - Total Meltdown
Duke Nukem - Zero Hour
Duke Nukem Advance
Duke Nukem II
Duke Nukem Mobile
They milked it for over 10 years. I am surprised they actually "called it off" and didn't just let it fade away.
The shame here is the magnificent property that was lazily shit off.
This is the same fight that all the 'AA's are fighting. Control of the distribution channels.
When they lose the control of what to force down your throat, they lose the profit margins they can rape you for. And folks, that's bad business..for them.
Umm no.. but then again I dont go running around telling everyone my doors are sledgehammer proof and then appear shocked every time someone does break in..
I am continuously validated on a little theory I have come to about computer security.
There is no such thing.
I see people say Windows this Linux that and Oh My Mac but I have come to believe that unless the dam thing is cut off from the internet, wireless cards removed and under guard physically 24/7, if someone wants in the thing bad enough, they will do it.
I recently ran into a few documentaries and articles about Monsanto and was completely amazed at the depth and scope of the unadulterated greed and potential for catastrophic issues that stem from their genetic manipulation of nature.
Even that pales in comparison to the back door government dealings that have landed multitudes of Monsanto employees and board members squarely in government position that control the very laws they are petitioning for. Do a simple google search, the numbers are astounding to the point of obscenity.
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Kids less than ~12 yrs old. It goes like this.. GET ME MY PHONE :)
We could hook the cows up up Matrix style, a tube in both ends, capture the methane and run our little contraptions. It's not like we're that far away anyways with Confined Feeding Operations. When they stop putting out, we flush them into the grinder for hamburger. SOLVED. Yes this is sarcastic.. Or is it..
I like their image search, the vid thing is cool, and the travel wizard is quick and easy even if just for guestimate trips. I see it as another resource but not a Google search, email, or online doc replacement.
Argue the right or wrong about MS and the browser bundling.. ok. but when MS says..ok.. we'll NOT do what you said we are doing and thats not good enough.. it just seems like a piss fight that the EC *knows* they can win and will make it unbearably obvious for the mere purpose of rubbing MS (and by inference the US) nose in it. We're big, we're bad. and we make a difference now that we're all together. I think it ticked em off when MS said fine we wont squirm for you any more, we'll just screw you back with no browser at all.
This works and it only takes a small cluster of people appreciating you behind your back to turn the tide sometimes.
In my support positions, I have found that the general secretary/clerical pc user whines about things being broke and then the choir chimes in and it becomes less of a tech issue and more of a bonding issue... "Oh really.. well last month my yadayada did *this* and it took forever".. "oh that's nothing My thingydoodad was out for a WEEK when blahblahblah..
It was pretty rare in my experience that the end user wasn't happy to see me, and if they're not happy when you leave, then that's usually an interpersonal and not technical prob..unless you're just plain incompetent and even then good people skills will get you a looong way..
New HD Movies!! Yay!!
Well, just the PPV for them but you know, online..
Oh..
Right before they go to DVD
Oh..
And only if your cable company subscribes to this..
Oh..
So if I already have cable with PPV, why do I need this again? Is it that the cable companies who do sign up wont have these available as regular PPV? I doubt it..
This is stupid in too many ways..
Aborting/Retry/Fail (Y) to all.
They also conveniently don't take into account the sales they receive when someone actually likes what they've downloaded enough to go buy the CD/DVD/Whatever. It's all a black pity hole of lost sales...
I worked at a University in the support division, not networking. The key to making anything happen is to get the professors ticked enough to make waves. Find a nice high profile professor and make him understand what that little "Security Agent" means, such as, nothing on that computer will be private, and you may have a chance of killing it. The tech support at a University could not care less about you, you are gone in 2-6 years. They will be there forever.
I dumped cable and live a-la-web tv. I pay for Netflix streaming and find it is worth it.
If Hulu got rid of the stupid 5 trailing episodes thing and had full catalogs of the shows, got some decent movies, and got rid of the commercials I would pay. I *will not* pay for a special section that gets a few bones thrown in every month or if I have to put up with their 8 commercials over and over and over..holy crap water torture over and over.
Go big, do it right, and I would pay.
I had a domain and had good intentions of using it but never got around to it for around a year. The company who contacted me had a completely different business than I *would* have used it for, but I was broke so I weighed out what I thought it was worth, trying to be fair (hay it was a pretty good domain name) and asked for $5000. I figured they would negotiate me down and prolly take 1/2 or less. TBH, would have been happy if they took it or not. They lawyered up and after a few nasty certified letters I let it go since I couldn't afford the legal coverage. Kinda sucked to be sued out of it...
This has been a coming since the first root servers.. the power struggle for DNS.. as countries get more technologically capable and see the real power of what that means, either it will be controlled by everyone or we will end up with a segmented DNS as they run off and do their own..
If you put it on the internet, it is no longer private. You can wrap it in as much "security" as you want, circle it in good intentions, sprinkle it with best wishes, but as soon as you take YOUR info and throw it in the web-cesspool you should envision it on a display in a court room before pressing submit.
Sometimes one can only learn through pain...
He may have to have some consequence other than you telling him not to do it, like getting kicked out or having the electricity turned off.
I would say my peace and let him learn his lesson or break free.
Not ONCE have we lost data.
That you know of...
But most people will settle anyways because they can't afford a legal siege, even if they are right.
This is what I have a problem with.. justice by the dollar..
I think this issue is one of the problems with old laws governing new technologies.
It would seem that being able to generate money from someone else's trademark, copyright, etc.. would be an abuse without the owner's consent, however, trying to run a search engine without them would kill a critical function of the Internet. Web searches
Now the choice is.. do we allow it for functionality or do we deny it on principle, or, as is really happening, just deny the use when you bring in enough lawyers.
Although they have focused on the dark and creepy, I bet ID could brainstorm their way into doing Duke justice. It just feels like one of the old-school developers should do this and put some closure on this mess for us old-timers.
Sell the property to someone who will actually create something..
I agree that the no-fail thing had a lot to do with it as well in the early (first 3-4 years) years. Surely frustration set in early as ID ran laps around them and the upcoming EA behemoth made the days of garage development, their roots, a thing of the past.
They were bleeding edge when DN3D came out and there was no way for them to get back there without selling out or working their asses off, neither of which made coming to work a fun thing any more.
I think the decision that DNF would never see the light came a lot earlier than most think. I believe around year 5 or so it was all just keeping the property worth enough to license.
I was one of those obsessed followers for the first 3-4 years after DN3D until I came up with what *I* figured happened. Hell, I even bought all the action figures...
I believe they made a name with Duke 3D and had good intentions of making a sequel..at first. Then along came licensing rights. Easy money. Then came some noteable side-tracks. Max Payne for one. Then came some more licensing. Then it really didn't make sense to work that hard any more. The money (anyone with a buck to buy licensing) just called on the phone, the lawyers did their work, and the money showed up in the bank.
Here is some of what we got instead of DNF..
Duke Nukem 64
Duke Nukem - Game Boy Color
Duke Nukem - Land of the Babes
Duke Nukem - Manhattan Project
Duke Nukem - Time to Kill
Duke Nukem - Total Meltdown
Duke Nukem - Zero Hour
Duke Nukem Advance
Duke Nukem II
Duke Nukem Mobile
They milked it for over 10 years. I am surprised they actually "called it off" and didn't just let it fade away.
The shame here is the magnificent property that was lazily shit off.
This is the same fight that all the 'AA's are fighting. Control of the distribution channels.
When they lose the control of what to force down your throat, they lose the profit margins they can rape you for. And folks, that's bad business..for them.
Umm no.. but then again I dont go running around telling everyone my doors are sledgehammer proof and then appear shocked every time someone does break in..
I am continuously validated on a little theory I have come to about computer security.
There is no such thing.
I see people say Windows this Linux that and Oh My Mac but I have come to believe that unless the dam thing is cut off from the internet, wireless cards removed and under guard physically 24/7, if someone wants in the thing bad enough, they will do it.
I recently ran into a few documentaries and articles about Monsanto and was completely amazed at the depth and scope of the unadulterated greed and potential for catastrophic issues that stem from their genetic manipulation of nature.
Even that pales in comparison to the back door government dealings that have landed multitudes of Monsanto employees and board members squarely in government position that control the very laws they are petitioning for. Do a simple google search, the numbers are astounding to the point of obscenity.