MSX? Portuguese?!? Wow, that's the first time I've seen those 2 words in a sentence written by someone else! So I'm not the only one to have had an MSX in portugal. Wootness!:p
As already pointed out, the Kerala government is a democracy, with the ruling party being a communist one. Communism is a social ideology, and it is not = to dictatorship or despotism. And it has nothing to do with stalinistic totalitarian governments. In many democracies around the world there are communist parties that participate in the democratic process, are elected and rule in parliaments and local councils. The bias towards the Red Scare of gosh-golly eeevil communist dictatorships is a common american thing. Welcome to the real world, get over it.
... this is the poorest excuse of a review I have ever had the displeasure of reading. What a piss-poor hack! I think my eyeballs went on strike with this one! My first language is not english, and not maths either, and I could pull off something better that this!
Seriously hope you don't write for a living... and if you do, kindly let me know where that is so I can avoid it like the plague!
Alas and alack, niente, gar nichts, zilch. Woe is me. Es tut mit leid.
I mean, WTF?!? Are you choking on a hairball or something?!? Jeez!
My definition of "invented in the US" means invented on US soil with American resources. If some of the leaders of the research were from other countries, there must have been some reason they did the work for the US instead of whatever country they were from.
If the people doing the inventing are not americans (though working in the US with US resources), than they weren't taught in the US system of education, and therefore are not bound by the culture as much as a born-and-bred US citizen. As we know, most of the greatest US inventions were created by non-americans (or naturalized americans not bred in the US). This detail might explain the deficit of scientific "mindset" of americans (i.e., what this discussion is all about) vs technological advances originating from the US. You simply are very good at the brain-drain business, as opposed to actually doing the brainy part. This is probably changing, with your government literally sending those "brains" that give you your edge away because they are "foreign", and *that* might explain why this all strange debate is getting more and more coverage in your part of the world.
As to why they went to the US to work, that's easy to find out, it's pretty well documented all over the place (hell, we learn the answer to that question in school, and we're neither the US nor a country suplying scientific brains to the US). Material gains. Every scientist wants and needs the best support, equipment, team and freedom to do their job that money can buy. And the US has (had?) plenty of that.
Get over it dude. He doesn't think abortion is a right call, it's wrong FOR HIM. He doesn't agree with abortion being illegal, because he believes in other people making OTHER choices different from his.
He has said so, and others have said as much, at least 10 times in this discussion, and you post like they haven't said anything. Accept that he has his own opinions and QUIT trying to ram your inability to accept other peoples views down our throats!
People continue fighting this battle of science versus religion on slashdot which is barely, if even, existant.
No. The battle of science versus religion with regard to evolution rages in MOST places, at least in the US. People like the Pope (assuming you're correct) are the exception and not the rule
I really enjoyed your shot in the foot. So most places == US? That's odd, I thought we had plenty of places here, outside the US.
Let me enlighten you: the only idiots that seem to think that science vs religion is a raging battle are you guys (assuming you're in the US, seems likely). Go anywhere outside it and talk to a priest about it, see what he'll tell you. I personally live in one of the most (if not the most) religious country in europe, where almost literally *everyone* is a catholic. And let me tell you, all of us are taught evolution at school, alongside *gasp* religious and moral education. And not *once*, *ever*, has there been a slight hint of a "battle" of science vs religion. It's preposterous to even mention it.
We know how to separate science from religion, and have no problems with it. You, however, have this odd thing of turning everything into fundamentalist crap, all-or-nothing extreme arguments and way of life. And you wonder so many people don't like you...
First of all, my condolences. Nobody is accusing your friend of piracy, hope you realize that. We all know who the victims are in this, and all the comments flying around like the one you quoted are meant to show how the RIAA thinks (or at least what they project onto the world stage, not sure about the actual *thinking* part, don't know if the slimeballs have evolved that far yet). If they want to go after your friend's *children*, then they surely must be trying to get your friend's (inexistant) stock of pirated CDs.
Hey, if he was a friend of yours, you can leak the story to the press if and when RIAA really decides to push things too far and go after the family, and nail them for it. It should be a crime what they're trying to do, and if he passed away with an aneurysm, I'm sure the stress of having the RIAA on his back didn't help one bit. It's a shame.
... stored in DRM DVDs, then you might have just found a way to justify DRM after all!
'cause, really, do you really want future generations to see the crap being churned out today in the guise of "art"? Kinda makes me glad CDs only have about 100-year lifetime expectancy...
You're not being cynical. I cannot remember ever saying so many swear words in one minute as I did right now when I read the headline.
It's great for the guys, going to MS and all, but damn, does anyone really believe that those utilities will remain free in a few months time? Or that they will be accessible to anyone without paying extra? 'cause I can see it now, a whole new MS Admin Toolkit line, get it now folks, for only 999.99.
If you had *bothered* to go and look for yourself what's really going on in myspace.com instead of copy-pasting an url, you would have noticed that *everything* but the browse users feature is Cold Fusion. Really interesting hmm? And in the browse users feature only the search part is asp.net, details are cold fusion.
And if you join up, you will notice also that in the intro they specifically say that they have cut down on the amount of friends listed as connections due to excess information that the servers couldn't handle (which part is asp.net again? hmmm)
So they redesigned a half part of a 10th of their site to asp.net, so that tells us that they took out that part and put it on different servers, most likely. And the article says that processors are down to 27% from the 80% something they had before the redesign? Surprise, surprise!
So who's really handling the billion-plus pageviews in myspace, I wonder? Asp.net, or CF?
I work with.NET full-time, have been for 4 years now. Believe me, I know what it can handle. IIS didn't magically improve just because you slap it an ASP.NET label you know, it's still the same hog as it was. And to handle those types of numbers, you'd really have to have a majorly awesome network coupled with some really good connections to databases and good (i.e., configured properly!) servers, not to mention good code (as in, veeery careful with session handling, templating and cache, or it's bye bye memory).
Actually, it *is* for him to decide. We're the targets of the company, the audience, so out views and actions should be a pointer to what they're doing wrong. I've posted previously about this, and I'll say it again: I am not allowed to watch a show nor buy it for years to come because I'm not in the US, I have no choice but to torrent it. The company that makes the show does not realize that there's a huge audience out there outside the US that would buy their shows if they would give them a chance; instead they don't let us buy it until they can make a sale to foreing countries' stations for them to air it, which takes years and is very expensive, so not all shows are aired in all countries until years after they're aired in the US. With an increasingly connected world, why would I just wait for someone to decide to air something if I can just download it? Why are some people allowed to watch them and other's are not? Oh, it's legal for some to watch or buy them, but not for others? Because I happen to live in another country?
You say that people don't watch the shows aired live, 'cause they prefer to download them? That's dumb, of course they would rather watch them than wait for the download! But your argument shows that you don't realize that many people downloading *cannot watch those shows any other way*!
And that argument about theft, really, that's so screwed up it's ridiculous. A theft is when one is *deprived* of their property by another. Are the studios deprived of their properties when I download? No. Do the studios consider the money they wouldn't be getting from me to be their property? Now that's laughable, but that's their (and your) argument.
When more than 50% of society downloads things, will you criminalize half of society? Is everyone a criminal? Or is that a sign that something is seriously wrong with the model?
Simply put: I'm in europe. I wanted to buy a season of a certain tv show that will probably never be aired in my country, or if it is, it'll be a few years. The DVD hasn't come out yet, but the show is available to buy from some online vendors, by episode. Just so you know, the shows that air in the us take a while to air in the rest of the world, due to the fact that they have to negotiate the sales, and the shows are pretty expensive to buy, especially by smaller countries which don't have the $$ that some big countries have. The shows are not sold on DVD until pretty much everyone has had a reasonable time to buy and air it first, which takes it's damn time, of course. Counting years here. So I wanted to buy this particular show, and went online to seek it. Found it, but couldn't buy it, why? Because I'm not in the US!
So I want to have something that is available for sale, so I can do it legally, but apparently not because I'm not american. So US entities can pressure foreign countries to harass owners of search engines that make available things to people who cannot get them by any legal means, and we're the pirates? I say hurrah for TPB, and I won't be buying any DVDs anymore (I have an extensive collection of legally bought DVDs, stupid me) because that just gives the big hollywood companies and their cronies more money to do things like this. F**k them.
Going out on a limb here, but you're not asking yourself what you would like to do for the rest of your life, you're asking what should I study to get me a nice cushy job.
A major problem in the tech sector are the droves of people that came into it thinking "now this is a nice cushy sector, I think I'll just stay here", and ruining the market for the rest of us that,amazingly enough, chose the profession because we like what we do for a living, and get majorly pissed off at all these pseudo-IT folk who, if they were coming into the market in the 80s, would be management yuppies, but since they were coming in late 90s, early 00s, they're IT.
You're guiding yourself by what you read in the magazines and on what you hear on CNN instead of investigating for yourself and following what you feel you'd like to do for the *rest of your life*? More worried about *job security* than leaving your mark in a field you enjoy? Well thank $deity$ you've followed your gut instinct and went into something or other not so interesting! Minus one minion to worry about, glad to see people finally going somewhere else.
You only got one life friend, and you got what, +- 35/40 *years* of work in front of you. That is, every day doing the same thing, 8 hours a day, for 40 years. What would you rather do with that time? Something fun? Or something "secure"?
And people wonder why this society is going bonkers... when everyone works for 40 *years* doing something they don't enjoy!
And here I thought it was a game that you are *paying* for to have available 24/7. Silly me.
I can't understand how someone can excuse the lack of service and waste of money that it is to pay for a game that is not available when the person paying needs it by saying that it's "only a game" and that there are other things to do if it's offline. What does it matter if it's a game or not? Could be a massage service for all it matters. It's a *service" that one is *paying* for and not having is return in the form of availability.
In any other situation, it would be a case of lawsuits or people would quit en masse. In this case, people just bear with it... strange world this is. Smacks of addiction, it does, people who would otherwise not pay a dime or protest loudly if they had to spend money on anything pay through the nose every month not to be able to play or play in bad conditions.
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I know, I've been there myself with City of Heroes. In my case it wasnt the server problems (though we've had some, but never this bad, no problems getting in, just lag for a while), it was the constant nerfs to make the game "balanced", effectively destroying the fun out of it by downgrading everyone to the same level. They haven't been able to balance everyone out of course, but they managed to ruin a lot of builds.
Scrappers are too powerful, look like they can handle anything? Nerf them. Tanks look like they can handle aggro from lots of foes? Nerf them. Controllers have too many pets? Nerf them. Two or three powers can be made permanent by exclusive use of recharge enhancements? Cut down on *all* enhancements. That way no perma-anything anymore. Of course, less damage for everyone, everyone gets tired quicker, less accuracy, less defense, less resistance... but hey, I cannot perma-haste now, cool for me.
I don't get it why, instead of raising everyone to a level, they lower the powers, take away damage and defense and everything, change permanent powers to toggles, for what? What does it accomplish? Does it satisfy the players? Are we happy about it? Was I happy when my scrapper lost her Instant Healing power, which became a toggle instead, forcing me to respec the char because I just couldn't play like I used to and liked? Was it that hard to find a solution that could maintain it as a perma, raising it's endurance cost if it was too poweful a power, for instance? Was there a need to cut on the aggro of the tank so that it can only aggro 5 foes at a time? When playing on a team of 8 we face groups of 10-15 foes at a time, not counting the ones aggroed from afar by AOEs, and the tank is in the middle watching everyone die helplessly because he can handle damage from 30 but can't aggro more than 5, and the other 5-10 are happily killing of the team. What is a tank good for then? No wonder I don't see any tanks anymore, what's the point?
Are we paying to have our chars nerfed? Do the devs even listen to what the player base is saying? (believe me, if you look through the coh bulletin boards, you'll see what I mean)... Are the players having fun after all? Are we super-heroes? Or is Paragon City suffering from a strange alien attack that is reducing everyone's powers?
As a matter of fact, I'm seeing less and less heroes around, especially after the last "update". Where I had to fend off the blind invites and tells and you couldn't search for teammates without getting 1000+ lists, now you're lucky if you get 40 hits. While peeps would send tells to heroes on their level in search of teams, now I, as lvl 48, am getting tells from peeps lvl 30, desperately seeking anyone to team with them. And I have to say no because my team as everyone sidekicked already, because while some are 48, others are 39 and lower on any given day.
Does this not ring alarm bells somewhere in that remote tower where the Cryptic people are? Don't they notice how there's less diversity? How people are fed up with getting nerfs every other month? Don't they play the game?
The question is not that you can filter packets coming in... the question is how in the hell did those packets ever get in to the network in the first place! I mean this is a private, supposedly isolated network we're talking here, not some house-brewed workgroup to play around with. You don't activate packet filtering in 3000 machines because they're supposed to be as isolated as it can be, with identified points of entry secured with *real* firewalls.
There was a mention about a network not being secure if a laptop is plugged in, but a secure network does not allow unauthorized connections of any sort into it, for example, every device should only plug in to a single plug, identified and filtered by mac address. It's a lot of work, but that's what secure means. These are not workstations for checking mail and chatting away while watching movs.
The virus coming in means someone was incompetent in setting it up, or someone was really smart in putting the virus in. Not updating the machines with the patch was correct, it shouldn't be a problem if the network was correctly setup, you can't be updating everything every time a new patch comes out without tests. Independently of the OS used, in a controlled environnment patches are not a means of security, frontend workstations should not be a point of breakage.
So this is what homeland security means in the states eh? Why doesn't it surprise me? pffft...
Let's not forget that the battle here is for control of the enterprise use of windows. Before the wave of virtualization software, if you were a sysadmin on a company, you used whatever OS was handed down to you from up above, mostly, of course, windows.
Multinationals institute a standard OS that sysadmins are stuck with, and you just can't justify changing OS's on anything unless it's critical for your business that you do it, and that's a tough sale indeed if any MS representative can go to the boss and say that what you want to do can be done in windows (note I'm not saying that it's done as well as with other OS's, just that it *can* be done, MS has enough software to cover all bases).
So now with virtualization software you don't have to dump the OS... you just run another one inside it, so the sysadmin doesn't have to justify big expenses and has the advantage of showing that another OS can work better on any given task. So suddenly the field is open again, one can sidetrack the *official* platform and increase productivity (= $$$).
And you know what, the boss listens when a sysadmin says "we don't have to spend that much more $$$, and we can improve our efficiency on this and this if we just run a linux on this box and have it do X. It's still running windows so we're not breaking any official company rules here, our objectives (= $$$) will be met, and we can drop the annual MS fees"
So now MS has a conundrum on it's hands... suddenly the monopoly is endangered in the worst possible way; big companies escaping it's grasp (i.e. not buying the top dollar server apps it sells). So what does it do? Buys a virtualization software so it can launch it's own platform and try and prevent the admins from escaping. VirtualPC was very good at virtualizing non-windows systems, Virtual Server is not that good at it. VPC was very sleek, VS big and bulky, so that admins who try it out won't be too tempted to run lots of stuff on it.
In all of this, the Mac is really not the target. The battle front is not at the Mac, as far as VMWare and MS are concerned. The virtualization market might be the biggest battle for control of the admin that we've seen ever, and might just be the one that finally breaks MS, especially because it comes at a time when MS is being dragged down by it's own sheer weight, and it's not the agile, fast-to-the-market company it once was.
1. They're giving it away for free, they're not opening the code. 2. Virtual Server is not a system, it's a virtualization application that simulates hardware so you can install operating systems inside it's environment. The OS thinks it's running on a real machine and not under a software... that's why it's called *Virtual* Server.:p
Using this sort of software, you actually NEED Windows. You boot up a VM and then proceed to install an OS just like a real machine. This is massively unlike Wine and is somewhat different from VPC too.
Where is VirtualPC different in this? Virtual Server *is* VPC, MS bought Connectix and changed the name of the product... VPC is an virtualization environment where you install windows (and other OSs), so you need windows to install it, I don't see the difference.
If you say Microsoft's Virtual Server is considerably worse than VPC was, then I can agree there's a difference, and this is not just MS bashing. I've tried both, and know windows admins that have tried both, and we all rue the day that Connectix got bought, because VPC was (and still is, amazingly enough) a much better application than Virtual Server, in speed, stability and compatibility.
It's ironic that MS is basically killing a good product much in the way that IBM did when they bought Lotus. There are things that just shouldn't be bought by big companies, they have too many conflicting interests and not enough vision and purpose to carry out a truly good thing.
It's an enterprise groupware mail server, it supports webmail, ldap, imap, voip, pop3, smtp, supports 35 different platforms, can handle just about all you can throw at it. According to their page, "CommuniGate Pro holds the world record for scalability and performance delivering a fully standards based carrier-grade Application Server and development environment for next generation voice and data"
In my company we use it extensively, and if you have clients that are used to outlook, there's a webmail skin outlook-style so they will be comfortable with it.
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MSX? Portuguese?!? Wow, that's the first time I've seen those 2 words in a sentence written by someone else! So I'm not the only one to have had an MSX in portugal. Wootness! :p
As already pointed out, the Kerala government is a democracy, with the ruling party being a communist one. Communism is a social ideology, and it is not = to dictatorship or despotism. And it has nothing to do with stalinistic totalitarian governments. In many democracies around the world there are communist parties that participate in the democratic process, are elected and rule in parliaments and local councils. The bias towards the Red Scare of gosh-golly eeevil communist dictatorships is a common american thing. Welcome to the real world, get over it.
... damn you! What was the WORD?!?!?
Grrrr...
Seriously hope you don't write for a living... and if you do, kindly let me know where that is so I can avoid it like the plague!
I mean, WTF?!? Are you choking on a hairball or something?!? Jeez!
If the people doing the inventing are not americans (though working in the US with US resources), than they weren't taught in the US system of education, and therefore are not bound by the culture as much as a born-and-bred US citizen. As we know, most of the greatest US inventions were created by non-americans (or naturalized americans not bred in the US). This detail might explain the deficit of scientific "mindset" of americans (i.e., what this discussion is all about) vs technological advances originating from the US. You simply are very good at the brain-drain business, as opposed to actually doing the brainy part. This is probably changing, with your government literally sending those "brains" that give you your edge away because they are "foreign", and *that* might explain why this all strange debate is getting more and more coverage in your part of the world.
As to why they went to the US to work, that's easy to find out, it's pretty well documented all over the place (hell, we learn the answer to that question in school, and we're neither the US nor a country suplying scientific brains to the US). Material gains. Every scientist wants and needs the best support, equipment, team and freedom to do their job that money can buy. And the US has (had?) plenty of that.
Get over it dude. He doesn't think abortion is a right call, it's wrong FOR HIM. He doesn't agree with abortion being illegal, because he believes in other people making OTHER choices different from his.
He has said so, and others have said as much, at least 10 times in this discussion, and you post like they haven't said anything. Accept that he has his own opinions and QUIT trying to ram your inability to accept other peoples views down our throats!
Jeez!
I really enjoyed your shot in the foot. So most places == US? That's odd, I thought we had plenty of places here, outside the US.
Let me enlighten you: the only idiots that seem to think that science vs religion is a raging battle are you guys (assuming you're in the US, seems likely). Go anywhere outside it and talk to a priest about it, see what he'll tell you. I personally live in one of the most (if not the most) religious country in europe, where almost literally *everyone* is a catholic. And let me tell you, all of us are taught evolution at school, alongside *gasp* religious and moral education. And not *once*, *ever*, has there been a slight hint of a "battle" of science vs religion. It's preposterous to even mention it.
We know how to separate science from religion, and have no problems with it. You, however, have this odd thing of turning everything into fundamentalist crap, all-or-nothing extreme arguments and way of life. And you wonder so many people don't like you...
First of all, my condolences. Nobody is accusing your friend of piracy, hope you realize that. We all know who the victims are in this, and all the comments flying around like the one you quoted are meant to show how the RIAA thinks (or at least what they project onto the world stage, not sure about the actual *thinking* part, don't know if the slimeballs have evolved that far yet). If they want to go after your friend's *children*, then they surely must be trying to get your friend's (inexistant) stock of pirated CDs.
Hey, if he was a friend of yours, you can leak the story to the press if and when RIAA really decides to push things too far and go after the family, and nail them for it. It should be a crime what they're trying to do, and if he passed away with an aneurysm, I'm sure the stress of having the RIAA on his back didn't help one bit. It's a shame.
... stored in DRM DVDs, then you might have just found a way to justify DRM after all!
'cause, really, do you really want future generations to see the crap being churned out today in the guise of "art"? Kinda makes me glad CDs only have about 100-year lifetime expectancy...
You're not being cynical. I cannot remember ever saying so many swear words in one minute as I did right now when I read the headline.
It's great for the guys, going to MS and all, but damn, does anyone really believe that those utilities will remain free in a few months time? Or that they will be accessible to anyone without paying extra? 'cause I can see it now, a whole new MS Admin Toolkit line, get it now folks, for only 999.99.
Damn damn damn damn damn!
No no no no no... You have incorrectly read the aforementioned article. They have status meetings *3* times daily and 1 on saturday.
:)
Are there actually *hours* enough in the day for that?
Hey, at least they're loud, volatile and hilarious. Glad to know they're having fun
Ok, I call pffft on myself, just noticed they mapped the cfm extension to .NET. Still can't believe the numbers though.
hides away in a box...
If you had *bothered* to go and look for yourself what's really going on in myspace.com instead of copy-pasting an url, you would have noticed that *everything* but the browse users feature is Cold Fusion. Really interesting hmm? And in the browse users feature only the search part is asp.net, details are cold fusion.
.NET full-time, have been for 4 years now. Believe me, I know what it can handle. IIS didn't magically improve just because you slap it an ASP.NET label you know, it's still the same hog as it was. And to handle those types of numbers, you'd really have to have a majorly awesome network coupled with some really good connections to databases and good (i.e., configured properly!) servers, not to mention good code (as in, veeery careful with session handling, templating and cache, or it's bye bye memory).
And if you join up, you will notice also that in the intro they specifically say that they have cut down on the amount of friends listed as connections due to excess information that the servers couldn't handle (which part is asp.net again? hmmm)
So they redesigned a half part of a 10th of their site to asp.net, so that tells us that they took out that part and put it on different servers, most likely. And the article says that processors are down to 27% from the 80% something they had before the redesign? Surprise, surprise!
So who's really handling the billion-plus pageviews in myspace, I wonder? Asp.net, or CF?
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I say pfffft.
Røfl! Oh man, when are my möd points when I need them? if only it were possible to mod a thread... :p
Actually, it *is* for him to decide. We're the targets of the company, the audience, so out views and actions should be a pointer to what they're doing wrong. I've posted previously about this, and I'll say it again: I am not allowed to watch a show nor buy it for years to come because I'm not in the US, I have no choice but to torrent it. The company that makes the show does not realize that there's a huge audience out there outside the US that would buy their shows if they would give them a chance; instead they don't let us buy it until they can make a sale to foreing countries' stations for them to air it, which takes years and is very expensive, so not all shows are aired in all countries until years after they're aired in the US. With an increasingly connected world, why would I just wait for someone to decide to air something if I can just download it? Why are some people allowed to watch them and other's are not? Oh, it's legal for some to watch or buy them, but not for others? Because I happen to live in another country?
You say that people don't watch the shows aired live, 'cause they prefer to download them? That's dumb, of course they would rather watch them than wait for the download! But your argument shows that you don't realize that many people downloading *cannot watch those shows any other way*!
And that argument about theft, really, that's so screwed up it's ridiculous. A theft is when one is *deprived* of their property by another. Are the studios deprived of their properties when I download? No. Do the studios consider the money they wouldn't be getting from me to be their property? Now that's laughable, but that's their (and your) argument.
When more than 50% of society downloads things, will you criminalize half of society? Is everyone a criminal? Or is that a sign that something is seriously wrong with the model?
Simply put: I'm in europe. I wanted to buy a season of a certain tv show that will probably never be aired in my country, or if it is, it'll be a few years. The DVD hasn't come out yet, but the show is available to buy from some online vendors, by episode. Just so you know, the shows that air in the us take a while to air in the rest of the world, due to the fact that they have to negotiate the sales, and the shows are pretty expensive to buy, especially by smaller countries which don't have the $$ that some big countries have. The shows are not sold on DVD until pretty much everyone has had a reasonable time to buy and air it first, which takes it's damn time, of course. Counting years here. So I wanted to buy this particular show, and went online to seek it. Found it, but couldn't buy it, why? Because I'm not in the US!
So I want to have something that is available for sale, so I can do it legally, but apparently not because I'm not american. So US entities can pressure foreign countries to harass owners of search engines that make available things to people who cannot get them by any legal means, and we're the pirates? I say hurrah for TPB, and I won't be buying any DVDs anymore (I have an extensive collection of legally bought DVDs, stupid me) because that just gives the big hollywood companies and their cronies more money to do things like this. F**k them.
Oh man, I can just see George Clooney throwing that line with a nice neat Dapper Dan(tm) coiffure... I must be sad
Going out on a limb here, but you're not asking yourself what you would like to do for the rest of your life, you're asking what should I study to get me a nice cushy job.
A major problem in the tech sector are the droves of people that came into it thinking "now this is a nice cushy sector, I think I'll just stay here", and ruining the market for the rest of us that,amazingly enough, chose the profession because we like what we do for a living, and get majorly pissed off at all these pseudo-IT folk who, if they were coming into the market in the 80s, would be management yuppies, but since they were coming in late 90s, early 00s, they're IT.
You're guiding yourself by what you read in the magazines and on what you hear on CNN instead of investigating for yourself and following what you feel you'd like to do for the *rest of your life*? More worried about *job security* than leaving your mark in a field you enjoy? Well thank $deity$ you've followed your gut instinct and went into something or other not so interesting! Minus one minion to worry about, glad to see people finally going somewhere else.
You only got one life friend, and you got what, +- 35/40 *years* of work in front of you. That is, every day doing the same thing, 8 hours a day, for 40 years. What would you rather do with that time? Something fun? Or something "secure"?
And people wonder why this society is going bonkers... when everyone works for 40 *years* doing something they don't enjoy!
And here I thought it was a game that you are *paying* for to have available 24/7. Silly me.
I can't understand how someone can excuse the lack of service and waste of money that it is to pay for a game that is not available when the person paying needs it by saying that it's "only a game" and that there are other things to do if it's offline. What does it matter if it's a game or not? Could be a massage service for all it matters. It's a *service" that one is *paying* for and not having is return in the form of availability.
In any other situation, it would be a case of lawsuits or people would quit en masse. In this case, people just bear with it... strange world this is. Smacks of addiction, it does, people who would otherwise not pay a dime or protest loudly if they had to spend money on anything pay through the nose every month not to be able to play or play in bad conditions.
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I know, I've been there myself with City of Heroes. In my case it wasnt the server problems (though we've had some, but never this bad, no problems getting in, just lag for a while), it was the constant nerfs to make the game "balanced", effectively destroying the fun out of it by downgrading everyone to the same level. They haven't been able to balance everyone out of course, but they managed to ruin a lot of builds.
Scrappers are too powerful, look like they can handle anything? Nerf them. Tanks look like they can handle aggro from lots of foes? Nerf them. Controllers have too many pets? Nerf them. Two or three powers can be made permanent by exclusive use of recharge enhancements? Cut down on *all* enhancements. That way no perma-anything anymore. Of course, less damage for everyone, everyone gets tired quicker, less accuracy, less defense, less resistance... but hey, I cannot perma-haste now, cool for me.
I don't get it why, instead of raising everyone to a level, they lower the powers, take away damage and defense and everything, change permanent powers to toggles, for what? What does it accomplish? Does it satisfy the players? Are we happy about it? Was I happy when my scrapper lost her Instant Healing power, which became a toggle instead, forcing me to respec the char because I just couldn't play like I used to and liked? Was it that hard to find a solution that could maintain it as a perma, raising it's endurance cost if it was too poweful a power, for instance? Was there a need to cut on the aggro of the tank so that it can only aggro 5 foes at a time? When playing on a team of 8 we face groups of 10-15 foes at a time, not counting the ones aggroed from afar by AOEs, and the tank is in the middle watching everyone die helplessly because he can handle damage from 30 but can't aggro more than 5, and the other 5-10 are happily killing of the team. What is a tank good for then? No wonder I don't see any tanks anymore, what's the point?
Are we paying to have our chars nerfed? Do the devs even listen to what the player base is saying? (believe me, if you look through the coh bulletin boards, you'll see what I mean)... Are the players having fun after all? Are we super-heroes? Or is Paragon City suffering from a strange alien attack that is reducing everyone's powers?
As a matter of fact, I'm seeing less and less heroes around, especially after the last "update". Where I had to fend off the blind invites and tells and you couldn't search for teammates without getting 1000+ lists, now you're lucky if you get 40 hits. While peeps would send tells to heroes on their level in search of teams, now I, as lvl 48, am getting tells from peeps lvl 30, desperately seeking anyone to team with them. And I have to say no because my team as everyone sidekicked already, because while some are 48, others are 39 and lower on any given day.
Does this not ring alarm bells somewhere in that remote tower where the Cryptic people are? Don't they notice how there's less diversity? How people are fed up with getting nerfs every other month? Don't they play the game?
Strange...
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The question is not that you can filter packets coming in... the question is how in the hell did those packets ever get in to the network in the first place! I mean this is a private, supposedly isolated network we're talking here, not some house-brewed workgroup to play around with. You don't activate packet filtering in 3000 machines because they're supposed to be as isolated as it can be, with identified points of entry secured with *real* firewalls.
There was a mention about a network not being secure if a laptop is plugged in, but a secure network does not allow unauthorized connections of any sort into it, for example, every device should only plug in to a single plug, identified and filtered by mac address. It's a lot of work, but that's what secure means. These are not workstations for checking mail and chatting away while watching movs.
The virus coming in means someone was incompetent in setting it up, or someone was really smart in putting the virus in. Not updating the machines with the patch was correct, it shouldn't be a problem if the network was correctly setup, you can't be updating everything every time a new patch comes out without tests. Independently of the OS used, in a controlled environnment patches are not a means of security, frontend workstations should not be a point of breakage.
So this is what homeland security means in the states eh? Why doesn't it surprise me? pffft...
Is he now? ah well, clarification withdrawn, looking forward to the replies then :)
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Can I have my gift now please? Gee, I sure hope it's something nice and useful! Is it yellow?
Let's not forget that the battle here is for control of the enterprise use of windows. Before the wave of virtualization software, if you were a sysadmin on a company, you used whatever OS was handed down to you from up above, mostly, of course, windows.
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Multinationals institute a standard OS that sysadmins are stuck with, and you just can't justify changing OS's on anything unless it's critical for your business that you do it, and that's a tough sale indeed if any MS representative can go to the boss and say that what you want to do can be done in windows (note I'm not saying that it's done as well as with other OS's, just that it *can* be done, MS has enough software to cover all bases).
So now with virtualization software you don't have to dump the OS... you just run another one inside it, so the sysadmin doesn't have to justify big expenses and has the advantage of showing that another OS can work better on any given task. So suddenly the field is open again, one can sidetrack the *official* platform and increase productivity (= $$$).
And you know what, the boss listens when a sysadmin says "we don't have to spend that much more $$$, and we can improve our efficiency on this and this if we just run a linux on this box and have it do X. It's still running windows so we're not breaking any official company rules here, our objectives (= $$$) will be met, and we can drop the annual MS fees"
So now MS has a conundrum on it's hands... suddenly the monopoly is endangered in the worst possible way; big companies escaping it's grasp (i.e. not buying the top dollar server apps it sells). So what does it do? Buys a virtualization software so it can launch it's own platform and try and prevent the admins from escaping. VirtualPC was very good at virtualizing non-windows systems, Virtual Server is not that good at it. VPC was very sleek, VS big and bulky, so that admins who try it out won't be too tempted to run lots of stuff on it.
In all of this, the Mac is really not the target. The battle front is not at the Mac, as far as VMWare and MS are concerned. The virtualization market might be the biggest battle for control of the admin that we've seen ever, and might just be the one that finally breaks MS, especially because it comes at a time when MS is being dragged down by it's own sheer weight, and it's not the agile, fast-to-the-market company it once was.
One can only hope...
You're a bit confused...
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1. They're giving it away for free, they're not opening the code.
2. Virtual Server is not a system, it's a virtualization application that simulates hardware so you can install operating systems inside it's environment. The OS thinks it's running on a real machine and not under a software... that's why it's called *Virtual* Server.
Where is VirtualPC different in this? Virtual Server *is* VPC, MS bought Connectix and changed the name of the product... VPC is an virtualization environment where you install windows (and other OSs), so you need windows to install it, I don't see the difference.
If you say Microsoft's Virtual Server is considerably worse than VPC was, then I can agree there's a difference, and this is not just MS bashing. I've tried both, and know windows admins that have tried both, and we all rue the day that Connectix got bought, because VPC was (and still is, amazingly enough) a much better application than Virtual Server, in speed, stability and compatibility.
It's ironic that MS is basically killing a good product much in the way that IBM did when they bought Lotus. There are things that just shouldn't be bought by big companies, they have too many conflicting interests and not enough vision and purpose to carry out a truly good thing.
It's an enterprise groupware mail server, it supports webmail, ldap, imap, voip, pop3, smtp, supports 35 different platforms, can handle just about all you can throw at it. According to their page, "CommuniGate Pro holds the world record for scalability and performance delivering a fully standards based carrier-grade Application Server and development environment for next generation voice and data"
In my company we use it extensively, and if you have clients that are used to outlook, there's a webmail skin outlook-style so they will be comfortable with it.
http://www.stalker.com/