Example: Choicepoint. They make money off you without you ever doing business with anyone.
And one person's bad credit decisions can harm others. Look at how all the foreclosures are driving down the price of homes and causing homes to take longer to sell. Even if you bought your house all cash, you're affected by Joe Spendalot next door - his foreclosed home will depress your house's value when you try to sell and move.
Your myopic view is endemic of ubercapitalist and ubersocialist thinkers alike.
Develop for DX9 using something like the Unreal 2 engine (great graphics that even exceed TES 4: Oblivion if you throw in Speedtree) and an awesome, nonlinear story line.
IOW if you do a Deus Ex or a Morrowind in the same game engine that brought us Unreal Tournament 2004 and you don't make it a simple knockoff of said titles, but an original, deep game with action and RPG elements, you can moon the reviewers and make them get down and lick it because all the PC gamers will be beating down the doors for your game.
Beyond UT2004's level, graphics are overrated until you reach super-realistic (Speedtree, for instance) graphics and super realistic animations. What you'll need to compete now is a highly superior and addictive gaming experience. And really well made expansion packs.
I got my JOB as a database programmer long ago while questioning this as a software TESTER.
I warned my boss NOT to keep stored procedures and switch to front ends instead, and just after we switched to ActiveX front ends (a mistake in and of itself) we found we needed to move from MS Sql Server to Oracle. Well, that migration was about as complex as dumping the database into an ascii file and reimporting it into the new server. The front ends didn't even cough. Back up in 2 hours.
Had we kept the stored procedures? Holy downtime and bug infestation, Batman!
As a manager now, I would fire anyone who uses stored procedures. Even if it is "faster."
Oh God. This is like teaching physics to a March of Dimes kid. You keep thinking that, and say hi to 1940s bandwidth theories and 1995 standards of "bandwidth hogs" for me.
BTW Slashdot is a huge bandwidth hog. I suggest you sign off for good.
No, they have something better. They have the contract given right to boot off their network anyone who's affecting their other paying customers. You all talk about your rights like it's your "god-given" network to do whatever you want. Well here's reality. Your rights end were others begin. Here's the other half. No one wants a customer who's going to drive away other paying customers. That's why running to another ISP will not work.
You completely missed my point.
1) I'm saying technology will progress to the point where ISPs aren't needed and each of us can get directly onto the net without them.
2) Your definition of "abuse" is already on the verge of collapse. People will be watching movies and TV episodes over the net, and very soon. They're already doing it on a relatively tiny scale now with the likes of Youtube. So what you define today as "abuse" will be defined very soon as "normal use" or even "less than normal use". This has already happened in the past. The websites most people browse right now would probably have consumed abuse level bandwidth in 1999. Youtube would have crushed any ISP's bandwidth back in 1995.
So in essence, your heroic ISP exercising its "rights" makes it inadequate to handle the bandwidth demands of today, much less the future.
Unless you're arguing that technology should be held back, your only course of response here is a mea culpa, or more uneducated schoolboy rants. My money is of course on the latter.
Why is it those who know the least make the loudest complaints? You don't know geography. You don't know economics. You don't even know physics.
You're still trying to challenge me? LOL, you little pipsqueak, welcome to school.
Lesson #1: economics. ISPs have survived financially with raising bandwidth to meet rising bandwidth demands. That's a FACT, and you look like a total retard by trying to contradict that.
Lesson #2: physics. You're an idiot yet again. Bandwidth has been increasing to meet consumer demand. This is not going to stop any time soon unless people like you take over, which fortunately is not ever going to happen.
Geography is irrelevant here. This is a global phenomenom.
I'm afraid that the only one who needs to face "the truth" can't handle "the truth". Start your own ISP, let all the hogs abuse you, then tell us who needs to face the truth.
Obviously, your reading skills are nonexistent. I said the time will come that ISPs aren't even relevant. P2P or some emerging technology will enable people to get online without needing a centralized ISP. Why would I want to start a new ISP when in perhaps 15 years TOPS, they'll be like the dodo?
Cable TV works fine. And those "wigged out" ISP's will handle it much better when the abusers are booted. Also one thing I forgot to mention the administrative overhead of dealing with all the DMCA requests that illegal downloaders generate. Boot the hogs and those disappear.
Your knowledge of the internet hovers between nil and zip, and nil is leaving town.
Illegal downloaders are not the biggest threat that ISPs face: Youtube and its siblings, are what present the new major threat. Streaming video, streaming audio, pay per porn...
Allow me to introduce you to the term "adapt or perish". No, really, you're clueless about what that means. Don't even bother coughing up your pathetic rendition. The ISPs are going to adapt to rising bandwidth demands or they're going to be ditching even legal customers, or they'll get majorly bogged down.
It's that simple. And yes, I am a network administrator. I run a data center. I know the business, and you just talk a bunch of crap. Go back to your Spongebob reruns and cool yer heels, son.
If the ISPs follow your line of reasoning, they'll be woefully inadequate for handling the bandwidth demands created by the large scale move to TV-on-the-internet, which is only in its infancy with the likes of Youtube today and is already starting to cause ISPs to wig out.
ISPs are worse than useless - they're a hindrance - and the sooner we find ways to decentralize internet access to where people don't need central ISPs, the better.
ISPs don't have a God given right to tell internet users what to do, and when the technology comes to where they're not needed for access, this truth will become glaringly evident.
Imus is still free to call someone a "nappy headed ho" all he wants to.
And if someone punches him out - which they probably will if he says it to their face - he can press charges and win.
But companies are not forced by law to keep him on the air. Advertisers are not forced by law to keep supporting his show. That's called freedom of choice.
When you live by the market, you die by the market.
If it happens, and if Americans are forced to lose their 4 bedroom houses and gi-normous SUVs, guess what? That means we'll buy less. And that means plants overseas will start closing, too.
A correction back to "sustainable consumption" in America (whatever arbitrary standard defines that) will crush the economies of every developing country around the world that hosts offshoring.
If we stumble, they fall. That "bring others up" won't last long if America really gets brought down... when consumer spending drops even another 5%, it's all over. Global great depression city.
I say we block off the Sweatshop bloc in Asia and stop trade with them, completely, and end all trade barriers - all trade barriers - between the US, Canada and Europe. No more trade with undemocratic, caste-based nations that treat their workers like crap. Want to trade with the Western bloc? Raise up your human rights standards.
It is absolutely not wrong to say that trading with China is worse than trading with Nazi Germany. We're shooting democracy and human rights in the foot with that. 100%.
The permanent structural unemployment and underemployment that is resulting from offshoring, will eventually bring the US economy to a halt.
The flaw in your logic is that you assume becaus previous industries left or evolved away into newer industries, that this will happen repeatedly. As in, from the horse and cart design to the SUV sales/repair, and from telephone switch operators to internet jobs.
That is not the case any more.
There are no new job booms beyond tech now, because of offshoring. Biotech is already going overseas. Nanotech will result in a major net loss of jobs. What's left to grow now is the service sector - the cashiers and what not - and even that is slowly being automated.
The new job types coming out now are small fry at best, and are going to be oversaturated or out dated in 5 years. That means whatever you're in college for right now, will be worth dramatically less in wages in 5 years, or few people will be hiring for someone with that degree. Say hello to just-in-time employment.
There is nothing big that will ever come up any more as far as jobs are concerned. We've reached the end game, and I openly invite you to show me what's coming up that open up the jobs spigot again in America.
Now, watch out for the fallout from this subprime boom. People have not been spending more because of rising wages, people have been spending more because of massive amounts of refinancing. The subprime correction is spreading into the rest of the market because of the number of homes increasing due to foreclosures. That means you who have a fixed rate re-fi will still inevitably see your house drop in value. You'll be upside-down on that bugger in 2 years. Mark my words on that.
What this means is, with the explosion in low paying service sector jobs, the collapse of refinancing-supported consumer activity will not be reversed by a boom in higher personal job-based incomes. Also, people will dig into their IRA's and investments to make ends meet as the water level rises; I work in the financial sector and I am watching the slow rise in that activity right now. And people working at Wal Mart don't get IRAs or stock options unless they're managers, but they'll be selling that, too, to make ends meet as Wal Mart slashes wages to go along with their always low prices pledge.
You have the triple threat of early divestments to make ends meet, downward wage pressures exerted by offshoring, and an imminent dead halt in refinance-based purchases, all about to descent upon this economy.
Offshoring fanatics, feel free to keep your head in the sand about this... just like all the housing investors did when they said the current housing boom would never end.
Not me. I only hope he suffers. Someone he knows might be smart enough to oppose the war.
I hope ncc74656 gets drafted into Iraq. You just KNOW he'll be chanting that 600,000 figure along with every OTHER anti-war slogan when it's his butt that's on the line!
Stargate stands head and shoulders above the rest, except Babylon 5. It's just that familiarity breeds contempt.
Yet when I turn off Stargate SG-1 or Atlantis and go watch any other show, including that one with the (now dead) alcoholic female space fighter pilot and the Farmers insurance agent turned starship captain, I keep seeing over and over again why I like Stargate.
If a comet hits the SL data center, they're going to lose their shirts.
This has got to be the most spectacular example of foolishness ever. This is not real estate, it's virtual estate, and CW will be made to understand that the hard way.
A lot of people ignored the fact that there weren't weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and still supported the Iraq invasion. The polls suggest that we are now overwhelmingly sorry that we did that. I'm one of those people. Please don't get into a snit about this, because it's not just me. It's the majority of Americans now who think we really fscked up getting into that mess.
Let's see, a guy masterminded the iron rule of DRM, versus America's citizens who gave the societal nod for the quagmire that's Iraq that has resulted in the deaths of 600,000 Iraqis and 3000 of our troops... yeah, stones and glass houses indeed.
Nope, I don't see why I shouldn't forgive this guy. Sorry.
A business liability form with advertising injury coverage, in particular, would guard the business just in case everything goes wrong.
Yes, my agents offer this. No, I'm not saying who, because that could reach every state in the Union and that would mean I'm advertising out of state. I'm just saying... get business liability insurance and make sure it has advertising injury coverage. It's usually under "personal injury" and stuff like that.
Halliburton has cost lives, harmed our troops, and gave us Dick Cheney.
The RIAA has cost us money, and inflicted DRM on us.
If I had to pick one to destroy off the face of the earth and one to let go unharmed, I'd nail Haliburton. The RIAA can be rendered irrelevant by the movement of technology. Dead US troops can never be gotten back.
Slashdot Mirror
Bullshit.
Example: Choicepoint. They make money off you without you ever doing business with anyone.
And one person's bad credit decisions can harm others. Look at how all the foreclosures are driving down the price of homes and causing homes to take longer to sell. Even if you bought your house all cash, you're affected by Joe Spendalot next door - his foreclosed home will depress your house's value when you try to sell and move.
Your myopic view is endemic of ubercapitalist and ubersocialist thinkers alike.
Develop for DX9 using something like the Unreal 2 engine (great graphics that even exceed TES 4: Oblivion if you throw in Speedtree) and an awesome, nonlinear story line.
IOW if you do a Deus Ex or a Morrowind in the same game engine that brought us Unreal Tournament 2004 and you don't make it a simple knockoff of said titles, but an original, deep game with action and RPG elements, you can moon the reviewers and make them get down and lick it because all the PC gamers will be beating down the doors for your game.
Beyond UT2004's level, graphics are overrated until you reach super-realistic (Speedtree, for instance) graphics and super realistic animations. What you'll need to compete now is a highly superior and addictive gaming experience. And really well made expansion packs.
Windows ME.
How does the game of the year several times over take so long to be made compatible for the 360?
Check the Elder Scrolls boards, tons more people would buy Morrowind if it were 360 compatible.
and didn't go pay to play it online, are laughing their butts off right now.
I got my JOB as a database programmer long ago while questioning this as a software TESTER.
I warned my boss NOT to keep stored procedures and switch to front ends instead, and just after we switched to ActiveX front ends (a mistake in and of itself) we found we needed to move from MS Sql Server to Oracle. Well, that migration was about as complex as dumping the database into an ascii file and reimporting it into the new server. The front ends didn't even cough. Back up in 2 hours.
Had we kept the stored procedures? Holy downtime and bug infestation, Batman!
As a manager now, I would fire anyone who uses stored procedures. Even if it is "faster."
Buy some now.
Oh God. This is like teaching physics to a March of Dimes kid. You keep thinking that, and say hi to 1940s bandwidth theories and 1995 standards of "bandwidth hogs" for me.
BTW Slashdot is a huge bandwidth hog. I suggest you sign off for good.
You completely missed my point.
1) I'm saying technology will progress to the point where ISPs aren't needed and each of us can get directly onto the net without them.
2) Your definition of "abuse" is already on the verge of collapse. People will be watching movies and TV episodes over the net, and very soon. They're already doing it on a relatively tiny scale now with the likes of Youtube. So what you define today as "abuse" will be defined very soon as "normal use" or even "less than normal use". This has already happened in the past. The websites most people browse right now would probably have consumed abuse level bandwidth in 1999. Youtube would have crushed any ISP's bandwidth back in 1995.
So in essence, your heroic ISP exercising its "rights" makes it inadequate to handle the bandwidth demands of today, much less the future.
Unless you're arguing that technology should be held back, your only course of response here is a mea culpa, or more uneducated schoolboy rants. My money is of course on the latter.
You're still trying to challenge me? LOL, you little pipsqueak, welcome to school.
Lesson #1: economics. ISPs have survived financially with raising bandwidth to meet rising bandwidth demands. That's a FACT, and you look like a total retard by trying to contradict that.
Lesson #2: physics. You're an idiot yet again. Bandwidth has been increasing to meet consumer demand. This is not going to stop any time soon unless people like you take over, which fortunately is not ever going to happen.
Geography is irrelevant here. This is a global phenomenom.
Obviously, your reading skills are nonexistent. I said the time will come that ISPs aren't even relevant. P2P or some emerging technology will enable people to get online without needing a centralized ISP. Why would I want to start a new ISP when in perhaps 15 years TOPS, they'll be like the dodo?
Your knowledge of the internet hovers between nil and zip, and nil is leaving town.
Illegal downloaders are not the biggest threat that ISPs face: Youtube and its siblings, are what present the new major threat. Streaming video, streaming audio, pay per porn...
Allow me to introduce you to the term "adapt or perish". No, really, you're clueless about what that means. Don't even bother coughing up your pathetic rendition. The ISPs are going to adapt to rising bandwidth demands or they're going to be ditching even legal customers, or they'll get majorly bogged down.
It's that simple. And yes, I am a network administrator. I run a data center. I know the business, and you just talk a bunch of crap. Go back to your Spongebob reruns and cool yer heels, son.
If the ISPs follow your line of reasoning, they'll be woefully inadequate for handling the bandwidth demands created by the large scale move to TV-on-the-internet, which is only in its infancy with the likes of Youtube today and is already starting to cause ISPs to wig out.
ISPs are worse than useless - they're a hindrance - and the sooner we find ways to decentralize internet access to where people don't need central ISPs, the better.
ISPs don't have a God given right to tell internet users what to do, and when the technology comes to where they're not needed for access, this truth will become glaringly evident.
I'm a liberal and I say screw the fairness doctrine. Screw it right to the h and the e and the double hockey sticks.
Al Franken's show went down in flames. Rush Limbaugh is flying high with his ratings. Right wing radio is a media juggernaut.
Yet they still lost Congress in a landslide electoral butt whipping and America doesn't support anything they're doing.
The Fairness Doctrine go can bite me, we're winning just fine without it.
Your arguments are utter garbage and your whining and crying is wasting precious oxygen.
That's it.
That's all.
Go scream at the wall, Imus is done for, boycotts will continue to bring buttheads like him down, so get over it or take a flying leap.
People who matter are laughing at you.
You typically only have one service provider in a given area.
If they cut you off, you're done.
Imus is still free to call someone a "nappy headed ho" all he wants to.
And if someone punches him out - which they probably will if he says it to their face - he can press charges and win.
But companies are not forced by law to keep him on the air. Advertisers are not forced by law to keep supporting his show. That's called freedom of choice.
When you live by the market, you die by the market.
If it happens, and if Americans are forced to lose their 4 bedroom houses and gi-normous SUVs, guess what? That means we'll buy less. And that means plants overseas will start closing, too.
A correction back to "sustainable consumption" in America (whatever arbitrary standard defines that) will crush the economies of every developing country around the world that hosts offshoring.
If we stumble, they fall. That "bring others up" won't last long if America really gets brought down... when consumer spending drops even another 5%, it's all over. Global great depression city.
I say we block off the Sweatshop bloc in Asia and stop trade with them, completely, and end all trade barriers - all trade barriers - between the US, Canada and Europe. No more trade with undemocratic, caste-based nations that treat their workers like crap. Want to trade with the Western bloc? Raise up your human rights standards.
It is absolutely not wrong to say that trading with China is worse than trading with Nazi Germany. We're shooting democracy and human rights in the foot with that. 100%.
The permanent structural unemployment and underemployment that is resulting from offshoring, will eventually bring the US economy to a halt.
The flaw in your logic is that you assume becaus previous industries left or evolved away into newer industries, that this will happen repeatedly. As in, from the horse and cart design to the SUV sales/repair, and from telephone switch operators to internet jobs.
That is not the case any more.
There are no new job booms beyond tech now, because of offshoring. Biotech is already going overseas. Nanotech will result in a major net loss of jobs. What's left to grow now is the service sector - the cashiers and what not - and even that is slowly being automated.
The new job types coming out now are small fry at best, and are going to be oversaturated or out dated in 5 years. That means whatever you're in college for right now, will be worth dramatically less in wages in 5 years, or few people will be hiring for someone with that degree. Say hello to just-in-time employment.
There is nothing big that will ever come up any more as far as jobs are concerned. We've reached the end game, and I openly invite you to show me what's coming up that open up the jobs spigot again in America.
Now, watch out for the fallout from this subprime boom. People have not been spending more because of rising wages, people have been spending more because of massive amounts of refinancing. The subprime correction is spreading into the rest of the market because of the number of homes increasing due to foreclosures. That means you who have a fixed rate re-fi will still inevitably see your house drop in value. You'll be upside-down on that bugger in 2 years. Mark my words on that.
What this means is, with the explosion in low paying service sector jobs, the collapse of refinancing-supported consumer activity will not be reversed by a boom in higher personal job-based incomes. Also, people will dig into their IRA's and investments to make ends meet as the water level rises; I work in the financial sector and I am watching the slow rise in that activity right now. And people working at Wal Mart don't get IRAs or stock options unless they're managers, but they'll be selling that, too, to make ends meet as Wal Mart slashes wages to go along with their always low prices pledge.
You have the triple threat of early divestments to make ends meet, downward wage pressures exerted by offshoring, and an imminent dead halt in refinance-based purchases, all about to descent upon this economy.
Offshoring fanatics, feel free to keep your head in the sand about this... just like all the housing investors did when they said the current housing boom would never end.
All stories on April 1st should be ignored; if they're serious, they should be brought up the next day.
It won't be long before April 1st jokes become a major engine for producing new libel & slander lawsuits.
The only people hiring now are lower-paid jobs like Wal Mart.
No wonder you're -1. *rolls eyes*
Not me. I only hope he suffers. Someone he knows might be smart enough to oppose the war.
I hope ncc74656 gets drafted into Iraq. You just KNOW he'll be chanting that 600,000 figure along with every OTHER anti-war slogan when it's his butt that's on the line!
Stargate stands head and shoulders above the rest, except Babylon 5. It's just that familiarity breeds contempt.
Yet when I turn off Stargate SG-1 or Atlantis and go watch any other show, including that one with the (now dead) alcoholic female space fighter pilot and the Farmers insurance agent turned starship captain, I keep seeing over and over again why I like Stargate.
If a comet hits the SL data center, they're going to lose their shirts.
This has got to be the most spectacular example of foolishness ever. This is not real estate, it's virtual estate, and CW will be made to understand that the hard way.
A lot of people ignored the fact that there weren't weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and still supported the Iraq invasion. The polls suggest that we are now overwhelmingly sorry that we did that. I'm one of those people. Please don't get into a snit about this, because it's not just me. It's the majority of Americans now who think we really fscked up getting into that mess.
Let's see, a guy masterminded the iron rule of DRM, versus America's citizens who gave the societal nod for the quagmire that's Iraq that has resulted in the deaths of 600,000 Iraqis and 3000 of our troops... yeah, stones and glass houses indeed.
Nope, I don't see why I shouldn't forgive this guy. Sorry.
A business liability form with advertising injury coverage, in particular, would guard the business just in case everything goes wrong.
:)
Yes, my agents offer this. No, I'm not saying who, because that could reach every state in the Union and that would mean I'm advertising out of state. I'm just saying... get business liability insurance and make sure it has advertising injury coverage. It's usually under "personal injury" and stuff like that.
Good luck.
I most certainly forgive you.
To err is human, to apologize and publicly shoot one's own demonic brainchild in the foot is divine.
Halliburton has cost lives, harmed our troops, and gave us Dick Cheney.
The RIAA has cost us money, and inflicted DRM on us.
If I had to pick one to destroy off the face of the earth and one to let go unharmed, I'd nail Haliburton. The RIAA can be rendered irrelevant by the movement of technology. Dead US troops can never be gotten back.