I don't think you know the first thing about these "huge media firms" you've mentioned. Disregarding that little detail, there's nothing stopping anyone from independently developing a game, seeking their own capital from outside sources if necessary, etc. It's called starting a business.
Heh.
I find your perspective amusing. My girl just answered the interviewer's key question regarding the mix of "God" and "guns" in the dealership slogan.
"Because he believes in God to save his soul, guns to save his home, and guts to actually use them."
Oh, I know about oppression. I'm a 28 year old white male who grew up in Georgia (the US version). I got the crud kicked out of me as a child for befriending a kid who happened to part of one of the first black families to move into my neighborhood. If anything, it made me think long and hard about what race meant in my segment of American culture, with the result being I decided that if getting beaten for my friendships was the asking price, I'd gladly keep on paying it. I paid for it until I left to go live with my father a few years later (as soon as the law allowed me the right to choose where I lived, 14 years of age in GA).
Frankly, this whole story is ridiculous. If people want to take issue with minority representation in video games, fine. They can go create their own games. This is 2009, and there are virtually no barriers to doing so should anyone be interested. Let's stop inventing problems for the sake of headlines.
Loaded question: what's stopping minority groups from making games that have a different diversity level? Please don't hand me any lines about the accessibility of technology; I grew up dirt poor and did most of my learning at the public library.
It's been awhile since I've seen a manifestation of the once-common ISWYDT... thanks for bringing 1999 back in all it's glory. I see what you did there.
Actually, you're the one trolling. The submitter indicated that he's already gone through several units. I've purchased very dependable label printers that worked under Mandrake (yes, when it was still called that), and I happen to know more than one person happily churning out labels these days on Ubuntu. With zero configuration required, zero headache. Freakin' Easy Button.
You can easily find serviceable units used on eBay for a fraction of what you'd pay for new ones, and even those aren't that bad considering the fact that they last forever (well, probably longer than you need them to).
Let's ask the question that's really on everyone's mind concerning this alleged Web 2.0 Javascript-turbocharged economically priced printed label delivery service:
I just search for "chances of Google being trust-busted" and got 0 results.
Now that we've got that issue resolved, I think I'll go check my ad earnings in Google AdSense, followed by checking my site traffic in Google Analytics, followed by checking a few keyword rankings in Google Search, followed by tweaking a couple of settings in Google Webmaster Tools, followed by checking for new posts on the Inside AdSense blog, followed by %@$#! [NO CARRIER]
Sure, you should have four authoritative nameservers. There is still no excuse for bouncing an entire box when a simple service restart is completely sufficient. Do you honestly issue a host restart every time you want [insert DNS daemon here] to kick over? If you do, you're completely retarded.
Assuming you have failover for other services running on your network (as you probably should if you're working in an organization that gives two rips about service availability), do you restart entire servers each time you want to bounce Apache?
Have a cold beer and think about this for awhile. Please refrain from touching any keyboards until you've figured it out.
You jest, but there's a nugget of truth in every joke. We still teach a decent amount of mathematics (on average), even though computers are far better at it. Of course, whether people can actually use what they learned later in life is a different issue.
The kind of pathogens being contained in facilities like this are absolutely not mundane. The fact that a simple conventional bomb blast in an above ground facility could have disastrous consequences for public health is reason alone to put the whole thing below ground. Then, of course, there's the classified research that gets done in facilities like this that the general public has no means of knowing about. That stuff can be a lot creepier than you might imagine.
For the record, I don't play games and I don't own a television. I do have a background in which I've had the privilege of working with some interesting people in various fields.
Sorry to be a bit cold about it, but the needs of the many definitely outweigh the needs of the few in cases like this. Personnel working in these facilities understand the inherent risks to their own safety in what they do.
If a facility ever suffered a catastrophic incident, I'd attend the funeral for those who had to be sealed in, but I'm not willing to risk the public. This is much the safe as certain DoD research facilities which are underground for similar (although not exclusively so) reasons.
Here's a good question: why wouldn't labs like this be built underground as a standard practice, along with a full range of additional isolation mechanisms?
Boingo isn't a knight in shining armor here, but they support Macs for their own stuff. It really is a case of complete idiocy on Verizon's part, likely couple with a healthy infusion of partnership dollars from Microsoft.
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I don't think you know the first thing about these "huge media firms" you've mentioned. Disregarding that little detail, there's nothing stopping anyone from independently developing a game, seeking their own capital from outside sources if necessary, etc. It's called starting a business.
Heh. I find your perspective amusing. My girl just answered the interviewer's key question regarding the mix of "God" and "guns" in the dealership slogan.
"Because he believes in God to save his soul, guns to save his home, and guts to actually use them."
Not getting forcibly removed when the people have finally had enough of the nanny state?
Send your criticism to Rob, and please go for a nice walk.
Oh, I know about oppression. I'm a 28 year old white male who grew up in Georgia (the US version). I got the crud kicked out of me as a child for befriending a kid who happened to part of one of the first black families to move into my neighborhood. If anything, it made me think long and hard about what race meant in my segment of American culture, with the result being I decided that if getting beaten for my friendships was the asking price, I'd gladly keep on paying it. I paid for it until I left to go live with my father a few years later (as soon as the law allowed me the right to choose where I lived, 14 years of age in GA).
Frankly, this whole story is ridiculous. If people want to take issue with minority representation in video games, fine. They can go create their own games. This is 2009, and there are virtually no barriers to doing so should anyone be interested. Let's stop inventing problems for the sake of headlines.
BTW, previous query not aimed at you, but the audience as a whole.
Loaded question: what's stopping minority groups from making games that have a different diversity level? Please don't hand me any lines about the accessibility of technology; I grew up dirt poor and did most of my learning at the public library.
I think you missed the joke.
really makes you want to just delete slashdot cookies, use a proxy, and say screw these posting limits.
Is Slashdot really that important to you that you'd go to all that trouble? Your really ought to get out more.
It's been awhile since I've seen a manifestation of the once-common ISWYDT... thanks for bringing 1999 back in all it's glory. I see what you did there.
Actually, you're the one trolling. The submitter indicated that he's already gone through several units. I've purchased very dependable label printers that worked under Mandrake (yes, when it was still called that), and I happen to know more than one person happily churning out labels these days on Ubuntu. With zero configuration required, zero headache. Freakin' Easy Button. You can easily find serviceable units used on eBay for a fraction of what you'd pay for new ones, and even those aren't that bad considering the fact that they last forever (well, probably longer than you need them to).
Let's ask the question that's really on everyone's mind concerning this alleged Web 2.0 Javascript-turbocharged economically priced printed label delivery service:
Does it blend?
Huh, apt broke on you [again]? Are you running testing?
I just search for "chances of Google being trust-busted" and got 0 results.
Now that we've got that issue resolved, I think I'll go check my ad earnings in Google AdSense, followed by checking my site traffic in Google Analytics, followed by checking a few keyword rankings in Google Search, followed by tweaking a couple of settings in Google Webmaster Tools, followed by checking for new posts on the Inside AdSense blog, followed by %@$#! [NO CARRIER]
While this is true for CentOS (RHEL) and Debian-based distros, it's not universally true for others.
I think I'm going to alias "reboot" to 'echo "go read some man pages and come back later"' on a bunch of servers now :)
Sure, you should have four authoritative nameservers. There is still no excuse for bouncing an entire box when a simple service restart is completely sufficient. Do you honestly issue a host restart every time you want [insert DNS daemon here] to kick over? If you do, you're completely retarded.
Assuming you have failover for other services running on your network (as you probably should if you're working in an organization that gives two rips about service availability), do you restart entire servers each time you want to bounce Apache?
Have a cold beer and think about this for awhile. Please refrain from touching any keyboards until you've figured it out.
Because modern-day admins don't know how to restart a service?
Oh, wait, these are fellow Linux "admins" we're talking about...
You jest, but there's a nugget of truth in every joke. We still teach a decent amount of mathematics (on average), even though computers are far better at it. Of course, whether people can actually use what they learned later in life is a different issue.
There are some sectors that have continued to grow at a pretty good clip throughout the recession. For example, I work for Linode.com.
The kind of pathogens being contained in facilities like this are absolutely not mundane. The fact that a simple conventional bomb blast in an above ground facility could have disastrous consequences for public health is reason alone to put the whole thing below ground. Then, of course, there's the classified research that gets done in facilities like this that the general public has no means of knowing about. That stuff can be a lot creepier than you might imagine.
For the record, I don't play games and I don't own a television. I do have a background in which I've had the privilege of working with some interesting people in various fields.
Sorry to be a bit cold about it, but the needs of the many definitely outweigh the needs of the few in cases like this. Personnel working in these facilities understand the inherent risks to their own safety in what they do.
If a facility ever suffered a catastrophic incident, I'd attend the funeral for those who had to be sealed in, but I'm not willing to risk the public. This is much the safe as certain DoD research facilities which are underground for similar (although not exclusively so) reasons.
Here's a good question: why wouldn't labs like this be built underground as a standard practice, along with a full range of additional isolation mechanisms?
Boingo isn't a knight in shining armor here, but they support Macs for their own stuff. It really is a case of complete idiocy on Verizon's part, likely couple with a healthy infusion of partnership dollars from Microsoft.
is not available on Macintosh, Windows XP 64-bit, or Windows 7 operating systems.
Until it magically works with Windows 7 after it's publicly available.