It's not like the radio stations aren't paying money to play music right now - they are. They pay money to the composer and the publisher.
All they're asking is that the artist and label get paid, too. Satellite radio and Internet radio have to pay the performance royalty. Why is broadcast getting the special treatment?
The problem is a lack of real-world accountability.
If someone were to act in real life the way some of those idiots act online, they'd get punched in the face pretty quickly. Unfortunately, there's no way to punch someone in the face over the net.
I've been saying this for years. It all stems from MS-DOS. There, you could put anything anywhere, and nothing cared. Then the DOS developers moved to Windows, and kept the habit. Then Windows went multi-user, and suddenly stuff started breaking.
So the user calls the vendor for help. Support calls cost money. So the vendor takes the quick way out and tells people to run as Administrator. Program runs now, so the problem appears to be fixed.
And to be fair, I've been guilty of this myself.
But so have others who should know better. For awhile, the Oracle client for Windows would not run under a normal account. So if you wanted to talk to an Oracle database, you needed to be an admin.
Correction. Parents did not pressure PBS to fire her. PBS decided to do it on its own.
I was really torn by this.
On the one hand, it really sucked that she got canned for something like that. It had no bearing at all on what she did and how she did it, and enough time had gone by that people had pretty much forgotten about the "Technical Virgin" videos.
On the other hand, I -hated- her onscreen persona. Way way too smiley and perky and saccharine and cloying. I couldn't take more than a minute or two.
On the gripping hand, the persona wasn't aimed at me, but at my kids, and they seemed to like her.
You're right, up to the point of his lying about his credentials.
If he had just said from the beginning "I'm 24 with no degree, but I think the quality of my work addresses my fitness for the job", then there would be no problem.
But he lied about it. And if he's willing to lie about that, what else is he willing to lie about?
If you can't trust the people, then you can't trust the information they're presenting either. Fire his ass.
They can call the cops and detain you under suspicion of shoplifting. But if they're wrong, they open themselves up to lawsuits. False arrest, defamation of character, etc. So they generally don't do anything.
I got into it about this with a security guard at CompUSA once after he followed me to my car and wrote down my license plate number. Needless to say, this was the last time I shopped at CompUSA.
Ten cars streaming across that, that freeway, and what happens to your own personal lane? I just the other day got... a car was driven by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday, it got in yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the freeway commercially. They want to drive vast numbers of cars on the freeway. And again, the freeway is not something you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your car in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous numbers of cars, enormous numbers of cars.
Some non-work net use is inevitable (like me making this post). But when people are using their workplace's network connection for non-work activities to the extent that it's impacting the performance of the rest of the network, then something has to change.
For most businesses, there is simply no business reason to allow people to download music and/or stream video to or from the office. It's just like the telephone. Most places don't mind people making personal calls, but they ask that they be reasonable about it, because you're supposed to do your socializing at home, on your own time. It's the same with the office net connection. Nobody cares if you use it to order a book from Amazon, or read the daily news, or browse Slashdot. But if you start hitting iTunes or Youtube, or start doing lots of Ebaying, or share a torrent of last night's "American Idol", then you might be crossing a line.
It's the fault of application developers that can't or won't fix their applications to behave, or that aren't installed correctly.
Users install the app, and it doesn't work. They call the vendor. The vendor wants to get them off the phone because phone support costs money. Running the app as Administrator is a quick and easy fix that only takes a minute, so that's what they tell them to do.
It's all a legacy of the DOS mindset, where any program could do anything it wanted. People got used to that.
This is why you need to turn your PC off when you're not using it.
It's convenient to just be able to walk up and start using it. But translate that power consumption into the equivalent number of 60W light bulbs, and ask yourself how you'd feel about leaving that many light bulbs on all the time.
Because you can measure more with the Kill-A-Watt.
For example, you can plug the thing in for a period of time. After a day or so, it will tell you how many KWHs were consumed, which tells you how much money it cost.
We have two kids. When our oldest was 2-ish, we set up an old non-networked machine with a Sesame Street game. At first, she'd pull us over to the computer when she wanted to play. We'd put the CD in and start the game up for her.
Then we started to notice that she was playing the game, but neither of us had started it up. She'd figured out that she could click on the desktop icon and hit enter to start it up.
We got a couple more games. She learned how to swap CDs, and which CD went with which game.
When she was 3 and half, I gave her an old Logitech ClickSmart digital camera. It's great for kids. I configured the software to automatically download and delete the pictures from the camera, and showed her how to plug the cable in, and how to launch the photo album software. For two weeks, every time I turned around, it was "Surprise Daddy!" CLICK! FLASH! I had spots in my eyes constantly.
She's now 4 and a half. She's been upgraded to a 700 Mhz Athlon. She goes to the Noggin website to play games, and has half a dozen or so games she likes to play. There's a link to Noggin on her desktop, and she knows which CD goes with which games, and can start them herself.
The computer is just another toy to her. She still draws with her crayons and plays games and does all the usual kid stuff. But she will never be able to remember not knowing how to use a mouse. She's also getting good at framing stuff in the camera.
Her old machine was inherited by her 2 year old little sister. We found a game that lets kids just pound on the keys. She seems to like it.
The determination of whether we've passed the peak is something that can only be determined in hindsight, and probably from a greater distance than a mere two months. I'd be interested in seeing whether he still thinks that was the date in, say, two years.
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...what can be explained by stupidity.
It's possible that Ameritrade itself is selling the email addresses. What's their privacy policy?
In large companies, it's very easy for someone in one division to do something that people in other divisions don't know about.
It's not like the radio stations aren't paying money to play music right now - they are. They pay money to the composer and the publisher.
All they're asking is that the artist and label get paid, too. Satellite radio and Internet radio have to pay the performance royalty. Why is broadcast getting the special treatment?
The problem is a lack of real-world accountability.
If someone were to act in real life the way some of those idiots act online, they'd get punched in the face pretty quickly. Unfortunately, there's no way to punch someone in the face over the net.
I've been saying this for years. It all stems from MS-DOS. There, you could put anything anywhere, and nothing cared. Then the DOS developers moved to Windows, and kept the habit. Then Windows went multi-user, and suddenly stuff started breaking.
So the user calls the vendor for help. Support calls cost money. So the vendor takes the quick way out and tells people to run as Administrator. Program runs now, so the problem appears to be fixed.
And to be fair, I've been guilty of this myself.
But so have others who should know better. For awhile, the Oracle client for Windows would not run under a normal account. So if you wanted to talk to an Oracle database, you needed to be an admin.
We have to ignore the environmental impact, because it's not paid DIRECTLY by the generating entity.
If it were, then the "extremely cheap" adjective would not apply.
Heinlein wrote "Jerry was a Man" about this exact topic.
Correction. Parents did not pressure PBS to fire her. PBS decided to do it on its own.
I was really torn by this.
On the one hand, it really sucked that she got canned for something like that. It had no bearing at all on what she did and how she did it, and enough time had gone by that people had pretty much forgotten about the "Technical Virgin" videos.
On the other hand, I -hated- her onscreen persona. Way way too smiley and perky and saccharine and cloying. I couldn't take more than a minute or two.
On the gripping hand, the persona wasn't aimed at me, but at my kids, and they seemed to like her.
Check the "Publications" link. The first one is an article in "ACM Transactions on Storage".
It's a bit dry, but there is an explanation of how it stores the versions, plus some performance benchmarks.
Get that Old Glory Insurance now.
Since a virtual server only gets 57% of the performance of a physical server, just run TWO virtual servers!
That way, you'll get 114% throughput!
Next week, I solve world hunger, global warming, and bring peace to the Middle East.
Every time I see something like this, I wonder how much real world improvement you will see.
Sure, there may be a small improvement on a benchmark, but those rarely translate into something that's noticeable to the end user.
Or is it really more about having the shiniest toys?
You're right, up to the point of his lying about his credentials.
If he had just said from the beginning "I'm 24 with no degree, but I think the quality of my work addresses my fitness for the job", then there would be no problem.
But he lied about it. And if he's willing to lie about that, what else is he willing to lie about?
If you can't trust the people, then you can't trust the information they're presenting either. Fire his ass.
They can call the cops and detain you under suspicion of shoplifting. But if they're wrong, they open themselves up to lawsuits. False arrest, defamation of character, etc. So they generally don't do anything.
I got into it about this with a security guard at CompUSA once after he followed me to my car and wrote down my license plate number. Needless to say, this was the last time I shopped at CompUSA.
Ten cars streaming across that, that freeway, and what happens to your own personal lane? I just the other day got... a car was driven by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday, it got in yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the freeway commercially. They want to drive vast numbers of cars on the freeway. And again, the freeway is not something you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your car in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous numbers of cars, enormous numbers of cars.
TRS-80 Model 100. One of the first real laptops.
& satitle=trs-80+model+100
40 character, 8 line LCD goodness. Ran for days on 4 AA batteries. And featuring the last professional code that Bill Gates worked on personally.
You can get one pretty cheap:
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40
... that it's their network, their rules.
Some non-work net use is inevitable (like me making this post). But when people are using their workplace's network connection for non-work activities to the extent that it's impacting the performance of the rest of the network, then something has to change.
For most businesses, there is simply no business reason to allow people to download music and/or stream video to or from the office. It's just like the telephone. Most places don't mind people making personal calls, but they ask that they be reasonable about it, because you're supposed to do your socializing at home, on your own time. It's the same with the office net connection. Nobody cares if you use it to order a book from Amazon, or read the daily news, or browse Slashdot. But if you start hitting iTunes or Youtube, or start doing lots of Ebaying, or share a torrent of last night's "American Idol", then you might be crossing a line.
This isn't (or even mostly) Microsoft's fault.
It's the fault of application developers that can't or won't fix their applications to behave, or that aren't installed correctly.
Users install the app, and it doesn't work. They call the vendor. The vendor wants to get them off the phone because phone support costs money. Running the app as Administrator is a quick and easy fix that only takes a minute, so that's what they tell them to do.
It's all a legacy of the DOS mindset, where any program could do anything it wanted. People got used to that.
I thought porn was supposed to be the kingmaker here.
Does this mean that a porn-themed game will be what really decides?
Or wait! I know! A porn about computer games!
I can see it now.
SAMUEL L BRONKOWITX PRESENTS:
FRAGGED!
A tale of hard disks and big memories.
Nah, all they have to do is say that you're somehow using it to show boobies, and the FCC will be all over you.
I sense a great disturbance in the Force...
This is why you need to turn your PC off when you're not using it.
It's convenient to just be able to walk up and start using it. But translate that power consumption into the equivalent number of 60W light bulbs, and ask yourself how you'd feel about leaving that many light bulbs on all the time.
Because you can measure more with the Kill-A-Watt.
For example, you can plug the thing in for a period of time. After a day or so, it will tell you how many KWHs were consumed, which tells you how much money it cost.
How about a simple "Hey, what's the deal with the camera?"
We have two kids. When our oldest was 2-ish, we set up an old non-networked machine with a Sesame Street game. At first, she'd pull us over to the computer when she wanted to play. We'd put the CD in and start the game up for her.
Then we started to notice that she was playing the game, but neither of us had started it up. She'd figured out that she could click on the desktop icon and hit enter to start it up.
We got a couple more games. She learned how to swap CDs, and which CD went with which game.
When she was 3 and half, I gave her an old Logitech ClickSmart digital camera. It's great for kids. I configured the software to automatically download and delete the pictures from the camera, and showed her how to plug the cable in, and how to launch the photo album software. For two weeks, every time I turned around, it was "Surprise Daddy!" CLICK! FLASH! I had spots in my eyes constantly.
She's now 4 and a half. She's been upgraded to a 700 Mhz Athlon. She goes to the Noggin website to play games, and has half a dozen or so games she likes to play. There's a link to Noggin on her desktop, and she knows which CD goes with which games, and can start them herself.
The computer is just another toy to her. She still draws with her crayons and plays games and does all the usual kid stuff. But she will never be able to remember not knowing how to use a mouse. She's also getting good at framing stuff in the camera.
Her old machine was inherited by her 2 year old little sister. We found a game that lets kids just pound on the keys. She seems to like it.
The determination of whether we've passed the peak is something that can only be determined in hindsight, and probably from a greater distance than a mere two months. I'd be interested in seeing whether he still thinks that was the date in, say, two years.