If I could have read the comments on her site, I would have. I tried. I actually try to RTFA before I post a comment, but in this case her site was truly, horribly, and completely/.ed.
I'm quite happy to comprehend several ideas at once, unfortunately her site is on a host that can't handle several visitors at once;)
Ya, typical/. too. Faulty biased conclusions at all, right from the start. Yup, this acquisition must be evidence that the security thing isn't getting anyways. Yup. That whole SP2 thing including no-execute bit support, a better firewall, etc... all of that must have been a fever dream.
Microsoft does something to help shore up a weakness in their OS products, and somehow its still evil.
Windows tends to promote use of the computer with administrator privileges, because that is what people are like. That means any ol' software that the user runs can do all sorts of things behind the scenes like change the registry to run apps at startup without the user knowing, social engineering to make them actually approve such a thing, bogus value propositions like Gator, etc etc. Microsoft, rather than waste a bunch of time writing something in house, picks up some code so they don't have to start from scratch...
This is a Good Thing, zealots.
People who don't use IE can still have spyware, sorry to break it to you. IE is not the problem. It is part of the problem, or at least one of the common vectors through which spyware gets in, but it is not the problem.
Guess what? If Microsoft announces that they are going to integrate integrity checking and tighter controls over software installation, registry editing, etc, and do it for free, then I bet you'll be posting about how evil they are for integrated stuff right into the OS when it should be separate so we have choice, just like with that evil browser IE.
Microsoft, though not my favorate software developer in the world, deserves kudos for addressing the important issues facing their customers.
It saddens me that her most vehement criticisms come down to "wahh, marketing drones changed skin colors!", not "they completely and utterly bastardized the story". There is plenty of low-brow fiction out there that is popular without something as meaningless as skin color (I'm not a racist, so its meaningless to me at least) being a factor. Hell, R.A. Salvatore made his name based on a character with dark black skin. Good golly! How'd that ever get past the publisher?!
I also hear that there are other books and stories that feature non-white people. Othello comes to mind... I also hear that Clavelle's Shogun featured a bunch of Asian people.
Maybe its easy to be colorblind if you are white... its also easy when you aren't a racist.
Maybe Ursula should take the following advice:
Try not to pick publishers that have morons on staff that think the skin color of characters in cover art matters
Not sell the rights to her stories to random people that she has no reason to trust not to wreck the stories, just like the majority of book-to-screen adaptations (big hint here!... Stephen King can't blame skin color changes on the high suck level in almost all of the movies based on his work)
Finally, pick a website host that doesn't crumble under a bit of traffic;)
That being said, Ursula's rant has convinced me not to watch the shitty adaptation of her books (which I haven't read and don't plan to) when/if they get aired here in Canada. The superficial racism (thats pretty oxymoronic, actually) on the part of the people responsible for the mini-series is reason enough to snub it.
Not necessarily... merely having an Internet account or access to one in someone elses' name at the same residence could be a violation of the terms of the ban. Thats easy to find out with periodic checks... depends on how despicible the banned person is. If they are a child porn distributor, law enforcement people could be pretty motived to keep the asshat off the net.
"crazy tricked out" = modem with giant spoiler, large R decal, and neon lights on the bottom. Spinner RJ45 plugs are optional for crazy tricked out bling bling connections.
I'd recommend something a little bit more substantial like Thai peanut sauce. Also note that hot pepper oil is usually just canola with crushed red pepper in it, so make your own rather than getting gouged at the till buying name brand peppers-in-canola. I make my own for Guo Tie.
Your analogy doesn't apply to my argument. If you are equating viewing the ad without purchasing the advertised product or clicking through as equivalent to "not paying for the content", then sure... Advertisers pay content hosts for the opportunity to put their ad in the face of viewers, sometimes paying some money for evidence that the ad got somebody's attention enough to click on it and usually paying some form of commission for sales generated through the ad links. People who don't look at the ads, block the ads, or view the ads but get annoyed, are all in the general class of people who aren't sold on the product, i.e., the advertising failed to do its job. Nobody has been cost anything, in fact the site has probably saved a spec of bandwidth by not having to serve out the ad content.
Some sites can fail to serve content due to blocked cookies, which may very well be tied to ads (Gamespot, for example, doesn't work properly if you don't let the annoying splash page ad set a cookie).
I'll one-up that... at least he doesn't claim its SCO's Linux.
Unfortunately, Sun has the ear of lots of the UNIX community in the corporate realm, including the PHBs and admins who still think Linux is a toy. There are, unfortunately, a lot of them with their heads in the sand. That is why I run Linux on my U5 at the office... and remind them of how fast and stable it is fairly often;)
Lets not overstate things... ads have nothing to do with the structure of the Internet. They might have a substantial role to play in the business model of much of the content considered to be of value on the Internet, but the Internet didn't crumble the last time that ad revenue dried up when the whole content portal industry went kaboom.
We must always have the right of what to view and what not to view, business models built on denying that choice deserve to be undermined whether its/., CNN, or any other site. Of course, that means the content providers have the right to decide not to provide content at all anymore... mmmm, catch 22.
My bad... of course, being Canadian, I don't really have to care since exactly where those principles are established isn't really relevant compared to the ways in which the US government operationally implements them.
It'll be interesting watching the people exercise the right to alter or abolish a government destructive of those ends, live on CNN. Of course, we might not be allowed to watch it up here due to the CRTC and lack of Canadian content such a rebellion would entail, despite Canada having just purchased the rights to "Land of the Free" from the US...
I wonder if these programmers and other staff wouldn't have jobs in that industry if it wasn't for game-mill companies like EA...
It wasn't that long ago when game development wasn't a big money-making industry and a few people did it because they loved shedding blood, sweet and tears to make a game without the expectation of large monetary reward.
I don't think that is safe to assume. Constitutional ammendments might be difficult to achieve in the US, but if that level of protection for rights gets eroded then the right to privacy as enshrined by law goes away.
What happens if "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" is ammended to "Life, Security and the Pursuit of a Safe Environment"?;)
What they're worth on some imaginary global scale, local scale, or average wage per hour?... or what they're worth after some sort of analysis of the quality and innovation present in the average EA title?
I have a crappy old NEC Versa VXi, and the thing can't run anything Microsoft-flavored that is newer than Windows 98. I've had Gentoo on it for some time, and it works great.
Indeed... that is the principle that made me want to Cluebat this "Tog" guy. I find it interesting that he has a number of bugs dated as making the list at inception on Dec. 1, 2004 (the list itself being last updated 2 days ago... er...). Better propose an addition...
Bug Name: "Desktop calendar-things that are wrong even though the user has the power to fix it why should the user every have to do stuff or think or maybe use a device with more complexity than a toaster gosh I'm sure glad that my mouse only has one button"
Duration: 30+
Supplier: Darwin
Alias: PEBCAK
Product: Everything since that damn monolith taught us to bash things with other things
Bug: Computers are not toasters, why do some people insist in designing for the lowest common denominator rather than empowering those who choose to evolve?
Class of error: Human nature (?)
Principle: Human interface design != sub-human intellect design. It is ok to expect users to do a little thinking for themselves.
Proposed Fix: Fix the date on your computer or whatever it is that made you claim that list inception was Dec. 1, 2004.... plz/thnx.
Discussion:
Bug first observed: 29 Nov 2004
Observer: EvilAlien
Bug reported to supplier: Full disclosure, baby... no secret announcement to supplier this time.
Bug on list since: List inception: 1 Dec 2004</sarcasm>
ahem... lest we forget. Caldera may be downgraded to irrelevant imaging software now, but once upon a time they were a !RedHat Linux distro. Caldera kept themselves from being irrelevant by... aww, who am I kidding.
Besides, you can't actually expect fiaSCO to run a cash register OS for a web server, can you?
Self-regulation often results in much less burdensome and impactful restrictions than doing nothing. Without self-regulation by industry, the facist-wannabes, puritans, and other asshats are able to push really onerous restrictions through. It all comes down to the Grand Unifying Problem: Stupid People.
Screw 'em, fuck the FCC, think for yourselves. Do what you want and raise your children however you want. These idiots only have as much power over us as we give them.
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I'm quite happy to comprehend several ideas at once, unfortunately her site is on a host that can't handle several visitors at once ;)
Microsoft does something to help shore up a weakness in their OS products, and somehow its still evil.
Windows tends to promote use of the computer with administrator privileges, because that is what people are like. That means any ol' software that the user runs can do all sorts of things behind the scenes like change the registry to run apps at startup without the user knowing, social engineering to make them actually approve such a thing, bogus value propositions like Gator, etc etc. Microsoft, rather than waste a bunch of time writing something in house, picks up some code so they don't have to start from scratch...
This is a Good Thing, zealots.
People who don't use IE can still have spyware, sorry to break it to you. IE is not the problem. It is part of the problem, or at least one of the common vectors through which spyware gets in, but it is not the problem.
Guess what? If Microsoft announces that they are going to integrate integrity checking and tighter controls over software installation, registry editing, etc, and do it for free, then I bet you'll be posting about how evil they are for integrated stuff right into the OS when it should be separate so we have choice, just like with that evil browser IE.
Microsoft, though not my favorate software developer in the world, deserves kudos for addressing the important issues facing their customers.
I also hear that there are other books and stories that feature non-white people. Othello comes to mind... I also hear that Clavelle's Shogun featured a bunch of Asian people.
Maybe its easy to be colorblind if you are white... its also easy when you aren't a racist.
Maybe Ursula should take the following advice:
- Try not to pick publishers that have morons on staff that think the skin color of characters in cover art matters
- Not sell the rights to her stories to random people that she has no reason to trust not to wreck the stories, just like the majority of book-to-screen adaptations (big hint here!... Stephen King can't blame skin color changes on the high suck level in almost all of the movies based on his work)
- Finally, pick a website host that doesn't crumble under a bit of traffic
;)
That being said, Ursula's rant has convinced me not to watch the shitty adaptation of her books (which I haven't read and don't plan to) when/if they get aired here in Canada. The superficial racism (thats pretty oxymoronic, actually) on the part of the people responsible for the mini-series is reason enough to snub it.Not necessarily... merely having an Internet account or access to one in someone elses' name at the same residence could be a violation of the terms of the ban. Thats easy to find out with periodic checks... depends on how despicible the banned person is. If they are a child porn distributor, law enforcement people could be pretty motived to keep the asshat off the net.
I'll remember that next time I need to insult someone who is Chinese. "Hey man, I hear Teriyaki is a Chinese sauce... BOOYAH, IN YOUR FACE!"
"crazy tricked out" = modem with giant spoiler, large R decal, and neon lights on the bottom. Spinner RJ45 plugs are optional for crazy tricked out bling bling connections.
Teriyaki is Japanese, dammit.
I'd recommend something a little bit more substantial like Thai peanut sauce. Also note that hot pepper oil is usually just canola with crushed red pepper in it, so make your own rather than getting gouged at the till buying name brand peppers-in-canola. I make my own for Guo Tie.
Thats Cymru, you insensitive clod.
Some sites can fail to serve content due to blocked cookies, which may very well be tied to ads (Gamespot, for example, doesn't work properly if you don't let the annoying splash page ad set a cookie).
Get it? Joke. Play on words? "PC Unit" being interpreted as one PC, not the entire business unit? Oh forget it...
Unfortunately, Sun has the ear of lots of the UNIX community in the corporate realm, including the PHBs and admins who still think Linux is a toy. There are, unfortunately, a lot of them with their heads in the sand. That is why I run Linux on my U5 at the office... and remind them of how fast and stable it is fairly often ;)
We must always have the right of what to view and what not to view, business models built on denying that choice deserve to be undermined whether its /., CNN, or any other site. Of course, that means the content providers have the right to decide not to provide content at all anymore... mmmm, catch 22.
It'll be interesting watching the people exercise the right to alter or abolish a government destructive of those ends, live on CNN. Of course, we might not be allowed to watch it up here due to the CRTC and lack of Canadian content such a rebellion would entail, despite Canada having just purchased the rights to "Land of the Free" from the US...
It wasn't that long ago when game development wasn't a big money-making industry and a few people did it because they loved shedding blood, sweet and tears to make a game without the expectation of large monetary reward.
What happens if "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" is ammended to "Life, Security and the Pursuit of a Safe Environment"? ;)
Anyways, the meaning of this is clear: restriction of what you have freedom to access. The government will tell you what is acceptable.
What they're worth on some imaginary global scale, local scale, or average wage per hour?... or what they're worth after some sort of analysis of the quality and innovation present in the average EA title?
I have a crappy old NEC Versa VXi, and the thing can't run anything Microsoft-flavored that is newer than Windows 98. I've had Gentoo on it for some time, and it works great.
A different spin on the same joke. You keep settin' 'em up, I'll keep knockin' 'em down, buddy.
Besides, you can't actually expect fiaSCO to run a cash register OS for a web server, can you?
I distinctly remember snapping the neck off a couple C64 joysticks when I was a kid out of frustration. I wonder if I'd stop doing that with this...
You're assuming that they already aren't? Better be prepared before Big Brother catches you buying weed ;)
Not that the CIA gives a shit about people selling weed online... however be really careful what you say in #al-qaeda ;)
Self-regulation often results in much less burdensome and impactful restrictions than doing nothing. Without self-regulation by industry, the facist-wannabes, puritans, and other asshats are able to push really onerous restrictions through. It all comes down to the Grand Unifying Problem: Stupid People.
Screw 'em, fuck the FCC, think for yourselves. Do what you want and raise your children however you want. These idiots only have as much power over us as we give them.