Pay for posting your opinion. That reminds me of those: "We'd like to hear your opinion" Please call 1-900-IMA-SUKR to vote yes or 1-900-IAM-DUMB to vote no. Only $4.95 per call. I could just see some idiot voting twice to get their views across.
Actually our society does go after the gun dealers. And successfully I might add. If Napster went after the individual users, then people just may have to take responsibility for their own actions. We can't possibly have that.
Think about it, when the person subscribes to this "museum" they have to add their e-mail address. Could you imagine the worth of an e-mail list of people stupid enough to purchase something like this? If you'll fall for one, you'll fall for more.
This question has been bothering me too recently, I finally found the answer on everything2.com. Here it is:
"Most-referenced phrase from the Engrish-translated intro story to the video game Zero Wing. Briefly immortalized on Something Awful in an extremely long forum thread containing the posters various attempts of varying quality to edit photographs so that the phrase was contained within them. (Example: Family Feud picture with "All Your Base Are Belong to Us!!" as the answer displayed on the board behind the host."
Edit may be a little extreme, as there are VERY little formatting options. I know, who needs bolding and italics, it is fine for most things, but it is needed when trying to make a good looking paper. WP5.1 would work great for me as long as I have the capability of printing to PDF (which it does as a postscript) so others can read.
If you purchased the older 97/95/whatever, they can't take it away from you, and it basically already does everything you could need a Word Processor to do.
Thats when the world goes to StarOffice. MS Office 95, 97, and 2000 is nice, but I can make my documents look just as nice in Wordperfect for DOS, which I will use if I have to pay by the month. The day.NET comes is the day I switch to Linux/BSD/Mac/or
I just had an experience a week ago. I can't believe I'm reading this.. Read On!
I'm currently at a job that I am comfortable in, although not challenged enough. I've been kind of keeping my eye open for something really nice, but not necessarily looking. One day, my girlfriend calls me at work and says "I found this perfect job for you". It was listed on Monster.com. She then said, "I went to their web site and it has pictures of that penguin you like". So I give them a call and some guy answers. I tell him that I am calling about the Linux Networking Specialist. He asks about my experience. I say that I am currently a Software specialist and enjoy using Linux, although I'm not an expert. He then proceeds to tell me they will train. He then sets up an interview right away. I asked for the Web Site and did further research in their careers section, and I went back to my girlfriend and said exactly this. "It seems like a scam, they didn't ask me anything yet, want to interview me for an hour for a job that I'm probably not qualified for. They didn't ask for a resume or anything. She said that I should go. Something told me not to waste my time. One week later, I see this story. Unbelievable!
I find these stories very amusing. It reminds me of the one when the programmers of CDRWIN fought back against people that cracked their software. They essentially wrote malicious code to go through and destroy data on their hard drive. Of course they got sued for it, but it was the first instance that I've heard of a company actually fighting fire with fire against the hacking/cracking community.
Sorry to have to point this out, and it is definitely not a troll.....but.... wasn't it posted here a couple months ago that Microsoft actually uses Linux for their servers?
Excellent Topic, I am in the Exact same situation as you and have asked myself the same questions. I went to the IS manager at my company and asked to have lunch with him. During this lunch, I felt that he did not think it mattered much, unless you were going into software engineering. If your hope is to work on the latest 3d games and software, then you NEED to know the math, otherwise most of it is useless for most of the things IT people do (networking, installing systems, upgrading, databases, etc.) Since I don't want to program all that much, I am now enrolled in the CIS program at my school.
Even with book burning, it is near impossible to get every copy, which is what they would have to do. There are always copies being bought and sold in the underground, even if it is burned, banned, or whatever.
First of all, you should be commended for taking a happy, positive job experience over a good paying job experience. Few people today have their head screwed on right, and think about things that way. Most will jump at an opportunity such as the one you were offered.
Like the saying goes in the corporate world, you will always rise to the level of your incompetence. If you are doing a great job, you will get promoted. If you are doing a lousy job, you will continue in that job you are doing lousy in while bringing the rest of the company down with you.
I could get a perfect score on Pitfall anytime, or most any game for that matter. Doesn't Stella or any of the other emulators have real-time save? I remember all the games that took many controllers (temper) and hours to beat. I've come back and beat many of them using this in about 30 minutes each. Of course, it was not nearly as fun as actually playing the game.
A perfect game of Arkanoid, one life, all levels... now that would be something.
Look what happened to arcades, games at home today are equal to or in some cases better than what are at the arcades. I would definitely prefer a Lan Party to a day at the local arcade. Networked games just add a realism that you can't get from a standalone. I think if anything is on the way out, it is arcade machines. I used to go to play the latest technology, if I can get better at home for less money, I'll do it.
Games nowadays are so much more involved, with my schedule, I can get a full 3 months out of a really good game. Which means I only buy about 4 games a year. Think about it. This year, I bought two games, Quake 3 and Half-Life. The mods alone have kept me a happy gamer for three years straight. Can you say Counter-Strike and Rocket Arena? There are so many consoles and so many developers out there that only the best of the best will survive, right now I would say that is ID, EA, Square, Valve (RIP), and Namco (maybe). I'm sure there are others, but those are the ones who I see getting any of my money anytime soon. I used to buy 20+ games a year, because I would buy it without knowing much about it, and play it for a day, beat it and get sick of it. Games nowadays have a much longer shelf life.
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Pay for posting your opinion. That reminds me of those: "We'd like to hear your opinion" Please call 1-900-IMA-SUKR to vote yes or 1-900-IAM-DUMB to vote no. Only $4.95 per call. I could just see some idiot voting twice to get their views across.
Probably because they weren't underestimating them enough.
Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes.
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the stupidity of American people.
Actually our society does go after the gun dealers. And successfully I might add. If Napster went after the individual users, then people just may have to take responsibility for their own actions. We can't possibly have that.
Sad world we live in.
If wireless is now at 128kb why the hell are standard phonelines only 56k?
Change all locations of Starbucks to the worst neighborhood in that city.
Think about it, when the person subscribes to this "museum" they have to add their e-mail address. Could you imagine the worth of an e-mail list of people stupid enough to purchase something like this? If you'll fall for one, you'll fall for more.
This question has been bothering me too recently, I finally found the answer on everything2.com. Here it is: "Most-referenced phrase from the Engrish-translated intro story to the video game Zero Wing. Briefly immortalized on Something Awful in an extremely long forum thread containing the posters various attempts of varying quality to edit photographs so that the phrase was contained within them. (Example: Family Feud picture with "All Your Base Are Belong to Us!!" as the answer displayed on the board behind the host."
Edit may be a little extreme, as there are VERY little formatting options. I know, who needs bolding and italics, it is fine for most things, but it is needed when trying to make a good looking paper. WP5.1 would work great for me as long as I have the capability of printing to PDF (which it does as a postscript) so others can read. If you purchased the older 97/95/whatever, they can't take it away from you, and it basically already does everything you could need a Word Processor to do.
If linking to illegal material is against the law, I would think that every search engine should be taken down. How can this be different?
If only he used the Spam Encryptor, none of this would have happened.
Thats when the world goes to StarOffice. MS Office 95, 97, and 2000 is nice, but I can make my documents look just as nice in Wordperfect for DOS, which I will use if I have to pay by the month. The day .NET comes is the day I switch to Linux/BSD/Mac/or
I just had an experience a week ago. I can't believe I'm reading this.. Read On!
I'm currently at a job that I am comfortable in, although not challenged enough. I've been kind of keeping my eye open for something really nice, but not necessarily looking. One day, my girlfriend calls me at work and says "I found this perfect job for you". It was listed on Monster.com. She then said, "I went to their web site and it has pictures of that penguin you like". So I give them a call and some guy answers. I tell him that I am calling about the Linux Networking Specialist. He asks about my experience. I say that I am currently a Software specialist and enjoy using Linux, although I'm not an expert. He then proceeds to tell me they will train. He then sets up an interview right away. I asked for the Web Site and did further research in their careers section, and I went back to my girlfriend and said exactly this. "It seems like a scam, they didn't ask me anything yet, want to interview me for an hour for a job that I'm probably not qualified for. They didn't ask for a resume or anything. She said that I should go. Something told me not to waste my time. One week later, I see this story. Unbelievable!I find these stories very amusing. It reminds me of the one when the programmers of CDRWIN fought back against people that cracked their software. They essentially wrote malicious code to go through and destroy data on their hard drive. Of course they got sued for it, but it was the first instance that I've heard of a company actually fighting fire with fire against the hacking/cracking community.
No, but you can bet your a** everything will be delivered in a FedEx Box.
I wonder if it starts out in Black and white, then moves to technicolor(tm) half way through. As long as it gets to digital by the end of the movie.
Sorry to have to point this out, and it is definitely not a troll.....but.... wasn't it posted here a couple months ago that Microsoft actually uses Linux for their servers?
Excellent Topic, I am in the Exact same situation as you and have asked myself the same questions. I went to the IS manager at my company and asked to have lunch with him. During this lunch, I felt that he did not think it mattered much, unless you were going into software engineering. If your hope is to work on the latest 3d games and software, then you NEED to know the math, otherwise most of it is useless for most of the things IT people do (networking, installing systems, upgrading, databases, etc.) Since I don't want to program all that much, I am now enrolled in the CIS program at my school.
Even with book burning, it is near impossible to get every copy, which is what they would have to do. There are always copies being bought and sold in the underground, even if it is burned, banned, or whatever.
First of all, you should be commended for taking a happy, positive job experience over a good paying job experience. Few people today have their head screwed on right, and think about things that way. Most will jump at an opportunity such as the one you were offered. Like the saying goes in the corporate world, you will always rise to the level of your incompetence. If you are doing a great job, you will get promoted. If you are doing a lousy job, you will continue in that job you are doing lousy in while bringing the rest of the company down with you.
Dvds will NOT become completely mainstream until you can record them, and then of course download them off of Napster.
Can someone give me one copy protection scheme that actually has worked?
I could get a perfect score on Pitfall anytime, or most any game for that matter. Doesn't Stella or any of the other emulators have real-time save? I remember all the games that took many controllers (temper) and hours to beat. I've come back and beat many of them using this in about 30 minutes each. Of course, it was not nearly as fun as actually playing the game. A perfect game of Arkanoid, one life, all levels... now that would be something.
Look what happened to arcades, games at home today are equal to or in some cases better than what are at the arcades. I would definitely prefer a Lan Party to a day at the local arcade. Networked games just add a realism that you can't get from a standalone. I think if anything is on the way out, it is arcade machines. I used to go to play the latest technology, if I can get better at home for less money, I'll do it.
Games nowadays are so much more involved, with my schedule, I can get a full 3 months out of a really good game. Which means I only buy about 4 games a year. Think about it. This year, I bought two games, Quake 3 and Half-Life. The mods alone have kept me a happy gamer for three years straight. Can you say Counter-Strike and Rocket Arena? There are so many consoles and so many developers out there that only the best of the best will survive, right now I would say that is ID, EA, Square, Valve (RIP), and Namco (maybe). I'm sure there are others, but those are the ones who I see getting any of my money anytime soon. I used to buy 20+ games a year, because I would buy it without knowing much about it, and play it for a day, beat it and get sick of it. Games nowadays have a much longer shelf life.