Vigilante justice occurs when people feel that real justice is not taking place or is not available to them. Sony has regularly screwed its customers and now it is paying the price. You can only push people so far before they react. I know the antics of this group is immature, but it is doing far more to sony than the government is capable of in retribution for the rootkit, the PS3 fiasco, and (from what I have read) SWG;)
I say fuck em and fuck anyone stupid enough to use their services. If you lay with a whore, dont be surprised when you get the clap.
cult of personality. There have always been morons who attracted attention with charisma. There always will be. Our job is to beat them back into obsurity with the truth.
the really amaxing thing about Palin is how she seems to have innoculated herself from blowback. The truth doesnt seem to reduce her popularity. Its an amazing trick really. Eventually the truth will prevail. No one is immune forever.
This is a devensive measure by MS in case Sony or Nintendo (or some other company) decided to buy NVidia and then screw over MS in a effort to sink the XBox. Not saying it would happen, but that is the idea.
MS does not want to buy NVidia, they just want to be sure one of their few revenue streams doesnt go away.
The GP simply pointed out that the 'study' assumes the man is placing himself as the cuckhold when doing such searches. And that there is no evidence of this, simply conjecture. It could very well be the opposite, the man is placing himself as the stud.
In fact from an evolutionary standpoint this scenario makes a lot more sense. Taking the resources of a competitor, possibly forcing another man to raise our genetic offspring as his own, Etc.
I qouls actualy argue that engineer and IT folks dont usually fall into this category. They/We/I may overesitmate their knowledge of a subject, but they dont actually try to boild down psychology into IT. Making correlations is not the sam thing.
When the gas and coal become more scarce, the political economic and military implications of this are as bad as Fukishima.When your people are dying earlier due to lack of $$, when there is conflict with other countries (say when Russia turns off its gas pipeline), when you are importing energy from France, the impact on your country and culture are FAR worse in the long run.
Norway is my hero. They found a shit ton of oil, and instead of going on a spending spree took a big chunk of the money and set it aside in trust. They dont belong to the EU because there is absolutely no value in it for them. They are set for the next 50 years. They can use that trust as oil runs out to become energy independant (wave?) and laugh their asses off at theiddle east, mexico, Africa, South America, and the US, who have squandered their resources.
it had no sensory input, no history, nothing. If any actual 'thoughts' went on in the rat brain cells they would resemble nothing like what we think of as thought.
Im guessing the 1st nuclear powerplant was not super cost efficient either.
If the tech works (and I am not saying it will, I don't know enough on the subject), it will allow other companies who might invest in this able to get loans without such promises in the future. THAT is why the risk is worthwhile.
What you really need to do is make sure that the designs of such plants are as standardized as possible. Part of why nuclear power in the US is a mess compared to say France was that France used a standardized model and every plant in the US is a unique snowflake. Which of course increased build and maintenance costs.
If you include the possibility of those future plants, the time value of the money invested goes way up.
If google has most of the same information on FB users as FB does, they can create a similar database and sell that information (or sell access to the information) to advertisers and marketing firms who want to mine the data.
And that would mean that FB would lose out on revenue.
MS Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter allows unlimited Windows guests up to and including the windows datacenter version.
This means that any office that has more than about 10 windows servers in the datacenter is going to purchase a DC license for their virtualization hosts.
This means that you already has the license for Hyper-V (and thus dont have to pay for VMware).
For datacenter late to the virtualization game, Hyper-V might then become a viable option. Especially if they can support linux on the hosts as well.
Personally I still prefer VMWare, but Hyper-V (and Zen) are catching up quite quickly in features. Given another year or two it will be a nominal difference. Which means that either VMware will have to lower costs or MS will gain marketshare. It is hard to justify paying for something when you can get equal for free.
My thought is that VMWare is miling the market as much as it can until everyone catches up to it. Then it will lower costs to maintain market share. Which is not good for them, but great for all of us.
A clean Win7/x64 install requires exactly 2 security updates to be completely up to date. Depending on your internet connection and PC that takes about 45 min. It can take far less. And if you are smart enough to install SP1 or get the SP1 integrated OS, it is 1 reboot. I will say it is annoying that MS update is not smart enough to install SP1 off the bat (it does it on the 2nd pass unless you manually install it), but that is not the end of the world.
I can say this for 100% sure because I have installed more win7/x64 machines in the last two months than I ever want to as part of design and testing phase of the win7 project at work.
As for comparing a linux server farm to a windows home machine.....really? I can say the same thing, if I use SCCM to deploy an OS, I can get a complete install from bare metal (physical or virtual) with by hitting f12 twice, 3 mouse clicks and entering a computername. Doesnt really have anything to do with the GP's post though.
It will be interesting to see what sony does with this if it is true. I mean, it is not like they care about burning bridges. I could totally see them suing Amazon, if only to give them a PR black eye.
Im guessing that this is amazon overreacting. Amazon has milliions of book titles, some of them very sexual. But THESE books are delisted? Smells like someone or a small group started a campaign to get these removed after their daughters friends cousin read one and they heard about it 4th hand. I can totally see a PTA or church group getting together, and some pinhead at amazon looking at the numbers and said it wasnt worth it.
Actually, in both the censorship case and your example, it still comes down to ideology. In both cases the business owner is chosing profits over generally accepted moral behavior. Im fine with that, but I also wont suport a business who operates that way. Losing customers goes both ways.
It also highlights why businesses should not have the same rights as people. If we as people acted in the same way as businesses we would be considered dangerous heartless sociopaths. Not to mention that one large business has the same resources and impact and thousdands if not millions of people, so really they are equivilent to thousands of sociopaths.
Perfect example of this is the spanish-American War which was fermented (but not initiated) almost by newspapers in New York. Pulitzer and Hearst should be curses.
What is the difference between a shill and a fanboi? I know its hard for you (and frankly for me) to believe that anyone would be a MS fanboi, but they ARe out there.
It boils down to human nature. Many people attach themselves to idea because they are either too lazy or unable to seperate those ideas from their identity and think critically. I make my money off of MS products (well MS and citrix, same thing). I am able to seperate myself from the tech that provides my paycheck. Im neither pro or anti MS. Just as I am neither or pro/anti-Linux or pro/anti-Google or....well Apple just annoys me.
The point is just because someone has an irrational attachment to a brand/game/tech, whatever. does not make them a shill.
Now, if they are taking MONEY for it...
PS- if you(the reader, not the parent) think that every major company out there does not do this (Oracle, Google, IBM, HP, Intel, MS, Apple, FB, et al), then you need to be more critical in your thinking. FB just got caught.
It makes no sense for MS to not support Skype on Linux and Mac moving forward. This is not MS Office where they can leverage it to force people onto their OS. As much as it may pain some people to hear, Skype & consumer VOIP is a VERY small revenue stream. The real money is in the enterprise side of the fence. CAL's and Server licenses. the best example is the MS AV offering. They give the consumer part away for free and charge for Business CAL's and servers.
What makes more sense is to bundle Skpye access and federation into their LYNC offerings, similar to how they federate their IM client to MSN. Millions of people already use Skype. By putting an enterprise level Skype connectivity ability onto the LYNC servers, they give medium to large sized companies the ability to do customer service and sales over Microsoft's VOIP system, and gives them an install base of consumers to feed the need and justify the cost on the Enterprise side.
Frankly I think it is a brilliant move on their part. If they combione Lync and Skype and keep all platforms up to dat eon the client side, it will get them good will from the governments of the EU and US, and give them something to point at when they say they are multiplatform. The beautiful part (from a business standpoint I mean) is they can then force companies to have to have CAL's to integrate with their internal VOIP systems for users who want to use mobile skype at the enterprise level (versus using skype for business like they have to do today), aand sell the federation to public and peer to peer skype as a server offering with the license cost to boot.
This is false. Powershell is available as an addon for Win XP and Win 2k3. The poster above said preinstalled fo a reason. Any decent Window environment should have a software distribution system which makes the update for PS 2.0 a non issue.
Actually it was answered almost immediately, but the birthers did not want to (and thus found a reason not to ) accept the evidence given. The live birth cert was PLENTY good enough, anyone who didnt accept it was being willfully ignorant or is just a moron.
Or perhaps they have an ulterior motive....gee I wonder what that could be.
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but I dont disapprove.
Vigilante justice occurs when people feel that real justice is not taking place or is not available to them. Sony has regularly screwed its customers and now it is paying the price. You can only push people so far before they react. I know the antics of this group is immature, but it is doing far more to sony than the government is capable of in retribution for the rootkit, the PS3 fiasco, and (from what I have read) SWG ;)
I say fuck em and fuck anyone stupid enough to use their services. If you lay with a whore, dont be surprised when you get the clap.
cult of personality. There have always been morons who attracted attention with charisma. There always will be. Our job is to beat them back into obsurity with the truth.
the really amaxing thing about Palin is how she seems to have innoculated herself from blowback. The truth doesnt seem to reduce her popularity. Its an amazing trick really. Eventually the truth will prevail. No one is immune forever.
The other difference being that a large number of people think she is not a moron and what she says it taken as gospel.
I'd say RTFA, but this is slashdot.
This is a devensive measure by MS in case Sony or Nintendo (or some other company) decided to buy NVidia and then screw over MS in a effort to sink the XBox. Not saying it would happen, but that is the idea.
MS does not want to buy NVidia, they just want to be sure one of their few revenue streams doesnt go away.
The GP simply pointed out that the 'study' assumes the man is placing himself as the cuckhold when doing such searches. And that there is no evidence of this, simply conjecture. It could very well be the opposite, the man is placing himself as the stud.
In fact from an evolutionary standpoint this scenario makes a lot more sense. Taking the resources of a competitor, possibly forcing another man to raise our genetic offspring as his own, Etc.
I qouls actualy argue that engineer and IT folks dont usually fall into this category. They/We/I may overesitmate their knowledge of a subject, but they dont actually try to boild down psychology into IT. Making correlations is not the sam thing.
When the gas and coal become more scarce, the political economic and military implications of this are as bad as Fukishima.When your people are dying earlier due to lack of $$, when there is conflict with other countries (say when Russia turns off its gas pipeline), when you are importing energy from France, the impact on your country and culture are FAR worse in the long run.
But people dont see that.
Which is why corporations are considered amoral sociopaths by some of us.
Norway is my hero. They found a shit ton of oil, and instead of going on a spending spree took a big chunk of the money and set it aside in trust. They dont belong to the EU because there is absolutely no value in it for them. They are set for the next 50 years. They can use that trust as oil runs out to become energy independant (wave?) and laugh their asses off at theiddle east, mexico, Africa, South America, and the US, who have squandered their resources.
it had no sensory input, no history, nothing. If any actual 'thoughts' went on in the rat brain cells they would resemble nothing like what we think of as thought.
Im guessing the 1st nuclear powerplant was not super cost efficient either.
If the tech works (and I am not saying it will, I don't know enough on the subject), it will allow other companies who might invest in this able to get loans without such promises in the future. THAT is why the risk is worthwhile.
What you really need to do is make sure that the designs of such plants are as standardized as possible. Part of why nuclear power in the US is a mess compared to say France was that France used a standardized model and every plant in the US is a unique snowflake. Which of course increased build and maintenance costs.
If you include the possibility of those future plants, the time value of the money invested goes way up.
If google has most of the same information on FB users as FB does, they can create a similar database and sell that information (or sell access to the information) to advertisers and marketing firms who want to mine the data.
And that would mean that FB would lose out on revenue.
Wish I had mod points. This is exaqctly how such situations should be handled. And why a good manager in IT is a great asset.
If you can read, you can use tech. Read the manual. Google it. look up a video on youtube. Or just ask someone.
there is no excuse for ignorance. In tech or anything else. Saying that older people have some special disadvantage is just a load of crap.
All you need is one corrupt or stupid judge to fuck things up for everyone.
Microsoft server licensing 101
MS Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter allows unlimited Windows guests up to and including the windows datacenter version.
This means that any office that has more than about 10 windows servers in the datacenter is going to purchase a DC license for their virtualization hosts.
This means that you already has the license for Hyper-V (and thus dont have to pay for VMware).
For datacenter late to the virtualization game, Hyper-V might then become a viable option. Especially if they can support linux on the hosts as well.
Personally I still prefer VMWare, but Hyper-V (and Zen) are catching up quite quickly in features. Given another year or two it will be a nominal difference. Which means that either VMware will have to lower costs or MS will gain marketshare. It is hard to justify paying for something when you can get equal for free.
My thought is that VMWare is miling the market as much as it can until everyone catches up to it. Then it will lower costs to maintain market share. Which is not good for them, but great for all of us.
I call hyperbole on this.
A clean Win7/x64 install requires exactly 2 security updates to be completely up to date. Depending on your internet connection and PC that takes about 45 min. It can take far less. And if you are smart enough to install SP1 or get the SP1 integrated OS, it is 1 reboot. I will say it is annoying that MS update is not smart enough to install SP1 off the bat (it does it on the 2nd pass unless you manually install it), but that is not the end of the world.
I can say this for 100% sure because I have installed more win7/x64 machines in the last two months than I ever want to as part of design and testing phase of the win7 project at work.
As for comparing a linux server farm to a windows home machine.....really? I can say the same thing, if I use SCCM to deploy an OS, I can get a complete install from bare metal (physical or virtual) with by hitting f12 twice, 3 mouse clicks and entering a computername. Doesnt really have anything to do with the GP's post though.
It will be interesting to see what sony does with this if it is true. I mean, it is not like they care about burning bridges. I could totally see them suing Amazon, if only to give them a PR black eye.
Im guessing that this is amazon overreacting. Amazon has milliions of book titles, some of them very sexual. But THESE books are delisted? Smells like someone or a small group started a campaign to get these removed after their daughters friends cousin read one and they heard about it 4th hand. I can totally see a PTA or church group getting together, and some pinhead at amazon looking at the numbers and said it wasnt worth it.
Actually, in both the censorship case and your example, it still comes down to ideology. In both cases the business owner is chosing profits over generally accepted moral behavior. Im fine with that, but I also wont suport a business who operates that way. Losing customers goes both ways.
It also highlights why businesses should not have the same rights as people. If we as people acted in the same way as businesses we would be considered dangerous heartless sociopaths. Not to mention that one large business has the same resources and impact and thousdands if not millions of people, so really they are equivilent to thousands of sociopaths.
Perfect example of this is the spanish-American War which was fermented (but not initiated) almost by newspapers in New York. Pulitzer and Hearst should be curses.
What is the difference between a shill and a fanboi? I know its hard for you (and frankly for me) to believe that anyone would be a MS fanboi, but they ARe out there.
It boils down to human nature. Many people attach themselves to idea because they are either too lazy or unable to seperate those ideas from their identity and think critically. I make my money off of MS products (well MS and citrix, same thing). I am able to seperate myself from the tech that provides my paycheck. Im neither pro or anti MS. Just as I am neither or pro/anti-Linux or pro/anti-Google or ....well Apple just annoys me.
The point is just because someone has an irrational attachment to a brand/game/tech, whatever. does not make them a shill.
Now, if they are taking MONEY for it...
PS- if you(the reader, not the parent) think that every major company out there does not do this (Oracle, Google, IBM, HP, Intel, MS, Apple, FB, et al), then you need to be more critical in your thinking. FB just got caught.
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watch out for the dups!
It makes no sense for MS to not support Skype on Linux and Mac moving forward. This is not MS Office where they can leverage it to force people onto their OS. As much as it may pain some people to hear, Skype & consumer VOIP is a VERY small revenue stream. The real money is in the enterprise side of the fence. CAL's and Server licenses. the best example is the MS AV offering. They give the consumer part away for free and charge for Business CAL's and servers.
What makes more sense is to bundle Skpye access and federation into their LYNC offerings, similar to how they federate their IM client to MSN. Millions of people already use Skype. By putting an enterprise level Skype connectivity ability onto the LYNC servers, they give medium to large sized companies the ability to do customer service and sales over Microsoft's VOIP system, and gives them an install base of consumers to feed the need and justify the cost on the Enterprise side.
Frankly I think it is a brilliant move on their part. If they combione Lync and Skype and keep all platforms up to dat eon the client side, it will get them good will from the governments of the EU and US, and give them something to point at when they say they are multiplatform. The beautiful part (from a business standpoint I mean) is they can then force companies to have to have CAL's to integrate with their internal VOIP systems for users who want to use mobile skype at the enterprise level (versus using skype for business like they have to do today), aand sell the federation to public and peer to peer skype as a server offering with the license cost to boot.
This is false. Powershell is available as an addon for Win XP and Win 2k3. The poster above said preinstalled fo a reason. Any decent Window environment should have a software distribution system which makes the update for PS 2.0 a non issue.
Actually it was answered almost immediately, but the birthers did not want to (and thus found a reason not to ) accept the evidence given. The live birth cert was PLENTY good enough, anyone who didnt accept it was being willfully ignorant or is just a moron.
Or perhaps they have an ulterior motive....gee I wonder what that could be.