All I'm saying is that there could have been an upside to this whole affair.
Theres more to life than money. Sometimes its just more satisfying to fuck over the capitalist pigs
Agreed. A lot of corporations have it coming too. But do we really think this is really some evil plot by the Fuddruckers corporation? Perhaps I'm an optimist, but you can generally blame stupidity before you blame malice.
If he knew the company big-wigs were going to see this first and be offended, what the hell. But they're not, it will be unsuspecting customers who know nothing about the issue. Why take it out on the kids?
Some poor web developer -- not his boss, the CEO, or the shareholders -- had to give up a little bit of his weekend to unfuck this. Why take it out on this guy?
It may be funny to put the boots to big money, but it always seems to screw some poor person first. If people really want to hurt big companies they don't like, don't buy their stuff.
Also, completely stupid. A couple of polite emails would have likely cleared the whole thing up. Does he suppose this burger company will want anything to do with him now?
Here is a fellow, in a moment of juveline petulance, destroyed a potential business opportunity (eg. "I'll write you an even better game for $$$"), to say nothing about damaging his reputation. The Internet is just full of people who react without thinking. . . He forgets the great rule of everything -- two stupids don't make a smart.
He didn't have to do anything more complicated than take content down and write a polite email.
You could go for Asus X-series mainboards like the A7N8X-X or the A7V8X-X, for example. These are no frills motherboards that have only the barest features compared to current mainboards. Sure they have built in sound and NIC, but you can always trun that stuff off. Cheap and effective.
The widespread use of open source software would solve a lot of intellectual property issues. Do you think there is any value in our society focusing it's efforts more toward the use of free software rather than on the enforcement of intellectual property laws?
I'm fairly sure that contracts which are illegal are unenforcable in civil courts. If it is actually your right to sue (though, I'm not sure if that suing is a right in Canada) then making you sign a contract saying that you can't makes that part of contract useless.
I would sign it and collect all the severence you can. Chances are that the company is going to go bankrupt anyway, and won't have the money to pay out damages in a lawsuit.
The article was bad.
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The author of the article was a real idiot. His statement:
"The biomes were erected with a combination of cranes (static and mobile) and scaffolding. The scaffolding made the Guinness Book of Records. At 192 feet (58.5 meters), it was the highest freestanding structure in the world.
Is really, really, wrong. Maybe he means that it was the highest scaffolding in the world. But whatever he meant by it, you would think that an architecture magazine would deliver more accurate information.
If Slashdot is going to start bringing in the big advertising bucks maybe it's time for them to give something back to the people who made the site worth viewing -- the submitters of the stories.
If Slash is going to behave like a big news site maybe they should start paying the providers of it's stories just like other news sites do. I for one don't really feel like paying for the upkeep of VA Research without getting something back.
"The sales success of a product should not exclude it from laws intended to protect intellectual property. Software piracy needs to be combated at all levels, and at Blizzard we intend to do our part to fight illegal distribution of copyrighted media."
This is merely lip service. It's not worth their time to combat piracy at all levels. They are stopping the emulation servers now because they intend to start charging for the Battle.Net service. Wait for it.
4-layer mainboard tech has made compact mainboards cost effective these days. A really good standard (sort of standard) is the MATX form-factor. All it does is chop a few inches of of the width of the mainboard. This makes the computer's case shorter (and often thinner). You will have fewer expansion slots, but a typical MATX board has 1 AGP and 3 PCI slots -- enough for your AGP video card, sound card, and network card, and, if you live in America, 56K modem.
Most of these systems only have enough room for 4 drive devices (eg. CDROM, CDRW, Linux HDD, Windows HDD). If you need more space, buy more computers and network them. Easy.
. ..At least it's alive and kicking in Canada. The two national high-speed providers in Canada don't seem to be in any trouble at all. Mind you, they are the largest cable company (Rogers) and the largest telephone company (Bell Canada).
This is one of the few instances when I'm glad the government has allowed these monopolistic companies to exist as they do. Wide open competition seems to have wrecked the high-speed market in the United States.
The Government of Canada has this initative to make high-speed Internet available to 95 percent of the people who want it. Maybe the United States needs some national strategy too.
All that effort for all those years at Gnome has produced a UI just as infuriating to use as Windows is. Fantastic job! Now I can have Windows on my Linux box too!
A completely alien dekstop GUI can be functional and usable once it is learned. Most video games have GUIs completely different from any mainstream desktop environment, and they are still usable, often more so than the OS is.
Linux already has the capability to give us any user interface we want. Why aren't there dozens of desktop GUIs? Is it too hard? Is it not commercially viable? Have we forgotten how to think that way? If copying Microsoft is what the open-source community has been reduced to, then Microsoft has already won.
I've been working on and off on a document control project for years, but without much sucess. CVS stuff works fine for code, but doesn't seem to work well with the average user, who has no interest in dealing with a 'system'.
What would work better is something that is nearly automatic allowing the users to seemingly load and save things like they always have. I just haven't figured out a good way to do that yet.
I work around 60 hours a week at a small business. Since I also own that business, most of the time it seems like I'm working 80 hours, but only getting 40 hours of work done.
A 2 hard drive server maybe consumes around 75watts when operating (obviously it has no monitor). Over 8000 machines that 600,000 watts of power. Their electrical bill must be obscene.
What I want to know is, why do people fall for stuff like this? You would think that having to pay money to apply for a job would set off some warning bells for some. It's like gambling at the track, except that it costs more and takes months to find out that you have lost.
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Agreed. A lot of corporations have it coming too. But do we really think this is really some evil plot by the Fuddruckers corporation? Perhaps I'm an optimist, but you can generally blame stupidity before you blame malice.
If he knew the company big-wigs were going to see this first and be offended, what the hell. But they're not, it will be unsuspecting customers who know nothing about the issue. Why take it out on the kids?
Some poor web developer -- not his boss, the CEO, or the shareholders -- had to give up a little bit of his weekend to unfuck this. Why take it out on this guy?
It may be funny to put the boots to big money, but it always seems to screw some poor person first. If people really want to hurt big companies they don't like, don't buy their stuff.
hmm... juvenile, not juveline. Let the trolls begin!
Also, completely stupid. A couple of polite emails would have likely cleared the whole thing up. Does he suppose this burger company will want anything to do with him now?
Here is a fellow, in a moment of juveline petulance, destroyed a potential business opportunity (eg. "I'll write you an even better game for $$$"), to say nothing about damaging his reputation. The Internet is just full of people who react without thinking. . . He forgets the great rule of everything -- two stupids don't make a smart.
He didn't have to do anything more complicated than take content down and write a polite email.
This is one of the more stupid things I've seen.
Not only is it easy to fool, it's a sure-fire way to ensure that nobody comes to your frat party.
The WDs work well and have a good warranty, but quiet has never been their strong point, IMHO.
Samsung, however has some damn quiet drives.
You could go for Asus X-series mainboards like the A7N8X-X or the A7V8X-X, for example. These are no frills motherboards that have only the barest features compared to current mainboards. Sure they have built in sound and NIC, but you can always trun that stuff off. Cheap and effective.
Wow that sucks. The last thing the world needs is more lawyers pushing more IP. Surely this will finally grind progress to an end.
This is the same company that charges forty-five bucks for one dollar of printer ink.
Quick search of www.gc.ca reveals this straight-forward document. I see nothing in it that mentions $21/GB
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http://www.canadianheritage.gc.ca/progs/ac-ca/p
It's really, really cold.
I'm fairly sure that contracts which are illegal are unenforcable in civil courts. If it is actually your right to sue (though, I'm not sure if that suing is a right in Canada) then making you sign a contract saying that you can't makes that part of contract useless.
I would sign it and collect all the severence you can. Chances are that the company is going to go bankrupt anyway, and won't have the money to pay out damages in a lawsuit.
"The biomes were erected with a combination of cranes (static and mobile) and scaffolding. The scaffolding made the Guinness Book of Records. At 192 feet (58.5 meters), it was the highest freestanding structure in the world.
Is really, really, wrong. Maybe he means that it was the highest scaffolding in the world. But whatever he meant by it, you would think that an architecture magazine would deliver more accurate information.
I notice the status pages are found on port 6510. Nice touch.
If Slash is going to behave like a big news site maybe they should start paying the providers of it's stories just like other news sites do. I for one don't really feel like paying for the upkeep of VA Research without getting something back.
This is merely lip service. It's not worth their time to combat piracy at all levels. They are stopping the emulation servers now because they intend to start charging for the Battle.Net service. Wait for it.
Those bastards. Brood War was my favourite game.
Most of these systems only have enough room for 4 drive devices (eg. CDROM, CDRW, Linux HDD, Windows HDD). If you need more space, buy more computers and network them. Easy.
This is one of the few instances when I'm glad the government has allowed these monopolistic companies to exist as they do. Wide open competition seems to have wrecked the high-speed market in the United States.
The Government of Canada has this initative to make high-speed Internet available to 95 percent of the people who want it. Maybe the United States needs some national strategy too.
All that effort for all those years at Gnome has produced a UI just as infuriating to use as Windows is. Fantastic job! Now I can have Windows on my Linux box too!
A completely alien dekstop GUI can be functional and usable once it is learned. Most video games have GUIs completely different from any mainstream desktop environment, and they are still usable, often more so than the OS is.
Linux already has the capability to give us any user interface we want. Why aren't there dozens of desktop GUIs? Is it too hard? Is it not commercially viable? Have we forgotten how to think that way? If copying Microsoft is what the open-source community has been reduced to, then Microsoft has already won.
On the other hand, borrowing a well established name to flog your stuff is as unimaginative as it is cheap-ass. They deserve what they get.
What would work better is something that is nearly automatic allowing the users to seemingly load and save things like they always have. I just haven't figured out a good way to do that yet.
A 2 hard drive server maybe consumes around 75watts when operating (obviously it has no monitor). Over 8000 machines that 600,000 watts of power. Their electrical bill must be obscene.
It think the whole affair was a scam.