1. TV shows ARE rebroadcast frequently (heck you can see new Law and Orders on USA like the week after a new run) so it is true that this has the effect of many people not really desiring/using recording devices in general.
2. For those people that do desire a recording device, Tivo and other DVR's has already filled the niche to a large extent.
Sorry, this isn't meant as a personal shot at the reviewer or the book, but I just can't resist:
As a dba, I'm constantly looking to learn more about networking and system administration. Our networking guy got busted watching 2 Girls 1 Cup last week and now I'm stuck pulling double duty while we look for a replacement.
Both can have quite an impact on the performance of my piece of the puzzle. Look there's a reason I became a DBA, OK? I can barely calculate a subnet, let alone figure out how to get a new server up and running.
A welcome addition to the materials to help me learn about networking is Carla Schroder's "Linux Networking Cookbook". So I went to Barnes and Noble over lunch and bought every damn computer book with an animal on it I could find, and then some.
This book is just right for the person like myself who enjoys learning by getting hands-on experience with the technology. I lucked out with this one as it has lots of step-by-step examples for various tasks and commands.
The scope is wide and so someone with a great depth of networking experience may find that the treatments of each is a bit shallow. I already said I was a noob, OK, cut me some slack!
On the other hand, that wide scope means this book may hold something new, even for someone with some level of experience. But it saved my butt when the swap file partition took a crap yesterday, you could do worse.
THANK YOU! I knew someone would crystallize my thoughts on this. I'd really like to meet the "competitive" company that didn't have an IT shop (formal or otherwise).
Tech: Sir, Universe #4598232 has achieved self awareness. Bringing up it's stats on the monitor now.
God: Hmmmm.....15.5 billion years? Took them long enough.
Tech: Yes sir. Shall I transfer them over with the other sentients?
God: What's the status of the species that figured it out?
Tech: They call themselves "Humans" sir, a bipedal mammalian race. They've been out of the trees for a few hundred thousand years so far, can control fission but not fusion, only live for about 100 years, and have just recently had unmanned spacecraft pierce their own solar system.
God: Good Me, is that it? What the hell have they been doing this whole time?
Tech: Mostly fighting amongst themselves judging by their media.
God: Yes, I see. Nasty little buggers aren't they? No, we can't risk contaminating the other sentients with this lot, schedule the universe for wiping and reload the OS. Let's go ahead and move this one from the mammalian test group to energy beings, it's looking like energy-based lifeforms might be the way to go, I'd like to get a larger sampling.
This is the same organization that is used to discovering how many phone calls a coach's assistant made to a recruits uncle between the months of April and August from 4 years ago. Trust me, they've got no problem sweating the details.
See the difference though is that Linux was perfect from the start because it was free and it wasn't Microsoft, so any changes since then have just been improving on perfection. And anyway Windows sometimes crashed so that made Linux better too. And something about beer. Shut up and drink more Kool-Aid.
I have reviewed games before, yes (though very informally), and don't misunderstand: I don't begrudge anyone from writing a review on the game to tell people what they think about it. What I have a problem with is sites who assign one guy to Game X, another to Game Y, and then trot it out as the entire sites opinion on the game. To me it is much more useful to have many people review a game, to get a range of opinions.
To me, this doesn't really represent any kind of crisis of gaming journalism, so much as it just highlights how pointless most "magazine" game review sites are. Does anyone still go to Gamestop caring what one of their reviewers think of a game? Or IGN or Gamespy or any of those places? What do I care what one guy who is trying to play through a game on a deadline thinks about it?
Say what you will about amateur game reviewers, the fact of the matter is that when it comes to games, the wisdom of the masses usually holds true. If I'm not sure about a game, or I have a choice between two similar games to make, I'd much rather go look at GameRankings, or heck even the GameFAQ's reviews.
Valve Manager: Hey we're going to release this thing called Orange Box with HL2 and TF2 and we'd really like to pack something else in it to help fill out the press releases, any ideas?
Valve Coder: Well the programmers and I have been playing around with this little game called Portal. It's sort of based on the old game called Narbacular Drop, see you have this gun that creates portals and....
Valve Mangager: That sounds great. Polish up what you have and submit it to the testers.
Valve Coder: Well it's not really done you understand, there isn't a story or anything, and several of the designers have had to take leaves of absence after trying to figure out how levels might work.
Valve Manager: Look it doesn't matter, it's just a throw in. Nobody will be buying this for Portal, or HL2 for that matter, we just have to throw the community a bone for making them wait 10 years for TF2. Finish what you have and let's get it in there.
(9 months later...)
Game Pundits: A stunning example of minimalistic game design! A triumph of elegant simplicity and quasi-storytelling!
Yeah not to whine, but I thought that sort of odd too, as it certainly wasn't meant to be flamebait. The point I was trying to make was, of course: Napster can't make a go of it selling PC-based music subscriptions, so that means the business model as a whole is flawed, because Napster says so?
Seriously isn't that just like saying that nobody wants a turkey sandwich for lunch because the deli across the street closed down? I get that this is a new-ish industry/business model and no one at this point is really sure what's going to work and what won't (iPod/iTunes aside) but writing off the entire idea because Napster is failing at it seems like an unnecessary logical leap.
Clearly they are not counting the volume of email within companies, but even so, if this number is even within 15% accuracy, we're about 10 years away from abandoning email as a communication medium altogether. Can you imagine any other form of communication that was 95% inefficient?
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Have you been outside recently? IT'S HOT! Or Raining! Also there are bears.
So basically what you're saying is that even though it causes confusion and problems for your users and advertisers, you'll never change it because technically it is superfluous. If this isn't the heart and soul of a *nix user distilled into one post I'm not sure what is.
Clearly all the major record labels got together about 15 years ago and decided that they had already made entirely too much money, and wagered amongst themselves to see who could do the most to kill the music industry. It's been a fun ride guys, but you're just getting too blatant now, we're onto your little game.
This is something that people ask for in many mmorpgs I myself have seen people say people who play women in EVE online as being some kind of degenerate but how long can a policy of verification by web cam last since its so easy to get around it doesn't seem to solve much and is an insult to many.
Perhaps not surprising. A lot of the guys from Blizzard North who were responsible for D1 and 2 are now off at Flagship working on Hellgate: London. Not trying to say that D3 won't be good, because who really knows at this point, but undoubtedly it's a different world over at Blizzard North these days.
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1. TV shows ARE rebroadcast frequently (heck you can see new Law and Orders on USA like the week after a new run) so it is true that this has the effect of many people not really desiring/using recording devices in general.
2. For those people that do desire a recording device, Tivo and other DVR's has already filled the niche to a large extent.
Sorry, this isn't meant as a personal shot at the reviewer or the book, but I just can't resist:
As a dba, I'm constantly looking to learn more about networking and system administration.
Our networking guy got busted watching 2 Girls 1 Cup last week and now I'm stuck pulling double duty while we look for a replacement.
Both can have quite an impact on the performance of my piece of the puzzle.
Look there's a reason I became a DBA, OK? I can barely calculate a subnet, let alone figure out how to get a new server up and running.
A welcome addition to the materials to help me learn about networking is Carla Schroder's "Linux Networking Cookbook".
So I went to Barnes and Noble over lunch and bought every damn computer book with an animal on it I could find, and then some.
This book is just right for the person like myself who enjoys learning by getting hands-on experience with the technology.
I lucked out with this one as it has lots of step-by-step examples for various tasks and commands.
The scope is wide and so someone with a great depth of networking experience may find that the treatments of each is a bit shallow.
I already said I was a noob, OK, cut me some slack!
On the other hand, that wide scope means this book may hold something new, even for someone with some level of experience.
But it saved my butt when the swap file partition took a crap yesterday, you could do worse.
THANK YOU! I knew someone would crystallize my thoughts on this. I'd really like to meet the "competitive" company that didn't have an IT shop (formal or otherwise).
Tech: Sir, Universe #4598232 has achieved self awareness. Bringing up it's stats on the monitor now.
God: Hmmmm.....15.5 billion years? Took them long enough.
Tech: Yes sir. Shall I transfer them over with the other sentients?
God: What's the status of the species that figured it out?
Tech: They call themselves "Humans" sir, a bipedal mammalian race. They've been out of the trees for a few hundred thousand years so far, can control fission but not fusion, only live for about 100 years, and have just recently had unmanned spacecraft pierce their own solar system.
God: Good Me, is that it? What the hell have they been doing this whole time?
Tech: Mostly fighting amongst themselves judging by their media.
God: Yes, I see. Nasty little buggers aren't they? No, we can't risk contaminating the other sentients with this lot, schedule the universe for wiping and reload the OS. Let's go ahead and move this one from the mammalian test group to energy beings, it's looking like energy-based lifeforms might be the way to go, I'd like to get a larger sampling.
Isn't one of the major reasons the RIAA is so against file sharing is that digital music allows "perfect" reproduction?
This is the same organization that is used to discovering how many phone calls a coach's assistant made to a recruits uncle between the months of April and August from 4 years ago. Trust me, they've got no problem sweating the details.
could we have possibly done worse as a species?
Hitler could have been raping a kitten.
Just sayin'.....
See the difference though is that Linux was perfect from the start because it was free and it wasn't Microsoft, so any changes since then have just been improving on perfection. And anyway Windows sometimes crashed so that made Linux better too. And something about beer. Shut up and drink more Kool-Aid.
I have reviewed games before, yes (though very informally), and don't misunderstand: I don't begrudge anyone from writing a review on the game to tell people what they think about it. What I have a problem with is sites who assign one guy to Game X, another to Game Y, and then trot it out as the entire sites opinion on the game. To me it is much more useful to have many people review a game, to get a range of opinions.
To me, this doesn't really represent any kind of crisis of gaming journalism, so much as it just highlights how pointless most "magazine" game review sites are. Does anyone still go to Gamestop caring what one of their reviewers think of a game? Or IGN or Gamespy or any of those places? What do I care what one guy who is trying to play through a game on a deadline thinks about it?
Say what you will about amateur game reviewers, the fact of the matter is that when it comes to games, the wisdom of the masses usually holds true. If I'm not sure about a game, or I have a choice between two similar games to make, I'd much rather go look at GameRankings, or heck even the GameFAQ's reviews.
I'm sure that low memory usage bug will be fixed by the first release candidate.
Valve Manager: Hey we're going to release this thing called Orange Box with HL2 and TF2 and we'd really like to pack something else in it to help fill out the press releases, any ideas?
Valve Coder: Well the programmers and I have been playing around with this little game called Portal. It's sort of based on the old game called Narbacular Drop, see you have this gun that creates portals and....
Valve Mangager: That sounds great. Polish up what you have and submit it to the testers.
Valve Coder: Well it's not really done you understand, there isn't a story or anything, and several of the designers have had to take leaves of absence after trying to figure out how levels might work.
Valve Manager: Look it doesn't matter, it's just a throw in. Nobody will be buying this for Portal, or HL2 for that matter, we just have to throw the community a bone for making them wait 10 years for TF2. Finish what you have and let's get it in there.
(9 months later...)
Game Pundits: A stunning example of minimalistic game design! A triumph of elegant simplicity and quasi-storytelling!
...that he's the BOFH? In which case expect him to be back within a week with a 20% raise, and Steve Ballmer nowhere to be found.
Yeah not to whine, but I thought that sort of odd too, as it certainly wasn't meant to be flamebait. The point I was trying to make was, of course: Napster can't make a go of it selling PC-based music subscriptions, so that means the business model as a whole is flawed, because Napster says so?
Seriously isn't that just like saying that nobody wants a turkey sandwich for lunch because the deli across the street closed down? I get that this is a new-ish industry/business model and no one at this point is really sure what's going to work and what won't (iPod/iTunes aside) but writing off the entire idea because Napster is failing at it seems like an unnecessary logical leap.
...Napster just sucks.
Of those, almost a sixth actually used P2P technologies from their work PCs.
In other news, one sixth of one third of all IT admins are stupid enough to not block P2P traffic on their networks.
But does the $250 card make people online you will never meet in real life think that your penis is gigantic like the $400 card does?
You haven't read the Sony press releases about how powerful the PS3 cell processor is.
Clearly they are not counting the volume of email within companies, but even so, if this number is even within 15% accuracy, we're about 10 years away from abandoning email as a communication medium altogether. Can you imagine any other form of communication that was 95% inefficient?
Have you been outside recently? IT'S HOT! Or Raining! Also there are bears.
"We are not the only maNufacturer to have Such a feature -- All the major people do, because our customers require it of us.
So basically what you're saying is that even though it causes confusion and problems for your users and advertisers, you'll never change it because technically it is superfluous. If this isn't the heart and soul of a *nix user distilled into one post I'm not sure what is.
Clearly all the major record labels got together about 15 years ago and decided that they had already made entirely too much money, and wagered amongst themselves to see who could do the most to kill the music industry. It's been a fun ride guys, but you're just getting too blatant now, we're onto your little game.
This is something that people ask for in many mmorpgs I myself have seen people say people who play women in EVE online as being some kind of degenerate but how long can a policy of verification by web cam last since its so easy to get around it doesn't seem to solve much and is an insult to many.
Maybe the mods are to blame for that, but wow.
Perhaps not surprising. A lot of the guys from Blizzard North who were responsible for D1 and 2 are now off at Flagship working on Hellgate: London. Not trying to say that D3 won't be good, because who really knows at this point, but undoubtedly it's a different world over at Blizzard North these days.