Re:You /. people really like the word "monopoly"
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It's true that Bell and everyone like them are giving DSL access to the people at a lower cost than most other companies. The only problem is that they're doing this to blow any smaller companies out of the water.
Now if the second part of what you said was true, and these larger companies were doing the best business they could, then I wouldn't be typing this right now, but the fact is that half the time they're a bunch of bumbling idoits. Just recently I had to yell at an AT&T tech so they would fix router problems that they didn't even know they had.
Also, the fact that something becomes a monopoly is actually inherently bad. In fact there are a number of US and Canadian laws to prevent it. There are also laws that prevent software pirating and a lot of people don't care about them, but I'm guessing by the looks of "your" homepage you aren't one of those people.
Re:You /. people really like the word "monopoly"
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It's true that Bell and everyone like them are giving DSL access to the people at a lower cost than most other companies. The only problem is that they're doing this to blow any smaller companies out of the water.
Now if the second part of what you said was true, and these larger companies were doing the best business they could, then I wouldn't be typing this right now, but the fact is that half the time they're a bunch of bumbling idoits. Just recently I had to yell at an AT&T tech so they would fix router problems that they didn't even know they had.
Also, the fact that something becomes a monopoly is actually inherently bad. In fact there are a number of US and Canadian laws to prevent it. There are also laws that prevent software pirating and a lot of people don't care about them, but I'm guessing by the looks of "your" homepage you aren't one of those people.
I want the post-opening music!
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Man, that music that plays during the first 3 minutes after the intro/really rocks/! Whoever engineered that is the true ruler of the universe! What was used to create that anyhow? I want an MP3!
Interesting theory, but it doesn't make any real sense.
Here's a theory for you - Sony wants to stop exports of the PS2, right?
Yep, they don't really like exports. That doesn't make sense either, but that's another discussion.
So, they release PS2's with memory cards that have a known problem - for all of the Japanese consumers, it's an easy fix - go down to the nearest store (which will have the "fixed" cards already, manufactured before the launch) and trade in your old card for the new one.
I'm afraid Sony doesn't dislike exports that badly. Thinks about how much money it would cost to make that many memory cards! Beside that, Sony would loose face to it's Japanese customers if it made them all stand in another huge line-up.
For import users though, you're pretty much stuck - it says on the box that you can't export them, so how do you think they'll treat someone from the US looking for an upgrade?
First off, you must not have read the article. It says:
"As such, any PS2 units that NCS imports this week will contain a defective PS2 memory card that will need to be returned to our vendors."
People don't import the hardware, companies send them to other companies. So Sony would never see "someone from the US" returning the console, they'd only see the companies they sold the console to in the first place.
I estimate four rounds of "buggy" memory cards to shake out most of the import market, staggered every few weeks.
That's just plain illogical. Imagine the memory cards cost $20, if Sony were to give returns on four more rounds, they'd be throwing away $100 worth of sellable merchandise! I guarentee they wouldn't waste that much money on something that's going to happen anyway, like exporting.
What the web needs is an influx of TLDs, true, but not ones this long.
Besides that, what's up with.taxpayer? Yeah that's what I'd like behind my domain..sucks will get used, but I can't see anyone registering with.isnotfair or.isnotgreen
Canadian law (or atleast the providence that icrave is located in) states that anyone can rebroadcast broadcast TV signals.
'Fraid iCrave isn't located in a providence. It'd be located in a province, as Canada is split up into 10 of them, as well as 3 territories. Sorry if that was just a typo.
I sure am glad to be from Canada where people don't decide they've invented the net and pieces of land don't turn into webpages. And not even/good/ webpages.. I mean the idea's ok, but why is the bottom half netscape grey?! Yuck.
GIF animation is crude,/very/ ugly, and extremely obnoxoius. They aren't nessicary on any web page, and when on most they actually detract from the overall design. If you want animation that doesn't suck, and that has even a chance at impressing people, use Flash.
To start off, I have to say this: I hate GIFs. They're huge, they're ugly, they can be (ugh) animated, and they only have on possible level of transparency. PNG is, over, a much better format.
Now, the first problem here is that the current browsers don't really support PNG when first installed. Not only that, but most people who use only the web are using Netscape 2 or 3, because they don't feel the need to upgrade, or they have know idea how.
At his moment, I'm currently working for a large-ish webdesign company, and as any credible web designer knows, one of the first rules of designing a page is: make sure the most amount of people can see your page properly or they won't think much of the content.
Now everyday for the last month I've been working on a huge project for a very large local company. In that massive site I'd say at least 75% of the graphics are GIFs (because of the need for transparency). To replace all these graphics would cost the client a very large sum, and keep them waiting for the final product for a very long time, so it would be more cost effective for the customer to pay 5000 USD then to have us redo all the pages with JPGs. This is how Unisys is going to end up making money, and they're going to keep making money until the law is fixed, not until the new browsers come out with better PNG support, because web pages have to be viewed by everyone.
You fool! Amiga was always God. If IBM didn't make it big, the world would have been a better place. I mean, jeez, the 500 had a speech emulation command in the BASIC! The Amiga machines were way ahead of their time, and I'm glad to see thme comming back. Besides if they do take QNX it's not going to be propritary, QNX is a Unix clone (and a good one at that too).
Virii have been around almost as long as computers, and the first ones were nasty little buggers too. Does anyone remember the Worm? That thing descimated systems in a time when data wasn't as easy to get back, and system weren't so easy to get back up.
Did the media care about this? No, it wasn't important enough. Nothing dealing with computers was important back then. Now along comes Jane/John Doe with a silly little script that only works on Windows if you're running only an MS mailer. This is not a virus. Imagine if the worm happened again today at the same level of severity as in the days when VMS sysadmins feared it. What would the media do to the author? (Assuming that he was brain-damaged enough to write it with a bunch of Big Brother type MS mararky)
My point is simply that the Media is supposed to be the people's survant. They aren't supposed to try and scare us with every new buzz-word that comes along. They should have to check their facts and look around to see what is actually going on. What they are doing to the person is wrong. Not that I have any simpathy for anyone who even tries to write a virus, that's the lamest thing going, it's just that there have been much worse cases then this tiny annoyance.
I mean come on people, all it does is send itself to five people! The only reason that hurts anyone is because thy happen to be running MS stuff at the time.
At the end of the article the author says the the internet wasn't robust enough to handle 21st century problems. WTF is/THAT/ supposed to mean? Just because people can't configure their deamons then the internet isn't working up to spec? Somebody should shake this guy's head for him...
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It's true that Bell and everyone like them are giving DSL access to the people at a lower cost than most other companies. The only problem is that they're doing this to blow any smaller companies out of the water.
Now if the second part of what you said was true, and these larger companies were doing the best business they could, then I wouldn't be typing this right now, but the fact is that half the time they're a bunch of bumbling idoits. Just recently I had to yell at an AT&T tech so they would fix router problems that they didn't even know they had.
Also, the fact that something becomes a monopoly is actually inherently bad. In fact there are a number of US and Canadian laws to prevent it. There are also laws that prevent software pirating and a lot of people don't care about them, but I'm guessing by the looks of "your" homepage you aren't one of those people.
It's true that Bell and everyone like them are giving DSL access to the people at a lower cost than most other companies. The only problem is that they're doing this to blow any smaller companies out of the water.
Now if the second part of what you said was true, and these larger companies were doing the best business they could, then I wouldn't be typing this right now, but the fact is that half the time they're a bunch of bumbling idoits. Just recently I had to yell at an AT&T tech so they would fix router problems that they didn't even know they had.
Also, the fact that something becomes a monopoly is actually inherently bad. In fact there are a number of US and Canadian laws to prevent it. There are also laws that prevent software pirating and a lot of people don't care about them, but I'm guessing by the looks of "your" homepage you aren't one of those people.
Man, that music that plays during the first 3 minutes after the intro /really rocks/! Whoever engineered that is the true ruler of the universe!
What was used to create that anyhow? I want an MP3!
Interesting theory, but it doesn't make any real sense.
Here's a theory for you - Sony wants to stop exports of the PS2, right?
Yep, they don't really like exports. That doesn't make sense either, but that's another discussion.
So, they release PS2's with memory cards that have a known problem - for all of the Japanese consumers, it's an easy fix - go down to the nearest store (which will have the "fixed" cards already, manufactured before the launch) and trade in your old card for the new one.
I'm afraid Sony doesn't dislike exports that badly. Thinks about how much money it would cost to make that many memory cards! Beside that, Sony would loose face to it's Japanese customers if it made them all stand in another huge line-up.
For import users though, you're pretty much stuck - it says on the box that you can't export them, so how do you think they'll treat someone from the US looking for an upgrade?
First off, you must not have read the article. It says:
"As such, any PS2 units that NCS imports this week will contain a defective PS2 memory card that will need to be returned to our vendors."
People don't import the hardware, companies send them to other companies. So Sony would never see "someone from the US" returning the console, they'd only see the companies they sold the console to in the first place.
I estimate four rounds of "buggy" memory cards to shake out most of the import market, staggered every few weeks.
That's just plain illogical. Imagine the memory cards cost $20, if Sony were to give returns on four more rounds, they'd be throwing away $100 worth of sellable merchandise! I guarentee they wouldn't waste that much money on something that's going to happen anyway, like exporting.
What the web needs is an influx of TLDs, true, but not ones this long.
.taxpayer? Yeah that's what I'd like behind my domain. .sucks will get used, but I can't see anyone registering with .isnotfair or .isnotgreen
Besides that, what's up with
Canadian law (or atleast the providence that icrave is located in) states that anyone can rebroadcast broadcast TV signals.
'Fraid iCrave isn't located in a providence. It'd be located in a province, as Canada is split up into 10 of them, as well as 3 territories. Sorry if that was just a typo.
I sure am glad to be from Canada where people don't decide they've invented the net and pieces of land don't turn into webpages. And not even /good/ webpages.. I mean the idea's ok, but why is the bottom half netscape grey?! Yuck.
GIF animation is crude, /very/ ugly, and extremely obnoxoius. They aren't nessicary on any web page, and when on most they actually detract from the overall design. If you want animation that doesn't suck, and that has even a chance at impressing people, use Flash.
To start off, I have to say this: I hate GIFs. They're huge, they're ugly, they can be (ugh) animated, and they only have on possible level of transparency. PNG is, over, a much better format.
Now, the first problem here is that the current browsers don't really support PNG when first installed. Not only that, but most people who use only the web are using Netscape 2 or 3, because they don't feel the need to upgrade, or they have know idea how.
At his moment, I'm currently working for a large-ish webdesign company, and as any credible web designer knows, one of the first rules of designing a page is: make sure the most amount of people can see your page properly or they won't think much of the content.
Now everyday for the last month I've been working on a huge project for a very large local company. In that massive site I'd say at least 75% of the graphics are GIFs (because of the need for transparency). To replace all these graphics would cost the client a very large sum, and keep them waiting for the final product for a very long time, so it would be more cost effective for the customer to pay 5000 USD then to have us redo all the pages with JPGs. This is how Unisys is going to end up making money, and they're going to keep making money until the law is fixed, not until the new browsers come out with better PNG support, because web pages have to be viewed by everyone.
You fool! Amiga was always God. If IBM didn't make it big, the world would have been a better place. I mean, jeez, the 500 had a speech emulation command in the BASIC! The Amiga machines were way ahead of their time, and I'm glad to see thme comming back. Besides if they do take QNX it's not going to be propritary, QNX is a Unix clone (and a good one at that too).
If we're both thnking of the same David Bowie song (Changes) then I think there's only four "ch's" at the begining.
Hey, mini-discs aren't dead! They're a great format, it's just that the recording unit is a bit on the expensive side ...
I can't imagine anything cooler than being outside on a sunny day, setting up a linux server for a big nasty dedicated pipe while sipping lemon-aid :)
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This sounds like such amazing time. I hope the speakers are good
Virii have been around almost as long as computers, and the first ones were nasty little buggers too. Does anyone remember the Worm? That thing descimated systems in a time when data wasn't as easy to get back, and system weren't so easy to get back up.
Did the media care about this? No, it wasn't important enough. Nothing dealing with computers was important back then. Now along comes Jane/John Doe with a silly little script that only works on Windows if you're running only an MS mailer. This is not a virus. Imagine if the worm happened again today at the same level of severity as in the days when VMS sysadmins feared it. What would the media do to the author? (Assuming that he was brain-damaged enough to write it with a bunch of Big Brother type MS mararky)
My point is simply that the Media is supposed to be the people's survant. They aren't supposed to try and scare us with every new buzz-word that comes along. They should have to check their facts and look around to see what is actually going on. What they are doing to the person is wrong. Not that I have any simpathy for anyone who even tries to write a virus, that's the lamest thing going, it's just that there have been much worse cases then this tiny annoyance.
I mean come on people, all it does is send itself to five people! The only reason that hurts anyone is because thy happen to be running MS stuff at the time.
Why don't you Anonymous Cowards go away until _YOU'VE_ written your own kernel.
This is perfect! Now stay at home coders can work on the projects they want to work on, and the companies will pick the best piece.
The only question is will other companies buy this? I certainly hope so.
Would QfG1 fall under this catagory as well? That was my favorite Sierra games of all time.
VA rocks, it's great to see them getting recognition.
At the end of the article the author says the the internet wasn't robust enough to handle 21st century problems. WTF is /THAT/ supposed to mean? Just because people can't configure their deamons then the internet isn't working up to spec? Somebody should shake this guy's head for him...