I absolutely love steam. The concept is perfect, I've never had an issue with the service over the years, and the first time I had an entire system take a hard-drive hit, it was great.
It's the only way I buy games now, when I upgrade my computer, I just grab my saved games, and tell steam to install all the games I own overnight. Get up in morning to all my games being there without any pain.
I've done the computer migration 5 times now, without a hitch... and I have quite a few games through steam. No hunting down CDs and activation codes, finding a scratched CD, etc.
Actually, there are a lot of people willing to pay for doing something legally, if they see the proper value.
I would love to watch Heroes online, but the NBC site sucks, and for the first 2 days after it airs, it is near impossible to get it to stream. It is EASIER for me to use BitLord to download the full HD version of the show, and the quality is a lot better.
It's more serious because it was before it aired, they can state that there were real damages of people not watching it with the advertising that pays for the show.
That's pretty obvious, I don't think anyone can honestly say what he did was at all acceptable, uploading old videos is still copyright, but the amount of damage to the company can be viewed as smaller...
"- it's like the Constitution absolves all choices, regardless of their effect."
Exactly what it is designed to do, remove choice from the Government, because Governments become corrupt. Obviously it doesn't stop the government from being corrupt (ours isn't as bad as Mexico, but it's not great either). However, the constitution does limit what stupidity they can do. If the constitution is no longer considered "right", such as not letting women vote, there is a process to amend the constitution.
It's checks and balances, the Supreme Courts biggest weapon is the Constitution, it is what it primarily uses to weigh their choices. The fact is, the parents should control their kids, not the government. The government already has too much say over kids as it is, as everybody knows... governments do a horrible job of raising kids.
You know it doesn't have to be new to be a security issue, right? There are mitigating controls, but at least 73% of companies don't actively control these protocols. (Granted, when you talk "companies" that includes small businesses, so the % may seem high to you)
But, as scary as it sounds... there are Fortune 1000 companies that don't actively control this attack vector.
Vaccines were absolutely horrible up until recently when the doctors finally realized the amount of Mercury they were shoving into these kids in a very short time period was extremely dangerous. They finally reduced the amount of Mercury and stretched out the recommended dosing. Of course, you can easily just slow down the dosing yourself by filling out a little paperwork, or finding a doctor that doesn't insist on speeding things up.
There's an entire generation of kids around 9 -> 11 that are believed to have autism or had their autism worsened by the mercury poisoning created by these vaccines.
Trusting doctors without doing any research is like trusting a lawyer will always have your best interests at heart.
They will find out that there are a notable amount of SIDS deaths that are marked as SIDS because doctors didn't want to make the parents feel any worse for putting the kid in a water bed, or with inappropriate bedding... or not sleeping with their kid the first 3 months to help regulate their breathing, or being too far away to have heard the baby cough up some sour milk and drown themselves...
SIDS is a horrible thing... but quite a few deaths that were actually the fault of the parent for not researching what risk there is to stick a tiny baby in a bed away from them. Heaven forbid we mention that there is a risk associated with anything... there are risks of not breastfeeding, risks of not staying close to the baby, risks of formula, risks of food. Instead of giving parents enough information to make their own decisions (and be liable for them), we don't ever want to infringe on someone's right to be ignorant.
A solid sense of Deja Vu lets you actually know what is about to happen... not just a feeling.
Haven't any of you felt Deja Vu, and then you actually get to watch what is about to happen for the next 10-20 seconds? Perhaps someone walking into the room, a specific part of the conversation, etc...
It's a flat $40k per CPU + additional $20k per CPU if you want cluster (RAC). That's list, but unlike most other companies... while you can get good discounts, it's not unheard of to have multi-billion dollar companies only get 30% discount or so. Though, I've also seen 45% discounts, and of course non-production you can get closer to 80% sometimes.
Maintanence is 22% of purchase cost annually, which is also pretty high industry-wise. That I've never really seen altered, has always been 22%... but it is purchase price, not list... so that's why it is even more worth it to fight for a higher discount... it saves you every year.
It's been that way for a while.. 8i had more "pieces" you had to buy, such as InterMedia (ConTEXT at the time), Partitioning, etc. A lot of that has been thrown into the base product, except Partitioning and RAC.
But yeah, it's expensive. If you are building a 10g cluster on quad AMD systems, the cost of the Oracle will trump the hardware costs by several factors:)
Because music is the closest thing we have to telepathy/empathy... Think about it, Music can transmit mood, emotion, ideas, stories... A well done score can truly give a solid impression of what a person is feeling. Two people listening to a solid piece of music can actually feel the same thing or nearly the same thing. It can be the purest form of communication we have as humans. While in literature it takes a great deal of words to truly set the tone of a scene, music can define the mood almost instantly.
If the first page asked your race, and if you picked Black, Indian, or Chinese the next page gave an error, but if you picked Caucasian or Latino it worked fine.
Otherwise... it isn't discrimination, they just have a broken Kiosk.
There are tons of cases of this that ended up costing companies big money. The interview process must be the same for everyone... one company lost a considerable amount because one guy that had some issue (was either black, or had some other difference the person didn't like), and that person's interview was only 10 minutes, compared to the normal 45minute interview everyone else got.
It is way to easy to prove that an artificial barrier is in place for certain types of people.
Because this is America, buying porn is "bad". lol, this country is funny as hell and doesn't even realize how much we look like complete self-interested idiots to the rest of the world.
Go America... no porn, no nudity... but rip a guys head off while making a joke is perfectly fine family entertainment.
Your point is self conflicting... you state you become addicted to games...
Yeah, there are multiple levels, especially with games that have a "progression", allowing for "Just gotta get one more boss in BWL tonight", but the point is that there are people that can just say "ok, done for the night" and there are those that are more likely to stay until it is detrimental to their health.
I play WoW a lot... don't get me wrong. But I also know I have a job that I need to support my family, and I know how much sleep I need before driving starts to become a problem, or getting up on time is an issue.
MMO's are rough because they gather multiple issues together:
1). Guilt. If you are a key class in the game, and the guild is trying to go a little further, you feel obliged to stay online to help out.
2). Social interaction. You are interacting with 39+ people and it can be interesting to discuss things with them, and like any time you spend time blabbing with friends, time can slip away.
3). Progression. One more epic piece, one more boss, one more Dragon... the carrot on a stick (funny thing is, there IS a carrot on a stick in the game) that keeps people going.
It is the near perfect combination for addictive personalities to throw themselves into. EQ was much the same for others, except even worse... it would take a LOT longer to get anywhere in the game and a lot more hours of dedicated effort. The reason WoW is so noticable is that it has an immense (3million+) user base, so everyone knows a WoW player.
People with addictive personalities will find something to be addicted to.
It is important to have self-awareness that this is an issue and put hard-line limits on things, including drinking or playing a game. "I will only play 3 hours a day" or "I will stop playing at midnight". Hard stops are usually easier to deal with than "I won't play too much" as that leaves too much open for interpretation, which is bad if you have an addictive personality.
The corporate builds are nothing like the Consumer ones. I support well over 1000 Dell machines without major issues, but it has none of the crap they add to the consumer versions. They are also much more resilient and you get to use their corporate support center. My wife has a consumer Dell, and I do find the amount of crap software they add to be a bit annoying, however it is easily removed, and it probably drives down the price of the computer.
A vast majority of security breeches are from internal users. Users have proven themselves to be untrustworthy.
Sorry, but people seem to do really really stupid stuff when they are feeling "put upon" by the "man". Or, just plain greed. Most Company's #1 security problem is their employees.
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You forgot something... you don't have to release the patch to patent it. You don't even have to develop one, just "how" it would be done.
They can stop a patch without ever creating their own, at least that is their view.
I absolutely love steam. The concept is perfect, I've never had an issue with the service over the years, and the first time I had an entire system take a hard-drive hit, it was great.
It's the only way I buy games now, when I upgrade my computer, I just grab my saved games, and tell steam to install all the games I own overnight. Get up in morning to all my games being there without any pain.
I've done the computer migration 5 times now, without a hitch... and I have quite a few games through steam. No hunting down CDs and activation codes, finding a scratched CD, etc.
Actually, there are a lot of people willing to pay for doing something legally, if they see the proper value.
I would love to watch Heroes online, but the NBC site sucks, and for the first 2 days after it airs, it is near impossible to get it to stream. It is EASIER for me to use BitLord to download the full HD version of the show, and the quality is a lot better.
It's more serious because it was before it aired, they can state that there were real damages of people not watching it with the advertising that pays for the show.
That's pretty obvious, I don't think anyone can honestly say what he did was at all acceptable, uploading old videos is still copyright, but the amount of damage to the company can be viewed as smaller...
Yeah, where's the 10k Executive Briefing, so we know if they picked our answer?
"- it's like the Constitution absolves all choices, regardless of their effect."
Exactly what it is designed to do, remove choice from the Government, because Governments become corrupt. Obviously it doesn't stop the government from being corrupt (ours isn't as bad as Mexico, but it's not great either). However, the constitution does limit what stupidity they can do. If the constitution is no longer considered "right", such as not letting women vote, there is a process to amend the constitution.
It's checks and balances, the Supreme Courts biggest weapon is the Constitution, it is what it primarily uses to weigh their choices. The fact is, the parents should control their kids, not the government. The government already has too much say over kids as it is, as everybody knows... governments do a horrible job of raising kids.
You know it doesn't have to be new to be a security issue, right? There are mitigating controls, but at least 73% of companies don't actively control these protocols. (Granted, when you talk "companies" that includes small businesses, so the % may seem high to you)
But, as scary as it sounds... there are Fortune 1000 companies that don't actively control this attack vector.
Vaccines were absolutely horrible up until recently when the doctors finally realized the amount of Mercury they were shoving into these kids in a very short time period was extremely dangerous. They finally reduced the amount of Mercury and stretched out the recommended dosing. Of course, you can easily just slow down the dosing yourself by filling out a little paperwork, or finding a doctor that doesn't insist on speeding things up.
There's an entire generation of kids around 9 -> 11 that are believed to have autism or had their autism worsened by the mercury poisoning created by these vaccines.
Trusting doctors without doing any research is like trusting a lawyer will always have your best interests at heart.
haha, My kid went with that costume too... It's all about what is interesting to them at the time when they are little.
They will find out that there are a notable amount of SIDS deaths that are marked as SIDS because doctors didn't want to make the parents feel any worse for putting the kid in a water bed, or with inappropriate bedding... or not sleeping with their kid the first 3 months to help regulate their breathing, or being too far away to have heard the baby cough up some sour milk and drown themselves...
SIDS is a horrible thing... but quite a few deaths that were actually the fault of the parent for not researching what risk there is to stick a tiny baby in a bed away from them. Heaven forbid we mention that there is a risk associated with anything... there are risks of not breastfeeding, risks of not staying close to the baby, risks of formula, risks of food. Instead of giving parents enough information to make their own decisions (and be liable for them), we don't ever want to infringe on someone's right to be ignorant.
That's when the fun starts... 20/40 man raids are the fun part...
A solid sense of Deja Vu lets you actually know what is about to happen... not just a feeling.
Haven't any of you felt Deja Vu, and then you actually get to watch what is about to happen for the next 10-20 seconds? Perhaps someone walking into the room, a specific part of the conversation, etc...
That's easy... he just assumes that everyone in an Urban setting is a minority. Racism comes out by how easy you can see racism.
A non-racist generally doesn't understand or see true racism very easily, racists like this guy see it every day.
By the way, this is one of 3 adds, there are 2 more... interesting those weren't pointed out...
One of the largest costs in IT is Electricity...
The cost of procurement of a server is a tiny percentage of its TCO.
It's a flat $40k per CPU + additional $20k per CPU if you want cluster (RAC). That's list, but unlike most other companies... while you can get good discounts, it's not unheard of to have multi-billion dollar companies only get 30% discount or so. Though, I've also seen 45% discounts, and of course non-production you can get closer to 80% sometimes.
:)
Maintanence is 22% of purchase cost annually, which is also pretty high industry-wise. That I've never really seen altered, has always been 22%... but it is purchase price, not list... so that's why it is even more worth it to fight for a higher discount... it saves you every year.
It's been that way for a while.. 8i had more "pieces" you had to buy, such as InterMedia (ConTEXT at the time), Partitioning, etc. A lot of that has been thrown into the base product, except Partitioning and RAC.
But yeah, it's expensive. If you are building a 10g cluster on quad AMD systems, the cost of the Oracle will trump the hardware costs by several factors
Because music is the closest thing we have to telepathy/empathy... Think about it, Music can transmit mood, emotion, ideas, stories... A well done score can truly give a solid impression of what a person is feeling. Two people listening to a solid piece of music can actually feel the same thing or nearly the same thing. It can be the purest form of communication we have as humans. While in literature it takes a great deal of words to truly set the tone of a scene, music can define the mood almost instantly.
If the first page asked your race, and if you picked Black, Indian, or Chinese the next page gave an error, but if you picked Caucasian or Latino it worked fine.
Otherwise... it isn't discrimination, they just have a broken Kiosk.
There are tons of cases of this that ended up costing companies big money. The interview process must be the same for everyone... one company lost a considerable amount because one guy that had some issue (was either black, or had some other difference the person didn't like), and that person's interview was only 10 minutes, compared to the normal 45minute interview everyone else got.
It is way to easy to prove that an artificial barrier is in place for certain types of people.
Because this is America, buying porn is "bad". lol, this country is funny as hell and doesn't even realize how much we look like complete self-interested idiots to the rest of the world.
Go America... no porn, no nudity... but rip a guys head off while making a joke is perfectly fine family entertainment.
Your point is self conflicting... you state you become addicted to games...
Yeah, there are multiple levels, especially with games that have a "progression", allowing for "Just gotta get one more boss in BWL tonight", but the point is that there are people that can just say "ok, done for the night" and there are those that are more likely to stay until it is detrimental to their health.
I play WoW a lot... don't get me wrong. But I also know I have a job that I need to support my family, and I know how much sleep I need before driving starts to become a problem, or getting up on time is an issue.
MMO's are rough because they gather multiple issues together:
1). Guilt. If you are a key class in the game, and the guild is trying to go a little further, you feel obliged to stay online to help out.
2). Social interaction. You are interacting with 39+ people and it can be interesting to discuss things with them, and like any time you spend time blabbing with friends, time can slip away.
3). Progression. One more epic piece, one more boss, one more Dragon... the carrot on a stick (funny thing is, there IS a carrot on a stick in the game) that keeps people going.
It is the near perfect combination for addictive personalities to throw themselves into. EQ was much the same for others, except even worse... it would take a LOT longer to get anywhere in the game and a lot more hours of dedicated effort. The reason WoW is so noticable is that it has an immense (3million+) user base, so everyone knows a WoW player.
True... but since he mentioned he lost his job, I assumed this was an adult...
People with addictive personalities will find something to be addicted to.
It is important to have self-awareness that this is an issue and put hard-line limits on things, including drinking or playing a game. "I will only play 3 hours a day" or "I will stop playing at midnight". Hard stops are usually easier to deal with than "I won't play too much" as that leaves too much open for interpretation, which is bad if you have an addictive personality.
The game isn't the issue.
The corporate builds are nothing like the Consumer ones. I support well over 1000 Dell machines without major issues, but it has none of the crap they add to the consumer versions. They are also much more resilient and you get to use their corporate support center. My wife has a consumer Dell, and I do find the amount of crap software they add to be a bit annoying, however it is easily removed, and it probably drives down the price of the computer.
Therefore, corporate Dell != consumer Dell.
A vast majority of security breeches are from internal users. Users have proven themselves to be untrustworthy.
Sorry, but people seem to do really really stupid stuff when they are feeling "put upon" by the "man". Or, just plain greed. Most Company's #1 security problem is their employees.