They're flooding their own servers with spam, pissing off the users, and looking like idiots. I'll bet their stock doubles for this... Is it just me, but are companies these days being rewarded for really stupid decisions? Seriously, I used to work for a department of a rather monstrous corporation, that paid rent on their office space to another department of the same company in the same building. A lot of the Human Resources budget went to pay a "money maker" Dept. for the right to use the company's floor space. And it seems that lots and lots of companies are doing stupid shit like this, and they only seem to grow bigger and more "Professionally Respected" I'm sure all of Microsoft's business partners are just ecstatic that M$ now has another source of revenue. This idiocy has to stop sometime, and Judging by the middle East, Armageddon's what, Thursday? This rant brought to you by me not having a goddamn thing to do at work...
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What do we do to get more people buying cd's? Lower the price to a reasonable $5-$7? No, wait, I've got it. We'll keep the prices around $18 Goddamn Dollars, and use a copy protection scheme that screws up iMacs... Nobody who listens to Celine Dion owns an iMac... Perfect! Let's all give ourselves raises. $100,000 a year enough? We'll have to cut jobs in the support and production departments...
So up until now all compilers have been incomplete? What insanely great features have had to be left out because of this? I'm not a developer, so I'm more than a little ignorant. Mainly I'm just wondering if this will allow fewer lines in the same code, shorter compile times, etc...
But they made a lot of noise about how they got all this input from gamers on how to design it. Like how most people they asked said, "I'd like DVD functionality, but I'd really like to pay $30 extra for it." They actually claim that.
A day? Sorry, I work two jobs, play games and still find time to waste on this site. It took me ten total hours to complete the first one, not the three that everyone seemed to think it should. But then again, I'm all for diversity. MGS2, FFX, GTA3, GT3, and all the rest take up my gaming time. Fortunately one of my jobs keeps me supplied with new games... Xbox? I upgraded my PC for the same price as an Xbox (I kept my case) and have twice the power, and much more functionality. Why bother? Espescially when halo comes to pc in the next month or so. Won't see any slowdown on my system, and I can plug in my ps2 controller and not have to look at my hand to tell which buttons I'm pushing. I'd heard the xbox controller was bad, and then I tried it. Horrible! This is what "gamers" wanted? Right...
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Last time I read the constitution, slashdot or any other NON-GOVERNMENT CONTROLLED medium had no first amendment "protection". If you think there's some silly conspiracy against thoughtful losers who have nothing better to do than spend every waking second hitting refresh to check their karma, then go start your own goddamn site. I personally care about the articles, not the "I know more obscure programming facts than you" comments. This isn't your site, and if you don't like how things are done, then don't visit.
I still can't justify buying a PDA. Of course I don't work in the high tech IT industry where you need to keep 6,000 phone numbers, Shorthand notes not even you can read, and tetris handy.All for only $300! Now with unbearable web access! No thanks, I'll wait. When we get to PADD level technology, then I'll be seriously tempted...
No, first you get sued back into the stone age by Mr. George "Yeah, Attack of the Clones, I like that." Lucas. Then you get a story on Slashdot under the "Your Rights Online" heading.
If it dosen'tome from a reputable source, why bother. We all know reputable sources are only in it for the money. Otherwise they'd be godless heathens only out for the common good. Damn communists.
Credit card companies have been doing this for years, and nobody seems to be suing the pants off them. Or at the least, torching their offices. I worked Customer Service for a big name card once. I would say on average 80% of calls were concerning "This fucking sixty dollar charge I didn't authorize!!!". It's good to see some action on this, but it's going to be hard to convince the courts that they really didn't just click on the wrong button. Hell, I'm not convinced.
Good solution for a day or two. Any more than that and your work could be seriously compromised. Kepping local copies of stuff is always a good idea, but if you need to communicate with a co-worker, the phone is out. It should be called the voice-mail dialer, not the telephone. I think the main issue is of big companies (phone co.) and their hideous support. My second job has become calling up Qwest (local phone monopoly) and yelling. It dosen't start as yelling, but after ten minutes of hold, five minutes of re-install the software, and two minutes of I don't know, that's a different department, my volume and profabnity levels get dangerously high. Then I'm put on hold again. A computer recording actuall apologizes to me. Not "Qwest is sorry..." no, it actually says "I'm sorry....". Good god, my hatred of qwest is taking over this post... Screw 'em. Make the bastards pay.
This was probably written two years ago, and only the version numbers had to be changed. The simple fact is, Linux will not dominate or even compete (in a marketing sense of the word) on the desktop for one reason: Most of the clueless idiots out there DIDN'T HAVE TO INSTALL WINDOWS! It came pre-installed, and when windows fucks up, they take it back to where they got it, and say cute things like "'puter's broke". When linux is pre-installed at comp usa, then it will compete.
Why is there all this crap about copyprotecting cd's? Tapes are just as easy to copy. Yet there was no "analog rights management" back in the eighties. Nobody launched ad campains calling you a thief if you tape your favorite show. (at least none I remember) Yet now that it's all digital, there seems to be this attitude that there will be more piracy. I still can't download bootleg movies. Maybe I'm just not a "leet" enough "hax0r" to get copies of "Rush Hour 2 special straight from in front of the projector crooked edition with all those wonderful sounds" As far as I know, "losses of revenue" due to piracy in the eighties and such were compensated by jacked up blank tape prices. Why not just jack the prices on blank cd's back up, and maybe charge a reasonable price for originals. $18 for a cd? I think not. That's what drove people to napster, that and that special rush of "getting away with something".
The employees not benefitting part is very believeable. Retail stores of every kind dump old product, and if you happen to take it home instead of throwing it away, you are stealing from the company apparently. Even if you're lucky enough to work for almighty 7-11, you can't just give the $300.00 or so in nowhere near spoiled food that the company writes off everyday to the homeless shelter across the street. No, that would be stealing. When you work for a bookstore, you'd think that all unsold paperback books were recycled. No, just thrown away. What? our schools need books? No, that would be stealing. God I wish I were kidding.
Because now we can have them witness. Live satalite TV feeds. Today we can offer much, much more proof of an event than in 1969, and today also happens to not be 30 years in the past. I don't really care if theyt believe or not, the main focus is getting the public behind it through education. I'd rather not have to resort to "Bin Laden's hiding in a cave on the dark side of the moon! Quick! Fund us now, or the evil will spread to your childeren!" I know it worked throughout the eighties using communism as the scapegoat, but I'd rather think we actually are in the 21st century here...
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They're flooding their own servers with spam, pissing off the users, and looking like idiots. I'll bet their stock doubles for this... Is it just me, but are companies these days being rewarded for really stupid decisions? Seriously, I used to work for a department of a rather monstrous corporation, that paid rent on their office space to another department of the same company in the same building. A lot of the Human Resources budget went to pay a "money maker" Dept. for the right to use the company's floor space. And it seems that lots and lots of companies are doing stupid shit like this, and they only seem to grow bigger and more "Professionally Respected" I'm sure all of Microsoft's business partners are just ecstatic that M$ now has another source of revenue. This idiocy has to stop sometime, and Judging by the middle East, Armageddon's what, Thursday? This rant brought to you by me not having a goddamn thing to do at work...
Jesus build your hotrod too?
Dammit. I always spell capitalism wrong... Wonder what that "preview" button's for anyway...
What do we do to get more people buying cd's? Lower the price to a reasonable $5-$7? No, wait, I've got it. We'll keep the prices around $18 Goddamn Dollars, and use a copy protection scheme that screws up iMacs... Nobody who listens to Celine Dion owns an iMac... Perfect! Let's all give ourselves raises. $100,000 a year enough? We'll have to cut jobs in the support and production departments...
Upgrading after 30 years is breakneck?
And my other question, why hasn't it been done before? Why have all the others left out this support?
So up until now all compilers have been incomplete? What insanely great features have had to be left out because of this? I'm not a developer, so I'm more than a little ignorant. Mainly I'm just wondering if this will allow fewer lines in the same code, shorter compile times, etc...
But they made a lot of noise about how they got all this input from gamers on how to design it. Like how most people they asked said, "I'd like DVD functionality, but I'd really like to pay $30 extra for it." They actually claim that.
This could open up the job market a little for those of us who understand priorities in the real world...
A day? Sorry, I work two jobs, play games and still find time to waste on this site. It took me ten total hours to complete the first one, not the three that everyone seemed to think it should. But then again, I'm all for diversity. MGS2, FFX, GTA3, GT3, and all the rest take up my gaming time. Fortunately one of my jobs keeps me supplied with new games... Xbox? I upgraded my PC for the same price as an Xbox (I kept my case) and have twice the power, and much more functionality. Why bother? Espescially when halo comes to pc in the next month or so. Won't see any slowdown on my system, and I can plug in my ps2 controller and not have to look at my hand to tell which buttons I'm pushing. I'd heard the xbox controller was bad, and then I tried it. Horrible! This is what "gamers" wanted? Right...
Last time I read the constitution, slashdot or any other NON-GOVERNMENT CONTROLLED medium had no first amendment "protection". If you think there's some silly conspiracy against thoughtful losers who have nothing better to do than spend every waking second hitting refresh to check their karma, then go start your own goddamn site. I personally care about the articles, not the "I know more obscure programming facts than you" comments. This isn't your site, and if you don't like how things are done, then don't visit.
Some frickin' mutations! I was wondering when we'd get around to that kick ass future I always saw in movies as a kid...
I still can't justify buying a PDA. Of course I don't work in the high tech IT industry where you need to keep 6,000 phone numbers, Shorthand notes not even you can read, and tetris handy.All for only $300! Now with unbearable web access! No thanks, I'll wait. When we get to PADD level technology, then I'll be seriously tempted...
No, first you get sued back into the stone age by Mr. George "Yeah, Attack of the Clones, I like that." Lucas. Then you get a story on Slashdot under the "Your Rights Online" heading.
Is it just me, or is the star wars logo really ugly? The storm Trooper's nice, but the lettering has to go.
If it dosen'tome from a reputable source, why bother. We all know reputable sources are only in it for the money. Otherwise they'd be godless heathens only out for the common good. Damn communists.
Credit card companies have been doing this for years, and nobody seems to be suing the pants off them. Or at the least, torching their offices. I worked Customer Service for a big name card once. I would say on average 80% of calls were concerning "This fucking sixty dollar charge I didn't authorize!!!". It's good to see some action on this, but it's going to be hard to convince the courts that they really didn't just click on the wrong button. Hell, I'm not convinced.
Good solution for a day or two. Any more than that and your work could be seriously compromised. Kepping local copies of stuff is always a good idea, but if you need to communicate with a co-worker, the phone is out. It should be called the voice-mail dialer, not the telephone. I think the main issue is of big companies (phone co.) and their hideous support. My second job has become calling up Qwest (local phone monopoly) and yelling. It dosen't start as yelling, but after ten minutes of hold, five minutes of re-install the software, and two minutes of I don't know, that's a different department, my volume and profabnity levels get dangerously high. Then I'm put on hold again. A computer recording actuall apologizes to me. Not "Qwest is sorry..." no, it actually says "I'm sorry....". Good god, my hatred of qwest is taking over this post... Screw 'em. Make the bastards pay.
This was probably written two years ago, and only the version numbers had to be changed. The simple fact is, Linux will not dominate or even compete (in a marketing sense of the word) on the desktop for one reason: Most of the clueless idiots out there DIDN'T HAVE TO INSTALL WINDOWS! It came pre-installed, and when windows fucks up, they take it back to where they got it, and say cute things like "'puter's broke". When linux is pre-installed at comp usa, then it will compete.
As long as I can go into the local grocery store and pick up a 50 pack for eight bucks, I won't consider it jacked up...
Notice I wasn't stating a "fact". Notice I said "as best as I remember" or something to that effect.
Why is there all this crap about copyprotecting cd's? Tapes are just as easy to copy. Yet there was no "analog rights management" back in the eighties. Nobody launched ad campains calling you a thief if you tape your favorite show. (at least none I remember) Yet now that it's all digital, there seems to be this attitude that there will be more piracy. I still can't download bootleg movies. Maybe I'm just not a "leet" enough "hax0r" to get copies of "Rush Hour 2 special straight from in front of the projector crooked edition with all those wonderful sounds" As far as I know, "losses of revenue" due to piracy in the eighties and such were compensated by jacked up blank tape prices. Why not just jack the prices on blank cd's back up, and maybe charge a reasonable price for originals. $18 for a cd? I think not. That's what drove people to napster, that and that special rush of "getting away with something".
The employees not benefitting part is very believeable. Retail stores of every kind dump old product, and if you happen to take it home instead of throwing it away, you are stealing from the company apparently. Even if you're lucky enough to work for almighty 7-11, you can't just give the $300.00 or so in nowhere near spoiled food that the company writes off everyday to the homeless shelter across the street. No, that would be stealing. When you work for a bookstore, you'd think that all unsold paperback books were recycled. No, just thrown away. What? our schools need books? No, that would be stealing. God I wish I were kidding.
they're radio-locater collars, aren't they? Recess will slowly become "Tag and Release" time...
Because now we can have them witness. Live satalite TV feeds. Today we can offer much, much more proof of an event than in 1969, and today also happens to not be 30 years in the past. I don't really care if theyt believe or not, the main focus is getting the public behind it through education. I'd rather not have to resort to "Bin Laden's hiding in a cave on the dark side of the moon! Quick! Fund us now, or the evil will spread to your childeren!" I know it worked throughout the eighties using communism as the scapegoat, but I'd rather think we actually are in the 21st century here...