Really? BBC America? They have 3-4 once weekly shows from the actual BBC, and 96 hours of "stuff". I mean their prime time draw every night is Star Trek: TNG. Because Patrick Stewart talks with an English accent while playing a Frenchman, that makes it "BBC America"... The movie of the week a while back was Robin Hood: Prince of thieves. Seriously.
Brace yourself: Law & fscking Order: UK...
And the best part? I still have to download Doctor Who every week to get watchable quality (thanks Comcast). And If I do watch anything on there, I have to sit through the same geriatric themed ads I see on SyFy.
Hang on now, of course it'll be multi-platform. It just means all future Skype clients will be built on.Net and require a "free" kernel module to facilitate DRM (Netflix streaming with moonlight will still not work for some inane reason). And they'll totally promise not to screw anybody, since apparently that's good enough for the OSS community..
As far as I'm concerned it is a paid network. That also shows me ads for the hoveround and the sunsetter retractable awning... Because you know a lot of boomers are getting their Sharktopus fix...
I don't think anything could save SyFy from the marketroids, reminds me of G4 which I stopped watching when they described their target audience as "Males 12-45 years of age" with a straight face (that and they seem to have no actual programming). Maybe as revenue continues to drop we'll see some consolidation. Get the 2-3 decent shows from each channel and build one channel actually worth watching. G4, Spike, SyFy on one channel, all the discovery owned channels on another, a&e channels on another, etc. Then do some actual research on your viewers and target Ads accordingly (or get cable to open up and do alacarte and do away with ads all together).
Or they'll just blame pirates and sue a bunch of people...
We discovered that the intruders had planted a file on one of our Sony Online Entertainment servers named "Anonymous" with the words "We are Legion."
Most likely whichever jackwagon actually perpetrated the act thought it sounded cool. Or they used some automated 1337_h4cK.vbs script that came from the "real" Anon (if there can be such a thing). Or something. Whatever. I'm more curious to see what other companies are quietly reviewing their own security practices...
Freedom is freedom, but the freedoms guaranteed in the US Constitution do not extend to personal dealings with other parties. Private organizations have the right to censor their products/service any way they want. Since the companies involved are not in any way shape or form part of our government, they absolutely have the right to implement the policies they want. You and I may not agree with their actions/policies, but we also have a choice to not give them any money. The iPhone platform is not a public accommodation, it is a product license rented from a corporation. Card payment services are also "products" licensed from other corporations. Don't like Visa's political stance? Don't use their product/service. I would start being concerned when the US Gov. starts mandating political stances and/or forcing only one view of tolerance on corporations/small business/individuals.
And again, if you feel your freedoms are in jeopardy when dealing with Apple or whoever, don't deal with them and make sure they know the reason why.
Considering the 3G offerings are incompatible from each other, I'm not going to see any better reception. (it's already great w/t-mobile). That additional revenue you say will go to upgrades will be going straight into the profit column, and some more rich people will get slightly richer. Hell, who knows, they may even be bold enough to require new phones to continue 3G service (they'll be totally free w/new 3yr contracts)...
All this means is that my plan will go up in cost and my service will go down. I can hope that my current plan will stay the same, but I have a feeling it'll be discontinued as a "legacy product offering" or some such nonsense, and I'll end up paying $10 more for less minutes and no unlimited anything. Can't wait to hit data usage limits...
Then my choice will be Sprint or Verizon, Both have much higher cost plans that offer less, and Sprint has the worst. coverage. ever.
While I agree that the diploma factories are a bad deal, it often comes down to scheduling. It's often hard, even with flexible employers, to get the classes one needs at convenient times. Example, classes that will be required for my degree are only offered Tuesday mornings at a campus 15 miles from where I live and work (there are two other campuses much closer). Oh, and it along with several others are not offered online. UOP and the like are much more attractive to working adults, even if they cost 4x as much. What I wouldn't give for my CC to offer a "weekends" package, where I could knock out 4-6 classes in two days...
Say what you want about the others, but I learned quite a bit combing through the config files in Slackware. Thanks to excellent commenting in the scripts, I gained an understanding of how the system worked. Then Ubuntu came out, coinciding with the decline of my interest in messing with config files to get stuff working. I miss the simplicity of Slack, but not the time I chose "Individual" for package selection...
Depends on your definition of "Fixed". Discovering root cause to prevent future downtime is the point of support personnel. I do also understand the need to get stuff back up ASAP. Fortunately in *nix if you need to reboot to get stuff up, you can go back in later and actually find out what happened. Windows will just give you the finger and spawn useless messages about "Unexpected Errors" citing hex codes that MS has never seen, that is if you're lucky enough to not get "The Event Log is corrupt and could not be read"...
I agree, what works for some won't work for others.
I was lucky that canon decided to make.debs to install my printer/scanner drivers. The hard part was that the driver is x86 only, and to even get the driver I had to lie to canons site and say I was from Europe. Then I had to install lib32 stuff (along with a sketchy cups2 package to resolve outdated dependencies) and "force" apt to install the deb (wrong arch and all of that). After that it worked great. Note: I bought the cheapest all in one they had when I got that, assuming Linux would just work the way my last canon did. If I had done my research, I would have probably spent a few bucks more and got something with better support.
In contrast, to install the printer in Windows 7, I had to turn the printer on. That's it. Device auto-detected, driver auto downloaded and installed. Done. Of course, if there were drivers in cups for my model, the process would have been the same in Ubuntu. Plug in, turn on, start printing. I will point out that scanning worked without installing anything via gimp and xsane.
So that's my story, but the point is: Yes hardware is not supported as well as in windows, but it keeps getting better, just like the rest of OSS. That's the point after all, make the software the best it can be. Market share can go hang, this isn't a "fight to displace MS". If you want vendors behind Linux, stop buying hardware that isn't supported from companies that aren't interested in OSS based customers. Make sure to leave (polite) feedback on customer support sites stating that due to lack of Linux support, you're buying brand x.
Above all, use the right tool, and don't force an agenda.
So I took 2 minutes and actually read the article. The point was that Unix is not Windows and reboots are not a fix-all. No straw man, just common sense advice for those MCSE's out there. It's also good advice for Windows, but after a few attempts to discover root cause only to find out that the MF'n Event Log is "corrupt and cannot be read", I don't blame people for just rebooting/reinstalling. Hell, it's what MS says to do; which just goes to show they don't even know how their black box works...
Motorola has been quite bad about promising updates and not delivering. See here for a list of broken promises. Especially glaring was the failure on the Cliq XT. A year of "we're testing it" followed by "we just couldn't do it". Never mind that the phone ships in Korea running 2.1, never mind that custom 2.1 firmwares work flawlessly, they just wanted to sell new phones. I know Moto is just another big corp doing what big corps do, but eff them, I (and all the non-techies that ask my advice) won't be buying Moto anything again.
And it would probably help foster a rational, reasoned debate if we stopped dismissing them out of hand as "Nut-Jobs". Instead, I prefer the more correct "Persons Who Adhere To The Scientific Method Unless They Disagree With The Outcome".
Except then those teachers would be reprimanded/fired/sued for slighting the religious beliefs of others while acting as a representative of the state. And then we'd have to hear the "news" outlets (both sides) lose their minds over it for weeks.
You're right, the decision is the parents'. Doesn't mean the rest of us can't ask what their reasoning is. This isn't about censorship, it's about healthy brain development.
Playing shooters at age 11 isn't going to cause issues any more than watching those lame "horror" movies from the eighties. But when it becomes the child's "Whole Life" (quote from the mom) to stare at a monitor twitching the fingers to kill people/aliens/zombies faster, then there's a problem. Your parents didn't forbid you from watching those movies, but were you watching 4-5 gory slasher flicks a night back to back?
Not that I think his gaming will lead to real violence, just underdeveloped social skills.
Yes, they're caching in, and eff them. But why in the world is apple doing it in the first place? Just another dick-move brought to you by the company that currently hold 48 patents relating to "dick-moves".
How about an app that interfaces with Google maps giving directions to the nearest place they can trade in the iPhone for some fscking bullets and body armor.
Like breaking in after hours and swapping everyone's password stickies from under their keyboards? Or if the same department that secures IT secures the building, she probably still had her badge, so no breaking required. My guess is "The Guy" that handles AD/LDAP/whatever security was on vacation. Or they have some really shoddy security policies. Someone call the HIPAA/SOX police, quick!
This is exactly what my company did. There wasn't really an effect on morale, but it is interesting that the younger people tend to see the sense of it and move on, while most of the older crowd act like they're being robbed.
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Easy, just stick a small nuclear reactor on board. What?
Really? BBC America? They have 3-4 once weekly shows from the actual BBC, and 96 hours of "stuff". I mean their prime time draw every night is Star Trek: TNG. Because Patrick Stewart talks with an English accent while playing a Frenchman, that makes it "BBC America"... The movie of the week a while back was Robin Hood: Prince of thieves. Seriously.
Brace yourself: Law & fscking Order: UK...
And the best part? I still have to download Doctor Who every week to get watchable quality (thanks Comcast). And If I do watch anything on there, I have to sit through the same geriatric themed ads I see on SyFy.
Yeah, my days as a Comcast customer are numbered.
Hang on now, of course it'll be multi-platform. It just means all future Skype clients will be built on .Net and require a "free" kernel module to facilitate DRM (Netflix streaming with moonlight will still not work for some inane reason). And they'll totally promise not to screw anybody, since apparently that's good enough for the OSS community..
As far as I'm concerned it is a paid network. That also shows me ads for the hoveround and the sunsetter retractable awning... Because you know a lot of boomers are getting their Sharktopus fix...
I don't think anything could save SyFy from the marketroids, reminds me of G4 which I stopped watching when they described their target audience as "Males 12-45 years of age" with a straight face (that and they seem to have no actual programming). Maybe as revenue continues to drop we'll see some consolidation. Get the 2-3 decent shows from each channel and build one channel actually worth watching. G4, Spike, SyFy on one channel, all the discovery owned channels on another, a&e channels on another, etc. Then do some actual research on your viewers and target Ads accordingly (or get cable to open up and do alacarte and do away with ads all together).
Or they'll just blame pirates and sue a bunch of people...
Maybe, but the official word is:
We discovered that the intruders had planted a file on one of our Sony Online Entertainment servers named "Anonymous" with the words "We are Legion."
Most likely whichever jackwagon actually perpetrated the act thought it sounded cool. Or they used some automated 1337_h4cK.vbs script that came from the "real" Anon (if there can be such a thing). Or something. Whatever. I'm more curious to see what other companies are quietly reviewing their own security practices...
Freedom is freedom, but the freedoms guaranteed in the US Constitution do not extend to personal dealings with other parties. Private organizations have the right to censor their products/service any way they want. Since the companies involved are not in any way shape or form part of our government, they absolutely have the right to implement the policies they want. You and I may not agree with their actions/policies, but we also have a choice to not give them any money. The iPhone platform is not a public accommodation, it is a product license rented from a corporation. Card payment services are also "products" licensed from other corporations. Don't like Visa's political stance? Don't use their product/service. I would start being concerned when the US Gov. starts mandating political stances and/or forcing only one view of tolerance on corporations/small business/individuals.
And again, if you feel your freedoms are in jeopardy when dealing with Apple or whoever, don't deal with them and make sure they know the reason why.
Considering the 3G offerings are incompatible from each other, I'm not going to see any better reception. (it's already great w/t-mobile). That additional revenue you say will go to upgrades will be going straight into the profit column, and some more rich people will get slightly richer. Hell, who knows, they may even be bold enough to require new phones to continue 3G service (they'll be totally free w/new 3yr contracts)...
All this means is that my plan will go up in cost and my service will go down. I can hope that my current plan will stay the same, but I have a feeling it'll be discontinued as a "legacy product offering" or some such nonsense, and I'll end up paying $10 more for less minutes and no unlimited anything. Can't wait to hit data usage limits...
Then my choice will be Sprint or Verizon, Both have much higher cost plans that offer less, and Sprint has the worst. coverage. ever.
Sigh...
While I agree that the diploma factories are a bad deal, it often comes down to scheduling. It's often hard, even with flexible employers, to get the classes one needs at convenient times. Example, classes that will be required for my degree are only offered Tuesday mornings at a campus 15 miles from where I live and work (there are two other campuses much closer). Oh, and it along with several others are not offered online. UOP and the like are much more attractive to working adults, even if they cost 4x as much. What I wouldn't give for my CC to offer a "weekends" package, where I could knock out 4-6 classes in two days...
Say what you want about the others, but I learned quite a bit combing through the config files in Slackware. Thanks to excellent commenting in the scripts, I gained an understanding of how the system worked. Then Ubuntu came out, coinciding with the decline of my interest in messing with config files to get stuff working. I miss the simplicity of Slack, but not the time I chose "Individual" for package selection...
Depends on your definition of "Fixed". Discovering root cause to prevent future downtime is the point of support personnel. I do also understand the need to get stuff back up ASAP. Fortunately in *nix if you need to reboot to get stuff up, you can go back in later and actually find out what happened. Windows will just give you the finger and spawn useless messages about "Unexpected Errors" citing hex codes that MS has never seen, that is if you're lucky enough to not get "The Event Log is corrupt and could not be read"...
I agree, what works for some won't work for others.
.debs to install my printer/scanner drivers. The hard part was that the driver is x86 only, and to even get the driver I had to lie to canons site and say I was from Europe. Then I had to install lib32 stuff (along with a sketchy cups2 package to resolve outdated dependencies) and "force" apt to install the deb (wrong arch and all of that). After that it worked great. Note: I bought the cheapest all in one they had when I got that, assuming Linux would just work the way my last canon did. If I had done my research, I would have probably spent a few bucks more and got something with better support.
I was lucky that canon decided to make
In contrast, to install the printer in Windows 7, I had to turn the printer on. That's it. Device auto-detected, driver auto downloaded and installed. Done. Of course, if there were drivers in cups for my model, the process would have been the same in Ubuntu. Plug in, turn on, start printing. I will point out that scanning worked without installing anything via gimp and xsane.
So that's my story, but the point is: Yes hardware is not supported as well as in windows, but it keeps getting better, just like the rest of OSS. That's the point after all, make the software the best it can be. Market share can go hang, this isn't a "fight to displace MS". If you want vendors behind Linux, stop buying hardware that isn't supported from companies that aren't interested in OSS based customers. Make sure to leave (polite) feedback on customer support sites stating that due to lack of Linux support, you're buying brand x.
Above all, use the right tool, and don't force an agenda.
So I took 2 minutes and actually read the article. The point was that Unix is not Windows and reboots are not a fix-all. No straw man, just common sense advice for those MCSE's out there. It's also good advice for Windows, but after a few attempts to discover root cause only to find out that the MF'n Event Log is "corrupt and cannot be read", I don't blame people for just rebooting/reinstalling. Hell, it's what MS says to do; which just goes to show they don't even know how their black box works...
Motorola has been quite bad about promising updates and not delivering. See here for a list of broken promises. Especially glaring was the failure on the Cliq XT. A year of "we're testing it" followed by "we just couldn't do it". Never mind that the phone ships in Korea running 2.1, never mind that custom 2.1 firmwares work flawlessly, they just wanted to sell new phones. I know Moto is just another big corp doing what big corps do, but eff them, I (and all the non-techies that ask my advice) won't be buying Moto anything again.
And it would probably help foster a rational, reasoned debate if we stopped dismissing them out of hand as "Nut-Jobs". Instead, I prefer the more correct "Persons Who Adhere To The Scientific Method Unless They Disagree With The Outcome".
Except then those teachers would be reprimanded/fired/sued for slighting the religious beliefs of others while acting as a representative of the state. And then we'd have to hear the "news" outlets (both sides) lose their minds over it for weeks.
You're right, the decision is the parents'. Doesn't mean the rest of us can't ask what their reasoning is. This isn't about censorship, it's about healthy brain development.
Playing shooters at age 11 isn't going to cause issues any more than watching those lame "horror" movies from the eighties. But when it becomes the child's "Whole Life" (quote from the mom) to stare at a monitor twitching the fingers to kill people/aliens/zombies faster, then there's a problem. Your parents didn't forbid you from watching those movies, but were you watching 4-5 gory slasher flicks a night back to back?
Not that I think his gaming will lead to real violence, just underdeveloped social skills.
All the new topic icons suck. They look like they were lifted from one of those DOS shell/menuing shareware apps from the mid nineties...
For the reporter to ask: "What's your autistic 11 year old doing spending all his time playing Mature rated games that revolve around killing people?"
And reading that sentence with an alternate meaning of "shot", all I can think of is:
"I've got a ruddy gun! I've got a ruddy gun!"
Yes, they're caching in, and eff them. But why in the world is apple doing it in the first place? Just another dick-move brought to you by the company that currently hold 48 patents relating to "dick-moves".
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Young neutrino got it bad 'cause I spin the other way around.
How about an app that interfaces with Google maps giving directions to the nearest place they can trade in the iPhone for some fscking bullets and body armor.
Like breaking in after hours and swapping everyone's password stickies from under their keyboards? Or if the same department that secures IT secures the building, she probably still had her badge, so no breaking required. My guess is "The Guy" that handles AD/LDAP/whatever security was on vacation. Or they have some really shoddy security policies. Someone call the HIPAA/SOX police, quick!
This is exactly what my company did. There wasn't really an effect on morale, but it is interesting that the younger people tend to see the sense of it and move on, while most of the older crowd act like they're being robbed.