Umm, criminals don't think like that except in movies. Some guy that just knocked off three banks will just go down to Ybor with his buddies and get drunk. It won't even occur to him.
Because the only taxes we pay to the city down here are property taxes, so I'm not losing my house over it.
I live in a nearby city, not Ybor.
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Because when the accouting people get together with the public relations people, they start making shit up. However, there is a standard, accepted practice for coming up with bullshit figures, so they really haven't done anything 'wrong'.
If you ask me, it's all a load of crap. They work the numbers like hell until they like them. I've seen the actual numbers, and I've seen what my employer reports - interesting, to say the least.
Are you somehow surprised at this? It is their network you are putting your customers on. Why should they just let you come in and undercut their offer when you are using their equipment and lines to do it?
Sure, they have a distinct advantage in the fact that they have cable running to every home. Sure, Congress made attempts to aid competition. However, you should not expect them to just hand you cake.
Why not just send them an HTML formatted email with a form in it? Have it submit to an intranet site, and you can use server side scripting to store the input however you want.
Let's say it takes me $300,000 to make my Linux distro ($200,000 for my developers and $100,000 for my internet connection to spit it out -- an exageration to be sure). I sell 5,000 copies of each distro for $30 each. I make $150,000 net.
It's more than just that. I don't want any of the users on my network doing something as stupid as changing their dns resolution methods. That's why they don't have priveleges to do this. If they change this, they don't get to resolve any of the names of the servers their daily work depends on.
They can install a browser plug-in. I couldn't care less if they do this. If it breaks their Internet Explorer when they install the program, they know they get no support because they installed an unsupported program.
A program that changes whatever the Windows version of resolv.conf is, could also be a program where they click on an icon and it says, "Ok." Yes, on multiuser (e.g. Unix) systems, it would have to ask for a password. But in cases where the user (e.g. you) knows better than to give root access to whatever program asks for it, the user probably already knows how to change resolv.conf himself
This is only realistic for home PCs. No corporate environment allows users to touch this stuff. So, by choosing this method, you are creating TLDs that only work at home.
This is not easier. A browser plugin can be installed on the fly, and the user only has to click 'Ok'.
The ability to change name resolution is platform dependent, and requires administrator/root level access. You are sure as hell not touching that on my machine. How do you change this on a Mac?
The root servers aren't going to change any time soon. They're well established, and their addresses are distributed with DNS servers, for which there are millions of copies already distributed.
We tried using them because they were the only provider that could do all of our remote locations. Should be convenient for us, right?
Their lines were slower than advertised
Their lines were down an average of 8% of the time
Their support was terrible
We were constantly on the phone with them reporting problems. One particular problem was a faulty switch at the CLEC. It took them 5 weeks to figure this out. Apparently all 31 of the other customers on the switch never complained about it. We called twice a day about it. Every single problem we called them about had to be escalated because they weren't getting it solved.
Luckily, our company began to be more profitable and it became reasonable for us to get a T1 at each location (due to affordability and to bandwidth needed for increased staff).
Of course, this is anecdotal evidence from one person. They may have been a good provider other than what they showed us.
Children are prone to hit others because of a variety of reasons. Many of these same reasons cause them to seek out violence in movies and video games. Are the movies the cause, or part of the result?
I have a friend whose son is deaf and has MS. As a result of these two conditions, he is constantly made fun of at school (unfortunately, the school system does not have any special programs available to him and he is in 'normal' classes). As a result of this, he lashes out and hits his schoolmates. He also chooses to watch violent movies. However, the movie watching is likely a result of his frustrations at school. He wants to see people that do bad things get punished.
I agree that violence in various forms of media can influence people, but I do not think it produces a violent person. I think that we are looking at the wrong things. Violent kids seek violent movies. It makes them feel like they are not different for being violent. Have they ever done a study on this? Probably not. All the studies are making the wrong conclusion. Now, does this mean that we should get rid of violent media because it makes violent kids feel comfortable with their violence? No. They would not become nonviolent just because they didn't feel comfortable. They would simply be more volatile.
It wouldn't work to outright blame the parents. If a politician were to suggest spending on parent help programs, it might work. I suspect that there are a number of parents who are downright frustrated and would love some programs to help them with parenting. Sure, there are books to read and resources on the web, but that requires motivation. Many people need someone to offer a community class that 'forces' them to learn.
We need to somehow find a way to move our society back in the direction of responsibility. One of our biggest problems is that we are trying harder and harder to blame everyone else for the problems we have. We blame TV and video games. We sue people constantly. We sue the police. We sue the government. People just need to learn the consequences for the things they do in life. Sure, consequences suck, but life goes on. You're a better person for dealing with them than you are for suing someone else.
Look, I played Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake, etc starting when I was 13. The games have had no effect on me. I am scared to death of guns. If I ever see one in real life, I will not even be able to pick it up.
There will always be people in the world who are weakminded enough to try to solve their problems with violence. This has very little to do with video games, movies, or television. Do you think that people somehow get confused about the danger of guns when they kill someone in a video game? No, they don't. Do you think they get desensitized? Not in real life. Yes, I am less sensitive to video game and movie violence, profanity, and sex than I used to be. That, however, has nothing to do with real life. I am very much opposed to violence in real life. I am not a proponent of using profanity in public, especially in the presence of children. I am opposed to having a society that is too sexual.
So, you tell me what has happened to me as a result of playing video games.
No matter what you do, there will always be seedy people who seek violence or graphic pornography or whatever else. Please don't take things away from me because you are looking for something to point your finger at. Perhaps you should point to the fact that there are no restrictions on procreation. We have some of the worst members of our society producing offspring. They grow up with alcoholic, violent parents. Often, they grow up with one parent and grow enraged at a parent who abused or left them. Perhaps we should look at why our society does not frown upon things like adultery and divorce.
There are stories about how a teenager (youngish teen) pointed a very realistic toy gun at a cop at night. Cop couldn't tell that it was a toy, it looked real, and so the cop shot the kid
This happens a few more times, and kids won't do this anymore.
The world is full of idiots. Soon, we'll stop making lollipops because kids can stick them up their noses and damage their brains.
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Umm, criminals don't think like that except in movies. Some guy that just knocked off three banks will just go down to Ybor with his buddies and get drunk. It won't even occur to him.
Because the only taxes we pay to the city down here are property taxes, so I'm not losing my house over it.
I live in a nearby city, not Ybor.
Because when the accouting people get together with the public relations people, they start making shit up. However, there is a standard, accepted practice for coming up with bullshit figures, so they really haven't done anything 'wrong'.
If you ask me, it's all a load of crap. They work the numbers like hell until they like them. I've seen the actual numbers, and I've seen what my employer reports - interesting, to say the least.
I don't believe your inference is correct. Sometimes, you can read too much between the lines and start adding your own thoughts.
This was answered above.
Sony requires agreement to a EULA that states that all source is 100% property of Sony, and will not be made available.
? We use IE at work, but that works for us. Our warehouse gets all of their reports in HTML, and I use that for page breaks.
Are you somehow surprised at this? It is their network you are putting your customers on. Why should they just let you come in and undercut their offer when you are using their equipment and lines to do it?
Sure, they have a distinct advantage in the fact that they have cable running to every home. Sure, Congress made attempts to aid competition. However, you should not expect them to just hand you cake.
Why not just send them an HTML formatted email with a form in it? Have it submit to an intranet site, and you can use server side scripting to store the input however you want.
note the spelling - 'brake', not 'break'.
You don't need cows... I've got you covered!
Well, skis let you out when you fall. The boot itself does not move, so you are safer in them.
This jumping device both moves, and attaches firmly to you. It looks like it can break your leg.
Dunno if these are real or not. They look like they have poor balance, and they could snap your leg in half in an accident.
Remember, it is April Fool's Day.
It's more than just that. I don't want any of the users on my network doing something as stupid as changing their dns resolution methods. That's why they don't have priveleges to do this. If they change this, they don't get to resolve any of the names of the servers their daily work depends on.
They can install a browser plug-in. I couldn't care less if they do this. If it breaks their Internet Explorer when they install the program, they know they get no support because they installed an unsupported program.
A program that changes whatever the Windows version of resolv.conf is, could also be a program where they click on an icon and it says, "Ok." Yes, on multiuser (e.g. Unix) systems, it would have to ask for a password. But in cases where the user (e.g. you) knows better than to give root access to whatever program asks for it, the user probably already knows how to change resolv.conf himself
This is only realistic for home PCs. No corporate environment allows users to touch this stuff. So, by choosing this method, you are creating TLDs that only work at home.
This is not easier. A browser plugin can be installed on the fly, and the user only has to click 'Ok'.
The ability to change name resolution is platform dependent, and requires administrator/root level access. You are sure as hell not touching that on my machine. How do you change this on a Mac?
The root servers aren't going to change any time soon. They're well established, and their addresses are distributed with DNS servers, for which there are millions of copies already distributed.
We were constantly on the phone with them reporting problems. One particular problem was a faulty switch at the CLEC. It took them 5 weeks to figure this out. Apparently all 31 of the other customers on the switch never complained about it. We called twice a day about it. Every single problem we called them about had to be escalated because they weren't getting it solved.
Luckily, our company began to be more profitable and it became reasonable for us to get a T1 at each location (due to affordability and to bandwidth needed for increased staff).
Of course, this is anecdotal evidence from one person. They may have been a good provider other than what they showed us.
What the hell are you talking about? Professionals use GeoCities? Are you nuts?
Who the hell wants those damn GeoCities ads floating all over your content? Mostly personal sites are on GeoCities.
The Karma is not good for anything. Why do you care how much you have?
Its seems they're not only in it for the money
Well, they're in it to get paid to have sex.
Children are prone to hit others because of a variety of reasons. Many of these same reasons cause them to seek out violence in movies and video games. Are the movies the cause, or part of the result?
I have a friend whose son is deaf and has MS. As a result of these two conditions, he is constantly made fun of at school (unfortunately, the school system does not have any special programs available to him and he is in 'normal' classes). As a result of this, he lashes out and hits his schoolmates. He also chooses to watch violent movies. However, the movie watching is likely a result of his frustrations at school. He wants to see people that do bad things get punished.
I agree that violence in various forms of media can influence people, but I do not think it produces a violent person. I think that we are looking at the wrong things. Violent kids seek violent movies. It makes them feel like they are not different for being violent. Have they ever done a study on this? Probably not. All the studies are making the wrong conclusion. Now, does this mean that we should get rid of violent media because it makes violent kids feel comfortable with their violence? No. They would not become nonviolent just because they didn't feel comfortable. They would simply be more volatile.
It wouldn't work to outright blame the parents. If a politician were to suggest spending on parent help programs, it might work. I suspect that there are a number of parents who are downright frustrated and would love some programs to help them with parenting. Sure, there are books to read and resources on the web, but that requires motivation. Many people need someone to offer a community class that 'forces' them to learn.
We need to somehow find a way to move our society back in the direction of responsibility. One of our biggest problems is that we are trying harder and harder to blame everyone else for the problems we have. We blame TV and video games. We sue people constantly. We sue the police. We sue the government. People just need to learn the consequences for the things they do in life. Sure, consequences suck, but life goes on. You're a better person for dealing with them than you are for suing someone else.
Look, I played Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake, etc starting when I was 13. The games have had no effect on me. I am scared to death of guns. If I ever see one in real life, I will not even be able to pick it up.
There will always be people in the world who are weakminded enough to try to solve their problems with violence. This has very little to do with video games, movies, or television. Do you think that people somehow get confused about the danger of guns when they kill someone in a video game? No, they don't. Do you think they get desensitized? Not in real life. Yes, I am less sensitive to video game and movie violence, profanity, and sex than I used to be. That, however, has nothing to do with real life. I am very much opposed to violence in real life. I am not a proponent of using profanity in public, especially in the presence of children. I am opposed to having a society that is too sexual.
So, you tell me what has happened to me as a result of playing video games.
No matter what you do, there will always be seedy people who seek violence or graphic pornography or whatever else. Please don't take things away from me because you are looking for something to point your finger at. Perhaps you should point to the fact that there are no restrictions on procreation. We have some of the worst members of our society producing offspring. They grow up with alcoholic, violent parents. Often, they grow up with one parent and grow enraged at a parent who abused or left them. Perhaps we should look at why our society does not frown upon things like adultery and divorce.
There are stories about how a teenager (youngish teen) pointed a very realistic toy gun at a cop at night. Cop couldn't tell that it was a toy, it looked real, and so the cop shot the kid
This happens a few more times, and kids won't do this anymore.
The world is full of idiots. Soon, we'll stop making lollipops because kids can stick them up their noses and damage their brains.
Yes, but Linux is useful. A video is pretty lame. I'm sure sourceforge is real pleased right now.
I have no idea what my social security number [...] is
Translation: I have not gone to college.