I wish I could up your karma but instead I will say I agree. I think that usage based billing isn't nessisarily bad but when I can't use my netflix account and download a game off steam in the same month I'm feeling pretty taken advantage of. I've got 100gig cap and I was poping up to 120-150 with game updates/downloads and netflix. Now I have to check my usage daily and setup an allotted amount I can download a day and give myself carry over. If I want a steam game 7gigsish I have to save up my bandwidth for the month. I've been doing this for the last two months getting myself ready for the caps to take place. I'm with shaw so I'm not sure if this will change how they do their bandwidth capping. It's been looking like parliment wants to overturn UBB just to selling of pipe to other companies. Like I said I don' t mind the caps but a 250 cap like comcast has would be nice. I think people also need to remember Bell got a lot of money from the government to create their huge network.
I would also like to say that the overage charges that they are putting in are way higher than they need to be. Maybe it needs some regulation so that the consumers don't get hosed and the ISP's don't get hosed. I don't think UBB should be in place to cap spending on upgraded infrastructure which seems to be the current case.
Maybe you can shed some light on it, but I always thought it was intersting that you could sue someone for EULA breach but what if that person wasn't the person who accepted the EULA? How do you determine who accepted it and lay blame on them? The current owner or previous owner of the hardware/software? What if you buy a console and your roomate hacks it?
I think your missing the point of the guys argument. He's not saying it's always bad to use the swastika as a symbole. He's suggesting that without the context of why that person is using that symbole they won't understand it. You are obviously educated heck a lot of people around here are smart enough to know that the Swastika wasn't always used for that. I think a large number of those educated people would also be smart enough to realize that the large demographic for these games even if it is rated M for mature aren't mature/educated enough to distinguish the difference between the two symboles. Taken in the wrong context the Swastika is very offensive especially if it was a symbole of someone who murdered your grandparents and everyone they knew, it spews hate. It's unfortunate that such a peacful symbole would be basterdized into that but that's what happend. To advoid that sort of hate and misunderstanding at this point I think the XBOX live team is right to ban it. If the main meaning in the western population were to change out of respect for those who use it as a peaceful sign then I'm sure they would change their minds.
In the middle of a game with no context is no way to change that opinion, it can spread more hate especially in a war game. So yeah they might not be promoting the ideas of Nazi's but 90% of the people they play with probably wouldn't even have an idea it was used for something good and most of those that did wouldn't see that in that context.
Depends on the what kind of a lawyer this person is. If they are going out to make a name for themselves then I would think they would see over reaching as being a career killer. It would look bad if he went down in a ball of flames on a high profile case. Now the fact that this lawyer is working with Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson I would think that he's got some good council to help him. I hope he will win if not this makes it harder for the future.
I would believe that if the cost of support wasn't thrown into the mix. Windows, Linux, and OSX all offer support services for their software. Part of what the summery was stating was the cost of that support. Red Hat offers such a service for a fee which any one doing the research into the bidding process for the OS's should know. This is why Red Hat is and should be upset they are being taken out of the running before they can even start. This is how they make their money off of their OS.
I don't know if there is foul play here because some of the applications and hardware that work under windows don't exist or don't work as well under other operating systems. I still think they should have had an open bidding process and if Red Hat(or other linux distros and OS's) couldn't meet their needs with the price as well as the software then Microsoft would be free to take it. It shouldn't be a problem if it's just a formality, but it wasn't even setup like that, which is why I see Red Hat as being justified in being upset with the bidding process.
I do IT work for the school district where I'm from. I can tell you right now that things like youtube are usually blocked for bandwidth constraints. We have the ability for teachers to authenticate to the server and access streaming websites and radio but limiting that connection helps with bandwidth usage. If you have 50+ people on youtube at one time you would notice a slowdown over the network(not everywhere has been upgraded to gigabit). Also schools typically don't see the educational value in the average youtube video where someone get's whacked in the nuts.
I do agree if a teacher doesn't know how to rip a clip from a dvd they know someone who does. Teachers at least around here not only know someone inside their school that could do it, but the ones in elementary, network to teachers outside of their school to others to get help. Not to mention I've done some of that work for them(making sure it's fair use)
I sucked at making cables, but my last job insisted that we make our own cables because it was cheaper(I didn't bother trying to explain how my pay should be included in the cost I just smiled). When I started it took me 30 seconds to make a cable and another 15 to make it right. For shorter cables(which is what I mostly made) it would have been cheaper to run out and buy a pack of freaking cables. By the time I quit I could make a quality cable in the time it took me to login to my computer. I always tested them to make sure but I rarly had a faulty one, and they worked just as good as any other cable on our network.
I think by the time I had left I had replaced every cable I had made in the first 2 months of making cables. It was a big waste of time to be honest, if you don't have someone with good skills doing it that's all your doing is wasting time money and supplies on shitty cabling. If you have someone who started out making cables and is very good at it, having a box of cable and the proper ends and crimpers will save you money in the long run.
I would call this a first step. They still don't know how the brain works, they are just guessing right now. They can figure what part of the brain deals with say language(as an example) and detect what is firing for what thought and then adjust the machine to say this is what he was thinking about so this is what the device should do.
The more we understand the brain the better a device like this will work. Either way it may never work for a blind person unless you can somehow figure out how to transmit the signal as well as receive it.
My happy place is like that scene off of Happy Gilmore where hes got beer women and stuff...
Really though I find that my best coding comes after sitting down in front of a whiteboard planning things out(sometimes I can do it in my head) so that I know exactly what needs to be done. I find it puts me in a good mood to have a clear idea of what's going on and I can focus on what needs to be done. It also helps with the quality of my code as I'm not jumping from one idea to the next trying not to patch things together. I've had bad days where I thought I could do a section in my head and really wasn't on the ball and ended up rewriting it for my own sanity.
I haven't don't any serious programming for a few months but every time I do programming it's self puts me in a good mood. It makes me wonder if it would be the same if I did it all the time as a job.
"I'm sorry you hate the planet and decided you should ignore the 30 emails we sent in the last month to warn you that we were going to be doing this. I guess next time you should read those emails that say important."
"Because we don't know your password and we don't want to know your password now let me reset it for you and it will ask you to change it the next time you login."
Tell them to buck up, you should be warning them of such a process before you go and do it, there should be some sort of email list that you can send messages to all the staff. If they choose to ignore it they can take it up with management it's not your fault they didn't listen. No one's going to cry a river about some one who didn't take the notification seriously.
Here's the thing, I have nothing against OSX or apples desktop systems but I'll tell you one thing that pisses me right off about their laptops that makes me never want to buy one. the freaking mouse buttons. Yes I know the touchpad is all spiffy with the two finger pressing and all that jazz but I hate it. I hate that it, if they can put a freaking click they can put a right click and a left click. How stupid do they think I am that I can't operate two freaking buttons on a mouse.
My wife has a Mac book and I must say that OSx is pretty spiffy but it also has the same short commings that Linux does Vs. windows. The software, it's pretty hard to justify switching to a Mac when you primarly use windows for work. There are certainly comparible apps for what I do on both systems but it's way easier and a lot less pain to work in the same suite all the time. Now you might say "hey you do know we can dual boot now right" well what ever i'm not spending the money on a higher priced MAC.
By higher priced I mean I can spend 500 dollars on a cheap laptop to meet my needs while the specs aren't great it does the job perfectly. Now when you compare a MAC to a non MAC intel computer of the same spec you're getting relativly the same stuff at a simular price, I've looked I know. but I don't think you can get a brand new macbook for 500 dollars. If I was going for a high end machine for home use next time I go to get a computer I might consider it as I don't do work on my home machine(outside of my hobby projects), I have an Xbox for gaming and I need it to be a higher end machine, so why not(but I still won't get a mac book).
But those are some reasons on why someone wouldn't sperm over themselves to get one.
Recap: 1)software 2)shitty mouse on the macbook 3)no low end model(not everyone can aford or needs a $1000+ computer)
What ever even if this is fair use I'm pretty sure his company isn't going to tolerate that kind of behavior. Companies have set policies and procedures in place to help guide the company. I'm pretty sure people have been fired at fox for a lot less. It seems pretty stupid to think doing something that your parent company has been trying to get the public to stop doing(pirating) is going to get you fired. It seems pretty common sense even with fair use.
I would hope that she got a new ipod since 2005 I doubt the battery is working so well at this point. If I had a 4 year old mp3 player I would be happy for an upgrade. If she's as much of a tech nut as it seems I think she would love it.
Also they threw in a bunch of pics and videos of the time they had, thats like scrap booking for the new age.
I know between this and netflix I get pretty pissy when it comes to online content coming from the states. I know the issue is that they are distributing the content outside of the US and it has to do with export laws. Comedy central has done a good job by dropping almost if not all of their content on the Comedy Network site, it's just too bad after so long that Hulu and netflix haven't created a Canadian provider for their material. I would definitely be into it.
When ever you see a tragedy such as a school or public shooting or anything for that matter the first thing you do is say why, the second thing you do is find the easiest answer. The truth is that if someone does something that people don't understand they tend to blame the thing that person did that they didn't understand. I would agree that violence can breed more violence but it's pretty hard to blame video games when you see it played out in movies, TV, on the streets, and anywhere. The question is, is that when every one I know plays violent video games and not one of them has been convicted of a violent crime what does that prove? Counter-strike has 4.2 million users(just the original not source as there would be some cross over between the users number comes from Wikipedia) world wide. If this game(which is 10 years old give or take a few months) truly breed the kind of violence that made this kid kill people that's 0.0000238% of all people that play are made violent enough to commit a crime, I'm pretty sure that's an anomaly.
I would hope that things would settle down people would look at it a little more logically and decide that this kind of thing is silly. I would hope parents would be aware of the mental state of their children and be trying to get help if they can, and be aware of what content they can handle. I have heard of kids calming down once fighting games were removed but as a parent you should be watching them instead of letting them socialize on video games alone. If you let them play video games watch or play with them, of course as they get older it's harder to do that besides not giving them money to buy games, and then if they are still violent it's tragic but at least you shouldn't be blaming video games at that point.
I agree we need to get out there and show the masses that 'hey your looking at switching to a mac look here first' Tell them that Mac is Linux' prissy cousin and show how it can do everything they do and so much more. If people see an "I'm Linux" commercial they are just going to say yeah you like Linux but it has no applications, it's harder to use. The marketing should be getting rid of the reputation that Linux acquired in the 90's and should be about showing people how exciting and advanced the progress has become in the last 10 years. They should showing how applications on are easier to use, how drivers with compatible computers are easier to install, and how fast the thing is. Sit it beside an XP or vista machine and show boot to production time.
They should be coming out with a penguin label for computers that have all Linux compatible hardware and have some companies like HP, Dell, and IBM get into it. I think that there needs to be a lot of ground work done before you can get into a simple "I am Linux'
Are you sure they would die out? I mean you would have to freeze the whole ocean from top to bottom to do that would probably wipe out most if not all life on earth. The octopus has survived at least one ice age that we know of. It seems like the animals that survive the longest without any kind of evolutionary change seem to be ocean life but that has no basis in science just my personal observation.
NBCU says it had an internal marketing team develop the name. However, readers of this site most likely are aware that the new name has a direct similarity to its former brand, SyFy Portal. Quantum Global Media Inc., rebranded this site last month to Airlock Alpha, leaving behind the "Syfy" brand, and selling it to an undisclosed entity.
I'm in Canada so I can't benifit from it but if you really want a service that you can rent HD Movies from why not setup the obvious and just go with NetFlix? I do believe it works on OSX.
I think at 1:08 into the video you can here the guy with the phone say something about the iphone and then everyone laugh. I love that flip concept I would get that phone instead of the iphone just to have real keyboard and a real phone in one. Then again I have no need for a smart phone.
I honestly don't think that I notice the tax that much. They wanted to extend it a year or two ago to a bunch of other devices but I'm pretty sure that it got turned down. This is also a Levy and not a Tax. I heard at one time that the Levy was only being applied to blank music recording media so blank data discs were still exempt but I've never seen that many blank music discs(when I did I do know they were more) I'm not sure if the increase in costs is because of the exchange rate or the Levy is being applied.
Also there was a bill being presented(not sure it's current state) that would basically be like putting a DMCA into Canada. This Bill was and is a pile of crap it would make fair use of certain media illegal in Canada. So basically if you want my opinion if they get cranky enough they could lay down a tax and still say it's illegal even though you are already paying for it and still make you pay if they catch you downloading.
I basically think it's a pile of crap, you should be either not guilty until proven innocent and then have to pay, or given free rein over the whole spectrum if your being charged the fees.
This whole summery screams flame bait. While I don't agree with what is going on in Europe I don't think firing up the propaganda machine is necessary. Maybe they see putting broadband into everyone's home as the future. I tend to think from the articles I see on here and other news sites that the UK just kind of does what ever.
The other thing is the incessant accusation that the music and video industry are failing. They have over the last how many years struggled to hold onto a dying model(like that girl in titanic holding onto DiCaprio at some point it's just going to freeze and sink) but they have been putting an effort into different digital markets like amazon.com and itunes store. Calling the whole industry a failure also groups in Indy artists to that same group as well as people like Reznor or Radio Head. There are a lot of people who like to have the newest vinyl or the cool artwork on their physical collection there is a market out there for it, just not what it was 10 years ago.
Yeah there's a part of the industry that's going down but at some point it's going to sink while the good parts of it swim, otherwise if no one in the industry is making money we will see a lot less money.
As for the thought that they would have to pay money to the music and video industry for using their internet connection I don't like it. I know that in the UK they have a TV tax that is used to fund the BBC and such things, but with the TV tax you at least know that they are watching TV shows and at the time they instituted the tax BBC was I think the only or at least the biggest player. Now with sky and other channels there's more people that should be getting that money(I dunno if they do or if they are terrestrial or what). With the internet tax your charging a large number of people for something that only a smaller percentage might be doing. I don't know about in the UK but I know here in Canada most people I know that arn't computer savy(grandparents, parents and their friends that make up a large portion of the population as well as younger people) tend to use itunes to get their music. So why does everyone have to pay it. Like I said the UK to me(I have a very narrow view I probably only hear the bad things) seems to do strange things like this all the time.
Even if it's crap it's not worth missing. Even when the stories got a little stale I thought that it was still good I liked that caliber of dedication by the actors and the fact that they are all excited to come back so many years later to finish it off is great. Though I thought that it wasn't going to be written by just doug nailer in the coffin:(
But it will be a good farewell I think, and I won't have to sit around thinking "but what next" for the next 40 years(even if it's not like the original I still sit down and watch the whole series some weekends). Hands down on of my top 5 favorite shows.
what do you mean by full support from developers? Do you mean having software for the system like adobe? They are starting to get there as flash has been on a parallel release for a short time. There are other developers working on linux now too but your right it's not just there yet. Well if that's what you mean by full support of developers. But no OS has the FULL support can't run garage band on windows can you?
Also typically the point of linux is that you don't have to go out and buy the software, it comes with the OS or with a quick apt-get from a repository. It's free typically you won't see it in the stores for that reason. I would like to see in the future stores selling the CD's and DVD's of distros, as well as openoffice and other alternatives for the cost of production and shelving but I don't think they need to for it to catch on. You just need enough people who have had a good experiance with it for it to start being a force.
I'm not a linux fan boi I don't think that it's had a large effect on Microsofts market but it has definatly changed it. Linux is a large part of the embeded market, they had Microsoft playing catchup in the netbook market, and distro's like ubuntu are getting closer and closer to being where they need to, to take on Microsoft. I would argu for most people it's there.
The real underlaying thing here is not whether it's a virus or not it's the fact the a trojan is in the wild for OSX that's being installed. Mac users typically think that because they are using OSX that they don't have to worry about such things, what this proves is that there is gaining interest out there for malicious attacks on OSX whether or not it's virus, trojan, spyware or worm.
OSX in 2007(no 2008 numbers yet) had more security vulnerabilities in 2007http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=758/ then Vista or XP yet people think it's a more secure operating system, and like Microsoft Apple has at times taken it's time in patching these vulnerabilities. At this current time it is a more secure operating system but only because of it's current market share. I predict that the increase in market share is going to be directly proportional to the increase in malicious software.
While you say that any OS can be compromised like this if a user using OSX had a good virus scanner on their system they would be allot less likely to get infected by this trojan that a PC user who has up to date definitions on their virus scanner. Granted some people do have virus scanners running on OSX. If that's not the point of people criticizing security on OSX then it should be. Even if the OS is less likely to pickup a virus or trojan that can infect their computer they could end up passing it along to a Windows OS.
This doesn't just go for OSX users there are possibilities of the same thing happening to linux distros out there as well. I typically have run avg on my linux installs in the past.
The point I'm trying to make is not to bash Apple I'm simply criticizing the general non technical users mentality towards the OS, as well as the lack of push for better protection from these kinds of infections whether they be by social engineering to get them to install the trojan or if they are a trojan virus that can spread.
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I wish I could up your karma but instead I will say I agree. I think that usage based billing isn't nessisarily bad but when I can't use my netflix account and download a game off steam in the same month I'm feeling pretty taken advantage of. I've got 100gig cap and I was poping up to 120-150 with game updates/downloads and netflix. Now I have to check my usage daily and setup an allotted amount I can download a day and give myself carry over. If I want a steam game 7gigsish I have to save up my bandwidth for the month. I've been doing this for the last two months getting myself ready for the caps to take place. I'm with shaw so I'm not sure if this will change how they do their bandwidth capping. It's been looking like parliment wants to overturn UBB just to selling of pipe to other companies. Like I said I don' t mind the caps but a 250 cap like comcast has would be nice. I think people also need to remember Bell got a lot of money from the government to create their huge network.
I would also like to say that the overage charges that they are putting in are way higher than they need to be. Maybe it needs some regulation so that the consumers don't get hosed and the ISP's don't get hosed. I don't think UBB should be in place to cap spending on upgraded infrastructure which seems to be the current case.
Maybe you can shed some light on it, but I always thought it was intersting that you could sue someone for EULA breach but what if that person wasn't the person who accepted the EULA? How do you determine who accepted it and lay blame on them? The current owner or previous owner of the hardware/software? What if you buy a console and your roomate hacks it?
I think your missing the point of the guys argument. He's not saying it's always bad to use the swastika as a symbole. He's suggesting that without the context of why that person is using that symbole they won't understand it. You are obviously educated heck a lot of people around here are smart enough to know that the Swastika wasn't always used for that. I think a large number of those educated people would also be smart enough to realize that the large demographic for these games even if it is rated M for mature aren't mature/educated enough to distinguish the difference between the two symboles. Taken in the wrong context the Swastika is very offensive especially if it was a symbole of someone who murdered your grandparents and everyone they knew, it spews hate. It's unfortunate that such a peacful symbole would be basterdized into that but that's what happend. To advoid that sort of hate and misunderstanding at this point I think the XBOX live team is right to ban it. If the main meaning in the western population were to change out of respect for those who use it as a peaceful sign then I'm sure they would change their minds.
In the middle of a game with no context is no way to change that opinion, it can spread more hate especially in a war game. So yeah they might not be promoting the ideas of Nazi's but 90% of the people they play with probably wouldn't even have an idea it was used for something good and most of those that did wouldn't see that in that context.
Depends on the what kind of a lawyer this person is. If they are going out to make a name for themselves then I would think they would see over reaching as being a career killer. It would look bad if he went down in a ball of flames on a high profile case. Now the fact that this lawyer is working with Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson I would think that he's got some good council to help him. I hope he will win if not this makes it harder for the future.
I would believe that if the cost of support wasn't thrown into the mix. Windows, Linux, and OSX all offer support services for their software. Part of what the summery was stating was the cost of that support. Red Hat offers such a service for a fee which any one doing the research into the bidding process for the OS's should know. This is why Red Hat is and should be upset they are being taken out of the running before they can even start. This is how they make their money off of their OS.
I don't know if there is foul play here because some of the applications and hardware that work under windows don't exist or don't work as well under other operating systems. I still think they should have had an open bidding process and if Red Hat(or other linux distros and OS's) couldn't meet their needs with the price as well as the software then Microsoft would be free to take it. It shouldn't be a problem if it's just a formality, but it wasn't even setup like that, which is why I see Red Hat as being justified in being upset with the bidding process.
I do IT work for the school district where I'm from. I can tell you right now that things like youtube are usually blocked for bandwidth constraints. We have the ability for teachers to authenticate to the server and access streaming websites and radio but limiting that connection helps with bandwidth usage. If you have 50+ people on youtube at one time you would notice a slowdown over the network(not everywhere has been upgraded to gigabit). Also schools typically don't see the educational value in the average youtube video where someone get's whacked in the nuts.
I do agree if a teacher doesn't know how to rip a clip from a dvd they know someone who does. Teachers at least around here not only know someone inside their school that could do it, but the ones in elementary, network to teachers outside of their school to others to get help. Not to mention I've done some of that work for them(making sure it's fair use)
I sucked at making cables, but my last job insisted that we make our own cables because it was cheaper(I didn't bother trying to explain how my pay should be included in the cost I just smiled). When I started it took me 30 seconds to make a cable and another 15 to make it right. For shorter cables(which is what I mostly made) it would have been cheaper to run out and buy a pack of freaking cables. By the time I quit I could make a quality cable in the time it took me to login to my computer. I always tested them to make sure but I rarly had a faulty one, and they worked just as good as any other cable on our network.
I think by the time I had left I had replaced every cable I had made in the first 2 months of making cables. It was a big waste of time to be honest, if you don't have someone with good skills doing it that's all your doing is wasting time money and supplies on shitty cabling. If you have someone who started out making cables and is very good at it, having a box of cable and the proper ends and crimpers will save you money in the long run.
I would call this a first step. They still don't know how the brain works, they are just guessing right now. They can figure what part of the brain deals with say language(as an example) and detect what is firing for what thought and then adjust the machine to say this is what he was thinking about so this is what the device should do.
The more we understand the brain the better a device like this will work. Either way it may never work for a blind person unless you can somehow figure out how to transmit the signal as well as receive it.
My happy place is like that scene off of Happy Gilmore where hes got beer women and stuff...
Really though I find that my best coding comes after sitting down in front of a whiteboard planning things out(sometimes I can do it in my head) so that I know exactly what needs to be done. I find it puts me in a good mood to have a clear idea of what's going on and I can focus on what needs to be done. It also helps with the quality of my code as I'm not jumping from one idea to the next trying not to patch things together. I've had bad days where I thought I could do a section in my head and really wasn't on the ball and ended up rewriting it for my own sanity.
I haven't don't any serious programming for a few months but every time I do programming it's self puts me in a good mood. It makes me wonder if it would be the same if I did it all the time as a job.
"I'm sorry you hate the planet and decided you should ignore the 30 emails we sent in the last month to warn you that we were going to be doing this. I guess next time you should read those emails that say important."
"Because we don't know your password and we don't want to know your password now let me reset it for you and it will ask you to change it the next time you login."
Tell them to buck up, you should be warning them of such a process before you go and do it, there should be some sort of email list that you can send messages to all the staff. If they choose to ignore it they can take it up with management it's not your fault they didn't listen. No one's going to cry a river about some one who didn't take the notification seriously.
Here's the thing, I have nothing against OSX or apples desktop systems but I'll tell you one thing that pisses me right off about their laptops that makes me never want to buy one. the freaking mouse buttons. Yes I know the touchpad is all spiffy with the two finger pressing and all that jazz but I hate it. I hate that it, if they can put a freaking click they can put a right click and a left click. How stupid do they think I am that I can't operate two freaking buttons on a mouse.
My wife has a Mac book and I must say that OSx is pretty spiffy but it also has the same short commings that Linux does Vs. windows. The software, it's pretty hard to justify switching to a Mac when you primarly use windows for work. There are certainly comparible apps for what I do on both systems but it's way easier and a lot less pain to work in the same suite all the time. Now you might say "hey you do know we can dual boot now right" well what ever i'm not spending the money on a higher priced MAC.
By higher priced I mean I can spend 500 dollars on a cheap laptop to meet my needs while the specs aren't great it does the job perfectly. Now when you compare a MAC to a non MAC intel computer of the same spec you're getting relativly the same stuff at a simular price, I've looked I know. but I don't think you can get a brand new macbook for 500 dollars. If I was going for a high end machine for home use next time I go to get a computer I might consider it as I don't do work on my home machine(outside of my hobby projects), I have an Xbox for gaming and I need it to be a higher end machine, so why not(but I still won't get a mac book).
But those are some reasons on why someone wouldn't sperm over themselves to get one.
Recap:
1)software
2)shitty mouse on the macbook
3)no low end model(not everyone can aford or needs a $1000+ computer)
What ever even if this is fair use I'm pretty sure his company isn't going to tolerate that kind of behavior. Companies have set policies and procedures in place to help guide the company. I'm pretty sure people have been fired at fox for a lot less. It seems pretty stupid to think doing something that your parent company has been trying to get the public to stop doing(pirating) is going to get you fired. It seems pretty common sense even with fair use.
I would hope that she got a new ipod since 2005 I doubt the battery is working so well at this point. If I had a 4 year old mp3 player I would be happy for an upgrade. If she's as much of a tech nut as it seems I think she would love it.
Also they threw in a bunch of pics and videos of the time they had, thats like scrap booking for the new age.
I know between this and netflix I get pretty pissy when it comes to online content coming from the states. I know the issue is that they are distributing the content outside of the US and it has to do with export laws. Comedy central has done a good job by dropping almost if not all of their content on the Comedy Network site, it's just too bad after so long that Hulu and netflix haven't created a Canadian provider for their material. I would definitely be into it.
When ever you see a tragedy such as a school or public shooting or anything for that matter the first thing you do is say why, the second thing you do is find the easiest answer. The truth is that if someone does something that people don't understand they tend to blame the thing that person did that they didn't understand. I would agree that violence can breed more violence but it's pretty hard to blame video games when you see it played out in movies, TV, on the streets, and anywhere. The question is, is that when every one I know plays violent video games and not one of them has been convicted of a violent crime what does that prove? Counter-strike has 4.2 million users(just the original not source as there would be some cross over between the users number comes from Wikipedia) world wide. If this game(which is 10 years old give or take a few months) truly breed the kind of violence that made this kid kill people that's 0.0000238% of all people that play are made violent enough to commit a crime, I'm pretty sure that's an anomaly.
I would hope that things would settle down people would look at it a little more logically and decide that this kind of thing is silly. I would hope parents would be aware of the mental state of their children and be trying to get help if they can, and be aware of what content they can handle. I have heard of kids calming down once fighting games were removed but as a parent you should be watching them instead of letting them socialize on video games alone. If you let them play video games watch or play with them, of course as they get older it's harder to do that besides not giving them money to buy games, and then if they are still violent it's tragic but at least you shouldn't be blaming video games at that point.
Yes we can?
I agree we need to get out there and show the masses that 'hey your looking at switching to a mac look here first' Tell them that Mac is Linux' prissy cousin and show how it can do everything they do and so much more. If people see an "I'm Linux" commercial they are just going to say yeah you like Linux but it has no applications, it's harder to use. The marketing should be getting rid of the reputation that Linux acquired in the 90's and should be about showing people how exciting and advanced the progress has become in the last 10 years. They should showing how applications on are easier to use, how drivers with compatible computers are easier to install, and how fast the thing is. Sit it beside an XP or vista machine and show boot to production time.
They should be coming out with a penguin label for computers that have all Linux compatible hardware and have some companies like HP, Dell, and IBM get into it. I think that there needs to be a lot of ground work done before you can get into a simple "I am Linux'
Are you sure they would die out? I mean you would have to freeze the whole ocean from top to bottom to do that would probably wipe out most if not all life on earth. The octopus has survived at least one ice age that we know of. It seems like the animals that survive the longest without any kind of evolutionary change seem to be ocean life but that has no basis in science just my personal observation.
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NBCU says it had an internal marketing team develop the name. However, readers of this site most likely are aware that the new name has a direct similarity to its former brand, SyFy Portal. Quantum Global Media Inc., rebranded this site last month to Airlock Alpha, leaving behind the "Syfy" brand, and selling it to an undisclosed entity.
This is from the main article they are running.
I'm in Canada so I can't benifit from it but if you really want a service that you can rent HD Movies from why not setup the obvious and just go with NetFlix? I do believe it works on OSX.
I think at 1:08 into the video you can here the guy with the phone say something about the iphone and then everyone laugh. I love that flip concept I would get that phone instead of the iphone just to have real keyboard and a real phone in one. Then again I have no need for a smart phone.
I honestly don't think that I notice the tax that much. They wanted to extend it a year or two ago to a bunch of other devices but I'm pretty sure that it got turned down. This is also a Levy and not a Tax. I heard at one time that the Levy was only being applied to blank music recording media so blank data discs were still exempt but I've never seen that many blank music discs(when I did I do know they were more) I'm not sure if the increase in costs is because of the exchange rate or the Levy is being applied.
Also there was a bill being presented(not sure it's current state) that would basically be like putting a DMCA into Canada. This Bill was and is a pile of crap it would make fair use of certain media illegal in Canada. So basically if you want my opinion if they get cranky enough they could lay down a tax and still say it's illegal even though you are already paying for it and still make you pay if they catch you downloading.
I basically think it's a pile of crap, you should be either not guilty until proven innocent and then have to pay, or given free rein over the whole spectrum if your being charged the fees.
This whole summery screams flame bait. While I don't agree with what is going on in Europe I don't think firing up the propaganda machine is necessary. Maybe they see putting broadband into everyone's home as the future. I tend to think from the articles I see on here and other news sites that the UK just kind of does what ever.
The other thing is the incessant accusation that the music and video industry are failing. They have over the last how many years struggled to hold onto a dying model(like that girl in titanic holding onto DiCaprio at some point it's just going to freeze and sink) but they have been putting an effort into different digital markets like amazon.com and itunes store. Calling the whole industry a failure also groups in Indy artists to that same group as well as people like Reznor or Radio Head. There are a lot of people who like to have the newest vinyl or the cool artwork on their physical collection there is a market out there for it, just not what it was 10 years ago.
Yeah there's a part of the industry that's going down but at some point it's going to sink while the good parts of it swim, otherwise if no one in the industry is making money we will see a lot less money.
As for the thought that they would have to pay money to the music and video industry for using their internet connection I don't like it. I know that in the UK they have a TV tax that is used to fund the BBC and such things, but with the TV tax you at least know that they are watching TV shows and at the time they instituted the tax BBC was I think the only or at least the biggest player. Now with sky and other channels there's more people that should be getting that money(I dunno if they do or if they are terrestrial or what). With the internet tax your charging a large number of people for something that only a smaller percentage might be doing. I don't know about in the UK but I know here in Canada most people I know that arn't computer savy(grandparents, parents and their friends that make up a large portion of the population as well as younger people) tend to use itunes to get their music. So why does everyone have to pay it. Like I said the UK to me(I have a very narrow view I probably only hear the bad things) seems to do strange things like this all the time.
Even if it's crap it's not worth missing. Even when the stories got a little stale I thought that it was still good I liked that caliber of dedication by the actors and the fact that they are all excited to come back so many years later to finish it off is great. Though I thought that it wasn't going to be written by just doug nailer in the coffin :(
But it will be a good farewell I think, and I won't have to sit around thinking "but what next" for the next 40 years(even if it's not like the original I still sit down and watch the whole series some weekends). Hands down on of my top 5 favorite shows.
what do you mean by full support from developers? Do you mean having software for the system like adobe? They are starting to get there as flash has been on a parallel release for a short time. There are other developers working on linux now too but your right it's not just there yet. Well if that's what you mean by full support of developers. But no OS has the FULL support can't run garage band on windows can you?
The main reason I wanted to respond was because you also said until you can go to walmart to buy linux software it will never work. I guess you haven't seen the news http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/10/200-everex-gree.html/ http://news.cnet.com/Walmart.com-to-sell-more-Linux-software/2100-1012_3-5066148.html/ or http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/linux/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202805941/
Also typically the point of linux is that you don't have to go out and buy the software, it comes with the OS or with a quick apt-get from a repository. It's free typically you won't see it in the stores for that reason. I would like to see in the future stores selling the CD's and DVD's of distros, as well as openoffice and other alternatives for the cost of production and shelving but I don't think they need to for it to catch on. You just need enough people who have had a good experiance with it for it to start being a force.
I'm not a linux fan boi I don't think that it's had a large effect on Microsofts market but it has definatly changed it. Linux is a large part of the embeded market, they had Microsoft playing catchup in the netbook market, and distro's like ubuntu are getting closer and closer to being where they need to, to take on Microsoft. I would argu for most people it's there.
The real underlaying thing here is not whether it's a virus or not it's the fact the a trojan is in the wild for OSX that's being installed. Mac users typically think that because they are using OSX that they don't have to worry about such things, what this proves is that there is gaining interest out there for malicious attacks on OSX whether or not it's virus, trojan, spyware or worm.
OSX in 2007(no 2008 numbers yet) had more security vulnerabilities in 2007http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=758/ then Vista or XP yet people think it's a more secure operating system, and like Microsoft Apple has at times taken it's time in patching these vulnerabilities. At this current time it is a more secure operating system but only because of it's current market share. I predict that the increase in market share is going to be directly proportional to the increase in malicious software.
While you say that any OS can be compromised like this if a user using OSX had a good virus scanner on their system they would be allot less likely to get infected by this trojan that a PC user who has up to date definitions on their virus scanner. Granted some people do have virus scanners running on OSX. If that's not the point of people criticizing security on OSX then it should be. Even if the OS is less likely to pickup a virus or trojan that can infect their computer they could end up passing it along to a Windows OS.
This doesn't just go for OSX users there are possibilities of the same thing happening to linux distros out there as well. I typically have run avg on my linux installs in the past.
The point I'm trying to make is not to bash Apple I'm simply criticizing the general non technical users mentality towards the OS, as well as the lack of push for better protection from these kinds of infections whether they be by social engineering to get them to install the trojan or if they are a trojan virus that can spread.