CLU, as I heard it, was deliberately -not- an exact likeness. His features are half of Bridges', mirrored to give him perfect symmetry. Seems fitting to the character, anyway.
I opted out of Domain Helper by using manually configured DNS servers, OpenDNS at the moment. It seems if you manually migrate to their DNSSEC servers, Domain Helper goes away, as according to the FAQs the two are incompatible.
If he agreed with the left leaning thought, he would not see it as bias, he would simply see it as correct.
People do not natively see their own views as biased. They are, and if pressed with logic many can be made to understand that, but only if pressed. In a typical situation, they simply see their beliefs as correct.
So, for Murdoch to be calling his competitors biased -strongly implies- that he disagrees with them.
Also, frankly, the position you are taking, that he is not right wing, but merely spouts their rhetoric for a buck, does nothing at all to improve opinion of him. If anything, if what you are saying is true, he is a -worse- human being for selling out his beliefs for the almighty dollar.
Honestly, I was fine not blocking ads until 2 trends started.
First, the obnoxiously loud ads. A little sound is one thing, but an ear splitting 'Congratulation!' bellowing out unexpectedly is quite unacceptable.
Second, malware spreading ads. I thought they were a myth at first, until I was tapped by one (spreading one of those annoying fake antivirus trojan things no less.) And these do turn up on otherwise reputable sites, so anyone trying to pull out the 'watch where you browse' or 'lay off the (porn/warez/music/movies) can sit and spin. The first infection I encountered on a system I used came from a tech support forum of all places, while running Firefox, with anti-virus and anti-malware application resident and up to date, and all applicable security patches to all involved software in place. 0-day exploits are a pain that way.
And even the best 'we will remove it if it causes trouble' policy is a failure. By that point, the damage is already done, I've had to spend time cleaning (or just plain rebuilding) a system to be certain a bit of malware is gone.
Nope, until sites start guaranteeing all their ads free of such issues (and a few others might be nice, like bugged, eta your CPU ads) the ads get blocked. My browsing safety > their ad revenue.
Indeed, I would also not mind the option of paying a small fee for such things. But that assumes that it would be 1. optional and 2. a small fee.
Fact is, most sources for Internet access also offer voice plans. VoIP is competition for them, so it is unlikely they'll offer a 'fast lane' (read: actually usable speed) for it given the opportunity to do otherwise. If they make any honest offering of priority for VoIP traffic at all, expect it to cost nearly as much, if not potentially more, than their own voice plans currently do.
There are a couple if issues with that. It may be possible for you to find a job you personally like. It may not be possible for me to do so. No such job may exist. Some people simply don't enjoy doing anything that is regarded by the folks with the money as useful. Also, I can't think of any activity on this Earth that I can see always wanting to do. I could be sexual quality control tester at a Neveda whorehouse, I'll eventually want to do something else. It is work because there is a motivation (usually money, but in the raw form survivial) to performing the activity beyond, and independent of, enjoyment.
The problem is what ends up being 'reasonable' or 'unreasonable'. See, minds are funny things. They almost always see small changes as more 'reasonable' than large ones. often this is true, but not always, and not if the end result of all the 'reasonable' changes is known from the beginning. Sure, today there is a 'reasonable' request for some anonymous search data. then sometime after that request has become stale and seemingly benign, there will be a 'reasonable' requests for some identifying information related to some rather obviously unsavory searches. Then later still, there will be similar requests, but for less obviously unsavory things. And so, by degrees, we go from requests that are, in themselves, harmless, to requests that are very much infringements of rights, all because each step on the way seemed 'reasonable'.
Your comment seems rather at odds with the generally acknowledged (and often regarded as nigh universal) urge of those who create to leave some lasting mark upon the world through their creations. So it leads me to ask, why? Why do you want all traces of your efforts to wink out of existence when you do (and if they are practical works rather than entertainment, likely cause someone or several someones to have to reinvent that particular wheel?)
Much as I am sour on organized religions, you are not correct here. Essentially, you're comparing apples and oranges, or perhaps in this case apples and howitzers. Dog ownership or the absence thereof is a different type of thing from religious beliefs. Whether or not a god or gods exist out there is purely conjecture. It is, was, and always will be unprovable, at least to living humans. Therefore, any statement on the topic implicitly starts with "I believe..." either "I believe there is a god" or "I believe there is no god" or even "I believe my socks are tiny gods." All are beliefs.
The choices of prefix for this post... I'm curious, why is he anti-creationist rather than pro-evolutionist? Now, this may be innocuous, but choice of words can reveal bias.
Also, anti-fundamentalist is not the same as anti-christian. Being opposed to a specific, fanatical, often belligerent sect of a religious denomination is not the same as being opposed to the entire faith.
That retailer is no better than a person pushing crack or meth on a street corner, and should be treated as such.
So to you, someone selling a violent videogame is just as bad as someone selling a potentially lethal drug?
Uhm, just what sort of crack do you smoke my friend?
It seems to me there are several orders of magnitude of difference between someone selling arguably inappropriate entertainment and someone selling physically addicting Russian roulette. You may want to adjust your hyperbole levels ever so slightly.
I'd agree with you, except I noticed something odd about this worm. My roomates and I use my Win2K box, and while I use Mozilla nigh unto religiously, they stick with IE. Oddly enough, when this little worm tuned, they got the NT AUTHORITY shutdown messages, and I didn't. Considering that the only real difference here is browser of choice, I have to suspect that even if the vulnerability isn't -in- IE, it is somehow facilitated by IE.
A little math here: If it takes 5 seconds per frame, and we assume a rate of 30 frames per second for the film, it will take 150 seconds to convert -one second- of action. A little multiplication shows that to convert an hour of film would take over 6 -days-, and an average film would take nearly 2 -weeks- to convert. I know if I were him, facing those kind of numbers, I'd be willing to spring for a few more machines to cut down on the processing time!
Let me give you a hint: try charging less. I don't save pennies shopping online, I save 30-80% depending on the item. Usually, the higher the initial price, the more I save. Now, if retailers had the same items, but at maybe 5% more that the online price, I'd buy retail because I'm impatient, but honestly I cannot justify paying $120 in a store what i can get for $30 (including the shipping) via Amazon (these are actual price differences I have encountered while shopping for anime boxed sets, not just trumped up numbers I pulled from my ass.)
But don't think this legitimizes copyrighted work sharing. It's still wrong, folks. The fact that it doesn't hurt nearly as bad as the RIAA would have us believe doesn't make it any righter.
True enough, as far as the law goes, but hardly fair. Personally, I'm of the opinion that anyone playing up the damage someone else has done to them in order to milk the sympathy/bank accounts of others is no longer entitled to any compensation. As a for example, if a woman is rear-ended, and suffers some minor injuries and misses a few days of work, she is entitled to compensation. However, if she plays up her injuries, sues for hundreds of thousands of dollars, and is later found out, while IANAL, I do believe such an act on her part would be illegal in several ways. How is it any different for the RIAA? In the course of persuing a legitimate (if odious) legal claim, they have commited a more severe illegal act themselves (perjury, fraud, maybe more). Why should they continue to entitled to any compensation?
The 'inane' problems aren't the sticking point, at least not from my perspective, and neither is the lack of clue. I can and have dealt with both from many a caller. The big issue, the thing that makes me wish I could crush tracheas through comm lines like Darth Vader, are the self important twits who seem absolutely convinced that their issues aren't inane and that they aren't clueless. Those who come to me, and say from word one that they don't know what they are doing, will get a much more understanding ear than those who act like they are tech experts and fail to know what the Desktop is! Hell, the inane problems are often the most interesting, the problem arises when the person presenting it acts as if lives hang in the balance because he can't get PowerPoint to animate his bullets just so.
Cripes, is a little perspective too much to ask for?
Spoken like someone who has never had to write documentation, not even for a technical writing course. I won't argue that docs are important, they are. Even Microsoft could stand to improve them (go ahead, try to find something in the help system without knowing the term -they- use for it). But docs are -not- easy to write, not in any useful form. For one thing, to write truly useful docs, you have to split your mind, one part being the you who wrote the software, the other being someone who has never -seen- it before. If the guy who has never seen it before can't use your docs to make it work, you just wasted the time you took to write them.
Not to be a prick (well, not too much of one) but that would be a -good- thing. Less retention means we are shaking ut the chaff faster, getting down to only those people who want to be in CS for the art's sake, not the Big Buck$(tm). As recent economic events have shown, too many of latter is a Bad Thing(tm).
You post assumes that neither network speed nor processing power will increase in future. These are assumptions we know to be false. So, network scanning will die off temporarily, but it will be back once hardware catches up (much like how older cryptographic keys had to be scrapped because modern processors could factor them out brute force nowadays)
My basic reason is for the sake of balance. Should -everything- be public domain? No, I doubt that is even possible, let along right. But a sizable and thriving public domain serves to balance both personal and corporate greed. If there is no free alternative, then one has to cough up whatever the current owner demands or do without entirely. When free alternatives are present, the current owner will discover that, if he charges a fee that is too outrageous, people will choose the free alternative, even if it is of somewhat lesser quality. The issue, the core problem we face now, is that the owners are seeking to stop the growth of the public domain, thereby allowing themselves to charge any outrageous price they can think of. Connected to this is the issue of those who simply cannot afford the commercial prices due to other bills, lack of education, economic downturns in their region, etc. For them, it becomes a matter of free or nothing, and if the public domain ceases to grow nothing is all that is left.
[Before someone chimes in with the obligatory 'We are talking about entertainment, not food or medicine' consider two points. 1. Do you honestly expect that, should monied interests succeed in locking up all optional, luxary items, they will stop there and not proceed on to food and other necessities? 2. As the saying goes, man does not live by bread alone. Living a life that consists of work, eat, and sleep with no entertainment or leisure activities is a quick way to a padded room.]
Ironic, isn't it, that the parent post was written by someone using a variation of 'Evil Empire' as a nick?
On a more sober note, the best outcome, for innovation, competition, and especially the ability to be done with M$, would be to force them to open -ALL- APIs and file formats currently in use in their products, and to publish into the public domain, -concurrently with product releases-, any updates to and/or newly created versions of the above, for a term of years equal to the sum of the number of years the anticompetitive behavior occured and the number of years they have delayed a proper solution through legal chicanery. Not that this will ever occur, but it is quite balanced (M$ is free to 'innovate', gets to do as they like with their product, and gets to keep all the ill gotten gains, yet the community will have a window of opportunity [no pun intended] to wean itself from the M$ teet through compatible products).
Lots of the replies touch on a variety of potential reasons schools don't hire pros to teach CS coursework, but they all miss the A-1 big reason: There is noComputer Science teacher certificate in most States. Office Technology, Industrial Technology, sure, but not CS. I would have loved to have been teaching, indeed that was my original chosen career (math if you must know, but me and advanced calculus didn't get along as well as was needed). Problem is most schools are allowed to hire people without certification (and those who can still require that you be nearly certified, which is impossible when such certification does not exist).
Find me the certification, I'd love to teach! My wife (a teacher) makes more than -I- do right now (stuck doing tech support, Eris help me).
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CLU, as I heard it, was deliberately -not- an exact likeness. His features are half of Bridges', mirrored to give him perfect symmetry. Seems fitting to the character, anyway.
I opted out of Domain Helper by using manually configured DNS servers, OpenDNS at the moment. It seems if you manually migrate to their DNSSEC servers, Domain Helper goes away, as according to the FAQs the two are incompatible.
If he agreed with the left leaning thought, he would not see it as bias, he would simply see it as correct.
People do not natively see their own views as biased. They are, and if pressed with logic many can be made to understand that, but only if pressed. In a typical situation, they simply see their beliefs as correct.
So, for Murdoch to be calling his competitors biased -strongly implies- that he disagrees with them.
Also, frankly, the position you are taking, that he is not right wing, but merely spouts their rhetoric for a buck, does nothing at all to improve opinion of him. If anything, if what you are saying is true, he is a -worse- human being for selling out his beliefs for the almighty dollar.
Honestly, I was fine not blocking ads until 2 trends started.
First, the obnoxiously loud ads. A little sound is one thing, but an ear splitting 'Congratulation!' bellowing out unexpectedly is quite unacceptable.
Second, malware spreading ads. I thought they were a myth at first, until I was tapped by one (spreading one of those annoying fake antivirus trojan things no less.) And these do turn up on otherwise reputable sites, so anyone trying to pull out the 'watch where you browse' or 'lay off the (porn/warez/music/movies) can sit and spin. The first infection I encountered on a system I used came from a tech support forum of all places, while running Firefox, with anti-virus and anti-malware application resident and up to date, and all applicable security patches to all involved software in place. 0-day exploits are a pain that way.
And even the best 'we will remove it if it causes trouble' policy is a failure. By that point, the damage is already done, I've had to spend time cleaning (or just plain rebuilding) a system to be certain a bit of malware is gone.
Nope, until sites start guaranteeing all their ads free of such issues (and a few others might be nice, like bugged, eta your CPU ads) the ads get blocked. My browsing safety > their ad revenue.
Indeed, I would also not mind the option of paying a small fee for such things. But that assumes that it would be 1. optional and 2. a small fee.
Fact is, most sources for Internet access also offer voice plans. VoIP is competition for them, so it is unlikely they'll offer a 'fast lane' (read: actually usable speed) for it given the opportunity to do otherwise. If they make any honest offering of priority for VoIP traffic at all, expect it to cost nearly as much, if not potentially more, than their own voice plans currently do.
There are a couple if issues with that. It may be possible for you to find a job you personally like. It may not be possible for me to do so. No such job may exist. Some people simply don't enjoy doing anything that is regarded by the folks with the money as useful. Also, I can't think of any activity on this Earth that I can see always wanting to do. I could be sexual quality control tester at a Neveda whorehouse, I'll eventually want to do something else. It is work because there is a motivation (usually money, but in the raw form survivial) to performing the activity beyond, and independent of, enjoyment.
...security through obesity?
The problem is what ends up being 'reasonable' or 'unreasonable'. See, minds are funny things. They almost always see small changes as more 'reasonable' than large ones. often this is true, but not always, and not if the end result of all the 'reasonable' changes is known from the beginning. Sure, today there is a 'reasonable' request for some anonymous search data. then sometime after that request has become stale and seemingly benign, there will be a 'reasonable' requests for some identifying information related to some rather obviously unsavory searches. Then later still, there will be similar requests, but for less obviously unsavory things. And so, by degrees, we go from requests that are, in themselves, harmless, to requests that are very much infringements of rights, all because each step on the way seemed 'reasonable'.
OK, I'll bite...
Your comment seems rather at odds with the generally acknowledged (and often regarded as nigh universal) urge of those who create to leave some lasting mark upon the world through their creations. So it leads me to ask, why? Why do you want all traces of your efforts to wink out of existence when you do (and if they are practical works rather than entertainment, likely cause someone or several someones to have to reinvent that particular wheel?)
Much as I am sour on organized religions, you are not correct here. Essentially, you're comparing apples and oranges, or perhaps in this case apples and howitzers. Dog ownership or the absence thereof is a different type of thing from religious beliefs. Whether or not a god or gods exist out there is purely conjecture. It is, was, and always will be unprovable, at least to living humans. Therefore, any statement on the topic implicitly starts with "I believe..." either "I believe there is a god" or "I believe there is no god" or even "I believe my socks are tiny gods." All are beliefs.
The choices of prefix for this post... I'm curious, why is he anti-creationist rather than pro-evolutionist? Now, this may be innocuous, but choice of words can reveal bias.
Also, anti-fundamentalist is not the same as anti-christian. Being opposed to a specific, fanatical, often belligerent sect of a religious denomination is not the same as being opposed to the entire faith.
along with a number of patently sexualised animations (think a whole lot of deliberate hip grinding, crotch grabbing and such like)
You haven't played many wrestling video games, have you? That stuff is already there.
That retailer is no better than a person pushing crack or meth on a street corner, and should be treated as such. So to you, someone selling a violent videogame is just as bad as someone selling a potentially lethal drug? Uhm, just what sort of crack do you smoke my friend? It seems to me there are several orders of magnitude of difference between someone selling arguably inappropriate entertainment and someone selling physically addicting Russian roulette. You may want to adjust your hyperbole levels ever so slightly.
I'd agree with you, except I noticed something odd about this worm. My roomates and I use my Win2K box, and while I use Mozilla nigh unto religiously, they stick with IE. Oddly enough, when this little worm tuned, they got the NT AUTHORITY shutdown messages, and I didn't. Considering that the only real difference here is browser of choice, I have to suspect that even if the vulnerability isn't -in- IE, it is somehow facilitated by IE.
Shhh, don't tell them that, or they'll start executing warez traders!
A little math here: If it takes 5 seconds per frame, and we assume a rate of 30 frames per second for the film, it will take 150 seconds to convert -one second- of action. A little multiplication shows that to convert an hour of film would take over 6 -days-, and an average film would take nearly 2 -weeks- to convert. I know if I were him, facing those kind of numbers, I'd be willing to spring for a few more machines to cut down on the processing time!
Let me give you a hint: try charging less. I don't save pennies shopping online, I save 30-80% depending on the item. Usually, the higher the initial price, the more I save. Now, if retailers had the same items, but at maybe 5% more that the online price, I'd buy retail because I'm impatient, but honestly I cannot justify paying $120 in a store what i can get for $30 (including the shipping) via Amazon (these are actual price differences I have encountered while shopping for anime boxed sets, not just trumped up numbers I pulled from my ass.)
But don't think this legitimizes copyrighted work sharing. It's still wrong, folks. The fact that it doesn't hurt nearly as bad as the RIAA would have us believe doesn't make it any righter.
True enough, as far as the law goes, but hardly fair. Personally, I'm of the opinion that anyone playing up the damage someone else has done to them in order to milk the sympathy/bank accounts of others is no longer entitled to any compensation. As a for example, if a woman is rear-ended, and suffers some minor injuries and misses a few days of work, she is entitled to compensation. However, if she plays up her injuries, sues for hundreds of thousands of dollars, and is later found out, while IANAL, I do believe such an act on her part would be illegal in several ways. How is it any different for the RIAA? In the course of persuing a legitimate (if odious) legal claim, they have commited a more severe illegal act themselves (perjury, fraud, maybe more). Why should they continue to entitled to any compensation?
The 'inane' problems aren't the sticking point, at least not from my perspective, and neither is the lack of clue. I can and have dealt with both from many a caller. The big issue, the thing that makes me wish I could crush tracheas through comm lines like Darth Vader, are the self important twits who seem absolutely convinced that their issues aren't inane and that they aren't clueless. Those who come to me, and say from word one that they don't know what they are doing, will get a much more understanding ear than those who act like they are tech experts and fail to know what the Desktop is! Hell, the inane problems are often the most interesting, the problem arises when the person presenting it acts as if lives hang in the balance because he can't get PowerPoint to animate his bullets just so.
Cripes, is a little perspective too much to ask for?
> ...so easy to make...
Spoken like someone who has never had to write documentation, not even for a technical writing course. I won't argue that docs are important, they are. Even Microsoft could stand to improve them (go ahead, try to find something in the help system without knowing the term -they- use for it). But docs are -not- easy to write, not in any useful form. For one thing, to write truly useful docs, you have to split your mind, one part being the you who wrote the software, the other being someone who has never -seen- it before. If the guy who has never seen it before can't use your docs to make it work, you just wasted the time you took to write them.
Not to be a prick (well, not too much of one) but that would be a -good- thing. Less retention means we are shaking ut the chaff faster, getting down to only those people who want to be in CS for the art's sake, not the Big Buck$(tm). As recent economic events have shown, too many of latter is a Bad Thing(tm).
You post assumes that neither network speed nor processing power will increase in future. These are assumptions we know to be false. So, network scanning will die off temporarily, but it will be back once hardware catches up (much like how older cryptographic keys had to be scrapped because modern processors could factor them out brute force nowadays)
My basic reason is for the sake of balance. Should -everything- be public domain? No, I doubt that is even possible, let along right. But a sizable and thriving public domain serves to balance both personal and corporate greed. If there is no free alternative, then one has to cough up whatever the current owner demands or do without entirely. When free alternatives are present, the current owner will discover that, if he charges a fee that is too outrageous, people will choose the free alternative, even if it is of somewhat lesser quality. The issue, the core problem we face now, is that the owners are seeking to stop the growth of the public domain, thereby allowing themselves to charge any outrageous price they can think of. Connected to this is the issue of those who simply cannot afford the commercial prices due to other bills, lack of education, economic downturns in their region, etc. For them, it becomes a matter of free or nothing, and if the public domain ceases to grow nothing is all that is left.
[Before someone chimes in with the obligatory 'We are talking about entertainment, not food or medicine' consider two points. 1. Do you honestly expect that, should monied interests succeed in locking up all optional, luxary items, they will stop there and not proceed on to food and other necessities? 2. As the saying goes, man does not live by bread alone. Living a life that consists of work, eat, and sleep with no entertainment or leisure activities is a quick way to a padded room.]
Ironic, isn't it, that the parent post was written by someone using a variation of 'Evil Empire' as a nick?
On a more sober note, the best outcome, for innovation, competition, and especially the ability to be done with M$, would be to force them to open -ALL- APIs and file formats currently in use in their products, and to publish into the public domain, -concurrently with product releases-, any updates to and/or newly created versions of the above, for a term of years equal to the sum of the number of years the anticompetitive behavior occured and the number of years they have delayed a proper solution through legal chicanery. Not that this will ever occur, but it is quite balanced (M$ is free to 'innovate', gets to do as they like with their product, and gets to keep all the ill gotten gains, yet the community will have a window of opportunity [no pun intended] to wean itself from the M$ teet through compatible products).
Lots of the replies touch on a variety of potential reasons schools don't hire pros to teach CS coursework, but they all miss the A-1 big reason: There is no Computer Science teacher certificate in most States. Office Technology, Industrial Technology, sure, but not CS. I would have loved to have been teaching, indeed that was my original chosen career (math if you must know, but me and advanced calculus didn't get along as well as was needed). Problem is most schools are allowed to hire people without certification (and those who can still require that you be nearly certified, which is impossible when such certification does not exist).
Find me the certification, I'd love to teach! My wife (a teacher) makes more than -I- do right now (stuck doing tech support, Eris help me).