Taking logs... Not computers but my days in the Navy were all about logs. Every 15 minutes. We logged, calculated and signed everything, about 50 parameters on the nuclear reactor plant control panel alone. Funny thing was I got VERY sea sick. Not a problem on a submarine when it is submerged but pure hell for me on the surface as a submarine bobs like a cork and has no windows to see the horizon for my internal reference. I would utilize a garbage bag about every 15 minutes until we hit the end of the continental shelf and could submerge which took about about 6-8 hours on the east coast, and under 2 hours on the west coast to reach. To try to limit my sickness I took motion sickness pills (they were commonly refered to as the pink pussy pills). These worked a little but limited my straight on vision. Basically I could not see things things very well that I looked at directly but could see the peripheral things. Odd situation since I was the reactor operator. The puking, lack of 100% vision and the emotional issues of knowing your leaving the world for a few months made this an interesting experience.
It is not a conspiracy. Read the article and tell me first hand if this study describes your shop and if you think it would save you money. If so tell us why, if not do tell. I realize the article is very vauge but that is on purpose. You can get take any benchmark, study, or group collaboration how you wish. You need to look at the WHOLE study though if you want to make a real assessment of how it effects you. This specific example is not that it is "cheaper" to develop on Windows, this one states that if you already have a Windows shop and have current employees trained and already developing applications on Windows, it may be cheaper to stick with Windows. Well no shit. What if you are a new shop just starting? What if you are not developing the same applications they studied? What if you already have a JAVA platform and nothing that can run the new MS tools? What if you are already trained in JAVA development? What if you have no.NET setup at your shop? What if you only need to develope a few things for a client and your not selling to the public? What if you are expanding into new areas? Well, then this study is not for you as it would not accurately describe your shop.
These studies are not put out for the technical folks in the trenches, they are for the guy behind the door making the status quo decisions so he can keep his/her job.
I feel the RIAA is playing the FUD game here with this campaign. They are simultaneously issueing the subpoenas and this amnesty program to give the impression to the average Joe, that they, the RIAA, are now in complete control of the P2P situation and in just a matter of weeks, music sharing via P2P will be over. The free ride is over, we already know who has done what, all that is left to sign this agreement to avoid legal action. I wonder what other card they will throw down when this has no effect.
Oh.. I am talking about something similar to blowing off a past due $50 cell phone bill. You are talking about some major debt problems that bankrupcy is an option. Luckily.. I am not familiar with what happens in that arena.
I used BitTorrent to get RH and then shared it out on KaZaa. The whole time I had it shared, people were connecting and getting chunks. I don't share music but I do have amature car racing videos which P2P is great for.
My guess? The initially had a list that was bigger but many were probably outside the US or they knew they could not get enough information to actually file a suit.
Coming next to k++, a proxy method that bounces your searches and results from someone else or a supernode somehow.
The fact is, this is someone else's property, It is not property, it is intellectual property, two COMPLETELY different things. You are not stealing when you download music, the record company is losing a potential sale and profit. If I steal your car, you have lost that car and everything you put into that car 100%. If I download a song from the RIAA, they can still sale the song to others, it is not lost. How someone calcualtes the sales they actually lost is the real question. If I steal a 1986 Buick Regal, the owner experienced a real retail loss of about $500. If I am caught, I will be punished based on stealing something for $500. If I violate the copyright law and download an RIAA represented song, I should be liable for NO MORE then the retial value of that song as a potential loss, figuring I can buy legal songs online for $1, their actual loss should never exceed $1. How they figure up to $150K or 150K times the retail value is insane. Imagine sueing someone in civil court for that $500 1986 Regal for $75M.
It is a product, just like any other, and stealing is stealing, regardless of the venue.
If you want to claim stealing is stealing and stealing a song is no different then stealing a car, then why do you suddenly change your story or ignore the part when the potential differences in money amount and fines is so much different between them? I'd be willing to bet the retailers are losing more real merchandise a year to actual theft then the RIAA is losing because of file sharing (considering retail price of $1 per song). Should we increase the fine for getting caught stealing at Walmart to 150000 times the amount your stole?
If you had debt initially then it was probably though some contracted terms with a company. You blew off the contract, did not pay, and it bad became debt. Why would this person treat a contract from a debt collector any different? I think they would blow it off also.
DVD pressed (which is the only acceptable commercial solution - burned products are not products at all)
HUH? Downloading seems to be acceptable, pressed DVD seem to be acceptable. DVD-R's are not? By who? There is no difference to the end user except for the color on the bottom of the disk.
They have these huge very expensive mainframes with annual support contracts so they can run the maninframe version of the Quake server during off hours. Yeah..
Microsoft has a network scanning tool to verify patch installation. It is not fool proof as someone could have patched after getting the virus but it is a start. We run it periodically through the day at work as a backup to catch our floaters with laptops as they move in and out of the office. I think the ISP's could run this also. I just tried it on my Comcast subnet and got 255 host unreachables. I am not going to change my outbound rules just to see if it works here.
So no one around you or where you worked ever thought of anything but money when making a product? There was no R&D or any type of testing to see if a product met your needs?
Windows is not an Embedded OS I don't know crap about embedded systems so I may be wrong here but it appears MS thinks they have an embedded solution.
I used to do embedded systems for industrial controls. I think I know why.
Meanwhile, he noted record stores report that blank recordable CDs are outselling recorded CDs, a trend that shows computer users are not only downloading songs, but copying and burning CDs.
Sorry, I don't think they can make that claim. Can CompUSA or the BSA claim that the same increase in sales of blanks is from people copying software? I buy about 200 times as many blank cd's as pre recorded audio cd's and I might make 2 audio disks out of the 200 and more then likely it is a compilation disk of music I already own. My 13 year old daughter listens to music all day. She does not buy cd's because they are not worth it to her. The popular song this week will not be popular next month so she does not waste her money on it. The "in thing" changes to fast so she settles for the legal free alternatives like the FM radio, MTV, internet radio or Yahoo.
What about the Audio CDR's. Doesnt the RIAA get a cut of the money from this anyhow?
I'll call bull Free is a factor but not like you claim. You could get free automotive advice from a bum on the corner or your brother-in-law. That does not mean it will work or be good advice. Linux, Windows, or any other system is chosen because of the combination of price, flexibility, and stability. Other factors that should play a smaller role and are less technical reasons are past experience (or Staus Quo) and political pressure. When the non technical reasons play a major role in your decision, you have an increased risk.
that's too much time be in front of TV waiting for good shows.
HUH? Your rant does not apply to this article or this equipment at all. It is a PVR, you don't sit in front and wait for the shows, you tell it what to record and watch it when you want. This equipment prevents what you are ranting.
The sky isn't blue at all. Sunlight shining through our atmosphere makes it appear blue.
That is a strange way of looking at it. The ambient light reflecting off your shirt and into your eye makes your shirt "appear" red. Does that mean your shirt is not really red? I don't see the difference.
For Windows, try yProxy. It is a news proxy that intercepts and converts yENC on the fly. I use v1.2 which is free and not spyware or adware. According to the website, v1.3 appears to have some type of message of the day banner but I have not used it. You should still be able to search and find v1.2 (yproxy12.zip) It makes any newsreader yENC capable. I have been using it to make my older version of Agent yEnc capable for over a year.
Slashdot Mirror
Taking logs...
Not computers but my days in the Navy were all about logs. Every 15 minutes. We logged, calculated and signed everything, about 50 parameters on the nuclear reactor plant control panel alone. Funny thing was I got VERY sea sick. Not a problem on a submarine when it is submerged but pure hell for me on the surface as a submarine bobs like a cork and has no windows to see the horizon for my internal reference. I would utilize a garbage bag about every 15 minutes until we hit the end of the continental shelf and could submerge which took about about 6-8 hours on the east coast, and under 2 hours on the west coast to reach. To try to limit my sickness I took motion sickness pills (they were commonly refered to as the pink pussy pills). These worked a little but limited my straight on vision. Basically I could not see things things very well that I looked at directly but could see the peripheral things. Odd situation since I was the reactor operator. The puking, lack of 100% vision and the emotional issues of knowing your leaving the world for a few months made this an interesting experience.
It is not a conspiracy. Read the article and tell me first hand if this study describes your shop and if you think it would save you money. If so tell us why, if not do tell. I realize the article is very vauge but that is on purpose. You can get take any benchmark, study, or group collaboration how you wish. You need to look at the WHOLE study though if you want to make a real assessment of how it effects you. This specific example is not that it is "cheaper" to develop on Windows, this one states that if you already have a Windows shop and have current employees trained and already developing applications on Windows, it may be cheaper to stick with Windows. Well no shit. What if you are a new shop just starting? What if you are not developing the same applications they studied? What if you already have a JAVA platform and nothing that can run the new MS tools? What if you are already trained in JAVA development? What if you have no .NET setup at your shop? What if you only need to develope a few things for a client and your not selling to the public? What if you are expanding into new areas? Well, then this study is not for you as it would not accurately describe your shop.
These studies are not put out for the technical folks in the trenches, they are for the guy behind the door making the status quo decisions so he can keep his/her job.
I feel the RIAA is playing the FUD game here with this campaign. They are simultaneously issueing the subpoenas and this amnesty program to give the impression to the average Joe, that they, the RIAA, are now in complete control of the P2P situation and in just a matter of weeks, music sharing via P2P will be over. The free ride is over, we already know who has done what, all that is left to sign this agreement to avoid legal action. I wonder what other card they will throw down when this has no effect.
Oh.. I am talking about something similar to blowing off a past due $50 cell phone bill. You are talking about some major debt problems that bankrupcy is an option. Luckily.. I am not familiar with what happens in that arena.
I used BitTorrent to get RH and then shared it out on KaZaa. The whole time I had it shared, people were connecting and getting chunks. I don't share music but I do have amature car racing videos which P2P is great for.
My guess? The initially had a list that was bigger but many were probably outside the US or they knew they could not get enough information to actually file a suit.
Coming next to k++, a proxy method that bounces your searches and results from someone else or a supernode somehow.
The fact is, this is someone else's property,
It is not property, it is intellectual property, two COMPLETELY different things. You are not stealing when you download music, the record company is losing a potential sale and profit. If I steal your car, you have lost that car and everything you put into that car 100%. If I download a song from the RIAA, they can still sale the song to others, it is not lost. How someone calcualtes the sales they actually lost is the real question. If I steal a 1986 Buick Regal, the owner experienced a real retail loss of about $500. If I am caught, I will be punished based on stealing something for $500. If I violate the copyright law and download an RIAA represented song, I should be liable for NO MORE then the retial value of that song as a potential loss, figuring I can buy legal songs online for $1, their actual loss should never exceed $1. How they figure up to $150K or 150K times the retail value is insane. Imagine sueing someone in civil court for that $500 1986 Regal for $75M.
It is a product, just like any other, and stealing is stealing, regardless of the venue.
If you want to claim stealing is stealing and stealing a song is no different then stealing a car, then why do you suddenly change your story or ignore the part when the potential differences in money amount and fines is so much different between them? I'd be willing to bet the retailers are losing more real merchandise a year to actual theft then the RIAA is losing because of file sharing (considering retail price of $1 per song). Should we increase the fine for getting caught stealing at Walmart to 150000 times the amount your stole?
If you had debt initially then it was probably though some contracted terms with a company. You blew off the contract, did not pay, and it bad became debt. Why would this person treat a contract from a debt collector any different? I think they would blow it off also.
Lowest price search results from pricegrabber.com. Lowest I could find on Pricewatch was $103 + shipping.
Amazon has it for $100 after rebate with free shipping.
There was a new firmware put out about 6 weeks ago. Here's the details.
Posting a "new here" post? Those new here posts are old, you must be new here.
That is a great letter but you could have left USENET out of it!! The longer USENET stays under the radar the better.
I think I found the Slashdot division training camp web site. It may be worse then initially reported..
DVD pressed (which is the only acceptable commercial solution - burned products are not products at all)
HUH? Downloading seems to be acceptable, pressed DVD seem to be acceptable. DVD-R's are not? By who? There is no difference to the end user except for the color on the bottom of the disk.
They have these huge very expensive mainframes with annual support contracts so they can run the maninframe version of the Quake server during off hours. Yeah..
Either that or the storage units were not taken.
How's this for a verbal tip:
"Maintain the proper air pressure in your car tires and you will get better gas mileage."
If they drive an Explorer in the south it may have saved their life. That is a tip that keeps giving!
Microsoft has a network scanning tool to verify patch installation. It is not fool proof as someone could have patched after getting the virus but it is a start. We run it periodically through the day at work as a backup to catch our floaters with laptops as they move in and out of the office. I think the ISP's could run this also. I just tried it on my Comcast subnet and got 255 host unreachables. I am not going to change my outbound rules just to see if it works here.
So no one around you or where you worked ever thought of anything but money when making a product? There was no R&D or any type of testing to see if a product met your needs?
Windows is not an Embedded OS
I don't know crap about embedded systems so I may be wrong here but it appears MS thinks they have an embedded solution.
I used to do embedded systems for industrial controls.
I think I know why.
From the article:
Meanwhile, he noted record stores report that blank recordable CDs are outselling recorded CDs, a trend that shows computer users are not only downloading songs, but copying and burning CDs.
Sorry, I don't think they can make that claim. Can CompUSA or the BSA claim that the same increase in sales of blanks is from people copying software? I buy about 200 times as many blank cd's as pre recorded audio cd's and I might make 2 audio disks out of the 200 and more then likely it is a compilation disk of music I already own. My 13 year old daughter listens to music all day. She does not buy cd's because they are not worth it to her. The popular song this week will not be popular next month so she does not waste her money on it. The "in thing" changes to fast so she settles for the legal free alternatives like the FM radio, MTV, internet radio or Yahoo.
What about the Audio CDR's. Doesnt the RIAA get a cut of the money from this anyhow?
I'll call bull
Free is a factor but not like you claim. You could get free automotive advice from a bum on the corner or your brother-in-law. That does not mean it will work or be good advice.
Linux, Windows, or any other system is chosen because of the combination of price, flexibility, and stability. Other factors that should play a smaller role and are less technical reasons are past experience (or Staus Quo) and political pressure. When the non technical reasons play a major role in your decision, you have an increased risk.
I doubt the people interested in Planet of the Apes and Ren and Stimpy marathons were out partying the night before.
Then don't buy it?
that's too much
time be in front of TV waiting for good shows.
HUH? Your rant does not apply to this article or this equipment at all. It is a PVR, you don't sit in front and wait for the shows, you tell it what to record and watch it when you want. This equipment prevents what you are ranting.
The sky isn't blue at all. Sunlight shining through our atmosphere makes it appear blue.
That is a strange way of looking at it. The ambient light reflecting off your shirt and into your eye makes your shirt "appear" red. Does that mean your shirt is not really red? I don't see the difference.
For Windows, try yProxy. It is a news proxy that intercepts and converts yENC on the fly. I use v1.2 which is free and not spyware or adware. According to the website, v1.3 appears to have some type of message of the day banner but I have not used it. You should still be able to search and find v1.2 (yproxy12.zip)
It makes any newsreader yENC capable. I have been using it to make my older version of Agent yEnc capable for over a year.
Why not pick a diffrent GMC product name just to confuse us!
Is this your confusion or am I confused?
Thunderbird - Ford
Firebird - Pontiac
Hornet - AMC
Gremlin - AMC
You can not mention AMC without a link the the Pacer, aka, the fishbowl on wheels.
The worst part of this post is I actually took the time to respond with links to a AC troll and post offtopic.