The bnetd case is another bad case. There are a handful of others I can't seem to remember right now that had ugly results.
Yes I know they are still trying to save it, but so far, you can't reverse engineer something that throws up a splash screen that says not to. To me this IS one of the very big ones. being given an agreement after you purchased the product should not be able to hold up in court. And one should be able to reverse engineer anything. And one should be able to modify anything.
I use to give EFF money, but I haven't had a job where I could afford it in quite some time, else I still would even though they lost some big ones.
You have Aol tech support, Cisco presales, some of TAC, PRT, Juniper, Nortel, MS parts of MS support are all here.
But none are employed by the actually companies rather Convergys, who will turn every job into phone monkeys, and looks to cheat employes out of every penny it can.
But, I think it is worlds better than outsorcing to 3rd world contries (which I think there should be tarrifs to protect jobs here) It is still degrading doing tech support for Cisco for what I consider min wage, $10 an hr. Yup the that tells you that you need SP Services for your 2800 router for BGP support is a phone monkey. Infact most people that are working doign the support do not understand networking, heck one of the better newbs is a dog groomer and never delt with technology before.
Comparing DC to Fairfax VA: You sure, that thay have the same social structure, so that you can compare them that easy?
Compairing those figures would make the most since as those two cities are very close to one another, say 10 min in decent traffic. Actually I think a more fair number would have been Arlington vs DC (the part of DC virginia took back)
If you want the facts on gun control, Lott's two books, "The Bias Against Guns" and "More Guns, Less Crime" are the way to go. Of the two, this later work is perhaps easier to aborb and the better choice for the lay reader. Lott's evidence is especially compelling in the current climate of terrorism threats as we determine how best to protect a free society, (whether through creation of an impossibly large police force that can be in all places at all times, or through empowerment of law abiding citizens to take increased accountability for self protection and as a deterrent to crime in their communities.)
After all the crap blizzard has done against open source, both bnetd, and linux warcraft 2 client.(I'm sure there are others) Both of which I read here with asking to boycott in the summary I am appalled that some open source role model pays money to one of the enemies of open source.
I think Blizzard makes greate games, and I have purchased two of every copy from warcraft2 to Diablo 2 LoD, but have since boycotted them after their destruction of what I consider the center of open source. Freedom to modify what I have leagly to how I want it.
As for the name thing, yes it is stupid, rules are rules. But once again you need to vote with your money.
Yea I heard something like this often, I know a few people who said they could get me a job there, but I know some old timers that say to stay away, because they hire/fire people so often (same people most of the time) that it is a mess. (and this is in the provo office)
The test should include, upgrading the common instant messenger (gaim) from what came with a distro to what actually works, and upgrading a few things like K3B, Video drivers, Web browser.
I have yet to see a single distro do that where you can walk someone through it on a phone call in under 30 min, heck even less than 1 hr.
Gave someone Suse, yahoo, and some other protocols didn;t work even though it was the newest version recently released but came with a year old version of gaim. In order to upgrade that, we had to upgrade gtk. Then they wanted to burn MP3's to a disk, so now we had to upgrade k3b, which entailed having to upgrade a whole slew of programs from KDE(Suse only had experimental upgrades available that broke X) to the command line burning apps.
Total time was not pretty. Debian was a different sort of nightmare as most everything it comes with is ancient, and you have to find servers that have more recent packages and add them to the config files.
I use linux all the time for servers. It excels there, but as a desktop, I spend more time fixing it, than using it. Linux very much feels like a patch work of random applications. And that is bad for a desktop solution.
How can I get my little brother or mother to use this, who are not idiots, but do not want to know what video card they have, or the difference of gnome and kde?
Actually, that is false. Increased wages, is increased spending. If someone is making 30k they are penny pinching. If they make 60k, you can bet they spend "more" than twice as much a year past the minimums.
So the economy is good when the salaries are up and busines profits are break even.
"I hope so. Concrete has always been the better material. We can only hope asphalt prices increase enough to make concrete the material of choice for roads."
I hate tryign to see year old white/yellow paint lines on concrete, even when they put a tar backing (that fades all to easy)
Now if thye could make a black concrete that doesn't fade, or is at least easy to dye.
I think it is more of the desire to clean up the mess that has become every linux distro.
All the linux distros shouldn't have their own package for say gaim or K3B that only work for 1 version of their distro. That fact that they do this shows what the problem is. Actually , think I can sum it up in 3 things
1. One binary should be able to install on all linux distros. 2. K3b and other packages should come with all the software, you shouldn't have to spent 10 min finding and downloading all those little deps. It is worse than winzip in 1990 before they figured out how to program. 3. I should not havce to upgrade the whole system to get a newer version of something minor like gaim or k3b.
I've been using linux since 98, greate for servers, bad for desktop. I don't want to use all my time making my system usable, I'd rather be using it, or tweaking it as I see fit. Upgrading gaim or k3b can take hrs on SuSE when you end up upgrading ever pirce and using "experimental" packages from local-bin or packman.
In cali the average income is 60,000, and someone making that much money doesn't come close to qualifing for a loan for the average home in cali.
On a side note, I think $10 an hr is min wage for scrapping by, any less than that is poverty for a single person. You would bearly be able to pay bills in most cities (asuming 500 for rent and utilities)
Here is what kills that market for Anime in America.
1) Horrible voice, voice do not match the character, and the voice acting _always_ sucks. Sometimes it sounds worse than a bunch of high school students being force to do the voicing.
2) Cost. lets say you have 50-100 total eps with only a couple on a DVD, they are selling them way to costly. They should be able to pack 10 to a DVD and sell them cheaper.
2.5)Space, Who wants to store that many DVD's? It is worlds easier having a 250 gig drive holding every single anime than it is having a room dedicated for each DVD holding 4-5 episodes each.
3) Changing content or censoring things. They often change the words completely, and cut out scenes. I want the store as how the story tellers said to. Heck, every Anime that I've bought that had subs and dubbing, the words and meaning clashes.
Sell me 26 eps for $20 and 2 DVD's and I'll be buying a lot. (and get rid of the garbage DVD bloat menu)
I think yahoo uses a point system when determining if a site is a shoping site or an infromation site. Much like spam assasin. So people will find a sweet spot for what they want to find.
And as far as why shopping vs research, ever dry looking up specs on hardware on google, only to find 80% of the first few pages stores? (or reviews of the product on the store)
I think this is a great feature, and might actually get me to use yahoo search because of that feature alone.
" Well, heck then it seems like old lady would be almost be justified to give a little payback, wouldn't you think?"
Now that is the big problem about terrorism. It is not directed at the right people, it is directed at Innocent people, heck even other people who are the same victims.
If people are only attacking government buildings, like the pentagon, and other military structures, I doubt the patriot act would have flown. And they would be directing the violence at the right targets.
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"I don't see many children films that have women in skin tight clothes too."
Umm, there are plenty of them. Let just start with some of Disney animations that show breasts well beoynd what is allowed in the work place.
Aladdin
Little Mermaid
Beauty And The Beast
Pocahontas
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame
Hercules
Mulan
Tarzan
Atlantis: The Lost Empire
I can go on, I can eevn list a lot of movies made with kids in mind that do this too.
The bnetd case is another bad case. There are a handful of others I can't seem to remember right now that had ugly results.
Yes I know they are still trying to save it, but so far, you can't reverse engineer something that throws up a splash screen that says not to. To me this IS one of the very big ones.
being given an agreement after you purchased the product should not be able to hold up in court. And one should be able to reverse engineer anything. And one should be able to modify anything.
I use to give EFF money, but I haven't had a job where I could afford it in quite some time, else I still would even though they lost some big ones.
Some good stuff in the parent post.
Basicly, they are requiring Vonage to be E911 but the industry isn't ready to provide E911 for VoIP but have already started plans to.
Of course, do you think the Bell's really want aviable solution to this problem?
You have Aol tech support, Cisco presales, some of TAC, PRT, Juniper, Nortel, MS parts of MS support are all here.
But none are employed by the actually companies rather Convergys, who will turn every job into phone monkeys, and looks to cheat employes out of every penny it can.
But, I think it is worlds better than outsorcing to 3rd world contries (which I think there should be tarrifs to protect jobs here) It is still degrading doing tech support for Cisco for what I consider min wage, $10 an hr. Yup the that tells you that you need SP Services for your 2800 router for BGP support is a phone monkey. Infact most people that are working doign the support do not understand networking, heck one of the better newbs is a dog groomer and never delt with technology before.
Comparing DC to Fairfax VA: You sure, that thay have the same social structure, so that you can compare them that easy?
Compairing those figures would make the most since as those two cities are very close to one another, say 10 min in decent traffic. Actually I think a more fair number would have been Arlington vs DC (the part of DC virginia took back)
If you want the facts on gun control, Lott's two books, "The Bias Against Guns" and "More Guns, Less Crime" are the way to go. Of the two, this later work is perhaps easier to aborb and the better choice for the lay reader. Lott's evidence is especially compelling in the current climate of terrorism threats as we determine how best to protect a free society, (whether through creation of an impossibly large police force that can be in all places at all times, or through empowerment of law abiding citizens to take increased accountability for self protection and as a deterrent to crime in their communities.)
"I guess this would affect online gamers too"
QoS on UDP?
LOL!
After all the crap blizzard has done against open source, both bnetd, and linux warcraft 2 client.(I'm sure there are others) Both of which I read here with asking to boycott in the summary I am appalled that some open source role model pays money to one of the enemies of open source.
I think Blizzard makes greate games, and I have purchased two of every copy from warcraft2 to Diablo 2 LoD, but have since boycotted them after their destruction of what I consider the center of open source. Freedom to modify what I have leagly to how I want it.
As for the name thing, yes it is stupid, rules are rules. But once again you need to vote with your money.
Battery life, Simple to use, cost. Also most people enjoy listening to music, but PDA is work.
Yea I heard something like this often, I know a few people who said they could get me a job there, but I know some old timers that say to stay away, because they hire/fire people so often (same people most of the time) that it is a mess. (and this is in the provo office)
The test should include, upgrading the common instant messenger (gaim) from what came with a distro to what actually works, and upgrading a few things like K3B, Video drivers, Web browser.
I have yet to see a single distro do that where you can walk someone through it on a phone call in under 30 min, heck even less than 1 hr.
Gave someone Suse, yahoo, and some other protocols didn;t work even though it was the newest version recently released but came with a year old version of gaim. In order to upgrade that, we had to upgrade gtk. Then they wanted to burn MP3's to a disk, so now we had to upgrade k3b, which entailed having to upgrade a whole slew of programs from KDE(Suse only had experimental upgrades available that broke X) to the command line burning apps.
Total time was not pretty. Debian was a different sort of nightmare as most everything it comes with is ancient, and you have to find servers that have more recent packages and add them to the config files.
I use linux all the time for servers. It excels there, but as a desktop, I spend more time fixing it, than using it. Linux very much feels like a patch work of random applications. And that is bad for a desktop solution.
How can I get my little brother or mother to use this, who are not idiots, but do not want to know what video card they have, or the difference of gnome and kde?
Well, it isn;t that all in ones are not TWAIN, it is just that they suck.
Also, they often have software bugs in some of them becuse the printer or the scanner is first, can;t rememer which.
Sort of on opic in a way, but what do people think of Cisco's IPS/Firewall/Solutions?
I do read some bad things about them, but nothign that explains why (other than price) And most the good stuff is usually marketing.
"Increased salaries is bad for business"
Actually, that is false. Increased wages, is increased spending. If someone is making 30k they are penny pinching. If they make 60k, you can bet they spend "more" than twice as much a year past the minimums.
So the economy is good when the salaries are up and busines profits are break even.
"I hope so. Concrete has always been the better material. We can only hope asphalt prices increase enough to make concrete the material of choice for roads."
I hate tryign to see year old white/yellow paint lines on concrete, even when they put a tar backing (that fades all to easy)
Now if thye could make a black concrete that doesn't fade, or is at least easy to dye.
I think it is more of the desire to clean up the mess that has become every linux distro.
All the linux distros shouldn't have their own package for say gaim or K3B that only work for 1 version of their distro. That fact that they do this shows what the problem is. Actually , think I can sum it up in 3 things
1. One binary should be able to install on all linux distros.
2. K3b and other packages should come with all the software, you shouldn't have to spent 10 min finding and downloading all those little deps. It is worse than winzip in 1990 before they figured out how to program.
3. I should not havce to upgrade the whole system to get a newer version of something minor like gaim or k3b.
I've been using linux since 98, greate for servers, bad for desktop. I don't want to use all my time making my system usable, I'd rather be using it, or tweaking it as I see fit. Upgrading gaim or k3b can take hrs on SuSE when you end up upgrading ever pirce and using "experimental" packages from local-bin or packman.
"When Should You Buy Your Kid A Laptop?"
When they can afford it.
Violence has been the only answer to ever work correctly. Only through bloodsheed can things be earned. (and learned)
In cali the average income is 60,000, and someone making that much money doesn't come close to qualifing for a loan for the average home in cali.
On a side note, I think $10 an hr is min wage for scrapping by, any less than that is poverty for a single person. You would bearly be able to pay bills in most cities (asuming 500 for rent and utilities)
Fan subs don't kill, they open it far more.
Here is what kills that market for Anime in America.
1) Horrible voice, voice do not match the character, and the voice acting _always_ sucks. Sometimes it sounds worse than a bunch of high school students being force to do the voicing.
2) Cost. lets say you have 50-100 total eps with only a couple on a DVD, they are selling them way to costly. They should be able to pack 10 to a DVD and sell them cheaper.
2.5)Space, Who wants to store that many DVD's? It is worlds easier having a 250 gig drive holding every single anime than it is having a room dedicated for each DVD holding 4-5 episodes each.
3) Changing content or censoring things. They often change the words completely, and cut out scenes. I want the store as how the story tellers said to. Heck, every Anime that I've bought that had subs and dubbing, the words and meaning clashes.
Sell me 26 eps for $20 and 2 DVD's and I'll be buying a lot. (and get rid of the garbage DVD bloat menu)
- Goof
Wow, if your grandmother is still alive, I would really love talking with such a person.
You don't have to pay for everyoen downloading it, if no one downloaded it from you.
They alkso haveto prove you don't own it.
So all in all, looks like a win, it set down some legle ground work for people to stand on.
I think yahoo uses a point system when determining if a site is a shoping site or an infromation site. Much like spam assasin. So people will find a sweet spot for what they want to find.
And as far as why shopping vs research, ever dry looking up specs on hardware on google, only to find 80% of the first few pages stores? (or reviews of the product on the store)
I think this is a great feature, and might actually get me to use yahoo search because of that feature alone.
" Well, heck then it seems like old lady would be almost be justified to give a little payback, wouldn't you think?"
Now that is the big problem about terrorism. It is not directed at the right people, it is directed at Innocent people, heck even other people who are the same victims.
If people are only attacking government buildings, like the pentagon, and other military structures, I doubt the patriot act would have flown. And they would be directing the violence at the right targets.
Locomotives are not hybrids. They are a diesel generator that makes electricity for an electric motor.
Why not relocate MPAA/RIAA to alatic ocean while we are at it?