Every decent video game I've played in the past 20 years has contained lines like this. I personally have never read any Islamic religious materials, yet I have uttered similar phrases in many an online game...
Gawd forbid that the Kilrathi are now Muslim idealists...
With myself being totally digusted over this frivolous lawsuit, I do have to question the total lack of throuoghness exhibited by this law firm. I mean, they forgot to name as co-defendants the biggest, most important people of all:
Al Gore and ARPA
I mean, Al created it all, and has publically claimed to do so time and time again, and of course, you can't be looking at porn (no matter what kind or what your particular kink is) without utilizing some technology developed with taxpayer monies.
I'm surprised that we haven't heard of these types of pointless wastes of cash more often. Maybe we taxpayers should sue for reimbursement for the waste of our monies over something like this.
Hey, what about Danni Ashe? She supposedly started all this porn and cybersex stuff right? (I saw a statement on someone's blog the other day. What a load of crap. I've been on the Net in various ways since 1988. I can guarantee that there were pornographic emails and USENET postings way before Danni Ashe...)
Ah those days in the cubicle with trn... Looking at porn at work was so much easier then... Until the WWW - wait, throw Tim into the law suit as well as Steve Jobs for founding NeXT, Inc.
I have to agree with you on this. The piracy policy was strictly enforced at the store I was at as well.
Of course, none of real geeks ever cared anyways. I mean, broadband is cheap, and you run a bittorrent client on any OS out there anymore... I can't say I ever saw an employee copy a piece of software from a customer or from store stock for that matter.
I also agree with your explanation of the whole ERD setup. But then again, anyone who has ever used a decent setup made with BartPE would never go back to using ERD anyways...
I used to work at the Best Buy in Miamisburg Ohio about a year ago, and I can tell you that the majority of the time, no one in the 'squad' ever used the so-called MRI disc (This is the tool disk that came from the corporate office for our use) because the tools on it were so poor that we would not be able to actually do the job.
About half of us used a variety of bootable Linux distros such as Knoppix and SLAX to perform diagnosis and recovery. Sometimes, the best way is the traditional way - the command line.
I personally used to use this bootable distros to prove points to customers who sometimes had a clue about what was wrong, and this would make an excellent way to show the ineffectiveness of various products and utilities designed to protect users from malware, spyware, etc.
After enough time, I myself started to create my own set of utilities (some nothing more than fancy perl scripts that I could run off a thumb drive) to do my dirty work for me.
Most of the time, Best Buy was totally committed to the idea of sell, sell, sell, while trying to improve their image. The ironic part of this was that our own store manager never could seemingly comprend the simple fact that good service sells and will generate more repeat customers and new customers via word-of-mouth than the stupid service plans, the countless harassment of customers that the geek squad personnel is supposed to be doing to buy plans, etc.
Sometimes, a true geek has to take whatever job that they can get. In this part of Ohio, for the longest time, gigs like Best Buy paid the bills or gave someone something to do while they went off and pursued the next software development contract for instance, or go to school.
Please remember Slashdot readers, that not all the techs that work for Best Buy are compelte idiots. Just most of them. And for myself, I must have been lucky, because I found a store with some guys that were actually competent and able to go on to better careers just like I did.
Like anyone cares that there is no more WMP on the Mac...
I stopped using WMP a LONG time ago and switched to using VLC for my movie playback needs - Windows, Mac, Linux, *BSD, and BeOS... At least with VLC on an unsecured box I know what is in the file or stream I am trying to play, and hell, the view messages feature is one of the best damn tools ever included - I use it all the time to help my ignorant-of-such-things-as-codecs to figure out what codec they need to download and install.
I don't think anyone ever gave a damn anyways... One less piece of crappy software in the world now...
I swear to Gawd I'll go postal if someone on/. suggests that Microsoft open-sources WMP for the Mac...
Hey - I live about ten miles from LexisNexus in Ohio, and I have several former coding students of mine working there now - LN is a high quality shop, albeit a little quirky at times...
However, if you want to find someone to put code to rest, I suggest that NCR put their programming teams out to pasture in a pine box as soon as possible... Ever use one of their U-Scan Do-It-Yourself cash registers that you might find at national or regional retailers? (Meijers comes to mind) - the programming is so shoddy that it is no wonder that the system crashes hourly... But the biggest thing I get a kick out of is the fact that when the customer is asked to render payment, the software prompts the user to enter in any coinage first before paper currency - if you enter the paper/coins in reverse, the machines will lock up - did I mention that the bill reader is seperate from the coin slot?
Come on - I know several high schools kids who can right better code than this...
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Every decent video game I've played in the past 20 years has contained lines like this. I personally have never read any Islamic religious materials, yet I have uttered similar phrases in many an online game...
Gawd forbid that the Kilrathi are now Muslim idealists...
With myself being totally digusted over this frivolous lawsuit, I do have to question the total lack of throuoghness exhibited by this law firm. I mean, they forgot to name as co-defendants the biggest, most important people of all:
Al Gore and ARPA
I mean, Al created it all, and has publically claimed to do so time and time again, and of course, you can't be looking at porn (no matter what kind or what your particular kink is) without utilizing some technology developed with taxpayer monies.
I'm surprised that we haven't heard of these types of pointless wastes of cash more often. Maybe we taxpayers should sue for reimbursement for the waste of our monies over something like this.
Hey, what about Danni Ashe? She supposedly started all this porn and cybersex stuff right? (I saw a statement on someone's blog the other day. What a load of crap. I've been on the Net in various ways since 1988. I can guarantee that there were pornographic emails and USENET postings way before Danni Ashe...)
Ah those days in the cubicle with trn... Looking at porn at work was so much easier then... Until the WWW - wait, throw Tim into the law suit as well as Steve Jobs for founding NeXT, Inc.
I have to agree with you on this. The piracy policy was strictly enforced at the store I was at as well.
Of course, none of real geeks ever cared anyways. I mean, broadband is cheap, and you run a bittorrent client on any OS out there anymore... I can't say I ever saw an employee copy a piece of software from a customer or from store stock for that matter.
I also agree with your explanation of the whole ERD setup. But then again, anyone who has ever used a decent setup made with BartPE would never go back to using ERD anyways...
Hey,
I used to work at the Best Buy in Miamisburg Ohio about a year ago, and I can tell you that the majority of the time, no one in the 'squad' ever used the so-called MRI disc (This is the tool disk that came from the corporate office for our use) because the tools on it were so poor that we would not be able to actually do the job.
About half of us used a variety of bootable Linux distros such as Knoppix and SLAX to perform diagnosis and recovery. Sometimes, the best way is the traditional way - the command line.
I personally used to use this bootable distros to prove points to customers who sometimes had a clue about what was wrong, and this would make an excellent way to show the ineffectiveness of various products and utilities designed to protect users from malware, spyware, etc.
After enough time, I myself started to create my own set of utilities (some nothing more than fancy perl scripts that I could run off a thumb drive) to do my dirty work for me.
Most of the time, Best Buy was totally committed to the idea of sell, sell, sell, while trying to improve their image. The ironic part of this was that our own store manager never could seemingly comprend the simple fact that good service sells and will generate more repeat customers and new customers via word-of-mouth than the stupid service plans, the countless harassment of customers that the geek squad personnel is supposed to be doing to buy plans, etc.
Sometimes, a true geek has to take whatever job that they can get. In this part of Ohio, for the longest time, gigs like Best Buy paid the bills or gave someone something to do while they went off and pursued the next software development contract for instance, or go to school.
Please remember Slashdot readers, that not all the techs that work for Best Buy are compelte idiots. Just most of them. And for myself, I must have been lucky, because I found a store with some guys that were actually competent and able to go on to better careers just like I did.
Like anyone cares that there is no more WMP on the Mac...
/. suggests that Microsoft open-sources WMP for the Mac...
I stopped using WMP a LONG time ago and switched to using VLC for my movie playback needs - Windows, Mac, Linux, *BSD, and BeOS... At least with VLC on an unsecured box I know what is in the file or stream I am trying to play, and hell, the view messages feature is one of the best damn tools ever included - I use it all the time to help my ignorant-of-such-things-as-codecs to figure out what codec they need to download and install.
I don't think anyone ever gave a damn anyways... One less piece of crappy software in the world now...
I swear to Gawd I'll go postal if someone on
Hey - I live about ten miles from LexisNexus in Ohio, and I have several former coding students of mine working there now - LN is a high quality shop, albeit a little quirky at times...
However, if you want to find someone to put code to rest, I suggest that NCR put their programming teams out to pasture in a pine box as soon as possible... Ever use one of their U-Scan Do-It-Yourself cash registers that you might find at national or regional retailers? (Meijers comes to mind) - the programming is so shoddy that it is no wonder that the system crashes hourly... But the biggest thing I get a kick out of is the fact that when the customer is asked to render payment, the software prompts the user to enter in any coinage first before paper currency - if you enter the paper/coins in reverse, the machines will lock up - did I mention that the bill reader is seperate from the coin slot?
Come on - I know several high schools kids who can right better code than this...