What the heck does Israel buying F-16's from Texas have to do with outsourcing in India? Selling goods and services to a nation is very different than exporting your infrastructure there. Lockheed Martin wouldn't put their manufacturing facilities on the West Bank because there is risk. That is what I am talking about. Having your development offshore is a risk. My question is, how much thought is it given.
And I wouldn't really call India a third world nation. While they may have some states which drag them down as a nation. In some states you need a college degree just to drive the garbage truck because there are that many well educated people.
Your over simplistic thinking, poor knowledge of world affairs, and even a poorer knowledge of American system (in which you live and work) is really what bothers you, not anything else.
Not really. I also question why companies spend millions of dollars to build data centers in the paths of earthquakes, tornados, and hurricanes and then spend millions more on disastery recovery and mirror sites in places where it would have been a lot cheaper to build their primary sites to begin with.
I guess things have quieted down now or perhaps we in the US have just lost interest. But there was a time where I am sure a few CEO's and CIO's had to be worried how long it would be before their big software project went up in a giant Pakistani mushroom cloud.
Do political situations, like the border skirmishes near Kashmir, ever get discussed when it comes to making these outsourcing decisions? If India was thrown into a state of turmoil due to an attack from Pakistan what would happen to outsourced projects? Or if India attacked Pakistan in a way that the US felt was too severe and sanctions were put into place against India, what would happen to these contracts?
With Andy Griffith. Short lived TV show about a many who would salvage space junk. Think they used a cement mixer as a space capsule. I think it is a good idea. While satellites may be outdated, it still costs a bundle to make them and send them up. If these guys offer an alternative to that then why not.
What happens though if NASA decides Hubble is scrap and proceeds to deorbit. Can this guy go up and snag it and then sell it to the highest bidder?
In the 70's I didn't need licensed products to build star wars ships, star trek props, etc. I just built them using what I had. I'm a little sad to see the mindstorms gone. While I never owned that particular set I think I would have enjoyed it as a kid. Anyway, there is no need to pay the movie companies for the licensing. Imaginative minds don't need that. Harry Potter sets, come on.
Only way to let the record companies know "enough is enough" is to stop buying any of their CDs. This means copy-protected ones and, if it persists, just stop buying any CD at all.
You need to let someone know what you are doing though. If you just quit buying then the record companies are going to assume the drop in sales is due to piracy and that just gives them more fuel. Let someone know what you are doing, I would say the band at least needs to know. If they got thousands of letters saying fans weren't supporting them because they don't like the "broken" CD they could at least take that to the label.
I hear some of what the RIAA says about low sales and rising piracy and I try to think why I don't buy many CD's anymore. It isn't because of piracy. There just isn't anything that I really like. They don't market to my age group and my age group has all the money.
Good god man! For $700 you could have hired illegal immigrants to swap video tapes for you, clean your pool, and take care of the yard. Or you could have just bought a Tivo Series 2 with a lifetime subscription.
And the recipient gets the money. You pay $.05 to send an email and I receive a $.05 credit to my ISP account. I could live with that. It would probably put an end to those stupid chain letters I get, and jokes from 1983 that my aunt just got and thinks is teh funny shiz.
How can you sue for loss of personal information? It looks like your wife just threw it away and someone found it for her.
If she didn't sign it then the credit card company should not have processed it. There are rules, they probably violated them (unless your wife really did sign it and made up this story when you yelled at her). I don't think there is much you can do other than call the credit card company and tell them it was a fraud app and to put you on their do not call list.
It has been going on with Everquest for a while now and it is probably going to be what to expect from massivly multiplayer games in the future. As long as people keep coming back there is no reason for them to change. Plus it gives them (Sony) the opportunity to charge more money later for better service or more involvement with the players. You want better service? Upgrade to a $24.95 a month server/account and you can have it.
Madden is just a status symbol IMHO. I purposly avoided Madden this year because of lack of XBox live. I still play EA's NCAA Football which in my opinion is a baby Madden. My NFL choice was between Sega and Microsoft. While Microsoft's NFL Fever had some excellent, maybe superior passing options I think ESPN has beat them with the overall awe factor. I didn't bother trying out Madden 2004 so I can't make a valid comparison but in some of the reviews I have read it has not fared that well. In fairness I have only read the XBox reviews and many reviewers have dinged it for the live support. I don't see the point of buying the same sports package year after year. What do you get out of it but an updated roster and maybe a few gimicks in a dynasty mode. While that is good for the single player game, these games are best played head to head with a friend or now, via some kind of online service. In time Madden will have to support Live or risk losing ground to ESPN or NFL Fever, both of which are very good games.
Wrong. Not being able to transfer a game is a software problem not a hardware problem. Some games allow you to save to a memory card or the hard drive. NCAA College Football and Elder Scrolls come to mind. Microsoft has little to do with what save methods (hard disk or memory card) a developer puts into their games. Lucas only allowing you to save to your hard disk is not due to a defective piece of hardware.
Last time I checked, the Earth has been rotating around the same axis since....the beginning of time?
Then we are long overdue for an axis tilt. There have been some geological discoveries that made some scientists question if there was a polar shift. I tried finding it on google but can't. It wasn't anything like the sahara once being fertile farmlands and a 1 degree change made it a desert. What I saw a few years ago talked about magnetic rock found where north didn't point to magnetic north, which made geologist think the earth did a 180. I wish I could find it.
What happens when the earth flips on its axis and the platform becomes one of the poles and the ribbon is twisted like a giant rubberband? Have they addressed this yet?
I installed 64 bit HP/UX on my Pentium 4. It only took me one HP/UX CD and a dab of epoxy but it installed nicely on the computer. I am sure someone could do the same with a G5 and a 64bit AMD distro, although a Mac person would probably do a much nicer job since they are more artistic. They'd probably frame and mat it in a nice shadow box with some pretty flowers or colored macaronis.
Hell no, this is slashdot!!!;-) Yes I read your post and I simply added to it with a more common way of getting cheap music. (One that a 12 year old would be familiar with due to the lap flaps BMG and Columbia House stick in all the teen mags.) eMusic is a Vivendi company, you know, the evil guys who throw DMCA notices at people who mod Blizzard games. Not exactly someone I would want to plug.
I have ADD/ADHD and I cannot stand fighting games. Gimme a good RPG or a sports game (except hockey because it always ends in fisticuffs) and I'll play it 10 hours straight. But I can't sit 5 minutes with a fighting game, even if the toons have huge breasts (DOA).
I think this study is a pawn. It is intended to get parents to observe their kids playing video games and assume they have ADHD. Then the drug companies can get even more rich sedating more children.
I'm sure there will be plenty of threads here along the lines of: "$29.99 for all you can download... come on.... an "honor roll" student thought that a legit deal?
We're talking a 12 year old girl who is book smart. That doesn't mean she has common sense. Common sense might make you go "hmmm" but when you can get 12 CD's for just a penny, Kazaa could easily confuse a 12 year old into thinking that she could have unlimited downloads for $29.95.
I don't think she's stupid. In fact I think most people are unaware that this is an illegal activity, especially if they are paying for a service.
I noticed you can search the EFF database of people being sued by user name or IP address. I take it when they go after someone based on IP address, the ISP has to cooperate so that the IP address is resolved into a real person. What if someone makes an error in pulling the IP? Or what if no log exists but someone else just happens to get that IP address later and the lawsuit gets pinned on them? What level does the RIAA have to take to make sure they are after the right person? What happens when their information is wrong? It could be very expensive to defend yourself if you were fingered by a dynamic IP address.
For me any email over 2 years old is neatly organized in folders. After that I gave up and just keep everything in one folder and just sort by sender, subject, or date to find what I need. I have an easier time finding the stuff that is in one folder vs the stuff that is neatly organized. As one reader put it in another post, how do you know which folder to look in.
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How do you know they aren't selling that info to these same companies?
What the heck does Israel buying F-16's from Texas have to do with outsourcing in India? Selling goods and services to a nation is very different than exporting your infrastructure there. Lockheed Martin wouldn't put their manufacturing facilities on the West Bank because there is risk. That is what I am talking about. Having your development offshore is a risk. My question is, how much thought is it given.
And I wouldn't really call India a third world nation. While they may have some states which drag them down as a nation. In some states you need a college degree just to drive the garbage truck because there are that many well educated people.
Your over simplistic thinking, poor knowledge of world affairs, and even a poorer knowledge of American system (in which you live and work) is really what bothers you, not anything else.
Not really. I also question why companies spend millions of dollars to build data centers in the paths of earthquakes, tornados, and hurricanes and then spend millions more on disastery recovery and mirror sites in places where it would have been a lot cheaper to build their primary sites to begin with.
I guess things have quieted down now or perhaps we in the US have just lost interest. But there was a time where I am sure a few CEO's and CIO's had to be worried how long it would be before their big software project went up in a giant Pakistani mushroom cloud.
Do political situations, like the border skirmishes near Kashmir, ever get discussed when it comes to making these outsourcing decisions? If India was thrown into a state of turmoil due to an attack from Pakistan what would happen to outsourced projects? Or if India attacked Pakistan in a way that the US felt was too severe and sanctions were put into place against India, what would happen to these contracts?
With Andy Griffith. Short lived TV show about a many who would salvage space junk. Think they used a cement mixer as a space capsule. I think it is a good idea. While satellites may be outdated, it still costs a bundle to make them and send them up. If these guys offer an alternative to that then why not.
What happens though if NASA decides Hubble is scrap and proceeds to deorbit. Can this guy go up and snag it and then sell it to the highest bidder?
In the 70's I didn't need licensed products to build star wars ships, star trek props, etc. I just built them using what I had. I'm a little sad to see the mindstorms gone. While I never owned that particular set I think I would have enjoyed it as a kid. Anyway, there is no need to pay the movie companies for the licensing. Imaginative minds don't need that. Harry Potter sets, come on.
Only way to let the record companies know "enough is enough" is to stop buying any of their CDs. This means copy-protected ones and, if it persists, just stop buying any CD at all.
You need to let someone know what you are doing though. If you just quit buying then the record companies are going to assume the drop in sales is due to piracy and that just gives them more fuel. Let someone know what you are doing, I would say the band at least needs to know. If they got thousands of letters saying fans weren't supporting them because they don't like the "broken" CD they could at least take that to the label.
I hear some of what the RIAA says about low sales and rising piracy and I try to think why I don't buy many CD's anymore. It isn't because of piracy. There just isn't anything that I really like. They don't market to my age group and my age group has all the money.
Only if I was fluent in Hindi and enjoyed musicals.
Good god man! For $700 you could have hired illegal immigrants to swap video tapes for you, clean your pool, and take care of the yard. Or you could have just bought a Tivo Series 2 with a lifetime subscription.
And the recipient gets the money. You pay $.05 to send an email and I receive a $.05 credit to my ISP account. I could live with that. It would probably put an end to those stupid chain letters I get, and jokes from 1983 that my aunt just got and thinks is teh funny shiz.
How can you sue for loss of personal information? It looks like your wife just threw it away and someone found it for her.
If she didn't sign it then the credit card company should not have processed it. There are rules, they probably violated them (unless your wife really did sign it and made up this story when you yelled at her). I don't think there is much you can do other than call the credit card company and tell them it was a fraud app and to put you on their do not call list.
It has been going on with Everquest for a while now and it is probably going to be what to expect from massivly multiplayer games in the future. As long as people keep coming back there is no reason for them to change. Plus it gives them (Sony) the opportunity to charge more money later for better service or more involvement with the players. You want better service? Upgrade to a $24.95 a month server/account and you can have it.
Every home PC needs a copy of Oracle 9i RAC.
Madden is just a status symbol IMHO. I purposly avoided Madden this year because of lack of XBox live. I still play EA's NCAA Football which in my opinion is a baby Madden. My NFL choice was between Sega and Microsoft. While Microsoft's NFL Fever had some excellent, maybe superior passing options I think ESPN has beat them with the overall awe factor. I didn't bother trying out Madden 2004 so I can't make a valid comparison but in some of the reviews I have read it has not fared that well. In fairness I have only read the XBox reviews and many reviewers have dinged it for the live support. I don't see the point of buying the same sports package year after year. What do you get out of it but an updated roster and maybe a few gimicks in a dynasty mode. While that is good for the single player game, these games are best played head to head with a friend or now, via some kind of online service. In time Madden will have to support Live or risk losing ground to ESPN or NFL Fever, both of which are very good games.
I agree and am migrating to Exchange as I type this. Hopefully it, and Outlook will be more secure for my users.
Wrong. Not being able to transfer a game is a software problem not a hardware problem. Some games allow you to save to a memory card or the hard drive. NCAA College Football and Elder Scrolls come to mind. Microsoft has little to do with what save methods (hard disk or memory card) a developer puts into their games. Lucas only allowing you to save to your hard disk is not due to a defective piece of hardware.
Last time I checked, the Earth has been rotating around the same axis since....the beginning of time?
Then we are long overdue for an axis tilt. There have been some geological discoveries that made some scientists question if there was a polar shift. I tried finding it on google but can't. It wasn't anything like the sahara once being fertile farmlands and a 1 degree change made it a desert. What I saw a few years ago talked about magnetic rock found where north didn't point to magnetic north, which made geologist think the earth did a 180. I wish I could find it.
What happens when the earth flips on its axis and the platform becomes one of the poles and the ribbon is twisted like a giant rubberband? Have they addressed this yet?
I installed 64 bit HP/UX on my Pentium 4. It only took me one HP/UX CD and a dab of epoxy but it installed nicely on the computer. I am sure someone could do the same with a G5 and a 64bit AMD distro, although a Mac person would probably do a much nicer job since they are more artistic. They'd probably frame and mat it in a nice shadow box with some pretty flowers or colored macaronis.
Did you READ MY POST AT ALL?
;-) Yes I read your post and I simply added to it with a more common way of getting cheap music. (One that a 12 year old would be familiar with due to the lap flaps BMG and Columbia House stick in all the teen mags.) eMusic is a Vivendi company, you know, the evil guys who throw DMCA notices at people who mod Blizzard games. Not exactly someone I would want to plug.
Hell no, this is slashdot!!!
DLL or dependency hell. To me they are both the same beast. Both Windows and Linux are great as long as you never need to install any applications.
I have ADD/ADHD and I cannot stand fighting games. Gimme a good RPG or a sports game (except hockey because it always ends in fisticuffs) and I'll play it 10 hours straight. But I can't sit 5 minutes with a fighting game, even if the toons have huge breasts (DOA).
I think this study is a pawn. It is intended to get parents to observe their kids playing video games and assume they have ADHD. Then the drug companies can get even more rich sedating more children.
I'm sure there will be plenty of threads here along the lines of: "$29.99 for all you can download... come on.... an "honor roll" student thought that a legit deal?
We're talking a 12 year old girl who is book smart. That doesn't mean she has common sense. Common sense might make you go "hmmm" but when you can get 12 CD's for just a penny, Kazaa could easily confuse a 12 year old into thinking that she could have unlimited downloads for $29.95.
I don't think she's stupid. In fact I think most people are unaware that this is an illegal activity, especially if they are paying for a service.
I noticed you can search the EFF database of people being sued by user name or IP address. I take it when they go after someone based on IP address, the ISP has to cooperate so that the IP address is resolved into a real person. What if someone makes an error in pulling the IP? Or what if no log exists but someone else just happens to get that IP address later and the lawsuit gets pinned on them? What level does the RIAA have to take to make sure they are after the right person?
What happens when their information is wrong? It could be very expensive to defend yourself if you were fingered by a dynamic IP address.
For me any email over 2 years old is neatly organized in folders. After that I gave up and just keep everything in one folder and just sort by sender, subject, or date to find what I need. I have an easier time finding the stuff that is in one folder vs the stuff that is neatly organized. As one reader put it in another post, how do you know which folder to look in.
The original post said "handful of browsers". That does not imply POP3 clients. The post was FUD.