"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." - Inigo, The Princess Bride
IBM has never supplied the processors for the "main portion of the personal computer industry" and Intel always has. How is this ironic? Did you just discover the PC industry? Do you need a history lesson?
Why the fuck would we celebrate Thanksgiving? Or are you assuming Halloween is just an American thing (which it's not). Trick or treating started in the UK. And considering the union jack on the flag and the governor general leering down at us from the queen's ass, I'd say there's plenty of precedent for following the pommies' lead.
Halloween is shitloads of fun... if you're not a grumpy old fart.
"Why use this when you can get X? It's not Maya , but it..."
"This doesn't let you do X! Z does and it may be no Maya but it's..."
The point is that this IS Maya. If you have no interest in Maya them move on. No one is saying that you shouldn't be using X or Z for your project or self-gratification. A|W went out of their way to give people who are interested in training up or evaluating Maya, a very complex and far from 'hobbyist' bit of software, a chance to do just that. That's it. Nothing more.
Of course,/. went and put up a misleading headline, per usual, and treated this as news despite the PLE being instituted nearly 2 years ago. You wanna bitch at someone, bitch at Pater for not doing his homework on this one.
How hard is it to find pirated full versions? I don't think its too difficult- Are those copies I see on the P2P networks PLE versions? I think if someone serious enough about using and learning such a complex piece of software, they'd steal a full working version, if they could.
Some people have this thing called "scruples" or "morals". It's what sets us apart from the riff raff.
http://reqadm.sourceforge.net/ REQADM is an open source helpdesk ticket tracking system. It started out as an internal tool created by a system support group, and has evolved to meet their needs as they grew to support a user base which grew from a few hundred to a few thousand users.
I used top work in that group (Intel's DPG/PMD/MD6/etc.) and watched REQADM grow from nothing into a hell of a system. Steve and company have done a bang up job and it's a damned fine system. You can submit, note, assign, close, etc. tickets via email, gui, web or command line. There's a Perl API, there's... oh hell just go look. It rules!
The Internet is what it is and will be what it will be. It's not a drink machine or a tax program or a city planning map. It's not something that needs its usefulness tested once a year in case the plug needs pulling or it needs a new mayor. People milking their tenures or stroking their egos trying to quantify, pigeonhole or 'define' it are just masturbating with both hands on the keyboard.
Just like the stone slate or punch cards, the Internet will cease to be useful when it ceases to be useful or practical to the people who are using it. That's us, you wankers. We'll tell you when we're done with it. And we'll tell you what we've moved on to afterwards (and Microsoft will resist, but then follow a year or two later).
Many Americans use the word "eating" in place of "over-eating". Don't ask me why. I don't know.
So "As Long as You Don't Eat" and "as soon as they start eating again" doesn't mean what it says. It means something along the lines of 'as soon as they start eating like they used to'. In other words, "eating" is not "eating" when you're on a [this] diet. Or... something like that.
Sounds like he's likely to 'stay home' more often than not. And probably alone, unless he's found a similar-minded curmudgeon or weak sycophant to his elitism to keep company with.
X-Men 2 was great. Spider-Man was good. Matrix 2 was so-so. SW: Episode II was mostly shit. But I saw 'em. And I saw 'em in a large well-equipped theatre as they were meant to be seen. (And I was thankful the pre-show, which lasted about 15 minutes, gave the kids up front opportunity to settle themselves). So I have an informed opinion about them. AND I can still hit the city any time I want and see a play.
The world throws enough obstacles in the way of our enjoying our existence as it is. Why should I start self-imposing even more (and making myself an insufferable boor in snobs clothing in the process)? I guess it's that I'm neither an elitist nor a masochist. Or perhaps it's simply because I love cinema. Either way, I've won.
Which 'going forward' are they committed to, exactly?
God I hate that phrase... Thank you Andy Grove, Craig Barret, et al for forcing me to listen to such masturbatory perversions of grammar and language... Thank you so very much... asshats...
What, is there some danger that someone will think they've invented time travel and are talking about things they'll do to the past? Is there some fear that someone might perceive they mean "going backwards" instead?
We should all synergize our back-ends to re-purpose our execution of EOL on corp-speak... going forward, of course. If anyone would like to whiteboard this in real-time I'll be leveraging some action items into my world-class 'stab a CEO's head' dart board.
Isn't this collusion (with the website who gets the hit) to initiate a deceptive business practice?
I mean, if the user doesn't realise he's hit CompanyZZZ instead of CompanyZZ, isn't this the same as selling someone a box of Fruit Loops instead of saying you're out of Cap'n Crunch?
Don't you just love the goons who rush in here to tell you what will happen without even bothering to look at what _has_ happened with other similar programs?
Look, I'm not a fan of the RIAA and their Draconian methods any more than the next/.er, but just go read the goddamned law yourself, will ya? And stop yammering on like some AM radio tool asking us to debate your position with or for you. Your rights and the rights of the copyright holder are clearly fucking spelled out in the law and said laws are freely available to you and anyone else who wishes to see them.
Why you gotta whinge and cry and play high school debate with us, of all people, about your displeasure with your 'perceived vs actual' rights? You wanna change things? You think that spending $20 on a CD should give you free and unfettered use of the material therein and the copyright holder can go fuck himself? Well, then get active and use the process your predecessors (and betters -- they actually did something) gave you. The process, it should be noted, does not include pissing and moaning on Slashdot.
As far as the article goes, this is the stupidest thing the RIAA has ever done and god knows they've done some stupid shit.
Now go fuck off, the lot of you. You know who you are.
The large majority of Windows users are everyday people. They are not out there 'finding bugs. Technically savvy people (who understand the concept far more than you appear to) are finding the flaws. If Linux took over the desktop race it would have no more flaws than it currently does... which is to say a shitload less than Windows. Windows is insecure through negligence, not popularity. That number of seats begets flaws is the most ridiculous assertion, but seems to be gaining popularity with the un-informed. That includes you.
Windows is easily exploitable (c'mon, 18 year old script kiddies are the bad guys!) because it's poorly done and even more poorly QA'd. That's the bottom line. And the number of users has no bearing on that.
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"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." - Inigo, The Princess Bride
IBM has never supplied the processors for the "main portion of the personal computer industry" and Intel always has. How is this ironic? Did you just discover the PC industry? Do you need a history lesson?
Take a look at
http://www.dfiusa.com/products/
Why the fuck would we celebrate Thanksgiving? Or are you assuming Halloween is just an American thing (which it's not). Trick or treating started in the UK. And considering the union jack on the flag and the governor general leering down at us from the queen's ass, I'd say there's plenty of precedent for following the pommies' lead.
Halloween is shitloads of fun... if you're not a grumpy old fart.
Do you hear it? The sound of Bill Gates shitting a brick.
Ah! And there's the sound of him calling Ballmer to go find this Lt. Col. Dave Gallop and show him some 'innovation'!
Ars Technica also has a review of the service.
From the Ars article: "Please note: this is not a review of iTunes for Windows or of the iTunes Music Store"
*screams and throws a brick in michael's general direction*
'Official' people have names, Coward.
"Why use this when you can get X? It's not Maya , but it..."
/. went and put up a misleading headline, per usual, and treated this as news despite the PLE being instituted nearly 2 years ago. You wanna bitch at someone, bitch at Pater for not doing his homework on this one.
"This doesn't let you do X! Z does and it may be no Maya but it's..."
The point is that this IS Maya. If you have no interest in Maya them move on. No one is saying that you shouldn't be using X or Z for your project or self-gratification. A|W went out of their way to give people who are interested in training up or evaluating Maya, a very complex and far from 'hobbyist' bit of software, a chance to do just that. That's it. Nothing more.
Of course,
How hard is it to find pirated full versions? I don't think its too difficult- Are those copies I see on the P2P networks PLE versions? I think if someone serious enough about using and learning such a complex piece of software, they'd steal a full working version, if they could.
Some people have this thing called "scruples" or "morals".
It's what sets us apart from the riff raff.
http://reqadm.sourceforge.net/
REQADM is an open source helpdesk ticket tracking system. It started out as an internal tool created by a system support group, and has evolved to meet their needs as they grew to support a user base which grew from a few hundred to a few thousand users.
I used top work in that group (Intel's DPG/PMD/MD6/etc.) and watched REQADM grow from nothing into a hell of a system. Steve and company have done a bang up job and it's a damned fine system. You can submit, note, assign, close, etc. tickets via email, gui, web or command line. There's a Perl API, there's... oh hell just go look. It rules!
Just a moment, please. We're trying to decide which is worse; the colon in the subject or improperly used colon in the body.
Sincerely,
The Grammar Nazis
Is this guy in a hurry to sit on the retirement/downsizing porch with SGI?
This is asinine.
The Internet is what it is and will be what it will be. It's not a drink machine or a tax program or a city planning map. It's not something that needs its usefulness tested once a year in case the plug needs pulling or it needs a new mayor. People milking their tenures or stroking their egos trying to quantify, pigeonhole or 'define' it are just masturbating with both hands on the keyboard.
Just like the stone slate or punch cards, the Internet will cease to be useful when it ceases to be useful or practical to the people who are using it. That's us, you wankers. We'll tell you when we're done with it. And we'll tell you what we've moved on to afterwards (and Microsoft will resist, but then follow a year or two later).
Wankers.
Second Life?
Are the creators sure these people had a 'first' life?
[Chief Wiggum] Mod it down, boys! [/Chief Wiggum]
Many Americans use the word "eating" in place of "over-eating". Don't ask me why. I don't know.
So "As Long as You Don't Eat" and "as soon as they start eating again" doesn't mean what it says. It means something along the lines of 'as soon as they start eating like they used to'. In other words, "eating" is not "eating" when you're on a [this] diet. Or... something like that.
Sounds like he's likely to 'stay home' more often than not. And probably alone, unless he's found a similar-minded curmudgeon or weak sycophant to his elitism to keep company with.
X-Men 2 was great. Spider-Man was good. Matrix 2 was so-so. SW: Episode II was mostly shit. But I saw 'em. And I saw 'em in a large well-equipped theatre as they were meant to be seen. (And I was thankful the pre-show, which lasted about 15 minutes, gave the kids up front opportunity to settle themselves). So I have an informed opinion about them. AND I can still hit the city any time I want and see a play.
The world throws enough obstacles in the way of our enjoying our existence as it is. Why should I start self-imposing even more (and making myself an insufferable boor in snobs clothing in the process)? I guess it's that I'm neither an elitist nor a masochist. Or perhaps it's simply because I love cinema. Either way, I've won.
Me too. I shoulda done this ages ago.
Too expensive and, as we've witnessed now and before, somewhat under-handed.
Dunno if it's my dsl provider stepping in or not, but it just stopped as I was about to change my hosts file... I get the usual 'not found' again.
(FWIW: I'm in Australia and a slave to Telstra, lord and master of my connection)
... and their commitment to that going forward...
Which 'going forward' are they committed to, exactly?
God I hate that phrase... Thank you Andy Grove, Craig Barret, et al for forcing me to listen to such masturbatory perversions of grammar and language... Thank you so very much... asshats...
What, is there some danger that someone will think they've invented time travel and are talking about things they'll do to the past? Is there some fear that someone might perceive they mean "going backwards" instead?
We should all synergize our back-ends to re-purpose our execution of EOL on corp-speak... going forward, of course. If anyone would like to whiteboard this in real-time I'll be leveraging some action items into my world-class 'stab a CEO's head' dart board.
*sound of my karma going down the drain*
http://www.livejournal.com/community/lj_maintenanc e/60984.html
Isn't this collusion (with the website who gets the hit) to initiate a deceptive business practice?
I mean, if the user doesn't realise he's hit CompanyZZZ instead of CompanyZZ, isn't this the same as selling someone a box of Fruit Loops instead of saying you're out of Cap'n Crunch?
"chrisd notes that his company is making SCO employees unhireable."
.. oh, they don't actually have any open positions right now.
So they're refusing to consider SCO employees for any of the open positions that they
Wow, that'll teach them a lesson.
Yes, but what's important is that Chris' company is an equal opportunity employer. Well... except when the mood strikes them not to be.
None of you has started in on the typo in his BASIC program! Come ON, people!6 0329-8757 ,00.html ;)
http://www.wired.com/news/images/0,2334,
Don't you just love the goons who rush in here to tell you what will happen without even bothering to look at what _has_ happened with other similar programs?
Just loooove to hear themselves type.......
Look, I'm not a fan of the RIAA and their Draconian methods any more than the next /.er, but just go read the goddamned law yourself, will ya? And stop yammering on like some AM radio tool asking us to debate your position with or for you. Your rights and the rights of the copyright holder are clearly fucking spelled out in the law and said laws are freely available to you and anyone else who wishes to see them.
Why you gotta whinge and cry and play high school debate with us, of all people, about your displeasure with your 'perceived vs actual' rights? You wanna change things? You think that spending $20 on a CD should give you free and unfettered use of the material therein and the copyright holder can go fuck himself? Well, then get active and use the process your predecessors (and betters -- they actually did something) gave you. The process, it should be noted, does not include pissing and moaning on Slashdot.
As far as the article goes, this is the stupidest thing the RIAA has ever done and god knows they've done some stupid shit.
Now go fuck off, the lot of you. You know who you are.
The large majority of Windows users are everyday people. They are not out there 'finding bugs. Technically savvy people (who understand the concept far more than you appear to) are finding the flaws. If Linux took over the desktop race it would have no more flaws than it currently does... which is to say a shitload less than Windows. Windows is insecure through negligence, not popularity. That number of seats begets flaws is the most ridiculous assertion, but seems to be gaining popularity with the un-informed. That includes you.
Windows is easily exploitable (c'mon, 18 year old script kiddies are the bad guys!) because it's poorly done and even more poorly QA'd. That's the bottom line. And the number of users has no bearing on that.