Actually he has a rather large catalog of games that most of which are playable online or multi-user and our house has 9 computers and is wired/wireless to the hilt. I don't know about decline in PC games as they keep coming up with them and we keep spending on them. I have curtailed some of it as it's getting out of control. When he begins to earn his own money he can buy the stuff he wants. Right now, he can play Xbox 360 when we go over for band practice as our fearless leader's kid has one and they do that every Friday night... Thats good enough. Someone elses headache.
I can fully expect that out of a product sold to business or some "profession". However you are dealing with "consumer electronics" now and these are a bit different animal. They should have done a better job with this since it's targeting the consumer arena.
After having listened to my 14 year old son, I will likely not ever buy another Microsoft product. I have an original XBox that gave out 2 years after it was bought. Cost of repair exceeds value of unit. Oh well. My son is pestering me to buy a 360. I've been putting it off as there just isn't enough money for it now. Now to add to this, I have yet another reason not to ever buy one. And I'll print out a copy of the page and attach it to the wall in my son's room. He's not going to like it but thats the breaks.
You can't do that man! They'll just turn around and sue you anyway because you are in "proximity" to the sound or could "see" it when walking past that theater. So your guilty and must be made to pay.
This whole thing just goes to show that a:) the lawyers suing on behalf of the record companies don't give a flat fuck about anything the judges have to say; and 2:) in this case specifically, to have quite literally told this specific judge to fuck off and die. They'll do what they want.
You are now beginning to witness the folding of American law and justice. This is where someone in a movie once said that in the future, they abolished all lawyers. Hmmm; could there be some credence to that thinking..??!!
First off; you know damned well and good that this will be overturned on appeal. It can't be allowed to stand because the interpretation is skewed to begin with. Secondly; This article reads as a scare tactic to shut down the Internet. Come on; get real.
This lady is bad. But there are way to many others of like kind out there and to tie this all together like that is just crappy thinking and reasoning. The kid did have emotional issues that were an underlying complicit part of this formula. Now lets all come back to earth.
Along with a spend-thrift congress, senate and president, comes also a shutdown of any and all technological advancements for potentially the next 8 years. All so we can make sure all those people who do not want to work, can live rent free and job free in those condo slums in various parts of various cities in the US. Oh yea, and that includes giving them all 3 square meals a day and they can get check bumps every month simply by having more babies...
We've already seen the predicted "Welfare State" coming to pass with the Dems getting into power and handing out free money to any CEO willing to come and ask for it. The rest is only around the corner.
I'd be sure to retain good legal counsel since in this current time of frivolous litigious exploration, you are likely to be brought in anyway just to explore how much of what your doing, they can kill and/or take from you. Things are very cut-throat right now and not just in software. Your good legal counsel will keep you on track and spending time coding rather than in a court room having to testify or even deposition after deposition.
Anything. Anything at all; emanating out of the orator Ballmer, is total rhetoric and has absolutely no basis in fact, fantasy or reality. He is a total illusion to the stakeholders of Micro$oft, and all that it stands for. He has in a phrase; gone completely over the other end.
Anything you hear from him is complete fiction. Not to put any credence to.
Having personally tried this myself in several areas, I concur with the likes of many test sites that have stated Vista is a joke. It is solely designed for NEW HARDWARE ONLY, and nothing else. That new hardware better damn well be very fast, with lots of memory, cache, and multiprocessor. The performance index of 1.0 sucks rocks. Even XP loaded with junk in the browser and temp cache runs faster than this beast.
Now show me Windows 7. Lets see what that is supposed to be.
I have in my hot little studio; not only some CDR's but also DVD's that were burnt years ago. I know some of the CD's were made back in 1997/1998 era, and some of the DVD's were made right around 2001/2002. I'll have to try and set some time aside tonight and go grab some of those backups from the basement and see if they're still readable and such. This should be interesting...!
These were not stored with anything more than put into pancake stack cases, and stored on a shelf in the basement of my house which is normally cool. Will be very surprised if they read. Might even be longer going back over some of that crap and thinkin'.... "What in the hell was I thinking when I did this??"... LOL
I'll grant you that. I did not know there were that many on there but based on that list, it does appear to cater to those around your age. This is what is so mysterious to me as given the music I grew up with is nowhere on here, and we (my age) started the "garage band" sound. I can name a bunch of bands that were the predicates of what you guys got in the 80s for that sound. All this is why this whole thing is a bit weird for me. But yea; we shall see what it does. I'm definitely not against having fun, but in my case, I'd rather get the guys (and gals) together in our rehearsal space, turn the amps on (and up) and "GET LOUD!"..
Then you might be right. You will likely have a better perspective over this being you actually interact with them. I have only my kids and our audiences to gauge by. By your name, I suspect you are in your 40's somewhere and this might be where we tend to fork the road a bit in the thinking.
You keep right on pushing them and such. Mine are picking up but at 12 and 13, even I know they have no clue what they want to do later on in life. They get the music lessons and they have free access to my media server so they can load their mp3 players up at will. We'll have to wait and see how all this eventually comes out.
This is tantamount to a complete change of rules in the sales of these. The original target markets are the youth. Most youth could care less about the Beatles and especially the early stuff. They want the metal, they want the punk-funk, they want that sort of stuff that is modern and from their era, not something from prehistoric times.
I can say that with a little moniker of authority as I am a working musician, and have been for quite a number of years both professionally and privately.
Also being a Dad, who at this juncture is 53 years old, (soon to be 54) with a 12 year old and 13 year old at home (yea' they're mine!), and a 20 year old that just moved back in. They like it when Dad plays his old Beatles albums (Yea, I still have the vinyl) and CD's, but when they are listening to their players or stuff on their computers, it's always their modern music that they like. Most times they tolerate Dad listening to this stuff in the car or van, but many times bring their MP3 players and plug their phones in their ears and they're off in their own worlds.
So I have a thought that this will be a gargantuan marketing flop. I don't see much out there in the way of parents my age that would buy this sort of thing. I could be wrong but even my band mates have indicated that they wouldn't spend money on that.
Please be careful to be competent of yourself in being able to decipher childish behavior of a minor child who has lapses in parenting by his/her parents to those of the real perpetrators by which I am speaking. Worse yet, this type of event being picked up by media. Remember media sometimes manipulates...
I have absolute contempt for anyone who thinks that someones children is there for ripe taking; and having their way with for quick sexual gratification; and like many that wind up in the news, the child is then killed off so as to "not be able to point out who did it". Yea; Round em' up and put em' in a pit, spray em down with some flammable liquid, and light a match.
I try and be as clear as I can when I speak or type, but sometimes it does not always come out abundantly clear.
I agree. Being a VPN Specialist, unless you can crack keys; especially rotating keys, and "tee" into a secured tunnel, just plain not likely. This sounds to me as more scare tactic than anything else. Fact is that we all would like to take all the child pornographers; round them up into a rather large pit, and set them all on fire until they are nothing but ash. But lets be very careful about trying to bullshit the tech community. This could come back to haunt you.
These porn pushers are going to get and sell their wares no matter what we do. All that effort will ultimately need to rely on good old fashioned police work, and good laws in place to deal with the perpetrators in the first place.
Funny too the political pundits on here are already blaming McCain or someone for this. It's everyone in there people. Has nothing at all to do with party affiliation unless you are looking to find out Who voted this in.
Funny too as Congress just doesn't get it. Stupids. All the perps have to do is open another anonymous email account somewhere and go right in to facebook and where ever. Sheesh. When are these politicians going to grow up??
I just like the better picture quality than the regular (Never Twice the Same Colors) 4x3 and fuzzy (sometimes fussy) picture. Once you try it, you might never also want to go back.
I for one have a High Definition TV receiver plugin for my laptop and it coincidentally can also record and time shift. So I can comfortably place it aside and let it record the thing for me to watch later when I have the time and its in high definition to boot. Online viewing right now just plain sucks.
You are very young. I can tell you have not paid much attention to your surroundings while you were entrenched in your 10 year endeavor. You will soon come to realize the frailties of your thinking when you are yourself told to train a new worker who is foreign, and then 2 weeks later told you are no longer needed.
I guess this begs the question then; and that is, is your $59 per month for that broadband Comcast connection worth it anymore?? I dropped them a couple years ago and glad I did. Nothing but poor service. Never again.
a) Vista ok, but depends on who you talk to, what hardware, etc. b) This is likely an nVidia issue as I've heard there are still problems with them because the driver is not open source. Not really a linux issue as they're trying to get it right. c) KDE, Gnome, they're all a work in progress. I think thats the nature of Linux in the first place. d) Six or one half dozen of the other. I think they're both about equal in certain ways. e) DirectX is not the cats meow. Nor is OpenGL. Things go better if you go with a shared standard. DirectX is very Microsoft-esk, where OpenGL goes everywhere. You do the math. Its up to coders now. Programming paradigms are what your used to. If you did straight C all your life, hooks into dynamic DLL's are just another form of TSR jumps. The GDI an other interfaces were a way of containerizing the hardware underneath you. We were doing that with OOP in C and Pascal a long time back!. Its all relative. f) Ubuntu is not the cats meow. Redhat I think is still the base standard was was Debian. Ubuntu is built off of Debian and has a lot of tweaks. Its definitely different. Windows uninstall/installer works with; well; Windows! I think the uninstall feature of the RedHat package manager works rather well... but it depends! g) The network stack in Linux is as stable if not more so than Windows. Again it really depends on what and how your using it. I still do not trust a Windows machine more than I do a properly configured Linux machine in a server capacity--at least not web facing. Backoffice ok, but I have my doubts with Internet facing. h) Again; six or one half dozen of the other - It's a work in progress and they are distinctively different. Choose what you like better and go help code and test for it. i) I really have no issue with Vista except that you must buy add-on software to get the functionality you need; aka Nero for example. There's that ISO functionality you were looking for.
I'll grant you that Eclipse is a whore and just consumes everything in it's wake. Could be worse though considering all that Eclipse can do. So again it depends on what and where your going. I have the earlier Visual Studio for Windows and I always thought it was hog compared to Borland's offerings. I learned coding the old world way. Text editor, then do a make and a build. Couldn't be simpler. Sometimes anyway.
I like both Word and OpenOffice. But they're both pigs. Word/Office has integration in many established IT environments that you would be hard pressed to change over to something new such as OpenOffice mid-stream. You work with what you have to. Simple as that. I have personal biases against some of IBM's products based on the fact that I had to work with it, and some of it is just junk and should not have continued. Some of it is good stuff though. It just depends.
On the last line; where do you think the original GUI came from?? Does Xerox Parc have any meaning? Most of Microsoft's products were purchases or acquisitions over the years from independent people or companies. The only thing if memory serves; that Mr Gates has to claim, is he did do BASIC (Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code). But I digress...:-)
Suffice that they both have their weights, and their wings.
It obviously breeds greed and many a business run on an open source solution just to save money on capital investment. Usually its easy to find employees savvy enough to manage your OS installation and you save some real dough when it comes to licensing issues you didn't have to fret over.
In Europe, I suspect that they are more akin to it because of technological innovation more than anything else which is really where we all should be. Having once had to recover a Windows server after a drive corruption problem, there is something to be said for reliability. We always will have the war between Microsoft and the open source camps which always translates to money, greed, and profits; vs. learning, educating and moving ever forward. Microsoft is just a marketing company. They really don't invent anything. I vote for moving forward and learning. Its a whole lot more fun.
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Actually he has a rather large catalog of games that most of which are playable online or multi-user and our house has 9 computers and is wired/wireless to the hilt. I don't know about decline in PC games as they keep coming up with them and we keep spending on them. I have curtailed some of it as it's getting out of control. When he begins to earn his own money he can buy the stuff he wants. Right now, he can play Xbox 360 when we go over for band practice as our fearless leader's kid has one and they do that every Friday night... Thats good enough. Someone elses headache.
I can fully expect that out of a product sold to business or some "profession". However you are dealing with "consumer electronics" now and these are a bit different animal. They should have done a better job with this since it's targeting the consumer arena.
After having listened to my 14 year old son, I will likely not ever buy another Microsoft product. I have an original XBox that gave out 2 years after it was bought. Cost of repair exceeds value of unit. Oh well. My son is pestering me to buy a 360. I've been putting it off as there just isn't enough money for it now. Now to add to this, I have yet another reason not to ever buy one. And I'll print out a copy of the page and attach it to the wall in my son's room. He's not going to like it but thats the breaks.
You can't do that man! They'll just turn around and sue you anyway because you are in "proximity" to the sound or could "see" it when walking past that theater. So your guilty and must be made to pay.
This whole thing just goes to show that a:) the lawyers suing on behalf of the record companies don't give a flat fuck about anything the judges have to say; and 2:) in this case specifically, to have quite literally told this specific judge to fuck off and die. They'll do what they want.
You are now beginning to witness the folding of American law and justice. This is where someone in a movie once said that in the future, they abolished all lawyers. Hmmm; could there be some credence to that thinking..??!!
First off; you know damned well and good that this will be overturned on appeal. It can't be allowed to stand because the interpretation is skewed to begin with. Secondly; This article reads as a scare tactic to shut down the Internet. Come on; get real.
This lady is bad. But there are way to many others of like kind out there and to tie this all together like that is just crappy thinking and reasoning. The kid did have emotional issues that were an underlying complicit part of this formula. Now lets all come back to earth.
Along with a spend-thrift congress, senate and president, comes also a shutdown of any and all technological advancements for potentially the next 8 years. All so we can make sure all those people who do not want to work, can live rent free and job free in those condo slums in various parts of various cities in the US. Oh yea, and that includes giving them all 3 square meals a day and they can get check bumps every month simply by having more babies...
We've already seen the predicted "Welfare State" coming to pass with the Dems getting into power and handing out free money to any CEO willing to come and ask for it. The rest is only around the corner.
I'd be sure to retain good legal counsel since in this current time of frivolous litigious exploration, you are likely to be brought in anyway just to explore how much of what your doing, they can kill and/or take from you. Things are very cut-throat right now and not just in software. Your good legal counsel will keep you on track and spending time coding rather than in a court room having to testify or even deposition after deposition.
Anything. Anything at all; emanating out of the orator Ballmer, is total rhetoric and has absolutely no basis in fact, fantasy or reality. He is a total illusion to the stakeholders of Micro$oft, and all that it stands for. He has in a phrase; gone completely over the other end.
Anything you hear from him is complete fiction. Not to put any credence to.
Having personally tried this myself in several areas, I concur with the likes of many test sites that have stated Vista is a joke. It is solely designed for NEW HARDWARE ONLY, and nothing else. That new hardware better damn well be very fast, with lots of memory, cache, and multiprocessor. The performance index of 1.0 sucks rocks. Even XP loaded with junk in the browser and temp cache runs faster than this beast.
Now show me Windows 7. Lets see what that is supposed to be.
I have in my hot little studio; not only some CDR's but also DVD's that were burnt years ago. I know some of the CD's were made back in 1997/1998 era, and some of the DVD's were made right around 2001/2002. I'll have to try and set some time aside tonight and go grab some of those backups from the basement and see if they're still readable and such. This should be interesting...!
These were not stored with anything more than put into pancake stack cases, and stored on a shelf in the basement of my house which is normally cool. Will be very surprised if they read. Might even be longer going back over some of that crap and thinkin'.... "What in the hell was I thinking when I did this??"... LOL
I'll grant you that. I did not know there were that many on there but based on that list, it does appear to cater to those around your age. This is what is so mysterious to me as given the music I grew up with is nowhere on here, and we (my age) started the "garage band" sound. I can name a bunch of bands that were the predicates of what you guys got in the 80s for that sound. All this is why this whole thing is a bit weird for me. But yea; we shall see what it does. I'm definitely not against having fun, but in my case, I'd rather get the guys (and gals) together in our rehearsal space, turn the amps on (and up) and "GET LOUD!"..
Cheers
Then you might be right. You will likely have a better perspective over this being you actually interact with them. I have only my kids and our audiences to gauge by. By your name, I suspect you are in your 40's somewhere and this might be where we tend to fork the road a bit in the thinking.
You keep right on pushing them and such. Mine are picking up but at 12 and 13, even I know they have no clue what they want to do later on in life. They get the music lessons and they have free access to my media server so they can load their mp3 players up at will. We'll have to wait and see how all this eventually comes out.
This is tantamount to a complete change of rules in the sales of these. The original target markets are the youth. Most youth could care less about the Beatles and especially the early stuff. They want the metal, they want the punk-funk, they want that sort of stuff that is modern and from their era, not something from prehistoric times.
I can say that with a little moniker of authority as I am a working musician, and have been for quite a number of years both professionally and privately.
Also being a Dad, who at this juncture is 53 years old, (soon to be 54) with a 12 year old and 13 year old at home (yea' they're mine!), and a 20 year old that just moved back in. They like it when Dad plays his old Beatles albums (Yea, I still have the vinyl) and CD's, but when they are listening to their players or stuff on their computers, it's always their modern music that they like. Most times they tolerate Dad listening to this stuff in the car or van, but many times bring their MP3 players and plug their phones in their ears and they're off in their own worlds.
So I have a thought that this will be a gargantuan marketing flop. I don't see much out there in the way of parents my age that would buy this sort of thing. I could be wrong but even my band mates have indicated that they wouldn't spend money on that.
Please be careful to be competent of yourself in being able to decipher childish behavior of a minor child who has lapses in parenting by his/her parents to those of the real perpetrators by which I am speaking. Worse yet, this type of event being picked up by media. Remember media sometimes manipulates...
I have absolute contempt for anyone who thinks that someones children is there for ripe taking; and having their way with for quick sexual gratification; and like many that wind up in the news, the child is then killed off so as to "not be able to point out who did it". Yea; Round em' up and put em' in a pit, spray em down with some flammable liquid, and light a match.
I try and be as clear as I can when I speak or type, but sometimes it does not always come out abundantly clear.
I agree. Being a VPN Specialist, unless you can crack keys; especially rotating keys, and "tee" into a secured tunnel, just plain not likely. This sounds to me as more scare tactic than anything else. Fact is that we all would like to take all the child pornographers; round them up into a rather large pit, and set them all on fire until they are nothing but ash. But lets be very careful about trying to bullshit the tech community. This could come back to haunt you.
These porn pushers are going to get and sell their wares no matter what we do. All that effort will ultimately need to rely on good old fashioned police work, and good laws in place to deal with the perpetrators in the first place.
Funny too the political pundits on here are already blaming McCain or someone for this. It's everyone in there people. Has nothing at all to do with party affiliation unless you are looking to find out Who voted this in.
Funny too as Congress just doesn't get it. Stupids. All the perps have to do is open another anonymous email account somewhere and go right in to facebook and where ever. Sheesh. When are these politicians going to grow up??
ROTFLMAO..... I forgot about that... LOL
I just like the better picture quality than the regular (Never Twice the Same Colors) 4x3 and fuzzy (sometimes fussy) picture. Once you try it, you might never also want to go back.
I for one have a High Definition TV receiver plugin for my laptop and it coincidentally can also record and time shift. So I can comfortably place it aside and let it record the thing for me to watch later when I have the time and its in high definition to boot. Online viewing right now just plain sucks.
You are very young. I can tell you have not paid much attention to your surroundings while you were entrenched in your 10 year endeavor. You will soon come to realize the frailties of your thinking when you are yourself told to train a new worker who is foreign, and then 2 weeks later told you are no longer needed.
I've been there bud.
Cheers!
This is why they call our stock market system the "glass house" or "gambling". Someone was trying to play funny with their hand of cards.
It just shows that these people like to have a little fun too once in a while like the rest of us.
I guess this begs the question then; and that is, is your $59 per month for that broadband Comcast connection worth it anymore?? I dropped them a couple years ago and glad I did. Nothing but poor service. Never again.
And you want me to reply to that??? :-)
a) Vista ok, but depends on who you talk to, what hardware, etc.
b) This is likely an nVidia issue as I've heard there are still problems with them because the driver is not open source. Not really a linux issue as they're trying to get it right.
c) KDE, Gnome, they're all a work in progress. I think thats the nature of Linux in the first place.
d) Six or one half dozen of the other. I think they're both about equal in certain ways.
e) DirectX is not the cats meow. Nor is OpenGL. Things go better if you go with a shared standard. DirectX is very Microsoft-esk, where OpenGL goes everywhere. You do the math. Its up to coders now. Programming paradigms are what your used to. If you did straight C all your life, hooks into dynamic DLL's are just another form of TSR jumps. The GDI an other interfaces were a way of containerizing the hardware underneath you. We were doing that with OOP in C and Pascal a long time back!. Its all relative.
f) Ubuntu is not the cats meow. Redhat I think is still the base standard was was Debian. Ubuntu is built off of Debian and has a lot of tweaks. Its definitely different. Windows uninstall/installer works with; well; Windows! I think the uninstall feature of the RedHat package manager works rather well... but it depends!
g) The network stack in Linux is as stable if not more so than Windows. Again it really depends on what and how your using it. I still do not trust a Windows machine more than I do a properly configured Linux machine in a server capacity--at least not web facing. Backoffice ok, but I have my doubts with Internet facing.
h) Again; six or one half dozen of the other - It's a work in progress and they are distinctively different. Choose what you like better and go help code and test for it.
i) I really have no issue with Vista except that you must buy add-on software to get the functionality you need; aka Nero for example. There's that ISO functionality you were looking for.
I'll grant you that Eclipse is a whore and just consumes everything in it's wake. Could be worse though considering all that Eclipse can do. So again it depends on what and where your going. I have the earlier Visual Studio for Windows and I always thought it was hog compared to Borland's offerings. I learned coding the old world way. Text editor, then do a make and a build. Couldn't be simpler. Sometimes anyway.
I like both Word and OpenOffice. But they're both pigs. Word/Office has integration in many established IT environments that you would be hard pressed to change over to something new such as OpenOffice mid-stream. You work with what you have to. Simple as that. I have personal biases against some of IBM's products based on the fact that I had to work with it, and some of it is just junk and should not have continued. Some of it is good stuff though. It just depends.
On the last line; where do you think the original GUI came from?? Does Xerox Parc have any meaning? Most of Microsoft's products were purchases or acquisitions over the years from independent people or companies. The only thing if memory serves; that Mr Gates has to claim, is he did do BASIC (Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code). But I digress... :-)
Suffice that they both have their weights, and their wings.
It obviously breeds greed and many a business run on an open source solution just to save money on capital investment. Usually its easy to find employees savvy enough to manage your OS installation and you save some real dough when it comes to licensing issues you didn't have to fret over.
In Europe, I suspect that they are more akin to it because of technological innovation more than anything else which is really where we all should be. Having once had to recover a Windows server after a drive corruption problem, there is something to be said for reliability. We always will have the war between Microsoft and the open source camps which always translates to money, greed, and profits; vs. learning, educating and moving ever forward. Microsoft is just a marketing company. They really don't invent anything. I vote for moving forward and learning. Its a whole lot more fun.