...that Pandora (and perhaps Last.fm) is hampered by having an agreement with iTunes on the songs it can offer. If they haven't licensed it, they can't recommend it.
Which is why it has limited benefit...if the record companies don't want you to try the music they designate as music you can try, you can't. This is were intellectual property leads - you can't play songs for friends who might want to buy it if they like it.
Not zero tolerance. Zero tolerance is an idiots policy. It means you fail both a cheater and the poor sap that had his work stolen.
I agree that an investigation needs to be done, though in many cases the "poor sap" is some website.
If you find a cheater, you confront him/her on it, and then you decide the punishment. It's foolish to make a list of infractions, and a list of punishments and refuse to allow a human to decide what punishment is acceptable in the situation.
Oh nonsense. Academic honesty is vital to higher education and it shouldn't be tolerated. Most Universities
Explain the honor policy at freshman orientation (cheat = dismissal)
Spend some time going over it and giving examples
Have incoming students sign a form that they've been advised of the policy
...in which case, I have zero sympathy for anyone who is dismissed for cheating. A non-zero-tolerance policy is just a license to cheat until caught.
Most (all?) Universities have an honor policy. They just don't enforce it very well. They should. You will never get rid of cheating 100%, but getting scum who cheat off campus is a good thing. Let them go to the University of Phoenix.
Rote memorizing of facts is stupid, because you'll forget them sooner or later.
For the last 30 years, I've remembered how to spell Mississippi. I have no real reason to remember that, except once I had to learn it. I also know the product of 4x8, pi to five digits, a few hundred words of German, and various factoids about Roman archaeology. Little emotional connection to any of it.
I don't feel my rights have been violated by either IBM's way of expensing equity compensation or the SEC's investigation of it.
No doubt, I'm just numb to creeping fascism. You know, first they came for those expensing equity compensation, but I didn't speak up because I use a different method. Next they came for those using Last-In-First-Out inventory accounting, but I didn't speak up because I use FIFO...
Zonk, you're gaining ground on Cliff and timothy as the worst Editor yet.
I don't think so - if memory serves, the Nethack FAQ addresses this and says it's not of interest to the dev team and would break the Nethack model. The chief problem is that in Nethack, you have an infinite time to think/plan between moves (keyboard presses)...this doesn't jibe well with multiplayer.
What is this.Net related lock-in that you are speaking of?
Hey, I'd like to develop a.Net program and run it on Solaris/AIX/Linux/etc. Oh, I can't? Gee, seems like I'm locked in to the Windows platform with.Net.
Compare and contrast with Java. Or open source code. Or a lot of closed-source code, for that matter. Just like Visual Basic, if you write in.Net, you're only writing for Windows.
In my mind, this illustrates what's wrong with the MMORPG idea - why should I pay for the box, when I am also paying $X a month for the service? Seems to me that game publishers are trying to have it both way. The box without the service is useless...but if the service goes away, why did I pay for the box?
I think the industry should go to a monthly service charge only. The box is free downloadable, or sold for cost of media.
Of course, they don't because they can get away with it. A suit might change their minds.
I don't play AC2, but I wonder if the people who paid $60 retail can file a class action suit against Turbine now...after all, they paid for the box and expected the service and now the publisher has decided it doesn't want to provide the service any more, so perhaps they should get their $60 back.
That's such a cheesy way to get tech support. People do that on USENET all the time - step into a *.advocacy group and say "I don't use X because you can't do Y with it." Then you get a bunch of hotheaded replies: "Oh yeah? I enable Z and it works just fine!" or "Read the doc on configuring in Z support before you shoot off your mouth!" and wah-lah, there's their answer.
I also work for a big Fortune 500 company. The problem is not enforcing "only the sysadmins get root," it's that many software vendors write shitty software that needs root.
Some examples:
Oracle is very well-behaved. Upon installation, root has to run one root.sh script to set perms and make directories and after that, the DBAs do their thing and we do ours. Perfect.
Websphere is a nightmare. Lots of things owned by root. In fact, most IBM products are this way - TIM, TAM, AMOS, most Tivoli crap, etc. They stick stuff in/etc all over the place that's owned by root, change system configs in/etc, etc. Sure, you may only need to do it at install time, but installation may be an all-day event, highly iterative, often different, and (in some environments) frequent. Are your sysadmins going to sit with the Websphere team every time they need to install another copy of this crap?
HP OpenView.
Control-M. And AUTOSYS, if memory serves.
Apache. Owned by root, started by root. Who's going to restart it every time the developers want to make a change?
MQ.
Oh, and SeeBeyond, eGate, and a zillion others.
Of those, apache is one of the better ones...if you make a mechanism for the developers to stop/start apache (sudo, groups, binary pass-throughs that are setuid, whatever) and chgrp httpd.conf, you can usually satisfy their needs. But of course, for a box that's a webserver, if you give someone the ability to stop the webserver or change its config, that's about as big a security hole as giving them root.
root is not the only important account. With root, I could do complete damage to our production Oracle systems. But if I had the 'oracle' account, I could do just as much from a business point of view (erase the database files). In fact, with 'oracle' I could do more damage than having root - with root, I could erase the database and everyone would know it. With 'oracle' I could connect and change values in tables and no one may know for a while.
Etc. There are a lot of apps that expect to have root. I know, in your shop, you wouldn't allow them to be installed...try telling that to the CFO/CIO who's paying for the servers and your salaries. In some vertical markets, there are only one or two apps to choose from...you live with their requirements. And even something like WebSphere, where IBM should know better, is impossible to install without having someone with root standing by or doing the work. If it's something homegrown, you can perhaps get by with groups, etc...if it's something from a Big Vendor, you can't really change how it's installed or they won't support it.
Often it's a case where either you have your sysadmins become experts in a dozen different middle-ware apps (blech) or you share root somehow. You can limit damage with sudo, special binaries to start/stop things, etc., but ultimately it's a tradeoff. Is package X worth more to the company than the security problems it creates? Often it is.
In looking back, it became necessary to close my store for a variety of reasons: be it my new baby daughter who poops like a champ, the sluggish sales, or more importantly because it was just time to go.
It's that sort of penetrating analysis that keeps me coming back to Slashdot.
What's more, its demographics are the stuff of marketers' dreams: Four out of five Neopians are under age 18, and two out of five are under 13.
That is not exactly a marketer's dream. Mid-20s with high income is a marketer's dream. They're happy to settle for middle-class under-30. Under 18 and there is usually a limit to how much you can milk kids for, in terms of their weekly disposable income (above which there is the parental filter) vs. the disposable income of post-college people.
...was the in-game ads. All the laptops you found were of a certain brand that displayed the logo. Had they been laptops with a standard Windows desktop, then I could see that as just being realism. But they just had the vendor's logo.
For $55, there should be a way to turn off in-game ads. I mean, for the love of God, $55 is already ridiculous.
(Admittedly, I also thought it was a crappy game for many other reasons...in-game ads was just one of the nits further down the list).
Next, if you really are that desperate for free programs, movies, porn, then get a seperate box for the P2P software
Or VMWare. eMule runs nicely in VMWare. Create a master copy, clone it, and run eMule/BitTorrent/whatever on the clone. If the clone becomes fouled, delete it and reclone.
In my experience, serious P2P does not play well with other apps - it needs a dedicated box. It sucks up the network stack something foul (run eMule for a few days and then see how long netstat takes). However, if you have the RAM, you can run it in VMWare in the background quite nicely...I've had eMule charging away while playing F.E.A.R. with no noticeable performance hit to either (3Ghz HT, 2GB RAM).
Of course, if there was eMule for Linux...(no, don't tell me about amule...)
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Which is why it has limited benefit...if the record companies don't want you to try the music they designate as music you can try, you can't. This is were intellectual property leads - you can't play songs for friends who might want to buy it if they like it.
That's it, khendron, you've used up your pun points for the quarter.
Obnoxious Cell Phone User: "Dude did you hear about Heather and Mack?"
Me, over his shoulder: "Is Mack banging Heather?"
OCPU: "Excuse me?"
Me: "Oh, sorry, your voice was so loud I thought you were talking to me."
OCPU: "...so, anyway, Heather and Mack...(talks a while and then he gets loud again)...yeah, man, they were in the hot tub for two hours."
Me: "I hear that Mack's member was shriveled up like a prune from the hot water."
OCPU: "Dude, I'm not talking to you!"
Me: "Then stop shouting how Mack is sodomizing Heather in the jacuzzi."
I agree that an investigation needs to be done, though in many cases the "poor sap" is some website.
If you find a cheater, you confront him/her on it, and then you decide the punishment. It's foolish to make a list of infractions, and a list of punishments and refuse to allow a human to decide what punishment is acceptable in the situation.
Oh nonsense. Academic honesty is vital to higher education and it shouldn't be tolerated. Most Universities
Most (all?) Universities have an honor policy. They just don't enforce it very well. They should. You will never get rid of cheating 100%, but getting scum who cheat off campus is a good thing. Let them go to the University of Phoenix.
Is there some rocket science I'm missing here, or is this just the usual lame Ask Slashdot from Cliff?
The web sites that create content are now simply fodder for the search engines' revenue stream.
No they're not. In the future, please perform your mental masturbation in the privacy of your own home. Now go away.
For the last 30 years, I've remembered how to spell Mississippi. I have no real reason to remember that, except once I had to learn it. I also know the product of 4x8, pi to five digits, a few hundred words of German, and various factoids about Roman archaeology. Little emotional connection to any of it.
I don't feel my rights have been violated by either IBM's way of expensing equity compensation or the SEC's investigation of it.
No doubt, I'm just numb to creeping fascism. You know, first they came for those expensing equity compensation, but I didn't speak up because I use a different method. Next they came for those using Last-In-First-Out inventory accounting, but I didn't speak up because I use FIFO...
Zonk, you're gaining ground on Cliff and timothy as the worst Editor yet.
I don't think so - if memory serves, the Nethack FAQ addresses this and says it's not of interest to the dev team and would break the Nethack model. The chief problem is that in Nethack, you have an infinite time to think/plan between moves (keyboard presses)...this doesn't jibe well with multiplayer.
Hey, I'd like to develop a .Net program and run it on Solaris/AIX/Linux/etc. Oh, I can't? Gee, seems like I'm locked in to the Windows platform with .Net.
Compare and contrast with Java. Or open source code. Or a lot of closed-source code, for that matter. Just like Visual Basic, if you write in .Net, you're only writing for Windows.
I think the industry should go to a monthly service charge only. The box is free downloadable, or sold for cost of media.
Of course, they don't because they can get away with it. A suit might change their minds.
I don't play AC2, but I wonder if the people who paid $60 retail can file a class action suit against Turbine now...after all, they paid for the box and expected the service and now the publisher has decided it doesn't want to provide the service any more, so perhaps they should get their $60 back.
That's such a cheesy way to get tech support. People do that on USENET all the time - step into a *.advocacy group and say "I don't use X because you can't do Y with it." Then you get a bunch of hotheaded replies: "Oh yeah? I enable Z and it works just fine!" or "Read the doc on configuring in Z support before you shoot off your mouth!" and wah-lah, there's their answer.
Some examples:
Of those, apache is one of the better ones...if you make a mechanism for the developers to stop/start apache (sudo, groups, binary pass-throughs that are setuid, whatever) and chgrp httpd.conf, you can usually satisfy their needs. But of course, for a box that's a webserver, if you give someone the ability to stop the webserver or change its config, that's about as big a security hole as giving them root.
root is not the only important account. With root, I could do complete damage to our production Oracle systems. But if I had the 'oracle' account, I could do just as much from a business point of view (erase the database files). In fact, with 'oracle' I could do more damage than having root - with root, I could erase the database and everyone would know it. With 'oracle' I could connect and change values in tables and no one may know for a while.
Etc. There are a lot of apps that expect to have root. I know, in your shop, you wouldn't allow them to be installed...try telling that to the CFO/CIO who's paying for the servers and your salaries. In some vertical markets, there are only one or two apps to choose from...you live with their requirements. And even something like WebSphere, where IBM should know better, is impossible to install without having someone with root standing by or doing the work. If it's something homegrown, you can perhaps get by with groups, etc...if it's something from a Big Vendor, you can't really change how it's installed or they won't support it.
Often it's a case where either you have your sysadmins become experts in a dozen different middle-ware apps (blech) or you share root somehow. You can limit damage with sudo, special binaries to start/stop things, etc., but ultimately it's a tradeoff. Is package X worth more to the company than the security problems it creates? Often it is.
My condolences. Sun keyboards suck. Oddly, keyboards are one area where Microsoft's offerings are better than Sun's...
It's that sort of penetrating analysis that keeps me coming back to Slashdot.
iTunes is one of the most amazing ripoffs I've ever seen. It's the same overpriced crap from the music business in a different format.
Do you get a buzz from being a pedant? Because the rest of us were over here enjoying life.
"Web 2.0". Sheesh. When people say that I dissolve into fits of laughter.
That is not exactly a marketer's dream. Mid-20s with high income is a marketer's dream. They're happy to settle for middle-class under-30. Under 18 and there is usually a limit to how much you can milk kids for, in terms of their weekly disposable income (above which there is the parental filter) vs. the disposable income of post-college people.
...but then you had to go and say "Web 2.0" and I dissolved into fits of laughter.
For $55, there should be a way to turn off in-game ads. I mean, for the love of God, $55 is already ridiculous.
(Admittedly, I also thought it was a crappy game for many other reasons...in-game ads was just one of the nits further down the list).
Well, yes, but then Britney Spears' songs are considered by many to be good music...
The link that should probably have been put in the article is: http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/temp/zango.htm
Of course, if Hemos had actually looked before posting...
Or VMWare. eMule runs nicely in VMWare. Create a master copy, clone it, and run eMule/BitTorrent/whatever on the clone. If the clone becomes fouled, delete it and reclone.
In my experience, serious P2P does not play well with other apps - it needs a dedicated box. It sucks up the network stack something foul (run eMule for a few days and then see how long netstat takes). However, if you have the RAM, you can run it in VMWare in the background quite nicely...I've had eMule charging away while playing F.E.A.R. with no noticeable performance hit to either (3Ghz HT, 2GB RAM).
Of course, if there was eMule for Linux...(no, don't tell me about amule...)