Same experieces. Nagios does a great job of accurately reporting service availability down to very accurate numbers. Think its too CPU intensive? Turn down the service check rate.
I had it running against 30 machines, around 300 service checks and had performance numbers saved. Around half the systems had on-system agents for the CPU/Memory/disk/etc.. Of course it takes some CPU on the host system to support it. Mind you, the system held up on a P5 PC. For that many services to survive on a little P5, I thought it was pretty decent.
haha. Similar story for me in parts. I was doing IT work for a company and constantly got ragged on for not being professional and not being able to live up to their high standards so instead of taking it, I changed jobs to a programmer. To make things short, they hired three guys to 'replace' me one after the next, the network's in shambles, and the fall-guy just got canned.
Lesson to the Managers out there: Just because we're not always 'professional' many of us can get the job done. The new guy made substantially more than I did and performed exceedingly below. I don't even have to exagerate. It was a fact =)
Not to prop the article which at least laid the problem definition, but at the end of the article he did say that the thrid 'coming' article would have some suggestions for microsoft that would make most people happy.
1. Yes, America just as every other country are full of hypocritical people led by hypocritical leaders. This isn't news. They'll Slam the UN one day when they don't want to participate (Iraq war), and praise them the next when it serves their purposes (Strong media conglomerates).
Why the US -won't- fight this is simple. When it comes to entertainment (Audio/Visual) economies, the US is way ahead of the rest. Why would they stand up to a resolution that allows other governments to police their income? It doesn't make sense. Why would the US say NO, we don't want you to punish up all those stealing Mission Impossible 3, or Britney Spears newest album?
2. The law is from WIPO, which is known for making invasive treaties. I'm not surprised that they'd cook up something like this.
RPG's as a word simply means different things to different people. I've had it described as eastern vs. western games in the past. In the one extreme, you have the japanimation crowd who've come from the manga/anime world and like to be a part of a story.
There's the other group of RP'ers that've played the D&Ds or played out in the back yards doing this or that playing make believe. They more enjoy being someone of focus and allowing the story to flow around them.
You have two groups of people who've experienced fantasy in completely different ways. Often people that enjoy one form of it hate the other. Now that video games can 'become' as open as playing in your back yard, the second audience can get their fill from video games as the before-mentioned group has for the past 20 years.
Both camps have the same right to like/hate each other's 'version' of RPG becasue they're both uniquely different in how the games work. So, how do we 'fix' this obviously flawed interpretation of RPG? We call both seperate genres seperately. Maybe:
Story driven role - The story drives the direction/purpose with the character there to experience it Role driven story - The character creates the story by their actions
On my Windows based TV computer: Choice: Media Player Classic (MPC) Reasoning:
1. I've never had CPU issues playing video, so I can't say that program X or program Y are more efficient.
2. Feature for feature, I've never seen any players with as many abilities as MPC. If you're leet and wanna dabble with the decoders, they let you do all kinds of thing with DirectShow. They accelerate output on DX9, The inbound codecs can be anyones. I use ffdshow, MPC, or even the official vendor codecs for things like format decoding/splitting/etc. I have the control to rewire them at my leasure if I like one over another. My experience with DVD playback is flawless.
3. Configuration is easy and straight forward for those that know how to use it. For those that don't, the default installation (with 3rd party directshow codecs installed) requires no config.
The only reservation I have with it is that sometimes I notice a cleaner picture with the powerdvd filters and I hate mapping the powerdvd filters into MPC to play it just to switch back later.
Say what you will about hating windows based technologies, but once I've tuned to my likes, it works amazingly well and I can't think of any platform media player / tech that I like more than MPC / DirectShow.
How many user are sitting behind my company's single routable IP address? Hit: Its over 1000.
This sways the number in the opposite direction. The number the story's based on is completely baked. You could attempt to statisticly estimate the number of unique users/ip on your site with some effort, but you can't get a real concensus between one sight and the next. The reason is demographics. If you take a mobile enabled sight, you're almost always guaranteed to get at least 2 IP's per user(one mobile usability, one desktop ease), but if you take a corp-LAN, you're almost guaranteed to have 1-1 user/IP.
As for sites worrying about anonymity-type scatter IP, I think that most anonymity-type solutions are quite easy to detect if a site maintainer really tries to. Remember, the referrer record is your friend here. If the user decides to piss around and blank it out, just loop them back to the main site page or something or tell them to login. So, if user X is behind a proxy that drops referrer headers, tell them to login or 'goto hell'. If someone's using an open relay, drop them from your site all together. A hit doesn't count as a user if you don't let them in =)
Why not just tax DVD movies? They'll probably raise a hell of a lot more money. What do you mean the taxation isn't representative of the audience? Well, so are video games, you insensative clods! If you're taxing video games then tax any and all forms of entertainment. Their hypocracy (Tax everything I don't buy) is disappointing.
Many people buy big TVs not for the quality but simply because the screen's larger. Some people just like bigger == better. It makes a lot of people who's eye sight's failing see the picture easier. Some buy out of impulse, some just don't want the bulge in classical CRT's.
All of these are possible reasons to buy a large format TV.
"It is the difference between an actors face being a blur with darkspots for eyes and mouth and being able to see wether they had a good nights sleep the day before"
The difference may be stark to you, but unless you've got a CRT or a -good- plasma/lcd, you won't notice the difference anyways. The black color washout is probably the most painful thing I've had to live with since moving to affordable (5k) large format TVs.
I won't even bother debating your B&W issue.
"Everytime a new format comes along you get the same old argument about it being to costly for a minor increase. Yet that never stopped anyone before. "
Did you convert to mp3pro? Oh, me neither. Did you convert to the record sized laser discs? No? Me neither. Troll another issue, please.
IMHO, The format/formats have a chance to survive only if they hitch a ride with the replacement and upgrade DVD player market. They've got a tough fight at this price point though. I can walk into a store and buy a $30 DVD player if I wanted to. Comparing $30 to $1000, I don't care who you are, if you have any financial discipline, you've got to have a better reason to own it besides 'I just want it'.
In university, I pinched a nerve through repetetive pressure so badly that two of my fingers went completely numb! It took 6 months of lighter usage (no more games) and better posture before the nerve had a chance to actually get better. Not all hand/arm ailments can just be cured with time to rest, but some can. If you guys start feeling aches coming from your arms/hands, try looking at your posture and make sure you're not resting your elbows a lot and that your mouse wrist doesn't drag on the table excessively. Its made a world of difference to me. That with a gell pad for my keyboard, and I'm a happy camper. 5 years after school and still going strong without anything beyond short term aches.
Insightful AC comment, simply amazing. I could almost swear slashdot's quality may actually be getting better.
On topic, I can't say I have the same faith in hydrogen as I would in nuclear. Maybe its out of ignorance, but I've heard mized rumors on the environmental impact on hydrogen containment leaks and the effects on the environment. This again could be an early adopter problem with the technology, but I'm not be cheering for hydrogen quite yet.
I think its a good step in the right direction. I think nuclear power doesn have the potential to be a very positive energy source now and to the future. I've always been a little environmentalist, but I never really understood the outcry from others about how evil nuclear is.
The technology may have been iffy in its advent, and even though there is bi-product, try comparing it with oil/coal burning and its quantum leap forward IMHO. I think the bigger -hate- for Nuclear came from the common roots of environmentalists and anti-war crowds. It was just assumed de-facto that nuclear was an ill to this world like land mines and chemical weapons. It -can- have a positive purpose if used correctly.
It doesn't solve the small-scale atonimous energy factory (car) problems, but it could at least cut down on the other energy waste going.
I'd call myself a fairly early adopter when it comes to tech. I've got my Sony 50" LCD-proj HDTV with fantastic picture quality and this and that. I know the jargon, but its irrelevant for the conversation. Every time one of these articles comes up, I'm forced to be negetive. I don't like playing the cold hard reality, but here I go.
I just can't help but to butt in to rant about how incredibly pointless all this is. An upscale DVD player plays movies on typical household tv's absolutely fine. When I say fine, I mean they aren't going to tweak one setting when they take their DVD player out of the box. If someone can't be bothered to tweak one visual, brightness/contrast, hue, anything, why would you assume they care one lick between upscale vs. hi-def. They're going to get some nerd to plug in their cables and enjoy their perfectly acceptible TV experience.
I like habing decent gear and I think that what I have today is fine for most people 5-10 years from now. 5.1 is a rarity, but it may eventually become de-facto. Widescreen will eventually catch on with more and more since any non-comodity TV's are widescreen these days. It'll have its problems along the way as well. People don't seem to get widescreen vs. fullscreen. Many of my friends have widescreens put TV on strech mode and aren't annoyed by it. Once again, things obvious to a few people aren't synonymous with the group.
The new formats are reaching to the irrelevance point. There's very little lacking in the graphics department. Yes, movies are artifacty at times. Its annoying when its bad, but 99% of the time, its barely noticable (to me anyways). The second annoyance is track-skip which will -eventually- be weeded out with higher input buffers on players.
The final and most important note of all, it doesn't matter what they hell gear you have, if the movies are crap, its all for naught anyways. This past year my faith in hollywood to keep me entertained has been tarnished. Movie after disapointing movie. If you think that yet-another-movie-format will fix the quality issues with hollywood, I'm sorry for you. Hey, maybe you loved 05/06 movies to death. All the power to ya.
If choice is so good, I'll smoke my cigarettes next to you in the hospital. Since apparently its my choice, then all is fair, right?
Your argument is as flawed as mine in assuming that absolute choice is the only variable. If I chose to drive a car that spewed 100x the emissions than what SUV's or whatever do today, would you still remain in your untouchable choice-first attitude? Lets have -some- rounded opinions here.
Yeah, what you're explaining is inflation. If something costs more, prices inflate. If something costs less, it deflates. In general, when the average citizen pays more for basic living essentials, the economy infates hence the inflation number which deducts from the rich and subsists the poor. As explained in the last paragraph, the quality of living will go up for the poor, but they aren't proportionately in a better position as the rich are.
Is it just me, or there other slashdotters that don't know WTF you define 'corporate lingo'. Its a pretty vague term which is apparently all negative according to this crowd. I can imagine hate for something thats an aface to you, but what exactly is 'corporate lingo'? I've been in IT and business for a good seven years and I've never heard the term ever mentioned. Not from IT guys, business people, anything. Maybe could you use a more acurate in describing what you hate. Talking of vagueness, you aren't doing a good job describing what you hate. Its like saying 'I hate Windows' and leaving up to the reader to infer why.
Could it be you hate liars that make themselves important through generalities? Well you don't need to be a 'business' speaker to do that. I've seen many a technical worker try to snow job their way through work. Often, they suceeded.
I've had difficulty at times related to my lack of business savy. ROI's were a pill to swallow as an IT guy just trying to make things better. For us its easier. If it makes things better, we should probably do it, and now! Wereas in business, there's more to a problem than just the most elegant and immediately relevant solution.
So bringing this back to the beginning, what are you talking about? The clash between business/techical ethics, assholes trying to game the system, or something else?
Rant Your argument is absolutely flawed. You're saying capitalism isn't flawed because totalierians make a lot of money. Lets stick up this man. He's made of straw. He's get a big t-shirt called totaliterian. He's baddddddd. He's got horns on his head. Lets burn him and be glad we're not him.
Analysis Now on to the real analysis, you are saying the rich are just getting richer over the poor. In relative terms, lets say the rich (those that have $ to invest) are investing with returns of 10%. Cut off inflation, lets say 4% for arguments sake. That leaves the rich guy making 6% wealth increase over time. The poor guy who is 'just subsisting' makes 4% off inflation over the same period so they're wealth improvement at 0% increase over the period.
(Note: Yes, no taxation numbers were calculated in this. If you really want to prove the disparity increase is less, then use real-world numbers on inflation/investment returns as well. Just assume taxes were calculated before the investment numbers)
So, the average rate of return for rich/poor over a year is 6%:0% If in 17 years of that average (10% investment, 4% inflation) growth, the rich guy index has grown 2:1, while the poor-guy index has grown 1:1 making the disparity between the two twice as dramatic as it was 17 years ago.
Proportionately, the rich get richer and the poor stay the same. Inflation may provide some added benefit to the poor, but it doesn't 'balance' the rich equation.
Don't get me started on the whole 'ownership society' concept.
Correction, unless you really like CG for the sake of it, there is absolutely nothing there for non-fans. I watched it with 3 friends and they had absent 'let it end' looks on their faces. These were people that do watch CG/Sci-fi movies for lunch.
There were a few decent fighting sequences, but thats it. Can anyone say they actually enjoyed the final climax of the show with Bahumet/Seph? It was like ohh they're jumping off buildings! OMFG! Not. Boring movie in that there's no investment in any of the characters. If you have to play 40+ hours of the game to feel for the people in the movie, then the director/company failed.
Wow, you are simply amazing. I don't think anyone on slashdot ever considered that.
Now taking a more pragmatic approach, how many 'key' systems do you think your government really has plugged into the internet willy-nilly? You think they actually travel the same wires as joe six-pack? Do you really think joe six-pack could DOS your defense network? If you think that then
1. Its untrue and you're completely trolling to nobody but self gratification
2. Its untrue and your government is the most incompetent millitary organization in the western world. I bet even third world countrys these days secure communication for their millitary.
Suddenly to wave a flag in your face and say cyberspace is a big deal is simply a farce. If 'you' think the internet's a security risk today, your government should've thought of it years ago.
Holy paragraph batman! Why not try to break up your sentences in the future to actually convey different major thoughts in your post, somewhat like a paragraph? I never read it, and few others will. This is how -not- to write a post, even if the data within is meaningful.
PS: If you have HTML rendering selected and you did add new lines, you need to switch it to "plain old text" to make the new lines show.
The easiest way to join the theives guild is to get caught stealing something then get thrown in prison. If you do this in the capital city, a lady will mysteriously track you down to give you a note on what to do next. They lady will show up at some point inthe future, not right after you leave jail.
As you can see, the US spends an ass load of money on public health anyways (44%), so you can't really say thats its a totally private system anyways. That said, those that can afford -huge- healthcare costs can get adequate if not better service than plain public health can in most countries.
Final Fantasy 5 had character creation that every character could be any class, and multiple classes combined. It was quite innovative in terms of character development.
But for whatever reason, it wasn't released to world markets, just Japan. Maybe its because open ended plots are what en-vogue for western markets these days more than any other factor. The GTA influence on game dev can't be understated.
I haven't played enough of Elder scrolls to really get an accurate opinion, but I'd say it lacks almost too much direction. I know its the point, but if I'll play in a large persistent world, it'd be cool if other people could log into it as well. If they introduced something like NWN based multiplayer into it, I'd be like OMG thats hot. As it stands, its just kind of leaves me with an 'absent' feeling.
"Hello Mr. Balmer" "Not very fine at all! Our japan sales are terrible!" "What do you want me to do about it? Those japanese love their Nintendo games." "Wait a minute I have an idea." "Whats that Mr. Balmer?" "We punch a hole in our highly proprietary and expensive desktop product and one in our highly proprietary 360 console then pay some paid 'hacker' to release a Nintendo emulator for it." "Sir, itsn't that illegal?" "No such thing. We own the technology end to end so we can do whatever we want with them. Just make sure the 'hacker' can't be connected to the company! If you think the Windows dev group got gored, gutted, and spread on my rug, just imagine what would happen if this got traced back to us. You hear me?!" "Erm, yes sir!"
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Same experieces. Nagios does a great job of accurately reporting service availability down to very accurate numbers. Think its too CPU intensive? Turn down the service check rate.
I had it running against 30 machines, around 300 service checks and had performance numbers saved. Around half the systems had on-system agents for the CPU/Memory/disk/etc.. Of course it takes some CPU on the host system to support it. Mind you, the system held up on a P5 PC. For that many services to survive on a little P5, I thought it was pretty decent.
haha. Similar story for me in parts. I was doing IT work for a company and constantly got ragged on for not being professional and not being able to live up to their high standards so instead of taking it, I changed jobs to a programmer. To make things short, they hired three guys to 'replace' me one after the next, the network's in shambles, and the fall-guy just got canned.
Lesson to the Managers out there: Just because we're not always 'professional' many of us can get the job done. The new guy made substantially more than I did and performed exceedingly below. I don't even have to exagerate. It was a fact =)
Not to prop the article which at least laid the problem definition, but at the end of the article he did say that the thrid 'coming' article would have some suggestions for microsoft that would make most people happy.
1. Yes, America just as every other country are full of hypocritical people led by hypocritical leaders. This isn't news. They'll Slam the UN one day when they don't want to participate (Iraq war), and praise them the next when it serves their purposes (Strong media conglomerates).
Why the US -won't- fight this is simple. When it comes to entertainment (Audio/Visual) economies, the US is way ahead of the rest. Why would they stand up to a resolution that allows other governments to police their income? It doesn't make sense. Why would the US say NO, we don't want you to punish up all those stealing Mission Impossible 3, or Britney Spears newest album?
2. The law is from WIPO, which is known for making invasive treaties. I'm not surprised that they'd cook up something like this.
RPG's as a word simply means different things to different people. I've had it described as eastern vs. western games in the past. In the one extreme, you have the japanimation crowd who've come from the manga/anime world and like to be a part of a story.
There's the other group of RP'ers that've played the D&Ds or played out in the back yards doing this or that playing make believe. They more enjoy being someone of focus and allowing the story to flow around them.
You have two groups of people who've experienced fantasy in completely different ways. Often people that enjoy one form of it hate the other. Now that video games can 'become' as open as playing in your back yard, the second audience can get their fill from video games as the before-mentioned group has for the past 20 years.
Both camps have the same right to like/hate each other's 'version' of RPG becasue they're both uniquely different in how the games work. So, how do we 'fix' this obviously flawed interpretation of RPG? We call both seperate genres seperately. Maybe:
Story driven role - The story drives the direction/purpose with the character there to experience it
Role driven story - The character creates the story by their actions
Done! =)
On my Windows based TV computer:
Choice: Media Player Classic (MPC)
Reasoning:
1. I've never had CPU issues playing video, so I can't say that program X or program Y are more efficient.
2. Feature for feature, I've never seen any players with as many abilities as MPC. If you're leet and wanna dabble with the decoders, they let you do all kinds of thing with DirectShow. They accelerate output on DX9, The inbound codecs can be anyones. I use ffdshow, MPC, or even the official vendor codecs for things like format decoding/splitting/etc. I have the control to rewire them at my leasure if I like one over another. My experience with DVD playback is flawless.
3. Configuration is easy and straight forward for those that know how to use it. For those that don't, the default installation (with 3rd party directshow codecs installed) requires no config.
The only reservation I have with it is that sometimes I notice a cleaner picture with the powerdvd filters and I hate mapping the powerdvd filters into MPC to play it just to switch back later.
Say what you will about hating windows based technologies, but once I've tuned to my likes, it works amazingly well and I can't think of any platform media player / tech that I like more than MPC / DirectShow.
How many user are sitting behind my company's single routable IP address? Hit: Its over 1000.
This sways the number in the opposite direction. The number the story's based on is completely baked. You could attempt to statisticly estimate the number of unique users/ip on your site with some effort, but you can't get a real concensus between one sight and the next. The reason is demographics. If you take a mobile enabled sight, you're almost always guaranteed to get at least 2 IP's per user(one mobile usability, one desktop ease), but if you take a corp-LAN, you're almost guaranteed to have 1-1 user/IP.
As for sites worrying about anonymity-type scatter IP, I think that most anonymity-type solutions are quite easy to detect if a site maintainer really tries to. Remember, the referrer record is your friend here. If the user decides to piss around and blank it out, just loop them back to the main site page or something or tell them to login. So, if user X is behind a proxy that drops referrer headers, tell them to login or 'goto hell'. If someone's using an open relay, drop them from your site all together. A hit doesn't count as a user if you don't let them in =)
Why not just tax DVD movies? They'll probably raise a hell of a lot more money. What do you mean the taxation isn't representative of the audience? Well, so are video games, you insensative clods! If you're taxing video games then tax any and all forms of entertainment. Their hypocracy (Tax everything I don't buy) is disappointing.
Many people buy big TVs not for the quality but simply because the screen's larger. Some people just like bigger == better. It makes a lot of people who's eye sight's failing see the picture easier. Some buy out of impulse, some just don't want the bulge in classical CRT's.
All of these are possible reasons to buy a large format TV.
"It is the difference between an actors face being a blur with darkspots for eyes and mouth and being able to see wether they had a good nights sleep the day before"
The difference may be stark to you, but unless you've got a CRT or a -good- plasma/lcd, you won't notice the difference anyways. The black color washout is probably the most painful thing I've had to live with since moving to affordable (5k) large format TVs.
I won't even bother debating your B&W issue.
"Everytime a new format comes along you get the same old argument about it being to costly for a minor increase. Yet that never stopped anyone before. "
Did you convert to mp3pro? Oh, me neither. Did you convert to the record sized laser discs? No? Me neither. Troll another issue, please.
IMHO, The format/formats have a chance to survive only if they hitch a ride with the replacement and upgrade DVD player market. They've got a tough fight at this price point though. I can walk into a store and buy a $30 DVD player if I wanted to. Comparing $30 to $1000, I don't care who you are, if you have any financial discipline, you've got to have a better reason to own it besides 'I just want it'.
In university, I pinched a nerve through repetetive pressure so badly that two of my fingers went completely numb! It took 6 months of lighter usage (no more games) and better posture before the nerve had a chance to actually get better. Not all hand/arm ailments can just be cured with time to rest, but some can. If you guys start feeling aches coming from your arms/hands, try looking at your posture and make sure you're not resting your elbows a lot and that your mouse wrist doesn't drag on the table excessively. Its made a world of difference to me. That with a gell pad for my keyboard, and I'm a happy camper. 5 years after school and still going strong without anything beyond short term aches.
Insightful AC comment, simply amazing. I could almost swear slashdot's quality may actually be getting better.
On topic, I can't say I have the same faith in hydrogen as I would in nuclear. Maybe its out of ignorance, but I've heard mized rumors on the environmental impact on hydrogen containment leaks and the effects on the environment. This again could be an early adopter problem with the technology, but I'm not be cheering for hydrogen quite yet.
I think its a good step in the right direction. I think nuclear power doesn have the potential to be a very positive energy source now and to the future. I've always been a little environmentalist, but I never really understood the outcry from others about how evil nuclear is.
The technology may have been iffy in its advent, and even though there is bi-product, try comparing it with oil/coal burning and its quantum leap forward IMHO. I think the bigger -hate- for Nuclear came from the common roots of environmentalists and anti-war crowds. It was just assumed de-facto that nuclear was an ill to this world like land mines and chemical weapons. It -can- have a positive purpose if used correctly.
It doesn't solve the small-scale atonimous energy factory (car) problems, but it could at least cut down on the other energy waste going.
I'd call myself a fairly early adopter when it comes to tech. I've got my Sony 50" LCD-proj HDTV with fantastic picture quality and this and that. I know the jargon, but its irrelevant for the conversation. Every time one of these articles comes up, I'm forced to be negetive. I don't like playing the cold hard reality, but here I go.
I just can't help but to butt in to rant about how incredibly pointless all this is. An upscale DVD player plays movies on typical household tv's absolutely fine. When I say fine, I mean they aren't going to tweak one setting when they take their DVD player out of the box. If someone can't be bothered to tweak one visual, brightness/contrast, hue, anything, why would you assume they care one lick between upscale vs. hi-def. They're going to get some nerd to plug in their cables and enjoy their perfectly acceptible TV experience.
I like habing decent gear and I think that what I have today is fine for most people 5-10 years from now. 5.1 is a rarity, but it may eventually become de-facto. Widescreen will eventually catch on with more and more since any non-comodity TV's are widescreen these days. It'll have its problems along the way as well. People don't seem to get widescreen vs. fullscreen. Many of my friends have widescreens put TV on strech mode and aren't annoyed by it. Once again, things obvious to a few people aren't synonymous with the group.
The new formats are reaching to the irrelevance point. There's very little lacking in the graphics department. Yes, movies are artifacty at times. Its annoying when its bad, but 99% of the time, its barely noticable (to me anyways). The second annoyance is track-skip which will -eventually- be weeded out with higher input buffers on players.
The final and most important note of all, it doesn't matter what they hell gear you have, if the movies are crap, its all for naught anyways. This past year my faith in hollywood to keep me entertained has been tarnished. Movie after disapointing movie. If you think that yet-another-movie-format will fix the quality issues with hollywood, I'm sorry for you. Hey, maybe you loved 05/06 movies to death. All the power to ya.
If choice is so good, I'll smoke my cigarettes next to you in the hospital. Since apparently its my choice, then all is fair, right?
Your argument is as flawed as mine in assuming that absolute choice is the only variable. If I chose to drive a car that spewed 100x the emissions than what SUV's or whatever do today, would you still remain in your untouchable choice-first attitude? Lets have -some- rounded opinions here.
Yeah, what you're explaining is inflation. If something costs more, prices inflate. If something costs less, it deflates. In general, when the average citizen pays more for basic living essentials, the economy infates hence the inflation number which deducts from the rich and subsists the poor. As explained in the last paragraph, the quality of living will go up for the poor, but they aren't proportionately in a better position as the rich are.
Is it just me, or there other slashdotters that don't know WTF you define 'corporate lingo'. Its a pretty vague term which is apparently all negative according to this crowd. I can imagine hate for something thats an aface to you, but what exactly is 'corporate lingo'? I've been in IT and business for a good seven years and I've never heard the term ever mentioned. Not from IT guys, business people, anything. Maybe could you use a more acurate in describing what you hate. Talking of vagueness, you aren't doing a good job describing what you hate. Its like saying 'I hate Windows' and leaving up to the reader to infer why.
Could it be you hate liars that make themselves important through generalities? Well you don't need to be a 'business' speaker to do that. I've seen many a technical worker try to snow job their way through work. Often, they suceeded.
I've had difficulty at times related to my lack of business savy. ROI's were a pill to swallow as an IT guy just trying to make things better. For us its easier. If it makes things better, we should probably do it, and now! Wereas in business, there's more to a problem than just the most elegant and immediately relevant solution.
So bringing this back to the beginning, what are you talking about? The clash between business/techical ethics, assholes trying to game the system, or something else?
Rant
Your argument is absolutely flawed. You're saying capitalism isn't flawed because totalierians make a lot of money. Lets stick up this man. He's made of straw. He's get a big t-shirt called totaliterian. He's baddddddd. He's got horns on his head. Lets burn him and be glad we're not him.
Analysis
Now on to the real analysis, you are saying the rich are just getting richer over the poor. In relative terms, lets say the rich (those that have $ to invest) are investing with returns of 10%. Cut off inflation, lets say 4% for arguments sake. That leaves the rich guy making 6% wealth increase over time. The poor guy who is 'just subsisting' makes 4% off inflation over the same period so they're wealth improvement at 0% increase over the period.
(Note: Yes, no taxation numbers were calculated in this. If you really want to prove the disparity increase is less, then use real-world numbers on inflation/investment returns as well. Just assume taxes were calculated before the investment numbers)
So, the average rate of return for rich/poor over a year is 6%:0% If in 17 years of that average (10% investment, 4% inflation) growth, the rich guy index has grown 2:1, while the poor-guy index has grown 1:1 making the disparity between the two twice as dramatic as it was 17 years ago.
Proportionately, the rich get richer and the poor stay the same. Inflation may provide some added benefit to the poor, but it doesn't 'balance' the rich equation.
Don't get me started on the whole 'ownership society' concept.
Nah, I'd rather see this recursion:
/bin/rm
rm -f
"there's not enough there for non-fans."
Correction, unless you really like CG for the sake of it, there is absolutely nothing there for non-fans. I watched it with 3 friends and they had absent 'let it end' looks on their faces. These were people that do watch CG/Sci-fi movies for lunch.
There were a few decent fighting sequences, but thats it. Can anyone say they actually enjoyed the final climax of the show with Bahumet/Seph? It was like ohh they're jumping off buildings! OMFG! Not. Boring movie in that there's no investment in any of the characters. If you have to play 40+ hours of the game to feel for the people in the movie, then the director/company failed.
Wow, you are simply amazing. I don't think anyone on slashdot ever considered that.
Now taking a more pragmatic approach, how many 'key' systems do you think your government really has plugged into the internet willy-nilly? You think they actually travel the same wires as joe six-pack? Do you really think joe six-pack could DOS your defense network? If you think that then
1. Its untrue and you're completely trolling to nobody but self gratification
2. Its untrue and your government is the most incompetent millitary organization in the western world. I bet even third world countrys these days secure communication for their millitary.
Suddenly to wave a flag in your face and say cyberspace is a big deal is simply a farce. If 'you' think the internet's a security risk today, your government should've thought of it years ago.
Holy paragraph batman! Why not try to break up your sentences in the future to actually convey different major thoughts in your post, somewhat like a paragraph? I never read it, and few others will. This is how -not- to write a post, even if the data within is meaningful.
PS: If you have HTML rendering selected and you did add new lines, you need to switch it to "plain old text" to make the new lines show.
The easiest way to join the theives guild is to get caught stealing something then get thrown in prison. If you do this in the capital city, a lady will mysteriously track you down to give you a note on what to do next. They lady will show up at some point inthe future, not right after you leave jail.
Average cost(USD) of healthcare costs / yeare r
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http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/hea_spe_per_p
% of health spending on 'public' healthcare
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/hea_pub_spe_a
As you can see, the US spends an ass load of money on public health anyways (44%), so you can't really say thats its a totally private system anyways. That said, those that can afford -huge- healthcare costs can get adequate if not better service than plain public health can in most countries.
Final Fantasy 5 had character creation that every character could be any class, and multiple classes combined. It was quite innovative in terms of character development.
But for whatever reason, it wasn't released to world markets, just Japan. Maybe its because open ended plots are what en-vogue for western markets these days more than any other factor. The GTA influence on game dev can't be understated.
I haven't played enough of Elder scrolls to really get an accurate opinion, but I'd say it lacks almost too much direction. I know its the point, but if I'll play in a large persistent world, it'd be cool if other people could log into it as well. If they introduced something like NWN based multiplayer into it, I'd be like OMG thats hot. As it stands, its just kind of leaves me with an 'absent' feeling.
"Hello Mr. Balmer"
"Not very fine at all! Our japan sales are terrible!"
"What do you want me to do about it? Those japanese love their Nintendo games."
"Wait a minute I have an idea."
"Whats that Mr. Balmer?"
"We punch a hole in our highly proprietary and expensive desktop product and one in our highly proprietary 360 console then pay some paid 'hacker' to release a Nintendo emulator for it."
"Sir, itsn't that illegal?"
"No such thing. We own the technology end to end so we can do whatever we want with them. Just make sure the 'hacker' can't be connected to the company! If you think the Windows dev group got gored, gutted, and spread on my rug, just imagine what would happen if this got traced back to us. You hear me?!"
"Erm, yes sir!"