Not having a lot of cash isn't a sin. Compensating for not having a lot of cash by screwing over the your local small business is pathetic. Either pay the 100 dollars extra, or put your own time into doing the research.
Your point is flawed. Increasing the cost of domain registration won't keep idiots out, but it will keep out those who don't want to pay extra for domains. Theoretically this would include people who register thousands of domains they don't want to use. In fact, I'd like to see it go further. 100 dollar minimum for a domain, that gives you 10 years, and keeps out the riffraff.
the difference is that you can play football and basketball at the same time on your PC, but the referees from both sports hang around and fuck up the other game you're playing.
What? That's not how warden works at all. You run warcraft, it does checksums of the various things you have running and compares them to a list of bad checksums, then reports back home. When you close warcraft, the 'referee' goes away and doesn't come back until next time you run warcraft.
Like the other poster said, use an iLO card (or your vendor equivalent).
It's certainly saved me a 4AM trip to the data centre to powercycle a box and look at a screen.
Source code is 100% open to find exploits and bugs, when you vote you're given a ticket with a number, anyone can go online and see how everyone voted but only you are able to tell which vote was yours by the corresponding ticket number. That'd allow for everyone to do their own count if they wanted.
There's no guarantee that the code on the boxes is the same as the code on the web site.
That said... If I happened to be in a state of power and any of my underlings bought a product because they saw a nifty billboard or were taking out on a nice golf trip, I'd be rather irrate on misuse of company resources.
What if you were in the market for the product? ie: Company Y sells Product Q. Customer A uses Q a lot, but is unhappy with the quality of Q they're getting from Company X (This is where 'Commercial Intelligence' comes to the party.) Company Y thinks "Aha, I will personalise my pitch of Q to the X management." and then everyone wins.
Except for Company X.
At the product/cost we're talking about, most companies (at least in Australia) need to do presentations by the bucketload to get the funds made available, so it wouldn't just be a case of buying an ivory backscratcher on the spur of the moment.
I have to say the 'reporter' is in the right. She wrote a story based on the information she was given. You could argue that the 'leaker' was in the wrong, and I'd probably agree. But trying to blame the reporter for this is like trying to blame a rape victim for wearing a short skirt.
Query: How do you 'pirate' Free software? It's out of scope for this discussion.
Statement: Additionally, people WILL download 4GB of data to save money and time. (I can certainly pull down 4GB of data in less than a few days.)
(The current rash of "piracy" is, IMHO, primarily a reaction to broken distribution and pricing policies, and recording companies will do a lot better once {if?} they get over it.)
Ahaha. Sorry, the current rash of piracy is because people won't pay for things if they can get them for free with no risk. Regardless of how many 'friends' you have who are desperate to send money to authors, most people won't pay for something they can get for free.
And the best part? The only 'cure' for this 'sense of entitlement problem' is DRM.
Thanks for that, however I already knew all that though, and was just making fun of the fact that he said: "In addition to it being time consuming, it's also impossible."
Since when did wanting an unobstructed and unpolluted field of view equal demanding something for nothing?
All those content providers who provide the content you want an unpolluted view of provide the content in exchange for having your eyes on those ads. If you want to take the content and not the ads, then you're getting 'something' (content) for 'nothing' (nothing).
Personally, I'm inclined to agree. Banner ads are a shitty business model, and 'commerical breaks' are worse.
I'm waiting for the content makers to start brokering their own ads and putting their content up for download on their website instead of hurling it at TV networks who proceed to butcher it. You download the latest episode of Star Trek: The Search for More Money, complete with a few technology ads at the start.
Yes, it's still ad driven. But it's less intrusive, and the choices available are: Free and Ad driven, or Not Free.
What? No, I'm a PC gamer. Not getting any consoles. I'm just enjoying the way you're saying "Oh, this system is cheaper than these TWO other systems put together."
Sure, my example was simplistic in the extreme, however I'm sure that our driver developers are quite capable of screwing things up in much more devious ways.
And the fault does lay with them. My computer used to crash daily because of shitty dlink drivers, eventually I switched to alternate drivers made by another company that use the same chipset and it's rock solid now.
OSS/GPL has nothing to do with how much they charge.
The Open Source movement doesn't want Microsoft to give away Office for cheap on linux. They want the specs to be made available, and they want compatability with the GPL so they can develop their own bits and pieces. Cheap MS Office doesn't meet any of the goals of the OSS movement.
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Not having a lot of cash isn't a sin. Compensating for not having a lot of cash by screwing over the your local small business is pathetic. Either pay the 100 dollars extra, or put your own time into doing the research.
Your point is flawed. Increasing the cost of domain registration won't keep idiots out, but it will keep out those who don't want to pay extra for domains. Theoretically this would include people who register thousands of domains they don't want to use. In fact, I'd like to see it go further. 100 dollar minimum for a domain, that gives you 10 years, and keeps out the riffraff.
What? That's not how warden works at all. You run warcraft, it does checksums of the various things you have running and compares them to a list of bad checksums, then reports back home. When you close warcraft, the 'referee' goes away and doesn't come back until next time you run warcraft.
If you exclude all the bits that don't support my viewpoint, my viewpoint is the correct one.
Like the other poster said, use an iLO card (or your vendor equivalent). It's certainly saved me a 4AM trip to the data centre to powercycle a box and look at a screen.
There's no guarantee that the code on the boxes is the same as the code on the web site.
Damn it, I meant 'personalise my pitch to A management'. Worst sanitisation ever. :/
What if you were in the market for the product? ie: Company Y sells Product Q. Customer A uses Q a lot, but is unhappy with the quality of Q they're getting from Company X (This is where 'Commercial Intelligence' comes to the party.) Company Y thinks "Aha, I will personalise my pitch of Q to the X management." and then everyone wins.
Except for Company X.
At the product/cost we're talking about, most companies (at least in Australia) need to do presentations by the bucketload to get the funds made available, so it wouldn't just be a case of buying an ivory backscratcher on the spur of the moment.
I have to say the 'reporter' is in the right. She wrote a story based on the information she was given. You could argue that the 'leaker' was in the wrong, and I'd probably agree. But trying to blame the reporter for this is like trying to blame a rape victim for wearing a short skirt.
Query: How do you 'pirate' Free software? It's out of scope for this discussion.
Statement: Additionally, people WILL download 4GB of data to save money and time. (I can certainly pull down 4GB of data in less than a few days.)
Ahaha. Sorry, the current rash of piracy is because people won't pay for things if they can get them for free with no risk. Regardless of how many 'friends' you have who are desperate to send money to authors, most people won't pay for something they can get for free.
And the best part? The only 'cure' for this 'sense of entitlement problem' is DRM.
Thanks for that, however I already knew all that though, and was just making fun of the fact that he said: "In addition to it being time consuming, it's also impossible."
Phew, I'm glad it's not just impossible. That might have been risky.
All those content providers who provide the content you want an unpolluted view of provide the content in exchange for having your eyes on those ads. If you want to take the content and not the ads, then you're getting 'something' (content) for 'nothing' (nothing).
Personally, I'm inclined to agree. Banner ads are a shitty business model, and 'commerical breaks' are worse.
I'm waiting for the content makers to start brokering their own ads and putting their content up for download on their website instead of hurling it at TV networks who proceed to butcher it. You download the latest episode of Star Trek: The Search for More Money, complete with a few technology ads at the start.
Yes, it's still ad driven. But it's less intrusive, and the choices available are: Free and Ad driven, or Not Free.
What? No, I'm a PC gamer. Not getting any consoles. I'm just enjoying the way you're saying "Oh, this system is cheaper than these TWO other systems put together."
So, how much are sony paying you to hump that dog?
You should be calling Toshiba and raising hell then, because they're screwing you.
Sure, my example was simplistic in the extreme, however I'm sure that our driver developers are quite capable of screwing things up in much more devious ways.
And the fault does lay with them. My computer used to crash daily because of shitty dlink drivers, eventually I switched to alternate drivers made by another company that use the same chipset and it's rock solid now.
Not true. Allow me to demonstrate.
void main_driver_entry_point() {
SomeValidAPICall();
1/0;
SomeOtherValidAPICall();
return;
}
The driver adheres to both of the valid API calls, but still crashes the system when it's called.
OSS/GPL has nothing to do with how much they charge.
The Open Source movement doesn't want Microsoft to give away Office for cheap on linux. They want the specs to be made available, and they want compatability with the GPL so they can develop their own bits and pieces. Cheap MS Office doesn't meet any of the goals of the OSS movement.
This just in: 100% of child molesters agree with Ben Franklin.
Sure, if you're in a job where an inferior job won't do, they'll pay 3.50 and get the equivalent 'elite' employee instead.
Don't forget Intel and AMD. I look forward to never seeing you post again, after you've melted down your PC for scrap.
That's the problem with trying to sway public opinion by using sayings. They quite often are wrong, or don't quite cover every situation.
Some times two wrongs -do- make a right.
I've been trying to explain this to people for months now. Applause.