You know, I always thought it would be a good idea to ship PC's without the OS loaded. If the end user had to set up the OS it would force them to learn the basics...But that's why I'm an ex-tech support asshole I guess.
But trusting another computer depends on knowing it's clean of malware. I'd think it a better bet for Kaspersky to offer bootable thumb drives with a slim OS and their software, allowing users to scan any machine with a known good device.
Max: I feel like an asshole. This had better work.
Garry: This is just a blueprint guys, now how do you like it?
Max, Ian: Bigger tits.
Max: Go! Go! Go!
Garry: Give em the knee shooters.
I sent this article to a friend who made another good observation:
but if this takes off - the internet music cesspool will expand exponentially - making it almost impossible to find legitimately good music. unfortunately that's the one thing record companies still have - humans telling indy-electro-rapper-rock-opera-metal-head-remixer that his music blows.
However, while I know(having myself been on the fringes of the music industry for most of my life) that these things are important, so does TuneCore, and they address it. Now, on the one hand, if you use iTunes as the distributor, you have the option of creating playlists to display along with the album that can contain music from other bands. As such you can attract people to your music via similar interests. Plus, there are certain channels for any artists who desire marketing:
Amazon Disc On Demand: Basically you get to release physical CDs(doesn't specify if mp3/etc is available through this service, you might have to go both DOD and Amazon MP3 to get both) as opposed to Amazon MP3. The DOD service provides optional inclusion into direct marketing/promo to Amazon customers.
The TuneCore site provides a detailed run down on getting promoted, including how to conduct business with the media(newspapers, magazines, etc), a couple of searchable aggregators of press outlets, a decent list of promotions companies, AND - and this to me is gianormous - TuneCore has a partnership with both oceanparkmusic.com and grayv.com who search TuneCore's vaults and match up music to the needs of people in the following fields: films, TV shows, video games, commercials(all via Ocean Park), major hotel chains, casinos, customized branded physical compilation CDs, restaurants, cruise liners, retail stores(via Gray V). Basically, you can sit on your fat ass after you're done making the music, and WHAM - international exposure. You don't have to accept the opportunity, but if you do, TuneCore and it's affiliates negotiate the rates, track when rights expire and such, make sure the music in question doesn't violate any other copyright, and the artists get 100% of the negotiated rates AND keep their copyrights - TuneCore and it's parters do not retain any rights to whatever you distribute via their service. Now I'm sure they take a fee off the top, but after that it's all yours, and that's freakin' awesome. Maybe there's some hiddin shit in whatever contract you sign when you join/purchase services, but I'm sure if there is it won't be long until someone starts a shitstorm about it.
Now there are some problems I've already thought of:
Pricing via iTunes is structured either by song or by album, and an album must be 11 songs or more - anything like Yes' 'Tales from Topographic Oceans' would be a problem for them. And while the example is extreme in that there are FOUR songs for eighty minutes of music, if this model is successful and dominates the music industry it could pose a problem for more than just self indulgent prog nerds.
If the labels go bye bye, this leaves these people with the final say on morality and obscenity, and removing the human element from doing business in music may prove problematic - there are plenty of warnings regarding obscenity on their site. Now they do accept "explicit" lyrics, but I question how far they will go. Will they accept goremetal bands? Cop killer lyrics? And the music video section also makes not that "obscene" videos can be rejected - it is there business after all. But you and I know that something like the NIN's video for Happiness in Slavery video would likely NEVER see the light of day lest the artist do it their own damn self.
Some of the pricing/distro models of TuneCore's affiliates are either experimental or inflexible. The inflexible ones I suspect will mutate over time and gain new features as customers demand them. The experimental methods, like Amie Street, which price songs very cheaply to start(so as to increase the chance t
Seriously, until nerds start realizing that it doesn't matter how long they stare at their navels and argue the finer points of groan-worthy, cornball dialog, popular sci-fi will continue to suck.
How exactly do you know that she had a "shitload of coke" in her system? The article shows her using cocaine twice. The last time she had any prior to the accident was the night before. Do you really think she was still high? I truly doubt she was Rick James-ing it all night.
More likely, her brain injury, for which the family was bringing her to a specialist for, was responsible for her actions. It's all in TFA.
The police snafu, helps increase awareness that taking cocaine then driving can lead to horrible consequences
If she had taken cocaine and sped off, yes. She took the cocaine the night before. Do you really not see the difference, or, alternatively, know the effective length of inebriation from a typical dose of cocaine?
She'd have to be Rick Fuckin James to still be high the next day. This comes down to her previous brain injury/tumor, for which the family was going to bring her to a brain injury specialist psychologist the next day....But, of course, that was in the article.
Actually, under the law the dispatchers did not do wrong. That's why the case was dismissed. Other states DO recognize privacy for the dead, while CA does not.
Ethically? Sure, the dispatchers shouldn't have spread those photos, even if it was as a warning to teenagers they knew. But while it might have been a 4chan kiddie who sent the images to the family, your comment is still to broad a stroke. Those who sent the images should be sued for harassment, if and only if they can be positively identified.
I know reading TFA is hard, but the Catsouras' aren't suing 'teh intarwebs', the sites hosting the pictures, nor even those who sent them the images. They ARE suing the CHP and trying to establish precedent that has been already set in other states, extending privacy to the dead and preventing public servants from spreading such things as happened with their daughter.
If they were trying to restrict anonymity online, free speech of said websites, etc, then sure - flame the motherfuckers. But it looks like they're simply trying to force California and it's workforce to show the same respect for the dead that is observed in other states.
If I have missed something from TFA please correct my understanding.
Oh, and to those who painted a picture of Nikki as a spoiled brat, or someone who got what she deserved: You've obviously never lived with nor loved someone who has had a brain injury. Either that or you simply don't give a shit.
I would guess that it would be a better idea to do both a VM AND build a solid machine with backup parts. It's not guaranteed that a given VM developer will be around in 15 years, nor is it guaranteed that hardware sitting unused in a environmentally controlled room will fire up in 10(though I would expect it more than likely to be just fine).
I would try to stick to parts that are verified by the motherboard manufacturer as compatible. As others have already stated, components with moving parts are likely the first to fail so those should be high on the list of backup parts. Power supplies are another already mentioned, though I suspect most failures among high end power supplies are either due to heavy use such as gaming, and lack of maintenance - dust and moisture really are killers.
I'm wondering what the outcome of the AMD/ATI - Intel - NVidia war is going to be. In 10 years you could end up looking at a market of PC's running on NVidia processors or a whole new dynamic altogether - if Ray Kurzweil is right, though that's pure speculation.
I figure if you both virtualize the former server on new, decent hardware with a few spare parts - probably at least one to two spares for each component - with proper maintenance you'll more than likely be just fine.
The military's needs are a mix of what one would expect in the civilian world, and what the DOD needs to function. I went into the Navy hoping to become a SysAdmin, and to some degree that happened. However I did not receive any formal schooling on the subject, due to both the needs of the ship/Navy and some politicking on the part of supervisors and coworkers. If I had the supervisors and coworkers that I had at the end of my service, I could have come out with NECs(Navy advanced schooling) relevant to systems administration, even router and switch administration. It's not ALL "you get what you put into it", though the aphorism does hold true to some extent.
Overall, I'm better off than when I went in, so I can't complain about the Navy as an organization though I'd say that the military could be doing a better job at advancement and education across all the branches.
If you look at the comments on this video comparing Metallica's CD format of Death Magnetic vs the Guitar Hero format, it's clear that many people just don't care.
As owlnation stated above, this "study" is skewered towards the modal average, and also has little to do with age as the bulk of people want to hear what they are familiar with.
There's a few factors that lead to "I know what I know, and I know what I like":
1)The average listeners interest in the arts is purely entertainment. Pop stars don't become as huge as they do because the majority of people want to meditate on the impact on society with regards to protest rock.
2)Most folks are at least somewhat apathetic to things they care about such as politics, so the strip mining of the arts is pretty unimportant to them.
3)Big business strong arm tactics like payola, monopolistic market domination, reduced primetime playlists and refusal to take risks with artists outside of perceived norms.
People get used to things like the loudness war over years and years. Especially with the way we now seek out and consume media, with technology allowing for a much higher rate of consumption. With fifty some odd years of wildly successful Disney artists, more appropriately entertainers, is anyone really surprised still?
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You know, I always thought it would be a good idea to ship PC's without the OS loaded. If the end user had to set up the OS it would force them to learn the basics...But that's why I'm an ex-tech support asshole I guess.
But trusting another computer depends on knowing it's clean of malware. I'd think it a better bet for Kaspersky to offer bootable thumb drives with a slim OS and their software, allowing users to scan any machine with a known good device.
Yeah, way to go Slashdot...
Max: I feel like an asshole. This had better work.
Garry: This is just a blueprint guys, now how do you like it?
Max, Ian: Bigger tits.
Max: Go! Go! Go!
Garry: Give em the knee shooters.
Indeed. I'm calling my Italian relatives as we speak...
but if this takes off - the internet music cesspool will expand exponentially - making it almost impossible to find legitimately good music. unfortunately that's the one thing record companies still have - humans telling indy-electro-rapper-rock-opera-metal-head-remixer that his music blows.
However, while I know(having myself been on the fringes of the music industry for most of my life) that these things are important, so does TuneCore, and they address it. Now, on the one hand, if you use iTunes as the distributor, you have the option of creating playlists to display along with the album that can contain music from other bands. As such you can attract people to your music via similar interests. Plus, there are certain channels for any artists who desire marketing:
Amazon Disc On Demand: Basically you get to release physical CDs(doesn't specify if mp3/etc is available through this service, you might have to go both DOD and Amazon MP3 to get both) as opposed to Amazon MP3. The DOD service provides optional inclusion into direct marketing/promo to Amazon customers.
The TuneCore site provides a detailed run down on getting promoted, including how to conduct business with the media(newspapers, magazines, etc), a couple of searchable aggregators of press outlets, a decent list of promotions companies, AND - and this to me is gianormous - TuneCore has a partnership with both oceanparkmusic.com and grayv.com who search TuneCore's vaults and match up music to the needs of people in the following fields: films, TV shows, video games, commercials(all via Ocean Park), major hotel chains, casinos, customized branded physical compilation CDs, restaurants, cruise liners, retail stores(via Gray V). Basically, you can sit on your fat ass after you're done making the music, and WHAM - international exposure. You don't have to accept the opportunity, but if you do, TuneCore and it's affiliates negotiate the rates, track when rights expire and such, make sure the music in question doesn't violate any other copyright, and the artists get 100% of the negotiated rates AND keep their copyrights - TuneCore and it's parters do not retain any rights to whatever you distribute via their service. Now I'm sure they take a fee off the top, but after that it's all yours, and that's freakin' awesome. Maybe there's some hiddin shit in whatever contract you sign when you join/purchase services, but I'm sure if there is it won't be long until someone starts a shitstorm about it.
Now there are some problems I've already thought of:
Pricing via iTunes is structured either by song or by album, and an album must be 11 songs or more - anything like Yes' 'Tales from Topographic Oceans' would be a problem for them. And while the example is extreme in that there are FOUR songs for eighty minutes of music, if this model is successful and dominates the music industry it could pose a problem for more than just self indulgent prog nerds.
If the labels go bye bye, this leaves these people with the final say on morality and obscenity, and removing the human element from doing business in music may prove problematic - there are plenty of warnings regarding obscenity on their site. Now they do accept "explicit" lyrics, but I question how far they will go. Will they accept goremetal bands? Cop killer lyrics? And the music video section also makes not that "obscene" videos can be rejected - it is there business after all. But you and I know that something like the NIN's video for Happiness in Slavery video would likely NEVER see the light of day lest the artist do it their own damn self.
Some of the pricing/distro models of TuneCore's affiliates are either experimental or inflexible. The inflexible ones I suspect will mutate over time and gain new features as customers demand them. The experimental methods, like Amie Street, which price songs very cheaply to start(so as to increase the chance t
Sadly, Season 2 had a lot of this "Touched By A Terminator" nonsense.
Now that could hold some promise as a hilarious spoof, with or without the innuendo...
Seriously, until nerds start realizing that it doesn't matter how long they stare at their navels and argue the finer points of groan-worthy, cornball dialog, popular sci-fi will continue to suck.
He distinctly said, "To blaaaaave", and as we all know, to blave means to bluff!
Somebody build a holodeck so we can save the children!
Something cool will be born out of this "sea of information"...
Here here.
I remember fondly when the Slashdot community demanded the same type of punishment for Kevin Mitnick!
A long time ago, in a galaxy, far, far away.....
How exactly do you know that she had a "shitload of coke" in her system? The article shows her using cocaine twice. The last time she had any prior to the accident was the night before. Do you really think she was still high? I truly doubt she was Rick James-ing it all night.
More likely, her brain injury, for which the family was bringing her to a specialist for, was responsible for her actions. It's all in TFA.
The police snafu, helps increase awareness that taking cocaine then driving can lead to horrible consequences
If she had taken cocaine and sped off, yes. She took the cocaine the night before. Do you really not see the difference, or, alternatively, know the effective length of inebriation from a typical dose of cocaine?
She'd have to be Rick Fuckin James to still be high the next day. This comes down to her previous brain injury/tumor, for which the family was going to bring her to a brain injury specialist psychologist the next day....But, of course, that was in the article.
Actually, under the law the dispatchers did not do wrong. That's why the case was dismissed. Other states DO recognize privacy for the dead, while CA does not.
Ethically? Sure, the dispatchers shouldn't have spread those photos, even if it was as a warning to teenagers they knew. But while it might have been a 4chan kiddie who sent the images to the family, your comment is still to broad a stroke. Those who sent the images should be sued for harassment, if and only if they can be positively identified.
Don't give them the time of day, for christssake. It's just another 4chan troll who probably sent the pics to the Catsouras' in the first place.
I know reading TFA is hard, but the Catsouras' aren't suing 'teh intarwebs', the sites hosting the pictures, nor even those who sent them the images. They ARE suing the CHP and trying to establish precedent that has been already set in other states, extending privacy to the dead and preventing public servants from spreading such things as happened with their daughter.
If they were trying to restrict anonymity online, free speech of said websites, etc, then sure - flame the motherfuckers. But it looks like they're simply trying to force California and it's workforce to show the same respect for the dead that is observed in other states.
If I have missed something from TFA please correct my understanding.
Oh, and to those who painted a picture of Nikki as a spoiled brat, or someone who got what she deserved: You've obviously never lived with nor loved someone who has had a brain injury. Either that or you simply don't give a shit.
"Keyboard. How Quaint..."
If the point were moot, wouldn't classified military networks would be connected to the public internet?
They do NOT resurface to radio in and ask the president "Are you really, really sure?"
Correct. The Windows based message drafting software does...
I would guess that it would be a better idea to do both a VM AND build a solid machine with backup parts. It's not guaranteed that a given VM developer will be around in 15 years, nor is it guaranteed that hardware sitting unused in a environmentally controlled room will fire up in 10(though I would expect it more than likely to be just fine).
I would try to stick to parts that are verified by the motherboard manufacturer as compatible. As others have already stated, components with moving parts are likely the first to fail so those should be high on the list of backup parts. Power supplies are another already mentioned, though I suspect most failures among high end power supplies are either due to heavy use such as gaming, and lack of maintenance - dust and moisture really are killers.
I'm wondering what the outcome of the AMD/ATI - Intel - NVidia war is going to be. In 10 years you could end up looking at a market of PC's running on NVidia processors or a whole new dynamic altogether - if Ray Kurzweil is right, though that's pure speculation.
I figure if you both virtualize the former server on new, decent hardware with a few spare parts - probably at least one to two spares for each component - with proper maintenance you'll more than likely be just fine.
The military's needs are a mix of what one would expect in the civilian world, and what the DOD needs to function. I went into the Navy hoping to become a SysAdmin, and to some degree that happened. However I did not receive any formal schooling on the subject, due to both the needs of the ship/Navy and some politicking on the part of supervisors and coworkers. If I had the supervisors and coworkers that I had at the end of my service, I could have come out with NECs(Navy advanced schooling) relevant to systems administration, even router and switch administration. It's not ALL "you get what you put into it", though the aphorism does hold true to some extent.
Overall, I'm better off than when I went in, so I can't complain about the Navy as an organization though I'd say that the military could be doing a better job at advancement and education across all the branches.
Yeah, so now I can take care of all those pesky drivers out there....Wait, what?
If you look at the comments on this video comparing Metallica's CD format of Death Magnetic vs the Guitar Hero format, it's clear that many people just don't care.
As owlnation stated above, this "study" is skewered towards the modal average, and also has little to do with age as the bulk of people want to hear what they are familiar with.
There's a few factors that lead to "I know what I know, and I know what I like":
1)The average listeners interest in the arts is purely entertainment. Pop stars don't become as huge as they do because the majority of people want to meditate on the impact on society with regards to protest rock.
2)Most folks are at least somewhat apathetic to things they care about such as politics, so the strip mining of the arts is pretty unimportant to them.
3)Big business strong arm tactics like payola, monopolistic market domination, reduced primetime playlists and refusal to take risks with artists outside of perceived norms.
People get used to things like the loudness war over years and years. Especially with the way we now seek out and consume media, with technology allowing for a much higher rate of consumption. With fifty some odd years of wildly successful Disney artists, more appropriately entertainers, is anyone really surprised still?
Wow...7 months and the charge is dropped? That smacks of injustice, but IANAL.
I don't know what Venezia's background is...It would be interesting to hear from NewYorkCountryLawyer on this and the RAMBUS decision.