Um, since when? Have they changed the history books already, or don't kids your age read their school books? Note: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
soviet n. 1) An elected governmental council in a
Communist country
Please try to not be blatantly stupid next time. Thanks.
First they get rid of their publishing software, and now this?
Why don't they open source or public domain their software? They could simply have a single person 'manage' the open source project sites, sponsor the project by keeping a server for it (a minimal cost), or such. Then their name could live on by continuing to be associated with high-quality products - and they could conceiveably still sell the product with insignificant cost associated. Why not?
Since they're required to give their 'competitors' the code necessary to impliment Windows network services, would this mean that things such as samba would be handed source for the Windows implimentation of SMB/CIFS? (well, those not yet already implimented)
I shiver in delight, but two things: 1) wouldn't MS simply release a patch that addresses a 'security issue' several days later which breaks all previous installations, and 2) wouldn't MS require anyone that looks at it to sign an NDA which essentially says something along the lines of, "I will not use this code to compete or hurt MS"? I suspect so.
You might see it as stupid. I might see it as stupid. Most people will see it as someone feeling indignant about improper treatment. It's spin, nothing more. I highly doubt this is anything approaching the actual opionion on the matter.
Large corporations such as microsoft simply do whatever they please until they get caught. The financial gain is high enough to warrant the miniscule fines imposed - and then they just keep on doing what they were doing before, until they get fined 4 years down the line for the same thing, all the while making buckets of cash.
You might be correct. However, consider something: NASA was formed back then - it was new, and the organization was uncomplicated by beaurocracy. Now, the organization is a monolithic beast and quite cobbled by beaurocracy. Sure, we might be able to do it with a trillion bucks. I'd personally suspect that it would take a bit more, however - there's likely a lot more "money leaks" now than there was 30 years ago.
1) Since when is simply breaking into an ecommerce site and taking cc numbers cause for 3 million in losses? What'd they do, soak up that much bandwidth? Or did they actually use the cards and distribute the numbers? There's no mention. Sounds like an inflated figure to fuck them up. 2) What exactly is wrong/illigal about having someone else's credit card number? Sure, I know using it is illigal, but simply having a list isn't, is it? If so, certainly it's not something that would fall under "intent to use/distribute," no?
Hrm, that's an interesting approach to film/video production. Seems to me like it might be kind of difficult and backwards if they're using the storyboard "to get a blueprint of the show", but yet don't start with the storyboard, like you would a blueprint in the conventional sense to produce a building.:-P "Uh, ok, we've got our rafters in place, and the foundation poured. What now? Start the blueprint?"
If it works, it works.:) Simpsons certainly has a formula that does just that.
On another note: you seem like you might be slightly connected in some fashion, so I figure I might as well try and plug something: part of my brother's animation demo reel:
Take a look, if you would. I'd think you'd at least be entertained - I found it quite humorous. If you can do anything for the guy, you can contact "abe" 'on' hodgens net - the same TLD my site is hosted on.
I don't know about the rest of you, but reading about this worm has given me the warm fuzzies (eg, a nice warm, happy feeling). I'm not condoning the behavior or writing viruses in the least, but I do think that it is a natural and expected thing, and an obvious result of MS monoculture.
Hopefully it will bring about change - that's why this makes me happy. Being able to tell someone that a virus was able to destroy their system -because- of their windows software firewall will be pleasureable.
I think a large reason why animation is done overseas is because many of the students that go into animation or slack-jawed drunkards with little internal motivation (as with the majority of high school graduates in the US). They want things handed to them and are not willing to put a large amount of effort into learning something new.
My brother is currently in school for animation at Collins College in Tempe, AZ. He's pretty decent at what he does (here is part of his demo reel, if anyone cares - I think it's funny, at least). His desire is to animate and create funny looking things. His classmates just seem to want to party and enjoy life, from what I'm told.
Enjoying life is good - but to what end? What are you accomplishing? They're certainly not making themselves very appealing employees - that, to me, seems like a fair enough motivation to look overseas.
On the other hand, I don't think such behavior is acceptable. If they want to import things from other countries while milking Americans of jobs and money, they should be slapped with import fees for using overseas work while not employing Americans. Of course, that will never happen.
Um, I might be showing my ignorance here, but I've taken a couple cinema courses, and have studied the topic to a fair degree on my own, and do a little amateur film making as well, but...
Doesn't storyboarding come a good time before any voice acting? Ie, script -> storyboard -> layouts (never used these myself; I'm guessing they're exclusive to animation?) -> actors/animators/whatever do their job. That's my understanding. Maybe you got them out of order accidentially?
Excuse me, but "give them a chance"? What is this, the lottery?
How is it 'free trade' if companies ship all the decent jobs overseas, but unfair if someone with an advantage technically/militarily (the US) doesn't want to let others catch up?
The only reason words are offensive, and things such as this are actually making progress, is because education is at an abysmal state in the US. Only an uneducated man or woman would take offense at a mere undirected word.
I wonder if the federal government is simply holding off on slapping MS with some serious anti-trust stuff (such as, say, federalizing them) until they've amassed enough of the wealth to turn the US into a much less free country.
I'm not saying what you're saying is validated as false, but it is certainly not validated as true. That site says nothing about "women buy more games than men". It seems like you're trying to spread some sort of anti-male sentiment? Get with it, such things are foolish.
You're basically saying that having restricted broadband doesn't diable you from contributing as much as someone with a full T1. I disagree, and here is why.
Someone with even a dialup connection can still run services (http, ftp, whatever) from their systems via, say, dyndns.org type url direction. It's slower, but it is still serving content.
There are a lot of things you can't do with a fettered connection. Can't run a web server? You just lost your ability to serve whatever content you wanted. No photo galleries, no creative works you want to retain ownership of, nothing like that.
Online services will put umpteen restrictions on everything you do through their service, more times than not. The only exception I can think of are services such as livejournal and turtle creek, which rely completely on donations from their users and other people that think their material is worthwhile. Not everyone can use such services.
Sure, your average joe might be able to get by using what little available services there are online. But your average geek? No way. Do a google search time and tell me how many sites by "average joes" pop up, and how many are by geeks. How much of the actual content couldn't be provided without that person having at least some degree of administration priviledges?
Where are these "accounts" that are "for [system administration]"? I've never seen people giving away root accounts; maybe you're using a different Internet than I?
What kind of daft individual would moderate this ass-byproduct as insightful?
A new office suite? Cool. Will it work? Even cooler.
Most importantly, however, is will it be standards-compliant? Will it have a proprietary file format, or will it be able to talk with OOo flawlessly?
From the screenshots on their site, I'm fairly impressed so far - it looks to be able to edit things somewhat more complex than OOo can, at least. Time will tell.
Anyone use this product yet? They have goofy naming conventions.:P *maker.
Simple: get them to pay for your cell phone/service.
Oh, and don't do something stupid like quit your job. Have you looked around you? A "no employee equipment" clause seems petty compared to the concerns many of us currently have. Value what you have and don't complain.
Other than that, there's more than enough sound advice here already.
I said: 2) Why would anyone want to use a shitty RPM based distro or one with proprietary modifications that make it incompatible (Lindows comes to mind)?
I was refering to Lindows as one with proprietary modifications, not as an RPM based distro; if you'd learned how to read thoroughly, you'd have realized that.
And yes,.debs are significantly different than RPMs (as are the database cache files). The whole approach is entirely different, which leads to a cohesive packaging environment for debian and not for.rpm based distros.
Furthermore, while lindows is 'debian based' it is not debian. That's where the "proprietary modifications" come into play, see?
yeah, tourniquet always manages to come out with some very original stuff. definately one of the more tallented, under appreciated bands out there. they're what i'd term intellectual metal.:)
1) There's better support for distros such as Debian or Gentoo, as more of the users are more knowledgeable users. 2) Why would anyone want to use a shitty RPM based distro or one with proprietary modifications that make it incompatible (Lindows comes to mind)?
I tell ya, if Stormix (or a company like them) were to enter the market again, they'd have my money.
Besides, who's to say we can't make donations to our distros of choice? I've made donations to the Debian project, as have many others as is evident by the fact that it still exists - you can't support the bandwidth habit that debian mirrors have without financial backing (yes, I know there are corporate backers, but users help a lot too). Linuxiso.org is also a good example - all they do is provide downloads, but they always seem to have their bandwidth bill paid well before the end of the month.
The technology to make Star Trek:TOS and even ST:TNG a reality has existed for years (except for maybe antigravity).
The only thing holding us back from going "where no man has gone before" is a lack of energy sources powerful enough and available enough to power all the cool gadgets indefinitely. And of course the engines, but that technology isn't even practical to start considering without the energy source.
When you're 1 million miles from Earth, refueling would likely be a bit of a bitch.
And what of the programmers, administrators, etc. that are being relegated to "PC repair guys" because of a lack of proper employment due to offshoring?
Another poster in this thread mentions that mechanics are ill respected, saying, "What's to become of digiticians?" Will they become ill respected as well? I'd wager that the majority of them already are. My parent's home town has several shops full of them - and let me tell you - they're all horribly over priced, inept, and say things are broken when they're not.
Looks like they're pretty much hitting par for the course with the rest of the -tricians.
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Um, since when? Have they changed the history books already, or don't kids your age read their school books? Note: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Please try to not be blatantly stupid next time. Thanks.
First they get rid of their publishing software, and now this?
Why don't they open source or public domain their software? They could simply have a single person 'manage' the open source project sites, sponsor the project by keeping a server for it (a minimal cost), or such. Then their name could live on by continuing to be associated with high-quality products - and they could conceiveably still sell the product with insignificant cost associated. Why not?
Since they're required to give their 'competitors' the code necessary to impliment Windows network services, would this mean that things such as samba would be handed source for the Windows implimentation of SMB/CIFS? (well, those not yet already implimented)
I shiver in delight, but two things: 1) wouldn't MS simply release a patch that addresses a 'security issue' several days later which breaks all previous installations, and 2) wouldn't MS require anyone that looks at it to sign an NDA which essentially says something along the lines of, "I will not use this code to compete or hurt MS"? I suspect so.
You might see it as stupid. I might see it as stupid. Most people will see it as someone feeling indignant about improper treatment. It's spin, nothing more. I highly doubt this is anything approaching the actual opionion on the matter.
Large corporations such as microsoft simply do whatever they please until they get caught. The financial gain is high enough to warrant the miniscule fines imposed - and then they just keep on doing what they were doing before, until they get fined 4 years down the line for the same thing, all the while making buckets of cash.
You might be correct. However, consider something: NASA was formed back then - it was new, and the organization was uncomplicated by beaurocracy. Now, the organization is a monolithic beast and quite cobbled by beaurocracy. Sure, we might be able to do it with a trillion bucks. I'd personally suspect that it would take a bit more, however - there's likely a lot more "money leaks" now than there was 30 years ago.
1) Since when is simply breaking into an ecommerce site and taking cc numbers cause for 3 million in losses? What'd they do, soak up that much bandwidth? Or did they actually use the cards and distribute the numbers? There's no mention. Sounds like an inflated figure to fuck them up.
2) What exactly is wrong/illigal about having someone else's credit card number? Sure, I know using it is illigal, but simply having a list isn't, is it? If so, certainly it's not something that would fall under "intent to use/distribute," no?
Hrm, that's an interesting approach to film/video production. Seems to me like it might be kind of difficult and backwards if they're using the storyboard "to get a blueprint of the show", but yet don't start with the storyboard, like you would a blueprint in the conventional sense to produce a building. :-P "Uh, ok, we've got our rafters in place, and the foundation poured. What now? Start the blueprint?"
:) Simpsons certainly has a formula that does just that.
If it works, it works.
On another note: you seem like you might be slightly connected in some fashion, so I figure I might as well try and plug something: part of my brother's animation demo reel:
demo.wmv
Take a look, if you would. I'd think you'd at least be entertained - I found it quite humorous. If you can do anything for the guy, you can contact "abe" 'on' hodgens net - the same TLD my site is hosted on.
I don't know about the rest of you, but reading about this worm has given me the warm fuzzies (eg, a nice warm, happy feeling). I'm not condoning the behavior or writing viruses in the least, but I do think that it is a natural and expected thing, and an obvious result of MS monoculture.
Hopefully it will bring about change - that's why this makes me happy. Being able to tell someone that a virus was able to destroy their system -because- of their windows software firewall will be pleasureable.
Of course if everyone switches it will be a problem, but really, what are the odds of that actually happening?
You just had to ask, didn't you. Now? Now they're significantly higher. Just ask Murphy.
I think a large reason why animation is done overseas is because many of the students that go into animation or slack-jawed drunkards with little internal motivation (as with the majority of high school graduates in the US). They want things handed to them and are not willing to put a large amount of effort into learning something new.
My brother is currently in school for animation at Collins College in Tempe, AZ. He's pretty decent at what he does (here is part of his demo reel, if anyone cares - I think it's funny, at least). His desire is to animate and create funny looking things. His classmates just seem to want to party and enjoy life, from what I'm told.
Enjoying life is good - but to what end? What are you accomplishing? They're certainly not making themselves very appealing employees - that, to me, seems like a fair enough motivation to look overseas.
On the other hand, I don't think such behavior is acceptable. If they want to import things from other countries while milking Americans of jobs and money, they should be slapped with import fees for using overseas work while not employing Americans. Of course, that will never happen.
Um, I might be showing my ignorance here, but I've taken a couple cinema courses, and have studied the topic to a fair degree on my own, and do a little amateur film making as well, but...
Doesn't storyboarding come a good time before any voice acting? Ie, script -> storyboard -> layouts (never used these myself; I'm guessing they're exclusive to animation?) -> actors/animators/whatever do their job. That's my understanding. Maybe you got them out of order accidentially?
Excuse me, but "give them a chance"? What is this, the lottery?
How is it 'free trade' if companies ship all the decent jobs overseas, but unfair if someone with an advantage technically/militarily (the US) doesn't want to let others catch up?
Makes a lot of sense.
The only reason words are offensive, and things such as this are actually making progress, is because education is at an abysmal state in the US. Only an uneducated man or woman would take offense at a mere undirected word.
Context is everything.
I wonder if the federal government is simply holding off on slapping MS with some serious anti-trust stuff (such as, say, federalizing them) until they've amassed enough of the wealth to turn the US into a much less free country.
What's your angle? Why are you lying?
I'm not saying what you're saying is validated as false, but it is certainly not validated as true. That site says nothing about "women buy more games than men". It seems like you're trying to spread some sort of anti-male sentiment? Get with it, such things are foolish.
I smell bullshit. I think it's your writeup.
You're basically saying that having restricted broadband doesn't diable you from contributing as much as someone with a full T1. I disagree, and here is why.
Someone with even a dialup connection can still run services (http, ftp, whatever) from their systems via, say, dyndns.org type url direction. It's slower, but it is still serving content.
There are a lot of things you can't do with a fettered connection. Can't run a web server? You just lost your ability to serve whatever content you wanted. No photo galleries, no creative works you want to retain ownership of, nothing like that.
Online services will put umpteen restrictions on everything you do through their service, more times than not. The only exception I can think of are services such as livejournal and turtle creek, which rely completely on donations from their users and other people that think their material is worthwhile. Not everyone can use such services.
Sure, your average joe might be able to get by using what little available services there are online. But your average geek? No way. Do a google search time and tell me how many sites by "average joes" pop up, and how many are by geeks. How much of the actual content couldn't be provided without that person having at least some degree of administration priviledges?
Where are these "accounts" that are "for [system administration]"? I've never seen people giving away root accounts; maybe you're using a different Internet than I?
What kind of daft individual would moderate this ass-byproduct as insightful?
A new office suite? Cool. Will it work? Even cooler.
:P *maker.
Most importantly, however, is will it be standards-compliant? Will it have a proprietary file format, or will it be able to talk with OOo flawlessly?
From the screenshots on their site, I'm fairly impressed so far - it looks to be able to edit things somewhat more complex than OOo can, at least. Time will tell.
Anyone use this product yet? They have goofy naming conventions.
Simple: get them to pay for your cell phone/service.
Oh, and don't do something stupid like quit your job. Have you looked around you? A "no employee equipment" clause seems petty compared to the concerns many of us currently have. Value what you have and don't complain.
Other than that, there's more than enough sound advice here already.
Are you fucking daft?
.debs are significantly different than RPMs (as are the database cache files). The whole approach is entirely different, which leads to a cohesive packaging environment for debian and not for .rpm based distros.
I said:
2) Why would anyone want to use a shitty RPM based distro or one with proprietary modifications that make it incompatible (Lindows comes to mind)?
I was refering to Lindows as one with proprietary modifications, not as an RPM based distro; if you'd learned how to read thoroughly, you'd have realized that.
And yes,
Furthermore, while lindows is 'debian based' it is not debian. That's where the "proprietary modifications" come into play, see?
heh, woot :)
:)
yeah, tourniquet always manages to come out with some very original stuff. definately one of the more tallented, under appreciated bands out there. they're what i'd term intellectual metal.
There are several (legit) reasons for that.
1) There's better support for distros such as Debian or Gentoo, as more of the users are more knowledgeable users.
2) Why would anyone want to use a shitty RPM based distro or one with proprietary modifications that make it incompatible (Lindows comes to mind)?
I tell ya, if Stormix (or a company like them) were to enter the market again, they'd have my money.
Besides, who's to say we can't make donations to our distros of choice? I've made donations to the Debian project, as have many others as is evident by the fact that it still exists - you can't support the bandwidth habit that debian mirrors have without financial backing (yes, I know there are corporate backers, but users help a lot too). Linuxiso.org is also a good example - all they do is provide downloads, but they always seem to have their bandwidth bill paid well before the end of the month.
I don't know wher eyou heard this version, but the version I heard was in a 1994ish song by Tourniquet, "Acidhead":
Johny was a chemist's son
but johny is no more
what johny thought was h2o
was really h2so4
Sounds about par for most of the voice recognition software out there, I'd say.
The technology to make Star Trek:TOS and even ST:TNG a reality has existed for years (except for maybe antigravity).
The only thing holding us back from going "where no man has gone before" is a lack of energy sources powerful enough and available enough to power all the cool gadgets indefinitely. And of course the engines, but that technology isn't even practical to start considering without the energy source.
When you're 1 million miles from Earth, refueling would likely be a bit of a bitch.
And what of the programmers, administrators, etc. that are being relegated to "PC repair guys" because of a lack of proper employment due to offshoring?
Another poster in this thread mentions that mechanics are ill respected, saying, "What's to become of digiticians?" Will they become ill respected as well? I'd wager that the majority of them already are. My parent's home town has several shops full of them - and let me tell you - they're all horribly over priced, inept, and say things are broken when they're not.
Looks like they're pretty much hitting par for the course with the rest of the -tricians.