You make an excellent point. I am one of the WoW players you're talking about.
When I purchased AoC, installed it and started it for the very first time, I was really disappointed at what appeared to be a pay-to-play beta. I stuck with it for about two more weeks before canceling my subscription and heading back to WoW.
It should also be mentioned that the game runs horribly on high-end hardware and doesn't make use of SLI. The worst part about it was being a fan of the original books and waiting for this thing for about a year before it actually came out only to be let down...
You bring up an excellent question about him selectively choosing to show certain clips of a video. What does this say of independent journalism as a the new competitor to Foxes and CNN's of the world? When indie journalists are mangling the truth of a report to further their own agendas, how are we to have any faith that a new media will prevail and be any better for that matter. They're simply acting as those before them have.
I also look at it from the perspective that a journalist has a responsiblity as a citizen as well as a reporter. I don't want to say that Josh was right or wrong, because I truly don't know enough about the laws, but I do feel that his decision-making should take social responsibilty into consideration. Now whether or not he's truly withholding the information based on the principles of who has jurisdiction and whether or not the Feds have overstepped their bounds is something else that I'm not even going to begin to think about...
It's a bit foolish to start going to extremes such as this. When, and if something like this happens, is it truly going to be the fault of Google?
The author of the article makes a great point, but I'm not sure that he realizes it. Most good change does not happen with a bang, it takes time. Google's business in China is one of the parts of that slow moving process, in my opinion. It could very well happen that we're looking back on this time years later and thinking about the items that led to free speech in China.
The point that I'm trying to make is that everything isn't necessarily what it seems on the surface.
Seriously, I'm ready to step in and bash Microsoft at the drop of a hat, but MS isn't cenoring the reporter - CHINA IS. This just silly. Microsoft is obviously bound by the laws of the countries that it does business in.
If the biggest issue is the enabling of automatic updates, why not use group policy to put the setting in place? I suppose that would require an AD domain, but just my two cents...
oh, about 2K for a 'pc game system'? how much is the ps3 again? pc games ARE better, but not so much more that it warrants dropping an extra 1500 on a gaming machine. some people have money to burn, but not me.
First off, everything that the labels are doing is perfectly legal and its up to the a. radio station to make the decision or b. the consumer to make the decision. While there are very few of us that don't prefer radio today, there are those that are perfectly happy listening to the same song over and over again regardless of how good it is. I think that's one of the key items. The norm is now 'created' by those with the money to influence it. If it's playing on the radio 90 percent of the time, it must be popular. Right? There's almost nothing in the way of choice of genre, but then again, I suppose there never was. Aren't we supposed to be moving forward? These are just my views anyway... One thing that holds true is that playing the same song over and over again, regardless of how good it is, destroys it -- and it's seems to be common practice. Personally, I think that very little music today shows anything in the way of innovation or talent. There are a handful of artists that I enjoy listening too, but I'm happy to be able to put whatever I want into my CD player and listen to it. When my fiance tells me that she wants to listen to the radio instead, I CRINGE. In the end, it's up to the sheep and we're all subjected to what they'll follow, so buckle up:)
i'm on the east cost near philadelphia. when i originally joined, i got my movies back much faster, but it seems as time went on, the service itself started to degrade. probably getting more subscribers than they're willing to compensate for? it's still a cool service, but i don't count on having my movies for the weekends anymore.
The Economist recently had a great article on this particular subject. It was mainly in favor of decentralization and mimicking the internet in terms of distributing power to remote locations. Smaller more 'frequent' stations placed around the country would allow power to be routed 'around' a dead area should the surrounding stations lose contact with it-- I suppose that explaining that here was sort of moot:) Anyway, I think that they've adopted this method in Denmark and it's been working excellently despite the initial skepticism of critics.
I can't say that I'm exactly super-pleased with Netflix. The past three DVD's that I've sent back haven't even arrived in time for the next weekend when they were mailed out on the previous Sunday and it's not even like I rent a ton of movies-- these three were over the course of 5 weeks!
I think it's a good thing that our elected officials are starting to discuss things of a technical nature BEFORE they're widely used. Does anyone remember any other technologies that were examined beforehand? I don't.
it's too darned big. what sort of professional is going to be taken seriously walking around with a tv sitting on his or her wrist? it's damned cool, don't get me wrong, but i don't think that items like these are going to take off until they're able to project a holographic image and allow the user to interact with that.
Because I've used Linux at work. I've seen what it can do. I needed to set up a proxy server and got Squid running. I understand what the fuss is about and why everyone is always shouting about it. It's powerful, you can do just about anything that you want with it and it's not as hard to learn as everyone makes it out to be. Why not run it at home? GAMES!!! A good deal of people suggest running games under WINE, but from other posts that I've seen, it doesn't seem like WINE does the best job. I'd rather put up with the usual garbage that my Windows machine gives me (random crashes, etc.) because I play a lot of games. The problem with writing a 'gaming' distro is that you need people to write games for it. While it's not unheard of, it's going to require a good deal of work and what comes first? Users adopt it or game companies release games for it? It's a great idea and I hope it does take off, but it seems like a lot of work...
I've been a customer of AT&T Wireless for about five years. Up until about a year ago, I never had a complaint about them and thought that they were a pretty tight service. Then I moved and they renewed my contract without telling me. I didn't know until the end of the year when I called to renew and get a deal and found out that I wasn't up for renewal for another five months. Over the course of the past year, my bill has been incorrect on three different occasions, two of them, I just paid because I had absolutely no desire to deal with the customer service team. Long hold tiimes, RUUUUUUDE people and some of the worst double-talk about their policies. I just thought it was interesting how they started to go down the tubes and now this. I'm not saying that one less competitor is a good thing, but AT&T wireless customers really don't have anything to lose here. It can't get much worse...
I guess I should be ashamed of myself for always being so surprised when Microsoft continually refuses to defeat something via innovation or hard work and instead chooses the propaganda route. Their strategy, in this particular case, will probably lure a couple of CIO's who stumbled upon the 'independent study' into Microsoft's camp, but then again, anyone not willing to do a fair amount of research on their own probably deserves Microsoft software. We're in the process of phasing out our Microsoft servers. Currently, we've replaced ISA with Censornet (totally kicks ass) and we're going to be moving our DNS and DHCP servers over as well. We do have a couple of applications that depend on Windows, so I don't suppose that we'll be dumping those boxes any time soon, but the point I was trying to make before I sidetracked myself is that replacing ISA with a free solution that does not require a weekly reboot and would probably run forever if we locked it in a closet is something that my boss really likes. TCO of our Censornet/Linux box? What they're paying me. TCO of ISA server? After licenses, you've got your downtime due to reboots, etc. It was also on a pretty beefy box as well (before this gets flamed). Oh, right... I'm new to Linux, but I can read and teach myself. It took me three hours to replace our ISA server and I've spent about two administering its replacement over the past two months. It's not hard to pick up at all, but I suppose that all runs back to the propaganda machine...
A very interesting read. Very cool. Most of the people I've met that are proponents of open source software tend to be a bit fanatical. Please don't take this as a broad, sweeping generalization, it's just my personal experience. In my opinion, this is a weakness. My personal view is that software should be approached with a 'jeet kune do' philosophy-- best tool for the job. After spending some time with Linux and FreeBSD and learning how they work, I've found that 'free' software has always been a better solution, but that's not to say that other options are wrong because they're red or blue. My point is that you can't rule something out based on what it is. It's 'software prejudice'! Take that buzzterm to the next meeting with your PHB:) Other than that, I think he makes outstanding points in his popularity and driver arguments. In fact, the only thing that I'm disappointed about after reading this is that I can't seem to get his voice out of my head!
I just got into a discussion with my girlfriend about this subject exactly! I told her that she needs to keep her family at bay. I don't ask her brothers to do my electrical work or my taxes so I don't think that they have a right to ask me to work on their computer problems. I also used the mechanic analogy:) Anyway, a bigger problem is that most of her family lives very far away which requires-- you guessed it-- PHONE SUPPORT!!! AGH! My buddy and his wife have a perfect gig. If someone calls him for tech support, she tells 'em to piss off! I guess all of the good ones ARE taken...
whether they're inept enough to leave themselves open to this sort of thing or if they're welcoming DDOS attacks with open arms for one reason or another...
Isn't the spammer going to know that the supposed relay is a spam hole if he includes an account that he accesses on his list and checks to see if he's received a message from himself afterwards?
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You make an excellent point. I am one of the WoW players you're talking about.
When I purchased AoC, installed it and started it for the very first time, I was really disappointed at what appeared to be a pay-to-play beta. I stuck with it for about two more weeks before canceling my subscription and heading back to WoW.
It should also be mentioned that the game runs horribly on high-end hardware and doesn't make use of SLI. The worst part about it was being a fan of the original books and waiting for this thing for about a year before it actually came out only to be let down...
How is this pertinent to the geek community at all? It looks like an advertisement to me...
"...his bathroom breaks, were videotaped for evidence that will later be sent for verification by the Guinness Book of Records."
Wow, what the heck was he doing in the bathroom?
You bring up an excellent question about him selectively choosing to show certain clips of a video. What does this say of independent journalism as a the new competitor to Foxes and CNN's of the world? When indie journalists are mangling the truth of a report to further their own agendas, how are we to have any faith that a new media will prevail and be any better for that matter. They're simply acting as those before them have.
I also look at it from the perspective that a journalist has a responsiblity as a citizen as well as a reporter. I don't want to say that Josh was right or wrong, because I truly don't know enough about the laws, but I do feel that his decision-making should take social responsibilty into consideration. Now whether or not he's truly withholding the information based on the principles of who has jurisdiction and whether or not the Feds have overstepped their bounds is something else that I'm not even going to begin to think about...
Just food for thought, I s'pose.
It's a bit foolish to start going to extremes such as this. When, and if something like this happens, is it truly going to be the fault of Google?
The author of the article makes a great point, but I'm not sure that he realizes it. Most good change does not happen with a bang, it takes time. Google's business in China is one of the parts of that slow moving process, in my opinion. It could very well happen that we're looking back on this time years later and thinking about the items that led to free speech in China.
The point that I'm trying to make is that everything isn't necessarily what it seems on the surface.
Seriously, I'm ready to step in and bash Microsoft at the drop of a hat, but MS isn't cenoring the reporter - CHINA IS. This just silly. Microsoft is obviously bound by the laws of the countries that it does business in.
space lunch....
If the biggest issue is the enabling of automatic updates, why not use group policy to put the setting in place? I suppose that would require an AD domain, but just my two cents...
oh, about 2K for a 'pc game system'? how much is the ps3 again?
pc games ARE better, but not so much more that it warrants dropping an extra 1500 on a gaming machine. some people have money to burn, but not me.
First off, everything that the labels are doing is perfectly legal and its up to the a. radio station to make the decision or b. the consumer to make the decision.
While there are very few of us that don't prefer radio today, there are those that are perfectly happy listening to the same song over and over again regardless of how good it is.
I think that's one of the key items. The norm is now 'created' by those with the money to influence it. If it's playing on the radio 90 percent of the time, it must be popular. Right? There's almost nothing in the way of choice of genre, but then again, I suppose there never was. Aren't we supposed to be moving forward?
These are just my views anyway...
One thing that holds true is that playing the same song over and over again, regardless of how good it is, destroys it -- and it's seems to be common practice.
Personally, I think that very little music today shows anything in the way of innovation or talent. There are a handful of artists that I enjoy listening too, but I'm happy to be able to put whatever I want into my CD player and listen to it. When my fiance tells me that she wants to listen to the radio instead, I CRINGE.
In the end, it's up to the sheep and we're all subjected to what they'll follow, so buckle up:)
i'm on the east cost near philadelphia. when i originally joined, i got my movies back much faster, but it seems as time went on, the service itself started to degrade. probably getting more subscribers than they're willing to compensate for?
it's still a cool service, but i don't count on having my movies for the weekends anymore.
The Economist recently had a great article on this particular subject.
It was mainly in favor of decentralization and mimicking the internet in terms of distributing power to remote locations. Smaller more 'frequent' stations placed around the country would allow power to be routed 'around' a dead area should the surrounding stations lose contact with it-- I suppose that explaining that here was sort of moot:)
Anyway, I think that they've adopted this method in Denmark and it's been working excellently despite the initial skepticism of critics.
I can't say that I'm exactly super-pleased with Netflix. The past three DVD's that I've sent back haven't even arrived in time for the next weekend when they were mailed out on the previous Sunday and it's not even like I rent a ton of movies-- these three were over the course of 5 weeks!
I think it's a good thing that our elected officials are starting to discuss things of a technical nature BEFORE they're widely used. Does anyone remember any other technologies that were examined beforehand? I don't.
it's too darned big. what sort of professional is going to be taken seriously walking around with a tv sitting on his or her wrist?
it's damned cool, don't get me wrong, but i don't think that items like these are going to take off until they're able to project a holographic image and allow the user to interact with that.
real pirates use Usenet!!!
"I packed up the car, scored some weed, picked up my girlfriend and headed to the Jersey Shore, just to be on the safe side."
Dude, you should be doing that anyway!
Because I've used Linux at work. I've seen what it can do. I needed to set up a proxy server and got Squid running. I understand what the fuss is about and why everyone is always shouting about it. It's powerful, you can do just about anything that you want with it and it's not as hard to learn as everyone makes it out to be.
Why not run it at home? GAMES!!!
A good deal of people suggest running games under WINE, but from other posts that I've seen, it doesn't seem like WINE does the best job. I'd rather put up with the usual garbage that my Windows machine gives me (random crashes, etc.) because I play a lot of games.
The problem with writing a 'gaming' distro is that you need people to write games for it. While it's not unheard of, it's going to require a good deal of work and what comes first? Users adopt it or game companies release games for it?
It's a great idea and I hope it does take off, but it seems like a lot of work...
I've been a customer of AT&T Wireless for about five years. Up until about a year ago, I never had a complaint about them and thought that they were a pretty tight service.
Then I moved and they renewed my contract without telling me. I didn't know until the end of the year when I called to renew and get a deal and found out that I wasn't up for renewal for another five months.
Over the course of the past year, my bill has been incorrect on three different occasions, two of them, I just paid because I had absolutely no desire to deal with the customer service team. Long hold tiimes, RUUUUUUDE people and some of the worst double-talk about their policies.
I just thought it was interesting how they started to go down the tubes and now this. I'm not saying that one less competitor is a good thing, but AT&T wireless customers really don't have anything to lose here. It can't get much worse...
I guess I should be ashamed of myself for always being so surprised when Microsoft continually refuses to defeat something via innovation or hard work and instead chooses the propaganda route.
Their strategy, in this particular case, will probably lure a couple of CIO's who stumbled upon the 'independent study' into Microsoft's camp, but then again, anyone not willing to do a fair amount of research on their own probably deserves Microsoft software.
We're in the process of phasing out our Microsoft servers. Currently, we've replaced ISA with Censornet (totally kicks ass) and we're going to be moving our DNS and DHCP servers over as well. We do have a couple of applications that depend on Windows, so I don't suppose that we'll be dumping those boxes any time soon, but the point I was trying to make before I sidetracked myself is that replacing ISA with a free solution that does not require a weekly reboot and would probably run forever if we locked it in a closet is something that my boss really likes. TCO of our Censornet/Linux box? What they're paying me. TCO of ISA server? After licenses, you've got your downtime due to reboots, etc. It was also on a pretty beefy box as well (before this gets flamed).
Oh, right... I'm new to Linux, but I can read and teach myself. It took me three hours to replace our ISA server and I've spent about two administering its replacement over the past two months. It's not hard to pick up at all, but I suppose that all runs back to the propaganda machine...
A very interesting read. Very cool.
Most of the people I've met that are proponents of open source software tend to be a bit fanatical. Please don't take this as a broad, sweeping generalization, it's just my personal experience.
In my opinion, this is a weakness. My personal view is that software should be approached with a 'jeet kune do' philosophy-- best tool for the job. After spending some time with Linux and FreeBSD and learning how they work, I've found that 'free' software has always been a better solution, but that's not to say that other options are wrong because they're red or blue.
My point is that you can't rule something out based on what it is. It's 'software prejudice'! Take that buzzterm to the next meeting with your PHB:)
Other than that, I think he makes outstanding points in his popularity and driver arguments. In fact, the only thing that I'm disappointed about after reading this is that I can't seem to get his voice out of my head!
I just got into a discussion with my girlfriend about this subject exactly!
I told her that she needs to keep her family at bay. I don't ask her brothers to do my electrical work or my taxes so I don't think that they have a right to ask me to work on their computer problems. I also used the mechanic analogy:)
Anyway, a bigger problem is that most of her family lives very far away which requires-- you guessed it-- PHONE SUPPORT!!! AGH!
My buddy and his wife have a perfect gig. If someone calls him for tech support, she tells 'em to piss off! I guess all of the good ones ARE taken...
It didn't ask me to reboot afterwards!!!
Someone start knitting a sweater for Satan...
whether they're inept enough to leave themselves open to this sort of thing or if they're welcoming DDOS attacks with open arms for one reason or another...
Isn't the spammer going to know that the supposed relay is a spam hole if he includes an account that he accesses on his list and checks to see if he's received a message from himself afterwards?