1) Why the hell would this force Bungie to push forward the release date? I'm sorry, but I didn't spend the time or money to mod my x-box, and I don't want to play the goddamn game in French, since I don't speak French and I'd kind of like to know what the hell is going on when I play the game.
2) Does this mean pre-orders in France are going to be canceled all of the sudden? I doubt it. Even with filesharing, artists can still sell millions of albums.
3) Who is responsible for this, exactly? Pirates? Like the ones from Penzance, or the less musical Barbary Pirates? Someone said French journalists. Uh, RTFM. There's a big difference between "news groups" and journalists.
the only solution is diplomacy. these people clearly think that their position is the right one; well, why is that? learn the answer to that question, and use diplomacy...
I think it is a bit more difficult than that. North Korea recently threatened to turn Japan into a "nuclear sea of fire" should the US attack NK with nukes.
Rhetoric like that shows just how insane this regime is, and how difficult diplomacy will be. If the DPRK ("Democratic Peoples" Republic of North Korea) had their way, they would be blackmailing their way to wealth using what nuclear power they can ammass. So good luck with diplomacy. And we should probably start our diplomacy by addressing the nuclear issue. Somehow I think that the issue of hacking is pretty low on the State Department's to-do list.
I will probably buy a lens from a different seller on ebay, as there are usually a large set in rotation. The one I was looking at that expired today will probably not be bought by me, though it was bought at the minimum bid price. Had PayPal been working, I would have bid on it and the seller would have made more money.
I'm too lazy to mail a check or money order for something I buy online (online is supposed to = convenient), so when I wanted to buy a lens for my SLR, I didn't bid on the relevant auctions today, since I was not sure I'd have a reliable way to pay for it.
One wonders how much money will be lost by others taking similar actions. Not really quantifiable but definitely some kind of loss.
I find it exceedingly amusing, and telling, that RealNetworks, after years of pushing proprietary audio and video formats, is now fighting Apple's use of proprietary hardware. They have to market to iPod users because mp3 players using Real format music have been blown out of the water.
Its too bad their software was always ad-ridden garbage. They will have to do a lot more than a loss-leader sales ploy to get my trust back.
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There will probably always be spammers, but the reason it is at all profitable is because of people like Orlando Soto, who just love reading spam and buying great awesome products like 'The only solution to Penis Enlargement.'
I cannot imagine why people like him love to buy product advertised by spam, but if spammers get even a 1% response rate from 1,000,000 emails in a month, thats 10,000 sales.
Filter away all you want, but you will be hacking at the branches rather than the root (sorry forthe obvious pun)
The letter makes some technical claims that are difficult, if not impossible, to support, including a claim that a computer that is "off" can continue swapping files over a broadband connection.
This is one of two examples of the fundamental ignorance that politicians possess when it comes to technology.
The other misunderstanding is the notion that a P2P company can actually filter out all the child porn on a P2P system. How does one do that? Require detailed metadata in XML associated with each file? How do you prevent that from being spoofed. Example: how many times have thought you downloaded a certain uh, file starring a talented actress such as Jenna Jameson and ended up with something alse?
The essence of P2P makes this kind of central control difficult if not impossible.
Clearly, the entertainment industry lobbyists are using this ignorance in their favor: get the states to legislate or sue for technically impossible requirements, thus forcing all the P2P out of business. Ingenious.
Wouldn't it be fantastic if the SP2 updater would first run Ad-Aware or an equivalent and kill all the spywarer on the machine before installing the actual updates? After rebooting, users would be astonished by how quickly Windows would work.
'Holy Crap Maude, my WeatherBug is gone but this thing shore is runnin quick!'
Even if this does work, in a big business, the left hand rarely knows what the right hand is doing. Its amazing what you won't find if you only use MSN search.
Yes, and while we're at it, I would like a PDA that lights my cigarettes and wipes my ass for me.
I want it to be able to light normal filtered class A cigarettes, but also include support for 100s and unfiltered.
I want it to support 1-ply AND 2-ply toilet paper and be forward-compatible for new multiple-ply standards in the future.
I would also like it to be child and babysafe, so that if a toddler is within a certain proximity of the machine it will not light cigarettes and will only use baby wipes.
Furthermore, it must be fully compatible with my OS/2 Warp box.
And I would like a pony, but that last one is optional.
Anyone that does not acquiesce to these demands is being closed and proprietary. For shame!
Apple's possible legal action aside, the iPod is an example of product implementation where their goal was to do one thing and do it well: let people play tons of music on a well-designed, portable device. Google did the same thing with search by keeping it relatively simple.
If I had a nickel for everytime I heard someone on/. bitch about the iPod not having x encoding format or x obscure-as-shit Operating System Compatibility, I would probably have about $40 U.S. Sir, the dead horse you are beating is little more than so much decomposed mush now. Let it go. Please.
'New for quasi-intellectual, artistic elitists. Stuff that splatters.'
No. But seriously, has this place become all Apple, all the time?
whatever happaned to persistence?
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So much for the adage 'slow and steady wins the race.' I wonder how much money this guy lost in bonuses and stock options by giving up early.
I found this particularly interesting:
Knauss said at one of the first meetings with PortalPlayer, Fadell said, "This is the project that's going to remold Apple and 10 years from now, it's going to be a music business, not a computer business."
Why does oddpost's interface look like my old POP3 client?
Or Outlook 97. Yahoo's interface is a little cartoonish and could use some help with color contrasts (it's tougher to read on certain crappy LCD monitors), but I still prefer it to what screenshots I've seen from Oddpost.
Military School Principal: "The battles of the future will not be fought on a battleground or at sea, they will be fought in space. Or at the top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forward today, your duty is clear, to build and maintain those robots. Thank you." - The Simpsons
Firstly, that a 4 year old toddler can hold 3 kilo individual handheld weights, straight out.
Secondly, that 'many adults' can't hold that much weight. My leatherbound volume of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy has to weigh AT LEAST that much. What the hell is wrong with people?
If they mis-handled Social Security numbers alone (simply by sending them to the TSA without the approval of the people who possess those SSNs) then this is a very clear violation of the Privacy Act. Hello lawsuit?
the link quotes Citizens Against Government Waste as saying: "Yet while the software itself is free, the cost to maintain and upgrade it can become very expensive. Acquisition costs commonly represent only a small percentage of the total cost of ownership. Maintenance, training and support are often more expensive with open source than proprietary software. Imagine the state DMV being responsible for programming the software that runs its computers. Every little problem would require an outside consultant, racking up fees and slowing down services."
Every little problem already does require an outside consultant. I work for a large government agency, and, quite frankly, there are consultants galore needed to support Windows 2000 and Windows XP. The Exchange servers go down with frequency, as does web access which is controlled through a SQL powered proxy server(which crashes), not to mention IIS, which gets kicked in the nuts every time a new virus comes out. Not only is an army of permanent government employees needed to maintain this very unstable network, but they hire literally hundreds of consultants to provide tech support for every department, and even more to ensure wider network stability.
When I need something done for my computer, I don't call the regular tech support, but the consultant working on location, because he/she is always more knowledgable and competent. And we're talking about an agency that only uses Linux when someone illegally installs it to test LAMP.
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iWalk picture=old and OBVIOUSLY photoshopped. I recall seeing this before, it might have been on/., and it was months ago. Hard to believe something like this made it to the front page.
luddite.com claims to sell wooden pcs, although this website has been here for a few years, and they keep promising to launch on-line ordering. Seems kind of sketchy.
unenlightened. You are in no position to tell people who are most likely smarter than you that they are "unenlightened"
(Inigo Montoya voice) I do not think you are using that word correctly. I do not think it means what you think it means.
How does one become enlightened? And yes, the Hobbit is a childrens story, but wouldn't that make it all the more appropriate for you?
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No one has answered:
1) Why the hell would this force Bungie to push forward the release date? I'm sorry, but I didn't spend the time or money to mod my x-box, and I don't want to play the goddamn game in French, since I don't speak French and I'd kind of like to know what the hell is going on when I play the game.
2) Does this mean pre-orders in France are going to be canceled all of the sudden? I doubt it. Even with filesharing, artists can still sell millions of albums.
3) Who is responsible for this, exactly? Pirates? Like the ones from Penzance, or the less musical Barbary Pirates? Someone said French journalists. Uh, RTFM. There's a big difference between "news groups" and journalists.
the only solution is diplomacy. these people clearly think that their position is the right one; well, why is that? learn the answer to that question, and use diplomacy ...
I think it is a bit more difficult than that. North Korea recently threatened to turn Japan into a "nuclear sea of fire" should the US attack NK with nukes.
Rhetoric like that shows just how insane this regime is, and how difficult diplomacy will be. If the DPRK ("Democratic Peoples" Republic of North Korea) had their way, they would be blackmailing their way to wealth using what nuclear power they can ammass. So good luck with diplomacy. And we should probably start our diplomacy by addressing the nuclear issue. Somehow I think that the issue of hacking is pretty low on the State Department's to-do list.
It better fucking play OGG, and CPF (Cute Pony Format), and I want FM RADIO AND BELLS AND WHISTLES AND AND AND
I will probably buy a lens from a different seller on ebay, as there are usually a large set in rotation. The one I was looking at that expired today will probably not be bought by me, though it was bought at the minimum bid price. Had PayPal been working, I would have bid on it and the seller would have made more money.
I'm too lazy to mail a check or money order for something I buy online (online is supposed to = convenient), so when I wanted to buy a lens for my SLR, I didn't bid on the relevant auctions today, since I was not sure I'd have a reliable way to pay for it.
One wonders how much money will be lost by others taking similar actions. Not really quantifiable but definitely some kind of loss.
I find it exceedingly amusing, and telling, that RealNetworks, after years of pushing proprietary audio and video formats, is now fighting Apple's use of proprietary hardware. They have to market to iPod users because mp3 players using Real format music have been blown out of the water.
Its too bad their software was always ad-ridden garbage. They will have to do a lot more than a loss-leader sales ploy to get my trust back.
There will probably always be spammers, but the reason it is at all profitable is because of people like Orlando Soto, who just love reading spam and buying great awesome products like 'The only solution to Penis Enlargement.'
I cannot imagine why people like him love to buy product advertised by spam, but if spammers get even a 1% response rate from 1,000,000 emails in a month, thats 10,000 sales.
Filter away all you want, but you will be hacking at the branches rather than the root (sorry forthe obvious pun)
The letter makes some technical claims that are difficult, if not impossible, to support, including a claim that a computer that is "off" can continue swapping files over a broadband connection.
This is one of two examples of the fundamental ignorance that politicians possess when it comes to technology. The other misunderstanding is the notion that a P2P company can actually filter out all the child porn on a P2P system. How does one do that? Require detailed metadata in XML associated with each file? How do you prevent that from being spoofed. Example: how many times have thought you downloaded a certain uh, file starring a talented actress such as Jenna Jameson and ended up with something alse?
The essence of P2P makes this kind of central control difficult if not impossible.
Clearly, the entertainment industry lobbyists are using this ignorance in their favor: get the states to legislate or sue for technically impossible requirements, thus forcing all the P2P out of business. Ingenious.
Wouldn't it be fantastic if the SP2 updater would first run Ad-Aware or an equivalent and kill all the spywarer on the machine before installing the actual updates? After rebooting, users would be astonished by how quickly Windows would work.
'Holy Crap Maude, my WeatherBug is gone but this thing shore is runnin quick!'
Even if this does work, in a big business, the left hand rarely knows what the right hand is doing. Its amazing what you won't find if you only use MSN search.
Seriously, this is not right. I mean, that outfit looks way too much like what he wore in Episode 1, as if I need those memories to come back...
Yes, and while we're at it, I would like a PDA that lights my cigarettes and wipes my ass for me.
/. bitch about the iPod not having x encoding format or x obscure-as-shit Operating System Compatibility, I would probably have about $40 U.S. Sir, the dead horse you are beating is little more than so much decomposed mush now. Let it go. Please.
I want it to be able to light normal filtered class A cigarettes, but also include support for 100s and unfiltered.
I want it to support 1-ply AND 2-ply toilet paper and be forward-compatible for new multiple-ply standards in the future.
I would also like it to be child and babysafe, so that if a toddler is within a certain proximity of the machine it will not light cigarettes and will only use baby wipes.
Furthermore, it must be fully compatible with my OS/2 Warp box.
And I would like a pony, but that last one is optional.
Anyone that does not acquiesce to these demands is being closed and proprietary. For shame!
Apple's possible legal action aside, the iPod is an example of product implementation where their goal was to do one thing and do it well: let people play tons of music on a well-designed, portable device. Google did the same thing with search by keeping it relatively simple.
If I had a nickel for everytime I heard someone on
Yes, everybody who isn't an intellectual or a quasi-intellectual would indeed be non-intellectual.
But now I'm being redundant...
Maybe:
'New for quasi-intellectual, artistic elitists. Stuff that splatters.'
No. But seriously, has this place become all Apple, all the time?
So much for the adage 'slow and steady wins the race.' I wonder how much money this guy lost in bonuses and stock options by giving up early.
I found this particularly interesting:
Knauss said at one of the first meetings with PortalPlayer, Fadell said, "This is the project that's going to remold Apple and 10 years from now, it's going to be a music business, not a computer business."
Why does oddpost's interface look like my old POP3 client?
Or Outlook 97. Yahoo's interface is a little cartoonish and could use some help with color contrasts (it's tougher to read on certain crappy LCD monitors), but I still prefer it to what screenshots I've seen from Oddpost.
Military School Principal: "The battles of the future will not be fought on a battleground or at sea, they will be fought in space. Or at the top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forward today, your duty is clear, to build and maintain those robots. Thank you." - The Simpsons
Ok, two things about this story are amazing.
Firstly, that a 4 year old toddler can hold 3 kilo individual handheld weights, straight out.
Secondly, that 'many adults' can't hold that much weight. My leatherbound volume of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy has to weigh AT LEAST that much. What the hell is wrong with people?
If they mis-handled Social Security numbers alone (simply by sending them to the TSA without the approval of the people who possess those SSNs) then this is a very clear violation of the Privacy Act. Hello lawsuit?
the link quotes Citizens Against Government Waste as saying: "Yet while the software itself is free, the cost to maintain and upgrade it can become very expensive. Acquisition costs commonly represent only a small percentage of the total cost of ownership. Maintenance, training and support are often more expensive with open source than proprietary software.
Imagine the state DMV being responsible for programming the software that runs its computers. Every little problem would require an outside consultant, racking up fees and slowing down services."
Every little problem already does require an outside consultant. I work for a large government agency, and, quite frankly, there are consultants galore needed to support Windows 2000 and Windows XP. The Exchange servers go down with frequency, as does web access which is controlled through a SQL powered proxy server(which crashes), not to mention IIS, which gets kicked in the nuts every time a new virus comes out. Not only is an army of permanent government employees needed to maintain this very unstable network, but they hire literally hundreds of consultants to provide tech support for every department, and even more to ensure wider network stability.
When I need something done for my computer, I don't call the regular tech support, but the consultant working on location, because he/she is always more knowledgable and competent. And we're talking about an agency that only uses Linux when someone illegally installs it to test LAMP.
iWalk picture=old and OBVIOUSLY photoshopped. I recall seeing this before, it might have been on /., and it was months ago. Hard to believe something like this made it to the front page.
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WarWatch: Because People Are Stupid
luddite.com claims to sell wooden pcs, although this website has been here for a few years, and they keep promising to launch on-line ordering. Seems kind of sketchy.
unenlightened. You are in no position to tell people who are most likely smarter than you that they are "unenlightened"
(Inigo Montoya voice) I do not think you are using that word correctly. I do not think it means what you think it means.
How does one become enlightened? And yes, the Hobbit is a childrens story, but wouldn't that make it all the more appropriate for you?