" They've already made it plain they don't want third-party email account checkers; now you're going to subject them to transient file storage addons?"
Good thing they're not an evil company, LOL. the only problem i see here is getting to rely on this system then having Google get pissy again (some would say... "evil") and find yourself locked out from critical easy access to your files.
On that note, why is this horribly abusive of Google? They're the ones giving you the massive amount of free space with virtually unlimited attatchment sizes. It's online storage and danged if this program doesn't use it for exactly that. I'm failing to see the huge, critical difference between sending email back and forth between huge online storage containers and simply using the online storage container for what it is via Linux.
No, it's all control, and it's about time people relaized that Google is just as "evil" as every other company when it comes to that and their company/stock profits. Between crap like this and that stock stunt, that self-claimed good guy image didn't last very long, did it?
"Recently, Google's gmail service has attempted to change login protocols to block third-party gmail notifiers that alert you to new email."
So, the two million byte question is when will people accept the fact that Google is just as "evil" as half the other companies out there despite its professed black sheep good-guy policy? Right here, we have Google striving to lock 3rd parties out of its email client, something universally hated when it come to MSN and Yahoo IM's, while Google itself is happily absorbing as many 3rd party features into it's core service as possible ala Windows. Hell, Google is a quasi-dictionary now as well as advertising service and potentially an online store front for ecommerce in the near future. Even there IPO was rigged in order to put them in the best position possible by feeding off wildly speculatory and inflated stock... At least until they realized the market wasn't going to play that game.
Personally I have no problem with this. Business is business. But I'm just wondering when people will take the blinders off and realize Google is just another MSN, Yahoo or Windows, and not the cool counter e-culture phenomenom masses worship.
"BOSE has found the happy medium by using electromagnetic motors, power amplifiers, & computer control algorithms"
To be used in combustion engines exclusively since it'd likely take way to much power for use in a electric/hybrid vehical. But I guess it's the thought that counts, right?
Didn't say I was looking for an action movie, just that most element of it are so poorly executed it's unacceptable. Yes, it made me think about AI, but shouldn't "The Best SciFi Movie of All Time" do more than just be a interesting concept? 6th Day was an interesting/powerful scientific concept on cloning and artifical life too, but you won't see me nominating it for Best of the Best and frankly, niether should Blade Runner on that merit alone.
"When a compile or test fails, the red lava lamp gets switched on... The delay in the lamp heating up gives you a few minutes to fix things before it becomes obvious to co-workers that you broke the build."
I mean, if you're looking for that sort of subterfuge to mask your screwup, why buy one to begin with again? Do you absolutely need a delayed action screw-up beacon. I mean, the moment the damn thing turns on, people are going to know you fucked up anyway even without an undulating blob since the entire lamp GLOWS WITH LIGHT, warm or cold.
I nominate this for the "Weakest Excuse for Lava Lamp Placement in a Workcenter" Award. Thank you.
Ok, I'll give it points for concept and visulization, but my God, the acting and excecution of this movie stank to high heaven. I know we're all Gibson freaks and the like here, but am I the only one that thinks this movie is possible one of Harrison Ford's absolute WORST perfomances?? I mean cool AI concept aside, this movie bored me to freakin' tears as it shambled from one scene to the next.
I mean, if we're calling out the best based on concept and SFX (for the day), maybe (and I stress "maybe") this movie qualifies, but there are so many other areas this movie falls down in that it shouldn't even be considered in the top five. Obviously we're considering 'cool sciencey feel' here more than overall content.
"My biggest annoyance with the current version is that it keeps reinstalling features, which requires me to reinsert the master disc over and over."
I'm sorry, but from the moment he opens his mouth, this guy sounds like a PC n00b from the moment he opens his mouth. Leaving aside the fact that I've never had this problem, you might start to suspect that just maybe something in Word's inner workings got corrupted to cause that sort of problem. That's further supported by his next statement,
"An error occurred and this feature is no longer functioning properly. Would you like to repair this feature now?"
Come on now. It doesn't take a genius to see that this just isn't a Word design flaw or bug, it's more like you've downloaded too many warez with viruses or spyware or possibly even deleted something you really weren't supposed to. But no, this is Word kludge that EVERYBODY has a problem with since he has a problem with it. Then he has a moment of genius--
"I suppose I should reinstall Word, but..."
--Immedietly followed by herd stupidity and laziness. Word does have fusterations, but I've managed to disable or circumvent nearly all of them. God forbid, I even disabled clippy and I haven't seen him since dispite the incessant bitching one hears about it on a regular basis.
The funny thing is, I agree with the man that Word needs streamlined and overhauled, but not for the reasons this guy is citing. Over half of his story relates to an issue that is an obvious corruption in the program itself and really does need to be reinstalled. Something ate its lunch and it's time to repave over it. It happens.
And given the fact that this guy is so the expert on the subject, I can't help but to note that he didn't even mention the submitters suggestion to move to an open source solution if Word is in such dire need of an overhaul. If the open source option is as good as the submitter claims, you'd think that'd be the most obvious solution right there instead of bitching at MS to rework Word. Switch and vote with your wallet. But this 'expert' doesn't even touch the topic.
"Although the state's right to take all necessary measures that it deems necessary is recognized, there is fear that these measures will have a negative impact on basic human rights."...Until that snack truck(s) blows up in the middle of a crowd, killing and maiming scores of people while raining lunchen meat down upon the shell-shocked masses. Then we can create an 'Olympic Investigation Commision' to slog through this farce again, wasting tax-payer dollars to lament on the couldwouldshouldas and the need to create an omni-potent 'Olympic Intelligence' czar to prevent future attacks, while politizing the entire investigation and turning up token results.
Sorry, but I gotta pass on this one. It's the freakin Olympics. If survellience at the public games is the worst "human rights" violation you can come up with, pardon me if I sleep in tommorow. People suffer worse invasions of their privacy stepping into casinos anywhere in the world.
"I wonder how soon it will be that everyone has one except those resigned to paying extra as with grocery 'convenience' cards."
As long as we're making sweeping generalizations, let's not forget the fact that there will always be stores that don't require the card, just like there will always be websites that don't require you to pay for those e-cards (hallmark.com), even while others do (bluemountain.com). I know Alarmnism is a fact of slashnot life, but there will always be competition that won't require these boxes, simply because they know there is a large consumer base of people like us out there who just don't want to deal with them.
"Yet another reason to switch to, IMHO, a better client such as gaim."
I know we're all open-source whores here, but even the free version of Trillian is a much better omnipotent IM product as long as we're suggesting alternatives. The level of refinment between the two is lightyears apart. And yes, I'm using Firefox to jot this, thankyouverymuch.
"The Register reports that British school children will be indoctrinated in copyright law...The U.S. has its own version."
While I can't speak for the British, it's really too bad how selective schools are in teaching history. "Sure, we'll go in-depth with copyright law because we're getting kickbacks, but only give a passing glance at how the rest of the government really works and the mechanic behind it and its creation..." I mean cripes, it's obvious from the last election that half the population of the United States doesn't even know what the electoral college is, let alone its purpose.
...Because they'll REALLY need copyright law in the future, right? This is why public education is a bad idea. If it isn't Coke propping your school for a presence in the cafeteria, it's crap like this.
"Are we about to enter another era where employers are willing to make work fun again, in order to attract and keep talent?"
If you aren't seeing perks, you're working in the wrong industry, because they've never really gone away. Far be it for me to mention a job outside the IT industry, but my job at a major airline offers plenty of perks, the biggest of which being free travel. As much as I lament it sometimes, it's no more or less stable than the tech industry, which by and large isn't.
It's all a matter of where you've worked these last few years.
"CNN is running a story about how ours might be a unique solar system. Of the 100+ systems currently known to contain planets, all contain seemingly only gas giants. However, this may be a case of current technology and techniques being unable to detect planets similar to Earth."
Let's face it, this CNN story is the slashdot version of "The Death of Gaming"-- Something you run every now and then not because it's fresh, new, exciting or even informative, but because you have nothing else. I mean, regardless of the fact that we really don't have the technology to see earth sized planets reliably over intergalactic distances, it's just something they need to rehash every now and then. Earth is alone in the universe just like the PC gaming industry will come to a crashing, screaming halt exactly one year from today, regardless of the busted logic used to arrive at those assertions.
The thing that does surprise me most is that this is probably the closest you'll ever see a major media outlet all but admit that there is a divine power, because for the Earth to be unique, you need something to control the inherent chaos that would allow for an infinite number of possibilities and life therein on other worlds. After all, random chance over an infinite playing field all but guarantees life somewhere out there.
But is this really a surprise? This is the same mentality that thought up the Coffee Tax for Seattle. There is always somebody looking to put there unwelcome hands into you wallet while doing nothing to earn the money they're taking ; from the government on down.
While most of us would find this guys actions appropriate, he obviously did not understand the attitude of the management he worked for, and THAT is what determines whether his actions were right or wrong, not what you or I or even he thought. When it became obvious that upper management didn't give a shit, his job as IT narc was done. At that point, his actions should have been regulated to gathering evidence for that day when things came crashing down (and they would have eventially) to cover his ass. If your bosses have expressed a distinct disinterest in how that posisition was managed, YOU are in the wrong for going any further, as much as it pains me to say it. At that point, you may be stepping on good ol' boy toes or some other crap, and while you have the right to do it, your an idiot for doing so.
It really surprises me that after 21 years of supposed service, this guy gets canned for the expose, which leads me to believe there is something(s) we're all not being told. 21 years and this guy still doesn't have a sensible grasp of the environment that would can him as sooner than praise him? 21 years and this guy is worth less than a solitair playing spider monkey? Normally that only happens when they're just dying for an excuse to get rid of you, normally after you've done something to piss them off.
Sorry, but thing aren't adding up here for the righteous IT guy here. I'm betting he screwed the pooch way before this incident.
"Report him for what? He doesn't seem to have committed any crime.
Vigilante: A member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law appear inadequate); broadly : a self-appointed doer of justice
"You can't see the logic in them not wanting unfinished digital copies floating around?"
Ok, and what does that have to do with releasing the finished version only on iTunes?? Fine, they don't want rough copies on the internet. SO WTF DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH A LIMITED RELEASE THAT PURPOSELY EXCLUDES THE LARGER MAJORITY OF CD BUYING FANS??!??! I wouldn't want my unfinished crap all over the net either, but freakin 'A' does not equal 'B' here. You don't like drafts on the net, fine, but tighten security on your recording sessions and find the leak, NOT SCREW YOUr FANBASE OVER by only releasing the finished product over a medium that caters to a small percentage of people who listen to your music! A DIGITAL MEDIUM, YOU FUCKING CHIMP! They might as well have posted it on Kazaa themfuckingselves!
Besides, if they are long time fans listening to rough, uncut masters, dontcha think they'd know it? Dontcha think that maybe- just maybe! -That the people you're describing know what a finished product sounds like????? A rough cut isn't going to make a shit of difference to these fans.
"After a rough cut of U2's latest unfinished album was stolen earlier this week, the band has vowed to release the entire album on iTunes if the music appears on P2P networks."
...Yeah, and????
I mean, is that a threat? Because I truely am baffled. "By golly, since somebody stole our copy, we'll release the entire damn thing on iTunes!" Ok, so we're going to punish the large majority of our innocent fanbase who still easily outnumber the.mp3 wired, deny ourselves a huge revenue stream and put it strait to digital format so the pirates don't have to work too hard to get it.
Aside from the potential bonus of making iTunes more popular, there's no freakin' logic to this action. Millions of people who have never downloaded a song in their lives are being cut out of the loop for.... Uh, what was that reasoning again???
"Add another bonus point for the Darwinians/evolutionists
And how the heck is this evolution having to do with Darwin again? It's pretty common knowledge that when one ability is damaged or no longer useable that other abilities step in to fill the void. DOGS can do this. You know, the ones that lost both of their front legs and now balance exclusively on their backs?? "Look, Jed! Sparky's walkin' on two legs! FUCKING EVOLUTION AT WORK!!!"
Give it a rest already. There are no bonus points to be scored here. It's a well documented and well worn fact of life. Somebody is reaching way too hard for the monolith.
"If PC gaming is going to survive it's going to have to do so in the well-lit family rooms and dens of America right along side the GameCube, PS2 and Xbox"
Whoops, PC Gaming vs. Console Gaming misconception #1: "PC gaming will die off because consoles will eventially have the same horsepower for a lower price."
WRONG.
It's an utter falicy that the PC needs to fight for it's life against a console in the gaming world for one simple fact-- Gaming on the PC is completely different. First, consider the kind of games you play on the PC versus those you play on a console. It's all an issue of complexity, and half of that is the input devices availible to you. Information management is where the console falls flat on it's face, into the mud and stays there. And it's not likely to get up anytime soon because of the fundemental philosophy behind it-- All information must be accessed through a gamepad in order to make gaming as brainless as possible. Even in comparible (and simpler) games, like FPSs, you will never find a device equal to a mouse, and it's something that console makers give a wide berth in favor of the formentioned philosophy.
Also, the PC is the home of grass roots gaming. With a PC, you can become the next Counter Strike of gaming. Speaking of which, what was the last count of people playing that mod? Yeah, keep telling me PC gamin is in trouble 9_9 The PC will also always be the home of cutting edge gaming, since developers don't have to wait until the next full out console release 3 years down the road to push the envelope a little further. If it's good, people will upgrade their hardware right the and there just to buy your product, royalty free I might add. No console barons, specialized code/hardware required.
But I guess we have to break out The Death of Gaming myth just to keep things lively now and then, right?
"Hubble has provided more return for the money than any other government funded science effort."
Ok, so name it. Something. Anything. Fine, we have theories about how the universe was formed. There might be planets out there. Look, a binary star system. Is that a black hole in the center of the galaxy? All of this is great. Really. But when it comes down to brass tacks, these intangibles are still a negative on the books. I won't claim to be a slashnot expert astronomer, but we're literally so far removed from most of what hubble is studying that it isn't that pressing of an issue, quite frankly. Mysteries of the universe are great. But in worlds with finite budgetary concerns and our current stonage level of galactic technology, deep sixing hubble isn't going to make a drop in the bucket, frankly.
Right now the funds are needed to get from point A to point B. Catching glimpses of point Z at this juncture is a luxury. I'm sure we'll have enough time to try it again later.
Don't get so emotional. It's not your fault you don't understand basic economics or the concept of Wants versus Needs. You want to study the cosmos. NASA needs the money somewhere else. See? Simple stuff.
Now I'm going to rain on half of everybodies parade and get modded strait to hell for doing so, but why should they put hubble back in orbit? No offense- and I like interstellar polaroids as much as you do -but hubble cost an ass-ton of money to maintain while showing next to no tangible returns other than said polaroids. Seeing fuzzy blobs that may be planets gets us... Nothing. "Seeing" further into space gets us exactly nowhere. I'm not talking within the solar system here, I'm talking about the crap we'll never be able to confirm in our lifetimes. And as harsh as it sounds, given the choice- hubble or the moon or mars -I'd pull the plug on hubble in a heartbeat too for as much of a bite as it takes out of my current budget.
Practically put, Hubble is a black hole for money with little tangible return on investement. In a budget where every dollar counts, Hubble is the obvious loser, and perhapse rightfully so. This is also an object lesson for all of those crying about how NASA and the current administration can spend their money better. Well here it is. Kinda leaves a sour taste in your mouth, don't it?
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" They've already made it plain they don't want third-party email account checkers; now you're going to subject them to transient file storage addons?"
Good thing they're not an evil company, LOL. the only problem i see here is getting to rely on this system then having Google get pissy again (some would say... "evil") and find yourself locked out from critical easy access to your files.
On that note, why is this horribly abusive of Google? They're the ones giving you the massive amount of free space with virtually unlimited attatchment sizes. It's online storage and danged if this program doesn't use it for exactly that. I'm failing to see the huge, critical difference between sending email back and forth between huge online storage containers and simply using the online storage container for what it is via Linux.
No, it's all control, and it's about time people relaized that Google is just as "evil" as every other company when it comes to that and their company/stock profits. Between crap like this and that stock stunt, that self-claimed good guy image didn't last very long, did it?
"Recently, Google's gmail service has attempted to change login protocols to block third-party gmail notifiers that alert you to new email."
So, the two million byte question is when will people accept the fact that Google is just as "evil" as half the other companies out there despite its professed black sheep good-guy policy? Right here, we have Google striving to lock 3rd parties out of its email client, something universally hated when it come to MSN and Yahoo IM's, while Google itself is happily absorbing as many 3rd party features into it's core service as possible ala Windows. Hell, Google is a quasi-dictionary now as well as advertising service and potentially an online store front for ecommerce in the near future. Even there IPO was rigged in order to put them in the best position possible by feeding off wildly speculatory and inflated stock... At least until they realized the market wasn't going to play that game.
Personally I have no problem with this. Business is business. But I'm just wondering when people will take the blinders off and realize Google is just another MSN, Yahoo or Windows, and not the cool counter e-culture phenomenom masses worship.
"BOSE has found the happy medium by using electromagnetic motors, power amplifiers, & computer control algorithms"
To be used in combustion engines exclusively since it'd likely take way to much power for use in a electric/hybrid vehical. But I guess it's the thought that counts, right?
Has somebody been watching Cartoon Network? Kids Next Door? Come on, you can be honest with us...
Didn't say I was looking for an action movie, just that most element of it are so poorly executed it's unacceptable. Yes, it made me think about AI, but shouldn't "The Best SciFi Movie of All Time" do more than just be a interesting concept? 6th Day was an interesting/powerful scientific concept on cloning and artifical life too, but you won't see me nominating it for Best of the Best and frankly, niether should Blade Runner on that merit alone.
"When a compile or test fails, the red lava lamp gets switched on... The delay in the lamp heating up gives you a few minutes to fix things before it becomes obvious to co-workers that you broke the build."
I mean, if you're looking for that sort of subterfuge to mask your screwup, why buy one to begin with again? Do you absolutely need a delayed action screw-up beacon. I mean, the moment the damn thing turns on, people are going to know you fucked up anyway even without an undulating blob since the entire lamp GLOWS WITH LIGHT, warm or cold.
I nominate this for the "Weakest Excuse for Lava Lamp Placement in a Workcenter" Award. Thank you.
Ok, I'll give it points for concept and visulization, but my God, the acting and excecution of this movie stank to high heaven. I know we're all Gibson freaks and the like here, but am I the only one that thinks this movie is possible one of Harrison Ford's absolute WORST perfomances?? I mean cool AI concept aside, this movie bored me to freakin' tears as it shambled from one scene to the next.
I mean, if we're calling out the best based on concept and SFX (for the day), maybe (and I stress "maybe") this movie qualifies, but there are so many other areas this movie falls down in that it shouldn't even be considered in the top five. Obviously we're considering 'cool sciencey feel' here more than overall content.
IMfuckingO, of course.
"how can any consumer intelligently know which one to buy into?"
Um, the same way they always have? Diligent research, maybe? I mean, it's just a thought...
"My biggest annoyance with the current version is that it keeps reinstalling features, which requires me to reinsert the master disc over and over."
I'm sorry, but from the moment he opens his mouth, this guy sounds like a PC n00b from the moment he opens his mouth. Leaving aside the fact that I've never had this problem, you might start to suspect that just maybe something in Word's inner workings got corrupted to cause that sort of problem. That's further supported by his next statement,
"An error occurred and this feature is no longer functioning properly. Would you like to repair this feature now?"
Come on now. It doesn't take a genius to see that this just isn't a Word design flaw or bug, it's more like you've downloaded too many warez with viruses or spyware or possibly even deleted something you really weren't supposed to. But no, this is Word kludge that EVERYBODY has a problem with since he has a problem with it. Then he has a moment of genius--
"I suppose I should reinstall Word, but..."
--Immedietly followed by herd stupidity and laziness. Word does have fusterations, but I've managed to disable or circumvent nearly all of them. God forbid, I even disabled clippy and I haven't seen him since dispite the incessant bitching one hears about it on a regular basis.
The funny thing is, I agree with the man that Word needs streamlined and overhauled, but not for the reasons this guy is citing. Over half of his story relates to an issue that is an obvious corruption in the program itself and really does need to be reinstalled. Something ate its lunch and it's time to repave over it. It happens.
And given the fact that this guy is so the expert on the subject, I can't help but to note that he didn't even mention the submitters suggestion to move to an open source solution if Word is in such dire need of an overhaul. If the open source option is as good as the submitter claims, you'd think that'd be the most obvious solution right there instead of bitching at MS to rework Word. Switch and vote with your wallet. But this 'expert' doesn't even touch the topic.
Go figure.
"Although the state's right to take all necessary measures that it deems necessary is recognized, there is fear that these measures will have a negative impact on basic human rights." ...Until that snack truck(s) blows up in the middle of a crowd, killing and maiming scores of people while raining lunchen meat down upon the shell-shocked masses. Then we can create an 'Olympic Investigation Commision' to slog through this farce again, wasting tax-payer dollars to lament on the couldwouldshouldas and the need to create an omni-potent 'Olympic Intelligence' czar to prevent future attacks, while politizing the entire investigation and turning up token results.
Sorry, but I gotta pass on this one. It's the freakin Olympics. If survellience at the public games is the worst "human rights" violation you can come up with, pardon me if I sleep in tommorow. People suffer worse invasions of their privacy stepping into casinos anywhere in the world.
"I wonder how soon it will be that everyone has one except those resigned to paying extra as with grocery 'convenience' cards."
As long as we're making sweeping generalizations, let's not forget the fact that there will always be stores that don't require the card, just like there will always be websites that don't require you to pay for those e-cards (hallmark.com), even while others do (bluemountain.com). I know Alarmnism is a fact of slashnot life, but there will always be competition that won't require these boxes, simply because they know there is a large consumer base of people like us out there who just don't want to deal with them.
"Yet another reason to switch to, IMHO, a better client such as gaim."
I know we're all open-source whores here, but even the free version of Trillian is a much better omnipotent IM product as long as we're suggesting alternatives. The level of refinment between the two is lightyears apart. And yes, I'm using Firefox to jot this, thankyouverymuch.
While I can't speak for the British, it's really too bad how selective schools are in teaching history. "Sure, we'll go in-depth with copyright law because we're getting kickbacks, but only give a passing glance at how the rest of the government really works and the mechanic behind it and its creation..." I mean cripes, it's obvious from the last election that half the population of the United States doesn't even know what the electoral college is, let alone its purpose.
"Are we about to enter another era where employers are willing to make work fun again, in order to attract and keep talent?"
If you aren't seeing perks, you're working in the wrong industry, because they've never really gone away. Far be it for me to mention a job outside the IT industry, but my job at a major airline offers plenty of perks, the biggest of which being free travel. As much as I lament it sometimes, it's no more or less stable than the tech industry, which by and large isn't.
It's all a matter of where you've worked these last few years.
"CNN is running a story about how ours might be a unique solar system. Of the 100+ systems currently known to contain planets, all contain seemingly only gas giants. However, this may be a case of current technology and techniques being unable to detect planets similar to Earth."
Let's face it, this CNN story is the slashdot version of "The Death of Gaming"-- Something you run every now and then not because it's fresh, new, exciting or even informative, but because you have nothing else. I mean, regardless of the fact that we really don't have the technology to see earth sized planets reliably over intergalactic distances, it's just something they need to rehash every now and then. Earth is alone in the universe just like the PC gaming industry will come to a crashing, screaming halt exactly one year from today, regardless of the busted logic used to arrive at those assertions.
The thing that does surprise me most is that this is probably the closest you'll ever see a major media outlet all but admit that there is a divine power, because for the Earth to be unique, you need something to control the inherent chaos that would allow for an infinite number of possibilities and life therein on other worlds. After all, random chance over an infinite playing field all but guarantees life somewhere out there.
But is this really a surprise? This is the same mentality that thought up the Coffee Tax for Seattle. There is always somebody looking to put there unwelcome hands into you wallet while doing nothing to earn the money they're taking ; from the government on down.
In Soviet Russia, the products experience you!
Meh, you'd had to been there...
While most of us would find this guys actions appropriate, he obviously did not understand the attitude of the management he worked for, and THAT is what determines whether his actions were right or wrong, not what you or I or even he thought. When it became obvious that upper management didn't give a shit, his job as IT narc was done. At that point, his actions should have been regulated to gathering evidence for that day when things came crashing down (and they would have eventially) to cover his ass. If your bosses have expressed a distinct disinterest in how that posisition was managed, YOU are in the wrong for going any further, as much as it pains me to say it. At that point, you may be stepping on good ol' boy toes or some other crap, and while you have the right to do it, your an idiot for doing so.
It really surprises me that after 21 years of supposed service, this guy gets canned for the expose, which leads me to believe there is something(s) we're all not being told. 21 years and this guy still doesn't have a sensible grasp of the environment that would can him as sooner than praise him? 21 years and this guy is worth less than a solitair playing spider monkey? Normally that only happens when they're just dying for an excuse to get rid of you, normally after you've done something to piss them off.
Sorry, but thing aren't adding up here for the righteous IT guy here. I'm betting he screwed the pooch way before this incident.
"Report him for what? He doesn't seem to have committed any crime.
Vigilante: A member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law appear inadequate); broadly : a self-appointed doer of justice
"You can't see the logic in them not wanting unfinished digital copies floating around?"
Ok, and what does that have to do with releasing the finished version only on iTunes?? Fine, they don't want rough copies on the internet. SO WTF DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH A LIMITED RELEASE THAT PURPOSELY EXCLUDES THE LARGER MAJORITY OF CD BUYING FANS??!??! I wouldn't want my unfinished crap all over the net either, but freakin 'A' does not equal 'B' here. You don't like drafts on the net, fine, but tighten security on your recording sessions and find the leak, NOT SCREW YOUr FANBASE OVER by only releasing the finished product over a medium that caters to a small percentage of people who listen to your music! A DIGITAL MEDIUM, YOU FUCKING CHIMP! They might as well have posted it on Kazaa themfuckingselves!
Besides, if they are long time fans listening to rough, uncut masters, dontcha think they'd know it? Dontcha think that maybe- just maybe! -That the people you're describing know what a finished product sounds like????? A rough cut isn't going to make a shit of difference to these fans.
Fucking spider monkey.
"After a rough cut of U2's latest unfinished album was stolen earlier this week, the band has vowed to release the entire album on iTunes if the music appears on P2P networks."
.mp3 wired, deny ourselves a huge revenue stream and put it strait to digital format so the pirates don't have to work too hard to get it.
...Yeah, and????
I mean, is that a threat? Because I truely am baffled. "By golly, since somebody stole our copy, we'll release the entire damn thing on iTunes!" Ok, so we're going to punish the large majority of our innocent fanbase who still easily outnumber the
Aside from the potential bonus of making iTunes more popular, there's no freakin' logic to this action. Millions of people who have never downloaded a song in their lives are being cut out of the loop for.... Uh, what was that reasoning again???
Yeah... You go U2. Show em who's boss. ^_^
"Add another bonus point for the Darwinians/evolutionists
And how the heck is this evolution having to do with Darwin again? It's pretty common knowledge that when one ability is damaged or no longer useable that other abilities step in to fill the void. DOGS can do this. You know, the ones that lost both of their front legs and now balance exclusively on their backs?? "Look, Jed! Sparky's walkin' on two legs! FUCKING EVOLUTION AT WORK!!!"
Give it a rest already. There are no bonus points to be scored here. It's a well documented and well worn fact of life. Somebody is reaching way too hard for the monolith.
"If PC gaming is going to survive it's going to have to do so in the well-lit family rooms and dens of America right along side the GameCube, PS2 and Xbox"
Whoops, PC Gaming vs. Console Gaming misconception #1: "PC gaming will die off because consoles will eventially have the same horsepower for a lower price."
WRONG.
It's an utter falicy that the PC needs to fight for it's life against a console in the gaming world for one simple fact-- Gaming on the PC is completely different. First, consider the kind of games you play on the PC versus those you play on a console. It's all an issue of complexity, and half of that is the input devices availible to you. Information management is where the console falls flat on it's face, into the mud and stays there. And it's not likely to get up anytime soon because of the fundemental philosophy behind it-- All information must be accessed through a gamepad in order to make gaming as brainless as possible. Even in comparible (and simpler) games, like FPSs, you will never find a device equal to a mouse, and it's something that console makers give a wide berth in favor of the formentioned philosophy.
Also, the PC is the home of grass roots gaming. With a PC, you can become the next Counter Strike of gaming. Speaking of which, what was the last count of people playing that mod? Yeah, keep telling me PC gamin is in trouble 9_9 The PC will also always be the home of cutting edge gaming, since developers don't have to wait until the next full out console release 3 years down the road to push the envelope a little further. If it's good, people will upgrade their hardware right the and there just to buy your product, royalty free I might add. No console barons, specialized code/hardware required.
But I guess we have to break out The Death of Gaming myth just to keep things lively now and then, right?
"Hubble has provided more return for the money than any other government funded science effort."
Ok, so name it. Something. Anything. Fine, we have theories about how the universe was formed. There might be planets out there. Look, a binary star system. Is that a black hole in the center of the galaxy? All of this is great. Really. But when it comes down to brass tacks, these intangibles are still a negative on the books. I won't claim to be a slashnot expert astronomer, but we're literally so far removed from most of what hubble is studying that it isn't that pressing of an issue, quite frankly. Mysteries of the universe are great. But in worlds with finite budgetary concerns and our current stonage level of galactic technology, deep sixing hubble isn't going to make a drop in the bucket, frankly.
Right now the funds are needed to get from point A to point B. Catching glimpses of point Z at this juncture is a luxury. I'm sure we'll have enough time to try it again later.
Don't get so emotional. It's not your fault you don't understand basic economics or the concept of Wants versus Needs. You want to study the cosmos. NASA needs the money somewhere else. See? Simple stuff.
Now I'm going to rain on half of everybodies parade and get modded strait to hell for doing so, but why should they put hubble back in orbit? No offense- and I like interstellar polaroids as much as you do -but hubble cost an ass-ton of money to maintain while showing next to no tangible returns other than said polaroids. Seeing fuzzy blobs that may be planets gets us... Nothing. "Seeing" further into space gets us exactly nowhere. I'm not talking within the solar system here, I'm talking about the crap we'll never be able to confirm in our lifetimes. And as harsh as it sounds, given the choice- hubble or the moon or mars -I'd pull the plug on hubble in a heartbeat too for as much of a bite as it takes out of my current budget.
Practically put, Hubble is a black hole for money with little tangible return on investement. In a budget where every dollar counts, Hubble is the obvious loser, and perhapse rightfully so. This is also an object lesson for all of those crying about how NASA and the current administration can spend their money better. Well here it is. Kinda leaves a sour taste in your mouth, don't it?