Wow, a rumble controller. Does *anybody* really care about this? Really? I know this is news for nerds but seriously, I can't imagine why anyone would care about a rumble controller. Isn't that like SO 1998?
If you're stupid enough to pay $500.00 or more for Bling AND run Windows on your computer, you're too stupid to have money. So you might as well give it to one of Satan's many minions. My $40.00 cell phone does everything a cell phone needs to do and I could still use it if my only computer was Commodore 64.
Um...so your phone can get you directions to that business meeting you've got in an hour? Oh wait, business, right you probably don't have any of that either. I'm not going to buy an iPhone anytime soon either, but I can't live and work without my blackberry. (or SOMETHING) These days, if your in the information business, a $40 cell phone isn't going to cut it sir. Welcome to 1998...
No, quite serious. I won't say I hated my visit, because I went for a specific event that I quite enjoyed. But everything else about the entire city I found loathesome.
You're not an idiot for your opinion, your an idiot for your statement "NYC really doesn't have a whole lot worth seeing in the first place." That is just entirely factually inaccurate.
NYC really doesn't have a whole lot worth seeing in the first place.
I'm really trying to figure out if you're kidding or just an idiot. Hate to be abrasive, but you've only been there once, and it sounds like you made a nice little tourist visit. "Times Square?" Please. "NYC really doesn't have a whole lot worth seeing in the first place"? Rube.
Reminds me of how back when cable TV started up the idea is that you were paying for more channels and you wouldn't have to deal with ads. Looks like some things never change.
Actually, I'm more pissed as a content provider then I am as a consumer. How dare they! If I wanted advertising on my content, I'd put it there, and get paid for it. For me, this is totally stealing from content providers and not just annoying to consumers. I mean, isn't that like making money off of other peoples content? Wouldn't that be more like a telephone company forcing you to listen to an add before you place or receive a call? Imagine....
Phone rings and you pick up....
(You) - Hello?
(Automated Hell) - Hello, this is A-T-And T, we have a call for you, but first, we'd like you to enjoy a message from our sponsors...
(You) - Click!
Or maybe he was trying to say... "Other advances include blog and wiki features for asynchronous communication and collaboration, building on the RSS services shared by Windows Vista and IE 7. Another significant announcement: integration with Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF), including a set of SharePoint-related WWF activities. SharePoint is expected to become the most commonly used host for the WWF engine."
Maybe what he was trying to say was "In asynchronous collaboration, SharePoint Portal Server extends Windows SharePoint Services with enterprise-scalable frameworks and services."
Doesn't every large ISP these days already do some amount of content filtering? i.e., anti-spam? Yeah, and they're really doing a bang up job with that now aren't they.
Plus, it's not really the same thing since all you'd have to do is encrypt the data, and they'd be unable to economically filter it.
My statement only applies to the public school system in the United states, more specifically to Georgia. Yeeaaahhhh...let's just go ahead and leave Georgia out of it. Besides being the 48th worst state for public education, Georgia is not exactly a good bench mark for the use of technology in the classroom. I have recently moved to Atlanta, and I live in a neighborhood of public school teachers, and yeah, from what I hear from them, it's not good. So let's just go ahead and leave out Georgia. Sorry that your public education was so bad dude.
I don't think you can justify C and Cobol. There are millions upon millions of lines of code in these two languages, and despite all the sexy new ones that have come along, these two still reign supreme; C is incredibly prevalent on dedicated systems and within a lot of operating systems, and mainframe Cobol code can still be found throughout the business world (though often cleverly disguised these days). I doubt a skilled Cobol programmer will be at risk of starving any time in the near future. I'll give you a dollar if you can find me ONE SINGLE deployment of mainframe COBOL that is being used for business that is not in the process of being phased out and redeveloped. Also, find me one person that knows and writes COBOL that doesn't hate his/her job. Worst language EVER. (Hollerith cards aside)
'C' will never die. Period. It has so many uses from PC's & 'big iron' to embedded systems. What is 'C'? Is that a language? Like latin?
I'm kidding, but only partially. I was a COBOL developer for lots of years, and I thought that COBOL would never die either. I would say "Too many companies are too invested..." blah blah blah. I think that I actually even used the 'big iron' quote too when telling my friend how secure COBOL was. Um...I was wrong. I found that out with plenty of time to learn other stuff like Java and so forth but of course it's going to die. Just like C++ will die, just like Java will die, et al. If you've been in our business long enough, you should know better. Everything dies, it's just a matter of time. And if you think you're going to get 30 years out of the technologies that are new now, then you're wrong there too. That's the double edge sword that is the IT business. Keep learning, keep growing or start flipping burgers.
"It's hardly a censorship issue. XM, as a private company can hire ad fire whoever they like, so long as they don't violate anyones rights."
Bingo! Thank you for being one of the few/. people who gets that. I don't think you get it. If all of your media (speech) is subject to censorship, how do you expect to be properly informed. I'm not going to try and argue that O&A are any source for news or information, BUT the culture of our mass media outlets are effected by their suspension, just like Imus's suspension.
Now, if any other media personality or producer has to fear his job when reporting a story, how honest and accurate can you expect your new/information to be. Basically, O&A were not suspended for the comments made on their show, but more by their reaction to them. So what does that mean for the nightly news. That's why you never hear about CNN news on CNN news, and why a story about Disney World being heard on any ABC station. The talent is afraid of saying anything about their boss. But what if their boss makes news...you'll never hear about it. Is that a good thing? Sure, it's their right to do it, but is it good? Do you support that behavior?
They weren't fired because of their comments. They were fired because they suck. This was just a convenient excuse for XM to release them from their contracts. They had next to no ratings which is evident from the 20K - 40K subscribers canceling. For a nationwide broadcast, that is just pathetic. These guys couldn't pull any ratings on terrestrial radio, how did anyone expect them to get ratings on satellite radio? Actually, they weren't fired at all. They were suspended. Plus, don't you know that for every one person that complains, that means 100 billion people were actually offended?
*every* year on tax filing deadline, either there's a super long line at the Post Office, or the e-filing sites are overloaded. can't people file a bit earlier? even a week ago would've been much better. Post office lines are one thing. Being a company that sells e-file service with no capacity to actually um...efile...is a whole different matter. If you don't get a refund and want to wait to give your money away till the last possible moment and there's a company who claims you can, why wouldn't you. Plus, if you tried to file on Turbo Tax's website last night, they never even posted a warning that they were experiencing problems. With the size of their company, one would think they'd be able to handle the load that they KNEW was coming. They sold over 10 million copies of the standalone product, plus based on last year's numbers, they KNEW what the volume would be like on their site. There is no excuse for not being prepared for the load. Plus, at the very least, they should have posted warnings all over their site so anyone coming to the site would know about the problems.
In real life, and online, you can get much better results by filing a day earlier. Not true with Turbo Tax, they were melted on Monday too. The meltdown's been reported on the boards since Monday morning.
This case shows that a county can take property from one landowner and give/sell to another landowner at will. You live in the property you "own" only at the whim of the county and state. Wrong. Like all eminent domain cases, they don't "take" your property. They force you to sell it. You could argue that it's still unfair, and that's fine, but they can't "take" your property. Not to mention the fact that in most eminent domain situations, the government usually pays well above market value for your property. Shame on you with your FUD.
That's an easy question to answer. We don't do these studies against sports because the people making the laws were brought up to revere them. In fact the majority of our population really believes that sports heroes, music idols, and the like are better people than others, that they have more valid views, et cetera. For example they always trot our celebrities to talk about the danger of climate change, as if they knew one fucking thing about it... When gamers become celebrities to mainstream society, which will happen if professional gaming ever takes off more throughout the world, then you're going to see the end of this "are videogames bad for society" shit. At that point we'll have "are space aliens bad for society" or "is using the fuck-o-tron for hours every night turning us into a planet of cock zombies" or some other ignorant crap. I don't think it's because anybody really believes that sports heroes or "stars" in general are better people with more valid views, it's just that people like watching and listening to them. "They" trot out celebs to speak about stuff, because they can keep people interested more than some boring airbag usually in the position to do so properly. Really, when it comes right down to it, who *really* cares what anybody thinks about anything?
I think that this is quite plausible; however, it's not the law. I actually drive SLOWER than I did before I became a Gran Turismo junkie, but it really taught me to follow a line, to preload, etc etc. I think a lot more about what the suspension is doing, for example, when I make a turn than I did before. Perhaps it's the other way around. Perhaps people who are dangerous drivers are attracted to games that allow one to be a dangerous driver? It seems pretty obvious to me. I love how people fail to see the fact that it COULD work the other way around when trying to link video game behavior to real life behavior. Why can't it be that, if you like a certain thing in life, you might seek that thing out in a game instead of the game affecting your life?
YouTube has much more chance of landing a Betamax-type verdict than Napster did. I'm not saying it's cut and dried, but I'd be surprised if they can't at least deflect the bulk of the liability to their (copyright infringing) users, which is arguably as it should be. $1 billion dollars? IANAL, but I just don't see it. I kind of agree with you. The same can be said for all the MySpace lawsuits out there. It's really a question of how courts will view the newish paradigm of websites being merely conduits for user behavior and simply trying to monetize the traffic. Maybe that's oversimplified though. I suppose if there was a magazine that printed reader submitted stories and happened to print excerpts of Moby Dick, the magazine publisher would probably be liable.
People suggest this every time, and every time the same response is valid: That's not a good solution on Google's part, because it ends up negatively impacting Google. I guess I agree with you but isn't that what Viacom is is doing. Basically, since the two couldn't come up with a deal they were both satisfied with, Viacom is basically taking their ball and going home. I mean, we've been reading about possible deals since Google bought YouTube. Plus, there's http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/08/06/business/go ogle.phpthis deal that they made in August with Google video. I agree they can't really remove Viacom from their apps but still, it would be nice for somebody to stand up to Viacom and the like. It'd be nice for someone to give them a taste of their own medicine. Plus, if Google can somehow win this case, which...psheew...is gonna be tough, I wonder what the implications would be on the rest of the copyright infringing world.
Google is arguably a monopoly, and monopolies can't act any way they see fit. Please explain to me how Google is a monopoly. A monopoly is defined as a persistent market situation where there is only one provider of a kind of product or service and I don't see how anybody can use that definition to describe Google. (Especially their search engine)
Seems like a questionable assumption to me. There's quite a bit we could possibly do about it, if we knew long enough in advance. It's only if we only knew about it a few weeks or months in advance, that it would probably be a bend-over-and-pucker-up moment. Does anyone else see the transparency of the NASA statement. Sure, we COULD find earth killers, but we don't have the money... We get it NASA, you're broke and nobody cares. You still want to be relevant but the problem is you're such a piece of shit bureaucracy that you just can't be anymore. It's your own fault. You've got outdated procedures and processes that don't work, you spend *WAY* too much money in failure and you have *NO* plan to fix your broken atmosphere of failure. Time to fold it up and start over.
Bad news, Rubin: Google is exactly right to say that. Fair Use Rule #4 evaluates "the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work." And I don't think it's hard to show that prominence on a Google property affects this potential market *extremely positively. I'd love to see how many "copyright holders" would actually make the choice of being delisted from any and all google enterprises rather than expose the copyrighted work. I'd love it if Google said something like..."All right , no soup for you" and then just delisted everything that had anything to do with them. I doubt they'd care much about infringement then.
It's all bullshit. They don't care about their copyrights until they think they can squeeze money from someone. When YouTube was just YouTube, there was just as much copyrighted stuff there ans there is now. "Google has deep pockets now. They must be infringing something of ours. Let's get em." It's bullshit, plus Google hasn't even started to realize the profit from YouTube advertising. If you were producing a sitcom, wouldn't you want clips of your crap to go viral on YouTube? It's got much better chance happening there than it does on mystupidsitcom.abc.disney.com that's for sure.
Yeah, I read the thread where you "tried" to get help. Your take on the episode doesn't have a lot to do with what you actually posted at the time. I actually didn't think he was being *that* much of a dick. I mean, you can tell he was frustrated. He takes a bunch of shots at the people trying to help him, but still, he just seems frustrated. I can relate. When I first started trying to use linux years ago, I encountered the same types of problems installing RedHat and suse.
The point of his bitching is that it didn't "Just Work" which is probably what has been forced down his throat by the people telling him to use Linux. Can't blame him for being pissed, only for being a dick about it. Just my opinion.
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Wow, a rumble controller. Does *anybody* really care about this? Really? I know this is news for nerds but seriously, I can't imagine why anyone would care about a rumble controller. Isn't that like SO 1998?
So, we're talking about multiple choice for passwords now? Sounds really secure.
Um...so your phone can get you directions to that business meeting you've got in an hour? Oh wait, business, right you probably don't have any of that either. I'm not going to buy an iPhone anytime soon either, but I can't live and work without my blackberry. (or SOMETHING) These days, if your in the information business, a $40 cell phone isn't going to cut it sir. Welcome to 1998...
You're not an idiot for your opinion, your an idiot for your statement "NYC really doesn't have a whole lot worth seeing in the first place." That is just entirely factually inaccurate.
I'm really trying to figure out if you're kidding or just an idiot. Hate to be abrasive, but you've only been there once, and it sounds like you made a nice little tourist visit. "Times Square?" Please. "NYC really doesn't have a whole lot worth seeing in the first place"? Rube.
Actually, I'm more pissed as a content provider then I am as a consumer. How dare they! If I wanted advertising on my content, I'd put it there, and get paid for it. For me, this is totally stealing from content providers and not just annoying to consumers. I mean, isn't that like making money off of other peoples content? Wouldn't that be more like a telephone company forcing you to listen to an add before you place or receive a call? Imagine....
Phone rings and you pick up....
(You) - Hello? (Automated Hell) - Hello, this is A-T-And T, we have a call for you, but first, we'd like you to enjoy a message from our sponsors...
(You) - Click!
Fuck that! Stealing content...bullshit.
Or maybe he was trying to say ... "Other advances include blog and wiki features for asynchronous communication and collaboration, building on the RSS services shared by Windows Vista and IE 7. Another significant announcement: integration with Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF), including a set of SharePoint-related WWF activities. SharePoint is expected to become the most commonly used host for the WWF engine."
Maybe what he was trying to say was "In asynchronous collaboration, SharePoint Portal Server extends Windows SharePoint Services with enterprise-scalable frameworks and services."
Plus, it's not really the same thing since all you'd have to do is encrypt the data, and they'd be unable to economically filter it.
I'm kidding, but only partially. I was a COBOL developer for lots of years, and I thought that COBOL would never die either. I would say "Too many companies are too invested
Now, if any other media personality or producer has to fear his job when reporting a story, how honest and accurate can you expect your new/information to be. Basically, O&A were not suspended for the comments made on their show, but more by their reaction to them. So what does that mean for the nightly news. That's why you never hear about CNN news on CNN news, and why a story about Disney World being heard on any ABC station. The talent is afraid of saying anything about their boss. But what if their boss makes news...you'll never hear about it. Is that a good thing? Sure, it's their right to do it, but is it good? Do you support that behavior?
Go home and get your shine box.
It's all bullshit. They don't care about their copyrights until they think they can squeeze money from someone. When YouTube was just YouTube, there was just as much copyrighted stuff there ans there is now. "Google has deep pockets now. They must be infringing something of ours. Let's get em." It's bullshit, plus Google hasn't even started to realize the profit from YouTube advertising. If you were producing a sitcom, wouldn't you want clips of your crap to go viral on YouTube? It's got much better chance happening there than it does on mystupidsitcom.abc.disney.com that's for sure.