Ok, so I don't know what worries me most: the fact that this made it to the front page of slashdot or the fact that I know those bikinis even tho tecmo's page seems to be slashdotted.
I need to get a life... but at least I'm not the only one.
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Will somebody with mod points and half a sense of humor please mod parent +5 funny??!!
But the point isn't to make you pay for the music you downloaded illegallly, but to make you pay for revenue lost because you made it available free of charge to others that might have bought said CD.
Dude, I don't know if you are for real or are just trying to be funny, but here goes nothing.
My stratagy is simple, know everything and have everyone else think you are the only one who knows everything.
Only if you are trying to lock yourself in your current position. "Sorry, man, we seriously considered making you the regional VP, but, who would run our systems?"
Also, if you get a chance, smooch with the Director/Sr. manager
Just don't overdo it, as it might breed resentment with your fellow employees. Also, if everybody identifies you as the director's main minion, if he's axed, chances are you will be too.
A nice way to prevent is to include your fellow coworkers in these kind activities.
Can anyone explain the official answer? It seemed like they responded almost every point with "we have no knowledge..." and ended up requesting a trial by jury.
But seriously, is it just me, or does this sound TOTALLY lame?
It does. Remember that movie, Gotcha! Where a bunch of people went around in a school (College?) shooting each other with paint guns?
If you tought that was cool, then you'll probably like this "high tech" version of the game. Others will probably think of it as "grown men shooting each other with toy weapons".
How long until a provider shows up promising to delete log files every day? Even better, every hour?
Somehow I don't see this happening. From a provider's point of view, logs are far too important.
Sometimes accounting is based on those logs, and even if they aren't, there's always the issue of accountability. (Say, a customer complains that he hasn't been able to connect in the past four months, ISP pulls authentication logs and shows him that someone has been using his account from xyz phone number, for x amount of time, etc.)
Open standards... I.E. Tell me the frick how your files are saved from your program! It doesn't hurt, hell it don't even tickle. and it does nothing but help everyone.
My first reaction to your comment was:
"Maybe I don't want the files saved by my program to be opened by any other program. Don't like that? Then don't fricking use my program."
Of course, it's not black and white (is it ever?) In a well regulated market there's usually a provision for the regulatory organism to keep tabs on the "dominant provider" to make sure it doesn't throws everything off balance.
Still, I'm all about choice. Open standards are well and good (and should be embraced), but the way to enforce them should not be thru goverment mandated fines.
Years ago, I was told that the reason for leaving the engine idling was that the big diesels were far too difficult to start up cold.
This might not be an issue on modern trucks tho, but I remember driving an old (1985, but well maintained) diesel pickup that was a bitch to start up cold. Some mornings I'd just leave the glow spark (or whatever it's called) on for some minutes before trying.
He! Same here. I learned to type in a couple of *very* old Olympia typewriter. Non-electric. You could grow some hefty biceps just operating the carriage return lever.
However, all of the children in the European version of Fallout 2 were removed (but none of the puzzles/quests involving them, leading to annoyingly unfinishable tasks...)
Oh, man! Now I know! Odd, I don't remember this being mentioned in the FAQs or the Interplay website. Thank god they weren't required for the main quest. I just gave up trying to find/rescue that kid from the underground people.
Called (from teh whois) the tech support guy for the site and gave him shit (blocked caller id on my cell, and when he asked for my number so he could "remove it from the list" told him to go fuck himself)
Man, I was virtually cheering for you until you reached this point, where you insulted the hell out of someone who probably can't help you at all for no reason except maybe getting it off your chest.
Same as a supermarket, complaining to the cashier about the prices will only get you an anoyed look. You should have asked for the supervisor/manager and threaten to sue or denounce or whatever.
I once worked an abuse help desk, and point #6 will probably only yield an amusing anecdote for whatever operator to share with his co-workers during lunch:
-- "so, this guy, out of nowhere called all pissed and told me to fuck myself"
-- "so what did you do"
-- "didn't give me his name/phone so I just bent over and took it like a man".
Now, I agree that "unsubscribe" only confirms your address, so don't.
they should consider selling or renting them out to raise some funds
Can they do that? As I understood, ARIN only lets you sub-allocate ip space to entities you provide service for (say, downstream ISPs, etc). So unless the county becomes an ISP, I don't think this is feasible. It's been a while since I last dealt with ARIN (bending over backwards to obtain an extra/19) so this might not be the case.
Sitting on that quantity of Unused IP adresses is just as criminal.
Agreed. They should return all the unused IP space for re-allocation.
Meh, this is such a non issue. The main attraction of Xbox Live is to compete against other subscribers. The "downloadable" content is a bonus.
So Wolfenstein doesn't actually download anything? Who cares. Nintendo has been doing this for a while and nobody protested.
Consider Animal Crossing: You get the game, then get a GBA + link cable + e-reader (that plugs into GBA) so you can buy a pack of cards (on top of all that) that "adds" new functionality to the game.
Why do we accept this? Because console players (myself included) tend to be suckers when it comes to our platform(s) of choice.
In my state sexual education, and thus pictures of naked people is required for minors via public education
Yes, but we enter the gray area of definition of pornography.
It might be appropiate to show pics of nude people to minors in order to teach sex ed., but what about "alternate lifestyles"? And I'm not talking about gay sex. I mean the goatse man, sado masochism, scattology, bukkakke (sp), "barely legal" and "just plain illegal", etc. I've received SPAM concerning all these (except the goatse dude, thank god) and that's without trying (I've never signed up for anything erotic/porn related).
assuming it knew better than I did how I wanted my own system to run
Hehe, you just reminded me of my first day in Gentoo: "Where on earth in the rc2.d dir!!???". For some reason that freaked me out. I didn't discard it and jump back to debian because I had just spent about three hours installing the system.
I still use gentoo (and debian and solaris and freebsd), but my point is, if you have the time and inclination to tinker with a system, don't give up just because it does not behave as you expect. Give it a while and it might grow on you.
Are you sure? The last fresh install I did was 4.7-stable and Perl was included. If you wanted 5.8, tho, you had to install it from the ports and "use.perl port".
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Ok, so I don't know what worries me most: the fact that this made it to the front page of slashdot or the fact that I know those bikinis even tho tecmo's page seems to be slashdotted.
I need to get a life... but at least I'm not the only one.
Will somebody with mod points and half a sense of humor please mod parent +5 funny??!!
But the point isn't to make you pay for the music you downloaded illegallly, but to make you pay for revenue lost because you made it available free of charge to others that might have bought said CD.
Dude, I don't know if you are for real or are just trying to be funny, but here goes nothing.
My stratagy is simple, know everything and have everyone else think you are the only one who knows everything.
Only if you are trying to lock yourself in your current position. "Sorry, man, we seriously considered making you the regional VP, but, who would run our systems?"
Also, if you get a chance, smooch with the Director/Sr. manager
Just don't overdo it, as it might breed resentment with your fellow employees. Also, if everybody identifies you as the director's main minion, if he's axed, chances are you will be too.
A nice way to prevent is to include your fellow coworkers in these kind activities.
Ok, so IANAL nor I play one on slashdot.
Can anyone explain the official answer? It seemed like they responded almost every point with "we have no knowledge..." and ended up requesting a trial by jury.
Is this normal?
But seriously, is it just me, or does this sound TOTALLY lame?
It does. Remember that movie, Gotcha! Where a bunch of people went around in a school (College?) shooting each other with paint guns?
If you tought that was cool, then you'll probably like this "high tech" version of the game. Others will probably think of it as "grown men shooting each other with toy weapons".
That Jesus Christ guy is getting some terrible lag... it took him 3 days to respawn! -NJ CoolBreeze
I'm laughing so hard right now, that I'll probably end up in hell!
Thanks, slashdot, another soul lost.
Nice, nice. But, isn't that seatbelt on the chair taking things a bit too far?
How long until a provider shows up promising to delete log files every day? Even better, every hour?
Somehow I don't see this happening. From a provider's point of view, logs are far too important.
Sometimes accounting is based on those logs, and even if they aren't, there's always the issue of accountability. (Say, a customer complains that he hasn't been able to connect in the past four months, ISP pulls authentication logs and shows him that someone has been using his account from xyz phone number, for x amount of time, etc.)
While I'm daydreaming, I may as well make it a perfectly self-sustaining biosphere that never needs cleaning, right?
Here. Not luminicent, but it's a start.
I don't know about you guys but I miss the days of being able to try a demo before buying a game
You can still do that. Many games usually have a downloadable playable demo.
Oh and another great thing about shareware is it can be freely ported and released on different platforms without it being considered piracy
Eh? Perhaps you are confusing shareware with, say, open source.
hopefully theyll put virtual terminals back in Solaris10
In the meantime Screen is your friend.
Open standards... I.E. Tell me the frick how your files are saved from your program! It doesn't hurt, hell it don't even tickle. and it does nothing but help everyone.
My first reaction to your comment was:
"Maybe I don't want the files saved by my program to be opened by any other program. Don't like that? Then don't fricking use my program."
Of course, it's not black and white (is it ever?) In a well regulated market there's usually a provision for the regulatory organism to keep tabs on the "dominant provider" to make sure it doesn't throws everything off balance.
Still, I'm all about choice. Open standards are well and good (and should be embraced), but the way to enforce them should not be thru goverment mandated fines.
Score:1, Troll
Troll? Come on! Even if it's not true (as stated by red floyd in his disclaimer) it's damn funny! Where have the mods' sense of humor gone?
Hell, assuming it's not true, it could evolve into a very nice urban legend.
Years ago, I was told that the reason for leaving the engine idling was that the big diesels were far too difficult to start up cold.
This might not be an issue on modern trucks tho, but I remember driving an old (1985, but well maintained) diesel pickup that was a bitch to start up cold. Some mornings I'd just leave the glow spark (or whatever it's called) on for some minutes before trying.
(what! no Jimmy Hoffa jokes yet??)
He! Same here. I learned to type in a couple of *very* old Olympia typewriter. Non-electric. You could grow some hefty biceps just operating the carriage return lever.
He. The question is: will you be evicted upon revocation of the MS-Home license for some form of DRM/DMCA/YMCA/whatever violation?
However, all of the children in the European version of Fallout 2 were removed (but none of the puzzles/quests involving them, leading to annoyingly unfinishable tasks...)
Oh, man! Now I know! Odd, I don't remember this being mentioned in the FAQs or the Interplay website. Thank god they weren't required for the main quest. I just gave up trying to find/rescue that kid from the underground people.
Called (from teh whois) the tech support guy for the site and gave him shit (blocked caller id on my cell, and when he asked for my number so he could "remove it from the list" told him to go fuck himself)
Man, I was virtually cheering for you until you reached this point, where you insulted the hell out of someone who probably can't help you at all for no reason except maybe getting it off your chest.
Same as a supermarket, complaining to the cashier about the prices will only get you an anoyed look. You should have asked for the supervisor/manager and threaten to sue or denounce or whatever.
I once worked an abuse help desk, and point #6 will probably only yield an amusing anecdote for whatever operator to share with his co-workers during lunch:
-- "so, this guy, out of nowhere called all pissed and told me to fuck myself"
-- "so what did you do"
-- "didn't give me his name/phone so I just bent over and took it like a man".
Now, I agree that "unsubscribe" only confirms your address, so don't.
they should consider selling or renting them out to raise some funds
/19) so this might not be the case.
Can they do that? As I understood, ARIN only lets you sub-allocate ip space to entities you provide service for (say, downstream ISPs, etc). So unless the county becomes an ISP, I don't think this is feasible. It's been a while since I last dealt with ARIN (bending over backwards to obtain an extra
Sitting on that quantity of Unused IP adresses is just as criminal.
Agreed. They should return all the unused IP space for re-allocation.
Meh, this is such a non issue. The main attraction of Xbox Live is to compete against other subscribers. The "downloadable" content is a bonus.
So Wolfenstein doesn't actually download anything? Who cares. Nintendo has been doing this for a while and nobody protested.
Consider Animal Crossing: You get the game, then get a GBA + link cable + e-reader (that plugs into GBA) so you can buy a pack of cards (on top of all that) that "adds" new functionality to the game.
Why do we accept this? Because console players (myself included) tend to be suckers when it comes to our platform(s) of choice.
Colnel Kurtz, you mean?
The horror! You beat me to it! Lets see who else... Scott! Yes! Scott Kurtz needs a good kick in the butt.
In my state sexual education, and thus pictures of naked people is required for minors via public education
Yes, but we enter the gray area of definition of pornography.
It might be appropiate to show pics of nude people to minors in order to teach sex ed., but what about "alternate lifestyles"? And I'm not talking about gay sex. I mean the goatse man, sado masochism, scattology, bukkakke (sp), "barely legal" and "just plain illegal", etc. I've received SPAM concerning all these (except the goatse dude, thank god) and that's without trying (I've never signed up for anything erotic/porn related).
assuming it knew better than I did how I wanted my own system to run
Hehe, you just reminded me of my first day in Gentoo: "Where on earth in the rc2.d dir!!???". For some reason that freaked me out. I didn't discard it and jump back to debian because I had just spent about three hours installing the system.
I still use gentoo (and debian and solaris and freebsd), but my point is, if you have the time and inclination to tinker with a system, don't give up just because it does not behave as you expect. Give it a while and it might grow on you.
but it was taken out of the base system ages ago
Are you sure? The last fresh install I did was 4.7-stable and Perl was included. If you wanted 5.8, tho, you had to install it from the ports and "use.perl port".