Me and my father were discussing just that, and the parallels to cable TV.
It started out with no commercials, then commercials came, then you had to pay extra for certain channels, etc etc. I hope satellite radio won't go this way, I would back out immediately. That is because both XM and Sirius have been pimping on and on about no commercials.
I for one can tell you why. I've been considering satellite radio for a while, though I'd only played with XM. I am not a huge fan of stern, but I do consider his show a core part of my day.
Stern going Sirius alone, is enough to make me go out and buy a Sirius unit. I am willing to pay.
I just hope I can get a unit similar to what I can in XM: A unit that transmits to my current head unit, I don't feel like replacing it as I just spent 1300 dollars on a system.
Management was told of a threat, and they decided that it wasn't important enough to 1) establish policies but most importantly 2) ENFORCE those policies, if they were set in place.
When there was a problem, IT says "hey, back on such and such date we presented this and this and that information to so and so, recommended the following, and it was rejected. We tried to do what we thought was our job, and were prevented. It's out of our hands."
If management still decides to shit on IT, then it's definately time to move on, as you're employed by a lot that won't take responsibility, even after you tried to do so.
Heh. When I think gaming people I think windows. But, in this case, it's pointless: there's no stable 64-bit version of windows.
Now, if we start talking linux, then yes, this is great. At least with an nvidia card (note: ATI still has not come out with 64 bit drivers for linux).
Unless they provide a search engine that gives unbiased results, without flooding the page with annoying flash / other graphical ads that annoy, they won't get far.
At the same time I welcome this, both parties will get better.
Well, I'll have to look at it this way: Schools that I will never apply to or allow my kids to. Schools shouldn't be entering into such rediculous agreements, what does this teach the students...
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Till people read this: http://www.nzoss.org.nz/portal/modules.php?name=Ne ws&file=article&sid=284
I haven't seen it, but I imagine the EULA or other agreement specifies this is within their bounds.
Assuming this, don't bitch. If it wasn't covered, then people have a right to bitch, at least the legit players.
Otherwise, enjoy being treated like a criminal first, and a customer second.
Kind of glad I'm not a gamer these days, with this kind of trash running around.
Well, when I saw it was Maxtor, I kind of giggled.
They've got a shitty reputation for a reason, duh.
This is slashdot. Not a legitimate tech forum.
The first mistake is Maxtor drives. Worst drives i've seen, and I am talking present time.
Yes you have five, but do you feel like replacing quite a few of them over a few years?
I run software raid1 here at home, on a 2.6 kernel, and I can say that is solid. It appears software raid in general in linux is quite solid.
Gentoo.
Yeah well I live in Detroit USA, and guess what last year 4 days because of that big outage.
1st world country does not always equal a stable power system.
Just ask people living in California.
Now i've heard some manufacturers say that they don't try support for certain formats because the cpu power on the units is too low.
Being a new unit, and the price, I really think that's BS now.
Of course, the format is ogg. I would consider one (though NOT at that price!) if it had it... Sigh.
If your users must have windows workstations, set them up with thin clients via PXES. Have them connect to MS terminal servers (2003 ent preferred).
Single point of control (at least per server). Save insane ammounts of money.
Their only calls are to the nearest mildy threatening country/group, to surrender.
No big loss here.
Betcha it'll have ads soon enough.
Me and my father were discussing just that, and the parallels to cable TV.
It started out with no commercials, then commercials came, then you had to pay extra for certain channels, etc etc. I hope satellite radio won't go this way, I would back out immediately. That is because both XM and Sirius have been pimping on and on about no commercials.
I for one can tell you why. I've been considering satellite radio for a while, though I'd only played with XM. I am not a huge fan of stern, but I do consider his show a core part of my day.
Stern going Sirius alone, is enough to make me go out and buy a Sirius unit. I am willing to pay.
I just hope I can get a unit similar to what I can in XM: A unit that transmits to my current head unit, I don't feel like replacing it as I just spent 1300 dollars on a system.
I use it, have been for over a week now. Or something.
:)
I find it is significantly faster all around, the interface is cleaned up and feels easier to use.
I haven't experimented with junk mail yet.
The only thing I wish I could do in evolution is have just the email client, I don't use any of that other shit.
I use gentoo as well, so USE=-bullshit would be nice
This has been known, you clearly didn't do very good research, but instead just wanted the thing.
They're definately nowhere good enough for gaming, stick to CRT's. For standard office use, they're fine.
Give it 5 years.
No, you're making it too complex.
Management was told of a threat, and they decided that it wasn't important enough to 1) establish policies but most importantly 2) ENFORCE those policies, if they were set in place.
When there was a problem, IT says "hey, back on such and such date we presented this and this and that information to so and so, recommended the following, and it was rejected. We tried to do what we thought was our job, and were prevented. It's out of our hands."
If management still decides to shit on IT, then it's definately time to move on, as you're employed by a lot that won't take responsibility, even after you tried to do so.
At which point, management has taken on that responsibility. They've looked at the options and said no, it's not important.
When something goes wrong, they surely deserve the blame.
Typical KDE user; Cares about looks over functionality.
Darn, I wish I had known this was going to happen, I'd have asked him why they're such asshats (especially Sean) to Gentoo devs and users.
This mainly stems from this bug.
Layer implies on top of. On top of implies overhead. Overhead implies... additional stress.
Wankers.
If they're attractive, it's not going to happen when they can just spooge off of some guy (suckers).
Heh. When I think gaming people I think windows. But, in this case, it's pointless: there's no stable 64-bit version of windows.
Now, if we start talking linux, then yes, this is great. At least with an nvidia card (note: ATI still has not come out with 64 bit drivers for linux).
And no, I didn't RTFA.
I tried something a while back, looking at the number of returns when searching for that, in each.
I think the ratio was 431,000:1 or something in favor of google... maybe that's changed. That's far beyond a simple difference.
Unless they provide a search engine that gives unbiased results, without flooding the page with annoying flash / other graphical ads that annoy, they won't get far.
At the same time I welcome this, both parties will get better.
There seems to be a hint of suprise in the submission.
Why? This is Macromedia. Furthermore it's proprietary. What did you expect, a warm fuzzy feeling?
Well, I'll have to look at it this way: Schools that I will never apply to or allow my kids to. Schools shouldn't be entering into such rediculous agreements, what does this teach the students...