This thing is so vomit-inducing that everyone is talking about it and many who would not have watched the video actually did.
As a case of viral marketing, I'd say it is brilliant. Few viruses can make you puke just by looking at them.
Got to say, I thought about what would happen if everyone on Slashdot started commenting on every single article. But I forgot 4chan.
This is going to be fun:D
Very interesting comment and a good point regarding defense lawyers. But since you've read the proceedings, can you elaborate on what judges understood that lawyers didn't and what slashdotters don't get when mixing copyright laws and technological awareness?
I'm not trying to poke, I didn't fully understand your point and I'm interested because I wrongly assume as most of people here that indeed lawmakers, judges and lawyers don't know or understand much in those fields. I come from a country where lawmakers just voted an anti-P2P law without even knowing what P2P stands for (and what Peer means) and some didn't even read the law itself so I have a bad example of it...
I am IT pro and massively geeky and having experienced both in my daily work/coaching I MUCH prefer someone who is nice and will listen than a knows-it-all with an attitude.
Usually the know-it-all (a.k.a. "primadona") won't fit in a professional team, not because of its IT skills but his lack of social skills. A good team needs people with those 2 skills. It's much easier to improve someone's IT skills than his social skills...making the know-it-all a disruption for the business rather than an addition.
The nice-always-wrong-guy can always learn. Or do the grunt work..his choice...
I am loosing my legendary politeness and can only say Fuck you, you sucker, and give me a fucking break
Creating good music is difficult but is free as in beer (you need a brain, usually ears, maybe hands)
Where it gets expensive is when you need to record at a decent quality level.
Where it gets VERY expensive, it's when you need to purchase advertisement, produce 10 million albums of shit, add the fireworks to your show with huge screens that show...unrelated stuff usually..., or pay MTV to broadcast you,
All the above cost has about nothing to do with making music. It's called producing a show. It could well be a contest of pinguin hookers boob size, it wouldn't even make the difference.
My dad sadly died of a brain tumor last may, after 2 years of a long illness.
Because we didn't have insurance in the USA, we paid about 15K$ for 3 days of doctor visits and such (the amount is huge, but Boston has the best specialists in that particular matter) that was paid by my dad's (french) boss. The only thing the doctors did was confirming a recommandation from a doctor in France.
Back in France, during his last 2 years of life, my dad didn't pay a euro - including but not limited to:
I can't start to add up how much it would have cost us by staying in Boston. We probably would not have been able to afford more than a month of treatment. In contrast, French health care provided us with 2 years of life of my dad.
Given this, I honestly don't understand WHY there is still a debate in the US about health care. Honestly, the right-wingers who think Obama is deranged and national health care is evil should be pulled away from the gene pool. They're not thinking straight and show no compassion to their human siblings. It's just a terrible shame.
but between the DoJ taking its time and the European Commission, which seems to get off on abusing American firms,
I am so sorry that your poor Yanks companies feel abused by the European Union, but you see, we have millions of consumers to protect and avoid being shafted. Those people aren't sheep and aren't ready to accept the same level of FUD that you guys can swallow.
More seriously, there is a difference between stating facts, and spitting free unrelated and uninformed criticism on a headline. The OP totally fails at objective journalism. But wait...I'm on Slashdot..never mind.
The fact that it is you who are responsible for the damage is actually arguable:
Nowhere in the documentation is it said that you should not flip the box while it is operating.
99% of DVD readers can be flipped during operation: laptops, portable players, etc. all can be moved while the DVD is being read, so one is entitled to assume that yet another DVD reader should behave the same. But the almighty Box from M$ does not behave like any other consumer DVD product.
To me it's not a customer error, it's a defective product OR an incomplete documentation.
I don`t think you are thinking straight. Also, your argumentation is a little incoherent. You obviously needed to pick on someone today, and you fail at convincing.
Reading you, nobody should be outraged about anything because there's always worse, closer. That is the best way to never do or go against anything and raise nations of sheep.
I'm sure that yourself can find something that by using, "you are supporting a system that has killed many more", starting with the gas in your car, and that doesn't bother you, does it?
Please go find some other place to snipe at people. You're useless here, seriously.
You should know without asking. You don't need advices or literature on that matter. Listen to your feelings, and be nice. It's a simple recipe that usually works.
Signed by: Another anonymous Computing Geek married to a Literature Geek.
Type "http://www.domainnotfound.ca/" in IE 8 - you get "Internet Explorer cannot display this page."
Type "http://www.domainnotfound.ca/" in FF - you get directed to http://www.domainnotfound.cawww.domainnotfound.ca/ (yes, doubled name, it's not a typo from me)
Go to "http://www.domainnotfound.ca/clickserver/". The "back" link is broken and doesn't work (without looking, I assume it's a javascript:back()).
One word: pathetic.
What a bunkerload of crap. it's either the IPhone OS that allows that because of a flaw, or just plain FUD (my friend Occam tells me his razor points to the second option). In both cases, why can't we do it with other phones that aren't IPhones? Huuuumm??
Having had bad experiences with gaming and Win7, I would not say move from your XP install. However, I seem to be the among the rare ones who report major problems, so it may be hardware related on my rig.
WoW however works perfectly. Since it's OpenGL, I'd bet my lunch most problems come from DirectX vs my video card.
Absolutely, and the absence of a `loser pays` system in the US is the reason why every other country sees the US as the home of lawsuits. It`s so bad it`s becoming a running joke.
"Hey folks, I'm going to USA this summer"
"Woot! Did you remember to pack a lawyer with you?"
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I am an IT professional, and what people here would consider a "Windows Hater".
It is true, I hate Vista. I hate it, you hate it, everyone hates it.
In all honesty, Windows 7 is really a big step forward. You should try it before dumping it just because you had a miserable experience with Vista. Hands-on experience is much better than what you may "believe". Beliefs have no room in the IT world if you really want to be 'professional'. Actually, beliefs is what make people not move forward with technology. It's counter-innovative.
And Windows 7 is really impressive and easy to use/configure...I was in mental pain for Ubuntu when I started playing with it....It definitely has a much better usability.
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You mean...throw chairs at people? That should work too!
This article is ridiculous
The guy has 2 * 2 accounts with his wife, buys WoW normal AND collector editions, goes to BlizzCon and then finds out it costs quite a bit of money?
There are many articles worth nothing and this is one of them.
This thing is so vomit-inducing that everyone is talking about it and many who would not have watched the video actually did. As a case of viral marketing, I'd say it is brilliant. Few viruses can make you puke just by looking at them.
Got to say, I thought about what would happen if everyone on Slashdot started commenting on every single article. But I forgot 4chan. This is going to be fun :D
Very interesting comment and a good point regarding defense lawyers. But since you've read the proceedings, can you elaborate on what judges understood that lawyers didn't and what slashdotters don't get when mixing copyright laws and technological awareness?
I'm not trying to poke, I didn't fully understand your point and I'm interested because I wrongly assume as most of people here that indeed lawmakers, judges and lawyers don't know or understand much in those fields. I come from a country where lawmakers just voted an anti-P2P law without even knowing what P2P stands for (and what Peer means) and some didn't even read the law itself so I have a bad example of it...
Must construct additional servers!
I am IT pro and massively geeky and having experienced both in my daily work/coaching I MUCH prefer someone who is nice and will listen than a knows-it-all with an attitude.
Usually the know-it-all (a.k.a. "primadona") won't fit in a professional team, not because of its IT skills but his lack of social skills. A good team needs people with those 2 skills. It's much easier to improve someone's IT skills than his social skills...making the know-it-all a disruption for the business rather than an addition.
The nice-always-wrong-guy can always learn. Or do the grunt work..his choice...
"The cost of making music"
I am loosing my legendary politeness and can only say Fuck you, you sucker, and give me a fucking break
Creating good music is difficult but is free as in beer (you need a brain, usually ears, maybe hands)
Where it gets expensive is when you need to record at a decent quality level.
Where it gets VERY expensive, it's when you need to purchase advertisement, produce 10 million albums of shit, add the fireworks to your show with huge screens that show...unrelated stuff usually..., or pay MTV to broadcast you,
All the above cost has about nothing to do with making music. It's called producing a show. It could well be a contest of pinguin hookers boob size, it wouldn't even make the difference.
I will second that with my own experience:
My dad sadly died of a brain tumor last may, after 2 years of a long illness.
Because we didn't have insurance in the USA, we paid about 15K$ for 3 days of doctor visits and such (the amount is huge, but Boston has the best specialists in that particular matter) that was paid by my dad's (french) boss. The only thing the doctors did was confirming a recommandation from a doctor in France.
Back in France, during his last 2 years of life, my dad didn't pay a euro - including but not limited to:
I can't start to add up how much it would have cost us by staying in Boston. We probably would not have been able to afford more than a month of treatment. In contrast, French health care provided us with 2 years of life of my dad.
Given this, I honestly don't understand WHY there is still a debate in the US about health care. Honestly, the right-wingers who think Obama is deranged and national health care is evil should be pulled away from the gene pool. They're not thinking straight and show no compassion to their human siblings. It's just a terrible shame.
but between the DoJ taking its time and the European Commission, which seems to get off on abusing American firms,
I am so sorry that your poor Yanks companies feel abused by the European Union, but you see, we have millions of consumers to protect and avoid being shafted. Those people aren't sheep and aren't ready to accept the same level of FUD that you guys can swallow.
More seriously, there is a difference between stating facts, and spitting free unrelated and uninformed criticism on a headline. The OP totally fails at objective journalism. But wait...I'm on Slashdot..never mind.
Thanks for understanding the FA. Apparently many people here only read the misleading title...But I am not surprise.
ORLY?
The fact that it is you who are responsible for the damage is actually arguable:
To me it's not a customer error, it's a defective product OR an incomplete documentation.
Learn to spell differently?
I don`t think you are thinking straight. Also, your argumentation is a little incoherent. You obviously needed to pick on someone today, and you fail at convincing.
Reading you, nobody should be outraged about anything because there's always worse, closer. That is the best way to never do or go against anything and raise nations of sheep.
I'm sure that yourself can find something that by using, "you are supporting a system that has killed many more", starting with the gas in your car, and that doesn't bother you, does it?
Please go find some other place to snipe at people. You're useless here, seriously.
You should know without asking. You don't need advices or literature on that matter. Listen to your feelings, and be nice. It's a simple recipe that usually works.
Signed by: Another anonymous Computing Geek married to a Literature Geek.
Type "http://www.domainnotfound.ca/" in IE 8 - you get "Internet Explorer cannot display this page."
Type "http://www.domainnotfound.ca/" in FF - you get directed to http://www.domainnotfound.cawww.domainnotfound.ca/ (yes, doubled name, it's not a typo from me)
Go to "http://www.domainnotfound.ca/clickserver/". The "back" link is broken and doesn't work (without looking, I assume it's a javascript:back()).
One word: pathetic.
Duuude, by the time you setup your host file for all the sites you visit, the Internet age will be gone....Talk about "FAST".
We need a therapist for Heroic Asylum, our healer is starting to beat on our tank!
What a bunkerload of crap. it's either the IPhone OS that allows that because of a flaw, or just plain FUD (my friend Occam tells me his razor points to the second option). In both cases, why can't we do it with other phones that aren't IPhones? Huuuumm??
Having had bad experiences with gaming and Win7, I would not say move from your XP install. However, I seem to be the among the rare ones who report major problems, so it may be hardware related on my rig.
WoW however works perfectly. Since it's OpenGL, I'd bet my lunch most problems come from DirectX vs my video card.
No, that's fine, thank you. ScribD IS sufficiently annoying.
Can someone remind me why those kind of sites which gather docs and make then absolutely unreadable exist?
Yeah, the trouble is finding which piece is holding the razor and slashes the rest. Weird thing is that everything works gently and well on Ubuntu...
"Hey folks, I'm going to USA this summer" "Woot! Did you remember to pack a lawyer with you?"
I am an IT professional, and what people here would consider a "Windows Hater".
It is true, I hate Vista. I hate it, you hate it, everyone hates it.
In all honesty, Windows 7 is really a big step forward. You should try it before dumping it just because you had a miserable experience with Vista. Hands-on experience is much better than what you may "believe". Beliefs have no room in the IT world if you really want to be 'professional'. Actually, beliefs is what make people not move forward with technology. It's counter-innovative.
And Windows 7 is really impressive and easy to use/configure...I was in mental pain for Ubuntu when I started playing with it....It definitely has a much better usability.