1900 doesn't sound like a lot in respect to being the second largest employer. I suppose not knowing the population of Ireland off the top of my head, I can't say for certain (I just looked, 6 Million). So I guess I'm still a little surprised that 1900 is the second largest employer. Am I wrong that that seems surprising?
On the side of people out of a job/paycheck, 1900 is terrible.
Is there any way for people who settled or were prosecuted with similar arguments to have a new case or see their deal reviewed in the legal system? With all the cases going on about what the real costs of each file is worth and that making available is not enough, it would be nice to see all those people bilked for money get something back. However I would assume that's unlikely since those deals/cases are all closed.
I just don't understand how after 6 years no one ever needed something restored. Really? I have plenty of power users that occasionally delete something. Mistakes happen. Restore from tape, everything is back to normal. I would love to know what they thought they were telling people/users: 'Oh, restore your file/data, no that's impossible. No one can do that after you delete it.'
I mean, I'm freaked out that my church (where I'm the network admin) doesn't have a proper backup solution yet (cost being the issue; any suggestions welcome). Let alone a site with thousands of users a month.
How would that even come close to functioning currently? I could create a page for myself, and then get paid to add/edit content about my daily life.
Now I would assume that's an extreme example of how it could go badly, but I already get annoyed with their editors now for complaining about trivia sections or removing pop culture/gaming/interesting articles because they aren't relevant long term. How bad would it be if people were expecting payment, and someone decided their content wasn't relevant enough to be paid.
I think they'd succeed a lot more if the current ruling regime would calm down a bit on all the [citation needed] [trivia sections are frowned upon] [this is in-universe style of dialogue] etc etc. Sure, it makes sense for a lot of topics, but for me checking out things about TV shows or fictional books or more 'light' topics, just loosen up a bit and you'll have a lot more people wanting to contribute.
Did they figure in me canceling my WoW account twice? I'm not sure how that counts, except in my loss of sanity. I need a new MMORPG so that when I start the inevitable grind I don't feel like I've done it 500 times before. Unfortunately, few of them seem to have native OS X clients.
I have problems with my 360 damaging discs just through normal use. I never shift the console in general, let along while a disc is in it. It seems more like the unit is unable to hold the disc completely stable while reading it at times, so you end up with damage.
You may as well say that you wonder why they aren't required to take classes in auto repair or biochemisty. They don't need it. Would it help in situations like this, sure, but I can assure you that my wife has never had one of her kindergartners ask about Linux. I think we all (and I do it myself) assume that technology should be more important to people, but I would guess that most professions feel that way.
An interesting idea. Assuming that it is able to be perfected, you could theoretically try and recreate those 'energy patterns' in a persons mind to create the image. Of course I'm mostly pulling that out of my ass, but once you can go one way, it makes going the other way easier. Not necessarily possible, but still an interesting idea. The ways to abuse this either way is staggering though.
I can understand the general feeling of negativity or at least pessimism regarding this, but I'd like to think that its a good step to see them continuing to embrace the web as a way to allow more people to reach them. Is it just a PR thing? Maybe. But with the questions being so 'out there' to everyone to see, I would think it allows people to call them out on more topics.
Sort of a 'Hey, on your own website people are asking questions about stem cell research. What is your answer? Don't pretend you don't see it's the number three question.'
I would agree. I can't say that I'm familiar with any other open source/free/whatever you want to call it database solutions, but I've used MS SQL Server and MySQL, and I always find myself annoyed at MySQL in general. For the most part I've inherited any MySQL install, so perhaps the previous dev/admin did a poor job in configuring the setups but I've never been happy to have to develop with or admin a MySQL install.
I'm not a Microsoft fanboy by any stretch of the imagination, but I find their management tools (yes GUI based) to be much more intuitive. And before I get flamed, yes, you can do it all with SQL queries and such from the command-line, but that's not my preference for trying to make what should be simple or quick changes in the GUI.
I can see the benefit of recreating your store in a virtual setting so people can browse you items in a more real way, but if you can only afford a small store in RL, would you limit yourself in the same way virtually? You have the potential to make yourself look much bigger, or offer more than you can hold in your brick and mortar location.
This is one of those things that really is disturbing to me. It's terrible enough when your body turns on you in the form of cancer or such things, but the idea that your mind could be damaged in this type of way really spooks me.
I think there is too much in this that's subjective though. One person may find a game highly engaging and allow themselves to become immersed, while someone else just plays games and ignores/doesn't allow themselves to get into it.
A simple movie example would be Blair Witch Project. There's nothing actually gorey/freaky in it, but if you allow the atmosphere and story to pull you in, it's very scary. On the other hand, I know several teens that told me it was completely lame/unscary because of that lack of visual content.
I think this is more due to what non-techy people think/say. A PC is just a personal computer, regardless of what OS it has. But I've heard my inlaws say they have a Dell or an HP as opposed to them saying they have a PC. About the same as saying you have a Mac.
I think it's also just assumed that people have a Windows computer at home, so to differentiate without getting into full-on discussions, people just say Mac instead of PC.
Note: I have both OS X and Windows running at home, and I don't really care if someone calls my MBP a 'PC' or a 'Mac'. I know what they mean.
Isn't every one of these stories tagged as being the death knell for the RIAA? Don't get me wrong, I'm always glad to see the RIAA losing in these types of cases, but 'death knell for the RIAA' is getting to be 'Year for Linux on the Desktop'.
I was thinking in more of a patrol fashion or no-fly zone where (I am guessing) they don't fly at supersonic speeds all the time. Where some guy can be sitting in a burned out building with a rocket launcher type weapon.
But it seems like this is something the military would have already spent time and money on. Or would it be that they don't care if you hear them, they just want the stealth to avoid being 'seen' by radar at longer distances (which makes sense).
This is one of those articles that probably started out as an interesting idea, but then immediately was like 'oh, a bit of a waste of time'. I suppose the idea is that they are both popular and free to use, and thus was born the idea.
As everyone has (and will) pointed out, they serve different purposes. It's like comparing the OS on my phone to the OS on my laptop, and then saying 'wow, you can do so much more with the laptop OS'. Duh, mofo.. shortage of article ideas this month?
And don't mean to sound so harsh, just too much coffee I'm thinking.
I've always been disappointed in their offerings, and yet as one of the only retailers of their type in the area I always felt the need to stop by and be frustrated by their lack of anything. Between our new Best Buy and game stores in the area, I certainly won't be missing them.
I'm right there with you. In TKD we normally do some warm up game or exercise before stretching. And I know I can stretch much better after a warm up compared to trying to stretch 'cold'. However in martial arts I know that the point of the stretching is to help with flexibility as well as avoid injury, so I don't think it specifically has anything to do with strength training in my case.
I don't exactly see this as hilarious. Unfortunate, certainly. It's sort of funny I guess, but really it's probably the most straight forward answer. One letter is missing, just run down the list until it works. What could be simpler? Trying to read your code back and having them regenerate it? Handing out new codes? Sending you some file to remove the check all together?
I know this is getting slammed because it involves both EA and DRM, but the response itself is possibly the best one. I don't have to call anyone, don't have to go back to the store, and don't have to do anything more than write in what the good letter is on my serial number sticker.
I know you were being funny, but I think at this point who knows how things will go. It used to be that having your music in a commercial was 'selling out'. Now bands/musicians realize it's a crazy good way to get themselves in front of people. Games are the same way, especially a music oriented game.
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Come on mods, what's the deal? He's responding to a question that someone asked about Roland/Roland's submissions. How much more on-topic can it be?
1900 doesn't sound like a lot in respect to being the second largest employer. I suppose not knowing the population of Ireland off the top of my head, I can't say for certain (I just looked, 6 Million). So I guess I'm still a little surprised that 1900 is the second largest employer. Am I wrong that that seems surprising?
On the side of people out of a job/paycheck, 1900 is terrible.
Is there any way for people who settled or were prosecuted with similar arguments to have a new case or see their deal reviewed in the legal system? With all the cases going on about what the real costs of each file is worth and that making available is not enough, it would be nice to see all those people bilked for money get something back. However I would assume that's unlikely since those deals/cases are all closed.
I just don't understand how after 6 years no one ever needed something restored. Really? I have plenty of power users that occasionally delete something. Mistakes happen. Restore from tape, everything is back to normal. I would love to know what they thought they were telling people/users: 'Oh, restore your file/data, no that's impossible. No one can do that after you delete it.'
I mean, I'm freaked out that my church (where I'm the network admin) doesn't have a proper backup solution yet (cost being the issue; any suggestions welcome). Let alone a site with thousands of users a month.
How would that even come close to functioning currently? I could create a page for myself, and then get paid to add/edit content about my daily life.
Now I would assume that's an extreme example of how it could go badly, but I already get annoyed with their editors now for complaining about trivia sections or removing pop culture/gaming/interesting articles because they aren't relevant long term. How bad would it be if people were expecting payment, and someone decided their content wasn't relevant enough to be paid.
I think they'd succeed a lot more if the current ruling regime would calm down a bit on all the [citation needed] [trivia sections are frowned upon] [this is in-universe style of dialogue] etc etc. Sure, it makes sense for a lot of topics, but for me checking out things about TV shows or fictional books or more 'light' topics, just loosen up a bit and you'll have a lot more people wanting to contribute.
Did they figure in me canceling my WoW account twice? I'm not sure how that counts, except in my loss of sanity. I need a new MMORPG so that when I start the inevitable grind I don't feel like I've done it 500 times before. Unfortunately, few of them seem to have native OS X clients.
I have problems with my 360 damaging discs just through normal use. I never shift the console in general, let along while a disc is in it. It seems more like the unit is unable to hold the disc completely stable while reading it at times, so you end up with damage.
I can tell I must be getting old when one of my first responses is 'Cmon, just go buy the movie already'.
You may as well say that you wonder why they aren't required to take classes in auto repair or biochemisty. They don't need it. Would it help in situations like this, sure, but I can assure you that my wife has never had one of her kindergartners ask about Linux. I think we all (and I do it myself) assume that technology should be more important to people, but I would guess that most professions feel that way.
An interesting idea. Assuming that it is able to be perfected, you could theoretically try and recreate those 'energy patterns' in a persons mind to create the image. Of course I'm mostly pulling that out of my ass, but once you can go one way, it makes going the other way easier. Not necessarily possible, but still an interesting idea. The ways to abuse this either way is staggering though.
I can understand the general feeling of negativity or at least pessimism regarding this, but I'd like to think that its a good step to see them continuing to embrace the web as a way to allow more people to reach them. Is it just a PR thing? Maybe. But with the questions being so 'out there' to everyone to see, I would think it allows people to call them out on more topics.
Sort of a 'Hey, on your own website people are asking questions about stem cell research. What is your answer? Don't pretend you don't see it's the number three question.'
I would agree. I can't say that I'm familiar with any other open source/free/whatever you want to call it database solutions, but I've used MS SQL Server and MySQL, and I always find myself annoyed at MySQL in general. For the most part I've inherited any MySQL install, so perhaps the previous dev/admin did a poor job in configuring the setups but I've never been happy to have to develop with or admin a MySQL install.
I'm not a Microsoft fanboy by any stretch of the imagination, but I find their management tools (yes GUI based) to be much more intuitive. And before I get flamed, yes, you can do it all with SQL queries and such from the command-line, but that's not my preference for trying to make what should be simple or quick changes in the GUI.
I can see the benefit of recreating your store in a virtual setting so people can browse you items in a more real way, but if you can only afford a small store in RL, would you limit yourself in the same way virtually? You have the potential to make yourself look much bigger, or offer more than you can hold in your brick and mortar location.
This is one of those things that really is disturbing to me. It's terrible enough when your body turns on you in the form of cancer or such things, but the idea that your mind could be damaged in this type of way really spooks me.
And yet Madagascar will survive all attempts.
I think there is too much in this that's subjective though. One person may find a game highly engaging and allow themselves to become immersed, while someone else just plays games and ignores/doesn't allow themselves to get into it.
A simple movie example would be Blair Witch Project. There's nothing actually gorey/freaky in it, but if you allow the atmosphere and story to pull you in, it's very scary. On the other hand, I know several teens that told me it was completely lame/unscary because of that lack of visual content.
I think this is more due to what non-techy people think/say. A PC is just a personal computer, regardless of what OS it has. But I've heard my inlaws say they have a Dell or an HP as opposed to them saying they have a PC. About the same as saying you have a Mac.
I think it's also just assumed that people have a Windows computer at home, so to differentiate without getting into full-on discussions, people just say Mac instead of PC.
Note: I have both OS X and Windows running at home, and I don't really care if someone calls my MBP a 'PC' or a 'Mac'. I know what they mean.
Isn't every one of these stories tagged as being the death knell for the RIAA? Don't get me wrong, I'm always glad to see the RIAA losing in these types of cases, but 'death knell for the RIAA' is getting to be 'Year for Linux on the Desktop'.
I was thinking in more of a patrol fashion or no-fly zone where (I am guessing) they don't fly at supersonic speeds all the time. Where some guy can be sitting in a burned out building with a rocket launcher type weapon.
But it seems like this is something the military would have already spent time and money on. Or would it be that they don't care if you hear them, they just want the stealth to avoid being 'seen' by radar at longer distances (which makes sense).
This is one of those articles that probably started out as an interesting idea, but then immediately was like 'oh, a bit of a waste of time'. I suppose the idea is that they are both popular and free to use, and thus was born the idea.
As everyone has (and will) pointed out, they serve different purposes. It's like comparing the OS on my phone to the OS on my laptop, and then saying 'wow, you can do so much more with the laptop OS'. Duh, mofo.. shortage of article ideas this month?
And don't mean to sound so harsh, just too much coffee I'm thinking.
I've always been disappointed in their offerings, and yet as one of the only retailers of their type in the area I always felt the need to stop by and be frustrated by their lack of anything. Between our new Best Buy and game stores in the area, I certainly won't be missing them.
I'm right there with you. In TKD we normally do some warm up game or exercise before stretching. And I know I can stretch much better after a warm up compared to trying to stretch 'cold'. However in martial arts I know that the point of the stretching is to help with flexibility as well as avoid injury, so I don't think it specifically has anything to do with strength training in my case.
I don't exactly see this as hilarious. Unfortunate, certainly. It's sort of funny I guess, but really it's probably the most straight forward answer. One letter is missing, just run down the list until it works. What could be simpler? Trying to read your code back and having them regenerate it? Handing out new codes? Sending you some file to remove the check all together?
I know this is getting slammed because it involves both EA and DRM, but the response itself is possibly the best one. I don't have to call anyone, don't have to go back to the store, and don't have to do anything more than write in what the good letter is on my serial number sticker.
I know you were being funny, but I think at this point who knows how things will go. It used to be that having your music in a commercial was 'selling out'. Now bands/musicians realize it's a crazy good way to get themselves in front of people. Games are the same way, especially a music oriented game.