Actually, I am very gratified to see this development... Now we have draconian DRM *AND* a format war. Nobody is going to buy these things.
I was also thinking yesterday... all the early adopter HDTV owners got BURNED, now they're supposed to early addopt an HDTV *AND* a expensive blueray player?
But can they prove that "agressive thoughts" are harmful? Porn increases "sexual thoughts". Could watchin Bill O'Reilly increase my "complete asshole thoughts?"
Yes everything you see and do influences you to some degree. Unless you're crazy to begin with, you won't act on them.
Thanks for the defense. I get so tired of the armchair engineers... people who can look at one of the most complicated human endevaours *EVER* and provide advice without any actual knowledge.
I doubt you are a engineer, let alone an aerospace engineer. I also doubt a single beam actually cost 600 million. However, whatever it did cost, I have one phrase for you "extreme material constraints".
Fortune 500 companies *ARE* fortune 500 companies because they can cut all the fat out. Most of the time that consists of things like due dilligence. Welcome to the world of business.
I'm glad im not the only one who thinks its *FUCKED* to pay 9$ to sit and watch commercials. I dont even want to see previews.
Secondly, I won't rent DVDs because most of them now have non-skippable commercials. Nothing like being forced to watch an advert for a movie you never wanted to see which isn't even in theaters anymore. I think even a few consumer dvd releases have commericals of this type?
Is it just me, or does anyone else not care to remember BBSes? I ran several in my day, and the internet does everything they do, better. (God do I miss tradewars though).
Every time some new worm is released onto the Internet, I ask myself what drives the sick people who create such things. What can we do to provide more disincentives to keep them from being jerks?
Honestly, I think they are heros. Worms can do truely hideous things, the worms going around don't do anything that harmful. They are warnings that our infrastructure is unsafe. Do you think when someone who wants seriously to harm us releases a worm, all it will do is spread? The point of the worm is not the worm it is *THE PAYLOAD*. The worm simply carries the payload. The payload steals information, destroys computers, waits for years to destroy you...
he head librarian should be implementing sane policies that prevent things like this, and should be trying to provide a sliver of oversight for this stuff.
Ever worked at a big institution? Everyone who works at big institutions tries to arrange the facts and situation so the blame lands somewhere else, often while they are not given the resources to do so, and completely conflicted directives.
A friend of mine once worked in a situation where after working at a company for 5 weeks, he was asked to be personally responsible (as far as his career goes anyways), for the certification of each device manufactured. A piece of software which he was responsible for certified the devices, and this software was basically 8000 lines of if-then-else statements cobbled together over 6 years. A misconfigured device could easily destory 100,000's of dollars of materials.
Whats wrong with that you ask? There was *NO* policy describing the correct certification of these devices. None. No way to verify the program is operating correctly, a no definition even of waht correct operation was. So basically they were looking for a fall guy when the inevitable happened.
To his credit, bobby mcfarrin went on to have a fairly respectable career as a jazz musician after that gimmick track of his. He did a few tracks with the Yellow Jackets that are quite decent.
BTW, if you want to see an "inflated fee", check out what they charge for boxes at U-Haul. (But I suppose they have to make up for renting out trucks for $14.99 per day somehow.)
I needed a fairly large box to ship a telescope, went to staples where the appropriate sized box was $25. I shit you not. Obviously I paid 2.99 for the same box at office max, and still felt overcharged.
I see you are familiar. Thats the strange duality of the Zope devs. Very rich platform missing basic features (like searching in zope3. YOU CAN'T SEARCH FOR SHIT EXCEPT IN THE MOST BASIC OF WAYS).
I *very* rarely buy DVDs after purchasing quite a few and having most of them superceded by newer versions. I now only buy DVDs from small directors, or smaller studios I *WANT* to support (like the "life aquatic" movie which went straight to criteron, talk about doing it right!).
I'm tired of buying DVDs only to have a new version with a better picture and better features for less money come out. I would *really* like to buy the seinfeld DVDs, but you *know* they're going to be re-issued better and cheaper. Might as well wait...
Yep. Let me describe the situation at a place I work, posting anonymously because there are only 4 or 5 companies in this industry. We make devices used in the semi-conductor manufacturing industry... so when theres a problem, it ruins very expensive batches of chips.
Me: "The software that validates that units are configured correctly is 8000 lines of unauditable if statements. There is no definition of the policy it implements. This madness is going to cause an accident. We must rewrite the software and have lots of very boring meetings."
Management: "Hmmm...interesting...continue patching the software as issues come up."
Legal Department, "We're being sued because a configuration error ruined a batch of very expensive chemicals."
Me: "We must rewrite the software."
Legal: "We must rewrite the software."
Management: "hmm...interesting...continue patching the software as issues come up."
Couldn't have happened to a better bunch of assholes:) Software patents are wrong, but my heart still smiles to see eharmony taken down a notch.
For those of you who don't know, eHarmony is a sort of a "stealth" christian dating service. It is really a christian dating site, which dropped the moniker "christian" to appeal to a wider audience. If you say you are an atheist, the site will politely refuse to match you with anyone. The pseudo-science of the matching people based on "the 29 dimensions of personality" (bullshit) and the 400$/year subscription fee, really is distasteful in my opinion.
Google is not however using off the shelf distros. They have custimized thier own version of linux to do what they need. Not everyone wants to do that or has the resources to do so.
Cluestick: Individuals can customize their own version of linux. Its not a big deal.
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Actually, I am very gratified to see this development ... Now we have draconian DRM *AND* a format war. Nobody is going to buy these things.
I was also thinking yesterday ... all the early adopter HDTV owners got BURNED, now they're supposed to early addopt an HDTV *AND* a expensive blueray player?
Don't be so sure buddy. It took years to crack the DVD's CSS and its much simpler.
I respect what you're saying is true, but still I dont think its very fun to watch :)
Yes everything you see and do influences you to some degree. Unless you're crazy to begin with, you won't act on them.
Sports are fun to play and stupid to watch. End of story :)
Thanks for the defense. I get so tired of the armchair engineers... people who can look at one of the most complicated human endevaours *EVER* and provide advice without any actual knowledge.
I doubt you are a engineer, let alone an aerospace engineer. I also doubt a single beam actually cost 600 million. However, whatever it did cost, I have one phrase for you "extreme material constraints".
Whats the point of getting 3% interest when the government taxes that interst so much that afterwords you haven't beaten inflation?
Fortune 500 companies *ARE* fortune 500 companies because they can cut all the fat out. Most of the time that consists of things like due dilligence. Welcome to the world of business.
Secondly, I won't rent DVDs because most of them now have non-skippable commercials. Nothing like being forced to watch an advert for a movie you never wanted to see which isn't even in theaters anymore. I think even a few consumer dvd releases have commericals of this type?
That is without a doubt, the nerdiest paragraph ever posted on slashdot. EVER.
Is it just me, or does anyone else not care to remember BBSes? I ran several in my day, and the internet does everything they do, better. (God do I miss tradewars though).
Honestly, I think they are heros. Worms can do truely hideous things, the worms going around don't do anything that harmful. They are warnings that our infrastructure is unsafe. Do you think when someone who wants seriously to harm us releases a worm, all it will do is spread? The point of the worm is not the worm it is *THE PAYLOAD*. The worm simply carries the payload. The payload steals information, destroys computers, waits for years to destroy you...
Blame the people who make the worm possible.
Ever worked at a big institution? Everyone who works at big institutions tries to arrange the facts and situation so the blame lands somewhere else, often while they are not given the resources to do so, and completely conflicted directives.
A friend of mine once worked in a situation where after working at a company for 5 weeks, he was asked to be personally responsible (as far as his career goes anyways), for the certification of each device manufactured. A piece of software which he was responsible for certified the devices, and this software was basically 8000 lines of if-then-else statements cobbled together over 6 years. A misconfigured device could easily destory 100,000's of dollars of materials.
Whats wrong with that you ask? There was *NO* policy describing the correct certification of these devices. None. No way to verify the program is operating correctly, a no definition even of waht correct operation was. So basically they were looking for a fall guy when the inevitable happened.
In college I had a CS teacher named Thomas Payne. Hell of an engineer, hell of a man, hell of a teacher ... but i digress.
To his credit, bobby mcfarrin went on to have a fairly respectable career as a jazz musician after that gimmick track of his. He did a few tracks with the Yellow Jackets that are quite decent.
I needed a fairly large box to ship a telescope, went to staples where the appropriate sized box was $25. I shit you not. Obviously I paid 2.99 for the same box at office max, and still felt overcharged.
If you wanna get THAT stupid, I think getting the boxes in the first place made him a fedex customer.
I see you are familiar. Thats the strange duality of the Zope devs. Very rich platform missing basic features (like searching in zope3. YOU CAN'T SEARCH FOR SHIT EXCEPT IN THE MOST BASIC OF WAYS).
I *very* rarely buy DVDs after purchasing quite a few and having most of them superceded by newer versions. I now only buy DVDs from small directors, or smaller studios I *WANT* to support (like the "life aquatic" movie which went straight to criteron, talk about doing it right!).
I'm tired of buying DVDs only to have a new version with a better picture and better features for less money come out. I would *really* like to buy the seinfeld DVDs, but you *know* they're going to be re-issued better and cheaper. Might as well wait...
IMHO Zope is pythons only hope for web dominance. And those guys really don't have it together yet.
Are there directions on performing a profile updgrade avaliable?
Me: "The software that validates that units are configured correctly is 8000 lines of unauditable if statements. There is no definition of the policy it implements. This madness is going to cause an accident. We must rewrite the software and have lots of very boring meetings."
Management: "Hmmm...interesting...continue patching the software as issues come up."
Legal Department, "We're being sued because a configuration error ruined a batch of very expensive chemicals."
Me: "We must rewrite the software."
Legal: "We must rewrite the software."
Management: "hmm...interesting...continue patching the software as issues come up."
For those of you who don't know, eHarmony is a sort of a "stealth" christian dating service. It is really a christian dating site, which dropped the moniker "christian" to appeal to a wider audience. If you say you are an atheist, the site will politely refuse to match you with anyone. The pseudo-science of the matching people based on "the 29 dimensions of personality" (bullshit) and the 400$/year subscription fee, really is distasteful in my opinion.
Cluestick: Individuals can customize their own version of linux. Its not a big deal.