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They're making me side with Microsoft >shiversThe only thing Real does well is avoid bankrupcy. I'm sure they will be required reading in MBA courses. There is no reason they should be in business, none at all.
A buddy of mines father sells a ceartin good or service, which a space alien cult bought on a regular basis. One day they stopped paying their bills, but DEMANDED that he continue delivering said goods and services. Naturally he's not stupid, so the cult responded by SUING HIM for religious discrimination, they claimed they were being discriminated against because he wouldn't do business with them! They were laughed out of court, eventually.
Did anyone else read the cell phone charger link carefully? "This device uses 3 "AAA" rechargeable batteries (not included). Generator measures about 6"L x 2" W x 1"D."
Wow, are they high quality bootlegs (hard to tell from the original)? Or are they obvious fakes? Its a tough call, but you might want to inform the MPAA. I know the mpaa is unpopular but this is the kind of activity we DO want them pursuing.
I think the reason for the hard line from EB is that they know theft is a HUGE part of their business. Think about what easy money this is, no messy stock, shipping, delays, restocking, just profit and NO LIABILITY.
We don't have any EB stores where I live, but we have KB's and Game Stop, both of which sell used games, and I have to tell you their prices are horrible. Both places price games 5$ under retail. I can't imagine not paying the extra 5$ to get a new copy.
I agree with you 100%. I think something thats really missing from our society is the idea of consequences which I think is what you're hitting on. Most places in the world, if you messed with someones business there would be consequences that wouldn't necessarily be legal in nature. Your community might look down on you or you might get the crap beat out of you. Those things serve REAL purposes, police can't be everywhere all the time, but people can...
Now police are the only ones authorized to provide consequences or even make judgements which means anything that doesn't have critical mass slips under the radar.
In 97 or 98 I had a similiar problem, this 15 year old kid was rooting our servers and messing up our IRC channel, he never seemed to use the same IP, and honestly we just couldn't stop him. Fourtanately a member of our organization worked at IBM and he had a bit of juice with the security department. A few days later someone at IBM got us name and a phone number, and we called and had a long conversation with the guys dad:) Never heard another peep out of him, although we were all still very emberassed (hey erik if you're out there, email me!)
Im not gonna go into too much detail, but my uncle broke his arm at one point and cancer happened to be visible on the arm x-ray. The radiologist circled it -- and the doc said nothing. 5 years later he finds out about the cancer because he's very ill (he's still alive although theres no earthly reason he should be), the HMO gets the records, alters them, and lies in court... but not before he got his own copy of the records and the x-rays. No consequences for the HMO or the doctor except the california maximum malpractice damage award of 100,000$.
My first (and hopefully last) sysadmin job was of a fairly sophisticated solaris/irix/mac/linux/windows network of a university research labratory.
After about a month on the job, my boss came to me one day and said, "What do you use to read your email?" I reply, "Well, in windows, I use eudora, and in unix, pine. Which system did you mean? (everyone had a solaris and windows machine)" "Unix", he says, "Show me this pine program, I've been using this program, I forget the name, and the problem is, whenever I get an attachment it screws up the screen and I have to scroll past it. " So I show him pine, and as im leaving I say, "Just out of curiosity do you recall the name of the program you were using?" To which he replies "Oh yea! Its called.... um... TAIL!"
Sure enough, the poor SOB had been running tail on his mail spool to read his mail. His spool was 150 megs and had every email he'd recieved since the lab opened in 1991 (this was in 2000).
Theres still something fishy here -- 300,000$? I could build a fucking datacenter for 300,000. Think about how much hardware that is. At my last job I bought 2.6TB of SUN storage and a 4 way SUN server for 100,000$. 300,000$? Thats one HELL of a website!! I'm paying like 150$ a month for a TB of traffic and a colo'd p4.
I don't think we can settle anything about this case until we see documentation on this 300,000$. Either he's the stupidest web developer in the world, or he's a fraudster.
the pop industry is all about stripping consumable income from the teen market, which is by definition naive, immature, and not generally capable of independent thought/analysis.
I dont think you're giving teens enough credit. Know what I was doing in high school? Consuming jazz albums like crazy, playing my sax all over southern california in jazz competitions and was a board member for a voulenteer organization.
My point is, teens can be responsible and useful members of society -- the problem is of course that parents, media and government reinforce the stereotype that teens are proto-adults of whom nothing is expected.
Know how I became involved in that voulenteer organization? I was asked, thats all.
blank lines are as much code as non blank lines -- believe it or not. Good programmers use spaces to indicate functional groups of code like good writers use paragraphs to group thoughts.
This is in the works with Intel's LeGrande chipset
For some reason i thought instantly of Monkey Island II -- you start the game with every inventory slot full of stacks of cash -- then as soon as you get to town "Largo Legrande" (the town bully) steals all your cash.
I always considered lucasarts adventure games to be the equivalent of a studios "prestidge picture". A prestidge pic is a movie the studio knows will probably loose a few bucks, but they make it to make ART instead of money. Tell me who is buying all those stupid star wars games?
Do you have any insight into why they keep loosing all their talented desginers? (ron gilbert, the guy grim fandago guy, michael land)
Also its clear why they suck -- they keep turning down my resumes! heh:)
une question pour vous -- wtf are you DOING to them? I've only seen one system of ANY kind die of cpu failure in 15 years of working with computers -- and that was a Sparcstation 5 that hadn't been turned off in 10 years.
If you're telling me you've had 3 AMD's die that weren't overclocked, weren't modified, and had proper cooling with good power supplies, i would be very surprised.
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They're making me side with Microsoft >shiversThe only thing Real does well is avoid bankrupcy. I'm sure they will be required reading in MBA courses. There is no reason they should be in business, none at all.
that was what the ominous last word of my post implied :)
A buddy of mines father sells a ceartin good or service, which a space alien cult bought on a regular basis. One day they stopped paying their bills, but DEMANDED that he continue delivering said goods and services. Naturally he's not stupid, so the cult responded by SUING HIM for religious discrimination, they claimed they were being discriminated against because he wouldn't do business with them! They were laughed out of court, eventually.
WTF!?
Wow, are they high quality bootlegs (hard to tell from the original)? Or are they obvious fakes? Its a tough call, but you might want to inform the MPAA. I know the mpaa is unpopular but this is the kind of activity we DO want them pursuing.
We don't have any EB stores where I live, but we have KB's and Game Stop, both of which sell used games, and I have to tell you their prices are horrible. Both places price games 5$ under retail. I can't imagine not paying the extra 5$ to get a new copy.
Now police are the only ones authorized to provide consequences or even make judgements which means anything that doesn't have critical mass slips under the radar.
In 97 or 98 I had a similiar problem, this 15 year old kid was rooting our servers and messing up our IRC channel, he never seemed to use the same IP, and honestly we just couldn't stop him. Fourtanately a member of our organization worked at IBM and he had a bit of juice with the security department. A few days later someone at IBM got us name and a phone number, and we called and had a long conversation with the guys dad :) Never heard another peep out of him, although we were all still very emberassed (hey erik if you're out there, email me!)
not a troll -- whats do you like better then emacs? I find myself using eclipse pretty much exclusively.
Im not gonna go into too much detail, but my uncle broke his arm at one point and cancer happened to be visible on the arm x-ray. The radiologist circled it -- and the doc said nothing. 5 years later he finds out about the cancer because he's very ill (he's still alive although theres no earthly reason he should be), the HMO gets the records, alters them, and lies in court... but not before he got his own copy of the records and the x-rays. No consequences for the HMO or the doctor except the california maximum malpractice damage award of 100,000$.
After about a month on the job, my boss came to me one day and said, "What do you use to read your email?" I reply, "Well, in windows, I use eudora, and in unix, pine. Which system did you mean? (everyone had a solaris and windows machine)" "Unix", he says, "Show me this pine program, I've been using this program, I forget the name, and the problem is, whenever I get an attachment it screws up the screen and I have to scroll past it. " So I show him pine, and as im leaving I say, "Just out of curiosity do you recall the name of the program you were using?" To which he replies "Oh yea! Its called .... um ... TAIL!"
Sure enough, the poor SOB had been running tail on his mail spool to read his mail. His spool was 150 megs and had every email he'd recieved since the lab opened in 1991 (this was in 2000).
I know this is slightly OT, but you wanna see an eyesore? I ran into this page last night. I think its safe to say no one thought HTML could do this.
I don't think we can settle anything about this case until we see documentation on this 300,000$. Either he's the stupidest web developer in the world, or he's a fraudster.
I dont think you're giving teens enough credit. Know what I was doing in high school? Consuming jazz albums like crazy, playing my sax all over southern california in jazz competitions and was a board member for a voulenteer organization.
My point is, teens can be responsible and useful members of society -- the problem is of course that parents, media and government reinforce the stereotype that teens are proto-adults of whom nothing is expected.
Know how I became involved in that voulenteer organization? I was asked, thats all.
ok, rant over :)
think I got it worked out, you should have an email :)
Being a "platinum selling rap artist" is alot like wining the special Olympics, yea you won, but you're still a retard.
blank lines are as much code as non blank lines -- believe it or not. Good programmers use spaces to indicate functional groups of code like good writers use paragraphs to group thoughts.
For some reason i thought instantly of Monkey Island II -- you start the game with every inventory slot full of stacks of cash -- then as soon as you get to town "Largo Legrande" (the town bully) steals all your cash.
hey, check your e-mail Id like to talk to you privately :)
Do you have any insight into why they keep loosing all their talented desginers? (ron gilbert, the guy grim fandago guy, michael land)
Also its clear why they suck -- they keep turning down my resumes! heh :)
yea I thought that was an unusual mod to ... you just earned a friend :)
If you're telling me you've had 3 AMD's die that weren't overclocked, weren't modified, and had proper cooling with good power supplies, i would be very surprised.
If only there was a "+1 I feel Shame"
you sound more like a terrorist to me!! Thinkforyourselfer!!!
MS definatley has pior art on arbitrary code execution (I'm look at you, Outlook).