American CEOs are overpaid. The workers are getting probably closest to their fair share than anyplace else. If other places had a union, ala Canada, then they would get paid more fairly.
The person in the article was foolish enough to suggest that American corporations will be taking their workers with them when / if they leave. What a joke.
They should simply be fined per infraction like the phone industry. Set some standards for the software industry to meet on responsivness to bugs and holes. When they miss the mark, levy a fine. Simple as that. Fines should be in line with the COST$$$ of the software.
Your world is off its axis. Quicktime creates much nicer videos with nicer quality in less time in my experience than WMP. Quicktime lets you scrub the video and actually see what your scrubbing whereas WMP does not allow this.
QT does not crash on my computer. Of course I expect WMP not to crash...
Adding this technology will cost money. Every component you buy with this device in it will cost you more money. Why should I pay for somethiing that I am not interested in. The consumers will speak. They will not buy this trash. Well at least as soon as an alternative appears they will stop. I'll gladly buy my technology in Canada if you keep screwing around.
Arent TVs supposed to have some stupid Vchip in them? Its just material trumped up so someone can campaign on the platform of stopping it, and like sheep everyone will vote for that idiot.
Yes, precisely that. They are cluttering the airways with their garbage. Now if they control the internet, it will be cluttered with the same garbage. For every napster sound you DL, you will be forced to listen to attached samples of artist they are hyping...
I do buy exclusively from my local record stores. No more supporting big companies, when little ones serve the community much better.
If napster lives, "the people" will choose the stars, not the recording industry. The RIAA knows and is not comfortable about this.
Now artists will be able to command MORE money.
Today, I watch RAP on TV and hear it on the radio and realize they are forcing complete garbage on me. 95% of RAP is total trash. Yet they still sell this trash because they force it down your throat.
This is what the RIAA wants. 1. they go find a no name artist. 2. Sign him/her to an abusive contract that he/she will agree to out of desperation or necessity. 3. He/she drops a hit record and the RIAA takes all the profits (see 2). 4. By the time he gets name recognition and can sign a quality contract, the RIAA wants him to be washed up so they can push their NEW no name artists.
So its not about CD sales at all. Its about power. Its just like any other industry. If you can flood the market with artists, their salaries will drop. But napster will allow us to filter to the songs and artists we like, and IGNORE the trash we dont, sending salaries for those artists who remain right back up.
Most of the time they post meaningless stuff. I dont want to cencor them, I personally dont want to read what they have to say. Either you stand behind what you say, or beat it. Im not going to argue with some anonymous coward. Thats as bad as "my contacts" or "unidentified sources."
Your free to post as much as you want. Im just trying to filter through the 200+ posts that seem to show up, and the easiest way seems to eliminate the AC first. Their cowards anyway.
Chalk it up to a publicity stunt. Laptops already are starved for power. You start adding a water pump to the mix, and you drop your usable time by at least a 1/2 hour I estimate. In any event, if your processing so much with a laptop that you need a water cooler, you should be on a desktop.
Though I realize double click could care less if SPAM works or not, just as long as companies think it does and they pay double click.
So essentially double click will spam up, while advertising to companies that their SPAM works.
Personally I have NEVER received one single SPAM email that I had even a remote interest in.
For instance, you sign up for a mortgage with a company, and get SPAMed for some 'investment opportunity.' What does the one have to do with the other?
Not to mention phone spam, and fax spam. I get more phone spam than anything. They have ruined my phone totally. Ever day I gotta run downstairs to grab the phone and look that the number is 'out of area' before I Ignore it. They should pay for the energy I burn up and down the steps. My fax machine fires up, only to be some real estate spam. My postal mail box is always busting fresh with spam from the big chain super markets and credit card applications. My olfactory nerves are spammed as I drive by Steve's soulfoud, but that kinda works...As the final insult, my email is spammed.
Watch out, there will be spam on the one dollar bill next...
Well when the city has people to support and bills to pay, its nice to see them make the $$$. In the end it saves you tax dollars. As opposed to some FAT head buying a Bahamian beach with the billions he has profitted.
As far as I know, the CD-Key is verified on install only. In RTCW I dont even need the CD in the drive to play.
The Blizzard games dont pass CD-Key info when playing in on local IPX type networks so far. So services like Kali actually dont require any CD-Key checks.
As far as Blizzard validating cd-keys for connections to 3rd party servers, that would require Blizzard to change their code. So if their code allowed it, then Blizzard would not be able to complain about the CD-Key, but since their code does not, then they can. I don't think Blizzard will change their code to allow something they are seeking to stop anyway.
Again, I am giving a legitimate legal reason, I am not claiming it makes sense. I believe of course their true reason is for the advertising they do and to be able to keep track of how many people are online. I dont believe the security claim is really their concern. Though I give them props over their failed attempts to provide security in DiabloII.
Much stronger arguement is that when you connect to the bnet server your CD-Key is sent to the server. So all users connecting to the bnetd server would be surrending their CD-keys. Now Blizzard can not guarantee the security of the bnetd admins, nor can they put themselves in a position to be liable if CD-keys are stolen from bnetd.
So if you look at it from the point of view of CD-keys, Blizzard is preventing essentially what can be legally called a CD-Key collection mechanism. Though that was certainly not its purpose.
Interesting to note that they dont let on to this critical fact. Are they holding it in reserve to spring in case this goes to court because the explanations Blizzard actually gave are all lame.
I am still wondering why they left FSGS alone which does the exact same thing as bnetd??
Both of those enable every BLizzard game to be played online. Why didnt they go after them??
Interesting choice to go after the guy that gives it away for free. There has been the Free Starcraft Game Server around for years and they didnt hit those guys. THey are running exacly a battle.net type server. This is very interesting.
Amazing. I remember when they told us the CPUID number would not be a big deal. But others coutered it would.
Now they have done it with USB. This looks like arbitrary restriction, and I can't see why it should be allowed. We really need a strong tech department within the US government to monitor the anti-competitive use of technological advancements.
Of course, lets be sure that department is not the take too...
how does one lean forward while suspended on this device? Leaning is a function of pushing in some direction.
But to lean forward will require some part of you to essentially 'lean backward'. This usually amounts to sticking your but our behind you. But the net result should be a 0 lean.
I suppose you can allow gravity to pull you forward or backward, but that would cause a nice bit of latency, especially while trying to change from forward to backward.
Just try it. Stand straight up, and see how fast you can lean forward then backward.
I see that it works, but there is something im missing in the concept.
A common drug/ prostitution strategy is to go after the users. Not that I want to go after people responding to SPAM, but I would be interested in knowing who they are.
One can make an arguement that if no one ever responded to Attack Mail, it would never be sent. But if indeed no one is responding, then that makes the whole "arrest the Johns" arguement used by the police rather weak.
In complete agreement. I am a windows master, and it took me only about 3 months to master the ins and outs of NT.
Now Im learning linux. I suppose it will take just as long as it took to learn DOS + win31 + win95 + winNT. Thats equal, but in truth its about 2 years. Im into my first 8 months on linux I think.
This is what im working on with linux.
1. Get sound to work.
2. Get AGPGart going
3. Get my Geforce functional with OpenGL hardware acceleration
4. Get Wolfenstein working on Linux.
5. understand all the ways in which it can be hosed so I can prevent from loosing any important documents before I make the full switch.
I have a masters in computer engineering and a BS in electrical engineering, I used computers since I was about 7 starting on the TRS-80. Linux is for geeks. It must be dumbed down and I must NEVER see a DOS prompt before this thing is going mainstream. Most of my windows learning happens on the graphic interface level while Linux is all bash level commands...
You cant just sell it as OSX. First you need to create a child company in portugal or somewhere that can not be traced back to your company. That way when everyone starts complaining about the instability of the software, they dont suddenly realize its by Apple.
Further, if everyone realizes the difficulty in supporting TONS of hardware, they may feel empathy for M$.
I went optical, and it works just fine. Im tired of cleaning my balls. And the mouse flick works just as it always did. The flick was not really about the mouse, but more about the mouse pad area. You can still life an optical mouse and gain more space. At least I do and havent noticed an issue with it.
Certainly optical mice track better than balls. A ball has a certain amount of inherent loss in its movement.
In any event, I wont admit to actually consulting the "pros" but in my own personal experience, I like this mouse and i have yet to blame it for any of my deaths.
I had a book on TRS-80 secrets in which I peeked and poked lots of interesting functions.
I also was able to record the game "cartridges" onto my casette since they were too big for disk. You had to tape over one of the pins first.
I did BASIC in that thing. I too ran into the limits of my 4K RAM very quickly. I couldn't convience my parents to get me another 4K:(
I remember the "Sands of Egypt", my first RPG on a computer. I would put the casette in and type load, 1/2 hour later the game was loaded, maybe...If not I would rewind and load for another 1/2 hour. nowadays 1/2 minute would be horrendus.
I had the floppy drive too. BIg ole honking thing that plugged into the wall with its own AC adapter and cost about $300.
Ahh, those were the days. Nope, it never died. I sold it about 7 years ago to a guy who wanted something for his kid. the TRS-80 books on BASIC were/are the BEST I have ever seen. I would use them on a college level because they break it down so nicely.
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This happens at my job all the time, and I assume it happens other places with internal mail servers.
Management sends out a promotion announcement or some such to everyone, those on vacation autoreply...To ALL recepients. And the war is on!
I think enough people slapped management that they finally started using BCC. But sometimes someone new comes and they forget.
American CEOs are overpaid. The workers are getting probably closest to their fair share than anyplace else. If other places had a union, ala Canada, then they would get paid more fairly.
The person in the article was foolish enough to suggest that American corporations will be taking their workers with them when / if they leave. What a joke.
They should simply be fined per infraction like the phone industry. Set some standards for the software industry to meet on responsivness to bugs and holes. When they miss the mark, levy a fine. Simple as that. Fines should be in line with the COST$$$ of the software.
Your world is off its axis. Quicktime creates much nicer videos with nicer quality in less time in my experience than WMP. Quicktime lets you scrub the video and actually see what your scrubbing whereas WMP does not allow this.
QT does not crash on my computer. Of course I expect WMP not to crash...
Adding this technology will cost money. Every component you buy with this device in it will cost you more money. Why should I pay for somethiing that I am not interested in. The consumers will speak. They will not buy this trash. Well at least as soon as an alternative appears they will stop. I'll gladly buy my technology in Canada if you keep screwing around.
Arent TVs supposed to have some stupid Vchip in them? Its just material trumped up so someone can campaign on the platform of stopping it, and like sheep everyone will vote for that idiot.
Sick of it all.
Yes, precisely that. They are cluttering the airways with their garbage. Now if they control the internet, it will be cluttered with the same garbage. For every napster sound you DL, you will be forced to listen to attached samples of artist they are hyping...
I do buy exclusively from my local record stores. No more supporting big companies, when little ones serve the community much better.
If napster lives, "the people" will choose the stars, not the recording industry. The RIAA knows and is not comfortable about this.
Now artists will be able to command MORE money.
Today, I watch RAP on TV and hear it on the radio and realize they are forcing complete garbage on me. 95% of RAP is total trash. Yet they still sell this trash because they force it down your throat.
This is what the RIAA wants.
1. they go find a no name artist.
2. Sign him/her to an abusive contract that he/she will agree to out of desperation or necessity.
3. He/she drops a hit record and the RIAA takes all the profits (see 2).
4. By the time he gets name recognition and can sign a quality contract, the RIAA wants him to be washed up so they can push their NEW no name artists.
So its not about CD sales at all. Its about power. Its just like any other industry. If you can flood the market with artists, their salaries will drop. But napster will allow us to filter to the songs and artists we like, and IGNORE the trash we dont, sending salaries for those artists who remain right back up.
Most of the time they post meaningless stuff. I dont want to cencor them, I personally dont want to read what they have to say. Either you stand behind what you say, or beat it. Im not going to argue with some anonymous coward. Thats as bad as "my contacts" or "unidentified sources."
Your free to post as much as you want. Im just trying to filter through the 200+ posts that seem to show up, and the easiest way seems to eliminate the AC first. Their cowards anyway.
Chalk it up to a publicity stunt. Laptops already are starved for power. You start adding a water pump to the mix, and you drop your usable time by at least a 1/2 hour I estimate. In any event, if your processing so much with a laptop that you need a water cooler, you should be on a desktop.
I does not add up.
How can I block posts by anonymous Cowards??
Though I realize double click could care less if SPAM works or not, just as long as companies think it does and they pay double click.
So essentially double click will spam up, while advertising to companies that their SPAM works.
Personally I have NEVER received one single SPAM email that I had even a remote interest in.
For instance, you sign up for a mortgage with a company, and get SPAMed for some 'investment opportunity.' What does the one have to do with the other?
Not to mention phone spam, and fax spam. I get more phone spam than anything. They have ruined my phone totally. Ever day I gotta run downstairs to grab the phone and look that the number is 'out of area' before I Ignore it. They should pay for the energy I burn up and down the steps. My fax machine fires up, only to be some real estate spam. My postal mail box is always busting fresh with spam from the big chain super markets and credit card applications. My olfactory nerves are spammed as I drive by Steve's soulfoud, but that kinda works...As the final insult, my email is spammed.
Watch out, there will be spam on the one dollar bill next...
Well when the city has people to support and bills to pay, its nice to see them make the $$$. In the end it saves you tax dollars. As opposed to some FAT head buying a Bahamian beach with the billions he has profitted.
I wonder what American corporations will be without American citizens? Oh what was I thinking, there getting rid of their American workers every day.
I already live in Detroit, so you just let Windsor get a city internet. I will move my arse right across that border.
As far as I know, the CD-Key is verified on install only. In RTCW I dont even need the CD in the drive to play.
The Blizzard games dont pass CD-Key info when playing in on local IPX type networks so far. So services like Kali actually dont require any CD-Key checks.
As far as Blizzard validating cd-keys for connections to 3rd party servers, that would require Blizzard to change their code. So if their code allowed it, then Blizzard would not be able to complain about the CD-Key, but since their code does not, then they can. I don't think Blizzard will change their code to allow something they are seeking to stop anyway.
Again, I am giving a legitimate legal reason, I am not claiming it makes sense. I believe of course their true reason is for the advertising they do and to be able to keep track of how many people are online. I dont believe the security claim is really their concern. Though I give them props over their failed attempts to provide security in DiabloII.
Much stronger arguement is that when you connect to the bnet server your CD-Key is sent to the server. So all users connecting to the bnetd server would be surrending their CD-keys. Now Blizzard can not guarantee the security of the bnetd admins, nor can they put themselves in a position to be liable if CD-keys are stolen from bnetd.
So if you look at it from the point of view of CD-keys, Blizzard is preventing essentially what can be legally called a CD-Key collection mechanism. Though that was certainly not its purpose.
Interesting to note that they dont let on to this critical fact. Are they holding it in reserve to spring in case this goes to court because the explanations Blizzard actually gave are all lame.
I am still wondering why they left FSGS alone which does the exact same thing as bnetd??
Let see, you steralize a Bull and he becomes an OX. Much stronger and persistent.
These are Super flies
Any by the way, who gave them permission? I am positive they are not Africans. Just a big ass experiment on Africans. This shit has got to stop.
Both of those enable every BLizzard game to be played online. Why didnt they go after them??
Interesting choice to go after the guy that gives it away for free. There has been the Free Starcraft Game Server around for years and they didnt hit those guys. THey are running exacly a battle.net type server. This is very interesting.
Why these guys only???
Amazing. I remember when they told us the CPUID number would not be a big deal. But others coutered it would.
Now they have done it with USB. This looks like arbitrary restriction, and I can't see why it should be allowed. We really need a strong tech department within the US government to monitor the anti-competitive use of technological advancements.
Of course, lets be sure that department is not the take too...
how does one lean forward while suspended on this device? Leaning is a function of pushing in some direction.
But to lean forward will require some part of you to essentially 'lean backward'. This usually amounts to sticking your but our behind you. But the net result should be a 0 lean.
I suppose you can allow gravity to pull you forward or backward, but that would cause a nice bit of latency, especially while trying to change from forward to backward.
Just try it. Stand straight up, and see how fast you can lean forward then backward.
I see that it works, but there is something im missing in the concept.
A common drug/ prostitution strategy is to go after the users. Not that I want to go after people responding to SPAM, but I would be interested in knowing who they are.
One can make an arguement that if no one ever responded to Attack Mail, it would never be sent. But if indeed no one is responding, then that makes the whole "arrest the Johns" arguement used by the police rather weak.
In complete agreement. I am a windows master, and it took me only about 3 months to master the ins and outs of NT.
Now Im learning linux. I suppose it will take just as long as it took to learn DOS + win31 + win95 + winNT. Thats equal, but in truth its about 2 years. Im into my first 8 months on linux I think.
This is what im working on with linux.
1. Get sound to work.
2. Get AGPGart going
3. Get my Geforce functional with OpenGL hardware acceleration
4. Get Wolfenstein working on Linux.
5. understand all the ways in which it can be hosed so I can prevent from loosing any important documents before I make the full switch.
I have a masters in computer engineering and a BS in electrical engineering, I used computers since I was about 7 starting on the TRS-80. Linux is for geeks. It must be dumbed down and I must NEVER see a DOS prompt before this thing is going mainstream. Most of my windows learning happens on the graphic interface level while Linux is all bash level commands...
You cant just sell it as OSX. First you need to create a child company in portugal or somewhere that can not be traced back to your company. That way when everyone starts complaining about the instability of the software, they dont suddenly realize its by Apple.
Further, if everyone realizes the difficulty in supporting TONS of hardware, they may feel empathy for M$.
I went optical, and it works just fine. Im tired of cleaning my balls. And the mouse flick works just as it always did. The flick was not really about the mouse, but more about the mouse pad area. You can still life an optical mouse and gain more space. At least I do and havent noticed an issue with it.
Certainly optical mice track better than balls. A ball has a certain amount of inherent loss in its movement.
In any event, I wont admit to actually consulting the "pros" but in my own personal experience, I like this mouse and i have yet to blame it for any of my deaths.
"our greatest challenge in promoting broadband is deciding how best to stimulate enormous private sector investment."
That's easy, enormous private sector profit.
I had a book on TRS-80 secrets in which I peeked and poked lots of interesting functions.
:(
I also was able to record the game "cartridges" onto my casette since they were too big for disk. You had to tape over one of the pins first.
I did BASIC in that thing. I too ran into the limits of my 4K RAM very quickly. I couldn't convience my parents to get me another 4K
I remember the "Sands of Egypt", my first RPG on a computer. I would put the casette in and type load, 1/2 hour later the game was loaded, maybe...If not I would rewind and load for another 1/2 hour. nowadays 1/2 minute would be horrendus.
I had the floppy drive too. BIg ole honking thing that plugged into the wall with its own AC adapter and cost about $300.
Ahh, those were the days. Nope, it never died. I sold it about 7 years ago to a guy who wanted something for his kid. the TRS-80 books on BASIC were/are the BEST I have ever seen. I would use them on a college level because they break it down so nicely.