I know that alot of people have lost respect for bliz over the whole bnetd thing, but personally I am VERY excited about this release. I think blizzard has done remarkably well with old ideas for game play and has come up with games that I never seem to get tired of. I still play warcraft 2 on a regular basis. Not because I have a crappy computer or anything, I just think it's fun! Not only that but thier CG and cinema scenes have become more and more stunning with each game. I'm practicly foaming at the mouth to see this new one!
I really don't understand what you mean. If AOL gets screwed and they pass it off on the insurance co, and the insurance co passes it back by raising rates, do you think that AOL is the one getting screwed? Absolutly not. They are just going to raise thier prices, thus passing it back to the consumer.
Everyone seems to cheer when a big company gets screwed somehow, but I hate to see it personally. Every single time it's the consumer who ends up paying for it. It's just like when someone wins a $50 million dollar medical malpractice suit against a hospial. Everyone says "yeah, get 'em they are way over paid anyway". Is the hostpial really getting screwed? No, they just raise thier rates to pay for it. Who does that affect? The insurance co's. What do they do? Raise thier rates. Who does that affect? Usually our employers. What do they do? Stop paying for heath insurace for employees. So who got screwed by the malpractice suit? Us. Same thing here, who gets screwed by AOL paying out all kinds of cash? AOL customers, who are not the ones doing anything wrong. (nessisarily)
Or is it just me? I personally hate AOL, but what is wrong with it being the "default" program. Especially since you have the option of changing that! All kinds of competing software does this. Quicktime vs. Windows media, Netscape vs IE. What got me about this article was the little line "consumers would be paid about $8.1 million, with the rest going mostly to the attorneys." Ahhh... sudently the light goes on! To me this is nothing more than a way for some lawyers to get rich at the expence of someone else. Even if the "someone else" is a large company that most informed computer users hate, that doesn't make it right.
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If you did that, they would see to it that your credit was ruined. I don't think that's a very good plan.
You know, I have mixed feelings about lindows, but just seeing M$ lose in court makes me all tingly all over. Know matter what you think about lindows or mp3.com ceo, there is no way that M$ should have exclusive rights to the word "Windows". When would they get around to sueing people who develop "Xwindows" stuff?
Unfortunatly that may be the company policy, but it seems like either many of the pimple faced video lackys don't know about this, or they are too lazy to do it another way. I have a friend who spent a consideralble amount of time in Blockbuster arguing about the SSN thing, and they refused to give him one with out it. The same thing happenes at the University that I went to. They used SSN numbers as student ID's and default passwords. You would always hear that you didn't have to, and that they would take another 9 digit number, but when I asked the minimum wage help desk lady, she was adament about how there isn't any other way. Does this happen to anyone else? Is this out of ignorance or lazyness?
This is exactly why I hate the way so many companies require you give them so much personal info. I can understand why a car dealer would need it, but what about Blockbuster who wants you to give your SSN to some pimple faced teenager behind the counter. I don't think so.
I have two responses to this. 1) good job trying to make education fun, and interesting. 2) I hope he branches out to less traditional comic characters too.
Great, now lets just hope what ever os they use is secure, I wouldn't want little nano robots being controled by some 12 year old script kitty. Or maybe these could be implanted into digital media to disable your computer if you pirated any software?
I'm not the least surprized that spiderman did that well. IMHO it was a combination of a character that we (well tons of us any way) loved since childhood, and the fact that it was not marketed to death like the episode 1 was. I don't really expect the movie industry to pick up on that, so I'm sure they will market the sequal out the yang, and it won't do as well.
I totaly agree. I love this trend of Government using OSS and I hope more countrys get on the band wagon. I think if people start seeing all thier tax dollars being handled by OSS safe and secure, there will be much more end user migration. It would do a lot to let people know that there is a viable alternitive to the expensive proprietary stuff.
And do what with it? I really don't beleive that the US govnmt would let that go to the private sector in this country, and we don't need the technology. I suppose that is a good deal for a space shuttle, but I don't see the point.
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In Kentucky where I live another name for a creek is a "lick". Red lick and Paint lick arn't so bad, but the one that takes the cake is "Big Bone Lick". I swear I'm not making this up. They even have a state park! Check it out at mapquest if you don't beleive me!
I don't know about everyone else, but I for one am very exited about this.
Java isn't my prefered language, but it seems to me like this kind of deal can have a big impact in the industry to promote open standards. With a BIG player like ebay getting rid of asp for java, and probably saving a pritty penny in the process, perhaps M$ will have more reason to re-evaluate thier game plan.
This is a great question you are asking, and I would love to see a good answer. The shame of it is, I'm expecting to see a bunch of posts in response to this saying "If you need one then write it yourself".
Is it just me, or does it seem like the open source offerings for things related to audio/video are lacking in general? I wish I had time to make improvements myself, or the money to contribute to the developers, but it seems like we need more in this area to be able to be more competitive with proprietary solutions.
How about video editing? If you have the movie on your computer you can hack around with it, take out your favorite clips, run it backwards, etc. Besides being mobile (laptops and such).
In my opinion, if they have completely stoped development, why don't they start releasing some source code for older versions of the OS? That would really get the OSS community involved!
It sounds like a good idea, but It seems to me like just a fancy way to sell you another server to have to manage. A central server for your NIC cards? Thats the last thing that I want to have to deal with. I would be curious to see benchmarks against something like this and a traditional firewall.
My main problem with these kind of mods are the potential for loss. If I had and 8 bit nintendo, and an atari 2600 that still worked, I would be too worried about breaking them to hack them into bits. Not to mention spending several hundred dollars on the modern consoles to squeeze in too.
Besides, If you have hacked your xbox like that you wouldn't get any more official M$ tech support (tee hee)
It's not that I'm all that fond of x86, I just love the example that they are setting here. They make an executive decision, there is a public uproar, and they stop and reconsider.
Even if they don't decide to continue supporting x86, they have given us a clear signal that they are listening to our opinions, and are willing to negotiate/cooperate with the community.
That is what is missing in some Monopolies that have had a lot of media coverage lately. Some companies will do things that no one likes, completely ignore everyones complaints, and then pretend as if everyone was in favor of it the whole time.
More big companies should have an approch like Sun's.
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Yes the COOK is, just like the person doing the coding usualy is too, it's the companys that have the restrictive policies. The cook might show you how he cooked it, but if the regional manager finds out he is likely to lose his job. Of cource I'm talking about large restarunts/companies. The smaller locals one will be more fiendly.
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I have two things to say about this article.
1) It was VERY VERY long
2) I really liked the analogy of OSS to Resturants.
Think about it. The majority of people never think twice about never seeing the ingrediants, but there are some who feel "I'm putting this stuff in my system, I have the right to know what's in it!". Some even have good reasons like peanut reactions and so forth.
The resturant will say "If we tell you how we made it, we will lose business". I think that's nonscence personally. Ten to one, I'm not going to be able to cook that by myself anyway, and I'm just going to come back to the restaurant to get it donecorrectly. Plus if I do make it and feed it to all my friends and they say "where did you get that recipie?" and I tell them, don't you think they are going to go check out the menu for themselfs?
And finally, what if the majority of the people eating at your restaurant wanted the food cooked a different way, but didn't have any other choice on the menu? They are going to take those ingrediants and make the food better. If the cook was smart enough, he might be able to learn from what the other cook did, and make his own product better!
Am I making my analogy clear here, or is this just gibberish?
I have had bad run-in's with Oracle before. I once was upgrading the db and the java-based installer wouldn't work. It was the most stupid thing. We are using the UNIX version, and they do not even offer a text based installer! After being up for almost 24 hrs with our website down the whole time, we gave up, and restored the old database. Before we upgraded and had problems thier tech support would say "we can't help because you need to upgrade" so we try to upgrade, and their response was "well it's a new product, so we can't help you becuase you are pioneering new ground". WTF! A few months later we found the answer in thier online help file. It was the NUM LOCK key. If the num lock key is on, it would not install. NO WHERE was this mentioned in the documentation, on the screen or by the tech monkey we called. I don't even know how to check for the numlock key in Java! I would think that they would have go out of thier way to make a product this bad.
My point is, why bother if there is an open souce alternative? MySQL is good enugh for NASA, it's good enugh for me! Let Oracle be the big brother, and I'll just be the Red-Headed stepchild.
What I'm afraid of is the fact that since I have a "residential" DSL plan, I am not allowed to run any servers. If my ISP catches me running a server, they have the right to force me to upgrade to "business" account, or cancel my account altogether.
If I my computer starts sending web-based adds to the people next door, won't that be port 80? Will my ISP know the difference? What am I supposed to do what Kaza has violated my contract with my ISP, without me ever being aware of it?
What about people that pay for bandwidth?
This whole thing makes me sick.
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I know that alot of people have lost respect for bliz over the whole bnetd thing, but personally I am VERY excited about this release. I think blizzard has done remarkably well with old ideas for game play and has come up with games that I never seem to get tired of. I still play warcraft 2 on a regular basis. Not because I have a crappy computer or anything, I just think it's fun! Not only that but thier CG and cinema scenes have become more and more stunning with each game. I'm practicly foaming at the mouth to see this new one!
This translates to the right general effect
I really don't understand what you mean. If AOL gets screwed and they pass it off on the insurance co, and the insurance co passes it back by raising rates, do you think that AOL is the one getting screwed? Absolutly not. They are just going to raise thier prices, thus passing it back to the consumer.
Everyone seems to cheer when a big company gets screwed somehow, but I hate to see it personally. Every single time it's the consumer who ends up paying for it. It's just like when someone wins a $50 million dollar medical malpractice suit against a hospial. Everyone says "yeah, get 'em they are way over paid anyway". Is the hostpial really getting screwed? No, they just raise thier rates to pay for it. Who does that affect? The insurance co's. What do they do? Raise thier rates. Who does that affect? Usually our employers. What do they do? Stop paying for heath insurace for employees. So who got screwed by the malpractice suit? Us. Same thing here, who gets screwed by AOL paying out all kinds of cash? AOL customers, who are not the ones doing anything wrong. (nessisarily)
Or is it just me? I personally hate AOL, but what is wrong with it being the "default" program. Especially since you have the option of changing that! All kinds of competing software does this. Quicktime vs. Windows media, Netscape vs IE. What got me about this article was the little line "consumers would be paid about $8.1 million, with the rest going mostly to the attorneys." Ahhh... sudently the light goes on! To me this is nothing more than a way for some lawyers to get rich at the expence of someone else. Even if the "someone else" is a large company that most informed computer users hate, that doesn't make it right.
If you did that, they would see to it that your credit was ruined. I don't think that's a very good plan.
You know, I have mixed feelings about lindows, but just seeing M$ lose in court makes me all tingly all over. Know matter what you think about lindows or mp3.com ceo, there is no way that M$ should have exclusive rights to the word "Windows". When would they get around to sueing people who develop "Xwindows" stuff?
Unfortunatly that may be the company policy, but it seems like either many of the pimple faced video lackys don't know about this, or they are too lazy to do it another way. I have a friend who spent a consideralble amount of time in Blockbuster arguing about the SSN thing, and they refused to give him one with out it. The same thing happenes at the University that I went to. They used SSN numbers as student ID's and default passwords. You would always hear that you didn't have to, and that they would take another 9 digit number, but when I asked the minimum wage help desk lady, she was adament about how there isn't any other way. Does this happen to anyone else? Is this out of ignorance or lazyness?
This is exactly why I hate the way so many companies require you give them so much personal info. I can understand why a car dealer would need it, but what about Blockbuster who wants you to give your SSN to some pimple faced teenager behind the counter. I don't think so.
I have two responses to this. 1) good job trying to make education fun, and interesting. 2) I hope he branches out to less traditional comic characters too.
Great, now lets just hope what ever os they use is secure, I wouldn't want little nano robots being controled by some 12 year old script kitty. Or maybe these could be implanted into digital media to disable your computer if you pirated any software?
I'm not the least surprized that spiderman did that well. IMHO it was a combination of a character that we (well tons of us any way) loved since childhood, and the fact that it was not marketed to death like the episode 1 was. I don't really expect the movie industry to pick up on that, so I'm sure they will market the sequal out the yang, and it won't do as well.
thats an interesting sig you have there. Although I would not have expected an lds rm to be seeking an ec on /.
I totaly agree. I love this trend of Government using OSS and I hope more countrys get on the band wagon. I think if people start seeing all thier tax dollars being handled by OSS safe and secure, there will be much more end user migration. It would do a lot to let people know that there is a viable alternitive to the expensive proprietary stuff.
Better yet, someone could buy it
And do what with it? I really don't beleive that the US govnmt would let that go to the private sector in this country, and we don't need the technology. I suppose that is a good deal for a space shuttle, but I don't see the point.
In Kentucky where I live another name for a creek is a "lick". Red lick and Paint lick arn't so bad, but the one that takes the cake is "Big Bone Lick". I swear I'm not making this up. They even have a state park! Check it out at mapquest if you don't beleive me!
I don't know about everyone else, but I for one am very exited about this.
Java isn't my prefered language, but it seems to me like this kind of deal can have a big impact in the industry to promote open standards. With a BIG player like ebay getting rid of asp for java, and probably saving a pritty penny in the process, perhaps M$ will have more reason to re-evaluate thier game plan.
This is a great question you are asking, and I would love to see a good answer. The shame of it is, I'm expecting to see a bunch of posts in response to this saying "If you need one then write it yourself".
Is it just me, or does it seem like the open source offerings for things related to audio/video are lacking in general? I wish I had time to make improvements myself, or the money to contribute to the developers, but it seems like we need more in this area to be able to be more competitive with proprietary solutions.
How about video editing? If you have the movie on your computer you can hack around with it, take out your favorite clips, run it backwards, etc. Besides being mobile (laptops and such).
In my opinion, if they have completely stoped development, why don't they start releasing some source code for older versions of the OS? That would really get the OSS community involved!
It sounds like a good idea, but It seems to me like just a fancy way to sell you another server to have to manage. A central server for your NIC cards? Thats the last thing that I want to have to deal with. I would be curious to see benchmarks against something like this and a traditional firewall.
My main problem with these kind of mods are the potential for loss. If I had and 8 bit nintendo, and an atari 2600 that still worked, I would be too worried about breaking them to hack them into bits. Not to mention spending several hundred dollars on the modern consoles to squeeze in too.
Besides, If you have hacked your xbox like that you wouldn't get any more official M$ tech support (tee hee)
Kudo's to Sun on this one.
It's not that I'm all that fond of x86, I just love the example that they are setting here. They make an executive decision, there is a public uproar, and they stop and reconsider.
Even if they don't decide to continue supporting x86, they have given us a clear signal that they are listening to our opinions, and are willing to negotiate/cooperate with the community.
That is what is missing in some Monopolies that have had a lot of media coverage lately. Some companies will do things that no one likes, completely ignore everyones complaints, and then pretend as if everyone was in favor of it the whole time.
More big companies should have an approch like Sun's.
Yes the COOK is, just like the person doing the coding usualy is too, it's the companys that have the restrictive policies. The cook might show you how he cooked it, but if the regional manager finds out he is likely to lose his job. Of cource I'm talking about large restarunts/companies. The smaller locals one will be more fiendly.
I have two things to say about this article.
1) It was VERY VERY long2) I really liked the analogy of OSS to Resturants.
Think about it. The majority of people never think twice about never seeing the ingrediants, but there are some who feel "I'm putting this stuff in my system, I have the right to know what's in it!". Some even have good reasons like peanut reactions and so forth.
The resturant will say "If we tell you how we made it, we will lose business". I think that's nonscence personally. Ten to one, I'm not going to be able to cook that by myself anyway, and I'm just going to come back to the restaurant to get it donecorrectly. Plus if I do make it and feed it to all my friends and they say "where did you get that recipie?" and I tell them, don't you think they are going to go check out the menu for themselfs?
And finally, what if the majority of the people eating at your restaurant wanted the food cooked a different way, but didn't have any other choice on the menu? They are going to take those ingrediants and make the food better. If the cook was smart enough, he might be able to learn from what the other cook did, and make his own product better!
Am I making my analogy clear here, or is this just gibberish?
I have had bad run-in's with Oracle before. I once was upgrading the db and the java-based installer wouldn't work. It was the most stupid thing. We are using the UNIX version, and they do not even offer a text based installer! After being up for almost 24 hrs with our website down the whole time, we gave up, and restored the old database. Before we upgraded and had problems thier tech support would say "we can't help because you need to upgrade" so we try to upgrade, and their response was "well it's a new product, so we can't help you becuase you are pioneering new ground". WTF! A few months later we found the answer in thier online help file. It was the NUM LOCK key. If the num lock key is on, it would not install. NO WHERE was this mentioned in the documentation, on the screen or by the tech monkey we called. I don't even know how to check for the numlock key in Java! I would think that they would have go out of thier way to make a product this bad.
My point is, why bother if there is an open souce alternative? MySQL is good enugh for NASA, it's good enugh for me! Let Oracle be the big brother, and I'll just be the Red-Headed stepchild.
What I'm afraid of is the fact that since I have a "residential" DSL plan, I am not allowed to run any servers. If my ISP catches me running a server, they have the right to force me to upgrade to "business" account, or cancel my account altogether. If I my computer starts sending web-based adds to the people next door, won't that be port 80? Will my ISP know the difference? What am I supposed to do what Kaza has violated my contract with my ISP, without me ever being aware of it? What about people that pay for bandwidth? This whole thing makes me sick.