What people are failing to realize is that a large number of customers have been asking for this very thing from Blizzard. For Blizzard to go after these types of sites/programs and to shut them down.
again as a developer have unique abilties to do whatever i want....if I was perhaps busy working on cleaning up a work project using visual studio developer and also playing the game, then I guess I was a bad person because the fact that the hash sent back saw that I had the VS open capable of reading the stack etc... I would get banned....good thing I know about this now.... Did you even read what was posted? It compares the hash to a known list of bot programs and its ilk. Unless VS is suddenly a botting program, it's not gonna put up a red flag.
This is just another case of blowing shit out of proportion. I mean, seriously, try thinking logically for 2 seconds. It might help.
1. an imitation, reproduction, or transcript of an original: a copy of a famous painting. 2. one of the various examples or specimens of the same book, engraving, or the like. 3. written matter intended to be reproduced in printed form: The editor sent the copy for the next issue to the printer. 4. the text of a news story, advertisement, television commercial, etc., as distinguished from related visual material.
"This is squarely the problem of Ameritrade management. Protection and recovery of backup data rests squarely with IT. There should have been a detailed process done in conjunction with a reliable shipper to ensure protection ( or perhaps a private courier ) of the tape."
So your suggesting that having done all this, they will never lose data? And protection and recovery rests squarely with IT?
You're making a lot of assumptions. I am pretty sure they had a "detailed process" and used what they thought was a "reliable shipper/private courier".
But you know what, shit happens. No one likes it when mistakes happen, but guess what, if I hire a reputable company to do something, and they fail in doing it, they are to blame. I'm not going to say "yeah, I lost the data" when I really didn't. Sure, I am going to work to find out what happened and solve the problem, but I didn't lose the data. The company I hired lost it.
Dude, did you RTFA? Did you Read the original/. post?
No, you didn't.
First, Napster's CEO wasn't their. The CTO was.
And read this: "William Pence, Napster CTO, told the subcommittee that the music industry will eventually promote interoperability itself without the need for government intervention."
I'm sorry, so just to be clear: You are supporting the government in this case? You want them to regulate this.
Furthermore, I couldn't find anything on Napster complaining about DRM.
Dude, did you RTFA? Did you Read the original/. post?
No, you didn't. Because if you did: Where is Napster complaining in the article and saying that the government should get involved against Apple.
And read this: "William Pence, Napster CTO, told the subcommittee that the music industry will eventually promote interoperability itself without the need for government intervention."
I'm sorry, so just to be clear: You are supporting the government in this case? You want them to regulate this.
Dude, did you RTFA? Did you Read the original/. post?
No, you didn't.
First, Napster's CEO wasn't their. The CTO was.
And read this: "William Pence, Napster CTO, told the subcommittee that the music industry will eventually promote interoperability itself without the need for government intervention."
I'm sorry, so just to be clear: You are supporting the government in this case? You want them to regulate this.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1732672,00.as p
Most of the desktop computers in the UK's Department for Work and Pensions were paralyzed for four days on Monday, when a failed upgrade took them offline. The outage, covering 75 percent to 80 percent of the DWP's 80,000 PCs, is one of the largest in the UK government's not entirely impressive IT history. And possibly one of the most costly. According to staff reports, the outage occurred on Monday afternoon, disconnecting staff e-mail, benefits processing, and Internet and intranet connectivity. According to one, a limited network upgrade from Windows 2000 to Windows XP was taking place, but instead of this taking place on only a small number of the target machines, all the clients connected to the network received a partial, but fatal, "upgrade."
Another source says that the DWP was trialing Windows XP on a small number ("about seven") of machines. "EDS was going to apply a patch to these. Unfortunately the request was made to apply it live and it was rolled out across the estate, which hit around 80 percent of the Win2K desktops. This patch caused the desktops to BSOD and made recovery rather tricky as they couldn't boot to pick any further patches or recalls. I gather that [Microsoft Corp.] consultants have been flown in from the U.S. to clear up the mess." EDS is also thought to be flying in fire brigades.
"I got the answer I expected from the Novell/Sun/Red-Hat people: "regarding market research, we care about it only when happens from our marketing department and to our customers". They don't care about the "generic" Gnome user. That's ok. Understandable. These guys have a business to run.
However, I was not happy from the answer I got from the Gnome developers who don't work for a Gnome-related corporation: "
So basically, according to here, people responded from companies that basically said they are listening to do implement features that companies want.
But then she gets upset that the people that implement this stuff on their own time should do what she wants.
So really she has people who are listening to the customers, and you have people doing their own thing. How is that wrong? If I got into a project and people started using it, should I never work on my own stuff again?
He's not saying you shouldn't have good graphics, btu that you can't just have good graphics on powerful machines. You need more than that. It's the difference between Doom3 and HL2 (bad, good, IMHO).
Both had great graphics, but only one had a good story that actually interested me enough to play to the end.
That's not accurate. Seeing that I started a startup more than 2 years ago, the three things mentioned are very, very true. Sure, cash is important, but it's not the most important thing and it's not difficult to get. Having extra money doesn't equate to success. The dot-com bust proves that. Rather, the three things mentioned (product, quality staff, and spending as little as possible) is right on target.
Except you don't get the money just for coming up with something. It has to be selected, which means other people have to approve it. Which means it has to be good.
"I wonder how many crappy bug reports and patches are to be submitted because of the "easy" money being given."
0. Just because you submit a bug report doesn't mean it becomes a bounty.
That's fine, you can do that. Anyone can. Just not the government. You could lease lines all you want for your town, and give it away for free. SBC is not going to stop you, and neither is the law.
Just to be clear, you don't need the Winamp plugin to do this. Unless I am mistaken, Output Stacker converted to WAV which pretty much just makes a bigger file.
There are other programs like tunebite that convert right to mp3. Sure, they cost a bit of money, but they work.
My thoughts exactly. I was so happy about finding this, and then yesterday evening, I started reading about Napster being broken, and all I could think of was "Great! Now the world knows."
The only way this could be construed as immoral or objectionable activity is if you accept the premiss that Microsoft's monopoly dominance is absolute and that there are no acceptable alternatives
Actually, this has nothing to do with monopolies. It's immoral because Gates is threatening to lay people off. 800 people out of work is not something a politician wants, nor does it help an economy. What Gates was doing was using the 800 employees welfare as leverage which is immoral.
I keep all the one's I have recorded, just like TV.
So, with Napster, if I don't want to pay anymore, I just record the WMV's to MP3's that I want to keep, and that's it.
Once again, Napster > iTunes. With iTunes, I have to pay for every song I want to keep. With Napster, I only pay $10 and I get to keep the music as long as I want, even after I stop paying.
That's true, but that wasn't the problem I was refering to, and that isn't exactly the topic. I think it's definetly easier to get it from one source then many sources.
So, you have a point, it just doesn't relate to what I said.
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What people are failing to realize is that a large number of customers have been asking for this very thing from Blizzard. For Blizzard to go after these types of sites/programs and to shut them down.
This is just another case of blowing shit out of proportion. I mean, seriously, try thinking logically for 2 seconds. It might help.
Copy, in this context, doesn't mean "to duplicate".
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/copy
1. an imitation, reproduction, or transcript of an original: a copy of a famous painting.
2. one of the various examples or specimens of the same book, engraving, or the like.
3. written matter intended to be reproduced in printed form: The editor sent the copy for the next issue to the printer.
4. the text of a news story, advertisement, television commercial, etc., as distinguished from related visual material.
The rights to the copy.
Not really.
IM IN BETA
AND SHARDING MY PURPLZ
"Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING."
But that's how the quote goes! =(
"This is squarely the problem of Ameritrade management. Protection and recovery of backup data rests squarely with IT. There should have been a detailed process done in conjunction with a reliable shipper to ensure protection ( or perhaps a private courier ) of the tape."
So your suggesting that having done all this, they will never lose data? And protection and recovery rests squarely with IT?
You're making a lot of assumptions. I am pretty sure they had a "detailed process" and used what they thought was a "reliable shipper/private courier".
But you know what, shit happens. No one likes it when mistakes happen, but guess what, if I hire a reputable company to do something, and they fail in doing it, they are to blame. I'm not going to say "yeah, I lost the data" when I really didn't. Sure, I am going to work to find out what happened and solve the problem, but I didn't lose the data. The company I hired lost it.
Dude, did you RTFA? Did you Read the original /. post?
No, you didn't.
First, Napster's CEO wasn't their. The CTO was.
And read this: "William Pence, Napster CTO, told the subcommittee that the music industry will eventually promote interoperability itself without the need for government intervention."
I'm sorry, so just to be clear: You are supporting the government in this case? You want them to regulate this.
Furthermore, I couldn't find anything on Napster complaining about DRM.
Dude, did you RTFA? Did you Read the original /. post?
No, you didn't. Because if you did: Where is Napster complaining in the article and saying that the government should get involved against Apple.
And read this: "William Pence, Napster CTO, told the subcommittee that the music industry will eventually promote interoperability itself without the need for government intervention."
I'm sorry, so just to be clear: You are supporting the government in this case? You want them to regulate this.
Dude, did you RTFA? Did you Read the original /. post?
No, you didn't.
First, Napster's CEO wasn't their. The CTO was.
And read this: "William Pence, Napster CTO, told the subcommittee that the music industry will eventually promote interoperability itself without the need for government intervention."
I'm sorry, so just to be clear: You are supporting the government in this case? You want them to regulate this.
You go to the American embassy.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1732672,00.as p
Most of the desktop computers in the UK's Department for Work and Pensions were paralyzed for four days on Monday, when a failed upgrade took them offline. The outage, covering 75 percent to 80 percent of the DWP's 80,000 PCs, is one of the largest in the UK government's not entirely impressive IT history.
And possibly one of the most costly. According to staff reports, the outage occurred on Monday afternoon, disconnecting staff e-mail, benefits processing, and Internet and intranet connectivity. According to one, a limited network upgrade from Windows 2000 to Windows XP was taking place, but instead of this taking place on only a small number of the target machines, all the clients connected to the network received a partial, but fatal, "upgrade."
Another source says that the DWP was trialing Windows XP on a small number ("about seven") of machines. "EDS was going to apply a patch to these. Unfortunately the request was made to apply it live and it was rolled out across the estate, which hit around 80 percent of the Win2K desktops. This patch caused the desktops to BSOD and made recovery rather tricky as they couldn't boot to pick any further patches or recalls. I gather that [Microsoft Corp.] consultants have been flown in from the U.S. to clear up the mess." EDS is also thought to be flying in fire brigades.
Actually, from TFA:
"I got the answer I expected from the Novell/Sun/Red-Hat people: "regarding market research, we care about it only when happens from our marketing department and to our customers". They don't care about the "generic" Gnome user. That's ok. Understandable. These guys have a business to run.
However, I was not happy from the answer I got from the Gnome developers who don't work for a Gnome-related corporation: "
So basically, according to here, people responded from companies that basically said they are listening to do implement features that companies want.
But then she gets upset that the people that implement this stuff on their own time should do what she wants.
So really she has people who are listening to the customers, and you have people doing their own thing. How is that wrong? If I got into a project and people started using it, should I never work on my own stuff again?
He's not saying you shouldn't have good graphics, btu that you can't just have good graphics on powerful machines. You need more than that. It's the difference between Doom3 and HL2 (bad, good, IMHO).
Both had great graphics, but only one had a good story that actually interested me enough to play to the end.
That's not accurate. Seeing that I started a startup more than 2 years ago, the three things mentioned are very, very true. Sure, cash is important, but it's not the most important thing and it's not difficult to get. Having extra money doesn't equate to success. The dot-com bust proves that. Rather, the three things mentioned (product, quality staff, and spending as little as possible) is right on target.
In the US, yes. In Canada, no. =)
Except you don't get the money just for coming up with something. It has to be selected, which means other people have to approve it. Which means it has to be good.
"I wonder how many crappy bug reports and patches are to be submitted because of the "easy" money being given."
0. Just because you submit a bug report doesn't mean it becomes a bounty.
That's fine, you can do that. Anyone can. Just not the government. You could lease lines all you want for your town, and give it away for free. SBC is not going to stop you, and neither is the law.
So, just to be clear on your position: You approve of the RIAA their tactics for suing people into oblivion as well?
And, just to be clear: Anyone who has ever stolen anything in their life, or committed any sort of crime as poor ethics?
Yeah, and they make note that this was a preview of a study they will be releasing in a month's time.
Just to be clear, you don't need the Winamp plugin to do this. Unless I am mistaken, Output Stacker converted to WAV which pretty much just makes a bigger file.
There are other programs like tunebite that convert right to mp3. Sure, they cost a bit of money, but they work.
Hehe
iTunes: $0.99 per song.
Napster: 14 day free trial: All the songs you can download and copy to MP3.
Hrm... =)
My thoughts exactly. I was so happy about finding this, and then yesterday evening, I started reading about Napster being broken, and all I could think of was "Great! Now the world knows."
And yes, tunebite is really nice.
The only way this could be construed as immoral or objectionable activity is if you accept the premiss that Microsoft's monopoly dominance is absolute and that there are no acceptable alternatives
Actually, this has nothing to do with monopolies. It's immoral because Gates is threatening to lay people off. 800 people out of work is not something a politician wants, nor does it help an economy. What Gates was doing was using the 800 employees welfare as leverage which is immoral.
I keep all the one's I have recorded, just like TV.
So, with Napster, if I don't want to pay anymore, I just record the WMV's to MP3's that I want to keep, and that's it.
Once again, Napster > iTunes. With iTunes, I have to pay for every song I want to keep. With Napster, I only pay $10 and I get to keep the music as long as I want, even after I stop paying.
Yes, you pay a monthly fee, just like you pay a monthly fee to the internet.
Or TV.
Or Rent.
But, you know, when you stop paying those, the cable company, your landlord, and your ISP let you keep using the service.
That's true, but that wasn't the problem I was refering to, and that isn't exactly the topic. I think it's definetly easier to get it from one source then many sources.
So, you have a point, it just doesn't relate to what I said.