Is it really asking too much to insist that we not be bombarded with advertising everywhere we look, everywhere we listen?
just wait till we start seeing advertisements in our dreams.
surely theres a technical reason, but i'm still curious. whats preventing me from getting any old radio (like my typical home stereo reciever), tuning to AM frequency 137.50mhz or whatever it was, and just doing line out to the soundcard so that little proggy can do its work? i imagine i'd need a big honkin antennae, but is there something different about these special recievers that they do differently than any other AM reciever?
i think this applies to on-campus dorms with network connectivity as well, which the students pay for as an additional commodity. i dont think such a thing would/should be limited on an 'educational' basis, but probably does need to be capped to keep people from running servers, kazaa backbones, etc. =)
back at my old job, the floor beneath ours was owned by EA's Tiburon division, and they hired gametesters seasonally to playtest whatever the next thing was. when i was working there, it was just before the PS2 launched in the US, and they were all playtesting Madden. It was funny, cuz when they first started the job we all envied the crap out of them. But after about 8 months of nothing but 50hr+ weeks of nothing but Madden, you'd talk to these guys and they'd sound like they'd never pick up a videogame again. =)
thats...actually a brilliant idea. but in implementation, how well would a bios chip doing all this work do? i mean, we've got bios chips nowadays that need active cooling, what would it take once we add features like this?
and here i thought ut2k3 was just really good at killing time. does this mean we can all go up on terrorism charges now since we've used a device capable of bringing down network systems? =)
Clinton was when it was ratified, I'm pretty sure it was all within his term (although pupae versions of it may have been born before his term, i know it was at least completed within his).
thanks, thats what i thought. but doesnt the dmca deal mostly with endusers? and if so, does this mean the IEEE is doing this purely on the grounds to help the enduser? thats fairly noble if i say so.
if i'm sounding like an idiot, its been a long weekend (still going) and all these acronyms are blurring together after this and the story a few hours ago. =)
i may be confused, but the only IEEE acronym i know of... doesnt seem like it'd have anything to do with this. I'll assume that its good news, but could someone please fill me in? and if its the only IEEE i know of, do they really have any sort of position to influence this or will it just be brushed aside?
... or did somebody turn down the internet over here? this story has been up for an hour and a half, and i'm still seeing no comments. i need something to read, i'm bored at work, helllp.
You do, no arguments there. However, if you cant deduce that the 'button with the little picture of the printer on it' means print, i dont want you cutting into me. =) -- there, see, from now on i've been forced to use smileys to symbolize when i'm trying to be funny, as this whole thread has gone entirely in the opposite direction from what i'd intended.
the post was intended to be semi-facetious, pardon my forgetting the tags. but the point still holds true, at least where i work. when your job consists of using Word 97 and occasionally IE, how much can *possibly* go wrong to the point that they become frustrated? now i'm not saying i expect them to grasp everything immediately, but the fact that this topic warrants a newspaper article is ridiculous.
i hate when users complain about this kind of thing. its not like they have to hack a kernel or anything in their job duties, the extent of their complaints are along the lines of 'OMG THIS NEW VERSION OF WORD HAS ALL THE LITTLE BUTTONS IN NEW PLACES' or 'LOL IT TOOK ME TEN MINUTES TO FIND WHERE THE SEND BUTTON IS NOW CAN I HAVE THE OLD ONE BACK.'
well i'm just glad i finally switched over to a 3g phone so none of that nonsense costs me anything. i'll just be wearing out that delete key in the future, i guess. still, i totally see this idea becoming horribly abused more often than its useful.
with most US carriers still charging upwards of ten cents per message, i can see this going over reeeeeal well. i know i'd just *love* to rack up my phone bill just for being near some shop that wants to advertise.
here's one, i know others exist (probably cheaper), but they do come highly recommended for those of us still not comfortable with having a Windows key. =)
last i checked Universal is still going thru with the 'we screwed up the formatting on the last two discs, send us back the dvds and we'll send you a new one' plan, right? maybe you can send it back to them with your kid's artwork on it and hope they dont notice. =)
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Is it really asking too much to insist that we not be bombarded with advertising everywhere we look, everywhere we listen? just wait till we start seeing advertisements in our dreams.
there is, and you can. search google for DeJap and you should find your info.
surely theres a technical reason, but i'm still curious. whats preventing me from getting any old radio (like my typical home stereo reciever), tuning to AM frequency 137.50mhz or whatever it was, and just doing line out to the soundcard so that little proggy can do its work? i imagine i'd need a big honkin antennae, but is there something different about these special recievers that they do differently than any other AM reciever?
i think this applies to on-campus dorms with network connectivity as well, which the students pay for as an additional commodity. i dont think such a thing would/should be limited on an 'educational' basis, but probably does need to be capped to keep people from running servers, kazaa backbones, etc. =)
however, 2gb is WAY too low. good god.
back at my old job, the floor beneath ours was owned by EA's Tiburon division, and they hired gametesters seasonally to playtest whatever the next thing was. when i was working there, it was just before the PS2 launched in the US, and they were all playtesting Madden. It was funny, cuz when they first started the job we all envied the crap out of them. But after about 8 months of nothing but 50hr+ weeks of nothing but Madden, you'd talk to these guys and they'd sound like they'd never pick up a videogame again. =)
not to mention it would take one hell of a shot to hit a fleck of paint 10 miles up moving at 17,000 mph. =)
thats...actually a brilliant idea. but in implementation, how well would a bios chip doing all this work do? i mean, we've got bios chips nowadays that need active cooling, what would it take once we add features like this?
Start the reactorrr!!
Sorry karma, I just couldn't resist.
wait a minute ... people still use aol?? now that's what i call a news story!
and here i thought ut2k3 was just really good at killing time. does this mean we can all go up on terrorism charges now since we've used a device capable of bringing down network systems? =)
Clinton was when it was ratified, I'm pretty sure it was all within his term (although pupae versions of it may have been born before his term, i know it was at least completed within his).
nevermind, nevermind. i went and read the linked previous articles and now it makes a little more sense. woo, RTFA eh? =)
now wheres my coffee...
thanks, thats what i thought. but doesnt the dmca deal mostly with endusers? and if so, does this mean the IEEE is doing this purely on the grounds to help the enduser? thats fairly noble if i say so. if i'm sounding like an idiot, its been a long weekend (still going) and all these acronyms are blurring together after this and the story a few hours ago. =)
i may be confused, but the only IEEE acronym i know of ... doesnt seem like it'd have anything to do with this. I'll assume that its good news, but could someone please fill me in? and if its the only IEEE i know of, do they really have any sort of position to influence this or will it just be brushed aside?
... or did somebody turn down the internet over here? this story has been up for an hour and a half, and i'm still seeing no comments. i need something to read, i'm bored at work, helllp.
You do, no arguments there. However, if you cant deduce that the 'button with the little picture of the printer on it' means print, i dont want you cutting into me. =) -- there, see, from now on i've been forced to use smileys to symbolize when i'm trying to be funny, as this whole thread has gone entirely in the opposite direction from what i'd intended.
the post was intended to be semi-facetious, pardon my forgetting the tags. but the point still holds true, at least where i work. when your job consists of using Word 97 and occasionally IE, how much can *possibly* go wrong to the point that they become frustrated? now i'm not saying i expect them to grasp everything immediately, but the fact that this topic warrants a newspaper article is ridiculous.
i hate when users complain about this kind of thing. its not like they have to hack a kernel or anything in their job duties, the extent of their complaints are along the lines of 'OMG THIS NEW VERSION OF WORD HAS ALL THE LITTLE BUTTONS IN NEW PLACES' or 'LOL IT TOOK ME TEN MINUTES TO FIND WHERE THE SEND BUTTON IS NOW CAN I HAVE THE OLD ONE BACK.'
well i'm just glad i finally switched over to a 3g phone so none of that nonsense costs me anything. i'll just be wearing out that delete key in the future, i guess. still, i totally see this idea becoming horribly abused more often than its useful.
with most US carriers still charging upwards of ten cents per message, i can see this going over reeeeeal well. i know i'd just *love* to rack up my phone bill just for being near some shop that wants to advertise.
It's IT. If you won't agree with it, they'll just go thru the list of the hundreds of other people who would love a job and will agree to it.
you just mentioned stiffing Pamela Anderson. absolutely brilliant. =)
I've got a bottle at home he can have if he's looking to start taking donations. =)
here's one, i know others exist (probably cheaper), but they do come highly recommended for those of us still not comfortable with having a Windows key. =)
last i checked Universal is still going thru with the 'we screwed up the formatting on the last two discs, send us back the dvds and we'll send you a new one' plan, right? maybe you can send it back to them with your kid's artwork on it and hope they dont notice. =)