about it. Private companies get hacked, held ransom all the time but you never hear about it because they are afraid (rightfully so) it will scare their customers. At least the FSF had the courage to admit it.
He farts all day long and its disgusting. The bad part is, it drifts into my cubicle and i'm sure some people think its me.
The other day a friend was talking to me and I caught a wiff. I told him, smell that? Some days it goes on all day.. He said he was glad I told him it wasn't me because he thought it was!
Yesterday the bastard farted while my manager stopped by for a visit. Lovely.
My wife didn't complain of any foul odors, well, no more than usual.
Aside from that however.. The effect it had on my body was impressive. Before I started taking it, my workouts started to stagnate. The interval at which I increased my weight started to become longer and longer. After I started using creatine it seems liked everytime I went back to the gym I could add a little bit more weight.
Since then, I've stopped working out as much but plan to start taking it again in Sept. The only concern I have is what kind of affect will it have on my kidney's. I haven't read any long term research that indicates that this is/isn't an issue.
I guess if used 'properly' and you cycle it as advised by a trainer you'll reduce you chances of any adverse affects. But who knows these days.. One day eggs are bad, then they are good, now there's good/bad fat and items cooked at oven temperatures (bread) have higher levels of carcinogen. It seems you can't eat right at all these days and if you do, 10 years from now research might say it isn't healthy.
Actually, most of the sells were automatic. Ie, a threshold is set and when the stock gets there a certain amount get sold. Its one of the ways execs try to avoid insider trading.
I think most gaming companies don't support selling goods for real money because of the legal/support hassles. From a legal perspective, if a virtual item has real life value then what happens when the game finally goes off line? I wouldn't put it past some people who have alot of money invested in the game (people who've bought items and professional traders) to sue the company for compensation. Even tho most user agreements specify that you don't 'own' these virtual items it hasn't been tested in court. We've already seen frivilous lawsuits win, so are companies willing to take the risk?
Also, from a support issue. How do you support trading real life money for virtual goods? Currently, money changes hands outside of the game first and then their respective characters meet up within the game to exchange the item(s). Its very easy for someone to get burned and i'm sure the last thing a company wants to deal with is this.
Thats why they won't officially support it and as long as they are on the record as saying its goes against their user agreement they'll have a better leg to stand on in both court and support.
Maybe some people should re-evaluate the role of tech support. Its their job to help end users.. If you don't like it, can't put up with mundane questions then find another job.
If i'm hiring a programmer I could care less if they know how to connect a printer. Its not their job, its tech supports job. Like wise I don't expect them to understand every nuance of the operating system. They have a problem, they call tech support. Tech support people are the 'experts' that are being paid to deal with these issues. I'm not paying programmers to troubleshoot printers/OS/Software, etc.
This is going to sound bad, but it isn't like most* tech support requires highly trained IT people. People who work in these call centers are usually there because they can't find anything else or aren't qualified to do anything else. Or people who went into IT because they thought it was a guaranteed job. Unforunately i'm not talking out of my ass here.
* When I say most i'm referring to the generic internet provider style, checklist support call centers. I know there are some area's of tech support which require highly skilled individuals.
Another poster was acurrate tho.. Alot of tech support treat their customers as the enemy and consider the 'mundane' questions wasting their time.
Ok... lets clear this up. I wasn't referring to myself in those posts.. I was trying to make a point and referring to the general feeling friends have of linux. And actually the main reason I have XP on my main system is for games and because of my wife.
For the record, I spend many nights 'tinkering' with linux.
Its with almost every consumer product. A few years ago I had my carpet replaces and the installer mentioned they are still hauling up shag carpet. Basically, carpet makers figured out (imagine that) carpet that lasts 30 years + is eating away at their profits. Now the typical carpet last 10 years.
What you have said is all fine and dandy but home many times have you called tech support and their first response is: "Reboot your computer." or "Unplug the power cable from your router/DSL/cable box, wait 30 seconds and plug it back in."
This isn't only an issue w.r.t. hardware, it has to do with all facets of IT.
Thats my biggest gripe with MMORPGS.. Games like Asheron's Call claim monthly updates with new content! Well, that content should have been there in the beginning! Asheron's Call 2 is a perfect example.. It has almost been out for a year now and I still don't think they have chat working!
I was looking forward to getting the next version of the playstation or xbox. Until console systems have great multiplayer capability like PC's i'm going to hold off for a bit. I love consoles purely for the fact you buy a 500$ box and its good for 4 years without upgrades. Every new PC game these days has higher and higher requirements. (ex. The best PC on the market today can't run Asheron's Call 2 at its maximum, by design since they want the engine to last years..blah blah.)
The downside is, once these console boxes get hard drives, etc it will just end up like the PC market. Companies will ship games before they are completed or buggy and as soon as you put the CD in you'll have to download a patch.
Unfortunately, the only thing we can do as consumers is to refuse to buy said software. But if you look at current trends, that won't be happening anytime soon.
Please read between the lines and i'm sure you'll see the point I was trying to make. Ask an average Windows user to configure something on linux and ask how long it takes them...
Sure, I know alot about computers and SFA about cars.. So what? It all comes down to what you enjoy.. Sure, I could get the service manual for my car and replace some components myself but I have no interest in it. I'm sure some of your interests would leave me agast as well.
Why is it any of your concern if someone can't/or doesn't want to set their VCR?
Exactly, I spend 8 hours a day getting paid to do it. If you can't get your fix in during that amount of time you need help. There are plenty of other things i'm interested in as well, guitar, Tae KwonDo, astronomy, movies. Until VR gets so good I can do this stuff in there I won't be able to spend as much time with my computer as i'd like.:)
For the majority of computer users Linux is a hassle to use. Until the ease of use gets to the level of Windows then Linux will never make a huge dent in the desktop market. My main system, for the forseeable future will always be a windows box because quite frankly, after a long day at the office (IT job), I don't want to sit down at a computer for 4 hours and get some dinky application to work under linux that can be setup under windows by simply plugging in a device and rebooting or hitting a few next buttons.
We may hear about companys like Oracle migrating all of their developers(8,000) to Linux but these are still end users. Chances are, the majority of them know enough to get their job done and if they do run into a problem they call tech support. Can't do that at home.
I have a couple of external devices, digital camcorder, digital camera, palm etc and the vendors don't have linux software. The software available for Linux is not as advanced and/or a headache to setup/use. So unfortunately until that happens i'll be stuck with at least one windows workstation at home.
Also, kernel compiling is a PITA. I've been using Linux since Slackware.something and have been custom compiling my own kernels since then. But with RH9 its always complaining of something. Can't find X module even tho its compiled into the kernel. Failure to startup my USB devices even tho those are compiled in as well. I'm not sure what change recently but i've never had these problems before.
"information. It amazes me that a such a company would have such lax security as to allow an insider to browse supposedly private data at will. Third, the company is taking no responsibility"
Unfortuately there isn't much you can do to prevent it. There will always be a number of people in any company that will have complete access to data. The only way to prevent it is to have stringent auditing and have someone who's job is to review the logs.
A number of places i've worked for, mainly governemnt, audit everything they can but they don't have the resources to scan the logs. If there is a security breach they use the logs to backtrack. But like this situation, it the breach isn't discovered (which can be difficult depending on the skill level of the person doing it and their access level), then no one will ever know. Also, as an employee it is probably very easy to find out which protection mechanisms are in place, through documentation or just simply asking.
I'm a DBA and in each company i've ever worked in i've had complete access to all corporate data. At some point your going to have to trust someone and sometimes you just make the wrong choice.
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I know its only early but looking at the pictures, there only appears to be a few hundred people there. No more than 1000... Maybe they are already sleeping?
to read some of the lame comments posted here? (J/K!) Seriously tho, there are plenty of free information services out there. If one shuts down, another free site will easily move forward and take its place.
In order for websites to make money off their content I think they are going to have to move to a "TV" based model or the Adult site model. ie, you pay a flat fee for access. Content sites join the service, get a portion of the 'fee' and advertising/merchandise on their side.
Personally, i'm not going to pay X dollars for one site, Y for another and so on. Most people already pay 50-100$ a month for cable/satelite access, I doubt many are willing to pay alot more for content on the net.
Give me a fixed price of X dollars a month which will buy me subscriptions to Y websites at a reasonable price and i'm in. Allow you to change your subscriptions monthly.
Whatever you say.. at least I have a.sig! I guess you also missed the part about how i've enjoyed other 'dragged' out books. The Mars trilogy dwelled too much on terrain details.. Yeah, we get it already, big cliffs, rocks, blah blah.
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about it. Private companies get hacked, held ransom all the time but you never hear about it because they are afraid (rightfully so) it will scare their customers. At least the FSF had the courage to admit it.
Maybe its that torn muscle in my shoulder but I found it funny.
The other day a friend was talking to me and I caught a wiff. I told him, smell that? Some days it goes on all day.. He said he was glad I told him it wasn't me because he thought it was!
Yesterday the bastard farted while my manager stopped by for a visit. Lovely.
As for side affects, there were none. And as I said in another post.. my wife didn't complain about any odors (more than normal anyways. :)
I think there's a big difference between a vitamin and a mineral.
Aside from that however.. The effect it had on my body was impressive. Before I started taking it, my workouts started to stagnate. The interval at which I increased my weight started to become longer and longer. After I started using creatine it seems liked everytime I went back to the gym I could add a little bit more weight.
Since then, I've stopped working out as much but plan to start taking it again in Sept. The only concern I have is what kind of affect will it have on my kidney's. I haven't read any long term research that indicates that this is/isn't an issue.
I guess if used 'properly' and you cycle it as advised by a trainer you'll reduce you chances of any adverse affects. But who knows these days.. One day eggs are bad, then they are good, now there's good/bad fat and items cooked at oven temperatures (bread) have higher levels of carcinogen. It seems you can't eat right at all these days and if you do, 10 years from now research might say it isn't healthy.
Actually, most of the sells were automatic. Ie, a threshold is set and when the stock gets there a certain amount get sold. Its one of the ways execs try to avoid insider trading.
And I wouldn't call one exec selling some stock as a 'selloff'.
Also, from a support issue. How do you support trading real life money for virtual goods? Currently, money changes hands outside of the game first and then their respective characters meet up within the game to exchange the item(s). Its very easy for someone to get burned and i'm sure the last thing a company wants to deal with is this.
Thats why they won't officially support it and as long as they are on the record as saying its goes against their user agreement they'll have a better leg to stand on in both court and support.
Maybe some people should re-evaluate the role of tech support. Its their job to help end users.. If you don't like it, can't put up with mundane questions then find another job.
If i'm hiring a programmer I could care less if they know how to connect a printer. Its not their job, its tech supports job. Like wise I don't expect them to understand every nuance of the operating system. They have a problem, they call tech support. Tech support people are the 'experts' that are being paid to deal with these issues. I'm not paying programmers to troubleshoot printers/OS/Software, etc.
This is going to sound bad, but it isn't like most* tech support requires highly trained IT people. People who work in these call centers are usually there because they can't find anything else or aren't qualified to do anything else. Or people who went into IT because they thought it was a guaranteed job. Unforunately i'm not talking out of my ass here.
* When I say most i'm referring to the generic internet provider style, checklist support call centers. I know there are some area's of tech support which require highly skilled individuals.
Another poster was acurrate tho.. Alot of tech support treat their customers as the enemy and consider the 'mundane' questions wasting their time.
For the record, I spend many nights 'tinkering' with linux.
Its with almost every consumer product. A few years ago I had my carpet replaces and the installer mentioned they are still hauling up shag carpet. Basically, carpet makers figured out (imagine that) carpet that lasts 30 years + is eating away at their profits. Now the typical carpet last 10 years.
This isn't only an issue w.r.t. hardware, it has to do with all facets of IT.
I was looking forward to getting the next version of the playstation or xbox. Until console systems have great multiplayer capability like PC's i'm going to hold off for a bit. I love consoles purely for the fact you buy a 500$ box and its good for 4 years without upgrades. Every new PC game these days has higher and higher requirements. (ex. The best PC on the market today can't run Asheron's Call 2 at its maximum, by design since they want the engine to last years..blah blah.)
The downside is, once these console boxes get hard drives, etc it will just end up like the PC market. Companies will ship games before they are completed or buggy and as soon as you put the CD in you'll have to download a patch.
Unfortunately, the only thing we can do as consumers is to refuse to buy said software. But if you look at current trends, that won't be happening anytime soon.
Sure, I know alot about computers and SFA about cars.. So what? It all comes down to what you enjoy.. Sure, I could get the service manual for my car and replace some components myself but I have no interest in it. I'm sure some of your interests would leave me agast as well.
Why is it any of your concern if someone can't/or doesn't want to set their VCR?
An elementary school student? Haven't they ever heard of paragraphs? It certainly doesn't flow as well as most corporate press releases.
Exactly, I spend 8 hours a day getting paid to do it. If you can't get your fix in during that amount of time you need help. There are plenty of other things i'm interested in as well, guitar, Tae KwonDo, astronomy, movies. Until VR gets so good I can do this stuff in there I won't be able to spend as much time with my computer as i'd like. :)
We may hear about companys like Oracle migrating all of their developers(8,000) to Linux but these are still end users. Chances are, the majority of them know enough to get their job done and if they do run into a problem they call tech support. Can't do that at home.
Also, kernel compiling is a PITA. I've been using Linux since Slackware .something and have been custom compiling my own kernels since then. But with RH9 its always complaining of something. Can't find X module even tho its compiled into the kernel. Failure to startup my USB devices even tho those are compiled in as well. I'm not sure what change recently but i've never had these problems before.
Unfortuately there isn't much you can do to prevent it. There will always be a number of people in any company that will have complete access to data. The only way to prevent it is to have stringent auditing and have someone who's job is to review the logs.
A number of places i've worked for, mainly governemnt, audit everything they can but they don't have the resources to scan the logs. If there is a security breach they use the logs to backtrack. But like this situation, it the breach isn't discovered (which can be difficult depending on the skill level of the person doing it and their access level), then no one will ever know. Also, as an employee it is probably very easy to find out which protection mechanisms are in place, through documentation or just simply asking.
I'm a DBA and in each company i've ever worked in i've had complete access to all corporate data. At some point your going to have to trust someone and sometimes you just make the wrong choice.
With respect to filesystems and database performance. EXT3 came out on top.
I know its only early but looking at the pictures, there only appears to be a few hundred people there. No more than 1000... Maybe they are already sleeping?
In order for websites to make money off their content I think they are going to have to move to a "TV" based model or the Adult site model. ie, you pay a flat fee for access. Content sites join the service, get a portion of the 'fee' and advertising/merchandise on their side.
Personally, i'm not going to pay X dollars for one site, Y for another and so on. Most people already pay 50-100$ a month for cable/satelite access, I doubt many are willing to pay alot more for content on the net.
Give me a fixed price of X dollars a month which will buy me subscriptions to Y websites at a reasonable price and i'm in. Allow you to change your subscriptions monthly.
ex: .
5.99$ - 5 websites
9.99$ - 12 websites
15.99$ - 20 websites
. .
Whatever you say.. at least I have a .sig! I guess you also missed the part about how i've enjoyed other 'dragged' out books. The Mars trilogy dwelled too much on terrain details.. Yeah, we get it already, big cliffs, rocks, blah blah.
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