>Yeah, sure, and then they make you jump thru hoops by having the original bill of sale when the SPA comes calling. And they will, bet the farm on it as you are a VERY high profile target.
Right. He will be right on the list before megacorp-with-10,000-employees-who -only-bought-1,000-licenses. VERY high profile. Cuz you know there are just SO many viscious people donating computers out there with unlicensed software. And man, those people who receive them, we'll just run in and say "Sorry, you can't have this. The nice person who donated it to you and the geek who built it, well, they were crooks. Have a microsoftie day!"
It would be a PR nightmare for them, they wouldn't dare. They would probably work something out privately and donate the windows licenses. Shit. It's probably the EASIEST way to get them licensed software.
SOME games pit you against the computer taking the PLACE of another player. Most notably, recently, FPS games, eg Unreal Tournament. You could play unreal tournament against people or the computer, and the game is the same, except for the tactics/AI.
The half that is wrong about grandparent poster is that the player is playing against a SYSTEM, and in two player (human + human) games, they are both playing against a system cooperatively, or within a system against each other. To extend this, you couldn't say two player games are really 3 player games because there is a computer involved. That would mean solitaire is a 2 player game because you are playing using the rules of the solitaire game. It just doesn't work. At some point you draw a line between the system and the player.
>I've had people tell me that using "it's" instead of "its" (e.g. "that's not one >of it's better qualities") is a typo. Yeah. my finger just randomly slipped all >the way to the other side of the keyboard between "t" and "s" to smack the >apostrophe... And if you believe that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
Sorry to rain on your rant parade, but whoever told you that is right, at least in that context. In that phrase, you are using the posessive form, so it should be "its". The way you used it, the sentence could be "that is not one of it is better qualities". The normal rules for possesive grammer are kind of reversed for it's. It's is a contraction of it is. Its is possesive.
I know, it's a huge suprise. You have been living a lie all these years. I know your life will never be the same.
I work in IT in the sub-prime financing industry. I don't make a boat-load of money, but I do get paid for training. I have been there just over 3 months, and I have already gone to Missouri for 3 days to learn more about our database, and to sarasota Fl (a 2 hour drive) for training on something we were taking over (which didn't pan out, but I still got paid for the time).
What is in your job description? Do you feel they pay you a competitive salary? I know I am making a little less than I should with a Comp Sci degree, but after doing 2.5 years of call center work, I'm happy to be where I am now.
My work has also stated that they will pay for some training if it is relevant to what we do, and depending on the cost. We are a fairly small operation, the whole company is probably less than 200 employees, spread across 5 different locations, with most of them at my PoE or down south at the headquarters.
Also, I'd like to point out that my company is trying to move AWAY from outsourcing and bring more things back into the company, for quality control and security reasons. Part of my job will be to implement some kind of interface to our database, I'm leaning toward PHP/Mysql at this point, but I think my boss wants a commercial solution, probably MSSQL. The normal reports are written in COBOL, and have some limitations, so with PHP/MYSQL it will give us more flexibility. I don't know how to use either of them. I, and my employer, have the understanding that this is a work in progress and I will learn as I go.
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Sure. Callous Bastard.
You're missing the point. JT is exploting the death of a young person for his own selfish, ignorant crusade.
And this will go along with your sig, Games don't kill people, people kill people!
Just because people play games doesn't mean they are filling their lives with emptiness. Religion is certainly not the only way to fill emptiness in one's life, and in my opinion, it's far from the best.
Regardless of how clean you THINK your body is, how many door handles did you have to touch to get in that bathroom? Is that YOUR keyboard and mouse, or company owned (ie, other people's dirty hands have been using it)?
"Windows, which is really a great OS, gets such a bad rap because it's expected to run with every piece of hardware out there flawlessly. No one stops to think that it's a miracle that it runs as well as it does on so many systems. Not to put down the Mac OS, but compatibilty realy isn't so much of an issue/concern for OS X as much as it is for Windows."
I'm so sick of hearing this argument. If Microsoft is so great, how come Microsoft Office crashes on Mac hardware? Microsoft wants you to believe it is bad drivers/hardware compatibility that causes instability, thus they added driver signing. Windows still has plenty of bugs and stability issues. My wife JUST got a mac laptop 2 months ago, it was running great, then we put MS office on it. It's the only things that actually locks up or hangs on the Mac. Stop spreading this microsoft propoganda. They just are more concerned with features than stability and security.
"and the techs I've spoken with are actually sharp enough to help you outside of a script"
I want to comment on this since I happen to be a tech for a major DSL provider. (COUGH! Shit Bell Corp) I know more than to speak off of a script. We are forced to read off scripts, and deviation is frowned upon. I actually work for an outsourcing company that contracts with SBC. We have agents in and outside of the US. There is much grumbling and consternation due to these scripts, much of the time we feel like our hands are tied on certain things. Legally, they are. If there is a problem with the OS (say, winME is hosed), they are referred to their manufacturer. If one of our techs tried to fix windows and hosed it up even worse, then we can be liable for it. Most people calling in to an ISP are too clueless to realize if the problem was caused by a tech, but it has happened. One customer was switching from a Siemens modem to a 2wire and the tech had them switch the power supplies, thus causing the magic smoke to escape. We had to eat the cost of the out-of-warranty equipment.
It's a great argument against outsourcing, actually. There is a huge ivory-tower syndrome issue, it pisses me off to no end. Our only recourse with bad policies and incorrect tech documentation or incorrect procedures is to fill out a web form that some dipshit reads, and half the time they don't understand you, so nothing ever gets changed. We are graded on how we answer a call, and if it is not done verbatim, or near verbatim, we fail the call if we are being monitored.
Anyway, rant off, Speakeasy is taking a risk in doing stuff that they do for their customers. From a tech support view anyway.
I wonder who initiated this FCC change? It seems like more of the same from the era of the Bush administration. Handouts to big business.
I work in tech support. Let me add/correct the parent poster.
1) Yes, but make sure that you are FAMILIAR with the layout and intricacies of winXP, they may try to trip you up and make you sound like you don't have winXP. Know the version number of winXP 2) Some places do not support networks, they will tell you it is unsupported. This depends highly on where you are calling. I suppose for the purpose of this article, we are talking about a router, so they will support it. Keep in mind that in general, wherever you call will only focus on what they offer, they have to stay inside their scope of support, or else they have an easy way to get you off the phone. 3) WRONG! This will make them get you connected once and send you away! They will say they fixed it, with no regard to wether it is an ongoing, intermittent problem. If they try to tell you to just reset it all the time, tell them that is unacceptable, speak to a manager if you have to.
Basically A) yes B) No, be realistic or you are just going to make things harder on you and the person you speak to.
Was I the only one who confused that scene at the beginning with the armless guy where you were trying to help him and he attacks you?
It SOUNDS like your character is saying "I have no wish to ARM you!" when you beat him with his own arm.
(For those who don't know, your character is trying to tell him "I have no wish to harm you", because this armless greak jumps out and starts kicking you)
1. Donate money to HIV/AIDS foundations, donates to Tsunami relief 2. ???? 3. profit?
You may have a point in SOME instances. Especially with the recent news that he said High Schools are "obsolete" because they are not teaching what employers and colleges want. I'm sure he will try to fit microsoft into the solution somehow.
Personally, I don't think college taught me what employers want, but oh well.
I'm just saying that he has done worthwhile things. I'm not saying he is spotless.
It's a sign of the times to reward people for hubris and stupidity, look at the Bush Administration and the awards they handed out. Hell, Bush finally got elected legitimately and he has wrecked just about everything thrown at him.
I'm not saying I agree with it, just that there are WORTHWHILE things he has done that might convince some people to honor him.
No. I never said he deserved it, in fact, I said I don't think he does. Is the real problem here that he is a criminal, or that the justice department let him off?
Regardless of how we feel about Microsoft as a corporation and Bill Gates as a ruthless evil business-demon, he has done wonderful things through his Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. I don't know if he is deserving of knighthood. He is a good capitalist, if that is something to be proud of.
Like the dept tagline says, all it takes is billions of dollars. Knighthood must be hurting for worthy people these days.
Is it trite hollywood "left-wing lite" tripe to report that scientist are being forced to change their findings? Where in the article was this hand-wringing you speak of?
You asked 10 people in a school what they thought about a pithy thread on slashdot? They probably just said what you wanted to hear so they could get on with their real work.
Do people agree with you a lot? Very quickly? Do they seem hurried when they do it?
Politics should not trump the science. If people need to eat, and the findings get in the way of that, then OK, we should feed people. But you don't lie about the science to fit the situation. If there is a problem with the law that it makes things unnaturally hard, that is one thing, you don't cover up the truth of the matter to do it though.
Fansubbers typically choose anime that is released in Japan, but has not been liscened for distribution in other countries yet.
Fansubbing has been around for quite a while, and traditionally it was done using VHS equipment. My experience with the fansubbing community has vastly changed in the last few years due to changing video compression capabilities. VHS fansubbing usually was associated with poor quality, where you would be getting 2nd, 3rd, and even lower generation tapes. The first fansubbed anime I ever got on the internet was in the.VIV frmat (vivo). We will not further speak it's name here. Other formats have come and gone, most everything is done in divx or ogg/xvid format now. Quality is very high. I think this may have something to do with the crackdown.
The legality was questionable to begin with. You have a huge industry in japan, with a negligable market in the US. They used to overlook it because they do not sell in the US. Things have changed, and now more and more anime is making it's way over here. So now you have a situation where it isn't illegal to copy the anime and sub it for the US, it will be if the anime ever gets liscensed for distro in the US. It becomes more and more of a problem the more mainstream anime gets.
As always, wikipedia beats me to it. More or less what I have said above.
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>Yeah, sure, and then they make you jump thru hoops by having the original bill of sale when the SPA comes calling. And they will, bet the farm on it as you are a VERY high profile target.
Right. He will be right on the list before megacorp-with-10,000-employees-who -only-bought-1,000-licenses. VERY high profile. Cuz you know there are just SO many viscious people donating computers out there with unlicensed software. And man, those people who receive them, we'll just run in and say "Sorry, you can't have this. The nice person who donated it to you and the geek who built it, well, they were crooks. Have a microsoftie day!"
It would be a PR nightmare for them, they wouldn't dare. They would probably work something out privately and donate the windows licenses. Shit. It's probably the EASIEST way to get them licensed software.
At least not anytime soon, though it will limit some of their market. How many people are still running Win95, 98, ME, and 2000?
Now, maybe Microsoft Defender/Antispyware might do it, since those run on older MS OS's.
I'll half agree with grandparent poster.
SOME games pit you against the computer taking the PLACE of another player. Most notably, recently, FPS games, eg Unreal Tournament. You could play unreal tournament against people or the computer, and the game is the same, except for the tactics/AI.
The half that is wrong about grandparent poster is that the player is playing against a SYSTEM, and in two player (human + human) games, they are both playing against a system cooperatively, or within a system against each other. To extend this, you couldn't say two player games are really 3 player games because there is a computer involved. That would mean solitaire is a 2 player game because you are playing using the rules of the solitaire game. It just doesn't work. At some point you draw a line between the system and the player.
>I've had people tell me that using "it's" instead of "its" (e.g. "that's not one >of it's better qualities") is a typo. Yeah. my finger just randomly slipped all >the way to the other side of the keyboard between "t" and "s" to smack the >apostrophe... And if you believe that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
Sorry to rain on your rant parade, but whoever told you that is right, at least in that context. In that phrase, you are using the posessive form, so it should be "its". The way you used it, the sentence could be "that is not one of it is better qualities". The normal rules for possesive grammer are kind of reversed for it's. It's is a contraction of it is. Its is possesive.
I know, it's a huge suprise. You have been living a lie all these years. I know your life will never be the same.
First google result.
http://www.stormloader.com/garyes/its/#top
I work in IT in the sub-prime financing industry. I don't make a boat-load of money, but I do get paid for training. I have been there just over 3 months, and I have already gone to Missouri for 3 days to learn more about our database, and to sarasota Fl (a 2 hour drive) for training on something we were taking over (which didn't pan out, but I still got paid for the time).
What is in your job description? Do you feel they pay you a competitive salary? I know I am making a little less than I should with a Comp Sci degree, but after doing 2.5 years of call center work, I'm happy to be where I am now.
My work has also stated that they will pay for some training if it is relevant to what we do, and depending on the cost. We are a fairly small operation, the whole company is probably less than 200 employees, spread across 5 different locations, with most of them at my PoE or down south at the headquarters.
Also, I'd like to point out that my company is trying to move AWAY from outsourcing and bring more things back into the company, for quality control and security reasons. Part of my job will be to implement some kind of interface to our database, I'm leaning toward PHP/Mysql at this point, but I think my boss wants a commercial solution, probably MSSQL. The normal reports are written in COBOL, and have some limitations, so with PHP/MYSQL it will give us more flexibility. I don't know how to use either of them. I, and my employer, have the understanding that this is a work in progress and I will learn as I go.
Sure. Callous Bastard.
You're missing the point. JT is exploting the death of a young person for his own selfish, ignorant crusade.
And this will go along with your sig,
Games don't kill people, people kill people!
Just because people play games doesn't mean they are filling their lives with emptiness. Religion is certainly not the only way to fill emptiness in one's life, and in my opinion, it's far from the best.
Wash your hands, dirty man.
Regardless of how clean you THINK your body is, how many door handles did you have to touch to get in that bathroom? Is that YOUR keyboard and mouse, or company owned (ie, other people's dirty hands have been using it)?
"Windows, which is really a great OS, gets such a bad rap because it's expected to run with every piece of hardware out there flawlessly. No one stops to think that it's a miracle that it runs as well as it does on so many systems. Not to put down the Mac OS, but compatibilty realy isn't so much of an issue/concern for OS X as much as it is for Windows."
I'm so sick of hearing this argument. If Microsoft is so great, how come Microsoft Office crashes on Mac hardware? Microsoft wants you to believe it is bad drivers/hardware compatibility that causes instability, thus they added driver signing. Windows still has plenty of bugs and stability issues. My wife JUST got a mac laptop 2 months ago, it was running great, then we put MS office on it. It's the only things that actually locks up or hangs on the Mac. Stop spreading this microsoft propoganda. They just are more concerned with features than stability and security.
"and the techs I've spoken with are actually sharp enough to help you outside of a script"
I want to comment on this since I happen to be a tech for a major DSL provider. (COUGH! Shit Bell Corp) I know more than to speak off of a script. We are forced to read off scripts, and deviation is frowned upon. I actually work for an outsourcing company that contracts with SBC. We have agents in and outside of the US. There is much grumbling and consternation due to these scripts, much of the time we feel like our hands are tied on certain things. Legally, they are. If there is a problem with the OS (say, winME is hosed), they are referred to their manufacturer. If one of our techs tried to fix windows and hosed it up even worse, then we can be liable for it. Most people calling in to an ISP are too clueless to realize if the problem was caused by a tech, but it has happened. One customer was switching from a Siemens modem to a 2wire and the tech had them switch the power supplies, thus causing the magic smoke to escape. We had to eat the cost of the out-of-warranty equipment.
It's a great argument against outsourcing, actually. There is a huge ivory-tower syndrome issue, it pisses me off to no end. Our only recourse with bad policies and incorrect tech documentation or incorrect procedures is to fill out a web form that some dipshit reads, and half the time they don't understand you, so nothing ever gets changed. We are graded on how we answer a call, and if it is not done verbatim, or near verbatim, we fail the call if we are being monitored.
Anyway, rant off, Speakeasy is taking a risk in doing stuff that they do for their customers. From a tech support view anyway.
I wonder who initiated this FCC change? It seems like more of the same from the era of the Bush administration. Handouts to big business.
I work in tech support. Let me add/correct the parent poster.
1) Yes, but make sure that you are FAMILIAR with the layout and intricacies of winXP, they may try to trip you up and make you sound like you don't have winXP. Know the version number of winXP
2) Some places do not support networks, they will tell you it is unsupported. This depends highly on where you are calling. I suppose for the purpose of this article, we are talking about a router, so they will support it. Keep in mind that in general, wherever you call will only focus on what they offer, they have to stay inside their scope of support, or else they have an easy way to get you off the phone.
3) WRONG! This will make them get you connected once and send you away! They will say they fixed it, with no regard to wether it is an ongoing, intermittent problem. If they try to tell you to just reset it all the time, tell them that is unacceptable, speak to a manager if you have to.
Basically
A) yes
B) No, be realistic or you are just going to make things harder on you and the person you speak to.
The STORY was linear, but you were free to move around. There wasn't much to do other than trading though.
It is pretty much a graphical version of the old BBS door, tradewars. Except single play. And non-ASCII.
Great game!
Was I the only one who confused that scene at the beginning with the armless guy where you were trying to help him and he attacks you?
It SOUNDS like your character is saying "I have no wish to ARM you!" when you beat him with his own arm.
(For those who don't know, your character is trying to tell him "I have no wish to harm you", because this armless greak jumps out and starts kicking you)
1. Donate money to HIV/AIDS foundations, donates to Tsunami relief
2. ????
3. profit?
You may have a point in SOME instances. Especially with the recent news that he said High Schools are "obsolete" because they are not teaching what employers and colleges want. I'm sure he will try to fit microsoft into the solution somehow.
Personally, I don't think college taught me what employers want, but oh well.
I'm just saying that he has done worthwhile things. I'm not saying he is spotless.
It's a sign of the times to reward people for hubris and stupidity, look at the Bush Administration and the awards they handed out. Hell, Bush finally got elected legitimately and he has wrecked just about everything thrown at him.
I'm not saying I agree with it, just that there are WORTHWHILE things he has done that might convince some people to honor him.
No. I never said he deserved it, in fact, I said I don't think he does. Is the real problem here that he is a criminal, or that the justice department let him off?
The US is fast becoming a fascist state.
Regardless of how we feel about Microsoft as a corporation and Bill Gates as a ruthless evil business-demon, he has done wonderful things through his Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. I don't know if he is deserving of knighthood. He is a good capitalist, if that is something to be proud of.
Like the dept tagline says, all it takes is billions of dollars. Knighthood must be hurting for worthy people these days.
Or At the Mountain's of Madness. He's right people, listen to him. Doom I say, Doom!
I'm gonna sing the Doom song now!
Piggy?
Mod Parent -1, Bush apologist who can't respond to valid facts.
Sure, if the monkey built the arm himself. Otherwise it isn't much more than using a stick to whack another monkey around.
That is some high-tech-poo-flinging right there.
Is it trite hollywood "left-wing lite" tripe to report that scientist are being forced to change their findings? Where in the article was this hand-wringing you speak of?
You asked 10 people in a school what they thought about a pithy thread on slashdot? They probably just said what you wanted to hear so they could get on with their real work.
Do people agree with you a lot? Very quickly? Do they seem hurried when they do it?
No, they are right, you didn't read the post, you just responded wiht a knee-jerk reaction. He says that republicans are fascists.
More specifically, I think he means the neo-cons, and all the whiners who say the media is liberal.
Who the hell modded you insightful??
Politics should not trump the science. If people need to eat, and the findings get in the way of that, then OK, we should feed people. But you don't lie about the science to fit the situation. If there is a problem with the law that it makes things unnaturally hard, that is one thing, you don't cover up the truth of the matter to do it though.
This is the real "junk-science".
It's pronounced "nuk-u-lar". What, are you in the reality based community or something?
Fansubbers typically choose anime that is released in Japan, but has not been liscened for distribution in other countries yet.
.VIV frmat (vivo). We will not further speak it's name here. Other formats have come and gone, most everything is done in divx or ogg/xvid format now. Quality is very high. I think this may have something to do with the crackdown.
Fansubbing has been around for quite a while, and traditionally it was done using VHS equipment. My experience with the fansubbing community has vastly changed in the last few years due to changing video compression capabilities. VHS fansubbing usually was associated with poor quality, where you would be getting 2nd, 3rd, and even lower generation tapes. The first fansubbed anime I ever got on the internet was in the
The legality was questionable to begin with. You have a huge industry in japan, with a negligable market in the US. They used to overlook it because they do not sell in the US. Things have changed, and now more and more anime is making it's way over here. So now you have a situation where it isn't illegal to copy the anime and sub it for the US, it will be if the anime ever gets liscensed for distro in the US. It becomes more and more of a problem the more mainstream anime gets.
As always, wikipedia beats me to it. More or less what I have said above.