I hear ya, really I do. I understand the desire to know what's going on. But, see, that's the thing... I do my job and do it well when I'm not constantly scrutinized, asked redundant questions, interrupted by aruguments 10 feet away, or asked my status every half hour. I work and am as efficient as possible. Really, if there is something that my bosses need to know then I'll tell them. Otherwise they really should not worry so much. Is a daily (or even semi-daily) status not sufficient? As a manager, do you *really* need to know minute-by-minute what I'm doing? Have a little faith, for cryin' out loud:) Ah, well, in the end we all must adapt, I suppose.
Maybe this is part of a plan to have Sitefinder appear to have less of a conflict of interest. I just received the following mail from Verisign.
Dear Valued Network Solutions(R) Customer,
Today VeriSign, Inc. announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell Network Solutions to a new entity formed by Pivotal Private Equity.
Please be assured that Network Solutions continues to be committed to providing superior products and customer service to our more than 4 million customers. You have seen evidence of this commitment in the numerous enhancements we have introduced over the last 18 months. This commitment remains strong today in our
600 employees, each focused on providing you with a superior customer experience.
Today's announcement will not impact the service you receive from us. Network Solutions is the industry's first and largest domain name service provider with over
8 million domain names under management. We will continue to support and enhance a full range of affordable Web related services, including domain names, Web sites, business e-mail, and more.
As to the transaction itself, the buyer, Pivotal Private Equity, is a provider of equity for middle market corporate acquisitions. Pivotal focuses on companies in the telecommunications and Internet services industries, among others. The purchase agreement is subject to certain closing conditions, which we expect to be completed in the fourth quarter. To view today's press release and to get additional information go to http://www.verisign.com/corporate/news/index.html.
We remain committed to providing high quality services to meet your online needs and thank you for choosing Network Solutions.
I think the key here is to realize the value of a byte being 1024. One thousand of those is correctly called a kilobyte.
If you don't know what a byte is, then yeah... you're lost.
I never expected to see this arguement here on/. where I had assumed readers were a little more knowledgeable and insightful than the masses. All this arguing over the prefix, when that's not the issue at all. Interesting (yet scary) conversations here.
I'd be more than willing to spend slightly more money for a printer that is actually built to be used more than 6 months before either falling apart (cannon,lexmark), or being superceded by the same printer under a different model number that uses totally different replacement cartridges (HP).
Look at the crap that printer manufacturers are pawning off on people nowdays. You got your printer selling at like $70US, and refills selling at $50US. It just makes no sense. If you're like me and only print when absolutely necessary, then by the time your ink runs out you might just as well buy a whole new printer and forget about the new cartridges altogether.
If a company is a telephone provider, regardless of the trasmission mechanism used, then they should have to play using the same set of rules/regulations as the other telephone providers
Why? No, really, I'd like to know why. Just because the bits traveling over the wires can be regrouped and transformed into speech that a human can understand, why does that require oversight, licenses, or fees? Why does it require regulation at all?
How about because I (and anyone else, European or otherwise) should have the basic fundamental human right to state an OPINION about whatever topic, whether it be a company or something just dreamed up. If my or anyone elses opinion of XYZ Corp. isn't what they like, well then that's just plain tough. Life sucks, XYZ Corp sucks... deal with it.
How about because I should have the basic fundamental human right to state my OPINION about whatever topic, whether it be a company or something I just dreamed up. If my opinion of XYZ Corp. isn't what they like, well then that's just plain tough. Life sucks, XYZ Corp sucks... deal with it.
I disagree. That's the equivalent of installing, say, 50 copies of AutoCAD when you only have one license, and then saying "well... yeah but only one person uses it at a time."
That's not the way it works. There is no descretionary license. If you want to play by the rules, then *everyone* plays by the rules. Including Microsoft Sales managers that like to hand out CDs to the unwitting.
BTW... I wouldn't install that POS "development suite" if *they* paid *me*.
HEH! HA!
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Good question. And who the hell decided (Micron) that it was appropriate to run 1600x1450 res on a freakin' 15" laptop display?? I mean I got good eyes, but even so it's gets to be a strain sometimes. I think it should be the other way around maybe.
yes maybe it does.
take some time and analyze your throughput playing any popular fps game. You'll find that only playing a couple hours per day will quickly eat up a cap such as the one mentioned... even though you would not be coming close to your throughput caps. you also may find that you would be using more upstream bandwidth than downstream.
Have all of you gone insane? TCPA...DRM...Palladium? What the hell's the difference in the end? I cannot believe that anyone is supporting ANYTHING even remotely resembling any type of DRM or trusted computing scheme.
Have we really lost so much focus that we are willing to give up our RIGHT to do whatever we please with the data that resides on our drives? Even if it's a small concession, the road to hell is walked one small step at a time.
Well i have news for you. It doesn't take much to use multiple GB online. Just look at online gaming. A typical game such as UT2003 if played for, say, 3 hrs every other day would utilize around 5GB per month. Now many players play much more than that. And to top it off, if you analyze your bandwidth patterns while gaming, you'll see that most of the bandwidth used is upstream.
There are other things that are bandwidth-intensive besides file sharing. That's all I'm trying to say. It cannot be the only criteria.
Well by non-standard, I mean that generally, a "user" type will not just go blindly along with whatever they are offered, no matter how technically incorrect it may be.
If I've purchased digital media, such as a game, or music, then how I use it is my concern... not the creators, as long as I do not claim it as my own work.
For instance, a CD should play in ANY hardware capable of reading the format, and under ANY OS. The game that I buy which requires a CD in the drive should still run if I want to copy an ISO image and mount it on my disk instead of constantly swapping CDs. This is fair use.
I do not advocate the "pirating" of anything. Only the right to use what I have in the way that I wish.
You've joined the EFF, right? Yes, I have. And now I am considering ways to let those that haven't joined, or that aren't even aware of issues such as these, to become informed. My frustration is that it seems 99% of the general public is content wallow in ignorance. Not by choice, but simply by virtue of the fact that they don't read sites like/., or EFF, or attend conferences, or try to do anything that is "non-standard" with digital devices or content. They just have no interest, and so they don't realize that eventually this spills over into everyday life.
The reaction to my telling friends and associates about these things is that they look at me like I'm a nutcase (yeah ok sometimes I *am* a nutcase:p). I wish I could transform that reaction into interest.
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I hear ya, really I do. I understand the desire to know what's going on. But, see, that's the thing... I do my job and do it well when I'm not constantly scrutinized, asked redundant questions, interrupted by aruguments 10 feet away, or asked my status every half hour. I work and am as efficient as possible. Really, if there is something that my bosses need to know then I'll tell them. Otherwise they really should not worry so much. Is a daily (or even semi-daily) status not sufficient? As a manager, do you *really* need to know minute-by-minute what I'm doing? Have a little faith, for cryin' out loud :) Ah, well, in the end we all must adapt, I suppose.
Translation: Management would place their space in the middle of the 'action' so that they can keep tabs and micro-manage you to friggin' death.
Hey it was news to me, eh! And anyone that frequents Yahoo! is one, so there :P
So if it's company policy then you're happy to look for a new job?
yes
I prefer a degausser :D
I think the key here is to realize the value of a byte being 1024. One thousand of those is correctly called a kilobyte.
/. where I had assumed readers were a little more knowledgeable and insightful than the masses. All this arguing over the prefix, when that's not the issue at all. Interesting (yet scary) conversations here.
If you don't know what a byte is, then yeah... you're lost.
I never expected to see this arguement here on
I'd be more than willing to spend slightly more money for a printer that is actually built to be used more than 6 months before either falling apart (cannon,lexmark), or being superceded by the same printer under a different model number that uses totally different replacement cartridges (HP).
Look at the crap that printer manufacturers are pawning off on people nowdays. You got your printer selling at like $70US, and refills selling at $50US. It just makes no sense. If you're like me and only print when absolutely necessary, then by the time your ink runs out you might just as well buy a whole new printer and forget about the new cartridges altogether.
If a company is a telephone provider, regardless of the trasmission mechanism used, then they should have to play using the same set of rules/regulations as the other telephone providers
Why? No, really, I'd like to know why. Just because the bits traveling over the wires can be regrouped and transformed into speech that a human can understand, why does that require oversight, licenses, or fees? Why does it require regulation at all?
That's it! I gotta start working on my Black Box Linux mod now!
He's still trying to read them. He's a bit slow, dude... give hime time.
He is not stealing. It is not theft. It is copyright infringement.
How about because I (and anyone else, European or otherwise) should have the basic fundamental human right to state an OPINION about whatever topic, whether it be a company or something just dreamed up. If my or anyone elses opinion of XYZ Corp. isn't what they like, well then that's just plain tough. Life sucks, XYZ Corp sucks... deal with it.
How about because I should have the basic fundamental human right to state my OPINION about whatever topic, whether it be a company or something I just dreamed up. If my opinion of XYZ Corp. isn't what they like, well then that's just plain tough. Life sucks, XYZ Corp sucks... deal with it.
Your company does not own you.
;)
Well, no... but your Systems Admin does!
I disagree. That's the equivalent of installing, say, 50 copies of AutoCAD when you only have one license, and then saying "well... yeah but only one person uses it at a time."
That's not the way it works. There is no descretionary license. If you want to play by the rules, then *everyone* plays by the rules. Including Microsoft Sales managers that like to hand out CDs to the unwitting.
BTW... I wouldn't install that POS "development suite" if *they* paid *me*.
HEH! HA!
Good question. And who the hell decided (Micron) that it was appropriate to run 1600x1450 res on a freakin' 15" laptop display?? I mean I got good eyes, but even so it's gets to be a strain sometimes. I think it should be the other way around maybe.
yes maybe it does. take some time and analyze your throughput playing any popular fps game. You'll find that only playing a couple hours per day will quickly eat up a cap such as the one mentioned... even though you would not be coming close to your throughput caps. you also may find that you would be using more upstream bandwidth than downstream.
because the only purpose for a high speed connection is for sharing [censored by the RIAA and MPAA] across the net
Oh of course! umm... you know better than that! Forget about gaming? Forget about videoconferencing? Forget about VoIP?
Need I go on?
Have all of you gone insane?
TCPA...DRM...Palladium? What the hell's the difference in the end? I cannot believe that anyone is supporting ANYTHING even remotely resembling any type of DRM or trusted computing scheme.
Have we really lost so much focus that we are willing to give up our RIGHT to do whatever we please with the data that resides on our drives? Even if it's a small concession, the road to hell is walked one small step at a time.
Well i have news for you. It doesn't take much to use multiple GB online. Just look at online gaming. A typical game such as UT2003 if played for, say, 3 hrs every other day would utilize around 5GB per month. Now many players play much more than that. And to top it off, if you analyze your bandwidth patterns while gaming, you'll see that most of the bandwidth used is upstream. There are other things that are bandwidth-intensive besides file sharing. That's all I'm trying to say. It cannot be the only criteria.
Well by non-standard, I mean that generally, a "user" type will not just go blindly along with whatever they are offered, no matter how technically incorrect it may be. If I've purchased digital media, such as a game, or music, then how I use it is my concern... not the creators, as long as I do not claim it as my own work. For instance, a CD should play in ANY hardware capable of reading the format, and under ANY OS. The game that I buy which requires a CD in the drive should still run if I want to copy an ISO image and mount it on my disk instead of constantly swapping CDs. This is fair use. I do not advocate the "pirating" of anything. Only the right to use what I have in the way that I wish.
You've joined the EFF, right? /., or EFF, or attend conferences, or try to do anything that is "non-standard" with digital devices or content. They just have no interest, and so they don't realize that eventually this spills over into everyday life.
:p). I wish I could transform that reaction into interest.
Yes, I have. And now I am considering ways to let those that haven't joined, or that aren't even aware of issues such as these, to become informed. My frustration is that it seems 99% of the general public is content wallow in ignorance. Not by choice, but simply by virtue of the fact that they don't read sites like
The reaction to my telling friends and associates about these things is that they look at me like I'm a nutcase (yeah ok sometimes I *am* a nutcase