The summary claims "... while creating enough value to make a good living at it." As there is no article to read, I gather that the making a good living comes from the services offered at http://www.opennms.com/ ? Does the group publish any revenue numbers, or just "we're doing well"? The pricing page certainly has some healthy prices, that's for sure!
The issue with your suggestion of games being artwork is that art is either commissioned (and therefore exactly what I want) or I get to see it in its entirety before I purcahse it. I go to an exhibition, view pieces, and buy what I want.
I was thinking art gallery as in the works of da Vinci... where the purpose of viewing isn't to purchase and you don't get to view the exhibition prior to paying the entrance fee. Same goes for a play, ballet, opera, etc. You don't get to view the entire performance before paying admission.
Would you buy a piece of art based upon a 1" square portion of it displayed on a label, with the actual piece wrapped in black plastic out of sight?
People buy art in the form of magazines tucked away on the top shelves and wrapped in plastic so they can't be previewed. I guess there are many ways to purchase art.:)
Having been shot several times, I can assure that solenoids aren't going to deliver anywhere near the amount of pain that a bullet would.
Thank you for the review... I was hoping to purchase one in order to actually feel the realistic amount of pain that Bruce Willis' character went through. In particular, I was looking forward to a "walking with glass embedded in feet" pain accessory. However, now knowing that my purchase would not deliver excruciating pain, I will defer acquisition of this device until they perfect the technology.
There's a big difference between "a Red Bull can" and "a can of Red Bull". One implies it's just the can, the other implies it's a can of something. Can you guess which is which?
Using your example, consider these two phrases:
1. a gasoline can 2. a can of gasoline
Which implies that it contains gasoline? Yeah, same for the Red Bull. Here's some homework you can take to your English tutor:
You get the picture. Maybe if you're in deep redneck country, words have a different meaning. But the majority of the world parses "a can of Red Bull" as it being a can which contains Red Bull. Otherwise, it'd be a Red Bull can, wouldn't it?
Do you pay for a lunch if it's crap? Do you pay up-front before you've even had a single bite? If the lunch is rubbish, I don't pay. I won't eat it and complain, I'll get a waiter's attention and say "Hey, this steak is overcooked, the potato is cold, and that had best not be hair in my peppercorn sauce." Depending on how rubbish it is, I won't be particularly polite either.
What if the restaurant advertises that it's a friendly place where friends go to hang out and laugh, and you always get a super-satisfying meal that leaves a warm glow in your belly all evening? Yet when you go there, it's mostly individuals eating with few people laughing and while the meal was satisfying, it wasn't incredibly so and that satisfaction only lasted a few hours rather than all evening?
And what for one restaurant reviewer might be exquisite food that evokes memories of his mother's home cooking might to another be a below-average meal because his mother was a chef at a five star restaurant.
It's one thing to point out objective problems with food and expect to not pay for them. It's another thing entirely when those "problems" are subjective. "This game is too tedious" for you might be "This game has tons of gameplay with fascinating detail" to another. In the end, games are art. I treat it like I would going to an art gallery. Get a feel for the art ahead of time and if it intrigues me, I spend the money for admission. If I end up not liking the artwork, oh well. If a game doesn't have a demo or other means to determine whether or not I like it, I don't get it. Quite simple really.
seriously wtf else is sony going to do? if they do nothing and the next hack is a serious one everyone will point the finger at how they did nothing.
Why would everyone point the finger at something which has absolutely no relevance or impact to them? Do people point the finger at the makers of duct tape because it can be used for more than taping ducts and they did nothing to stop it?
Something sounds awfully fishy about this. If it's real, that's not exactly a day I'd want to release something like this.
On the other hand, it gives them a plausible excuse to test the waters. If the backlash is too great it gives them an excuse to say "Just kidding... April Fool's!". If the complaints are at an acceptable level, they can release the update. Of course, there have likely been too many people working on the update to keep such a thing quiet, and the information released sounds far too formal to be an April Fool's joke. Based on that line of reasoning, I'd say 95% chance this isn't a joke.
Sony might be convinced to sell them special purpose units for non-loss leader pricing and perhaps with certain game-related features disabled to prevent a second hand market for them.
Sony sold you a device which includes certain features. You have that and always will have that. Sony also offers an additional service -- completely optional -- through an online network which offers various games, demos, videos, and also occasional updates. You do not have to use this network at all. If you do not make use of this optional service they provide, you will always maintain the features you currently enjoy.
Maybe we should stop calling them libraries. Library comes from Liber and refers to "inner bark" or wood, and refers to books made out of trees.
Your username "kiehlster" is derived from the word "keister" which refers to the buttocks. It's thus fitting that you come in here and make an ass of yourself. At any rate:
library - late 14c., from Anglo-Fr. librarie, from O.Fr. librairie "collection of books," noun use of adj. librarius "concerning books," from L. librarium "chest for books," from liber (gen. libri) "book, paper, parchment," originally "the inner bark of trees," probably a derivative of PIE base *leub(h)- "to strip, to peel".
Based on the root derivation, I'm sure you'd agree that libraries should have strippers in them.
There are plenty of perm agencies. They take 10% of your salary as a fee, so if you get hired for $60k, some guy in an office with a telephone gets a fat check for six grand. And you have to survive on the job for a few months, otherwise they lose it.
I know someone who did this. Ended up with a job paying almost $90K/year... the placement agency getting a percentage has a strong incentive to sell the company on why you should get paid very well. In her case, she happened to be awesome, so it was a well deserved salary.
I would also fire anyone who specifies MSSQL - with immediate effect, and no severance pay: On grounds of insubordination, incompetence and reckless endangerment.
So it's a no-go on MSSQL for that Microsoft contract your company just got? Of course, you didn't specify the type of work your company does so this attitude comes across as being rather narrow-minded. And good luck on that no severance pay thing. "I'd fire anyone in my organization who suggested we callously disregard labor laws like that.":)
Canadians are taxed on their income for healthcare at a tune of anywhere from 40% to 60%, yet they still have waiting lists - even for necessary surgery.
Yes, some Canadians might pay between 40% and 60% of their income as taxes. However, unless you think that 100% of all tax revenue funds healthcare, your numbers are completely out to lunch. Either I've been trolled, or you need to learn a few more things.
If a different embryo were selected, she would not exist. It's like saying "If only my parents had married different people, the egg that would have been me and the sperm that would have been me would have coupled with different sperm and egg, and I would be two people now!"
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Can you please learn to read?
Which will soon be another British made for TV movie
That is called the future tense, it will air end of next month, then the option for us region 1 folks will be pirate or wait 2+ years.
You also wrote:
If you have not seen Hogfather and Colour of Magic (which also includes The Light Fantastic) you really should go check them out.
Try another pot of coffee. It'll help you keep up.
The summary claims "... while creating enough value to make a good living at it." As there is no article to read, I gather that the making a good living comes from the services offered at http://www.opennms.com/ ? Does the group publish any revenue numbers, or just "we're doing well"? The pricing page certainly has some healthy prices, that's for sure!
Well, depending on how the tenant pays the rent...
Exactly... I knew there was a better way I should have played that typo.
Catholics having extramarital sex aren't acting within the tenants of their faith...
Perhaps not tenet, but certainly you might be within a tenant.
The issue with your suggestion of games being artwork is that art is either commissioned (and therefore exactly what I want) or I get to see it in its entirety before I purcahse it. I go to an exhibition, view pieces, and buy what I want.
I was thinking art gallery as in the works of da Vinci... where the purpose of viewing isn't to purchase and you don't get to view the exhibition prior to paying the entrance fee. Same goes for a play, ballet, opera, etc. You don't get to view the entire performance before paying admission.
Would you buy a piece of art based upon a 1" square portion of it displayed on a label, with the actual piece wrapped in black plastic out of sight?
People buy art in the form of magazines tucked away on the top shelves and wrapped in plastic so they can't be previewed. I guess there are many ways to purchase art. :)
Having been shot several times, I can assure that solenoids aren't going to deliver anywhere near the amount of pain that a bullet would.
Thank you for the review... I was hoping to purchase one in order to actually feel the realistic amount of pain that Bruce Willis' character went through. In particular, I was looking forward to a "walking with glass embedded in feet" pain accessory. However, now knowing that my purchase would not deliver excruciating pain, I will defer acquisition of this device until they perfect the technology.
There's a big difference between "a Red Bull can" and "a can of Red Bull". One implies it's just the can, the other implies it's a can of something. Can you guess which is which?
Using your example, consider these two phrases:
1. a gasoline can
2. a can of gasoline
Which implies that it contains gasoline? Yeah, same for the Red Bull. Here's some homework you can take to your English tutor:
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=54975&dict=CALD (definition: "containing")
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/of (definition 4: "substance or contents")
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?lextype=3&search=of (definition 4: "containing a particular substance")
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/of
You get the picture. Maybe if you're in deep redneck country, words have a different meaning. But the majority of the world parses "a can of Red Bull" as it being a can which contains Red Bull. Otherwise, it'd be a Red Bull can, wouldn't it?
Do you pay for a lunch if it's crap? Do you pay up-front before you've even had a single bite? If the lunch is rubbish, I don't pay. I won't eat it and complain, I'll get a waiter's attention and say "Hey, this steak is overcooked, the potato is cold, and that had best not be hair in my peppercorn sauce." Depending on how rubbish it is, I won't be particularly polite either.
What if the restaurant advertises that it's a friendly place where friends go to hang out and laugh, and you always get a super-satisfying meal that leaves a warm glow in your belly all evening? Yet when you go there, it's mostly individuals eating with few people laughing and while the meal was satisfying, it wasn't incredibly so and that satisfaction only lasted a few hours rather than all evening?
And what for one restaurant reviewer might be exquisite food that evokes memories of his mother's home cooking might to another be a below-average meal because his mother was a chef at a five star restaurant.
It's one thing to point out objective problems with food and expect to not pay for them. It's another thing entirely when those "problems" are subjective. "This game is too tedious" for you might be "This game has tons of gameplay with fascinating detail" to another. In the end, games are art. I treat it like I would going to an art gallery. Get a feel for the art ahead of time and if it intrigues me, I spend the money for admission. If I end up not liking the artwork, oh well. If a game doesn't have a demo or other means to determine whether or not I like it, I don't get it. Quite simple really.
seriously wtf else is sony going to do? if they do nothing and the next hack is a serious one everyone will point the finger at how they did nothing.
Why would everyone point the finger at something which has absolutely no relevance or impact to them? Do people point the finger at the makers of duct tape because it can be used for more than taping ducts and they did nothing to stop it?
Something sounds awfully fishy about this. If it's real, that's not exactly a day I'd want to release something like this.
On the other hand, it gives them a plausible excuse to test the waters. If the backlash is too great it gives them an excuse to say "Just kidding... April Fool's!". If the complaints are at an acceptable level, they can release the update. Of course, there have likely been too many people working on the update to keep such a thing quiet, and the information released sounds far too formal to be an April Fool's joke. Based on that line of reasoning, I'd say 95% chance this isn't a joke.
Sony might be convinced to sell them special purpose units for non-loss leader pricing and perhaps with certain game-related features disabled to prevent a second hand market for them.
Sony sold you a device which includes certain features. You have that and always will have that. Sony also offers an additional service -- completely optional -- through an online network which offers various games, demos, videos, and also occasional updates. You do not have to use this network at all. If you do not make use of this optional service they provide, you will always maintain the features you currently enjoy.
Maybe we should stop calling them libraries. Library comes from Liber and refers to "inner bark" or wood, and refers to books made out of trees.
Your username "kiehlster" is derived from the word "keister" which refers to the buttocks. It's thus fitting that you come in here and make an ass of yourself. At any rate:
library - late 14c., from Anglo-Fr. librarie, from O.Fr. librairie "collection of books," noun use of adj. librarius "concerning books," from L. librarium "chest for books," from liber (gen. libri) "book, paper, parchment," originally "the inner bark of trees," probably a derivative of PIE base *leub(h)- "to strip, to peel".
Based on the root derivation, I'm sure you'd agree that libraries should have strippers in them.
God damn I am tired of people who've enjoyed the fruits of public spending and are now complaining about anybody else doing so.
Interestingly, you're the only one I've seen (meta-)complaining about this.
There are plenty of perm agencies. They take 10% of your salary as a fee, so if you get hired for $60k, some guy in an office with a telephone gets a fat check for six grand. And you have to survive on the job for a few months, otherwise they lose it.
I know someone who did this. Ended up with a job paying almost $90K/year... the placement agency getting a percentage has a strong incentive to sell the company on why you should get paid very well. In her case, she happened to be awesome, so it was a well deserved salary.
They could always make a movie about Schindler's Lift: http://www.schindler.com/
I would also fire anyone who specifies MSSQL - with immediate effect, and no severance pay: On grounds of insubordination, incompetence and reckless endangerment.
So it's a no-go on MSSQL for that Microsoft contract your company just got? Of course, you didn't specify the type of work your company does so this attitude comes across as being rather narrow-minded. And good luck on that no severance pay thing. "I'd fire anyone in my organization who suggested we callously disregard labor laws like that." :)
Deduplicated backups: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/info.html
What kind of lame recursive acronym is "deduplication"? I'm flummoxed in any attempt to decipher it.
Deduplication Eases Disk Utilization Purposefully Linking Information Common Among Trusted Independent Operating Nodes
Value of free publicity for Happy Feet and Hewlett Packard from the advertorial: $50,000
Amerika! Amerika ist wunderbar!
Amerikahu akbar!
So, I wonder who is auditing the auditors?
It's turtles all the way down.
Canadians are taxed on their income for healthcare at a tune of anywhere from 40% to 60%, yet they still have waiting lists - even for necessary surgery.
Yes, some Canadians might pay between 40% and 60% of their income as taxes. However, unless you think that 100% of all tax revenue funds healthcare, your numbers are completely out to lunch. Either I've been trolled, or you need to learn a few more things.
CB? i'M soRrY, buT I'M Caps BlinD.
If a different embryo were selected, she would not exist. It's like saying "If only my parents had married different people, the egg that would have been me and the sperm that would have been me would have coupled with different sperm and egg, and I would be two people now!"