I got one too. Tried to play it in my fancy new blu-ray player hoping to be amazed. My player could not read the disk. Gee Sony, if you want people to buy this stuff, it has to actually work! Good thing this blu-ray player plays normal DVDs.
I just started working for a casual gaming company, bigfishgames.com. I didn't even realize there was a market for this sort of thing, but they've grown hugely in the past year, and the overall market is expanding as well. The main demographic is over 35 and mostly women. Go figure. The games are really cool, but you can play for 20-30 minutes and get something out of it, as opposed to most games these days, which take weeks (or longer for old farts like myself at 38) to even get started. Older folks don't have the patience or time for that. Making a game that can be played and enjoyed with little time commitment (and be fun and cool at the same time) is pretty challenging.
Great job, beats the hell out of working for an ISP.
from TFA "National security issues and laws aimed at thwarting the production of crystal meth are threatening to put an end to home laboratories."
come, what you really need is ephidrene or pseudeoephedrene to make meth. These things are hard to make by the average joe, so making pseudofed and related drugs perscription only, you would really make a dent in the meth business -- but this would hurt big business, namely large pharmeceutical companies, and the goverment would never stand in the way of big business making a huge profit, even if the product is ruining a large portion of our population. But they are all the poor people so no one cares. What the hell is wrong with this country.
"Because he designed that excellent keyboard, and composed music in his free time."
uh.. wrong Dvorak, the keyboard was invented by Dr. August Dvorak, who died in 1975 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Dvorak.
John Dvorak hasn't made any real contributions to computing or electronics of any kind, except babbling about such things in his columns (which most people probably read and think are relevent because they mistakenly think he is the dead, creator of the Dvorak keyboard)
You can get CDBaby.com to make your independent music available over iTunes, and a number of other online music distribution sites. Bands get to keep $.65, CDBaby takes $.09, and Apple (or other distributor) get the rest. No RIAA or labels at all. Its probably wise to publish your music with ASCAP (or US Patent Office) to make sure no one steals it (by steal I mean take and resell for money, not just listen)
I am probably going to do this soon, meanwhile, my bands music is free as in beer, www.basementfunk.com.
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"The way NOT to run business, science (or government) is to come up with a theory (or a desire) and then try to fit the evidence to support what you want."
Is exactly what those 'Intelligent Design' idiots do. They have their theory (desire, really) and they try to find anecdotes to support it. Hell with all the evidence that shows its all BS.
We run djbdns on all our caches, pretty much an out-of the box config, except boosting the cache by quite a bit. Our zones have a 2 hour TTL, as well as for customers. Never heard of any problems, also, the only time we've been compromised was via bind, which I haven't had to worry about for four years now, during which time there has not been any vulnerabilities found in djbdns.
Sheesh, these freaks are all a bunch of red, gun-toting, pro-life, Iraq bombing zealots. I suggest this reading from The Stranger It sums up what we should do with these folks pretty well.
The reason for unhappiness in this field does relate to the article, where they talk about helping people being one of the biggest factors in job happiness. In IT, no one gives a shit about you when things work, and when things break you suck. So the love really isn't there. It would be nice to be noticed when you rollout a new system that is a serious upgrade over the old, but all people notice is the 15 minutes of downtime during the transition (you suck)
I never heard of any awards for high uptime in IT.
Try to remember this fact folks. This is new stuff, and business models are just now being figured out. It would be a death sentance for any ISP to advertise (truthfully) that they do, in fact, have a bandwidth cap. Who would sign up with this ISP, when AOL and everyone else advertises 'unlimited', whatever that may mean. So, it has put ISPs in the position of putting limits in the TOS in a very vague way.
So that makes it so you have to look at every customer. Aunt Marge uses her DSL for email and shopping, taking up a few GB/month. That results in a net profit of a few dollars. This does not make up for the users who are using several GB/day. Accounting for bandwidth charges (yes ISPs pay them, no unlimited, or unmetered bandwidth for them) this customer COSTS them money. Nothing to do with what they are doing with the bandwidth, that is none of their concern, pr0n, movies, whatever. The bottom line says this customer COSTS several dollars per month to provide them service. Since these folks represent ~1% of customers, they lose service. The reason its in the TOS, is because they are much less likely to cut off a $200/month line vs. a $49.95/month line for similar usage patterns.
But screw that, we all want our unlimited bandwidth for $50/month. Ok, fine, lets make it so. All the independant ISP will fail, leaving only the ILECs left, which, with no more competition, cut all their support staff and raise prices. We have now won the battle.
Its a huge package with many many features that we will never use here, but it makes a great feature request tool -- in the form of trouble tickets. It works both with the web interface and via email.
"The sales drone was all uppity about it "you're the only one that hasn't been excited about that." Yeah, I'm the only one who has to drop a few tens of thousands of dollars on an MS infrastructure....)"
Hmm, somehow I can't see ANY sales drone saying that to Ford.
Salesdrone: "we are moving to.NET"
Ford: "that won't work, we use Linux"
Salesdrone: "really I don't know if we can support that"
Ford: "ok, we'll take our 375,000 seat licence elswhere then"
Saledrone: "let me talk to my developers...."
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I got one too. Tried to play it in my fancy new blu-ray player hoping to be amazed. My player could not read the disk. Gee Sony, if you want people to buy this stuff, it has to actually work! Good thing this blu-ray player plays normal DVDs.
I just started working for a casual gaming company, bigfishgames.com. I didn't even realize there was a market for this sort of thing, but they've grown hugely in the past year, and the overall market is expanding as well. The main demographic is over 35 and mostly women. Go figure. The games are really cool, but you can play for 20-30 minutes and get something out of it, as opposed to most games these days, which take weeks (or longer for old farts like myself at 38) to even get started. Older folks don't have the patience or time for that. Making a game that can be played and enjoyed with little time commitment (and be fun and cool at the same time) is pretty challenging. Great job, beats the hell out of working for an ISP.
from TFA "National security issues and laws aimed at thwarting the production of crystal meth are threatening to put an end to home laboratories."
come, what you really need is ephidrene or pseudeoephedrene to make meth. These things are hard to make by the average joe, so making pseudofed and related drugs perscription only, you would really make a dent in the meth business -- but this would hurt big business, namely large pharmeceutical companies, and the goverment would never stand in the way of big business making a huge profit, even if the product is ruining a large portion of our population. But they are all the poor people so no one cares. What the hell is wrong with this country.
"Because he designed that excellent keyboard, and composed music in his free time." uh.. wrong Dvorak, the keyboard was invented by Dr. August Dvorak, who died in 1975 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Dvorak. John Dvorak hasn't made any real contributions to computing or electronics of any kind, except babbling about such things in his columns (which most people probably read and think are relevent because they mistakenly think he is the dead, creator of the Dvorak keyboard)
You can get CDBaby.com to make your independent music available over iTunes, and a number of other online music distribution sites. Bands get to keep $.65, CDBaby takes $.09, and Apple (or other distributor) get the rest. No RIAA or labels at all. Its probably wise to publish your music with ASCAP (or US Patent Office) to make sure no one steals it (by steal I mean take and resell for money, not just listen) I am probably going to do this soon, meanwhile, my bands music is free as in beer, www.basementfunk.com.
quote: "The way NOT to run business, science (or government) is to come up with a theory (or a desire) and then try to fit the evidence to support what you want." Is exactly what those 'Intelligent Design' idiots do. They have their theory (desire, really) and they try to find anecdotes to support it. Hell with all the evidence that shows its all BS.
We run djbdns on all our caches, pretty much an out-of the box config, except boosting the cache by quite a bit. Our zones have a 2 hour TTL, as well as for customers. Never heard of any problems, also, the only time we've been compromised was via bind, which I haven't had to worry about for four years now, during which time there has not been any vulnerabilities found in djbdns.
Sheesh, these freaks are all a bunch of red, gun-toting, pro-life, Iraq bombing zealots. I suggest this reading from The Stranger It sums up what we should do with these folks pretty well.
The reason for unhappiness in this field does relate to the article, where they talk about helping people being one of the biggest factors in job happiness. In IT, no one gives a shit about you when things work, and when things break you suck. So the love really isn't there. It would be nice to be noticed when you rollout a new system that is a serious upgrade over the old, but all people notice is the 15 minutes of downtime during the transition (you suck) I never heard of any awards for high uptime in IT.
Try to remember this fact folks. This is new stuff, and business models are just now being figured out. It would be a death sentance for any ISP to advertise (truthfully) that they do, in fact, have a bandwidth cap. Who would sign up with this ISP, when AOL and everyone else advertises 'unlimited', whatever that may mean. So, it has put ISPs in the position of putting limits in the TOS in a very vague way.
So that makes it so you have to look at every customer. Aunt Marge uses her DSL for email and shopping, taking up a few GB/month. That results in a net profit of a few dollars. This does not make up for the users who are using several GB/day. Accounting for bandwidth charges (yes ISPs pay them, no unlimited, or unmetered bandwidth for them) this customer COSTS them money. Nothing to do with what they are doing with the bandwidth, that is none of their concern, pr0n, movies, whatever. The bottom line says this customer COSTS several dollars per month to provide them service. Since these folks represent ~1% of customers, they lose service. The reason its in the TOS, is because they are much less likely to cut off a $200/month line vs. a $49.95/month line for similar usage patterns.
But screw that, we all want our unlimited bandwidth for $50/month. Ok, fine, lets make it so. All the independant ISP will fail, leaving only the ILECs left, which, with no more competition, cut all their support staff and raise prices. We have now won the battle.
Its a huge package with many many features that we will never use here, but it makes a great feature request tool -- in the form of trouble tickets. It works both with the web interface and via email.
"The sales drone was all uppity about it "you're the only one that hasn't been excited about that." Yeah, I'm the only one who has to drop a few tens of thousands of dollars on an MS infrastructure....)" Hmm, somehow I can't see ANY sales drone saying that to Ford. Salesdrone: "we are moving to .NET"
Ford: "that won't work, we use Linux"
Salesdrone: "really I don't know if we can support that"
Ford: "ok, we'll take our 375,000 seat licence elswhere then"
Saledrone: "let me talk to my developers...."
I am an admin at Speakeasy, Inc. We got a few of these since they found 'packman' on our rpmfind mirror (speakeasy.rpmfind.net)
It was most enjoyable to write them a rude reply. All those things that you usually afraid to say, I just let it fly. Morons!