What surprised me was Norton and Symantec were aware of it but chose to treat it as a 'good' root kit on its customers behalf and without their express knowledge. I'll never buy their product.
Record companies don't pay those expenses, the artists do. RIAA mambers simply loan them the money under oderous onditions then dictate how it's spent.
Not theft, a less attractive form of Indentured Servitude http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentured_servitude. At least in the traditional form the employee left free and clear of debt, too many acts end their careers still in debt to RIAA members.
Don't laugh. Media content providers and software manufacturers are leading the way in shifting the consumer mindset from ownership to licensing. There may soon come a day when someone reading your comment doesn't understand why that's a bad thing.
There's no doubt an element of that but I'm sure it reaches deeper. There's a certain special offense when powerless proles are capable of raising problems for the monolothic, faceless multinationals which are Forbes' client base. There's more than a hint of anti-republic monied elitism in it, a sentiment almost as old as civilization
"... people (and some of the technical ones) in my building haven't even learned not to double-click URLs."
contradicts this
"...the REAL obstacles (hint: fear isn't one of them) to adopting an entirely new operating system..."
If they don't understand double-click how will the OS make any difference? They aren't configuring hardware or apps anyway.
I'm the last person to ascribe extraordinary technical prowess to the general public and yet sucessfully converted a staff of 50 to what in effect is PC-based multimedia editing from tape without a hitch. One staff member just celebrated his 50th year in the industry and has never required our help. Step one: make them part of the application selection process. Step two: an orderly rollout with scheduled training. Step three: encouraging self support and establishing staff 'experts' outside of the normal support channels. It's not that hard.
On the other hand, we're also a distinct division outside of the normal 'MSCE' pool. If there's any group with finger in ears here it's the latter, imposing solutions on users as mandates and forcing them to work around bugs and unresolved system idiosyncracies from memory. 'Lusers' can do a hell of a lot more than most IT support gives them credit.
How I wish that were feasible. Though our division generates ~ 40 million a year literally based on these machines it's outside the core business and doesn't fit Corporate IT models. They won't expend the effort or time to consider a dozen specialized boxes against the efficiencies of maintaining thousands of desktops with the minimum possible staff. Much of it is turf-war related. The application is serving audio, not across a network but from a soundcard output. It's not a server. The comparison I use is demanding the machine control systems on Toyota's assembly line 'standardize' to the receptionist's desktop to simplify patch management. Complete shortsighted lunacy.
You said a mouthful. My department is in currently fending off a company wide, IT imposed standard for computers. They're demanding we run critical 24/7-live multimedia apps on the same budget model desktop provided receptionists because "its the standard" and they get a good price in bulk. A 'well documented, carefully considered standard' can still be a cluster fuck. Two years ago the 'carefully considered standard' was a different manufacturer's model because the company bought advertising with us. I'm given the choice of rolling over and accepting almost certain disaster or protecting divisional business at personal risk to my career with the company. But there are always other companies.
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"It's like stating all car repairs should be free!"
Not at all, but that's beside the point. The choice is between free movement of information and federally regulated control to support an existing business model. Eminem doesn't like that the data he distributes is ease to copy and distrbute, don't release in that form. Ludicrous is demanding federal regulation or levies on the use of blank media and bandwidth to preserve a revenue stream on a product that feeds no poor, cures no diseases, neither helps or benefits anyone else in society save Eminem's pocket book and accountant. Cost benefit analysis, RIAA members lose. Society's a balance of interests and the only reason they've gotten this far is the RIAA's interest in campaign financing. The system's broken.
"I know every body keeps complaining that artists are screwed and blah blah blah. But in reality, I am seeing a lot of artists supporting RIAA and co."
Of course, established 'artists' with strong contracts written to fit the current system will support them. Garth Brooks at the peak of his industry power even called for levies on the resale of used CDs reasoning that, after all, consumers are paying to hear his music, not buying a CD. For every one of them there are thousands for whom the RIAA do nothing of benefit. The Haves want to maintian and strengthen the current system to the point of federal regulation of information movement (for Eminem or Metallica, god help us...) and Have Nots are locked out of the system by RIAA payola and oligarchical control of distribution channels. That's the easy part to understand, the hard is why any outside of an entertainent company's board room or a bought politican like Fritz Holling would support the RIAA.
"Another con is the fact that you have to download the full Firefox installer and run it all over again. That is not very friendly."
Regular Windows Updates which download and install tens of megabytes = good, Firefox update that automatically replaces everything in under 5 megabytes = bad. Welcome to life in the the MS reality distortion field.
You're blurring the distinction between technology and science in the public mind. Technology is the product of science. No one ever has a problem with technology until it's doing, or achieves the potential of doing, demonsterable harm. Even if most of the 'so called' religious right aren't anti-science the most vocal and vociferous anti-science lobbyists are members of the religious right. They probably don't see themselves that way as they don't consider theories such as evolution as science, and have no problem with the fruits of that research as long as the explanations for the results don't confict with their beliefs. It wasn't all that long ago the Chrisitian religious still demanded an age for the earth measured in a few thousand years because of the support it removed from evolutionary theory, voices I hope finally silenced, make that crushed, by the weight of scientific evidence.
Are you joking? The very first synopsis on AIM's (fairness and balance) site:
"...There has been a spate of stories about how our media have used Hurricane Katrina to suddenly return to their watchdog role toward government. This is being depicted as an extremely positive development.
Being depicted as.....positive!?!? It's the role of a free press.
Was it the documentary "Outfoxed" which examined this relationship? The liberals Fox put before the camera (at the time) were uniformly passive, concilliatory, meek individuals tossed before marginally stable dogs like O'Reilly like a slab of raw meat. R Murdoch is a staunch conservative, upper level management sends daily talking points to their 'newspeople' instead of letting them find the news, deviation from the party line results in perpetual delays in stories airing and sometimes outright dismissal. Fox is the WWF of news.
While we're on a roll the X-Fi also drains Florida swampland and causes bridges to materialize at the location of your choice with a simple mouse click. Most MP3's have discarded 75% plus of the CD's original data, the odds of Creative's claim being true are very dependent on the definition of 'better' in use. It's not the definition used by most who people who care about sound.
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Didn't you know? If you're not for us, you're against us. It's a universal scientific principle now.
Offshore labour?
Too late. Not supporting a mainsteam science exhibit out of politics is taking a stand, against.
What surprised me was Norton and Symantec were aware of it but chose to treat it as a 'good' root kit on its customers behalf and without their express knowledge. I'll never buy their product.
Record companies don't pay those expenses, the artists do. RIAA mambers simply loan them the money under oderous onditions then dictate how it's spent.
Not theft, a less attractive form of Indentured Servitude http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentured_servitude. At least in the traditional form the employee left free and clear of debt, too many acts end their careers still in debt to RIAA members.
Of course they get it. They're trying to preserve the old way by means of federal legislation and jail terms. It's astonishing we let them.
Explaining perhaps why they had difficulty integrating with "the Others"? (props to Levesque)
You skipped some patches. ;)
Don't laugh. Media content providers and software manufacturers are leading the way in shifting the consumer mindset from ownership to licensing. There may soon come a day when someone reading your comment doesn't understand why that's a bad thing.
There's no doubt an element of that but I'm sure it reaches deeper. There's a certain special offense when powerless proles are capable of raising problems for the monolothic, faceless multinationals which are Forbes' client base. There's more than a hint of anti-republic monied elitism in it, a sentiment almost as old as civilization
"... people (and some of the technical ones) in my building haven't even learned not to double-click URLs."
contradicts this
"...the REAL obstacles (hint: fear isn't one of them) to adopting an entirely new operating system..."
If they don't understand double-click how will the OS make any difference? They aren't configuring hardware or apps anyway.
I'm the last person to ascribe extraordinary technical prowess to the general public and yet sucessfully converted a staff of 50 to what in effect is PC-based multimedia editing from tape without a hitch. One staff member just celebrated his 50th year in the industry and has never required our help. Step one: make them part of the application selection process. Step two: an orderly rollout with scheduled training. Step three: encouraging self support and establishing staff 'experts' outside of the normal support channels. It's not that hard.
On the other hand, we're also a distinct division outside of the normal 'MSCE' pool. If there's any group with finger in ears here it's the latter, imposing solutions on users as mandates and forcing them to work around bugs and unresolved system idiosyncracies from memory. 'Lusers' can do a hell of a lot more than most IT support gives them credit.
How I wish that were feasible. Though our division generates ~ 40 million a year literally based on these machines it's outside the core business and doesn't fit Corporate IT models. They won't expend the effort or time to consider a dozen specialized boxes against the efficiencies of maintaining thousands of desktops with the minimum possible staff. Much of it is turf-war related. The application is serving audio, not across a network but from a soundcard output. It's not a server. The comparison I use is demanding the machine control systems on Toyota's assembly line 'standardize' to the receptionist's desktop to simplify patch management. Complete shortsighted lunacy.
You said a mouthful. My department is in currently fending off a company wide, IT imposed standard for computers. They're demanding we run critical 24/7-live multimedia apps on the same budget model desktop provided receptionists because "its the standard" and they get a good price in bulk. A 'well documented, carefully considered standard' can still be a cluster fuck. Two years ago the 'carefully considered standard' was a different manufacturer's model because the company bought advertising with us. I'm given the choice of rolling over and accepting almost certain disaster or protecting divisional business at personal risk to my career with the company. But there are always other companies.
On Slashdot!!?!?!
Not at all, but that's beside the point. The choice is between free movement of information and federally regulated control to support an existing business model. Eminem doesn't like that the data he distributes is ease to copy and distrbute, don't release in that form. Ludicrous is demanding federal regulation or levies on the use of blank media and bandwidth to preserve a revenue stream on a product that feeds no poor, cures no diseases, neither helps or benefits anyone else in society save Eminem's pocket book and accountant. Cost benefit analysis, RIAA members lose. Society's a balance of interests and the only reason they've gotten this far is the RIAA's interest in campaign financing. The system's broken.
Of course, established 'artists' with strong contracts written to fit the current system will support them. Garth Brooks at the peak of his industry power even called for levies on the resale of used CDs reasoning that, after all, consumers are paying to hear his music, not buying a CD. For every one of them there are thousands for whom the RIAA do nothing of benefit. The Haves want to maintian and strengthen the current system to the point of federal regulation of information movement (for Eminem or Metallica, god help us...) and Have Nots are locked out of the system by RIAA payola and oligarchical control of distribution channels. That's the easy part to understand, the hard is why any outside of an entertainent company's board room or a bought politican like Fritz Holling would support the RIAA.
By that defintion the ultimate DoS at my work is a Diet oPEN Soda. =D
Pulling the network cable?
Regular Windows Updates which download and install tens of megabytes = good, Firefox update that automatically replaces everything in under 5 megabytes = bad. Welcome to life in the the MS reality distortion field.
You're blurring the distinction between technology and science in the public mind. Technology is the product of science. No one ever has a problem with technology until it's doing, or achieves the potential of doing, demonsterable harm. Even if most of the 'so called' religious right aren't anti-science the most vocal and vociferous anti-science lobbyists are members of the religious right. They probably don't see themselves that way as they don't consider theories such as evolution as science, and have no problem with the fruits of that research as long as the explanations for the results don't confict with their beliefs. It wasn't all that long ago the Chrisitian religious still demanded an age for the earth measured in a few thousand years because of the support it removed from evolutionary theory, voices I hope finally silenced, make that crushed, by the weight of scientific evidence.
"...There has been a spate of stories about how our media have used Hurricane Katrina to suddenly return to their watchdog role toward government. This is being depicted as an extremely positive development.
Being depicted as.....positive!?!? It's the role of a free press.
Looks like you just got a taste of how the right wing handles disagreement: bury it.
Was it the documentary "Outfoxed" which examined this relationship? The liberals Fox put before the camera (at the time) were uniformly passive, concilliatory, meek individuals tossed before marginally stable dogs like O'Reilly like a slab of raw meat. R Murdoch is a staunch conservative, upper level management sends daily talking points to their 'newspeople' instead of letting them find the news, deviation from the party line results in perpetual delays in stories airing and sometimes outright dismissal. Fox is the WWF of news.
While we're on a roll the X-Fi also drains Florida swampland and causes bridges to materialize at the location of your choice with a simple mouse click. Most MP3's have discarded 75% plus of the CD's original data, the odds of Creative's claim being true are very dependent on the definition of 'better' in use. It's not the definition used by most who people who care about sound.