> "Star Wars Rogue One" is charging you $22.99 for the Blue Ray copy! What an abuse!
Red Herring fallacy much?
1. I don't have a problem paying for BluRays. What I do have a problem is that somehow it is magically illegal to decrypt and copy the bits so that my OTHER devices (Laptop, Phone, Tablet) can't play the bitstream due to some "Imaginary Property" DRM bullshit. Why is it illegal to download the bits when I _already_ own a physical copy???
2. Secondly, you're assuming I can even BUY the movie in the first place. Let me know where I can legally buy the BluRay of Hawaizaada ??? NOTE: The trailer is in 1080p but only the DVD is available for purchase.
Personally I don't pirate but I can understand the reason why someone might.
The issue is not Black and White like you assume.
-- "We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself."
-- Vernon Linwood Howard
MineTest is crap though -- the dev's don't know what the fuck they are doing half the time. If you follow the issue tracker like I do you quickly see things are _constantly_ being broken, half-assed, and bike shedding.
None of the open source clones that I've seen come close to just working like Minecraft.
> Can anyone remember when Science was about Scientia, Knowledge?
/sarcasm Sorry that is last millennium thinking. Today it is about hoarding information, hiding the data + code so you can't reproduce the experiment(s), provide no _reference implementation_ to independently verify the algorithm, exploiting eyeballs behind paywalls, beating the competition to market regardless if your shit actually works *cough Theranos cough, Litigate not Innovate *cough Patent Trolls cough*, and selling proprietary drugs where you can be sued up the ass for using them without a license *cough Monsanto cough*, textbooks with DRM because "sharing knowledge is bad, Mmkay, because I'm not getting my cut", all to make a quick buck.
/cynical What? You wanted copyright to "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts," Ha!
Sharing of Information has been corrupted and perverted by Greed and Lawyers. What's this concept of sharing? You WILL pay.
The first step would be to kill all the fucking lawyers. The second step would be to repeal all this Imaginary Property bullshit laws.
But this will never happen because society is a bunch of retards. They would rather watch some one else's Unreality shit show then actually do something because their life is devoid of any actual meaning.
Welcome to the 21st century -- where Information is Hoarded for Profit.
> I'll never get some of you guys: > * When an OS doesn't force the user to update, its a security risk. > * When an OS does force the user to update, its an affront to freedom and choice.
Because there is MORE then just 2 choices:
* How many updates NEVER gave _any_ details on _exactly_ what they were doing other then some bullshit generic "Security updates" message. * How many updates FORCED the user to migrate to Windows 10? * How many updates had NOTHING to do with updates except add spyware? * How many updates broke WGA (Windows Genuine Advantage)? * How many updates broke Internet Explorer?
Who the fuck designs a program where you can only install the latest version??? If Microsoft wanted to pull its head out of their collective ass they could have:
* Clearly, communicated, in detail, EXACTLY what each and every update fixes.
These should be required reading for programmers AND designers. I'm looking at you Mr. shitty designer/programmer that only lets me put 13 characters in for my (first) name.
-- WTB: old Apple 2 games, original disks, namely: * Captain Goodnight and the Islands of Fear * Empire I: World Builders * Empire II: Interstellar Sharks * Empire III: Armageddon
> I would also like you to explain to me what a "Social Justice Warrior" is
Replace the words with:
Stupid Juvenile Whiner
and you'll start to understand it what it means.
SJW is (typically) a dumb Gen Z with a pet peeve over some perceived bullshit "injustice" -- basically anything that doesn't agree with THEIR myopic philosophy. Now instead of actually _doing_ something AFTER careful analysis of BOTH sides of the issue, because issues are almost never black and white, they would rather have a knee-jerk reaction and whine about it instead.
There is no reasoning with these irrational people. They believe their POV (point-of-view) is the ONLY right one and blindly ignore facts. The classic attack is the ad hominem using labels as misogynist, trigger, microagression, etc. They are so insecure with their immaturity that they have to attack everyone else who doesn't agree with them. It is the ultimate Political Censorship gone wrong.
South Park poked fun of their stupidity in Season 19 by calling them Pussy Crushers
The only valid tactic is to ignore these whiney cunts -- because they make the classic Internet Trolls look like Saints in comparison -- otherwise you are just wasting your time.
You can fix ignorant. You can't fix Stupid (Juvenile Whiners.)
* There is never time to do it right, but there is always time to do it over.
As Fred Brooks said in Mythical Man-Month.
"Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified.
Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowcharts; they'll be obvious." -- Fred Brooks
Which can be translated into the modern vernacular as:
* Show me your code and I'll wonder what your data structures are, * Show me your data and I'll already know what your code is
There are 2 solutions to this problem of crappy library code.
1. You are benchmarking your code, ALONG THE WAY, right?
Most projects "tack-on" optimization when the project is almost completed. This is completely BACKWARDS. How do you know which functions are the performance hogs when you have thousands to inspect?
It is FAR simpler to be constantly monitoring performance from day one. Every time new functionality is added, you measure. "Oh look, our startup time went from 5 second to 50 seconds -- what the hell was just added?"
NOT: "Oh, we're about to ship in a month, and our startup time is 50 seconds. Where do we even begin in tracking down thousands of calls and data structures?"
I come from a real-time graphics background -- aka games. Every new project our skeleton code runs at 120 frames per second. Then as you slowly add functionality you can tell _instantly_ when the framerate is going down. Oh look, Bob's latest commit is having some negative performance side effects. Let's make sure that code is well designed, and clean BEFORE it becomes a problem down the road and everyone forgets about it.
2. You have a _baseline_ to compare against? Let's pretend you come up with a hashing algorithm, and you want to know how fast it is. The *proper* way is to
* First benchmark how fast you can slurp data from a disk, say 10 GB of data. You will never be FASTER then this! 100% IO bound, 0% CPU bound. * Then, add a single-threaded benchmark where you just sum bytes. * Maybe, you add a multi-threaded version * Then you measure _your_ spiffy new function.
Library Vendors, such as Dinkumware who provide the CRTL (C-Run Time Library), _should_ be catching these shitty performance bugs, but sadly they don't. The only solution is to be proactive.
The zeroth rule in programming is:
* Don't Assume, Profile!
Which is analogous to what carpenters say:
* Measure Twice, Cut Once.
But almost no one wants to MAKE the time to do it right the first time. You can either pay now, or pay later. Fix the potential problems NOW before they become HUGE problems later.
I've had a company try this to me as well. Simply just crossed it out. They didn't even bat an eye.
Seriously, a contract is an agreement that BOTH sides agree to. Far too many people just accept the terms 'as-is' not realizing that it works both ways. There has to be mutual agreement -- if you don't have that, you don't have a contract.
The concept of zero has been around for thousands of years.
Instead of being a zero one day you will realize that 0% is a valid rating. But keep making excuses for why you have 0% comprehension for a basic concept regardless of what other sites do.
You are assuming that just because a delta 25% works for YOU, that it works for EVERYONE else which is FALSE.
Only a complete moron wants to dumb ratings down so there are 3 levels from 50% to 100%.
2/4 = 50% 3/4 = 75% 4/4 = 100%
This is NOT granular enough.
Why do you think IMDB uses a percentage on a 10 point scale???
At the very least you want a 5 point scale:
5/5 = 100% = perfect / loved it 4/5 = 80% = good, but not quite great 3/5 = 60% = OK 2/5 = 40% = Bad 1/5 = 20% = Fail -- why am I even watch this crap ??? i.e. <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185183/">Battlefield Earth (2000)</a>
1. Do Not Want God awful, makes you want to gouge your eyeballs out with a spork, and either head-butt the TV or try to hit the cinema screen with projectile vomit. Everything about this movie is bad to such a degree that it doesn't even become good in its badness. You really wish you had done something more worthwhile during the movie's running time, like trimming your nose hairs. If someone would give you this movie, you would microwave, burn, blend or eat it, to avoid the risk that other human beings could be exposed to it.
2. Awful Still awful, but has at least one thing that is done well, like one decent scare in an otherwise pathetic horror movie, one good laugh in an otherwise decidedly unfunny comedy, one clever plot element, etc. You would never ever want to watch this again except maybe for that single good part.
3. Bad Bad, but you agree that watching this film was an OK pastime on a lazy weekend evening because there was nothing else on TV and you were too lazy to dig up anything better. Or, you felt the need to expose yourself to something crappy to recalibrate your appreciation for movies, and without being a totally shameful waste of time it reminded you how bad a film can be. You could have better spent your time, though. You will definitely avoid watching it again, even on the next lazy weekend evening.
4. Nice Try, But No Cigar Still bad, but is âalmost thereâ(TM). Either it has some good parts that are ruined by bad parts, or it stays at a constant level of âoeit had promise but the good part never cameâ. You still would never want to watch it again.
5. Meh The threshold for âOKâ(TM). It's not good, not bad, just acceptable. This is the kind of movie that only just makes you feel you didn't waste 90+ minutes and/or the price of a cinema ticket. You would only want to watch it again under the conditions of 3, but you would never ever consider doing more effort than pushing a button on your TV remote to watch it again. This movie is either an equal mix of good and bad parts, or is just so forgettable that each time someone mentions the title, you need to read the plot and look at screenshots to remember what it was about. If you would be given this movie as a present, you would sell it or give it away.
6. Not Bad It has some aspects that lift it above mediocrity and make it quite enjoyable to watch, but it either never becomes really good, or if it does, it still has some bad parts that drag it down. You would only watch it again spontaneously if it were a long time ago since you saw it and you re-watched all your movies scoring 7+ too recently. You would only recommend this to someone if they're really into the genre, but you would still warn them that it's not that good. You would never buy it, but if someone would give it to you, you wouldn't bother selling it unless you need to make room or are in desperate need to gain a few bucks.
7. Good This movie is really worth watching and you would watch it again spontaneously, but not too o
What the fuck is the point of having ratings if you are just going to make them homogeneous???
Just because _you,_ Netflix, don't let me rate a movie 0/5 doesn't mean it deserves a 1/5. IF I hate a movie it should get 0/5.
The WHOLE point of a 5 star rating is to provide fine-grained-ratings not some bullshit dual artificial rating. There is a HUGE difference between me liking a movie 50% and 100%. Some movies are 3/5 (60%), 4/5 (80%), and very few are 5/5 (100%). Lumping them these ALL together is fucking retarded. HOW is that helping the system find stuff I _really_ like vs stuff I _kind of_ like???
I'm also going to die someday too, but that doesn't mean I want it today.
So, BZZZT, no, but thanks for playing! I _already_ have multiple boxes with Windows 7 that work perfectly fine thank-you-very-much. There is no software that runs "only" on Windows 10 that "I need."
I've already migrated my personal dev work to OSX and Linux, so no, Microshaft can go fuck themselves, because I don't want nor need their Spyware they mis-label as Windows 10.
Hell, even at my day job we've been using OSX for the past 5 years and we're a Fortune 50 company. I also know many devs who use Linux. Seriously, there are WAY more OSX and Linux machines then I would have thought possible.
The harder Microsoft tries to force customers to Windows 10, the harder the pushback will be. In Microsoft's quest to force everyone to use Windows 10 -- they forgot the most important thing:
Customers don't NEED it.
There is only 1 name for people who run Windows 10.
Idiots.
Because they sold themselves out. M$ has no respect for you. All they care about is exploiting you. For some of us, MS has stepped over the line.
Instead of deleting the videos they should have started working on a solution:
Crowdfund it.
And let people know that "These videos are in the process of being transcribed." along with webpage that has a status for EVERY video.
Gee, if the only we had a place that we could _distribute_ and _communicate_ work. People can do it for crap like GIMPS but can't do it for lectures ???? Anime fans can provide fansubs but yet an University can't find people to donate their time to transcribe the material??? Hell, I do this for free on certain YouTube videos I find interesting. That way I have a textual copy I can "search"
But instead, let's act like a spoiled-entitled-child with the immature "If I can't have it, no one can".
Way to go.
I thought Universities were supposed to the bastions of intellect -- not immaturity.
> but I'm pretty sure that our license agreement with Microsoft will not allow us to keep running old versions of their OS past their expire date.
Why do you allow yourself to be held hostage by Microsoft ??
I don't see anything in the Windows 7 Terms of Service PDF that says anything about not running after the expiration date. Just that _support_ is terminated.
> Windows 2000 was never released for the consumer market.
Incorrect for two reasons:
* It WAS sold in consumer stores. * Why is DirectX 8 and 9 even available for it if it isn't a "consumer" market?
A lot of us game devs used Windows 2000 to do game development back in ~2000, including myself. Windows 2000 was the stepping stone between Windows 98/ME and Windows XP. Windows NT 4.0 was the start of the migration path when it adopted the Win95 Shell.
The OP is confusing the middleman with the content creators -- I guess they _completely_ missed the memo in back 2000 when Courtney Love called the RIAA is nothing more then a bunch of thieves
Today I want to talk about piracy and music. What is piracy? Piracy is the act of stealing an artist's work without any intention of paying for it.
I'm not talking about Napster-type software.
I'm talking about major label recording contracts.
I'm writing to ask you to join the chorus of recording artists who want us all to get a fair deal from the record companies. R.E.M., the Dixie Chicks, U2, Alanis Morrissette, Bush, Prince and Q-Tip have called me with their support and we need your participation as well.
There are 3 basic facts to all recording artists should know:
1. No one has ever represented the rights and interests of recording artists AS A GROUP in negotiations with record companies.
2. Recording artists don't have access to quality health care and pension plans like the ones made available to actors and athletes through their unions.
3. Recording artists are paid royalties that represent a tiny fraction of the money their work earns.
The RIAA is so out-of-touch with artists that they didn't realize Trent Reznor intentionally 'leaked' his Year Zero album in 2007.
The old medium is dying because the new medium has driven the cost of content creation down to almost zero. And zero fucks were given.
The consumer's "problem" is that they are drowning in mediocrity -- a first world problem -- along with MORE choices./sarcasm Such a "problem."
The only ones complaining are those still trying to figure out how to monetize it because the internet is cutting out the price-gouging of the middleman.
Slashdot Mirror
> "Star Wars Rogue One" is charging you $22.99 for the Blue Ray copy! What an abuse!
Red Herring fallacy much?
1. I don't have a problem paying for BluRays. What I do have a problem is that somehow it is magically illegal to decrypt and copy the bits so that my OTHER devices (Laptop, Phone, Tablet) can't play the bitstream due to some "Imaginary Property" DRM bullshit. Why is it illegal to download the bits when I _already_ own a physical copy???
2. Secondly, you're assuming I can even BUY the movie in the first place. Let me know where I can legally buy the BluRay of Hawaizaada ??? NOTE: The trailer is in 1080p but only the DVD is available for purchase.
Personally I don't pirate but I can understand the reason why someone might.
The issue is not Black and White like you assume.
--
"We can accept God becoming Man to save Man,
but not Man becoming God to save himself."
-- Vernon Linwood Howard
> ... despite that not being what Apple's literal statement said (because "Windows malware" only affects Windows, ...
With things like Wine I'm not sure that is a good strategy to bank on ...
Here, literally, is the big picture
Or working around /.'s shitty lameness filter, some ASCII art:
--
Slashdot's lameness filter is lame. When the fuck are tables and markdown going to be supported???
MineTest is crap though -- the dev's don't know what the fuck they are doing half the time. If you follow the issue tracker like I do you quickly see things are _constantly_ being broken, half-assed, and bike shedding.
None of the open source clones that I've seen come close to just working like Minecraft.
> Can anyone remember when Science was about Scientia, Knowledge?
Sharing of Information has been corrupted and perverted by Greed and Lawyers. What's this concept of sharing? You WILL pay.
The first step would be to kill all the fucking lawyers.
The second step would be to repeal all this Imaginary Property bullshit laws.
But this will never happen because society is a bunch of retards. They would rather watch some one else's Unreality shit show then actually do something because their life is devoid of any actual meaning.
Welcome to the 21st century -- where Information is Hoarded for Profit.
> I'll never get some of you guys:
> * When an OS doesn't force the user to update, its a security risk.
> * When an OS does force the user to update, its an affront to freedom and choice.
Because there is MORE then just 2 choices:
* How many updates NEVER gave _any_ details on _exactly_ what they were doing other then some bullshit generic "Security updates" message.
* How many updates FORCED the user to migrate to Windows 10?
* How many updates had NOTHING to do with updates except add spyware?
* How many updates broke WGA (Windows Genuine Advantage)?
* How many updates broke Internet Explorer?
Who the fuck designs a program where you can only install the latest version??? If Microsoft wanted to pull its head out of their collective ass they could have:
* Clearly, communicated, in detail, EXACTLY what each and every update fixes.
But no, they didn't.
Microsoft has ZERO respect for its users.
So fuck'em.
These should be required reading for programmers AND designers. I'm looking at you Mr. shitty designer/programmer that only lets me put 13 characters in for my (first) name.
* Falsehoods about Names
* Falsehoods about Time
* Falsehoods about Computers, aka, Murphy's Computers Laws
* 97 Things Every Programmer should know
Agreed. This has been around for ages:
"If you can't innovate, litigate"
As much as I hate LinkedIn one of the pieces is interesting:
* "Don't Innovate, Just Litigate" - No Genuine Inventor Thinks That Way
--
* Main Street built America
* Wall Street destroyed America
> with an in-house language that lack the ability for simple Boolean functions! That's right - no AND or OR or NOT!
While I agree that is completely bone-headed, technically, you don't need them as long as you have +,-,*,/ since they can be simulated.
I came across this interesting Boolean Floating Point Logic shader that proves how it would be done.
This guy does:
And course shitty /. butchers the alignment but you get the idea.
> yellow / blue palate
If the roof of your mouth, palate, is yellow / blue then you have bigger problems to worry about.
The process of tinting the palette towards the Orange and Teal colors is called color grading.
It sucks because it is constantly over-used.
--
WTB: old Apple 2 games, original disks, namely:
* Captain Goodnight and the Islands of Fear
* Empire I: World Builders
* Empire II: Interstellar Sharks
* Empire III: Armageddon
> I would also like you to explain to me what a "Social Justice Warrior" is
Replace the words with:
Stupid
Juvenile
Whiner
and you'll start to understand it what it means.
SJW is (typically) a dumb Gen Z with a pet peeve over some perceived bullshit "injustice" -- basically anything that doesn't agree with THEIR myopic philosophy. Now instead of actually _doing_ something AFTER careful analysis of BOTH sides of the issue, because issues are almost never black and white, they would rather have a knee-jerk reaction and whine about it instead.
For more information see the book:
SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police
There is no reasoning with these irrational people. They believe their POV (point-of-view) is the ONLY right one and blindly ignore facts. The classic attack is the ad hominem using labels as misogynist, trigger, microagression, etc. They are so insecure with their immaturity that they have to attack everyone else who doesn't agree with them. It is the ultimate Political Censorship gone wrong.
South Park poked fun of their stupidity in Season 19 by calling them Pussy Crushers
* Truth and Advertising
* PC Principal or DailyMotion
The only valid tactic is to ignore these whiney cunts -- because they make the classic Internet Trolls look like Saints in comparison -- otherwise you are just wasting your time.
You can fix ignorant.
You can't fix Stupid (Juvenile Whiners.)
Programmers love to use the cop-out
"Premature Optimization is the root of evil"
dogma which is complete bullshit. It tells me your mindset is:
Except later never comes. /Oblg. Murphy's Computer Law:
* There is never time to do it right, but there is always time to do it over.
As Fred Brooks said in Mythical Man-Month.
Which can be translated into the modern vernacular as:
* Show me your code and I'll wonder what your data structures are,
* Show me your data and I'll already know what your code is
There are 2 solutions to this problem of crappy library code.
1. You are benchmarking your code, ALONG THE WAY, right?
Most projects "tack-on" optimization when the project is almost completed. This is completely BACKWARDS. How do you know which functions are the performance hogs when you have thousands to inspect?
It is FAR simpler to be constantly monitoring performance from day one. Every time new functionality is added, you measure. "Oh look, our startup time went from 5 second to 50 seconds -- what the hell was just added?"
NOT: "Oh, we're about to ship in a month, and our startup time is 50 seconds. Where do we even begin in tracking down thousands of calls and data structures?"
I come from a real-time graphics background -- aka games. Every new project our skeleton code runs at 120 frames per second. Then as you slowly add functionality you can tell _instantly_ when the framerate is going down. Oh look, Bob's latest commit is having some negative performance side effects. Let's make sure that code is well designed, and clean BEFORE it becomes a problem down the road and everyone forgets about it.
2. You have a _baseline_ to compare against? Let's pretend you come up with a hashing algorithm, and you want to know how fast it is. The *proper* way is to
* First benchmark how fast you can slurp data from a disk, say 10 GB of data. You will never be FASTER then this! 100% IO bound, 0% CPU bound.
* Then, add a single-threaded benchmark where you just sum bytes.
* Maybe, you add a multi-threaded version
* Then you measure _your_ spiffy new function.
Library Vendors, such as Dinkumware who provide the CRTL (C-Run Time Library), _should_ be catching these shitty performance bugs, but sadly they don't. The only solution is to be proactive.
The zeroth rule in programming is:
* Don't Assume, Profile!
Which is analogous to what carpenters say:
* Measure Twice, Cut Once.
But almost no one wants to MAKE the time to do it right the first time. You can either pay now, or pay later. Fix the potential problems NOW before they become HUGE problems later.
And we end up in situations like this story.
I've had a company try this to me as well. Simply just crossed it out. They didn't even bat an eye.
Seriously, a contract is an agreement that BOTH sides agree to. Far too many people just accept the terms 'as-is' not realizing that it works both ways. There has to be mutual agreement -- if you don't have that, you don't have a contract.
> FMA instructions are Fused Multiply Add, whatever the fuck that is.
Really? You're posting on /. and you can't google it?
* Multiply-Accumulate
This commonly shows up when you are lerping (linear interpolating) between two values, a and b, you have a interpolation parameter usually called t:
Compilers will see this pattern and generate a FMA instruction for it, or you can write your own.
Copying the code snippet from this StackOverflow Question: How to use Fused Multiply-Add (FMA) instructions with SSE/AVX
The compiler will emit this instruction:
Now, was that so hard?
But I guess it's easier to bitch about not understanding something then ask for help.
/sarcasm Exactly, in between reboots. :-)
Ba dum tsh.
Dear Mathematically-Challenged,
The concept of zero has been around for thousands of years.
Instead of being a zero one day you will realize that 0% is a valid rating. But keep making excuses for why you have 0% comprehension for a basic concept regardless of what other sites do.
This concludes your history lesson for the day.
You are assuming that just because a delta 25% works for YOU, that it works for EVERYONE else which is FALSE.
Only a complete moron wants to dumb ratings down so there are 3 levels from 50% to 100%.
This is NOT granular enough.
Why do you think IMDB uses a percentage on a 10 point scale???
At the very least you want a 5 point scale:
Some people have proposed how to fix IMDB's broken scale
Dear numerically challenged,
Learn to divide:
0/5 = 0%
1/5 = 20%
2/5 = 40%
3/5 = 60%
4/5 = 80%
5/5 = 100%
Signed,
People that actually passed elementary Mathematics.
What's next -- removing the thumbs down???
What the fuck is the point of having ratings if you are just going to make them homogeneous???
Just because _you,_ Netflix, don't let me rate a movie 0/5 doesn't mean it deserves a 1/5. IF I hate a movie it should get 0/5.
The WHOLE point of a 5 star rating is to provide fine-grained-ratings not some bullshit dual artificial rating. There is a HUGE difference between me liking a movie 50% and 100%. Some movies are 3/5 (60%), 4/5 (80%), and very few are 5/5 (100%). Lumping them these ALL together is fucking retarded. HOW is that helping the system find stuff I _really_ like vs stuff I _kind of_ like???
> you have to move to W10 one day
I'm also going to die someday too, but that doesn't mean I want it today.
So, BZZZT, no, but thanks for playing! I _already_ have multiple boxes with Windows 7 that work perfectly fine thank-you-very-much. There is no software that runs "only" on Windows 10 that "I need."
I've already migrated my personal dev work to OSX and Linux, so no, Microshaft can go fuck themselves, because I don't want nor need their Spyware they mis-label as Windows 10.
Hell, even at my day job we've been using OSX for the past 5 years and we're a Fortune 50 company. I also know many devs who use Linux. Seriously, there are WAY more OSX and Linux machines then I would have thought possible.
The harder Microsoft tries to force customers to Windows 10, the harder the pushback will be. In Microsoft's quest to force everyone to use Windows 10 -- they forgot the most important thing:
Customers don't NEED it.
There is only 1 name for people who run Windows 10.
Idiots.
Because they sold themselves out. M$ has no respect for you. All they care about is exploiting you. For some of us, MS has stepped over the line.
Instead of deleting the videos they should have started working on a solution:
Crowdfund it.
And let people know that "These videos are in the process of being transcribed." along with webpage that has a status for EVERY video.
Gee, if the only we had a place that we could _distribute_ and _communicate_ work. People can do it for crap like GIMPS but can't do it for lectures ???? Anime fans can provide fansubs but yet an University can't find people to donate their time to transcribe the material??? Hell, I do this for free on certain YouTube videos I find interesting. That way I have a textual copy I can "search"
But instead, let's act like a spoiled-entitled-child with the immature "If I can't have it, no one can".
Way to go.
I thought Universities were supposed to the bastions of intellect -- not immaturity.
> but I'm pretty sure that our license agreement with Microsoft will not allow us to keep running old versions of their OS past their expire date.
Why do you allow yourself to be held hostage by Microsoft ??
I don't see anything in the Windows 7 Terms of Service PDF that says anything about not running after the expiration date. Just that _support_ is terminated.
> Windows moved to the NT kernel with Windows 2000.
That's misleading. The Windows 9x kernel was killed off with Windows ME.
* Windows NT 3.1
* Windows NT 3.5
* Windows NT 4.0
* Windows NT 2000
* Windows XP
* Windows Vista
* Windows 7
* Windows 8
* Windows
ALL of these use the NT kernel.
> Windows 2000 was never released for the consumer market.
Incorrect for two reasons:
* It WAS sold in consumer stores.
* Why is DirectX 8 and 9 even available for it if it isn't a "consumer" market?
A lot of us game devs used Windows 2000 to do game development back in ~2000, including myself. Windows 2000 was the stepping stone between Windows 98/ME and Windows XP. Windows NT 4.0 was the start of the migration path when it adopted the Win95 Shell.
Concur 100%!
The OP is confusing the middleman with the content creators -- I guess they _completely_ missed the memo in back 2000 when Courtney Love called the RIAA is nothing more then a bunch of thieves
She also made a letter to Recording Artists
Apparently, the OP also missed the memo in 2001 when Courtney Love, Don Henly, LeAnn Rimes Testified on Artist's Rights
The RIAA is so out-of-touch with artists that they didn't realize Trent Reznor intentionally 'leaked' his Year Zero album in 2007.
The old medium is dying because the new medium has driven the cost of content creation down to almost zero. And zero fucks were given.
The consumer's "problem" is that they are drowning in mediocrity -- a first world problem -- along with MORE choices. /sarcasm Such a "problem."
The only ones complaining are those still trying to figure out how to monetize it because the internet is cutting out the price-gouging of the middleman.
--
Greed destroys every "industry."