Great, one more WoW-related video someone at work will try to make me watch because it's "funnay" (to people who play WoW, I guess).
Then again, it is South Park...
One of the things I like about YouTube is the "dude did you see x" factor. You can usually find something you saw on TV or pretty much anywhere on the 'net on YouTube to show to friends/coworkers.
You know he's right though, without any way to reimburse the content creators, YouTube's users simply break copyright law every time they post non-original content for all to see. Perhaps TV and movie studios could provide a pool of short ads, and when a video is submitted with copyrighted material from that source, the user would select them and a random or chosen ad would play before or after the video from one of the network's sponsors (after, please?).
By the time everyone's aware of.mobi domains and they're in mainstream use, people's cell phones will have full-function browsers, thus negating the need for WAP sites.
I agree with your points, but only based on the assumption that your chain of management requires serious accountability that you don't want to rest on your head.:) SLAs with uptime guarantees on T1s are a whole other ball game from ordering DSL and having to go through the whole "please reboot your computer and check for spyware, sir" when your latency to the gateway sucks, or the flow of packets stops inexplicably several times throughout the day.
They seem to target blatant file sharing such as idiots who use Kazaa and the like with no counter-measures. I don't think en masse content piracy is OK, but the extreme measures they're using to fight it is killing the nature of entertainment media. Music and theater used to be enjoyable things to partake in, but nowadays, you have to put on a guilty conscience and resign yourself to the potential, unknown consequences of everything you hear and see.
- I should be able to share all my music and movies with my immediate family - Using my computer should not be a gauntlet legal run - Non-profit piracy should NOT have such severe consequences. People aren't selling crack or guns on Kazaa.
Don't allow the works to be viewed entirely, instead, the teacher would submit the suspected work, and if it's similar in more than one/few regards, the suspected plagiarism is exposed to the teacher by the site. Works held by the site should not be kept with the creator's name, school, or any other identifying information, unless the creator wants it to bear such information.
Ya know, to be quite honest, I don't see why cable operators would push toward VoIP since they own the last mile physical facilities. TDM is much faster and more reliable. Just the perspective of someone who doesn't believe that migrating everything to IP is a good idea just because it sounds cool.
Exactly, most cable "VoIP" is not actually VoIP, but rather another freq on the coax terminated to the headend which is handled similarly to a PSTN circuit. In some areas, it is straight VoIP, with the advantage over Vonage, of course, of being terminated to an IP switch at a headend/CO and routed over the PSTN immediately rather than relying mostly on CLECs at distant colocations as Vonage and others do. I'm not sure how accurate this is, just what I gather from reading forum posts about cable telephony.
Look at RH. Can you get support from them for Fedora? From Novell for SuSE?
You have to pay them just to get into their package manager repositories. Forget talking to someone involved in development without a support contract.
The way I see it, RH and Novell walk a fine line between rejecting people who don't pay them, and maintaining a connection with "freeloaders".
Debian is one of a very few of the major staple distros that hasn't been taken over by greed (see RH (RH), Novell (SUSE)). I really like the fact that the Debian I use is the same Debian everyone else is using, not a development playground or redheaded stepchild money pit.
My 6 year old daughter loved the first Lego SW, so we're going to get this one. I like the drop in/drop out co-op especially, because I can play with her for a little while, and not be chained to it the whole time she wants to play.
I work for a big telco; the same concerns you've outlined are mitigated (sometimes). Labeling seems to be the biggest problem, not so much a lack of pretty tie wrapping. The frequency of problems that require frontal patches and physical loops would cause long MTTR, which is more important than being pretty.
I think we're on the same page here though, there is a happy medium.
I went to a family member's house tonight to install their new DSL modem and get them up/running, only to find them running an old beige box with Win98 (complete with black & white tiled bubble desktop background and a desktop folder named "Duke 3D") and a 56k modem with no NIC.
The good: I had a few spare 10/100 cards
The bad: I don't have a Win98 disk (for dlls) ANYWHERE
Prime candidate, but I just know I'd end up over there and on the phone for assistance later. Unfortunately, there is no linux distro that can seamlessly serve the kind of people that are still running Win98, although that would depend a hell of a lot on their expectations.
Most of those look like a severe overuse of tie wraps. I can't imagine replacing broken cables that are tiered into 24562345 tie wrapped globs, especially during an outage.
"Use of Vendor Supplied Default Settings and Passwords - In many cases, merchants receive POS hardware or software from outside vendors who install them using default settings and passwords that are often widely known to hackers and easy to guess."
Incredible.
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My elementary education invalidated by a single /. post. :(
Great, one more WoW-related video someone at work will try to make me watch because it's "funnay" (to people who play WoW, I guess). Then again, it is South Park...
This is a standard? Says who, the people who are developing it?
Not that I don't like the idea or anything.
Commercials eh?
One of the things I like about YouTube is the "dude did you see x" factor. You can usually find something you saw on TV or pretty much anywhere on the 'net on YouTube to show to friends/coworkers.
You know he's right though, without any way to reimburse the content creators, YouTube's users simply break copyright law every time they post non-original content for all to see. Perhaps TV and movie studios could provide a pool of short ads, and when a video is submitted with copyrighted material from that source, the user would select them and a random or chosen ad would play before or after the video from one of the network's sponsors (after, please?).
LOL, b4it3d.
By the time everyone's aware of .mobi domains and they're in mainstream use, people's cell phones will have full-function browsers, thus negating the need for WAP sites.
I agree with your points, but only based on the assumption that your chain of management requires serious accountability that you don't want to rest on your head. :) SLAs with uptime guarantees on T1s are a whole other ball game from ordering DSL and having to go through the whole "please reboot your computer and check for spyware, sir" when your latency to the gateway sucks, or the flow of packets stops inexplicably several times throughout the day.
Here are the two reasons linux will never overcome Windows as a mainstream OS:
1) Proprietary technology
2) Copyright law
Period.
I guess I was mistaken (IANAL at all), I expected Ex. B to be the screenshot. Too much Matlock I guess.
I want to see exhibit B.
They seem to target blatant file sharing such as idiots who use Kazaa and the like with no counter-measures. I don't think en masse content piracy is OK, but the extreme measures they're using to fight it is killing the nature of entertainment media. Music and theater used to be enjoyable things to partake in, but nowadays, you have to put on a guilty conscience and resign yourself to the potential, unknown consequences of everything you hear and see.
- I should be able to share all my music and movies with my immediate family
- Using my computer should not be a gauntlet legal run
- Non-profit piracy should NOT have such severe consequences. People aren't selling crack or guns on Kazaa.
Don't allow the works to be viewed entirely, instead, the teacher would submit the suspected work, and if it's similar in more than one/few regards, the suspected plagiarism is exposed to the teacher by the site. Works held by the site should not be kept with the creator's name, school, or any other identifying information, unless the creator wants it to bear such information.
Ya know, to be quite honest, I don't see why cable operators would push toward VoIP since they own the last mile physical facilities. TDM is much faster and more reliable. Just the perspective of someone who doesn't believe that migrating everything to IP is a good idea just because it sounds cool.
I learned it from watching you! :(
Exactly, most cable "VoIP" is not actually VoIP, but rather another freq on the coax terminated to the headend which is handled similarly to a PSTN circuit. In some areas, it is straight VoIP, with the advantage over Vonage, of course, of being terminated to an IP switch at a headend/CO and routed over the PSTN immediately rather than relying mostly on CLECs at distant colocations as Vonage and others do. I'm not sure how accurate this is, just what I gather from reading forum posts about cable telephony.
You're being acerbic. The point is that I don't want to be considered part of a lower class of users because I didn't pay for a license.
Look at RH. Can you get support from them for Fedora? From Novell for SuSE?
You have to pay them just to get into their package manager repositories. Forget talking to someone involved in development without a support contract.
The way I see it, RH and Novell walk a fine line between rejecting people who don't pay them, and maintaining a connection with "freeloaders".
Debian is one of a very few of the major staple distros that hasn't been taken over by greed (see RH (RH), Novell (SUSE)). I really like the fact that the Debian I use is the same Debian everyone else is using, not a development playground or redheaded stepchild money pit.
Agreed. They [i]are[/i] cool, though. I just can't afford them.
My 6 year old daughter loved the first Lego SW, so we're going to get this one. I like the drop in/drop out co-op especially, because I can play with her for a little while, and not be chained to it the whole time she wants to play.
I work for a big telco; the same concerns you've outlined are mitigated (sometimes). Labeling seems to be the biggest problem, not so much a lack of pretty tie wrapping. The frequency of problems that require frontal patches and physical loops would cause long MTTR, which is more important than being pretty.
I think we're on the same page here though, there is a happy medium.
Well, sure, but it still happens.
I went to a family member's house tonight to install their new DSL modem and get them up/running, only to find them running an old beige box with Win98 (complete with black & white tiled bubble desktop background and a desktop folder named "Duke 3D") and a 56k modem with no NIC. The good: I had a few spare 10/100 cards The bad: I don't have a Win98 disk (for dlls) ANYWHERE Prime candidate, but I just know I'd end up over there and on the phone for assistance later. Unfortunately, there is no linux distro that can seamlessly serve the kind of people that are still running Win98, although that would depend a hell of a lot on their expectations.
Most of those look like a severe overuse of tie wraps. I can't imagine replacing broken cables that are tiered into 24562345 tie wrapped globs, especially during an outage.
I can see myself using the tab and undo features, but the spillchucker adn autocomplete seme useliss 2 me.
"Use of Vendor Supplied Default Settings and Passwords - In many cases, merchants receive POS hardware or software from outside vendors who install them using default settings and passwords that are often widely known to hackers and easy to guess." Incredible.