Am I the only one that thinks that seems a bit strange? IT is really all you need for standard technical assistance. CS tends to deal more with the code and mathematics/science behind the code (not pretty), and unless he's writing special software for Ludacris, it would seem unnecessary. Although a CS person can do stuff like that (and IT can do basic programming a lot of the time), I would think he learned more then he needed to know. Oh well. Maybe it was just a general word, and he meant IT courses (I've seen very few if any courses that would help him with basic tech support in my uni's CS curriculum (fairly large)).
Speaking of price, I was hoping I would be able to say "See, Apple's are about the same", but doesn't look it. Maybe once the MacBook can get Windows installed on it, it would be a good system for Vista. But at this rate, with a direct comparison being able to be made, Apple may end up loosing a lot of customers unless they lower their prices...... A CNet article (The link didn't work) said I think ~$900 - $1500 for Core Duo from Dell. MacBook is $2000 w/ standard configuration.
Release something usual (same as it was with a few upgrades), but make it sound like the best thing since sliced bread. Someone's been watching Steve Job's strategy with each new release of OS X.........
I thought that the fact that Final Fantasy was the first thing that came to my mind with the term "gilfarmers" was wrong, and that this story Was about some odd form of fish....
Nice screens, but I don't think 2 would cut it. The frames of the monitors being right in the middle of the screen would make an odd number of screens best.
Excuse me for being politically incorrect, but from the little I've played a little bit of Gun, that's what this sounds like. Nothing more then a modern version of "Cowboys and Indans" (being cowboys and Native Americans).
And be proud and treasure that history. Not to get off topic too far, but I as an American often regret that we do not have a long-standing history/culture to call our own with various unique cultural aspects. Yes, We have Native Americans, but that isn't quite our culture.....
I also wonder how obnoxious the finger grease may be. Fingerprints are annoying on an LCD. If they are visable on tiny screens you can press (which are known to have more bacteria/crud on them then the toilet seat), I can imagine it could deter from the beauty of the keyboard technology quite a bit.....
True. But most of the control I'd imagine still is maintained in Japan. Ownership != control all the time, especially since most of their stock is still owned in Japan. Owning some of Nintendo is one thing, but if Cisco bought them, Nintendo would no longer be able to do what they want as an individual company. Although it appears you do agree with their CEO's probably less likely to screw over their subordinates (Assuming you meant They when you said I).
And I don't mean that in a bad way in any way whatsoever. I've taken almost 30 weeks of Japanese language/culture classes, and I've learned a lot. One big thing I've learned is how strong a sense of cummunity the Japanese have. While most US corporate bosses might think individually and be willing to sell a company at the right price and loose a few thousand jobs in the process, outsource, and do a lot of other things that, I don't think a Japanese company would do that because it wouldn't benefit the group as a whole. It just isn't very good for the country to sell a company when it's benefiting your economy, and been a large symbol of your country to the rest of the world.
I think it's a bit more then a niche market..... I'm guessing it's likely a good chunk of XBoxen are modded compared to the percentage of PS2's and every other system modded. Probably more moddes XBoxes then PS2's actually. I know I do, a friend of mine does. Although many people buy it for the games, Many with much of an interest in computers and games have probably modded it, or at least thought about modding it. I don't plan on starting a console war, but with what the XBox 360 is, and what the PS3 is supposed to be (a linux-powered console w/ open development), if PS3 pans out to what they say, it could topple the abilities of the good ol' XBox. We'll see if Sony sticks to their promises though.
Ascii came up with one a while ago for the Playstation called the Ascii Grip (google images has many pictures of it). I got it because it was a cheap "we gotta get rid of this" deal from Electronics Botique. Not great for practical use by your typical gamer due to only being able to press a couple buttons at once, but useful if you want to play your RPG with one hand and eat pizza with the other hand.
I still hope they prevent this from happening. I'd be rather pissed off if I have a personal site from my own server for my resume, pictures, or whatever anyone would use an internet server for (maybe even a site....), and no one can get to it because large companies are hogging bandwidth. And then calling the company that hosts me, and hearing "Do you have $2000 a year to give us? That's what company x gave us, so they get more bandwidth". All I see this as is a way to shift the equal ground on the internet that allows small businesses to have a website to a more restricted and costly advertising/service like TV advertising. If a company has a good product, they can start and market it online (like Google at first). But with this, it would probably be fairly difficult to start up unless you had a lot of cash to guarantee your service will get bandwidth.
Ah, I see. Sorry for doubting you. I wasn't sure if MS did site licenses using a single key. But it is illegal to use Ghost to apply an image to multiple computers, even if it does only exist on the main computer (Not that they could tell anyways since ghost doesn't leave a "This partition was created by ghost" that i know of). I checked the EULA because I was curious, and 10.v states "You may not use the Software commercially or non-commercially for the purpose of creating multiple computers or hard drives, except for multiple hard drives installed in or attached directly to the original computer." But my bad on the MS software.
That doesn't sound very legal. Even if you do have a license for each computer, as far as I know, there's no way to change the registration number of a Windows install once it's been installed and a ghost image has been made. Not to mention you then legally need a legit copy of Norton Ghost and everything else you might decide to include with it for every computer you install the image to. Although I have done zero research on the subject (Except that You'd need many licenses for Ghost), so this is all just assumption here.
It's obvious they just want to put people in jail for 20 years for posession. Why not just make it 20 years for posession? They are clearly trying to take advantage of the law to give someone a harsher sentence then they are able to. Put it in this perspective. You accidently hit someone with a car. A little injury (like a broken leg or something like that), but they are still alive. How about the people in the court manipulate the situation like this. You drive knowing someone may get injured or even killed. Since you knew that, it's attempted murder. This kind of jumping and skipping over crucial parts of what makes the difference between "attempted murder" and "hitting someone with a car" seems pretty similar to this article.
Technically, it's just a strage medium. A CD or DVD is no different then a hardrive in the basic function (other then technical limitations on size, rewritability, and speed). So shouldn't just downloading it to a hardrive be considered making a copy of it by this logic, since the data is "made" on the hardrive? If the downloaded it onto a Tape drive, USB drive, or portable hardrive, would it still count as making a copy? What if he ripped the hardrive he downloaded it to out of his computer? Would that then turn into making a copy? I don't accept. What he did was terrible, but from a overall perspective, this sounds like the kind of loophole that could be taken advantage of in situations where what the person did wasn't really that bad. I find it hard to believe this was done. It seems like such a common-sense loophole that it would have been patched up long ago.
And I add Goldeneye, Mario Party, Smash brothers if people are around. For single-player, Zombies Ate my Neighbors, Final Fantasy VII, Console Zelda games, and Anything by Blizzard (although some never stopped playing Starcraft....).
Bill Gates, being the head of the biggest monopoly the world has ever seen, can afford to be a humanitarian. Steve Jobs, demanding of innovation, cannot. When your company has close calls and almost folds a few times, and just found a monopoly (with the iPod), you can't be humanitarian assuming you will forever ride on this monopoly and "give away money", you have to invest it back in the company to find something to do after this monopoly dies down. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (The main place Gates' humanitarian funds go through) was founded in 2000. Microsoft's net income (according to microsoft.com) was $2.39B in 2000Q2, Apple's net income (from Apple.com) was $539M in the most recent quarter (their highest. Untill a year or so ago, it was always under $100M) In 1995, Microsoft had a net income of $499M (more random google searches). So a more equal comparison would be to compare the Current Apple's Humanitarian efforts to Microsoft's Humanitarian efforts in 95. Even that isn't as perfect a comparison though, since it was almost certain Microsoft would rise much higher due to the lack of competition. While Apple, with most incoming being from iPods, has much competition, and could lose that monopoly at any moment.
I didn't realize I saw one if his movies until I began reading the article, and remembered how boring and predictable Alone in the Dark was, so I scanned the article. Sure enough, he made it. It wasn't low-budget bad. It was terrible plot-line bad. I started it expecting to see something half-way decent (Resident Evil has Spoiled me), but it was the worst movie I have ever seen. The best part was the spoken text at the beginning describing a key idea of the AitD world. If all his movies are this bad, he should be immediately refused by all publishing companies, banks should be ready to forclose on his property, and he better brace for impact.....
Sure, Google has decided to accept Chinese censorship laws/rules so they can work there. It's a foreign country. International dealings can be a sticky situation. When in another country very unlike your own, you have to act as a citizen of that country in many respects, or you probably won't get very far. That's all Google is doing. Google wants business with a quarter of the worlds population. They are doing it for money like any other business. Accepting laws or accepting to do something considered a given from another country that seem "evil" or "strange" to us is how things work internationally. We (the US in my case) don't sell uncensored porno in Japan. Countries that still use slaves don't sell slaves to us (legally). Our DVD players made in China are usually "censored" so they can't play other region movies (due to US Copyright law). We may not like it, a country that only uses region free DVD players might consider it evil to sell region-restricted DVD players to us, but this is how international business is. And a person can't blame Google for accepting this type of logic with a quarter of the worlds population would not be able to click Google ads otherwise.
The main thing that allows so many Linux distributions to work with low maintenance cost is that they are all based around the same kernel. When a fix is issued to the main kernel tree, it is fixed on all Linux's as they update. So distribution makers aren't pressed to patch it manually themselves. Perhaps OS X's variant of the Mach kernel has strayed too far from the main Unix tree, and suffered a form of seclusion from the goings on of the main tree?
An easy solution to get it viewed as a game player and a iPod killer would be to have different bundles (which sounds like XBox 360). Different bundles would be sold in different parts of the store, one looking like an mp3/video player, other looking like a video game player. Let's hope they don't slaughter the idea though like they did with XBox 360 (which I think is taking advantage of the fact that $400 is too much, and selling a $300 version with much more then $100 worth of retail stuff stripped out). I can see them selling an mp3 player version for $300 that needs a $200 upgrade to play games, a game version for $300 that requires a $200 hardrive addon to store any siginificant amount of music, and a "mega version" that costs like $400 with the abilities of both. Also kind of like Creative's sound card variants for gamers and mp3 players.
True. I should have stated this was from a cultural perspective too. Compared to Japan (I'm not sure about other countries), our use of strong sexuality to sell products and advertise things is somewhat grotesque.
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Am I the only one that thinks that seems a bit strange? IT is really all you need for standard technical assistance. CS tends to deal more with the code and mathematics/science behind the code (not pretty), and unless he's writing special software for Ludacris, it would seem unnecessary. Although a CS person can do stuff like that (and IT can do basic programming a lot of the time), I would think he learned more then he needed to know. Oh well. Maybe it was just a general word, and he meant IT courses (I've seen very few if any courses that would help him with basic tech support in my uni's CS curriculum (fairly large)).
Speaking of price, I was hoping I would be able to say "See, Apple's are about the same", but doesn't look it. Maybe once the MacBook can get Windows installed on it, it would be a good system for Vista. But at this rate, with a direct comparison being able to be made, Apple may end up loosing a lot of customers unless they lower their prices...... A CNet article (The link didn't work) said I think ~$900 - $1500 for Core Duo from Dell. MacBook is $2000 w/ standard configuration.
Release something usual (same as it was with a few upgrades), but make it sound like the best thing since sliced bread. Someone's been watching Steve Job's strategy with each new release of OS X.........
I thought that the fact that Final Fantasy was the first thing that came to my mind with the term "gilfarmers" was wrong, and that this story Was about some odd form of fish....
Nice screens, but I don't think 2 would cut it. The frames of the monitors being right in the middle of the screen would make an odd number of screens best.
Excuse me for being politically incorrect, but from the little I've played a little bit of Gun, that's what this sounds like. Nothing more then a modern version of "Cowboys and Indans" (being cowboys and Native Americans).
And be proud and treasure that history. Not to get off topic too far, but I as an American often regret that we do not have a long-standing history/culture to call our own with various unique cultural aspects. Yes, We have Native Americans, but that isn't quite our culture.....
I also wonder how obnoxious the finger grease may be. Fingerprints are annoying on an LCD. If they are visable on tiny screens you can press (which are known to have more bacteria/crud on them then the toilet seat), I can imagine it could deter from the beauty of the keyboard technology quite a bit.....
True. But most of the control I'd imagine still is maintained in Japan. Ownership != control all the time, especially since most of their stock is still owned in Japan. Owning some of Nintendo is one thing, but if Cisco bought them, Nintendo would no longer be able to do what they want as an individual company. Although it appears you do agree with their CEO's probably less likely to screw over their subordinates (Assuming you meant They when you said I).
And I don't mean that in a bad way in any way whatsoever. I've taken almost 30 weeks of Japanese language/culture classes, and I've learned a lot. One big thing I've learned is how strong a sense of cummunity the Japanese have. While most US corporate bosses might think individually and be willing to sell a company at the right price and loose a few thousand jobs in the process, outsource, and do a lot of other things that, I don't think a Japanese company would do that because it wouldn't benefit the group as a whole. It just isn't very good for the country to sell a company when it's benefiting your economy, and been a large symbol of your country to the rest of the world.
I think it's a bit more then a niche market..... I'm guessing it's likely a good chunk of XBoxen are modded compared to the percentage of PS2's and every other system modded. Probably more moddes XBoxes then PS2's actually. I know I do, a friend of mine does. Although many people buy it for the games, Many with much of an interest in computers and games have probably modded it, or at least thought about modding it. I don't plan on starting a console war, but with what the XBox 360 is, and what the PS3 is supposed to be (a linux-powered console w/ open development), if PS3 pans out to what they say, it could topple the abilities of the good ol' XBox. We'll see if Sony sticks to their promises though.
Ascii came up with one a while ago for the Playstation called the Ascii Grip (google images has many pictures of it). I got it because it was a cheap "we gotta get rid of this" deal from Electronics Botique. Not great for practical use by your typical gamer due to only being able to press a couple buttons at once, but useful if you want to play your RPG with one hand and eat pizza with the other hand.
I still hope they prevent this from happening. I'd be rather pissed off if I have a personal site from my own server for my resume, pictures, or whatever anyone would use an internet server for (maybe even a site....), and no one can get to it because large companies are hogging bandwidth. And then calling the company that hosts me, and hearing "Do you have $2000 a year to give us? That's what company x gave us, so they get more bandwidth". All I see this as is a way to shift the equal ground on the internet that allows small businesses to have a website to a more restricted and costly advertising/service like TV advertising. If a company has a good product, they can start and market it online (like Google at first). But with this, it would probably be fairly difficult to start up unless you had a lot of cash to guarantee your service will get bandwidth.
Ah, I see. Sorry for doubting you. I wasn't sure if MS did site licenses using a single key. But it is illegal to use Ghost to apply an image to multiple computers, even if it does only exist on the main computer (Not that they could tell anyways since ghost doesn't leave a "This partition was created by ghost" that i know of). I checked the EULA because I was curious, and 10.v states "You may not use the Software commercially or non-commercially for the purpose of creating multiple computers or hard drives, except for multiple hard drives installed in or attached directly to the original computer." But my bad on the MS software.
That doesn't sound very legal. Even if you do have a license for each computer, as far as I know, there's no way to change the registration number of a Windows install once it's been installed and a ghost image has been made. Not to mention you then legally need a legit copy of Norton Ghost and everything else you might decide to include with it for every computer you install the image to. Although I have done zero research on the subject (Except that You'd need many licenses for Ghost), so this is all just assumption here.
It's obvious they just want to put people in jail for 20 years for posession. Why not just make it 20 years for posession? They are clearly trying to take advantage of the law to give someone a harsher sentence then they are able to. Put it in this perspective. You accidently hit someone with a car. A little injury (like a broken leg or something like that), but they are still alive. How about the people in the court manipulate the situation like this. You drive knowing someone may get injured or even killed. Since you knew that, it's attempted murder. This kind of jumping and skipping over crucial parts of what makes the difference between "attempted murder" and "hitting someone with a car" seems pretty similar to this article.
Technically, it's just a strage medium. A CD or DVD is no different then a hardrive in the basic function (other then technical limitations on size, rewritability, and speed). So shouldn't just downloading it to a hardrive be considered making a copy of it by this logic, since the data is "made" on the hardrive? If the downloaded it onto a Tape drive, USB drive, or portable hardrive, would it still count as making a copy? What if he ripped the hardrive he downloaded it to out of his computer? Would that then turn into making a copy? I don't accept. What he did was terrible, but from a overall perspective, this sounds like the kind of loophole that could be taken advantage of in situations where what the person did wasn't really that bad. I find it hard to believe this was done. It seems like such a common-sense loophole that it would have been patched up long ago.
And I add Goldeneye, Mario Party, Smash brothers if people are around. For single-player, Zombies Ate my Neighbors, Final Fantasy VII, Console Zelda games, and Anything by Blizzard (although some never stopped playing Starcraft....).
Bill Gates, being the head of the biggest monopoly the world has ever seen, can afford to be a humanitarian. Steve Jobs, demanding of innovation, cannot. When your company has close calls and almost folds a few times, and just found a monopoly (with the iPod), you can't be humanitarian assuming you will forever ride on this monopoly and "give away money", you have to invest it back in the company to find something to do after this monopoly dies down. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (The main place Gates' humanitarian funds go through) was founded in 2000. Microsoft's net income (according to microsoft.com) was $2.39B in 2000Q2, Apple's net income (from Apple.com) was $539M in the most recent quarter (their highest. Untill a year or so ago, it was always under $100M) In 1995, Microsoft had a net income of $499M (more random google searches). So a more equal comparison would be to compare the Current Apple's Humanitarian efforts to Microsoft's Humanitarian efforts in 95. Even that isn't as perfect a comparison though, since it was almost certain Microsoft would rise much higher due to the lack of competition. While Apple, with most incoming being from iPods, has much competition, and could lose that monopoly at any moment.
I didn't realize I saw one if his movies until I began reading the article, and remembered how boring and predictable Alone in the Dark was, so I scanned the article. Sure enough, he made it. It wasn't low-budget bad. It was terrible plot-line bad. I started it expecting to see something half-way decent (Resident Evil has Spoiled me), but it was the worst movie I have ever seen. The best part was the spoken text at the beginning describing a key idea of the AitD world. If all his movies are this bad, he should be immediately refused by all publishing companies, banks should be ready to forclose on his property, and he better brace for impact.....
Sure, Google has decided to accept Chinese censorship laws/rules so they can work there. It's a foreign country. International dealings can be a sticky situation. When in another country very unlike your own, you have to act as a citizen of that country in many respects, or you probably won't get very far. That's all Google is doing. Google wants business with a quarter of the worlds population. They are doing it for money like any other business. Accepting laws or accepting to do something considered a given from another country that seem "evil" or "strange" to us is how things work internationally. We (the US in my case) don't sell uncensored porno in Japan. Countries that still use slaves don't sell slaves to us (legally). Our DVD players made in China are usually "censored" so they can't play other region movies (due to US Copyright law). We may not like it, a country that only uses region free DVD players might consider it evil to sell region-restricted DVD players to us, but this is how international business is. And a person can't blame Google for accepting this type of logic with a quarter of the worlds population would not be able to click Google ads otherwise.
I completely second what he said. Hijack this isn't a removal utility per say, but it allows you to see a lot of stuff AdAware and SpyBot don't see.
The main thing that allows so many Linux distributions to work with low maintenance cost is that they are all based around the same kernel. When a fix is issued to the main kernel tree, it is fixed on all Linux's as they update. So distribution makers aren't pressed to patch it manually themselves. Perhaps OS X's variant of the Mach kernel has strayed too far from the main Unix tree, and suffered a form of seclusion from the goings on of the main tree?
An easy solution to get it viewed as a game player and a iPod killer would be to have different bundles (which sounds like XBox 360). Different bundles would be sold in different parts of the store, one looking like an mp3/video player, other looking like a video game player. Let's hope they don't slaughter the idea though like they did with XBox 360 (which I think is taking advantage of the fact that $400 is too much, and selling a $300 version with much more then $100 worth of retail stuff stripped out). I can see them selling an mp3 player version for $300 that needs a $200 upgrade to play games, a game version for $300 that requires a $200 hardrive addon to store any siginificant amount of music, and a "mega version" that costs like $400 with the abilities of both. Also kind of like Creative's sound card variants for gamers and mp3 players.
True. I should have stated this was from a cultural perspective too. Compared to Japan (I'm not sure about other countries), our use of strong sexuality to sell products and advertise things is somewhat grotesque.