Regardless of whether or not MS is in the right really isn't the issue here.
What is the issue, however, is simply that all those virus writing kids out there are rubbing their hands together and going, "HERE WE GO!".
Those kids are obviously already pretty unscrupulous, so they probably haven't paid for their copies of Windows either. And they'll get pissed at MS because they had to do work to patch their OSes. So they'll start writing worms that will screw with/DOS/hack MS' network using all of the zombie MS machines out there.
I just moved from Waterloo in the last few months, and I was raised there most of my life. My ex-gf works there, and she's still a good friend. You couldn't be further from the truth. (I sincerely hope you have tongue in cheek on this one.)
#1: Population of Waterloo in the last few years has grown. It exceeds 100,000.
#2: There are no pipes ensuring there's no snow on the roads RIM's offices are on. I've driven to and from there dropping my ex-gf off hundreds of times. Those roads get mighty bad just like the rest of them.
#3: The big celebration in October is called Oktoberfest, and has been a part of K-W since probably before you were born. And it's not a holiday, you get no time off for it.
#4: RIM employees have their taxis paid for by RIM before and after company events so that they don't drink and drive, NOT the city.
Yes, RIM is a bit of an institution on Waterloo now, much like the Toyota plant in Cambridge. But lets not go overboard.
And for what it's worth, I still think the 2 guys that started RIM are pompous assholes.
I wouldn't make any mention of bittorrent, etc..
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Because then you're going to have the suits trying to push it down, no matter how great/useful it is in an effort to kill the possibility of coming out with something that could make pirating any easier or more efficient. That's the only way they're going to see it.
It's good to see innovation though, nonetheless.
I wonder if the hardware specs are the same...
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I've always found *nix to be a lot better at properly utilising its hardware than Windows. This is not a Windows flame message(tm) it is what I've found in the past.
I wonder if Doom 3 can be successfully played on lesser hardware if played in linux...
Most recordings that're > 50 years old are no longer profitable anyway, aren't they?
I mean, isn't the real cash cow in the new 'hit' stuff they're making with cookie cutters nowadays? Is it actually worth their time and energy to be able to go back that far? I thought they'd go where the money is...
Precisely -- there's two possiblities as to the mindset of the people writing these things.
A) They don't truly understand the actual gravity of their actions.
If this is the case, I certainly wouldn't want to be hiring this kid. If he doesn't understand the global effect (probably to the tune of millions, maybe even billions of dollars) in the form of downtime, manpower involved in dealing with the problems, and actual cash forked over to repair people to get computers back to normal, then he probably isn't going to understand or realise the gravity of the menial tasks you put in front of him for the purpose of your business.
B) He understand the gravity, but does it anyway.
People who think this way are called criminals. Personally, hiring criminals just aren't my style. Especially people who care so little about the massive effect they have on others' lives.
I mean, sure the people who create these things (usually) prove to be rather technically savvy people with a good knowledge of computers, would you want someone on your payroll who obviously doesn't possess the ethics or morals not to be creating these damned viruses in the first place?
I mean, what's next? Embezzlement? Not on my watch.
Indeed. They do rule the handheld market, but look at how well they held the console market in the 80's. Such is my point. I think it's only a matter of time until someone else comes along, and spanks Nintendo with a new handheld product.
I didn't know that Gamecube sold more quantities than the xbox. I stand corrected
But is it doomed much like Nintendo's previous hardware?
PS/2 and XBox are royally kicking Nintendo's ass at the sport that Nintendo once ruled.
I, for one, still find the best games ever to be ones that came on the NES and SNES. Final Fantasy series up until 6 (3 in the US), etc.
FF aside, Nintendo is still home to some of the best RPGs ever made.
Lets hope the DS does the same.
Especially now that even people at Microsoft are switching to Firefox, and IE has officially stopped supporting IE, it was bound to happen.
You'll know, however, that firefox is really mainstream, when viruses, autodialers, and porn sites start popping up requests to install XPIs.
Am I the only one who's slightly bothered by the poster saying he has "a bunch of LCD panels just lying around"?
I'm having a hard time scrounging up the coin to buy ONE, much less enough to have an over-abundance of them just lying around.
I've learned the HARD way my black lab would take care of business in the event of a break-in.
My dog is the biggest, suckiest, little wuss in the world. Loves everything that moves, greets everyone with licks, kisses, jumping up (despite my training for him not to) and everything. But if you come in the home when I'm in bed and I don't know about it, he will eat you.
2 years ago, at my old place, my dog had his own couch. He slept on this couch nightly. The couch was in the path between my bed and my computers (on another floor).
One morning, my pager went off, a network had stopped responding, and I have to investigate. It was about 3am, and my eyes hadn't adjusted to the light yet, so I didn't bother turning on any lights in my path between my room and the basement.
I got down there, where the dog was, and it was PITCH black. No matter how good your night vision, you weren't seeing ANYTHING. As I rounded the corner from the stairs into the basement, all I heard was a low-pitched growl and the quiet sound of a dog walking towards me very slowly (he desperately needed his nails cut)... it didn't even sound like my dog. I turned around, and said, "PUPPY ITS ME!" Upon hearing that, he came over, expected a quick petting, and then went back to sleep. I was so proud of him that day.
Aswell, if I'm not home and my girlfriend is, if any other male comes over to visit, the dog will instinctively ensure that he is ALWAYS between my girlfriend and the visitor. He will not allow the male to get between her and him.
My girlfriend's father came over to visit, and told me all about it. He couldn't understand why the dog wasn't as genial as he normally was when he visited, and why he wouldn't leave her side. I explained.
And to top it all off, I have grown up with labs all my life. I don't think I'll ever own any other breed of dog, they're SO intelligent when they need to be, but they're such lovable morons when they don't. They're great, and they never let me down.
One night, when I was about 17, I had come home late one night, and sat down at my computer to read my e-mail. At this point in time, I'd already dumped my wallet, keys, etc onto my desk, and had nothing on me. My lab started whining that he wanted to go for a walk. Whilst walking him -- this was about 1 or 2am, a guy in a trenchcoat approached me. He got about 4 feet away from me, and pulled a knife. He said, "give me your wallet." I told him I didn't have it on me. I honestly didn't. He started threatening me, saying he was going to "cut me up". My dog, who I/never/ put on a leash, was about 20ft behind me peeing. He saw what was going on, and within about 2 seconds was right in front of me facing the guy, SITTING DOWN, looking up at him. He did nothing more than let out a bit of a growl and show his teeth. The guy backed away slowly, and then bolted. My dog watched him run and did nothing. Once the guy was > 100ft away, my dog went back, and continued to pee.
Needless to say, that night, when we got home, I fed him almost an entire ham out of the fridge.:P
I'd rather be unemployed and searching for a job for a good long while than being in federal PMITA prison for PACKETING someone.
The packeters deserve whatever they get, because frankly, I know how much of a pain in the ass it is to get DDoSed.
If you can't get the upper hand through legitimate tactics and methods, then you don't deserve to be in business. Go flip burgers or something.
Powertweak, which provides basically a user interface for lots of fun/proc entries that most of us would have never otherwise taken the time to play with.
Webmin is pretty damned useful.
But the vast majority of all system maintenance comes by way of bash, perl, cron, and mysql. ALL of my configuration files are in a MySQL db that's rewritten every 5 minutes if the 'dirty' flag is set to 'y'. Extremely useful for writing your own front-ends for system configuration.
All of them try and upsell you on worthless warranties. I know personally that Radio Shack gives much higher commissions on the extended warranties, which is precisely why the salesmen are so damned pushy with it.
I also find it moderately funny that this topic shows up just 1 week after I walked out of Leon's after refusing the "extended fabric care package" on a couch I purchased. The exchange between myself and the salesman:
Me: "I'll take this couch."
Salesman: (blurb about how great the protection package is.) "So do you want it?"
Me: "No thank you, I'm not interested."
Salesman: "You realise you're buying a hamburger without the bun, eh?"
Me: "That's OK, I'm not interested, thank you."
Salesman: "What're you going to do when you stain it?"
Me: "I won't stain it, and besides, I have family that does professional fabric cleaning."
Salesman: "Well are they going to replace it when you stain it and it can't be removed?"
Me: "I'm leaving. I'll shop elsewhere."
I wrote an angry letter to head office, they called and asked about the situation. I explained it to them. Their response: "We actually train our salespeople to be like that."
I've spent $5k at Leon's in the 3 years I've been living on my own, and will never spend another dime there again.
It's a sad day when the consumer can't go somewhere, buy something they like, and leave without being bothered.
After reading all these comments, the only thought that continually comes to mind for me, "WTF is the point in making an auto-shooter?" Isn't the point of the game to test your skill or to have fun TRYING to blow your friends away?... I guess I just can't see myself spending the time writing software that would serve no useful purpose as far as I'm concerned.
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Regardless of whether or not MS is in the right really isn't the issue here.
What is the issue, however, is simply that all those virus writing kids out there are rubbing their hands together and going, "HERE WE GO!".
Those kids are obviously already pretty unscrupulous, so they probably haven't paid for their copies of Windows either. And they'll get pissed at MS because they had to do work to patch their OSes. So they'll start writing worms that will screw with/DOS/hack MS' network using all of the zombie MS machines out there.
Oh the irony...
I just moved from Waterloo in the last few months, and I was raised there most of my life. My ex-gf works there, and she's still a good friend. You couldn't be further from the truth. (I sincerely hope you have tongue in cheek on this one.)
#1: Population of Waterloo in the last few years has grown. It exceeds 100,000.
#2: There are no pipes ensuring there's no snow on the roads RIM's offices are on. I've driven to and from there dropping my ex-gf off hundreds of times. Those roads get mighty bad just like the rest of them.
#3: The big celebration in October is called Oktoberfest, and has been a part of K-W since probably before you were born. And it's not a holiday, you get no time off for it.
#4: RIM employees have their taxis paid for by RIM before and after company events so that they don't drink and drive, NOT the city.
Yes, RIM is a bit of an institution on Waterloo now, much like the Toyota plant in Cambridge. But lets not go overboard.
And for what it's worth, I still think the 2 guys that started RIM are pompous assholes.
Because then you're going to have the suits trying to push it down, no matter how great/useful it is in an effort to kill the possibility of coming out with something that could make pirating any easier or more efficient. That's the only way they're going to see it.
It's good to see innovation though, nonetheless.
I've always found *nix to be a lot better at properly utilising its hardware than Windows. This is not a Windows flame message(tm) it is what I've found in the past.
I wonder if Doom 3 can be successfully played on lesser hardware if played in linux...
Econoline Crush is a Canadian rock band.
Most recordings that're > 50 years old are no longer profitable anyway, aren't they?
I mean, isn't the real cash cow in the new 'hit' stuff they're making with cookie cutters nowadays?
Is it actually worth their time and energy to be able to go back that far? I thought they'd go where the money is...
Perhaps I'm just misguided...
Precisely -- there's two possiblities as to the mindset of the people writing these things.
A) They don't truly understand the actual gravity of their actions.
If this is the case, I certainly wouldn't want to be hiring this kid. If he doesn't understand the global effect (probably to the tune of millions, maybe even billions of dollars) in the form of downtime, manpower involved in dealing with the problems, and actual cash forked over to repair people to get computers back to normal, then he probably isn't going to understand or realise the gravity of the menial tasks you put in front of him for the purpose of your business.
B) He understand the gravity, but does it anyway.
People who think this way are called criminals. Personally, hiring criminals just aren't my style. Especially people who care so little about the massive effect they have on others' lives.
I mean, sure the people who create these things (usually) prove to be rather technically savvy people with a good knowledge of computers, would you want someone on your payroll who obviously doesn't possess the ethics or morals not to be creating these damned viruses in the first place?
I mean, what's next? Embezzlement? Not on my watch.
Sony has already made it perfectly clear that the PS3 will also be backwards compatible with PS2 and PS1 much like the PS2 is with PS1.
Indeed. They do rule the handheld market, but look at how well they held the console market in the 80's. Such is my point. I think it's only a matter of time until someone else comes along, and spanks Nintendo with a new handheld product. I didn't know that Gamecube sold more quantities than the xbox. I stand corrected
But is it doomed much like Nintendo's previous hardware? PS/2 and XBox are royally kicking Nintendo's ass at the sport that Nintendo once ruled. I, for one, still find the best games ever to be ones that came on the NES and SNES. Final Fantasy series up until 6 (3 in the US), etc. FF aside, Nintendo is still home to some of the best RPGs ever made. Lets hope the DS does the same.
You're grossly over-estimating the general public. ;)
Before I threw out my P2B-DS motherboard when it stopped working. I might have been able to do something about it. :\
Especially now that even people at Microsoft are switching to Firefox, and IE has officially stopped supporting IE, it was bound to happen. You'll know, however, that firefox is really mainstream, when viruses, autodialers, and porn sites start popping up requests to install XPIs.
Am I the only one who's slightly bothered by the poster saying he has "a bunch of LCD panels just lying around"? I'm having a hard time scrounging up the coin to buy ONE, much less enough to have an over-abundance of them just lying around.
Can it play Doom 3?
I've learned the HARD way my black lab would take care of business in the event of a break-in.
/never/ put on a leash, was about 20ft behind me peeing. He saw what was going on, and within about 2 seconds was right in front of me facing the guy, SITTING DOWN, looking up at him. He did nothing more than let out a bit of a growl and show his teeth. The guy backed away slowly, and then bolted. My dog watched him run and did nothing. Once the guy was > 100ft away, my dog went back, and continued to pee.
:P
My dog is the biggest, suckiest, little wuss in the world. Loves everything that moves, greets everyone with licks, kisses, jumping up (despite my training for him not to) and everything. But if you come in the home when I'm in bed and I don't know about it, he will eat you.
2 years ago, at my old place, my dog had his own couch. He slept on this couch nightly. The couch was in the path between my bed and my computers (on another floor).
One morning, my pager went off, a network had stopped responding, and I have to investigate. It was about 3am, and my eyes hadn't adjusted to the light yet, so I didn't bother turning on any lights in my path between my room and the basement.
I got down there, where the dog was, and it was PITCH black. No matter how good your night vision, you weren't seeing ANYTHING. As I rounded the corner from the stairs into the basement, all I heard was a low-pitched growl and the quiet sound of a dog walking towards me very slowly (he desperately needed his nails cut)... it didn't even sound like my dog. I turned around, and said, "PUPPY ITS ME!" Upon hearing that, he came over, expected a quick petting, and then went back to sleep. I was so proud of him that day.
Aswell, if I'm not home and my girlfriend is, if any other male comes over to visit, the dog will instinctively ensure that he is ALWAYS between my girlfriend and the visitor. He will not allow the male to get between her and him.
My girlfriend's father came over to visit, and told me all about it. He couldn't understand why the dog wasn't as genial as he normally was when he visited, and why he wouldn't leave her side. I explained.
And to top it all off, I have grown up with labs all my life. I don't think I'll ever own any other breed of dog, they're SO intelligent when they need to be, but they're such lovable morons when they don't. They're great, and they never let me down.
One night, when I was about 17, I had come home late one night, and sat down at my computer to read my e-mail. At this point in time, I'd already dumped my wallet, keys, etc onto my desk, and had nothing on me. My lab started whining that he wanted to go for a walk. Whilst walking him -- this was about 1 or 2am, a guy in a trenchcoat approached me. He got about 4 feet away from me, and pulled a knife. He said, "give me your wallet." I told him I didn't have it on me. I honestly didn't. He started threatening me, saying he was going to "cut me up". My dog, who I
Needless to say, that night, when we got home, I fed him almost an entire ham out of the fridge.
And if you know what I'm talking about, you too, are a FF geek. :D
I'd rather be unemployed and searching for a job for a good long while than being in federal PMITA prison for PACKETING someone. The packeters deserve whatever they get, because frankly, I know how much of a pain in the ass it is to get DDoSed. If you can't get the upper hand through legitimate tactics and methods, then you don't deserve to be in business. Go flip burgers or something.
Uhm. Isn't the obvious answer to that question: Windows XP SP2? :D
Powertweak, which provides basically a user interface for lots of fun /proc entries that most of us would have never otherwise taken the time to play with.
Webmin is pretty damned useful.
But the vast majority of all system maintenance comes by way of bash, perl, cron, and mysql. ALL of my configuration files are in a MySQL db that's rewritten every 5 minutes if the 'dirty' flag is set to 'y'. Extremely useful for writing your own front-ends for system configuration.
Leon's furniture.
The Brick furniture.
Radio Shack.
All of them try and upsell you on worthless warranties. I know personally that Radio Shack gives much higher commissions on the extended warranties, which is precisely why the salesmen are so damned pushy with it.
I also find it moderately funny that this topic shows up just 1 week after I walked out of Leon's after refusing the "extended fabric care package" on a couch I purchased. The exchange between myself and the salesman:
Me: "I'll take this couch."
Salesman: (blurb about how great the protection package is.) "So do you want it?"
Me: "No thank you, I'm not interested."
Salesman: "You realise you're buying a hamburger without the bun, eh?"
Me: "That's OK, I'm not interested, thank you."
Salesman: "What're you going to do when you stain it?"
Me: "I won't stain it, and besides, I have family that does professional fabric cleaning."
Salesman: "Well are they going to replace it when you stain it and it can't be removed?"
Me: "I'm leaving. I'll shop elsewhere."
I wrote an angry letter to head office, they called and asked about the situation. I explained it to them. Their response: "We actually train our salespeople to be like that."
I've spent $5k at Leon's in the 3 years I've been living on my own, and will never spend another dime there again.
It's a sad day when the consumer can't go somewhere, buy something they like, and leave without being bothered.
After reading all these comments, the only thought that continually comes to mind for me, "WTF is the point in making an auto-shooter?" Isn't the point of the game to test your skill or to have fun TRYING to blow your friends away? ... I guess I just can't see myself spending the time writing software that would serve no useful purpose as far as I'm concerned.