"But don't complain that their either charging for it or showing ads."
I'd complain when they do both. Which is often the case. There's one show on TV (SciFi channel) right now that I'd watch but it would cost me approx $360 a year for 10-12 new episodes and it comes with over 15 minutes of commercials per hour.
Sony sent me a demo of this game. The controls are overly complicated and the analog stick are scaled wrong. Movement is realistic but the scenery is lacking the detail needed to feel immersed. I got to the first colossus and spent like 10 minutes running around in circles trying to affect the colossus in every way I could imagine. Finally a little hint popped up that wasn't helpful. Then another hint showed up a few minutes later that made no sense -- probably assuming I took some kind of action on the first hint. I suppose it might be a good game if you got into it but I gave up. After spending the first half hour riding a horse and climbing a cliff without seeing a single enemy and then another half hour scratching me head trying to solve the puzzle of killing the colossus I got bored.
It's possible the demo was bugged. It's also possible I missed a hint, power-up, or something else. Hey, I might even be a moron. Regardless, the developers didn't make my first hour with the game enjoyable so there's not much point in continuing to play it.
Yet another dating site? What the hell is this doing on the front page?
Here's a thought. Do you think dating sites are interested in you falling in love and terminating your monthly subscription fees? Or do you find they tell you to write lots of personalized and intriuging emails to many different prospects? And by prospect I mean propspective customer. You know, that person who just wanted to see a little more about the dating site and wrote a profile and doesn't yet pay the monthly fees but might in order to respond to an interesting enough message.
Looking over the Wind River site I was unable to find any information about this. It looks interesting for use in my next project. Oh well, I guess it's vaporware or they really aren't intested in supporting it. I'll go back to finishing making my own distro.
Satellite Radio - I believe the sat radio folks depend a lot on truckers and folks who drive a lot. Last I checked, WiFi doesn't have infrastructure to hand off your connection to another node. How many folks so you think have a stationary installation of sat radio in a metro area?
Cell Phone/Telcom - Again, no handoff. People with mobile phones like to be, um, well, mobile. Certainly a small amount of users would be able to switch, but anyone wanting to use their phone in a car, train, taxi, bus, etc. is s.o.l.
Of course, this problem will be solved. Probably not in the next couple years though.
You can't get to #1 without hitting 11 pages. Nice ad impressions there. Better if you hit all 50 pages. Just wanted to hear myself complain out loud. I'm feeling mighty bitchy today and this article just irritated me.
So if you're allowed to "pre-load" a data stream with information and claim to be breaking the speed of light I'm going to take this one further. The receiver can analyze the phase of the carrier signals and predict when the group will peak. Or better yet, the sender and receiver can both know the data source ahead of time which will allow us to transfer to data anywhere in the universe without concerning ourselves with trivialities such as time.
Seriously though, aren't kids in high school doing these kinds of experiments now? I'm not saying nobody will ever discover something in this area to break the rules, but right now this is considered JUNK SCIENCE. Nothing actually goes faster than light. It's an illusion. Like bringing someone into a pitch black room, flipping on regular light switch, and telling your guest that you instantly teleported the contents of the room (photons and all).
Realistically, you could probably use this technology to overcome interference (harmonic and otherwise). It could also be a bad ass forward error correction system. I'm sure folks are already working on this though -- 'cause I'm no physicist and it's obvious to me.
'real' republicans are for non-governmental interference in business small & Large, and non-influence over our daily lives..
You are referring to Libertarians. Republicans take my money and use it to build commerce (and get votes from those with money and power). Democrats take my money and use it to feed disadvantaged folks (and get votes from those who like handouts). Sorry, but you hit a sore spot. Both parties are severely corrupt right now. And I know my example is overly simplistic.
I pop my corn the old fashioned way. Heat, oil, and stirring. I've never seen anything worse than 5% old maids. In fact, the cheap popcorn often works best for this method of popcorn (harder shells, bigger pops). If you're really serious about yield throw out your microwave and go back to the basics. It's cheaper, tastes better, you have more control over the additives, it never burns like a microwave, and the yield is superior to microwaves.
As many others pointed out, this software is not free in any way; you have to buy it. Who cares if it runs on Linux? This is not newsworthy. If this were the first ever application to let you burn CDs under Linux it might be newsworthy, but there have been other options for years. Yes, I know it's all been said. I'm saying it again.
I don't get it. I thought in the USA every citizen was entitled to see any files kept on them simply by making a request (Freedom of Information Act). Typing in a URL in your web browser to view information about yourself doesn't seem illegal or unethical. It would seem to me that typing in a URL should be considered making a request and viewing the resulting information about yourself is well within your legal right. All I can figure is that there must have been some terms of service associated with the login process that I am unaware of, but even that seems illegal. I'm not a lawyer but maybe someone who understands this stuff could explain it for us normal folk so we don't get into trouble reading things about ourselves we aren't entitled to.
The burden of not reading things and throwing things out was too low to justify government intervention.
How do you know if you don't want to read it without reading at least part of it? How long would it take you to read 150 subject lines each morning? If it takes one second to read each subject line and another second to delete the message, that's 30 hours of my life I won't get back (over a full day each year). This doesn't include the interruptions I get from mail notification or the fact that robust mail notification is essentially useless.
I believe the victims of crime are entitled to restitution. What implication does this have for these spammers? Making them figure out how to pay each of their recipients 1/200 of a cent sounds fair. Once they figure this out maybe we can reverse it for the micropayment problem.
"This problem is just lazy IT. If they can't take 5 minutes to add an HP scanner then you've got the wrong guys in IT."
You seem to have a problem with ignorance and stupidity. I'm tired of hearing about lazy IT from the same assholes that think they can install anything on their computer in five minutes and everything will be just fine.
Here's a clue for you in the scenario of a 5000+ workstation network across several buildings.
1. User calls IT with need for OCR. Dispatcher enters a ticket. (10 mins)
2. IT contacts user and says they have a secure and approved solution but the research needs to be finished for OCR. (15 mins)
3. User says he needs it right away. IT rolls eyes and wonders if user's keyboard is broken. I mean, if it's that important user should be typing and not trying to convince IT his OCR problem is most important. (15 mins)
4. IT spends an hour with user finding a suitable, though insecure solution. Warns user that $99 OCR is nothing like the full solution they have in the works. (60 mins)
5. Fill out PO request (and double check everything, because accounting doesn't like mistakes) for HP scanner. (5 mins)
6. Receiving scanner and dispatching IT installer. (5 mins)
7. Installation of scanner, including 10 mins walking/travel time. Don't try and play off 5 mins here, you can't even unbox most stuff in less than 5 mins especially with an excited user nipping at your heels. Hell, if you need to reboot that's 5 mins in itself. And yes, many USB devices (especially HP's) seem to need a reboot for some reason. Plus you need to scan at least one page to make sure it works. (30 mins)
8. Training the end user how to use the scanner and OCR software. Because "IT is here, why should I RTFM?" (30-90 mins)
9. Documenting the one-off install. (5 mins)
10. Future support of scanner. Moving, helping new employees with it, repair, etc. (0-999 mins)
So realistically, we're talking two+ hours of work just for a relatively insecure install. That's more in labor that you can buy most scanners for. If there are firewall ports to unblock for updates or workstation permissions that need to be configured it'll take even longer.
Running an IT department is not like supporting your Mom's computer she uses for looking up recipes. If things in a business stop working the company loses money and potentially people lose jobs. If your Mom's PC goes down you get mac&cheese for dinner instead of lasagna. Big difference. IT needs to plan on keeping everything working at once, not most things most of the time.
When you get tired of IT people treating you like crap, stop the attitude and give them the respect they deserve. Maybe then you'll get your needs looked after instead of being tossed into the "he's a little shit" pile.
From the USA Today article: Are hackers using your PC to spew spam and steal?
"Consumers should demand what they do of other utilities," says Kip McClanahan, CEO of security firm Tipping Point. "When I pay my water bill, I expect my water to be drinkable out of the tap. Today, when you pay your Internet bill, the data you get is not consumable."
Huh? Where does this guy live that he gets consumable water out of his tap? Mine tastes like a dirty swimming pool.
I don't drink the water out of my tap; it goes through a filter before it goes in my body. I also don't open the gas line and hold a match to it; it goes through a burner in a carefully crafted device. And I don't have bare wires lying around carrying electricity; they are all installed in receptacles to keep me from electrocuting me and my guests.
I certainly can't sue the gas company if my faulty furnace causes my house to burn down (well, who knows these days, I probably could but it'd be wrong). And blaming the electric company for pushing too many electrons through my heart when I tried to pry some bread out of my toaster with a butter knife isn't right either. If you're daring enough to consume the water out of the tap you are probably ignorant of its contents: heavy metals, pesticides, chlorine variants, sometimes fluoride, and who knows what else.
So why should I blame my ISP for giving me data from the Internet? That's what I'm paying for and it is exactly what I want. As long as the signal levels are right for my modem and the information is IPv4 they are doing no wrong by me.
The burden of protection lies within the devices and software connected to the net. The consumer shouldn't have to give this any more thought than what they give their car about changing its oil. So who does the average consumer have to blame? You guessed it! I'm not even going to say it.
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Twenty five years or pain and suffering... then one day I diagnosed the problem myself on the internet. I'm much better now. Jut wanted to point out that having this information available can so easily be a good thing.
My favorite line from the article:
"Yes, it's intrusive," he said. "But I think customers will like it, because it will be so far superior to anything they've seen online."
Indemnification: We take full responsibility. Any legal action will come completely though us, no matter the cost.
No matter what the cost isn't realistic. No company has infinitely deep pockets. Once they run out of money they can't defend you any more. Then you're on your own. If you bought stolen goods, even unknowningly, you'll have to make it right with the proper owners.
I don't get it? Isn't the legal fund a type of indemnification? What kind of indemnification do I get from any software company? As far as I can tell it only protects me from being sued if I follow their license. What if they sold me something they had no legal right to sell? Akin to me buying a stolen radio. Aren't I screwed here when the licensed is deemed invalid in the courts? And when was the last time you got a software vendor to warrant their product for a particular use. Or what about lost revenue due to defects in the product? All this talk about indemnification seems like a distraction technique to me.
In general, people need ideals to hold on to. Speculation on a stock like SCO is done by folks who either believe that SCO is right or who think SCO is wrong but the system will back them anyways.
Have we forgotten the.com boom? People speculated in this era for the same reasons. Either they believed a.com was going to kick ass or they were just riding the bandwagon hoping to make some easy cash. Irresponsible investing only benefits the people who already control the wealth.
What we have not yet learned is this... Investing in a stock because you believe in the company is what makes the stock market work. This leads to a good economy with respectable companies. Speculating on a company you don't understand or don't believe in leads to economic trouble for everyone and unscrupulous companies are allowed to rise to power.
What can we do to help the SCO case right now? I don't know. But for the long run we need to ensure our elected officials and mutual fund managers understand what makes a solid economy. Speak your mind with your money and your vote.
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"But don't complain that their either charging for it or showing ads."
I'd complain when they do both. Which is often the case. There's one show on TV (SciFi channel) right now that I'd watch but it would cost me approx $360 a year for 10-12 new episodes and it comes with over 15 minutes of commercials per hour.
Sony sent me a demo of this game. The controls are overly complicated and the analog stick are scaled wrong. Movement is realistic but the scenery is lacking the detail needed to feel immersed. I got to the first colossus and spent like 10 minutes running around in circles trying to affect the colossus in every way I could imagine. Finally a little hint popped up that wasn't helpful. Then another hint showed up a few minutes later that made no sense -- probably assuming I took some kind of action on the first hint. I suppose it might be a good game if you got into it but I gave up. After spending the first half hour riding a horse and climbing a cliff without seeing a single enemy and then another half hour scratching me head trying to solve the puzzle of killing the colossus I got bored.
It's possible the demo was bugged. It's also possible I missed a hint, power-up, or something else. Hey, I might even be a moron. Regardless, the developers didn't make my first hour with the game enjoyable so there's not much point in continuing to play it.
5MB in 24 seconds needs around a 2Mbps connection. Dialup might be 0.05Mbps on a good line. How soon we forget.
Yet another dating site? What the hell is this doing on the front page?
Here's a thought. Do you think dating sites are interested in you falling in love and terminating your monthly subscription fees? Or do you find they tell you to write lots of personalized and intriuging emails to many different prospects? And by prospect I mean propspective customer. You know, that person who just wanted to see a little more about the dating site and wrote a profile and doesn't yet pay the monthly fees but might in order to respond to an interesting enough message.
Looking over the Wind River site I was unable to find any information about this. It looks interesting for use in my next project. Oh well, I guess it's vaporware or they really aren't intested in supporting it. I'll go back to finishing making my own distro.
Satellite Radio - I believe the sat radio folks depend a lot on truckers and folks who drive a lot. Last I checked, WiFi doesn't have infrastructure to hand off your connection to another node. How many folks so you think have a stationary installation of sat radio in a metro area?
Cell Phone/Telcom - Again, no handoff. People with mobile phones like to be, um, well, mobile. Certainly a small amount of users would be able to switch, but anyone wanting to use their phone in a car, train, taxi, bus, etc. is s.o.l.
Of course, this problem will be solved. Probably not in the next couple years though.
You can't get to #1 without hitting 11 pages. Nice ad impressions there. Better if you hit all 50 pages. Just wanted to hear myself complain out loud. I'm feeling mighty bitchy today and this article just irritated me.
So if you're allowed to "pre-load" a data stream with information and claim to be breaking the speed of light I'm going to take this one further. The receiver can analyze the phase of the carrier signals and predict when the group will peak. Or better yet, the sender and receiver can both know the data source ahead of time which will allow us to transfer to data anywhere in the universe without concerning ourselves with trivialities such as time.
Seriously though, aren't kids in high school doing these kinds of experiments now? I'm not saying nobody will ever discover something in this area to break the rules, but right now this is considered JUNK SCIENCE. Nothing actually goes faster than light. It's an illusion. Like bringing someone into a pitch black room, flipping on regular light switch, and telling your guest that you instantly teleported the contents of the room (photons and all).
Realistically, you could probably use this technology to overcome interference (harmonic and otherwise). It could also be a bad ass forward error correction system. I'm sure folks are already working on this though -- 'cause I'm no physicist and it's obvious to me.
You are referring to Libertarians. Republicans take my money and use it to build commerce (and get votes from those with money and power). Democrats take my money and use it to feed disadvantaged folks (and get votes from those who like handouts). Sorry, but you hit a sore spot. Both parties are severely corrupt right now. And I know my example is overly simplistic.
The RIAA asked for DRM. iTunes gave you DRM. Apple sees a way to leverage this technology to their advantage and you cry foul? Grow up.
I pop my corn the old fashioned way. Heat, oil, and stirring. I've never seen anything worse than 5% old maids. In fact, the cheap popcorn often works best for this method of popcorn (harder shells, bigger pops). If you're really serious about yield throw out your microwave and go back to the basics. It's cheaper, tastes better, you have more control over the additives, it never burns like a microwave, and the yield is superior to microwaves.
As many others pointed out, this software is not free in any way; you have to buy it. Who cares if it runs on Linux? This is not newsworthy. If this were the first ever application to let you burn CDs under Linux it might be newsworthy, but there have been other options for years. Yes, I know it's all been said. I'm saying it again.
I don't get it. I thought in the USA every citizen was entitled to see any files kept on them simply by making a request (Freedom of Information Act). Typing in a URL in your web browser to view information about yourself doesn't seem illegal or unethical. It would seem to me that typing in a URL should be considered making a request and viewing the resulting information about yourself is well within your legal right. All I can figure is that there must have been some terms of service associated with the login process that I am unaware of, but even that seems illegal. I'm not a lawyer but maybe someone who understands this stuff could explain it for us normal folk so we don't get into trouble reading things about ourselves we aren't entitled to.
I believe the victims of crime are entitled to restitution. What implication does this have for these spammers? Making them figure out how to pay each of their recipients 1/200 of a cent sounds fair. Once they figure this out maybe we can reverse it for the micropayment problem.
You seem to have a problem with ignorance and stupidity. I'm tired of hearing about lazy IT from the same assholes that think they can install anything on their computer in five minutes and everything will be just fine.
Here's a clue for you in the scenario of a 5000+ workstation network across several buildings.
1. User calls IT with need for OCR. Dispatcher enters a ticket. (10 mins)
2. IT contacts user and says they have a secure and approved solution but the research needs to be finished for OCR. (15 mins)
3. User says he needs it right away. IT rolls eyes and wonders if user's keyboard is broken. I mean, if it's that important user should be typing and not trying to convince IT his OCR problem is most important. (15 mins)
4. IT spends an hour with user finding a suitable, though insecure solution. Warns user that $99 OCR is nothing like the full solution they have in the works. (60 mins)
5. Fill out PO request (and double check everything, because accounting doesn't like mistakes) for HP scanner. (5 mins)
6. Receiving scanner and dispatching IT installer. (5 mins)
7. Installation of scanner, including 10 mins walking/travel time. Don't try and play off 5 mins here, you can't even unbox most stuff in less than 5 mins especially with an excited user nipping at your heels. Hell, if you need to reboot that's 5 mins in itself. And yes, many USB devices (especially HP's) seem to need a reboot for some reason. Plus you need to scan at least one page to make sure it works. (30 mins)
8. Training the end user how to use the scanner and OCR software. Because "IT is here, why should I RTFM?" (30-90 mins)
9. Documenting the one-off install. (5 mins)
10. Future support of scanner. Moving, helping new employees with it, repair, etc. (0-999 mins)
So realistically, we're talking two+ hours of work just for a relatively insecure install. That's more in labor that you can buy most scanners for. If there are firewall ports to unblock for updates or workstation permissions that need to be configured it'll take even longer.
Running an IT department is not like supporting your Mom's computer she uses for looking up recipes. If things in a business stop working the company loses money and potentially people lose jobs. If your Mom's PC goes down you get mac&cheese for dinner instead of lasagna. Big difference. IT needs to plan on keeping everything working at once, not most things most of the time.
When you get tired of IT people treating you like crap, stop the attitude and give them the respect they deserve. Maybe then you'll get your needs looked after instead of being tossed into the "he's a little shit" pile.
-turbo (who runs "four nines" -- trying for five)
From the USA Today article: Are hackers using your PC to spew spam and steal?
"Consumers should demand what they do of other utilities," says Kip McClanahan, CEO of security firm Tipping Point. "When I pay my water bill, I expect my water to be drinkable out of the tap. Today, when you pay your Internet bill, the data you get is not consumable."
Huh? Where does this guy live that he gets consumable water out of his tap? Mine tastes like a dirty swimming pool.
I don't drink the water out of my tap; it goes through a filter before it goes in my body. I also don't open the gas line and hold a match to it; it goes through a burner in a carefully crafted device. And I don't have bare wires lying around carrying electricity; they are all installed in receptacles to keep me from electrocuting me and my guests.
I certainly can't sue the gas company if my faulty furnace causes my house to burn down (well, who knows these days, I probably could but it'd be wrong). And blaming the electric company for pushing too many electrons through my heart when I tried to pry some bread out of my toaster with a butter knife isn't right either. If you're daring enough to consume the water out of the tap you are probably ignorant of its contents: heavy metals, pesticides, chlorine variants, sometimes fluoride, and who knows what else.
So why should I blame my ISP for giving me data from the Internet? That's what I'm paying for and it is exactly what I want. As long as the signal levels are right for my modem and the information is IPv4 they are doing no wrong by me.
The burden of protection lies within the devices and software connected to the net. The consumer shouldn't have to give this any more thought than what they give their car about changing its oil. So who does the average consumer have to blame? You guessed it! I'm not even going to say it.
Twenty five years or pain and suffering... then one day I diagnosed the problem myself on the internet. I'm much better now. Jut wanted to point out that having this information available can so easily be a good thing.
My favorite line from the article: "Yes, it's intrusive," he said. "But I think customers will like it, because it will be so far superior to anything they've seen online."
Which roadie do you bitch out when it blue screens in the middle of a performance?
Indemnification: We take full responsibility. Any legal action will come completely though us, no matter the cost.
No matter what the cost isn't realistic. No company has infinitely deep pockets. Once they run out of money they can't defend you any more. Then you're on your own. If you bought stolen goods, even unknowningly, you'll have to make it right with the proper owners.
I don't get it? Isn't the legal fund a type of indemnification? What kind of indemnification do I get from any software company? As far as I can tell it only protects me from being sued if I follow their license. What if they sold me something they had no legal right to sell? Akin to me buying a stolen radio. Aren't I screwed here when the licensed is deemed invalid in the courts? And when was the last time you got a software vendor to warrant their product for a particular use. Or what about lost revenue due to defects in the product? All this talk about indemnification seems like a distraction technique to me.
So what's on the outside of this giant gravstar we're in? :)
A colorful candy shell.
In general, people need ideals to hold on to. Speculation on a stock like SCO is done by folks who either believe that SCO is right or who think SCO is wrong but the system will back them anyways. Have we forgotten the .com boom? People speculated in this era for the same reasons. Either they believed a .com was going to kick ass or they were just riding the bandwagon hoping to make some easy cash. Irresponsible investing only benefits the people who already control the wealth.
What we have not yet learned is this... Investing in a stock because you believe in the company is what makes the stock market work. This leads to a good economy with respectable companies. Speculating on a company you don't understand or don't believe in leads to economic trouble for everyone and unscrupulous companies are allowed to rise to power.
What can we do to help the SCO case right now? I don't know. But for the long run we need to ensure our elected officials and mutual fund managers understand what makes a solid economy. Speak your mind with your money and your vote.