"Also, IM is not allowed/supported, but there is a way around it that everyone uses."
I assume you run your own dns servers. Create records for all the web IM clients and redirect them to 1. nowhere 2. a web server that has a scary message AND logs. Problems solved:)
Are you an idiot? The last thing I want is creative users, "creatively" creating problems. The bottom line is in your next sentance: "slap the standard install image back on and try try again". If you break it, who has to fix it? ME. So it becomes my job to make sure you cant break it. This is way harder than it sounds because users constantly are more "creative" than I can imagine. They will cover those oh so useless chassis air intake holes with creative art drawn by their creative children. Power supply fan noisey? Ill just jam a pencil in there! Put transparacies in a laser printer to print their oh so creative overheads? Why not! its a Printer! First one gets stuck? Hmm whats a creative solution for this.. I know, Ill send ANOTHER one through! that will surely dislodge the first piece of melted fuser goo. Uhoh! Seems like this printer cant handle my overwhelming creativity! Ill just silently walk away informing no one!
They can express their creativity by installing cool screen savers! wtf IT! why'd you put all these popups on the backend??? By copying 30 gigs of oh so lovingly created wav remixes to their desktop roaming profile! By creatively "fixing" other peoples templates on a network share! By creatively interpreting file formats! funnykitties.jpg.exe I choose to think thats a picture! CREATIVELY! Did you know theres a software app that actually increases your creativity? Click here to install! Uhoh! Looks like I got a virus.. better cruise on over to winantivirus.com because I know ALL about virus scanning programs!
Yes on second thought, creative is exactly what these users are.
A virus that executes itself off network shares? Do you recall the name? I was thinking the other day about how I never see virii like that anymore. Now adays its all install adware, blah blah, show pop ups - aw cute, sell winantivirus subscriptions.. boring!
So if you cant make a huge impact, dont bother making a small one? Am I summing up your post correctly? How is your comfort affected by switching lightbulbs? Or does "comfort" mean stubbornly getting your way just for the hell of it (how DARE the state tell ME what to do!).
Wow. You baught a PC from a store, configured, and you are bragging that it works? They would obviously sell you parts that all had some form of driver support. Especially considering you are in that small section of the market that makes stupid hardware decisions, buying the most advertised products. (3gb ram? 500 dollar video card? 400 dollar sound card!?).
"on my old machine I had 2 items in device manager with exclamations and I never knew what the hell they were"
So you dont know how to properly install drivers in your OS. And vista fixed this as it was pre installed. Just so were all clear on what your saying there, and your not actually blaming xp for you not installing the correct drivers.
"colleagues of mine who use Linux"
Hmm thats a rather trollish sentance. Is this just a troll post?
"The only difference being that with Vista the situation WILL improve over time, not sure the same can be said for the next version of UBER-GIJoe Linux or whatever the current popular flavour is are you?"
Well it's UNATTENDED macroing. Obviously, no one can make macros illegal as they can perfectly rplicate user input as to be indistinguishable. The issue is probably that a GM comes on, sends you some sort of private message, then another one in like 10 minutes. If you dont respond then they kick/ban.
Its a sensible restriction in most games to ban unnattended macroing. I am against banning tools as well, but it would be different if they were watching the screen while running this app.
Changes arent always good. This post sounds like a defence of something that you changed into, regardless of whether it was good or bad. Its the same reason that you'd be predisposed to like chevys if you just baught one.
"Point being, the high RAM usage is a good thing"
Yeah, you keep telling yourself that mate. Historical usage patterns? Yes, because microsoft has a GREAT track record assuming things about the user. Silent background optimization powered by microsoft. I dont think ive ever written a scarier sentance.
Do you remember findfast.exe? I still have nightmares.
All good points but its kind of futile with most people. My friend has used wireless internet access for over a year, shared by one of his neighbours. I had a 30 minute conversation with him that ended in no resolution. His question: How do you know that you (meaning me) or me (meaning him) are not running an open wireless ap?
Imagine trying to convince someone that 1) to run wireless you have to BUY a router 2) even if I had a wireless router I would secure it properly 3) I know what I have in my own house. See for him, wireless is just like magic air dust. If you cant see it, how do you know its not there, or that you are secure?
It really opened my eyes to what normals have problems understanding about technology.
Because of some stupid new bush idiocy? So your time stamps will be wrong on email for a few weeks. I really don't see why people are panicing over this.
"I'm sure the law would say you stole the money"... "come on, that's not an honest argument."
Luckily for these customers, 'im sure' and 'come on' arent actually legal arguments or the defense of anything but your particular opinion.
The correct thing for amazon to do would be 1) Ask politely for their money back from the customer. 2) Suspend their amazon account if they dont pay. That solves both parties problems. The vendor gives people the chance for people to act "morally" and if they don't, well thats not someone we really want to do businesss with anymore. I have been involved as a vendor in a similar sort of 'coding fucked up some prices' issue, and thats all we were legally allowed to do. Charging peoples CC without their explicit authorization is fraud and should be treated as such.
When I hear the name pokemon, I associate it with like 10 year old kids. Wasn't that basically a tomagachi mixed with magic the gathering type cards? I know it became a tv show and stuff later, but I wouldnt picture that as like an adult game.
Dude, when I played wow as fire arcane, pretty much all the number keys and function keys and mouse buttons were mapped to something. Just because you are roleplaying a character with no style, doesn't mean everyone was. I was a pimp mage who used a cornicopia of spells. You kind of have to constantly be cycling through firebolts and arcane missles, the arcane aoe spell, fireblast, etc.. to be good at pvp.
Although I would agree that if your raiding, the rules of the raid tend to proclude any creativity. Thats kinda why I quit playing. What fun is mashing icebolt 5000x in a row in mc? Just be glad your not a healer. From what I understood that was even more boring on raids.
Yes because filler pieces never make it into the new york times or the guardian...
The bbc currently has a story titled, " Karaoke marathon as South Korean woman sings for 60 hours ". Infact, I'd challenge you to find one paper or news source without an opinionated human interest story around its front page. Papers arent like slashdot, they need to cater to as many people as possible. Thats why they write fluff pieces.
The globe and mail is probably the best paper in canada, and one of the only national ones. They even let you read and comment on most articles on line. The national post is a right wing joke and has been ever since it was formed 7 or 8 years ago.
Thats kinda funny to be reading such a defense of wma when just this morning i found a virus INSIDE a wma file. Now i've never seen that before, and everyone I know says it must have been an exe file or dll renamed, but how on earth would it have infected the PC then? Its set up to play wma files in media player. I didnt attempt running it in media player, but im pretty sure if it was an exe it would just error out, not run exploit code. (yes of course I turned file extentions on, it ended in WMA)
"1. Don't allow your users to send port 25 traffic to any address but your own mail server."
Yeah maybe i'd use my ISP's mailserver if they didnt tag all my mail, forward me shittonnes of spam and have a roundtrip time measured in hours.
Maybe I should pay $300 for a break pad change too eh? Instead of doing it myself properly. I obviously should leave it up to the 17 year old "professional" trainee down at speedy.
"I think the standard argument here is that if a composer or musician can't or won't perform live, then they're not real musicians"
I read alot of these discussions, and thats the first time I've heard that. For most musicians I personally know, they would much rather that their music be heard by people, that people visit their myspace page, and that they get a chance to be discovered and enjoyed. Sure they would love it if they got paid to perform or release, but they are content to work doing construction or selling phones in the mall. Music for them is like playing a RPG for me. I don't expect people to pay me for playign eve online, I just like doing it so I play!
One of the problems I have with music is the over abundance of supply. If you look at the new CD's uploaded on something like mininova, you see hundreds of titles a day. There will never be a time when people don't make music. It is fundamental to the human condition and most people respect you if you can make them feel something with what you create. I dont think ive ever met a musician who didnt have a day job.
"don't steal the resulting work, just don't buy it."
Well I never go into stores like best buy, but I'd imagine they are pretty hard to steal from. Dvds however are small and im sure if you could get it out of its case, you could probably stick it down your pants - sans magnito tag. So I dont buy DVD's, and I dont steal them. What I do do however is copy them from various sources, including the internet. This isn't really depriving anyone of a product since I tend to return the favour whether by uploading, sharing other media to dvd lenders, or simply returning the dvd that they have lent me. Also, no money changes hands so I do not feel as if I have bought anything. I assume all this puts me into your "dont steal, dont buy" guideline.
Do you really think that people breaking into stores and stealing physical DVDs is a huge problem for the industry? Who is saying stealing from anyone is OK? The article has not put forward that point. Perhaps you are using the wrong terminology when you say that this is "stealing" as I am having trouble understanding your phraseology.
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I assume you run your own dns servers. Create records for all the web IM clients and redirect them to 1. nowhere 2. a web server that has a scary message AND logs. Problems solved
Are you an idiot? The last thing I want is creative users, "creatively" creating problems. The bottom line is in your next sentance: "slap the standard install image back on and try try again". If you break it, who has to fix it? ME. So it becomes my job to make sure you cant break it. This is way harder than it sounds because users constantly are more "creative" than I can imagine. They will cover those oh so useless chassis air intake holes with creative art drawn by their creative children. Power supply fan noisey? Ill just jam a pencil in there! Put transparacies in a laser printer to print their oh so creative overheads? Why not! its a Printer! First one gets stuck? Hmm whats a creative solution for this.. I know, Ill send ANOTHER one through! that will surely dislodge the first piece of melted fuser goo. Uhoh! Seems like this printer cant handle my overwhelming creativity! Ill just silently walk away informing no one!
They can express their creativity by installing cool screen savers! wtf IT! why'd you put all these popups on the backend???
By copying 30 gigs of oh so lovingly created wav remixes to their desktop roaming profile!
By creatively "fixing" other peoples templates on a network share!
By creatively interpreting file formats! funnykitties.jpg.exe I choose to think thats a picture! CREATIVELY!
Did you know theres a software app that actually increases your creativity? Click here to install!
Uhoh! Looks like I got a virus.. better cruise on over to winantivirus.com because I know ALL about virus scanning programs!
Yes on second thought, creative is exactly what these users are.
A virus that executes itself off network shares? Do you recall the name? I was thinking the other day about how I never see virii like that anymore. Now adays its all install adware, blah blah, show pop ups - aw cute, sell winantivirus subscriptions.. boring!
Unfortunately no torrent. Destined to remain obscure I guess.
So if you cant make a huge impact, dont bother making a small one? Am I summing up your post correctly? How is your comfort affected by switching lightbulbs? Or does "comfort" mean stubbornly getting your way just for the hell of it (how DARE the state tell ME what to do!).
So you dont know how to properly install drivers in your OS. And vista fixed this as it was pre installed. Just so were all clear on what your saying there, and your not actually blaming xp for you not installing the correct drivers.
Hmm thats a rather trollish sentance. Is this just a troll post?
yep.
Well it's UNATTENDED macroing. Obviously, no one can make macros illegal as they can perfectly rplicate user input as to be indistinguishable. The issue is probably that a GM comes on, sends you some sort of private message, then another one in like 10 minutes. If you dont respond then they kick/ban.
Its a sensible restriction in most games to ban unnattended macroing. I am against banning tools as well, but it would be different if they were watching the screen while running this app.
Yeah, you keep telling yourself that mate. Historical usage patterns? Yes, because microsoft has a GREAT track record assuming things about the user. Silent background optimization powered by microsoft. I dont think ive ever written a scarier sentance.
Do you remember findfast.exe? I still have nightmares.
All good points but its kind of futile with most people. My friend has used wireless internet access for over a year, shared by one of his neighbours. I had a 30 minute conversation with him that ended in no resolution. His question: How do you know that you (meaning me) or me (meaning him) are not running an open wireless ap?
Imagine trying to convince someone that 1) to run wireless you have to BUY a router 2) even if I had a wireless router I would secure it properly 3) I know what I have in my own house. See for him, wireless is just like magic air dust. If you cant see it, how do you know its not there, or that you are secure?
It really opened my eyes to what normals have problems understanding about technology.
Are you trying to kill linksys, the only international wireless ISP out there?
If it still does the job, why upgrade it?
Because of some stupid new bush idiocy? So your time stamps will be wrong on email for a few weeks. I really don't see why people are panicing over this.
Luckily for these customers, 'im sure' and 'come on' arent actually legal arguments or the defense of anything but your particular opinion.
The correct thing for amazon to do would be 1) Ask politely for their money back from the customer. 2) Suspend their amazon account if they dont pay. That solves both parties problems. The vendor gives people the chance for people to act "morally" and if they don't, well thats not someone we really want to do businesss with anymore. I have been involved as a vendor in a similar sort of 'coding fucked up some prices' issue, and thats all we were legally allowed to do. Charging peoples CC without their explicit authorization is fraud and should be treated as such.
When I hear the name pokemon, I associate it with like 10 year old kids. Wasn't that basically a tomagachi mixed with magic the gathering type cards? I know it became a tv show and stuff later, but I wouldnt picture that as like an adult game.
Dude, when I played wow as fire arcane, pretty much all the number keys and function keys and mouse buttons were mapped to something. Just because you are roleplaying a character with no style, doesn't mean everyone was. I was a pimp mage who used a cornicopia of spells. You kind of have to constantly be cycling through firebolts and arcane missles, the arcane aoe spell, fireblast, etc.. to be good at pvp.
Although I would agree that if your raiding, the rules of the raid tend to proclude any creativity. Thats kinda why I quit playing. What fun is mashing icebolt 5000x in a row in mc? Just be glad your not a healer. From what I understood that was even more boring on raids.
Yes because filler pieces never make it into the new york times or the guardian...
The bbc currently has a story titled, " Karaoke marathon as South Korean woman sings for 60 hours ". Infact, I'd challenge you to find one paper or news source without an opinionated human interest story around its front page. Papers arent like slashdot, they need to cater to as many people as possible. Thats why they write fluff pieces.
The globe and mail is probably the best paper in canada, and one of the only national ones. They even let you read and comment on most articles on line. The national post is a right wing joke and has been ever since it was formed 7 or 8 years ago.
Thats kinda funny to be reading such a defense of wma when just this morning i found a virus INSIDE a wma file. Now i've never seen that before, and everyone I know says it must have been an exe file or dll renamed, but how on earth would it have infected the PC then? Its set up to play wma files in media player. I didnt attempt running it in media player, but im pretty sure if it was an exe it would just error out, not run exploit code. (yes of course I turned file extentions on, it ended in WMA)
Beach balls are fun at the beach.
Sata keyboards ftw. It make you type bettar!
Yeah maybe i'd use my ISP's mailserver if they didnt tag all my mail, forward me shittonnes of spam and have a roundtrip time measured in hours.
Maybe I should pay $300 for a break pad change too eh? Instead of doing it myself properly. I obviously should leave it up to the 17 year old "professional" trainee down at speedy.
I read alot of these discussions, and thats the first time I've heard that. For most musicians I personally know, they would much rather that their music be heard by people, that people visit their myspace page, and that they get a chance to be discovered and enjoyed. Sure they would love it if they got paid to perform or release, but they are content to work doing construction or selling phones in the mall. Music for them is like playing a RPG for me. I don't expect people to pay me for playign eve online, I just like doing it so I play!
One of the problems I have with music is the over abundance of supply. If you look at the new CD's uploaded on something like mininova, you see hundreds of titles a day. There will never be a time when people don't make music. It is fundamental to the human condition and most people respect you if you can make them feel something with what you create.
I dont think ive ever met a musician who didnt have a day job.
Well I never go into stores like best buy, but I'd imagine they are pretty hard to steal from. Dvds however are small and im sure if you could get it out of its case, you could probably stick it down your pants - sans magnito tag. So I dont buy DVD's, and I dont steal them. What I do do however is copy them from various sources, including the internet. This isn't really depriving anyone of a product since I tend to return the favour whether by uploading, sharing other media to dvd lenders, or simply returning the dvd that they have lent me. Also, no money changes hands so I do not feel as if I have bought anything. I assume all this puts me into your "dont steal, dont buy" guideline.
Do you really think that people breaking into stores and stealing physical DVDs is a huge problem for the industry? Who is saying stealing from anyone is OK? The article has not put forward that point. Perhaps you are using the wrong terminology when you say that this is "stealing" as I am having trouble understanding your phraseology.
I see win2k has transcended your little list. Pity.
For you anyway.
They would be rehired the next week. The policy doesn't say that they are banned for life from working there, just that they would be "fired".
They will take that money to a local weed dealer and buy a quarter. Then they will go home and download a torrent of the game.
I use to to have a tv like that. You do get used to it, but you should probably buy a new tv.