The fact you remember prepositions exist, can spell it, and use it in a sentence puts you leaps and bounds ahead of 90% of the native-English speaking people. When I started seeing bad grammar in respectable advertisements (not parody, puns, trying to be funny, etc), repeatedly, I came to the realization it's now considered perfectly normal to butcher the Queen's English (pardon the pun) here in the US. I still cringe, though, when I hear, "Where are you at?"
As a member of the Air Force, yeppers, same here. I will probably take a minority view here, but I'd prefer people in a war zone NOT blog. It's just too damn easy to give away OPSEC. You mention dates of leave, numbers of people doing XYZ, etc. It becomes extremely easy to use even the simplest of information to maximize damage. It's how they figured out previous attacks. The enemy is reading this stuff and paying attention. So altough it's great that Geraldo feels really smart drawing troop movements in the dirt pre-op, it's not much different when a grunt in the field does something like confirm battle damage or weaknesses For example, "yeah, we almost died today but our XXXXXXX {insert system name} did a great job and it's the first time they've worked this week. Thank goodness for..."
Just to spell it out a little more, an illegal act can not be made into a binding contract. So your example falls apart the moment you signed a contract for an illegal act. It's actually the opposite, though. If someone knows about the contract and DOESN'T stop it, they might be looking at conspiracy to commit murder charges in some cases.
You bring up an interesting point. Imagine a car manufacturer that sold cars with an artificially capped top speed of 55 MPH, while their marketing department worked with engineering to make a 200 mph supercar. It's an obvious crossing of priorities. You want to increase "mindshare" of your market audience, not drive them away. If I were able and willing to pay, and also had a choice of providers, I would never pick Comcast to pay extra for my higher bandwidth because they've proven they will lie or cheat to get ahead, as well as limit my capabilities. Not the type of company I would willingly give my money to.
If you haven't played a game for a few weeks, the system will check for an update. I was completely locked out of playing "Saint's Row" because it couldn't connect to update. Yes, I could have played off-line, but I mostly play all my games on-line. I think that's the real disconnect between the people pissed and those who say "Get over it, it's just a game". Imagine if Microsoft said, "Get over your Blue Screen of Death, it's JUST a computer." GM, "Get over it, it's JUST a car...freakin WALK, the cavemen did it!!!"
If you really enjoy gaming, and really enjoy online gaming, it's extremely frustrating. I'm hooked and got my roommate hooked (twice). After we destroyed on Rainbow6:Las Vegas, we moved on to Halo3. We're both officers (in the game, ironically, I'm also one in the USAF) and trying to make rank, so it's something we work hard on and greatly enjoy.
He get's all the way through the several of the campaigns and the system makes this sound like it's eating the DVD. You have about 30 seconds to lock up at that point. Needless to say, he was insanely pissed that he had to re-do the campaign, even though the second time he heard the sound he immediately went to "Save and Quit". For most, this sounds trivial, but beating Halo 3 on Legendary is a huge pain in the ass and sometimes several hours of effort for a single campaign. The upside, the XBOX360 controller has withstood huge G forces and shock from cross-room hurling into large, fixed, and hard objects. I've tried at times to destroy it to no avail. Too bad the same people didn't make the drive.
HDMI is a proprietary plug, whereas the RCA, aka phono, plug wasn't (isn't). They purposely made it a closed, proprietary format so that they could charge for licensing, etc. It's really an end game for the DRM goals that large corporations are hoping allow them to totally lock content, IMHO. Crack your player? Cool, but the TV won't display the video because your HDMI signal doesn't include the "flag", which says you paid for the content. Have a consumer modulator (e.g. you can see a camera over the front door on channel 125 from any TV)? Ooops, can't use it unless they paid the $$$ for the HDMI license to say, "This content is OK".
I half think they would somehow build DRM into prescription glasses if there was a technical way to do it and then make it look like a "charitable act".
FREE GLASSES* (must subscribe to DRM-enable subscription for $10 a month, 24 month minimum with a $500 early drop out fee).
(TFAA meaning The Freakin Article's Author).PulseLINK announced wireless HDMI with full HD content and is showing it at CES. They also use similar technology to send 4 simultaneous HD streams (audio + video) along side Gigabit Ethernet (at each end) via conventional coax (assuming RG-6). So, without re-wiring your home, you can have Gigabit Ethernet and 4 HD feeds anywhere there's a coax drop. It also passes through normal splitters and doesn't interfere with conventional TVs hooked to coax, so you don't have to swap out all your coax wall plates with something that strips out the signal.
The assertion "it's not wireless HDMI" is, IMHO, intentionally misleading. Technically, using their logic there is no HDMI because you could equally say, "Well, there's a possibility today's physical cable won't pass whatever standards they approve". To me it's retarded. You're building DRM into the cable? I'm not sure the Home Integration Market (the guys who specialize in big dollar home theater jobs in really nice houses) realize the implications down the road. Your really nice in home modulator, etc, may become obsolete when new DRM-expectant devices don't see "the secret code" and shut down any content they don't recognize. One of the other posts on here did a good job explaining the impact, using the example of plugging your PS3 through a receiver to a projector. I do just that with my XBOX360. I send it through my Denon high-end receiver. The 360 content isn't touched, but the DVD (standard def) input, and VHR player are upscaled and sent out the single Component Output for the projector. In other words, I use my receiver to switch between inputs to the single, component input of the projector.
I never directly said Windows was on the 360. I didn't imply it and if it was inferred, I apologize for the confusion. I said that the only devices I have that freeze are Microsoft, a company also responsible for Windows. I won't go into fallacies of logic, but suffice it to say, I was pointing out they have a track record of instable software and operating systems.
You mentioned HPUX and another UNIX variant. Those should have had uptimes of years. I've maintained hundreds of servers, most Solaris and HPUX, and even with hard drive failures, we never went down due to a RAID setup. I don't know how you get more reliable than 99.999%, which was our network performance stat. I would never reasonably expect a Windows machine to do this, and the couple hundred I did maintain for 9 months loved to freeze.
The 90's would like their Windows back? No, I want it. XP freezes more for me than my old Win2k. The irony is I had to reboot my XP machine just to reply to this when IE decided to freeze. My old Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop running Win2k Pro can go weeks without problems, with stable applications running. I still wouldn't run either in a Production environment which needed 99.999% system reliability (near military-grade)
Does it seem to anyone else that it's a dichotomy to put anything Windows on Linux? If I run Linux, it's usually a box I want to stay up and work all the time. This is not Window's thing. The DVD player in my house that freezes, is my XBOX360. The only HD DVD player I know that freezes, is the HD DVD hanging off my XBOX360.
That was actually my first thought. If they're so quick to DDoS, you've got a list of sites to spoof. If you automated the spoof to cycle through their DDoS list of bots, you'd make it grind itself into the dirt. You'd use their own tactics against themselves. However, I have a feeling these researchers are "ethical" and probably won't spoof packets.
However, say a hobbiest...or someone one with a great deal of time could do it:)
I'm too busy with all the fires and such in San Diego, maybe next week...
I've worked 2nd Tier Technical Support within Sprint PCS, and it even got to the point I was helping their Level 3 with future system designs. Their level 1 was often a joke. One guy wanted me to reinstall packages on a Sun Solaris machine...I said, "This is not Windows...reinstalling will result in EXACTLY the same error" which of course, it did.
Anyway, it did get to a point where I instantly got escalated to their 2 or 3 tier because if I couldn't fix it, or I couldn't find the answer withing a Unix forum on-line, they would have a hard time offering a solution. This was supporting about 300 Sun Netra systems running Solaris 9.
I've had people get into arguments saying it's MTU or someother issue with P2P, but I've been just going on emperical data and personal observations. My internet connection to Cox ONLY becomes spotty (at best) when I fire up ANY version of a P2P software. I can go months without rebooting my PC, Router, and Cable modem, but the moment I fire up LimeWire it drops to slow performance and often locks up within 5 minutes. Rebooting the cable mode can instantly fix it. Dont run Limewire? It'll go back to normal. Run Limewire after rebooting? Back to slow performance and a reboot it right around the corner.
Again, I've tried different types of P2P, so I'm not buying any breakdown in the TCP/IP stack (MTU problems, etc). It's almost as if they drop my IP lease because I still see traffic but nothing works. Their "stop communicating" message would also make sense.
Read all the way through the article and you'll see an interesting reply from a reader. They took some thousand copies (I'm too lazy to go back and look at the number) and yet say they recovered $500M worth of software. Both are very large numbers and most people weren't math majors in college...so the numbers easily fly. However, if you do the math the reader points out it comes to about $1,100 a copy. Hardly, a "conservative estimate" as the article states if this is in fact a direct cost associated with just those copies confiscated.
I'd agree with your reply to both of those points. Depth of experience is going to make more difference than GPA when I'm interviewing. If you've got a 2.0 but can get more done in a 40 hour week than a 4.0 student who only studied....I'm going with the 2.0. And yes, I'm a hiring manager in technology.
Remember, the question in their mind isn't. What did you do in school. They only care, what can you do for me? "4.0 in CS. Nice, but what can you do?" The recruiters may stumble on the gpa, but find ways around them.
I hate my cable provide too. They keep upping the price and Limewire shuts down the service. I can go months without a break in service, but 10 minutes on Limewire can, on occasion shut the service down. Only rebooting the cable modem fixes. I thought it was the service, and Cox said "5 years is the break point, you need a new cable modem" which I think is garbage. Anyway, last time I posted about this someone said it was likely a MTU issue with my router. How do I chase this and figure out if it's the issue?
I ran through all the links, and found Jill Filipovic's Flickr site (it's easy, just paste it into search). After wasting about 15 minutes of my life, possible flaggin the corporate wirewall for "questionable search strings", and being reacquainted with how stupid people can get....I'm sorta on the fence on this one.
After reading Jill's own words, seeing what she was exposed to, I understand her frustration. I can't empathize because I'm not female and subjected to constant oogling, but I can sympathize if she feels wronged. Obviously she does because she is suing. Obviously, as a law student, she realizes the consequences and did more than just spout, "IAMNAL, but blah blah blah" like most people would. If she felt scorned, she knows the suit will increse the actions of the unjust. Hence the really vile emails and comments she is now getting. I don't care how bad a person is or isn't, no one deserves to be called "a diseased AIDS infected cum bucket..."
On the other hand, these are just idiots posting on a message board similar to ours. I wish all boards had our moderation (and meta-moderate). Would it stop it? Nah, but I can decide on days with little time to read the meat (read 2+), or on days with not much to do see the "nice rack" comments (reading -1) which of course would make me pull up the pics since I'm def interested in any pics described in that manner:) (sorry if THAT offends....) Back on topic: I hire people, and I'd give NO consideration to the rantings of a message board. This is why I found it offensive the MessageBoard admin guy didn't get a job because of his simple affiliation with the message board. That's just plain stupid. CowboyNeal isn't responsible for MY comments, whether I'm a freakin genuis or a certifiable retard.
So where does that leave us? A meager attempt by the law to do what's possibly moral in the eyes of a few. We know they got it dead wrong with DMCA, but right with attempted murder. Yes, I picked extremes, but you can see my point. Morally, is it wrong and they should be sued for calling her what they did? I guess if you had to nail me to the wall one way or the other, I'd say I agree with Jill. Yeah, it makes me uncomfortable agreeing with anyone who associates with variations of the word "feminist" but she might also be using it in a different construct/context. The reason I am comfortable is that free speech has responsible constraints. If you disagree, post a very public attack on $cientology with personal info about yourself, and then tell me in 6 months how you feel. I have a feeling you'll think Jill might have a point.
I work in a tech support department for a manufacturer, and it's a tightrope to balance Sales desires versus Engineering's desires. Engineering wants to come out with a fix, but yet they want to keep a lid on the idea that they designed a defective product. Sales wants to hear there's a fix but then gets upset when distributors want to return hundreds of product. So, applying my experience to the observations of Microsoft, I'd say it's either a bug they can't reproduce, or a change mid-production for a bug that isn't going to happen a high percentage of the time on the original design.
For example, we had a problem with the open cell foam behind buttons for security panels that were installed in the upper-NorthEast areas of the US, and Canada. Water would get into the cell and freeze, and then subsequent freeze/thaw conditions killed the foam. We revised the design. There's no reason, however, for a Florida or Arizona distributor to return thousands of units for a "button upgrade", even though everyone wants the "latest and greatest". One other example is a "hypothetical" condition. You've got hundreds of products with "reported heat issues". You might think this is an issue, but when you look at the fact there are millions of units out, hundreds is nothing. Engineering on their own makes a heat design change, and you decide to implement it on returns cause the retrofit is cheap and practical. You're not going to recall millions of units that are currently working fine, and there are a couple hundred with REPORTED problems. I have a feeling if you look at other consumer devices stuck in entertainment centers, the number of overheating XBOX360s is on par for the industry.
The fact they're IIS and pirated seems to be moot, the point is many people just don't feel like "proving" to M$ that their version isn't pirated and give up trying to do security updates. I have one computer, out of about 9 or 10 I own at home, that has XP loaded on it. When I put it online and try to patch it, it does it's "Authenticity Check" and fails saying it was not a valid install. I know I bought a copy of XP specifically for this computer since it was for a businesses' use (and hence, tax deductible as an expense). Since it's never going to be on-line I said, "Screw it" and didn't bother with trying to update it. I'm sure many home owners are in the same boat...except they keep it online.
Maybe they'll come around like they did on Win2K. They said they stopped supporting updates and I noticed no nags on my laptop for a really long time...lately I've noticed M$ is pushing security updates to it again. This is a computer I almost pulled from the "on line" array when it got infected twice by MySpace and YouTube....but I got it cleaned up through a few programs and a couple hours...
OK, I asked him. He said he just wants a new Thomas the Train engine and a skateboard. Oh, and as I walked away I swore I heard him mutter under his breath, "Wii's are for gay azz biathes anyway":)
I was talking to a friend last night...he has 3 XBOX 360s (one he moded and got banned, one for himself and the third bought while waiting for Microsoft to fix the second one ("disk unreadable" errors, which are now gone). He's also got the PS3 and Wii. He says he really just likes his XBOX360...since I see him on it all the time I know it's mostly what he plays. I know others prefer the others, but I only own the 360. My roommate spent $800 on the PS3 and a bunch of kerokee (you have no idea the hell I went through from that day forward) and Madden NFL (which I also don't like...I prefer 1st person shooter). I didn't care for the interface and using the controls seemed cool at times, but also a pain in the ass. I'm not sure if I like it. My main reference was old Atari's, Nintendos and SNES....I took time away from consoles and played PC games until the 360 came out (got tired of my motherboard/graphics card being old in 3 months). With that reference, I think the 360 is simple, easy and has a great interface (control panel, connecting peripherals, etc).
OK, I've gone off topic and praised M$ in a M$-averse neighborhood...let the flaming and modding down begin LOL
I agree with you (and the other named poster who replied)...the sequels sucked (which is why I said, "almost," since it started, vice, "Always sucked"). Honestly, if it weren't for the sci-fi appeal and (at the time) cutting edge animation and camera sequencing, I'm wondering if it wouldn't be just another Nicholas Cage movie with little play.
A Disney release with broad appeal, versus a niche movie that sucked almost since it started....and you're surprised? My 4 year old wants to watch Pirates, but has 0 interest in Matrix. Does that mean my 4 yr old snubs my HD DVD XBox and wants a PlayStation3? LOL....please
I've got several friends who are instructors in the US Marines and they train grunts to shoot guns and kill people. From talking to them, it doesn't matter how "Bad ass" you are, how violent people think you are, how many games you've played....the human pshyche is normally averse to taking another human life. You can argue all you want about violence, insensitivity, etc.. but the simple matter is this: When it comes right down to it....and you've got a living person within your site/crosshairs...most people will not shoot.
Once you get out of the fairy tale world of the movies and realize this simple part of the human mind, Jack's futility and silliness becomes very apparent (if it didn't already). Following his logic, we'd do away with ANY virtual realism because some crackhead could say, "I trained for *insert heinous crime* by playing *insert ANY game here*". Idiots were saying this about Dungeons and Dragons in the mid to late 1980s. We don't ban board games and dice because of a few retards.
Thanks for the reply. I really am looking for alternative explanations, but it's hard to believe anything else when the only common denominator is P2P (during bad service).
You mentioned that you found it to be your router. Did rebooting the NAT-enabled router have any effect? If it were some sort of configuration or MTU problem with the router, I'm not sure, but I'd think rebooting the router might do something. In my case, it did nothing. All I had to do was reboot the cable modem. My Belkin wi-fi router has a default HTML page with "WAN Connection Status" up top, and a somewhat good logging function. When I reboot the cable modem, I see no difference in connectivity log between the PC and router. The Cable modem renegotiates and the Router's status returns to a green, "Connected" state for the WAN connection status. There are no other computers that were introduced/removed at the time.
For what it's worth, my internal network still worked fine, even when the cable modem took a dive. I was running an FTP server on my PC in the garage and could still get to it from the den's PC. The XBOX360 could still stream MP3s from the den's PC, and they both could get to the network printer. The only thing that would go down would be the WAN interface. Rebooting the router did nothing (sorry for repeating). I guess I could do one more step of troubleshooting by inserting one of my Sun workstations in between the router and cable modem, and adding a second network card to the Sun. Solaris is configured out of the box to configuire itself as a switch if it detects two NICs. I could set up a packet trace and then compare pre-failure traffic with post-traffic failure. Or, simply route directly from the cable modem to the PC with Limewore. However, choice A is more work than I'd care to do right now and I'm not fond of connecting a computer directly to broadband....I'd rather have gimpy service than increase my risk that much:D There was a post on Slashdot about 6 months ago about how the average computer hooked directly to broadband is 0wn3d in an average of 6-10 minutes. Even fully patched, virus scan-enabled and spam/spyware buster protected, I'm skittish.
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The fact you remember prepositions exist, can spell it, and use it in a sentence puts you leaps and bounds ahead of 90% of the native-English speaking people. When I started seeing bad grammar in respectable advertisements (not parody, puns, trying to be funny, etc), repeatedly, I came to the realization it's now considered perfectly normal to butcher the Queen's English (pardon the pun) here in the US. I still cringe, though, when I hear, "Where are you at?"
As a member of the Air Force, yeppers, same here. I will probably take a minority view here, but I'd prefer people in a war zone NOT blog. It's just too damn easy to give away OPSEC. You mention dates of leave, numbers of people doing XYZ, etc. It becomes extremely easy to use even the simplest of information to maximize damage. It's how they figured out previous attacks. The enemy is reading this stuff and paying attention. So altough it's great that Geraldo feels really smart drawing troop movements in the dirt pre-op, it's not much different when a grunt in the field does something like confirm battle damage or weaknesses For example, "yeah, we almost died today but our XXXXXXX {insert system name} did a great job and it's the first time they've worked this week. Thank goodness for..."
Just to spell it out a little more, an illegal act can not be made into a binding contract. So your example falls apart the moment you signed a contract for an illegal act. It's actually the opposite, though. If someone knows about the contract and DOESN'T stop it, they might be looking at conspiracy to commit murder charges in some cases.
You bring up an interesting point. Imagine a car manufacturer that sold cars with an artificially capped top speed of 55 MPH, while their marketing department worked with engineering to make a 200 mph supercar. It's an obvious crossing of priorities. You want to increase "mindshare" of your market audience, not drive them away. If I were able and willing to pay, and also had a choice of providers, I would never pick Comcast to pay extra for my higher bandwidth because they've proven they will lie or cheat to get ahead, as well as limit my capabilities. Not the type of company I would willingly give my money to.
If you haven't played a game for a few weeks, the system will check for an update. I was completely locked out of playing "Saint's Row" because it couldn't connect to update. Yes, I could have played off-line, but I mostly play all my games on-line. I think that's the real disconnect between the people pissed and those who say "Get over it, it's just a game". Imagine if Microsoft said, "Get over your Blue Screen of Death, it's JUST a computer." GM, "Get over it, it's JUST a car...freakin WALK, the cavemen did it!!!"
If you really enjoy gaming, and really enjoy online gaming, it's extremely frustrating. I'm hooked and got my roommate hooked (twice). After we destroyed on Rainbow6:Las Vegas, we moved on to Halo3. We're both officers (in the game, ironically, I'm also one in the USAF) and trying to make rank, so it's something we work hard on and greatly enjoy.
He get's all the way through the several of the campaigns and the system makes this sound like it's eating the DVD. You have about 30 seconds to lock up at that point. Needless to say, he was insanely pissed that he had to re-do the campaign, even though the second time he heard the sound he immediately went to "Save and Quit". For most, this sounds trivial, but beating Halo 3 on Legendary is a huge pain in the ass and sometimes several hours of effort for a single campaign. The upside, the XBOX360 controller has withstood huge G forces and shock from cross-room hurling into large, fixed, and hard objects. I've tried at times to destroy it to no avail. Too bad the same people didn't make the drive.
HDMI is a proprietary plug, whereas the RCA, aka phono, plug wasn't (isn't). They purposely made it a closed, proprietary format so that they could charge for licensing, etc. It's really an end game for the DRM goals that large corporations are hoping allow them to totally lock content, IMHO. Crack your player? Cool, but the TV won't display the video because your HDMI signal doesn't include the "flag", which says you paid for the content. Have a consumer modulator (e.g. you can see a camera over the front door on channel 125 from any TV)? Ooops, can't use it unless they paid the $$$ for the HDMI license to say, "This content is OK".
I half think they would somehow build DRM into prescription glasses if there was a technical way to do it and then make it look like a "charitable act".
FREE GLASSES* (must subscribe to DRM-enable subscription for $10 a month, 24 month minimum with a $500 early drop out fee).
The assertion "it's not wireless HDMI" is, IMHO, intentionally misleading. Technically, using their logic there is no HDMI because you could equally say, "Well, there's a possibility today's physical cable won't pass whatever standards they approve". To me it's retarded. You're building DRM into the cable? I'm not sure the Home Integration Market (the guys who specialize in big dollar home theater jobs in really nice houses) realize the implications down the road. Your really nice in home modulator, etc, may become obsolete when new DRM-expectant devices don't see "the secret code" and shut down any content they don't recognize. One of the other posts on here did a good job explaining the impact, using the example of plugging your PS3 through a receiver to a projector. I do just that with my XBOX360. I send it through my Denon high-end receiver. The 360 content isn't touched, but the DVD (standard def) input, and VHR player are upscaled and sent out the single Component Output for the projector. In other words, I use my receiver to switch between inputs to the single, component input of the projector.
I never directly said Windows was on the 360. I didn't imply it and if it was inferred, I apologize for the confusion. I said that the only devices I have that freeze are Microsoft, a company also responsible for Windows. I won't go into fallacies of logic, but suffice it to say, I was pointing out they have a track record of instable software and operating systems.
You mentioned HPUX and another UNIX variant. Those should have had uptimes of years. I've maintained hundreds of servers, most Solaris and HPUX, and even with hard drive failures, we never went down due to a RAID setup. I don't know how you get more reliable than 99.999%, which was our network performance stat. I would never reasonably expect a Windows machine to do this, and the couple hundred I did maintain for 9 months loved to freeze.
The 90's would like their Windows back? No, I want it. XP freezes more for me than my old Win2k. The irony is I had to reboot my XP machine just to reply to this when IE decided to freeze. My old Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop running Win2k Pro can go weeks without problems, with stable applications running. I still wouldn't run either in a Production environment which needed 99.999% system reliability (near military-grade)
Does it seem to anyone else that it's a dichotomy to put anything Windows on Linux? If I run Linux, it's usually a box I want to stay up and work all the time. This is not Window's thing. The DVD player in my house that freezes, is my XBOX360. The only HD DVD player I know that freezes, is the HD DVD hanging off my XBOX360.
However, say a hobbiest...or someone one with a great deal of time could do it :)
I'm too busy with all the fires and such in San Diego, maybe next week...
Anyway, it did get to a point where I instantly got escalated to their 2 or 3 tier because if I couldn't fix it, or I couldn't find the answer withing a Unix forum on-line, they would have a hard time offering a solution. This was supporting about 300 Sun Netra systems running Solaris 9.
I've had people get into arguments saying it's MTU or someother issue with P2P, but I've been just going on emperical data and personal observations. My internet connection to Cox ONLY becomes spotty (at best) when I fire up ANY version of a P2P software. I can go months without rebooting my PC, Router, and Cable modem, but the moment I fire up LimeWire it drops to slow performance and often locks up within 5 minutes. Rebooting the cable mode can instantly fix it. Dont run Limewire? It'll go back to normal. Run Limewire after rebooting? Back to slow performance and a reboot it right around the corner. Again, I've tried different types of P2P, so I'm not buying any breakdown in the TCP/IP stack (MTU problems, etc). It's almost as if they drop my IP lease because I still see traffic but nothing works. Their "stop communicating" message would also make sense.
Read all the way through the article and you'll see an interesting reply from a reader. They took some thousand copies (I'm too lazy to go back and look at the number) and yet say they recovered $500M worth of software. Both are very large numbers and most people weren't math majors in college...so the numbers easily fly. However, if you do the math the reader points out it comes to about $1,100 a copy. Hardly, a "conservative estimate" as the article states if this is in fact a direct cost associated with just those copies confiscated.
I'd agree with your reply to both of those points. Depth of experience is going to make more difference than GPA when I'm interviewing. If you've got a 2.0 but can get more done in a 40 hour week than a 4.0 student who only studied....I'm going with the 2.0. And yes, I'm a hiring manager in technology.
Remember, the question in their mind isn't. What did you do in school. They only care, what can you do for me? "4.0 in CS. Nice, but what can you do?" The recruiters may stumble on the gpa, but find ways around them.
I hate my cable provide too. They keep upping the price and Limewire shuts down the service. I can go months without a break in service, but 10 minutes on Limewire can, on occasion shut the service down. Only rebooting the cable modem fixes. I thought it was the service, and Cox said "5 years is the break point, you need a new cable modem" which I think is garbage. Anyway, last time I posted about this someone said it was likely a MTU issue with my router. How do I chase this and figure out if it's the issue?
I ran through all the links, and found Jill Filipovic's Flickr site (it's easy, just paste it into search). After wasting about 15 minutes of my life, possible flaggin the corporate wirewall for "questionable search strings", and being reacquainted with how stupid people can get....I'm sorta on the fence on this one.
:) (sorry if THAT offends....) Back on topic: I hire people, and I'd give NO consideration to the rantings of a message board. This is why I found it offensive the MessageBoard admin guy didn't get a job because of his simple affiliation with the message board. That's just plain stupid. CowboyNeal isn't responsible for MY comments, whether I'm a freakin genuis or a certifiable retard.
After reading Jill's own words, seeing what she was exposed to, I understand her frustration. I can't empathize because I'm not female and subjected to constant oogling, but I can sympathize if she feels wronged. Obviously she does because she is suing. Obviously, as a law student, she realizes the consequences and did more than just spout, "IAMNAL, but blah blah blah" like most people would. If she felt scorned, she knows the suit will increse the actions of the unjust. Hence the really vile emails and comments she is now getting. I don't care how bad a person is or isn't, no one deserves to be called "a diseased AIDS infected cum bucket..."
On the other hand, these are just idiots posting on a message board similar to ours. I wish all boards had our moderation (and meta-moderate). Would it stop it? Nah, but I can decide on days with little time to read the meat (read 2+), or on days with not much to do see the "nice rack" comments (reading -1) which of course would make me pull up the pics since I'm def interested in any pics described in that manner
So where does that leave us? A meager attempt by the law to do what's possibly moral in the eyes of a few. We know they got it dead wrong with DMCA, but right with attempted murder. Yes, I picked extremes, but you can see my point. Morally, is it wrong and they should be sued for calling her what they did? I guess if you had to nail me to the wall one way or the other, I'd say I agree with Jill. Yeah, it makes me uncomfortable agreeing with anyone who associates with variations of the word "feminist" but she might also be using it in a different construct/context. The reason I am comfortable is that free speech has responsible constraints. If you disagree, post a very public attack on $cientology with personal info about yourself, and then tell me in 6 months how you feel. I have a feeling you'll think Jill might have a point.
I work in a tech support department for a manufacturer, and it's a tightrope to balance Sales desires versus Engineering's desires. Engineering wants to come out with a fix, but yet they want to keep a lid on the idea that they designed a defective product. Sales wants to hear there's a fix but then gets upset when distributors want to return hundreds of product. So, applying my experience to the observations of Microsoft, I'd say it's either a bug they can't reproduce, or a change mid-production for a bug that isn't going to happen a high percentage of the time on the original design.
For example, we had a problem with the open cell foam behind buttons for security panels that were installed in the upper-NorthEast areas of the US, and Canada. Water would get into the cell and freeze, and then subsequent freeze/thaw conditions killed the foam. We revised the design. There's no reason, however, for a Florida or Arizona distributor to return thousands of units for a "button upgrade", even though everyone wants the "latest and greatest". One other example is a "hypothetical" condition. You've got hundreds of products with "reported heat issues". You might think this is an issue, but when you look at the fact there are millions of units out, hundreds is nothing. Engineering on their own makes a heat design change, and you decide to implement it on returns cause the retrofit is cheap and practical. You're not going to recall millions of units that are currently working fine, and there are a couple hundred with REPORTED problems. I have a feeling if you look at other consumer devices stuck in entertainment centers, the number of overheating XBOX360s is on par for the industry.
Really? I guess I'll have to reconnect it and try again. To be honest, WMP is the ONE thing I don't want updated.
The fact they're IIS and pirated seems to be moot, the point is many people just don't feel like "proving" to M$ that their version isn't pirated and give up trying to do security updates. I have one computer, out of about 9 or 10 I own at home, that has XP loaded on it. When I put it online and try to patch it, it does it's "Authenticity Check" and fails saying it was not a valid install. I know I bought a copy of XP specifically for this computer since it was for a businesses' use (and hence, tax deductible as an expense). Since it's never going to be on-line I said, "Screw it" and didn't bother with trying to update it. I'm sure many home owners are in the same boat...except they keep it online.
Maybe they'll come around like they did on Win2K. They said they stopped supporting updates and I noticed no nags on my laptop for a really long time...lately I've noticed M$ is pushing security updates to it again. This is a computer I almost pulled from the "on line" array when it got infected twice by MySpace and YouTube....but I got it cleaned up through a few programs and a couple hours...
OK, I asked him. He said he just wants a new Thomas the Train engine and a skateboard. Oh, and as I walked away I swore I heard him mutter under his breath, "Wii's are for gay azz biathes anyway" :)
I was talking to a friend last night...he has 3 XBOX 360s (one he moded and got banned, one for himself and the third bought while waiting for Microsoft to fix the second one ("disk unreadable" errors, which are now gone). He's also got the PS3 and Wii. He says he really just likes his XBOX360...since I see him on it all the time I know it's mostly what he plays. I know others prefer the others, but I only own the 360. My roommate spent $800 on the PS3 and a bunch of kerokee (you have no idea the hell I went through from that day forward) and Madden NFL (which I also don't like...I prefer 1st person shooter). I didn't care for the interface and using the controls seemed cool at times, but also a pain in the ass. I'm not sure if I like it. My main reference was old Atari's, Nintendos and SNES....I took time away from consoles and played PC games until the 360 came out (got tired of my motherboard/graphics card being old in 3 months). With that reference, I think the 360 is simple, easy and has a great interface (control panel, connecting peripherals, etc).
OK, I've gone off topic and praised M$ in a M$-averse neighborhood...let the flaming and modding down begin LOL
I agree with you (and the other named poster who replied)...the sequels sucked (which is why I said, "almost," since it started, vice, "Always sucked"). Honestly, if it weren't for the sci-fi appeal and (at the time) cutting edge animation and camera sequencing, I'm wondering if it wouldn't be just another Nicholas Cage movie with little play.
Oh, and no. Only 4 yr old Pirates play Xbox
A Disney release with broad appeal, versus a niche movie that sucked almost since it started....and you're surprised? My 4 year old wants to watch Pirates, but has 0 interest in Matrix. Does that mean my 4 yr old snubs my HD DVD XBox and wants a PlayStation3? LOL....please
I've got several friends who are instructors in the US Marines and they train grunts to shoot guns and kill people. From talking to them, it doesn't matter how "Bad ass" you are, how violent people think you are, how many games you've played....the human pshyche is normally averse to taking another human life. You can argue all you want about violence, insensitivity, etc.. but the simple matter is this: When it comes right down to it....and you've got a living person within your site/crosshairs...most people will not shoot.
Once you get out of the fairy tale world of the movies and realize this simple part of the human mind, Jack's futility and silliness becomes very apparent (if it didn't already). Following his logic, we'd do away with ANY virtual realism because some crackhead could say, "I trained for *insert heinous crime* by playing *insert ANY game here*". Idiots were saying this about Dungeons and Dragons in the mid to late 1980s. We don't ban board games and dice because of a few retards.
Thanks for the reply. I really am looking for alternative explanations, but it's hard to believe anything else when the only common denominator is P2P (during bad service).
You mentioned that you found it to be your router. Did rebooting the NAT-enabled router have any effect? If it were some sort of configuration or MTU problem with the router, I'm not sure, but I'd think rebooting the router might do something. In my case, it did nothing. All I had to do was reboot the cable modem. My Belkin wi-fi router has a default HTML page with "WAN Connection Status" up top, and a somewhat good logging function. When I reboot the cable modem, I see no difference in connectivity log between the PC and router. The Cable modem renegotiates and the Router's status returns to a green, "Connected" state for the WAN connection status. There are no other computers that were introduced/removed at the time.
For what it's worth, my internal network still worked fine, even when the cable modem took a dive. I was running an FTP server on my PC in the garage and could still get to it from the den's PC. The XBOX360 could still stream MP3s from the den's PC, and they both could get to the network printer. The only thing that would go down would be the WAN interface. Rebooting the router did nothing (sorry for repeating). I guess I could do one more step of troubleshooting by inserting one of my Sun workstations in between the router and cable modem, and adding a second network card to the Sun. Solaris is configured out of the box to configuire itself as a switch if it detects two NICs. I could set up a packet trace and then compare pre-failure traffic with post-traffic failure. Or, simply route directly from the cable modem to the PC with Limewore. However, choice A is more work than I'd care to do right now and I'm not fond of connecting a computer directly to broadband....I'd rather have gimpy service than increase my risk that much :D There was a post on Slashdot about 6 months ago about how the average computer hooked directly to broadband is 0wn3d in an average of 6-10 minutes. Even fully patched, virus scan-enabled and spam/spyware buster protected, I'm skittish.