The big deal is that it will set precedent for future cases. This accomplishes two things. One being it makes it easier for future copyright holders to win a case by citing this case (assuming the SFLC wins) when making theirs. When another judge has already ruled that this sort of case one way, another judge (or the same judge) is more likely to go with that ruling, rather than going the other way. Everything else being equal in a case, if there is precedent set, it will usually tip the judge in favor of ruling with the established precedent.
The second, and perhaps bigger issue here is, as I've already said, set precedent... so if this case is handled poorly by the SFLC, and precedent is set improperly, it's going to make enforcing the GPL that much harder for the next person. While it's unlikely that the SFLC would lose, if their lawyers completely botched it, it would be very bad for the GPL, at least in the short term and would potentially encourage unscrupulous companies to continue or begin to infringe the GPL, since there is case law that shows it's unenforceable.
So yes, it's a big case. Any case that establishes precedent is a big case for the issue involved.
Someone steals the text of the actual article (not unusual, I know), instead of providing an actual summary... but leaves out the hyperlink that's actually IN the stolen text for the Identity Project referenced in the article.
Now that you mention it, I had totally forgotten about that. It's a good point (Hawking Paradox) - so what would happen to the entanglement at that point? Would it simply be broken or something else?
I wasn't trying to be secretive about the company or anything. The rebates I've had problems with come from Microcenter. The rebate company that is in charge of it actually appears to be Microcenter itself, as opposed to an outside company, but I could be wrong about this.
I get a little postcard with Microcenters logo and some cryptic identifying information and I have to call and figure out what's wrong with the rebate.
I am very pleased with Microcenter as a whole and buy from them whenever I can - they are one of the best B & M computer stores I've ever been to, customer service is excellent, product selection is excellent, and most of the time, rebate response is excellent... but I find it suspicious that they claim they didn't receive part of the rebate submission, but received other parts when they are on the same page. If it wern't for that, I would have chalked it up to legitimate errors, either on my part, the postal service, or some other human error, since the incident rate has been so low... but when there's evidence that is irrefutable such as that, you know something fishy is up. Either way, once I fax the information in, they send my rebate out within a week. It's sneaky and underhanded, but I'm not sure what else I can do, other than not buy their products.
I believe the "wait the age of the universe" problem applies to information (light, etc...) that is constrained by relativistic laws. An entangled photon, as described here, wouldn't be constrained by that. We would see the photon falling into the hole and get slower and slower and the information within the relativistic universe would come slower and slower.... but the entangled information should come at a "normal" rate, so we would, in effect, be peering into the future from our point of view.
At least, that is the way I understand it, but I'm certainly not a one o' them fi-icks dudes.
Wow, I'm surprised at all the horror stories about the rebates. I'm sure some of them, maybe a lot of them are true to an extent.
However, I've sent in hundreds (Close to 300) of rebates over the past 3 or 4 years, and I've had exactly 6 come up with problems, which were resolved with a call to the company or to send in copies of my rebate submission.
One company in particular, which I'm not sure what name they use, though, so they might actually be part of the retailer itself, as opposed to a rebate company proper, has been the lions share of problems. They claim part of my submission was not included... Well, I always keep copies, so I know what is included and what isn't, but on more than on occasion, they claim they got the receipt, but not the UPC or something... the funny thing is, the submission has the UPC and receipt on the SAME PHOTOCOPIED PAGE... so it's physically impossible not to receive one without the other... yet they claim it is so. Obviously they try to scam some people... Either way, once I send them in another copy of the SAME page, they send me my rebate.
But, I digress. My point is that out of the nearly 300 rebates I've sent in, a very small percentage has ever given me a problem, and a large part of that very small percentage has been from one company in particular. Otherwise, I've always received my rebates without hassle, even if it takes 4 or 5 months for them to arrive.
There's a program out there called "Rebate! Rebate!" that keeps track of your rebates. I don't have a link, but it works pretty well.
I like rebates... kind of a pain to send in, but they do offer some really good/incredible deals now and then and are worth the effort, so long as you follow the requirements exactly, which usually isn't that hard.
Hmm... 1000 times more powerful than the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima? In 1945?
Hiroshima has never been the recipient of a nuclear bomb. They didn't even exist in 1945. The best we had were atomic bombs. Hiroshima got smashed by a 10 kiloton bomb.
Nuclear bombs are generally considered to be of the fusion type. Atomic bombs are generally considered to be the fission type. Fusion is about 1000x more energetic than fission... If a nuclear bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, it would have been the same as the Tunguska explosion. Or worse.
So let me get this straight... you complain about the little degrading things that you endure because you are a woman... then you go on to say "We simply present ourselves as the women that we are."
So which is it? Are you a woman or a worker? If you are a worker, then you have to put up with the degrading things... you think the guys don't have to put up with degrading things? Sure, we don't talk about each other boobs... oh wait, yeah we do. You think Ceasar over there with the man-boobs doesn't catch shit for it? Think again. You think Chris from cube 12a with the crazy hair and wandering eye doesn't catch shit for it? Think again. You think Rico "Mr. Metrosexual" Suave doesn't catch shit? Yeah, right... dream on. Homeboy Brian needs a shower and a shave... you don't think he gets off scott free, do you?
If you want to be a woman, you catch shit. If you want to be a worker, you catch shit. That's the environment.
I'm sick and fucking tired of hearing about how women want equality... but suddenly, when they get the equality they so desperately want, they whine and complain and try to change the whole playing field to be more conducive to their delicate sensibilities. You don't want equality, you want a work environment personally tailored to you.
Guys don't get that... we have to put up with shit and so should you, as long as you keep harping on "We just want to be equal." It's bullshit, plain and simple. You can come into an IT shop, and if it's jocular and locker-room mentality, then that's the environment YOU have to adapt to. The moment you start trying to change it to suite yourself is the moment you can no longer fly the "Equality" banner.
I'm not saying it's wrong to want to change it, but if you want to change it just because you're a woman, you can piss off. Don't whine about it being hostile to women, it's fucking hostile to everyone, not women. Men are just use to it and have the skills to work in that sort of environment. So get over the equality thing. You don't want equality, you want a personally tailored work environment. We'd all like that, welcome to the real world of corporate business. You sure you don't want to stay home?
There are plenty of women who fit right in, in the corporate environment. Those are the ones that truly want equality and interact with their peers on and equal level. The ones like you are the ones who don't want equality. Take a lesson from the successful women in the workplace - they didn't try to change it, they adapted and fit in and didn't whine about it being degrading that someone was looking at their tits or making comments about their hair; They knew that everyone in the group has to put up with some shit, that's the way it is. If the environment is that anathema to your sensibilities, it's time to move on to one that you fit in better with.
Anyone emailed them yet?
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Has anyone emailed the 4 people who own Zunes yet and let them know?
I think two of them were non-techies, so they may not know.
Keep in mind, the applications I deal with have data integrity as the number one priority, so anything that *might* affect data integrity is strictly a no-no... and that just happens to be patches and upgrades.
To all of you who are talking about upgrading from 6 or 7 to 10 with zones... yeah, like I said, I'm sure some non-complex applications migrate just fine. When you have custom developed applications, even applying a patch can cause problems. Does it always? No, it doesn't.. but it can and has caused problems in the past. It would be great to use off the shelf software, but unfortunately, I don't know of any 4G (now 4g, was 3G and stuff prior to that) network build out software that we can go buy off the shelf. If anyone knows of an off the shelf solution to building a 4G phone network, let me know, I'm very interested if the price is right.
What the hell are they talking about "...promise of backward compatibility."? I guess it depends on how you define backward compatibility... but I manage about 1500 SUN servers, from old Sparcstations to enterprise class servers, and they are about as backward compatible as putting a stone wheel on your Honda. Sure, it might fit, but you sure as hell don't want to drive anywhere with it.
Most of my users on various boxes are afraid to even apply Sun patches because it breaks applications left and right. Granted, we are development segment of my company, but still... the Solaris operating system is barely backward compatible within it's own major release, much less between versions. Simple tools will run just fine, of course, but the more complex the application, the less likely it is to run between major versions, and likely going to cause some sort of havoc between minor revisions within the same version. I see it happen daily.
They really don't need to worry about their "backward compatibility," when trying to make Solaris more Linux like... I'm glad they are doing this - I absolutely hate administrating a stock Solaris system. It feels so archaic and like something straight out of the late 80's or early 90's, back when I was logging into the beasts on my 300 baud modem. The only worse offender in this area is HP-UX... though I will admit that with Solaris 10 and HP-UX 11 there have been some minor inroads into the monolithic, archaic feel to both OS's, but they both have a very, very, very long way to go.
Just to clarify - I understand why those OS's are that way, but it doesn't mean I like it nor want to use them. If they can retain the stability of Solaris and make it more comfortable to use, I'm all for it.
Perhaps, with a stretch, on a YRO posted topic on Slashdot devoted entirely to the political ramifications of DRM, as opposed to one devoted to the technical issues surrounding DRM.
Why would you bother to do this? There only needs to be one hackable drive out there (which is already out there, obviously) - and the keys can be retrieved from each new disc that comes out and posted online. Then any HD-DVD drive can read them with the appropriate software.
Additionally, you could also just download the un-encrypted version of the movie in question and burn it to your own HD-DVD or Blu-Ray and go from there.
No need to stockpile hackable drives... one or two would be sufficient. There's thousands, so I think we're safe for a while.
Of course you are a troll. You are on a technology forum (Or did the "News for Nerds" confuse you?) and you're in a topic about AACS and you're trying to talk about politics and shit totally unrelated to the topic. That's trolling. You want to start a discussion on an irrelevant topic by using inflammatory wording about what's supposedly "important" and what isn't. Of course, what's important is YOUR definition of it... so yes, that's the definition of a troll and you have been modded appropriately.
This is one of the most appropriate and relevant quotes on I've seen about the RIAA and all these articles about what they are doing and not doing:
"At this point, it may be too late to win back disgruntled music lovers no matter what they do. As one music industry lawyer, Ken Hertz, said recently, "The consumer's conscience, which is all we had left, that's gone, too.""
It really strikes a cord with me, and I'm sure many others. I was (and still am) more than willing to pay for music. I am not willing to over-pay for music. I never liked paying $15+ for a CD with 1 song I liked on it. It's over priced, always has been..99c a song is a bit over priced, but I'd be somewhat willing to pay for it and I wouldn't mind *too much* -- but when there is access to songs at.5c and.10c a piece, that's a little more reasonable to me. That's what I'm willing to pay (and I do from allofmp3 of course). I haven't downloaded music from P2P or FTP in years... I'm more than willing to pay for the convenience and quality of allofmp3. So are many other people. We've always been willing to pay for it - most have not been willing to over-pay for it. They've over-paid in the past because there was no other option.
However, getting back to my original point - after the RIAA's antics, I have absolutely no remorse about downloading from allofmp3, or even using P2P to get the music I want. The quote is dead accurate... the last currency they had with consumers was their conscience, and they threw it away, stomped on it, whipped it out and pissed on it, then laughed. Now, I don't care. I just plain don't care... after seeing the lengths they have gone to corrupt the legal system, the business model and everything else, I simply just don't care about paying them anything, ever. I will pay for a convenience, but I won't pay for the content. If that means no more content is being made, fine... I can do without. I will, however, pay artists directly for what they are worth. As soon as I can go to an artists website and be sure the funds are going to them, not the RIAA, I will happily download from there.
To those "business owners" who are complaining about their stores going out of business - whatever the cause, be it pirates, the RIAA, etc... - too bad is about all I have to say. I don't want to buy CDs, in fact I never did. I never liked CD's... they were too big and a pain in the ass to carry around. Couple that with the fact that I had to switch CD's after every song or two (because I couldn't buy a CD with the songs I wanted on it), it made me hate the format. I want a format that contains everything I want to listen to in one discrete, easy to transport and easy to manage package. You don't or can't provide that at a record store, thus your business and your business model is totally irrelevant. Your business closed because it's irrelevant and nobody wants the service you are offering, not because of pirates or the RIAA. You need to adapt to what people want or go out of business... you went out of business... that's the way these things work.
Record stores converted to 8 tracks (or added 8 tracks to their inventory), then added cassettes, then added CDs. The record stores that did NOT do this went out of business... nobody wanted to buy 8 tracks anymore. Any store that still sold only 8 tracks went out of business. Today, nobody wants to buy physical media like CDs or records... adapt like generations upon generations of music stores did before, or go out of business. Stop bitching about it... adapt.
If you nitwits in "developing countries" wouldn't breed like god damned rabbits and not overpopulate the earth, you could live like Americans. Hey India and China, bring your population down to reasonable levels before you bitch about not being able to live like Americans. Same goes for you stuffed up Eurotrash countries as well... get your population level per sq/km the same as the US before you start bitching about being able to live as extravagantly as Americans.
I'm sick of hearing about how Americans consume so much of this and that compared to the rest of the world... Well shit, of course we consume more per person than the rest of the world... we only have a tiny fraction of the population. If the rest of the world brought their numbers into check, they too would easily be able to live extravagantly. Blame your poverty on your population and your inability to use effective birth control as opposed to bitching about what someone else has. But... shit, it's easier to blame someone else for your problems, instead of solving the local immediate problem of overpopulation.
Yeah, because no one plays racing games with controls that seek to accurately reproduce a steering wheel and floor pedals. Oh, wait... some people do.
I have yet to see a sim that actually reproduces the feeling of being in a car. There's no muscle memory there from playing a home based system. If you get up into the expensive sims, you might have some slight advantage... but the fact is, the road conditions, the initial conditions of the crash, and lets not forget a little thing called gravity and angular momentum that changes extremely fast. Those factors will obliterate any "muscle memory" you might have from driving a sim.
Crashing in a sim and crashing or spinning in real life are not even vaguely related. Start taking your car to the track and wreck it a few times or spin and then come back and tell me the sim was even remotely similar. It's not. Not even in the vaguest sense.
The point of the sim is to understand what you are seeing and what's going on around you during an event, it does NOT train you for real life events, it just makes it easier to integrate those events into a solid contingency plan. High dollar sims increase the realism factor a bit, but there's a reason you have to have actual hours in the cockpit (be in a plane or race car) before you're licensed to operate one.
My situation is similar to telecommuting, where my boss lives and works in another state.
I haven't had an advancement in years... not that I've really desired one; I'm pretty happy where I'm at... but I'm curious as to if there's a similar correlation to telecommuters when you never really get face time with your boss, even if you do work in a cubicle farm.
Writing games on DOS/4GW and Win32s is a thing of the past. If you want to see a game, check out the DirectX 10 enabled games and then tell me vista isn't a gamers os.
Ok, I'm in! I have an 8800GTX up and running on water... ready to go! What's a good example of a DX10 game that kicks ass?
Oh wait... you mean it's still all on paper right? There's not really an example of a kick ass DX10 game, is there? Boy, you had me going for a minute.
It's not completely different... it's still a grey area that really hasn't been tested in court in terms of is it fair use or not?
But what is illegal about that transaction is the person offering it for download... they are not authorized to do so, and thus the person offering it is committing a blatantly illegal act. The person downloading the show is in the grey area that I suspect they could get out of if pressed hard enough.
Given my experience, I'm even fairly convinced that the rest of my family (who are much more like ordinary users) would benefit from dual core too. Everything is simply so much more responsive.
What? What is more responsive? Someone show me some tangible proof that day-to-day activities are "more responsive" or "smoother." I have yet to see it. Maybe I just set my shit up properly from the get-go, so my computing experience is already hyper responsive, so I don't notice the difference. Maybe dual and quad cores are good for the masses that have 500 task bar thingies running, a bunch of spyware and other cruft clogging up the system. Hell, if that's the case, then I take it back... dual and quad cores will be a boon to the average user... but totally useless to the competent user who doesn't need to compile shit in the background or rip DVDs every night while playing Oblivion.
Maybe YOU have a bunch of crap running that you don't need to have running, making your system sluggish and you see a benefit from multiple cores. Hell, I invite anyone to work on my system(s) for a day... I won't tell you which one is single core and which one is dual core... see if you can guess. They are both equally responsive.
And it's obvious to say that when I stepped up to the Mac Pro, it blew everything out of the water. But I can't believe you're saying multiple cores is only good for running multiple apps. That's simplistic and wrong. To begin with, we're ALL running multiple apps all the time -- MP3 player, web browser, email, and so on. Sure, none of these processes are taking a ton of CPU time, but the ability for the OS to assign them to different cores means your computing experience is much smoother and more consistant.
Every application you mentioned doesn't consume enough CPU time to make a whit of difference to the average user in terms of single or multiple cores. It's laughable that you say "It means your computing experience is much smoother and more consistent," you are just repeating marketing bullshit. You've heard it so often that you believe it. I truly believe that YOU believe it's the case, but the fact is... it's not. If you have a fast single core CPU and you are doing the above applications like an average user, you aren't going to have a "smoother" experience. Your experience will be identical. Only pedantic nit-picking will reveal a difference. In a day-to-day basis, on average, there will be no difference.
Hell, Acquisition X (P2P client) often has something like 50 java threads running, so even though I'm running "one program" its not like I'm not seeing a benefit from 4 cores.
Tell me how you are seeing a benefit? I'm speaking to Windows and multi-core procs. On a Windows box, something with 50 threads is going to behave just the same to the user if they are on single or dual cores. I've had no experience with Macs since 1995, so I can't speak to them, and frankly I don't care. Macs are useless to me - they have and do nothing I want, so I have no interest in them. What your experience on a Mac with single or Dual Cores is, is totally irrelevant to the majority of computer users. You are a minority, live with it.
Also, I am in the process of ripping my entire DVD collection to hard disk, and it's pretty sweet the way Handbrake can crunch a full DVD down to 1500kbps at full size/framerate in 40 minutes. I'm not using my machine as a server or as a professional, but that doesn't mean we don't all have needs for a high level of performance now and then.
So you do this on a daily basis? Once you're done ripping your entire DVD collection to hard disc, you erase it all and start over? Oh... you meant it's a one time thing, didn't you? You are going to encode them once and then you're done. Well, golly... it's certainly worth plunking out $1000 for a quad core to rip your entire DVD collection, then after you're done 3 of those cores can go to waste! I mean... really. If that's what you want to do, why not just buy a cheap ass Dell, put it in the corner and let it rip your entire collection. Then when you're done, at least you can sell it on eBay or something.
Go read the original post before replying with nonsense.
And it still doesn't support multipart rar's...
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VLC still doesn't support multi-part RAR's... Then again, neither does any other windows based video player. So... VLC stands out from the crowd because... why? I have it. I've used it. I hated it. The video playback looks like crap half the time. I'm sure there's a setting somewhere that I could change to fix that right up, but why? Every other video player I have plays the same files just fine.
I just don't see the point in using VLC if you're a Windows user and already have WMP 10/11 and MediaPlayer classic installed. Now... if it supported multi-part RAR's... you know, the chosen format of the "video transfer scene," then perhaps it would be worth trying to sort out the configuration. But since VLC does nothing I want to do that other programs already do the same or better, why bother?
Well, having lived with an AMD 64x2 for over a year now, I feel comfortable saying that a dual core proc is pretty useless to me. I've noticed absolutely no difference in my computing experience, either in the newest games or in day-to-day non-game activity. It's no different than my similarly clocked A64 with one core.
I'm sure quad cores are great for my servers, especially a couple of my mail servers that process a boatload of mail... but honestly, it's completely useless for the desktop. I would go so far as to say, at this time, and probably for the next couple years, dual core for the desktop/average user is completely useless. When and if games start using dual core, then it will be useful. Before that happens, only people doing heavy graphics work and other similar unusual (in terms of average users) computing needs will benefit.
All this BS about "Wow, I can burn a DVD and play a game at the same time" is just that... BS. Yeah, you might be able to do that, but who the hell cares? I've never had the urge to encode a DVD and play a game at the same time... why would anyone want to do this on a regular basis anyway?
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The big deal is that it will set precedent for future cases. This accomplishes two things. One being it makes it easier for future copyright holders to win a case by citing this case (assuming the SFLC wins) when making theirs. When another judge has already ruled that this sort of case one way, another judge (or the same judge) is more likely to go with that ruling, rather than going the other way. Everything else being equal in a case, if there is precedent set, it will usually tip the judge in favor of ruling with the established precedent.
The second, and perhaps bigger issue here is, as I've already said, set precedent... so if this case is handled poorly by the SFLC, and precedent is set improperly, it's going to make enforcing the GPL that much harder for the next person. While it's unlikely that the SFLC would lose, if their lawyers completely botched it, it would be very bad for the GPL, at least in the short term and would potentially encourage unscrupulous companies to continue or begin to infringe the GPL, since there is case law that shows it's unenforceable.
So yes, it's a big case. Any case that establishes precedent is a big case for the issue involved.
Go Go Gadget editors!
Someone steals the text of the actual article (not unusual, I know), instead of providing an actual summary... but leaves out the hyperlink that's actually IN the stolen text for the Identity Project referenced in the article.
Why bother with editors?
No, Volatire said "Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too."
Beatrice Hall said "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." in the book "Friends of Voltaire"
Now that you mention it, I had totally forgotten about that. It's a good point (Hawking Paradox) - so what would happen to the entanglement at that point? Would it simply be broken or something else?
I wasn't trying to be secretive about the company or anything. The rebates I've had problems with come from Microcenter. The rebate company that is in charge of it actually appears to be Microcenter itself, as opposed to an outside company, but I could be wrong about this.
I get a little postcard with Microcenters logo and some cryptic identifying information and I have to call and figure out what's wrong with the rebate.
I am very pleased with Microcenter as a whole and buy from them whenever I can - they are one of the best B & M computer stores I've ever been to, customer service is excellent, product selection is excellent, and most of the time, rebate response is excellent... but I find it suspicious that they claim they didn't receive part of the rebate submission, but received other parts when they are on the same page. If it wern't for that, I would have chalked it up to legitimate errors, either on my part, the postal service, or some other human error, since the incident rate has been so low... but when there's evidence that is irrefutable such as that, you know something fishy is up. Either way, once I fax the information in, they send my rebate out within a week. It's sneaky and underhanded, but I'm not sure what else I can do, other than not buy their products.
I believe the "wait the age of the universe" problem applies to information (light, etc...) that is constrained by relativistic laws. An entangled photon, as described here, wouldn't be constrained by that. We would see the photon falling into the hole and get slower and slower and the information within the relativistic universe would come slower and slower.... but the entangled information should come at a "normal" rate, so we would, in effect, be peering into the future from our point of view.
At least, that is the way I understand it, but I'm certainly not a one o' them fi-icks dudes.
Wow, I'm surprised at all the horror stories about the rebates. I'm sure some of them, maybe a lot of them are true to an extent.
However, I've sent in hundreds (Close to 300) of rebates over the past 3 or 4 years, and I've had exactly 6 come up with problems, which were resolved with a call to the company or to send in copies of my rebate submission.
One company in particular, which I'm not sure what name they use, though, so they might actually be part of the retailer itself, as opposed to a rebate company proper, has been the lions share of problems. They claim part of my submission was not included... Well, I always keep copies, so I know what is included and what isn't, but on more than on occasion, they claim they got the receipt, but not the UPC or something... the funny thing is, the submission has the UPC and receipt on the SAME PHOTOCOPIED PAGE... so it's physically impossible not to receive one without the other... yet they claim it is so. Obviously they try to scam some people... Either way, once I send them in another copy of the SAME page, they send me my rebate.
But, I digress. My point is that out of the nearly 300 rebates I've sent in, a very small percentage has ever given me a problem, and a large part of that very small percentage has been from one company in particular. Otherwise, I've always received my rebates without hassle, even if it takes 4 or 5 months for them to arrive.
There's a program out there called "Rebate! Rebate!" that keeps track of your rebates. I don't have a link, but it works pretty well.
I like rebates... kind of a pain to send in, but they do offer some really good/incredible deals now and then and are worth the effort, so long as you follow the requirements exactly, which usually isn't that hard.
Hmm... 1000 times more powerful than the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima? In 1945?
Hiroshima has never been the recipient of a nuclear bomb. They didn't even exist in 1945. The best we had were atomic bombs. Hiroshima got smashed by a 10 kiloton bomb.
Nuclear bombs are generally considered to be of the fusion type. Atomic bombs are generally considered to be the fission type. Fusion is about 1000x more energetic than fission... If a nuclear bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, it would have been the same as the Tunguska explosion. Or worse.
So let me get this straight... you complain about the little degrading things that you endure because you are a woman... then you go on to say "We simply present ourselves as the women that we are."
So which is it? Are you a woman or a worker? If you are a worker, then you have to put up with the degrading things... you think the guys don't have to put up with degrading things? Sure, we don't talk about each other boobs... oh wait, yeah we do. You think Ceasar over there with the man-boobs doesn't catch shit for it? Think again. You think Chris from cube 12a with the crazy hair and wandering eye doesn't catch shit for it? Think again. You think Rico "Mr. Metrosexual" Suave doesn't catch shit? Yeah, right... dream on. Homeboy Brian needs a shower and a shave... you don't think he gets off scott free, do you?
If you want to be a woman, you catch shit. If you want to be a worker, you catch shit. That's the environment.
I'm sick and fucking tired of hearing about how women want equality... but suddenly, when they get the equality they so desperately want, they whine and complain and try to change the whole playing field to be more conducive to their delicate sensibilities. You don't want equality, you want a work environment personally tailored to you.
Guys don't get that... we have to put up with shit and so should you, as long as you keep harping on "We just want to be equal." It's bullshit, plain and simple. You can come into an IT shop, and if it's jocular and locker-room mentality, then that's the environment YOU have to adapt to. The moment you start trying to change it to suite yourself is the moment you can no longer fly the "Equality" banner.
I'm not saying it's wrong to want to change it, but if you want to change it just because you're a woman, you can piss off. Don't whine about it being hostile to women, it's fucking hostile to everyone, not women. Men are just use to it and have the skills to work in that sort of environment. So get over the equality thing. You don't want equality, you want a personally tailored work environment. We'd all like that, welcome to the real world of corporate business. You sure you don't want to stay home?
There are plenty of women who fit right in, in the corporate environment. Those are the ones that truly want equality and interact with their peers on and equal level. The ones like you are the ones who don't want equality. Take a lesson from the successful women in the workplace - they didn't try to change it, they adapted and fit in and didn't whine about it being degrading that someone was looking at their tits or making comments about their hair; They knew that everyone in the group has to put up with some shit, that's the way it is. If the environment is that anathema to your sensibilities, it's time to move on to one that you fit in better with.
Has anyone emailed the 4 people who own Zunes yet and let them know?
I think two of them were non-techies, so they may not know.
DymanicSoft applications come to mind.
... yeah, like I said, I'm sure some non-complex applications migrate just fine. When you have custom developed applications, even applying a patch can cause problems. Does it always? No, it doesn't.. but it can and has caused problems in the past. It would be great to use off the shelf software, but unfortunately, I don't know of any 4G (now 4g, was 3G and stuff prior to that) network build out software that we can go buy off the shelf. If anyone knows of an off the shelf solution to building a 4G phone network, let me know, I'm very interested if the price is right.
Keep in mind, the applications I deal with have data integrity as the number one priority, so anything that *might* affect data integrity is strictly a no-no... and that just happens to be patches and upgrades.
To all of you who are talking about upgrading from 6 or 7 to 10 with zones
What the hell are they talking about "...promise of backward compatibility."? I guess it depends on how you define backward compatibility... but I manage about 1500 SUN servers, from old Sparcstations to enterprise class servers, and they are about as backward compatible as putting a stone wheel on your Honda. Sure, it might fit, but you sure as hell don't want to drive anywhere with it.
Most of my users on various boxes are afraid to even apply Sun patches because it breaks applications left and right. Granted, we are development segment of my company, but still... the Solaris operating system is barely backward compatible within it's own major release, much less between versions. Simple tools will run just fine, of course, but the more complex the application, the less likely it is to run between major versions, and likely going to cause some sort of havoc between minor revisions within the same version. I see it happen daily.
They really don't need to worry about their "backward compatibility," when trying to make Solaris more Linux like... I'm glad they are doing this - I absolutely hate administrating a stock Solaris system. It feels so archaic and like something straight out of the late 80's or early 90's, back when I was logging into the beasts on my 300 baud modem. The only worse offender in this area is HP-UX... though I will admit that with Solaris 10 and HP-UX 11 there have been some minor inroads into the monolithic, archaic feel to both OS's, but they both have a very, very, very long way to go.
Just to clarify - I understand why those OS's are that way, but it doesn't mean I like it nor want to use them. If they can retain the stability of Solaris and make it more comfortable to use, I'm all for it.
On a political forum.
Perhaps, with a stretch, on a YRO posted topic on Slashdot devoted entirely to the political ramifications of DRM, as opposed to one devoted to the technical issues surrounding DRM.
Why would you bother to do this? There only needs to be one hackable drive out there (which is already out there, obviously) - and the keys can be retrieved from each new disc that comes out and posted online. Then any HD-DVD drive can read them with the appropriate software.
Additionally, you could also just download the un-encrypted version of the movie in question and burn it to your own HD-DVD or Blu-Ray and go from there.
No need to stockpile hackable drives... one or two would be sufficient. There's thousands, so I think we're safe for a while.
Of course you are a troll. You are on a technology forum (Or did the "News for Nerds" confuse you?) and you're in a topic about AACS and you're trying to talk about politics and shit totally unrelated to the topic. That's trolling. You want to start a discussion on an irrelevant topic by using inflammatory wording about what's supposedly "important" and what isn't. Of course, what's important is YOUR definition of it... so yes, that's the definition of a troll and you have been modded appropriately.
This is one of the most appropriate and relevant quotes on I've seen about the RIAA and all these articles about what they are doing and not doing:
.99c a song is a bit over priced, but I'd be somewhat willing to pay for it and I wouldn't mind *too much* -- but when there is access to songs at .5c and .10c a piece, that's a little more reasonable to me. That's what I'm willing to pay (and I do from allofmp3 of course). I haven't downloaded music from P2P or FTP in years... I'm more than willing to pay for the convenience and quality of allofmp3. So are many other people. We've always been willing to pay for it - most have not been willing to over-pay for it. They've over-paid in the past because there was no other option.
... after seeing the lengths they have gone to corrupt the legal system, the business model and everything else, I simply just don't care about paying them anything, ever. I will pay for a convenience, but I won't pay for the content. If that means no more content is being made, fine... I can do without. I will, however, pay artists directly for what they are worth. As soon as I can go to an artists website and be sure the funds are going to them, not the RIAA, I will happily download from there.
"At this point, it may be too late to win back disgruntled music lovers no matter what they do. As one music industry lawyer, Ken Hertz, said recently, "The consumer's conscience, which is all we had left, that's gone, too.""
It really strikes a cord with me, and I'm sure many others. I was (and still am) more than willing to pay for music. I am not willing to over-pay for music. I never liked paying $15+ for a CD with 1 song I liked on it. It's over priced, always has been.
However, getting back to my original point - after the RIAA's antics, I have absolutely no remorse about downloading from allofmp3, or even using P2P to get the music I want. The quote is dead accurate... the last currency they had with consumers was their conscience, and they threw it away, stomped on it, whipped it out and pissed on it, then laughed. Now, I don't care. I just plain don't care
To those "business owners" who are complaining about their stores going out of business - whatever the cause, be it pirates, the RIAA, etc... - too bad is about all I have to say. I don't want to buy CDs, in fact I never did. I never liked CD's... they were too big and a pain in the ass to carry around. Couple that with the fact that I had to switch CD's after every song or two (because I couldn't buy a CD with the songs I wanted on it), it made me hate the format. I want a format that contains everything I want to listen to in one discrete, easy to transport and easy to manage package. You don't or can't provide that at a record store, thus your business and your business model is totally irrelevant. Your business closed because it's irrelevant and nobody wants the service you are offering, not because of pirates or the RIAA. You need to adapt to what people want or go out of business... you went out of business... that's the way these things work.
Record stores converted to 8 tracks (or added 8 tracks to their inventory), then added cassettes, then added CDs. The record stores that did NOT do this went out of business... nobody wanted to buy 8 tracks anymore. Any store that still sold only 8 tracks went out of business. Today, nobody wants to buy physical media like CDs or records... adapt like generations upon generations of music stores did before, or go out of business. Stop bitching about it... adapt.
If you nitwits in "developing countries" wouldn't breed like god damned rabbits and not overpopulate the earth, you could live like Americans. Hey India and China, bring your population down to reasonable levels before you bitch about not being able to live like Americans. Same goes for you stuffed up Eurotrash countries as well... get your population level per sq/km the same as the US before you start bitching about being able to live as extravagantly as Americans.
I'm sick of hearing about how Americans consume so much of this and that compared to the rest of the world... Well shit, of course we consume more per person than the rest of the world... we only have a tiny fraction of the population. If the rest of the world brought their numbers into check, they too would easily be able to live extravagantly. Blame your poverty on your population and your inability to use effective birth control as opposed to bitching about what someone else has. But... shit, it's easier to blame someone else for your problems, instead of solving the local immediate problem of overpopulation.
Yeah, because no one plays racing games with controls that seek to accurately reproduce a steering wheel and floor pedals. Oh, wait... some people do.
I have yet to see a sim that actually reproduces the feeling of being in a car. There's no muscle memory there from playing a home based system. If you get up into the expensive sims, you might have some slight advantage... but the fact is, the road conditions, the initial conditions of the crash, and lets not forget a little thing called gravity and angular momentum that changes extremely fast. Those factors will obliterate any "muscle memory" you might have from driving a sim.
Crashing in a sim and crashing or spinning in real life are not even vaguely related. Start taking your car to the track and wreck it a few times or spin and then come back and tell me the sim was even remotely similar. It's not. Not even in the vaguest sense.
The point of the sim is to understand what you are seeing and what's going on around you during an event, it does NOT train you for real life events, it just makes it easier to integrate those events into a solid contingency plan. High dollar sims increase the realism factor a bit, but there's a reason you have to have actual hours in the cockpit (be in a plane or race car) before you're licensed to operate one.
My situation is similar to telecommuting, where my boss lives and works in another state.
I haven't had an advancement in years... not that I've really desired one; I'm pretty happy where I'm at... but I'm curious as to if there's a similar correlation to telecommuters when you never really get face time with your boss, even if you do work in a cubicle farm.
Writing games on DOS/4GW and Win32s is a thing of the past. If you want to see a game, check out the DirectX 10 enabled games and then tell me vista isn't a gamers os.
Ok, I'm in! I have an 8800GTX up and running on water... ready to go! What's a good example of a DX10 game that kicks ass?
Oh wait... you mean it's still all on paper right? There's not really an example of a kick ass DX10 game, is there? Boy, you had me going for a minute.
It's not completely different... it's still a grey area that really hasn't been tested in court in terms of is it fair use or not?
But what is illegal about that transaction is the person offering it for download... they are not authorized to do so, and thus the person offering it is committing a blatantly illegal act. The person downloading the show is in the grey area that I suspect they could get out of if pressed hard enough.
Given my experience, I'm even fairly convinced that the rest of my family (who are much more like ordinary users) would benefit from dual core too. Everything is simply so much more responsive.
What? What is more responsive? Someone show me some tangible proof that day-to-day activities are "more responsive" or "smoother." I have yet to see it. Maybe I just set my shit up properly from the get-go, so my computing experience is already hyper responsive, so I don't notice the difference. Maybe dual and quad cores are good for the masses that have 500 task bar thingies running, a bunch of spyware and other cruft clogging up the system. Hell, if that's the case, then I take it back... dual and quad cores will be a boon to the average user... but totally useless to the competent user who doesn't need to compile shit in the background or rip DVDs every night while playing Oblivion.
Maybe YOU have a bunch of crap running that you don't need to have running, making your system sluggish and you see a benefit from multiple cores. Hell, I invite anyone to work on my system(s) for a day... I won't tell you which one is single core and which one is dual core... see if you can guess. They are both equally responsive.
And it's obvious to say that when I stepped up to the Mac Pro, it blew everything out of the water. But I can't believe you're saying multiple cores is only good for running multiple apps. That's simplistic and wrong. To begin with, we're ALL running multiple apps all the time -- MP3 player, web browser, email, and so on. Sure, none of these processes are taking a ton of CPU time, but the ability for the OS to assign them to different cores means your computing experience is much smoother and more consistant.
Every application you mentioned doesn't consume enough CPU time to make a whit of difference to the average user in terms of single or multiple cores. It's laughable that you say "It means your computing experience is much smoother and more consistent," you are just repeating marketing bullshit. You've heard it so often that you believe it. I truly believe that YOU believe it's the case, but the fact is... it's not. If you have a fast single core CPU and you are doing the above applications like an average user, you aren't going to have a "smoother" experience. Your experience will be identical. Only pedantic nit-picking will reveal a difference. In a day-to-day basis, on average, there will be no difference.
Hell, Acquisition X (P2P client) often has something like 50 java threads running, so even though I'm running "one program" its not like I'm not seeing a benefit from 4 cores.
Tell me how you are seeing a benefit? I'm speaking to Windows and multi-core procs. On a Windows box, something with 50 threads is going to behave just the same to the user if they are on single or dual cores. I've had no experience with Macs since 1995, so I can't speak to them, and frankly I don't care. Macs are useless to me - they have and do nothing I want, so I have no interest in them. What your experience on a Mac with single or Dual Cores is, is totally irrelevant to the majority of computer users. You are a minority, live with it.
Also, I am in the process of ripping my entire DVD collection to hard disk, and it's pretty sweet the way Handbrake can crunch a full DVD down to 1500kbps at full size/framerate in 40 minutes. I'm not using my machine as a server or as a professional, but that doesn't mean we don't all have needs for a high level of performance now and then.
So you do this on a daily basis? Once you're done ripping your entire DVD collection to hard disc, you erase it all and start over? Oh... you meant it's a one time thing, didn't you? You are going to encode them once and then you're done. Well, golly... it's certainly worth plunking out $1000 for a quad core to rip your entire DVD collection, then after you're done 3 of those cores can go to waste! I mean... really. If that's what you want to do, why not just buy a cheap ass Dell, put it in the corner and let it rip your entire collection. Then when you're done, at least you can sell it on eBay or something.
Go read the original post before replying with nonsense.
VLC still doesn't support multi-part RAR's... Then again, neither does any other windows based video player. So... VLC stands out from the crowd because... why? I have it. I've used it. I hated it. The video playback looks like crap half the time. I'm sure there's a setting somewhere that I could change to fix that right up, but why? Every other video player I have plays the same files just fine.
I just don't see the point in using VLC if you're a Windows user and already have WMP 10/11 and MediaPlayer classic installed. Now... if it supported multi-part RAR's... you know, the chosen format of the "video transfer scene," then perhaps it would be worth trying to sort out the configuration. But since VLC does nothing I want to do that other programs already do the same or better, why bother?
Well, having lived with an AMD 64x2 for over a year now, I feel comfortable saying that a dual core proc is pretty useless to me. I've noticed absolutely no difference in my computing experience, either in the newest games or in day-to-day non-game activity. It's no different than my similarly clocked A64 with one core.
I'm sure quad cores are great for my servers, especially a couple of my mail servers that process a boatload of mail... but honestly, it's completely useless for the desktop. I would go so far as to say, at this time, and probably for the next couple years, dual core for the desktop/average user is completely useless. When and if games start using dual core, then it will be useful. Before that happens, only people doing heavy graphics work and other similar unusual (in terms of average users) computing needs will benefit.
All this BS about "Wow, I can burn a DVD and play a game at the same time" is just that... BS. Yeah, you might be able to do that, but who the hell cares? I've never had the urge to encode a DVD and play a game at the same time... why would anyone want to do this on a regular basis anyway?