My wife actually works at the photo lab at Wal-Mart in our home town, and if someone brings in pictures that look professional, they just ask them to sign a copyright form stating that they took the pictures, just to cover their own ass. They can also get copyrighted pictures printed if you can get the photographer to give you a copyright release.
It is people like you that create the divisions and discrimination in society. Just because someone has piercings does not decrease their worth as a person or an employee. Piercings and tattoos have no bearing on a person's morals or work ethic. Actually, people with piercings and tattoos, in my experience, tend to work harder because we realize that, because of preconcieved notions in our society, we have to work harder to kind of "prove ourselves" because people like you see us and think of us as lesser quality employee.
I love these guys who think they're rebelling when all they end up doing is what millions of other assholes do.
Man, I love pretentious pricks who think they know everything there is to culture and psychology. Hate to break it to you, but not everyone is doing it to rebel. Some of us do it because we enjoy the way it looks. I think you need to crawl back under your little fucking rock and quit trying to act like you are king shit.
I'm not saying that staying home with a sick kid is wrong. I have 1 kid and another on the way and if one was sick, then I would stay home to care for them. That is the point to having sick time. But you people act like going to work isn't putting your family first. You have to have a job to put food on the table. Yeah, if you don't like your job, then quit, but if you have a family, you better find another job first, because you are just going to fuck yourself over.
Oh, and by the way, it is no longer the nineties. And I've never fucking live in 1967, I'm only 21 jackass.
Your family is a million times more important then your company.
I totally agree with you, but you have to think of it the other way, too. The company that you work for and are supposed to show dedication to is what allows you to support your family. So, going to work on time and doing your job is really putting your family first by putting a roof over their heads and food on the table.
I actually had one of those damn things. One of my relatives got me one for christmas (cheap sons of bitches) and the damn thing fried after 6 months of spotty use. I was using my PS2, but it wouldn't play quite a few of my DVD's (I was biding time till I had money for a new player) then went out and dropped $70 on a new Pioneer DV-270. Very nice player for the price.
I think it is hilarious how biased this is. If any of you were working somewhere as a programmer and someone pirated your game or software, you would be pissed. Then, if it continued and your salary was cut because profit has dropped to the nth degree, then you would be even more pissed. I'd like to see you say that its ok to do it.
But the license keys don't have to be like that. If you buy from a retailer such as Dell (like we do), you can use the license copy then, when we sell the machines later on, you just re-install the OEM version of XP from Dell. That way, you still have the licenses, and the license doesn't go with the machine. I don't know exactly how our license with Microsoft works, but we have an academic partnership with them, so I don't think we have as much of a worry about numbers of licenses.
The thing is, if you have 100+ Dell machines that shipped with Dell-installed XP, then you may have to go through 100+ keys to find the right one. In that occasion, I think the licensed copies would be a lot more practical. That's more what I was thinking of, and its probably easier to load an image later rather then rebuild if you have something like a hard drive or something go down.
I work at a college, and we order from Dell, but we don't use the Dell copies. The easiest thing to do (since you have to get the computer with an OS anyway) is, as soon as you get the computer, reinstall Windows with you VL CD. This eliminates the confusion by have many different copies of both VL and OEM Windows on your machines, and makes things easier in the long run.
Actually, the new Tiger Woods games have done very well in the market, and with the revamping of the Need for Speed franchise with last year's release of Underground, I think that NFS and Tiger Woods, though not the games with the MOST drawing power, would be fairly solid choices.
Yeah, the space is the biggest thing, and the loading. I was about ready to switch to Yahoo because of the space (and because I can't seem to get a Gmail invite). I have heard good things about Gmail, but its hard to get an invite. If anyone has one to spare, that would be cool. My e-mail is on my profile.
I have seen that SP2 seems to fix some of the security bugs that Microsoft had in XP (though they had to release fixes quite quickly after SP2's release), but what about all the software that the service pack breaks? Yeah, it slows down the business apps, thy're lucky it doesn't totally cause them to stop working.
I understand it is the software company's responsibility to release the updated patches for compatibility, but does it make sense to have to do that? I mean, this is an update to an existing OS, not a whole new environment. I can understand a couple programs with problems with a new update, but with the extensive lists of programs that don't work and programs that change behavior I think there is something wrong here.
For those of you who don't want to read the decision or Downhill Battle's site, the Betamax decision is what basically allowed us the technology of DVD/CD burners, tape recorders, and VCR's (along with possibly P2P networks) by saying that, just because some people are using them (VCR's at the time) to participate in illegal activities (copying copyrighted movies or shows), the technology itself is not the culprit. Therefore, the technology is legal. This is a vital decision for the technological world and a good thing to get involved in if you can.
The only problem is that some thieves are so ignorant that, even if you don't have anything of value and they know it, they'll break into your car/home and steal something anyway just to say that they did.
What about Carnage? Or maybe the Vulture (one of the original Spidey villains). They have such a huge base to draw from it could be anyone. Maybe they'll bring the Punisher in...just kidding.
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My wife actually works at the photo lab at Wal-Mart in our home town, and if someone brings in pictures that look professional, they just ask them to sign a copyright form stating that they took the pictures, just to cover their own ass. They can also get copyrighted pictures printed if you can get the photographer to give you a copyright release.
It is people like you that create the divisions and discrimination in society. Just because someone has piercings does not decrease their worth as a person or an employee. Piercings and tattoos have no bearing on a person's morals or work ethic. Actually, people with piercings and tattoos, in my experience, tend to work harder because we realize that, because of preconcieved notions in our society, we have to work harder to kind of "prove ourselves" because people like you see us and think of us as lesser quality employee.
Typical ignorant, closed-minded comment. Why don't you try using a Mac and OS X for a while and then pull your head out of your ass and speak?
As much as I hate G4TechTV now, Kevin Rose did a segment about this paint about 1-1.5 months ago.
I'm not saying that staying home with a sick kid is wrong. I have 1 kid and another on the way and if one was sick, then I would stay home to care for them. That is the point to having sick time. But you people act like going to work isn't putting your family first. You have to have a job to put food on the table. Yeah, if you don't like your job, then quit, but if you have a family, you better find another job first, because you are just going to fuck yourself over. Oh, and by the way, it is no longer the nineties. And I've never fucking live in 1967, I'm only 21 jackass.
Your family is a million times more important then your company. I totally agree with you, but you have to think of it the other way, too. The company that you work for and are supposed to show dedication to is what allows you to support your family. So, going to work on time and doing your job is really putting your family first by putting a roof over their heads and food on the table.
Allofmp3 is a great store with no DRM and a CD is less than a track from iTMS. Forget iTunes, I'll stick with Russia.
OS X is a weirdly mutated and crippled form of BSD
I actually had one of those damn things. One of my relatives got me one for christmas (cheap sons of bitches) and the damn thing fried after 6 months of spotty use. I was using my PS2, but it wouldn't play quite a few of my DVD's (I was biding time till I had money for a new player) then went out and dropped $70 on a new Pioneer DV-270. Very nice player for the price.
I think it is hilarious how biased this is. If any of you were working somewhere as a programmer and someone pirated your game or software, you would be pissed. Then, if it continued and your salary was cut because profit has dropped to the nth degree, then you would be even more pissed. I'd like to see you say that its ok to do it.
They approached the actor from Smallville, but he didn't want to do it.
But the license keys don't have to be like that. If you buy from a retailer such as Dell (like we do), you can use the license copy then, when we sell the machines later on, you just re-install the OEM version of XP from Dell. That way, you still have the licenses, and the license doesn't go with the machine. I don't know exactly how our license with Microsoft works, but we have an academic partnership with them, so I don't think we have as much of a worry about numbers of licenses.
The thing is, if you have 100+ Dell machines that shipped with Dell-installed XP, then you may have to go through 100+ keys to find the right one. In that occasion, I think the licensed copies would be a lot more practical. That's more what I was thinking of, and its probably easier to load an image later rather then rebuild if you have something like a hard drive or something go down.
Exactly, just makes your job a hell of a lot harder than it has to be. Take the time to re-create the image.
I work at a college, and we order from Dell, but we don't use the Dell copies. The easiest thing to do (since you have to get the computer with an OS anyway) is, as soon as you get the computer, reinstall Windows with you VL CD. This eliminates the confusion by have many different copies of both VL and OEM Windows on your machines, and makes things easier in the long run.
Actually, the new Tiger Woods games have done very well in the market, and with the revamping of the Need for Speed franchise with last year's release of Underground, I think that NFS and Tiger Woods, though not the games with the MOST drawing power, would be fairly solid choices.
Yeah, the space is the biggest thing, and the loading. I was about ready to switch to Yahoo because of the space (and because I can't seem to get a Gmail invite). I have heard good things about Gmail, but its hard to get an invite. If anyone has one to spare, that would be cool. My e-mail is on my profile.
I have seen that SP2 seems to fix some of the security bugs that Microsoft had in XP (though they had to release fixes quite quickly after SP2's release), but what about all the software that the service pack breaks? Yeah, it slows down the business apps, thy're lucky it doesn't totally cause them to stop working. I understand it is the software company's responsibility to release the updated patches for compatibility, but does it make sense to have to do that? I mean, this is an update to an existing OS, not a whole new environment. I can understand a couple programs with problems with a new update, but with the extensive lists of programs that don't work and programs that change behavior I think there is something wrong here.
For those of you who don't want to read the decision or Downhill Battle's site, the Betamax decision is what basically allowed us the technology of DVD/CD burners, tape recorders, and VCR's (along with possibly P2P networks) by saying that, just because some people are using them (VCR's at the time) to participate in illegal activities (copying copyrighted movies or shows), the technology itself is not the culprit. Therefore, the technology is legal. This is a vital decision for the technological world and a good thing to get involved in if you can.
The only problem is that some thieves are so ignorant that, even if you don't have anything of value and they know it, they'll break into your car/home and steal something anyway just to say that they did.
What about Carnage? Or maybe the Vulture (one of the original Spidey villains). They have such a huge base to draw from it could be anyone. Maybe they'll bring the Punisher in...just kidding.