actually his show idea is a good one.
I wish that "Enterprise" though would have a) not been called the Enterprise in the first place and b)would have started even earlier much before warp drive like maybe 50 to 100 years from now. That could be interesting I think a show about where we go from here.
>>It seems such misunderstandings are common, but it is particularly frustrating when coming from people in the IT field.
That kind of "laying the hammer down" happens all the time from IT departments even when they are flat out in the wrong. It's been my experience that many in the IT department get off on thinking they have power that they often its proven they don't really have.
Two examples from personal experience: in one the IT department at my military base tried to shut down a user group email list of daily scripture verses and went so far as to put me (the list manager) on report. They got egg all over their face for that when the Chaplain stepped up to the plate and pointed out that their actions violated Freedom of Religeon - something the military has to protect - "seperation of church and state" does NOT apply to the military because the military is a lifestyle and the needs of the service member must not only be protected but co-operation must be met for. In the end the list was given official recognition and the C/O made me area Lay Leader.
A second example was while I worked at an Insurance company. I had a good reputation with the IT manager of the office and we'd often talk computers - he'd actually usually ask my advise for personal computing. Well one morning he told me not to play games on company computers but that he'd let it slide this time. Confused I said "ok whatever". Well later that day my boss asked me to look at the multimedia computer because this management training program she'd been doing wouldn't work. A few clicks later I discovered that direct-x was missing! You guessed it - the IT manager had done a routine check on computers, saw direct-x related things on it, assumed they were for games and removed it (this was back in the day of dx3 i think before it integrated so much into the OS and broke down and was buggy all the time). In the end he spent the rest of the day trying to restore the program in vain, she ended up having to start all over again from the beginning - several days of work.
Now, yes these are anecdotes and for every one I have of misuse of IT power someone else has 5 of proper use, my point is the origin writer of our thread shouldn't be surprised at all to see IT departments making foolish statements like P2P is illegal. Hell all it is is a new version of FTP.
That being said though the college has a right to ban the use of any p2p activity if they want to, but I highly doubt that's actually written anywhere in the student guidebook and he wouldn't have a leg to stand on to ban the kid from the network. Could only suggest it be added to the student handbook and ask him not to do it.
serves Hasbro right. They dragged their feet for years on coming out with a decent Scrabble game. Their first one was horrible, now they have Scrabble online which I don't trust after my bad experiences with previous hasbro software.
>>You are welcome to work at whatever craft you do for free all you like, but professional musicians (and yes, professional music sales executives) have a right to charge for their work by whatever means they consider to best suit them.
I'm sooo damn sick of that arguement.
No one's proposing that musicians do what they do for "free". What they are proposing is that they once again "work" for a living. Record deals let them be fracking "stars" who don't have to work, just smile for the damn camera. That's why most of them are throw aways aka pop - they are exciting for a while and then *pop* they are gone. Real musicians make their money the old fashioned way - concerts - live shows, "album" forms of music go almost entirely to the record label.
The dawn of the internet on the otherhand has the ability to cut the middle man either completely out or greatly restrict the amount he takes of the cut because the artist can now get their music out themselves where it grows on its own merit vs. the shove it down your throat like it or lump it way that the labels do and then the fans go to concerts.
>> If you are OK with breaking the law, you might just download whatever you want from P2P and skip the whole rigmarole.
How is it so different than the original way we made mix tapes which was with a portable tape recorder held next to our radios during the top 40 countdown on weekends?
>>Really the only thing that will change is that Microsoft will no longer release bug fixes.
No it means they will no longer sell it which means colleges and tech schools will stop teaching it, leading to an eventual shift in the workplace as the new techs from the new schools cause their workplace to change everything over to whatever they use.
In the long run it shouldn't be a surprise I think MSFT has been building up to this move for some time and all but those who never actually read trade pubs knew it.
>>It's absolutely ridiculous the way the wheel gets reinvented several times over. If you're running GNOME, a KDE app, Mozilla Firefox, and OpenOffice, you've got at least four major libraries now sitting in your memory, all doing the same things but with different code, implementing their own GUI widgets. You're never going to have desktop standards that way.
As others said, those aren't forks. Your example anyway is irrelevent to corporations because they don't have to have a full fledged bloated Linux like that. Corporations' computers are skulpted by the IT departments who install what is needed and nothing more.
>>I don't use a TiVo, but my understanding is that you use this machine to record stuff for playback when you have the time to relax. Do you really want to go relax in front of a desktop PC?
MSFT thinks you do. Thus the "Media Center PC".
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which branches of IT? Programming? MSFT Office pro aka glorified secretary? Network engineer? There's a lot of positions that have been labled as "IT" that really aren't rather they're just a skill to an already existing job and now they may be getting properly labled titles. - When this happens its called "phantom jobs" and can skew the numbers making it look like positions have been lost when really they havn't. (sort of like Clinton's "Budget cuts" which was just shifting money from one category to another).
he fails to see the greed factor. The fact is much of the music being swapped on file sharing services goes to people who already own the music in a different form, cassette tape, LP etc... this is a fact that RIAA always hides because it exposes them for what they truely are - greedy blood suckers. What they want is to kill the CD and make us all re-buy our music all over again in their new DRM format just like they did when the cassette replaced the LP and the CD replaced the cassette - and that (according to a recent Frontline report even) is what happend to the music industry profits - they had hit the plateau of people finally replacing their music AGAIN. So now they introduce a way to get us to go through the same damn cycle all over again.
this is just a money making scam on the part of the State of Ohio. It doesn't protect consumers at all because business' on ebay (although I personally don't think they belong there) aren't the problem - it's the regular Joe Schmuk that doesn't follow through. I've stopped all business with ebay because of this. They do all this advertising but when it comes right down to it ebay exempts themselves from any and all problems people encounter by stating "we're just a conduit".
all you Fascists amaze me. That people accept this much authority in their lives totally amaze me - the founders have rolled over in their graves.
I say any company that is going to monitor what their employees say and then punish them for it instead of finding out if they actually have a point that needs rectified in the company doesn't deserve to have that person's talent anyway.
I am totally amazed at just how many people have become Fascist in this country. Is it the "terror war" that has people turning to authority so much like this and trampling over civil rights or is it just that my own eyes are open to it since the terror war started? (which technically has been going on since the first Gulf War, Clinton just refused to strike back appropriately the first time Bin Laden attacked the WT towers in the late 90's but I digress.)
Is it just me now seeing how fascist people have become or have this many unwittingly accepted authority so much now?
these type of things already exist - they're called ITX cases with VIA's motherboard/cpu solution.
if pentium m cpu's and boards were affordable we'd have been building these ourselves already.
or is it more of the push for theocracy? political experts what do you think? Both systems restrict freedom of speech and individual rights. Although historically the framers of the Constitution knew the Bill of Rights was the most useless part of it as the majority will always blast right through them - which is exactly why 100% democracy doesn't work and instead we live in a (or are supposed to anyway) constitutional representative republic not technically a democracy but in the end they stuck it in there anyway to end the filibuster. (few know this historical tidbit).
or encourage them to fields that actually NEED people in: math and sciences. Wonder why you keep seeing doctors from India in our hopitals, clinics, and interviewed on Discovery shows about molecular biology? It's because we americans are so brainwashed by our MTV that we have to import people for the trades that really matter.
No offense against them, its a win-win situation, they get some great experience, often great perks like training and so on, and their native country gets great doctors and researchers when they return.
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>> So, do you get to vote in both states? No taxation without representation and all that jazz... wouldn't be the first right trampled all over.
actually his show idea is a good one. I wish that "Enterprise" though would have a) not been called the Enterprise in the first place and b)would have started even earlier much before warp drive like maybe 50 to 100 years from now. That could be interesting I think a show about where we go from here.
>>It seems such misunderstandings are common, but it is particularly frustrating when coming from people in the IT field. That kind of "laying the hammer down" happens all the time from IT departments even when they are flat out in the wrong. It's been my experience that many in the IT department get off on thinking they have power that they often its proven they don't really have. Two examples from personal experience: in one the IT department at my military base tried to shut down a user group email list of daily scripture verses and went so far as to put me (the list manager) on report. They got egg all over their face for that when the Chaplain stepped up to the plate and pointed out that their actions violated Freedom of Religeon - something the military has to protect - "seperation of church and state" does NOT apply to the military because the military is a lifestyle and the needs of the service member must not only be protected but co-operation must be met for. In the end the list was given official recognition and the C/O made me area Lay Leader. A second example was while I worked at an Insurance company. I had a good reputation with the IT manager of the office and we'd often talk computers - he'd actually usually ask my advise for personal computing. Well one morning he told me not to play games on company computers but that he'd let it slide this time. Confused I said "ok whatever". Well later that day my boss asked me to look at the multimedia computer because this management training program she'd been doing wouldn't work. A few clicks later I discovered that direct-x was missing! You guessed it - the IT manager had done a routine check on computers, saw direct-x related things on it, assumed they were for games and removed it (this was back in the day of dx3 i think before it integrated so much into the OS and broke down and was buggy all the time). In the end he spent the rest of the day trying to restore the program in vain, she ended up having to start all over again from the beginning - several days of work. Now, yes these are anecdotes and for every one I have of misuse of IT power someone else has 5 of proper use, my point is the origin writer of our thread shouldn't be surprised at all to see IT departments making foolish statements like P2P is illegal. Hell all it is is a new version of FTP. That being said though the college has a right to ban the use of any p2p activity if they want to, but I highly doubt that's actually written anywhere in the student guidebook and he wouldn't have a leg to stand on to ban the kid from the network. Could only suggest it be added to the student handbook and ask him not to do it.
there's no way that kind of licence is legal because it tries to govern your ACTIONS, something only government can demand.
gee isn't it nice that we got permission from the bow-tied ivory tower people?
subscription site news articles shouldn't be news on /.
oh great, more gov't telling us what's "safe". look we've bent over and accepted authority so much. The founders have rolled over in their graves.
this is exactly why fundamentalism has to be fought and fought hard. I'm talking in your face toe to toe with them at every turn.
serves Hasbro right. They dragged their feet for years on coming out with a decent Scrabble game. Their first one was horrible, now they have Scrabble online which I don't trust after my bad experiences with previous hasbro software.
>>You are welcome to work at whatever craft you do for free all you like, but professional musicians (and yes, professional music sales executives) have a right to charge for their work by whatever means they consider to best suit them. I'm sooo damn sick of that arguement. No one's proposing that musicians do what they do for "free". What they are proposing is that they once again "work" for a living. Record deals let them be fracking "stars" who don't have to work, just smile for the damn camera. That's why most of them are throw aways aka pop - they are exciting for a while and then *pop* they are gone. Real musicians make their money the old fashioned way - concerts - live shows, "album" forms of music go almost entirely to the record label. The dawn of the internet on the otherhand has the ability to cut the middle man either completely out or greatly restrict the amount he takes of the cut because the artist can now get their music out themselves where it grows on its own merit vs. the shove it down your throat like it or lump it way that the labels do and then the fans go to concerts.
>> If you are OK with breaking the law, you might just download whatever you want from P2P and skip the whole rigmarole. How is it so different than the original way we made mix tapes which was with a portable tape recorder held next to our radios during the top 40 countdown on weekends?
>>Really the only thing that will change is that Microsoft will no longer release bug fixes. No it means they will no longer sell it which means colleges and tech schools will stop teaching it, leading to an eventual shift in the workplace as the new techs from the new schools cause their workplace to change everything over to whatever they use. In the long run it shouldn't be a surprise I think MSFT has been building up to this move for some time and all but those who never actually read trade pubs knew it.
>>It's absolutely ridiculous the way the wheel gets reinvented several times over. If you're running GNOME, a KDE app, Mozilla Firefox, and OpenOffice, you've got at least four major libraries now sitting in your memory, all doing the same things but with different code, implementing their own GUI widgets. You're never going to have desktop standards that way. As others said, those aren't forks. Your example anyway is irrelevent to corporations because they don't have to have a full fledged bloated Linux like that. Corporations' computers are skulpted by the IT departments who install what is needed and nothing more.
>>I don't use a TiVo, but my understanding is that you use this machine to record stuff for playback when you have the time to relax. Do you really want to go relax in front of a desktop PC? MSFT thinks you do. Thus the "Media Center PC".
which branches of IT? Programming? MSFT Office pro aka glorified secretary? Network engineer? There's a lot of positions that have been labled as "IT" that really aren't rather they're just a skill to an already existing job and now they may be getting properly labled titles. - When this happens its called "phantom jobs" and can skew the numbers making it look like positions have been lost when really they havn't. (sort of like Clinton's "Budget cuts" which was just shifting money from one category to another).
he fails to see the greed factor. The fact is much of the music being swapped on file sharing services goes to people who already own the music in a different form, cassette tape, LP etc... this is a fact that RIAA always hides because it exposes them for what they truely are - greedy blood suckers. What they want is to kill the CD and make us all re-buy our music all over again in their new DRM format just like they did when the cassette replaced the LP and the CD replaced the cassette - and that (according to a recent Frontline report even) is what happend to the music industry profits - they had hit the plateau of people finally replacing their music AGAIN. So now they introduce a way to get us to go through the same damn cycle all over again.
run run for your lives Israelis! The 80's satanic panic has hit your shore somehow.
this is just a money making scam on the part of the State of Ohio. It doesn't protect consumers at all because business' on ebay (although I personally don't think they belong there) aren't the problem - it's the regular Joe Schmuk that doesn't follow through. I've stopped all business with ebay because of this. They do all this advertising but when it comes right down to it ebay exempts themselves from any and all problems people encounter by stating "we're just a conduit".
as if copyright wasn't crazy enough with software look at what Patents do to it, its insane.
It will boost ratings instead. Sci Fi fans watch shows repeatedly plus they'll get better quality on tv than internet d/load.
all you Fascists amaze me. That people accept this much authority in their lives totally amaze me - the founders have rolled over in their graves. I say any company that is going to monitor what their employees say and then punish them for it instead of finding out if they actually have a point that needs rectified in the company doesn't deserve to have that person's talent anyway.
I am totally amazed at just how many people have become Fascist in this country. Is it the "terror war" that has people turning to authority so much like this and trampling over civil rights or is it just that my own eyes are open to it since the terror war started? (which technically has been going on since the first Gulf War, Clinton just refused to strike back appropriately the first time Bin Laden attacked the WT towers in the late 90's but I digress.) Is it just me now seeing how fascist people have become or have this many unwittingly accepted authority so much now?
these type of things already exist - they're called ITX cases with VIA's motherboard/cpu solution. if pentium m cpu's and boards were affordable we'd have been building these ourselves already.
or is it more of the push for theocracy? political experts what do you think? Both systems restrict freedom of speech and individual rights. Although historically the framers of the Constitution knew the Bill of Rights was the most useless part of it as the majority will always blast right through them - which is exactly why 100% democracy doesn't work and instead we live in a (or are supposed to anyway) constitutional representative republic not technically a democracy but in the end they stuck it in there anyway to end the filibuster. (few know this historical tidbit).
or encourage them to fields that actually NEED people in: math and sciences. Wonder why you keep seeing doctors from India in our hopitals, clinics, and interviewed on Discovery shows about molecular biology? It's because we americans are so brainwashed by our MTV that we have to import people for the trades that really matter. No offense against them, its a win-win situation, they get some great experience, often great perks like training and so on, and their native country gets great doctors and researchers when they return.