The recording industry is against Pearlman's plan. hrmmm....what a shock! the music industry not willing to adopt change?? surely not! seriously, this sounds like a decent proposal, although i highly doubt it will make a significant change (free is less than $.05), but let's face it, will probably never happen. apple can listen all they want, and that's great, but the recording industry will never go along with it. the best idea i found in that article is "why not have such computer companies as Apple and such major Internet companies as Yahoo simply buy up the world's four major record labels?" now *there's* the kind of change that needs to take place.
Microwires Can Replace The DVD-ROM...Researchers say that the greatest difficulty will be with the reading of information. i can write lots of data but then it's lost?? where do i sign up for this great *new* technology??
A box that can get easily 0wned is what people are growing weary of certainly true. however, let us not forget that osx is not perfect either. nor, thou it saddens me to admit it, is linux. as marketshare shifts toward these from windows, which i sincerely hope it continues to do, they will also be targeted for all manner of exploits. the point of comparison is how well they deal with being targeted. i think it would be difficult to react in a worse way than microsoft. on a side note, i don't understand the point of showing off an empty box. given some cardboard, paint, and a small digital clock i could have made something that looks similar. this is not innovation!
way to wait until a break this time. this is shaking my faith in the its dpt.... they didn't arrest me yet, but maybe they don't actually have the students' best interests at heart....
Am I a fool for giving up steady work and good pay?
probably, but i'll qualify it as well. while i wouldn't blame you for leaving if you had another job lined up, given the opportunities for programmers in today's market i, personally, would certainly not burn a job bridge before being securely on another. just my $.02.
we here at m$ have been unable to actually produce anything in years. we've talked a lot about longhorn but let's face it, it's never going to happen. we have, however, noticed that a number of people are starting to use this "linux" thing. in response we have done our best to crush the rebellion. we failed. therefore we are releasing *new* MICROSOFT LINUX. we know it sounds funny and is technically an oxymoron, but we've been run by morons for so long it seems fitting. new in MSL you can use MOO (microsoft open office) which combines all the flexibility of regular oo with the closed format bullshit you've been putting up with from us for years. also we have created LIE (linux internet explorer) which gives you the ability to browse the web without losing the functionality of all those wonderful pop-ups. the icing on the cake is our new game suite which includes penguin hunter, in which you can stalk and subsequently shoot anything in black and white. we appreciate your patronage and will require you to activate your new m$ linux over the phone (a 5 hour process) for your protection and convenience.
they are already reporting success on living creatures IANAB but scientists cured cancer in lab rats years (literally) ago. i'm not saying this isn't a breakthrough, but you need to take this news with a grain of salt.
"They work in groups that exchange information with other groups on forums and Web sites." erhmm.... ianase (i am not a security expert) but wouldn't that statement apply to, hmmmm....., oh i don't know.....THE INTERNET?? seriously, a broad, vague, statement like that suggests to me that this is mostly overreaction on the part of a group who could experience significant gains IF their statements were true. fud? imho, yes.
''An incredible potential exists for confidential information being used inappropriately" under the proposal, said Sarah Flanagan, vice president for government relations at the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. hmmm....
nah, probably just people over-reacting.... (and that's just 1.4 million)
seriously though, i can understand the desire for this amount of data to better analyze the education system. somehow, though, this whole thing sounds unnecessarily dangerous to me.
i can't remember the last thing the mpaa or the riaa developed that was advanced. unless you count the practice of suing those you rely on to make money, but i think sco has prior art there. they're not interested in innovating anything beyond the scope of a new process for suing people that allows them to file suits more efficiently. this is, frankly, the most disturbing news i've heard in a while (including all the legislative bullshit) because they'll probably get it. this is disgusting.
The trade group said it would also join with the Video Software Dealers Association to place educational materials in more than 10,000 video stores nationwide. The materials will include anti-piracy ads that are also playing in theaters. would these be the same ads where low-paid lighting technicians and extras complain about piracy because they are losing money(ie. the same ads salaried workers are paid extra to claim their payment from a film has anything to do with the profit of the film itself)? or would these be the same ads where the movie industry parades around its underpaid workers while "forgetting" to mention that, even ifamovieishorrible the "stars" will still get millions?
...welcome our new shotgun toting robotic overloards. ... had to be said. that being done, this sounds to me like one of those ideas that sounds great on paper but has a tendency to kill lots of innocents by "accident." you know, kinda like the "government."
It was really difficult to attach so that not a single leak occurs. notice the use of duct tape in a number of the pictures... when it's gotta be *totally* leak proof, i choose duct tape. remember kids, there's no problem so great that duct tape can't solve it.
but if a company, and granted i don't gamble so i don't know what their typical mailings are like, that i do business with sends me an e-mail with pornography in it my first thought is not going to be, "sick bastards! i'll never gamble there again!" it's going to be "one more victim, how sad." i think this type of thing get's blown out of preportion, which if i might add is what the spammers are really looking for (next to money). no i'm not proposing that if we ignore it the problem will go away, find the useless scum and string them up, but i think people in general are smart enough to figure out that the companies they do business with aren't involved in the child pornography industry. i see this as a hollow threat because even if it is followed through with it's an annoyance at best (spoken as someone who has an effective spam filter). the worst part about this is the precedent it sets because i can garauntee this is not the last we've heard about this.
Instead of using a few machines, the extortion gangs control hundreds of thousands with all those computers "they" could bring down the internet! OH NOES!
to reach the 18-34 year old male audience i think the subject and the quote pretty much say it all, but i'd just like to add that, even though i am an 18-34 year old male, and even though i do play lots of video games, and even though such an ad campaign would reach me, and even though it would most likely be effective. i resent this blantant profi.......oh hell, they pegged me.
it would make more sense to me for someone to write software that would track down the author, or the authoring firm, of each eula down and deliver small electric shocks to them via their keyboards (size of shock could be user-specified).
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The recording industry is against Pearlman's plan.
hrmmm....what a shock! the music industry not willing to adopt change?? surely not!
seriously, this sounds like a decent proposal, although i highly doubt it will make a significant change (free is less than $.05), but let's face it, will probably never happen. apple can listen all they want, and that's great, but the recording industry will never go along with it. the best idea i found in that article is "why not have such computer companies as Apple and such major Internet companies as Yahoo simply buy up the world's four major record labels?" now *there's* the kind of change that needs to take place.
Microwires Can Replace The DVD-ROM...Researchers say that the greatest difficulty will be with the reading of information.
i can write lots of data but then it's lost??
where do i sign up for this great *new* technology??
A box that can get easily 0wned is what people are growing weary of
certainly true. however, let us not forget that osx is not perfect either. nor, thou it saddens me to admit it, is linux. as marketshare shifts toward these from windows, which i sincerely hope it continues to do, they will also be targeted for all manner of exploits. the point of comparison is how well they deal with being targeted. i think it would be difficult to react in a worse way than microsoft.
on a side note, i don't understand the point of showing off an empty box. given some cardboard, paint, and a small digital clock i could have made something that looks similar.
this is not innovation!
way to wait until a break this time. this is shaking my faith in the its dpt.... they didn't arrest me yet, but maybe they don't actually have the students' best interests at heart....
every time sun convinces me to never go back they do something that sounds cool and i have to give it a try.
a plague upon your servers, sun!
Am I a fool for giving up steady work and good pay?
probably, but i'll qualify it as well. while i wouldn't blame you for leaving if you had another job lined up, given the opportunities for programmers in today's market i, personally, would certainly not burn a job bridge before being securely on another. just my $.02.
Linux running under Windows
dear m$ customer,
we here at m$ have been unable to actually produce anything in years. we've talked a lot about longhorn but let's face it, it's never going to happen. we have, however, noticed that a number of people are starting to use this "linux" thing. in response we have done our best to crush the rebellion. we failed.
therefore we are releasing *new* MICROSOFT LINUX. we know it sounds funny and is technically an oxymoron, but we've been run by morons for so long it seems fitting.
new in MSL you can use MOO (microsoft open office) which combines all the flexibility of regular oo with the closed format bullshit you've been putting up with from us for years. also we have created LIE (linux internet explorer) which gives you the ability to browse the web without losing the functionality of all those wonderful pop-ups.
the icing on the cake is our new game suite which includes penguin hunter, in which you can stalk and subsequently shoot anything in black and white.
we appreciate your patronage and will require you to activate your new m$ linux over the phone (a 5 hour process) for your protection and convenience.
sincerely,
M$
'We're also seeing some exceptional turnarounds.'
now, ianam (i am not a mathematician) but is there any other direction for them to go....?
they are already reporting success on living creatures
IANAB but scientists cured cancer in lab rats years (literally) ago. i'm not saying this isn't a breakthrough, but you need to take this news with a grain of salt.
creature that is part human and part animal
wow, talk about prior art.....
call me crazy, call me overreacting, call me clairvoyant, but i forsee a U.S.-Canada war coming. this could be the big one, folks!
"They work in groups that exchange information with other groups on forums and Web sites."
erhmm....
ianase (i am not a security expert) but wouldn't that statement apply to, hmmmm....., oh i don't know.....THE INTERNET?? seriously, a broad, vague, statement like that suggests to me that this is mostly overreaction on the part of a group who could experience significant gains IF their statements were true.
fud? imho, yes.
''An incredible potential exists for confidential information being used inappropriately" under the proposal, said Sarah Flanagan, vice president for government relations at the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities.
hmmm....
nah, probably just people over-reacting.... (and that's just 1.4 million)
seriously though, i can understand the desire for this amount of data to better analyze the education system. somehow, though, this whole thing sounds unnecessarily dangerous to me.
i can't remember the last thing the mpaa or the riaa developed that was advanced. unless you count the practice of suing those you rely on to make money, but i think sco has prior art there. they're not interested in innovating anything beyond the scope of a new process for suing people that allows them to file suits more efficiently. this is, frankly, the most disturbing news i've heard in a while (including all the legislative bullshit) because they'll probably get it. this is disgusting.
The trade group said it would also join with the Video Software Dealers Association to place educational materials in more than 10,000 video stores nationwide. The materials will include anti-piracy ads that are also playing in theaters.
would these be the same ads where low-paid lighting technicians and extras complain about piracy because they are losing money(ie. the same ads salaried workers are paid extra to claim their payment from a film has anything to do with the profit of the film itself)? or would these be the same ads where the movie industry parades around its underpaid workers while "forgetting" to mention that, even if a movie is horrible the "stars" will still get millions?
where was the kaboom? there was sposed to be an earth shattering kaboom....
just imagine a beowulf cluster of thes......
on a more serious note, these sound pretty cool. i know what i'm asking for for my next birthday....
...welcome our new shotgun toting robotic overloards.
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had to be said. that being done, this sounds to me like one of those ideas that sounds great on paper but has a tendency to kill lots of innocents by "accident." you know, kinda like the "government."
4.) PROFIT!
It was really difficult to attach so that not a single leak occurs.
notice the use of duct tape in a number of the pictures...
when it's gotta be *totally* leak proof, i choose duct tape. remember kids, there's no problem so great that duct tape can't solve it.
but if a company, and granted i don't gamble so i don't know what their typical mailings are like, that i do business with sends me an e-mail with pornography in it my first thought is not going to be, "sick bastards! i'll never gamble there again!" it's going to be "one more victim, how sad." i think this type of thing get's blown out of preportion, which if i might add is what the spammers are really looking for (next to money). no i'm not proposing that if we ignore it the problem will go away, find the useless scum and string them up, but i think people in general are smart enough to figure out that the companies they do business with aren't involved in the child pornography industry. i see this as a hollow threat because even if it is followed through with it's an annoyance at best (spoken as someone who has an effective spam filter). the worst part about this is the precedent it sets because i can garauntee this is not the last we've heard about this.
Instead of using a few machines, the extortion gangs control hundreds of thousands
with all those computers "they" could bring down the internet! OH NOES!
microsoft's problem may be more along the lines of......
DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS
to reach the 18-34 year old male audience
i think the subject and the quote pretty much say it all, but i'd just like to add that, even though i am an 18-34 year old male, and even though i do play lots of video games, and even though such an ad campaign would reach me, and even though it would most likely be effective. i resent this blantant profi.......oh hell, they pegged me.
it would make more sense to me for someone to write software that would track down the author, or the authoring firm, of each eula down and deliver small electric shocks to them via their keyboards (size of shock could be user-specified).