..."politely?" Okay, they may have used polite and diplomatic language, but Take Two told EA to f*ck right the f*ck off, and cram a few sharp pointy sticks in various orifices and organs in the process. Their response goes so far as to call the EA offer irresponsible and (by inference) insulting.
You're lucky. $1000 is dirt cheap compared to what most farmers/squatters ask. I had one tell me that since the name in question was used in 750,000 web pages in Google, it's obviously an extremely common name (when it's actually quite rare), and asked for $7500 minimum.
I must admit that I didn't entirely understand the significance of Portal while I was playing it the first time through. I thoroughly enjoyed it and had honest fun (a rarity it seems, including my long gone 6-8 hours per day of World of Warcraft 7 days a week, which didn't remotely resemble anything like fun), but I often get so involved the mechanics of gameplay I miss some stuff. After beating it the first time through, I read some reviews and checked out some forums. With the perspective gained from hearing others talk about the emotional brilliance of the game, I played through it again, start to finish. The end result?
Same here. For a personal site in college, I always had a feeling that what we had was a one or two man operation with a couple hundred boxes, but the price was right, and the service was definitely there.
Then, one day, they vanished. Didn't respond to instant messages, emails, phone calls. Gone. Went back about 20 days to the last backup we had. Didn't lose much that couldn't be rebuilt outside the forums, thankfully.
Later, my friend, who did the design for all the stuff and who was paying the hosting bills, later told me that the charges had never even been made to her credit card. I'm not entirely sure how she never noticed that, but hell, we ended up getting fairly reliable hosting for 2 years for free from some fool who couldn't work his credit card machine!
If SPF were more widely implemented, or required to be implemented, wouldn't this problem be solved? Don't send NDRs to domains without SPFs or when SPF fails. NDRs get through and problem solved.
And what DynDNS is doing is simply preventing all people from using their service from knowing whether email is being delivered properly. If I typo an email address, I damn well better be getting an NDR from the recipient domain, because simply having it go into an email black hole and never knowing whether it got there is not an acceptable alternative.
Yeah, but Patch Tuesday usually involves a dozen patches or less, any handful of which (2-3) might apply to any one system. This one included more than 50 patches, 12 of which were needed by most computers in my office.
They left out Eset NOD32 as well. Symantec and McAffee are the AV old guard: still strong, but also bloated, slow, and weakening. And they have the occasional health problems.
Kaspersky and Eset seem to be the two main up and comers, and they left one out!
We bought a new tape drive a while back, and it stopped using hardware compression for some reason. I was fairly sure it was a Backup Exec problem, so I called support (this is around 4-6 weeks ago). 75 minutes on hold and the person who picked up literally did not know the software. At all. He kept looking things up and asking me to wait.
Hang up after an hour and a half that's accomplished absolutely nothing. Call Quantum. On hold less than a minute. Guy picks up, I tell him what's going on, and even though it's not even his friggin software he gives me a few ideas to try. His second guess was right. 5 minutes on the phone and 10 minutes of testing, problem solved.
We've dumped Symantec's virus protection because it was overly expensive, bloated, and slow. We dumped Brightmail, their anti spam service, because of the exact same reasons. Backup Exec will be on the way out in next year's budget.
I listen to a local Clear Channel station online while at work. The week of July 4th, the stream suddenly stopped playing in Winamp. They had implemented a DRM scheme that requires you to play it through their web player (WMP10).
When I hooked up Comcast about 2 years ago, I got a self install kit, plugged it in to my router, waited 5 minutes, called the office and gave them my phone number, and I was off and away. Since then I've switched the modem out once and used 3 different MAC addresses (new router, and connected directly to my computer sometimes to troubleshoot) and never had a problem. If they authorized access by MAC none of that would have worked.
I have Comcast in the DC Metro area (Maryland side). Just ran a test, and I got 5856 down and 363 up to the DC server at Speedtest. My connection is advertised as 6Mbit - seems to be spot on.
Anything on my network that sends emails - any kind, alert/notification/log, including stuff from SNMP - goes to one address. First thing, I check that address, make sure nothing needs immediate handling, and then grab some coffee.
Damn, and I already posted in this thread and can't mod you up. I never would have thought of something that simple or elegant (if they're using a cell phone).
Asterisk will handle this easily, but will only work if all phone in question are tied directly into it. For example, a cell phone won't be included in the solution. Just a note, since the submitter doesn't specify.
Er...first, my experiences with their support have all been good, and as far as they go I'm definitely a small fish. Second, why do you even need tech support to transfer? Log in to your account, go to the domain control panel, and transfer it. The link's right there. Last time I transferred a domain from GoDaddy to another registrar, the initiation was done in under 5 minutes. Then there's the few day wait time for the transfer, and that's it.
Not covered here are their plans to create an XBox Live Gold type of service later this year - without the fee. Oh, and don't forgoet about EP2, TF2, and Portal.
Add all that to how successful and powerful Steam has become, and I'd say times are pretty damn good at Valve right now...
Forgive the blunt nature of my statement, but you seem to lack a basic understanding of just when copyright is appropriate. This isn't a free use issue, like the battles over media here in the States. This is a clear and total violation of intellectual property - even on a corporate scale. What's more, it's government sponsored.
This isn't about whether the Disney execs can afford another yacht, this is about the basic validity of IP law and what it's designed to protect.
Zippo currently estimates its sales are artificially lowered by 25% a year (likely a high estimate, but probably not too high) because of people purchasing Chinese-made copies. Zippo is a company in one town with one factory, and they recently had to lay off workers. Does your opinion change because of that?
Would your opinion change if you learned that my father risks losing a significant amount of money - one that may never be known - should someone steal the work of the inventor he's backing? Would it change if you knew we're an average middle class family with enough, but not a lot?
Most laptops come preconfigured to take advantage of most of the stuff in the article, though it wouldn't hurt to check. The last few new Dell laptops we've purchased at my organization default to S1 after a few minutes, S3 if you close the lid or hit sleep, and S4/S5 for shutdown.
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..."politely?" Okay, they may have used polite and diplomatic language, but Take Two told EA to f*ck right the f*ck off, and cram a few sharp pointy sticks in various orifices and organs in the process. Their response goes so far as to call the EA offer irresponsible and (by inference) insulting.
You're lucky. $1000 is dirt cheap compared to what most farmers/squatters ask. I had one tell me that since the name in question was used in 750,000 web pages in Google, it's obviously an extremely common name (when it's actually quite rare), and asked for $7500 minimum.
I must admit that I didn't entirely understand the significance of Portal while I was playing it the first time through. I thoroughly enjoyed it and had honest fun (a rarity it seems, including my long gone 6-8 hours per day of World of Warcraft 7 days a week, which didn't remotely resemble anything like fun), but I often get so involved the mechanics of gameplay I miss some stuff. After beating it the first time through, I read some reviews and checked out some forums. With the perspective gained from hearing others talk about the emotional brilliance of the game, I played through it again, start to finish. The end result?
:(
Oh, Weighted Companion Cube, WHYYYYY?
Same here. For a personal site in college, I always had a feeling that what we had was a one or two man operation with a couple hundred boxes, but the price was right, and the service was definitely there.
Then, one day, they vanished. Didn't respond to instant messages, emails, phone calls. Gone. Went back about 20 days to the last backup we had. Didn't lose much that couldn't be rebuilt outside the forums, thankfully.
Later, my friend, who did the design for all the stuff and who was paying the hosting bills, later told me that the charges had never even been made to her credit card. I'm not entirely sure how she never noticed that, but hell, we ended up getting fairly reliable hosting for 2 years for free from some fool who couldn't work his credit card machine!
I'm sure it has absolutely nothing to do with the occasional taxi driver making a tourist's trip 10x longer than it's supposed to be...
...was because all the other people were typing one-handed?
If SPF were more widely implemented, or required to be implemented, wouldn't this problem be solved? Don't send NDRs to domains without SPFs or when SPF fails. NDRs get through and problem solved.
And what DynDNS is doing is simply preventing all people from using their service from knowing whether email is being delivered properly. If I typo an email address, I damn well better be getting an NDR from the recipient domain, because simply having it go into an email black hole and never knowing whether it got there is not an acceptable alternative.
Yeah, but Patch Tuesday usually involves a dozen patches or less, any handful of which (2-3) might apply to any one system. This one included more than 50 patches, 12 of which were needed by most computers in my office.
They left out Eset NOD32 as well. Symantec and McAffee are the AV old guard: still strong, but also bloated, slow, and weakening. And they have the occasional health problems.
Kaspersky and Eset seem to be the two main up and comers, and they left one out!
We bought a new tape drive a while back, and it stopped using hardware compression for some reason. I was fairly sure it was a Backup Exec problem, so I called support (this is around 4-6 weeks ago). 75 minutes on hold and the person who picked up literally did not know the software. At all. He kept looking things up and asking me to wait.
Hang up after an hour and a half that's accomplished absolutely nothing. Call Quantum. On hold less than a minute. Guy picks up, I tell him what's going on, and even though it's not even his friggin software he gives me a few ideas to try. His second guess was right. 5 minutes on the phone and 10 minutes of testing, problem solved.
We've dumped Symantec's virus protection because it was overly expensive, bloated, and slow. We dumped Brightmail, their anti spam service, because of the exact same reasons. Backup Exec will be on the way out in next year's budget.
I listen to a local Clear Channel station online while at work. The week of July 4th, the stream suddenly stopped playing in Winamp. They had implemented a DRM scheme that requires you to play it through their web player (WMP10).
So...I'd say it's already here.
When I hooked up Comcast about 2 years ago, I got a self install kit, plugged it in to my router, waited 5 minutes, called the office and gave them my phone number, and I was off and away. Since then I've switched the modem out once and used 3 different MAC addresses (new router, and connected directly to my computer sometimes to troubleshoot) and never had a problem. If they authorized access by MAC none of that would have worked.
I have Comcast in the DC Metro area (Maryland side). Just ran a test, and I got 5856 down and 363 up to the DC server at Speedtest. My connection is advertised as 6Mbit - seems to be spot on.
Anything on my network that sends emails - any kind, alert/notification/log, including stuff from SNMP - goes to one address. First thing, I check that address, make sure nothing needs immediate handling, and then grab some coffee.
Damn, and I already posted in this thread and can't mod you up. I never would have thought of something that simple or elegant (if they're using a cell phone).
Asterisk will handle this easily, but will only work if all phone in question are tied directly into it. For example, a cell phone won't be included in the solution. Just a note, since the submitter doesn't specify.
Rather than posting individual replies, thank you, everyone. I'll look around :)
It's a button that is used in industry for stopping various machines
Can anyone provide a link to where one can be bought? The blog and linked source blog provide no info, not even a name to Google.
Er...first, my experiences with their support have all been good, and as far as they go I'm definitely a small fish. Second, why do you even need tech support to transfer? Log in to your account, go to the domain control panel, and transfer it. The link's right there. Last time I transferred a domain from GoDaddy to another registrar, the initiation was done in under 5 minutes. Then there's the few day wait time for the transfer, and that's it.
Not covered here are their plans to create an XBox Live Gold type of service later this year - without the fee. Oh, and don't forgoet about EP2, TF2, and Portal.
Add all that to how successful and powerful Steam has become, and I'd say times are pretty damn good at Valve right now...
Also, in the shorter term, there's Jack Thompson's recent letter to Bill Gates. That should provide some entertainment for a bit.
I'm less interested in the pre orders and more interested in the "description and detailed specifications," to be released at the same time.
This thing has sounded, looked, and felt like another Phantom since the start...
Certainly reinforces the Spread Firefox group's original slogan: Take Back the Web.
Forgive the blunt nature of my statement, but you seem to lack a basic understanding of just when copyright is appropriate. This isn't a free use issue, like the battles over media here in the States. This is a clear and total violation of intellectual property - even on a corporate scale. What's more, it's government sponsored.
This isn't about whether the Disney execs can afford another yacht, this is about the basic validity of IP law and what it's designed to protect.
Zippo currently estimates its sales are artificially lowered by 25% a year (likely a high estimate, but probably not too high) because of people purchasing Chinese-made copies. Zippo is a company in one town with one factory, and they recently had to lay off workers. Does your opinion change because of that?
Would your opinion change if you learned that my father risks losing a significant amount of money - one that may never be known - should someone steal the work of the inventor he's backing? Would it change if you knew we're an average middle class family with enough, but not a lot?
It shouldn't.
Most laptops come preconfigured to take advantage of most of the stuff in the article, though it wouldn't hurt to check. The last few new Dell laptops we've purchased at my organization default to S1 after a few minutes, S3 if you close the lid or hit sleep, and S4/S5 for shutdown.