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I really enjoy public broadcasting television. Not to say that they don't have corporate sponsors, but they have found a very reasonable position, in my eyes. And the quality of public tv is very often substantially better than normal ad-driven cable tv. If people were more interested in pbs, I'd be a happy person:)
Oh my lord. Who in their right mind thought this was a good idea? Right from the beginning of the video I could sense this wasn't going to be pretty. Honestly, that has got to break some sort of all time stupidity record (well, almost lol). That just baffles me. Ridiculous.
I use gmail like a permanent filesystem. I have important files in there. I have a daily journal I write to as email (to myself). And its dead easy to find everything.
What's nice about it is that I know it won't get wiped out by a bad hard drive or a os reinstall, I can access it pretty much anywhere with internet, and it will continue to get better without any work on my part. Trusting that google won't fuck anything up, the only downsides are the slowness of uploading larger files (and a max of 10MB), and the slight worry about personal information (I of course, perhaps naively, trust google with my info).
I don't 'blame' a sociopath for killing people, but I still want him locked away in prison forever. Similarily, I would like companies punished for sickening behavior.
Yeah, but too bad this so called social contract is with a company. Lets be honest, companies are not people, and do not have morals. The only thing a company cares about is its own well being, and the only reason it would ever pretend to follow a 'social contract' is if it was forced to (by law, or business survival).
I hate when people pretend we owe something to companies.
I'll uphold 'social contract' with a company, when companies start upholding it with me. I don't think I could design a better organization and purpose than a company for screwing people over.
Honestly, they deserve everything that happens to them, based on their own principles of survival.
I never got into this Star Trek like the others. Even now, I would still rather watch old repeat episodes of TNG than Enterprise. I think that for all its flaws, TNG really hit it on the head. Voyager still had some of that good stuff too, but Enterprise lost it. Maybe they were trying to appeal to a wider audience or something, i don't know.
Suffice to say, I for one will not really miss it. Give me Firefly back tho!
For craps sake. If the government takes me to court and slaps the shit out of me, I do my god damned punishment or the police stick their boots up my ass. I didn't realize these things were open for negotiation. Lets all just get it out in the open: Big companies own us... pretty much literally.
My experience has been that windows xp works fine when used in a constant and safe fashion. I use it daily to work on, but I do the same things every day, and I spent a lot of time at first install making sure everything was up to snuff... all unnecessary services turned off etc. I watch everything that happens to my system and maintain it daily (cleaning up, not installing crap, you know safe stuff!).
On the other hand, I have used systems in harsh environments (program testing etc) and found it does not always handle unstable progrma svery well, often crashing itself. Likewise on computers that aren't actively and knowledgably maintained, it degrades to a useless lump.
Hmm that was kinda scarey. I'm using Firefox, and when I clicked on that link up popped windows media player, without asking what i wanted to do. I must admit, that downright pissed me off.
But more to the topic: Laura Didio looks like a walking talking advertisement for MS. I can understand not taking her word on these kind of issues!
From your description it sounds like the only fun is had in the 31-40 range!
Games these days are becoming more like jobs... and why not: People are already programmed to do monotonous jobs from school. The game industry is smart to tap into that.
I like that: "he could to not do what he should". I think you hit the nail on the head for a whole bunch of the worlds problems - tho you may not see it.
'Should the people who make and sell "violent video" games be held accountable if someone commits a crime because of playing them?'
Yeah, because its obvious they committed the crime because of playing the game, right?
You're being funny right? Considering how long the judicial system takes to do anything, there would be no estate by the time they figured out she was dead. Even if the daughter was the executor, fat lot of good it will do them down the road. Anyways although the executor has a duty to inform those who may have a claim against the estate of the womans death, the RIAA had no such claim yet, therefore I would doubt she had a duty to inform them of her death (assuming she was still executor at the time of the notice of the lawsuit).
My aunt and uncle recently gave up on computers. They had one a while ago that got bogged down and stopped working. Then recently they bought a new one and within one day it stopped working due to viruses et el.
Suffice to say they decided to pack it away and never use it again.
"in the real world, doing that sort of thing quickly has repercussions (ie, someone smacks your bitch ass up)" - You obviously don't live in the same world I do.
There are a bunch of US military telescopes which scan the entire heavens every day, and send anything interesting to other telescopes to study. So, actually, we are looking at the whole sky at one time (relative to asteroid time scales).
I think the only time I ever touch manuals and instruction books is when something breaks or is bugging the hell out of me. Usually it doesn't help much either:)
It seems that many are quick to jump on this guys back about the lousy job of administering his wifes computer he was doing. How the heck do any of you know he was responsible for her computer before he decided to get down and dirty and clean it up?
Anyways, just because you can nitpick the article to death (oh this bug was patched already nanana booboo), doesn't change the validity of his point. Please, lets look past the little bs and address the article as a whole.
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I really enjoy public broadcasting television. Not to say that they don't have corporate sponsors, but they have found a very reasonable position, in my eyes. And the quality of public tv is very often substantially better than normal ad-driven cable tv. If people were more interested in pbs, I'd be a happy person :)
Oh my lord. Who in their right mind thought this was a good idea? Right from the beginning of the video I could sense this wasn't going to be pretty. Honestly, that has got to break some sort of all time stupidity record (well, almost lol). That just baffles me. Ridiculous.
I use gmail like a permanent filesystem. I have important files in there. I have a daily journal I write to as email (to myself). And its dead easy to find everything.
What's nice about it is that I know it won't get wiped out by a bad hard drive or a os reinstall, I can access it pretty much anywhere with internet, and it will continue to get better without any work on my part. Trusting that google won't fuck anything up, the only downsides are the slowness of uploading larger files (and a max of 10MB), and the slight worry about personal information (I of course, perhaps naively, trust google with my info).
I don't 'blame' a sociopath for killing people, but I still want him locked away in prison forever. Similarily, I would like companies punished for sickening behavior.
Yeah, but too bad this so called social contract is with a company. Lets be honest, companies are not people, and do not have morals. The only thing a company cares about is its own well being, and the only reason it would ever pretend to follow a 'social contract' is if it was forced to (by law, or business survival).
I hate when people pretend we owe something to companies.
I'll uphold 'social contract' with a company, when companies start upholding it with me. I don't think I could design a better organization and purpose than a company for screwing people over.
Honestly, they deserve everything that happens to them, based on their own principles of survival.
Imagine wasting the entire side of the screen to a clock?? Who the hell thought that was a bright idea?
I never got into this Star Trek like the others. Even now, I would still rather watch old repeat episodes of TNG than Enterprise. I think that for all its flaws, TNG really hit it on the head. Voyager still had some of that good stuff too, but Enterprise lost it. Maybe they were trying to appeal to a wider audience or something, i don't know.
Suffice to say, I for one will not really miss it. Give me Firefly back tho!
For craps sake. If the government takes me to court and slaps the shit out of me, I do my god damned punishment or the police stick their boots up my ass. I didn't realize these things were open for negotiation. Lets all just get it out in the open: Big companies own us... pretty much literally.
My experience has been that windows xp works fine when used in a constant and safe fashion. I use it daily to work on, but I do the same things every day, and I spent a lot of time at first install making sure everything was up to snuff... all unnecessary services turned off etc. I watch everything that happens to my system and maintain it daily (cleaning up, not installing crap, you know safe stuff!).
On the other hand, I have used systems in harsh environments (program testing etc) and found it does not always handle unstable progrma svery well, often crashing itself. Likewise on computers that aren't actively and knowledgably maintained, it degrades to a useless lump.
Hmm that was kinda scarey. I'm using Firefox, and when I clicked on that link up popped windows media player, without asking what i wanted to do. I must admit, that downright pissed me off. But more to the topic: Laura Didio looks like a walking talking advertisement for MS. I can understand not taking her word on these kind of issues!
From your description it sounds like the only fun is had in the 31-40 range! Games these days are becoming more like jobs... and why not: People are already programmed to do monotonous jobs from school. The game industry is smart to tap into that.
I'm addicted to life.
"I don't think playing 6+ hours a day is healthy." Yeah, but working 8 hours a day is.
I like that: "he could to not do what he should". I think you hit the nail on the head for a whole bunch of the worlds problems - tho you may not see it.
'Should the people who make and sell "violent video" games be held accountable if someone commits a crime because of playing them?' Yeah, because its obvious they committed the crime because of playing the game, right?
Whatever. *I* think its neat. When the telegraph was invented, no one could imagine a telephone... let alone an internet.
Amen!
Only species to have sex for fun eh? I think I should just ignore this whole thread, as it is obviously full of half-baked responses.
You're being funny right? Considering how long the judicial system takes to do anything, there would be no estate by the time they figured out she was dead. Even if the daughter was the executor, fat lot of good it will do them down the road. Anyways although the executor has a duty to inform those who may have a claim against the estate of the womans death, the RIAA had no such claim yet, therefore I would doubt she had a duty to inform them of her death (assuming she was still executor at the time of the notice of the lawsuit).
My aunt and uncle recently gave up on computers. They had one a while ago that got bogged down and stopped working. Then recently they bought a new one and within one day it stopped working due to viruses et el.
:)
Suffice to say they decided to pack it away and never use it again.
Like someone else said: I'll fix it for $1000.
"in the real world, doing that sort of thing quickly has repercussions (ie, someone smacks your bitch ass up)" - You obviously don't live in the same world I do.
There are a bunch of US military telescopes which scan the entire heavens every day, and send anything interesting to other telescopes to study. So, actually, we are looking at the whole sky at one time (relative to asteroid time scales).
I think the only time I ever touch manuals and instruction books is when something breaks or is bugging the hell out of me. Usually it doesn't help much either :)
It seems that many are quick to jump on this guys back about the lousy job of administering his wifes computer he was doing. How the heck do any of you know he was responsible for her computer before he decided to get down and dirty and clean it up?
Anyways, just because you can nitpick the article to death (oh this bug was patched already nanana booboo), doesn't change the validity of his point. Please, lets look past the little bs and address the article as a whole.