when someone holds all the cards and flat out refuses to play fair, and goes out of their way to cheat you, the customer.. what should you do? what is the only logical thing to do but cheat back?
these media companies used to be about.. making CDs or DVDs or ya know.. publishing music, which was INSANELY profitable the way they did it. instead of innovating, and focusing on what makes them billions and taking it to the internet to reach an even larger populace to make trillions.. their greed for the pennies that fall thru the cracks motivates them to alienate ALL their customers by treating them ALL like criminals and prisoners..
it certainly seems unlikely that all of these high security computers would have no passwords on vnc or whatever remote desktop he seemed to be using, also that they would even be directly connected and not behind some firewall..
also hes remote desktopping with dialup?
although if all of that WAS true it would certainly explain why someone wouldve closed down the computer he was viewing UFO pics on;) i mean, say your in that office and one of the computers suddenly starts pulling up UFO pictures all by itself;) id run over and turn it off right away too;)
there is so much evidence of E.T.s and UFOs both now, and in the past, and even 'prehistoric' evidence that for our government to ignore it and refuse to publicly investigate any of it leads me to believe they are either secretly investigating it or secretly know all about it
before they got warrants before they couldn't/didn't tap as many things before they didnt have nsa survelliance stations right next door to msn, yahoo data centers
before they upheld the illusion of caring about the constitution
i have worked almost solid for the last 9 years, i had about 6 months off after being layed off during our little economic crash and mass outsourcing of IT jobs..
its so important that ISPs and colleges resist this as much as possible. i dont care the excuse (but hardware/software upgrade costs are signifigant, especially considering how colleges are getting less and less money with bush in office) This invades our freedom. Its just one more slip on the slope towards a camera in every room in your house, or microchips in your head that monitor your sences or thoughts. and this WILL be abused by the government just like everything else is.
IE gives MS control(POWER), they can direct and guide web technologies, they can set the default to their websites, they can control which inovations make it and which dont. they can give preference to their own. Control is very important.
Also it helps them eliminate alot of competition, for one it nearly destroyed netscape. and lets them sink competing standards. so it saves them money by eliminating and manipulating competition
It helps keep them ontop of their hill and everyone else lower
we cant blame AT&T, they have to hook up their networks to the NSA so we can be spied on.. its not their fault its the terrorists!
World of Warcraft could switch to another provider but then the terrorists would win! dont ya see? playing lag free World of Warcraft supports terrorism!
i also dont see how there is a debate its more art than anything else more people pour more time and energy into video games than almost any other kind of art, including movies which in many ways are very similar (and are treated as art by law)
is a telephone a communications device? is a Car a transportation device?
I wish microsoft would change course and fight the system! rather than try to exploit it. As one of the biggest and most obvious targets in the country youd think they of all people would be trying to put an end to this, rather than feeding it and exploiting it themselves..
I wrote this exact kind of thing into some of my software as early as 99 and i think ive seen it in other applications as well
its an obvious idea but not very easy to impliment, if someone managed to do it without stealing someone elses code they definately shouldnt have to pay 115million dollars
our patent system is RUINING inovation..
its to where you cant write any new code at all without stomping all over dozens of ridiculously broad/vague/obvious patents
thats one of the things i loved so much about gentoo is the user support community was generally very helpful, the #gentoo channel on freenode, and forums.gentoo.org i still use as a resource for linux questions even though i now use ubuntu.. ubuntu's support forums suck.. most of the time you never get a response and its buried quickly, it seems on the ubuntu forums there are way more people asking questions than answering any, so as a result anything you ask becomes quickly buried and never seen
another of the biggest problems is if you have a COMMON PROBLEM and search and find all kinds of mailing list archives and forum posts about the exact same problem and discussions about it they usually end in the person who brought up the question saying 'oh nevermind i figured it out' but they never SHARE what they figured out!! they just assume everyone else will also or what?
so on at least a few dozen problems that ive had, that i search online for, and found several references to the exact same problem i never managed to find an answer on those same discussion threads because the people who get the answers never share them!! thats just annoying.. thats why i always make sure to post any answers i find on any threads i post bringing up the problem
ANOTHER major problem is when you do find information in on message boards or mailing list archives it is usually not clear WHAT VERSIONS its for! with linux software constantly changing and growing and branching alot of times config options and syntaxes change. like with xfree86,xorg its changed over(xfree86 -> xorg=6.8)) and over(xorg6.8 heavily patched) and over (6.9) and over (7.0) again in like 1-2 years time.. without the version and relevant patch information you have no idea if the configs your reading about will still work (most likely they WONT) you basically have to be IN the linux scene for years before you can even keep track of half the important changes that you need to know about to keep compitent with linux.. which is obviously a massive barrier to entry
those are some of the biggest problems facing people who switch i think.. so many applications written by so many different people means SO MANY different implimentations. you have to read mountains of documentation, nothing is intuitive, most apps config options are unique and non-obvious and some are poorly documented, certain people you might ask will be flat out jerks about it. others wont know! looking on the internet in mailing lists often finds you grossly outdated or incomplete information. No version is given so you dont know if the information still holds true..
I think linux has come a HUUUUGE way though and continues to become better and better ever year. i think its already passed windows in power, reliability, and security. now if only it could pass windows in popularity and usability. i think as more people get into it there will be more people who are in it for practical reasons rather than to be leet or different and it will shape up into a more practical operating system (that means more GUIs!! and more integrated documentation, like context sensative help, instead of SEPERATE web docs/manpages)
i dont see anything that wrong with them they are only a minor inconvenience they found a way to make money 'playing' a game
plus when you see these guys working in sweat shop like conditions for so little money, and this is the best they can find in their area you have to almost feel sorry for them
so some people are minorly inconvenienced ON A GAME (oh crap my favorite farming spot has a couple chinese guys in it booo hooo they dont speak english) gold farming is some of these peoples lively hood, it allows them to afford a skinny ass chicken (that may or may not have bird flu, ooooh scary!) so they can feed their family another night
man are we soo spoiled that we get this up in arms about video games while we do nothing as the inalienable rights that our ancestors fought and DIED for are taken away by an adminstration that attacks country after country "pre-emptively" (unprovoked, and next time maybe with nukes! oh joy!)
would you be happier if they banned more like 50% or what?
what difference does the percentage of the total players make, as long as it is cutting down on the problem and not adversely effecting legit players thats fine
wow i had no idea how stupid most of the people on slashdot were when it comes to global warming.. just reading over some of the retarded responces from people scares me into realizing just how few people realize what a serious problem global warming is
2 degrees ON AVERAGE is a huge problem its much warmer in some areas, (and cooler in some) the polls are melting, that ice reflects light back out into space, with it melting leaving a big dark ocean to absorb more light/heat it heats things up even quicker
also all that melting ice raises water levels
also if coral reefs which produce TONS of oxegen get a couple degrees hotter they die, they provide most of the oxygen for all of us
also cars and especially burning coal and oil at power plants contributes way more greenhouse gases and polution consistently than nature ever has (volcanos are similuar but there are thousands of them burning around the clock)
did anyone notice also that a republican committee recently shot down the net neutrality bill that wouldve stopped AT&T from abusing their position to extort more money from web companies?
also anyone else think its bullshit that our tax dollars went towards AT&T and the other telcos to create fiberoptic networks, which they didnt finish, dont use, we cant use, they kept the money, and they charged us for it again anyway.. so basically they got free millions of dollars from tax payers and no strings attached.. and the right to set up a monopoly
i'm not saying i want the goverment and the big corporations to stop all corruption completely (cause i know thats IMPOSSIBLE) but could they at least not rub it in our faces SO BLATENTLY... i mean seriously, can we at least try to carry on the sham of a functioning system for another decade or so?
thats awesome every week or two there is another major exploit or something..
i use firefox at home but at work we HAVE to use IE.. as a result the IT staff keeps busy with OS reloads;)
at home when i used to use windows i used IE for the longest time cause i did hobbiest webdevelopment and since IE was the most popular i kept IE for testing websites on it
also all of my shortcuts i set on IE before i got firefox, so mostly i used IE (got firefox mainly to test web sites i made)
ive been hearing this same tune for what? 5 years at least.. and i still dont believe it, there will always be room for independant and/or creative developers. The are still independant and small budget films, and infact that industry is going in the opposite direction because people are tired of (high budget) unoriginal, uncreative movies.
Slashdot Mirror
am i seeing this right?
30,000 accounts on wow, removed 30 million gold, thats an average of about 1000 gold per account
on FF its 250 accounts and 250 billion gil?
thats an average of about 1billion gil per account?
holy crap
ive been running my debian linux server with like 99.99999% uptime for almost 6 years now
that whole survey is stupid, who runs both windows and linux servers? who would need to run two, obviously one would be neglected
i totally agree
.. making CDs or DVDs or ya know.. publishing music, which was INSANELY profitable the way they did it. instead of innovating, and focusing on what makes them billions and taking it to the internet to reach an even larger populace to make trillions.. their greed for the pennies that fall thru the cracks motivates them to alienate ALL their customers by treating them ALL like criminals and prisoners..
when someone holds all the cards and flat out refuses to play fair, and goes out of their way to cheat you, the customer.. what should you do? what is the only logical thing to do but cheat back?
these media companies used to be about
it certainly seems unlikely that all of these high security computers would have no passwords on vnc or whatever remote desktop he seemed to be using, also that they would even be directly connected and not behind some firewall..
;) i mean, say your in that office and one of the computers suddenly starts pulling up UFO pictures all by itself ;) id run over and turn it off right away too ;)
also hes remote desktopping with dialup?
although if all of that WAS true it would certainly explain why someone wouldve closed down the computer he was viewing UFO pics on
there is so much evidence of E.T.s and UFOs both now, and in the past, and even 'prehistoric' evidence that for our government to ignore it and refuse to publicly investigate any of it leads me to believe they are either secretly investigating it or secretly know all about it
OMG ITS THE END!! AAAAH!
before they got warrants
before they couldn't/didn't tap as many things
before they didnt have nsa survelliance stations right next door to msn, yahoo data centers
before they upheld the illusion of caring about the constitution
i have worked almost solid for the last 9 years, i had about 6 months off after being layed off during our little economic crash and mass outsourcing of IT jobs..
but with all that debt i surely wasnt traveling
its so important that ISPs and colleges resist this as much as possible. i dont care the excuse (but hardware/software upgrade costs are signifigant, especially considering how colleges are getting less and less money with bush in office) This invades our freedom. Its just one more slip on the slope towards a camera in every room in your house, or microchips in your head that monitor your sences or thoughts. and this WILL be abused by the government just like everything else is.
hrmm ya i never thought of it like that.. your right ;)
;)
people never see things so clearly as when they are unifyingly disagreeing with him
as usual he completely misses the point..
IE gives MS control(POWER), they can direct and guide web technologies, they can set the default to their websites, they can control which inovations make it and which dont. they can give preference to their own. Control is very important.
Also it helps them eliminate alot of competition, for one it nearly destroyed netscape. and lets them sink competing standards. so it saves them money by eliminating and manipulating competition
It helps keep them ontop of their hill and everyone else lower
we cant blame AT&T, they have to hook up their networks to the NSA so we can be spied on..
its not their fault its the terrorists!
World of Warcraft could switch to another provider but then the terrorists would win! dont ya see? playing lag free World of Warcraft supports terrorism!
its stuff like this that makes me SURE that the human race is bound to destroy itself
the coal, and clear cutting, and burning of millions of tons of oil and coal is ok.. but put a few windmills ANYWHERE and THEN some dipshit gets mad
our greed and stupidity is our undoing
sure 10 years per copyright infringement sounds fair.. i mean afterall it IS FUNDING TERRORISM!!!
i also dont see how there is a debate
its more art than anything else
more people pour more time and energy into video games than almost any other kind of art, including movies which in many ways are very similar (and are treated as art by law)
is a telephone a communications device? is a Car a transportation device?
I wish microsoft would change course and fight the system! rather than try to exploit it. As one of the biggest and most obvious targets in the country youd think they of all people would be trying to put an end to this, rather than feeding it and exploiting it themselves..
I wrote this exact kind of thing into some of my software as early as 99 and i think ive seen it in other applications as well
its an obvious idea but not very easy to impliment, if someone managed to do it without stealing someone elses code they definately shouldnt have to pay 115million dollars
our patent system is RUINING inovation..
its to where you cant write any new code at all without stomping all over dozens of ridiculously broad/vague/obvious patents
thats one of the things i loved so much about gentoo is the user support community was generally very helpful, the #gentoo channel on freenode, and forums.gentoo.org i still use as a resource for linux questions even though i now use ubuntu.. ubuntu's support forums suck.. most of the time you never get a response and its buried quickly, it seems on the ubuntu forums there are way more people asking questions than answering any, so as a result anything you ask becomes quickly buried and never seen
another of the biggest problems is if you have a COMMON PROBLEM and search and find all kinds of mailing list archives and forum posts about the exact same problem and discussions about it they usually end in the person who brought up the question saying 'oh nevermind i figured it out' but they never SHARE what they figured out!! they just assume everyone else will also or what?
so on at least a few dozen problems that ive had, that i search online for, and found several references to the exact same problem i never managed to find an answer on those same discussion threads because the people who get the answers never share them!! thats just annoying.. thats why i always make sure to post any answers i find on any threads i post bringing up the problem
ANOTHER major problem is when you do find information in on message boards or mailing list archives it is usually not clear WHAT VERSIONS its for! with linux software constantly changing and growing and branching alot of times config options and syntaxes change. like with xfree86,xorg its changed over(xfree86 -> xorg=6.8)) and over(xorg6.8 heavily patched) and over (6.9) and over (7.0) again in like 1-2 years time.. without the version and relevant patch information you have no idea if the configs your reading about will still work (most likely they WONT) you basically have to be IN the linux scene for years before you can even keep track of half the important changes that you need to know about to keep compitent with linux.. which is obviously a massive barrier to entry
those are some of the biggest problems facing people who switch i think.. so many applications written by so many different people means SO MANY different implimentations. you have to read mountains of documentation, nothing is intuitive, most apps config options are unique and non-obvious and some are poorly documented, certain people you might ask will be flat out jerks about it. others wont know! looking on the internet in mailing lists often finds you grossly outdated or incomplete information. No version is given so you dont know if the information still holds true..
I think linux has come a HUUUUGE way though and continues to become better and better ever year. i think its already passed windows in power, reliability, and security. now if only it could pass windows in popularity and usability. i think as more people get into it there will be more people who are in it for practical reasons rather than to be leet or different and it will shape up into a more practical operating system (that means more GUIs!! and more integrated documentation, like context sensative help, instead of SEPERATE web docs/manpages)
Does this topic scare the crap out of anyone else?
;(
the idea of Oracle buying (and ofcourse then ruining) Ubuntu makes me sad
i buy from gold farmers ;)
i dont see anything that wrong with them they are only a minor inconvenience
they found a way to make money 'playing' a game
plus when you see these guys working in sweat shop like conditions for so little money, and this is the best they can find in their area you have to almost feel sorry for them
so some people are minorly inconvenienced ON A GAME (oh crap my favorite farming spot has a couple chinese guys in it booo hooo they dont speak english)
gold farming is some of these peoples lively hood, it allows them to afford a skinny ass chicken (that may or may not have bird flu, ooooh scary!) so they can feed their family another night
man are we soo spoiled that we get this up in arms about video games while we do nothing as the inalienable rights that our ancestors fought and DIED for are taken away by an adminstration that attacks country after country "pre-emptively" (unprovoked, and next time maybe with nukes! oh joy!)
would you be happier if they banned more like 50% or what?
what difference does the percentage of the total players make, as long as it is cutting down on the problem and not adversely effecting legit players thats fine
your words are wasted on that moron
wow i had no idea how stupid most of the people on slashdot were when it comes to global warming.. just reading over some of the retarded responces from people scares me into realizing just how few people realize what a serious problem global warming is
2 degrees ON AVERAGE is a huge problem its much warmer in some areas, (and cooler in some)
the polls are melting, that ice reflects light back out into space, with it melting leaving a big dark ocean to absorb more light/heat it heats things up even quicker
also all that melting ice raises water levels
also if coral reefs which produce TONS of oxegen get a couple degrees hotter they die, they provide most of the oxygen for all of us
also cars and especially burning coal and oil at power plants contributes way more greenhouse gases and polution consistently than nature ever has (volcanos are similuar but there are thousands of them burning around the clock)
did anyone notice also that a republican committee recently shot down the net neutrality bill that wouldve stopped AT&T from abusing their position to extort more money from web companies?
also anyone else think its bullshit that our tax dollars went towards AT&T and the other telcos to create fiberoptic networks, which they didnt finish, dont use, we cant use, they kept the money, and they charged us for it again anyway.. so basically they got free millions of dollars from tax payers and no strings attached.. and the right to set up a monopoly
i'm not saying i want the goverment and the big corporations to stop all corruption completely (cause i know thats IMPOSSIBLE) but could they at least not rub it in our faces SO BLATENTLY... i mean seriously, can we at least try to carry on the sham of a functioning system for another decade or so?
thats awesome
;)
every week or two there is another major exploit or something..
i use firefox at home but at work we HAVE to use IE.. as a result the IT staff keeps busy with OS reloads
at home when i used to use windows i used IE for the longest time cause i did hobbiest webdevelopment and since IE was the most popular i kept IE for testing websites on it
also all of my shortcuts i set on IE before i got firefox, so mostly i used IE (got firefox mainly to test web sites i made)
Chuck Norris is allowed to sell PCs without an OS.
ive been hearing this same tune for what? 5 years at least.. and i still dont believe it, there will always be room for independant and/or creative developers. The are still independant and small budget films, and infact that industry is going in the opposite direction because people are tired of (high budget) unoriginal, uncreative movies.