From my experience working a crappy entry level tech support position, stuff like cube warfare can make all the difference between hating the customers you're on the phone with, and actually wanting to help them configure Outlook Express (for the 3rd time).
As I moved up in the IT world, and moved through different companies and positions the trusty Nerf Vortex guns came with me. There's always someone who appreciates a good cube shootout as much as I do, wherever I go.
I hate you so much. Consider yourself pelted in the face with tomatos and pulled off the stage with one of those giant hook dinguses. No wonder you posted as an AC, I wouldn't want my name on that post either.
I'm serious. Who else can lobby to get an ENTIRE FAMILY of computer hardware made illegal? It's not a matter of "how people are going to get around the law" but more "why were they able to make that law"? If you're a content owner, you have an absolute right to defend your own proprety. YOU do. The government has no responsibility to come along behind you and clean up and protect it for you, that's insane. It's alreay illegal to duplicate copyrighted works without permission from the owner, so honestly, how is this benefical? If anyone was still in need of a wakeup call, this is the one you were waiting for.
This issue seems more and more like it should fall into the "if you can't beat them, join them" category. You've known for YEARS that people were copying movie content via VCR's and music via tape decks. There wasn't a mad cram for legislation to codemn "analog to analog devices" that would make duplication of content any easier. This just reeks of technophobia - they aren't sure how they're going to make money with shows floating on the web. (remember Spaceballs? "Merchandising, merchandising, merchandising. Spacballs the flamethrower!")
Maybe it's time to start focusing some of that lobby money and MPAA kickbacks into either finding a way to preserve your own digital rights, or maybe finding a better way to pay for your content distribution on the internet so you can reap some rewards for owning that bit of cinema / software / music. It sounds like a better plan to me.
Unless you're a guy like me, that's trying to hone some very, very, very rusty *nix skills (4 years of Army Windows.. *puke*) and all you have available is a USB Drive, a Windows box, and 8 more months in the desert.
I think it's a great idea. I'm chomping at the bit for this download to finish.
-t
Woah, calm down. I'm in Iraq. For the second time.
We have these armored IED hunting vehicles. They save lives. And I guess things have changed in the HMMWV department too: ours have been up-armored. I don't want to down play your experience here in Iraq, but things are getting better everywhere, every day.
We tolerated outages because we knew that all ISPs had roughly the same failure rate and so switching wouldn't improve much.
Dude. They're called domains. That example there: I pay about $100 a year for the managed hosting and bandwidth. TANSTAAFL. You want something reliable, you pay for it.
And come on, no-one likes being a sub-domain anyway.
"The villain in the story is the iPod," says Chris Gorog, CEO of Napster Inc. (NAPS ), which sells both subscriptions and downloads. "You have this device consumers love, but they're being restricted from buying anything other than downloads from Apple. People are bored with that."
A couple things. One, I don't own an iPod, so my technical information might be a bit off track here so all you mac-a-holics can correct and berate me in replies. Two, I have a very, very large CD collection, about 50-70% of it being obscure enough to not be on iTunes and that's not including the 7" vinyl that I still have. Why would I pay 99 cents to download something mediocre when I already own quite a few CDs that I enjoy? Even if I could get them off of iTunes, for me it's easier to rip it myself - and I'm not paying for it twice.
Can you use other software to put music on your iPod? Like Napster, eMusic, or Rhapsody? Online music sales just seems like such a luxury, especially at 99 cents a song as compared to a subscription service. And I still like going into my dirty, dingy little local music store and shopping for "brown bag specials", talking to Doug the music trivia master, and shooting the shit for an hour or so. Net cost, probably a little cheaper than iTunes. But then again, I'm still talking to real people in the real world. That might be worth just a little bit more to me.
Mr. Gates is something of a celebrity in India, where technology outsourcing has provided well-paid jobs and changed the fortunes of thousands of middle-class Indians.
I wonder if all of these programmers in India are even slightly concerned that he ditched out on the (I'm assuming here) more expensive U.S. programmers to hire "more cost effective" employees in India?
They might want to think about what happens when ex-Soviet free states reaches a technology level that either surpasses India, or become cheap enough labor wise to be worth the loss of quality. I honestly don't see a lack of qualified programmers here in the U.S. for Microsoft to hire. And I hate seeing companies that have no reason to expand their profit margins start outsourcing just for the sake of making that extra buck.
I understand Google is a seemingly great company to work for and a pioneer in the search engine world. But why did I even waste the time to read though that "Back in ought one when I was still at Google.." garbage? I think I was hoping for some juicy tidbit that only blog readers would be privvy to, something secretive that I would never expect to happen to the employees of Google. Instead, I got a nice voyage down memory lane - getting to listen to people reminisce about things I was never there for in the first place.
I don't know if this qualifys as either "News for Nerds." or "Stuff that Matters."
"Hey! I made one too, out of penicillin!"
"Dude, it's eating my e. coli photograph! C'mon man... all that time wasted."
"Weird, it looks like the Virgin Mary now..."
habib_freedom_hater01> aziz, are you ready lol sxy_bch_1955> hi;) @}-'-`--- habib_freedom_hater01> AZIZ!!! stop goofin we must destroy teh invidels sxy_bch_1955> ROFLMAO! OMG habib, d00d, this is so l33ts habib_freedom_hater01> tahts it aziz im goin to call u sxy_bch_1955> LOL u cant tehy tapped r phone! we only use chat now habib_freedom_hater01> roxors! sxy_bch_1955> u set us up teh bomb habib_freedom_hater01> move zig! sxy_bch_1955> LOL
That's so funny. My wife worked there, and she quit becuase they treated her like absolute crap. She found a job that pays more, even in our sleepy Tennessee town.
No seriously, please twist the knife some more.
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In her book Overcoming Job Burnout, Dr. Beverly Potter defines burnout as "a destruction of motivation caused by feelings of powerlessness.
Thanks for that REALLY. You've just described my eight years in the workforce, and the way every pointed-haired boss I had used to take control over my life for at least eight hours a day.
Work. Do your job well. Leave your work at the office. Go home. Rinse. Repeat.
It's just that easy folks; if a chubby, 24 year old tattooed jackass like me can figure that one out, anyone can. I don't see anything really groundbreaking in this article, but if it keeps you from stealing MY stapler, by all means, read on. Or maybe go to Amazon and buy one of the 5 or so books she quoted from.
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One can only hope that the states will outsource its prison facilities over here.
I thought the British Empire tried that once already?
*rimshot*
What ever happened to good ole rubber band shooting?
I dunno, the same thing that happened to pong.
From my experience working a crappy entry level tech support position, stuff like cube warfare can make all the difference between hating the customers you're on the phone with, and actually wanting to help them configure Outlook Express (for the 3rd time).
As I moved up in the IT world, and moved through different companies and positions the trusty Nerf Vortex guns came with me. There's always someone who appreciates a good cube shootout as much as I do, wherever I go.
...ground control to Major Tom.
Oh, not Ziggy Stardust? I guess my awesome rendition of China Girl is out.
I hate you so much. Consider yourself pelted in the face with tomatos and pulled off the stage with one of those giant hook dinguses. No wonder you posted as an AC, I wouldn't want my name on that post either.
I'm serious. Who else can lobby to get an ENTIRE FAMILY of computer hardware made illegal? It's not a matter of "how people are going to get around the law" but more "why were they able to make that law"? If you're a content owner, you have an absolute right to defend your own proprety. YOU do. The government has no responsibility to come along behind you and clean up and protect it for you, that's insane. It's alreay illegal to duplicate copyrighted works without permission from the owner, so honestly, how is this benefical? If anyone was still in need of a wakeup call, this is the one you were waiting for.
This issue seems more and more like it should fall into the "if you can't beat them, join them" category. You've known for YEARS that people were copying movie content via VCR's and music via tape decks. There wasn't a mad cram for legislation to codemn "analog to analog devices" that would make duplication of content any easier. This just reeks of technophobia - they aren't sure how they're going to make money with shows floating on the web. (remember Spaceballs? "Merchandising, merchandising, merchandising. Spacballs the flamethrower!")
Maybe it's time to start focusing some of that lobby money and MPAA kickbacks into either finding a way to preserve your own digital rights, or maybe finding a better way to pay for your content distribution on the internet so you can reap some rewards for owning that bit of cinema / software / music. It sounds like a better plan to me.
Unless you're a guy like me, that's trying to hone some very, very, very rusty *nix skills (4 years of Army Windows.. *puke*) and all you have available is a USB Drive, a Windows box, and 8 more months in the desert.
I think it's a great idea. I'm chomping at the bit for this download to finish.
-t
Nah, they mean the screwdriver only cost us $24 million.
Well, at least the title for this one isn't as outlandish as the last.
Texas' "Broadband Over Pistols" (BOP) idea hopelessly backfired, and was shot full of holes.
Hate mail goes here folks.
Uh, I'm sorry. You think it's the crack house that kills addicts, and not being addicted to crack?
Woah, calm down. I'm in Iraq. For the second time.
We have these armored IED hunting vehicles. They save lives. And I guess things have changed in the HMMWV department too: ours have been up-armored. I don't want to down play your experience here in Iraq, but things are getting better everywhere, every day.
-t
We tolerated outages because we knew that all ISPs had roughly the same failure rate and so switching wouldn't improve much.
Dude. They're called domains. That example there: I pay about $100 a year for the managed hosting and bandwidth. TANSTAAFL. You want something reliable, you pay for it.
And come on, no-one likes being a sub-domain anyway.
-Tyler
Dude, I'm fighting in a war and I still read /.
-tyler
Back to vi/Notepad/Komodo, then..
Uh, back to? Personally, I never left.
...I read the article title as "Chimpanzees Beat Children in Reasoning Test".
I didn't know what sort of a reasoning test involved children and simians to engage in fisticuffs, but I was all for it.
"The villain in the story is the iPod," says Chris Gorog, CEO of Napster Inc. (NAPS ), which sells both subscriptions and downloads. "You have this device consumers love, but they're being restricted from buying anything other than downloads from Apple. People are bored with that."
A couple things. One, I don't own an iPod, so my technical information might be a bit off track here so all you mac-a-holics can correct and berate me in replies. Two, I have a very, very large CD collection, about 50-70% of it being obscure enough to not be on iTunes and that's not including the 7" vinyl that I still have. Why would I pay 99 cents to download something mediocre when I already own quite a few CDs that I enjoy? Even if I could get them off of iTunes, for me it's easier to rip it myself - and I'm not paying for it twice.
Can you use other software to put music on your iPod? Like Napster, eMusic, or Rhapsody? Online music sales just seems like such a luxury, especially at 99 cents a song as compared to a subscription service. And I still like going into my dirty, dingy little local music store and shopping for "brown bag specials", talking to Doug the music trivia master, and shooting the shit for an hour or so. Net cost, probably a little cheaper than iTunes. But then again, I'm still talking to real people in the real world. That might be worth just a little bit more to me.
Mr. Gates is something of a celebrity in India, where technology outsourcing has provided well-paid jobs and changed the fortunes of thousands of middle-class Indians.
I wonder if all of these programmers in India are even slightly concerned that he ditched out on the (I'm assuming here) more expensive U.S. programmers to hire "more cost effective" employees in India?
They might want to think about what happens when ex-Soviet free states reaches a technology level that either surpasses India, or become cheap enough labor wise to be worth the loss of quality. I honestly don't see a lack of qualified programmers here in the U.S. for Microsoft to hire. And I hate seeing companies that have no reason to expand their profit margins start outsourcing just for the sake of making that extra buck.
I understand Google is a seemingly great company to work for and a pioneer in the search engine world. But why did I even waste the time to read though that "Back in ought one when I was still at Google.." garbage? I think I was hoping for some juicy tidbit that only blog readers would be privvy to, something secretive that I would never expect to happen to the employees of Google. Instead, I got a nice voyage down memory lane - getting to listen to people reminisce about things I was never there for in the first place.
I don't know if this qualifys as either "News for Nerds." or "Stuff that Matters."
Finally, I have an excuse to name my twin sons Jim and Bexley.
"Hey! I made one too, out of penicillin!"
"Dude, it's eating my e. coli photograph! C'mon man... all that time wasted."
"Weird, it looks like the Virgin Mary now..."
VIRGIN MARY E. COLI PHOTOGRAPH - NO RESERVE - FREE SHIPPING
habib_freedom_hater01> aziz, are you ready lol ;) @}-'-`---
sxy_bch_1955> hi
habib_freedom_hater01> AZIZ!!! stop goofin we must destroy teh invidels
sxy_bch_1955> ROFLMAO! OMG habib, d00d, this is so l33ts
habib_freedom_hater01> tahts it aziz im goin to call u
sxy_bch_1955> LOL u cant tehy tapped r phone! we only use chat now
habib_freedom_hater01> roxors!
sxy_bch_1955> u set us up teh bomb
habib_freedom_hater01> move zig!
sxy_bch_1955> LOL
STFU you stupid nanomaterials, I like smoking.
That's so funny. My wife worked there, and she quit becuase they treated her like absolute crap. She found a job that pays more, even in our sleepy Tennessee town.
In her book Overcoming Job Burnout, Dr. Beverly Potter defines burnout as "a destruction of motivation caused by feelings of powerlessness.
Thanks for that REALLY. You've just described my eight years in the workforce, and the way every pointed-haired boss I had used to take control over my life for at least eight hours a day.
Work. Do your job well. Leave your work at the office. Go home. Rinse. Repeat.
It's just that easy folks; if a chubby, 24 year old tattooed jackass like me can figure that one out, anyone can. I don't see anything really groundbreaking in this article, but if it keeps you from stealing MY stapler, by all means, read on. Or maybe go to Amazon and buy one of the 5 or so books she quoted from.