...do you not think that a little bit isn't going to rub off. Song lyrics, tv, game content...it's all the same gig. Likely it's a calculated grab at the few democrats that are also evangelicals (yes, there are a few). It's getting mighty tight in the primary states so if she can sneak something a little under the radar, but do it with the right voters then maybe, just maybe, it'll be enough to push her over the top.
Not like I needed an excuse, but here's a perfect reason to vote against Senator Clinton. Gamers in Iowa and New Hampshire need to show up and make their presence known with their votes.
You want the government to try to regulate electronic gambling? Hell, they can't even manage to create a fair and unhackable playing ground on something unimportant like, ya know, Voting. No randomization, just tiny amounts of personal information, and no personal funds up for grabs (unless you count the lobbyists and the corporations that benefit from legislation, but that's another story...).
Online gambling for large sums of money is just plain stupid. Online gambling on sports matches is getting to be as stupid, especially if it's the NBA and their [cough][sarcasm]lone crooked ref[/cough][/sarcasm].
So many more games that utilize the control scheme will come out and make everyone drool and cry. I still wish it had 8 cores and a real power supply...
You are correct on the drool/cry portion. But the Wii has proven that you don't need a monster processor (or 8) under the hood. You need gameplay--something that was lost as the processing power went up in those other boxes. Everything else is eye candy.
Neither Microsoft nor Best Buy has the best of track records with treating their customers with honesty. Best Buy's alleged bait and switch internal website and the multitude of Microsoft failings with their customers (Windows Genuine "Advantage" and the Vista/IPod issues come to mind immediately) put both corporations at a definite disadvantage as far as character goes. The fact that they have now been accused of working together to try to boost their respective profits through questionable and/or possibly illegal practices should not surprise anybody. Innocent until proven guilty, but talk about starting with one strike against them...
I'm glad people are putting money into solar, because if done right, it can turn regions of the globe which are otherwise unused (West Texas for example) into very productive areas for energy use.
Neat concept, but I'd be willing to bet you a stack of Sheryl Crow's single sheet wonders that some tree (or cactus) hugger will say that you are destroying the ecosystem created by the direct sunlight in West Texas by having these godawful unnatural solar panels blocking the direct sunlight from hitting the ground.
As an altnerative (and as much as I hate government regulation), a better way to generate this is to make it mandatory to install solar cells on the top of buildings so that all that unused space on homes/commercial buildings/etc could be put to use instead of being wasted and collecting heat in attics that in turn causes us to use more electricity to run our air conditioners. Sure it will add to the initial cost of a house, but it will also diminish the carbon footprint we as a society are creating.
Without accusing the crowd of being anything less than an ethical [insert gagging sounds here], this might be history repeating itself for competitive gain. With the Windows 95 upgrade came the "feature" that included the disabling of AOL software. Didn't M$ introduce M$N Network with Windows 95? So didn't M$ introduce the Zune this past Christmas season? Maybe I'm getting cynical in my old age, but given the track history of M$ (to include the now infamous Halloween documents which were recently acknowledged as authentic in court), a sabotaging of the iPod is not outside the realm of possible.
But taking that into account, I'll be there are still a huge number of copyright violators who would be outraged if their own copyright was violated.
With Microsoft being #1 on that list given what Microsoft has been accused and convicted of over the years, as early as the MS DOS 6 debacle (the origin of "Microsoft, where quality is Job Number 1.22"). I'd dare say that everybody is going to scream about their IP being misappropriated.
I'm upset to the second power on Turnitin.com because not only do they take the works from students to add to their database, but they also spider the 'Net looking for term papers and other things and add it to their database as well. For profit no less. I hate the tort system, but if there was ever a case for a class-action suit...
It has been tried as far back as 2002 with little to no success. The US Federal Courts set a very high standard when it comes to tagging an organization with RICO. Even the mob managed to get out from under a prosecution or two because it did not met the strict standard. Likely, neither will this but it gets the issue/complaint out into the media and the publicity/attention is what the plaintiffs are looking for.
It is a straight up BS suit. If they want to always be on the first page of the rankings, they should pay the money to get the space on the right hand column. Otherwise they have no inherent right to be anywhere on Google's site. Hell, Google should sue them for bringing an annoyance lawsuit.
Human Error Acknowledged. Caffeine not found, operator halted. It should have been 400M rather than 800M. About a 2% tax rate. Pretty reasonable all things considered. We're getting ready to move and the tax rate in the country we're moving to is close to 3%. No smoke, no kiss.
Reportedly he chuckled about it and said that someday he'd be the answer to a trivia question. Shows a degree of humility on his part--he's all ready the answer to a number of trivia questions to include who was calling the game when the mighty USSR Hockey team got beat by a bunch of amateur Americans.
Second, read the title of the Article: $8M Revenue Shortfall Blamed on Bad DB Entry. Data doesn't just flow into a database through the services of FM. The primary way that data gets into a database is through it being entered by a human. Like my human error where it was 400,000,000 valuation instead of 800,000,000 (caffeine not found, operator halted). For it to be an entry into a database (and if it's screwed up) it was probably a human that did it. And even if the db was screwed up, it was a human who screwed up the db.
Databases, like anything else on the computer, does only what it is told. GIGO applies.
...and that's Hugh Hefner. Otherwise, there's always something that could be better about our jobs.
But moving back to the topic. I can think of a dozen reasons why I would jump ship. I can think of a dozen reasons to stay put. What it comes down to is "To Thine Ownself Be True." If deep in your heart your desire is to stimulate the gray matter, write code, and put that college education to use, jump ship. If deep in your heart you want to bank the cash and stimulate the gray matter when you go home for the night, stick tight. If you want to stimulate other things, see when old Hugh is going to cash in and then apply for his job.
LA Times not biased towards the MPAA? The hometown rag of the movie industry not putting some spin on the story to help out the studios? Surely you jest (and stop calling me Shirley).
Have we all forgotten the Engadget interview in which our good friend Jack V said "Now, fair use is not in the law. People are taking fair use and changing it to unfair use and claiming that it's fair use."
Sorry, but they can't have it both ways. Either there's fair use and they can make copies for internal/non-revenue generating purposes (and so can everybody else), or they can pay a ridiculous amount of money to the owners of the copyright for breaking the law as they see and try to enforce it.
As an aside, do you think one of those questionably legal/illegal copies of the movie ended up making the rounds on BitTorrent? Just a thought...
It is anti-competitive. And while MLB does have an anti-trust exemption, Congress has threatened to take it for this same time of stupidity. Does MLB really want this fight? My guess is no.
Caveat: I have dabbled in fantasy baseball once or twice, but I just can't get excited about it.
MLB has been doing their best to rein in "their" IP for years. They tried it with sports photographers a number of years ago by not allowing them to sell their photographs for anything but news. These beat photographers sure as heck can't make a living off of what the papers are paying them. Selling a few images here and there is what helps pay the mortgage and, at the same time, provides positive press for MLB. The photographers en masse went to MLB and said if we can't sell them then we'll go shoot weddings and your sport will get zero images in the newspapers. MLB relented.
Let's go deeper into the onion. If stats are not the property of MLB, then game manufacturers can use these stats to build into their games. If they've got the stats, then who needs MLB/MLBPA licensing?
And now down one more level, if MLB can license the stats, why can't they license the results. In turn, can Las Vegas casinos then accept bets if they don't pay MLB a portion of the take? MLB could end up with the rest of Pete Rose's earnings.
And now down a crazier level... If newspapers don't license the results, can they publish them in the newspaper? And if they're not required to license them, then why is fantasy baseball required to? After all, they're both making money off of the results. This all becomes ugly issues and more negative press for MLB.
Regardless of whether MLB wins in court, any money that they make sure as hell won't go to the players. Not that they particularly need it (because they don't), but it's the owners making a buck on the players backs (and arms and legs and...) that they won't account for when they cry poverty and whine that they don't have money for that new stadium. But you tax payers certainly do or we're gonna move.
MLB needs to pull their heads from the exit end of their digestive tract and realize that for many folks fantasy baseball is the only reason that they still give a damn about the sport. And they can't afford to lose many more fans than they all ready have.
...it really doesn't matter because the FAA will also have to weigh in on the use cellphones while in flight. As I understand it, this is one of those dual-hatted sort of things. Sure the FCC controls the airwaves, but the FAA also issues the rules as to what you can do while airborne.
On 468, i've seen plenty of times W95 been somewhat useable.
God, now I'm going to sound old. I was with an organization at the tail end of 1997 that was migrating from Win 3.1 to Win 95 on the desktop and from Novell to NT 4 Servers. We were taking 486 SX 25Mhz machines, bringing them up to 16Mb of RAM, and often slaving a second 40Mb or smaller Hard Drive in order to have usable machines. Did I mention we were loading them with 21 floppy sets of Win 95. In an organization of 700 PC's we probably had 40-50% of them running in this configuration at the time of migration. 15% of the network still consisted of those machines until the great Y2K purge 2 years later.
On a separate note, M$ should have also tested Linux v WXP performance with a P4 1GHz machine with 128Mb RAM--well above their minimum requirements. WXP is no longer an operating system at that point--it's a slide show. But nearly any Linux distribution will run on it beautifully.
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...do you not think that a little bit isn't going to rub off. Song lyrics, tv, game content...it's all the same gig. Likely it's a calculated grab at the few democrats that are also evangelicals (yes, there are a few). It's getting mighty tight in the primary states so if she can sneak something a little under the radar, but do it with the right voters then maybe, just maybe, it'll be enough to push her over the top.
Not like I needed an excuse, but here's a perfect reason to vote against Senator Clinton. Gamers in Iowa and New Hampshire need to show up and make their presence known with their votes.
You want the government to try to regulate electronic gambling? Hell, they can't even manage to create a fair and unhackable playing ground on something unimportant like, ya know, Voting. No randomization, just tiny amounts of personal information, and no personal funds up for grabs (unless you count the lobbyists and the corporations that benefit from legislation, but that's another story...).
Online gambling for large sums of money is just plain stupid. Online gambling on sports matches is getting to be as stupid, especially if it's the NBA and their [cough][sarcasm]lone crooked ref[/cough][/sarcasm].
You are correct on the drool/cry portion. But the Wii has proven that you don't need a monster processor (or 8) under the hood. You need gameplay--something that was lost as the processing power went up in those other boxes. Everything else is eye candy.
or the obligatory Man in the Middle vulnerability...
Whats wrong with hanging them?
Who? Microsoft? I'm in favor--especially if you use 13 loops and strong hemp rope.
Neither Microsoft nor Best Buy has the best of track records with treating their customers with honesty. Best Buy's alleged bait and switch internal website and the multitude of Microsoft failings with their customers (Windows Genuine "Advantage" and the Vista/IPod issues come to mind immediately) put both corporations at a definite disadvantage as far as character goes. The fact that they have now been accused of working together to try to boost their respective profits through questionable and/or possibly illegal practices should not surprise anybody. Innocent until proven guilty, but talk about starting with one strike against them...
I'm glad people are putting money into solar, because if done right, it can turn regions of the globe which are otherwise unused (West Texas for example) into very productive areas for energy use.
Neat concept, but I'd be willing to bet you a stack of Sheryl Crow's single sheet wonders that some tree (or cactus) hugger will say that you are destroying the ecosystem created by the direct sunlight in West Texas by having these godawful unnatural solar panels blocking the direct sunlight from hitting the ground.
As an altnerative (and as much as I hate government regulation), a better way to generate this is to make it mandatory to install solar cells on the top of buildings so that all that unused space on homes/commercial buildings/etc could be put to use instead of being wasted and collecting heat in attics that in turn causes us to use more electricity to run our air conditioners. Sure it will add to the initial cost of a house, but it will also diminish the carbon footprint we as a society are creating.
My two watts...
Without accusing the crowd of being anything less than an ethical [insert gagging sounds here], this might be history repeating itself for competitive gain. With the Windows 95 upgrade came the "feature" that included the disabling of AOL software. Didn't M$ introduce M$N Network with Windows 95? So didn't M$ introduce the Zune this past Christmas season? Maybe I'm getting cynical in my old age, but given the track history of M$ (to include the now infamous Halloween documents which were recently acknowledged as authentic in court), a sabotaging of the iPod is not outside the realm of possible.
But taking that into account, I'll be there are still a huge number of copyright violators who would be outraged if their own copyright was violated.
With Microsoft being #1 on that list given what Microsoft has been accused and convicted of over the years, as early as the MS DOS 6 debacle (the origin of "Microsoft, where quality is Job Number 1.22"). I'd dare say that everybody is going to scream about their IP being misappropriated.
I'm upset to the second power on Turnitin.com because not only do they take the works from students to add to their database, but they also spider the 'Net looking for term papers and other things and add it to their database as well. For profit no less. I hate the tort system, but if there was ever a case for a class-action suit...
It has been tried as far back as 2002 with little to no success. The US Federal Courts set a very high standard when it comes to tagging an organization with RICO. Even the mob managed to get out from under a prosecution or two because it did not met the strict standard. Likely, neither will this but it gets the issue/complaint out into the media and the publicity/attention is what the plaintiffs are looking for.
Their pageviews will likely be way up. But too much of a good thing can be very bad...
Cash on hand. It's gotta be.
It is a straight up BS suit. If they want to always be on the first page of the rankings, they should pay the money to get the space on the right hand column. Otherwise they have no inherent right to be anywhere on Google's site. Hell, Google should sue them for bringing an annoyance lawsuit.
Human Error Acknowledged. Caffeine not found, operator halted. It should have been 400M rather than 800M. About a 2% tax rate. Pretty reasonable all things considered. We're getting ready to move and the tax rate in the country we're moving to is close to 3%. No smoke, no kiss.
Reportedly he chuckled about it and said that someday he'd be the answer to a trivia question. Shows a degree of humility on his part--he's all ready the answer to a number of trivia questions to include who was calling the game when the mighty USSR Hockey team got beat by a bunch of amateur Americans.
First, Breathe.
Second, read the title of the Article:
$8M Revenue Shortfall Blamed on Bad DB Entry . Data doesn't just flow into a database through the services of FM. The primary way that data gets into a database is through it being entered by a human. Like my human error where it was 400,000,000 valuation instead of 800,000,000 (caffeine not found, operator halted). For it to be an entry into a database (and if it's screwed up) it was probably a human that did it. And even if the db was screwed up, it was a human who screwed up the db.
Databases, like anything else on the computer, does only what it is told. GIGO applies.
...and that's Hugh Hefner. Otherwise, there's always something that could be better about our jobs.
But moving back to the topic. I can think of a dozen reasons why I would jump ship. I can think of a dozen reasons to stay put. What it comes down to is "To Thine Ownself Be True." If deep in your heart your desire is to stimulate the gray matter, write code, and put that college education to use, jump ship. If deep in your heart you want to bank the cash and stimulate the gray matter when you go home for the night, stick tight. If you want to stimulate other things, see when old Hugh is going to cash in and then apply for his job.
LA Times not biased towards the MPAA? The hometown rag of the movie industry not putting some spin on the story to help out the studios? Surely you jest (and stop calling me Shirley).
Have we all forgotten the Engadget interview in which our good friend Jack V said "Now, fair use is not in the law. People are taking fair use and changing it to unfair use and claiming that it's fair use."
Sorry, but they can't have it both ways. Either there's fair use and they can make copies for internal/non-revenue generating purposes (and so can everybody else), or they can pay a ridiculous amount of money to the owners of the copyright for breaking the law as they see and try to enforce it.
As an aside, do you think one of those questionably legal/illegal copies of the movie ended up making the rounds on BitTorrent? Just a thought...
Hell, they figured if they could take on the DoJ over the subpoenas, why not a couple of insignificant organizations like AP and Reuters.
It is anti-competitive. And while MLB does have an anti-trust exemption, Congress has threatened to take it for this same time of stupidity. Does MLB really want this fight? My guess is no.
Caveat: I have dabbled in fantasy baseball once or twice, but I just can't get excited about it.
MLB has been doing their best to rein in "their" IP for years. They tried it with sports photographers a number of years ago by not allowing them to sell their photographs for anything but news. These beat photographers sure as heck can't make a living off of what the papers are paying them. Selling a few images here and there is what helps pay the mortgage and, at the same time, provides positive press for MLB. The photographers en masse went to MLB and said if we can't sell them then we'll go shoot weddings and your sport will get zero images in the newspapers. MLB relented.
Let's go deeper into the onion. If stats are not the property of MLB, then game manufacturers can use these stats to build into their games. If they've got the stats, then who needs MLB/MLBPA licensing?
And now down one more level, if MLB can license the stats, why can't they license the results. In turn, can Las Vegas casinos then accept bets if they don't pay MLB a portion of the take? MLB could end up with the rest of Pete Rose's earnings.
And now down a crazier level... If newspapers don't license the results, can they publish them in the newspaper? And if they're not required to license them, then why is fantasy baseball required to? After all, they're both making money off of the results. This all becomes ugly issues and more negative press for MLB.
Regardless of whether MLB wins in court, any money that they make sure as hell won't go to the players. Not that they particularly need it (because they don't), but it's the owners making a buck on the players backs (and arms and legs and...) that they won't account for when they cry poverty and whine that they don't have money for that new stadium. But you tax payers certainly do or we're gonna move.
MLB needs to pull their heads from the exit end of their digestive tract and realize that for many folks fantasy baseball is the only reason that they still give a damn about the sport. And they can't afford to lose many more fans than they all ready have.
Good catch and poor proofreading on my part. Proof of why I majored in CIS instead of English.
...it really doesn't matter because the FAA will also have to weigh in on the use cellphones while in flight. As I understand it, this is one of those dual-hatted sort of things. Sure the FCC controls the airwaves, but the FAA also issues the rules as to what you can do while airborne.
My immediate thought was, "Okay, you're using it that way and it breaks... How do you explain that to Apple's warranty department?"
On 468, i've seen plenty of times W95 been somewhat useable.
God, now I'm going to sound old. I was with an organization at the tail end of 1997 that was migrating from Win 3.1 to Win 95 on the desktop and from Novell to NT 4 Servers. We were taking 486 SX 25Mhz machines, bringing them up to 16Mb of RAM, and often slaving a second 40Mb or smaller Hard Drive in order to have usable machines. Did I mention we were loading them with 21 floppy sets of Win 95. In an organization of 700 PC's we probably had 40-50% of them running in this configuration at the time of migration. 15% of the network still consisted of those machines until the great Y2K purge 2 years later.
On a separate note, M$ should have also tested Linux v WXP performance with a P4 1GHz machine with 128Mb RAM--well above their minimum requirements. WXP is no longer an operating system at that point--it's a slide show. But nearly any Linux distribution will run on it beautifully.