G4 IS a horrific network. It has some of the worst programming, and most obnoxious hosts I've ever seen on TV. X-Play alone is better than EVERY SINGLE program on G4. Actually, the only program I like on G4 is Filter and that's only because Fook Mi is pleasant to look at it.
That being said, I was never a particularly big fan of TechTV either. Some of their hosts are at least as annoying as G4, but at least they tried to be professional and put on a good show, even if they failed at it most of the time.
Hopefully the new station will combine the best aspects of both. In reality, all the good people will move on and we'll be left with the cruft as usual.
Nobody would drive to work through this hell if there were real alternatives. You nailed it right on the head with one simple sentence:
Or maybe it's a vicious cycle they can not escape from.
Public transportation sucks. Getting a car is easy. I like to walk to work, and take public transportation when I can, but GOOD LORD the BUS is TERRIBLE! It's filled with low-lifes (especially dependent upon the time of day) that sometimes make me feel like my life is in danger. It's never on time, it stops running at 7pm, and worse of all it's perpetually overcrowded at the times I really need to ride it.
So I frequently don't take the bus. But then, how will they ever improve the situation if not enough people ride?
What are you talking about? They already do fingerprint all US citizens as far as I can tell. They're just sneaky about it and do it at schools while you're still too young to know what's really going on or care. Besides, it's fun to get your finger prints taken when you're in the 1st grade!!
I hate this fucking day. Every damn year we have to sit through this BS. It's not funny. It's not clever. It's not original. Please just give us the damn news!
Hear hear! I have no problem with people liking Trading Spaces. It is what it is. But The Learning Channel has NOT been the same since that show arrived. I *NEVER* watch TLC anymore.:(
A) You have less services, so less chance one of them is going to be hacked.
B) You have less programs on your machine so less (I did not say none) chance somebody who DOES break into your machine will be able to do any actual damage.
The pop machine works right about 60% of the time. Ask anybody here, they ALL hate it.
And if I waste half an hour to an hour every day dealing with software problems, then that's half an hour to an hour of WASTED time every day. Doesn't matter wether it's all ALL of the time, or most of the time, it's WASTED time that pisses me off.
Technologies that stress me out at work (rated in order of aggravation, 1 being the worst).
1. Telephones: The god awfull ringing all day long is distracting. Speaker phone conversations are incredibly irritating. The constant interruptions to the work you do are infuriating. And the coworker in the cubicle next to you shushing you because your talking about a REAL problem with your other coworker is louder than his Goddamn conference call ON SPEAKERPHONE.
2. Email: People who expect an immediate reponse from you for every stupid little infuriating Email they send. If you want a response, turn on return receipts, I have work to do and can't be checking my email every 30 seconds just for YOU. I have a company with a couple thousand people in it, you're not that special. I also hate Email filters (OUTLOOK) that still popup the new mail notification icons/noises/dialogs/whatever when you get an email, EVEN IF YOU SET IT TO BE DELETED OR MARKED AS ALREADY READ!@!@#%!#%!#
3. Windows 5 minute boot: Every Goddamn morning I get to work, something is wrong and needs to be fixed NOW NOW NOW, but I have to wait 5 minutes before my stupid laptop finishes booting (and that includes the three minutes I sit at the desktop waiting for all the background services to load). I have a P3 and a gig of RAM on the damn thing, and it's a standard W2K image that the WHOLE COMPANY uses!
4. Pop/Candy machines: It's 6pm. I'm thirsty/starving. There's one Gatorade left. I put in my dollar. The Goddamn Gatorade gets stuck. COME ON!! It's 2004! Can't we make a freakin' pop machine that works already?!?!
5. Computer Software: Nothing every works right and I spend a good half hour each day recovering from crashed programs, or whacked out states of all the software I used. None of it ever works right. I've even had Notepad crash my computer (I'm sure it was a symptom of another problem, but it's still shocking when it happens).
Stuff that doesn't bother me right now (because we don't use it at my current job), but would be in this top 5 list if we did:
1. Instant Messaging: It's the living hell of Telephone and Email combined into a single system. Worst of all, if you don't configure it properly, it tells everybody EXACTLY when you are at your desk.
Try -search as well. You're already at Google (which is a search engine), so you don't need to see links to other search engine sites. That should help cut out even more of the cruft.
They're pretty bad Scotty quotes as well. Scotty's made a lot of great quotes during his run as Enterprise engineer, but this is NOT a good collection of them.
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Just give me a small little Nokia phone! The smaller the better, that's why I like 'em!
Unfortunately, I decided that having free Nextel service paid for by work was a worthwhile endeavor. No more Nokia phone for me... now I have this crappy Motorola that has a ton of worthless crap on it, but doesn't do the one single thing I need it to do most: both ring AND vibrate at the same time.
Damn you Nextel! Damn you!
And Motorola? I've got a Motorola cable box. It sucks as well. Don't buy Motorola.
Or you could just have people uninstall Outlook Express...
UUCP, POP3, IMAP, and IMAP over HTTPS are blocked at the router level at my company. So is Hot Mail, MSN, Yahoo Mail, Juno, as well as a number of other web based mail sites.
Uninstalling Outlook Express has little effect when it doesn't even work in the first place, now does it?
If Valve tries to make the claim in court that HL2 was postponed until April because of the source code theft, that will become fraud on their part. Until now it was just harmless marketing lies. The delay had little if anything to do with the code theft -- that was only a convenient excuse
How do you know it didn't affect and delay the product? Do you work for Valve? Where's your proof?
I can tell you, at my company, if there was a break-in that got all our code, we'd be up shit creek. There would be a complete overhaul of all our processes, interviews with all the personel, new security training, new procedures, a complete audit, and worst of all talented and hard working people would get fired. All of this would take time, affect everybody, and slow every project down.
I find it hard to belive that Valve didn't go through something similar internally. If you're going to make drastic claims like this, at least provide some proof or reasoning behind your logic.
You miss a VERY important point: We're paying for it!
The company gets their money from us, and if they don't respect our rights we're not going to pay them. It is not as clear cut as you seem to think.
Over time, people will demand their rights in online gaming worlds, and those companies that take a freedom loving democratic approach to this will be more sucessful than those who don't.
And secondly, this virtual world thing is a whole new concept unlike anything that has ever been done before. To just gloss over the problem "well they signed a ToS agreement" does a complete disservice to this issue. This is a horrificly complicated issue and it's going to take a lot of time to work itself out.
In fact, I think just like our governments it never will. There will always be some problem.
These companies are not building games, they are building online societies and that has real world consequences that can and will affect their bottom line. The sooner they realize this, the better.
I don't copy and paste anything. Nor do I claim I know everything. But if I don't share my opinion then what point does it serve?
I love choice. I never said don't use BSD, I said why *I* don't use BSD. Do whatever the hell you want, but in the long run I believe the GPL will stand the test of time better.
I never said anything about how it is "run", I was referring to the consequences of your decision to use the license. It doesn't matter if 10 people work on a system, or 1000's, the consequence of choosing the BSD license is that anybody can do anything, and in fact will (see Microsoft's usage of the BSD code). With the GPL I can at least guarantee a minimum amount of openness.
Some people like that. More power to them. I don't. If I'm going to bust my ass spending 1000's of hours working on code, and then open source it, I want to make damn sure it stays open source.
#3 Of course it's a sweeping statement. It's hard to write a single page of text on SlashDot and have it be any kind of foundation to grow upon, but while not all companies are bad, not all companies are good either. Name your bad company and the analogy stands. Name your good company? Well, yes they are there, but I guarantee they are harder to find. They are in MY experience.
#4 I'm not writing a disseration here, it's a fucking SlashDot post. If you want more than that, don't read SlashDot.
#5 They only operate more slowly because (for good or bad) more people buy into the Linux/GPL cause and work on it than the BSD cause. They retain control because a lot of people just don't care.
My point about democracy is that there a lot of very small projects being built all at the same time, often stepping on each others toes, often repeating themselves and offering nothing of value that you can't get elsewhere. But, eventually one or two of those succeed and when they succeed, they really succeed.
Russia used central planning. America used democractic darwinism. Who's still the big guy on the block today?
The GPL guarantees a fairly level playing field and a darwinistic process (hence my reference to democracy). The BSD license DOES NOT make that guarantee. Yes, it guarantees I can do whatever I want, but if I'm an asshole I'm going to do asshole things with it and you can't stop me because you made that choice when you picked that license.
You've also demonstrated that you don't understand crap about governments. The world has many flavors of democracies, the Linux, BSD, Gnu, Perl communities are all vibrant forms of demorcracies in action (as, by the way are commercial / proprietary vendor - customer environments.)
I never said the BSD community wasn't run democraticaly (hell, most everything in the west is run somewhat democracticaly). My point was that the BSD license itself (NOT THE FREAKIN COMMUNITY, I AM NOT SAYING THE COMMUNITY) is flawed and in the LONG run does NOT guarantee our rights.
It looks very tempting in the short run. So do dictatorships and communism. In the long run though, they've more or less proven themselves failures. I'm sure democracy will prove itself a failure too, but not until we find something better.
Let me guess you use Debian? or is it Windows?
You only asked this question to be an outright asshole, and it proves nothing, but I'll answer it anyway.
We have 1 Fedora, 3 Knoppix, 2 Mac OSX and a number of windows machines. I use all of them on a regular basis.
Refresh my memory, how is the GPL not a "shared source" license again? How can I create a derivative work of GPLed code without sharing my code?
I have the freedom to change the code, fork it, do what I want as long as it stays open. I accept a small amount of restriction (code must stay open) to ensure the freedom of EVERYBODY to change it.
With Microsoft's shared source license, I can't do any changes to the code (unless it changed recently, and even if it didn't I couldn't make those changes public). If I improve the code, will Microsoft even acknowlege I have improved the code and use my changes, or ignore me? I have no recourse through the license.
On the other hand, with the GPL, I can always fork it and let the better version win. That's darwinism, and that's one of the key aspects of democracy that allows it to work. That's why I made that analogy.
Oh, and as long as we're going to be nitpicky assholes, Anarchy isn't a form of government either, it's the LACK OF a government.
I stand by what I said earlier. It may be flawed, but there ARE aspects of truth to it. Nothing tells the whole story and nothing can be condensed down to a single page, but I can sure as hell try.
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G4 IS a horrific network. It has some of the worst programming, and most obnoxious hosts I've ever seen on TV. X-Play alone is better than EVERY SINGLE program on G4. Actually, the only program I like on G4 is Filter and that's only because Fook Mi is pleasant to look at it.
That being said, I was never a particularly big fan of TechTV either. Some of their hosts are at least as annoying as G4, but at least they tried to be professional and put on a good show, even if they failed at it most of the time.
Hopefully the new station will combine the best aspects of both. In reality, all the good people will move on and we'll be left with the cruft as usual.
Bryan
When you buy a card like this, it's not about bang for your buck. It's about relative penis size and future potential.
Bryan
Anybody have a link to these so called satellite images? If they're so good they're sparking all this interest, I'd sure like to see them myself.
Bryan
Nobody would drive to work through this hell if there were real alternatives. You nailed it right on the head with one simple sentence:
Or maybe it's a vicious cycle they can not escape from.
Public transportation sucks. Getting a car is easy. I like to walk to work, and take public transportation when I can, but GOOD LORD the BUS is TERRIBLE! It's filled with low-lifes (especially dependent upon the time of day) that sometimes make me feel like my life is in danger. It's never on time, it stops running at 7pm, and worse of all it's perpetually overcrowded at the times I really need to ride it.
So I frequently don't take the bus. But then, how will they ever improve the situation if not enough people ride?
Catch-22 indeed.
Bryan
Or Nintendo Power spoiled it because that was the closest thing to a Nintendo your parents would let you have.
What are you talking about? They already do fingerprint all US citizens as far as I can tell. They're just sneaky about it and do it at schools while you're still too young to know what's really going on or care. Besides, it's fun to get your finger prints taken when you're in the 1st grade!!
Bryan
I hate this fucking day. Every damn year we have to sit through this BS. It's not funny. It's not clever. It's not original. Please just give us the damn news!
Bryan
Bullshit. Understanding comes first. Pie in the sky dreams that we would actually survive if we had 5 people on Mars come next.
Bryan
Hear hear! I have no problem with people liking Trading Spaces. It is what it is. But The Learning Channel has NOT been the same since that show arrived. I *NEVER* watch TLC anymore. :(
Bryan
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it makes your machine more secure because:
A) You have less services, so less chance one of them is going to be hacked.
B) You have less programs on your machine so less (I did not say none) chance somebody who DOES break into your machine will be able to do any actual damage.
Bryan
The pop machine works right about 60% of the time. Ask anybody here, they ALL hate it.
And if I waste half an hour to an hour every day dealing with software problems, then that's half an hour to an hour of WASTED time every day. Doesn't matter wether it's all ALL of the time, or most of the time, it's WASTED time that pisses me off.
Technologies that stress me out at work (rated in order of aggravation, 1 being the worst).
1. Telephones: The god awfull ringing all day long is distracting. Speaker phone conversations are incredibly irritating. The constant interruptions to the work you do are infuriating. And the coworker in the cubicle next to you shushing you because your talking about a REAL problem with your other coworker is louder than his Goddamn conference call ON SPEAKERPHONE.
2. Email: People who expect an immediate reponse from you for every stupid little infuriating Email they send. If you want a response, turn on return receipts, I have work to do and can't be checking my email every 30 seconds just for YOU. I have a company with a couple thousand people in it, you're not that special. I also hate Email filters (OUTLOOK) that still popup the new mail notification icons/noises/dialogs/whatever when you get an email, EVEN IF YOU SET IT TO BE DELETED OR MARKED AS ALREADY READ!@!@#%!#%!#
3. Windows 5 minute boot: Every Goddamn morning I get to work, something is wrong and needs to be fixed NOW NOW NOW, but I have to wait 5 minutes before my stupid laptop finishes booting (and that includes the three minutes I sit at the desktop waiting for all the background services to load). I have a P3 and a gig of RAM on the damn thing, and it's a standard W2K image that the WHOLE COMPANY uses!
4. Pop/Candy machines: It's 6pm. I'm thirsty/starving. There's one Gatorade left. I put in my dollar. The Goddamn Gatorade gets stuck. COME ON!! It's 2004! Can't we make a freakin' pop machine that works already?!?!
5. Computer Software: Nothing every works right and I spend a good half hour each day recovering from crashed programs, or whacked out states of all the software I used. None of it ever works right. I've even had Notepad crash my computer (I'm sure it was a symptom of another problem, but it's still shocking when it happens).
Stuff that doesn't bother me right now (because we don't use it at my current job), but would be in this top 5 list if we did:
1. Instant Messaging: It's the living hell of Telephone and Email combined into a single system. Worst of all, if you don't configure it properly, it tells everybody EXACTLY when you are at your desk.
Bryan
Try -search as well. You're already at Google (which is a search engine), so you don't need to see links to other search engine sites. That should help cut out even more of the cruft.
Bryan
Don't lie, period. Just tell the truth. Employers are looking for hard working, intelligient, and honest people.
Bryan
They're pretty bad Scotty quotes as well. Scotty's made a lot of great quotes during his run as Enterprise engineer, but this is NOT a good collection of them.
That's why God made paint balls?
You know what, that's a good way to get your ass thrown in jail. Go ahead and do it, see how long it takes.
Slashdot this is. Proper language need you not. English speak Yoda no good, ok, you speak same.
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Just give me a small little Nokia phone! The smaller the better, that's why I like 'em!
Unfortunately, I decided that having free Nextel service paid for by work was a worthwhile endeavor. No more Nokia phone for me... now I have this crappy Motorola that has a ton of worthless crap on it, but doesn't do the one single thing I need it to do most: both ring AND vibrate at the same time.
Damn you Nextel! Damn you!
And Motorola? I've got a Motorola cable box. It sucks as well. Don't buy Motorola.
Bryan
Or you could just have people uninstall Outlook Express...
UUCP, POP3, IMAP, and IMAP over HTTPS are blocked at the router level at my company. So is Hot Mail, MSN, Yahoo Mail, Juno, as well as a number of other web based mail sites.
Uninstalling Outlook Express has little effect when it doesn't even work in the first place, now does it?
Bryan
If Valve tries to make the claim in court that HL2 was postponed until April because of the source code theft, that will become fraud on their part. Until now it was just harmless marketing lies. The delay had little if anything to do with the code theft -- that was only a convenient excuse
How do you know it didn't affect and delay the product? Do you work for Valve? Where's your proof?
I can tell you, at my company, if there was a break-in that got all our code, we'd be up shit creek. There would be a complete overhaul of all our processes, interviews with all the personel, new security training, new procedures, a complete audit, and worst of all talented and hard working people would get fired. All of this would take time, affect everybody, and slow every project down.
I find it hard to belive that Valve didn't go through something similar internally. If you're going to make drastic claims like this, at least provide some proof or reasoning behind your logic.
Bryan
You miss a VERY important point: We're paying for it!
The company gets their money from us, and if they don't respect our rights we're not going to pay them. It is not as clear cut as you seem to think.
Over time, people will demand their rights in online gaming worlds, and those companies that take a freedom loving democratic approach to this will be more sucessful than those who don't.
And secondly, this virtual world thing is a whole new concept unlike anything that has ever been done before. To just gloss over the problem "well they signed a ToS agreement" does a complete disservice to this issue. This is a horrificly complicated issue and it's going to take a lot of time to work itself out.
In fact, I think just like our governments it never will. There will always be some problem.
These companies are not building games, they are building online societies and that has real world consequences that can and will affect their bottom line. The sooner they realize this, the better.
Bryan
I don't copy and paste anything. Nor do I claim I know everything. But if I don't share my opinion then what point does it serve?
I love choice. I never said don't use BSD, I said why *I* don't use BSD. Do whatever the hell you want, but in the long run I believe the GPL will stand the test of time better.
Bryan
Point #1:
I never said anything about how it is "run", I was referring to the consequences of your decision to use the license. It doesn't matter if 10 people work on a system, or 1000's, the consequence of choosing the BSD license is that anybody can do anything, and in fact will (see Microsoft's usage of the BSD code). With the GPL I can at least guarantee a minimum amount of openness.
Some people like that. More power to them. I don't. If I'm going to bust my ass spending 1000's of hours working on code, and then open source it, I want to make damn sure it stays open source.
#3 Of course it's a sweeping statement. It's hard to write a single page of text on SlashDot and have it be any kind of foundation to grow upon, but while not all companies are bad, not all companies are good either. Name your bad company and the analogy stands. Name your good company? Well, yes they are there, but I guarantee they are harder to find. They are in MY experience.
#4 I'm not writing a disseration here, it's a fucking SlashDot post. If you want more than that, don't read SlashDot.
#5 They only operate more slowly because (for good or bad) more people buy into the Linux/GPL cause and work on it than the BSD cause. They retain control because a lot of people just don't care.
My point about democracy is that there a lot of very small projects being built all at the same time, often stepping on each others toes, often repeating themselves and offering nothing of value that you can't get elsewhere. But, eventually one or two of those succeed and when they succeed, they really succeed.
Russia used central planning. America used democractic darwinism. Who's still the big guy on the block today?
The GPL guarantees a fairly level playing field and a darwinistic process (hence my reference to democracy). The BSD license DOES NOT make that guarantee. Yes, it guarantees I can do whatever I want, but if I'm an asshole I'm going to do asshole things with it and you can't stop me because you made that choice when you picked that license.
You've also demonstrated that you don't understand crap about governments. The world has many flavors of democracies, the Linux, BSD, Gnu, Perl communities are all vibrant forms of demorcracies in action (as, by the way are commercial / proprietary vendor - customer environments.)
I never said the BSD community wasn't run democraticaly (hell, most everything in the west is run somewhat democracticaly). My point was that the BSD license itself (NOT THE FREAKIN COMMUNITY, I AM NOT SAYING THE COMMUNITY) is flawed and in the LONG run does NOT guarantee our rights.
It looks very tempting in the short run. So do dictatorships and communism. In the long run though, they've more or less proven themselves failures. I'm sure democracy will prove itself a failure too, but not until we find something better.
Let me guess you use Debian? or is it Windows?
You only asked this question to be an outright asshole, and it proves nothing, but I'll answer it anyway.
We have 1 Fedora, 3 Knoppix, 2 Mac OSX and a number of windows machines. I use all of them on a regular basis.
Bryan
Refresh my memory, how is the GPL not a "shared source" license again? How can I create a derivative work of GPLed code without sharing my code?
I have the freedom to change the code, fork it, do what I want as long as it stays open. I accept a small amount of restriction (code must stay open) to ensure the freedom of EVERYBODY to change it.
With Microsoft's shared source license, I can't do any changes to the code (unless it changed recently, and even if it didn't I couldn't make those changes public). If I improve the code, will Microsoft even acknowlege I have improved the code and use my changes, or ignore me? I have no recourse through the license.
On the other hand, with the GPL, I can always fork it and let the better version win. That's darwinism, and that's one of the key aspects of democracy that allows it to work. That's why I made that analogy.
Oh, and as long as we're going to be nitpicky assholes, Anarchy isn't a form of government either, it's the LACK OF a government.
I stand by what I said earlier. It may be flawed, but there ARE aspects of truth to it. Nothing tells the whole story and nothing can be condensed down to a single page, but I can sure as hell try.
Bryan