I think its a little scary that this is modded Funny. Haven't any of you been reading the dozens of patent lawsuits over the most innane things lately? I honestly wouldn't be surprised in the least to see RIM fire up the lawyers again. Remember, they sued PDA makers over tiny keyboards already...
I played BT for the first time on a 386 I believe. I remember creating 1 real character, and a dozen others, pooling the gold to the real one, delete the rest, and repeat until I was filthy rich. Then creating my real party, loading up on the best gear, and killing some statue thing over and over until one of the mages got something like shock sphere. Then go to the castle and find the 99 groups of 99 monsters and kill all of them with that spell. I still have no idea what the point of the game was, but again, ages ago. Me and a buddy also figured out as kids how to hex edit the character files, before we even really knew what it is we were doing. Fond memories.
That is probably the one. I remember running around, evil robots, trying to find puzzle pieces (though I seem to remember them being larger puzzles). Geeze my memory is fuzzy...I kept wondering what the hell Mission Impossible had to do with that confusing game.
But the patch cycle does start to look pretty different when you start to strip things down. When you count all the patches for the hordes of non essential 3rd party applications towards the linux security/patching. Looking at the numbers it often says that linux has more patches and more critical vulnerabilities in a given timeframe. If you look closer you start to notice that alot of those vulnerabilities are in non essential pieces and could be discounted completely in many setups. Even kernel vulnerabilities fall into this category...with Windows you have all the vulnerabilties, in Linux you can completely bypass vulnerabilities in parts of the kernel by not compiling the code that you don't need. Things like this drastically effect the TCO, the less holes exposed, the less chance for an expensive system compromise.
I was only a kid, but the C64 was my first machine. Jumpman, Jumpman Jr, Ollo, Ollo II, Hero, Space Taxi...ahh fond memories...except for Mission Impossible...I hated that game, I couldn't figure out what the HELL you were supposed to do. But that was years ago...sniffle...
Ernie Ball goes Linux if you havn't seen it yet. There is alot of noise about these mythical enviroments that are pro windows or pro linux, but here is a good example of a real world switch. Ernie Ball makes guitar strings, so there really isn't any internal bias about who to support beyond it being a business decision. It is also a bit of an entertaining story on how they dealt with the MS strongarming about their licenses.
There is certainly bias here, but the ethics issues and conflict of interest issues tend to be larger on the other side of the fence. I think it would be terribly difficult to remove all of the bias from these sorts of studies, because even at the lowest level, people involved are going to have personal preferences. Ultimately, I am going to tend to believe the guy that wants to give me the free (as in freedom) stuff telling me his stuff is better, because the other guy telling me about HIS junk wants me to shell out some big money and agree to their terms.
So what does it mean when the metamoderation thing says that 90% or so of the users agree on the tone, and the research says that only 50% of the time the tone is correctly guessed? Kinda causes a breakdown in the whole moderation system doesn't it? I suppose that also means that by attempting to post something that may get modded up, you really are doing nothing more than gambling. So the highest karma people should probably be checked into gambling help groups!
Go delete all the files related to IE on a Windows computer and see how far you get. That is a big part of how they dodged that whole separation order back in the Browser Wars. They integrated IE so you HAD to have the core pieces of IE to make your OS run. You can delete every file related to every web browser on a linux system and it will happily chug along. Do the same on a Windows system and you will be in a world of hurt. My point is in linux every browser is a 3rd party application and nothing more, in Windows the key parts of IE are required OS pieces, and not just an extra application.
How can we fix the problem of the way TCO studies handle security? In so many of them every OSS application under the sun gets tallied against Linux systems, regardless of how obscure, or unrequired that application may be. Yet all of the 3rd party things that have holes in them rarely seem to even get looked at when talking about Windows security. Firefox for example seems to get tagged frequently when talking about Linux security in these studies, but Firefox isn't integreated into Linux, and it runs on both platforms. IE on the other hand is integrated into the OS, sure you can not use it, but there is a ton of junk in Windows itself that requires the various bits and pieces of IE to operate correctly. What is it going to take for these studies to finally start comparing apples to apples in regards as to what really is part of the OS and what is required for it to run?
It seems like this could be the next step in reading minds, sorta. There have been stories about the new advanced lie detectors "reading your mind" in a way already. If they can nail down what is going on during those nerve replays, it would really just be a matter of getting a person to trigger those replays in their minds and record them. Granted, I think this is probably a long way off, but you know someone with the knowhow is probably already thinking the same thing. This could also have interesting applications beyond the invasiveness, imagine being able to recording your memories that you had when your first child was born and showing it to them when they grow up. Or replaying the first time you met your significant other, etc. Hallmark is going to make a fortune!
That was kinda the point. Netflix uses incoming money, to sustain the rentals. People who chew threw rentals to the point where Netflix is causing them to spend more on shipping than they are making are te 'bad' customers. I think it would probably make more sense to do a sliding scale price too, and it would garner alot less backlash, but ultimately it really is their choice.
You can't compare the situation to a brick and mortar store, because YOU pay the cost of DVD 'shipping' to your home and back. If you want your analogy to be accurate, your video store has to pay for your gas and wear on your vehicle, and your time driving.
Relating this to racism and segragation is largley irrelivent. If you remember, it was ILLEGAL for blacks to use white restrooms, busses, fountains, etc. The government enforced those laws...civil rights was about finally getting the government to quit doing that. A private business owner can still tell you to get out of their place for any reason he wants, and it is enforcable through trespassing laws. Its his private property and he can set whatever rules he wants. My point is, when you say "do you think that would stand up" the answer is absolutely yes, go around and look at your local business places, many of them will have those little signs posted about their right to refuse service to anyone for any reason.
Why is this only becomming an issue now, as the government rattles its sword at these companies about giving up the search data to support...wait for it....wait for it...a law based on censorship... What the hell kind of sense does this make, scream at companies for aiding in the censorship abroad, and in the same breath ask them to help build a case for censorship at home.
Nevermind the multitude of other companies operating in China taking advantage of lax labor laws and things like that. It would be interesting to see how many of our rightous leaders have fortunes built on portfolios that include companies that are taking advantage of cheap chinese labor.
This is getting stupid...if they really are concerned they need to sort out their own hypocritic objectives before doing anything else.
Well that boils down to their motiviations for being there in the first place. Since I have problems with the way professional level sports are handled, I don't have a whole lot of concern for folks who go to college to play instead of getting an education. Kinda the definition of extracurricular activities really. So many of them take classes because they have to so they can stay at the school and continue to play sports for a chance at a pro career. As for the ones who are at college to get an education, who also play sports, they can walk away any time.
We get paid less?:) There really isn't much of a difference. Coarse, the military tends to be alot more upfront about the policy of us being government property. Anyways, USMC stands for U Signed the Motherfucking Contract right?
They can also walk away anytime they want. They aren't there to play sports, they are there to go to school. The sports thing is supposed to be, you know, extra. Since their primary purpose there is to go to school, playing sports where the money goes back into the school kinda helps everyone involved. How often to college sports players get traded to another school for the profit of the owners?
That is sort of the inequity in it. They can force you to sign a contract (if you want the job, you gotta sign), that says you can't leave, you can't work for the competition, etc etc. But you can't tell them you are quitting, because you signed the contract, but they sure as hell can fire your ass. The non compete ones are the worst ones, not only do they own you while you are there, it prevents you from doing your job for anyone else after you leave.
So? There were black entertainers kept and traded the same way, not just field labor. I have never been terribly fond of the way professional sports operate either. Look at all of the performance drug scandals, the money deals, the disgusting ammount of money that is made, the relatively small ammount that makes it down to the players, the trading of bodies. Physical labor, performance enhancing drugs, big profit, trading 'players' for bigger profit, nope nothin absolutely sheisty goin on there.:( I am far more interested in college sports since the money generated there actually goes back into the college, and there just seems to be a whole lot fewer problems in that whole system too.
Uhm you aren't right at all about the blockbuster thing. Netflix pays shipping costs for the whole thing. So if you are renting enough movies to cause them to lose money in shipping, they sure as hell have a right to be upset. So they are quite justified, and this isn't even remotely similar to your run and hide scenario.
The other part about cancelling your service...well...you are dealing with a private business, not the government. The government doesn't say they have to do business with you for any reason, the government is typically only concerned with hiring practices. They can tell you to go away because they don't like the color of your hair, the hat you wear once in a while...your shoe size...they can quit doing business with you for pretty much any reason they want, and the same goes for you. So absolutely yes will that hold up. Or businesses could pull the reverse on you and say you can't cancel and just happily charge you forever more.
I have heard some nasty stories about the USPS with all of this...hell just heard a story not long ago about a woman who yanked the DVDs out of every envelope on her route, threw them away in the same dumpster every day, and by the time she got caught it was a couple hundred DVDs. So I'd scream at the post office about it...it seems to be a fairly common crime with all the DVDs flying through the mail, and tampering with the mail is a pretty serious offense.
So what? They throttle the highest volume users. ISPs do that all the time and noone is bitching, but you are still paying a flat monthly rate. However, how many people here are honestly turning around that many movies that quickly? I can see 1 maybe 2 per day being watched assuming you have a job that actually pays for your NF subscription and all. If they are shipping out most of their movies to the guys who rip and return, that would also mean that the honest customers are less likely to recieve THEIR movies in a timely fashion. So its ok to screw the honest ones to help the pirates, but not ok to screw the pirates to help the honest ones? I am sure there are a few people out there that actually watch DVDs at that high rate, but I would venture to say with some certainty that the vast majority of them are doing nothing but rip and return.
Kinda reminds you of slavery doesn't it? People being trade for arbitrary ammounts of money or things of value? Said people going to work. Now I'm sure mr man here won't be allowed to quit anytime in the near future since there must be a 'contract' in place to keep him from leaving and them losing their 'money' in the trade.
I think the difficult part is that MS bundles so much garbage with their OS. IE often gets counted in when the common folk count up errors, but IE often gets counted as non OS when "objectively evaluated". But then things like xterm problems get counted in with the lump "linux" vulnerabilites. Where the hell is the line for determining what counts towards the OS and what doesn't? It doesn't seem to matter how obscure the project is for it to count against the number of linux vulnerabilities either. Ok so what, you can use Firefox instead of IE, which "removes" Windows vulnerabilities...but Firefox vulnerabilities get added to the linux total? Where is the sense in lumping every project capable of running on linux together as "linux vulnerabilities". Hell, it seems like the solution is to port every OSS app to Windows and make it count against Windows too...not that it never gets counted on that side.
No telling what really did it, too many shakey uses of the symbol. But the medics firing rounds is a really good example. Chaplains can wear that symbol too IRL. One of the few (if only) jobs in the military where an officer drives an enlisted person around is Chaplain's Aide. The idea is because the chaplain is one of those protected noncombatant folks he can be the driver while his aide, a combatant, can fire weapons in his defense. The moment a protected noncombatant fires a weapon they lose their protected status and become a combatant. Same goes with larger scale things. You slap a Red Cross on a weapons cache, regardless if wounded folks are there, not only are you now a legal target, you are commiting a war crime. This is the heart of the argument about the mosques being used as weapons caches. Religious centers also have protected status, but they lose that status by storing weapons. It makes them legal, and unfortunate, targets.
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I think its a little scary that this is modded Funny. Haven't any of you been reading the dozens of patent lawsuits over the most innane things lately? I honestly wouldn't be surprised in the least to see RIM fire up the lawyers again. Remember, they sued PDA makers over tiny keyboards already...
I played BT for the first time on a 386 I believe. I remember creating 1 real character, and a dozen others, pooling the gold to the real one, delete the rest, and repeat until I was filthy rich. Then creating my real party, loading up on the best gear, and killing some statue thing over and over until one of the mages got something like shock sphere. Then go to the castle and find the 99 groups of 99 monsters and kill all of them with that spell. I still have no idea what the point of the game was, but again, ages ago. Me and a buddy also figured out as kids how to hex edit the character files, before we even really knew what it is we were doing. Fond memories.
That is probably the one. I remember running around, evil robots, trying to find puzzle pieces (though I seem to remember them being larger puzzles). Geeze my memory is fuzzy...I kept wondering what the hell Mission Impossible had to do with that confusing game.
But the patch cycle does start to look pretty different when you start to strip things down. When you count all the patches for the hordes of non essential 3rd party applications towards the linux security/patching. Looking at the numbers it often says that linux has more patches and more critical vulnerabilities in a given timeframe. If you look closer you start to notice that alot of those vulnerabilities are in non essential pieces and could be discounted completely in many setups. Even kernel vulnerabilities fall into this category...with Windows you have all the vulnerabilties, in Linux you can completely bypass vulnerabilities in parts of the kernel by not compiling the code that you don't need. Things like this drastically effect the TCO, the less holes exposed, the less chance for an expensive system compromise.
I was only a kid, but the C64 was my first machine. Jumpman, Jumpman Jr, Ollo, Ollo II, Hero, Space Taxi...ahh fond memories...except for Mission Impossible...I hated that game, I couldn't figure out what the HELL you were supposed to do. But that was years ago...sniffle...
Ernie Ball goes Linux if you havn't seen it yet. There is alot of noise about these mythical enviroments that are pro windows or pro linux, but here is a good example of a real world switch. Ernie Ball makes guitar strings, so there really isn't any internal bias about who to support beyond it being a business decision. It is also a bit of an entertaining story on how they dealt with the MS strongarming about their licenses.
There is certainly bias here, but the ethics issues and conflict of interest issues tend to be larger on the other side of the fence. I think it would be terribly difficult to remove all of the bias from these sorts of studies, because even at the lowest level, people involved are going to have personal preferences. Ultimately, I am going to tend to believe the guy that wants to give me the free (as in freedom) stuff telling me his stuff is better, because the other guy telling me about HIS junk wants me to shell out some big money and agree to their terms.
Damn! I forgot to link my mood.xls and use tags! please don't mod me down!
So what does it mean when the metamoderation thing says that 90% or so of the users agree on the tone, and the research says that only 50% of the time the tone is correctly guessed? Kinda causes a breakdown in the whole moderation system doesn't it? I suppose that also means that by attempting to post something that may get modded up, you really are doing nothing more than gambling. So the highest karma people should probably be checked into gambling help groups!
Go delete all the files related to IE on a Windows computer and see how far you get. That is a big part of how they dodged that whole separation order back in the Browser Wars. They integrated IE so you HAD to have the core pieces of IE to make your OS run. You can delete every file related to every web browser on a linux system and it will happily chug along. Do the same on a Windows system and you will be in a world of hurt. My point is in linux every browser is a 3rd party application and nothing more, in Windows the key parts of IE are required OS pieces, and not just an extra application.
How can we fix the problem of the way TCO studies handle security? In so many of them every OSS application under the sun gets tallied against Linux systems, regardless of how obscure, or unrequired that application may be. Yet all of the 3rd party things that have holes in them rarely seem to even get looked at when talking about Windows security. Firefox for example seems to get tagged frequently when talking about Linux security in these studies, but Firefox isn't integreated into Linux, and it runs on both platforms. IE on the other hand is integrated into the OS, sure you can not use it, but there is a ton of junk in Windows itself that requires the various bits and pieces of IE to operate correctly. What is it going to take for these studies to finally start comparing apples to apples in regards as to what really is part of the OS and what is required for it to run?
It seems like this could be the next step in reading minds, sorta. There have been stories about the new advanced lie detectors "reading your mind" in a way already. If they can nail down what is going on during those nerve replays, it would really just be a matter of getting a person to trigger those replays in their minds and record them. Granted, I think this is probably a long way off, but you know someone with the knowhow is probably already thinking the same thing. This could also have interesting applications beyond the invasiveness, imagine being able to recording your memories that you had when your first child was born and showing it to them when they grow up. Or replaying the first time you met your significant other, etc. Hallmark is going to make a fortune!
That was kinda the point. Netflix uses incoming money, to sustain the rentals. People who chew threw rentals to the point where Netflix is causing them to spend more on shipping than they are making are te 'bad' customers. I think it would probably make more sense to do a sliding scale price too, and it would garner alot less backlash, but ultimately it really is their choice.
You can't compare the situation to a brick and mortar store, because YOU pay the cost of DVD 'shipping' to your home and back. If you want your analogy to be accurate, your video store has to pay for your gas and wear on your vehicle, and your time driving.
Relating this to racism and segragation is largley irrelivent. If you remember, it was ILLEGAL for blacks to use white restrooms, busses, fountains, etc. The government enforced those laws...civil rights was about finally getting the government to quit doing that. A private business owner can still tell you to get out of their place for any reason he wants, and it is enforcable through trespassing laws. Its his private property and he can set whatever rules he wants. My point is, when you say "do you think that would stand up" the answer is absolutely yes, go around and look at your local business places, many of them will have those little signs posted about their right to refuse service to anyone for any reason.
Why is this only becomming an issue now, as the government rattles its sword at these companies about giving up the search data to support...wait for it....wait for it...a law based on censorship... What the hell kind of sense does this make, scream at companies for aiding in the censorship abroad, and in the same breath ask them to help build a case for censorship at home.
Nevermind the multitude of other companies operating in China taking advantage of lax labor laws and things like that. It would be interesting to see how many of our rightous leaders have fortunes built on portfolios that include companies that are taking advantage of cheap chinese labor.
This is getting stupid...if they really are concerned they need to sort out their own hypocritic objectives before doing anything else.
Well that boils down to their motiviations for being there in the first place. Since I have problems with the way professional level sports are handled, I don't have a whole lot of concern for folks who go to college to play instead of getting an education. Kinda the definition of extracurricular activities really. So many of them take classes because they have to so they can stay at the school and continue to play sports for a chance at a pro career. As for the ones who are at college to get an education, who also play sports, they can walk away any time.
We get paid less? :) There really isn't much of a difference. Coarse, the military tends to be alot more upfront about the policy of us being government property. Anyways, USMC stands for U Signed the Motherfucking Contract right?
They can also walk away anytime they want. They aren't there to play sports, they are there to go to school. The sports thing is supposed to be, you know, extra. Since their primary purpose there is to go to school, playing sports where the money goes back into the school kinda helps everyone involved. How often to college sports players get traded to another school for the profit of the owners?
That is sort of the inequity in it. They can force you to sign a contract (if you want the job, you gotta sign), that says you can't leave, you can't work for the competition, etc etc. But you can't tell them you are quitting, because you signed the contract, but they sure as hell can fire your ass. The non compete ones are the worst ones, not only do they own you while you are there, it prevents you from doing your job for anyone else after you leave.
It is the increasing tendancy across the board to treat people as little more than a commodity.
So? There were black entertainers kept and traded the same way, not just field labor. I have never been terribly fond of the way professional sports operate either. Look at all of the performance drug scandals, the money deals, the disgusting ammount of money that is made, the relatively small ammount that makes it down to the players, the trading of bodies. Physical labor, performance enhancing drugs, big profit, trading 'players' for bigger profit, nope nothin absolutely sheisty goin on there. :( I am far more interested in college sports since the money generated there actually goes back into the college, and there just seems to be a whole lot fewer problems in that whole system too.
Uhm you aren't right at all about the blockbuster thing. Netflix pays shipping costs for the whole thing. So if you are renting enough movies to cause them to lose money in shipping, they sure as hell have a right to be upset. So they are quite justified, and this isn't even remotely similar to your run and hide scenario.
The other part about cancelling your service...well...you are dealing with a private business, not the government. The government doesn't say they have to do business with you for any reason, the government is typically only concerned with hiring practices. They can tell you to go away because they don't like the color of your hair, the hat you wear once in a while...your shoe size...they can quit doing business with you for pretty much any reason they want, and the same goes for you. So absolutely yes will that hold up. Or businesses could pull the reverse on you and say you can't cancel and just happily charge you forever more.
I have heard some nasty stories about the USPS with all of this...hell just heard a story not long ago about a woman who yanked the DVDs out of every envelope on her route, threw them away in the same dumpster every day, and by the time she got caught it was a couple hundred DVDs. So I'd scream at the post office about it...it seems to be a fairly common crime with all the DVDs flying through the mail, and tampering with the mail is a pretty serious offense.
So what? They throttle the highest volume users. ISPs do that all the time and noone is bitching, but you are still paying a flat monthly rate. However, how many people here are honestly turning around that many movies that quickly? I can see 1 maybe 2 per day being watched assuming you have a job that actually pays for your NF subscription and all. If they are shipping out most of their movies to the guys who rip and return, that would also mean that the honest customers are less likely to recieve THEIR movies in a timely fashion. So its ok to screw the honest ones to help the pirates, but not ok to screw the pirates to help the honest ones? I am sure there are a few people out there that actually watch DVDs at that high rate, but I would venture to say with some certainty that the vast majority of them are doing nothing but rip and return.
Kinda reminds you of slavery doesn't it? People being trade for arbitrary ammounts of money or things of value? Said people going to work. Now I'm sure mr man here won't be allowed to quit anytime in the near future since there must be a 'contract' in place to keep him from leaving and them losing their 'money' in the trade.
I think the difficult part is that MS bundles so much garbage with their OS. IE often gets counted in when the common folk count up errors, but IE often gets counted as non OS when "objectively evaluated". But then things like xterm problems get counted in with the lump "linux" vulnerabilites. Where the hell is the line for determining what counts towards the OS and what doesn't? It doesn't seem to matter how obscure the project is for it to count against the number of linux vulnerabilities either. Ok so what, you can use Firefox instead of IE, which "removes" Windows vulnerabilities...but Firefox vulnerabilities get added to the linux total? Where is the sense in lumping every project capable of running on linux together as "linux vulnerabilities". Hell, it seems like the solution is to port every OSS app to Windows and make it count against Windows too...not that it never gets counted on that side.
No telling what really did it, too many shakey uses of the symbol. But the medics firing rounds is a really good example. Chaplains can wear that symbol too IRL. One of the few (if only) jobs in the military where an officer drives an enlisted person around is Chaplain's Aide. The idea is because the chaplain is one of those protected noncombatant folks he can be the driver while his aide, a combatant, can fire weapons in his defense. The moment a protected noncombatant fires a weapon they lose their protected status and become a combatant. Same goes with larger scale things. You slap a Red Cross on a weapons cache, regardless if wounded folks are there, not only are you now a legal target, you are commiting a war crime. This is the heart of the argument about the mosques being used as weapons caches. Religious centers also have protected status, but they lose that status by storing weapons. It makes them legal, and unfortunate, targets.