Well said, the only one of these services i have used is the xbox live video store. Generally i quite like it, you can choose ur quality and SD stuff isnt to badly priced, its resonably quick and hassle free. Unfortunatly i wont be using it again till they change the 24 hour bullshit limit. I downloaded one a few weeks ago nothing better to do, got 10 mins into it when my sister phoned me in a panic, she'd broken down and needed a tow home. To cut a long story short it was the next day after work i went to finish my purchased rental but the time had expired. Didnt even get to watch it once. and they wonder why people pirate.
Very very true. im lucky i recently started a job where IT controls IT, its amazing how smoothly things run. I was certain i was gonna leave the profession before i got this job, however today for the first time in years im actually enjoying being an admin. Its been years since i thought of myself as a valued member of a team yet im actually in a position that management actually listen to me and the department as a whole. for example we recently took on a a junior desktop support guy and even he has had policy's introduced simply because they work, compare that to my last place where its seemed like management policy was to not only ignore but do the opposite of what we recommended
Bullshit, if ur responsible for a network (especially a critical network) then YOU are responsible for it, not HR not the users not anybody but you. If the shit hits the fan the admins are the first ones management look at.
Ive had many network/system admin jobs ranging from schools and university to international corporations and one thing is constant, extremely small, extremely underfunded and under supported IT teams for the amount of systems in use. Universally IT has been seen as a cost nothing more, 3 people in an entire company understand how/why it works. Its the absolute shortsightedness of (in particular) western business, if it doesn't turn a profit its worthless. I'd say at least 90% of my employers truly believe its a job that any monkey can do. i used to think this was a problem with your typical 3 letter asshat in charge but i have recently come to a much scarier conclusion, its a symptom of modern mans outright refusal to learn anything they don't already know. my last two jobs in particular "IT" WAS the company/College. Modern business is so heavily leveraged into it that yes i would say the admins were more important than the chief execs. People are starting to think admins have to much control but on the contrary i believe the majority of company's are unbelievable lucky to have people willing to keep the system afloat considering the respect we get.
at least it is for me, at best an advert will produce a 'Meh'. Usually they actually put me off whatever the product being hawked is. And this applies to companys too, but as been mention by a few posters already im not exactly the type of consumer theyre aiming this shit at.
Sorry i should have said im a Londoner born and bred and i love this city, it has so much to offer but its is being slowly strangled by the way its run these days.
"If people really did stop travelling then the fuel tax would probably come down as the government realises what a stupid mistake it has made getting rid of such a good source of income. " I seriously doubt it, we have one of the highest fuel duties in europe and it is killing many industries in this country (haulage being the most obvious but far from the only victim), this in turn is damaging the economy and reducing the money into the treasurys coffers yet that dont seem to care in the slightest.
That reminds me of an old 'mock the week' on bbc when Andy Parsons done his train to Glasgow gag.
"It costs £98.18 to get the train from London to Glasgow, who the hell is going to do that when you can fly to Barcelona for £40, then fly whoever u wanted to visit in Glasgow to Barcelona for £40 and then spend the first £18.19 on sangria".
Amen brother, not to mention that its extortion plain and simple. U pay double for using cash (perfectly legal tender) as uve said but of course this has nothing to do with RFID's tracking abilities (future abilities). Isnt it great to live in the UK. RFID, CCTV on every street, secret courts, secret laws, Un-elected leaders and lets not forget the extremly insidious attempt at restricting movement (both public transport and driving a car are insanely expensive).
Is that when i was younger my dad was desperate to get me to learn to program. Unfortunatly i had better things to do at the time (or so i thought heh) and so never did. Fast forward a good few years and im now a sysadmin. My dad passed away last year and its always bugged me that i never took him up on it, i know virtually nothing about programming but really want to learn (for my own amusement if nothing else). So as a total noob and to tag onto this disscussion what would the slashdot crew suggest as good place to start learning/playing around in this field. Any guidence would be GREATLY appriciated thanks.
Some asshat in a big office thinking to himself, "how can something written by lots of people in a community be more secure than something written by lots of people in a corporate HQ".
The problem is not open source, i dont nessecaraly think its a propriatry problem either. Its absoulutly clueless people pulling 6 figure salaries making infrastructure desicions based on nothing more than what they "KNOW" to be true.
I hear this alot(mainly from my boss), im a network admin in an engineering company and as such, im considered a pure loss and encouraged to bill time to clients when they need support on their laptops or what not while visiting the project controls. However i fundementally dissagree with that sure we dont technically show a ROI but id like to see this company go back to pens, paper and rooms full of filling cabinets. The very fact that this vast amount of data is easily accessable all over the world IS the ROI.
Cramming in as many villans a possibly without ever using them. This isnt a comment specifically about the Dark Knight (as ive not seen it yet), but im thinking more the general trend in comic book adaptaions these days, obviously venom in spidy3 immediatly jumps to mind. From what ive herd about TDK its good and the joker is awesome but two face and scarecrow are pretty one dimensional. If you have a story that deals with multiply heros/villans please let it be more than a marketing excersise. (personally id love to see Maximum Carnage get the movie treatment, Super hero battle royal FTW)
Yes i know it will never happen to many split rights, even if that was sorted its just to long to turn into a watchable film without gutting it.
as far as the handcuffing, thats one of the reasons i loved kotor they had the balls to say fuck the existing story, well go 5000 yrs b4 lucas and do what we like. As for people naturally wanting to be jedi, thats true we all wanna be a badboi death dealing lightsaber weilding genius and thats why we play games like the 8 bit/16 bit/32 bit/64 bit console games (such as the force unleacsed) but SWG gave u a chance to live in that universe being whatever u want to be.
im sorry but i couldent disagree more, novels, films these are things for story. We call em RPG's not SDG's (Story driven Games). the whole point of an rpg weither it be p'n'p, crpg is to assume a role. that has nothing to do with a story, sure it helps but u can have the worst story ever and u and ur friends can stil go above and beyond. You cant do that in a video game, you follow the path ur supposed to. If ur lucky it has scripted events, but imagine if that world couldent care less if u were there or not. Imagine u were irrelevent to the NPC's daily lives, imagine they actually tried to make a living instead of not exisiting till u walk within a certain range or complete a certain task
Im sorry but no, there def you gave applies to square and bethesda games. RPGS are about very detailed worlds, that's the whole point...here is a world with politics, religion, class divides and a myriad of other genres and u live in it....you know Role Playing Game. No MMO offers real role playing, they are second life with combat
Anything MMO is not...i repeat not an rpg. While they could be (in fact i think there is massive potential) they are nothing more than compromised hack and slash. WOW my arse world of diablo would be more apt (unfortunately i would prob play a world of diablo). If someone can create an extremely detailed world and let players run riot i would be interested but all i see is fantastic single player CRPG's ripped apart and hacked to accommodate thousands/millions of users.
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Well said, the only one of these services i have used is the xbox live video store. Generally i quite like it, you can choose ur quality and SD stuff isnt to badly priced, its resonably quick and hassle free. Unfortunatly i wont be using it again till they change the 24 hour bullshit limit. I downloaded one a few weeks ago nothing better to do, got 10 mins into it when my sister phoned me in a panic, she'd broken down and needed a tow home. To cut a long story short it was the next day after work i went to finish my purchased rental but the time had expired. Didnt even get to watch it once. and they wonder why people pirate.
Very very true. im lucky i recently started a job where IT controls IT, its amazing how smoothly things run. I was certain i was gonna leave the profession before i got this job, however today for the first time in years im actually enjoying being an admin. Its been years since i thought of myself as a valued member of a team yet im actually in a position that management actually listen to me and the department as a whole. for example we recently took on a a junior desktop support guy and even he has had policy's introduced simply because they work, compare that to my last place where its seemed like management policy was to not only ignore but do the opposite of what we recommended
Bullshit, if ur responsible for a network (especially a critical network) then YOU are responsible for it, not HR not the users not anybody but you. If the shit hits the fan the admins are the first ones management look at.
I guess they don't teach politicians good IT security policy. Color me surprised.
You right to not be surprised, they don't teach politicians "GOOD" policy's full stop, i don't see why security should be the exception
that's the problem with slashdot, if i got a 5 funny ur reply easily deserves a 5 funny
Ive had many network/system admin jobs ranging from schools and university to international corporations and one thing is constant, extremely small, extremely underfunded and under supported IT teams for the amount of systems in use. Universally IT has been seen as a cost nothing more, 3 people in an entire company understand how/why it works. Its the absolute shortsightedness of (in particular) western business, if it doesn't turn a profit its worthless. I'd say at least 90% of my employers truly believe its a job that any monkey can do. i used to think this was a problem with your typical 3 letter asshat in charge but i have recently come to a much scarier conclusion, its a symptom of modern mans outright refusal to learn anything they don't already know. my last two jobs in particular "IT" WAS the company/College. Modern business is so heavily leveraged into it that yes i would say the admins were more important than the chief execs. People are starting to think admins have to much control but on the contrary i believe the majority of company's are unbelievable lucky to have people willing to keep the system afloat considering the respect we get.
"And there is a difference between indigenous boobies, and beat someone to death with a baseball bat."
Yeah no one seems bothered by the bat beatings.
Read Carefully, i said "I seriously doubt it, we have one of the highest fuel duties in europe"
then you said
"the UK has the cheapest oil in Europe, and the highest fuel duty"
The way things are going the only thing i dont like about your comment is that it was modded funny
at least it is for me, at best an advert will produce a 'Meh'. Usually they actually put me off whatever the product being hawked is. And this applies to companys too, but as been mention by a few posters already im not exactly the type of consumer theyre aiming this shit at.
http://www.roadtransport.com/Articles/2007/09/14/128465/the-emotive-issue-of-fuel-duty.html
the Industry would disagree
And its gone crazy since 2007.
Sorry i should have said im a Londoner born and bred and i love this city, it has so much to offer but its is being slowly strangled by the way its run these days.
"If people really did stop travelling then the fuel tax would probably come down as the government realises what a stupid mistake it has made getting rid of such a good source of income.
"
I seriously doubt it, we have one of the highest fuel duties in europe and it is killing many industries in this country (haulage being the most obvious but far from the only victim), this in turn is damaging the economy and reducing the money into the treasurys coffers yet that dont seem to care in the slightest.
"having said that, see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7498865.stm , but at least it's a 'voluntary' curfew..)".......for now
besides there is no such thing as a voluntary curfew, only that which they will tell you is vountary....untill it isnt.
That reminds me of an old 'mock the week' on bbc when Andy Parsons done his train to Glasgow gag.
"It costs £98.18 to get the train from London to Glasgow, who the hell is going to do that when you can fly to Barcelona for £40, then fly whoever u wanted to visit in Glasgow to Barcelona for £40 and then spend the first £18.19 on sangria".
The People don't have rights in London!.
There thats a bit more accurate.
Amen brother, not to mention that its extortion plain and simple. U pay double for using cash (perfectly legal tender) as uve said but of course this has nothing to do with RFID's tracking abilities (future abilities). Isnt it great to live in the UK. RFID, CCTV on every street, secret courts, secret laws, Un-elected leaders and lets not forget the extremly insidious attempt at restricting movement (both public transport and driving a car are insanely expensive).
Is that when i was younger my dad was desperate to get me to learn to program. Unfortunatly i had better things to do at the time (or so i thought heh) and so never did. Fast forward a good few years and im now a sysadmin. My dad passed away last year and its always bugged me that i never took him up on it, i know virtually nothing about programming but really want to learn (for my own amusement if nothing else). So as a total noob and to tag onto this disscussion what would the slashdot crew suggest as good place to start learning/playing around in this field. Any guidence would be GREATLY appriciated thanks.
Some asshat in a big office thinking to himself, "how can something written by lots of people in a community be more secure than something written by lots of people in a corporate HQ". The problem is not open source, i dont nessecaraly think its a propriatry problem either. Its absoulutly clueless people pulling 6 figure salaries making infrastructure desicions based on nothing more than what they "KNOW" to be true.
I hear this alot(mainly from my boss), im a network admin in an engineering company and as such, im considered a pure loss and encouraged to bill time to clients when they need support on their laptops or what not while visiting the project controls. However i fundementally dissagree with that sure we dont technically show a ROI but id like to see this company go back to pens, paper and rooms full of filling cabinets. The very fact that this vast amount of data is easily accessable all over the world IS the ROI.
Cramming in as many villans a possibly without ever using them. This isnt a comment specifically about the Dark Knight (as ive not seen it yet), but im thinking more the general trend in comic book adaptaions these days, obviously venom in spidy3 immediatly jumps to mind. From what ive herd about TDK its good and the joker is awesome but two face and scarecrow are pretty one dimensional. If you have a story that deals with multiply heros/villans please let it be more than a marketing excersise. (personally id love to see Maximum Carnage get the movie treatment, Super hero battle royal FTW) Yes i know it will never happen to many split rights, even if that was sorted its just to long to turn into a watchable film without gutting it.
Dell are buggers for this, its more like theyre trying to restrain the monitors rather than package them. Just in case they escape in transit.
Nonsense, EVERYONE is our enemy, even ourselves.....dont you watch the news.
as far as the handcuffing, thats one of the reasons i loved kotor they had the balls to say fuck the existing story, well go 5000 yrs b4 lucas and do what we like. As for people naturally wanting to be jedi, thats true we all wanna be a badboi death dealing lightsaber weilding genius and thats why we play games like the 8 bit/16 bit/32 bit/64 bit console games (such as the force unleacsed) but SWG gave u a chance to live in that universe being whatever u want to be.
im sorry but i couldent disagree more, novels, films these are things for story. We call em RPG's not SDG's (Story driven Games). the whole point of an rpg weither it be p'n'p, crpg is to assume a role. that has nothing to do with a story, sure it helps but u can have the worst story ever and u and ur friends can stil go above and beyond. You cant do that in a video game, you follow the path ur supposed to. If ur lucky it has scripted events, but imagine if that world couldent care less if u were there or not. Imagine u were irrelevent to the NPC's daily lives, imagine they actually tried to make a living instead of not exisiting till u walk within a certain range or complete a certain task
Im sorry but no, there def you gave applies to square and bethesda games. RPGS are about very detailed worlds, that's the whole point...here is a world with politics, religion, class divides and a myriad of other genres and u live in it....you know Role Playing Game. No MMO offers real role playing, they are second life with combat
Anything MMO is not ...i repeat not an rpg. While they could be (in fact i think there is massive potential) they are nothing more than compromised hack and slash. WOW my arse world of diablo would be more apt (unfortunately i would prob play a world of diablo). If someone can create an extremely detailed world and let players run riot i would be interested but all i see is fantastic single player CRPG's ripped apart and hacked to accommodate thousands/millions of users.