Odd, I guess that $8,000 charge on my bill labled "Room and board" was something else entirely. (Yeah, that's sarcasm)
Re:Putting out fires vs "improving the network"
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It can also be caused by the fact that the network is flawed, and needs improving but because it can't be improved there are more "fires", and because there are more fires, there's no time to fix the network.
E.X. if it's really easy for someone to fuck up some critical thing in the network, they will fuck it up....often. If you're constantly trying to undo every network fuckup, you don't have much time to improve the network that would prevent people from fucking it up all together.
But here's the problem. If you stop undoing every single fuckup and just let the network remain broken for a couple days while you work on a fix for the network, your boss just thinks you're lazy and aren't doing your job.
That would be great, except that the article says that the online version will be even more basic than photoshop elements. So, when combined with the ads that could be delivered in any number of ways and the fact that it's online so large images will be a pain in the ass, this could end up being worse than MS paint.
Of course, I won't be buying photoshop either because of their copy protection software which is a huge pain in the ass.
Oh snap, you've found a problem. I guess we should make all of this "sue and drop the case against anyone who doesn't settle on our terms" stuff legal. I mean, I might have to deal with some spam emails in my inbox. I guess you're right though, clicking "delete" 5 times a day outweighs the benefits of actually being able to listen to my music without fear of getting sued at any moment.
(And for those of you who can't tell, that was all sarcastic)
"He theorizes that Google is looking to create a bandwidth shortage that will drive ISP/cable/telephone customers into it's open arms"
Well I think that Google is planning to launch a mission to the moon in which they will mine the cheese that we all know it's made out of and use it to incite a mouse and rat invasion against the planet Earth. Now, why doesn't my theory have it's own Slashdot entry yet?
"While most of us here at/. buy our music legally, this is not the case for the majority of people with MP3 players and digital music collections."
What evidence are you basing that on? How can you be so sure that the majority of people with digital music collections and MP3 players are pirating music?
OK, we'll assume that you're correct when you say "Time spent playing games is subtracted from the total time available for studying."
Using your hypothesis, reading (anything but a textbook), listening to music, and playing with friends is time away from studying and should therefore be disallowed.
You can't just "connect the dots". Your "easy to prove" statement is nothing but a lot of unfounded guesswork.
What I hate the most about the interview was the last remark: "(Please keep remarks at about a fifth grade level so he can read them, and please be tactful)". You can't make a personally bashing interview followed by a personally insulting remark and then say "please be tactful". If you want people to be tactful then you had better be tactful yourself, or you can expect nothing but heated, biased opinions.
I hate cheaters as much as the next guy, but if you're going to attempt to interview one of them could you at least TRY to act professional? The last thing we need is more "OMG U SUX" comments disguised as "insightful" interviews.
You can't believe everything you read/see/hear on the Internet? Holy shit, this really is breaking news; I mean, it's not like this has been common sense since the Internet was invented or anything.
I seriously fail to see how this is news. Entire political campaigns are built on smear advertisements (anyone remember the last election?), and the Internet doesn't even have to comply with any type of law that keeps those smear ads from being worse than they are now; is it any wonder these videos are being put online?
Now the old grouchy grandpa doesn't even have to get up to tell you to get off his lawn.
On a more serious note, how much crime is this going to stop? How many thieves are going to stop because they hear a voice saying "You there, yes you, stop stealing!! I see you"
Because in some countries like China people make a whole lot less that they do in America. It might be literally impossible for people in other countries to spend the equivalent of $50 on a game.
"Who knew that Jamie had a degree in Russian literature?" During the vodka tasting episode, the announcer says that Jamie has a degree in Russian literature. (This is the myth that running cheap vodka through a filter will increase its quality to that of a high quality vodka)
I saw a segment on the local news about telemarketer's thoughts on the do not call list. The head of one telemarketing company said that they have no reason to call anyone on the do not call list simply because no one on the do not call list will buy anything you are trying to sell.
The best case scenario is that someone hangs up on you, worst case is they report you to the authorities and you get fined for violating the list. In both cases you gain nothing and only loose time spent calling the person and quite possibly a lot of money too.
If he wanted to "help those that missed class, didn't take good notes, or from another country and have trouble understanding an English speaking Professor" he'd make them free. (This is assuming that everyone he's selling these lectures to is a student at the college he works at. I could easily see him selling the lectures to people not enrolled at the college)
I'm surprised he's actually allowed to do this with lectures he gives at the college. Sure, he gives the lecture, but who pays for the lecture hall, the seats, and his payroll? One could make the valid argument that he's being paid to give these lectures and no one is forcing him to record them (so it wouldn't cost him anything if he wasn't allowed to sell the tapes), so they must be free.
There are a lot of professors that record their lectures and make them freely available to help their students, this guy just seems to be trying to make a quick buck.
Following the link yields (at least for me) a bunch of HTML displayed right on the page. I don't mean the content in the HTML. I mean it looks like a text document and I can see the HTML tags right there with text between them.
Their website isn't usable enough for people who don't know what this is. SUE THEM!!!
(The "sue them" line is a joke, but their website really is broken)
I took a look at the image. After about 17 seconds of trying to see the subliminal part I was thinking "hmmm, maybe I missed it; this is actually subliminal". And then the image went through 2 insanely obvious flashes. Anyone capable of viewing this image is capable of noticing the "subliminal messaging".
Subliminal messaging pretty much looses it's effect if it's not subliminal.
OMG BUY BUY BUY MY STOCK (ignore the above line, you didn't see it)
I guess we should now charge everyone who's ever played a first person shooter with murder then. I mean just think about it, killing someone is punishable in real life, so why not in a video game?
What the hell sense does this make? It's not advertising, an Eula, a licence agreement, a warning to not pirate windows, a threat; these would be horrible to have at start up, but I can at least see why they would be there (Microsoft doesn't like piracy, for example), but a sound clip? I'd like to know why Microsoft thinks people should have to hear the start up noise.
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You're an idiot. Don't blame the scientists for not being able to reduce the fuel consumption of the god damn rolling beauty salon you drive.
Yes, not to mention the psychological torture. ... Repressed memories coming back.......oh god...
Odd, I guess that $8,000 charge on my bill labled "Room and board" was something else entirely.
(Yeah, that's sarcasm)
It can also be caused by the fact that the network is flawed, and needs improving but because it can't be improved there are more "fires", and because there are more fires, there's no time to fix the network.
E.X. if it's really easy for someone to fuck up some critical thing in the network, they will fuck it up....often. If you're constantly trying to undo every network fuckup, you don't have much time to improve the network that would prevent people from fucking it up all together.
But here's the problem. If you stop undoing every single fuckup and just let the network remain broken for a couple days while you work on a fix for the network, your boss just thinks you're lazy and aren't doing your job.
That would be great, except that the article says that the online version will be even more basic than photoshop elements. So, when combined with the ads that could be delivered in any number of ways and the fact that it's online so large images will be a pain in the ass, this could end up being worse than MS paint.
Of course, I won't be buying photoshop either because of their copy protection software which is a huge pain in the ass.
It might sound like an interesting way to track that, except for the fact that no one is going to show up to check a "I'd rather be at home" box.
Oh snap, you've found a problem. I guess we should make all of this "sue and drop the case against anyone who doesn't settle on our terms" stuff legal. I mean, I might have to deal with some spam emails in my inbox. I guess you're right though, clicking "delete" 5 times a day outweighs the benefits of actually being able to listen to my music without fear of getting sued at any moment.
(And for those of you who can't tell, that was all sarcastic)
"He theorizes that Google is looking to create a bandwidth shortage that will drive ISP/cable/telephone customers into it's open arms"
Well I think that Google is planning to launch a mission to the moon in which they will mine the cheese that we all know it's made out of and use it to incite a mouse and rat invasion against the planet Earth.
Now, why doesn't my theory have it's own Slashdot entry yet?
I think an even better analogy would be: A company is installing illegal spyware on your computer, what do you do?
I don't know why the hell we're even discussing abstinence, STDs, and guns. The article doesn't have anything to do with any of those things.
"number plates and can transmit data at a range of up to 100 meters (yards)"
A meter is 39.37 in, 1000 cm
A yard is 36 in, 91.44 cm
At 100 meters, the difference between meters and yards is about 30 feet, or 10 yards.
"While most of us here at /. buy our music legally, this is not the case for the majority of people with MP3 players and digital music collections."
What evidence are you basing that on? How can you be so sure that the majority of people with digital music collections and MP3 players are pirating music?
OK, we'll assume that you're correct when you say "Time spent playing games is subtracted from the total time available for studying."
Using your hypothesis, reading (anything but a textbook), listening to music, and playing with friends is time away from studying and should therefore be disallowed.
You can't just "connect the dots". Your "easy to prove" statement is nothing but a lot of unfounded guesswork.
What I hate the most about the interview was the last remark:
"(Please keep remarks at about a fifth grade level so he can read them, and please be tactful)". You can't make a personally bashing interview followed by a personally insulting remark and then say "please be tactful". If you want people to be tactful then you had better be tactful yourself, or you can expect nothing but heated, biased opinions.
I hate cheaters as much as the next guy, but if you're going to attempt to interview one of them could you at least TRY to act professional? The last thing we need is more "OMG U SUX" comments disguised as "insightful" interviews.
You can't believe everything you read/see/hear on the Internet?
Holy shit, this really is breaking news; I mean, it's not like this has been common sense since the Internet was invented or anything.
I seriously fail to see how this is news. Entire political campaigns are built on smear advertisements (anyone remember the last election?), and the Internet doesn't even have to comply with any type of law that keeps those smear ads from being worse than they are now; is it any wonder these videos are being put online?
Now the old grouchy grandpa doesn't even have to get up to tell you to get off his lawn.
On a more serious note, how much crime is this going to stop? How many thieves are going to stop because they hear a voice saying "You there, yes you, stop stealing!! I see you"
No soldier actually brings it into a combat situation. Those cases are a joke.
Because in some countries like China people make a whole lot less that they do in America. It might be literally impossible for people in other countries to spend the equivalent of $50 on a game.
"Who knew that Jamie had a degree in Russian literature?" During the vodka tasting episode, the announcer says that Jamie has a degree in Russian literature. (This is the myth that running cheap vodka through a filter will increase its quality to that of a high quality vodka)
And we were damn grateful too.
I saw a segment on the local news about telemarketer's thoughts on the do not call list. The head of one telemarketing company said that they have no reason to call anyone on the do not call list simply because no one on the do not call list will buy anything you are trying to sell.
The best case scenario is that someone hangs up on you, worst case is they report you to the authorities and you get fined for violating the list. In both cases you gain nothing and only loose time spent calling the person and quite possibly a lot of money too.
If he wanted to "help those that missed class, didn't take good notes, or from another country and have trouble understanding an English speaking Professor" he'd make them free. (This is assuming that everyone he's selling these lectures to is a student at the college he works at. I could easily see him selling the lectures to people not enrolled at the college)
I'm surprised he's actually allowed to do this with lectures he gives at the college. Sure, he gives the lecture, but who pays for the lecture hall, the seats, and his payroll? One could make the valid argument that he's being paid to give these lectures and no one is forcing him to record them (so it wouldn't cost him anything if he wasn't allowed to sell the tapes), so they must be free.
There are a lot of professors that record their lectures and make them freely available to help their students, this guy just seems to be trying to make a quick buck.
Following the link yields (at least for me) a bunch of HTML displayed right on the page. I don't mean the content in the HTML. I mean it looks like a text document and I can see the HTML tags right there with text between them.
Their website isn't usable enough for people who don't know what this is. SUE THEM!!!
(The "sue them" line is a joke, but their website really is broken)
I took a look at the image. After about 17 seconds of trying to see the subliminal part I was thinking "hmmm, maybe I missed it; this is actually subliminal".
And then the image went through 2 insanely obvious flashes. Anyone capable of viewing this image is capable of noticing the "subliminal messaging".
Subliminal messaging pretty much looses it's effect if it's not subliminal.
OMG BUY BUY BUY MY STOCK
(ignore the above line, you didn't see it)
I guess we should now charge everyone who's ever played a first person shooter with murder then. I mean just think about it, killing someone is punishable in real life, so why not in a video game?
What the hell sense does this make? It's not advertising, an Eula, a licence agreement, a warning to not pirate windows, a threat; these would be horrible to have at start up, but I can at least see why they would be there (Microsoft doesn't like piracy, for example), but a sound clip? I'd like to know why Microsoft thinks people should have to hear the start up noise.