C) Don't bow to the Chinese government, they will not allow the site. They are the ones denying the Chinese people access to Google, not Google. Which means Google is doing no evil, but the Chinese government is.
You can't sugarcoat "Agree to censor" enough to make it not evil, sorry.
I've played several Blizzard games over the years (I remember when a LAN party at my buddy's house was on Arc-net and we were tweaking autoexec.bat and config.sys settings to get WC running.) and I'm actively playing and running a guild in WoW.
When I first hauled my system over to play those old school games of WC I was able to sit down and get right into it. Why? Because it was fun and relatively simple to pick up.
Years later when my wife and I got into the WoW beta and EQ2 beta which won out? WoW. Why? Because it was... wait for it... fun and relatively simple to pick up.
I have friends who still swear by D2 for many of the same reasons.
I really think it boils down to them focusing on fun things and not on getting overly elaborate for the sake of seeming "deeper".
That's another point for why I don't bother with HD radio or XM/Sirrus. As I mentioned to my wife once. I listen to one station, it's local, and it's all talk. Why exactly do I need any of this other technology?
The only stations in the DFW market I've heard utter a peep about digital radio are the ones that are all already owned by the big conglomerate media powerhouses. I don't think TFAs concept of this helping out any kind of independent will gain any traction.
On the other hand it is a fully digital signal without paying a monthly subscription fee.
I think the problem here is that as long as everybody has to pay you can't call it discriminatory.
If everybody who wants the preferred traffic rate has to pay X then it's not discriminating against anybody except people without money to pay. Unfortunatly trying to regulate "financial discrimination" will hit a wall called capitalism IMHO.
I don't really like root beer. But if I really want a soda and I'm in a pinch I'll drink one.
Does this mean that if the place I fill up my car has one of those displays with stacks of root beer 12 packs at the gas pump I steal a 12 pack from the convenience store I'm not stealing cause I wouldn't have bought it anyways?
If you make illegal copies of copyrighted material you are in fact breaking the law, accept that fact and stop trying to make yourself look innocent. The point here is actually the ways and means they are using to go about enforcing said law.
If you don't like the fact that downloading movies in a certain fashion is illegal press to get the laws changed.
I'm going to let my lower-middle class upbringing shine through for a second and condense the above into how I handled being bullied when I was in school.
I was always a tiny kid (only 5'5" as an adult, was always the short kid in school too.) This inevitably led to people bullying me because I was "easy to pick on", being a geek from age 9 didn't help either. In 4th grade I kinda snapped one day. Picked up a chair and waylay-ed the bully in question. Not so oddly I got in trouble with the principal, but afterwards I noted I wasn't getting picked on.
Telling teachers, principals, parents, adults in general only then gets you called other names and picked on for not standing up for yourself.
I see exactly what this is. Sony sees that when a game is resold they make 0$, that is unacceptable. I mean c'mon...
Remember, in relation to a $600 console a $60 game is "still pretty cheap".
Have some sympathy here, they're just trying to eek out a modest living with what technology they can scrap together... right?
I would try to give an analogy here, but every one that easily comes to mind involves things that I think would get me banned or that only happen to people in prison related stories on Fark.
IGN has some very solid points about this.... Sony might respond to some of this and salvage the "gimp-end" of it's box offering.
And Mr Colin Campbell is a Snooty McFancyPants who doesn't realize that being "next-gen" will help you for naught if your product is also "not-purchased". There are some terrific consoles out in the mothball fleet to attest to this fact and he probably owns every single one of them.
You're getting all fancy schmancy. Besides, how would that help Symantec annoy MS? We have to keep our head and priorities about us in these hectic times and stay focused on the goal.
Usually "Zero Day" means something that was available when the product was released now.
"Zero day" warez means a warez copy is available the day the product releases (sometimes before).
"Zero Day" venerabilities are usually ones which are detected before a virus is in the wild for them. (i.e. problem found before an exploit is available)
Can one of your "web 2.0 geniuses".....
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Can one of you Web 2.0 coding geniuses build an app which would give os a nive graphical representation of who is suing who? One where you can mouse over the arrow between the circles representing companies to see what the suit is over?
It would help make some sense of this, and we could look for patterns to bet on who would sue who next.
At this point I'm betting just in time for presedential elections in 2008 it will be bad enough that some candidate can use "I will reform patent law" as a campaign promise.
That court ruling about injunctions requires that the plaintiff prove tangible loss of income/revenue because of the infraction.
If Vista is still the better part of a year away from the shelves how exactly again is it causing a loss of revenue for Symantec?
It's like saying I'm suing you for punching me in the face because I see you walking over here, and you have your fist doubled up, and I want to get paid before you hit me!
I agree with the sentiment that this is a desperation ploy from Symantec because they realize that any percentage to which Microsoft improves security and protects from viruses/worms is a direct percentage out of how much people need a company like Symantec around and ergo hits bottom line fast.
Well you may have a big wordy fancy schmancy post there, but you forget something.
World of Warcraft is an ongoing game with content which is added over time, and new things to do. If you want to keep a staff of programmers and artists and other development people around you have to have an ongoing stream of income, ergo the monthly payment model.
You could opt for the only buy expansions deal like Guild Wars, but then you also hamstring how much content you have in the game.
I think there are places for both in the marketplace. Nintendo favors the up front one price model because once that game is out the door that's it. There's no ongoing expenses. If people bought a game and were expecting new content to be added every few months then they would have to charge for it one way or another.
I use FreeBSD on all my server machines I run for personal use. Love it, wouldn't consider changing.
If it wants to run at the desktop market my suggestions would be:
a) Graphical setup b) Better hardware autodetection (both during install and post install) c) A GUI by default that is tight and looks good. d) A more easy to use graphical interface into the ports system.
Loving Wikipedia.. with all it's faults.. like the cute but quirky girl in high school you knew things were going to work out with once you got back from college.
Then getting back from college and finding out she's living in a trailer.. with a crack habit.. and her pimp...
Not that I would have had experience in that field... or anything...
I have been working in the IT field since before the boom. From field work to tech support desks.
The union idea comes up about every 2-3 years. Then it fades again. Most of the commentary here is from programmers who don't want to see some slacker next to them riding comfy while they work hard. Programming jobs should be contract for just that reason.
Unions would help the rank and file workers who are far more at the support and field engineer/help desk end of the spectrum. I have seen companies let people leave and not hire replacements for 2 and a half years while praising themselves for "never having a layoff", and review processes where your actual performance seems to affect the outcome about as much as telling your cat to fetch.
Just something to think about if you're only seeing this from the "leet coder" perspective.
Dude... YOU'RE GETTING a sliding percent markdown based on your volume of purchases and need to bundle office software in a corporate environment !!!!!!!!!!!
It's already been mentioned that in the Zelda title you use it to sword fight. Someone else will come out with a great sword fighting game (Pirates of the Carribean anyone?)..
Then some group will just come out with a retexturing mod to map jedi graphics and make your sword glow and make noises..
Microsoft has already said it plans on embracing some level of virtualization. I suspect this will be some form of "Vmware built into windows" approach. They do this and people want to migrate servers onto this platform (Why? Because they will offer amazing price incentives to get people on it of course) and start moving servers. They want to move linux and other *nix servers to it. Microsoft wants this to be easy for them so includes a linux distro they like and probably tailor to the host OS into the VM package.. This way you click a button and POOF linux server on your virtual server architecture box.
The conservatives don't want an easy to access way to find lots of porn. They want to keep it tucked out of sight.
The porn industry doesn't want to be partially forced into one little cubbyhole where they can be easily targeted and persecuted for the services and products they provide. They want to stay out of the limelight of persecution.
The geeks know that this is useless as it will be impossible to enforce (just like ONLY non profits being.org or only net based businesses being.net or only businesses in a certain country using that countries extension (i.e..us and.uk for example))
Is there ANYBODY who actually has a good reason for this to exist?
I have worked for several software companies, large to small. Any large company I have worked for has people who do this. Their goal is to get companies to purchase licensing to overcover in many cases the application.
Anybody here claiming MS created this, or pioneered it, or is even the worst at it, doesn't know the software industry and has never met many mainframe software salespeople.
Just MHO and I could be Crazy... WHich would also explain my being around here.
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No, there is this third option.
C) Don't bow to the Chinese government, they will not allow the site. They are the ones denying the Chinese people access to Google, not Google. Which means Google is doing no evil, but the Chinese government is.
You can't sugarcoat "Agree to censor" enough to make it not evil, sorry.
I've played several Blizzard games over the years (I remember when a LAN party at my buddy's house was on Arc-net and we were tweaking autoexec.bat and config.sys settings to get WC running.) and I'm actively playing and running a guild in WoW.
When I first hauled my system over to play those old school games of WC I was able to sit down and get right into it. Why? Because it was fun and relatively simple to pick up.
Years later when my wife and I got into the WoW beta and EQ2 beta which won out? WoW. Why? Because it was... wait for it... fun and relatively simple to pick up.
I have friends who still swear by D2 for many of the same reasons.
I really think it boils down to them focusing on fun things and not on getting overly elaborate for the sake of seeming "deeper".
That's another point for why I don't bother with HD radio or XM/Sirrus. As I mentioned to my wife once. I listen to one station, it's local, and it's all talk. Why exactly do I need any of this other technology?
The only stations in the DFW market I've heard utter a peep about digital radio are the ones that are all already owned by the big conglomerate media powerhouses. I don't think TFAs concept of this helping out any kind of independent will gain any traction.
On the other hand it is a fully digital signal without paying a monthly subscription fee.
I think the problem here is that as long as everybody has to pay you can't call it discriminatory.
If everybody who wants the preferred traffic rate has to pay X then it's not discriminating against anybody except people without money to pay. Unfortunatly trying to regulate "financial discrimination" will hit a wall called capitalism IMHO.
I'm not with you. Here's why.
I don't really like root beer. But if I really want a soda and I'm in a pinch I'll drink one.
Does this mean that if the place I fill up my car has one of those displays with stacks of root beer 12 packs at the gas pump I steal a 12 pack from the convenience store I'm not stealing cause I wouldn't have bought it anyways?
If you make illegal copies of copyrighted material you are in fact breaking the law, accept that fact and stop trying to make yourself look innocent. The point here is actually the ways and means they are using to go about enforcing said law.
If you don't like the fact that downloading movies in a certain fashion is illegal press to get the laws changed.
I'm going to let my lower-middle class upbringing shine through for a second and condense the above into how I handled being bullied when I was in school.
I was always a tiny kid (only 5'5" as an adult, was always the short kid in school too.) This inevitably led to people bullying me because I was "easy to pick on", being a geek from age 9 didn't help either. In 4th grade I kinda snapped one day. Picked up a chair and waylay-ed the bully in question. Not so oddly I got in trouble with the principal, but afterwards I noted I wasn't getting picked on.
Telling teachers, principals, parents, adults in general only then gets you called other names and picked on for not standing up for yourself.
At least that has been my personal experience.
I see exactly what this is. Sony sees that when a game is resold they make 0$, that is unacceptable. I mean c'mon...
Remember, in relation to a $600 console a $60 game is "still pretty cheap".
Have some sympathy here, they're just trying to eek out a modest living with what technology they can scrap together... right?
I would try to give an analogy here, but every one that easily comes to mind involves things that I think would get me banned or that only happen to people in prison related stories on Fark.
I came to a conclusion.
IGN has some very solid points about this.... Sony might respond to some of this and salvage the "gimp-end" of it's box offering.
And Mr Colin Campbell is a Snooty McFancyPants who doesn't realize that being "next-gen" will help you for naught if your product is also "not-purchased". There are some terrific consoles out in the mothball fleet to attest to this fact and he probably owns every single one of them.
Now now now..
You're getting all fancy schmancy. Besides, how would that help Symantec annoy MS? We have to keep our head and priorities about us in these hectic times and stay focused on the goal.
Usually "Zero Day" means something that was available when the product was released now.
"Zero day" warez means a warez copy is available the day the product releases (sometimes before).
"Zero Day" venerabilities are usually ones which are detected before a virus is in the wild for them. (i.e. problem found before an exploit is available)
In general it usually just means "Really new!"
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Can one of you Web 2.0 coding geniuses build an app which would give os a nive graphical representation of who is suing who? One where you can mouse over the arrow between the circles representing companies to see what the suit is over?
It would help make some sense of this, and we could look for patterns to bet on who would sue who next.
At this point I'm betting just in time for presedential elections in 2008 it will be bad enough that some candidate can use "I will reform patent law" as a campaign promise.
That court ruling about injunctions requires that the plaintiff prove tangible loss of income/revenue because of the infraction.
If Vista is still the better part of a year away from the shelves how exactly again is it causing a loss of revenue for Symantec?
It's like saying I'm suing you for punching me in the face because I see you walking over here, and you have your fist doubled up, and I want to get paid before you hit me!
I agree with the sentiment that this is a desperation ploy from Symantec because they realize that any percentage to which Microsoft improves security and protects from viruses/worms is a direct percentage out of how much people need a company like Symantec around and ergo hits bottom line fast.
Well you may have a big wordy fancy schmancy post there, but you forget something.
World of Warcraft is an ongoing game with content which is added over time, and new things to do. If you want to keep a staff of programmers and artists and other development people around you have to have an ongoing stream of income, ergo the monthly payment model.
You could opt for the only buy expansions deal like Guild Wars, but then you also hamstring how much content you have in the game.
I think there are places for both in the marketplace. Nintendo favors the up front one price model because once that game is out the door that's it. There's no ongoing expenses. If people bought a game and were expecting new content to be added every few months then they would have to charge for it one way or another.
Never attest to malice what can be adequately attributed to stupidity.
In this case I think it's stupidity to create a virus that deletes the files it would be most likely to be able to propogate itself through.
Maybe some little hacker kiddie got caught wanking it by his mom and she deleted all his pr0n so he's on a "if I can't have it nobody can" rampage.
Second toughest guy from bar pokes brown kodiak bear with stick.
Second toughest guy quotes "You have no chance bear, the tough person in bar market is formed"
Meanwhile the toughest buy in the bar is buying a shotgun and bear hunting license, and getting to a safer shooting distance.
I use FreeBSD on all my server machines I run for personal use. Love it, wouldn't consider changing.
If it wants to run at the desktop market my suggestions would be:
a) Graphical setup
b) Better hardware autodetection (both during install and post install)
c) A GUI by default that is tight and looks good.
d) A more easy to use graphical interface into the ports system.
THat's a start, get those and we'll talk desktop.
Loving Wikipedia.. with all it's faults.. like the cute but quirky girl in high school you knew things were going to work out with once you got back from college.
Then getting back from college and finding out she's living in a trailer.. with a crack habit.. and her pimp...
Not that I would have had experience in that field... or anything...
I have been working in the IT field since before the boom. From field work to tech support desks.
The union idea comes up about every 2-3 years. Then it fades again. Most of the commentary here is from programmers who don't want to see some slacker next to them riding comfy while they work hard. Programming jobs should be contract for just that reason.
Unions would help the rank and file workers who are far more at the support and field engineer/help desk end of the spectrum. I have seen companies let people leave and not hire replacements for 2 and a half years while praising themselves for "never having a layoff", and review processes where your actual performance seems to affect the outcome about as much as telling your cat to fetch.
Just something to think about if you're only seeing this from the "leet coder" perspective.
Dude... YOU'RE GETTING a sliding percent markdown based on your volume of purchases and need to bundle office software in a corporate environment !!!!!!!!!!!
It's already been mentioned that in the Zelda title you use it to sword fight. Someone else will come out with a great sword fighting game (Pirates of the Carribean anyone?)..
Then some group will just come out with a retexturing mod to map jedi graphics and make your sword glow and make noises..
Done
Ponder this if you will...
Microsoft has already said it plans on embracing some level of virtualization. I suspect this will be some form of "Vmware built into windows" approach. They do this and people want to migrate servers onto this platform (Why? Because they will offer amazing price incentives to get people on it of course) and start moving servers. They want to move linux and other *nix servers to it. Microsoft wants this to be easy for them so includes a linux distro they like and probably tailor to the host OS into the VM package.. This way you click a button and POOF linux server on your virtual server architecture box.
Poof, you have Microsoft Linux.
The conservatives don't want an easy to access way to find lots of porn. They want to keep it tucked out of sight.
.org or only net based businesses being .net or only businesses in a certain country using that countries extension (i.e. .us and .uk for example))
The porn industry doesn't want to be partially forced into one little cubbyhole where they can be easily targeted and persecuted for the services and products they provide. They want to stay out of the limelight of persecution.
The geeks know that this is useless as it will be impossible to enforce (just like ONLY non profits being
Is there ANYBODY who actually has a good reason for this to exist?
I have worked for several software companies, large to small. Any large company I have worked for has people who do this. Their goal is to get companies to purchase licensing to overcover in many cases the application.
Anybody here claiming MS created this, or pioneered it, or is even the worst at it, doesn't know the software industry and has never met many mainframe software salespeople.
Just MHO and I could be Crazy... WHich would also explain my being around here.