I was always wondering when this was going to come up...
For starters, I am the ONLY person with my name, first and surname combination; in the world(I know, hard to believe but true nonetheless)
I have never had a facebook account(and never will), but *yet* for some odd reason there is a faux profile of me(I shit thee not) is listed on it with some odd similarities including but not limited to race, sex, location, and activities that I'm into(again I shit you not).
I have seen this profile and it has a picture of some loser getting high or doing whatever the hell he's doing WITH MY NAME.
Now let's say for example, that I'm looking for a job and the potential employer does a Facebook search which I believe is SOP these days in the job market and that profile pops up. What then is the chance of me being looked at as suitable candidate?! Or let's say for another example I am contracting and the client wants to do some background research on me(which I feel is reasonable) and then again, THAT SHIT POPS UP
All I'm saying is that this "feature" has the potential to do a lot of irreparable, long lasting, "digital" damage(i.e. the wayback machine) to a person that has never, nor has any intent, of being on "The Facebook".
Sooo, is the only way I(or anyone else with this problem) can protect myself is to sign-up with a real profile in an attempt to set the digital record straight?!
Truthfully, if I never get a job or contract again after a background check I fully and indelibly have no one but Facebook to blame...
I used to work for Microsoft Live search division, and they are referred to as "Google dumps".
What I'm not sure about is if they(MS), or the advertiser, generates them as part of my job was to parse them(horrible work)...
In any case it still comes down to the advertiser as they are the one's that pay for the keyword, phrase, etc.
From my experience, the best way anyone learns anything at all is by being introduced to some aspect of it that is basic, fun, and practical to that relative interest(s).
Post pictures of your girlfriend, and we'll tell you if you should propose. Give a snapshot of your kitchen, and we'll make redecorating suggestions. Post your eTrade login and password, I'll take a shot at helping you revise your portfolio. Thinking of buying a house?
We know nothing about your company, what it does, what the people are like. We have no fucking clue what you should do, because every situation is different. If there is one decent bit of advice to be had, and this comes from the Veep level with 20 years in:
1. Everything starts with the directory system and
2. Calendaring derives from it.
The best story is when I worked for Windows Live Search a few years ago. Make a long story(which shouldn't have been long) short, some very big client was trying to run ads in Arkansas, Alaska...As this somehow did not quite compute, I showed my manager the map of United States, an atlas, and even the goddamn encyclopedia brittanica to illustrate that not only is there no town/ city in Alaska named Arkansas but that they were in fact 2 completely different states.
I seriously got pulled into a 4hr long conference call to go over where on earth I could have possibly come up with this notion....
Well, after working with thus stuff for the past few years, I would have to say Lifesize.
All you need is an HD webcam, ideally a static IP or port forwarding/ triggering, minimum 1mb upstream and then your done. Granted, if you want conference room status, and more than 4 locations then you may have to buy a Lifesize room codec(few grand, depends on how big the room is and if you actually VC with 8 parties all the time).
I strongly recommend the minimum 1mb part...
How do you think that the african-american/ black Microsoft employees feel?
Would they view this as "business as usual" or do you think that they might be offended?
I would surely think that the consensus is probably split right down the middle in that context...
Personally, I don't think that I would be able to help but feel a bit awkward at this point whether I was white or black(I'm black)but something like this could in fact create a rift in their business culture, because now they may have potentially damaged or tainted at the very least, the foundation of cultural diversity in their company...so at this point the white employees could be burdened with "white guilt" and the black employees will be burdened with the ever prominent sense of passive racism against them.
So basically if there wasn't a racial line in that company before, then there surely is now.
Way to go MS...
He did lay out quite a decent ass-whoopin on 1 in particular...but that was unfair because you can tell he knows *something* about boxing, and he should considering how many times HE got his ass kicked for making terrible movies and being a shill.
And while I see your point and concur, what MS is doing is bankrolling big developers to push back projects(Crysis, Alan Wake, Unreal 3, etc.) until they(M$) actually come to point of making vista somewhat more manageable than it is now and a slightly better
(read: service pack...)user experience.
I'm willing to bet money on this(and I am...)It's truly sad people are paying to be apart of sharing the retail beta "experience"...WOW!
I don't know of many game dev house's that have succeeded in creating a game that can combine aspects of multiple genre's(racing, rpg, action, 3D 3rd person, sex) into 1 game seamlessly and have it be fun at the same time(see universal combat for reference about that approach failing)So whatevs, there problems are mostly based around their success(s)in that regard and that's what sell games. What's going on with them is a reflection how our society treats things that are successful against the better wishes of those who dictate the status quo.
So basically all the early adopters should have to pay for functionalities they should have had since day 1? Sans the 120Gb...the 65nm CPU has more to do with power consumption and heat dissipation which was killing them(XB360's)than it's performance. The HDMI was a spec they had to scrap due to issues dealing with DRM standards and televisions, but was a feature included all the same in MS's marketing scheme when they started their hype machine that snagged the early adopters that are being punished for being "true believers"(see target consumer)and now for that they get the shaft for paying the premium of being an early adopter...sorry but it just seems wrong to me, at least they could offer a swap for a reasonable price, is it more expensive for a company to swap out the faulty SKU or honor a warranty for a product you KNOW is broken and continually lose money manufacturing? I smell a law$uit...
I wanna see what this tech can do with lightsaber dueling, the problem I see is that saber fights require a certain input that for the most part has to remain static(I'd be pissed if I used an input that returned a different result everytime...)The sweet side I see is that input speed would produce a dynamic physical reaction.
As long as you know how the RAID config was setup(striping size), most disk recovery programs will do the job just fine. GetDataBack NTFS is functional and simple tool to use as long as you know how the disks were setup. Including RAID5...I've rebuilt 3 RAID5's and a shitload of 0's, 1's, and 01's. You should see the look on some of these people's faces after your done(with all 18+hrs of it...)The problem usually I find is that if you recovered the data then the customer is usually under the impression that you *fixed* the disk and they can keep on using it without replacing it...so yeah, it's not a big deal it's just a question of how much time you want to spend and how much time you have to finish the job.
One of my best friends had a cousin named "Milo", in any case Milo was strange since day 1(literally), I have never seen anyone with so much contempt for the things around him it still gives me chills to this day, this crazy fukka did everything(assault, robbery, burglary, drug dealing, and likely a few murders...seriously)He was not a physically intimidating person as he might have been about 5'8 and weighed a buck-thirty; so ask me how he scared the living shit out of anyone that even looked at him, size notwithstanding, and then literally force them into a fight. If he lost *that* fight, he would come back REPEATEDLY for more drama until he won, and if that didn't work he WILL stab or bludgeon you. What makes people like this truly scary is that they are HIGHLY intelligent, to the point where if extracting an algorithm that interpolates star positions to make the jump to lightspeed in a far off sector with an abacus will advance their evil intent, it would be proofed in minutes and I am not playing...some living things are born inherently evil, I can tell you another story about yet another highly intelligent evil person that killed his girlfriend to serve life in jail with a father he never knew...but I think I made my point. I actually have a sneaking theory that every person will encounter 3 truly evil people in their lives.
It's amazing that their even trying this...from a legal standpoint it's stupid, their shooting themselves in the foot. When the word gets out in the legal world, your gonna have a lot of pissed off civil court judges, even more if their appeal is actually successful.
As long as you have fortune 500-1000 brand corporate sponsors in these "festivals", how does the content displayed provide "cutting edge", "provocative", and my favorite "innovative" impressions of an artists work?
Did you not see "fortune 500-1000"...I don't think that commercial == fortune 500 company...not to mention the fact that in the context of what the Slamdance festival is/means, I'm not under the impression that the festival entrants are fortune-seekers...
So...
As long as you have fortune 500-1000 brand corporate sponsors in these "festivals", how does the content displayed provide "cutting edge", "provocative", and my favorite "innovative" impressions of an artists work? To me it's no different than going to a car show booth and seing "johnson and johnson" or "duncan hines" scrawled all over the dashboard.
That case created a very interesting precedent, metaphorically then, the internet is a highway and mediasentry is a radar gun. No disclorure, no case. Also, audit's are in fully accounted for within the letter of the law no matter state(Federal).
I beleive a year ago maybe less(maybe more)a software engineer was caught speeding, when it was his time to go to court, he argued that the software used in radar guns really didn't have any predictable margin of accuracy(e.g. windy day)and that he requested the code be audited and analyzed; anyway after 10 minutes the judge found him not guilty and let him go on his merry way, speeding cases are still being beaten on this precedent today...unless you get a strange judge that is(think good will hunting)
Anyway my point is that, if mediasentry was the application used for the collection of information being admitted as evidence in a court of law;then shoudln't an analysis of how it actually tracks activity, traffic, etc. programatically be introduced as evidence as well during the discovery phase?
Seriously, without that it's like again, going to court for a speeding ticket and the only evidence against you is that someone said they *saw* you do it, sans radar gun...but unless someone takes a hard look at how they aggregate this *data* and the courts keep on allowing the 'AA's to file civil suits on a wholesale basis...then this means squat.
Welllllll, for starters:
1. The subject of this topic(missing plot) the predicate for any interest in ST, period.(STRIPPED CONTENT)
2. Multiplayer right out of the box, was patched, still does not work.
3. No modding tools.
4. No historical missions/ custom skirmish match(s) w/o modding them in via/ map editor.
5. Not being able to change key-mappings(????)
6. The graphics details that were displayed in the preview stages of the game's PR blitz(s) DO NOT reflect those in the actual retail release of the game.
I can go on, but I think that this pretty much demonstrates fraud, false advertisement at the very least, both of which are punishable by US law.If you bought a car, would you want spend extra time and money on including features in it that were advertised as being included when you made the initial purchase?
In all truthfullness, I feel the worst for Mad Doc, as I truly believe their only intention was to make the best ST experience possible in a hybrid genre, to only have most of their work ripped out due to scheduling restraints and publishers greed. This is what they call cutting off your nose to spite your face...but I'm laying flamebait so what do I know... but this has to stop and I don't think it will unless the customers raise their voices in the only way allowed in this country...lawsuit. Gawd forbid you don't fancy getting bait and switched, that turns you into a troll or flamebait...
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I was always wondering when this was going to come up... For starters, I am the ONLY person with my name, first and surname combination; in the world(I know, hard to believe but true nonetheless) I have never had a facebook account(and never will), but *yet* for some odd reason there is a faux profile of me(I shit thee not) is listed on it with some odd similarities including but not limited to race, sex, location, and activities that I'm into(again I shit you not). I have seen this profile and it has a picture of some loser getting high or doing whatever the hell he's doing WITH MY NAME. Now let's say for example, that I'm looking for a job and the potential employer does a Facebook search which I believe is SOP these days in the job market and that profile pops up. What then is the chance of me being looked at as suitable candidate?! Or let's say for another example I am contracting and the client wants to do some background research on me(which I feel is reasonable) and then again, THAT SHIT POPS UP All I'm saying is that this "feature" has the potential to do a lot of irreparable, long lasting, "digital" damage(i.e. the wayback machine) to a person that has never, nor has any intent, of being on "The Facebook". Sooo, is the only way I(or anyone else with this problem) can protect myself is to sign-up with a real profile in an attempt to set the digital record straight?! Truthfully, if I never get a job or contract again after a background check I fully and indelibly have no one but Facebook to blame...
I used to work for Microsoft Live search division, and they are referred to as "Google dumps". What I'm not sure about is if they(MS), or the advertiser, generates them as part of my job was to parse them(horrible work)... In any case it still comes down to the advertiser as they are the one's that pay for the keyword, phrase, etc.
From my experience, the best way anyone learns anything at all is by being introduced to some aspect of it that is basic, fun, and practical to that relative interest(s).
Post pictures of your girlfriend, and we'll tell you if you should propose. Give a snapshot of your kitchen, and we'll make redecorating suggestions. Post your eTrade login and password, I'll take a shot at helping you revise your portfolio. Thinking of buying a house? We know nothing about your company, what it does, what the people are like. We have no fucking clue what you should do, because every situation is different. If there is one decent bit of advice to be had, and this comes from the Veep level with 20 years in: 1. Everything starts with the directory system and 2. Calendaring derives from it.
Win
The best story is when I worked for Windows Live Search a few years ago. Make a long story(which shouldn't have been long) short, some very big client was trying to run ads in Arkansas, Alaska...As this somehow did not quite compute, I showed my manager the map of United States, an atlas, and even the goddamn encyclopedia brittanica to illustrate that not only is there no town/ city in Alaska named Arkansas but that they were in fact 2 completely different states. I seriously got pulled into a 4hr long conference call to go over where on earth I could have possibly come up with this notion....
/true story
//fired 1 month later
//Bing wins
Well, after working with thus stuff for the past few years, I would have to say Lifesize. All you need is an HD webcam, ideally a static IP or port forwarding/ triggering, minimum 1mb upstream and then your done. Granted, if you want conference room status, and more than 4 locations then you may have to buy a Lifesize room codec(few grand, depends on how big the room is and if you actually VC with 8 parties all the time). I strongly recommend the minimum 1mb part...
How do you think that the african-american/ black Microsoft employees feel? Would they view this as "business as usual" or do you think that they might be offended? I would surely think that the consensus is probably split right down the middle in that context... Personally, I don't think that I would be able to help but feel a bit awkward at this point whether I was white or black(I'm black)but something like this could in fact create a rift in their business culture, because now they may have potentially damaged or tainted at the very least, the foundation of cultural diversity in their company...so at this point the white employees could be burdened with "white guilt" and the black employees will be burdened with the ever prominent sense of passive racism against them. So basically if there wasn't a racial line in that company before, then there surely is now. Way to go MS...
QFT. Mod up!
Took the words right out of my mouth.
Great post.
He did lay out quite a decent ass-whoopin on 1 in particular...but that was unfair because you can tell he knows *something* about boxing, and he should considering how many times HE got his ass kicked for making terrible movies and being a shill.
nuff said.
And while I see your point and concur, what MS is doing is bankrolling big developers to push back projects(Crysis, Alan Wake, Unreal 3, etc.) until they(M$) actually come to point of making vista somewhat more manageable than it is now and a slightly better (read: service pack...)user experience. I'm willing to bet money on this(and I am...)It's truly sad people are paying to be apart of sharing the retail beta "experience"...WOW!
I don't know of many game dev house's that have succeeded in creating a game that can combine aspects of multiple genre's(racing, rpg, action, 3D 3rd person, sex) into 1 game seamlessly and have it be fun at the same time(see universal combat for reference about that approach failing)So whatevs, there problems are mostly based around their success(s)in that regard and that's what sell games. What's going on with them is a reflection how our society treats things that are successful against the better wishes of those who dictate the status quo.
So basically all the early adopters should have to pay for functionalities they should have had since day 1? Sans the 120Gb...the 65nm CPU has more to do with power consumption and heat dissipation which was killing them(XB360's)than it's performance. The HDMI was a spec they had to scrap due to issues dealing with DRM standards and televisions, but was a feature included all the same in MS's marketing scheme when they started their hype machine that snagged the early adopters that are being punished for being "true believers"(see target consumer)and now for that they get the shaft for paying the premium of being an early adopter...sorry but it just seems wrong to me, at least they could offer a swap for a reasonable price, is it more expensive for a company to swap out the faulty SKU or honor a warranty for a product you KNOW is broken and continually lose money manufacturing? I smell a law$uit...
I wanna see what this tech can do with lightsaber dueling, the problem I see is that saber fights require a certain input that for the most part has to remain static(I'd be pissed if I used an input that returned a different result everytime...)The sweet side I see is that input speed would produce a dynamic physical reaction.
See you in Nar Shadaa.
As long as you know how the RAID config was setup(striping size), most disk recovery programs will do the job just fine. GetDataBack NTFS is functional and simple tool to use as long as you know how the disks were setup. Including RAID5...I've rebuilt 3 RAID5's and a shitload of 0's, 1's, and 01's. You should see the look on some of these people's faces after your done(with all 18+hrs of it...)The problem usually I find is that if you recovered the data then the customer is usually under the impression that you *fixed* the disk and they can keep on using it without replacing it...so yeah, it's not a big deal it's just a question of how much time you want to spend and how much time you have to finish the job.
One of my best friends had a cousin named "Milo", in any case Milo was strange since day 1(literally), I have never seen anyone with so much contempt for the things around him it still gives me chills to this day, this crazy fukka did everything(assault, robbery, burglary, drug dealing, and likely a few murders...seriously)He was not a physically intimidating person as he might have been about 5'8 and weighed a buck-thirty; so ask me how he scared the living shit out of anyone that even looked at him, size notwithstanding, and then literally force them into a fight. If he lost *that* fight, he would come back REPEATEDLY for more drama until he won, and if that didn't work he WILL stab or bludgeon you. What makes people like this truly scary is that they are HIGHLY intelligent, to the point where if extracting an algorithm that interpolates star positions to make the jump to lightspeed in a far off sector with an abacus will advance their evil intent, it would be proofed in minutes and I am not playing...some living things are born inherently evil, I can tell you another story about yet another highly intelligent evil person that killed his girlfriend to serve life in jail with a father he never knew...but I think I made my point. I actually have a sneaking theory that every person will encounter 3 truly evil people in their lives.
It's amazing that their even trying this...from a legal standpoint it's stupid, their shooting themselves in the foot. When the word gets out in the legal world, your gonna have a lot of pissed off civil court judges, even more if their appeal is actually successful.
Thanks guys!
*Claps* I wish I knew how to mod you up...I fully concur and *will continue* to tear apart my gear with the impunity of a jackal stalking a gazelle.
Did you not see "fortune 500-1000"...I don't think that commercial == fortune 500 company...not to mention the fact that in the context of what the Slamdance festival is/means, I'm not under the impression that the festival entrants are fortune-seekers...
So...
As long as you have fortune 500-1000 brand corporate sponsors in these "festivals", how does the content displayed provide "cutting edge", "provocative", and my favorite "innovative" impressions of an artists work? To me it's no different than going to a car show booth and seing "johnson and johnson" or "duncan hines" scrawled all over the dashboard.
I could not agree more, thanks for your insight.
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That case created a very interesting precedent, metaphorically then, the internet is a highway and mediasentry is a radar gun. No disclorure, no case. Also, audit's are in fully accounted for within the letter of the law no matter state(Federal).
Go Florida!
I beleive a year ago maybe less(maybe more)a software engineer was caught speeding, when it was his time to go to court, he argued that the software used in radar guns really didn't have any predictable margin of accuracy(e.g. windy day)and that he requested the code be audited and analyzed; anyway after 10 minutes the judge found him not guilty and let him go on his merry way, speeding cases are still being beaten on this precedent today...unless you get a strange judge that is(think good will hunting)
Anyway my point is that, if mediasentry was the application used for the collection of information being admitted as evidence in a court of law;then shoudln't an analysis of how it actually tracks activity, traffic, etc. programatically be introduced as evidence as well during the discovery phase?
Seriously, without that it's like again, going to court for a speeding ticket and the only evidence against you is that someone said they *saw* you do it, sans radar gun...but unless someone takes a hard look at how they aggregate this *data* and the courts keep on allowing the 'AA's to file civil suits on a wholesale basis...then this means squat.
Thanks Florida!!!!
Welllllll, for starters:
1. The subject of this topic(missing plot) the predicate for any interest in ST, period.(STRIPPED CONTENT)
2. Multiplayer right out of the box, was patched, still does not work.
3. No modding tools.
4. No historical missions/ custom skirmish match(s) w/o modding them in via/ map editor.
5. Not being able to change key-mappings(????)
6. The graphics details that were displayed in the preview stages of the game's PR blitz(s) DO NOT reflect those in the actual retail release of the game.
I can go on, but I think that this pretty much demonstrates fraud, false advertisement at the very least, both of which are punishable by US law.If you bought a car, would you want spend extra time and money on including features in it that were advertised as being included when you made the initial purchase?
In all truthfullness, I feel the worst for Mad Doc, as I truly believe their only intention was to make the best ST experience possible in a hybrid genre, to only have most of their work ripped out due to scheduling restraints and publishers greed.
This is what they call cutting off your nose to spite your face...but I'm laying flamebait so what do I know...
but this has to stop and I don't think it will unless the customers raise their voices in the only way allowed in this country...lawsuit.
Gawd forbid you don't fancy getting bait and switched, that turns you into a troll or flamebait...