this is the umpteenth plan to kill peoples' liberties for content providers' own profit. until the content providers sit pretty, there will be no end to this.
all 'new age' information, intellectual, social organizations, including internet corporations and users themselves, must take the offensive to kill and dismantle these content cartels. otherwise there will be no end to this in sight, and content providers may eventually kill what has done internet what it is.
noone has the right to profit. it is not a god given right. if, what you provide does not suit people, you cannot force your profit upon them. content providers are violating this basic principle, forcing their own will to the majority, 'the people', and therefore they are public enemies.
Appalling to see how sold out, buyable the justice system is, in america.
but whaddya know - it couldnt end up in any other way, when you put everything to sale for the highest bidder, in a systme like capitalism.
actually it is still much better than what it could - if the 'free marketers' got full swing back in its development, we could have private army, private judiciary, private police by now.
I am putting any company that is letting itself run by lawyers instead of customer-oriented executives into that list. and bethesda just made that list. i am bored lately, and i was toying with the idea of playing an old school rpg franchise i havent played yet. and actually i stood over elder scrolls for some time in gamersgate. now i know which i wont be buying - elder scrolls.
i have no tolerance for lawyery gimmicks and cutthroat capitalism in gaming. anyone who curbs my future potential fun - which unfortunately is quite lacking in our times - is my mortal enemy. and threatening/scaring other companies into anyhing, even if its about names, does that.
And your point about Android is somewhat defeated since the only two Google-sponsored phones in existence are unlockable. I mean, shit, the Nexus S recently had a promotion where it was free with contract.
you failed to notice - his point is mindfuckingly invalid because he sees only america. in almost all other parts of the world, this android-locked in situation is nonexistent. people buy android phones where i live, and do whatever they want with them. this also is so in europe.
whenever we say this you ms people are going berserk. silverlight has been dropped, this that, the talk of net being dropped. they WILL drop net. it doesnt do much for them.
it doesnt matter whether net is cool, useful, you like it, this that - it is not serving microsoft's aims. so just like any profit oriented company would, they will drop any such thing and concentrate on other stuff which may serve their aims.
you should switch to something that is not tied to the whim of a private company as soon as you can.
SSD life is limited with number of write operations. you cant use them like normal disks in the business ebay is using.
but read operations are unlimited. so, if you are going to just read files from a hard disk, ssd makes the perfect candidate. in random reads, they are approx 40 times faster than best hdd at the minimum.
so, you just put 250 ssd disks, put your VM images on it, and, as the article says, it boosts your vm deployment time to other systems from 45 minutes to 5 minutes - there is nothing wrong with the article.
even if you portray yourself as a 'haven for geeks' and recruit some of the people from black hat, eventually you will be asking those recruits to take actions against their own comrades in black hat world. and you will ask them to turn against some principles the underground world has. they will turn against on some of them sometimes. and sometimes, they wont. what is 100% guaranteed is that, there WILL be times they wont turn back - and thats not something you, as a secretive government organization, would want.
yes, its a dodgy, black underworld in which there is little law. but, it has its own principles that noone codified or maintains. and even if you can find one or two henry morgans to betray those, there will be endless number of blackbeards to do them in. not to mention that, even the henry morgans you can get, will occasionally and eventually turn on you. yeah, its not too much different than pirates of the earlier ages. however, there is much more social consciousness present in this era of piracy.
actually i shouldnt even be telling you that. any casual observer would have known these, if s/he had been interested in i.t. in any way since 1985 or so. you should probably already have some such people in your employ, and yet, you are still hiring at black hat. i guess you dont take on advice/recommendations from your employees.... bad for you. good for 'the people'.
there wasnt any nuclear opponents until 1960s. and they were STILL holding back safety precautions by reducing safety standards even then.
moron. wake up to this fact - when there are profits involved, corporations do anything. it is cognitively stupid to expect a corporation to care about your life over their profits. time and time again, this was proven, yet you still talk like a fool.
is it ANY surprise that an official government committee said 'nuclear is less dangerous than you think' ?
despicable. the fact that they think they can still fool people, is appalling. the fact that there could be people who would believe them, is dumbfounding.
these people should be outcast from society. they are public enemies.
yes it makes sense. 'security' is not the word of the day when you are gaming. 'fps' and 'ping' are. so, you got that right. there are people who are trying to gain 5 fps over 110 fps. foolish ? for you maybe. for them, it is their thing.
A lot of people use xp sp2 because sp3 doesnt bring much to the table, despite causing numerous issues with the computer (granted, most of them are fixed) and a lot of programs out there.
in addition, sp2 has a reputation in gaming circles to be the most bloat-free windows version to be used in gaming. and you will find that xp pro sp2 is still highly ranked in downloads in warez sites. (pro has message queueing, which is used to reduce latency in online games by gamers) moreover, there are special modified or slipstreamed xp sp2 versions in such sites - stripped of even more bloat, and reduced to core components needed for gaming.
a lot of people who run windows 7, download these xp sp2 versions just to use them with games apparently, judging from the posts in the discussions under those files.
so, the bastardry in america reached such a level that, something that has been inside of me, or my father, or his grand grandfather, or his grand grand grand father, can be 'patented' and therefore 'owned' by a son of whore in america ?
This is what these have become now. leeches. nothing more. at an age where their middlemanship is not needed, they are not only forcing middlemanship on entire society, but also requesting control of very important lifelines of the society for ensuring their profit.
from this point on, it is insolence. not even self interest. because society, the people, does no retribution to these people in person, and they can buy out laws to defend themselves from law, their insolence has reached such a level.
As a developer i feel the urge to run to develop on java 7, after all the shit oracle pulled over open source and java !!
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i really dont get it. who can be moronic enough to attempt to herd/exploit developers for their own profit, betray them, and then go about trying to cater to them ?
do they think it would be possible to become a developer with all its technical skill requirements, so that we would be as dumb enough as to be fooled by such trickery and scheming ?
Take the word as it is - open as in open, and forever to be open.
That requires whatever that is supposed to be open, not to be owned by any private party. Because, that only means 'open for now'. until the owner decides to close it.
Open means open - not 'open for now'.
So, microsoft, if you own anything, it cannot be open. now go shove your intentional concept obfuscation up your ass. the people who are technically apt enough to be working on these matters, are not as clueless as your customers to be deceived like idiots.
still he was going to talk in defcon as panelist. defcon cant let this slide - if they do, any private party may attempt to sue any panelist out of defcon.
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ok. ill update my mind to ignore anything that is involved with the word 'zenimax' and tell people to do the same.
this is the umpteenth plan to kill peoples' liberties for content providers' own profit. until the content providers sit pretty, there will be no end to this.
all 'new age' information, intellectual, social organizations, including internet corporations and users themselves, must take the offensive to kill and dismantle these content cartels. otherwise there will be no end to this in sight, and content providers may eventually kill what has done internet what it is.
noone has the right to profit. it is not a god given right. if, what you provide does not suit people, you cannot force your profit upon them. content providers are violating this basic principle, forcing their own will to the majority, 'the people', and therefore they are public enemies.
Appalling to see how sold out, buyable the justice system is, in america.
but whaddya know - it couldnt end up in any other way, when you put everything to sale for the highest bidder, in a systme like capitalism.
actually it is still much better than what it could - if the 'free marketers' got full swing back in its development, we could have private army, private judiciary, private police by now.
I am putting any company that is letting itself run by lawyers instead of customer-oriented executives into that list. and bethesda just made that list. i am bored lately, and i was toying with the idea of playing an old school rpg franchise i havent played yet. and actually i stood over elder scrolls for some time in gamersgate. now i know which i wont be buying - elder scrolls.
i have no tolerance for lawyery gimmicks and cutthroat capitalism in gaming. anyone who curbs my future potential fun - which unfortunately is quite lacking in our times - is my mortal enemy. and threatening/scaring other companies into anyhing, even if its about names, does that.
bye bye bethesda. you had quite a few good games.
And your point about Android is somewhat defeated since the only two Google-sponsored phones in existence are unlockable. I mean, shit, the Nexus S recently had a promotion where it was free with contract.
you failed to notice - his point is mindfuckingly invalid because he sees only america. in almost all other parts of the world, this android-locked in situation is nonexistent. people buy android phones where i live, and do whatever they want with them. this also is so in europe.
are any of the competitors prevented from doing ANYthing with android ?
no.
case closed.
noone has to endure higher prices because a bastardly private corporation wants to push its proprietary shit on customers from the price the want.
whenever we say this you ms people are going berserk. silverlight has been dropped, this that, the talk of net being dropped. they WILL drop net. it doesnt do much for them.
it doesnt matter whether net is cool, useful, you like it, this that - it is not serving microsoft's aims. so just like any profit oriented company would, they will drop any such thing and concentrate on other stuff which may serve their aims.
you should switch to something that is not tied to the whim of a private company as soon as you can.
not only random reads.
you have to use ssds for ALL reads, but, hdds for all writes. since ssd life is still limited with number of write operations conducted.
SSD life is limited with number of write operations. you cant use them like normal disks in the business ebay is using.
but read operations are unlimited. so, if you are going to just read files from a hard disk, ssd makes the perfect candidate. in random reads, they are approx 40 times faster than best hdd at the minimum.
so, you just put 250 ssd disks, put your VM images on it, and, as the article says, it boosts your vm deployment time to other systems from 45 minutes to 5 minutes - there is nothing wrong with the article.
even the most touted and expensive 'enterprise ssd' can die out on you unexpectedly.
Anything goes for profit.
even if you portray yourself as a 'haven for geeks' and recruit some of the people from black hat, eventually you will be asking those recruits to take actions against their own comrades in black hat world. and you will ask them to turn against some principles the underground world has. they will turn against on some of them sometimes. and sometimes, they wont. what is 100% guaranteed is that, there WILL be times they wont turn back - and thats not something you, as a secretive government organization, would want.
.... bad for you. good for 'the people'.
yes, its a dodgy, black underworld in which there is little law. but, it has its own principles that noone codified or maintains. and even if you can find one or two henry morgans to betray those, there will be endless number of blackbeards to do them in. not to mention that, even the henry morgans you can get, will occasionally and eventually turn on you. yeah, its not too much different than pirates of the earlier ages. however, there is much more social consciousness present in this era of piracy.
actually i shouldnt even be telling you that. any casual observer would have known these, if s/he had been interested in i.t. in any way since 1985 or so. you should probably already have some such people in your employ, and yet, you are still hiring at black hat. i guess you dont take on advice/recommendations from your employees
there wasnt any nuclear opponents until 1960s. and they were STILL holding back safety precautions by reducing safety standards even then.
moron. wake up to this fact - when there are profits involved, corporations do anything. it is cognitively stupid to expect a corporation to care about your life over their profits. time and time again, this was proven, yet you still talk like a fool.
Their safety records are already excellent, regardless of which metric you are using,
ill tell you which metric they are using - continually decreasing metrics.
did you even read the first link i posted there, fool ?
After this :
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/20/1540233/AP-Investigation-Concludes-US-Nuke-Regulators-Weakening-Safety-Rules
and this :
http://www.myweathertech.com/2011/07/03/leaked-emails-reveal-government-conspiracy-to-downplay-fukushima-nuclear-disaster/
and this :
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/05/19/confirmed-epa-rigged-radnet-japan-nuclear-radiation-monitoring-equipment-report-levels-nuclear-fallout-22823/
is it ANY surprise that an official government committee said 'nuclear is less dangerous than you think' ?
despicable. the fact that they think they can still fool people, is appalling. the fact that there could be people who would believe them, is dumbfounding.
these people should be outcast from society. they are public enemies.
This time anon will probably expose paypal's own records. our credit card info may get out.
paypal fools. that move was stupid. they basically invited wrath upon us users.
yes it makes sense. 'security' is not the word of the day when you are gaming. 'fps' and 'ping' are. so, you got that right. there are people who are trying to gain 5 fps over 110 fps. foolish ? for you maybe. for them, it is their thing.
picketing someone's home or the front entrance of a corporation, or chaining yourself to a machine is a denial of service in itself.
A lot of people use xp sp2 because sp3 doesnt bring much to the table, despite causing numerous issues with the computer (granted, most of them are fixed) and a lot of programs out there.
in addition, sp2 has a reputation in gaming circles to be the most bloat-free windows version to be used in gaming. and you will find that xp pro sp2 is still highly ranked in downloads in warez sites. (pro has message queueing, which is used to reduce latency in online games by gamers) moreover, there are special modified or slipstreamed xp sp2 versions in such sites - stripped of even more bloat, and reduced to core components needed for gaming.
a lot of people who run windows 7, download these xp sp2 versions just to use them with games apparently, judging from the posts in the discussions under those files.
so go figure.
so, the bastardry in america reached such a level that, something that has been inside of me, or my father, or his grand grandfather, or his grand grand grand father, can be 'patented' and therefore 'owned' by a son of whore in america ?
well. get a load of that.
This is what these have become now. leeches. nothing more. at an age where their middlemanship is not needed, they are not only forcing middlemanship on entire society, but also requesting control of very important lifelines of the society for ensuring their profit.
from this point on, it is insolence. not even self interest. because society, the people, does no retribution to these people in person, and they can buy out laws to defend themselves from law, their insolence has reached such a level.
considerations and importance of open technologies comes from the concerns of longevity, modifiable-ness and accessibility of the technology.
so, if a technology may suddenly become closed and inaccessible in future, that means those considerations have no been fulfilled.
therefore, 'open' does not mean open in that context. because context was different from the start :
longevity, modifiable-ness and accessibility
As a developer i feel the urge to run to develop on java 7, after all the shit oracle pulled over open source and java !!
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not
i really dont get it. who can be moronic enough to attempt to herd/exploit developers for their own profit, betray them, and then go about trying to cater to them ?
do they think it would be possible to become a developer with all its technical skill requirements, so that we would be as dumb enough as to be fooled by such trickery and scheming ?
go shove your java 7 up your ass.
Take the word as it is - open as in open, and forever to be open.
That requires whatever that is supposed to be open, not to be owned by any private party. Because, that only means 'open for now'. until the owner decides to close it.
Open means open - not 'open for now'.
So, microsoft, if you own anything, it cannot be open. now go shove your intentional concept obfuscation up your ass. the people who are technically apt enough to be working on these matters, are not as clueless as your customers to be deceived like idiots.
still he was going to talk in defcon as panelist. defcon cant let this slide - if they do, any private party may attempt to sue any panelist out of defcon.