"Specifically, which digits are more valuable, so that I keep mine locked up. Is it 13? 42? 3.1415926?"
Good news, citizen! Your benevolent and loving overseers have decided to let you have, free of charge, the digits 2-9 to do with as you please, reserving only the 0 and 1 for their own use. Theft of 0 or 1 will result in mandatory re-education.
Suck it up, pussy. Unless there's a contract stating otherwise, MS doesn't have to promote shit. And if there is, why are you whining about it in public instead of in a courtroom? Maybe you should have done your homework before spending 10K pounds on a port.
That's a good idea. I mean, your laptop will obviously weigh more if someone copies spyware onto it, because of the extra bits on the disk. And if they copy your secret data, your laptop will weigh less. Because of the stolen bits. That last one only makes sense because copying is theft, am I right?
This is a good point. When I saw the HB email today, I didn't focus on the publisher so much as the games themselves. SR3 just plain sucks. Red Faction: Armageddon wasn't terrible until I got to the end and realized just how linear it was, and how boring the storyline was compared to the last RF game. I don't even remember the other generic titles they were offering.
Get someone to help you put up a cabinet from scratch, including mounting a server or three on rails, adding a KVM shelf, whatever. Run cabling overhead and under the floor (power to whips, fiber/copper to switches). Take notes about what's hard for you to get done due to a lack of the proper tool. Go buy those tools. Consider how you would troubleshoot and repair bad cables or other equipment. Go get those tools.
Since you're a manager and you're asking this question, I'm going to assume you've never done any of this before. Make sure your helper has, and ask for additional ideas.
"People produce content, and want to offer it for free"
I've been producing content and offering it for free since 1994, without ads. If the fucking marketing douchebags who ramped up this arms race with deceptive tactics had only stuck with unobtrusive text and small static banner ads, they'd still be making money hand-over-fist and we wouldn't be having this conversation. But they didn't, and here we are.
They can all burn as far as I'm concerned. Let the conglomerates go to paywall and see how well that works if they don't fucking like it.
Not that I give a shit about flying rats^W^Wpigeons, but if these activists want to be taken seriously they need to use actual drones. The explody kind.
Games don't keep me from linux on the desktop. The fact that linux sucks on the desktop does. And my servers are headless--not sure why I would want to play games on them in the first place.
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I think I can help. "DBOX" is industry shorthand for "DoucheBox," which is technology marketed at pretentious assholes.
"Specifically, which digits are more valuable, so that I keep mine locked up. Is it 13? 42? 3.1415926?"
Good news, citizen! Your benevolent and loving overseers have decided to let you have, free of charge, the digits 2-9 to do with as you please, reserving only the 0 and 1 for their own use. Theft of 0 or 1 will result in mandatory re-education.
"Anyway, I wonder how FCC deals with that"
TFA addresses this pretty clearly. You should have read it.
You say someone gave you a free product, and then you found out that YOU were the real product? Shocking!
Who do you trust more to give you the facts about this issue?
1. The vast majority of scientists who have devoted their professional lives to the study of the earth's climate;
2. Politicians.
Suck it up, pussy. Unless there's a contract stating otherwise, MS doesn't have to promote shit. And if there is, why are you whining about it in public instead of in a courtroom? Maybe you should have done your homework before spending 10K pounds on a port.
Oops, I'm at work between 11pm and 3am. On the other hand, I'm not in Europe and I don't play on Nintendo consoles, so it balances out nicely.
That's right, GOP, fire the only republican people across the political spectrum can stand.
"If these companies are not involved, I would really like to know who might be?"
Acme. Specifically the Giant Slingshot division, though there were rumors of rocket-propelled rollerskate technology coming soon.
Derp.
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/us-government-recommends-weighing-laptop-and-after-visit-china
That's a good idea. I mean, your laptop will obviously weigh more if someone copies spyware onto it, because of the extra bits on the disk. And if they copy your secret data, your laptop will weigh less. Because of the stolen bits. That last one only makes sense because copying is theft, am I right?
"Update: Yes, it's a hoax"
No fucking shit it's a hoax. Can Slashdot get some editors who are capable of thinking things through for a change?
This is a good point. When I saw the HB email today, I didn't focus on the publisher so much as the games themselves. SR3 just plain sucks. Red Faction: Armageddon wasn't terrible until I got to the end and realized just how linear it was, and how boring the storyline was compared to the last RF game. I don't even remember the other generic titles they were offering.
Get someone to help you put up a cabinet from scratch, including mounting a server or three on rails, adding a KVM shelf, whatever. Run cabling overhead and under the floor (power to whips, fiber/copper to switches). Take notes about what's hard for you to get done due to a lack of the proper tool. Go buy those tools. Consider how you would troubleshoot and repair bad cables or other equipment. Go get those tools.
Since you're a manager and you're asking this question, I'm going to assume you've never done any of this before. Make sure your helper has, and ask for additional ideas.
Because we can totally trust the United States government to designate who and who is not a terrorist.
"People produce content, and want to offer it for free"
I've been producing content and offering it for free since 1994, without ads. If the fucking marketing douchebags who ramped up this arms race with deceptive tactics had only stuck with unobtrusive text and small static banner ads, they'd still be making money hand-over-fist and we wouldn't be having this conversation. But they didn't, and here we are.
They can all burn as far as I'm concerned. Let the conglomerates go to paywall and see how well that works if they don't fucking like it.
Successful troll is successful.
TFA needs an editor even more than Slashdot does.
Not that I give a shit about flying rats^W^Wpigeons, but if these activists want to be taken seriously they need to use actual drones. The explody kind.
Games don't keep me from linux on the desktop. The fact that linux sucks on the desktop does. And my servers are headless--not sure why I would want to play games on them in the first place.
"Sad that most of Slashdot is against it"
Yeah, that didn't happen. And whoever modded you insightful apparently has the same reading comprehension disability you do.
"What? You'd do something about it?"
He probably wouldn't go kill your kids, but that's just conjecture.
Fuck Israel. And fuck Hamas.
Not so much of that since RTD left.
"Whatever happened to educating children instead of grading (classifying) them?"
George W. Bush.
(And Obama + last few congresses for not attempting to repeal the shit.)
What the fuck is a "quarem"?