the reason i never bought a wii. i couldnt find them in my area for 7 months, and if i could they were at the low low price of $600. by the time i could, every store had jacked up the price and required pre-registration again.
i dont want to be treated like cattle for something like this. in my opinion nintendo's first venture at this bordered on blackmarket extortion.
if i were the "website" you're scraping i find it hard to believe it would go unnoticed. I'll warn you once or twice about it, then over the next weekend create something nice in my OSS webserver that replaces your scraped content with pro-taliban rhetoric and dancing goatseman.
I'll then forward all of your frantic phonecalls to my FOSS astycrapper.
will include a digital rights management compliant cloud based on a service oriented architecture that will empower my workgroup over the new semantic web 2.0
the question im asking right now is not "why didnt everyone just listen to me when i said it was a problem" but, "does this make me a researcher too??"
are arbitrary and often proprietary notions regarding the engineering of a product. more often they are just poor excuses for design, built to lock consumers into your product at the expense of everyones time, energy, and sanity.
they can also be marketing gimmicks that infiltrated engineering via a useless first-line manager with no more product engineering insight than "it needs to be wireless."
this kind of "engineering" isnt new. microsoft has been engineering things to standards that dont exist for around a decade. the only difference is windows ME didnt come with some shitcock in a turtleneck banging the invincible OS drum and treating me like i was a six year old with nothing better to do with my time than swoon over magnetic power cords..
some metric devised by an international nonprofit which microsoft happens to be a director level member and google does not. disney and enterprise rent-a-car are also members??
means you aren't using google. and we dont want that now do we?
tell the CEO to stuff it. it was probably one of his mid level jerkoffs who decided outsourcing a critical business application to a 3rd party vendor with little accountability and no SLA whatsoever would be 'good for initech'
where open source is used as a bargaining chip in a commercial pissing contest. i guess linux developers alone werent enough to spur adobe to invest, so how if at all is this a win for linux?
i own a Q-Ray bracelet you insensitive clod!
it helps me tune my tinfoil hat to deflect the optimum amount of cosmic mind control rays. plus, it works in tandem using its special magnet powers to amplify the readings taken by my e-meter and channels them into a special beacon to xenu.
other businesses have this same questionable practice. for example, walmart requires special packaging from its suppliers that is not normally afforded to other retailers. broadcomm, microsoft, and nvidia likely have a few cozy agreements that are exclusive and hushed. a possible example here might be the ACPI standard and how it seems to "just work" in windows but struggle in some cases with *nix.
it certainly gives google a cost advantage, and i can imagine why they vehemently deny it in TFA as i glance over the justice department article. although whatever gains google makes up for in cooling, they may just as easily have lost in a more power-hungry architecture overall:
its suspicious that fox news, arguably one of the least reputable news agencies on the planet, has been tapped as the groundbreaking authority on this story?
wondering if this will come with a CERN alert any time soon.
love our television, and for no good reason. im already bombarded by about 8 minutes of commercial breaks during movies and such. product placement has me all but convinced proctor and gamble and ford solve mysteries on CSI. my dvd's and blu ray wont let me skip ads for tv shows and the absolutely insulting "dont steal a car" crap. Even the Tivo has been taught to hurl ads at me mercilessly. can i pay my way out of it? no, that just means a cable or satellite provider get to kill me with service oriented ads and targeted demographic marketing.
until TV programming and the ad model improve drastically in favor of the consumer, its hard to imagine i would actually like to have a 3d TV. the 48" 1080P i bought does nothing but whine about my fat ass, erectile dysfunction, inability to cook without a gadget, and my latest ailment requiring a questionably useful medication.
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the reason i never bought a wii. i couldnt find them in my area for 7 months, and if i could they were at the low low price of $600. by the time i could, every store had jacked up the price and required pre-registration again.
i dont want to be treated like cattle for something like this. in my opinion nintendo's first venture at this bordered on blackmarket extortion.
of DRM raping your freedom to play otherwise fun games without being treated like a common crook.
my interactive web 2.0 was catalysed in time. i just dont know what i would do if the DMCA hadn't made the web safe for scientology.
if i were the "website" you're scraping i find it hard to believe it would go unnoticed.
I'll warn you once or twice about it, then over the next weekend
create something nice in my OSS webserver that replaces your
scraped content with pro-taliban rhetoric and dancing goatseman.
I'll then forward all of your frantic phonecalls to my FOSS astycrapper.
will include a digital rights management compliant
cloud based on a service oriented architecture
that will empower my workgroup over the new semantic web 2.0
insert license fee here.
air force cyber command getting lots of taxpayer money, decides "we need money too." Twitter seen as "grave threat to patrotastic america freedom"
that about sum it up?
corporations compete for business; film at 11.
give it 15 years and the headline will read "bacterial experiment reduces city to embers"
im cancer free!
bad news is the cirrhosis just set in...but i hear magic liver taffy is on the horizon.
the question im asking right now is not "why didnt everyone just listen to me when i said it was a problem" but, "does this make me a researcher too??"
just as useful as the number microsoft gives me for how much TCO is for linux.
give me an independent third party.
are arbitrary and often proprietary notions regarding the engineering of a product. more often they are just poor excuses for design, built to lock consumers into your product at the expense of everyones time, energy, and sanity.
they can also be marketing gimmicks that infiltrated engineering via a useless first-line manager with no more product engineering insight than "it needs to be wireless."
this kind of "engineering" isnt new. microsoft has been engineering things to standards that dont exist for around a decade. the only difference is windows ME didnt come with some shitcock in a turtleneck banging the invincible OS drum and treating me like i was a six year old with nothing better to do with my time than swoon over magnetic power cords..
some metric devised by an international nonprofit which microsoft happens to be a
director level member and google does not.
disney and enterprise rent-a-car are also members??
what ever happened to kilowatt hours?
because offline access
means you aren't using google. and we dont want that now do we?
tell the CEO to stuff it. it was probably one of his mid level jerkoffs who decided outsourcing a critical business application to a 3rd party vendor with little accountability and no SLA whatsoever would be 'good for initech'
I for one have no bad feelings about the outage.
where open source is used as a bargaining chip in a commercial pissing contest. i guess linux developers alone werent enough to spur adobe to invest, so how if at all is this a win for linux?
According to microsoft antitrust evidence, it certainly seems like the conspiracy holds some water ;)
http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/PX03020.pdf
i own a Q-Ray bracelet you insensitive clod! it helps me tune my tinfoil hat to deflect the optimum amount of cosmic mind control rays. plus, it works in tandem using its special magnet powers to amplify the readings taken by my e-meter and channels them into a special beacon to xenu.
other businesses have this same questionable practice. for example, walmart requires special packaging from its suppliers that is not normally afforded to other retailers. broadcomm, microsoft, and nvidia likely have a few cozy agreements that are exclusive and hushed. a possible example here might be the ACPI standard and how it seems to "just work" in windows but struggle in some cases with *nix.
it certainly gives google a cost advantage, and i can imagine why they vehemently deny it in TFA as i glance over the justice department article. although whatever gains google makes up for in cooling, they may just as easily have lost in a more power-hungry architecture overall:
http://people.freebsd.org/~brooks/papers/bsdcon2003/fbsdcluster.pdf has experienced it, and his 2007 update also confirms.
im left wondering what AMD might do for its biggest customers?
oops, downmodded...
sources?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_Channel_controversies
its suspicious that fox news, arguably one of the least reputable news agencies on the planet, has been tapped as the groundbreaking authority on this story?
wondering if this will come with a CERN alert any time soon.
ask novell, microsoft, or cisco...what could possibly go wrong with hiding a poor authentication scheme from a user?
and studying *nix now that their 2009 budgets are gone ;)
didnt we just pass a 700 billion dollar bailout bill? i smell military pork.
love our television, and for no good reason. im already bombarded by about 8 minutes of commercial breaks during movies and such. product placement has me all but convinced proctor and gamble and ford solve mysteries on CSI. my dvd's and blu ray wont let me skip ads for tv shows and the absolutely insulting "dont steal a car" crap. Even the Tivo has been taught to hurl ads at me mercilessly. can i pay my way out of it? no, that just means a cable or satellite provider get to kill me with service oriented ads and targeted demographic marketing.
until TV programming and the ad model improve drastically in favor of the consumer, its hard to imagine i would actually like to have a 3d TV. the 48" 1080P i bought does nothing but whine about my fat ass, erectile dysfunction, inability to cook without a gadget, and my latest ailment requiring a questionably useful medication.
come with a copy of solitare?