The logistics of this is NOT a nightmare. The procedures and tools were evolved/acquired through trial and error. A process the client does NOT want to even chance at repeating.
The expense is astonishing.
The latest OS with all the multimedia geeegaws need not apply. These desktops are owned by an employer. People are supposed to be working. Internet access is restricted and email goes through better software than Outlook.
I stopped buying music years ago. I stopped going to the movies years ago. I stopped listening to the radio years ago and I stopped watching TV years ago.
I have enough already and the new stuff is just manufactured hype-du-jour to fill in time between the commercials.
This is a wonderful example of an economy falling in a death spiral.
The good are cheaper over there so we'l buy from over there and lay off our expensive employees. That works fine for a while but eventually there are no more employees to get rid of and nobody to buy the stuff that we got for cheaper over there.
The employees have all had to take McJobs or, when they can't even find one of those, commit suicide Japanese-style.
While a rising tide lifts all boats, a falling one does exactly the opposite. As some pont the redistribution of wealth starts going the other way and becomes the redistribution of poverty.
I can just see the HMOs trying to talk the politicians into reducing the cost of health care by draging the old, the sick, the feeble or the just too slow to run away, out onto the ice and letting the bears eat them.
Its an ecologically responsible environmental policy and provides food for the wild-life.
odds are that you won't be happy in or with the vehicle. (From listening to the crapy music or to the subliminal messages [telling you to buy a new car,] or to the voices inside your head [telling you to drive into that bridge abutment and take out that crowd waiting at the bus stop.]?)
I'm with you in regards to the RIAA and the sucking chest-wound rattling wheeze we call the music industry. Its just a noise industry. They neither make or promote the creation of any music.
I have about 620 CDs. I've ripped about half of them to iTunes. I also have almost as much vinyl which I am ripping slowly to iTunes. I broadcast them all over the condo over a WAP to my other boxen and listen that way. (I've also hooked up one of my boxen to my stereo.
To people who tell me that if I don't listen to radio I don't know what's the latest, I reply, "The latest what? The latest 'dong' song from the latest 'group du jour'? Scrap that rap crap too! I'll keep listening to Bach, Beethoven and Brams. And these guys are not writing anymore."
I'm sure that this would be about as useful and sell about as many units as Apple's 20th Anniversary Edition Mac. (50k maybe on the outside.)
I suspect that its main purpose is as "discourage the competition" vapour-ware.
It definitely has no place in my comfortable home decor as I use wood and wool.
It looks like something that belongs __inside__ the 'fridge. Kee-rist Gates, hire some designers with experience in the area you're trying to market to. Its not office equipment.
Not to mention its from "The Great Rip-Off King's" outfit and none of that schlock gets into my house.
Actually its __way__ to big. It should be iPod sized. While being way too small. It should have a 50"+ projection area (Can anyone say screenless projection TV?)
The costs of development would be borne once (quite likely whatever software they'd need has already been done by some community or other,) and used as is and/or modified under the GPL, and copied into the pool.
Some existing body, like the GAO, could administer the pool and send CDs to any community, state or federal department that would require the software.
the problem lies not government "per se" but with the management thereof.
The same government that you are railing about is the reason nobody's dying in low speed head-on crashes from getting a steering column rammed through their chest.
The car companies were quoting "market forces" and "nobody will want to pay for collapsible steering columns," and people were pinned to their seats like butterflies to cardboard. Sound familiar? Its the justification of every elite to anything that's going to cut into sl/easy profit.
Management of government by objectives without citizen input into what the objectives are is disastrous.
Remember Clinton's medical plan fiasco that was thrown out, not by elected representatives like the congress, but by HMO lobby groups posing as experts, as being unmanagable.
You didn't get to register so much as a peep for or against or make a suggestion. It was managed right out of your hands.
People are dying because their only sin is being temporarily broke from the last scrape with the health care system.
is not innovation. It is fiddling with ever more obscure tweaking of fundamentally flawed, or at least incomplete, designs.
It addresses the ever growing list of symptom but not the disease.
Searches on sites like http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/ quickly reveals that software design is currently stuck in cycles of ever diminishing incremental improvement and that the learning curve is growing out of proportion to the improvements that a shift in perspective would yield.
Object orientation (and as a long time Smalltalker I have a better view of this than most,) is currently spinning its wheels without achieving any new break-throughs.
Part of the problem is that, as the education system "improves" perspective is getting lost. The off-shore "Johnnie-come-latelies" are extremely well-educated but the very educational system that produces them damages them by blinding them to the real the cause of the problems that they are hired to resolve.
American education is so mediocre and fails so badly at teaching students WHAT to think that some of these students, the ones who knew HOW to think before they ever got "processed" stand a better chance at perceiving the causes of problems and therefore their proper solutions.
That's what caused paradigm shifts, the "thinking out side the box," in almost every field that Americans have excelled in, over and over again, since the end of the first World War to the present time.
Oh woe is me. Apple is heading in the wrong direction.
I just, sort of, inherited about 4 cubic feet of CD and 8 cubic feet of vinyl.
I'm going to be rip-ping CDs for weeks and media shifting the vinyl for months.
This is on top of my own collections which have already been rip-ped.
My 160GB FireWire drive is about to start bulging at the sides. Okay, I exagerate... Backing this beast up will requires DVDs (good thing I got a burner:-)
He stole. Stole fire from the gods don't cha know.
For his reward he got chained to a rock to have a vulture eat his liver out of his chest every day for the rest of eternity.
We don't have to get into discussions of ethicaly and morally chalenged bosses. Its plain to see that the way corporate ethics, meaning the ethics of someone who is not personally involved in the drama that s/he is causing, but is only working for some outfit or other, have ALWAYS worked whistle-blowers get the shaft.
If you're going to blow the whistle, don't get caught. If you're not clever enough, go elwewhere.
You'll have to go anyway. Might as well do it without a cloud over your head that garantees that you'll be living out of a cardboard box under a high-way overpass.
Phillip Morris claims that nobody knows what causes cancer. How nice of them to play Russian Roulette with their customer's lives.
If the spammer's customer's have to pay the USPS or some guv'mint agency a dollar per email they send out, and maybe a day in jail per million spam emails, its cheaper and smarter to use smail mail. And most of them won't anyway.
The best way to get rid of spamers is to squeeze their customers.
It was intentional, deliberate and works the way its supposed to.
This from the same morally bankrupt bunch that brought you the argument: "Guns,don't kill people. People kill people." and "We don't know for a fact that cigarettes cause cancer." and "If we charge for collapsible steering columns, people won't want to pay for 'em."
It has never pretended verisimilitude, veracity or anything else.
It's mindless entertainment.
In this respect its like the ol' Horatio Hornblower pulp. Or the "Roman de Cap et d'Epee (like reading "The Three Musketeers" in the original French) that my dad used to read. I use hooked on the "Doc Savage" pap and the Poul Anderson "Polesotechnic league" books that I knocked off one a night.
Or how about Jimmy Digriz a.k.a. "The Stainless Steel Rat."
If its NOT your style, don't review it.
You bought the whole series without reading one first? I must say that you're an idiot. I definitely don't want to trust any of your reviews.
Specially at M$ where its not enough to M$ to win but YOU have to lose.
The only thing I'm happy about is that even Bill Gates will eventually die, just like the poorest Afghani. There is some comfort in that. Nobody lasts for ever.
But if there is an after-life, I hope he has to use his own products to run a support-site for his own products for the rest of eternity.
I hope that its one that some lawyer's relative is driving (and that its deadly [sory but I wouldn't want anyone to suffer.])
Dragging Gates in for man-slaughter might teach him some humility and the importance of getting software right for a change instead of relying on some shrinkwhar "shirk"ware EULA.
So would a week-end with "Bubbah" screwing with him instead of Bill screwing with us.
Considering that they don't use their own names, their own email accounts, SMTP servers or much of anything else that's tracable (there would be acts of violence if we could get our rightously indignated hands on 'em,) just who is this bozo proposing pay this tax?
He thinks in more dimensions than you've got limbs. You'd be toast in a minute.
Lets hope that Gates doesn't get into his head that this is potentially life extending though. Think about it, when you're old and feeble, your drones can have just come off the assembly line. Then again, running Windows on his implants might be fitting punishment.
Nobody BUYS M$ anything except mice (I like my A4 Tech USB wireless mice better,) and keyboards (I like my Logitech, Linux boxen, and MacAlly, Mac boxen, better,) but nobody BUYS M$ anything.
They're SOLD M$ anything because the vendors don't have any effin' choice. Its bundled with whatever x86 hardware they build because of marketing practices that violated several anti-trust laws.
M$ is the high-tech equivalent of Chiquita Banana. Thet love having theyr way 'http://www.scfl.org/uln5.htm#hightower'. (South American banana pickers are shot, not just shot at, shot, by the army if they try to unionize to get a living wage. http://www.migrationint.com.au/ruralnews/nauru/oct _2002-20rmn.asp )
Gates and his monions are morally bankrupt Nazi offal.
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The logistics of this is NOT a nightmare. The procedures and tools were evolved/acquired through trial and error. A process the client does NOT want to even chance at repeating.
The expense is astonishing.
The latest OS with all the multimedia geeegaws need not apply. These desktops are owned by an employer. People are supposed to be working. Internet access is restricted and email goes through better software than Outlook.
I stopped buying music years ago. I stopped going to the movies years ago. I stopped listening to the radio years ago and I stopped watching TV years ago.
I have enough already and the new stuff is just manufactured hype-du-jour to fill in time between the commercials.
This is a wonderful example of an economy falling in a death spiral.
The good are cheaper over there so we'l buy from over there and lay off our expensive employees. That works fine for a while but eventually there are no more employees to get rid of and nobody to buy the stuff that we got for cheaper over there.
The employees have all had to take McJobs or, when they can't even find one of those, commit suicide Japanese-style.
While a rising tide lifts all boats, a falling one does exactly the opposite. As some pont the redistribution of wealth starts going the other way and becomes the redistribution of poverty.
I can just see the HMOs trying to talk the politicians into reducing the cost of health care by draging the old, the sick, the feeble or the just too slow to run away, out onto the ice and letting the bears eat them.
Its an ecologically responsible environmental policy and provides food for the wild-life.
odds are that you won't be happy in or with the vehicle. (From listening to the crapy music or to the subliminal messages [telling you to buy a new car,] or to the voices inside your head [telling you to drive into that bridge abutment and take out that crowd waiting at the bus stop.]?)
I'm with you in regards to the RIAA and the sucking chest-wound rattling wheeze we call the music industry. Its just a noise industry. They neither make or promote the creation of any music.
I have about 620 CDs. I've ripped about half of them to iTunes. I also have almost as much vinyl which I am ripping slowly to iTunes. I broadcast them all over the condo over a WAP to my other boxen and listen that way. (I've also hooked up one of my boxen to my stereo.
To people who tell me that if I don't listen to radio I don't know what's the latest, I reply, "The latest what? The latest 'dong' song from the latest 'group du jour'? Scrap that rap crap too! I'll keep listening to Bach, Beethoven and Brams. And these guys are not writing anymore."
The Mini-iPod may be pricier than we'd like. But I know the wife will sooooo want one. :-)
But then again Apple is not a mass market company. Deal with it. Mediocrity need not apply.
Now M$ is going to play "catch up" once again while Apple rocks on.
M$ is going to listen to the market place and its thousand voices, most of which are clamoring for "cheaper," while many have no friggin' taste.
If ever the vapour-wear coalesces, it will be less than anybody wants.
I'm sure that this would be about as useful and sell about as many units as Apple's 20th Anniversary Edition Mac. (50k maybe on the outside.)
I suspect that its main purpose is as "discourage the competition" vapour-ware.
It definitely has no place in my comfortable home decor as I use wood and wool.
It looks like something that belongs __inside__ the 'fridge. Kee-rist Gates, hire some designers with experience in the area you're trying to market to. Its not office equipment.
Not to mention its from "The Great Rip-Off King's" outfit and none of that schlock gets into my house.
Actually its __way__ to big. It should be iPod sized. While being way too small. It should have a 50"+ projection area (Can anyone say screenless projection TV?)
The costs of development would be borne once (quite likely whatever software they'd need has already been done by some community or other,) and used as is and/or modified under the GPL, and copied into the pool.
Some existing body, like the GAO, could administer the pool and send CDs to any community, state or federal department that would require the software.
the problem lies not government "per se" but with the management thereof.
The same government that you are railing about is the reason nobody's dying in low speed head-on crashes from getting a steering column rammed through their chest.
The car companies were quoting "market forces" and "nobody will want to pay for collapsible steering columns," and people were pinned to their seats like butterflies to cardboard. Sound familiar? Its the justification of every elite to anything that's going to cut into sl/easy profit.
Management of government by objectives without citizen input into what the objectives are is disastrous.
Remember Clinton's medical plan fiasco that was thrown out, not by elected representatives like the congress, but by HMO lobby groups posing as experts, as being unmanagable.
You didn't get to register so much as a peep for or against or make a suggestion. It was managed right out of your hands.
People are dying because their only sin is being temporarily broke from the last scrape with the health care system.
is not innovation. It is fiddling with ever more obscure tweaking of fundamentally flawed, or at least incomplete, designs.
It addresses the ever growing list of symptom but not the disease.
Searches on sites like http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/ quickly reveals that software design is currently stuck in cycles of ever diminishing incremental improvement and that the learning curve is growing out of proportion to the improvements that a shift in perspective would yield.
Object orientation (and as a long time Smalltalker I have a better view of this than most,) is currently spinning its wheels without achieving any new break-throughs.
Part of the problem is that, as the education system "improves" perspective is getting lost. The off-shore "Johnnie-come-latelies" are extremely well-educated but the very educational system that produces them damages them by blinding them to the real the cause of the problems that they are hired to resolve.
American education is so mediocre and fails so badly at teaching students WHAT to think that some of these students, the ones who knew HOW to think before they ever got "processed" stand a better chance at perceiving the causes of problems and therefore their proper solutions.
That's what caused paradigm shifts, the "thinking out side the box," in almost every field that Americans have excelled in, over and over again, since the end of the first World War to the present time.
Oh woe is me. Apple is heading in the wrong direction.
:-)
I just, sort of, inherited about 4 cubic feet of CD and 8 cubic feet of vinyl.
I'm going to be rip-ping CDs for weeks and media shifting the vinyl for months.
This is on top of my own collections which have already been rip-ped.
My 160GB FireWire drive is about to start bulging at the sides. Okay, I exagerate... Backing this beast up will requires DVDs (good thing I got a burner
Promotheus did something unethical.
He stole. Stole fire from the gods don't cha know.
For his reward he got chained to a rock to have a vulture eat his liver out of his chest every day for the rest of eternity.
We don't have to get into discussions of ethicaly and morally chalenged bosses. Its plain to see that the way corporate ethics, meaning the ethics of someone who is not personally involved in the drama that s/he is causing, but is only working for some outfit or other, have ALWAYS worked whistle-blowers get the shaft.
If you're going to blow the whistle, don't get caught. If you're not clever enough, go elwewhere.
You'll have to go anyway. Might as well do it without a cloud over your head that garantees that you'll be living out of a cardboard box under a high-way overpass.
Phillip Morris claims that nobody knows what causes cancer. How nice of them to play Russian Roulette with their customer's lives.
Then the issue will quickly go away.
If the spammer's customer's have to pay the USPS or some guv'mint agency a dollar per email they send out, and maybe a day in jail per million spam emails, its cheaper and smarter to use smail mail. And most of them won't anyway.
The best way to get rid of spamers is to squeeze their customers.
You stole it from us. Nasty hobbitses.
My pressciousss...
There will be no bug fixes as this is not a bug.
It was intentional, deliberate and works the way its supposed to.
This from the same morally bankrupt bunch that brought you the argument: "Guns,don't kill people. People kill people." and "We don't know for a fact that cigarettes cause cancer." and "If we charge for collapsible steering columns, people won't want to pay for 'em."
Nothing like blaming the victim.
It has never pretended verisimilitude, veracity or anything else.
It's mindless entertainment.
In this respect its like the ol' Horatio Hornblower pulp. Or the "Roman de Cap et d'Epee (like reading "The Three Musketeers" in the original French) that my dad used to read. I use hooked on the "Doc Savage" pap and the Poul Anderson "Polesotechnic league" books that I knocked off one a night.
Or how about Jimmy Digriz a.k.a. "The Stainless Steel Rat."
If its NOT your style, don't review it.
You bought the whole series without reading one first? I must say that you're an idiot. I definitely don't want to trust any of your reviews.
and deep contextual dependency.
Neat trick if they can pull it off. Then Google results would really improve.
Specially at M$ where its not enough to M$ to win but YOU have to lose.
The only thing I'm happy about is that even Bill Gates will eventually die, just like the poorest Afghani. There is some comfort in that. Nobody lasts for ever.
But if there is an after-life, I hope he has to use his own products to run a support-site for his own products for the rest of eternity.
I feel sorry for anybody who's too clueless to download Mozilla and run the installer.
IE and Outlook are the main vectors for all the 'Net nasties. Aren't people getting a litle sick and tired of this crap.
If I was running a business, M$ would be booted out about now for being the rancid piece of crap software that it obviously is.
when a M$ controlled car crashes.
I hope that its one that some lawyer's relative is driving (and that its deadly [sory but I wouldn't want anyone to suffer.])
Dragging Gates in for man-slaughter might teach him some humility and the importance of getting software right for a change instead of relying on some shrinkwhar "shirk"ware EULA.
So would a week-end with "Bubbah" screwing with him instead of Bill screwing with us.
I'm glad I don't drive anymore...
Considering that they don't use their own names, their own email accounts, SMTP servers or much of anything else that's tracable (there would be acts of violence if we could get our rightously indignated hands on 'em,) just who is this bozo proposing pay this tax?
Somebody buy 'm a clue.
SCSI & hardware etceteras, and Unix on/in every box with a likable GUI which is morphing into a more business-like grey and white GUI.
M$ has only led in anti-trust violations. Of yeah lets not forget Bob and Clippy...
Why doesn't Gates give up and just tie himself to one of Jobs's helicopter skids.
He thinks in more dimensions than you've got limbs. You'd be toast in a minute.
Lets hope that Gates doesn't get into his head that this is potentially life extending though. Think about it, when you're old and feeble, your drones can have just come off the assembly line. Then again, running Windows on his implants might be fitting punishment.
Quoting from the Post is like repeating a conversation overheard in a toilet.
Nobody BUYS M$ anything except mice (I like my A4 Tech USB wireless mice better,) and keyboards (I like my Logitech, Linux boxen, and MacAlly, Mac boxen, better,) but nobody BUYS M$ anything.
t _2002-20rmn.asp )
They're SOLD M$ anything because the vendors don't have any effin' choice. Its bundled with whatever x86 hardware they build because of marketing practices that violated several anti-trust laws.
M$ is the high-tech equivalent of Chiquita Banana. Thet love having theyr way 'http://www.scfl.org/uln5.htm#hightower'. (South American banana pickers are shot, not just shot at, shot, by the army if they try to unionize to get a living wage. http://www.migrationint.com.au/ruralnews/nauru/oc
Gates and his monions are morally bankrupt Nazi offal.
Apple is taking care of its customers.