Several reasons. First, it's easier to change what gets stamped into a cd than what gets set into the silicon. Second, the cd key isn't actually unique to the CD, it just conforms to an algorithm that determines whether or not the cd key fits the criteria for the software and then, when on the network, checks to make sure that the cd key was actually sold and that it's unique.
I hate it when people go off topic. I was playing Team Fortress the other day, and people just kept using the voice chat to talk about this stupid 14 year old's dinner that night. I was all, "What the hell?" But that's okay, because then my wife got home and we started watching DS9.
This is a good thing for all of IT. I learned Microsoft as a kid through DOS, Windows in all its forms, and their servers. Proficiency in computers translates to all systems. OSS is a heavy hitter in the server market, so anyone going into a serious career with IT is going to have to learn to deal with it.
In other words, this will help grow the Microsoft user base, but only for people who will get functional with computers and won't excel. For those who want to excel, they'll learn alternatives as naturally as a normal person tries a new food at their favorite restaurant.
Out of curiosity, what's the problem with just ignoring an email that isn't appropriate to you? In the setting that the submitter describes, there's a business with hundreds of people. If most of those people don't need the email, then something needs to be changed to where it's easy for someone to just submit it to those who need to know. However, if the majority of those people do need to know and you don't, just ignore it.
Along those same lines, I think gmail's filtering of the repeated text is awesome too, but I can't use gmail for my business email needs. Know what I do with the quoted text? Ignore it. Does all the text need to be quoted? Of course not. If you're in an email environment that doesn't thread the messages, it's a lifesaver to be able to grab the context by just looking underneath the reply.
In reality there's a better way for this to happen, but asynchronous communication between a lot of people is very hard. IRC (which my company uses) is so easy that people get off topic very quickly. We say things in IRC that we would never say in an email. IM can include a lot of people, but once you get enough people onto a chat it's the same as IRC.
So, the solution isn't that easy. Sometimes, you don't have the time to type out a full reply, and it's not warranted. If people are replying to everyone with something that they don't need to know, or just plain typing off topic things, then get after them for that. But if the communication is pertinent and the submitter is really just complaining about the format and a few people getting caught in the shotgun blast that weren't meant to be there, then it's a personal problem that he should deal with in private.
You get what you pay for. In my experience, that's exactly opposite what most executives think about IT.
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He's not, and here's why. In building and designing a bridge, you're not going to have your boss walk in halfway through the construction and tell you that you need to use this new concrete that only comes from LargeHard(c). You're not going to build the bridge so that you can take it from a two lane bicycle bridge to a 12 lane, double decker toll bridge with a minimum of work. You're never going to have someone walk over the bridge and promptly say, "sorry, this river is actually 50 feet wider, and I don't like the color, can you change that?" Feature creep is the biggest killer of productivity and security.
Another reason is that you have too many people building a bridge for the majority to be badly built. You have the engineers, the construction company, the foremen and the works are looking at the bridge. Are all these people going to be qualified to catch an error? No, but enough of them will be qualified enough to catch an error that it's unlikely to be a problem. On the other hand, we have software, where there are lines of code that have never been seen by anyone but the original programmer.
It's not a bug, it's a feature! We had electric hand dryers in a bathroom at my junior high that were improperly grounded such that you'd get a small current flow if you touched both of them at the same time. We had guys that would do that for four or five minutes at a time because they enjoyed it and because people thought it was cool.
The moral of the story? Make the kids think it's cool and fun to get shocked by their laptops and the sales of these things will skyrocket.
Yeah. Can you think of no reason that you would need feet that move independently of your leg? I imagine stairs are a little harder to handle, rock climbing or climbing a tree would be harder, and it would be harder to appear sexy to those with a foot fetish;)
They would risk jailtime to put the one person into power that can pardon them of all wrongdoing with a stroke of a pen? Right, because if they went to jail for being bribed, the person who bribed them wouldn't suffer the same consequences. If only there were 4 months between the election and the swearing in of the president, where things like this could be investigated.
The electoral college is a joke, and still doesn't represent voters evenly across statelines The electoral college is doing exactly what it was intended to do when it doesn't represent voters evenly across state lines. The needs of people in large cities are vastly different from the needs of people in rural areas. In order to have them both represented somewhat equally, the writers of the constitution artificially boosted the importance of less populous areas.
What's most appalling about electoral college is how it's all-or-nothing in every state. Switching to a proportional system would alleviate a lot of the problems with elections and the two party system.
That's retarded sir. You'd have to be within a vote or two to actually pull it off, since states can make their representatives sign a contract stating that they'll vote the way the state wants them to vote. If a significant number of electoral college members were to break lines and vote against their state, there'd be massive investigations. You'd also (as mentioned by a sibling) have to get on the ballot in the first place and come close enough that you wouldn't be bribing too many people.
So, if you're willing to risk a few years in jail, the complete destruction of the party that got you close enough to be able to bid your way out of it, and public scorn for decades, you're right, it is conceivably cheaper.
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Or they could buy all the rights to goatse and rename themselves black hole sun.
Whatever happened, I think it's dumb to condemn Microsoft over this. With how many tickets they've dealt with since Windows and DOS came out, having this happen once isn't a bad record.
That being said, you should add: 4. Their system for tracking tickets would have to not have changed in the past 10 years.
It's been my experience that 90% of the hosed computers in this world have had something installed that shouldn't have been. This is just the sort of malware that typically plagues windows computers.
It's been my experience that 90% of the PCs that require cleaning got in that state because the owner's installed something they shouldn't have. In a way, this program is attempting to create an environment where one would be needed.
With claims such as "Sun indirectly controlling ODF" (as opposed to Microsoft directly controlling it) and "OpenOffice is more expensive" (free? wtf?), it doesn't sound like Ars Technica had too difficult of a job.
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Lot's of people ha've problem's with 'apostrophes, you insensitive clod!
Several reasons. First, it's easier to change what gets stamped into a cd than what gets set into the silicon. Second, the cd key isn't actually unique to the CD, it just conforms to an algorithm that determines whether or not the cd key fits the criteria for the software and then, when on the network, checks to make sure that the cd key was actually sold and that it's unique.
I hate it when people go off topic. I was playing Team Fortress the other day, and people just kept using the voice chat to talk about this stupid 14 year old's dinner that night. I was all, "What the hell?" But that's okay, because then my wife got home and we started watching DS9.
This is a good thing for all of IT. I learned Microsoft as a kid through DOS, Windows in all its forms, and their servers. Proficiency in computers translates to all systems. OSS is a heavy hitter in the server market, so anyone going into a serious career with IT is going to have to learn to deal with it.
In other words, this will help grow the Microsoft user base, but only for people who will get functional with computers and won't excel. For those who want to excel, they'll learn alternatives as naturally as a normal person tries a new food at their favorite restaurant.
Out of curiosity, what's the problem with just ignoring an email that isn't appropriate to you? In the setting that the submitter describes, there's a business with hundreds of people. If most of those people don't need the email, then something needs to be changed to where it's easy for someone to just submit it to those who need to know. However, if the majority of those people do need to know and you don't, just ignore it.
Along those same lines, I think gmail's filtering of the repeated text is awesome too, but I can't use gmail for my business email needs. Know what I do with the quoted text? Ignore it. Does all the text need to be quoted? Of course not. If you're in an email environment that doesn't thread the messages, it's a lifesaver to be able to grab the context by just looking underneath the reply.
In reality there's a better way for this to happen, but asynchronous communication between a lot of people is very hard. IRC (which my company uses) is so easy that people get off topic very quickly. We say things in IRC that we would never say in an email. IM can include a lot of people, but once you get enough people onto a chat it's the same as IRC.
So, the solution isn't that easy. Sometimes, you don't have the time to type out a full reply, and it's not warranted. If people are replying to everyone with something that they don't need to know, or just plain typing off topic things, then get after them for that. But if the communication is pertinent and the submitter is really just complaining about the format and a few people getting caught in the shotgun blast that weren't meant to be there, then it's a personal problem that he should deal with in private.
This also sounds a lot like Photoshop's guidelines that they've had for several years. There's got to be more to this patent than this.
He's not, and here's why. In building and designing a bridge, you're not going to have your boss walk in halfway through the construction and tell you that you need to use this new concrete that only comes from LargeHard(c). You're not going to build the bridge so that you can take it from a two lane bicycle bridge to a 12 lane, double decker toll bridge with a minimum of work. You're never going to have someone walk over the bridge and promptly say, "sorry, this river is actually 50 feet wider, and I don't like the color, can you change that?" Feature creep is the biggest killer of productivity and security.
Another reason is that you have too many people building a bridge for the majority to be badly built. You have the engineers, the construction company, the foremen and the works are looking at the bridge. Are all these people going to be qualified to catch an error? No, but enough of them will be qualified enough to catch an error that it's unlikely to be a problem. On the other hand, we have software, where there are lines of code that have never been seen by anyone but the original programmer.
What's missing from the article is the usual valuation of a closed source company. Anyone know the answer to that?
The moral of the story? Make the kids think it's cool and fun to get shocked by their laptops and the sales of these things will skyrocket.
Where's the competition if they're going to artificially adjust his legs to make the playing field level?
Yeah. Can you think of no reason that you would need feet that move independently of your leg? I imagine stairs are a little harder to handle, rock climbing or climbing a tree would be harder, and it would be harder to appear sexy to those with a foot fetish ;)
I can tell you without an once of hesitation that if I could trade my legs for $20 million, I'd do it in an instant.
You just called Americans smarter than Europeans and got marked +5 Insightful. Are you God?
If protests and letter writing aren't an attempt to silence him, what is?
What's most appalling about electoral college is how it's all-or-nothing in every state. Switching to a proportional system would alleviate a lot of the problems with elections and the two party system.
That's retarded sir. You'd have to be within a vote or two to actually pull it off, since states can make their representatives sign a contract stating that they'll vote the way the state wants them to vote. If a significant number of electoral college members were to break lines and vote against their state, there'd be massive investigations. You'd also (as mentioned by a sibling) have to get on the ballot in the first place and come close enough that you wouldn't be bribing too many people.
So, if you're willing to risk a few years in jail, the complete destruction of the party that got you close enough to be able to bid your way out of it, and public scorn for decades, you're right, it is conceivably cheaper.
Or they could buy all the rights to goatse and rename themselves black hole sun.
Whatever happened, I think it's dumb to condemn Microsoft over this. With how many tickets they've dealt with since Windows and DOS came out, having this happen once isn't a bad record.
That being said, you should add: 4. Their system for tracking tickets would have to not have changed in the past 10 years.
It's been my experience that 90% of the hosed computers in this world have had something installed that shouldn't have been. This is just the sort of malware that typically plagues windows computers.
It's been my experience that 90% of the PCs that require cleaning got in that state because the owner's installed something they shouldn't have. In a way, this program is attempting to create an environment where one would be needed.
Would you prefer "Proclaiming", or "acting all snobbish while saying", or "falsely believing"?
With claims such as "Sun indirectly controlling ODF" (as opposed to Microsoft directly controlling it) and "OpenOffice is more expensive" (free? wtf?), it doesn't sound like Ars Technica had too difficult of a job.
Yeah, kind of like how Christ was born so close to the changeover from BC to AD.
Didn't you see? It's from the same-thing-over-and-over dept.