Because getting shot at is sort of in the job description of being a soldier, and you cant exactly be an effective soldier if you have a break down every time you fire on an enemy squad?
The issue youre running into is that youre saying "the user needed to do something to prevent his account from being closed." Heres the thing-- when something hits the inbox, you shouldnt (and legally, AFAIK, dont) have to follow any of its instructions, nor do you have any obligations. This user was uninvolved with the issue-- he neither sent the mail, nor did business with that bank (otherwise they would have had the email + his name on file).
The 1300 other folks DO do business with the bank. The way our society works is, when the bank screws up and causes issues for those 1300 users, the 1300 users have to suffer, and in turn stop doing business with that bank. The bank then has a huge incentive to never screw up like that again. If you take away this punishment and incentive from the bank, the bank no longer has to worry about what happens-- the 1300 users never know the difference, only one person with no way of getting at the bank gets harmed, and the bank loses no business.
do you not see the problem with this? By shutting down the account, 1300 people are saved a hassle, but there is now NO reason for banks not to screw up and silently have accounts deactivated-- youve just removed all consequences from the situation.
Is it possible that the high costs are the results of living in a litigious society? And if you have really serious, high cost medical problems, from what I hear its easier to just fly to Thailand or India and get whatever you need done in one of their high end hospitals for cheap (heart surgery by GOOD doctors for like 10k, if I remember correctly). A coworker of mine used to visit Thailand and apparently a day at the doctors can run as much as $17, doing all sorts of tests for parasites.
Ill admit im neither married, nor do I have any serious medical problems, but if prices are too high in the US, and demand is high, and there is a competitor with far lower prices, the solution in a capitalist society is to go to the cheaper competitor.
Windows mobile may be ok for devs, but its terrible for users. Ive only ever heard one person claim winmobile was awesome, and that was only because of the apps. Everyone else seems to agree its slow, bloated, nonintuitive, and a hassle to use. When you need to click 5 buttons to get to the phone function, and it takes ~6 seconds for the machine to get there, its a disaster.
No, not really, just use some common sense and dont leave a 15% tip on a $5 meal if you spent 45 minutes eating at a restaurant. Its not a hard and fast rule, you know, just leave whats fair and use 15-20% as a guideline.
but in reality they often make the most well-designed and engineered products on the market
Youll want to cite that. If youre referring to the cases / chassis, you might have a point, but otherwise there are a large number of competitors. ASUS for example makes some very nice screen-integrated desktops, Blackberries are STILL considered the gold standard of the corporate phone market (and not because of poor engineering either), and Sansa Fuzes are, as i understand it, generally considered superior to iPods (and if those dont float your boat, i hear the COWONs are pretty decent too).
Not that Apple doesnt make some nice laptops with magnetic connectors, but to say that most things they make are "best in category" is probably pushing it too far. "some of the most well-designed..." would have been perhaps more reasonable.
I would say that it is a failure if it doesnt increase the bottom line, yes. Just about everyone considers the seinfeld MS commercials to be gigantic failures. Do people still buy windows despite them? Yes, but the key word is "despite"
Except its NOT the ribbon, and its NOT one extra click. Its using the chrome style of having only 2 menu icons, and simplifying things. Not sure why the devs claimed its a ribbon, but their own explaination of how it works indicates that it is NOT a contextual bar. To quote:
Firefox isn't the type of application that necessarily has contextual actions in the same way Windows Explorer does. So how to handle the functionality of the menubar if it is hidden? Chrome and Safari (and to a lesser extent IE7 & 8) have solved this by sorting, trimming and collecting the menubar functionality into two separate buttons. One of these buttons has items that apply to the webpage and another to the application itself.
Have you actually read the EULAs to googles services, or are you content to merely fearmonger and spread FUD about them? I hear this crap every time chrome, or gmail, or blogspot are mentioned-- that there is a google minion reading all your sordid affairs in some cubicle somewhere.
Possibly some day complaints will be based on legitimate issues with their services, rather than blatantly false attempts to rile up concern.
Postini would probably rank as excellent, i am unaware of anything that even touches it. Ive tried ORF +clamwin, Symantec Mail security, etc, most seem awful. Most mailhosts have abysmal mail filtering. With postini, ive had maybe 2 spam messages get thru and 1 false positive in the last 2-3 years with probably 30-50+ messages a day. I get newsletters that i signed up for, and automated IT alerts, and even shady looking emails from actual clients, but nothing thats actually spam. It also provides a safety net if our Exchange server goes down, at which point it starts spooling messages.
Google Apps provides a poorman's Exchange + BES equivalent running (calendar sync + contact sync + outlook connector) for pennies.
In fact most of what google seems to do is "on par with competitors, for pennies, with 0 maintenance". Kind of hard to argue with that.
Google uses SSL-- theyre as secure as most online banks. If someone got into your account, perhaps you should check your computer for keyloggers and make your password more secure
In world of warcraft the net effect is the same, when a mage runs out of mana in PvP he is generally going to die, so you have to balance health against mana carefully.
They may be a victim, but theyre also an accomplice to further attacks. This isnt like rape where the only victim is the woman. A better analogy would be a rape which ends up in an STD for the woman, who then procedes to go around infecting as many people as she could.
Additionally, the consequence (rape) tends to discourage actions which could result in rape (walking around alone in revealing clothing at night in a bad neighborhood). As of now, there are few real consequences for just not caring whether you get a virus or not. You cannot compare the 2 situations, they are vastly different.
This doesnt take rocket science, or a gross invasion of privacy to implement either, and if such an invasion does occur, it just means that its being done wrong. The ISP has every right to meter the raw traffic going through their pipe, and if they notice a continuous stream of traffic over port 25, 24/7, accompanied by a large number of DNS lookups, theres a good chance there is something wrong.
Youre right, its NOT SonicWall's fault, nor is it necessarily the admins fault. SonicWalls are just firewalls with filtering and VPN capabilities, they can be used for a number of tasks. It may not have been the admin's choice (and probably wasnt) to block all that stuff.
Why on earth would you consider doing an upgrade install for a CEO, especially during business hours? Turn on roaming profiles, order new computer, done.
Modern DVD drives read at ~32MB/s, which is pretty hard to get on your average USB flash drive. Theoretical top end would be ~50MB/s (due to usb overhead), and most flash drives do NOT hit that-- check newegg reviews for some of the faster drives to see what is considered fast.
I dont think it will take much longer from DVD, and will possibly be faster.
Do a google search for "Japan aims to cut off music piracy". Click the result for the ft.com site. Full article loads.
This also works on experts exchange, and any other site that wishes to have its paid content indexed-- if they present you something different than the googlebot sees (through javascript tricks) despite having the same referrer, google will delist them. Its part of their ToS.
If a teacher thinks that Office has to be "taught" (rather than how to use a generic document editor), I would question his expertise to make such a statement.
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Because getting shot at is sort of in the job description of being a soldier, and you cant exactly be an effective soldier if you have a break down every time you fire on an enemy squad?
The issue youre running into is that youre saying "the user needed to do something to prevent his account from being closed." Heres the thing-- when something hits the inbox, you shouldnt (and legally, AFAIK, dont) have to follow any of its instructions, nor do you have any obligations. This user was uninvolved with the issue-- he neither sent the mail, nor did business with that bank (otherwise they would have had the email + his name on file).
The 1300 other folks DO do business with the bank. The way our society works is, when the bank screws up and causes issues for those 1300 users, the 1300 users have to suffer, and in turn stop doing business with that bank. The bank then has a huge incentive to never screw up like that again. If you take away this punishment and incentive from the bank, the bank no longer has to worry about what happens-- the 1300 users never know the difference, only one person with no way of getting at the bank gets harmed, and the bank loses no business.
do you not see the problem with this? By shutting down the account, 1300 people are saved a hassle, but there is now NO reason for banks not to screw up and silently have accounts deactivated-- youve just removed all consequences from the situation.
Gmail is an american company, based in the US. It has a much harder time ignoring a US judge than it would ignoring the korean government.
People need to be responsible for their own actions at some point. Taking a loan you know you can never pay is irresponsible.
Is it possible that the high costs are the results of living in a litigious society? And if you have really serious, high cost medical problems, from what I hear its easier to just fly to Thailand or India and get whatever you need done in one of their high end hospitals for cheap (heart surgery by GOOD doctors for like 10k, if I remember correctly). A coworker of mine used to visit Thailand and apparently a day at the doctors can run as much as $17, doing all sorts of tests for parasites.
Ill admit im neither married, nor do I have any serious medical problems, but if prices are too high in the US, and demand is high, and there is a competitor with far lower prices, the solution in a capitalist society is to go to the cheaper competitor.
Windows mobile may be ok for devs, but its terrible for users. Ive only ever heard one person claim winmobile was awesome, and that was only because of the apps. Everyone else seems to agree its slow, bloated, nonintuitive, and a hassle to use. When you need to click 5 buttons to get to the phone function, and it takes ~6 seconds for the machine to get there, its a disaster.
No, not really, just use some common sense and dont leave a 15% tip on a $5 meal if you spent 45 minutes eating at a restaurant. Its not a hard and fast rule, you know, just leave whats fair and use 15-20% as a guideline.
Its not necessarily a bad thing for the consumer, Amazon does something similar-- have you ever bought mp3s off of their site?
but in reality they often make the most well-designed and engineered products on the market
Youll want to cite that. If youre referring to the cases / chassis, you might have a point, but otherwise there are a large number of competitors. ASUS for example makes some very nice screen-integrated desktops, Blackberries are STILL considered the gold standard of the corporate phone market (and not because of poor engineering either), and Sansa Fuzes are, as i understand it, generally considered superior to iPods (and if those dont float your boat, i hear the COWONs are pretty decent too).
Not that Apple doesnt make some nice laptops with magnetic connectors, but to say that most things they make are "best in category" is probably pushing it too far. "some of the most well-designed..." would have been perhaps more reasonable.
So would that count as archival or volatile memory?
I would say that it is a failure if it doesnt increase the bottom line, yes. Just about everyone considers the seinfeld MS commercials to be gigantic failures. Do people still buy windows despite them? Yes, but the key word is "despite"
8600GT is pretty srs for a work machine tho, it would be nice to have a review from someone without a proper midrange gaming card
Firefox isn't the type of application that necessarily has contextual actions in the same way Windows Explorer does. So how to handle the functionality of the menubar if it is hidden? Chrome and Safari (and to a lesser extent IE7 & 8) have solved this by sorting, trimming and collecting the menubar functionality into two separate buttons. One of these buttons has items that apply to the webpage and another to the application itself.
Wheres that !ribbon tag?
Have you actually read the EULAs to googles services, or are you content to merely fearmonger and spread FUD about them? I hear this crap every time chrome, or gmail, or blogspot are mentioned-- that there is a google minion reading all your sordid affairs in some cubicle somewhere.
Possibly some day complaints will be based on legitimate issues with their services, rather than blatantly false attempts to rile up concern.
Postini would probably rank as excellent, i am unaware of anything that even touches it. Ive tried ORF +clamwin, Symantec Mail security, etc, most seem awful. Most mailhosts have abysmal mail filtering. With postini, ive had maybe 2 spam messages get thru and 1 false positive in the last 2-3 years with probably 30-50+ messages a day. I get newsletters that i signed up for, and automated IT alerts, and even shady looking emails from actual clients, but nothing thats actually spam. It also provides a safety net if our Exchange server goes down, at which point it starts spooling messages.
Google Apps provides a poorman's Exchange + BES equivalent running (calendar sync + contact sync + outlook connector) for pennies.
In fact most of what google seems to do is "on par with competitors, for pennies, with 0 maintenance". Kind of hard to argue with that.
Google uses SSL-- theyre as secure as most online banks. If someone got into your account, perhaps you should check your computer for keyloggers and make your password more secure
What caused the leak? Did someone share docs with someone outside the company? Why do you suppose this is something google can fix?
In world of warcraft the net effect is the same, when a mage runs out of mana in PvP he is generally going to die, so you have to balance health against mana carefully.
They may be a victim, but theyre also an accomplice to further attacks. This isnt like rape where the only victim is the woman. A better analogy would be a rape which ends up in an STD for the woman, who then procedes to go around infecting as many people as she could.
Additionally, the consequence (rape) tends to discourage actions which could result in rape (walking around alone in revealing clothing at night in a bad neighborhood). As of now, there are few real consequences for just not caring whether you get a virus or not. You cannot compare the 2 situations, they are vastly different.
This doesnt take rocket science, or a gross invasion of privacy to implement either, and if such an invasion does occur, it just means that its being done wrong. The ISP has every right to meter the raw traffic going through their pipe, and if they notice a continuous stream of traffic over port 25, 24/7, accompanied by a large number of DNS lookups, theres a good chance there is something wrong.
Youre right, its NOT SonicWall's fault, nor is it necessarily the admins fault. SonicWalls are just firewalls with filtering and VPN capabilities, they can be used for a number of tasks. It may not have been the admin's choice (and probably wasnt) to block all that stuff.
Are you unaware of their export-to-CSV capabilities..?
Why on earth would you consider doing an upgrade install for a CEO, especially during business hours? Turn on roaming profiles, order new computer, done.
Modern DVD drives read at ~32MB/s, which is pretty hard to get on your average USB flash drive. Theoretical top end would be ~50MB/s (due to usb overhead), and most flash drives do NOT hit that-- check newegg reviews for some of the faster drives to see what is considered fast.
I dont think it will take much longer from DVD, and will possibly be faster.
Do a google search for "Japan aims to cut off music piracy". Click the result for the ft.com site. Full article loads.
This also works on experts exchange, and any other site that wishes to have its paid content indexed-- if they present you something different than the googlebot sees (through javascript tricks) despite having the same referrer, google will delist them. Its part of their ToS.
If a teacher thinks that Office has to be "taught" (rather than how to use a generic document editor), I would question his expertise to make such a statement.