More like the manufacturer calls you in for a _recall_ to make your car safer. When you get it back, your dealership informs you that they lost your title and registration. Now your car acts like a diesel, with a 5 second wait to start before your ignition will even turn. While driving an annoying idiot light comes on reminding you that you're driving without a registration. The dealership also informs you that you will be ineligible for future recalls, because you can't prove that you bought your vehicle.
My point here is that if Microsoft wants to take a heavy handed business model that alienates customers and degrades their computing experiences it's their choice and their option. It is the consumer's option to continue doing business with them or find a more friendly alternative. Before you start talking about corporate customers, please keep in mind that Microsoft would sooner give up the Intel platform before they alienated customers with 1000+ seat site licenses.
Are cars that need keys to work defective by design? What about anti-theft systems that disable the starter? If Microsoft wants to implement their business model in such a way that alienates their customers as well as the technicians that work with their product, it's their business to do so. If this new business model pushes enough people away, other OS's will get more marketshare. That's right, OS X is gaining marketshare.
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I'm very pro-linux, haven't had Windows on my personal systems for 5 years. My aversion to Windows was never about the cost of software. For me Linux has always been about functionality and access to compilers/office software/network clients/network tools/scripting languages out of the box.[/offtopic]
Actually, what they REALLY need to do is make it easy for app developers to integrate what they've already created for FB/FBML into their platform. This along with adding a feed, a streamlined interface and an application button would do it.
I could really see this taking off, and they do it well enough to actually provide a consistent UI from anywhere. If social networking proves anything, the average social networking user cares little for their privacy.
It even seems they've added the one critical feature that I'd really want, a public/private option. I don't care if they use automated systems to find better products that I would actually be interested in.
Compare Google and Internet marketing to Broadcast advertising. I stopped watching TV because there were so many commercials about products that I didn't care to buy (many that I wouldn't accept for FREE). The parts of it that were interesting got shrunk to short breaks between advertisements.
Good thing so few of us actually RTFA, let alone the feature list, but:
This abitious release had its share of issues but did also show the great potential our products have, resulting in a large number of new contributors.
Should be ambitious, someone please let the KDE website folks, I can't because I'm at work.
I would have to argue that this is how organizations, in general, work. The problem with any of our nice counter-elitist illusions that unfortunately much of the masses seem to prefer ignorance.
I'm sure that this is as much a possibility as reporting a bogus security flaw to a software company. It wouldn't take long for a proper chemist to determine that what they were testing wasn't the real thing. On the up side, it could mean more science jobs and thus more of a push for better geeky ed in public schools.
I remember the Karzai's government trying to do just what you're suggesting here, and the Bush Administration refuting it. Most of our current legal opium supply comes from Turkey, which houses several US Military bases. Ultimately, purchasing opium for use in purposely restricted legal markets would flood those markets, driving down prices and alienating our allies.
That said, I would be willing to bet that purchasing opium from farmers and storing it would be cheaper than prosecuting the war against the Taliban as well as the expensive war on drugs.
With all the books that Frank Herbert wrote about Dune, combined with all those written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson, there should be enough material to last for quite a while.
As a bonus, all the summarization that would normally happen at the continuation of a series is already built into the Brian Herbert/Kevin J Anderson stuff. Hated it in the books, because I read them straight through. I would appreciate the mid-series summaries if spaced out by a week, though.
While I haven't cleaned keyboards in the dishwasher, I used to support a university in which students were always spilling things in laptops. With most laptops, I would remove the keyboard and spray it down with window cleaner. After all of the visible junk was off the keyboard, I'd soak it overnight in about 1 inch of water. The next morning, I'd shake the water out of the keyboard and set it on top of a CRT monitor, as a gentle heat source. I would leave the keyboard on the monitor for at least 24 hours, and verify that it was dry before re-installing it into the laptop. This worked for me over 50 times, with coffee, orange juice, Snapple, beer and mixed drinks. The key step, if you spill something in a keyboard, is to remove power from it immediately. You can remove power from a Desktop keyboard by just pulling the PS/2 plug from the back of the computer. To remove the power from a laptop, unplug it and remove the battery. Although it is tempting to jump the gun on trying the keyboard before it dries, this is a sure fire way to destroy it.
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More like the manufacturer calls you in for a _recall_ to make your car safer. When you get it back, your dealership informs you that they lost your title and registration. Now your car acts like a diesel, with a 5 second wait to start before your ignition will even turn. While driving an annoying idiot light comes on reminding you that you're driving without a registration. The dealership also informs you that you will be ineligible for future recalls, because you can't prove that you bought your vehicle.
My point here is that if Microsoft wants to take a heavy handed business model that alienates customers and degrades their computing experiences it's their choice and their option. It is the consumer's option to continue doing business with them or find a more friendly alternative. Before you start talking about corporate customers, please keep in mind that Microsoft would sooner give up the Intel platform before they alienated customers with 1000+ seat site licenses.
Are cars that need keys to work defective by design? What about anti-theft systems that disable the starter? If Microsoft wants to implement their business model in such a way that alienates their customers as well as the technicians that work with their product, it's their business to do so. If this new business model pushes enough people away, other OS's will get more marketshare. That's right, OS X is gaining marketshare.
[offtopic] I'm very pro-linux, haven't had Windows on my personal systems for 5 years. My aversion to Windows was never about the cost of software. For me Linux has always been about functionality and access to compilers/office software/network clients/network tools/scripting languages out of the box.[/offtopic]
I think they messed up an acronym: Australians Now Obligated to Nuke Your Malignant Oligarchy of Undeserved Sactions
Actually, what they REALLY need to do is make it easy for app developers to integrate what they've already created for FB/FBML into their platform. This along with adding a feed, a streamlined interface and an application button would do it. I could really see this taking off, and they do it well enough to actually provide a consistent UI from anywhere. If social networking proves anything, the average social networking user cares little for their privacy. It even seems they've added the one critical feature that I'd really want, a public/private option. I don't care if they use automated systems to find better products that I would actually be interested in. Compare Google and Internet marketing to Broadcast advertising. I stopped watching TV because there were so many commercials about products that I didn't care to buy (many that I wouldn't accept for FREE). The parts of it that were interesting got shrunk to short breaks between advertisements.
welcome our new zombie overlords.
Should be ambitious, someone please let the KDE website folks know, I can't because I'm at work.
This abitious release had its share of issues but did also show the great potential our products have, resulting in a large number of new contributors.
Should be ambitious, someone please let the KDE website folks, I can't because I'm at work.
I would have to argue that this is how organizations, in general, work. The problem with any of our nice counter-elitist illusions that unfortunately much of the masses seem to prefer ignorance.
There you go. My favorite is to completely _forget_ Valentine's day, and randomly get her flowers throughout the year.
I'm sure that this is as much a possibility as reporting a bogus security flaw to a software company. It wouldn't take long for a proper chemist to determine that what they were testing wasn't the real thing. On the up side, it could mean more science jobs and thus more of a push for better geeky ed in public schools.
I remember the Karzai's government trying to do just what you're suggesting here, and the Bush Administration refuting it. Most of our current legal opium supply comes from Turkey, which houses several US Military bases. Ultimately, purchasing opium for use in purposely restricted legal markets would flood those markets, driving down prices and alienating our allies. That said, I would be willing to bet that purchasing opium from farmers and storing it would be cheaper than prosecuting the war against the Taliban as well as the expensive war on drugs.
With all the books that Frank Herbert wrote about Dune, combined with all those written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson, there should be enough material to last for quite a while. As a bonus, all the summarization that would normally happen at the continuation of a series is already built into the Brian Herbert/Kevin J Anderson stuff. Hated it in the books, because I read them straight through. I would appreciate the mid-series summaries if spaced out by a week, though.
Artifacts at low bitrates, you must be kidding!
While I haven't cleaned keyboards in the dishwasher, I used to support a university in which students were always spilling things in laptops. With most laptops, I would remove the keyboard and spray it down with window cleaner. After all of the visible junk was off the keyboard, I'd soak it overnight in about 1 inch of water. The next morning, I'd shake the water out of the keyboard and set it on top of a CRT monitor, as a gentle heat source. I would leave the keyboard on the monitor for at least 24 hours, and verify that it was dry before re-installing it into the laptop. This worked for me over 50 times, with coffee, orange juice, Snapple, beer and mixed drinks. The key step, if you spill something in a keyboard, is to remove power from it immediately. You can remove power from a Desktop keyboard by just pulling the PS/2 plug from the back of the computer. To remove the power from a laptop, unplug it and remove the battery. Although it is tempting to jump the gun on trying the keyboard before it dries, this is a sure fire way to destroy it.