It was here that he first discovered the formula he would use over and over: humans discover science - humans abuse science - humans pay.
He did cop out the ending of that one, but it was an early novel. I like to think of him as mostly a sci-fi writer, because the ideas were more important than the characters.
When will they get it right? I would love to own an E-book and I'd buy lots of E-texts. But first they need to:
- Quit trying to force us into their middle-man monopoly.
- Let it read open formats.
- Get rid of the DRM.
Is it so hard to understand? I want to own the stuff I buy. PERIOD. I don't want a license, and I want to buy it from whomever I choose. Until then I'll keep buying pressed trees.
I work for a Very Large Telecom. Nobody is running Vista. It would be too expensive in hardware, training and support. We can do our jobs just fine with XP on cheaper hardware.
Like most, we are 100% Microsoft on the desktop and there are no alternative we can switch to quickly. Exchange and AD are too entrenched. I have a feeling CTO's at some companies see this risk and are evaluating "other options." The problem is the propriety enterprise packages are tried and true on Windows, and it's too expensive to replace all that infrastructure.
Microsoft might force consumers to buy Vista, but I doubt it'll happen for large companies. It would make a lot of people very angry and force large companies to pressure the Enterprise software vendors to write Mac or Linux clients.
It wouldn't surprise me to see Microsoft force their hand, but it could be their undoing if they did.
Just buy what you like. If it happens to be cheaper then hooray for you. Pricing is just an arbitrary number set by the distributor, right? A higher price has nothing to do with what's in the bottle and your personal tastes.
At any rate I have been to tasting events where we were instructed to vigorously shake wine for about a minute, then compare it with unshaken wine. It really softens the wine and adds "about a year" to the age-taste of most wines. So it's not surprising that other methods would work too.
I still stand by my opinion that age doesn't help all wine. Most wine today isn't designed to be aged. It's designed to be consumed right away. There is a big difference between these wines and the ones that are meant to last.
Were it true. But unfortunately you can't make bad wine into good wine just by aging it. It just becomes older bad wine.
Typically the 'age-worthy' wines are made with the choice fruit, and are designed to age by balancing the acid content with the fruit content. As the fruit mellows over time so do the acids (tannins). It is an art as much as as it is a science.
So call me a wine snob if you want, but I've tasted plenty of aged cheap wine and it's really not very good.
But losing small court battles for six-figure judgments is really nothing for these guys. What they got in exchange was thousands of newspaper articles and blogs talking about people being sued for file sharing. The FUD Factory worked! You can't buy that kind of press. Anything under a million is a bargain.
If anything makes Apple nervous it should be that Android (and now Symbian) are open-source. Eventually somebody will write a version that just does perfect Outlook integration and then we'll see RIM and Apple shit a brick.
RIM also allows businesses to manage their own BES and mail servers. Nobody is going to let Google run their corporate mail anytime soon.
RIM doesn't dominate the biz market quite like Windows does, but they still have it locked up. It's not trying to be a video camera, MP3 player, sex toy, etc. I have a Blackberry and I wouldn't give it up for work purposes for a dozen iPhones. Not til they make 'em "just work."
I am completely unsurprised. When I heard about it I thought, "Oh, some jackball inadvertently copied his personal files via some install script. That's pretty funny."
I personally have the exact same stuff on my thumb drive - my resume and some cracking tools. As we all know, nobody tests their own work. That's why testers have jobs.
So he screwed up - at least he has a good story to tell!
I second the Blackberry idea. I am constantly adding tasks or notes in to my Blackberry, or adding stuff to the calendar. Eventually when I get back to my laptop or desktop my edits are there waiting for me.
Advertise your computer skills. I freelance web-programming along with my day job and host some commercial web sites.
Some things to look out for though.
- Be up front with your full time employer. If you get fired for freelancing, that's not good for your bottom line.
- Be prepared to spend hours away from your normal life for long periods. If I only freelance nights, my usefulness is only about 25 hours per week before I become brain-dead. 45hrs day job + 25hr night job is 70 hours per week. It can take its toll on family, home, etc.
- You're probably better off just fixing up the house yourself than earning money to pay other people to do that work. You need to know how to fix it yourself anyway. Welcome to home ownership.
I keep wondering when Gnome and KDE will ever join forces and do some real damage. But every time I wonder that out loud somebody smacks me down, as though I'm asking the English and German to join forces against tooth decay. I guess it's smack-down time again.
I would say it's more likely that the additional expense didn't cover the income.
It's expensive to add a new OS to the product line, because there's a whole team collecting salary to support the program. They also need to hire support staff to support it, provide a help web site, downloads, print new guides, change their phone help system... etc. And as anybody in I.T. knows, home users are more difficult to service than corporate users.
Maybe if they'd gone with Ubuntu it would have worked, since Dell seems to be chugging along. And Ubuntu seems to be the "big thing" these days.
Personally, I like the Linux machines because you automatically know the drivers work. If you buy a Windows machine you need to research the hardware to make sure drivers exist and actually work before you can install Linux.
Yeah, exactly. Why wait for programmers to come up with solid multi-thread code? $150 now gets you a dual-core CPU and 4gb or RAM. Just hope your browser doesn't crash while you're there....
That is ridiculous. The law does certainly not say that making money is the only thing that matters. Companies private and public have a responsibility to act in an ethical manner. That's what Sarbanes Oxley and ethics officers are for.
Besides that it's poor public relations. It would have been in Red Hat's best interest to disclose details. If they had then maybe their credibility wouldn't be called into question.
I don't necessarily agree. End users have enough browser choices. Firefox and Opera are excellent free options, among others. The truth is, those browsers are not engineered specifically to serve Google's products.
So the real reason for Chrome isn't that it's vital for end users. It's vital for *Google* to sell Google's stuff - Their Office and other Cloud apps.
So Microsoft's browser integrates with their OS, and Google's browser integrates with their apps (and Gears). There isn't a whole lot of difference between the two strategies. If the Web is the new OS, Google cannot afford to be at some OSS projects' mercy.
I'd like to try Vista so I can judge for myself but I don't have the chance. The last 3 work computers I've been issued all have Vista stickers on them, but I.T. has pre-loaded an XP-Pro image onto the machines. And I'm sure not buying Vista for my home machine(s) when there's no need to. I'm beginning to wonder if I'll *ever* use Vista.
Indeed, a company's customer list is the property of - surprise - the company. Using LinkedIn as a loophole to aggregate the contacts doesn't make it right.
Don't be ridiculous. According to regulations, all you need to take out a jet is a cell phone. Just turn it on before you reach altitude and watch the ensuing fireball of firey death!
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He can cure that with a little Mandrake Root and Nightshade.
It was here that he first discovered the formula he would use over and over: humans discover science - humans abuse science - humans pay.
He did cop out the ending of that one, but it was an early novel. I like to think of him as mostly a sci-fi writer, because the ideas were more important than the characters.
Two proprietary platforms have teamed up to bring us the Internet! They would never steer us wrong, would they?
She changed her password to 0ldGuY=Mepr3z!!
When will they get it right? I would love to own an E-book and I'd buy lots of E-texts. But first they need to:
- Quit trying to force us into their middle-man monopoly.
- Let it read open formats.
- Get rid of the DRM.
Is it so hard to understand? I want to own the stuff I buy. PERIOD. I don't want a license, and I want to buy it from whomever I choose. Until then I'll keep buying pressed trees.
I work for a Very Large Telecom. Nobody is running Vista. It would be too expensive in hardware, training and support. We can do our jobs just fine with XP on cheaper hardware.
Like most, we are 100% Microsoft on the desktop and there are no alternative we can switch to quickly. Exchange and AD are too entrenched. I have a feeling CTO's at some companies see this risk and are evaluating "other options." The problem is the propriety enterprise packages are tried and true on Windows, and it's too expensive to replace all that infrastructure.
Microsoft might force consumers to buy Vista, but I doubt it'll happen for large companies. It would make a lot of people very angry and force large companies to pressure the Enterprise software vendors to write Mac or Linux clients.
It wouldn't surprise me to see Microsoft force their hand, but it could be their undoing if they did.
Just buy what you like. If it happens to be cheaper then hooray for you. Pricing is just an arbitrary number set by the distributor, right? A higher price has nothing to do with what's in the bottle and your personal tastes.
At any rate I have been to tasting events where we were instructed to vigorously shake wine for about a minute, then compare it with unshaken wine. It really softens the wine and adds "about a year" to the age-taste of most wines. So it's not surprising that other methods would work too.
I still stand by my opinion that age doesn't help all wine. Most wine today isn't designed to be aged. It's designed to be consumed right away. There is a big difference between these wines and the ones that are meant to last.
Were it true. But unfortunately you can't make bad wine into good wine just by aging it. It just becomes older bad wine.
Typically the 'age-worthy' wines are made with the choice fruit, and are designed to age by balancing the acid content with the fruit content. As the fruit mellows over time so do the acids (tannins). It is an art as much as as it is a science.
So call me a wine snob if you want, but I've tasted plenty of aged cheap wine and it's really not very good.
OK, Hooray for the small guy!
But losing small court battles for six-figure judgments is really nothing for these guys. What they got in exchange was thousands of newspaper articles and blogs talking about people being sued for file sharing. The FUD Factory worked! You can't buy that kind of press. Anything under a million is a bargain.
If anything makes Apple nervous it should be that Android (and now Symbian) are open-source. Eventually somebody will write a version that just does perfect Outlook integration and then we'll see RIM and Apple shit a brick.
RIM also allows businesses to manage their own BES and mail servers. Nobody is going to let Google run their corporate mail anytime soon.
RIM doesn't dominate the biz market quite like Windows does, but they still have it locked up. It's not trying to be a video camera, MP3 player, sex toy, etc. I have a Blackberry and I wouldn't give it up for work purposes for a dozen iPhones. Not til they make 'em "just work."
I am completely unsurprised. When I heard about it I thought, "Oh, some jackball inadvertently copied his personal files via some install script. That's pretty funny."
I personally have the exact same stuff on my thumb drive - my resume and some cracking tools. As we all know, nobody tests their own work. That's why testers have jobs.
So he screwed up - at least he has a good story to tell!
I second the Blackberry idea. I am constantly adding tasks or notes in to my Blackberry, or adding stuff to the calendar. Eventually when I get back to my laptop or desktop my edits are there waiting for me.
Advertise your computer skills. I freelance web-programming along with my day job and host some commercial web sites.
Some things to look out for though.
- Be up front with your full time employer. If you get fired for freelancing, that's not good for your bottom line.
- Be prepared to spend hours away from your normal life for long periods. If I only freelance nights, my usefulness is only about 25 hours per week before I become brain-dead. 45hrs day job + 25hr night job is 70 hours per week. It can take its toll on family, home, etc.
- You're probably better off just fixing up the house yourself than earning money to pay other people to do that work. You need to know how to fix it yourself anyway. Welcome to home ownership.
I keep wondering when Gnome and KDE will ever join forces and do some real damage. But every time I wonder that out loud somebody smacks me down, as though I'm asking the English and German to join forces against tooth decay. I guess it's smack-down time again.
It's expensive to add a new OS to the product line, because there's a whole team collecting salary to support the program. They also need to hire support staff to support it, provide a help web site, downloads, print new guides, change their phone help system... etc. And as anybody in I.T. knows, home users are more difficult to service than corporate users.
Maybe if they'd gone with Ubuntu it would have worked, since Dell seems to be chugging along. And Ubuntu seems to be the "big thing" these days.
Personally, I like the Linux machines because you automatically know the drivers work. If you buy a Windows machine you need to research the hardware to make sure drivers exist and actually work before you can install Linux.
Yeah, exactly. Why wait for programmers to come up with solid multi-thread code? $150 now gets you a dual-core CPU and 4gb or RAM. Just hope your browser doesn't crash while you're there....
That is ridiculous. The law does certainly not say that making money is the only thing that matters. Companies private and public have a responsibility to act in an ethical manner. That's what Sarbanes Oxley and ethics officers are for. Besides that it's poor public relations. It would have been in Red Hat's best interest to disclose details. If they had then maybe their credibility wouldn't be called into question.
I think you meant tea.
I don't necessarily agree. End users have enough browser choices. Firefox and Opera are excellent free options, among others. The truth is, those browsers are not engineered specifically to serve Google's products.
So the real reason for Chrome isn't that it's vital for end users. It's vital for *Google* to sell Google's stuff - Their Office and other Cloud apps.
So Microsoft's browser integrates with their OS, and Google's browser integrates with their apps (and Gears). There isn't a whole lot of difference between the two strategies. If the Web is the new OS, Google cannot afford to be at some OSS projects' mercy.
I'll show you. I'm going to make tiny .png's of each letter and lay them out as images.
I'd like to try Vista so I can judge for myself but I don't have the chance. The last 3 work computers I've been issued all have Vista stickers on them, but I.T. has pre-loaded an XP-Pro image onto the machines. And I'm sure not buying Vista for my home machine(s) when there's no need to. I'm beginning to wonder if I'll *ever* use Vista.
Indeed, a company's customer list is the property of - surprise - the company. Using LinkedIn as a loophole to aggregate the contacts doesn't make it right.
Don't be ridiculous. According to regulations, all you need to take out a jet is a cell phone. Just turn it on before you reach altitude and watch the ensuing fireball of firey death!
To paraphrase one of my favorite Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey, "Whether they find a life there or not, I think Mars should be called an enemy planet."
Either that, or they'll start an irreversible resonance cascade, opening a portal into another universe.