How long will it be before that poor little bastard who always used to get stuffed into his own locker will be sitting in class with nine or ten of these things strapped from his ankles to his knees, and the threat of severe bodily harm hanging over his head if he complains.
Microsoft and Open Source are antithetical. Nobody with an ounce of common sense can have anything to do with them and not understand that there are going to be strings attached.
Tune out what they say. Focus on what they are and what they do. Structure your involvement with them accordingly. End of story.
Goddamned bastards have everything I send to my girlfriend from Google labeled as spam. The IT guy at her firm is a douche bag, but in this case it looks like he might be right.
The fact that because of outside pressure EA has changed their mind about constantly invading users' computers means nothing. You can count on a company that has this mindset to do whatever it thinks it can get away with to maximize its profits. Considerations like common decency or respect for the customer just aren't part of its world view.
I'm not advocating a boycott or anything, but I would strongly suggest that a common sense approach to any dealings you have with EA is to treat them as you would a poisonous insect: flashy and attractive, but if you're going to play with it, keep a good grip on the tweezers.
I've got more than 20 novels and a ton of "must-read" science and current affairs articles on my Palm Tungsten E2. Although it's far from an ideal reading experience, it fits in a shirt pocket and it's always with me. This allows me to fit reading into my train/subway commute, those inevitable "lost minutes" that add up so fast (line-ups, late appointments, etc.) and more.
I've adjusted to the limited number of words per screen and need to "turn the page" frequently. The convenience more than makes up for having to lug books and reports everywhere I go, and I can even use a freeware program to generate the occasional audio story.
I was always one of those people who never went anywhere without a book, even when it meant I had to carry a jacket or bag or briefcase to hold it. Those days are gone. As I said, the E2 isn't perfect. But I would never again want to be without it as an alternative to the more usual reading method.
This "many moons" phenomenon was occasionally seen at my university quite some time in the past. The moons appeared as pale, bifurcated disks in the darkness around the president's residence, often after the end of final exams.
...but if there's a supreme being out there somewhere, I'll agree to start praying to it or sacrificing cans of tuna on its altar or whatever the hell it wants (within reason, of course) if only, please, please, please, there's jail sentences for the bastards at the end of this affair.
It's getting more and more difficult to be "out of touch", and I'm pretty sure I don't like it. Once upon a time, you could avoid somebody for a while without being flat-out rude to them.
Now we can't even use expense as a reason not to be at everybody's beck and call. I guess I'll just have to amend my message to say something like, "Dave only collects voice mail once a day, and it looks like you already missed today's check-in. Sorry."
More to my taste would be something like, "Fuck off, I'm busy", but for some reason it's frowned upon in a business environment.
Yahoo has places to go and ways to grow. They might tank, but that depends on how smart they are.
Microsoft, on the other hand, has Vista hanging around its neck like the proverbial albatross, and Windows 7 is looking a lot like some glorified version of shareware that I'm going to start calling "Rentware" whenever anybody asks me to describe it.
Yes, Microsoft owns the world right now. But they've pissed a lot more people off world-wide than Yahoo has with its "Send A Dissident To Camp" policy (ratting out Chinese patriots to the corrupt pack of mass murderers currently infesting Beijing). And don't forget Microsoft has kissed its share of fascist ass, too.
Yahoo was right to tell Microsoft to put serious coin on the table or fold.
Wow! You're so right, and so completely ethical! How can I help but be inspired by your rectitude? Lucky for us that huge corporations don't pull that kind of shit, or we'd be losing BILLIONS of dollars, not just a million or two here and there.
Kind of reminds me of the way my personality slowly integrates itself into some kind of recognizable shape after one of those Friday nights. Specifically, one where the poker game's just breaking up and some ass says, "Hang on a minute...I've got two cases of beer in my trunk we haven't even touched!"
Some of the skills learned at an IT help desk are extremely worthwhile, and very portable. For example, the ability to speak in an accent so incomprehensible that after only a minute or two, the person at the other end will utter a soundless cry of inchoate fury and slam down the phone. This invaluable skill can get a telemarketer off the line when even an air horn fails.
If your training includes that particular accent so thick that even a fellow East Asian shakes his head and says, "Huh?", you can pretty much write your own ticket. At the very least, you are virtually guaranteed of a very well-paid position taking calls for the IRS.
1.a person who discusses news, sports events, weather, or the like, as on television or radio.
2. a person who makes commentaries.
[Origin: 1350-1400 Middle English. interpreter, equiv. to comment to interpret (Latin: to think about, prepare, discuss, write, perh. freq. of commin; to devise; see comment) + L -tor -tor]
Very nicely put. I find it touching how much faith computer-oriented people tend to have in their machines and software. The plain fact of the matter is that most security breaches and failures of confidentiality occur as the result of good, old-fashioned sneakiness and duplicity, coupled with misplaced trust and human error.
And thus you fall into the trap of assuming that because a noted expert's objective and factually defensible opinion favours one side of an issue, he must therefore have a "side" and be excluded in the interest of "balance". It is precisely this kind of muddled and uncritical thought that leads to gross errors in law and policy.
Should child molesters be given a place in the debate about whether more stringent laws against kiddie porn are a good idea? How far should we go in a specious attempt to defend the indefensible?
There's only one fuel for producing ethanol that simply doesn't make sense and probably won't make sense for decades to come: corn. So what does the US choose as its main ethanol source? Yeah, you guessed it.
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How long will it be before that poor little bastard who always used to get stuffed into his own locker will be sitting in class with nine or ten of these things strapped from his ankles to his knees, and the threat of severe bodily harm hanging over his head if he complains.
Microsoft and Open Source are antithetical. Nobody with an ounce of common sense can have anything to do with them and not understand that there are going to be strings attached.
Tune out what they say. Focus on what they are and what they do. Structure your involvement with them accordingly. End of story.
No, we checked all the obvious stuff. And her company isn't one of those that tries to stop employees from receiving personal e-mail, either.
Goddamned bastards have everything I send to my girlfriend from Google labeled as spam. The IT guy at her firm is a douche bag, but in this case it looks like he might be right.
Google needs to clean up its act.
The fact that because of outside pressure EA has changed their mind about constantly invading users' computers means nothing. You can count on a company that has this mindset to do whatever it thinks it can get away with to maximize its profits. Considerations like common decency or respect for the customer just aren't part of its world view.
I'm not advocating a boycott or anything, but I would strongly suggest that a common sense approach to any dealings you have with EA is to treat them as you would a poisonous insect: flashy and attractive, but if you're going to play with it, keep a good grip on the tweezers.
It's the first Service Pack since Vista was released, isn't it?
I've got more than 20 novels and a ton of "must-read" science and current affairs articles on my Palm Tungsten E2. Although it's far from an ideal reading experience, it fits in a shirt pocket and it's always with me. This allows me to fit reading into my train/subway commute, those inevitable "lost minutes" that add up so fast (line-ups, late appointments, etc.) and more.
I've adjusted to the limited number of words per screen and need to "turn the page" frequently. The convenience more than makes up for having to lug books and reports everywhere I go, and I can even use a freeware program to generate the occasional audio story.
I was always one of those people who never went anywhere without a book, even when it meant I had to carry a jacket or bag or briefcase to hold it. Those days are gone. As I said, the E2 isn't perfect. But I would never again want to be without it as an alternative to the more usual reading method.
Thanks for my morning laugh. Started the day off just right.
"The Modular Common Spacecraft Bus is designed to accept payloads of up to 50kg.
I've taken dumps bigger than that.
This "many moons" phenomenon was occasionally seen at my university quite some time in the past. The moons appeared as pale, bifurcated disks in the darkness around the president's residence, often after the end of final exams.
...but if there's a supreme being out there somewhere, I'll agree to start praying to it or sacrificing cans of tuna on its altar or whatever the hell it wants (within reason, of course) if only, please, please, please, there's jail sentences for the bastards at the end of this affair.
Sign a place on your cell contract that either permits or denies permission to use your records in the event you go missing. Seems easy enough.
In Soviet Russia, TV watches you!
No doubt she disowned the humorless fucker years ago.
The gigantic garden spider that lives under my deck would be SO pissed off at these things.
It's getting more and more difficult to be "out of touch", and I'm pretty sure I don't like it. Once upon a time, you could avoid somebody for a while without being flat-out rude to them.
Now we can't even use expense as a reason not to be at everybody's beck and call. I guess I'll just have to amend my message to say something like, "Dave only collects voice mail once a day, and it looks like you already missed today's check-in. Sorry."
More to my taste would be something like, "Fuck off, I'm busy", but for some reason it's frowned upon in a business environment.
Yahoo has places to go and ways to grow. They might tank, but that depends on how smart they are.
Microsoft, on the other hand, has Vista hanging around its neck like the proverbial albatross, and Windows 7 is looking a lot like some glorified version of shareware that I'm going to start calling "Rentware" whenever anybody asks me to describe it.
Yes, Microsoft owns the world right now. But they've pissed a lot more people off world-wide than Yahoo has with its "Send A Dissident To Camp" policy (ratting out Chinese patriots to the corrupt pack of mass murderers currently infesting Beijing). And don't forget Microsoft has kissed its share of fascist ass, too.
Yahoo was right to tell Microsoft to put serious coin on the table or fold.
Never mind courts and jail and all that crap. Can't we just beat the son-of-a-bitch to death with our G1ANT PEEN1SES?
Wow! You're so right, and so completely ethical! How can I help but be inspired by your rectitude? Lucky for us that huge corporations don't pull that kind of shit, or we'd be losing BILLIONS of dollars, not just a million or two here and there.
Oh, wait...
Kind of reminds me of the way my personality slowly integrates itself into some kind of recognizable shape after one of those Friday nights. Specifically, one where the poker game's just breaking up and some ass says, "Hang on a minute...I've got two cases of beer in my trunk we haven't even touched!"
Some of the skills learned at an IT help desk are extremely worthwhile, and very portable. For example, the ability to speak in an accent so incomprehensible that after only a minute or two, the person at the other end will utter a soundless cry of inchoate fury and slam down the phone. This invaluable skill can get a telemarketer off the line when even an air horn fails.
If your training includes that particular accent so thick that even a fellow East Asian shakes his head and says, "Huh?", you can pretty much write your own ticket. At the very least, you are virtually guaranteed of a very well-paid position taking calls for the IRS.
commentator /kmntetr/ [kom-uhn-tey-ter]
-noun
1.a person who discusses news, sports events, weather, or the like, as on television or radio.
2. a person who makes commentaries.
[Origin: 1350-1400 Middle English. interpreter, equiv. to comment to interpret (Latin: to think about, prepare, discuss, write, perh. freq. of commin; to devise; see comment) + L -tor -tor]
--Related forms
commentatorial [kuh-men-tuh-tawr-ee-uhl, -tohr-], adjective
commentatorially, adverb
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.
Very nicely put. I find it touching how much faith computer-oriented people tend to have in their machines and software. The plain fact of the matter is that most security breaches and failures of confidentiality occur as the result of good, old-fashioned sneakiness and duplicity, coupled with misplaced trust and human error.
And thus you fall into the trap of assuming that because a noted expert's objective and factually defensible opinion favours one side of an issue, he must therefore have a "side" and be excluded in the interest of "balance". It is precisely this kind of muddled and uncritical thought that leads to gross errors in law and policy.
Should child molesters be given a place in the debate about whether more stringent laws against kiddie porn are a good idea? How far should we go in a specious attempt to defend the indefensible?
There's only one fuel for producing ethanol that simply doesn't make sense and probably won't make sense for decades to come: corn. So what does the US choose as its main ethanol source? Yeah, you guessed it.