Its quite likely that most of the 70 000 batteries will not ever be submitted for recall.
I have two anecdotes, the first one was with this exact laptop line (dv20xx). A co worker brought her laptop in for servicing with a video issue. Looked like the video card was going bad or the connection between the screen and the video card was bad. I forget the exact details, but i remember there being sporadic video loss/ corruption. I started researching the problem and one of the first google hits described the problem exactly, and informed me about the recall. They had to replace the whole mainboard. I believe it was bad solder joints on the GPU, but of course HP will never say exactly what the problem was. The point of this story was that she was ready to buy a new PC, and surely would have, if i had not found a solution that was covered under recall.
The second anecdote involves my friends 2002 (or 2004) honda civic. He was having this noise from the engine compartment, but only when the car was cold. The noise would fade after a while but it was quite loud. I told him to take it to a trusted mechanic that I use for complicated or hard to diagnose problems. The mechanic came back and told him that the exhaust manifold was cracked. As they were quite knowledgeable, they were able to determine that this repair was a manufacturer defect and actually had been issued as a recall item. What that meant was that instead of paying 1000$, he could take the car to the dealer for free and get them to replace it out of warranty, which he promptly did.
The moral of this story is that people always assume that issues they have with a product are unique to them. Unless they are knowledgeable, they also don't realize that the manufacturer sometimes may be obliged to fix a problem long after the warranty has expired. This is why it is not a net loss to HP, and why they will never fix their problems. Most likely, people have already tossed the poor quality batteries and bought aftermarket replacements. The only thing this does, is teach people working in the field (us slashdotters) that HP is a brand to be avoided as they seem to enjoy selling out of spec or plain old defective parts.
"AxBxC=X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one." Corporations will do anything that they can get away with. Profits today, let someone else deal with the fallout tomorrow.
"Picard on the other hand was always right and the rules were everything."
Oh please. Picard was no more self-righteous than the head of a company, or a president, listening to his advisors and coming up with a well balanced decision. Kirk on the otherhand was a dictator who frequently disregarded other crew members wishes, as well as the wishes of other species. Perhaps kirk goes over better with americans who tend to think that the individual should be the hero, but its hardly a character flaw to take input from others and meditate on your decisions.
"Lesser racial mix with it being very clear that all the TNG crew was from north america or europe. "
Its the 24th century. The world has harmonized on among other things, the english language. They were the fedderation! not the fraking maquis... they were made up of the most educated and colonial of humanity. You didnt, for instance, have a drunk scottish engineer. Other than that, i dont know what you consider africa being like in the 24th century, but i would damn well expect that it had its share of educated colonial quasi military personnelle. Actually, you could think of it like the military. Soldiers, by and large, are the same no matter what country they are from. The same is true of people who decide to join the starfleet. Besides, lesser racial mix is just because in the future they don't see race, so there was no need to include an overwhelming amount of minorities. Also, you have overlooked a klingon, a blind guy and a robot, all of which are probably, especially in the future, minorities. I recall them saying that they can cure blindness, but geordie was a special case or something.
TNG was professional, while tos was "amateur cowboys in space"
As the summary says, this is a "feature" from windows 98 onward. What the fuck does it have to do with windows 7? That they havent removed this stupid "feature" yet? Big surprise?
I have a 720p projector and 110" or so screen. I also know a theatre manager who has a 720p projector and a 40 ft screen. It looks as grand as the cinema.
1080p is WAY over hyped imho. I personally cannot tell the difference, no matter how big the screen is.
But the main point, 720p IS an HD resolution. There is no false advertising in saying that 720p is HD.
"Have you *lost* your bandwidth" Yes. My isp meters my bandwidth, so now i have less bandwidth to use every month. My company pays per GB, in a sense, and spam has a definite cost.
"or mail server resources?" Yes. On a large mail server, you could easily have the majority of connections be spam. So you have to plan that in when upgrading, designing your mail server. You must design for x% wasted bandwidth.
"Resource sharing is the future; the ultimate goal of cloud computing." Cloud computing is about locking in your data to proprietary corporations. It is the opposite of what the internet should be.
"Instead of trying to stamp out spam, people need to change their reading models. It's not our job to support obsolete reading models, and it's arrogant to expect us to." Oh, now i see what you are trying to do here. you are being a dick. And you are reaching. Spam is not about them using your resources, as much as they are using your resources to spit in your face. In fact, people HAVE changed their reading models. I would almost argue that the growth of GMAIL itself has more to do with spam filtering than anything else. My personal mailserver requires spamassassin and the thunderbird client, as well as hand edited rules, to combat the torrent of spam i recieve. So yes, most people have changed their reading models. Probably even for the better.
Before spam, I would guess that very few people filtered their mail, or even had the capacity to do so. In some weird way, i guess that makes spam as positive as a virus which forces you to create an immunity to it.
I was talking to a co worker from south america (peru), a year or so ago, and he was asking me if I had this so called "world phone" which would work anywhere in the world (at least the americas) for free! I told him there was no way there was a free cel phone network that extended the length of both continents, but he persisted that his relatives will bring their phones up here and use them - for free - to call back to peru.
Perhaps this is what he was talking about! If so, this has gone on for years and is VERY widespread in south america. Hopefully some native peruvians could shed some light on the issue and what phones exactly you would need to take advantage of the network. I believe he was calling them "nortels", like the phone company.
"why would artists and developers continue producing original works if they're receiving no reward for it?"
Yeah, crazy! Take for instance software. Who the hell would develop code for free?!? no. Its far better to put people into a hellish working environment to get good code. There could never be anything like a FORGE of SOURCE code that anyone could contribute to and take from could there?
Thats just straight communism!!!11 If its not helping me get a bigger boat, then fuck you son!
The way it was explained to me was that if the fire department does have to hack and slash their way through the data centre, they do not want to run the risk of axing through a bank of batteries thus killing the firemen.
The only reason it would be easy to kill the power to a data centre is because everyone in there is not running their own ups's. At a previous employment, we had a full rack of batteries in one of our private data centres. This provided power for something like 8 hours or so. So simply waiting for the batteries to drain before you send the firemen in is not always plausible.
"Has it ever occurred to you that some nerds really don't mind so much paying for music, software and games that they want to use and enjoy?"
Really? I personally torrent TV to strip out the ads which are toxic. Kind of like paying for lead laced water in the shop, using their own proprietary bottles, or going down to a near by stream and collecting pure water on your own. I really don't care who has already been paid and by whom. The content has been commissioned and generated by someone, its not up to me to fund them. If they are unhappy with people torrenting their movies, they are free not to produce them. There is certainly no LACK of content, especially on the internet. People often produce full length TV shows, movies etc for free or very low budgets. Why would they do that? because they want to be heard, to tell a story, to communicate with others.
It use to be that stories, which is all that music movies and games really are, were about the content. Telling a story is about the communication of ideas. Now the internet comes along and tears down all these artifical barriers to communication that have been set up over the last few hundred years. All content producers will have to adapt or die - this is reality. Some adapt by locking things down, and some by opening them up.
I would personally argue that opening up communication channels results in better content, be it software movies or what have you. I realize that you are a for profit software developer, but you need to think of the future a bit more, and your current bottom line a bit less.
The next big revolution will come when someone creates a nano assembler, or nano forge. Good bye resource scarcity! That is if we set the legal and cultural precedents now. Otherwise, when you can build anything from sand, you won't be allowed to because of artificial controls. The current paradigm, projected 30 or so years into the future, sees a chosen few profit, while the others starve in the streets because they don't have the money for rice 'patterns' or 'source code'. These technologies that humans develop, such as bittorrent, will always be challenged by the old guard who want to remain firmly in control. Mass media is a very good control, just look at radio in the USA.
You are worrying over a bit of short term profit, instead of worrying about the rights of humankind 50 or 100 years down the road. Stallman says alot of crap, but people have already lost far too many rights in the service of protecting corporate profit and greed. Artists, real artists, will always produce. The same as real tool makers. It is a wonderful thing seeing an idea in your head come to life in the real world. That is a quality of humans that will not dissipate.
"Bonus points for a direct link to an open video format (i.e. not flash), but I'm not picky."
So you don't want to use this video codec because its made by microsoft? I fail to see how it is any different than flash, infact I thought it was flash! Especially when you then go and say a flash file is fine, thus destroying your 'holier than thou' proprietary video codec argument. I think you need to look up the meaning of the phrase "i'm not picky".
So your going to force anyone who wants to check their facebook on your computer for 5 minutes to resign on as another user? Please. This is simply not feasible. especially if you have music going or things that you are working on, other browser windows open etc..
oldbar works just great, but the point is these sorts of "features" should have buttons to disable them. Not third party plugins, not work arounds, buttons. Buttons that anyone can find without googling it! So that we are not held at the mercy of developer whims. Why the fuck should i be typing _anything_ into the address bar that is not a URL? Its an address bar, not some AOL keyword POS.
Pirated software, especially in smaller companies is no big deal. If your not in the USA, you don't have to worry about shit like the BSA. People here are quite over reacting. If people had "pirated" mp3s, would you report them to the RIAA (or country specific equivilant)?
"But having Two drives failing before you have time to replace the first failure is fairly unlikely."
It does happen though. Maybe an alert doesnt go off. It only takes a few weeks of negligence to see this kind of failure. Do you manually audit all your raid controllers? weekly?
Sure you can monitor them with software, but ive had software lie to me many times. Also, its likely that they would fail at the same time: on bootup. Especially if it is a server that is never rebooted. Raid is not backup, and does fail. Frequently.
That is the stores problem, doing things like loss leaders. Not the customer. Even less, the responsible knowledgeable customer. WHy would you want a system where other people got ripped off so that you could profit? You dont work in the banking industry do you?
Last time i checked, america still has victims of crime. Not sure what both parties carrying guns would accomplish, except to make one or more parties into a fatality.
Guns just give one a feeling of security and safety. Youre still just as likely to get shot if someone pulls a gun on you, whether you have one or not. What are you going to do, out draw them? Please.
Don't get me wrong, I would love to have a gun with me at all times for a feeling of security. But the few times when I have been mugged, me having any sort of weapon would have very quickly become the criminal having that weapon, along with my wallet and phone. Should you have the right to kill someone because they want your wallet? (I say yes, but most civilized societies disagree). Its a logical fact however that the more people that are armed, the more people are going to get shot. Handguns only have one purpose, and that is to solve problems. The effects of that solution though are often not considered until it is too late. Alot of people just dont give a fuck, and their egos bruise easily.
I really dont think arming more stupid humans is the right way to go.
"Then how do we prevent people from bringing in USB printers from home and connecting them locally"
Id say if someone has to bring in their own printer, your company has bigger IT problems...
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Me.
Don't recognize me? Im that guy you cut off while talking on your cel phone in the safeway parking lot last week. I was kinda pissed, and being recently unemployed have lots of time on my hands, so i followed you home. What a nice house you have at 1234 lane. Good thing you have that address online so i could look up your resume. After keying your car at work (so you wouldn't have any idea who did it) I drove home and started doing more research. I see you have a nice 16 year old daughter as well, who similarly to you, keeps her facebook wide open. Looks like shes going to meet a new "freind" he he he...
The above scenario, while not real, could be. Even if you think you have nothing to hide, there will always be people that feel "wronged" by you. All it takes is someone with the proper motivations, and you have then given them the keys to the castle. Ive used peoples facebook profiles against them in court and won. The difference in your scenarios is meeting someone informally at a conference does not index the information you provide forever on the internet. Information that is searchable by anyone who can infiltrate their way into your social network. This is why we use nicknames on the internet. Everyone who was on the internet in 1995 has this "common" knowledge. People today do not.
If I used my real name online, I would simply not post some of my opinions for fear of future consequences. To me that is unacceptable. Personal anonymous expression is important for the sanity of society. Take that away and you just have everyone patting eachother on the back and saying nice things, lest they be sued for liable, offend someone, or worse.
"You are your name. That's your brand. Sell it! Make it famous!"
Fame. its not necessarily all its cracked up to be. Many people would rather live their lives under the radar. Many people do not let their jobs define them, or use other peoples worthless praise (or scorn) as a measure of their own self worth.
"the whole point of the corporation is to exist to provide some social order and some revenue so that it can fund the private ambitions of its leaders."
What a laugh. I havent met a CEO yet who didn't think he was improving / changing the world. CEOs are some of the most deluded people you could support/work with (followed closely by dentists). Of course they think they are a maverick leader who will bring change to the world, and hey, if their pockets get lined on the way, so much the better! The private ambitions of a corporations leaders is to make money for themselves. When they get more money than they can spend, and plenty of revenue streams and projects to fund their future (otherwise known as "security") then of course they start doing crazy things to blow the companies/their money.
Still does not mean they are being altruistic, they just have more money than they know really what to do with.
Id much rather have the profits from all these large corporations redistributed equally to all the workers. I think the masses are much more altruistic as a whole than individual ceos, or even their combined board.
Bottom line, they give more because they have more. They fund crazy things because they have more "crazy" disposable income than anyone else. Of course it is good to be a CEO, for the CEO...
I had the same with exchange 2007. Calendaring stopped working so I reinstalled rollup 5 and everything went back to normal.
As for your comment, one day when you move into the "real world" you will realize that you dont always have the resources to test every single patch that comes down the line. Id much rather have a microsoft patch fubar the machine than have a haxxor pwning it because i was busy testing a patch. At least when i have to explain to management why the email was down for 30 minutes, I can blame microsoft instead of saying that we got exploited (which would then become MY fault).
Not everyone can afford to have redundant everything. Especially machines that are only used for testing, and therefor not in a production environment, where it is easier to find bugs. Sure, if your exchange server services 2000+ users, or generates tens of thousands of dollars a day then maybe you can afford another machine to test on. Most people in the Real World do not have those luxuries.
How did Zhen He travel the world in leviathan sized ships and even left traces in California then?
Um, citation needed. What traces did he leave in california exactly? Wikipedia has the following:
Amateur historian Gavin Menzies claims in his book 1421: The Year China Discovered the World that several parts of Zheng's fleet explored virtually the entire globe, discovering West Africa, North and South America, Greenland, Iceland, the Falklands, Antarctica, and Australia, passing the Arctic Ocean in the process. His thesis has been discounted "as nonsense"[16] by professional historians.[17][18][19][20]
Its kind of stupid to adopt this position. Its really hard to completely not use flash at all. If you are a student, the online coursewares all use flash. If you are a researcher, or you deal with any kind of multi media, flash is a part of your life. Its kind of like complaining about animated gifs in 1997. Luckily wonderful tools like flashblock exsist, so I can still let the wife and kids watch youtube without having to be deluged with ads.
Yes flash is used where it shouldn't be roughly 70% of the time. Still, it has some nice features, and compared to the rest of the video streaming options (wmv, rm) it is relatively easy to implement and deal with, both as a developer and an end user.
Flash is just not something worth ignoring a large part of the web to protest about. In your example, I would pick the mechanic based on his actual skill, not whether his website (coded by the cheapest laybour possible no doubt) was coded in flash. Thats kind of retarded and just serves to make your life miserable unnecessarily. Its generally not the autobody shops fault that they are using flash on their website. It was just coded to look "good".
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Its quite likely that most of the 70 000 batteries will not ever be submitted for recall.
I have two anecdotes, the first one was with this exact laptop line (dv20xx). A co worker brought her laptop in for servicing with a video issue. Looked like the video card was going bad or the connection between the screen and the video card was bad. I forget the exact details, but i remember there being sporadic video loss/ corruption. I started researching the problem and one of the first google hits described the problem exactly, and informed me about the recall. They had to replace the whole mainboard. I believe it was bad solder joints on the GPU, but of course HP will never say exactly what the problem was.
The point of this story was that she was ready to buy a new PC, and surely would have, if i had not found a solution that was covered under recall.
The second anecdote involves my friends 2002 (or 2004) honda civic. He was having this noise from the engine compartment, but only when the car was cold. The noise would fade after a while but it was quite loud. I told him to take it to a trusted mechanic that I use for complicated or hard to diagnose problems. The mechanic came back and told him that the exhaust manifold was cracked. As they were quite knowledgeable, they were able to determine that this repair was a manufacturer defect and actually had been issued as a recall item. What that meant was that instead of paying 1000$, he could take the car to the dealer for free and get them to replace it out of warranty, which he promptly did.
The moral of this story is that people always assume that issues they have with a product are unique to them. Unless they are knowledgeable, they also don't realize that the manufacturer sometimes may be obliged to fix a problem long after the warranty has expired. This is why it is not a net loss to HP, and why they will never fix their problems. Most likely, people have already tossed the poor quality batteries and bought aftermarket replacements. The only thing this does, is teach people working in the field (us slashdotters) that HP is a brand to be avoided as they seem to enjoy selling out of spec or plain old defective parts.
"AxBxC=X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one."
Corporations will do anything that they can get away with. Profits today, let someone else deal with the fallout tomorrow.
Oh please. Picard was no more self-righteous than the head of a company, or a president, listening to his advisors and coming up with a well balanced decision. Kirk on the otherhand was a dictator who frequently disregarded other crew members wishes, as well as the wishes of other species. Perhaps kirk goes over better with americans who tend to think that the individual should be the hero, but its hardly a character flaw to take input from others and meditate on your decisions.
Its the 24th century. The world has harmonized on among other things, the english language. They were the fedderation! not the fraking maquis... they were made up of the most educated and colonial of humanity. You didnt, for instance, have a drunk scottish engineer. Other than that, i dont know what you consider africa being like in the 24th century, but i would damn well expect that it had its share of educated colonial quasi military personnelle. Actually, you could think of it like the military. Soldiers, by and large, are the same no matter what country they are from. The same is true of people who decide to join the starfleet.
Besides, lesser racial mix is just because in the future they don't see race, so there was no need to include an overwhelming amount of minorities. Also, you have overlooked a klingon, a blind guy and a robot, all of which are probably, especially in the future, minorities. I recall them saying that they can cure blindness, but geordie was a special case or something.
TNG was professional, while tos was "amateur cowboys in space"
Thats why you buy it at 200k and sell or scrap it at 300k.
As the summary says, this is a "feature" from windows 98 onward. What the fuck does it have to do with windows 7? That they havent removed this stupid "feature" yet? Big surprise?
this is NOT news!
Your paying too much.
I have a 720p projector and 110" or so screen.
I also know a theatre manager who has a 720p projector and a 40 ft screen. It looks as grand as the cinema.
1080p is WAY over hyped imho. I personally cannot tell the difference, no matter how big the screen is.
But the main point, 720p IS an HD resolution. There is no false advertising in saying that 720p is HD.
"Have you *lost* your bandwidth"
Yes. My isp meters my bandwidth, so now i have less bandwidth to use every month. My company pays per GB, in a sense, and spam has a definite cost.
"or mail server resources?"
Yes. On a large mail server, you could easily have the majority of connections be spam. So you have to plan that in when upgrading, designing your mail server. You must design for x% wasted bandwidth.
"Resource sharing is the future; the ultimate goal of cloud computing."
Cloud computing is about locking in your data to proprietary corporations. It is the opposite of what the internet should be.
"Instead of trying to stamp out spam, people need to change their reading models. It's not our job to support obsolete reading models, and it's arrogant to expect us to."
Oh, now i see what you are trying to do here. you are being a dick. And you are reaching. Spam is not about them using your resources, as much as they are using your resources to spit in your face. In fact, people HAVE changed their reading models. I would almost argue that the growth of GMAIL itself has more to do with spam filtering than anything else. My personal mailserver requires spamassassin and the thunderbird client, as well as hand edited rules, to combat the torrent of spam i recieve. So yes, most people have changed their reading models. Probably even for the better.
Before spam, I would guess that very few people filtered their mail, or even had the capacity to do so. In some weird way, i guess that makes spam as positive as a virus which forces you to create an immunity to it.
I was talking to a co worker from south america (peru), a year or so ago, and he was asking me if I had this so called "world phone" which would work anywhere in the world (at least the americas) for free! I told him there was no way there was a free cel phone network that extended the length of both continents, but he persisted that his relatives will bring their phones up here and use them - for free - to call back to peru.
Perhaps this is what he was talking about! If so, this has gone on for years and is VERY widespread in south america. Hopefully some native peruvians could shed some light on the issue and what phones exactly you would need to take advantage of the network. I believe he was calling them "nortels", like the phone company.
Yeah, crazy! Take for instance software. Who the hell would develop code for free?!? no. Its far better to put people into a hellish working environment to get good code. There could never be anything like a FORGE of SOURCE code that anyone could contribute to and take from could there?
Thats just straight communism!!!11 If its not helping me get a bigger boat, then fuck you son!
I guess you would sue people who lend that novel to friends then?
Then your a fucking hypocrite who compromises his morals in order to get free shit.
Stories are meant to be shared. Whatever form they come in. One shouldn't be allowed to "own" ideas.
Some companies will not let you have the same credit card on multiple accounts. I think ebay does this.
The way it was explained to me was that if the fire department does have to hack and slash their way through the data centre, they do not want to run the risk of axing through a bank of batteries thus killing the firemen.
The only reason it would be easy to kill the power to a data centre is because everyone in there is not running their own ups's. At a previous employment, we had a full rack of batteries in one of our private data centres. This provided power for something like 8 hours or so. So simply waiting for the batteries to drain before you send the firemen in is not always plausible.
Really? I personally torrent TV to strip out the ads which are toxic. Kind of like paying for lead laced water in the shop, using their own proprietary bottles, or going down to a near by stream and collecting pure water on your own. I really don't care who has already been paid and by whom. The content has been commissioned and generated by someone, its not up to me to fund them. If they are unhappy with people torrenting their movies, they are free not to produce them. There is certainly no LACK of content, especially on the internet. People often produce full length TV shows, movies etc for free or very low budgets. Why would they do that? because they want to be heard, to tell a story, to communicate with others.
It use to be that stories, which is all that music movies and games really are, were about the content. Telling a story is about the communication of ideas. Now the internet comes along and tears down all these artifical barriers to communication that have been set up over the last few hundred years. All content producers will have to adapt or die - this is reality. Some adapt by locking things down, and some by opening them up.
I would personally argue that opening up communication channels results in better content, be it software movies or what have you. I realize that you are a for profit software developer, but you need to think of the future a bit more, and your current bottom line a bit less.
The next big revolution will come when someone creates a nano assembler, or nano forge. Good bye resource scarcity! That is if we set the legal and cultural precedents now. Otherwise, when you can build anything from sand, you won't be allowed to because of artificial controls. The current paradigm, projected 30 or so years into the future, sees a chosen few profit, while the others starve in the streets because they don't have the money for rice 'patterns' or 'source code'. These technologies that humans develop, such as bittorrent, will always be challenged by the old guard who want to remain firmly in control. Mass media is a very good control, just look at radio in the USA.
You are worrying over a bit of short term profit, instead of worrying about the rights of humankind 50 or 100 years down the road. Stallman says alot of crap, but people have already lost far too many rights in the service of protecting corporate profit and greed. Artists, real artists, will always produce. The same as real tool makers. It is a wonderful thing seeing an idea in your head come to life in the real world. That is a quality of humans that will not dissipate.
So you don't want to use this video codec because its made by microsoft? I fail to see how it is any different than flash, infact I thought it was flash! Especially when you then go and say a flash file is fine, thus destroying your 'holier than thou' proprietary video codec argument. I think you need to look up the meaning of the phrase "i'm not picky".
So your going to force anyone who wants to check their facebook on your computer for 5 minutes to resign on as another user? Please. This is simply not feasible. especially if you have music going or things that you are working on, other browser windows open etc..
oldbar works just great, but the point is these sorts of "features" should have buttons to disable them. Not third party plugins, not work arounds, buttons. Buttons that anyone can find without googling it! So that we are not held at the mercy of developer whims. Why the fuck should i be typing _anything_ into the address bar that is not a URL? Its an address bar, not some AOL keyword POS.
You have obviously never gone hungry.
Pirated software, especially in smaller companies is no big deal. If your not in the USA, you don't have to worry about shit like the BSA. People here are quite over reacting. If people had "pirated" mp3s, would you report them to the RIAA (or country specific equivilant)?
I doubt it.
It does happen though. Maybe an alert doesnt go off. It only takes a few weeks of negligence to see this kind of failure. Do you manually audit all your raid controllers? weekly?
Sure you can monitor them with software, but ive had software lie to me many times. Also, its likely that they would fail at the same time: on bootup. Especially if it is a server that is never rebooted. Raid is not backup, and does fail. Frequently.
That is the stores problem, doing things like loss leaders. Not the customer. Even less, the responsible knowledgeable customer. WHy would you want a system where other people got ripped off so that you could profit? You dont work in the banking industry do you?
Last time i checked, america still has victims of crime. Not sure what both parties carrying guns would accomplish, except to make one or more parties into a fatality.
Guns just give one a feeling of security and safety. Youre still just as likely to get shot if someone pulls a gun on you, whether you have one or not. What are you going to do, out draw them? Please.
Don't get me wrong, I would love to have a gun with me at all times for a feeling of security. But the few times when I have been mugged, me having any sort of weapon would have very quickly become the criminal having that weapon, along with my wallet and phone. Should you have the right to kill someone because they want your wallet? (I say yes, but most civilized societies disagree). Its a logical fact however that the more people that are armed, the more people are going to get shot. Handguns only have one purpose, and that is to solve problems. The effects of that solution though are often not considered until it is too late. Alot of people just dont give a fuck, and their egos bruise easily.
I really dont think arming more stupid humans is the right way to go.
Id say if someone has to bring in their own printer, your company has bigger IT problems...
Me.
Don't recognize me? Im that guy you cut off while talking on your cel phone in the safeway parking lot last week. I was kinda pissed, and being recently unemployed have lots of time on my hands, so i followed you home. What a nice house you have at 1234 lane. Good thing you have that address online so i could look up your resume. After keying your car at work (so you wouldn't have any idea who did it) I drove home and started doing more research. I see you have a nice 16 year old daughter as well, who similarly to you, keeps her facebook wide open. Looks like shes going to meet a new "freind" he he he...
The above scenario, while not real, could be. Even if you think you have nothing to hide, there will always be people that feel "wronged" by you. All it takes is someone with the proper motivations, and you have then given them the keys to the castle. Ive used peoples facebook profiles against them in court and won. The difference in your scenarios is meeting someone informally at a conference does not index the information you provide forever on the internet. Information that is searchable by anyone who can infiltrate their way into your social network. This is why we use nicknames on the internet. Everyone who was on the internet in 1995 has this "common" knowledge. People today do not.
If I used my real name online, I would simply not post some of my opinions for fear of future consequences. To me that is unacceptable. Personal anonymous expression is important for the sanity of society. Take that away and you just have everyone patting eachother on the back and saying nice things, lest they be sued for liable, offend someone, or worse.
Fame. its not necessarily all its cracked up to be. Many people would rather live their lives under the radar. Many people do not let their jobs define them, or use other peoples worthless praise (or scorn) as a measure of their own self worth.
What a laugh. I havent met a CEO yet who didn't think he was improving / changing the world. CEOs are some of the most deluded people you could support/work with (followed closely by dentists). Of course they think they are a maverick leader who will bring change to the world, and hey, if their pockets get lined on the way, so much the better! The private ambitions of a corporations leaders is to make money for themselves. When they get more money than they can spend, and plenty of revenue streams and projects to fund their future (otherwise known as "security") then of course they start doing crazy things to blow the companies/their money.
Still does not mean they are being altruistic, they just have more money than they know really what to do with.
Id much rather have the profits from all these large corporations redistributed equally to all the workers. I think the masses are much more altruistic as a whole than individual ceos, or even their combined board.
Bottom line, they give more because they have more. They fund crazy things because they have more "crazy" disposable income than anyone else. Of course it is good to be a CEO, for the CEO...
I had the same with exchange 2007. Calendaring stopped working so I reinstalled rollup 5 and everything went back to normal.
As for your comment, one day when you move into the "real world" you will realize that you dont always have the resources to test every single patch that comes down the line. Id much rather have a microsoft patch fubar the machine than have a haxxor pwning it because i was busy testing a patch. At least when i have to explain to management why the email was down for 30 minutes, I can blame microsoft instead of saying that we got exploited (which would then become MY fault).
Not everyone can afford to have redundant everything. Especially machines that are only used for testing, and therefor not in a production environment, where it is easier to find bugs. Sure, if your exchange server services 2000+ users, or generates tens of thousands of dollars a day then maybe you can afford another machine to test on. Most people in the Real World do not have those luxuries.
Um, citation needed. What traces did he leave in california exactly? Wikipedia has the following:
Now something awful will supplant bob as most dickish alliance. Nothing changes. I am loving to see bob fall, but nothings going to change.
Its kind of stupid to adopt this position. Its really hard to completely not use flash at all. If you are a student, the online coursewares all use flash. If you are a researcher, or you deal with any kind of multi media, flash is a part of your life. Its kind of like complaining about animated gifs in 1997. Luckily wonderful tools like flashblock exsist, so I can still let the wife and kids watch youtube without having to be deluged with ads.
Yes flash is used where it shouldn't be roughly 70% of the time. Still, it has some nice features, and compared to the rest of the video streaming options (wmv, rm) it is relatively easy to implement and deal with, both as a developer and an end user.
Flash is just not something worth ignoring a large part of the web to protest about. In your example, I would pick the mechanic based on his actual skill, not whether his website (coded by the cheapest laybour possible no doubt) was coded in flash. Thats kind of retarded and just serves to make your life miserable unnecessarily. Its generally not the autobody shops fault that they are using flash on their website. It was just coded to look "good".