You don't remember the Pepsi "Monk" song (Artist was Sev)? I am pretty sure there was a similar ad out at that time (several years ago). I remember reading a story that perhaps a new future was for products to support up and coming artist in exchange for them in the ads, making quasi-jingles, and what not.
But I haven't really seen much "product support of up and coming artist" (aside from soundtracks). Guess it didn't work out too well.
You make it sound so easy!!! I would love for you to point me to a FOSS solution that can do what SharePoint does! Web-based document management (this is the one missing from everything I have seen), CMS, AD integration. There is more, but just those 3 seem to rule out all possible competitors. So please enlighten me!
Right click My Docs and see if you can't figure out how to do that on Windows. That only does docs, if you want the profile you'll have to right click my computer and change some settings in Computer Management.
On a network there is something called group policy and active directory that lets you set this for the entire domain. A nightmare!!!
Seriously, at least bash Windows with stuff it can't easily do.
Racquetball rackets (racquets?) have straps. I would guess the thinking is in that game you are only feet away from other humans, unlike tennis. Baseball requires that you drop the bat (in a hurry) after hitting the ball, so a strap would be a problem; also you are 60 feet from the closest guy without protective gear.
I'll second dotProject. I wish they had a better ticketing system, but it works and was easy for me to modify to fit our needs. It can also be incorporated into Drupal (really as a seperate/sub website, but you can write a module to access the tickets/tasks/projects). It is a little difficult to learn how all of it works, but really powerful. Gantt charts work great, dynamic tasks work (caveats). No MS Project integration, though. All in all a very robust, flexible solution.
Thank you. Most people here have no idea, but the APO is friggin horrible. Your crap got stolen/lost. It has happened to my friends and to a sale I made on ebay. You really can't blame Dell so much when your laptop fails to make it to a war zone. Not trying to be a jerk, but this isn't standard shipping and you probably knew the risks.
I tell this to users all the time. Email is for communicating... not storing documents and information. Do we require companies to record all phone conversations? What about documenting meetings and informal conversations (where the real magic happens)? Why is email different? Yes I know the laymans answer - because it is already half way retained. But that doesn't equate to legal requirements for a company to retain ALL email. That is actually quite a burdon. The intranet, CMS, ERP, $software_solution, and paper copies are all that should be REQUIRED for legal proceedings.
Now, some IANAL (or IAAL) tell me why I am completely wrong.
The problem I have seen with most attempts to list speed traps, is that eventually damn near every street in a city, or every few miles on a highway could end up on there.
But maybe it will result in some speeders slowing down all the time.
Last computer I bough came with Google toolbar, Google Earth and google Picassa installed. Last time I downloaded IrfanView, it came with Google toolbar bundled. When mu girlfriend (yes I DO have one) downloaded Adobe reader, it installed the freaking toolbar again... What's happening with this world? What's next, Apple installing Safari bundled with iTunes? oh wait...
I'll one up you with Java Runtime Enviro wanting to downloand and install a FUCKING OFFICE PRODUCTIVITY SUITE! I respect pushing OOo, but that's fucking absurd.
But this isn't an image that will change the course of human history. It really isn't that much different than flying the general to the fanciest New York salon, fixing her all up, taking her to the best photographer, and snapping a beautiful picture (other than cost). My immediate reaction is that this a weird place to "draw the line", especially after all the bs about Time (or was it People) and Sarah Palin's photo.
Libertarians are Anachist
Libertarians hate govt regulation, so therefore, so do Anarchist
You want the govt to dicate what corporations?
You do realize that a corporation can be a single person, or family in my case. You want nobody to be able to open a business and make a living for themselves?
Agreed, I have no idea what your definition of Anarchy is. I think the other poster said it, you sound more like a commie, using some crazy definition of Anarchist to pass off your views as better than what they really are.
As for the flea market... why do you care what the sellers make? Don't you just want the consumers to be the ones that win? I thought you didn't care for "companies" (aka sellers). Again, you seem to be contradicting yourself.
They are lying - sometimes. But that is what is great about competition. If ATT phones suck it up, are you going to buy them again, when there is healthy competiton? Nope. But what if the govt declared ATT THE ONE AND ONLY cell phone supplier in the US, like Mr. Spun wants? Then what do you do when they lie? Violent revolts?
Seriously, right? Everyone is talking about "where do we draw the line". I would say that if you want to put a picture of a General in the press the photo on the left is completely inappropriate. But perhaps that was the only recent photo? So they dressed it up. This isn't the moon landing.
First, the free market has well known failure modes: natural monopoly, where the marginal cost of entry into the market increases dramatically after the initial entry. Roads, sewers, electric and phone lines are a great example. Information asymmetry is another, and externalities are the third
Your right that there is a thing as a natural monopoly. Your wrong that it invalidates a libertarian stance. Libertarians are not 100% against any government - that is anarchy; if you can't understand and acknowledge that, please just stop reading now. But the government has done nothing to LOWER the bar in these natural monopolies - in fact, they have raised them.
Second, money is power, and power can be used to oppress. A free market is a similar choice mechanism to a democracy, except that in a free market, it is one dollar, one vote. The more money you have, the more you can use your money to change the parameters of the market
As opposed to our current system where your vote counts about 1/300Mth towards decisions. But whatever, I'll give you that one.
Third, choice. A free market does not provide real choices. It provides the illusion of choice. And where it does provide real choice, it seeks to hide the real differences in those choices, making picking the better item or service difficult
That doesn't compute. Can you please explain how your socialistic utopia will provide more and better choices?
Fourth, Destruction of intrinsic motivations. A competitive market destroys intrinsic motivation to do something. For instance, go to a bar and ask all the women if they will sleep with you. You may get lucky. Now, same thing, except offer to throw in ten dollars. You will strike out every time, because you have destroyed intrinsic motivations.
Now, same thing, but don't make it an insulting amount of money. $100 would have a better chance for you than no money. $1000, for sure. But it just changes the motivation for that single act and nobody says you HAVE to offer money. This is a really dumb one.
Fifth, duplication of effort. A competitive market requires duplication of effort where a socialist system does not. Each company must repeat the efforts of all other companies in a given market, instead of sharing effort
True. But it also creates a desire to better than others in your field. A single, socialistic internet provider has no incentive to provide better service, other than good nature. A free market makes you want to do better because your business (then you, then your family) will do better; and you can still just do it to be good natured.
Sixth, closed communication channels. In a competitive market, innovations aren't shared as freely as they could be in a socialist system, because that would be giving away advantage.
Now you are just repeating yourself. See your #5.
Seventh, waste and mismanagement. A competitive market develops its own special kinds of parasites, who add nothing of value to society yet make a lot of money. Advertisers, for instance. Or the insurance industry. These people are professional manipulators, con artists, gamblers and frauds, yet they are richly rewarded in a capitalist system.
True to an extent.
Eight, real world examples. No company is set up internally as a free market system. None. If the free market is so great, why don't companies organize themselves that way internally?
Because that is a market system, not a government, that is elementary. Most companies are a form of dictatorships, care to explain why that is? Should we become a dictatorship because businesses (and most household, for that matter) are?
See my sig. The best example of where you can buy just about anything, without any real regulation. My sig is a retort to the idiot that said something about the mafia is the best example of an unregulated market.
And you almost certainly do not need a CAL for each node. If you purchase a CAL for your Windows DC, you have also purchased a CAL for your Windows file server, print server, app server and (not that you need them) web server. Or so I was told by MS Licensing (probably should have got it in writing).
ForEach ($country as $local_country)
{ $local_country is generally a very disorganised place. This is somewhat surprising given the excessive tiers of government.
It is well understood by most $local_country_citizens that if you want to retire in comfort then you should get a job (for life) with the government.
However despite all of the busy-bodies supposedly governing the place, nothing much works properly.
Anyhow, I am hoping we might get decent $arr_lacking_programs, before trying for a $unpopular_program.
}
Slashdot Mirror
Same experience here (and I use them for the same purpose). I have rarely seen spam in gmail. about 10 a day in yahoo.
If they had survived service would not have been interrupted based in normal use, not a reduction
I don't think 2M people in a few square miles all texting, pic/vid messaging, and calling is "normal use".
Mitigating any *major* issues brought about with extreme usage is survival, to me.
Otherwise, Qrirybcref pbhyqa'g ernq gurz naq vg jbhyq or n ybg uneqre gb pbqr!!!!!!!
becoming patrons of specific songs/etc
You don't remember the Pepsi "Monk" song (Artist was Sev)? I am pretty sure there was a similar ad out at that time (several years ago). I remember reading a story that perhaps a new future was for products to support up and coming artist in exchange for them in the ads, making quasi-jingles, and what not.
But I haven't really seen much "product support of up and coming artist" (aside from soundtracks). Guess it didn't work out too well.
You ARE the uninformed.
Aren't tweets already like email, with two out of every three just worthless?
That seems appropriate.
Totally missed a chance for the trifecta! "at least Google it" == JFGI
You make it sound so easy!!! I would love for you to point me to a FOSS solution that can do what SharePoint does! Web-based document management (this is the one missing from everything I have seen), CMS, AD integration. There is more, but just those 3 seem to rule out all possible competitors. So please enlighten me!
Right click My Docs and see if you can't figure out how to do that on Windows. That only does docs, if you want the profile you'll have to right click my computer and change some settings in Computer Management.
On a network there is something called group policy and active directory that lets you set this for the entire domain. A nightmare!!!
Seriously, at least bash Windows with stuff it can't easily do.
Racquetball rackets (racquets?) have straps. I would guess the thinking is in that game you are only feet away from other humans, unlike tennis. Baseball requires that you drop the bat (in a hurry) after hitting the ball, so a strap would be a problem; also you are 60 feet from the closest guy without protective gear.
I'll second dotProject. I wish they had a better ticketing system, but it works and was easy for me to modify to fit our needs. It can also be incorporated into Drupal (really as a seperate/sub website, but you can write a module to access the tickets/tasks/projects). It is a little difficult to learn how all of it works, but really powerful. Gantt charts work great, dynamic tasks work (caveats). No MS Project integration, though. All in all a very robust, flexible solution.
Thank you. Most people here have no idea, but the APO is friggin horrible. Your crap got stolen/lost. It has happened to my friends and to a sale I made on ebay. You really can't blame Dell so much when your laptop fails to make it to a war zone. Not trying to be a jerk, but this isn't standard shipping and you probably knew the risks.
I tell this to users all the time. Email is for communicating... not storing documents and information. Do we require companies to record all phone conversations? What about documenting meetings and informal conversations (where the real magic happens)? Why is email different? Yes I know the laymans answer - because it is already half way retained. But that doesn't equate to legal requirements for a company to retain ALL email. That is actually quite a burdon. The intranet, CMS, ERP, $software_solution, and paper copies are all that should be REQUIRED for legal proceedings.
Now, some IANAL (or IAAL) tell me why I am completely wrong.
The problem I have seen with most attempts to list speed traps, is that eventually damn near every street in a city, or every few miles on a highway could end up on there.
But maybe it will result in some speeders slowing down all the time.
Last computer I bough came with Google toolbar, Google Earth and google Picassa installed. Last time I downloaded IrfanView, it came with Google toolbar bundled. When mu girlfriend (yes I DO have one) downloaded Adobe reader, it installed the freaking toolbar again... What's happening with this world? What's next, Apple installing Safari bundled with iTunes? oh wait...
I'll one up you with Java Runtime Enviro wanting to downloand and install a FUCKING OFFICE PRODUCTIVITY SUITE! I respect pushing OOo, but that's fucking absurd.
But this isn't an image that will change the course of human history. It really isn't that much different than flying the general to the fanciest New York salon, fixing her all up, taking her to the best photographer, and snapping a beautiful picture (other than cost). My immediate reaction is that this a weird place to "draw the line", especially after all the bs about Time (or was it People) and Sarah Palin's photo.
Libertarians are Anachist
Libertarians hate govt regulation, so therefore, so do Anarchist
You want the govt to dicate what corporations?
You do realize that a corporation can be a single person, or family in my case. You want nobody to be able to open a business and make a living for themselves?
Agreed, I have no idea what your definition of Anarchy is. I think the other poster said it, you sound more like a commie, using some crazy definition of Anarchist to pass off your views as better than what they really are.
As for the flea market... why do you care what the sellers make? Don't you just want the consumers to be the ones that win? I thought you didn't care for "companies" (aka sellers). Again, you seem to be contradicting yourself.
They are lying - sometimes. But that is what is great about competition. If ATT phones suck it up, are you going to buy them again, when there is healthy competiton? Nope. But what if the govt declared ATT THE ONE AND ONLY cell phone supplier in the US, like Mr. Spun wants? Then what do you do when they lie? Violent revolts?
Seriously, right? Everyone is talking about "where do we draw the line". I would say that if you want to put a picture of a General in the press the photo on the left is completely inappropriate. But perhaps that was the only recent photo? So they dressed it up. This isn't the moon landing.
First, the free market has well known failure modes: natural monopoly, where the marginal cost of entry into the market increases dramatically after the initial entry. Roads, sewers, electric and phone lines are a great example. Information asymmetry is another, and externalities are the third
Your right that there is a thing as a natural monopoly. Your wrong that it invalidates a libertarian stance. Libertarians are not 100% against any government - that is anarchy; if you can't understand and acknowledge that, please just stop reading now. But the government has done nothing to LOWER the bar in these natural monopolies - in fact, they have raised them.
Second, money is power, and power can be used to oppress. A free market is a similar choice mechanism to a democracy, except that in a free market, it is one dollar, one vote. The more money you have, the more you can use your money to change the parameters of the market
As opposed to our current system where your vote counts about 1/300Mth towards decisions. But whatever, I'll give you that one.
Third, choice. A free market does not provide real choices. It provides the illusion of choice. And where it does provide real choice, it seeks to hide the real differences in those choices, making picking the better item or service difficult
That doesn't compute. Can you please explain how your socialistic utopia will provide more and better choices?
Fourth, Destruction of intrinsic motivations. A competitive market destroys intrinsic motivation to do something. For instance, go to a bar and ask all the women if they will sleep with you. You may get lucky. Now, same thing, except offer to throw in ten dollars. You will strike out every time, because you have destroyed intrinsic motivations.
Now, same thing, but don't make it an insulting amount of money. $100 would have a better chance for you than no money. $1000, for sure. But it just changes the motivation for that single act and nobody says you HAVE to offer money. This is a really dumb one.
Fifth, duplication of effort. A competitive market requires duplication of effort where a socialist system does not. Each company must repeat the efforts of all other companies in a given market, instead of sharing effort
True. But it also creates a desire to better than others in your field. A single, socialistic internet provider has no incentive to provide better service, other than good nature. A free market makes you want to do better because your business (then you, then your family) will do better; and you can still just do it to be good natured.
Sixth, closed communication channels. In a competitive market, innovations aren't shared as freely as they could be in a socialist system, because that would be giving away advantage.
Now you are just repeating yourself. See your #5.
Seventh, waste and mismanagement. A competitive market develops its own special kinds of parasites, who add nothing of value to society yet make a lot of money. Advertisers, for instance. Or the insurance industry. These people are professional manipulators, con artists, gamblers and frauds, yet they are richly rewarded in a capitalist system.
True to an extent.
Eight, real world examples. No company is set up internally as a free market system. None. If the free market is so great, why don't companies organize themselves that way internally?
Because that is a market system, not a government, that is elementary. Most companies are a form of dictatorships, care to explain why that is? Should we become a dictatorship because businesses (and most household, for that matter) are?
See my sig. The best example of where you can buy just about anything, without any real regulation. My sig is a retort to the idiot that said something about the mafia is the best example of an unregulated market.
And you almost certainly do not need a CAL for each node. If you purchase a CAL for your Windows DC, you have also purchased a CAL for your Windows file server, print server, app server and (not that you need them) web server. Or so I was told by MS Licensing (probably should have got it in writing).
ForEach ($country as $local_country)
{
$local_country is generally a very disorganised place. This is somewhat surprising given the excessive tiers of government.
It is well understood by most $local_country_citizens that if you want to retire in comfort then you should get a job (for life) with the government.
However despite all of the busy-bodies supposedly governing the place, nothing much works properly.
Anyhow, I am hoping we might get decent $arr_lacking_programs, before trying for a $unpopular_program.
}
And also can we get the obligatory "Your solution to SPAM fails to account for the following..." post?
Your argument for greater action on petitions fails in the same areas as does the argument for a direct democracy (just above in this thread).