Guess you never heard of "no child left behind". This is where the idiot kids who have been texting aren't allowed to be left back. They get moved ahead and shouldn't even be working at Burger King.
Barry Diller's view of reality is a myth. People already pay for internet access they generally will not pay more to hit websites. Some will remain free and those will thrive and the losers will either go out of business or they will return to free, possibly too late to survive.
Yeah, 1999, that would be when Bill Clinton was running the show. You know, make it law that everyone can "buy" a house even though they can't afford it. Everyone should buy stock in companies that don't actually sell anything. Let people do whatever they want, let the good times roll......
What a bunch of crap stats. 373,375 jobs. Why not 375,373 job or 773,777 jobs? So is that the extra clerks they would hire to rent videos or mail out DVDs for netflix or answer support calls from legit downloaders or fill up more Redbox machines or package more DVD orders or collect more movie tickets or sell more popcorn? Total junk numbers. I'd have to guess most illegal downloaders are people that would never pay for the stuff to being with. On the other hand, you probably get some people who say that's a good CD or DVD, I'll buy it to support the band or maybe they say yeah I'll spend $100 to see the band or buy a ticket to see the movie on the big screen.
Personally, I buy zero CDs, zero DVDs and go to zero movies. If I can't get it from the library, listen to it on the radio or watch it on TV (or HBO) I don't see it or hear it. I will not spend another penny. So if I were to download $10 million worth of stuff in my lifetime that is not lost revenue because I would not have purchased it to begin with. I know for a fact that I'm not the only one thinking this way. I'd also guess that many that are paying for every premium TV channel out there is also the one that is likely to be downloading the movies as soon as they can on the internet because they can't wait. So are they ripping the biz off? No, because they are paying for every freakin' channel out there, they are just jumping the gun.
Put a ban on future MS purchases except where absolutely necessary. Especially stop the US Army (I think) deployment of Vista. How stupid is that? Tell Steve to take a hike.
Yes, this is mildly insane knowing the government, hire up the dumped Microsofties (why pay them to do nothing) and retrain them in Linux and create a governmental OS with extremely high security. I'm pretty sure OpenOffice can handle most if not all the MS Office requirements. Strip out all the extraneous crap. Maybe a base version and a military version. Actually China is doing it with Red Flag Linux (don't know how successful though) so why can't we? Go US/OS !!!
We also enjoyed SCC especially the last 1/2 season. Let's face facts, it's all about the instant gratification mentality. X-Files would have been gone in 3 episodes today. All 3 major networks sci-fi shows (Invasion,Surface,Threshold) didn't last very long. We enjoyed watching all of them. Did any of these have super amazing writing, no, not really but they weren't reality show crap.
We refuse to watch junk like Big Brother, Biggest Loser, Survivor, etc. Prison Break, well, that show could never have been conceived to last more than 1 or 2 seasons. You break someone out of prison and break back in!
It looks like I'll be on the internet hunting up more foreign series to watch since in the last 12 months about a dozen shows got canceled that we used to watch.
Why is it when a Democrat does something wrong the subject is immediately shifted to the prior administration? I simply don't get this.
Assuming Biden confirmed this he a) endangers those that would occupy that bunker b) now likely causes the construction of a new location.
Just imagine what it cost the country when that a**hole reporter exposed the Greenbriar location. How was this a good thing and how does it help by invoking the behavior of others? Two wrongs don't make a right. You people just don't get it. You're no better than those you complain about.
Good catch, like how NJ decided that they should tax health club memberships. I'm sure NY does that already. Probably where our idiots got the idea from.
We'll all just have to HOPE they do the right thing..... Just like we'll all have to HOPE for a lot of good things to come out of all of these political decisions and appointments. I'm not getting my HOPE up though based on the "quality" of his appointments so far. In six months he's managed to pick how many "problem" appointees? Out of millions of people in this country he seems to have the uncanny ability to choose poorly.
I guess all the "persuasion" MS dumped into getting them to do this in the first place just couldn't offset the crap they had to deal with. I for one am ecstatic. I will never install Silverlight, ever, period. I've seen I don't know how many products or methodologies that MS came out with that they just abandon and say convert or too bad.
Absolutely. Great idea. Set it up, have VM copies on multiple HDs and solid state that you test periodically. Make sure that his application VM isn't contaminated by loading "new" apps. Periodically switch to "new" hardware as need be. I might suggest a Linux OS as host OS.
True story. I take over an app. Enough changes were required that a rewrite made more sense. Done. Single developer, albeit slightly high salary. All the users are happy. Management thinks lets try this new outsourcing thing to India for some new functionality, very focused, specific, uncomplicated effort. I figured (me knowing nothing about complex Word macros) I would probably take 2, maybe 3 weeks without much business people involvement. The "certified" MS developers (3-4) in India after 3 months, 10 bug-filled releases and dozens of hours of biz people involvement finally delivered something that more or less worked.
Somehow this was considered a success. They decide lets hire a bunch of outsourced staff and replace me because they could get 3-4 people at what they paid me. Well after a year or so of unhappy clients, missed or buggy deliveries, etc, I get a call to undo the mess they made. I discover none of the new features they were supposed to deliver worked so all that time and money was simply thrown away. Fortunately since my initial departure I had been working for another division directly (not via IT) that recognized that I was a valuable resource not to be lost.
Six years later, history repeats itself. Another IT-driven outsourcing "effort" has been in the works to consolidate 3 applications, now it's 2. I've just been informed they are over another year behind in developing phase 2 which would bring it up to 2.5 years behind. Phase 1 is still not acceptable. I'm also more or less being told not to further enhance my app, twiddle my thumbs. Can you just see the savings?
I happily see some small, specialized groups efficiently delivering quality and sadly I see repeated efforts to outsource to people that have zero knowledge about the biz requirements which results in waste of time and money. Management needs to get it thru their thick heads that developing apps cannot be treated like making shirts. A seamstress is a seamstress is a seamstress. Maybe the stitching quality is a little different, not as straight, etc. It still functions as a shirt. An application is not that, if the code is crooked either the results are flawed or it simply doesn't function.
The messiah has spoken, everybody check your nukes at the door. Let's get rid of ours so we can be held hostage by the likes of North Korea. We should switch over to neutron nukes which makes the threat of use more realistic.
OS is irrelevant. I've had more than a handful of memory modules go bad over the years. If memtest86 (there's a memtest86+ now too) detects an error get new memory. Running different OS or tasks or switching modules around may seem to "fix" it but it's not. It's either avoiding the problem spot or the memory error didn't cause whatever to blow up. It eventually will. You might be writing bad data to your disk, miscalculating something, etc. Sometimes it looks like the OS is corrupted. Writing this makes me think it a good idea to run memtest once a month or at least once a quarter.
I've been doing this for 30 years now, nearly 20 as a consultant/contractor. I don't like to write documentation but I whip stuff out faster than most and do the work of most 3-5 person teams. I'm extremely loyal and committed to my job. I'm very gracious to all and don't smell. I obviously save my employers a huge amount of money even though I am being paid at premium rates.
So what should be happening here? Take some of the money they saved and hire a documentation writer even if this is on a part-time basis. They are relatively cheap, they might even like writing documentation. I have no problem communicating with someone performing this function. After all they are doing something I don't want to do but should be done.
As for rude, smelly, obnoxious, uncooperative, etc. There's just no place for those people. I was the replacement for someone like this. That was 10 years ago.
Apparently Pelosi has been passing out the home grown across the aisles too. So I guess every wireless device's MAC address will have to be registered as you purchase it? Oops, there's that darn MAC spoofing thing going on. So if something "illegal" is downloaded via wireless and none of my devices match the MAC address in the log I'm absolved, right?
I'm glad our government has the time to waste on things like this. What country can I move to where the government is efficient even if it is corrupt? This corrupt and ignorant stuff just isn't working for me anymore.
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Guess you never heard of "no child left behind". This is where the idiot kids who have been texting aren't allowed to be left back. They get moved ahead and shouldn't even be working at Burger King.
Barry Diller's view of reality is a myth. People already pay for internet access they generally will not pay more to hit websites. Some will remain free and those will thrive and the losers will either go out of business or they will return to free, possibly too late to survive.
There must be a group of masochists over at MS. Apps outside the browser? Are they insane. I'm sure the sample exploit code is already out there.
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when the price of something can move up and down merely on the wind changing direction this makes total sense
simply saying you might cut production raises prices, weather might affect drilling or refining, price goes up, etc
"blows up" oh my, I hope you are a grammar school kid that just hasn't learned much yet
The "high quality" comment almost made me pee my pants. Less optional stuff for me to read.
this guy should have been skinned alive
Should have been 40 years, idiot. Just bringing the laptop to China is shear stupidity.
Yeah, 1999, that would be when Bill Clinton was running the show. You know, make it law that everyone can "buy" a house even though they can't afford it. Everyone should buy stock in companies that don't actually sell anything. Let people do whatever they want, let the good times roll......
What a bunch of crap stats. 373,375 jobs. Why not 375,373 job or 773,777 jobs? So is that the extra clerks they would hire to rent videos or mail out DVDs for netflix or answer support calls from legit downloaders or fill up more Redbox machines or package more DVD orders or collect more movie tickets or sell more popcorn? Total junk numbers. I'd have to guess most illegal downloaders are people that would never pay for the stuff to being with. On the other hand, you probably get some people who say that's a good CD or DVD, I'll buy it to support the band or maybe they say yeah I'll spend $100 to see the band or buy a ticket to see the movie on the big screen.
Personally, I buy zero CDs, zero DVDs and go to zero movies. If I can't get it from the library, listen to it on the radio or watch it on TV (or HBO) I don't see it or hear it. I will not spend another penny. So if I were to download $10 million worth of stuff in my lifetime that is not lost revenue because I would not have purchased it to begin with. I know for a fact that I'm not the only one thinking this way. I'd also guess that many that are paying for every premium TV channel out there is also the one that is likely to be downloading the movies as soon as they can on the internet because they can't wait. So are they ripping the biz off? No, because they are paying for every freakin' channel out there, they are just jumping the gun.
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Put a ban on future MS purchases except where absolutely necessary. Especially stop the US Army (I think) deployment of Vista. How stupid is that? Tell Steve to take a hike.
Yes, this is mildly insane knowing the government, hire up the dumped Microsofties (why pay them to do nothing) and retrain them in Linux and create a governmental OS with extremely high security. I'm pretty sure OpenOffice can handle most if not all the MS Office requirements. Strip out all the extraneous crap. Maybe a base version and a military version. Actually China is doing it with Red Flag Linux (don't know how successful though) so why can't we? Go US/OS !!!
We also enjoyed SCC especially the last 1/2 season. Let's face facts, it's all about the instant gratification mentality. X-Files would have been gone in 3 episodes today. All 3 major networks sci-fi shows (Invasion,Surface,Threshold) didn't last very long. We enjoyed watching all of them. Did any of these have super amazing writing, no, not really but they weren't reality show crap.
We refuse to watch junk like Big Brother, Biggest Loser, Survivor, etc. Prison Break, well, that show could never have been conceived to last more than 1 or 2 seasons. You break someone out of prison and break back in!
It looks like I'll be on the internet hunting up more foreign series to watch since in the last 12 months about a dozen shows got canceled that we used to watch.
Why is it when a Democrat does something wrong the subject is immediately shifted to the prior administration? I simply don't get this.
Assuming Biden confirmed this he a) endangers those that would occupy that bunker b) now likely causes the construction of a new location.
Just imagine what it cost the country when that a**hole reporter exposed the Greenbriar location. How was this a good thing and how does it help by invoking the behavior of others? Two wrongs don't make a right. You people just don't get it. You're no better than those you complain about.
Good catch, like how NJ decided that they should tax health club memberships. I'm sure NY does that already. Probably where our idiots got the idea from.
It's nice to see yet another "high-level" employee of an institution of "higher" learning being a complete and utter dolt.
We'll all just have to HOPE they do the right thing..... Just like we'll all have to HOPE for a lot of good things to come out of all of these political decisions and appointments. I'm not getting my HOPE up though based on the "quality" of his appointments so far. In six months he's managed to pick how many "problem" appointees? Out of millions of people in this country he seems to have the uncanny ability to choose poorly.
I guess all the "persuasion" MS dumped into getting them to do this in the first place just couldn't offset the crap they had to deal with. I for one am ecstatic. I will never install Silverlight, ever, period. I've seen I don't know how many products or methodologies that MS came out with that they just abandon and say convert or too bad.
Absolutely. Great idea. Set it up, have VM copies on multiple HDs and solid state that you test periodically. Make sure that his application VM isn't contaminated by loading "new" apps. Periodically switch to "new" hardware as need be. I might suggest a Linux OS as host OS.
True story. I take over an app. Enough changes were required that a rewrite made more sense. Done. Single developer, albeit slightly high salary. All the users are happy. Management thinks lets try this new outsourcing thing to India for some new functionality, very focused, specific, uncomplicated effort. I figured (me knowing nothing about complex Word macros) I would probably take 2, maybe 3 weeks without much business people involvement. The "certified" MS developers (3-4) in India after 3 months, 10 bug-filled releases and dozens of hours of biz people involvement finally delivered something that more or less worked.
Somehow this was considered a success. They decide lets hire a bunch of outsourced staff and replace me because they could get 3-4 people at what they paid me. Well after a year or so of unhappy clients, missed or buggy deliveries, etc, I get a call to undo the mess they made. I discover none of the new features they were supposed to deliver worked so all that time and money was simply thrown away. Fortunately since my initial departure I had been working for another division directly (not via IT) that recognized that I was a valuable resource not to be lost.
Six years later, history repeats itself. Another IT-driven outsourcing "effort" has been in the works to consolidate 3 applications, now it's 2. I've just been informed they are over another year behind in developing phase 2 which would bring it up to 2.5 years behind. Phase 1 is still not acceptable. I'm also more or less being told not to further enhance my app, twiddle my thumbs. Can you just see the savings?
I happily see some small, specialized groups efficiently delivering quality and sadly I see repeated efforts to outsource to people that have zero knowledge about the biz requirements which results in waste of time and money. Management needs to get it thru their thick heads that developing apps cannot be treated like making shirts. A seamstress is a seamstress is a seamstress. Maybe the stitching quality is a little different, not as straight, etc. It still functions as a shirt. An application is not that, if the code is crooked either the results are flawed or it simply doesn't function.
The messiah has spoken, everybody check your nukes at the door. Let's get rid of ours so we can be held hostage by the likes of North Korea. We should switch over to neutron nukes which makes the threat of use more realistic.
OS is irrelevant. I've had more than a handful of memory modules go bad over the years. If memtest86 (there's a memtest86+ now too) detects an error get new memory. Running different OS or tasks or switching modules around may seem to "fix" it but it's not. It's either avoiding the problem spot or the memory error didn't cause whatever to blow up. It eventually will. You might be writing bad data to your disk, miscalculating something, etc. Sometimes it looks like the OS is corrupted. Writing this makes me think it a good idea to run memtest once a month or at least once a quarter.
I've been doing this for 30 years now, nearly 20 as a consultant/contractor. I don't like to write documentation but I whip stuff out faster than most and do the work of most 3-5 person teams. I'm extremely loyal and committed to my job. I'm very gracious to all and don't smell. I obviously save my employers a huge amount of money even though I am being paid at premium rates. So what should be happening here? Take some of the money they saved and hire a documentation writer even if this is on a part-time basis. They are relatively cheap, they might even like writing documentation. I have no problem communicating with someone performing this function. After all they are doing something I don't want to do but should be done. As for rude, smelly, obnoxious, uncooperative, etc. There's just no place for those people. I was the replacement for someone like this. That was 10 years ago.
Apparently Pelosi has been passing out the home grown across the aisles too. So I guess every wireless device's MAC address will have to be registered as you purchase it? Oops, there's that darn MAC spoofing thing going on. So if something "illegal" is downloaded via wireless and none of my devices match the MAC address in the log I'm absolved, right? I'm glad our government has the time to waste on things like this. What country can I move to where the government is efficient even if it is corrupt? This corrupt and ignorant stuff just isn't working for me anymore.