The existence of icarrier is abusive. And, the decision to implement it is abusive on the parts of SENIOR management at each carrier that had it installed.
Middle management? Really? Dude - middle management decides how often the floors should be swept and mopped, how often machines are to be oiled, and which personnel are on call on holiday weekends. Upper management decides what hours the plant will be open, they determine budgets, and other important stuff. Executives - you know, like CEO's decide what products the company is going to offer, and the features incorporated into them. Icarrier may have been the brainchild of some lesser minion, but executives decided to use it.
The KGB and Stasi were remarkably successful at what they did. Yes, I know that the US is moving beyond their example, but how far down that road are we? IMO, the UK is much further along than the US is. And, you could probably make a case for the UK surpassing the USSR. But, citations are in order, if you make that attempt. Not to mention, any attempts to quantify and to qualify the comparisons might be suspect. Are there records available somewhere, documenting how many Stasi there were, and how frequently they monitored each citizen? Can we check their reliability in identifying "enemies of the state"?
Your final sentence is almost certainly correct. But, how do we verify that?
I can't help remembering that Jobs was brought back for a reason. The company was headed downhill without him, so they begged him to come back. And, if that damned iPhone could connect to the afterlife, they'd be begging him to come back AGAIN!
astroturfer, and troll tied into one? Come on, Phanboi - how long has Motorola been around? How long has Motorola been making radio devices? Go on, look at their history - then come back and tell us that Apple hasn't intentionally aped a single Motorola feature.
Oh, as for those "industry trends" that you cite? The trends these day favor Asian manufacturers. Blame Apple, among hundreds of other major US corporations, for having outsourced everything they could outsource. Face it, if you're training Asians to do all your work, and you're NOT training any Americans or Europeans, then you're actively promoting Asian growth while inhibiting American and European growth.
I don't feel sorry for Apple, or any other company that has been exploiting Asian labor markets. Fuck 'em all.
Somehow, you're missing a point. It is stupid to rely on computers to the point that business comes to a halt when the computers die. You continue to point at this one instance, and proclaim "No one is dieing here." You simply miss the point.
Double posting here - sorry 'bout that. But, you might look in the news for flooding in Pakistan and India, in recent years.
Pakistan gets hammered by floods, because they have no flood control at all. They lack the education, the will, and the finances to build flood control dams. India, on the other hand, suffers some localized damage during the monsoon seasons - but they don't suffer vast areas and huge populations being destroyed.
I recall on news article, in which Pakistani people accused India of causing the floods. That accusation alone should give you an idea of the relative power of these two nations. Uneducated Pakis confer upon the superior foreigners the power to cause floods, and to withhold the rains.
No, I am not Indian. I am an American, descended from Native American, Western European, and Eastern European ancestors.
India does indeed wield some real power, in terms that Americans can understand, apart from their military power. I DO NOT mean to suggest that India is as powerful as some other nations, such as the US, Japan, Russia, or China. I do, however, recognize that India possesses real power.
Try looking up the Bombay Stock Exchange and/or National Stock Exchange of India. There, you see raw power, as understood and respected by our Wall Street people. NOTICE that I've not attempted to quantify that power, only to qualify it as "power".
Next, take a look at Bollywood. Again, you see raw power - the power to shape popular culture, just as Hollywood has done in the US, and around the world. Also, again, NOTICE that I've not quantified that power. You may or may not wish to do the research to quantify either the financial or the cultural power that India possesses.
Further, I point to India's manufacturing power. Chemicals, to home furnishings, foods to textiles, leather to plastics. India has an economy that is somewhat less healthy than the US, but India's economy is growing. Whereas, the US economy has been (at best) stagnant for the last decade.
To summarize - India is not the backwater nowhere that so many other African and Asian nations are. Or, even some Eastern European nations.
You must understand what power is, to recognize it when you see it.
Pakistan or Afghanistan, compared to India, are indeed backwater nowhere countries, populated by inbred tribals with no future.
Since Iran was the center of discussion - I'd say that Iran stands somewhere above both Afghanistan and Pakistan, but they run a far distant second place to India. That would remain true if Iran actually possessed India's military power.
Linux sacrifices a bit of convenience, yes. Depending, of course, on what one means by "convenience". Most of the world's computer users have conveniently forgotten all about DOS, and CLI. You and I rely on the terminal, but we are a rare breed. Several people have commented many times, among them Hairyfeet, that until Linux forgets about terminals, we'll never compete with Windows.
Convenience. Installation is more "convenient" in Windows, for sure. Click the installation file, click through all the nag screens, and you're done. Here, in the Linux world, I either install from a trusted repository, using a dedicated application for that purpose, OR, I find a.bin,.run, or a tar file somewhere, and run them. That sometimes gets pretty complicated.
Of course, you and I believe that the end result is worth the effort. We pretty much know our systems. Windows users usually know squat about their system, instead "trusting" Microsoft and whoever created their little installation files. "Do you want to install DancingPonies.exe?"
Businesses DO come to a screeching halt, when the computer quits. I've seen it at banks, grocery stores, gas stations - you name it. The lights flicker, the computers all go offline, and business stops.
In this case, the hospital is indeed handling emergency cases - but the hospital remains crippled. If/when a hospital gets a virus on their network, that should not impact their ability to care for people, simple as that. Life and death should come before considerations of speed, convenience, profitability. or whatever excuses anyone might throw out there for relying on computers.
Uhhhh - I think you're wrong there. Faced with the done deed, the rest of the world wouldn't have done shit to the US, not even sanctions. And, be honest - which nations, exactly, would have had the power to do anything about it? We have, in the lineup, China, Russia, the UK, India, France, and the rest of Europe. Which of them could have led a coordinated effort to punish the US for nuking any number of mideast nations after 9/11? Which of them would have WANTED TO?
Uhhhh - you put Pakistan on the same list as India? Odd. India has it's share of inbred tribals, they have their share of corruption, and they have their share of idiots in office. But, Pakistan? They are nothing BUT a bunch of inbred tribals! Power? They know nothing of power, outside of sword rattling.
And, I strongly suspect that the US military knows exactly how to take out each and every one of Pakistan's weapons, in the event that Pakistan finally rolls over, and allows the Taliban to take control. Pakistan simply doesn't have any real power.
Today's Iranian government might stand shoulder to shoulder with Pakistan, but they don't have a prayer of joining ranks with India.
Hah. As a veteran, yeah, the Russians WERE the "bad guys". I guess a lot of adults today are to young to remember the Cold War.
But, today, no. The Russians are no longer the "bad guys". But, neither are we the "good guys". Today, we're just assholes, and the Chinese stand at a crossroads, where they could be the new "bad guys" or the new "good guys". Russia? Let's wait for their next revolution before we decide what the hell they are.
Hey, look a the earth. Let's suppose that God created mankind for a moment. Somehow, he messed up. He permitted all the people of the world to discover other people in the world. Look where that got us. Genocide, slavery, war, commercial exploitation, KKK, Black Panthers, Jihad, and more.
Seems he might be more of an asshole bastard if he DID permit ten thousand civilizations to stumble upon each other!
Every single operating system known to man is prone to viruses - some more so than others. More to the point, would be asking about exploits, rather than viruses. All systems have exploits. The only reason Linux and/or Mac is more secure than Windows, is the philosophy behind security. Windows sacrifices security for convenience, Linux sacrifices some convenience for security, and Mac is somewhere between the two.
But, an idiot can compromise any system, in about two heartbeats, if he is given admin powers.
The user is key, when it comes to security! No Linux user is willing to trust the health of his system to Symantec. Millions of users are willing to trust Symantec.
While that may be so, an idiot is an idiot, whether he be a customer or not.
In fact, much of American business is dedicated to exploiting idiots. Half or more? There really are a lot of legitimate businesses, that have products to sell to intelligent people. The rest? Bank of America comes to mind. They do provide some invaluable services that are necessary to the economy. At the same time, they enjoy ripping off the clueless idiots who can't survive without an 18% (or higher) interest credit cart.
What was I saying? Idiots. Corporate America loves idiots!
I don't have any points left, or you'd be +5 right now.
I always amazes me when business comes to a screeching halt, when the power goes out. Or the computer crashes. Or, whatever. FFS, people, life goes on, with or without computers! The grocer can sell milk and eggs without a computer, traffic lights can work without a computer, manufacturing can go on without computers, and doctors can operate without a computer!
I just LOVE computers - but I can perform any job given me, without a damned computer to hold my hand, or look over my shoulder, or whatever.
Granted, a hospital is a huge, complex organization. But, they don't have any backup systems, just in case their computers go haywire?
Again - how do we know this? Our current understanding of FTL travel suggests that one might travel in time. Some fine minds have looked at the question, and drawn some conclusions regarding time. The fact is, we can't prove any such thing, given our current level of development. In short, we are doing little more than guessing.
As for "icky" - reality is what it is. Doesn't matter what we think of it, or how we perceive it to be. Reality just is.
I've had pretty good luck with gnash, myself. To be perfectly honest, though, I most often right click the video, and save it to disk, then view it locally, in VLC.
Lightspark, I just looked at, and never did try it. Maybe I'll test it out soon.
I had to listen to the mp3 to understand what the hell this was all about. And, yes, it's just a frigging croak. I've heard a couple of females make those sounds - usually during late night exercises.
Off on a slight tangent here - but if you don't install Adobe flash, you can still watch flash movies in your browser. And, it does happen to be Adobe's version of flash that has grown infamous for vulnerabilities. Likewise, Adobe's PDF reader is the vector for PDF vulnerabilities. So, if I install some other PDF reader, and some other version of flash, I might (probably will) be secure from most vulnerabilities. Right?
Microsoft has lost their standing as the most common attack vector, giving way to Adobe, the last I read.
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Says who? You've made a braindead assumption that the flu can only be transmitted from one human to another, directly. DUHHH!!
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Actually - if there is a God, he could have created life on an infinity of worlds, and separated all the worlds intentionally. The absence or the presence of life and/or intelligent life that is visible to us has absolutely nothing to do with the existence of God. Nothing.
No FTL? That's a proven fact - how? Those who assume that no possible sentient beings throughout the galaxy have ever built an FTL also ASSume that our knowledge of physics is flawless.
What we need is another bizarro, like Einstein, to stand the world on it's head. Someone who can look at all those computations, spot a couple of mistakes, draw a few conclusions, and come up with a hypothesis. What if, Einstein were only 85% correct?
I'm not about to go out on a limb, and say that FTL_is_possible, but neither will I go out on your limb, and say that FTL_is_not_possible.
I think - not a statement of fact, but an opinion - that FTL is probably possible. There are at least tens of thousands of questions to be answered before it becomes a reality, but I think it's possible. The energy required to power a ship large enough for a crew of ten, and say a hundred passengers would be more than astronomical - but possible.
And, do you know what? The jury is still out. You can't prove the impossibility, any more than I can prove the possibility. We'd get the same mileage arguing whether there is a god or not.
Hah-hah-ha-ha! Read what AC posted! In the future, please refrain form being an incompetent grammar nazi! The real grammar nazis will gang up, and kick your simple ass! Chump!
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The existence of icarrier is abusive. And, the decision to implement it is abusive on the parts of SENIOR management at each carrier that had it installed.
Middle management? Really? Dude - middle management decides how often the floors should be swept and mopped, how often machines are to be oiled, and which personnel are on call on holiday weekends. Upper management decides what hours the plant will be open, they determine budgets, and other important stuff. Executives - you know, like CEO's decide what products the company is going to offer, and the features incorporated into them. Icarrier may have been the brainchild of some lesser minion, but executives decided to use it.
Citations?
The KGB and Stasi were remarkably successful at what they did. Yes, I know that the US is moving beyond their example, but how far down that road are we? IMO, the UK is much further along than the US is. And, you could probably make a case for the UK surpassing the USSR. But, citations are in order, if you make that attempt. Not to mention, any attempts to quantify and to qualify the comparisons might be suspect. Are there records available somewhere, documenting how many Stasi there were, and how frequently they monitored each citizen? Can we check their reliability in identifying "enemies of the state"?
Your final sentence is almost certainly correct. But, how do we verify that?
I can't help remembering that Jobs was brought back for a reason. The company was headed downhill without him, so they begged him to come back. And, if that damned iPhone could connect to the afterlife, they'd be begging him to come back AGAIN!
astroturfer, and troll tied into one? Come on, Phanboi - how long has Motorola been around? How long has Motorola been making radio devices? Go on, look at their history - then come back and tell us that Apple hasn't intentionally aped a single Motorola feature.
Oh, as for those "industry trends" that you cite? The trends these day favor Asian manufacturers. Blame Apple, among hundreds of other major US corporations, for having outsourced everything they could outsource. Face it, if you're training Asians to do all your work, and you're NOT training any Americans or Europeans, then you're actively promoting Asian growth while inhibiting American and European growth.
I don't feel sorry for Apple, or any other company that has been exploiting Asian labor markets. Fuck 'em all.
Somehow, you're missing a point. It is stupid to rely on computers to the point that business comes to a halt when the computers die. You continue to point at this one instance, and proclaim "No one is dieing here." You simply miss the point.
PEOPLE should run businesses, not computers.
Double posting here - sorry 'bout that. But, you might look in the news for flooding in Pakistan and India, in recent years.
Pakistan gets hammered by floods, because they have no flood control at all. They lack the education, the will, and the finances to build flood control dams. India, on the other hand, suffers some localized damage during the monsoon seasons - but they don't suffer vast areas and huge populations being destroyed.
I recall on news article, in which Pakistani people accused India of causing the floods. That accusation alone should give you an idea of the relative power of these two nations. Uneducated Pakis confer upon the superior foreigners the power to cause floods, and to withhold the rains.
No, I am not Indian. I am an American, descended from Native American, Western European, and Eastern European ancestors.
India does indeed wield some real power, in terms that Americans can understand, apart from their military power. I DO NOT mean to suggest that India is as powerful as some other nations, such as the US, Japan, Russia, or China. I do, however, recognize that India possesses real power.
Try looking up the Bombay Stock Exchange and/or National Stock Exchange of India. There, you see raw power, as understood and respected by our Wall Street people. NOTICE that I've not attempted to quantify that power, only to qualify it as "power".
Next, take a look at Bollywood. Again, you see raw power - the power to shape popular culture, just as Hollywood has done in the US, and around the world. Also, again, NOTICE that I've not quantified that power. You may or may not wish to do the research to quantify either the financial or the cultural power that India possesses.
Further, I point to India's manufacturing power. Chemicals, to home furnishings, foods to textiles, leather to plastics. India has an economy that is somewhat less healthy than the US, but India's economy is growing. Whereas, the US economy has been (at best) stagnant for the last decade.
To summarize - India is not the backwater nowhere that so many other African and Asian nations are. Or, even some Eastern European nations.
You must understand what power is, to recognize it when you see it.
Pakistan or Afghanistan, compared to India, are indeed backwater nowhere countries, populated by inbred tribals with no future.
Since Iran was the center of discussion - I'd say that Iran stands somewhere above both Afghanistan and Pakistan, but they run a far distant second place to India. That would remain true if Iran actually possessed India's military power.
Linux sacrifices a bit of convenience, yes. Depending, of course, on what one means by "convenience". Most of the world's computer users have conveniently forgotten all about DOS, and CLI. You and I rely on the terminal, but we are a rare breed. Several people have commented many times, among them Hairyfeet, that until Linux forgets about terminals, we'll never compete with Windows.
Convenience. Installation is more "convenient" in Windows, for sure. Click the installation file, click through all the nag screens, and you're done. Here, in the Linux world, I either install from a trusted repository, using a dedicated application for that purpose, OR, I find a .bin, .run, or a tar file somewhere, and run them. That sometimes gets pretty complicated.
Of course, you and I believe that the end result is worth the effort. We pretty much know our systems. Windows users usually know squat about their system, instead "trusting" Microsoft and whoever created their little installation files. "Do you want to install DancingPonies.exe?"
Businesses DO come to a screeching halt, when the computer quits. I've seen it at banks, grocery stores, gas stations - you name it. The lights flicker, the computers all go offline, and business stops.
In this case, the hospital is indeed handling emergency cases - but the hospital remains crippled. If/when a hospital gets a virus on their network, that should not impact their ability to care for people, simple as that. Life and death should come before considerations of speed, convenience, profitability. or whatever excuses anyone might throw out there for relying on computers.
Uhhhh - I think you're wrong there. Faced with the done deed, the rest of the world wouldn't have done shit to the US, not even sanctions. And, be honest - which nations, exactly, would have had the power to do anything about it? We have, in the lineup, China, Russia, the UK, India, France, and the rest of Europe. Which of them could have led a coordinated effort to punish the US for nuking any number of mideast nations after 9/11? Which of them would have WANTED TO?
Uhhhh - you put Pakistan on the same list as India? Odd. India has it's share of inbred tribals, they have their share of corruption, and they have their share of idiots in office. But, Pakistan? They are nothing BUT a bunch of inbred tribals! Power? They know nothing of power, outside of sword rattling.
And, I strongly suspect that the US military knows exactly how to take out each and every one of Pakistan's weapons, in the event that Pakistan finally rolls over, and allows the Taliban to take control. Pakistan simply doesn't have any real power.
Today's Iranian government might stand shoulder to shoulder with Pakistan, but they don't have a prayer of joining ranks with India.
Hah. As a veteran, yeah, the Russians WERE the "bad guys". I guess a lot of adults today are to young to remember the Cold War.
But, today, no. The Russians are no longer the "bad guys". But, neither are we the "good guys". Today, we're just assholes, and the Chinese stand at a crossroads, where they could be the new "bad guys" or the new "good guys". Russia? Let's wait for their next revolution before we decide what the hell they are.
You may, or you may not, have a point there.
Hey, look a the earth. Let's suppose that God created mankind for a moment. Somehow, he messed up. He permitted all the people of the world to discover other people in the world. Look where that got us. Genocide, slavery, war, commercial exploitation, KKK, Black Panthers, Jihad, and more.
Seems he might be more of an asshole bastard if he DID permit ten thousand civilizations to stumble upon each other!
Every single operating system known to man is prone to viruses - some more so than others. More to the point, would be asking about exploits, rather than viruses. All systems have exploits. The only reason Linux and/or Mac is more secure than Windows, is the philosophy behind security. Windows sacrifices security for convenience, Linux sacrifices some convenience for security, and Mac is somewhere between the two.
But, an idiot can compromise any system, in about two heartbeats, if he is given admin powers.
The user is key, when it comes to security! No Linux user is willing to trust the health of his system to Symantec. Millions of users are willing to trust Symantec.
While that may be so, an idiot is an idiot, whether he be a customer or not.
In fact, much of American business is dedicated to exploiting idiots. Half or more? There really are a lot of legitimate businesses, that have products to sell to intelligent people. The rest? Bank of America comes to mind. They do provide some invaluable services that are necessary to the economy. At the same time, they enjoy ripping off the clueless idiots who can't survive without an 18% (or higher) interest credit cart.
What was I saying? Idiots. Corporate America loves idiots!
I don't have any points left, or you'd be +5 right now.
I always amazes me when business comes to a screeching halt, when the power goes out. Or the computer crashes. Or, whatever. FFS, people, life goes on, with or without computers! The grocer can sell milk and eggs without a computer, traffic lights can work without a computer, manufacturing can go on without computers, and doctors can operate without a computer!
I just LOVE computers - but I can perform any job given me, without a damned computer to hold my hand, or look over my shoulder, or whatever.
Granted, a hospital is a huge, complex organization. But, they don't have any backup systems, just in case their computers go haywire?
Again - how do we know this? Our current understanding of FTL travel suggests that one might travel in time. Some fine minds have looked at the question, and drawn some conclusions regarding time. The fact is, we can't prove any such thing, given our current level of development. In short, we are doing little more than guessing.
As for "icky" - reality is what it is. Doesn't matter what we think of it, or how we perceive it to be. Reality just is.
I've had pretty good luck with gnash, myself. To be perfectly honest, though, I most often right click the video, and save it to disk, then view it locally, in VLC.
Lightspark, I just looked at, and never did try it. Maybe I'll test it out soon.
I had to listen to the mp3 to understand what the hell this was all about. And, yes, it's just a frigging croak. I've heard a couple of females make those sounds - usually during late night exercises.
What's curious is, that women are beginning to use those sounds as a form of communication in PUBLIC!! What next? http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=queef in public?
Off on a slight tangent here - but if you don't install Adobe flash, you can still watch flash movies in your browser. And, it does happen to be Adobe's version of flash that has grown infamous for vulnerabilities. Likewise, Adobe's PDF reader is the vector for PDF vulnerabilities. So, if I install some other PDF reader, and some other version of flash, I might (probably will) be secure from most vulnerabilities. Right?
Microsoft has lost their standing as the most common attack vector, giving way to Adobe, the last I read.
Says who? You've made a braindead assumption that the flu can only be transmitted from one human to another, directly. DUHHH!!
Actually - if there is a God, he could have created life on an infinity of worlds, and separated all the worlds intentionally. The absence or the presence of life and/or intelligent life that is visible to us has absolutely nothing to do with the existence of God. Nothing.
Actually - "politically correct" is extreme. Extreme conformity is extremely irritating to those of us who are not conformists.
No FTL? That's a proven fact - how? Those who assume that no possible sentient beings throughout the galaxy have ever built an FTL also ASSume that our knowledge of physics is flawless.
What we need is another bizarro, like Einstein, to stand the world on it's head. Someone who can look at all those computations, spot a couple of mistakes, draw a few conclusions, and come up with a hypothesis. What if, Einstein were only 85% correct?
I'm not about to go out on a limb, and say that FTL_is_possible, but neither will I go out on your limb, and say that FTL_is_not_possible.
I think - not a statement of fact, but an opinion - that FTL is probably possible. There are at least tens of thousands of questions to be answered before it becomes a reality, but I think it's possible. The energy required to power a ship large enough for a crew of ten, and say a hundred passengers would be more than astronomical - but possible.
And, do you know what? The jury is still out. You can't prove the impossibility, any more than I can prove the possibility. We'd get the same mileage arguing whether there is a god or not.
Hah-hah-ha-ha! Read what AC posted! In the future, please refrain form being an incompetent grammar nazi! The real grammar nazis will gang up, and kick your simple ass! Chump!