So we are to trust the government to help us out? Give me break. Did you read the story about the top 10 richest members of congress. I read it and am like they all need to be thrown the hell out. Getting rich off everyone else and the list of entitlements is a joke. They need to all take a 50% pay cut and their pension should have to be used to reduce the deficit. You would be amazed how quick the government would clean up if they all weren't getting paid such high wages for useless work. Lobbyists outlawed as well. Too bad that idea won't fly in DC huh?
Maybe Windows Vista and XP gave you this problem but Windows 7 works fine with hibernating and waking up reasonably well. Windows 7 is everything windows should have been if they didn't rush Vista out the door. And yes I do have and run Linux on my desktops as well as at work. Each OS has its place and function as well as pros and cons.
As someone who works in software support we get customers who try to beat us over the head with RFCs. It would be awesome to compile a good way to look these up as I have tried and it is a piece here and piece there. The software engineers have a list of RFCs they have to use for a given protocol. This should be a good project for someone from the IETF or who is in control of the RFCs to have a good search engine to look these up and mark ones that are obsolete or have a newer RFC apply.
Dogpile seems to work a little better looking up technical things I have found but still lacking.
Give me a break. Seriously this guy expects the government to buy him a video game system? Don't let this spread to the US as there will be an idiot somewhere who will try this. At this rate people are going to expect the government to buy them a phone (oops already does in US) a house (already does in a sense in US) and now a Wii.
They keep this up and I will have to get "injured" and not be able to work anymore so I can sit on my A$$ and get all these freebies. I have worked over 24 years I deserve it. They can go to work now and support me.
Obama kills the constellation program and then starts a new initiative. Is this so he can claim it was his plan instead of Bush's? Sorry but I don't buy it. Fund NASA fully and return the funding for constellation and get back on track. The US should not have to rely on a foreign power to get us to the space station we financed a large chunk of. Extend the shuttle missions to keep things going if we have to. NASA has been one of the best things to come from the US and to mothball it to the point of working on Toyota's mystery gas pedal issue is just an insult.
The FCC should be able to do something. As a Comcast subscriber my Vonage telephone service stopped working reasonably well when they took over the cable internet in my area. When I was with my local cable system before they were bought up I never once had a problem making calls. Miraculously shortly after they took over and starting offering their own service Vonage was no longer useful. This kind of BS needs to stop. They can run out any competition by limiting or putting their service on a higher priority should be justification alone for a class action suit. Of course Vonage is in enough trouble and was of no help in getting it resolved so I discontinued their service and went cell phone only.
It was stupid to retire the shuttle. NASA should design an updated version that can use the same parts for 1 shuttle and work on the Constellation program. ARES 1 was tested and looked good. Then the hatchet job. Get the engineers on the same page/project and restore funding. Otherwise the costs of Russian transportation will continue to go up and be less and less cost efficient. America needs to stay in the Space Exploration arena. We need to keep the engineering talents and develop new talent. Funding private sector projects does not promote this much. NASA is one of the best things we have in the US. We can only hope in less than 3 years the country wises up, votes in a new administration that sees the value and restores funding for NASA and stops making apologies for the US being a great country. Enough said.
Socialism is on the rise in the US. This is just another story of government over reaching in to the lives of the population. First health care now privacy. Next they will tell you what to eat, where to work, when you can go outside. Big brother here we come. At least for the next couple of years until the people wake up and vote these idiots out of office that come up with these stupid laws. *sigh*
Because they make no money on used games. If used games were not available people would be forced to buy the new product in order to play. That is their outlook on it. It costs money for game development and marketing but they make all that when the game is new. You are going to see more of this as time goes on. With Blizzard (warcraft) you could sell the game cds to a person but they would have to take over your account and without Blizzard catching on. That would be hard to do I suppose. Haven't tried it although I have no reason to as I still play.
They do need to fix the healthcare system we all know that. But a government take over is not the answer. Social Security as well as other government controlled services are any example when the Federal Government gets involved it usually screws things up even worse. The main stream news media echos this administration on all the information they put out. We have a right to questions these numbers and I am also in full agreement with Mark Levine that if congress passes this bill it should be immediately challenged in a court of law. To pass a bill that is not finished is not constitutionally correct and legal. Just have the up or down vote and you will see this will fail to pass. They know this. They are trying to buy off people to push this through. The whole problem with this program the way they have it setup is the working class will have to bear a lot of the cost. The wealthy will get hit even worse. I am sorry but I don't agree with that. It is not a sin in the country to be wealthy and we should not be able to force them to pay for something more then a fair share. Until this country cleans up the entire system (Welfare, public aid, illegal immigration) this should not pass. I for one have a problem with taking money from my check to pay for healthcare for someone who is not a legal citizen in this country. When this gets passed the flow of immigration will increase even more as we will get over run. Just watch and see if this passes besides bankrupting the country. I know this post will probably get alot of people angry or disagree but it is everyone's right to speak their mind/opinion in this country. I for one will be watching and if my representatives vote for this I will be voting to get them out of office when their terms come up. 70% of polled people are against this but they still want to pursue it. WTF?!?
Previous versions of Avast also required registering but they would send the key string usually in a few minutes of registration. I used it up until my ISP offered a commercial version for free. My whole family uses computers but none want to be bothered with running scans or updating antispyware so they have the free commercial version. It does slow the machines down a little but they are no longer bothered with having to do tasks as they are done in the background. If I get a virus on the systems then I may go back to avast but for now Symantec is ok.
I hope they get a decent judge that throws this out like the garbage every week. Just because Apple is now the big boy on the block for mobile phones they are going to threaten others. They "reinvented" others IT and now they think they own it. Its like copying the delay windshield wipers on cars not that many years ago or cruise control.
I would second that. I have three installations at home of windows 7. Two systems upgraded from Vista. That was by far the best update you could get for windows. Vista = bloated and slow before the service packs and even then was slower. Windows 7 much faster and what Vista should have been to begin with.
Computers (PCs) would cost roughly 3 times as much as they do today. CPU costs would be off the chart. When there is no competition prices soar. Also we would probably just be getting dual core cpus with maybe 2.3 ghz instead of the quad core 3 ghz models. Not to mention that apple would probably have far more market share because their pricing would have been way more competitive. Whether buying a ready made PC or building your own Money vs performance is always in the mix.
I would agree. Who cares if it is a @aol.com or @live.com or etc. As long as it is a VALID email address and doesn't have party or some obscene name in front of the @ symbol who cares. Look at the quality of the resume and the experience. If you filter based on the email you may miss an employee that not only fills the bill but will work beyond the expectations of the job. How do I know? I am indirectly involved with interviewing candidates at my job. I look at the whole picture before adding it to the consider pile or the round file.
The sick part is this is what you see. They want all this experience and pay nothing. I don't know about everyone else but getting degrees and certifications "cost" money to obtain. When the IT guys (myself included) stop selling ourselves short then the market will change. The problem is they starve some out and they will take a job they are overqualified for and get paid peanuts then the rest of the industry thinks this should be the norm. I have been in IT for over 10 years and this trend has not changed. At least not in the midwest. I see more jobs with temp to hire, wanting all these certifications and experience but the pay doesn't match. Go in the interview and if you ask for "proper compensation consideration" and you know you won't get the job because they mark you as greedy. In this job climate this is what you are going to see. It is an employers market. With over 10% out of work this is the way they want it.
That is what they are. Educated guesses. The scientist gets some information and builds a consensus on a rough time frame. They could be off by a million years but close enough when you are talking billion years. Carbon dating probably couldn't work either because of the differences in atmosphere. It would be cool to send humans to Mars to say we did it and bring back tangible proof like we did for the moon in the 60's. NASA has been wasting alot of money on the shuttle these days and needs to get the next vehicle ready now. Relying on the Russians to transit to and from the ISS is inexcusable for this country. Then on to the moon and build a station on the moon. At first unmanned but eventually setup to be manned like we currently do with the ISS. The only issues would be meteor strikes or significant failure that would prevent astronauts from escaping if there was a life threatening issue.
There was a guard there according to the article. Until it is figured out how to prevent this kind of stuff, this will happen. However to say that is not worth it. Say that to a relative of someone who died in an aircraft that a terrorist got on. A human life is worth more then that. At least it should be.
Well put. We need people like you to run for public office. Tell it how it is and not try to regulate things that shouldn't be. As long as you can turn down large bribes by lobyists and organizations trying to get you to "see" things their way.
I agree. I don't want one tied to my wireless bill or watch ads. If this means subsidized it will fail big time. And the specs are what they want to target. Doesn't mean they will be able to pull it off. Most of these start out saying they can do a through z and when you get to production they can do a through m. Hype!!! Until they have a shipping unit that someone can see, touch and kick the tires on its all speculation.
Just wait till the anointed one (Obama) gets done with his first four years in office. The national debt will be staggering with this health care take over. He will do more damage to this country in 4 years then GW or any other right winger could do in a decade. Just wait and see. When the US gets to a point when there is more then 2 party system to elect officials we are forever going back and forth over this power struggle that gets this country nowhere. I hated both candidates in the last election. We were doomed either way some say. Until the government throws out special interest, lobyists, and other bogus groups trying to buy the government and get it back to serving the people of this country I am scared for my children's future and the future of this country. China is going to own us if this keeps up.
Apple will really make market share when they don't overcharge for their hardware. I don't care that it is spec'd for their OS. The same spec in a PC is substantially cheaper in most cases. When Apple gets more market share and the virus writers start targeting their OS like they do Windows they will see that there not as secure as they thought. Windows still has some work in the security department obviously but it is improving. What it really comes down to with people is cost. When a person walks into Best Buy and can get a pretty powerful PC for less then the entry level Apple they will go that route. Money versus performance. If Apple competitively priced their systems against a PC the market share would shift alot quicker. The next decade will decide if Microsoft endures or falls even further or if Linux and/or Apple take over. I would put money on Microsoft that they will still hold the market share based alone on the server OS. I work in software that is supported (business application) that runs on various platforms. One platform that we don't support is Apple. Why? Not in demand for communications software for major business. Mostly windows, then Linux/Unix and then AS/400.
Windows is still the defacto OS on shipped computers these days. Say what you will but this has not changed. Vista got a lot of bad press. Once the service pack was released it was better. Still not great but better. I ran it with no issues. I moved to 7 and love it. Much less overhead and everything just works. I still have a linux desktop and use it as well. Choice is great but M$ bashing is the norm on here. Without M$ the PC market may not have taken off. At least it wouldn't have like it is today. We all know M$ has a bad reputation on some business practices but they also did alot for the PC world as well.
The reason I think Firefox is taking off is the fact that in IE8 the stop back and forward buttons most of us internet old timers are used to have gone away. People find that confusing. Firefox is getting bloated. They need to come out with a lite version. The plugins are nice but load a few and it takes forever for the browser to open except on fast machines.
For the OS Windows 7 is a nice improvement. 7 is what Vista should have been. Also Mandrake's latest version is pretty nice as well.
For some people that use those services this will be good for them. If and when it gets installed as a default OS for a laptop or netbook remains to be seen. I have been looking at the netbooks but couldn't stomach getting one with XP. 7 might be ok if they tune down its resource requirements or turn some of the eye candy off. Competition is usually a good thing but this is more of Google trying to stomp on Microsoft some as they have been trying everything to get into search more with bing and making it default on their browsers. When a user doesn't have a choice of OS, browser and search engine then we can all scream that it is a conspiracy.
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So we are to trust the government to help us out? Give me break. Did you read the story about the top 10 richest members of congress. I read it and am like they all need to be thrown the hell out. Getting rich off everyone else and the list of entitlements is a joke. They need to all take a 50% pay cut and their pension should have to be used to reduce the deficit. You would be amazed how quick the government would clean up if they all weren't getting paid such high wages for useless work. Lobbyists outlawed as well. Too bad that idea won't fly in DC huh?
Maybe Windows Vista and XP gave you this problem but Windows 7 works fine with hibernating and waking up reasonably well. Windows 7 is everything windows should have been if they didn't rush Vista out the door. And yes I do have and run Linux on my desktops as well as at work. Each OS has its place and function as well as pros and cons.
As someone who works in software support we get customers who try to beat us over the head with RFCs. It would be awesome to compile a good way to look these up as I have tried and it is a piece here and piece there. The software engineers have a list of RFCs they have to use for a given protocol. This should be a good project for someone from the IETF or who is in control of the RFCs to have a good search engine to look these up and mark ones that are obsolete or have a newer RFC apply. Dogpile seems to work a little better looking up technical things I have found but still lacking.
Give me a break. Seriously this guy expects the government to buy him a video game system? Don't let this spread to the US as there will be an idiot somewhere who will try this. At this rate people are going to expect the government to buy them a phone (oops already does in US) a house (already does in a sense in US) and now a Wii. They keep this up and I will have to get "injured" and not be able to work anymore so I can sit on my A$$ and get all these freebies. I have worked over 24 years I deserve it. They can go to work now and support me.
Obama kills the constellation program and then starts a new initiative. Is this so he can claim it was his plan instead of Bush's? Sorry but I don't buy it. Fund NASA fully and return the funding for constellation and get back on track. The US should not have to rely on a foreign power to get us to the space station we financed a large chunk of. Extend the shuttle missions to keep things going if we have to. NASA has been one of the best things to come from the US and to mothball it to the point of working on Toyota's mystery gas pedal issue is just an insult.
The FCC should be able to do something. As a Comcast subscriber my Vonage telephone service stopped working reasonably well when they took over the cable internet in my area. When I was with my local cable system before they were bought up I never once had a problem making calls. Miraculously shortly after they took over and starting offering their own service Vonage was no longer useful. This kind of BS needs to stop. They can run out any competition by limiting or putting their service on a higher priority should be justification alone for a class action suit. Of course Vonage is in enough trouble and was of no help in getting it resolved so I discontinued their service and went cell phone only.
It was stupid to retire the shuttle. NASA should design an updated version that can use the same parts for 1 shuttle and work on the Constellation program. ARES 1 was tested and looked good. Then the hatchet job. Get the engineers on the same page/project and restore funding. Otherwise the costs of Russian transportation will continue to go up and be less and less cost efficient. America needs to stay in the Space Exploration arena. We need to keep the engineering talents and develop new talent. Funding private sector projects does not promote this much. NASA is one of the best things we have in the US. We can only hope in less than 3 years the country wises up, votes in a new administration that sees the value and restores funding for NASA and stops making apologies for the US being a great country. Enough said.
Socialism is on the rise in the US. This is just another story of government over reaching in to the lives of the population. First health care now privacy. Next they will tell you what to eat, where to work, when you can go outside. Big brother here we come. At least for the next couple of years until the people wake up and vote these idiots out of office that come up with these stupid laws. *sigh*
Because they make no money on used games. If used games were not available people would be forced to buy the new product in order to play. That is their outlook on it. It costs money for game development and marketing but they make all that when the game is new. You are going to see more of this as time goes on. With Blizzard (warcraft) you could sell the game cds to a person but they would have to take over your account and without Blizzard catching on. That would be hard to do I suppose. Haven't tried it although I have no reason to as I still play.
They do need to fix the healthcare system we all know that. But a government take over is not the answer. Social Security as well as other government controlled services are any example when the Federal Government gets involved it usually screws things up even worse. The main stream news media echos this administration on all the information they put out. We have a right to questions these numbers and I am also in full agreement with Mark Levine that if congress passes this bill it should be immediately challenged in a court of law. To pass a bill that is not finished is not constitutionally correct and legal. Just have the up or down vote and you will see this will fail to pass. They know this. They are trying to buy off people to push this through. The whole problem with this program the way they have it setup is the working class will have to bear a lot of the cost. The wealthy will get hit even worse. I am sorry but I don't agree with that. It is not a sin in the country to be wealthy and we should not be able to force them to pay for something more then a fair share. Until this country cleans up the entire system (Welfare, public aid, illegal immigration) this should not pass. I for one have a problem with taking money from my check to pay for healthcare for someone who is not a legal citizen in this country. When this gets passed the flow of immigration will increase even more as we will get over run. Just watch and see if this passes besides bankrupting the country. I know this post will probably get alot of people angry or disagree but it is everyone's right to speak their mind/opinion in this country. I for one will be watching and if my representatives vote for this I will be voting to get them out of office when their terms come up. 70% of polled people are against this but they still want to pursue it. WTF?!?
Previous versions of Avast also required registering but they would send the key string usually in a few minutes of registration. I used it up until my ISP offered a commercial version for free. My whole family uses computers but none want to be bothered with running scans or updating antispyware so they have the free commercial version. It does slow the machines down a little but they are no longer bothered with having to do tasks as they are done in the background. If I get a virus on the systems then I may go back to avast but for now Symantec is ok.
I hope they get a decent judge that throws this out like the garbage every week. Just because Apple is now the big boy on the block for mobile phones they are going to threaten others. They "reinvented" others IT and now they think they own it. Its like copying the delay windshield wipers on cars not that many years ago or cruise control.
I would second that. I have three installations at home of windows 7. Two systems upgraded from Vista. That was by far the best update you could get for windows. Vista = bloated and slow before the service packs and even then was slower. Windows 7 much faster and what Vista should have been to begin with.
Computers (PCs) would cost roughly 3 times as much as they do today. CPU costs would be off the chart. When there is no competition prices soar. Also we would probably just be getting dual core cpus with maybe 2.3 ghz instead of the quad core 3 ghz models. Not to mention that apple would probably have far more market share because their pricing would have been way more competitive. Whether buying a ready made PC or building your own Money vs performance is always in the mix.
I would agree. Who cares if it is a @aol.com or @live.com or etc. As long as it is a VALID email address and doesn't have party or some obscene name in front of the @ symbol who cares. Look at the quality of the resume and the experience. If you filter based on the email you may miss an employee that not only fills the bill but will work beyond the expectations of the job. How do I know? I am indirectly involved with interviewing candidates at my job. I look at the whole picture before adding it to the consider pile or the round file.
The sick part is this is what you see. They want all this experience and pay nothing. I don't know about everyone else but getting degrees and certifications "cost" money to obtain. When the IT guys (myself included) stop selling ourselves short then the market will change. The problem is they starve some out and they will take a job they are overqualified for and get paid peanuts then the rest of the industry thinks this should be the norm. I have been in IT for over 10 years and this trend has not changed. At least not in the midwest. I see more jobs with temp to hire, wanting all these certifications and experience but the pay doesn't match. Go in the interview and if you ask for "proper compensation consideration" and you know you won't get the job because they mark you as greedy. In this job climate this is what you are going to see. It is an employers market. With over 10% out of work this is the way they want it.
That is what they are. Educated guesses. The scientist gets some information and builds a consensus on a rough time frame. They could be off by a million years but close enough when you are talking billion years. Carbon dating probably couldn't work either because of the differences in atmosphere. It would be cool to send humans to Mars to say we did it and bring back tangible proof like we did for the moon in the 60's. NASA has been wasting alot of money on the shuttle these days and needs to get the next vehicle ready now. Relying on the Russians to transit to and from the ISS is inexcusable for this country. Then on to the moon and build a station on the moon. At first unmanned but eventually setup to be manned like we currently do with the ISS. The only issues would be meteor strikes or significant failure that would prevent astronauts from escaping if there was a life threatening issue.
There was a guard there according to the article. Until it is figured out how to prevent this kind of stuff, this will happen. However to say that is not worth it. Say that to a relative of someone who died in an aircraft that a terrorist got on. A human life is worth more then that. At least it should be.
Well put. We need people like you to run for public office. Tell it how it is and not try to regulate things that shouldn't be. As long as you can turn down large bribes by lobyists and organizations trying to get you to "see" things their way.
I agree. I don't want one tied to my wireless bill or watch ads. If this means subsidized it will fail big time. And the specs are what they want to target. Doesn't mean they will be able to pull it off. Most of these start out saying they can do a through z and when you get to production they can do a through m. Hype!!! Until they have a shipping unit that someone can see, touch and kick the tires on its all speculation.
Just wait till the anointed one (Obama) gets done with his first four years in office. The national debt will be staggering with this health care take over. He will do more damage to this country in 4 years then GW or any other right winger could do in a decade. Just wait and see. When the US gets to a point when there is more then 2 party system to elect officials we are forever going back and forth over this power struggle that gets this country nowhere. I hated both candidates in the last election. We were doomed either way some say. Until the government throws out special interest, lobyists, and other bogus groups trying to buy the government and get it back to serving the people of this country I am scared for my children's future and the future of this country. China is going to own us if this keeps up.
Apple will really make market share when they don't overcharge for their hardware. I don't care that it is spec'd for their OS. The same spec in a PC is substantially cheaper in most cases. When Apple gets more market share and the virus writers start targeting their OS like they do Windows they will see that there not as secure as they thought. Windows still has some work in the security department obviously but it is improving. What it really comes down to with people is cost. When a person walks into Best Buy and can get a pretty powerful PC for less then the entry level Apple they will go that route. Money versus performance. If Apple competitively priced their systems against a PC the market share would shift alot quicker. The next decade will decide if Microsoft endures or falls even further or if Linux and/or Apple take over. I would put money on Microsoft that they will still hold the market share based alone on the server OS. I work in software that is supported (business application) that runs on various platforms. One platform that we don't support is Apple. Why? Not in demand for communications software for major business. Mostly windows, then Linux/Unix and then AS/400.
Windows is still the defacto OS on shipped computers these days. Say what you will but this has not changed. Vista got a lot of bad press. Once the service pack was released it was better. Still not great but better. I ran it with no issues. I moved to 7 and love it. Much less overhead and everything just works. I still have a linux desktop and use it as well. Choice is great but M$ bashing is the norm on here. Without M$ the PC market may not have taken off. At least it wouldn't have like it is today. We all know M$ has a bad reputation on some business practices but they also did alot for the PC world as well.
The reason I think Firefox is taking off is the fact that in IE8 the stop back and forward buttons most of us internet old timers are used to have gone away. People find that confusing. Firefox is getting bloated. They need to come out with a lite version. The plugins are nice but load a few and it takes forever for the browser to open except on fast machines. For the OS Windows 7 is a nice improvement. 7 is what Vista should have been. Also Mandrake's latest version is pretty nice as well.
For some people that use those services this will be good for them. If and when it gets installed as a default OS for a laptop or netbook remains to be seen. I have been looking at the netbooks but couldn't stomach getting one with XP. 7 might be ok if they tune down its resource requirements or turn some of the eye candy off. Competition is usually a good thing but this is more of Google trying to stomp on Microsoft some as they have been trying everything to get into search more with bing and making it default on their browsers. When a user doesn't have a choice of OS, browser and search engine then we can all scream that it is a conspiracy.