The problem with IE6 is not that it was bad but that people wrote ActiveX applications for it and those applications are still needed.
The problem now is that many organizations have clueless IT departments that do not know how to deploy those old applications via Terminal Services and instead insist that desktop machines stick with IE6.
It does not matter when the first copy of XP was sold, it matters when the last copy was sold. You cannot drop support for something that you sold a few months ago just because it has been on sale for 8 years and there are two newer versions.
My wired choices are the incumbent telephone company at $55/mo for 4M/512K or the cable company at $55/mo for 4M/512K.
My wireless choice if I actually want to get a connection is limited to good old 1-penny-equals-one-dollar, customer-service?-what-is-customer-service? Verizon.
Absolutely. Hire 2000 auditors. If the people knew what was going on then (hopefully) we would not be involved in these wars anymore and the addition of those 2000 people to payroll would allow the removal of many times that number of military personnel.
I'll stick with the flexibility of my bicycle, thank you. At least I can ride around accidents, construction, and gridlick - can't do that with 6 foot wide 3000 pound cars.
Microsoft will be successful with it just like they were successful with netbooks. They came into the game late with an inferior product, but used their position to push the hardware manufacturers and retailers to sell XP netbooks instead of Linux netbooks.
You want to give Congress a bunch of new revenue and you expect them to give it to the people uniformly instead of giving it out to whoever donates the most to their campaigns?
Connect to an open access point. Establish a VPN connection to the router. Configure the router to only route traffic from VPNed clients. What is the problem? Why can VPN be secure but they cannot seem to manage to build a wireless security system?
The problem is the US carriers. Ask for a contract rate including a subsidized phone. Now ask what the rate is if you use your own phone and do not want them to subsidize one. It is the same price.
If another country took over the USA, I would wager that it would cause an influx of new words relating to government and politics and the new rulers would either learn English or get displaced by revolution or new invaders.
I've heard though that they classify customers like me as "dead beats" because we don't carry a balance for them to charge interest on.
Not anymore. They used to be able to get really high profit margins on people who carried balances. They did not want to waste their time with you. Now so many of those people are failing to pay that somebody who charges hundreds of dollars a month and pays it all off, getting the credit card company a nice consistent income by way of transaction fees with very little risk, looks pretty good.
Secret ballot is how we impose our morals upon others anonymously.
The issue with petitions it that it would be prohibitively expensive to create a system to submit petitions for anonymous votes exactly one time per eligible voter. It is not anonymous because it cannot be validated if it is.
Please take your "they are imposing their morals" rhetoric somewhere else.
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The problem with IE6 is not that it was bad but that people wrote ActiveX applications for it and those applications are still needed.
The problem now is that many organizations have clueless IT departments that do not know how to deploy those old applications via Terminal Services and instead insist that desktop machines stick with IE6.
It does not matter when the first copy of XP was sold, it matters when the last copy was sold. You cannot drop support for something that you sold a few months ago just because it has been on sale for 8 years and there are two newer versions.
My wired choices are the incumbent telephone company at $55/mo for 4M/512K or the cable company at $55/mo for 4M/512K.
My wireless choice if I actually want to get a connection is limited to good old 1-penny-equals-one-dollar, customer-service?-what-is-customer-service? Verizon.
Absolutely. Hire 2000 auditors. If the people knew what was going on then (hopefully) we would not be involved in these wars anymore and the addition of those 2000 people to payroll would allow the removal of many times that number of military personnel.
I'll stick with the flexibility of my bicycle, thank you. At least I can ride around accidents, construction, and gridlick - can't do that with 6 foot wide 3000 pound cars.
Oh and by the way my bicycle uses no gas at all.
Professors that do not do any research but only teach forget what it is like to learn, and then they can no longer teach.
I agree that most professors should be doing more teaching and less research, but they should be doing research.
Microsoft will be successful with it just like they were successful with netbooks. They came into the game late with an inferior product, but used their position to push the hardware manufacturers and retailers to sell XP netbooks instead of Linux netbooks.
Holy guacamole! You can get 15Mbps for $50 USD? Shit, I pay $50 USD for 1.5Mbps/384Kbps. The US of A really sucks when it comes to telecommunications.
If you think you are underpaid, you have two options. Ask for more money and quit if you do not get it, or quit.
You want to give Congress a bunch of new revenue and you expect them to give it to the people uniformly instead of giving it out to whoever donates the most to their campaigns?
Right, because the only way to implement "cap" would be an immediate and complete ban. It would be impossible to phase it in.
"Cap and trade" may be stupid, but it is not drastic.
"Cap" would be drastic, and probably a lot less stupid.
Except for the reasons you later pointed out:
Those are some pretty major ways that intenral combustion beats electric.
Ok. Get the pro-string-theory scientists and the anti-string-theory scientists together and have them come to a mutually acceptable solution.
Connect to an open access point. Establish a VPN connection to the router. Configure the router to only route traffic from VPNed clients. What is the problem? Why can VPN be secure but they cannot seem to manage to build a wireless security system?
Those concerned about the vilification of BitTorrent should deliberately increase its legitimate uses.
What if the major Linux distributions started using BitTorrent as the default mechanism to retrieve packages?
More likely covering their asses against the FCC.
Really? You think this guy wants facebook and would not simply sell his 84% stake immediately?
The problem is the US carriers. Ask for a contract rate including a subsidized phone. Now ask what the rate is if you use your own phone and do not want them to subsidize one. It is the same price.
I had that problem. Upgrading all clients to the most recent version fixed it.
Bribes and backroom deals are personal stuff.
If another country took over the USA, I would wager that it would cause an influx of new words relating to government and politics and the new rulers would either learn English or get displaced by revolution or new invaders.
See Norman conquest.
Not anymore. They used to be able to get really high profit margins on people who carried balances. They did not want to waste their time with you. Now so many of those people are failing to pay that somebody who charges hundreds of dollars a month and pays it all off, getting the credit card company a nice consistent income by way of transaction fees with very little risk, looks pretty good.
They ripped all that stuff off the Jews.
Secret ballot is how we impose our morals upon others anonymously.
The issue with petitions it that it would be prohibitively expensive to create a system to submit petitions for anonymous votes exactly one time per eligible voter. It is not anonymous because it cannot be validated if it is.
Please take your "they are imposing their morals" rhetoric somewhere else.