>>What is so compelling about the MS service to justify forking out $50 to use it when the same can be had for free elsewhere?
If you think that's bad try purchasing an oem copy... errr LICENSE for Office 2007. They send you a cd case, you cut through the stickers that say "You owe us your first born and agree to all this bullshit by breaking this seal." only to find that when you open the case there is no disc, instead, under the clear plastic where the disc would normally be you see "This products does not include discs." Oh... ok... so I need the OPK to load Office 2007 on my customers' computers. Now I get to look forward to "I'm sorry sir, I know you've paid an ungodly amount for this software, but if you want the disc you have to get on microsoft's website and order one." This new garbage on top of WGA and having to call fucking India because you've reinstalled XP on a system provided by a large OEM, using the provided license, is too much. I've started preloading openoffice on our machines; even suggesting that people don't buy microsoft office. The customers that don't exhibit 'contempt prior to investigation' are usually pretty happy and thank me for not burning them for a few hundred bucks.
I am not a microsoft partner, system builder, etc. and therefore I am not forced to do stupid things other than selling their products to people that want them.
(In case you're wondering, I have seven computers in my home, and ONE of them runs Windows because it's a prerequisite for Battlefield 2)
FTA: >> I think that basically the whole tech industry, excepting Microsoft, is now at least partly in the AMP camp.
Industry standards are generally incompatible with Microsoft's longstanding "Rube Goldberg" software development model.
the fact that the government and the media sensationalize war and talk about 'terrorism' as if they weren't committing it themselves... (so we're all scared, in the name of freedom, and the shit that this country stood for almost 200 years ago...) we wouldn't be in this mess.
I mean seriously; would people be freaking the fuck out if it was the Pillsbury dough boy? Or maybe Mario? Should I call the police and let them know that there's a sign on the highway threatening unknown danger if I'm going over 45 miles an hour?
If we can impeach a president over a few blowjobs and then another one can get on TV and say "Fuck you idiots I'm the king." and that's cool then I don't know what the fuck the point is.
"Making copies of information is a natural process, and trying to artifically regulate it to thepoint of authoritarian social control will simply fail."
It will only fail because you took the red pill. =)
I saw something on the discovery channel once about snapping shrimp. There was also a blurb about a species of crab that uses a similar technique to stun prey. These animals can snap their claws at such a speed that it causes a phenomenon known as cavitation. The claw snaps so fast that it creates a sort of bubble from the pressure drop. When the bubble colapses from the sudden increase in pressure it does so very strongly and can damage or even kill an enemy. I wonder if the speed of the shrimp's claw snap is comparable to that of the ant. Unfortunately I can't find any numbers indicating the speed of the shrimp/crab claw snap. Pretty interesting article. =)
I think it's pretty interesting actually. According to sone randomly edited, freely available, possibly erroneous information:
"[AOL] had at one time a customer base that reached over 30 million subscribers" - from aol wikipedia page
"MySpace currently reports just over 99 million members, with 500,000 new members each week." - from myspace wikipedia page
Two different services that can be used relatively easily to meet people, or chat, or for show and tell or whatever. If you've ever logged into aol since... well, probably since qlink; you would be greeted with some wonderful advertisement in which you could purchase an item by clicking on it. It's a modal window so you have to actually click 'No thanks.' to get rid of it. The rate of users being accosted by advertisments would logically increase as advertising to generate revenue increases.
When you go to myspace(the www in general anymore), you get soemthing similar; crazy interactive flash advertisements promising a free ipod or a fantastic mortgage rate. Some of them let you beat famous people with sausages and some make loud annoying sounds unexpectedly on a mouseover. Those are embedded in the page.
So people get used to these things and know where not to click, but the advertisement is still there. The president is still jumping around in boxing gloves just itching to get you that ipod. Or maybe some mice are running around on a tabletop that would like to prevent you from flicking the bean into the dixie cup.
Even if you aren't sucked into the adds you see them. People love MySpace and AOL. And many that hate them still use them anyway. You can't pry AOL or MySpace from their cold dead hands. (AOL not so much these days it seems)
With this kind of exposure there is huge advertising/sales potential and huge data mining potential.
You could get the job done or not get the job done. You could study, use the books, browse endlessly, go to a papermill, do whatever it takes. I would suppose the company would foot the bill for training if your new responsibility *requires* a certification not previously required of you to do your job. It's cheaper to train you than to hire someone else. =)
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>>What is so compelling about the MS service to justify forking out $50 to use it when the same can be had for free elsewhere?
If you think that's bad try purchasing an oem copy... errr LICENSE for Office 2007. They send you a cd case, you cut through the stickers that say "You owe us your first born and agree to all this bullshit by breaking this seal." only to find that when you open the case there is no disc, instead, under the clear plastic where the disc would normally be you see "This products does not include discs." Oh... ok... so I need the OPK to load Office 2007 on my customers' computers. Now I get to look forward to "I'm sorry sir, I know you've paid an ungodly amount for this software, but if you want the disc you have to get on microsoft's website and order one." This new garbage on top of WGA and having to call fucking India because you've reinstalled XP on a system provided by a large OEM, using the provided license, is too much. I've started preloading openoffice on our machines; even suggesting that people don't buy microsoft office. The customers that don't exhibit 'contempt prior to investigation' are usually pretty happy and thank me for not burning them for a few hundred bucks.
I am not a microsoft partner, system builder, etc. and therefore I am not forced to do stupid things other than selling their products to people that want them.
(In case you're wondering, I have seven computers in my home, and ONE of them runs Windows because it's a prerequisite for Battlefield 2)
That's so two hours ago.
FTA: >> I think that basically the whole tech industry, excepting Microsoft, is now at least partly in the AMP camp.
Industry standards are generally incompatible with Microsoft's longstanding "Rube Goldberg" software development model.
the fact that the government and the media sensationalize war and talk about 'terrorism' as if they weren't committing it themselves... (so we're all scared, in the name of freedom, and the shit that this country stood for almost 200 years ago...) we wouldn't be in this mess.
I mean seriously; would people be freaking the fuck out if it was the Pillsbury dough boy? Or maybe Mario? Should I call the police and let them know that there's a sign on the highway threatening unknown danger if I'm going over 45 miles an hour?
If we can impeach a president over a few blowjobs and then another one can get on TV and say "Fuck you idiots I'm the king." and that's cool then I don't know what the fuck the point is.
No, they are going to pay in gil or some bullshit...
yeah I said 'perfect world', not real world
...Cagematch to the death! Two shall enter, one will leave!
Microsoft would secretly funnel $50,000,000 into this kid's legal defense fund through some venture capital firm. =/
Does this mean the big E won't work on my windows 97 anymore?
back in the day... they used to have this ramdisk thing...
Credibility.
It's all being sold in shops in WoW.
I thought Ben Sander worked for AMD.
The question is: Are you going to get 'owned' before you know there is an exploit?
You can't blame the vm if the browser is responsible.
"Making copies of information is a natural process, and trying to artifically regulate it to thepoint of authoritarian social control will simply fail."
It will only fail because you took the red pill. =)
Not to mention admitting to not commenting code when you've been drinking and your boss happens to read slashd... oh shit..
I adapt the OS to me with bubblegum, duct tape, and shellcode. I ain't sharing that shit. /me *spits on the floor*
I suppose taking scale into account would throw in an interesting spin. =)
I saw something on the discovery channel once about snapping shrimp. There was also a blurb about a species of crab that uses a similar technique to stun prey. These animals can snap their claws at such a speed that it causes a phenomenon known as cavitation. The claw snaps so fast that it creates a sort of bubble from the pressure drop. When the bubble colapses from the sudden increase in pressure it does so very strongly and can damage or even kill an enemy. I wonder if the speed of the shrimp's claw snap is comparable to that of the ant. Unfortunately I can't find any numbers indicating the speed of the shrimp/crab claw snap. Pretty interesting article. =)
I think it's pretty interesting actually. According to sone randomly edited, freely available, possibly erroneous information:
"[AOL] had at one time a customer base that reached over 30 million subscribers" - from aol wikipedia page
"MySpace currently reports just over 99 million members, with 500,000 new members each week." - from myspace wikipedia page
Two different services that can be used relatively easily to meet people, or chat, or for show and tell or whatever. If you've ever logged into aol since... well, probably since qlink; you would be greeted with some wonderful advertisement in which you could purchase an item by clicking on it. It's a modal window so you have to actually click 'No thanks.' to get rid of it. The rate of users being accosted by advertisments would logically increase as advertising to generate revenue increases.
When you go to myspace(the www in general anymore), you get soemthing similar; crazy interactive flash advertisements promising a free ipod or a fantastic mortgage rate. Some of them let you beat famous people with sausages and some make loud annoying sounds unexpectedly on a mouseover. Those are embedded in the page.
So people get used to these things and know where not to click, but the advertisement is still there. The president is still jumping around in boxing gloves just itching to get you that ipod. Or maybe some mice are running around on a tabletop that would like to prevent you from flicking the bean into the dixie cup.
Even if you aren't sucked into the adds you see them.
People love MySpace and AOL. And many that hate them still use them anyway.
You can't pry AOL or MySpace from their cold dead hands. (AOL not so much these days it seems)
With this kind of exposure there is huge advertising/sales potential and huge data mining potential.
The 'major gain' here is that kids will get to use computers.
If I get my hands on a beta of vista I can undelete things that I won't create for years?
Nobody has commented on the connotation of the term 'hajjinet'.
You could get the job done or not get the job done. You could study, use the books, browse endlessly, go to a papermill, do whatever it takes. I would suppose the company would foot the bill for training if your new responsibility *requires* a certification not previously required of you to do your job. It's cheaper to train you than to hire someone else. =)