Good. You shouldn't be sorry. It's not your fault they're finished. It's everyone who didn't buy their computers from Circuit City, thereby denying Circuit City a profit from the consumer's money.
The mass media industry does not give one fuck about you and will not miss you if you go away.
The day that a significant number of viewers realize this, turn more to the Internet for their shows (for time convenience), and stop watching TV (because it'll be pointless) is the day that the mass media industry starts to care.
Every system has its problems, and if people decide to exploit them, then they become worth fixing. Sometimes, people just need knocked down a peg or two. Maybe it's just Fox's turn.
Hmm...that might work as an argument, except for the fact that a trade secret necessarily has to remain a secret in order to legally qualify as a trade secret. This became known to the users through normal computer usage; no one actually violated the law to find out about PIFTS.exe. Ergo, even if it was illegal to say anything before, it is no longer a trade secret and therefore no longer illegal to talk about.
We should get someone to hand Norton a lawsuit for this, I think. It might make some good/. reads. It'd be especially hilarious if Norton secretly produced malware just so people would have to keep buying Norton's antimalware products.:)
Using quasi-mystical language like "deep connections" in a technical discussion is a good sign the person doesn't know what he's talking about.
But didn't Microsoft way that Internet Explorer was "tightly integrated" into the OS? Seems to me like a "tightly integrated" application would have "deep connections" to the OS.
Hold it, that explains a lot!
*goes out and doubles efforts to convert people away from Windows*
not that i've been to Norton's forums or anything, but i would assume by registering on Norton's forum, you agreed to their TOS which probably state they can censor anything they want and ban anyone they want for any reason.
*checks the forum rules at Norton*
Hmm...maybe the argument could be made, but it wouldn't be a very strong argument. To make the argument would require such an insane stretch of their Participation Guidelines that I don't think anyone will accept an official explanation for the deletion of posts.
Honestly, I think it'd be easier to make up with a reason for PIFTS.exe than it would be to make up a reason for deleting the forum posts on it.
So...Microsoft isn't evil, just unreasonably retarded? Seems like that would explain a lot of their decisions at least since when Ballmer took over. Maybe through the company's whole life, though I don't know much about the time when Gates actually ran the show.
And essentially get rid of select patients' confidentiality privileges with their doctors? That sounds like nonsense at first, but then on second thought, it seems like a good idea with a bad side-effect. Actually, that's not unlike a birth control pill. Ever pay attention to the side-effects on those things? Possible heart attack, stroke, and other deadly stuff, all to prevent pregnancy? I would hope that pregnancy would be seen as merciful relative to an injury/death like that.
Anyway, it's a great idea in theory, because the "punishment" fits the "crime", where here the "crime" is speaking about the doctor. The bad side-effect is that anything that the patient told the doctor in confidence would no longer be confidential. And what you suggest even screws over people who post praises of their doctors. Now, you could remedy your idea to include only those who speak poorly of their physicians, but then again, "speaking poorly of a doctor" is quite a subjective piece of material. Not everyone agrees on what it means to speak poorly of someone.
Um...tl;dr version - sorry, but while it sounds nice, I think there's probably too many problems with your idea.
My best effort was to uninstall an application from "Add/Remove Programs" in Control Panel, and then go into C:\Program Files and manually delete the application's corresponding directory.
What more is needed to truly uninstall something in Windows?
All I'm saying is that if you don't like this country why did you come HERE for an education in the first place? If you don't like it then GET OUT AND DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU IN THE BUM!!!
What the hell...? Dude, I had no choice in being here. I was born in the US, and I've never had the opportunity to leave.
I hope that the quoted bit was directed at foreigners studying over here and not at me.
For a number of classes of people ( genders, ethnic groups, etc ) the mere act of not having the right number of people of a certain class can be construed as proof that there was discrimination.
I realize we're talking about American economic stuff here, and so this goes without saying, but that's retarded. Not hiring enough black people or Asians to work somewhere isn't proof of discrimination. It's proof that the management judged most of them as less qualified for the job than other applicants. At least, that's the only reasonable conclusion that can be drawn. There's no good reason why a concentration of, say, white men in computer-based fields is any sort of discrimination against women or black people. The only conclusion I can reasonably draw is that the white guys must have had better skills than the women or black people who applied.
In which of all the possible worlds does (concentration of one group in your workplace == discrimination against other groups)? Is that the possible world where everyone is horribly paranoid about everything?
I'll admit, I was always lucky with Windows. I was never an idiot with what I tried to install on the system, and I was generally careful with my hardware, so I experienced very few problems, hardware- or software-wise over maybe a decade and a half of Windows usage.
I was just going for common examples of stereotypical Windows problems in my previous post. I think I can count on one hand (without using binary) the number of times I've seen a BSOD. I just never got it through my head that BSODs are hardware problems. Thanks for the reminder.
By the way, does your post mean that we are agreed on my point about IE?
Excellent question. I guess if we want to be perfectly honest, we really can't say for sure, without access to the source code.
However, we tend to infer the instability of Microsoft code from the number of times Internet Explorer crashes in a 24-hour period, and how many BSODs we get in a month.
Clearly, it's broken from an end-user perspective, no matter how efficient the source code looks.
Maybe you should fix your educational system so you'd have smart people on your own. Of course that means you'd also have to pay real wages to teachers, fire the incompetent ones who are unable to learn anything new, but have laid low long enough so you can't fire them legally, etc.
Oh, and actually teach the kids to think for themselves. In short: I don't see that happening anytime soon.
I'm American, and I can't tell you how much I share this desire for a better pubic educational system for the US. I would very much love to see the average US citizen be able to think for himself, rather than just absorb all the crap thrown at us through too many advertisements every day. If you're an average American (at least, this is my impression from what I see as stereotypes), your computer is Windows, your cable and Internet are Comcast high-speed (which isn't that fast on an absolute scale), you bought your car because either (a) it looks nice or (b) you heard that it's environmentally friendly, you work from 9 to 5 five days a week for a middle-class paycheck. And this little bubble is pretty much your life. It's safe. There's no need to think for yourself; the companies you pay monthly for their services have already done that for you.
Screw that. I wanna make my own decisions about stuff I do and buy!
I don't think the ideas get better than this one. Anything I'm looking for, I can find with a Google search, or I can guess at an obvious domain name. Linux.com is as obvious as domain names get. If someone goes to that domain, I think they would expect to have such a place as the parent post describes.
Someone boost the score of the parent post to 5, please!
That is their goal. To return to that glorious place they enjoyed for decades. A competition-free zone.
IANAL, but isn't that blatantly illegal? Like, a monopoly or something? If I'm right, then how is it that they aren't getting struck down left and right?
I'm calling this one as a VERY early patch after release. Give it...a month or two, I say, and someone will find some exploit somewhere to automatically pin something to the taskbar as part of the installation.
Seems like it'd be far too easy. I don't know why, but it just feels like it.
I thought the same thing on reading that. Took me a good minute or so to realize that the two statements were supposed to describe opposite situations, not the same one.
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When you see people drunk, they look, waddle, and quack like ducks? Man, you know some frickin' strange drunk people, Aranykai.
I don't know why people slag off used-car salesmen.
...um...wasn't that the car analogy for this thread? Seemed like it from where I was standing.
Am I sorry they're out of business?
I dunno. Not really.
Good. You shouldn't be sorry. It's not your fault they're finished. It's everyone who didn't buy their computers from Circuit City, thereby denying Circuit City a profit from the consumer's money.
Translation: "I'm an intelligent primate who doesn't like being caged up for your amusement."
Well, now! That monkey is one step ahead of the average American!
*leaves computer to free all the intelligent primates in the zoo*
The mass media industry does not give one fuck about you and will not miss you if you go away.
The day that a significant number of viewers realize this, turn more to the Internet for their shows (for time convenience), and stop watching TV (because it'll be pointless) is the day that the mass media industry starts to care.
Every system has its problems, and if people decide to exploit them, then they become worth fixing. Sometimes, people just need knocked down a peg or two. Maybe it's just Fox's turn.
GP was mocking W7's imposed limit of 3 concurrent apps in it's netbook/basic/whatever-they-call-it version. Not the power of netbooks.
"Starter Edition"
Hmm...that might work as an argument, except for the fact that a trade secret necessarily has to remain a secret in order to legally qualify as a trade secret. This became known to the users through normal computer usage; no one actually violated the law to find out about PIFTS.exe. Ergo, even if it was illegal to say anything before, it is no longer a trade secret and therefore no longer illegal to talk about.
We should get someone to hand Norton a lawsuit for this, I think. It might make some good /. reads. It'd be especially hilarious if Norton secretly produced malware just so people would have to keep buying Norton's antimalware products. :)
Using quasi-mystical language like "deep connections" in a technical discussion is a good sign the person doesn't know what he's talking about.
But didn't Microsoft way that Internet Explorer was "tightly integrated" into the OS? Seems to me like a "tightly integrated" application would have "deep connections" to the OS.
Hold it, that explains a lot!
*goes out and doubles efforts to convert people away from Windows*
not that i've been to Norton's forums or anything, but i would assume by registering on Norton's forum, you agreed to their TOS which probably state they can censor anything they want and ban anyone they want for any reason.
*checks the forum rules at Norton*
Hmm...maybe the argument could be made, but it wouldn't be a very strong argument. To make the argument would require such an insane stretch of their Participation Guidelines that I don't think anyone will accept an official explanation for the deletion of posts.
Honestly, I think it'd be easier to make up with a reason for PIFTS.exe than it would be to make up a reason for deleting the forum posts on it.
ALL THINGS IN MODERATION.
I take things in moderation in moderation.
Does that count?
Hanlon's razor.
So...Microsoft isn't evil, just unreasonably retarded? Seems like that would explain a lot of their decisions at least since when Ballmer took over. Maybe through the company's whole life, though I don't know much about the time when Gates actually ran the show.
Courts enforce contracts, not the government.
The courts are one of the three arms of government , you insensitive clod. (N.B. That wasn't flamebait, it was a flame, plus he deserved it.)
Fixed that for you.
And essentially get rid of select patients' confidentiality privileges with their doctors? That sounds like nonsense at first, but then on second thought, it seems like a good idea with a bad side-effect. Actually, that's not unlike a birth control pill. Ever pay attention to the side-effects on those things? Possible heart attack, stroke, and other deadly stuff, all to prevent pregnancy? I would hope that pregnancy would be seen as merciful relative to an injury/death like that.
Anyway, it's a great idea in theory, because the "punishment" fits the "crime", where here the "crime" is speaking about the doctor. The bad side-effect is that anything that the patient told the doctor in confidence would no longer be confidential. And what you suggest even screws over people who post praises of their doctors. Now, you could remedy your idea to include only those who speak poorly of their physicians, but then again, "speaking poorly of a doctor" is quite a subjective piece of material. Not everyone agrees on what it means to speak poorly of someone.
Um...tl;dr version - sorry, but while it sounds nice, I think there's probably too many problems with your idea.
My best effort was to uninstall an application from "Add/Remove Programs" in Control Panel, and then go into C:\Program Files and manually delete the application's corresponding directory.
What more is needed to truly uninstall something in Windows?
All I'm saying is that if you don't like this country why did you come HERE for an education in the first place? If you don't like it then GET OUT AND DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU IN THE BUM!!!
What the hell...? Dude, I had no choice in being here. I was born in the US, and I've never had the opportunity to leave.
I hope that the quoted bit was directed at foreigners studying over here and not at me.
For a number of classes of people ( genders, ethnic groups, etc ) the mere act of not having the right number of people of a certain class can be construed as proof that there was discrimination.
I realize we're talking about American economic stuff here, and so this goes without saying, but that's retarded. Not hiring enough black people or Asians to work somewhere isn't proof of discrimination. It's proof that the management judged most of them as less qualified for the job than other applicants. At least, that's the only reasonable conclusion that can be drawn. There's no good reason why a concentration of, say, white men in computer-based fields is any sort of discrimination against women or black people. The only conclusion I can reasonably draw is that the white guys must have had better skills than the women or black people who applied.
In which of all the possible worlds does (concentration of one group in your workplace == discrimination against other groups)? Is that the possible world where everyone is horribly paranoid about everything?
I'll admit, I was always lucky with Windows. I was never an idiot with what I tried to install on the system, and I was generally careful with my hardware, so I experienced very few problems, hardware- or software-wise over maybe a decade and a half of Windows usage.
I was just going for common examples of stereotypical Windows problems in my previous post. I think I can count on one hand (without using binary) the number of times I've seen a BSOD. I just never got it through my head that BSODs are hardware problems. Thanks for the reminder.
By the way, does your post mean that we are agreed on my point about IE?
Excellent question. I guess if we want to be perfectly honest, we really can't say for sure, without access to the source code.
However, we tend to infer the instability of Microsoft code from the number of times Internet Explorer crashes in a 24-hour period, and how many BSODs we get in a month.
Clearly, it's broken from an end-user perspective, no matter how efficient the source code looks.
Maybe you should fix your educational system so you'd have smart people on your own. Of course that means you'd also have to pay real wages to teachers, fire the incompetent ones who are unable to learn anything new, but have laid low long enough so you can't fire them legally, etc.
Oh, and actually teach the kids to think for themselves. In short: I don't see that happening anytime soon.
I'm American, and I can't tell you how much I share this desire for a better pubic educational system for the US. I would very much love to see the average US citizen be able to think for himself, rather than just absorb all the crap thrown at us through too many advertisements every day. If you're an average American (at least, this is my impression from what I see as stereotypes), your computer is Windows, your cable and Internet are Comcast high-speed (which isn't that fast on an absolute scale), you bought your car because either (a) it looks nice or (b) you heard that it's environmentally friendly, you work from 9 to 5 five days a week for a middle-class paycheck. And this little bubble is pretty much your life. It's safe. There's no need to think for yourself; the companies you pay monthly for their services have already done that for you.
Screw that. I wanna make my own decisions about stuff I do and buy!
Everyone knows that the Germans invented everything important
Like those ShamWow towels! :D They're made in Germany, and you know the Germans make good stuff. Just ask Vince! He won't steer you wrong. :)
I don't think the ideas get better than this one. Anything I'm looking for, I can find with a Google search, or I can guess at an obvious domain name. Linux.com is as obvious as domain names get. If someone goes to that domain, I think they would expect to have such a place as the parent post describes.
Someone boost the score of the parent post to 5, please!
That is their goal. To return to that glorious place they enjoyed for decades. A competition-free zone.
IANAL, but isn't that blatantly illegal? Like, a monopoly or something? If I'm right, then how is it that they aren't getting struck down left and right?
I'm calling this one as a VERY early patch after release. Give it...a month or two, I say, and someone will find some exploit somewhere to automatically pin something to the taskbar as part of the installation.
Seems like it'd be far too easy. I don't know why, but it just feels like it.
I thought the same thing on reading that. Took me a good minute or so to realize that the two statements were supposed to describe opposite situations, not the same one.
You are not alone, sir.
Just install Wine and run it through that. /problem>