> I can tell you right now that the publicly traded company I work for would never switch to Google's online office software because of the > security risk associated with us putting our closely held financials online with the potential of them getting stolen.
A lot of small to medium sized companies have outsourced their email services and their human resources databases to outside companies. This is not much different.
> Now that Linus is around, Office's days on the Mac may be numbered.
Most PC users who use Office get it with the PC. The PC venders license Office for a fraction of the cost. All Mac users who use Office paid full price for it. Even though the numbers are small, the profit is high for Mac Office. Linux users on the other hand are very unlikely to dish out $350-$450 for a copy of Office for Linux.
> I hope that rivers make more sense generally -- i.e., movement by river should be faster than overland. The model in Civ III leads to > explorers going from mountaintop to mountaintop, which is not at all historically accurate.
Or the often maligned fact that trains move across the world instantaniously, but it takes an aircraft 20 years to do the same. Civ has always been great up to about the invention of gunpowder, then it breaks down into a total mess.
> Why the hell would writing you password on post-its be a stupid idea? Everywhere I've worked > the IT people didn't give a shit about the guy in the next room or cube getting your password. It was > the people outside the building that mattered.
Because that post it note can be on the CEO's computer, and letting everyone read his/her email could be quite a legal problem.
> However, my point was that movies condemning capitalism and far out-number those extolling it.
We're off topic here, but I would argue that 99% of Hollywood movies extoll the virtues of capitalism. Since we are part of the system (I am American), we do not recognize it. When looked at from the outside, our propoganda is no less blatant than that of Communist Russia. Just not directly controlled by the government.
> The V comic book was great -- this film will suck because the Wachowskis are hacks, living it large off one good film (albeit one > with an obvious and portentious, pretentious dialofue carried by its special effects).
I don't remember many special effects in Bound? It is definately their best film. Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon, yumm.
> They are not intersted in supporting third-party PCs and never have been. Ever.
> Ever? Seems like you forgot about the clones era.
Apple did NOT support the clones. The clone manufacturer did. Including their own special extensions/drivers to get their specific hardware working in MacOS.
> The EFF is defending the right of the person to not have his hard disk go through an unauthorized > search.
I don't see this being any different from someone leaving child porno pics in the pocket of his coat when he brings it to the tailor to have a button replaced. What would the precedent be if the tailor called the cops? If you give your harddrive to another person, that other person might look at the files.
> As reasonable as these advocates try to appear, the fact that they're not appeased after all of > these ratings systems are instituted is proof positive that nothing short of eradicating > objectionable material will please them.
Why do you think that that will please them? They will just find something else to hate/complain about. At one time Rock and Roll was the end of civilisation. Before that it was women voting.
> Remember, everyone wants the politicians living inside the little electrical box to tell them what > to do. Anything else is too much added stress - unless they can place the blame on someone else.
Obligatory Devo quote: "Freedom of choice is what you've got. Freedom from choice is what you want."
Obligatory Talking Heads quote: "Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was."
> If you're that into games, why don't you just get a dedicated game machine, e.g., PS2, Xbox, etc., for > games and a Mac to do the rest of your stuff?
>I am not the original poster, but games you play on a PC are very different from the ones you play on > consoles. If you like MMORPGs (e.g. World of Warcraft), FPSs (e.g. Unreal), RTSs (e.g. Rome: > Total War) then having a console does not help you at all.
You could always play World of Warcraft or Unreal on your Mac. They are available for MacOS X.
It's sad that he did not find out about his heart condition until it was too late. What does the fact that he was playing computer games have to do with ANYTHING?
> What do you think would happen to the world economy if Microsoft only would release longhorn for > PPC?
The economoy would be in better shape because companies wouldn't feel forced to shovel piles of money at M$ and Intel to upgrade their systems and would continue to use their current systems which work just fine?
> A product with the market penetration as big as Windows is always going to be cracked, as soon as >possible after it comes out. No matter what they do to try and prevent it, which is why some companies >don't spend that much on anti-piracy for the product on release now, something microsoft can't >do... so they have to try their best.
Please, anyone sane who has mod points, MOD THIS DOWN!
>Perhaps some of Mr. Tierney's considerable ire should be redirected towards the hordes of lazy > sysadmins who had a solution for the Sasser worm, but chose complacency over vigilance.
In the real world sysadmin are often not allowed to upgrade or patch production servers because of the required downtime and testing needed for the production apps running on those servers. Do not blame the admins, they are between a rock and a hard place. If anything, blame them for taking jobs supporting M$'s sorry excuse for an operating system, instead of something production worthy, like, oh, Solaris.
> I think you will find that all economically viable computers had BASIC long before MS existed.
Back in the 80's, the TRS-80, Commodore Pet, etc. didn't have anything like a DOS. Instead the machine booted up into a Basic interpreter, and that was all you had to work with. Type program, run program, load program to tape, load program from tape. No filesystem, no networking, one program at a time.
> You may "have a solid background in psychology", but you don't understand what 'cold reading' is. > Cold reading does NOT depend on meeting the victim before hand, or even knowing anything about > them before hand. That would be 'hot reading'. From Wikipedia: "Generally, the cold reader will > make a series of vague statements, will observe the subject's reactions, and then will refine the > original statements according to those reactions"..."even without prior knowledge of a > person, a psychic could still obtain a great deal of his subject's history by carefully > analysing his or her look and other background information, such as gender, religion, race, > education level and place of origin."
I was a physics major in college and I read tarot cards for fun. Go figure.:-) Tarot is fun because you have lots of symbols to build your reading.
I tell the person for whom I am doing the reading that Tarot cannot tell the future, and that it is a game. I have gotten pretty good at cold reading, and even after telling them it is fake, I have had many people amazed at the accuracy of the reading. Even after telling them that it is fake, they still want to believe that it is real. I call it fun with random numbers.
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> I can tell you right now that the publicly traded company I work for would never switch to Google's online office software because of the
> security risk associated with us putting our closely held financials online with the potential of them getting stolen.
A lot of small to medium sized companies have outsourced their email services and their human resources databases to outside companies. This is not much different.
jfs
> Now that Linus is around, Office's days on the Mac may be numbered.
Most PC users who use Office get it with the PC. The PC venders license
Office for a fraction of the cost. All Mac users who use Office paid full price for it. Even though the numbers are small, the profit is high for Mac Office. Linux users on the other hand are very unlikely to dish out $350-$450 for a copy of Office for Linux.
jfs
> I hope that rivers make more sense generally -- i.e., movement by river should be faster than overland. The model in Civ III leads to
> explorers going from mountaintop to mountaintop, which is not at all historically accurate.
Or the often maligned fact that trains move across the world instantaniously, but it takes an aircraft 20 years to do the same. Civ has always been great up to about the invention of gunpowder, then it breaks down into a total mess.
jfs
> Um, dude, the Sun does not have the required mass to go nova. :)
You mean super nova. A nova is a white dwarf in a binary+ system.
jfs
> I still don't get why people are so enamored with Apple. For every piece of FUD Microsoft spews, Apple
> tosses out a lawsuit.
Because Apple makes great stuff, as opposed to the M$ monopoly offal that we are forced to use at work.
jfs
> Why the hell would writing you password on post-its be a stupid idea? Everywhere I've worked
> the IT people didn't give a shit about the guy in the next room or cube getting your password. It was
> the people outside the building that mattered.
Because that post it note can be on the CEO's computer, and letting everyone read his/her email could be quite a legal problem.
jfs
> However, my point was that movies condemning capitalism and far out-number those extolling it.
We're off topic here, but I would argue that 99% of Hollywood movies extoll the virtues of capitalism. Since we are part of the system (I am American), we do not recognize it. When looked at from the outside, our propoganda is no less blatant than that of Communist Russia. Just not directly controlled by the government.
jfs
> Hawking didn't come up with that idea; why are you giving him credit for it?
Didn't you know that all physics was devised by Newton, Einstein, or Hawkings. No one else involved. No siree.
jfs
> The V comic book was great -- this film will suck because the Wachowskis are hacks, living it large off one good film (albeit one
> with an obvious and portentious, pretentious dialofue carried by its special effects).
I don't remember many special effects in Bound? It is definately their best film. Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon, yumm.
jfs
> They are not intersted in supporting third-party PCs and never have been. Ever.
> Ever? Seems like you forgot about the clones era.
Apple did NOT support the clones. The clone manufacturer did. Including their own special extensions/drivers to get their specific hardware working in MacOS.
jfs
> The EFF is defending the right of the person to not have his hard disk go through an unauthorized
> search.
I don't see this being any different from someone leaving child porno pics in the pocket of his coat when he brings it to the tailor to have a button replaced. What would the precedent be if the tailor called the cops? If you give your harddrive to another person, that other person might look at the files.
jfs
> As reasonable as these advocates try to appear, the fact that they're not appeased after all of
> these ratings systems are instituted is proof positive that nothing short of eradicating
> objectionable material will please them.
Why do you think that that will please them? They will just find something else to hate/complain about. At one time Rock and Roll was the end of civilisation. Before that it was women voting.
jfs
> Remember, everyone wants the politicians living inside the little electrical box to tell them what
> to do. Anything else is too much added stress - unless they can place the blame on someone else.
Obligatory Devo quote: "Freedom of choice is what you've got. Freedom from choice is what you want."
Obligatory Talking Heads quote: "Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was."
jfs
> If you're that into games, why don't you just get a dedicated game machine, e.g., PS2, Xbox, etc., for
> games and a Mac to do the rest of your stuff?
>I am not the original poster, but games you play on a PC are very different from the ones you play on
> consoles. If you like MMORPGs (e.g. World of Warcraft), FPSs (e.g. Unreal), RTSs (e.g. Rome:
> Total War) then having a console does not help you at all.
You could always play World of Warcraft or Unreal on your Mac. They are available for MacOS X.
jfs
> I mean, COME ON! Give the guy a break!
> Hey, that guy is so poor, he obviously needs more problems, so lets slap a lawsuit onto him! Yeah!
Why does anyone think he's poor? Those are not exactly cheap black sheets and comforter on his fedex bed.
jfs
It's sad that he did not find out about his heart condition until it was too late. What does the fact that he was playing computer games have to do with ANYTHING?
jfs
> What do you think would happen to the world economy if Microsoft only would release longhorn for > PPC?
The economoy would be in better shape because companies wouldn't feel forced to shovel piles of money at M$ and Intel to upgrade their systems and would continue to use their current systems which work just fine?
jfs
> A product with the market penetration as big as Windows is always going to be cracked, as soon as
>possible after it comes out. No matter what they do to try and prevent it, which is why some companies
>don't spend that much on anti-piracy for the product on release now, something microsoft can't
>do... so they have to try their best.
Please, anyone sane who has mod points, MOD THIS DOWN!
>The shuttle-as-the-second-stage-of-a-Apollo V was an alternative to the SRBs later in the design.
>I liked that idea signifigantly better, because the Saturn V stage would have been useful for other
> things...
Picking nits, but it's a Saturn I, not a Saturn V, rocket.
jfs
Why is this necessary, when a $2 20 foot cord does the exact same thing? If you need to share Wifi, the modemed Mac/PC can act as a basestation.
jfs
> if it goes national- instant, precise ratings.
About as accurate as web page rankings.
jfs
>Perhaps some of Mr. Tierney's considerable ire should be redirected towards the hordes of lazy
> sysadmins who had a solution for the Sasser worm, but chose complacency over vigilance.
In the real world sysadmin are often not allowed to upgrade or patch production servers because of the required downtime and testing needed for the production apps running on those servers. Do not blame the admins, they are between a rock and a hard place. If anything, blame them for taking jobs supporting M$'s sorry excuse for an operating system, instead of something production worthy, like, oh, Solaris.
jfs
> I think you will find that all economically viable computers had BASIC long before MS existed.
Back in the 80's, the TRS-80, Commodore Pet, etc. didn't have anything like a DOS. Instead the machine booted up into a Basic interpreter, and that was all you had to work with. Type program, run program, load program to tape, load program from tape. No filesystem, no networking, one program at a time.
jfs
There is not a single Walmart in the city of Chicago. We prefer it that way.
jfs
> You may "have a solid background in psychology", but you don't understand what 'cold reading' is.
:-) Tarot is fun because you have lots of symbols to build your reading.
> Cold reading does NOT depend on meeting the victim before hand, or even knowing anything about
> them before hand. That would be 'hot reading'.
From Wikipedia: "Generally, the cold reader will
> make a series of vague statements, will observe the subject's reactions, and then will refine the
> original statements according to those reactions"..."even without prior knowledge of a
> person, a psychic could still obtain a great deal of his subject's history by carefully
> analysing his or her look and other background information, such as gender, religion, race,
> education level and place of origin."
I was a physics major in college and I read tarot cards for fun. Go figure.
I tell the person for whom I am doing the reading that Tarot cannot tell the future, and that it is a game. I have gotten pretty good at cold reading, and even after telling them it is fake, I have had many people amazed at the accuracy of the reading. Even after telling them that it is fake, they still want to believe that it is real. I call it fun with random numbers.
jfs