Bullshit. That isn't the cost of using anything, it's one (or more) of the following:
- Made up numbers - Wrongly calculated costs - Huge useless management overhead - General spending incompetence - Overpriced licenses (e.g. "must have full Adobe Creative Suite on all PCs and upgrade it yearly") - Users being dumb shits who break their computers on a weekly basis
All the above has little to nothing to do with which OS is being used.
A guy applies for a public sector job. The interviewer asks him if he drinks any coffee, guy says "no, I'm not allowed to have coffee because of the surgery I've done in the past. You know, when I fought in Iraq, a bomb exploded and mangled my balls, so they have been removed." The interviewer remains silent for a minute then says "OK, you're hired, you will come to work at noon every day and leave at 4 PM". Applicant protests: "Look, I know work starts at 8 AM and I don't want to be advantaged because I'm invalid". Interviewer says "No, it's nothing like that. See, we come to work at 8 AM, and have our coffee until 10 AM and then we scratch our balls until noon. So there's nothing that you CAN do until noon, no point in coming in at 8 AM."
Both:) Authorities cheat, wealthy people who are not authorities cheat as well and there's some sort of mutually-advantageous non-involvement agreement going on between the two.
About 8 years back there was a country-wide police audit which intended to find those members of the police force owning unjustified assets. They found... 2 (two) guys and sentenced them to... disciplinary move to the countryside for three years. No further comment.
The people of Lithuania don't seem to mind. 'Authorities have been aided by the local populace. "We received even more support than we expected," said Mr. Kaseliauskas.'
It's only normal and expected. I would help authorities catch the assholes who don't pay their taxes. Unfortunately, where I live authorities don't even try catching them, mainly because they're all the same.
In this case, the employee did something against the Internal company Procedures (HR, Software Usage, Security, etc). In other words, it's called theft and they deserve the punishment handed to them.
Someone found the workaround. http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=1678612&t=1369864427&page=1#comment14298672 Apparently if you have a proxy script set up in IE, Opera won't start. Even funnier, if you do set a proxy script in IE while Opera Next is open, Opera will crash instantly. This is not by any means an obscure bug, it's something that IMO should never have passed even an alpha build.
So... I just downloaded the thing, installed it, clicked on its shortcut... nothing. Looking at Task manager, I see Opera.exe, then opera_crashreporter.exe, then opera_autoupdate.exe popping up. opera_autoupdate.exe stays in the list for a while, then it goes away. That's ALL that happens.
Wow. This browser might be nice... if it only worked.
I wasn't thinking about law-enforced privacy, but rather what the usual citizen thinks about it. In Europe, governments are all up in arms on privacy issues, but the usual citizen rarely gives a rat's ass. In the US, it seems like it's quite the other way around.
Here's what. If someone polls people after they exit a building asking them whether there are CCTVs in that building, I bet they won't be able to tell. This whole "privacy" thing is mostly an american thing. "Don't touch me", "get off my lawn" and such. You have a "my stuff" culture that's intriguing to me. How did it become so prevalent? What's triggering such aggressive behavior towards anything that threatens your privacy, even in theory?
Actually I think the hatred reason is a misinformed idea of privacy threat. Quite interesting, given we're arguably talking about people who we'd expect to be informed and tech-savvy.
A public toilet IS indeed a public place. A gym locker room isn't, as long as it belongs to a private entity. A private company can take CCTV footage wherever they want on their premises as long as they have visible warnings that that's happening. Also, a private company can ban certain electronic devices or behaviors on their premises (think "no smoking" or "no video capture"). There are quite a few toilets, elevators, churches running 24/7 CCTV. They're indeed not placed for full frontal view of your wiener while you take a piss, but that's outside the scope of the conversation. As a matter of fact, it's difficult to even find a good restaurant or any store with no CCTV.
All those are good candidates for uploading footage on the Internet (LiveLeak thrives on such occurrences, as a matter of fact). But you're bothered by Google Glasses. Seriously? Come on...
Yeah well some people get "offended" by pretty much anything, starting with normal conversations 10 feet away from them ("YOU MAKE TOO MUCH NOISE") and ending with walking your dog in a park ("KEEP THAT BEAST AWAY"). I know a guy who was offended by the word "dude" (he said it was "disrespectful").
I would tell them to "grow a pair" but that would be considered offensive too. Sigh...
Not being an American, maybe it's a culture difference but around here, we assume ownership of what we buy. If people want to "secretly" buy stuff, they simply don't do it online. They go to the store and buy the stuff. Or they go to the grey/black market if they feel like taking the chance.
Of course, some things such as cigarettes, liquor or sex stuff (toys, etc) require you to be 18 or older (in my country at least) so you have to present an ID card upon purchase, even offline. Sure, they don't make a copy of it but a hi-res surveillance camera located in a good position would do the trick just fine.
There are things YOU DO NOT ORDER ONLINE if you don't want them to be linked to yourself. Prescription meds and sexual aides are two of them. It's ironic that you trust a seller enough to submit all your super-private information, but you don't trust your e-mail provider enough for the same thing.
To me, my e-mail provider is far more important than a website where I do my shopping.
I fully agree; when I see someone saying "my name/address is private information" I feel like cracking a big smile. Or pitying them. Whichever comes first.
Competition makes sense up to some extent. But when you're literally drowning in an olympic-sized pool of bills, we're not talking about "dog-eat-dog", adaptation and survival. We're talking about something that's becoming pathological. It's somewhat of an "I-want-more" disease, where you're spiralling down the "give moah" path and there's no end in sight.
Wat these giants don't get is that their high level fight is making thousands of people suffer directly; no raises because armies of lawyers must be paid, layoffs because war chests must be filled, forced overtime because the other giant does the same to his people. This is madness and I shiver at the thought that someone else actually approves this sort of behavior.
EVE Online, World of Tanks, World of Warplanes, War Thunder, Path of Exile, Neverwinter, Smite, Hawken, PlanetSide 2, MachWarrior Online, just to name a few. And there's more to come still (World of Warships, Elder Scrolls Online, etc.)
F2P is the new hype and it simply seems to work.
A common misconception is that WoW players would only switch to similar MMOs. This isn't really true. Granted, some would, but most simply are looking for "something else" (whatever that is) and when they find it, they switch. Hell, they could just play ALL of the above for a fraction of the cost WoW used to incur (save for EVE Online which is still faithful to subscription-based play).
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Bullshit. That isn't the cost of using anything, it's one (or more) of the following:
- Made up numbers
- Wrongly calculated costs
- Huge useless management overhead
- General spending incompetence
- Overpriced licenses (e.g. "must have full Adobe Creative Suite on all PCs and upgrade it yearly")
- Users being dumb shits who break their computers on a weekly basis
All the above has little to nothing to do with which OS is being used.
Yup, they switch to British Summer Time (BST) which always sounded to me like BullShit Time...
Reminds me of a joke.
A guy applies for a public sector job. The interviewer asks him if he drinks any coffee, guy says "no, I'm not allowed to have coffee because of the surgery I've done in the past. You know, when I fought in Iraq, a bomb exploded and mangled my balls, so they have been removed."
The interviewer remains silent for a minute then says "OK, you're hired, you will come to work at noon every day and leave at 4 PM".
Applicant protests: "Look, I know work starts at 8 AM and I don't want to be advantaged because I'm invalid".
Interviewer says "No, it's nothing like that. See, we come to work at 8 AM, and have our coffee until 10 AM and then we scratch our balls until noon. So there's nothing that you CAN do until noon, no point in coming in at 8 AM."
So you're a poor bastard or cheap bastard? I'd go for the latter...
Both :)
Authorities cheat, wealthy people who are not authorities cheat as well and there's some sort of mutually-advantageous non-involvement agreement going on between the two.
About 8 years back there was a country-wide police audit which intended to find those members of the police force owning unjustified assets. They found... 2 (two) guys and sentenced them to... disciplinary move to the countryside for three years.
No further comment.
The people of Lithuania don't seem to mind. 'Authorities have been aided by the local populace. "We received even more support than we expected," said Mr. Kaseliauskas.'
It's only normal and expected. I would help authorities catch the assholes who don't pay their taxes. Unfortunately, where I live authorities don't even try catching them, mainly because they're all the same.
In this case, the employee did something against the Internal company Procedures (HR, Software Usage, Security, etc). In other words, it's called theft and they deserve the punishment handed to them.
...Which is the wrong way to do it.
Someone found the workaround.
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=1678612&t=1369864427&page=1#comment14298672
Apparently if you have a proxy script set up in IE, Opera won't start.
Even funnier, if you do set a proxy script in IE while Opera Next is open, Opera will crash instantly.
This is not by any means an obscure bug, it's something that IMO should never have passed even an alpha build.
So... I just downloaded the thing, installed it, clicked on its shortcut... nothing.
Looking at Task manager, I see Opera.exe, then opera_crashreporter.exe, then opera_autoupdate.exe popping up. opera_autoupdate.exe stays in the list for a while, then it goes away.
That's ALL that happens.
Wow. This browser might be nice... if it only worked.
I wasn't thinking about law-enforced privacy, but rather what the usual citizen thinks about it.
In Europe, governments are all up in arms on privacy issues, but the usual citizen rarely gives a rat's ass. In the US, it seems like it's quite the other way around.
Here's what. If someone polls people after they exit a building asking them whether there are CCTVs in that building, I bet they won't be able to tell.
This whole "privacy" thing is mostly an american thing. "Don't touch me", "get off my lawn" and such. You have a "my stuff" culture that's intriguing to me. How did it become so prevalent? What's triggering such aggressive behavior towards anything that threatens your privacy, even in theory?
Actually I think the hatred reason is a misinformed idea of privacy threat. Quite interesting, given we're arguably talking about people who we'd expect to be informed and tech-savvy.
A public toilet IS indeed a public place. A gym locker room isn't, as long as it belongs to a private entity.
A private company can take CCTV footage wherever they want on their premises as long as they have visible warnings that that's happening. Also, a private company can ban certain electronic devices or behaviors on their premises (think "no smoking" or "no video capture").
There are quite a few toilets, elevators, churches running 24/7 CCTV. They're indeed not placed for full frontal view of your wiener while you take a piss, but that's outside the scope of the conversation. As a matter of fact, it's difficult to even find a good restaurant or any store with no CCTV.
All those are good candidates for uploading footage on the Internet (LiveLeak thrives on such occurrences, as a matter of fact). But you're bothered by Google Glasses. Seriously? Come on...
Yeah well some people get "offended" by pretty much anything, starting with normal conversations 10 feet away from them ("YOU MAKE TOO MUCH NOISE") and ending with walking your dog in a park ("KEEP THAT BEAST AWAY").
I know a guy who was offended by the word "dude" (he said it was "disrespectful").
I would tell them to "grow a pair" but that would be considered offensive too. Sigh...
Not being an American, maybe it's a culture difference but around here, we assume ownership of what we buy. If people want to "secretly" buy stuff, they simply don't do it online. They go to the store and buy the stuff. Or they go to the grey/black market if they feel like taking the chance.
Of course, some things such as cigarettes, liquor or sex stuff (toys, etc) require you to be 18 or older (in my country at least) so you have to present an ID card upon purchase, even offline. Sure, they don't make a copy of it but a hi-res surveillance camera located in a good position would do the trick just fine.
Interesting. My work e-mail address is forename.surname@workwebsite.com - I'd say it's directly trackable to me. Heh-heh.
There are things YOU DO NOT ORDER ONLINE if you don't want them to be linked to yourself. Prescription meds and sexual aides are two of them.
It's ironic that you trust a seller enough to submit all your super-private information, but you don't trust your e-mail provider enough for the same thing.
To me, my e-mail provider is far more important than a website where I do my shopping.
I fully agree; when I see someone saying "my name/address is private information" I feel like cracking a big smile. Or pitying them. Whichever comes first.
Since when are real name and address called "private information"?
Aren't they public info?
Competition makes sense up to some extent. But when you're literally drowning in an olympic-sized pool of bills, we're not talking about "dog-eat-dog", adaptation and survival. We're talking about something that's becoming pathological. It's somewhat of an "I-want-more" disease, where you're spiralling down the "give moah" path and there's no end in sight.
Wat these giants don't get is that their high level fight is making thousands of people suffer directly; no raises because armies of lawyers must be paid, layoffs because war chests must be filled, forced overtime because the other giant does the same to his people. This is madness and I shiver at the thought that someone else actually approves this sort of behavior.
Such activities involve a pretty large number of people. It's interesting how they collectively can keep it a secret for a pretty long time.
Adopt me! Please? :)
I stand as living proof they're wrong.
EVE Online, World of Tanks, World of Warplanes, War Thunder, Path of Exile, Neverwinter, Smite, Hawken, PlanetSide 2, MachWarrior Online, just to name a few. And there's more to come still (World of Warships, Elder Scrolls Online, etc.)
F2P is the new hype and it simply seems to work.
A common misconception is that WoW players would only switch to similar MMOs. This isn't really true. Granted, some would, but most simply are looking for "something else" (whatever that is) and when they find it, they switch. Hell, they could just play ALL of the above for a fraction of the cost WoW used to incur (save for EVE Online which is still faithful to subscription-based play).