Lets not give small businesses a green bar. Of course small business generates 60+% of sales in the U. S. annually, but we don't care if we alienate them. Typical MS attitude. How they got so powerful and remain so clueless amazes me.
When did impersonating a law enforcement officer get redefined as "pretexting". The former is a criminal offense and the latter is revisionist bullshit. There should be criminal charges for every person involved in this idiotic farce.
This added to other horror stories about the RIAA lawsuits makes me wonder if they have ever told the truth in any of them? Do they have any concept of what truth is? Hopefully one of these days a judge will have enough balls to have them charged with perjury or at least hold them in contempt.
It has nothing to do with private property and everything to do with standards recognized by every other company. M$ has always tried to modify accepted standards to thier own propriatary version which isn't compatable with the original. Remember the Java debacle? If governments started enforcing the accepted standards M$ would have to comply, imagine the hit in the wallet if the U. S. government refused to by/license any M$ products until they were compliant? Of course M$ claims what they are doing is inovation which is a crock and most programmers know it. If there were any lawmakers in any country that were geeks this could be fixed quickly, so it might happen in the next 20 years if we are lucky.
The machine I voted on in NC this year had a paper tape to the left of the screen that scrolled with each vote. I could verify my vote as I went. Simple and effective.
Since most of them are heat sealed on all 4 sides I normally use the scissors to cut two sides. If whats inside is the least bit fragile I will cut three sides and open it like a clam. Packaging needs to be simplified.
The intelligence agencies dropped the ball on WMD and 9/11. Technical/electronic intelligence will never tell the whole story. We need "feet on the street". Until the CIA's human intelligence assets are brought up to snuff there will always be a danger of this happening again. It's been said over and over since 9/11 because it's true. The troops in Iraq are not getting the timely intelligence they need today.
The whole WMD fiasco is the failure of our intelligence agencies. Why did they fail on this and on 9/11? Who cut the CIA's budget by over 30% in the 90's? If there is blame, it can be spread over at least 2 administrations. The real fault is the gutting of the CIA by Congress in the 70's, yes the CIA needed to be put under control again (they were way out of line in some areas) but the overreaction of Congress has not been recovered from yet. Technology is wonderful but human intelligence will always give a better understanding of what's really going on.
When listening to political babble remember: The only people who don't make mistakes are the ones who don't do anything!
That is just the popular invented "word du jure". Just a new term for dirty, mudslinging, politics as usual, both sides are equaly guilty.
On the other hand in the dictionaries of both parties you will never find the words, honest, trust, truth, loyalty, or any other word defining good human conduct.
"Not that that will stop your whining. The right sure does like to whine" - what do you call all the noise from the left for the last six years?
Sounds more like someone from the left is starting the standard "out of context" smear campaign. They know he might run for President next time and are trying to eliminate him before he starts. Both sides do it and there is very little truth in any of it. Like everything else in politics, accuracy and honesty are not required.
There is a major difference in quailty between "cheap" and "less expensive". Cheap is flimsy junk that falls apart quick. Kind of like most things built by Sony anymore (don't twist or squeeze a Viao laptop, it will fragment). Less expensive is a quality product that costs a bit less but lasts. You really do get what you pay for.
Four years ago there was nobody building a decent fan for the northbridge. They all failed constantly. That is why Asus went to a larger heatsink and no fan on the A7N8X mobo.
How do we solve it? Ignore the junk and it will disapear when it doesn't sell. Hit these companies in the wallet, it is the only thing they listen to.
They already did with Win 3.11. The floppies failed after X# of installs, on the upgrade it was disk 2 and the full version it was disk 5. I have never heard of a set of originals that didn't have this problem.
Not true at all! Many businesses run custom software and are quite happy with it. They have no interest in having the software ported to a new OS and starting the debug process all over again. Some of those programs are very expensive and when the M$ tax is added, it's not worth it.
I work in a white box store and have several businesses that buy all their hardware from us because they want thier "standard image" loaded on it and Dell won't sell boxes without an OS. They will not pay for something they won't use (M$ tax). The only thing that will change this will be a lack of drivers for Win 2K. Most new hardware still has drivers that work on old OS's. If you know that they want to use thier software you select hardware that has good drivers, not that big a deal.
Why teachers don't know their subject: To be a teacher today in the U. S. you have to have an education degree, you will be lucky if you get to teach the subject you have a minor in. So we have a group of teachers that supposedly know how to teach (highly questionable) but don't know the subject.
When I was in High School (class of '74) they listed the teachers degrees in the yearbook. Every teacher in my school had a bachelors in the subject they were teaching, some had a Masters in their subject. Most had a minor in education, some were working on Masters. Test scores have fallen steadily since the requirement for an education degree became common.
As for the liberal/left/secular-progressive tilt, why would anyone expect different? Universities in the U. S. all seem to tilt very left and they are the ones training/indoctrinating the teachers.
Today a Bachelors degree is worth what a High School diploma was in the fifties on the job market. When I entered a university in 1980 to be an Engineer we were told to learn the basics so that our first employer could show us the way they wanted it done. A degree just proved you were trainable! That was in the Engr 101 seminar.
A business survey a few years ago (3?) showed that over 60% of businesses were still running Win 2K and had NO plans to switch to XP. This is an ongoing problem for M$. More and more businesses are taking the "if it aint broke, don't fix it" approach to software. Cost control is the most important thing and if what they have does what they need they will not spend a nickle for the sake of change. There is no compelling reason to go through the constant upgrade cycle just to help M$ bottom line. This seems to be true for businesses of any size.
It would invalidate some basic truths: The difference between a paycheck and your dick - don't have to beg the wife to blow the check! The difference between a new wife and a new job - after 6 months the job still sucks!
Don't forget that New Mexico was the first state to cave on the anti trust suit, The Attorny General at that time was Patsy Madrid a Democrat who just lost an attempt at the House seat in Northern NM. Don't base your hopes on any party, the can all be bought and mostly are. If you think you actually have any representation in Washington you must make over $135,000/year since those clowns only represent their tax bracket and the higher one they want to get into. If you make less than $50,000 they don't care and never have!
A judge has figured out that there is no basis for the RIAA's damage claims. Took long enough to find a judge with enough brains to see that all the RIAA has ever done is intimidate and extort. I hope they do something really dumb and get fined big for pissing off the judge. Every attorny defending one of these cases needs to be informed of this step. It really could put an end to this stupidity.
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Lets not give small businesses a green bar. Of course small business generates 60+% of sales in the U. S. annually, but we don't care if we alienate them. Typical MS attitude. How they got so powerful and remain so clueless amazes me.
Don't cry, at least I found out before it was to late. Now I'm a tech/programmer.
I've been wrong when I thought all advertising was viral?
I was 15 hours short of a marketing degree when I realized i wasn't qualified, I have a conscience!
If Windows didn't go through the complete boot process each time how would it come up with random reasons to crash?
When did impersonating a law enforcement officer get redefined as "pretexting". The former is a criminal offense and the latter is revisionist bullshit. There should be criminal charges for every person involved in this idiotic farce.
This added to other horror stories about the RIAA lawsuits makes me wonder if they have ever told the truth in any of them? Do they have any concept of what truth is? Hopefully one of these days a judge will have enough balls to have them charged with perjury or at least hold them in contempt.
It has nothing to do with private property and everything to do with standards recognized by every other company. M$ has always tried to modify accepted standards to thier own propriatary version which isn't compatable with the original. Remember the Java debacle? If governments started enforcing the accepted standards M$ would have to comply, imagine the hit in the wallet if the U. S. government refused to by/license any M$ products until they were compliant? Of course M$ claims what they are doing is inovation which is a crock and most programmers know it. If there were any lawmakers in any country that were geeks this could be fixed quickly, so it might happen in the next 20 years if we are lucky.
The machine I voted on in NC this year had a paper tape to the left of the screen that scrolled with each vote. I could verify my vote as I went. Simple and effective.
Since most of them are heat sealed on all 4 sides I normally use the scissors to cut two sides. If whats inside is the least bit fragile I will cut three sides and open it like a clam. Packaging needs to be simplified.
The intelligence agencies dropped the ball on WMD and 9/11. Technical/electronic intelligence will never tell the whole story. We need "feet on the street". Until the CIA's human intelligence assets are brought up to snuff there will always be a danger of this happening again. It's been said over and over since 9/11 because it's true. The troops in Iraq are not getting the timely intelligence they need today.
The whole WMD fiasco is the failure of our intelligence agencies. Why did they fail on this and on 9/11? Who cut the CIA's budget by over 30% in the 90's? If there is blame, it can be spread over at least 2 administrations. The real fault is the gutting of the CIA by Congress in the 70's, yes the CIA needed to be put under control again (they were way out of line in some areas) but the overreaction of Congress has not been recovered from yet. Technology is wonderful but human intelligence will always give a better understanding of what's really going on.
When listening to political babble remember: The only people who don't make mistakes are the ones who don't do anything!
"The technical term is "Swiftboating"."
That is just the popular invented "word du jure". Just a new term for dirty, mudslinging, politics as usual, both sides are equaly guilty.
On the other hand in the dictionaries of both parties you will never find the words, honest, trust, truth, loyalty, or any other word defining good human conduct.
"Not that that will stop your whining. The right sure does like to whine" - what do you call all the noise from the left for the last six years?
True, to damn true. Be politicly correct, cater to the lowest common denominator, watch country go down the toilet.
The whole PC idea is to lie about everything so no one gets offended. Well that concept offends me so it failed!
Sounds more like someone from the left is starting the standard "out of context" smear campaign. They know he might run for President next time and are trying to eliminate him before he starts. Both sides do it and there is very little truth in any of it. Like everything else in politics, accuracy and honesty are not required.
There is a major difference in quailty between "cheap" and "less expensive". Cheap is flimsy junk that falls apart quick. Kind of like most things built by Sony anymore (don't twist or squeeze a Viao laptop, it will fragment). Less expensive is a quality product that costs a bit less but lasts. You really do get what you pay for.
Four years ago there was nobody building a decent fan for the northbridge. They all failed constantly. That is why Asus went to a larger heatsink and no fan on the A7N8X mobo.
How do we solve it? Ignore the junk and it will disapear when it doesn't sell. Hit these companies in the wallet, it is the only thing they listen to.
And if she becomes a wife? The leash just gets shorter!
Know how to cure a nymphomaniac? Marry her!
"Just because Richard Stallman is paranoid doesn't mean Microsoft's not out to get you."
When it comes to Microsoft - I know I'm being paranoid, the question is, Am I being paranoid enough?
They already did with Win 3.11. The floppies failed after X# of installs, on the upgrade it was disk 2 and the full version it was disk 5. I have never heard of a set of originals that didn't have this problem.
Not true at all! Many businesses run custom software and are quite happy with it. They have no interest in having the software ported to a new OS and starting the debug process all over again. Some of those programs are very expensive and when the M$ tax is added, it's not worth it.
I work in a white box store and have several businesses that buy all their hardware from us because they want thier "standard image" loaded on it and Dell won't sell boxes without an OS. They will not pay for something they won't use (M$ tax). The only thing that will change this will be a lack of drivers for Win 2K. Most new hardware still has drivers that work on old OS's. If you know that they want to use thier software you select hardware that has good drivers, not that big a deal.
Why teachers don't know their subject:
To be a teacher today in the U. S. you have to have an education degree, you will be lucky if you get to teach the subject you have a minor in. So we have a group of teachers that supposedly know how to teach (highly questionable) but don't know the subject.
When I was in High School (class of '74) they listed the teachers degrees in the yearbook. Every teacher in my school had a bachelors in the subject they were teaching, some had a Masters in their subject. Most had a minor in education, some were working on Masters. Test scores have fallen steadily since the requirement for an education degree became common.
As for the liberal/left/secular-progressive tilt, why would anyone expect different? Universities in the U. S. all seem to tilt very left and they are the ones training/indoctrinating the teachers.
Today a Bachelors degree is worth what a High School diploma was in the fifties on the job market. When I entered a university in 1980 to be an Engineer we were told to learn the basics so that our first employer could show us the way they wanted it done. A degree just proved you were trainable! That was in the Engr 101 seminar.
A business survey a few years ago (3?) showed that over 60% of businesses were still running Win 2K and had NO plans to switch to XP. This is an ongoing problem for M$. More and more businesses are taking the "if it aint broke, don't fix it" approach to software. Cost control is the most important thing and if what they have does what they need they will not spend a nickle for the sake of change. There is no compelling reason to go through the constant upgrade cycle just to help M$ bottom line. This seems to be true for businesses of any size.
So that makes 2 products from M$ that nobody needs to buy? After all there is no reason for either except to funnel more money to M$.
Women would never accept that research.
It would invalidate some basic truths:
The difference between a paycheck and your dick - don't have to beg the wife to blow the check!
The difference between a new wife and a new job - after 6 months the job still sucks!
Don't forget that New Mexico was the first state to cave on the anti trust suit, The Attorny General at that time was Patsy Madrid a Democrat who just lost an attempt at the House seat in Northern NM. Don't base your hopes on any party, the can all be bought and mostly are. If you think you actually have any representation in Washington you must make over $135,000/year since those clowns only represent their tax bracket and the higher one they want to get into. If you make less than $50,000 they don't care and never have!
A judge has figured out that there is no basis for the RIAA's damage claims. Took long enough to find a judge with enough brains to see that all the RIAA has ever done is intimidate and extort. I hope they do something really dumb and get fined big for pissing off the judge. Every attorny defending one of these cases needs to be informed of this step. It really could put an end to this stupidity.