On a conceptual level, you're agreeing that providing cheap / free education works.
So, why not extend that to the US citizens?
At the end of the day, there is a lot more at play than just lowering the cost of education. A fair bit of cultural issues also do come into play. Concepts of family as a unit and obligations to them for one... but discussing that would open up a whole new can of worms.
Competition is good in this case. Adobe has lost track of support and is also not that shy of trumpeting its flash player monopoly "we have 95% market share".
Unfortunately, knowing the track record of MS, I doubt support will be a key differentiator.
I can almost picture a Dr Evil Pointy Hair Boss in charge of developer keys, reading this and going.. "It will now cost 1 million dollars". Helps if you picture him as a Mike Myers look alike.
I'd like to see how any of the pro-bloggers react if other websites stopped linking to and / or republishing their stories (in full, or edited or editorially revised).
Bloggers (oops sorry.. online publishers) have to stop behaving like dead tree media and hoarding their content.
I'm all for full exposure, specially now that the search engines have become semi clever in figuring out who the original author is and ensuring that when someone searches for a relevant term the original article shows up (often thanks to the links from the republished articles).
Thank you for pointing that out. Given the rumored corruption of the government employees out there, I'd like to see how many of these laptops actually do end up in the hands of kids.
Several years ago there was a Japanese company that gave you the ability to program social and sexual preferences into a tiny little device, that broadcasted them to similar devices within a 100 meters or so, yours and the compatible person's device would blink or vibrate (guess that would be a part of the sexual preference), allowing you to then meet and mate.
Seriously, how many of us would want our unemployed friends (arent they all?) IM'ing them in the middle of a billion dollar VC presentation.. "dude, happy hour at the bar... "
>> I fail to see any law or EULA where such notifications are required.
There are things you do because of the law and then there are things you do because they're right. The issue at stake is the how much you trust MS to not break things with their fixes. What happens if a fix causes a critical application to break?
Say this was at a paitent records system in a hospital? Say they changed their image handling code and xrays could not be displayed because the fix broke something either in operating system or in the application because the vulnerability might have accidentally let a bug go through the QA processes. Now imagine if the fix was deployed saying that it addressed an obscure issue with Outlook Express. Administrators and software developers could end up wasting a lot of critical time.
Imagine a scenario where Pzifer changed the formula of Viagra without informing the FDA or the physicians involved in dispensing them... imagine if that side effect.. oh never mind, you know where I'm going with this.
All good news, but, what happens when a new distro needs some hosting and bandwidth?
I've provided some limited hosting to a new distro (which I dare not mention here) and the cost of dealing with several hundred ISO downloads a day is pretty expensive.
That most blogs are inactive and only used by blog spamming scripts. Also keep in mind that people this is a slow time. Most people have other stuff to do (don't know what bloggers are doing.... do bloggers have families?) and if there is such a thing like a good time to redo stuff, it is in the next two weeks.
Finally, I'm sure Bush or someone will cockup and give the bloggers something more substantial to complain about other than the speed and performance of typepad.
Today's submissions that were rejected include a new digital imaging chip from the folks at Univ of Rochester and the Gnope.Org release (PHP GTK Toolkit).
Well, it is all about HOW you give your notice. People who are important to the company should talk to their managers or the senior most person they have access to and explain to them they are leaving and these are the outstanding projects on hand. Explain that you'd like to hand over to the next person and make sure there is some continuity.
You'd be surprised how well such a "pre-resignation" would be handled. It also will give you a good chance to figure out how really important you are to the company.
The problem is a lot of people think they are important... when they really are not.
Federal and state authorities will move aggressively to ban mapping software.
Sheriff Clancy Wiggum noted a sharp increase in teenagers and middle management types who have been recently arrested with print outs of maps taken from online sources like Google.Com and Yahoo.Com. "Easy access to information like this has to stop!" said Sheriff Wiggum, noting that from now on only donut stores and brothels should be shown on maps.
Sort of disappointed that they did not consider pLog / Lifetype in their smackdown. I've found that to tbe only really usable multi-user system. It is critical for blogs to evolve into community platforms and not just remain as platforms for individual egos. Imagine starting a blog on a given topic and attracting 5 visitors a day... (isnt that the max for ego blogs?)? Now imagine letting those 5 visitors start their own blogs and attracting 5 more visitors a day.
That is an ego/ecosystem. Sorry... no single user blogs for me please.
The problem is... incremental changes is not a sexy sale. Vendor sales people get lots of incentives and pressure to force the next big thing down a major account's throat.
Not too aware of who has implemented the new system? If I were to hazard a guess.. they moved from a mainframe based app to something that uses Oracle.:)
It is pretty real. Unfortunately the PR department of e Ink did not respond in time for us to publish pictures. Will have them online as soon as we get them.
Slashdot Mirror
>> quite shocking to see them be so cavalier, and even hypocritical
.. get the headlines, get your 300 mentions in the viral media and move on.
With media outlets like Drudgereport looking for punch headlines.
With news being read on Google and Digg (more links = top stories).
"Bloggers" turning into the fourth estate...
With the leader of the free world going "You're either with us or against us".
All that matters is
Mission accomplished I'd say.
On a conceptual level, you're agreeing that providing cheap / free education works.
So, why not extend that to the US citizens?
At the end of the day, there is a lot more at play than just lowering the cost of education. A fair bit of cultural issues also do come into play. Concepts of family as a unit and obligations to them for one... but discussing that would open up a whole new can of worms.
Absolutely agree with this.
Competition is good in this case. Adobe has lost track of support and is also not that shy of trumpeting its flash player monopoly "we have 95% market share".
Unfortunately, knowing the track record of MS, I doubt support will be a key differentiator.
In which case, you're probably not too concerned about failing an IQ test.
Wonder why they could not get a serious group of VCs to back their oh so original idea.
Seriously though, not impressed with the list of partners. One would have to be spectacularly desperate to go into this sort of scheme.
Great .. IBM's cell processor sales will go through the roof.
I can almost picture a Dr Evil Pointy Hair Boss in charge of developer keys, reading this and going .. "It will now cost 1 million dollars". Helps if you picture him as a Mike Myers look alike.
I'd like to see how any of the pro-bloggers react if other websites stopped linking to and / or republishing their stories (in full, or edited or editorially revised).
.. online publishers) have to stop behaving like dead tree media and hoarding their content.
Bloggers (oops sorry
I'm all for full exposure, specially now that the search engines have become semi clever in figuring out who the original author is and ensuring that when someone searches for a relevant term the original article shows up (often thanks to the links from the republished articles).
That was my attempt at being politically correct -- to avoid a public lynching.
Don't get me started on how many IP ranges we need to block to keep the 419ers out of our sites.
Thank you for pointing that out. Given the rumored corruption of the government employees out there, I'd like to see how many of these laptops actually do end up in the hands of kids.
Mmmm MTV's Urge?
>> The Redmond company believes that catching the students early on will turn them into life-long users of Windows Live
.. if you love someone, set them free? :)
Who was it that said
Several years ago there was a Japanese company that gave you the ability to program social and sexual preferences into a tiny little device, that broadcasted them to similar devices within a 100 meters or so, yours and the compatible person's device would blink or vibrate (guess that would be a part of the sexual preference), allowing you to then meet and mate.
.. "dude, happy hour at the bar ... "
Seriously, how many of us would want our unemployed friends (arent they all?) IM'ing them in the middle of a billion dollar VC presentation
>> I fail to see any law or EULA where such notifications are required.
There are things you do because of the law and then there are things you do because they're right. The issue at stake is the how much you trust MS to not break things with their fixes. What happens if a fix causes a critical application to break?
Say this was at a paitent records system in a hospital? Say they changed their image handling code and xrays could not be displayed because the fix broke something either in operating system or in the application because the vulnerability might have accidentally let a bug go through the QA processes. Now imagine if the fix was deployed saying that it addressed an obscure issue with Outlook Express. Administrators and software developers could end up wasting a lot of critical time.
Imagine a scenario where Pzifer changed the formula of Viagra without informing the FDA or the physicians involved in dispensing them... imagine if that side effect.. oh never mind, you know where I'm going with this.
All good news, but, what happens when a new distro needs some hosting and bandwidth?
I've provided some limited hosting to a new distro (which I dare not mention here) and the cost of dealing with several hundred ISO downloads a day is pretty expensive.
Suggestions?
That most blogs are inactive and only used by blog spamming scripts. Also keep in mind that people this is a slow time. Most people have other stuff to do (don't know what bloggers are doing.... do bloggers have families?) and if there is such a thing like a good time to redo stuff, it is in the next two weeks.
Finally, I'm sure Bush or someone will cockup and give the bloggers something more substantial to complain about other than the speed and performance of typepad.
(Not to be flippant.. but I had to add this)
I'd say the biggest problem is not with emails and SMS messages, the problem might be with defective condoms.
Hmmm ... thats what I have my blog for. :)
Today's submissions that were rejected include a new digital imaging chip from the folks at Univ of Rochester and the Gnope.Org release (PHP GTK Toolkit).
Well, it is all about HOW you give your notice. People who are important to the company should talk to their managers or the senior most person they have access to and explain to them they are leaving and these are the outstanding projects on hand. Explain that you'd like to hand over to the next person and make sure there is some continuity.
You'd be surprised how well such a "pre-resignation" would be handled. It also will give you a good chance to figure out how really important you are to the company.
The problem is a lot of people think they are important... when they really are not.
Federal and state authorities will move aggressively to ban mapping software.
Sheriff Clancy Wiggum noted a sharp increase in teenagers and middle management types who have been recently arrested with print outs of maps taken from online sources like Google.Com and Yahoo.Com. "Easy access to information like this has to stop!" said Sheriff Wiggum, noting that from now on only donut stores and brothels should be shown on maps.
Easy solution is to get on rent-a-coder type sites and find someone who can code a bridge for you and keep the userid/passwords in sync.
Sort of disappointed that they did not consider pLog / Lifetype in their smackdown. I've found that to tbe only really usable multi-user system. It is critical for blogs to evolve into community platforms and not just remain as platforms for individual egos. Imagine starting a blog on a given topic and attracting 5 visitors a day... (isnt that the max for ego blogs?)? Now imagine letting those 5 visitors start their own blogs and attracting 5 more visitors a day.
... no single user blogs for me please.
That is an ego/ecosystem. Sorry
The year 2014 in flash. Pretty amazing stuff.
The problem is ... incremental changes is not a sexy sale. Vendor sales people get lots of incentives and pressure to force the next big thing down a major account's throat.
.. they moved from a mainframe based app to something that uses Oracle. :)
Not too aware of who has implemented the new system? If I were to hazard a guess
It is pretty real. Unfortunately the PR department of e Ink did not respond in time for us to publish pictures. Will have them online as soon as we get them.