You're assuming illusion isn't useful. Anyone who spends time to think about it knows that the TSA is pointless for its directed task (stopping scary people from getting on airplanes). But the government assumes that most people won't think about it too much. They simply think Mr. and Mrs. America view air travel as "OMG! The terrorists could strike at any moment. Good thing we have all this security to stop them!".
Of course, I doubt anyone in America thinks that way anymore, and the illusion is moot. Try getting your doctor to prescribe you Valium for an upcoming air trip because you are "nervous about terrorists". She probably won't do it (but she would have 7 years ago).
My mouse recently died for my main PC, and I've yet to go get a replacement. I've been using my laptop for several days now, and the little track-pad is a terrible substitute for a mouse.
I wouldn't be adverse to new technology that replaces the mouse, as long as it was better. Touch screens, wii like motion detectors etc. are not better.
Wouldn't worry about it too much. There's a boatload of idiots with mod points who subscribe to the idea that "If I don't explicitly recognize it as humor, be it due to it being over my head or my own faulty nonexistant sense of humor, then it must, logically, be flamebait."
(But "Ha!" the modder thinks to himself, "I can mod this one down as offtopic, since it has nothing to do with the iPhone (to the best of my understanding). I'm going to ignore the fact that it's germane to the post it responds to, and just take away his karma.")
See what happens when you offer foreign nations high levels of connectivity? Suddenly you get weird spellings for words, and you have to spend half your time trying to figure out if its a typo or just another continent's way of writing the word.
People with a lot of friends on social networking sites probably don't have all that much influence. These are people who agree to be friends with whomever asks them, and will spam people with friend requests. I see pages with "8,000 friends!", and think "uh, no. This guy does not not know 8,000 people personally or well enough to influence their decisions".
What this promises to do is make people think "Wow, if I have lots of friends on my page, I can make some money!", so I can expect a marked increase in unsolicited friend requests from people I don't know.
Customer service is a service, and it's part of a larger package. Apple has its own business plan. They do not market towards the tech savvy. They provide a product that works for people who are scared to death to open their computer cases and, say, replace a video card.
Think of them as being in more of the boutique computer business. If they can get more money by providing easy-to-use (though not as adaptable) products with a slick design, then what's the problem?
Time accounting for a project is data collection, that's it. Technically, all accounting is just data collection.
That's not been my experience. As a former PM for a construction management firm, specializing in IT buildouts, I found that dealing with time frames were more about site-adjustment to new and unexpected things.
For example, the contractors labor who is putting in all the ethernet drops all decide at once to take off without telling their boss to Mexico to be with their families for some reason. Or there's a bad storm, and the person who is supposed to install the racks doesn't show up, so when the hardware vendor comes in the next day, he has nothing to put the machines in.
Stuff like that. (Countless other things). The PM has to deal with all this crap, and still try to figure out how to get everything done on time, which often is impossible.
You can yell and scream at the contractors/vendors all you want, but it won't change anything. You can deal with change orders which are so vague as to grant the vendors license to bill you up the ass, and when you balk and demand specifics they delay things even more, you can do all of that and it still doesn't change the fact that ultimatly your job is to explain to your client that it's not going to be on budget, on time, and to their specifications. At this point, the PM has to sit back and give the owner at least something that works.
The funny thing is, I never heard of these reviews. Which means I might have accidentally bought the game. Now that Atari is pushing complaints against foreign review sites which I'd likely never read or visit, I have heard about it, and now know that it probably sucks. If Atari had kept their mouths shut, who knows. Maybe less people would know that it stinks.
There's no such thing as bad publicity? I think Atari just proved that dictum wrong.
That's a very nice and pleasant way to look at it which absolves you of any bad feelings on the subject. But you know very well that the only reason the AP is open is because the owners don't know how to secure it.
While technically you could argue a case such as this, it's certainly a violation of the spirit of the law.
And, to look at it from another perspective, it's like saying "I drove by this house and saw the front door open. So I went inside and watched their cable TV. An open door implies permission"
Let's avoid some big-brother robot talk for a second, however
I don't think that's wise.
"Human #3,047,985,944, I have finished analysis of all known photographs. Congratulations, your grandfather stormed the beach at Normandy . . . NOW BOW DOWN AND WORSHIP YOUR ROBOT MASTER"
Ha! That's why I installed VMX in my brain long ago. Of course, there's no development for it and I can never remember some of the crucial commands. But it still kind of works.
Fear. If countless sci-fi movies about conscious computers have taught us anything, it's that a conscious computer is evil and will destroy humanity. As soon as it claims to be conscious, we blast the computer off into space and shoot it into the sun. It's the only way to be sure.
Or perhaps the carriers are approaching the phone manufacturers about making devices that will refuse to play anything not sold to them by the carriers or the carriers' partners, even if you legally own a copy and even if you are the composer, performer, and distributor of your own music Then Nokia loses. Now, granted, I don't use my phone to play music. I use it to make and receive phone calls. But then again, I guess I'm old fashioned. But if I knew that I couldn't play my mp3s on a phone, if I knew that a phone manufacturer was hostile to its customers, I wouldn't get one. After all, there are plenty of good, unlocked phones that can make and receive phone calls available on the used market. So, you know, if all phone manufacturers go this route, we're still covered.
Who actually uses DRM crippled music services anymore? I mean, other than people who don't know any better. There are a number of DRM-free music services where you can buy unrestricted mp3s that you can do whatever you want with.
Presumably, the Nokia phones will be able to play regular mp3s. You know, the ones that you own. So, in a way, who cares if they get some hack to work for them for free and write a crummy DRM enabled program? In another few years, the people who don't know any better will know better, and it'll be a moot point.
Depends. Would your company's legal department and bosses back you up here? If so, call 'em. The border agents might detain you, have you arrested, throw you in jail, give you a file with homeland security (I mean, a negitive file) etc. etc.
If you're willing to go through all of that, and know that your company won't leave you high and dry, then call 'em. Otherwise, no.
That's really dangerous thinking, along the lines of "You have nothing to worry about if you have nothing to hide, so random and indiscriminate searches are okay".
There's a reason why we have privacy laws. The border agents here have really overstepped their bounds.
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For me that decision is easy. My wife's life is insured for a considerable amount of money.
When I take an important political hostage, I don't ship him via FedEx or UPS. I send him USPS book rate to save money.
You're assuming illusion isn't useful. Anyone who spends time to think about it knows that the TSA is pointless for its directed task (stopping scary people from getting on airplanes). But the government assumes that most people won't think about it too much. They simply think Mr. and Mrs. America view air travel as "OMG! The terrorists could strike at any moment. Good thing we have all this security to stop them!".
Of course, I doubt anyone in America thinks that way anymore, and the illusion is moot. Try getting your doctor to prescribe you Valium for an upcoming air trip because you are "nervous about terrorists". She probably won't do it (but she would have 7 years ago).
My mouse recently died for my main PC, and I've yet to go get a replacement. I've been using my laptop for several days now, and the little track-pad is a terrible substitute for a mouse.
I wouldn't be adverse to new technology that replaces the mouse, as long as it was better. Touch screens, wii like motion detectors etc. are not better.
Wouldn't worry about it too much. There's a boatload of idiots with mod points who subscribe to the idea that "If I don't explicitly recognize it as humor, be it due to it being over my head or my own faulty nonexistant sense of humor, then it must, logically, be flamebait."
(But "Ha!" the modder thinks to himself, "I can mod this one down as offtopic, since it has nothing to do with the iPhone (to the best of my understanding). I'm going to ignore the fact that it's germane to the post it responds to, and just take away his karma.")
See what happens when you offer foreign nations high levels of connectivity? Suddenly you get weird spellings for words, and you have to spend half your time trying to figure out if its a typo or just another continent's way of writing the word.
Gosh.
I would sell my vote, but Diebold already sold it for me.
People with a lot of friends on social networking sites probably don't have all that much influence. These are people who agree to be friends with whomever asks them, and will spam people with friend requests. I see pages with "8,000 friends!", and think "uh, no. This guy does not not know 8,000 people personally or well enough to influence their decisions".
What this promises to do is make people think "Wow, if I have lots of friends on my page, I can make some money!", so I can expect a marked increase in unsolicited friend requests from people I don't know.
Yeah. I always thought that the FBI had access to passport/driver's license/military ID cards already. Kind of makes you think "So?"
Customer service is a service, and it's part of a larger package. Apple has its own business plan. They do not market towards the tech savvy. They provide a product that works for people who are scared to death to open their computer cases and, say, replace a video card.
Think of them as being in more of the boutique computer business. If they can get more money by providing easy-to-use (though not as adaptable) products with a slick design, then what's the problem?
Time accounting for a project is data collection, that's it. Technically, all accounting is just data collection.
That's not been my experience. As a former PM for a construction management firm, specializing in IT buildouts, I found that dealing with time frames were more about site-adjustment to new and unexpected things.
For example, the contractors labor who is putting in all the ethernet drops all decide at once to take off without telling their boss to Mexico to be with their families for some reason. Or there's a bad storm, and the person who is supposed to install the racks doesn't show up, so when the hardware vendor comes in the next day, he has nothing to put the machines in.
Stuff like that. (Countless other things). The PM has to deal with all this crap, and still try to figure out how to get everything done on time, which often is impossible.
You can yell and scream at the contractors/vendors all you want, but it won't change anything. You can deal with change orders which are so vague as to grant the vendors license to bill you up the ass, and when you balk and demand specifics they delay things even more, you can do all of that and it still doesn't change the fact that ultimatly your job is to explain to your client that it's not going to be on budget, on time, and to their specifications. At this point, the PM has to sit back and give the owner at least something that works.
Then again, I was never a very good PM.
The funny thing is, I never heard of these reviews. Which means I might have accidentally bought the game. Now that Atari is pushing complaints against foreign review sites which I'd likely never read or visit, I have heard about it, and now know that it probably sucks. If Atari had kept their mouths shut, who knows. Maybe less people would know that it stinks.
There's no such thing as bad publicity? I think Atari just proved that dictum wrong.
Or 4) Put it in the well designed, over engineered Yucca Mountain facility. Oh wait, the anti-nuke fundies refuse to accept that the place is safe.
That's a very nice and pleasant way to look at it which absolves you of any bad feelings on the subject. But you know very well that the only reason the AP is open is because the owners don't know how to secure it.
While technically you could argue a case such as this, it's certainly a violation of the spirit of the law.
And, to look at it from another perspective, it's like saying "I drove by this house and saw the front door open. So I went inside and watched their cable TV. An open door implies permission"
Let's avoid some big-brother robot talk for a second, however
I don't think that's wise.
"Human #3,047,985,944, I have finished analysis of all known photographs. Congratulations, your grandfather stormed the beach at Normandy . . . NOW BOW DOWN AND WORSHIP YOUR ROBOT MASTER"
Ha! That's why I installed VMX in my brain long ago. Of course, there's no development for it and I can never remember some of the crucial commands. But it still kind of works.
Fear. If countless sci-fi movies about conscious computers have taught us anything, it's that a conscious computer is evil and will destroy humanity. As soon as it claims to be conscious, we blast the computer off into space and shoot it into the sun. It's the only way to be sure.
I guess it depends on how long it takes to make a multiple terraflop computer fit onto a chip small enough to put into your brain.
2^2=Aardvark.
But Al, why haven't I leaped?
Ziggy says there's a 98.5% chance that your security is flawed.
Who actually uses DRM crippled music services anymore? I mean, other than people who don't know any better. There are a number of DRM-free music services where you can buy unrestricted mp3s that you can do whatever you want with.
Presumably, the Nokia phones will be able to play regular mp3s. You know, the ones that you own. So, in a way, who cares if they get some hack to work for them for free and write a crummy DRM enabled program? In another few years, the people who don't know any better will know better, and it'll be a moot point.
Depends. Would your company's legal department and bosses back you up here? If so, call 'em. The border agents might detain you, have you arrested, throw you in jail, give you a file with homeland security (I mean, a negitive file) etc. etc.
If you're willing to go through all of that, and know that your company won't leave you high and dry, then call 'em. Otherwise, no.
Um, have you been to Heathrow? That place is as scary and gives off the impression of totalitarian authority as much as any US airport.
My favorite is the polite recording that plays every few minutes that says "unattended baggage will be . . . destroyed".
That's really dangerous thinking, along the lines of "You have nothing to worry about if you have nothing to hide, so random and indiscriminate searches are okay".
There's a reason why we have privacy laws. The border agents here have really overstepped their bounds.