Also a woman is seens as a risk. Yes, I know it's sexist and no employer will ever admit it because he could be dragged to court for it, but there is the "risk" that she will get pregnant and go on maternity leave
There is also risk that a male will get a better job... so how is that any different?
I can't understand how your post was modded as insightful... must be troll-moderator day
In theory that risk is at parity between males and females. If the male and female are of equal capability then the risk of them being hired away is identical, making that risk not a factor at all. If the male and female are of equal capability and the male is more likely to be hired away from you, then there's a perceived disparity in the value of the two employees, which is what this portion of the discussion has become about. One of the HUGE causes of that disparity is the womb.
Now who's the troll?
To add a thought-provoking addendum to this rebuttal, if women on average are remunerated at a lower level for the same job, it becomes evident their work is less valued by employers. Is it utterly impossible that the reason for this impression is based on reality, as opposed to pure discrimination? Is it utterly impossible that the average woman's work, when broken down in an impersonal statistical fashion might actually be less valuable? Take passion out of the equation and take the idea that different-but-equal is assuredly attainable. Radical thought, but maybe the statistical amalgam that is the corporate world has in it's gestalt mind come to the conclusion that - on average - female workers are marginally less productive. Seditious and politically incorrect thoughts there, but you know... in a world where hundreds of millions if not billions of people believe in a God of some sort... any hypothetical should be entertained.
First they took away all the food and gave us peanuts. Then they went all the way and said, "Bring your own food". Now bring your own technician. What next? Bring your own pilot?
No, no. First they took away all the food and gave us peanuts. Then they took away the peanuts and said, "bring your own food." Then they forbade us to bring our own food and forced us to buy theirs. Now you bring your own technician. What's next, you ask? You won't be allowed to bring your own technician, but for an extra $5,000 per flight they will let you pay to have the plane put in working order. Passengers will take up collections amongst themselves to come up with the extortion money before the plane will be permitted to fly.
Oh, and no... you can't get off the plane. What are you, a terrorist? You planted a bomb and now you want off, don't you?
I think 8e019226-9a00-41f4-b094-6f1545fd84a9 should be fairly easy to remember.
Throw a couple colons in there somewhere and I'd have guessed that was an IPv6 address. Probably something simple like the default address for a Linksys residential router. "Simply type http://8e01::9226:9a00:41f4:b094::6f1545fd84a9 into your web browser to launch our easy setup wizard (which requires Java 1.6.0.23.0.5b, no more, no less). When asked for a username, use admin and when asked for a password, type the first 42 digits of pi in reversed order. Thank you for your purchase."
This is like that hentai guy. I think material like this may be grounds for investigating someone to see if they have actual illegal porn. But I don't see how this is a crime. I don't want thought police, but there should be no gray area when actual children are involved.
Is seeing a man with a bunch of gold chains walking around in a slum grounds for investigating him to see if he's got stolen goods? Rich guy in poor area? Maybe follow him home and search his house. Where there's smoke, there's fire, right?
Wrong. Teach your children that when someone says or does something sexual, they tell you. Go from there. That's really all that needs be done. Stop inventing opportunity thought TV shows. Stop freaking out about Internet predators when the vast majority of sexual abusers are relatives and close family friends.
When you've got evidence of a crime, investigate. When you've got evidence of what you think might possibly suggest a mind-set of criminal nature... relax. Paranoia State does more harm than good.
The guy might actually be a pedophile, given the frequency of occurrence within the population, it'd be shocking if some members of parliament weren't pedophiles
Given that sort of statement, it'd be interesting to know what IS the frequency of occurrence within the population? And where do you source such a figure? The mass-media would have us believe that paedos are lurking behind every bush, just waiting for an opportunity to snatch some young innocent. TV shows create artificial supply of fake willing and encouraging children, then declare capturing a predator as proof that it's all around us. Yet we have no real solid information on how often children are abused by Internet predators. The social paedophobia could be complete unjustified. Don't know. So please, follow up your intimation of knowing what ratio of the populace are paedos with a citation.
It's also cheaper to manufacture something if you don't have to pay your own design, research, development and marketing costs, and just clone someone else's work and sell into the market that they created.
That's an interesting point. Manufacturing your widget in North America might cost X per widget. Having it mass-produced in a Chinese fab might cost X/2. But if the Chinese factory leaks your specs and a knock-off is released into your market, reducing your profits, that impacts your savings. Might the reduced profit justify paying the full X per widget and having it made somewhere with stricter rules?
Example: there are already some knock-off reproductions of the toys for the upcoming Transformers 2 movie. The original toys haven't even been released yet. (Tomorrow.)
but it is broke. I have 4 firefox windows each with over 20 tabs, and I have 2 IE8 windows also with 0ver 20 tabs each. Last, I have 5 bookmark folders of tab windows so I did not have to keep more windows open. I need to find a new way to deal with this.
Close something.
I'm not being sarcastic. You're telling us your productivity flow involves 120+ simultaneous web views. Your workflow is what's broken, not the browser.
My wife signed up for that crap and at age 37 I've got to cope with her phone going off multiple times during Easter diner and her sharing with my family that Kevin Smith (of Clerks fame) can't decide if he should dry-hump his wife's leg or just rub one out because it's 3am she's asleep and he's stoned and horny.
The god explanation is such a cop out. It doesn't explain Kara or why it doesn't just try and influence or outright stop the genocide in the first place.
You're trying to hard to dislike the finale. Why not accept that the other participant in this cycle isn't actually all-powerful. It can influence, prod, and manipulate. It can pull of events that appear miraculous, but perhaps there's a scale concern.
Better yet, doesn't it make artistic sense that this is about free will? The other influenced the colonials and Cylons to choose differently. It didn't force them, or deny them choice. It educated them. Powerful message there.
I thought up to the Opera house scene, it was great and when Galen went nuts (he couldn't control his emotion when the fate of two civilization are in stake ?), there was just more questions raised than answers from that point on.
One of the strongest themes of the BSG series has been that "people are people". The writers have never shied away from an opportunity to show characters behaving in very human ways. Vengeful, spiteful, angry Tyrol being overwhelmed by the moment? Very much in character. This is the guy who (while half-awake) beat Cally's face in because of a few bad dreams. This is the guy who killed an Eight to help Boomer escape. This is the guy who lost his rank and the respect of Adama because he couldn't keep it together after Cally's murder. Tori's action has repercussions for that man, and he's never been one with lots of self control.
Blurring satellite imagery to protect citizens from terrorists is tantamount to kicking voters in the face.
We can play this game all day. As you say, it should be the government justifying any curtailing of civil liberties, not civilians justifying those liberties in the first place.
But seriously, maybe we should ban career politicians because they keep implementing foreign policy that angers people enough to start killing civilians to make a point. Just a thought.
No, but I think I've heard of that one. I'm sure it'll be fixed in MR5. Just like the gem with the gold release where it disabled network access on servers, regardless of if you installed the firewall component or not. We keep waiting for news of a version 12 release including new key feature: Does Not Suck, but so far no luck.
SEP has been a support nightmare for my company. We do IT for small and medium businesses and were really happy with SAV. SEP all the way through the current MR4 has been insanely problematic. From failed installs to crashing on scans to requiring obscure removal tools, we've got something like a one-in-ten successful site install rate. Most customers have serious problems the moment the product walks in the door. Symantec Support seems to mostly consist of spending hours on the phone to be told to reinstall, or "try the latest MR". We haven't found anything that rivals the pleasure that SAV was.
The devil's in the details. I've got ten years of Palm OS use under my belt. I've had a Palm III, a Palm IIIc, a Palm V, a couple different Sony Clie devices, and my wife and I both run Palm Treo 650s. Why? Because I've got dozens of apps, and more than a little investment in them.
From mileage trackers to payroll sheets to games to little utils that adjust the UI to make it work the way I want it to work, I've got a device that works the way I want to work.
Problem is... WebOS isn't backwards compatible. Not even an emulator. So now what for my wife and I? We're starting at 0 no matter what platform our next PDA/phone purchase is. So I'll have 0 investment or loyalty to the Palm platform. Advancement is good, but this effectively says "our existing customer base isn't worth anything to us".
I smell a Blackberry coming my way in a couple years.
As CO2 is roughly 1.5 times the mass of N2 and O2, this comes to a concentration increase of 33 parts per million (roughly).
Well, that's good. But considering that in the case of cyanide, 7 parts per million is fatal to humans, I'm not going to place much value in the "low numbers means no impact" mind-set.
I think a lot of this is snakeoil. If it isn't immediately clear what advantage the computer will bring to the lesson, don't use the computer. There are cases when it is clear that the computer brings a lot of positives, but it isn't all cases by a longshot.
Bingo. In primary and secondary grades, I'd daresay that computers wouldn't bring nearly enough to the learning process to justify their price. Just as for instance having a computer for each student in a Physical Education class is very obviously near pointless, the same can be said for History, Geography, and the various maths and sciences.
Bottom line: use computers in the classroom as a tool, not a process.
Giving TEACHERS access to presentation system with a nice projector in each classroom... now THAT would be worthwhile. The teacher could present slides, video clips (hey kids, this is what Auschwitz looked like) and so on. But most education at this level involves a teach bantering with students back and forth, discussing the topic, and the students collectively learning because they're involved.
Google doesn't do that. That's like handing the kids a textbook and firing the teacher. Pointless.
That being said, language classes could benefit from computers as word processing could be taugh. Music classes should have a PC or two to teach sequencing/sampling concepts.
But at least it was *MY* choice, I'd rather die of a disease my health insurance didn't cover than from a disease the State Health Insurance Plan didn't provide for.
See, in a decent public health-care system, it doesn't work that way. Basically everything is covered. Sure, many actual medications may require you to pay some of their costs, but that's about it. Sure, some quality-of-life exceptions are made (some chiropractic treatments for instance), but basically anything life-threatening that you need, you get.
Isn't it better to know that nationally, everyone's paying on average what they should? That the averaging effect ensures that those who can afford to pay a little more do, and those that can't don't, while everyone gets treated well regardless? That there isn't a question of your coverage being insufficient... you're just treated because you're ill?
Doesn't it sound like a Good Idea to have the system operate as a non-profit, with no Insurance Company middle-man getting rich by denying services whenever and wherever he can? Doesn't it sound SMART to not have an adversarial relationship between the sick and those who can make him better? Doesn't it sound wise to send 100% of whatever you pay into a system goes to the actual health-care provider, and none of it to some magic company who wants their (very significant) cut?
National health care might not be perfect but it does cut out all layers of greed.
Finally, I'd like to add that Canada's doctor brain-drain has come to be primarily because we imposed a cap on the number of reimbursable treatments per year an individual doctor could make. This was done primarily to make sure doctors weren't scamming the system and pumping through a hundred "clients" per day. If you're capped at a very, very reasonable salary, there's no point in gaming the system. Sure you can still treat people quickly and badly to artificially increase your $/hr but the overall $ don't increase.
Windows 7 should go back to home and pro setup no 5+ vers like vista. Maybe also have a enterprise ver with extras apps / tools for that as well.
Also all packs should oem and retail should come with the 32bit and 64bit disks or let people down load the 64bit iso for free and let them use there key that they have.
You know what... I don't care anymore. They can have 82 versions. That's fine. But what they need to do is make Anytime Upgrade include such esoteric definitions of "anytime" such as NOW.
Anytime Upgrade means "take me to a web site where I can order a DVD and key that will be shipped to me in 5 to 10 business days". No thanks. I've got stupid users just like everyone else, who occasionally are permitted to buy their own gear. They always get the cheapest crap, regardless of what they're told the minimum requirements are.
At least if AU actually worked, we could fix the users who bought inadequate gear immediately. "See? Your laptop doesn't connect to the server. Now, type your credit card number here and pay the difference between the cheap crap you bought against my advice and what I told you to buy. Okay, done? Great. Hey look... it connects to the server now. Thank you for your business."
Yes, that's the point exactly. People expect the opportunity to select their corrupt politician of choice. Anything that interferes and might allow the wrong corrupt politician to get into power is unacceptable.
Sorry but this isn't even almost a universally true scenario. I deal with fully patched and current WinXP/Office2k3 (and 2002 and 2007) systems on a daily basis and have yet to encounter this. There's something in your environment causing this and it's not the OS or Office itself. Look to your 3rd-party software and drivers. Like virtually every show-stopping "Windows sucks" bug.
Grahiphics is a big, scary word I've never encountered before which tells me the anonymous reader who submitted the story is very, very smart. Like "eutectic". I am humbled.
You shot for and landed +5 Funny, but there's actually something insightful buried in there.
my friend's laptop
That's important. If we purchase access to music, we have reasonable expectation of being able to play it wherever we damned well please. Including on our friends' hardware. Not being able to take a DVD I buy and bring it over to the in-laws to watch on a family get-together night is absurd. Not being able to take a CD over to my D&D group's basement for ambient background is absurd. Why do the ??AA members act as though I - the purchasing public - am going to find such restrictions on a digital download any less absurd?
Besides, why should the US carry all the rest of the world's traffic?
It's profitable to sell capacity on your fat pipes to other countries for routing purposes. If we (I'm Canadian) route around you, the US loses the income associated with providing that service. Given how many other industries are being outsourced and moved from North America, I'd think the US should be aligning itself as a telecommunications giant, to rake in profit.
Sure, you won't own the wires over in Bangladesh, but the more data you can route with peering agreements, the better, no? Or is having the legal "right" to spy on other people's traffic really that essential that you're rather pee away yet another revenue stream?
What?? Why should I have to type out arcane commands just to get basic functionality??
If the answer to everything on Windows continues to start with "Just drop to a terminal...", it will/never/ be ready for the desktop!
Well, yeah, NET STOP WUAUSERV works if you've got a shell fetish. If on the other hand you have a Linux zealot floating around getting ready to gloat, you can drop into the Services Manager (which on Vista is actually a tab on the Task Manager... just hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, kids!), click on Automatic Updates and click the nice Stop button on the left.
Where Windows has command-line functionality, it almost always also has GUI functionality. The opposite isn't true, which is what's frustrating.
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Also a woman is seens as a risk. Yes, I know it's sexist and no employer will ever admit it because he could be dragged to court for it, but there is the "risk" that she will get pregnant and go on maternity leave
There is also risk that a male will get a better job ... so how is that any different?
I can't understand how your post was modded as insightful... must be troll-moderator day
In theory that risk is at parity between males and females. If the male and female are of equal capability then the risk of them being hired away is identical, making that risk not a factor at all. If the male and female are of equal capability and the male is more likely to be hired away from you, then there's a perceived disparity in the value of the two employees, which is what this portion of the discussion has become about. One of the HUGE causes of that disparity is the womb.
Now who's the troll?
To add a thought-provoking addendum to this rebuttal, if women on average are remunerated at a lower level for the same job, it becomes evident their work is less valued by employers. Is it utterly impossible that the reason for this impression is based on reality, as opposed to pure discrimination? Is it utterly impossible that the average woman's work, when broken down in an impersonal statistical fashion might actually be less valuable? Take passion out of the equation and take the idea that different-but-equal is assuredly attainable. Radical thought, but maybe the statistical amalgam that is the corporate world has in it's gestalt mind come to the conclusion that - on average - female workers are marginally less productive. Seditious and politically incorrect thoughts there, but you know... in a world where hundreds of millions if not billions of people believe in a God of some sort... any hypothetical should be entertained.
First they took away all the food and gave us peanuts. Then they went all the way and said, "Bring your own food". Now bring your own technician. What next? Bring your own pilot?
No, no. First they took away all the food and gave us peanuts. Then they took away the peanuts and said, "bring your own food." Then they forbade us to bring our own food and forced us to buy theirs. Now you bring your own technician. What's next, you ask? You won't be allowed to bring your own technician, but for an extra $5,000 per flight they will let you pay to have the plane put in working order. Passengers will take up collections amongst themselves to come up with the extortion money before the plane will be permitted to fly.
Oh, and no... you can't get off the plane. What are you, a terrorist? You planted a bomb and now you want off, don't you?
I think 8e019226-9a00-41f4-b094-6f1545fd84a9 should be fairly easy to remember.
Throw a couple colons in there somewhere and I'd have guessed that was an IPv6 address. Probably something simple like the default address for a Linksys residential router. "Simply type http://8e01::9226:9a00:41f4:b094::6f1545fd84a9 into your web browser to launch our easy setup wizard (which requires Java 1.6.0.23.0.5b, no more, no less). When asked for a username, use admin and when asked for a password, type the first 42 digits of pi in reversed order. Thank you for your purchase."
Creepy high school principal roots around former female student's MySpace page.
Hick town turns vengeful against family of student.
She's a former female? Is this sort of like that SORBS guy^H^Hal?
This is like that hentai guy. I think material like this may be grounds for investigating someone to see if they have actual illegal porn. But I don't see how this is a crime. I don't want thought police, but there should be no gray area when actual children are involved.
Is seeing a man with a bunch of gold chains walking around in a slum grounds for investigating him to see if he's got stolen goods? Rich guy in poor area? Maybe follow him home and search his house. Where there's smoke, there's fire, right?
Wrong. Teach your children that when someone says or does something sexual, they tell you. Go from there. That's really all that needs be done. Stop inventing opportunity thought TV shows. Stop freaking out about Internet predators when the vast majority of sexual abusers are relatives and close family friends.
When you've got evidence of a crime, investigate. When you've got evidence of what you think might possibly suggest a mind-set of criminal nature... relax. Paranoia State does more harm than good.
The guy might actually be a pedophile, given the frequency of occurrence within the population, it'd be shocking if some members of parliament weren't pedophiles
Given that sort of statement, it'd be interesting to know what IS the frequency of occurrence within the population? And where do you source such a figure? The mass-media would have us believe that paedos are lurking behind every bush, just waiting for an opportunity to snatch some young innocent. TV shows create artificial supply of fake willing and encouraging children, then declare capturing a predator as proof that it's all around us. Yet we have no real solid information on how often children are abused by Internet predators. The social paedophobia could be complete unjustified. Don't know. So please, follow up your intimation of knowing what ratio of the populace are paedos with a citation.
It's also cheaper to manufacture something if you don't have to pay your own design, research, development and marketing costs, and just clone someone else's work and sell into the market that they created.
That's an interesting point. Manufacturing your widget in North America might cost X per widget. Having it mass-produced in a Chinese fab might cost X/2. But if the Chinese factory leaks your specs and a knock-off is released into your market, reducing your profits, that impacts your savings. Might the reduced profit justify paying the full X per widget and having it made somewhere with stricter rules?
Example: there are already some knock-off reproductions of the toys for the upcoming Transformers 2 movie. The original toys haven't even been released yet. (Tomorrow.)
but it is broke. I have 4 firefox windows each with over 20 tabs, and I have 2 IE8 windows also with 0ver 20 tabs each. Last, I have 5 bookmark folders of tab windows so I did not have to keep more windows open. I need to find a new way to deal with this.
Close something.
I'm not being sarcastic. You're telling us your productivity flow involves 120+ simultaneous web views. Your workflow is what's broken, not the browser.
how about we just kill all twitter users instead?
Funny? No, you deserve +5 Interesting at least.
My wife signed up for that crap and at age 37 I've got to cope with her phone going off multiple times during Easter diner and her sharing with my family that Kevin Smith (of Clerks fame) can't decide if he should dry-hump his wife's leg or just rub one out because it's 3am she's asleep and he's stoned and horny.
The god explanation is such a cop out. It doesn't explain Kara or why it doesn't just try and influence or outright stop the genocide in the first place.
You're trying to hard to dislike the finale. Why not accept that the other participant in this cycle isn't actually all-powerful. It can influence, prod, and manipulate. It can pull of events that appear miraculous, but perhaps there's a scale concern.
Better yet, doesn't it make artistic sense that this is about free will? The other influenced the colonials and Cylons to choose differently. It didn't force them, or deny them choice. It educated them. Powerful message there.
I thought up to the Opera house scene, it was great and when Galen went nuts (he couldn't control his emotion when the fate of two civilization are in stake ?), there was just more questions raised than answers from that point on.
One of the strongest themes of the BSG series has been that "people are people". The writers have never shied away from an opportunity to show characters behaving in very human ways. Vengeful, spiteful, angry Tyrol being overwhelmed by the moment? Very much in character. This is the guy who (while half-awake) beat Cally's face in because of a few bad dreams. This is the guy who killed an Eight to help Boomer escape. This is the guy who lost his rank and the respect of Adama because he couldn't keep it together after Cally's murder. Tori's action has repercussions for that man, and he's never been one with lots of self control.
Again, you're trying to dislike the ending.
Replying to undo click-o moderation. Meant to be +1 Insightful. You're 100% right.
Blurring satellite imagery to protect citizens from terrorists is tantamount to kicking voters in the face.
We can play this game all day. As you say, it should be the government justifying any curtailing of civil liberties, not civilians justifying those liberties in the first place.
But seriously, maybe we should ban career politicians because they keep implementing foreign policy that angers people enough to start killing civilians to make a point. Just a thought.
No, but I think I've heard of that one. I'm sure it'll be fixed in MR5. Just like the gem with the gold release where it disabled network access on servers, regardless of if you installed the firewall component or not. We keep waiting for news of a version 12 release including new key feature: Does Not Suck, but so far no luck.
SEP has been a support nightmare for my company. We do IT for small and medium businesses and were really happy with SAV. SEP all the way through the current MR4 has been insanely problematic. From failed installs to crashing on scans to requiring obscure removal tools, we've got something like a one-in-ten successful site install rate. Most customers have serious problems the moment the product walks in the door. Symantec Support seems to mostly consist of spending hours on the phone to be told to reinstall, or "try the latest MR". We haven't found anything that rivals the pleasure that SAV was.
The devil's in the details. I've got ten years of Palm OS use under my belt. I've had a Palm III, a Palm IIIc, a Palm V, a couple different Sony Clie devices, and my wife and I both run Palm Treo 650s. Why? Because I've got dozens of apps, and more than a little investment in them.
From mileage trackers to payroll sheets to games to little utils that adjust the UI to make it work the way I want it to work, I've got a device that works the way I want to work.
Problem is... WebOS isn't backwards compatible. Not even an emulator. So now what for my wife and I? We're starting at 0 no matter what platform our next PDA/phone purchase is. So I'll have 0 investment or loyalty to the Palm platform. Advancement is good, but this effectively says "our existing customer base isn't worth anything to us".
I smell a Blackberry coming my way in a couple years.
As CO2 is roughly 1.5 times the mass of N2 and O2, this comes to a concentration increase of 33 parts per million (roughly).
Well, that's good. But considering that in the case of cyanide, 7 parts per million is fatal to humans, I'm not going to place much value in the "low numbers means no impact" mind-set.
I think a lot of this is snakeoil. If it isn't immediately clear what advantage the computer will bring to the lesson, don't use the computer. There are cases when it is clear that the computer brings a lot of positives, but it isn't all cases by a longshot.
Bingo. In primary and secondary grades, I'd daresay that computers wouldn't bring nearly enough to the learning process to justify their price. Just as for instance having a computer for each student in a Physical Education class is very obviously near pointless, the same can be said for History, Geography, and the various maths and sciences.
Bottom line: use computers in the classroom as a tool, not a process.
Giving TEACHERS access to presentation system with a nice projector in each classroom... now THAT would be worthwhile. The teacher could present slides, video clips (hey kids, this is what Auschwitz looked like) and so on. But most education at this level involves a teach bantering with students back and forth, discussing the topic, and the students collectively learning because they're involved.
Google doesn't do that. That's like handing the kids a textbook and firing the teacher. Pointless.
That being said, language classes could benefit from computers as word processing could be taugh. Music classes should have a PC or two to teach sequencing/sampling concepts.
But at least it was *MY* choice, I'd rather die of a disease my health insurance didn't cover than from a disease the State Health Insurance Plan didn't provide for.
See, in a decent public health-care system, it doesn't work that way. Basically everything is covered. Sure, many actual medications may require you to pay some of their costs, but that's about it. Sure, some quality-of-life exceptions are made (some chiropractic treatments for instance), but basically anything life-threatening that you need, you get.
Isn't it better to know that nationally, everyone's paying on average what they should? That the averaging effect ensures that those who can afford to pay a little more do, and those that can't don't, while everyone gets treated well regardless? That there isn't a question of your coverage being insufficient... you're just treated because you're ill?
Doesn't it sound like a Good Idea to have the system operate as a non-profit, with no Insurance Company middle-man getting rich by denying services whenever and wherever he can? Doesn't it sound SMART to not have an adversarial relationship between the sick and those who can make him better? Doesn't it sound wise to send 100% of whatever you pay into a system goes to the actual health-care provider, and none of it to some magic company who wants their (very significant) cut?
National health care might not be perfect but it does cut out all layers of greed.
Finally, I'd like to add that Canada's doctor brain-drain has come to be primarily because we imposed a cap on the number of reimbursable treatments per year an individual doctor could make. This was done primarily to make sure doctors weren't scamming the system and pumping through a hundred "clients" per day. If you're capped at a very, very reasonable salary, there's no point in gaming the system. Sure you can still treat people quickly and badly to artificially increase your $/hr but the overall $ don't increase.
Windows 7 should go back to home and pro setup no 5+ vers like vista. Maybe also have a enterprise ver with extras apps / tools for that as well.
Also all packs should oem and retail should come with the 32bit and 64bit disks or let people down load the 64bit iso for free and let them use there key that they have.
You know what... I don't care anymore. They can have 82 versions. That's fine. But what they need to do is make Anytime Upgrade include such esoteric definitions of "anytime" such as NOW.
Anytime Upgrade means "take me to a web site where I can order a DVD and key that will be shipped to me in 5 to 10 business days". No thanks. I've got stupid users just like everyone else, who occasionally are permitted to buy their own gear. They always get the cheapest crap, regardless of what they're told the minimum requirements are.
At least if AU actually worked, we could fix the users who bought inadequate gear immediately. "See? Your laptop doesn't connect to the server. Now, type your credit card number here and pay the difference between the cheap crap you bought against my advice and what I told you to buy. Okay, done? Great. Hey look... it connects to the server now. Thank you for your business."
Yes, that's the point exactly. People expect the opportunity to select their corrupt politician of choice. Anything that interferes and might allow the wrong corrupt politician to get into power is unacceptable.
Sorry but this isn't even almost a universally true scenario. I deal with fully patched and current WinXP/Office2k3 (and 2002 and 2007) systems on a daily basis and have yet to encounter this. There's something in your environment causing this and it's not the OS or Office itself. Look to your 3rd-party software and drivers. Like virtually every show-stopping "Windows sucks" bug.
Grahiphics is a big, scary word I've never encountered before which tells me the anonymous reader who submitted the story is very, very smart. Like "eutectic". I am humbled.
You shot for and landed +5 Funny, but there's actually something insightful buried in there.
my friend's laptop
That's important. If we purchase access to music, we have reasonable expectation of being able to play it wherever we damned well please. Including on our friends' hardware. Not being able to take a DVD I buy and bring it over to the in-laws to watch on a family get-together night is absurd. Not being able to take a CD over to my D&D group's basement for ambient background is absurd. Why do the ??AA members act as though I - the purchasing public - am going to find such restrictions on a digital download any less absurd?
Besides, why should the US carry all the rest of the world's traffic?
It's profitable to sell capacity on your fat pipes to other countries for routing purposes. If we (I'm Canadian) route around you, the US loses the income associated with providing that service. Given how many other industries are being outsourced and moved from North America, I'd think the US should be aligning itself as a telecommunications giant, to rake in profit.
Sure, you won't own the wires over in Bangladesh, but the more data you can route with peering agreements, the better, no? Or is having the legal "right" to spy on other people's traffic really that essential that you're rather pee away yet another revenue stream?
What?? Why should I have to type out arcane commands just to get basic functionality??
If the answer to everything on Windows continues to start with "Just drop to a terminal...", it will /never/ be ready for the desktop!
Well, yeah, NET STOP WUAUSERV works if you've got a shell fetish. If on the other hand you have a Linux zealot floating around getting ready to gloat, you can drop into the Services Manager (which on Vista is actually a tab on the Task Manager... just hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, kids!), click on Automatic Updates and click the nice Stop button on the left.
Where Windows has command-line functionality, it almost always also has GUI functionality. The opposite isn't true, which is what's frustrating.