It is not Microsoft's responsibility to make sure you have installed the latest patches and are exercising proper precautions.
This is a red herring. It is their responsibility to manufacture a product that, if used by an average person, can be maintained by an average person. There is absolutely nothing intuitve about the Windows patching regimen. If they simply pulled themselves out of the cave on this one issue, many/. people (esp folks who work in frontline tech support) would ease up on M$.
You are not alone. You are a just fool who has parted with his money. I only reboot my *nix boxes for two reasons: scheduled power outages and kernel updates. The first happens rarely, the second when necessary for security reasons. All for free.
Just a few reminders of what various slashdotters originally though of the iPod before "iPods are the shiznit" became/. canon.
"iPod is a good product, but nothing to get excited over." - harlows_monkeys
"It's not cool at all. It's just another Mac attempt to have the coolest looking, hippest sounding gadget on the market. It adds nothing serious to the current options. For instance, no Ogg Vorbis support (and yes, I realize it probably decodes mp3 in hardware, but...) and it doesn't appear to be cross-platform. I guess this falls into the Dilbert principle of "the best target market is stupid rich people." Since they'll fall for anything and have the money to burn on it." - ichimunki
"...the "rose-colored glasses that you will need for this to seem like a worthwhile product. What a let-down, geez!!" - david614
"People need to realize that all apple ever really delivers is mediocre equipment that, while it may look really cool, is less technically advanced/powerfull/whatever than competing products that cost 20-25% less." - greysky
"A waste of time. Probably OEMed by someone else. Agree with the article poster - Lame. Not only is this a lackluster MP3 unit (which by virtue of being firewire will be limited to Apple Mac owners), but it has virtually no UI wizardry that might define it as an Apple product. A total waste of time." - Ars-Fartsica
"I'd rather pay $100 for a Rio Volt. 700mb of songs per CD with an unlimited number of CD's, provided you change them. Yeah, this should compete favorably with the solid state units, but they've already lost to the CD-MP3 units, IMO." - Fred Ferrigno
"I think it'll sell as well as the G4 Cube. Oops.;-)" - jaoswald
"And I was all excited they were gooing to release a OS X based wireless web pad. Instead we get yet another portable MP3 player.. "groundbreaking" I think was the term I heard them use to describe this new secret product the other day. How "groundbreaking" can something be when I can walk up the street and buy something with similar (and in some cases, additional/better) features? Sigh. One day Apple will live up to the hype. OS X is cool, and their plastic molding team has skills, but the hardware just sucks." - nebby
"I am very sad that Apple seems to be repeating the same mistake they made with the Cube - great, nifty product that anyone would love to own, except that it's burdened by an unbelievably poor price/performance ratio." - jchristopher (Apple shareholder)
"...this was a VERY poor design decision. This could have been a $150 device if they'd used a regular laptop drive." - jchristopher again
Why use fiber? They should have used gig copper. I can think of a thousand reasons not to do this, but kinking the connector cable is Numero Uno. There must be a very happy cable vendor nearby.
Considering they don't even have a geography department. What a fucking joke. They probably have greant money to do it with too. We bitter geography grads at land-grant institutions watch "Social Ecologists" from the Ivy League get Fulbrights and NSF money to study kudzu and wine regions, none of which ever gets published in any interesting journal. I guess they get credit for Jack Dangermond, or is that MIT? No geography dept. there either, methinks. Grrrr.
I thought all of those PC were not supposed to interfere with other RF devices by FCC rule? So much for industry self-regulation? I have been lied to!!!!!
Microsoft is trying to settle and partner rather than fight in court.
Bye Bye, Opera. I am sure Microsoft has a couple of hitters from Jersey waiting in an alley for Opera. They'll cut it into 6 equal parts. It's easier to carry that way. Then they'll find a pig farm. Beware of men who own pig farms.
Some smartass at my old job named the main SNMP config tool we developed after me (because I insisted that he not use backticks in his perl -- the philistine). Well, now people say things like "I tommied eft01 and it seemed to fix the problem." I like the the idea of a legacy but shit I was hoping for a couple of good kids, not an SNMP tool.;-)
One of the reasons that Croatia joined the "Coalition of the Desperate, Shifty and Bribed" against Iraq was that they got enough money to float the note on four of these puppies. War on Terrorism, hell. You need to see the effects on the summer adiabatic winds on the Dalmatian coast. Summer fires pop up like crazy not unlike what happens in Southern California.
Anyhow, they are awesome to see in action. Dive down the Adriatic, scoop up a bunch of water then drop it. Over and Over. I saw one plane make five passes at the island of Brac last summer in less than an hour. Impressive machine with great pilot work as well.
When he was "popular" it was "Soviet Union." This was pre-fall of Communism and, IIRC, the Soviet Union broke up a couple of years after the Berln Wall fell. Anyhow, he was an unfunny dude, so fighting over the semantics of a lame joke about a lame comic by a lame/. posters is, well, lame.;-)
SOVIET UNION! Yakov Smirnoff is from The Ukraine. He would say, "In Soviet Union, something somethings you." C'mon, after fuckall years of this lameness on/., we've got to get it right!
He represents the 9th district which stretches from Henry County in South Central Virginia (my lil redneck home) to deep Southwest Virginia. Never gets serious challenges, IIRC, because he's such an excellent constituent advocate -- no matter the political leaning. Hrm. Isn't that a novel concept?
Basically, you come to a level with basic education where you can get by through the day, but in order to progress economically or socially you are faced with systems that require more advanced literacy. Eventually, these more advanced 'reading' systems become the standard. If you do not have access to appropriate resources to access the skills to use the new systems then you slip back into illiteracy. Computers come to mind, but this also happens when something like 'green revolution' agriculture is introduced in a developing country. You are farmer and 'literate' in the ways of traditional farming. You are then faced with 'modern' ag practices for which you have not the skills to access. You're not stupid, but you become illiterate to the new 'reading' system. The Russian linguist Luria did a lot of work on this problem and one of the reasons that literacy campaigns were so big in the 1980s among developing countries (Nicaragua, for example) was that they knew that the aid and such would only go so far and that they must have a literate base to start accessing better or more productive means as societies.
An interesting little thing to do is to watch the American news channels (Fox, CNN, MSNBC, etc) and see how they depict Iraq. You see lots of brown and such. FoxNews' maps were, until someone realized something, always tan colored and MSNBC's still are. ABC and CNN though use much better tech with their maps and you see, glory be, that Iraq isn't dry as a pop-corn fart and as brown as Southern Arizona. Remember the "Fertile Crescent?" Well, it hasn't fucked off and gone anywhere. American mind: Brown and Desolate = Not Worth Giving a Fuck About.
I worked on one of his campaigns while in college in Virginia. One smart dude and a certified tech interest guy. Keeps his constituents happy and his politics liberal/libertarian (with the little l).
Well, laadeedaa. Guess what, Merikins? Them folks is smart.
Excellent numbers, responses and 'pricking' of stupid conceptions of what Egyptian tech is all about and what their society is all about.
About the schooling: his assessment is dead on. It is a shame but the social and economic structure of Egypt is really a reason why we see young men joining jihad oriented organizations, not their hatred of the USian Empire and 'Freedom.' If you can't get affirmation via the maninstream, you certainly can via groups that give your life a purpose. The whole revelation about how people slip BACK INTO illiteracy is most telling.
I suggest "The Transmission of Knowledge in Medieval Cairo: A Social History of Islamic Education" as great book to see how good it once was for all classes (under the Mamluks, I know). And these are the times that the Islamists imagine for themselves....
Just a few reminders of what various slashdotters originally though of the iPod before "iPods are the shiznit" became/. canon.
"iPod is a good product, but nothing to get excited over." - harlows_monkeys
"It's not cool at all. It's just another Mac attempt to have the coolest looking, hippest sounding gadget on the market. It adds nothing serious to the current options. For instance, no Ogg Vorbis support (and yes, I realize it probably decodes mp3 in hardware, but...) and it doesn't appear to be cross-platform. I guess this falls into the Dilbert principle of "the best target market is stupid rich people." Since they'll fall for anything and have the money to burn on it." - ichimunki
"...the "rose-colored glasses that you will need for this to seem like a worthwhile product. What a let-down, geez!!" - david614
"People need to realize that all apple ever really delivers is mediocre equipment that, while it may look really cool, is less technically advanced/powerfull/whatever than competing products that cost 20-25% less." - greysky
"A waste of time. Probably OEMed by someone else. Agree with the article poster - Lame. Not only is this a lackluster MP3 unit (which by virtue of being firewire will be limited to Apple Mac owners), but it has virtually no UI wizardry that might define it as an Apple product. A total waste of time." - Ars-Fartsica
"I'd rather pay $100 for a Rio Volt. 700mb of songs per CD with an unlimited number of CD's, provided you change them. Yeah, this should compete favorably with the solid state units, but they've already lost to the CD-MP3 units, IMO." - Fred Ferrigno
"I think it'll sell as well as the G4 Cube. Oops.;-)" - jaoswald
"And I was all excited they were gooing to release a OS X based wireless web pad. Instead we get yet another portable MP3 player.. "groundbreaking" I think was the term I heard them use to describe this new secret product the other day. How "groundbreaking" can something be when I can walk up the street and buy something with similar (and in some cases, additional/better) features? Sigh. One day Apple will live up to the hype. OS X is cool, and their plastic molding team has skills, but the hardware just sucks." - nebby
"I am very sad that Apple seems to be repeating the same mistake they made with the Cube - great, nifty product that anyone would love to own, except that it's burdened by an unbelievably poor price/performance ratio." - jchristopher (Apple shareholder)
"...this was a VERY poor design decision. This could have been a $150 device if they'd used a regular laptop drive." - jchristopher again
If you still get the odd drooler slipping through with their rants. Until I figured out your trick, Google became unusable because of cross-linked and linkbombed blogs.
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It is not Microsoft's responsibility to make sure you have installed the latest patches and are exercising proper precautions.
/. people (esp folks who work in frontline tech support) would ease up on M$.
This is a red herring. It is their responsibility to manufacture a product that, if used by an average person, can be maintained by an average person. There is absolutely nothing intuitve about the Windows patching regimen. If they simply pulled themselves out of the cave on this one issue, many
My OS is mandated by my job and I didn't pay for the software on my workstation.
My OS is mandated too and my company has an excellent bottom line.
don't you get tired of the wild exaggerations about windows instability
Oh, it'll run for months I am sure. It has to be stable to support the Backdoor FTP servers and IRC bots.
Am I alone?
You are not alone. You are a just fool who has parted with his money. I only reboot my *nix boxes for two reasons: scheduled power outages and kernel updates. The first happens rarely, the second when necessary for security reasons. All for free.
Just a few reminders of what various slashdotters originally though of the iPod before "iPods are the shiznit" became /. canon.
;-)" - jaoswald
.. "groundbreaking" I think was the term I heard them use to describe this new secret product the other day. How "groundbreaking" can something be when I can walk up the street and buy something with similar (and in some cases, additional/better) features? Sigh. One day Apple will live up to the hype. OS X is cool, and their plastic molding team has skills, but the hardware just sucks." - nebby
"iPod is a good product, but nothing to get excited over." - harlows_monkeys
"It's not cool at all. It's just another Mac attempt to have the coolest looking, hippest sounding gadget on the market. It adds nothing serious to the current options. For instance, no Ogg Vorbis support (and yes, I realize it probably decodes mp3 in hardware, but...) and it doesn't appear to be cross-platform. I guess this falls into the Dilbert principle of "the best target market is stupid rich people." Since they'll fall for anything and have the money to burn on it." - ichimunki
"...the "rose-colored glasses that you will need for this to seem like a worthwhile product. What a let-down, geez!!" - david614
"People need to realize that all apple ever really delivers is mediocre equipment that, while it may look really cool, is less technically advanced/powerfull/whatever than competing products that cost 20-25% less." - greysky
"A waste of time. Probably OEMed by someone else. Agree with the article poster - Lame. Not only is this a lackluster MP3 unit (which by virtue of being firewire will be limited to Apple Mac owners), but it has virtually no UI wizardry that might define it as an Apple product. A total waste of time." - Ars-Fartsica
"I'd rather pay $100 for a Rio Volt. 700mb of songs per CD with an unlimited number of CD's, provided you change them. Yeah, this should compete favorably with the solid state units, but they've already lost to the CD-MP3 units, IMO." - Fred Ferrigno
"I think it'll sell as well as the G4 Cube. Oops.
"And I was all excited they were gooing to release a OS X based wireless web pad. Instead we get yet another portable MP3 player
"I am very sad that Apple seems to be repeating the same mistake they made with the Cube - great, nifty product that anyone would love to own, except that it's burdened by an unbelievably poor price/performance ratio." - jchristopher (Apple shareholder)
"...this was a VERY poor design decision. This could have been a $150 device if they'd used a regular laptop drive." - jchristopher again
Why use fiber? They should have used gig copper. I can think of a thousand reasons not to do this, but kinking the connector cable is Numero Uno. There must be a very happy cable vendor nearby.
YHBT.
BLAST! If people would stop modding me up, you'd never have noticed!
True to a degree. But I read at -1. There is a whole other world at -1.
OK. I have been see your "Zerg" subject for months now. What gives?
Considering they don't even have a geography department. What a fucking joke. They probably have greant money to do it with too. We bitter geography grads at land-grant institutions watch "Social Ecologists" from the Ivy League get Fulbrights and NSF money to study kudzu and wine regions, none of which ever gets published in any interesting journal. I guess they get credit for Jack Dangermond, or is that MIT? No geography dept. there either, methinks. Grrrr.
I thought all of those PC were not supposed to interfere with other RF devices by FCC rule? So much for industry self-regulation? I have been lied to!!!!!
Microsoft is trying to settle and partner rather than fight in court.
Bye Bye, Opera. I am sure Microsoft has a couple of hitters from Jersey waiting in an alley for Opera. They'll cut it into 6 equal parts. It's easier to carry that way. Then they'll find a pig farm. Beware of men who own pig farms.
Embrace. Extend. Extinguish. Whack. Whack. Whack.
PS. My apologies to the late, great Bricktop.
Apart from googolplex, the highest named number is actually one centillion, which is 10 ^ 600.
What about Graham's Number? It can even be expressed by normal exponential notation.
Some smartass at my old job named the main SNMP config tool we developed after me (because I insisted that he not use backticks in his perl -- the philistine). Well, now people say things like "I tommied eft01 and it seemed to fix the problem." I like the the idea of a legacy but shit I was hoping for a couple of good kids, not an SNMP tool. ;-)
One of the reasons that Croatia joined the "Coalition of the Desperate, Shifty and Bribed" against Iraq was that they got enough money to float the note on four of these puppies. War on Terrorism, hell. You need to see the effects on the summer adiabatic winds on the Dalmatian coast. Summer fires pop up like crazy not unlike what happens in Southern California.
Anyhow, they are awesome to see in action. Dive down the Adriatic, scoop up a bunch of water then drop it. Over and Over. I saw one plane make five passes at the island of Brac last summer in less than an hour. Impressive machine with great pilot work as well.
When he was "popular" it was "Soviet Union." This was pre-fall of Communism and, IIRC, the Soviet Union broke up a couple of years after the Berln Wall fell. Anyhow, he was an unfunny dude, so fighting over the semantics of a lame joke about a lame comic by a lame /. posters is, well, lame. ;-)
SOVIET UNION! Yakov Smirnoff is from The Ukraine. He would say, "In Soviet Union, something somethings you." C'mon, after fuckall years of this lameness on /., we've got to get it right!
He represents the 9th district which stretches from Henry County in South Central Virginia (my lil redneck home) to deep Southwest Virginia. Never gets serious challenges, IIRC, because he's such an excellent constituent advocate -- no matter the political leaning. Hrm. Isn't that a novel concept?
Yeah, I didn't understand that one. Romania or Moldova would have been better examples.
Basically, you come to a level with basic education where you can get by through the day, but in order to progress economically or socially you are faced with systems that require more advanced literacy. Eventually, these more advanced 'reading' systems become the standard. If you do not have access to appropriate resources to access the skills to use the new systems then you slip back into illiteracy. Computers come to mind, but this also happens when something like 'green revolution' agriculture is introduced in a developing country. You are farmer and 'literate' in the ways of traditional farming. You are then faced with 'modern' ag practices for which you have not the skills to access. You're not stupid, but you become illiterate to the new 'reading' system. The Russian linguist Luria did a lot of work on this problem and one of the reasons that literacy campaigns were so big in the 1980s among developing countries (Nicaragua, for example) was that they knew that the aid and such would only go so far and that they must have a literate base to start accessing better or more productive means as societies.
An interesting little thing to do is to watch the American news channels (Fox, CNN, MSNBC, etc) and see how they depict Iraq. You see lots of brown and such. FoxNews' maps were, until someone realized something, always tan colored and MSNBC's still are. ABC and CNN though use much better tech with their maps and you see, glory be, that Iraq isn't dry as a pop-corn fart and as brown as Southern Arizona. Remember the "Fertile Crescent?" Well, it hasn't fucked off and gone anywhere. American mind: Brown and Desolate = Not Worth Giving a Fuck About.
I worked on one of his campaigns while in college in Virginia. One smart dude and a certified tech interest guy. Keeps his constituents happy and his politics liberal/libertarian (with the little l).
Well, laadeedaa. Guess what, Merikins? Them folks is smart.
Excellent numbers, responses and 'pricking' of stupid conceptions of what Egyptian tech is all about and what their society is all about.
About the schooling: his assessment is dead on. It is a shame but the social and economic structure of Egypt is really a reason why we see young men joining jihad oriented organizations, not their hatred of the USian Empire and 'Freedom.' If you can't get affirmation via the maninstream, you certainly can via groups that give your life a purpose. The whole revelation about how people slip BACK INTO illiteracy is most telling.
I suggest "The Transmission of Knowledge in Medieval Cairo: A Social History of Islamic Education" as great book to see how good it once was for all classes (under the Mamluks, I know). And these are the times that the Islamists imagine for themselves....
Just a few reminders of what various slashdotters originally though of the iPod before "iPods are the shiznit" became /. canon.
;-)" - jaoswald
.. "groundbreaking" I think was the term I heard them use to describe this new secret product the other day. How "groundbreaking" can something be when I can walk up the street and buy something with similar (and in some cases, additional/better) features? Sigh. One day Apple will live up to the hype. OS X is cool, and their plastic molding team has skills, but the hardware just sucks." - nebby
"iPod is a good product, but nothing to get excited over." - harlows_monkeys
"It's not cool at all. It's just another Mac attempt to have the coolest looking, hippest sounding gadget on the market. It adds nothing serious to the current options. For instance, no Ogg Vorbis support (and yes, I realize it probably decodes mp3 in hardware, but...) and it doesn't appear to be cross-platform. I guess this falls into the Dilbert principle of "the best target market is stupid rich people." Since they'll fall for anything and have the money to burn on it." - ichimunki
"...the "rose-colored glasses that you will need for this to seem like a worthwhile product. What a let-down, geez!!" - david614
"People need to realize that all apple ever really delivers is mediocre equipment that, while it may look really cool, is less technically advanced/powerfull/whatever than competing products that cost 20-25% less." - greysky
"A waste of time. Probably OEMed by someone else. Agree with the article poster - Lame. Not only is this a lackluster MP3 unit (which by virtue of being firewire will be limited to Apple Mac owners), but it has virtually no UI wizardry that might define it as an Apple product. A total waste of time." - Ars-Fartsica
"I'd rather pay $100 for a Rio Volt. 700mb of songs per CD with an unlimited number of CD's, provided you change them. Yeah, this should compete favorably with the solid state units, but they've already lost to the CD-MP3 units, IMO." - Fred Ferrigno
"I think it'll sell as well as the G4 Cube. Oops.
"And I was all excited they were gooing to release a OS X based wireless web pad. Instead we get yet another portable MP3 player
"I am very sad that Apple seems to be repeating the same mistake they made with the Cube - great, nifty product that anyone would love to own, except that it's burdened by an unbelievably poor price/performance ratio." - jchristopher (Apple shareholder)
"...this was a VERY poor design decision. This could have been a $150 device if they'd used a regular laptop drive." - jchristopher again
Then you, sir or madam, are an idiot!
If you still get the odd drooler slipping through with their rants. Until I figured out your trick, Google became unusable because of cross-linked and linkbombed blogs.