yes, and the other thing is cost. when I had come on as IT manager at a place that needed a rebuild of the *entire* network (servers, desktops, wiring, and all net equip) - one of the goals was to get all software properly licensed. this was the last on the priority list - yet a very important goal. the point is that we had to wait a year and a half in order to do this. why? budget.
we had spent the capital budget taking care of all the issues that needed to be fixed for over a year... then had to wait for some time until we could get the budget to spend over 100K to MS in order to make ourselves legal.
so - most companies will wait for a number of reasons. but the thing to remember is that most CFOs do take a bit of convincing that spending a shit load of money on just software licenses (that they are most likely actually already running the software aside)is worth the effort. and this is quite a project in and of itself. most CFOs feel like they dont need to make proper licensing budgets a priority.. and MS recognizes this and are designing around it.
the thing is that I do not see it as theft. if you owe me compensation for my work. you can pay me in cold hard cash - or nice cold hardware.
too bad for you that this server is worth more than you owe me. you shouldnt have run out in the first place without letting me know what was coming. call it interest.
I worked at a dot-bomb where the intentionally hid the actual price of the stock options - and gave us all a line about how (no matter who you were) the stock was currently worth whatever your buy-in value of your options was. this prevented you from being able to trade half for half. but they would never give you the stock price in writing, and depending on which conman on exec staff you talked to you got a very wide range of quotes.
but when you hear the CEO talking to investers and telling them that the stock is worth more than triple your buy in - then I am entitled to something - and I dont need court to tell me whats right or wrong.
I know in my heart that it is right that this company compensate me. period.
if freedom is something that we have to proactively go after, then WHY THE F**K cant the people setup to be representatives go after the peoples opinion.
it makes no sense. you are saying that we have to get involved, who do we write to, blah blah. why shouldnt/. (or something like it) be mandatory reading for the house and senate. I mean come on - this is actually us being in the victim role. we need to get those idiots like hillary to stop living in the reality that they beleive to be true - and start reading what we actually have to say. (and I specify reading because of the history of media twisting what people say by editing the video and sound of the statements).
these people need to listen or get fired. I dont give a shit about the gore or bush or clinton family of politicians... but I do care about my, and every other persons true rights.
with the state of the government and the politicians today - these people need to lose their jobs and their "life long salary" (yes every member of congress pulls the same salary they were paid for LIFE - thats why they dont fix soc. sec.)
wake up peeps. these people are not benevolent reps. they have their best interest first - and what we think as logical does not enter the minds of those in charge.
deny it as you must - but the truth iis that congress is a bunch of old bastards that are more concerned with giving eachother a pat on the back and congradulating themselves for thing that matter not.
John Ashcroft announced today that the NSA has devised a fool proof deterance to E-terrorism. The new method is called Security-Through-Imprisonment, or STI.
The premise of STI is that civilian and military systems dont need to be secured, but instead laws need to be put in place that will require life sentances for so much as a failed telnet login attempt.
In response to our questions Ashcroft had the following statement: "Everyone is aware that securing Microsoft products is as futile as the war-on-drugs(TM), so we decided that rather than attempting to fix the systems - we will just send these E-Terrorists to prison for life for their crimes against Freedom(R). It is important for us to protect-our-children's(TM - H. Clinton) future in the wake of this terrible tragedy. Our new policy is called "If you cant do the right thing, then just do something"
on the other, please point out to me where the feds have followed there laws to the letter - in such a way where we agree that they have not abused the power they have given themselves via a new bill.
the point is that this particular bill will allow the feds to have much easier approval for snooping through your e-trash.
the possibilities for abuse of power and throwing people in the brig for innovative thought (MS ahs nothing to worry about) has just gone up.
like bush stated "your either with us or against us" - so you either hack for the NSA and CIA - or you go to jail.
well maybe so but the thing that would be good about having the ability to run around a little town like that would be getting to know the place.
if I had the option to run through the streets of a city, and get to know where the places to go are located physically I would like it. Then when I go upto the city for a night out - I would know where most of the businesses are, and would have more options as to what to do on a night - especially if I had never been to that city before.
but I would still want the traditional style of browsing... and be able to "teleport" to the front of a business in the 3d environ.
I think that it will have larger implecations as well - people would correlate brick-and-mortar with cyberspace a bit better, as you would see where a company is (or how a city is) without having to be there.
so - in conclusion I would love to have the opportunity to travel through virtually - and what would be interesting is to run through the streets and see all the other people on that street and be able to talk to them. just like a MMORPG.
I own a very large store - and I had the building designed and built by one of the most well known store building contractors in the world.
Its a huge store - I employ many many people, and we sell a lot of stuff... but in the past 5 years that I have been in business I have had several break-ins where people keep stealing all my stuff - of just trash the place and destroy all our merchandise so that we are out of business for a time.
I ahve contacted the police and they have investigated and determined that the building was designed with doos, windows and locks that can be opened by people who know how they work without having to have a key. Everytime I get robbed or trashed the contractor comes out and fixes the locks or doors or windows, but it happens too often. I cant replace the building with one that is made by a different contractor because that would be too expensive - I would have to train my staff again, and teach them where everything is located because that contractor cant build a store that is of the same configuration...
so I am stuck with the building I ahve - and these vandals and theives keep finding ways of breaking into the building that I own - well I dont really *own* it I am leasing it from the contractor - but apparently even though the contractor owns it - they apparently have no legal responsibility for the property.
I have been told that I cannot sue the contractor for providing me a building that has design flaws which allow breakins which cause my business to be unable to accept customers and make money - because I apparently agreed to their lease terms.
***
And microsoft laughs all the way to the bank.
We should start a class action suit to get MS to adhere to the license policy - seeing as how they OWN the software we RENT from them - it is THEIR responsibility to fix the fscking leaking faucets.
If my house burns down because of a flaw on the designer or landlords part I sue the pants off em.
lets get M$ to be responsible gor gods sake and stop bitching about whether or not the fscking design of white-hats is ethical. we keep focusing on the symptoms and not the root cause. FAULTY SOFTWARE IS RESPONSIBLE - not the damn virii.
i just got back from watching final fantasy (tm) by square pictures (r)... I came home and mad a jack daniel's (r) and coke (r) and changed into my gap (tm) and calvin klein (tm) slashdot (r) reading wear.
and i dont see anything wrong with advertising online - however these sites claim to be providing the best informational search results based on all the entries they have in their DBs of sites - but when the results are skewed by advertising $ - then it is clearly a deceptive technique, and hopefully in the long run will prove to be very bad for the sites.
for instance - yahoo was king of search (IMO) until google hit the scene. now I use yahoo for a mail account, and maps (sometimes - cuz they give bad directions) and occasionally yellow pages. othe than that - I never search yahoo. only google.
so - if they are going to shuffle the results - then its a big deal in the sense that I will seek out the sites that do it less for better results.
PG&E decided to state that they needed money from the state to stay in business. yet try to blame everyone else under the sun for their inability to manage their business.
looks like the real problem for the PG&E power fiasco is the lack of kids playing with RC toys. if more kids played with RC toys - they wopuld better understand how to manage their power requirements - and society wouldnt have put PG&E in the position they are in.
or if you dont want to get caught burning your money (cuz thats illegal), send it all to me and I will burn it for you.
bank of america acct# 395283771
routing #: 12500013
when i was pricing out linux systems for a voip cluster early last year - I wanted a system that was by a company taht would also support it etc... I didnt want to have to do a build-my-own-clone, so I looked at VA and penguin.
I was actually really surprised at their prices they were REALLY high.
I would expect those prices from compaq - as you know that they design and test their machines really well - plus the add certain amounts of proprietary design into it which jacks the prices, but from VA and penguin?
now we see much more realistic prices from penguin, and va dropping all together.
so - does this mean they are havinga blowout sale on all in stock items?
the point is that as we progress as a technologically advanced society - we will be spending more and more and more time in front of our terminals, the point is that by adding all the terminal features to the fridge - we will be made even more slave-like.
we sit and do our work in from of a terminal all day long, then at feeding time - the display opens up and gives us what we need to keep working. and by having it online and monitoring what we are running low on - it can email webvan to order the re-supply automatically without us have to leave our "desk".
you will see - we will all be turned into terminal-potatoes in no time.
funny i read this - the read the RH in the "BLACK" posting - but after a few drinks.... I thought it said RH in the RED and thought it was really funny that RH would these two would be on/.
never mind.... I enjoyed the lapse.
"RH in announces entrance to DB market... RH in the RED!"
me thinks it apparent that yous not be one of the many effected by the market downswing?
would you happen to be the CEO of DC: stating that everyone should pick up these handy devices because of your savvy understanding of a market in which we would value such garbage?
I dont know about everyone else - but I got my sue cat for free - and this guy is out paying for all 17+ of his.:)
i just got tired of the 3rd person perspective - and staring into her ass through the whole flick. I mean - they didnt have to follow the game *that* closely.
When I was working in intels gamelab we had a 54" plasma screen hooked up for demo purposes.
but when we first got it - we still had the large screen tv in place - so for about 2 weeks I had it on my desk hooked up to play Q3 on.
it was *really* cool but very hard to play on. you did have to actually move your head to see the whole thing - but that was only cuz it was so close to you - and it gave you a headache real fast.
laster when we had it mounted on the wall you could play with a wireless mouse and keyboard. that was fun.
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yes, and the other thing is cost. when I had come on as IT manager at a place that needed a rebuild of the *entire* network (servers, desktops, wiring, and all net equip) - one of the goals was to get all software properly licensed. this was the last on the priority list - yet a very important goal. the point is that we had to wait a year and a half in order to do this. why? budget.
we had spent the capital budget taking care of all the issues that needed to be fixed for over a year... then had to wait for some time until we could get the budget to spend over 100K to MS in order to make ourselves legal.
so - most companies will wait for a number of reasons. but the thing to remember is that most CFOs do take a bit of convincing that spending a shit load of money on just software licenses (that they are most likely actually already running the software aside)is worth the effort. and this is quite a project in and of itself. most CFOs feel like they dont need to make proper licensing budgets a priority.. and MS recognizes this and are designing around it.
the thing is that I do not see it as theft. if you owe me compensation for my work. you can pay me in cold hard cash - or nice cold hardware.
too bad for you that this server is worth more than you owe me. you shouldnt have run out in the first place without letting me know what was coming. call it interest.
I worked at a dot-bomb where the intentionally hid the actual price of the stock options - and gave us all a line about how (no matter who you were) the stock was currently worth whatever your buy-in value of your options was. this prevented you from being able to trade half for half. but they would never give you the stock price in writing, and depending on which conman on exec staff you talked to you got a very wide range of quotes.
but when you hear the CEO talking to investers and telling them that the stock is worth more than triple your buy in - then I am entitled to something - and I dont need court to tell me whats right or wrong.
I know in my heart that it is right that this company compensate me. period.
I agree and dis-agree.
/. (or something like it) be mandatory reading for the house and senate. I mean come on - this is actually us being in the victim role. we need to get those idiots like hillary to stop living in the reality that they beleive to be true - and start reading what we actually have to say. (and I specify reading because of the history of media twisting what people say by editing the video and sound of the statements).
if freedom is something that we have to proactively go after, then WHY THE F**K cant the people setup to be representatives go after the peoples opinion.
it makes no sense. you are saying that we have to get involved, who do we write to, blah blah. why shouldnt
these people need to listen or get fired. I dont give a shit about the gore or bush or clinton family of politicians... but I do care about my, and every other persons true rights.
with the state of the government and the politicians today - these people need to lose their jobs and their "life long salary" (yes every member of congress pulls the same salary they were paid for LIFE - thats why they dont fix soc. sec.)
wake up peeps. these people are not benevolent reps. they have their best interest first - and what we think as logical does not enter the minds of those in charge.
deny it as you must - but the truth iis that congress is a bunch of old bastards that are more concerned with giving eachother a pat on the back and congradulating themselves for thing that matter not.
flamebait BAH! know the truth.
zactly... dont know why it was mod'd at insightful. was sposed to be funny/ironic.
John Ashcroft announced today that the NSA has devised a fool proof deterance to E-terrorism. The new method is called Security-Through-Imprisonment, or STI.
The premise of STI is that civilian and military systems dont need to be secured, but instead laws need to be put in place that will require life sentances for so much as a failed telnet login attempt.
In response to our questions Ashcroft had the following statement: "Everyone is aware that securing Microsoft products is as futile as the war-on-drugs(TM), so we decided that rather than attempting to fix the systems - we will just send these E-Terrorists to prison for life for their crimes against Freedom(R). It is important for us to protect-our-children's(TM - H. Clinton) future in the wake of this terrible tragedy. Our new policy is called "If you cant do the right thing, then just do something"
one the one hand I agree with you...
on the other, please point out to me where the feds have followed there laws to the letter - in such a way where we agree that they have not abused the power they have given themselves via a new bill.
the point is that this particular bill will allow the feds to have much easier approval for snooping through your e-trash.
the possibilities for abuse of power and throwing people in the brig for innovative thought (MS ahs nothing to worry about) has just gone up.
like bush stated "your either with us or against us" - so you either hack for the NSA and CIA - or you go to jail.
well maybe so but the thing that would be good about having the ability to run around a little town like that would be getting to know the place.
if I had the option to run through the streets of a city, and get to know where the places to go are located physically I would like it. Then when I go upto the city for a night out - I would know where most of the businesses are, and would have more options as to what to do on a night - especially if I had never been to that city before.
but I would still want the traditional style of browsing... and be able to "teleport" to the front of a business in the 3d environ.
I think that it will have larger implecations as well - people would correlate brick-and-mortar with cyberspace a bit better, as you would see where a company is (or how a city is) without having to be there.
so - in conclusion I would love to have the opportunity to travel through virtually - and what would be interesting is to run through the streets and see all the other people on that street and be able to talk to them. just like a MMORPG.
so in russian mission control rooms is the big red button a big blue button? or the big red phone a big blue phone? or are they still red?
I own a very large store - and I had the building designed and built by one of the most well known store building contractors in the world.
Its a huge store - I employ many many people, and we sell a lot of stuff... but in the past 5 years that I have been in business I have had several break-ins where people keep stealing all my stuff - of just trash the place and destroy all our merchandise so that we are out of business for a time.
I ahve contacted the police and they have investigated and determined that the building was designed with doos, windows and locks that can be opened by people who know how they work without having to have a key. Everytime I get robbed or trashed the contractor comes out and fixes the locks or doors or windows, but it happens too often. I cant replace the building with one that is made by a different contractor because that would be too expensive - I would have to train my staff again, and teach them where everything is located because that contractor cant build a store that is of the same configuration...
so I am stuck with the building I ahve - and these vandals and theives keep finding ways of breaking into the building that I own - well I dont really *own* it I am leasing it from the contractor - but apparently even though the contractor owns it - they apparently have no legal responsibility for the property.
I have been told that I cannot sue the contractor for providing me a building that has design flaws which allow breakins which cause my business to be unable to accept customers and make money - because I apparently agreed to their lease terms.
***
And microsoft laughs all the way to the bank.
We should start a class action suit to get MS to adhere to the license policy - seeing as how they OWN the software we RENT from them - it is THEIR responsibility to fix the fscking leaking faucets.
If my house burns down because of a flaw on the designer or landlords part I sue the pants off em.
lets get M$ to be responsible gor gods sake and stop bitching about whether or not the fscking design of white-hats is ethical. we keep focusing on the symptoms and not the root cause. FAULTY SOFTWARE IS RESPONSIBLE - not the damn virii.
i just got back from watching final fantasy (tm) by square pictures (r)... I came home and mad a jack daniel's (r) and coke (r) and changed into my gap (tm) and calvin klein (tm) slashdot (r) reading wear.
and i dont see anything wrong with advertising online - however these sites claim to be providing the best informational search results based on all the entries they have in their DBs of sites - but when the results are skewed by advertising $ - then it is clearly a deceptive technique, and hopefully in the long run will prove to be very bad for the sites.
for instance - yahoo was king of search (IMO) until google hit the scene. now I use yahoo for a mail account, and maps (sometimes - cuz they give bad directions) and occasionally yellow pages. othe than that - I never search yahoo. only google.
so - if they are going to shuffle the results - then its a big deal in the sense that I will seek out the sites that do it less for better results.
that sounds like PG&E. (bunch 'o bastards imo)
PG&E decided to state that they needed money from the state to stay in business. yet try to blame everyone else under the sun for their inability to manage their business.
looks like the real problem for the PG&E power fiasco is the lack of kids playing with RC toys. if more kids played with RC toys - they wopuld better understand how to manage their power requirements - and society wouldnt have put PG&E in the position they are in.
ok lets assume a month has 30 days.
.59c - i dont know exact figure... here is what calc gives out: 7.71604938271604938271604938271605e-4
let assume a t1 costs 2K per month (used to be typical).
here is the math:
24 hours in a day.
30 days a month.
720 hours in a month.
43200 minutes a month.
2592000 seconds a month.
(2000/2592000)= *NOT*
so - obviously these people are fscking lunatics.
Even now, Microsoft isn't preparing the public for the coming crackdown
of course not - that would mean that they would be educating people to the tactic - and risk having less people want to buy the software.
as long as I can run my games on ME 2K or 9X - there is no reason for me to get XP anything.
or if you dont want to get caught burning your money (cuz thats illegal), send it all to me and I will burn it for you. bank of america acct# 395283771 routing #: 12500013
i think they should have to write a formal letter of apology.
when i was pricing out linux systems for a voip cluster early last year - I wanted a system that was by a company taht would also support it etc... I didnt want to have to do a build-my-own-clone, so I looked at VA and penguin.
I was actually really surprised at their prices they were REALLY high.
I would expect those prices from compaq - as you know that they design and test their machines really well - plus the add certain amounts of proprietary design into it which jacks the prices, but from VA and penguin?
now we see much more realistic prices from penguin, and va dropping all together.
so - does this mean they are havinga blowout sale on all in stock items?
my guess would be that there are no reputable art critics in little rock. or mississippi for that matter...
i mean what do them red-neck know about art afterall.
maybe you should do beer can art and then they will recognize your true prowess as a fine artist.
in SF on the other hand....
easy...
the point is that as we progress as a technologically advanced society - we will be spending more and more and more time in front of our terminals, the point is that by adding all the terminal features to the fridge - we will be made even more slave-like.
we sit and do our work in from of a terminal all day long, then at feeding time - the display opens up and gives us what we need to keep working. and by having it online and monitoring what we are running low on - it can email webvan to order the re-supply automatically without us have to leave our "desk".
you will see - we will all be turned into terminal-potatoes in no time.
p.s. the "e" it deliberate.
for fucks sake - ever hear of clear aerogel?
i would much prefer that I can set the image displayed on the door of my fridge - or even better my shower door...
would be great to be able to go to the fridge and see my delectable of the day, or take a shower with angelina jolie!
funny i read this - the read the RH in the "BLACK" posting - but after a few drinks.... I thought it said RH in the RED and thought it was really funny that RH would these two would be on /.
never mind.... I enjoyed the lapse.
"RH in announces entrance to DB market... RH in the RED!"
ok - so if I create music that is based on the portion of my DNA that creates my penis will it sound anything like:
boom chika boom bowow bum boom chika boom bowow?
just curious...
me thinks it apparent that yous not be one of the many effected by the market downswing?
:)
would you happen to be the CEO of DC: stating that everyone should pick up these handy devices because of your savvy understanding of a market in which we would value such garbage?
I dont know about everyone else - but I got my sue cat for free - and this guy is out paying for all 17+ of his.
i just got tired of the 3rd person perspective - and staring into her ass through the whole flick. I mean - they didnt have to follow the game *that* closely.
When I was working in intels gamelab we had a 54" plasma screen hooked up for demo purposes.
but when we first got it - we still had the large screen tv in place - so for about 2 weeks I had it on my desk hooked up to play Q3 on.
it was *really* cool but very hard to play on. you did have to actually move your head to see the whole thing - but that was only cuz it was so close to you - and it gave you a headache real fast.
laster when we had it mounted on the wall you could play with a wireless mouse and keyboard. that was fun.