I don't get it.. why are these sheeple putting their real info all over the net? We hear it all the time, such and such gets fired because of facebook, or whatever..
Someone needs to teach people how to be an internet user me thinks!
Doesn't matter what they try to legislate, it's too late now. countless archives everywhere are full of your info.
Insecure.
The more people need to pump their ego the more they try to find interesting bits to post on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, blogspot, etc.
Businesses decided to standardize on DOS PCs over Macs, making Microsoft a success, despite a weak product.
Correction: businesses standardized on IBM, just like they'd been standardized on it for years. It came with PC-DOS, unless you asked for something else. There was no such thing as a Mac at that time.
IBM had slapped the PC together out of off-the-shelf parts and a fairly hastily written 16K BIOS, since they hadn't seen that much potential in the personal computer market, and for the same reason they didn't bother getting an exclusive OS deal from Microsoft. This meant that it didn't take long before other companies were writing equivalent BIOSes and selling IBM PC clones (often known as "clones") which ran MS-DOS. Nobody wanted to get too far from IBM, though. They might buy the cheaper equivalents (like previously they might have bought Amdahl mainframes), but getting away from the IBM line was seen as dangerous.
The result was that the buy-IBM mindset that was extremely common among businesses at the time transferred directly into buying MS-DOS, What made Microsoft's fortune was the exact right business deals at the exact right time: buying an exclusive license for the Seattle Computer Club's QDOS, and selling IBM a non-exclusive license for their version of it.
Standardization happened later than you think. The Mac was available, but with costs to PCs driven down by Clones businesses opted for the cheaper platform.
Had they standardized on IBM you'd never have heard of Microsoft Word, you'd be typing stuff in DisplayWrite.
Don't ever underestimate the power of being in the right place at the right time. Couple that with am opportunistic business sense and the persistence to keep pushing on in spite of seemingly insurmountable hurdles, and your chance of success is higher than most.
Of course, Gates and MSFT went quite a bit beyond that, with monopolistic practices, vendor intimidation, and outright plagiarism in some cases, but underneath that lies the fundamentals above. We may not like how MSFT got where it is, but you can't deny their basic principles.
But it's a bit like saying the First Poster to a topic has greater credibility than subsequent posters. Hitting reload a hundred times and then hastily writing something coherent and hitting preview and submit faster than someone else doesn't, IMHO, make it a better post.
Businesses decided to standardize on DOS PCs over Macs, making Microsoft a success, despite a weak product.
Ever since then business, education and government have been happy to shell out the "Microsoft Tax" every time there's a new release of Windows or Office. Most of Microsoft's non-core ventures have been colossal failures. Yet, because this man was in the right place, at the right time and was given mountains of lucre for products which were less than stellar, he's accorded that status of a Technology Genius and all around Brilliant Guy.
Really. He's just rich. Just like Mark Zuckerberg will be when the Facebook IPO happens. Don't get your expectations up, just because someone has a lot of money.
What's this got to do with Net Neutrality? It's throttling back traffic and charging for overage - it's a Business Model - not entirely unlike how they charge for Long Distance.
It's Net Neutrality because they are not throttling or capping their own competing services, while they are capping Netflix. AT&T has just announced that they, like Comcast, are the gatekeepers of the Internet, and have free reign to control how much you say, who you say it to, and where your information comes from.
And mentioning Net Neutrality in this whole discussion is not unlike the following sentence:
"The woman ate a slice of pie (which is a food) with ice cream (which is also food.)"
Superfluous use of Net Neutrality and a distraction to the discussion.
I have AT&T DSL, but am not a large user. I'll probably never see more than 10 GB per month (most of my traffic being Google Maps traffic, Geocaching Pocket Queries and looking at individual eBay listings, which are probably about 1 MB per page now, with all the stupid javascript bloat.)
I'd like an exemption for Flash advertising, also for unrequested streaming video ads, which are about as filthy as internet advertising has got (and we thought pop-up ads were rotten.)
What's this got to do with Net Neutrality? It's throttling back traffic and charging for overage - it's a Business Model - not entirely unlike how they charge for Long Distance.
when I was growing up, we rationed everything from electricity to meat to cigars.
Listen to OTR and you will find a references sprinkled in among the comedy shows of the 1940s and 50s, even mention of The Office of Price Administration (OPA)
Rather than directing blackouts I'm surprised the Japanese government hasn't (at least I haven't heard they have, I may be wrong) asked for voluntary reduced dependence upon electricity. The Japanese are still very much a country which will readily pull together at the drop of a suggestion, as is being reported via BBC World Service.
You just need to learn to say no. This works 100%:
Did you notice a sign out in front of my house that said "Free PC repair"? You know WHY you didn't see that sign? 'Cause it ain't there, 'cause repairing dead PCs ain't my fucking business, that's why!
I've built three boxes. Impressive systems which could withstand the changes of time for about a decade with minimal upgrades. Lian Li cabinets, PC Power & Cooling PSW, ASUS mobo, Radeon AIW video cards, 4GB of ram, 500GB of drive space, DVD RW, the works.
Two are still going strong.
One was tossed (TOSSED!) due to a minor issue, in favor of a Big Box Store PC which was inferior in every way. Then the owner wanted further help. Why did you toss a system which was an absolute brick for a discounter's offering? Nope, not going to touch one of those. Wouldn't even want to try with the way those things are bundled up with stuff.
After struggling for years with a dozen programming languages I instantly fell in love with C because I could write tight code which compiled tiny and executed swiftly. Libraries were friendly (compared to Fortran, PL/1, Cobol, etc.) and who could not love linked lists? I liked it so much I bought too copies of The C Programming Language by Dennis Ritchie & Brian Kernighan - one copy for work and one for home.
It's sad to see the crap I have to code in now. =(
If that's not a recognised law of programming, it should be.
I remember pulling an all-nighter on a coding project in college before taking a 2 hour sleep break before the final stretch. After 2 hours I looked at the code again and was aghast at the garbage which seemed perfectly sound, logical code before the break.
(I fixed those things up and it worked pretty good on first compile.)
No, no, no, no, no....you misunderstand. They were HIRED. Yes, hired, because of their "potential" to add to the company. Of course, MS hasn't figured out what their job descriptions will be, but still. Being hired for a job you don't go to is completely different than "bought off". Completely different. Really.
Well, there's the Homer Simpson by-out, as precedent.
There's also a position in Ballmer's office for Chair Repairman. Probably masonry work there, too, for the damage to walls when he throws one.
I've watched it for years - typically when schools are closed for breaks the spam drops off considerably. Once students return to classrooms it comes back with a vengeance.
The only conclusion I can draw is that schools have labs and servers which are the main hosts for delivering spam. With labs shut down the spam engines are off-line.
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I don't get it.. why are these sheeple putting their real info all over the net? We hear it all the time, such and such gets fired because of facebook, or whatever..
Someone needs to teach people how to be an internet user me thinks!
Doesn't matter what they try to legislate, it's too late now. countless archives everywhere are full of your info.
Insecure.
The more people need to pump their ego the more they try to find interesting bits to post on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, blogspot, etc.
I'm well adjusted and can prove it.
I can post anonymously any time I choose. ;)
How did you respond to the Slashpoll, the one just to the right.
Nothing to see here.
Move along.
Correction: businesses standardized on IBM, just like they'd been standardized on it for years. It came with PC-DOS, unless you asked for something else. There was no such thing as a Mac at that time.
IBM had slapped the PC together out of off-the-shelf parts and a fairly hastily written 16K BIOS, since they hadn't seen that much potential in the personal computer market, and for the same reason they didn't bother getting an exclusive OS deal from Microsoft. This meant that it didn't take long before other companies were writing equivalent BIOSes and selling IBM PC clones (often known as "clones") which ran MS-DOS. Nobody wanted to get too far from IBM, though. They might buy the cheaper equivalents (like previously they might have bought Amdahl mainframes), but getting away from the IBM line was seen as dangerous.
The result was that the buy-IBM mindset that was extremely common among businesses at the time transferred directly into buying MS-DOS, What made Microsoft's fortune was the exact right business deals at the exact right time: buying an exclusive license for the Seattle Computer Club's QDOS, and selling IBM a non-exclusive license for their version of it.
Standardization happened later than you think. The Mac was available, but with costs to PCs driven down by Clones businesses opted for the cheaper platform.
Had they standardized on IBM you'd never have heard of Microsoft Word, you'd be typing stuff in DisplayWrite.
Yep.
Let's go find a bunch of lottery winners and ask them what they think and then make it government policy! =)
After all, Bill Gates is a College Dropout.
Don't ever underestimate the power of being in the right place at the right time. Couple that with am opportunistic business sense and the persistence to keep pushing on in spite of seemingly insurmountable hurdles, and your chance of success is higher than most.
Of course, Gates and MSFT went quite a bit beyond that, with monopolistic practices, vendor intimidation, and outright plagiarism in some cases, but underneath that lies the fundamentals above. We may not like how MSFT got where it is, but you can't deny their basic principles.
But it's a bit like saying the First Poster to a topic has greater credibility than subsequent posters. Hitting reload a hundred times and then hastily writing something coherent and hitting preview and submit faster than someone else doesn't, IMHO, make it a better post.
Sometimes ideas fall out of favor, too, because theory doesn't work well practice.
How often have you seen a failed idea given a new coat of paint and paraded around for oohs and ahhs?
Let's face it - Gates was lucky.
IBM let him sell his copy of DOS.
Businesses decided to standardize on DOS PCs over Macs, making Microsoft a success, despite a weak product.
Ever since then business, education and government have been happy to shell out the "Microsoft Tax" every time there's a new release of Windows or Office. Most of Microsoft's non-core ventures have been colossal failures. Yet, because this man was in the right place, at the right time and was given mountains of lucre for products which were less than stellar, he's accorded that status of a Technology Genius and all around Brilliant Guy.
Really. He's just rich. Just like Mark Zuckerberg will be when the Facebook IPO happens. Don't get your expectations up, just because someone has a lot of money.
What's this got to do with Net Neutrality? It's throttling back traffic and charging for overage - it's a Business Model - not entirely unlike how they charge for Long Distance.
It's Net Neutrality because they are not throttling or capping their own competing services, while they are capping Netflix. AT&T has just announced that they, like Comcast, are the gatekeepers of the Internet, and have free reign to control how much you say, who you say it to, and where your information comes from.
And mentioning Net Neutrality in this whole discussion is not unlike the following sentence:
"The woman ate a slice of pie (which is a food) with ice cream (which is also food.)"
Superfluous use of Net Neutrality and a distraction to the discussion.
I have AT&T DSL, but am not a large user. I'll probably never see more than 10 GB per month (most of my traffic being Google Maps traffic, Geocaching Pocket Queries and looking at individual eBay listings, which are probably about 1 MB per page now, with all the stupid javascript bloat.)
I'd like an exemption for Flash advertising, also for unrequested streaming video ads, which are about as filthy as internet advertising has got (and we thought pop-up ads were rotten.)
What's this got to do with Net Neutrality? It's throttling back traffic and charging for overage - it's a Business Model - not entirely unlike how they charge for Long Distance.
when I was growing up, we rationed everything from electricity to meat to cigars.
Listen to OTR and you will find a references sprinkled in among the comedy shows of the 1940s and 50s, even mention of The Office of Price Administration (OPA)
Rather than directing blackouts I'm surprised the Japanese government hasn't (at least I haven't heard they have, I may be wrong) asked for voluntary reduced dependence upon electricity. The Japanese are still very much a country which will readily pull together at the drop of a suggestion, as is being reported via BBC World Service.
You just need to learn to say no. This works 100%:
Did you notice a sign out in front of my house that said "Free PC repair"?
You know WHY you didn't see that sign?
'Cause it ain't there, 'cause repairing dead PCs ain't my fucking business, that's why!
I've built three boxes. Impressive systems which could withstand the changes of time for about a decade with minimal upgrades. Lian Li cabinets, PC Power & Cooling PSW, ASUS mobo, Radeon AIW video cards, 4GB of ram, 500GB of drive space, DVD RW, the works.
Two are still going strong.
One was tossed (TOSSED!) due to a minor issue, in favor of a Big Box Store PC which was inferior in every way. Then the owner wanted further help. Why did you toss a system which was an absolute brick for a discounter's offering? Nope, not going to touch one of those. Wouldn't even want to try with the way those things are bundled up with stuff.
When they take over, we won't be able to mock them without getting zapped for insolence.
I'm not so concerned about facial expressions as I am about Sarcasm Detection.
This would probably be closely followed by the Dry Wit Riposte and (shudder) the Device Which Thanks You And Detects Its Degree Of Welcomeness.
via email no doubt
I'd prefer he find honest work .. the alternative is he returns to his past.
Do we believe in rehabilitation or vengeance?
Keep out of the Mojave desert with this thing. It'll probably be blown right off the roads out there.
After struggling for years with a dozen programming languages I instantly fell in love with C because I could write tight code which compiled tiny and executed swiftly. Libraries were friendly (compared to Fortran, PL/1, Cobol, etc.) and who could not love linked lists? I liked it so much I bought too copies of The C Programming Language by Dennis Ritchie & Brian Kernighan - one copy for work and one for home.
It's sad to see the crap I have to code in now. =(
Those are studio 'working titles'
They'll probably be 'The Matrix: The Musical' and 'George Lucas' The Matrix: Christmas Special'
The nutjobs of course.
A certain "Austrian Corporal" tried, but his war machine was too dependent upon petroleum, right up to the end, so that eliminates him.
How about the Black Plague? Shouldn't it be called the Green Plague?
I find in a humid client jeans will smell within days. In a dry climate perhaps not for a week. He must have been detectable, downwind, for miles.
If that's not a recognised law of programming, it should be.
I remember pulling an all-nighter on a coding project in college before taking a 2 hour sleep break before the final stretch. After 2 hours I looked at the code again and was aghast at the garbage which seemed perfectly sound, logical code before the break.
(I fixed those things up and it worked pretty good on first compile.)
No, no, no, no, no....you misunderstand. They were HIRED. Yes, hired, because of their "potential" to add to the company. Of course, MS hasn't figured out what their job descriptions will be, but still. Being hired for a job you don't go to is completely different than "bought off". Completely different. Really.
Well, there's the Homer Simpson by-out, as precedent.
There's also a position in Ballmer's office for Chair Repairman. Probably masonry work there, too, for the damage to walls when he throws one.
If I was to have a Win7 device.
But as I view Win7 devices as akin to strolling about town with an albatross around my neck, it ain't gonna ever happen.
So I'm not going to be upset.
Isn't that wonderful? Just think, one less totally $#*(@% pissed off person in the world. (c:
I thought it was the must idiotic mess of ugly web real estate I had ever seen. Poor execution which never got any better.
Now looking at Facebook, I think it's confusing as hell, too. Something better will come along and knock them off their peg.
I've watched it for years - typically when schools are closed for breaks the spam drops off considerably. Once students return to classrooms it comes back with a vengeance.
The only conclusion I can draw is that schools have labs and servers which are the main hosts for delivering spam. With labs shut down the spam engines are off-line.