How odd. I happen to work for that particular corporation as well, and I've never heard "ping" used that way among my co-workers; they instead tend to use "Sametime" as a verb. I suppose it's a regionalism, perhaps even a departmentalism.
(Incidentally, I prefer NotesBuddy to the actual Sametime Connect app.)
If you're standing on the street and peering in through living room windows, the cops will eventually arrest you - jjust a matter of how long it will take for them to find a law that they can say you're breaking.
The point is that they would actually have to search for such a law, because in many municipalities, what you've just described is prima facie perfectly legal. Court cases have validated the assertion that one could even shoot and distribute photos taken from such a public vantage point.
That's why this is an inadequate metaphor. The law prohibiting unauthorized access basically says that the owners of WAPs don't actually have to "close their curtains" to exclude the public view. It protects people from their own irresponsiblity.
"We?" Too many geeks seem to forget that AMD processors aren't just our little secret, and that Intel has not yet cornered the consumer PC market, despite what you might have heard. If you step into a Best Buy, Circuit City, or CompUSA storefront - where the average end-user is likely to pick up a machine - you'll find HP, Compaq, and eMachines desktop and notebook systems with both AMD and Intel processors.
In fact, right now, both circuitcity.com and compusa.com list AMD Sempron-powered Compaq Presarios among their top sellers in the desktop computer category. It's not merely geek-chic now... but in all honesty, it never really was.
Choose something else as your lost cause; this one never qualified.
You mean in the same way they were "locked into" Motorola... and then "locked into" IBM? Yeah, that's what's known as the "not really" sort of way.
In fact, if Apple so desired, it would be far easier to transition from Intel CPU hardware to that of any other x86 manufacturer than it will be to make the current shift, because it wouldn't require significant third-party development efforts.
Oh, of course. The BSA members, Adobe, Apple, IBM, Microsoft, Cisco, Intel, Dell, HP, SAP, etc. are merely out there to bilk the Boy Scouts out of their domain, those reprehensible cads.
"It's when it's presented as a documentary that it becomes a problem for me."
If television viewers choose to take seriously what they see on the screen, then they do it at their at their own risk. That's just simple naivete.
I'd even go so far as to say that it's extremely unwise to take what you see on, say, CNN at absolute face value, as there's a high probability of being presented with a subjective spin, even if that stems from the network's simple inability to reflect more than one side of the story at any given moment. In the search for objectivity, one should always seek out multiple sources. Of course, the major point the article seeks to make is on the subject of teaching critical-thinking skills to children at high school age. I suppose adults could stand to learn the lesson as well.
To quote the article:
It is easy for uncritical kids (and adults) to believe the "evidence" of alien beings and encounters when it is carefully gift-wrapped by creative television producers who crank out dramatic programs depicting these events with well-trained actors and elaborate sets. Of course, these are the same folks who bring us fantastic science fiction films which we ALL know are entertainment, not science education. Or at least I function under that illusion.
-- "The true power of a strong imagination lies within one's
ability to impose their reality upon others."
- Tarik Dozier
"I mean, what if you had a historical show that claimed the holocaust never happened, showed a lot of "evidence", and didn't offer respectable historians a chance to refute it? Would you call it "over-dramatized historical fiction"? I'd call it a pack of lies."
Indeed, fiction... "entertaining lies," as the subject would suggest.
Fiction, n.
1. The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind. --Bp. Stillingfleet. [1913 Webster]
2. That which is feigned, invented, or imagined; especially, a feigned or invented story, whether oral or written.
Hence: A story told in order to deceive; a fabrication; opposed to fact, or reality.
[1913 Webster]
Syn: Fabrication; invention; fable; falsehood.
-- "If you'll excuse me... I must seek Knowledge and its bastard son, Truth." - { The State }
"The pseudo-science accounts are carefully filmed and professionally narrated for television as 'documentaries' about mysteries, or unexplained events. All aim to convince the public that aliens have been here or nearby on the Moon or Mars, and that all of the 'evidence' is being covered up by a grand conspiracy of seriously un-fun people in the government, universities, and research organizations. Folks like me. Denying, providing alternative explanations, or criticizing the 'evidence' somehow 'proves' there is a cover-up."
This isn't a very good example of pseudo-science; it's more like over-dramatized science fiction. There's a word for people who buy into all of this without giving a second thought to any sort of critical analysis of what should simply be considered entertainment: idiots. People who choose not to think for themselves - who would allow a television program or a tabloid to strongly influence their ideas in matters of science, governance, and the conspiracies therein - have more problems than their beliefs in the alien autopsy.
Fortunately, the article is really about teaching students critical-thinking skills, not deriding a "legion of money-grubbing opportunists," so the submitter of this article has [perhaps inadvertently] provided an example for this lesson.
-- "Hello. I'm Leonard Nimoy. The following tale of alien encounters is
true. And by true, I mean false. It's all lies. But they're
entertaining lies. And in the end, isn't that the real truth? The
answer is: No."
- Leonard Nimoy {The Simpsons, "The Springfield Files"}
...I just bought a Hitachi 51S500 (which was delivered this morning; I'm still oooh-ing and aaaah-ing, despite it's not being plasma, DLP, or LCD) because I neeeeeded it. If I don't watch it, what's the point? [incredulous] Gah! That... just... doesn't even seem practical. *twitch*
Now if you'll excuse me, I've spent far too much time not looking directly at the TV. It gets angry when I only watch it out of the corner of my eye.
-- "Sit in the snow with Daddy and let us all bask in television's warm, glowing warming glow." - Homer Simpson
I was once quite the devotee to the CRT, owning - for my home office - more than a few Trinitron monitors and a Nokia Multigraph 445Xpro... and then I got the Apple Cinema Display HD (23").
For everyday use, I'll never go back. The Nokia, once my primary, is now attached to the other machines in my office (Solaris, Windows, and Linux workstations), and the Trinitrons are downstairs in the lab (assorted servers).
I actually bought the Cinema for the specific purpose of manipulating photographic images. Its clarity, brightness, and color is better than anything I've worked with (including the prepress proofing stations in the advertising department I used to support), and it's now my preferred display for Quake and video (though the TV tuner is in my Windows box).
What if Longhorn does indeed provide more security, not only in default settings, but more inherently in the OpenSource?
In response, I'll simply quote something I said years ago:
"If Microsoft actually made good products, I wouldn't care whether they destroyed their competitors through unfair business tactics or with baseball bats, or if they used the skins of baby seals as packaging material. I'd pay for a Windows-That-Doesn't-Suck even if it required the blood of the innocent. I'm a bit of a pragmatist."
I use and love UNIX-derived and Linux operating systems for one reason, and one reason alone: They Work. (I loved BeOS for the same reason, only to shudder at its dearth of applications.) When any company or group of individuals develops a stable, secure, reasonably-fast OS written in code of high quality, I welcome it. If it happens to have a broad user base and an equally broad commercial developer base, then so much the better.
-- "I think that the anti-Microsoft sentiment is simply due to their having been so successful selling a lot of crap." - Steve Wozniak
"Its not useful as a form of protection, its useful as a means to an end."
Now that's a nice way to come full-circle when speaking of a product that originated on the Mac.
Jobs: "The Mac is a desktop appliance, the first since the telephone."
Murray: "I looked up 'appliance' in the dictionary, and it said that an appliance was 'a means to an end.' That's the Mac. It's a means to an end."
- Steve Jobs (Project Manager, Macintosh) & Mike Murray (Marketing Manager, Macintosh) at the unveiling of the Mac, January 30, 1984
To remember the byte-ordering for the m68k and PPC (prior to the G5, at least), simply bear in mind the slogan of the original Virtual PC team at Connectix:
Slashdot Mirror
(Incidentally, I prefer NotesBuddy to the actual Sametime Connect app.)
That's why this is an inadequate metaphor. The law prohibiting unauthorized access basically says that the owners of WAPs don't actually have to "close their curtains" to exclude the public view. It protects people from their own irresponsiblity.
Or crimethink, the actual Newspeak word for "thoughtcrime."
Your assertion that the current versions of Windows "ain't broke" is amusing to me. Will you be here all week? I'll bring friends to your next show.
In fact, right now, both circuitcity.com and compusa.com list AMD Sempron-powered Compaq Presarios among their top sellers in the desktop computer category. It's not merely geek-chic now... but in all honesty, it never really was.
Choose something else as your lost cause; this one never qualified.
Yes, they're equal-opportunity discriminators.
In fact, if Apple so desired, it would be far easier to transition from Intel CPU hardware to that of any other x86 manufacturer than it will be to make the current shift, because it wouldn't require significant third-party development efforts.
The Tungstens do have Wi-Fi. I love the Wi-Fi card in my Tungsten T3, though the palmOne LifeDrive is sexier.
Oh, of course. The BSA members, Adobe, Apple, IBM, Microsoft, Cisco, Intel, Dell, HP, SAP, etc. are merely out there to bilk the Boy Scouts out of their domain, those reprehensible cads.
Oh yeah!
--
"Duffman can never die, only the actors who play him! Oh yeah!"
"No, I'm Canadian.... It's like an American, but without a gun."
- David Foley {The Kids in the Hall}
I'd even go so far as to say that it's extremely unwise to take what you see on, say, CNN at absolute face value, as there's a high probability of being presented with a subjective spin, even if that stems from the network's simple inability to reflect more than one side of the story at any given moment. In the search for objectivity, one should always seek out multiple sources. Of course, the major point the article seeks to make is on the subject of teaching critical-thinking skills to children at high school age. I suppose adults could stand to learn the lesson as well.
To quote the article:
--
"The true power of a strong imagination lies within one's ability to impose their reality upon others."
- Tarik Dozier
Syn: Fabrication; invention; fable; falsehood.
--
"If you'll excuse me... I must seek Knowledge and its bastard son, Truth."
- { The State }
Fortunately, the article is really about teaching students critical-thinking skills, not deriding a "legion of money-grubbing opportunists," so the submitter of this article has [perhaps inadvertently] provided an example for this lesson.
--
"Hello. I'm Leonard Nimoy. The following tale of alien encounters is true. And by true, I mean false. It's all lies. But they're entertaining lies. And in the end, isn't that the real truth? The answer is: No."
- Leonard Nimoy {The Simpsons, "The Springfield Files"}
Oh... and sure, the building's nice, too.
--
"It's better to have an attention span and not need it, than to need whatever it is we were just talking about."
- Mayor {Powerpuff Girls}
Now if you'll excuse me, I've spent far too much time not looking directly at the TV. It gets angry when I only watch it out of the corner of my eye.
--
"Sit in the snow with Daddy and let us all bask in television's warm, glowing warming glow."
- Homer Simpson
"Mmmm... pistol whip."
- Homer Jay
For everyday use, I'll never go back. The Nokia, once my primary, is now attached to the other machines in my office (Solaris, Windows, and Linux workstations), and the Trinitrons are downstairs in the lab (assorted servers).
I actually bought the Cinema for the specific purpose of manipulating photographic images. Its clarity, brightness, and color is better than anything I've worked with (including the prepress proofing stations in the advertising department I used to support), and it's now my preferred display for Quake and video (though the TV tuner is in my Windows box).
"Aw, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. Forty percent of all people know that."
- Homer Simpson
"If Microsoft actually made good products, I wouldn't care whether they destroyed their competitors through unfair business tactics or with baseball bats, or if they used the skins of baby seals as packaging material. I'd pay for a Windows-That-Doesn't-Suck even if it required the blood of the innocent. I'm a bit of a pragmatist."
I use and love UNIX-derived and Linux operating systems for one reason, and one reason alone: They Work. (I loved BeOS for the same reason, only to shudder at its dearth of applications.) When any company or group of individuals develops a stable, secure, reasonably-fast OS written in code of high quality, I welcome it. If it happens to have a broad user base and an equally broad commercial developer base, then so much the better.
--
"I think that the anti-Microsoft sentiment is simply due to their having been so successful selling a lot of crap." - Steve Wozniak
Jobs: "The Mac is a desktop appliance, the first since the telephone."
Murray: "I looked up 'appliance' in the dictionary, and it said that an appliance was 'a means to an end.' That's the Mac. It's a means to an end."
- Steve Jobs (Project Manager, Macintosh) & Mike Murray (Marketing Manager, Macintosh) at the unveiling of the Mac, January 30, 1984
"Endian little hate we."