lol they should have fought every attempt of others to get money off them. This is what happens when u have management who want to do the easiest thing all the time.
No, this is what happens when you have management that is deathly afraid of the plaintiff being able to prove their claims in front of a jury. It's better for them to take the monetary hit and sign an agreement that says the payment is not an admission of guilt/liability.
Boy, I'd like to be your vendor for software, because I'd make a fortune from your ignorance. You don't know what the hell you're talking about.
First of all, $1000 for Office? You must be crazy. You can legally get Office 2004 (the "Student/Teacher Edition") for less than $150, and it comes with all the apps that Office 2004 Standard includes. If you insist on paying the "full" price, that's $265. And an Access replacement would probably be FileMaker Pro 7, which I found for $218. And you've already got a replacement for Publisher if you're going to be buying the Adobe Creative Suite.
The Abobe figures are accurate. $450 for Acrobat, $1250 for Creative Suite
Secondly, why would you buy Acrobat separately when you can get it as part of Creative Suite Premium and save a couple hundred bucks? Furthermore, Creative Suite Premium is not $1250-- the freakin' MSRP isn't even that high, and only a complete moron would pay the MSRP. CDW sells it for $1139, and Pricewatch lists a few sites that offer it for even less.
~Philly
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If they outsourced this, what is to stop their outsourcee to take the knowledge and then shop it around to Target, KMart, Sears, etc.?
I dunno, maybe an exclusivity clause in the contract, with provisions leveling crippling penalties against the outside vendor for disclosing the inventory-management stuff Wal-Mart uses to any of Wal-Mart's competitors?
I would imagine Wal-Mart can afford to hire Microsoft-caliber lawyers who would demolish a vendor who breached their contract with Wal-Mart.
From the OSNews article: As to how Microsoft is going to beat Linux according to Gates, it seems to be via its software's value, rather than the price. Bill Gates is trying to create software that needs little maintainance and little support. By doing so, he hopes to cut down the number of IT administrators needed on companies (a good admin costs overall up to $200,000 per year for a given company here in the Bay Area, for example). On the other hand, Linux rivals (e.g. Red Hat) are making money primarily by support calls and require capable administrators. Gates hopes to elliminate this need.
Someone has already created software that needs little maintenance and support. It's called Mac OS X (frankly, even the old Mac OS was much more reliable compared to then-current incarnations of Windows). Corporate IT departments ignored it, partly because it required the purchase of new hardware, but mostly because it makes having a large IT staff superflous-- and IT managers like the empires they build and the power they wield over an organization that depends on rickety shit like Windows that always needs an army of admins to keep it running.
Anyone who has admin'd a mixed network of decent size will tell you that the number of Windows problems they saw dwarfed the number of Mac problems, even when the Macs were years old and the PCs were brand-new, and even when the Macs outnumbered the Windows machines. I've seen it myself. At my last job, the company went from being an all-Mac shop to running Windows everywhere but in the design studio. For a period of time when it was all-Mac, I was the sole admin of over 100 machines and my biggest problem was finding a good book to read between help calls. As soon as some 98 and NT machines landed on users' desks, we needed to add two more people to the IT staff and we could still barely keep up.
Even if it's coming from Microsoft (and that's making the hefty assumption that they can actually produce a Windows that is low-maintenance), I have a hard time believing that these corporate IT guys will willingly buy something that will effectively lessen their power within the corporation.
The top loading NES was a great machine, except for the lack of RCA A/V connectors. It was not meant to be a world-beater, it was just a redesign of the NES that was cheaper to manufacture.
I bought one new after my third refurb front-loader started refusing to acknowledge a cart was inserted in it. I still curse whoever invented that POS temperamental ZIF cartridge slot in the original NES-- those damn things ALWAYS failed eventually, no matter how careful you were.
The top-loader, on the other hand, is still going strong today. The units themselves are rather rare anymore, there are a few on eBay now for upwards of $50.
I might buy another used front-loader someday, but purely as an addition to my classic game console and computer collection. I'll still play my library of NES carts with the top-loader.
You're thinking of "The Shelter," from the 3rd season of the original Twilight Zone.
The other poster apparently has in mind "Shelter Skelter," from the new Twilight Zone series that aired in the 80's.
In "The Shelter," everyone knew about the guy's shelter. In "Shelter Skelter," only the guy's wife and small children knew, plus a friend he happened to tell the day the accident happened (who he locked in with him). His wife didn't tell anyone because the guy had become such a survivalist nut that she felt the children were better off growing up without him.
Because we are supposed to be consumers of content, not producers.
Endusers running servers are verboten by the broadband services Joe Sixpack is most likely to use (like Comcast and Verizon), so Joe Sixpack is only given enough upstream bandwidth to send HTTP requests and whatnot.
From the article: ---------- Heather Hall can trace the start of her online banking nightmare to the day she received what she thought was a legitimate e-mail request from Bank of America asking her to click a link to a bank Web page. The 27-year-old health services worker typed in her login, password and account number.
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Bank of America agreed to reimburse the money stolen from Hall's account, but only after she badgered them. "They wanted me to believe it was my fault," says Hall. ----------
Gee, I hate to break it to you, sweetheart, but it WAS your fault. YOU were the gullible one who clicked on the wrong link and gave thieves your username, password and account number!
As long as her attitude is prevalent among the majority, the problem of malware will never go away. Not only are these people completely oblivious to the dangers waiting to snare people using Windows PCs, even when something bad befalls them they just flat out refuse to believe it was their fault.
I went on RCN's site and punched in several Philadelphia addresses in several parts of the city to see if they could provide service, and all they offered for every single one was dialup internet, nothing cable-related at all.
Do you live inside the city of Philadelphia? I mean, do you pay the "Philadelphia resident" wage tax rate, and is your mailing address "Philadelphia, PA 19xxx"? Or are you in the 'burbs, just barely outside of the city? Because that seems to make all the difference as to whether or not you can get RCN cable service.
Some people are complaining about it not being wall mountable
Some people don't read specs closely enough before bitching.
Apple will start selling a VESA mount adapter for the new iMac in October which opens up all kinds of mounting possibilities. The only thing that it can't do is hang flush against the wall, due to the power connection and ports (unless you modify the wall behind it to accommodate those).
Besides the firmware eject command, there's a very old Mac trick that may still work: Hold down the mouse button on reboot, and wait. The computer used to interpret an extended click-hold during boot that as "eject all ejectable media" or something like that. Last time I used it myself was in the late 90's, to get an external SCSI Zip drive to cough up a bad disk.
~Philly
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I do live in the U.S., and I was born in 1973. I've only seen photos of larger-denomination bills in books and on the web, but I never read anywhere that they were no longer in circulation-- I just naturally assumed that I'd never see one in the wild because it's completely impractical for anyone I'd ever interact with to carry around a $500 or $1000 bill.
Nixon yanking them before I was even born was news to me. Thanks for the info.
~Philly
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Risk vs. reward:
It's just as illegal to pass a phony $5 as it is to pass a phony $100. You have to pass twenty $5 bills, which you could do in a single transaction or in twenty separate transactions. Either way, you dramatically increase the odds of getting caught. If you're going to take the risk, go all the way.
ROI:
Like you said, it costs real money to produce quality fake money. If it costs just as much to produce a phony $5 as a phony $100, but the return is significantly less, common sense and economics dictates people will try to maximize their return.
Bills smaller than $20 are not worth the effort to fake despite the decreased scrutiny they receive. Bills larger than $100 are not common at all and will be studied by a cashier/teller simply because they aren't seen every day. Thus, the "sweet spot" for counterfeiters in the currency lineup is the $20, the $50 and the $100.
~Philly
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Yeah, I remember that, it was a great show. I'm pretty sure it was on The Learning Channel. (Oh, how I long for those days, before it became the All-Trading-Spaces-And-Similar-Shows, All-The-Time Channel.)
I remember the Scotland Yard guys were particularly impressed with the authentic feel of the counterfeiter's phony notes, and it turned out he achieved it by throwing the newly-printed bills into a clothes dryer for a few minutes with some talcum powder.
Comcast will never let it happen. They have their corporate HQ here in Philadelphia, and are quite influential in the city. They will find a way to kill this initiative. Why am I so sure? Look at their past behavior:
They own some of the Philadelphia sports teams and refuse to sell the home game broadcast rights to satellite providers for any price-- so if you live in Philadelphia and want to see televised Flyers and Sixers home games you must have Comcast cable, period.
RCN tried to start offering cable TV, internet and phone service in Philadelphia a few years ago, and Comcast used their influence to throw up so many roadblocks, that RCN gave up and went away.
They do not, and will not, stand for something endangering their revenues on their home turf.
Apple announced that a VESA mount will be available for the iMac in the near future.
And it's probably only a matter of time before these guys tackle the new iMac.
A little large and expensive to just slap on the wall for home automation purposes, though. You're probably better off picking up some sort of small webpad. I bought a couple 3Com Audrey units when TigerDirect was blowing them out, and once hacked they work great as part of an HA system, though they aren't really wall-mountable. I'm still looking for a relatively cheap, thin, wall-mountable webpad.
1. There's a hole in the rear of the stand through which always-connected cables can be routed. And there's always the option of the Bluetooth module, keyboard, and mouse to remove *those* wires from the equation.
2. Those who can, do. Those who can't, criticize. Let's see you stuff all those electronics into a smaller space and still provide adequate cooling, Einstein.
3. The new design allows them to use larger displays than 20", the weight of which the arm on the old iMac would not physically support (this is straight from the mouth of an Apple engineer who was visiting my office a few weeks ago).
4. The Cinema Displays use the same base, and those are pretty damned stable. How much crap do you have on your desk?
5. The granddaddy of the thin, LCD-in-front, guts-in-back computer is the 20th Anniversary Mac, released in May 1997. Apple is updating their own old design, not copying current designs of competitors.
6. Yeah, yeah. If they were selling it for $2, there'd be some fool whining "I'd buy it, if it was $1.50!"
It makes you wonder what kind of impact might be made by an x86-ready OS X.
No, it doesn't-- we know: It would put Apple out of business, because Apple is a hardware company first and foremost. All the nifty stuff they do in software is designed to sell their hardware, the way iTunes and the iTMS is designed to sell iPods. Hell, even some Apple hardware (again, the iPod) is partially designed to sell their other hardware.
It's too bad you're so late to the party with your comment that many people will never see it. It's the most concise and convincing pro-Apple post I have read in any of the/. discussions about this Real vs. Apple matter.
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In case you've forgotten he, or at least his wife, owns one.
Wrong.
~Philly
lol they should have fought every attempt of others to get money off them. This is what happens when u have management who want to do the easiest thing all the time.
No, this is what happens when you have management that is deathly afraid of the plaintiff being able to prove their claims in front of a jury. It's better for them to take the monetary hit and sign an agreement that says the payment is not an admission of guilt/liability.
~Philly
$1k for Office
Boy, I'd like to be your vendor for software, because I'd make a fortune from your ignorance. You don't know what the hell you're talking about.
First of all, $1000 for Office? You must be crazy. You can legally get Office 2004 (the "Student/Teacher Edition") for less than $150, and it comes with all the apps that Office 2004 Standard includes. If you insist on paying the "full" price, that's $265. And an Access replacement would probably be FileMaker Pro 7, which I found for $218. And you've already got a replacement for Publisher if you're going to be buying the Adobe Creative Suite.
The Abobe figures are accurate. $450 for Acrobat, $1250 for Creative Suite
Secondly, why would you buy Acrobat separately when you can get it as part of Creative Suite Premium and save a couple hundred bucks? Furthermore, Creative Suite Premium is not $1250-- the freakin' MSRP isn't even that high, and only a complete moron would pay the MSRP. CDW sells it for $1139, and Pricewatch lists a few sites that offer it for even less.
~Philly
The RadioShark is Vaporware No More.
Product info.
~Philly
If they outsourced this, what is to stop their outsourcee to take the knowledge and then shop it around to Target, KMart, Sears, etc.?
I dunno, maybe an exclusivity clause in the contract, with provisions leveling crippling penalties against the outside vendor for disclosing the inventory-management stuff Wal-Mart uses to any of Wal-Mart's competitors?
I would imagine Wal-Mart can afford to hire Microsoft-caliber lawyers who would demolish a vendor who breached their contract with Wal-Mart.
~Philly
From the OSNews article:
As to how Microsoft is going to beat Linux according to Gates, it seems to be via its software's value, rather than the price. Bill Gates is trying to create software that needs little maintainance and little support. By doing so, he hopes to cut down the number of IT administrators needed on companies (a good admin costs overall up to $200,000 per year for a given company here in the Bay Area, for example). On the other hand, Linux rivals (e.g. Red Hat) are making money primarily by support calls and require capable administrators. Gates hopes to elliminate this need.
Someone has already created software that needs little maintenance and support. It's called Mac OS X (frankly, even the old Mac OS was much more reliable compared to then-current incarnations of Windows). Corporate IT departments ignored it, partly because it required the purchase of new hardware, but mostly because it makes having a large IT staff superflous-- and IT managers like the empires they build and the power they wield over an organization that depends on rickety shit like Windows that always needs an army of admins to keep it running.
Anyone who has admin'd a mixed network of decent size will tell you that the number of Windows problems they saw dwarfed the number of Mac problems, even when the Macs were years old and the PCs were brand-new, and even when the Macs outnumbered the Windows machines. I've seen it myself. At my last job, the company went from being an all-Mac shop to running Windows everywhere but in the design studio. For a period of time when it was all-Mac, I was the sole admin of over 100 machines and my biggest problem was finding a good book to read between help calls. As soon as some 98 and NT machines landed on users' desks, we needed to add two more people to the IT staff and we could still barely keep up.
Even if it's coming from Microsoft (and that's making the hefty assumption that they can actually produce a Windows that is low-maintenance), I have a hard time believing that these corporate IT guys will willingly buy something that will effectively lessen their power within the corporation.
~Philly
The top loading NES was a great machine, except for the lack of RCA A/V connectors. It was not meant to be a world-beater, it was just a redesign of the NES that was cheaper to manufacture.
I bought one new after my third refurb front-loader started refusing to acknowledge a cart was inserted in it. I still curse whoever invented that POS temperamental ZIF cartridge slot in the original NES-- those damn things ALWAYS failed eventually, no matter how careful you were.
The top-loader, on the other hand, is still going strong today. The units themselves are rather rare anymore, there are a few on eBay now for upwards of $50.
I might buy another used front-loader someday, but purely as an addition to my classic game console and computer collection. I'll still play my library of NES carts with the top-loader.
~Philly
you can always download Windows Media Player for Mac OS X.
No, that won't help. DRM'd Windows Media files are not supported by the most recent version of Windows Media Player for Mac OS X.
(And yet Microsoft wants Apple to open up their DRM to everyone. Fucking hypocrites.)
The Xincom TwinWAN, model number XC-DPG402.
I haven't used it, but Cringely uses one and seems to like it.
~Philly
You're thinking of "The Shelter," from the 3rd season of the original Twilight Zone.
The other poster apparently has in mind "Shelter Skelter," from the new Twilight Zone series that aired in the 80's.
In "The Shelter," everyone knew about the guy's shelter. In "Shelter Skelter," only the guy's wife and small children knew, plus a friend he happened to tell the day the accident happened (who he locked in with him). His wife didn't tell anyone because the guy had become such a survivalist nut that she felt the children were better off growing up without him.
Both were great episodes.
~Philly
Because we are supposed to be consumers of content, not producers.
Endusers running servers are verboten by the broadband services Joe Sixpack is most likely to use (like Comcast and Verizon), so Joe Sixpack is only given enough upstream bandwidth to send HTTP requests and whatnot.
~Philly
Oh, no! It's all coming true!
~Philly
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Heather Hall can trace the start of her online banking nightmare to the day she received what she thought was a legitimate e-mail request from Bank of America asking her to click a link to a bank Web page. The 27-year-old health services worker typed in her login, password and account number.
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Bank of America agreed to reimburse the money stolen from Hall's account, but only after she badgered them. "They wanted me to believe it was my fault," says Hall.
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Gee, I hate to break it to you, sweetheart, but it WAS your fault. YOU were the gullible one who clicked on the wrong link and gave thieves your username, password and account number!
As long as her attitude is prevalent among the majority, the problem of malware will never go away. Not only are these people completely oblivious to the dangers waiting to snare people using Windows PCs, even when something bad befalls them they just flat out refuse to believe it was their fault.
~Philly
I went on RCN's site and punched in several Philadelphia addresses in several parts of the city to see if they could provide service, and all they offered for every single one was dialup internet, nothing cable-related at all.
Do you live inside the city of Philadelphia? I mean, do you pay the "Philadelphia resident" wage tax rate, and is your mailing address "Philadelphia, PA 19xxx"? Or are you in the 'burbs, just barely outside of the city? Because that seems to make all the difference as to whether or not you can get RCN cable service.
~Philly
Some people are complaining about it not being wall mountable
Some people don't read specs closely enough before bitching.
Apple will start selling a VESA mount adapter for the new iMac in October which opens up all kinds of mounting possibilities. The only thing that it can't do is hang flush against the wall, due to the power connection and ports (unless you modify the wall behind it to accommodate those).
~Philly
Besides the firmware eject command, there's a very old Mac trick that may still work: Hold down the mouse button on reboot, and wait. The computer used to interpret an extended click-hold during boot that as "eject all ejectable media" or something like that. Last time I used it myself was in the late 90's, to get an external SCSI Zip drive to cough up a bad disk.
~Philly
I do live in the U.S., and I was born in 1973. I've only seen photos of larger-denomination bills in books and on the web, but I never read anywhere that they were no longer in circulation-- I just naturally assumed that I'd never see one in the wild because it's completely impractical for anyone I'd ever interact with to carry around a $500 or $1000 bill.
Nixon yanking them before I was even born was news to me. Thanks for the info.
~Philly
Risk vs. reward:
It's just as illegal to pass a phony $5 as it is to pass a phony $100. You have to pass twenty $5 bills, which you could do in a single transaction or in twenty separate transactions. Either way, you dramatically increase the odds of getting caught. If you're going to take the risk, go all the way.
ROI:
Like you said, it costs real money to produce quality fake money. If it costs just as much to produce a phony $5 as a phony $100, but the return is significantly less, common sense and economics dictates people will try to maximize their return.
Bills smaller than $20 are not worth the effort to fake despite the decreased scrutiny they receive. Bills larger than $100 are not common at all and will be studied by a cashier/teller simply because they aren't seen every day. Thus, the "sweet spot" for counterfeiters in the currency lineup is the $20, the $50 and the $100.
~Philly
Yeah, I remember that, it was a great show. I'm pretty sure it was on The Learning Channel. (Oh, how I long for those days, before it became the All-Trading-Spaces-And-Similar-Shows, All-The-Time Channel.)
I remember the Scotland Yard guys were particularly impressed with the authentic feel of the counterfeiter's phony notes, and it turned out he achieved it by throwing the newly-printed bills into a clothes dryer for a few minutes with some talcum powder.
~Philly
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(Thanks to BugMeNot for the login credentials)
~Philly
Comcast will never let it happen. They have their corporate HQ here in Philadelphia, and are quite influential in the city. They will find a way to kill this initiative. Why am I so sure? Look at their past behavior:
They own some of the Philadelphia sports teams and refuse to sell the home game broadcast rights to satellite providers for any price-- so if you live in Philadelphia and want to see televised Flyers and Sixers home games you must have Comcast cable, period.
RCN tried to start offering cable TV, internet and phone service in Philadelphia a few years ago, and Comcast used their influence to throw up so many roadblocks, that RCN gave up and went away.
They do not, and will not, stand for something endangering their revenues on their home turf.
~Philly
Apple announced that a VESA mount will be available for the iMac in the near future.
And it's probably only a matter of time before these guys tackle the new iMac.
A little large and expensive to just slap on the wall for home automation purposes, though. You're probably better off picking up some sort of small webpad. I bought a couple 3Com Audrey units when TigerDirect was blowing them out, and once hacked they work great as part of an HA system, though they aren't really wall-mountable. I'm still looking for a relatively cheap, thin, wall-mountable webpad.
~Philly
1. There's a hole in the rear of the stand through which always-connected cables can be routed. And there's always the option of the Bluetooth module, keyboard, and mouse to remove *those* wires from the equation.
2. Those who can, do. Those who can't, criticize. Let's see you stuff all those electronics into a smaller space and still provide adequate cooling, Einstein.
3. The new design allows them to use larger displays than 20", the weight of which the arm on the old iMac would not physically support (this is straight from the mouth of an Apple engineer who was visiting my office a few weeks ago).
4. The Cinema Displays use the same base, and those are pretty damned stable. How much crap do you have on your desk?
5. The granddaddy of the thin, LCD-in-front, guts-in-back computer is the 20th Anniversary Mac, released in May 1997. Apple is updating their own old design, not copying current designs of competitors.
6. Yeah, yeah. If they were selling it for $2, there'd be some fool whining "I'd buy it, if it was $1.50!"
~Philly
It makes you wonder what kind of impact might be made by an x86-ready OS X.
No, it doesn't-- we know: It would put Apple out of business, because Apple is a hardware company first and foremost. All the nifty stuff they do in software is designed to sell their hardware, the way iTunes and the iTMS is designed to sell iPods. Hell, even some Apple hardware (again, the iPod) is partially designed to sell their other hardware.
~Philly
It's too bad you're so late to the party with your comment that many people will never see it. It's the most concise and convincing pro-Apple post I have read in any of the /. discussions about this Real vs. Apple matter.
I applaud you, sir.
~Philly