"Well, they do have this cool user-submitted "Mashup" system, where you can click on a Dilbert strip and re-write the punchline -- it's then put on a voting site where people can vote and comment on it. I thought that was brilliant, myself..."
We should use that to make a cute cartoon about how much it sucks.
Trust me, having gone through the Mashup Archives over at Dilbert.com, you'd be preaching to the choir.
'In three years' time, 20 typical households will generate more traffic than the entire Internet today.' I don't know about the typical household, but personally I don't think I can watch that much porn. You are being cynical, but you're quite right. In 3 years time, Vonage (and Vonage-alikes), Netflix, Amazon Unbox, TIVO, and AppleTV are going to change the average ISP user (currently a grandmother who reads her emails once a day) to something vastly more resource intensive.
Given that AT&T, Comcast, et all have made a living based on overselling their networks for 20+ years, this is a really BIG problem.
"Sorry Ma'am, the reason your Kazaa isn't working is because the Internet is full. Please try again later after a few other people have logged out for the day."... Having said that, I'm reminded of working at an ISP 3 years ago, and having our Wireless Broadband Network reach capacity a few times, and having to explain, well, that exact line, only without using the terms "full", "capacity", "bottleneck", or really giving any information out at all.
Maybe that's not such a laughing matter after all...
...embracing the new realities of intellectual property on the web. So I guess they don't want people e-mailing the current strip around at work anymore, if it is relevant to a manager or situation on the team. And they don't want people saving one out as desktop background, or keeping a copy of their favourite ones. Yes, they hate that so much that they added a nice "email" and "embed" button that makes it trivial to send strips around to anyone and everyone:
Oh, and the embed thing comes with a (lower quality).gif version of any strip in the (now vastly extended) Dilbert archive.
I must be a flippin mind reader or able to see into the future. I just wrote about this kind of nonsense.
It's a freaking static cartoon! What possible asinine reason could there be to screw up such a simple concept? I saw this the other day and so, like Doonesbury, won't be visiting it any more due to their use of Flash.
Well, they do have this cool user-submitted "Mashup" system, where you can click on a Dilbert strip and re-write the punchline -- it's then put on a voting site where people can vote and comment on it. I thought that was brilliant, myself...
If only they fixed the bug that happens when you moderate, then you try to comment, the dialog warns you that the moderation you did it will be undone and you can't get out of there.... I used to love them, until yesterday, when I entered a discussion to discover that about 5 pages of racist bigot droppings, all marked -1 troll, was being displayed prominently, because the Magic Ajax Bar (tm) decided to slide all the eway over to the right on it's own.
Nothing quite like running into GNAA crap first thing in the morning to ruin ones day.
Am I the only one who thinks Dilbert stopped being funny back in the 1990s? The last collection I enjoyed was Bring Me the Head of Willy the Mailboy. Since then, Adams has just been going over and over the same handful of gags. And even though corporate culture in America may have changed to some extent, the Dilbert office seems the same early '90s environment that inspired him to turn the strip towards a parody of office life. There's a website that was passed around the office here that had 13 YEARS of Dilbert archived.
You're not kidding. The biggest example of a reused gag is the following:
PHB Creates Spreadsheet with everyone's Salaries. PHB gives spreadsheet to Secretary She-Bitch from Hell. SSBfH then...... Forwards it to the entire company on accident, causing 2 weeks worth of "wtf" strips.... Punches through her LCD monitor, causing the PHB to comment that that's what everyone who sees it does.... Has a breakdown once she realizes her salary compared to the others.
And those are just the 3 (out of the 5 or so) that I remember the punchline for.
Where I work flash is blocked from installing, my morning routine used to be to open Dilbert and have a read while some of the other apps I use slowly load. With no flash on your browser all you get is two coloured bars and two requests to install flash. I'm betting alot of corporate places follow similar practices. I thought the old site was dated but after just glancing at the new one, I definitly want the old back.
No I'm not time wasting, it takes Outlook and Eclipse about a minute+ to load, more than enough time to pop open an IE tab and glance at Dilbert. http://news.yahoo.com/comics/dilbert
Here ya go. It's SYNDICATED, people. That means, dilbert.com isn't the only place to get it. Woo~.
Um, a lawyer does have a number of duties to his client, especially in a court setting. Perhaps a perusal of the rules of professional responsibility would help your understanding of them? Perhaps a perusal of the definitions of sarcasm and snark would help your understanding of the grandparent post?
simply put, it's harder for a person new to databases to jump into. MySQL kinda holds your hand with phpmyadmin and it's other admin tools. PG has pgadmin (but not as featureful) and by default installs where you can't access the DB until you su as the postres user and give out permissions. Are they *trying* to make things hard?? So... if they're both open source, why not just port phpmyadmin to PG? Would it really be that hard?
California... a state with a bit less than 40 million people, many of which probably live inland.
South East Asia, French Polynesia, etc; all over on the other side of the Pacific... multiply that population figure by more than 10, and almost completely all living in coastal areas.
Yes, the only impact of 26,000 Hiroshimas in the pacific ocean will be a few people in the US getting wet.
Not to mention Hiroshima itself... I'm not quite sure on the math here, but wouldn't "26,000 Hiroshimas" to the middle of the Pacific mean that it wouldn't matter much if you were inland in California or not, you WOULD be flooded?
Anyone more intelligent than I want to do the math on that? How big would the waves be? How far inland would they go? How much water would be forced into the air int he form of water vapor? How hot would that make things? For how long?
If you are an active EVE player, don't use the torrent links to download the source. CCP is monitoring the torrents and banning any accounts with matching IP addresses to any of the people using the torrent.
Well that will be great for any of their users who get a dynamic IP that was previously used to download the code.
I smell corporate suicide. Say what you want, this is a brilliant maneuver by them that shows common sense that you just don't see companies use very often.
What if Google stopped responding to requests from Virgin customers? I think Virgin would cave in pretty quickly. Isn't this more or less the same thing that we're fighting against? And the same thing that Microsoft did to Dr DOS?
In all seriousness though, I would love to see Google sneak in a special version of their adwords. Every time a Virgin ISP user is served a Google ad, make sure one says:
Attention Virgin Media Customer Your ISP is slowing your connection down to extort money out of you! Click here for more information!
"The new CEO of Virgin Media is putting his cards on the table early, branding net neutrality 'a load of bollocks' and claiming he's already doing deals to deliver some people's content faster than others... If you aren't prepared to cough up the extra cash, he says he'll put you in the Internet 'bus lane.'"
Well, it's always nice when the idiots paint a nice big "Class Action Lawsuit Bullseye" on their foreheads, ain't it?
Google is well known for building their business models to run off of someone elses infrastructure. I certainly hope this spectrum is used for something other than wireless so google is forced to work with the carriers they just screwed over in order to have a place to sell their phones.
Google set the price for this auction, then bid to drive the prices up, with no intention of buying anything. All of this so that they can sell you a phone that costs you more per month than before, because they made fraudulent bids.
Do no evil, my ass. You have no idea what you are talking about.
Google raised the bidding so it would be over a certain minimum so that Verizon et all couldn't go "well, see, it's worthless, maybe you shouldn't enforce that "openness" crap you were talking about before" to the FCC.
Which is sneaky, devious, and brilliant. It's also the polar opposite of evil. Chaotic Good, if you will.
Wait, if Google's a Bard, what does that make Microsoft? Yahoo? Oracle?... It's entirely too possible that I may have had too much coffee during lunch.
You have to know quite a bit to magically route things local. "Local" in Comcast terms means "anything inside Comcast's network -- i.e., any Comcast customer talking to another Comcast customer. Intranet bandwidth costs are, presumably, dirt cheap.
Yeah, P4P is a buzzword for "pennies for packets."
It's this magical idea that they'll find a way to charge more money for providing the same service without having to lose market share due to raising the prices on their customers' statements. Why not charge EVERYONE is their idea... doesn't matter who you are, or where you are on the 'Net... you can pay Comcast for "premium" service.
Not the worst idea ever, just a contender. So uh, hold it.
This is buzzwordspeek for "We don't need Net Neutrality, because breaking Net Neutrality means we don't need Net Neutrality?"
I've already got the best storage medium possible for my life: my brain. Keeps not only video and audio, but also stores the other three senses.
Who is this for? Those with Alzheimer's or amnesia?
Interesting concept, but it seems to be more marketing fluff than a useful product.
Or, for, you know, your great grandchildren. Or your widow. Or for some historian who finds your body 100 years after "The Great Incident".
Or whatever.
I'd love to be able to review things that I've forgotten later on, like trying to remember what exactly I was told at work, that one book I saw in passing at Borders.
Latitude X1, which was pretty portable to begin with. Not quite to the "subnotebook" or "ultraportable" crowd, it was missing an optical drive and had a 12.1" screen. Sorta like a hybrid between the Eee and a standard Laptop.
In a situation like this, HP should recall the product and reissue a replacement product with a new part number to distinguish old product from new product.
Is it a 100% Infection Rate? Is it a specific site that's infecting them? A specific QA tester's machine? Is it Possible for them to just replace the ones that are out but unsold, reformat the returned ones, and reship them?
These are important questions that I would be willing to wager HP's asking themselves in private.
I'd be surprised if the Bells in the USA didn't start making this same argument here soon. After all, they have to compete with cable and satellite. Why would anyone need more choices than that? Didn't they (read: large corporate internet/content providers like Qwest and Charter) already do this, in reverse? I mean, wasn't that one of their major arguments AGAINST opening the Cable networks to competition? "Why should we allow you to get someone else's pipe on your cable modem? You already could just get DSL or Satellite!"
Nancy Pelosi is the real villain here. I'm not quite as bitter, but Pelosi and Reed have got me confused. They're either milquetoast to the point of being more or less pathetic, or extremely brilliant.
See, they COULD be letting Bush get away with all this to cement a Democratic majority for the next few decades. "See? You can't vote the Republicans in, they're all like BUSH!"
They could be picking their battles. The fact that Bush still hasn't gotten his way with telecomm immunity means that maybe they don't NEED to pick this fight -- yet, anyway.
Or they could be sharpening their daggers behind their backs while smiling knowingly at Mr. 28%. Reed seems to be this type - he pulled an absolutely brilliant legal-fu technique that got the telecomm immunity removed from a FISA bill recently by intentionally letting one through that had it, and using a loophole in the house/senate rules to prevent the Republicans from being able to filibuster it. When someone on DailyKOS explained it to me, I was floored at how absolutely sneaky it was.
Yeah, Bush will veto it.... So?
Everyone's not-so-politely ignoring the fact that if Bush DOES veto them all, the Democrats win -- No funding means no war, no war means the troops come HOME, which is what an overwhelming majority of the US wants.
Not enough, cause they still haven't impeached him, or you know, made ANY EFFORT TO REIGN HIM IN. I think you meant 'rein him in' but it makes a better pun your way! Well, let's just say that I'm willing to let you think it was intentional if you're willing to let me get away with it.;)
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Trust me, having gone through the Mashup Archives over at Dilbert.com, you'd be preaching to the choir.We should use that to make a cute cartoon about how much it sucks.
I don't know about the typical household, but personally I don't think I can watch that much porn. You are being cynical, but you're quite right. In 3 years time, Vonage (and Vonage-alikes), Netflix, Amazon Unbox, TIVO, and AppleTV are going to change the average ISP user (currently a grandmother who reads her emails once a day) to something vastly more resource intensive.
Given that AT&T, Comcast, et all have made a living based on overselling their networks for 20+ years, this is a really BIG problem.
This is going to make tech support fun.
... Having said that, I'm reminded of working at an ISP 3 years ago, and having our Wireless Broadband Network reach capacity a few times, and having to explain, well, that exact line, only without using the terms "full", "capacity", "bottleneck", or really giving any information out at all.
"Sorry Ma'am, the reason your Kazaa isn't working is because the Internet is full. Please try again later after a few other people have logged out for the day."
Maybe that's not such a laughing matter after all...
So I guess they don't want people e-mailing the current strip around at work anymore, if it is relevant to a manager or situation on the team. And they don't want people saving one out as desktop background, or keeping a copy of their favourite ones. Yes, they hate that so much that they added a nice "email" and "embed" button that makes it trivial to send strips around to anyone and everyone:
Oh, and the embed thing comes with a (lower quality)
Well, they do have this cool user-submitted "Mashup" system, where you can click on a Dilbert strip and re-write the punchline -- it's then put on a voting site where people can vote and comment on it. I thought that was brilliant, myself...It's a freaking static cartoon! What possible asinine reason could there be to screw up such a simple concept? I saw this the other day and so, like Doonesbury, won't be visiting it any more due to their use of Flash.
If only they fixed the bug that happens when you moderate, then you try to comment, the dialog warns you that the moderation you did it will be undone and you can't get out of there.... I used to love them, until yesterday, when I entered a discussion to discover that about 5 pages of racist bigot droppings, all marked -1 troll, was being displayed prominently, because the Magic Ajax Bar (tm) decided to slide all the eway over to the right on it's own.
Nothing quite like running into GNAA crap first thing in the morning to ruin ones day.
You're not kidding. The biggest example of a reused gag is the following:
PHB Creates Spreadsheet with everyone's Salaries. PHB gives spreadsheet to Secretary She-Bitch from Hell. SSBfH then...
And those are just the 3 (out of the 5 or so) that I remember the punchline for.
I thought the old site was dated but after just glancing at the new one, I definitly want the old back.
No I'm not time wasting, it takes Outlook and Eclipse about a minute+ to load, more than enough time to pop open an IE tab and glance at Dilbert. http://news.yahoo.com/comics/dilbert
Here ya go. It's SYNDICATED, people. That means, dilbert.com isn't the only place to get it. Woo~.
And apparently me perusing at -1 Flamebait would help me understand the situation better. *Rimshot*
My rights as a consumer is unlimited use of your network, as you advertised it as "Unlimited Internet."
Anything else is weasel-speek and semantics. You sell unlimited broadband internet. Stop trying to get us to not use what we paid for.
South East Asia, French Polynesia, etc; all over on the other side of the Pacific... multiply that population figure by more than 10, and almost completely all living in coastal areas.
Yes, the only impact of 26,000 Hiroshimas in the pacific ocean will be a few people in the US getting wet.
Not to mention Hiroshima itself... I'm not quite sure on the math here, but wouldn't "26,000 Hiroshimas" to the middle of the Pacific mean that it wouldn't matter much if you were inland in California or not, you WOULD be flooded?
Anyone more intelligent than I want to do the math on that? How big would the waves be? How far inland would they go? How much water would be forced into the air int he form of water vapor? How hot would that make things? For how long?
Well that will be great for any of their users who get a dynamic IP that was previously used to download the code.
I smell corporate suicide. Say what you want, this is a brilliant maneuver by them that shows common sense that you just don't see companies use very often.
In all seriousness though, I would love to see Google sneak in a special version of their adwords. Every time a Virgin ISP user is served a Google ad, make sure one says:
Attention Virgin Media Customer
Your ISP is slowing your connection down to extort money out of you! Click here for more information!
"The new CEO of Virgin Media is putting his cards on the table early, branding net neutrality 'a load of bollocks' and claiming he's already doing deals to deliver some people's content faster than others... If you aren't prepared to cough up the extra cash, he says he'll put you in the Internet 'bus lane.'"
Well, it's always nice when the idiots paint a nice big "Class Action Lawsuit Bullseye" on their foreheads, ain't it?
Google set the price for this auction, then bid to drive the prices up, with no intention of buying anything. All of this so that they can sell you a phone that costs you more per month than before, because they made fraudulent bids.
Do no evil, my ass. You have no idea what you are talking about.
Google raised the bidding so it would be over a certain minimum so that Verizon et all couldn't go "well, see, it's worthless, maybe you shouldn't enforce that "openness" crap you were talking about before" to the FCC.
Which is sneaky, devious, and brilliant. It's also the polar opposite of evil. Chaotic Good, if you will.
Wait, if Google's a Bard, what does that make Microsoft? Yahoo? Oracle?
It's this magical idea that they'll find a way to charge more money for providing the same service without having to lose market share due to raising the prices on their customers' statements. Why not charge EVERYONE is their idea... doesn't matter who you are, or where you are on the 'Net... you can pay Comcast for "premium" service.
Not the worst idea ever, just a contender. So uh, hold it.
This is buzzwordspeek for "We don't need Net Neutrality, because breaking Net Neutrality means we don't need Net Neutrality?"
Oh my God, I've gone cross-eyed.
I've already got the best storage medium possible for my life: my brain. Keeps not only video and audio, but also stores the other three senses.
Who is this for? Those with Alzheimer's or amnesia?
Interesting concept, but it seems to be more marketing fluff than a useful product.
Or, for, you know, your great grandchildren. Or your widow. Or for some historian who finds your body 100 years after "The Great Incident".Or whatever.
I'd love to be able to review things that I've forgotten later on, like trying to remember what exactly I was told at work, that one book I saw in passing at Borders.
http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/latit_x1?c=us&cs=22&l=en&s=dfh
Latitude X1, which was pretty portable to begin with. Not quite to the "subnotebook" or "ultraportable" crowd, it was missing an optical drive and had a 12.1" screen. Sorta like a hybrid between the Eee and a standard Laptop.
Here's the HP
HP security notice. This was discovered in January/February, according to HP, but not announced by them until April.
Where's the recall notice? HP should be recalling these items. Failure to do so immediately is willful negligence.
Here are the part numbers:
They're still for sale on Amazon, for example.
Is it a 100% Infection Rate? Is it a specific site that's infecting them? A specific QA tester's machine? Is it Possible for them to just replace the ones that are out but unsold, reformat the returned ones, and reship them?In a situation like this, HP should recall the product and reissue a replacement product with a new part number to distinguish old product from new product.
These are important questions that I would be willing to wager HP's asking themselves in private.
See, they COULD be letting Bush get away with all this to cement a Democratic majority for the next few decades. "See? You can't vote the Republicans in, they're all like BUSH!"
They could be picking their battles. The fact that Bush still hasn't gotten his way with telecomm immunity means that maybe they don't NEED to pick this fight -- yet, anyway.
Or they could be sharpening their daggers behind their backs while smiling knowingly at Mr. 28%. Reed seems to be this type - he pulled an absolutely brilliant legal-fu technique that got the telecomm immunity removed from a FISA bill recently by intentionally letting one through that had it, and using a loophole in the house/senate rules to prevent the Republicans from being able to filibuster it. When someone on DailyKOS explained it to me, I was floored at how absolutely sneaky it was.
Yeah, Bush will veto it.
Everyone's not-so-politely ignoring the fact that if Bush DOES veto them all, the Democrats win -- No funding means no war, no war means the troops come HOME, which is what an overwhelming majority of the US wants.
Democracy in action, folks, right here on Slashdot.