Must be some Air Force research base of some sort.
Besides, if they had real aliens, they would show them to the world and say: See, they're trying to kill us all, protect your country from Space Invaders, enlist Today!
>Every dollar not shipped off to Redmond will be split between a bonus for the CIO, the CEO and shareholders.
Excellent point. You are saying that by not paying MS for software functionality and gettting similar functionality from OSS, you can increase executive management compensation as well as return on shareholder investment. This is great! Companies everywhere will jump at the opportunity.
Now, it may seem bad for the programmer, but let's follow through.
All those rich people, namely, the CEO, CIO, and the shareholder now have all this money. What do they do with it? Invest (trust me, that's what they do). But where? Back into the company, or into other companies, by buying stock in the form of shares.
Now, those companies end up with extra cash. They have to earn more money with it since the investors expect a great return. They need to spend it. So they hire more programmers and send a s little as possible to Redmond again. Then the company is profitable, and the profit goes to the CEO and CIO and shareholders...
And it all starts back again.
Note that the advantage of well-paid CEOs and CIOs is that the top executive world is relatively small, and a lot of them know each other.
Let's imagine CEO Bigshot and CEO Amthegrehtest are playing golf:
Bigshot: Hey, nice putt...
Amthegrehtest (picking up his ball and starting to walk to hole 6): Thanks! Say, I heard you made out like a bandit last quarter.
Bigshot (walking along): The stock price went through the roof, and they took care of me.
Amthegrehtest: So what did you do different? This time last year you were worried you wouldn't meet your numbers.
Bigshot (admiring the trees): We went open source and our developers just went to town. We attracted a couple of really good guys. Heck one of them even wrote a book on programming some stuff.
Amthegrehtest: Really?
Bigshot: Yeah, and the streamlining of operations allowed for a 4% reduction in variable costs... Plus everybody's happy and IT is getting great reviews from the rest of the crew.
Amthegrehtest: Say, can we set up a meeting to talk more about that? I'm really interested. I'll bring some people along.
Bigshot: Yeah, of course. Sushi at SoPriciFich?
Amthegrehtest: Excellent... (queue in golf-related executalk)
If you must have their product and there's no way around it: you've identified a monopoly.
If you must buy their product anyway, then ask yourself whether you are going to die if you don't get it.
If you are conditioned to run to the store every time a commercial comes on, then they already have won. You are a sucker, and they've got you, and they will take all your money and sell you crap and you will like it.
If you have any backbone at all, and any inventiveness, don't buy the product.
If you do anyway, there's abolutely nothing your congressperson will do for you since you can't even control yourself.
>it's getting to where you cannot buy a product now that doesn't have some sort of drm built into it
Does the article talk about the older people returning the stuff to the store?
Do people realize that the japanese are the most brand-loyal people in the world? You burn them, they will never, ever, no matter what price on sale you give them, buy your product EVER again.
I know, my wife is japanese from Japan.
BTW, she was stunned, stunned I tell you, a couple of days ago when our panasonic DVD player stopped working after 6 months. We had replaced a made-in-china Mintek $59 special at bestbuy's that lasted 8 months with the Almighty Japanese Brand Name $99 player. Well, sure enough, she was speechless at the poor quality of the Matsushita product.
Of course, it probably did not help when I announced "They probably subcontracted with Mintek anyway..."
All I know is that the TV makers in Japan are going to have a hard time selling those TVs in the future, since the Japanese don't do anything unless it's what all their friends are doing. There's a slower adoption rate of new tech, but once you reach critical mass, then just everyone has to have one.
If a product never reaches critical mass, it disappears. Just look at the soft drink market in Japan for a very good example of that (btw calpis/calpico rocks).
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Ever heard of C?
Java was meant to shield the programmer from the hardcore stuff.
Or of assembler?
I want to read a book titled: Business reporting and web front-ends in Java for ASP programmers. That book will fly off the shelves.
>run a red light and kill someone 25 to life in the slammer for murder.
>Turned in front of someone and use the 'I did not see them' excuse 5 to 20 in the slammer for attempted murder.
Think that's harsh: Throw a grenade in a crowd: same effect. Remember that car in santa monica: "Accidentally pushed gas pedal instead of brake." 10 dead 60+ injured. Sentence should be death penalty.
People would think twice before getting behind the wheel, just as they think twice before throwing a grenade in a crowd.
Remember that a 3000 lbs car at 60mph has more impact velocity than a 50 caliber machine gun round. A lot more.
But Tibethan monks were enforcing a feudal system based on religous beliefs where a crime against the state was a crime against god and you were executed if you voiced a differing opinion.
Before people feel all sorry for the Tibetan monks, let's first feel sorry for the 98% of the tibetans who were held in illiterate and abject servitude by their rulers. At least today the average tibetan can get an education, get a job, and better his own life and that of his children.
Remember that the media in the US is for-profit. Anything they can do to jerk tears our of ignorant americans, they will do: it brings in more advertizing revenue.
Except that we don't know exactly under what circumstances those dead detainees died under. Between getting my head sawed off and being tortured for hours by brutal, cruel, and gruesome US interrogators, then killed, I dunno man.
Maybe the US interrogators should have the decency of building a gas chamber to humanely terminate their failed interrogation experiments.
Welcome to Hell.
Oh, and the ends never justify the means. [/rant]
On China. They have a 5000 + years history, and they have at various times held the reins of innovation (gunpowder anyone?). I wouldn't put it past chinese ingenosity to come up with really good stuff; and the Chinese government is a body perfectly capable of enforcing standards. Also note that a large amount of the world's electronics is made in China. They of all people have the resources to actually make cheap, reliable, and standards-based electronic devices.
I invoice them for 50 dollars. If they don't pay, at least they never call me again.
If they pay, then I've got them hooked.
I don't barter for sex. There's nothing like unremunerated sex.
I will, however, work for food. With shrimp/sushi/beef and stuff like that. I usually name a few good restaurants beforehand. If they don't get the hint, their harddrive stays in that sorry state.
Yeah, you big jedi, future emperor, kills jarjar... Easy kill. to easy.
I say that makes the future anakin look weak.
I suggests he has jarjar tried and executed as traitor when he good-naturedly tries to warn somebody about some impending doom.
That would be more in line.
Anakin kills the remainder of the jedi council, yet escape yoda does.
Amidala returns to naboo when she finds out she's pregrant. The births are secret, the kids are raised by truested friends. She dies mysteriously (by anakin, who is now in the dark side for sure), and the two children are spirited away... Luke to tattoine because that's where Irish boy kenobi went to hide... Besides, the planet is poor, out of the way, and controlled by the Hutt... And that leaves everyone where they need to be for episode 1.
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at 80Megs, it's using, oh, 12% of available ram...
Buy more memory, no?
am asking this where a work environment uses macs, and users have access to the machines.
I would add that this emphasizes the need for good backups.
So if I have physical access to the machine, I can compromise it (assuming of course I brought some OSX os disks?)
Question.
Can this password reset be performed only with the disk you installed the machine with, or with any disk for the same os version?
you bought a proprietary software system on a proprietary hardware platform.
Dust off your SLA and call Apple.
Don't have a SLA? Dang, you're FUBARed.
Yes,
Stealth airplanes.
Drones.
Robots.
Scientists in white suits
Mean and gruff airport personnel with pistols
Must be some Air Force research base of some sort.
Besides, if they had real aliens, they would show them to the world and say: See, they're trying to kill us all, protect your country from Space Invaders, enlist Today!
>Every dollar not shipped off to Redmond will be split between a bonus for the CIO, the CEO and shareholders.
Excellent point. You are saying that by not paying MS for software functionality and gettting similar functionality from OSS, you can increase executive management compensation as well as return on shareholder investment. This is great! Companies everywhere will jump at the opportunity.
Now, it may seem bad for the programmer, but let's follow through.
All those rich people, namely, the CEO, CIO, and the shareholder now have all this money. What do they do with it? Invest (trust me, that's what they do). But where? Back into the company, or into other companies, by buying stock in the form of shares.
Now, those companies end up with extra cash. They have to earn more money with it since the investors expect a great return. They need to spend it. So they hire more programmers and send a s little as possible to Redmond again. Then the company is profitable, and the profit goes to the CEO and CIO and shareholders...
And it all starts back again.
Note that the advantage of well-paid CEOs and CIOs is that the top executive world is relatively small, and a lot of them know each other.
Let's imagine CEO Bigshot and CEO Amthegrehtest are playing golf:
Bigshot:
Hey, nice putt...
Amthegrehtest (picking up his ball and starting to walk to hole 6):
Thanks! Say, I heard you made out like a bandit last quarter.
Bigshot (walking along):
The stock price went through the roof, and they took care of me.
Amthegrehtest: So what did you do different? This time last year you were worried you wouldn't meet your numbers.
Bigshot (admiring the trees):
We went open source and our developers just went to town. We attracted a couple of really good guys. Heck one of them even wrote a book on programming some stuff.
Amthegrehtest:
Really?
Bigshot:
Yeah, and the streamlining of operations allowed for a 4% reduction in variable costs... Plus everybody's happy and IT is getting great reviews from the rest of the crew.
Amthegrehtest:
Say, can we set up a meeting to talk more about that? I'm really interested. I'll bring some people along.
Bigshot:
Yeah, of course. Sushi at SoPriciFich?
Amthegrehtest:
Excellent... (queue in golf-related executalk)
Stop buying their products.
If you must have their product and there's no way around it: you've identified a monopoly.
If you must buy their product anyway, then ask yourself whether you are going to die if you don't get it.
If you are conditioned to run to the store every time a commercial comes on, then they already have won. You are a sucker, and they've got you, and they will take all your money and sell you crap and you will like it.
If you have any backbone at all, and any inventiveness, don't buy the product.
If you do anyway, there's abolutely nothing your congressperson will do for you since you can't even control yourself.
>it's getting to where you cannot buy a product now that doesn't have some sort of drm built into
it
And whose fault is that? Mmmmhh?
Does the article talk about the older people returning the stuff to the store?
Do people realize that the japanese are the most brand-loyal people in the world? You burn them, they will never, ever, no matter what price on sale you give them, buy your product EVER again.
I know, my wife is japanese from Japan.
BTW, she was stunned, stunned I tell you, a couple of days ago when our panasonic DVD player stopped working after 6 months. We had replaced a made-in-china Mintek $59 special at bestbuy's that lasted 8 months with the Almighty Japanese Brand Name $99 player. Well, sure enough, she was speechless at the poor quality of the Matsushita product.
Of course, it probably did not help when I announced "They probably subcontracted with Mintek anyway..."
All I know is that the TV makers in Japan are going to have a hard time selling those TVs in the future, since the Japanese don't do anything unless it's what all their friends are doing. There's a slower adoption rate of new tech, but once you reach critical mass, then just everyone has to have one.
If a product never reaches critical mass, it disappears. Just look at the soft drink market in Japan for a very good example of that (btw calpis/calpico rocks).
Ever heard of C?
Java was meant to shield the programmer from the hardcore stuff.
Or of assembler?
I want to read a book titled: Business reporting and web front-ends in Java for ASP programmers. That book will fly off the shelves.
Ok, then, kinetic, whatever. Dude.
Real penalies:
>run a red light and kill someone
25 to life in the slammer for murder.
>Turned in front of someone and use the 'I did not see them' excuse
5 to 20 in the slammer for attempted murder.
Think that's harsh: Throw a grenade in a crowd: same effect. Remember that car in santa monica: "Accidentally pushed gas pedal instead of brake." 10 dead 60+ injured.
Sentence should be death penalty.
People would think twice before getting behind the wheel, just as they think twice before throwing a grenade in a crowd.
Remember that a 3000 lbs car at 60mph has more impact velocity than a 50 caliber machine gun round. A lot more.
If the remote-controlled driver kills the passenger, he is immediately electrocuted until death occurs.
I guarantee they will be verrrry careful. More careful than you would be.
Most of them... Mmmm... What happened to the others? If we even have ONE, that's one too many.
But Tibethan monks were enforcing a feudal system based on religous beliefs where a crime against the state was a crime against god and you were executed if you voiced a differing opinion.
Before people feel all sorry for the Tibetan monks, let's first feel sorry for the 98% of the tibetans who were held in illiterate and abject servitude by their rulers. At least today the average tibetan can get an education, get a job, and better his own life and that of his children.
Remember that the media in the US is for-profit. Anything they can do to jerk tears our of ignorant americans, they will do: it brings in more advertizing revenue.
Except that we don't know exactly under what circumstances those dead detainees died under. Between getting my head sawed off and being tortured for hours by brutal, cruel, and gruesome US interrogators, then killed, I dunno man.
Maybe the US interrogators should have the decency of building a gas chamber to humanely terminate their failed interrogation experiments.
Welcome to Hell.
Oh, and the ends never justify the means.
[/rant]
On China. They have a 5000 + years history, and they have at various times held the reins of innovation (gunpowder anyone?). I wouldn't put it past chinese ingenosity to come up with really good stuff; and the Chinese government is a body perfectly capable of enforcing standards.
Also note that a large amount of the world's electronics is made in China. They of all people have the resources to actually make cheap, reliable, and standards-based electronic devices.
Yeah, quit teasing the man.
I'm married too...
I invoice them for 50 dollars. If they don't pay, at least they never call me again.
If they pay, then I've got them hooked.
I don't barter for sex. There's nothing like unremunerated sex.
I will, however, work for food. With shrimp/sushi/beef and stuff like that. I usually name a few good restaurants beforehand. If they don't get the hint, their harddrive stays in that sorry state.
I got my pt cruiser for 15000 after 2000 cash back and I get 30+ mpg.
;)
Of course base model, bust still AC and power windows... Heck, It's even Plum color
Want roleplaying? try channels at random on Undernet. I bet you'll never look at RL the same again. /me sighs.
>someone will remake the whole series in 15-20 years
Well, no, because of the 100years+ copyrights courtesy of Disney/congress.
go to python.com instead of python.org, see if you like it.
Yeah, you big jedi, future emperor, kills jarjar... Easy kill. to easy.
I say that makes the future anakin look weak.
I suggests he has jarjar tried and executed as traitor when he good-naturedly tries to warn somebody about some impending doom.
That would be more in line.
Anakin kills the remainder of the jedi council, yet escape yoda does.
Amidala returns to naboo when she finds out she's pregrant. The births are secret, the kids are raised by truested friends. She dies mysteriously (by anakin, who is now in the dark side for sure), and the two children are spirited away... Luke to tattoine because that's where Irish boy kenobi went to hide... Besides, the planet is poor, out of the way, and controlled by the Hutt... And that leaves everyone where they need to be for episode 1.
Anyway. The movie is going to suck horribly.
It will probably be worse than Troy...
Get rid of your television(s).
:)
Besides, who needs TV when you have a PC?
Wanna watch movies? Bah, movies are so bad lately...
Wanna keep your TV? Then keep paying your BBC Fee and STFU
I moved from Europe to the US to avoid this kind of crap.
Now, in defence of the BBC: I think their programming is stellar, and you Brits get a good bang for your buck.