Anybody could be a terrorist. Profiling is useless and lazy.
Governments resort to this instead of the hard work of genuine intelligence gathering.
If governments are waiting for the information about passengers in a flight before actin, we are already at danger.
Good intelligence would mean a real dangerous person would not even manage to get a foot in the airport, perhaps not even manage to buy a ticket, before being busted.
Profiling of passengers is an exercise of hand waving to the peanut gallery.
It is very easy for you to say just do the frigging pohne call and get done with it.
But if you have any sizeable amount of machines those 2 minutes in the phone (2 minutes, yeah, sure, whatever) are time imposed as a cost to me. A cost that I did not need. A cost that accumulates with each hardware problem I have. A cost that is eating on my profits.
Any responsible datacentre administrator or desk support manager should make a big stink about this kind of nonsense, I would consider it a professional responsibility to scrutinize a provider when protecting them from piracy costs *me* money.
If MS is so worried about piracy they can pay to companies to be audited for example, or they can hire PIs to tie lose ends (hmm, these chaps have 200 old boxes but have never bought a Windows license. Panic alarm). But the cost should be absorbed by them, not by me or my company.
Many people around here are saying loud and clear that if you want to continue to own your own computer infrastructure in your own terms, you should not be using MS stuff. If people don't listen I hope they do enjoy it when they bend forward.
As movies go, that one was pretty dire, it contributed little to the SciFI genre, it had an idiotic, unbelivable plot. Unless you think it is a good idea to dispatch your enemies with a samurai sword when you have weapons that can obliterate full planets and you don't care much about mass murder.
No wonder the movie lost money.
If anything it put me off looking at the series on DVD (in most places out of the US the movie came first than the series, the later may not have shown at all).
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There are effors under way by Google and other companies to make available wrod processors and spreadsheets online.
The evidence of where things are going are plain to all to see.
All the major distros (I have played recently with Ubuntu and Fedora) have graphic package managers.
In Ubuntu I have yet to install an application from the command line: one opens the package installer, search fro the application providing relevant words for the search, is presented with available applications, right click on it to mark it for installation (dependencies are pointed out to you). Applications are sucked up from the Web, installed, menus are put in place.
In Fedora the process is similar, I prefered the command line there though.
I for example, have not bought an MS product for 10 years (I am foced to use some, at work, which is perfectly fine by me).
I refuse to support a company guilty of abusing their monopoly.
Just because you read 2 or 3 replies here and there from people that do not care it does not mean they are a majority or the same people ranting about MS elsewhere.
France fought from the start the Nazi invation, they were at war with Germany 20 years ealier as you may recall, so they were under no illusions of what a German, revengful ocupation, would be like (Versailles is in France you know).
The French resistence from the start looked for US and British support, they were unequivocal about who were friends and who were foes.
US people do not appreciate other countries pride for their own culture because the US has none of its own. Say what you meay, but the US is a young country with immigrants from all over the globe, thus the mere thought of a national culture is alien.
France has, understandably so, pride on all things French. Is what distinguishes them from the rest of Europe and what many other Europeans try to emulate (the food, the laid back attitude, the galantry, the language). Many US people tire of mocking that, or look at it in wonderment. The res of the world understand the US is the big world's melting pot, but the US does not reciprocate and tries to understand nothing about countries with homogenous cultures.
As for adoring standards, what exactly is wrong with that? The metric system, the most famous of French standards, has made international commerce and science possible. The Napoleonic code is the basis for legal systems in many countries, it was French compromise which allowed the meridian in Greeenwich to be considered the basis of UCT thus laying the fundation for a coherent, worldwide, time system.
As for French influence in the world you are painting a sorry pantomime of today's situation.
France can suggest things like adoption of this format, but with an EU of 20 something countries nothing that France says nowadays is gospel, not even for Belgium, if you think that tin pot despots in Africa care about what France does regarding a matter that most likely affects them little or not at all, then you need to read more newspapers.
In the stupid scenario you are describing MS products would be the least important of preocupations.
Any computer systems any country uses are securely built around products they can control during a crisis situation (if you think the Chinese military waits for patches released directly by MS for vital equipment, then you are watching too many bad movies).
Because it is a transliteration from Arabic, meaning that you write it as you hear it (because you can't do a direct translation from Arabic characteres to Western ones).
Some people in English speaking places heard it as "moslem" and other as "muslim".
This happens also with Russian, Chinese and many other languages.
To complicate matters further a transliteration from English passes to othere languages and then it is pronounced differently there (muslim and moslem sound completely different in Spanish for example).
And I am sure it gives a warm fuzzt feeling, but the matter of fact is that most people do not like extremists (if the perception is fair or not is another matter).
Judging by your postings you are figthing a lost battle. Other more pragmatic people will advance the cause of fairness, toughtless radicals are a hindrance we could live without.
Look what you got us: right wing politicians in most democratic countries, from the US to Mexico, Japan and even the old good UK.
Perception is all, the antiglobalization movement (what do they wnat? Blissful isolationism?) painted itself in a tight corner firstly because their message is incoherent and secondly because it is not based in any real solutions to economic disparities.
People protesting against the mad adventurism in Iraq were rigth. Congrats, you got that one all right.
Oposing globalization is the dumbest idea in the world.
It is like oposing bird migration or the Gulf stream.
Globalization can be steered but can't be stopped.
As long as there are disparities in wealth (and there always be, Communist countries showed us that), there will be forces tending to globalize good and services.
Idiotic disparate protests without an especific agenda are complete useless.
Several of your anarchist buddies have made of protests violent affairs. Say what you may, but many other protest in many of the different countries where antiglobalization rallies have happened, have passed peacefully.
Then why countries producing raw goods are the wealthy ones?
For bunnies sakes, manufactured goods have been going down for ages. There is very little wealth created making tangible goods nowadays because machines and mass production are making them tremendooulsy cheap.
Engineering and management require different skills sets.
Sometimes the same person have them both, but on many others it just does not happen.
The best way to create a bad manager is to force a good Engineer without the necessary skills to become one.
The assumption, very common around here, that Engineers are some kind of uber human that can learn anything thrown at them is laughable, to say the least (disclaimer: I am an Engineer and at time I have had managerial responsibilities)
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Anybody could be a terrorist. Profiling is useless and lazy.
Governments resort to this instead of the hard work of genuine intelligence gathering.
If governments are waiting for the information about passengers in a flight before actin, we are already at danger.
Good intelligence would mean a real dangerous person would not even manage to get a foot in the airport, perhaps not even manage to buy a ticket, before being busted.
Profiling of passengers is an exercise of hand waving to the peanut gallery.
It is very easy for you to say just do the frigging pohne call and get done with it.
But if you have any sizeable amount of machines those 2 minutes in the phone (2 minutes, yeah, sure, whatever) are time imposed as a cost to me. A cost that I did not need. A cost that accumulates with each hardware problem I have. A cost that is eating on my profits.
Any responsible datacentre administrator or desk support manager should make a big stink about this kind of nonsense, I would consider it a professional responsibility to scrutinize a provider when protecting them from piracy costs *me* money.
If MS is so worried about piracy they can pay to companies to be audited for example, or they can hire PIs to tie lose ends (hmm, these chaps have 200 old boxes but have never bought a Windows license. Panic alarm). But the cost should be absorbed by them, not by me or my company.
Why should MS be checking my hardware?
Who gave them that right?
Many people around here are saying loud and clear that if you want to continue to own your own computer infrastructure in your own terms, you should not be using MS stuff. If people don't listen I hope they do enjoy it when they bend forward.
As movies go, that one was pretty dire, it contributed little to the SciFI genre, it had an idiotic, unbelivable plot. Unless you think it is a good idea to dispatch your enemies with a samurai sword when you have weapons that can obliterate full planets and you don't care much about mass murder.
No wonder the movie lost money.
If anything it put me off looking at the series on DVD (in most places out of the US the movie came first than the series, the later may not have shown at all).
Photo management: flickr.
Video management: YouTube.
Email: Google mail. Yahoo Mail. Hotmail.
Encyclopedias: all online.
Interesting gaming: all online.
Video entertainment: all will be online.
There are effors under way by Google and other companies to make available wrod processors and spreadsheets online.
The evidence of where things are going are plain to all to see.
All the major distros (I have played recently with Ubuntu and Fedora) have graphic package managers.
In Ubuntu I have yet to install an application from the command line: one opens the package installer, search fro the application providing relevant words for the search, is presented with available applications, right click on it to mark it for installation (dependencies are pointed out to you). Applications are sucked up from the Web, installed, menus are put in place.
In Fedora the process is similar, I prefered the command line there though.
I for example, have not bought an MS product for 10 years (I am foced to use some, at work, which is perfectly fine by me).
I refuse to support a company guilty of abusing their monopoly.
Just because you read 2 or 3 replies here and there from people that do not care it does not mean they are a majority or the same people ranting about MS elsewhere.
"Mongoloid"
Don't use it at work or your ass will be out of the door in a snap.
Read it again later, it gives the impression you were saying what now you are denying you said.
Give me something that does not require my machine calling home.
And give me something that once I bought it is no longer MS's damn bussiness to be checking my machine.
France fought from the start the Nazi invation, they were at war with Germany 20 years ealier as you may recall, so they were under no illusions of what a German, revengful ocupation, would be like (Versailles is in France you know).
The French resistence from the start looked for US and British support, they were unequivocal about who were friends and who were foes.
US people do not appreciate other countries pride for their own culture because the US has none of its own. Say what you meay, but the US is a young country with immigrants from all over the globe, thus the mere thought of a national culture is alien.
France has, understandably so, pride on all things French. Is what distinguishes them from the rest of Europe and what many other Europeans try to emulate (the food, the laid back attitude, the galantry, the language). Many US people tire of mocking that, or look at it in wonderment. The res of the world understand the US is the big world's melting pot, but the US does not reciprocate and tries to understand nothing about countries with homogenous cultures.
As for adoring standards, what exactly is wrong with that? The metric system, the most famous of French standards, has made international commerce and science possible. The Napoleonic code is the basis for legal systems in many countries, it was French compromise which allowed the meridian in Greeenwich to be considered the basis of UCT thus laying the fundation for a coherent, worldwide, time system.
As for French influence in the world you are painting a sorry pantomime of today's situation.
France can suggest things like adoption of this format, but with an EU of 20 something countries nothing that France says nowadays is gospel, not even for Belgium, if you think that tin pot despots in Africa care about what France does regarding a matter that most likely affects them little or not at all, then you need to read more newspapers.
In the stupid scenario you are describing MS products would be the least important of preocupations.
Any computer systems any country uses are securely built around products they can control during a crisis situation (if you think the Chinese military waits for patches released directly by MS for vital equipment, then you are watching too many bad movies).
I think they don't understand the European market.
For crying out loud, they wanted the German personel to sing one of these stupid corporate anthems each morning.
The Germans. those people that now have embedded on their DNA a healthy distrust to indoctrination of any kind.
Talk about being ignorant.
And stop the pointless whining while at the same time helping the fucking environment.
Jeez.
I hope so.
Their are using their strong market position in order to become a monopoly.
I will be redundant here, but I think it is necessary.
In the US there are places where you can drive for a couple of hours (hello Texas) and you will not find much constructed along the way.
In the UK you can drive for the same period and 95% of the time you are in view of fully populated areas.
That is why this shameless monopolical speculation is worng, ammoral and pehaprs even illegal.
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Because it is a transliteration from Arabic, meaning that you write it as you hear it (because you can't do a direct translation from Arabic characteres to Western ones).
Some people in English speaking places heard it as "moslem" and other as "muslim".
This happens also with Russian, Chinese and many other languages.
To complicate matters further a transliteration from English passes to othere languages and then it is pronounced differently there (muslim and moslem sound completely different in Spanish for example).
Guys in the US have to get out of this mindset about jobs.
They are not yours, they were not created with your name written all over them.
Those poor kids coding all day for such paltry pay can't surely produce any good C++ classes.
Honestly guys, the level of debate sometimes rises to level of ridiculousness that is difficulot not to mock.
And I am sure it gives a warm fuzzt feeling, but the matter of fact is that most people do not like extremists (if the perception is fair or not is another matter).
Judging by your postings you are figthing a lost battle. Other more pragmatic people will advance the cause of fairness, toughtless radicals are a hindrance we could live without.
You are not setting the political agenda.
Look what you got us: right wing politicians in most democratic countries, from the US to Mexico, Japan and even the old good UK.
Perception is all, the antiglobalization movement (what do they wnat? Blissful isolationism?) painted itself in a tight corner firstly because their message is incoherent and secondly because it is not based in any real solutions to economic disparities.
People protesting against the mad adventurism in Iraq were rigth. Congrats, you got that one all right.
Oposing globalization is the dumbest idea in the world.
It is like oposing bird migration or the Gulf stream.
Globalization can be steered but can't be stopped.
As long as there are disparities in wealth (and there always be, Communist countries showed us that), there will be forces tending to globalize good and services.
Idiotic disparate protests without an especific agenda are complete useless.
Several of your anarchist buddies have made of protests violent affairs. Say what you may, but many other protest in many of the different countries where antiglobalization rallies have happened, have passed peacefully.
Then why countries producing raw goods are the wealthy ones?
For bunnies sakes, manufactured goods have been going down for ages. There is very little wealth created making tangible goods nowadays because machines and mass production are making them tremendooulsy cheap.
Trade is freeing Chinese people. Today they can own property, they can travel abroad, they can set up bussinesses.
This in the short span on 20 something years.
Patience.
Engineering and management require different skills sets.
Sometimes the same person have them both, but on many others it just does not happen.
The best way to create a bad manager is to force a good Engineer without the necessary skills to become one.
The assumption, very common around here, that Engineers are some kind of uber human that can learn anything thrown at them is laughable, to say the least (disclaimer: I am an Engineer and at time I have had managerial responsibilities)