This is why I angle my computer so that my right elbow rests firmly on the table. That way I never have the tennise elbow syndrom.
As for the mouse, it needs to be big enough to cup my wrist also. That way I don't have to lift my wrist when using the mouse. I can just rest it on the mouse.
To hell with these stupid anti-competitive practices and traditional telcos. They've shafted us for decades, and are still trying hard so they can continue shafting us some more. Competition? What competition? More like collusion if you ask me.
I had Verizon for over a decade and was getting charged around $45 per month on basic phone service + call waiting + caller ID. Can you believe that? $45 just for THAT! There are all these stupid surcharges and taxes and bundled nonsense.
To top it off, they have this "local long distance" scam where I get charged like $0.13 just to call a place that's less than 30 miles away. And last time... I made an international call to Taiwan (lame AT&T) and was charged the equivalent of a phone sex call! It was like $2 or $3 per minute!
These guys have dicked me around for way too long for me to ever forgive them. I don't care what packages they will offer in the future, but I'm done paying ransome to these scumbags. I hope you guys join me in this effort. We all know that when they have no more choice, they'll hop on the VOIP wagon and advertise like they're on our side, but you know it'll be because they've run out of options, not because they give a $hit. You can put a sheep's clothing on a fox any day, but still it's a fox underneath.
It's people like you with such naive minds that need to learn how things REALLY work in life.
If you are an employer (very unlikely), today, how would you even go about stopping spyware/adware at the source? You say it like it's a piece of cake. Your business may be in plumbing. Why or even how you would go about stopping spyware/adware at the source I have no idea. And do you even know where the "source" is? Go ahead. Do something the computer industry has not been able to accomplish since the beginning. Good luck. *giggles*
This is not to say one shouldn't support all efforts to curb adware/spyware at the source. However, most intelligient people understand that this is next to impossible and will be a tough and long battle. In the meantime, what can an employer do?
A multi-pronged solution is the way to go. You fight it on all fronts. However, in the end, it's ignorant users that make it easy. Most people with a clue wouldn't get themselves infected, and if they did they would know about it quite quickly. It's the repeat offenders, those that refuse to be proactive, those that continue to install crap onto their computers, that should be punished. If they won't take responsibility, NOTHING short of a miracle would ever help.
If I'm an employer I want my employees to work, not get distracted by ads. I pay them to be productive. Putting something on the screen that distracts, may bring in a very insignificant amount of additional income, but would cost me more than I get back, since I'm paying money for their salary.
One can incorporate positive reinforcement into the equation, but that alone isn't going to do it. The negative must be there as huge reminder. Otherwise why bother giving F's at all in college?
I see a lot of people complaining about ignorant users who get infected by adware/spyware, again and again, despite being told what to watch out for and things to not do.
What network admins need to start doing is implementing a TOUGH LOVE POLICY, whereby repeat offenders are punished for being stupid/ignorant.
For example, if a user gets himself infected with Spyware more than 3 times, and each time it's determined to be due to stupidity, then he is completely CUT OFF from the network PERIOD. Then, either implement some monetary fine or something that causes PAIN for that user. After X amount of times, if feasible, cut them off permanently.
If a user gets himself infected with Adware more than X times, the same applies, except he's not cut off from the network. Rather some other form of punishment is implemented. Monetary punishments seem to work best.
Then on top of all this, humiliate the repeat offenders by posting their pictures/names on some blackboard for all to see. "Hey look this is the Darwinian candidate of the month!" *giggles*
You put PAIN into this system, and I bet the incidence of spyware/adware at your workplace will declined DRASTICALLY.
Am I missing something, or is this company coming in late to the party and trying to coin the term "Ajax" as if they started the party themselves? Sounds like marketing BS to me. Just take a look at some of their wording. It's as if Google used Adaptive Path to create their client-rich interfaces:
Google is making a huge investment in developing the Ajax approach. All of the major products Google has introduced over the last year -- Orkut, Gmail, the latest beta version of Google Groups, Google Suggest, and Google Maps -- are Ajax applications. (For more on the technical nuts and bolts of these Ajax implementations, check out these excellent analyses of Gmail, Google Suggest, and Google Maps.) Others are following suit: many of the features that people love in Flickr depend on Ajax, and Amazon's A9.com search engine applies similar techniques.
You should hate yourself then because you hate lawyers, and they're doing exactly for you what other greedy lawyers are doing elsewhere. They're doing whatever it takes to win a case.
There's one thing you need to realize, and it's that the almighty dollar is king. Environment or money? Money wins every time, even if it's at the expense of the environment.
How about instead of reaching deeper into taxpayer pockets, these government bureaucrats do something to improve the efficiency of their spending habits?
That's the problem with government. They don't compete, nor strive to be efficient. When the getting gets tough they just stick out their hands and ask for more money, so they can waste it on pork barrels, paying over retail for everything, and acting like idi0ts in general.
I used to own yahhoo.com for a while. The domain was getting massive amount of unique traffic. I believe it was something like 2000 uniques per day. Then I got curious and set a catch-all email address. That got really interesting real fast...
But I gave it up because it didn't feel right. Could have linked it to one of those search engine sites to make some decent change though... Oh well...
Go read the comments of any outsouring story on Slashdot, and you'll find many racist comments moderated Insightful or Informative. It's a real disappointment that so many Slashdotters are nothing more than bigots.
The same goes for anything anti-iPod. Even if it's informative, it's often modded as "troll"s.
Norton Antivirus has been the biggest pile of $hit AV I've ever used. It routinely misses well-known trojans/viruses. I've gotten my system infected twice in the past by simply visiting a page in IE. Norton just shut down and my system got infected. Doing a free scan at housecall.trendmicro.com, Trendmicro was able to detec the virus easily. Norton just kept telling me no virus was found.
What's with the "yeah right" comment? I think/. would be better served by having article submissions stripped of such irrelevent sarcasm. Let the readers decide.
These days I'm really reluctant to help out, for a few reasons:
1) If the person I'm helping is an ignorant person and doesn't care to learn what I'm showing them, then I don't want to help. If they're receptive and great at listening, I love to help.
2) I'm a software architect and entrepreneur, not a pc support tech. I obviously know how to fix most of these pc tech problems for myself, but would rather not get into it for others. Yes I do consider it low level work like fixing plumbing... so sue me.
The main reason Nutscrape died so horribly at the end (only the end part) was due to the "evil" things Aol forced onto the browser. I still remember in version 7, you couldn't do anything without running into some stupid link back to the netscape portal page. It was installed on your desktop, start menu, quick launch, tons of bookmarks, on the browser itself, in the toolbars, buttons, etc etc etc.
It just got so annoying I dumped it for good and went to IE. IE by comparison was lean and mean.
However, when competition died, IE got complacent and we started seeing tons of exploits that led to spyware, trojans, etc. It didn't help that M$ somehow things integrating a browser with explorer was good. I mean when was the last time anyone typed an internet address into their windows explorer?
So now we have another shift. A shift where people who are sick of spyware are dumping IE and running to Firefox.
If Google is somehow able to integrate their offerings and create a streamlined browser, IE will no longer be king. That is, if Google continues with their philosophy of "do no evil".
The people have spoken. Businesses that resort to stupid tactics will lose to businesses that follow this new philosophy. I just hope one day we do away with those evil rebates, coupons, popups, popunders, $9.99 pricing, etc.
I hope this guy loses his case and gets fined for it. If you can't even be bothered to take responsibility for your own negligience/incompetence, you can't expect anyone else to.
In fact, sometimes I think there should be a LICENSE required to go online. There are just too many id10ts out there.
What's with the truth spinning on slashdot? This is getting sickening.
What Gates said is true in a sense. Just take a look at all of the various permutations of Linux. OSS is like a 10-headed dragon. Everybody has their own ego and their own agendas. Doesn't take long for a piece of software to branch like crazy. All that does is make interoperability a nightmare, and mass adoption a near impossibility. It's like it takes a PhD to figure out some of this stuff.
While despicable, the one thing M$ has done right is to spearhead most things it does with one direction in mind. This is what OSS needs.
Google should just ban all of France from using its search engine. After all, many phrases searched can be argued as trademark infringement. This only opens the floodgate for more nonsense.
Maybe I should trademark a popular search term and sue Google too.
As expected, the Mac nazis mod my post a troll, and yet this one isn't trolling with "'ok this is a waste of time' when you do anything else in windows"?
Having to move your left hand onto your keyboard when a simple right click would do, to me, is a failure in design. Arguing for it is like saying you prefer to computer on a joypad instead of a keyboard. Less buttons right? Sure takes more time, but whatever...
Apple is targetting n00bs with their one button mouse.
Do you realize how much time is saved by having the right click button and the scroll wheel? Every time I touch an Apple I just think, "ok this is a waste of time".
And the author's claim that once you pick up a 2 button mouse you'd want a 5 button one? Nonsense. The scroll and the right click are essential. Anything more is just icing on the cake, but I can live without them just fine.
Just watch... the Apple fanatics will mod me a troll. But what I say is true.
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This is why I angle my computer so that my right elbow rests firmly on the table. That way I never have the tennise elbow syndrom.
As for the mouse, it needs to be big enough to cup my wrist also. That way I don't have to lift my wrist when using the mouse. I can just rest it on the mouse.
To hell with these stupid anti-competitive practices and traditional telcos. They've shafted us for decades, and are still trying hard so they can continue shafting us some more. Competition? What competition? More like collusion if you ask me.
:)
I had Verizon for over a decade and was getting charged around $45 per month on basic phone service + call waiting + caller ID. Can you believe that? $45 just for THAT! There are all these stupid surcharges and taxes and bundled nonsense.
To top it off, they have this "local long distance" scam where I get charged like $0.13 just to call a place that's less than 30 miles away. And last time... I made an international call to Taiwan (lame AT&T) and was charged the equivalent of a phone sex call! It was like $2 or $3 per minute!
These guys have dicked me around for way too long for me to ever forgive them. I don't care what packages they will offer in the future, but I'm done paying ransome to these scumbags. I hope you guys join me in this effort. We all know that when they have no more choice, they'll hop on the VOIP wagon and advertise like they're on our side, but you know it'll be because they've run out of options, not because they give a $hit. You can put a sheep's clothing on a fox any day, but still it's a fox underneath.
Ok rants over.
It's people like you with such naive minds that need to learn how things REALLY work in life.
If you are an employer (very unlikely), today, how would you even go about stopping spyware/adware at the source? You say it like it's a piece of cake. Your business may be in plumbing. Why or even how you would go about stopping spyware/adware at the source I have no idea. And do you even know where the "source" is? Go ahead. Do something the computer industry has not been able to accomplish since the beginning. Good luck. *giggles*
This is not to say one shouldn't support all efforts to curb adware/spyware at the source. However, most intelligient people understand that this is next to impossible and will be a tough and long battle. In the meantime, what can an employer do?
A multi-pronged solution is the way to go. You fight it on all fronts. However, in the end, it's ignorant users that make it easy. Most people with a clue wouldn't get themselves infected, and if they did they would know about it quite quickly. It's the repeat offenders, those that refuse to be proactive, those that continue to install crap onto their computers, that should be punished. If they won't take responsibility, NOTHING short of a miracle would ever help.
Display ads? I don't think so.
If I'm an employer I want my employees to work, not get distracted by ads. I pay them to be productive. Putting something on the screen that distracts, may bring in a very insignificant amount of additional income, but would cost me more than I get back, since I'm paying money for their salary.
One can incorporate positive reinforcement into the equation, but that alone isn't going to do it. The negative must be there as huge reminder. Otherwise why bother giving F's at all in college?
I see a lot of people complaining about ignorant users who get infected by adware/spyware, again and again, despite being told what to watch out for and things to not do.
What network admins need to start doing is implementing a TOUGH LOVE POLICY, whereby repeat offenders are punished for being stupid/ignorant.
For example, if a user gets himself infected with Spyware more than 3 times, and each time it's determined to be due to stupidity, then he is completely CUT OFF from the network PERIOD. Then, either implement some monetary fine or something that causes PAIN for that user. After X amount of times, if feasible, cut them off permanently.
If a user gets himself infected with Adware more than X times, the same applies, except he's not cut off from the network. Rather some other form of punishment is implemented. Monetary punishments seem to work best.
Then on top of all this, humiliate the repeat offenders by posting their pictures/names on some blackboard for all to see. "Hey look this is the Darwinian candidate of the month!" *giggles*
You put PAIN into this system, and I bet the incidence of spyware/adware at your workplace will declined DRASTICALLY.
I had my Treo use a fart wav file once for fun. It was ridiculously funny sitting in a restaurant hearing farting noises come from my pants.
Am I missing something, or is this company coming in late to the party and trying to coin the term "Ajax" as if they started the party themselves? Sounds like marketing BS to me. Just take a look at some of their wording. It's as if Google used Adaptive Path to create their client-rich interfaces:
Google is making a huge investment in developing the Ajax approach. All of the major products Google has introduced over the last year -- Orkut, Gmail, the latest beta version of Google Groups, Google Suggest, and Google Maps -- are Ajax applications. (For more on the technical nuts and bolts of these Ajax implementations, check out these excellent analyses of Gmail, Google Suggest, and Google Maps.) Others are following suit: many of the features that people love in Flickr depend on Ajax, and Amazon's A9.com search engine applies similar techniques.
You should hate yourself then because you hate lawyers, and they're doing exactly for you what other greedy lawyers are doing elsewhere. They're doing whatever it takes to win a case.
With /. members as my witnesses, I am patenting strip clubs with free wifi. There shall be no filtering here...
Get out of here you imposter. Real Slashdot members have no girl friends, much less fiancees.
There's one thing you need to realize, and it's that the almighty dollar is king. Environment or money? Money wins every time, even if it's at the expense of the environment.
How about instead of reaching deeper into taxpayer pockets, these government bureaucrats do something to improve the efficiency of their spending habits?
That's the problem with government. They don't compete, nor strive to be efficient. When the getting gets tough they just stick out their hands and ask for more money, so they can waste it on pork barrels, paying over retail for everything, and acting like idi0ts in general.
No thanks.
I used to own yahhoo.com for a while. The domain was getting massive amount of unique traffic. I believe it was something like 2000 uniques per day. Then I got curious and set a catch-all email address. That got really interesting real fast...
But I gave it up because it didn't feel right. Could have linked it to one of those search engine sites to make some decent change though... Oh well...
Go read the comments of any outsouring story on Slashdot, and you'll find many racist comments moderated Insightful or Informative. It's a real disappointment that so many Slashdotters are nothing more than bigots.
The same goes for anything anti-iPod. Even if it's informative, it's often modded as "troll"s.
Norton Antivirus has been the biggest pile of $hit AV I've ever used. It routinely misses well-known trojans/viruses. I've gotten my system infected twice in the past by simply visiting a page in IE. Norton just shut down and my system got infected. Doing a free scan at housecall.trendmicro.com, Trendmicro was able to detec the virus easily. Norton just kept telling me no virus was found.
Stay far away from Norton. It's worthless.
What's with the "yeah right" comment? I think /. would be better served by having article submissions stripped of such irrelevent sarcasm. Let the readers decide.
These days I'm really reluctant to help out, for a few reasons:
1) If the person I'm helping is an ignorant person and doesn't care to learn what I'm showing them, then I don't want to help. If they're receptive and great at listening, I love to help.
2) I'm a software architect and entrepreneur, not a pc support tech. I obviously know how to fix most of these pc tech problems for myself, but would rather not get into it for others. Yes I do consider it low level work like fixing plumbing... so sue me.
The main reason Nutscrape died so horribly at the end (only the end part) was due to the "evil" things Aol forced onto the browser. I still remember in version 7, you couldn't do anything without running into some stupid link back to the netscape portal page. It was installed on your desktop, start menu, quick launch, tons of bookmarks, on the browser itself, in the toolbars, buttons, etc etc etc.
It just got so annoying I dumped it for good and went to IE. IE by comparison was lean and mean.
However, when competition died, IE got complacent and we started seeing tons of exploits that led to spyware, trojans, etc. It didn't help that M$ somehow things integrating a browser with explorer was good. I mean when was the last time anyone typed an internet address into their windows explorer?
So now we have another shift. A shift where people who are sick of spyware are dumping IE and running to Firefox.
If Google is somehow able to integrate their offerings and create a streamlined browser, IE will no longer be king. That is, if Google continues with their philosophy of "do no evil".
The people have spoken. Businesses that resort to stupid tactics will lose to businesses that follow this new philosophy. I just hope one day we do away with those evil rebates, coupons, popups, popunders, $9.99 pricing, etc.
Notice how there's an ad for Vonage right underneath the article? Priceless.
I hope this guy loses his case and gets fined for it. If you can't even be bothered to take responsibility for your own negligience/incompetence, you can't expect anyone else to.
In fact, sometimes I think there should be a LICENSE required to go online. There are just too many id10ts out there.
What's with the truth spinning on slashdot? This is getting sickening.
What Gates said is true in a sense. Just take a look at all of the various permutations of Linux. OSS is like a 10-headed dragon. Everybody has their own ego and their own agendas. Doesn't take long for a piece of software to branch like crazy. All that does is make interoperability a nightmare, and mass adoption a near impossibility. It's like it takes a PhD to figure out some of this stuff.
While despicable, the one thing M$ has done right is to spearhead most things it does with one direction in mind. This is what OSS needs.
Google should just ban all of France from using its search engine. After all, many phrases searched can be argued as trademark infringement. This only opens the floodgate for more nonsense.
Maybe I should trademark a popular search term and sue Google too.
As expected, the Mac nazis mod my post a troll, and yet this one isn't trolling with "'ok this is a waste of time' when you do anything else in windows"?
Having to move your left hand onto your keyboard when a simple right click would do, to me, is a failure in design. Arguing for it is like saying you prefer to computer on a joypad instead of a keyboard. Less buttons right? Sure takes more time, but whatever...
Using your logic, if I go out and rob banks, it would be ok too?
Come on, bank robbery is out there already, everyone who was stupid enough to leave their banks vulnerable got it, with or without my help.
Apple is targetting n00bs with their one button mouse.
Do you realize how much time is saved by having the right click button and the scroll wheel? Every time I touch an Apple I just think, "ok this is a waste of time".
And the author's claim that once you pick up a 2 button mouse you'd want a 5 button one? Nonsense. The scroll and the right click are essential. Anything more is just icing on the cake, but I can live without them just fine.
Just watch... the Apple fanatics will mod me a troll. But what I say is true.