Can someone explain to me how this is reflects badly upon Apple? I'm asking sincerely. When I go shopping I look to find the cheapest price. Seems as if Apple was just doing the same. If they can negotiate a better rate from Samsung, I'd consider it foolish not to. It more sounds as if Samsung might have broken some Korean law, no?
Are you trying to say that you don't feel there are enough sites where one could find information on Windows software? There's tucows.com, download.com, and a half a dozen more. These are only the ones I can recall off the top of my head, and keep in mind, I haven't even had use for them in quite a while.
I don't think you should be overly concerned that Windows users are being left out in the the cold. I think you're argument for fairness would have been a stronger one.
While no one can argue that PC hardware is cheaper than Apple, the discussion of the marvel of MS Office is quite amusing. The seem to have overlooked that MS has made OSX it's flagship platform for Office. That means that everything gets developed for the mac first.
> Microsoft has made a horrible mistake in this > update. It disables further updates/patches for > users who run XP with pirated activation > numbers.
While that might be the case, I don't think MS can be held responsible for that. We blame them for a lot of things but I don't think we can expect any company to try to facilitate the ability to upgrade for people who haven't purchased the product.
Now, I do have issue with how much of an nuisance their copy protection measures are. But once again, that's their prerogative. If you don't like it, vote with your dollars.
If it's that big a problem for you buy an older car. Pass on all of the bells and whistles that computers bring to a car in exchange for the ability to remotely start the car, if that's what's truly important to you. Or better yet, find your local grease monkey, go to a scrap yard and build your car from scrap. You still have the choice.
From what I've read so far, Cingular is one of the cellular service providers who will be offering the Handspring Treo. An integrated pda, cell phone, messaging system, and all around wireless device plus more bandwidth can't possibly be a bad thing. Hope it works out.
I can't argue with the thought that throwing more talented people at the problem is bound to help. However, I don't know if their skills would be best spent focusing just on Gnome/KDE.
The coolest thing about BeOS IMHO, is the OS. That's what makes all the bells and whistles fun. Some of those ideas might be very useful on the kernel level.
But then that gets into the question of what you perceive the mission of Linux to be, server or desktop. Specialization in one will be at the cost of another. They are still interesting ideas.
Give you a break? The point that you don't seem to think is a big deal has nothing to do with the punishment. The point is that if you are paying money for a service you expect that service. They expect the money and you expect the bandwidth. If an organization which apparently can't even accurately determine the source IP of the traffic they are monitoring just needs to point a finger to get your access shutdown then that seems to be a violation of the contract you have with the ISP.
Not having the ability to surf for pr0n is one thing. However, lots of people use their connections for business uses. It supports their livelihood. When you consider that, it sounds a little more important.
The last point is that the idea of being innocent until being proven guilty by a jury of your peers is one of the tenents of the US, where this action occured. A lot of people jumped on boats and sailed across the see to avoid this sort of behavior. Without that, this sounds could be the Salem Witch Hunt, the Red Scare, or the Inquisition.
Right now it's just being able to check your email. But as we depend on bandwidth more and more in the future it becomes more important. Consider that.
A lot of the comments here are shocking to me. It seems that most of the people here feel your lazy if you want to go to training and it's unfair for you as an employee to want to take paid time to train. I guess I'm pretty lucky. I work as a consultant for my company. At a consultancy, the only real asset the company has is the people. If all the people pick up and leave, the company has nothing. If all the people aren't well educated, then once again, the company has nothing
There are two sides to this. From a company's standpoint, it really is in their best interest to budget money and time for employees to take training. It costs a lot more money for a company to train an existing employee than it does to hire a new one when the existing disatisfied one leaves or when the existing (once again disatisfied) one can't do the job. It isn't complicated math. The education fights attrition by allowing employees to do more challenging work, thus keeping them happier and making them more valuable to the company.
How long do you let hardware run without maintenace and upgrades? Not very long if you want it to be dependable when you need it. From the employees side, it is everyones best interest to be up on the latest. You want to be too valuable to fire and valuable enough to get a better gig if you want out. If the company won't pay for it, best you find a way to get it in. I personally do littly projects of my own just as an excuse to get a crack at stuff that interests me. Regardless of who's paying, it is in my best interest to know what's going on. However, if the company gives me time and money to pay for it, it gives me a lot less excuses.
Sure, it's never a good time to take off time to go take a class. But it has to be done. If you have your eye on the long term viability of the company, it has to be done. Maybe these things are a little clearer at a company where the assets of the company do solely rely in the people (such as a consultancy). Maybe not.
A lot of the comments here are shocking to me. It seems that most of the people here feel your lazy if you want to go to training and it's unfair for you as an employee to want to take paid time to train. I guess I'm pretty lucky. I work as a consultant for my company. At a consultancy, the only real asset the company has is the people. If all the people pick up and leave, the company has nothing. If all the people aren't well educated, then once again, the company has nothing.
There are two sides to this. From a company's standpoint, it really is in their best interest to budget money and time for employees to take training. It costs a lot more money for a company to train an existing employee than it does to hire a new one when the existing disatisfied one leaves or when the existing (once again disatisfied) one can't do the job. It isn't complicated math. The education fights attrition by allowing employees to do more challenging work, thus keeping them happier and making them more valuable to the company.
How long do you let hardware run without maintenace and upgrades? Not very long if you want it to be dependable when you need it.
From the employees side, it is everyones best interest to be up on the latest. You want to be too valuable to fire and valuable enough to get a better gig if you want out. If the company won't pay for it, best you find a way to get it in. I personally do littly projects of my own just as an excuse to get a crack at stuff that interests me. Regardless of who's paying, it is in my best interest to know what's going on. However, if the company gives me time and money to pay for it, it gives me a lot less excuses.
Sure, it's never a good time to take off time to go take a class. But it has to be done. If you have your eye on the long term viability of the company, it has to be done. Maybe these things are a little clearer at a company where the assets of the company do solely rely in the people (such as a consultancy). Maybe not.
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Can someone explain to me how this is reflects badly upon Apple? I'm asking sincerely. When I go shopping I look to find the cheapest price. Seems as if Apple was just doing the same. If they can negotiate a better rate from Samsung, I'd consider it foolish not to. It more sounds as if Samsung might have broken some Korean law, no?
Are you trying to say that you don't feel there are enough sites where one could find information on Windows software? There's tucows.com, download.com, and a half a dozen more. These are only the ones I can recall off the top of my head, and keep in mind, I haven't even had use for them in quite a while.
I don't think you should be overly concerned that Windows users are being left out in the the cold. I think you're argument for fairness would have been a stronger one.
Here's your two-way radio that tells you where the other person is. Garmin Rino Looks interesting.
While no one can argue that PC hardware is cheaper than Apple, the discussion of the marvel of MS Office is quite amusing. The seem to have overlooked that MS has made OSX it's flagship platform for Office. That means that everything gets developed for the mac first.
> Microsoft has made a horrible mistake in this
> update. It disables further updates/patches for
> users who run XP with pirated activation
> numbers.
While that might be the case, I don't think MS can be held responsible for that. We blame them for a lot of things but I don't think we can expect any company to try to facilitate the ability to upgrade for people who haven't purchased the product.
Now, I do have issue with how much of an nuisance their copy protection measures are. But once again, that's their prerogative. If you don't like it, vote with your dollars.
Conspiracy theorists start your engines!
If it's that big a problem for you buy an older car. Pass on all of the bells and whistles that computers bring to a car in exchange for the ability to remotely start the car, if that's what's truly important to you. Or better yet, find your local grease monkey, go to a scrap yard and build your car from scrap. You still have the choice.
From what I've read so far, Cingular is one of the cellular service providers who will be offering the Handspring Treo. An integrated pda, cell phone, messaging system, and all around wireless device plus more bandwidth can't possibly be a bad thing. Hope it works out.
I can't argue with the thought that throwing more talented people at the problem is bound to help. However, I don't know if their skills would be best spent focusing just on Gnome/KDE.
The coolest thing about BeOS IMHO, is the OS. That's what makes all the bells and whistles fun. Some of those ideas might be very useful on the kernel level.
But then that gets into the question of what you perceive the mission of Linux to be, server or desktop. Specialization in one will be at the cost of another. They are still interesting ideas.
Give you a break? The point that you don't seem to think is a big deal has nothing to do with the punishment. The point is that if you are paying money for a service you expect that service. They expect the money and you expect the bandwidth. If an organization which apparently can't even accurately determine the source IP of the traffic they are monitoring just needs to point a finger to get your access shutdown then that seems to be a violation of the contract you have with the ISP.
Not having the ability to surf for pr0n is one thing. However, lots of people use their connections for business uses. It supports their livelihood. When you consider that, it sounds a little more important.
The last point is that the idea of being innocent until being proven guilty by a jury of your peers is one of the tenents of the US, where this action occured. A lot of people jumped on boats and sailed across the see to avoid this sort of behavior. Without that, this sounds could be the Salem Witch Hunt, the Red Scare, or the Inquisition.
Right now it's just being able to check your email. But as we depend on bandwidth more and more in the future it becomes more important. Consider that.
Anyone seen that show "Jackass" on MTV? Sounds like an accident waiting to happen.
"You'll shoot you're eye out!"
There are two sides to this. From a company's standpoint, it really is in their best interest to budget money and time for employees to take training. It costs a lot more money for a company to train an existing employee than it does to hire a new one when the existing disatisfied one leaves or when the existing (once again disatisfied) one can't do the job. It isn't complicated math. The education fights attrition by allowing employees to do more challenging work, thus keeping them happier and making them more valuable to the company.
How long do you let hardware run without maintenace and upgrades? Not very long if you want it to be dependable when you need it. From the employees side, it is everyones best interest to be up on the latest. You want to be too valuable to fire and valuable enough to get a better gig if you want out. If the company won't pay for it, best you find a way to get it in. I personally do littly projects of my own just as an excuse to get a crack at stuff that interests me. Regardless of who's paying, it is in my best interest to know what's going on. However, if the company gives me time and money to pay for it, it gives me a lot less excuses.
Sure, it's never a good time to take off time to go take a class. But it has to be done. If you have your eye on the long term viability of the company, it has to be done. Maybe these things are a little clearer at a company where the assets of the company do solely rely in the people (such as a consultancy). Maybe not.
A lot of the comments here are shocking to me. It seems that most of the people here feel your lazy if you want to go to training and it's unfair for you as an employee to want to take paid time to train. I guess I'm pretty lucky. I work as a consultant for my company. At a consultancy, the only real asset the company has is the people. If all the people pick up and leave, the company has nothing. If all the people aren't well educated, then once again, the company has nothing. There are two sides to this. From a company's standpoint, it really is in their best interest to budget money and time for employees to take training. It costs a lot more money for a company to train an existing employee than it does to hire a new one when the existing disatisfied one leaves or when the existing (once again disatisfied) one can't do the job. It isn't complicated math. The education fights attrition by allowing employees to do more challenging work, thus keeping them happier and making them more valuable to the company. How long do you let hardware run without maintenace and upgrades? Not very long if you want it to be dependable when you need it. From the employees side, it is everyones best interest to be up on the latest. You want to be too valuable to fire and valuable enough to get a better gig if you want out. If the company won't pay for it, best you find a way to get it in. I personally do littly projects of my own just as an excuse to get a crack at stuff that interests me. Regardless of who's paying, it is in my best interest to know what's going on. However, if the company gives me time and money to pay for it, it gives me a lot less excuses. Sure, it's never a good time to take off time to go take a class. But it has to be done. If you have your eye on the long term viability of the company, it has to be done. Maybe these things are a little clearer at a company where the assets of the company do solely rely in the people (such as a consultancy). Maybe not.