Air bags kill so many of you yanks because you don't wear seatbelts, so your air bags have to deploy at some incredibly dangerous speed.
Although I suppose forcing the population to wear seat belts would break one of those unalienable human rights that you guys seem to have truckloads of.
Hmm.. now is this off-topic? troll? flamebait? Who will decide!
It's probably illegal to drive with a broken speedo, so unless it broke and you were driving straight home, you might find yourself pulled up for dangerous driving, or whatever else they can find.
Unfortunately Microsoft is pushing a lot of that cost onto people, who develop for their platform: writing program which will run on both win95 and XP, including everything in between is non-trivial. The costs of QA are skyrocketing.
I don't know any companies that are still releasing software that's compat with Win95.. if you go to most vendor sites you'll see "Windows 2000, and XP only."
However, where the compatability comes in handy is where I already have software that is only certified for 95, and I want to use it on 2000. That doesn't make life any more difficult for the vendor, and in fact, eats profits that I would otherwise have to give them.
What a load of crap. In Telstra we have 50,000 desktops, and about 150 desktop support staff.
[Admittedly, we also have about 60 or so contract field staff to visit the sites and replace PC's that have exploded, or need to be rebuilt by putting a floppy disk in, and going away for a few minutes.
Additionally, we have about 20 or 30 Network Operations staff who look after our DC's and Netware servers.]
With a cluey Network Architect, you can put something together that is both functional and user-resistant.
That actually is a big risk for corporations though, considering they can't monitor every single check in by every single developer. It only takes one coder [acting maliciously (ie: stealing) or just stupidly] to bring a major project to a halt.
It's funny you should mention that.. we have a raid 5, however one of the disks failed silently several months ago, and a second failed [with alarms and also a server crash] just the other day.
Luckily we had backups and the server was restored within a few hours.
When a fire starts to burn.. there's a lesson you must learn.. something something, then you'll see, you'll avoid catastrophe!
Not quite as true as you might think, consider the case fairly recently of a guy who was spray painting grafitti on a train and got injured to the point of brain damage, he sued and was awarded a buncha money.
The daily telegraph [one of our local papers] is currently running a series of articles on 'Our public litigation crisis' where they basically go into the court for a few days, pick out the most stupid of the lawsuits and plaster them all over the media. Recent cases include a drunk pothead who went surfing and injured himself and was [once again] awarded a lot of money.
There is legislation being pushed through by the state govt now to restrict awards for claims, although whether this is a good thing or not, time will tell.
The newspapers themselves are irrelevant, you could instead say: Two tv companies deliver two tv shows, one on giant movie reels, and the other on VCD.
What is important is that you have is a company offering to deliver content from a third party, now one type of content is far more expensive then the other type. So the company is within it's rights to decide what sort of content it wants to deliver.
There is no justification for forcing a land carrier to carry around 10 ton slabs of rock, just like there is no justification for forcing a 'carrier' to deliver whatever content you want, no matter the cost.
I agree that the first analogy had a few flaws..
but consider this:
Say I am a transport company X that delivers two newspapers from Big City A and Big City B to Small Town C. Big City A decides that it wants to print it's paper on large stone slabs, while Big City B prints it's paper on microfiche.
Being the lazy person that I am, I decide to only transport the papers from Big City B, due to 'expenses' in moving the paper from Big City A to the Small Town.
Q: Is this censorship? Am I censoring Small Town C by not going out of my way to bring them the news paper that will cause direct harm to my company?
A [to rhetorical question]: No.
Well, you are still allowed to speak in encrypted form whenever you want, but if the govt wants access they can get it. I don't know if there is an amendment guaranteeing privacy..
The 'leaders' of these companies are far too busy to try new technology. As a person who did IT support for the a few of the top execs of a telco, it was MY job to ensure that everything they used worked perfectly every time.. of course, it never did, but you'd be surprised how little time a CEO, GMD, Chairman has to mess around with their palm pilot when it's not giving them their appointments right.
ie: You will never see:
12:00: Meet senator to talk about thing.
12:30: Meet competitor to talk about thing 2.
12:45: Learn how to use new palm pilot for 4 hours
5:00 Speak to chairman about senator and pending lawsuit.
These days palms are more used by 'field technicians'. My parent company [a telco] is giving them to field users so they can pickup tickets of work in the field, and close them the same way.
Much cheaper then the old solution of giving them a laptop and GSM modem cards. The palms are more durable too.
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Well, that's good news! If I could edit posts, I'd change it so that it only says 'some'.
Seriously though, thanks for the tip!
Air bags kill so many of you yanks because you don't wear seatbelts, so your air bags have to deploy at some incredibly dangerous speed.
Although I suppose forcing the population to wear seat belts would break one of those unalienable human rights that you guys seem to have truckloads of.
Hmm.. now is this off-topic? troll? flamebait? Who will decide!
Of course, your point is still pretty solid.
I don't know any companies that are still releasing software that's compat with Win95.. if you go to most vendor sites you'll see "Windows 2000, and XP only."
However, where the compatability comes in handy is where I already have software that is only certified for 95, and I want to use it on 2000. That doesn't make life any more difficult for the vendor, and in fact, eats profits that I would otherwise have to give them.
What a load of crap. In Telstra we have 50,000 desktops, and about 150 desktop support staff.
[Admittedly, we also have about 60 or so contract field staff to visit the sites and replace PC's that have exploded, or need to be rebuilt by putting a floppy disk in, and going away for a few minutes.
Additionally, we have about 20 or 30 Network Operations staff who look after our DC's and Netware servers.]
With a cluey Network Architect, you can put something together that is both functional and user-resistant.
And the girl from georgia played the other 5% weak.
That actually is a big risk for corporations though, considering they can't monitor every single check in by every single developer. It only takes one coder [acting maliciously (ie: stealing) or just stupidly] to bring a major project to a halt.
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Similarly, if you remotely administer the SAM on that workstation you log on using the IPC$ share.
It's funny you should mention that.. we have a raid 5, however one of the disks failed silently several months ago, and a second failed [with alarms and also a server crash] just the other day.
Luckily we had backups and the server was restored within a few hours.
When a fire starts to burn.. there's a lesson you must learn.. something something, then you'll see, you'll avoid catastrophe!
The daily telegraph [one of our local papers] is currently running a series of articles on 'Our public litigation crisis' where they basically go into the court for a few days, pick out the most stupid of the lawsuits and plaster them all over the media. Recent cases include a drunk pothead who went surfing and injured himself and was [once again] awarded a lot of money.
There is legislation being pushed through by the state govt now to restrict awards for claims, although whether this is a good thing or not, time will tell.
What is important is that you have is a company offering to deliver content from a third party, now one type of content is far more expensive then the other type. So the company is within it's rights to decide what sort of content it wants to deliver.
There is no justification for forcing a land carrier to carry around 10 ton slabs of rock, just like there is no justification for forcing a 'carrier' to deliver whatever content you want, no matter the cost.
but consider this:
Say I am a transport company X that delivers two newspapers from Big City A and Big City B to Small Town C. Big City A decides that it wants to print it's paper on large stone slabs, while Big City B prints it's paper on microfiche.
Being the lazy person that I am, I decide to only transport the papers from Big City B, due to 'expenses' in moving the paper from Big City A to the Small Town.
Q: Is this censorship? Am I censoring Small Town C by not going out of my way to bring them the news paper that will cause direct harm to my company?
A [to rhetorical question]: No.
Surely we aren't all too busy gloating over blizzard being crucified that we've forgotten this fact..
Has it? Considering if they didn't give them over, they wouldn't get any time at all..
Well, you are still allowed to speak in encrypted form whenever you want, but if the govt wants access they can get it. I don't know if there is an amendment guaranteeing privacy..
Oops.
PS: The problem will be hardware or driver related. If you actually read the BSOD dump, it will tell you which driver and which hardware.
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Yeah, I know it's off topic, but hey, I don't care.
Examples of this are: Kilograms, Megalitres, Gigawatts.. none of these things are 1024 times anything.
Welcome to reality. This is why spam is bad, now go and join everyone else in the 'spam is bad' thread.
Isn't that the crux of the argument though? I don't know I'm downloading spam until I've already paid for it?
Then you are fortunate. However, seeing as my internet connection is metered at Xc/Mb, should I start billing people for spam they send me?
ie: You will never see:
12:00: Meet senator to talk about thing.
12:30: Meet competitor to talk about thing 2.
12:45: Learn how to use new palm pilot for 4 hours
5:00 Speak to chairman about senator and pending lawsuit.
Much cheaper then the old solution of giving them a laptop and GSM modem cards. The palms are more durable too.