Wow. You think browsing the net will get you any closer to being a technical person as an adult? Hardly. The people who are huffing it and making the dough now had no 'personal' computer. They went to a university and pounded punch cards into a mainframe. My little brother downloads music from Kazaa and is an AIM PIMP, but lets be honest, he shit his pants when he got infected by blaster. I never had a computer at home, but since I went to college and learned how to use a damn computer, I was the one patching his machine and removing all this spyware.
This girl shouldn't have net access. she should be huffing it to the library or school to get net access. If her family is destitute, then even $50 goes a long way.
PS. the RIAA is suing people with 1000+ songs. I hardly believe she's on dial up with 1000+ songs. She's prolly got a cable modem and HBO but no health insurance or pencils for school.
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with the net. I can pay my income tax, parking tickets, speeding tickets, postal bills, toll collections, and a myriad of other fees, fines and charges all online.
And you argued against no point of his. So you got an article published, so what. That just means that there are others who share your point of view. that doesn't lend any creedence to whether the idea has merit.
The real point he was making is: Those who bring creations and ideas into the world have ownership of them. They have the right to dictate under what terms they can create and distribute their own ideas.
Now you obviously don't agree with him. Fair enough. but provide evidence and actually back up your point, instead of saying that Ayn Rand isn't taken seriously, or that he's not an intellectual. Who gives a fuck if he's an intellectual? Einstein was a patent clerk. But he unlocked the secrets of the universe.
You don't have to like Ayn Rand. She didn't always live up to what she preached, and she was peculiar in her own right. But she had ideas, which are either valid or invalid. if you take issue with them, debate them, use evidence. A statement can not be dismissed prima facia based on its source. Good ideas can come from bad people, and vice versa.
... that suing people isn't a viable business model. The ship is sinking, and the vultures are just getting whatever they can.
What has SCO 'released' or 'innovated' recently? I don't know. even if they did release something, it isn't nearly as important as suing people.
Real businesses sell products and services, and innovate and compete in a market. this company is suing people, which isn't a viable market strategy. The execs will get what they deserve, the company will fail.
There is a huge reason why the IT Community turns off windows update. Windows update, newer versions of software, all can cause unforeseen effects and change the 'gold disk' standard most IT depts. strive for. How do you isolate and prevent problems on untested environments?
A perfect example is PDM. PDM is a document tracking web based enterprise app. It runs on 5.5 and 5.0 of IE, but will not run on 6. under a lot of config, newer software might not work with older software. If we let users automatically update IE and win2k and all that, we could be creating new incompatibilies that would bring down a lot of resources.
What every IT dept needs is a good core of individuals who test software configurations, and a reliable delivery method once the software is confirmed compatible. I've found that SMS by microsoft is NOT reliable. A lot of IT depts have a KLUDGE of logon scripts, SMS packages, and various other hacks. What needs to be is a unified system of delivery
Actually, $500-$1000 is an accurate estimate. If it takes an hour for a deskside visit by an IT guy. That's $25 for that one hour. Many of the corporate professionals I deal with are making $100 dollars an hour. If they're down five hours on a major virus where IT is stretched thin, that's $500 right there. And what about collateral costs? I support a major medical supplier. If they can't contact a customer about delays, you're screwed. Customers will cancel orders. No questions.
$500-$1000 is the average cost spread out based on how much a company lost from virus X divided by the total number of desktops affected. If a mission critical application can't communicate orders to a manufacturing site in a timely manner because network traffic has hosed the infrastructure, orders get lost, money gets lost...
The major problem with software distrobutions such as windows is that the entire OS thrives on the 'one click' philosophy. One-click update, one-click install, and one click virus infection. People are so used to windows giving them one click 'Ok' windows that they end up clicking Ok and worrying later. 90% of regular office users end up clicking okay to almost anything and installing spyware, viruses, etc.
Windows needs to 'brand' the update procedure; make it so obvious and un-repeatable by other apps, so that users are not duped.
This is what happens when a company makes and distributes both the software & the hardware. You hold them *responsible* for conflicts because its a closed system
See, in the PC market the software companies blame the hardware companies and the hardware companies blame the software companies... and if it doesn't work, oh well.
First of all, I don't trust anything from Wisconsin.
Second of all, read
this.
"Change in energy use per capita, 1970-97: - 5.1%"
Energy use per capita in the US is going down, at least in Colorado. But last I checked, Colorado isn't shrinking, its growing. And its an average energy consumption state, considering its wide climate varieties, etc.
So if populations are increasing but energy use per capita is shrinking, there will be an overall increase in BTU use. But the idea is that people are using less power. The US, considering the huge growth both population and economy-wise, is not using that much more power, relatively speaking.
The other thing is, some of the most populous states have the lowest per capita energy use. It seems the more people that are in a state the better the distrobution among those people.
according to this site.
And I could give a shit about hydrocarbons. What is produced in manmade hydrocarbons is dwarfed by the natural processes which put hydrocarbons in the atmosphere. And despite that, hydrocarbons aren't even the worst greenhouse gas perpetrators. Water vapor is. All those people clamoring for a hydrogen economy aren't even considering what putting all that water vapor into the atmosphere would do... do you think arizona would be the same ecosystem with 1 million vehicles putting 2 gallons of water into the air a day?
From what I've seen, things are moving on a good pace but the doomsdayers want technology stopped regardless.
Okay, I wasn't very aware of the problem at the time. That was the first goof, no one at our IT dept really let us know what was going on. So i'm looking at these 'copy/paste' errors thinking 'WTF'... so I decided to reinstalled office.
except the add/remove programs window was fucked. So i'm thinking... hmm... then asked around and found out what it was all about
Second, she wasn't exactly using a standard install. She had winXP and VPN on a home computer, which isn't supported. So I'm having her download the win2k patch wondering why it isn't working, because we only support win2k...
well, yeah, I could have handled it better. suck it.
yeah. tell me about it. I'm stuck in the office until 11pm because we shut off all VPN and other remote access methods to contain the fucker.
Of course, microsoft let us know about this in July. Nice to know the heads of IT are on top of this. Oh wait, you mean the head of IT, who got the virus on her home PC and I spent an hour clearing it from her PC. yeah, that head of IT
The Hate America First crowd is out front on this one. While we have increased our population in the past 10 years from 270 million to about 300 million, the USA has only increased its output of pollution CO2 etc about 2%. That is a per capita drop of about 8%. Now everyone reading this should also note that the US had NEGATIVE DOMESTIC POPULATION GROWTH so that while we absorbed much of the worlds population, we did not cause any of the problem and substantially cleaned up!
This is the best part about the post;if its true, which I believe so. (I've also heard statistics that the US uses the same amount of power it did in the 1970s... because even though we power more, we do it with less.) The nations that contribute the least per capita to pollution are the nations that are the most industrialized. Why? Because the greater the technology becomes in a nation, the less energy it will use due to more efficiency. Efficiency saves money. And companies in the business of making money will do it.
Every major appliance bought new in the US is something like ten times more efficent than the ones created fifty years ago. Despite the screams abot SUVs, they are still more efficent than standard size sedans of the sixties.
the problems of technology can only be solved by more technology, not by abdicating it.
Here's what slashdotters want microsoft to be. they want it split up so that the real 'microsoft' is just office and windows. but any good executive will tell you, if you put all your eggs in one basket, you'll most likely fail in an industry like software distrobution.
Slashdotters want microsoft to stop bundling software. Since when is bundling products illegal? Just because a certain software company *cough* netscape *cough* sells a product, and only one product, and another company offers that product for free bundled with a software app you need to run the browser with anyways... well, its a no brainer.
The software world is evolving. No one wants to pay for tools to do all sorts of jobs. They'd rather pay for one app that does it all. As a matter of fact, that's why a lot of people don't make the switch: we hate having to install packages. We'd like it all there already.
So microsoft is bundling tools in their software that you buy. its no different than linux bundling free utilities for CD burning. Why isn't Roxio or nero screaming at Windows Xp for bundling CD burning right in the OS?
Or would you rather make us pay twice, once for the OS and once for the other software?
it is a lot like automation of equipment. People have to accept that business models change, and that selling individual software components might not be as profitable. there will always be a place for photoshop, etc... but probaly not for media player. I mean, I feel bad for the poor saps who invested 20 years as bowling pin setters only to be sold down the river by bowling machines, but hey, its not illegal.
The reason they're making it a sports car is so they can sell it! I mean, its fun to make it a sports car, but commuter cars have a huge disadvantage here in the U.S. Mainly, they look like they're for dorks.
I mean that will all due respect. They're funny looking. And the people with the most money to spend on cars are baby-boomers who saw a nation built on the automobile. Americans take pride in cars, which may not be the case in every nation in the world. To an American, a car is a status symbol, an emancipator (public transit in such a huge nation isn't always available), a work of art. It's hard to sell an audience like that on a car that looks tiny and goofy.
As an aside, I recently purchased a brand new car. I thought hard about what kind of car I wanted, and what I would need. I balanced fuel economy and size and functionality and performance. I bought a Subaru Impreza WRX. It gets 25 mph, is roomy, easy to park in boston, incredibly safe, and goes very fast.
I think in the future that as cars become more fuel efficent, construction projects free up more traffic jams (BIG DIG!), and alternatives become available, it will offset the pollution and road space problems.
You obviously didn't click around the site the article linked to, did you?
They offer 7 inch LCDs that have a USB touch screen interface. All you've got to do (in windows, anywho) is set up some shortcuts to common links. (play cd in winamp, play MP3 collection in winamp, etc)... set up windows to respond to 'single click' on shortcuts. As far as text, there should be a windows program that gives you a display keyboard and 'clicks' enter the text in the selected field. I mean, sure, linux is more customizable but its not as if windows is crippled. Just got to get creative.
While I realize its an invalid comparison, this totally reminds me of the soviet-era tactics during WWII. If you didn't fight for the Red Army, the Red Army jailed your family.
The real reason for this, is of course, that parents will be scared shitless of having to pay $10,000 to $100,000 for their kids music transgressions. and since most older adults have less of a grasp on this, they'll get scared and prevent kids from going online.
``For me, it's a no-brainer,'' said Mollie Ingebrand, a puppeteer from Minneapolis who plans to go to Vancouver with her lawyer husband and 2-year-old son
Best. Article. Ever. A PUPPETEER? No wonder she wants to move to canada. you can't make a living being a puppeteer! If all we lose are freeloaders to canada, I say, let them leave.
I always e-mail the president at president@whitehouse.com... I never seem to get a response. But I sure do get a lot of spam these days... about naked ladies. I just don't get it.
When are people going to stop comparing 1's and 0's on a silver platter to stuff in a store?
Hmm. I bet if someone hax0red your Asheron's Call account and stole your character, You'd probably consider it your property and seek justice. Of course, if you could stop bawling about the years of your life wasted on it.
Candy bars are different in that they exist, but also because the method of creating them is virtually the same and the patent has long since run out. Meanwhile, creating a concerto (or even a hair-band rock ballad, *sigh*) requires hours of effort, gobs of money, and it belongs to the people who create it. They get to determine how its distributed.
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Wow. You think browsing the net will get you any closer to being a technical person as an adult? Hardly. The people who are huffing it and making the dough now had no 'personal' computer. They went to a university and pounded punch cards into a mainframe. My little brother downloads music from Kazaa and is an AIM PIMP, but lets be honest, he shit his pants when he got infected by blaster. I never had a computer at home, but since I went to college and learned how to use a damn computer, I was the one patching his machine and removing all this spyware.
This girl shouldn't have net access. she should be huffing it to the library or school to get net access. If her family is destitute, then even $50 goes a long way.
PS. the RIAA is suing people with 1000+ songs. I hardly believe she's on dial up with 1000+ songs. She's prolly got a cable modem and HBO but no health insurance or pencils for school.
with the net. I can pay my income tax, parking tickets, speeding tickets, postal bills, toll collections, and a myriad of other fees, fines and charges all online.
And you argued against no point of his. So you got an article published, so what. That just means that there are others who share your point of view. that doesn't lend any creedence to whether the idea has merit.
The real point he was making is: Those who bring creations and ideas into the world have ownership of them. They have the right to dictate under what terms they can create and distribute their own ideas.
Now you obviously don't agree with him. Fair enough. but provide evidence and actually back up your point, instead of saying that Ayn Rand isn't taken seriously, or that he's not an intellectual. Who gives a fuck if he's an intellectual? Einstein was a patent clerk. But he unlocked the secrets of the universe.
You don't have to like Ayn Rand. She didn't always live up to what she preached, and she was peculiar in her own right. But she had ideas, which are either valid or invalid. if you take issue with them, debate them, use evidence. A statement can not be dismissed prima facia based on its source. Good ideas can come from bad people, and vice versa.
... that suing people isn't a viable business model. The ship is sinking, and the vultures are just getting whatever they can.
What has SCO 'released' or 'innovated' recently? I don't know. even if they did release something, it isn't nearly as important as suing people.
Real businesses sell products and services, and innovate and compete in a market. this company is suing people, which isn't a viable market strategy. The execs will get what they deserve, the company will fail.
There is a huge reason why the IT Community turns off windows update. Windows update, newer versions of software, all can cause unforeseen effects and change the 'gold disk' standard most IT depts. strive for. How do you isolate and prevent problems on untested environments?
A perfect example is PDM. PDM is a document tracking web based enterprise app. It runs on 5.5 and 5.0 of IE, but will not run on 6. under a lot of config, newer software might not work with older software. If we let users automatically update IE and win2k and all that, we could be creating new incompatibilies that would bring down a lot of resources.
What every IT dept needs is a good core of individuals who test software configurations, and a reliable delivery method once the software is confirmed compatible. I've found that SMS by microsoft is NOT reliable. A lot of IT depts have a KLUDGE of logon scripts, SMS packages, and various other hacks. What needs to be is a unified system of delivery
damn, where's my '-1, Raped' modifier when I need it
Step 1: Make fun of SCO
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Karma!
come on guys, that wasn't even very funny.
Yeah, and I'm still behind 10mb/s in my office. Huzzah!
welcome our robotically assisted elderly masters!
Actually, $500-$1000 is an accurate estimate. If it takes an hour for a deskside visit by an IT guy. That's $25 for that one hour. Many of the corporate professionals I deal with are making $100 dollars an hour. If they're down five hours on a major virus where IT is stretched thin, that's $500 right there. And what about collateral costs? I support a major medical supplier. If they can't contact a customer about delays, you're screwed. Customers will cancel orders. No questions.
$500-$1000 is the average cost spread out based on how much a company lost from virus X divided by the total number of desktops affected. If a mission critical application can't communicate orders to a manufacturing site in a timely manner because network traffic has hosed the infrastructure, orders get lost, money gets lost...
The major problem with software distrobutions such as windows is that the entire OS thrives on the 'one click' philosophy. One-click update, one-click install, and one click virus infection. People are so used to windows giving them one click 'Ok' windows that they end up clicking Ok and worrying later. 90% of regular office users end up clicking okay to almost anything and installing spyware, viruses, etc.
Windows needs to 'brand' the update procedure; make it so obvious and un-repeatable by other apps, so that users are not duped.
This is what happens when a company makes and distributes both the software & the hardware. You hold them *responsible* for conflicts because its a closed system
See, in the PC market the software companies blame the hardware companies and the hardware companies blame the software companies...
and if it doesn't work, oh well.
First of all, I don't trust anything from Wisconsin.
Second of all, read this.
"Change in energy use per capita, 1970-97: - 5.1%"
Energy use per capita in the US is going down, at least in Colorado. But last I checked, Colorado isn't shrinking, its growing. And its an average energy consumption state, considering its wide climate varieties, etc.
So if populations are increasing but energy use per capita is shrinking, there will be an overall increase in BTU use. But the idea is that people are using less power. The US, considering the huge growth both population and economy-wise, is not using that much more power, relatively speaking.
The other thing is, some of the most populous states have the lowest per capita energy use. It seems the more people that are in a state the better the distrobution among those people. according to this site.
And I could give a shit about hydrocarbons. What is produced in manmade hydrocarbons is dwarfed by the natural processes which put hydrocarbons in the atmosphere. And despite that, hydrocarbons aren't even the worst greenhouse gas perpetrators. Water vapor is. All those people clamoring for a hydrogen economy aren't even considering what putting all that water vapor into the atmosphere would do... do you think arizona would be the same ecosystem with 1 million vehicles putting 2 gallons of water into the air a day?
From what I've seen, things are moving on a good pace but the doomsdayers want technology stopped regardless.
Okay, I wasn't very aware of the problem at the time. That was the first goof, no one at our IT dept really let us know what was going on. So i'm looking at these 'copy/paste' errors thinking 'WTF'... so I decided to reinstalled office.
...
except the add/remove programs window was fucked. So i'm thinking... hmm...
then asked around and found out what it was all about
Second, she wasn't exactly using a standard install. She had winXP and VPN on a home computer, which isn't supported. So I'm having her download the win2k patch wondering why it isn't working, because we only support win2k
well, yeah, I could have handled it better. suck it.
yeah. tell me about it. I'm stuck in the office until 11pm because we shut off all VPN and other remote access methods to contain the fucker.
Of course, microsoft let us know about this in July. Nice to know the heads of IT are on top of this. Oh wait, you mean the head of IT, who got the virus on her home PC and I spent an hour clearing it from her PC. yeah, that head of IT
*sigh*
The Hate America First crowd is out front on this one. While we have increased our population in the past 10 years from 270 million to about 300 million, the USA has only increased its output of pollution CO2 etc about 2%. That is a per capita drop of about 8%. Now everyone reading this should also note that the US had NEGATIVE DOMESTIC POPULATION GROWTH so that while we absorbed much of the worlds population, we did not cause any of the problem and substantially cleaned up!
This is the best part about the post;if its true, which I believe so. (I've also heard statistics that the US uses the same amount of power it did in the 1970s... because even though we power more, we do it with less.) The nations that contribute the least per capita to pollution are the nations that are the most industrialized. Why? Because the greater the technology becomes in a nation, the less energy it will use due to more efficiency. Efficiency saves money. And companies in the business of making money will do it.
Every major appliance bought new in the US is something like ten times more efficent than the ones created fifty years ago. Despite the screams abot SUVs, they are still more efficent than standard size sedans of the sixties.
the problems of technology can only be solved by more technology, not by abdicating it.
thanks for the info.
What is 'competitive' behavior?
Here's what slashdotters want microsoft to be. they want it split up so that the real 'microsoft' is just office and windows. but any good executive will tell you, if you put all your eggs in one basket, you'll most likely fail in an industry like software distrobution.
Slashdotters want microsoft to stop bundling software. Since when is bundling products illegal? Just because a certain software company *cough* netscape *cough* sells a product, and only one product, and another company offers that product for free bundled with a software app you need to run the browser with anyways... well, its a no brainer.
The software world is evolving. No one wants to pay for tools to do all sorts of jobs. They'd rather pay for one app that does it all. As a matter of fact, that's why a lot of people don't make the switch: we hate having to install packages. We'd like it all there already.
So microsoft is bundling tools in their software that you buy. its no different than linux bundling free utilities for CD burning. Why isn't Roxio or nero screaming at Windows Xp for bundling CD burning right in the OS?
Or would you rather make us pay twice, once for the OS and once for the other software?
it is a lot like automation of equipment. People have to accept that business models change, and that selling individual software components might not be as profitable. there will always be a place for photoshop, etc... but probaly not for media player. I mean, I feel bad for the poor saps who invested 20 years as bowling pin setters only to be sold down the river by bowling machines, but hey, its not illegal.
The reason they're making it a sports car is so they can sell it! I mean, its fun to make it a sports car, but commuter cars have a huge disadvantage here in the U.S. Mainly, they look like they're for dorks.
I mean that will all due respect. They're funny looking. And the people with the most money to spend on cars are baby-boomers who saw a nation built on the automobile. Americans take pride in cars, which may not be the case in every nation in the world. To an American, a car is a status symbol, an emancipator (public transit in such a huge nation isn't always available), a work of art. It's hard to sell an audience like that on a car that looks tiny and goofy.
As an aside, I recently purchased a brand new car. I thought hard about what kind of car I wanted, and what I would need. I balanced fuel economy and size and functionality and performance. I bought a Subaru Impreza WRX. It gets 25 mph, is roomy, easy to park in boston, incredibly safe, and goes very fast.
I think in the future that as cars become more fuel efficent, construction projects free up more traffic jams (BIG DIG!), and alternatives become available, it will offset the pollution and road space problems.
You obviously didn't click around the site the article linked to, did you?
... set up windows to respond to 'single click' on shortcuts. As far as text, there should be a windows program that gives you a display keyboard and 'clicks' enter the text in the selected field. I mean, sure, linux is more customizable but its not as if windows is crippled. Just got to get creative.
They offer 7 inch LCDs that have a USB touch screen interface. All you've got to do (in windows, anywho) is set up some shortcuts to common links. (play cd in winamp, play MP3 collection in winamp, etc)
While I realize its an invalid comparison, this totally reminds me of the soviet-era tactics during WWII. If you didn't fight for the Red Army, the Red Army jailed your family.
The real reason for this, is of course, that parents will be scared shitless of having to pay $10,000 to $100,000 for their kids music transgressions. and since most older adults have less of a grasp on this, they'll get scared and prevent kids from going online.
``For me, it's a no-brainer,'' said Mollie Ingebrand, a puppeteer from Minneapolis who plans to go to Vancouver with her lawyer husband and 2-year-old son
Best. Article. Ever. A PUPPETEER? No wonder she wants to move to canada. you can't make a living being a puppeteer! If all we lose are freeloaders to canada, I say, let them leave.
maybe next they'll force computer manufacturers to offer alternative OSses on computers, to open up competition and lower prices
yeah, there's nothing that spurns competition like the application of force.
I always e-mail the president at president@whitehouse.com ... I never seem to get a response. But I sure do get a lot of spam these days... about naked ladies. I just don't get it.
When are people going to stop comparing 1's and 0's on a silver platter to stuff in a store?
Hmm. I bet if someone hax0red your Asheron's Call account and stole your character, You'd probably consider it your property and seek justice. Of course, if you could stop bawling about the years of your life wasted on it.
Candy bars are different in that they exist, but also because the method of creating them is virtually the same and the patent has long since run out. Meanwhile, creating a concerto (or even a hair-band rock ballad, *sigh*) requires hours of effort, gobs of money, and it belongs to the people who create it. They get to determine how its distributed.