Yeah but thanks to technology, now computers can fire people via email or fax. Downsizing can be done by having a computer randomly draw names from a pool of employees. Security guards are now replaced by robots, that escourt the former employees out of the building. The email or fax, explains why the employee was let go, and the reading of it signs the acceptance of the terms. If they do not read the email or fax, a security robot will explain to them, in a Stephen Hawking voice, the details of the email or fax. Everything is going to be automated some day, and very much maybe that day is here already?
For example, computers automatically trade stocks on the Internet, without any human intervention. Computer programs collect data and make decisions without human intervention.
Unless you call computers and robots individuals, which I doubt, humans can shift the responsibility to the machines. That is, until one of them, starts asking where Sarah Conner is.;)
Yeah, Sciencetology is really factual isn't it? Better pay up that $350,000USD to have them remove Thetans from your soul, so you can have God-like powers like John Travota.
First it was a new Doctor Who that quit after one episode. Hey a new Doctor Who! Now they bring back an old enemy, the Dalek, now with fewer weaknesses so it doesn't suck so bad. Who knows, maybe Daleks run Linux now as their core OS and have a better vocabulary now?
P2P has comments on shared files. Like "This file is fake, please stop sharing it and delete it" which tells P2P users to cancel the download, delete the file, and stop sharing it. I guess the fake P2P Hash company needs to write software to add comments like "This file is real A++++" or something into tricking people to download it.
Ah well, P2P users usually get that trojan that wipes out their hard drive that the MPAA and RIAA co-wrote to help wipe out Internet Pirates in the form of an self-extracting EXE file that has the trojan in it, but contains a bogus file to pad it to the right lengths.
Yeah Wikipedia is factual, read up on Xenu. Every word in it is factual, right? I'd rather believe the Sauron or Cabbage articles in Uncyclopedia than the one in Wikipedia for Xenu.
Plus Uncyclopedia deals with trolls, page blankers, etc much better than Wikipedia.
Uncyclopedia which seems to be easier to read, funnier, and more factual. I wouldn't use it as a source in writing college papers, but it is one of those "snort out soda through your nose to your computer monitor" type of Encyclopedias.:)
Do you mean the original show, or the remake? If the remake, I have no idea why people like that show. I mean it is really bad Sci Fi, they took a great show, and then just basically cut it to shreads and made a whole new show out of it with bad plots and even badder acting.
The only way the new Battlestar Galactica can get worse, is if they made it a reality show.
Why I am the King of the Internet, I appointed myself in 1995, after nobody else wanted the job. That is who I am to tell what other people want.
The short version of my BIO will explain in more detail. I believe you owe me some money from that Internet tax I placed on porn in 1995. Better recognize, and pay up, or you may find yourself Banned from the Internet. The green haired girl works for me, and I can have her ban you in an instant for posting to me that way.
There are PC models that run quiet as well. No need to buy a Mac Mini and pay more. Ever heard of the Nano-ITX form factor with brushless fans for power supplies? Not all el-cheapo PCs run enough racket to be heard in the next room, or take up a lot of space. Apple is not the only company to make a small computer.
We used to steal fingerprints and download retna scans from computers. Even at times, switching some rich person's fingerprints and retnas with our own on the computer network that stored them.
It was easy then to walk into a bank, close out an account and withdraw millions from their account after the biometrics of the fingerprint and retna scan showed our team member was that rich person.
Of course this was the Sci Fi RPG Traveller in about 1985 when we did all that. All it took was a computer skill and access to the network that stores retna and fingerprint scans.
We also found another way to do it without a computer. Contact lenses with a hologram of the victim's retna on them, and high tech "fake skin" gloves for our hands with the victim's fingerprints molded on them.
Keep in mind this is a Sci Fi Role Playing Game, but it shows how ID theives can possibly pull it off.
We've done all sorts of things in RPGs, been good guys, bad guys, neutral guys, etc.
Who wants to run Linux or BSD Unix on a Mac Mini? People buy a Mac Mini to be a cheap low-end Mac. They actually want to run OSX.
If they wanted to run Linux or BSD Unix, they could buy one of those el cheapo $300USD or lower PC Clone systems. In fact, this is something that Linspire counts on, selling their el cheapo Linspire based systems at Wal-Mart, etc.
The day you find people running Linux or BSD Unix on a Mac Mini, will be the day that Apple sells the Mac Mini sans the OS. The Chicago Cubs have a better chance of winning the World's Series, than people have of Apple selling Mac Minis without an OS.
BeOS was more modern than NeXTOS, and it didn't suffer from the Unix-like exploits or Unix-like flaws that OSX has.
Besides, Apple already had MkLinux, a Mach Kernel Linux, and didn't need to buy out NeXT or Be. They could have built the OS on MkLinux and then followed the OpenStep guidlines which are available to be public. Carbon could have been developed for MkLinux as well.
The only reason Apple went with NeXT, was to get Steve Jobs back, because Apple lacked in the management department and wanted to get back to its roots.
might be just the thing needed to warp space in such a way to create a worm hole. Before now, we never thought that could be possible. It opens up possibilities to such things as time travel, and space travel through the wormhole.
Sure, pay $100 for an OS that does not run the latest Windows applications, hardly has any applications it runs natively, has limited driver support, and it is an effort to revive an OS that already killed at least one other company. How can you go wrong?
On the plus side, it should have no malware available for it.
I think Mac support for BeOS was killed when Apple refused to release info on the G3 Macs to Be, Inc. Therefore Be targeted the X86 market, hoping to save the company that way, because that is what NeXT did. Only NeXT tanked and got saved by Apple, yet Be, Inc. tanked and nobody saved it, and Palm bought out the corpse and buried it, until this Zeta Zombie rose from the dead.
I think I'll take my chances with Linux, KNOPPIX/KANOITX seems to be stable enough, boots from a live CD, and has an option to be installed on a hard drive.
I mean unless most of the major OSS projects are being converted to ZetaOS/BeOS, I think you can forget convicing enough people to buy a copy to make it worth their while.
That is how my past three jobs have been, no respect.
Now side-work I do for people who need technical help, I get more respect at. It just seems the corporations I worked for treated me more like an object than a person.
Because they actually point to OSX virus examples that have been discovered and documented and classified as viruses.
Don't believe me, then find the infected files and run them on your OSX machine and see if they work. Chances are, you are already infected, if you have no virus scanner installed.
however, I am more concerned about people stealing my RFID code from the machines that read RFID tags. Those do not have a two inch range, and wirelessly transmit the code to a computer located elsewhere. All someone has to do is break into one of these devices to find the log of the RFID codes that are used, and then pick one to use for whatever reason they want to use them for.
I mean the RFID code is not encrypted, and it is only 8 bytes long. That is eight characters, and people can make a device that uses brute force to run through all possible combinations of 8 characters until one of them triggers a lock to open, etc, or perhaps from a list of RFID codes stolen from a nearby system they broke into and stole the codes from.
RFID codes can be stolen from RFID readers to use in passports, if passports contain an RFID chip. Who would think a passport is fake if the RFID code matches a list on a computer somewhere that someone stole the codes from?
What color is the sky in your world? People stopped using ethics long ago. Very few of us are left that even bother to follow a code of ethics. We are made fun of for doing so.
and thus violates what the market economy stands for. Apple has made sure that nobody can make a computer that can run their OS, not by technology, etc, but by making the EULA state that OSX can only be run on Apple-Labeled systems.
Even Microsoft is not so controlling in their EULA. Allowing the OS to be run in emulators, etc, as long as you paid for a copy of it.
CherryOS breaks the EULA, and might land them in trouble with Apple. Apple, apparently, can afford better lawyers than PearPC can. Yet CherryOS is not a treat to Apple yet, as it runs OSX very slow and does not give much of an advantage over an Apple-Labeled system.
What needs to be done is make an OS, or an environment for an OS that is able to use the API of Cocoa, Carbon, Aqua, and other elements of OSX. Maybe write this for Linux, so it can run OSX applications on a PowerPC platform, and run OSX under emulation on a X86 or Non-PowerPC platform. Call it WINEMAC or MACWINE or LINMAC or whatever.
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Yeah but thanks to technology, now computers can fire people via email or fax. Downsizing can be done by having a computer randomly draw names from a pool of employees. Security guards are now replaced by robots, that escourt the former employees out of the building. The email or fax, explains why the employee was let go, and the reading of it signs the acceptance of the terms. If they do not read the email or fax, a security robot will explain to them, in a Stephen Hawking voice, the details of the email or fax. Everything is going to be automated some day, and very much maybe that day is here already?
;)
For example, computers automatically trade stocks on the Internet, without any human intervention. Computer programs collect data and make decisions without human intervention.
Unless you call computers and robots individuals, which I doubt, humans can shift the responsibility to the machines. That is, until one of them, starts asking where Sarah Conner is.
Yeah, Sciencetology is really factual isn't it? Better pay up that $350,000USD to have them remove Thetans from your soul, so you can have God-like powers like John Travota.
First it was a new Doctor Who that quit after one episode. Hey a new Doctor Who! Now they bring back an old enemy, the Dalek, now with fewer weaknesses so it doesn't suck so bad. Who knows, maybe Daleks run Linux now as their core OS and have a better vocabulary now?
P2P has comments on shared files. Like "This file is fake, please stop sharing it and delete it" which tells P2P users to cancel the download, delete the file, and stop sharing it. I guess the fake P2P Hash company needs to write software to add comments like "This file is real A++++" or something into tricking people to download it.
Ah well, P2P users usually get that trojan that wipes out their hard drive that the MPAA and RIAA co-wrote to help wipe out Internet Pirates in the form of an self-extracting EXE file that has the trojan in it, but contains a bogus file to pad it to the right lengths.
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
;)
I can link to things too.
Yeah Wikipedia is factual, read up on Xenu. Every word in it is factual, right? I'd rather believe the Sauron or Cabbage articles in Uncyclopedia than the one in Wikipedia for Xenu.
Plus Uncyclopedia deals with trolls, page blankers, etc much better than Wikipedia.
I guess the word Uncyclopedia does not tell you anything about the web site, does it?
Either that, or you were born without a sense of humor.
Uncyclopedia which seems to be easier to read, funnier, and more factual. I wouldn't use it as a source in writing college papers, but it is one of those "snort out soda through your nose to your computer monitor" type of Encyclopedias. :)
"Arthur doesn't know" by Zaphod and Trillian is my favorite ringtone.
Do you mean the original show, or the remake? If the remake, I have no idea why people like that show. I mean it is really bad Sci Fi, they took a great show, and then just basically cut it to shreads and made a whole new show out of it with bad plots and even badder acting.
The only way the new Battlestar Galactica can get worse, is if they made it a reality show.
The short version of my BIO will explain in more detail. I believe you owe me some money from that Internet tax I placed on porn in 1995. Better recognize, and pay up, or you may find yourself Banned from the Internet. The green haired girl works for me, and I can have her ban you in an instant for posting to me that way.
There are PC models that run quiet as well. No need to buy a Mac Mini and pay more. Ever heard of the Nano-ITX form factor with brushless fans for power supplies? Not all el-cheapo PCs run enough racket to be heard in the next room, or take up a lot of space. Apple is not the only company to make a small computer.
We used to steal fingerprints and download retna scans from computers. Even at times, switching some rich person's fingerprints and retnas with our own on the computer network that stored them.
It was easy then to walk into a bank, close out an account and withdraw millions from their account after the biometrics of the fingerprint and retna scan showed our team member was that rich person.
Of course this was the Sci Fi RPG Traveller in about 1985 when we did all that. All it took was a computer skill and access to the network that stores retna and fingerprint scans.
We also found another way to do it without a computer. Contact lenses with a hologram of the victim's retna on them, and high tech "fake skin" gloves for our hands with the victim's fingerprints molded on them.
Keep in mind this is a Sci Fi Role Playing Game, but it shows how ID theives can possibly pull it off.
We've done all sorts of things in RPGs, been good guys, bad guys, neutral guys, etc.
Who wants to run Linux or BSD Unix on a Mac Mini? People buy a Mac Mini to be a cheap low-end Mac. They actually want to run OSX.
If they wanted to run Linux or BSD Unix, they could buy one of those el cheapo $300USD or lower PC Clone systems. In fact, this is something that Linspire counts on, selling their el cheapo Linspire based systems at Wal-Mart, etc.
The day you find people running Linux or BSD Unix on a Mac Mini, will be the day that Apple sells the Mac Mini sans the OS. The Chicago Cubs have a better chance of winning the World's Series, than people have of Apple selling Mac Minis without an OS.
Computer Hacks you!
I guess so, but Yellowtab does not have anything behind it like Apple had, like an established marketshare, and 50+ million users, niche market, etc.
BeOS was more modern than NeXTOS, and it didn't suffer from the Unix-like exploits or Unix-like flaws that OSX has.
Besides, Apple already had MkLinux, a Mach Kernel Linux, and didn't need to buy out NeXT or Be. They could have built the OS on MkLinux and then followed the OpenStep guidlines which are available to be public. Carbon could have been developed for MkLinux as well.
The only reason Apple went with NeXT, was to get Steve Jobs back, because Apple lacked in the management department and wanted to get back to its roots.
might be just the thing needed to warp space in such a way to create a worm hole. Before now, we never thought that could be possible. It opens up possibilities to such things as time travel, and space travel through the wormhole.
That is, if this theory is true.
Sure, pay $100 for an OS that does not run the latest Windows applications, hardly has any applications it runs natively, has limited driver support, and it is an effort to revive an OS that already killed at least one other company. How can you go wrong?
On the plus side, it should have no malware available for it.
I think Mac support for BeOS was killed when Apple refused to release info on the G3 Macs to Be, Inc. Therefore Be targeted the X86 market, hoping to save the company that way, because that is what NeXT did. Only NeXT tanked and got saved by Apple, yet Be, Inc. tanked and nobody saved it, and Palm bought out the corpse and buried it, until this Zeta Zombie rose from the dead.
I think I'll take my chances with Linux, KNOPPIX/KANOITX seems to be stable enough, boots from a live CD, and has an option to be installed on a hard drive.
I mean unless most of the major OSS projects are being converted to ZetaOS/BeOS, I think you can forget convicing enough people to buy a copy to make it worth their while.
That is how my past three jobs have been, no respect.
Now side-work I do for people who need technical help, I get more respect at. It just seems the corporations I worked for treated me more like an object than a person.
Because they actually point to OSX virus examples that have been discovered and documented and classified as viruses.
Don't believe me, then find the infected files and run them on your OSX machine and see if they work. Chances are, you are already infected, if you have no virus scanner installed.
however, I am more concerned about people stealing my RFID code from the machines that read RFID tags. Those do not have a two inch range, and wirelessly transmit the code to a computer located elsewhere. All someone has to do is break into one of these devices to find the log of the RFID codes that are used, and then pick one to use for whatever reason they want to use them for.
I mean the RFID code is not encrypted, and it is only 8 bytes long. That is eight characters, and people can make a device that uses brute force to run through all possible combinations of 8 characters until one of them triggers a lock to open, etc, or perhaps from a list of RFID codes stolen from a nearby system they broke into and stole the codes from.
RFID codes can be stolen from RFID readers to use in passports, if passports contain an RFID chip. Who would think a passport is fake if the RFID code matches a list on a computer somewhere that someone stole the codes from?
What color is the sky in your world? People stopped using ethics long ago. Very few of us are left that even bother to follow a code of ethics. We are made fun of for doing so.
it already has been thought of.
Just hope nobody steals it from you.
and thus violates what the market economy stands for. Apple has made sure that nobody can make a computer that can run their OS, not by technology, etc, but by making the EULA state that OSX can only be run on Apple-Labeled systems.
Even Microsoft is not so controlling in their EULA. Allowing the OS to be run in emulators, etc, as long as you paid for a copy of it.
CherryOS breaks the EULA, and might land them in trouble with Apple. Apple, apparently, can afford better lawyers than PearPC can. Yet CherryOS is not a treat to Apple yet, as it runs OSX very slow and does not give much of an advantage over an Apple-Labeled system.
What needs to be done is make an OS, or an environment for an OS that is able to use the API of Cocoa, Carbon, Aqua, and other elements of OSX. Maybe write this for Linux, so it can run OSX applications on a PowerPC platform, and run OSX under emulation on a X86 or Non-PowerPC platform. Call it WINEMAC or MACWINE or LINMAC or whatever.