you research the new techniques and tools on the Internet, and then they get you for using too much Internet time. You have your innovative solutions; however, you are fired for using the Internet to research your problem.
Then your job is outsourced to another country where they can work 80 hours a week for 1/10th your pay. They may not come up with pragmatic solutions, have communication issues, and hardly ever give the managers what they wanted, but they can get by because they work for less pay.
I've had coworkers who made major bugs that crashed servers and workstations and caused a lot of downtime. This is because they wrote sloppy code in a hurry and never bothered to check it. Management usually wants faster turnaround time on projects.
So your choices:
Plan A: Blame managers for forcing you to work under stressful conditions that lead to a workplace hazard (stress) that caused you to make the error. Cite that you had to work a lot of overtime and the lack of breaks and sleep caused you to miss a major bug.
Plan B: find someone like me who takes their time coding and have them look over the code and fix the problem for you. Sometimes another pair of eyes helps to find things you've missed.
Plan C: Go to work in flip-flops, a Hawaiian shirt, sunlasses and tell everyone you are on vacation. Make Pacman noises, and talk to your invisible friends. Claim insanity and see if that works.
I do not pirate Visual Studio.Net, in fact I am looking for alternatives to it. Possibly OSS projects I can use.
My PoS ISP is so unpredictable that I cannot even download the CD ISO images for Debian without them crapping out on me, even with WGet and other download helpers. So even if I wanted to pirate the mammoth VS.Net CDs, I couldn't.
I did join on the Microsoft Movie Review to get a free copy of VB.NET Standard Edition, but I haven't installed it yet. It was a promotion that Microsoft put out to review VB.NET movies and get a free copy of their VB.NET software. It is not for resale, but I am reformatting my systems every few months due to worms and viruses and spyware/adware and other stuff, so activating it and then reactivating it after a reformat would be difficult. Eventually I want to move towards Linux and get away from Windows. I am working with Linspire now, I paid $60 for the install CD and blew most of the money I had saved up on it.
you download a form, fill it out, and send it back to them. No online verification, and no electronic forms. I give it a thumbs down. Join the 21st century, Liberty Alliance!
They got socialized medicine, eh. Great hockey teams, eh. Back bacon, eh. You can learn and speak French, eh. When the US brings back the draft, you can hide in Canada, eh. Work for 40% less, and have a government that works for you, eh.
You can design web pages for Michael Moore, eh. He contracts out to Canada for his work, eh. Inbetween IT jobs you can always find work as a lumberjack, eh.
Using Adam Smith's (you do know who he is, right?) theory that a person is more productive at what they are efficient at, we can show a Production Possibility Curve. What is a main income of Canda that Canada can produce more cheaply than the US? Wood or Lumber, the Canadian economy can produce more lumber than IT services. The US can produce IT services, but tends to pay a high cost for them onshore, the US also produces less wood than Canada and at higher prices.
I was discussing macroeconomics, and you've switched the topic to microeconomics.
Anyway Canada has to decide how much wood to produce, and how much IT services to provide. This is a production possibility curve. I am sure, you being an economics student, that you are aware of such a thing. As Canada takes resources away from wood, it puts them towards IT services. I guess Lumberjacks are going back to college to earn Computer Science degrees? Since wood is a major export of Canada, and the more Canada places on IT Services, the less wood it creates. Canadas OC on Wood is cheaper than its OC on IT Services.
Now take India, the OC on wood in India is not as good as the one Canada has, but the OC on IT services is lower than the US and Canada. In India, IT college Tuition is free (paid for by the government), and India depends on IT services to grow its economy. A person working in a textile plant making towels has the same OC as someone doing IT services, about $200USD a month. The production possibility curve in India is quite different because of the labor costs. In Canada, a Lumberjack earns less than an IT worker, hence the OC for an IT Worker is higher. I am one of those 75,000 and I am doing the right thing by switching careers. Also the OC for making towels is cheaper in China, Thailand, and other Asian countries.
On a Microeconmic level, it sure sucks to be an IT Worker at this time in history. That was me in 2001/2002, and rather than whine and bitch and moan about it, I went back to college in 2003 to earn a Business Management degree, because business is booming. True as an IT worker my salary would have been higher, but at least as a manager I will be able to work and have a lower OC, due to the fact that IT jobs are scarce. Yet my potential to earn more as a manager as I move up the ranks shows I can earn a higher income than an IT worker. Perhaps I can become VP of an IT department and earn $200,000USD a year? I didn't qualify before because all I had was an IS degree and no business or management experience. So I am becoming an expert in business management.
Canada's opportunity cost is much higher than that of India, China, Russia, Thailand, etc. Hence another country like India would be more economical to outsource to. Until India's economy grows and then the OC is too high and the work is moved to another country.
I remember a software package for Windows 3.X called "Internet in a box" it included a Winsock program and a copy of Mosaic. It was very popular around 1994-1995, IIRC. I had a small business that sold it to clients to get them started. Usually they just downloaded Netscape 2/3 or whatever existed back then and skipped Mosaic. After Microsoft bundled IE with 95B (95 OSR2, etc) and 98, that package was no longer sold. Many ISPs had the Windows 3.X and 95 versions of IE on a CD ROM or Floppy Disks, the Win 3.X version had Wolverine or whatever the WFW/Win 3.X TCP/IP stack was.
people said the same thing about Video CDs and Laser Discs, that nothing could replace them. Then came along the DVD, using newer technology. In ten years, imagine a new disc that cost pennies to make and stores more than a DVD?
Or imagine you can download videos after paying for them on the Internet for less than the cost of a DVD and every media device in your house is Internet ready and your PC or router acts as a server using streaming video and audio to serve up video and audio to those devices. I believe Apple has a new Airport device that can play audio files to a stereo remotely that have been downloaded with iTunes. Imagine iMovies or iFilms from Apple to download movies or TV shows for $5USD a pop using the same technology as iTunes? Using a DVD burner you can make up to 5 copies, and using Quicktime streaming video your Airport device or PC or Mac can act as a server to a TiVO or other DVR device, or perhaps the AUX port of a TV, VCR, or other media device?
Since Gates said it, I imagine Microsoft has a plan to offer a cheaper than DVD technology in the next ten years. Perhaps their own media distribution company, seeing how profitable iTunes is and MS has the money to make deals with the Film and TV industry to use his video and audio formats. DMCA friendly, of course.
Apparently files are cheaper to distrubute than DVDs, just ask any Internet Video Pirate.;)
Apparently when the jobs for people using Microsoft software are let go, the corp still uses Microsoft software and does not switch to OSS. They simply cut costs by letting people go and outsource to other companies to develop software using Microsoft Software. This apparently is a fact, and not an assumption. The majority of the market uses Microsoft Software, and the companies that are using OSS software have cut costs in software costs, and have not been outsourcing or laying off to reduce costs.
Say I have 300 workstations running Windows NT 4.0 and I need to upgrade them to Windows XP Pro for $300 a pop. I also need Office 2003 for $600 a pop. My cost is $900 per system, or 270,000 dollars, ouch! Not only that, but I may have to upgrade the hardware, a new motherboard, CPU, and memory, $250 each (cheaper than a new system) or pay $500 for a new system and then reformat the XP Home and MS Works crap off and install the XP Pro and Office 2003. Let's go with the hardware upgrade, mkay? 75,000 dollars. A grand total of $345,000 each.
Then I need 30 IT staffers, an average salary of 50,000 each, for 1.5 Million Dollars. I need these people to reboot servers, man the help desks, and babysit the software and hardware glitches and hold the employee's hand when the software fails.
Total cost without tech support contracts of 1.845 million dollars for one year.
Or I could go with Linux and OpenOffice.org. Let's buy a commercial Linux package for $100 each and with it is bundled OpenOffice.org 1.11 or whatever the latest version is. $30,000 software cost. Plus I got tech support for a year with 300 licenses. Since Linux is stable and does not require modern hardware, I don't have to spend money on hardware upgrades or hire as many IT staffers. So I hire 15 instead of 30, and pay 50,000 on average for 750,000 dollars. My total so far is 780,000 dollars, less than a million. Now I need to train my employees to use Linux and OpenOffice.org, which costs $1000 from a local community college for one person, so I spend 30,000 for a total of 810,000.
Now I look at the.81 million verses the 1.845 that I could have spent, savings of 1.035 million. I can use that money to hire on more business people, 20 of them, at 50,000 on average each for 1 million dollars. I just employed 35 people verses 30. True, less IT people, but more people that can help earn the company more money and thus hire more employees. I save 35,000 dollars and give that back to the shareholders, etc.
I am a Business Management college major and I've done research that shows these numbers. Based on my research, Linux and OSS software is lower costing and also allows more people to be employed. Disclaimer, I made my money for the past 10 years by supporting Microsoft software and developing in Visual BASIC and other Microsoft development tools. I tried to do research to show Microsoft had the lower costs and created more jobs, but I found just the reverse. The past five jobs that I held I supported Microsoft Software, every one of them I lost. I know of many eople in the same situation, supported Microsoft, lost their jobs. People I know who support OSS still have their jobs. Go figure!
The first thing I would suggest is to patent that idea ASAP before someone else steals it.
The second is to write a business proposal to online companies to sell them on your idea and why it is better than MS Passport, KeyType, MyUID, and others.
So what is to prevent someone from creating a fake Yahoo or Hotmail mail account, and then using it to create a mail account somewhere else that requires email verification. Then use the other email which passes the free web email checks that other sites use? Once they got an account in your database, they can enter fictatious info, and repeat this many ways. If you filter by IP or subnet, what prevents them from using a web proxy?
People won't want to enter their SSN, and what about someone not from the USA, what do they enter? What about people who can generate fake SSNs, or fake passport numbers, or fake driver's licenses? How do you check for all that?
If you require them to enter a valid credit card number, what about those who do not have a credit card? Can they enter a checking account number? What if someone does not trust you with this information or they use fake or stolen accounts? Someone with a program that uses the same formula to check credit card numbers can reverse it to create a fake number that passes your check. What then?
The best way to deal with this problem is to change the software on the end of the service that is providing the content. Maybe trial users can only read so many pages, or get a ton of more advertising and pop-ups than if they had subscribed? Or maybe requiring the trial member to wait 3 minutes before a page loads, and show them a page of benefits should they pay to register? The trial registration, maybe, has a large survey that they must complete, so that creating a new account is going to be more trouble than it is worth. Also limited trial memberships will be issued to subnets per month. If a subnet has over a certain number, they must wait until the next month to register a trial. There needs to be a way to limit trial memberships to prevent abuse.
Isn't it ironic that Internet Explorer was based on Mosaic, an open sourced web browser? Isn't it also ironic that Microsoft used BSD TCP/IP programs in Windows?
Does Open Sourced Software kill jobs? Ask any Linux based web hoster if they killed any jobs when they chose an OSS operating system over Windows. Ask any Apache web server hoster if the OSS web server they chose killed any jobs. Notice that Linux and Apache software dominates the web servers out there according to Netcraft's survey. Thus we logically can conculde that OSS creates jobs based on the shear volume of Linux and Apache systems out there.
Notice that most people who get outsourced or laid off are Microsoft Software users. Thus we can logicaly conclude that Microsoft Software kills jobs.
So Bill Gates has it backwards, Microsoft Software kills jobs, not OSS.
Someone uses someone@somewhere.com and then someone else signs up for a month as someone at the somewhere.com mail server and has the ICQ password recovery email the password to someone@somewhere.com for an ICQ account saying that is their main email address. Other services could be cracked the same way.
I just use a Yahoo Webmail account, orion_blastar at yahoo.com and clean out my bulk mail folder every once in a while. I got 100M of storage and bulk folders do not count towards that storage. I also have a low ICQ number, that nobody has been able to crack yet.;)
People can reach me via my email or my web forum included in my Slashdot profile. Very few actually do.
I think I got like 6 fans on the whole Internet who like me, the rest either hate me, ignore me, or don't know who I am yet.:)
at that peroid of time, Romulans wore combat armor with helmets that covered their faces. The faceplates were one way mirrors with the mirrors being on the outside. This was done to terrorize the Federation of Planets for fear of not knowing what the enemy looked like. Think of their grunt troops to be more like Storm Troopers or Clone Warriors from Star Wars.;)
Ford makes a car, that if under certain conditions, explodes or the brakes fail, or the car suffers from sudden acceloration. Or perhaps the computer can be remote controlled to crash by some sort of exploit on the control system used by a remote control device? Suppose the car Ford makes is unsafe at any speed, burns a ton of gas, breaks down easily, and unless you are an Ace Mechanic or can take the car to a garage every other day, you cannot drive it. Imagine that the hood is welded shut and so is the trunk. Now would Ford be held accountable for any of those things?
that is just the prototype. The finished version might look a bit different. Sony also will improve on a different model as it did to the 8MM Handycam. Once Sony gets customer feedback, the Networked Walkman will look different, have more features, and cost less.
that if Apple is not keeping up with the BSD Unix development, that the BSD exploits that need to be patched, may not be patched quick enough in OSX.
Apple did the same thing with MKLinux, the development of MKLinux fell behind that of other Linux systems, and Apple was slow to patch the security holes found in Linux.
I would have posted this earlier, but due to moderation abuse, I was banned for a whole day.
My poor Amiga 1000 suffered a lot of abuse. A friend of mine, who we nicknamed "Hammer Hands", would pound on the A1000 keyboard as he used the computer. He would play Tradewars on it via a BBS, and the BBS was known to freeze up as it ran DoubleDOS or something and the SYSOP was playing Test Drive or something on the other side. Anyway this was an older version of Tradewars that required the "M" key to move a sector. So he would hammer away at the "M" key until it appeared on the screen. Apparently he thought it was the keyboard at fault, and would keep pressing "M" until it showed up on the screen. Finally it did and he had a whole page full of "M"'s. He would repeat this for weeks before I realized what he was doing. It eventually wore out my "M" key and broke part of the keyboard off! I had no money for a new A1000 keyboard and they cost a lot of money for a replacement back then. I couldn't use a PC keyboard, and I was still trying to pay off the A1000 and the warranty had expired. So I took a Christmas tree light socket and rigged it up to work for the "M" key, but it was akward. "Hammer Hands" refused to pay me for a new keyboard and still kept blaming the keyboard for not making the "M"'s so he could play his Tradewars. So I made do with what I had and set the "M" with a macro. Well the structual damage to the keyboard was worse than I thought, but it still worked. Then my brother had to make a phone call and placed a phone book on top of the A1000 monitor. My monitor blew out and I noticed the phone book on top of it, that covered up the heat vents! D'oh! Lucky for me we had a Commodore 128 monitor that worked in composite mode for the A1000, but the screen was fuzzy at 80 columns. By the time I had the money to replace the broken parts, I opted to buy a used 386 Clone instead of a new Amiga.
I did eventually buy a used Amiga 500 and used Amiga monitor, but most of my A1000 software does not work on it.:( Kickstart 2.0 apparently broke a lot of stuff.
With a 486 system I bought, I got a deal on a good new monitor from a friend who had a computer store. Only it shorted out. Turned out in Japan, the factory it was made in had a spider problem and the spider laid some eggs in some of the monitor parts before they got assembled. The wamrth of the monitor helped hatch the eggs and the little spiders got electrocuted in th circuits and shorted out the monitor! Good thing it was under warranty.:)
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is this the same Bill Gates that said Open Source kills jobs? Why is Microsoft adopting an Open Source technology then? ;)
you research the new techniques and tools on the Internet, and then they get you for using too much Internet time. You have your innovative solutions; however, you are fired for using the Internet to research your problem.
Then your job is outsourced to another country where they can work 80 hours a week for 1/10th your pay. They may not come up with pragmatic solutions, have communication issues, and hardly ever give the managers what they wanted, but they can get by because they work for less pay.
I've had coworkers who made major bugs that crashed servers and workstations and caused a lot of downtime. This is because they wrote sloppy code in a hurry and never bothered to check it. Management usually wants faster turnaround time on projects.
So your choices:
Plan A: Blame managers for forcing you to work under stressful conditions that lead to a workplace hazard (stress) that caused you to make the error. Cite that you had to work a lot of overtime and the lack of breaks and sleep caused you to miss a major bug.
Plan B: find someone like me who takes their time coding and have them look over the code and fix the problem for you. Sometimes another pair of eyes helps to find things you've missed.
Plan C:
Go to work in flip-flops, a Hawaiian shirt, sunlasses and tell everyone you are on vacation. Make Pacman noises, and talk to your invisible friends. Claim insanity and see if that works.
Plan D:
Start looking for another job ASAP.
I do not pirate Visual Studio.Net, in fact I am looking for alternatives to it. Possibly OSS projects I can use.
My PoS ISP is so unpredictable that I cannot even download the CD ISO images for Debian without them crapping out on me, even with WGet and other download helpers. So even if I wanted to pirate the mammoth VS.Net CDs, I couldn't.
I did join on the Microsoft Movie Review to get a free copy of VB.NET Standard Edition, but I haven't installed it yet. It was a promotion that Microsoft put out to review VB.NET movies and get a free copy of their VB.NET software. It is not for resale, but I am reformatting my systems every few months due to worms and viruses and spyware/adware and other stuff, so activating it and then reactivating it after a reformat would be difficult. Eventually I want to move towards Linux and get away from Windows. I am working with Linspire now, I paid $60 for the install CD and blew most of the money I had saved up on it.
now I have an IDE to learn in without having to pay too much money. When I get some time I will experiement with it. Thanks again.
The OSS community needs a decent IDE development application. I am busy with other things such as college, family, my illnesses, etc.
I am out of work, on disability, and going to college, I cannot afford to buy anything right now. Be it Visual Studio.Net or anything else.
So no, I am not willing to dish out $$ for an MS product, or any other company's product.
it would be great if they integrated with the Mono project and allowed the use of ASP.NET type tags to actually run almost the same code as ASP.NET?
Imagine PHP based C#, VB.NET, etc.
I was hoping for an OSS alternative to Visual Studio so I don't have to shell out the money.
you download a form, fill it out, and send it back to them. No online verification, and no electronic forms. I give it a thumbs down. Join the 21st century, Liberty Alliance!
"Warning slippery when sarcastic!"
They got socialized medicine, eh. Great hockey teams, eh. Back bacon, eh. You can learn and speak French, eh. When the US brings back the draft, you can hide in Canada, eh. Work for 40% less, and have a government that works for you, eh.
You can design web pages for Michael Moore, eh. He contracts out to Canada for his work, eh. Inbetween IT jobs you can always find work as a lumberjack, eh.
"Warning, slippery when sarcastic!"
Using Adam Smith's (you do know who he is, right?) theory that a person is more productive at what they are efficient at, we can show a Production Possibility Curve. What is a main income of Canda that Canada can produce more cheaply than the US? Wood or Lumber, the Canadian economy can produce more lumber than IT services. The US can produce IT services, but tends to pay a high cost for them onshore, the US also produces less wood than Canada and at higher prices.
I was discussing macroeconomics, and you've switched the topic to microeconomics.
Anyway Canada has to decide how much wood to produce, and how much IT services to provide. This is a production possibility curve. I am sure, you being an economics student, that you are aware of such a thing. As Canada takes resources away from wood, it puts them towards IT services. I guess Lumberjacks are going back to college to earn Computer Science degrees? Since wood is a major export of Canada, and the more Canada places on IT Services, the less wood it creates. Canadas OC on Wood is cheaper than its OC on IT Services.
Now take India, the OC on wood in India is not as good as the one Canada has, but the OC on IT services is lower than the US and Canada. In India, IT college Tuition is free (paid for by the government), and India depends on IT services to grow its economy. A person working in a textile plant making towels has the same OC as someone doing IT services, about $200USD a month. The production possibility curve in India is quite different because of the labor costs. In Canada, a Lumberjack earns less than an IT worker, hence the OC for an IT Worker is higher. I am one of those 75,000 and I am doing the right thing by switching careers. Also the OC for making towels is cheaper in China, Thailand, and other Asian countries.
On a Microeconmic level, it sure sucks to be an IT Worker at this time in history. That was me in 2001/2002, and rather than whine and bitch and moan about it, I went back to college in 2003 to earn a Business Management degree, because business is booming. True as an IT worker my salary would have been higher, but at least as a manager I will be able to work and have a lower OC, due to the fact that IT jobs are scarce. Yet my potential to earn more as a manager as I move up the ranks shows I can earn a higher income than an IT worker. Perhaps I can become VP of an IT department and earn $200,000USD a year? I didn't qualify before because all I had was an IS degree and no business or management experience. So I am becoming an expert in business management.
Canada's opportunity cost is much higher than that of India, China, Russia, Thailand, etc. Hence another country like India would be more economical to outsource to. Until India's economy grows and then the OC is too high and the work is moved to another country.
I remember a software package for Windows 3.X called "Internet in a box" it included a Winsock program and a copy of Mosaic. It was very popular around 1994-1995, IIRC. I had a small business that sold it to clients to get them started. Usually they just downloaded Netscape 2/3 or whatever existed back then and skipped Mosaic. After Microsoft bundled IE with 95B (95 OSR2, etc) and 98, that package was no longer sold. Many ISPs had the Windows 3.X and 95 versions of IE on a CD ROM or Floppy Disks, the Win 3.X version had Wolverine or whatever the WFW/Win 3.X TCP/IP stack was.
people said the same thing about Video CDs and Laser Discs, that nothing could replace them. Then came along the DVD, using newer technology. In ten years, imagine a new disc that cost pennies to make and stores more than a DVD?
;)
Or imagine you can download videos after paying for them on the Internet for less than the cost of a DVD and every media device in your house is Internet ready and your PC or router acts as a server using streaming video and audio to serve up video and audio to those devices. I believe Apple has a new Airport device that can play audio files to a stereo remotely that have been downloaded with iTunes. Imagine iMovies or iFilms from Apple to download movies or TV shows for $5USD a pop using the same technology as iTunes? Using a DVD burner you can make up to 5 copies, and using Quicktime streaming video your Airport device or PC or Mac can act as a server to a TiVO or other DVR device, or perhaps the AUX port of a TV, VCR, or other media device?
Since Gates said it, I imagine Microsoft has a plan to offer a cheaper than DVD technology in the next ten years. Perhaps their own media distribution company, seeing how profitable iTunes is and MS has the money to make deals with the Film and TV industry to use his video and audio formats. DMCA friendly, of course.
Apparently files are cheaper to distrubute than DVDs, just ask any Internet Video Pirate.
Sorry the community college cost was $100 and not $1000, it is a continuing education course on using Linux. I just noticed my typo after posting it.
Apparently when the jobs for people using Microsoft software are let go, the corp still uses Microsoft software and does not switch to OSS. They simply cut costs by letting people go and outsource to other companies to develop software using Microsoft Software. This apparently is a fact, and not an assumption. The majority of the market uses Microsoft Software, and the companies that are using OSS software have cut costs in software costs, and have not been outsourcing or laying off to reduce costs.
.81 million verses the 1.845 that I could have spent, savings of 1.035 million. I can use that money to hire on more business people, 20 of them, at 50,000 on average each for 1 million dollars. I just employed 35 people verses 30. True, less IT people, but more people that can help earn the company more money and thus hire more employees. I save 35,000 dollars and give that back to the shareholders, etc.
Say I have 300 workstations running Windows NT 4.0 and I need to upgrade them to Windows XP Pro for $300 a pop. I also need Office 2003 for $600 a pop. My cost is $900 per system, or 270,000 dollars, ouch! Not only that, but I may have to upgrade the hardware, a new motherboard, CPU, and memory, $250 each (cheaper than a new system) or pay $500 for a new system and then reformat the XP Home and MS Works crap off and install the XP Pro and Office 2003. Let's go with the hardware upgrade, mkay? 75,000 dollars. A grand total of $345,000 each.
Then I need 30 IT staffers, an average salary of 50,000 each, for 1.5 Million Dollars. I need these people to reboot servers, man the help desks, and babysit the software and hardware glitches and hold the employee's hand when the software fails.
Total cost without tech support contracts of 1.845 million dollars for one year.
Or I could go with Linux and OpenOffice.org. Let's buy a commercial Linux package for $100 each and with it is bundled OpenOffice.org 1.11 or whatever the latest version is. $30,000 software cost. Plus I got tech support for a year with 300 licenses. Since Linux is stable and does not require modern hardware, I don't have to spend money on hardware upgrades or hire as many IT staffers. So I hire 15 instead of 30, and pay 50,000 on average for 750,000 dollars. My total so far is 780,000 dollars, less than a million. Now I need to train my employees to use Linux and OpenOffice.org, which costs $1000 from a local community college for one person, so I spend 30,000 for a total of 810,000.
Now I look at the
I am a Business Management college major and I've done research that shows these numbers. Based on my research, Linux and OSS software is lower costing and also allows more people to be employed. Disclaimer, I made my money for the past 10 years by supporting Microsoft software and developing in Visual BASIC and other Microsoft development tools. I tried to do research to show Microsoft had the lower costs and created more jobs, but I found just the reverse. The past five jobs that I held I supported Microsoft Software, every one of them I lost. I know of many eople in the same situation, supported Microsoft, lost their jobs. People I know who support OSS still have their jobs. Go figure!
The first thing I would suggest is to patent that idea ASAP before someone else steals it.
The second is to write a business proposal to online companies to sell them on your idea and why it is better than MS Passport, KeyType, MyUID, and others.
So what is to prevent someone from creating a fake Yahoo or Hotmail mail account, and then using it to create a mail account somewhere else that requires email verification. Then use the other email which passes the free web email checks that other sites use? Once they got an account in your database, they can enter fictatious info, and repeat this many ways. If you filter by IP or subnet, what prevents them from using a web proxy?
People won't want to enter their SSN, and what about someone not from the USA, what do they enter? What about people who can generate fake SSNs, or fake passport numbers, or fake driver's licenses? How do you check for all that?
If you require them to enter a valid credit card number, what about those who do not have a credit card? Can they enter a checking account number? What if someone does not trust you with this information or they use fake or stolen accounts? Someone with a program that uses the same formula to check credit card numbers can reverse it to create a fake number that passes your check. What then?
The best way to deal with this problem is to change the software on the end of the service that is providing the content. Maybe trial users can only read so many pages, or get a ton of more advertising and pop-ups than if they had subscribed? Or maybe requiring the trial member to wait 3 minutes before a page loads, and show them a page of benefits should they pay to register? The trial registration, maybe, has a large survey that they must complete, so that creating a new account is going to be more trouble than it is worth. Also limited trial memberships will be issued to subnets per month. If a subnet has over a certain number, they must wait until the next month to register a trial. There needs to be a way to limit trial memberships to prevent abuse.
Isn't it ironic that Internet Explorer was based on Mosaic, an open sourced web browser? Isn't it also ironic that Microsoft used BSD TCP/IP programs in Windows?
Does Open Sourced Software kill jobs? Ask any Linux based web hoster if they killed any jobs when they chose an OSS operating system over Windows. Ask any Apache web server hoster if the OSS web server they chose killed any jobs. Notice that Linux and Apache software dominates the web servers out there according to Netcraft's survey. Thus we logically can conculde that OSS creates jobs based on the shear volume of Linux and Apache systems out there.
Notice that most people who get outsourced or laid off are Microsoft Software users. Thus we can logicaly conclude that Microsoft Software kills jobs.
So Bill Gates has it backwards, Microsoft Software kills jobs, not OSS.
that way using dummy email addresses.
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:)
Someone uses someone@somewhere.com and then someone else signs up for a month as someone at the somewhere.com mail server and has the ICQ password recovery email the password to someone@somewhere.com for an ICQ account saying that is their main email address. Other services could be cracked the same way.
I just use a Yahoo Webmail account, orion_blastar at yahoo.com and clean out my bulk mail folder every once in a while. I got 100M of storage and bulk folders do not count towards that storage. I also have a low ICQ number, that nobody has been able to crack yet.
People can reach me via my email or my web forum included in my Slashdot profile. Very few actually do.
I think I got like 6 fans on the whole Internet who like me, the rest either hate me, ignore me, or don't know who I am yet.
at that peroid of time, Romulans wore combat armor with helmets that covered their faces. The faceplates were one way mirrors with the mirrors being on the outside. This was done to terrorize the Federation of Planets for fear of not knowing what the enemy looked like. Think of their grunt troops to be more like Storm Troopers or Clone Warriors from Star Wars. ;)
Hey did I win a No-Prize or what?
Ford makes a car, that if under certain conditions, explodes or the brakes fail, or the car suffers from sudden acceloration. Or perhaps the computer can be remote controlled to crash by some sort of exploit on the control system used by a remote control device? Suppose the car Ford makes is unsafe at any speed, burns a ton of gas, breaks down easily, and unless you are an Ace Mechanic or can take the car to a garage every other day, you cannot drive it. Imagine that the hood is welded shut and so is the trunk. Now would Ford be held accountable for any of those things?
I smashed it and threw it away. I wanted soda, not some darn cell phone!
Just like that bag or all purple M&M's I got, or the chipless Chip O' Ohoys bag I got. Quality control for these companies must really stink?
that is just the prototype. The finished version might look a bit different. Sony also will improve on a different model as it did to the 8MM Handycam. Once Sony gets customer feedback, the Networked Walkman will look different, have more features, and cost less.
that if Apple is not keeping up with the BSD Unix development, that the BSD exploits that need to be patched, may not be patched quick enough in OSX.
Apple did the same thing with MKLinux, the development of MKLinux fell behind that of other Linux systems, and Apple was slow to patch the security holes found in Linux.
I would have posted this earlier, but due to moderation abuse, I was banned for a whole day.
:( Kickstart 2.0 apparently broke a lot of stuff.
:)
My poor Amiga 1000 suffered a lot of abuse. A friend of mine, who we nicknamed "Hammer Hands", would pound on the A1000 keyboard as he used the computer. He would play Tradewars on it via a BBS, and the BBS was known to freeze up as it ran DoubleDOS or something and the SYSOP was playing Test Drive or something on the other side. Anyway this was an older version of Tradewars that required the "M" key to move a sector. So he would hammer away at the "M" key until it appeared on the screen. Apparently he thought it was the keyboard at fault, and would keep pressing "M" until it showed up on the screen. Finally it did and he had a whole page full of "M"'s. He would repeat this for weeks before I realized what he was doing. It eventually wore out my "M" key and broke part of the keyboard off! I had no money for a new A1000 keyboard and they cost a lot of money for a replacement back then. I couldn't use a PC keyboard, and I was still trying to pay off the A1000 and the warranty had expired. So I took a Christmas tree light socket and rigged it up to work for the "M" key, but it was akward. "Hammer Hands" refused to pay me for a new keyboard and still kept blaming the keyboard for not making the "M"'s so he could play his Tradewars. So I made do with what I had and set the "M" with a macro. Well the structual damage to the keyboard was worse than I thought, but it still worked. Then my brother had to make a phone call and placed a phone book on top of the A1000 monitor. My monitor blew out and I noticed the phone book on top of it, that covered up the heat vents! D'oh! Lucky for me we had a Commodore 128 monitor that worked in composite mode for the A1000, but the screen was fuzzy at 80 columns. By the time I had the money to replace the broken parts, I opted to buy a used 386 Clone instead of a new Amiga.
I did eventually buy a used Amiga 500 and used Amiga monitor, but most of my A1000 software does not work on it.
With a 486 system I bought, I got a deal on a good new monitor from a friend who had a computer store. Only it shorted out. Turned out in Japan, the factory it was made in had a spider problem and the spider laid some eggs in some of the monitor parts before they got assembled. The wamrth of the monitor helped hatch the eggs and the little spiders got electrocuted in th circuits and shorted out the monitor! Good thing it was under warranty.