My favorite is when I'm logged in as the Administrator, when Windows says (paraphrasing) "you don't have permissions to do that". Well, then, why even bother logging in as Administrator?
I think Linux/Mac OS X/UNIX (read "interoperable systems") are already winning, it's just not obvious yet. It already has the attention of governments, and a number of Linux-desktop companies not only exist but haven't died yet. Even Sun is on the wagon with JDS, IBM puts it on mainframes, etc. OpenOffice.org's current popularity is just the tip of the iceberg. Once enough people realize that they can create decent documents and get real work done without lock-in to any company, it will "click" in their minds and the rest is history.
What frustrates me about these is that people actually BELIEVE them.
These are the same people who believe that a politician will solve their problems, that a car salesman really will save them money, and that the $5000 pre-approved loan offer they got is really a good deal (think of what we could buy with this and it doesn't matter that we didn't read the small print mentioning that stuff about 19% this and that).
Who knows, maybe it's a heat issue, or they simply feel that their existing line of PDAs is going in the right direction.
While the Clie PDAs are certainly nice, it would be a mildly entertaining to see Sony come out with a PS2-based PDA Cell Phone to succeed where the N-Gage couldn't.
We had ca 25% of our deathstars fail inside two years.
Enterprise-class drives come with a five-year warranty. A truly bad batch of drives should be purged by then, leaving the manufacturer to pick up the tab for replacement. Also, you cite having to replace a drive every two to three months, which is a pain but not as bad as patching Windows.
The same thing goes with the other parts in the XBox.
And through all this, Sony will probably devise a single-chip version of the PS2 and everyone will buy the DVD player that happens to have a PS2 inside rather than buy the PS2 that happens to play DVDs.
Why not even release a PDA based on a shrunk-down PS2 core? They've already got Linux on it.
How do you obtain identical models of drives from different vendors? Different lots from the same manufacturer, sure, but not the same models from different manufacturers. Or does Fujitsu sell Seagate drives, now?
You don't want your complete raid-array failing because to much drives fail because of a common problem in their hardware/firmware.
Also, you don't want drives failing due to unpredictable failures of unmatched drives failing to interoperate.
If there were truly a statistical benefit to mixing drives like you say, I would have thought the analysts and Sun, EMC, and IBM would have adopted this strategy by now. Or have they?
Why is it that Sun's drive model numbers are also specific to a firmware revision? Why are arrays sold with matched drives and why are patches offered to upgrade firmwares to know revisions?
How is it even possible to integration test sets of unmatched drives and have any notion of the long-term MTBF of drives with firmwares who have never met before?
Most people think differently than you on the causes of stagnation in your country.
Most people are stupid, too, but I won't try to make any statistical connections, here.
Most experts agree that Bush's policies are what's killing your economy.
Economies react in timescales longer than any four-year presidential term. If this is going to be a knee-jerk presidential blame game, Clinton's "war on drugs" is as damaging as Bush's "war on terror". This isn't Democrats vs. Republicans, anyway; rather, it is a matter of excess money in government breeding corruption that is compromising our future.
if you're looking for a career job, I don't think it's very fair.
This requires finding a career-oriented company and/or career, first. They are fairly rare, now, but this might reverse as people recover from the late 1990's economic orgy.
Besides, do you really want to work for someone who would do this?
If the employer was really bad, their behavior would cause attrition, which affects their bottom line. High turnover kills projects and businesses very effectively, because once it starts, it is very hard to stop until management fixes the root cause.
Also, "wrongful dismissal" sounds pretty bad, as if a person is somehow entitled to a particular job. If an employer is tempermental or a bigot, then they should be allowed to dig their own pit and rot there without anyone's sympathy, and employees shouldn't be forced in any way to sink into that pit, as well.
there's no expectation of privacy when you log onto a public chat board. just as there's no expectation of privacy should you decide to walk naked through a park.
But I'm invisible, dammit! Why is everyone staring at me?!? You're not supposed to see me!
The original Final Fantasy was a great game. There was something about it that made it much more engaging and immersive than most of the later Final Fantasies and most other NES RPGs, even Dragon Warrior. (IMO, of course)
But people still voted for him because he drives a pick-up truck, looks like a doe caught in headlights, and thanks the lord for his victory in Florida.
Bush Sr. on the other hand is a sharp cookie. I guess that's proof that it isn't inherited.
This "digital age" of debatable copyright is a new proving grounds for journalists and the media to build a reputation. They can choose a new path by retracting articles or modifying articles to attempt to revise history, but future history will cite these events as part of the downfall of journalism, history, and government. Alternatively, they can choose the straight path of preserving history and reporting current events with all the accuracy and lucidity that they can muster and be remembered as models of citizenship in the history books. Apparently, Time magazine chose the former path.
Otherwise, we're in danger of living in a fantasy world.
We already do. The level of average personal debt now-a-days is good evidence of this. Few people really know what their lifestyle costs, because it is spread out over the next six years. In six years, they'll wonder why they have no money, but they still get lines of credit to keep consuming.
I can't wait for socialized healthcare, because it'll take the free-lunch syndrome to new heights, and the USA will collapse terribly under so much debt from personal credit, wars, and socialized healthcare.
The fix to this is the fix people don't want to hear: live within your means and don't expect anyone to save your ass but you.
No, you mean to say, how to we keep people honest with respect to the WWW! It seems that popular culture right now is to inject corporation-bashing even when it is misleading to do so. So this article, while pointing out an instance of bad journalism, is itself bad journalism!
I think it really sucks that this trend of corporation bashing and anti-terrorism garbage is going to lead this country into a stagnation never before seen in the USA and only historically seen in the fiercest dictatorships. Do these people really know what road they are choosing?!?
This is where a lot of Hollywood's creativity comes from, from independent movies that get really popular.
IIRC, Apocalypse Now was basically paid for out of the pockets of the producers and actors. As in any industry, innovation comes from taking a risk. If Square are wise, they would have a tidy bank roll sitting somewhere to absorb the risks that don't pan out while profiting from the risks that do. If eventually they get crushed, then that's how business works (i.e., no hard feelings).
That's one thing I find very faulty with a lot of modern business and politics. Many people are very nostalgiac towards the status quo. Many people are afraid of change. Many people want to pass their responsibilities on to the government. This is the road to stagnation, BTW.
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My favorite is when I'm logged in as the Administrator, when Windows says (paraphrasing) "you don't have permissions to do that". Well, then, why even bother logging in as Administrator?
I think Linux/Mac OS X/UNIX (read "interoperable systems") are already winning, it's just not obvious yet. It already has the attention of governments, and a number of Linux-desktop companies not only exist but haven't died yet. Even Sun is on the wagon with JDS, IBM puts it on mainframes, etc. OpenOffice.org's current popularity is just the tip of the iceberg. Once enough people realize that they can create decent documents and get real work done without lock-in to any company, it will "click" in their minds and the rest is history.
That would make a great t-shirt to sell to people at conferences and trade shows.
What frustrates me about these is that people actually BELIEVE them.
These are the same people who believe that a politician will solve their problems, that a car salesman really will save them money, and that the $5000 pre-approved loan offer they got is really a good deal (think of what we could buy with this and it doesn't matter that we didn't read the small print mentioning that stuff about 19% this and that).
Why did you have to work over 24 hours straight?
It probably took one hour to apply the patch and 23 hours to figure out what it broke plus decipher the new EULA.
Send some penguins around the flank to get 'em real good in the 'security hole'!
Deliver 60%, make up for the remaining 40% with marketing, doublespeak, and lies.
Who knows, maybe it's a heat issue, or they simply feel that their existing line of PDAs is going in the right direction.
While the Clie PDAs are certainly nice, it would be a mildly entertaining to see Sony come out with a PS2-based PDA Cell Phone to succeed where the N-Gage couldn't.
We had ca 25% of our deathstars fail inside two years.
Enterprise-class drives come with a five-year warranty. A truly bad batch of drives should be purged by then, leaving the manufacturer to pick up the tab for replacement. Also, you cite having to replace a drive every two to three months, which is a pain but not as bad as patching Windows.
It doesn't mean anything.
For an organization with a very large number of deployed drives, it helps them estimate the number of spares they need for a given amount of time.
I don't think Microsoft is going to be a company that gets a devoted following...
Then how do you explain the roving masses of clerics that append MCSE to their names?
The same thing goes with the other parts in the XBox.
And through all this, Sony will probably devise a single-chip version of the PS2 and everyone will buy the DVD player that happens to have a PS2 inside rather than buy the PS2 that happens to play DVDs.
Why not even release a PDA based on a shrunk-down PS2 core? They've already got Linux on it.
How do you obtain identical models of drives from different vendors? Different lots from the same manufacturer, sure, but not the same models from different manufacturers. Or does Fujitsu sell Seagate drives, now?
You don't want your complete raid-array failing because to much drives fail because of a common problem in their hardware/firmware.
Also, you don't want drives failing due to unpredictable failures of unmatched drives failing to interoperate.
If there were truly a statistical benefit to mixing drives like you say, I would have thought the analysts and Sun, EMC, and IBM would have adopted this strategy by now. Or have they?
Why is it that Sun's drive model numbers are also specific to a firmware revision? Why are arrays sold with matched drives and why are patches offered to upgrade firmwares to know revisions?
How is it even possible to integration test sets of unmatched drives and have any notion of the long-term MTBF of drives with firmwares who have never met before?
When we show you that there is a machine of propaganda and censorship you get all uppity and stand blindly behind your commander in chief.
BTW, I didn't even vote for Bush. I'm not even Republican, so I'm not sure where this statement could have come from.
Most people think differently than you on the causes of stagnation in your country.
Most people are stupid, too, but I won't try to make any statistical connections, here.
Most experts agree that Bush's policies are what's killing your economy.
Economies react in timescales longer than any four-year presidential term. If this is going to be a knee-jerk presidential blame game, Clinton's "war on drugs" is as damaging as Bush's "war on terror". This isn't Democrats vs. Republicans, anyway; rather, it is a matter of excess money in government breeding corruption that is compromising our future.
if you're looking for a career job, I don't think it's very fair.
This requires finding a career-oriented company and/or career, first. They are fairly rare, now, but this might reverse as people recover from the late 1990's economic orgy.
Besides, do you really want to work for someone who would do this?
If the employer was really bad, their behavior would cause attrition, which affects their bottom line. High turnover kills projects and businesses very effectively, because once it starts, it is very hard to stop until management fixes the root cause.
Also, "wrongful dismissal" sounds pretty bad, as if a person is somehow entitled to a particular job. If an employer is tempermental or a bigot, then they should be allowed to dig their own pit and rot there without anyone's sympathy, and employees shouldn't be forced in any way to sink into that pit, as well.
there's no expectation of privacy when you log onto a public chat board. just as there's no expectation of privacy should you decide to walk naked through a park.
But I'm invisible, dammit! Why is everyone staring at me?!? You're not supposed to see me!
I really don't care about choice.
If you are a US citizen, you should be ashamed.
The original Final Fantasy was a great game. There was something about it that made it much more engaging and immersive than most of the later Final Fantasies and most other NES RPGs, even Dragon Warrior. (IMO, of course)
just how shockingly inarticulate Jnr is...
But people still voted for him because he drives a pick-up truck, looks like a doe caught in headlights, and thanks the lord for his victory in Florida.
Bush Sr. on the other hand is a sharp cookie. I guess that's proof that it isn't inherited.
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This "digital age" of debatable copyright is a new proving grounds for journalists and the media to build a reputation. They can choose a new path by retracting articles or modifying articles to attempt to revise history, but future history will cite these events as part of the downfall of journalism, history, and government. Alternatively, they can choose the straight path of preserving history and reporting current events with all the accuracy and lucidity that they can muster and be remembered as models of citizenship in the history books. Apparently, Time magazine chose the former path.
Otherwise, we're in danger of living in a fantasy world.
We already do. The level of average personal debt now-a-days is good evidence of this. Few people really know what their lifestyle costs, because it is spread out over the next six years. In six years, they'll wonder why they have no money, but they still get lines of credit to keep consuming.
I can't wait for socialized healthcare, because it'll take the free-lunch syndrome to new heights, and the USA will collapse terribly under so much debt from personal credit, wars, and socialized healthcare.
The fix to this is the fix people don't want to hear: live within your means and don't expect anyone to save your ass but you.
"How can we keep corporate America honest?"
No, you mean to say, how to we keep people honest with respect to the WWW! It seems that popular culture right now is to inject corporation-bashing even when it is misleading to do so. So this article, while pointing out an instance of bad journalism, is itself bad journalism!
I think it really sucks that this trend of corporation bashing and anti-terrorism garbage is going to lead this country into a stagnation never before seen in the USA and only historically seen in the fiercest dictatorships. Do these people really know what road they are choosing?!?
This is where a lot of Hollywood's creativity comes from, from independent movies that get really popular.
IIRC, Apocalypse Now was basically paid for out of the pockets of the producers and actors. As in any industry, innovation comes from taking a risk. If Square are wise, they would have a tidy bank roll sitting somewhere to absorb the risks that don't pan out while profiting from the risks that do. If eventually they get crushed, then that's how business works (i.e., no hard feelings).
That's one thing I find very faulty with a lot of modern business and politics. Many people are very nostalgiac towards the status quo. Many people are afraid of change. Many people want to pass their responsibilities on to the government. This is the road to stagnation, BTW.