Thats a system that works pretty well if all your selling is Raw Materials. But if your selling manufactured goods your probably going to run into problems with that. Mainly it becomes more expensive to buy raw materials. And the domestic producers would rather sell to forigners because they get more bang for their investment.
Its more complicated then that. Your assuming that the person looking for the job wants to leave during a time where the employment rate is high. That attitude doesn't work in an environment where unemployment is high. During a period of high unemployment you leave your company and your out of work for an extra ordinary period of time. You quickly start to think a little differently.
I'm not one for loyalty to an organization. I have none. But promises made when it comes to organizations should be promises kept. But every other contract out there has consequences built in when the parties involved don't meet the agreed settlement. Stuff you can take those parties to court over. Employment contract an employee will sooner accept the crap put forward by his employee because that person stands to lose more by leaving. Especially during times of high unemployment.
It seems to me that an organization having to replace someone when they don't meet an employees expectations doesn't seem like enough compensation to the employee that leaves. Those employees are caught in a dilemma leave the company and possibly starve or stay and eat but not be very satisfied with your job. Employers can just put out an Ad and replace that person. Its not so easy to replace a job.
You have no idea how true that comment about the icons on their desktop is. I've personally talked to people who thought just that. Most of my customers are in that category.
I personally don't see unions as particularly bad in general. There is allot of good that comes of them as well. Most of the employee rights that exist in the work place today is because of unions. If your company offers medical benefits thats because of the fighting that unions did for that. Unions are actually excellent tools for management as well. They provide a check and a balance to make sure that junior managers are in line. If the union gets upset with the Junior manager then maybe that manager needs a talking to.
I see Unions as an excellent tool by employees to enforce an agreed upon contract. Right now in non union companies there are no mechanisms for that. The company can break the contract or redefine the contract all they want. Forcing the employee to find a job if they don't like it. That means unless its a contract position the employee has virtually no way of defending themselves from a company like that. They can either take the bad treatment or look for another job. In todays day and age workers shouldn't have to take such a major financial loss if the company they work for reneges on an employment agreement. At least unions stop that from happening somewhat.
I don't think the question of unions is that simple. People who say unions are inherently bad are trying to apply a simple solution to a complex problem. Just saying if you don't like it go find another job is not a solution. An employee has agreed to work for a company given a certain amount of compensation. If the company doesn't honour that agreement the employee should have the right to obtain the losses that he has incurred for his or her lost time. Not just say too bad so sad.
These days there are penalties for every contract out there if a company breaks the contract except employment contracts. At least unions do enforce that.
Ummm... The evil is called the Sony Root Kit. And the evil that they did with this is that they used open source software to infect peoples computers with this spyware. They also disabled peoples CD burners to prevent people from burning their DVD's. This is evil because they were trying to sabotage peoples computers so that they couldn't copy CD's. Its a case of the ends don't justify the means.
I'm tierd of the BSD people bashing Linux. Linux people don't bash BSD. We respect it. But BSD is not as easy to install, it takes longer to configure the OS to work as you want it, and it doesn't have as many drivers as Linux. Linux developers have put allot of work in getting hardware to work. Having an OS that only works on a small percentage of the hardware that Linux works and then saying oh this OS is better. Well the main point of having an OS is to get hardware to work and to allow people to use the software. BSD has been around longer then Linux. So saying their development process is better then the Linux process is accurate. I mean after all something has turned people off BSD. Why didn't people adopt BSD first?
I know how you feel. I do tier 2 tech support. These customers are the worst of the worst half the time. They are abusive and argumentative most of the time. I've had customers get mad at me because there 2.4ghz coordless phone is jamming the signal of thier wireless router. I've had customers get mad at me because their computer won't start. I've had customers get mad and blame me because their modem is fried because they plugged the USB coord into the Ethernet slot of the modem. (Yes it actually fits).
The policies with Time Warner can be as ludicrase as the customers. They are actually more interested in whether we say our closing script then whether we resolved the customers issue. I've seen huge changes in the IVR so that it takes us longer to get customers to the people who are going to be able to help them. One division the people down there refused to declare outages. So we started a policy of transfering customers as quickly as possible. That was meant to flood the division so that they would finally declare outages and we wouldn't have to trouble shoot known issues.
I've seen situation where the techs on the phone have told management that resetting a digital phone modem will disconnect the call. They actually didn't believe us. We had to prove it to them. I wonder how many customers they lost on that one. Some of the techs abused that one thats for sure. But afterward they came up with policies designed to waste even more of our time.
It seems the customers we get on the phone don't seem to understand it makes no difference to us whether they get online or get there connection working. We have our policies and procedures that we must follow. There are things that we are not ALLOWED to do and we have to refer them to another company or somewhere else. People don't get that. They try to push us to go out of scope all the time. We have to be very harsh sometimes with people just to get them to hang up. I once had a guy call and try 5 times to get me to do the same thing. I had to flat out tell him I'm not helping you with that 5 times. He then tried to manipulate me into assisting him. I had to tell him again. The problem was completely out of my support boundries and out of the support boundries of the company.
Customers when they are confronted with that can be very abusive. Especially when they know the company we are sending them to is going to charge them for technical support. Then it gets really ugly. YOU HEAR THAT NORTON AND MCAFEE. It gets ugly!!!
Wine is nothing more then Vaporware. In 13 years they have yet to implement a fully functional windows api. when they've gotten something working they've changed the design so it doesn't work. I wouldn't hold my breath if you are thinking that this project will ever produce anything worth while.
I've tried to file bug reports offer alternative solutions to them they have the same arrogance as Microsoft. They act like their users could have nothing useful to contribute in terms of an alternative solution. The problem with Wine is not that windows sucks its that the wine developers are unable to produce anything tangible. They often leave their users and testers in the lurch. When we complain they just brush us off as winers. It makes their users just go off and not bother to even try anymore.
Take for instance an issue that recently cropped up with OpenGL viewports. This was due to a major change they made to the X11 rendering engine in the code. They had a working system a year ago and they re-wrote it so it will never work. You may be able to get a game or two to work with this software but apps to do real development good luck. Rendermonkey will never work with the current implementation, 3D Studio max, and Maya will never work as well.
Its even questionable that office even works. I've tried with the latest version to get it to install. It doesn't. This is something that worked in previous versions that doesn't now. I've been frustrated with it and I'm not the only one. Its a big waste of time that will never produce anything fruitfull.
I think its better to just get Linux to work better then windows. Forget about Wine. Its Vaporware. It will never be anything but vaporware.
I just want to add one more thing to my comments. Barrier to entry is not the same as it never working. Having things that take a bit to get setup and then having them work for 10 years is a better solution then having to revisit the same problem over and over again. What you're doing is saying I'm taking too long to get this software setup and then saying oh windows is better. Sure its a short time to setup windows programs. But then you have to go back and set it up again a week or a month later. We discuss initial costs of getting started over recuring costs all you want. Your making a wrong assumption that the 8 hours that you spent getting the thing setup is time wasted. Its the setup process. Once its setup you never have to visit the problem again unless your upgrading.
In reality the Unix philosopy has always been that way. It takes a bit to figure out but then it just works. I prefer the Unix way of doing things over the windows way. It makes more sense to me. I find Linux easier to use then windows after 10 years of using Linux as my desktop. So the analogy of these people who have bashed Linux on this site are not accurate.
Hmmm... I see where your problem is and the expectations that you are placing on Linux is the wrong way to go when doing a switch over. Expecting every piece of hardware under the sun is unrealistic and its always been that way. Its not because of the Linux software though. Its because the hardware manufacurers don't fully support the software. So the better approach is to go with hardware that is known to work. It takes a little more planning on the part of an organization but the result is actually better. I must admit a new upstart is in a much better position to utilize and keep utilizing Open Source software then an already established company. Already established companies are going to run in to problems like getting new software to work like the old software. They find it painful. Its an unfair assumption to make. To get open source to work for you one must put the old preconceptions behind. As a result you may not have things working exactly the same. But you may end up with a better result. The package you want to use to get your scanner to work is called SANE. There are allot of unsupported scanners. So getting one that works with it is going to be the solution. What works and what doesn't is based on which manufacturers have published the information for getting it to work. So don't blame the project maintainers.
As for the other software issues that you face. There are fax servers available as open source software that can send out faxes for an entire organization. For faxing that software has been implemented. So that will work so long as your not trying to use a winmodem. Which again points to my previous comment that not all hardware manufacturers support open source. Personally I think you shouldn't look at what the software doesn't do. If you look at what the software doesn't do you will most certainly be disapointed. If you look at what the software does do then you may be pleasantly surprised. It all comes down to how you look at the situation. I've personally never had a problem with file associations. But I'm using fedora. You of course may have some files you may want to use that are not associated.
With Linux there are quite a few choices that you can choose from in terms of applications. Evolution is not the only mail program out there with Calendaring. Thunderbird also exists and so does various web based applications that may or may not serve your purposes.
With gnome as in windows you can always right click on the file and choose the application you want to open it with. So the whole file associations issue comes down to learning how to use the system properly rather then trying to make the system work the way it did before.
Has anyone ever wondered this. They aren't that popular anymore. I mean really. Macromedia flash is really taking over in this arena. Their software is problimatic, buggy and I can't remember the last time they updated there Linux version. Most people I know just use mplayer. So how does this guy stay in business.
Maybe its the movie industry paying him. hmmm... food for thought. Isn't the real player chopped full of security issues anyways and we really shouldn't run it on our linux machines? In any case he is the last person I would take advice from. DRM is useless. It will be easy to circumvent. However I don't like the idea of the big computer companies saying I can't re-flash my bios if I want to install linuxBIOS.
Ummm... Maybe he's not a native english speaker. Maybe the writer is from Japan and he is letting North America know whats going on. Your lack of Tolerance is quite disturbing. I don't want to talk to you anymore.
What? Your suggesting giving normal users modify rights to the Program Files directory to normal users? Talk about a security hole there. Linux allows you to log as root in a seperate session while your still logged in as a regular user. This allows you to do what you need in a protected session without such security vulnerabilities to the file system. Linux also allows you to install programs in the regular User directory so you don't have to log in as root and the security wholes are limited to one user.
Not knowing how to run programs in regular user mode fixes that security hole. Plus, most people don't know how to use regular user mode. Security is a mystery to them.
Hmmm... I think Microsoft should do this. Mcafee and Norton both suck. I speak from experience. The virus's I see on a daily basis easily get passed norton and mcafee. So I have no problem with microsoft publishing their own antivirus and anti spyware software. However microsofts current version of anti spyware software on their sight is a bit of a joke. And the upgrades that are built into IE end up masking the problem rather then fixing it.
Take for instance the new popup blocker in service pack 2. With this a user calls up thier ISP and they are asked hey are you getting popups on your computer. The customer says no because they have a popup blocker blocking them. So then the Tech has to waste time proving the functionality of a working service instead of pointing them to one of the packages that can save the customer time.
Didn't hey reject the the ram jet when they broke the sound barrier because it wasn't safe enough. Now they are revisiting the failed idea. Hmmm... Can't blame them for trying but it hardly seems like a practical technology.
At least the german government is going after the actual people who are pirating the music and DVD's in the first place. Not like the United states where they go after the people who make the software to make it possible to read a DVD. I think its a good law. It targets the right people. However good like in enforcing it.
People need to realize that piracy is not good for anyone. Companies who have to deal with piracy are less likely to hire more people if individuals keep doing this. I mean why make the product if you can't get compensated for it. Pay for the CD or Movie. Personally I'd rather a few bucks for a CD rather then support the habits of a software pirate. Then people wonder why it gets so tough to find a job.
Agreed... I'd say sony should pay the open source developers who's open source software they used to create the rootkit in the first place. I mean really they did use GPL'd software in a closed source application and denied the public access to the code. I'd say thats illegal as well. What about the developers who's software they ripped off. That rootkit hurt alot of their customers but the open source software was used for illegal matters. I think the costs of repairs, punative damages, and the cost of CD's doesn't cover it.
I totally find this hard to believe. I've been using Linux for 10 years. At any point in time I can install windows on one of my computers and get infected by spyware, virus's, or hackers. I've run my Linux box on the net without a firewall for months at a time with all the services turned off. No security breach. I'm wondering who funded that study.
Also just because there are more security holes found doesn't mean anything. Its easier to find security holes when you have the code available to you. But thats as much a strength as it is a weekness.
I'm still waiting for my rebate from IBM for OS/2 Warp 3 that I purchased 10 years ago. I keep going to the mail and looking for it but it doesn't show up. I wonder why?
Personally I think Rebates are underhanded. Best buy posts the rebate price in big letters and then the actual price is small letters on their shelf. Then you go to the counter and are shocked because you didn't read the fine print. Shopping shouldn't be this complicated. I recently returned a video caputure card because I got so mad at the store for employing such tactics.
Persistent state of applications after restart. hmmm... What a terrible idea! What if the app is messed up. Restarting the computer or the X server won't fix it. It only makes sense that you have to restart the X apps after restarting the X Server. Its the primary service that those apps use.
But I thought that linux swaps a copy of the actual library into the swap partition or memory when its loaded so the copy on the hard drive is actually not in use when the program is running.
I just want to add one more thing to my previous comment. I know what the policy is for Road Runner. If there is packet loss and your connections slow we send it up for tier 3. Most people are just too impatient to allow us to go through our trouble shooting guidelines. Which are rigidly enforced!!!
Hey I work for Road Runner. Thats a very unfair statement. The people at Road Runner work very hard to make your experience as good as possible. However, I'll say this we are abused alot by our customers.... You don't have to use the Road Runner website. Its an open connection to the Internet. No proxies, No firewalls. Most of the security that we put in place is to prevent spam, virus's and hackers. Yet people still wine and complain.
Here is how I see this whole issue. I find the people at the RIAA and MPAA very arrogent. They act like the only products that are worth anything are their feeble offerings to the communitee. The work done by the software industry as a whole has no value to them. Thats really arrogant. The fact is it took 15 years to build Linux. Thats more time then it took to write any of the songs and movies that these jerks are peddling. And the people of the Open Source community give away their work. Yet these people consistently try to undermine that generousity by trying to exclude them. Greed is exactly what it is.
I'm just going to take this chance to thank the Open Source community and the Linux community for all the work they have done. In my book you guys are the most generous and kind people in the world for what you've given to the rest of us. I wish you all great success in the future. As for those who oppose you. Suck it up and live with it.
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Thats a system that works pretty well if all your selling is Raw Materials. But if your selling manufactured goods your probably going to run into problems with that. Mainly it becomes more expensive to buy raw materials. And the domestic producers would rather sell to forigners because they get more bang for their investment.
Its more complicated then that. Your assuming that the person looking for the job wants to leave during a time where the employment rate is high. That attitude doesn't work in an environment where unemployment is high. During a period of high unemployment you leave your company and your out of work for an extra ordinary period of time. You quickly start to think a little differently.
I'm not one for loyalty to an organization. I have none. But promises made when it comes to organizations should be promises kept. But every other contract out there has consequences built in when the parties involved don't meet the agreed settlement. Stuff you can take those parties to court over. Employment contract an employee will sooner accept the crap put forward by his employee because that person stands to lose more by leaving. Especially during times of high unemployment.
It seems to me that an organization having to replace someone when they don't meet an employees expectations doesn't seem like enough compensation to the employee that leaves. Those employees are caught in a dilemma leave the company and possibly starve or stay and eat but not be very satisfied with your job. Employers can just put out an Ad and replace that person. Its not so easy to replace a job.
You have no idea how true that comment about the icons on their desktop is. I've personally talked to people who thought just that. Most of my customers are in that category.
I personally don't see unions as particularly bad in general. There is allot of good that comes of them as well. Most of the employee rights that exist in the work place today is because of unions. If your company offers medical benefits thats because of the fighting that unions did for that. Unions are actually excellent tools for management as well. They provide a check and a balance to make sure that junior managers are in line. If the union gets upset with the Junior manager then maybe that manager needs a talking to.
I see Unions as an excellent tool by employees to enforce an agreed upon contract. Right now in non union companies there are no mechanisms for that. The company can break the contract or redefine the contract all they want. Forcing the employee to find a job if they don't like it. That means unless its a contract position the employee has virtually no way of defending themselves from a company like that. They can either take the bad treatment or look for another job. In todays day and age workers shouldn't have to take such a major financial loss if the company they work for reneges on an employment agreement. At least unions stop that from happening somewhat.
I don't think the question of unions is that simple. People who say unions are inherently bad are trying to apply a simple solution to a complex problem. Just saying if you don't like it go find another job is not a solution. An employee has agreed to work for a company given a certain amount of compensation. If the company doesn't honour that agreement the employee should have the right to obtain the losses that he has incurred for his or her lost time. Not just say too bad so sad.
These days there are penalties for every contract out there if a company breaks the contract except employment contracts. At least unions do enforce that.
Ummm... The evil is called the Sony Root Kit. And the evil that they did with this is that they used open source software to infect peoples computers with this spyware. They also disabled peoples CD burners to prevent people from burning their DVD's. This is evil because they were trying to sabotage peoples computers so that they couldn't copy CD's. Its a case of the ends don't justify the means.
Darn straight. Anyone know where I can find a good programming job these days. I want to quit my tech support job.
I'm tierd of the BSD people bashing Linux. Linux people don't bash BSD. We respect it. But BSD is not as easy to install, it takes longer to configure the OS to work as you want it, and it doesn't have as many drivers as Linux. Linux developers have put allot of work in getting hardware to work. Having an OS that only works on a small percentage of the hardware that Linux works and then saying oh this OS is better. Well the main point of having an OS is to get hardware to work and to allow people to use the software. BSD has been around longer then Linux. So saying their development process is better then the Linux process is accurate. I mean after all something has turned people off BSD. Why didn't people adopt BSD first?
I know how you feel. I do tier 2 tech support. These customers are the worst of the worst half the time. They are abusive and argumentative most of the time. I've had customers get mad at me because there 2.4ghz coordless phone is jamming the signal of thier wireless router. I've had customers get mad at me because their computer won't start. I've had customers get mad and blame me because their modem is fried because they plugged the USB coord into the Ethernet slot of the modem. (Yes it actually fits).
The policies with Time Warner can be as ludicrase as the customers. They are actually more interested in whether we say our closing script then whether we resolved the customers issue. I've seen huge changes in the IVR so that it takes us longer to get customers to the people who are going to be able to help them. One division the people down there refused to declare outages. So we started a policy of transfering customers as quickly as possible. That was meant to flood the division so that they would finally declare outages and we wouldn't have to trouble shoot known issues.
I've seen situation where the techs on the phone have told management that resetting a digital phone modem will disconnect the call. They actually didn't believe us. We had to prove it to them. I wonder how many customers they lost on that one. Some of the techs abused that one thats for sure. But afterward they came up with policies designed to waste even more of our time.
It seems the customers we get on the phone don't seem to understand it makes no difference to us whether they get online or get there connection working. We have our policies and procedures that we must follow. There are things that we are not ALLOWED to do and we have to refer them to another company or somewhere else. People don't get that. They try to push us to go out of scope all the time. We have to be very harsh sometimes with people just to get them to hang up. I once had a guy call and try 5 times to get me to do the same thing. I had to flat out tell him I'm not helping you with that 5 times. He then tried to manipulate me into assisting him. I had to tell him again. The problem was completely out of my support boundries and out of the support boundries of the company.
Customers when they are confronted with that can be very abusive. Especially when they know the company we are sending them to is going to charge them for technical support. Then it gets really ugly. YOU HEAR THAT NORTON AND MCAFEE. It gets ugly!!!
Wine is nothing more then Vaporware. In 13 years they have yet to implement a fully functional windows api. when they've gotten something working they've changed the design so it doesn't work. I wouldn't hold my breath if you are thinking that this project will ever produce anything worth while.
I've tried to file bug reports offer alternative solutions to them they have the same arrogance as Microsoft. They act like their users could have nothing useful to contribute in terms of an alternative solution. The problem with Wine is not that windows sucks its that the wine developers are unable to produce anything tangible. They often leave their users and testers in the lurch. When we complain they just brush us off as winers. It makes their users just go off and not bother to even try anymore.
Take for instance an issue that recently cropped up with OpenGL viewports. This was due to a major change they made to the X11 rendering engine in the code. They had a working system a year ago and they re-wrote it so it will never work. You may be able to get a game or two to work with this software but apps to do real development good luck. Rendermonkey will never work with the current implementation, 3D Studio max, and Maya will never work as well.
Its even questionable that office even works. I've tried with the latest version to get it to install. It doesn't. This is something that worked in previous versions that doesn't now. I've been frustrated with it and I'm not the only one. Its a big waste of time that will never produce anything fruitfull.
I think its better to just get Linux to work better then windows. Forget about Wine. Its Vaporware. It will never be anything but vaporware.
I just want to add one more thing to my comments. Barrier to entry is not the same as it never working. Having things that take a bit to get setup and then having them work for 10 years is a better solution then having to revisit the same problem over and over again. What you're doing is saying I'm taking too long to get this software setup and then saying oh windows is better. Sure its a short time to setup windows programs. But then you have to go back and set it up again a week or a month later. We discuss initial costs of getting started over recuring costs all you want. Your making a wrong assumption that the 8 hours that you spent getting the thing setup is time wasted. Its the setup process. Once its setup you never have to visit the problem again unless your upgrading.
In reality the Unix philosopy has always been that way. It takes a bit to figure out but then it just works. I prefer the Unix way of doing things over the windows way. It makes more sense to me. I find Linux easier to use then windows after 10 years of using Linux as my desktop. So the analogy of these people who have bashed Linux on this site are not accurate.
Hmmm... I see where your problem is and the expectations that you are placing on Linux is the wrong way to go when doing a switch over. Expecting every piece of hardware under the sun is unrealistic and its always been that way. Its not because of the Linux software though. Its because the hardware manufacurers don't fully support the software. So the better approach is to go with hardware that is known to work. It takes a little more planning on the part of an organization but the result is actually better. I must admit a new upstart is in a much better position to utilize and keep utilizing Open Source software then an already established company. Already established companies are going to run in to problems like getting new software to work like the old software. They find it painful. Its an unfair assumption to make. To get open source to work for you one must put the old preconceptions behind. As a result you may not have things working exactly the same. But you may end up with a better result. The package you want to use to get your scanner to work is called SANE. There are allot of unsupported scanners. So getting one that works with it is going to be the solution. What works and what doesn't is based on which manufacturers have published the information for getting it to work. So don't blame the project maintainers.
As for the other software issues that you face. There are fax servers available as open source software that can send out faxes for an entire organization. For faxing that software has been implemented. So that will work so long as your not trying to use a winmodem. Which again points to my previous comment that not all hardware manufacturers support open source. Personally I think you shouldn't look at what the software doesn't do. If you look at what the software doesn't do you will most certainly be disapointed. If you look at what the software does do then you may be pleasantly surprised. It all comes down to how you look at the situation. I've personally never had a problem with file associations. But I'm using fedora. You of course may have some files you may want to use that are not associated.
With Linux there are quite a few choices that you can choose from in terms of applications. Evolution is not the only mail program out there with Calendaring. Thunderbird also exists and so does various web based applications that may or may not serve your purposes.
With gnome as in windows you can always right click on the file and choose the application you want to open it with. So the whole file associations issue comes down to learning how to use the system properly rather then trying to make the system work the way it did before.
Has anyone ever wondered this. They aren't that popular anymore. I mean really. Macromedia flash is really taking over in this arena. Their software is problimatic, buggy and I can't remember the last time they updated there Linux version. Most people I know just use mplayer. So how does this guy stay in business.
Maybe its the movie industry paying him. hmmm... food for thought. Isn't the real player chopped full of security issues anyways and we really shouldn't run it on our linux machines? In any case he is the last person I would take advice from. DRM is useless. It will be easy to circumvent. However I don't like the idea of the big computer companies saying I can't re-flash my bios if I want to install linuxBIOS.
Ummm... Maybe he's not a native english speaker. Maybe the writer is from Japan and he is letting North America know whats going on. Your lack of Tolerance is quite disturbing. I don't want to talk to you anymore.
What? Your suggesting giving normal users modify rights to the Program Files directory to normal users? Talk about a security hole there. Linux allows you to log as root in a seperate session while your still logged in as a regular user. This allows you to do what you need in a protected session without such security vulnerabilities to the file system. Linux also allows you to install programs in the regular User directory so you don't have to log in as root and the security wholes are limited to one user.
Not knowing how to run programs in regular user mode fixes that security hole. Plus, most people don't know how to use regular user mode. Security is a mystery to them.
Hmmm... I think Microsoft should do this. Mcafee and Norton both suck. I speak from experience. The virus's I see on a daily basis easily get passed norton and mcafee. So I have no problem with microsoft publishing their own antivirus and anti spyware software. However microsofts current version of anti spyware software on their sight is a bit of a joke. And the upgrades that are built into IE end up masking the problem rather then fixing it.
Take for instance the new popup blocker in service pack 2. With this a user calls up thier ISP and they are asked hey are you getting popups on your computer. The customer says no because they have a popup blocker blocking them. So then the Tech has to waste time proving the functionality of a working service instead of pointing them to one of the packages that can save the customer time.
Didn't hey reject the the ram jet when they broke the sound barrier because it wasn't safe enough. Now they are revisiting the failed idea. Hmmm... Can't blame them for trying but it hardly seems like a practical technology.
At least the german government is going after the actual people who are pirating the music and DVD's in the first place. Not like the United states where they go after the people who make the software to make it possible to read a DVD. I think its a good law. It targets the right people. However good like in enforcing it.
People need to realize that piracy is not good for anyone. Companies who have to deal with piracy are less likely to hire more people if individuals keep doing this. I mean why make the product if you can't get compensated for it. Pay for the CD or Movie. Personally I'd rather a few bucks for a CD rather then support the habits of a software pirate. Then people wonder why it gets so tough to find a job.
Oh man,
If you did that some of the bugs that have been in windows for 20 years would ultimately skew the results.
Agreed... I'd say sony should pay the open source developers who's open source software they used to create the rootkit in the first place. I mean really they did use GPL'd software in a closed source application and denied the public access to the code. I'd say thats illegal as well. What about the developers who's software they ripped off. That rootkit hurt alot of their customers but the open source software was used for illegal matters. I think the costs of repairs, punative damages, and the cost of CD's doesn't cover it.
I totally find this hard to believe. I've been using Linux for 10 years. At any point in time I can install windows on one of my computers and get infected by spyware, virus's, or hackers. I've run my Linux box on the net without a firewall for months at a time with all the services turned off. No security breach. I'm wondering who funded that study.
Also just because there are more security holes found doesn't mean anything. Its easier to find security holes when you have the code available to you. But thats as much a strength as it is a weekness.
I'm still waiting for my rebate from IBM for OS/2 Warp 3 that I purchased 10 years ago. I keep going to the mail and looking for it but it doesn't show up. I wonder why?
Personally I think Rebates are underhanded. Best buy posts the rebate price in big letters and then the actual price is small letters on their shelf. Then you go to the counter and are shocked because you didn't read the fine print. Shopping shouldn't be this complicated. I recently returned a video caputure card because I got so mad at the store for employing such tactics.
Persistent state of applications after restart. hmmm... What a terrible idea! What if the app is messed up. Restarting the computer or the X server won't fix it. It only makes sense that you have to restart the X apps after restarting the X Server. Its the primary service that those apps use.
But I thought that linux swaps a copy of the actual library into the swap partition or memory when its loaded so the copy on the hard drive is actually not in use when the program is running.
I just want to add one more thing to my previous comment. I know what the policy is for Road Runner. If there is packet loss and your connections slow we send it up for tier 3. Most people are just too impatient to allow us to go through our trouble shooting guidelines. Which are rigidly enforced!!!
Hey I work for Road Runner. Thats a very unfair statement. The people at Road Runner work very hard to make your experience as good as possible. However, I'll say this we are abused alot by our customers.... You don't have to use the Road Runner website. Its an open connection to the Internet. No proxies, No firewalls. Most of the security that we put in place is to prevent spam, virus's and hackers. Yet people still wine and complain.
Here is how I see this whole issue. I find the people at the RIAA and MPAA very arrogent. They act like the only products that are worth anything are their feeble offerings to the communitee. The work done by the software industry as a whole has no value to them. Thats really arrogant. The fact is it took 15 years to build Linux. Thats more time then it took to write any of the songs and movies that these jerks are peddling. And the people of the Open Source community give away their work. Yet these people consistently try to undermine that generousity by trying to exclude them. Greed is exactly what it is.
I'm just going to take this chance to thank the Open Source community and the Linux community for all the work they have done. In my book you guys are the most generous and kind people in the world for what you've given to the rest of us. I wish you all great success in the future. As for those who oppose you. Suck it up and live with it.