They spent the entire time telling how LIVE everything was, but the during the commerical time-outs the preview for the next segment hinted to what was next. Either someone had some really good forshadowing or it was all BS.
Apparently it was important enough for the consumer to take the effort and purchase whatever product. Why should we assume they not take the effort to learn about what they purchased?
Recipe- If I planned on cooking(which I don't), I would probably read or browse a cookbook to figure out what the hell I'm doing.
Clothing- I almost always try on what I buy before hand. Isn't that RTFM the clothing?
Fine Art- If I had the cash to purchase it, wouldn't I research enough, so I don't spend a half a million on some crap that got copied from Kinkos?
I don't think it's too much to ask consumers to pull their head out and think.
No offense, but come back when you are 26 or 36. You haven't been in the job market long enough to see what employers need to realize. Employers realize a lot, and most of it is not how the crappy PA music bothers you. In the perfect happy world, employers would go much further to make sure everyone is treated well, but it isn't going to happen. Time as well and crys of unfairness basicly prevent that.
Now hence you think, I'm biased, I am the network admin at my company and I have a few mp3s on my machine. Not gigs but enough to tune out when I feel the need. If my boss walked into my office today and said delete them or else, I'd delete them and bring my Rio in the next day.
Maybe Tivo realizes that endless fighting against geeks isn't in their best interest and who knows, someone may come up with features they hadn't thought of. Cheap R&D indeed.
Try sitting on AT&T's network. Our company webservers get probed atleast a dozen times a day from Nimba. 99% of them are addresses registered within AT&T.
But look at it this way. Every time a manager walks into someones office, they see that person minimize everything. This continues to go on for months. Eventually management wants to know why people are hiding what they are doing.
So what would you propose instead? A press conference to say "you bastards"? If someone is willing to go so far as to use those types of weapons the only thing that will get their attention is a severe action.
Appease didn't work with Hilter, it won't work with many of the other radicals out there.
I think Mediacom is/was using @home backbone. They have a blurb on their website talking about the case and that they currently are still up. I'm on mediacom in Cedar Rapids and it's still working.
Like your name you are full of shit. You think NT admins suck because you have already decided that the OS they work on is crap, so they must be crap also.
Any OS is only as good as the person administering it. Any OS.
Why would anyone compare a senior unix admin vs. junior NT admin? If you are going to make a point atleast compare oranges and oranges.
The biggest gripe I have with Dell support is they lump personal and business support as the same. I called with a desktop at work that had a bad power supply. The moron had wanted to do all the standard dumb things like re-seed the video card. I told him about a 20 times, I'm not Joe User, I know the problem, just get your ass out here and replace it.
I can see this being applicable in many different areas. I watched last night a thing on 60 Minutes about biotech companies actually applying for patents on genes(of all things). Then hospitals(and eventually consumers) are being charged to test for that gene.
This would force those companies to allow hospitals to get a "bulk" rate and test people. It would also allow researchers to test cures for those diseases.
I have just finished recently rolling out a web-usage monitoring system. I spent a lot of time trying to strike a balance as to what information was necessary and what was invasion. I decided to set up reports to each supervisor sorted as such:
User
Internet Catergory
Duration
By doing this, we allow management to see what employees are doing with their time while hiding the specific URL. I think this balances the pros and cons as well as possible. So now when a supervisor gets his/her report, it shows User A spent 35 minutes on a "Health" site, but doesn't disclose whether that site is www.pfizer.com or www.fitness.com
I realize it would be more overhead, but why not use something like us.kids and fr.kids to separate countries. It wouldn't stop garbage within each, but might make it easier to limit access to a certain country. All and all, this seems unenforcable and aimed at the US more than anywhere else.
Iowa's Attorney General, Tom Miller, is one of the main players that brought the states suit against Microsoft. This guy has been all over companies that do any business in Iowa from fraud to unfair business practices. It will be interesting to see how this will play out.
Iowa is very important to the Bush for the next election and he has already stated such. Tom Miller is very popular in the state and I've seen polls that most of the states population agree with the stances he has taken against companies in Iowa.
If things drag on, it will be interesting to see the White House's reaction to things if other states drop out or if Miller tries to increase pressure on Microsoft or Bush himself.
Have you seen how icons are put on the desktop of the average OEM computer? They cram about a dozen of them on there anyway. So now the average user just has to look harder to find IE as it's icon has been replaced by an icon that Dell sold to someone for advertising.
Many businesses start by formatting the HD also, so they never see the desktop.
I see comments about the average joe using.NET regardless. MS should be more worried about businesses and whether they see this is a potential problem.
The average joe is usually atleast 2-3 years behind the curve technologicly, while businesses are much closer. For Microsoft's bottom line they need companies to move to this as soon as it's available. Large business purchasing drive their revenue not Joe Schmo and his 9x box.
You can already see them positioning themselves to force everyone that way. If John Q. Admin looks at MS and sees nothing but problems and service outages they will either postpone moving towards.NET until it's "stable" or look to move to different platforms.
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They spent the entire time telling how LIVE everything was, but the during the commerical time-outs the preview for the next segment hinted to what was next. Either someone had some really good forshadowing or it was all BS.
Either you are trolling or haven't a clue.
Apparently it was important enough for the consumer to take the effort and purchase whatever product. Why should we assume they not take the effort to learn about what they purchased?
Recipe- If I planned on cooking(which I don't), I would probably read or browse a cookbook to figure out what the hell I'm doing.
Clothing- I almost always try on what I buy before hand. Isn't that RTFM the clothing?
Fine Art- If I had the cash to purchase it, wouldn't I research enough, so I don't spend a half a million on some crap that got copied from Kinkos?
I don't think it's too much to ask consumers to pull their head out and think.
I really doubt they have off-site backups. Me thinks the DEA would love that.
Why not benchmark Quake3 and Doom3? Maybe it's just me, but I'd prefer my video card have the capability to run both openGL and Dx.
No offense, but come back when you are 26 or 36. You haven't been in the job market long enough to see what employers need to realize. Employers realize a lot, and most of it is not how the crappy PA music bothers you. In the perfect happy world, employers would go much further to make sure everyone is treated well, but it isn't going to happen. Time as well and crys of unfairness basicly prevent that.
Now hence you think, I'm biased, I am the network admin at my company and I have a few mp3s on my machine. Not gigs but enough to tune out when I feel the need. If my boss walked into my office today and said delete them or else, I'd delete them and bring my Rio in the next day.
Maybe Tivo realizes that endless fighting against geeks isn't in their best interest and who knows, someone may come up with features they hadn't thought of. Cheap R&D indeed.
Try sitting on AT&T's network. Our company webservers get probed atleast a dozen times a day from Nimba. 99% of them are addresses registered within AT&T.
As long as I'm spending 10-12 hours a day to manage, until my employer comes with security to remove me, it's MY network.
But look at it this way. Every time a manager walks into someones office, they see that person minimize everything. This continues to go on for months. Eventually management wants to know why people are hiding what they are doing.
So what would you propose instead? A press conference to say "you bastards"? If someone is willing to go so far as to use those types of weapons the only thing that will get their attention is a severe action.
Appease didn't work with Hilter, it won't work with many of the other radicals out there.
If you are selling or offering me something I didn't ask for, you are spam. Done.
I think Mediacom is/was using @home backbone. They have a blurb on their website talking about the case and that they currently are still up. I'm on mediacom in Cedar Rapids and it's still working.
Like your name you are full of shit. You think NT admins suck because you have already decided that the OS they work on is crap, so they must be crap also.
Any OS is only as good as the person administering it. Any OS.
Why would anyone compare a senior unix admin vs. junior NT admin? If you are going to make a point atleast compare oranges and oranges.
The biggest gripe I have with Dell support is they lump personal and business support as the same. I called with a desktop at work that had a bad power supply. The moron had wanted to do all the standard dumb things like re-seed the video card. I told him about a 20 times, I'm not Joe User, I know the problem, just get your ass out here and replace it.
http://www.senate.gov/~commerce/members.htm
Here are the members of the committee. Write all of them.
This would force those companies to allow hospitals to get a "bulk" rate and test people. It would also allow researchers to test cures for those diseases.
- Duration
By doing this, we allow management to see what employees are doing with their time while hiding the specific URL. I think this balances the pros and cons as well as possible. So now when a supervisor gets his/her report, it shows User A spent 35 minutes on a "Health" site, but doesn't disclose whether that site is www.pfizer.com or www.fitness.com"Hey, what is that midget doing with that arrow, OW........."
I realize it would be more overhead, but why not use something like us.kids and fr.kids to separate countries. It wouldn't stop garbage within each, but might make it easier to limit access to a certain country. All and all, this seems unenforcable and aimed at the US more than anywhere else.
Iowa is very important to the Bush for the next election and he has already stated such. Tom Miller is very popular in the state and I've seen polls that most of the states population agree with the stances he has taken against companies in Iowa.
If things drag on, it will be interesting to see the White House's reaction to things if other states drop out or if Miller tries to increase pressure on Microsoft or Bush himself.
Have you seen how icons are put on the desktop of the average OEM computer? They cram about a dozen of them on there anyway. So now the average user just has to look harder to find IE as it's icon has been replaced by an icon that Dell sold to someone for advertising. Many businesses start by formatting the HD also, so they never see the desktop.
Nuclear Inventory for Dummies by Broken Arrow Corp.
Is it possible for them to merge with "Twua Corporation" or would they need a third?
I see comments about the average joe using .NET regardless. MS should be more worried about businesses and whether they see this is a potential problem.
The average joe is usually atleast 2-3 years behind the curve technologicly, while businesses are much closer. For Microsoft's bottom line they need companies to move to this as soon as it's available. Large business purchasing drive their revenue not Joe Schmo and his 9x box.
You can already see them positioning themselves to force everyone that way. If John Q. Admin looks at MS and sees nothing but problems and service outages they will either postpone moving towards .NET until it's "stable" or look to move to different platforms.