I think MS's biggest problem is they try to clump too many things into one, that and a companies hierarchy can scale only so much. Trying to add something like this that is extraneous for the most part is just going to screw things up. It's not a criticism of MS, I don't think anyone could do what they are trying to do well. It's simply too much.
The retailer should be held accountable for not putting some sort of safety mesure in place. There are a number I know are actively used:
1. Ship to addresses that differ from the address on the account must be added to the account as a ship-to address. New Egg currently does this at least.
2. the 3 digit security code on the back of your card, though I dunno if that info is part of the DB stolen. This is becoming more promenent every day on line.
3. A PIN, visa is currently marketing this as Verified Visa.
One of my biggest problems with Walmart is that they almost never check ID when I write checks. If someone steals my check book and uses it at walmart successfully then walmart is partially to blame.
Well even if the cards are used the Credit Card company will not hold the card owner accountable, so the consumer is safe in that respect if the actually notice....
I hear ya, but that's nothing, we have both sun keyboards deployed in one of our main labs as well as PC keyboards hooked up to SBCs running solaris. AHHHHHHHH
I borrow an ibook from work every now and then and it's frustrating to have the fn (function) key be the bottom left most key where on my Sun and PC keyboard it's Control. I've made many a Vim error due to it, good thing there's undo.:w
I clicked on the linux client link of the main site and after displaying one page of script IE just hosed itself. I guess IE tried to interpret the.run file as something and failed. I hope it didn't nuke anyting on my machine....
I wish this covered the problem with "utilities" you do subscribe to marketing more stuff to you.
For instance I have AT&T digital cable, however I get telemarketing calls from AT&T broadband which is a different subdivision in AT&T.
I started by yelling at the guy that he isn't supposed to Telemarket to Cell phone, since it is illegal, then he informed me that since I'm a Digital cable customer my contract gives them the right to. I then asked him to take me off of their call list, he informed me that because he is not part of the Digital Cable subdivision he doesn't have that authority. I hung up.
The point is that you can dupe perfectly intelligent people into acting a certain way or believing a certain viewpoint, when later on in hindsight they'll say, "geeze, all the evidence was there, why didn't I see it?"
Sounds like they took that out of Steve Jobs play book. Or maybe they bottled the aura of Jobs and didn't tell anyone. "Pogo sticks for penguins? Why didn't I think of that, you're a genius Steve. *walks away* WTF?"
I don't wish the destruction of Microsoft, I'd rather a nice, healthy balance with lots of choices and alternatives for everybody
I hear ya. I'm an OS whore myself, so I don't like it when they fight and beat up on each other. Check my profile for an explanation if you want.
OSs, programs, etc.. are tools, use the best one for you and your project.
The problem is that even if you consider MS a troll they are the largest troll you've ever encountered and the only way to stop them is to fight back in some aspect, you can't simply ignore them. MS has a special status regaurdless of if you like or hate them. If you like them they are your biggest friends, and if you hate them they are your biggest enemy.
That said, if you allow MS to speak at an OSS conference and they are actuall able to pursuade the attendants, who I would concider OSS advocates and guru's, to switch away from OSS then maybe MS is doing something right. If you really believe in something you shouldn't be able to be swayed.
Perhaps the OSS people are afraid that there isn't any one solution be is MS or *nix or whatever.
Well he has given away $5billion a year at least to the foundation afaik, which for him is at least 10% I'd say.
Also, something I think you have to give him points for is that he won't leave his children a lot of money relative to what he has. I think he's said he'll leave them with $10M at most. Which by most standards is a lot. But that means everything else will go to charity sooner or later.
Please don't take this as a serious arguement but more a point of thought, and theoretical ethics I suppose.
If we at least say that MS is not off the hook, I won't admit that they are evil but on the flip side I won't admit they are not.
Anyway, Bill Gates routinely gives billions and billions of dollars to the Bill and Melinda(sp?) Gates foundation which Bill's father manages mainly. Granted this brings up jokes about the left pocket giving money to the right pocket, but it is on the books and in the charter that a heafty percentage of the foundations money is used each year for purely philanthropic reasons, ie immunizing everyone in the world, funding research to find cures for various diseases, etc..
Still with me? Ok, so Bill gives a good bit of his money to stuff like this, as does Microsoft. MS will match any employee donation to, afaik, any charity, as well it has it's own philanthropic arm backed with it's own many billions in the bank.
Now given all this is it in anyway """"""""OK"""""""" then that they may be pulling more money than they should be out of people who can afford it when a lot of people are benifiting that would not if MS was not there?
I know many others do philanthropy but Bill is probably the single largest individual to do so, and in ways others are not capable or have not try to.
The banning of VPN's seems to be tied to both bandwidth use, and ensuring that people only use the home service for non-commercial reasons.
I live in the US, but how does this appy to non profit employees like me? I work for a Laboratory under a University that does Not For Profit R&D work. Would I be restricted or is there a way around it for me?
Umm Microsofts Ultimate TV can handle two streams, so with it you could record two shows at one. I believe it's the only system to offer this in their first version. Perhaps Tivo will have it in their next?
I think it was the Daily Show that said more or less.
It would suck if the space program had to be canned because a boy band member couldn't pay his bill.
This is referring to the Russian program having deep financial troubles and Lance Bass not being able to pay the agreed upon $20M for him to go into space.
I've heard the whole "we wouldn't be able to rescue them anyway" deal, but I don't understand why. We had 3 working shuttles afaik, and now 2. Why can't we send up a shuttle, with just a pilot crew, ie no researchers, to rescue them?
I wonder if NASA will start making in orbit inspections of shuttles part of the flight plan. While things like this are obviously rare they are real and deadly.
I wonder how long it would take an astronaut to correctly inspect a shuttle in orbit.
While I agree that these isn't enough communication between what users want and what the producer is making, I think the larger issue is of time.
Software schedules are very hard to create, and even when they are all laid out, they will change, but not often is the final date of the project allowed to move, or move much. I think we all need to realize that sometimes it's better to let the project finish on it's own then before it's time. I personally could use some more time on my part of my project for things that were completely unforeseeable.
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Given the grammar transcript I would say that a lot of what was said in that interview was horribly mangaled. This is not current and not news.
At least it wasn't done in mandarin chinese where pronunciation is the difference between horse and mother.
I think MS's biggest problem is they try to clump too many things into one, that and a companies hierarchy can scale only so much. Trying to add something like this that is extraneous for the most part is just going to screw things up. It's not a criticism of MS, I don't think anyone could do what they are trying to do well. It's simply too much.
I saw it too, it was 60 Minutes or 20/20 I think
Maybe if they actually sold Ginger they could make money. There is a lot of evidence supporting that the IT-Segway is NOT Ginger.
In other news Sluggy Freelance just finished up a Segway spoof strip.
Is this a bad thing?
The retailer should be held accountable for not putting some sort of safety mesure in place. There are a number I know are actively used:
1. Ship to addresses that differ from the address on the account must be added to the account as a ship-to address. New Egg currently does this at least.
2. the 3 digit security code on the back of your card, though I dunno if that info is part of the DB stolen. This is becoming more promenent every day on line.
3. A PIN, visa is currently marketing this as Verified Visa.
One of my biggest problems with Walmart is that they almost never check ID when I write checks. If someone steals my check book and uses it at walmart successfully then walmart is partially to blame.
Well even if the cards are used the Credit Card company will not hold the card owner accountable, so the consumer is safe in that respect if the actually notice....
I hear ya, but that's nothing, we have both sun keyboards deployed in one of our main labs as well as PC keyboards hooked up to SBCs running solaris. AHHHHHHHH
I borrow an ibook from work every now and then and it's frustrating to have the fn (function) key be the bottom left most key where on my Sun and PC keyboard it's Control. I've made many a Vim error due to it, good thing there's undo.:w
I clicked on the linux client link of the main site and after displaying one page of script IE just hosed itself. I guess IE tried to interpret the .run file as something and failed. I hope it didn't nuke anyting on my machine....
I wish this covered the problem with "utilities" you do subscribe to marketing more stuff to you.
For instance I have AT&T digital cable, however I get telemarketing calls from AT&T broadband which is a different subdivision in AT&T.
I started by yelling at the guy that he isn't supposed to Telemarket to Cell phone, since it is illegal, then he informed me that since I'm a Digital cable customer my contract gives them the right to. I then asked him to take me off of their call list, he informed me that because he is not part of the Digital Cable subdivision he doesn't have that authority. I hung up.
It's crap.
I thought that was sun.....
The point is that you can dupe perfectly intelligent people into acting a certain way or believing a certain viewpoint, when later on in hindsight they'll say, "geeze, all the evidence was there, why didn't I see it?"
Sounds like they took that out of Steve Jobs play book. Or maybe they bottled the aura of Jobs and didn't tell anyone. "Pogo sticks for penguins? Why didn't I think of that, you're a genius Steve. *walks away* WTF?"
I don't wish the destruction of Microsoft, I'd rather a nice, healthy balance with lots of choices and alternatives for everybody
I hear ya. I'm an OS whore myself, so I don't like it when they fight and beat up on each other. Check my profile for an explanation if you want.
OSs, programs, etc.. are tools, use the best one for you and your project.
The problem is that even if you consider MS a troll they are the largest troll you've ever encountered and the only way to stop them is to fight back in some aspect, you can't simply ignore them. MS has a special status regaurdless of if you like or hate them. If you like them they are your biggest friends, and if you hate them they are your biggest enemy.
That said, if you allow MS to speak at an OSS conference and they are actuall able to pursuade the attendants, who I would concider OSS advocates and guru's, to switch away from OSS then maybe MS is doing something right. If you really believe in something you shouldn't be able to be swayed.
Perhaps the OSS people are afraid that there isn't any one solution be is MS or *nix or whatever.
Well he has given away $5billion a year at least to the foundation afaik, which for him is at least 10% I'd say.
Also, something I think you have to give him points for is that he won't leave his children a lot of money relative to what he has. I think he's said he'll leave them with $10M at most. Which by most standards is a lot. But that means everything else will go to charity sooner or later.
Gates would still have billions even if the worst possible penalties were leveled against MS
Very True, but what if MS never became an OS monopoly? Would Gates have anything? Would the philithropical things he's doing go by the wayside?
If Gates founded a cancer research institute with his monopoly money, and that institute found a cure for cancer, does that change anything?
Again, I'm not advocating that these ends justify the means, just a point of discussion.
Please don't take this as a serious arguement but more a point of thought, and theoretical ethics I suppose.
If we at least say that MS is not off the hook, I won't admit that they are evil but on the flip side I won't admit they are not.
Anyway, Bill Gates routinely gives billions and billions of dollars to the Bill and Melinda(sp?) Gates foundation which Bill's father manages mainly. Granted this brings up jokes about the left pocket giving money to the right pocket, but it is on the books and in the charter that a heafty percentage of the foundations money is used each year for purely philanthropic reasons, ie immunizing everyone in the world, funding research to find cures for various diseases, etc..
Still with me? Ok, so Bill gives a good bit of his money to stuff like this, as does Microsoft. MS will match any employee donation to, afaik, any charity, as well it has it's own philanthropic arm backed with it's own many billions in the bank.
Now given all this is it in anyway """"""""OK"""""""" then that they may be pulling more money than they should be out of people who can afford it when a lot of people are benifiting that would not if MS was not there?
I know many others do philanthropy but Bill is probably the single largest individual to do so, and in ways others are not capable or have not try to.
It strikes again
The banning of VPN's seems to be tied to both bandwidth use, and ensuring that people only use the home service for non-commercial reasons.
I live in the US, but how does this appy to non profit employees like me? I work for a Laboratory under a University that does Not For Profit R&D work. Would I be restricted or is there a way around it for me?
Umm Microsofts Ultimate TV can handle two streams, so with it you could record two shows at one. I believe it's the only system to offer this in their first version. Perhaps Tivo will have it in their next?
I think it was the Daily Show that said more or less.
It would suck if the space program had to be canned because a boy band member couldn't pay his bill.
This is referring to the Russian program having deep financial troubles and Lance Bass not being able to pay the agreed upon $20M for him to go into space.
Priest does launday gets kids drunk.
I've heard the whole "we wouldn't be able to rescue them anyway" deal, but I don't understand why. We had 3 working shuttles afaik, and now 2. Why can't we send up a shuttle, with just a pilot crew, ie no researchers, to rescue them?
-shane
I wonder if NASA will start making in orbit inspections of shuttles part of the flight plan. While things like this are obviously rare they are real and deadly.
I wonder how long it would take an astronaut to correctly inspect a shuttle in orbit.
While I agree that these isn't enough communication between what users want and what the producer is making, I think the larger issue is of time.
Software schedules are very hard to create, and even when they are all laid out, they will change, but not often is the final date of the project allowed to move, or move much. I think we all need to realize that sometimes it's better to let the project finish on it's own then before it's time. I personally could use some more time on my part of my project for things that were completely unforeseeable.
Interesting that is.
Does this mean that if I buy something from my local WalMart that was made and shipped from another state the store shouldn't be taxing it?