I just bought a DVD iMac. As a LINUX/UNIX bigot, the lure of a cherry GUI on top of BSD was just too much to resist.
A question. Does Apple charge for point upgrades, like from 10.0 to 10.1 or am I going to have to shell out bucks for 10.2 when it comes out this Christmas (that's what late summer means, right)?
Perhaps if someone phoned in a tip to BSA that Omar and/bin/laden were using pirate versions of XP, they could hunt them down. Can you imagine being a process server and getting THOSE suit papers to deliver?!
But back to the idea of overthrowing, I don't think it takes billions to bring down someone like that. Look how many of our Presidents have been assassinated for the cost of a rifle and a few bullets... For some reason, covertly hunting down a leader and assasinating them is considered uncivilized but if they die as collateral damage while bombing and killing thousands of innocent civilians, then that is OK. Then again, look who makes those "rules" -- world leaders who don't want to be assassinated....
Agreed, but I gotta say, while feeding and curing poor children in third world countries is admirable, the end result will simply be that they will live long enough to reproduce and make more poor starving children.
The only real cures are to overthrow the corrupt governments that keep these country's citizen's impoverished, and/or take mean steps to cut down the birth rate (like, here, we'll feed you and your family for as long as you allow us to put this norplant thing into your woman).
Don't think about the billions they have now, think about the billions they are losing because of those greedy poor grade schools who are allegedly not using properly licensed donated PCs.
It works by "converting waste heat into visible light?" This is going to ruin all of those Easy Bake Ovens.
And what about when my daughter finds a birds nest that has fallen out of a tree and we need to fabricate a incubator out of a box and a 25 watt light bulb to keep it warm?
This is horrible news. Think of the children. Call your congressman and ban this insanity.
Last I heard, and this was for analog cellular, the max watts was 3 watts for car phones and those huge phone bags that no one uses anymore, and handhelds was 600mw. And that is PEAK power. The cell tower will most often instruct phone to drop its output power depending on signal strength.
So where does the author get 2 watts from?
And what about digital, which is what most phones use now. Don't they operate at even lower power?
Been said before, over and over, just do some sort of apache rewrite rule that takes any referrer other than their site and rewrites it to the home page.
No need to sue...
Maybe instead they should fire their webmaster for being clueless...
Did this encourage budding electronic enthusiasts to steal parts...
Yeah, but that was 20th Century. In this century, it's a crime to skip over commercials, copy a CD for personal use, and uninstall that copy of Windows that came with your PC.
Do everyone a favor and try to be less of a pessimist.
Point taken... I'll discuss this with my therapist Friday morning!:)
The notice on the web page is just a start. It's not the naked PC I object to. I think that is the greatest thing. It's bundling a farking (tm) winmodem with the damn thing, replacing a microsoft tax with a lucent tax basically.
It's kind of like... "We know you're going to load Windows on this anyway, and if you're so cheap as to want a $400 PC we know damn well you won't buy Windows legit, but that's OK, we'll make money off of it and all the alternative OS supporters will love us too..."
Let's face it, Microsoft has every right to sell proprietary software and make a fortune at it. They cross the line when forcing us to buy it. But on the flip side, none of us should be supportive of the idea of stealing it either.
I just don't think this particular computer promotes what many of us want to see. What I want is to go to website or store, and choose what computer I want with what OS I want bundled with it. You can preinstall Linux on a PC for basically nothing and if someone wants to wipe it install OS/2 or Be or FreeBSD, there's nothing wrong with that either...
30 minutes on a work processor to type up a notice to throw inside the box that says "This computer does not come with an operating system. Here are your choices..." Extra credit for throwing in a linux distro CD set that would add about 20 cents to the wholesale price of the PC... They could sell it for $400 instead of $399:)
I think it's horrible they sell a naked PC that has hardware that requires Windows to be used. Some sort of notice that this PC has hardware that won't work unless you use Microsoft Windows, which isn't installed on this PC and you'll need to buy a copy that costs about half what the PC itself costs...
It would have also been nice to throw in a piece of paper with instructions about your choices for an operating system to load, including a note that to install Windows, you must buy a full-price retail copy of it.
I'm all for getting rid of the Microsoft tax, but this just smacks of promoting piracy, frustrating users, and adding fuel to microsoft's arguments about how bad an idea naked PCs are.
On the other hand, if it never had an OEM Windows PC on it, you don't have to worry about
violating the law for removing it...
Nextel is great. No additional per-message costs. Message length is 1024 chars. They call it two-way paging though, but anyone can send e-mail to it via a @messaging.nextel.com and you can send and reply to internet e-mail addresses, so it's basically e-mail. Some phones have decent word prediction so you only have to hit one key per letter.
The gotcha with nextel to watch for is to send stuff to @messaging.nextel.com. If you send to @page.nextel.com its basically SMS and costs a few pennies a page after 300. The former method sends an alert to your phone and you have to connect to their network to grab the message. The SMS method delivers message to the phone so its right there.
I've used this in a number of areas on east coast plus everywhere between Phoenix, Vegas, and Los Angeles. Coverage is remarkably good (just a few dead spots between phoenix and las vegas, south of I-40).
If Futurama gets canceled, have Bender get sent back into time and end up in Springfield. Let's face it, Bender is what makes Futurama. Well, then there's Lela. I haven't gotten excited by a cartoon character since Jose and the Pussycats in the 70s...
This sounds like a perfect solution. We all know slackers around our own companies that are a drain on our own company.
The only problem is, a lot of the slackers are in management and idiots can't tell a good employee from a bad one or would use other rules besides performance like "who kisses my ass the best." In these cases, it seems, the best are the ones who get fired.
It would be easier if there was a solid quantifiable measure of performance in this industry. It's not like everyone is building widgets and you eliminate the bottom 20% of people who make the least widgets per hour. Often in IT the stronger carry the weak and the weak have the better ability to take credit for the work. The stronger are more team players and will credit the team for success. It takes good management to see through a lot of this. Chances are, it's the idiots making the decisions of who goes and who stays..:(
I had a friend who worked at a small company whose owner had two of his sons working there. She was constantly rewriting and fixing horrible code one of the sons did, and could never ever point this out to the owner. Eventually the other son screwed up a big contract negotiation and the company lost their biggest client. Hard times came upon them and my friend was laid off. Justice however prevailed and the company itself went tits up a year later...
Why do they get angry at the company they work for? Because the company that they work for treats them like an expendable, replaceable resource. And especiallylike an expendable, replaceable resource whose output is directly proportional to the pressure applied to get work out of it.
In my previous story (in parent's parent post), it's most likely that ole Almart went tits up because they spent over a million dollars to keep the labor union out. The campaign went on over a year and they dragged the vote date out by using stalling tactics with high-priced labor lawyers at hearings at the NLRB. The union said they encountered the firm before and they were considered the best in the country and charged $300-$400/hour (this was 1977 prices...).
If they had only spent a small portion of that money and directed it to employee wages and benefits, they'd probably still be around.
What made me so resentful was that I *did* work by butt off in that place. We'd get full 45-foot truckloads of christmas merchandise, not on pallets, requiring handtrucking them off the truck and counting 900+ boxes. We worked our asses off because we all liked the truckers and didn't want them to have to hang around longer than necessary. The fact it benefited Almart was an unfortunate side effect. But after hours of this, we'd get hollered at if we sat down to write up the paperwork and lingered for more than a minute or two...
Oh well, those were the days. Thank god during that time (1977-79) I noticed the Apple ][ and TRS-80 and Atari 400/800 computers, fell in love, and decided to go to college to learn the things so I could end up being the high-tech custodian (having to always clean up everyone's shit) I am today -- but at least fairly well paid for it!
In my much younger days, back in the 70s, I worked on a loading dock of a department store. They had a guard there at all times making sure we didn't toss some merchanise into the back of a truck.
We worked our asses off for minimum wage (back in the 70s when jobs were REAL hard to come by). The joint treated us like slaves. They even removed the chairs where we wrote up the paperwork and install a table at standing height. Some manager was concerned we were taking too long to write up paperwork. We also in the beginning got two 15 minute breaks a day and then they took one of them away.
So they started having a huge problem with shrinkage out of the stock room. The more they clamped down, the more stock just disappeared. They "doubled the guard" and rotated out the old one and still the shrinkage continued.
What they weren't guarding was the trash compactor. They'd be pissing off employees so bad that some would go and grab a $500 stereo (our fulltime take home pay was $77/week) and tossed it into the trash compactor and hit CRUSH. A shitload of merchandise went into that thing...
Oh, and for the record, the company was Almart, they went out of business in the 80s, I never did anything like that (didn't have the balls). I eventually got fired, but not for that. I got fired for trying to get the UFCW union to represent the employees and the stupid idiots voted it down. Just as well though, since the store went "tits up" three years later. If the union got in there, they'd be blaming the union for them going out of business...
There once was a "Fat Mac"... A 512K upgrade to the original 128K Macintosh.
Is it smart enough to know about schedule changes?
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If I want it to record the show "60 Minutes" and a football game goes into overtime, will it record it when 60 minutes starts, or at the scheduled 19:00 time?
If I want it to record Jeremiah on Showtime and they are two minutes behind (it happens), will it cut off the last two minutes of the show on the far end?
Still, the government subsidies to MS competitors is a decent idea
Subsidies? Poor choice of words perhaps? We're not talking about just giving money to competitors. We're talking about the government doing BUSINESS with Microsoft competitors. They would just buy software and services from non-microsoft vendors.
No, it couldn't happen overnight. Just a resolution should be passed that removes microsoft from the approved vendor list except in case of department hardship and require the usual billion-part justification why some file and print service in some yocal branch office, for example, has to be windows instead of apple or linux for example.
Is this what we really want? I remember the days when you had to shell out $200 per PC just for a TCP/IP stack, for example -- and then another $100 for a copy of telnet from Reflections.
If the state and fed governments want to encourage competition, they can stop buying Microsoft products themselves and infuse the billions they spend each year on software into their competitors. Imagine how well off Redhat would be if this happened, for example.
The government has a helluva lot of influence on related industries too. If they basically do what they should do, and stop publishing and receiving electronic documents in a proprietary format, then this would help out competitors.
As it is now, the U.S. governments have done a lot to help make Microsoft what it is today...
I can't imagine the courts could do the right thing as far as penalty goes anyway. Hit em where it really hurts, stop being their customer damn it...
Really. And what about states that don't have a sales tax currently, like Delaware? Now all of a sudden, these businesses would have to set up the infrastructure to handle it, besides the hassles of it.
You all have no idea how nice it is to walk into a store, buy something for 99 cents and not have to dig around for a bit of pocket change along with that dollar bill.
Thanks for stating this far clearer than I did. I did try to say the same thing by saying he'd have to break out that code and document the API so alternative browsers could plug into it.
Just removing IE would break stuff, but there is no reason why other HTML rendering engines can't be plugged into its place.
I regret I didn't voice my opinion clearer. Thanks for your followup.
Never mind, I looked at their
licensing
page. The campus agreement only applies to higher ed institutions. The school districts would need to purchase the "school agreement" which requires counting PCs.:-(
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A question. Does Apple charge for point upgrades, like from 10.0 to 10.1 or am I going to have to shell out bucks for 10.2 when it comes out this Christmas (that's what late summer means, right)?
Perhaps if someone phoned in a tip to BSA that Omar and /bin/laden were using pirate versions of XP, they could hunt them down. Can you imagine being a process server and getting THOSE suit papers to deliver?!
But back to the idea of overthrowing, I don't think it takes billions to bring down someone like that. Look how many of our Presidents have been assassinated for the cost of a rifle and a few bullets... For some reason, covertly hunting down a leader and assasinating them is considered uncivilized but if they die as collateral damage while bombing and killing thousands of innocent civilians, then that is OK. Then again, look who makes those "rules" -- world leaders who don't want to be assassinated....
The only real cures are to overthrow the corrupt governments that keep these country's citizen's impoverished, and/or take mean steps to cut down the birth rate (like, here, we'll feed you and your family for as long as you allow us to put this norplant thing into your woman).
Don't think about the billions they have now, think about the billions they are losing because of those greedy poor grade schools who are allegedly not using properly licensed donated PCs.
And what about when my daughter finds a birds nest that has fallen out of a tree and we need to fabricate a incubator out of a box and a 25 watt light bulb to keep it warm?
This is horrible news. Think of the children. Call your congressman and ban this insanity.
So where does the author get 2 watts from?
And what about digital, which is what most phones use now. Don't they operate at even lower power?
I think it's the difference between posession (of a firearm) and the use of one in a crime.
-- weave, Law and Order syndicated rerun graduate of 2002
No need to sue...
Maybe instead they should fire their webmaster for being clueless...
Wow, I remember them! Guess we're both fossils...
Yeah, but that was 20th Century. In this century, it's a crime to skip over commercials, copy a CD for personal use, and uninstall that copy of Windows that came with your PC.
Point taken... I'll discuss this with my therapist Friday morning! :)
It's kind of like... "We know you're going to load Windows on this anyway, and if you're so cheap as to want a $400 PC we know damn well you won't buy Windows legit, but that's OK, we'll make money off of it and all the alternative OS supporters will love us too..."
Let's face it, Microsoft has every right to sell proprietary software and make a fortune at it. They cross the line when forcing us to buy it. But on the flip side, none of us should be supportive of the idea of stealing it either.
I just don't think this particular computer promotes what many of us want to see. What I want is to go to website or store, and choose what computer I want with what OS I want bundled with it. You can preinstall Linux on a PC for basically nothing and if someone wants to wipe it install OS/2 or Be or FreeBSD, there's nothing wrong with that either...
30 minutes on a work processor to type up a notice to throw inside the box that says "This computer does not come with an operating system. Here are your choices..." Extra credit for throwing in a linux distro CD set that would add about 20 cents to the wholesale price of the PC... They could sell it for $400 instead of $399 :)
It would have also been nice to throw in a piece of paper with instructions about your choices for an operating system to load, including a note that to install Windows, you must buy a full-price retail copy of it.
I'm all for getting rid of the Microsoft tax, but this just smacks of promoting piracy, frustrating users, and adding fuel to microsoft's arguments about how bad an idea naked PCs are.
On the other hand, if it never had an OEM Windows PC on it, you don't have to worry about violating the law for removing it...
The gotcha with nextel to watch for is to send stuff to @messaging.nextel.com. If you send to @page.nextel.com its basically SMS and costs a few pennies a page after 300. The former method sends an alert to your phone and you have to connect to their network to grab the message. The SMS method delivers message to the phone so its right there.
I've used this in a number of areas on east coast plus everywhere between Phoenix, Vegas, and Los Angeles. Coverage is remarkably good (just a few dead spots between phoenix and las vegas, south of I-40).
Heh, that's an even better idea, somewhat more believable and less trekish! :-)
If Futurama gets canceled, have Bender get sent back into time and end up in Springfield. Let's face it, Bender is what makes Futurama. Well, then there's Lela. I haven't gotten excited by a cartoon character since Jose and the Pussycats in the 70s...
The only problem is, a lot of the slackers are in management and idiots can't tell a good employee from a bad one or would use other rules besides performance like "who kisses my ass the best." In these cases, it seems, the best are the ones who get fired.
It would be easier if there was a solid quantifiable measure of performance in this industry. It's not like everyone is building widgets and you eliminate the bottom 20% of people who make the least widgets per hour. Often in IT the stronger carry the weak and the weak have the better ability to take credit for the work. The stronger are more team players and will credit the team for success. It takes good management to see through a lot of this. Chances are, it's the idiots making the decisions of who goes and who stays.. :(
I had a friend who worked at a small company whose owner had two of his sons working there. She was constantly rewriting and fixing horrible code one of the sons did, and could never ever point this out to the owner. Eventually the other son screwed up a big contract negotiation and the company lost their biggest client. Hard times came upon them and my friend was laid off. Justice however prevailed and the company itself went tits up a year later...
In my previous story (in parent's parent post), it's most likely that ole Almart went tits up because they spent over a million dollars to keep the labor union out. The campaign went on over a year and they dragged the vote date out by using stalling tactics with high-priced labor lawyers at hearings at the NLRB. The union said they encountered the firm before and they were considered the best in the country and charged $300-$400/hour (this was 1977 prices...).
If they had only spent a small portion of that money and directed it to employee wages and benefits, they'd probably still be around.
What made me so resentful was that I *did* work by butt off in that place. We'd get full 45-foot truckloads of christmas merchandise, not on pallets, requiring handtrucking them off the truck and counting 900+ boxes. We worked our asses off because we all liked the truckers and didn't want them to have to hang around longer than necessary. The fact it benefited Almart was an unfortunate side effect. But after hours of this, we'd get hollered at if we sat down to write up the paperwork and lingered for more than a minute or two...
Oh well, those were the days. Thank god during that time (1977-79) I noticed the Apple ][ and TRS-80 and Atari 400/800 computers, fell in love, and decided to go to college to learn the things so I could end up being the high-tech custodian (having to always clean up everyone's shit) I am today -- but at least fairly well paid for it!
In my much younger days, back in the 70s, I worked on a loading dock of a department store. They had a guard there at all times making sure we didn't toss some merchanise into the back of a truck.
We worked our asses off for minimum wage (back in the 70s when jobs were REAL hard to come by). The joint treated us like slaves. They even removed the chairs where we wrote up the paperwork and install a table at standing height. Some manager was concerned we were taking too long to write up paperwork. We also in the beginning got two 15 minute breaks a day and then they took one of them away.
So they started having a huge problem with shrinkage out of the stock room. The more they clamped down, the more stock just disappeared. They "doubled the guard" and rotated out the old one and still the shrinkage continued.
What they weren't guarding was the trash compactor. They'd be pissing off employees so bad that some would go and grab a $500 stereo (our fulltime take home pay was $77/week) and tossed it into the trash compactor and hit CRUSH. A shitload of merchandise went into that thing...
Oh, and for the record, the company was Almart, they went out of business in the 80s, I never did anything like that (didn't have the balls). I eventually got fired, but not for that. I got fired for trying to get the UFCW union to represent the employees and the stupid idiots voted it down. Just as well though, since the store went "tits up" three years later. If the union got in there, they'd be blaming the union for them going out of business...
There once was a "Fat Mac"... A 512K upgrade to the original 128K Macintosh.
If I want it to record Jeremiah on Showtime and they are two minutes behind (it happens), will it cut off the last two minutes of the show on the far end?
Subsidies? Poor choice of words perhaps? We're not talking about just giving money to competitors. We're talking about the government doing BUSINESS with Microsoft competitors. They would just buy software and services from non-microsoft vendors.
No, it couldn't happen overnight. Just a resolution should be passed that removes microsoft from the approved vendor list except in case of department hardship and require the usual billion-part justification why some file and print service in some yocal branch office, for example, has to be windows instead of apple or linux for example.
If the state and fed governments want to encourage competition, they can stop buying Microsoft products themselves and infuse the billions they spend each year on software into their competitors. Imagine how well off Redhat would be if this happened, for example.
The government has a helluva lot of influence on related industries too. If they basically do what they should do, and stop publishing and receiving electronic documents in a proprietary format, then this would help out competitors.
As it is now, the U.S. governments have done a lot to help make Microsoft what it is today...
I can't imagine the courts could do the right thing as far as penalty goes anyway. Hit em where it really hurts, stop being their customer damn it...
You all have no idea how nice it is to walk into a store, buy something for 99 cents and not have to dig around for a bit of pocket change along with that dollar bill.
--- a delaware resident
Just removing IE would break stuff, but there is no reason why other HTML rendering engines can't be plugged into its place.
I regret I didn't voice my opinion clearer. Thanks for your followup.
Never mind, I looked at their licensing page. The campus agreement only applies to higher ed institutions. The school districts would need to purchase the "school agreement" which requires counting PCs. :-(