When you consider the investment corporations have in XP and Windows related applications, XP's stability and patchability, and plethora of decent certified engineers in the marketplace, there is no reason to move to Vista. Why bring on the headaches without any real benefit? Why do we have to re-educate users on a whole new OS and interface? Microsoft should move to a subscription-based support model for XP and begin work on its next OS -- which must include all of the features originally promised to corporate IT in the first place.
Aside: In our company, I and several others are dying to drop-in Ubuntu desktops and/or Citrix terminals, but at the moment we have too many critical applications that won't work without IE or cannot be adapted to a Citrix environment. Until the companies who provide these services to us change their applications, we have to live with it. We're stuck with Windows until they do.
The guy was ranting and skipped people in line according to the girl who filmed it (she was interviewed by CNN early this morning.) Did they ask him to get to the point or relinquish the mike? It wasn't captured on tape but, again the camera was flaky according the girl who filmed it.
The tazer was overkill. But it looked more like one of those shockers and didn't really seem to affect him anyhow. The student who filmed the incident mentioned that he may have been tazered once prior to the one she captured on film but her camera was going in and out.
IMO: He was ranting and taking up more time than each was allotted. You are free to rant all you want. Rant from the crowd, outside or in the cafeteria line. It's your right to free speech. This forum had a format and he was not sticking to it. Removing is was justified in order to keep to the format civil. Removing him does not hinder his right to free speech.
There isn't such a law in Florida. 1-5 MPH over the speed limit will get you a ticket and points, but the fine is only required if you were caught speeding in a School Zone. I'm reading the previous from a speeding ticket I got last month.:P
Show me what 'finer detail' a listener needs (or wants) in the latest Jay-Z or Sluttany Spears album and maybe that will justify the additional costs...
One of my friends got off because the photo showed a driver with large sunglasses and it could not be 100% identified as him. Wear those 80's Vuarnet sunglasses or some aviators, then pay the ticket clinic and get off.
A second thing I heard anecdotally: some photo ticket operations are run by third parties who earn percentages on collections for the municipalities. If you don't pay, you get away.
Spammers are more like pamphleteers of old, spreading trash on the streets, FUD about foreigners and land in the Everglades swamp. Pesky, irritating and costly in terms of cleanup. They will continue to exist and we will continue to fight in this media or the next.
Hurricane Wilma knocked out power for weeks in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties in Florida two years ago. What the cell providers didn't count on is power not being restored for those several weeks, in some cases over a month. Their towers were running on batteries as long as they could, with Cingular holding out for several days before dying out. Sprint and others were dead in less than a day. Then there was silence. Blissful silence at that.
Many land lines were also affected, although services were restored fairly quickly to our area as well as DSL services. Cable connections took 10d or more for our area, but thankfully I had a colo with airconditioning to go to. Out of pure greed, BellSouth has refused to offer naked DSL in our area so carrying a land line + a 8Mb DSL connection would have cost me $120 vs $50 for an 8Mb cable connection. I'll save the money and hope for the best.
I won't return to a land line for the same reasons as many: I have to carry it anyway, only one telemarketer in 8 years, portability, additional cost, etc.
I'd like to point out that the greatest works of art of all time were produced in an era where there were no such things as copyright laws. It's called patronage, and it worked for thousands of years.
You go ahead and try to make an exact copy of Jackson Pollock's 'One: Number 31' in 10s, 10m, 10h, 10d or 10y. Go ahead, start now. Let me know when you are finished and you can have your juice box.
I'm not sure of the law regarding the service, but wouldn't seem too far out if they began offering their repository as a student research tool. The product may not be professional quality, but it would sure give one a lot of ideas when writing yet-another-paper on Biblical symbolism in Moby Dick. Everything should be footnoted, so you could go back to the sources too.
That's exactly the experience I know of: an offshored job can give you the basics but doesn't have the depth to understand the nuances of your business. They can make a basic search application, but wouldn't know or understand the way the customers are actually searching for information.
At my company we are waiting to see which executive demands Vista first on his laptop because "it runs fine at home." Imagine running Vista on a laptop bound by 512MB-1GB RAM, a 2.xGhz proc, a 5400RPM harddrive with Pointsec encryption and SAV real-time virus protection. Why not just paint an image of a desktop on the LCD--you'll see the same results with the OS.
As has been discussed before, this probably is related to the lawsuits/legislation in the EU. Why not allow other players or companies to use fairplay? Apple could license it out and make royalties on the technology. Not a DRM, but at least open it for others to use offering a solution to the EU issues.
A national ID card would offer so many benefits in the long run. Photo ID just does not cover the needs of today's at-your-fingerips information society. You want a secure banking transaction at an ATM? You want someone to offer better security at the airport? You want to decrease fraud? Time to add general, large scale adoption of a better system of identification, as a biometric system would. It has to be done on a large scale to reduce costs.
Start with the ID card. If businesses and agencies adopt it, good, but it is an option. Add some bar code that equates to a retinal scan or some other form of unique ID. Put it on the back of the ID card in place of that stupid 'I can make you walk the drunk line, or else' warning. If agencies want to use it, they can scan it with their cuecat. If not, no major cost has been expended.
Sounds like an unintended consequence of 'Free Market' reforms. Suddenly the US has to compete for status as a scientific and technical leader, and the only thing keeping it afloat is the relative freedom to do business (low corruption, large and wealthy population, generally homogenous business regulation, etc.) throughout the entire country.
If it was about rights, he could run it on his own private connection. It's about responsibility. The university is ultimately responsible for the use and content on its network.
Chastising him for teaching it is ridiculous in the modern age though. It's the equivalent of a chastising a professor in the 60's for mentioning J. Edgar Hoover's files.
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When you consider the investment corporations have in XP and Windows related applications, XP's stability and patchability, and plethora of decent certified engineers in the marketplace, there is no reason to move to Vista. Why bring on the headaches without any real benefit? Why do we have to re-educate users on a whole new OS and interface? Microsoft should move to a subscription-based support model for XP and begin work on its next OS -- which must include all of the features originally promised to corporate IT in the first place.
Aside: In our company, I and several others are dying to drop-in Ubuntu desktops and/or Citrix terminals, but at the moment we have too many critical applications that won't work without IE or cannot be adapted to a Citrix environment. Until the companies who provide these services to us change their applications, we have to live with it. We're stuck with Windows until they do.
The guy was ranting and skipped people in line according to the girl who filmed it (she was interviewed by CNN early this morning.) Did they ask him to get to the point or relinquish the mike? It wasn't captured on tape but, again the camera was flaky according the girl who filmed it.
The tazer was overkill. But it looked more like one of those shockers and didn't really seem to affect him anyhow. The student who filmed the incident mentioned that he may have been tazered once prior to the one she captured on film but her camera was going in and out.
IMO: He was ranting and taking up more time than each was allotted. You are free to rant all you want. Rant from the crowd, outside or in the cafeteria line. It's your right to free speech. This forum had a format and he was not sticking to it. Removing is was justified in order to keep to the format civil. Removing him does not hinder his right to free speech.
This is Sony. Would you like a rootkit with your order, Sir?
There isn't such a law in Florida. 1-5 MPH over the speed limit will get you a ticket and points, but the fine is only required if you were caught speeding in a School Zone. I'm reading the previous from a speeding ticket I got last month. :P
Show me what 'finer detail' a listener needs (or wants) in the latest Jay-Z or Sluttany Spears album and maybe that will justify the additional costs...
Add a truecrypt hidden volume to that...
One of my friends got off because the photo showed a driver with large sunglasses and it could not be 100% identified as him. Wear those 80's Vuarnet sunglasses or some aviators, then pay the ticket clinic and get off.
A second thing I heard anecdotally: some photo ticket operations are run by third parties who earn percentages on collections for the municipalities. If you don't pay, you get away.
Spammers are more like pamphleteers of old, spreading trash on the streets, FUD about foreigners and land in the Everglades swamp. Pesky, irritating and costly in terms of cleanup. They will continue to exist and we will continue to fight in this media or the next.
If tier 1 and tier 2 are hourly or by ticket they won't...
You hit it right on the head there:
It's the age demographic. Parents of preteen kids can feel safe with Pirates, but the Matrix is a much different thing with its adult themes.
Ditto on the Matrix ep 2,3 sucking ass and not being worthy of the materials they were made from.
Hurricane Wilma knocked out power for weeks in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties in Florida two years ago. What the cell providers didn't count on is power not being restored for those several weeks, in some cases over a month. Their towers were running on batteries as long as they could, with Cingular holding out for several days before dying out. Sprint and others were dead in less than a day. Then there was silence. Blissful silence at that.
Many land lines were also affected, although services were restored fairly quickly to our area as well as DSL services. Cable connections took 10d or more for our area, but thankfully I had a colo with airconditioning to go to. Out of pure greed, BellSouth has refused to offer naked DSL in our area so carrying a land line + a 8Mb DSL connection would have cost me $120 vs $50 for an 8Mb cable connection. I'll save the money and hope for the best.
I won't return to a land line for the same reasons as many: I have to carry it anyway, only one telemarketer in 8 years, portability, additional cost, etc.
I'd like to point out that the greatest works of art of all time were produced in an era where there were no such things as copyright laws. It's called patronage, and it worked for thousands of years.
You go ahead and try to make an exact copy of Jackson Pollock's 'One: Number 31' in 10s, 10m, 10h, 10d or 10y. Go ahead, start now. Let me know when you are finished and you can have your juice box.
I'm not sure of the law regarding the service, but wouldn't seem too far out if they began offering their repository as a student research tool. The product may not be professional quality, but it would sure give one a lot of ideas when writing yet-another-paper on Biblical symbolism in Moby Dick. Everything should be footnoted, so you could go back to the sources too.
A key? For a million bucks they could have biometrics, or better yet a full-time bodyguard.
That's exactly the experience I know of: an offshored job can give you the basics but doesn't have the depth to understand the nuances of your business. They can make a basic search application, but wouldn't know or understand the way the customers are actually searching for information.
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So now the exiles are going to riot in Miami and burn RMS in effigy. I think they can fill the Orange Bowl with a few spare XP users...
At my company we are waiting to see which executive demands Vista first on his laptop because "it runs fine at home." Imagine running Vista on a laptop bound by 512MB-1GB RAM, a 2.xGhz proc, a 5400RPM harddrive with Pointsec encryption and SAV real-time virus protection. Why not just paint an image of a desktop on the LCD--you'll see the same results with the OS.
As has been discussed before, this probably is related to the lawsuits/legislation in the EU. Why not allow other players or companies to use fairplay? Apple could license it out and make royalties on the technology. Not a DRM, but at least open it for others to use offering a solution to the EU issues.
Pixar profits go to him--he doesn't share them with the record/broadcasting companies.
A national ID card would offer so many benefits in the long run. Photo ID just does not cover the needs of today's at-your-fingerips information society. You want a secure banking transaction at an ATM? You want someone to offer better security at the airport? You want to decrease fraud? Time to add general, large scale adoption of a better system of identification, as a biometric system would. It has to be done on a large scale to reduce costs.
Start with the ID card. If businesses and agencies adopt it, good, but it is an option. Add some bar code that equates to a retinal scan or some other form of unique ID. Put it on the back of the ID card in place of that stupid 'I can make you walk the drunk line, or else' warning. If agencies want to use it, they can scan it with their cuecat. If not, no major cost has been expended.
No. Apple lost in the 80s out of arrogance, cost and lack of a critical app (Lotus 1-2-3?). Why do people think they won't do it again?
It's like spanish, man.
1 man - masculine
1 woman - feminine
2 men - masculine
2 women - feminine
1 man, 1 woman - masculine
A title is a title, more of an expression of rank than a physical attribute.
Sounds like an unintended consequence of 'Free Market' reforms. Suddenly the US has to compete for status as a scientific and technical leader, and the only thing keeping it afloat is the relative freedom to do business (low corruption, large and wealthy population, generally homogenous business regulation, etc.) throughout the entire country.
If it was about rights, he could run it on his own private connection. It's about responsibility. The university is ultimately responsible for the use and content on its network.
Chastising him for teaching it is ridiculous in the modern age though. It's the equivalent of a chastising a professor in the 60's for mentioning J. Edgar Hoover's files.