Seems like everyone has forgotten about Sony and it's affinity for screwing over it's customers with proprietary hardware, poor support, and malware. Am I the only one who refuses to buy anything made by Sony, including entertainment devices, computers, music and movies?
I'm not certain but the "Evil Capitalism" might have been sarcasm.
In any case, I agree with your statements more than not. Corporations face much weaker punishments than individuals do, at least in this country.
Google doesn't really hide the fact that it aggregates your data. It makes money off of the statistics your emails contributes to the whole, it all feeds back into their advertising, it's how they built their fortune as a company (advertising, not email).
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Your comments are highly subjective. Not everyone respects Google/Gmail (I do, though I don't post my Gmail accounts in public forums). Additionally, you only get an AOL email address with an AOL account which, ostensibly, you pay for, it's not free to sign up. Though if it were, for just an email address, I would still rank it below Hotmail. You do however get a free AIM email account, if I remember correctly.
Again, as I said, people have reasons for keeping around Hotmail and Yahoo accounts. Could be business reasons, maybe they're good for site registrations that require a live email address (what I do), there's many reasons, and a blanket statement for an issue clearly affecting people does nothing to solve the problem.
In response to your hypothetical, yes, I'd at least look at the resume, a legacy email account is not a reason to disqualify a perfectly suitable candidate, unless they also code.NET.
Did you even read the first paragraph of the article?
It's not about YOU using it, SOMEONE uses it, maybe they have their account there from before they knew better, or maybe they do it just to piss you off, whatever the cause, if you're sending out a newsletter, or a payment receipt, or responding to a craigslist ad, or use a mialing list, or whatever you're doing, and you're on the "spam" list, your email might never see your customer/client/whatever. If you don't make money online, or if you don't do anything that involves mass mailings, then maybe it doesn't affect you directly, but the precedent is still there. Rights, even customer rights, aren't just about YOU, they're about everybody.
Gotta comment on this. I have a camera from 1960 with a light sensor (Mamiya/Sekor 500TL). There are still fans of this very camera who have it working to this day (I don't know if mine works, it needs cleaning and a new battery). And we're going on almost 50 years of use here. So I consider it possible to continue to use the same kind of film for extended periods of time. I'm not sure about development chemicals, thats beyond my scope of knowledge at this right now. You do make a point, but it's probably not going to impact this user in only 30 years, as demand for these materials will probably keep them around for a while yet.
I seem to recall the first four years of the Bush Administration being called a recession, I wouldn't call what we're seeing here doing "quite well" it's more of trying to catch back up to where we should be.
I think you also mean Screen Actor's Guild the acronym for which is SAG, while not nearly as amusing as FAG, it's more technically accurate.
When I took the quiz at the beginning, I got Malk. My friend (who's game/computer it was) was like wtf. I loved meeting new characters and them going "Oh shit, you're a Malk, thats just what I need." It made me giggle.
Actually, DoW had a lot of the things people on/. seem to be asking for. There's "heros" in a sense, powerful unique units, but crossed with the Jim Rainer/Sarah Kerrigan style of SC1. There's tactics, holding control points, resource management, good storyline, morale (troops can run when they're terrified, adding a commander to the unit improves morale), and other things. It was a great game. But it still wasn't as downright fun to play as SC1. I strongly suspect no game ever will be.
This is the song that doesn't end, yes it goes on and on my friend, some people started singing it not knowing what it was, but they'll continue singing it forever just because..
I don't think this guy can be taken seriously at all, his imagery and phraseology seems to be intended to provoke.
And what is with the acronym "RSEU"? I thought that stood for "Really Stupid End Users".
In any case, as much of a paranoid individual I am, I think that Google *has* to be secretive. Google has been targeted by Microsoft, Yahoo, and other huge companies which have a long history of play really really dirty. Google has been around a while now and has no real history of being dirty. Their NDA for interviews which slashdotters freaked about, if they had RTFA and then read the NDA, most of them would have seen the articles took clauses out of context, which you simply can't do, and in context it made sense.
If I were a rather new, but large, rich company with a lot to lose, I'd be keeping as many secrets as I could from the companies and people who would love to see me fail.
Know your enemy, and make sure it doesn't know you.
I've gone to bed hungry. Survival is about a lot more than a comfy IT job.
I've had pirated software on my computer because another employee installed it, I promptly removed it and replaced it with an alternative.
My belief is that if you make money with pay-for software, the company/author(s) deserve to be paid because you're using their product to make your money.
Except right now things tend to be streamlined. (relatively, for me)
On Windows (2k/XP):
Install slipstreamed SP2 disk and fixes
Uninstall windows messenger, disable IE icons, disable luna, tcp patch, kill windows update and error reporting.
Update DirectX, latest video card drivers, sound card drivers, asio4all, peripherals.
Install firefox, spybot, media monkey, Sergio's x-chat for windows http://www.larces.uece.br/~sergio/?page=xchat
Install Emerge Desktop http://www.emergedesktop.org/
(mostly in the first day, then a few over the next week or so, months before I have most of my applications and plugins installed)
Mac OSX:
Update
Install Deeper
Install iTerm
Install Macports
Install irssi
If I'm using Textmate, get my specific color preferences and add-ons which I can't find online.
Use vim instead.
(Could all be done in 3 hours.)
Linux:
Do 500 things, mainly for device drivers. Customize XFCE, never use it, stay in console bliss 90% of the time.
(Gimme a week for a running system on uncertain terms, like a half-assed wifi card. Otherwise, if everything goes fine, maybe an hour)
uTorrent has DHT, as well as torrent and individual file prioritizing, a tiny memory footprint, a tiny amount of CPU usage, a clean simple, customizable interface, and it's not written in Java.
However, its security and simplicity may likely come into question after what has occurred. Which is very sad. I'll be looking for a command line client after this, nothing with a gui is going to be able to compare to it's resource usage or have such power in simplicity.
Omg, companies won't want to use software they can't rape! What atrocities!
But seriously, people are going to stop switching to Linux because they are "forced" to be free? And they'll choose proprietary closed-source options where the users is treated like the enemy?
Are humans really that gullible?
I read this article a day or two ago, now, I know a lot of people think Stallman is really extreme, and well, he is. But this writer treats him like the new Hitler or something, this guy is taking lessons from GW. It's not the facts so much that I dispute, it's the way he treats Stallman, abuses him, insults him and everyone in FSF. The hard spin the writer puts on everything casts a huge amount of suspicion on everything he says. Does this guy work for Redhat or Oracle or what?
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Seems like everyone has forgotten about Sony and it's affinity for screwing over it's customers with proprietary hardware, poor support, and malware. Am I the only one who refuses to buy anything made by Sony, including entertainment devices, computers, music and movies?
A rant about rants. How about that!
I'm not certain but the "Evil Capitalism" might have been sarcasm.
In any case, I agree with your statements more than not. Corporations face much weaker punishments than individuals do, at least in this country.
Google doesn't really hide the fact that it aggregates your data. It makes money off of the statistics your emails contributes to the whole, it all feeds back into their advertising, it's how they built their fortune as a company (advertising, not email).
Your comments are highly subjective. Not everyone respects Google/Gmail (I do, though I don't post my Gmail accounts in public forums). Additionally, you only get an AOL email address with an AOL account which, ostensibly, you pay for, it's not free to sign up. Though if it were, for just an email address, I would still rank it below Hotmail. You do however get a free AIM email account, if I remember correctly.
.NET.
Again, as I said, people have reasons for keeping around Hotmail and Yahoo accounts. Could be business reasons, maybe they're good for site registrations that require a live email address (what I do), there's many reasons, and a blanket statement for an issue clearly affecting people does nothing to solve the problem.
In response to your hypothetical, yes, I'd at least look at the resume, a legacy email account is not a reason to disqualify a perfectly suitable candidate, unless they also code
Did you even read the first paragraph of the article?
It's not about YOU using it, SOMEONE uses it, maybe they have their account there from before they knew better, or maybe they do it just to piss you off, whatever the cause, if you're sending out a newsletter, or a payment receipt, or responding to a craigslist ad, or use a mialing list, or whatever you're doing, and you're on the "spam" list, your email might never see your customer/client/whatever. If you don't make money online, or if you don't do anything that involves mass mailings, then maybe it doesn't affect you directly, but the precedent is still there. Rights, even customer rights, aren't just about YOU, they're about everybody.
*steps off the soapbox*
Gotta comment on this. I have a camera from 1960 with a light sensor (Mamiya/Sekor 500TL). There are still fans of this very camera who have it working to this day (I don't know if mine works, it needs cleaning and a new battery). And we're going on almost 50 years of use here. So I consider it possible to continue to use the same kind of film for extended periods of time. I'm not sure about development chemicals, thats beyond my scope of knowledge at this right now. You do make a point, but it's probably not going to impact this user in only 30 years, as demand for these materials will probably keep them around for a while yet.
I agree with your first two sentances. However..
I seem to recall the first four years of the Bush Administration being called a recession, I wouldn't call what we're seeing here doing "quite well" it's more of trying to catch back up to where we should be.
I think you also mean Screen Actor's Guild the acronym for which is SAG, while not nearly as amusing as FAG, it's more technically accurate.
When I took the quiz at the beginning, I got Malk. My friend (who's game/computer it was) was like wtf.
I loved meeting new characters and them going "Oh shit, you're a Malk, thats just what I need."
It made me giggle.
So, in other words, you want Dawn of War?
/. seem to be asking for. There's "heros" in a sense, powerful unique units, but crossed with the Jim Rainer/Sarah Kerrigan style of SC1. There's tactics, holding control points, resource management, good storyline, morale (troops can run when they're terrified, adding a commander to the unit improves morale), and other things. It was a great game. But it still wasn't as downright fun to play as SC1. I strongly suspect no game ever will be.
Actually, DoW had a lot of the things people on
Here's hoping I'm wrong!
This is the song that doesn't end, yes it goes on and on my friend, some people started singing it not knowing what it was, but they'll continue singing it forever just because..
Competition is good, though I would have liked to see the OLPC project get more of a headstart before the big guns (Intel) moved in.
Intel saw money somewhere, so it went to go take it.
Their laptop runs windows too. I wonder who's idea that was..
I don't think this guy can be taken seriously at all, his imagery and phraseology seems to be intended to provoke. And what is with the acronym "RSEU"? I thought that stood for "Really Stupid End Users".
It's hard to see that which is transparent.
In any case, as much of a paranoid individual I am, I think that Google *has* to be secretive. Google has been targeted by Microsoft, Yahoo, and other huge companies which have a long history of play really really dirty. Google has been around a while now and has no real history of being dirty. Their NDA for interviews which slashdotters freaked about, if they had RTFA and then read the NDA, most of them would have seen the articles took clauses out of context, which you simply can't do, and in context it made sense.
If I were a rather new, but large, rich company with a lot to lose, I'd be keeping as many secrets as I could from the companies and people who would love to see me fail.
Know your enemy, and make sure it doesn't know you.
I've gone to bed hungry.
Survival is about a lot more than a comfy IT job.
I've had pirated software on my computer because another employee installed it, I promptly removed it and replaced it with an alternative.
My belief is that if you make money with pay-for software, the company/author(s) deserve to be paid because you're using their product to make your money.
Except right now things tend to be streamlined. (relatively, for me)
On Windows (2k/XP):
Install slipstreamed SP2 disk and fixes
Uninstall windows messenger, disable IE icons, disable luna, tcp patch, kill windows update and error reporting.
Update DirectX, latest video card drivers, sound card drivers, asio4all, peripherals.
Install firefox, spybot, media monkey, Sergio's x-chat for windows http://www.larces.uece.br/~sergio/?page=xchat
Install Emerge Desktop http://www.emergedesktop.org/
(mostly in the first day, then a few over the next week or so, months before I have most of my applications and plugins installed)
Mac OSX:
Update
Install Deeper
Install iTerm
Install Macports
Install irssi
If I'm using Textmate, get my specific color preferences and add-ons which I can't find online. Use vim instead.
(Could all be done in 3 hours.)
Linux:
Do 500 things, mainly for device drivers. Customize XFCE, never use it, stay in console bliss 90% of the time.
(Gimme a week for a running system on uncertain terms, like a half-assed wifi card. Otherwise, if everything goes fine, maybe an hour)
Cross platform geek ftw.
-x
uTorrent has DHT, as well as torrent and individual file prioritizing, a tiny memory footprint, a tiny amount of CPU usage, a clean simple, customizable interface, and it's not written in Java.
However, its security and simplicity may likely come into question after what has occurred. Which is very sad. I'll be looking for a command line client after this, nothing with a gui is going to be able to compare to it's resource usage or have such power in simplicity.
Omg, companies won't want to use software they can't rape! What atrocities! But seriously, people are going to stop switching to Linux because they are "forced" to be free? And they'll choose proprietary closed-source options where the users is treated like the enemy? Are humans really that gullible?
I read this article a day or two ago, now, I know a lot of people think Stallman is really extreme, and well, he is. But this writer treats him like the new Hitler or something, this guy is taking lessons from GW. It's not the facts so much that I dispute, it's the way he treats Stallman, abuses him, insults him and everyone in FSF. The hard spin the writer puts on everything casts a huge amount of suspicion on everything he says. Does this guy work for Redhat or Oracle or what?