THAT was funny! And sort of dovetails into an observation I've made. Friends that say, "I just don't have time for that" and yet roll off countless hours playing WoW.
The problem is Verizon is so big that until they start seeing hundreds of thousands or millions leave their service, they're not likely to do much. What's more, they can afford to slough off several million before they get too scared. If the iPhone moves to Verizon, prepare for things to get worse CS wise.
OTOH, this is a great opportunity for the other carriers. People hate AT&T and Verizon has seen enough growth that they can afford to let CS slide. Sprint has had ever-increasing CS ratings over the past couple of years. If they stick to unlimited plans they will drive a lot of business their way as Verizon appears to be considering tiered pricing. T-Mobile has also seemed to make their customers happy, too. So this is the way the system is supposed to work. Let the big guys get fat and start to slow down and their competitors will take advantage.
And naturally "they" need to do something about it. I could care less about the "professionals." There are plenty of obstacles during stormy weather. Debris and people just trying to leave are among them. So people want to storm chase. They should be allowed to. This notion that "someone" should "do something about it" flies in the face of freedom. I recall when I was listening to mainstream coverage about a trans-Alaska ski, foot, and bike winter race. Someone on the panel piped up, "They let them do that?" Who are the "they" and what gives them the right to stop them? Chase on, storm chasers! "I'd rather die on my feet then live on my knees!" - Skakenigs
It's funny that everyone is up in arms about a nobody winning this race. If there's fraud, may it be found and dealt with (not fabricated). But couple this with Bob Ethridge's behavior http://voices.washingtonpost.com/reliable-source/2010/06/rs-_etheridge.html and the arrogance of the professional politician is revealed, it would seem. I recall some local podcasters being called to a "meeting" to discuss new media with some journalists from our local newspaper (a major city newspaper, mind you). Essentially they were sat down and told who the real journalists were. Arrogance generally reveals more stupidity than mastery.
Another editor writes an idiotic title??
Let's answer this simply, since the article has a simple title: "Is it finally time to dump XP?" NO. It's 2010. By your own article's admission support ends in 2014!
FTFA: "IT departments need to dump Microsoft's Windows XP operating system (OS) before the software vendor ends support for it in April 2014"
Thanks, Capt. Obvious!
Also FTFA: "the sooner the better as many new versions of applications are not expected to support XP beyond 2012."
What applications? Do these people live in the enterprise? Vendor apps are the slowest to migrate to any new OS. That's one of the major reasons why migrations happen so slowly. The other is money. In a down economy you're simply not going to see wholesale adoption of Windows 7 when there's no funding and companies can pull profits from apps that are working now! This is all fun to sit and talk about and kick up some worry but the reality is when you go back to your CIO or IT manager funding will win out. They're going to wait till they get closer to EOL and hope the economy turns around and frankly that's what they should do.
Ah Turkey. When they're poking their finger in Israel's eye, they're the darling of Leftists far and wide. When they censor, ban, and oppress themselves suddenly we're up in arms. Fuck 'em. It's Turkey!
There was a study done some years ago where different groups were given tests to determine bias towards a given or accepted premise. Scientists where shown to be just as and in some cases more likely to fail a given puzzle due to reluctance to let go of a given premise and try another one. So we should be careful to equate "scientist" with "right." Facts are facts as we know them. That isn't to say they should be ignored either but skepticism is just as healthy where science is concerned as it is where religion, philosophy, politics, or anything else is. In fact, it's probably more important as science is the pursuit of the knowledge of what we see, hear, and smell.
Exactly. Why do they need this "space." (I hate that word...) They go after things because they covet them. We haven't heard much out of them and they kicked out Windows 7 which by all points seems to be a decent OS. It seems the quieter they are, the more they focus on their core, the better their products. It's an Android/iPhone world. Does anyone besides Microsoft WANT a MS phone? No. Well, maybe some tech writers for fodder I don't know. The truth is we have choice now without Microsoft. Why can't they do what they do best? A pair of pliers will mostly not make a good substitute for a socket wrench.
We literally bought a piece of hardware that by the time it left the shelf, the project implemented, and everything was brought up online we had a brand new piece of hardware that the vendor had EOL'd. It's not just a software problem. As long as hardware changes are ever accelerating, the tendency to "make software fit" is going to be a problem. Everyone wants to make "new" instead of "work."
Okay, first without pictures this story is kinda meh. And a still shot from the movie "Armageddon" doesn't count. And why didn't we find this with Google Earth!? I'm suspicious!:p
This story is more about this official and short on details. It's largely "they did this" and "they did that." I'd like to see more details like specific textbook examples before I go trodding off to Texas to tell them they need to do something or not. In the long run, their a sovereign state. I don't live there so...
I do, however, find the notion that: "Two years ago, she published a book, One Nation Under God, in which she argued that the United States was ultimately governed by the scriptures."
disturbing. Yet, it's no more disturbing than finding out teachers and professors have authored papers on "re-distribution of wealth" or "population control."
There is and has been "liberal" slants in education for decades. Texas has swung far right. Perhaps the truth gets tainted but it gets tainted by both sides. Teach kids to discern and the smart ones will come through it.
Every parent should pull their kids and spend a day with them. Let the school see how empty the school would be without them. Actually, they should pull them forever. Hit them where it hurts: funding. This kind of behavior is born out of the fact that education majors are statistically the lower-scoring students at college. So our kids are taught by the below-average to average.
Excellent point. He hears what his staff says about the blogs and the Internets and gets his nuts in a knot over it. This is who we're told his the most social media savvy president ever! What lies beneath is that his staff probably does all the social media work for him, of course, I know but don't say HE'S the savvy one. But yes, this sounded very much elitist and frankly like an attempt to keep people FROM social media because that's where dissent is coming from. "They don't like me out there! But I thought you all liked me!? I mean, even Simon said I could go to Hollywood!"
Scientists lusted after U.N. money and got burned. I don't take anything the U.N. says seriously and the email-gate proved scientists were willing to skew the data and suppress dissenting opinion. Well, you got paid. Now you want to pretend it was all about the data!? Back to the lab!
"The dude was just doing what any average person in his position would be doing if they got to look at Obama's emails or Dick Cheney's emails or Bush's emails."
Except he didn't "got to look" at it. He HACKED it.
"A few useful patents?" Palm was making touchscreen handhelds before touchphones were conceived. They likely have a plethora of patents that the iPhone and other touch phones clearly violate. I really had hoped HTC would have bought them or maybe Google. Thus shoring up the patent situation and leveling the playing field. Essentially, that would have given the big 3 (MS, Apple, Google) a near equal amount of fire power thus staving off a global, thermo-nuclear patent war. HP did okay with iPaq's but I just don't see them as a phone player.
I never quite bought that he was only required to give passwords to the Mayor. If so, SF had a pretty screwed up system. I can tell you, if my boss wants the passwords to my system he gets them. You know why? Because I want my job. From the beginning, while I sympathized with Childs, he came off as a l337 who built up this huge kingdom in WoW and didn't want anyone to play with it. Give the passwords to your boss, keep a paper trail, if the system comes down you have all you need to defend yourself. Holding the system hostage was idiotic. That's not to say there isn't a case for his innocence, only that he's not completely innocent from what I can see.
You have a fairly Utopian view of what illegal workers do in this country. Let me clue you in. There's a huge market for identity theft among illegals, insurance fraud, and Social Security fraud. And it's not isolated incidents. A friend of mine was a VP at a large produce conglomerate that hired migrant workers. He had workers come to him to hire their elderly parents so that they could send them home with SS benefits. People who think illegals just want to come make a better life are not enlightened, quite the contrary. They're ignorant. Go ask the one's who became citizens. They're furious that we let people pour over the border and that they might get amnesty. This isn't about race. "Race" is a card played in desperation. The answer here is simple: secure the border and reform the path to citizenry. Why that's considered "racist" is beyond me. The truth is it's not. It's merely a means to an end which is to denigrate the law.
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"Communist nation restricts freedom!" And that's news?
THAT was funny! And sort of dovetails into an observation I've made. Friends that say, "I just don't have time for that" and yet roll off countless hours playing WoW.
"By the end of the decade, at the present rate of cost growth, the price of a family insurance plan will rise to $27,000."
:p
This guy must not be too smart. Obama gave us free healthcare. Duh!
"Why The Face" is this on Slashdot?
The problem is Verizon is so big that until they start seeing hundreds of thousands or millions leave their service, they're not likely to do much. What's more, they can afford to slough off several million before they get too scared. If the iPhone moves to Verizon, prepare for things to get worse CS wise.
OTOH, this is a great opportunity for the other carriers. People hate AT&T and Verizon has seen enough growth that they can afford to let CS slide. Sprint has had ever-increasing CS ratings over the past couple of years. If they stick to unlimited plans they will drive a lot of business their way as Verizon appears to be considering tiered pricing. T-Mobile has also seemed to make their customers happy, too. So this is the way the system is supposed to work. Let the big guys get fat and start to slow down and their competitors will take advantage.
It's dangerous enough to inject things INTO someone in Thailand as a tourist, let alone be the one injected into! :o
And naturally "they" need to do something about it. I could care less about the "professionals." There are plenty of obstacles during stormy weather. Debris and people just trying to leave are among them. So people want to storm chase. They should be allowed to. This notion that "someone" should "do something about it" flies in the face of freedom. I recall when I was listening to mainstream coverage about a trans-Alaska ski, foot, and bike winter race. Someone on the panel piped up, "They let them do that?" Who are the "they" and what gives them the right to stop them? Chase on, storm chasers! "I'd rather die on my feet then live on my knees!" - Skakenigs
It's funny that everyone is up in arms about a nobody winning this race. If there's fraud, may it be found and dealt with (not fabricated). But couple this with Bob Ethridge's behavior http://voices.washingtonpost.com/reliable-source/2010/06/rs-_etheridge.html and the arrogance of the professional politician is revealed, it would seem. I recall some local podcasters being called to a "meeting" to discuss new media with some journalists from our local newspaper (a major city newspaper, mind you). Essentially they were sat down and told who the real journalists were. Arrogance generally reveals more stupidity than mastery.
Another editor writes an idiotic title??
Let's answer this simply, since the article has a simple title: "Is it finally time to dump XP?" NO. It's 2010. By your own article's admission support ends in 2014!
FTFA: "IT departments need to dump Microsoft's Windows XP operating system (OS) before the software vendor ends support for it in April 2014"
Thanks, Capt. Obvious!
Also FTFA: "the sooner the better as many new versions of applications are not expected to support XP beyond 2012."
What applications? Do these people live in the enterprise? Vendor apps are the slowest to migrate to any new OS. That's one of the major reasons why migrations happen so slowly. The other is money. In a down economy you're simply not going to see wholesale adoption of Windows 7 when there's no funding and companies can pull profits from apps that are working now! This is all fun to sit and talk about and kick up some worry but the reality is when you go back to your CIO or IT manager funding will win out. They're going to wait till they get closer to EOL and hope the economy turns around and frankly that's what they should do.
Ah Turkey. When they're poking their finger in Israel's eye, they're the darling of Leftists far and wide. When they censor, ban, and oppress themselves suddenly we're up in arms. Fuck 'em. It's Turkey!
There was a study done some years ago where different groups were given tests to determine bias towards a given or accepted premise. Scientists where shown to be just as and in some cases more likely to fail a given puzzle due to reluctance to let go of a given premise and try another one. So we should be careful to equate "scientist" with "right." Facts are facts as we know them. That isn't to say they should be ignored either but skepticism is just as healthy where science is concerned as it is where religion, philosophy, politics, or anything else is. In fact, it's probably more important as science is the pursuit of the knowledge of what we see, hear, and smell.
Exactly. Why do they need this "space." (I hate that word...) They go after things because they covet them. We haven't heard much out of them and they kicked out Windows 7 which by all points seems to be a decent OS. It seems the quieter they are, the more they focus on their core, the better their products. It's an Android/iPhone world. Does anyone besides Microsoft WANT a MS phone? No. Well, maybe some tech writers for fodder I don't know. The truth is we have choice now without Microsoft. Why can't they do what they do best? A pair of pliers will mostly not make a good substitute for a socket wrench.
We literally bought a piece of hardware that by the time it left the shelf, the project implemented, and everything was brought up online we had a brand new piece of hardware that the vendor had EOL'd. It's not just a software problem. As long as hardware changes are ever accelerating, the tendency to "make software fit" is going to be a problem. Everyone wants to make "new" instead of "work."
Okay, first without pictures this story is kinda meh. And a still shot from the movie "Armageddon" doesn't count. And why didn't we find this with Google Earth!? I'm suspicious! :p
This story is more about this official and short on details. It's largely "they did this" and "they did that." I'd like to see more details like specific textbook examples before I go trodding off to Texas to tell them they need to do something or not. In the long run, their a sovereign state. I don't live there so...
I do, however, find the notion that:
"Two years ago, she published a book, One Nation Under God, in which she argued that the United States was ultimately governed by the scriptures."
disturbing. Yet, it's no more disturbing than finding out teachers and professors have authored papers on "re-distribution of wealth" or "population control."
There is and has been "liberal" slants in education for decades. Texas has swung far right. Perhaps the truth gets tainted but it gets tainted by both sides. Teach kids to discern and the smart ones will come through it.
That sucks! Oh wait...
Every parent should pull their kids and spend a day with them. Let the school see how empty the school would be without them. Actually, they should pull them forever. Hit them where it hurts: funding. This kind of behavior is born out of the fact that education majors are statistically the lower-scoring students at college. So our kids are taught by the below-average to average.
Excellent point. He hears what his staff says about the blogs and the Internets and gets his nuts in a knot over it. This is who we're told his the most social media savvy president ever! What lies beneath is that his staff probably does all the social media work for him, of course, I know but don't say HE'S the savvy one. But yes, this sounded very much elitist and frankly like an attempt to keep people FROM social media because that's where dissent is coming from. "They don't like me out there! But I thought you all liked me!? I mean, even Simon said I could go to Hollywood!"
Scientists lusted after U.N. money and got burned. I don't take anything the U.N. says seriously and the email-gate proved scientists were willing to skew the data and suppress dissenting opinion. Well, you got paid. Now you want to pretend it was all about the data!? Back to the lab!
You can't see the Statue of Liberty from the Mexican border. Which is a great metaphor for the problem.
"The dude was just doing what any average person in his position would be doing if they got to look at Obama's emails or Dick Cheney's emails or Bush's emails."
Except he didn't "got to look" at it. He HACKED it.
"A few useful patents?" Palm was making touchscreen handhelds before touchphones were conceived. They likely have a plethora of patents that the iPhone and other touch phones clearly violate. I really had hoped HTC would have bought them or maybe Google. Thus shoring up the patent situation and leveling the playing field. Essentially, that would have given the big 3 (MS, Apple, Google) a near equal amount of fire power thus staving off a global, thermo-nuclear patent war. HP did okay with iPaq's but I just don't see them as a phone player.
I never quite bought that he was only required to give passwords to the Mayor. If so, SF had a pretty screwed up system. I can tell you, if my boss wants the passwords to my system he gets them. You know why? Because I want my job. From the beginning, while I sympathized with Childs, he came off as a l337 who built up this huge kingdom in WoW and didn't want anyone to play with it. Give the passwords to your boss, keep a paper trail, if the system comes down you have all you need to defend yourself. Holding the system hostage was idiotic. That's not to say there isn't a case for his innocence, only that he's not completely innocent from what I can see.
You have a fairly Utopian view of what illegal workers do in this country. Let me clue you in. There's a huge market for identity theft among illegals, insurance fraud, and Social Security fraud. And it's not isolated incidents. A friend of mine was a VP at a large produce conglomerate that hired migrant workers. He had workers come to him to hire their elderly parents so that they could send them home with SS benefits. People who think illegals just want to come make a better life are not enlightened, quite the contrary. They're ignorant. Go ask the one's who became citizens. They're furious that we let people pour over the border and that they might get amnesty. This isn't about race. "Race" is a card played in desperation. The answer here is simple: secure the border and reform the path to citizenry. Why that's considered "racist" is beyond me. The truth is it's not. It's merely a means to an end which is to denigrate the law.
The furor over this bill has reached lunacy. If Al Sharpton and much of San Francisco is against it, it must have been a brilliant idea.