total time for a "bunch of clicks": 20 minutes max. Calories burned: Maybe 50.
For the target audience finding 'how do i get the bubble message thingy to talk to my daughter?' or the call to the resident geek 'i just heard about a nasty microsoft bug. can you come down and install the patch?' takes far more time and energy to solve either of these problems.
And how many times have slashdotters been stood up for dates for more than 20 minutes? Does that mean you'll give up women forever and advocate a switch to an alternative system?
MS's alternative would be to release "Windows for stubborn people" and then those people would complain about X new feature that they didn't get. And of course X new feature is different for every geek.
According to the article these are the machines in Gateway's retail stores. If they turned them off to save power can you imagine what happens when a customer comes in?
This company is selling PC's. They need them ON to display them. They don't want the customer waiting for the computer to come out of sleep mode (assuming it does so successfully) or boot.
Go back 10 years. Microsoft's main revenue drivers in 1992 were uh, Windows 3x and Office 4.3. Arguably Windows had pretty good market share but Office was still losing to Lotus 1-2-3 and Wordperfect.
Go back 15 years. Microsoft's main revenue drivers were DOS and ummm Word for DOS. Languages contributed more then too (although I'd argue that MS has much more dominant share of DOS/Windows development tools today than they did 15 years ago)
We're not talking monopoly rents. We're talking about how some parts of your business become cash cows and support other parts of your business that they believe are worth investing in and will one day become profitable.
Just go back to work on Monday. Sit at your old desk. Try to log in to the LAN.
Business as usual
When she called you no saturday, she hired you back. Be very gracious about getting your job back. Before you see her, tell all the old coworkers that she hired you back when she called you on saturday. Go back in, and THANK her for calling you Saturday and getting your job back.
again, be very very gracious
Kill her with kindness. Best case: you get your job back. Worst case: you make her look like the ass she is and you get a day of fun.
Any proof to back up what you say? I opened up my $17K 1997 Subaru Outback Sport remote to find code hopping in it.
Actually, I felt kinda dumb when I opened the manual and it described how the code hopping work and what the chances are that you would hit another keyless remote with the exact same signature.
I've seen the same description in other japanese autos manuals and remotes. (haven't played with the american domestics for a while though)
It's all about burning bridges. You don't go out of your way to criticize someone if you expect to do business with them in the future. Most businesses want their Microsoft Rep to get them better tech support, better licensing prices, etc. You don't flame the ass of someone you want something from. Like it or not, Microsoft is not going away. So get what you can out of them.
E-Week is a magazine for CIOs and IT administrators. If you get your name printed disparaging any of your suppliers, you can be sure that your sales rep and tech support rep aren't going to smiling and saying 'wow, what a great and effective way to deliver feedback to me.'
PocketPC's (Ipaqs, Jornadas, Toshibas, Cassiopeias) support offline browsing through ActiveSync. As long as you keep your pages simple enough (i.e. no huge nav frames) your pages should be legible.
there's no legislation since they're all enjoying their increased endurance, university diplomas, amazing weight loss, free money, human growth hormones and ability to see the sexiest women in the most compromising positions.
This has always been true. It's probably gotten a little more true once non-geeks started going into tech for the money/(once)plentiful job opportunities. Your problem is that you don't know how to screen your candidates before you interview them. I'm guessing that you:
Look for kids with good GPAs---These are the ones that often play the games the professors want them to play so they learn how to take the tests.
Look for the most polished resumes/suits or use OCR to scan them--Lots of geeks are horrible at aesthetics, neatness,grammar, selling, hygiene, etc. If you go for the most beautifully laid out resume, you'll get the one with good visual taste or writing skills (or smarts to find someone with good taste) but it doesn't tell you sh*t about how well they'll be a techie. And if you don't want to work with smelly, ugly zitty code God, well, that's one of the tradeoffs you'll have to make.
Basically, you need to go out and get the people with the skills you want instead of wait for them to come to you. Look at the authors for a piece of open source code you admire and ask them for referrals (or offer to hire that person). If you're really daring, Go after the slashdotters with excellent karma. Traditional interviews/resumes are great for some professions but not for techies.
IANAL and I don't care if it's legal or not but I think it's still wrong what Reuters did.
There's no doubt that the company that let their financials get out were completely moronic about their security. That, however, does not change whether or not it was wrong to hunt for this information. It's no different from the 'she was wearing something revealing so i have the right to rape/sexually harass her' fallacy.
It comes down to what the intent was and what the resulting action was. First, the Reuters reporter was probably looking for the data that wasn't released yet. He had intent to get something he wasn't supposed to have and get a story out of it. It's no different from someone with binoculars eying a payphone at an airport to steal calling card numbers from people who don't cover their keypads when dialing and then publishing the number/selling it/or using it to call some people.
The second half of the equation is what they do with it. Reuters had a scoop to gain by publishing this information early. If the reporter used this information to short the stock before it was released, that'd be illegal too. Think if we were dealing with something other than a press release. What if it was child pornography? Someone surfs to a random URL and finds child pornography. He could argue that he ran into it by accident, closed the browser and forgot about it. He's probably not going to be in too much trouble. But if he posts the link up on slashdot claiming the story's about linux, emails it to 1000 people, prints the pictures and mails copies to the police, then he's definately guilty. Here reuters found it and published it to get a story out of it. They acted on it and gave away something that wasn't theirs.
According to this page Google has a 55.1% search share as of Oct 17th. When you throw in that Google runs Aol searches that brings them up to 58.6%. And before June 2002 they were running Yahoo's searches (20.6%).
If they get back up to that 79% number and hold it for any length of time, legally, that makes them a monopoly. No matter how much we may like Google today, it's a lot of power for one search engine to be able to have. It seems like a matter of time if they keep gaining share before they start abusing that power. Microsoft was innovating when they were at war against 1-2-3 and Wordperfect just as Google is today against Overture. With AskJeeves, Inktomi and Altavista looking like they'll go away soon, we will see Google to keep 'innovating ' making the little guys not show up in their search engine anymore?
As much as we may love them now, remember who they're trying to serve: their venture (vulture) capitalists.
It's not exactly as friendly as Windwows to Windows or Mac to Mac but you can use Hyperterminal on Windows and the communications program in AppleWorks to talk to each other. Then you'd use ZModem or another protocol by choosing Send File from one machine to the other.
The only trick is that you need to choose IR (or in some cases it says Virtual IR) as the COM port instead of choosing a modem or COM port. Oh yeah, and make sure the two IR ports recognize each other.
I doubt this is really a blow for Microsoft. It may actually mean more revenue for microsoft since OEM prices are ridiculously low. While Microsoft might make $50 per copy of Office as an OEM if someone buys it aftermarket they'd probably make about $150.
I used to work for a modem manufacturer and it's mindblowing how much we paid for software we bundled. When we had 'Quick Link II' it cost us $1.40 per copy. Of course, our marketing people switched to WinFax Pro and it's communications software when we got the chance because it was $.80 per copy. Incidentally, if we included AOL or Prodigy CD's they paid us kickbacks for each customer that signed up using the 'free offer' included in the box.
My guess is that MS Office was probably about $50 and Corel Office goes for about $5. That's the reason for the switch...Also, look carefully at the PC you buy. You'll notice on the CDs that they say that all tech support has to go to Gateway instead of Corel or Microsoft--that's to make up for the ridiculously low cost of the OEM bundle.
For slashdotters, as others have pointed out it'll help you learn western languages. That's about it for the computer set.
but for those non-engineering sciences like biology or medical related specialties, latin basics are essential for precisely describing a location or giving instructions. (i.e. imagine a surgeon saying "I just cut off your #4 valve in your heart. To do this you just lift the rib, cut some fat off and stick a balloon in it." Instead they can give precise descriptions using big words like anterior).
Microsoft gives away 'eMbedded Visual Tools' which can compile to ARM devices using C++ or Visual Basic. While the templates are for Windows CE operating systems, you can still compile as processor specific without using the templates.
I have more success with a laptop on a desk with the book beside it. Put your chair up higher and you can keep them quite close to each other. Make sure you break the spine of the book or have a good paperweight so that it stays open. Another options with a laptop is to type so that the book is on your lap but the laptop is just above.
Another options is to see if there's an electronic copy of the book online or perhaps on the CD included with the book
A portable machine draws the least power. There are plenty of people who wreck their screens which completely kills the resale value of the laptop. While you can get decent deals at Ebay, you'd probably have better luck in less technical forums (like a neighborhood classified or local university paper) where people just want to get $5 and forget about their costly accident.
Use VNC or a temporary external monitor/keyboard to configure the machine then tuck it away in a closet or under your desk or somewhere else you can forget about it.
With the ubiquity of broadband and PCs, just leave a machine running all the time using a static IP or dynamic nameserver resolution. You own all the data on your PC and if you protect it right, you can feel secure. The only information you're sharing is what's going over the wire which you can protect with an SSL cert.
Here my usage scenarios:
1. From another PC I can VNC (or equiv) so I don't have to worry about application versions, leaving temp files, etc.
2. From a crippled web terminal (i.e. I can't install a java app/activex control to use VNC), my bookmarks are a secure web page (they're already exportable in IE and Netscape to an HTML file). If you run Windows you get IIS for free. Otherwise, you run Apache. Both are pretty simple for serving up simple pages.
3. From my PDA my contacts are already sync'ed so I usually don't need to 'phone home.' But if I want to use my Ipaq with it's default software, I can activesync over the 'net to get my mail, calendar, avantgo, etc. Here I'd just pay for 802.11 access from a starbux or look for a community network.
4. For my cell phone, I live in tokyo so my phone actually syncs with my PC and can read simple web pages so I'm good to go:)
5. For documents, FTP them or email them to yourself.
6. For other email, just use the POP3 features of Hotmail or yahoo mail to your ISP. If you want to host your own mail, that's a separate bag of worms but I'd recommend just encrypting it if you're so worried.
The remaining challenge is securing your PC so that you're always using some form of authentication.
Slashdot Mirror
But it's definately healthier to suck it up according to this New York Times piece.
So if you're pouting about losing data, you're probably going to be worse off soon :)
For the target audience finding 'how do i get the bubble message thingy to talk to my daughter?' or the call to the resident geek 'i just heard about a nasty microsoft bug. can you come down and install the patch?' takes far more time and energy to solve either of these problems.
And how many times have slashdotters been stood up for dates for more than 20 minutes? Does that mean you'll give up women forever and advocate a switch to an alternative system?
MS's alternative would be to release "Windows for stubborn people" and then those people would complain about X new feature that they didn't get. And of course X new feature is different for every geek.
Check out the Reebok ad when it's available online later...there's an impressive Office Space reference from a football player of all people!
This company is selling PC's. They need them ON to display them. They don't want the customer waiting for the computer to come out of sleep mode (assuming it does so successfully) or boot.
James Bond movie from Kazaa $20.
Copy of Windows XP from my last visit to Russia $200.
Brittney Spears latest copied from a friend $15
See, I'm doing my part. Using their arguments I'm costing them a fortune!
knock knock
Oh shit!
And does it crash when exposed to porn?
Go back 15 years. Microsoft's main revenue drivers were DOS and ummm Word for DOS. Languages contributed more then too (although I'd argue that MS has much more dominant share of DOS/Windows development tools today than they did 15 years ago)
We're not talking monopoly rents. We're talking about how some parts of your business become cash cows and support other parts of your business that they believe are worth investing in and will one day become profitable.
Business as usual
When she called you no saturday, she hired you back. Be very gracious about getting your job back. Before you see her, tell all the old coworkers that she hired you back when she called you on saturday. Go back in, and THANK her for calling you Saturday and getting your job back.
again, be very very gracious
Kill her with kindness. Best case: you get your job back. Worst case: you make her look like the ass she is and you get a day of fun.
Actually, I felt kinda dumb when I opened the manual and it described how the code hopping work and what the chances are that you would hit another keyless remote with the exact same signature.
I've seen the same description in other japanese autos manuals and remotes. (haven't played with the american domestics for a while though)
E-Week is a magazine for CIOs and IT administrators. If you get your name printed disparaging any of your suppliers, you can be sure that your sales rep and tech support rep aren't going to smiling and saying 'wow, what a great and effective way to deliver feedback to me.'
PocketPC's (Ipaqs, Jornadas, Toshibas, Cassiopeias) support offline browsing through ActiveSync. As long as you keep your pages simple enough (i.e. no huge nav frames) your pages should be legible.
The real question, is why aren't you?
Look for kids with good GPAs---These are the ones that often play the games the professors want them to play so they learn how to take the tests.
Look for the most polished resumes/suits or use OCR to scan them--Lots of geeks are horrible at aesthetics, neatness,grammar, selling, hygiene, etc. If you go for the most beautifully laid out resume, you'll get the one with good visual taste or writing skills (or smarts to find someone with good taste) but it doesn't tell you sh*t about how well they'll be a techie. And if you don't want to work with smelly, ugly zitty code God, well, that's one of the tradeoffs you'll have to make.
Basically, you need to go out and get the people with the skills you want instead of wait for them to come to you. Look at the authors for a piece of open source code you admire and ask them for referrals (or offer to hire that person). If you're really daring, Go after the slashdotters with excellent karma. Traditional interviews/resumes are great for some professions but not for techies.
There's no doubt that the company that let their financials get out were completely moronic about their security. That, however, does not change whether or not it was wrong to hunt for this information. It's no different from the 'she was wearing something revealing so i have the right to rape/sexually harass her' fallacy.
It comes down to what the intent was and what the resulting action was. First, the Reuters reporter was probably looking for the data that wasn't released yet. He had intent to get something he wasn't supposed to have and get a story out of it. It's no different from someone with binoculars eying a payphone at an airport to steal calling card numbers from people who don't cover their keypads when dialing and then publishing the number/selling it/or using it to call some people.
The second half of the equation is what they do with it. Reuters had a scoop to gain by publishing this information early. If the reporter used this information to short the stock before it was released, that'd be illegal too. Think if we were dealing with something other than a press release. What if it was child pornography? Someone surfs to a random URL and finds child pornography. He could argue that he ran into it by accident, closed the browser and forgot about it. He's probably not going to be in too much trouble. But if he posts the link up on slashdot claiming the story's about linux, emails it to 1000 people, prints the pictures and mails copies to the police, then he's definately guilty. Here reuters found it and published it to get a story out of it. They acted on it and gave away something that wasn't theirs.
If they get back up to that 79% number and hold it for any length of time, legally, that makes them a monopoly. No matter how much we may like Google today, it's a lot of power for one search engine to be able to have. It seems like a matter of time if they keep gaining share before they start abusing that power. Microsoft was innovating when they were at war against 1-2-3 and Wordperfect just as Google is today against Overture. With AskJeeves, Inktomi and Altavista looking like they'll go away soon, we will see Google to keep 'innovating ' making the little guys not show up in their search engine anymore?
As much as we may love them now, remember who they're trying to serve: their venture (vulture) capitalists.
The only trick is that you need to choose IR (or in some cases it says Virtual IR) as the COM port instead of choosing a modem or COM port. Oh yeah, and make sure the two IR ports recognize each other.
I used to work for a modem manufacturer and it's mindblowing how much we paid for software we bundled. When we had 'Quick Link II' it cost us $1.40 per copy. Of course, our marketing people switched to WinFax Pro and it's communications software when we got the chance because it was $.80 per copy. Incidentally, if we included AOL or Prodigy CD's they paid us kickbacks for each customer that signed up using the 'free offer' included in the box.
My guess is that MS Office was probably about $50 and Corel Office goes for about $5. That's the reason for the switch...Also, look carefully at the PC you buy. You'll notice on the CDs that they say that all tech support has to go to Gateway instead of Corel or Microsoft--that's to make up for the ridiculously low cost of the OEM bundle.
but for those non-engineering sciences like biology or medical related specialties, latin basics are essential for precisely describing a location or giving instructions. (i.e. imagine a surgeon saying "I just cut off your #4 valve in your heart. To do this you just lift the rib, cut some fat off and stick a balloon in it." Instead they can give precise descriptions using big words like anterior).
Microsoft gives away 'eMbedded Visual Tools' which can compile to ARM devices using C++ or Visual Basic. While the templates are for Windows CE operating systems, you can still compile as processor specific without using the templates.
Another options is to see if there's an electronic copy of the book online or perhaps on the CD included with the book
-Send the story to a coworker who doesn't agree with you,
-send a copy to your congressman,
-update your sig to reflect your beliefs,
-get a Free the Mouse bumpersticker and wear it,
-give money to the EFF,
-release a piece of music, writing, photo, idea you came up with to Creative Commons.
-Send a thoughtful letter to the editor to 3 different publications you read.
C'mon people, we don't need more witty remarks.
FREE THE MOUSE!!!!
Use VNC or a temporary external monitor/keyboard to configure the machine then tuck it away in a closet or under your desk or somewhere else you can forget about it.
Here my usage scenarios:
1. From another PC I can VNC (or equiv) so I don't have to worry about application versions, leaving temp files, etc.
2. From a crippled web terminal (i.e. I can't install a java app/activex control to use VNC), my bookmarks are a secure web page (they're already exportable in IE and Netscape to an HTML file). If you run Windows you get IIS for free. Otherwise, you run Apache. Both are pretty simple for serving up simple pages.
3. From my PDA my contacts are already sync'ed so I usually don't need to 'phone home.' But if I want to use my Ipaq with it's default software, I can activesync over the 'net to get my mail, calendar, avantgo, etc. Here I'd just pay for 802.11 access from a starbux or look for a community network.
4. For my cell phone, I live in tokyo so my phone actually syncs with my PC and can read simple web pages so I'm good to go :)
5. For documents, FTP them or email them to yourself.
6. For other email, just use the POP3 features of Hotmail or yahoo mail to your ISP. If you want to host your own mail, that's a separate bag of worms but I'd recommend just encrypting it if you're so worried.
The remaining challenge is securing your PC so that you're always using some form of authentication.
oops. That was pretty stupid.
1. We know that NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatories) like Aspirin or Ibuprofen block COX-1 and COX-2 enzymes.
2. We know that COX-1 enzymes help protect the stomach while COX-2 enzymes cause pain sensations and inflammation.
3. We looked at monkey brains and saw that there was an enzyme we know nothing about. It happens to show up in human hearts and brains too.
4. We saw that acetominophen (tylenol) blocks it.
Therefore the way that tylenol works is that it blocks this one enzyme. Since it seems related to pain let's call it COX-3
Sounds like another case of someone saying that correlation=causation. Did they check if tylenol affects the other 8 zillion chemicals in the body?