Just like the company I used to work for. Customer has a problem, x'fer them to someone else. Even though our department most likely could finger the solution out faster than the "correct person". Kind of like "The buck stops over there, besides it's not my responsibiltiy." It seems like in the race to save a dollar companies have forgotten that most folks will pay a little extra for good service. Perhaps they should teach that concept in business school. Wait, I graduated from one and they didn't teach that. To damn busy doing SWOT analysis, Gannet charts and critical path analysis to worry about User Experience. IBM and AT&T haven't been around forever and a day letting their customers go away mad.
That's my question now. Let's suppose that this thing passes. I am quite sure that if the Fed tries to dcrypt something they are not going to get a nice business letter detailting the who, what, when, where, why and how. Sure, they might catch some of the smaller outfits, but not the really big stuff that makes news. Besides, if crime guys know what they are, doing all incriminating evidence is stored off site, with pieces of it in seperate locations. So, if they do bust in, all that is there is a computer and a dymanic IP address. Second, the server is most likely remotely admin'ed, with all requests coming through dynamic Ip's and dymanic gateways after being routed through a few anymoumous remailers. It ain't gonna work. The internet is just to big and moves to quickly for the bloated DOJ to keep up. There I'm done now. I'm going back and play with my 8086. Try and crack that. "Hey Bill, what's this DeskMate stuff?"
Even if you don't have anything to hide everyone with a connection to the 'net should be really upset over this. Do you really want someone else sniffing your e-mails or where you visit on the internet? This is really Big Brother-ish in my opinion. It amounts to "You're not doing anything wrong but we want to take a look anyway." Supposing I encyrpted vital personal information to send to someone else for safekeeping, I really don't want some desk jockey over at the DOJ taking a look on his lunch hour. I encrypted that for a reason. I really don't care if they have to get a warrent. First, show me probable cause then I will let Mr. Fed take a look at my machine. But I really don't want them looking just because I happen to fit into some sort of profile.
O.K. Rant [OFF]. I feel better. Think I'll move to Canada.
If this guy can dig up some good pieces from a otherwise junk sattelite, I wonder what other stuff is up there that we could use? It wouldn't have to be the cream of the crop stuff, just the things that NASA has written off as end of life. I bet we could get quite a trove of data off of some of the still working stuff.
I am sorry if you misunderstood the context of my post. Please understand that it was a joke. I am also willing to "bash" *nix, Mac, or even local politics. I greatly fear for a society that cannot step back occasionally from a "serious" discussion of issues to partake of a little levity. We tried to be serious back in the 1940's and 1950's and look what world events happened. Please bear this in mind the next time you are watching television and see a section of the world erupt in violence or an experiment does not have the expected outcome.
It's a joke, ha-ha, funny, let's move on. Regardless of your personal opinons of Apple or Mr. Jobs, at least come up to the Big Blue Room and experience Actual Reality occasionally. Apple and the rest of the computer world losing it's sense of humor, is what got us into our present state. Lest we forget, there are other people out there who do not care about the subtle nuances of a computer, they just want to do the job and go on. I think it is refreshing to see a CEO of a multimillion corporaton who admits to watching TV. Could anyone see Bill Gates doing the same thing at a Micro$oft convention? I don't think so.
A Sinclare ZX spectrum? Why would anyone want such a fancy machine? My first was a Timex-Sinclare 1000 with the 16k expansion pack and really tiny thermal printer. Computing sessions were limited to what you could squeeze in before the power recitfer under the 4 keypad heated up and made the machine lock up. Ah-yes, the joys of a membrane keyboard and having to press SHIFT and P for Print statements. My first video game on it, Frogger. I remember writing a Christmas list on it as a series of Print statements. Blinking inverted text rules!!
It all comes down to the old phrase, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a day etc... Some people just do not value the importance of the internet. This is not a new idea. Industrialization of society was scoffed at by the learned artisians, persons during the Dark ages were activitly discouraged from learning by those in charge. This happens whenever a wholesale shift in the fabric of society happens. As cruel and heartless as it sounds, we can make access available to everyone, but we cannot make them use it. The old horse and water cliché. On the subject of the corrpution of children, every form of mass media has been blamed when it was new. You don't think that the baby boom generation (those in power now) invented the phrase, Vast Wasteland, and Nattering Nabobs of Negativism, do you? No, that was invented by the radio generation. Before that, corruption came in the form of smutty books, talkin' pi'tures and so on right back to cave drawings, no doubt.
"You just can't go around drawing bison on the walls! Think of the children!"
I can just see it now. Another massive federal program to give a computer to people who most likely don't want one. I've got news, the train is leaving, either be on it, or stand on the platform.
Power on coffee maker. [3 min boot up] Drag icon of filter basket to trash. [Warning, another program is using the basket. The basket can not be ejected at this time.] {Stupid,&%^*#&.} Restart coffee maker and hold down brew switch to force eject the basket. Load with hard to find Apple JavaBeans. Double click brew icon. [Decaf or regular?] [Sorry, error type 10 in Burner, Restart.] Restart coffee maker, drag carafe to AppleScript brew folder. [Carafe autofills with water, and java complier starts. This is Apple's version and takes all day for one pot.]
Make mental note to upgrade coffee maker to QuickBrew 4.0, choose startup carafe, and to turn off Appliance Linking.
Yes sir, nothing like the smell of banned websites. Let's just put them up there with the banned books. My question is who filters the filters? Why are we letting someone else decide what is and is not appropiate for our viewing pleasure? I am not advocating porn all around, but let's get real here. Any kid who has spent any time on a computer can get around any filter. Problem is most public libraries still confrom to the old lab usage. Let's keep the computers locked in a seperate room. How about putting the computers in the main part of the library? No one and I mean no one looks at porn where someone can see them. Computer usage should be a privilege, screw around and you will have the privilege removed, and that fact will be recorded on your library card. This is assuming we can hook up the computer to a card reader.
Sorry, I don't go to SUNY Buffalo. I'm in Buff State sweating cause NY-MO just turned off the A/C. Maybe they are trying to find a cure for the 8% sales tax, what to do with the Aud, and how do we get a decent radio station around here?
We made the list!!! Hurray, something besides snow!!! I don't think the UB site is finished yet. I'll bet that those government classified lisings are not there just to run a few stockpile calculations and a screensaver. I have some opinions, but I will keep them to myself.
Yea, compared to a Mac or Win 95 the graphics stank like my septic tank. But, the technology under there was awesome. I mean what other Os do you know of that run 2 Desktops at the same time. The second one ready to jump in if the first crashed. It didn't always work right and I ended up restarting most of the time, but I got a warm fuzzy feeling just knowing that the OS was trying to recover on the fly. Ask any OS/2 user if the 3 backups that the system made ever bailed out their machine? It certinaly did on my computer. It had things that I miss on my Mac. IBM's marketing did doom OS/2 to an also ran. It didn't help that version 2 was difficult to install. It demanded a lot out of systems that just dinna have the power. I believe their slogan was "A better windows than Windows." A big myth that was around then was that OS/2 had to run on a PS/2. Also, when a fresh install was up and running, it required extensive tuning to get a decent speed out of it. Moving and resizing SWAPPER.DAT comes quickly to mind. I sincerely hope that Linux and Be can crack open the OS monopoly. I might just my old hard drives out that still have an OS/2 install on them and get my Alternate OS machine running. Just to stick to the Man!
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Baloney,
My G3 tower has a 3 inch variable speed fan parked directly above the processor. On a moderatly warm day it makes its presence known. All Macs directly back to the mighty SE have had a fan. Yes, Mr. Jobs hated the sound of a fan. He still does. That is why the iMac has a fan buried in the middle of the system. Some of the early PowerMacs have peliter junctions in them, but they still have a fan in them. Ask anyone with an overheated 6100.
Problem is, a lot of this is lost on the rest of the company. They want something, anything to show the customer. Never mind the fact that yesterday some of this stuff didn't exist. We need to get past this idea of getting product out the door no matter what. But that is how the rest of the world seems to think. Most administrative types still learn Industrial Revoulation-era business controls, ie, theory X and Y managers, Gantt charts, stats, more bodies means a better result. They really don't stop and consider the fact that most Geek product exists only as a drawing on a whiteboard, some lines of code somewhere, and some Dorito smeared memos. The Geek process of creating cannot exist on a timeline, and without socializing with other Geeks and semi-Geeks.
It's a copy. Every time you make a copy the quality degrades. This is what happens when you to make a copy using analog connections. Somehow I blame this on the RIAA. Perhaps Dolly should have been placed on a CD then digitally remastered?
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Just like the company I used to work for. Customer has a problem, x'fer them to someone else. Even though our department most likely could finger the solution out faster than the "correct person". Kind of like "The buck stops over there, besides it's not my responsibiltiy."
It seems like in the race to save a dollar companies have forgotten that most folks will pay a little extra for good service. Perhaps they should teach that concept in business school. Wait, I graduated from one and they didn't teach that. To damn busy doing SWOT analysis, Gannet charts and critical path analysis to worry about User Experience. IBM and AT&T haven't been around forever and a day letting their customers go away mad.
That's my question now. Let's suppose that this thing passes. I am quite sure that if the Fed tries to dcrypt something they are not going to get a nice business letter detailting the who, what, when, where, why and how. Sure, they might catch some of the smaller outfits, but not the really big stuff that makes news. Besides, if crime guys know what they are, doing all incriminating evidence is stored off site, with pieces of it in seperate locations. So, if they do bust in, all that is there is a computer and a dymanic IP address. Second, the server is most likely remotely admin'ed, with all requests coming through dynamic Ip's and dymanic gateways after being routed through a few anymoumous remailers. It ain't gonna work. The internet is just to big and moves to quickly for the bloated DOJ to keep up.
There I'm done now. I'm going back and play with my 8086. Try and crack that. "Hey Bill, what's this DeskMate stuff?"
Even if you don't have anything to hide everyone with a connection to the 'net should be really upset over this. Do you really want someone else sniffing your e-mails or where you visit on the internet? This is really Big Brother-ish in my opinion. It amounts to "You're not doing anything wrong but we want to take a look anyway." Supposing I encyrpted vital personal information to send to someone else for safekeeping, I really don't want some desk jockey over at the DOJ taking a look on his lunch hour. I encrypted that for a reason. I really don't care if they have to get a warrent. First, show me probable cause then I will let Mr. Fed take a look at my machine. But I really don't want them looking just because I happen to fit into some sort of profile.
O.K. Rant [OFF]. I feel better. Think I'll move to Canada.
If this guy can dig up some good pieces from a otherwise junk sattelite, I wonder what other stuff is up there that we could use? It wouldn't have to be the cream of the crop stuff, just the things that NASA has written off as end of life. I bet we could get quite a trove of data off of some of the still working stuff.
Dear Sir,
I am sorry if you misunderstood the context of my post. Please understand that it was a joke. I am also willing to "bash" *nix, Mac, or even local politics. I greatly fear for a society that cannot step back occasionally from a "serious" discussion of issues to partake of a little levity. We tried to be serious back in the 1940's and 1950's and look what world events happened. Please bear this in mind the next time you are watching television and see a section of the world erupt in violence or an experiment does not have the expected outcome.
What if it crashed and sent up a big blue dust cloud of death? Windows, the first OS to crash on another planet.
It's a joke, ha-ha, funny, let's move on. Regardless of your personal opinons of Apple or Mr. Jobs, at least come up to the Big Blue Room and experience Actual Reality occasionally. Apple and the rest of the computer world losing it's sense of humor, is what got us into our present state. Lest we forget, there are other people out there who do not care about the subtle nuances of a computer, they just want to do the job and go on. I think it is refreshing to see a CEO of a multimillion corporaton who admits to watching TV. Could anyone see Bill Gates doing the same thing at a Micro$oft convention? I don't think so.
A Sinclare ZX spectrum? Why would anyone want such a fancy machine? My first was a Timex-Sinclare 1000 with the 16k expansion pack and really tiny thermal printer. Computing sessions were limited to what you could squeeze in before the power recitfer under the 4 keypad heated up and made the machine lock up. Ah-yes, the joys of a membrane keyboard and having to press SHIFT and P for Print statements. My first video game on it, Frogger. I remember writing a Christmas list on it as a series of Print statements. Blinking inverted text rules!!
It all comes down to the old phrase, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a day etc... Some people just do not value the importance of the internet. This is not a new idea. Industrialization of society was scoffed at by the learned artisians, persons during the Dark ages were activitly discouraged from learning by those in charge. This happens whenever a wholesale shift in the fabric of society happens. As cruel and heartless as it sounds, we can make access available to everyone, but we cannot make them use it. The old horse and water cliché.
On the subject of the corrpution of children, every form of mass media has been blamed when it was new. You don't think that the baby boom generation (those in power now) invented the phrase, Vast Wasteland, and Nattering Nabobs of Negativism, do you? No, that was invented by the radio generation. Before that, corruption came in the form of smutty books, talkin' pi'tures and so on right back to cave drawings, no doubt.
"You just can't go around drawing bison on the walls! Think of the children!"
I can just see it now. Another massive federal program to give a computer to people who most likely don't want one. I've got news, the train is leaving, either be on it, or stand on the platform.
Let's try that with an Apple coffee maker.
Power on coffee maker.
[3 min boot up]
Drag icon of filter basket to trash.
[Warning, another program is using the basket. The basket can not be ejected at this time.]
{Stupid,&%^*#&.}
Restart coffee maker and hold down brew switch to force eject the basket.
Load with hard to find Apple JavaBeans.
Double click brew icon.
[Decaf or regular?]
[Sorry, error type 10 in Burner, Restart.]
Restart coffee maker, drag carafe to AppleScript brew folder.
[Carafe autofills with water, and java complier starts. This is Apple's version and takes all day for one pot.]
Make mental note to upgrade coffee maker to QuickBrew 4.0, choose startup carafe, and to turn off Appliance Linking.
Yes sir, nothing like the smell of banned websites. Let's just put them up there with the banned books. My question is who filters the filters? Why are we letting someone else decide what is and is not appropiate for our viewing pleasure? I am not advocating porn all around, but let's get real here. Any kid who has spent any time on a computer can get around any filter. Problem is most public libraries still confrom to the old lab usage. Let's keep the computers locked in a seperate room. How about putting the computers in the main part of the library? No one and I mean no one looks at porn where someone can see them. Computer usage should be a privilege, screw around and you will have the privilege removed, and that fact will be recorded on your library card. This is assuming we can hook up the computer to a card reader.
Sorry, I don't go to SUNY Buffalo. I'm in Buff State sweating cause NY-MO just turned off the A/C. Maybe they are trying to find a cure for the 8% sales tax, what to do with the Aud, and how do we get a decent radio station around here?
We made the list!!! Hurray, something besides snow!!! I don't think the UB site is finished yet. I'll bet that those government classified lisings are not there just to run a few stockpile calculations and a screensaver. I have some opinions, but I will keep them to myself.
Yea, compared to a Mac or Win 95 the graphics stank like my septic tank. But, the technology under there was awesome. I mean what other Os do you know of that run 2 Desktops at the same time. The second one ready to jump in if the first crashed. It didn't always work right and I ended up restarting most of the time, but I got a warm fuzzy feeling just knowing that the OS was trying to recover on the fly. Ask any OS/2 user if the 3 backups that the system made ever bailed out their machine? It certinaly did on my computer. It had things that I miss on my Mac. IBM's marketing did doom OS/2 to an also ran. It didn't help that version 2 was difficult to install. It demanded a lot out of systems that just dinna have the power. I believe their slogan was "A better windows than Windows." A big myth that was around then was that OS/2 had to run on a PS/2. Also, when a fresh install was up and running, it required extensive tuning to get a decent speed out of it. Moving and resizing SWAPPER.DAT comes quickly to mind. I sincerely hope that Linux and Be can crack open the OS monopoly. I might just my old hard drives out that still have an OS/2 install on them and get my Alternate OS machine running. Just to stick to the Man!
Baloney,
My G3 tower has a 3 inch variable speed fan parked directly above the processor. On a moderatly warm day it makes its presence known. All Macs directly back to the mighty SE have had a fan. Yes, Mr. Jobs hated the sound of a fan. He still does. That is why the iMac has a fan buried in the middle of the system. Some of the early PowerMacs have peliter junctions in them, but they still have a fan in them. Ask anyone with an overheated 6100.
Problem is, a lot of this is lost on the rest of the company. They want something, anything to show the customer. Never mind the fact that yesterday some of this stuff didn't exist. We need to get past this idea of getting product out the door no matter what. But that is how the rest of the world seems to think. Most administrative types still learn Industrial Revoulation-era business controls, ie, theory X and Y managers, Gantt charts, stats, more bodies means a better result. They really don't stop and consider the fact that most Geek product exists only as a drawing on a whiteboard, some lines of code somewhere, and some Dorito smeared memos. The Geek process of creating cannot exist on a timeline, and without socializing with other Geeks and semi-Geeks.
It's a copy. Every time you make a copy the quality degrades. This is what happens when you to make a copy using analog connections. Somehow I blame this on the RIAA. Perhaps Dolly should have been placed on a CD then digitally remastered?