If your faith is so weak that you need the courts to help you believe, then maybe you need to look in the mirror for the problem?
Yup, gotta get rid of those tempting "ideas" out there in the big bad world. Might lead a person to think.
The fears aren't because MS figured out how to build a good firewall
It's more like in Joe SixPack's mind (assuming Joe gives any thought to security at all) "this thing has a built-in firewall thingie, so I don't need to get one o' those from somewhere else".
Same argument goes for web browsers, e-mail clients, IM, multi-media player, etc.
The more that's hanging off the periphery of the OS, the less likely third party software is looked at.
The spammers have gone beyond being annoying and costing me time. Now they're costing me money as well.
Sure, my provider will credit my account for every spam I report, but that's another level of headache. (keep track of spam and wait on hold to talk to my provider)
I'm becoming increasingly in favor of vigilante justice against spammers.
Episodes of shows aren't broadcast at the same time in different places. There is often a lag of days or weeks between airing in one country and another.
So, you hear (on-line, naturally) about the latest show and you know it won't be on the local airwaves for a week or so, whaddya do?
The television industry shoots itself in the foot again.
All this headache - and do they give you any kind of a discount for doing a cashier's work? No. So the store is saving the cashier salary, and not passing it onto you.
That's my main reason for not using them. I don't see any great gain for me.
And in the larger economic picture, it means less people employed, which means less people with money available to spend at MY business.
It's not small business that's moving to self-serv checkouts, it's the big "the only thing that matters is max_profit" companies that are trying to see how much profit they can squeeze out of everything without causing a mass customer revolt.
Sorry for going slightly offtopic but the whole "two tone vision" thing bugs the hell outta me. Nothing is ever as simple as "good or bad."
There are as many ways to look at a problem as there are people looking at it. If you find anyone who agrees 100% with another person on some issue, then that person has obviously not bothered to think about it for themselves.
There are never "two sides" to an issue. If you were to represent any social/political/economic issue as a 2D geometry, the best example would be a circle not a line.
Someone give this guy a +5 insightful.
I get sooo frustrated with the "the only way for me to be right is for you to be wrong" binary thinking cop-out.
No question always demands an absolute yes or no answer.
We have an analog computer between our ears. The answer can be "maybe, sometimes, sort-of, or with added caveats".
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Little charming quirks in your personality, like sitting down on the floor in some empty space instead of sitting in on a bench in the crowded waiting area, will instantly arouse suspicion.
Or spending a lot of time looking at the architechture?
I do this a lot in any place that I happen to be, including airports.
It may not be normal for the majority of people, but it is normal for me (and a small group of other people).
I don't feel safer if security is spending it's time constantly challenging me for appreciating the (no doubt expensive) architectural features, sculptures, and other stuff that has been added to the airport stricly for it's decorative value.
In what industry isn't there a high rate of divorce?
One with excellent pay, stable shifts (with no overtime ever), good benifits, lots of vacation time and no stress.
If you figure out what industry that is, let me know. I've been searching for years.
Actually, I have run into several DVDs (mostly Disney) that won't play on my set-top DVD player (says either "bad disk" or "wrong disk type"), but play fine on my computer.
They will, however, play on my set-top after I "process" them on my computer.
Is this what the movie industry wants?
The only people I know of who use paper in any amount are people who are 40+, the type of people who like to print off any website longer than a pagebecause "it is easier to read". How is reading paper easier on the eyes than reading a TFT LCD? Answer? it isn't - it's all psycological.
Hmmm. Let's see what I've printed off recently..
- A couple of pages from a work order so I can take them into the racks with me - I want to connect everything correctly. - Some sheet music. Because that laptop doesn't fit on my music stand. - A floor plan, so that I can take it with me to the room it describes and mark the plan up as I measure the *real* dimentions of things around the room. (sure, I could take a laptop with me for this, but it's not nearly as portable). - An article or 2 to read on the bus (or in the shitter)
Easier to read doesn't always mean "easier on the eyes". It's not easy to read something if it isn't where you are doing the reading.
Nor, in this case I suppose, especially desirable. I would expect that you would want a wide variety of voised to train the thing.
Listen to the genreral public sometime, do many of them sound like they have "professionally trained" voices? Probably not.
If you train a speech rec. engine with "golden" voices, how can it be expected to figure out the average Joe/Jane on the street?
I routinely hear from customers whose accent (or manner of enunciation) makes it nearly impossible to use our company's "convenient self-service phone system".
My voice isn't "excatly pretty" either, but if there was a volunteer voice corpus being assembled (GPL/CC/BSD/whatever licence) I'd read for it.
acronyms that have other meanings when used as words
One that always bugs me around here.
One of our main hardware suppliers has defined the cooling subsystem (their term) in their equipment contains FANs (not fans) -- which are defined af Forced Air Networks.
A FAN is a rack shelf which contains 4 fans.
Another bit of acronym madness around here is that different departments are starting to use the same acronym for different department specific terms.
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If your faith is so weak that you need the courts to help you believe, then maybe you need to look in the mirror for the problem?
Yup, gotta get rid of those tempting "ideas" out there in the big bad world. Might lead a person to think.
Hence, all intelligent life is humanoid.....
All intelligent life?
I thought the Horta was considered intelligent.
Certainly intelligent enough for Spock to mind meld with it, and ask it what it's problem was.
And it was definitely non-humanoid.
It's more like in Joe SixPack's mind (assuming Joe gives any thought to security at all) "this thing has a built-in firewall thingie, so I don't need to get one o' those from somewhere else".
Same argument goes for web browsers, e-mail clients, IM, multi-media player, etc.
The more that's hanging off the periphery of the OS, the less likely third party software is looked at.
Lucky you. I get that many on my Blackberry.
The spammers have gone beyond being annoying and costing me time. Now they're costing me money as well.
Sure, my provider will credit my account for every spam I report, but that's another level of headache. (keep track of spam and wait on hold to talk to my provider)
I'm becoming increasingly in favor of vigilante justice against spammers.
Another thought...
Episodes of shows aren't broadcast at the same time in different places. There is often a lag of days or weeks between airing in one country and another.
So, you hear (on-line, naturally) about the latest show and you know it won't be on the local airwaves for a week or so, whaddya do?
The television industry shoots itself in the foot again.
All this headache - and do they give you any kind of a discount for doing a cashier's work? No. So the store is saving the cashier salary, and not passing it onto you.
That's my main reason for not using them.
I don't see any great gain for me.
And in the larger economic picture, it means less people employed, which means less people with money available to spend at MY business.
It's not small business that's moving to self-serv checkouts, it's the big "the only thing that matters is max_profit" companies that are trying to see how much profit they can squeeze out of everything without causing a mass customer revolt.
Personally, I'm going to wait until the remixed, remasterd versions of the Vista sounds come out
Something like this? (warning: flash)
What you are saying is that it is illegal to think about carrying a crime out.
The dream police, they live inside of my head.
The dream police, they come to me in my bed.
The dream police, they're coming to arrest me, oh no.
I get sooo frustrated with the "the only way for me to be right is for you to be wrong" binary thinking cop-out. No question always demands an absolute yes or no answer.
We have an analog computer between our ears. The answer can be "maybe, sometimes, sort-of, or with added caveats".
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Ok, then e-mail me your home address and the password to the alarm system.
Actually, all your passwords. And your ATM PIN.
What's that you say? I thought you had no secrets...
It doesn't surprise me that "harp.ie" is already taken.
It does surprise me, though, that it isn't owned by Harp Lager
Or spending a lot of time looking at the architechture?
I do this a lot in any place that I happen to be, including airports.
It may not be normal for the majority of people, but it is normal for me (and a small group of other people).
I don't feel safer if security is spending it's time constantly challenging me for appreciating the (no doubt expensive) architectural features, sculptures, and other stuff that has been added to the airport stricly for it's decorative value.
One with excellent pay, stable shifts (with no overtime ever), good benifits, lots of vacation time and no stress.
If you figure out what industry that is, let me know. I've been searching for years.
The lase game console I bought was a Super Pong.
Seriously.
Last year.
New old stock from a small town Radio/TV repair shop that was shutting down (retirement) after 40 years in business.
It completely freaks people out when I connect it to my tuner card and play it on my computer!
Since each company that needs your information would have a different number to Id you with, it would prevent massive datamining into your life.
Which, of course, means that they will do everything in their power (and in the power of whatever politicians that they own) to make it not happen.
Those same companies want to be able to datamine your life to a greater extent than they do now.
Their concern about your privacy is "less than none".
Chicken <---> Egg
With increased user numbers comes more software/hardware support.
With more hardware/software support comes increased user numbers.
Without some catalyst to move one side of the equation, little changes.
Maybe Microsoft, by making it increasingly hard for people to use their computers the way they want to, can be that catalyst.
Actually, I have run into several DVDs (mostly Disney) that won't play on my set-top DVD player (says either "bad disk" or "wrong disk type"), but play fine on my computer.
They will, however, play on my set-top after I "process" them on my computer.
Is this what the movie industry wants?
The only people I know of who use paper in any amount are people who are 40+, the type of people who like to print off any website longer than a pagebecause "it is easier to read". How is reading paper easier on the eyes than reading a TFT LCD? Answer? it isn't - it's all psycological.
Hmmm. Let's see what I've printed off recently..
- A couple of pages from a work order so I can take them into the racks with me - I want to connect everything correctly.
- Some sheet music. Because that laptop doesn't fit on my music stand.
- A floor plan, so that I can take it with me to the room it describes and mark the plan up as I measure the *real* dimentions of things around the room. (sure, I could take a laptop with me for this, but it's not nearly as portable).
- An article or 2 to read on the bus (or in the shitter)
Easier to read doesn't always mean "easier on the eyes". It's not easy to read something if it isn't where you are doing the reading.
(thwacks self on forehead, while chanting RTFA)
Now where did I put that microphone....
Hiring voice actors isn't always feasible.
Nor, in this case I suppose, especially desirable.
I would expect that you would want a wide variety of voised to train the thing.
Listen to the genreral public sometime, do many of them sound like they have "professionally trained" voices?
Probably not.
If you train a speech rec. engine with "golden" voices, how can it be expected to figure out the average Joe/Jane on the street?
I routinely hear from customers whose accent (or manner of enunciation) makes it nearly impossible to use our company's "convenient self-service phone system".
My voice isn't "excatly pretty" either, but if there was a volunteer voice corpus being assembled (GPL/CC/BSD/whatever licence) I'd read for it.
Provided that there is sufficient judicial oversight,
Uh huh.
That's exactly the way things are going these days, isn't it.
One that always bugs me around here.
One of our main hardware suppliers has defined the cooling subsystem (their term) in their equipment contains FANs (not fans) -- which are defined af Forced Air Networks.
A FAN is a rack shelf which contains 4 fans.
Another bit of acronym madness around here is that different departments are starting to use the same acronym for different department specific terms.
Now that makes for some confusing memos.
Or, put another way...
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me"
They'll say "where'd the tunes go?" then go off to P2P and get a non-vanishing version.
And put it on the iPod that they make their parents but to replace that "stupid Zoon thing".
As someone who has been a tourist in your country often in the past, I am worried.
And I haven't travelled to the Paranoid States of America since 2001. Nor do I have any plans to travel there in the forseeable future.
Just keep off my damn lawn.