That did strike me as well, but the problem is that the vast bulk of web users aren't fully web-savvy. One of the big downfalls of the web is the dozens of different user interfaces and user experiences available to web users, and unscrupulous webmasters trying to confuse people even further to make a few bucks ain't helping.
Think about this as an user of the website in question. If you are trying to navigate a website, then what looks like an image caption should be an image caption. Anything else is just usability flaws, which is bad form, bad manners, and bloody annoying. I think it's a good mood, and I think you're off topic in your rant.
There's nothing sneaky about this - it's a brilliant marketing ploy that has been done again and again. The most recent example is Mazda, who sold out of their new MX-5... By only releasing 300. Of course they were going to sell out, but it's a slow newsworld, and any big manufacturer who sells out of anything nowadays gets headlines.
It's all down to PR, and in war, love and PR, everything is legal.
Well, he used to be the best. The record stood until 2002, when it was broken during Operation Anaconda when a Canadian three-man sniper team from the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI), set the new record with a shot of 2,400 meters on a Taliban fighter.
Sounds like you need Zen. I've been with them for a year now. Excellent customer service, low contention, and high speeds at reasonable prices. see also http://www.adslguide.org.uk/
how about people just stop being so incredibly, painfully stupid? it isn't that bloody difficult to keep an eye on your mirrors, that way you KNOW when there is someone on your blind spot. And if you can't handle that - turn your head to check, just to make sure.
And failing all that, why not STOP BUYING SUCH HUGE SUVs? Buy a regular-sized car, such as a Fiesta or something.
god.
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To be fair though, what do the italians have to do with anything?
I find it quite interesting how the US government makes a dedicated effort to importing stuff from Israel - and pouring millions and millions of dollars into the country every day, and it might just be my sick sense of humour, but it seems like a bit of a slap in the face that the Israelis decided to go away from american corporation Microsoft's software.
I chucked out my radio / CD player and plugged my iPod into my amp (300W Alpine) directly. The CD player was shit and the radio I never listened to, so by going directly from iPod to speakers, I feel I have the best car audio solution for me.
I know. You didn't want to hear that. But criminals, terrorists and other government agencies are the first to use this type of technology.
Kind of like the whole quantum computing thing. We sit around on projects like distributed.net trying to crack a 64 bit key. Nobody knows if the CIA has a quantum computer already, and nobody knows if they are having a laugh at our efforts, while they are able to crack any key in a matter of hours / days.
In other words: Quantum cryptography, which by the very nature of it is secure from being tapped (read Stephen Neal's "Cryptonomicon" for the light version, or jump in and get some of the real books on cryptography for the heavier stuff, such as "The Code Book" or similar) is a valuabe resource for anyone who wants their data hidden.
The pilot project is designed to find out to what degree open source things might work. This is not an ethical or an anti-microsoft statement, it is merely an economical item on the agenda. If Microsoft - even if it is just for this county - drops their prices to below whatever the OC community can deliver, the council will be happy: It all comes down to money.
It is sad that Microsoft would stoop to the level of sabotaging a pilot project like this, but at the same time, it has to be admitted that there are several other factors to discuss. for one thing, efficiency: People who work in councils are usually older than the average population, and often have some problems with technology. I know of several people in my local council who reluctantly learned how to use Word isntead of a pencil, and who would scream murder if they would have to learn a new programme.
Hackers? gimme a break. To most of the world, hackers are still a bunch of people who try to destroy websites and commit VISA-card fraud.
You.. hell.. WE don't need a hacker-logo. We don't need a bloody company profile or unified PR campaign. You know why? Because we aren't a unified unit. Nobody can say "hackers think that..." because no two hackers are alike.
A logo implies a common good. The penguin-people are all Linuxfans. The apple-people are all arty-farty designfreaks (I can say that, I'm writing this on my iBook from my bed on wifi). The problem is that Microsoft has hackers. Linux has hackers. FreeBSD has hackers. Apple has hackers. And there is no way any one of those groups can represent any (far less ALL) of those other groups - hence - a single unified logo is a bad idea.
I hook up my 11 megapixel Canon EOS 1Ds to a laptiop with slott-in GPRS / GSM card. That gives me an 11 Mpx (nearly-)mobile phone.
On a more serious note: As a photographer, I think the whole videophone / cameraphone thing is a ridiculously bad idea. I have been using an Sony Ericsson t68i for years, and it syncs with my laptop via bluetooth. Brilliant, and it does everything I would expect from a simple PDA (calendar and syncs perfectly with my address book, even stores my notes), and telephone, in a minuscule package.
FOr the case of 24 - Okay, so Apple didn't pay for it. But it is worth noting that Apple did supply the systems at no charge. Which is cheaper for the production team than having to purchase machines.
I dunno where you have been hiding, but if you have seen, say, 24 (apple computers EVERYWHERE), or basically any other US sitcom, you will notice that product placement is everywhere.
Here's a test for you: In an US series, try if you can spot either a Coke can or a Pepsi can. If you can spot one, I bet you a whole lotta money that you won't spot the other. Coincidence?
Even more likely: Why would workers need internet access at all?
Okay, not the most popular view in the world, but many companies would do a lot better without the distraction of the internet. e-mail can always be put through a heavily firewalled and filtered system, but why in the world should everything else be enabled?
I hate to say this, but if I were to run a company like this, I would have a computer room where employees can chill, drink coffee or whiskey (hey, creativity comes from the strangest places) and surf the net - not unlike an internet cafe, and they'd have to work when sitting at their desks.
On a completely different note - this is probably why HL2 was delayed, and it might mean the end of Valve. Bad news, in other words.
The exciting thing would be, of course, if there is another gaming house behind the spying (industrial spionage by, say, Microsoft Games?), or if there are some advanced, yet short-thinking scriptkiddies on the loose?
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That did strike me as well, but the problem is that the vast bulk of web users aren't fully web-savvy. One of the big downfalls of the web is the dozens of different user interfaces and user experiences available to web users, and unscrupulous webmasters trying to confuse people even further to make a few bucks ain't helping.
Think about this as an user of the website in question. If you are trying to navigate a website, then what looks like an image caption should be an image caption. Anything else is just usability flaws, which is bad form, bad manners, and bloody annoying. I think it's a good mood, and I think you're off topic in your rant.
There's nothing sneaky about this - it's a brilliant marketing ploy that has been done again and again. The most recent example is Mazda, who sold out of their new MX-5... By only releasing 300. Of course they were going to sell out, but it's a slow newsworld, and any big manufacturer who sells out of anything nowadays gets headlines.
It's all down to PR, and in war, love and PR, everything is legal.
I think it's an excellent idea.
byte me :)
Well, he used to be the best. The record stood until 2002, when it was broken during Operation Anaconda when a Canadian three-man sniper team from the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI), set the new record with a shot of 2,400 meters on a Taliban fighter.
Sounds like you need Zen. I've been with them for a year now. Excellent customer service, low contention, and high speeds at reasonable prices. see also http://www.adslguide.org.uk/
Interestingly, do a MD5 hash of 1
The result is c4ca4238a0b923820dcc509a6f75849b
Do a google search for that string.
That results in roughly 2000 hits. That's 2000 people running un-salted hashes...
Who needs a re-release? It seems as if the entire movie has been quoted here on slashdot before it even showed up on my RSS feed.
You guys...
Google inserts AND operators between search terms anyway.. :P
how about people just stop being so incredibly, painfully stupid? it isn't that bloody difficult to keep an eye on your mirrors, that way you KNOW when there is someone on your blind spot. And if you can't handle that - turn your head to check, just to make sure.
And failing all that, why not STOP BUYING SUCH HUGE SUVs? Buy a regular-sized car, such as a Fiesta or something.
god.
To be fair though, what do the italians have to do with anything?
I find it quite interesting how the US government makes a dedicated effort to importing stuff from Israel - and pouring millions and millions of dollars into the country every day, and it might just be my sick sense of humour, but it seems like a bit of a slap in the face that the Israelis decided to go away from american corporation Microsoft's software.
I chucked out my radio / CD player and plugged my iPod into my amp (300W Alpine) directly. The CD player was shit and the radio I never listened to, so by going directly from iPod to speakers, I feel I have the best car audio solution for me.
Rawk.
I know. You didn't want to hear that. But criminals, terrorists and other government agencies are the first to use this type of technology.
Kind of like the whole quantum computing thing. We sit around on projects like distributed.net trying to crack a 64 bit key. Nobody knows if the CIA has a quantum computer already, and nobody knows if they are having a laugh at our efforts, while they are able to crack any key in a matter of hours / days.
In other words: Quantum cryptography, which by the very nature of it is secure from being tapped (read Stephen Neal's "Cryptonomicon" for the light version, or jump in and get some of the real books on cryptography for the heavier stuff, such as "The Code Book" or similar) is a valuabe resource for anyone who wants their data hidden.
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The pilot project is designed to find out to what degree open source things might work. This is not an ethical or an anti-microsoft statement, it is merely an economical item on the agenda. If Microsoft - even if it is just for this county - drops their prices to below whatever the OC community can deliver, the council will be happy: It all comes down to money.
It is sad that Microsoft would stoop to the level of sabotaging a pilot project like this, but at the same time, it has to be admitted that there are several other factors to discuss. for one thing, efficiency: People who work in councils are usually older than the average population, and often have some problems with technology. I know of several people in my local council who reluctantly learned how to use Word isntead of a pencil, and who would scream murder if they would have to learn a new programme.
It is a difficult matter.
Hackers? gimme a break. To most of the world, hackers are still a bunch of people who try to destroy websites and commit VISA-card fraud.
You.. hell.. WE don't need a hacker-logo. We don't need a bloody company profile or unified PR campaign. You know why? Because we aren't a unified unit. Nobody can say "hackers think that..." because no two hackers are alike.
A logo implies a common good. The penguin-people are all Linuxfans. The apple-people are all arty-farty designfreaks (I can say that, I'm writing this on my iBook from my bed on wifi). The problem is that Microsoft has hackers. Linux has hackers. FreeBSD has hackers. Apple has hackers. And there is no way any one of those groups can represent any (far less ALL) of those other groups - hence - a single unified logo is a bad idea.
Haje
Microsoft Bob, anyone?
HJ
You call that impressive?
I hook up my 11 megapixel Canon EOS 1Ds to a laptiop with slott-in GPRS / GSM card. That gives me an 11 Mpx (nearly-)mobile phone.
On a more serious note: As a photographer, I think the whole videophone / cameraphone thing is a ridiculously bad idea. I have been using an Sony Ericsson t68i for years, and it syncs with my laptop via bluetooth. Brilliant, and it does everything I would expect from a simple PDA (calendar and syncs perfectly with my address book, even stores my notes), and telephone, in a minuscule package.
Blah, progress.
FOr the case of 24 - Okay, so Apple didn't pay for it. But it is worth noting that Apple did supply the systems at no charge. Which is cheaper for the production team than having to purchase machines.
HJ
"if these shows were ever exported"?
I dunno where you have been hiding, but if you have seen, say, 24 (apple computers EVERYWHERE), or basically any other US sitcom, you will notice that product placement is everywhere.
Here's a test for you: In an US series, try if you can spot either a Coke can or a Pepsi can. If you can spot one, I bet you a whole lotta money that you won't spot the other. Coincidence?
HJ
Obviously, you are not a PR professional.
Of course cool can be manufactured. In fact - the only way to be 'cool' is to consciously work towards the goal of being cool.
What do they know that we don't know?
And is what they know based on calculations done in programs on a Wintel computer?
Even more likely: Why would workers need internet access at all?
Okay, not the most popular view in the world, but many companies would do a lot better without the distraction of the internet. e-mail can always be put through a heavily firewalled and filtered system, but why in the world should everything else be enabled?
I hate to say this, but if I were to run a company like this, I would have a computer room where employees can chill, drink coffee or whiskey (hey, creativity comes from the strangest places) and surf the net - not unlike an internet cafe, and they'd have to work when sitting at their desks.
On a completely different note - this is probably why HL2 was delayed, and it might mean the end of Valve. Bad news, in other words.
The exciting thing would be, of course, if there is another gaming house behind the spying (industrial spionage by, say, Microsoft Games?), or if there are some advanced, yet short-thinking scriptkiddies on the loose?
Or so it sounds. 386/20 with PC-Wave anyone?
Yeah, that'll definitely sell.