Please someone mod parent back up, it is NOT flamebait, I hope whoever did that did it by mistake. It is a valid question, even if others have stated the same thing in different wording.
Mod's, please look at what you are doing before you commit to your moderation.
They're 'dumbasses' and 'conniving assholes' for looking after their trademark?
This mindless Google worship sickens me, you know very well that Google would crush anyone who named a product 'gmail' or 'froogle'. How can anyone blindly support an over-sized, profiteering, fraudulent corporation, even when they're screwing over other people?
If this was Microsoft you'd all be supporting the small company, but because it's Google, you're happy for them to trample everyone in their path.
You need to RTA. They trademarked gmail AFTER google came out with their email service. IIR's gmail is a SECTION of an application that they have. They do not market gmail outside of their application, and their main application is NOT email. Then they have a outside company do some "research" that says the gmail trademark is worth over $40 million. To who? Obviously only to google, because if gmail was worth so much as a trademark to IIR, they wouldn't be a piddly $5 million company.
What they are doing is the same as cybersquatting, repatenting, and almost borders on extortion. It's not like they started out with the concept of having a web email service called "gmail" because they wanted to have a "G" rated email system for kids and teens. Then I'd have a problem with google if they attempted anything crass. But that is not the case.
Frankly, since google has so much money, they should try to buy out SCO and kick out the dumbasses over there too. They would get some good programmers while ridding us of the BS that has been going on there. SCO is only worth $67 million right now, with almost 50% shares held by those other than insiders. I am sure they could get one of the insiders to flip and "make the world a better place"
In this situation, the problem doesn't have anything to do with ability to implement (I've "implemented" a not-too-dissimilar system to keep track of my 5GB-per-month GigaNews usage, to throttle myself so I don't run out before the new month starts). Any moron capable of installing MySQL and writing a few queries could implement the idea in this patent.
5GB per month? They go from 2 to 25, 50, then unlimited for $24.99. Are you on a separate ISP that just happens to use them as an outsourced news provider?
I couldn't live with 5GB. I have a $10/month for 20GB account with Easynews, and an unlimited account for Giganews. I have downloaded over 1TB of stuff over the last year.
Now I just need to buy a storage shed to fit all the floppies I downloaded the stuff on.
More information here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4354954.stm. The company (International Investment Research) has some stupid button that says gmail on an app, and then decided to get it registered after google came out with gmail. The company is only worth $5.6 Million anyways. I hope google decides to just do a hostile takeover (they are publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange) and then fire the dumbasses and their legal team for being conniving assholes.
And 3DO had better graphics and capabilities then any other console at the time and required licensed games and still failed miserably. Repeat the same for the Dreamcast . Do you want to bring Beta vs. VHS into this as well? Do you have any idea why VHS took off and Beta did not?
I think the beta/vhs thing is a north american specific failure. When I lived in Taiwan, Beta was by far the prevalent format. We had a VHS system from the US, but all the video stores had maybe 10% or less of the selection in VHS. This was from 1982-1988. I don't know what the ratio is now, mostly DVD's I'm guessing. But Beta is/was more popular than VHS for a long time outside of the US I belive.
Someone dropped off an old washing machine next to my company's dumpster. Since it costs a bundle to have it hauled off (like over $100), we reported it to the police - who will take the serial number, look up the original buyer, and trace ownership to whoever dumped its disposal cost on us.
Since "they" DO have a database they can reference to find out what WASHING MACHINE goes to what citizen, I wouldn't be surprised if they have the same (or better) lists of who owns which forgery/counterfiting tools.
Lesson: yes, they know. Pay cash.
Do you really think they are going to waste their time trying to find out? I know my old police department wouldn't, and my current one definately isn't going to waste it's time.
I've not a bought a single new washer/dryer yet, I have had two sets in the last 9 years. They were either from auctions or yard sales. I've sold many more than that, because I've purchased them from auctions to sell at my yard sales. So unless the person who dumped it was the one and only owner, it was a complete waste of time to involve the police. If you can find a lawyer to subpoena the manufacturer, then you might get somewhere. Your local boys in blue are doubtful to do anything, and the odds of having a judge or whoever needs to sign the subpoena is essentially nil once they see what it is for.
Nice thought though, let us know if anything comes of it.
Do you know anything baout barcodes? Barcodes do not have serial numbers encoded on them. Every printer of the same brand and model has the same barcode. Any other system would increase the cost of printing boxes tenfold.
You are only correct insofar as the UPC code to scan the price. Have you ever shopped at CompUSA? BestBuy? Bought an extended warranty for an electronic device? The serial number barcode is almost universally available on most equipment, either on the outside of the box or through a window. I know from personal experience that CompUSA will scan serial numbers of what you buy when it is available. When I was doing asset management at Intel not only did the IBM laptop and desktops have their serial numbers on the outside of the box, they also had any added custom configuration items as extra barcodes (extra ram, hd, etc). Plus, Intel had a custom asset tracking barcode that was place on each asset BEFORE it was shipped to the site, from the distributor. In either case, whether from the manufacturer or distributor, the serial number is scanned before packing either by a person or while it is moving on a conveyor and the label attached by hand or machine.
The best they could do is identify which store the item was shipped to. And really, even that is a stretch. In all likelihood a company has no idea which stores got products with which serial numbers. They probably know which serial numbers went to which regional distribution centre, but thats it.
You do not know the realities of current supply chain technology and processes. Just in time shipping is dependant on knowing not only WHAT part was shipped, but WHICH part was shipped when you are talking about pieces for an aircraft engine, most of which are numbered individually. The same is true for many other industries. Western Digital's RMA policy has a clause preventing return of a HD if it was reported stolen. How do you think they know that? They, along with other manufacturers like Intel, know all the serial numbers in each batch of shipments that gets sent out. Does the secondary distributor track that information? Maybe, maybe not. Depends on who it is. But when it gets down to major retail stores, they either know the serial number when it comes in, or they will know it when it goes out.
With the surplus sales, dumpster diving, flea markets, and the advent of eBay, it is all too easy to purchase something already broken and return it to a store and get credit for it. Say you buy a digital camera for $400. Buy a broken digital camera on eBay for $20 that is not due to abuse. Return $20 camera and keep $400 working one. Sell camera and $$profit. That is why more and more retailers are tracking this information, not because the government wants them to, but because dishonest joe citizen forces them to.
From a custom application standpoint, your points may be true. From a mail/calendaring perspective, Lotus Notes is a piece of crap. In my personal experience (using an incident tracking system based on Lotus Notes at Intel many years ago, and several Domino applications here at my current job) I have not seen the virtues of it yet. I guess when my company goes from a $14 billion dollar, 70,000 employee company to a $28 billion dollar, 140,000 employee company I will see a useful implementation of Lotus Notes and Domino that does something other than aggravate and complicate what should be simple tasks. Maybe it just takes time and money to make use of Domino, and my company hasn't spent enough yet.
I'm still trying to figure out why the hell this matters. Between the coffee breaks, smoke breaks, stupid forwarded emails, and other crap that goes on, who gives a crap if the pc boots up faster? It isn't going to improve productivity any.
And then there is all this talk about how much electricity it it going to save, which in turn saves the environment, etc.... Bullshit! If people were so damned worried about pollution and electricity why in the hell would you buy a computer? How much electricity is used and pollutants generated by ONE PC or laptop? How many of these pc's end up in landfills or "recycled", which costs us more in natural resources half the time to accomplish?
Go outside. Breath a little. Walk a mile. That the booting time on a computer is such a big freaking deal is beyond comprehension.
I'm glad you can keep all that crap organized in your head. It seems to be a convuluted, complicated, and a waste of time to me. I'll take multiple monitors over your solution any day. How in the world do you get anything done working on that many things at once? Just because you can have that many things open, does not make it efficient or practical. It's nice that it works for you. My Matrox card had the same functionality as enlightenment iirc, and that was a long time ago. Dual (or more) monitors are still more efficient imo, because the act of "alt-tabbing" or clicking or whatever you do that may bring up a whole other screen in front of your face breaks the workflow or continuity of what having a "multi-tasking" OS is supposed to do. As an example, in my previous job I would have to make presentations from excel charts that I created from data in Access linked from a SQL Server. So most of the time, run a query, copy contents, paste into Excel, create graph, drag graph across screen to the the second into Powerpoint and drop it in (the ever famous "drag and drop"). In this case it works, and was much more intuitive than switching from one screen to the next on the same monitor. Most newer laptops have dual video outputs anyways, so the lcd can run the same time as a monitor. Just think, you could now have 36 screens of l337 homework running! Run out and buy a new laptop!
...pre-built computers are loaded with twenty three zillion TSRs, 'helper' programs,....
They loaded up the computers with stuff from the company that made Dungeons and Dragons? I never got any free games with my pc...
(yes, I know it means Terminate and Stay Resident, but you would had to have used DOS to know that. The only one I can remember of off hand is Sidekick from back then. If anyone here started using computers after Windows was invented, I doubt they would have a clue.)
You mean the Domino that Notes runs off of? Are you kidding? Lotus notes has the worst interface and email/calendar functionality ever designed. Outlook Express is better than Lotus Notes. The text shell that came with my SLIP connection when I first got access to the internet is better than Lotus Notes. The other alternatives may be good, but I can tell you from personal experience (using Outlook for 9 years while working at Intel, and now having to suffer with Notes 6.5 here at my new job) that employee's productivity would probably double if any corporation moved their email/calendaring from Notes/Domino to Outlook/Exchange. I would have a hard time enumerating the interface issues, functionality problems, and just stupid "why the hell doesn't it work" problems there are with Notes.
If this is the same process used to design Lotus Notes, I'd avoid it like the plague. Or bird flu for that matter. No wonder they'd give it out for free then.
Lol, was it fun to take another post of mine and rewrite? I see that internet site for getting premade term papers has taught you a lot about how to avoid plagiarism.
There's nothing in the movies for anyone, adult or child. What Lucas needs to do is open up the license like Sunset did with the Gundam series, and allow new directors and writers to create new storylines based in the universe Lucas created. Otherwise, SW is going to die a slow, boring death, and I'm not going to pay 9 bucks to watch it.
The Expanded Universe (as Lucas likes calling it) has much better stories that could have been used. In one earlier series of books one of the authors was writing about Luke and Leia finding more and more about their mother and there was a really good storyline leading to it. Of course then Lucas had his head shoved up his ass and came up with the whole Queen Amidala crap for the movies and the book series never finished. I wish he had bothered to read the SANCTIONED stuff that other people wrote and used some of the stuff instead of the shit he churned out for the new movies. I don't know if it is common knowledge, as I haven't been reading about ep 3, but they have confirmed that Amidala is Luke and Leia's mother on the SW site, She was one of a set of twins, born in secrecy and protected from Vader and the Emperor. The Jedi hero and general, Obi-Wan Kenobi, saw to it that Leia was secretly transported to the planet Alderaan, where she was to be raised by Kenobi's friend Bail Organa. The boy, Luke, was taken to the distant world of Tatooine. Leia has few memories of her true mother, Padmé Amidala. All that Leia can recall is that she was beautiful, but sad. (from starwars.com databank)
George needs to get some new talent and not think like a 2 year old kid.
I don't know about you, but I was rather disappointed with the third one (us old-timers still refer to the order when they came out and not this "New Hope" or prequel nonsense). The Ewoks really killed it for me. They served no purpose in the movie other than commercial tie-ins. I found them as annoying as Jar Jar. It also really bothered me that Darth Vader, the guy who blew up a billion people, was absolved of his sins and was able to enter the glowing Valhalla-state with Obi Wan and Yoda at the very end of the movie. That was way too cheesy for me, though it did prove out the Bart Simpson plan to do what you want and recant on your deathbed.:)
Um, speaking for all my Star Wars geek knowledge, but IIRC, I am pretty sure it was Grand Moff Tarkin who blew up Alderaan? Vader didn't really have much to do with it. Oh, and reading on Starwars.com, it seems like they let out a spoiler of sorts on their bio of Vader, it says:
Skywalker was seduced by the dark side of the Force. Fueled by rage and discontent with the pace of Obi-Wan's training, Anakin challenged his master to a duel. Despite newfound power bestowed by the dark side of the Force, which added to his already formidable abilities, Anakin was grievously wounded in the fight. His burning anger kept him alive, and he was forever scarred not only by his wounds but also by betrayal. He abandoned his former identity. When metal coupled with flesh in the form of cyborg implants and enhancements required to sustain him, Skywalker's transformation was complete. He was no longer Anakin. He was Darth Vader.
Maybe that is already common knowledge, but I haven't been keeping up with ep 3.
The female of the moment AFAIR, was Farrah Fawcett. The hottest fapping material of the day was that poster of her smuggling raisins in a swimsuit.
And I still learn something new everyday. Smuggling raisins? I can guess what it means, but I honestly have never heard that term before. Of course, I was born in 75 so I don't remember a quarter of the stuff that is referenced to in the 70's, and I was in Taiwan for the bulk of the 80's so that's shot too. Is there a good site for slang like that?
There's a really great/awful "Citibank" scam that javascripts images that mimick the address bar and secure status bar, plus javascripting a fake verisign popup. It took netstat'ing to convince a coworker it was fake.
I saw that too on some email my wife got. I prompty rewrote my automated form filler to create checksum valid credit cards and submitted about 10000 of them. My only problem is that it is in.Net so not to portable, and need the.net framework installed. Sorry, too lazy to learn Java and figure out how to do it in a.js file.
I live in AZ, and went to my FIRST Major League sports event in my life last week, Diamondbacks against Expos, in which they lost (last Friday I believe).
It was kinda sad that they lost (although they lost the whole series to the Expos, so that was pretty pathetic I guess). It was the first game for my wife and two kids also (I am 29).
My real feelings about baseball? WHO GIVES A %@#$! Pretty much how I feel about all sports, and why I have managed to not go to anything until now (my sister's boyfried is a sportsnut and his company has season tickets, so I got them for free since they were previously engaged).
Why is all this time wasted on sports? Does it save lives, make the world a better place, increase our knowledge of the universe, what? The stupid stadium cost the Arizona taxpayers around $300 million IIRC, and they won the world series back in 2001. I guess that is some big deal, but who cares? $300 mil could have bought 300,000 computers for classrooms, gone towards operating the county hospitals, funded police officers and fire departments, etc.. but no, we built a stadium. With a retractable roof. Now we are building a football field for the completely pathetic Cardinals, with a retractable field.
Sports is akin to the Coleseum in Rome. Built to keep the masses occupied so they don't notice the government screwing them over on everything else. Why else does the government fund one endeavor so much more than other more deserving things? Public transportation in AZ sucks, why not more buses and drivers? Oh, I'm sorry, we are building a monorail or some shit like that, spending billions of dollars, SO PEOPLE CAN GET FROM THEIR HOUSE TO THE STADIUMS. Really pathetic.
My mother-in-law, who bathes once in a great while and only works half the year for H&R Block during tax season, loves the Diamondbacks. While not working for the other six months, she is collecting unemployment, puffing away on cigarettes, stinking up her trailer, and feeling sorry for herself and complaining about her life to hre kids. Which nicely fits in with the stereotypical beer swilling, overweight, white trailer-trash image that is portrayed many times on tv and such. Gosh, how I wish she applied all that energy channeled into watching sports into something like her hygiene, or getting a full time job! Is there a single freaking week that there is not some professional sports game going on to engage people in yet another enormous waste of time? "But they give millions to charity". Hmmm, if the tax writeoff for giving to charities were removed, exactly how generous would they be?
Well, now you know a little about how I feel about professional sports. Ask me about gun control or the earned income credit sometime.
We had an employee here that was all happy about getting a degree with his life experience. And then I showed him it was from a university in Liberia. He gave up on that and started with University of Phoenix (which I think is just an expensive diploma mill).
Seriously though, what is a fake degree? Just because they are not accredited? No job posting I have seen says "requires a BS from an accredited university". They just want a degree. If the government doesn't make non accredited universities illegal, then no one can complain. If the job requirements are "four year degree", then it would be different. A fake degree would be something I made up in Photoshop and printed out. A degree from a non-accredited university is still a degree.
Go apply for a job on Monster. Guess what you get after you finish your submittal? A nice huge ad for Kennedy Western Note that they have a.edu domain. And how hard is it to fake accreditation? If you read the Wired article it talks at the end of how Hamilton University is accredited by the American Council of Private Colleges and Universities, which looks to only accredit Hamilton.
I remember arguing with a previous manager about a pay raise, and him telling me that 4 years of work experience were equal to one year of "higher" education. What a load of crap. More like the other way around. I have worked with people with real degrees. That doesn't mean that they know anything.
I took a couple courses at University of Phoenix Online. $1200 for 3 credit hours. First class was basically "introduction to group learning and how to write papers according to the APA format". What a waste of time and money! Second class was not any better. So I am out $2400 (or my employer is) for classes that no self-respecting entity should allow or accredit for college credit. So by writing group papers every week somehow I am some greatly enhanced in my mental capabilities and have "earned" a degree. Maybe some other day I will write about how the whole higher education system is just another money making scheme and government brainwashing mill.
I work as a contractor for big 5 letter chip company. I can tell you that security is only second to the fab, and that is because the fab makes money. Unless something crashing is going to cause you millions of dollars an hour, someone needs to decide what is more important, your network being slow because it is being scanned for unpatched systems, or having a nasty version of Sasser erase data, send out confidential information, and completely crash the whole network. And they are even pickier about fab security, because if something does get infected and go down, they are out big bucks
Is security in charge of making sure everything is patched also, or is operations in charge and they are trying to cover their ass by making you forewarn them of your scan?
Your production network should be segmented from the general network, and critical portions of the general network (say, helpdesk, hr, etc) should be on their own segments. This allows you to scan one entity at a time and if something does break, you have a defined area for your desktop support team to work in.
Regardless of if you must wait for a maintenance window for production equipment, who will get the blame if something breaks? Do the scan on the weekend, on test servers, whatever you can do the easiest first. You should have a standard build for servers, desktops, etc... and be able to test those systems and see the effects.
The release time between an exploit being found and being exploited is growing shorter all the time. What was the leadtime for sasser? Two, three weeks? The netops people here are shutting off the ports of systems that are not patched at the switch level already. The network comes to a crawl while they are doing the scans. And guess what? They do them during the day. Why? Because that is when people are at work! A maintenance window is useless if you cannot guarantee what percentage of your population you are going to hit. So if your window is 1am to 3am, you better be scanning a network full of Indian helpdesk agents.
The main point is a programing language is sucsessful if it is popular. The more people that use it the more libraries that it will have the more useful it becomes. Most programers know English
English is such a bastardization of a language it shouldn't really be considered a "language." More of a compilation of languages. It continuously adds foreign words to itself, takes rules for characters in other alphabets and uses them, and then allows rap stars (or surfers) to come up with their own words which then is added to the recognized verbiage (awesome is in the dictionary, I am waiting for "fo' shizzle my nizzle"). Has anyone seen the size of an unabridged English dictionary recently? They are practically getting too large to print and too heavy to hold. Pretty soon they will come on DVD's instead of CD's.
In Chinese, the term for computer is "dien now" which literally means "electric brain". Some things in English should be as simple. Scientific terms and other bullshit is fine if your some PhD and memorizing all that crap helps you discuss it with your peers. But for crying out loud, a seismic disturbance is a damned earthquake. Making up a bunch of complicated words to denote simple things is just a way to make it look like you are smart. Akin to what the Catholic church did by not allowing the Bible to be translated into English originally, or having Mass in Latin. Makes one group feel more important or powerful than another.
Ok, getting off topic. Main point is, yes, whatever is popular is what gets used. Duh. That is why we haves crepes instead of "thin pancakes made mostly with eggs", or "gorgonzola" instead of "moldy solidified milk which makes your breath stink like a gorgon's".
But of course, English speakers can't pronounce words from the Asian countries easily, so we have "chopsticks" instead of "kwie tzeh". And for fucks sake, fried noodles, or "chow mein", is NOT pronounced "chow mine". It is "tzou myehn", with a y sound, as in yen. Not an i as in eye.
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Please someone mod parent back up, it is NOT flamebait, I hope whoever did that did it by mistake. It is a valid question, even if others have stated the same thing in different wording.
Mod's, please look at what you are doing before you commit to your moderation.
You need to RTA. They trademarked gmail AFTER google came out with their email service. IIR's gmail is a SECTION of an application that they have. They do not market gmail outside of their application, and their main application is NOT email. Then they have a outside company do some "research" that says the gmail trademark is worth over $40 million. To who? Obviously only to google, because if gmail was worth so much as a trademark to IIR, they wouldn't be a piddly $5 million company.
What they are doing is the same as cybersquatting, repatenting, and almost borders on extortion. It's not like they started out with the concept of having a web email service called "gmail" because they wanted to have a "G" rated email system for kids and teens. Then I'd have a problem with google if they attempted anything crass. But that is not the case.
Frankly, since google has so much money, they should try to buy out SCO and kick out the dumbasses over there too. They would get some good programmers while ridding us of the BS that has been going on there. SCO is only worth $67 million right now, with almost 50% shares held by those other than insiders. I am sure they could get one of the insiders to flip and "make the world a better place"
5GB per month? They go from 2 to 25, 50, then unlimited for $24.99. Are you on a separate ISP that just happens to use them as an outsourced news provider?
I couldn't live with 5GB. I have a $10/month for 20GB account with Easynews, and an unlimited account for Giganews. I have downloaded over 1TB of stuff over the last year.
Now I just need to buy a storage shed to fit all the floppies I downloaded the stuff on.
More information here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4354954.stm. The company (International Investment Research) has some stupid button that says gmail on an app, and then decided to get it registered after google came out with gmail. The company is only worth $5.6 Million anyways. I hope google decides to just do a hostile takeover (they are publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange) and then fire the dumbasses and their legal team for being conniving assholes.
I think the beta/vhs thing is a north american specific failure. When I lived in Taiwan, Beta was by far the prevalent format. We had a VHS system from the US, but all the video stores had maybe 10% or less of the selection in VHS. This was from 1982-1988. I don't know what the ratio is now, mostly DVD's I'm guessing. But Beta is/was more popular than VHS for a long time outside of the US I belive.
Do you really think they are going to waste their time trying to find out? I know my old police department wouldn't, and my current one definately isn't going to waste it's time.
I've not a bought a single new washer/dryer yet, I have had two sets in the last 9 years. They were either from auctions or yard sales. I've sold many more than that, because I've purchased them from auctions to sell at my yard sales. So unless the person who dumped it was the one and only owner, it was a complete waste of time to involve the police. If you can find a lawyer to subpoena the manufacturer, then you might get somewhere. Your local boys in blue are doubtful to do anything, and the odds of having a judge or whoever needs to sign the subpoena is essentially nil once they see what it is for.
Nice thought though, let us know if anything comes of it.
You are only correct insofar as the UPC code to scan the price. Have you ever shopped at CompUSA? BestBuy? Bought an extended warranty for an electronic device? The serial number barcode is almost universally available on most equipment, either on the outside of the box or through a window. I know from personal experience that CompUSA will scan serial numbers of what you buy when it is available. When I was doing asset management at Intel not only did the IBM laptop and desktops have their serial numbers on the outside of the box, they also had any added custom configuration items as extra barcodes (extra ram, hd, etc). Plus, Intel had a custom asset tracking barcode that was place on each asset BEFORE it was shipped to the site, from the distributor. In either case, whether from the manufacturer or distributor, the serial number is scanned before packing either by a person or while it is moving on a conveyor and the label attached by hand or machine.
You do not know the realities of current supply chain technology and processes. Just in time shipping is dependant on knowing not only WHAT part was shipped, but WHICH part was shipped when you are talking about pieces for an aircraft engine, most of which are numbered individually. The same is true for many other industries. Western Digital's RMA policy has a clause preventing return of a HD if it was reported stolen. How do you think they know that? They, along with other manufacturers like Intel, know all the serial numbers in each batch of shipments that gets sent out. Does the secondary distributor track that information? Maybe, maybe not. Depends on who it is. But when it gets down to major retail stores, they either know the serial number when it comes in, or they will know it when it goes out.
With the surplus sales, dumpster diving, flea markets, and the advent of eBay, it is all too easy to purchase something already broken and return it to a store and get credit for it. Say you buy a digital camera for $400. Buy a broken digital camera on eBay for $20 that is not due to abuse. Return $20 camera and keep $400 working one. Sell camera and $$profit. That is why more and more retailers are tracking this information, not because the government wants them to, but because dishonest joe citizen forces them to.
From a custom application standpoint, your points may be true. From a mail/calendaring perspective, Lotus Notes is a piece of crap. In my personal experience (using an incident tracking system based on Lotus Notes at Intel many years ago, and several Domino applications here at my current job) I have not seen the virtues of it yet. I guess when my company goes from a $14 billion dollar, 70,000 employee company to a $28 billion dollar, 140,000 employee company I will see a useful implementation of Lotus Notes and Domino that does something other than aggravate and complicate what should be simple tasks. Maybe it just takes time and money to make use of Domino, and my company hasn't spent enough yet.
I'm still trying to figure out why the hell this matters. Between the coffee breaks, smoke breaks, stupid forwarded emails, and other crap that goes on, who gives a crap if the pc boots up faster? It isn't going to improve productivity any.
And then there is all this talk about how much electricity it it going to save, which in turn saves the environment, etc.... Bullshit! If people were so damned worried about pollution and electricity why in the hell would you buy a computer? How much electricity is used and pollutants generated by ONE PC or laptop? How many of these pc's end up in landfills or "recycled", which costs us more in natural resources half the time to accomplish?
Go outside. Breath a little. Walk a mile. That the booting time on a computer is such a big freaking deal is beyond comprehension.
I'm glad you can keep all that crap organized in your head. It seems to be a convuluted, complicated, and a waste of time to me. I'll take multiple monitors over your solution any day. How in the world do you get anything done working on that many things at once? Just because you can have that many things open, does not make it efficient or practical. It's nice that it works for you. My Matrox card had the same functionality as enlightenment iirc, and that was a long time ago. Dual (or more) monitors are still more efficient imo, because the act of "alt-tabbing" or clicking or whatever you do that may bring up a whole other screen in front of your face breaks the workflow or continuity of what having a "multi-tasking" OS is supposed to do. As an example, in my previous job I would have to make presentations from excel charts that I created from data in Access linked from a SQL Server. So most of the time, run a query, copy contents, paste into Excel, create graph, drag graph across screen to the the second into Powerpoint and drop it in (the ever famous "drag and drop"). In this case it works, and was much more intuitive than switching from one screen to the next on the same monitor. Most newer laptops have dual video outputs anyways, so the lcd can run the same time as a monitor. Just think, you could now have 36 screens of l337 homework running! Run out and buy a new laptop!
They loaded up the computers with stuff from the company that made Dungeons and Dragons? I never got any free games with my pc...
(yes, I know it means Terminate and Stay Resident, but you would had to have used DOS to know that. The only one I can remember of off hand is Sidekick from back then. If anyone here started using computers after Windows was invented, I doubt they would have a clue.)
You mean the Domino that Notes runs off of? Are you kidding? Lotus notes has the worst interface and email/calendar functionality ever designed. Outlook Express is better than Lotus Notes. The text shell that came with my SLIP connection when I first got access to the internet is better than Lotus Notes. The other alternatives may be good, but I can tell you from personal experience (using Outlook for 9 years while working at Intel, and now having to suffer with Notes 6.5 here at my new job) that employee's productivity would probably double if any corporation moved their email/calendaring from Notes/Domino to Outlook/Exchange. I would have a hard time enumerating the interface issues, functionality problems, and just stupid "why the hell doesn't it work" problems there are with Notes.
Really.
I thought Buitreraptor gonzalezorum meant "Lesbian dinosaur that looks like Gonzo" (from the Muppets).
I could be wrong however.
If this is the same process used to design Lotus Notes, I'd avoid it like the plague. Or bird flu for that matter. No wonder they'd give it out for free then.
Because it is using bat crap for propellant.
oh damn, I'm sorry, it guiana, not guano.
Lol, was it fun to take another post of mine and rewrite? I see that internet site for getting premade term papers has taught you a lot about how to avoid plagiarism.
The Expanded Universe (as Lucas likes calling it) has much better stories that could have been used. In one earlier series of books one of the authors was writing about Luke and Leia finding more and more about their mother and there was a really good storyline leading to it. Of course then Lucas had his head shoved up his ass and came up with the whole Queen Amidala crap for the movies and the book series never finished. I wish he had bothered to read the SANCTIONED stuff that other people wrote and used some of the stuff instead of the shit he churned out for the new movies. I don't know if it is common knowledge, as I haven't been reading about ep 3, but they have confirmed that Amidala is Luke and Leia's mother on the SW site, She was one of a set of twins, born in secrecy and protected from Vader and the Emperor. The Jedi hero and general, Obi-Wan Kenobi, saw to it that Leia was secretly transported to the planet Alderaan, where she was to be raised by Kenobi's friend Bail Organa. The boy, Luke, was taken to the distant world of Tatooine. Leia has few memories of her true mother, Padmé Amidala. All that Leia can recall is that she was beautiful, but sad. (from starwars.com databank)
George needs to get some new talent and not think like a 2 year old kid.
Um, speaking for all my Star Wars geek knowledge, but IIRC, I am pretty sure it was Grand Moff Tarkin who blew up Alderaan? Vader didn't really have much to do with it. Oh, and reading on Starwars.com, it seems like they let out a spoiler of sorts on their bio of Vader, it says:
Skywalker was seduced by the dark side of the Force. Fueled by rage and discontent with the pace of Obi-Wan's training, Anakin challenged his master to a duel. Despite newfound power bestowed by the dark side of the Force, which added to his already formidable abilities, Anakin was grievously wounded in the fight. His burning anger kept him alive, and he was forever scarred not only by his wounds but also by betrayal. He abandoned his former identity. When metal coupled with flesh in the form of cyborg implants and enhancements required to sustain him, Skywalker's transformation was complete. He was no longer Anakin. He was Darth Vader.
Maybe that is already common knowledge, but I haven't been keeping up with ep 3.
And I still learn something new everyday. Smuggling raisins? I can guess what it means, but I honestly have never heard that term before. Of course, I was born in 75 so I don't remember a quarter of the stuff that is referenced to in the 70's, and I was in Taiwan for the bulk of the 80's so that's shot too. Is there a good site for slang like that?
I saw that too on some email my wife got. I prompty rewrote my automated form filler to create checksum valid credit cards and submitted about 10000 of them. My only problem is that it is in
Warning - ranting and raving below
I live in AZ, and went to my FIRST Major League sports event in my life last week, Diamondbacks against Expos, in which they lost (last Friday I believe).
It was kinda sad that they lost (although they lost the whole series to the Expos, so that was pretty pathetic I guess). It was the first game for my wife and two kids also (I am 29).
My real feelings about baseball? WHO GIVES A %@#$! Pretty much how I feel about all sports, and why I have managed to not go to anything until now (my sister's boyfried is a sportsnut and his company has season tickets, so I got them for free since they were previously engaged).
Why is all this time wasted on sports? Does it save lives, make the world a better place, increase our knowledge of the universe, what? The stupid stadium cost the Arizona taxpayers around $300 million IIRC, and they won the world series back in 2001. I guess that is some big deal, but who cares? $300 mil could have bought 300,000 computers for classrooms, gone towards operating the county hospitals, funded police officers and fire departments, etc.. but no, we built a stadium. With a retractable roof. Now we are building a football field for the completely pathetic Cardinals, with a retractable field.
Sports is akin to the Coleseum in Rome. Built to keep the masses occupied so they don't notice the government screwing them over on everything else. Why else does the government fund one endeavor so much more than other more deserving things? Public transportation in AZ sucks, why not more buses and drivers? Oh, I'm sorry, we are building a monorail or some shit like that, spending billions of dollars, SO PEOPLE CAN GET FROM THEIR HOUSE TO THE STADIUMS. Really pathetic.
My mother-in-law, who bathes once in a great while and only works half the year for H&R Block during tax season, loves the Diamondbacks. While not working for the other six months, she is collecting unemployment, puffing away on cigarettes, stinking up her trailer, and feeling sorry for herself and complaining about her life to hre kids. Which nicely fits in with the stereotypical beer swilling, overweight, white trailer-trash image that is portrayed many times on tv and such. Gosh, how I wish she applied all that energy channeled into watching sports into something like her hygiene, or getting a full time job! Is there a single freaking week that there is not some professional sports game going on to engage people in yet another enormous waste of time? "But they give millions to charity". Hmmm, if the tax writeoff for giving to charities were removed, exactly how generous would they be?
Well, now you know a little about how I feel about professional sports. Ask me about gun control or the earned income credit sometime.
We had an employee here that was all happy about getting a degree with his life experience. And then I showed him it was from a university in Liberia. He gave up on that and started with University of Phoenix (which I think is just an expensive diploma mill).
.edu domain. And how hard is it to fake accreditation? If you read the Wired article it talks at the end of how Hamilton University is accredited by the American Council of Private Colleges and Universities, which looks to only accredit Hamilton.
Seriously though, what is a fake degree? Just because they are not accredited? No job posting I have seen says "requires a BS from an accredited university". They just want a degree. If the government doesn't make non accredited universities illegal, then no one can complain. If the job requirements are "four year degree", then it would be different. A fake degree would be something I made up in Photoshop and printed out. A degree from a non-accredited university is still a degree.
Go apply for a job on Monster. Guess what you get after you finish your submittal? A nice huge ad for Kennedy Western Note that they have a
I remember arguing with a previous manager about a pay raise, and him telling me that 4 years of work experience were equal to one year of "higher" education. What a load of crap. More like the other way around. I have worked with people with real degrees. That doesn't mean that they know anything.
I took a couple courses at University of Phoenix Online. $1200 for 3 credit hours. First class was basically "introduction to group learning and how to write papers according to the APA format". What a waste of time and money! Second class was not any better. So I am out $2400 (or my employer is) for classes that no self-respecting entity should allow or accredit for college credit. So by writing group papers every week somehow I am some greatly enhanced in my mental capabilities and have "earned" a degree. Maybe some other day I will write about how the whole higher education system is just another money making scheme and government brainwashing mill.
I work as a contractor for big 5 letter chip company. I can tell you that security is only second to the fab, and that is because the fab makes money. Unless something crashing is going to cause you millions of dollars an hour, someone needs to decide what is more important, your network being slow because it is being scanned for unpatched systems, or having a nasty version of Sasser erase data, send out confidential information, and completely crash the whole network. And they are even pickier about fab security, because if something does get infected and go down, they are out big bucks
Is security in charge of making sure everything is patched also, or is operations in charge and they are trying to cover their ass by making you forewarn them of your scan?
Your production network should be segmented from the general network, and critical portions of the general network (say, helpdesk, hr, etc) should be on their own segments. This allows you to scan one entity at a time and if something does break, you have a defined area for your desktop support team to work in.
Regardless of if you must wait for a maintenance window for production equipment, who will get the blame if something breaks? Do the scan on the weekend, on test servers, whatever you can do the easiest first. You should have a standard build for servers, desktops, etc... and be able to test those systems and see the effects.
The release time between an exploit being found and being exploited is growing shorter all the time. What was the leadtime for sasser? Two, three weeks? The netops people here are shutting off the ports of systems that are not patched at the switch level already. The network comes to a crawl while they are doing the scans. And guess what? They do them during the day. Why? Because that is when people are at work! A maintenance window is useless if you cannot guarantee what percentage of your population you are going to hit. So if your window is 1am to 3am, you better be scanning a network full of Indian helpdesk agents.
English is such a bastardization of a language it shouldn't really be considered a "language." More of a compilation of languages. It continuously adds foreign words to itself, takes rules for characters in other alphabets and uses them, and then allows rap stars (or surfers) to come up with their own words which then is added to the recognized verbiage (awesome is in the dictionary, I am waiting for "fo' shizzle my nizzle"). Has anyone seen the size of an unabridged English dictionary recently? They are practically getting too large to print and too heavy to hold. Pretty soon they will come on DVD's instead of CD's.
In Chinese, the term for computer is "dien now" which literally means "electric brain". Some things in English should be as simple. Scientific terms and other bullshit is fine if your some PhD and memorizing all that crap helps you discuss it with your peers. But for crying out loud, a seismic disturbance is a damned earthquake. Making up a bunch of complicated words to denote simple things is just a way to make it look like you are smart. Akin to what the Catholic church did by not allowing the Bible to be translated into English originally, or having Mass in Latin. Makes one group feel more important or powerful than another.
Ok, getting off topic. Main point is, yes, whatever is popular is what gets used. Duh. That is why we haves crepes instead of "thin pancakes made mostly with eggs", or "gorgonzola" instead of "moldy solidified milk which makes your breath stink like a gorgon's".
But of course, English speakers can't pronounce words from the Asian countries easily, so we have "chopsticks" instead of "kwie tzeh". And for fucks sake, fried noodles, or "chow mein", is NOT pronounced "chow mine". It is "tzou myehn", with a y sound, as in yen. Not an i as in eye.