The Jerry ads destroyed MSFT's already fucked up image, by making it more fucked up.
In order to get their image repaired they have to embrace Linux, and Open Source and then they can claim to be pioneers again, like when they pioneered a UI based OS by copying Apple.
I'll bite, since it was a really good troll you posted.
To answer your question, the best magician does his dirty tricks when everyone's attention is fixed on a good distraction. What better way to hammer into a site and steal all kinds of info when everyone is staring at a TV?
I would be actually somewhat surprised if this was the only major crime committed today.
Which is why I have been careful to use hedges such as "appear" rather than make categorical statements. You may indeed have a towering intellect, and simply be remarkably skilled at hiding it.
This is one of the boring conversations I sometimes have with people I know. You want to prove that you are smarter than me, but this approach is self-refuting.
I am skilled at everything I do. If that happens to include hiding my intelligence, I doubt a sane person would make that observation, after reading this thread.
But okay if you want to believe that, go ahead buddy.
Indeed. But had you read what I wrote you would note that I claimed that "most women" (a generalised group) are smarter than you (a specific individual, not a generalised group) appear to be. An appearance you have just reinforced, because it is indeed possible for most of a group to be smarter than a specific identified individual.
No. You misunderstood me, because you did not read the crux of my comment. You are obviously trolling me but I must feed the troll because the troll must be hungry. Trolls are always hungry.
"Also, it is not possible that a generalized group of people can be smarter than another, only due to the fact that they simply classify similarly, when no attributes in said classification include intelligence."
Your retort missed the the central emphasis of my statement:
1. Women as a group cannot be more intelligent than men due to their classification. 2. Intelligence is not an attribute of sex.
Furthermore, you do not know most women and therefore cannot assert that you are aware of the intelligence of most women. For all you know, the intelligence of most women could be dwarfed by my towering intellect, but this is an argument of immeasurable application and therefore irrelevant.
Continue trolling if you must, but at least fix that pseudo-educated subterfuge of yours, before you stump yourself or become further embarrassed.
The problem with business is old people and I don't mean aged people just people with OLD IDEAS, like the captive audience. It's bullshit and it's gone. We are able to do anything with our constantly deteriorating free time, so why would we give YOU money when YOU treat us like we are criminals and not customers?
We'll go somewhere else, do something NEW and leave you in the DUST.
This is good news for everyone. Now we can get all kinds of money from these MAFIAA groups to pay to the ISPs for their evidence in all the court cases that will be thrown out on constitutional grounds.
Just listen to Indy bands that have songs with names that include all the words of other, possibly Britney Spears titles. Then sue the MAFIAA for lost wages and aggravation!
If they do, they will find that they have lost, too, because the sexes need each other. Fortunately, most women are smarter than you appear to be, and already realise that.
Woe is the human being who cannot thrust forward a perspective, without attempting to damage the self esteem of another.
Also, it is not possible that a generalized group of people can be smarter than another, only due to the fact that they simply classify similarly, when no attributes in said classification include intelligence.
If it were sex, it would be males who were more concerned with immersion, and females more concerned with competence.
This statement was obviously written by a man.
Women are more interested in immersion into a mental state of connection, while men are more interested in how well they performed the act, and the joke is that these desires are completely incompatible with one another, and therefore we have the war of the sexes still raging today, getting worse and worse until the women win. Do not kid yourself -- they will win.
I hear what you're saying but I think they are looking at gender roles in games. Physical gender, and mental makeup are two separate things that should be addressed separately.
For the purpose of understanding gaming, understanding the physical gender is less important than understanding the mental states a particular player will gravitate towards.
Separate the terms masculine and feminine from men and women.
In World of Warcraft, both masculine and feminine players trend in the direction of an eventual end-game raiding PvE experience, while only typically masculine players trend towards PvP. A mixture of players trend towards goofing around in the game and not aiming towards the competitive raiding or PvP environment.
I would have to counter your argument with the assumption that any closed source system is of a much higher risk of bugs and malformed logical analysis and therefore these convictions are screwed, no matter which way you look at it.
Next time, release a breathalyzer with open source code that has the rubber stamp of the OSS community, and you'll be far better off.
Continue to do so, and we're convicting DWI people instead of people who used some mouthwash before driving into work.
For this company, a major mistake in the previously secret code means that any conviction from the device's results is now under suspicion.
It seems to me that this strengthens an argument for companies to release their source code in advance, for public analysis, should these systems be used legally. People's lives are at stake, and I am a firm believer that the defense has a right to a fair trial. They don't have a right to get away, but they do have a right to have a fair go. Unless you can scrutinize how a breathalyzer works, you can't really defend yourself if in fact you are innocent of a DWI.
It would be a nightmare to be arrested for a DWI under a false positive... like if you used mouthwash and it triggered the machine to freak out, for example.
People who implemented or modified and implemented the breathalyzer software that was revealed at trial would still be guilty of various infractions if the breathalyzer manafacturer asserted copyright, whether or not they were compelled to reveal it by a judge.
I could see this if the code wandered out of the court, but the mfr would have to prove that. I don't think a judge in the land would impose a fine for complying with a court order (as you would see more people in non-compliance if that was true). I think that's what you were saying...
The thing I like about open source is that everyone can make the software better. Why a company wouldn't want to produce source code, is beyond me. I think they fear that they will be viewed as incompetent when several mistakes are found in their code, or that sneaky randomizer function call rears its ugly head.
In all seriousness, companies would do well to realize that open source increases revenues by enabling a larger FREE workforce to do your work for you. Put aside your griefs with secrecy, unless of course your code doesn't work, or you stole large chunks of the code, and fear the legal ramifications.
Actually, for Dell, Windows is cheaper. Linux is free, but doesn't bring in any revenue. Windows costs 30-ish dollars a piece for Dell, and McAfee & others pays Dell slightly more than that so they can have their software preinstalled.
You sort of closed your own argument. McAfee and others pay Dell money that offsets the cost of putting Windows on computers, but if Dell uses Linux, Dell still gets to keep that pre-loaded revenue from these software vendors! The idea is that Dell will save money by using Linux.
I didn't argue that it was a sound business practice, because we all know that Dell has stretched its revenue capability through undercutting their competitors to the point of severe fiduciary incompetence (and as a result, I wouldn't buy Dell stocks). They also did so in a way that wasn't the best for their customers either, by outsourcing a lot of their customer service branches to areas of the world that have trouble speaking English, and also lowering internal company standards in some cases.
Dell plays a lot of games with customers over returns or computer issues. Some customers don't ever see this side of the company and have a really amazing experience with them, but others complain about being royally screwed over by them. They are non-standardized, when this marketplace is all about standardization, ATM. Look at Apple's success with good standardization practices. Perhaps not too exemplary but still a cut above Dell in every way.
I see this as mostly a semantics problem. The prof, or person who wrote the syllabus meant something general but said something specific. They likely wrote that students require MS Office for the course(s). What they mean by this is that the students need a word processor and a spreadsheet, possibly power point.
Also it needs to be said that it's against ethical standards for a school to require products of a particular brand name, as long as competing products are sufficient.
I must also add that if you are a student, you could consider ignoring standards set by your prof or dept, if they don't make sense. Many of those standards were written more than ten years ago. Not only that, you are in a competitive setting and you are less competitive if you are confining yourself, using the same generic tools as everyone else in your class.
Of course if MSFT products are BETTER somehow than what you can get, then it would be advised to use them.
I would always opt for students to use what suits them best, rather than what is trendy or required.
The other side of the coin is that Dell wants to save money on MSFT license fees, so they push free OS to keep their costs down. It's not really putting the customer first if the customer feels really cheated by it.
In this particular case, however, I have no idea why Open Office wouldn't suffice, or why the school wouldn't help the student get connected to the internet just reflects poorly on their customer service standards, IMHO.
Most of the world believes Bush is a war criminal, and that is not an overstatement. Bush claimed he had fun, while he was destroying the American economy, crippling any chance for true American peace, and while he was launching a lavish war against a CONCEPT, irrespective of Bush's theft of two elections.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED - if it was to have an epic fail for freedom.
A covenant without a sword is but words among men.
Good luck finding the agency with those emails. They've all been destroyed because there was specific Bush-related dirty laundry that couldn't ever be cleaned. These emails implicate so many people that they had to disappear.
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FORMALISTS' MOTTO: Take care of the syntax and the semantics will take care of itself.
Also, if you are animating a dude, he is thinking about sex. If you are animating anyone else, they are thinking about shopping.
Technically AI is not hard, you just need to lower your mind-mechanics bar and focus on trailer parks, and folk psychology.
Typically when a Dem gets into hot water, it also has a half dozen strippers in it.
Because it takes a negative charge, the screen is powered by evil and therefore is able to writhe in evil intent!
This news proves that Microsoft is weak.
The Jerry ads destroyed MSFT's already fucked up image, by making it more fucked up.
In order to get their image repaired they have to embrace Linux, and Open Source and then they can claim to be pioneers again, like when they pioneered a UI based OS by copying Apple.
Nice troll! Wow.
I'll bite, since it was a really good troll you posted.
To answer your question, the best magician does his dirty tricks when everyone's attention is fixed on a good distraction. What better way to hammer into a site and steal all kinds of info when everyone is staring at a TV?
I would be actually somewhat surprised if this was the only major crime committed today.
Pack up all the religious nuts and MAN THE COLONY SHIP!
This is one of the boring conversations I sometimes have with people I know. You want to prove that you are smarter than me, but this approach is self-refuting.
I am skilled at everything I do. If that happens to include hiding my intelligence, I doubt a sane person would make that observation, after reading this thread.
But okay if you want to believe that, go ahead buddy.
No. You misunderstood me, because you did not read the crux of my comment. You are obviously trolling me but I must feed the troll because the troll must be hungry. Trolls are always hungry.
"Also, it is not possible that a generalized group of people can be smarter than another, only due to the fact that they simply classify similarly, when no attributes in said classification include intelligence."
Your retort missed the the central emphasis of my statement:
1. Women as a group cannot be more intelligent than men due to their classification.
2. Intelligence is not an attribute of sex.
Furthermore, you do not know most women and therefore cannot assert that you are aware of the intelligence of most women. For all you know, the intelligence of most women could be dwarfed by my towering intellect, but this is an argument of immeasurable application and therefore irrelevant.
Continue trolling if you must, but at least fix that pseudo-educated subterfuge of yours, before you stump yourself or become further embarrassed.
This rambling is incoherent. -1
The problem with business is old people and I don't mean aged people just people with OLD IDEAS, like the captive audience. It's bullshit and it's gone. We are able to do anything with our constantly deteriorating free time, so why would we give YOU money when YOU treat us like we are criminals and not customers?
We'll go somewhere else, do something NEW and leave you in the DUST.
This is good news for everyone. Now we can get all kinds of money from these MAFIAA groups to pay to the ISPs for their evidence in all the court cases that will be thrown out on constitutional grounds.
Just listen to Indy bands that have songs with names that include all the words of other, possibly Britney Spears titles. Then sue the MAFIAA for lost wages and aggravation!
Woe is the human being who cannot thrust forward a perspective, without attempting to damage the self esteem of another.
Also, it is not possible that a generalized group of people can be smarter than another, only due to the fact that they simply classify similarly, when no attributes in said classification include intelligence.
This statement was obviously written by a man.
Women are more interested in immersion into a mental state of connection, while men are more interested in how well they performed the act, and the joke is that these desires are completely incompatible with one another, and therefore we have the war of the sexes still raging today, getting worse and worse until the women win. Do not kid yourself -- they will win.
I hear what you're saying but I think they are looking at gender roles in games. Physical gender, and mental makeup are two separate things that should be addressed separately.
For the purpose of understanding gaming, understanding the physical gender is less important than understanding the mental states a particular player will gravitate towards.
Separate the terms masculine and feminine from men and women.
In World of Warcraft, both masculine and feminine players trend in the direction of an eventual end-game raiding PvE experience, while only typically masculine players trend towards PvP. A mixture of players trend towards goofing around in the game and not aiming towards the competitive raiding or PvP environment.
I would have to counter your argument with the assumption that any closed source system is of a much higher risk of bugs and malformed logical analysis and therefore these convictions are screwed, no matter which way you look at it.
Next time, release a breathalyzer with open source code that has the rubber stamp of the OSS community, and you'll be far better off.
Continue to do so, and we're convicting DWI people instead of people who used some mouthwash before driving into work.
These guys do the same stuff that everyone else does, except they do it with style because they use Linux.
Just don't do it. They are scamming you, obviously.
It seems to me that this strengthens an argument for companies to release their source code in advance, for public analysis, should these systems be used legally. People's lives are at stake, and I am a firm believer that the defense has a right to a fair trial. They don't have a right to get away, but they do have a right to have a fair go. Unless you can scrutinize how a breathalyzer works, you can't really defend yourself if in fact you are innocent of a DWI.
It would be a nightmare to be arrested for a DWI under a false positive... like if you used mouthwash and it triggered the machine to freak out, for example.
I could see this if the code wandered out of the court, but the mfr would have to prove that. I don't think a judge in the land would impose a fine for complying with a court order (as you would see more people in non-compliance if that was true). I think that's what you were saying...
The thing I like about open source is that everyone can make the software better. Why a company wouldn't want to produce source code, is beyond me. I think they fear that they will be viewed as incompetent when several mistakes are found in their code, or that sneaky randomizer function call rears its ugly head.
In all seriousness, companies would do well to realize that open source increases revenues by enabling a larger FREE workforce to do your work for you. Put aside your griefs with secrecy, unless of course your code doesn't work, or you stole large chunks of the code, and fear the legal ramifications.
I'd hate to be in their position, either way.
You sort of closed your own argument. McAfee and others pay Dell money that offsets the cost of putting Windows on computers, but if Dell uses Linux, Dell still gets to keep that pre-loaded revenue from these software vendors! The idea is that Dell will save money by using Linux.
I didn't argue that it was a sound business practice, because we all know that Dell has stretched its revenue capability through undercutting their competitors to the point of severe fiduciary incompetence (and as a result, I wouldn't buy Dell stocks). They also did so in a way that wasn't the best for their customers either, by outsourcing a lot of their customer service branches to areas of the world that have trouble speaking English, and also lowering internal company standards in some cases.
Dell plays a lot of games with customers over returns or computer issues. Some customers don't ever see this side of the company and have a really amazing experience with them, but others complain about being royally screwed over by them. They are non-standardized, when this marketplace is all about standardization, ATM. Look at Apple's success with good standardization practices. Perhaps not too exemplary but still a cut above Dell in every way.
I see this as mostly a semantics problem. The prof, or person who wrote the syllabus meant something general but said something specific. They likely wrote that students require MS Office for the course(s). What they mean by this is that the students need a word processor and a spreadsheet, possibly power point.
Also it needs to be said that it's against ethical standards for a school to require products of a particular brand name, as long as competing products are sufficient.
I must also add that if you are a student, you could consider ignoring standards set by your prof or dept, if they don't make sense. Many of those standards were written more than ten years ago. Not only that, you are in a competitive setting and you are less competitive if you are confining yourself, using the same generic tools as everyone else in your class.
Of course if MSFT products are BETTER somehow than what you can get, then it would be advised to use them.
I would always opt for students to use what suits them best, rather than what is trendy or required.
The other side of the coin is that Dell wants to save money on MSFT license fees, so they push free OS to keep their costs down. It's not really putting the customer first if the customer feels really cheated by it.
In this particular case, however, I have no idea why Open Office wouldn't suffice, or why the school wouldn't help the student get connected to the internet just reflects poorly on their customer service standards, IMHO.
Most of the world believes Bush is a war criminal, and that is not an overstatement. Bush claimed he had fun, while he was destroying the American economy, crippling any chance for true American peace, and while he was launching a lavish war against a CONCEPT, irrespective of Bush's theft of two elections.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED - if it was to have an epic fail for freedom.
A covenant without a sword is but words among men.
Good luck finding the agency with those emails. They've all been destroyed because there was specific Bush-related dirty laundry that couldn't ever be cleaned. These emails implicate so many people that they had to disappear.