Yeah, because it's a good idea to block traffic from your site because of your ideological biases. I bet your boss will totally understand that.
You assume too much. I would block MS' spider because they're costing me money by hammering on movie files. The fact that their search engine sucks is secondary and their status as MS is irrelevant.
Who said it was the job of Dell, HP, etc. to educate consumers about alternatives to IE?
I didn't say it was their job, I said it was their right.
What next, if we suddenly discover that a large number of users use notepad as their text editor because they were unaware of emacs and vi that Microsoft is somehow to blame?
I dunno - depends if OEMs are contractually frobidden from bundling textpad.
Besides which, do the OEMs really care what web browser goes on the machine as long as they get to put their branding on it (i.e., company logo spinner, links in favorites menu, etc.)?
So they can compete - Dell could advertise that their web browser stops popups and their email client kills spam, and they could have done this for the past year.
They sure as hell can. However, if they do, they will lose the pricing agreements they have with Microsoft.
And then they get to pay retail price for XP. Haven't you been paying attention? MS isn't allowed to illegally bundle their products because they're a monopoly.
No, it's not Microsoft's problem because it's not Microsoft's responsibility to educate every user about alternatives to their software.
No, it isn't their problem because they hold a sword over the heads of their distributors so that they can't educate their customers.
Duh, how do you expect someone to get a new web browser if the system doesn't come with one in the first place? They've got to ship some kind of web browser with Windows, don't you think? Or do you think all the default web browser should do is send people to a Google search result page for "web browser"?
I expect Dell to be allowed to ship mozilla with their computers, but they can't. They can't even include a Mozilla CD in the damn box.
not Microsoft's problem.
Because MS leveraged their monopoly to make it not their problem.
It simply isn't fair to blame Microsoft for the ignorance of their users.
Sure it is - they count on it. Why do you think Bill hit the roof when Compaq was planning on shipping netscape with their PCs? Something about discontinuing volume licensing.
If you had really paid attention in your Harvard business classes, you would have learned the story of Standard Oil. A big monopolistic oil company that was finally forced to break up into pieces. Mr. Rockerfeller was sad until he suddenly discovered his stock portfolio went through the roof. Apparently, when Standard Oil became a bunch of smaller companies, they grew the market and their collective market capitlization was far, far greater than they were in one company.
The federal government was never a threat to someone as wily as Rockefeller - they don't even know how much money he has. John D was able, from all accounts, to maintain control of standard oil even in the face of an ordered breakup, by donating the stock to trusts that he controlled. As a bonus, those trusts are charitible, so he avoided income and death tax. What did him in was the discovery of oil on Louisianna, which created new companies faster than he could buy/merge/bury them. Bill is a good businessman (he probably hangs out with John D's grandkids), but he's no Rockefeller.
In the US a billion dollars is 1000 million dollars. That's a lot of money to come up with NOTHING.
Got that right - Microsoft is overpaying. Bill, if you're listening, I'm willing to deliver absolutely nothing for the next 20 years at the bargain price of $100 million. That's less tahn 10 cents on the dollar!
The surest sign something is $MANAGEMENT_FAD, is a forecful declaration that it isn't, followed by a statement that the fad in question pays attention to, well, what every technique pays attention to.
And the whole point of software process is to remove as much mechanical stuff from the dev process as possible. Incidentally, brilliant people operating without a process cannot produce a large scale, consistent product.
Meanwhile, somewhere in America, a pothead is crossbreeding Marijuana, Monsanto corn, and Kudzu. The end result will be poison resistant pot plants that grow several feet per week.
The flip side of this is that many people are prone to getting autoimmune disease as a consequence of getting certain infections. Crohn's disease is likely triggered by a bacteria.
So, once we get a bit better at this, what's to stop us from engineering a better immune system? It'd be pretty nice to be able to recognize that a particular allergic response is unnecessary and suppress it with no more effort than it takes to breathe.
But then, I don't demand that my sys admins work from home. I expect that they work from the office.
What do you care, so long as the job gets done?
However, our servers being down and the sys admin saying "Well, I am only paid to do this 9-5, call me in the morning" isn't going to cut it. The servers being down will cause the sys admin to lose his job.
Depends on the company. Some places do the 9-5 thing with on-call rotation, and some do admining in shifts. I know that if I were in the former camp, I'd want a pile of cash for being on-call 24-7.
,i>These days, we're expected to have a cell, but we have to pay for it on our own. Go figure. *shrug*
I have an odd situation - my boss and about two other people know my cell number. I'm a POC for a production piece of software, but only my work number is listed as a contact, so if there's a real problem, they can try to call me (that being my boss) or wait. I'm not really on call, but if I go in, at least I get paid.
You have to remember that most of the/. crowd are the reason dodgeball has disappeared from schools these days. They were on the receiving end of those vicious headshots
Speak for yourself. I always aim for the legs, as it's harder to catch that way.
I imagine it would take quite a few floppies to store modern files.
You'd think so, but nooooo... A private key takes a few kb at most, and a full credit report is only a bit larger. The first can be used to sign code as whomever's key you steal. The ssecond is useful for ID theft.
Titan _Will_ eventually become privatly owned by some rich tycoons/corperations/religions looking to make money off it, and whatever life is there will be subject to their bulldozing mercy.
As there is no government on Titan, a corporation cannot be said to own it until such time as they can defend it. Put simply, property rights are enforced through force and threat of force - if you can't bring that to bear, you can't own something.
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Add the NoWhere.com domain to applicable do-not-call lists.
Oops! you don't have any. Good luck on your business plan, though.
Yeah, because it's a good idea to block traffic from your site because of your ideological biases. I bet your boss will totally understand that.
You assume too much. I would block MS' spider because they're costing me money by hammering on movie files. The fact that their search engine sucks is secondary and their status as MS is irrelevant.
If it bothers you so, why don't you use /robots.txt to keep it out?
Better yet, block the crawler completely.
Who said it was the job of Dell, HP, etc. to educate consumers about alternatives to IE?
I didn't say it was their job, I said it was their right.
What next, if we suddenly discover that a large number of users use notepad as their text editor because they were unaware of emacs and vi that Microsoft is somehow to blame?
I dunno - depends if OEMs are contractually frobidden from bundling textpad.
Besides which, do the OEMs really care what web browser goes on the machine as long as they get to put their branding on it (i.e., company logo spinner, links in favorites menu, etc.)?
So they can compete - Dell could advertise that their web browser stops popups and their email client kills spam, and they could have done this for the past year.
They sure as hell can. However, if they do, they will lose the pricing agreements they have with Microsoft.
And then they get to pay retail price for XP. Haven't you been paying attention? MS isn't allowed to illegally bundle their products because they're a monopoly.
No, it's not Microsoft's problem because it's not Microsoft's responsibility to educate every user about alternatives to their software.
No, it isn't their problem because they hold a sword over the heads of their distributors so that they can't educate their customers.
Duh, how do you expect someone to get a new web browser if the system doesn't come with one in the first place? They've got to ship some kind of web browser with Windows, don't you think? Or do you think all the default web browser should do is send people to a Google search result page for "web browser"?
I expect Dell to be allowed to ship mozilla with their computers, but they can't. They can't even include a Mozilla CD in the damn box.
not Microsoft's problem.
Because MS leveraged their monopoly to make it not their problem.
It simply isn't fair to blame Microsoft for the ignorance of their users.
Sure it is - they count on it. Why do you think Bill hit the roof when Compaq was planning on shipping netscape with their PCs? Something about discontinuing volume licensing.
If you had really paid attention in your Harvard business classes, you would have learned the story of Standard Oil. A big monopolistic oil company that was finally forced to break up into pieces. Mr. Rockerfeller was sad until he suddenly discovered his stock portfolio went through the roof. Apparently, when Standard Oil became a bunch of smaller companies, they grew the market and their collective market capitlization was far, far greater than they were in one company.
The federal government was never a threat to someone as wily as Rockefeller - they don't even know how much money he has. John D was able, from all accounts, to maintain control of standard oil even in the face of an ordered breakup, by donating the stock to trusts that he controlled. As a bonus, those trusts are charitible, so he avoided income and death tax. What did him in was the discovery of oil on Louisianna, which created new companies faster than he could buy/merge/bury them. Bill is a good businessman (he probably hangs out with John D's grandkids), but he's no Rockefeller.
In the US a billion dollars is 1000 million dollars. That's a lot of money to come up with NOTHING.
Got that right - Microsoft is overpaying. Bill, if you're listening, I'm willing to deliver absolutely nothing for the next 20 years at the bargain price of $100 million. That's less tahn 10 cents on the dollar!
The surest sign something is $MANAGEMENT_FAD, is a forecful declaration that it isn't, followed by a statement that the fad in question pays attention to, well, what every technique pays attention to.
And the whole point of software process is to remove as much mechanical stuff from the dev process as possible. Incidentally, brilliant people operating without a process cannot produce a large scale, consistent product.
tell me how much it costs Ford per person even.
Ford has big robots that build cars. Microsoft has a few servers. Ford probably spends more than MS per employee because they do different things.
Meanwhile, somewhere in America, a pothead is crossbreeding Marijuana, Monsanto corn, and Kudzu. The end result will be poison resistant pot plants that grow several feet per week.
Even though the immune response is at the moment futile, it does slow down the disease relative to a person who has no immune system at all.
If someone with no immune system got infected with HIV, what would HIV use to reproduce?
If the engineered disease happened to be caused by microscopic particles made of diamond that no protease could cut, we would be truly in trouble.
I doubt it. If a bacterial/viral infection used diamond fragmnets, how would it reproduce? Presumably the human body can't make that stuff.
The flip side of this is that many people are prone to getting autoimmune disease as a consequence of getting certain infections. Crohn's disease is likely triggered by a bacteria.
So, once we get a bit better at this, what's to stop us from engineering a better immune system? It'd be pretty nice to be able to recognize that a particular allergic response is unnecessary and suppress it with no more effort than it takes to breathe.
But then, I don't demand that my sys admins work from home. I expect that they work from the office.
What do you care, so long as the job gets done?
However, our servers being down and the sys admin saying "Well, I am only paid to do this 9-5, call me in the morning" isn't going to cut it. The servers being down will cause the sys admin to lose his job.
Depends on the company. Some places do the 9-5 thing with on-call rotation, and some do admining in shifts. I know that if I were in the former camp, I'd want a pile of cash for being on-call 24-7.
Yes. Auto mechanics are expected to provide their own tools.
Only if they own the shop. You can't expect someone to spend $30k on tools when they only make $50k.
,i>These days, we're expected to have a cell, but we have to pay for it on our own. Go figure. *shrug*
I have an odd situation - my boss and about two other people know my cell number. I'm a POC for a production piece of software, but only my work number is listed as a contact, so if there's a real problem, they can try to call me (that being my boss) or wait. I'm not really on call, but if I go in, at least I get paid.
If someone's aiming for your leg all the time, jump.
Or catch it and spike him when he's running back to his side.
As I remember, we used to outlaw leg shots
We had no such rule. Also, we played on a half tennis court (no net) with people on the ends, allowing for a nice crossfire.
A potential sale is not an actual sale, and cannot be accounted for as such.
I originally read that as 'A potential sale is not an actual sale, and cannot pay for lunch', and it still made sense.
You have to remember that most of the /. crowd are the reason dodgeball has disappeared from schools these days. They were on the receiving end of those vicious headshots
Speak for yourself. I always aim for the legs, as it's harder to catch that way.
I'd guess it disabled it from the point of view of the bios.
That's way too much trouble - you can disable any usb port with a little bit of epoxy resin. It's also compatible with firewire.
I imagine it would take quite a few floppies to store modern files.
You'd think so, but nooooo... A private key takes a few kb at most, and a full credit report is only a bit larger. The first can be used to sign code as whomever's key you steal. The ssecond is useful for ID theft.
Titan _Will_ eventually become privatly owned by some rich tycoons/corperations/religions looking to make money off it, and whatever life is there will be subject to their bulldozing mercy.
As there is no government on Titan, a corporation cannot be said to own it until such time as they can defend it. Put simply, property rights are enforced through force and threat of force - if you can't bring that to bear, you can't own something.
So what if a US president stopped internal strife with force- then what? How is Saddam different?
He actually did what he set out to do.