sure, they are l-users. but those computarded jokers often have decision making authority beyond not only their intelligence, but beyond what any moron should control. this is a symtom of the information age's speed and thrust into every day life.
think about cdw's fred commercial with the guy who wants the badass box. he says (this might b a paraphrase), "i don't know anything about computers, but i want a better one than smith has". software has hit that point, "i don't know what's up or down or if i could find my ass inside a paper bag, but i want something as good as or better than windows" that's what the mainstream is looking for.
selling free software is necessary solely from the standpoint of mainstream acceptance. i think that's fine by the way, but i hope you all get the idea.
people have been trained to do two things with software, purchase and steal. i cannot begin to tell you how many requests i get for office or windows cd's from people who don't wish to pay for it. fact is, mainstream computarded L-users feel better when they've shelled something out for the software, even if it is free. like carnies, we have to take advantage of the marks, because they ask for it, and wouldn't be entertained otherwise.
beyond that, i wish that lycoris would put OO.O on their distro, just so i could hand out disks of their stuff and not tell anyone what they're getting, let them use the stuff and be happy, like the most illiterate of my clients who get free software every time they ask for a crack.
Microsoft's Breyer also made clear that the company does not guarantee any upgrades during the term of customers' contracts. "This is an important consideration that Microsoft's customers take into account when purchasing Software Assurance, which is a long-term, ongoing relationship between Microsoft and its customers, and a great deal of value comes from staying on SA long-term," she said.
is that when you're a sharecropper, at least you know your rights before you get screwed! with m$ you're just a slave to the monopoly.
the only ongoing relationship is slavery to their shitty insecure expensive proprietary system./end rant
is actually firmly pointed at microsoft. as i recall from previous I,Cringly bully pulpit sessions (is this guy Bruce Almighty or what?) the Eolas kind folks planned on hitting m$ solely for the purpose of striking at their desktop monopoly in the heart. we can only hope that some money hasn't changed that.
however, if they deny usage rights to m$, a glorious victory of the type that m$ can understand has been won. truly a case of Schumpertarian creative destruction if i have ever seen one.
actually, math in our heads is a sin. didn't u ever take math class? they want you to show your work, write it all down? all doing it in my head got me was sent to a shitty math class and disinterested in math until i discovered php.
i agree with you on that one. tho, it makes me giggle with glee thinking about the original source of the clerical comment.
i used to teach professors how to make their own web sites using the homestead editor during the dot-com boom days. one of them complained how, since there were computers now, they expected him to type and how it was awful that there was just one secretary to type up the work for the whole department! ha!
just goes to show you how smart homegrown intelligence can be inferior to AI. truthfully tho, smart people can and will, dumb people can't and won't and lazy people depend on whoever (whatever) is in front of them.
truly, white listing and bayesian filtering (Mozilla Thunderbird or Mac Mail) is the way to go. those guys running the blacklists wear black hats just like the spammers. for every spammer that they've stopped (spam increases every year exponentially ) there's a new one to replace them and an innocent company that eats shit by accident because of black lists. good riddance.
can we all agree that using technology to replace secretaries and interns defeats the purpose?
on a serious note, just having word and excel has replaced many thousands of secretaries already. can anyone out there say that typing is solely a clerical skill like it was 20 years ago?
this is a great way to dilute the value of talent. heloooooo, riaa schmucks! if anyone can do it (and can today), then it shouldn't be so expensive! mass produce the music, sell it cheap and be happy and fat without suing your fanbase . . . . sounds like the good old days, huh? when the riaa just screwed the artists, not the fans too.
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at least my state's dick is bigger than yours:P
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should be the title of this post, since there's a weekly florida attack. possibly by jealous people living outside of the tropical regions of our neighboring country, the us.
as a florida native (yes, one of three) i am here to set the record straight. ever since the punchcard debacle, my poor home state has been slandered for every bad thought, let alone the bungles in our government. truth be told, slashdot only gets the funniest of these stories, but there are more serious problems in our government, which registered voters have not been able to correct with our plebicites.
for every silly story about taxing LANs, there's a serious story about public fraud, corruption or negligence. for example, the department of children and families lost over 400 children in the last four years! they were pleased to announce three months later that they found 75% of them. a dismal record to be sure. even worse are the cases where children were lost and turned up dead. these are just a few of the more serious matters occurning in this state today, but they are just symptoms.
i know this isn't a political forum. but i would like to ask for serious comments about possible solutions. if your state government is so wonderful, where is it that you find qualified, bonafide normal and caring folks to fill government jobs and elected positions?
is anyone here holding an elected position and not accused of fraud that would like to comment? anyone who has run for office?
personally, i think that we have reached a point where our media outlets are so rapacious over their stories that they will destroy any decent person with any sort of past or youthful indescretions (unless they are named Bush). it is the number one reason why i would prefer not to step into any election. what do you think??????
actually halon is quite lethal. it will literally suck all the oxygen out of the room (or your lungs). halon is not permitted in commercial settings anymore (i think the military still uses it here and there) for new installations. my co-lo uses something based on inert gas that's more human friendly.
why bother quitting? why not just apply for your job as a new hire while you're still working there??? if your company is as dense as it sounds, they might hire you again with your raise:)
i can tell you for sure tho, hiring an attorney for this is the last thing you want to do, unless you're itching to get fired.
couple of years ago, i read about bell south ditching tons of old payphones, but only because wireless ate their lunch. they used to make a profit on them.
moreover, the phone companies used to not only lease the payphones, but the lines in the walls as well! when the miami international airport tried to get out of its 1980s public corruption deal with their phone provider, the provider threatened to rip out the system, and of course, fed at the public trough once again. . . make no mistake, payphones would never have been so prevalent if they didn't make money.
did my first site on one and used it for almost two years with no complaints, high reliability. they are very nice laptops, for a non-mac laptop. of course i'm on a tiBook now:) still, i like their durability and solidness. if you're gonna have to go with a brick/toaster, this is the cream of the crop
i attended a final cut 3 seminar held locally in miami to prep and train potential users before there was even an announced mac store (listening adobe?). apple bought final cut and the team from Macromedia, whose goal was to make a Premiere killer app. obviously they were really onto something.
pulling out of mac instead of digging in is happening because adobe has finally admitted defeat on the merits of the competition.
ok dude, the gpl is not about copyright. its about copyleft. yes, copyleft. in case you weren't sure, linux geeks are the geek version of hippies, and if you have ever seen a photo of RMS, maybe this will make things a little more painfully (to you), obvious.
yes, now that linux has caught on, big corporations are contributing (!!!), but they live by and clear the same rules. but linux is as much about community as it is about computering.
Really? The last time I checked the local BestBuy still only had 1 shelf of Mac software. The local Circuit City still had 0 shelves of Mac software
well dude, the last time i checked hyperjeff's software archive there were 7636 mac appz on there, up from about 1000 when he first started. most of them freeware, shareware apps. and since you're probably worried about choice, you should note that m$ has chased enough developers off the platform that their shareware offerings are shrinking these days.
apple is a fun devel platform, and if you don't like it, port your linux software onto it!
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think about cdw's fred commercial with the guy who wants the badass box. he says (this might b a paraphrase), "i don't know anything about computers, but i want a better one than smith has". software has hit that point, "i don't know what's up or down or if i could find my ass inside a paper bag, but i want something as good as or better than windows" that's what the mainstream is looking for.
people have been trained to do two things with software, purchase and steal. i cannot begin to tell you how many requests i get for office or windows cd's from people who don't wish to pay for it. fact is, mainstream computarded L-users feel better when they've shelled something out for the software, even if it is free. like carnies, we have to take advantage of the marks, because they ask for it, and wouldn't be entertained otherwise.
beyond that, i wish that lycoris would put OO.O on their distro, just so i could hand out disks of their stuff and not tell anyone what they're getting, let them use the stuff and be happy, like the most illiterate of my clients who get free software every time they ask for a crack.
is that when you're a sharecropper, at least you know your rights before you get screwed! with m$ you're just a slave to the monopoly.
the only ongoing relationship is slavery to their shitty insecure expensive proprietary system. /end rant
however, if they deny usage rights to m$, a glorious victory of the type that m$ can understand has been won. truly a case of Schumpertarian creative destruction if i have ever seen one.
actually, math in our heads is a sin. didn't u ever take math class? they want you to show your work, write it all down? all doing it in my head got me was sent to a shitty math class and disinterested in math until i discovered php.
i used to teach professors how to make their own web sites using the homestead editor during the dot-com boom days. one of them complained how, since there were computers now, they expected him to type and how it was awful that there was just one secretary to type up the work for the whole department! ha!
just goes to show you how smart homegrown intelligence can be inferior to AI. truthfully tho, smart people can and will, dumb people can't and won't and lazy people depend on whoever (whatever) is in front of them.
i'm allergic to nuts, that just makes me str8. go figure
truly, white listing and bayesian filtering (Mozilla Thunderbird or Mac Mail) is the way to go. those guys running the blacklists wear black hats just like the spammers. for every spammer that they've stopped (spam increases every year exponentially ) there's a new one to replace them and an innocent company that eats shit by accident because of black lists. good riddance.
on a serious note, just having word and excel has replaced many thousands of secretaries already. can anyone out there say that typing is solely a clerical skill like it was 20 years ago?
this is a great way to dilute the value of talent. heloooooo, riaa schmucks! if anyone can do it (and can today), then it shouldn't be so expensive! mass produce the music, sell it cheap and be happy and fat without suing your fanbase . . . . sounds like the good old days, huh? when the riaa just screwed the artists, not the fans too.
at least my state's dick is bigger than yours :P
lol
should be the title of this post, since there's a weekly florida attack. possibly by jealous people living outside of the tropical regions of our neighboring country, the us.
as a florida native (yes, one of three) i am here to set the record straight. ever since the punchcard debacle, my poor home state has been slandered for every bad thought, let alone the bungles in our government. truth be told, slashdot only gets the funniest of these stories, but there are more serious problems in our government, which registered voters have not been able to correct with our plebicites.
for every silly story about taxing LANs, there's a serious story about public fraud, corruption or negligence. for example, the department of children and families lost over 400 children in the last four years! they were pleased to announce three months later that they found 75% of them. a dismal record to be sure. even worse are the cases where children were lost and turned up dead. these are just a few of the more serious matters occurning in this state today, but they are just symptoms.
i know this isn't a political forum. but i would like to ask for serious comments about possible solutions. if your state government is so wonderful, where is it that you find qualified, bonafide normal and caring folks to fill government jobs and elected positions?
is anyone here holding an elected position and not accused of fraud that would like to comment? anyone who has run for office?
personally, i think that we have reached a point where our media outlets are so rapacious over their stories that they will destroy any decent person with any sort of past or youthful indescretions (unless they are named Bush). it is the number one reason why i would prefer not to step into any election. what do you think??????
try making it a linux box and get something with more horses. to run photoshop and have a good time of it, use 9 or get a new box.
that damn browser pronunciation problem.
/. ing has occurred! someone please post the original and thanks for the memories . . . . .
All Your Base Are Belong to Us!.
ok, maybe not :P
actually halon is quite lethal. it will literally suck all the oxygen out of the room (or your lungs). halon is not permitted in commercial settings anymore (i think the military still uses it here and there) for new installations. my co-lo uses something based on inert gas that's more human friendly.
i can tell you for sure tho, hiring an attorney for this is the last thing you want to do, unless you're itching to get fired.
moreover, the phone companies used to not only lease the payphones, but the lines in the walls as well! when the miami international airport tried to get out of its 1980s public corruption deal with their phone provider, the provider threatened to rip out the system, and of course, fed at the public trough once again. . . make no mistake, payphones would never have been so prevalent if they didn't make money.
did my first site on one and used it for almost two years with no complaints, high reliability. they are very nice laptops, for a non-mac laptop. of course i'm on a tiBook now :) still, i like their durability and solidness. if you're gonna have to go with a brick/toaster, this is the cream of the crop
pulling out of mac instead of digging in is happening because adobe has finally admitted defeat on the merits of the competition.
yes, now that linux has caught on, big corporations are contributing (!!!), but they live by and clear the same rules. but linux is as much about community as it is about computering.
well dude, the last time i checked hyperjeff's software archive there were 7636 mac appz on there, up from about 1000 when he first started. most of them freeware, shareware apps. and since you're probably worried about choice, you should note that m$ has chased enough developers off the platform that their shareware offerings are shrinking these days.
apple is a fun devel platform, and if you don't like it, port your linux software onto it!