I'm actually Canadian as well. I implied it doesn't happen in America because few people have that kind of cash in their accounts to begin with. It was an easy potshot at the saving habits of Americans, not a claim of technical superiority.
"Also it sure is interesting that very few search results show up when I put the term google into bing, isn't it?. I can keep searching more reasons if you want, but the end result is that the quality of results and accuracy is piss poor. Dogpile still beats results/accuracy of bing constantly."
So your complaint is that Bing doesn't return with 2,100,000 results, coming up short with 163,000?
The first few pages on Bing have everything you could possibly need on Google if that's the only search term you're interested in.
Tell me something google-related you CAN'T find by adding another word or two to narrow down your search.
Can't speak for everybody, but I don't have a problem with the quality or accuracy of Bing's searches. I use Google because that's where I set my home page, but I've actually used Bing recently, specifically when Google drowns my results in a sea of links.
If it isn't sleeping, some combination of "if"'s and "do while"'s that decide between "yowl if bowl is empty", "eat", "yowl for no reason", "show anus", "stare at nothing", "transition in/outside", "fight", and "play" would be a perfectly accurate simulator. All you need is a semi-random seed to mix it up a bit, and you probably couldn't tell the difference.
"You don't have to accept the definition of how to do things, and you don't have to follow other people's choices and paths, Okay? It is about your choices and your path. You fight your own war. You lay out your own path. You figure out what's right for you. You don't let external definitions define how good you are internally. You fight your war. You let them fight theirs. Everybody has their own path."
I watched the video of her delivering the speech, and it's perfectly plausible that her explanation is true. "...two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Zedong and Mother Theresa" has all the hallmarks of a poorly delivered joke. She may, in fact, have heard that quote and backstory from Lee Atwater as she claimed.
So Beck, in his usual form, runs right out and connects her to all of Mao's atrocities, instead of to the quote she offered. He implies, AS YOU DO HERE, that she's a student of his work, and that she agrees with all of his choices. In no way can that be supported from anything else she's said, and it certainly can't be concluded on the basis of even this one isolated quote.
Beck does not back up most of his stuff. He implies. He solicits emotional response instead of enlightenment. He draws casual lines and tosses them aay without backing them up. He hammers his points, and you suck it up like his greedy little lap dog.
Wait a second... he's Michael Moore! Should have seen it before.
To disable:
Look in the root of your C: drive for boot.ini.
Start a command line. Attrib c:\boot.ini -r -a -s -h
Edit boot.ini (In notepad)
Look for "noexecute=optin" and change it to "noexecute=AlwaysOff" (don't add or remove any spaces, line breaks, etc)
Save boot.ini.
In the command window type attrib c:\boot.ini +r +a +s +h
Reboot. DEP is now disabled.
Install the Shockwave Player update.
If I hadn't looked closely I would have assumed this was a relatively painless set of steps an end user would need for doing some workaround in linux.
Actually, adobe has pissed me off many times. Shockwave, in particular, is a bitch to remove because Adobe gets all funky with file permissions - unnecessarily.
"These are not jobs done for a living, these are largely volunteers who are getting just enough money to ensure they're not starving."
Being a town councillor is not full time work, and it is not their only income. And apparently these councillors were making their base wage plus whatever they can make from conflict-of-interest situations.
You make it sound like they're operating below the poverty line, but the real question is what do these people make PER HOUR.
"In a meritocracy, based purely on skill and ability, the IT departments would run most companies."
How in heaven's name did you arrive at that conclusion? Please, fill me in. I'd like to know. And simply saying we're business subject matter experts is not enough.
"WTF are you babbling about? You are a genuine moron."
The post you are replying to isn't actually a statement on its own. Since it is below and to the right of the one above it, the implication is that it's a "reply" - a statement meant to address its "parent". To clarify, your statement is the "parent" to mine.
The purpose of his post becomes clearer when you read its parent.
"But I don't think most people report their income in an entirely different state to avoid paying taxes."
Most people don't have the opportunity. Those that do, probably would. I would.
"Since when is everybody else does it an acceptable argument?"
Actually, for many things it IS a perfectly acceptable argument. It implies that the problem isn't the action by the entity, but that the act is permitted - and tolerated (or even accepted) - by society.
"Ehhh... I guess it is true that a public company's first responsibility is to maximize the investment of its stockholders... Which minimizing tax liability will help accomplish... But you really think it is absurd to be surprised that a company would go this far?"
Of course it's absurd to be surprised. To me this sounds like an uncomplicated decision for any corporation. Structure your national presence to minimize the tax burden, structure your litigation to maximize your chance of success. It would be absurd for a publicly traded company to do any less.
"The problem is that the system is being abused - not that Microsoft is committing the abuse."
Calling it "abuse" doesn't make it so. If Microsoft is operating within the rules then they are not abusing the system, they are "using" it. If it isn't working well, then it should be changed.
"This coming from a company that puts movies in the vault for a decade to increase demand. How do they reconcile the two philosophies?"
It's simple. Anything worth a shit you get to access one year in ten. You do, however, have the right and ability to watch Chicken Little as many times as you want for as long as their servers operate.
"Fact is, for me this game wasn't worth buying. I tried the demo and it was pretty enjoyable, but not enjoyable enough that I felt like spending money on it... How exactly am I a pirate? "
So "pretty enjoyable" is worth 1 cent? So I take it to get you to part with $10 the developer would have to give you a hand job.
So no, you aren't a pirate. You are, however, a cheapskate.
"Multiple tens of thousands for one week, i.e. millions of dollars per year, is a "miserable salary"?"
Yeah, well, I once found a $20 bill on the ground. Took me about five seconds to see it and obtain it. Given that I should be able to get 12 such discoveries in per minute, I should be able to retire wealthy in under 1 year.
Naturally that can't work, since I can't count on finding another $20 every 5 seconds, just like they can't count on next week's sales being as good as this week's. So their REAL salary is their gross sales minus expenses, divided by the number of salary periods they've been working on the product.
I see your choice under "alternative meaning" on wikipedia, but it's a much less apt metaphor than Jonestown for buying into something just because you're deeply under the spell of its originator.
My point, however, is that it's unreasonable to compare anything in I.T. to mass suicide and murder.
"You either trust your engineers, or you don't. It's as simple as that."
When it comes to IT, "Engineers" (forgive the quotes if you are actually an honest-to-goodness Engineer) sometimes CAN'T be completely trusted because they suffer from any of the following:
- AIHIAH syndrome - pronounced "eye-eye-ah" ("All I have is a hammer" - java/visual basic come to mind)
- "I've Seen The Light!" (religious worship of open source to the exclusion of everything else)
- "Sure I tried it, it don't work." Failure to actually test alternatives to his/her "preferred" solution.
So while you might be comfortable having somebody like this maintain the existing environment, they probably shouldn't be entrusted with decisions about the future.
Of course some IT folks are talented, open-minded, and diligent about testing alternatives. Treasure these. But don't automatically grant this kind of trust to every IT person.
So this is just some guy's opinion, right? Just like the hundreds of opinions that will undoubtedly fill up the page below this one of mine?
"Many places are Microsoft-centric, but exactly zero are 100 percent Microsoft." By which he means... "They may run Microsoft products on the servers and desktop, but there's absolutely no way that they are using solely Microsoft applications and products in every part of the infrastructure, from the switches to the firewalls."
"So, we switched to a Windows app with a SQL Server backend. FWIW the database backend has been rock-solid, but the actual client? It's junk. That old clunky COBOL system might have been awkward to use and a bit long in the tooth, but it NEVER crashed, and its mistakes were minimal to say the least. This new Windows system crashes constantly (including crashing if you work too fast - yeah I literally have to do a "one one-thousand" count when switching between properties or the client will lock up), and it goofs up the data frequently enough that in another 5 years I think our data will be reduced to an unreliable mess."
I'm having difficulty imagining how the answer isn't "fire the incompetent front end developer".
Were it not for the fact that it would cause iTunes to implode (fiscally speaking), I would suggest that Apple simply remove the 30 second streamsand sell everything based on title alone, or make them available "for a fee" that nobody would EVER pay. Let's see how well that works.
Of course, the other explanation for their request is that the music they're selling mostly sucks bad enough that exposing 30 seconds of it will kill the sale.
"Playing WoW is not actually playing, its working for some variables in Blizzard's DB."
And playing baseball on a field is working for little numbers in boxes on a scorecard. And playing golf is working for even smaller numbers on a smaller scorecard. When kids play cops and robbers, it's for... nothing.
"That was written in a browser, and afaik Linux is the only OS that won't run the one browser that doesn't have a spell check."
I wasn't seriously implying linux "in general" lacked spell checkers. I was kind of making fun of the fact that the guy wrote something that he apparently intended to be taken seriously, and he couldn't be bothered to proof his work. Add the general pro-linux slant and the weird, unsubstantiated jab at Microsoft trying to regain market share, and it was easy to shift it the other way.
"The succes of Netbooks also surprised Microsoft & forced them to lower the prices of their XP home licenses, ro regain marketshare over Linux."
It is our hope that one day linux apps will be advanced enough to include a spelling checker.
Also... "Citation Needed".
"According to the latest predictions global notebook shipements are expected to reach 200 million units in 2010, of which, netbooks will account for 25%, or 50 million units."
You know, I'd expect at least a couple of these words to be a hyperlink to some source that actually shows who predicted it, or how they arrived at the numbers, but there's nothing.
Who approved this article? Has the bar really dropped this low?
Slashdot Mirror
Give me a second, though - have to microwave myself some popcorn.
"Love the 'Merican arrogance!"
I'm actually Canadian as well. I implied it doesn't happen in America because few people have that kind of cash in their accounts to begin with. It was an easy potshot at the saving habits of Americans, not a claim of technical superiority.
Perhaps I was too subtle.
People in the U.S. with that kind of cash are considered so rich that they don't go down to the post office themselves.
"Also it sure is interesting that very few search results show up when I put the term google into bing, isn't it?. I can keep searching more reasons if you want, but the end result is that the quality of results and accuracy is piss poor. Dogpile still beats results/accuracy of bing constantly."
So your complaint is that Bing doesn't return with 2,100,000 results, coming up short with 163,000?
The first few pages on Bing have everything you could possibly need on Google if that's the only search term you're interested in.
Tell me something google-related you CAN'T find by adding another word or two to narrow down your search.
Can't speak for everybody, but I don't have a problem with the quality or accuracy of Bing's searches. I use Google because that's where I set my home page, but I've actually used Bing recently, specifically when Google drowns my results in a sea of links.
If it isn't sleeping, some combination of "if"'s and "do while"'s that decide between "yowl if bowl is empty", "eat", "yowl for no reason", "show anus", "stare at nothing", "transition in/outside", "fight", and "play" would be a perfectly accurate simulator. All you need is a semi-random seed to mix it up a bit, and you probably couldn't tell the difference.
Quoting the article you linked to:
"You don't have to accept the definition of how to do things, and you don't have to follow other people's choices and paths, Okay? It is about your choices and your path. You fight your own war. You lay out your own path. You figure out what's right for you. You don't let external definitions define how good you are internally. You fight your war. You let them fight theirs. Everybody has their own path."
I watched the video of her delivering the speech, and it's perfectly plausible that her explanation is true. "...two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Zedong and Mother Theresa" has all the hallmarks of a poorly delivered joke. She may, in fact, have heard that quote and backstory from Lee Atwater as she claimed.
So Beck, in his usual form, runs right out and connects her to all of Mao's atrocities, instead of to the quote she offered. He implies, AS YOU DO HERE, that she's a student of his work, and that she agrees with all of his choices. In no way can that be supported from anything else she's said, and it certainly can't be concluded on the basis of even this one isolated quote.
Beck does not back up most of his stuff. He implies. He solicits emotional response instead of enlightenment. He draws casual lines and tosses them aay without backing them up. He hammers his points, and you suck it up like his greedy little lap dog.
Wait a second... he's Michael Moore! Should have seen it before.
To disable:
Look in the root of your C: drive for boot.ini.
Start a command line. Attrib c:\boot.ini -r -a -s -h
Edit boot.ini (In notepad)
Look for "noexecute=optin" and change it to "noexecute=AlwaysOff" (don't add or remove any spaces, line breaks, etc)
Save boot.ini.
In the command window type attrib c:\boot.ini +r +a +s +h
Reboot. DEP is now disabled.
Install the Shockwave Player update.
If I hadn't looked closely I would have assumed this was a relatively painless set of steps an end user would need for doing some workaround in linux.
Actually, adobe has pissed me off many times. Shockwave, in particular, is a bitch to remove because Adobe gets all funky with file permissions - unnecessarily.
"These are not jobs done for a living, these are largely volunteers who are getting just enough money to ensure they're not starving."
Being a town councillor is not full time work, and it is not their only income. And apparently these councillors were making their base wage plus whatever they can make from conflict-of-interest situations.
You make it sound like they're operating below the poverty line, but the real question is what do these people make PER HOUR.
"In a meritocracy, based purely on skill and ability, the IT departments would run most companies."
How in heaven's name did you arrive at that conclusion? Please, fill me in. I'd like to know. And simply saying we're business subject matter experts is not enough.
"WTF are you babbling about? You are a genuine moron."
The post you are replying to isn't actually a statement on its own. Since it is below and to the right of the one above it, the implication is that it's a "reply" - a statement meant to address its "parent". To clarify, your statement is the "parent" to mine.
The purpose of his post becomes clearer when you read its parent.
"But I don't think most people report their income in an entirely different state to avoid paying taxes."
Most people don't have the opportunity. Those that do, probably would. I would.
"Since when is everybody else does it an acceptable argument?"
Actually, for many things it IS a perfectly acceptable argument. It implies that the problem isn't the action by the entity, but that the act is permitted - and tolerated (or even accepted) - by society.
"Ehhh... I guess it is true that a public company's first responsibility is to maximize the investment of its stockholders... Which minimizing tax liability will help accomplish... But you really think it is absurd to be surprised that a company would go this far?"
Of course it's absurd to be surprised. To me this sounds like an uncomplicated decision for any corporation. Structure your national presence to minimize the tax burden, structure your litigation to maximize your chance of success. It would be absurd for a publicly traded company to do any less.
"The problem is that the system is being abused - not that Microsoft is committing the abuse."
Calling it "abuse" doesn't make it so. If Microsoft is operating within the rules then they are not abusing the system, they are "using" it. If it isn't working well, then it should be changed.
"This coming from a company that puts movies in the vault for a decade to increase demand. How do they reconcile the two philosophies?"
It's simple. Anything worth a shit you get to access one year in ten. You do, however, have the right and ability to watch Chicken Little as many times as you want for as long as their servers operate.
"Fact is, for me this game wasn't worth buying. I tried the demo and it was pretty enjoyable, but not enjoyable enough that I felt like spending money on it... How exactly am I a pirate? "
So "pretty enjoyable" is worth 1 cent? So I take it to get you to part with $10 the developer would have to give you a hand job.
So no, you aren't a pirate. You are, however, a cheapskate.
"Multiple tens of thousands for one week, i.e. millions of dollars per year, is a "miserable salary"?"
Yeah, well, I once found a $20 bill on the ground. Took me about five seconds to see it and obtain it. Given that I should be able to get 12 such discoveries in per minute, I should be able to retire wealthy in under 1 year.
Naturally that can't work, since I can't count on finding another $20 every 5 seconds, just like they can't count on next week's sales being as good as this week's. So their REAL salary is their gross sales minus expenses, divided by the number of salary periods they've been working on the product.
It probably isn't a good salary.
"oh, God there's a whole universe in my thumbnail man."
Think you might have mistaken marijuana for mushrooms.
Now if you were staring at your thumbnail, and suddenly realized you didn't know WHY you were staring at said thumbnail... now THAT'S marijuana.
"The "Uninstall Windows"-posts aren't trolls, there attempts at being funny."
The internet is positively brimming with people attempting to be funny, and failing.
Until the day when there's a "-1, failed funny" mod choice, I say anything that gets them off the page is worthwhile.
We should all do our part to raise the global humour bar.
"The Kool Aid" isn't about Jonestown. It's about the Electric Kool Aid Acid Tests, a series of concerts where LSD was served in Kool Aid.
Perhaps that's how you see it, but I don't think that's the common interpretation.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=drink+the+kool-aid
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_the_Kool-Aid
I see your choice under "alternative meaning" on wikipedia, but it's a much less apt metaphor than Jonestown for buying into something just because you're deeply under the spell of its originator.
My point, however, is that it's unreasonable to compare anything in I.T. to mass suicide and murder.
"You either trust your engineers, or you don't. It's as simple as that."
When it comes to IT, "Engineers" (forgive the quotes if you are actually an honest-to-goodness Engineer) sometimes CAN'T be completely trusted because they suffer from any of the following:
- AIHIAH syndrome - pronounced "eye-eye-ah" ("All I have is a hammer" - java/visual basic come to mind)
- "I've Seen The Light!" (religious worship of open source to the exclusion of everything else)
- "Sure I tried it, it don't work." Failure to actually test alternatives to his/her "preferred" solution.
So while you might be comfortable having somebody like this maintain the existing environment, they probably shouldn't be entrusted with decisions about the future.
Of course some IT folks are talented, open-minded, and diligent about testing alternatives. Treasure these. But don't automatically grant this kind of trust to every IT person.
So this is just some guy's opinion, right? Just like the hundreds of opinions that will undoubtedly fill up the page below this one of mine?
"Many places are Microsoft-centric, but exactly zero are 100 percent Microsoft." By which he means... "They may run Microsoft products on the servers and desktop, but there's absolutely no way that they are using solely Microsoft applications and products in every part of the infrastructure, from the switches to the firewalls."
Well bra-vo. Golf clap.
"So, we switched to a Windows app with a SQL Server backend. FWIW the database backend has been rock-solid, but the actual client? It's junk. That old clunky COBOL system might have been awkward to use and a bit long in the tooth, but it NEVER crashed, and its mistakes were minimal to say the least. This new Windows system crashes constantly (including crashing if you work too fast - yeah I literally have to do a "one one-thousand" count when switching between properties or the client will lock up), and it goofs up the data frequently enough that in another 5 years I think our data will be reduced to an unreliable mess."
I'm having difficulty imagining how the answer isn't "fire the incompetent front end developer".
Were it not for the fact that it would cause iTunes to implode (fiscally speaking), I would suggest that Apple simply remove the 30 second streamsand sell everything based on title alone, or make them available "for a fee" that nobody would EVER pay. Let's see how well that works.
Of course, the other explanation for their request is that the music they're selling mostly sucks bad enough that exposing 30 seconds of it will kill the sale.
"Playing WoW is not actually playing, its working for some variables in Blizzard's DB."
And playing baseball on a field is working for little numbers in boxes on a scorecard. And playing golf is working for even smaller numbers on a smaller scorecard. When kids play cops and robbers, it's for... nothing.
Play is about what's fun.
"That was written in a browser, and afaik Linux is the only OS that won't run the one browser that doesn't have a spell check."
I wasn't seriously implying linux "in general" lacked spell checkers. I was kind of making fun of the fact that the guy wrote something that he apparently intended to be taken seriously, and he couldn't be bothered to proof his work. Add the general pro-linux slant and the weird, unsubstantiated jab at Microsoft trying to regain market share, and it was easy to shift it the other way.
"The succes of Netbooks also surprised Microsoft & forced them to lower the prices of their XP home licenses, ro regain marketshare over Linux."
It is our hope that one day linux apps will be advanced enough to include a spelling checker.
Also... "Citation Needed".
"According to the latest predictions global notebook shipements are expected to reach 200 million units in 2010, of which, netbooks will account for 25%, or 50 million units."
You know, I'd expect at least a couple of these words to be a hyperlink to some source that actually shows who predicted it, or how they arrived at the numbers, but there's nothing.
Who approved this article? Has the bar really dropped this low?
"Bull, as far as I am concerned:
... 374) Social"
1) Plot
2) Price
3) Graphics
Just give us a heads up if you intend to buy a van and a whole bunch of fertilizer.