It seems to me that even though it is a big pain in the butt when they change agreements on you, someday everyone will have more reliable and reputable companies providing them with email. In my particular circumstance, while I still have a pop3 account for those times when I'm on a mac or some machine that doesn't support my work exchange (yes, they use that... not my decision), I have another email that I give out that I get from enom. Using our family name as a permanent email address that we can change and forward at will was the best idea that my uncle ever had. If you don't like the new agreement, change providers. If you get a lot of spam as a result of the agreement, change providers. If you're tired of changing providers, set something like that up.
I don't know about anyone else, but I have never seen these signs before. This is perhaps because I live in a nice midwestern town where anyone who attempted to obstruct the spectacular view of our corn would be lynched on the spot. In the event that I ever do see someone put up one of these signs, I will call the county lynch brigade on the spot and demand that the offender be punished. In other places where this brigade is not available, I would suggest publicizing a shorter version of the story, as the version I just read was extremely taxing only to get to the point Herbalife is behind the awful signs, don't buy Herbalife and don't call the numbers on the signs (maybe there was another point somewhere at the end there... I never got there, it was too long.).
I can see it in the future "I can't submit my mp because the university confiscated my the code on my machine without fair warning... do you think I can have an extension?"
Yes, this is a great day in US history. I was just telling someone that I didn't think that public outcry could muster enough strength to make a difference in any given arena, and here I am proven wrong less than a day later. I am very suprised, especially given that I was almost certain that people who held the same opinion as I do regarding technology legislation were in the minority.
I shiver to think of the "geeks" that work at Microsoft as really being true "geeks."
The pseudo-geeks must be brain-washed, to put up with abuse like that.
Where did they actually detonate the bombs to prove that the data from the test simulations was reliable? How did they test the simulation without real data to back it up?
Exactly. At my company we have often needed to somehow translate email that someone sends us in some obscure language. Romanian, for example, was hard to find an online source for a few years ago... of course that is pretty common now. Although the quality of the translation is of some import, the only real purpose is for me to understand what the person is trying to say; that can be done with any old site. The versatility of incorporating little-publicized languages is rather important to me here.
Great! Now we'll have Engrish resulting not just terrible Japanese->English translation, but all kinds of other languages too. Eventually the web will be so filled with bad grammar that the next generation will have no idea how to string a simple sentence together. Looks like we will have to start compiling our correspondance after all... for coherence.
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It seems to me that even though it is a big pain in the butt when they change agreements on you, someday everyone will have more reliable and reputable companies providing them with email. In my particular circumstance, while I still have a pop3 account for those times when I'm on a mac or some machine that doesn't support my work exchange (yes, they use that... not my decision), I have another email that I give out that I get from enom. Using our family name as a permanent email address that we can change and forward at will was the best idea that my uncle ever had. If you don't like the new agreement, change providers. If you get a lot of spam as a result of the agreement, change providers. If you're tired of changing providers, set something like that up.
I don't know about anyone else, but I have never seen these signs before. This is perhaps because I live in a nice midwestern town where anyone who attempted to obstruct the spectacular view of our corn would be lynched on the spot. In the event that I ever do see someone put up one of these signs, I will call the county lynch brigade on the spot and demand that the offender be punished. In other places where this brigade is not available, I would suggest publicizing a shorter version of the story, as the version I just read was extremely taxing only to get to the point Herbalife is behind the awful signs, don't buy Herbalife and don't call the numbers on the signs (maybe there was another point somewhere at the end there... I never got there, it was too long.).
I can see it in the future "I can't submit my mp because the university confiscated my the code on my machine without fair warning... do you think I can have an extension?"
Yes, this is a great day in US history. I was just telling someone that I didn't think that public outcry could muster enough strength to make a difference in any given arena, and here I am proven wrong less than a day later. I am very suprised, especially given that I was almost certain that people who held the same opinion as I do regarding technology legislation were in the minority.
I shiver to think of the "geeks" that work at Microsoft as really being true "geeks." The pseudo-geeks must be brain-washed, to put up with abuse like that.
Where did they actually detonate the bombs to prove that the data from the test simulations was reliable? How did they test the simulation without real data to back it up?
Exactly. At my company we have often needed to somehow translate email that someone sends us in some obscure language. Romanian, for example, was hard to find an online source for a few years ago... of course that is pretty common now. Although the quality of the translation is of some import, the only real purpose is for me to understand what the person is trying to say; that can be done with any old site. The versatility of incorporating little-publicized languages is rather important to me here.
Great! Now we'll have Engrish resulting not just terrible Japanese->English translation, but all kinds of other languages too. Eventually the web will be so filled with bad grammar that the next generation will have no idea how to string a simple sentence together. Looks like we will have to start compiling our correspondance after all... for coherence.