There is no such thing as security when you have physical access to the device. It's a useless "summit" that will do little more than raise the cost of these devices on consumers.
They link everything to MS. I mean literally EVERYTHING. 15 years ago it was the fillings in our teeth. The fact is, they have no clue whatsoever what causes MS other than it being hereditary. I know, my mom has it and I might someday also.
I mean seriously, Shakespeare kills fucking EVERYONE in that play. Brutally. But for some reason all my professors love it. A friend of mine (fellow English major) wrote a short story about robot turkeys on thanksgiving taking out their revenge. Obviously he was disturbed, lets save him and boot him out of school.
This is all coming about because of Virginia Tech and the usual small minded teachers who over react to everything out of some self righteous and overly developed sense of importance. If anyone needs the boot it's the teachers who can't tell which students ACTUALLY NEED THEIR FUCKING HELP.
How many times in school did you see all the teachers fawning over the A students while all the kids who actually needed their attention got left behind? We have a serious problem in education now where teachers want to be popular more than they want to be professional. Someone really needs to clean house in this country.
This has nothing to do with MS and others. But to answer your question anyway, the outrage has everything to do with track record and the fact MS abuses monopoly power while google embrasses open standards. 3 hiccups in 6 months versus a plethora of scandal, court rulings, abuses and decades of general bullshit. If you can't disconnect google from MS then I think you need to unplug a while and get some perspective. Just because a company is large does not mean it's trying to steal your soul.
I know that I've risked a lot of HDD damage over the years at school, lugging this laptop around, dropping it in hallways etc. If the rpice was right and the drive a bit larger, say 70g I'd be very interested. 32g is a little small for me, but on the right track.
Every google app has the option of downloading a local backup, whether its pop mail via gmail or downloading your docs and spread sheets from google docs. You are responsible for your own data, period. If it's that critical for you, don't put it online. It's a free service, period. If you paid for it I'd see that argument as relevent, however, you don't.
Exactly. But in the end we're responsible for our own data. Every google app I use has an option to download the data to my drive, be it gmail and it's pop feature which I use to keep local copies or google docs in which case I can download my work and save a copy. I am responsible for my own data, google could blow up and be gone tomorrow, if I lost all my work and email it would be my fault, not theirs. I mean hell, it's a free god damn service.
So 3 different apps have 1 hiccup each over the course of 6 months. If only my desktop applications were so reliable. I can't even count how many paragraphs in Word I've lost due to crashes, or how many settings I've lost in Gnome from random bugs. I don't see what the fuss is, it's still a matter of "shit happens" only Google seems to be rather responsive about it all.
It's directed more at Universities and parents. They know full well kids wont take the moral high ground and stop pirating. They are aiming these suits at the kids to show parents who the boss is. I know several parents who've taken action against there kids for fear of the RIAA knocking on their doors. My father, when this all began, even took time out to come talk to me about whether or not I was pirating songs on his cable modem (I was 25 at the time and staying with them while in college still).
Lawsuits are rarely profitable on a corporate scale. They are more or less used to scare a certain segment of the population, in this case, parents and gaurdians. This in turn puts pressure on the actual offenders. They aren't looking for compensation for the theft which is what lawsuits were supposed to be for to begin with. Instead it's being used as a message which, to me, is an abuse of the system and the judges and lawyers involved should be taking action to stop it as it significantly reduces the credibility of their own system.
Most of us burned int he dot com fiasco gave up. Myself and probably at least 20 friends all lost our jobs while some exec got rich with his golden parachute. We've all since moved on to other things, some, like myself, went back to school and switched careers. Others went blue collar so they could spend time with family. The truth of the matter is the industry is corrupt as hell. I still remember my companies President walking around the office bragging how he was going to sell the company, fire us all, and retire in Tahiti. I had multiple CEO's in a matter of 6 months, each one trying to pimp the company off to the highest bidder. They never wanted to build anything, make anything, or provide any security. It was, and still is, about a quick buck.
I am a highly skilled IT person. I used to make a lot of money but have settled for less than a third of what I used to make simply to avoid being on call, working 18 hours a day and putting up with management that doesn't manage anything other than their own checkbooks. I would rather have a life, some self respect and dignity. Fuck IT. I'll never ever do that professionally again.
..... but I grew up in Florida and know a LARGE number of Cuban immigrants that would scoff at your remarks. They've had family members tortured and killed in some of the most horrif and brutal ways immaginable. I'll take a family members first hand account over some leftist whacko apologists "buyer beware" statements anyday.
It's very much like WoW was at its release over 2 years ago. The complaints that I have heard largely relate to issues stemming from the fact that in the beta you can't level over 30, so much of the game has yet to be experienced. Given all the good reviews and word of mouth, this game could mature very nicely. It seems to be more mature in many ways and less in others than WoW is. Finally a little competition in the MMO field. WoW has been the only decent MMO out for a long time, with LotRO, Age of Conan, Tabula Rasa and Warhammer Online coming out we should see some great stuff soon.
The biggest problem with AIDs is that it wasn't dealt with correctly from the start. I think it took something like 6 years before President Regean even admitted publicly there was a problem. The rapid spread royally screwed us and the rest of the world. If this works it could buy us time to reign that spread in and drasticly reduce it's rate of propogation. We don't need and can't expect a complete victory. This would merely give us a chance at control.
Remember that AIDs is a plague to both chimps and cats. It's been around a while but has mutated multiple times. It's not surprising there is something in our blood that will fight it, whether or not it can win is another story and these guys have a long way to prove it.
People will always prefer books. As an English major I highlight, note, underline all day long in books. I can bunny ear it and leave it for later. I don't have to recharge it, plug it in, deal with it heating up my lap. I don't need to upgrade it every 6 months. I can site it in MLA in my papers if I so choose.
eBooks failed for all the above reasons and more. It has nothing to do with a widescreen monitor. Real readers, people who read for enjoyment, not just to ctrl-f something in a PDF about the latest hardware upgrade, enjoying relaxing under the sun with a good book, or sitting in a quiet place with something they can read and doesn't make noise.
First Apple says they don't want their office app to compete with MSOffice, now Google says they don't want to compete with MSOffice. When will someone man up and compete? OpenOffice is nice but it has a HUGE number of flaws still. We NEED competition here.
I can handle the junk mail and advertisements but what I can't handle is the complete incompetence of the financial aid department at my school. Without this database it will be a god damned nightmare getting my aid award. It's hard enough WITH the bloody database but without it god help us all.
You can probably tell from my UID I've been coming here a long while. In fact I was a slashdot visitor back before it even had a domain name and was hosted on Rob Maldas University server. That said, slashdot has gotten a lot better than it was and I think in part it's because of the moderation system. People who continuously get modded down for the flamebaiting and trolling eventually get frustrated and leave. Some remain, others are just burning karma, but all in all the system is a solution, regardless of how imperfect it is. Yes some group think comes into play but it's generally only on political matters.
The bottom line, to me, is that when dealing with humans who by nature are imperfect, no system can possibly be perfect.
I know in the US there are laws prohibiting companies from gimping their products like this. The specific laws escape me at the moment. Does Canada have anything similar?
Purposely sabotaging your product against a segment of people is deplorable.
Microsoft has enough cash IN THE BANK right now to last a lot longer than 2015. Put that aside however and MS still rakes in a lot of cash from Office, Xbox, hardware (mice etc), to last out much longer than 2015.
I know everyone wants justice for the crap MS pulled but we need to be realistic. Companies like MS don't just go away, they have their fingers in too many cookie jars. They literally have their eggs in multiple baskets.
That said, it's very possible they wont be the dominant player in 2015.
And as a result we're over worked, under paid and have a greater than 50% divorce rate while our kids are left with a TV screen as a babysitter and our family structure is collapsing in favor of a nation of single people too self absorbed to take time off to form some basic social connections.
I'm sorry but "work work work" isn't what I would call a great existence. If you want it fine, but don't call me lazy for actually wanting to live a life I only get once chance to live.
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There is no such thing as security when you have physical access to the device. It's a useless "summit" that will do little more than raise the cost of these devices on consumers.
They link everything to MS. I mean literally EVERYTHING. 15 years ago it was the fillings in our teeth. The fact is, they have no clue whatsoever what causes MS other than it being hereditary. I know, my mom has it and I might someday also.
http://www.blizzard.com/jobopp/
They posted a new lead engine developer job opening today for a "next gen mmo" which WoW most definitely is not. Count on a new MMO.
Probably Starcraft but lets hope for Diablo. What I'd REALLY like is something entirely new. Rehashing old stuff gets wel..... old.
I mean seriously, Shakespeare kills fucking EVERYONE in that play. Brutally. But for some reason all my professors love it. A friend of mine (fellow English major) wrote a short story about robot turkeys on thanksgiving taking out their revenge. Obviously he was disturbed, lets save him and boot him out of school.
This is all coming about because of Virginia Tech and the usual small minded teachers who over react to everything out of some self righteous and overly developed sense of importance. If anyone needs the boot it's the teachers who can't tell which students ACTUALLY NEED THEIR FUCKING HELP.
How many times in school did you see all the teachers fawning over the A students while all the kids who actually needed their attention got left behind? We have a serious problem in education now where teachers want to be popular more than they want to be professional. Someone really needs to clean house in this country.
This has nothing to do with MS and others. But to answer your question anyway, the outrage has everything to do with track record and the fact MS abuses monopoly power while google embrasses open standards. 3 hiccups in 6 months versus a plethora of scandal, court rulings, abuses and decades of general bullshit. If you can't disconnect google from MS then I think you need to unplug a while and get some perspective. Just because a company is large does not mean it's trying to steal your soul.
That's not an app. It's a feature to a main site. It's also free, so you get what you pay for.
I know that I've risked a lot of HDD damage over the years at school, lugging this laptop around, dropping it in hallways etc. If the rpice was right and the drive a bit larger, say 70g I'd be very interested. 32g is a little small for me, but on the right track.
Every google app has the option of downloading a local backup, whether its pop mail via gmail or downloading your docs and spread sheets from google docs. You are responsible for your own data, period. If it's that critical for you, don't put it online. It's a free service, period. If you paid for it I'd see that argument as relevent, however, you don't.
Exactly. But in the end we're responsible for our own data. Every google app I use has an option to download the data to my drive, be it gmail and it's pop feature which I use to keep local copies or google docs in which case I can download my work and save a copy. I am responsible for my own data, google could blow up and be gone tomorrow, if I lost all my work and email it would be my fault, not theirs. I mean hell, it's a free god damn service.
So 3 different apps have 1 hiccup each over the course of 6 months. If only my desktop applications were so reliable. I can't even count how many paragraphs in Word I've lost due to crashes, or how many settings I've lost in Gnome from random bugs. I don't see what the fuss is, it's still a matter of "shit happens" only Google seems to be rather responsive about it all.
It's directed more at Universities and parents. They know full well kids wont take the moral high ground and stop pirating. They are aiming these suits at the kids to show parents who the boss is. I know several parents who've taken action against there kids for fear of the RIAA knocking on their doors. My father, when this all began, even took time out to come talk to me about whether or not I was pirating songs on his cable modem (I was 25 at the time and staying with them while in college still).
Lawsuits are rarely profitable on a corporate scale. They are more or less used to scare a certain segment of the population, in this case, parents and gaurdians. This in turn puts pressure on the actual offenders. They aren't looking for compensation for the theft which is what lawsuits were supposed to be for to begin with. Instead it's being used as a message which, to me, is an abuse of the system and the judges and lawyers involved should be taking action to stop it as it significantly reduces the credibility of their own system.
Most of us burned int he dot com fiasco gave up. Myself and probably at least 20 friends all lost our jobs while some exec got rich with his golden parachute. We've all since moved on to other things, some, like myself, went back to school and switched careers. Others went blue collar so they could spend time with family. The truth of the matter is the industry is corrupt as hell. I still remember my companies President walking around the office bragging how he was going to sell the company, fire us all, and retire in Tahiti. I had multiple CEO's in a matter of 6 months, each one trying to pimp the company off to the highest bidder. They never wanted to build anything, make anything, or provide any security. It was, and still is, about a quick buck.
I am a highly skilled IT person. I used to make a lot of money but have settled for less than a third of what I used to make simply to avoid being on call, working 18 hours a day and putting up with management that doesn't manage anything other than their own checkbooks. I would rather have a life, some self respect and dignity. Fuck IT. I'll never ever do that professionally again.
I am not a geek.
This has nothing to do with Palestine. Stay on topic and quit with the ridiculous strawman falacies.
..... but I grew up in Florida and know a LARGE number of Cuban immigrants that would scoff at your remarks. They've had family members tortured and killed in some of the most horrif and brutal ways immaginable. I'll take a family members first hand account over some leftist whacko apologists "buyer beware" statements anyday.
It's very much like WoW was at its release over 2 years ago. The complaints that I have heard largely relate to issues stemming from the fact that in the beta you can't level over 30, so much of the game has yet to be experienced. Given all the good reviews and word of mouth, this game could mature very nicely. It seems to be more mature in many ways and less in others than WoW is. Finally a little competition in the MMO field. WoW has been the only decent MMO out for a long time, with LotRO, Age of Conan, Tabula Rasa and Warhammer Online coming out we should see some great stuff soon.
The biggest problem with AIDs is that it wasn't dealt with correctly from the start. I think it took something like 6 years before President Regean even admitted publicly there was a problem. The rapid spread royally screwed us and the rest of the world. If this works it could buy us time to reign that spread in and drasticly reduce it's rate of propogation. We don't need and can't expect a complete victory. This would merely give us a chance at control.
Remember that AIDs is a plague to both chimps and cats. It's been around a while but has mutated multiple times. It's not surprising there is something in our blood that will fight it, whether or not it can win is another story and these guys have a long way to prove it.
People will always prefer books. As an English major I highlight, note, underline all day long in books. I can bunny ear it and leave it for later. I don't have to recharge it, plug it in, deal with it heating up my lap. I don't need to upgrade it every 6 months. I can site it in MLA in my papers if I so choose.
eBooks failed for all the above reasons and more. It has nothing to do with a widescreen monitor. Real readers, people who read for enjoyment, not just to ctrl-f something in a PDF about the latest hardware upgrade, enjoying relaxing under the sun with a good book, or sitting in a quiet place with something they can read and doesn't make noise.
Spin it however you like, eBooks flopped hard.
First Apple says they don't want their office app to compete with MSOffice, now Google says they don't want to compete with MSOffice. When will someone man up and compete? OpenOffice is nice but it has a HUGE number of flaws still. We NEED competition here.
I can handle the junk mail and advertisements but what I can't handle is the complete incompetence of the financial aid department at my school. Without this database it will be a god damned nightmare getting my aid award. It's hard enough WITH the bloody database but without it god help us all.
You can probably tell from my UID I've been coming here a long while. In fact I was a slashdot visitor back before it even had a domain name and was hosted on Rob Maldas University server. That said, slashdot has gotten a lot better than it was and I think in part it's because of the moderation system. People who continuously get modded down for the flamebaiting and trolling eventually get frustrated and leave. Some remain, others are just burning karma, but all in all the system is a solution, regardless of how imperfect it is. Yes some group think comes into play but it's generally only on political matters.
The bottom line, to me, is that when dealing with humans who by nature are imperfect, no system can possibly be perfect.
I know in the US there are laws prohibiting companies from gimping their products like this. The specific laws escape me at the moment. Does Canada have anything similar?
Purposely sabotaging your product against a segment of people is deplorable.
Microsoft has enough cash IN THE BANK right now to last a lot longer than 2015. Put that aside however and MS still rakes in a lot of cash from Office, Xbox, hardware (mice etc), to last out much longer than 2015.
I know everyone wants justice for the crap MS pulled but we need to be realistic. Companies like MS don't just go away, they have their fingers in too many cookie jars. They literally have their eggs in multiple baskets.
That said, it's very possible they wont be the dominant player in 2015.
And as a result we're over worked, under paid and have a greater than 50% divorce rate while our kids are left with a TV screen as a babysitter and our family structure is collapsing in favor of a nation of single people too self absorbed to take time off to form some basic social connections.
I'm sorry but "work work work" isn't what I would call a great existence. If you want it fine, but don't call me lazy for actually wanting to live a life I only get once chance to live.