I think sometimes hi-tech people forget about Cleetus and Maude sitting in their trailer park in Alabama. Cleetus and Maude are consumers, just like us, but like their new 27 inch TV. Advertisers will continue to see these people as valid demographics for quite some time.
My point is that you can have all sorts of fancy delivery systems and video on demand stuff. Most real people will continue to turn on the TV and flip channels looking for "Reba" reuns for a long, long time. Don't throw out those rabbit earrs quite yet.
...into the past to see that markets can make significant changes to adopt new and better standards.
There used to be an old saying in the early 70's: "No one ever got fired for buying IBM". IBM offered solid mainframe and decent midrange solutions for businesses. Mostly businesses that trusted a vendor and went with the flow.
Eventually, businesses learned about IT and realized that other vendors also had viable options.
I believe that eventaully, the corporate desktop will switch. Where hardware systems are standard, and admin support becomes suitably trained, and office productivity applications become solid ( and more browser based ) there will be gradual switch.
Companies realize they can as much for much less, and their people can actually 'walk the walk' there will be a significant dent in Windows marketshare.
This kind of thing looks bad to the entire community and makes corporations question their liability if it's found their products in use have been copied. OSS doesn't need this kind of anchor around it's neck.
I hope this addressed openly and completely in the near future.
"Child molesters don't tend to last long in prison...I'm thinking spammers won't last too long, either."
Mod the parent a -1, Moron.
There's a bit of a difference between a spammer and a child molestor. If you need the difference explained to you, then you're just stupid.
Personally, I hate spam as much as the next guy, but I think nine years is a bit harsh. I think there are other crimes that are much worse that don't seem to get as long a sentence.
Excepting for the political thieves involved in the Sponsorship scandal, sometimes we get things right.
Canada has great fair-use laws and politicians seem to know we the voters like it that way.
The best idea is not hit the spammer, but the people advertising using the spammer. If they can generate enough traffic to hit the advertiser with essentially a DDOS, then the advertisers will go somewhere else.
Somehow I think the scum bag advertisers will be shut kdown without much effort and hopefully go back to selling knock off Rolex's on street corners.
There are a TON of people using Lotus Notes. It's only recently that Exchange has exceeded Notes in number of seats used. For the developers and admins working on Notes, this is the equivalent of Linus saying "What the heck, Server 2003 ain't that bad. Let me join up."
The problem is, it starts at $7,500.00 and continues to get worse. Eventually, no one says anything about anyone or anything for fear of getting hit for millions in damages.
I find it hard to believe that a company as large as eBay didn't bitch slap this yahoo (pun intended) down some time ago.
Makes you wonder, though.....where did this moron get his idea? These guys are usually "donated" into having an opinion or taking action. You got to follow the money....who is behind this?
Am I the only one to wonder if these cheques will lead to sponsor driven stories and placement ads? If the creators care less about viewers and more about pleasing the sponsors, you wonder how the stories will go.
I think Star Trek deserves better than to become a big soapbox to advertise and push a particular agenda.
Star Trek deserves respect, let it die with dignity.
High school does teach us a number of important lessons, but not ones that are immediately apparent:
1) It exposes you to a wide variety of subject matter, so you can decide what you like or do not like. Sure, English Lit sucked. But since you've taken it, you know from personal experience that you'd rather take Science than Lit.
2) You learn to solve problems. Sure algebra is not relevant every day, but you learned how to analyze a problem. You apply those same learned skills to different problems every day.
3) You begin to learn to deal with people in social situations. Besides what your parents did or did not teach you, you learn friendship, loyalty, respect ( and it's opposites )
There's a lot of learning always going on, and sometimes the tests aren't always apparent.
Think about this:
Microsoft does NOTHING without considering profit.
For Microsoft to revert from an automated process back to using very expensive humans to approve Authentication strings can only mean they must be losing ginormous sums of revenue.
Microsoft would weigh aggravation to legit users against their revenue stream and decide it's worth the hit.
It can only be a huge problem for them to so something like this. Say what you will, but Microsoft is not often stupid.
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I think sometimes hi-tech people forget about Cleetus and Maude sitting in their trailer park in Alabama. Cleetus and Maude are consumers, just like us, but like their new 27 inch TV. Advertisers will continue to see these people as valid demographics for quite some time.
My point is that you can have all sorts of fancy delivery systems and video on demand stuff. Most real people will continue to turn on the TV and flip channels looking for "Reba" reuns for a long, long time. Don't throw out those rabbit earrs quite yet.
...into the past to see that markets can make significant changes to adopt new and better standards.
There used to be an old saying in the early 70's: "No one ever got fired for buying IBM". IBM offered solid mainframe and decent midrange solutions for businesses. Mostly businesses that trusted a vendor and went with the flow.
Eventually, businesses learned about IT and realized that other vendors also had viable options.
I believe that eventaully, the corporate desktop will switch. Where hardware systems are standard, and admin support becomes suitably trained, and office productivity applications become solid ( and more browser based ) there will be gradual switch.
Companies realize they can as much for much less, and their people can actually 'walk the walk' there will be a significant dent in Windows marketshare.
It's just a matter of time.
...to make a better statement.
This kind of thing looks bad to the entire community and makes corporations question their liability if it's found their products in use have been copied. OSS doesn't need this kind of anchor around it's neck.
I hope this addressed openly and completely in the near future.
You must live in Stickville.
Rogers in Ontario carries dozens of channels in HD. All networks, sports channels, superstations and a bunch of Movie channels are all in HD.
"Child molesters don't tend to last long in prison...I'm thinking spammers won't last too long, either."
Mod the parent a -1, Moron.
There's a bit of a difference between a spammer and a child molestor. If you need the difference explained to you, then you're just stupid.
Personally, I hate spam as much as the next guy, but I think nine years is a bit harsh. I think there are other crimes that are much worse that don't seem to get as long a sentence.
Excepting for the political thieves involved in the Sponsorship scandal, sometimes we get things right. Canada has great fair-use laws and politicians seem to know we the voters like it that way.
"rarely take the huge step of replacing one operating system with another. Instead, they usually add a mix of Windows and Linux server software"
Wow. What a revelation. For this information you get charded $200 per hour
...someone make it stop!
JPL and NASA geeks are funnier than Slashdot nerds.
I wonder who gets the hotter chicks?
You just don't put the care into your schemes like you used to
He picked the best one there, for sure.
The best idea is not hit the spammer, but the people advertising using the spammer. If they can generate enough traffic to hit the advertiser with essentially a DDOS, then the advertisers will go somewhere else.
Somehow I think the scum bag advertisers will be shut kdown without much effort and hopefully go back to selling knock off Rolex's on street corners.
"Apple is introducing a two button mouse just now? Why Windows had that in 1989!"
Actually....As a WinXP user, I will welcome my new two button mouse overlords.
Damn, I wish I had a mod point, I would have pushed you to +5, Funny.
Geesh.
I never said or even implied that Notes is better than Exchange. In fact, I switched some time ago.
I merely stated that (a) There are lots of Notes users, and (b) Lots of Notes people see this as a big event.
I guess it's too much to ask Slashdotters to RTFA, but at *least* read the damn thread!!
There are a TON of people using Lotus Notes. It's only recently that Exchange has exceeded Notes in number of seats used. For the developers and admins working on Notes, this is the equivalent of Linus saying "What the heck, Server 2003 ain't that bad. Let me join up."
The problem is, it starts at $7,500.00 and continues to get worse. Eventually, no one says anything about anyone or anything for fear of getting hit for millions in damages.
For once, I hope the CBC can be part of something good here.
Make the CEO, CTO and Customer Support manager provide their own personal information in their own databases.
I find it hard to believe that a company as large as eBay didn't bitch slap this yahoo (pun intended) down some time ago.
Makes you wonder, though.....where did this moron get his idea? These guys are usually "donated" into having an opinion or taking action. You got to follow the money....who is behind this?
"With reports that illegal torrent usage may be more than a third of Internet traffic"
I wish I had a link, but I have also heard that spam accounted for two thirds of Internet traffic.
So, the entire bandwidth of the Internet is taken up by illegal traffic?
Am I the only one to wonder if these cheques will lead to sponsor driven stories and placement ads? If the creators care less about viewers and more about pleasing the sponsors, you wonder how the stories will go.
I think Star Trek deserves better than to become a big soapbox to advertise and push a particular agenda.
Star Trek deserves respect, let it die with dignity.
High school does teach us a number of important lessons, but not ones that are immediately apparent:
1) It exposes you to a wide variety of subject matter, so you can decide what you like or do not like. Sure, English Lit sucked. But since you've taken it, you know from personal experience that you'd rather take Science than Lit.
2) You learn to solve problems. Sure algebra is not relevant every day, but you learned how to analyze a problem. You apply those same learned skills to different problems every day.
3) You begin to learn to deal with people in social situations. Besides what your parents did or did not teach you, you learn friendship, loyalty, respect ( and it's opposites )
There's a lot of learning always going on, and sometimes the tests aren't always apparent.
...for the separation of Microsoft's Operating Systems business from the Application business, this would be it.
It's too bad this didn't happen a while back during the trial years.
Think about this:
Microsoft does NOTHING without considering profit.
For Microsoft to revert from an automated process back to using very expensive humans to approve Authentication strings can only mean they must be losing ginormous sums of revenue.
Microsoft would weigh aggravation to legit users against their revenue stream and decide it's worth the hit.
It can only be a huge problem for them to so something like this. Say what you will, but Microsoft is not often stupid.