Like anything else, people at the top of their industry will always make a ton of money. It does not matter if you're a programmer, CEO, field goal kicker, ballerina or blogger.
I don't resent their success, I recognize that people at this level make extraordinary commitments to whatever it is they do. I only wish them well.
"There's a danger that if we don't have some level of shared interaction, it can be destructive to our social cohesion"
What garbage. It's not like everyone in the entire world is on-line 24 hours a day. Some of us still like to get sunshine.
Newsflash.....there are actually some people in the world who can go an entire day without shopping on the internet. Apparently, they still go into those store things to buy things with paper money.
Believe it, or not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not the sexiest thing you'll ever ride in....
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People seem to forget that space travel is freaking dangerous. The whole concept of a lit rocket attached to your ass is probably never going to be as safe as walking to the store.
At some point, NASA will do as much as can be reasonably be expected and allow a volunteer to climb in the shuttle and hope for the best.
People who can, do. People who can't, sit on committees and complain.
Those people need to get out of the way and let NASA do their job.
"The four sky divers proved that an ad hoc network set up using the wireless functions of a Nintendo DS works perfectly at distances of nearly 400 feet while falling 120 miles an hour"
I'm glad they proved it, it was really keeping me up at night.
"...Further blaming the shipping company, she explained that "this was not an Ameritrade Systems issue or a compromise of our technology. This was related to a third party vendor."
Ah, no.
This is squarely the problem of Ameritrade management. Protection and recovery of backup data rests squarely with IT. There should have been a detailed process done in conjunction with a reliable shipper to ensure protection ( or perhaps a private courier ) of the tape.
Yet another clueless corporation that has no sense of responsibility.
Unlike the real world, they CAN make new real estate. Should be interesting to see how stupid the market gets for this stuff. And it will get stupid.
It will also be interesting to see how far this goes. Anyone have a problem owning NPC slaves? Maybe sex slaves? Maybe NPC sex slaves that look like kids? kids that could be virtually beaten to death? I have no doubt it will happen in some game somewhere.
Anyone who has played on-line know there are some realy disturbed people out there.
If you had some kind of measurable brain function, I was not speaking elitist. My point was that people are wrong to declare an embedded technology like TV dead. People in our business (tech) tend to forget the vast majority of people still like the simplicity of free TV and it's nice little remote control.
Feel free to shift that chip over to the other shoulder....it must be getting heavy.
Slashdot Mirror
"Twenty-four satellites are required for full coverage
As long as the satellites fail over someplace unimportant like Europe, why should we care?
Please be gentle with my karma!
Like anything else, people at the top of their industry will always make a ton of money. It does not matter if you're a programmer, CEO, field goal kicker, ballerina or blogger.
I don't resent their success, I recognize that people at this level make extraordinary commitments to whatever it is they do. I only wish them well.
...too bad the Firefox Corporation isn't paying a Tier 1 box seller to install the best browser in the biz.
It would have been nice to have three options on their setup screen.
I mean come on, the moon is blond and has a great caboose. The planeet looks like it would kick the crap out of me.
"There's a danger that if we don't have some level of shared interaction, it can be destructive to our social cohesion"
What garbage. It's not like everyone in the entire world is on-line 24 hours a day. Some of us still like to get sunshine.
Newsflash.....there are actually some people in the world who can go an entire day without shopping on the internet. Apparently, they still go into those store things to buy things with paper money.
Believe it, or not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I'd hate for all of my alien friends to see me driving around in this thing. Give me a deathtrap shuttle anytime!
I would have to think that you want support for a setup like this. Your options realistically probably boil down to one choice.
You'll need a vendor with proven big time support and, unfortunately, OSS is not something you may be able to look at.*
With proven installations as large as 400,000 users in a single organization, your only choice is.....Lotus Domino. Pricey though.
* Wasn't Hotmail originally running on BSD? You may want to check it's history.
I think you meant to say "Oh please, Mr. Businessman. Weapons are bad. My mommy says so"
...WFW 3.11 was such a dog. Turns out we traded one dog for another.
Man, we were so stupid back then. Accepting vendor lies like it was gospel. Wait a minute......
People seem to forget that space travel is freaking dangerous. The whole concept of a lit rocket attached to your ass is probably never going to be as safe as walking to the store.
At some point, NASA will do as much as can be reasonably be expected and allow a volunteer to climb in the shuttle and hope for the best.
People who can, do. People who can't, sit on committees and complain.
Those people need to get out of the way and let NASA do their job.
Man oh man, I need to become a spammer. A good day for me is when I have 7 bucks, much less 7 million.
Crime pays, it seems.
See, the parent shows the problem clearly. To him, two wrongs do make a right. It's sad that people even think this way.
I heard OS/2 was big in banking, but I just assumed they had moved off of OS/2 some time ago.
I'm happy with XP.
It never crashes
I don't get viruses or spyware or hacks
All the software I need works fine
I have all the connectivity I need
So why is expecting people to upgrade?
The Presidio facility has been open for a bit. Yes, it's sweet and one thing that can't be said about George is that he does thing half-assed.
Of course, the expectation is that you work INSANE hours. I only wish I could get this set up at home so I can balance my life a little better.
...it's gone.
Even with tens of billions in the bank, Microsoft is unwilling to do the right thing and say FU to China.
I actually find this more distasteful than Microsoft being a monopolist.
the record companies will whine to the government that they are entitled to an additional 200 years of protection.
This whole website seems like crap. Plus I hardly doubt a watch battery can generate power enough for GPS tracking.
Nope.
Linux by it's licensing nature does not prevent ANYONE from creating a distro.
"The four sky divers proved that an ad hoc network set up using the wireless functions of a Nintendo DS works perfectly at distances of nearly 400 feet while falling 120 miles an hour"
I'm glad they proved it, it was really keeping me up at night.
...errr...oh, right. Never mind.
"...Further blaming the shipping company, she explained that "this was not an Ameritrade Systems issue or a compromise of our technology. This was related to a third party vendor."
Ah, no.
This is squarely the problem of Ameritrade management. Protection and recovery of backup data rests squarely with IT. There should have been a detailed process done in conjunction with a reliable shipper to ensure protection ( or perhaps a private courier ) of the tape.
Yet another clueless corporation that has no sense of responsibility.
Pure Genius on the part of the vendors
Unlike the real world, they CAN make new real estate. Should be interesting to see how stupid the market gets for this stuff. And it will get stupid.
It will also be interesting to see how far this goes. Anyone have a problem owning NPC slaves? Maybe sex slaves? Maybe NPC sex slaves that look like kids? kids that could be virtually beaten to death? I have no doubt it will happen in some game somewhere.
Anyone who has played on-line know there are some realy disturbed people out there.
Umm...no.
If you had some kind of measurable brain function, I was not speaking elitist. My point was that people are wrong to declare an embedded technology like TV dead. People in our business (tech) tend to forget the vast majority of people still like the simplicity of free TV and it's nice little remote control.
Feel free to shift that chip over to the other shoulder....it must be getting heavy.