You're a pitch man...a mouthpiece...a shill. You claim one thing, while masking the truth. Your opinion and endorsement are paid for. Your segway love affair is a timed and scripted event that you planted (Amazon last month...CNN last week...Slashdot this week). It did not spring forth as you suddenly realized it had been one month since you'd been swept away in the magic of dean. That's a nice touch, but then any story needs a lead in.
And the more you deny it, the more it sticks. Save your breath, you'll need it for your next pitch. I'm feeling guilty for giving you a chance to keep talking as it is. If you were the innocent contributor you're trying to be, you'd keep quiet and let all the chatter flow around you.
Seattle, eh? That explains the xbox live endorsement.
Concern is when you discover someone has taken the last Oreo...not when someone has stolen or maligned your identity.
Concern: disquiet, worry, anxiety.
If I were simply concerned over identity theft/malignment, etc., I'd be a bit slow on the uptake, me thinks. Concern and protest are two different things. No one will take to the streets over this, as they are only concerned, and that's my point. There is and there will be no protest, thus is it not an issue.
And we suppose the ad agency thing has nothing to do with any of your so called writing, eh?
I'm positive that is a negative thing. And we all know the saying "any publicity is good, and good publicity is even better"... ~ I'm sure you are very happy with your latest rabbit out of the hat.
Nice try tagging someone else as the bad guy.
Better luck next dodge. Can't wait for your next (paid) revelation.
...but they are still moving about, aren't they. I said up in arms, not simply concerned. Let me know when they take to the streets in protest and I'll believe there is genuine fear of this kind of thing.
As it is, cameras at every intersection and along stretches of highways are being used more and more every day. I'm saying the concern we hear about is nothing more than rhetoric.
too many steps in that dance...it is much easier than you surmise.
The next big thing, happening now, actually, is GPS data as one of the EXIF digital photo variables. You can match a photo to where it was taken, not just when, or of whom, and in what light, with what lens, etc.
...take my photo. So what? Been done before and it will be done again.
The real news here is that S. Jobs has positioned QuickTime as a leader in the field of compressed video for use in said picture phones, and...oh wait, I can't talk about that before next week's expo. Sorry:)
...a recent tour of the electronics district, Akihabara, in Tokyo, shows that every new phone has a camera built in. Same in Seoul.
And who needs drive-by snoop photos, as long as Photoshop is handy. This thing about being worried over one's photo being snapped in public is overblown...I don't see anyone being up in arms over the video being captured by using ATMs or speed cameras.
I don't dispute that conclusion. But those employees are part of the same balance sheet that admins, managers, owners and investors all see and focus on.
Keeping a user productive is part of the many tasks that are all in the same basket tied around the neck of every admin. That basket is always loaded to the brim, from user complaints and issues to budget issues. The admin, at the end of the day, has to justify not only his/her actions, but his/her spending of both time and money. The next time some admin tells you a new app or piece of hardware will save 85%, tell them you'll agree as long as they promise to cut their budget by 85% as well. They won't take that offer...and it has nothing to do with thinking of users first.
If you think employees matter more than a balance sheet, you're living in a different world than most of us. Again, an admin can make transparent changes, but it takes more than a MS certificate and VB handbook to know how.
The adapter was part of the Linux dev kit. The headset that came w/Navy Seals is not limited to use with SOCOM apps. I can use it as an internet phone...how about that for saving money?
"...most likely Microsoft will charge maybe $50/year for XBox Live in the future..."
You know, when you talk out your ass like that...no one listens (and your breath wreeks worse than ever). MS has not announced those costs, so in reality, you have no idea. You're simply waving the MS flag. Get back to us when MS beats up on your parent's credit card...over and over. Only a fool would agree to charges without knowing what they will be.
It used to be that when someone talked about other OS's, in favor of MS, the big argument was "no software". Now, with xbox having a very small percentage of software, compared to Sony PS2, MS fools ignore the fact, and wave the vapor flag, about how good the future will be...that future will only be good for MS, as long as fools keep their wallets open and their eyes/ears closed. Have fun helping bg build a new home...sleep well knowing he couldn't do it without you. bahhhhhh....sheep that you are:)
What, you mean all that time I spent over the holidays playing SOCOM Navy Seal online, while talking to others, via a Sony PlayStation 2 on ethernet, for free, wasn't real?:)
You paid MS drones never let up, do you...give it up. Kool-aid drinker...
Sounds like the "guns don't kill...crazy gun owners do..." argument. I get your point, but I have to counter that MS scripting, being upstream, is a liability, and saying that it's the apps, that can be so controlled, are the issue, is simply shifting the blame. No apps...no issue...no scripting...no issue. It's not that simple.
Why did the app cause a problem? Scripting let it.
Why did scripting cause a problem? Because the apps don't stop it.
Which is the real culprit? Both according to your logic. I say that scripting is too loose, meaning prone to outside manipulation, and needing more than a fair amount of babysitting. I doubt that if apps were bolted down, you'd see less trouble as an admin, due to scripts still being able to act as admin and thus still capable of raising hell...from filling servers full of useless files to pwd sharing, etc. Apps can be taken out of the equation and scripting can still act to make many vulnerabilties more troublesome.
What kind of math are you using?..oh wait...this was from a Gartner/MS troll...sorry, I was looking for logic in all the wrong places.:)
Sorry, can't resist.
I own ten cars and ten motorcycles. All used for same purposes.
Five cars need two mechanics to stay running (that's total two). Ten motorcycles need only one mechanic to keep them in warranty (that's one).
Each car mechanic costs $8.00 an hour and each bike mechanic costs $10.00 an hour.
Each car needs two hours of service per month...that is 20 hours, or $160.00 per month for my ten car fleet.
Each motorcycle needs only one hour per month service, so that is 10 hours or $100.00 per month for my ten bike armada.
In this case, less service hours, with more cost per hour equals less overall cost.
Without detailing a combined desktop and server environment, nothing much can be drawn from this example, but at least I laid out my math.
Users are an expense where I come from. Who gets fired first during cut-backs...staff or admin? You must be thinking of a school lab?:) Your statement that changing a mail/calendar/etc program will never be transparent says more about your skills and tools than anything else. I can change a web based app from Cold Fusion to PHP and my users will never know the difference.
You're mind-stuck with what Windows offers on the desktop and you can't see the issue, much less any of the (yes, transparent) solutions. You've bought into the MS hype big time, and only a career change can help:)
Sorry...the point I was trying to make is that MS scripting, as deployed, is a dual edge sword.
As shown by so many exploits, MS has managed to make it so loose that it is routinely a source of security violations, and thus a burden for admins, as opposed just to being an easy way for them to manage and resources. Loose is good...too loose is bad, and MS/VB is too loose, according to the public record. Go back the last 5 years.
Isn't this one of the main reasons Windows is such a problem on both the desktop and in the server arena?
Not just the scriptability (Mac OS X goes a long ways in this regard) but the looseness of the implementation, which is the big reason admins stay so busy patching, etc.
I like your POV, but...
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TCO means total, which includes down time, admin time, install time, admin/user training time, related hardware needed to deploy and licenses.
Not to mention books, travel to conferences, meetings to obtain buy-in, aspirin, caffine and therapy.
Bunk...the users don't pay for admin costs nor do they answer to stockholders.
Users complain when their starting time gets moved or they have to park further from the front gate. The Manager that makes the decision never gets fired for making these kinds of adjustments. Done properly, it should be nearly transparent, just like moving a hub or adding more drive space.
...last stat I heard was one MS admin for every 15 boxes and one Mac admin for every 150 ~ 300 boxes. It's called TCO, and one of the reasons a Mercedes can be less expensive over the vehicle's lifetime.
...it's meant to travel with my digital cameras (DV also), and not meant to replace my desktop box.
I was looking at the dual 1gig desktop G4s, but since I can get a slot-load DVD burner, I think I'll trade in my 12" iBook and get a TI instead. Don't get me wrong...the iBook is great, but it's not a G4.
And I'd suggest getting a pumped Shuttle (load Mandrake 9.0) and a Samsung 17" LCD for that extra $1500.00 if you do go the iBook route.
Since OS X is already in the mix, built-in speech recognition will do this without all the mouse and glove crap...I'd be embarrassed to admit I did this...what a load, and shame on anyone for thinking it is worth posting. I'm sure there is a team at Apple that will hang themselves for all the work they wasted.
Load pages into computer and body into car
Tell the computer to navigate accordingly
Tell the computer to select all (or not) and speak (services/speech/start speaking text)...duh
My site doesn't waste time listing products that aren't for sale and may never exist. I waited all year for Nomad to release something besides a press release. I finally stopped waiting...they are too late to the party, and now they've missed the 2002/03 Christmas shopping season.
From the Nomad site: "available soon"...how lame is that?
Besides, I love it when Nomad and Archos L-users whine:)
no one said anything about martial arts...
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Tai Chi (there are many forms)...loosely referred to as a physical exercise regimen that involves paced breathing and body movements with the goal of self energized mental and physical well being. For many practicioners the focus in doing them is not, first and foremost, martial, but as a meditative exercise for the body.
In the case of a robot, it is simply a scripted set of basic, slow movements meant to mimic a human, and thus allow an audience to be able to identify with a machine on something more than a level that only requires an on switch. Sony's 'bots play soccer, and shake hands, as an example. Tagging that message as insightful is a joke, and clearly indicates the need for mods that allow for sarcasm:)
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You're a pitch man...a mouthpiece...a shill. You claim one thing, while masking the truth. Your opinion and endorsement are paid for. Your segway love affair is a timed and scripted event that you planted (Amazon last month...CNN last week...Slashdot this week). It did not spring forth as you suddenly realized it had been one month since you'd been swept away in the magic of dean. That's a nice touch, but then any story needs a lead in.
And the more you deny it, the more it sticks. Save your breath, you'll need it for your next pitch. I'm feeling guilty for giving you a chance to keep talking as it is. If you were the innocent contributor you're trying to be, you'd keep quiet and let all the chatter flow around you.
Seattle, eh? That explains the xbox live endorsement.
Well, I can understand why you don't want to publically deny the Fallin ad agency thing...ok by me :)
pt...wasn't that what P.T. Barnum used to sign with?
Concern is when you discover someone has taken the last Oreo...not when someone has stolen or maligned your identity.
Concern: disquiet, worry, anxiety.
If I were simply concerned over identity theft/malignment, etc., I'd be a bit slow on the uptake, me thinks. Concern and protest are two different things. No one will take to the streets over this, as they are only concerned, and that's my point. There is and there will be no protest, thus is it not an issue.
And we suppose the ad agency thing has nothing to do with any of your so called writing, eh?
I'm positive that is a negative thing. And we all know the saying "any publicity is good, and good publicity is even better"... ~ I'm sure you are very happy with your latest rabbit out of the hat.
Nice try tagging someone else as the bad guy. Better luck next dodge. Can't wait for your next (paid) revelation.
...but they are still moving about, aren't they. I said up in arms, not simply concerned. Let me know when they take to the streets in protest and I'll believe there is genuine fear of this kind of thing.
As it is, cameras at every intersection and along stretches of highways are being used more and more every day. I'm saying the concern we hear about is nothing more than rhetoric.
too many steps in that dance...it is much easier than you surmise.
The next big thing, happening now, actually, is GPS data as one of the EXIF digital photo variables. You can match a photo to where it was taken, not just when, or of whom, and in what light, with what lens, etc.
...take my photo. So what? Been done before and it will be done again.
:)
The real news here is that S. Jobs has positioned QuickTime as a leader in the field of compressed video for use in said picture phones, and...oh wait, I can't talk about that before next week's expo. Sorry
...a recent tour of the electronics district, Akihabara, in Tokyo, shows that every new phone has a camera built in. Same in Seoul.
And who needs drive-by snoop photos, as long as Photoshop is handy. This thing about being worried over one's photo being snapped in public is overblown...I don't see anyone being up in arms over the video being captured by using ATMs or speed cameras.
I don't dispute that conclusion. But those employees are part of the same balance sheet that admins, managers, owners and investors all see and focus on.
Keeping a user productive is part of the many tasks that are all in the same basket tied around the neck of every admin. That basket is always loaded to the brim, from user complaints and issues to budget issues. The admin, at the end of the day, has to justify not only his/her actions, but his/her spending of both time and money. The next time some admin tells you a new app or piece of hardware will save 85%, tell them you'll agree as long as they promise to cut their budget by 85% as well. They won't take that offer...and it has nothing to do with thinking of users first.
If you think employees matter more than a balance sheet, you're living in a different world than most of us. Again, an admin can make transparent changes, but it takes more than a MS certificate and VB handbook to know how.
The adapter was part of the Linux dev kit. The headset that came w/Navy Seals is not limited to use with SOCOM apps. I can use it as an internet phone...how about that for saving money?
:)
"...most likely Microsoft will charge maybe $50/year for XBox Live in the future..."
You know, when you talk out your ass like that...no one listens (and your breath wreeks worse than ever). MS has not announced those costs, so in reality, you have no idea. You're simply waving the MS flag. Get back to us when MS beats up on your parent's credit card...over and over. Only a fool would agree to charges without knowing what they will be.
It used to be that when someone talked about other OS's, in favor of MS, the big argument was "no software". Now, with xbox having a very small percentage of software, compared to Sony PS2, MS fools ignore the fact, and wave the vapor flag, about how good the future will be...that future will only be good for MS, as long as fools keep their wallets open and their eyes/ears closed. Have fun helping bg build a new home...sleep well knowing he couldn't do it without you. bahhhhhh....sheep that you are
What, you mean all that time I spent over the holidays playing SOCOM Navy Seal online, while talking to others, via a Sony PlayStation 2 on ethernet, for free, wasn't real? :)
You paid MS drones never let up, do you...give it up. Kool-aid drinker...
And what else does P. M. Tyronne endorse?
:)
XBox live, for one...and the iPod...and large doses of Flash, apparently. This gentleman is a one-man press release
Sounds like the "guns don't kill...crazy gun owners do..." argument. I get your point, but I have to counter that MS scripting, being upstream, is a liability, and saying that it's the apps, that can be so controlled, are the issue, is simply shifting the blame. No apps...no issue...no scripting...no issue. It's not that simple.
Why did the app cause a problem? Scripting let it.
Why did scripting cause a problem? Because the apps don't stop it.
Which is the real culprit? Both according to your logic. I say that scripting is too loose, meaning prone to outside manipulation, and needing more than a fair amount of babysitting. I doubt that if apps were bolted down, you'd see less trouble as an admin, due to scripts still being able to act as admin and thus still capable of raising hell...from filling servers full of useless files to pwd sharing, etc. Apps can be taken out of the equation and scripting can still act to make many vulnerabilties more troublesome.
What kind of math are you using? ..oh wait...this was from a Gartner/MS troll...sorry, I was looking for logic in all the wrong places. :)
Sorry, can't resist.
I own ten cars and ten motorcycles. All used for same purposes.
Five cars need two mechanics to stay running (that's total two). Ten motorcycles need only one mechanic to keep them in warranty (that's one).
Each car mechanic costs $8.00 an hour and each bike mechanic costs $10.00 an hour.
Each car needs two hours of service per month...that is 20 hours, or $160.00 per month for my ten car fleet.
Each motorcycle needs only one hour per month service, so that is 10 hours or $100.00 per month for my ten bike armada.
In this case, less service hours, with more cost per hour equals less overall cost. Without detailing a combined desktop and server environment, nothing much can be drawn from this example, but at least I laid out my math.
Users are an expense where I come from. Who gets fired first during cut-backs...staff or admin? You must be thinking of a school lab? :) Your statement that changing a mail/calendar/etc program will never be transparent says more about your skills and tools than anything else. I can change a web based app from Cold Fusion to PHP and my users will never know the difference.
:)
You're mind-stuck with what Windows offers on the desktop and you can't see the issue, much less any of the (yes, transparent) solutions. You've bought into the MS hype big time, and only a career change can help
Sorry...the point I was trying to make is that MS scripting, as deployed, is a dual edge sword.
As shown by so many exploits, MS has managed to make it so loose that it is routinely a source of security violations, and thus a burden for admins, as opposed just to being an easy way for them to manage and resources. Loose is good...too loose is bad, and MS/VB is too loose, according to the public record. Go back the last 5 years.
What...don't you remember some of the old mac commercials? Better yet, how about some of the SNL spoofs...
"We didn't get bad computers....we got lousy Dads!"
windows IS completely scriptable.
Isn't this one of the main reasons Windows is such a problem on both the desktop and in the server arena?
Not just the scriptability (Mac OS X goes a long ways in this regard) but the looseness of the implementation, which is the big reason admins stay so busy patching, etc.
TCO means total, which includes down time, admin time, install time, admin/user training time, related hardware needed to deploy and licenses.
Not to mention books, travel to conferences, meetings to obtain buy-in, aspirin, caffine and therapy.
Bunk...the users don't pay for admin costs nor do they answer to stockholders.
Users complain when their starting time gets moved or they have to park further from the front gate. The Manager that makes the decision never gets fired for making these kinds of adjustments. Done properly, it should be nearly transparent, just like moving a hub or adding more drive space.
...last stat I heard was one MS admin for every 15 boxes and one Mac admin for every 150 ~ 300 boxes. It's called TCO, and one of the reasons a Mercedes can be less expensive over the vehicle's lifetime.
...it's meant to travel with my digital cameras (DV also), and not meant to replace my desktop box.
I was looking at the dual 1gig desktop G4s, but since I can get a slot-load DVD burner, I think I'll trade in my 12" iBook and get a TI instead. Don't get me wrong...the iBook is great, but it's not a G4.
And I'd suggest getting a pumped Shuttle (load Mandrake 9.0) and a Samsung 17" LCD for that extra $1500.00 if you do go the iBook route.
My site doesn't waste time listing products that aren't for sale and may never exist. I waited all year for Nomad to release something besides a press release. I finally stopped waiting...they are too late to the party, and now they've missed the 2002/03 Christmas shopping season.
:)
From the Nomad site: "available soon"...how lame is that?
Besides, I love it when Nomad and Archos L-users whine
Tai Chi (there are many forms)...loosely referred to as a physical exercise regimen that involves paced breathing and body movements with the goal of self energized mental and physical well being. For many practicioners the focus in doing them is not, first and foremost, martial, but as a meditative exercise for the body.
:)
In the case of a robot, it is simply a scripted set of basic, slow movements meant to mimic a human, and thus allow an audience to be able to identify with a machine on something more than a level that only requires an on switch. Sony's 'bots play soccer, and shake hands, as an example. Tagging that message as insightful is a joke, and clearly indicates the need for mods that allow for sarcasm