Yes, just like when a Ford gas-tank explodes and kills all the occupants but Ford gets away scott-free even after years of lawsuits? That kind of accountability?
Get real, this is Corporate America, your crazy communist terms mean nothing here!
Woah, someone should tell VUH that the Gold edition doesn't come with the game discs! They could save a bundle not honoring their bullet of "collector's box" from the marketing of "PLUS: HL2 posters, full strat guide, soundtrack, hat, collector's box, postcard & more"...
To clarify, this ruling was NOT about any part of the Patriot Act being shotdown. The court's ruling wasn't actaully read by, apparently, ANY journalists that reported on this story. The ACLU issued a press release that seems to have been the entire basis for any article about said ruling.
The ruling actually affects the 1986 law known as the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.
Unless I completely missed something, how do the terrorists win when the government wants to make sure you AREN'T getting killed in the middle of a public street?
Last time I checked, it was the terrorists that wanted to kill you, not the government... (and even if it was the government, unless these cameras have "frickin' laser beams", I think we're all pretty safe)
Actual problems arise when the government wants to aim these cameras into your living room, not the middle of a public street next to a convention center...
If you're all actually convinced that Oddpost 'took the time' to recreate Outlook in web-browse form, I suggest you check @mail: http://www.atmail.com/
Their demo is a little annoying to get to as you have to actually create a free account first, but the screenshots you see are all entirely within the browser.
Anyway, a poor choice on Yahoo!'s part if you ask me.
-VolVE
Undisclaimer: I don't work for @mail. I simply ran across them one day when looking for web-based IMAP clients that were a/little/ more aesthetically pleasing than SquirrelMail...
You know, occasionally, just occasionally I feel there should be a +6 that's only attainable from some obscenely large score past +5, just to memorably mark such insightful posts...
Anyway, thanks for the post orthogonal, it is truly deserved of the moniker "insightful".
I totally agree. I've had a subscription for the last 2 years but started reading from issue #1.
They constantly have world exclusives and regularly impress me with their witty coverage of society, technology, etc.
One of the best parts is the monthly article 'reviewing' a house / apartment that a technophile has invested a good deal of money into. All very interesting.
It may actually do well, judging by that brief 2nd shot (picturing the obviously 6-inch-tall woman) as the GUI looks beautiful from that one shot.
I was just about ready to throw down and write my own GUI controller to manage all my media, given the likes of the unspeakably overpriced yet gorgeous interface of Kaleidascape .
*holds breath until American release date and pricing press-release is issued*
So we've progeesed from LOC/sec to CATS/sec... man, those crazy scientistics really need to get some therapy or else we might soon be in for MOTHER/sec, MOTHER-AND-AUNT-JANE/sec, UNCLE-TOMMY-AND-MUMMY/sec, MY-FIRST-PET-RALPH/sec...
The good thing about using water to put out fires is: it's already everywhere, so it doesn't really matter if a "little more" runs down the drawn.
Saphire, however, is not/anywhere/, so what happens when the Lourve catches fire and the fancy new Saphire sprinkles kick into action? One more Mona Lisa saved, oh, but an entire building full of a strange liquid that, from what I can tell, would require a hazmat crew to clean-up.
I'm pretty sure you wouldn't want this stuff simply running down the drawn...:-/ So what are you going to do? Add special filters to all the drains in the Lourve? What if one of the sprinkles ends-up spraying outside, what happens to the environment?
Firstly, to back-track a little, people not realising how much effort you're going to is related a lot to the age of the Expert in question. A lot of computer people are much younger than the average mechanic, electrician, plumber, and most likely haven't earned formal qualifications/degrees in said subject, etc. so people tend to think it's just some hobby, much like trading cards, gardening or something. This contributes to the "Yes, I can help you with that data recovery, but it will take XX hours of work." not being 'understood' as politely requirring compensation; technically it is understood that you are not lying per-se, but it will not 'click' that XX hours is translatable to $$, and doesn't the 16-year-old look pretensious when they actually verbalise their lack of willingness to help without agreeing to payment?
In this type of sitatuion, where you don't run a professional data recovery house and can't pull-up quote sheets, one must be subtle.
After spending tens of hours recovering data, put it on a CD/DVD and go visit the customer. Say something along the lines of "This disc contains all of your old data. Now, I think I may be able to recover your important documents but it could be tricky and involve some quite a lot of work..." At this point, the customer will either CLICK and ask about pricing or they still won't have a clue.
So, you now have 2 options; agree upon a price and come back a day later with the same CD and give it to them, or, leave and conceed that the work you did restoring the data was a lost deal-closer and better luck next time.
I have a terrible feeling that firs thing Monday morning several secretaries heads are going to explode in a cloudy fog of utter confusion.
(Hint: I think you may need to dumb it down a little there smartguym it's hard to convey to your boss that his constituents are upset after your head explodes...)
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I'm afraid popularity does not directly correlate to quality.
Although 10 points for being a wonderful consumer.
Yes, just like when a Ford gas-tank explodes and kills all the occupants but Ford gets away scott-free even after years of lawsuits? That kind of accountability?
Get real, this is Corporate America, your crazy communist terms mean nothing here!
-VolVE
At his rate, who needs marriage anyways? ;)
Woah, someone should tell VUH that the Gold edition doesn't come with the game discs! They could save a bundle not honoring their bullet of "collector's box" from the marketing of "PLUS: HL2 posters, full strat guide, soundtrack, hat, collector's box, postcard & more"...
;)
Hopefully I'm not reading that wrong...
-VolVE
To clarify, this ruling was NOT about any part of the Patriot Act being shotdown. The court's ruling wasn't actaully read by, apparently, ANY journalists that reported on this story. The ACLU issued a press release that seems to have been the entire basis for any article about said ruling.
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The ruling actually affects the 1986 law known as the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.
Further info: http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2004_09_28.sht
-VolVE
Sadly, no. :(
I'm still searching. I figure at some point someone will end-up just completely re-tooling SquirrelMail as a plugin or something.
@mail looked so promising... oh well
Let me know if you come across anything too,
-VolVE
Unless I completely missed something, how do the terrorists win when the government wants to make sure you AREN'T getting killed in the middle of a public street?
Last time I checked, it was the terrorists that wanted to kill you, not the government... (and even if it was the government, unless these cameras have "frickin' laser beams", I think we're all pretty safe)
Actual problems arise when the government wants to aim these cameras into your living room, not the middle of a public street next to a convention center...
-VolVE
If you're all actually convinced that Oddpost 'took the time' to recreate Outlook in web-browse form, I suggest you check @mail: http://www.atmail.com/
/little/ more aesthetically pleasing than SquirrelMail...
Their demo is a little annoying to get to as you have to actually create a free account first, but the screenshots you see are all entirely within the browser.
Anyway, a poor choice on Yahoo!'s part if you ask me.
-VolVE
Undisclaimer: I don't work for @mail. I simply ran across them one day when looking for web-based IMAP clients that were a
You know, occasionally, just occasionally I feel there should be a +6 that's only attainable from some obscenely large score past +5, just to memorably mark such insightful posts...
Anyway, thanks for the post orthogonal, it is truly deserved of the moniker "insightful".
-VolVE
I totally agree. I've had a subscription for the last 2 years but started reading from issue #1.
They constantly have world exclusives and regularly impress me with their witty coverage of society, technology, etc.
One of the best parts is the monthly article 'reviewing' a house / apartment that a technophile has invested a good deal of money into. All very interesting.
-VolVE
Actually, the GF6800 cards are more like $600/each... 200% of your estimate :-/
-VolVE
I agree. How is this theme 'better', exactly? There's nothing to it... the icons look like a 4-year-old drew them :-/
-VolVE
It may actually do well, judging by that brief 2nd shot (picturing the obviously 6-inch-tall woman) as the GUI looks beautiful from that one shot.
I was just about ready to throw down and write my own GUI controller to manage all my media, given the likes of the unspeakably overpriced yet gorgeous interface of Kaleidascape .
*holds breath until American release date and pricing press-release is issued*
-VolVE
Someone found the hidden 'extra crack' option I see...
-VolVE
Oh, what, FAT12 not good enough for you now?!
/me envisions gangs arguing over such matters in future... *shakes fist at Willy Gates*
-VolVE
So we've progeesed from LOC/sec to CATS/sec... man, those crazy scientistics really need to get some therapy or else we might soon be in for MOTHER/sec, MOTHER-AND-AUNT-JANE/sec, UNCLE-TOMMY-AND-MUMMY/sec, MY-FIRST-PET-RALPH/sec...
Erm, but I digress...
*cough*
Doh, I hate it when selflessness equates to being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and a communist...
;)
Oh well, I'll be leaving now
-VolVE
I wish I could spell.
Saphire = Sapphire drawn = drain Lourve = Louvre sprinkles = sprinklers
<sigh>
-VolVE
The parent has a very good point.
/anywhere/, so what happens when the Lourve catches fire and the fancy new Saphire sprinkles kick into action? One more Mona Lisa saved, oh, but an entire building full of a strange liquid that, from what I can tell, would require a hazmat crew to clean-up.
:-/ So what are you going to do? Add special filters to all the drains in the Lourve? What if one of the sprinkles ends-up spraying outside, what happens to the environment?
The good thing about using water to put out fires is: it's already everywhere, so it doesn't really matter if a "little more" runs down the drawn.
Saphire, however, is not
I'm pretty sure you wouldn't want this stuff simply running down the drawn...
-VolVE
So... how do I mod something as "+5, Worrying" ?
Anyone... ?
-VolVE
No no, you have to be much more subtle than that.
Firstly, to back-track a little, people not realising how much effort you're going to is related a lot to the age of the Expert in question. A lot of computer people are much younger than the average mechanic, electrician, plumber, and most likely haven't earned formal qualifications/degrees in said subject, etc. so people tend to think it's just some hobby, much like trading cards, gardening or something. This contributes to the "Yes, I can help you with that data recovery, but it will take XX hours of work." not being 'understood' as politely requirring compensation; technically it is understood that you are not lying per-se, but it will not 'click' that XX hours is translatable to $$, and doesn't the 16-year-old look pretensious when they actually verbalise their lack of willingness to help without agreeing to payment?
In this type of sitatuion, where you don't run a professional data recovery house and can't pull-up quote sheets, one must be subtle.
After spending tens of hours recovering data, put it on a CD/DVD and go visit the customer. Say something along the lines of "This disc contains all of your old data. Now, I think I may be able to recover your important documents but it could be tricky and involve some quite a lot of work..." At this point, the customer will either CLICK and ask about pricing or they still won't have a clue.
So, you now have 2 options; agree upon a price and come back a day later with the same CD and give it to them, or, leave and conceed that the work you did restoring the data was a lost deal-closer and better luck next time.
-VolVE
I do think that the only logical reaction to the CEO's justification is:
bwahahahahahahahaha!
Will some people stop at nothing to ignore their own failings?!
-VolVE
I just tested a bunch of their tier 2 servers and half were down, and the other half seemed to return the offending 64.94.110.11 IP address...
:(
Suggestions? This almost looked like a great idea...
-VolVE
Wait, so you mean I actually _am_ using Microsoft Bob to do my work, and I've just grown so used to him [it] that I've stopped noticing?!
HOLY CRAP THE END IS NIGH!
-VolVE
I have a terrible feeling that firs thing Monday morning several secretaries heads are going to explode in a cloudy fog of utter confusion.
(Hint: I think you may need to dumb it down a little there smartguym it's hard to convey to your boss that his constituents are upset after your head explodes...)
-VolVE