GRACE cut in front of a judge in line to register, and then demanded a conference badge several times
I see the prototype is using the brain of a typical american CEO/politician. Now if we only knew if they were asking for stock options or contributions, to figure out what type of brain they actually used.
I don't buy that argument that the tuners are too expensive. $200 is cheap.
I don't know what part of the world you live in but $200 is not cheap for a TV. Considering this, I can buy a 19" TV with a built in VCR for $150~. So you more than double the price on a particular piece of equipment. $200 seems way beyond cheap.
"Every episode of "Seinfeld" is now available to download free (from commercials) to anyone with access to the Internet."
Just Great! Will the horror that is "Seinfield" never cease? At least commercials give you a chance to recoup, but with them you will be begin to go bald, have relationships that last on 20 minutes at a time, and develop a false sincerity to other people. PLEASE PLEASE keep the commericials, if only for the children!
Plus, there is the amusing prospect of serious litigation and criminal proceedings throughtout
If it is anything like the punishments that they have dealt to the Enron executives, I am sure that they will be embarrassed in front of Congress for a day qouting the 5th and then going home to thier multi-million dollar mansion.
I see, if it is an individual that goes and changes images and text on a company web servers they are a hacker and a vandal, if it is the government it is considered what?
Can't anyone, in particular the government, set limits on their behavior in relation to others. People are always talking about democracy when they pass a law, but I notice there always seem to be a certain amount of intolerance for the other persons behavior when that law is passed.
---
Qoute from The Patriot
"Why should a trade in 1 tyrant who is 3000 miles away, for 3000 tyrants who are 1 mile away?"
Well, this is the translation that came out of Chinese-English Dictionary.
Chuanghu - opening in a wall for letting in air and light; window
So a more appropriate translation of MS Windows would look like,
MS Windows - An unsecure computer for letting in computer viruses and hackers; overpriced american software.
I remember there was a hotfix out of Citrix Server 1.7, and one hotfix did stop the only application that was running on that server.
I work at company were would did not understand where everything fit together would suddenly do an update, or reboot a server, or apply a a quick fix and screw up a major application that was being used in that server.
It is one thing when you run a small network of file & print servers, it is another when you are worried about an application server that requests database from another SQL server that downloads its database from a mainframe a particular time.
I think that they shear number of infections would incline me to believe that there are a large number of poor admins instead of" they might be using.IDA extensions."
Face it, the Indexing features are only used on a small percentage of IIS web servers, by saying that an "Admin might have been using it," would be a excuse for them not doing their job in the first place. Yeah, it is alot of work administrating NT machines, guess what, it is alot of work!
About 6 years ago, banks wanted to get into the unsurance business, insurance wanted to get into banking, Credit Card companies wanted to do everything too. Everyone wanted to share your information with each other hoping that there was some magical gold mine that someone else missed or forgot.
Now that they bottom dropped out of the market, and everyone lost money it only proves that
That those who specialize in an industry with competition knew what they were doing. Banks that would somehow know more about insurance than insurance companies in a highly competitive industry were just foolish.
More information does not make for a more informed decision. Companies are still selling themselves on the concept of data mining, that they hidden nugget is just under a layer of dirt.
The market will always go up. I think that the market has changed that theory.
Companies can scale easily. How many large companies have been able to continue growing wildly and improve profit margins? The answer is very few. The ones that continue to grow are the ones that invested in themselves, instead of
buying another company.
Ok, back to my point, the phone companies want to sell this information hoping that it will be that hidden gold nugget. This is after slamming, hiding over charges, and generally trying to screw the customer. These are companies that are struggling to survive, they need to learn to focus on the fundementals instead of trying these quick buck scams.,/p>
What's more, Apple doesn't care if I go.
The bottom line of it is that if 90% of the iTools users leave, 10% will start plunking down money.
It is a horrible corporate attitude generates animosity like this. They lose money on web hosting services, well if it makes 100,000 customers happy, and it is free advertising(mac.com as advertising) then you keep it free. If you think that they are just a bunch of free loaders and that they are not going to spend anymore money on your products go for it.
The question is of the 100,000 customers, how many stay, how many go, and how many go and get mad. Lets say 30% of the people stay, 60% leave, and 10% just get mad.
30% is $3 million in the bank.
10% never buy that 2nd, 3rd, 4th Apple, $10 million(Assuming $1000 machines).
70,000 addresses reduce cheap Mac.com advertising, $70,000 a year(estimating $1 in free advertising per address).
This also does not count the value the Mac community brings with it.
I made up the numbers but it does look like it can be a big risk. I am not sure I would take that risk when the thing that you have going for you mainly is a community.
The most thrilling scene I ever saw in an IMAX documentary was the escape procedure taken by astronauts in case of a critical emergency on the launch pad. It involved strapping onto a line that's connected somewhere around the top of the shuttle and then zipping along into a net at ground level.
So all those stories about burning up in the atmosphere were total science fiction, I knew it!Those ladder trucks are all a scam too! We can just line all the space between tall buildings with nets for emergencies or just because it sounds fun. On the other hand more people may be inclined to jump off buildings probalbly reducing their and other peoples productivity. That would explain why they never told anyone.
to topple Microsoft and supplant it with... well, one would assume Linux,
I think I have a simple answer for this statement, people with a desire for drastic change would prefer a revolution in thinking, people who want to change gradually believe in an evolutionary process.
It would seem to depend on one's sense of urguency as to the type of attitude that they are willing to display, a revolutionary change or evolutionary change.
I think they are quiet because they are waiting for the dollar to bounce back. Because of the recent Wall Street crash the dollar is weak, so the US market would not be able buy many imports. They may be holding out for the stock market to reach a more stable level to support true intergalactic commerce also. When the Dow Jones reaches the comfort level of 100,000 the economy should be good enough for us to trade with other friendly aliens.
Otherwise I think that they are just going to stay home and invest in government bonds at home, no reason to cross the galaxy to trade here.
The only point of a software contract tends to be to put the balance of power in the vendor's, not the customers, favor. How often does a vendor include guaranteed reliability, and free from bugs, with free updates? Compare that with EULA agreements that preclude them from taking any responsibility for the problems that their software may have.
I'll admit that software is new and does not have completely solid fundementals, but be able to claim that they have no responsibility to their customer also means that they have no respect for them either.
Great, I can see it now, A speed Power-Up will a bottle of Gator-Ade, a Advil will give you back 10 health.
A bottle of Tums will counter the rocket launcher as it is used to reduce the size of the "Explosion."
Hey I think I may have a career in Advertising!:)
the trend continues, by the end of the year, attacks on Linux systems may surpass attacks on Windows systems.
It is the Seattle Mariners fault, if they had not had "Bat Day"(Get a Free Bat) on the same day that Bill Gates paid admission for any MS employee going to the game, this would not have happened.
China is rife with corruption, compared to the US. It is inevitable that a country without a free press, without a *transparent* judiciary and decidion making process, and without guarantees of free speech and due process will suffer from corruption.
And the USA does not have any? In Florida they are destroying the Florida Keys as fast as the developers can throw up $10-20 million mansions and accompanying golf courses. Who approves the building permits? The USA Corp of Engineers who just push them on through as fast the developers can submit them. Why? So that the county can collect as many taxes on them as possible and screw the environment. Sounds like corruption to me.
Free press and open judicial system is not the open cure all that you make sound like.
China can best be described today as a fascist country, with the state and big industry inextricably intertwined. It has a secret police (gestapo equivalent) which has wide reaching powers. Individuals who are critical can find themselves executed and their organs harvested for use by those in power. The government is undemocratic and power succession is typical of these regimes... it is shrouded in secrecy.
You have been watching too many James Bond movies, they have police, I know it is just such a modern concept but hey them follow the fashions. Lets take a look at the US, FBI, CIA, DEA, DIA, DoD, ATF, Home Defense Department and that does not include any special units that we have around the world. Do you know what they may or may not be doing? Did you know that the CIA was smuggling weapons to various terrorist countries. Do you think that Afghanistan was making those Stinger missiles in their garage?
It sounds real good to say that they are a big bad police state because the control the people, well you have 1 Billion people that you have to look at for a police state is not as bad an idea as you think. They have alot of problems, but you know what? They are still human beings and they do what they can.
As for the people in power want to stay in power, funny that seems to be how the Democrats and Republicians setup the system too. Sure you can get an independent every once in a while, but you don't see more than 1 or 2. Sure you can setup a Democrat versus a Republician, but I see a number of congressional leaders who have served 20, 3o years without fail and while what they do is not secret, they do the reverse they spew so much crap that you cannot sort the wheat from the chaff.
Until China develops modern government, with respect for human rights including free speech and property rights, enforced by a minimally corrupt judicial system, and watched over by a free press, it is doomed to the fate of all such systems... increasing corruption, militancy and aggressive foreign policy, and poor economic performance.
Only in America could someone get so ignorant for spouting this stuff like it is the national anthem regardless of truth. The only thing missing is a"Under God"! The US spends the most of all nations on the military, sound fact. The government has no problem with threatening anyone and everyone with the use of military force as long as we have provocation. Give George Bush a reason and he would be leading 200,000 man force in Iraq waving the US flag regardless of what anyone else in the world thinks. That is militancy and an agressive foriegn policy. As for poor economic performance, they are a developing country, which somehow you believe that the US was born with Skyscrapers, indoor plumbing and a stock market.
Capitalism, in many variants, has been proven to be the most efficient economic system yet tried. Capitalism requires property rights; it requires a low level of corruption; it requires transparency; it requires freedom.
Chinese are more capitalists than you or more. They actually work for a living, because they actually have to work to live. They don't have a government supported social security, medicaid, or charities willing to feed them. Actually those programs sound kinda socialist to me.
China is experimenting with state controlled capitalism - i.e. fascism - as opposed to its own total command economy. It is doomed to ultimately fail as an economic system as long as unelected officials can arbitrarily change the rules to their personal enrichment, backed by the power of a police state.
You could have been George Bush speech writer, willing to spout any willy nilly non-sense without any exposure to the country, the people or even and understanding of their government. No wonder the foriegn policy of the US sucks.
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GRACE cut in front of a judge in line to register, and then demanded a conference badge several times
I see the prototype is using the brain of a typical american CEO/politician. Now if we only knew if they were asking for stock options or contributions, to figure out what type of brain they actually used.but I still think that robots/AI should primarily be designed and programmed to do things that humans are BAD at
Like working for the government? If all the robots get all those jobs were are all the stupid middle class people supposed to go?Spammers going after a network printer...
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I don't buy that argument that the tuners are too expensive. $200 is cheap.
I don't know what part of the world you live in but $200 is not cheap for a TV. Considering this, I can buy a 19" TV with a built in VCR for $150~. So you more than double the price on a particular piece of equipment. $200 seems way beyond cheap.
"Every episode of "Seinfeld" is now available to download free (from commercials) to anyone with access to the Internet."
Just Great! Will the horror that is "Seinfield" never cease? At least commercials give you a chance to recoup, but with them you will be begin to go bald, have relationships that last on 20 minutes at a time, and develop a false sincerity to other people. PLEASE PLEASE keep the commericials, if only for the children!
I will have to get a really good pair of Raybands then!
See Howard Schmidt warned us this would happen, now WebTV, a microsoft product, is dialing 911.
Prophet, Dumb Luck, or experienced with MS products we will never know!Hey, if anyone would know that the skying is falling from the internet it certainly would be the Ex-Head of MS Security right?
Plus, there is the amusing prospect of serious litigation and criminal proceedings throughtout
If it is anything like the punishments that they have dealt to the Enron executives, I am sure that they will be embarrassed in front of Congress for a day qouting the 5th and then going home to thier multi-million dollar mansion.
I see, if it is an individual that goes and changes images and text on a company web servers they are a hacker and a vandal, if it is the government it is considered what? Can't anyone, in particular the government, set limits on their behavior in relation to others. People are always talking about democracy when they pass a law, but I notice there always seem to be a certain amount of intolerance for the other persons behavior when that law is passed. --- Qoute from The Patriot "Why should a trade in 1 tyrant who is 3000 miles away, for 3000 tyrants who are 1 mile away?"
Well, this is the translation that came out of Chinese-English Dictionary. Chuanghu - opening in a wall for letting in air and light; window So a more appropriate translation of MS Windows would look like, MS Windows - An unsecure computer for letting in computer viruses and hackers; overpriced american software.
This changes the meaning of the word, Grease Monkey, that is for sure.
I remember there was a hotfix out of Citrix Server 1.7, and one hotfix did stop the only application that was running on that server. I work at company were would did not understand where everything fit together would suddenly do an update, or reboot a server, or apply a a quick fix and screw up a major application that was being used in that server. It is one thing when you run a small network of file & print servers, it is another when you are worried about an application server that requests database from another SQL server that downloads its database from a mainframe a particular time.
I think that they shear number of infections would incline me to believe that there are a large number of poor admins instead of" they might be using .IDA extensions."
Face it, the Indexing features are only used on a small percentage of IIS web servers, by saying that an "Admin might have been using it," would be a excuse for them not doing their job in the first place. Yeah, it is alot of work administrating NT machines, guess what, it is alot of work!
About 6 years ago, banks wanted to get into the unsurance business, insurance wanted to get into banking, Credit Card companies wanted to do everything too. Everyone wanted to share your information with each other hoping that there was some magical gold mine that someone else missed or forgot.
Now that they bottom dropped out of the market, and everyone lost money it only proves that
The market will always go up. I think that the market has changed that theory.
Companies can scale easily. How many large companies have been able to continue growing wildly and improve profit margins? The answer is very few. The ones that continue to grow are the ones that invested in themselves, instead of buying another company.
Ok, back to my point, the phone companies want to sell this information hoping that it will be that hidden gold nugget. This is after slamming, hiding over charges, and generally trying to screw the customer. These are companies that are struggling to survive, they need to learn to focus on the fundementals instead of trying these quick buck scams.,/p>
What's more, Apple doesn't care if I go. The bottom line of it is that if 90% of the iTools users leave, 10% will start plunking down money.
It is a horrible corporate attitude generates animosity like this. They lose money on web hosting services, well if it makes 100,000 customers happy, and it is free advertising(mac.com as advertising) then you keep it free. If you think that they are just a bunch of free loaders and that they are not going to spend anymore money on your products go for it.
The question is of the 100,000 customers, how many stay, how many go, and how many go and get mad. Lets say 30% of the people stay, 60% leave, and 10% just get mad.
30% is $3 million in the bank.
10% never buy that 2nd, 3rd, 4th Apple, $10 million(Assuming $1000 machines).
70,000 addresses reduce cheap Mac.com advertising, $70,000 a year(estimating $1 in free advertising per address).
This also does not count the value the Mac community brings with it.
I made up the numbers but it does look like it can be a big risk. I am not sure I would take that risk when the thing that you have going for you mainly is a community.
So all those stories about burning up in the atmosphere were total science fiction, I knew it!Those ladder trucks are all a scam too! We can just line all the space between tall buildings with nets for emergencies or just because it sounds fun. On the other hand more people may be inclined to jump off buildings probalbly reducing their and other peoples productivity. That would explain why they never told anyone.
to topple Microsoft and supplant it with... well, one would assume Linux, I think I have a simple answer for this statement, people with a desire for drastic change would prefer a revolution in thinking, people who want to change gradually believe in an evolutionary process. It would seem to depend on one's sense of urguency as to the type of attitude that they are willing to display, a revolutionary change or evolutionary change.
I think they are quiet because they are waiting for the dollar to bounce back. Because of the recent Wall Street crash the dollar is weak, so the US market would not be able buy many imports. They may be holding out for the stock market to reach a more stable level to support true intergalactic commerce also. When the Dow Jones reaches the comfort level of 100,000 the economy should be good enough for us to trade with other friendly aliens. Otherwise I think that they are just going to stay home and invest in government bonds at home, no reason to cross the galaxy to trade here.
The only point of a software contract tends to be to put the balance of power in the vendor's, not the customers, favor. How often does a vendor include guaranteed reliability, and free from bugs, with free updates? Compare that with EULA agreements that preclude them from taking any responsibility for the problems that their software may have. I'll admit that software is new and does not have completely solid fundementals, but be able to claim that they have no responsibility to their customer also means that they have no respect for them either.
Great, I can see it now, A speed Power-Up will a bottle of Gator-Ade, a Advil will give you back 10 health. A bottle of Tums will counter the rocket launcher as it is used to reduce the size of the "Explosion." Hey I think I may have a career in Advertising! :)
the trend continues, by the end of the year, attacks on Linux systems may surpass attacks on Windows systems. It is the Seattle Mariners fault, if they had not had "Bat Day"(Get a Free Bat) on the same day that Bill Gates paid admission for any MS employee going to the game, this would not have happened.
China is rife with corruption, compared to the US. It is inevitable that a country without a free press, without a *transparent* judiciary and decidion making process, and without guarantees of free speech and due process will suffer from corruption.
And the USA does not have any? In Florida they are destroying the Florida Keys as fast as the developers can throw up $10-20 million mansions and accompanying golf courses. Who approves the building permits? The USA Corp of Engineers who just push them on through as fast the developers can submit them. Why? So that the county can collect as many taxes on them as possible and screw the environment. Sounds like corruption to me.
Free press and open judicial system is not the open cure all that you make sound like.
China can best be described today as a fascist country, with the state and big industry inextricably intertwined. It has a secret police (gestapo equivalent) which has wide reaching powers. Individuals who are critical can find themselves executed and their organs harvested for use by those in power. The government is undemocratic and power succession is typical of these regimes... it is shrouded in secrecy.
You have been watching too many James Bond movies, they have police, I know it is just such a modern concept but hey them follow the fashions. Lets take a look at the US, FBI, CIA, DEA, DIA, DoD, ATF, Home Defense Department and that does not include any special units that we have around the world. Do you know what they may or may not be doing? Did you know that the CIA was smuggling weapons to various terrorist countries. Do you think that Afghanistan was making those Stinger missiles in their garage?
It sounds real good to say that they are a big bad police state because the control the people, well you have 1 Billion people that you have to look at for a police state is not as bad an idea as you think. They have alot of problems, but you know what? They are still human beings and they do what they can.
As for the people in power want to stay in power, funny that seems to be how the Democrats and Republicians setup the system too. Sure you can get an independent every once in a while, but you don't see more than 1 or 2. Sure you can setup a Democrat versus a Republician, but I see a number of congressional leaders who have served 20, 3o years without fail and while what they do is not secret, they do the reverse they spew so much crap that you cannot sort the wheat from the chaff.
Until China develops modern government, with respect for human rights including free speech and property rights, enforced by a minimally corrupt judicial system, and watched over by a free press, it is doomed to the fate of all such systems... increasing corruption, militancy and aggressive foreign policy, and poor economic performance.
Only in America could someone get so ignorant for spouting this stuff like it is the national anthem regardless of truth. The only thing missing is a"Under God"! The US spends the most of all nations on the military, sound fact. The government has no problem with threatening anyone and everyone with the use of military force as long as we have provocation. Give George Bush a reason and he would be leading 200,000 man force in Iraq waving the US flag regardless of what anyone else in the world thinks. That is militancy and an agressive foriegn policy. As for poor economic performance, they are a developing country, which somehow you believe that the US was born with Skyscrapers, indoor plumbing and a stock market.
Capitalism, in many variants, has been proven to be the most efficient economic system yet tried. Capitalism requires property rights; it requires a low level of corruption; it requires transparency; it requires freedom.
Chinese are more capitalists than you or more. They actually work for a living, because they actually have to work to live. They don't have a government supported social security, medicaid, or charities willing to feed them. Actually those programs sound kinda socialist to me.
China is experimenting with state controlled capitalism - i.e. fascism - as opposed to its own total command economy. It is doomed to ultimately fail as an economic system as long as unelected officials can arbitrarily change the rules to their personal enrichment, backed by the power of a police state.
You could have been George Bush speech writer, willing to spout any willy nilly non-sense without any exposure to the country, the people or even and understanding of their government. No wonder the foriegn policy of the US sucks.