What we do NOT need is 300 assholes all chatting away while in a confined space for 6 hours.
The RULE on all airplane flights should be, "Sit down, don't smoke, don't talk, shut the fuck up and read a book because hundreds of strangers need to get along so be fucking polite, please." That should be written on every ticket.
I can't stand how self-indulgent most people are, and how important they want to think they are, and can't go without a cell phone or a deep conversation about Cosmo magazine for a few hours. Grow the fuck up and learn to sit still and read something quietly on a place. Seriously.
This is technology being used in a very BAD way IMO.
Going away from "enterprise" sized businesses, and looking at small businesses with 5 or less employees (such as myself) I have everything Mac OS X and I do not care about the 80,000+ windoze virii or trojans. Just... don't... care. I could replace the Macs with lovely Linux and contine to not care.
The problem is not end users. The problem is not the people writing the virii. The problem is so easy to see and so vanilla that most people have such a hard time seeing something so simple.
Windows is shit. It's swiss cheese for virii. It is an all around horrible OS. I'm not thinking about far earlier versions and where they got us. That part of MS history was rather nice. But where we are... uh... going today (lol) is to hell in a handbasket.
Security is not a product, it's a process. And step 1 is to get Windoze off of your servers.
I await the fan-boys who will scream how Win2K with Service Pack 69 is perfect. Jesus help them...
Microsoft is the BEST at Marketing and Bullshit. Everyone can LEARN from them. They created this site to look like a bunch of open, cool, hip coders. This is onlt the TIP of their attack on open source. Step one was confuse Open Source with "Shared Source". Next was image, make their coders look "kewl". What's next?
I want to puke. Can't they spend more effort cleaning their code base and fixing bugs? If they did that I would actually start buying their shit.
Put two of those square fuckers on a Segway(TM). Then finally all the Segway(TM) riders can get some respect!
All seven of them!
Wow... the truth about Slashdot users comes out...
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I plan to replace Hotmail with Gmail. And I can't wait to see what adverts I get when Gmail parses my e-mail messages. I wonder what it is going to make of ENCRYPTED TEXT.
It is intereting to see a group of people that are always so quick to talk about security, and how leet they are, then go nuts over google storing e-mail. USE GPG. Encrypt your private e-mails and no body will read them.
If Gmail promised to do a 7x DOD wipe of you e-mails when you close your account, plus purge every old backup tape they have of your e-mails, within 10 minutes of your account closing, you should STILL encrypt private e-mail.
So much for talking about it and not doing it! Anyone who uses encryption doesn't care about google's privacy policy, as things are already as private as they get.
Wrong. It IS a crack. Maybe it doesn't have a slick GUI and make you coffee, but it IS a crack. Don't be such a noob and say "but it doesn't do blah, or blah blah". It cracks the copy protection and that's that. It's a crack.
What else do you want? You want it to forward the file to your AOL account or something?
Does anyone else think that Apple's.Mac service should offer MORE than the 15MB limit, especially at $100 a year? I'd gladly pay that $100 every year for e-Mail, iDisk, iCal, et. al. to sync to it all, but give me a few gigs god damn it!
Google is smart. Most people will not use all the space. Hard drives are cheat, and the 1 gig thing will PULL people away in droves. Especially if the only ads are the nice polite AdSence crap they have! Hotmail sucks without Mozilla and AdBlocker.
I once had to photograph, up close, over 200 naked 18 year old girls for a porn site. I was alone in a room with a girl an hour for weeks, and half the time they got themselves drunk or drugged up to ease the pain of the perverse life they had chosen for themselves, and they would always be like "Hey, lets fuck" and stuff. And get this... I had to use a specific digital camera which only had USB 1.1!!! It took, life, forever, to move all those images at the end of the day. Worst... job... ever.
will survive by rendering service needed by people, not by rendering services needed by corporations. Corporations can get their services cheaper overseas. We need to address the needs of people here. In our neighborhoods.
Well said, my point exactly, but better (and shorter) said. There is PLENTY of money waiting in ones' neighborhoods. Learn to sell and network and you could be really good at tech, cars, or any other specific special skill, and the money can roll in. I think the secret to making the individial thing work, is learning to sell. Think of it as a career change. I do tech, but I think of myself as a salesperson, and the tech is my deliverable. Learn to sell first and formost. A good bookstore and a bit of digging though the 10 shitty books for the 1 good gem on the shelf is well worth it. That's exactly how I got started, and several of my friends too. SELL BABY!
The less tech heads we have, the better it is for the small business / individual geek who wants to be self employed. You can get 1,000 Indians on the phone, but someone who needs one-on-one service will always need to hire me (us) to come to their office and train/teach/setup/etc.
Hooray for the individual consultant who has the know-how/guts/$300 to get incorperated in the US and start selling themselves by the hour or the day as a service.
That's what I did two years ago when I finished a 4 year stint as a Java/GUI developer, and I'll never go back to office work. Hooray for a tech-naive future! Plenty of prosepcts for me to sell to and train.
Of course, touch-of-sarcasim aside, i think it's bad that more people don't have an interest in tech. Bad for economy, country, et. al. in the long run, but the short-term does look bright for the small self employed businuesses.
Now, people shiver in righteous ph34r when I lug my G5 to LAN parties.
Thanks for the laugh. I'm new to the Mac world, having had my 15" Powerbook for two months, and I'll never go back and am moving everything, every box, to Macs. The G5 case IMO is a work of art, and reading your post made me think that all the case modders out there, even the good ones, really do shiver in "righteous ph34r" they see the metal forged glory that is the G5 case.
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The RULE on all airplane flights should be, "Sit down, don't smoke, don't talk, shut the fuck up and read a book because hundreds of strangers need to get along so be fucking polite, please." That should be written on every ticket.
I can't stand how self-indulgent most people are, and how important they want to think they are, and can't go without a cell phone or a deep conversation about Cosmo magazine for a few hours. Grow the fuck up and learn to sit still and read something quietly on a place. Seriously.
This is technology being used in a very BAD way IMO.
With Intel HyperThreading on my P4, I can get $2.00 /hr!
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The problem is not end users. The problem is not the people writing the virii. The problem is so easy to see and so vanilla that most people have such a hard time seeing something so simple.
Windows is shit. It's swiss cheese for virii. It is an all around horrible OS. I'm not thinking about far earlier versions and where they got us. That part of MS history was rather nice. But where we are... uh... going today (lol) is to hell in a handbasket.
Security is not a product, it's a process. And step 1 is to get Windoze off of your servers.
I await the fan-boys who will scream how Win2K with Service Pack 69 is perfect. Jesus help them...
I want to puke. Can't they spend more effort cleaning their code base and fixing bugs? If they did that I would actually start buying their shit.
All seven of them!
It is intereting to see a group of people that are always so quick to talk about security, and how leet they are, then go nuts over google storing e-mail. USE GPG. Encrypt your private e-mails and no body will read them.
If Gmail promised to do a 7x DOD wipe of you e-mails when you close your account, plus purge every old backup tape they have of your e-mails, within 10 minutes of your account closing, you should STILL encrypt private e-mail.
So much for talking about it and not doing it! Anyone who uses encryption doesn't care about google's privacy policy, as things are already as private as they get.
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What else do you want? You want it to forward the file to your AOL account or something?
Google is smart. Most people will not use all the space. Hard drives are cheat, and the 1 gig thing will PULL people away in droves. Especially if the only ads are the nice polite AdSence crap they have! Hotmail sucks without Mozilla and AdBlocker.
I guess that means Duke Nukem Forever is NOT gonna come out. :(
It's available online at www.mbusa.com
Since people manage to jerk off and type pr0n URL's at the same time, I don't think doing the "wave" will be a challenge.
http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:zhool8dxBV4J: www.google.com/+google&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
Well said, my point exactly, but better (and shorter) said. There is PLENTY of money waiting in ones' neighborhoods. Learn to sell and network and you could be really good at tech, cars, or any other specific special skill, and the money can roll in. I think the secret to making the individial thing work, is learning to sell. Think of it as a career change. I do tech, but I think of myself as a salesperson, and the tech is my deliverable. Learn to sell first and formost. A good bookstore and a bit of digging though the 10 shitty books for the 1 good gem on the shelf is well worth it. That's exactly how I got started, and several of my friends too. SELL BABY!
Hooray for the individual consultant who has the know-how/guts/$300 to get incorperated in the US and start selling themselves by the hour or the day as a service.
That's what I did two years ago when I finished a 4 year stint as a Java/GUI developer, and I'll never go back to office work. Hooray for a tech-naive future! Plenty of prosepcts for me to sell to and train.
Of course, touch-of-sarcasim aside, i think it's bad that more people don't have an interest in tech. Bad for economy, country, et. al. in the long run, but the short-term does look bright for the small self employed businuesses.
I guess you don't read Dilbert. Things REALLY ARE LIKE THAT in the real world.
Thanks for the laugh. I'm new to the Mac world, having had my 15" Powerbook for two months, and I'll never go back and am moving everything, every box, to Macs. The G5 case IMO is a work of art, and reading your post made me think that all the case modders out there, even the good ones, really do shiver in "righteous ph34r" they see the metal forged glory that is the G5 case.
Them: What are you looking for regarding support?
Me: Cock. Hard cock.
Them: (Chat session terminated)
So much fun, I could do that all night.
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