Give Gates a chance and the US will be "shackled" as well.
ActiveX controls - the SECOND biggest stupid POS Microsoft ever produced - after the Registry.
Or maybe it's the DLL - I'm currently fighting a client's ancient Windows 95 machine (don't ask!) that is locked in DLL hell with the oleaut32.dll crap...
Somebody put Microsoft out of business NOW! Please!
Yup - Dreamhost is my provider, so I'm not too surprised.
They've had a lot of problems last year - which they now claim are over because they have one or two new data centers and are offloading some of their servers.
Maybe not.
I'd say a high-powered dedicated server (or two or three or more) are probably necessary for a/.'ing...
I need to start hacking the software and changing its orientation (slightly).
Reminds me of Tom Arnold's line in the movie "Cradle 2 the Grave" about his Abrams tank: "It's good for getting around the bad areas of town, keeps the neighborhood kids in line."
The real issue is the bully sitting in the classroom - not what he does on the Web.
In fact, the real issue is the classroom - an authoritarian social setting alternating - like most such situations - between tyranny and anarchy. The classroom ITSELF is an education in bullying and authoritarianism.
The public education system is KNOWN to be the LEAST useful setting for either the learning of knowledge OR the learning of social skills.
Kill the public education system dead. Fire the incompetents who run it and set them to work in the food service and janitorial industries - or perhaps the pest control industry since they seem to spend much of their time worrying about "pests" - where they belong.
My site is only four pages, but I have 200GB of space (which grows by a few gig a week) and 2 terabytes of download limit (which also grows weekly) for $10/month. Shared box, though, so being/.'d would probably get me canned.
He doesn't explain how THEY deal with complexity except by throwing money and servers and data centers at it - which is pretty much how everyone else deals with it (and which is self-defeating eventually).
Self-defeating - almost a definition of the human condition.
Take IT in small business - or don't. Don't even get me started. I'm constantly getting clients who complain to me how long it takes for me to solve their problems. While I don't say it directly, the real issue is that EVERY small business using computers has done it wrong from day one. If they hadn't screwed up from the beginning, they wouldn't need to call me to straighten out their mess.
I doubt there is ONE small or medium business that hasn't screwed up. They bought the wrong machines, they bought the wrong OS, they bought the wrong application software, they bought the wrong networking hardware, they set up everything wrong, they didn't plan anything, they didn't ask anyone how to do it, they don't train, they don't back up, they don't maintain anything, etc., etc., ad nauseum.
Then they wonder why it takes a tech two days to do something as apparently simple as rebuild a PC.
It's because they are SO fucked up NOBODY could have done it faster.
NO human can take responsibility for their actions.
The point of Vista and the RIAA is to get rid of that stuff - even from the independents (which I doubt is possible, but they will try.)
The bottom line is that the IT industry could have simply said, "We aren't doing this because it will piss off our customers." And the media industry would have had to back down and find some other way to be assholes. Microsoft alone is nearly bigger than either the music industry or the movie industry.
Gates is using this to assert more control over HIS customers and make an attempt to get a toehold in the media industry himself (in order to take away Apple's business) - NOT just to support the media industry's paranoia.
Files without DRM aren't subject to limitations. Well, that's obvious, now, isn't it?
Files that are are protected with DRM are subject to limitations. That was the point of the criticisms of Vista.
My question was: why would I buy a Zune if I don't want to play any commercial content? And if all commercial content ends up with DRM, exactly what would I "rip myself" or "receive" that would be without limitations - just the stuff from the past, right? Nothing new, right?
So if I want to avoid DRM, I end up not being able to play most commercial stuff.
So, again, why would I want to buy a Zune NOT to play anything?
Then why hasn't the RIAA sued Phillips and Sony for producing consumer appliances with BOTH CD PLAYERS AND CD RECORDERS built in?
They think those recorders are only used for recording home singalongs?
No.
It's because Phillips and Sony - as companies at $60-billion plus a year that produce the hardware needed to PLAY the RIAA's CDs - are individually BIGGER than the ENTIRE music industry - by multiple times.
The same applies to the movie industry, which is pathetically small compared to the computer industry, let alone the overall electronics industry. Even limiting the music and movie industries to comparison with the consumer electronics industry and consumer PC industry would probably not be relevant. United States PC sales alone in 2005 were some $84 billion...
Microsoft ITSELF is bigger than most of the music industry or the movie industry. Face it, Microsoft didn't cave in to the media industry's demands - Microsoft is using the media industry for its own purposes - and those purposes are to extract every dime that they can out of the PC consumer's pocket - by legal FORCE if necessary.
The fact that this jibes with the music and movie industrys' goal to do the same thing isn't relevant.
"The arguments for letting users self-service themselves with end-user application tools and getting IT out of the critical path for the backlog of simpler applications are extensive.""
And the arguments AGAINST it are very serious and extensive as well.
Look at all the crap Excel spreadsheet "systems" and badly-designed Access database "applications" that exist in every company.
This stuff is under no one's control except one or two employees. It is sometimes used for mission-critical decisions. And the reliability and accuracy of the application is not controlled by anybody, let alone the issue of whether proper backups, data vetting and security are being done in such "end user developed" applications.
This has proven to be bad news in the past for many companies, and will be proven so again, I suspect.
Applications that aren't that important for a business, such as applications that merely improve the productivity of an employee's personal use of their computer, aren't that bad. But applications that are important for the CORRECT performance of the employee's JOB should be developed by people that have some clue about the issues that surround application development (assuming such people exist in your IT department - which isn't always the case, unfortunately.)
There are two issues here. One is the number of idiots who buy the stock based on the spam. The other is the number of people who either: a) assess the stock on its merits and decide to buy; b) assess the SPAM on its merits, as you suggest, and decide to take advantage of it.
I suppose one could consider spam stock touting another way of learning about what's available on the stock market. In that respect, it's like an "uninvited stock ticker". Some people are probably viewing it that way.
It's like the 9/11 airline stock scam or the stock scam Le Chiffre uses in the James Bond film. There's always a way to make money on somebody else's stupidity or misfortune - especially if you engineer the stupidity and misfortune.
It's you who are ignorant of the options you have.
Commercial vs in-house development are not your only options here. You can outsource development using open source components and get all the functionality of Microsoft CRM.
You don't like Sugar? It's OPEN SOURCE! Modify it as you like! And there are other CRM OSS products. Hire somebody to do the work - like the actual DEVELOPERS of the OSS products!
Paying Microsoft for CRM is ridiculous - especially paying for it year after year while Microsoft - as it has demonstrated with Office 2007 - is ALSO a moving target.
Investment in in-house or outsourced development vs commercial products will always pay off down the road in the CONTROL of the product that allows you to shift gears according to business needs rather than wait on the next commercial release which may not do what you want anyway.
The bottom line is: you're either in control of your software or you're not. If you're not, your business is at the mercy of some idiot in some other company.
City College of San Francisco converted to VoIP, oh, a year or two ago IIRC. Had some conversion issues, but it works well now far as I know. CCSF has some 3,000 employees IRRC (largest community college district in the US with nearly 100,000 students and seven or more campuses.)
is that the best way to compete with piracy - which is merely a business model - is to COMPETE.
Wow! Competition! A word most of the intellectual property morons have never heard of!
Typical chimpanzee behavior: "I can't compete - so I have to coerce somebody!"
Unfortunately for the monkeys, there's always somebody better able to coerce than THEM. So you end up with investment in coercion, which leads to a non-productive society consumed by paranoia and coercion.
Sound familiar?
There's only two answers:
1) Humans need to learn to stop being AFRAID OF EVERYTHING - especially death.
"additional Microsoft technology that must be emulated (but is not covered by the Microsoft patent pledge); elements that can't be implemented without Microsoft technical assistance; dependencies on Windows itself; mandatory bugs; and more. And then there's also the fact that OOXML heavily overlaps ODF -- a platform-independent, already-adopted ISO/IEC."
Pretty much like everything they do.
Wait - where are the virus APIs? Did they leave those out?
Slashdot Mirror
"...training users actually decreases their ability to detect attacks."
Now you can't even TRAIN users to use Windows securely!
Oh, this is too much! I'm crapping on myself laughing!
Somebody put Microsoft out of business NOW! Please!
I knew you could.
Give Gates a chance and the US will be "shackled" as well.
ActiveX controls - the SECOND biggest stupid POS Microsoft ever produced - after the Registry.
Or maybe it's the DLL - I'm currently fighting a client's ancient Windows 95 machine (don't ask!) that is locked in DLL hell with the oleaut32.dll crap...
Somebody put Microsoft out of business NOW! Please!
Yup - Dreamhost is my provider, so I'm not too surprised.
They've had a lot of problems last year - which they now claim are over because they have one or two new data centers and are offloading some of their servers.
Maybe not.
I'd say a high-powered dedicated server (or two or three or more) are probably necessary for a
Sounds like a contradiction in terms to me.
How about "community of intelligent people"?
Naah...
Can't happen. We're talking about HUMANS here.
I need to start hacking the software and changing its orientation (slightly).
Reminds me of Tom Arnold's line in the movie "Cradle 2 the Grave" about his Abrams tank: "It's good for getting around the bad areas of town, keeps the neighborhood kids in line."
in less than 100 words.
Windows is CRAP.
Linux is ALSO CRAP.
BUT Linux is FREE crap.
The real issue is the bully sitting in the classroom - not what he does on the Web.
In fact, the real issue is the classroom - an authoritarian social setting alternating - like most such situations - between tyranny and anarchy. The classroom ITSELF is an education in bullying and authoritarianism.
The public education system is KNOWN to be the LEAST useful setting for either the learning of knowledge OR the learning of social skills.
Kill the public education system dead. Fire the incompetents who run it and set them to work in the food service and janitorial industries - or perhaps the pest control industry since they seem to spend much of their time worrying about "pests" - where they belong.
I'll have to find a way to get my site
My site is only four pages, but I have 200GB of space (which grows by a few gig a week) and 2 terabytes of download limit (which also grows weekly) for $10/month. Shared box, though, so being
He's right about the problems.
It's not clear Google is the answer.
He doesn't explain how THEY deal with complexity except by throwing money and servers and data centers at it - which is pretty much how everyone else deals with it (and which is self-defeating eventually).
Self-defeating - almost a definition of the human condition.
Take IT in small business - or don't. Don't even get me started. I'm constantly getting clients who complain to me how long it takes for me to solve their problems. While I don't say it directly, the real issue is that EVERY small business using computers has done it wrong from day one. If they hadn't screwed up from the beginning, they wouldn't need to call me to straighten out their mess.
I doubt there is ONE small or medium business that hasn't screwed up. They bought the wrong machines, they bought the wrong OS, they bought the wrong application software, they bought the wrong networking hardware, they set up everything wrong, they didn't plan anything, they didn't ask anyone how to do it, they don't train, they don't back up, they don't maintain anything, etc., etc., ad nauseum.
Then they wonder why it takes a tech two days to do something as apparently simple as rebuild a PC.
It's because they are SO fucked up NOBODY could have done it faster.
NO human can take responsibility for their actions.
and astroturfers to post HERE?
Or at Linux sites claiming to be Linux supporters who LOVE Linux - BUT Linux just has a "few little problems"?
All you Gates shills can come out now and mod me down.
Is that all you've got? Huh? Are you nuts? Come at me!
NOW there are loads of non-DRMed material.
The point of Vista and the RIAA is to get rid of that stuff - even from the independents (which I doubt is possible, but they will try.)
The bottom line is that the IT industry could have simply said, "We aren't doing this because it will piss off our customers." And the media industry would have had to back down and find some other way to be assholes. Microsoft alone is nearly bigger than either the music industry or the movie industry.
Gates is using this to assert more control over HIS customers and make an attempt to get a toehold in the media industry himself (in order to take away Apple's business) - NOT just to support the media industry's paranoia.
Missed the point completely, I see.
Files without DRM aren't subject to limitations. Well, that's obvious, now, isn't it?
Files that are are protected with DRM are subject to limitations. That was the point of the criticisms of Vista.
My question was: why would I buy a Zune if I don't want to play any commercial content? And if all commercial content ends up with DRM, exactly what would I "rip myself" or "receive" that would be without limitations - just the stuff from the past, right? Nothing new, right?
So if I want to avoid DRM, I end up not being able to play most commercial stuff.
So, again, why would I want to buy a Zune NOT to play anything?
Really?
Then why hasn't the RIAA sued Phillips and Sony for producing consumer appliances with BOTH CD PLAYERS AND CD RECORDERS built in?
They think those recorders are only used for recording home singalongs?
No.
It's because Phillips and Sony - as companies at $60-billion plus a year that produce the hardware needed to PLAY the RIAA's CDs - are individually BIGGER than the ENTIRE music industry - by multiple times.
The same applies to the movie industry, which is pathetically small compared to the computer industry, let alone the overall electronics industry. Even limiting the music and movie industries to comparison with the consumer electronics industry and consumer PC industry would probably not be relevant. United States PC sales alone in 2005 were some $84 billion...
Microsoft ITSELF is bigger than most of the music industry or the movie industry. Face it, Microsoft didn't cave in to the media industry's demands - Microsoft is using the media industry for its own purposes - and those purposes are to extract every dime that they can out of the PC consumer's pocket - by legal FORCE if necessary.
The fact that this jibes with the music and movie industrys' goal to do the same thing isn't relevant.
"If you never play copyrighted content..."
Uhm, then why do I need a Zune?
To play back pictures of ME?
Sorry, I'm not that cruel to myself.
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So much for THAT idea...courtesy of
"The arguments for letting users self-service themselves with end-user application tools and getting IT out of the critical path for the backlog of simpler applications are extensive.""
And the arguments AGAINST it are very serious and extensive as well.
Look at all the crap Excel spreadsheet "systems" and badly-designed Access database "applications" that exist in every company.
This stuff is under no one's control except one or two employees. It is sometimes used for mission-critical decisions. And the reliability and accuracy of the application is not controlled by anybody, let alone the issue of whether proper backups, data vetting and security are being done in such "end user developed" applications.
This has proven to be bad news in the past for many companies, and will be proven so again, I suspect.
Applications that aren't that important for a business, such as applications that merely improve the productivity of an employee's personal use of their computer, aren't that bad. But applications that are important for the CORRECT performance of the employee's JOB should be developed by people that have some clue about the issues that surround application development (assuming such people exist in your IT department - which isn't always the case, unfortunately.)
Good point.
There are two issues here. One is the number of idiots who buy the stock based on the spam. The other is the number of people who either: a) assess the stock on its merits and decide to buy; b) assess the SPAM on its merits, as you suggest, and decide to take advantage of it.
I suppose one could consider spam stock touting another way of learning about what's available on the stock market. In that respect, it's like an "uninvited stock ticker". Some people are probably viewing it that way.
It's like the 9/11 airline stock scam or the stock scam Le Chiffre uses in the James Bond film. There's always a way to make money on somebody else's stupidity or misfortune - especially if you engineer the stupidity and misfortune.
It's you who are ignorant of the options you have.
Commercial vs in-house development are not your only options here. You can outsource development using open source components and get all the functionality of Microsoft CRM.
You don't like Sugar? It's OPEN SOURCE! Modify it as you like! And there are other CRM OSS products. Hire somebody to do the work - like the actual DEVELOPERS of the OSS products!
Paying Microsoft for CRM is ridiculous - especially paying for it year after year while Microsoft - as it has demonstrated with Office 2007 - is ALSO a moving target.
Investment in in-house or outsourced development vs commercial products will always pay off down the road in the CONTROL of the product that allows you to shift gears according to business needs rather than wait on the next commercial release which may not do what you want anyway.
The bottom line is: you're either in control of your software or you're not. If you're not, your business is at the mercy of some idiot in some other company.
City College of San Francisco converted to VoIP, oh, a year or two ago IIRC. Had some conversion issues, but it works well now far as I know. CCSF has some 3,000 employees IRRC (largest community college district in the US with nearly 100,000 students and seven or more campuses.)
is that the best way to compete with piracy - which is merely a business model - is to COMPETE.
Wow! Competition! A word most of the intellectual property morons have never heard of!
Typical chimpanzee behavior: "I can't compete - so I have to coerce somebody!"
Unfortunately for the monkeys, there's always somebody better able to coerce than THEM. So you end up with investment in coercion, which leads to a non-productive society consumed by paranoia and coercion.
Sound familiar?
There's only two answers:
1) Humans need to learn to stop being AFRAID OF EVERYTHING - especially death.
2) Get rid of humans.
I opt for 2 - it's more feasible than option 1.
Have a nice day, chimps.
from people who can't take responsibility for their own actions.
"Gotta blame anybody and everybody but ME! (And it would nice to take their money, too!)"
Stupid human monkey tricks.
This is what you get when you have "laws" made by chimpanzees.
California has a new Senator? Since the election? I don't think so.
C'mon,
Exercise the least modicum of political awareness!
Or editing...
Nitwits.
"additional Microsoft technology that must be emulated (but is not covered by the Microsoft patent pledge); elements that can't be implemented without Microsoft technical assistance; dependencies on Windows itself; mandatory bugs; and more. And then there's also the fact that OOXML heavily overlaps ODF -- a platform-independent, already-adopted ISO/IEC."
Pretty much like everything they do.
Wait - where are the virus APIs? Did they leave those out?
Naah...
Gotta be there somewhere. Keep looking.
This is true - especially for Windows users.
is IRAN!