One source at a major global energy company told us many of the corporate's 70,000 Windows 2000 PCs have been affected.
This is almost bad enough to be done by the Slashdot editors. Seriously, if cnn.com or nytimes.com were this vague, people would be crying bloody murder.
I wonder if this would count as Tying, which is a violation of the Sherman Act of 1890. Maybe it will take someone with enough economic clout to fight the issue in court. Mom and Pop hobby stores won't have the money for this.
A "tying" arrangement violates 1 of the Sherman Act when a seller enjoys a monopolistic position in the market for the "tying" product and a substantial volume of commerce in the "tied" product is restrained.
Section 2 of the Sherman Act outlaws monopolization of any "appreciable part" of interstate commerce, and 1 bans unreasonable restraints irrespective of the amount of commerce involved.
The common core of the adjudicated unlawful tying arrangements is the forced purchase of a second distinct commodity with the desired purchase of a dominant "tying" product, resulting in economic harm to competition in the "tied" market
I wish I could remember the marketing term for this. The reasoning is that if a customer can get a product for much less off the internet than in a store, they will waste the stores time getting information on the product(demonstrations and comparisons) and then buy the product online. Because of this, the store will stop carrying that brand of equipment. Compare the price of a laptop on a companies website to the price for the exact same laptop in a store. It's the same principle, keeping your supply chain happy and free from the fear of being undercut. Before anyone gets their panties in a bunch, none of this is my opinion, it's from an MBA marketing textbook.
I worked at Circuit City years back and if people had the slightest idea what the mark-up was on some of the AV equipment/Accessories they buy, they would probably be physically ill. To go really off topic for a second, the items with the highest percent mark-up are batteries. That's the reason they are placed all over the store. Just some useless FYI ramblings.
It's like the chicken and the egg. Which came first, the horrible attitude or the lack of raises and promotions? So people only get ahead of they kiss ass and have no mind? Please don't paint everyone with your bitter brush.
The problem with that anecdote is that a "lay reader" isn't going to respond, "You mean the ratio of the diameter of a circle to the radius?" when you mention Pi. Usually their eyes will just glaze over and they will go watch Monster Truck Pull on TV.
It's a common slashdot question, "How much education do I really need? BS, MS, Neither?"
Unless you are a guru in your field, you can't stop learning. People may bash having an MBA but to me it's the way to go. Diversification leads to survival. Remember, before you interview and can dazzle them with you skills/knowledge, you have to get in the door and that is based on a resume. If your company laid off it's employees tomorrow and you were fighting with you coworkers for jobs, what you have over them on a resume?
This joke has more wear on it than the "In Soviet Russia.." or "All you base belong to us" jokes. Worse still is that it was moderated to +5 funny. Sorry to be off-topic but each story is now getting a number of "Did anyone else read this as..." posts. Good grief.
The other night I was unable to perform my manly duties. As I lay there humiliated and ashamed, my wife asked me if it was because of another woman. A weak no was all I could put forth. She asked me if I was taking any new medications or perhaps drinking a bit too much. "I would never hide that from you" was my pathetic reply. She finally burst into tears and asked if it was her, if I no longer found her attractive. I explained that in no way was that the cause and she need not worry about it. She begged me for the answer so finally I broke down and told her, the lack of a proof for the Riemann Hypothesis had sapped the strength of my manhood.
But no more, I am now free of this terrible weight!
Thank you, you glorious sons a bitches!!!!
Tonight my wife shall experience the most pleasurable 30 seconds of her life.
If I judged the manual AFTER I bought the game, I'm screwed because I'm stuck with it. Reading the other reply to my comment makes me hopefull since the manual is over 161 pages long. Never, ever let you wife get addicted to the Sims and the expansion packs. The Strategy Guides(read as manuals) will cost you more than the damn games. I guess I'm bitter toward al games now.
Battlehawks 1942 - A great Manual, a great game, on a 286, didnt need a hard drive.
Aces of the Pacific/Europe - Awesome manuals, excellent games.
F15, F117, Gunship etc from Microprose - The shining examples.
Why could they do more on a 486 than companies can on the systems out today?
The "strategy Guide" was out months before the actual game. It should really be called "The Game Manual You Have to Pay an Extra $30 For Because We Want to Rip You Off". I guess that is too long and honest though. Just another way to drain their customer's bank accounts.
Oh how I long for the old Microprose Manuals. They seem like textbooks compared to the 20 page garbage included these days.
Hopefully it will reduce theft. The amount of inventory "shrink" these stores suffer is incredible. The theft losses from one Circuit City super store in Virginia wiped out the profits for every Circuit City express in the Washington DC area combined in 2001. Personally I'm sick of paying higher prices to cover thefts. Maybe a system that locks the doors when one of these activates a system as the person is trying to leave the store would work. Before anyone starts rambling about this happening to an innocent shopper, hear me out. It would do no more to an innocent person than the current systems. Alarm goes off, employee asks person to inspect merchandise, finds one tag not deactivated, apologizes to person; they are on their way. On the other hand, a shoplifter tries to run out of the store and the doors lock so the person can be detained. Not perfect but it would help.
If someone had recognized the buying patterns of the terrorists before Sept 11, there is a very good possibility they would not have happened. It's a fact the terrorists bought blocks of tickets on the flights and flew them more than once as practice runs. Suppose a search turns up that the same credit card has been buying large blocks of seats or buying seats on multiple flights the same day. 99.9% of the time it turns out to be nothing but that 0.1% turns out to be the time the planes are flown into skyscrapers. I truly hate to be anti-conspiracy theory since it's so popular here but if the government knowing the CC number you booked the flight with or that you don't like pork chops saves the lives of 3000 people, I am all for it.
I always figured that if I have a son I'll name him "Hung Well" or something else that will make him popular with the ladies. If it's a girl, she'll be named "girl with Herpes who will chop off your penis while you are sleeping and has a father who owns a shotgun". It might be long but I'll sleep better when her hormones kick in.
My wife bought the Sims Online shortly after Christmas and became addicted to it. She kept pestering me about it until I bought a copy. We play the game a fair amount and have not had any major complaints. The addition of the McDonald's equipment is rather bothersome since I don't see them lowering the price of the subscription. My wife enjoys working with others and running a successfull house in the game while I usually go for cash. I wouold say about 50% of the time I have the Sims Online running, I am usually looking at webpages or playing MOO2. I will give Maxis credit, they update the game very often. If you report a bug, it gets squashed soon.
So has anyone figured out how to get Shadow President to run? I miss that game so....but not enough to drag out a 486 with the correct sound card.
If shorter copyrights put European companies at a disadvantage, European lawmakers will be forced to change them. They won't just sit by and let the United States gain an unfair advantage. Would this possibly result in a length of copyright type war with each side making them longer to try and gain an advantage? I think so, possibly until some form of agreement were reached on it, along the lines of GATT for IP.
If your company can get someone to do your job for much less than you make, you will lose your job. In the end, it really is just that simple. I've always done my best to stay flexible and not get pinned down to where I depend on a single job and have no other options. Having worked with plenty of engineers and programmers who were getting near retirement age, I learned their lesson without having to suffer their pain. When a company knows they can push you around and you won't or can't leave, you're doomed to be treated like trash. With a BS in Engineering, I took a year long program in C++ and UNIX to switch fields and now I am finishing my MBA to switch fields again. Financial planning pays very well, has good hours and Joe six-pack doesn't want to talk to someone in India or China about their future finances, they want to go to an office down the street for a cup of coffee and a chat about their portfolio. People can make all the anti-capitalist/business comments they please but my strategy is to live well and provide for my family, not be a keyboard slave for an incompetent manager.
I loved MOO and MOO2 and have been waiting for MOO3 to come out, until last week when I was in BestBuy I saw the MOO3 Strategy Guide. Another game company decided to take more of its customers money for something that should be included with the game. Anyone else remember the lavish manuals for games like Aces Over the Pacific/Europe or any of the original Microprose games? The manuals contained every detailed needed to play the game AND a large amount of material simply for the players enjoyment/information. Now you get a CD, install instructions and possibly a very brief descriptiof of the game mechanics. Thanks but I'll wait a few months until it is in the bargain bin and there are strategy guides online.
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This is almost bad enough to be done by the Slashdot editors. Seriously, if cnn.com or nytimes.com were this vague, people would be crying bloody murder.
I wish I could remember the marketing term for this. The reasoning is that if a customer can get a product for much less off the internet than in a store, they will waste the stores time getting information on the product(demonstrations and comparisons) and then buy the product online. Because of this, the store will stop carrying that brand of equipment. Compare the price of a laptop on a companies website to the price for the exact same laptop in a store. It's the same principle, keeping your supply chain happy and free from the fear of being undercut. Before anyone gets their panties in a bunch, none of this is my opinion, it's from an MBA marketing textbook.
I worked at Circuit City years back and if people had the slightest idea what the mark-up was on some of the AV equipment/Accessories they buy, they would probably be physically ill. To go really off topic for a second, the items with the highest percent mark-up are batteries. That's the reason they are placed all over the store. Just some useless FYI ramblings.
It's like the chicken and the egg. Which came first, the horrible attitude or the lack of raises and promotions? So people only get ahead of they kiss ass and have no mind? Please don't paint everyone with your bitter brush.
Saddam will no be playing one.
The problem with that anecdote is that a "lay reader" isn't going to respond, "You mean the ratio of the diameter of a circle to the radius?" when you mention Pi. Usually their eyes will just glaze over and they will go watch Monster Truck Pull on TV.
It's a common slashdot question, "How much education do I really need? BS, MS, Neither?" Unless you are a guru in your field, you can't stop learning. People may bash having an MBA but to me it's the way to go. Diversification leads to survival. Remember, before you interview and can dazzle them with you skills/knowledge, you have to get in the door and that is based on a resume. If your company laid off it's employees tomorrow and you were fighting with you coworkers for jobs, what you have over them on a resume?
This joke has more wear on it than the "In Soviet Russia.." or "All you base belong to us" jokes. Worse still is that it was moderated to +5 funny. Sorry to be off-topic but each story is now getting a number of "Did anyone else read this as..." posts. Good grief.
The other night I was unable to perform my manly duties. As I lay there humiliated and ashamed, my wife asked me if it was because of another woman. A weak no was all I could put forth. She asked me if I was taking any new medications or perhaps drinking a bit too much. "I would never hide that from you" was my pathetic reply. She finally burst into tears and asked if it was her, if I no longer found her attractive. I explained that in no way was that the cause and she need not worry about it. She begged me for the answer so finally I broke down and told her, the lack of a proof for the Riemann Hypothesis had sapped the strength of my manhood. But no more, I am now free of this terrible weight! Thank you, you glorious sons a bitches!!!! Tonight my wife shall experience the most pleasurable 30 seconds of her life.
If I judged the manual AFTER I bought the game, I'm screwed because I'm stuck with it. Reading the other reply to my comment makes me hopefull since the manual is over 161 pages long. Never, ever let you wife get addicted to the Sims and the expansion packs. The Strategy Guides(read as manuals) will cost you more than the damn games. I guess I'm bitter toward al games now. Battlehawks 1942 - A great Manual, a great game, on a 286, didnt need a hard drive. Aces of the Pacific/Europe - Awesome manuals, excellent games. F15, F117, Gunship etc from Microprose - The shining examples. Why could they do more on a 486 than companies can on the systems out today?
The "strategy Guide" was out months before the actual game. It should really be called "The Game Manual You Have to Pay an Extra $30 For Because We Want to Rip You Off". I guess that is too long and honest though. Just another way to drain their customer's bank accounts. Oh how I long for the old Microprose Manuals. They seem like textbooks compared to the 20 page garbage included these days.
There will probably be a googol of redundant posts about this. Oh wait, google, sorry....
Hopefully it will reduce theft. The amount of inventory "shrink" these stores suffer is incredible. The theft losses from one Circuit City super store in Virginia wiped out the profits for every Circuit City express in the Washington DC area combined in 2001. Personally I'm sick of paying higher prices to cover thefts. Maybe a system that locks the doors when one of these activates a system as the person is trying to leave the store would work. Before anyone starts rambling about this happening to an innocent shopper, hear me out. It would do no more to an innocent person than the current systems. Alarm goes off, employee asks person to inspect merchandise, finds one tag not deactivated, apologizes to person; they are on their way. On the other hand, a shoplifter tries to run out of the store and the doors lock so the person can be detained. Not perfect but it would help.
If someone had recognized the buying patterns of the terrorists before Sept 11, there is a very good possibility they would not have happened. It's a fact the terrorists bought blocks of tickets on the flights and flew them more than once as practice runs. Suppose a search turns up that the same credit card has been buying large blocks of seats or buying seats on multiple flights the same day. 99.9% of the time it turns out to be nothing but that 0.1% turns out to be the time the planes are flown into skyscrapers. I truly hate to be anti-conspiracy theory since it's so popular here but if the government knowing the CC number you booked the flight with or that you don't like pork chops saves the lives of 3000 people, I am all for it.
Actually, I would be much more worried if they hired slashdot editors. Imagine all the duplicate results.
Also an interesting book on the subject if not the easiest to initially start reading.
I always figured that if I have a son I'll name him "Hung Well" or something else that will make him popular with the ladies. If it's a girl, she'll be named "girl with Herpes who will chop off your penis while you are sleeping and has a father who owns a shotgun". It might be long but I'll sleep better when her hormones kick in.
My wife bought the Sims Online shortly after Christmas and became addicted to it. She kept pestering me about it until I bought a copy. We play the game a fair amount and have not had any major complaints. The addition of the McDonald's equipment is rather bothersome since I don't see them lowering the price of the subscription. My wife enjoys working with others and running a successfull house in the game while I usually go for cash. I wouold say about 50% of the time I have the Sims Online running, I am usually looking at webpages or playing MOO2. I will give Maxis credit, they update the game very often. If you report a bug, it gets squashed soon. So has anyone figured out how to get Shadow President to run? I miss that game so....but not enough to drag out a 486 with the correct sound card.
If shorter copyrights put European companies at a disadvantage, European lawmakers will be forced to change them. They won't just sit by and let the United States gain an unfair advantage. Would this possibly result in a length of copyright type war with each side making them longer to try and gain an advantage? I think so, possibly until some form of agreement were reached on it, along the lines of GATT for IP.
If your company can get someone to do your job for much less than you make, you will lose your job. In the end, it really is just that simple. I've always done my best to stay flexible and not get pinned down to where I depend on a single job and have no other options. Having worked with plenty of engineers and programmers who were getting near retirement age, I learned their lesson without having to suffer their pain. When a company knows they can push you around and you won't or can't leave, you're doomed to be treated like trash. With a BS in Engineering, I took a year long program in C++ and UNIX to switch fields and now I am finishing my MBA to switch fields again. Financial planning pays very well, has good hours and Joe six-pack doesn't want to talk to someone in India or China about their future finances, they want to go to an office down the street for a cup of coffee and a chat about their portfolio. People can make all the anti-capitalist/business comments they please but my strategy is to live well and provide for my family, not be a keyboard slave for an incompetent manager.
I loved MOO and MOO2 and have been waiting for MOO3 to come out, until last week when I was in BestBuy I saw the MOO3 Strategy Guide. Another game company decided to take more of its customers money for something that should be included with the game. Anyone else remember the lavish manuals for games like Aces Over the Pacific/Europe or any of the original Microprose games? The manuals contained every detailed needed to play the game AND a large amount of material simply for the players enjoyment/information. Now you get a CD, install instructions and possibly a very brief descriptiof of the game mechanics. Thanks but I'll wait a few months until it is in the bargain bin and there are strategy guides online.