> No, some of them do. The popup that warns you it's time to purchase the full version of their virus scanner with cleaning capability, because--surprise--you are infected now.
Man, I hate those. Family members have fallen for those. They're harder than heck to clean off.
I consider the McAfee scanner that's included free with practically everything to be in the same class, although not quite as annoying. It doesn't do much of anything except scare you and advertise the full version. I tell customers to avoid installing it (uncheck the "free virus scanner" option of whatever they're trying to install) and uninstall it when they find it. Besides, I've already set up virus scanning on their machines; McAfee just muddies the issue.
TFA is firewalled, so I only have the quote to go by, but the first thing I have to ask is, why? If it's truly a Mars mission designed to land on a moon and return as advertised, what possible reason would any other country have to prevent that?
I know Kodak did some early work in the area; wonder if they have patents from that era that they waited to exploit until now. The thing is, the company continued like the digital camera was a novelty that had some specialist (scientific) application but no broad consumer base, long past the time when it was apparent that film was on life support.
For instance, in my opinion Kodak could have dominated the home printer market, had they made an effort sooner to migrate their kiosk technology -- pigment-based ink and superior photo paper -- to consumer printers. By the time they started getting serious about home printing, the market was already dominated by other manufacturers.
My point is, I believe that someone with more foresight at Kodak could have absolutely owned the digital photo market by now. They had the technology, just not the will. And to go after patents while filing for bankruptcy just seems like a cry for help.
> So you pull wage until the company shuts its doors, then you go and find another job, and the free market will take care of the rest? Right?
Um, no, the workforce demands more than the business will bear, and the company will either outsource (Entire department -- boom -- gone. [1]) or the company will fold (as has happened to some of our competitors). Whether things go good or ill, whether the market works or it doesn't, you can't conjure money out of thin air. However bad you think the free market is, there are even worse things.
[1] Try to hold a picket line when the scabs are 13 time zones away. Hope you can swim.
What has to happen to people, I wonder, that makes them so lose confidence in themselves that they have to have a union boss tell them how much they are worth.
> So, you had it bad and figure that means nobody ever deserves better till the end of time?
Absolutely not. I'm saying you can't expect iPads and gourmet pizza to be handed to you. That at some point you have to actually have some worth in the marketplace besides what your union boss can negotiate for you. And that when costs exceed profits for long enough, your job will go away despite all the striking and tire flattening and bottle hurling you care to do.
If you think you deserve more, work for it, have a little luck, and maybe you'll get more. If you think it's not "fair" that you get paid less, then try being worth more.
> Why not, do you figure it's fair to work full time and still have to live on the street?
You're talking to the wrong person; I lost everything in dot com bust, was out of work for years, would have given a lot to work full time, even if I had to sleep in what was laughingly called my car. One can fuss about it and carry signs and ultimately sleep on garbage bags, or one can understand the realities of the economy. I'm sure there are other choices, but they're not coming to mind right now.
Fair? It's not fair that my dad died on Christmas Eve and every holiday season I have to remember that. If you're looking for fairness, you're going to spend the rest of your life being profoundly disappointed.
My company reduced my wages by a heck of a lot more than that two years ago, and I didn't object. Because the alternative was getting laid off in a down economy. In the bigger picture, the alternative was the company going under, as others have recently in this industry. As it was, I'm one of the 12 or so they kept out of over 200. So... yeah, I just fussed and fumed about it, wouldn't you?
A deal killer is Adobe Lightroom. Not available yet under Android, (Photoshop Touch is the wrong workflow) and there's no reason to run Lightroom on a touch screen under Windows 7. (You'll just go insane trying to perform the cabalistic gestures intended to ape the actions of a three button mouse.) So it's Winders laptop until the apps are available, then cautious demo, then (if things work out) purchase of a tablet. I don't buy stuff just because it's there. And don't even talk to me about Windows 8. Just don't.
...probably a good way to score some government funding, at least on the short term. I suspect it's a lot easier to get funding for something new and shiny and technical than to just plant more trees.
Agreed, but, I dunno, I got tired of forcing hardware to work. I am very interested in the Transformer. I would have no interest in dual-booting Winders. I would much rather the apps I need be available in Android. Word is, Adobe will be coming through soon.
Yes, Daughter has an ASUS T101 notebook with a reversible touch screen. Only one thing wrong with it: It runs Windows 7, which is about as touch-centric as... as.... as something that isn't touch-centric. At all. Great hardware, nearly unusable software, from a touchscreen standpoint.
So to answer your question, were I to have both, it still needs to be an OS that works as a touch-only environment. Else it's just a slightly more expensive netbook. You might as well never turn the screen around; you'll only get frustrated.
Preachy, dunno. They had a point, not just reading for fun. In Men at Arms you could appreciate his point even if you disagreed with it (as I did). And Night Watch was so Libertarian in philosophy that I continue to be amazed that it was written by an Englishman.
Yes, Small Gods was excellent. The power of belief is an underlying concept in the series, and it really got a workout in that book. Nice cameo of Sweeper from Thief of Time, probably my all time favorite Discworld novel.
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The problem is, if it makes a sound the Klingons will discover where you're hiding.
Power yes, apps no. I encourage everyone else to be an early adopter, so I don't need to be. :-)
> No, some of them do. The popup that warns you it's time to purchase the full version of their virus scanner with cleaning capability, because--surprise--you are infected now.
Man, I hate those. Family members have fallen for those. They're harder than heck to clean off.
I consider the McAfee scanner that's included free with practically everything to be in the same class, although not quite as annoying. It doesn't do much of anything except scare you and advertise the full version. I tell customers to avoid installing it (uncheck the "free virus scanner" option of whatever they're trying to install) and uninstall it when they find it. Besides, I've already set up virus scanning on their machines; McAfee just muddies the issue.
TFA is firewalled, so I only have the quote to go by, but the first thing I have to ask is, why? If it's truly a Mars mission designed to land on a moon and return as advertised, what possible reason would any other country have to prevent that?
I know Kodak did some early work in the area; wonder if they have patents from that era that they waited to exploit until now. The thing is, the company continued like the digital camera was a novelty that had some specialist (scientific) application but no broad consumer base, long past the time when it was apparent that film was on life support.
For instance, in my opinion Kodak could have dominated the home printer market, had they made an effort sooner to migrate their kiosk technology -- pigment-based ink and superior photo paper -- to consumer printers. By the time they started getting serious about home printing, the market was already dominated by other manufacturers.
My point is, I believe that someone with more foresight at Kodak could have absolutely owned the digital photo market by now. They had the technology, just not the will. And to go after patents while filing for bankruptcy just seems like a cry for help.
Wasn't Kodak pretty much last into the consumer digital market? Quite famously so, as I recall. That DCS monstrosity from the eighties doesn't count.
Why bother bargaining when you can outsource?
> So you pull wage until the company shuts its doors, then you go and find another job, and the free market will take care of the rest? Right?
Um, no, the workforce demands more than the business will bear, and the company will either outsource (Entire department -- boom -- gone. [1]) or the company will fold (as has happened to some of our competitors). Whether things go good or ill, whether the market works or it doesn't, you can't conjure money out of thin air. However bad you think the free market is, there are even worse things.
[1] Try to hold a picket line when the scabs are 13 time zones away. Hope you can swim.
What has to happen to people, I wonder, that makes them so lose confidence in themselves that they have to have a union boss tell them how much they are worth.
Best response so far.
"Can't sustain a union?" We're doomed.
> So, you had it bad and figure that means nobody ever deserves better till the end of time?
Absolutely not. I'm saying you can't expect iPads and gourmet pizza to be handed to you. That at some point you have to actually have some worth in the marketplace besides what your union boss can negotiate for you. And that when costs exceed profits for long enough, your job will go away despite all the striking and tire flattening and bottle hurling you care to do.
If you think you deserve more, work for it, have a little luck, and maybe you'll get more. If you think it's not "fair" that you get paid less, then try being worth more.
Yeah, because it's so much better to pull a nice union wage right up to the point where the company shuts its doors.
> Why not, do you figure it's fair to work full time and still have to live on the street?
You're talking to the wrong person; I lost everything in dot com bust, was out of work for years, would have given a lot to work full time, even if I had to sleep in what was laughingly called my car. One can fuss about it and carry signs and ultimately sleep on garbage bags, or one can understand the realities of the economy. I'm sure there are other choices, but they're not coming to mind right now.
Fair? It's not fair that my dad died on Christmas Eve and every holiday season I have to remember that. If you're looking for fairness, you're going to spend the rest of your life being profoundly disappointed.
My company reduced my wages by a heck of a lot more than that two years ago, and I didn't object. Because the alternative was getting laid off in a down economy. In the bigger picture, the alternative was the company going under, as others have recently in this industry. As it was, I'm one of the 12 or so they kept out of over 200. So... yeah, I just fussed and fumed about it, wouldn't you?
> I can understand higher costs; the West won't accept salaries below a certain threshold, there's unions, and I entirely respect that.
Um, I don't.
Right, because we're not all on the same planet.
Well, everything is vaporware, until it isn't.
The plastic industry finds a way to get the environmentalists on board...
A deal killer is Adobe Lightroom. Not available yet under Android, (Photoshop Touch is the wrong workflow) and there's no reason to run Lightroom on a touch screen under Windows 7. (You'll just go insane trying to perform the cabalistic gestures intended to ape the actions of a three button mouse.) So it's Winders laptop until the apps are available, then cautious demo, then (if things work out) purchase of a tablet. I don't buy stuff just because it's there. And don't even talk to me about Windows 8. Just don't.
Because I'm in space so much!
Agreed, but, I dunno, I got tired of forcing hardware to work. I am very interested in the Transformer. I would have no interest in dual-booting Winders. I would much rather the apps I need be available in Android. Word is, Adobe will be coming through soon.
Yes, Daughter has an ASUS T101 notebook with a reversible touch screen. Only one thing wrong with it: It runs Windows 7, which is about as touch-centric as ... as. ... as something that isn't touch-centric. At all. Great hardware, nearly unusable software, from a touchscreen standpoint.
So to answer your question, were I to have both, it still needs to be an OS that works as a touch-only environment. Else it's just a slightly more expensive netbook. You might as well never turn the screen around; you'll only get frustrated.
Preachy, dunno. They had a point, not just reading for fun. In Men at Arms you could appreciate his point even if you disagreed with it (as I did). And Night Watch was so Libertarian in philosophy that I continue to be amazed that it was written by an Englishman.
Yes, Small Gods was excellent. The power of belief is an underlying concept in the series, and it really got a workout in that book. Nice cameo of Sweeper from Thief of Time, probably my all time favorite Discworld novel.