It's with the growing proportion of the population who takes their faith to the next step and decides that faith is not just good for them, but good for everyone and should be mandated. Then we get intelligent design in science classes, laws against gay marriage, laws against assisted suicide, the Terry Schiavo debacle, and numerous other effects that *do* cause problems for quite a number of people -- and that's just in the US. Worldwide, we have protestants killing catholics, muslims killing christians, jews and muslims killing each other indiscriminantly...you get the idea.
And how is that different from the other side wanting to prevent people from believing, to force gay marrige on a community, to help assisted suicide? The only difference is which side you agree with. If it's "your side" then it's good to force your ideas and beliefs on the community, if it's the "other side" then it's a bad thing.
True, it's not like they sell IE seperate. They have no real reason to be so die-hard about IE.
Microsoft views IE as a "rich client" and one more reason to tie people to Windows. MS may one day have a 100% standards compliant browser but I gaurentee they will also have another 20% worth of features that only work in IE as one more way to try and keep people using Windows.
It's the same reason they will never have a Linux version of Office as long as they view Linux as any kind of threat to their OS.
Most people when they hit 18 leave towns like that as fast as they can.
Riiiight. That's why small towns are full of nothing but teenagers, because everyone left when they turned 18. Believe it or not most people don't want to live in NYC, LA, DC or other giant cesspools and many choose to live in small towns and as more jobs and services move online there will likely be a migration of people back to small town America to escape the large cities.
Ah, the advantages of flexible identity. I have four of them, each one of which either denies the other three or tries to avoid associations. This is an effective way to remain seperate lives - at least until someone comes up with a very advanced data-mining program that can look at all the billions of identities in use and cross-reference them to determine which ones share a person.
That's Googles next project. First cache the entire Internet , then buy Dejanews so you have Usenet indexed/cached too, then get everyone to use gmail and never actually delete anything. All they have left to do is figure out how to index IRC and P2P traffic.:)
You're not missing anything, DDO blows. It has to be the dullest game I've played in years. All there is to do is go to instanced quests and grind through them. You're better off buying NWN and not paying $15 a month. You'll be able to play with more people at a time, NWN servers 64 character max, DDO instance 50 characters max, and have access to 1,000 times as much content.
DDO continues Turbines sad legacy started with AC2.
maybe this means I can finally toss out the old MS OS.
You don't seem to understand what virtualization is. It just means emulating hardware, so you'll still be running 'the old MS OS' if you want Windows, you'll just be able to run it without dedicating any hardware to it. Check out VMWare, you can already do it for free today.
Yes I'm Chinese. My parents are Chinese. I was born in China. And no we don't live in China.
If it's so great why don't you still live in China? It wouldn't be because it's not the paradise you'd like us to belive is it?
But when the US government does something, almost nobody says a word.
What world do you live in?? When eveny some minor nobody in the US government throws a can away instead of recycling it gets reported in the NYT and CNN.
That's the foundation of the USA, right? Copy, embrace and extend
No, that's the foundation of Japan. Historically the US has been far more on the invention side than the copy/embrace/extend. It's Microsoft, which believe it or not does not represent the entire USA, that has adopted the 'copy, embrace, extend' motto.
Don't feel too bad, he doesn't know what he's talking about. Starting wages for some positions might be $75k but certainly not entery level testers. They're making more like $45k to start. You'll also note he didn't actually go to work for MS, he said he was considering it. More like considering submitting his resume more likely.
How many millions did he get while he was there and when he was fired? I doubt he's been hurting or living on food stamps even if he hasn't gotten another job in the last 8 years.
I think you are entitled to be reviewed based on your performance, not stuffed into some arbitrary bell curve or how much the division VP likes your manager.
If you did 4.0 level work you should be reviewed and rewarded for it, not rated at 3.0 simply because there were 5 other people in your group who happened to do 4.5 level work. The company I work at now reviews you based on your performance, not your performance relative to anyone else. Did you meet or exceed your goals, ship on time or early? Then you get a good review, it doesn't matter if everyone else did too.
That is the pain point. People at MS aren't being graded based on their performance, they're being graded on politics.
It seems that it's not a good idea to be too agreeable, because people won't be worried about screwing you over or making you angry like they are about the crazy one-eyed biker in the corner.
Well, duh. That's because the crazy one eyed biker in the corner might be Odin in disguise and no one wants to upset the All Father.:)
Of course it is. Haven't you noticed it's perfectly Ok to insult or discriminate against Christians it's muslims who seems to feel they have some right not to be made fun of and justify going on a killing spree over a cartoon or probably a screen name eventually.
Some Christians do talk about killing abortion doctors but very rarely actually do it. How many people were killed or injured by muslim fanatics in just the last few months? How many by christian fanataics? How many muslims denounced the violence compared to how many christians denounce bombing abortion clinics?
Not everywhere it isn't. It isn't even illegal everywhere in the US much less the entire world. Why should the cops spend ANY time investigating an org centered around a legal activity?
The only difference between a security hole and a backdoor is whether someone knows about it.
Exactly, except it would be many "somebodies" who would know about it both at MS and in however many government offices would use the function. The backdoor feature would also have to be documented somewhere at MS and the longer it's in the more people would know about it as people change teams and enter and leave the country. Sooner or later it would come out.
Government agencies can't even manage to keep military and intelligence secrets during a time when the country is all at war and you think they could keep it secret that they have a back door into 90%+ of the worlds desktops? I doubt it.
Anti spyware companies also have an incentive to tout cookies as some huge spyware threat too. How many of those 87% of "infected" machines had nothing more than a doubleclick cookie on them?
By explicitly disalowing homosexuality Blizzard is going to piss off a lot more people than they make happy, and lose money because of it.
Don't bet on it. There are far more gamers who will either support Blizzard or who don't give a damn one way or another than there are gamers who will quit over this.
In the next month or few months Blizzard will hit 6 million subscribers and this won't even rate a paragraph in the history books.
The term "dual carriageway" is in common usage amongst native speakers of modern English.
Maybe among the 50 million native speakers of modern English in the UK but not among the several hundred million in the US.
The term "Interstate", "Freeway", "Highway" are common amongst native speakers of modern English, how many people in the UK do you think would know what they refer to?
Then don't use tabs, it's not like you're forced to do it. MS even makes it harder to use tabs since their context menus is missing a "open in new tab" option like Mozilla/Firefox has.
Their option to save a group of tabs and reopen them doesn't appear to work either. When I tried it in IE 7 it saved the group fine but just opened up a bunch of blank tabs when trying to open the group. Time will tell if they get it right by release, but Mozilla still looks better.:)
The company that I work for recently had a laptop stolen. It had personnel information for a large large number of employees (greater than ten thousand) and may or may not have been properly protected. I think that qualifies as pretty serious data loss, and it didn't need a flash drive to happen.
Do you work for Boeing (rhetorical, it doesn't really matter)? They recently had a laptop stolen with information on 161,000 employees on it. I think you're right, mandatory encryption of corporate drives will proably be the next big step. Not perfect, but better than nothing.
Last time I checked, the elevator doesn't know what floor each person wants until they get in the elevator.
That's why they enter the floor they're going to before they get on the elevator with this system. There wouldn't be just a up/down button pair.
I could imagine looking up at the numbers above the elevator door and watch them go down to the floor where I am waiting 19, 18, 17, 16, 17, 18, 17, 16, 15 (my floor), 14, 13, 14, 13, 12, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 15 DING. That would piss me off way more than being in the elevator and going in one direction stopping at each floor to let on/drop off people.
I don't think most elevators have the floor indicator like that anymore, none of the buildings I've been in for a while have. You're right though, it would piss people off to see elevators skip their floor.
The tranny oil in my 1990 Ford E-150 smelled **fresh** when I flushed my transmission recently. (passed 200k miles) I would guess that oil in a sealed system will stay fresh for a very long time?
It depends on the environment inside the tranny, not just being sealed. I bought an old 60's muscle car that didn't leak any tranny fluid (not the original tranny or engine) but when we pulled it out to replace it that fluid was RANK. It was brown, burnt and stank so bad it nearly made us puke. If it gets to hot it can go bad very quickly.
I wonder how many people who seem to be reacting violently against this law are moderators of a forum, newsgroup or IRC channel somewhere? I'd guess not many. People who spend time and money running discussion sites of any format probably don't mind this law at all. One more potential tool to deal with troll and e-thugs trying to prove how tough they are behind the keyboard.
People who don't have to deal with trolls/flamers/stalkers and are probably at least part time in one of those groups likely fear this law. People who try to get rid of trolls/flamers/stalkers will probably not see this is a bad thing at all.
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You really don't see how forcing your point of view on others is as wrong as others forcing theirs on you. Typical democrat.
And how is that different from the other side wanting to prevent people from believing, to force gay marrige on a community, to help assisted suicide? The only difference is which side you agree with. If it's "your side" then it's good to force your ideas and beliefs on the community, if it's the "other side" then it's a bad thing.
Microsoft views IE as a "rich client" and one more reason to tie people to Windows. MS may one day have a 100% standards compliant browser but I gaurentee they will also have another 20% worth of features that only work in IE as one more way to try and keep people using Windows.
It's the same reason they will never have a Linux version of Office as long as they view Linux as any kind of threat to their OS.
Riiiight. That's why small towns are full of nothing but teenagers, because everyone left when they turned 18. Believe it or not most people don't want to live in NYC, LA, DC or other giant cesspools and many choose to live in small towns and as more jobs and services move online there will likely be a migration of people back to small town America to escape the large cities.
That's Googles next project. First cache the entire Internet , then buy Dejanews so you have Usenet indexed/cached too, then get everyone to use gmail and never actually delete anything. All they have left to do is figure out how to index IRC and P2P traffic. :)
You'll only be safe using Gopher!
You're not missing anything, DDO blows. It has to be the dullest game I've played in years. All there is to do is go to instanced quests and grind through them. You're better off buying NWN and not paying $15 a month. You'll be able to play with more people at a time, NWN servers 64 character max, DDO instance 50 characters max, and have access to 1,000 times as much content.
DDO continues Turbines sad legacy started with AC2.
You don't seem to understand what virtualization is. It just means emulating hardware, so you'll still be running 'the old MS OS' if you want Windows, you'll just be able to run it without dedicating any hardware to it. Check out VMWare, you can already do it for free today.
If it's so great why don't you still live in China? It wouldn't be because it's not the paradise you'd like us to belive is it?
But when the US government does something, almost nobody says a word.
What world do you live in?? When eveny some minor nobody in the US government throws a can away instead of recycling it gets reported in the NYT and CNN.
No, that's the foundation of Japan. Historically the US has been far more on the invention side than the copy/embrace/extend. It's Microsoft, which believe it or not does not represent the entire USA, that has adopted the 'copy, embrace, extend' motto.
Don't feel too bad, he doesn't know what he's talking about. Starting wages for some positions might be $75k but certainly not entery level testers. They're making more like $45k to start. You'll also note he didn't actually go to work for MS, he said he was considering it. More like considering submitting his resume more likely.
How many millions did he get while he was there and when he was fired? I doubt he's been hurting or living on food stamps even if he hasn't gotten another job in the last 8 years.
If you did 4.0 level work you should be reviewed and rewarded for it, not rated at 3.0 simply because there were 5 other people in your group who happened to do 4.5 level work. The company I work at now reviews you based on your performance, not your performance relative to anyone else. Did you meet or exceed your goals, ship on time or early? Then you get a good review, it doesn't matter if everyone else did too.
That is the pain point. People at MS aren't being graded based on their performance, they're being graded on politics.
Well, duh. That's because the crazy one eyed biker in the corner might be Odin in disguise and no one wants to upset the All Father. :)
Of course it is. Haven't you noticed it's perfectly Ok to insult or discriminate against Christians it's muslims who seems to feel they have some right not to be made fun of and justify going on a killing spree over a cartoon or probably a screen name eventually.
Some Christians do talk about killing abortion doctors but very rarely actually do it. How many people were killed or injured by muslim fanatics in just the last few months? How many by christian fanataics? How many muslims denounced the violence compared to how many christians denounce bombing abortion clinics?
Not everywhere it isn't. It isn't even illegal everywhere in the US much less the entire world. Why should the cops spend ANY time investigating an org centered around a legal activity?
Exactly, except it would be many "somebodies" who would know about it both at MS and in however many government offices would use the function. The backdoor feature would also have to be documented somewhere at MS and the longer it's in the more people would know about it as people change teams and enter and leave the country. Sooner or later it would come out.
Government agencies can't even manage to keep military and intelligence secrets during a time when the country is all at war and you think they could keep it secret that they have a back door into 90%+ of the worlds desktops? I doubt it.
Anti spyware companies also have an incentive to tout cookies as some huge spyware threat too. How many of those 87% of "infected" machines had nothing more than a doubleclick cookie on them?
Don't bet on it. There are far more gamers who will either support Blizzard or who don't give a damn one way or another than there are gamers who will quit over this.
In the next month or few months Blizzard will hit 6 million subscribers and this won't even rate a paragraph in the history books.
Maybe among the 50 million native speakers of modern English in the UK but not among the several hundred million in the US.
The term "Interstate", "Freeway", "Highway" are common amongst native speakers of modern English, how many people in the UK do you think would know what they refer to?
used you can get a 15" 256 mb ram, 20 gig harddrive pentium with a modem for what, 150$ just to test IE6 on a lower spec machine?
That's cheap but I'd rather run VMWare or VPC and just have a virtual machine to test IE, or anything else, on.
Their option to save a group of tabs and reopen them doesn't appear to work either. When I tried it in IE 7 it saved the group fine but just opened up a bunch of blank tabs when trying to open the group. Time will tell if they get it right by release, but Mozilla still looks better. :)
Do you work for Boeing (rhetorical, it doesn't really matter)? They recently had a laptop stolen with information on 161,000 employees on it. I think you're right, mandatory encryption of corporate drives will proably be the next big step. Not perfect, but better than nothing.
That's why they enter the floor they're going to before they get on the elevator with this system. There wouldn't be just a up/down button pair.
I could imagine looking up at the numbers above the elevator door and watch them go down to the floor where I am waiting 19, 18, 17, 16, 17, 18, 17, 16, 15 (my floor), 14, 13, 14, 13, 12, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 15 DING. That would piss me off way more than being in the elevator and going in one direction stopping at each floor to let on/drop off people.
I don't think most elevators have the floor indicator like that anymore, none of the buildings I've been in for a while have. You're right though, it would piss people off to see elevators skip their floor.
It depends on the environment inside the tranny, not just being sealed. I bought an old 60's muscle car that didn't leak any tranny fluid (not the original tranny or engine) but when we pulled it out to replace it that fluid was RANK. It was brown, burnt and stank so bad it nearly made us puke. If it gets to hot it can go bad very quickly.
People who don't have to deal with trolls/flamers/stalkers and are probably at least part time in one of those groups likely fear this law. People who try to get rid of trolls/flamers/stalkers will probably not see this is a bad thing at all.