My Grandma died last year of cancer. She was one of the brave women that gunned down German planes over Widnes during World War II. Their generation's sacrifice, every single last one of them appears to be in vein.
I'm not usually a Grammer-Godwin, but I found it very amusing that your choice of misspelling (in vein, as in "In our blood", though vein is literally the tube in your body that moves the blood) resulted in almost the exact opposite of your intended meaning (in vain, as in "a futile effort, without meaning")
You ended up saying "Their generations sacrifice is in our blood, we embody it" instead of "Their generations sacrifice was futile, we embody none of it".
The company in this case isn't being asked to physically fix every installation. People just want them to make a patch available. The guys at the dealership would be more like a tech who's paid to go around and apply the patch.
The company in this case is being asked to devote serious developer time to an OS that is 2 iterations old. If this was "Hey, fix the spelling on this message box", that's one thing, but messing with date and time calculations has to be seriously tested, and then tested again, multiplied by all the 3rd party apps that could be reading the date from someplace they shouldn't, or that aren't patched and try to change the clock... we all know the nightmare this could turn into.
I'm all behind them for charging a fee for supporting a change (not a bug fix, a change) on a 7 year old OS. I'd be unhappy if they were doing it with XP, but for 2000 I think it's justified. And half my 400 users are still on 2000. I'll just roll out the fix with our KIX script and call it a day. I'd rather have to pay for the fix than have MS just toss out a barely-tested patch and say "Here ya go, hope it don't break nuttin".
Personally, I'm surprised there aren't people bitching that their Win98 boxen aren't being patched.
The biggest issue for my company is that many of our machines are 2000, so we had to create our own patch, since Microsoft is only patching 2000 for people who pay their extortion fees.
I know exactly what you mean man! Why, just the other day, I took my 2000 Dodge Ram into the dealers because they changed the rules where I live regarding ground clearance, and the fuckers expected me to PAY for them to fix it!?! What's up with that crap? I mean, the truck is only 7 years old, they should TOTALLY still be doing updates... err, I mean repairs for it.
"I like your Christ. I do not like your christians. They are so unlike your Christ."
I don't think Christ would like the way people are stiffling expression and imposing their will in his name, especially with the grief he went through when he was around. I mean, seriously... "Hey everyone, be nice to each other!"... "No, we're going to nail you to a tree instead. Natch!"
If good ole JC was around right now, I'm sure we wouldn't be having silly discussions like this...
I'll agree that their faith substitutes, to a degree, for their courage.
But they're not blinded. Maybe they believe in it, the same way an American soldier believes that he'll go to Heaven if he gets fragged... but it still takes a dangly set of cohones to strap a bomb to your chest and push the button. Let's not minimize that. Regardless of where you think you'll go or what you think your reward is... it still takes a big set to blow yourself up. Not even the doing, but the preparing, would be enough to make many people find a way to get away.
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Bravery or having a backbone is not required to blow yourself up in a crowd of your own innocent people, only a strong conviction that God will save you in the end. Seems like a copout to me.
Pfft, how would you know? When was the last time you blew yourself up in a crowd of innocent people?
Wow, I'm fucking shocked, I am. Doom 3 doesn't run on a platform it wasn't designed for. Neither does Half-Life 2. Sure, we could blame the hardware that wasn't designed for it, or the drivers that aren't ready, but instead, lets slag Micro$haft. Damn them!!! *shakes fist*. They should have kept their Crappy Vista in the goddamn box until everyones drivers and hardware was ready for it! And also, they should have included a magic genie that would notice I was installing it on my MMX200 and automatically configure it for best performance! God damnit, this box has run games perfectly since Windows 95 without me having to upgrade it ONCE, why do I have to now just because I installed Vista?!? WTF?!? Stupid Micro$uck and their money-grubbing ways!
There, did I cover the majority? Good, now STFU. New programs have trouble. New drivers take time to get to maturity. Old games need tweaks to work on new systems. It's the way life goes.
I think I should post a Slashdot story the next time I try to play my beautiful original copy of Descent on my XP3400+. I mean, goddamnit, things run so fast that one tap of the keyboard and I've flown across the room and slammed into a wall, and then that damn little yellow guy who's usually so weak I play bumpercars with him kills me before I can blink. Obviously, this is a Microsoft problem. StUpId MiCrO$hIt!
(But damnit, that's still the best 3/8 of a second in gaming....)
It's about time a candidate appeared who could inspire people. I only hope he survives the inevitable slagging.
Already, there's been the "ZOMG he's MOOSLIM!" crowd (even though he's a devout Christian), and Faux news trying to drum up interest in the "he spent time at this fanatical muslim school with a really weird name that we'll keep saying with emphasis to ensure everyone knows it's FOREIGN!" story.
Just last week, there was someone on the Colbert Report to tell us all that yes, Obama is black, but he's not, yanno, black, he's just black. He's not an American African American, he's an African African American. So he shouldn't get the black vote, just the black vote.
So far, he's managed to stay ahead of crap like that, but as it keeps flying in, it's going to wear him down. Stories will start to stick, false but spectacular allegations will derail his attempts to stay on topic, everyone will be sure to mention he's black (but not black), and any tiny faux pas he makes will be splashed on every screen quicker than Howard Dean getting a little excited did.
But if he can keep abreast of that crap, I think he'll do well. He's an excellent orator, thoughtful, so far seems pretty unafraid to state his opinion even if it's unpopular. The way he speaks (and the way crowds respond) remind me of Dr. Martin Luther King. I'm impressed that I don't see him playing the "Vote for me, I'm black" angle. And I'm hoping he'll stick to his guns and talk about what he believes, and not what everyone else believes. I'd rather vote for a guy who is generally good, but might disagree with me on key issues, rather than a guy who agrees with me on key issues because the demographics say he should.
I also like that he's not floating specifics on his ideas. It's easy to get mired down in details... "Well, he only wants to spend 6.3B on Project X, but is he taking into account inflation? What about state taxes? Obviously he'll need 6.4B. Where's that extra 0.1B coming from? What does he intend to cut? Why is that less important than Project X?"
That's how a lot of good ideas get burned down... one small flaw, or one imperfect part, or one questionable decision, and suddenly the whole grand idea is gone. I'm happy he's staying away from that. It's time that your president was a visionary, a uniter, a powerful persona to put a positive international face on the country. I really don't care if they're black or white or purple, male or female or eunich, christian or muslim. All that matters to me, and all that should matter to americans, is whether they are the caliber of person that you want representing your ideals and dreams and country for the next 4 years. You can have healthy disagreements on issues and come to compromise decisions, but eliminating someone from contention because they disagree with you on 1 issue out of 100 is a sure way to get another president who listens more to polls than to populace.
Online petitions are a joke and a waste of time. To date an online petition has never changed anything. I see you missed Farscape : The peacekeeper wars.;) Well, it's good to see someone who watched the Peacekeeper Wars.
Now if we could only find the other guy, we'd be able to thank both of you properly...
We already have this in the US, and IIRC it includes chemo if you are sick enough. It's called the emergency room, the USA's secrete socialized healthcare. -nB
There's a joke involving secret secretions here, but it's early and I am caffine-less....
We're mandated on Dells where I work. An incredibly stupid user (the kind who gives you a headache as soon as you see her number on the caller ID) sent me her laptop once, saying it was doing "funny things". I was rushed, but I tossed it on my desk, grabbed the power cord, plugged it in... and immediately got a huge shock on my leg where the brick (which sits in the middle of the cord on Dells) was touching. Enough to make me curse loudly and jump, and leave a mark on my leg.
Turns out the idiot user had mistreated her power cord, to the point where the wiring going into the cord had worn away... the covering, the insulation, down to bare copper. In her infinite stupidity, she saw this, and covered it with a bit of black hockey tape, apparently knowing about the magic fix-it properties of hockey tape when it comes to consumer electronics. Of course, even the job she did of taping it up was crap, the tape was coming off, things were shorting out, and in my case, zapping away.
How this woman wasn't reprimanded for extreme stupidity, I'll never know. My employers relative lack of response or sympathy certainly told me a lot about my then-boss.
That's what I think of when I think Dell and shock.
I spent some time in Israel, where suspicious devices are routinely disposed of by the bomb squad. Left your backpack somewhere 20 minutes ago? Sorry, it's been blowed up. However, the cops don't shut down the city to do it. They cordon off a reasonable blast radius, set a charge next to the device, lower a concrete box over it from a flatbed truck, and press the button. The intersection reopens in less than an hour, and some lady's short a diaper bag.
That's how you handle a credible threat of regularly placed terrorist bombs. Without terror. Yeah, and that's exactly how you DON'T make the populace into scared little sheep. Which is exactly what the Administration wants. Scared people are much easier to handle, because even if you only convince 20% of the people that there is an imminent threat, those 20% will argue with the other 80% loudly, distracting them from what you're really doing.
A year from now, if someone asks "Hey, do you remember those lite-brite boards found in Boston?", people will say no. But if you ask "Remember those bomb in Boston?", they'll say yes. And that's exactly what the gov't wants. A populace that only remembers fear, and embraces knee-jerk reactions in the name of "safety". Because it's much easier to trample the remaining shreds of your rights that way.
From her own writeup (google cache) she admits that she'd been using the service less and less. From the sounds of it, she hadn't been using it at all. But she was dumb enough not to forward her uberimportant emails to another account. And then, looking at the way her email quotes are cut, I think there was a lot more there that she chose not to share with us.
Having been in the managers position before, I think he was harsh, but she's spinning this to make him look like a dick. She probably demanded to talk to the highest ranking C*O in the state. He didn't say "I'm the highest", he said "I'm the highest that you will be talking to", and I've said the same thing (in different words).
I have the feeling that Lycos tried to explain to her, patiently, that her account had been deleted in line with the terms of service (and the disclaimer on their homepage), and that restorations were only offered to people who were Plus (or Premium or whatever the fudge it was), and she went off the handle, accused them of "holding her emails hostage", used bad language, and got all snotty with them. At that point, they probably didn't want her business, I wouldn't either.
The bottom line, is she did not log in within 30 days, as the homepage clearly says you have to do if you want to keep your account. Lycos told her what she had to do if she wanted her email back, she decided she didn't want to do it, said some bad things to them, and so they decided to tell her to go fuck herself. I say, good on ya, Lycos. Yes, customers deserve to be treated with respect, but it's gone too far in some cases, where privileged little fuckwads think they deserve everything they want, and anyone who says otherwise is mean, mean, mean. I think it's crappy that she's calling this guy out, selectively editing the conversation to make them seem like dicks, and especially crappy if it's true that people are starting to harass him.
Were I him, I'd post the ENTIRE email chain online, not just her edited version... and lets see how sweet and innocent she really is.
Here is a picture of some large nails. Please use them to climb up on the cross and nail yourself to it. Pls send pix of your dead body.
Sincerely, Cerv
Seriously, quit yer damn bitchen. Your website got bought out, now some changes are going to happen. They're not resetting everything, they're not forcing you to participate in any of their other services... they're just saying your signin name has to change. Fracking deal with it.
Yahoo bought out Rocketmail sometime in the late 90s. They merged Rocketmail into their userbase. I got a Yahoo ID to use... but my @rocketmail.com address still works! I'd be surprised if there were only a few hundred Rocketmail users left (probably less), but Yahoo keeps that extra domain going, forwarding those emails... and now I've had the same email addy for 10 years. Hell, I still have emails in my inbox from my original Rocketmail account, that were painlessly migrated over.
None of that crap with Hotmail (log in every month or we'll perma-delete you!)... I have gmail, ISP email, etc etc... but I still prefer my Rocketmail/Yahoo. I don't bother with many of their other services, I don't care, and neither do they.
Yahoo gets ubermegabonus points for keeping my rocketmail going all these years. So I say unto you, you whiny little Flickr users...
Holy fuck... if you tell a computer to obey voice commands, IT DOES!!! News at 11.
Seriously, what's next, breaking news about how you can record commands to tape and play them on the stereo as a "hackers remote exploit"?
Yes, I'll agree, it would be nice if voice rec software would filter out itself. But that doesn't seem to be mainstream yet. So just do what everyone does... and turn off voice rec.
I've done this exact same process (not on an eMachine though, I won't touch those pieces of crap), and had no serious problems. The worst I've ever had is that the MS internet activation wouldn't work, and I had to call up the 800 number. As long as you have the Product Key sticker (which should be firmly attached to your shiny OEM boxen) you won't have any trouble.
Unless you're a total ass, that is. I've seen (yes, actually watched) people calling up MS Support, and as soon as they get through they launch into a 10 minute diatribe on how this is so horrible, they hate it, they want their key NOWNOWNOW or they're wiping that piece of shit and putting Linux on it. Then the MS rep usually tells them to go fuck themselves.
Hell, I've even put non-oem components in it, MS doesn't seem to care, although the mobo is probably the kicker as it'll have OEM bios and such, but I've still replaced those, called up and told them I replaced it because the manufacturer doesn't carry this replacement anymore, and they gave it to me anyways.
Even the article mentions that worldwide demand last year for floppy disks was 700 million units.
That's a heckuva lot of floppy-ness. What's even scarier (to old-school me) is that there are hard drives (admittedly still experimental, but still...) that could hold all of that data now.
I might have an opportunity to set up IT at a new, quick-growing oil business, and I'm definitely considering thin clients.
Costs are less, maintenance is much less, security is much better. I can install Gig ethernet in the whole place, put redundant servers in place with clustering for scaling up in the future, and with the roaming profiles, we'll be able to handle the inevitable "everyone moving everywhere" that comes with a growing business. And, with the damn dumb users not being able to install SuperHappyFunSmileyFaces.bat , support costs will be severely, wonderfully reduced.
If I was piecing together a system from parts, or trying to change an existing, broken infrastructure, I'd consider differently. But when you can set it up from (mostly) scratch, it just makes sense. The real cost of IT these days isn't hardware... it's users. Dumb users, who get a virus and don't tell you, who don't know how or where to save their documents (even when you set the login script to force their default save location to the network) and then lose them when they dump coke on their boxen, raging fucking moron users who "clean up" their computer, and then wonder where all their important stuff went, dumb wastes of space who wander over to another department, log in on a machine just sitting there, do some work, wander back when their station is finally working (what did you THINK would happen when you "organized" the power bar and ended up with 3 slots suddenly free???) and then wonder "where's my stuff I was just doing?", but you don't find out until 5 days later when they tell their manager they don't have their stuff done because IT lost it, which is the day after you junk that old piece of shit computer that had been sitting unused in another department for months...
Err, I digress.:) Thin clients are good. They stop the above. The End.
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My Grandma died last year of cancer. She was one of the brave women that gunned down German planes over Widnes during World War II. Their generation's sacrifice, every single last one of them appears to be in vein.
I'm not usually a Grammer-Godwin, but I found it very amusing that your choice of misspelling (in vein, as in "In our blood", though vein is literally the tube in your body that moves the blood) resulted in almost the exact opposite of your intended meaning (in vain, as in "a futile effort, without meaning")
You ended up saying "Their generations sacrifice is in our blood, we embody it" instead of "Their generations sacrifice was futile, we embody none of it".
But then, odd things amuse me.
Good call, I always type it wrong when I'm in a rush for some reason. Same with Bhuddist / Buddhist.
;)
And that quote is one of my favourites.
The company in this case isn't being asked to physically fix every installation. People just want them to make a patch available. The guys at the dealership would be more like a tech who's paid to go around and apply the patch.
The company in this case is being asked to devote serious developer time to an OS that is 2 iterations old. If this was "Hey, fix the spelling on this message box", that's one thing, but messing with date and time calculations has to be seriously tested, and then tested again, multiplied by all the 3rd party apps that could be reading the date from someplace they shouldn't, or that aren't patched and try to change the clock... we all know the nightmare this could turn into.
I'm all behind them for charging a fee for supporting a change (not a bug fix, a change) on a 7 year old OS. I'd be unhappy if they were doing it with XP, but for 2000 I think it's justified. And half my 400 users are still on 2000. I'll just roll out the fix with our KIX script and call it a day. I'd rather have to pay for the fix than have MS just toss out a barely-tested patch and say "Here ya go, hope it don't break nuttin".
Personally, I'm surprised there aren't people bitching that their Win98 boxen aren't being patched.
The biggest issue for my company is that many of our machines are 2000, so we had to create our own patch, since Microsoft is only patching 2000 for people who pay their extortion fees.
... err, I mean repairs for it.
I know exactly what you mean man! Why, just the other day, I took my 2000 Dodge Ram into the dealers because they changed the rules where I live regarding ground clearance, and the fuckers expected me to PAY for them to fix it!?! What's up with that crap? I mean, the truck is only 7 years old, they should TOTALLY still be doing updates
That Ghandi dude had it right.
"I like your Christ. I do not like your christians. They are so unlike your Christ."
I don't think Christ would like the way people are stiffling expression and imposing their will in his name, especially with the grief he went through when he was around. I mean, seriously... "Hey everyone, be nice to each other!"... "No, we're going to nail you to a tree instead. Natch!"
If good ole JC was around right now, I'm sure we wouldn't be having silly discussions like this...
I'll agree that their faith substitutes, to a degree, for their courage.
But they're not blinded. Maybe they believe in it, the same way an American soldier believes that he'll go to Heaven if he gets fragged... but it still takes a dangly set of cohones to strap a bomb to your chest and push the button. Let's not minimize that. Regardless of where you think you'll go or what you think your reward is... it still takes a big set to blow yourself up. Not even the doing, but the preparing, would be enough to make many people find a way to get away.
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pwned.
Sucker.
spun(1352) owns teh intarwebs for 5 minutes.
Bravery or having a backbone is not required to blow yourself up in a crowd of your own innocent people, only a strong conviction that God will save you in the end. Seems like a copout to me.
Pfft, how would you know? When was the last time you blew yourself up in a crowd of innocent people?
Wow, I'm fucking shocked, I am. Doom 3 doesn't run on a platform it wasn't designed for. Neither does Half-Life 2. Sure, we could blame the hardware that wasn't designed for it, or the drivers that aren't ready, but instead, lets slag Micro$haft. Damn them!!! *shakes fist*. They should have kept their Crappy Vista in the goddamn box until everyones drivers and hardware was ready for it! And also, they should have included a magic genie that would notice I was installing it on my MMX200 and automatically configure it for best performance! God damnit, this box has run games perfectly since Windows 95 without me having to upgrade it ONCE, why do I have to now just because I installed Vista?!? WTF?!? Stupid Micro$uck and their money-grubbing ways!
There, did I cover the majority? Good, now STFU. New programs have trouble. New drivers take time to get to maturity. Old games need tweaks to work on new systems. It's the way life goes.
I think I should post a Slashdot story the next time I try to play my beautiful original copy of Descent on my XP3400+. I mean, goddamnit, things run so fast that one tap of the keyboard and I've flown across the room and slammed into a wall, and then that damn little yellow guy who's usually so weak I play bumpercars with him kills me before I can blink. Obviously, this is a Microsoft problem. StUpId MiCrO$hIt!
(But damnit, that's still the best 3/8 of a second in gaming....)
It's about time a candidate appeared who could inspire people. I only hope he survives the inevitable slagging.
Already, there's been the "ZOMG he's MOOSLIM!" crowd (even though he's a devout Christian), and Faux news trying to drum up interest in the "he spent time at this fanatical muslim school with a really weird name that we'll keep saying with emphasis to ensure everyone knows it's FOREIGN!" story.
Just last week, there was someone on the Colbert Report to tell us all that yes, Obama is black, but he's not, yanno, black, he's just black. He's not an American African American, he's an African African American. So he shouldn't get the black vote, just the black vote.
So far, he's managed to stay ahead of crap like that, but as it keeps flying in, it's going to wear him down. Stories will start to stick, false but spectacular allegations will derail his attempts to stay on topic, everyone will be sure to mention he's black (but not black), and any tiny faux pas he makes will be splashed on every screen quicker than Howard Dean getting a little excited did.
But if he can keep abreast of that crap, I think he'll do well. He's an excellent orator, thoughtful, so far seems pretty unafraid to state his opinion even if it's unpopular. The way he speaks (and the way crowds respond) remind me of Dr. Martin Luther King. I'm impressed that I don't see him playing the "Vote for me, I'm black" angle. And I'm hoping he'll stick to his guns and talk about what he believes, and not what everyone else believes. I'd rather vote for a guy who is generally good, but might disagree with me on key issues, rather than a guy who agrees with me on key issues because the demographics say he should.
I also like that he's not floating specifics on his ideas. It's easy to get mired down in details... "Well, he only wants to spend 6.3B on Project X, but is he taking into account inflation? What about state taxes? Obviously he'll need 6.4B. Where's that extra 0.1B coming from? What does he intend to cut? Why is that less important than Project X?"
That's how a lot of good ideas get burned down... one small flaw, or one imperfect part, or one questionable decision, and suddenly the whole grand idea is gone. I'm happy he's staying away from that. It's time that your president was a visionary, a uniter, a powerful persona to put a positive international face on the country. I really don't care if they're black or white or purple, male or female or eunich, christian or muslim. All that matters to me, and all that should matter to americans, is whether they are the caliber of person that you want representing your ideals and dreams and country for the next 4 years. You can have healthy disagreements on issues and come to compromise decisions, but eliminating someone from contention because they disagree with you on 1 issue out of 100 is a sure way to get another president who listens more to polls than to populace.
Now if we could only find the other guy, we'd be able to thank both of you properly...
Wow... it's a tube. I'm blown away.
Does this mean Vint Cerf can get royalties from it, for his prior art?
We already have this in the US, and IIRC it includes chemo if you are sick enough. It's called the emergency room, the USA's secrete socialized healthcare.
-nB
There's a joke involving secret secretions here, but it's early and I am caffine-less....
Shrub, is that you?
We're mandated on Dells where I work. An incredibly stupid user (the kind who gives you a headache as soon as you see her number on the caller ID) sent me her laptop once, saying it was doing "funny things". I was rushed, but I tossed it on my desk, grabbed the power cord, plugged it in ... and immediately got a huge shock on my leg where the brick (which sits in the middle of the cord on Dells) was touching. Enough to make me curse loudly and jump, and leave a mark on my leg.
Turns out the idiot user had mistreated her power cord, to the point where the wiring going into the cord had worn away... the covering, the insulation, down to bare copper. In her infinite stupidity, she saw this, and covered it with a bit of black hockey tape, apparently knowing about the magic fix-it properties of hockey tape when it comes to consumer electronics. Of course, even the job she did of taping it up was crap, the tape was coming off, things were shorting out, and in my case, zapping away.
How this woman wasn't reprimanded for extreme stupidity, I'll never know. My employers relative lack of response or sympathy certainly told me a lot about my then-boss.
That's what I think of when I think Dell and shock.
That's how you handle a credible threat of regularly placed terrorist bombs. Without terror. Yeah, and that's exactly how you DON'T make the populace into scared little sheep. Which is exactly what the Administration wants. Scared people are much easier to handle, because even if you only convince 20% of the people that there is an imminent threat, those 20% will argue with the other 80% loudly, distracting them from what you're really doing.
A year from now, if someone asks "Hey, do you remember those lite-brite boards found in Boston?", people will say no. But if you ask "Remember those bomb in Boston?", they'll say yes. And that's exactly what the gov't wants. A populace that only remembers fear, and embraces knee-jerk reactions in the name of "safety". Because it's much easier to trample the remaining shreds of your rights that way.
I call shenanigans.
From her own writeup (google cache) she admits that she'd been using the service less and less. From the sounds of it, she hadn't been using it at all. But she was dumb enough not to forward her uberimportant emails to another account.
And then, looking at the way her email quotes are cut, I think there was a lot more there that she chose not to share with us.
Having been in the managers position before, I think he was harsh, but she's spinning this to make him look like a dick. She probably demanded to talk to the highest ranking C*O in the state. He didn't say "I'm the highest", he said "I'm the highest that you will be talking to", and I've said the same thing (in different words).
I have the feeling that Lycos tried to explain to her, patiently, that her account had been deleted in line with the terms of service (and the disclaimer on their homepage), and that restorations were only offered to people who were Plus (or Premium or whatever the fudge it was), and she went off the handle, accused them of "holding her emails hostage", used bad language, and got all snotty with them. At that point, they probably didn't want her business, I wouldn't either.
The bottom line, is she did not log in within 30 days, as the homepage clearly says you have to do if you want to keep your account. Lycos told her what she had to do if she wanted her email back, she decided she didn't want to do it, said some bad things to them, and so they decided to tell her to go fuck herself. I say, good on ya, Lycos. Yes, customers deserve to be treated with respect, but it's gone too far in some cases, where privileged little fuckwads think they deserve everything they want, and anyone who says otherwise is mean, mean, mean. I think it's crappy that she's calling this guy out, selectively editing the conversation to make them seem like dicks, and especially crappy if it's true that people are starting to harass him.
Were I him, I'd post the ENTIRE email chain online, not just her edited version... and lets see how sweet and innocent she really is.
Boston-only
A simple LED display of a cartoon character.
+1 Damn Funny
Up here, we're still laughing over you guys and your over-reaction. "OH NOES! Here's a small package that looks funny! ZOMG EVACUATE THE CITY!!!"
Dear Flickr users:
Here is a picture of some large nails. Please use them to climb up on the cross and nail yourself to it.
Pls send pix of your dead body.
Sincerely,
Cerv
Seriously, quit yer damn bitchen. Your website got bought out, now some changes are going to happen. They're not resetting everything, they're not forcing you to participate in any of their other services... they're just saying your signin name has to change. Fracking deal with it.
Yahoo bought out Rocketmail sometime in the late 90s. They merged Rocketmail into their userbase. I got a Yahoo ID to use... but my @rocketmail.com address still works! I'd be surprised if there were only a few hundred Rocketmail users left (probably less), but Yahoo keeps that extra domain going, forwarding those emails... and now I've had the same email addy for 10 years. Hell, I still have emails in my inbox from my original Rocketmail account, that were painlessly migrated over.
None of that crap with Hotmail (log in every month or we'll perma-delete you!)... I have gmail, ISP email, etc etc... but I still prefer my Rocketmail/Yahoo. I don't bother with many of their other services, I don't care, and neither do they.
Yahoo gets ubermegabonus points for keeping my rocketmail going all these years. So I say unto you, you whiny little Flickr users...
quitcherbitchen.
Holy fuck... if you tell a computer to obey voice commands, IT DOES!!!
News at 11.
Seriously, what's next, breaking news about how you can record commands to tape and play them on the stereo as a "hackers remote exploit"?
Yes, I'll agree, it would be nice if voice rec software would filter out itself. But that doesn't seem to be mainstream yet. So just do what everyone does... and turn off voice rec.
People (at least in Canada) are already using "Twenty" for everything...
"We haven't even decided what to call this decade yet."
'The Aughts'
That's what Grampa Simpson would do, and that's just right, dagnabit.
I'm just looking forward to the Tickitys coming up in 13 years. That'll be a great decade.
I've done this exact same process (not on an eMachine though, I won't touch those pieces of crap), and had no serious problems. The worst I've ever had is that the MS internet activation wouldn't work, and I had to call up the 800 number. As long as you have the Product Key sticker (which should be firmly attached to your shiny OEM boxen) you won't have any trouble.
Unless you're a total ass, that is. I've seen (yes, actually watched) people calling up MS Support, and as soon as they get through they launch into a 10 minute diatribe on how this is so horrible, they hate it, they want their key NOWNOWNOW or they're wiping that piece of shit and putting Linux on it. Then the MS rep usually tells them to go fuck themselves.
Hell, I've even put non-oem components in it, MS doesn't seem to care, although the mobo is probably the kicker as it'll have OEM bios and such, but I've still replaced those, called up and told them I replaced it because the manufacturer doesn't carry this replacement anymore, and they gave it to me anyways.
So, I call FUD on this crap. Class action my ass.
Even the article mentions that worldwide demand last year for floppy disks was 700 million units.
That's a heckuva lot of floppy-ness. What's even scarier (to old-school me) is that there are hard drives (admittedly still experimental, but still...) that could hold all of that data now.
I might have an opportunity to set up IT at a new, quick-growing oil business, and I'm definitely considering thin clients.
:) Thin clients are good. They stop the above. The End.
Costs are less, maintenance is much less, security is much better. I can install Gig ethernet in the whole place, put redundant servers in place with clustering for scaling up in the future, and with the roaming profiles, we'll be able to handle the inevitable "everyone moving everywhere" that comes with a growing business. And, with the damn dumb users not being able to install SuperHappyFunSmileyFaces.bat , support costs will be severely, wonderfully reduced.
If I was piecing together a system from parts, or trying to change an existing, broken infrastructure, I'd consider differently. But when you can set it up from (mostly) scratch, it just makes sense. The real cost of IT these days isn't hardware... it's users. Dumb users, who get a virus and don't tell you, who don't know how or where to save their documents (even when you set the login script to force their default save location to the network) and then lose them when they dump coke on their boxen, raging fucking moron users who "clean up" their computer, and then wonder where all their important stuff went, dumb wastes of space who wander over to another department, log in on a machine just sitting there, do some work, wander back when their station is finally working (what did you THINK would happen when you "organized" the power bar and ended up with 3 slots suddenly free???) and then wonder "where's my stuff I was just doing?", but you don't find out until 5 days later when they tell their manager they don't have their stuff done because IT lost it, which is the day after you junk that old piece of shit computer that had been sitting unused in another department for months...
Err, I digress.