Your argument makes so little sense I'm ashamed you even bothered.
Theories like General Relativity have proofs, and they gave us understanding of such simple things as the "bomb", Radioisotopes, and Lasers, which existed largely on paper before its creation. So your "theory" stance holds water like a paper bag.
Try using intelligent design theory to make a better radio transmitter or extend a valuable current technology. Better yet I need this intelligent designer to try and take credit for manmade super technologies that didn't exist 3000 years ago. Bleh.
When you're done I have some books on logic I want you to read.
We need a wikispellchecker webservice to correct common misspellings like "loose" above - which should be "lose" of course. This service sould be rolled into a bot that trolls websites and intelligently corrects all the problems words. I won't ask it to go after grammar - fo shizzle...
It's trite, stupid and silly for anyone to obsess of spelling, but it's like blackflies...too many biting at once and you lose your mind.
1. Online prices are too similar, they are irrelvant. 2. Who has a product closest to me, and is reliable, lets buy it from them. 3. Will Google allow a local retailer to match "best price", or perhaps even come close -- you betcha.
Those are my three prime criteria for selecting vendors or sellers to buy from on ANY auction site. If Google centers their services around these considerations then I'll be using them too.
he said: you have to worry about kids installing crud you don't want
you said: They can't install jack shit if the admin is doing his job right.
Well you just haven't been doing any work as a windows syadmin lately have you? I work as a DAS coordinator in a large governmental organization that maintains over 18000 windows PCs. My division's chunk is about 1400 machines and my area supports about 350 of those directly.
I can gauran-friggen-tee you that with a good working corporate firewall in place, full Group Policy implementation, and NO user rights beyond %userprofile% and %programfiles% (yeah flame us for that one...too many old crappy apps that need r/w), we STILL can get spyware and malware installations, and users can install apps EVEN if the _can't_ write to %programfiles%.
The issues we see are usually with garbage installs done via drive-by downloads on the web. It's down to a trickle now, almost completely stopped due to diligence by our platform support teams on firewall, proxy and gateway filter duty.
Even when we've done our job right, it's still relatively easy to bork a PC box, even if it's just for that user account...and I only say that because my users prove your statement wrong day after day. It's not that we see the problems as frequently as we used to, but even with that we've written PC usage rules that infer consequences if the users attempt to do the things we don't want them to do.
Notice how the screen stays frozen on that one calulator app with the window open in the background? They seemed to be keeping everyone from actually USING the device.
"Oh look! The screen turns!"
I'd like to see how fast it boots; what the email looks like; what the networking prefs look like...
Our network is locked down pretty well...we have about 18000 PCs sitting behing it. Trust me when I say that NO firewall will stop ALL threats, so long as the users have managed, but open internet access.
We don't need to add much of anything to our reimaged PCs...once they're online and registered they'll pull down any missing critical patches immediately anyway. You don't get around corporate networks lately eh? Ever heard of patch management?
If you run a smaller network it's easy enough to keep your master build PC up to date, Sysprepped and ready. Why on earth would remaging be harder than manually fixing a system file when it's peace of mind you're looking for? If it's a bunch of user files under %USERPROFILE% then it's simpler to fix manually. However once you go into %SystemRoot% then it's much trickier. You can't be sure you nailed the problem since the spyware probably got there due to an unpatched exploit.
>Of course, I can't really expect more from a Windows guy, since all they seem to teach about managing Windows machines is reimaging these days.
And if my staff made assumptions like that they'd be put in charge of emptying the trash (can).
"reboot the PC with Knoppix and if you know what you are looking for, start deleting the spyware DLLs, hidden folders and other nastiness from the spyware makers."
Blanket statements like that make private consultants rich with paying customers who call after "deleting the spyware DLLs, hidden folders and other nastiness".
Please don't ever confuse the line "if you know what you are looking for" with this statement: "you know what you are looking for". They are two completely different things.
Next time you "know what you are doing" try deleting winsck.dll since that's where we see our inoperable sypware these days. Once it's gone there, we re-image the whole PC, spank you very much.
Heh heh...of course I am _trying_ to temper my frustration.
I'm just do tired of people/users/other IT folks slamming something that happens to work nicely without offering up so much as one tiny detail as to what they were doing when they decided the stuff was "junk". I look specifically for dissenting opinion because it means someone found something negative...when it steers towards fanboyism I retch. I work on many OSs and have no particular allegiance to anything so long as it solves a problem or fits a need.
BTW you worded that beautifully...it's going to be framed on my cubicle (where only I can see it of course). After a year of PC upgrades (18000 systems went from PII + WinNT 4 to PIV + WinXP SP2) we're still wading through just such nonsense.
I am IT guy within a large government corporation (18000 PC users) and we've NEVER heard of Quicktime causing issues on the systems.
Granted we're a controlled environment, but I bet this guy's system is fuxxored beyond belief. I bet it's not just QuickTime that crashes.
FYI - the reasons I put Quicktime on our builds (I'm our local build master) is because we must play MOV files frequently. I passed on installing the Real Player because of the extra garbage we could NOT remove to make it passable for corporate use.
FYI you _can_ remove the QuickTime extras to minimize the Quicktime application's inpact on the user (adverts and file ownership), but the crashing you are having is either an app conflict or you've buggered your sustem with no help from Apple.
Feel free to email me with the details of your problem if you're seriously stuck. I don't mean to put you down if I can help.
I agree with you - unfortunately our new conservative minority government takes a US style approach and is eyeing the Kyoto Protocol as a limiting option. That's the Alberta advantage at work. Oil and the money invested is what drives the conversation here. It's also hard to be seriously concerned when we're shielded from the worst impact by our median standard of living.
I think Global warming will not be an issue we seriously address unless it's as an addendum to our future retrospective on "where we went wrong".
History proves far too frequently (Rwanda - Darfur?) that we tend to react far too late when it comes to community sacrifice on the prevention end. Even when faced with obvious need to act if it's too much work on the part of people unaffected by the problems then there is "no problem."
I find the debate has grown tiresome and protracted. Even well researched and extremely well supported arguments can be laid waste by opposing views that amount to name-calling. I have to add that I'm a paid-up member of GreenPeace - I'm not hopelessly cynical. I think we're better off asking society to put on training wheels when it comes to climate action. Addressing global warming is tantamount to asking for a PhD level discussion when everyone's busy watching Jerry Springer so to speak.
No level of action can combat the cold-war thinking that prevails now. A few years of concentrated misinformation (a la Cheney style) can wipe out all the really useful public awareness built up to date. Until we're all in agreement we may as well beg to differ.
What separates the aware from the non-aware is or ability to prepare for the worst. Better get started now...you'll be better off than your neighbors, and if the problems appear locally, you'll have a head start.
I remember a line from the "Feed the World" anthem back in the 80s (to raise funds for the starving masses in Ethiopia.
"And the Christmas bells that ring There are the clanging chimes of doom Well tonight thank God it's them instead of you"
We epitomize the spirit of that last line. It's only made mor ironic that it was sung by Bono - a proponent of debt relief.
At some point it may be you - the science is pretty clear on that. Ask someone who lives in Nunavut or the Netherlands.
I bet this guy will get some questions next time he tries out for a position in the banking industry,
I don't know though...change your name to John or Jane Smith and see where that takes you.
JB
Well fie on them - Google doesn't own any satellites last I checked.
If you want to buy sub 1-metre resolution satellite pics just go the SPOT consortium in
France. Any interested parties will BUY their data at FAR greater resolution than what
Google supplies.
I would love to see the new CIV work like Google Earth - so that you can zoom in on the "planet" as you move from city of city, or scroll from place to place as needed. It's make for a nicely realistic environment, no?
Being able to zoom obliquely would also be nice...the various armies and pieces (workers, settlers, etc) becoming visible as you zoom in on them. I find continental strategies would be easier to visualize if I could see across the continents at various angles and directions irrespective of "up" or "down"
And this time can we please not make the Germans or Chinese invincible?? I still can't figure out why they can adjust their troop strengths to match mine in the first fourteen frigging turns! It's almost like they know me...
I thought that when I saw the 512 MB - 1GB capactity...whatever the "100 songs" was supposed to be.
I always cringe when they state the number of songs. While it's always easier that way for consumers to understand, I am thinking: "hmmm...100 songs at 96kbps AAC?"
Would this mean then that New Orleans is Spongeworthy?
And without any interviews to let it justify this!
Lucky city.
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>Whoopie-frigging-do. If I wasn't being paid to >jump in the line of fire, you'd not have been >able to force me at gunpoint to do it.
Sooo...let me get this straight. You couldn't be forced to jump in front of gunfire even if another gun forced you to do so, unless of course you were paid.
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Oh you!
Your argument makes so little sense I'm ashamed you even bothered.
Theories like General Relativity have proofs, and they gave us understanding of such simple things as the "bomb", Radioisotopes, and Lasers, which existed largely on paper before its creation. So your "theory" stance holds water like a paper bag.
Try using intelligent design theory to make a better radio transmitter or extend a valuable current technology. Better yet I need this intelligent designer to try and take credit for manmade super technologies that didn't exist 3000 years ago. Bleh.
When you're done I have some books on logic I want you to read.
Cheers!
JB
Here's an idea - I know this is way offtopic.
We need a wikispellchecker webservice to correct common misspellings like "loose" above - which should be "lose" of course. This service sould be rolled into a bot that trolls websites and intelligently corrects all the problems words. I won't ask it to go after grammar - fo shizzle...
It's trite, stupid and silly for anyone to obsess of spelling, but it's like blackflies...too many biting at once and you lose your mind.
Sorry for the "induglence".
JB
It's interesting that you note those three:
1. Online prices are too similar, they are irrelvant.
2. Who has a product closest to me, and is reliable, lets buy it from them.
3. Will Google allow a local retailer to match "best price", or perhaps even come close -- you betcha.
Those are my three prime criteria for selecting vendors or sellers to buy from on ANY auction site. If Google centers their services around these considerations then I'll be using them too.
JB
Please see me in the IT department please...we need you picture and office number.
JB
he said: you have to worry about kids installing crud you don't want
you said: They can't install jack shit if the admin is doing his job right.
Well you just haven't been doing any work as a windows syadmin lately have you? I work as a DAS coordinator in a large governmental organization that maintains over 18000 windows PCs. My division's chunk is about 1400 machines and my area supports about 350 of those directly.
I can gauran-friggen-tee you that with a good working corporate firewall in place, full Group Policy implementation, and NO user rights beyond %userprofile% and %programfiles% (yeah flame us for that one...too many old crappy apps that need r/w), we STILL can get spyware and malware installations, and users can install apps EVEN if the _can't_ write to %programfiles%.
The issues we see are usually with garbage installs done via drive-by downloads on the web. It's down to a trickle now, almost completely stopped due to diligence by our platform support teams on firewall, proxy and gateway filter duty.
Even when we've done our job right, it's still relatively easy to bork a PC box, even if it's just for that user account...and I only say that because my users prove your statement wrong day after day. It's not that we see the problems as frequently as we used to, but even with that we've written PC usage rules that infer consequences if the users attempt to do the things we don't want them to do.
Cue Murphy's Law...
What about Office:MMVII
:P
Haven't seen that one used yet...
Ditto.
Notice how the screen stays frozen on that one calulator app with the window open in the background? They seemed to be keeping everyone from actually USING the device.
"Oh look! The screen turns!"
I'd like to see how fast it boots; what the email looks like; what the networking prefs look like...
*sigh*
JB
Our network is locked down pretty well...we have about 18000 PCs sitting behing it. Trust me when I say that NO firewall will stop ALL threats, so long as the users have managed, but open internet access.
We don't need to add much of anything to our reimaged PCs...once they're online and registered they'll pull down any missing critical patches immediately anyway. You don't get around corporate networks lately eh? Ever heard of patch management?
If you run a smaller network it's easy enough to keep your master build PC up to date, Sysprepped and ready. Why on earth would remaging be harder than manually fixing a system file when it's peace of mind you're looking for? If it's a bunch of user files under %USERPROFILE% then it's simpler to fix manually. However once you go into %SystemRoot% then it's much trickier. You can't be sure you nailed the problem since the spyware probably got there due to an unpatched exploit.
>Of course, I can't really expect more from a Windows guy, since all they seem to teach about managing Windows machines is reimaging these days.
And if my staff made assumptions like that they'd be put in charge of emptying the trash (can).
You could be a comedian, I'm not really sure:
"reboot the PC with Knoppix and if you know what you are looking for, start deleting the spyware DLLs, hidden folders and other nastiness from the spyware makers."
Blanket statements like that make private consultants rich with paying customers who call after "deleting the spyware DLLs, hidden folders and other nastiness".
Please don't ever confuse the line "if you know what you are looking for" with this statement: "you know what you are looking for". They are two completely different things.
Next time you "know what you are doing" try deleting winsck.dll since that's where we see our inoperable sypware these days. Once it's gone there, we re-image the whole PC, spank you very much.
yup - easy peasy.
JB
Heh heh...of course I am _trying_ to temper my frustration.
I'm just do tired of people/users/other IT folks slamming something that happens to work nicely without offering up so much as one tiny detail as to what they were doing when they decided the stuff was "junk". I look specifically for dissenting opinion because it means someone found something negative...when it steers towards fanboyism I retch. I work on many OSs and have no particular allegiance to anything so long as it solves a problem or fits a need.
BTW you worded that beautifully...it's going to be framed on my cubicle (where only I can see it of course). After a year of PC upgrades (18000 systems went from PII + WinNT 4 to PIV + WinXP SP2) we're still wading through just such nonsense.
Cheers!
JB
I think they tried to name it "Apicture" but their legal dept said no.
I call bullshit...
I am IT guy within a large government corporation (18000 PC users) and we've NEVER heard of Quicktime causing issues on the systems.
Granted we're a controlled environment, but I bet this guy's system is fuxxored beyond belief. I bet it's not just QuickTime that crashes.
FYI - the reasons I put Quicktime on our builds (I'm our local build master) is because we must play MOV files frequently. I passed on installing the Real Player because of the extra garbage we could NOT remove to make it passable for corporate use.
FYI you _can_ remove the QuickTime extras to minimize the Quicktime application's inpact on the user (adverts and file ownership), but the crashing you are having is either an app conflict or you've buggered your sustem with no help from Apple.
Feel free to email me with the details of your problem if you're seriously stuck. I don't mean to put you down if I can help.
I agree with you - unfortunately our new conservative minority government takes a US style approach and is eyeing the Kyoto Protocol as a limiting option. That's the Alberta advantage at work. Oil and the money invested is what drives the conversation here. It's also hard to be seriously concerned when we're shielded from the worst impact by our median standard of living.
I think Global warming will not be an issue we seriously address unless it's as an addendum to our future retrospective on "where we went wrong".
History proves far too frequently (Rwanda - Darfur?) that we tend to react far too late when it comes to community sacrifice on the prevention end. Even when faced with obvious need to act if it's too much work on the part of people unaffected by the problems then there is "no problem."
I find the debate has grown tiresome and protracted. Even well researched and extremely well supported arguments can be laid waste by opposing views that amount to name-calling. I have to add that I'm a paid-up member of GreenPeace - I'm not hopelessly cynical. I think we're better off asking society to put on training wheels when it comes to climate action. Addressing global warming is tantamount to asking for a PhD level discussion when everyone's busy watching Jerry Springer so to speak.
No level of action can combat the cold-war thinking that prevails now. A few years of concentrated misinformation (a la Cheney style) can wipe out all the really useful public awareness built up to date. Until we're all in agreement we may as well beg to differ.
What separates the aware from the non-aware is or ability to prepare for the worst. Better get started now...you'll be better off than your neighbors, and if the problems appear locally, you'll have a head start.
I remember a line from the "Feed the World" anthem back in the 80s (to raise funds for the starving masses in Ethiopia.
"And the Christmas bells that ring
There are the clanging chimes of doom
Well tonight thank God it's them instead of you"
We epitomize the spirit of that last line. It's only made mor ironic that it was sung by Bono - a proponent of debt relief.
At some point it may be you - the science is pretty clear on that. Ask someone who lives in Nunavut or the Netherlands.
JB
I bet this guy will get some questions next time he tries out for a position in the banking industry, I don't know though...change your name to John or Jane Smith and see where that takes you. JB
I better get prepared
Oh wait - I have a mac - *sigh*
Time to get off that crazy train people!
Well fie on them - Google doesn't own any satellites last I checked.
If you want to buy sub 1-metre resolution satellite pics just go the SPOT consortium in
France. Any interested parties will BUY their data at FAR greater resolution than what
Google supplies.
Meh
*sigh*
If only...
Perhaps it was like this:
83% Happy = "I can't believe I was chosen to pose for this!!"
9% Disgusted = "When is he going to finally put some pants on??"
Looks like Sony's trying to suggest that their customers develop their tastes in music.
I wonder if their classical music label had the same problems ;)
Just for that we're going to give you the RFID 2000.
Link here: RFID 2000
This is a great question.
I would love to see the new CIV work like Google Earth - so that you can zoom in on the "planet" as you move from city of city, or scroll from place to place as needed. It's make for a nicely realistic environment, no?
Being able to zoom obliquely would also be nice...the various armies and pieces (workers, settlers, etc) becoming visible as you zoom in on them. I find continental strategies would be easier to visualize if I could see across the continents at various angles and directions irrespective of "up" or "down"
And this time can we please not make the Germans or Chinese invincible?? I still can't figure out why they can adjust their troop strengths to match mine in the first fourteen frigging turns! It's almost like they know me...
JB
I thought that when I saw the 512 MB - 1GB capactity...whatever the "100 songs" was supposed to be.
I always cringe when they state the number of songs. While it's always easier that way for consumers to understand, I am thinking: "hmmm...100 songs at 96kbps AAC?"
No thank you!
JB
Would this mean then that New Orleans is Spongeworthy?
And without any interviews to let it justify this!
Lucky city.
>Whoopie-frigging-do. If I wasn't being paid to
>jump in the line of fire, you'd not have been
>able to force me at gunpoint to do it.
Sooo...let me get this straight. You couldn't be forced to jump in front of gunfire even if another gun forced you to do so, unless of course you were paid.
Your managers must love these analogies.
Sorry to nitpick...it's a slow lunchtime.
JB