I swear this was already a law as pretty much everything that takes a pictures already *does* this.
Both my digital camera and the camera on my phone DEFAULT to making a click noise when you take a picture but it can be turned off. The click noise is just hokey and annoying, I can't believe you won't be able to turn it off in the future. That's just ludicrous.
Just hold on to your old camera. I have an old 1.2 megapixel from back when they were the new hotness. It takes decent pictures. I'll keep using it until it dies, or AA batteries go the way of betamax.
The confusion is quite ridiculous. I mean really, when the fscking salespeople need to look up tables to determine which windows versions include which features, you can tell someone somewhere in marketing has screwed the pooch badly.
After being in the Linux arena for several years, I ran into a client that needed a Windows solution. CDW was their preferred vendor. I called them for a quote....and spent the better part of my work day on the phone with the account rep, and some odd sort of Microsoft licensing rep trying to figure out the correct licensing for a handfull of workstations, and two servers.
Strange combinations of eOpen licenses for workstations, and server CALs, but then special CALs for having more than 1 server on an SBS network, and then a license for SQL, and then Office under some other 'open' license, plus a few standalone apps from the office suite for computers that only needed Word or PowerPoint, etc...
What a huge fucking nightmare. With all the time spent dealing with the licensing, a company could probably save money if Microsoft had a 'dumptruck licensing plan' where you simply drove them a dump truck full of money every 6 months and you could use whatever software in whatever situation.
My linux licenses are so much easier.
Server: $0
Workstation: $0
Database (MySQL or Postgresql): $0
Jabber collaboration server: $0
Development workstation (with any combination of vi, vim, emacs, openkomodo, kate, eclipse, etc...): $5
(Actually, my linux sales rep says 'Just kidding stupid, it's $0')
Sorry--I should have said 'democrat' in place of 'liberal'. The democrats have the majority. They should be able to shoot down anything that is unconstitutional. The problem is that they don't care or are looking out or their own special interests. A huge chunk of republicans are just as retarded. If the republicans were the majority and trying to pass that bullshit, I would be complaining about them.
Perhaps I wasn't clear, though I felt confident it would be difficult to mix up "military misadventure" with "bailout". I was referring to the military actions in Iraq and Afghanistan which cumulatively cost us about twice that per month.[1]
Yeah, I thought you were comparing costs of the Iraq war spread over 7 years to the amount amount we blew through in one congressional session with the bailout.
Suggesting that the less than 2 trillion in bailouts is a big deal is incredibly hypocritical on you're part. Had the President and his party not felt the need to wrack up 20k+ in debt per person living in the US, the 2 trillion would have been no big deal at all.
Actually, the democratic majority backed the bailout. (As did a handful of worthless republicans) is completely and totally 100% unconstitutional....but war isn't unconstitutional. So there's no hypocrisy there.
Plenty of Democrats where unwilling to support it so without republican support the bailout would not have passed. (It failed the first time.)
Hey--I won't defend the Republican party in this, if that's what your thinking. Members of both parties need to be horsewhipped in the streets for what they've done.
Like, uh...they haven't attacked us since we started 'investing' in it.
And I haven't been run over by a car since I started slashing all the tires on the cars on my street. It must be working!
That's an impressive strawman.
Try saying "I haven't been run over by a car since police started heavily patrolling my street and ticketing offenders." That fits better, except it doesn't support your biased liberal attack.
It's easy to debunk my argument when you come up with bullshit premises.
$6bn, as absurd an amount as it is, is a drop in the water compared to some of the things the last President put through. At least that kind of spending is starting to get funneled back into the US as opposed to, say, across the world in military misadventures that are actively damaging our security.
Funny--last time I checked, the President didn't have a f*cking checkbook. It was the liberal senators that took over in the last 2 years that passed the bailouts.
Although Bush doesn't get off scot-free--he didn't veto the f*cking thing.
As long as we get some return on the investment I'm all for it
Like, say, protection from terrorists?
Like, uh...they haven't attacked us since we started 'investing' in it.
As far as telco's go, we invested heavily in the 80's via tax cuts, and all those little $0.25 and $0.50 fees on phone bills. What did they develop with billions? ISDN. Yeah. 128k. No thanks. I don't need the government to take money from me at the point of a gun to give to a bunch of huge monopolistic telephone companies to squander.
Besides, having explosives is not illegal just because you could use them for therrorism, but because accidents happen; accidents which might not only harm yourself (being stupid enough to have a bomb with you, whatever happens, you had it coming), but those around you as well. More so with something as powerful as a nuke.
Awesome idea. I propose we start off by banning the following unsafe items that could harm you and possibly others: smoking, alcohol, cars, and electricity.
The biggest problem is that most users who are not technically savvy use the same username and password for all their online activities, including job sites and banking.
If Monster had encrypted their passwords, this would be a significanly smaller problem.
Or if they used something like gpgauth, it wouldn't matter that they stole your login details. A username and a public key are useless...
Sad but true. I graduated last summer and I've been unemployed since. I'd love to tell Monster where to shove it, but I'm desperate. Not even the supermarkets are hiring around here.
That's why you shouldn't become a liberal arts major. In this tough times, they aren't even hiring fry questioners at McDonalds...
That site is just as bad in Chrome, last time I checked.
Blast! Then certainly someone out there is smart enough to develop a plugin or something that can detect non-stop opening of new gay porn windows along with annoying audio and halt it with a box saying "should this continue"?
In chrome, can't you stop a tab and force it to close using a task-manager like thing?
Damnit. When will Chrome be available for Linux? Do you know how long it takes to reopen 150 tabs on an old Compaq Presario 2300 laptop? Good thing I have a second brower installed. It'll take me a week to get firefox loaded back up.
Meh--a word with enough usage will eventually find it's way into the common lexicon, and get into the dictionary. If Merriam Webster can put the word 'blog' in there, they can STFU and put 'virii' in there too.
I'd like to take this opportunity to welcome mac users to the pc world...I mean really....pirated software with a virus...who would have seen that one coming?
I just wish someone would do this for the Linux world. I've tried nearly every ISO download under "Applications -> Unix" on The Pirate Bay, but everything seems to be *legal*.
It won't be the year of Linux on the Desktop(tm) until you can download pirated linux applications from The Pirate Bay complete with virii and rootkits.
And I love it when you quote the most insignificant points of my post, but leave the actual point making parts alone.
You're a true Internet posting hero!
I'm glad you're finally in charge of how people should reply to comments. I was getting tired of the job.
Well, I wouldn't say that's WHY Obama won. He didn't promise free health care, free internet, or free welfare.
Well, you're right. There's no such thing as 'free'. Your affordable healthcare will come at the expense of someone else paying for it.
Same thing with internet access.
But, I can see how someone that didn't pay attention to any of his speeches, plans, or ideas could think that (read: someone that gets all his news from Rush Limbaugh.)
I usually stop listening about 15 seconds in when he starts painting socialism as being a wonderful thing. And I've never tuned into Rush Limbaugh. I've heard him once or twice on someone elses radio, or seen him on TV every now-and-then. I was never impressed enough to listen to his show.
Dipshit.
I love it when we get into the name calling stage. It's typical of liberals to resort to name calling to try and make themselves 'better' than other people. Plus, now that you've thrown down the gauntlet, I can pull out some awesome 80's classic insults.
They could put list price out there but almost no one pays list for their products. Govt, Education, Non-profits...plus there are all kinds of support levels that will change the per seat price dramatically. Can you go to Redhats or Sun's site and see a list of prices for their directory services? A freaking directory isn't something you just bop over to newegg.com and buy. If this is the main reason you discount the most scaleable and powerful directory system in the world then you REALLY just need to stick with AD as you are a nub...
I'm not going to waste my time trying to track down prices when they could say something like:
$20/user for the first 100, then it drops to $10 until you reach 10,000, then it drops to $5 up to 100,000 users. If you are a non-profit, you get a 10% discount. If you are in the medical field, you get a 10% mark-up so we can call the license "medically certified", etc...
It's not that f*cking difficult to post a price matrix. Microsoft even has one for Windows 2008 here.
It doesn't include the charity discounts, or volume licensing prices, but at least you get a rough idea how much it costs.
With the Novell solution, I'm wondering if it's going to cost my small business $300, $5,000, or $50,000 to use.
Give your price up-front. It's ok if there are special deals for special businesses or quantities. Just give your 'this is the worst case' price up front.
It's like going to a car dealership. I walk in and see a car for $10,000, I know I can probably get it down to $8,000. But I know that a car marked as $20,000 won't drop that far.
I don't want to waste my time looking at a Lincoln when my budget is $10,000.
I'm not sure that's what he meant. I'm not sure how to pronounce it, but it's sounds like 'neigh paugh'--you know, the feeling you've done this before?
I'm sure there are plenty of great FOSS solutions out there, but eDirectory make it so much easier and reduced the cost of implementation significantly, even taking into account licensing costs. Sometimes you do just have to weigh up all the angles.
Yeah, I stopped weighing the angles immediately after I visited their website and realized they don't advertise their prices. Clicking the "buy" link doesn't take you to a store where you can "buy" it, but rather a "give us all your contact info" form so they can provide you with the "best price".
It's the same thing that CDW does when you call them to get a quote. I use them constantly when trying to get competitive bids. I can always count on them to add approximately 10% to the price I can get on newegg.com.
Finally, I tell the rep that we're going somewhere cheaper, and they start talking about how places like newegg don't give you an 'account rep'. WTF? I don't need a rep trying to add 10% to the top of the price and then negotiate a bit with me to try and get 'the best price'. Just give me the f*cking price up-front and I'll consider it.
Screw Novell. They want to take a look at your company and figure out just how much they can wring out of you before you decide it just isn't worth it...
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Both my digital camera and the camera on my phone DEFAULT to making a click noise when you take a picture but it can be turned off. The click noise is just hokey and annoying, I can't believe you won't be able to turn it off in the future. That's just ludicrous.
Just hold on to your old camera. I have an old 1.2 megapixel from back when they were the new hotness. It takes decent pictures. I'll keep using it until it dies, or AA batteries go the way of betamax.
The confusion is quite ridiculous. I mean really, when the fscking salespeople need to look up tables to determine which windows versions include which features, you can tell someone somewhere in marketing has screwed the pooch badly.
After being in the Linux arena for several years, I ran into a client that needed a Windows solution. CDW was their preferred vendor. I called them for a quote....and spent the better part of my work day on the phone with the account rep, and some odd sort of Microsoft licensing rep trying to figure out the correct licensing for a handfull of workstations, and two servers.
Strange combinations of eOpen licenses for workstations, and server CALs, but then special CALs for having more than 1 server on an SBS network, and then a license for SQL, and then Office under some other 'open' license, plus a few standalone apps from the office suite for computers that only needed Word or PowerPoint, etc...
What a huge fucking nightmare. With all the time spent dealing with the licensing, a company could probably save money if Microsoft had a 'dumptruck licensing plan' where you simply drove them a dump truck full of money every 6 months and you could use whatever software in whatever situation.
My linux licenses are so much easier.
Server: $0
Workstation: $0
Database (MySQL or Postgresql): $0
Jabber collaboration server: $0
Development workstation (with any combination of vi, vim, emacs, openkomodo, kate, eclipse, etc...): $5
(Actually, my linux sales rep says 'Just kidding stupid, it's $0')
Why did you say It was the liberal senators that took over in the last 2 years that passed the bailouts" then? Here you are singling out "liberal senators", none of which are really liberal. A real liberal believes in liberty and small government.
Falcon
Sorry--I should have said 'democrat' in place of 'liberal'. The democrats have the majority. They should be able to shoot down anything that is unconstitutional. The problem is that they don't care or are looking out or their own special interests. A huge chunk of republicans are just as retarded. If the republicans were the majority and trying to pass that bullshit, I would be complaining about them.
yeah but blog is a word with practical common day usage, whereas virii is simply used by people who want to sound smarter than they actually are.
Yeah, but weblog is a word with practical common day usage, where as blog is simply used by people who are lazy.
Perhaps I wasn't clear, though I felt confident it would be difficult to mix up "military misadventure" with "bailout". I was referring to the military actions in Iraq and Afghanistan which cumulatively cost us about twice that per month.[1]
Yeah, I thought you were comparing costs of the Iraq war spread over 7 years to the amount amount we blew through in one congressional session with the bailout.
Suggesting that the less than 2 trillion in bailouts is a big deal is incredibly hypocritical on you're part. Had the President and his party not felt the need to wrack up 20k+ in debt per person living in the US, the 2 trillion would have been no big deal at all.
Actually, the democratic majority backed the bailout. (As did a handful of worthless republicans) is completely and totally 100% unconstitutional. ...but war isn't unconstitutional. So there's no hypocrisy there.
Plenty of Democrats where unwilling to support it so without republican support the bailout would not have passed. (It failed the first time.)
Hey--I won't defend the Republican party in this, if that's what your thinking. Members of both parties need to be horsewhipped in the streets for what they've done.
And I haven't been run over by a car since I started slashing all the tires on the cars on my street. It must be working!
That's an impressive strawman.
Try saying "I haven't been run over by a car since police started heavily patrolling my street and ticketing offenders." That fits better, except it doesn't support your biased liberal attack.
It's easy to debunk my argument when you come up with bullshit premises.
$6bn, as absurd an amount as it is, is a drop in the water compared to some of the things the last President put through. At least that kind of spending is starting to get funneled back into the US as opposed to, say, across the world in military misadventures that are actively damaging our security.
Funny--last time I checked, the President didn't have a f*cking checkbook. It was the liberal senators that took over in the last 2 years that passed the bailouts.
Although Bush doesn't get off scot-free--he didn't veto the f*cking thing.
As long as we get some return on the investment I'm all for it
Like, say, protection from terrorists?
Like, uh...they haven't attacked us since we started 'investing' in it.
...or auto makers for that matter.
As far as telco's go, we invested heavily in the 80's via tax cuts, and all those little $0.25 and $0.50 fees on phone bills. What did they develop with billions? ISDN. Yeah. 128k. No thanks. I don't need the government to take money from me at the point of a gun to give to a bunch of huge monopolistic telephone companies to squander.
Besides, having explosives is not illegal just because you could use them for therrorism, but because accidents happen; accidents which might not only harm yourself (being stupid enough to have a bomb with you, whatever happens, you had it coming), but those around you as well. More so with something as powerful as a nuke.
Awesome idea. I propose we start off by banning the following unsafe items that could harm you and possibly others: smoking, alcohol, cars, and electricity.
The biggest problem is that most users who are not technically savvy use the same username and password for all their online activities, including job sites and banking.
If Monster had encrypted their passwords, this would be a significanly smaller problem.
Or if they used something like gpgauth, it wouldn't matter that they stole your login details. A username and a public key are useless...
Sad but true. I graduated last summer and I've been unemployed since. I'd love to tell Monster where to shove it, but I'm desperate. Not even the supermarkets are hiring around here.
That's why you shouldn't become a liberal arts major. In this tough times, they aren't even hiring fry questioners at McDonalds...
That site is just as bad in Chrome, last time I checked.
Blast! Then certainly someone out there is smart enough to develop a plugin or something that can detect non-stop opening of new gay porn windows along with annoying audio and halt it with a box saying "should this continue"?
In chrome, can't you stop a tab and force it to close using a task-manager like thing?
Damnit. When will Chrome be available for Linux? Do you know how long it takes to reopen 150 tabs on an old Compaq Presario 2300 laptop? Good thing I have a second brower installed. It'll take me a week to get firefox loaded back up.
It's viruses, not virii.
Meh--a word with enough usage will eventually find it's way into the common lexicon, and get into the dictionary. If Merriam Webster can put the word 'blog' in there, they can STFU and put 'virii' in there too.
Get Komodo 4.0 with the keygen. I haven't tried it (I wanted 5.0), but I doubt that keygen is safe.
Komodo is free now. OpenKomodo.com
I'd like to take this opportunity to welcome mac users to the pc world...I mean really....pirated software with a virus...who would have seen that one coming?
I just wish someone would do this for the Linux world. I've tried nearly every ISO download under "Applications -> Unix" on The Pirate Bay, but everything seems to be *legal*.
It won't be the year of Linux on the Desktop(tm) until you can download pirated linux applications from The Pirate Bay complete with virii and rootkits.
And I love it when you quote the most insignificant points of my post, but leave the actual point making parts alone. You're a true Internet posting hero!
I'm glad you're finally in charge of how people should reply to comments. I was getting tired of the job.
Well, I wouldn't say that's WHY Obama won. He didn't promise free health care, free internet, or free welfare.
Well, you're right. There's no such thing as 'free'. Your affordable healthcare will come at the expense of someone else paying for it.
Same thing with internet access.
But, I can see how someone that didn't pay attention to any of his speeches, plans, or ideas could think that (read: someone that gets all his news from Rush Limbaugh.)
I usually stop listening about 15 seconds in when he starts painting socialism as being a wonderful thing. And I've never tuned into Rush Limbaugh. I've heard him once or twice on someone elses radio, or seen him on TV every now-and-then. I was never impressed enough to listen to his show.
Dipshit.
I love it when we get into the name calling stage. It's typical of liberals to resort to name calling to try and make themselves 'better' than other people. Plus, now that you've thrown down the gauntlet, I can pull out some awesome 80's classic insults.
Skank.
But it HAS to travel in space. See, space and time are as intertwined a green and grass.
Crap! My lawn is always brown and wilting. How does that effect me living in a multi-dimensional world?
They could put list price out there but almost no one pays list for their products. Govt, Education, Non-profits...plus there are all kinds of support levels that will change the per seat price dramatically. Can you go to Redhats or Sun's site and see a list of prices for their directory services? A freaking directory isn't something you just bop over to newegg.com and buy. If this is the main reason you discount the most scaleable and powerful directory system in the world then you REALLY just need to stick with AD as you are a nub...
I'm not going to waste my time trying to track down prices when they could say something like:
$20/user for the first 100, then it drops to $10 until you reach 10,000, then it drops to $5 up to 100,000 users. If you are a non-profit, you get a 10% discount. If you are in the medical field, you get a 10% mark-up so we can call the license "medically certified", etc...
It's not that f*cking difficult to post a price matrix. Microsoft even has one for Windows 2008 here.
It doesn't include the charity discounts, or volume licensing prices, but at least you get a rough idea how much it costs.
With the Novell solution, I'm wondering if it's going to cost my small business $300, $5,000, or $50,000 to use.
Give your price up-front. It's ok if there are special deals for special businesses or quantities. Just give your 'this is the worst case' price up front.
It's like going to a car dealership. I walk in and see a car for $10,000, I know I can probably get it down to $8,000. But I know that a car marked as $20,000 won't drop that far.
I don't want to waste my time looking at a Lincoln when my budget is $10,000.
Like Deja Foo? The feeling that you've screwed this up before?
Or Dijon Vu, the feeling you've tasted this mustard before?
N'est-ce pas?
There, fixed it for you
I'm not sure that's what he meant. I'm not sure how to pronounce it, but it's sounds like 'neigh paugh'--you know, the feeling you've done this before?
I'm sure there are plenty of great FOSS solutions out there, but eDirectory make it so much easier and reduced the cost of implementation significantly, even taking into account licensing costs. Sometimes you do just have to weigh up all the angles.
Yeah, I stopped weighing the angles immediately after I visited their website and realized they don't advertise their prices. Clicking the "buy" link doesn't take you to a store where you can "buy" it, but rather a "give us all your contact info" form so they can provide you with the "best price".
It's the same thing that CDW does when you call them to get a quote. I use them constantly when trying to get competitive bids. I can always count on them to add approximately 10% to the price I can get on newegg.com.
Finally, I tell the rep that we're going somewhere cheaper, and they start talking about how places like newegg don't give you an 'account rep'. WTF? I don't need a rep trying to add 10% to the top of the price and then negotiate a bit with me to try and get 'the best price'. Just give me the f*cking price up-front and I'll consider it.
Screw Novell. They want to take a look at your company and figure out just how much they can wring out of you before you decide it just isn't worth it...