Hey...I don't want an OS that makes a lifestyle or political statement - just one that helps me make a living without wasting my time learning to be a Geek.
To be honest, the more I use Firefox, the more I dislike it. It really isn't that great. It has the potential to be great, but we need to get past all this "add more features" and fix security programs.
This is the most dishonest comment I've heard concerning Firefox: you make no specific claims other than "you don't like Firefox", and attempt to base this assertion on some "personal experience" which you don't even bother to define.
And as far as getting "...past all this "add more features" and fix security programs" - NO. Security and additional features are always a concern for any product - so it will be no different with Firefox.
How the hell your stupid-aseed comment got graded as "Insightful" is...just utterly freakin' amazing. It should have been labled "Flamebait"
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A free software and open source web browser with an audience (increasing numbers of people getting the browser, the press talking about it, and lots of third-party add-ons)? I don't think Microsoft has ever faced that kind of web browser before.
No, MS has never faced such a dynamic browser before, and by dynamic, I mean "...responds to user's wants". Compared to IE, Firefox does very a good job at closing up security holes in a timely manner and providing a platform where a user can select a rich variety of add-ons (like "Bug-me-not", "Dictionary Search", "Zoom", "Cookie Manager" etc..). Also, Firefox blocks the snot out of Pop-ups, and I am eternally gratetful to it's developers for that! Also, the tabbed browsing is a god-send, too. Really...ever since I've been using Firefox, my web-surfing experience has become significantly more enjoyable and, I'll say it again, I am forever grateful to it's developers.
Now, given Firefox's superiority, it would seem that things should easily go thier way and IE would soon be history, but...unfortunately, those guys in Redmond still have a desktop monopoly and a lot of money - and it all begins and ends with that fact. At one time, Netscape's Navigator was everything - THE browser - and Microsoft's IE was nowhere, and then it all changed: Microsoft rolled over Netscape in a few short years despite the fact that politicians, courts and many of the computing public cried "foul" at MS's tactics; nevertheless, MS won. See, as long as IE was packaged with Windows as the default browser and was "Good enough, it put Netscape in a losing position from which it could never recover.
Anyways, we shall see. In the meanime, I will continue to use Firefox.
It's relatively small, dosen't take up gobs of RAM....
What...compared to IE? I mean I look at my RAM usage statistics with Firefox and they are nearly identical to those of I.E.. Nevertheless, I prefer the hell out of Firefox - I just don't think that seeling it as a "Light Browser" is accurate.
The potential for development within firefox is fairly impressive...microsoft had better be concerned.
Yeah...I'm sure Bill Gates is losing sleep over this. I mean, Microsoft only has a desktop software monopoly, $60,000,000,000 cash and 10 Legions of Indian programmers with which to fend off Firefox.
Hey...it's not like MS has never utterly crushed a rival browser before, huh?
HDTV...so what? I've already got a big screen that does just fine and more resolution via HDTV isn't really going to "better" the experience. Yeah...it's more "High Tech" - or whatever - but it doesn't add much considering the hassle and expense.
Also, you can add DVD to the list of "Crapola", too. DVDs are the biggest sham ever thrust on the american public - Expensive, Unreliable and subject to Scratches/dust. Let others have them.
On the bright side - TiVo seems like a product that could add value and I'm looking into purchasing one now. Would be a great format to record shows until I decide whether or not I'll transfer then to VHS via a high quality, but very inexpensive, player/recorder - THAT DOESN'T LET ME DOWN!
Just my rant for the day.
Gee, was thinking of buying a PDA, but....
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I've got a real job and can't take the time to fuck around with one of these time-wasting pieces of shit.
""" As it is today, people in poor countries see their young children starve to death, or die from lack of medicine, just so people in rich countries don't have to suffer the discomfort of looking for a new job. ""
Really...just screw you. Why don't you just openly admit you hate America?
"The primary job creation engine of the economy is the small businessman (or woman). "
Ahhh...yes! The little people with delusions of grandeur who create the McJobs! The businesses which go out of business at a 90%+ rate, and that typically offer no healthcare, no retirements, no benefits - and certainly no stability. And in thier wake lies nothing but bankruptcy and unrecoverable loans.
Hey, young dudes, tell me in 10 years what you think about offshoring...when the Engineering & IT Proffession have been reduced to domestic serfdom!
Mod it to "Flamebait" if you are so compelled - just remember what I said.
AMF!
Tell you what, when you Desktop Linux guys get your sound cards, printers, digital cams, and video cards working with Linux as easy as you can with Windows, then I'll listen. Of course, seeing that Linux is fragmented into about 5000 different versions, I won't be holding my breath waiting for this to happen.
Until then, I'll use my Windows-based PC as a tool while you sit farting around all day trying to make Linux actually work.
BTW, I picked up my Windows 2000 install for $7 dollars in the Phillipines and got MS Office thrown in for Free. Who says Windows is expensive? I mean, that's a lot cheaper than you can get a distro on CD from Redhat!
Hey...my life, and work, is not centered on being a computer geek: I need something that works and is compatible. Linux just doesn't cut it on the compatibility side.
See...with Linux on the Desktop, it always something, isn't it? I mean, something that prevents you from hooking up that Digital Camera, enjoying that Sound Card or getting the Video Card to work at it's spec'd resolutions.
And...worst yet, the dearth of decent Linux applications is areal "Pain in the Arse". Sure...there's lot's of free Apps out there for Linux - they just also happen to be buggy, clunky and have poor user interfaces.
Like I said: Desktop Linux is free if your time is worthless.
So...in order to satisfactorily run Linux on the Desktop, it's advisable to consult "Incompatibility Lists" which are hosted on sites so lame that they can't even handle substantial traffic: like the Linux-related site referenced in this posting.
Sure! Great! Hey...like I have loads of time to waste trying to find drivers! And Linux Geeks actually wonder why Linux is not being accepted on the Desktop as fast as they would like?
Linux on the Desktop? No Thanks! For the desktop, I'll stick with Windows 2000: it actually works with common hardware.
Linux on the Desktop: it's free if your time is worthless.
If your company was dumb enough to archive things in Word format and is not looking for reliable methods to get the information out, you might as well throw the things away.
FUD...pure and simple. Why don't you learn a little about Word?
Let's face it, most kids couldn't give a Rat's Arse about how to protect them selves online - especially from virisus and such. I can see that there would be an interest in identifying the numerous predators that inhabit chat rooms, but beyonf that...nothing else much.
Like it or not, most people, and most kids, especially, view the PC as a common appliance - to be used with the minimum amount of effort. And...this is actually quite logical. For most people, other than the extremely computer literate, would be wasting thier time getting too in depth: time they could beter spend on other pursuits with thier precious time.
Hopefully - one day - we'll get PC's to the "Appliance Level, but, until then, I guess we'll just have to suffer allthe virus infections, etc. that now are a part of the game.
Oh well....
Having installed wired and wireless networking on manufacturing floors I can tell you that before this dream of magic wireless connectivity comes true, these machines will need vastly better RF shielding.
Well...good luck considering that most of the electromagnetic energy in the near field is propogated as as a magnetic field which will just whistle through most type of shielding. You could use ferretic materials as shielding - which would convert the magnetic field to heat, but good luck cause you're going to need a lot of it, an it's effect on expense and heat dissipation are beyond my understanding where industrial electric motors are concerned.
If anything, I would say the advances to be made are in the receivers themselves. Specifically, this means the elimination of noise due to the electric motors. Hopefully, the signals used to propagate the signals are high enough in frequency - and strength - so that some real stout high-pass filtering could be accomplished at the recieiver while still maintaining a good SNR. I'd love to hear some thoughts on this from those much better able to address it.
As far as an issue I saw expressed by another user concerning the "Doppler Shift" caused by machinary moving around on the factory floor - I just don't know what you mean. Considering the fact that a jet travelling 2000 mile-per-hour has no problems with receiving doppler-shifted radio signals, whatever is travelling on that factory floor better be moving pretty-damned fast.
So,,,according to your logic, those 131K layed-off software engineers should go in business for themselves. Well...that's a nice sentiment, but the Software Engineering market is already saturated with consultants, As a result, the 131K engineers are battling for a smaller piece of the pie - even the the pie is growing (albeit growing at a rate far less than is needed to absorb 131K Consultants)
Hey...this is being done already, and it isn't working. Your average Software Engineering Counsultant lives had-to-mouth without appreciable savings and certainly no cheap healthcare, and its' pretty much going remain so until the laws protecting employee rights (like H1B's, Firings and Overtime) are enforced. Meanwhile, they participate in an extremely saturated and competitive market where thier wages are seeminly forever spiraling downward.
In short, this Consultant is not "Liberated", he's "Enslaved": he needs to keep taking those ever smaller pay rates to keep paying off his cars, homes, medical bills and kid's educations. Meanwhile, he cam neithesave nor really has the time/capital to seek another proffession - provoding he isn't willing to renig on a vast some of mounting debt and destroy his credit rating in the process.
Want to know the future? Try Reading Spencer Johnson's "Who Moved My Cheese?" THAT's out future: forever scurring around like mice in a maze - the hero's of the book - looking for new cheese. Is it any wonder that the HR Rep in "Dilbert" is named "Catbert"? It's a Rat Race, and corporations are so arrogant that they don't even try to hide the fact any more - so that's why a lot of big corporations have bought these books for thier employees to read. Let's them know the game.
If you think something smells rotten in corporate America, you're right. It's a foul aroma wafting in from the executive suites, where the rats are jumping for joy at the success of their latest manifesto, "Who Moved My Cheese?", subtitled...get this, "An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and In Your Life."
"We moved it," they squeal with delight, "and when we want to, we'll move it again." Why? Very simple. Management has discovered that moving or removing YOUR cheese can be quite advantageous to them. But they've known that for a more than a decade. What they've just begun to realize is that it's possible to sell employees on the idea that this is perfectly OK. I'll elaborate, but first let me tell you how it all began.
It Takes Only a Minute
Management has a Holy Grail and it is known as "the silver bullet," also called the quick fix. It's epitomized in a small, thin book called "The One Minute Manager" by Kenneth Blanchard, Ph.D. (piled higher and deeper) and Spencer Johnson, M.D. (mostly deeper.) The theme of "The One Minute Manager" is that business people, especially managers, spend way too much time mulling over problems, internalizing them, and debating on what to do next. Much better, proposed Blanchard and Johnson, to jump in, collect all the facts that are at your fingertips or can be coaxed out of your subordinates, and make a snap decision in one minute or less. Actually, the primary decision is which employees can best be made to take ownership of the problem, strategically moving the burning acid of responsibility from your stomach to theirs. If things improve, you allocate no more than one more minute to tell them how great they are doing. If the situation deteriorates, you allocate that same minute to making darn sure that they feel terrible about it and will work even harder to keep the problem from returning to you.
A Revolution in Business Thinking
Think this is funny? It's revolutionary. The enabling power of one minute management has caused the entire Fortune 500 to refocus from the concept of stewardship, with a responsibility to the community that spans generations, to a slavish devotion to the needs of the institutional investor, primarily an increased stream of earnings every fiscal quarter. White-collar layoffs, almost unheard of prior to the 1980s, are now a standard tool of expense management. With only a minute needed for problem solving, the span of control for managers has increased as much as ten fold and the number of people assigned to non-producing supervisory functions proportionally reduced. Productivity, as measured by corporate earnings, soared to create the raging bull market of the 1990s. Johnson and Blanchard are lauded in corporate circles. But the emphasis on rapid decision making has led to shortened attention spans. It's already time for something new...
The Big Cheese
The toll of one minute everything is burning out once naive and eager employees, anxious for their leg up the corporate ladder. The abuses of ever increasing demands have created calluses of cynicism that are best portrayed in the characters of Scott Adams' Dilbert. Now everyone sees themselves as an oppressed Dilbert or Wally and adopts a passive/aggressive approach to corporate survival.
Re-enter Johnson, sans Blanchard, with a new silver bullet, this one cleverly disguised as an irresistible morsel of cheese. And who can resist the power of cheese? It's a story that is designed once again to get the onus of action into the mind of the common employee. Without giving too much away, here's how it goes.
It seems that there are two mice and two small people living in a maze. They dine on a seemingly endless supply of cheese provided by an unseen benevolent caretaker. All are complacent and happy with this scenario, until one day the cheese is gone. The mice shrug and take off down the corridors of the maze to find more
Supposedly the Robot makes only about half it's shots: Don't believe it folks. The robot is missing those shots on purpose - "laying down" - until the money gets right, and then it will start to hustle.
Hey...I watched the "The Color of Money" starrring Ton Cruise and Paul Neuman - I know all about Pool Hustlng.
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Wrong. Here are some definitions of a computer virus....
So...you preface your diatribe as shown, and then proceed to tear into the guy's thread for the sake of Semantics.
Please...lighten up. We can all be friends here.
Thanks.
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Hey...I don't want an OS that makes a lifestyle or political statement - just one that helps me make a living without wasting my time learning to be a Geek.
Does that Linux Distro exist?
This is the most dishonest comment I've heard concerning Firefox: you make no specific claims other than "you don't like Firefox", and attempt to base this assertion on some "personal experience" which you don't even bother to define.
And as far as getting "...past all this "add more features" and fix security programs" - NO. Security and additional features are always a concern for any product - so it will be no different with Firefox.
How the hell your stupid-aseed comment got graded as "Insightful" is...just utterly freakin' amazing. It should have been labled "Flamebait"
No, MS has never faced such a dynamic browser before, and by dynamic, I mean "...responds to user's wants". Compared to IE, Firefox does very a good job at closing up security holes in a timely manner and providing a platform where a user can select a rich variety of add-ons (like "Bug-me-not", "Dictionary Search", "Zoom", "Cookie Manager" etc..). Also, Firefox blocks the snot out of Pop-ups, and I am eternally gratetful to it's developers for that! Also, the tabbed browsing is a god-send, too. Really...ever since I've been using Firefox, my web-surfing experience has become significantly more enjoyable and, I'll say it again, I am forever grateful to it's developers.
Now, given Firefox's superiority, it would seem that things should easily go thier way and IE would soon be history, but...unfortunately, those guys in Redmond still have a desktop monopoly and a lot of money - and it all begins and ends with that fact. At one time, Netscape's Navigator was everything - THE browser - and Microsoft's IE was nowhere, and then it all changed: Microsoft rolled over Netscape in a few short years despite the fact that politicians, courts and many of the computing public cried "foul" at MS's tactics; nevertheless, MS won. See, as long as IE was packaged with Windows as the default browser and was "Good enough, it put Netscape in a losing position from which it could never recover.
Anyways, we shall see. In the meanime, I will continue to use Firefox.
What...compared to IE? I mean I look at my RAM usage statistics with Firefox and they are nearly identical to those of I.E.. Nevertheless, I prefer the hell out of Firefox - I just don't think that seeling it as a "Light Browser" is accurate.
Yeah...I'm sure Bill Gates is losing sleep over this. I mean, Microsoft only has a desktop software monopoly, $60,000,000,000 cash and 10 Legions of Indian programmers with which to fend off Firefox.
Hey...it's not like MS has never utterly crushed a rival browser before, huh?
HDTV...so what? I've already got a big screen that does just fine and more resolution via HDTV isn't really going to "better" the experience. Yeah...it's more "High Tech" - or whatever - but it doesn't add much considering the hassle and expense.
Also, you can add DVD to the list of "Crapola", too. DVDs are the biggest sham ever thrust on the american public - Expensive, Unreliable and subject to Scratches/dust. Let others have them.
On the bright side - TiVo seems like a product that could add value and I'm looking into purchasing one now. Would be a great format to record shows until I decide whether or not I'll transfer then to VHS via a high quality, but very inexpensive, player/recorder - THAT DOESN'T LET ME DOWN!
Just my rant for the day.
I've got a real job and can't take the time to fuck around with one of these time-wasting pieces of shit.
What applications are they to port? I haven't heard a single application mentioned. Why the mystery?
""" As it is today, people in poor countries see their young children starve to death, or die from lack of medicine, just so people in rich countries don't have to suffer the discomfort of looking for a new job. ""
Really...just screw you. Why don't you just openly admit you hate America?
"The primary job creation engine of the economy is the small businessman (or woman). "
Ahhh...yes! The little people with delusions of grandeur who create the McJobs! The businesses which go out of business at a 90%+ rate, and that typically offer no healthcare, no retirements, no benefits - and certainly no stability. And in thier wake lies nothing but bankruptcy and unrecoverable loans.
Go Small Bidness' - Go!!!
Hey, young dudes, tell me in 10 years what you think about offshoring...when the Engineering & IT Proffession have been reduced to domestic serfdom! Mod it to "Flamebait" if you are so compelled - just remember what I said. AMF!
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Tell you what, when you Desktop Linux guys get your sound cards, printers, digital cams, and video cards working with Linux as easy as you can with Windows, then I'll listen. Of course, seeing that Linux is fragmented into about 5000 different versions, I won't be holding my breath waiting for this to happen.
Until then, I'll use my Windows-based PC as a tool while you sit farting around all day trying to make Linux actually work.
BTW, I picked up my Windows 2000 install for $7 dollars in the Phillipines and got MS Office thrown in for Free. Who says Windows is expensive? I mean, that's a lot cheaper than you can get a distro on CD from Redhat!
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Compared to Linux? Hardly anything.
Hey...my life, and work, is not centered on being a computer geek: I need something that works and is compatible. Linux just doesn't cut it on the compatibility side.
See...with Linux on the Desktop, it always something, isn't it? I mean, something that prevents you from hooking up that Digital Camera, enjoying that Sound Card or getting the Video Card to work at it's spec'd resolutions.
And...worst yet, the dearth of decent Linux applications is areal "Pain in the Arse". Sure...there's lot's of free Apps out there for Linux - they just also happen to be buggy, clunky and have poor user interfaces.
Like I said: Desktop Linux is free if your time is worthless.
Sure! Great! Hey...like I have loads of time to waste trying to find drivers! And Linux Geeks actually wonder why Linux is not being accepted on the Desktop as fast as they would like?
Linux on the Desktop? No Thanks! For the desktop, I'll stick with Windows 2000: it actually works with common hardware.
Linux on the Desktop: it's free if your time is worthless.
Just whoring Bad Karma!
Yea...that and it actually works, too.
Nice analysis, Einstein.
Yeah...idiots like you are typically out of control.
Learn to use a PC.
FUD...pure and simple. Why don't you learn a little about Word?
Idiot.
Seems like Dvorak has been whacking-off a bit too much. Kill Word - Yeah, right!
Let's face it, most kids couldn't give a Rat's Arse about how to protect them selves online - especially from virisus and such. I can see that there would be an interest in identifying the numerous predators that inhabit chat rooms, but beyonf that...nothing else much. Like it or not, most people, and most kids, especially, view the PC as a common appliance - to be used with the minimum amount of effort. And...this is actually quite logical. For most people, other than the extremely computer literate, would be wasting thier time getting too in depth: time they could beter spend on other pursuits with thier precious time. Hopefully - one day - we'll get PC's to the "Appliance Level, but, until then, I guess we'll just have to suffer allthe virus infections, etc. that now are a part of the game. Oh well....
Hey...this is being done already, and it isn't working. Your average Software Engineering Counsultant lives had-to-mouth without appreciable savings and certainly no cheap healthcare, and its' pretty much going remain so until the laws protecting employee rights (like H1B's, Firings and Overtime) are enforced. Meanwhile, they participate in an extremely saturated and competitive market where thier wages are seeminly forever spiraling downward.
In short, this Consultant is not "Liberated", he's "Enslaved": he needs to keep taking those ever smaller pay rates to keep paying off his cars, homes, medical bills and kid's educations. Meanwhile, he cam neithesave nor really has the time/capital to seek another proffession - provoding he isn't willing to renig on a vast some of mounting debt and destroy his credit rating in the process.
Want to know the future? Try Reading Spencer Johnson's "Who Moved My Cheese?" THAT's out future: forever scurring around like mice in a maze - the hero's of the book - looking for new cheese. Is it any wonder that the HR Rep in "Dilbert" is named "Catbert"? It's a Rat Race, and corporations are so arrogant that they don't even try to hide the fact any more - so that's why a lot of big corporations have bought these books for thier employees to read. Let's them know the game.
Now, go scurry along and find some new cheese.
Face it, Your Boss is a Rat
Who REALLY moved your cheese and why!
By: John Shepler
If you think something smells rotten in corporate America, you're right. It's a foul aroma wafting in from the executive suites, where the rats are jumping for joy at the success of their latest manifesto, "Who Moved My Cheese?", subtitled...get this, "An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and In Your Life."
"We moved it," they squeal with delight, "and when we want to, we'll move it again." Why? Very simple. Management has discovered that moving or removing YOUR cheese can be quite advantageous to them. But they've known that for a more than a decade. What they've just begun to realize is that it's possible to sell employees on the idea that this is perfectly OK. I'll elaborate, but first let me tell you how it all began.
It Takes Only a Minute
Management has a Holy Grail and it is known as "the silver bullet," also called the quick fix. It's epitomized in a small, thin book called "The One Minute Manager" by Kenneth Blanchard, Ph.D. (piled higher and deeper) and Spencer Johnson, M.D. (mostly deeper.) The theme of "The One Minute Manager" is that business people, especially managers, spend way too much time mulling over problems, internalizing them, and debating on what to do next. Much better, proposed Blanchard and Johnson, to jump in, collect all the facts that are at your fingertips or can be coaxed out of your subordinates, and make a snap decision in one minute or less. Actually, the primary decision is which employees can best be made to take ownership of the problem, strategically moving the burning acid of responsibility from your stomach to theirs. If things improve, you allocate no more than one more minute to tell them how great they are doing. If the situation deteriorates, you allocate that same minute to making darn sure that they feel terrible about it and will work even harder to keep the problem from returning to you.
A Revolution in Business Thinking
Think this is funny? It's revolutionary. The enabling power of one minute management has caused the entire Fortune 500 to refocus from the concept of stewardship, with a responsibility to the community that spans generations, to a slavish devotion to the needs of the institutional investor, primarily an increased stream of earnings every fiscal quarter. White-collar layoffs, almost unheard of prior to the 1980s, are now a standard tool of expense management. With only a minute needed for problem solving, the span of control for managers has increased as much as ten fold and the number of people assigned to non-producing supervisory functions proportionally reduced. Productivity, as measured by corporate earnings, soared to create the raging bull market of the 1990s. Johnson and Blanchard are lauded in corporate circles. But the emphasis on rapid decision making has led to shortened attention spans. It's already time for something new...
The Big Cheese
The toll of one minute everything is burning out once naive and eager employees, anxious for their leg up the corporate ladder. The abuses of ever increasing demands have created calluses of cynicism that are best portrayed in the characters of Scott Adams' Dilbert. Now everyone sees themselves as an oppressed Dilbert or Wally and adopts a passive/aggressive approach to corporate survival.
Re-enter Johnson, sans Blanchard, with a new silver bullet, this one cleverly disguised as an irresistible morsel of cheese. And who can resist the power of cheese? It's a story that is designed once again to get the onus of action into the mind of the common employee. Without giving too much away, here's how it goes.
It seems that there are two mice and two small people living in a maze. They dine on a seemingly endless supply of cheese provided by an unseen benevolent caretaker. All are complacent and happy with this scenario, until one day the cheese is gone. The mice shrug and take off down the corridors of the maze to find more
Hey...I watched the "The Color of Money" starrring Ton Cruise and Paul Neuman - I know all about Pool Hustlng.