Either that, or I think that recorded music is grossly overvalued. Sell a million songs at $.25 each, and you have $250,000. Sell only 10,000? You've still got $2500 in the bank for nearly no cost of distribution. Music is a commodity now. It's no longer the speciality it once was. Every single kid in america doesn't want the new Black Eyed Peas album like every single kid needed the new Beatles album. Try to keep up with the economics.
The consumers are already getting screwed at 0.99 per track. A fair price that most consumers would pay would be more around a quarter a track. That's why I don't use iTunes. It's not worth it.
It does tell you about how their brain is structured though. I wouldn't want a bad speller as an engineer. It's a symptom of unclear, unfocused thinking, or even worse, completely focused thinking without concern for any outside influences. Communication is the only thing that is cross-profession important. If you can't do that effectively, then you lose much of your value right there.
It's not really rocket surgery. It'd take me about 20 minutes of playing to figure out how the controls on a garbage truck work. Do you think a garbage man will figure out how to program in C or design a bridge in 20 minutes? Take your haughtiness elsewhere.
This only comes from someone who hasn't used signals and slots. It's a "superset" of features, but damn if it isn't easy and powerful once you get the concept. Qt on Windows and Linux is easy as hell to set up, too, so the problem is somewhere, but I doubt that it's the toolkit.
grip? Try just browsing to the Audio CD device in KDE and dragging the Ogg Vorbis folder over. Or the FLAC folder. Or mp3 (if your distro has that supported). Or WAV. It just doesn't get any easier.
Hey, at least it's possible. There's no way to fix that god-awful file requester of GTK's, or to configure half the stuff I want to on Gnome without diggging into the registry half-assed shit they have. And even then, that doesn't always fix it correctly, not to mention there's no documentation on what settings do what. Gnome is made for muppets who happen to have the same preferences that Gnome has by default. God help you if you want it to do something slightly different. Give me KDE any day. The checkboxes don't show up unless you ask for them, but I'm glad they're at least available.
Maybe it's not CR that's incompetent with computers and cameras, but consumers themselves? Might be an indicator to the designers. Feature creep is not always good. Sometimes it's better to do like *shudder* Apple and just make the parts that work work really well. Not for everyone, but I think it'd make a lot of consumers happier and more able to deal with a lot of their technology.
I'm pretty sure he understands that. He was saying that gamers have a better sense of prioritization. I can talk on the phone while driving, but if it's a choice between concentrating on the conversation and driving, I always choose driving. I think many gamers are the same way, used to being able to deal with multiple things ("Yes mom, I'll go take the trash out, lemme finish this level first").
"Bad drivers" are the ones that don't prioritize correctly.
And your sig is stupid.
And you know that this study is going to be cited, very quietly, to senators and others every time an information security admission type act comes across the table.
"Ethics? What are those? Ethics don't buy me a mansion in Maui. What do you mean I'm paying for it by screwing over the rest of America? Screw 'em. I've got mine."
To XP's credit, it allows the program to tell it that it's out of date, and it'll bug the user about it with those little balloon popups. I know AVG does.
Maybe it's time to get better AV software? (or better yet, a more secure operating system)
What we need to do is start running news reports that say "Playing hopscotch on the interstate is now deemed safe by scientists" and let the problem solve itself.
I can too complain. I can complain that I wasn't born into a wealthy family, that I deserve a billion dollars, and some stupid liberal is going to be convinced that because I feel bad, I should be compensated.
Welcome to the new economy.
Because spammers notoriously don't respect the "unsubscribe". Google is a highly visible organization that will respect your wishes. You know they exist, and if you want off their radar, it's quite easy to do. Not to mention that more people want to be indexed rather than not, which also tends to be an opposite case to the spammers.
Re:That's Because "IT Doesn't Matter!" Anymore...
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Did you even read the article? I suspect not, as this is/. after all. "IT doesn't matter" as in it's now a necessity, not a point of separation of your company from your competitiors. Hell, he even argues that it's time for corporate customers to start throwing their weight around and relize they don't need a new version of office ever 2 years. The one they have works fine on the hardware they have. If their vendor is going to force an upgrade, perhaps they should look to a more customer-friendly vendor (OpenOffice, StarOffice, etc.). He also argues much of what the main article's point is, that many parts of IT are becoming hidden from the upper management, so are often denied funding, or the funds are misappropriated as treating the symptom rather than the disease.
If your company is growing, so should your security department. You're right about some people just wanting more. But there's a mindset currently to sell the "invisible" capital. A company's good name, your shareholders, whatever, in light of a short-term profit.
It's a complete lack of ethics culturally that allows people to do things like this. It's how much you can get away with without getting caught (getting hacked), rather than "doing it right" as you say. You can't do it right without the staff. Consider the following analogy: I can hook up an electrical system with aluminum wiring or copper. Copper costs more than aluminum. Until it overheats, or you have to bend the wire, or is exposed to water. But you saved money in installing Aluminum instead of Copper. The shareholders will reward that kind of "forward thinking", and the CEO/CFO/Whoever will be floating on a golden parachute before the house catches fire.
Re:An example of the advantages of the new windows
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gaim isn't AIM. I'm talking about using the real, Windows-based MSN client that tells me "Service is unavailable, try again later". Go astroturf elsewhere.
Re:An example of the advantages of the new windows
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And they still manage to have a service outage for at least a few minutes to a few hours a month. AIM and Yahoo! don't seem to do that to me.
Administration, software issues, whatever. MSN isn't that amazing, especially compared to the other services.
Why do people refuse to name the companies that put their lives at risk? Fuck 'em. You said nothing but the truth. At least let us know who not to rent from.
(a) True
(b) Also true, to a certain extent.
(c) Bullshit. OpenDocument, SMTP, DNS (remember the Verisign debacle?), TCP/IP. We care about full standards support where information exchange is at issue. Sometimes it's just better to use steel studs instead of wood, even if the building codes mandate balsa wood.
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Either that, or I think that recorded music is grossly overvalued. Sell a million songs at $.25 each, and you have $250,000. Sell only 10,000? You've still got $2500 in the bank for nearly no cost of distribution. Music is a commodity now. It's no longer the speciality it once was. Every single kid in america doesn't want the new Black Eyed Peas album like every single kid needed the new Beatles album. Try to keep up with the economics.
The consumers are already getting screwed at 0.99 per track. A fair price that most consumers would pay would be more around a quarter a track. That's why I don't use iTunes. It's not worth it.
It does tell you about how their brain is structured though. I wouldn't want a bad speller as an engineer. It's a symptom of unclear, unfocused thinking, or even worse, completely focused thinking without concern for any outside influences. Communication is the only thing that is cross-profession important. If you can't do that effectively, then you lose much of your value right there.
It's not really rocket surgery. It'd take me about 20 minutes of playing to figure out how the controls on a garbage truck work. Do you think a garbage man will figure out how to program in C or design a bridge in 20 minutes? Take your haughtiness elsewhere.
This only comes from someone who hasn't used signals and slots. It's a "superset" of features, but damn if it isn't easy and powerful once you get the concept. Qt on Windows and Linux is easy as hell to set up, too, so the problem is somewhere, but I doubt that it's the toolkit.
grip? Try just browsing to the Audio CD device in KDE and dragging the Ogg Vorbis folder over. Or the FLAC folder. Or mp3 (if your distro has that supported). Or WAV. It just doesn't get any easier.
the network is the computer. Get a laptop or use a VNC-style connection. Problem solved. Why use someone else's computer when you have your own?
Hey, at least it's possible. There's no way to fix that god-awful file requester of GTK's, or to configure half the stuff I want to on Gnome without diggging into the registry half-assed shit they have. And even then, that doesn't always fix it correctly, not to mention there's no documentation on what settings do what. Gnome is made for muppets who happen to have the same preferences that Gnome has by default. God help you if you want it to do something slightly different. Give me KDE any day. The checkboxes don't show up unless you ask for them, but I'm glad they're at least available.
Objective C should be destroyed. It's a horrible language.
I'm actually an atheist, so it isn't that it offended me. My statement wasn't about your "god". It's a comment on your ignorance and stupidity.
Maybe it's not CR that's incompetent with computers and cameras, but consumers themselves? Might be an indicator to the designers. Feature creep is not always good. Sometimes it's better to do like *shudder* Apple and just make the parts that work work really well. Not for everyone, but I think it'd make a lot of consumers happier and more able to deal with a lot of their technology.
I'm pretty sure he understands that. He was saying that gamers have a better sense of prioritization. I can talk on the phone while driving, but if it's a choice between concentrating on the conversation and driving, I always choose driving. I think many gamers are the same way, used to being able to deal with multiple things ("Yes mom, I'll go take the trash out, lemme finish this level first").
"Bad drivers" are the ones that don't prioritize correctly.
And your sig is stupid.
So, if I read what you wrote correctly, Merck is saying "Why should we worry about the people, money was at stake!"?
And you know that this study is going to be cited, very quietly, to senators and others every time an information security admission type act comes across the table.
"Ethics? What are those? Ethics don't buy me a mansion in Maui. What do you mean I'm paying for it by screwing over the rest of America? Screw 'em. I've got mine."
To XP's credit, it allows the program to tell it that it's out of date, and it'll bug the user about it with those little balloon popups. I know AVG does.
Maybe it's time to get better AV software? (or better yet, a more secure operating system)
What we need to do is start running news reports that say "Playing hopscotch on the interstate is now deemed safe by scientists" and let the problem solve itself.
I can too complain. I can complain that I wasn't born into a wealthy family, that I deserve a billion dollars, and some stupid liberal is going to be convinced that because I feel bad, I should be compensated.
Welcome to the new economy.
Because spammers notoriously don't respect the "unsubscribe". Google is a highly visible organization that will respect your wishes. You know they exist, and if you want off their radar, it's quite easy to do. Not to mention that more people want to be indexed rather than not, which also tends to be an opposite case to the spammers.
Did you even read the article? I suspect not, as this is /. after all. "IT doesn't matter" as in it's now a necessity, not a point of separation of your company from your competitiors. Hell, he even argues that it's time for corporate customers to start throwing their weight around and relize they don't need a new version of office ever 2 years. The one they have works fine on the hardware they have. If their vendor is going to force an upgrade, perhaps they should look to a more customer-friendly vendor (OpenOffice, StarOffice, etc.). He also argues much of what the main article's point is, that many parts of IT are becoming hidden from the upper management, so are often denied funding, or the funds are misappropriated as treating the symptom rather than the disease.
If your company is growing, so should your security department. You're right about some people just wanting more. But there's a mindset currently to sell the "invisible" capital. A company's good name, your shareholders, whatever, in light of a short-term profit.
It's a complete lack of ethics culturally that allows people to do things like this. It's how much you can get away with without getting caught (getting hacked), rather than "doing it right" as you say. You can't do it right without the staff. Consider the following analogy: I can hook up an electrical system with aluminum wiring or copper. Copper costs more than aluminum. Until it overheats, or you have to bend the wire, or is exposed to water. But you saved money in installing Aluminum instead of Copper. The shareholders will reward that kind of "forward thinking", and the CEO/CFO/Whoever will be floating on a golden parachute before the house catches fire.
gaim isn't AIM. I'm talking about using the real, Windows-based MSN client that tells me "Service is unavailable, try again later". Go astroturf elsewhere.
And they still manage to have a service outage for at least a few minutes to a few hours a month. AIM and Yahoo! don't seem to do that to me.
Administration, software issues, whatever. MSN isn't that amazing, especially compared to the other services.
Why do people refuse to name the companies that put their lives at risk? Fuck 'em. You said nothing but the truth. At least let us know who not to rent from.
Just because your car can't do it doesn't negate the fact that it's sometimes a quite valid device for avoiding an accident.
(a) True
(b) Also true, to a certain extent.
(c) Bullshit. OpenDocument, SMTP, DNS (remember the Verisign debacle?), TCP/IP. We care about full standards support where information exchange is at issue. Sometimes it's just better to use steel studs instead of wood, even if the building codes mandate balsa wood.