hmmmm I seem to have lost my job 3 years ago to WIPRO. They came in and were going to just do a little software development for some older no longer supported apps. Then came some WIPRO Unix administrators then some ORACLE DBA's. next thing you know massive layoffs and many jobs are being done overseas. Although the company swears that they had to lay off everyone because of lack of funds and that WIPRO was the only answer to survive. Worked out well for them!! 3 years later the Unix admins are back and so is part of the oracle team. I think all the developers held a grudge and only 1 or 2 came back.. WIPRO is gone from what I hear only 1 or 2 of them are there still since a 12 hour delay and a language barrier to get anything done turned out to be a not so good of an idea... They had to sell the company and the CEO ran with his tail between his legs. HMMM who saw that coming!!!
I don't care what flavor they sell it with. Hell give me option of no OS. I dont want to pay more for a pc to come with windows so I can take it home and format the drive.
I play WOW and Diablo2 just peachy on my Ubuntu box. Wine has come a long way. So far I have only found 1 or 2 games that dont work. Unfortunately its my 3 year olds kids games. They HAVE to have 256 colors to run and a 3 year old is not able to switch around the resolution and colors to play a game.
The only thing I have to complain about is how short Warrio is. The artical says a gamer can beat it in 4 hours. I beat it in about 2 and I am SO not a gamer. Might have been 2.5 hour I dont really know for sure since I didnt plan on it ending on it so soon.
All this arguing over a hypothetical situation? Microsoft has had the ability to disable your software for a long time. So far all they have ever done is keep you from getting updates.. FCKGW serial number anyone? In just about every EULA you read they spew out all kinds of decativation crap at you. This is nothing new to anything. If your pissed stay on your linux distro or XP. I am. If your ok with EULA then spend the $$ and go buy it. I just dont get what all the fuss is about. Its not like Sony who put a bunch of crap on your computer without telling you. It says right on their site what the agreement is. Accept it or dont. Your OS of choice is becoming like a religion. You are never going to convince anyone to convert just as they will never convince you. Therefor all points are moot... Just as this one is.
Ok so let me get this right. Everyone complains that MS Windows is not a secure OS. MS spends a lot of time and $$ to "resolve" these problems. Now everyone is complaining that they are doing something about it. Is there a way MS can win at all with everyone?
I just want to know why you have to download a 280mb file to install a freaking driver? All the old printers have mb driver you can find on their site. Any of the printers / scanners have some HUGE freaking download. You install it and get the AWSOME share to web feature installed on your computer. Hell I just bought a xerox that does everything but give you a bj. The installer was like 25 mb. (still a bit big for me) All i gotta say is untill they get their act straight and quit pumping out crap like that. I will stick to my old ass hp 2200's and 4000's I got now.
Give it another 2 years and it will be known as Microsoft Firefox. Everytime microsoft starts to "work" with other companies they end up buying them and using the tech to turn out a better product. Not saying this is a bad thing.. well could have went with NERO instead of ROXIO for the cd burning software. I think we all win in the end.
Did anyone else pick up on this.
from TFA:
David Kay, a former SAIC senior vice president who did not work on the program but closely watched its development....
"SAIC was at fault because of the usual contractor reluctance to tell the customer, 'You're screwed up. You don't know what you're doing. This project is going to fail because you're not managing your side of the equation,' " said Kay, who later became the chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq.
A couple things here i dont get.
1. work for a company that contracts out to the US government. A company that as screwed the pooch since day 1. Then get a JOB from the US government.
2. what the hell does being a VP of a software company give you ANY ability what so ever as a weapons inspector??
I used yahoo search and email YEARS ago. One day they up and changed format. Stuff scattered all over the place searches returned were by those who paid more.. and OMFG the adds. Hotbot became my next choice and then the company we all know and love GOOGLE. Yahoo is still the #1 site not because of content or ease of use. Its simply because people hate change. No one wants to change their email address from @yahoo to @gmail because its a hassle. It has nothing to do with yahoo being better. only stupid people. My mom knows she types in yahoo then clicks on the email button to get her mail. Trying to even get her to navigate to gmail would be next to impossible. to her yahoo is better because she knows how to do it.
I seem to remember around 2001 when blue tooth was getting recognition. Companies were saying that you would need no cables running from your computer to your monitor/mouse/keyboard/printer. Ok we have the keyboard and mouse but after 5 years nothing else. I would LOVE to be rid of "the tangle monster" that seems to plauge all of my users desks. I just dont see it happening for a while yet.
This is not going to help anyone get cheaper memory. Everyone will be paying more for memory now so they can "reclaim court costs" as vonage is currently charging me.99 a month for.
P2P file sharing is just an excuse. The record companies publisize that P2P is killing them and they are not making any money so people WILL pay 250 to see Madonna. Personnaly I would not pay 25 to see someone get up on stage and lipsync but who am I.
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hmmmm I seem to have lost my job 3 years ago to WIPRO. They came in and were going to just do a little software development for some older no longer supported apps. Then came some WIPRO Unix administrators then some ORACLE DBA's. next thing you know massive layoffs and many jobs are being done overseas. Although the company swears that they had to lay off everyone because of lack of funds and that WIPRO was the only answer to survive. Worked out well for them!! 3 years later the Unix admins are back and so is part of the oracle team. I think all the developers held a grudge and only 1 or 2 came back.. WIPRO is gone from what I hear only 1 or 2 of them are there still since a 12 hour delay and a language barrier to get anything done turned out to be a not so good of an idea... They had to sell the company and the CEO ran with his tail between his legs. HMMM who saw that coming!!!
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couldnt they just give you the text and let windows text to speech engine say it? It would almost be like if you were there!
I don't care what flavor they sell it with. Hell give me option of no OS. I dont want to pay more for a pc to come with windows so I can take it home and format the drive.
I play WOW and Diablo2 just peachy on my Ubuntu box. Wine has come a long way. So far I have only found 1 or 2 games that dont work. Unfortunately its my 3 year olds kids games. They HAVE to have 256 colors to run and a 3 year old is not able to switch around the resolution and colors to play a game.
The only thing I have to complain about is how short Warrio is. The artical says a gamer can beat it in 4 hours. I beat it in about 2 and I am SO not a gamer. Might have been 2.5 hour I dont really know for sure since I didnt plan on it ending on it so soon.
All this arguing over a hypothetical situation? Microsoft has had the ability to disable your software for a long time. So far all they have ever done is keep you from getting updates.. FCKGW serial number anyone? In just about every EULA you read they spew out all kinds of decativation crap at you. This is nothing new to anything. If your pissed stay on your linux distro or XP. I am. If your ok with EULA then spend the $$ and go buy it. I just dont get what all the fuss is about. Its not like Sony who put a bunch of crap on your computer without telling you. It says right on their site what the agreement is. Accept it or dont. Your OS of choice is becoming like a religion. You are never going to convince anyone to convert just as they will never convince you. Therefor all points are moot... Just as this one is.
was it / then n to search for the next one.. no wait shift g.. no that brings me to the bottom... ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
what were we talking about again... oh yeah theres my twinky
Oh My GOD I just pee's myself
Ok so let me get this right. Everyone complains that MS Windows is not a secure OS. MS spends a lot of time and $$ to "resolve" these problems. Now everyone is complaining that they are doing something about it. Is there a way MS can win at all with everyone?
Well put. Not sure why you did it as anon but still... well put
Do they teach the kids how to throw chairs?
its suitcase anyway.. not brief case. and yes it goes to 5
I just want to know why you have to download a 280mb file to install a freaking driver? All the old printers have mb driver you can find on their site. Any of the printers / scanners have some HUGE freaking download. You install it and get the AWSOME share to web feature installed on your computer. Hell I just bought a xerox that does everything but give you a bj. The installer was like 25 mb. (still a bit big for me) All i gotta say is untill they get their act straight and quit pumping out crap like that. I will stick to my old ass hp 2200's and 4000's I got now.
The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either.
- Benjamin Franklin
Give it another 2 years and it will be known as Microsoft Firefox. Everytime microsoft starts to "work" with other companies they end up buying them and using the tech to turn out a better product. Not saying this is a bad thing.. well could have went with NERO instead of ROXIO for the cd burning software. I think we all win in the end.
Internet Security Systems They make scanner software. I used it a few years back. It was pretty cool but retina was better. My $.02
Did anyone else pick up on this. from TFA: David Kay, a former SAIC senior vice president who did not work on the program but closely watched its development.... "SAIC was at fault because of the usual contractor reluctance to tell the customer, 'You're screwed up. You don't know what you're doing. This project is going to fail because you're not managing your side of the equation,' " said Kay, who later became the chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq. A couple things here i dont get. 1. work for a company that contracts out to the US government. A company that as screwed the pooch since day 1. Then get a JOB from the US government. 2. what the hell does being a VP of a software company give you ANY ability what so ever as a weapons inspector??
I used yahoo search and email YEARS ago. One day they up and changed format. Stuff scattered all over the place searches returned were by those who paid more.. and OMFG the adds. Hotbot became my next choice and then the company we all know and love GOOGLE. Yahoo is still the #1 site not because of content or ease of use. Its simply because people hate change. No one wants to change their email address from @yahoo to @gmail because its a hassle. It has nothing to do with yahoo being better. only stupid people. My mom knows she types in yahoo then clicks on the email button to get her mail. Trying to even get her to navigate to gmail would be next to impossible. to her yahoo is better because she knows how to do it.
while specialty video sites like Pornotube concentrate on one point of interest.'" What one point of interest does pornotube concentrate on?
I seem to remember around 2001 when blue tooth was getting recognition. Companies were saying that you would need no cables running from your computer to your monitor/mouse/keyboard/printer. Ok we have the keyboard and mouse but after 5 years nothing else. I would LOVE to be rid of "the tangle monster" that seems to plauge all of my users desks. I just dont see it happening for a while yet.
Kill of 2 level 80+ hard core sorceress' in about an hour... suicide time. Damn lightning enchanted stygians!!!!
This is not going to help anyone get cheaper memory. Everyone will be paying more for memory now so they can "reclaim court costs" as vonage is currently charging me .99 a month for.
P2P file sharing is just an excuse. The record companies publisize that P2P is killing them and they are not making any money so people WILL pay 250 to see Madonna. Personnaly I would not pay 25 to see someone get up on stage and lipsync but who am I.