Funny how the job that was/is the ass-end of the computer industry is one of the more stable tech jobs in the US. While a lot of those jobs had been going overseas, they've been coming back to the US because of customer dissatisfaction with the Indian techs.
But programming being programming, you don't need to be able to speak fluent english to do it...those jobs will continue to go overseas.
A nice unbiased article about how Linux is superior...from a Linux magazine. Perhaps we'll be posting the article from Windows Insider about how Windows is better? No? Didn't think so.
You think that the cable tv industry doesn't pull this kind of thing all the time? In order to get the same number of channels that I get with my current DirecTV system, I would have had to pay Comcast cable over $100 a month for their digital package, while DirecTV has more channels at half the price.
If anyone, the blame more likely rests on Viacom who will just assume that all cable/satellite companies should swoon at their feet for the chance to carry MTV and the rest of their garbage.
If you start getting the government involved in regulating something, you're going to end up with problems. Calling for regulation over losing VH1 classics for a day and a half is pretty stupid anyway.
He says Microsoft didn't put any money into BayStar or the SCO investment. A Microsoft spokesman says that the company has no "direct or indirect" financial relations with BayStar, but declined to comment when asked whether execs called BayStar to suggest investing in SCO.
Okay, so Microsoft didn't actually put any money into it, they simply called Baystar and told them investing would be a good idea? That's a pretty thin rope to hang someone by.
Seriously, do you have any idea how much money and software they've donated? They donate not just to schools and libraries, but also to medical research, etc.
going to force Microsoft to spend more time on security and stability, and less time on adding new features
You would actually think that with the resources available to them, that they would be able to do both. Perhaps this is the reason for Longhorn's delay.
Microsoft is not a stupid company, by any means, I'm sure they have several linux labs so they can start gleaning ideas from it. They've never had any problem with seeing something as competition and coming up with their own version of it.
The X-Box is not currently and will never do well there because Japan is essentially a closed market, even though they claim not to be. The X-Box, for instance, was pulled from almost every major retailer because all of the units were "scratching the DVDs." So the Sony and the Nintendo products, being home-grown, will sell better there.
The networks put out absolutely nothing but reality shows about "My Big Fat Stupid Fiancee" or "The Mightiest Midget Survival Wedding Swing Dancing Sensation" and can't figure out why people are leaving in droves. Here's a hint...they're sick of it. Make more shows like Alias, X-Files, or La Femme Nikita that are/were actually interesting and you might retain some viewers. Otherwise I see no reason to switch off my monitor just to go watch some crap.
I've seen several cable companies get into pissing matches like this with X or Y media company. Typically, though, you see the cable company start flashing messages about how you, as the consumer, need to contact X or Y media company and harass them. Think this is the first time I've seen the media company turn the tables.
Either way, dishnetwork will get a lot of crap if they drop all the viacom channels (irate teenagers who can't watch the real world part XXXXV), and viacom can't afford to lose all of those customers from dishnetwork.
How about the US & EU get together, and make mr.antitrust have an option to remove all bundled programs with windows that aren't essential to the operation of the os?
Start - Settings - Control Panel - Add/Remove Programs - Add/Remove Windows Components
Since you're the parent, then you should be able to tell your child not to play these offensive games. Asking the government, wal-mart, or EA to do your parenting for you is absolutely ridiculous. Its not like these games don't have a big rating label on the front of the box; optionally, you could always just look around on the internet to get a pretty good idea of the content, or most shockingly of all, just watch them play the damn thing. These people are letting their children be the parents, then blaming someone else because they can't ever be bothered to show any interest in what their kids are doing. You're the one paying for the game...decide if they can have it or not.
So who's going to be distributing this? Will it be a major studio with wide theatrical release? Or a quest to find a theatre that's playing it? All in all, they'll still find out that US audiences in general still won't be interested in it as most people still regard anime as "cartoons", so a theatrical release will be a money loser for them.
I love the 'admin'/'user' thing and I know that in Windows you can set one up, but the point is that it doesn't at install time.
Are you kidding? You can't even log into 2000 / XP / 2003 for the first time without an admin account...it makes you setup the password during the installation. If you go about handing out your admin account to everyone else using that computer then you're a flaming idiot anyway.
A lot of the linux distros handle things in the same way, only allowing you the root account during install, then its your responsibility to setup user accounts yourself.
Good thing you never have to patch linux to keep it secure and up to date, right? I don't get why all the linux people are always acting like you just install it and its set for the rest of its lifecycle. While it may be inherantly more secure, and un-patched box is still an un-patched box; linux's saving grace is that its average user is typically more savvy than your average windows user is.
Not jealous, actually...and nothing personal. I find that often people with low UIDs tend to try using them as a shield. Fequently the basis of many of their arguments is "I have a lower UID, so I'm obviously right." So I'm simply trying to keep them in perspective. All of that aside, I do agree with your sig.
The Bush / Howard Stern thing is really a stretch of the imagination, despite how much the liberal media is trying to make it look like that. The simple fact of the matter is that due to the FCC decency hearings and Janet Jackson's little peep show, mass media companies are trying to make themselves appear more conservative.
Anyone know of what the actual cost of operating an electric car is? Say on average how much it would cost to drive 200 miles on an electric charge versus how much the same distance would cost if you were using gas?
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sure, but they aren't really talking about making the people actually _pay_ to send mail, you just suffer a delay. Aside from that, quite a few third world countries are responsible for a lot of the spam
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Rumsfeld's in charge of the FCC now? That's a new one on me. Idiot.
Funny how the job that was/is the ass-end of the computer industry is one of the more stable tech jobs in the US. While a lot of those jobs had been going overseas, they've been coming back to the US because of customer dissatisfaction with the Indian techs.
But programming being programming, you don't need to be able to speak fluent english to do it...those jobs will continue to go overseas.
You could be losing ad revenue, etc. Plus loss of intellectual property.
A nice unbiased article about how Linux is superior...from a Linux magazine. Perhaps we'll be posting the article from Windows Insider about how Windows is better? No? Didn't think so.
You think that the cable tv industry doesn't pull this kind of thing all the time? In order to get the same number of channels that I get with my current DirecTV system, I would have had to pay Comcast cable over $100 a month for their digital package, while DirecTV has more channels at half the price.
If anyone, the blame more likely rests on Viacom who will just assume that all cable/satellite companies should swoon at their feet for the chance to carry MTV and the rest of their garbage.
If you start getting the government involved in regulating something, you're going to end up with problems. Calling for regulation over losing VH1 classics for a day and a half is pretty stupid anyway.
He says Microsoft didn't put any money into BayStar or the SCO investment. A Microsoft spokesman says that the company has no "direct or indirect" financial relations with BayStar, but declined to comment when asked whether execs called BayStar to suggest investing in SCO.
Okay, so Microsoft didn't actually put any money into it, they simply called Baystar and told them investing would be a good idea? That's a pretty thin rope to hang someone by.
and a real gain for platform diversity.
Yeah, going to something that's BOTH closed source AND proprietary hardware is a really big gain for diversity.
The thing you should be worrying about is the fact that you'll never ever be able to get that ip off all of the spamlists.
Seriously, do you have any idea how much money and software they've donated? They donate not just to schools and libraries, but also to medical research, etc.
going to force Microsoft to spend more time on security and stability, and less time on adding new features
You would actually think that with the resources available to them, that they would be able to do both. Perhaps this is the reason for Longhorn's delay.
Microsoft is not a stupid company, by any means, I'm sure they have several linux labs so they can start gleaning ideas from it. They've never had any problem with seeing something as competition and coming up with their own version of it.
The X-Box is not currently and will never do well there because Japan is essentially a closed market, even though they claim not to be. The X-Box, for instance, was pulled from almost every major retailer because all of the units were "scratching the DVDs." So the Sony and the Nintendo products, being home-grown, will sell better there.
The networks put out absolutely nothing but reality shows about "My Big Fat Stupid Fiancee" or "The Mightiest Midget Survival Wedding Swing Dancing Sensation" and can't figure out why people are leaving in droves. Here's a hint...they're sick of it. Make more shows like Alias, X-Files, or La Femme Nikita that are/were actually interesting and you might retain some viewers. Otherwise I see no reason to switch off my monitor just to go watch some crap.
I've seen several cable companies get into pissing matches like this with X or Y media company. Typically, though, you see the cable company start flashing messages about how you, as the consumer, need to contact X or Y media company and harass them. Think this is the first time I've seen the media company turn the tables.
Either way, dishnetwork will get a lot of crap if they drop all the viacom channels (irate teenagers who can't watch the real world part XXXXV), and viacom can't afford to lose all of those customers from dishnetwork.
How about the US & EU get together, and make mr.antitrust have an option to remove all bundled programs with windows that aren't essential to the operation of the os?
Start - Settings - Control Panel - Add/Remove Programs - Add/Remove Windows Components
Hmm, looks like they've already done that.
Since you're the parent, then you should be able to tell your child not to play these offensive games. Asking the government, wal-mart, or EA to do your parenting for you is absolutely ridiculous. Its not like these games don't have a big rating label on the front of the box; optionally, you could always just look around on the internet to get a pretty good idea of the content, or most shockingly of all, just watch them play the damn thing. These people are letting their children be the parents, then blaming someone else because they can't ever be bothered to show any interest in what their kids are doing. You're the one paying for the game...decide if they can have it or not.
So who's going to be distributing this? Will it be a major studio with wide theatrical release? Or a quest to find a theatre that's playing it? All in all, they'll still find out that US audiences in general still won't be interested in it as most people still regard anime as "cartoons", so a theatrical release will be a money loser for them.
...for the fan-editted, Arwen-light version.
I love the 'admin'/'user' thing and I know that in Windows you can set one up, but the point is that it doesn't at install time.
Are you kidding? You can't even log into 2000 / XP / 2003 for the first time without an admin account...it makes you setup the password during the installation. If you go about handing out your admin account to everyone else using that computer then you're a flaming idiot anyway.
A lot of the linux distros handle things in the same way, only allowing you the root account during install, then its your responsibility to setup user accounts yourself.
Good thing you never have to patch linux to keep it secure and up to date, right? I don't get why all the linux people are always acting like you just install it and its set for the rest of its lifecycle. While it may be inherantly more secure, and un-patched box is still an un-patched box; linux's saving grace is that its average user is typically more savvy than your average windows user is.
Not jealous, actually...and nothing personal. I find that often people with low UIDs tend to try using them as a shield. Fequently the basis of many of their arguments is "I have a lower UID, so I'm obviously right." So I'm simply trying to keep them in perspective. All of that aside, I do agree with your sig.
Japan is notoriously not handicapped accessibility friendly; seems the robotic mobility assistance would be a necessity.
The Bush / Howard Stern thing is really a stretch of the imagination, despite how much the liberal media is trying to make it look like that. The simple fact of the matter is that due to the FCC decency hearings and Janet Jackson's little peep show, mass media companies are trying to make themselves appear more conservative.
Alternately, celebrities could arrive at major award ceremonies in them, then hop back into their limos once out of sight of the cameras again.
Anyone know of what the actual cost of operating an electric car is? Say on average how much it would cost to drive 200 miles on an electric charge versus how much the same distance would cost if you were using gas?
sure, but they aren't really talking about making the people actually _pay_ to send mail, you just suffer a delay. Aside from that, quite a few third world countries are responsible for a lot of the spam