Isn't Microsoft looking to create a nasty piece of BIOS (or no BIOS) which would lock down a system beyond the belief of most persons who aren't "well educated" WRT technology; i.e., the people who wouldn't have a need for tinkering with the system. I'm looking to this akin to car manufacturers wanting to sell cars with the hood welded shut?
Let us not forget when Apple did the same thing 10-15 years ago. They flooded the elementary and high schools with machines, hoping students would be indoctrinated as they graduated and go with the flow. Why is everyone so hell-bent now that Microsoft is doing the same thing?
Much has been said about this [elsewhere]; e.g., Business Week, Forbes, other PHB publications, and the response has frequently focused upon who should pay and how the determination should be made.
As of a year or two ago, it was said customers generallly have a white list and a black list and customers can control their message reception based upon those lists. Unfortunately, there are a lot of scenarios where a sequence of events prevents those lists from permitting the correct messages to come through properly.
There are obviously different bodies who have different perspectively about all of this: cell phone providers who want to keep their clientele happy but the bottom line is still ca$h - what can they do? sell a list of customers who haven't opted-out? sell a white list[1] of those who don't mind receiving ads, marketers who are getting woodies for the opportunity to get a list of cell numbers of people and the responses those people make may be theirs!, and the end users who want to be able to communicate with each other without having to making a lot of gyrations to "just say no!".
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I find it ridiculous we don't have "I don't mind" lists instead of opt-out lists, whether it's landlines, email addresses, cell phones, etc. "I'll add my info if I don't mind getting called." And the agencies representing marketers^w spammers whose members would "most want to receive our information might forget to add their information and they'd be missing out on important opportunities!" |babelfish| "But no one would subscribe!"| and the response: exactly
bulk-clicking probably would be pretty easy to code. I'm guessing all of the bulk-clickers are too busy clicking their keys to take a few minutes to code it.
The first link goes to ZDNet. The second, a reference to Google, goes to the Google home page http://www.google.com. It would appear the goober who posted the story didn't follow one of the cardinal instructions of posting a story: test your links.
I believe there are apocrophal stories about the guy who made a $27M and told his boss, "I guess I'm fired, huh?" and the response was, "No, I just spent $27M to educate you."
That, and the story from one of Tom Peters' books about the guy who rented a helicopter on the fly (intended pun) to get up to the top of a mountain to restore clientele service. I consider these to be things we'll never see, only hear about.
I'd be more concerned about the story in the previous 7-10 days about the Mexican(?) official who has an ID/chip in his right arm which cannot be removed and is used for security.
IIRC, the mark will be the right arm or the forehead.
I'd be more inclined to think it's a threading error where someone crammed an ADO object into the Application() collection/object. We'd need to see the code to be certain, but that'd be my first guess.
My other guess is the performance of the site is very, very slow,/. or not. It doesn't take long to bog a system like that down.
How is this any different than an auction on eBay? Plenty of auctions there have reserves to ensure a reasonable bid is made. If not, then just put tags on it out on the street and have a yard sale.
But Carmack said in one of his interviews about this [some time ago] Microsoft was putting some serious ca$h for the xBox to be available on the shelf "day & date" with the PC version. Enough to make them pause and think about it.
Does the delay indicate they made up their mind or is it a compromise?
But if they keep the standards like Wolf-3D fifteen years ago, the games will suck forever. Sometimes, it means biting the bullet and laying out some bucks. There's no other way around it.
What did you think would be appropriate?
Is this PC you purchased [as an adult], did you build it, or are you a teen and a gift a few years ago so it's outdated?
(serious responses please)
...null-productivity week (a day won't cut it). With HL2, coming out as well, everyone's going to be calling in sick so productivity will be negligent. They might as well acknowledge it and be done with it.
I don't think it'll happen. As long as the Disney Corp has enough money to influence in Congress, there'll be a clause to extend some type of extension, even if it's only for Mickey. Mickey is never going to fall into the public domain.
...and when the original copyright holder is dead?
This goes back to the Mickey Mouse legislation. It can literally be claimed to be "Mickey Mouse Legislation". "Lions, tigers, and bears, Oh My!" Mickey is about to become public.
Can we ask Uncle Walk to choose when his works are released? No. If Disney Corp had their way, it would be never.
As far as others go, Jacko owns a lot of the Beatles' material (hence the claim he's financially destitute bogus). Has he sold out? When you hear Muzak Beatles, IMO, that's a sell-out. YMMV
There *is* someone who continues to have music produced....Mr. Hendrix.
But I think that's more a situation of five or six people holding rights to various types of rights and it's only until everything balances is material released in some little bundle.
The Disney people didn't want MIckey Mouse become public so they have Congress expand the window of protection.
If this is going to be the case every time something comes up, it's going to be extended.
Why don't they just abolish the whole f%cking system of protection? (except those whose work is worthless)
Q: What do you call someone who finishes at the bottm of his class in medical school?
A: Doctor.
For those unfamiliar with some of the eponymous terms, the Peter Principle says, "Everyone rises at least one level above their competitive skill level." IOW, whereever you end up, you should have been at least one level below that. (and the evidence tends to support this.
The simplest example? I could ROT 13 an answer in a couple of sentences for you to guess but it should be obvious: PHBs. They have to come from some place(!)If you've been around
one in particular and watched them achieve the lofty position, them since they were in position(s) before that. Somewhere along the line they were in a position which matched some part of their skill set. Then someone saw how efficient they were in that job and jacked them upward, and *poof*, PHB Level 1.0.
They reach a point where they can't go up, won't go down[1], even at another facility, and aren't capable enough to move laterally, current company or elsewhere.
As a professor of mine pointed out about twenty-five years ago, they're at the apex of their profession (their own skill-levelwise), waiting for the next 10-20-30-40 years to pass by so they can retire. Mostly because they've clogged the ladder and frequently taken training in a field which "had a job waiting for them when they finished". That is one f%cking sickening thought for the tech industry: "The requirement in the USA will be 600k each year for the next ten years...blah, blah, blah". Lots of positions for people to take classes and get a B.S. because that field is like a siren song...God, what a scary thought. It's bad enough now.
[1] Okay, I played a straight line there...I figured if I didn't say something most people wouldn't have caught it.
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My current Intel xPERL permits me to set chip parameters in the setup BIOS such as speed.
Isn't there a Linux/BIOS project underway?
Isn't Microsoft looking to create a nasty piece of BIOS (or no BIOS) which would lock down a system beyond the belief of most persons who aren't "well educated" WRT technology; i.e., the people who wouldn't have a need for tinkering with the system. I'm looking to this akin to car manufacturers wanting to sell cars with the hood welded shut?
Let us not forget when Apple did the same thing 10-15 years ago. They flooded the elementary and high schools with machines, hoping students would be indoctrinated as they graduated and go with the flow. Why is everyone so hell-bent now that Microsoft is doing the same thing?
Much has been said about this [elsewhere]; e.g., Business Week, Forbes, other PHB publications, and the response has frequently focused upon who should pay and how the determination should be made.
As of a year or two ago, it was said customers generallly have a white list and a black list and customers can control their message reception based upon those lists. Unfortunately, there are a lot of scenarios where a sequence of events prevents those lists from permitting the correct messages to come through properly.
There are obviously different bodies who have different perspectively about all of this: cell phone providers who want to keep their clientele happy but the bottom line is still ca$h - what can they do? sell a list of customers who haven't opted-out? sell a white list[1] of those who don't mind receiving ads, marketers who are getting woodies for the opportunity to get a list of cell numbers of people and the responses those people make may be theirs!, and the end users who want to be able to communicate with each other without having to making a lot of gyrations to "just say no!".
[1] I find it ridiculous we don't have "I don't mind" lists instead of opt-out lists, whether it's landlines, email addresses, cell phones, etc. "I'll add my info if I don't mind getting called." And the agencies representing marketers^w spammers whose members would "most want to receive our information might forget to add their information and they'd be missing out on important opportunities!" |babelfish| "But no one would subscribe!"| and the response: exactly
It's not the first cell lawsuit and it's not the first Verizon cell lawsuit.
Guess who they dealt with in the past?
Ralsky. Want proof?
This is not some UL/FOAF story - Google "Ralsky Verizon" and you'll get tons of hits...
bulk-clicking probably would be pretty easy to code. I'm guessing all of the bulk-clickers are too busy clicking their keys to take a few minutes to code it.
The first link goes to ZDNet. The second, a reference to Google, goes to the Google home page http://www.google.com. It would appear the goober who posted the story didn't follow one of the cardinal instructions of posting a story: test your links.
Kind of like "Common Sense" which isn't very good - how about "Good Sense"?
Another off-shore resource. I wonder how many companies suddenly like this particular activity outside the US?
Suddenly, it seems karma comes into play: there is balance & harmony in the universe.
Any way we can match up the companies who are off-shoring their regular work with bulk clicking?
I believe there are apocrophal stories about the guy who made a $27M and told his boss, "I guess I'm fired, huh?" and the response was, "No, I just spent $27M to educate you."
That, and the story from one of Tom Peters' books about the guy who rented a helicopter on the fly (intended pun) to get up to the top of a mountain to restore clientele service. I consider these to be things we'll never see, only hear about.
I'd be more concerned about the story in the previous 7-10 days about the Mexican(?) official who has an ID/chip in his right arm which cannot be removed and is used for security.
IIRC, the mark will be the right arm or the forehead.
tick...tick...tick...tick...
I'd be more inclined to think it's a threading error where someone crammed an ADO object into the Application() collection/object. We'd need to see the code to be certain, but that'd be my first guess. /. or not. It doesn't take long to bog a system like that down.
My other guess is the performance of the site is very, very slow,
Bid on the car?
Because it's your auction? Or you can't retract and you want someone to override yours so you're out of hot water?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Only they're buying copies of the Constitution
and several cases of white-out.
Why write half a joke?
How is this any different than an auction on eBay? Plenty of auctions there have reserves to ensure a reasonable bid is made. If not, then just put tags on it out on the street and have a yard sale.
But Carmack said in one of his interviews about this [some time ago] Microsoft was putting some serious ca$h for the xBox to be available on the shelf "day & date" with the PC version. Enough to make them pause and think about it.
Does the delay indicate they made up their mind or is it a compromise?
But if they keep the standards like Wolf-3D fifteen years ago, the games will suck forever. Sometimes, it means biting the bullet and laying out some bucks. There's no other way around it.
What did you think would be appropriate?
Is this PC you purchased [as an adult], did you build it, or are you a teen and a gift a few years ago so it's outdated?
(serious responses please)
...null-productivity week (a day won't cut it). With HL2, coming out as well, everyone's going to be calling in sick so productivity will be negligent. They might as well acknowledge it and be done with it.
I don't think it'll happen. As long as the Disney Corp has enough money to influence in Congress, there'll be a clause to extend some type of extension, even if it's only for Mickey. Mickey is never going to fall into the public domain.
...write english...?
Does writing include capitalization?
c/britain/Britain/
c/england/England
c/english/English
...and when the original copyright holder is dead?
This goes back to the Mickey Mouse legislation. It can literally be claimed to be "Mickey Mouse Legislation". "Lions, tigers, and bears, Oh My!" Mickey is about to become public.
Can we ask Uncle Walk to choose when his works are released? No. If Disney Corp had their way, it would be never.
As far as others go, Jacko owns a lot of the Beatles' material (hence the claim he's financially destitute bogus). Has he sold out? When you hear Muzak Beatles, IMO, that's a sell-out. YMMV
There *is* someone who continues to have music produced....Mr. Hendrix.
But I think that's more a situation of five or six people holding rights to various types of rights and it's only until everything balances is material released in some little bundle.
heta desu
More "Mickey Mouse" legislation (seriously).
The Disney people didn't want MIckey Mouse become public so they have Congress expand the window of protection.
If this is going to be the case every time something comes up, it's going to be extended.
Why don't they just abolish the whole f%cking system of protection? (except those whose work is worthless)
Perhaps you are referring to the riddle:
Q: What do you call someone who finishes at the bottm of his class in medical school?
A: Doctor.
For those unfamiliar with some of the eponymous terms, the Peter Principle says, "Everyone rises at least one level above their competitive skill level." IOW, whereever you end up, you should have been at least one level below that. (and the evidence tends to support this.
The simplest example? I could ROT 13 an answer in a couple of sentences for you to guess but it should be obvious: PHBs. They have to come from some place(!)If you've been around one in particular and watched them achieve the lofty position, them since they were in position(s) before that. Somewhere along the line they were in a position which matched some part of their skill set. Then someone saw how efficient they were in that job and jacked them upward, and *poof*, PHB Level 1.0.
They reach a point where they can't go up, won't go down[1], even at another facility, and aren't capable enough to move laterally, current company or elsewhere.
As a professor of mine pointed out about twenty-five years ago, they're at the apex of their profession (their own skill-levelwise), waiting for the next 10-20-30-40 years to pass by so they can retire. Mostly because they've clogged the ladder and frequently taken training in a field which "had a job waiting for them when they finished". That is one f%cking sickening thought for the tech industry: "The requirement in the USA will be 600k each year for the next ten years...blah, blah, blah". Lots of positions for people to take classes and get a B.S. because that field is like a siren song...God, what a scary thought. It's bad enough now.
[1] Okay, I played a straight line there...I figured if I didn't say something most people wouldn't have caught it.
Hasn't anyone figured out what "catch-all" accounts he doesn't want to be spammed?
the most frequent "dictionary attack" of all: postmaster, abuse, etc.
After all, who wants to sort through those inboxes for legitimate email?
chuckle.