Odd, I clicked on the link to see the whitepaper and there was actually text there. When I read that Microsoft published a security whitepaper, I was expecting exactly that, a piece of blank white paper.
Do you really feel it is necessary to insult the intelligence of someone who is just doing his job? Why is this? Do you feel you are a better person than someone who works at McDonalds? If yes, why?
When I worked a summer job at Blockbuster, every now and then I'd get a smartass like you who thinks they're so clever. Guess what, I could give two shits about your change, and about the job. I just grabbed what the computer told me to grab from the drawer and give it to you.
I could have given two shits (can you add that?) about whether or not I gave you two quarters or 5 dimes. In fact, if I thought you were being an asshole, I'd probably give you a small change as I could, and claim that I was out of some coins and bills on my drawer.
"Well, this guy did avoid online detection : he was caught with road detection, driving the wrong way half-naked. It's not like the owner of the unprotected wifi AP called the cops, he was just acting odd on the road."
No kidding. I can't get over the stupidity of this guy. I mean...I in NO WAY condone what he was doing, but if you don't want to get caught...why not park somewhere, download the content, and go um....take care of business back home? I mean seriously, this guy DESERVED to be caught.
While I feel very sorry for your friend who had the misfortune to be in this situation, and while I hope you don't perceive this post as a troll, I do have to admit this is one of the funniest things I've pictured in my mind in the past month.
Just some guy in a subway waiting for a train in an electric wheelchair, and then suddenly having the wheelchair go nuts and start spinning and moving all over the place makes me fall to the ground laughing every time I think it over in my head.
"Now I see that they are able to send you animations/videos that get past Mozilla's image-blocking feature. "
One new "feature" of AIM is that now in the banner ad spot on top of your buddylist is video ads. Small little streaming ads. Now, not only is it annoying that they have sound and start playing automatically, but I hope to GOD they detect how fast your pipe is before they send that to you.
If I have to have my bandwidth sucked up on a 56k because AOL wanted to blast me with more ads for crap I have no interest in I'm going to be PISSED.
" A sad testament to how bad Slashdot grammar is... Next time someone asks you how bad the writing is on Slashdot, you can tell them "It's so bad my browser thinks it's Chinese!""
The other day, while in a drunken stupor I accidentally hit some combination of keys while in Mozilla that changed the characters to Korean. No matter what I did to try to change it back it wouldn't work. Then I went to Google to try to figure out how to fix it. Well, one problem, it was entering text into the search box in Korean. I proceeded to curse at my computer in English for 15 min. before just rebooting and having it magically work right again.
The testers of the new PCs say they run fabulously and are a great low-cost alternative to regular PCs. However, some noted that many of their MP3s either wouldn't play at all, or had certain words censored out.
I'm not trolling, I was making a joke. Since I know absolutely nothing about light years or any of that stuff, I just made it up. I expected someone to correct me soon after posting.
A while ago on Slashdot, I found a story which I can't remember the title of dealing with a new-agey looking game that read brain waves to play the game. It included such things as levitating and controlling water or something, and the various activities would be done by using various mind-states, ie. meditation. Does anybody remember the name of this game? Is it out yet? How is it?
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" Yeah, they couldn't possibly just like their computers, or their motorcycles. Must be some sort of cult thing."
Where in my post did I say cult? Oh wait, I didn't. When I use the term fanatic, I mean one who is very brand loyal and who thinks very highly of the company/product. It is not an insult, it is simply a descriptive term to rate the level of customer loyalty.
Wow...and here I was thinking a Lexus or a Honda was a well put together reliable car. But NO, they can't even make a probe that lasts longer than several hundred lightyears. What kinda mileage is that?!
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" Why does this sound like another Wired attempt to make something hip?"
Actually, it feels like a PR plant. You know, those things that seem too scripted to be real? Given that a large portion of Apple's success in creating its current image came from (aside from cool ads) extensive PR.
Remember, Apple has managed to take a small user-base, and turn them into a bunch of fanatics, right on par with Harley fanatics, only probably more feeble.
P.S. I'd rather be modded insightful than funny to help people who browse at a higher threshold to learn of this PR stunt.
Here's the question I'm wondering about. Do you have to be in at least one of the games to get/make the money? Because it would seem that the only way you can use this exchange system is if you play one of those games. But in real life, we have bank accounts that can transfer the money so you don't have to do it physically, thus enabling quasi-realtime trading of currency.
Perhaps someone with more of an understanding of currency trading can explain a bit how this works, and compare and contrast it to the real world currency brokers run things at the exchange.
" This interview is unique in that a top-ranking VP from HP was forced to answer some technical questions about the way her product works. She probably has no idea how AE works, and you couldn't explain it to her in terms she understands because like many others have said she doesn't understand "tech talk". "
Then perhaps that is not a good position for her. When you are at that level, you need to be prepared for contact with the media. In fact, many PR firms train these executives as to how to answer to media questions. If you cannot handle speaking on behalf of the company, you should not have such a high position with them, because with that position comes the responsibility to be part of their public face.
So while its understandable that she might not know the technical aspects of this, I don't see any excuse why she didn't have a watered down metaphor for it that would let people easily see what the technical things meant. There is no excuse for just being able to spew marketing lingo. Marketing lingo may be important to marketing, but it doesn't mean thats ALL you should know, especially if you're a VP.
And just so you know, I work in advertising/marketing, and am disgusted by this interview. The reason Slashdot has such a negative view of marketing people is because of people like this executive, who have no real intelligence to back up their words.
" I wonder if any companies are fielding artificial forum participants."
Well, while they may not be using computers to do it, they certainly plant forum participants. This is PR 101. They do it all the time, there's people on Slashdot who have been ousted for doing it in the past. That is why when I look for information on the product, I look at the product page to find out all the good stuff, and I read reviews of people who hated it for the bad stuff, because there's always the possibility of a "good review" being a plant *cough*Amazon*cough*.
I won't be impressed until someone designs that little gold remote control bee from the Richy Rich movie. That is by far one of the coolest geek toys of the future that I have seen.
Since they are obviously profiting from our services as a test subject, don't you think we should be able to charge them for this? Maybe it could work out so that we get to use P2P without fear of lawsuits, and they get to watch our habits.
I dunno, but I might just be willing to give them all the marketing data/interviews they need if I didn't have to worry about lawsuits or anything like that and got to continue to download all the free music I want.
Oh wait, they can get the marketing data AND sue us, so I guess its more profitable that way.
Wow, I'd never even heard of this. Isn't this kind of thing called FRAUD? Is this site illegal?!?! This is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen, even more so than some of the lawsuits so far.
" We have heard a lot of stories about people, states, and countries moving away from Microsoft. Is this a trend?"
This is actually something I've wondered myself. You see, lets imagine that one day Microsoft ceases to exist. Many large and powerful monopolies have done so in the past *cough*railroads*cough* I wonder if what we're seeing is the beginning of the eventual (probably take a while) end for Microsoft. I have this feeling that technology speeds up everything, including the demise of companies. Wouldn't that be ironic.
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When I worked a summer job at Blockbuster, every now and then I'd get a smartass like you who thinks they're so clever. Guess what, I could give two shits about your change, and about the job. I just grabbed what the computer told me to grab from the drawer and give it to you.
I could have given two shits (can you add that?) about whether or not I gave you two quarters or 5 dimes. In fact, if I thought you were being an asshole, I'd probably give you a small change as I could, and claim that I was out of some coins and bills on my drawer.
No kidding. I can't get over the stupidity of this guy. I mean...I in NO WAY condone what he was doing, but if you don't want to get caught...why not park somewhere, download the content, and go um....take care of business back home? I mean seriously, this guy DESERVED to be caught.
Just some guy in a subway waiting for a train in an electric wheelchair, and then suddenly having the wheelchair go nuts and start spinning and moving all over the place makes me fall to the ground laughing every time I think it over in my head.
One new "feature" of AIM is that now in the banner ad spot on top of your buddylist is video ads. Small little streaming ads. Now, not only is it annoying that they have sound and start playing automatically, but I hope to GOD they detect how fast your pipe is before they send that to you.
If I have to have my bandwidth sucked up on a 56k because AOL wanted to blast me with more ads for crap I have no interest in I'm going to be PISSED.
The other day, while in a drunken stupor I accidentally hit some combination of keys while in Mozilla that changed the characters to Korean. No matter what I did to try to change it back it wouldn't work. Then I went to Google to try to figure out how to fix it. Well, one problem, it was entering text into the search box in Korean. I proceeded to curse at my computer in English for 15 min. before just rebooting and having it magically work right again.
You must be new here....
Where in my post did I say cult? Oh wait, I didn't. When I use the term fanatic, I mean one who is very brand loyal and who thinks very highly of the company/product. It is not an insult, it is simply a descriptive term to rate the level of customer loyalty.
Actually, it feels like a PR plant. You know, those things that seem too scripted to be real? Given that a large portion of Apple's success in creating its current image came from (aside from cool ads) extensive PR.
Remember, Apple has managed to take a small user-base, and turn them into a bunch of fanatics, right on par with Harley fanatics, only probably more feeble.
P.S. I'd rather be modded insightful than funny to help people who browse at a higher threshold to learn of this PR stunt.
Look at the pr0n on my harddrive instead of the pr0n on the TGP sites?
Perhaps someone with more of an understanding of currency trading can explain a bit how this works, and compare and contrast it to the real world currency brokers run things at the exchange.
Then perhaps that is not a good position for her. When you are at that level, you need to be prepared for contact with the media. In fact, many PR firms train these executives as to how to answer to media questions. If you cannot handle speaking on behalf of the company, you should not have such a high position with them, because with that position comes the responsibility to be part of their public face.
So while its understandable that she might not know the technical aspects of this, I don't see any excuse why she didn't have a watered down metaphor for it that would let people easily see what the technical things meant. There is no excuse for just being able to spew marketing lingo. Marketing lingo may be important to marketing, but it doesn't mean thats ALL you should know, especially if you're a VP.
And just so you know, I work in advertising/marketing, and am disgusted by this interview. The reason Slashdot has such a negative view of marketing people is because of people like this executive, who have no real intelligence to back up their words.
Well, while they may not be using computers to do it, they certainly plant forum participants. This is PR 101. They do it all the time, there's people on Slashdot who have been ousted for doing it in the past. That is why when I look for information on the product, I look at the product page to find out all the good stuff, and I read reviews of people who hated it for the bad stuff, because there's always the possibility of a "good review" being a plant *cough*Amazon*cough*.
I dunno, but I might just be willing to give them all the marketing data/interviews they need if I didn't have to worry about lawsuits or anything like that and got to continue to download all the free music I want.
Oh wait, they can get the marketing data AND sue us, so I guess its more profitable that way.
So what stage are we at now? "
Wow, it's a good thing Gandhi never heard of Slashdot or the 1.2.3.Profit! joke or we'd have never heard the end of it!
This is actually something I've wondered myself. You see, lets imagine that one day Microsoft ceases to exist. Many large and powerful monopolies have done so in the past *cough*railroads*cough* I wonder if what we're seeing is the beginning of the eventual (probably take a while) end for Microsoft. I have this feeling that technology speeds up everything, including the demise of companies. Wouldn't that be ironic.