It's not just for windows, yes? Wouldn't you also have to wrap the whole house a-la making your home a Faraday Cage? Film is cheaper than a quarter-wave mesh I'll give them that. 'Course blocking your own cell phone from your own home is a tad over the top.
Redmond doesn't want to obliterate all comers such as Linux and Apple because that would trigger yet more legislation and court cases. Redmond has to 'suffer' a 10% or 15% market share to its competitors in order to preserve the illusion of a loyal opposition.
Quite so. I rec'd $45 from it. I don't imagine that Epson wants to temps the courts again though.
I believe that if Printer manufacturers really wanted to pursue this it would quickly push us to color laser segment. Unless of course they decided to rape us on those already expensive consumables too. It might not end well for them - as I said, all it would take is a cheap printer from India, China, S Korea, Brazil..... to hurt them badly. Ink, after all is ink. It's not plutonium or heroin or gold or Type O Blood. It's not that hard to make.
Every politician every company that proclaims to 'do no evil' and be for the little man secretly harbors a desire for fascism. Many succeed. That's why they call it demagoguery.
Epson and Lexmark both lost class action suits brought against them for building technical blocs in thier hardware which would lock out 3rd party ink carts. And if the printer companies think they would survive a concerted effort by Indian and Chinese vendors to replace them in the home/SOHO market they are smoking the same weed that the RIAA uses. So I say let them try. They will see that market dry up.
The problem is the massive rollout of servers and blades into datacenters that under utilized. The One Job One Box Syndrome. Most DC hardware is barely used but there it sits idling and sucking power. If we leaped into massive virtualization we'd be able to reduce the number of physical components and save power.
Yeah it's pretty weird in fact I fight with my own sales people who want to outsource our engagements to our own competitors. I think this whole business is ultimately 5 guys in India who work for every company.
The piece of shit Taurus I also have has no leak therefore it must be a better car than my old Porsche. And it's true that if every car in the world were my old Porsche then all the cars in the world would have that same annoying leak. Ergo the world is a better place for all the piece of shit Taurus's on the road.
See it's not about theory, fanboys. It's about practical outcomes. Per person per unit per second per whatever the practical outcomes of MS 'security' are disaster and failure compared to everything else. Period full stop. And if all the fanboys in the world, got off/. put down the fucking cheetos and hammered out code it still wouldn't make any difference because that train's already left the station.
You can wave your MS flag in my face all.fucking.day. telling me about the theoretical import of security gaps in some other widget and it won't amount to anything because the effect of these gaps is maybe 0.0001% of the effect of yours.
So suck it up, my pimpled minions - your God is a cardboard God.
MS Xbox service is bar none the worst I have ever encountered. The worst. On par with Gitmo and prison sodomy in terms of customer service.
I'm working from memory here but I have notebook of notes:
My box went red ring of light death on June 4th. I called XBox and discovered you have to get through the auto attendant Max, no matter what. So after about 5 minutes of Max I got stuck in a queue to talk to Eric or Gilbert or whatever they called Rajiv that day.
That person walked me through the process of the getting th SN etc and I gave them $140 via a credit card for them to process the 'repair'.
REPAIRS ARE SWAPS WITH ANOTHER REFURB UNIT.
So they send you a box to drop your old unit and remail it. The box took 4 days to get to me. It arrives fully assembled with no outer packaging:
It was damaged It was damp It was left on my porch
Apparently Xbox can't figure out how to ship a collapsed box that the postal service can stick in your mailbox. Anyway in goes the unit and I drive it down to UPS to ship it off.
It was sent the 8th. Xbox does not see it and log it back in until the 14th. Now begins a daily series of calls to get any status at all on this unit. Remember you have to get through Max the Justin Long of voice attendants first EVEN IF YOU HAVE A FUCKING INCIDENT NUMBER. The Best you can do is state loudly "AGENT" and "Max" breaks procedure and routes the call to another queue
Where you wait. And wait and wait about 15-20 minutes on average. When you get a person, 5 times out of 6 you get someone in India who
DOES NOT SPEAK ENGLISH OR IF THEY DO THEIR ACCENT IS SO THICK ITS UNINTELLIGIBLE BUT THE REALLY FUN PART IS THAT THESE RETARDS CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING EITHER.
My last name is six letters, six. SIX. I had to spell it out letter by letter EIGHT fucking times before I just started screaming and hung up the phone because Meena or whomever could not speak the language.
And so it goes a daily experience of trying to get some information. Around June 22-23 (7 days of calling) I found a agent who claimed to contact the service center and who stated it would arrive in 3-5 business days. He gave me a UPS tracking number which I discovered inside of 10 minutes was invalid. He also told me a 'supervisor' would call to verify.
They never did.
Let me just interrupt here that at the same time I fired off a bunch of support emails to Xbox trying to get any information at all. Their official email response was 'WE DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THAT AND CAN'T HELP YOU PLEASE CALL'
(3 of the calls during this time they simply hung up on me)
Anyway on the 24th I got an email back from support telling me the unit shipped and gave me another UPS tracking number which was also invalid. So I started calling again on the 24th, (we don't know anything), the 25th (it was picked up on the 24th and will be there 3-5 days and the 26th.
On the 26th - I was in the hold queue for a half hour. The person I spoke to immediately put me on hold the moment I gave them the incident number. After 15 minutes on hold they gave me the same invalid UPS tracking number. I would not let them go and they stuck me on hold again for another 15-20 minutes until some 'supervisor' got on the phone. Upon which time he told me that the UPS tracking number was right and that at this point, they didn't know where the unit actually was, just that it had 'probably' been shipped and that I should call UPS to figure it out and 'maybe they can help you'.
This was Tuesday the 26th, this week. So I called UPS, got their autoattendant and low and behold the tracking number had finally hit their system. That day. In fact it hadn't been shipped on Sunday it was shipped Tuesday afternoon about 2:30 local time or 3 hrs before I called them to check.
So here it is the 28th. 6 minutes ago it hit Greensboro NC but hasn't left yet. I don't if it will get to me in Raleigh today, but almost certainly tomorrow. June 30th.
There is no such thing as cyberbullying. Guess what assholes, people are mean. They've always been mean. Which would you rather have? Some asshole chick or tude dude whacking off with one hand while s/he types some shit about you with the other or would you rather have that person in your face in person?
Because if it were me if its online I don't care and if its in person I will whip the living shit out of them and stomp on them until they can't type anymore.
If people talk shit about you online then just accuse them of child molestation or something, publically. Fuck them up.
Those dudes are building the Rohas Revolucion Hombre's home computer for near-free. I'm sure oil rich angry expropriate all the industries and nationalize them Marxism can fix everything for them.
I work for the last tech generation's great and most favorite company. A big three letter place. It's a tomb. It's a company that sees its future as merely saving and cost cutting its way to prosperity as it develops nothing and creates nothing. And the only new things to come out of it anymore is via acquisition.
MS is probably just like that. A husk on cruise control that's driven by costs, bureaucracy and slack. A place where nothing new happens because the executives are paranoid rich blockheads.
Some MS insider should check to see what the average tenure with the company is now. I'm sure its dropping. If it's a really low number like mine is then that's a red flag for a company that just wants to operate on the lowest cost basis, probably out of the country and where innovation and quality are already dead.
1) Small media - who wants a 750MB/74 minute limit 2) Bulky player - who wants a big cumbersome player 3) Crap is Crap - who wants The Best of Big Hair Bands 4) Beyoncaisha Effect - your favorite crap diva releases singles not albums 5) Rap is Crap - XXX remixes not the shit that Wal*Mart wants to sell you
And last but not least -
Anything that will make record companies suffer is a good thing. May they all sexually service barnyard animals in hell for eternity.
No not in the real world. Desktop deployment is driven by cost and only by cost. And the current model for most large corporations is to provide a standard build and deliver support through a do-it-yourself model. If you can't fix it yourself then you send in your desktop for a new build installation. Ergo the build's design points are cost and application compatibility. "Function" as it were isn't even in the top 5 of feature points. It's an asset and it's managed as one.
I have a personal aversion to the bullshit at consulting firms. The pressure to generate revenue the brutal social Darwinism, the massive hours just to show your face and the fact that after all that it's bootlickers and sociopaths who get ahead. The only thing worse than a consulting firm is one of those Market Research firms like Gartner or Yankee group. They used to give people personal valets because they didn't want them to EVER leave work. Not ever. May they all sexually service mythological beasts in hell, all of them.
What's different is that it is part of their charter. They are happy to admit that officially they spy on and steal trade secrets from their own allies for the commercial gain of French industry, specifically.
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The RIAA is officially an enemy of the state and they, their families should all be hunted down and killed. Exterminate them all.
It's not just for windows, yes? Wouldn't you also have to wrap the whole house a-la making your home a Faraday Cage? Film is cheaper than a quarter-wave mesh I'll give them that. 'Course blocking your own cell phone from your own home is a tad over the top.
Redmond doesn't want to obliterate all comers such as Linux and Apple because that would trigger yet more legislation and court cases. Redmond has to 'suffer' a 10% or 15% market share to its competitors in order to preserve the illusion of a loyal opposition.
Quite so. I rec'd $45 from it. I don't imagine that Epson wants to temps the courts again though.
I believe that if Printer manufacturers really wanted to pursue this it would quickly push us to color laser segment. Unless of course they decided to rape us on those already expensive consumables too. It might not end well for them - as I said, all it would take is a cheap printer from India, China, S Korea, Brazil..... to hurt them badly. Ink, after all is ink. It's not plutonium or heroin or gold or Type O Blood. It's not that hard to make.
Every politician every company that proclaims to 'do no evil' and be for the little man secretly harbors a desire for fascism. Many succeed. That's why they call it demagoguery.
Epson and Lexmark both lost class action suits brought against them for building technical blocs in thier hardware which would lock out 3rd party ink carts. And if the printer companies think they would survive a concerted effort by Indian and Chinese vendors to replace them in the home/SOHO market they are smoking the same weed that the RIAA uses. So I say let them try. They will see that market dry up.
The problem is the massive rollout of servers and blades into datacenters that under utilized. The One Job One Box Syndrome. Most DC hardware is barely used but there it sits idling and sucking power. If we leaped into massive virtualization we'd be able to reduce the number of physical components and save power.
Yeah it's pretty weird in fact I fight with my own sales people who want to outsource our engagements to our own competitors. I think this whole business is ultimately 5 guys in India who work for every company.
The piece of shit Taurus I also have has no leak therefore it must be a better car than my old Porsche. And it's true that if every car in the world were my old Porsche then all the cars in the world would have that same annoying leak. Ergo the world is a better place for all the piece of shit Taurus's on the road.
/. put down the fucking cheetos and hammered out code it still wouldn't make any difference because that train's already left the station.
See it's not about theory, fanboys. It's about practical outcomes. Per person per unit per second per whatever the practical outcomes of MS 'security' are disaster and failure compared to everything else. Period full stop. And if all the fanboys in the world, got off
You can wave your MS flag in my face all.fucking.day. telling me about the theoretical import of security gaps in some other widget and it won't amount to anything because the effect of these gaps is maybe 0.0001% of the effect of yours.
So suck it up, my pimpled minions - your God is a cardboard God.
Fuck you paid MS shill asskissing fuckhead.
MS Xbox service is bar none the worst I have ever encountered. The worst. On par with Gitmo and prison sodomy in terms of customer service.
I'm working from memory here but I have notebook of notes:
My box went red ring of light death on June 4th. I called XBox and discovered you have to get through the auto attendant Max, no matter what. So after about 5 minutes of Max I got stuck in a queue to talk to Eric or Gilbert or whatever they called Rajiv that day.
That person walked me through the process of the getting th SN etc and I gave them $140 via a credit card for them to process the 'repair'.
REPAIRS ARE SWAPS WITH ANOTHER REFURB UNIT.
So they send you a box to drop your old unit and remail it. The box took 4 days to get to me. It arrives fully assembled with no outer packaging:
It was damaged
It was damp
It was left on my porch
Apparently Xbox can't figure out how to ship a collapsed box that the postal service can stick in your mailbox. Anyway in goes the unit and I drive it down to UPS to ship it off.
It was sent the 8th. Xbox does not see it and log it back in until the 14th. Now begins a daily series of calls to get any status at all on this unit. Remember you have to get through Max the Justin Long of voice attendants first EVEN IF YOU HAVE A FUCKING INCIDENT NUMBER. The Best you can do is state loudly "AGENT" and "Max" breaks procedure and routes the call to another queue
Where you wait. And wait and wait about 15-20 minutes on average. When you get a person, 5 times out of 6 you get someone in India who
DOES NOT SPEAK ENGLISH OR IF THEY DO THEIR ACCENT IS SO THICK ITS UNINTELLIGIBLE BUT THE REALLY FUN PART IS THAT THESE RETARDS CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING EITHER.
My last name is six letters, six. SIX. I had to spell it out letter by letter EIGHT fucking times before I just started screaming and hung up the phone because Meena or whomever could not speak the language.
And so it goes a daily experience of trying to get some information. Around June 22-23 (7 days of calling) I found a agent who claimed to contact the service center and who stated it would arrive in 3-5 business days. He gave me a UPS tracking number which I discovered inside of 10 minutes was invalid. He also told me a 'supervisor' would call to verify.
They never did.
Let me just interrupt here that at the same time I fired off a bunch of support emails to Xbox trying to get any information at all. Their official email response was 'WE DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THAT AND CAN'T HELP YOU PLEASE CALL'
(3 of the calls during this time they simply hung up on me)
Anyway on the 24th I got an email back from support telling me the unit shipped and gave me another UPS tracking number which was also invalid. So I started calling again on the 24th, (we don't know anything), the 25th (it was picked up on the 24th and will be there 3-5 days and the 26th.
On the 26th - I was in the hold queue for a half hour. The person I spoke to immediately put me on hold the moment I gave them the incident number. After 15 minutes on hold they gave me the same invalid UPS tracking number. I would not let them go and they stuck me on hold again for another 15-20 minutes until some 'supervisor' got on the phone. Upon which time he told me that the UPS tracking number was right and that at this point, they didn't know where the unit actually was, just that it had 'probably' been shipped and that I should call UPS to figure it out and 'maybe they can help you'.
This was Tuesday the 26th, this week. So I called UPS, got their autoattendant and low and behold the tracking number had finally hit their system. That day. In fact it hadn't been shipped on Sunday it was shipped Tuesday afternoon about 2:30 local time or 3 hrs before I called them to check.
So here it is the 28th. 6 minutes ago it hit Greensboro NC but hasn't left yet. I don't if it will get to me in Raleigh today, but almost certainly tomorrow. June 30th.
That will
There is no such thing as cyberbullying. Guess what assholes, people are mean. They've always been mean. Which would you rather have? Some asshole chick or tude dude whacking off with one hand while s/he types some shit about you with the other or would you rather have that person in your face in person?
Because if it were me if its online I don't care and if its in person I will whip the living shit out of them and stomp on them until they can't type anymore.
If people talk shit about you online then just accuse them of child molestation or something, publically. Fuck them up.
You have to parse it inside out. Read it aloud.
Those dudes are building the Rohas Revolucion Hombre's home computer for near-free. I'm sure oil rich angry expropriate all the industries and nationalize them Marxism can fix everything for them.
We tossed out most of our contractors a while ago. We no longer use them. We cut that cost out already.
Oh yeah another three letter firm. A different one. "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."
I really can't be any more clear than this.
I work for the last tech generation's great and most favorite company. A big three letter place. It's a tomb. It's a company that sees its future as merely saving and cost cutting its way to prosperity as it develops nothing and creates nothing. And the only new things to come out of it anymore is via acquisition.
MS is probably just like that. A husk on cruise control that's driven by costs, bureaucracy and slack. A place where nothing new happens because the executives are paranoid rich blockheads.
Some MS insider should check to see what the average tenure with the company is now. I'm sure its dropping. If it's a really low number like mine is then that's a red flag for a company that just wants to operate on the lowest cost basis, probably out of the country and where innovation and quality are already dead.
1) Small media - who wants a 750MB/74 minute limit
2) Bulky player - who wants a big cumbersome player
3) Crap is Crap - who wants The Best of Big Hair Bands
4) Beyoncaisha Effect - your favorite crap diva releases singles not albums
5) Rap is Crap - XXX remixes not the shit that Wal*Mart wants to sell you
And last but not least -
Anything that will make record companies suffer is a good thing. May they all sexually service barnyard animals in hell for eternity.
///The More You Know ***********!
and run power lines to Ft. Meade. The government actually has plans to use nuclear warcraft to deliver municipal electricity in disaster scenarios.
A wholly owned subsidiary of Steve Ballmer's nutsack? Gee who didn't see that coming?
No not in the real world. Desktop deployment is driven by cost and only by cost. And the current model for most large corporations is to provide a standard build and deliver support through a do-it-yourself model. If you can't fix it yourself then you send in your desktop for a new build installation. Ergo the build's design points are cost and application compatibility. "Function" as it were isn't even in the top 5 of feature points. It's an asset and it's managed as one.
C'mon a CIOs opinion of a desktop is as valid, or trite as anyone else's. Why?
CIOs have support staffs, you do not.
A desktop is not a server or an enterprise it's a desktop in the enterprise.
This is silly. Are we going to read CIO reviews of corporate caterers too?
I have a personal aversion to the bullshit at consulting firms. The pressure to generate revenue the brutal social Darwinism, the massive hours just to show your face and the fact that after all that it's bootlickers and sociopaths who get ahead. The only thing worse than a consulting firm is one of those Market Research firms like Gartner or Yankee group. They used to give people personal valets because they didn't want them to EVER leave work. Not ever. May they all sexually service mythological beasts in hell, all of them.
What's different is that it is part of their charter. They are happy to admit that officially they spy on and steal trade secrets from their own allies for the commercial gain of French industry, specifically.