DGSE, the French intelligence services, as part of their official charter engage in industrial and corporate espionage against internal and external targets whether or not those companies are operating in France.
Then you must love Gartner - who published a missive today stating categorically that all corporations must shun the iPhone as it will be evil for their infrastructures.
I love the smell of a garbagecan full of uncapped highlighters in the morning. It's the smell of..........delusions.
When the Shuttle program ends it will give an out to the ISS partners to begin the end of the ISS program. When the ISS program ends, manned spaceflight be over for at least the remainder of the 21st century.
Breathe deep the fumes of millions of/. Redmond fanboys letting go of their dicks long enough to type with both hands and smash out a post that highlights their anger and rage.
If the RIAA can sue me then I demand they join the carrier in every single suit. Or, if the carrier wants to filter me then they have to indemnify me too. After all it's AT&T what brought the illegal content to me.
At this point the laser like focus of anti iPhone diatribes doesn't sound like, it IS professional disinformation. What will/. put up next? The national coalition of Lawn Service Guys proclaim that iPhone is bad for business and bad for your lawn?
C'mon/. step up your game - try to at least appear like you're not shills.
This is 100% exactly the same thing as what anti Blackberry people said about the Blackberry. Guess what - it has massive presence in corporate I/T. Woops. I swear I never in my life heard so many people specifically come out AGAINST a mere product before it's even available.
I've been looking for my next desktop replacement in the next, dunno, 2-3 years? I am running a gaggle of what will be my last turn of the crank of MS operating systems. Because I am cheap. For me there's zero upside to replace all my hardware just to support the next version of Windows, itself of dubious incremental value. So when the time comes it will be along the lines of old equipment. Not obsolete but certainly not new. Right now, for my purposes the likely candidates, if the decision was today, is Ubuntu, Linspire/Freespire or a mini Mac. Given that notebook machines will probably dip under the price of desktops by then at least at the low end that may or may not throw another problem in. If a Mac notebook is in the sweet spot then that's the pick, else a cheap Lenovo or similar running one of the above OS's.
As always I am baffled by the hardware platform. Clearly cost is not an issue for this test. Which means that any other factor is the driver. Security? Personal preference? Certainly not compatibility. So with this test and with any other, Ubuntu, Linspire, etc etc etc the point is not going to be the cost of the desktop and we can simply ignore the cost of Vista when looking at any head to head to comparison.
Ok this is the UK where every RPG toting screwloose is a 'freedom fighter' and there is literally no limit to the amount of kowtowing to religiously inspired racist violence and rhetoric that the UK will champion. Hell, Rowan Williams is practically an honorary jihadist at this point. So yeah you ban your games. I'm sure that will fix things.
Universal access will just mean higher costs for everyone and ubiquitous censorship legislation. I have mine already and in the true spirit of American Libertarianism, fuck you.
The funny thing is that companies REALLY DON'T care if you drop them or not. This is not a rhetorical statement.
MCI - My MCI Neighborhood phone line. It started out at $49.95. Now it's up to $54.95 for 100% exactly the same service. Of course between junk fees and taxes the true cost is about $77/month
Sprint - My cell phone bill has 'errors' in the vicinity of 5% every month. Every month. For the last 3 years. I would rank customer service somewhere between Gitmo and prison rape. And the retail stores are in fact useless for anything other than new customers. That's actually a fact they will verify if you ask them. It's debatable whether the level of lying they perform when you try to buy something from them crosses into the realm of fraud. In either case they don't care. As an experiment ask them to verify the price they tell you with what's on their website. They will simply hang up on you without comment.
CIGNA Healthcare - Cannot verify over the phone whether I am a subscriber or not, to the pharmacy. I could understand if they refused to because HIPPA is the new holy grail of an excuse to refuse to 'do' customer service. No CIGNA actually can't. Their online systems don't work well enough to do that. But hey my call is very important to them.
Time-Warner - well their service relatively speaking is ok. It works and the bills keep coming. But when the service drops out because of some technical glitch, even in some cases for more than a day they suddenly speak only Ebonics when it comes to rebates.
Xbox support - Just give up. They're in India. They can't understand what you're saying and you can't understand them. They literally cannot speak English well enough to communicate with you. Hang up the phone and keep calling till you find someone who does.
Mitsubishi USA - Their official policy is to have their lawyers send you a threatening letter if you complain about one of the dealerships. In this case Leith Mitsu of Raleigh, NC. Even though they have service bulletins up the wazoo they will not address any of the issues unless you pay for them. And the dealership told me with a straight face that parking my car outside invalidated the warranty. The national network's response to a complaint is to send out a letter telling you to go to hell and if you persist in writing to them they will sue you for something.
And since we're on year five of no increases and shipping as many jobs as possible out of the country, the 5 mil will get split among the top execs as yet more performance bonuses.
Sam Palmisano paid himself $37 million dollars last year. Let him eat the loss personally if he wants to look like a hero.
Two industries not traditionally bound towards cost containment and heavily tilted towards less than parity salaries. So basically the best place to work is one that has lots of money and doesn't spend it on salaries. There sure as hell better be other perks.
Mow the lawn, teach me Spanish? Is it waterproof, shockproof? Can it float fly and sit in an oven? Will it let me run my personal build of BSD? No? Then it's shit and we should shun it and hate it.
How many N95's sell anyway? They cost $800 (list from Dynamism).
That seems high. I could probably get a machine from Tiger Direct for what Dictator for Life Hugo Chavez claims his Bolivarian machines cost. You could check the prices from Tiger or CDW or Dell or HP as do as well.
But at 40mpg and $14,000 it's basically a 2 seat Civic. And my next car will probably be a one year old Civic.
And you can be sure that the rednecks down here in NC will pass some kind of law making it prohibitively expensive or uninsurable. Because as we all know, small is faggoty Eurocommunism. Down here in AMERICA, guldurnit, 75% all new Veee-hick-ul registrations are trucks and SUVs. Learn the damn rules.
If something is SUCH a problem as to require legal prohibition you can be damn sure I demand a rebate. Apparently cell phones are a bigger menace than smoking crack while getting head while running from the cops. OK fair enough. And since 3 out of 4 people I see driving are also talking on the phone it must be such a national calamity as to require the Big Boot of Mother Government to stomp in and save me. Literally, save me because I must be on a grease slicked highway to hell. So - given that, I want, no I demand the actuaries to look again at what can only be a massive reduction in the billions of people perishing every day on America's highways of death.
I Pray to the FCC every night that they will finally drop the hammer on God hating communist unpatriotic Americans who zap through our God given commercials. I really want our overlords to begin arresting people for turning off their television sets. Please please please reeducate us.
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DGSE, the French intelligence services, as part of their official charter engage in industrial and corporate espionage against internal and external targets whether or not those companies are operating in France.
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Then you must love Gartner - who published a missive today stating categorically that all corporations must shun the iPhone as it will be evil for their infrastructures.
I love the smell of a garbagecan full of uncapped highlighters in the morning. It's the smell of..........delusions.
When the Shuttle program ends it will give an out to the ISS partners to begin the end of the ISS program. When the ISS program ends, manned spaceflight be over for at least the remainder of the 21st century.
Breathe deep the fumes of millions of /. Redmond fanboys letting go of their dicks long enough to type with both hands and smash out a post that highlights their anger and rage.
If the RIAA can sue me then I demand they join the carrier in every single suit. Or, if the carrier wants to filter me then they have to indemnify me too. After all it's AT&T what brought the illegal content to me.
At this point the laser like focus of anti iPhone diatribes doesn't sound like, it IS professional disinformation. What will /. put up next? The national coalition of Lawn Service Guys proclaim that iPhone is bad for business and bad for your lawn?
/. step up your game - try to at least appear like you're not shills.
C'mon
This is 100% exactly the same thing as what anti Blackberry people said about the Blackberry. Guess what - it has massive presence in corporate I/T. Woops. I swear I never in my life heard so many people specifically come out AGAINST a mere product before it's even available.
I'd get a 17hp 3 wheeled rickshaw for round town use. I may still. They're registered as motorcycles.
I've been looking for my next desktop replacement in the next, dunno, 2-3 years? I am running a gaggle of what will be my last turn of the crank of MS operating systems. Because I am cheap. For me there's zero upside to replace all my hardware just to support the next version of Windows, itself of dubious incremental value. So when the time comes it will be along the lines of old equipment. Not obsolete but certainly not new. Right now, for my purposes the likely candidates, if the decision was today, is Ubuntu, Linspire/Freespire or a mini Mac. Given that notebook machines will probably dip under the price of desktops by then at least at the low end that may or may not throw another problem in. If a Mac notebook is in the sweet spot then that's the pick, else a cheap Lenovo or similar running one of the above OS's.
As always I am baffled by the hardware platform. Clearly cost is not an issue for this test. Which means that any other factor is the driver. Security? Personal preference? Certainly not compatibility. So with this test and with any other, Ubuntu, Linspire, etc etc etc the point is not going to be the cost of the desktop and we can simply ignore the cost of Vista when looking at any head to head to comparison.
I mean what's good for the goose, etc etc.
Ok this is the UK where every RPG toting screwloose is a 'freedom fighter' and there is literally no limit to the amount of kowtowing to religiously inspired racist violence and rhetoric that the UK will champion. Hell, Rowan Williams is practically an honorary jihadist at this point. So yeah you ban your games. I'm sure that will fix things.
Universal access will just mean higher costs for everyone and ubiquitous censorship legislation. I have mine already and in the true spirit of American Libertarianism, fuck you.
The funny thing is that companies REALLY DON'T care if you drop them or not. This is not a rhetorical statement.
MCI - My MCI Neighborhood phone line. It started out at $49.95. Now it's up to $54.95 for 100% exactly the same service. Of course between junk fees and taxes the true cost is about $77/month
Sprint - My cell phone bill has 'errors' in the vicinity of 5% every month. Every month. For the last 3 years. I would rank customer service somewhere between Gitmo and prison rape. And the retail stores are in fact useless for anything other than new customers. That's actually a fact they will verify if you ask them. It's debatable whether the level of lying they perform when you try to buy something from them crosses into the realm of fraud. In either case they don't care. As an experiment ask them to verify the price they tell you with what's on their website. They will simply hang up on you without comment.
CIGNA Healthcare - Cannot verify over the phone whether I am a subscriber or not, to the pharmacy. I could understand if they refused to because HIPPA is the new holy grail of an excuse to refuse to 'do' customer service. No CIGNA actually can't. Their online systems don't work well enough to do that. But hey my call is very important to them.
Time-Warner - well their service relatively speaking is ok. It works and the bills keep coming. But when the service drops out because of some technical glitch, even in some cases for more than a day they suddenly speak only Ebonics when it comes to rebates.
Xbox support - Just give up. They're in India. They can't understand what you're saying and you can't understand them. They literally cannot speak English well enough to communicate with you. Hang up the phone and keep calling till you find someone who does.
Mitsubishi USA - Their official policy is to have their lawyers send you a threatening letter if you complain about one of the dealerships. In this case Leith Mitsu of Raleigh, NC. Even though they have service bulletins up the wazoo they will not address any of the issues unless you pay for them. And the dealership told me with a straight face that parking my car outside invalidated the warranty. The national network's response to a complaint is to send out a letter telling you to go to hell and if you persist in writing to them they will sue you for something.
And since we're on year five of no increases and shipping as many jobs as possible out of the country, the 5 mil will get split among the top execs as yet more performance bonuses.
Sam Palmisano paid himself $37 million dollars last year. Let him eat the loss personally if he wants to look like a hero.
Two industries not traditionally bound towards cost containment and heavily tilted towards less than parity salaries. So basically the best place to work is one that has lots of money and doesn't spend it on salaries. There sure as hell better be other perks.
The leading cause of death of women in the workplace is murder. Perhaps we prohibit women from working?
Mow the lawn, teach me Spanish? Is it waterproof, shockproof? Can it float fly and sit in an oven? Will it let me run my personal build of BSD? No? Then it's shit and we should shun it and hate it.
How many N95's sell anyway? They cost $800 (list from Dynamism).
and I guess it messed up their server. My bad.
The other problem with these laws is that they go hand in glove with laws making it illegal to test the system or hack it or to publish the results.
Check out Dell's Venezuela website. Notebooks from $529, desktops from $229.
That seems high. I could probably get a machine from Tiger Direct for what Dictator for Life Hugo Chavez claims his Bolivarian machines cost. You could check the prices from Tiger or CDW or Dell or HP as do as well.
So I guess all white people are guilty of Treblinka too. Ok, line up and let me put a bullet in your head.
But at 40mpg and $14,000 it's basically a 2 seat Civic. And my next car will probably be a one year old Civic.
And you can be sure that the rednecks down here in NC will pass some kind of law making it prohibitively expensive or uninsurable. Because as we all know, small is faggoty Eurocommunism. Down here in AMERICA, guldurnit, 75% all new Veee-hick-ul registrations are trucks and SUVs. Learn the damn rules.
If something is SUCH a problem as to require legal prohibition you can be damn sure I demand a rebate. Apparently cell phones are a bigger menace than smoking crack while getting head while running from the cops. OK fair enough. And since 3 out of 4 people I see driving are also talking on the phone it must be such a national calamity as to require the Big Boot of Mother Government to stomp in and save me. Literally, save me because I must be on a grease slicked highway to hell. So - given that, I want, no I demand the actuaries to look again at what can only be a massive reduction in the billions of people perishing every day on America's highways of death.
I Pray to the FCC every night that they will finally drop the hammer on God hating communist unpatriotic Americans who zap through our God given commercials. I really want our overlords to begin arresting people for turning off their television sets. Please please please reeducate us.