On any given day I'd have to say one out of three people has a handset pressed up to their ear. We clearly don't have 33% of all drivers involved in accidents. At worst, driving while on the phone produces a marginally less attentive but generally slower driver. As far as SMS is concerned, the time spent would seem to be on the very short side. Of course I suppose one could spend 3 minutes trying to T9 a full 160 characters with one thumb but my guess is that that person is probably a very inattentive driver anyway. Have you ever driven with someone who stop fiddling with every button, seat adjustment and mirror? I have. It's called OCD. So on the whole, the few seconds spent typing 'ok' or punching up a canned message to an name in your address book sounds to me, like a solution in search of a problem.
Here's some more:
Don't drop that Slushie in the car Don't light that cigarette Don't ruffle through your CD collection
And here are some more rules if you live in North Carolina:
Try to use your turn signals at least some of the time Left lanes are for left turns right lanes are for right turns When the light is green go When the light is red stop Trying to be the LAST person through the intersection is just rude Random stops in the middle of the road for no obvious reason are a no-no Go somewhere NEAR the speed limit; 20mph under or over is a no-no Close the damn tailgate, bubba, all your crap is flying out
That my 5 phone (4 add a line) 2500 min/month, + 60 bonus minutes per phone per month, plus "Vision plan" with 500-600 SMS/month per phone on 4 phones and unlimited SMS on 1 phone, plus internet, email, voiceSMS and unlimited nights starting at 6pm runs $196/month. Yes it's steep. Which is why I'm sensitive to the 'just a few dollars more' pricing scheme. For $100-$150/month more they would have to throw in free wireless broadband unmetered rate.
Isn't the EU starting to sound a little sand in the vagina neurotic about this one issue? There are OTHER storefronts besides iTunes. And there are other PC clients besides iTunes you can use to force content on to your iPod. It sounds like protectionism from the EU and I wish they'd just shut the hell up about it.
Today I have one land line exclusively for the 'unlimited' aspect of the MCI Neighborhood plan because that line accrues 4-5,000 (thousand) minutes a month. It costs $72 including taxes. I also have an AT&T CallVantage VoIP line for work and I believe its 'unlimited' is actually capped at 5,000 minutes/month. But before you all tell me to discard MCI landline let me tell you that it's orders of magnitude more reliable than CallVantage. If I had to pay for AT&T VoIP, I wouldn't. It sucks. Then I have 5 lines on a shared minute Sprint plan. 2,500 minutes/month. So if Sprint wants to give me 'unlimited' minutes it has to be an additional 5,000 minutes per month and it can't cost more than $50/month plus all the garbage taxes. So the price has to come down by at least half. Compared to crappy VoIP for $25/month 'unlimited' cell would have to come down in price by 3/4ths.
Redmond, sensibly, will do what is best for Redmond, however they conceive of that. Whether they take a strategic view and work with OSS in the context of what is good for both Redmond and OSS is good for Redmond, or not, is up for discussion later on. In either case, right now, right here OSS is a tactical approach for Redmond. Tomorrow might be a different tactic - who knows. But one should always remember that for better or worse, whether they are actually good at it or not, Redmond should and will do what is best for their own interests and agendas.
What plausible benefit is there to working with OSS? Well what benefit was there to working with Novell or IBM or anyone else? It's to co-opt them and share technology to the point where it can help a little and hurt a little less. Working with OSS can keep the OSS communities from straying too far and there may be some actual technical upside to code sharing. But beyond that if you're looking for some goodwill, community action or just plain old being nice, i'm afraid you are badly mistaken.
Clearly it is unAmerican and probably treason to adopt the terrorist loving commie queer homosexual lesbian feminist Liberal non Redmond operating systems. Why does the FAA hate America?
No it isn't I have 4 other people in my house, 4 other computers and they have even more per machine. I work for a company that does outsourcing. I don't think there is a reasonable estimate for the number of physical servers we manage. It's easily in the hundred thousand plus. How much DASD? Who knows. Figure one 100GB per server @ 40% utilization per x 100,000 = 400,000GB. Double that for offline and nearline storage. That's 800,000GB, easily.
I'm just one person and I have 20GB just of OS and applications code. Plus another 20GB of MP3's. 161 billion/40 is about 4 billion 'gelfling people units'. Doesn't seem like a lot.
I haven't see a free AP at an airport. Typically they force you to subscribe to Boingo for a 'Full day's access for $7.95' which excuse me, is a fucking joke.
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Is Vista a Trap?
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Every time there is news like this the fanboys shout 'you shoulda known' and 'get new hardware'. I have a better idea. Let's call Vista not an upgrade but a wholesale replacement of your computer and many of your applications. Most of your data will work in the new system but that's about it.
No - Vista is barely less of an upgrade than switching from XP to a Mac.
We'll have no choice either but even if we turnover all of our desktops in 4 years that's only 25%/yr. Given it will be at least 1-1.5 years before we roll it out then it will be 5-5.5 years before we're totally embraced by the Microcotopus. Sauronsoft will be on to the next turn of the thumbscrews by then.
Just in time for us to migrate to Symantec
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A Bad Week for Symantec
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· Score: 2, Informative
We're chucking our desktop firewalls, spyware tools and AV scanners for one big Symantec managed client. And if any of you have ever tried to uninstall Symantec you'll know that you're chained to them for life.
To go and develop a truly underappreciated application such as Lotus Notes, I have to wonder what on earth qualifies him to make pan-Industry statements like this? I honestly don't believe that Ray Ozzies understands anything more of this apart from what his bosses at Redmond tell him, than I do. Ok so Google is 'significant'! They pay you to think that up? Because any idiot would draw the same conclusion. Maybe it's more indicative of Microsoft that it TAKES, a senior uber Executive vice president to know this that this is precisely where the real problem with Microsoft is.
CompUSA's instore inventory is not so good compared to the online inventory but that ship to store option was great. I picked up lots of rebated gear that way. An 802.11g PCCard NIC for net $5 including tax.
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Actually I'm a socialist who donates about 20% of my time to charity.
Go back to the commune and operate a money free society then.
Make the media more expensive. Drive out your own customers. Complain there aren't enough people in the known world to sue. Lather rinse repeat.
Robin Leach can bellow out the commercial.
On any given day I'd have to say one out of three people has a handset pressed up to their ear. We clearly don't have 33% of all drivers involved in accidents. At worst, driving while on the phone produces a marginally less attentive but generally slower driver. As far as SMS is concerned, the time spent would seem to be on the very short side. Of course I suppose one could spend 3 minutes trying to T9 a full 160 characters with one thumb but my guess is that that person is probably a very inattentive driver anyway. Have you ever driven with someone who stop fiddling with every button, seat adjustment and mirror? I have. It's called OCD. So on the whole, the few seconds spent typing 'ok' or punching up a canned message to an name in your address book sounds to me, like a solution in search of a problem.
Here's some more:
Don't drop that Slushie in the car
Don't light that cigarette
Don't ruffle through your CD collection
And here are some more rules if you live in North Carolina:
Try to use your turn signals at least some of the time
Left lanes are for left turns right lanes are for right turns
When the light is green go
When the light is red stop
Trying to be the LAST person through the intersection is just rude
Random stops in the middle of the road for no obvious reason are a no-no
Go somewhere NEAR the speed limit; 20mph under or over is a no-no
Close the damn tailgate, bubba, all your crap is flying out
That my 5 phone (4 add a line) 2500 min/month, + 60 bonus minutes per phone per month, plus "Vision plan" with 500-600 SMS/month per phone on 4 phones and unlimited SMS on 1 phone, plus internet, email, voiceSMS and unlimited nights starting at 6pm runs $196/month. Yes it's steep. Which is why I'm sensitive to the 'just a few dollars more' pricing scheme. For $100-$150/month more they would have to throw in free wireless broadband unmetered rate.
Isn't the EU starting to sound a little sand in the vagina neurotic about this one issue? There are OTHER storefronts besides iTunes. And there are other PC clients besides iTunes you can use to force content on to your iPod. It sounds like protectionism from the EU and I wish they'd just shut the hell up about it.
Today I have one land line exclusively for the 'unlimited' aspect of the MCI Neighborhood plan because that line accrues 4-5,000 (thousand) minutes a month. It costs $72 including taxes. I also have an AT&T CallVantage VoIP line for work and I believe its 'unlimited' is actually capped at 5,000 minutes/month. But before you all tell me to discard MCI landline let me tell you that it's orders of magnitude more reliable than CallVantage. If I had to pay for AT&T VoIP, I wouldn't. It sucks. Then I have 5 lines on a shared minute Sprint plan. 2,500 minutes/month. So if Sprint wants to give me 'unlimited' minutes it has to be an additional 5,000 minutes per month and it can't cost more than $50/month plus all the garbage taxes. So the price has to come down by at least half. Compared to crappy VoIP for $25/month 'unlimited' cell would have to come down in price by 3/4ths.
Redmond, sensibly, will do what is best for Redmond, however they conceive of that. Whether they take a strategic view and work with OSS in the context of what is good for both Redmond and OSS is good for Redmond, or not, is up for discussion later on. In either case, right now, right here OSS is a tactical approach for Redmond. Tomorrow might be a different tactic - who knows. But one should always remember that for better or worse, whether they are actually good at it or not, Redmond should and will do what is best for their own interests and agendas.
What plausible benefit is there to working with OSS? Well what benefit was there to working with Novell or IBM or anyone else? It's to co-opt them and share technology to the point where it can help a little and hurt a little less. Working with OSS can keep the OSS communities from straying too far and there may be some actual technical upside to code sharing. But beyond that if you're looking for some goodwill, community action or just plain old being nice, i'm afraid you are badly mistaken.
Or is it just another reason for people to boil out into the streets and burn something?
Note they're for Seamonkey 1.1.1 not FF:
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Dutchblock
IE Tab
Clear Data
Extension manager
Extension uninstaller API
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Clearly it is unAmerican and probably treason to adopt the terrorist loving commie queer homosexual lesbian feminist Liberal non Redmond operating systems. Why does the FAA hate America?
That whole Star Trek is plausible if can go 1000 the speed of light with zero relativistic effects? Ok
And time travel? No problems there.
Where they just dictate your bonus and salary which generally varies in the 0 - 3% range.
No it isn't I have 4 other people in my house, 4 other computers and they have even more per machine. I work for a company that does outsourcing. I don't think there is a reasonable estimate for the number of physical servers we manage. It's easily in the hundred thousand plus. How much DASD? Who knows. Figure one 100GB per server @ 40% utilization per x 100,000 = 400,000GB. Double that for offline and nearline storage. That's 800,000GB, easily.
I'm just one person and I have 20GB just of OS and applications code. Plus another 20GB of MP3's. 161 billion /40 is about 4 billion 'gelfling people units'. Doesn't seem like a lot.
51% against. 53% for George Bush. Case closed.
I haven't see a free AP at an airport. Typically they force you to subscribe to Boingo for a 'Full day's access for $7.95' which excuse me, is a fucking joke.
Apple stores suck from a customer service perspective. They're too 1337 and kewl to be bothered to sell or service anything.
For the dollar.
Every time there is news like this the fanboys shout 'you shoulda known' and
'get new hardware'. I have a better idea. Let's call Vista not an upgrade but a wholesale replacement of your computer and many of your applications. Most of your data will work in the new system but that's about it.
No - Vista is barely less of an upgrade than switching from XP to a Mac.
We'll have no choice either but even if we turnover all of our desktops in 4 years that's only 25%/yr. Given it will be at least 1-1.5 years before we roll it out then it will be 5-5.5 years before we're totally embraced by the Microcotopus. Sauronsoft will be on to the next turn of the thumbscrews by then.
We're chucking our desktop firewalls, spyware tools and AV scanners for one big Symantec managed client. And if any of you have ever tried to uninstall Symantec you'll know that you're chained to them for life.
To go and develop a truly underappreciated application such as Lotus Notes, I have to wonder what on earth qualifies him to make pan-Industry statements like this? I honestly don't believe that Ray Ozzies understands anything more of this apart from what his bosses at Redmond tell him, than I do. Ok so Google is 'significant'! They pay you to think that up? Because any idiot would draw the same conclusion. Maybe it's more indicative of Microsoft that it TAKES, a senior uber Executive vice president to know this that this is precisely where the real problem with Microsoft is.
CompUSA's instore inventory is not so good compared to the online inventory but that ship to store option was great. I picked up lots of rebated gear that way. An 802.11g PCCard NIC for net $5 including tax.