When it comes down to business and making a buck or human rights business wins every time. It's always business as usual no matter the human rights record. This has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with human rights and companies making poor choices.
Google will delight you with targeted advertising through your car stereo or gps device based on your historical web searches, driving destinations and other sources. Maybe tell you shopping deals coming up at the next mall you pass.
It never fails to amaze me how some companies -insert the usual suspects- feel duty bound to rush 'me too' products to market no matter how shoddy or ill suited to their core business. The waste in money, man power and resources must be staggering. I propose the Morton salt business model - do a few things and do them really really well. When I think 'salt' I think of Morton...rain, girl under umbrella, when it rains it pours etc.
I got a letter in the mail yesterday May 3rd advising me my info may have been hacked. Weird since I don't have a play station and have not played an online Sony game in over a decade (12 years maybe more) and then I canceled my subscription. Which brings me to a question why is information that old still being kept where it can be cracked?
In the case of a static IP address and a locked down router would that not be enough circumstantial evidence to convict? While I applaud this ruling still I think a jury or judge could be swayed by a good prosecutor pointing to those two factors. Ummthat and your 1200 titles movie collection on home burned DVD’s.
Just can't handle disappearing scroll bars and launchers. Not intuitive at all. I have tried to live with it but the attraction wore off fast. Now I am futzing with Gnome 3 which while not perfect is at least useable for my daily needs. I am just waiting for the next stable release of Fedora and that looks to be my next distro. That or Mint which I use now and then. I like Ubuntu but it's just getting weirder.
Running FF4 om XP at work and notice it is sucking up 120,424k of memory making it the largest user of system memory by far. Chrome on the other hand is only 29,496k and I can't say what IE uses as I don't use that for anything. Yeah yeah memory is cheap and I have plenty but still a browser imho should not be the number one resource hog on your system.
Ah yes I remember years back getting an inter-office memo from a director telling us of a visit by the new VP of the company. I stupidly thinking I was just replying to a few co-workers sent back 'I'm so happy I'm popping a woody'. Imagine my chagrin at finding out the VP was part of the reply all and BCC to boot. Couple years later I got promoted and the VP jokingly mentioned the 'woody' statement so guess it did not hurt.
The fact the would not give the patients their records as requested, totally ignored all legal requests or finally coughing up 4,500 other records that were not even asked for? This health care company acted either like a spoiled petulant child or a clueless moron. Either way these are NOT the people I want keeping my records.
Does it want your money?
Does it want your mind?
Does it want to govern your life?
It's a cult.
Of course/. 'ers will list about a hundred other things that fit that bill;-)
While I am not a fan boy of Apple and don't run their stuff I must admit they do it right. The combination of innovate ideas, first out of the shoot and an eye to style has always had MS drooling. Now add Google in the mix and Android and just what is left for MS? They run a distant 3rd at best and frankly if they did have tech at the helm its too little too late in my opinion.
I still don't get why Microsoft feels they need to be a player in every category? Why Bling, smart phones, mp3 players, games, cloud computing, tablets and all the rest? Why not be a focused company with the leading office suite? Or an innovate O/S? Yeah yeah I know the investors must be kept at bay like howling wolves at the corporate door but how many missteps can a company make before they and we realize they are just followers and no longer leaders?
Really what does Apple hope to accomplish with this? Any do it yourselfer will simply order the screwdriver on line and be off and running...uh.. or off and unscrewing as it may be. This is just Apple going for the 'low hanging' fruit of people too lazy or not caring enough to get a simple cheap piece of hardware.
The first rules of power is you never give up power. Why should we think now is any different with democrats than republicans? That being said it could also be debated that we, as a country, are no safer now then when the Act came into being. What if anything has truly changed?
Years ago I helped conduct a survey on welfare for a Rutgers professor. The script we followed to question people was followed to the letter but we quickly learned that a slight change in our voice and how we accented certain phrases could swing the response from positive to negative and back again. The same can be said in how a written survey is presented and worded. If the person doing the survey has an agenda his/her bias will come out and alter the results.
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When it comes down to business and making a buck or human rights business wins every time. It's always business as usual no matter the human rights record. This has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with human rights and companies making poor choices.
First CentOS and now this. Yep....the rapture (http://judgementday2011.com/) is coming!
Off switch. meh.
Why not a more popular distro not to disparage Cent.....
Google will delight you with targeted advertising through your car stereo or gps device based on your historical web searches, driving destinations and other sources. Maybe tell you shopping deals coming up at the next mall you pass.
Yeah I can see Verizon or AT&T sitting still for this.
It never fails to amaze me how some companies -insert the usual suspects- feel duty bound to rush 'me too' products to market no matter how shoddy or ill suited to their core business. The waste in money, man power and resources must be staggering. I propose the Morton salt business model - do a few things and do them really really well. When I think 'salt' I think of Morton...rain, girl under umbrella, when it rains it pours etc.
So is it all a numbers game? Oh boy we got lots of users now maybe we can sell advertising. Is this why 11 has so much suckage?
Each time some morons in Washington get together to cook up a way to screw us they get slapped with an idiot tax.
I got a letter in the mail yesterday May 3rd advising me my info may have been hacked. Weird since I don't have a play station and have not played an online Sony game in over a decade (12 years maybe more) and then I canceled my subscription. Which brings me to a question why is information that old still being kept where it can be cracked?
In the case of a static IP address and a locked down router would that not be enough circumstantial evidence to convict? While I applaud this ruling still I think a jury or judge could be swayed by a good prosecutor pointing to those two factors. Ummthat and your 1200 titles movie collection on home burned DVD’s.
Just can't handle disappearing scroll bars and launchers. Not intuitive at all. I have tried to live with it but the attraction wore off fast. Now I am futzing with Gnome 3 which while not perfect is at least useable for my daily needs. I am just waiting for the next stable release of Fedora and that looks to be my next distro. That or Mint which I use now and then. I like Ubuntu but it's just getting weirder.
Well someone had to do it. Suppose a segfault would be just as bad.
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Running FF4 om XP at work and notice it is sucking up 120,424k of memory making it the largest user of system memory by far. Chrome on the other hand is only 29,496k and I can't say what IE uses as I don't use that for anything. Yeah yeah memory is cheap and I have plenty but still a browser imho should not be the number one resource hog on your system.
Ah yes I remember years back getting an inter-office memo from a director telling us of a visit by the new VP of the company. I stupidly thinking I was just replying to a few co-workers sent back 'I'm so happy I'm popping a woody'. Imagine my chagrin at finding out the VP was part of the reply all and BCC to boot. Couple years later I got promoted and the VP jokingly mentioned the 'woody' statement so guess it did not hurt.
The fact the would not give the patients their records as requested, totally ignored all legal requests or finally coughing up 4,500 other records that were not even asked for? This health care company acted either like a spoiled petulant child or a clueless moron. Either way these are NOT the people I want keeping my records.
Does it want your money? Does it want your mind? Does it want to govern your life? It's a cult. Of course /. 'ers will list about a hundred other things that fit that bill ;-)
While I am not a fan boy of Apple and don't run their stuff I must admit they do it right. The combination of innovate ideas, first out of the shoot and an eye to style has always had MS drooling. Now add Google in the mix and Android and just what is left for MS? They run a distant 3rd at best and frankly if they did have tech at the helm its too little too late in my opinion.
I still don't get why Microsoft feels they need to be a player in every category? Why Bling, smart phones, mp3 players, games, cloud computing, tablets and all the rest? Why not be a focused company with the leading office suite? Or an innovate O/S? Yeah yeah I know the investors must be kept at bay like howling wolves at the corporate door but how many missteps can a company make before they and we realize they are just followers and no longer leaders?
Really what does Apple hope to accomplish with this? Any do it yourselfer will simply order the screwdriver on line and be off and running...uh.. or off and unscrewing as it may be. This is just Apple going for the 'low hanging' fruit of people too lazy or not caring enough to get a simple cheap piece of hardware.
The first rules of power is you never give up power. Why should we think now is any different with democrats than republicans? That being said it could also be debated that we, as a country, are no safer now then when the Act came into being. What if anything has truly changed?
Since some of their songs were half an album (yes showing my age) that could make for one long and dare I say economical download.
So if Google is the 800 pound gorilla can 4 monkeys standing on each others shoulders take it on?
Years ago I helped conduct a survey on welfare for a Rutgers professor. The script we followed to question people was followed to the letter but we quickly learned that a slight change in our voice and how we accented certain phrases could swing the response from positive to negative and back again. The same can be said in how a written survey is presented and worded. If the person doing the survey has an agenda his/her bias will come out and alter the results.