AOL is cool, but it is still proprietary. I'd like to see widely deployed IM solutions, and something that provides encryption, anonminity, and an offline cache feature similar to YIM's.
McDonald's is hurting because of their lousy food and poor service. They seem to be missing the mark and not getting the message. No amount of "gimmicking" is going to fix their core problem.
As a vegetarian, I find McD even more repulsive. Even their fries contain cow fat. There is literally NOTHING I can eat at McDs. Even their salads are wilty and doesn't impress me as being fresh at all.
So veggie or not, McD sucks. Not to mention that their business plan involves getting people in and out quickly -- something they were FORCED to modify for their asian clientelle.
Going wifi will not save them. Let them die and go the way of K-Fart and Enron....
Of course, said idiot should've done this in person, not through the IM! You have to be man enough to ask a lady out -- in person -- before she'll go out with you.
As far as IMing, he can still IM using Java applets. Unless the JVMs were also removed or never installed.
The advantage with IM is that you can carry on a private conversation with little concern that someone else -- other than the sysadmin with a packet sniffer -- will "hear" the conversaiton.
I want to set up secure IM sometime in the future. Encryption to the max. All I need is the time...
I received typically 400 e-mails PER DAY. Avoid face contact? I actually have to go out of my way to get F2F contact!
And yet at home we have more than one computer per household memeber, and I still tell my wife to e-mail me -- from the other side of the room!!!
E-mail is a medium all to itself. As far as for solving problems, it depends. Complex problems, I'll have to agree, do better in meeting rooms and around coolers -- where there is a high person-to-person exchange. Low bandwidth p2p exchanges are better suited for e-mail.
E-mail does give you the big advantage of automatically having a written record of the conversation. That could also be a problem, too, since such records can be subpeonaed!
I wish everyone would use encryption with their e-mails. That way, you can simply "forget" the pw if someone wants to dig in...
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Shame, shame, shame...
It would also be great if the manufacturers of these devices released the specs so us Linux types can support them!
AOL is cool, but it is still proprietary. I'd like to see widely deployed IM solutions, and something that provides encryption, anonminity, and an offline cache feature similar to YIM's.
As a vegetarian, I find McD even more repulsive. Even their fries contain cow fat. There is literally NOTHING I can eat at McDs. Even their salads are wilty and doesn't impress me as being fresh at all.
So veggie or not, McD sucks. Not to mention that their business plan involves getting people in and out quickly -- something they were FORCED to modify for their asian clientelle.
Going wifi will not save them. Let them die and go the way of K-Fart and Enron....
As far as IMing, he can still IM using Java applets. Unless the JVMs were also removed or never installed.
I want to set up secure IM sometime in the future. Encryption to the max. All I need is the time...
Use to drive me nuts, especially since we were in the middle of tracking down hot bugs. It broke MY concentration, but apparently he enjoyed it.
I received typically 400 e-mails PER DAY. Avoid face contact? I actually have to go out of my way to get F2F contact! And yet at home we have more than one computer per household memeber, and I still tell my wife to e-mail me -- from the other side of the room!!! E-mail is a medium all to itself. As far as for solving problems, it depends. Complex problems, I'll have to agree, do better in meeting rooms and around coolers -- where there is a high person-to-person exchange. Low bandwidth p2p exchanges are better suited for e-mail. E-mail does give you the big advantage of automatically having a written record of the conversation. That could also be a problem, too, since such records can be subpeonaed! I wish everyone would use encryption with their e-mails. That way, you can simply "forget" the pw if someone wants to dig in...
Even my kid daughters use Linux. How hard can it be? Today, you have to be a friggin' moron to have to be "trained" to use Linux!!!