You guys seriously want to have a bunch of bureaucrats go in and regulate something that has been so successful and has provided so much information and knowledge...
I've been involved with the internet since the very early days when it was a government project. A big part of why the internet has been so successful is because the military and government did a pretty decent job building it. So you're okay letting government design and build it, but suddenly they can't handle oversight.
Corporations are not the solution, corporations are the problem. Without the government having the ability to enforce fair dealing, corporate interests are going to stomp all over consumers. Maybe you remember what happened when we let the banking industry self-regulate. Or did that little episode not make it on to Fox News? It'll be that on the internet.
What's really interesting is how often corporate interests are lining up with the "grassroots" organizers of the tea party.
With the FCC stymied in its attempts to regulate the internet, it's going to be basically an ISP fur ball. Layer general greed and self-interest of individual providers on top of load and routing problems, take away the regulators ability to maintain order and you have a recipe for disaster.
Some large enterprises are seriously considering jumping from Exchange to Gmail, or already have, reports Robert Mitchell.
The last place I moved off Exchange to Gmail would probably not want to go back. You can still keep Outlook, if you think the email organizing tools are worth it, but most people just used the Gmail interface.
The real question is if the Office 2010 upgrade is compelling enough and cost effective enough to keep current users from jumping ship? My experience suggests it would have to be a near software miracle to make that happen. The cost savings of switching to Gmail are pretty significant.
Unfortunately MS doesn't have to worry about much of a threat from OpenOffice. I find their product gets more difficult to use with time instead of better. GoogleDocs is good enough for a lot of things but formatting options are limited. If OO was a home run product, then Office 2010 would be yesterday's news.
This concept has been discussed in several video forums. Turning your HDTV into a window to somewhere else. Along with fish tanks, fire places and other perspective shots.
But this goes way beyond those simple ideas. The perspective tracker is very clever, but that and building it into the wall adds cost and complexity. I think a simple screen saver type loop would be good enough for most people. Just to keep your TV from being a big, black hole in your living room.
Still, good work packaging a simple idea into something that has potential as a commercial product.
Humans and apes share 96% of their DNA. I forget which comedian asks if you have sandwich that's 96% crap and 4% ham, would you still call it a ham sandwich?
That by itself doesn't prove we descended from apes, but sure would seem to lend it scientific plausibility. If you're faith leads you to a different conclusion, that's fine. But that doesn't mean the rest of us need to teach it in school or avoid teaching what science can measure.
Geez, I'm as non-Republican as they come but you sound like an idiot saying that.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but I'm not the one sticking up for a News Corp property. Apparently you haven't read the WSJ opinion section recently. It's the same people ultimately calling the shots at Fox News and the WSJ and that's true both here and News Corps overseas media outlets. News Corp takes sides, and that's true here and abroad. Add to that News Corp gets a significant amount of funding from Saudi Arabia. Personally, I don't like having my perspective influenced by Riyahd, but apparently it's okay with a certain segment of cable viewers.
WSJ lost their credibility the moment the sale was finalized.
Journalism is changing, where people get their news is changing. The industry will adapt to the internet, just like it adapted to the printing press. What's going to be more difficult will be separating fact from spin. If you can't agree on the facts, you can't agree on a solution. There's a lot at stake here.
reiterated his disgust at how search engines handle news and called on old media to rethink how their stories are distributed on the web.
Then do us all a favor and pull your tabloid rags off Google. What's stopping you? I'm sure the core of your readers will stay with you, it's the only source that tells them what they want to hear.
They showed the video on TV where I could freeze it on a big screen and there does appear to be two people carrying AK's. Even on the big screen I didn't see any RPG's or anyone setting up to shoot, which is what was called in.
Going through it frame at a time, it's hard to see any hostile intent. I'm not judging anyone, just trying to rationalize what they were calling in with the video. Trying to weigh the immediate need to shoot vs moving ground forces into the area. Did anyone see anything that looked like hostile intent? There didn't appear to be anyone around to threaten.
Operating in an environment like this for weeks on end without a break stresses people to the breaking point.
There's some truth to that. We had our fire department fund raiser this weekend where we stay up 36 hours to smoke pork shoulders. Even grabbing a couple hours rack here and there by the end of the next day we have to double and triple check everything we're doing because you make really goofy mistakes. And that's after just a day and a half. Trying to imagine what day after day of that in the relentless heat and constant threat, has to be brutal.
I watched the video and didn't see any weapons. Certainly no RPG's, which have a fairly distinctive profile. It was more than the imaginings of a tired mind. No one in the van was armed or picking up weapons, yet that was how it was called in. Fatigue is one thing, this is something else. Like that episode of South Park when the two hunters kept claiming animals were attacking them.
"The difference between the two companies is that Apple has been fearless about transformational change while Microsoft has been reluctant to leave its past behind," says Casey Ayers
More like Apple comes up with the great ideas and transformational change and Microsoft copies them, badly.
Microsoft is that guy at a dance club hitting on his daughter's college age friends.
Holy cow, how did this not get binspammed off of the submissions?
Every corporate press release about a new product could be considered advertising, I'm not sure why this one is getting singled out. I thought it was interesting.
And their eye-bleed.NET web site, but I applaud this stand by GoDaddy. They did the right thing and that always speaks louder than really tacky advertising to me.
US lawmakers 'are proposing a national identification card, a 'fraud-proof' Social Security card required for lawful employment in the United States.
The teabaggers would go ballistic, these are people ready to shoot at the census takers. You can't pander to the fringe and then throw them under the bus when they become inconvenient.
You can't have government health care (like Congress gets) but you have to get a national ID. I don't see those as intellectually compatible positions.
In comparison, lets consider an ancient ballistic missile...
Reading that gave me a vision of the ancient Greeks launching a Polaris missile at one another. Spar-taaaans! You will set 1-MQ to missile firing! Designate target package Athens! Spin up missiles I-VI and VII-XII! Commence hover maneuver and stand by to rain fire on our enemies! HA-OU! HA-OU! HA-OU!
Even stranger, he says, is their willingness to spend real money to buy virtual products
If people put a fraction of the time they spend on fake farms into a real business, they'd be rich. So much effort goes into collecting fake gold and going on quests to kill monsters that are nothing but a collection of 1's and 0's. It just seems like such a waste. If we could harness a small amount of that effort and put it toward something productive, it would be astonishing what could be accomplished.
I was wondering if the service personnel browsing dude's computer was routine? I've fixed a lot of PC's without rifling through the users cache and image files, other than if they were infected with a virus. Even backing up user profiles and data, I could tell you which files were infected but not what they were doing with their computer.
Just wondering why the technician was going through all that stuff? Seems like service people are being a lot more thorough than is required to get the computer working again.
When I blocked ThePlanet, my silly traffic dropped noticeably. Every day, sometimes two or three times a day, I was getting hacked at from the ThePlanet IP range. Blocking them was a big relief.
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You guys seriously want to have a bunch of bureaucrats go in and regulate something that has been so successful and has provided so much information and knowledge...
I've been involved with the internet since the very early days when it was a government project. A big part of why the internet has been so successful is because the military and government did a pretty decent job building it. So you're okay letting government design and build it, but suddenly they can't handle oversight.
Corporations are not the solution, corporations are the problem. Without the government having the ability to enforce fair dealing, corporate interests are going to stomp all over consumers. Maybe you remember what happened when we let the banking industry self-regulate. Or did that little episode not make it on to Fox News? It'll be that on the internet.
What's really interesting is how often corporate interests are lining up with the "grassroots" organizers of the tea party.
With the FCC stymied in its attempts to regulate the internet, it's going to be basically an ISP fur ball. Layer general greed and self-interest of individual providers on top of load and routing problems, take away the regulators ability to maintain order and you have a recipe for disaster.
I got a bad feeling about this.
Some large enterprises are seriously considering jumping from Exchange to Gmail, or already have, reports Robert Mitchell.
The last place I moved off Exchange to Gmail would probably not want to go back. You can still keep Outlook, if you think the email organizing tools are worth it, but most people just used the Gmail interface.
The real question is if the Office 2010 upgrade is compelling enough and cost effective enough to keep current users from jumping ship? My experience suggests it would have to be a near software miracle to make that happen. The cost savings of switching to Gmail are pretty significant.
Unfortunately MS doesn't have to worry about much of a threat from OpenOffice. I find their product gets more difficult to use with time instead of better. GoogleDocs is good enough for a lot of things but formatting options are limited. If OO was a home run product, then Office 2010 would be yesterday's news.
They've recently said it's "vital" to the success of their games and promised that their DRM would "evolve and improve" over time.
Microsoft said the same thing when they started product activation. Although, in fairness to Microsoft, their DRM works better than this disaster.
This concept has been discussed in several video forums. Turning your HDTV into a window to somewhere else. Along with fish tanks, fire places and other perspective shots.
But this goes way beyond those simple ideas. The perspective tracker is very clever, but that and building it into the wall adds cost and complexity. I think a simple screen saver type loop would be good enough for most people. Just to keep your TV from being a big, black hole in your living room.
Still, good work packaging a simple idea into something that has potential as a commercial product.
Humans and apes share 96% of their DNA. I forget which comedian asks if you have sandwich that's 96% crap and 4% ham, would you still call it a ham sandwich?
That by itself doesn't prove we descended from apes, but sure would seem to lend it scientific plausibility. If you're faith leads you to a different conclusion, that's fine. But that doesn't mean the rest of us need to teach it in school or avoid teaching what science can measure.
What's wrong with this solution?
The banks spend millions on lobbyists to fight making the laws more fair to the consumer. Otherwise your solution would already be law.
Banks start whining that making them responsible would raise the cost of extending credit. Good. Credit should be harder to get.
Geez, I'm as non-Republican as they come but you sound like an idiot saying that.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but I'm not the one sticking up for a News Corp property. Apparently you haven't read the WSJ opinion section recently. It's the same people ultimately calling the shots at Fox News and the WSJ and that's true both here and News Corps overseas media outlets. News Corp takes sides, and that's true here and abroad. Add to that News Corp gets a significant amount of funding from Saudi Arabia. Personally, I don't like having my perspective influenced by Riyahd, but apparently it's okay with a certain segment of cable viewers.
WSJ lost their credibility the moment the sale was finalized.
Journalism is changing, where people get their news is changing. The industry will adapt to the internet, just like it adapted to the printing press. What's going to be more difficult will be separating fact from spin. If you can't agree on the facts, you can't agree on a solution. There's a lot at stake here.
reiterated his disgust at how search engines handle news and called on old media to rethink how their stories are distributed on the web.
Then do us all a favor and pull your tabloid rags off Google. What's stopping you? I'm sure the core of your readers will stay with you, it's the only source that tells them what they want to hear.
Looked like 2 people had AK47s to me.
They showed the video on TV where I could freeze it on a big screen and there does appear to be two people carrying AK's. Even on the big screen I didn't see any RPG's or anyone setting up to shoot, which is what was called in.
Going through it frame at a time, it's hard to see any hostile intent. I'm not judging anyone, just trying to rationalize what they were calling in with the video. Trying to weigh the immediate need to shoot vs moving ground forces into the area. Did anyone see anything that looked like hostile intent? There didn't appear to be anyone around to threaten.
Operating in an environment like this for weeks on end without a break stresses people to the breaking point.
There's some truth to that. We had our fire department fund raiser this weekend where we stay up 36 hours to smoke pork shoulders. Even grabbing a couple hours rack here and there by the end of the next day we have to double and triple check everything we're doing because you make really goofy mistakes. And that's after just a day and a half. Trying to imagine what day after day of that in the relentless heat and constant threat, has to be brutal.
I watched the video and didn't see any weapons. Certainly no RPG's, which have a fairly distinctive profile. It was more than the imaginings of a tired mind. No one in the van was armed or picking up weapons, yet that was how it was called in. Fatigue is one thing, this is something else. Like that episode of South Park when the two hunters kept claiming animals were attacking them.
"The difference between the two companies is that Apple has been fearless about transformational change while Microsoft has been reluctant to leave its past behind," says Casey Ayers
More like Apple comes up with the great ideas and transformational change and Microsoft copies them, badly.
Microsoft is that guy at a dance club hitting on his daughter's college age friends.
visits from a girlfriend won't be allowed during the project
Well, in ancient Rome the wealthy women came to have sex with gladiators because...well, largely because they could.
Maybe there's a reason girlfriends aren't allowed. Maybe it's like an episode of Cougar Country.
Microsoft is so far behind now that they won't crush Google, but they hope to live side by side...
The same way the Zune lives side by side with the iPod.
Holy cow, how did this not get binspammed off of the submissions?
Every corporate press release about a new product could be considered advertising, I'm not sure why this one is getting singled out. I thought it was interesting.
I thought global warming was a myth? Darth Cheney said so.
And the best thing - I'll be able to read books while driving!
Read books?! My passtime will involve curtains, a bottle of vodka and a bleach blond.
Might want to think about getting out a little more. ;)
And their eye-bleed .NET web site, but I applaud this stand by GoDaddy. They did the right thing and that always speaks louder than really tacky advertising to me.
But wrong.
FTA: The proposal by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-New York) and Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-South Carolina)...
US lawmakers 'are proposing a national identification card, a 'fraud-proof' Social Security card required for lawful employment in the United States.
The teabaggers would go ballistic, these are people ready to shoot at the census takers. You can't pander to the fringe and then throw them under the bus when they become inconvenient.
You can't have government health care (like Congress gets) but you have to get a national ID. I don't see those as intellectually compatible positions.
Neptune to moon: Get in my belly!
In comparison, lets consider an ancient ballistic missile...
Reading that gave me a vision of the ancient Greeks launching a Polaris missile at one another. Spar-taaaans! You will set 1-MQ to missile firing! Designate target package Athens! Spin up missiles I-VI and VII-XII! Commence hover maneuver and stand by to rain fire on our enemies! HA-OU! HA-OU! HA-OU!
Even stranger, he says, is their willingness to spend real money to buy virtual products
If people put a fraction of the time they spend on fake farms into a real business, they'd be rich. So much effort goes into collecting fake gold and going on quests to kill monsters that are nothing but a collection of 1's and 0's. It just seems like such a waste. If we could harness a small amount of that effort and put it toward something productive, it would be astonishing what could be accomplished.
I was wondering if the service personnel browsing dude's computer was routine? I've fixed a lot of PC's without rifling through the users cache and image files, other than if they were infected with a virus. Even backing up user profiles and data, I could tell you which files were infected but not what they were doing with their computer.
Just wondering why the technician was going through all that stuff? Seems like service people are being a lot more thorough than is required to get the computer working again.
It is a shame that ThePlanet is doing so badly.
When I blocked ThePlanet, my silly traffic dropped noticeably. Every day, sometimes two or three times a day, I was getting hacked at from the ThePlanet IP range. Blocking them was a big relief.