How many companies out there are doing real computer engineering or even computer science? Most programming or other IT jobs are simply hooking up technology to get it to work in the business or writing software that adds and stores data or writes reports. Few professional programmers will really engineer anything.
More than that, the hard core "environmentalists" want the downfall of industrial society. Extreme environmentalism is just the best way to accomplish this. Look at groups like ELF, what are they really fighting for, the environment? By setting things on fire? I think not.
The average person won't care until they buy a new DVR and find out that it won't actually record anything, or that the recording it makes is useless to them. Only then will there be public outrage and calls for change. Remember, the average person is very apathetic and only concerned about things that have an immediate effect on them.
Symantec buys up good products/companies and lives off their good name, raking in the cash and running the product into the ground. Consider how great the Norton products were back when Peter Norton's picture was on the box, versus how badly they suck now.
So basically we should ticket people who exhibit signs of distracted driving or causing an accident while distracted. That sounds good to me. And there are already laws in every state for exactly this purpose. The last thing we need is more laws when perfectly adequate ones are not being enforced.
I see no reason to not allow built in hands-free kits when many drivers can use them safely. I really wonder about the accuracy of the ONE study that claims talking while driving is as bad as driving drunk. But for the drivers that do not pay attention (whatever may be causing the distraction), ticket them according to the laws of the road that already ban distracted driving.
We need to ban USE in the car, not USE WITHOUT A HEADSET.
How do you enforce this? My cell has a speakerphone which I can use with the phone sitting down in the console. Nobody outside even knows its there. I suppose they could see my lips moving, but do we really want people being pulled over just for singing in their car?
Blu-Ray is dead in the water. It has all the parallels of Betamax, and Sony is much more incompetent now. I'll just skip over Blu-Ray altogether and watch it wither away and die.
The problem is that everyone would have to change their server all at the same time, otherwise email would cease to function. This is why its so hard to agree on a new email standard even though the current one is obviously broken. I suspect the changeover will begin when someone can figure out how to implement a new protocol with some kind of backwards compatibility. Otherwise nobody wants to be the first to take the risk of not being able to receive email anymore.
You would be correct, if spammers didn't take measures to disguise their messages and get around spam filters. If people want their messages, fine. But forcing your "speech" on others is NOT constitutionally protected, especially if the material you are advertising is more often than not fraudulent.
I've never understood why people listen to that shit. Hang up! There's no law whatsoever that requires someone to talk to a debt collector. The only thing they can really do is sue you, and the chance of this happening will be decreased, not increased, by not talking to them.
EXTREME! stuff is so 1999. They should have put an i at the beginning of the name, although I'm not sure how iPentium would sound, much less avoid an Apple lawsuit. Perhaps they could make it Java oriented and call it PentiumOne.
I've always wondered why some professors feel the need to protect students from themselves. If a student is distracted during lecture and not learning, the failing grade they receive on their next exam should be their clue to change something. If they don't take the hint, there's not really a lot the professor can do. Students have to take it upon themselves to do what they must in order to learn; an unmotivated student will not be a successful one regardless of the professor's efforts.
Isn't this true in just about every industry? Any job can become dead-end if you let it. If you don't know the difference between a job and a career, your career will most likely dead-end.
I find it hard to believe that you're in your late 30s or early 40s. Did you never learn how to argue with someone without going straight to personal attacks? Getting older is one thing, growing up is another.
You'd be surprised at just how many people are actually in favor of censorship. I saw some study once (can't remember where) that said almost half of the people they surveyed would be in favor of outlawing "dangerous" speech, meaning ideas dissenting from the majority. This is why more people don't vote against these politicians.
Retail is a competitive business. Each store knows it is in their best interests to have lower prices (or more value) than their competitors. If cutting fraud will accomplish this, that is what they will do. If anti-fraud measures are more of an inconvenience than anything, they won't adopt them. Otherwise they have every incentive to do so.
I've never understood why credit and debit card issuers can't take the most basic security measure that is already in place with ATM cards: PINs! Attach a PIN to every credit card, which the user must know. No PIN, no transaction approval, just like an ATM. Why is this so freaking difficult? A signature is NO security, especially when a sample is provided on the back of the card for a thief to practice with.
On that topic, has anyone actually gotten Fast User Switching to work, without system crashes or other major stability issues? XP supports multiple users just great, if its one at a time. As far as I'm concerned, Fast User Switching is a feature that was released before it was thoroughly tested and has some major bugs.
Not to mention, 98 has no support for multiple users or even a meaningful password lock system. And it is a complete nightmare in a networked environment. 98 might be fine for home users that don't do anything serious, but it will not (definitely should not) be found in a corporate environment.
It's not that hard. Just say that you're gay. Well, yuo probably have to do more than just say it, but homosexual activity, or dissenting views correctly displayed, or even mental illness, will certainly get you booted. Only stupid people desert, when there are plenty of legal ways to quit.
I'd love to see the day that Joe Sixpack gets sued for patent infringement in a cell phone that he just bought. That would lead to immediate calls for real patent reform, along with savage beatings for the patent trolls filing the suit.
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How many companies out there are doing real computer engineering or even computer science? Most programming or other IT jobs are simply hooking up technology to get it to work in the business or writing software that adds and stores data or writes reports. Few professional programmers will really engineer anything.
More than that, the hard core "environmentalists" want the downfall of industrial society. Extreme environmentalism is just the best way to accomplish this. Look at groups like ELF, what are they really fighting for, the environment? By setting things on fire? I think not.
Ahh Atlanta, where northern friendliness meets southern efficiency.
The average person won't care until they buy a new DVR and find out that it won't actually record anything, or that the recording it makes is useless to them. Only then will there be public outrage and calls for change. Remember, the average person is very apathetic and only concerned about things that have an immediate effect on them.
Symantec buys up good products/companies and lives off their good name, raking in the cash and running the product into the ground. Consider how great the Norton products were back when Peter Norton's picture was on the box, versus how badly they suck now.
So basically we should ticket people who exhibit signs of distracted driving or causing an accident while distracted. That sounds good to me. And there are already laws in every state for exactly this purpose. The last thing we need is more laws when perfectly adequate ones are not being enforced.
I see no reason to not allow built in hands-free kits when many drivers can use them safely. I really wonder about the accuracy of the ONE study that claims talking while driving is as bad as driving drunk. But for the drivers that do not pay attention (whatever may be causing the distraction), ticket them according to the laws of the road that already ban distracted driving.
We need to ban USE in the car, not USE WITHOUT A HEADSET.
How do you enforce this? My cell has a speakerphone which I can use with the phone sitting down in the console. Nobody outside even knows its there. I suppose they could see my lips moving, but do we really want people being pulled over just for singing in their car?
Blu-Ray is dead in the water. It has all the parallels of Betamax, and Sony is much more incompetent now. I'll just skip over Blu-Ray altogether and watch it wither away and die.
The problem is that everyone would have to change their server all at the same time, otherwise email would cease to function. This is why its so hard to agree on a new email standard even though the current one is obviously broken. I suspect the changeover will begin when someone can figure out how to implement a new protocol with some kind of backwards compatibility. Otherwise nobody wants to be the first to take the risk of not being able to receive email anymore.
You would be correct, if spammers didn't take measures to disguise their messages and get around spam filters. If people want their messages, fine. But forcing your "speech" on others is NOT constitutionally protected, especially if the material you are advertising is more often than not fraudulent.
Most products that require aggressive marketing suck. Otherwise they would sell themselves with minimal marketing.
What is this goatse picture I've heard so much about? It sounds like something pretty nasty.
I've never understood why people listen to that shit. Hang up! There's no law whatsoever that requires someone to talk to a debt collector. The only thing they can really do is sue you, and the chance of this happening will be decreased, not increased, by not talking to them.
EXTREME! stuff is so 1999. They should have put an i at the beginning of the name, although I'm not sure how iPentium would sound, much less avoid an Apple lawsuit. Perhaps they could make it Java oriented and call it PentiumOne.
I've always wondered why some professors feel the need to protect students from themselves. If a student is distracted during lecture and not learning, the failing grade they receive on their next exam should be their clue to change something. If they don't take the hint, there's not really a lot the professor can do. Students have to take it upon themselves to do what they must in order to learn; an unmotivated student will not be a successful one regardless of the professor's efforts.
Isn't this true in just about every industry? Any job can become dead-end if you let it. If you don't know the difference between a job and a career, your career will most likely dead-end.
I find it hard to believe that you're in your late 30s or early 40s. Did you never learn how to argue with someone without going straight to personal attacks? Getting older is one thing, growing up is another.
You'd be surprised at just how many people are actually in favor of censorship. I saw some study once (can't remember where) that said almost half of the people they surveyed would be in favor of outlawing "dangerous" speech, meaning ideas dissenting from the majority. This is why more people don't vote against these politicians.
Did you write them by Certified Mail? This way they can't deny having received your letter.
Retail is a competitive business. Each store knows it is in their best interests to have lower prices (or more value) than their competitors. If cutting fraud will accomplish this, that is what they will do. If anti-fraud measures are more of an inconvenience than anything, they won't adopt them. Otherwise they have every incentive to do so.
I've never understood why credit and debit card issuers can't take the most basic security measure that is already in place with ATM cards: PINs! Attach a PIN to every credit card, which the user must know. No PIN, no transaction approval, just like an ATM. Why is this so freaking difficult? A signature is NO security, especially when a sample is provided on the back of the card for a thief to practice with.
On that topic, has anyone actually gotten Fast User Switching to work, without system crashes or other major stability issues? XP supports multiple users just great, if its one at a time. As far as I'm concerned, Fast User Switching is a feature that was released before it was thoroughly tested and has some major bugs.
Not to mention, 98 has no support for multiple users or even a meaningful password lock system. And it is a complete nightmare in a networked environment. 98 might be fine for home users that don't do anything serious, but it will not (definitely should not) be found in a corporate environment.
It's not that hard. Just say that you're gay. Well, yuo probably have to do more than just say it, but homosexual activity, or dissenting views correctly displayed, or even mental illness, will certainly get you booted. Only stupid people desert, when there are plenty of legal ways to quit.
I'd love to see the day that Joe Sixpack gets sued for patent infringement in a cell phone that he just bought. That would lead to immediate calls for real patent reform, along with savage beatings for the patent trolls filing the suit.