How has the support for vbscript macros been for you? Do you get document that use a lot of vbscript in them? I know from experience that regular files with vbscript built into them keeps a lot of companies tied into MS Office. Usually it's RFPs from vendors that have vbscript doing calculations. These must be used or you don't get the work.
I don't understand your first sentence at all, so I'll just ignore it. I also don't understand your usage of the term sideshow box, so I'll ignore that too for now.
To answer your snarky question, no I didn't forget that Apple made a deal and got a cash infusion from Microsoft. Are you really arguing that this is the same as Nokia's deal?? Did Apple scrap the Mac OS for Windows? Nope, which is why it's not the same thing at all. As I recall, MS was in a position where it behooved them to be magnanimous due to the whole anti-trust brouhaha that was going on at the time and Apple was truly desperate for cash.
In contrast, I don't think (though I could be wrong) that Nokia is metaphorically inches away from bankruptcy as Apple was, I don't think Nokia's getting any big investment from MS, and I don't think Microsoft is doing this out of magnanimity, but instead they're acting out of desperation which means Nokia should be wary.
My point was and is that you infer by the nature of your comment that you know a lot about Nokia's internal situation right now, and I don't see any reason to believe that inference.
How is he right about price pressure? Should I just take your word for it? You sound like Michael Dell talking about Apple before Apple's meteoric rise past Dell and many others who "knew" how things worked.
Can I copy my books onto other computers or devices?
Books downloaded from the iBookstore can be placed on up to five computers you own that you’ve authorized with your iTunes Store account. You can sync your books to all iPads, iPhones, and iPod touches you own.1 Audiobooks, PDF files, and ePub files you've added to iTunes will appear in Books under Library. To sync Books to your device, connect it to your computer using the cable it came with. In iTunes, select your device then click the Books tab. Choose the books you would like to read on your device then press Sync. Books will sync to iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch even if iBooks is not installed; to read synced books, download iBooks from the App Store.
Note: Samples downloaded from the iBookstore will not sync to your computer. They remain on your device and can be removed using iBooks.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4059
I make no claims on being an economist, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt as far as what is or isn't a principal tenant of capitalism.
While I do agree that there will be less planning ahead than their should be, figuring out the role of people/labor in the future is as important to those at the top as it is to those at the bottom. One need only look at Egypt to see what happens when the system gets too out of whack. I'm not saying the wealthy/power elite will get it right away, or even nearly as soon as they should, but I hope they do get it or our society will have an incredible mess on it's hands.
I'm just going on the record as saying this is one of the seminal moments in human history and will be remembered as such in years to come.
The applications for Watson are huge. One "Watson" could handle taking the orders for hundreds if not thousands of McDonald's drive-thrus, perform many types of customer service roles in a phone or chat capacity, run kiosks at Lowe's telling you where items are located or what they're normally used for. There's probably tremendous opportunities in statistical/actuarial fields as well as tax accounting.
This is how the technology derived from Watson is going to make a difference. It's going to march us even further down the path of not human obsolescence, but labor obsolescence, a path humanity has been going down for some time. This is why it's important, because if "Watsons" start doing these jobs, it destroys one of the principal tenants of capitalism. Namely that people barter their useful labor with employers in exchange for pay. As this tenant becomes more and more false, society is going to have to take a long hard look at what role people play in it.
Here's the details about the bredolab trojan from Microsoft's Malware Protection Center. The file is an.exe and affects all versions Windows 95 and up. There must be some old cruft in Win7 if the same exploits it and 95.
You know it only takes 1,350 cuts of $20M to git rid of a $27B deficit. That's doesn't seem like an impossible number considering how many departments, programs, etc. a state the size of California is likely to have.
But it must have been a well vetted and efficient plan because Mikey Bloomberg is running NYC and he brings the skills from the business world that cut through government bureaucracy and waste right? RIGHT???
Sorry for the snark, but I just get tired of hearing that business people are so much better at running government and yet when they take over, the same graft and corruption goes on and in the meantime they cut services and raise prices in a way that's punitive to the least among us, usually to justify tax breaks for the most privileged among us.
Be careful about grouping all news organizations together as "the media". That's the kind of mental shortcut that makes it easy to manipulate public opinion. Someone might say "the media" is in the Obama Administration's pocket? Would they be including Fox? Would they then fallback to the "liberal media"? "The mainstream media"?
I've been reading The New York Times coverage of this story for awhile and I haven't felt like they were against Assange.
I'm not trying to be pedantic or nit-picky here. I think it's very important to not fall prey to oversimplifications that are much too freely used in discussions today. And for the record I have felt like "NBC Nightly News" and the other two major network nightly newscasts seemed strangely against Assange as you so correctly point out.
I always hear that the Democratic Party is as much "in the pocket" of big business as the Republicans. But isn't the FCC part of a Democratic Party led executive branch? Am I missing something? Is Hollywood or some other big Democratic Party contributor pro-net-neturality?
I think that's a bogus scenario. If it's a really severe weather event people aren't going to be outside. If it's a nuclear war, I don't really care about the mob.
I was more thinking something like a systemwide test. And maybe you mean does a panicked stampede sound as cool? Or perhaps "panic stampede" is some kind of new band and in that case I haven't heard them and don't know how cool they sound.
I want to be in a large, busy area like a crowded mall or a large outdoor event when one of these alerts gets sent out. For some reason, the thought of seeing almost everyone stop and reach for their cell phone at the same time just seems incredibly cool to me.
Very interesting thoughts! Kind of a devil's bargain though - more accurate Nielsen ratings (I don't believe Nielsen has a clue right now) vs. Google intruding even more into everyone's private data. Or in other words better TV for less privacy.
I'd guess Comcast isn't sending an email at least in part because a healthy percentage of their customers don't use Comcast's crappy email service.
I still think this is a gross and intrusive tactic, but so is how they hijack DNS redirects to show you a custom "search" page with ads on it. At least they give you an option of turning that "service" off.
Am I the only person that sees the Apple board connection? Eric Schmidt(Google), Paul Otellini(Intel), Steve Jobs (Pixar/Disney), and Scott Cook(Intuit) all sat on Apple's board. I believe they even all server simultaneously. That's everyone but Adobe, who definitely has their ties with Apple too, even if those ties are strained right now.
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How has the support for vbscript macros been for you? Do you get document that use a lot of vbscript in them? I know from experience that regular files with vbscript built into them keeps a lot of companies tied into MS Office. Usually it's RFPs from vendors that have vbscript doing calculations. These must be used or you don't get the work.
I don't understand your first sentence at all, so I'll just ignore it. I also don't understand your usage of the term sideshow box, so I'll ignore that too for now.
To answer your snarky question, no I didn't forget that Apple made a deal and got a cash infusion from Microsoft. Are you really arguing that this is the same as Nokia's deal?? Did Apple scrap the Mac OS for Windows? Nope, which is why it's not the same thing at all. As I recall, MS was in a position where it behooved them to be magnanimous due to the whole anti-trust brouhaha that was going on at the time and Apple was truly desperate for cash.
In contrast, I don't think (though I could be wrong) that Nokia is metaphorically inches away from bankruptcy as Apple was, I don't think Nokia's getting any big investment from MS, and I don't think Microsoft is doing this out of magnanimity, but instead they're acting out of desperation which means Nokia should be wary.
My point was and is that you infer by the nature of your comment that you know a lot about Nokia's internal situation right now, and I don't see any reason to believe that inference.
How is he right about price pressure? Should I just take your word for it? You sound like Michael Dell talking about Apple before Apple's meteoric rise past Dell and many others who "knew" how things worked.
I don't think this affects Amazon or B&N at least as far as book sales. This is about subscriptions. You don't subscribe to a Kindle book.
If you're referring to Kindle book sales there's no subscription involved so Amazon isn't affected. Netflix would be a better example.
What part of my original comment did you find pessimistic?
From Apple's iBooks FAQ:
Can I copy my books onto other computers or devices?
Books downloaded from the iBookstore can be placed on up to five computers you own that you’ve authorized with your iTunes Store account. You can sync your books to all iPads, iPhones, and iPod touches you own.1 Audiobooks, PDF files, and ePub files you've added to iTunes will appear in Books under Library. To sync Books to your device, connect it to your computer using the cable it came with. In iTunes, select your device then click the Books tab. Choose the books you would like to read on your device then press Sync. Books will sync to iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch even if iBooks is not installed; to read synced books, download iBooks from the App Store.
Note: Samples downloaded from the iBookstore will not sync to your computer. They remain on your device and can be removed using iBooks. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4059
I make no claims on being an economist, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt as far as what is or isn't a principal tenant of capitalism.
While I do agree that there will be less planning ahead than their should be, figuring out the role of people/labor in the future is as important to those at the top as it is to those at the bottom. One need only look at Egypt to see what happens when the system gets too out of whack. I'm not saying the wealthy/power elite will get it right away, or even nearly as soon as they should, but I hope they do get it or our society will have an incredible mess on it's hands.
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I'm just going on the record as saying this is one of the seminal moments in human history and will be remembered as such in years to come.
The applications for Watson are huge. One "Watson" could handle taking the orders for hundreds if not thousands of McDonald's drive-thrus, perform many types of customer service roles in a phone or chat capacity, run kiosks at Lowe's telling you where items are located or what they're normally used for. There's probably tremendous opportunities in statistical/actuarial fields as well as tax accounting.
This is how the technology derived from Watson is going to make a difference. It's going to march us even further down the path of not human obsolescence, but labor obsolescence, a path humanity has been going down for some time. This is why it's important, because if "Watsons" start doing these jobs, it destroys one of the principal tenants of capitalism. Namely that people barter their useful labor with employers in exchange for pay. As this tenant becomes more and more false, society is going to have to take a long hard look at what role people play in it.
Here's the details about the bredolab trojan from Microsoft's Malware Protection Center. The file is an .exe and affects all versions Windows 95 and up. There must be some old cruft in Win7 if the same exploits it and 95.
http://antimatter15.com.nyud.net/wp/2011/01/the-ambiguity-of-open-and-vp8-vs-h-264/
You know it only takes 1,350 cuts of $20M to git rid of a $27B deficit. That's doesn't seem like an impossible number considering how many departments, programs, etc. a state the size of California is likely to have.
But it must have been a well vetted and efficient plan because Mikey Bloomberg is running NYC and he brings the skills from the business world that cut through government bureaucracy and waste right? RIGHT???
Sorry for the snark, but I just get tired of hearing that business people are so much better at running government and yet when they take over, the same graft and corruption goes on and in the meantime they cut services and raise prices in a way that's punitive to the least among us, usually to justify tax breaks for the most privileged among us.
Be careful about grouping all news organizations together as "the media". That's the kind of mental shortcut that makes it easy to manipulate public opinion. Someone might say "the media" is in the Obama Administration's pocket? Would they be including Fox? Would they then fallback to the "liberal media"? "The mainstream media"?
I've been reading The New York Times coverage of this story for awhile and I haven't felt like they were against Assange.
I'm not trying to be pedantic or nit-picky here. I think it's very important to not fall prey to oversimplifications that are much too freely used in discussions today. And for the record I have felt like "NBC Nightly News" and the other two major network nightly newscasts seemed strangely against Assange as you so correctly point out.
I always hear that the Democratic Party is as much "in the pocket" of big business as the Republicans. But isn't the FCC part of a Democratic Party led executive branch? Am I missing something? Is Hollywood or some other big Democratic Party contributor pro-net-neturality?
That's fair. I don't recall hearing any stories of stampeding mobs because tornado sirens went off though.
I think that's a bogus scenario. If it's a really severe weather event people aren't going to be outside. If it's a nuclear war, I don't really care about the mob.
I was more thinking something like a systemwide test. And maybe you mean does a panicked stampede sound as cool? Or perhaps "panic stampede" is some kind of new band and in that case I haven't heard them and don't know how cool they sound.
I want to be in a large, busy area like a crowded mall or a large outdoor event when one of these alerts gets sent out. For some reason, the thought of seeing almost everyone stop and reach for their cell phone at the same time just seems incredibly cool to me.
Very interesting thoughts! Kind of a devil's bargain though - more accurate Nielsen ratings (I don't believe Nielsen has a clue right now) vs. Google intruding even more into everyone's private data. Or in other words better TV for less privacy.
Something that it would be interesting for Google to buy is TVGuide. It fits their search/information business model.
I'll play Kinectimals in my Garanimals while eating Lunchables with my runcible spoon.
I'd guess Comcast isn't sending an email at least in part because a healthy percentage of their customers don't use Comcast's crappy email service.
I still think this is a gross and intrusive tactic, but so is how they hijack DNS redirects to show you a custom "search" page with ads on it. At least they give you an option of turning that "service" off.
Oh wait.... Darn
Am I the only person that sees the Apple board connection? Eric Schmidt(Google), Paul Otellini(Intel), Steve Jobs (Pixar/Disney), and Scott Cook(Intuit) all sat on Apple's board. I believe they even all server simultaneously. That's everyone but Adobe, who definitely has their ties with Apple too, even if those ties are strained right now.
Seems like more than a coincidence to me.