Code is a microwave. Content is a burrito. General Electric may have a patent on technology used in the microwave you're nuking your burrito with, but it's still your burrito to do with as you wish.
I don't see how this would replace jpg in any remote way whatsoever. Where are most images stored and viewed? On the internet and a browser. I need a small, high quality image. I don't need to go visit cnn.com and adjust the tint, hue and color levels of the "breaking news" graphic on their site.
Not to mention, I am highly skeptical of any attempt Microsoft claims to be making toward "standardization".
It should be unlimited since they don't provide the bandwidth. All the VOIP services I've used have been for a flat fee, worked great and were extremely reliable. If they went under, I'd go with Vonage. However, Vonage would be my "last resort". They're big. Not great. They're just big. I'll take $20 for unlimited everything plus all the tricked out features over $30 with Vonage, plus whatever they want for extras.
I don't trust the bandwidth providers to not screw with your packets and performance, though. Currently, I don't use VOIP but that's only because I have a cell phone and paying for two seemed kind of silly.
I really don't know why anyone would go with Vonage to begin with. There are other options that are cheaper, better audio quality, demand lower bandwidth and provide a greater free calling area with significantly reduced international calling rates.
Vonage is to VOIP what Gateway is to the computer market.
Do you pay attention to dates? That comment was about a year old. And completely accurate. Feel free to side with the traditional geek norms to make friends and influence people, but I prefer to call it how I see it. Star Trek and Star Wars is over rated. Not all anime is awesome. Not every cosplay chick is hot and not everyone buys into the soulless and patronizingly dumb Dilbert cartoons.
Don't worry, you'll figure out not everyone pulls the "company line" around here. You're still new here, so we understand whatever difficulties you may be having with the whole "not everyone has the same opinion" part of discussions.
How dare we engage in merit-based compensation! That isn't fair to all the teachers who suck but have been teaching for ten, twenty and thirty years!
You know, in Portland we have something called "PERS" which allows some teachers to retire with a larger salary and compensation than they earned during employment. In fact, it's severely draining and straining the education system there.
I would think it would make a lot more sense just to have one of those cheap $100 mini-dorm fridges by your sofa and fill it with soda. In fact for a few hundred bucks you can get a refrigerator / freezer / microwave combo unit that will sit in your office, living room, geek room or wherever else.
Talk about providing a solution to a non-existent problem.
I'd completely agree with all of those. No more lame games based on a Lucas rip off of a simple and old story line, World War II games and "barbarian, wizard, ranger" RPG crap. Even these tools that brag about how much they focused on the story in their latest and greatest videogame are nothing more than shallow duplicates of boring stories we've played a thousand times.
But really, Star Wars has been done to death even more than Star Trek. Ugh.
Between his pointless comic strip that attempts to placate the masses of cubicle dwellers by making them find humor in their pathetic situations and wanting Bill Gates to run the country, I think we can all now safely agree that Scott Adams is not only lacking in all related talents involved in producing actual humor but is an absolutely soulless corporate pawn. Dilbert is a great "deal breaker" indicator that you can use in judging how to treat people and what weight to give their contributions, similar to the judgments one can make about those who think Napoleon Dynamite is the greatest movie ever.
God, I hate unnecessary and clumsy overuse of adverbs!
Also, how are they being "forced to sign" this? You mean, they're being asked to sign it if they want employment by that company? Then they should refuse to sign it if they aren't interested. I sincerely doubt anyone is being "forced" to sign a thing.
Sales people have to drink the kool-aid. Period. They're irrational, bloviating, pie-in-the-sky kindergartners on crack with no sense of reality. They have a lot in common with religious zealots that attend church services four or five times every week.
By the way, what the hell is "invocorates"? That sounds like a word a sales person would invent. Sales people often have the worst grammar and spelling on the planet, so perhaps one handed that down to you?:D
Clearly, the best way to keep America competitive is to avoid the expensive costs involved in educating Americans and, instead, invest a fraction of that budget into enticing foreign labor. You also have the added benefit of being able to drastically affect the value of labor in each field of expertise by importing the labor to reduce overall costs.
The mistake that a lot of non-corporate entities continue to make is believing that Americans need to spend a couple hundred thousand dollars each to educate themselves into their mid-twenties before entering the job market.
How is this not just an attempt at artificially devaluing the price that skilled labor is worth by importing additional labor which thus offsets the value the existing labor force can demand?
With enough content contributors and developers, you can certainly make a world filled with endless stories and plot-lines. What bores me about ALL current MMORPGs is that they're all just a bunch of cookie-cutter stories and missions dished out to people who largely ignore them on their quest to level quickly and then roll a new character.
Same with most RPGs. They are just too bland and unoriginal. Can we have something besides a wizard, warrior and ranger dwarf, human, elf fighting orcs, dragons, demons to safe the princess, land, people from some evil magic?
Lucky she's not a man. Instead of being a misunderstood, stressed-out astronaut who needs some TLC, she'd be a *monster* charged with attempted *murder* being held in prison until trial and then given a life sentence.
Sad that our society has devolved to the point where missions exploring the universe and potentially saving mankind are ignored, but a kooky employee makes headlines for months.
If we shouldn't have any method of auditing votes for who we put into office, why should we have a method for auditing the revisions made to the bills the people we vote into office author?
As if we can expect people who think global warming and evolution are "completely lacking any evidence" and who believe the internet is a series of tubes to actually understand what version tracking is, anyway!
I am highly amused that you appear to think congress would be swayed by scientific *anything*. Sadly, you would be more successful if you could present them with an aspect of the cause that is more religious in grounding.
I'm rather offended that United States Senators are wasting their time benefiting corporate monopolies through international pressure and diplomacy rather than focusing on some of the more important and fundamental issues. Who cares about military conflicts, hunger, homelessness, healthcare, jobless rates, education and immigration when you could be spending your precious time performing as RIAA and MPAA henchmen?
As an owner of a 2006 Mustang (still a great car), let me just say that I don't need a bunch of computerized crap in my car that will render it useless at the whim of EMPs and sunspots or other degradations. I don't care about ipod this and mp3 that and strobe lights and modified kits. You know what I care about? Higher quality materials. Stop replacing leather with cloth. Stop replacing aluminum and steal with fiberglass. Stop replacing metal and chrome with plastic.
Yeah, but encrypting transport methods only secures you against snooping. The greater problem is targeted retrieval and review of content. In my opinion, a company should want to encrypt the data as well. Perhaps they can have some master key for urgent or legal situations, but there is no reason every email from every employee should be sitting unencrypted in the mailstore for any number of people to access and read. Not to mention, if your system is ever the victim of malicious attack that allows access to the mailstore, encrypted data will mean very little to the attacker.
Anyway, I really do hope that encryption becomes a more default and intrinsic part of email applications. I'd love to encrypt all of my communications, but taking the time to convince and assist every person you communicate with via jabber and email to employ similar methods would be both prohibitive and impossible. It's hard enough trying to convince the average person as to why they shouldn't just throw their social security numbers at every person that asks for them.
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Code is a microwave. Content is a burrito. General Electric may have a patent on technology used in the microwave you're nuking your burrito with, but it's still your burrito to do with as you wish.
I don't see how this would replace jpg in any remote way whatsoever. Where are most images stored and viewed? On the internet and a browser. I need a small, high quality image. I don't need to go visit cnn.com and adjust the tint, hue and color levels of the "breaking news" graphic on their site.
Not to mention, I am highly skeptical of any attempt Microsoft claims to be making toward "standardization".
Using all of your time?!
It should be unlimited since they don't provide the bandwidth. All the VOIP services I've used have been for a flat fee, worked great and were extremely reliable. If they went under, I'd go with Vonage. However, Vonage would be my "last resort". They're big. Not great. They're just big. I'll take $20 for unlimited everything plus all the tricked out features over $30 with Vonage, plus whatever they want for extras.
I don't trust the bandwidth providers to not screw with your packets and performance, though. Currently, I don't use VOIP but that's only because I have a cell phone and paying for two seemed kind of silly.
I really don't know why anyone would go with Vonage to begin with. There are other options that are cheaper, better audio quality, demand lower bandwidth and provide a greater free calling area with significantly reduced international calling rates.
Vonage is to VOIP what Gateway is to the computer market.
I see this as a case of evil versus evil.
Do you pay attention to dates? That comment was about a year old. And completely accurate. Feel free to side with the traditional geek norms to make friends and influence people, but I prefer to call it how I see it. Star Trek and Star Wars is over rated. Not all anime is awesome. Not every cosplay chick is hot and not everyone buys into the soulless and patronizingly dumb Dilbert cartoons.
Don't worry, you'll figure out not everyone pulls the "company line" around here. You're still new here, so we understand whatever difficulties you may be having with the whole "not everyone has the same opinion" part of discussions.
How dare we engage in merit-based compensation! That isn't fair to all the teachers who suck but have been teaching for ten, twenty and thirty years!
You know, in Portland we have something called "PERS" which allows some teachers to retire with a larger salary and compensation than they earned during employment. In fact, it's severely draining and straining the education system there.
I would think it would make a lot more sense just to have one of those cheap $100 mini-dorm fridges by your sofa and fill it with soda. In fact for a few hundred bucks you can get a refrigerator / freezer / microwave combo unit that will sit in your office, living room, geek room or wherever else.
Talk about providing a solution to a non-existent problem.
I knew CNN had sunk pretty low, but enough to call a machine that throws cold drink cans 20 feet is a news item?! What is this, Fox News Channel?!
I'd completely agree with all of those. No more lame games based on a Lucas rip off of a simple and old story line, World War II games and "barbarian, wizard, ranger" RPG crap. Even these tools that brag about how much they focused on the story in their latest and greatest videogame are nothing more than shallow duplicates of boring stories we've played a thousand times.
But really, Star Wars has been done to death even more than Star Trek. Ugh.
Between his pointless comic strip that attempts to placate the masses of cubicle dwellers by making them find humor in their pathetic situations and wanting Bill Gates to run the country, I think we can all now safely agree that Scott Adams is not only lacking in all related talents involved in producing actual humor but is an absolutely soulless corporate pawn. Dilbert is a great "deal breaker" indicator that you can use in judging how to treat people and what weight to give their contributions, similar to the judgments one can make about those who think Napoleon Dynamite is the greatest movie ever.
God, I hate unnecessary and clumsy overuse of adverbs!
Also, how are they being "forced to sign" this? You mean, they're being asked to sign it if they want employment by that company? Then they should refuse to sign it if they aren't interested. I sincerely doubt anyone is being "forced" to sign a thing.
Do we really need more Star Wars movies and videogames?! It's been thirty years. Can we please have something new?
Sales people have to drink the kool-aid. Period. They're irrational, bloviating, pie-in-the-sky kindergartners on crack with no sense of reality. They have a lot in common with religious zealots that attend church services four or five times every week.
:D
By the way, what the hell is "invocorates"? That sounds like a word a sales person would invent. Sales people often have the worst grammar and spelling on the planet, so perhaps one handed that down to you?
What's It Like For a Developer To Go Into Sales?
Probably a lot like selling your soul.
Clearly, the best way to keep America competitive is to avoid the expensive costs involved in educating Americans and, instead, invest a fraction of that budget into enticing foreign labor. You also have the added benefit of being able to drastically affect the value of labor in each field of expertise by importing the labor to reduce overall costs.
The mistake that a lot of non-corporate entities continue to make is believing that Americans need to spend a couple hundred thousand dollars each to educate themselves into their mid-twenties before entering the job market.
What the fuck is a pocket gopher?
Sounds like something Richard Gere would buy and carry around in his coat pocket.
How is this not just an attempt at artificially devaluing the price that skilled labor is worth by importing additional labor which thus offsets the value the existing labor force can demand?
With enough content contributors and developers, you can certainly make a world filled with endless stories and plot-lines. What bores me about ALL current MMORPGs is that they're all just a bunch of cookie-cutter stories and missions dished out to people who largely ignore them on their quest to level quickly and then roll a new character.
Same with most RPGs. They are just too bland and unoriginal. Can we have something besides a wizard, warrior and ranger dwarf, human, elf fighting orcs, dragons, demons to safe the princess, land, people from some evil magic?
Lucky she's not a man. Instead of being a misunderstood, stressed-out astronaut who needs some TLC, she'd be a *monster* charged with attempted *murder* being held in prison until trial and then given a life sentence.
Sad that our society has devolved to the point where missions exploring the universe and potentially saving mankind are ignored, but a kooky employee makes headlines for months.
Yes, you're completely correct. My entire message reads like some twelve year old girl's txt-message because of one typo.
And no, I don't remember the good old days. But that doesn't mean I can't appreciate the solid, simple construction of vehicles prior to my time.
If we shouldn't have any method of auditing votes for who we put into office, why should we have a method for auditing the revisions made to the bills the people we vote into office author?
As if we can expect people who think global warming and evolution are "completely lacking any evidence" and who believe the internet is a series of tubes to actually understand what version tracking is, anyway!
I am highly amused that you appear to think congress would be swayed by scientific *anything*. Sadly, you would be more successful if you could present them with an aspect of the cause that is more religious in grounding.
I'm rather offended that United States Senators are wasting their time benefiting corporate monopolies through international pressure and diplomacy rather than focusing on some of the more important and fundamental issues. Who cares about military conflicts, hunger, homelessness, healthcare, jobless rates, education and immigration when you could be spending your precious time performing as RIAA and MPAA henchmen?
As an owner of a 2006 Mustang (still a great car), let me just say that I don't need a bunch of computerized crap in my car that will render it useless at the whim of EMPs and sunspots or other degradations. I don't care about ipod this and mp3 that and strobe lights and modified kits. You know what I care about? Higher quality materials. Stop replacing leather with cloth. Stop replacing aluminum and steal with fiberglass. Stop replacing metal and chrome with plastic.
Yeah, but encrypting transport methods only secures you against snooping. The greater problem is targeted retrieval and review of content. In my opinion, a company should want to encrypt the data as well. Perhaps they can have some master key for urgent or legal situations, but there is no reason every email from every employee should be sitting unencrypted in the mailstore for any number of people to access and read. Not to mention, if your system is ever the victim of malicious attack that allows access to the mailstore, encrypted data will mean very little to the attacker.
Anyway, I really do hope that encryption becomes a more default and intrinsic part of email applications. I'd love to encrypt all of my communications, but taking the time to convince and assist every person you communicate with via jabber and email to employ similar methods would be both prohibitive and impossible. It's hard enough trying to convince the average person as to why they shouldn't just throw their social security numbers at every person that asks for them.