And its still your fault when something slips through. So they can't be 100% sure, but its still their responsibility and this is still unacceptable.
There are, in fact, relatively cheap ways to ensure this doesn't happen, and there are several other industries that deal with overseas manufacturing and prevent this very thing from happening.
Its amazing what you can do with a little bit of a clue and some effort.
No, it was just an intelligent business decision. China is better off because of it.
Here are the options: Some chinese people get to work in a sweatshop for Dell or Some chinese people DON'T get to work in a sweatshop for Dell. or Americans can do the work, but stop demanding to get paid a ridiculous amount because they think they deserve to get rich because they woke up this morning.
Two of those options result in someone in china starving, one doesn't. You can argue that sweatshops are bad and evil, but why don't you go over there and ask them if they'd be happier to not have the assembly plant. I think you'll find the only people who give a flying fuck are spoiled brats in other countries who don't actually know how shitty life can actually get.
Just because everyone else does it does not mean you have to do it
When everyone in the world is half your price and you have no other redeeming quality to make you better than the rest, then yes, you have to do it or you go out of business.
Dell can not bring anything to the table on a PC to justify charging more than anything else. They have nothing unique to offer that I can't get from Acer or my local computer shop.
Nobody was forced to buy from them. I did. And I'll do it again. I'm not delusional though, so I don't expect you to understand.
I use Snort, you're right, I'm not going anywhere any time soon, but why are you so defensive over it.
They added multithreading, which you have not, and otherwise you say they are the same (who am I to argue with the guy who wrote one of them). That does indeed sound like an improvement (assuming its not a horrid implementation).
You used a source code license that permits forking and someone did it and released it with some info about it and you're getting upset.
So they did what basically equates to name calling, big deal, stop throwing a temper tantrum over it.
SELinux was a shitty investment... right up until the point where it became useful.
You don't start instantly doing better than your competition, thats simply not the way it works.
It does, to me, seem silly to recreate the wheel and keep it GPL. If my tax dollars are going to be spent I expect I more permissive license to be used.
I'm not okay with paying to have someone write GPL software with my tax money. I'll accept BSD, MIT, Apache, X11 and public domain. GPL is unacceptable.
You and I have different definitions of impact, but I suppose you're correct about SL9. I tend to think exploding in the atmosphere isn't an impact, but on a gaseous planet you aren't going to get much other than an airburst.
What I want to know is how we know what a comet that impacted a gas giant 200 years ago would look like in the atmosphere 200 years after the fact.
Maybe its just me, but it seems like an aweful lot of 'science' recently has been based on pure speculation. I mean, I know there are some great deductive minds out there, but until you can show me pictures of the comet that hit 200 years ago and the data showing how you tracked it to now so you know what it would look like after 200 years of atmospheric storms...
You know what, I'm not going to even finish that thought, I call bullshit.
We can't model weather on Earth, and we have god knows how many sensors of every freaking type we've ever invented watching the planet and we can't predict what will happen tomorrow nor can we take a screenshot of the atmosphere and tell what the weather was like last year beyond what any 10 year old could guess on his/her own.
But we can detect what happened in a gas giant... hundreds of years ago... because we saw some light on a spectrometer?
Ironically, I have a family member he runs a business doing transcription for doctors... because every time the try voice recognition software they get pissed off and go back to real people.
Being a fan of Dragon Dictate myself, I know its not that great and I know it has a fit when you start throwing accents at it, training or not.
I call bullshit on your claims of using Dragon for everything.
Just ask for what you mean, you want free software not so much OSS. Its not like you're going to go editing and fixing bugs in the speech algorithm so the openness here really is just a guise to get something for free.
You'll find plenty of no-cost ways to transcribe, but OSS options fall short.
Reality of it is, you'll save yourself a lot of effort if you just type it yourself. It'll be faster and far more accurate.
Really? I suggest you get some therapy. Computers haven't really changed your job or the way you work, you have. YOU think you need to answer an email the instant it comes in. YOU think you are shackled to your desk.
In short, your problem is all in your head.
If you don't respond to an email within a couple hours, no one is going to die. If they are, you definitately are in the wrong job as you clearly can't handle self-inflicted stress, let alone something thats really stressful.
If you don't like your job, LEAVE. McDonalds is hiring. And yes, it is that simple. The reality of it is, everything you throw out to justify why you can't go work at McDonalds comes down to one thing: You don't want to work at McDonalds. Your current job is better on a number of levels, and thats all you've got for reasons to not work there. You're just whining about bullshit because you need to have something in your life that makes you feel needed.
If all you do is spend your day browsing the web trying to find some info that someone else reported so you can report on it in a sad attempt to get some add impressions then you will find it very hard to consider it fulfilling job.
On the other hand, its an easy job that requires no brains or effort so you probably should quit your bitching.
If you want to trot the world, see strange places and break that AWESOME story, then, well, you're going to have to take some risks. Get out from behind the desk. Actually see the world and... GASP... FIND SOME FUCKING NEWS TO REPORT ON OF YOUR OWN.
we finally move to LCD's which eliminates the problem entirely
What?
Thats news to me? When did having an LCD screen magically change the properties of the glass in front of it? LCDs are not magically different from CRTs other than LCDs may have a thin layer of plastic instead of glass as the outer surface of the display.
LCDs started with matte finishes because they simply used matte plastics for the surface of the display, not because they actually put effort into it.
He'd have to live at on of the poles to achieve that effect, well, not at the pole, but the effect only works after you get far enough away from the equator.
Its funny when you sit there and talk about 'no reflected' when... thats exactly what glossy screens do, reflect.
$50 says without actually seeing the shiney of a gloss screen beforehand, you couldn't tell the difference between a glossy and a matte finished display.
A glossy screen does not provide 'more vidid color'. It is identical to a Matte screen except it reflects more of the environment around it because some idiot at Apple thought it looked cool when the machine was off and everyone else followed him.
There are no actual advantages to a Glossy screen once it lights up.
Glossy screens are purely for marketing to people who don't know they are bad, they see a laptop with a shiny screen and think... 'ooohhhhh SHINY! ME WANT'.
No one cares enough about your data to steal your password, so long as its not so easy to guess that a random dictionary account gets it real quick than your 3 letter password of 'AAA' is more secure than most 6 letter passwords.
Why? Again, because no one cares about your data. When you have important enough data that the employees really do need to know security, they'll also have enough intelligence to realize they need to be intelligent with their passwords.
The problem with complex passwords is that idiots keep trying to force them on people who don't need complex passwords.
Your password policies should be geared towards the individual security requirements of... the individuals.
Donna the secretary gets to use 'mydog' as her password, so does Chris the CEO, because he doesn't do anything anyway, he tells someone else to do everything.
Igor the IT guy has strict password requirements, as do most of the accountants which have access to bank accounts directly.
If you have one password policy for your organization, you are indeed retarded unless your organization consists only of yourself.
What idiots write these stories? It amazes me how many journalists and people in general will use phrases that they clearly have no understanding of when they speak or write. Its clear they have no understanding because they don't even say it right.
Please kids, for the love of god, know what the words you are saying mean before you use them.
Pretty much every instance I've come across is simply an achievement for completing a standard part of the game. The couple of exceptions being GTA4 and Fallout 3, which are open ended enough that the achievements aren't directly related to the plot line, but even those are mostly plot related with a couple minor unrelated ones.
Achievements are little more than a public way to show how far you got in a game.
As a business, there comes a point when a customer is not worth the effort.
Neither you, nor I, know why Burst.net shut them down specifically, only that they got a letter they were doing bad things and shut them down, and the letter suggested they do that.
It is entirely possible that the site owner has been warned in the past that one more problem, regardless of details would result in burst.net cutting them off.
Its possible that burst.net told them 2 years ago to go away and they weren't wanted.
Its possible that they've been burst.nets greatest subscriber and 'the perfect customer' and this is an incredibly bad decision by burst.net
The problem is, again, neither you nor I know what happened.
I do know that you have fallen pray to a sensationalist headline rather than basing your statements on any facts. Way to contribute to the rumor mill.
The only effect on my life was that now going through airports is fucking annoying now.
The Patriot act has no effect on me, never has, never will, and its really easy to avoid.
Coordinated domestic wiretapping was common before and still is, perhaps you might want to get it right and say warrantless wiretapping to point out what was ACTUALLY bad about it.
The Unitary President is kind of supposed to be. Thats the job title... you know... Commander In Chief? But hey, lets call it a different name and pretend Congress had no say what so ever in it, lets just ignore the facts and reality.
Signing statements were not new to Bush and Obama hasn't stopped using them. They also don't actually mean anything unless someone wants to listen to them. They have no legal binding.
9/11 happened less than 9 years ago, so it can not possibly be the cause of something thats been going on for 10 years.
Yes, I'm being pedantic, but you're just throwing random statements out there in an attempt to make it sound horrible so some pedantic perspective is needed to balance out your luniness (tm). What has happened since 9/11 was the result of the government as a whole and regardless of what a very vocal minority wants to make people think was what the majority of the country wanted as well.
If you're going to go off and be all anti-government at least get some facts and a cluepon. Its easy to tear the government a new asshole based on facts and all you can do is come up with some political rhetoric because you're on the blue team?
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And its still your fault when something slips through. So they can't be 100% sure, but its still their responsibility and this is still unacceptable.
There are, in fact, relatively cheap ways to ensure this doesn't happen, and there are several other industries that deal with overseas manufacturing and prevent this very thing from happening.
Its amazing what you can do with a little bit of a clue and some effort.
No, it was just an intelligent business decision. China is better off because of it.
Here are the options:
Some chinese people get to work in a sweatshop for Dell
or
Some chinese people DON'T get to work in a sweatshop for Dell.
or
Americans can do the work, but stop demanding to get paid a ridiculous amount because they think they deserve to get rich because they woke up this morning.
Two of those options result in someone in china starving, one doesn't. You can argue that sweatshops are bad and evil, but why don't you go over there and ask them if they'd be happier to not have the assembly plant. I think you'll find the only people who give a flying fuck are spoiled brats in other countries who don't actually know how shitty life can actually get.
When everyone in the world is half your price and you have no other redeeming quality to make you better than the rest, then yes, you have to do it or you go out of business.
Dell can not bring anything to the table on a PC to justify charging more than anything else. They have nothing unique to offer that I can't get from Acer or my local computer shop.
Nobody was forced to buy from them. I did. And I'll do it again. I'm not delusional though, so I don't expect you to understand.
You need to learn what 'assembled in the USA' means.
That simply means the very final assembly was done in the US.
That could mean that they screwed in one screw, an extra quarter of a turn, in a US facility.
That does not mean that the majority of the work was done in the US.
I'm guessing you've never worked in retail due to your shock at how much things get marked up.
And this is handled all the time by saying 'when you contribute code, you transfer the copyright to us' and then its over.
Why are you so defensive then?
I use Snort, you're right, I'm not going anywhere any time soon, but why are you so defensive over it.
They added multithreading, which you have not, and otherwise you say they are the same (who am I to argue with the guy who wrote one of them). That does indeed sound like an improvement (assuming its not a horrid implementation).
You used a source code license that permits forking and someone did it and released it with some info about it and you're getting upset.
So they did what basically equates to name calling, big deal, stop throwing a temper tantrum over it.
Yet.
The keyword is yet.
SELinux was a shitty investment ... right up until the point where it became useful.
You don't start instantly doing better than your competition, thats simply not the way it works.
It does, to me, seem silly to recreate the wheel and keep it GPL. If my tax dollars are going to be spent I expect I more permissive license to be used.
I'm not okay with paying to have someone write GPL software with my tax money. I'll accept BSD, MIT, Apache, X11 and public domain. GPL is unacceptable.
You and I have different definitions of impact, but I suppose you're correct about SL9. I tend to think exploding in the atmosphere isn't an impact, but on a gaseous planet you aren't going to get much other than an airburst.
What I want to know is how we know what a comet that impacted a gas giant 200 years ago would look like in the atmosphere 200 years after the fact.
Maybe its just me, but it seems like an aweful lot of 'science' recently has been based on pure speculation. I mean, I know there are some great deductive minds out there, but until you can show me pictures of the comet that hit 200 years ago and the data showing how you tracked it to now so you know what it would look like after 200 years of atmospheric storms ...
You know what, I'm not going to even finish that thought, I call bullshit.
We can't model weather on Earth, and we have god knows how many sensors of every freaking type we've ever invented watching the planet and we can't predict what will happen tomorrow nor can we take a screenshot of the atmosphere and tell what the weather was like last year beyond what any 10 year old could guess on his/her own.
But we can detect what happened in a gas giant ... hundreds of years ago ... because we saw some light on a spectrometer?
And someone else believes this bullshit?
Ironically, I have a family member he runs a business doing transcription for doctors ... because every time the try voice recognition software they get pissed off and go back to real people.
Being a fan of Dragon Dictate myself, I know its not that great and I know it has a fit when you start throwing accents at it, training or not.
I call bullshit on your claims of using Dragon for everything.
Your question was phrased wrong.
Just ask for what you mean, you want free software not so much OSS. Its not like you're going to go editing and fixing bugs in the speech algorithm so the openness here really is just a guise to get something for free.
You'll find plenty of no-cost ways to transcribe, but OSS options fall short.
Reality of it is, you'll save yourself a lot of effort if you just type it yourself. It'll be faster and far more accurate.
And you both missed the facts.
You are not Facebook's customer.
The people buying your information from Facebook are the customer.
You are the product.
Really? I suggest you get some therapy. Computers haven't really changed your job or the way you work, you have. YOU think you need to answer an email the instant it comes in. YOU think you are shackled to your desk.
In short, your problem is all in your head.
If you don't respond to an email within a couple hours, no one is going to die. If they are, you definitately are in the wrong job as you clearly can't handle self-inflicted stress, let alone something thats really stressful.
If you don't like your job, LEAVE. McDonalds is hiring. And yes, it is that simple. The reality of it is, everything you throw out to justify why you can't go work at McDonalds comes down to one thing: You don't want to work at McDonalds. Your current job is better on a number of levels, and thats all you've got for reasons to not work there. You're just whining about bullshit because you need to have something in your life that makes you feel needed.
bad journalist.
If all you do is spend your day browsing the web trying to find some info that someone else reported so you can report on it in a sad attempt to get some add impressions then you will find it very hard to consider it fulfilling job.
On the other hand, its an easy job that requires no brains or effort so you probably should quit your bitching.
If you want to trot the world, see strange places and break that AWESOME story, then, well, you're going to have to take some risks. Get out from behind the desk. Actually see the world and ... GASP ... FIND SOME FUCKING NEWS TO REPORT ON OF YOUR OWN.
Yes, and from what you posted from Wikipedia, which one of those actually fits, hmmm?
Instead you should suspect shitty 'journalism', which would be the actual case here.
He committed multiple crimes. The guidelines were for only one of the crimes, not all of them combined.
Just for reference, Craigslist charges for real estate listing in some locations, NYC being one of them. Thats how they pay their bills.
Next, WHAT THE FUCK does OSS have to do with this?
You really need to stop trying to push your OSS fanboyism into everything.
What?
Thats news to me? When did having an LCD screen magically change the properties of the glass in front of it? LCDs are not magically different from CRTs other than LCDs may have a thin layer of plastic instead of glass as the outer surface of the display.
LCDs started with matte finishes because they simply used matte plastics for the surface of the display, not because they actually put effort into it.
Try again.
He'd have to live at on of the poles to achieve that effect, well, not at the pole, but the effect only works after you get far enough away from the equator.
Its funny when you sit there and talk about 'no reflected' when ... thats exactly what glossy screens do, reflect.
$50 says without actually seeing the shiney of a gloss screen beforehand, you couldn't tell the difference between a glossy and a matte finished display.
A glossy screen does not provide 'more vidid color'. It is identical to a Matte screen except it reflects more of the environment around it because some idiot at Apple thought it looked cool when the machine was off and everyone else followed him.
There are no actual advantages to a Glossy screen once it lights up.
Glossy screens are purely for marketing to people who don't know they are bad, they see a laptop with a shiny screen and think ... 'ooohhhhh SHINY! ME WANT'.
No one cares enough about your data to steal your password, so long as its not so easy to guess that a random dictionary account gets it real quick than your 3 letter password of 'AAA' is more secure than most 6 letter passwords.
Why? Again, because no one cares about your data. When you have important enough data that the employees really do need to know security, they'll also have enough intelligence to realize they need to be intelligent with their passwords.
The problem with complex passwords is that idiots keep trying to force them on people who don't need complex passwords.
Your password policies should be geared towards the individual security requirements of ... the individuals.
Donna the secretary gets to use 'mydog' as her password, so does Chris the CEO, because he doesn't do anything anyway, he tells someone else to do everything.
Igor the IT guy has strict password requirements, as do most of the accountants which have access to bank accounts directly.
If you have one password policy for your organization, you are indeed retarded unless your organization consists only of yourself.
What idiots write these stories? It amazes me how many journalists and people in general will use phrases that they clearly have no understanding of when they speak or write. Its clear they have no understanding because they don't even say it right.
Please kids, for the love of god, know what the words you are saying mean before you use them.
Pretty much every instance I've come across is simply an achievement for completing a standard part of the game. The couple of exceptions being GTA4 and Fallout 3, which are open ended enough that the achievements aren't directly related to the plot line, but even those are mostly plot related with a couple minor unrelated ones.
Achievements are little more than a public way to show how far you got in a game.
As a business, there comes a point when a customer is not worth the effort.
Neither you, nor I, know why Burst.net shut them down specifically, only that they got a letter they were doing bad things and shut them down, and the letter suggested they do that.
It is entirely possible that the site owner has been warned in the past that one more problem, regardless of details would result in burst.net cutting them off.
Its possible that burst.net told them 2 years ago to go away and they weren't wanted.
Its possible that they've been burst.nets greatest subscriber and 'the perfect customer' and this is an incredibly bad decision by burst.net
The problem is, again, neither you nor I know what happened.
I do know that you have fallen pray to a sensationalist headline rather than basing your statements on any facts. Way to contribute to the rumor mill.
Yes, because your actually making a statement that is comparable to the one you're referencing.
The only effect on my life was that now going through airports is fucking annoying now.
The Patriot act has no effect on me, never has, never will, and its really easy to avoid.
Coordinated domestic wiretapping was common before and still is, perhaps you might want to get it right and say warrantless wiretapping to point out what was ACTUALLY bad about it.
The Unitary President is kind of supposed to be. Thats the job title ... you know ... Commander In Chief? But hey, lets call it a different name and pretend Congress had no say what so ever in it, lets just ignore the facts and reality.
Signing statements were not new to Bush and Obama hasn't stopped using them. They also don't actually mean anything unless someone wants to listen to them. They have no legal binding.
9/11 happened less than 9 years ago, so it can not possibly be the cause of something thats been going on for 10 years.
Yes, I'm being pedantic, but you're just throwing random statements out there in an attempt to make it sound horrible so some pedantic perspective is needed to balance out your luniness (tm). What has happened since 9/11 was the result of the government as a whole and regardless of what a very vocal minority wants to make people think was what the majority of the country wanted as well.
If you're going to go off and be all anti-government at least get some facts and a cluepon. Its easy to tear the government a new asshole based on facts and all you can do is come up with some political rhetoric because you're on the blue team?
Pathetic excuse for a fanboy.