If you expect an OS to be released and have absolutely no vulnerabilities from day one, then I would love to have some of what you are smoking.
Even Linux has its problems with security flaws. The only problem with Linux is you have to know a hell of a lot more about the system and be willing to invest more time in protecting it.
What did I have to do to protect my WinXP Pro machine? Visit Windows update every so often, usually once a week, download the updates and have a firewall. Things everyone using Windows should do, and if you exclude step one, things everyone should do.
The constant witching about MS is getting to be annoying, no one is perfect, but at least it is easy and painless to install updates if you install them when they are released, not when all the other idiots that waited until a virus is spreading are installing them.
I tried Linux, I have it dual booting on my machine, I don't like it. Sure if it had come out back when I was a kid I might have a different opinion of it, if I had more time to spend learning about it. But it didn't and I don't. No one is paying me to use it and so far no one has required that I know it. So I'm not wasting my time.
Wouldn't true competition be the ability to offer the same product at better prices? For instance, Wal-Mart and Target offer many of the same products, often at slightly different prices. A customer can then choose to go to Wal-Mart, which is a bit more crowded but usually cheaper, or go to Target, which is usually cleaner and quicker but more expensive.
Seems to me that this would offer the ultimate competition.
But, will this mean we can keep our existing phones if we switch providers? Sometimes the extra "features" aren't exactly worth the expense of buying a new phone. Also, if I want that handy dandy phone that only insert name brand here provides, it would be great if I could stick with my provider and use that phone.
I have never used Napster or Kazaa, just because I haven't bothered to give it a try. So, since you mention Kazaa as being lowest of the low, what P2P software do most Slashdotters prefer?
I understand a companies need to show a profit, they are in business to make money. But I think certain rules should follow them if they are US based.
I have specific numbers for my wife, so I'll use her as an example. She works in a call center making about $14.55/hr. The company she works for has been using outsourcing in India and Costa Rica for some time now. They pay Indians $0.50/hr to transfer calls to her because they don't know how/don't want to do their job, this accounts for at least 10%-25% of her calls each day. They pay Costa Ricans $1.00/hr.
Now, of course the alleged cost per transferred call is $3. Supposedly management believes that this cost is worthwile. Even though many of the customers call to cancel their account because they can't understand what the outsourced people are saying on the phones.
My suggestion is this: If a company is US based, they must abide by US labor laws. Especially minimum wage laws, UNLESS the minimum wages laws in that country exceed that of the US. This helps the situation at least somewhat so that even our slightly lower paid US workers won't all show up on unemployment. Oh, and to be considered non-US based the execs need to move their a**es to India too, no point in saying your company is not US based when you get to live the high-life. They can see what it's like to live in a third world country.
I've heard such dumb comments from a COO that we are helping that countries economy! What the HELL about the US's economy, you know the country these shmucks live in?
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If you expect an OS to be released and have absolutely no vulnerabilities from day one, then I would love to have some of what you are smoking.
Even Linux has its problems with security flaws. The only problem with Linux is you have to know a hell of a lot more about the system and be willing to invest more time in protecting it.
What did I have to do to protect my WinXP Pro machine? Visit Windows update every so often, usually once a week, download the updates and have a firewall. Things everyone using Windows should do, and if you exclude step one, things everyone should do.
The constant witching about MS is getting to be annoying, no one is perfect, but at least it is easy and painless to install updates if you install them when they are released, not when all the other idiots that waited until a virus is spreading are installing them.
I tried Linux, I have it dual booting on my machine, I don't like it. Sure if it had come out back when I was a kid I might have a different opinion of it, if I had more time to spend learning about it. But it didn't and I don't. No one is paying me to use it and so far no one has required that I know it. So I'm not wasting my time.
Wouldn't true competition be the ability to offer the same product at better prices? For instance, Wal-Mart and Target offer many of the same products, often at slightly different prices. A customer can then choose to go to Wal-Mart, which is a bit more crowded but usually cheaper, or go to Target, which is usually cleaner and quicker but more expensive.
Seems to me that this would offer the ultimate competition.
But, will this mean we can keep our existing phones if we switch providers? Sometimes the extra "features" aren't exactly worth the expense of buying a new phone. Also, if I want that handy dandy phone that only insert name brand here provides, it would be great if I could stick with my provider and use that phone.
I have never used Napster or Kazaa, just because I haven't bothered to give it a try. So, since you mention Kazaa as being lowest of the low, what P2P software do most Slashdotters prefer?
I understand a companies need to show a profit, they are in business to make money. But I think certain rules should follow them if they are US based.
I have specific numbers for my wife, so I'll use her as an example. She works in a call center making about $14.55/hr. The company she works for has been using outsourcing in India and Costa Rica for some time now. They pay Indians $0.50/hr to transfer calls to her because they don't know how/don't want to do their job, this accounts for at least 10%-25% of her calls each day. They pay Costa Ricans $1.00/hr.
Now, of course the alleged cost per transferred call is $3. Supposedly management believes that this cost is worthwile. Even though many of the customers call to cancel their account because they can't understand what the outsourced people are saying on the phones.
My suggestion is this: If a company is US based, they must abide by US labor laws. Especially minimum wage laws, UNLESS the minimum wages laws in that country exceed that of the US. This helps the situation at least somewhat so that even our slightly lower paid US workers won't all show up on unemployment. Oh, and to be considered non-US based the execs need to move their a**es to India too, no point in saying your company is not US based when you get to live the high-life. They can see what it's like to live in a third world country.
I've heard such dumb comments from a COO that we are helping that countries economy! What the HELL about the US's economy, you know the country these shmucks live in?
There is my idea, take it or leave it.