I'm a software developer and have found that many companies dish out dingleberries as a way of getting people to work 24/7. And sure enough, there are schmucks that fall for it all the time because they think a blackberry makes them look important or whatever. We've all seen them, people outside of office hours that can't get off the damn blackberry. Pity them for their lack of priorities and probable lack of family home life.
They seem to forget that you're in an equal business relationship with your employer. If your contract says they give you money for a certain amount of your time you should hold them to it because sure as anything, your employer will hold you to the bits you don't like.
So basically, Blackberries only are fair if and only if your employer also gives you some extra flexibility for carrying one, such as allowing you to work from home during office hours, or making the hours more flexible.
Otherwise come on people, be men not mice, turn the damn thing off when you're not on scheduled work hours, or better yet, refuse to carry one in the first place.
Vista won't even allow you to choose alternative browsers as the default. Even with Firefox installed, and you choose IE to not be the default browser, Vista still uses IE for all web access.
Its like Microsoft think they're so big they can just ignore the legal rulings from all the cases they've already lost about this. Every time a new version of windows comes out its worse than before.
>>> A reader noted that the media files are only restricted between users of the same drive. Not quite as bad as originally pitched.
I still wouldn't buy one. Furthermore I'd demand a refund including shipping costs on any product I accidentally bought that didn't make this functionality VERY clear on the packaging, and also on the web-page if I bought it online.
the Chinese photoshopped-out the secret alien moonbase where all the UFO's come from. Everyone knows NASA have been sucessfully editing out alien content from all their space imagery since the 60's. Th CIA were afriad that the Chinese would finally blow the game by releasing unedited images of aliens on the moon to the public. It was only when Bush threatened trade sanctions on the import of fortune cookies that the Chinese agreed to also edit all imagery.
1) The labels probably actually prefer WMA to MP3 because it has DRM. 2) Walmart would become such a large slow-moving target to be sued for commercial breach of copyright that even the RIAA might not screw this one up. 3) They're hoping walmart might just be bluffing or will forget about it 4) Thy don't need to get someone to do all the encoding if walmart does it for them
the amount of money record companies are not getting back from the RIAA from collected fines
I bet the record companies actually expected, or were even told by the RIAA, that there would be a long-term profitable return from collected fines in return for their relatively small support payments. This has turned out to not be the case both because the RIAA is run by total incompetents and that they are finding out that more people than they expected just won't be bullied so they actually have to work for their money in the courts.
On that basis the record companies wouldn't actually want the RIAA to be an effective method of completely eliminating piracy otherwise that would be an end to their fine-collecting income, so I don't think EMI's decision is directly based on the RIAA's effectiveness against limiting file-sharing.
yes it is different. If you find a manuscript on a bus there is no evidence that the author wished to release it, given that he could have simply mislaid it. If the author puts the code on the internet without any licence he is explicitly putting it into the public domain via free speech in a public forum.
you're wrong because all your assumptions are that this IS breaking the law. Actually, if you publish something on the internet without copyright instructions, anyone IS free to (re)use it.
Darl Mcbride not only managed to drive a somewhat successful company totally into the ground in the space of 3 or 4 years but also managed to totally alienate them from the entire industry and turn the company name into a pariah. Nevertheless he has been personally rewarded in salary and performance benefits in millions of dollars in that time.
We badly need to fix the system where incompetent shysters like him can't even get into that position, let alone be personally rewarded for catastrophic failure.
I mean, what on earth were the SCO board thinking when they agreed his last performance bonus?
I agree that the US police even with unlimited access to guns have already failed so badly to control some areas they have become no-go areas for unarmed anyone let alone policing (a sure sign in itself that just arming cops isn't a whole solution in itself).
Anyway that can't be true for all areas of the US, so in those areas where it isn't true, the cops should be trained well enough so they don't loose control of the situation even without physically attacking non-threatening citizens.
While I think that using tasers can be a better idea than guns or nightsticks, you've only got to watch youtube videos and TV shows like Cops to see how much American police abuse their use. They seem far too quick to reach for the taser, and often use it as an immediate punishment for verbal non-compliance rather than to disable someone who is actually a physical threat. So much for free speech. They also regularly seem to shock the target continuously or multiple times sometimes rather than just administer enough to disable them. I think the US cops could learn a lot by working with the UK cops who often don't even carry weapons. They know how to deal with the same problems the US cops deal with, but by talking and using their heads instead of escalating the violence by attacking first.
how would it bea ble to differentiate between "out loud" voice and private thoughts? This could be really embarrasing for users. Imagine if a secretary (or nurse) walks by when you're in the middle of speaking or dictating a letter:
Dear sir, I am writing wow nice tits and she has a great ass too uh oh wedding ring in order to ask if you would be interested in our new product line of neural-input word processors.
It just boggles my mind how modern solid-state electronics organized for parallel I/O can be less than a factor of 10 times faster than an inherently serial and decidedly ancient-sounding "mechanically moved heads over a magnetized spinning disk" approach. What the heck is going on here?
Its a tough time for any new FPS game released right now as Crysis and Unreal Tournament are both on the shelves within a few days. Seems like they should have released earlier or waited a few weeks. COD4 will just get lost in the noise.
What a sad little list. It basically amounts to a few little code tweaks that should all be in a vista service pack, rather than a whole new product.
I mean most of them are just usability issues addressing current crappy design that should be fixed as a matter of course, not sold separately as major new features and a reason to upgrade.
why not just avoid telling the company you are leaving where you are going to?..or just use the same trite line companies use whenever they fire a CEO: "leaving to persue other opportunities" or "taking a sabbatical" or whatever.
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Sorry but thats exactly what happens on MY PC so its actually verifiably true.
I'm a software developer and have found that many companies dish out dingleberries as a way of getting people to work 24/7.
And sure enough, there are schmucks that fall for it all the time because they think a blackberry makes them look important or whatever.
We've all seen them, people outside of office hours that can't get off the damn blackberry. Pity them for their lack of priorities and probable lack of family home life.
They seem to forget that you're in an equal business relationship with your employer. If your contract says they give you money for a certain amount of your time you should hold them to it because sure as anything, your employer will hold you to the bits you don't like.
So basically, Blackberries only are fair if and only if your employer also gives you some extra flexibility for carrying one, such as allowing you to work from home during office hours, or making the hours more flexible.
Otherwise come on people, be men not mice, turn the damn thing off when you're not on scheduled work hours, or better yet, refuse to carry one in the first place.
Vista won't even allow you to choose alternative browsers as the default. Even with Firefox installed, and you choose IE to not be the default browser, Vista still uses IE for all web access.
Its like Microsoft think they're so big they can just ignore the legal rulings from all the cases they've already lost about this. Every time a new version of windows comes out its worse than before.
...if you don't mind greasy hairy sofas and a smelly house.
>>> A reader noted that the media files are only restricted between users of the same drive. Not quite as bad as originally pitched.
I still wouldn't buy one. Furthermore I'd demand a refund including shipping costs on any product I accidentally bought that didn't make this functionality VERY clear on the packaging, and also on the web-page if I bought it online.
the Chinese photoshopped-out the secret alien moonbase where all the UFO's come from.
Everyone knows NASA have been sucessfully editing out alien content from all their space imagery since the 60's.
Th CIA were afriad that the Chinese would finally blow the game by releasing unedited images of aliens on the moon to the public.
It was only when Bush threatened trade sanctions on the import of fortune cookies that the Chinese agreed to also edit all imagery.
Bids are exclusively via the internet, and Google probably has enough smart people and resources to intercept a few packets from other bidders....
the labels won't bother to respond.
Here's why:
1) The labels probably actually prefer WMA to MP3 because it has DRM.
2) Walmart would become such a large slow-moving target to be sued for commercial breach of copyright that even the RIAA might not screw this one up.
3) They're hoping walmart might just be bluffing or will forget about it
4) Thy don't need to get someone to do all the encoding if walmart does it for them
The news that EMI maybe withdrawing their funding from the RIAA probably only means there's an RIAA2.0 waiting in the wings.
Record industry: You ARE the weakest link. Good bye.
the amount of money record companies are not getting back from the RIAA from collected fines
I bet the record companies actually expected, or were even told by the RIAA, that there would be a long-term profitable return from collected fines in return for their relatively small support payments. This has turned out to not be the case both because the RIAA is run by total incompetents and that they are finding out that more people than they expected just won't be bullied so they actually have to work for their money in the courts.
On that basis the record companies wouldn't actually want the RIAA to be an effective method of completely eliminating piracy otherwise that would be an end to their fine-collecting income, so I don't think EMI's decision is directly based on the RIAA's effectiveness against limiting file-sharing.
Also why do you automatically assume the original author is in the US? It didn't mention his geographical location in the article.
yes it is different.
If you find a manuscript on a bus there is no evidence that the author wished to release it, given that he could have simply mislaid it.
If the author puts the code on the internet without any licence he is explicitly putting it into the public domain via free speech in a public forum.
you're wrong because all your assumptions are that this IS breaking the law.
Actually, if you publish something on the internet without copyright instructions, anyone IS free to (re)use it.
Darl Mcbride not only managed to drive a somewhat successful company totally into the ground in the space of 3 or 4 years but also managed to totally alienate them from the entire industry and turn the company name into a pariah. Nevertheless he has been personally rewarded in salary and performance benefits in millions of dollars in that time.
We badly need to fix the system where incompetent shysters like him can't even get into that position, let alone be personally rewarded for catastrophic failure.
I mean, what on earth were the SCO board thinking when they agreed his last performance bonus?
I agree that the US police even with unlimited access to guns have already failed so badly to control some areas they have become no-go areas for unarmed anyone let alone policing (a sure sign in itself that just arming cops isn't a whole solution in itself).
Anyway that can't be true for all areas of the US, so in those areas where it isn't true, the cops should be trained well enough so they don't loose control of the situation even without physically attacking non-threatening citizens.
While I think that using tasers can be a better idea than guns or nightsticks, you've only got to watch youtube videos and TV shows like Cops to see how much American police abuse their use.
They seem far too quick to reach for the taser, and often use it as an immediate punishment for verbal non-compliance rather than to disable someone who is actually a physical threat.
So much for free speech.
They also regularly seem to shock the target continuously or multiple times sometimes rather than just administer enough to disable them.
I think the US cops could learn a lot by working with the UK cops who often don't even carry weapons. They know how to deal with the same problems the US cops deal with, but by talking and using their heads instead of escalating the violence by attacking first.
how would it bea ble to differentiate between "out loud" voice and private thoughts? This could be really embarrasing for users. Imagine if a secretary (or nurse) walks by when you're in the middle of speaking or dictating a letter:
Dear sir,
I am writing wow nice tits and she has a great ass too uh oh wedding ring in order to ask if you would be interested in our new product line of neural-input word processors.
This only gets interesting when I can get a 1TB SD drive the same physical size and approximate price as a 1TB mechanical (conventional) drive.
It just boggles my mind how modern solid-state electronics organized for parallel I/O can be less than a factor of 10 times faster than an inherently serial and decidedly ancient-sounding "mechanically moved heads over a magnetized spinning disk" approach.
What the heck is going on here?
ahh I didn't realise it was also out on xbox. I thought it was PC-only.
Its a tough time for any new FPS game released right now as Crysis and Unreal Tournament are both on the shelves within a few days.
Seems like they should have released earlier or waited a few weeks. COD4 will just get lost in the noise.
It'll just drive more people to switch to Linux.
What a sad little list. It basically amounts to a few little code tweaks that should all be in a vista service pack, rather than a whole new product.
I mean most of them are just usability issues addressing current crappy design that should be fixed as a matter of course, not sold separately as major new features and a reason to upgrade.
I guess Microsoft just can't innovate.
why not just avoid telling the company you are leaving where you are going to? ..or just use the same trite line companies use whenever they fire a CEO: "leaving to persue other opportunities" or "taking a sabbatical" or whatever.