That's an even bigger point, I was just talking about a beta of a browser doing better on the test, not the tests themselves, but I haven't heard of anyone having to switch a browser because it didn't pass an acid test...
Don't get me wrong, standards compliance is important, but does anyone care that a firefox pre release is scoring better? Its not a full release so any of that could change, better or worse, plus as some people have pointed out there are already browsers doing better? Let me know when something actually happens.
I talked about this before, but its a real shame seeing this sort of behavior out of companies. I know they're backed against a wall a bit, but really, if they'd been taking the time to upgrade and provide better service all along then they wouldn't be in this position in the first place. It's almost as bad as giving people a crappy service and then trying to charge people for "extra" bandwidth...
Yeah that was my problem, it wasn't that they were outright lying about me, just pointing out one or two issues I had when I first started, even though I had since turned them around. Either way, I showed them and got a better job anyway. Ended up being glad they let me go, as it turns out the bosses new motto there is "If you don't produce, I'll cut you loose." Seriously, what a joke.
Actually funny story, I got laid off from a company, used them as a reference, and they said bad things about me. Never had the energy to do anything other than not use that one guy as a reference again.
Everyone's afraid of doing anything that could land a potential lawsuit. We're getting to the point where you won't even be able to give a reference because of how it might be interpreted. People put up that info by choice, don't like that your future company might look at it, too bad, take it down or deal.
This does pose a dramatic shift in the balance of power. While a lot of votes do go on party lines, often most of what happens is self interest, with politicians doing what is most likely to keep them in office. Specter is just doing a better job of staying with the times rather than any real change in his personal convictions.
This reminds of when Marty went to the Future to the Cafe 80's and the kids when finding out the Wild Gunman required use of their hands said it was like a babies game.
On one side, you have the convenience of having an OS thats tested, your apps work on it, everything is good. On the other, you're perpetuating an old system, and keeping people from moving forward. Support nightmare isn't the half of it, you're going to have a very mixed level of application compatibility as well. In fact, the better option might have been a better more robust compatibility function to better support older apps. Because while it's all well and good to say that companies need to upgrade their products, how about the apps that are no longer supported, but switching away from them is no option. In many larger companies it can take years to migrate to another system, even upgrading may not be an option.
Not sure on previous numbers, but the article says that 3% equals about 420 billion dollars. Not too shabby, and should be taken into consideration that this is for government spending and will only seek to compliment the money spent privately. I'd love to know if this includes other science based programs such as NASA or if it will be in addition to some of that. Either way, it gets a thumbs up from me!
I took a network troubleshooting class in college, and we had to test the integrity of data runs that we pulled ourselves and if they weren't good enough we had to do them again till we got our numbers down. I'm sure there are hundreds of data companies that would disagree with you on what it takes to make quality cables and I'm sure "expensive dies" and other nonsense like that really don't help that much when it comes to quality. All you need is a steady hand and lots of practice.
With more and more content being sent via internet connections rather than traditional connections, ie cable, phone, satellite, pony express, Operating Systems in order to provide mainstream support will need to be able to provide support for these types of media. Sure there will always be the niche of gamers, or coders, or whomever, but the vast majority of us want to be able to throw up the latest episode of family guy, or watch babylon 5 reruns while we work on something else.
The mere fact that social networking sites have become so integrated into our society that you can become the target of identity theft terrifies me. There seems just something fundamentally wrong about it.
My first time wasn't even an install it was just a boot of my existing computer. It took way to long to figure out I had to run sudo su to do anything cool, but once that was done I figured out how to use nmap and got friends to do a direct connect via gaim and scanned their computers for them... yeah... for them...:)
Seems like this is just one more nail in the coffin for the USPS. Seriously, without services like this, they'd probably already be out of business. Since 1973 they've been a state sponsored monopoly rather than an actual branch of the government. I don't see it being too much longer that they're allowed sole right to transfer first class mail with both UPS and FedEx waiting in the wings to offer better more reliable service.
Reading the other comments here, it's clear this isn't a case closed situation, but, this has been one of the single most frightening changes in nature in recent years and its reassuring to know that there at least seems to be progress.
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That's an even bigger point, I was just talking about a beta of a browser doing better on the test, not the tests themselves, but I haven't heard of anyone having to switch a browser because it didn't pass an acid test...
Don't get me wrong, standards compliance is important, but does anyone care that a firefox pre release is scoring better? Its not a full release so any of that could change, better or worse, plus as some people have pointed out there are already browsers doing better? Let me know when something actually happens.
Seriously, does anyone really care? Timewarner is sucking pretty bad, and is there anyone that still uses the "new media" of AOL?
Now they really can do something about world hunger!
Yet another country that can be exploited for their natural resources!
I talked about this before, but its a real shame seeing this sort of behavior out of companies. I know they're backed against a wall a bit, but really, if they'd been taking the time to upgrade and provide better service all along then they wouldn't be in this position in the first place. It's almost as bad as giving people a crappy service and then trying to charge people for "extra" bandwidth...
Yeah that was my problem, it wasn't that they were outright lying about me, just pointing out one or two issues I had when I first started, even though I had since turned them around. Either way, I showed them and got a better job anyway. Ended up being glad they let me go, as it turns out the bosses new motto there is "If you don't produce, I'll cut you loose." Seriously, what a joke.
Actually funny story, I got laid off from a company, used them as a reference, and they said bad things about me. Never had the energy to do anything other than not use that one guy as a reference again.
Everyone's afraid of doing anything that could land a potential lawsuit. We're getting to the point where you won't even be able to give a reference because of how it might be interpreted. People put up that info by choice, don't like that your future company might look at it, too bad, take it down or deal.
This does pose a dramatic shift in the balance of power. While a lot of votes do go on party lines, often most of what happens is self interest, with politicians doing what is most likely to keep them in office. Specter is just doing a better job of staying with the times rather than any real change in his personal convictions.
This reminds of when Marty went to the Future to the Cafe 80's and the kids when finding out the Wild Gunman required use of their hands said it was like a babies game.
Or any OS for that matter. For even the best built OS there's a better built idiot waiting to use it.
On one side, you have the convenience of having an OS thats tested, your apps work on it, everything is good. On the other, you're perpetuating an old system, and keeping people from moving forward. Support nightmare isn't the half of it, you're going to have a very mixed level of application compatibility as well. In fact, the better option might have been a better more robust compatibility function to better support older apps. Because while it's all well and good to say that companies need to upgrade their products, how about the apps that are no longer supported, but switching away from them is no option. In many larger companies it can take years to migrate to another system, even upgrading may not be an option.
Not sure on previous numbers, but the article says that 3% equals about 420 billion dollars. Not too shabby, and should be taken into consideration that this is for government spending and will only seek to compliment the money spent privately. I'd love to know if this includes other science based programs such as NASA or if it will be in addition to some of that. Either way, it gets a thumbs up from me!
Seems like its a little creepy and might interfere with the grieving process. I'd love to see what a psychologist would say about all this.
As reputable as their sup-par performance and awful tech support can be!
Super quiz challenge computers that will one day rule us all in the form of a question?!
I took a network troubleshooting class in college, and we had to test the integrity of data runs that we pulled ourselves and if they weren't good enough we had to do them again till we got our numbers down. I'm sure there are hundreds of data companies that would disagree with you on what it takes to make quality cables and I'm sure "expensive dies" and other nonsense like that really don't help that much when it comes to quality. All you need is a steady hand and lots of practice.
With more and more content being sent via internet connections rather than traditional connections, ie cable, phone, satellite, pony express, Operating Systems in order to provide mainstream support will need to be able to provide support for these types of media. Sure there will always be the niche of gamers, or coders, or whomever, but the vast majority of us want to be able to throw up the latest episode of family guy, or watch babylon 5 reruns while we work on something else.
In the fight between the holders of the copyrights, and the rest of us. I wonder what her thoughts on the DMCA would be.
The mere fact that social networking sites have become so integrated into our society that you can become the target of identity theft terrifies me. There seems just something fundamentally wrong about it.
The only way they'll convince people to switch to Windows 7 is to bundle it with XP!
My first time wasn't even an install it was just a boot of my existing computer. It took way to long to figure out I had to run sudo su to do anything cool, but once that was done I figured out how to use nmap and got friends to do a direct connect via gaim and scanned their computers for them... yeah... for them... :)
Seems like this is just one more nail in the coffin for the USPS. Seriously, without services like this, they'd probably already be out of business. Since 1973 they've been a state sponsored monopoly rather than an actual branch of the government. I don't see it being too much longer that they're allowed sole right to transfer first class mail with both UPS and FedEx waiting in the wings to offer better more reliable service.
Reading the other comments here, it's clear this isn't a case closed situation, but, this has been one of the single most frightening changes in nature in recent years and its reassuring to know that there at least seems to be progress.