Now, RIAA is actually going after the people *who are breaking the law* and yet you are still complaining about it?
MMhh, when I put something on my property on the doorstep, someone walks up and takes it, who is guilty here of the act of stealing? Me or the person who took it?
Of course, if you look at it closely, nothing has been stolen on the P2P network because the copy is still there.
So let's use another analogy:
If I leave a book out there and a photocopier and someone comes by and photocopies the book, who's guilty and of what?
This is by no means unusual. I've been to places where the IT employees did not know which servers do what, how many servers they actually have, or what the passwords are. In a place like that, a missing server may not be noticed for days!
Oh,
that sounds like a place I worked once. The DBA and I were joking that we could just roll out the main database server and put something cheap like a desktop PC in the backend, nobody would know, because besides him and me none knew what we were doing nor on what hardware.
Actually you still see the attachment, at least I see stuff here when it comes in.
No clue about the.exe thing as they set up exchange in a way that it automatically strips it and replaces it with a text file, but.doc etc. you can still see.
And as far as I can tell Macros still work in our environment.
Yes, outlook stops things now, or at least doesn't execute them by default, but let's just say that for some reason some of our PCs here still got infected in the last wave.
As for my CD burning comment: I don't have Windows anywhere, so buying it for what? To burn the CDs?
even if I would buy it what would I do with it? Burn the CDs?
But considering that most companies usually have enterprise licenses you can bet that they won't just upgrade my Outlook, after all the next virus / worm wants something to do on my system, no? (Yeah, yeah, Sarcasm).
so I buy an entire Office Suit for an email client?
Something must be amiss here.
It is starting to get funny sort off, as I unwrangled myself at home from Windows now for a couple of years and see just how far OpenOffice has come. Even at work most of the stuff I work on I create in OpenOffice and then save it into Windows format so that others can use it.
I was starting to think last night and realized the only reason I do HAVE to use windows at work is so that I can use Exchange (calendar) and get virus scanned 3 times a day from the Helldesk.
I am just looking but I activly use at least 10 different emails plus some I only use occasionally, if I have to buy certificates for ALL of them I am going to go broke.
IF I need certificates than at least make them by domain, otherwise this is going to be expensive (though who knows, maybe it get's rid of things like hotmail for good).
My remark was aimed towards the "It has to be a ring, worth at least three months pay for engagement" and that is something I haven't seen in any other country I have lived in.
And just because DeBeers is not an American company doesn't mean they don't do their best businesses here. Heck, even on the Radio here they advertise this practically saying: "If you don't have one she will say no" etc. etc.
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I can just see it now. If it goes all Belly up that way the next thing we know we have Microsoft rolling out their own little standard on Exchange and everybody else is left out in the cold.
Could it be that they make all this fuzz in the hope to get all the "freebies" that are now in Linux (e.g. USB support) and use it for their own products?
Let's assume for a moment that they win this lawsuit, at least enough to impress the big guys, what are they going to do? Switch to FreeBSD? Hardly they will be afraid enough that this might happen again, so they might turn to SCO who pretty much could / will offer Linux now (of course then it won't be called Linux, after all Linus has the (C) on that one).
I once read an interresting series of books (the author escapes me right now) where immortality is achieved. The end result? Mankind looses any drive to better itself, people don't have the need anymore to finish something because there will always be a tomorrow.
The arts die, science dies etc.
The solution in the books was to give people a chance to forgoe their immortality and in turn for being for example an artist being supported by society.
Now that is fiction of course but if I would be given the choice I don't think I would want to take it. Sure it would be cool to see what we could accomplish 100 or a 1000 years from now but I don't think I would really care that much about things anymore.
I am very much aware that the majority of people is afraid of death, the big unknown for one reason or the other but for me death (even mine) is as much part of (my) life as my dinner tonight.
I had a boss once tell me (in a computer sales job) that I don't need to know the product I am selling, just sell it, after all that's how it is done with Washing machines and fridges.
I wouldn't be surprised if the same thing holds true for tech support: "You don't have to understand the solution, just tell them what's in teh script, and no I don't care if it is utter crap."
If ideology is dangerous then you could also say that the US is dangerous (I think it is).
The main reason the US didn't really clash with anyone in the last 100 years (unless "provoked") was simply that it is an island. Germany, Russia etc. are all countries that are very close to each other.
Moreover without the threat of Russian Bolshevism Hitler's rise to power would have been impossible. His principal campaign platform was fear of communist invasion.
If this is correct then I guess what we see happening in the US right now is exactly the same, change the names but: et Voila instant war.
I still don't think that ideolegies by default have to be bad, I just think that certain people tend to abuse them in their own self interrest.
Lenin was maybe more extreme in trying to reach his goals but overall I think under his leadership (and not Stalins) the Soviet Union would most likely have looked a lot different, that aside I don't think communism could ever work (neither capitalism).
According to Lackey the problem was that HavenCo failled to realize the pure vision of the founders. He pretty much sounds like one of those unreconstructed 1960s communists that claim that the reason the USSR failled is because it was not communist enough.
Well, the USSR never was communist, they were Stalinists, the idea of communism went right out of the door the moment Stalin came into the room.
Can someone please explain to me how this is in any way superior to using any old phone (or a Bluetooth phone/PDA or even Treo) to check and send mail via GSM/GPRS? As an added bonus, for small sized message, you get direct phone-to-phone SMS...
Certainly.
The main difference is that:
1. It sits on your Exchange (or Notes) Server. 2. It not only forwards the emails that you receive but also stores all the emails you sent back. 3. It allows for wireless calendar: So if you're not in the office but someone sends you a meeting request you can reply (or even book them remotely).
In essence, you take your email box with you.
What makes Blackberry so "nice"? The fact that it was around 5 years ago, while GPRS is still spotty. The old Blackberrys ran on the Mobitex (pager) network and thus worked anywhere where your pager would.
Now if that is good or bad is up to you to decide, but the one thing they do is offer a nice distraction in boring meetings.
Having said that: I currently live quite nicely without one, though I was told I am going to have to use one soon.
BTW, if anyone knows of any decent, modern bands in the spirit of great 60's and 70's rock, I'd be damn grateful. Major label or indie, I don't care.
The Tea Party has been compared to Led Zeppelin in a way... Problem is: They are not available in the US, but you should be able to get it either from Amazon.ca or HMV.ca (which is Amazon these days anyways).
"Tangents" might be a good start as it is a nice crossover what they did, all of their albums sound different, personal favourite is The Edges of Twillight and their latest release The Interzone Mantras followed by Transmission.
The Tryptich CD is IMO (and many agree) too "mainstream", still solid but just too 'sweet" though "The Messenger" definetly has something.
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MMhh, when I put something on my property on the doorstep, someone walks up and takes it, who is guilty here of the act of stealing? Me or the person who took it?
Of course, if you look at it closely, nothing has been stolen on the P2P network because the copy is still there.
So let's use another analogy:
If I leave a book out there and a photocopier and someone comes by and photocopies the book, who's guilty and of what?
M.
Oh,
that sounds like a place I worked once. The DBA and I were joking that we could just roll out the main database server and put something cheap like a desktop PC in the backend, nobody would know, because besides him and me none knew what we were doing nor on what hardware.
Then apparantly most of the Exchange Admins don't know how to set it up, as far as I can tell executables still show up.
Actually you still see the attachment, at least I see stuff here when it comes in.
.exe thing as they set up exchange in a way that it automatically strips it and replaces it with a text file, but .doc etc. you can still see.
No clue about the
And as far as I can tell Macros still work in our environment.
Yeah I know,
:(
problem is they won't go along here with it
We use Unix, but only on Servers, they haven't even touched Linux yet (though they are looking into it).
Old company, very political.....
Yes, outlook stops things now, or at least doesn't execute them by default, but let's just say that for some reason some of our PCs here still got infected in the last wave.
As for my CD burning comment: I don't have Windows anywhere, so buying it for what? To burn the CDs?
Well,
even if I would buy it what would I do with it? Burn the CDs?
But considering that most companies usually have enterprise licenses you can bet that they won't just upgrade my Outlook, after all the next virus / worm wants something to do on my system, no? (Yeah, yeah, Sarcasm).
Great,
so I buy an entire Office Suit for an email client?
Something must be amiss here.
It is starting to get funny sort off, as I unwrangled myself at home from Windows now for a couple of years and see just how far OpenOffice has come. Even at work most of the stuff I work on I create in OpenOffice and then save it into Windows format so that others can use it.
I was starting to think last night and realized the only reason I do HAVE to use windows at work is so that I can use Exchange (calendar) and get virus scanned 3 times a day from the Helldesk.
I am just looking but I activly use at least 10 different emails plus some I only use occasionally, if I have to buy certificates for ALL of them I am going to go broke.
IF I need certificates than at least make them by domain, otherwise this is going to be expensive (though who knows, maybe it get's rid of things like hotmail for good).
Why not use a bicycle?
What is "endurance" about doing this on a Segway?
Or am I just missing something here?
My remark was aimed towards the "It has to be a ring, worth at least three months pay for engagement" and that is something I haven't seen in any other country I have lived in.
And just because DeBeers is not an American company doesn't mean they don't do their best businesses here. Heck, even on the Radio here they advertise this practically saying: "If you don't have one she will say no" etc. etc.
I can just see it now. If it goes all Belly up that way the next thing we know we have Microsoft rolling out their own little standard on Exchange and everybody else is left out in the cold.
Oh hell yeah, why not.
MMMhh, so it is Hollywood + DeBeers + Hallmark == Evil Empire?
;)
And there I thought it was Microsoft
I told a girl once, while living in the States, the only thing she could expect from me is an onion ring, after all it at least has nutrional value.
Oh come on now, you know that it is all about LOVE. No? Well then I guess Hallmark didn't get you yet ;)
Well Marriage originally was a business transaction, the guy bought the woman from the parents.
;)
But of course then Hallmark etc. happened
Yeah well, not being from the US (North America)I never quite understood that tradition, for ten grand I knew better things to do than buy a ring.
But then that's just me (and pretty much anybody else I know who didn't grow up in the US / Canada).
Could it be that they make all this fuzz in the hope to get all the "freebies" that are now in Linux (e.g. USB support) and use it for their own products?
Let's assume for a moment that they win this lawsuit, at least enough to impress the big guys, what are they going to do? Switch to FreeBSD? Hardly they will be afraid enough that this might happen again, so they might turn to SCO who pretty much could / will offer Linux now (of course then it won't be called Linux, after all Linus has the (C) on that one).
Interresting times ahead I'd say.
M.
No seriously. Why?
I once read an interresting series of books (the author escapes me right now) where immortality is achieved. The end result? Mankind looses any drive to better itself, people don't have the need anymore to finish something because there will always be a tomorrow.
The arts die, science dies etc.
The solution in the books was to give people a chance to forgoe their immortality and in turn for being for example an artist being supported by society.
Now that is fiction of course but if I would be given the choice I don't think I would want to take it. Sure it would be cool to see what we could accomplish 100 or a 1000 years from now but I don't think I would really care that much about things anymore.
I am very much aware that the majority of people is afraid of death, the big unknown for one reason or the other but for me death (even mine) is as much part of (my) life as my dinner tonight.
I had a boss once tell me (in a computer sales job) that I don't need to know the product I am selling, just sell it, after all that's how it is done with Washing machines and fridges.
I wouldn't be surprised if the same thing holds true for tech support: "You don't have to understand the solution, just tell them what's in teh script, and no I don't care if it is utter crap."
If ideology is dangerous then you could also say that the US is dangerous (I think it is).
The main reason the US didn't really clash with anyone in the last 100 years (unless "provoked") was simply that it is an island. Germany, Russia etc. are all countries that are very close to each other.
Moreover without the threat of Russian Bolshevism Hitler's rise to power would have been impossible. His principal campaign platform was fear of communist invasion.
If this is correct then I guess what we see happening in the US right now is exactly the same, change the names but: et Voila instant war.
I still don't think that ideolegies by default have to be bad, I just think that certain people tend to abuse them in their own self interrest.
Lenin was maybe more extreme in trying to reach his goals but overall I think under his leadership (and not Stalins) the Soviet Union would most likely have looked a lot different, that aside I don't think communism could ever work (neither capitalism).
Show me one unbloody revolution please.
Revolution has always been bloody and it always will be, anything else is not revolution but evolution.
Lenin (unlike Stalin) I think was an idealist.
According to Lackey the problem was that HavenCo failled to realize the pure vision of the founders. He pretty much sounds like one of those unreconstructed 1960s communists that claim that the reason the USSR failled is because it was not communist enough.
Well, the USSR never was communist, they were Stalinists, the idea of communism went right out of the door the moment Stalin came into the room.
Can someone please explain to me how this is in any way superior to using any old phone (or a Bluetooth phone/PDA or even Treo) to check and send mail via GSM/GPRS? As an added bonus, for small sized message, you get direct phone-to-phone SMS...
Certainly.
The main difference is that:
1. It sits on your Exchange (or Notes) Server.
2. It not only forwards the emails that you receive but also stores all the emails you sent back.
3. It allows for wireless calendar: So if you're not in the office but someone sends you a meeting request you can reply (or even book them remotely).
In essence, you take your email box with you.
What makes Blackberry so "nice"? The fact that it was around 5 years ago, while GPRS is still spotty. The old Blackberrys ran on the Mobitex (pager) network and thus worked anywhere where your pager would.
Now if that is good or bad is up to you to decide, but the one thing they do is offer a nice distraction in boring meetings.
Having said that: I currently live quite nicely without one, though I was told I am going to have to use one soon.
... like the guys who put up the websites with a hit list for abortion doctors and celebrating everytime someone nuked one of them?
BTW, if anyone knows of any decent, modern bands in the spirit of great 60's and 70's rock, I'd be damn grateful. Major label or indie, I don't care.
The Tea Party has been compared to Led Zeppelin in a way... Problem is: They are not available in the US, but you should be able to get it either from Amazon.ca or HMV.ca (which is Amazon these days anyways).
"Tangents" might be a good start as it is a nice crossover what they did, all of their albums sound different, personal favourite is The Edges of Twillight and their latest release The Interzone Mantras followed by Transmission.
The Tryptich CD is IMO (and many agree) too "mainstream", still solid but just too 'sweet" though "The Messenger" definetly has something.