"Many thanks to Sony for ruining it for the rest of us. I hope that your business model makes up for the customer goodwill you're lighting on fire today."
I thought that it was their batteries that were on fire?
.... And when I get my new battery, will it be made by Sony or someone else? If it's made by Sony, you'll excuse me if I am a bit gunshy about using it.
"Bottom line, this is a perfectly routine default password issue. Blame your bank."
Not exactly. First blame the person who installed it first as s/he left the defaut passord in the first place. Then blame the bank for not ensuring that the installer did their job correctly.
Basically, the author looks at Wal-Mart's tactics in terms of squeezing it's suppliers to get the absolute lowest price and figures that while consumers benefit from this (even if they don't shop there), it doesn't exactly make Wal-Mart "evil." But there are troubling aspects to their behaviour that gives one cause to pause so to speak (like how they treat offshore workers for example).
Having said that, I think they'll find that Apple may be a different sort of challenge. I don't think studios will cave the same way that Wal-Mart's suppliers usually do.
.... is the screams of "you can find anything on the Internet, therefore the Internet is evil" from those who are looking for any excuse to clamp down on what's on the net (or Jack Thompson).
"Apple's taking a different approach: What users need is in the box: Anti-virus, anti-spam, encryption, image backup and restore, offsite safe storage through."
.... since Richard Dean Anderson left. One of the reasons why I started watching SG-1 is because of how he played the character of Jack O'Neill. He never took himself (or sometimes the situations that he found himself in) too seriously and always was good at breaking up the tension of some episodes with a good joke (eg: "That's between you and your god. Oh, wait a minute. You are your god. That's a problem."). I found it hard to get into the series after that and got addicted to the re-runs prior to 2005.
..... That make firms with rec rooms, fun company outings, enforced breaks during the workday (to read, improve your IT education, etc.), and subsidized memberships to gyms and the like the ones to work for. I would suspect that those companies have IT staff that are less stressed and they have less retention issues..... Not to mention they lower the risk of some overstressed IT person going postal. More examples can be found here:
Slashdot Mirror
.... Cisco does it for them: http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,68326,00 .html
"Would it take 'additional material' to get you to keep buying CDs?"
Pron
"Many thanks to Sony for ruining it for the rest of us. I hope that your business model makes up for the customer goodwill you're lighting on fire today."
I thought that it was their batteries that were on fire?
.... Needs some hot coffee.
.... And when I get my new battery, will it be made by Sony or someone else? If it's made by Sony, you'll excuse me if I am a bit gunshy about using it.
...... Can be found here:
o nds-to-microsoft-releases-fairuse4wm-1-3/
http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/27/viodentia-resp
"Bottom line, this is a perfectly routine default password issue. Blame your bank."
Not exactly. First blame the person who installed it first as s/he left the defaut passord in the first place. Then blame the bank for not ensuring that the installer did their job correctly.
.... On this topic called the Wal-Mart Effect:
a nsforming-American/dp/1594200769
http://www.amazon.com/Wal-Mart-Effect-Powerful-Tr
Basically, the author looks at Wal-Mart's tactics in terms of squeezing it's suppliers to get the absolute lowest price and figures that while consumers benefit from this (even if they don't shop there), it doesn't exactly make Wal-Mart "evil." But there are troubling aspects to their behaviour that gives one cause to pause so to speak (like how they treat offshore workers for example).
Having said that, I think they'll find that Apple may be a different sort of challenge. I don't think studios will cave the same way that Wal-Mart's suppliers usually do.
.... from any of the following links:
www.getfirefox.com
www.opera.com
.... As I read this:
Barf: I know we need the money, but...
Lone Starr: Listen! We're not just doing this for money... We're doing it for a SHIT LOAD of money!
Barf: Oh, you're right. And when you're right, you're right. And you - you're always right.
.... is the screams of "you can find anything on the Internet, therefore the Internet is evil" from those who are looking for any excuse to clamp down on what's on the net (or Jack Thompson).
1. They're like 5 or 6 years too late to the party.
2. Brown? What kind of color choice is that?
3. Most crucially, it doesn't run LINUX.
..... Does it run on Windows? If so, then defendants are in REALLY big trouble if it does a BSOD.
Now I can download my porn faster!
.... Which is WHY ISN'T THIS IN THE USA? Are our telcos not forward thinking enough?
.... Office 2007 will ship sometime in 2009.
..... Dell had an MP3 player? I couldn't tell based on all of the iPods that I see on the subway on a daily basis.
..... Microsoft can hedge their bets in terms of which standard wins. After all, nothing sucks more than being on the losing side.
But you have to sign up for .Mac and you can't use it without a .Mac account. Therefore you can't say that it's in the box.
"Apple's taking a different approach: What users need is in the box: Anti-virus, anti-spam, encryption, image backup and restore, offsite safe storage through."
I had a look at this page:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/techspecs/
I didn't see any mention of an anti-virus app.
Did I miss something?
.... since Richard Dean Anderson left. One of the reasons why I started watching SG-1 is because of how he played the character of Jack O'Neill. He never took himself (or sometimes the situations that he found himself in) too seriously and always was good at breaking up the tension of some episodes with a good joke (eg: "That's between you and your god. Oh, wait a minute. You are your god. That's a problem."). I found it hard to get into the series after that and got addicted to the re-runs prior to 2005.
..... That make firms with rec rooms, fun company outings, enforced breaks during the workday (to read, improve your IT education, etc.), and subsidized memberships to gyms and the like the ones to work for. I would suspect that those companies have IT staff that are less stressed and they have less retention issues..... Not to mention they lower the risk of some overstressed IT person going postal. More examples can be found here:
. htmly our-employees-by-offering-company-perks/
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,20972,00
http://self-help.vocaboly.com/archives/495/value-
"We will also be able to set up encrypted partitions during installation. "
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Isn't this a potential non-starter under the British Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA)?
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/15/16
.... at least it doesn't blue screeen like every other Micro$oft OS.
..... and you have yet another example of the brillant marketing geniuses of Sony at work.