Whoa! That is interesting I never came across that before or heard of it. For something like that I would have complained, but alas, with big companies who can we complain to? It seems we are always under the thumb of the big companies and they always screw us little people.
Most apps that install spyware usually have something in their license that says "we have the right to install whatever we want on your system". When a license says something like that I usually back away and not install it. There is a certain sense of apathy where people no longer read the End User License Agreement, but with freedom, and freedom from spyware, you must read the EULA and make sure a phrase like this is not present.
Granted EULAs are usually long and cumbersome and rightfully so, that is what makes most end user just click 'accept' right away. Also if you search the program you want to install on the web you may come up with a review or someone else stating that spyware is installed with it.
A majority of spyware programs are installed with legally questionable software, file sharing. To minimize your chances of installing spyware do not install any "legally" questionable software and read the EULA!
Then what needs to happen is pricing needs to come down so it can be adopted by the "mass market". I didn't say it was for morons per se but for people who couldn't build their own system to do likewise. People with technical knowledge would know that you can lego piece together something that will do what was specified.
I feel it would be unlikely that anyone with technical knowledge to build their own PC, or was rich, would buy such as system, I did not mean that morons would buy it. Sorry if you felt that is what I was trying to say.
This device is probably targeted for someone who wants a plug and play solution, or does not have the technical knowledge to build their own from a variety of parts offered at the consumer level (server, software, tv tuner, big hard drives, mic...) Someone with some level of putting together a computer can probably come up with a more economic version of this item.
However, if you do not want to build your own and have money to burn this is a perfect oppurtunity to buy one!
I have to agree with you. I was the same way, but I somehow think that if we were together that we could have developed some sort of passing interest. As it stands now I just call my Mom occasionally to basically just say "Hi..Bye!". For some reason I am longing for more and I am automatically trying to figure out if it was the lack of family time we had when I was a child that somehow was a cause for this.
American's, such as myself, have strayed away from the staple of the 50's and early 70's of having family time together. Where the family would gather around a radio or tv and listen together and discuss. When I grew up in the 80's and 90's there was no family dinner. We each grabbed our own plate and went our seperate ways.
IM is just adding another barrier to interpersonal communcations within the family environment. Is everyone in the family so glues to their individual computers that no one talks to one another anymore even to just shoot the bruise? Will American's and other families become secluded that we occasionally need to glance at pictures of our immediate family to remember what they look like?
I for one hope this changes and that family time can be a staple for all families. IM'ing inside a big home is not that much of a problem now just asking for dinner. But what happens when Mom and Dad need to do the mandatory "birds and the bees" talk will it be done by IM and video camera? Or will they just walk you through a Power Point presentation via IM and give you voice when you need to ask questions?
I agree with this post. I prefer to use online support or any other type of support with a quick resolution other then phone support. Most of my phone support inquiries end up with "Sir, we are going to have to call you back while I do research on the subject" *sigh*
I must ask this as well. I have had one of my email addresses stuck on newsgroups, forums, and websites for over 3 years now, so out there for all the little spam harversters. I average about 3-5 SPAMs a day. It is still annoying but I do not know how others get hundreds of SPAM a day.
Is there something others are doing with their email, or is the fact that the people who do get hundreds of SPAM or whatever amount it takes to be unproductive, just popular or is there something else they are doing?
I agree the consumer is the biggest loser. Especially when we are not allowed to "backup" the media that we have paid for, for rightful archival purposes just in case the orignial media is destroyed.
You are right I didn't, and thank you for pointing out with a more detailed explanation of what I was referring too, or trying to refer to. When I stated "keynesian" economics it was what I took away from my Senior, high school, economics class over 12 years ago and I had a D+.
I always thought Keynesian economics was "supply and demand" how wrong I was...
I agree. Most people only look at the initial labor pricing of doing offshore work. For example a programmer offshore charging only $10/hour compared to a US domestic programmer charging $75. What most people do not see that their are hidden costs for bigger companies, the above scenario would work for a mom and pop organization asking for some custom programming where they handle all the itneraction. But a bigger company has to add into this the cost of communicating, keeping up to date with the offshore team, crazy hours to keep in order to communicate effectively, hiring a translator, setting up a WAN for the office over there and here etc...
There are hidden cost that the bigger companies didn't think of!
This is keynesian economics at its best. Acutal supply and demand. Now that contractors and programmers in the states are worried that all their jobs will move over seas, they are lowering their prices. Chances are US based companies would rather do business with someone they can get of hold of, and I don't know how the legality of the system works, but you can sue people for breach of contract and such here, I do not know if you can do that with overseas contractors, is it more of a "buyer beware" methodology?
Now you can expect the overseas operation to start lowering their prices or adding more value to their service, and vice versa until it eventually balances out, and once that happens most US based companies would probably prefer to work with someone based locally.
Doctors may not have to worry about this problem of oversea contracting since you still need to see them in person to do the best type of work. Lawyers on the other hand may not have the same benefits:)
If this if for homeland security does that mean the only people who can be licensed are US citizens native to this country? If so, that may help with our outsourcing epidemic.
So now if everyone on the P2P network is not connected we can't get our email? Even then it was harder for people to get the email you sent by using packet sniffers. Now people can just intercept the email on their computer as setting themselves up as a hub. Also we would still need some sort of discovery server to handle all the IPs of the people connected to the network. This in turn is just like DNS lookup where we use a common name "www.slashdot.com" and the DNS server translate it to an IP address for our browser.
I rather keep email the way it is for now, less we open up a floodgate of more problems we didn't think about before moving to a P2P solution.
Remember, "the grass is always greener on the other side!"
Do you have a link to this format? I have not heard of it and a google search for me turned up some wedding sites? Any info you can give would be appreciated.
IMHO that is a good thing. If we can get open office to the point where it is flawless with importing and exporting the office format it would be a contender out there in the business world. But knowing MS they would probably obfuscate the MS Office format (i.e. Word, Excel, etc...) so that no one can have any chance of reverse engineering it unless they put in some time!
Just to touch on the other topic posted here about DVD burners the fact that there is multiple formats out has got to be the worst. I don't think the VHS/BETA fight took this long to figure out a winner. One format would help everyone in the long run and its about time we got to it!
I have had my email address, one assigned to me by my ISP, for over 3 years and in that time I had posted it on newsgroups, forums, etc... with no problem. My question is how do you get so much SPAM I figured in 3 years I would have at least been harvested so many times.
Since last year I have switched to using through away accounts to sign up for websites, forums, and such (i.e. my hotmail account) but I only get about 3-4 SPAM emails a day on my other account. That is why I am trying to figure out is how do others get hundreds of SPAM a day?
The fact that no marketers can call you is a good reason to go cell only. You don't even have to be on the FCC telemarketer list in the US, who knows if that list works. Just get a cell phone number and drop the landline.
Also one of the reasons only 18-24 year olds go cell only. I am 30 and go cell only. Is that the older generation had there phone numbers for guite awhile and don't want to get rid of it or there are several people in a house/apartment that want to use the phone.
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Whoa! That is interesting I never came across that before or heard of it. For something like that I would have complained, but alas, with big companies who can we complain to? It seems we are always under the thumb of the big companies and they always screw us little people.
Most apps that install spyware usually have something in their license that says "we have the right to install whatever we want on your system". When a license says something like that I usually back away and not install it. There is a certain sense of apathy where people no longer read the End User License Agreement, but with freedom, and freedom from spyware, you must read the EULA and make sure a phrase like this is not present.
Granted EULAs are usually long and cumbersome and rightfully so, that is what makes most end user just click 'accept' right away. Also if you search the program you want to install on the web you may come up with a review or someone else stating that spyware is installed with it.
A majority of spyware programs are installed with legally questionable software, file sharing. To minimize your chances of installing spyware do not install any "legally" questionable software and read the EULA!
Then what needs to happen is pricing needs to come down so it can be adopted by the "mass market". I didn't say it was for morons per se but for people who couldn't build their own system to do likewise. People with technical knowledge would know that you can lego piece together something that will do what was specified.
I feel it would be unlikely that anyone with technical knowledge to build their own PC, or was rich, would buy such as system, I did not mean that morons would buy it. Sorry if you felt that is what I was trying to say.
This device is probably targeted for someone who wants a plug and play solution, or does not have the technical knowledge to build their own from a variety of parts offered at the consumer level (server, software, tv tuner, big hard drives, mic...) Someone with some level of putting together a computer can probably come up with a more economic version of this item.
However, if you do not want to build your own and have money to burn this is a perfect oppurtunity to buy one!
I have to agree with you. I was the same way, but I somehow think that if we were together that we could have developed some sort of passing interest. As it stands now I just call my Mom occasionally to basically just say "Hi..Bye!". For some reason I am longing for more and I am automatically trying to figure out if it was the lack of family time we had when I was a child that somehow was a cause for this.
American's, such as myself, have strayed away from the staple of the 50's and early 70's of having family time together. Where the family would gather around a radio or tv and listen together and discuss. When I grew up in the 80's and 90's there was no family dinner. We each grabbed our own plate and went our seperate ways.
IM is just adding another barrier to interpersonal communcations within the family environment. Is everyone in the family so glues to their individual computers that no one talks to one another anymore even to just shoot the bruise? Will American's and other families become secluded that we occasionally need to glance at pictures of our immediate family to remember what they look like?
I for one hope this changes and that family time can be a staple for all families. IM'ing inside a big home is not that much of a problem now just asking for dinner. But what happens when Mom and Dad need to do the mandatory "birds and the bees" talk will it be done by IM and video camera? Or will they just walk you through a Power Point presentation via IM and give you voice when you need to ask questions?
You have +1 on my modifer plus you just made a new friend! :) "Slashdot helping others make friends".
I agree with this post. I prefer to use online support or any other type of support with a quick resolution other then phone support. Most of my phone support inquiries end up with "Sir, we are going to have to call you back while I do research on the subject" *sigh*
I must ask this as well. I have had one of my email addresses stuck on newsgroups, forums, and websites for over 3 years now, so out there for all the little spam harversters. I average about 3-5 SPAMs a day. It is still annoying but I do not know how others get hundreds of SPAM a day.
Is there something others are doing with their email, or is the fact that the people who do get hundreds of SPAM or whatever amount it takes to be unproductive, just popular or is there something else they are doing?
People also look at the price. For poor people like me price is still a big factor in what influences my decisions to run what software.
I agree the consumer is the biggest loser. Especially when we are not allowed to "backup" the media that we have paid for, for rightful archival purposes just in case the orignial media is destroyed.
You are right I didn't, and thank you for pointing out with a more detailed explanation of what I was referring too, or trying to refer to. When I stated "keynesian" economics it was what I took away from my Senior, high school, economics class over 12 years ago and I had a D+.
I always thought Keynesian economics was "supply and demand" how wrong I was...
I agree. Most people only look at the initial labor pricing of doing offshore work. For example a programmer offshore charging only $10/hour compared to a US domestic programmer charging $75. What most people do not see that their are hidden costs for bigger companies, the above scenario would work for a mom and pop organization asking for some custom programming where they handle all the itneraction. But a bigger company has to add into this the cost of communicating, keeping up to date with the offshore team, crazy hours to keep in order to communicate effectively, hiring a translator, setting up a WAN for the office over there and here etc...
There are hidden cost that the bigger companies didn't think of!
This is keynesian economics at its best. Acutal supply and demand. Now that contractors and programmers in the states are worried that all their jobs will move over seas, they are lowering their prices. Chances are US based companies would rather do business with someone they can get of hold of, and I don't know how the legality of the system works, but you can sue people for breach of contract and such here, I do not know if you can do that with overseas contractors, is it more of a "buyer beware" methodology?
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Now you can expect the overseas operation to start lowering their prices or adding more value to their service, and vice versa until it eventually balances out, and once that happens most US based companies would probably prefer to work with someone based locally.
Doctors may not have to worry about this problem of oversea contracting since you still need to see them in person to do the best type of work. Lawyers on the other hand may not have the same benefits
If this if for homeland security does that mean the only people who can be licensed are US citizens native to this country? If so, that may help with our outsourcing epidemic.
So now if everyone on the P2P network is not connected we can't get our email? Even then it was harder for people to get the email you sent by using packet sniffers. Now people can just intercept the email on their computer as setting themselves up as a hub. Also we would still need some sort of discovery server to handle all the IPs of the people connected to the network. This in turn is just like DNS lookup where we use a common name "www.slashdot.com" and the DNS server translate it to an IP address for our browser.
I rather keep email the way it is for now, less we open up a floodgate of more problems we didn't think about before moving to a P2P solution.
Remember, "the grass is always greener on the other side!"
Do you have a link to this format? I have not heard of it and a google search for me turned up some wedding sites? Any info you can give would be appreciated.
Did it?!?! Well then I stand corrected. I could've swore everyone moved to VHS in the early 80's but at that time I was only 7.
IMHO that is a good thing. If we can get open office to the point where it is flawless with importing and exporting the office format it would be a contender out there in the business world. But knowing MS they would probably obfuscate the MS Office format (i.e. Word, Excel, etc...) so that no one can have any chance of reverse engineering it unless they put in some time!
Just to touch on the other topic posted here about DVD burners the fact that there is multiple formats out has got to be the worst. I don't think the VHS/BETA fight took this long to figure out a winner. One format would help everyone in the long run and its about time we got to it!
Thats why I got a mulit-format DVD burner. That way either way I can be sure that I have a drive that can burn whatever format wins out.
I have had my email address, one assigned to me by my ISP, for over 3 years and in that time I had posted it on newsgroups, forums, etc... with no problem. My question is how do you get so much SPAM I figured in 3 years I would have at least been harvested so many times.
Since last year I have switched to using through away accounts to sign up for websites, forums, and such (i.e. my hotmail account) but I only get about 3-4 SPAM emails a day on my other account. That is why I am trying to figure out is how do others get hundreds of SPAM a day?
The fact that no marketers can call you is a good reason to go cell only. You don't even have to be on the FCC telemarketer list in the US, who knows if that list works. Just get a cell phone number and drop the landline.
Also one of the reasons only 18-24 year olds go cell only. I am 30 and go cell only. Is that the older generation had there phone numbers for guite awhile and don't want to get rid of it or there are several people in a house/apartment that want to use the phone.
'Nuff said