We use Lotus Notes and SameTime. I don't know if it's the *worst* application ever made to be used in a corporate environment since I haven't used them all, but I do know it is certainly the worst IM application ever made.
Prior to using SameTime, I managed to slip in a free Jabber server and a set of clients for our webteam. We hummed along, more productive than ever, with features SameTime still doesn't have. Then, they cut us off, put in SameTime and it's been hell ever since.
It's clunky, I can't click the URLs (I have to copy/paste them), no emoticons (small, and non-corporate, yes but I dig 'em), won't save my status messages, won't mark people away automatically as it should (some it does, some it doesn't despite identical setups), and did I mention it's clunky?
Clunky, however, is one of the features of homogenous software in the Lotus Suite, though.
So, perhaps my views are not evidence, but it's enough for me to back up the parent.
Actually, in all seriousness, I assume this is built into the Mac version as well? Overall, I don't care. I'm glad there's no (less?) cheating and I don't run anything else when I play anyhow.
More than likely this is the result of American pressure. Many laws up here are at least brought to the table as a direct result of American government or industry.
Canada definitely has less enemies of state than the U.S. but that doesn't make us much less at risk. Particularly because between Epcor, Hydro Québec and Hydro One, Canada supplies a *huge* amount of power to the United States, disruption of which causes a lot of panic and economic souring - token objectives of terrorists.
It's been like firemen at an oilfire at a few GoA servers. My ministry hasn't been hit though, yet.
A couple days ago our IT director sent out an email saying: "Would you please refrain from using the Internet immediately until we have taken the appropriate actions to prevent the virus."
And today we've been asked not to download anything, don't use Messenger and to bring any laptops to them for worm inspection prior to connecting to the network.
So I took my iBook back to them and asked them to check for worms.:D
Online I can't find the music I want at the quality I want, so I just request CDs by the dozen from my local library.
Membership fee: $15/year Music collection: 60GB and climbing
The selection isn't half bad (for the most part I don't listen to mainstream music) and the wait is usually respectable so long as the artist didn't recently die.
Granted, it seems a substantial amount of other borrowers can't seem to handle a CD well enough to keep the data side from looking like they used them to clean graphitti off brick walls.
The last time a rush for the biggest baddest weapon ended in a political fireworks show at the expense of Japanese civilians.
Save Japanese and American lives, my arse.
The U.S. will decide to incinerate some small, unsuspecting village to show the booming Chinese space program they're too far behind to catch up.
... then all hell breaks loose.
Will I get 'flamebait' or a discussion for my comments? Dunno, but I'll probably get flamebait for this:
If there is another arms race, I hope the United States loses. My long-term expectation is that the EU will get past their petty differences and finally take humanity into the next age.
I've been wondering: at what point will film studios pay real-life actors for the digital representation of their likeness.
Seriously. They're getting close with digital effects to accurately render humans - they do it all the time for background actors, but the main actors (Final Fantasy) still look wooden and emotionless despite a still shot of them looking amazing.
At some point, I would think, George Lucas (or the then-overseers of his franchise) would hand Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher (or their respective estates) a whack of cash for their likenesses. Then, their digital monkeys would scan every scene in the three Star Wars films, every angle, every facial expression and body shot to create fully 3-D versions of the characters. With all the samples of their voices in so many movies, it would be easy to have a perfect sample of their voice to form any words, most intonations and possibly even force them into foreign accents.
Then, it is completely possible to make Episodes 7-? using the actors as they would have looked and sounded in 1985 rather than 2015.
I use Lucas as an example because it'll either be him or Spielberg (or both at the pace they're taking to make Indianda Jones 4) to do something like this.
For those of you who love movies and knowing what's coming up, check out the Hollywood Stock Exchange.
For instance, X-Files 2 has been trading since 1998. Granted, it was probably speculation then but I had bought "stock" about six months ago.
HSX seems to be a place for the producers of Hollywood to dump new ideas on hundreds of thousands of movie buffs, and see how the reaction goes, before committing and certainly before old news "news" articles like this one:)
This is *exactly* the mortar I need to crack these Microsoft zombies in the provincial government. I've sent numerous emails around, particularly to the director of I.T. and, lately, to the Executive Team's shiny new "idea box", the latter of which responded and are seriously reviewing it... proving once again if you just get the right idea to the right person...
Though when they announced the idea box, I immediately sent my email which subsequently bounced:) -- akin to the well-known image of the suggestion box attached to the top of a shredder...
I'm *stunned* that I'm the first person to say even if the kernels are similar in the sense that they're monolithic, at least you can roll your own kernel and pull out all the drivers and garbage that you don't need or want. My FreeBSD box can boot in about 15 seconds to XFce (yah, not Linux but at least I can see the source and build from both); no chance XP would boot that fast after loading every driver in existence.
Dislaimer: I base this claim of being first on a content search for the words "build" and "roll" and though I did find one post implying it, I think it bears more attention.
I got my wife to try Warcraft 3 and she got hooked. Very strange too because she used to only prefer the occasional bang-the-hell-out-of-the-buttons Mortal Kombat type game because, despite my superior strategy, she'd kick my arse.
I know she'd dig UT except for the fact that she gets physically ill watching fps games.
... if you start building tanks and ICBMs in every city, switch to Fascism, add more tax collectors and start invading other countries, the science suffers.
I moved to Canada from the United States in 1997. For the first few years, my Canadian wife and friends had to occasionally put up with my inherently ignorant American comments and beliefs of (American) superiority and (Canadian) inferiority. It took a few more years before I began to realize how much more forward-thinking, socially responsible and globally respected (through compassion rather than fear) Canada is over our southern neighbour. Now I would never return to the States.
It is, then, with great concern I write to you to complain of your recent comments about file-sharing, or "music pirating." As a user of the Linux operating system, I download and burn many different distributions of Linux, which is 100% legal and encouraged - it's 90% of why Linux is succeeding - but I'm paying a portion of the cost of those blank CDs I purchase to the Recording Industry through the Canadian Copyright Act. Why? Because They think I could be a thief. We are levied on goods for the reason, nay excuse, that an industry has made unsubstantiated claims it is being financially hurt.
In the last few years I have purchased very few music CDs for two reasons: disgust at the industry (certainly for their business model, and artistically as of late) and because I cannot afford to. Instead, I listen to online, independant radio stations that play music I don't hear on the terrible local radio stations (CBC excluded).
Canadians are already taxed so highly (and with the exchange rate) many flock to the United States to have a better (financial) living at the same salary. Many do so with regrets. And as Heritage Minister, you may want to consider what that says about our culture and the future of Canadian heritage, unless there will be a future Heritage Moment called the "Great Exodus of the Canadian People in the Early 21st Century".
There has been absolutely NO proof that file-sharing has hurt the recording industry. In fact, a recent study proved precisely the opposite: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u =/washpost/ 20040330/tc_washpost/a34300_2004mar29
The Australian Recording Industry Association has been attacking the rights of Australians for a few years now over this issue and yet their profit last year was the largest ever, growing steadily: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/03/ 28/1080412234274.html
Do you want to be known by the people of Canada as the Protector of greedy corporations? Will that be part of your legacy?
I urge you to reconsider your position on this issue. Do more research, do not let your power by wielded by rich lobbyists. Two months ago I applied for my Citizenship, an honour that I've withheld myself this long because my family has always had more pressing things to spend $200 on. But now that I'm a father, and issues of special treatment for big business are becoming more frequent, I feel it necessary to acquire the right to vote, the right to replace representatives who have not done their jobs as protectors of Canadian Citizen's rights. I should have my citizenship and the right to vote by the upcoming election. I am greatly looking forward to using this power of vote to the benefit of my (future) fellow Canadians, what about you?
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Oh, don't get me wrong. I *hate* Lotus Notes.
I sent this around to my fellow webteam members, my supervisor, her supervisor and the Director of I.T.
http://lotusnotessucks.4t.com/We use Lotus Notes and SameTime. I don't know if it's the *worst* application ever made to be used in a corporate environment since I haven't used them all, but I do know it is certainly the worst IM application ever made.
Prior to using SameTime, I managed to slip in a free Jabber server and a set of clients for our webteam. We hummed along, more productive than ever, with features SameTime still doesn't have. Then, they cut us off, put in SameTime and it's been hell ever since.
It's clunky, I can't click the URLs (I have to copy/paste them), no emoticons (small, and non-corporate, yes but I dig 'em), won't save my status messages, won't mark people away automatically as it should (some it does, some it doesn't despite identical setups), and did I mention it's clunky?
Clunky, however, is one of the features of homogenous software in the Lotus Suite, though.
So, perhaps my views are not evidence, but it's enough for me to back up the parent.
When will "The Warden" get released for my iMac?
Actually, in all seriousness, I assume this is built into the Mac version as well? Overall, I don't care. I'm glad there's no (less?) cheating and I don't run anything else when I play anyhow.
More than likely this is the result of American pressure. Many laws up here are at least brought to the table as a direct result of American government or industry.
Canada definitely has less enemies of state than the U.S. but that doesn't make us much less at risk. Particularly because between Epcor, Hydro Québec and Hydro One, Canada supplies a *huge* amount of power to the United States, disruption of which causes a lot of panic and economic souring - token objectives of terrorists.
woohoo! contemplating whether I should infect my iMac with Windows Media Player for this or not...
I couldn't find a video, nor a legal mp3, but "It Can't Be Nashville Every Night" is a good start. "He said fuck this and fuck that. And this guy's a diplomat." ... cracks me up every time.
http://umusic.ca/site/media/thehip/video/inbetween evolution/itcantbenashville_320.mov
It's been like firemen at an oilfire at a few GoA servers. My ministry hasn't been hit though, yet.
A couple days ago our IT director sent out an email saying: "Would you please refrain from using the Internet immediately until we have taken the appropriate actions to prevent the virus."
And today we've been asked not to download anything, don't use Messenger and to bring any laptops to them for worm inspection prior to connecting to the network.
So I took my iBook back to them and asked them to check for worms. :D
Online I can't find the music I want at the quality I want, so I just request CDs by the dozen from my local library.
Membership fee: $15/year
Music collection: 60GB and climbing
The selection isn't half bad (for the most part I don't listen to mainstream music) and the wait is usually respectable so long as the artist didn't recently die.
Granted, it seems a substantial amount of other borrowers can't seem to handle a CD well enough to keep the data side from looking like they used them to clean graphitti off brick walls.
- useless blogs and geocities "websites": 12 billion
- clipart, midi and hideous backgrounds for above websites: 6 billion
- links to outdated or expired user sessions: 1 billion
- real content: 1 billion, if lucky
The only thing I ever use Yahoo for is if and when my internet connection seems slow or dead I ping yahoo.com. It's just been a habit since the 90's.The last time a rush for the biggest baddest weapon ended in a political fireworks show at the expense of Japanese civilians.
Save Japanese and American lives, my arse.
The U.S. will decide to incinerate some small, unsuspecting village to show the booming Chinese space program they're too far behind to catch up.
... then all hell breaks loose.
Will I get 'flamebait' or a discussion for my comments? Dunno, but I'll probably get flamebait for this:
If there is another arms race, I hope the United States loses. My long-term expectation is that the EU will get past their petty differences and finally take humanity into the next age.
I've been wondering: at what point will film studios pay real-life actors for the digital representation of their likeness.
Seriously. They're getting close with digital effects to accurately render humans - they do it all the time for background actors, but the main actors (Final Fantasy) still look wooden and emotionless despite a still shot of them looking amazing.
At some point, I would think, George Lucas (or the then-overseers of his franchise) would hand Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher (or their respective estates) a whack of cash for their likenesses. Then, their digital monkeys would scan every scene in the three Star Wars films, every angle, every facial expression and body shot to create fully 3-D versions of the characters. With all the samples of their voices in so many movies, it would be easy to have a perfect sample of their voice to form any words, most intonations and possibly even force them into foreign accents.
Then, it is completely possible to make Episodes 7-? using the actors as they would have looked and sounded in 1985 rather than 2015.
I use Lucas as an example because it'll either be him or Spielberg (or both at the pace they're taking to make Indianda Jones 4) to do something like this.
I'm guessing when the Empire got their hands on this thing, they started the public campaign of the "non-lethal" and crowd-control weapon, too
Works up here just fine.
http://home.comcast.net/~wwwstephen2/iowa.mpg
For those of you who love movies and knowing what's coming up, check out the Hollywood Stock Exchange.
For instance, X-Files 2 has been trading since 1998. Granted, it was probably speculation then but I had bought "stock" about six months ago.
HSX seems to be a place for the producers of Hollywood to dump new ideas on hundreds of thousands of movie buffs, and see how the reaction goes, before committing and certainly before old news "news" articles like this one :)
I'm confused. Hollywood Stock Exchange has been selling Tron 2.0 stock since September '99.
That's 2.0, not a remake.
They claim the director of Tron is writing the screenplay.
I really hope the HSX is right. Especially since I bought 50,000 shares @ $4.29.
http://www.westedmontonmall.com/play/waterpark.asp
It's something like $25/day/person but in the winter there's a family pass for up to four people for $150.
Believe me, when you're in a cold snap like we've been this past week or so (-30C/-20F) that's $150 well-spent.
woohoo!
:) -- akin to the well-known image of the suggestion box attached to the top of a shredder...
This is *exactly* the mortar I need to crack these Microsoft zombies in the provincial government. I've sent numerous emails around, particularly to the director of I.T. and, lately, to the Executive Team's shiny new "idea box", the latter of which responded and are seriously reviewing it... proving once again if you just get the right idea to the right person...
Though when they announced the idea box, I immediately sent my email which subsequently bounced
Dark Horse Entertainment is going to produce a comic book in 2005.
p hp?id=988#
more info:
http://www4.discreet.com/showandtell/showandtell.
I'm *stunned* that I'm the first person to say even if the kernels are similar in the sense that they're monolithic, at least you can roll your own kernel and pull out all the drivers and garbage that you don't need or want. My FreeBSD box can boot in about 15 seconds to XFce (yah, not Linux but at least I can see the source and build from both); no chance XP would boot that fast after loading every driver in existence.
Dislaimer: I base this claim of being first on a content search for the words "build" and "roll" and though I did find one post implying it, I think it bears more attention.
Beer.
Bill:4 6&tid=109
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/30/13462
Jonathan: (not Scott, my bad)3 6&mode=thread&tid=102&tid=137&tid= 187
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/01/16272
Perfect timing for that "Hardware will be free" rhetoric of Bill and Scott to take form.
:)
Agreed.
I got my wife to try Warcraft 3 and she got hooked. Very strange too because she used to only prefer the occasional bang-the-hell-out-of-the-buttons Mortal Kombat type game because, despite my superior strategy, she'd kick my arse.
I know she'd dig UT except for the fact that she gets physically ill watching fps games.
... if you start building tanks and ICBMs in every city, switch to Fascism, add more tax collectors and start invading other countries, the science suffers.
I've sent my response to Scherrer:
"... smarter that we think"
Hopefully I'm smarter than I type, too.