I do believe that most of HPs customers are not the home customer, but the business customer. Business clients want support. If HP is willing to support linux desktops for these business's users (including the secretary who needs your basic office suite, calendar, web browser and solitaire to the engineers, artists, etc class of users) then the businesses will likely roll up their sleeves and say, OK.
HP just needs to realize that they do have the power to do that. IBM have done this. Dell could do it, too.
It really will be. Nothing causes a flock away from a product than ads. It's the same as raising a price. The more you raise, the less people purchase, the more you may end up losing. The price in this case are the ads.
Agreeing with parent, I will give my own anecdotal evidence. The more I see a KFC, Wendy's or Burger King commercial, the more I might think about it, even subconsciously. There are even BK product placements in one of the games I like to play (NFS:U2). Unfortunately for Wendy's and BK, I don't act on my impulse very often / at all, KFC a little more often (say once or twice a month as opposed to once or twice in 3 months).
The point is that the ad placements do tend to get me to think about the brand.
Hmm, I wonder what those developers develop and test their games on? I doubt they hook up a keyboard and mouse to the Xbox, PS3, or Wii.
It is interesting that you projected what I think. No, I'm not entitled to any form of entertainment. If the developers and producers of a game want me to buy their game, if they think they are entitled to my cash, then they will make the game for the PC.
Interestingly, as a non-paying customer, I was affected by this bug. I now have three programs that I will not be able to uninstall. AVG detected their uninstaller file as a virus and deleted them.
How many times will Grisoft pull this crap? First flooding teh intertubes now deleting my l33t filez.
Some time ago I was recommending this and installing this program on all computers. Now, I'm just waiting for Comodo to get their act together and release an AV product I can trust.
Note that the person who makes EditPad also runs the website http://www.regular-expressions.info/, which happens to be a very useful tutorial and educational regexp site.
Be aware, however, that you may have other games that depend on SecuROM. By removing the SecuROM software, you may have trouble with those other games.
Many times attorneys like NYCL, also have to fight bad judges. There are those that don't know the law, have something against the defendant, plaintiff or attorney, or are activists on some subject. These judges are impossible to deal with and an attorney has tread lightly in the "judges" courtroom.
I recently had my brother go through something like this where the law was completely in his favor on an adoption case, but the judge didn't like the birth mother and ruled for the birth father (who failed to obey the law), thus causing my brother to possibly forfeit custody of the baby. In my brother's case, he spent a lot of money to fight, then appeal and finally win. Being that my brother is, himself, an attorney, he's since moved out to Utah and will likely do some stuff in this area.
It's interesting that you rate anarchy higher than order, or "efficient society". The rule of law and order prevent the anarchy that would, in the end, destroy everyone and everything.
Yes, there are a bunch of problems with society. But these problems aren't because of the law and societal norms, it is because people are breaking the law and societal norms. You state "Dictator Bush"... yes, I suppose he's broken some of the law and that's why people are angry with him. I'm angry at McCain and Obama. Why? Because they break the rules or their platform is based on breaking the rules that are tried and true. (Change is not necessarily good.) People are angry with the financial markets. Why? Because the ones at the top are breaking the law and rules.
To try and motivate the Republicans. Heh, neocon nutjob... that's a funny statement of Palin. She is the epitome of the liberal women's movement. She isn't the stay-at-home mom while the hubby works. She went out and worked and achieved, kids be damned.
The Republicans have no one to vote for. They have a Democrat nominee and a Socialist on the "opposing" side. Neither of these candidates are preaching the conservative Republican view point. McCain has always been middle of the road. (And what did Mr. Miyagi say about being in the middle of the road? -- Squish)
Both seem to be preaching "raise your taxes" and not "reduce the spending." In either case, raise tax on rich = rich not earn as much, not hire as many or fire some and also pass the tax on to the consumer, therefore the poor, middle, and upper classes get poorer. The other is raise tax on work benefits which directly screw the middle class and poor.
In either case, I'm hoping the one who wins (McCain) will not be able to do anything about any of their plans. The problem with Obama winning is that the Democrats (and extreme left socialists) will have a majority and ruling party. (Do we, yet, know if he is a legal candidate?/dons tinfoil hat, hehe)
When the Democrats voted the Republican nominee and the Socialists voted the Democrat nominee, where does that leave the Republicans who knew that Mitt Romney was the best this country could get for the next 4-8 years?
There are some things you left out, which are tactics of not just the Left, but also the Right:
- the never-ending war to constantly justify intrusion upon private citizen's lives
- the changing of enemies (from Nazis to Communists to Saddam Hussein to Kosovo to Terrorists) to justify maintenance of a Corporate-Industrial Military
- and also to always keep citizens afraid & dependent upon "daddy government" to protect them.
Another tactic which Orwell did not think of is the "protect the children" argument which apparently justifies everything, even the taking-away of freedom of speech on the internet (kill Usenet discussion forums, censor nudist websites, censor Japanese anime/comics, block so-called racist books like Huckleberry Finn).
While you tried to make a good point, I think you failed. Point 1 was a good point. But point 2. Sure changing enemies happen, but that's because we can't concentrate on all of them at the same time. Unfortunately, there are many... only a few get national attention. How many times do we have to get hit for us not to finally retaliate and defend. Point 3. Depending on "daddy government" is exactly what the Left and socialists want from the general population. Granted, this is not just a Left point of view, but the idiotic rhino Republicans are part of it. Point 4. There are some things that youngsters should not be exposed to. Your argument there fails. Granted, people try to block those things from everyone, but do you see any success in that? I don't. Fortunately, parents who are concerned about this sort of anti-social activity have many tools to protect their own children.
Well, note I did say Conservative, not necessarily Republican. Particularly when the Democrats voted the current Republican nominee, and the Democrat(ic) nominee is a socialist.
Currently: Republican = says they're less government and not tax & spend, but really they're no tax and all spend... thanks guys:pDemocrats = being run by loonies who want to tax & spend and wants us to suck off the government teet
/where's my motivation to improve if I'm given everything? It didn't work for Russia, it's not going to work for the USA. And China's this weird version of captialist socialism which is eventually going to fail.
Oh, to answer your question... yes, my idea is sort of a utopian idea:^/
Actually, my opinion of the liberal movement is that they want complete control. Their thought is, we know how to handle your [money, job, family, education, etc] better than you do. So let us take care of you and don't worry about that guy behind the curtain.
In my opinion, the Conservative movement has the stance of get the government out of my life and let me run my business the way I want.
So,what you are saying is that the person should buy a few sets from each brand for his university. That way, the students get a feel for each brand and will not be slowed down when they get into the workforce.
Well, while you are complaining and raining on their parade, it is a step in the right direction. I will applaud and support the move. Yeah, so they're binaries, perhaps the open source will come... give it time.
Never underestimate the resource of a university student with no money and a lot of time (a lot to gain, nothing to lose.) And, really, what kind of fun would that be to become infamous because you caused an entire city to light up in a big F-U pattern right when the Google or government satellite takes its picture of that city. And then just to be annoying, flash all those lights for the next 12 hours.
A firmware is an OS... an operating system. It operates the system for which it was designed. The firmware, if easily upgraded, is also easily hacked. If the thing has an IP address, it also means it has some remote interactivity, even if it is as simple as receive read (no write/execute) request, send data, buffer overflows can still be exploited, DDOS's can be used, etc. So that is another intrusion vector.
Case in point. I have a group of friends I play with. I'm the techie of the group. I understand IP addressing and math. I know how to configure my router, firewall and the routers and firewalls of my remote friends to connect to my computer (as server). I don't need a service like Gamespy to hook us up. In one game (GRAW2)I can setup a game server on my local network and my friends can see it, but I can't because the gamespy IP Address is pointing to my router's external IP address. I can create the server in game, but then I can't increase the "rate" to an acceptable level to avoid lag by the other players (my internet connection can handle the increase).
In this situation, it really is a pain to have to log in to a server to essentially play an offline game. Particularly in LAN instances. Say I do have a number of friends over... or I go to a friends house (with more space). I'm the techie guy, but I don't necessarily want to run a 100ft ethernet cable from our 8 port switch to whever the router to the Internet is sitting (which may require going up stairs, through rooms, etc.) And I *really* don't want to have to setup a wireless repeater then attach that to the switch.
Speaking of game servers. Why can't we just go back to the way Quake and Half-Life does it. Allow us to configure our server and assign the IP. We'll create our own pinhole/port-forward to the server. Give us the ability to start it as a service (Windows) and/or create a Linux server component. In any case, give us a command line w/ arguments if needed, to start the server. (Activision's Civilization 4's Pitboss is a serious offender, because it is meant as a leave alone server, but doesn't offer any automation for a crashed/rebooted environment.)
Requiring Battle.NET, as the community here sees it, is another attempt to reduce piracy, which I agree is a problem, but annoys the legitimate user, while the pirates still get around the issue with cracks and/or bypasses. (See Windows XP Activation for an example.)
/me anxiously awaits the release of Diablo 3. It will be one of the very few games I purchase close to release. Most games I wait until they drop to the $20 price range, which means I wait a year to purchase. Half-Life 2 and the Orange Box were the most recent games I purchased full price that wasn't $20 or less. Morrowind, Oblivion, Neverwinter Nights, Need For Speed: Underground 2, and many others, I waited the requisite 1-3 years before purchasing.
I'm actually in a similar position as you are. I just took what I knew in programming and started creating tools for the team. These tools make the job far easier for my coworkers, and a few of them have spilled into other departments.
This is a small company, so as my tools get around, the developers have noticed it (with a little advertising, of course). Just make sure you advertise to the right people and not the wrong ones (stupid office politics.
My manager was unwilling to allow me to do any programming type work, so I did it on my down time. Now he is fine with letting me create and update the tools we need.
By the way, I like the QA position. It really helps me think about what I'm doing when I write the tools. My tools are usually being released error free (or close to it).
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I do believe that most of HPs customers are not the home customer, but the business customer. Business clients want support. If HP is willing to support linux desktops for these business's users (including the secretary who needs your basic office suite, calendar, web browser and solitaire to the engineers, artists, etc class of users) then the businesses will likely roll up their sleeves and say, OK.
HP just needs to realize that they do have the power to do that. IBM have done this. Dell could do it, too.
It really will be. Nothing causes a flock away from a product than ads. It's the same as raising a price. The more you raise, the less people purchase, the more you may end up losing. The price in this case are the ads.
Agreeing with parent, I will give my own anecdotal evidence. The more I see a KFC, Wendy's or Burger King commercial, the more I might think about it, even subconsciously. There are even BK product placements in one of the games I like to play (NFS:U2). Unfortunately for Wendy's and BK, I don't act on my impulse very often / at all, KFC a little more often (say once or twice a month as opposed to once or twice in 3 months).
The point is that the ad placements do tend to get me to think about the brand.
Hmm, I wonder what those developers develop and test their games on? I doubt they hook up a keyboard and mouse to the Xbox, PS3, or Wii.
It is interesting that you projected what I think. No, I'm not entitled to any form of entertainment. If the developers and producers of a game want me to buy their game, if they think they are entitled to my cash, then they will make the game for the PC.
But I already have a PC. Why pay $270 for a game?
My copy of AVG also fails to auto-update about half the time.
Interestingly, as a non-paying customer, I was affected by this bug. I now have three programs that I will not be able to uninstall. AVG detected their uninstaller file as a virus and deleted them.
How many times will Grisoft pull this crap? First flooding teh intertubes now deleting my l33t filez.
Some time ago I was recommending this and installing this program on all computers. Now, I'm just waiting for Comodo to get their act together and release an AV product I can trust.
Note that the person who makes EditPad also runs the website http://www.regular-expressions.info/, which happens to be a very useful tutorial and educational regexp site.
Be aware, however, that you may have other games that depend on SecuROM. By removing the SecuROM software, you may have trouble with those other games.
Many times attorneys like NYCL, also have to fight bad judges. There are those that don't know the law, have something against the defendant, plaintiff or attorney, or are activists on some subject. These judges are impossible to deal with and an attorney has tread lightly in the "judges" courtroom.
I recently had my brother go through something like this where the law was completely in his favor on an adoption case, but the judge didn't like the birth mother and ruled for the birth father (who failed to obey the law), thus causing my brother to possibly forfeit custody of the baby. In my brother's case, he spent a lot of money to fight, then appeal and finally win. Being that my brother is, himself, an attorney, he's since moved out to Utah and will likely do some stuff in this area.
Are you sure you didn't mean ISA slots?
It's interesting that you rate anarchy higher than order, or "efficient society". The rule of law and order prevent the anarchy that would, in the end, destroy everyone and everything.
Yes, there are a bunch of problems with society. But these problems aren't because of the law and societal norms, it is because people are breaking the law and societal norms. You state "Dictator Bush"... yes, I suppose he's broken some of the law and that's why people are angry with him. I'm angry at McCain and Obama. Why? Because they break the rules or their platform is based on breaking the rules that are tried and true. (Change is not necessarily good.) People are angry with the financial markets. Why? Because the ones at the top are breaking the law and rules.
To try and motivate the Republicans. Heh, neocon nutjob... that's a funny statement of Palin. She is the epitome of the liberal women's movement. She isn't the stay-at-home mom while the hubby works. She went out and worked and achieved, kids be damned.
The Republicans have no one to vote for. They have a Democrat nominee and a Socialist on the "opposing" side. Neither of these candidates are preaching the conservative Republican view point. McCain has always been middle of the road. (And what did Mr. Miyagi say about being in the middle of the road? -- Squish)
/dons tinfoil hat, hehe)
Both seem to be preaching "raise your taxes" and not "reduce the spending." In either case, raise tax on rich = rich not earn as much, not hire as many or fire some and also pass the tax on to the consumer, therefore the poor, middle, and upper classes get poorer. The other is raise tax on work benefits which directly screw the middle class and poor.
In either case, I'm hoping the one who wins (McCain) will not be able to do anything about any of their plans. The problem with Obama winning is that the Democrats (and extreme left socialists) will have a majority and ruling party. (Do we, yet, know if he is a legal candidate?
When the Democrats voted the Republican nominee and the Socialists voted the Democrat nominee, where does that leave the Republicans who knew that Mitt Romney was the best this country could get for the next 4-8 years?
There are some things you left out, which are tactics of not just the Left, but also the Right:
- the never-ending war to constantly justify intrusion upon private citizen's lives
- the changing of enemies (from Nazis to Communists to Saddam Hussein to Kosovo to Terrorists) to justify maintenance of a Corporate-Industrial Military
- and also to always keep citizens afraid & dependent upon "daddy government" to protect them.
Another tactic which Orwell did not think of is the "protect the children" argument which apparently justifies everything, even the taking-away of freedom of speech on the internet (kill Usenet discussion forums, censor nudist websites, censor Japanese anime/comics, block so-called racist books like Huckleberry Finn).
While you tried to make a good point, I think you failed. Point 1 was a good point. But point 2. Sure changing enemies happen, but that's because we can't concentrate on all of them at the same time. Unfortunately, there are many... only a few get national attention. How many times do we have to get hit for us not to finally retaliate and defend. Point 3. Depending on "daddy government" is exactly what the Left and socialists want from the general population. Granted, this is not just a Left point of view, but the idiotic rhino Republicans are part of it. Point 4. There are some things that youngsters should not be exposed to. Your argument there fails. Granted, people try to block those things from everyone, but do you see any success in that? I don't. Fortunately, parents who are concerned about this sort of anti-social activity have many tools to protect their own children.
Well, note I did say Conservative, not necessarily Republican. Particularly when the Democrats voted the current Republican nominee, and the Democrat(ic) nominee is a socialist.
:pDemocrats = being run by loonies who want to tax & spend and wants us to suck off the government teet
:^/
Currently:
Republican = says they're less government and not tax & spend, but really they're no tax and all spend... thanks guys
/where's my motivation to improve if I'm given everything? It didn't work for Russia, it's not going to work for the USA. And China's this weird version of captialist socialism which is eventually going to fail.
Oh, to answer your question... yes, my idea is sort of a utopian idea
Actually, my opinion of the liberal movement is that they want complete control. Their thought is, we know how to handle your [money, job, family, education, etc] better than you do. So let us take care of you and don't worry about that guy behind the curtain.
In my opinion, the Conservative movement has the stance of get the government out of my life and let me run my business the way I want.
So,what you are saying is that the person should buy a few sets from each brand for his university. That way, the students get a feel for each brand and will not be slowed down when they get into the workforce.
Those two lines mean...
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WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE
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Well, while you are complaining and raining on their parade, it is a step in the right direction. I will applaud and support the move. Yeah, so they're binaries, perhaps the open source will come... give it time.
Never underestimate the resource of a university student with no money and a lot of time (a lot to gain, nothing to lose.) And, really, what kind of fun would that be to become infamous because you caused an entire city to light up in a big F-U pattern right when the Google or government satellite takes its picture of that city. And then just to be annoying, flash all those lights for the next 12 hours.
A firmware is an OS... an operating system. It operates the system for which it was designed. The firmware, if easily upgraded, is also easily hacked. If the thing has an IP address, it also means it has some remote interactivity, even if it is as simple as receive read (no write/execute) request, send data, buffer overflows can still be exploited, DDOS's can be used, etc. So that is another intrusion vector.
Case in point. I have a group of friends I play with. I'm the techie of the group. I understand IP addressing and math. I know how to configure my router, firewall and the routers and firewalls of my remote friends to connect to my computer (as server). I don't need a service like Gamespy to hook us up. In one game (GRAW2)I can setup a game server on my local network and my friends can see it, but I can't because the gamespy IP Address is pointing to my router's external IP address. I can create the server in game, but then I can't increase the "rate" to an acceptable level to avoid lag by the other players (my internet connection can handle the increase).
In this situation, it really is a pain to have to log in to a server to essentially play an offline game. Particularly in LAN instances. Say I do have a number of friends over... or I go to a friends house (with more space). I'm the techie guy, but I don't necessarily want to run a 100ft ethernet cable from our 8 port switch to whever the router to the Internet is sitting (which may require going up stairs, through rooms, etc.) And I *really* don't want to have to setup a wireless repeater then attach that to the switch.
Speaking of game servers. Why can't we just go back to the way Quake and Half-Life does it. Allow us to configure our server and assign the IP. We'll create our own pinhole/port-forward to the server. Give us the ability to start it as a service (Windows) and/or create a Linux server component. In any case, give us a command line w/ arguments if needed, to start the server. (Activision's Civilization 4's Pitboss is a serious offender, because it is meant as a leave alone server, but doesn't offer any automation for a crashed/rebooted environment.)
Requiring Battle.NET, as the community here sees it, is another attempt to reduce piracy, which I agree is a problem, but annoys the legitimate user, while the pirates still get around the issue with cracks and/or bypasses. (See Windows XP Activation for an example.)
/me anxiously awaits the release of Diablo 3. It will be one of the very few games I purchase close to release. Most games I wait until they drop to the $20 price range, which means I wait a year to purchase. Half-Life 2 and the Orange Box were the most recent games I purchased full price that wasn't $20 or less. Morrowind, Oblivion, Neverwinter Nights, Need For Speed: Underground 2, and many others, I waited the requisite 1-3 years before purchasing.
I'm actually in a similar position as you are. I just took what I knew in programming and started creating tools for the team. These tools make the job far easier for my coworkers, and a few of them have spilled into other departments.
This is a small company, so as my tools get around, the developers have noticed it (with a little advertising, of course). Just make sure you advertise to the right people and not the wrong ones (stupid office politics.
My manager was unwilling to allow me to do any programming type work, so I did it on my down time. Now he is fine with letting me create and update the tools we need.
By the way, I like the QA position. It really helps me think about what I'm doing when I write the tools. My tools are usually being released error free (or close to it).