I think the people that rushed out and bought one of these over-hyped devices got exactly what they deserved. I am so sick of hearing about these things, they are phones with mp3 players in them basically and they have a cool screen you can touch. I get the same result with my Zen Nano and my Samsung phone. Maybe next time they come out with a new toy, wait a while before you buy it. It's just like shopping for cars.
Damn, I sense hostility. Good thing you're an anonymous coward. For your information I have worked the election office here in my local precinct for the last two elections, and I still believe a paper ballot would be better. Next time bring a real argument, not just flame bait.
We had an outage here at my job about a month ago. We run all of our phones and data through a single fiber connection with no secondary path, so when a small animal decided he was hungry we were pretty much dead in the water all day long. When I called in our ISP they pulled me outside and showed a 1/4" piece of cable that contained our fiber, it was chewed all the way through by some kind of animal that was in the tubing that contained the cable.
It ended up taking them about 6 hours to string up some new fiber and splice it all, which I thought was very quick considering the task. They put a cable about twice as thick in to replace it and left plenty of extra slack, but it just goes to show you that fiber isn't bulletproof or critter proof.
I've said this before on here, but I see nothing wrong with using paper ballots and having them counted out by hand. It may take more time, and you may have a 5-10 vote margin of error each time you count but I would feel much safer with that system than I do by sticking my ballot in a diebold machine.
It would give a few people something to do for the day and you could even take the money spent on the diebold machines to have a little shindig afterwards. I'm sure volunteers wouldn't be hard to find if that was done. I encourage you all to support Bev Harris over at Blackboxvoting.org.
She has been fighting the electronic voting systems from just about the start of things and I myself have made many donations to her cause. She is a true patriot guarding our most sacred right in this country. Please support her cause.
Point taken, but I have already learned to deal with the risks involved with our current systems and it would be a huge waste of money to move to Vista and dedicate all the time needed to adapt to the newer OS. The article was about businesses not implementing Vista and I think this is a huge part of it. I have a vista machine at home, but I don't think it's cost effective for businesses to upgrade until it is something they can benefit from.
If you knew the people that work here you would not see my early write off of Vista as a bad thing. I deal with novice users at best all day long and the UI is reason enough for me to say no to it. If I worked with programmers and developers all day I wouldn't have much of a problem with moving everyone to vista because they would more than likely research the problems themselves and find the appropriate workarounds for whatever they want to change.
I myself am able to use Vista, and fix problems or annoyances that I find with it but I am not about to do that for 40+ machines until we get everything the way people like it. I understand that they are improving things that badly needed improving such as security but I do not see any benefit in the new GUI other than trying to look as flashy as apple. I see this as nothing more than software bloat used to sell newer hardware. People don't like change, especially novice sales reps that complain when their font size changes and I don't feel like dealing with that on top of everything else.
I have instructed my boss to not purchase any new computer with Vista on it for at least a year or two. Just some of the horror stories I have read about all the incompatibility and the problems with just using the interface was enough. I did however have an coworker who received a new laptop with Vista on it and we have had nothing but problems with it. Our printers wouldn't install and I cannot believe how overly complicated they made it to find anything in the operating system.
It's unbelievable what they have compromised just so they can have flashy graphics and smooth looking buttons. It all boils down to one thing in the end however, I just don't see any benefit to upgrading any time soon so therefore there's no reason to. We will continue to buy our new PCs from Dell with Windows XP on them until they either quit offering it or we have a piece of equipment that requires it.
Considering having installed Thunderbird on all of our office systems and seeing just how in-compatible the program was with our clients who all used some form of exchange I think this will be a good move. They have a lot of work to do before this program is able to communicate and provide end user functionality for everyone.
I fully support Mozilla and hope they are able to make it an industry standard program, but I am waiting until they get everything figured out before I switch all of my users over to it. Feel free to bash me and say it's able to do everything you need it to do, but it doesn't work well with emails sent from Outlook or Outlook Express and I know this from hearing people bitch every day and night and seeing it myself.
Anyway, I hope this move help them and doesn't hurt the program if they decide to scrap it altogether.
No, sorry. I was leaning more towards the media holding these people to a high standard. I already know many citizens dont because of the number of people that dont vote each election.
Once upon a time in a land far far away, I was helping Mr. Nussle record a radio ad that he was recording in response to his candidate attacking him. I watched him go over the script and when he got done reading some of the critical points he just looked at me and rolled his eyes and muttered "Yeah, right." I simply grinned as to not reveal what I really thought of that statement and his character.
I was very happy the day I was able to cast my vote against him and he lost because I got to see the true side of this man and do something about it. People would be shocked and awed (sorry for the terminology) if they heard half the crap that comes out of these politician's mouthes.
Right now Michael Vick is in big trouble over a dog fighting ring he was in the middle of, and the first thing the media jumps all over is how we hold our athletes to such high standards. Well, when politicians are caught lying, cheating, stealing and whatever else they ALL do... I cannot help but wonder why the media doesn't ask why we hold our politicians to such high standards as well.
I don't think we will ever know the answer to this unless some real political and campaign finance reform is put into place, but I like to ask questions. I still blame the fluoride.
It's only spam if it's unsolicited, however I signed up for this newsletter. A blast email is a single email sent out to a list of addresses, it's not always spam but it has the same elements.
That is what you get for rushing out to buy one like it's your new kidney dialysis machine. Everyone knows that it's not a good idea to buy electronics immediately after they are released, but for some reason people still do it. I will think about getting one when all the problems are fixed and they come out with a better model.
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I couldn't have said it any better myself, I am sure I was not alone when I was swearing at their home page last night when i noticed this.
That was great, I laughed for 10 minutes about that one. gj
I think the people that rushed out and bought one of these over-hyped devices got exactly what they deserved. I am so sick of hearing about these things, they are phones with mp3 players in them basically and they have a cool screen you can touch. I get the same result with my Zen Nano and my Samsung phone. Maybe next time they come out with a new toy, wait a while before you buy it. It's just like shopping for cars.
Damn, I sense hostility. Good thing you're an anonymous coward. For your information I have worked the election office here in my local precinct for the last two elections, and I still believe a paper ballot would be better. Next time bring a real argument, not just flame bait.
It ended up taking them about 6 hours to string up some new fiber and splice it all, which I thought was very quick considering the task. They put a cable about twice as thick in to replace it and left plenty of extra slack, but it just goes to show you that fiber isn't bulletproof or critter proof.
It would give a few people something to do for the day and you could even take the money spent on the diebold machines to have a little shindig afterwards. I'm sure volunteers wouldn't be hard to find if that was done. I encourage you all to support Bev Harris over at Blackboxvoting.org.
She has been fighting the electronic voting systems from just about the start of things and I myself have made many donations to her cause. She is a true patriot guarding our most sacred right in this country. Please support her cause.
I cannot stand seeing news articles where people don't know the difference between there, they're and their. That's just me though.
Yeah, I was just wondering how this ever made it out of the fire hose.
My bad, he is our attorney general. See how serious I take politics?
Good thing they're spending time and resources on this and not investigating the Secretary of the Department of Justice for lying through his teeth.
Point taken, but I have already learned to deal with the risks involved with our current systems and it would be a huge waste of money to move to Vista and dedicate all the time needed to adapt to the newer OS. The article was about businesses not implementing Vista and I think this is a huge part of it. I have a vista machine at home, but I don't think it's cost effective for businesses to upgrade until it is something they can benefit from.
I myself am able to use Vista, and fix problems or annoyances that I find with it but I am not about to do that for 40+ machines until we get everything the way people like it. I understand that they are improving things that badly needed improving such as security but I do not see any benefit in the new GUI other than trying to look as flashy as apple. I see this as nothing more than software bloat used to sell newer hardware. People don't like change, especially novice sales reps that complain when their font size changes and I don't feel like dealing with that on top of everything else.
It's unbelievable what they have compromised just so they can have flashy graphics and smooth looking buttons. It all boils down to one thing in the end however, I just don't see any benefit to upgrading any time soon so therefore there's no reason to. We will continue to buy our new PCs from Dell with Windows XP on them until they either quit offering it or we have a piece of equipment that requires it.
New Asbestos Toner, for the person that doesn't already have enough health problems!
I fully support Mozilla and hope they are able to make it an industry standard program, but I am waiting until they get everything figured out before I switch all of my users over to it. Feel free to bash me and say it's able to do everything you need it to do, but it doesn't work well with emails sent from Outlook or Outlook Express and I know this from hearing people bitch every day and night and seeing it myself.
Anyway, I hope this move help them and doesn't hurt the program if they decide to scrap it altogether.
No, sorry. I was leaning more towards the media holding these people to a high standard. I already know many citizens dont because of the number of people that dont vote each election.
Once upon a time in a land far far away, I was helping Mr. Nussle record a radio ad that he was recording in response to his candidate attacking him. I watched him go over the script and when he got done reading some of the critical points he just looked at me and rolled his eyes and muttered "Yeah, right." I simply grinned as to not reveal what I really thought of that statement and his character.
I was very happy the day I was able to cast my vote against him and he lost because I got to see the true side of this man and do something about it. People would be shocked and awed (sorry for the terminology) if they heard half the crap that comes out of these politician's mouthes.
Right now Michael Vick is in big trouble over a dog fighting ring he was in the middle of, and the first thing the media jumps all over is how we hold our athletes to such high standards. Well, when politicians are caught lying, cheating, stealing and whatever else they ALL do... I cannot help but wonder why the media doesn't ask why we hold our politicians to such high standards as well.
I don't think we will ever know the answer to this unless some real political and campaign finance reform is put into place, but I like to ask questions. I still blame the fluoride.
Jesus Christ himself couldn't have been devoted enough to type all that. Everyone give it up for our new JC!
*applause*
Now you just need to ask yourself: WWID?
It's only spam if it's unsolicited, however I signed up for this newsletter. A blast email is a single email sent out to a list of addresses, it's not always spam but it has the same elements.
That is what you get for rushing out to buy one like it's your new kidney dialysis machine. Everyone knows that it's not a good idea to buy electronics immediately after they are released, but for some reason people still do it. I will think about getting one when all the problems are fixed and they come out with a better model.
I have had a hard time figuring out why anyone buys the TV Guide for the last few years since they post the listings for free on their site.
Yeah, way to throw a wrench in their plans /.
I have the best solution for stopping piracy. Stop over charging. THE END
Think about that, the government uses Microsoft products. If Microsoft dies, it will no doubt take us down with it.
JUDGMENT DAY IS INEVITABLE
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Very intelligent, but isn't everything Google does?