"The corporation limits *civil* liability, but a crime is still a crime,"
Yes sure in theory. In reality unless you are ripping off 400 billion dollars and are doing it in a very visible way you still get to walk. Kill a few people with a defective product? no problem. Spill a few million gallons of oil and destroy fisheries, families and wildlife? No jail time, miminal fees!. posion a couple of rivers to save a buck or two? No problem the state will pay to clean it up.
BTW there is nothing preventing anybdoy from aggragating capital AND taking responsibility for your actions.
1) In safari the tabs are fixed size. Once you have more tabs then can fit on your bar you have to use the stupid drop down. In firefox the tabs automatically resize temselves. 2) Firefox has more features including some I can't live without like find as you type. 3) firefox looks better (IMHO). 4) Better popup blocking and flash bocking. 5) Profiles 6) "Block images from this server"
I could go on and on.
You may like safari better and I respect that but don't go around pretending that everybody would feel the same way. I for one think that firefox is a way better browser then Safari and I bet many other would feel the same way.
I was watching an interview with John Sayles the filmmaker he said something to the effect of..
Their [the media] idea of balance is that when you have somebody on your show who tells the truth for 15 minutes you have somebody else on who lies for 15 minutes. What they never do is to say afterwards "this guy told the truth 80% of the time and this other guy was full of shit 80% of the time".
Yes but he is spending money for a democrat. That makes him evil you see. God chose Bush to run this country and facilitate the return of the lord almighty by fulfilling the prophesies of the bible.
Soros is working for the devil. The Bush bagman are working for God. See the difference?
Still, after installing some piece of software on 2000 desktops you'd think they would give the guys the first crack at solving their problem instead of looking at some other piece of software.
That's why stoks price falls, the number of sellers exceed the number of buyers. The price keeps dropping until it becomes attractive to people. The problem is that once the investors give up on the company the stock price stagnates and MS needs to keep the stock price growing. Read about it, it's kind of a pyramid scheme they have got going. If it falles it will probably burst like a bubble.
Great if everybody is on windows XP. The problem though is that outlook and IE are probably allowed under whatever software restriction policy gets instituted.
So you installed ad aware and spybot on most of 2000 systems. Did you pay the authors of those software any money? Maybe if you paid them some money they could help you roll out massive deployments or modify their software to suit you.
My guess is that like most companies you installed them without paying because you didn't have to fill out forms or break your budget. Now you are looking to pay somebody else for software after using their products for all this time.
"It seems to me that the best anti-dilbert solution is to instill from an early age the value that if you screw up, you'll be accountable, and that when you succeed that you share your success with those that made it possible."
This goes against the very core of corporatism. The purpose of forming a corporation is the shirk responsibility in the first place. Nobody who is busy climbing the corporate ladder will share success the idea is to take all the credit, point the finger of blame, and stab everyone in the back.
At the core being a better programmer has to begin by being a better human being. The same with being a better manager, CIO, architect or a plumber.
The problem is that there are all kinds of Gurus and books out there which claim to make somebody a better "whatever" without ever once touching on what makes a better human being in the first place.
What makes a better human being? Well the lessons are not new and have been written down thousands of years ago.
Be less selfish, be more humble, help others, be kind, share more, take care of others etc. The golden rule more or less.
Large companies instead of sending their staff to certification classes or management seminars should send their employees to become better human beings. This may mean yoga classes, budhist seminars, philosophy classes or something.
That's right, and the investors have compensated for that. The investors are looking for more then that kind of growth in the future. If MS can not continue to accelerate their growth then the investors will leave for companies that are exceeding growth projections.
Remember it's not how fast you grow, it's how much you beat the estimaes of how fast you grow.
If you read the Clayton's book you would have read examples where companies have blown billions of dollars trying to grow. If investors start abandoning the company then the management will start to flail and that's when mistakes get made and billions are flushed down the drain in bad aquisitions, entering into goofy markets etc.
MS has been successful in leveraging their desktop monopoly into a monopoly on office software but they failed miserably in leveraging it into a monopoly on server, internet, consumer devices, game consoles, perhipherals etc. They keep trying (bless their hearts) but it's just not working. Now their desktop and office monopoly is in jeapordy.
My favorite DND moment (yes it actually happened).
Player: I want to cast a talk to plants spell. DM: OK. Player: I cast the spell and talk to the plants: DM: Which ones? Player: The bush in front of me, what does it say? DM: It says "The sun, I love the sun, the sun is wonderful, you are in the way of the sun" Player: I move out of the sun, now what does it say" DM: It says "I love the sun, the sun is wonderful" what did you expect it to say?
My experience has been that women really like the game once they start palying it. The trick though is to emphasize the roleplaying aspect of it. In other words punish and reward the characters for good and bad acting. The best part of the game is acting anyway and what women doesn't want to try acting in a safe environment (i.e an audience of 5 rather then 500).
Does POPFile work with exchange native format. The baastard exchange admins (yes there are more then one!) at my office refuse to turn on pop or imap because "it's too dangerous" even though exchange supports imap over ssl.
Don't tell anyone about the notspam emaill address, the spammers will send their spam to it and mess up your filters.
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I don't think you understand the meaning of "can't". With MS shared source you can't. You can't even talk about it, you can't show it to others, and even worse you could be sued later if you looked at it and then worked on something else.
With the GPL you can. There is a very small consession you have to make (only if you distribute it) but you can.
Well I was half kidding. We all see the trends you are alluding to. In my distopia a child is sold for example to Nike and pepsi. For the rest of his life he is only to wear nike clothes and drink pepsi products. His parents sell the child and take away the choice of the child. Pepsi and Nike of course pay for this privledge and pay dearly if the child is of a demographic that would be likely to influence other people or is the child of fame.
In the very near future when children are born they will be "sold" to corporations. The advertisers will control the clothes the child wears, food the child eats, pop the child drinks etc.
Pretty soon this will become a status symbol. If you are the child of a movie star then corporations will enter into a bidding war to gain access to your child. The society will be tiered according to the likelyhood of influencing people to buy stuff.
The poor of course will probably not be able to gain sponsorship for their children. They will have to wait to see if their child excels at something and then ask corporations to please sponsor them. Most of course will never make it. They will end up being the people who buy the stuff that's advertised on Gweneth Paltrow's fourth child (who will be named eggplant).
"To say that everyone should have a better future isn't the American Dream, its more, IMHO, of the Communist Dream."
No it's the dream of Chirst.
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doesn't the 2.6 kernel have the capabilities model already compiled? Linux is well on the way to becoming the most secure OS around. It won't be long until people write scripts to lock down your linux so tight nobody can hack it.
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"The corporation limits *civil* liability, but a crime is still a crime,"
Yes sure in theory. In reality unless you are ripping off 400 billion dollars and are doing it in a very visible way you still get to walk. Kill a few people with a defective product? no problem. Spill a few million gallons of oil and destroy fisheries, families and wildlife? No jail time, miminal fees!. posion a couple of rivers to save a buck or two? No problem the state will pay to clean it up.
BTW there is nothing preventing anybdoy from aggragating capital AND taking responsibility for your actions.
Just advertise firefox as a better pr0n browser (look up pornzilla). Ashcroft will be on your ass faster then you can say "market share"
What are you talking about.
1) In safari the tabs are fixed size. Once you have more tabs then can fit on your bar you have to use the stupid drop down. In firefox the tabs automatically resize temselves.
2) Firefox has more features including some I can't live without like find as you type.
3) firefox looks better (IMHO).
4) Better popup blocking and flash bocking.
5) Profiles
6) "Block images from this server"
I could go on and on.
You may like safari better and I respect that but don't go around pretending that everybody would feel the same way. I for one think that firefox is a way better browser then Safari and I bet many other would feel the same way.
I was watching an interview with John Sayles the filmmaker he said something to the effect of..
Their [the media] idea of balance is that when you have somebody on your show who tells the truth for 15 minutes you have somebody else on who lies for 15 minutes. What they never do is to say afterwards "this guy told the truth 80% of the time and this other guy was full of shit 80% of the time".
Yes but he is spending money for a democrat. That makes him evil you see. God chose Bush to run this country and facilitate the return of the lord almighty by fulfilling the prophesies of the bible.
Soros is working for the devil. The Bush bagman are working for God. See the difference?
Still, after installing some piece of software on 2000 desktops you'd think they would give the guys the first crack at solving their problem instead of looking at some other piece of software.
That's why stoks price falls, the number of sellers exceed the number of buyers. The price keeps dropping until it becomes attractive to people. The problem is that once the investors give up on the company the stock price stagnates and MS needs to keep the stock price growing. Read about it, it's kind of a pyramid scheme they have got going. If it falles it will probably burst like a bubble.
Great if everybody is on windows XP. The problem though is that outlook and IE are probably allowed under whatever software restriction policy gets instituted.
So you installed ad aware and spybot on most of 2000 systems. Did you pay the authors of those software any money? Maybe if you paid them some money they could help you roll out massive deployments or modify their software to suit you.
My guess is that like most companies you installed them without paying because you didn't have to fill out forms or break your budget. Now you are looking to pay somebody else for software after using their products for all this time.
Just doesn't seem fair.
"It seems to me that the best anti-dilbert solution is to instill from an early age the value that if you screw up, you'll be accountable, and that when you succeed that you share your success with those that made it possible."
This goes against the very core of corporatism. The purpose of forming a corporation is the shirk responsibility in the first place. Nobody who is busy climbing the corporate ladder will share success the idea is to take all the credit, point the finger of blame, and stab everyone in the back.
At the core being a better programmer has to begin by being a better human being. The same with being a better manager, CIO, architect or a plumber.
The problem is that there are all kinds of Gurus and books out there which claim to make somebody a better "whatever" without ever once touching on what makes a better human being in the first place.
What makes a better human being? Well the lessons are not new and have been written down thousands of years ago.
Be less selfish, be more humble, help others, be kind, share more, take care of others etc. The golden rule more or less.
Large companies instead of sending their staff to certification classes or management seminars should send their employees to become better human beings. This may mean yoga classes, budhist seminars, philosophy classes or something.
That's right, and the investors have compensated for that. The investors are looking for more then that kind of growth in the future. If MS can not continue to accelerate their growth then the investors will leave for companies that are exceeding growth projections.
Remember it's not how fast you grow, it's how much you beat the estimaes of how fast you grow.
If you read the Clayton's book you would have read examples where companies have blown billions of dollars trying to grow. If investors start abandoning the company then the management will start to flail and that's when mistakes get made and billions are flushed down the drain in bad aquisitions, entering into goofy markets etc.
MS has been successful in leveraging their desktop monopoly into a monopoly on office software but they failed miserably in leveraging it into a monopoly on server, internet, consumer devices, game consoles, perhipherals etc. They keep trying (bless their hearts) but it's just not working. Now their desktop and office monopoly is in jeapordy.
My favorite DND moment (yes it actually happened).
Player: I want to cast a talk to plants spell.
DM: OK.
Player: I cast the spell and talk to the plants:
DM: Which ones?
Player: The bush in front of me, what does it say?
DM: It says "The sun, I love the sun, the sun is wonderful, you are in the way of the sun"
Player: I move out of the sun, now what does it say"
DM: It says "I love the sun, the sun is wonderful" what did you expect it to say?
My experience has been that women really like the game once they start palying it. The trick though is to emphasize the roleplaying aspect of it. In other words punish and reward the characters for good and bad acting. The best part of the game is acting anyway and what women doesn't want to try acting in a safe environment (i.e an audience of 5 rather then 500).
DO you really that many songs with you at all times? Honestly I can't think of 200 songs I like enough to carry with me let alone 1,000 or 10,000.
IF the nerds who care about ogg only shared files in ogg format then you can bet your ass 90% of your friends would care.
You want to increase the popularity of ogg? Then stop sharing MP3s, it will happen overnight.
Does POPFile work with exchange native format. The baastard exchange admins (yes there are more then one!) at my office refuse to turn on pop or imap because "it's too dangerous" even though exchange supports imap over ssl.
Don't tell anyone about the notspam emaill address, the spammers will send their spam to it and mess up your filters.
I don't think you understand the meaning of "can't". With MS shared source you can't. You can't even talk about it, you can't show it to others, and even worse you could be sued later if you looked at it and then worked on something else.
With the GPL you can. There is a very small consession you have to make (only if you distribute it) but you can.
Well I was half kidding. We all see the trends you are alluding to. In my distopia a child is sold for example to Nike and pepsi. For the rest of his life he is only to wear nike clothes and drink pepsi products. His parents sell the child and take away the choice of the child. Pepsi and Nike of course pay for this privledge and pay dearly if the child is of a demographic that would be likely to influence other people or is the child of fame.
In the very near future when children are born they will be "sold" to corporations. The advertisers will control the clothes the child wears, food the child eats, pop the child drinks etc.
Pretty soon this will become a status symbol. If you are the child of a movie star then corporations will enter into a bidding war to gain access to your child. The society will be tiered according to the likelyhood of influencing people to buy stuff.
The poor of course will probably not be able to gain sponsorship for their children. They will have to wait to see if their child excels at something and then ask corporations to please sponsor them. Most of course will never make it. They will end up being the people who buy the stuff that's advertised on Gweneth Paltrow's fourth child (who will be named eggplant).
"To say that everyone should have a better future isn't the American Dream, its more, IMHO, of the Communist Dream."
No it's the dream of Chirst.
doesn't the 2.6 kernel have the capabilities model already compiled? Linux is well on the way to becoming the most secure OS around. It won't be long until people write scripts to lock down your linux so tight nobody can hack it.
Since when is "ready for widespread adoption on desktop systems" the measure of an operating system?
BTW it is ready for the desktop. You are confusing your hatred of open office and unwillingness of vendors to write device drivers with linux itself.