Actually Sloth works to Linux's advantage.. as most people (especially newer) are lazy, and install everything from the distros repository (usually with something easy like Synaptic).. Someone who would have been targeted by this screen saver vulnerability has learned just enough to endanger themselves, and more than likely enough to deal with the consequences.. Unlike the situation in Windows where an uneducated Sloth is prime pickings.
but when they learn the game and beat you with their advantages, it's a bitch. It's a two-way street, dude! Learn to live with it, for you have no choice. If every country went back to their protectionist regimes, the american companies would not survive, for their markets are saturated and there is no growth. They depend on the developing countries' markets for growth.
The problem is, they are not beating the US with advantages.. You see, I'm in the customer service game.. The problem with outsourcing things like customer service, is that customer service is about communicating.. You absolutely can not beat someone in the US at communicating with someone in the US.. I know, I have to listen to all the "thank god's" from customers when they get me instead of our overseas counterparts.. I really don't like hearing it much, because it almost sounds racist.. but it's mostly just venting of frustrations that they have had from previous experiences where they could not communicate well with someone.. The advantages of cheaper labor are lost when a customer has to call multiple times because they can not communicate well with the person trying to help them.. no matter how smart that person may be.. and as some companies have learned, there are customers who will switch to companies who have customer service that they can work with..
The company's annual report indicates it spent about $20 billion in capital expenditures for its wireless and wireline networks in 2008. And this year AT&T is estimating it will spend between $17 billion and $18 billion on its wireless and wireline networks.
Of course that doesn't follow the Slashdot groupthink.. but oh well.
The company's annual report indicates it spent about $20 billion in capital expenditures for its wireless and wireline networks in 2008. And this year AT&T is estimating it will spend between $17 billion and $18 billion on its wireless and wireline networks.
Of course that doesn't follow the Slashdot groupthink.. but oh well.
Well for him TV is dead, just not Television shows.. There are people like him, (I am pretty much there myself).. I suppose he could have worded it better for you.. Your point, that there would be no Television shows if there were not Television was a good one.. your delivery however sucked.. and such worry over mod points.. I mean, 5 mod points and a 50 cent coupon on Midol, and hey you've saved 50 cents !
I was thinking the same thing... I like tabbed apps.. Browsers, text editors.. etc.. and it makes sense... I would love to have tabbed browsing at work, as most of the apps I use are web based, but for some reason we are still stuck with IE 6.. In my case tabbed apps would work as a work around for our refusal to change browsers.. but then we are not talking XP here.. but KDE... I guess what I am saying, is that I can see where it might be useful in some situations, but for the most part the functionality is as you say done on the taskbar.. the minority of users who will benefit from this, makes it hardly worth it.. But if it is optional, then I say go for it.
You have as much say in firing the "droid" marketing people as Google does... considering they are working for Verizon not Google.. Here's how it works, Google developed the Android OS for mobile phones.. They also make applications for the Android OS, They market these apps to handset manufacturers who wish to provide a "Google" branded phone.. The handset manufacturers then decide to (or not to) make this a part of the product they sell the carrier.. who then decides how they are going to market it.. It is very different from the iPhone, as Goggle is not selling directly to the customer (at least not yet).. The Droid campaign is unusual, in that most people are associating it with the Motorola Droid, and when thinking about that phone there is no other name.. however Verizon is also selling the Droid Eris, which is made by HTC not Motorola.. So the "Droid" brand is a Verizon thing, I imagine Motorola had some issues with it at first, but regardless of whether or not you or Motorola like it, it seems to be selling phones.. The phones are good products, but you have to wonder how things would have played out if they had marketed them as Google, or Motorola, or HTC phones instead of making a word play on the Android name ?.. and you want to fire em ?
Not to be argumentative, but as one of the "managed", I just don't see what the fuss is all about.. We still have problems, but now many of the problems are global over the network.. As to group organization, well maybe some people have it together, but for the most part it's nothing but a pain and you'd do better doing a google search for someone two desk over.
Blogs and forums such as you describe, are even more exposed than checking the source code for some program someone is offering.. Yes you may have the occasional "Format c:/s" dickhead, but they are often easily found out by the masses of people checking these sites.. I doubt anyone would get away with that command for very long before someone points it out.. the same is true for the Linux community.
What are you worried about ?.. breath in.. breath out.. It's only a phone, you already spent the money and made your commitments.. you'll be ok.. breath in.. breathe out.. another's success doesn't make you a failure.. breathe in... breath out..
I am against it, not because I don't think hacking is a crime, but because those seeking to extradite him are not thinking.. Exactly what is to be gained here ?... All that will be accomplished is to spend more money trying him, and housing him in prison.. and all this could be done in the UK, on their dime, with tax money paid by their citizens.. As to getting back the 700k, you have just as much chance of getting it by suing him there... We have enough criminals in prison here.. we don't need to import them.
And this is the way it should be. I am of the opinion that if we had to pay people found not guilty, the money we "would have" spent on keeping them in jail, the courts would not be so backed up.. As it is, getting dragged through the legal system is a punishment unto itself, and people who go through it and are found not guilty, get no compensation for their trouble.
My Dad was into Hypercard.. He spent hours making a fancy CD catalog "program",, It's not what I would call programming, but I wasn't going to tell him that.. From what I remember it was a combination of database, animation and graphics.. although a little more complicated, you could just as well call making an animated GIF "programming".. and maybe it is..
Hey, constant reinforcement is needed so that people know that the money spent and being spent on a phone and plan is justified. I like my phone too (It's an Android), but I don't need to be constantly told how smart or cool I am, based upon my purchase.. dumbasses and jerks can spend money on these things too.. and probably think it changes them somehow.. how sad.
Personally, I usually wait a while after the game is out and then go check user reviews
I like user reviews as well, and especially in combination with numbers of reviews.. It tells me much more when 80 people have reviewed something and given it a good score, than it does when 5 people have.
I could maybe google various LUGS in Ontario and come up with some numbers, but then that also is misleading because I use Linux and I know others who use Linux who are not members of a LUG.. Yes the majority of unwashed masses still use Windows machines.. and I weep for them.. Actually the tears are caused from laughter as I hear their latest story about how their machine was rendered useless by some program holding it hostage, requiring them to purchase some scam anitvirus program.. I still don't see how these maleware programs can possibly make money with pissing off people.. but then I guess the target customers are used to being pissed off, so maybe it works.. There are people who are getting fed up with it all, and they are using Linux.. and the thing is you don't have to give up one to have the other, there are dual boots. because you don't see it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Your whole post as a totality shows the problem.. You have points 2 and 3 (rehabilitation and prevention) followed up by condoning the allowing criminals in prison to commit more crimes, as acceptable justice. If a person ends up in prison because of violence or criminal behavior, how is it rehabilitation or prevention if you allow them to continue bad behaviors in prison ?.. There is also the assumption that letting criminals be bad, makes prison more terrible and is therefore ok, because prison is punishment.
Been going on for ages.. and not just Scientology.. How many elderly people have given their life savings to an evangelical preacher ?.. People are easily conned into believing all sorts of things. That there may be some good done by some of these groups doesn't take away from the fact, that there are many people who are hurt.. Sad fact is, you can't stop people from being stupid.
If I read this properly this will be a web app, which will be nice for times when you have a data connection, but I have to wonder if you always will have that, the majority of the times when you need to use this.
I think that's BS and paranoid... First, I would say that well over 90 percent of Android users don't have a clue on how to pirate something for their Android phone.. They know how to search the market, find the free stuff, and buy "some" of the paid apps.. Just to give you an insight on this Android user (me), let me tell you my thoughts on it.. The base phone came with a lot of useful things, and that took awhile to digest and decide what I needed and wanted to add.. As I have gone on, I have found many great free apps that have made their way to my phone.. and some of these had pay for upgrades that I have purchased.. I do like this model, as well as the "donate" model of doing business.. Is it because I am a cheap bastard who wants everything for nothing ?... no it's because I am a smart bastard who doesn't want to pay.99 or 2.99 for a piece of junk that I will never use. Here is the deal.. maybe I am not the "typical" Android user.. I know I am not the typical iPhone user.. all I know is that I am not a "collector".. Yes I have a great phone, but I do not see any point in clogging it with junk "just because I can".. I am the game developers worst nightmare.. because I think before I purchase.. and my thoughts are.. will I really spend that much time on this game ?.. what exactly do I need in a game for my phone ?.. sadly for them, I have come to the realization that my phone priorities are communication.. In thinking about how I use my phone, I came to the conclusion that games are played occasionally as a time filler.. short periods of time, perhaps during lunch or while waiting in an airport.. I don't need or want a full on epic game with 3d graphics that takes days to complete.. if I want that, I'll do that at home on a game console or PC.. This doesn't mean that I don't want games that are fun, challenging, interesting, and nice looking on my phone.. I do.. It just means that it needs to meet my criteria of.. "will I use it".
I might be wrong, but here's how I see it.. Android came out with the G1 on T-Mobile which had the smallest 3G network.. The OS was there, and it was good, but the other handset manufacturers and major carriers in the US had their own things going on in the US.. AT&T was not going to compete against their own cash cow.. Sprint and Verizon are CDMA, and they had their heads up their... So what happened ?.. Europe happened.. The iPhone did ok in Europe, but they didn't drink as much of the Apple Koolaide as the US did.. HTC came out with the Magic, and then the Hero.. and they were hits, and people here in the US finally questioned why we didn't have them.. Sprint and Verizon finally woke up, and T-Mobile continued their expansion of their network and Android offerings.. and now it's exciting.. So interesting, that now even AT&T will have to offer Android at some point. The product is of course improving all the time, but it was always there, and always good.. It's just that now you have more people on board, and new hardware coming out all the time.
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Actually Sloth works to Linux's advantage.. as most people (especially newer) are lazy, and install everything from the distros repository (usually with something easy like Synaptic).. Someone who would have been targeted by this screen saver vulnerability has learned just enough to endanger themselves, and more than likely enough to deal with the consequences.. Unlike the situation in Windows where an uneducated Sloth is prime pickings.
but when they learn the game and beat you with their advantages, it's a bitch. It's a two-way street, dude! Learn to live with it, for you have no choice. If every country went back to their protectionist regimes, the american companies would not survive, for their markets are saturated and there is no growth. They depend on the developing countries' markets for growth.
The problem is, they are not beating the US with advantages.. You see, I'm in the customer service game.. The problem with outsourcing things like customer service, is that customer service is about communicating.. You absolutely can not beat someone in the US at communicating with someone in the US.. I know, I have to listen to all the "thank god's" from customers when they get me instead of our overseas counterparts.. I really don't like hearing it much, because it almost sounds racist.. but it's mostly just venting of frustrations that they have had from previous experiences where they could not communicate well with someone.. The advantages of cheaper labor are lost when a customer has to call multiple times because they can not communicate well with the person trying to help them.. no matter how smart that person may be.. and as some companies have learned, there are customers who will switch to companies who have customer service that they can work with..
And yet ... http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-12261_7-10371298-10356022.html
From that artcle..
The company's annual report indicates it spent about $20 billion in capital expenditures for its wireless and wireline networks in 2008. And this year AT&T is estimating it will spend between $17 billion and $18 billion on its wireless and wireline networks.
Of course that doesn't follow the Slashdot groupthink.. but oh well.
And yet ... http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-12261_7-10371298-10356022.html
From that artcle..
The company's annual report indicates it spent about $20 billion in capital expenditures for its wireless and wireline networks in 2008. And this year AT&T is estimating it will spend between $17 billion and $18 billion on its wireless and wireline networks.
Of course that doesn't follow the Slashdot groupthink.. but oh well.
I had already dropped imeem in favor of Slacker.
Well for him TV is dead, just not Television shows.. There are people like him, (I am pretty much there myself).. I suppose he could have worded it better for you.. Your point, that there would be no Television shows if there were not Television was a good one.. your delivery however sucked.. and such worry over mod points.. I mean, 5 mod points and a 50 cent coupon on Midol, and hey you've saved 50 cents !
I was thinking the same thing... I like tabbed apps.. Browsers, text editors.. etc.. and it makes sense... I would love to have tabbed browsing at work, as most of the apps I use are web based, but for some reason we are still stuck with IE 6.. In my case tabbed apps would work as a work around for our refusal to change browsers.. but then we are not talking XP here.. but KDE... I guess what I am saying, is that I can see where it might be useful in some situations, but for the most part the functionality is as you say done on the taskbar.. the minority of users who will benefit from this, makes it hardly worth it.. But if it is optional, then I say go for it.
Make your payments, and you'll have no problems.. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1053424/
a cyanide pill should do the trick.
You have as much say in firing the "droid" marketing people as Google does... considering they are working for Verizon not Google.. Here's how it works, Google developed the Android OS for mobile phones.. They also make applications for the Android OS, They market these apps to handset manufacturers who wish to provide a "Google" branded phone.. The handset manufacturers then decide to (or not to) make this a part of the product they sell the carrier.. who then decides how they are going to market it.. It is very different from the iPhone, as Goggle is not selling directly to the customer (at least not yet).. The Droid campaign is unusual, in that most people are associating it with the Motorola Droid, and when thinking about that phone there is no other name.. however Verizon is also selling the Droid Eris, which is made by HTC not Motorola.. So the "Droid" brand is a Verizon thing, I imagine Motorola had some issues with it at first, but regardless of whether or not you or Motorola like it, it seems to be selling phones.. The phones are good products, but you have to wonder how things would have played out if they had marketed them as Google, or Motorola, or HTC phones instead of making a word play on the Android name ? .. and you want to fire em ?
Not to be argumentative, but as one of the "managed", I just don't see what the fuss is all about.. We still have problems, but now many of the problems are global over the network.. As to group organization, well maybe some people have it together, but for the most part it's nothing but a pain and you'd do better doing a google search for someone two desk over.
Blogs and forums such as you describe, are even more exposed than checking the source code for some program someone is offering.. Yes you may have the occasional "Format c:/s" dickhead, but they are often easily found out by the masses of people checking these sites.. I doubt anyone would get away with that command for very long before someone points it out.. the same is true for the Linux community.
What are you worried about ? .. breath in.. breath out.. It's only a phone, you already spent the money and made your commitments.. you'll be ok.. breath in.. breathe out.. another's success doesn't make you a failure.. breathe in... breath out..
I am against it, not because I don't think hacking is a crime, but because those seeking to extradite him are not thinking.. Exactly what is to be gained here ? ... All that will be accomplished is to spend more money trying him, and housing him in prison.. and all this could be done in the UK, on their dime, with tax money paid by their citizens.. As to getting back the 700k, you have just as much chance of getting it by suing him there... We have enough criminals in prison here.. we don't need to import them.
And this is the way it should be. I am of the opinion that if we had to pay people found not guilty, the money we "would have" spent on keeping them in jail, the courts would not be so backed up.. As it is, getting dragged through the legal system is a punishment unto itself, and people who go through it and are found not guilty, get no compensation for their trouble.
My Dad was into Hypercard.. He spent hours making a fancy CD catalog "program",, It's not what I would call programming, but I wasn't going to tell him that.. From what I remember it was a combination of database, animation and graphics.. although a little more complicated, you could just as well call making an animated GIF "programming".. and maybe it is..
Hey, constant reinforcement is needed so that people know that the money spent and being spent on a phone and plan is justified. I like my phone too (It's an Android), but I don't need to be constantly told how smart or cool I am, based upon my purchase.. dumbasses and jerks can spend money on these things too.. and probably think it changes them somehow.. how sad.
Personally, I usually wait a while after the game is out and then go check user reviews
I like user reviews as well, and especially in combination with numbers of reviews.. It tells me much more when 80 people have reviewed something and given it a good score, than it does when 5 people have.
I could maybe google various LUGS in Ontario and come up with some numbers, but then that also is misleading because I use Linux and I know others who use Linux who are not members of a LUG.. Yes the majority of unwashed masses still use Windows machines.. and I weep for them.. Actually the tears are caused from laughter as I hear their latest story about how their machine was rendered useless by some program holding it hostage, requiring them to purchase some scam anitvirus program.. I still don't see how these maleware programs can possibly make money with pissing off people.. but then I guess the target customers are used to being pissed off, so maybe it works.. There are people who are getting fed up with it all, and they are using Linux.. and the thing is you don't have to give up one to have the other, there are dual boots. because you don't see it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Your whole post as a totality shows the problem.. You have points 2 and 3 (rehabilitation and prevention) followed up by condoning the allowing criminals in prison to commit more crimes, as acceptable justice. If a person ends up in prison because of violence or criminal behavior, how is it rehabilitation or prevention if you allow them to continue bad behaviors in prison ? .. There is also the assumption that letting criminals be bad, makes prison more terrible and is therefore ok, because prison is punishment.
Been going on for ages.. and not just Scientology.. How many elderly people have given their life savings to an evangelical preacher ?.. People are easily conned into believing all sorts of things. That there may be some good done by some of these groups doesn't take away from the fact, that there are many people who are hurt.. Sad fact is, you can't stop people from being stupid.
If I read this properly this will be a web app, which will be nice for times when you have a data connection, but I have to wonder if you always will have that, the majority of the times when you need to use this.
IA(also)NAL but now I understand statutory rape.
I think that's BS and paranoid... First, I would say that well over 90 percent of Android users don't have a clue on how to pirate something for their Android phone.. They know how to search the market, find the free stuff, and buy "some" of the paid apps.. Just to give you an insight on this Android user (me), let me tell you my thoughts on it.. The base phone came with a lot of useful things, and that took awhile to digest and decide what I needed and wanted to add.. As I have gone on, I have found many great free apps that have made their way to my phone.. and some of these had pay for upgrades that I have purchased.. I do like this model, as well as the "donate" model of doing business.. Is it because I am a cheap bastard who wants everything for nothing ?... no it's because I am a smart bastard who doesn't want to pay .99 or 2.99 for a piece of junk that I will never use. Here is the deal.. maybe I am not the "typical" Android user.. I know I am not the typical iPhone user.. all I know is that I am not a "collector" .. Yes I have a great phone, but I do not see any point in clogging it with junk "just because I can".. I am the game developers worst nightmare.. because I think before I purchase.. and my thoughts are.. will I really spend that much time on this game ? .. what exactly do I need in a game for my phone ? .. sadly for them, I have come to the realization that my phone priorities are communication.. In thinking about how I use my phone, I came to the conclusion that games are played occasionally as a time filler.. short periods of time, perhaps during lunch or while waiting in an airport.. I don't need or want a full on epic game with 3d graphics that takes days to complete.. if I want that, I'll do that at home on a game console or PC.. This doesn't mean that I don't want games that are fun, challenging, interesting, and nice looking on my phone.. I do.. It just means that it needs to meet my criteria of.. "will I use it".
I might be wrong, but here's how I see it.. Android came out with the G1 on T-Mobile which had the smallest 3G network.. The OS was there, and it was good, but the other handset manufacturers and major carriers in the US had their own things going on in the US.. AT&T was not going to compete against their own cash cow.. Sprint and Verizon are CDMA, and they had their heads up their ... So what happened ?.. Europe happened.. The iPhone did ok in Europe, but they didn't drink as much of the Apple Koolaide as the US did.. HTC came out with the Magic, and then the Hero.. and they were hits, and people here in the US finally questioned why we didn't have them.. Sprint and Verizon finally woke up, and T-Mobile continued their expansion of their network and Android offerings.. and now it's exciting.. So interesting, that now even AT&T will have to offer Android at some point. The product is of course improving all the time, but it was always there, and always good.. It's just that now you have more people on board, and new hardware coming out all the time.