In my country we have a constitution that protects our rights from invasion by the government. I could say wahtever I wanted to about President Bush and suffer no consequences at all.
I for one would never say anything bad about President Bush though, even though I know the FBI/CIA/Whaterver aren't listening to me. That would just be silly.
Looks like Google is hoarding data. Seems they at least are equating information with power and money. And them that has the power and money makes the rules.
It sounds good on the news. Money chages hands. No one can vote against it with being smeared as "anti-environment". And yet it will do absolutly nothing.
Its the perfect law!
Just to clear things up, I like the environment and want recycling, but guys, this is just stupid.
Let's see, if I were Jobs and I had a near-monopoly on sales of digital music, would I give it away?
DRM is a financial fact of life, just like circumventing it is a technical fact of life. The only thing that will kill the DRM-monster is the sword of falling profits, and it looks like that is lost for the moment. No ammount of wishful thinking about open source DRM or Apple giving up its strangle hold will change this story.
TO: Apple Marketing Dept CC: Big Steve SUBJECT: iPhone Pricing
Just a thought on the the iPhone pricing. If we release it at too low of a cost, we may never hit the sweet-spot for pricing. I think we could release it at tripple the cost and then lower it little by little until we get the numbers we want. Just hype it as "price cuts" when we release one of those hokey upgrades. It worked for the rest of our products.
I was SOOOOOO worried that the two multi-billion-dollar corporations might drag on this free ad-fest for the rest of the year. Now we can go back to worrying if Vista users are secure. Huzah!
Ha ha ha. Its working. Users are being blamed for the lack of security on MS Windows. Once we get rid of these pesky security whiners, there'll be no more reason for Linux.
Pardon me, but I thought the reason Windows was crap was because it was so simple to write spyware/malware that COULD run on it, not becasue it lacked security features that disabled users from changing settings.
As long as we blame users for bad software, MS will rule the world and Linux will be a distant second.
I am NOT paid to care what users want. I am paid to do what my manager(s) want. My managers want the company's PCs to work the way the IT department intended. If the PCs don't work as designed help desk tickets get logged. If too many tickets get logged, attention comes MY way. If I get too much negative attention, I am out of a job. Life is simple at the bottom of the heap. Users get to use their workstations as the company intends them to be used, not as they want. No streaming media. No MP3s on the servers, no software not approved by the IT department.
I am not a BOFH, I am a cog in a great, souless machine. Its a living.
1) A species capable of galactic colonization must be organized 2) Organization requires competition. The better the competition, the better the organization 3) Competition promotes conflict - either between species or within competing factions of a species 4) As the ability to colonize space develops, so does the ability to destroy the whole species 5) Since colonizing a new area is the essential goal of all species (survival requires species to spread as far as possible) reaching this "ultimate" goal will require overcoming the competition at all costs including destroying the original habitat and all members of the species. 6) All species capable of colonizing space must enevitably destroy themselves. Colonization is not possible. Cooperation will NOT lead to galactic colonization as it will ony lead to cooperative use of existing resources. At least that's my two cents.
tends to stay in a given area. It doesn't like to move. It creates laws and social structures to protect itself (or the humans who work for it do). Once the protection is in place, its almost impossible to move it somewhere else. Only a heavy disaster or economic devistation will get rid of it, and then only because the protection is gone.
The Valley will continue to be important for as long as California can keep the funding and investment laws in place.
What happens when Microsoft gets into the RFID reading business? The standards in place today will be meaningless. The people with the "fist generation" RFID chips will have to have those removed and upgraded. I can see people with two, three or even four different RFID chips in their arms, legs, foreheads just to make sure all of their info is readable by whoever wants it.
Have we learned nothing from 20 years of consumer electronic devices?
I, too, feel the flapping wings of Time passing over me and worry that I will never have the chance to be a manager/supervisor. But, on the other hand, in the past eight years I have seen the number of people in the network I administer double while no one in the IT hierarchy has bothered to add staff to me group, my manager is two states away and feel confident in not comunicating with me for weeks at a time, and I am performing proxy-management of projects while my boss administers the other plants. My co-workers (in other states) are closly supervised and in competition with each other for supervisory positions in yet-another-state. Oh, and my pay had had hefty increases in the past five years based on my performance.
Am I worried that I won't be in management? A little, but not enough to leave my job. Do I think I will be "promoted" at any time? That depends on what you mean by promotion. Me, I think increased money and responsibility is a promotion, just one the Corp. VPs won't notice. It keeps your head from being specially selected for a lopping.
Here are some interesting bits of trivia you might wish to ponder. 1) Not everyone believes that the great Euopean-derived society is either correct 100% of the time or even basically ethical. These people do not care for western society's respect. 2) Contrary to what everyone in America thinks, having money does not prove you are better than other people. Witness Ms. Hilton, President Bush, and Mr. Gates as examples of this.
What is sad is that so many people look down their noses as someone who has contributed so much over the course of his life and ask for so little in return.
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In my country we have a constitution that protects our rights from invasion by the government. I could say wahtever I wanted to about President Bush and suffer no consequences at all.
I for one would never say anything bad about President Bush though, even though I know the FBI/CIA/Whaterver aren't listening to me. That would just be silly.
Yawn. Wake me when the UFOs land.
I first heard is as "wagon full of punch cards", but I thought I'd update it.:-)
The bandwidth of a moving van full of disks.
Looks like Google is hoarding data. Seems they at least are equating information with power and money. And them that has the power and money makes the rules.
Why is the water warm and yellow?
Please! The only "negotiations" most of us non-executives have for pay go soemthing like this:
PHB: "You did a good job last year. You could use some improvement. We're giving you a 6% raise as a reward."
Employee: "I met all of my improvment criteria from last year. Is that the most I can get?"
PHB: "Don't tell any of the other employees, but you are getting the highest raise in the section."
Employee: "Uh, thanks?"
Of course there's always the alternative which is "Don't let the door hit you in the *ss on the way out."
while ($have_job) {
MUMBLE ("I love my job.");
}
It sounds good on the news. Money chages hands. No one can vote against it with being smeared as "anti-environment". And yet it will do absolutly nothing.
Its the perfect law!
Just to clear things up, I like the environment and want recycling, but guys, this is just stupid.
Let's see, if I were Jobs and I had a near-monopoly on sales of digital music, would I give it away?
DRM is a financial fact of life, just like circumventing it is a technical fact of life. The only thing that will kill the DRM-monster is the sword of falling profits, and it looks like that is lost for the moment. No ammount of wishful thinking about open source DRM or Apple giving up its strangle hold will change this story.
Money. It is ALWAYS about money.
TO: Apple Marketing Dept
CC: Big Steve
SUBJECT: iPhone Pricing
Just a thought on the the iPhone pricing. If we release it at too low of a cost, we may never hit the sweet-spot for pricing. I think we could release it at tripple the cost and then lower it little by little until we get the numbers we want. Just hype it as "price cuts" when we release one of those hokey upgrades. It worked for the rest of our products.
S. Limey, Marketeer.
'Cause someone (you?) asked the exact, word-for-word question on yahoo answers about two months ago.
The USA (Microsoft) really (REALLY REALLY)needs all (EVERY SINGLE ONE) of the schools to buy more PCs (AND NOT MACS).
I have a saying I tell some of my users who are endowed with a sense of humor:
Maybe the reason you are having such a problem with technology is becasue you're stupid.
Obviously very few (one) users have ever heard this. Apply that idea to your job and think about why you keep switching companies.
Maybe the reason you can't find the job you want to keep forever is because you shouldn't be working in this field.
Just a thought.
Big deal. What I want to know is when Lusers will get a Clue!
I was SOOOOOO worried that the two multi-billion-dollar corporations might drag on this free ad-fest for the rest of the year. Now we can go back to worrying if Vista users are secure. Huzah!
Ha ha ha. Its working. Users are being blamed for the lack of security on MS Windows. Once we get rid of these pesky security whiners, there'll be no more reason for Linux.
Pardon me, but I thought the reason Windows was crap was because it was so simple to write spyware/malware that COULD run on it, not becasue it lacked security features that disabled users from changing settings.
As long as we blame users for bad software, MS will rule the world and Linux will be a distant second.
You said it. This is a big yawn. The only story I want to hear about Vista security is what it fixes. We already know what Microsoft broke.
I am NOT paid to care what users want. I am paid to do what my manager(s) want. My managers want the company's PCs to work the way the IT department intended. If the PCs don't work as designed help desk tickets get logged. If too many tickets get logged, attention comes MY way. If I get too much negative attention, I am out of a job. Life is simple at the bottom of the heap. Users get to use their workstations as the company intends them to be used, not as they want. No streaming media. No MP3s on the servers, no software not approved by the IT department.
I am not a BOFH, I am a cog in a great, souless machine. Its a living.
1) A species capable of galactic colonization must be organized
2) Organization requires competition. The better the competition, the better the organization
3) Competition promotes conflict - either between species or within competing factions of a species
4) As the ability to colonize space develops, so does the ability to destroy the whole species
5) Since colonizing a new area is the essential goal of all species (survival requires species to spread as far as possible) reaching this "ultimate" goal will require overcoming the competition at all costs including destroying the original habitat and all members of the species.
6) All species capable of colonizing space must enevitably destroy themselves.
Colonization is not possible. Cooperation will NOT lead to galactic colonization as it will ony lead to cooperative use of existing resources.
At least that's my two cents.
tends to stay in a given area. It doesn't like to move. It creates laws and social structures to protect itself (or the humans who work for it do). Once the protection is in place, its almost impossible to move it somewhere else. Only a heavy disaster or economic devistation will get rid of it, and then only because the protection is gone.
The Valley will continue to be important for as long as California can keep the funding and investment laws in place.
Yes, there COULD be a problem. Every year my systems go through this twice and every year there are problems.
There is a solution. We call it SCRIPTING. Here's a sample
if (DATE()=$DSTChange_Date && $time(now)=> 23:59) {
set TIME(1:00 am);
}
Of course that script won't work. For the REAL solution, send $12.95 US to:
Worry about the global BEER shortage.
The HORROR!!!!
No, those would be the Microsoft chips, and you gotta know the implant location specs are are a pain in the ass.
What happens when Microsoft gets into the RFID reading business? The standards in place today will be meaningless. The people with the "fist generation" RFID chips will have to have those removed and upgraded. I can see people with two, three or even four different RFID chips in their arms, legs, foreheads just to make sure all of their info is readable by whoever wants it.
Have we learned nothing from 20 years of consumer electronic devices?
I, too, feel the flapping wings of Time passing over me and worry that I will never have the chance to be a manager/supervisor. But, on the other hand, in the past eight years I have seen the number of people in the network I administer double while no one in the IT hierarchy has bothered to add staff to me group, my manager is two states away and feel confident in not comunicating with me for weeks at a time, and I am performing proxy-management of projects while my boss administers the other plants. My co-workers (in other states) are closly supervised and in competition with each other for supervisory positions in yet-another-state. Oh, and my pay had had hefty increases in the past five years based on my performance.
Am I worried that I won't be in management? A little, but not enough to leave my job. Do I think I will be "promoted" at any time? That depends on what you mean by promotion. Me, I think increased money and responsibility is a promotion, just one the Corp. VPs won't notice. It keeps your head from being specially selected for a lopping.
Just a thought.
Wow, that is such a load of Ameri-centric crap.
Here are some interesting bits of trivia you might wish to ponder.
1) Not everyone believes that the great Euopean-derived society is either correct 100% of the time or even basically ethical. These people do not care for western society's respect.
2) Contrary to what everyone in America thinks, having money does not prove you are better than other people. Witness Ms. Hilton, President Bush, and Mr. Gates as examples of this.
What is sad is that so many people look down their noses as someone who has contributed so much over the course of his life and ask for so little in return.