Actually it you. Since you can't distinguish the see that the parent is intentionally using vegan logic to point out the ridiculousness of the 'moral vegan'. And that you don't see that the parent obviously DOES distinguish between higher an lower forms of life.
Yes, I would have to say then, that they have crappy administrators, and that the users you describe are either retarded or lairs. I drag and drop multiple emails into folders all the time. To get standard internet style indenting when replying to a message, all these supposed 'users' have to do is select "Reply with Internet-Style History" instead of "Reply with History". It's right there on the same menu just two items down. Of course, you can also use the 'strange' way, and get an exact copy as an object of the prior message. It is put in a nice collapsible section to simplify reading of large email chains.
So, which do you think it is that has caused you to spread this FUD? Are you lying? Are your co-workers lying? Are they simply incompetent? Or are they completely non-technical people working in a non-technical area of IBM, and have really crappy admins/trainers who just tell them that Notes can't do that because they don't realize that the users are their customers?
You should also keep in mind that IBM is a big company and owns a lot of different applications that overlap each other. Notes/Domino is just one that they bought. It is entirely possible that their administrators do suck, and when faced with learning a new system, simply failed. Even though it is one of the simplest mail/development environments I have ever seen to maintain. It is also possible that when faced with their company buying a superior product, they felt that they needed to sabotage the 'competition' to their own projects. After all if you have 5 guys maintaing a system, and realize that the new product only requires 2, what do you do? (I don't know how many Administrators IBM has, but being as big as they are and with as many products as they support, I would guess that it is a lot.)
Perhaps they feel they have played out the flu profits. The pharmaceutical companies have lots of other diseases to sell temporary fixes for. It is also good to periodically come out with an actual cure now and then. Heck, it's even possible that as our population gets older, the pharma companies might be calculating that letting the flu run loose could kill enough of their very profitable customers that they would loose huge profits. This keeps the conspiracy theories down. The conspiracy theory question would be, "What percentage of the pharma industry's profits come from the current temporary flu vaccines."
Of course whether a permanent flu vaccine is a marketing gimmick, or it really is just now able to be created, doesn't change that it would be a very good thing.
No, there is just a vocal group that hates Notes. This is tends to be the people that have/are really crappy administrators, and have/are really crappy developers. As soon as Lotus Notes come up, the trolls come out. When confronted, they like to point to a 10 year old web page that complains about Notes' UI. Unfortunately the people who point to it haven't read the page since the complaints they cite apply to the major OS UIs out today, and some of the items complained about have been implemented in Windows since the article was written.
"parental action groups in America tend to worry more about sex, and about violence in films that look "innocent."
They are obviously not doing very well, as I haven't seen a movie aimed at kids in the theaters that did not have what most would consider inappropriate material in a very long time. Heck, in Shrek 2, they had a guy giving himself a hummer in the castle courtyard. Now, I'm all for blowjobs in movies, and I am pretty liberal about what I would allow my kid to watch, but many of the "kids" movies today are only a step below Porky's. My only problem with this is that they are slipping it in. If a kid sees sexual content in an movie aimed at adults, their parents are aware of it, and then choose how to address it. Either by talking, or not letting the kid watch those movies. In kids movies, most of the populous seems to think that for some reason kids do "get it" so just about anything goes.
If you were docked pay for not being there, you were not salary. Salary means you get paid a yearly amount to get the job done. Many hourly people get confused because companies like quote your hourly pay as if it were a salary. This helps them when they want hourly people to work for free.
I have never been a fan of HTML email either, but I think the 'waste of bandwidth' argument is long dead. Even a dial up modem has plenty of bandwidth to handle HTML email.
No, but it does prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that rich people are good and poor people are bad. Just look at how much more and better stuff the rich kids get.
Yes. It is time to turn our attention to the evil that Santa commits. Does his magic also allow him to commit more acts of copyright, patent, and trademark infringement in one night than even the worst pirates do in a whole year? This red suited criminal is stealing millions of dollars of potential revenue from poor starving artists and RIAA executives.
Any decent artist out there want to make up a cartoon depicting the RIAA suing Santa in a courtroom?
Except the way that IE handles RSS feeds in brain dead. Correct me if I am wrong, but to see the rss feeds in IE you have to open the RSS feed page, as opposed to the live bookmarks in Firefox or the newsticker in a hundred other rss readers.
Uhh... Hasn't it been well established in previous cases that you don't own the music. You only own a license to listen to the music? Now, I think that all of those cases were incorrectly determined, but if the legal system says having posession of the file when you have paid for it in a store doesn't constitute ownership, then there is no way that letting someone else copy the file could be a 'transfer of ownership'.
Not crash. Shift. Just because one or two system makers took over the market doesn't mean that there is a crash. The all reports of the crash seem to be clear that the C64 took over the video game market. Remember the C64 and TI were a consoles. They had cartidge ports. If you are going to classify anything with a keyboard as a 'computer' instead of a console, then the Atari 2600 was a computer. Not only did it have BASIC for the 2600, but it even said it was a computer right on the box. If you are going to define anything with a disk drive as a computer, then the famicon was a computer and not a console as well as XBOX, Xbox360 and PS3.
The difference between 'console' and 'computer' is marketing speak at best. So, saying that people started buying c64s to play video games on instead of Atari 2600s, has nothing to do with a video game crash. If over the next year 98% of all computer users went out and bought a PS3, installed Linux, added a keyboard and mouse, and ditched their x86 systems, it would not be a 'computer crash'. It would just be that people decided to buy a different computer to run their software.
To believe in this so called video game crash, I would need to hear numbers that showed there was a dramatic decline in home electronic gaming systems sold to consumers, as well as a dramatic decline in software programs sold to consumers.
The whole "video game" crash still seems like revisionist history to me. The way I remember it was that everyone was upgrading from the Atari 2600 video game systems to the C-64 video game systems. There was no time from my first pong system that the choices of games decreased.
This article is just suggesting that we go back to eugenics. Of course contrary to 'common knowledge', eugenics does work. All we have to do is look at the family dog to see that eugenics works, and why humans should not be allowed to perform it.
My father has been running a USB switch that has software swithing for well over a year. This isn't new. I wouldn't by one because they require the PCs to be right next to each other, and you had to click on an icon to use the device. Too much trouble. What seems more interesting to me, and given how cheap ethernet chips are, would be to just make all of your devices ethernet devices. USB is great for mice, joysticks and memory sticks. Basically personal devices to be used right there and then. But, for things like hard drives, scanners and printers, it seems that it would be almost as simple design wise and is already designed for sharing.
Don't be confused. I think that the idea of "intellectual property" is just plain silly. Unfortunately, that is battle that the sane have lost. Given that people are now considering property, and thus the idea that they only had a limited monopoly on a public access is becoming common, we must figure out how do live in a world where this happens.
As for more than one person owning the same "property" at the same time... This is dealt with all the time. With real property (e.g. land), it is called being "tenants in common" or "owners in common". In many states, it is the only way married couples can own land. While hitting your ex-spouse on the head and hoping for amnesia is one way of dealing with shared ownership of property, there are more legal ways of dealing with shared property, up to and including court ordered sale.
The thing that always strikes me during these debates is that people always seem to forget that the only reason they have a job supporting PCs is because when users couldn't get their jobs done due to overly strict mainframe policies, (I understand stricter policies for a shared system) they would bring in their Apple IIs and C64s. The ones that did, were dramatically more productive and this pushed more people to bring in computers. Eventually the companies started officially supporting PCs. Without those stupid users and their bypassing of corporate IT, these PC administrators would never have had a job in the first place.
I always say that if it is property, then there should be a property tax on it. Let the copyright holder declare the value of their "intellectual property". If they set the value at $100, then they can only sue for $100. If the set the value at $100,000,000 then they can sue for $100,000,000, but they also have to pay property taxes on $100,000,000 worth of property. Of course they should be able to abdicate their ownership at any time both relieving them of copyright and tax liability.
This would limit copyright holders from hording just for the sake of hording, as they would have to pay for it. We would see large numbers of works currently under copyright, pushed out to the public domain as a tax savings. It would not prevent anyone that is currently making a profit from their works from continuing to do so as they would be encourage to declare a fair market value for their works to properly balance protection and tax liability. It would limit the outrageous lawsuits as the value of the work would be pre-determined.
I would describe NPR as being alternative media the same way that I would describe those "non-conformists" that dress and act exactly like all the other "non-conformists".
So, which company produced an OS and a browser, then made the browser an extension of that product?
You keep explaining that Apple bundled their products and services, and that that was groundbreaking, but that when microsoft did it, they were not ground breaking.
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Actually it you. Since you can't distinguish the see that the parent is intentionally using vegan logic to point out the ridiculousness of the 'moral vegan'. And that you don't see that the parent obviously DOES distinguish between higher an lower forms of life.
Yes, I would have to say then, that they have crappy administrators, and that the users you describe are either retarded or lairs. I drag and drop multiple emails into folders all the time. To get standard internet style indenting when replying to a message, all these supposed 'users' have to do is select "Reply with Internet-Style History" instead of "Reply with History". It's right there on the same menu just two items down. Of course, you can also use the 'strange' way, and get an exact copy as an object of the prior message. It is put in a nice collapsible section to simplify reading of large email chains.
So, which do you think it is that has caused you to spread this FUD? Are you lying? Are your co-workers lying? Are they simply incompetent? Or are they completely non-technical people working in a non-technical area of IBM, and have really crappy admins/trainers who just tell them that Notes can't do that because they don't realize that the users are their customers?
You should also keep in mind that IBM is a big company and owns a lot of different applications that overlap each other. Notes/Domino is just one that they bought. It is entirely possible that their administrators do suck, and when faced with learning a new system, simply failed. Even though it is one of the simplest mail/development environments I have ever seen to maintain. It is also possible that when faced with their company buying a superior product, they felt that they needed to sabotage the 'competition' to their own projects. After all if you have 5 guys maintaing a system, and realize that the new product only requires 2, what do you do? (I don't know how many Administrators IBM has, but being as big as they are and with as many products as they support, I would guess that it is a lot.)
It's called Lotus Notes, and they had that nailed over a decade ago. Of course they only had it available via HTTP 7 or 8 years ago.
Perhaps they feel they have played out the flu profits. The pharmaceutical companies have lots of other diseases to sell temporary fixes for. It is also good to periodically come out with an actual cure now and then. Heck, it's even possible that as our population gets older, the pharma companies might be calculating that letting the flu run loose could kill enough of their very profitable customers that they would loose huge profits. This keeps the conspiracy theories down. The conspiracy theory question would be, "What percentage of the pharma industry's profits come from the current temporary flu vaccines."
Of course whether a permanent flu vaccine is a marketing gimmick, or it really is just now able to be created, doesn't change that it would be a very good thing.
No, there is just a vocal group that hates Notes. This is tends to be the people that have/are really crappy administrators, and have/are really crappy developers. As soon as Lotus Notes come up, the trolls come out. When confronted, they like to point to a 10 year old web page that complains about Notes' UI. Unfortunately the people who point to it haven't read the page since the complaints they cite apply to the major OS UIs out today, and some of the items complained about have been implemented in Windows since the article was written.
I believe that the 750 gig drives were considered innovative because the 750 gig drive were the first to 'get perpendicular'.
"parental action groups in America tend to worry more about sex, and about violence in films that look "innocent."
They are obviously not doing very well, as I haven't seen a movie aimed at kids in the theaters that did not have what most would consider inappropriate material in a very long time. Heck, in Shrek 2, they had a guy giving himself a hummer in the castle courtyard. Now, I'm all for blowjobs in movies, and I am pretty liberal about what I would allow my kid to watch, but many of the "kids" movies today are only a step below Porky's. My only problem with this is that they are slipping it in. If a kid sees sexual content in an movie aimed at adults, their parents are aware of it, and then choose how to address it. Either by talking, or not letting the kid watch those movies. In kids movies, most of the populous seems to think that for some reason kids do "get it" so just about anything goes.
So, why wasn't the C-64 a console then?
If you were docked pay for not being there, you were not salary. Salary means you get paid a yearly amount to get the job done. Many hourly people get confused because companies like quote your hourly pay as if it were a salary. This helps them when they want hourly people to work for free.
I have never been a fan of HTML email either, but I think the 'waste of bandwidth' argument is long dead. Even a dial up modem has plenty of bandwidth to handle HTML email.
No, but it does prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that rich people are good and poor people are bad. Just look at how much more and better stuff the rich kids get.
Ding. Ding. Ding. Ding. And that is the answer.
Yes. It is time to turn our attention to the evil that Santa commits. Does his magic also allow him to commit more acts of copyright, patent, and trademark infringement in one night than even the worst pirates do in a whole year? This red suited criminal is stealing millions of dollars of potential revenue from poor starving artists and RIAA executives.
Any decent artist out there want to make up a cartoon depicting the RIAA suing Santa in a courtroom?
None of the other options require you to open a page to read the feed. If you must open a page, it might as well be a standard HTML page.
Except the way that IE handles RSS feeds in brain dead. Correct me if I am wrong, but to see the rss feeds in IE you have to open the RSS feed page, as opposed to the live bookmarks in Firefox or the newsticker in a hundred other rss readers.
Uhh... Hasn't it been well established in previous cases that you don't own the music. You only own a license to listen to the music? Now, I think that all of those cases were incorrectly determined, but if the legal system says having posession of the file when you have paid for it in a store doesn't constitute ownership, then there is no way that letting someone else copy the file could be a 'transfer of ownership'.
Not crash. Shift. Just because one or two system makers took over the market doesn't mean that there is a crash. The all reports of the crash seem to be clear that the C64 took over the video game market. Remember the C64 and TI were a consoles. They had cartidge ports. If you are going to classify anything with a keyboard as a 'computer' instead of a console, then the Atari 2600 was a computer. Not only did it have BASIC for the 2600, but it even said it was a computer right on the box. If you are going to define anything with a disk drive as a computer, then the famicon was a computer and not a console as well as XBOX, Xbox360 and PS3.
The difference between 'console' and 'computer' is marketing speak at best. So, saying that people started buying c64s to play video games on instead of Atari 2600s, has nothing to do with a video game crash. If over the next year 98% of all computer users went out and bought a PS3, installed Linux, added a keyboard and mouse, and ditched their x86 systems, it would not be a 'computer crash'. It would just be that people decided to buy a different computer to run their software.
To believe in this so called video game crash, I would need to hear numbers that showed there was a dramatic decline in home electronic gaming systems sold to consumers, as well as a dramatic decline in software programs sold to consumers.
The whole "video game" crash still seems like revisionist history to me. The way I remember it was that everyone was upgrading from the Atari 2600 video game systems to the C-64 video game systems. There was no time from my first pong system that the choices of games decreased.
This article is just suggesting that we go back to eugenics. Of course contrary to 'common knowledge', eugenics does work. All we have to do is look at the family dog to see that eugenics works, and why humans should not be allowed to perform it.
My father has been running a USB switch that has software swithing for well over a year. This isn't new. I wouldn't by one because they require the PCs to be right next to each other, and you had to click on an icon to use the device. Too much trouble. What seems more interesting to me, and given how cheap ethernet chips are, would be to just make all of your devices ethernet devices. USB is great for mice, joysticks and memory sticks. Basically personal devices to be used right there and then. But, for things like hard drives, scanners and printers, it seems that it would be almost as simple design wise and is already designed for sharing.
Don't be confused. I think that the idea of "intellectual property" is just plain silly. Unfortunately, that is battle that the sane have lost. Given that people are now considering property, and thus the idea that they only had a limited monopoly on a public access is becoming common, we must figure out how do live in a world where this happens.
As for more than one person owning the same "property" at the same time... This is dealt with all the time. With real property (e.g. land), it is called being "tenants in common" or "owners in common". In many states, it is the only way married couples can own land. While hitting your ex-spouse on the head and hoping for amnesia is one way of dealing with shared ownership of property, there are more legal ways of dealing with shared property, up to and including court ordered sale.
The thing that always strikes me during these debates is that people always seem to forget that the only reason they have a job supporting PCs is because when users couldn't get their jobs done due to overly strict mainframe policies, (I understand stricter policies for a shared system) they would bring in their Apple IIs and C64s. The ones that did, were dramatically more productive and this pushed more people to bring in computers. Eventually the companies started officially supporting PCs. Without those stupid users and their bypassing of corporate IT, these PC administrators would never have had a job in the first place.
I always say that if it is property, then there should be a property tax on it. Let the copyright holder declare the value of their "intellectual property". If they set the value at $100, then they can only sue for $100. If the set the value at $100,000,000 then they can sue for $100,000,000, but they also have to pay property taxes on $100,000,000 worth of property. Of course they should be able to abdicate their ownership at any time both relieving them of copyright and tax liability.
This would limit copyright holders from hording just for the sake of hording, as they would have to pay for it. We would see large numbers of works currently under copyright, pushed out to the public domain as a tax savings. It would not prevent anyone that is currently making a profit from their works from continuing to do so as they would be encourage to declare a fair market value for their works to properly balance protection and tax liability. It would limit the outrageous lawsuits as the value of the work would be pre-determined.
I would describe NPR as being alternative media the same way that I would describe those "non-conformists" that dress and act exactly like all the other "non-conformists".
So, which company produced an OS and a browser, then made the browser an extension of that product?
You keep explaining that Apple bundled their products and services, and that that was groundbreaking, but that when microsoft did it, they were not ground breaking.