- Banning of Instant Messaging:
Are you supposed to be working or chatting with your friends?
- Filtering of websites beyond porn:
Are you supposed to be working or browing websites?
- Banning any Palm-like device, except the corporate one.
This makes caring for your computer related equipment easier. I no longer have to worry about odd programs installed.
- disabling USB ports:
There are two reasons for this. One is that I don't want you installing any devices that aren't corporate sponsored. Also you, or anyone else, could use it to theoretically steal data.
- disabling Wifi:
If you have a hardwired network connection why do you need Wifi? It is just another security issue I have to worry about.
- banning alternative browsers and all kinds of utilities:
Any program you install is one that could make the system unstable. We test the builds of computer systems so that they are stable. Also it adds to a security risk. The program you install could have a vulnerability.
- limiting the size of mailboxes:
Disk space costs money. Exchange servers cost money. Maintaining them costs money.
- disallowing or crippling desktop search:
I am not sure why they would do this one. It is possible they don't want you touching certain files to circumvent there security.
- disallowing or crippling streaming media:
Are you supposed to be working or playing on the internet? Bandwidth costs money. Certain types of media can lead to lawsuits.
- Creating lengthy processes for getting new software on your desktop:
We have to support the software. We have to install the software. We don't want to do this often. Also most people are not trying to install something that will help them in their job but some stupid screen saver that will cause the user to complain when the computer is slow.
I can't believe you actually posted all of those things when the reasons are actually pretty self evident. When you are maintaining a network of 50,000 and a virus outbreak could cause you to lose your job you get pretty anal about what lazy workers want to do with the companies computers.
I agree that in general costs in Japan are more expensive but in this case the bandwidth and the music are much cheaper than in the U.S.. This is just a case of Apple charging what it thinks the market can handle. It is not a case of Apple trying to be good and fluffy and lvoe everybody.
we actually do quite a bit and we actually only have a.4 percent fraud rate which is very low in any retail industry. We are one of the most stringent online retailers. We use a system from Cybersource to check fraud and then every order is inspected by human eyes to see if the computer missed anything. We check for correct billing address and CVS code. We do a reverse phone directory to see if the phone number given matches the name and address of the person that it is gettng billed too. If there is any amiguity we will charge a small amount to the card which the purchaser will have to verify to the penny by talking to there bank or looking at there account online. If we are really suspicious we will require a fax of the license and credit card. IF it is a high amount American Express will call and ask the customer if they really did make the purchase. The problem is that often times the fraud person has changed all of the info at the bank level and is having the goods shipped to a house that the owners are on vacation or is empty for some other reason. If you know the system and have a good phishing scam set up it would be very easy to get hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stuff.
We think it was actually a guy on the inside of MBNA that was giving the guy we were dealing with the info. The credit card companies don't care much either though because they are not eating any money. It is the reatailer that suffers. The credit card company will just issue a chargeback and we are out of luck.
I work for an online retailer and we lose thousands of dollars every day to fraud. We have attempted to get the government to intervene but unless it is over $50,000 they don't tend to help us. We had a case where a guy stole $25,000 worth of goods from us using fraudulent cards. We knew where he lived but the police/feds refused to do anyhing about it.
Dominos has had online ordering here for sometime as well. This is an attempt at having all takeout and dleivery online as opposed to a few major chains. Much better in my opinion then the dominos approach. I am not aware of any major Pizza chain that doesn't have an online order process here in the states.
He is not saying this because he thinks open source is bad. He is implying that American corporations are getting a competitive advantage over european corporations by having a tax free source of programmers. It is just posturing for later sanctions as are now occuring in the Airbus case in Europe where our government is claiming that Europe gave tax breaks and help to Airbus which is in violation of trade agreement. It really has nothing to do with open source it is more about trade negotiations.
They have a trademark on the word "Tiger" which means that in their industry another company cannot use the word tiger without there permission. It is similar to the suit in which Apple Music sued Apple Computers and won a long time ago (in the 80's I think) with the proviso that Apple could never release a product that was music related. Last year they sued again because Apple Computers was violating the conditions of that suit. I am not sure what happened as Apple Computers is still running a music related business in iTunes.
I don't think that republicans are that worried about it since they have only blocked one nomination and it was over thirty years ago. They put all Clinton's nominations through as it was an unwritten rule to allow a vote to be made. Only now has the rule been broken.
Not that I am a bush supporter by any means but these people work for bush. They attemped to have bush fired. Bush fired them. When every president takes office he replaces people under him with people that he likes. In any company when a new boss comes in he will also bring people from his team. It's the same here. In any company if the employees attempted to get their boss fired they would be let go.
Grand Juries are secret but generally all of the pertinent information in a Grand Jury will be published the same day that it occurs. A Grand Jury is technically secret but in reality it is not. If the person who leaked the info were caught they would be punished but the newspaper that published the info would never ever suffer any consequences. There would be screams of freedom of the press. As to a fair jury almost all of the details of every trial are disseminated before trial. That is why we have jury selection in the US. In the US it is assumed that the majority of people are smart enough to keep an open mind regardless of what has passed in the media. Those who cannot are interviewed and weeded out.
There are plenty of ways to get advertising in programming that is not fast forwarded through. The recent I Robot movie with Will Smith (dreadful movie by the way) was replete with examples of exactly this. How many times did he show of his vintage 2004 model converse all stars. How about the Audi throughout the movie. If television wants the ad revenue they will just have to get creative. I won't except pop-ups during my web browsing and I also do not watch television if I have to be interupted every 3 minutes for a commercial.
I do not claim to be an expert on Thomas Jefferson or the founding fathers but the quotes you provided as evidence do not seem to back up your claim. Perhaps you should work harder to find quotes from the thousands uttered by TJ in order to more clearly state your argument. Examples: "I have ever thought religion a concern purely between our God and our consciences, for which we were accountable to Him." This seems to show a belief in a god to which one can be held accountable contrary to your stated definition of a Deist. The last 2 qoutes seem to show Thomas Jefferson as a Christian. Describing Christianity, "brought to the original purity and simplicity of it's benevolent institutor, is a religion of all others most friendly to liberty, science, and the freest expansion of the human mind." Apparently he believes that Christianity when in it's pure form is of all religions the most friendly to many scientific endeavors. Finally he labels Christ as the, "great reformer of the Jewish religion..." It appears that Jefferson pays homage to Christ but also uses the word great to discuss the reformation of the Jewish religion to a Christian one, showing preference for the Christian one as the reform was "great." I do not really care one way or the other I think that if you are going to play fast and loose with the facts you should at least try and take things out of context that actually back up your argument.
Blizzard has tried to make there latest offering very user friendly. The game after setup can be played entirely with just the mouse. It also doesn't require super accuracy or speed. It is however a ton of fun. Good luck finding a game that suits.
The difference between Microsoft and these other companies is that for Microsoft it is not a core business. For these other companies they could only lose cash for a certain number of years before bankruptcy occurred. Microsoft on the other hand has enough cash in the bank and profits from it's core businesses to keep spending the pittance it spends on Xbox for generations and I meant human generations and not console generations. The strategy is definitely worth it as they see it as the entrance to the all powerful home computertainment center.
His point, while poorly written is one that I fundamentally agree with. Kerry, and many others in positions of power, love to tell me to shoulder a greater burden in defence of society. It seems hypocritical that Kerry would expect me to shoulder a greater burden but he himself not do so. If he were truly altruistic he would donate 500 million or so to the poor or for education or some other program. Bill Gates has done just that with his foundation to which he donated 27 billion dollars. I get tired of the Streisands and Moores of the world chanting the evils of the wealthy (those in the upper middle class) from high atop the balconies of their ten million dollar homes. I might listen if they sold there homes donated there money to the government or charity and moved in next door to me. Until then they have no right to speak.
No one is forced to enter the military in the United States. If people sign up for the military with no desire to fight then they are idiots. That is what they are paid for. A draft forces people who have no desire to fight to be somewhere doing something they don't want to do against there will. We abolished slavery a long time ago. I am disgusted by the people who would like to revive it. For the people who complain that Bush is sending their children to war I have nothing but contempt. They volunteered to fight, no one forced them to sign up for the war. I go to work everyday because it is what I agreed to do to receive my paycheck. Soldiers go to war because it is what they agreed to do. We don't pay them for nothing. Should we be in Iraq? I don't think so but that has nothing to do with whether or not the soldiers should be there. That is their job. If they didn't want to go they shouldn't have signed up.
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- Banning of Instant Messaging: Are you supposed to be working or chatting with your friends? - Filtering of websites beyond porn: Are you supposed to be working or browing websites? - Banning any Palm-like device, except the corporate one. This makes caring for your computer related equipment easier. I no longer have to worry about odd programs installed. - disabling USB ports: There are two reasons for this. One is that I don't want you installing any devices that aren't corporate sponsored. Also you, or anyone else, could use it to theoretically steal data. - disabling Wifi: If you have a hardwired network connection why do you need Wifi? It is just another security issue I have to worry about. - banning alternative browsers and all kinds of utilities: Any program you install is one that could make the system unstable. We test the builds of computer systems so that they are stable. Also it adds to a security risk. The program you install could have a vulnerability. - limiting the size of mailboxes: Disk space costs money. Exchange servers cost money. Maintaining them costs money. - disallowing or crippling desktop search: I am not sure why they would do this one. It is possible they don't want you touching certain files to circumvent there security. - disallowing or crippling streaming media: Are you supposed to be working or playing on the internet? Bandwidth costs money. Certain types of media can lead to lawsuits. - Creating lengthy processes for getting new software on your desktop: We have to support the software. We have to install the software. We don't want to do this often. Also most people are not trying to install something that will help them in their job but some stupid screen saver that will cause the user to complain when the computer is slow. I can't believe you actually posted all of those things when the reasons are actually pretty self evident. When you are maintaining a network of 50,000 and a virus outbreak could cause you to lose your job you get pretty anal about what lazy workers want to do with the companies computers.
You are all forgetting the best game of them all Barren Realms Elite.
I agree that in general costs in Japan are more expensive but in this case the bandwidth and the music are much cheaper than in the U.S.. This is just a case of Apple charging what it thinks the market can handle. It is not a case of Apple trying to be good and fluffy and lvoe everybody.
we actually do quite a bit and we actually only have a .4 percent fraud rate which is very low in any retail industry. We are one of the most stringent online retailers. We use a system from Cybersource to check fraud and then every order is inspected by human eyes to see if the computer missed anything. We check for correct billing address and CVS code. We do a reverse phone directory to see if the phone number given matches the name and address of the person that it is gettng billed too. If there is any amiguity we will charge a small amount to the card which the purchaser will have to verify to the penny by talking to there bank or looking at there account online. If we are really suspicious we will require a fax of the license and credit card. IF it is a high amount American Express will call and ask the customer if they really did make the purchase. The problem is that often times the fraud person has changed all of the info at the bank level and is having the goods shipped to a house that the owners are on vacation or is empty for some other reason. If you know the system and have a good phishing scam set up it would be very easy to get hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stuff.
We think it was actually a guy on the inside of MBNA that was giving the guy we were dealing with the info. The credit card companies don't care much either though because they are not eating any money. It is the reatailer that suffers. The credit card company will just issue a chargeback and we are out of luck.
I work for an online retailer and we lose thousands of dollars every day to fraud. We have attempted to get the government to intervene but unless it is over $50,000 they don't tend to help us. We had a case where a guy stole $25,000 worth of goods from us using fraudulent cards. We knew where he lived but the police/feds refused to do anyhing about it.
Dominos has had online ordering here for sometime as well. This is an attempt at having all takeout and dleivery online as opposed to a few major chains. Much better in my opinion then the dominos approach. I am not aware of any major Pizza chain that doesn't have an online order process here in the states.
He is not saying this because he thinks open source is bad. He is implying that American corporations are getting a competitive advantage over european corporations by having a tax free source of programmers. It is just posturing for later sanctions as are now occuring in the Airbus case in Europe where our government is claiming that Europe gave tax breaks and help to Airbus which is in violation of trade agreement. It really has nothing to do with open source it is more about trade negotiations.
It is tempting to buy an illegitimate copy for $10 just so I can get the free legit copy.
They have a trademark on the word "Tiger" which means that in their industry another company cannot use the word tiger without there permission. It is similar to the suit in which Apple Music sued Apple Computers and won a long time ago (in the 80's I think) with the proviso that Apple could never release a product that was music related. Last year they sued again because Apple Computers was violating the conditions of that suit. I am not sure what happened as Apple Computers is still running a music related business in iTunes.
I don't think that republicans are that worried about it since they have only blocked one nomination and it was over thirty years ago. They put all Clinton's nominations through as it was an unwritten rule to allow a vote to be made. Only now has the rule been broken.
Not that I am a bush supporter by any means but these people work for bush. They attemped to have bush fired. Bush fired them. When every president takes office he replaces people under him with people that he likes. In any company when a new boss comes in he will also bring people from his team. It's the same here. In any company if the employees attempted to get their boss fired they would be let go.
Grand Juries are secret but generally all of the pertinent information in a Grand Jury will be published the same day that it occurs. A Grand Jury is technically secret but in reality it is not. If the person who leaked the info were caught they would be punished but the newspaper that published the info would never ever suffer any consequences. There would be screams of freedom of the press. As to a fair jury almost all of the details of every trial are disseminated before trial. That is why we have jury selection in the US. In the US it is assumed that the majority of people are smart enough to keep an open mind regardless of what has passed in the media. Those who cannot are interviewed and weeded out.
There are plenty of ways to get advertising in programming that is not fast forwarded through. The recent I Robot movie with Will Smith (dreadful movie by the way) was replete with examples of exactly this. How many times did he show of his vintage 2004 model converse all stars. How about the Audi throughout the movie. If television wants the ad revenue they will just have to get creative. I won't except pop-ups during my web browsing and I also do not watch television if I have to be interupted every 3 minutes for a commercial.
I do not claim to be an expert on Thomas Jefferson or the founding fathers but the quotes you provided as evidence do not seem to back up your claim. Perhaps you should work harder to find quotes from the thousands uttered by TJ in order to more clearly state your argument. Examples: "I have ever thought religion a concern purely between our God and our consciences, for which we were accountable to Him." This seems to show a belief in a god to which one can be held accountable contrary to your stated definition of a Deist. The last 2 qoutes seem to show Thomas Jefferson as a Christian. Describing Christianity, "brought to the original purity and simplicity of it's benevolent institutor, is a religion of all others most friendly to liberty, science, and the freest expansion of the human mind." Apparently he believes that Christianity when in it's pure form is of all religions the most friendly to many scientific endeavors. Finally he labels Christ as the, "great reformer of the Jewish religion..." It appears that Jefferson pays homage to Christ but also uses the word great to discuss the reformation of the Jewish religion to a Christian one, showing preference for the Christian one as the reform was "great." I do not really care one way or the other I think that if you are going to play fast and loose with the facts you should at least try and take things out of context that actually back up your argument.
Blizzard has tried to make there latest offering very user friendly. The game after setup can be played entirely with just the mouse. It also doesn't require super accuracy or speed. It is however a ton of fun. Good luck finding a game that suits.
The difference between Microsoft and these other companies is that for Microsoft it is not a core business. For these other companies they could only lose cash for a certain number of years before bankruptcy occurred. Microsoft on the other hand has enough cash in the bank and profits from it's core businesses to keep spending the pittance it spends on Xbox for generations and I meant human generations and not console generations. The strategy is definitely worth it as they see it as the entrance to the all powerful home computertainment center.
His point, while poorly written is one that I fundamentally agree with. Kerry, and many others in positions of power, love to tell me to shoulder a greater burden in defence of society. It seems hypocritical that Kerry would expect me to shoulder a greater burden but he himself not do so. If he were truly altruistic he would donate 500 million or so to the poor or for education or some other program. Bill Gates has done just that with his foundation to which he donated 27 billion dollars. I get tired of the Streisands and Moores of the world chanting the evils of the wealthy (those in the upper middle class) from high atop the balconies of their ten million dollar homes. I might listen if they sold there homes donated there money to the government or charity and moved in next door to me. Until then they have no right to speak.
No one is forced to enter the military in the United States. If people sign up for the military with no desire to fight then they are idiots. That is what they are paid for. A draft forces people who have no desire to fight to be somewhere doing something they don't want to do against there will. We abolished slavery a long time ago. I am disgusted by the people who would like to revive it. For the people who complain that Bush is sending their children to war I have nothing but contempt. They volunteered to fight, no one forced them to sign up for the war. I go to work everyday because it is what I agreed to do to receive my paycheck. Soldiers go to war because it is what they agreed to do. We don't pay them for nothing. Should we be in Iraq? I don't think so but that has nothing to do with whether or not the soldiers should be there. That is their job. If they didn't want to go they shouldn't have signed up.