I don't like to burn bridges, but I'm pretty sure he's already burned it to the ground, even threatening to withhold my final paycheck if I don't find a replacement before I leave.
You should immediately talk with the employment board in your state's governement (if you're in the US). Your manager may have crossed over the line of what he can legally do.
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If Microsoft would innovate, instead of copy, then Gates would not have to be envious of Google's success and coolness.
Microsoft has hired a bunch of pie in the sky forward thinkers from the golden age of computers. The question is - will their knowledge and visions be relevant in the future? How many visionaries manage to remain visionaries through the passage of time?
Yes, Opera seems to be ahead in features, and also unfixed bugs. It seems you can have developers focus on new fetaures, or have them focus on fixing bugs, but not both.
This is a frightening example of how little our bureaucrats know and understand the computers they use. One has to wonder how many similar occurrences of ineptitude have transpired, and what were the ramifications?
Revenue is important but profit even more so. MSFT closed up today 3.48%
Revenue (i.e., top line) growth is necessary for the long-term growth of the company. Earnings (i.e., bottom line) are more representative of the short term quarter-to-quarter health of the company.
When was the last time that Microsoft came up short on revenue for a quarter?
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The US doesn't have a CD-R/MP3 player tax like other countries.
The United States did, and still does, have a tax on blank audio cassettes, with the proceeds of the tax going to the record industry. In pushing the tax bill through Congress, the record industry said that the tax was to make sure the artists got money for their work. However, little of the tax actually went to the artists, most went to the record labels and publishing companies.
Customers who have contacted customer service with concerns have problem with getting return calls, emails, and experience unresponsiveness and unconcerned customer service staff.
Just as a follow-up for completeness of the thread here.
I just received SuSE 9.3, and installed it on my HP Omnibook laptop. The suspend to disk option works repeatedly and reliably.
In the release notes, SuSE recommends that/boot be placed in it's own 50MB partition in order to assure stable operation of suspend to disk. I did not do that (I read the release notes after I had partitioned the disk and installed 9.3). Even without the separate/boot partition, suspend to disk works well for me.
What if Tridge wrote something that totally hosed the kernel source on BK's server? People would be screaming bloody murder at BK for letting it happen....
And rightly so. If BK's server were so insecure, that it allowed a random person write access to the kernel source code, then people should be screaming bloody murder at BK.
One of the reasons BK kept their stuff closed was so they could take accountability if anything went wrong and now exactly how every client was accessing it. That's one of the advantages most managers see with going with a commercial company rather than a OSS solution.
You forgot to cite Windows as proof of how well a commercial company provides a secure operating environment.
Re:all-nine-users-cheer dept ??
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Opera isn't getting more buggy - quite the opposite, in fact. And the fact that security holes are plugged quickly and efficiently prove that your comments about "more buggy" are nonsense.
Opera still crashes when trying to access a https site through a proxy. This critical bug is new since the earlier 7.x versions. This security issue was brought up on the beta newsgroup by one of the posters two beta releases ago. It still is not fixed, even though it was confirmed in the news group by multiple Opera users. I was watching that particular bug with interest, since it bites me too frequently (accessing online shopping sites and my bank site via the company's proxy server).
So much for Opera's vaunted security leanings.
So much for plugging security holes quickly and efficiently.
I have to either not use https, or use another browser, to access secure web sites.
Before you continue the attempt to rationalize Opera Software's failings, you should realize that I have actually purchased a license for Opera, therefore I do expect a more responsive vendor than Opera has been so far. So have fun in your blind advocacy for Opera, but be aware that you may be doing more harm than good when you tell customers that their concerns are not really worthwhile.
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"On the other hand, I can get FireFox to have similar functionality to Opera only by loading a bunch of plug-ins."
Except Firefox has lots of bugs of its own. Just recently, 1.0.3 was released with critical security fixes, whereas Opera is the only browser of the "big three" with no unpatched vulnerabilities.
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Interesting. I added that last comment (the one in italics above) as a criticism of FireFox to see if a rabid Opera cheerleader would be so caught up in defending Opera that she or he would not realize that the comment was critical of FireFox.
Looks like I caught the fish I was angling for.;-)
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but Opera has a pretty faithful user base....
As one of the "faithful base" (this message is being posted with Opera), I am becoming disenchanted with the direction that Opera Software is taking. Opera is becoming more bloated and more buggy with each release. Instead of fixing bugs, new features are being added, new features that themselves contain additional bugs. Why do I need yet another mail reader in my browser?
On the other hand, I can get FireFox to have similar functionality to Opera only by loading a bunch of plug-ins. I do not know whether those plug-ins will work in the next release of FireFox, or if they do work, how much time I'll need to spend to download and install them.
Here's why: What's the most important thing on your desktop? It's the data.
In actuality, it is the data and my ability to access that data. Running as root increases the chances that I will not be able to access my data for all the reasons noted elsewhere.
... is that MSN, in spite of being the default IE home page of nearly every PC that has been sold over the past several years, is still an also ran in the portal business.
Microsoft is desperate to increase the marketshare of MSN. In hiring Dr. Flake, Microsoft thinks he will be able to bring positive change to MSN. In reality, Dr. Flake will succumb to Microsoft's culture and fall into the group-think that has made MSN the failure it is.
Please define "full laptop support"? I went to the Linspire site and the only information I could find about laptop support in Linspire was that Linspire has full laptop support.
It's a laptop. Power management must work completely and fully, up to and including suspend to disk.
The only Linux that I've seen that comes close in the power management area is SuSE 9.2 (haven't tried 9.3 yet), but even there the suspend to disk is unreliable.
This is one of the dumbest paragraphs I've seen recently in the (so-called) scientific press.
The paragraph you quote contained the phrase, "the company says", indicating that the paragraph was more marketing than factual. If you had read the rest of the article, you would have seen that the author tested reality vs. what the company said.
Then again, who really still expects truth to be found in the NYT?
OK, now it is apparent why you chose you misquote the article, you have an agenda to fill.
2 volts is not going to make a difference. Anything with "complex electronic chips" is likely going to be voltage-regulated anyway, even if it's just with a Zener.
Doesn't anyone read the article anymore? Among the items tested were non-electronic flashlight and fan, neither of which would have a voltage regulator in it (zener diode or otherwise).
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You should immediately talk with the employment board in your state's governement (if you're in the US). Your manager may have crossed over the line of what he can legally do.
If Microsoft would innovate, instead of copy, then Gates would not have to be envious of Google's success and coolness.
Microsoft has hired a bunch of pie in the sky forward thinkers from the golden age of computers. The question is - will their knowledge and visions be relevant in the future? How many visionaries manage to remain visionaries through the passage of time?
No, you've covered them all.
Yes, Opera seems to be ahead in features, and also unfixed bugs. It seems you can have developers focus on new fetaures, or have them focus on fixing bugs, but not both.
This is a frightening example of how little our bureaucrats know and understand the computers they use. One has to wonder how many similar occurrences of ineptitude have transpired, and what were the ramifications?
Revenue (i.e., top line) growth is necessary for the long-term growth of the company. Earnings (i.e., bottom line) are more representative of the short term quarter-to-quarter health of the company.
When was the last time that Microsoft came up short on revenue for a quarter?
The United States did, and still does, have a tax on blank audio cassettes, with the proceeds of the tax going to the record industry. In pushing the tax bill through Congress, the record industry said that the tax was to make sure the artists got money for their work. However, little of the tax actually went to the artists, most went to the record labels and publishing companies.
Yup.
I just received SuSE 9.3, and installed it on my HP Omnibook laptop. The suspend to disk option works repeatedly and reliably.
In the release notes, SuSE recommends that /boot be placed in it's own 50MB partition in order to assure stable operation of suspend to disk. I did not do that (I read the release notes after I had partitioned the disk and installed 9.3). Even without the separate /boot partition, suspend to disk works well for me.
And rightly so. If BK's server were so insecure, that it allowed a random person write access to the kernel source code, then people should be screaming bloody murder at BK.
One of the reasons BK kept their stuff closed was so they could take accountability if anything went wrong and now exactly how every client was accessing it. That's one of the advantages most managers see with going with a commercial company rather than a OSS solution.
You forgot to cite Windows as proof of how well a commercial company provides a secure operating environment.
Opera still crashes when trying to access a https site through a proxy. This critical bug is new since the earlier 7.x versions. This security issue was brought up on the beta newsgroup by one of the posters two beta releases ago. It still is not fixed, even though it was confirmed in the news group by multiple Opera users. I was watching that particular bug with interest, since it bites me too frequently (accessing online shopping sites and my bank site via the company's proxy server).
So much for Opera's vaunted security leanings.
So much for plugging security holes quickly and efficiently.
I have to either not use https, or use another browser, to access secure web sites.
Before you continue the attempt to rationalize Opera Software's failings, you should realize that I have actually purchased a license for Opera, therefore I do expect a more responsive vendor than Opera has been so far. So have fun in your blind advocacy for Opera, but be aware that you may be doing more harm than good when you tell customers that their concerns are not really worthwhile.
Except Firefox has lots of bugs of its own. Just recently, 1.0.3 was released with critical security fixes, whereas Opera is the only browser of the "big three" with no unpatched vulnerabilities.
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Interesting. I added that last comment (the one in italics above) as a criticism of FireFox to see if a rabid Opera cheerleader would be so caught up in defending Opera that she or he would not realize that the comment was critical of FireFox. Looks like I caught the fish I was angling for. ;-)
As one of the "faithful base" (this message is being posted with Opera), I am becoming disenchanted with the direction that Opera Software is taking. Opera is becoming more bloated and more buggy with each release. Instead of fixing bugs, new features are being added, new features that themselves contain additional bugs. Why do I need yet another mail reader in my browser?
On the other hand, I can get FireFox to have similar functionality to Opera only by loading a bunch of plug-ins. I do not know whether those plug-ins will work in the next release of FireFox, or if they do work, how much time I'll need to spend to download and install them.
So when will someone make the Perfect Browser?
In actuality, it is the data and my ability to access that data. Running as root increases the chances that I will not be able to access my data for all the reasons noted elsewhere.
The car analogy is specious at best.
Microsoft is desperate to increase the marketshare of MSN. In hiring Dr. Flake, Microsoft thinks he will be able to bring positive change to MSN. In reality, Dr. Flake will succumb to Microsoft's culture and fall into the group-think that has made MSN the failure it is.
They are going to have to do better than that.
The only Linux that I've seen that comes close in the power management area is SuSE 9.2 (haven't tried 9.3 yet), but even there the suspend to disk is unreliable.
The paragraph you quote contained the phrase, "the company says", indicating that the paragraph was more marketing than factual. If you had read the rest of the article, you would have seen that the author tested reality vs. what the company said.
Then again, who really still expects truth to be found in the NYT?
OK, now it is apparent why you chose you misquote the article, you have an agenda to fill.
Doesn't anyone read the article anymore? Among the items tested were non-electronic flashlight and fan, neither of which would have a voltage regulator in it (zener diode or otherwise).
In actuality, I left out one word. I do that from time to time, in spite of using the preview feature. (sigh). Anyway here is what I meant to post...
I don't think that I would want anyone, who must listen to that audio all day, to be driving any manner of military vehicle.
How's that? More comprehensible? :)
I don't think that I would want anyone must listen to that audio all day to be driving any manner of military vehicle.
In this instance, that is the exact problem.
Just the the right of the "The Feds can own your WLAN too" title of the article is a little printer icon.
Some site use the phrase "printer friendly", some just use the icon. Some use both.
Take a deep breath, calm down, click on the printer icon, and enjoy the article. :-)
I always click on the printer-friendly format. That usually gives you the article and pictures on one continuous page.