That's the beauty of Canada. This law will never pass. In fact I'd suggest that's the purpose behind the strictness of the law, to ensure it doesn't get passed and therefore everything stays the same. We've got a formula and we're using it. Maybe it's like a company that's being forced into making children's toys and they don't want to, so they always propose something absurd like the nuclear happy fun ball with pins and needles... and their suggestions always get turned down. It's awesome.
I work for a small business and I have been slowly outsourcing our email to GMAIL
What about confidentiality of business email, protection of customer emails, content ownership of attachments, the fact that Google becomes involved in the small business because it DOES have control over that email... I don't like it for small business. There are too many potential problems lurking. There's obviously critical information you're letting out into the larger world. You have to ask yourself if you trust Google THAT much... you have to ask yourself if you're feeling lucky...
Tasers are a form of torture. Guns are too by the same rules. Now the two weapons are considered on a similar same level. Does it change your preference whether the guy should be shot or tasered?... It doesn't for me. Some decisions were made, something was made official. It doesn't support getting rid of tasers.
It all comes down to business and money and "think of the children" is always second even if that is the goal of the organization. I say get computers to the kids no matter which brand or software version. The kids can learn the basics on anything, on any OS, but they won't if the projects are snarled by pride, legal implications and business. If we do think of the children, then who really cares which company "wins"... The real winners will continue facilitating the process running it efficiently and cost-effectively.
I hate seeing question marks on story titles. Throw in the word "speculation" if you must but leave out the question mark because you're not asking a question, you're speculating on questionable content.
It's happening way to much at Slashdot, Digg, et al.
Mod me down to oblivion but I had to get it off my chest because it's been bothering me for a long time. Thanks for listening.
I'm an IT expert, this is my impression of Vista. DX10 gaming (very nice). More secure (great) Slower (just like the previous operating system was to the one before it) expensive (not free?) driver problems (but linux has many more driver problems) compatibility issues (but is still way more compatible than most other OS). I see a reason for businesses to switch to Vista, especially if you play games at work. Does anyone see any real benefit for a business user not to switch to Vista?
First Vista wasn't picked up because it was too late and then because business is waiting for SP1, and now because it's too early (business waiting for Windows 7 instead). Sometimes Slashdot seems like an message board for asshats.
I've subscribed to OneZine city WiFi in Toronto, Canada and the signal degrades quickly as you move back from the street. The best signal is sitting on the sidewalk with your laptop... with the homeless people. You also pick up a strong signal while driving of cycling on the street but... not a lot of time to use it.
Suffice to say I dropped it in favour of Starbucks Wifi/Bell Hotspots which have a stronger signal indoors. There are enough Starbucks around that I'm never without a connection.
ANTS Profiler helped us fix a problem in minutes that would have taken us weeks to track down. If only we'd thought of it before the competition, we would most likely have finished the entire race and had a chance at the top prize money.
ANTS doesn't fix Microsoft CLR problems. ANT fixes programmer problems. In other words, the logic was flawed. They didn't release their references properly and therefore the garbage collect didn't collect because the objects were still "in use". Princeton and DARPA and bad programming... sounds like they should have called in the Comp. Sci. dept.
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The PC marketing isn't dying. It's changing. If people realized this we wouldn't have alarmist articles and we'd have a lot less useless stats. Every one of the "PC as we know it" makers today has the ability to adapt, to plan to make smaller hardware footprints, etc. We know the PC cannot totally disappear because you'll never see a room of programmers on a project sitting around compiling, testing, debugging and deploying applications using just a cell phone/PDA interface or equivalent. What is a PC? Does it really matter how small it gets? As long as some people still have access to a standard sized monitor and keyboard they will consider anything a PC, even if it's stuck to a postage stamp on your desk.
You're technically correct but only that. The argument doesn't apply to the real world in which we have legal systems and laws, trademarks, fair use, etc.
Likewise a business name is just a bit of marketing that happens to be helpful to humans for branding puroses, conceptually not different to a person name for identification.
Also technically correct, but cannot stand on its own in the real world.
and to put Microsoft Windows Mobile out of business
I'm sorry but from a developer's perspective the fact that I can create an application on the PC (.NET) and also run it on a Windows Mobile device without modification, means the Microsoft's mobile solution is not going away anytime soon. That statement in the article summary is cursory. Google is going to need something deeper than web-based APIs to unroot developers. Even the iPhone hackers want something deeper than some tom-foolery promoted by Apple, supposedly coming in the new year.
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That's the beauty of Canada. This law will never pass. In fact I'd suggest that's the purpose behind the strictness of the law, to ensure it doesn't get passed and therefore everything stays the same. We've got a formula and we're using it. Maybe it's like a company that's being forced into making children's toys and they don't want to, so they always propose something absurd like the nuclear happy fun ball with pins and needles ... and their suggestions always get turned down. It's awesome.
Well if we're too lazy to click on the first link, why would we click on the second?
Your subject line looks like "Takes a load of shIT" which is still in context of the hosted email discussion.
What about confidentiality of business email, protection of customer emails, content ownership of attachments, the fact that Google becomes involved in the small business because it DOES have control over that email ... I don't like it for small business. There are too many potential problems lurking. There's obviously critical information you're letting out into the larger world. You have to ask yourself if you trust Google THAT much ... you have to ask yourself if you're feeling lucky...
Excellent point.
Tasers are a form of torture. Guns are too by the same rules. Now the two weapons are considered on a similar same level. Does it change your preference whether the guy should be shot or tasered? ... It doesn't for me. Some decisions were made, something was made official. It doesn't support getting rid of tasers.
It all comes down to business and money and "think of the children" is always second even if that is the goal of the organization. I say get computers to the kids no matter which brand or software version. The kids can learn the basics on anything, on any OS, but they won't if the projects are snarled by pride, legal implications and business. If we do think of the children, then who really cares which company "wins"... The real winners will continue facilitating the process running it efficiently and cost-effectively.
I hate seeing question marks on story titles. Throw in the word "speculation" if you must but leave out the question mark because you're not asking a question, you're speculating on questionable content. It's happening way to much at Slashdot, Digg, et al. Mod me down to oblivion but I had to get it off my chest because it's been bothering me for a long time. Thanks for listening.
It's the ironic world we live in where we have to stop global warming at all costs even by disrupting the natural order of things.
Borat was excited for his country.
I don't care if it's artificially hyped. It's not backlit and I want one.
"[a]n outcry" ... but not by the taxpayers. Anyway, if you see the asteroid coming the anticipation is a lot worse.
Dude, if you "be" an author you don't need to mail it to yourself.
And the ECMA modded most of the 3522 comments between +1 and +3 interesting.
...and then the beta crashes fast.
I'm an IT expert, this is my impression of Vista.
DX10 gaming (very nice).
More secure (great)
Slower (just like the previous operating system was to the one before it)
expensive (not free?)
driver problems (but linux has many more driver problems)
compatibility issues (but is still way more compatible than most other OS).
I see a reason for businesses to switch to Vista, especially if you play games at work. Does anyone see any real benefit for a business user not to switch to Vista?
I don't know from where people get phrases like "spectacular failure" that don't make sense in context. It's basic name-calling.
First Vista wasn't picked up because it was too late and then because business is waiting for SP1, and now because it's too early (business waiting for Windows 7 instead). Sometimes Slashdot seems like an message board for asshats.
I've subscribed to OneZine city WiFi in Toronto, Canada and the signal degrades quickly as you move back from the street. The best signal is sitting on the sidewalk with your laptop ... with the homeless people. You also pick up a strong signal while driving of cycling on the street but ... not a lot of time to use it.
Suffice to say I dropped it in favour of Starbucks Wifi/Bell Hotspots which have a stronger signal indoors. There are enough Starbucks around that I'm never without a connection.
Their refined choice of restaurants and overspending may have lead to less funds available for the computer coding.
ANTS doesn't fix Microsoft CLR problems. ANT fixes programmer problems. In other words, the logic was flawed. They didn't release their references properly and therefore the garbage collect didn't collect because the objects were still "in use". Princeton and DARPA and bad programming
The PC marketing isn't dying. It's changing. If people realized this we wouldn't have alarmist articles and we'd have a lot less useless stats. Every one of the "PC as we know it" makers today has the ability to adapt, to plan to make smaller hardware footprints, etc. We know the PC cannot totally disappear because you'll never see a room of programmers on a project sitting around compiling, testing, debugging and deploying applications using just a cell phone/PDA interface or equivalent. What is a PC? Does it really matter how small it gets? As long as some people still have access to a standard sized monitor and keyboard they will consider anything a PC, even if it's stuck to a postage stamp on your desk.
You're technically correct but only that. The argument doesn't apply to the real world in which we have legal systems and laws, trademarks, fair use, etc.
Likewise a business name is just a bit of marketing that happens to be helpful to humans for branding puroses, conceptually not different to a person name for identification.
Also technically correct, but cannot stand on its own in the real world.
I'm sorry but from a developer's perspective the fact that I can create an application on the PC (.NET) and also run it on a Windows Mobile device without modification, means the Microsoft's mobile solution is not going away anytime soon. That statement in the article summary is cursory. Google is going to need something deeper than web-based APIs to unroot developers. Even the iPhone hackers want something deeper than some tom-foolery promoted by Apple, supposedly coming in the new year.
The night manager was unavailable for comment as he kept stuttering and jerking.