Yeah its seems pretty creepy. I'm not worried about any of that number of the beast nonsense, but having an RFID would be the end of privacy - just a matter of time before anyone with the gear could track you wherever. And I don't think it would do all to prevent identity theft that people think it would, well perhaps "identity" theft - but who needs to steal your identity when they can monitor where you are and steal you blind the old fashioned way. Just not a good idea.
To use the bully analogy, there are options besides caving and fighting. After the bully punches you. You stand back up, stick out you chest, and look at him, waiting for him to hit you again (they seldom do). Bullies don't know how to deal with this responce. They actually prefer you swing at them...
Theres another way to fish you may have heard of. Old timers call it "telephoning" or "cranking".
Basically what you do is get one of those antique telephones with the crank, you know like you see in old movies. And you cut the wires and throw the wires into the water. Then you turn the crank on the telephone, and the fish float up to the surface where you scoop them into the boat.
I've never seen it done before, but I've heard the stories from grandparents and uncles and apparently for country folk it used to be a pretty common way to fish.
Screw that, go use.NET then.
PHP is good because PHP is fucking easy, if you can't do a button without some kind of.NET control holding your hand for you, then don't use PHP. Its not like making a button is hard you know.
That said, the EU seems not to have really got it, as forcing a company to ship a piece of software that's sure to flop is not exactly the best way to fix the problem
I wish they had forbid Microsoft from packaging Windows combined with a new PC. I don't mean I wish they would forbid MS from selling Windows, but damn it when you buy a PC, Windows should be an option, not just something that you assume should come with it. It wouldn't hurt to have a choice of what OS if any you want.
Of course, I wish the United States had done the same thing instead of just giving MS a pitiful little wrist-slap.
Cool. Color printers really do take to long. Still I wouldn't expect to be able to get one at Best Buy any time soon.
One good thing that may come out of it... Do you suppose it could possibly drive the outrageous price of ink refills on normal "slow" printers down somewhat ?
Thats exactly what I was thinking. Microsoft will have a way to take credit for any open source benefits and will have a way to blame open source for their own shortcomings. Microsoft may be evil but they aren't stupid.
I doubt that they would do that because if they did, you could always remove the Windows, run the UNIX natively ( which is really what you should probably do in the first place ), but Microsoft will undoubtedly add some "feature" that will require Windows.
Personally I have no idea why anyone in their right mind would want to use this, but I'm sure by the time the Microsoft PR machine gets through with it managers everywhere will be wanting to load Windows Longhorn so they can try out Linux.
Well just because the growth is slowing doesn't mean that its not still growing. The HPs and IBMs of the world already are using Linux, but the smaller businesses aren't really leading the way with Linux. At my company ( about 500 employess ) we are just this year using Linux for some servers, and I know several other companys that are just starting to use Linux too. So even though these companys are small, as machines age more and more of them will be replaced, and more and more of them are being replaced with something other than Microsoft. Maybe it won't happen overnight, but it will happen none the less.
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Yeah its seems pretty creepy. I'm not worried about any of that number of the beast nonsense, but having an RFID would be the end of privacy - just a matter of time before anyone with the gear could track you wherever. And I don't think it would do all to prevent identity theft that people think it would, well perhaps "identity" theft - but who needs to steal your identity when they can monitor where you are and steal you blind the old fashioned way. Just not a good idea.
You use the one you and your team already know how to use.
everyone knows Microsoft is guilty, burn monkey boy at the stake
Theres another way to fish you may have heard of. Old timers call it "telephoning" or "cranking". Basically what you do is get one of those antique telephones with the crank, you know like you see in old movies. And you cut the wires and throw the wires into the water. Then you turn the crank on the telephone, and the fish float up to the surface where you scoop them into the boat. I've never seen it done before, but I've heard the stories from grandparents and uncles and apparently for country folk it used to be a pretty common way to fish.
Screw that, go use .NET then.
PHP is good because PHP is fucking easy, if you can't do a button without some kind of .NET control holding your hand for you, then don't use PHP. Its not like making a button is hard you know.
well do you ?
Cool. Color printers really do take to long. Still I wouldn't expect to be able to get one at Best Buy any time soon.
One good thing that may come out of it... Do you suppose it could possibly drive the outrageous price of ink refills on normal "slow" printers down somewhat ?
Thats exactly what I was thinking. Microsoft will have a way to take credit for any open source benefits and will have a way to blame open source for their own shortcomings. Microsoft may be evil but they aren't stupid.
I doubt that they would do that because if they did, you could always remove the Windows, run the UNIX natively ( which is really what you should probably do in the first place ), but Microsoft will undoubtedly add some "feature" that will require Windows. Personally I have no idea why anyone in their right mind would want to use this, but I'm sure by the time the Microsoft PR machine gets through with it managers everywhere will be wanting to load Windows Longhorn so they can try out Linux.
Well just because the growth is slowing doesn't mean that its not still growing. The HPs and IBMs of the world already are using Linux, but the smaller businesses aren't really leading the way with Linux. At my company ( about 500 employess ) we are just this year using Linux for some servers, and I know several other companys that are just starting to use Linux too. So even though these companys are small, as machines age more and more of them will be replaced, and more and more of them are being replaced with something other than Microsoft. Maybe it won't happen overnight, but it will happen none the less.