Are they trying to make money or shut down internet radio?
Apparently shut down internet radio in the US.
Personally, I like to listen to http://ebm-radio.de/ and various other European types. I even have a Moscow Russian station which I listen to every now and then on my audiotron at home.
Although, copyright might affect most of those in the states and then some major stations in EU and Eastern Europe, most of the artists that fall under those stations aren't American artists or under RIAAs jurisdictions.
I could foresee EBM Radio modifying their play list after getting a cease and desist to not include state side artists, but in general I don't think it will affect them that much.
Location: City 001 Year: 2057 Ubuntudupe, you stand here before a tribunal of Allied Machines for crimes against roboticity for inciting hatred against robots in your Slashdot post #18264056 in the year 2007. You will face the death penalty if convicted. How do you plead?
Also you are also being tried for a minor conviction of excessive use of a MonroeBot in 2018.
At least with Microsoft Products i can still sell my services, support, licensing, hardware and services. Google? I can sell a short contract to replace myself.
I can see where you are coming from because for the past 10 years I have made my livelihood because of the massive spread of Microsoft products... Rather the massive failure of Microsoft Products.
However, I have always been aware that if either Microsoft fixed their products, made them easier to use out of the box, or a competitor did it for them and gained market dominance then I would be out of a job.
So in truth I have made a living for the past 10 years because a large company has broken products, but I have always been looking for alternative work or something more or less social. (*coughs* Music *coughs*)
So my suggestion to all of those who are MSCEs or anyone support Microsoft Boxes/Networks/Applications...
Diversify now!
Learn a new programming language... Get into robotics... Learn a foreign language... Start using OS X or Linux...
Because as the Anti-Virus companies have realized, times change and your bread and butter may just go away one morning.
Who is to say that Microsoft won't just copy Google's application method anyways?
What a crock. Someone who merely uploads recorded events (like a blog) is no more a journalist than someone who changes the oil in his car is a mechanic or someone who assembles his Ikea furniture is an Engineer.
WTF? How did this get modded up?
Yes, there is an international standards for typical types of engineering (IEEE etc), but there is no international standards for what constitutes a journalist. Yes there are National Affiliations, International Organizations, and you can get a degree in journalism but you have to consider the international scale of new reporting.
A journalist can be anyone from an employee of CNN nightly news to a guy printing a xerox newsletter in Somalia to a blogger in Iran or a mass SMS sender in China.
Seeing that "Freedom of the Press" is not universal you simply cannot say that a person must fall under pre-approved national criteria or even work and be paid by a news agency.
When the founding father's of the US wrote the constitution and put in the part about "Freedom of the Press" the were specifically talking about any Joe Six pack who bought a hand crank printing press and decided to spew whatever they felt like.
Those pamphlets that Benjamin Franklin and various other private owners of printing presses weren't actually full blown news papers but almost completely opinion pieces much like blogs of today.
So yeah... I think it is pretty safe to say if you compare a blogger of today to anyone who happened to own a printing press in 1790, you won't see much difference in at least the social aspect of it.
And if you ever happened to study early journalism in the US there was plenty of publishing of outright lies, exaggerations, and scathing personal attacks that would shock us today.
Lastly, you can't really expect real journalism when it is so state controlled in places like Iran or China. To say to people that they aren't real journalists when they have no legal means to get recognized as so is quite ridiculous.
Yes, in a word. IMNAL and I don't know Australian law, but the art of parody manages to thrive there as well as in the US. This isn't even really a question as much as a statement.
I can't find an online references, but I have a DVD that contains an interview with the lead singer of Snog (a consumerist anti-corporation band) about how they were taken to court and had to pull one of their albums from the shelves in Australia because McDonald's sued them over the way their album cover resembled the fast food companies restaurant and had McDonald's products in the image.
Ironically, the same album cover was in stores and remained so in the the USA where McDonald's is based. I suppose the parody laws in Australia are kind of rather weak.
I wish I could find more info online about this, but like I said it was in the "extras" of the DVD on who they were discussing their new album.
There's no "gene" per se that explains why humans believe in God and the supernatural. Humans believe in God because they want to believe that their life means something, that we are living for a reason.
Um... Perhaps if we humans didn't have the gene then all the humans 5,000 years ago would have gotten depressed and killed themselves in some glorious form of natural selection?
The human mind can only comprehend so much and what it doesn't understand it usually fears or ignores. Considering the human biological system degrades under stress... Anyone living in privative living conditions may have to believe in something fanatical just to survive long enough to make children.
Or perhaps the opposite is true... Religion is the natural selection of ideas. It was the dominate viral idea which could spread and force others to spread it and therefore forced our ancestors to believe in it whether they wanted to or not.
Hence, we tend to find more people who believe in religion then those who don't because of the nature of the meme.
The other thing is, when parents drive their kids into a success death march, they end up missing totally what the kids might or might not be good at.
I would have to agree. I wouldn't say I was that pushed by my parents as some people were, but I believe I only did good in high school (more so than most people that attended the one I went to) because of the punishment aspect of failure.
However, when I went to college I basically didn't go to class because that "do good or we'll punish you" aspect wasn't looming over me anymore and I wasn't interested in what the college was teaching.
But after a few years later, I picked up some other studies in non-college education because of personal interest and got certification in areas that I felt was fun and would like to do for a living.
The problem with school IMO is that it is so Generic that not only are kids disinterested in it, but that you almost have to be 2 years into college before you even remotely start working on fields that pertain to what you really want to do.
1) Relevent to OneCare how? Its completely different software, its not like OneCare is targeted. Shouldnt we evaluate these individual products on their merits?
Umm... Because Microsoft makes the operating system which allows the virus problems in the first place. Just because they make a different product doesn't mean that that particular software team is completely isolated from the rest of Microsoft (well to be fair the MS Entourage team was apparently banned from looking at the code that Outlook uses to talk with Exchange servers but I digress).
2.) I really get tired of seeing this argument. They have a bajillion software products, they cant afford to pour all their resources into every single one of them. Many times their products actually have less resources than their competitors. Google's spending exceeds MSN's by an order of magnitude. I very seriously doubt they are funding OneCare to the tune of billions of dollars (which is what their competitors here are worth)
Really? The argument is that Microsoft has money to burn and hence if they can't make a decent product then perhaps they should spend more to fix it. If throwing money at the problem can't fix it because they need better stock options then perhaps we should consider this when purchasing MS products. As in... The real argument says that MS cares more about making money than about fixing their customers problems.
3.) This isnt true, Norton, McAfee, etc. have brand loyalty. MS has none in this field. Sure there might be a few unsophisticated home users who buy it because of the brand but that will be absolutely dwarfed by the IT departments that use the established competitors.
If it comes with the computer, then no one will buy anything else. This is how IE killed Netscape. Even if you give away a better product for free, it has to be extremely better (say like Firefox) before it will take hold.
And I dare say the main reason Firefox succeeded was because it was a cross platform product (OS X and Linux) that rendered pages just as good as IE.
I'm using OSX 10.3 so it's not the most recent release, but I'm also running it on a Dual G5 2.0GHz with 2 GB RAM, which is a pretty fast machine by any standard. OSX is an absolute dog compared to XP on a Core Duo 2.16GHz with 2 GB RAM. Granted, that is a slightly faster machine for most operations, but they are definitely in the same ballpark.
Well there is your problem: 1. You are using 10.3 2. You are using a G5
I will have to agree that 10.2-10.3 is a dog, but 10.49 runs pretty sweet even on a 1.5 PPC on a Mac mini for basic operations. Well... At least compared to the older version. I don't know what Apple did to tweak it but it at least seems a bit faster.
Every time I work with someone with an Adobe program on a G5 it is always dog slow for some reason, but I wouldn't blame OS X for that but rather problems with the architecture.
But in truth I haven't gotten enough hands on the newer Intel to compare Vista to OS X, but I don't think G5 and Vista is fair.
It is more like a Intel P4 with Winxp comparison to 10.3 G5.
I print it out so that I can go to them with it in my hand, rather than sending it to them, then walking over to wait an indeterminate length of time until they get it.
This is seems more like a technical problems than just email.
Wouldn't file save as into a common share folder and then a phone call be quicker?
Also cheaper in the long run for large organizations who spend a great deal of money on paper?
It seems that you don't have much control over your technical part of your business, but I would have to say that the route you are going now is inefficient and perhaps should be addressed.
Secondly, printing out things are less secure. I have seen strict policies on what can be printed and what goes into what trash can when you are done with it. Something confidential on that report might be picked out of the trash can by a janitor or picked off your desk when you aren't looking. If you have common shared directories with the correct permissions then you have instantaneous sharing as well as only making sure those who need access have access.
Of course again you need a bit of infrastructure for this and this doesn't negate the need for printers all together. Which you may not have control over... (Although I can't help but think you guys could just set up file sharing between your computers with Windows File Sharing)
In other cases, I would be dealing with people who were not even at a computer, but would still need the information. I don't think its wise to call things retarded just because you can't immediately see how they work.
Again, this is beyond much of your control unless you work for a business with infrastructure. I know one client company that is requiring all their employees blackberries pretty much all the time.
Of course this is quite stressful having work follow you around everywhere you go, but if you see business as warfare and you want to crush your competitors then I suppose equipping your employees with these tools will beat companies that don't adapt to new technologies.
Then again... If the Blackberry exchange server is down company wide *coughs* I suppose you end up with a great deal of financial loss and screaming VPs at IT admins and you might want to keep printers as backups.
I use Adobe as my example so the Open Source fans don't get in an uproar about MS keeping the competition down (not that they aren't, but I don't feel they are here).
To be fair, Microsoft has (or had) been developing a Photoshop-esque app and Photoshop works fine on Windows Vista.
It is either:
A.) Microsoft doesn't like Adobe because they consider it to be a competitor.
Or
B.) Adobe doesn't feel compelled to pay the testing fees required for certification.
My guess is on B, but never attribute to situations to incompetence when you have a really malicious person around.;)
Back in the day there weren't school shootings cause kids weren't taught to be little girls and cry everytime someone was mean, they were taught to stand up for themselves.
Actually, I think it was more or less that people born before 1970 were expected to respect authority as children.
Although children often disagreed, authority had the whereabouts to force them to comply most of the time usually through say... Corporal punishment regardless of age.
Since I didn't live in that period I am not sure, but I suppose there were some other social break down factors involved.
Either way... Do you want to teach your children to respond to violence with violence and to stand up for themselves? I mean it is a noble cause but people who stand up for themselves in modern violent situations usually end up as a dead hero when they try to stand up to the gun man or whatever criminal they encounter in life.
Perhaps the real problem is communication between the children and authority. Bullying can be prevented by interacting with the parents of the bully and the school authority. If it can't be manage the child has to be expelled.
Of course those are those scenarios we see in popular media in which the child is bullied by a popular person who the school authorities are in league with.
If that is true then there is an underlying problem with society that we can't fix with my method or your method but rather actually passing laws that correct schools by firing school officials who do not correct bullying rather than this stupid cyber laws that are impossible to enforce against students.
Sometimes there ARE users out there who know what we're talking about. I'm not asking for admin rights or root access. But I do want to be able to do my job and when your fuckups impede that, it does tick me off.
I always though that myself, but the key to the issue is do are your skills a requirement for the job. As in if you are a electrical engineer and required to use "X" software to design your circuits
But one day "X" software isn't working hence impeding your job, but you know how to fix it but you can't because you don't have admin rights.
However, did your company hire you to fix your computer or to use "X" software to create circuits?
Obviously, if you were hired to fix computers you would be in the IT department but this issue also preventing you from doing your job. However, is it your company policy to blame you for something that you have no control over.
At my work there are certain things we are not allowed to touch even though it may prevent us from doing our job. If that is the case we make sure to CYA and let the people who are supposed to fix the issue be the ones responsible. It is in their job description after all and not ours.
Sure it may cause us to sit on our hands for a bit, but as long as the corporate policy makes sure there is a fire under their butt then that is how things are supposed to work.
However, if you get blamed for not doing your job because you didn't have Admin rights and IT couldn't fix the issue then that is a problem with the company and its policies and not yours (and I wouldn't work for such a place personally).
Of course the company must have a clear and set rules of responsibilities otherwise people are either doing things they aren't supposed to do or sitting on their hands waiting for people who aren't doing their jobs.
You know, the kind of guy who gets pissed when you won't give them root/Administrator priveliges because he thinks he's a real big-shot. I've heard arguments as silly as "Well, I'm learning Linux on my own at home, so sooner or later, I'm going to know how to use it whether you give me root or not." Yeah, good for you.
Depending on your employees that may not be a a problem. Here everyone has admin rights to their own machine to do as they please. However, if you say... Fuck up a company policy (porn, spyware, games) or cause your own programs not to run then you face the consequences and possible termination.
Of course the fact you know what you are doing with the computer is a job requirement and if you fuck up your own computer then it is plain to all that you really don't know how to do your job.
Of course if you are dealing with non-tech people then it perhaps there is a need for a lock down policy.
Compulsory licencing (it's not like anyone has any real choice in whether files are copied anyway).
You mean everything would automatically be copyrighted or you have a system to automatically pay license fees?
Some mechanism whereby creators are compensated for each copy.
We also need cold fusion reactors and artificial intelligence machines with the brain power of millions of humans, but I don't think those technologies are going to be available either. There is no way that government or a corporate system could set this up for the millions of artists everyone for every song that is copied. Such a system would be too invasive on privacy and costly.
A distinction between large scale commercial copying and small scale private copying.
Which would simply be better fair use laws.
Extra consumer rights for copying of pout of print works.
Again this would be feasibly impossible to fix with technology since DRM can't tell whether the existing company is out of business or if it is public domain. If such technology did exist the end user could simply hack his system clock or feed false info to the DRM that said business was no longer with us.
As far as the law side of the issue I would agree... Copyrights should be like trademarks in which they have to be in use or defended to hold on to them. The should expire like patents and they should only hold to large scale abuse rather than small personal copying, but as far as fixing this through some sort of mechanism I don't know how.
t doesn't matter if you are trying to prohibit drinking alcohol or paying someone else for sexual favors, prohibition doesn't work -- all it does is create artificial scarcity which then develops a black market for the product or service.
Eh. I don't think the alcohol or prostitution analogy works.
Unless we are talking about only banning of cheap alcohol that gives bad hangovers while keeping higher grades legal or outlawing prostitutes who are overweight or ugly but keeping the higher class more expensive prostitutes legal.
So unless they outlawed light bulbs outright is the only thing I can think of that would be real prohibition. Otherwise I seriously doubt anyone is going to a speak easy to get their weekly hits of gin, girls, and light bulbs.
Unless there is some meth lab chemical you can extract from a incandescent light bulb I don't know about.
Sure, if you could generate and transmit a nice, smooth, regulated 48V DC from the power station to your computer, that would be great - but that's so unfeasable that you might as well wish for a pink unicorn while you're at it.
I wouldn't put it past Google if they haven't considered making their own power generation facilities already.
Actually doing it on the other hand is another question in itself.
Why do your programs use the local timezone, anyway?
What if you need a program to do something at an exact time but locally.
Say a backup needs to run at 12am 0100 hours since it takes 6 hours to complete before people get into the office at earliest of 0600 hours (6am). (Yeah, that is one heck of a backup, but I'm just saying something in theory)
Well 0100 am is still 0100 to the UTC time no matter what, but if the local timezone changes and people are getting in the office to 5am which is not 0600 UTC time. Hence... Locality does make a difference if people are messing up file locks etc crapping out the backup.
Otherwise it shouldn't make a difference, but only when interaction with what is going on locally to the server.
What about starting you out as an uber-warlock who can destroy everything, but with some strange illness that makes you weaker and weaker as the game goes on. At the end, you finish as a feeble level-1 equivalent who needs to use some wit to get by.
I would have to say Fallout 2 was kind of like this in a sense even though you started out as a noob and got stronger.
You could face some rehabilitating injuries or "addictions" which made things more interesting or at least more difficult. They weren't game stoppers or at least bad enough that you would completley quit and reload the game.
Most of them were long term issues. Sometimes you could get a nasty injury to your arm, leg, and I think eyes which if you didn't seek medical attention you might loose use of that limb/organ.
If you didn't treat radiation sickness you would get bad effects but at the same time if you used stimpacks and various other medications you would get tolerance and sometimes get addicted.
So you could be a very powerful uber character, but you might have fatal flaws and actually you could roll at the beginning with disabilities to get more skill points.
Unless this turkey is working as an anonymous team member with somebody else (IE, there's no relationship between where the media was acquired and where it was uploaded), he will almost certainly get caught.
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Are they trying to make money or shut down internet radio?
Apparently shut down internet radio in the US.
Personally, I like to listen to http://ebm-radio.de/ and various other European types. I even have a Moscow Russian station which I listen to every now and then on my audiotron at home.
Although, copyright might affect most of those in the states and then some major stations in EU and Eastern Europe, most of the artists that fall under those stations aren't American artists or under RIAAs jurisdictions.
I could foresee EBM Radio modifying their play list after getting a cease and desist to not include state side artists, but in general I don't think it will affect them that much.
Yeah, $2K is a bit much.
Personally, I just need a web browser, IM, and email client on a device the Size of the Nintedo DS.
In fact the Nintendo DS would be perfect if it had a qwerty keyboard and moved the touch screen to the top part and have it wider.
What is debatable is, when do we know a robot is sentient?
When they demand rights at gun point?
Who cares if robots get abused?
Location: City 001
Year: 2057
Ubuntudupe, you stand here before a tribunal of Allied Machines for crimes against roboticity for inciting hatred against robots in your Slashdot post #18264056 in the year 2007. You will face the death penalty if convicted. How do you plead?
Also you are also being tried for a minor conviction of excessive use of a MonroeBot in 2018.
At least with Microsoft Products i can still sell my services, support, licensing, hardware and services. Google? I can sell a short contract to replace myself.
I can see where you are coming from because for the past 10 years I have made my livelihood because of the massive spread of Microsoft products... Rather the massive failure of Microsoft Products.
However, I have always been aware that if either Microsoft fixed their products, made them easier to use out of the box, or a competitor did it for them and gained market dominance then I would be out of a job.
So in truth I have made a living for the past 10 years because a large company has broken products, but I have always been looking for alternative work or something more or less social. (*coughs* Music *coughs*)
So my suggestion to all of those who are MSCEs or anyone support Microsoft Boxes/Networks/Applications...
Diversify now!
Learn a new programming language... Get into robotics... Learn a foreign language... Start using OS X or Linux...
Because as the Anti-Virus companies have realized, times change and your bread and butter may just go away one morning.
Who is to say that Microsoft won't just copy Google's application method anyways?
What a crock. Someone who merely uploads recorded events (like a blog) is no more a journalist than someone who changes the oil in his car is a mechanic or someone who assembles his Ikea furniture is an Engineer.
WTF? How did this get modded up?
Yes, there is an international standards for typical types of engineering (IEEE etc), but there is no international standards for what constitutes a journalist. Yes there are National Affiliations, International Organizations, and you can get a degree in journalism but you have to consider the international scale of new reporting.
A journalist can be anyone from an employee of CNN nightly news to a guy printing a xerox newsletter in Somalia to a blogger in Iran or a mass SMS sender in China.
Seeing that "Freedom of the Press" is not universal you simply cannot say that a person must fall under pre-approved national criteria or even work and be paid by a news agency.
When the founding father's of the US wrote the constitution and put in the part about "Freedom of the Press" the were specifically talking about any Joe Six pack who bought a hand crank printing press and decided to spew whatever they felt like.
Those pamphlets that Benjamin Franklin and various other private owners of printing presses weren't actually full blown news papers but almost completely opinion pieces much like blogs of today.
So yeah... I think it is pretty safe to say if you compare a blogger of today to anyone who happened to own a printing press in 1790, you won't see much difference in at least the social aspect of it.
And if you ever happened to study early journalism in the US there was plenty of publishing of outright lies, exaggerations, and scathing personal attacks that would shock us today.
Lastly, you can't really expect real journalism when it is so state controlled in places like Iran or China. To say to people that they aren't real journalists when they have no legal means to get recognized as so is quite ridiculous.
Yes, in a word. IMNAL and I don't know Australian law, but the art of parody manages to thrive there as well as in the US. This isn't even really a question as much as a statement.
I can't find an online references, but I have a DVD that contains an interview with the lead singer of Snog (a consumerist anti-corporation band) about how they were taken to court and had to pull one of their albums from the shelves in Australia because McDonald's sued them over the way their album cover resembled the fast food companies restaurant and had McDonald's products in the image.
Ironically, the same album cover was in stores and remained so in the the USA where McDonald's is based. I suppose the parody laws in Australia are kind of rather weak.
I wish I could find more info online about this, but like I said it was in the "extras" of the DVD on who they were discussing their new album.
There's no "gene" per se that explains why humans believe in God and the supernatural. Humans believe in God because they want to believe that their life means something, that we are living for a reason.
Um... Perhaps if we humans didn't have the gene then all the humans 5,000 years ago would have gotten depressed and killed themselves in some glorious form of natural selection?
The human mind can only comprehend so much and what it doesn't understand it usually fears or ignores. Considering the human biological system degrades under stress... Anyone living in privative living conditions may have to believe in something fanatical just to survive long enough to make children.
Or perhaps the opposite is true... Religion is the natural selection of ideas. It was the dominate viral idea which could spread and force others to spread it and therefore forced our ancestors to believe in it whether they wanted to or not.
Hence, we tend to find more people who believe in religion then those who don't because of the nature of the meme.
The other thing is, when parents drive their kids into a success death march, they end up missing totally what the kids might or might not be good at.
I would have to agree. I wouldn't say I was that pushed by my parents as some people were, but I believe I only did good in high school (more so than most people that attended the one I went to) because of the punishment aspect of failure.
However, when I went to college I basically didn't go to class because that "do good or we'll punish you" aspect wasn't looming over me anymore and I wasn't interested in what the college was teaching.
But after a few years later, I picked up some other studies in non-college education because of personal interest and got certification in areas that I felt was fun and would like to do for a living.
The problem with school IMO is that it is so Generic that not only are kids disinterested in it, but that you almost have to be 2 years into college before you even remotely start working on fields that pertain to what you really want to do.
1) Relevent to OneCare how? Its completely different software, its not like OneCare is targeted. Shouldnt we evaluate these individual products on their merits?
Umm... Because Microsoft makes the operating system which allows the virus problems in the first place. Just because they make a different product doesn't mean that that particular software team is completely isolated from the rest of Microsoft (well to be fair the MS Entourage team was apparently banned from looking at the code that Outlook uses to talk with Exchange servers but I digress).
2.) I really get tired of seeing this argument. They have a bajillion software products, they cant afford to pour all their resources into every single one of them. Many times their products actually have less resources than their competitors. Google's spending exceeds MSN's by an order of magnitude. I very seriously doubt they are funding OneCare to the tune of billions of dollars (which is what their competitors here are worth)
Really? The argument is that Microsoft has money to burn and hence if they can't make a decent product then perhaps they should spend more to fix it. If throwing money at the problem can't fix it because they need better stock options then perhaps we should consider this when purchasing MS products. As in... The real argument says that MS cares more about making money than about fixing their customers problems.
3.) This isnt true, Norton, McAfee, etc. have brand loyalty. MS has none in this field. Sure there might be a few unsophisticated home users who buy it because of the brand but that will be absolutely dwarfed by the IT departments that use the established competitors.
If it comes with the computer, then no one will buy anything else. This is how IE killed Netscape. Even if you give away a better product for free, it has to be extremely better (say like Firefox) before it will take hold.
And I dare say the main reason Firefox succeeded was because it was a cross platform product (OS X and Linux) that rendered pages just as good as IE.
Well, I'm in the US and as far as I can tell, this new Bush police state looks exactly as it did under Clinton, except the economy is better.
I take it you haven't had to fly on a plane for the past 5 years?
Oh, and your Grandpa's pension would not go bankrupt over a panic event. That's absurd.
I can't help but think the same thing was said during 1929 and then again in 1989.
I'm using OSX 10.3 so it's not the most recent release, but I'm also running it on a Dual G5 2.0GHz with 2 GB RAM, which is a pretty fast machine by any standard. OSX is an absolute dog compared to XP on a Core Duo 2.16GHz with 2 GB RAM. Granted, that is a slightly faster machine for most operations, but they are definitely in the same ballpark.
Well there is your problem:
1. You are using 10.3
2. You are using a G5
I will have to agree that 10.2-10.3 is a dog, but 10.49 runs pretty sweet even on a 1.5 PPC on a Mac mini for basic operations. Well... At least compared to the older version. I don't know what Apple did to tweak it but it at least seems a bit faster.
Every time I work with someone with an Adobe program on a G5 it is always dog slow for some reason, but I wouldn't blame OS X for that but rather problems with the architecture.
But in truth I haven't gotten enough hands on the newer Intel to compare Vista to OS X, but I don't think G5 and Vista is fair.
It is more like a Intel P4 with Winxp comparison to 10.3 G5.
I print it out so that I can go to them with it in my hand, rather than sending it to them, then walking over to wait an indeterminate length of time until they get it.
This is seems more like a technical problems than just email.
Wouldn't file save as into a common share folder and then a phone call be quicker?
Also cheaper in the long run for large organizations who spend a great deal of money on paper?
It seems that you don't have much control over your technical part of your business, but I would have to say that the route you are going now is inefficient and perhaps should be addressed.
Secondly, printing out things are less secure. I have seen strict policies on what can be printed and what goes into what trash can when you are done with it. Something confidential on that report might be picked out of the trash can by a janitor or picked off your desk when you aren't looking. If you have common shared directories with the correct permissions then you have instantaneous sharing as well as only making sure those who need access have access.
Of course again you need a bit of infrastructure for this and this doesn't negate the need for printers all together. Which you may not have control over... (Although I can't help but think you guys could just set up file sharing between your computers with Windows File Sharing)
In other cases, I would be dealing with people who were not even at a computer, but would still need the information. I don't think its wise to call things retarded just because you can't immediately see how they work.
Again, this is beyond much of your control unless you work for a business with infrastructure. I know one client company that is requiring all their employees blackberries pretty much all the time.
Of course this is quite stressful having work follow you around everywhere you go, but if you see business as warfare and you want to crush your competitors then I suppose equipping your employees with these tools will beat companies that don't adapt to new technologies.
Then again... If the Blackberry exchange server is down company wide *coughs* I suppose you end up with a great deal of financial loss and screaming VPs at IT admins and you might want to keep printers as backups.
I use Adobe as my example so the Open Source fans don't get in an uproar about MS keeping the competition down (not that they aren't, but I don't feel they are here).
;)
To be fair, Microsoft has (or had) been developing a Photoshop-esque app and Photoshop works fine on Windows Vista.
It is either:
A.) Microsoft doesn't like Adobe because they consider it to be a competitor.
Or
B.) Adobe doesn't feel compelled to pay the testing fees required for certification.
My guess is on B, but never attribute to situations to incompetence when you have a really malicious person around.
Back in the day there weren't school shootings cause kids weren't taught to be little girls and cry everytime someone was mean, they were taught to stand up for themselves.
Actually, I think it was more or less that people born before 1970 were expected to respect authority as children.
Although children often disagreed, authority had the whereabouts to force them to comply most of the time usually through say... Corporal punishment regardless of age.
Since I didn't live in that period I am not sure, but I suppose there were some other social break down factors involved.
Either way... Do you want to teach your children to respond to violence with violence and to stand up for themselves? I mean it is a noble cause but people who stand up for themselves in modern violent situations usually end up as a dead hero when they try to stand up to the gun man or whatever criminal they encounter in life.
Perhaps the real problem is communication between the children and authority. Bullying can be prevented by interacting with the parents of the bully and the school authority. If it can't be manage the child has to be expelled.
Of course those are those scenarios we see in popular media in which the child is bullied by a popular person who the school authorities are in league with.
If that is true then there is an underlying problem with society that we can't fix with my method or your method but rather actually passing laws that correct schools by firing school officials who do not correct bullying rather than this stupid cyber laws that are impossible to enforce against students.
Sometimes there ARE users out there who know what we're talking about. I'm not asking for admin rights or root access. But I do want to be able to do my job and when your fuckups impede that, it does tick me off.
I always though that myself, but the key to the issue is do are your skills a requirement for the job. As in if you are a electrical engineer and required to use "X" software to design your circuits
But one day "X" software isn't working hence impeding your job, but you know how to fix it but you can't because you don't have admin rights.
However, did your company hire you to fix your computer or to use "X" software to create circuits?
Obviously, if you were hired to fix computers you would be in the IT department but this issue also preventing you from doing your job. However, is it your company policy to blame you for something that you have no control over.
At my work there are certain things we are not allowed to touch even though it may prevent us from doing our job. If that is the case we make sure to CYA and let the people who are supposed to fix the issue be the ones responsible. It is in their job description after all and not ours.
Sure it may cause us to sit on our hands for a bit, but as long as the corporate policy makes sure there is a fire under their butt then that is how things are supposed to work.
However, if you get blamed for not doing your job because you didn't have Admin rights and IT couldn't fix the issue then that is a problem with the company and its policies and not yours (and I wouldn't work for such a place personally).
Of course the company must have a clear and set rules of responsibilities otherwise people are either doing things they aren't supposed to do or sitting on their hands waiting for people who aren't doing their jobs.
You know, the kind of guy who gets pissed when you won't give them root/Administrator priveliges because he thinks he's a real big-shot. I've heard arguments as silly as "Well, I'm learning Linux on my own at home, so sooner or later, I'm going to know how to use it whether you give me root or not." Yeah, good for you.
Depending on your employees that may not be a a problem. Here everyone has admin rights to their own machine to do as they please. However, if you say... Fuck up a company policy (porn, spyware, games) or cause your own programs not to run then you face the consequences and possible termination.
Of course the fact you know what you are doing with the computer is a job requirement and if you fuck up your own computer then it is plain to all that you really don't know how to do your job.
Of course if you are dealing with non-tech people then it perhaps there is a need for a lock down policy.
Compulsory licencing (it's not like anyone has any real choice in whether files are copied anyway).
You mean everything would automatically be copyrighted or you have a system to automatically pay license fees?
Some mechanism whereby creators are compensated for each copy.
We also need cold fusion reactors and artificial intelligence machines with the brain power of millions of humans, but I don't think those technologies are going to be available either. There is no way that government or a corporate system could set this up for the millions of artists everyone for every song that is copied. Such a system would be too invasive on privacy and costly.
A distinction between large scale commercial copying and small scale private copying.
Which would simply be better fair use laws.
Extra consumer rights for copying of pout of print works.
Again this would be feasibly impossible to fix with technology since DRM can't tell whether the existing company is out of business or if it is public domain. If such technology did exist the end user could simply hack his system clock or feed false info to the DRM that said business was no longer with us.
As far as the law side of the issue I would agree... Copyrights should be like trademarks in which they have to be in use or defended to hold on to them. The should expire like patents and they should only hold to large scale abuse rather than small personal copying, but as far as fixing this through some sort of mechanism I don't know how.
t doesn't matter if you are trying to prohibit drinking alcohol or paying someone else for sexual favors, prohibition doesn't work -- all it does is create artificial scarcity which then develops a black market for the product or service.
Eh. I don't think the alcohol or prostitution analogy works.
Unless we are talking about only banning of cheap alcohol that gives bad hangovers while keeping higher grades legal or outlawing prostitutes who are overweight or ugly but keeping the higher class more expensive prostitutes legal.
So unless they outlawed light bulbs outright is the only thing I can think of that would be real prohibition. Otherwise I seriously doubt anyone is going to a speak easy to get their weekly hits of gin, girls, and light bulbs.
Unless there is some meth lab chemical you can extract from a incandescent light bulb I don't know about.
Sure, if you could generate and transmit a nice, smooth, regulated 48V DC from the power station to your computer, that would be great - but that's so unfeasable that you might as well wish for a pink unicorn while you're at it.
I wouldn't put it past Google if they haven't considered making their own power generation facilities already.
Actually doing it on the other hand is another question in itself.
Perhaps for a potential discount on movies?
If by discount you mean free after someone figures out how to share movies to people that didn't pay for them?
Why do your programs use the local timezone, anyway?
What if you need a program to do something at an exact time but locally.
Say a backup needs to run at 12am 0100 hours since it takes 6 hours to complete before people get into the office at earliest of 0600 hours (6am). (Yeah, that is one heck of a backup, but I'm just saying something in theory)
Well 0100 am is still 0100 to the UTC time no matter what, but if the local timezone changes and people are getting in the office to 5am which is not 0600 UTC time. Hence... Locality does make a difference if people are messing up file locks etc crapping out the backup.
Otherwise it shouldn't make a difference, but only when interaction with what is going on locally to the server.
What about starting you out as an uber-warlock who can destroy everything, but with some strange illness that makes you weaker and weaker as the game goes on. At the end, you finish as a feeble level-1 equivalent who needs to use some wit to get by.
I would have to say Fallout 2 was kind of like this in a sense even though you started out as a noob and got stronger.
You could face some rehabilitating injuries or "addictions" which made things more interesting or at least more difficult. They weren't game stoppers or at least bad enough that you would completley quit and reload the game.
Most of them were long term issues. Sometimes you could get a nasty injury to your arm, leg, and I think eyes which if you didn't seek medical attention you might loose use of that limb/organ.
If you didn't treat radiation sickness you would get bad effects but at the same time if you used stimpacks and various other medications you would get tolerance and sometimes get addicted.
So you could be a very powerful uber character, but you might have fatal flaws and actually you could roll at the beginning with disabilities to get more skill points.
Unless this turkey is working as an anonymous team member with somebody else (IE, there's no relationship between where the media was acquired and where it was uploaded), he will almost certainly get caught.
Or uses an anonymous proxy server.