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When Ballmer "Buries a guy" its not like he does a half-assed job of it! That'll teach HIM for thinking about going to work on the Google Omnipotent Database!
Wanna bet?
I used to think "no one would put up with" insecurities in Windows...
Nor I know better. With the marketshare Microsoft has they can require people to sacrifice their first born (which I'll do before Vista gets on MY systems) and they'll STILL manage to get enough copies out for it to become standard.
"If you can read this, you're invading my privacy" -- Hey, I don't want my business in their servers
"Copyright thesnarky.com 2007" -- 'Cause then I can charge everytime someone views my part of the map
"Google Map THIS ----" -- Insert your own image or funny phrase in the dashes
Actually, I'd probably put up a gigantic mirror and hope its nice and sunny to eliminate my part of the city from terrorists trying to plan an attack via Google Earth.... ACTUALLY I'd be asleep at 4 am (ok, going to bed) like any sane person!
This from the man that called the Internet a passing fad? Glad he's finally jumped on the band wagon after 15 years. Oh, even better he's leading that band wagon.... we're doomed.
And luckily Google notifies his clients if he's running late for a meeting when he misses an emai---- erm, sorry, I'm sure they never read personal emails.
I've got the first solution (own domain, Thunderbird and Squirrelmail) you mention, and have only ever used gmail once. That was when I was out of the country in a place with state-controlled Internet, and I was sending cryptic messages back home letting them know I was alive, and that's it.
That's not the point! The point is that global warming caused it and we're all going to die!
Erm... at least, I assume that's why it was overlooked. Personally I believe in this little scientific thing called "sun cycles" where the sun warms and cools... aka the Ice Age, to now (with multiple other minor Ice Ages in there).... that's been warming even before Bush started driving an SUV...
Can we cut the Global Warming nonsense and call this what it is, instead of using it for political reasons, please?
Uh, call me crazy, but shouldn't this have come about two days earlier? I mean, after the fact is all well and good, but, well, ---
Nah, guess I'm just crazy. It makes total sense to wait until the day after an election to ask for secure voting machines.
"All of this will take time so get started now - and don't set expectations too high for 2008."
Wait... wasn't there lots of allegations in 2006 about the systems not being secure? In that big... whatchamacallit... Pres-i-dential elec-tion... hmm... Shouldn't they have... I dunno... gotten started back then, perhaps?
Maybe I'm just old fasioned, and like to see things happen when they're pointed out, nottwo years later.
Do something for 30+ hours a week and it can wreck your life, you don't say... Play a game from work and it can hurt your job, no shit... Spend 70 DAYS out of a year in front of your computer and you can gain weight, never saw that coming.
While the article was well written, I don't see the point. I think everyone knows that addictions can hurt you, and WoW is no different than anything else. If anything, it might be better because this guy was able to quit cold turkey after a year, fairly impressive for a real addiciton. Good, well formed argument, but where's the point? Might as well say "Crack's addicting".
Guys, before we decry this outright as loss of rights, evil dictatorishipness, a stupid move, think. This isn't a stupid move, merely the start of the END OF SPAM! Sure, on their own China won't end spam, but with all nations acting together to ban email servers, there'll be no more email servers left! No servers means no email! Finally salvation for my inbox!
Nothing is completely pirate proof. That's like saying a "secure" computer. You can get close.... and might stop 99.99999%, but there will be someone who gets around it. There's plenty of good responses above questioning why MS would just turn off the GUI, and I think they're spot on. Make it ugly for the people that don't care that much about the piracy, just want a nice looking OS, and they'll cave.
You forget that they're paying for a ton of servers and bandwidth. Yes, queue the server downtime jokes here, but fact of the matter is, their servers cost money. As does the farm (they probably have at least two, probably three seperate ones in the US alone) and electricity. Then there's bandwidth. People who run it all. That's just on the upkeep/physical side. Add in the programmers who maintain it, do hotfixes, etc. Patchers... it adds up. I severely doubt they have "excessive excessive" surplus, as whatever extra they might have is also going to go into their Diablo 3, and (I hope) Starcraft sequels.
Sorry, but I'm totally against this idea. Yea, you might get Chase to register, and you might be able to say "Yup, this is from Chase, I
If you don't believe me, set up a "bank auditing" web service. Then send out the emails asking for logins. Now, instead of seeing bank auditing and saying, hmm... might be bad, a normal user will say "hmm.. bank auditing, well, AOL says they're good, so I'll trust 'em". Not to mention the fact that unless they're checking the content of the message, one could easily use this to send better "verified" spam. Imagine a request for money "verified" to come from IRS. When you look close you realize that IRS is International Rip-off Scam, but they just registered as IRS.com.
This... is a bad... idea... If the above doesn't convince you, just think about it for a day or so. If I were a spammer I would quickly set up a "legit" business, and pay per email to get my message out. This *will* help spammers get to more people, and make phishing scams more convincing.
Not to mention the fact that if the blood spurts, he's alive (heart is beating, sending blood pumping through the body). If its trickles out, he's dead (steady stream indiacates the heart's stopped).
No. They have no right to force Google to say how it ranks sites. As I understand it, it is somethin Google takes pride in, and doesn't want every porn site google hacking itself up high. If the business is depending on Google for its business, they need a new marketing team. Perhaps, if they do want to stick with Google, taking out an Adsense ad? Or, realizing that this is just a search tool, use real world advertising? This is a stupid lawsuit, typical nowadays in America when a business thinks it can get some easy money. Yes, I am American, but this makes me sick, and the greed we see from lawyers (there are some good ones, don't be offended if you are one) is dispicable.
Did they lose 70% of their customers because of a lower ranking? I don't entirely buy it. They say they had X traffic at their height, and now they have (X *.30). Great, so what? They're still ranked top on Yahoo and MSN, yet they still lose 80% of their revenue? There's more at work here, especially if people can't put the name of the company "Kinderstart" and add a ".com" to remember the name.
I go to a major state university. I was in charge of one of the website of one of the dorms. I also was in charge of buying/setting up a new computer, so we could do web design. I replaced a second generation pentium and 32 MB RAM with a brand new (cheapest we could find that I would accept) system. Question was, what to do with the old system? Apparently there was some law that all old systems *must* be donated to charity. All well and good, but how is a charity going to use it? Windows 98 SE was taxing it! What a charity is going to do is throw XP on there, and then wonder why it's so slow. No help to no one.
So, how does that cute, yet not too melancholy story relate to this? You're going to have to make do with what you get/can get. You might not be able to choose something you won't have to service in 6 months. You might not be able to use the newest OS. When it comes down to upgrading the systems you get (mobo/proc and RAM, and don't forget the license for Windows) in order to run XP, and getting more systems to reach more people, you'll have to make that decision. Personally, I would use Linux (pick your favorite distro) on older boxes. If they're really old, have it boot to a console, and use it for more "advanced" kids. There's always someone who'll take to it, and want to learn more. We all had that first computer experience, and I'm willing to bet most weren't on a brand new machine. So, they can work on a console, and consider it a challenge. For the... lets say, less computer savvy, you give them the newer systems with a full GUI.
I can't stress enough that a console Linux box, or even just a smaller window manager (fluxbox, etc) makes an old slow system into something new. I think that's your best bet in terms of getting the most systems, cheapest, but the trade off is having things that aren't as visually appealing.
On the other hand, if you want to teach Windows I'd reccomend getting as old a version as you can, that will maximize the computers power. If it's only got 256 MB RAMI guess what this long, late-night ramble is getting to is this. There's no hard and fast. You can request whatever you want, but you'll end up having to make do with what you get. And to that end, it'll be up to you whether you can afford to upgrade another system in hopes of getting XP (remember, pay for the license) on there, or use a Linux version that is appropriate. If these kids haven't used a computer before, no matter what you teach them, they'll learn, so don't be biased against Linux, simply because of look. And in the end, the learning is up to them. You might talk with the student, find out the interests, and from that make the call of which system to give, with which OS (if you have the luxary of having 5-10 different machines in at one time).
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When Ballmer "Buries a guy" its not like he does a half-assed job of it! That'll teach HIM for thinking about going to work on the Google Omnipotent Database!
Wanna bet?
I used to think "no one would put up with" insecurities in Windows...
Nor I know better. With the marketshare Microsoft has they can require people to sacrifice their first born (which I'll do before Vista gets on MY systems) and they'll STILL manage to get enough copies out for it to become standard.
You'll never find a greater hive of scum and villany...
"If you can read this, you're invading my privacy" -- Hey, I don't want my business in their servers "Copyright thesnarky.com 2007" -- 'Cause then I can charge everytime someone views my part of the map "Google Map THIS ----" -- Insert your own image or funny phrase in the dashes Actually, I'd probably put up a gigantic mirror and hope its nice and sunny to eliminate my part of the city from terrorists trying to plan an attack via Google Earth. ... ACTUALLY I'd be asleep at 4 am (ok, going to bed) like any sane person!
This from the man that called the Internet a passing fad? Glad he's finally jumped on the band wagon after 15 years. Oh, even better he's leading that band wagon.... we're doomed.
And luckily Google notifies his clients if he's running late for a meeting when he misses an emai---- erm, sorry, I'm sure they never read personal emails. I've got the first solution (own domain, Thunderbird and Squirrelmail) you mention, and have only ever used gmail once. That was when I was out of the country in a place with state-controlled Internet, and I was sending cryptic messages back home letting them know I was alive, and that's it.
That's not the point! The point is that global warming caused it and we're all going to die!
Erm... at least, I assume that's why it was overlooked. Personally I believe in this little scientific thing called "sun cycles" where the sun warms and cools... aka the Ice Age, to now (with multiple other minor Ice Ages in there).... that's been warming even before Bush started driving an SUV...
Can we cut the Global Warming nonsense and call this what it is, instead of using it for political reasons, please?
Uh, call me crazy, but shouldn't this have come about two days earlier? I mean, after the fact is all well and good, but, well, ---
Nah, guess I'm just crazy. It makes total sense to wait until the day after an election to ask for secure voting machines.
"All of this will take time so get started now - and don't set expectations too high for 2008."
Wait... wasn't there lots of allegations in 2006 about the systems not being secure? In that big... whatchamacallit... Pres-i-dential elec-tion... hmm... Shouldn't they have... I dunno... gotten started back then, perhaps?
Maybe I'm just old fasioned, and like to see things happen when they're pointed out, nottwo years later.
Do something for 30+ hours a week and it can wreck your life, you don't say... Play a game from work and it can hurt your job, no shit... Spend 70 DAYS out of a year in front of your computer and you can gain weight, never saw that coming.
While the article was well written, I don't see the point. I think everyone knows that addictions can hurt you, and WoW is no different than anything else. If anything, it might be better because this guy was able to quit cold turkey after a year, fairly impressive for a real addiciton. Good, well formed argument, but where's the point? Might as well say "Crack's addicting".
aaaand once again people take a joke seriously.. *sigh* Always gotta get that jab at governments, huh?
Just what I always wanted! The ability to talk on AIM using two thumbsticks while fragging my way through a room full of badass monsters!
Guys, before we decry this outright as loss of rights, evil dictatorishipness, a stupid move, think. This isn't a stupid move, merely the start of the END OF SPAM! Sure, on their own China won't end spam, but with all nations acting together to ban email servers, there'll be no more email servers left! No servers means no email! Finally salvation for my inbox!
Interesting... 3 pages for me is 150 results...
Indisputable evidence that the dinosaurs must have been burning too much gas when THEY died out from famine!!
Nothing is completely pirate proof. That's like saying a "secure" computer. You can get close.... and might stop 99.99999%, but there will be someone who gets around it. There's plenty of good responses above questioning why MS would just turn off the GUI, and I think they're spot on. Make it ugly for the people that don't care that much about the piracy, just want a nice looking OS, and they'll cave.
You forget that they're paying for a ton of servers and bandwidth. Yes, queue the server downtime jokes here, but fact of the matter is, their servers cost money. As does the farm (they probably have at least two, probably three seperate ones in the US alone) and electricity. Then there's bandwidth. People who run it all. That's just on the upkeep/physical side. Add in the programmers who maintain it, do hotfixes, etc. Patchers... it adds up. I severely doubt they have "excessive excessive" surplus, as whatever extra they might have is also going to go into their Diablo 3, and (I hope) Starcraft sequels.
Actually, "lightspeed" is the name his wife gave him... and also the reason she forced him into the porn business in order to meet real men.
This... is a bad... idea... If the above doesn't convince you, just think about it for a day or so. If I were a spammer I would quickly set up a "legit" business, and pay per email to get my message out. This *will* help spammers get to more people, and make phishing scams more convincing.
Not to mention the fact that if the blood spurts, he's alive (heart is beating, sending blood pumping through the body). If its trickles out, he's dead (steady stream indiacates the heart's stopped).
Did they lose 70% of their customers because of a lower ranking? I don't entirely buy it. They say they had X traffic at their height, and now they have (X * .30). Great, so what? They're still ranked top on Yahoo and MSN, yet they still lose 80% of their revenue? There's more at work here, especially if people can't put the name of the company "Kinderstart" and add a ".com" to remember the name.
Beginning? What is a beginning but thinking about the start? That'll be $2500 please, or I'll see you in court.
So, how does that cute, yet not too melancholy story relate to this? You're going to have to make do with what you get/can get. You might not be able to choose something you won't have to service in 6 months. You might not be able to use the newest OS. When it comes down to upgrading the systems you get (mobo/proc and RAM, and don't forget the license for Windows) in order to run XP, and getting more systems to reach more people, you'll have to make that decision. Personally, I would use Linux (pick your favorite distro) on older boxes. If they're really old, have it boot to a console, and use it for more "advanced" kids. There's always someone who'll take to it, and want to learn more. We all had that first computer experience, and I'm willing to bet most weren't on a brand new machine. So, they can work on a console, and consider it a challenge. For the... lets say, less computer savvy, you give them the newer systems with a full GUI.
I can't stress enough that a console Linux box, or even just a smaller window manager (fluxbox, etc) makes an old slow system into something new. I think that's your best bet in terms of getting the most systems, cheapest, but the trade off is having things that aren't as visually appealing.
On the other hand, if you want to teach Windows I'd reccomend getting as old a version as you can, that will maximize the computers power. If it's only got 256 MB RAMI guess what this long, late-night ramble is getting to is this. There's no hard and fast. You can request whatever you want, but you'll end up having to make do with what you get. And to that end, it'll be up to you whether you can afford to upgrade another system in hopes of getting XP (remember, pay for the license) on there, or use a Linux version that is appropriate. If these kids haven't used a computer before, no matter what you teach them, they'll learn, so don't be biased against Linux, simply because of look. And in the end, the learning is up to them. You might talk with the student, find out the interests, and from that make the call of which system to give, with which OS (if you have the luxary of having 5-10 different machines in at one time).
Global warming my ass.... someone just let a fart out too near a burner, and we're still paying for it!
And with the right subpoena, you have there's.