Yeah it's a slow economy, CD prices are too high, but who else is tired of listening to cookie cutter "bands" of every shape and size. We've got boy groups, girl groups, angry rap groups, angry teenagers, angry old guys, "serious artists", and the plague of all plagues, Yoko Ono, but mostly we've got spoiled celebrities with more money than talent producing CD's that maybe, just maybe might have 1 decent song on it. All this so they can get together at least once a month at an "awards show" and tell eash other how wonderful they are and remind the rest of us poor saps how stupid, pitiful, and wrong we are because I don't want to give up more of my paycheck to the government to support some "program" they think is the scourge of the planet. This concludes our rant for today.
Trouble with the PTO not paying attention to their applications is that every bad patent makes them less credible, eventually to the point that every patent issued becomes suspicious. Or course the reason for these 4 was the hope of settling some lawsuits out of court and retiring. I know in this forum patents are evil by default, but that's a bit extreme. There are small companies that need that sort of protection to get their business off the ground. Every obvious, ridiculous patent issued reduces this level of protection. The solution? First let's eliminate lawyers everywhere, second, well that's been mentioned enough already.
IIS isn't the only problem. Since outlook treats users like they are stupid (hey, let me open this attachment for you) it has become my biggest potential problem. Users are going to be stupid so they really need an email client that is just as stupid (hey let me display this text for you and nothing else). I have a hard time stopping people from turning the Autopreview and Preview Pane back on after I go around and shut them off. Why does your email client need to be able to execute scripts anyway? Oh and let's not forget Outlook's ugly step-sister, Outlook Haxpress.
You can find it at http://www.extendsys.com/ESI/default.htm It works with Palm, CE, and Epoc, and has conduits for Exchange and Notes. Cool thing is it's multiuser. You can run it on a central machine on a network. I have a Kyocera Smartphone. I can sync my stuff from the freeway. Dial into the network and off it goes. Very cool.
I wonder if Apple finally goes under if the gov't will have to bail them out like Chrysler. You know, Mac being a semi-viable alternative to the microsoft monopoly.
That many of the high tech companies are supporting and contributing to Gore? How about Hollywood contributions? There's a lot of money in these 2 places. Anyone thinking Gore will make any kind of financial impact on people's lives is kidding themselves. He's soaking up rick people's money right and left. Go ahead, put Gore in the whitehouse. The rich may not get much of their money back. Maybe the Chinese will.
I don't know why this is so hard. Let's think about the lock a minute. All a lock does is keep your friends out. Unless you live in a vault, there are plenty of ways in your house. What good is a lock? So you can tell the insurance company you had your door locked and they will pay the damages.
As for the candy bar analogies, there are different ways to steal a candy bar. You can walk in a store, pick one up and walk out with it. That's called shop lifting. You could also wait until after hours, break in and take it. This is breaking and entering. It's not the theft of a candybar that will land you in jail, it's breaking and entering.
What this amounts to is being where you're not supposed to be. We can argue all day about how secure something is. Does that make a person who owns a convertible responsible if someone slashes the top and steals the radio cause the car is less secure? Hardly. Whether it's ms, Linux, BSD, if you're not authorized, you're not supposed to be in there.
It's time people started facing consequences for their own actions. It's just like DUI, if you're stupid enough to drink and drive you deserve to be put away forever.
Wouldn't this be a good nitch opportunity for Mozilla? They could focus on privacy and security in the browser, maybe watching for traffic going off to third party websites. What about a blacklist of websites that could be listed right in the browser settings?
Now if we can get M$ to port Outlook and Exchange to Linux/BSD some 14 year old in a third world country could shut down the WHOLE internet. They'll probably give C# the same unrestrained access to key system resources they've given to vbs only with more "features."
Unless you build your own PC, upgrading a motherboard is impossible with most "name brand" pc's. They have a proprietary case/motherboard design that makes it impossible to upgrade. There again, they just want you to go buy a new unit. The consumer loses again.
The TRUE people of the year will never appear in a magazine or on tv or even be mentioned in something like this forum. Kindness and heroism are sometimes their job, like the paramedics that pick up broken bodies off the interstate and try to put them back together again, or the doctors that see them in the emergency room. Sometimes they are the good people who visit a nursing home and make an old person smile one last time. Maybe it's the anonymous person that donates generously to a charity that makes a few children a lot happier during the holidays. There is not ONE person of the year, and if there was, you certainly wouldn't find him/her trading on Wall Street. Most of the truly great people pass in and out of our lives without us ever knowing it.
If given the choice of ridding the world of either microsoft or all attorneys, I would have a tough time deciding. This whole class action suit is pathetic. There's not a consumer out there that will benefit. The lawyers on the other hand will all be retiring wealthy in the Bahamas somewhere. This will be just like the tobacco suits, the lawyers will walk away with 90%, the rest divided among the 10 million people they "represent." Let's face a fact here, the consumer will suffer from the class action suit, not the company. Only the lawyers win. We'll all end up with some stupid $10 rebate on our next upgrade to windows 2005.
There's a misconception that the internet has grown without regulation. True there is very little as far as direct regulation is concerned, but there is a great deal of underlying regulation. There are regulations that force local phone companies to sell ISP services in the first place without discrimination. Long distance carriers must haul the traffic because they are regulated. Most telco pricing is fixed by regulation. The "free" access we all enjoy to this and other nation's telephone networks is the result of a big pile of gov't regulation. It's the commerce regulations, as mentioned in the brief, that make commerce possible between the various states. It's regulation that allows us to buy and sell from other countries. Even though there isn't any "apparent" regulation to the internet, we all live and die buy regulations. What we have to praise/condemn now is more gov't regulation. Will the FCC go ahead and allow the merger? Will they deny it? Whichever the case, it's gov't regulation. What we depend on here is gov't regulation that makes competition possible. This is exactly what the DOJ vs. Monopolysoft case is all about, regulations that insure competition.
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And this is why we have to count on the undying ignorance of the average end user. This is why my internet customers call me and ask "is your server down? My computer says No Dial Tone...."
Most of us have a constant tug-of-war with our employers. They expect us to keep the network secure, install the updates and patches, keep the anti-virus software up to date, unpack and set up the new equipment, evaluate this new software and prepare to integrate it into the enterprise. Then my phone rings..... "I have this blue screen with a lot of letters and numbers on it, what does that mean?" Or worse, "this computer keeps locking up and I want it fixed RIGHT NOW!" I could get a lot more work done if I wasn't busy rebooting everyone's pc's for them. Which do I do? Install that security fix, or go reboot that pc "RIGHT NOW!" I think we all know the answer. The immediate always takes precedence over the maybe future. Let's get those 9x workstations off the desktop and life will improve dramatically.
Point is, there's plenty to keep us busy with out rebooting/re-installing win 9x.
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What do many of us get paid for? That's right, knowing more than the average person about computers. I don't care who wins the GUI wars as long as it's not microsoft. I get tired of telling people to "reboot and call me if it doesn't work." We get paid for tech support. Isn't the goal here to get people to eventually move away from microsoft? And what will people expect? That's right, to sit down at their already running computer, fire up their word processor and start typing. How many of them are going to compile software? None, they will call one of us and have it done, that's what we get paid for. Wouldn't it be cool to live in a world where formatting C and re-installing windows wasn't a way of life? So leave them alone. Let KDE and Gnome market to the masses... they'll still be calling us to install things, but this time we'll only have to do it once, and won't have to be checking back for months. What a wonderful world this could be.
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Now if we could get them to port Smartsuite and Client Access. They're missing the boat, I loved Smartsuite, it would be sweet on Linux.
I also received a notice on Exchange server, MS03-046 and MS03-047.
Yeah it's a slow economy, CD prices are too high, but who else is tired of listening to cookie cutter "bands" of every shape and size. We've got boy groups, girl groups, angry rap groups, angry teenagers, angry old guys, "serious artists", and the plague of all plagues, Yoko Ono, but mostly we've got spoiled celebrities with more money than talent producing CD's that maybe, just maybe might have 1 decent song on it. All this so they can get together at least once a month at an "awards show" and tell eash other how wonderful they are and remind the rest of us poor saps how stupid, pitiful, and wrong we are because I don't want to give up more of my paycheck to the government to support some "program" they think is the scourge of the planet. This concludes our rant for today.
Trouble with the PTO not paying attention to their applications is that every bad patent makes them less credible, eventually to the point that every patent issued becomes suspicious. Or course the reason for these 4 was the hope of settling some lawsuits out of court and retiring. I know in this forum patents are evil by default, but that's a bit extreme. There are small companies that need that sort of protection to get their business off the ground. Every obvious, ridiculous patent issued reduces this level of protection. The solution? First let's eliminate lawyers everywhere, second, well that's been mentioned enough already.
IIS isn't the only problem. Since outlook treats users like they are stupid (hey, let me open this attachment for you) it has become my biggest potential problem. Users are going to be stupid so they really need an email client that is just as stupid (hey let me display this text for you and nothing else). I have a hard time stopping people from turning the Autopreview and Preview Pane back on after I go around and shut them off. Why does your email client need to be able to execute scripts anyway? Oh and let's not forget Outlook's ugly step-sister, Outlook Haxpress.
You can find it at http://www.extendsys.com/ESI/default.htm It works with Palm, CE, and Epoc, and has conduits for Exchange and Notes. Cool thing is it's multiuser. You can run it on a central machine on a network. I have a Kyocera Smartphone. I can sync my stuff from the freeway. Dial into the network and off it goes. Very cool.
I wonder if Apple finally goes under if the gov't will have to bail them out like Chrysler. You know, Mac being a semi-viable alternative to the microsoft monopoly.
That many of the high tech companies are supporting and contributing to Gore? How about Hollywood contributions? There's a lot of money in these 2 places. Anyone thinking Gore will make any kind of financial impact on people's lives is kidding themselves. He's soaking up rick people's money right and left. Go ahead, put Gore in the whitehouse. The rich may not get much of their money back. Maybe the Chinese will.
I don't know why this is so hard. Let's think about the lock a minute. All a lock does is keep your friends out. Unless you live in a vault, there are plenty of ways in your house. What good is a lock? So you can tell the insurance company you had your door locked and they will pay the damages.
As for the candy bar analogies, there are different ways to steal a candy bar. You can walk in a store, pick one up and walk out with it. That's called shop lifting. You could also wait until after hours, break in and take it. This is breaking and entering. It's not the theft of a candybar that will land you in jail, it's breaking and entering.
What this amounts to is being where you're not supposed to be. We can argue all day about how secure something is. Does that make a person who owns a convertible responsible if someone slashes the top and steals the radio cause the car is less secure? Hardly. Whether it's ms, Linux, BSD, if you're not authorized, you're not supposed to be in there.
It's time people started facing consequences for their own actions. It's just like DUI, if you're stupid enough to drink and drive you deserve to be put away forever.
Wouldn't this be a good nitch opportunity for Mozilla? They could focus on privacy and security in the browser, maybe watching for traffic going off to third party websites. What about a blacklist of websites that could be listed right in the browser settings?
Now if we can get M$ to port Outlook and Exchange to Linux/BSD some 14 year old in a third world country could shut down the WHOLE internet. They'll probably give C# the same unrestrained access to key system resources they've given to vbs only with more "features."
Unless you build your own PC, upgrading a motherboard is impossible with most "name brand" pc's. They have a proprietary case/motherboard design that makes it impossible to upgrade. There again, they just want you to go buy a new unit. The consumer loses again.
Hey, watch it with the death proof... I have no plans of killing anyone.
The TRUE people of the year will never appear in a magazine or on tv or even be mentioned in something like this forum. Kindness and heroism are sometimes their job, like the paramedics that pick up broken bodies off the interstate and try to put them back together again, or the doctors that see them in the emergency room. Sometimes they are the good people who visit a nursing home and make an old person smile one last time. Maybe it's the anonymous person that donates generously to a charity that makes a few children a lot happier during the holidays. There is not ONE person of the year, and if there was, you certainly wouldn't find him/her trading on Wall Street. Most of the truly great people pass in and out of our lives without us ever knowing it.
If given the choice of ridding the world of either microsoft or all attorneys, I would have a tough time deciding. This whole class action suit is pathetic. There's not a consumer out there that will benefit. The lawyers on the other hand will all be retiring wealthy in the Bahamas somewhere. This will be just like the tobacco suits, the lawyers will walk away with 90%, the rest divided among the 10 million people they "represent." Let's face a fact here, the consumer will suffer from the class action suit, not the company. Only the lawyers win. We'll all end up with some stupid $10 rebate on our next upgrade to windows 2005.
There's a misconception that the internet has grown without regulation. True there is very little as far as direct regulation is concerned, but there is a great deal of underlying regulation. There are regulations that force local phone companies to sell ISP services in the first place without discrimination. Long distance carriers must haul the traffic because they are regulated. Most telco pricing is fixed by regulation. The "free" access we all enjoy to this and other nation's telephone networks is the result of a big pile of gov't regulation. It's the commerce regulations, as mentioned in the brief, that make commerce possible between the various states. It's regulation that allows us to buy and sell from other countries. Even though there isn't any "apparent" regulation to the internet, we all live and die buy regulations. What we have to praise/condemn now is more gov't regulation. Will the FCC go ahead and allow the merger? Will they deny it? Whichever the case, it's gov't regulation. What we depend on here is gov't regulation that makes competition possible. This is exactly what the DOJ vs. Monopolysoft case is all about, regulations that insure competition.
And this is why we have to count on the undying ignorance of the average end user. This is why my internet customers call me and ask "is your server down? My computer says No Dial Tone...."
Most of us have a constant tug-of-war with our employers. They expect us to keep the network secure, install the updates and patches, keep the anti-virus software up to date, unpack and set up the new equipment, evaluate this new software and prepare to integrate it into the enterprise. Then my phone rings..... "I have this blue screen with a lot of letters and numbers on it, what does that mean?" Or worse, "this computer keeps locking up and I want it fixed RIGHT NOW!" I could get a lot more work done if I wasn't busy rebooting everyone's pc's for them. Which do I do? Install that security fix, or go reboot that pc "RIGHT NOW!" I think we all know the answer. The immediate always takes precedence over the maybe future. Let's get those 9x workstations off the desktop and life will improve dramatically.
Point is, there's plenty to keep us busy with out rebooting/re-installing win 9x.
What do many of us get paid for? That's right, knowing more than the average person about computers. I don't care who wins the GUI wars as long as it's not microsoft. I get tired of telling people to "reboot and call me if it doesn't work." We get paid for tech support. Isn't the goal here to get people to eventually move away from microsoft? And what will people expect? That's right, to sit down at their already running computer, fire up their word processor and start typing. How many of them are going to compile software? None, they will call one of us and have it done, that's what we get paid for. Wouldn't it be cool to live in a world where formatting C and re-installing windows wasn't a way of life? So leave them alone. Let KDE and Gnome market to the masses... they'll still be calling us to install things, but this time we'll only have to do it once, and won't have to be checking back for months. What a wonderful world this could be.