Demons I HATE that site. It's the scourge of all website operators, used by noone but spammers to get people in random Indian cities to break CAPTCHAs and make spam software for them. Someone needs to shut that shit down.
Actually, we aren't using US Dollars - we're using New Zealand Dollars. We'd actually rather the US Dollar didn't strengthen, if you catch my meaning!
And that's the main reason we wont touch iPhones really. Vodafone makes them far to expensive for us to consider, since any purchases we make have to be pretty damn justified since it's taxpayer dollars we're using. I mean, if you were a taxpayer here would YOU be pissed off if the hospitals went around paying millions on iPhones when an HTC or iMate does the same job but 20 billion times cheaper?
In the mean time, my shareholders/high-ranking employees and I made a cool couple-hundred-grand in "dividends", "salary", and "bonuses"; my customers got their products (no threat of criminal prosecution for not delivering, warranty claims can't happen due to bankruptcy, etc.); and multiple parties are fighting over the scraps--the 20 PCs, 5 laser printers, 15 phones, the cubicle walls, and some pens & Post-It notes.
I'm pretty sure that's illegal. Now, retaining services from a "trusted associate" at outrageous prices (*cough*SCO*cough*) would work.
Not slightly more powerful, CONSIDERABLY more powerful. Every single thing is better about that Dell except the monitor. Faster processor, more RAM, more hard disk space and a better graphics card with more RAM on it.
Indeed. Perhaps if more webmasters actually downloaded these programs and tried them against their CAPTCHA implementations, we'd have less easily broken ones.
Man you're a really dumb shit, twitter. There's no such thing as a "Windows specific" CAPTCHA, a CAPTCHA is a fucking picture. Go spread your moronic vitriol elsewhere.
If you purchase something, you own it and as an owner you can do what you like with it. This is a natural freedom that exists so long as property and ownership have meaning. When someone purchases a copy of software, they may not have the legal right to redistribute it in any form, but if they purchase property, they own property. Services are not the same thing, and the right to use a service in a way that is not agreed upon is an abuse against the person providing the service.
You're quite right. It should also be noted that "World of Warcraft" is, in fact, a service.
You'd have to make your virus display the EULA to the user, and they'd have the chance to decline. I don't know about you, but I reckon viruses requiring the user to agree to the EULA before they can infect the PC to be an improvement!
I'd also like to know more about these cheap, portable, bed side computers that your hospital is using. Nothing I've ever seen in a hospital was ever described as doing a job cheaply.
Portable? Who said we were using portable stuff? I said we were using computers, which do the job cheaply and efficiently. We don't need to go using iPhones to make it slower and more expensive.
And here I thought the claim of $1000 iphones would have discredited the OP enough to dispel any ensuing discussion.
*check* Nope, the iPhone is still $1000. Apparently I need to introduce you to someone. Meet Vodafone. They decided they could make $1000 off an 8GB iPhone, so that's what they charge.
I wouldn't touch Symbian either. Personally, I believe the best type of mobile device development is that which can be done with whichever fucking OS you actually have. No requirement for Windows, OS X, or Linux. Symbian can shove it. Apple can shove it. I will not develop for any platform that requires me to buy another computer because they don't like my OS choice. I also wont touch any platform that requires the OS vendor decide whether my application is worthy of their mighty device. So far, that limits me to... Windows Mobile. Fucking weird, actually.
In terms of "bedside computing devices", we use just that - computing devices. Not phones, computers. They do the job cheaply and effectively, and an iPhone (or similar device) just doesn't compare.
That, and iPhones and similar devices have such pathetically small screens for that sort of purpose.
Hmm. I just calculated the local cost of developing for an iPhone. $1200 for the iPhone, $1000 for a Mac Mini (plus cost of peripherals), $150 per phone for the dev program. Ouch, that's a $2350 startup cost! Fuck that.
And if they tried to not sell you unlimited data, everyone (including you?) would bitch about that too. No wonder they think it's not worth bothering trying to please people.
I work in a hospital, and we've explicitly ruled out the possibility of iPhones. They are far too expensive for us (we pay enough to our cellphone carrier to get phones for like $50, buying $1,000 phones is a waste of taxpayer money.
While that sounds good it doesn't wash. It depends what you are setting up to do. If you want a permissive, bug ridden system where most of your company's bandwidth is used for P2P and every three months your clients call you to tell you their computer has slowed to a crawl, go ahead and use Windows.
Bullshit. Every single "problem" you listed there is indicative of incompetent administration, not the system. Where I work, we have upwards of 5,000 Windows XP desktops, 250 Windows 2003 servers, and a few Redhat Enterprise servers. We don't have any of the problems you listed. Re-imaging PCs is extremely rare because we don't let the users do anything TOO stupid, and the Cisco Catalyst switches prevent any traffic getting out except through our properly configured firewalls. If you're having the problems you list with a Windows network you run, you'd better quit and let a REAL admin take over.
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Here's why Amazon isn't an option for a lot of people.
Demons I HATE that site. It's the scourge of all website operators, used by noone but spammers to get people in random Indian cities to break CAPTCHAs and make spam software for them. Someone needs to shut that shit down.
For 10c a MB on a ridiculously shit Vodafone plan with 250MB included data.
Actually, we aren't using US Dollars - we're using New Zealand Dollars. We'd actually rather the US Dollar didn't strengthen, if you catch my meaning!
And that's the main reason we wont touch iPhones really. Vodafone makes them far to expensive for us to consider, since any purchases we make have to be pretty damn justified since it's taxpayer dollars we're using. I mean, if you were a taxpayer here would YOU be pissed off if the hospitals went around paying millions on iPhones when an HTC or iMate does the same job but 20 billion times cheaper?
Uh, "Trusted Sites" on the servers is the same as "Internet" on the workstations. Which is to say, completely untrusted.
In the mean time, my shareholders/high-ranking employees and I made a cool couple-hundred-grand in "dividends", "salary", and "bonuses"; my customers got their products (no threat of criminal prosecution for not delivering, warranty claims can't happen due to bankruptcy, etc.); and multiple parties are fighting over the scraps--the 20 PCs, 5 laser printers, 15 phones, the cubicle walls, and some pens & Post-It notes.
I'm pretty sure that's illegal. Now, retaining services from a "trusted associate" at outrageous prices (*cough*SCO*cough*) would work.
Not slightly more powerful, CONSIDERABLY more powerful. Every single thing is better about that Dell except the monitor. Faster processor, more RAM, more hard disk space and a better graphics card with more RAM on it.
Indeed. Perhaps if more webmasters actually downloaded these programs and tried them against their CAPTCHA implementations, we'd have less easily broken ones.
Man you're a really dumb shit, twitter. There's no such thing as a "Windows specific" CAPTCHA, a CAPTCHA is a fucking picture. Go spread your moronic vitriol elsewhere.
I do believe encouraging another to violate a contract is also a contributory crime, which makes it illegal to sell products like Glider.
If you purchase something, you own it and as an owner you can do what you like with it. This is a natural freedom that exists so long as property and ownership have meaning. When someone purchases a copy of software, they may not have the legal right to redistribute it in any form, but if they purchase property, they own property. Services are not the same thing, and the right to use a service in a way that is not agreed upon is an abuse against the person providing the service.
You're quite right. It should also be noted that "World of Warcraft" is, in fact, a service.
You'd have to make your virus display the EULA to the user, and they'd have the chance to decline. I don't know about you, but I reckon viruses requiring the user to agree to the EULA before they can infect the PC to be an improvement!
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I'd also like to know more about these cheap, portable, bed side computers that your hospital is using. Nothing I've ever seen in a hospital was ever described as doing a job cheaply.
Portable? Who said we were using portable stuff? I said we were using computers, which do the job cheaply and efficiently. We don't need to go using iPhones to make it slower and more expensive.
And here I thought the claim of $1000 iphones would have discredited the OP enough to dispel any ensuing discussion.
*check* Nope, the iPhone is still $1000. Apparently I need to introduce you to someone. Meet Vodafone. They decided they could make $1000 off an 8GB iPhone, so that's what they charge.
I wouldn't touch Symbian either. Personally, I believe the best type of mobile device development is that which can be done with whichever fucking OS you actually have. No requirement for Windows, OS X, or Linux. Symbian can shove it. Apple can shove it. I will not develop for any platform that requires me to buy another computer because they don't like my OS choice. I also wont touch any platform that requires the OS vendor decide whether my application is worthy of their mighty device. So far, that limits me to... Windows Mobile. Fucking weird, actually.
In terms of "bedside computing devices", we use just that - computing devices. Not phones, computers. They do the job cheaply and effectively, and an iPhone (or similar device) just doesn't compare.
That, and iPhones and similar devices have such pathetically small screens for that sort of purpose.
Hmm. I just calculated the local cost of developing for an iPhone. $1200 for the iPhone, $1000 for a Mac Mini (plus cost of peripherals), $150 per phone for the dev program. Ouch, that's a $2350 startup cost! Fuck that.
And if they tried to not sell you unlimited data, everyone (including you?) would bitch about that too. No wonder they think it's not worth bothering trying to please people.
I work in a hospital, and we've explicitly ruled out the possibility of iPhones. They are far too expensive for us (we pay enough to our cellphone carrier to get phones for like $50, buying $1,000 phones is a waste of taxpayer money.
There will be no iPhones in hospitals.
4chan is moderated. Read it's terms of service (specifically, it's administrators will remove kiddy porn and anything else that violates US law).
Yes, 4chan has terms of service.
Don't forget they're even knocking out groups where Kiddy Porn isn't even possible - like the alt.*.moderated groups.
While that sounds good it doesn't wash. It depends what you are setting up to do. If you want a permissive, bug ridden system where most of your company's bandwidth is used for P2P and every three months your clients call you to tell you their computer has slowed to a crawl, go ahead and use Windows.
Bullshit. Every single "problem" you listed there is indicative of incompetent administration, not the system. Where I work, we have upwards of 5,000 Windows XP desktops, 250 Windows 2003 servers, and a few Redhat Enterprise servers. We don't have any of the problems you listed. Re-imaging PCs is extremely rare because we don't let the users do anything TOO stupid, and the Cisco Catalyst switches prevent any traffic getting out except through our properly configured firewalls. If you're having the problems you list with a Windows network you run, you'd better quit and let a REAL admin take over.
I think you've forgotten to mention the real reason Myspace is down half the time - it's ColdFusion, run by Fox.
Try updating Windows then. Apparently you're missing a year or two of updates.
For the last time, Microsoft actually HAS a product called LookOut. It's an acquired email search utility.
Uh, EVERY User Agent has Mozilla in there, and they've said Mozilla since before Mozilla even existed.