"I am a pathetic human being who needs desperately to feel good about myself, so I use hacks to 'pwn' people! I'm the man!...
It's kinda like the saying about flaming on net forums... even if you do "get the last word", you're still retarded...
By the way, don't know if the guy who wrote the original article will ever read this, but kudos to you for doin it, and more kudos for pointing out the fact that he's probably just a guy who can't seem to get laid.
Imgaine a high school that develops a major leak in the roof, and has to release a major patch to fix it, just to have the same thing happen again next week... what kind of education is that?
I am in charge of the technical equipment at the church (i.e. I run the sound and the video projection) and I used my laptop (because of it's specs and capabilities to run the system I was using... I would pull pictures and such of the net to use in presentations, and it was very frustrating for my wireless to just forget what it was doing, then forget the network key, etc.
I don't claim to be the world's expert on computer operating systems, but I had a chance to try RC1 on my own computer, and I was somewhat disappointed. While I did not experience multiple crashes, I did find several small things that I missed having from XP.
1. The user interface concerning wireless/wired networking was cumbersome. I go between work and home and church (all 3 are wrlss hotspots) and Vista had trouble remembering the network keys as well as refused to connect automatically.
2. Internet Explorer gave me some issues; mainly being that it asked me to install an extra plug-in immediately after installing, and afterwards, the only way to get IE to open without crashing was to "Open with plug-ins disabled" that obviously did not allow me to view flash objects and other things.
That being said, there are things that Microsoft did in Vista RC1 that I loved. For example, the start menu has been reorganized. When you open it, it looks pretty much just like the start menu in XP, however, when you click "All Programs", the quick access menu on the left is replaced by a scroll down list with all the programs listed - rather than having menus expand across your screen. It is simply more organized. I love the gadgets bar on the right side of the screen as you can customize it to have a clock, the recycle bin, calculator, and my personal favorite, dials that track memory usage and percentage of processor clock time being used.
All in all, there are good things, but I chose to roll back to XP for the issues I mentioned. I hope that Microsoft takes its time and does this one right... wouldn't that be a shocker?
Here Apple has a choice...
Mac OS and Linux could team up, and maybe force Windows underground? think of a world where computers do not crash on a regular basis... I bet there would not be the epidemic of high blood pressure in Americans that there is now.
Ya know, I think this all comes down to human nature. One group of people believe something is wrong or unacceptable, and the group directly affected by it finds it more tempting and desirable because it is labeled as a deviant behavior. Maybe, JUST MAYBE, if the policy was not "NO INTERNET USAGE AT WORK", but rather a policy of "No internet usage ABUSE at work" then it wouldn't be such a big deal. Any corporate structure that can block levels of access also have the ability to monitor usage on an individual (or at least in different areas of the network) basis. I don't see that it causes that much problem for someone to have Yahoo music in the background in their office while they file papers or to keep email lines open between spouses attempting to plan a lil dinner or something for after work.
On the issue of comparing Internet surfing to talking on the phone at work, I see that they are almost in no way related. I am sitting in a college Statistics class right now, but even as I check slashdot articles and email my mom about my financial aid papers, I'm still listening to what the professor is lecturing on; something I could not do were I on the phone.
True enough that someone will definitely find a way around the licensing issue and compile a new version, but like someone mentioned earlier... so many of the newer P2P fileshare programs have such crappy user-interfaces. Personally, I think that the artists and the RIAA are both blowing this whole "problem" way out of proportion... I don't buy artists' albums for one reason - I am not about to pay $10-$20 for a CD that has 2 FREAKIN SONGS on it that I want... If they want more people buying albums (which sales have never really decreased at all) then they should take more care in compiling their albums, or expect people to find ways to get only the songs they want. I know that this argument has been posed a million times, but it's truth.
The parents are just as stupid as the kids... the level of intelligence can be traced to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Before the CPSC stopped stupid kids from swallowing GI Joe's head and choking... we have trampled all over Natural Selection. Now we protect the stupid people through life, and they BREED!!
I know the people in the northern United States will appreciate this one... of course there must be the technology in the car, but how about remote start/keyless entry built in?.. that way you can call work and tell them you'll be late, at the same time starting the vehicle in the snow covered driveway from the warmth of your living room....
One other thought came from my friend... how about working more on that teleporter technology? Put a locator in the phone that will "beam" you anywhere on the nationwide network... Sucks for those people on area wide plans... "transport anywhere in the nation from the tri-state area!"
It's apart of the degree...in psychology it's known as aversive conditioning. The Grad students and doctoral students do so much B.S. (not bachelor of science) work to get those degrees and put with so many off the wall professors that its like a kid who eats broccoli, throws up, and never likes broccoli again. After sarcasm, followed by long hours of hard work and a bad grade, sarcasm becomes an aversion.
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I just thought I would clear up some IT issues with your "reasons"
1. I agree with your reasoning for the camera/email options... I personally am not a big camera phone person, although I have found mine handy a few times. The work situation happens to customers of mine, as they work for Fujifilm.
2. I have yet to see a phone that had a bad camera in it, or bad anything for that matter, that could not still make calls.
3. As for the battery life issue, I own a camera phone, my brother's phone is not a camera phone. My battery lasts as long as, if not longer than his on a single charge. I can go at least 3 or 4 days without charging my phone up. The only time having extra functions on your phone will impair your battery life is when you consciously activate those features.
4. As for the cost issue, the price difference between a basic camera phone and a non camera phone is minimal now days (with all the contract price promotions the companies do), eliminating that issue. Unless you send a picture message or text message, or use the internet on your phone, you will never be forced to pay for features you don't want/use.
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If I'm not mistaken, you are carrying a Sanyo 7400. It is a REALLY nice phone. In my opinion, it is better to have a phone that has extra features than to have a phone that cannot grow and expand if you decide to try something new.
As for the first reply to my post, I was not specifying that people did not know how to use it, but I was implying what you said directly: people that simply want to make quality calls and have durability.
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Those phones are nice... As a Radio Shack associate who sells cell phones all the time, I agree with the statement in the article that mentions the "older crowd"... I get practically cussed out half the time because a career or middle age adult comes in to buy a phone, and they are incensed that most phones have cameras and camcorders and mp3 downloads and picture messaging. Sprint PCS (my personal carrier) has gone back to the basics with a new line of Sanyo phones. One model has speaker phone with no external LCD, one has a 1 line external LCD with speaker phone, and one has an internal antenna and no external screen; while all of those are flip phones, to me they represent a fundamental shift in the marketing target of the cellular industry. The cameras and frills nailed the younger audience, and now they are attempting to increase their base to include the older generation. The shift has become such that phone service at home is becoming obsolete slowly but surely.
Why not find emails from spammers (and lots of pop up ad creators), get the URl's and post them up here so they can feel the wrath of the/. effect? That will most certainly make them think twice before bothering another law-abiding nerd...
The only hole in that argument is time... there is more time (relatively speaking) to react when a plane begins to fall out of the sky as opposed to running up the backside of that 18 wheeler in front of you. I agree that both are potentially deadly, but to even things out you would need to install ejection seats in your car, and what would Bond use in the next movie that wouldn't get a "Hell, I have that in my car, too!" response?
Agreed, and if we let microsoft design the whole thing, you could be traveling down the road, and your car will randomly tell you that there are no "undetected errors"...
Well, electronic voting may not be perfect, but what's the alternative? Strange ladies lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!
This is definitely true... also consider this: Voting by computer takes some stretch of intelligence, which advances democracy in the sense that stupid people (and there are many of those in this nation) are removed from the democratic process.
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"I am a pathetic human being who needs desperately to feel good about myself, so I use hacks to 'pwn' people! I'm the man! ...
It's kinda like the saying about flaming on net forums... even if you do "get the last word", you're still retarded...
By the way, don't know if the guy who wrote the original article will ever read this, but kudos to you for doin it, and more kudos for pointing out the fact that he's probably just a guy who can't seem to get laid.
Imgaine a high school that develops a major leak in the roof, and has to release a major patch to fix it, just to have the same thing happen again next week... what kind of education is that?
I am in charge of the technical equipment at the church (i.e. I run the sound and the video projection) and I used my laptop (because of it's specs and capabilities to run the system I was using... I would pull pictures and such of the net to use in presentations, and it was very frustrating for my wireless to just forget what it was doing, then forget the network key, etc.
1. The user interface concerning wireless/wired networking was cumbersome. I go between work and home and church (all 3 are wrlss hotspots) and Vista had trouble remembering the network keys as well as refused to connect automatically.
2. Internet Explorer gave me some issues; mainly being that it asked me to install an extra plug-in immediately after installing, and afterwards, the only way to get IE to open without crashing was to "Open with plug-ins disabled" that obviously did not allow me to view flash objects and other things.
That being said, there are things that Microsoft did in Vista RC1 that I loved. For example, the start menu has been reorganized. When you open it, it looks pretty much just like the start menu in XP, however, when you click "All Programs", the quick access menu on the left is replaced by a scroll down list with all the programs listed - rather than having menus expand across your screen. It is simply more organized. I love the gadgets bar on the right side of the screen as you can customize it to have a clock, the recycle bin, calculator, and my personal favorite, dials that track memory usage and percentage of processor clock time being used.
All in all, there are good things, but I chose to roll back to XP for the issues I mentioned. I hope that Microsoft takes its time and does this one right... wouldn't that be a shocker?
Here Apple has a choice... Mac OS and Linux could team up, and maybe force Windows underground? think of a world where computers do not crash on a regular basis... I bet there would not be the epidemic of high blood pressure in Americans that there is now.
Start a forum about how much taxes we pay and maybe something will be done about that too!
Now THAT should cure cancer!
Ya know, I think this all comes down to human nature. One group of people believe something is wrong or unacceptable, and the group directly affected by it finds it more tempting and desirable because it is labeled as a deviant behavior. Maybe, JUST MAYBE, if the policy was not "NO INTERNET USAGE AT WORK", but rather a policy of "No internet usage ABUSE at work" then it wouldn't be such a big deal. Any corporate structure that can block levels of access also have the ability to monitor usage on an individual (or at least in different areas of the network) basis. I don't see that it causes that much problem for someone to have Yahoo music in the background in their office while they file papers or to keep email lines open between spouses attempting to plan a lil dinner or something for after work. On the issue of comparing Internet surfing to talking on the phone at work, I see that they are almost in no way related. I am sitting in a college Statistics class right now, but even as I check slashdot articles and email my mom about my financial aid papers, I'm still listening to what the professor is lecturing on; something I could not do were I on the phone.
Any bets on how often this version (or 6 Versions) of Windows will crash? Or will they finally make a product THAT WORKS consistently???
True enough that someone will definitely find a way around the licensing issue and compile a new version, but like someone mentioned earlier... so many of the newer P2P fileshare programs have such crappy user-interfaces. Personally, I think that the artists and the RIAA are both blowing this whole "problem" way out of proportion... I don't buy artists' albums for one reason - I am not about to pay $10-$20 for a CD that has 2 FREAKIN SONGS on it that I want... If they want more people buying albums (which sales have never really decreased at all) then they should take more care in compiling their albums, or expect people to find ways to get only the songs they want. I know that this argument has been posed a million times, but it's truth.
The parents are just as stupid as the kids... the level of intelligence can be traced to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Before the CPSC stopped stupid kids from swallowing GI Joe's head and choking... we have trampled all over Natural Selection. Now we protect the stupid people through life, and they BREED!!
I know the people in the northern United States will appreciate this one... of course there must be the technology in the car, but how about remote start/keyless entry built in?.. that way you can call work and tell them you'll be late, at the same time starting the vehicle in the snow covered driveway from the warmth of your living room.... One other thought came from my friend... how about working more on that teleporter technology? Put a locator in the phone that will "beam" you anywhere on the nationwide network... Sucks for those people on area wide plans... "transport anywhere in the nation from the tri-state area!"
It's apart of the degree...in psychology it's known as aversive conditioning. The Grad students and doctoral students do so much B.S. (not bachelor of science) work to get those degrees and put with so many off the wall professors that its like a kid who eats broccoli, throws up, and never likes broccoli again. After sarcasm, followed by long hours of hard work and a bad grade, sarcasm becomes an aversion.
I just thought I would clear up some IT issues with your "reasons" 1. I agree with your reasoning for the camera/email options... I personally am not a big camera phone person, although I have found mine handy a few times. The work situation happens to customers of mine, as they work for Fujifilm. 2. I have yet to see a phone that had a bad camera in it, or bad anything for that matter, that could not still make calls. 3. As for the battery life issue, I own a camera phone, my brother's phone is not a camera phone. My battery lasts as long as, if not longer than his on a single charge. I can go at least 3 or 4 days without charging my phone up. The only time having extra functions on your phone will impair your battery life is when you consciously activate those features. 4. As for the cost issue, the price difference between a basic camera phone and a non camera phone is minimal now days (with all the contract price promotions the companies do), eliminating that issue. Unless you send a picture message or text message, or use the internet on your phone, you will never be forced to pay for features you don't want/use.
If I'm not mistaken, you are carrying a Sanyo 7400. It is a REALLY nice phone. In my opinion, it is better to have a phone that has extra features than to have a phone that cannot grow and expand if you decide to try something new. As for the first reply to my post, I was not specifying that people did not know how to use it, but I was implying what you said directly: people that simply want to make quality calls and have durability.
Those phones are nice... As a Radio Shack associate who sells cell phones all the time, I agree with the statement in the article that mentions the "older crowd"... I get practically cussed out half the time because a career or middle age adult comes in to buy a phone, and they are incensed that most phones have cameras and camcorders and mp3 downloads and picture messaging. Sprint PCS (my personal carrier) has gone back to the basics with a new line of Sanyo phones. One model has speaker phone with no external LCD, one has a 1 line external LCD with speaker phone, and one has an internal antenna and no external screen; while all of those are flip phones, to me they represent a fundamental shift in the marketing target of the cellular industry. The cameras and frills nailed the younger audience, and now they are attempting to increase their base to include the older generation. The shift has become such that phone service at home is becoming obsolete slowly but surely.
All of this to prevent identity theft @ the library... a scared population is a funny population.
I'm so proud of Canada! What next? Maybe they will come out from under the Queen's skirt.. er... shadow?
Why not find emails from spammers (and lots of pop up ad creators), get the URl's and post them up here so they can feel the wrath of the /. effect? That will most certainly make them think twice before bothering another law-abiding nerd...
The only hole in that argument is time... there is more time (relatively speaking) to react when a plane begins to fall out of the sky as opposed to running up the backside of that 18 wheeler in front of you. I agree that both are potentially deadly, but to even things out you would need to install ejection seats in your car, and what would Bond use in the next movie that wouldn't get a "Hell, I have that in my car, too!" response?
It's a simple compatability issue... that's the problem you face when you stay loyal to Macintosh...
Agreed, and if we let microsoft design the whole thing, you could be traveling down the road, and your car will randomly tell you that there are no "undetected errors"...
Curious... is there an announced release for a PC version of the RotS game?
Well, electronic voting may not be perfect, but what's the alternative? Strange ladies lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!
This is definitely true... also consider this: Voting by computer takes some stretch of intelligence, which advances democracy in the sense that stupid people (and there are many of those in this nation) are removed from the democratic process.