I'm curious how many times this (and similar) stories will have to be posted on tech journals before Microsoft addresses the problem. In any other business, their customer base would shrink to nothing - imagine a model of car that was consistantly stolen due to shoddy lock manufacturing.
Hmmm. People use the address bar to type in Amazon.com - therefore we now patent the use of browsers, keyboards, and monitors.
But wait! In order to effectively type our patented brand into our patented browser using our patented technology, users have to send electrical nerve signals from their brain to their fingertips, to cause muscular movement. All of these cells are supported by a system that continuously pulls oxygen from the blood, and transports waste carbon dioxide to the lungs.
Therefor we request a patent on all biomechanical movement, electricity, and oxygen.
We also patent the millions of years of evolution including all single-celled organisms that were the starting point of the development of the Amazon.com brand.
I wish google had the option to exclude the first 10 pages of cloaked pages, spam, affiliate sites, guestbook spam, forum spam, and random porn redirects.
"This kind of quickie-mart reduction of economic reasoning is why the Average American in trouble...Then what will you do? Likely sponge off your wealthy parents until you find something else you can feel superior in."
As opposed to your "quickie-mart reduction" of the speaker of an argument you happen to disagree with to mere tired stereotypes - he's a Flash developer, so he must be 19 years old and living in his mom's basement right? Wrong.
Seems like everytime there's a shift in labor focus, everyone starts whinging about the "death of the North American worker," which is just crap.
Auto manufacturers may have destroyed the livery business, but in the process they created thousands of jobs in other sectors - many of which never existed before.
Will the outsourcing movement create new positions here in North America? Absolutely. The geographical distance will be a huge boon to infrastructure companies, video-conferencing, wi-fi, and probably entire new industries that don't even exist yet - but will.
You have to continually adapt and learn to remain a valuable employee and contributor to society.
A pet peeve in my own industry, are all those so-called "designers" who are miffed that Flash is becoming more of a code-based app - good for more that cheesy drag-and-drop animations and spinning logos. Time after time on the forums everyone whines about how its too complicated.
Knowledge isn't static, neither are jobs, and no company should be forced to retain employees just because "they live here" if better and more economical work can be found elsewhere.
We should embrace progress, not retard it because of some vague doomsday prediction of the death of IT.
The concepts of sovereignty and captialism are incompatible, and can't coexist in a free market.
Going after the spammers won't help - they know how to cover their tracks too well.
Its a simple supply and demand issue. As long as there are people who will click on the garbage coming in their inbox every day, and companies willing to pay the spammers to send it, trying to rid the world of spam by imposing fines on the spammers themselves is like trying to empty the ocean with a teaspoon.
We need a two pronged approach:
1. Education - More net-savvy people will mean less clicks on spam ads.
2. Corporate Accountability - If the companies who retained the spammers services had to pay the fines (say $1.00 per spam, and maybe some sort of painful audit or SEC investigation), we'd see a dramatic drop in the amount of spam.*
*Except for AOL and MSN.
This constant creation of new proprietary and competing formats will be the end of any sort of long term archiving.
How many documents have I abandoned to oblivion because I couldn't convert them from star/sun/works/word perfect etc to office/open office etc..?
Fast forward 100 years, and very little will be left for future scholars to read.
ASCII DAMMIT! ASCII!!!!!!!!!
I don't understand the constant media attention over the blogging "phenomenon". They've been around since the beginning of the Internet, why is blogging news?
Although it will be nice to watch the handful of companies trying to turn a marketing buck from them crash and burn.
Bad enough there are still people who can't wrap their heads around pointing and clicking - this will be a tech support nightmare if it becomes mainstream.
I'm having a vision from the old dos days, when my dad had pages and pages of commands taped all over his study, and I still had to remind him of "cd.." 3 times a week.
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I'm curious how many times this (and similar) stories will have to be posted on tech journals before Microsoft addresses the problem. In any other business, their customer base would shrink to nothing - imagine a model of car that was consistantly stolen due to shoddy lock manufacturing.
Viva Firefox, and viva the GoogleOS
Good point, I thought I was the only one who noticed that.
Takes it at least 10 minutes to boot up in the morning.
When will it end?
Hmmm. People use the address bar to type in Amazon.com - therefore we now patent the use of browsers, keyboards, and monitors.
But wait! In order to effectively type our patented brand into our patented browser using our patented technology, users have to send electrical nerve signals from their brain to their fingertips, to cause muscular movement. All of these cells are supported by a system that continuously pulls oxygen from the blood, and transports waste carbon dioxide to the lungs.
Therefor we request a patent on all biomechanical movement, electricity, and oxygen.
We also patent the millions of years of evolution including all single-celled organisms that were the starting point of the development of the Amazon.com brand.
God? You're next.
I wish google had the option to exclude the first 10 pages of cloaked pages, spam, affiliate sites, guestbook spam, forum spam, and random porn redirects.
"I for one, welcome our new zombie overlords!"
"This kind of quickie-mart reduction of economic reasoning is why the Average American in trouble...Then what will you do? Likely sponge off your wealthy parents until you find something else you can feel superior in."
As opposed to your "quickie-mart reduction" of the speaker of an argument you happen to disagree with to mere tired stereotypes - he's a Flash developer, so he must be 19 years old and living in his mom's basement right? Wrong.
Enjoy your own "Pied Panini".
Seems like everytime there's a shift in labor focus, everyone starts whinging about the "death of the North American worker," which is just crap.
Auto manufacturers may have destroyed the livery business, but in the process they created thousands of jobs in other sectors - many of which never existed before.
Will the outsourcing movement create new positions here in North America? Absolutely. The geographical distance will be a huge boon to infrastructure companies, video-conferencing, wi-fi, and probably entire new industries that don't even exist yet - but will.
You have to continually adapt and learn to remain a valuable employee and contributor to society.
A pet peeve in my own industry, are all those so-called "designers" who are miffed that Flash is becoming more of a code-based app - good for more that cheesy drag-and-drop animations and spinning logos. Time after time on the forums everyone whines about how its too complicated.
Knowledge isn't static, neither are jobs, and no company should be forced to retain employees just because "they live here" if better and more economical work can be found elsewhere.
We should embrace progress, not retard it because of some vague doomsday prediction of the death of IT.
The concepts of sovereignty and captialism are incompatible, and can't coexist in a free market.
Learn. Learn. And then learn some more.
Or else the tarpits avait.
Going after the spammers won't help - they know how to cover their tracks too well. Its a simple supply and demand issue. As long as there are people who will click on the garbage coming in their inbox every day, and companies willing to pay the spammers to send it, trying to rid the world of spam by imposing fines on the spammers themselves is like trying to empty the ocean with a teaspoon. We need a two pronged approach: 1. Education - More net-savvy people will mean less clicks on spam ads. 2. Corporate Accountability - If the companies who retained the spammers services had to pay the fines (say $1.00 per spam, and maybe some sort of painful audit or SEC investigation), we'd see a dramatic drop in the amount of spam.* *Except for AOL and MSN.
[insert generic Orwell quote here]
This constant creation of new proprietary and competing formats will be the end of any sort of long term archiving. How many documents have I abandoned to oblivion because I couldn't convert them from star/sun/works/word perfect etc to office/open office etc..? Fast forward 100 years, and very little will be left for future scholars to read. ASCII DAMMIT! ASCII!!!!!!!!!
I don't understand the constant media attention over the blogging "phenomenon". They've been around since the beginning of the Internet, why is blogging news? Although it will be nice to watch the handful of companies trying to turn a marketing buck from them crash and burn.
Bad enough there are still people who can't wrap their heads around pointing and clicking - this will be a tech support nightmare if it becomes mainstream. I'm having a vision from the old dos days, when my dad had pages and pages of commands taped all over his study, and I still had to remind him of "cd.." 3 times a week.