Then I ask if I can use his laptop to burn a iso with Nero.
His response? Nero isnt compatible with Vista.
He didnt realize at all what he just said. It was perfectly normal for him for programs to not work. Yeah, MS products are weak. Other OSes can run every version of every software available but Vista can't and is therefore weak.
How many people here keep up with the latest and greatest graphics card? I know that the newest may get you more fps in some game, but are there really that many people who regularly go spend $400+ for the latest and greatest in graphic cards?
I've asked coding questions in forums and used the coded provided to ME in projects. The responses to ME did not have any licensing instructions. Am I in some sort of violation because I used someone else's code in a project that they offered to me but didn't specifically grant some sort of licensing terms?
Also, would any of these scenarios be a violation of the law? I would think that at best it would only be a violation if after the fact the code's author decides that their code was being used against what they believed they authorized.
These things can be made safe from terrorist hands rather easily. Bury them in well known locations entoumbed in 1000 tons of concrete and a few sensors. To "steal" one would take a lot of time and effort and could not be a covert effort. You could also embed cell phones, GPS, and other tech deep in the devices and if they are moved it will be easily tracked. Those could be overcome, but if you put it deep in teh device, that again would be difficult and time consuming.
I'm sure some telecommuters are good workers and more productive, but I believe I've seen a higher percentage than office dwellers who produce literally no value. Again, there are plenty of people in the office who merely consure resources and don't work.
Still, the majority of the highly technical telecummuters I've had to deal with never seem to help the cause. They are hard to get a hold of. The often miss meetings that are important. When they teleconference into meetings they constantly complain that they can't hear and force the attendees to repeat talking points. They seem to have more than above average problems with their ISP, VPN, computer than normal people. During conference calls you can regularly hear children running around in the background or road noise. That is distracting and also demoralizing to people actually at work who can't go grocery shoppign while they are supposed to be working. Then they send emails at 2am to make everyone think they work 24 hours a day.
I'm sure some people are great at getting work done while working from home. That requires more self control and motivation than your average worker has. I bet a high percentage of those 12000 people would produce better work product if actually supervised and see daily.
"So, put yourself in the shoes of a CIO faced with replacing hundreds, or even thousends of PCs because they need to be upgraded to run Vista"
You say that like new computers are never bought due to old ones being end of lifed. I suspect Vista migration will happen just like XP. It won't cost any more because as old desktops/laptops are phased out the new ones will have XP. Some here may argue that if it weren't for the constat new OS releases by MS, that replacing old computers wouldn't be necessary. Well, I think the productivity gains by getting a new PC every 3-4 years outstrips the cost. Plus, a new laptop/desktop costs less than $1000 now. If you get one every 4 years, that is only $250/year in cost. That is negligible even compared to a receptionist's salary.
I know you aren't saying it, but it is often implied if a company went to Linux and dropped MS that they would never to buy new computers again?
Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I vaguely recall seeing a article about the MPAA shooting infrared light from behind movie screens into the crowd to determine if anyone was using a camcorder to copy live movies.
If asking for reciepts make you mad also, here is something you can do.
The next time you are in a checkout where they check for reciepts at the door, wad it up and stick it down your pants when they give it to you. When you get to the door and they ask for it, be obvious about the fact that it is down there and retrieve it but don't unwad it. I think it is unlikely that they will take it from you and unwad it. At that point you can ask if they have any more requests and be on your merry way!
Perhaps the business masses have yet to migrate to Vista. Well, there still isn't a service pack out for it yet and I believe MANY businesses waited for SP1 to be released for XP before they migrated. Also, MS isn't hurting that bad. Companies are still buying new laptops and desktops and guess what OS is also being purchased with them? XP.
While MS doesn't own the server market, their OS is still are on nearly every business desktop/laptop I see. Yes, that may not be true for some Slashdot types, but it is true for the rest of the working world.
I'd like to see a huge volume of people goto stores that follow this practive and buy $1000+ worth of items. Once questioned leaving, those people then immediately procede to the return counter and return the items stating they feel insulted being accused of being thieves. That would make the stores take notice and screw up their return statistics to boot!
Hopefully this could make national news and give stores that do this enough bad PR that the practiced is discontinued.
If aliens visited us any time before 100 years ago it would have been written off as not happening. Aliens could have visited us 100s of times over the past million years. If they were spotted, no one today would believe it today. Perhaps there is an interstellar red light that has kept aliens from passing by for 100 years. Without them getting close we would likely not be able to detect them.
OK, we get it. You can transmit WIFI as far as you have line of sight. If you have 2 mountains that can see each other 500 miles apart you can probably send WIFI communications between them.
Can we now please stop trying to set ridiculous "records" concerning WIFI connections?
"To me, "The music industry" seems to have become the bane of civil and modern life. As if there exist no problems in the world, no wars, no poverty, no economic issues but fucking more-cash problems of the "music industry". makes one start to treat individuals involved in this "music industry" like lowlifes in everyday life."
As far as I can tell, if you don't download music you don't own or aren't getting from a highly questionable source then you won't have any problems. Maybe I missed it but has there been a rash of people being sued from using iTunes, the new version of Napster, or local CD stores?
"I understand that employers feel they need to protect themselves but they shouldn't be so paranoid as to limit their employee pool to only the financially stable, mentally stable and law abiding."
Companies should hire more people who can't handle basic finance, are mentally unstable, and known to break laws. I'd definately like to work at a place like that!
"promising to 'hit criminals in their wallets' hoping to ensure that any 'ill-gotten gains' are forfeited."
Perhaps I am mistaken, but aren't most copyright infringers/violaters people doing it for their own personal gains. While there are some people who sell copyrighted stuff they don't own, I suspect 99% of the violations are from kids who share/download music that they weren't authorized by the copyright holder to do so.
This will never happen. It would open the door for the government to artificially get excited about any action someone does and then declare it a "terrorist act". Some may say they would only go after reasonable "hoaxes", but all the ATHF people did was hang some light brites in public places. There was no signage or any other indicator that the things were terrorist related or even dangerous.
This must be more of a scare tactic than anything else. We all know facial recognition is less than perfect and have seen several tests in public places fail to recognize any bad guys. I have to believe lip reading is much more difficult that facial recognition. Therefore, this should be totally ineffective for the next decade or two.
If the systems doesn't work, then does it really matter?
"What I don't get are pussies who go ahead and sign it."
I think you get it, you just don't like it. People like you hate the fact that so many people will go ahead and sign such a document believing that it won't likely matter. And you know what? Most of the time it doesn't matter. Most people sign such documents, get hired, do their job, and eventually quit and the whole matter NEVER comes into question. Sure, they may have the best idea ever, but 99% of people just do their job and go home.
While it may be true that the "people making money in this world are the people with BACKBONES and BALLS", most people happily take the path of least resistance. They don't want problems and aren't realistically looking to be masters of the universe. Those people screw you up because they will sign such a document and that that makes it hard or even impossible for you to find work at major companies without bending.
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I stand corrected. It all makes sense now.
How many people here keep up with the latest and greatest graphics card? I know that the newest may get you more fps in some game, but are there really that many people who regularly go spend $400+ for the latest and greatest in graphic cards?
I've asked coding questions in forums and used the coded provided to ME in projects. The responses to ME did not have any licensing instructions. Am I in some sort of violation because I used someone else's code in a project that they offered to me but didn't specifically grant some sort of licensing terms?
Also, would any of these scenarios be a violation of the law? I would think that at best it would only be a violation if after the fact the code's author decides that their code was being used against what they believed they authorized.
These things can be made safe from terrorist hands rather easily. Bury them in well known locations entoumbed in 1000 tons of concrete and a few sensors. To "steal" one would take a lot of time and effort and could not be a covert effort. You could also embed cell phones, GPS, and other tech deep in the devices and if they are moved it will be easily tracked. Those could be overcome, but if you put it deep in teh device, that again would be difficult and time consuming.
I'm sure some telecommuters are good workers and more productive, but I believe I've seen a higher percentage than office dwellers who produce literally no value. Again, there are plenty of people in the office who merely consure resources and don't work.
Still, the majority of the highly technical telecummuters I've had to deal with never seem to help the cause. They are hard to get a hold of. The often miss meetings that are important. When they teleconference into meetings they constantly complain that they can't hear and force the attendees to repeat talking points. They seem to have more than above average problems with their ISP, VPN, computer than normal people. During conference calls you can regularly hear children running around in the background or road noise. That is distracting and also demoralizing to people actually at work who can't go grocery shoppign while they are supposed to be working. Then they send emails at 2am to make everyone think they work 24 hours a day.
I'm sure some people are great at getting work done while working from home. That requires more self control and motivation than your average worker has. I bet a high percentage of those 12000 people would produce better work product if actually supervised and see daily.
"So, put yourself in the shoes of a CIO faced with replacing hundreds, or even thousends of PCs because they need to be upgraded to run Vista"
You say that like new computers are never bought due to old ones being end of lifed. I suspect Vista migration will happen just like XP. It won't cost any more because as old desktops/laptops are phased out the new ones will have XP. Some here may argue that if it weren't for the constat new OS releases by MS, that replacing old computers wouldn't be necessary. Well, I think the productivity gains by getting a new PC every 3-4 years outstrips the cost. Plus, a new laptop/desktop costs less than $1000 now. If you get one every 4 years, that is only $250/year in cost. That is negligible even compared to a receptionist's salary.
I know you aren't saying it, but it is often implied if a company went to Linux and dropped MS that they would never to buy new computers again?
I wonder how Cliff Notes fall into this category. I'm sure they don't get approval for every book they summarize, analyze, quote, and review.
Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I vaguely recall seeing a article about the MPAA shooting infrared light from behind movie screens into the crowd to determine if anyone was using a camcorder to copy live movies.
If asking for reciepts make you mad also, here is something you can do.
The next time you are in a checkout where they check for reciepts at the door, wad it up and stick it down your pants when they give it to you. When you get to the door and they ask for it, be obvious about the fact that it is down there and retrieve it but don't unwad it. I think it is unlikely that they will take it from you and unwad it. At that point you can ask if they have any more requests and be on your merry way!
Perhaps the business masses have yet to migrate to Vista. Well, there still isn't a service pack out for it yet and I believe MANY businesses waited for SP1 to be released for XP before they migrated. Also, MS isn't hurting that bad. Companies are still buying new laptops and desktops and guess what OS is also being purchased with them? XP.
While MS doesn't own the server market, their OS is still are on nearly every business desktop/laptop I see. Yes, that may not be true for some Slashdot types, but it is true for the rest of the working world.
I'd like to see a huge volume of people goto stores that follow this practive and buy $1000+ worth of items. Once questioned leaving, those people then immediately procede to the return counter and return the items stating they feel insulted being accused of being thieves. That would make the stores take notice and screw up their return statistics to boot!
Hopefully this could make national news and give stores that do this enough bad PR that the practiced is discontinued.
If aliens visited us any time before 100 years ago it would have been written off as not happening. Aliens could have visited us 100s of times over the past million years. If they were spotted, no one today would believe it today. Perhaps there is an interstellar red light that has kept aliens from passing by for 100 years. Without them getting close we would likely not be able to detect them.
OK, we get it. You can transmit WIFI as far as you have line of sight. If you have 2 mountains that can see each other 500 miles apart you can probably send WIFI communications between them.
Can we now please stop trying to set ridiculous "records" concerning WIFI connections?
This is why I'm going to law school!!
"It would seem that if you have deep pockets you can defeat justice in the US (OJ)."
There is a Rocekfeller in jail who would disagree with your theory.
"To me, "The music industry" seems to have become the bane of civil and modern life. As if there exist no problems in the world, no wars, no poverty, no economic issues but fucking more-cash problems of the "music industry". makes one start to treat individuals involved in this "music industry" like lowlifes in everyday life."
As far as I can tell, if you don't download music you don't own or aren't getting from a highly questionable source then you won't have any problems. Maybe I missed it but has there been a rash of people being sued from using iTunes, the new version of Napster, or local CD stores?
"any self respecting Linux user"
Have you ever taken a look at who you are talking about?
"I understand that employers feel they need to protect themselves but they shouldn't be so paranoid as to limit their employee pool to only the financially stable, mentally stable and law abiding."
Companies should hire more people who can't handle basic finance, are mentally unstable, and known to break laws. I'd definately like to work at a place like that!
"promising to 'hit criminals in their wallets' hoping to ensure that any 'ill-gotten gains' are forfeited."
Perhaps I am mistaken, but aren't most copyright infringers/violaters people doing it for their own personal gains. While there are some people who sell copyrighted stuff they don't own, I suspect 99% of the violations are from kids who share/download music that they weren't authorized by the copyright holder to do so.
This will never happen. It would open the door for the government to artificially get excited about any action someone does and then declare it a "terrorist act". Some may say they would only go after reasonable "hoaxes", but all the ATHF people did was hang some light brites in public places. There was no signage or any other indicator that the things were terrorist related or even dangerous.
This must be more of a scare tactic than anything else. We all know facial recognition is less than perfect and have seen several tests in public places fail to recognize any bad guys. I have to believe lip reading is much more difficult that facial recognition. Therefore, this should be totally ineffective for the next decade or two.
If the systems doesn't work, then does it really matter?
Man, that was one rare and little noticed reference to Venus' explanation of the atom!!
You sir are neither adel minded nor obtuse.
This man is a true American hero.
"What I don't get are pussies who go ahead and sign it."
I think you get it, you just don't like it. People like you hate the fact that so many people will go ahead and sign such a document believing that it won't likely matter. And you know what? Most of the time it doesn't matter. Most people sign such documents, get hired, do their job, and eventually quit and the whole matter NEVER comes into question. Sure, they may have the best idea ever, but 99% of people just do their job and go home.
While it may be true that the "people making money in this world are the people with BACKBONES and BALLS", most people happily take the path of least resistance. They don't want problems and aren't realistically looking to be masters of the universe. Those people screw you up because they will sign such a document and that that makes it hard or even impossible for you to find work at major companies without bending.