Just as difficult to be an IT professional and a male who cannot even make a joke involving women without four jumping down his throat for it.
And before you go off on another tirade... I worked in an office of ten where I was the only male for a year and had to listen to CONSTANT man bashing, jokes about men etc... FAR worse than I have ever heard from men about women.
It was an environment any woman would have sued over and won millions, but as I guy I had to just take it. Equality? I don't think so. I want my millions for emotional damage! Know why I can't get it? There was no damage... I simply did not care. Apathy is a powerful weapon.
As I walked around my office yesterday I saw two people who were NOT looking at the iPhone website and drooling. At least half plan to buy one and these are folks with $100 cell phones right now.
The argument that there has not been a phone WORTH this much is very true. I am simply going to put off buying my $250 nano and put that towards the phone. Oh wow, I am now only paying $250 for the phone. As I still take classes at community college Apple will give me 10% off too.
250 for a killer phone that has my $250 iPod built in? I can easily stomach that. First next gen cell phone I have seen MIGHT actually be worth owning.
This is not true. I have ordered multiple systems in the same product line and had them vastly different. Two 380Ns bought six months apart were not the same processor, memory, vid card etc. An identical configuration to the one I already had was not even an option when ordering.
I must be halucinating one of our racks too... odd... maybe some sort of mass apple inducsed hysteria? Oh and that article I read about the whole company runs on OSX server racks.
Opera at least has a "native" look mode which works wonderfully on OS X and Windows. I have not tried skype on windows so cannot comment but on Mac it blends in well.
Opera, and skype I beleive but am not sure, also offer "skins" one of which for opera will make it look the same on MacOS or Windows. I imagine any of the other skins would come out the same as well. I usualy stick to "native" mode on both though as I am a fan of a consistant UI.
Why has everyone not flocked to second life? Because it is the single most poorly managed game company in existance. If any other game pulled the stunts they did and ingored bugs and issues with thier game the way Linden Labs does they would tank, and fast.
The only reason Linden Labs still exists is people are willing to put up with it for thier flavor of fantasy and the openess, but that is changing.
Due to Linden Labs notorious disregard for their customers and habit of blaming development bugs on their users they did not actually fix several key problems that would have let this go off without a hitch. Most users report an average of 3-4 crashes per three hour session of the software... hope Sun's presentation did not go very long.
When I was looking at schools I actually took this into consideration. A schools focus on sports VS academics was a major deciding factor actually. The more interest in and money spent on sports the less interested I was in that campus. It showed a distinct flaw in the thinking of the administration that I knew, even at 16, would perpetuate into the rest of the campus. Are MIT and CalTech known for football? Nope. Do they even have teams? Who knows and who cares. That is not why one goes to college. Either of those schools on your resume and no one will care if you went to a football game or not. Sports programs should be required to live and die on their own, with NO school funding coming out of my tuition I was working two jobs to pay.
Before you think this perspective is born out of being a "geek" who never played sports etc, I was on the varsity swim team starting freshman year and JV football team for two.
GP requested documented proof... in actuality the documents coming to light from research over the results of US action in Iraq suggest we have done far more harm than good and actually encouraged terrorist recruitment and funding. So Bush's little "war on terror" has actually INCREASED the likelihood of terrorist attacks. How do you define success?
Read the Wall Street journal, traditionally very conservative and Republican, even they are running articles on this. Two days ago there was a very telling one stating US teenagers these days feel they are not educated on other cultures and want to know why everyone hates us. Half surveyed said the world hates us because of Bush. These are our next generation... even they can see it... why can't friggin right wingers?
Last count by who's numbers? Microsoft who counts a single computer that at any time had 98, 2000, and then XP installed as three users and RedHat 9, RedHat Enterprise 3 to Fedora 5 as one linux machine? Two machines, one is counted three times, one is counted once.
I have yet to see a counting method I thought was even half way accurate. What I will go by is what I see every day, and that is the Mac store at the mall where people are walking out with computers at a rate of several an hour, and the Dell booth nearby where you can hear crickets chirping and the poor sales guy has to bed people to talk to him he is so bored. The sony store you see MAYBE a computer a day going out. Go to starbucks and see how many macs vs pcs you see... the ratio tilts in favor of macs every day.
Do these numbers mean anything? Nope... not really. But it leads me to question other numbers I see.
Not disputing your point... but one thing you have to realize is what apple is good at. Making things work better and making things work RIGHT. They can take something like an OS or an mp3 player and add STYLE. Sure it has been done before but they do it the way you wish everyone else had done it and did not even know it until you saw theirs.
I am sure I will be labeled as a Mac fan-boy since no one could possible legitimately like a Mac, as opposed to windows, and it must be some form of brian washing.
> New here eh? Microsoft has done more to stifle innovation and progress in personal computing since they took over than they have contributed. Negative sum game for consumers. They promote lock in to their system, use their new lock-in to promote their other business interests etc. They spend lots of money promoting standards and then do not follow them so consumers and left hanging. The very definition of a monopoly no?
If you want specific examples how about them buying competing software companies, shutting them down, raping the pension funds to cover the cost of the acquisition leaving the employees with nothing, shutting down the company as "unneeded" and then adding a remarkably similar feature to windows. Shall I go on?
And don't tell me they don't because even AFTER all the politicians they bought (and yes, they did I was in on one of the meetings with a California State Senator as they blatantly offered him campaign money for votes... i.e. illegal bribe, they did not even pretend to pussyfoot around it like they are supposed to) they were STILL convicted. They are a -CONVICTED MONOPOLY- in the US, the EU and several other countries, their behavior is NOT in doubt, nor the fact they have broken the law.
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The fact that their "punishment" was mettled out through pre-existing programs, allowed to be a tax deduction and that the "punishment" meant giving more users the same, unmodified software they were convicted for, thus increasing, not decreasing their monopoly.
The proper and actual punishment for a monopoly is either to break it up, or force them to allow competition. Removing the bundling of IE, forcing the addition of Firefox or opera so the user had a choice etc... any of these things would have been warranted. Apply same logic to media player and every other app they have been -convicted- of using to further their monopoly. The point is to allow competitors a foothold and a fair playing field, not to allow Microsoft to put more Windows machines in schools WHILE keeping the tax write-off et all.
They point is THEY ARE CRIMINALS, they have been proven to have BROKEN THE LAW in multiple countries and the EU is the first to do anything meaningful to them. If we are going to debate this we need to start with the premise that they are guilty, as it is public record they are, and go from there.
Our opinion IS basically invalid where it comes to the current administration. How many other countries would keep a leader who has 2/3 of the country wanting to linch him according to approval ratings before he started shouting Sept 11th again. He has committed actual CRIMES and no one will impeach him. I do not exactly feel my opinion matters much here:)
Wish I could mod you up... most well thought out comments on the matter I have seen in some time. Does not change my mind granted, but you had some excellent points for me to consider;)
Problem being most of that is rather easily bypassed due to poor implementation and the fact for a lot of applications to work the have to be run as administrator which overrides all these settings and allows access.
Poor security modeling at it's finest. Security only works if it is not so intrusive it still allows you to do what you need to do. At the point security interferes with usability it goes out the window because people will simply bypass or turn it off. Microsoft's "ok" windows are a perfect example. The same window with the same text appears so often users are trained to just hit the ok button to get rid of the annoying window. This in effect makes it so said window may as well not even pop up for all it's effectiveness in securing the system.
Any diatribe on "training the user" is a moot point as it is a fact this does not work and thus needs to be taken into consideration in implementing security. Both Linux and OS X manage to do this, allow third party security apps which are more common than built in, and do not sacrifice usability in the slightest. Microsoft is the ONLY one who cannot seem to grasp these concepts.
Sorry dude... nice sales pitch but I have used the DirectTV DVR and it is JUNK compared to TiVo. They are not even is the same ballpark usability wise.
Not one person who got suckered into buying DirectTV DVR that has tried even my feature-crippled HD TiVo from you guys has said "eh, this is just as good" it was more along the lines of "wow, I got ripped off"
It is like comparing a honda civic to a BMW... sure they both have four seats, and engine and wheels... but which one drives smoother? Which one has more power? Which is just plain more fun?
Signed,
Very disappointed direct tv customer who desperately wants a real TiVo option.
I could not agree more... they only got my business because they offered pure digital recording via TiVo. Then I find out my HD TiVo I payed $400 for is crippled functionality wise over even their non HD TiVo.
Screw that... if I can get HD channels recorded digitally via a real TiVo through cable sign me up. I hate the cable companies but not enough to give up my TiVo to stay with a satellite provider who obviously does not care about my business.
The funny thing is the piece of junk they try to sell you in place of the TiVo... do NOT fall into that trap. I had to laugh when I asked why on earth they thought it was an upgrade, since I had used it and it was a piece of junk, and all the lady could say was "it has 100 gigabytes instead of 80" not realizing the TiVo HD box I was after came with 250Gb HD.
Needless to say... I will be joining those dumping my satellite for cable when this comes out.
Other way around... OS/2 helped Microsoft get NT out the door. Microsoft dropped the ball and mysteriously never finished their portion of the OS/2 upgrade (they were only supposed to do the GUI, IBM did the back end).
So... since the ATM version uses no GUI that Microsoft did not finish, and NT does have OS/2 in some of it's help files I am rather skeptical of this as example of someone benefiting from partnering with Microsoft.
Seeing how many sys/network admins are on this board I find this statement hard to believe. Fixing Windows issues is a whole industry. Do you really think they would need so many of us at our salaries if everything worked perfectly the first time?:)
No the answer is for Americans to get the *&%$ over this two party mentality and the driving NEED to vote for the guy who one and VOTE, VOTE OFTEN and VOTE YOUR CONTSCIENCE, not who you think is going to win.
Also do not vote based on a single issue. Regardless of what you may think of the abortion issue basing a decition as important as who you vote for on that single issue is STUPID. If politician X agrees with me on 8 of 10 issues I find important and disagrees on 2, and politician Y agrees with 2 and disagrees on 8, why the hell would I pick Y even if those 2 where "hot button" issues? Yet oh so many Americans do.
Because as several posters have pointed out... these are not "researchers" with good reputations or a trusted security company or anyone else with any form of credibility. As such, to gain such credibility they must PROVE thier claims, which they flat out refuse to do.
Hell I would not even hold Microsoft, the king of security flaws, accountable for what some unknown guy did using a third party driver he will not produce to prove his claim. And if I would be scepticle about a security flaw in windows, which has a bad track record, you can bet I will be for OS X which has a good one.
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Wish I had mod points... very informative thank you :)
Just as difficult to be an IT professional and a male who cannot even make a joke involving women without four jumping down his throat for it.
And before you go off on another tirade... I worked in an office of ten where I was the only male for a year and had to listen to CONSTANT man bashing, jokes about men etc... FAR worse than I have ever heard from men about women.
It was an environment any woman would have sued over and won millions, but as I guy I had to just take it. Equality? I don't think so. I want my millions for emotional damage! Know why I can't get it? There was no damage... I simply did not care. Apathy is a powerful weapon.
As I walked around my office yesterday I saw two people who were NOT looking at the iPhone website and drooling. At least half plan to buy one and these are folks with $100 cell phones right now.
The argument that there has not been a phone WORTH this much is very true. I am simply going to put off buying my $250 nano and put that towards the phone. Oh wow, I am now only paying $250 for the phone. As I still take classes at community college Apple will give me 10% off too.
250 for a killer phone that has my $250 iPod built in? I can easily stomach that. First next gen cell phone I have seen MIGHT actually be worth owning.
This is not true. I have ordered multiple systems in the same product line and had them vastly different. Two 380Ns bought six months apart were not the same processor, memory, vid card etc. An identical configuration to the one I already had was not even an option when ordering.
It's not passing the buck... it's making an extra... they sell CDR & DVD media too :)
I must be halucinating one of our racks too... odd... maybe some sort of mass apple inducsed hysteria? Oh and that article I read about the whole company runs on OSX server racks.
Opera at least has a "native" look mode which works wonderfully on OS X and Windows. I have not tried skype on windows so cannot comment but on Mac it blends in well.
Opera, and skype I beleive but am not sure, also offer "skins" one of which for opera will make it look the same on MacOS or Windows. I imagine any of the other skins would come out the same as well. I usualy stick to "native" mode on both though as I am a fan of a consistant UI.
Why has everyone not flocked to second life? Because it is the single most poorly managed game company in existance. If any other game pulled the stunts they did and ingored bugs and issues with thier game the way Linden Labs does they would tank, and fast.
The only reason Linden Labs still exists is people are willing to put up with it for thier flavor of fantasy and the openess, but that is changing.
Due to Linden Labs notorious disregard for their customers and habit of blaming development bugs on their users they did not actually fix several key problems that would have let this go off without a hitch. Most users report an average of 3-4 crashes per three hour session of the software... hope Sun's presentation did not go very long.
When I was looking at schools I actually took this into consideration. A schools focus on sports VS academics was a major deciding factor actually. The more interest in and money spent on sports the less interested I was in that campus. It showed a distinct flaw in the thinking of the administration that I knew, even at 16, would perpetuate into the rest of the campus. Are MIT and CalTech known for football? Nope. Do they even have teams? Who knows and who cares. That is not why one goes to college. Either of those schools on your resume and no one will care if you went to a football game or not. Sports programs should be required to live and die on their own, with NO school funding coming out of my tuition I was working two jobs to pay.
Before you think this perspective is born out of being a "geek" who never played sports etc, I was on the varsity swim team starting freshman year and JV football team for two.
GP requested documented proof... in actuality the documents coming to light from research over the results of US action in Iraq suggest we have done far more harm than good and actually encouraged terrorist recruitment and funding. So Bush's little "war on terror" has actually INCREASED the likelihood of terrorist attacks. How do you define success?
Read the Wall Street journal, traditionally very conservative and Republican, even they are running articles on this. Two days ago there was a very telling one stating US teenagers these days feel they are not educated on other cultures and want to know why everyone hates us. Half surveyed said the world hates us because of Bush. These are our next generation... even they can see it... why can't friggin right wingers?
They do... T-shirts... coffee mugs, even Red Fedora's. :)
Cool eh?
Last count by who's numbers? Microsoft who counts a single computer that at any time had 98, 2000, and then XP installed as three users and RedHat 9, RedHat Enterprise 3 to Fedora 5 as one linux machine? Two machines, one is counted three times, one is counted once.
I have yet to see a counting method I thought was even half way accurate. What I will go by is what I see every day, and that is the Mac store at the mall where people are walking out with computers at a rate of several an hour, and the Dell booth nearby where you can hear crickets chirping and the poor sales guy has to bed people to talk to him he is so bored. The sony store you see MAYBE a computer a day going out. Go to starbucks and see how many macs vs pcs you see... the ratio tilts in favor of macs every day.
Do these numbers mean anything? Nope... not really. But it leads me to question other numbers I see.
Not disputing your point... but one thing you have to realize is what apple is good at. Making things work better and making things work RIGHT. They can take something like an OS or an mp3 player and add STYLE. Sure it has been done before but they do it the way you wish everyone else had done it and did not even know it until you saw theirs.
I am sure I will be labeled as a Mac fan-boy since no one could possible legitimately like a Mac, as opposed to windows, and it must be some form of brian washing.
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New here eh? Microsoft has done more to stifle innovation and progress in personal computing since they took over than they have contributed. Negative sum game for consumers. They promote lock in to their system, use their new lock-in to promote their other business interests etc. They spend lots of money promoting standards and then do not follow them so consumers and left hanging. The very definition of a monopoly no?
If you want specific examples how about them buying competing software companies, shutting them down, raping the pension funds to cover the cost of the acquisition leaving the employees with nothing, shutting down the company as "unneeded" and then adding a remarkably similar feature to windows. Shall I go on?
And don't tell me they don't because even AFTER all the politicians they bought (and yes, they did I was in on one of the meetings with a California State Senator as they blatantly offered him campaign money for votes... i.e. illegal bribe, they did not even pretend to pussyfoot around it like they are supposed to) they were STILL convicted. They are a -CONVICTED MONOPOLY- in the US, the EU and several other countries, their behavior is NOT in doubt, nor the fact they have broken the law.
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The fact that their "punishment" was mettled out through pre-existing programs, allowed to be a tax deduction and that the "punishment" meant giving more users the same, unmodified software they were convicted for, thus increasing, not decreasing their monopoly.
The proper and actual punishment for a monopoly is either to break it up, or force them to allow competition. Removing the bundling of IE, forcing the addition of Firefox or opera so the user had a choice etc... any of these things would have been warranted. Apply same logic to media player and every other app they have been -convicted- of using to further their monopoly. The point is to allow competitors a foothold and a fair playing field, not to allow Microsoft to put more Windows machines in schools WHILE keeping the tax write-off et all.
They point is THEY ARE CRIMINALS, they have been proven to have BROKEN THE LAW in multiple countries and the EU is the first to do anything meaningful to them. If we are going to debate this we need to start with the premise that they are guilty, as it is public record they are, and go from there.
Our opinion IS basically invalid where it comes to the current administration. :)
How many other countries would keep a leader who has 2/3 of the country wanting to linch him according to approval ratings before he started shouting Sept 11th again. He has committed actual CRIMES and no one will impeach him. I do not exactly feel my opinion matters much here
Political asylum in the EU anyone?
Wish I could mod you up... most well thought out comments on the matter I have seen in some time. ;)
Does not change my mind granted, but you had some excellent points for me to consider
Problem being most of that is rather easily bypassed due to poor implementation and the fact for a lot of applications to work the have to be run as administrator which overrides all these settings and allows access.
Poor security modeling at it's finest. Security only works if it is not so intrusive it still allows you to do what you need to do. At the point security interferes with usability it goes out the window because people will simply bypass or turn it off. Microsoft's "ok" windows are a perfect example. The same window with the same text appears so often users are trained to just hit the ok button to get rid of the annoying window. This in effect makes it so said window may as well not even pop up for all it's effectiveness in securing the system.
Any diatribe on "training the user" is a moot point as it is a fact this does not work and thus needs to be taken into consideration in implementing security. Both Linux and OS X manage to do this, allow third party security apps which are more common than built in, and do not sacrifice usability in the slightest. Microsoft is the ONLY one who cannot seem to grasp these concepts.
Sorry dude... nice sales pitch but I have used the DirectTV DVR and it is JUNK compared to TiVo.
They are not even is the same ballpark usability wise.
Not one person who got suckered into buying DirectTV DVR that has tried even my feature-crippled HD TiVo from you guys has said "eh, this is just as good" it was more along the lines of "wow, I got ripped off"
It is like comparing a honda civic to a BMW... sure they both have four seats, and engine and wheels... but which one drives smoother? Which one has more power? Which is just plain more fun?
Signed,
Very disappointed direct tv customer who desperately wants a real TiVo option.
I could not agree more... they only got my business because they offered pure digital recording via TiVo. Then I find out my HD TiVo I payed $400 for is crippled functionality wise over even their non HD TiVo.
Screw that... if I can get HD channels recorded digitally via a real TiVo through cable sign me up. I hate the cable companies but not enough to give up my TiVo to stay with a satellite provider who obviously does not care about my business.
The funny thing is the piece of junk they try to sell you in place of the TiVo... do NOT fall into that trap. I had to laugh when I asked why on earth they thought it was an upgrade, since I had used it and it was a piece of junk, and all the lady could say was "it has 100 gigabytes instead of 80" not realizing the TiVo HD box I was after came with 250Gb HD.
Needless to say... I will be joining those dumping my satellite for cable when this comes out.
Show your employer the numerous studies on the cost savings and good will generated by providing free drinks.
Other way around... OS/2 helped Microsoft get NT out the door. Microsoft dropped the ball and mysteriously never finished their portion of the OS/2 upgrade (they were only supposed to do the GUI, IBM did the back end).
So... since the ATM version uses no GUI that Microsoft did not finish, and NT does have OS/2 in some of it's help files I am rather skeptical of this as example of someone benefiting from partnering with Microsoft.
Seeing how many sys/network admins are on this board I find this statement hard to believe. Fixing Windows issues is a whole industry. Do you really think they would need so many of us at our salaries if everything worked perfectly the first time? :)
No the answer is for Americans to get the *&%$ over this two party mentality and the driving NEED to vote for the guy who one and VOTE, VOTE OFTEN and VOTE YOUR CONTSCIENCE, not who you think is going to win.
Also do not vote based on a single issue. Regardless of what you may think of the abortion issue basing a decition as important as who you vote for on that single issue is STUPID. If politician X agrees with me on 8 of 10 issues I find important and disagrees on 2, and politician Y agrees with 2 and disagrees on 8, why the hell would I pick Y even if those 2 where "hot button" issues? Yet oh so many Americans do.
Because as several posters have pointed out... these are not "researchers" with good reputations or a trusted security company or anyone else with any form of credibility. As such, to gain such credibility they must PROVE thier claims, which they flat out refuse to do.
Hell I would not even hold Microsoft, the king of security flaws, accountable for what some unknown guy did using a third party driver he will not produce to prove his claim. And if I would be scepticle about a security flaw in windows, which has a bad track record, you can bet I will be for OS X which has a good one.