The same occurred to me; unfortunately know way to know, but I would actually be surprised if it was gmail. I suspect a quick search of some blogs will reveal the answer...
Hell, I'll be happy when google starts offering paid hosting: it's probably the only provider in the world for which I have 0 uptime and load balancing concerns.
gmail doesn't reveal that it is being used - you still manage myemail@mydomain.com; it's not forwarded. I suppose if you inspect full email headers you'll find a google mail server handling the message, but the vast majority of people don't bother.
Still, it's a valid point that people should be considering - when you start using gmail for your business, you're giving them permission to mine your business data.
I have had it with these proprietary attitudes companies have
Me too! Quick, let's sign an e-epetition together!
Joking aside, the point is valid: what are you going to do about it? As for me -- I'm annoyed with it too, but I suspect like the vast majority of people who are even aware of the issue: I'm not quite annoyed enough to do without what they're selling.
I think parent meant that it's easy to say something (like "this is the end of piracy"). Looking back through recorded history, though, there's a long line of people who make bold proclamations...
Alright, I'm no fan of vista for many reasons, but this is just flat incorrect. If you don't assume that your user has admin rights they need never see a UAC prompt from within your application. The actual rights required for practically every system API are extremely well documented; if you fail to read that documentation you can't blame the OS.
Fact is, UAC is forcing lazy programmers to actually pay attention to the code they're spewing out. It doesn't take a lot of effort to avoid UAC in your app -- just a little extra awareness of what you're doing.
* 4 GB of memory supported on 32-bit Vista. No, it's not. Specifically: "However, to avoid potential driver compatibility issues, the 32-bit versions of Windows Vista limit the total available memory to 3.12 GB."
Backup to DVD-R or CD-R And I can't do this on WinXP? Funny, because I do...
MUCH better Wi-Fi control Again, this isn't really seen as a weakness of XP; wifi works fine for the majority of users who have it - a two-click + password process to connect to a new network.
hit windows key, type the name of your file or program, and hit ente You m ean like... hit Windows+R and type the name of your program, hit enter? That's what I do on WinXP. (That's actually serious question - is what you describe any different from that?)
This isn't a trivial issue. False AAA ratings are what have caused the global credit crunch and mortgage crisis. See now, in my ignorance I figured it was caused by a) people stupid enough to invest in someone's debt, without doing research into exactly what they were getting and b) individuals stupid enough to say, "Yeah, $500/mo mortgage, I can totally pay that!"
Indirectly, I was getting at the idea that people find it perfectly acceptable to waste 1-3 hours of their lives in their cars every day, primarily in traffic, in order to get to work at a specific required time.
When I explained to my own employer that getting in at 10:00 and leaving after 6:30 saves me $400/year in gas and about 100 hours of my life/year, they were fairly reasonable. It's unfortunate that it doesn't occur to many people to think that there might be such options available.
Not a crime to reply; just reply-on topic and without accusations that are irrelevant to the point under discussion. Seriously, it makes perfect sense to me that someone be karmically punished for obsessing over someone else's posting habits as opposed to discussing the topic at hand.
Aside from that, even if he/were/ gaming the moderation system, it seems that he's only succeeded in having multiple accounts with bad karma... not a terribly effective 'gaming', wouldn't you say?
Aw damn. This is the second post like this I've made -- now I'm doing it too! Crap! Bring on the karmic punishment!
Indeed. A friend of mine is buying a house with asbestos floorboards in the basement: health inspector essentially says under no circumstances should they try to remove it.
if you have to be at your job by say 8 you had better wake up at 6. I've found that a depressing portion of the population accepts this as normal and healthy - even if they have to do this to arrive on time in a car.
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Ah, ok; thanks for the reply
Or one person buying tens of millions of songs.
The same occurred to me; unfortunately know way to know, but I would actually be surprised if it was gmail. I suspect a quick search of some blogs will reveal the answer...
Far more importantly, where does it say that you do not?
Very unlikely - when you're creating PCs on that scale , you don't stick in a DVD. You use Ghost or similar to mass produce hard drive images.
Not quite what I had in mind - but worth checking out all the same, thanks for the link.
Possibly not - when I was interviewing there, the recruiters had "@google.com" and not "@gmail.com"...
Hell, I'll be happy when google starts offering paid hosting: it's probably the only provider in the world for which I have 0 uptime and load balancing concerns.
gmail doesn't reveal that it is being used - you still manage myemail@mydomain.com; it's not forwarded. I suppose if you inspect full email headers you'll find a google mail server handling the message, but the vast majority of people don't bother.
Still, it's a valid point that people should be considering - when you start using gmail for your business, you're giving them permission to mine your business data.
Me too! Quick, let's sign an e-epetition together!
Joking aside, the point is valid: what are you going to do about it? As for me -- I'm annoyed with it too, but I suspect like the vast majority of people who are even aware of the issue: I'm not quite annoyed enough to do without what they're selling.
I think parent meant that it's easy to say something (like "this is the end of piracy"). Looking back through recorded history, though, there's a long line of people who make bold proclamations...
Where do they say they keep it?
Ah, okay - handy. Thanks.
Alright, I'm no fan of vista for many reasons, but this is just flat incorrect. If you don't assume that your user has admin rights they need never see a UAC prompt from within your application. The actual rights required for practically every system API are extremely well documented; if you fail to read that documentation you can't blame the OS.
Fact is, UAC is forcing lazy programmers to actually pay attention to the code they're spewing out. It doesn't take a lot of effort to avoid UAC in your app -- just a little extra awareness of what you're doing.
One blogger whining about 'harassment' gets a few supporting comments on her post, and she's 'inciting outrage'?
Must be a web 2.0 thing.
Yes. Geek.
When I explained to my own employer that getting in at 10:00 and leaving after 6:30 saves me $400/year in gas and about 100 hours of my life/year, they were fairly reasonable. It's unfortunate that it doesn't occur to many people to think that there might be such options available.
Not a crime to reply; just reply-on topic and without accusations that are irrelevant to the point under discussion. Seriously, it makes perfect sense to me that someone be karmically punished for obsessing over someone else's posting habits as opposed to discussing the topic at hand.
Aside from that, even if he /were/ gaming the moderation system, it seems that he's only succeeded in having multiple accounts with bad karma... not a terribly effective 'gaming', wouldn't you say?
Aw damn. This is the second post like this I've made -- now I'm doing it too! Crap! Bring on the karmic punishment!
No controversy here. More like "ha ha, you had it coming".
Indeed. A friend of mine is buying a house with asbestos floorboards in the basement: health inspector essentially says under no circumstances should they try to remove it.
In fairness, that rape wasn't entirely done by the Indians...