When the role of HR becomes cost cutting, instead managing and promoting an effective team environment, then your outfit is just another asshole corporation. And i think days of " Do no Evil " died about the same time.
This entire line of sueing everytime a financial bubble bursts is such entitlement bullshit. If you jumped onto the Nvidea bandwagon to make a fast buck on the ridiculous increase in the value of bitcoin, well good for you. If you stuck around for the obvious implosion, touch you shit you greedy asshole. Money doesn't appear out of no where. for every transaction some one buys and someone sells, and if you sold wrong or bought wrong too bad.
If my investment guy would have said I should have put money into bitcoin, or the companies making the parts i would have shot him, and then fired his ass. If you try to take advantage of a bubble, and called it wrong, GO FK YOURSELF YOU RICH ENTITLED PRICK. This whining is all being done by investment funds, run by idiots who didn't actually look at the technology or get any sound advice. Too bad if you lost. That's how the market works.
If your a lawyer, and your company has defended a crap load of the folks who are under investigation by the Federal Trade Commision, YOU SHOULD NOT BE WORKING THERE. I ANY CAPACITY. This is exactly whats wrong with Washington. Its the same a working for Universities in finance and financial theory, then working for the Security Exchange Commision, and the working for Goldman or B of A. Its the same vicious circle of insiders running the system with no real policing of bad behaviour.
America isnt a democracy, its a Plutocracy, the club of rich bastards who pull all the strings from behind the curtain.
Yea his boss has reminded him of how many SEC violations he made over 3 years, and he left a papertrail on the internet with his Twitter account. Deleting it wont help because Twitter archives peoples accounts for a period of time afterwards for legal backtracking. Larry is about to get screwed and his company is about have the shiznit load of fines for violating insider trading rules. Larry might even cop some jail time for being an idiot for that long.
I think its a great idea to stop working with people who are under the influence of Russia.
Anyone who may be compromised by Russians, say they have a shit load of their money tied in projects with russians banks also should be under severe scrutiny. Ah yea, so that why the President is under investigation
So if you create a shopping list using google voice commands on my phone, it no longer goes to keep, it goes to google express. Any pontificating genius bother to test this story out. It comes from Ars Technica. all the comment section are like this one, idiot one liners.
Ive seen this used by older folks who cant remember something later, and just say into there phones what they want to note down. THey have a shortcut on thier computer bring up the notes.
So i tried it just now. I created a shopping list using voice. It went to google keep.
So sorry Ron Amadeo of Ars Technica. Your op-ed article is not correct. Go back and check again.
Every god damn year this report comes out, and it lies like a Sean Spicer press briefing.
The 301 watchlist report is trotted out every year. and every year Canada is one on the great boogy men to chase. Its a bad report that has little objective evidence in it, and is at most an industry ad propaganda briefing. Im sure there will be a detailed analysis out shortly, but here is one of Dr. Geists past looks at this annual right of **AA venting its spleen "because Hollywood is doomed if we don't fix this" http://www.michaelgeist.ca/201...
The TPP was negotiated over a very long time time between governments and large corporate interests. While the public was cut out of knowing what was being negotiated, Large corporate interests were sitting at the table through their lobbiests, which added the worst parts of the agreements. The continued drumbeat of longer copyright rules, thanks to the MPAA, is just one example. If you want to see from a Canadian perspective why this deal is a steaming pile of waste http://www.michaelgeist.ca/ shows 50 reasons. And the great irony here, is most of the shit in this deal comes from the U S of A. I dont want to be part of any more trade deals, if the US is at the table, because your guys are the fkn worst in the room.
In the Canadian marketplace The Futureshop was one of the worst players. They went out of their way to destroy other businesses and companies, as could be told by the amount of lawsuits they had filed against them over the years. They had questionable ethics but for a time they were winners of the marketplace.
But the marketplace changes. when they were bought by Best Buy they created this stupid illusion of competition by opening a Best Buy directly opposite a Futureshop. Futureshop had the better price, but Best Buy actually had the stock. We all saw through this pathetic attempt and over time just stop trusting them. Best Buy retracted last year, they're killing the name off this year which still boils down to slimming down the stores and retracting the business again.
Overall a marketplace that has spoken, and dumping a crappy company. How much longer before we watch the liquidators come in and clear out the morally and financially bankrupt Best Buy.
He going to charge you a shit load of money to tell you secrets. Edward gave them away. Once again being a patriot is all about how much money you can charge.
In the rest of the world we debate how to keep the health care system going and everyone to get access. The complaints about the Affordable Healthcare Act fit a pattern.
Only in America do you have debates about
Healthcare - we should run the most expensive system or try to get costs inline. Guns - everyone else controls them and less people die from them. The debate gets no where but you do kill 25,000 people a year with them. Politics - it cost a billion dollars to run for president, millions to run for a federal or state office, but money doesn't pollute your political system. Its seems hard to find politicians that aren't on the take. The economy - Thanks for the global financial crash of 2008, and not bringing one bank guy to justice for the trillions of dollars US citizens and the rest of the world lost.
So yes after the 2008 bullshit i got my bank to move all of my investments out of America. They have tripled since then and im about to retire early.
The rest of us are just going to sit back and watch you burn.
P.S. the news will never give you any real answers since they are obsessed with the false need to have both side of every argument, even if one side is stark raving nutz. But you can watch CNN and find out that the only thing happening in the world today is a plane crash in the Indian ocean. And bigfoot/aliens/ the muslin-terrorist-obama conspiracy is to blame for the plane crash.
The real issue here is that this entire legislative package was written by the Telcos lobby group, and then pushed into the house. At what pint did we let the politicians off the hook for thinking for themselves, and just taking a corporate payoff. Democracy is destroyed when you let these scumbags corporate thugs write the laws. The only reason this got stopped is the publicity. How often is our democracy stolen by these thieves.
They beat up on these guys because they don't have the resources to fight back. Right or wrong in this case is not the issue. A easy win was. HIPPA will not go after a big health care chain, because the chain will spend all the money needed to block these cases. These guys will not back up there words about protecting patients against a biggie. They just want to look like it.
Then do a little dissection into the game. Is it a shooter. some of the best are running on their own created engines, so if you are making models, you usually need an understanding of sculpture, painting, lighting, human anatomy. weaponry needs physics for reactions, math for mass and damage.
Gaming is a damn sight more then just computer programming. you need a lot of other interdisciplinary skills. i know one of the earlier ID employees and Kens skill was sculpting monsters. you need more then just programming. I bet you find the games they like the best are the ones that are the top titles, and they are made to look like complete worlds. so you need to understand how the real world works. get out there and explore it, because if you expect to help create a digital version of it, you better understand how it works.
Its used in Vancouver to keep the gang bangers out, because right now they are all at war to take control of the blossoming drug trade. In Victoria its used to keep out the small cadre of drunks an malcontents who go from bar to bar to bar just getting more drunk. Its a private bar. If you don't like the fact that you have to provide ID then dont go. You dont have a right to go to the bar. no bar owner gives a shit who you are demographically, they care if you have already been tossed out of another bar this eveining for being a drunk dickhead.
We have an explosion of people in BC who wont accept any responsibility for being dumb. You don't have a right to go out, get drunk, piss on the doorway of someones downtown business, or start keying someones car because you don't like the way it works, or a hundred other complaints we get every weekend evening here.
And i mean here, because i live in Victoria. we just don't have a drunk tank big enough to deal with all of the late night idiots. We are pushing some of the responsibility back on the bars, and this is what they came up. The data is encrypted so its not easy to get to.
Too bad if you think you right to privacy has been violated. GO HOME AND SOBER UP
A long time ago i used to recommend Norton products. About 2002 / 03 you needed to use a special tool to remove their products in case they failed to operate. That was the point that hidden files kept screwing you up all the time.
And they have looked back from that philosophy. I used to do a local radio show, and the phone calls were always " How do i fix this damn thing "
Years of bad practices tell use one thing most of all.
Stop using any norton product. They will never listen until they take a giant hit to their revenue. Maybe if they return to making real software, instead of spending all this time creating just another update cycle for a revenue stream, they will not change.
Your time has a lot of value. Stop wasting it. Dump Norton.
OK someone needs to do some checking on this before its blindly reported.
1/ The Songwriters association of Canada, is another collective front for the CRIA, the Canadian RIAA. They are a wing of the RIAA so they are just the record companies constant whine about losing money to thieves. A lot of actual recording artists in Canada have left the CRIA becuase they concider them to be greedy corporate trolls, and not helpful to their careers.
2/ Music downloading in Canada is already legal. A leavy is paid on all blank DVDs, CDs, and cassettes, that goes back to the music artists already. except that money is diverted to another group run by the CRIA, and artists see very little of it. The courts have ruled that file downloading of music is already legal, so this arguement is already over.
So once again, the recording executives are trying to save their dying industry without actually doing anything for the consumer or the real artist. Trust me, this idea is bullshit, and the folks in the know wont let this turkey go anywhere.
as a reseller of notebooks, and yes i sell Thinkpads as well. If you want it i will get in what you want. Ultimately the choice is yours but...
Flip your notebook over and look for the words "Assembled in XXXXXXX" The answer is not China. The answer is Mexico.
Lenovo 3000s are made in China, Thinkpads are assembled just to the south.
Go to a store, look at a Thinkpad and flip it over.
Now the final profits go to a chinese company. Thats the other issue, but along the way if americans stop buying Thinkpads because of Chinese ownership you put Mexicans out of work. and they have a bigger need for a job so they sneak accoss the border illegally to find a job.
Now you have a another problem, so its not always black and white. So if you want to do something about Manymar, call your congressman and tell him to speak up. As we look at the news, Iraq is not the only country outside of the United States.
your backup has 2 problems. one is technical in nature, the second is operational.
1/ technical. you have lots of programs that can back up the data you need. and you dont have to spend a lot of money either. http://www.superflexible.com/ lots of nice options, even copies locked files, dumps them to a drive, a tape, or ftp, just look at it. its not the only option, but you find people who have written software to do a job, not create a structure to rationalize screwing you out of thousands of dollars.
2/ getting your mobile staff to follow protocol and back up their laptops. now thats the hard part. you need to develop a policy on what do to make the backups work, offer some training if needed to get it right, and hold your contractors feet to the fire for breaking the policy. you clients data, your business data is the same as a doctor doing open heart surgery. "If you screw it up because you didnt follow a basic safety protocol, were going to pull your license"
There is no excuse for not backing up data. The tech to do it is cheap, getting staff to follow the rules is the hard part.
1/ stop hiring young morons to write articles like this.
2/ check the files for old stories.
someone trots this garbage out every once in a while. for those that have brain cells in proximity to work together as a memory cell, AMD used to FAB out there chips. and they languished in red ink all the while. The only time that AMD ever made money was when the build there own FABs and ran them to poduce enough chips for the market place. Who would make these for them. Small companies are a joke, Motorola never made enough chips for Apple to make Macs, IBM is constantly coming up short on chips for other people. ask Sony how they like being shorted on cell chips for the PS3.
AMD has a memory. They will not give up the power to make their own chips, so they can go back to being enslaved by some dumb ass partner who never comes through when they need volume to fill the market demand.
Take the writer of this article and the financial folks who are guessing by examining the coffee ring in the bottom of their Starbuck cups after all night bender of expressos so they are wired up like a chipmunk mainlining crystal Meth, and recommend to their bosses that they sell off their offices, and these guys can rent space by the day in a temp office. see how they like having no security or long term planning
The Website of canada free press is a right leaning website. They are known as an apolgist for the right at times. Finding the scientists that speak out against global warming is easy. find a peer review process that rejects global warming is another story.
Beating up on the U.S. is easy. It practicly a Canadian sport.
Blogger Arik Hesseldahl breaks down their claims: "First off, Mac users on average pay more for their computers" - Thats not an option. Macs cost more. that doesnt protect you from a virus.
"are self-selected because they tend to know more about technology than your average PC buyer" - I am a reseller of Macs. The client base is the same. The majority of people who buy any computer are clueless about any of the real differences between a Mac and a PC.
"and by and large are a bit more affluent than those who buy cheapo commodity Windows PCs" - Nice try. Mac users dont gush money. Even if they spend more to buy the unit in the first place, Mac users and PC users usually buy the machine and never think about the other components that may be needed for all of thier needs. Mac users squeek cheap just as fast as PC buyers do when it comes to geting the printer they may want, but instead of buying the printer that fills their needs, take the giveaway printer that is offered. They spend plenty of the computer, but when they need the proper software to run on it, its suddenly " Oh, i know how to get that". Mac users and PC users are equally cheap. If Macs users were discriminating about their computers, they wouldnt buy it at Costco, right next to the blow out PC.
The Antivirus arguement should stand on its own. Will Macs be more of a target in the future.
Im not sure if you guys have touched base with this one, but Patrick is now a spokeman for the Lumber Industry. Im not saying he is wrong or right, actually i agree with him thats we need to re-examine nuclear, but Patrick is not liked by many of his past associates. I suppose as time passes, we all need to look twice at the soapboxes we stand on.
As long as we upgrade the whole planet to Vista, we can solve our spyware problem. sorry not gonna happen. Just as Bill was badmouthing the $100.00 laptop the other day, its not the final solution. After 4 years of Vista consuption is at 46%. What about the rest of the world that isnt running XP.
Same thing for Vista. A large part of the world is not going to run vista because thier gear isnt up to the task. they are going to run wha tthey can afford. Perhaps security companies need write software that runs in India (pop +1 billion), China (Pop +1 billion). Software companies are business people. Its a global market. thinking 1st world only is damn short sighted.
And then there is the small issue that microsoft is going to get their new security software right. They created the problem in the first place, you think MS is going to fix it first time out.
I think the Analysts are morons. Narrow minded american centric economic conciderations have just driven the American economy into the largest defecit in history. Yea, sign me up for that advice.
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When the role of HR becomes cost cutting, instead managing and promoting an effective team environment, then your outfit is just another asshole corporation. And i think days of " Do no Evil " died about the same time.
This entire line of sueing everytime a financial bubble bursts is such entitlement bullshit. If you jumped onto the Nvidea bandwagon to make a fast buck on the ridiculous increase in the value of bitcoin, well good for you. If you stuck around for the obvious implosion, touch you shit you greedy asshole. Money doesn't appear out of no where. for every transaction some one buys and someone sells, and if you sold wrong or bought wrong too bad.
If my investment guy would have said I should have put money into bitcoin, or the companies making the parts i would have shot him, and then fired his ass. If you try to take advantage of a bubble, and called it wrong, GO FK YOURSELF YOU RICH ENTITLED PRICK. This whining is all being done by investment funds, run by idiots who didn't actually look at the technology or get any sound advice. Too bad if you lost. That's how the market works.
If your a lawyer, and your company has defended a crap load of the folks who are under investigation by the Federal Trade Commision, YOU SHOULD NOT BE WORKING THERE. I ANY CAPACITY.
This is exactly whats wrong with Washington. Its the same a working for Universities in finance and financial theory, then working for the Security Exchange Commision, and the working for Goldman or B of A. Its the same vicious circle of insiders running the system with no real policing of bad behaviour.
America isnt a democracy, its a Plutocracy, the club of rich bastards who pull all the strings from behind the curtain.
Yea his boss has reminded him of how many SEC violations he made over 3 years, and he left a papertrail on the internet with his Twitter account. Deleting it wont help because Twitter archives peoples accounts for a period of time afterwards for legal backtracking. Larry is about to get screwed and his company is about have the shiznit load of fines for violating insider trading rules. Larry might even cop some jail time for being an idiot for that long.
I think its a great idea to stop working with people who are under the influence of Russia.
Anyone who may be compromised by Russians, say they have a shit load of their money tied in projects with russians banks also should be under severe scrutiny. Ah yea, so that why the President is under investigation
So if you create a shopping list using google voice commands on my phone, it no longer goes to keep, it goes to google express. Any pontificating genius bother to test this story out. It comes from Ars Technica. all the comment section are like this one, idiot one liners.
Ive seen this used by older folks who cant remember something later, and just say into there phones what they want to note down. THey have a shortcut on thier computer bring up the notes.
So i tried it just now. I created a shopping list using voice. It went to google keep.
So sorry Ron Amadeo of Ars Technica. Your op-ed article is not correct. Go back and check again.
Every god damn year this report comes out, and it lies like a Sean Spicer press briefing.
The 301 watchlist report is trotted out every year. and every year Canada is one on the great boogy men to chase. Its a bad report that has little objective evidence in it, and is at most an industry ad propaganda briefing. Im sure there will be a detailed analysis out shortly, but here is one of Dr. Geists past looks at this annual right of **AA venting its spleen "because Hollywood is doomed if we don't fix this" http://www.michaelgeist.ca/201...
The TPP was negotiated over a very long time time between governments and large corporate interests. While the public was cut out of knowing what was being negotiated, Large corporate interests were sitting at the table through their lobbiests, which added the worst parts of the agreements. The continued drumbeat of longer copyright rules, thanks to the MPAA, is just one example. If you want to see from a Canadian perspective why this deal is a steaming pile of waste http://www.michaelgeist.ca/ shows 50 reasons. And the great irony here, is most of the shit in this deal comes from the U S of A. I dont want to be part of any more trade deals, if the US is at the table, because your guys are the fkn worst in the room.
In the Canadian marketplace The Futureshop was one of the worst players. They went out of their way to destroy other businesses and companies, as could be told by the amount of lawsuits they had filed against them over the years. They had questionable ethics but for a time they were winners of the marketplace.
But the marketplace changes. when they were bought by Best Buy they created this stupid illusion of competition by opening a Best Buy directly opposite a Futureshop. Futureshop had the better price, but Best Buy actually had the stock. We all saw through this pathetic attempt and over time just stop trusting them. Best Buy retracted last year, they're killing the name off this year which still boils down to slimming down the stores and retracting the business again.
Overall a marketplace that has spoken, and dumping a crappy company. How much longer before we watch the liquidators come in and clear out the morally and financially bankrupt Best Buy.
He going to charge you a shit load of money to tell you secrets. Edward gave them away.
Once again being a patriot is all about how much money you can charge.
In the rest of the world we debate how to keep the health care system going and everyone to get access. The complaints about the Affordable Healthcare Act fit a pattern.
Only in America do you have debates about
Healthcare - we should run the most expensive system or try to get costs inline.
Guns - everyone else controls them and less people die from them. The debate gets no where but you do kill 25,000 people a year with them.
Politics - it cost a billion dollars to run for president, millions to run for a federal or state office, but money doesn't pollute your political system. Its seems hard to find politicians that aren't on the take.
The economy - Thanks for the global financial crash of 2008, and not bringing one bank guy to justice for the trillions of dollars US citizens and the rest of the world lost.
So yes after the 2008 bullshit i got my bank to move all of my investments out of America. They have tripled since then and im about to retire early.
The rest of us are just going to sit back and watch you burn.
P.S. the news will never give you any real answers since they are obsessed with the false need to have both side of every argument, even if one side is stark raving nutz. But you can watch CNN and find out that the only thing happening in the world today is a plane crash in the Indian ocean. And bigfoot/aliens/ the muslin-terrorist-obama conspiracy is to blame for the plane crash.
The real issue here is that this entire legislative package was written by the Telcos lobby group, and then pushed into the house. At what pint did we let the politicians off the hook for thinking for themselves, and just taking a corporate payoff. Democracy is destroyed when you let these scumbags corporate thugs write the laws. The only reason this got stopped is the publicity. How often is our democracy stolen by these thieves.
They beat up on these guys because they don't have the resources to fight back. Right or wrong in this case is not the issue. A easy win was. HIPPA will not go after a big health care chain, because the chain will spend all the money needed to block these cases. These guys will not back up there words about protecting patients against a biggie. They just want to look like it.
Then do a little dissection into the game. Is it a shooter. some of the best are running on their own created engines, so if you are making models, you usually need an understanding of sculpture, painting, lighting, human anatomy. weaponry needs physics for reactions, math for mass and damage.
Gaming is a damn sight more then just computer programming. you need a lot of other interdisciplinary skills. i know one of the earlier ID employees and Kens skill was sculpting monsters. you need more then just programming. I bet you find the games they like the best are the ones that are the top titles, and they are made to look like complete worlds. so you need to understand how the real world works. get out there and explore it, because if you expect to help create a digital version of it, you better understand how it works.
Its used in Vancouver to keep the gang bangers out, because right now they are all at war to take control of the blossoming drug trade. In Victoria its used to keep out the small cadre of drunks an malcontents who go from bar to bar to bar just getting more drunk. Its a private bar. If you don't like the fact that you have to provide ID then dont go. You dont have a right to go to the bar. no bar owner gives a shit who you are demographically, they care if you have already been tossed out of another bar this eveining for being a drunk dickhead.
We have an explosion of people in BC who wont accept any responsibility for being dumb. You don't have a right to go out, get drunk, piss on the doorway of someones downtown business, or start keying someones car because you don't like the way it works, or a hundred other complaints we get every weekend evening here.
And i mean here, because i live in Victoria. we just don't have a drunk tank big enough to deal with all of the late night idiots. We are pushing some of the responsibility back on the bars, and this is what they came up. The data is encrypted so its not easy to get to.
Too bad if you think you right to privacy has been violated. GO HOME AND SOBER UP
A long time ago i used to recommend Norton products. About 2002 / 03 you needed to use a special tool to remove their products in case they failed to operate. That was the point that hidden files kept screwing you up all the time. And they have looked back from that philosophy. I used to do a local radio show, and the phone calls were always " How do i fix this damn thing " Years of bad practices tell use one thing most of all. Stop using any norton product. They will never listen until they take a giant hit to their revenue. Maybe if they return to making real software, instead of spending all this time creating just another update cycle for a revenue stream, they will not change. Your time has a lot of value. Stop wasting it. Dump Norton.
OK someone needs to do some checking on this before its blindly reported. 1/ The Songwriters association of Canada, is another collective front for the CRIA, the Canadian RIAA. They are a wing of the RIAA so they are just the record companies constant whine about losing money to thieves. A lot of actual recording artists in Canada have left the CRIA becuase they concider them to be greedy corporate trolls, and not helpful to their careers. 2/ Music downloading in Canada is already legal. A leavy is paid on all blank DVDs, CDs, and cassettes, that goes back to the music artists already. except that money is diverted to another group run by the CRIA, and artists see very little of it. The courts have ruled that file downloading of music is already legal, so this arguement is already over. So once again, the recording executives are trying to save their dying industry without actually doing anything for the consumer or the real artist. Trust me, this idea is bullshit, and the folks in the know wont let this turkey go anywhere.
and its a poor one. Vinyl is not making a comeback. Its a niche player. Thats it. Nothing more.
as a reseller of notebooks, and yes i sell Thinkpads as well. If you want it i will get in what you want. Ultimately the choice is yours but... Flip your notebook over and look for the words "Assembled in XXXXXXX" The answer is not China. The answer is Mexico. Lenovo 3000s are made in China, Thinkpads are assembled just to the south. Go to a store, look at a Thinkpad and flip it over. Now the final profits go to a chinese company. Thats the other issue, but along the way if americans stop buying Thinkpads because of Chinese ownership you put Mexicans out of work. and they have a bigger need for a job so they sneak accoss the border illegally to find a job. Now you have a another problem, so its not always black and white. So if you want to do something about Manymar, call your congressman and tell him to speak up. As we look at the news, Iraq is not the only country outside of the United States.
your backup has 2 problems. one is technical in nature, the second is operational.
1/ technical. you have lots of programs that can back up the data you need. and you dont have to spend a lot of money either.
http://www.superflexible.com/ lots of nice options, even copies locked files, dumps them to a drive, a tape, or ftp, just look at it. its not the only option, but you find people who have written software to do a job, not create a structure to rationalize screwing you out of thousands of dollars.
2/ getting your mobile staff to follow protocol and back up their laptops. now thats the hard part. you need to develop a policy on what do to make the backups work, offer some training if needed to get it right, and hold your contractors feet to the fire for breaking the policy. you clients data, your business data is the same as a doctor doing open heart surgery. "If you screw it up because you didnt follow a basic safety protocol, were going to pull your license"
There is no excuse for not backing up data. The tech to do it is cheap, getting staff to follow the rules is the hard part.
1/ stop hiring young morons to write articles like this.
2/ check the files for old stories.
someone trots this garbage out every once in a while. for those that have brain cells in proximity to work together as a memory cell, AMD used to FAB out there chips. and they languished in red ink all the while. The only time that AMD ever made money was when the build there own FABs and ran them to poduce enough chips for the market place. Who would make these for them. Small companies are a joke, Motorola never made enough chips for Apple to make Macs, IBM is constantly coming up short on chips for other people. ask Sony how they like being shorted on cell chips for the PS3.
AMD has a memory. They will not give up the power to make their own chips, so they can go back to being enslaved by some dumb ass partner who never comes through when they need volume to fill the market demand.
Take the writer of this article and the financial folks who are guessing by examining the coffee ring in the bottom of their Starbuck cups after all night bender of expressos so they are wired up like a chipmunk mainlining crystal Meth, and recommend to their bosses that they sell off their offices, and these guys can rent space by the day in a temp office. see how they like having no security or long term planning
Fraken idiots for writers.
The Website of canada free press is a right leaning website. They are known as an apolgist for the right at times. Finding the scientists that speak out against global warming is easy. find a peer review process that rejects global warming is another story. Beating up on the U.S. is easy. It practicly a Canadian sport.
Blogger Arik Hesseldahl breaks down their claims: "First off, Mac users on average pay more for their computers" - Thats not an option. Macs cost more. that doesnt protect you from a virus. "are self-selected because they tend to know more about technology than your average PC buyer" - I am a reseller of Macs. The client base is the same. The majority of people who buy any computer are clueless about any of the real differences between a Mac and a PC. "and by and large are a bit more affluent than those who buy cheapo commodity Windows PCs" - Nice try. Mac users dont gush money. Even if they spend more to buy the unit in the first place, Mac users and PC users usually buy the machine and never think about the other components that may be needed for all of thier needs. Mac users squeek cheap just as fast as PC buyers do when it comes to geting the printer they may want, but instead of buying the printer that fills their needs, take the giveaway printer that is offered. They spend plenty of the computer, but when they need the proper software to run on it, its suddenly " Oh, i know how to get that". Mac users and PC users are equally cheap. If Macs users were discriminating about their computers, they wouldnt buy it at Costco, right next to the blow out PC. The Antivirus arguement should stand on its own. Will Macs be more of a target in the future.
Im not sure if you guys have touched base with this one, but Patrick is now a spokeman for the Lumber Industry. Im not saying he is wrong or right, actually i agree with him thats we need to re-examine nuclear, but Patrick is not liked by many of his past associates. I suppose as time passes, we all need to look twice at the soapboxes we stand on.
As long as we upgrade the whole planet to Vista, we can solve our spyware problem. sorry not gonna happen. Just as Bill was badmouthing the $100.00 laptop the other day, its not the final solution. After 4 years of Vista consuption is at 46%. What about the rest of the world that isnt running XP.
Same thing for Vista. A large part of the world is not going to run vista because thier gear isnt up to the task. they are going to run wha tthey can afford. Perhaps security companies need write software that runs in India (pop +1 billion), China (Pop +1 billion). Software companies are business people. Its a global market. thinking 1st world only is damn short sighted.
And then there is the small issue that microsoft is going to get their new security software right. They created the problem in the first place, you think MS is going to fix it first time out.
I think the Analysts are morons. Narrow minded american centric economic conciderations have just driven the American economy into the largest defecit in history. Yea, sign me up for that advice.