The real question is, what is the long term impact to productivity and work flow? Sure you can save money up front by switching to a different software suite but that doesn't matter if it disrupts your business in a significant way. Before the shouting starts I'm not implying that there is anything wrong. I'm would like to see an actual study done to determine the effect.
That argument is a load of crap. Just take a look at every major war fought in the last hundred years. Sure a superior military might conquer and occupy for a while but if the local people aren't on board with it the occupation almost always fails with very few exceptions.
Your argument also relies on the assumption that the majority of those in the armed forces would follow orders to attack civilians. There would be plenty that would disobey that order.
A rebellion by citizen with firearms, even semiautomatic, would give them enough of an edge to take some military bases and upgrade. Especially if they were dissenting military personnel helping in those campaigns.
You know what? I really love the sound of your voice.... And there's this one word. I've always loved the sound of this word.... I would really like to hear you say the word..."passport".
Hi, my name is Werner Brandes. My voice is my passport. Verify Me.
Coincidentally you'll never get any action from a vagina either. Some of us have a girlfriend or are married and watch movies with our significant others, some of which they choose. Feel free to pop your head up out of the basement and ask your mom if you need to verify this practice.
The obvious answer to the old "I'm a Mac, he's a PC" advertising slur was "yeah, Mac guy looks pretty, but he's actually useless. Look at what PC guy can do". They always seemed curiously afraid to go there.
I think you've missed a their most recent strategy/mission statements. The aren't focusing on what the PC can do anymore. They want to become a device/ cloud services company. They want to be more like Apple and Google, device and cloud strategy wise.
You're confusing quality of a product with putting a product, that is just good enough to meet the need, out there in front of an emerging trend. That is what Bill Gates was much better at doing while he was CEO. Ballmer almost always misses the mark on putting the right product out, even if it still needs more development, at the right moment.
All kidding aside he is not a great or even good leader. If he was half as effective as Bill Gates MS would have have only lost half of the product wars that it has. He has perpetually missed the boat on emerging trends, and then tried to chase the boat down in a runabout with a 5HP outboard motor.
Is that really true, though? There's an unfortunate tendency in the tech industry to talk down to the "average user" as though they had never even seen a computer before.
Maybe that was useful at one point, but these days assuming your users are unfamiliar and uncomfortable with technology seems laughable.
I'm sorry but you've obviously never had a front-line tech support position. I have provide tech support to several thousand individuals at this point in my career. I would be more than comfortable saying that at least 70% of smart phone users have no idea what version the OS of their phone is. They simply don't care, as long as their apps load. If a feature is missing they are often oblivious unless a tech savy friend, commercial, or corp IT support person tells them about it. They don't think about security consequences, how protocol enhancements can affect their life, what added enhancements they might be missing out on, no not one bit.
Sit outside Worst Buy sometime and do a random survey asking people what OS version they have on their phone. You'll quickly discover how unaware/uninterested they are.
Those labs are fun for a quickie, like a short test drive, but if you want to do anything more serious than take it for a spin around the block you're out of luck now. This will seriously hamper the ability of IT professionals to do any meaningful research on MS product offerings. My $350 subscription has netted them an extra 10 grand in revenue last year alone. I'm paying for the ability to test drive their products, which is in their best interests, and they think that taking that tool away is no big deal. They are seriously mistaken.
Visual Studio and other products have free versions now, so TechNet subscription is mostly outdated service. Visual Studio Express is the same great product that the full version of Visual Studio is, but is great for beginners. Visual Studio as a whole is a great product too. And, MSDN subscription is there too.
Combine that with subscription based Office and you have little reason to get TechNet.
You mean other than the fact that it costs considerably more for the MSDN subscription to get the same level of service. I went and looked at their free technet downloads and found the selection lacking, considerably. They only put in the main products so if I want to practice with MDT, MDOP, or any number of other smaller expansion packs I have to go with a much more expensive MSDN subscription. That complaint is secondary only to the fact that I can't do anything complicated with what is available because the trial times are all different for each product they have posted up. So I get my VM environment set up with a domain cluster and then want to try standing up SCCM, WDS, MDT and PKI to learn how to manage that kind of a setup I can't do it anymore. The system expires before I ever get close to setting up any kind a robust lab. If you're just doing a few one off labs like the ones you find in the exam prep books then this strategy might be fine for you. However, for those of us that use it to really get familiar with the products, this is hugely limiting. We either have to spend thousands more a year or we just have to rebuild our labs every time the trial expires, which will be a huge headache.
I hope a good tech witch comes and puts a spell on Ballmer that makes him shit Windows 8 brick phones until he learns to listen to customers.
You failed history in school, didn't you? I think you need to go review every major armed conflict since WWII where we have tried to occupy a country. Especially countries that had an ideologically driven opposing force. Go do that and then come back and tell me that people with rifles and IEDs can't make a war with an advance military so unpalatable that they give up.
Be that as it may, thinking that your buddies and your machineguns are going to overthrow the most powerful nation in the world is just delusional.
You're assuming that some of the military will not take the side of those fighting for their freedom. Also look how well insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan have done before you write off a gorilla force with just small arms and IEDs.
Funny how there's such a huge passionate uproar about supposed loss of second amendement rights, but comparitively little concern about actual loss of fourth amendment rights...
Actually I make a very big deal about the second amendment because I care so much about the other amendments. The second is the last line of defense in the protection of the others. It is the only amendment that gives the people a physical recourse should the three branches of government fail to up hold the Constitution.
While were on the topic, the people that said they didn't want universal background checks because they feared a national registry could be constructed seem less like silly now, don't they?
This tempts me so bad. I don't want to steal cars. I just want a button that sets off everyone's panic alarms.
Have you thought about trying a wiffle ball bat with a thin lay of foam on it? Sure you have run up and down the row or vehicles to make it work but it's 100% reliable and much cheaper.
I think having morons as elected officials is more harmful than having kids.
If we were to continue the analogy, these politicians would think it best to regulate the birth of children so the isn't even a possibility of a moron being elected.
When I was in high school (late 90s) the "Computer Teacher" was really nothing more than a word processing teacher. All of the classes focused on teaching typing and some very basic computer usage. i.e what is RAM, HD, keyboard, mouse. I phished his password on the regular and he never knew I had it. I did it by having him unlock the computer so I could fix something. I would then install a key logger and re-lock the security software. Once that was done I would tell him that I forgot to make one more change, have him unlock it once more and then recover the password for the key logger.
I mostly used it for good. (fixing network printer mappings, repairing broken OS or network settings) About as mischievous as I got was was installing a first person shooter on a number of the computers and starting an underground FPS club that played during lunch.
Predators look for easy targets. You almost never see a lion go after the strongest members of the herd they're hunting. Any creature that has their self preservation instinct intact will retreat unless they are really desperate to win what ever prize they are after. Hence the show of force with a gun is often all that is needed to send a burglar running out the way they came in. They simply didn't bargain for that level of resistance. This is especially true if they didn't think anyone was home. On the other hand if the person that breaks into your house is mentally unstable or coked up out of their mind they may not have any self preservation instinct left and they will kill you unless you put them down. In that case it is better to have the best lethal firepower you can buy.
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The real question is, what is the long term impact to productivity and work flow? Sure you can save money up front by switching to a different software suite but that doesn't matter if it disrupts your business in a significant way. Before the shouting starts I'm not implying that there is anything wrong. I'm would like to see an actual study done to determine the effect.
That argument is a load of crap. Just take a look at every major war fought in the last hundred years. Sure a superior military might conquer and occupy for a while but if the local people aren't on board with it the occupation almost always fails with very few exceptions.
Your argument also relies on the assumption that the majority of those in the armed forces would follow orders to attack civilians. There would be plenty that would disobey that order.
A rebellion by citizen with firearms, even semiautomatic, would give them enough of an edge to take some military bases and upgrade. Especially if they were dissenting military personnel helping in those campaigns.
Perhaps if they pray really hard, God will create a super fast broadband network for them.
They'll need to p(r)ay harder than the lobbyists who wrote this bill.
There, I fixed that for you.
You know what? I really love the sound of your voice. ... And there's this one word. I've always loved the sound of this word. ... I would really like to hear you say the word ..."passport".
Hi, my name is Werner Brandes. My voice is my passport. Verify Me.
Remember the scene with the "blue" belt?
No, but then again I don't have a vagina either.
Coincidentally you'll never get any action from a vagina either. Some of us have a girlfriend or are married and watch movies with our significant others, some of which they choose. Feel free to pop your head up out of the basement and ask your mom if you need to verify this practice.
quick, lets ban them! think of the children :D
When I read that I nearly destroyed my work laptop with the water I was drinking.
Is there anything that cannot be justified by appeals over terrorism?
There are, but don't worry, the things that aren't covered by terrorism are covered under 'think of the children!'
The obvious answer to the old "I'm a Mac, he's a PC" advertising slur was "yeah, Mac guy looks pretty, but he's actually useless. Look at what PC guy can do". They always seemed curiously afraid to go there.
I think you've missed a their most recent strategy/mission statements. The aren't focusing on what the PC can do anymore. They want to become a device/ cloud services company. They want to be more like Apple and Google, device and cloud strategy wise.
You're confusing quality of a product with putting a product, that is just good enough to meet the need, out there in front of an emerging trend. That is what Bill Gates was much better at doing while he was CEO. Ballmer almost always misses the mark on putting the right product out, even if it still needs more development, at the right moment.
We found a CEO, may we burn him?!?
All kidding aside he is not a great or even good leader. If he was half as effective as Bill Gates MS would have have only lost half of the product wars that it has. He has perpetually missed the boat on emerging trends, and then tried to chase the boat down in a runabout with a 5HP outboard motor.
Is that really true, though? There's an unfortunate tendency in the tech industry to talk down to the "average user" as though they had never even seen a computer before.
Maybe that was useful at one point, but these days assuming your users are unfamiliar and uncomfortable with technology seems laughable.
I'm sorry but you've obviously never had a front-line tech support position. I have provide tech support to several thousand individuals at this point in my career. I would be more than comfortable saying that at least 70% of smart phone users have no idea what version the OS of their phone is. They simply don't care, as long as their apps load. If a feature is missing they are often oblivious unless a tech savy friend, commercial, or corp IT support person tells them about it. They don't think about security consequences, how protocol enhancements can affect their life, what added enhancements they might be missing out on, no not one bit.
Sit outside Worst Buy sometime and do a random survey asking people what OS version they have on their phone. You'll quickly discover how unaware/uninterested they are.
The real reason they want to make a park on the moon is so they can setup a gun free zone that actually has zero crime.
Those labs are fun for a quickie, like a short test drive, but if you want to do anything more serious than take it for a spin around the block you're out of luck now. This will seriously hamper the ability of IT professionals to do any meaningful research on MS product offerings. My $350 subscription has netted them an extra 10 grand in revenue last year alone. I'm paying for the ability to test drive their products, which is in their best interests, and they think that taking that tool away is no big deal. They are seriously mistaken.
Visual Studio and other products have free versions now, so TechNet subscription is mostly outdated service. Visual Studio Express is the same great product that the full version of Visual Studio is, but is great for beginners. Visual Studio as a whole is a great product too. And, MSDN subscription is there too. Combine that with subscription based Office and you have little reason to get TechNet.
You mean other than the fact that it costs considerably more for the MSDN subscription to get the same level of service. I went and looked at their free technet downloads and found the selection lacking, considerably. They only put in the main products so if I want to practice with MDT, MDOP, or any number of other smaller expansion packs I have to go with a much more expensive MSDN subscription. That complaint is secondary only to the fact that I can't do anything complicated with what is available because the trial times are all different for each product they have posted up. So I get my VM environment set up with a domain cluster and then want to try standing up SCCM, WDS, MDT and PKI to learn how to manage that kind of a setup I can't do it anymore. The system expires before I ever get close to setting up any kind a robust lab. If you're just doing a few one off labs like the ones you find in the exam prep books then this strategy might be fine for you. However, for those of us that use it to really get familiar with the products, this is hugely limiting. We either have to spend thousands more a year or we just have to rebuild our labs every time the trial expires, which will be a huge headache.
I hope a good tech witch comes and puts a spell on Ballmer that makes him shit Windows 8 brick phones until he learns to listen to customers.
Can it detect my apathy?
I am so tired of such a stupid fucking argument
You failed history in school, didn't you? I think you need to go review every major armed conflict since WWII where we have tried to occupy a country. Especially countries that had an ideologically driven opposing force. Go do that and then come back and tell me that people with rifles and IEDs can't make a war with an advance military so unpalatable that they give up.
Be that as it may, thinking that your buddies and your machineguns are going to overthrow the most powerful nation in the world is just delusional.
You're assuming that some of the military will not take the side of those fighting for their freedom. Also look how well insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan have done before you write off a gorilla force with just small arms and IEDs.
Funny how there's such a huge passionate uproar about supposed loss of second amendement rights, but comparitively little concern about actual loss of fourth amendment rights...
Actually I make a very big deal about the second amendment because I care so much about the other amendments. The second is the last line of defense in the protection of the others. It is the only amendment that gives the people a physical recourse should the three branches of government fail to up hold the Constitution.
While were on the topic, the people that said they didn't want universal background checks because they feared a national registry could be constructed seem less like silly now, don't they?
This tempts me so bad. I don't want to steal cars. I just want a button that sets off everyone's panic alarms.
Have you thought about trying a wiffle ball bat with a thin lay of foam on it? Sure you have run up and down the row or vehicles to make it work but it's 100% reliable and much cheaper.
Why? What do they gain from these hacks?
I have the feeling that this has nothing to do with Syria.
They really, really, really wanted first post.
I think having morons as elected officials is more harmful than having kids.
If we were to continue the analogy, these politicians would think it best to regulate the birth of children so the isn't even a possibility of a moron being elected.
Banning children is easier said than done. I child-proofed my house, but they still get in.
Then it's not really child-proof... only child-resistant.
When I was in high school (late 90s) the "Computer Teacher" was really nothing more than a word processing teacher. All of the classes focused on teaching typing and some very basic computer usage. i.e what is RAM, HD, keyboard, mouse. I phished his password on the regular and he never knew I had it. I did it by having him unlock the computer so I could fix something. I would then install a key logger and re-lock the security software. Once that was done I would tell him that I forgot to make one more change, have him unlock it once more and then recover the password for the key logger.
I mostly used it for good. (fixing network printer mappings, repairing broken OS or network settings) About as mischievous as I got was was installing a first person shooter on a number of the computers and starting an underground FPS club that played during lunch.
Predators look for easy targets. You almost never see a lion go after the strongest members of the herd they're hunting. Any creature that has their self preservation instinct intact will retreat unless they are really desperate to win what ever prize they are after. Hence the show of force with a gun is often all that is needed to send a burglar running out the way they came in. They simply didn't bargain for that level of resistance. This is especially true if they didn't think anyone was home. On the other hand if the person that breaks into your house is mentally unstable or coked up out of their mind they may not have any self preservation instinct left and they will kill you unless you put them down. In that case it is better to have the best lethal firepower you can buy.
"I'm a mom, I have eyes in the back of my ass." -Ms. Tadpole