1. Introduce biometric ATM authentication for the poor in India 2. Give bank accounts to the poor in India (you know, people who have no money to deposit) 3. ???????? 4. Profit(?)
By shipping to everyone who has a software assurance/volume licensing contract, Microsoft can then proclaim "(n) hundred thousand seats shipped" prior to anyone even installing it, let alone actually forking over cash for an OEM or retail copy. It's PR, pure and simple, and Microsoft knows darn well that very, very few seats will get installed at companies which subscribe to these services for at least a year thanks to the hesitation to upgrade out of (reasonable) fear that Vista will break their current software, network and processes.
It's much like RIAA label tactics: force-feed thousands of copies of CDs to certain retailers, send "undercover" mystery shoppers to buy 20 or more copies of the CDs as "individuals" rather than label employees (all while accounting the "purchase cost" back to the artist, resulting in accrual of debt to the label forcing turtuous touring schedules upon the artist), all to force the record to chart in Billboard's listings. They can claim "X million sold" and hijack airwaves based on billboard listings (forcing airplay) without any real customers actually actively buying anything.
Btw, if you remove the phone's battery, you still can't be sure it's powered down... sometimes the police install a second, hidden battery in the phone.
Disassemble your cellphone and let us know if you have room in it for a button cell, or even a decent-sized electrolytic capacitor. I can pretty much guarantee you do not, unless it's an actual (analog) cellphone, in which case eveb a CR2032 3V lithium cell could not even power up the unit for a second.
You have nothing to worry about. After all, the Feds only consider liberals and muslims to be terrorists, and possibly gays. You're okay, so don't worry about it. Now that the Democrats control both houses and SCOTUS, and will likely be in the Presidential seats in a couple of years, Jews and Christians will be next, but that's okay because you are either athiest or "Christian" in name only. No need to worry, because it doesn't affect you. But when it swings in the other direction, and the following administration considers YOU to be desirable, who will be left to speak up for you?
Obviously I adopted the above from a famous quote, a quote to keep in mind when you consider politics and government interference in private lives:
Lutheran minister and German war veteran Martin Niemoller mirrored middle-class German society of that time: "First they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up, because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by then there was no one left to speak up for me."
One should always, always, ALWAYS limit government in any/every way possible and/or necessary. NOW is the time while we have the power to vote, and that should be exercised lest we lose that right. I'm ashamed to say I didn't vote in this past election because I KNEW that the candidates I wanted to vote for did not have even a prayer of winning. If I thought there was ANY chance that someone might push Kennedy out of his seat, and that Patrick would not win the gubernatorial race, I'd have voted. In the other office I cared about (local) most seats were uncontested/single candidate.:(
Except: the Bush administration (which I originally had high hopes for but am now extremely disappointed in and thanks to Bush I now am libertarian) considers anyone with a pulse to be suspicious.
Want to know if your phone is doing this while shut off? Turn off your CD player, switch to radio (FM or AM, it doesn't matter, although AM will make it more apparnt), then place your cellphone as close to the head unit as possible. Periodically while powered up you will hear little chirps/blips. If you power the cellphone off, these will stop. If they continue periodically, then your phone is a model which pings the towers while "off" so if you want to make high speed runs on highways without big brother tracking you, yank the battery. Not that I'm one to make high speed runs in rural areas, mind you. . .;)
Novell now will fight with SCO in court while M$ works on its next OS which will work with Linux.
You make that statement as though Novell has only a single department and can only deal with one issue at a time. I don't know about you, but I've seen tremendous improvements in SuSE since the 9.0 release (aside from 9.2 which was to SuSE 9.1 as Windows 3.11 was to Windows 3.1), more so since 9.3, and they have been doing this WHILE getting all their ducks in a row where slaughtering (new)SCO is concerned.
1. When you buy hot coffee, you should expect it to be hot. You can even reasonably expect it to be "too" hot. 2. You do not put a styrofoam cup full of HOT COFFEE between your legs in a car - or ANY time for that matter. It WILL crumble and if the liquid is >130*F there is a good chance of scalding. 3. You do not put a styrofoam cup full of HOT COFFEE between your legs in a car, ESPECIALLY when you are driving and the car has a manual transmission. It WILL crumble and if the liquid is >130*F there is a 99.999% chance of scalding.
That person would have likely sued if the coffee were too cold. Cripes.
Now for the plastic packaging design? It's faulty to begin with. You need sharp tools or a LOT of force to open them, and then the vendors will blame the customer for damaging the product. Like many others here, of course, I've become quite good at opening them, but for some items I need strong diagonal cutters, others I can slit with a "boxcutter" and tear apart, and for others I have used scissors. However, I have gotten cut a couple of times (not from the implements, from the packaging itself) and so I consider that style packaging to be inexcusable.
And on the DVD package: WTF is up with that? There is SHRINK WRAP, and then tape on THREE sides of the DVD clamshell.The shrink wrap ought to be enough, especially in Sprawl*Mart where there is probably 3 surveillance cameras overlooking any given point in space where the DVDs are located. ENOUGH already. They're easy enough to remove, but very time consuming to do so neatly without damaging the packaging (The packaging is why I still buy rather than torrent movies, BTW, I bought 12 DVDs last month). Oh, and that RFID tag? It does not stop professional crooks, it just annoys the hell out of me. When I get home, after I spend minutes removing all of that tape from the packages, I remove the RFID tags (disassembling the packaging if required). I know they're disabled, and big brother is not going to spy on me and report what movies I bring to friends houses to MLB (simpsons reference for y'all) but the fact that they add all these "security features" and then stick RFID tags inside the product annoys the piss out of me. I understand the need to limit shrinkage, but, you're going way, WAY overboard in treating paying customers like shit.
(in fact it's that kind of thing that prompts me to treat Sprawl*Mart employees like shit, especially folks who watch the door and insist on punching my receipt. Sorry, you don't get to touch it once I've paid for it. If you have a problem with it, call the police, press charges for shoplifting, then I will sue for false arrest, harassment, and fraud)
CxOs who get to spend other people's money love to get into their dick-waving contest saying "mine's bigger/better/faster" when in reality they're suckers who overspent and then have to lay people off at the end of a quarter in order to rescue their overly-generous bonus packages.
I'm going to be upgrading one box to 2.6.19 ASAP thanks to improved bleeding-edge hardware support. If I didn't need the hardware support, I'd be thinking "blah"
The new SCO is pure evil and I would not be surprised to learn that Darl McBride is a pedophile and baby eater, and that he kicks newborn puppies for fun.
You could become a Senator and murder someone in a 'car accident'
Or, you could become President and commit outright treason by subverting the Constitution, and have conservatives who are theoretically outraged by this sort of thing kissing your feet in thanks.
I think Linux users are overreacting in knee-jerk style. Let's all sit back and wait and see what SuSE 10.3 (or will it be SuSE 11) and onward bring us.
It's well worth checking out. Many so-called "Indie" labels aren't. This chart does NOT include all of them since it's a bit outdated, but is a good starting point.
I know absolutely next to nothing about its technical details, but since the service is MPAA sanctioned, I can guarantee that it will not be DRM-free. There's no possible way.
In other words, their heads are still up their asses. Gotcha. Thsanks, but when I miss Stargate:SG1 and forget to set my hauppauge to record it, thepiratebay.org and torrentspy.com can fill my timeshifting needs.
Call me when the DRM is dropped, and THEN I will gladly pay for timeshifted shows I forgot to record myself.
It's not so strange for one on the production side of the business to loathe the record companies. I know a couple of sound engineers who are also performers who wish that RIAA members would suddenly die. Many engineers befriend the artists they work with, or are also artists themselves, and get sick of the f***ing scams that ruin their friends careers -- especially the record companies' creative accounting practices which result in artists accumulating huge debts to the record company, even when a record charts and becomes a huge money maker.
I for one do not wish RIAA members to die; I wish for them to become mentally disabled from all the coke they snort. That would be a much more fitting punishment for those jackasses.
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1. Introduce biometric ATM authentication for the poor in India
2. Give bank accounts to the poor in India (you know, people who have no money to deposit)
3. ????????
4. Profit(?)
Isn't it obvious?
By shipping to everyone who has a software assurance/volume licensing contract, Microsoft can then proclaim "(n) hundred thousand seats shipped" prior to anyone even installing it, let alone actually forking over cash for an OEM or retail copy. It's PR, pure and simple, and Microsoft knows darn well that very, very few seats will get installed at companies which subscribe to these services for at least a year thanks to the hesitation to upgrade out of (reasonable) fear that Vista will break their current software, network and processes.
It's much like RIAA label tactics: force-feed thousands of copies of CDs to certain retailers, send "undercover" mystery shoppers to buy 20 or more copies of the CDs as "individuals" rather than label employees (all while accounting the "purchase cost" back to the artist, resulting in accrual of debt to the label forcing turtuous touring schedules upon the artist), all to force the record to chart in Billboard's listings. They can claim "X million sold" and hijack airwaves based on billboard listings (forcing airplay) without any real customers actually actively buying anything.
Disassemble your cellphone and let us know if you have room in it for a button cell, or even a decent-sized electrolytic capacitor. I can pretty much guarantee you do not, unless it's an actual (analog) cellphone, in which case eveb a CR2032 3V lithium cell could not even power up the unit for a second.
Obviously I adopted the above from a famous quote, a quote to keep in mind when you consider politics and government interference in private lives:
One should always, always, ALWAYS limit government in any/every way possible and/or necessary. NOW is the time while we have the power to vote, and that should be exercised lest we lose that right. I'm ashamed to say I didn't vote in this past election because I KNEW that the candidates I wanted to vote for did not have even a prayer of winning. If I thought there was ANY chance that someone might push Kennedy out of his seat, and that Patrick would not win the gubernatorial race, I'd have voted. In the other office I cared about (local) most seats were uncontested/single candidate.
Except: the Bush administration (which I originally had high hopes for but am now extremely disappointed in and thanks to Bush I now am libertarian) considers anyone with a pulse to be suspicious.
Want to know if your phone is doing this while shut off? Turn off your CD player, switch to radio (FM or AM, it doesn't matter, although AM will make it more apparnt), then place your cellphone as close to the head unit as possible. Periodically while powered up you will hear little chirps/blips. If you power the cellphone off, these will stop. If they continue periodically, then your phone is a model which pings the towers while "off" so if you want to make high speed runs on highways without big brother tracking you, yank the battery. Not that I'm one to make high speed runs in rural areas, mind you. . . ;)
You make that statement as though Novell has only a single department and can only deal with one issue at a time. I don't know about you, but I've seen tremendous improvements in SuSE since the 9.0 release (aside from 9.2 which was to SuSE 9.1 as Windows 3.11 was to Windows 3.1), more so since 9.3, and they have been doing this WHILE getting all their ducks in a row where slaughtering (new)SCO is concerned.
Apparently he uses the definition which includes vegetables such as himself. ;)
1. When you buy hot coffee, you should expect it to be hot. You can even reasonably expect it to be "too" hot.
2. You do not put a styrofoam cup full of HOT COFFEE between your legs in a car - or ANY time for that matter. It WILL crumble and if the liquid is >130*F there is a good chance of scalding.
3. You do not put a styrofoam cup full of HOT COFFEE between your legs in a car, ESPECIALLY when you are driving and the car has a manual transmission. It WILL crumble and if the liquid is >130*F there is a 99.999% chance of scalding.
That person would have likely sued if the coffee were too cold. Cripes.
Now for the plastic packaging design? It's faulty to begin with. You need sharp tools or a LOT of force to open them, and then the vendors will blame the customer for damaging the product. Like many others here, of course, I've become quite good at opening them, but for some items I need strong diagonal cutters, others I can slit with a "boxcutter" and tear apart, and for others I have used scissors. However, I have gotten cut a couple of times (not from the implements, from the packaging itself) and so I consider that style packaging to be inexcusable.
And on the DVD package: WTF is up with that? There is SHRINK WRAP, and then tape on THREE sides of the DVD clamshell.The shrink wrap ought to be enough, especially in Sprawl*Mart where there is probably 3 surveillance cameras overlooking any given point in space where the DVDs are located. ENOUGH already. They're easy enough to remove, but very time consuming to do so neatly without damaging the packaging (The packaging is why I still buy rather than torrent movies, BTW, I bought 12 DVDs last month). Oh, and that RFID tag? It does not stop professional crooks, it just annoys the hell out of me. When I get home, after I spend minutes removing all of that tape from the packages, I remove the RFID tags (disassembling the packaging if required). I know they're disabled, and big brother is not going to spy on me and report what movies I bring to friends houses to MLB (simpsons reference for y'all) but the fact that they add all these "security features" and then stick RFID tags inside the product annoys the piss out of me. I understand the need to limit shrinkage, but, you're going way, WAY overboard in treating paying customers like shit.
(in fact it's that kind of thing that prompts me to treat Sprawl*Mart employees like shit, especially folks who watch the door and insist on punching my receipt. Sorry, you don't get to touch it once I've paid for it. If you have a problem with it, call the police, press charges for shoplifting, then I will sue for false arrest, harassment, and fraud)
It's called "Keeping up with the Joneses"
CxOs who get to spend other people's money love to get into their dick-waving contest saying "mine's bigger/better/faster" when in reality they're suckers who overspent and then have to lay people off at the end of a quarter in order to rescue their overly-generous bonus packages.
I'm going to be upgrading one box to 2.6.19 ASAP thanks to improved bleeding-edge hardware support. If I didn't need the hardware support, I'd be thinking "blah"
The current SCO is a different company than the the old SCO (Santa Cruz Organization) to which you refer.
http://www.answers.com/topic/tarantella-inc-1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantella%2C_Inc.
The new SCO is pure evil and I would not be surprised to learn that Darl McBride is a pedophile and baby eater, and that he kicks newborn puppies for fun.
Oh, I know this one!
You could become a Senator and murder someone in a 'car accident'
Or, you could become President and commit outright treason by subverting the Constitution, and have conservatives who are theoretically outraged by this sort of thing kissing your feet in thanks.
In short: become a politician
My backup archive server NEVER runs out of space. I've been archiving old backups to /dev/null weekly for four years now. It is amazingly efficient.
I think Linux users are overreacting in knee-jerk style. Let's all sit back and wait and see what SuSE 10.3 (or will it be SuSE 11) and onward bring us.
Maybe it is because you don't buy crack in dark alleys. ;)
Oh no, what will the two North Koreans who can actually afford the iPod do?
http://www.arancidamoeba.com/mrr/whoownswho.html
It's well worth checking out. Many so-called "Indie" labels aren't. This chart does NOT include all of them since it's a bit outdated, but is a good starting point.
In other words, their heads are still up their asses. Gotcha. Thsanks, but when I miss Stargate:SG1 and forget to set my hauppauge to record it, thepiratebay.org and torrentspy.com can fill my timeshifting needs.
Call me when the DRM is dropped, and THEN I will gladly pay for timeshifted shows I forgot to record myself.
Unless you're running MSIE, outlook web access sucks. That's one reason that one would choose Evolution over the web interface.
Scalix does. It's not plug and play, but it does integrate.
And Microsoft started providing free support when, exactly?
If I had mod points today. . .
You're right. What job actually provides training beyond "here's your computer, your login name is foo and your password is bar. Get to work."
Check out the creative commons web sites, where a lot of unsigned or indie-label bands give away some of their work free for download.
It's not so strange for one on the production side of the business to loathe the record companies. I know a couple of sound engineers who are also performers who wish that RIAA members would suddenly die. Many engineers befriend the artists they work with, or are also artists themselves, and get sick of the f***ing scams that ruin their friends careers -- especially the record companies' creative accounting practices which result in artists accumulating huge debts to the record company, even when a record charts and becomes a huge money maker.
I for one do not wish RIAA members to die; I wish for them to become mentally disabled from all the coke they snort. That would be a much more fitting punishment for those jackasses.