if you piss off your customers you can't stay in business long unless you're Microsoft.
A couple of things -- first, if that's so why is Sony still in business? Secondly, you're not MS's customer unless you bought Windows or office in a box -- the company that manufactured the computer is, and MS isn't pissing them off.
If someone seems to be of the opinion that all of any company's products are excellent when they're horribly flawed (not talking about Apple here, more like BoA or Sony) and the folks who run it are all saints, I have to assume that there's a reason for their worship -- either they're being paid, or they're incredibly ignorant.
Apple seems to be the exception, their customers all seem to think Apple is God, so I don't assume an Apple worshiper is a shill. I really don't understand Apple fans, but I can't believe anyone is a Sony or Microsoft fan.
Never assume incompetence when greedy self-interest explains a situation.
Nice troll there, you got me to bite and at least one moderator to upmod you. Start off with complete and utter flaming bullshit that only a troll or someone who's not used FOSS would spew ("interfaces and user experience has always been horrible with FOSS software") followed by a twisted putting words in someone's mouth they didn't say ("Stallman's glad Jobs is dead").
My beef with Stallman is if he felt that way he shouldn't have waited until Jobs died (If I'm wrong about him waiting someone please correct me).
Your opening "It's interesting that persons promoting freedom want to restrict what other people do. This is also why I like BSD license more than GPL" was especially stupid. GPL keeps people from screwing you over.
Good post, but a correction -- lead was introduced to gasoline as a cheap way to raise octane. It hasn't been used in gasoline (at least in the US) in decades.
Yes, it's worth the cost. If you ever lived near a factory before the Clean Air Act you would vehemently agree. That pollution has costs in the most expensive of commodities -- health care. Monsanto didn't go out of business in 1970, and the cost of their goods didn't increase any faster than anything else (cost of oil caused the '70s recession after the Arab Oil Embargo; that and paying for the Vietnam War).
The fact that the price of gasoline more than quadrupled from 2000 to the crash in '08 surely was a big part of the cause of the ruined world economy.
BP should change their name to "Magrathea Energies".
1 informative, one overrated, and one troll. Two out of three mods got it right. The one who modded "informative" probably works in the oil industry, or holds a lot of BP and Chevron stock, or has simply been brainwashed by the industry propaganda.
This time it isn't the user's fault, it's you who misunderstands him. He's left handed, the right button is under his index finger. His right button is your left button.
My former gf is a lefty, and I went through the same thing. The terminology is at fault -- rather than "right click" the term should be "middle finger click".
Sure we would -- the patent would have run out by now, But in that guy's twisted view, he's right. People (and I use that term loosely) like him only value money and would sell their mothers and children into slavery.
The sad thing is, his views on what's valuable have become mainstream -- witness the American Tea Party.
WTF? Your FUD is just plain wrong. A Linux install is easier and takes far less time than debugging her virus-ridden Windows install, especially if Windows is so screwed it requires a reinstall. The last Windows install I did was XP and it was a royal pain in the ass and VERY time consuming.
When Granny's PC will no longer boot, a Linux install will give you far more time to spend with Granny than Windows will. And once it's installed it's not likely to need any more work until you have a hardware failure.
Getting Linux installed on a machine without optical disks isn't easy, though. I'm still trying to get either kubuntu or Mandriva on this Acer subnotebook and almost ruined a $40 thumb drive -- Win 7 coulfn't read it. Fortunately all I had to do was insert it in the big computer and Linux fixed it with no problems. Still can't get it installed (yet - I did it on an earlier machine like this one, so I'll get it).
But on a desktop or full notebook with a CD or DVD, installing Linux is quick, easy, and painless. Far easier than a Windows install.
I miss DOS; an OS install was simply COPY A:\*.* C:\
It's not just Grandma, but uncle and nephew as well. Being old doesn't make one ignorant, failure to want to learn does. Take it from a 59 year old Linux-using nerd who has folks in their 20s asking me to help them with their computers.
Yes, it's a parable. It isn't talking about earthly money, it's talking about building up your treasure in heaven. Luke 12-32 (in Matthew, Mark, and John as well) "Lay not up for ourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
A man investing in the stock market is the man who buries his coin in the parable.
In short, "invest" your money in food pantries, loose change for the homeless, etc. To steal and corrupt a line from the Blues Brothers, no drug in the world can match the high you get when you see the face of someone you've just given hope to who was hopeless, or fed a hungry child, or a million other good deeds.
$10k car, $800 down and put off a couple of bills for the following month. By "cash" I'm also referring to cash held in a checking account (got rid of credit and debit cards a long time ago). I have a decent pension coming to me, that and Social Security will almost be as much as I'm making now.
And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
No, it was a good law. The merchants can't refuse to bank with sociopaths, and the fees didn't come from the bank's customers. This introduces much needed competition from the people who matter -- the bank's customers.
My (small) bank isn't charging these stupid fees. BoA can pound sand. Any BoA customer who doesn't change banks is incredibly stupid, and BoA is stupid for pulling this stunt.
It depends on how you do it. If you pwn 10,000 PCs with code you wrote and DDoS someone with your home made botnet, it is indeed a hack.
However, I doubt this is a hack. Their servers are probably overloaded from all the people logging on to cancel their accounts. Why pay the 5 bucks when their competition doesn't charge? Durbin was right; this isn't a DDoS, it's a Netflixing. Their CEO is incredibly out of touch (like most bankers). I hope they go out of business.
They should listen to the antitea protesters who are now protesting wall street in 50 cities. People are really pissed off; wall street ignores us at their peril.
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if you piss off your customers you can't stay in business long unless you're Microsoft.
A couple of things -- first, if that's so why is Sony still in business? Secondly, you're not MS's customer unless you bought Windows or office in a box -- the company that manufactured the computer is, and MS isn't pissing them off.
If someone seems to be of the opinion that all of any company's products are excellent when they're horribly flawed (not talking about Apple here, more like BoA or Sony) and the folks who run it are all saints, I have to assume that there's a reason for their worship -- either they're being paid, or they're incredibly ignorant.
Apple seems to be the exception, their customers all seem to think Apple is God, so I don't assume an Apple worshiper is a shill. I really don't understand Apple fans, but I can't believe anyone is a Sony or Microsoft fan.
Never assume incompetence when greedy self-interest explains a situation.
Why do people think it's unacceptable? Why do you care what others do when it doesn't affect you at all?
Nice troll there, you got me to bite and at least one moderator to upmod you. Start off with complete and utter flaming bullshit that only a troll or someone who's not used FOSS would spew ("interfaces and user experience has always been horrible with FOSS software") followed by a twisted putting words in someone's mouth they didn't say ("Stallman's glad Jobs is dead").
My beef with Stallman is if he felt that way he shouldn't have waited until Jobs died (If I'm wrong about him waiting someone please correct me).
Your opening "It's interesting that persons promoting freedom want to restrict what other people do. This is also why I like BSD license more than GPL" was especially stupid. GPL keeps people from screwing you over.
Good post, but a correction -- lead was introduced to gasoline as a cheap way to raise octane. It hasn't been used in gasoline (at least in the US) in decades.
Ask your grandpa what a factory was like before the EPA. Environmentalism a luxury in poor countries? Yeah, and so is food.
You have no right to dirty up MY air and water. Clean air is my right.
Yes, it's worth the cost. If you ever lived near a factory before the Clean Air Act you would vehemently agree. That pollution has costs in the most expensive of commodities -- health care. Monsanto didn't go out of business in 1970, and the cost of their goods didn't increase any faster than anything else (cost of oil caused the '70s recession after the Arab Oil Embargo; that and paying for the Vietnam War).
The fact that the price of gasoline more than quadrupled from 2000 to the crash in '08 surely was a big part of the cause of the ruined world economy.
BP should change their name to "Magrathea Energies".
1 informative, one overrated, and one troll. Two out of three mods got it right. The one who modded "informative" probably works in the oil industry, or holds a lot of BP and Chevron stock, or has simply been brainwashed by the industry propaganda.
No and no. It only works in Macs, or on Vista or later, No XP, no Linux, according to what you linked to.
Last I heard, half the computers on the planet still run XP.
It would be nice to be able to access my main computer at home from my netbook when I'm drinking at a bar.
This time it isn't the user's fault, it's you who misunderstands him. He's left handed, the right button is under his index finger. His right button is your left button.
My former gf is a lefty, and I went through the same thing. The terminology is at fault -- rather than "right click" the term should be "middle finger click".
I've been looking for something like this. It would be nice to run multiple computers in my house with a single keyboard, mouse, and monitor.
...no mod points today. That was insightful, I wish the poster would get a /. account.
Sure we would -- the patent would have run out by now, But in that guy's twisted view, he's right. People (and I use that term loosely) like him only value money and would sell their mothers and children into slavery.
The sad thing is, his views on what's valuable have become mainstream -- witness the American Tea Party.
Corporations. They run everything worldwide. Your vote is a cruel joke.
WTF? Your FUD is just plain wrong. A Linux install is easier and takes far less time than debugging her virus-ridden Windows install, especially if Windows is so screwed it requires a reinstall. The last Windows install I did was XP and it was a royal pain in the ass and VERY time consuming.
When Granny's PC will no longer boot, a Linux install will give you far more time to spend with Granny than Windows will. And once it's installed it's not likely to need any more work until you have a hardware failure.
Getting Linux installed on a machine without optical disks isn't easy, though. I'm still trying to get either kubuntu or Mandriva on this Acer subnotebook and almost ruined a $40 thumb drive -- Win 7 coulfn't read it. Fortunately all I had to do was insert it in the big computer and Linux fixed it with no problems. Still can't get it installed (yet - I did it on an earlier machine like this one, so I'll get it).
But on a desktop or full notebook with a CD or DVD, installing Linux is quick, easy, and painless. Far easier than a Windows install.
I miss DOS; an OS install was simply COPY A:\*.* C:\
It's not just Grandma, but uncle and nephew as well. Being old doesn't make one ignorant, failure to want to learn does. Take it from a 59 year old Linux-using nerd who has folks in their 20s asking me to help them with their computers.
Thank you for that, it'll be useful when I get Linux on this driveless subnotebook. Power isn't a problem with the box that runs on AC.
Yes, it's a parable. It isn't talking about earthly money, it's talking about building up your treasure in heaven. Luke 12-32 (in Matthew, Mark, and John as well) "Lay not up for ourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
A man investing in the stock market is the man who buries his coin in the parable.
In short, "invest" your money in food pantries, loose change for the homeless, etc. To steal and corrupt a line from the Blues Brothers, no drug in the world can match the high you get when you see the face of someone you've just given hope to who was hopeless, or fed a hungry child, or a million other good deeds.
$10k car, $800 down and put off a couple of bills for the following month. By "cash" I'm also referring to cash held in a checking account (got rid of credit and debit cards a long time ago). I have a decent pension coming to me, that and Social Security will almost be as much as I'm making now.
You may scoff, but trusting God actually works.
You can, you know, actually show up at the bank in person.
So, you work for them? Hold stock?
No? I don't believe you. You're a paid shill. Fuck off,
I've never had a month's cash in savings, and I'm 59. Hasn't hurt me a bit.
You can have ten year's salary and still get wiped out. Nothing is certain.
No, it was a good law. The merchants can't refuse to bank with sociopaths, and the fees didn't come from the bank's customers. This introduces much needed competition from the people who matter -- the bank's customers.
My (small) bank isn't charging these stupid fees. BoA can pound sand. Any BoA customer who doesn't change banks is incredibly stupid, and BoA is stupid for pulling this stunt.
It depends on how you do it. If you pwn 10,000 PCs with code you wrote and DDoS someone with your home made botnet, it is indeed a hack.
However, I doubt this is a hack. Their servers are probably overloaded from all the people logging on to cancel their accounts. Why pay the 5 bucks when their competition doesn't charge? Durbin was right; this isn't a DDoS, it's a Netflixing. Their CEO is incredibly out of touch (like most bankers). I hope they go out of business.
They should listen to the antitea protesters who are now protesting wall street in 50 cities. People are really pissed off; wall street ignores us at their peril.