..while you are busy setting up filters and DNS routes and privoxy, your daughter is taking nude pictures on her cellphone and "sexting" to her classmates.
My suggestion to parents based on 25 years of IT experience specializing in K-12 and Higher Ed: Relying on technology, religion, threats or the schools to provide your child with a sense of moral right and wrong is a one way ticket to major disappointment. Spend the time you're wasting on research and implementing solutions and invest it in building a relationship with your son or daughter. You can't insulate them from the world, better to build a sense of trust.
We've been able to challenge the status quo by designing and building a system that understands what people want -- without ever knowing who they are or where they've been.
So essentially, they give you what you want by telling you that it's what you want?
I think that puts them in direct competition with the US Government, no?
Tell that to your boss. I'm sure you'd prefer it if he 'monetized' your paycheck. So a company is naturally evil if it wants to make money, huh?
I guess that's why so many of them are laying off employees these days; to many gen x'ers convincing everyone of the idea that 'everything should be free, man'...MS is a publicly traded corporation who is not in the business to make nice; they're in the business to make money for themselves and their stockholders. Doing so means taking advantage of opportunities and pleasing partners/oems.
So glad I am not the only one. I had a Samsung i760 that became problematic for different reasons, but the main reason I ended up returning it for a replacement was because the touch screen went off axis and could not be recalibrated. Without the use of the on screen keyboard, I was forced to use the slide out keyboard and strange as it might sound to some, it cut done my productivity by 70-75%.
Give me a good on screen keyboard and a thinner phone, thanks. BTW - Vito Zoom Board makes the on-screen keyboard infinitely easier to use; I highly recommend looking into it.
Agreed, and then some. The subject reminds me of an article I just read in Time Magazine (*PRINT EDITION*) about saving the newspaper industry.
With business model shifting the revenue streams from ad hosters to aggregators, rising print, production and fuels costs, unless the print journalism finds a way to effectively monetize themselves, they are in dnager of disappearing. The only ones making any income of their news units these days are the networks.
Who cares? You should.
The idea of journalistic integrity goes out the window when the journalists are beholding (or at the mercy) of advertisers and sponsors. Having just watched "Good night and Good Luck", the black and white film of Edward R. Murrow and Senator McCarthy, I'm struck with just how "free" our press was at one time - free enough to save this country from a self appointed protector of our freedoms. Well, at least stave it off until Bush/Cheney.
Without income, who will pay for foreign offices or fly a news crew to where a story is happening? Who will have the courage to buck the system and produce the next documentary that tells us what happened while "we were out"?
Not everything, it seems, has to or even should be 'free on the internet'. Sometimes, to get a quality product, you need to pay. And sometimes, to preserve your interests in the product - think open source - you have to participate and pay the expenses.
No, what I said was that *I* turned off UAC. Recommending to do so to a client would depend on the client. But I would recommend Vista, especially if they were purchasing new hardware. I apologize if that wasn't clear. I'm quite happy with the performance and the feature set. And I'm going to beta Win7 and hold my judgments until I give it a thorough testing as well.
I thought that was what we were *supposed* to do as IT experts.
And they were saying the same thing post WFW, and post 95, 98SE. Corporate and educational markets are loathe to upgrade and are responsible for the largest amount of licenses.
But for the record, I recently purchased a new PC for my home office with Vista Home Premium installed. I considered bricking it but decided the only way to be a LEGITIMATE critic for my clients was to actually use the OS instead of reading what others said about it.
And you know what? Maybe MS has a legitimate gripe in their commercials; I enjoy using it and after turning off UAC and a few other prompts top 'save me from myself' I've become quite accustomed to it and wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to clients without compatibility issues. (Of which I found none in my case out 30-40 apps tested...)
I'm an FOSS supporter and dev and I love *nix and Mac too, but I'd really like to see at least one posting here at/. that doesn't begin with the word "Microsoft" and end with the words "Evil empire".
I'm getting all this and more from IE7Pro, which is free. http://www.ie7pro.com/
It also supports user scripts like Greasemonkey does for Firefox. I switch between browsers depending on what I do, but IE7Pro really makes the comparison between the two a bit more even.
Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with the IE7Pro project, just a satisfied user.
Not only were they stupid enough to never even make a single copy of their site, they blocked www.archive.org from their robots.txt file so you can't even recover anything from that avenue.
Some of the pages seem to still be in Google's cache, so if you had a journal there and you were too stupid to back it up as well, there might be some hope for your content.
Thanks, journalspace.com for providing me with the best sales tool ever for convincing my web clients it's worth the extra few bucks to do a maintenance contract including off site backups....
Agreed; and someone should point out that the critters were only part of the picture. The dialogs that they appeared on have progressed to allow natural language queries for the application's help - a feature that has matured quite a bit in the latest incarnation of Office. Quite useful, and based on what they learned from user feedback when characters like Clippy and pals were implemented.
But of course, since they were attempts by Microsoft they must be laughed at and castigated, if for no other reason. Sigh...
I won't have to listen to colleagues prattle on about how superior their iPhone apps are to my Windows Mobile brick. Now their phones can be a slow and buggy as mine!
.. Bush has ordered troops to liberate the planet and then declare "Mission Accomplished" in a desperate attempt to secure a 'legacy' *somewhere* in this galaxy.
In November, 89.6% of users who connected to the Web sites that Net Applications Inc. monitors did so from systems powered by Windows, a drop of 0.84 of a percentage point from October.
Only the web sites that Net Applications Inc. monitors.
Only those users who can access the web sites that they monitor (so if you have a restrictive access policy at work or school, or you didn't have your DSL/Cable/Dial-up installed yet, etc. that means you didn't get counted..
Only the web sites that Net Applications Inc. monitors.
Less than a single percentage point in a month is meaningless against a years worth of data
I wouldn't base anything on these statistics...except maybe that you can get/.'ed for just about anything if you say it with a convincing enough headline... Their site states, "We use a unique methodology for collecting this data. We collect data from the browsers of site visitors to our exclusive on-demand network of live stats customers." How? What method? How easily is this method blocked or circumvented? For example, can it be blocked with a browser addin like noscript or by simply turning off cookies?
There's just way too many 'unknowns' for me to put a lot of stock in this kind of info.
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If I wanted crappy attempts at lame April Fools jokes, I would have subscribed to Comedy Central's RSS instead of /.
..while you are busy setting up filters and DNS routes and privoxy, your daughter is taking nude pictures on her cellphone and "sexting" to her classmates.
My suggestion to parents based on 25 years of IT experience specializing in K-12 and Higher Ed: Relying on technology, religion, threats or the schools to provide your child with a sense of moral right and wrong is a one way ticket to major disappointment. Spend the time you're wasting on research and implementing solutions and invest it in building a relationship with your son or daughter. You can't insulate them from the world, better to build a sense of trust.
So essentially, they give you what you want by telling you that it's what you want?
I think that puts them in direct competition with the US Government, no?
...oh yeah, I forgot where I was for a moment...
Tell that to your boss. I'm sure you'd prefer it if he 'monetized' your paycheck. So a company is naturally evil if it wants to make money, huh?
I guess that's why so many of them are laying off employees these days; to many gen x'ers convincing everyone of the idea that 'everything should be free, man'...MS is a publicly traded corporation who is not in the business to make nice; they're in the business to make money for themselves and their stockholders. Doing so means taking advantage of opportunities and pleasing partners/oems.
So glad I am not the only one. I had a Samsung i760 that became problematic for different reasons, but the main reason I ended up returning it for a replacement was because the touch screen went off axis and could not be recalibrated. Without the use of the on screen keyboard, I was forced to use the slide out keyboard and strange as it might sound to some, it cut done my productivity by 70-75%.
Give me a good on screen keyboard and a thinner phone, thanks. BTW - Vito Zoom Board makes the on-screen keyboard infinitely easier to use; I highly recommend looking into it.
Agreed, and then some. The subject reminds me of an article I just read in Time Magazine (*PRINT EDITION*) about saving the newspaper industry.
With business model shifting the revenue streams from ad hosters to aggregators, rising print, production and fuels costs, unless the print journalism finds a way to effectively monetize themselves, they are in dnager of disappearing. The only ones making any income of their news units these days are the networks.
Who cares? You should.
The idea of journalistic integrity goes out the window when the journalists are beholding (or at the mercy) of advertisers and sponsors. Having just watched "Good night and Good Luck", the black and white film of Edward R. Murrow and Senator McCarthy, I'm struck with just how "free" our press was at one time - free enough to save this country from a self appointed protector of our freedoms.
Well, at least stave it off until Bush/Cheney.
Without income, who will pay for foreign offices or fly a news crew to where a story is happening? Who will have the courage to buck the system and produce the next documentary that tells us what happened while "we were out"?
Not everything, it seems, has to or even should be 'free on the internet'. Sometimes, to get a quality product, you need to pay. And sometimes, to preserve your interests in the product - think open source - you have to participate and pay the expenses.
...there were too many vile, inhumane and disgusting comments distracting me.
No, what I said was that *I* turned off UAC. Recommending to do so to a client would depend on the client. But I would recommend Vista, especially if they were purchasing new hardware. I apologize if that wasn't clear. I'm quite happy with the performance and the feature set. And I'm going to beta Win7 and hold my judgments until I give it a thorough testing as well.
I thought that was what we were *supposed* to do as IT experts.
And they were saying the same thing post WFW, and post 95, 98SE. Corporate and educational markets are loathe to upgrade and are responsible for the largest amount of licenses. But for the record, I recently purchased a new PC for my home office with Vista Home Premium installed. I considered bricking it but decided the only way to be a LEGITIMATE critic for my clients was to actually use the OS instead of reading what others said about it. And you know what? Maybe MS has a legitimate gripe in their commercials; I enjoy using it and after turning off UAC and a few other prompts top 'save me from myself' I've become quite accustomed to it and wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to clients without compatibility issues. (Of which I found none in my case out 30-40 apps tested...) I'm an FOSS supporter and dev and I love *nix and Mac too, but I'd really like to see at least one posting here at /. that doesn't begin with the word "Microsoft" and end with the words "Evil empire".
it's actually listed as "Remaining a virgin throughout college - 101"
That's not just a feature; it's actually a visual representation of how convoluted the code is.
I'm getting all this and more from IE7Pro, which is free. http://www.ie7pro.com/ It also supports user scripts like Greasemonkey does for Firefox. I switch between browsers depending on what I do, but IE7Pro really makes the comparison between the two a bit more even. Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with the IE7Pro project, just a satisfied user.
Thousands of loyal, freedom loving /.'ers are now changing their ringtones to the sound of camera clicks and planning a mass "ring in" on 4/1/09...
Not only were they stupid enough to never even make a single copy of their site, they blocked www.archive.org from their robots.txt file so you can't even recover anything from that avenue.
Some of the pages seem to still be in Google's cache, so if you had a journal there and you were too stupid to back it up as well, there might be some hope for your content.
Thanks, journalspace.com for providing me with the best sales tool ever for convincing my web clients it's worth the extra few bucks to do a maintenance contract including off site backups....
"Those aren't diamond chips, Baby...they're NANODIAMONDS!" Makes me sound less cheap.
Agreed; and someone should point out that the critters were only part of the picture. The dialogs that they appeared on have progressed to allow natural language queries for the application's help - a feature that has matured quite a bit in the latest incarnation of Office. Quite useful, and based on what they learned from user feedback when characters like Clippy and pals were implemented. But of course, since they were attempts by Microsoft they must be laughed at and castigated, if for no other reason. Sigh...
Thanks Mr. President. We'll leave the light on for you.
I won't have to listen to colleagues prattle on about how superior their iPhone apps are to my Windows Mobile brick. Now their phones can be a slow and buggy as mine!
some urban wanna-be gangsta will figure out a way to put a 40" sub-woofer in it and park just outside my house...
No, it's Dick Cheney. (Duck!!)
+ 2 for givin' da rugrats Linux!
.. Bush has ordered troops to liberate the planet and then declare "Mission Accomplished" in a desperate attempt to secure a 'legacy' *somewhere* in this galaxy.
.. on Mickey and Minnie; I'm sure they surpassed making a billion mice years ago. (You know they wepwoduce like wabbits, wight?)
I wouldn't base anything on these statistics...except maybe that you can get /.'ed for just about anything if you say it with a convincing enough headline... Their site states, "We use a unique methodology for collecting this data. We collect data from the browsers of site visitors to our exclusive on-demand network of live stats customers." How? What method? How easily is this method blocked or circumvented? For example, can it be blocked with a browser addin like noscript or by simply turning off cookies?
There's just way too many 'unknowns' for me to put a lot of stock in this kind of info.