It took me 30 minutes of hunting to find the listing that had the wireless networks I had manually entered in (as opposed to the networks which were broadcasting).
That doesn't have anything to do with how quick Vista can be. Yesterday it took me a good ten minutes to figure out how to setup a shortcut to a network drive on Mac OSX so that it would automatically appear on the desktop when the user logs on. The nine minutes and thirty seconds longer than it should have taken was because I don't know jack about OSX, not because OSX has some sort of crappy map network drive interface.
The problem most of the time isn't theft. The problem is users who THINK they know what they are doing but really don't.
I agree completely. The term that I've heard for it is, "Knowing just enough to be dangerous." It is especially prevalent in the Windows world where everything is so "easy" and "simple". There are those users who want to do it all themselves and they think they are the best thing since sliced bread, but as soon as their house of cards comes crashing down around them, it's "All IT's fault because..."
Are there any other 'big picture' problems out there you think would benefit from the grid approach?
The development of models to find relationships among individuals based upon their phone records, email communications, webpage preferences and other easily recorded and identified identifying tidbits of digital transactional receipts. Of course, I'm sure that there are various three letter agencies already well ahead of me on that one. (High guys!)
I searched through the thread for "tax and taxes" and didn't come across many posts addressing that topic. The following is just conjecture on my part, but I'm willing to bet that eBay stopped the trade in online goods because they don't want to deal with how to tax them. The government wants to track where the money goes, and they want a part of EVERY SINGLE TRANSACTION that takes place. First they tax your paycheck. Then the local governments get you for sales tax, and gas tax, and this tax and that tax. Now that there are people spending money online to buy virtual products they don't know how to tax those transactions yet. I'm sure that there are some law makers working really hard right now to come up with a way to do it though. I mean hell, the IRS doesn't really care if you're a drug dealer, and they won't report you to the DEA you put "Street Pharmacist" as your occupation. They just want you to pay taxes on your income.
Darn, were you being distracted by all that fun you were having? The reason many MMOs struggle is because of the idea, echoed in your post, that it is a good thing for levelling to be "a bitch". It is not. A game should fun to play, not something which you can work at for hours and end up no closer to any sense of accomplishment (or even further from one, in the case of harsh death penalties and the like).
I completely agree with this. One of the things that makes WoW so addictive is the ease at which the quests go by. They have made the quests simple enough to complete, difficult enough to be somewhat of a challenge, and they feed them to you in such a way that the next, slightly more difficult quest is just over the horizon, waiting for you the next time you log on. Even my girlfriend who wasn't a computer gamer before we started going out now looks forward to WoW night. I think that a lot of the attraction for her is the ease of game play.
I've been running into the same problem with the stuck mobs and getting attacked even though there do not seem to be any monsters around. I've also had some issues that I would attribute to lag lately. Last night me and my girlfriend were fighting a mage (horde PC, we are alliance). I spent a good 30 seconds trying to cast spells on the mage, and they simply wouldn't fire off... no casting bar, no nothing. Then I was suddenly dead. The weird thing is that the mage was constantly freezing my g/f, and I was able to disenchant the frost effects, and I could heal myself and heal her. But any time I tried to do anything to actually damage the mage, it just wouldn't work.
If they created a manual then they couldn't see you the Resource Kit and all the various trainings. Not to mention, what would Mark Minasi do if Microsoft actually documented their software?
Yes, that certainly is a problem on several fronts. That we have generations of blindered, cowardly citizens, poorly educated and all too used to the government playing the role of "mommy", and that we have a culture of running to lawyers to keep the system running in that mode, and that experience with the world as it is could be construed as "wasting their days" rather than learning about another corner of it. Not to mention the general repression of sexuality and open-mindedness that is the heritage of many decades of religious backwardness.
There are a lot of "and's" there that link together a whole slew of ideas that could be topics in and of themselves. I will focus on "wasting their days" rather than learning about another corner of it. in the specific context of content filtering in schools.
I am not sure if you are an educator yourself, so you might have to talk to someone who is so that they can explain to you the need to foster a "productive learning environment." Most of the stuff that kids want to look at on the internet has absolutely nothing to do with what the teachers are teaching in class. Kids go to school to learn a curriculum. Anything beyond the scope of that curriculum is a "waste of time." I doubt that you are going to find many educators who have a problem with letting kids have access to Google or various research sites. On the other hand, www.backdoorbabes.com (may or may not be a real link, I don't know) doesn't have any place in a standard curriculum.
Not to mention the general repression of sexuality and open-mindedness that is the heritage of many decades of religious backwardness.
No disagreement here. The general "health" and sexual education programs in the public school system could definitely use some overhauling to reflect the reality of the way the world works, not the delusional way some backward groups wish it were.
Well, best to coddle those kids. It isn't like they might have to learn to deal with that stuff on their own, is it. I mean, it's not like spyware, adware, porn, and "other content" is really out there in the real world.
Following that train of logic, gangsters, guns and drugs are out there in the real world too. Maybe we should take security guards out of schools and let the kids do lines on their desks and then shoot eat other at lunch.
Yes. I am well aware of this. But you'll have to pull up your grown-up pants and deal with replies to statements you make,
What a shame you had to have that explained to you. That makes you part of the problem.
It sounds to me like you're picking a fight in the wrong context. The guy works at a school. He filters content to keep kids from wasting their days looking at porn and other content that their parents would sue the school over. He's probably filtering the content to reduce the amount of adware and spyware that the workstations might be exposed to.
What you seem to be seeing is some huge conspiracy by the government to censor the Internet. Where'd that come from? On second thought, don't answer. I don't really want to know.
Compartmentalising the applications in such a draconian fashion would appear to be heavily leaning towards the security side, and not the usability side of the argument.
The article talks about the picture-viewer not being able to access the web. What if I *want* the picture-viewer to access the web ?
Given that the laptops are being given to children who will probably be doing research, it seems like they might run into problems when the kids want to "quote" from a website by "copying and pasting" from the browser app into the word processing application.
If I had a broker, I'd be calling him and buying up stock in EMC, Quantum ATL and every other company involved in storage and retention of large quantities of data.
One of my clients is in waste management and also owns some power plants. After getting fed up with constantly replacing laptops, they bought some Toughbooks and they have been going strong. One of the great features is that you can still get Toughbooks with serial ports. They are pricey, but the extra resiliency is worth the cost.
The heavy Linux bias on this forum is obvious, but despite that, the site is billed as "News for Nerds..." Because of that, your analogy with Mazdas and BMWs doesn't really hold water.
I think there is a perception here on/. that anyone who can say anything good about a Microsoft product in a well thought out manner has to be on the MS payroll.
This just could be businesses showing their blind spot. They need it or they don't. If they do need it, they have the bucks to pay to have it. If they don't, they can stop crying out that they do.
To take this one step further, they already have it and it's called Exchange. I've brought this up before, so I won't rehash it too much here, but it needs to be said that a lot of people are going to stick with Microsoft because they don't want to wait for the OSS community to catch up and reinvent the wheel. For the most part, Exchange is the groupware solution for the enterprise. When you look at the costs of developing an application with all of the features of Exchange, versus simply implementing Exchange, it becomes pretty obvious that you're better off just coughing up the cash and making a deal with the devil. Exchange offers up all of the features that the secretaries and managers and the like need.
It is easy. I've had to do this numerous times. I give the same answer EVERY SINGLE TIME. When they ask me why I need a new key, I tell them, "The motherboard failed and I had to replace it." That's it. They give me the new key and I go about my merry way.
But I am also amazed at how "excited" people are over new-4-Windows features like this. Might as well jump right into Linux/UNIX and get it all now.
The longer operating systems are around for, the more heterogenuous they will become. Although Linux/UNIX might have a bunch of features that Microsoft is getting around to implementing, similar arguments can be made in the other direction as well. The fact of the matter is that computer users as a whole will demand certain things from their operating system and the vendors will eventually get around to implementing those things. I think that on a long enough time line, eventually every OS will have appropriated all of the worthwhile features from every other OS.
There could definitely be a class action lawsuit at some point facing Microsoft.
Maybe if you live in some fantasy world. What happens to your class action lawsuit when Microsoft points to whole slews of computers that aren't infected and that are running just fine? Trying to fine Microsoft for stupid computer users is like trying to fine Ford for drunk driving deaths. Or fine Smith and Wesson for murders.
Flamebait? What stick up his/her... with mod points decided to moderate that flamebait? Not that I don't have karma to burn, even if this gets modded troll. But come on. That was a good, humorous analogy. =)
People get stuck in their ways. Heck, some people can't even accept that there are sites that don't begin with "www". Tell them to go to "mail.yahoo.com" and they'll go to "www.yahoo.com"
Hahahahahaaaa. I run into that type of person quite frequently too. The young, ditzy, personal assistants often seem to fall into that category. "I went to the link you told me to go to and it isn't working. You know, www.mail....." , "No, LISTEN you stupid bitch! There is no fucking WWW.".... Sorry, had a flashback there.
Furthermore, most people [who know how to use the internet] search for websites rather than type them in the location bar because they usually don't know exactly what they're looking for.
I corrected your comment for you. I have seen numerous people who don't really understand what a web browser is who try to type what you and I would call search queries into the address bar. Parked domains and phishing sites target those users who simply don't know any better. Beyond that, there are parked domains with names similar to every single popular website on the internet. I seem to remember Craigslist.com being a porn site. The other day I was looking for "Curse Gaming" to download some WoW addons and sure enough, cursedgaming.net, cursegaming.net, cursedgaming.com, etc. all came up with webpages. Luckily Google is smart enough and by searching for "Cursed Gaming" I got "Curse Gaming" which is what I needed. Oddly enough, all those subtle iterations on the domain don't show up as results on Google.
Slashdot Mirror
...Microsoft copied X, Y & Z from (Apple, IBM, BSD, *nix, etc.) can be posted here.
That doesn't have anything to do with how quick Vista can be. Yesterday it took me a good ten minutes to figure out how to setup a shortcut to a network drive on Mac OSX so that it would automatically appear on the desktop when the user logs on. The nine minutes and thirty seconds longer than it should have taken was because I don't know jack about OSX, not because OSX has some sort of crappy map network drive interface.
I agree completely. The term that I've heard for it is, "Knowing just enough to be dangerous." It is especially prevalent in the Windows world where everything is so "easy" and "simple". There are those users who want to do it all themselves and they think they are the best thing since sliced bread, but as soon as their house of cards comes crashing down around them, it's "All IT's fault because..."
The development of models to find relationships among individuals based upon their phone records, email communications, webpage preferences and other easily recorded and identified identifying tidbits of digital transactional receipts. Of course, I'm sure that there are various three letter agencies already well ahead of me on that one. (High guys!)
I searched through the thread for "tax and taxes" and didn't come across many posts addressing that topic. The following is just conjecture on my part, but I'm willing to bet that eBay stopped the trade in online goods because they don't want to deal with how to tax them. The government wants to track where the money goes, and they want a part of EVERY SINGLE TRANSACTION that takes place. First they tax your paycheck. Then the local governments get you for sales tax, and gas tax, and this tax and that tax. Now that there are people spending money online to buy virtual products they don't know how to tax those transactions yet. I'm sure that there are some law makers working really hard right now to come up with a way to do it though. I mean hell, the IRS doesn't really care if you're a drug dealer, and they won't report you to the DEA you put "Street Pharmacist" as your occupation. They just want you to pay taxes on your income.
I completely agree with this. One of the things that makes WoW so addictive is the ease at which the quests go by. They have made the quests simple enough to complete, difficult enough to be somewhat of a challenge, and they feed them to you in such a way that the next, slightly more difficult quest is just over the horizon, waiting for you the next time you log on. Even my girlfriend who wasn't a computer gamer before we started going out now looks forward to WoW night. I think that a lot of the attraction for her is the ease of game play.
I've been running into the same problem with the stuck mobs and getting attacked even though there do not seem to be any monsters around. I've also had some issues that I would attribute to lag lately. Last night me and my girlfriend were fighting a mage (horde PC, we are alliance). I spent a good 30 seconds trying to cast spells on the mage, and they simply wouldn't fire off... no casting bar, no nothing. Then I was suddenly dead. The weird thing is that the mage was constantly freezing my g/f, and I was able to disenchant the frost effects, and I could heal myself and heal her. But any time I tried to do anything to actually damage the mage, it just wouldn't work.
If they created a manual then they couldn't see you the Resource Kit and all the various trainings. Not to mention, what would Mark Minasi do if Microsoft actually documented their software?
Yes, that certainly is a problem on several fronts. That we have generations of blindered, cowardly citizens, poorly educated and all too used to the government playing the role of "mommy", and that we have a culture of running to lawyers to keep the system running in that mode, and that experience with the world as it is could be construed as "wasting their days" rather than learning about another corner of it. Not to mention the general repression of sexuality and open-mindedness that is the heritage of many decades of religious backwardness.
There are a lot of "and's" there that link together a whole slew of ideas that could be topics in and of themselves. I will focus on "wasting their days" rather than learning about another corner of it. in the specific context of content filtering in schools.
I am not sure if you are an educator yourself, so you might have to talk to someone who is so that they can explain to you the need to foster a "productive learning environment." Most of the stuff that kids want to look at on the internet has absolutely nothing to do with what the teachers are teaching in class. Kids go to school to learn a curriculum. Anything beyond the scope of that curriculum is a "waste of time." I doubt that you are going to find many educators who have a problem with letting kids have access to Google or various research sites. On the other hand, www.backdoorbabes.com (may or may not be a real link, I don't know) doesn't have any place in a standard curriculum.
Not to mention the general repression of sexuality and open-mindedness that is the heritage of many decades of religious backwardness.
No disagreement here. The general "health" and sexual education programs in the public school system could definitely use some overhauling to reflect the reality of the way the world works, not the delusional way some backward groups wish it were.
Well, best to coddle those kids. It isn't like they might have to learn to deal with that stuff on their own, is it. I mean, it's not like spyware, adware, porn, and "other content" is really out there in the real world.
Following that train of logic, gangsters, guns and drugs are out there in the real world too. Maybe we should take security guards out of schools and let the kids do lines on their desks and then shoot eat other at lunch.
Yes. I am well aware of this. But you'll have to pull up your grown-up pants and deal with replies to statements you make,
Dealt with. Come on back at me big guy.
It sounds to me like you're picking a fight in the wrong context. The guy works at a school. He filters content to keep kids from wasting their days looking at porn and other content that their parents would sue the school over. He's probably filtering the content to reduce the amount of adware and spyware that the workstations might be exposed to.
What you seem to be seeing is some huge conspiracy by the government to censor the Internet. Where'd that come from? On second thought, don't answer. I don't really want to know.
Google apps... Exchange Killer... Hahahahahahaaaaa!!!! I should save this post so that I can come back in five years and laugh at you again.
Given that the laptops are being given to children who will probably be doing research, it seems like they might run into problems when the kids want to "quote" from a website by "copying and pasting" from the browser app into the word processing application.
If I had a broker, I'd be calling him and buying up stock in EMC, Quantum ATL and every other company involved in storage and retention of large quantities of data.
One of my clients is in waste management and also owns some power plants. After getting fed up with constantly replacing laptops, they bought some Toughbooks and they have been going strong. One of the great features is that you can still get Toughbooks with serial ports. They are pricey, but the extra resiliency is worth the cost.
The heavy Linux bias on this forum is obvious, but despite that, the site is billed as "News for Nerds..." Because of that, your analogy with Mazdas and BMWs doesn't really hold water.
I think there is a perception here on /. that anyone who can say anything good about a Microsoft product in a well thought out manner has to be on the MS payroll.
Thanks for clearing up the fact that Exchange offers more than email.
To take this one step further, they already have it and it's called Exchange. I've brought this up before, so I won't rehash it too much here, but it needs to be said that a lot of people are going to stick with Microsoft because they don't want to wait for the OSS community to catch up and reinvent the wheel. For the most part, Exchange is the groupware solution for the enterprise. When you look at the costs of developing an application with all of the features of Exchange, versus simply implementing Exchange, it becomes pretty obvious that you're better off just coughing up the cash and making a deal with the devil. Exchange offers up all of the features that the secretaries and managers and the like need.
It is easy. I've had to do this numerous times. I give the same answer EVERY SINGLE TIME. When they ask me why I need a new key, I tell them, "The motherboard failed and I had to replace it." That's it. They give me the new key and I go about my merry way.
The longer operating systems are around for, the more heterogenuous they will become. Although Linux/UNIX might have a bunch of features that Microsoft is getting around to implementing, similar arguments can be made in the other direction as well. The fact of the matter is that computer users as a whole will demand certain things from their operating system and the vendors will eventually get around to implementing those things. I think that on a long enough time line, eventually every OS will have appropriated all of the worthwhile features from every other OS.
Maybe if you live in some fantasy world. What happens to your class action lawsuit when Microsoft points to whole slews of computers that aren't infected and that are running just fine? Trying to fine Microsoft for stupid computer users is like trying to fine Ford for drunk driving deaths. Or fine Smith and Wesson for murders.
Terminate and Stay Resident programs are going to revolutionize the computing experience!!
Flamebait? What stick up his/her ... with mod points decided to moderate that flamebait? Not that I don't have karma to burn, even if this gets modded troll. But come on. That was a good, humorous analogy. =)
Hahahahahaaaa. I run into that type of person quite frequently too. The young, ditzy, personal assistants often seem to fall into that category. "I went to the link you told me to go to and it isn't working. You know, www.mail....." , "No, LISTEN you stupid bitch! There is no fucking WWW." .... Sorry, had a flashback there.
I corrected your comment for you. I have seen numerous people who don't really understand what a web browser is who try to type what you and I would call search queries into the address bar. Parked domains and phishing sites target those users who simply don't know any better. Beyond that, there are parked domains with names similar to every single popular website on the internet. I seem to remember Craigslist.com being a porn site. The other day I was looking for "Curse Gaming" to download some WoW addons and sure enough, cursedgaming.net, cursegaming.net, cursedgaming.com, etc. all came up with webpages. Luckily Google is smart enough and by searching for "Cursed Gaming" I got "Curse Gaming" which is what I needed. Oddly enough, all those subtle iterations on the domain don't show up as results on Google.