Take a look at this patent..... It could as well be the instructions someone gives to their son/daughter to go to the grocery store and back. it is only THAT complicated and specific/technical. And yet, it is granted as an 'intellectual property' in usa now. It has gone down to basic logical algorithms.
Imagine - you are trusting a PRIVATE party with your sensitive stuff. they can do something stupid and go bankrupt, get sold, this that. you have no power over hirings there, so you wont know whether they are hiring reliable individuals or people who could leak your stuff at any given point. what are their goals their policy changes this that.
basically you are giving your balls to them. and they grip tightly.
i.t. became too complicated now indeed. but, is that much complication really necessary ? KISS rule (keep it simple, stupid) is applied in software development, but, ironically it is not applied in setting up i.t. infrastructure of an organization - nowadays people try to incorporate every 'next big thing' into the setup. and you get a mess.
KISS outside, KISS inside the infrastructure. And then keep your own infrastructure. That's the key.
simple rectangles, shiny surfaces and similar other bullshit -> these are not 'facts', these are total morondom.
once you start letting people claim ownership of BASIC shapes and colors, you enter the nutjob realm. but appallingly, that realm is already being traversed by millions in usa as something 'normal' and 'legal'.
whats next ? claiming ownership of basic syllables ? oh wait - apple is already doing that.
They not only tried to prevent samsung on grounds of 'rectangular shapes', but they also transferred their patents recently to a proxy company to sue ALL mobile phone providers.
All is the result of the strategy jobs laid out. 'theft' my ass. theft of rectangular shapes that is.
I have used seagates since there WAS seagates and over the last 5 or 6 years they have gone to shit. It's easy to say I have never had a drive fail when you only have one or two drives, but I have 10 computers most with 4 drives each, some with up to 10 drives. yes it was my fault for putting anything important on a raid0.
then your problem is with raid. your raid controllers, motherboards, whatever. maybe you should spend more on raid controllers than hard disks.
i have used around 3-4 seagate drives in the last decade, recommended/bought everyone else seagate drives, anyone i know here almost exclusively uses seagate drives (they sell like hotcakes in turkey, almost every build has seagate), and the times i can remember hearing someone say 'drive died on me' are the times with quantum brand drives, and thats a looong era in the past. (early to mid 1990s).
neither in forums nor among acquaintances i hear people say 'drive died on me'. a lot of people may be even thinking hard drives dont die.
problems you mention may be relevant to bigger than 1 tb drives, teething problems. and the mobos to support them - my new 990fx gigabyte mobo proudly boasts that it can support 3 tb drives, for example.
i have never ever had any seagate die on me at ANY point in the last 10 years. not only that, i just had removed a 75 gb seagate drive - one which i forgot when i started using - it may be approx 6 years or more. and from that point on that disk kept spinning while hosting oses on it that changed over time - windowses, linuxes, this that. it had programs and games installed on it too. and it was quite silent even after it was 6 years old, still running well. i removed it, because i replaced it with a ssd.
and even as of now, that disk sits in a drawer, with the image of my ssd which has all oses and programs installed on it as of this moment. if i have any problems, i can just plug in that drive and keep working.
Malaysia had had passed on to an islamist party government. and they have been trying to increasingly implement sharia-compliant measures. internet irritates them to no end with its freedom and possibility of pursuing anything 'non islamic'.
this is simply another measure - if you make all i.t. workers registered, noone can set up stuff that may prevent/circumvent censorship or anything and still remain in business. this includes proxies, servers, networks - anything. basically its just a control scheme.
female body so what ? Everyone likes beautiful. Thats why we are not going sightseeing at landfills and instead going to louvre looking at beautiful paintings.
And, from where that liberty of being free from 'unrealistic sky high ideals' for females comes ? They are placing innumerable unrealistic demands on men, and then they are expecting them - just read a few pages in cosmopolitan. All men have to endure some measure of shit because of what women read and conditioned for there - 'sexy, athletic BUT sensitive, successful, well-to-do BUT family-oriented, good looking, attractive BUT loyal....' the list goes with contradicting unrealistic requirements.
and its not that things like cosmopolitan are perpetuating these bullshit. they are just expanding/building upon the popular, common conceptions of women in the society - they just want these.
So, its alright when women actually desire such men, and even go to the length of actually attempting to SHAPE the person they are with into that shape (ALL do this to this or that extent), buuuuuuuuuut, when it comes to women, it becomes suddenly 'unrealistic' to place any kind of 'high standards' from men's side ?
Irritating self-indulgence and self-centeredness. this is what it is. ah, also hypocritical.
Yes, the US isn't the shining beacon of hope, freedom and liberty it thinks it is. But it is still a very, very far cry from the autocratic and kleptocratic country that is Russia.
is that why police departments all over usa had beaten down occupy protesters in a move coordinated by FBI ?
I'll go stand in an anti-government protest here in the States, and you go stand in Red Square with those protesting Putin's latest power grab.
the moment your protest becomes something noticeable you will be beat down by **PD just like how it happened with ows. and as long as your protest is a dozen guys with placards daily picketing some place, they wont give a damn about you.
in russia, they will instantly take you seriously and beat you down.
the only difference in between these cases, is the speed the beatdown happens. and the level you are taken seriously.
microsoft is taking the control mania one step away. if they get away with it, and make good money in meantime, you can bet that not only apple but others will start doing the same, citing 'industry standard practice'.
Control as opposed to freedom. Apple had engaged in jailing its users, and made exorbitant amounts of money over it, and all corps are now following suit.
When jobs died, we discussed this at length. Many of us told that he set a very very harmful trend with apple, and because of the success that model had with milking the customers, ALL corporations would naturally follow suit. A lot of people objected.
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Read about it. czech, bohemian geographies have always been geographies of forward thinking and revolution.
Take a look at this patent ..... It could as well be the instructions someone gives to their son/daughter to go to the grocery store and back. it is only THAT complicated and specific/technical. And yet, it is granted as an 'intellectual property' in usa now. It has gone down to basic logical algorithms.
In the meantime BT's customers never even knew
lucky exceptions do not make a rule. its next to impossible to get customer trust and pr back once you lose them.
so now, contributing to society without waiting anything in return, is bad.
insulting such an effort, is good.
go fuck off. really. whichever idiot modded the above down.
Get it in the contract. And if they're in breach, set the lawyers on them and get your money back.
yeah. do it. get your 'money' back. what about the customers and pr you lose in the process. how are you going to get them back.
Imagine - you are trusting a PRIVATE party with your sensitive stuff. they can do something stupid and go bankrupt, get sold, this that. you have no power over hirings there, so you wont know whether they are hiring reliable individuals or people who could leak your stuff at any given point. what are their goals their policy changes this that.
basically you are giving your balls to them. and they grip tightly.
i.t. became too complicated now indeed. but, is that much complication really necessary ? KISS rule (keep it simple, stupid) is applied in software development, but, ironically it is not applied in setting up i.t. infrastructure of an organization - nowadays people try to incorporate every 'next big thing' into the setup. and you get a mess.
KISS outside, KISS inside the infrastructure. And then keep your own infrastructure. That's the key.
simple rectangles, shiny surfaces and similar other bullshit -> these are not 'facts', these are total morondom.
once you start letting people claim ownership of BASIC shapes and colors, you enter the nutjob realm. but appallingly, that realm is already being traversed by millions in usa as something 'normal' and 'legal'.
whats next ? claiming ownership of basic syllables ? oh wait - apple is already doing that.
im the author of a shitty php framework of no significance, which i have given to people for free.
and what YOU have done yourself for the people ? come again ?
They not only tried to prevent samsung on grounds of 'rectangular shapes', but they also transferred their patents recently to a proxy company to sue ALL mobile phone providers.
All is the result of the strategy jobs laid out. 'theft' my ass. theft of rectangular shapes that is.
anyways. what goes around, comes around.
If you go closed, someone else will enter the market with hardware using open source, sell it cheaper, and make money from support/contracting.
So, do it yourself from the start.
Support/contracting causes less overhead in your operations and less expenses. makes you more versatile.
Closed on the other hand requires continually growing and monolithic corporation to provide distribution, support and aftersales care.
paranormally hilarious.
I have used seagates since there WAS seagates and over the last 5 or 6 years they have gone to shit. It's easy to say I have never had a drive fail when you only have one or two drives, but I have 10 computers most with 4 drives each, some with up to 10 drives. yes it was my fault for putting anything important on a raid0.
then your problem is with raid. your raid controllers, motherboards, whatever. maybe you should spend more on raid controllers than hard disks.
Just FYI, it's not any party that would ever ally with the west.
and thats the reason behind the anti-russian, anti-putin propaganda.
Is this much complication of an existing purpose-built and already complicated machinery, necessary ?
i have used around 3-4 seagate drives in the last decade, recommended/bought everyone else seagate drives, anyone i know here almost exclusively uses seagate drives (they sell like hotcakes in turkey, almost every build has seagate), and the times i can remember hearing someone say 'drive died on me' are the times with quantum brand drives, and thats a looong era in the past. (early to mid 1990s).
neither in forums nor among acquaintances i hear people say 'drive died on me'. a lot of people may be even thinking hard drives dont die.
problems you mention may be relevant to bigger than 1 tb drives, teething problems. and the mobos to support them - my new 990fx gigabyte mobo proudly boasts that it can support 3 tb drives, for example.
or you are just the unlucky person.
i have never ever had any seagate die on me at ANY point in the last 10 years. not only that, i just had removed a 75 gb seagate drive - one which i forgot when i started using - it may be approx 6 years or more. and from that point on that disk kept spinning while hosting oses on it that changed over time - windowses, linuxes, this that. it had programs and games installed on it too. and it was quite silent even after it was 6 years old, still running well. i removed it, because i replaced it with a ssd.
and even as of now, that disk sits in a drawer, with the image of my ssd which has all oses and programs installed on it as of this moment. if i have any problems, i can just plug in that drive and keep working.
Malaysia had had passed on to an islamist party government. and they have been trying to increasingly implement sharia-compliant measures. internet irritates them to no end with its freedom and possibility of pursuing anything 'non islamic'.
this is simply another measure - if you make all i.t. workers registered, noone can set up stuff that may prevent/circumvent censorship or anything and still remain in business. this includes proxies, servers, networks - anything. basically its just a control scheme.
female body so what ? Everyone likes beautiful. Thats why we are not going sightseeing at landfills and instead going to louvre looking at beautiful paintings.
....' the list goes with contradicting unrealistic requirements.
And, from where that liberty of being free from 'unrealistic sky high ideals' for females comes ? They are placing innumerable unrealistic demands on men, and then they are expecting them - just read a few pages in cosmopolitan. All men have to endure some measure of shit because of what women read and conditioned for there - 'sexy, athletic BUT sensitive, successful, well-to-do BUT family-oriented, good looking, attractive BUT loyal
and its not that things like cosmopolitan are perpetuating these bullshit. they are just expanding/building upon the popular, common conceptions of women in the society - they just want these.
So, its alright when women actually desire such men, and even go to the length of actually attempting to SHAPE the person they are with into that shape (ALL do this to this or that extent), buuuuuuuuuut, when it comes to women, it becomes suddenly 'unrealistic' to place any kind of 'high standards' from men's side ?
Irritating self-indulgence and self-centeredness. this is what it is. ah, also hypocritical.
Yes, the US isn't the shining beacon of hope, freedom and liberty it thinks it is. But it is still a very, very far cry from the autocratic and kleptocratic country that is Russia.
is that why police departments all over usa had beaten down occupy protesters in a move coordinated by FBI ?
http://www.examiner.com/top-news-in-minneapolis/were-occupy-crackdowns-aided-by-federal-law-enforcement-agencies
talk about democracy.
I'll go stand in an anti-government protest here in the States, and you go stand in Red Square with those protesting Putin's latest power grab.
the moment your protest becomes something noticeable you will be beat down by **PD just like how it happened with ows. and as long as your protest is a dozen guys with placards daily picketing some place, they wont give a damn about you.
in russia, they will instantly take you seriously and beat you down.
the only difference in between these cases, is the speed the beatdown happens. and the level you are taken seriously.
no. it got wiser.
The landlord is not
yes they are not. i didnt say they WERE. i say, they SHOULD BE.
else, landlords just keeping renting their land to the highest bidder, regardless of what they do. just like bp, lockheed, haliburton, intel et al.
I've never had Apple yank an app from my iPhone
yet.
microsoft is taking the control mania one step away. if they get away with it, and make good money in meantime, you can bet that not only apple but others will start doing the same, citing 'industry standard practice'.
Control as opposed to freedom. Apple had engaged in jailing its users, and made exorbitant amounts of money over it, and all corps are now following suit.
............
When jobs died, we discussed this at length. Many of us told that he set a very very harmful trend with apple, and because of the success that model had with milking the customers, ALL corporations would naturally follow suit. A lot of people objected.
And lo. Microsoft happily is following suit.
there you go.