I beg to differ, kinda. I've been using OpenOffice 3.2 for about a month now and I'm not very impressed (could be because I enjoy using MS Office, but thats a different argument). Building charts in Excel take me about 5-10 mins tops (including the information I need to plug in). It took me 2 hours (and frequent references to the help, which on an aside, why is not available locally!?). I will grant its definitely made some improvements since the last time I tried it. Writer is actually fairly decent, I actually could use that without really needing to go back to MS Word.
While I haven't gotten to try out the other aspects, I will note that I am also conducting a 6 month experiment where I use Linux exclusively for my day-to-day work. So far its interesting, not as bad as I thought it would be (though I don't like having to type my password in for system updates or to use sudo (speaking of which if anyone can tell me what the difference between sudo and su is I'd appreciate it).
While neural links are non-existant to basic at best at the moment, for some reason this kinda seems like this could be abused considerably in the future. If the brain somehow begins to believe that the input from the vest is real, I'm curious if we could see some weird "Matrix-style" deaths (similar like the return from the Oracle fight). Just a thought out loud... probably harmless.
Funny you mention that, because I'm writing a paper about bad marketing ideas for class and have specifically touched upon how a name, however cool (to its inventors and perhaps its intended audience) really can torpedo a product out of the market. Now granted, I'm probably correct that the GNU Image Manipulation Program on first glance seems intuitive. However, given our current culture and society it has (unfortunately) one of the most worse acronyms (and I'm being generous there) probably created (i.e. GIMP).
I respect that marketing is considered to be worth the effort by most technical types, and perhaps if logic was the only factor in the world (minus emotion) that would be an adequate (if boring) existence.
However, we are not emotionless drones (thankfully), and even better choosing the tool which logically fits AND emotionally satisfies normally wins. The name "gimp" fails at the later. A cool name is not a crutch (regardless of what the creators of the application may think), but a bad name will kill a product (good or bad) almost every time.
I'm not seeing the problem here. Its clearly spelled out "Should you choose to accept an offer from a third party, We will pass your relevant Personal Information, which may include your name, address, and credit/debit card number, to that third party."
Lets be real here, business are not out to be your friend. They are created to generate income for some individual / group. Ask for and READ the contract before conducting any transaction. If the deal seems too good to be true, it probably is.
So basically your saying if Mozilla does it its good... and if Microsoft does it its bad.
I mean lets be honest here. I mean because it seems, anyway Microsoft goes, its bad, just because the "public" did not have a say so. Which to me is absurd but hey, lol this is Slashdot right.
LOL as much as I really want to mark this as "troll", I find I have to be objective here and agree. 1 is more than none, though...
(maybe this means Hell will really freeze one day...)
The only problem I can with this "pure sample" however, is that these students are also more than likely secluded in their living (i.e. limited to no exposure to the outside world). Which I guess makes for an interesting tangent question, can you live in the outside world and NEVER be exposed to porn?
"... and not one that's artificially restricted due to the limited vision of people like Steve Jobs."
As a Windows user, I feel I should defend Apple here (though I'm certain any number of Apple users and fanboys/girls will leap to their defense). First, I'm positively certain, Steve Jobs has more important things to do than to sit around and spot check every single application that gets run in his company's app store. However, assuming for a minute that he does, have you stopped and considered that the application that Vlingo's application or any other developer that gets disapproved may have been disapproved for a reason...perhaps a misalignment of either company's visions?
Don't get me wrong, your perfectly able to choose what you want to use (I'm fairly certain you will), but one does have to consider your comments suspect when you start throwing out terms such as "limited vision" since they are not doing what YOU want them to do. Apple doesn't create apps that I want them to do either, but I would never be so...rude, to say or accuse any particular person (e.g. Gates, Jobs, Torvalds, or even crazy RMS), of having a limited vision.
Ok, lets look at this from another perspective: once a individual personalized profile is built, one can tell how you think and act - your pattern of behavior, if you will. Taken one step futher, (admittedly this is a hypothetical scenerio, but one we seem to be fast approaching)... government (local, state, federal - you choose) sanctioned "behavior and thought police".
Hmmm Joe Schmoe based upon his profile may be a threat / menace to society, lets "reeducate" him. Technology developed like this is both scary and unethical. (While that may sound naive to some, I personally don't believe the government should have that detailed knowledge).
"This is data that people freely post to be read by all anyway. All this seems to do is aggregate it. If you post it in a public forum, you shouldn't care who uses it or how."
Because individualized personality profiles can be built of off seemingly innocuous data.
Apple ALREADY had a 160 GB IPod Classic. How about a 250GB?! Cause this is really stupid to remove it from the market and then bring it back again, because nobody wants the 120 GB. Of course they don't want the 120GB. As much as I like and respect Apple, this particular move just seems like a throwback to me.
Hate to disagree with you but not all of us in college (Full-Disclosure: I am currently student in Business Administration with a Concentration in Marketing) who go for business go just for the money. I personally, enjoy the various aspects of business, so just happens I enjoy marketing more, because it is both an art and a science. While it is true, that some in the business world are there exclusively for the money; (I should also mention that I'm an Infantry Marine-Enlisted, who has also a degree in Computer Science as well).
Painting all business and law majors with the same brush, and saying they don't like work, well... running a business is work.
At the risk of beating a dead horse ad infinitum whats it gonna be?
People complain when there IS backwards compatiblity.
People complain that there is NOT backwards compatiblity.
We get it. You don't like windows. Great, don't use it. I totally appreciate your standpoint. Don't complain however because
I like and continue to like the dammed OS. No one is holding a gun to my (or your head). lol. For all of the arguments against Windows (choose your poison), I'm fairly certain the same can made for any other system (with the sole exception of being a convicted monopolist, although I'm certain Apple should be joining them, but that's an argument for a different day).
This reminds me of my purchase of a Dell Latitude D820 off of eBay (1) because Dell REFUSED to even sell me a Latitude, since I was not considered a "business user" (They tried to get me to purchase an Inspiron instead, which I personally think are junk machines, but thats off topic) and (2) because the eBay listing said the computer had the full 3 year warranty as it was a new Dell. I got the machine and the seller's info and attempted to do a ownership transfer. Had to deploy to Iraq the next week, so I didn't have a real chance of verifying the transfer, computer for reason died, I get in contact with Dell, via email / chat / Segovia IP Phone, no dice. Even though the information was verified TWICE, they still would not honor the warranty.
I finally had to get it fixed from a 3rd Party repair center. When a company wants your business and is not willing to work with you or even give you a reasonable alternative, take your money elsewhere. (For the record, while I like Dell products, this will be my very last Dell Laptop).
See, this would be good, except that say I start a virtual business that somehow generates millions in real income, having to pay taxes on this would be insane (since it would deal across state and international borders). I'm not seeing that I would be doing anything but working for various governments and since that would mirror real life, I don't feel the need to assist the government in the taking of any more of my time and effort (much less money).
On technical side though, this has some interesting possibilities...
Can you find a "single, highly successful person in IT", who would ADMIT TRUTHFULLY that his 'paranoia' is in fact reality? NONE, didn't think so either.
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Hmm... guess I'm the only one who actually likes using and programming for Windows then. lol
Baahhhh... (since one could reasonably assume that this survey just proves that most people are like sheep).
Because only a 'sheep' would follow the herd without knowing the fine details.
Thanks! I appreciate the help. :)
I beg to differ, kinda. I've been using OpenOffice 3.2 for about a month now and I'm not very impressed (could be because I enjoy using MS Office, but thats a different argument). Building charts in Excel take me about 5-10 mins tops (including the information I need to plug in). It took me 2 hours (and frequent references to the help, which on an aside, why is not available locally!?). I will grant its definitely made some improvements since the last time I tried it. Writer is actually fairly decent, I actually could use that without really needing to go back to MS Word.
While I haven't gotten to try out the other aspects, I will note that I am also conducting a 6 month experiment where I use Linux exclusively for my day-to-day work. So far its interesting, not as bad as I thought it would be (though I don't like having to type my password in for system updates or to use sudo (speaking of which if anyone can tell me what the difference between sudo and su is I'd appreciate it).
While neural links are non-existant to basic at best at the moment, for some reason this kinda seems like this could be abused considerably in the future. If the brain somehow begins to believe that the input from the vest is real, I'm curious if we could see some weird "Matrix-style" deaths (similar like the return from the Oracle fight). Just a thought out loud... probably harmless.
No its not, just feed the troll a fish, and he'll move right along.
Funny you mention that, because I'm writing a paper about bad marketing ideas for class and have specifically touched upon how a name, however cool (to its inventors and perhaps its intended audience) really can torpedo a product out of the market. Now granted, I'm probably correct that the GNU Image Manipulation Program on first glance seems intuitive. However, given our current culture and society it has (unfortunately) one of the most worse acronyms (and I'm being generous there) probably created (i.e. GIMP).
I respect that marketing is considered to be worth the effort by most technical types, and perhaps if logic was the only factor in the world (minus emotion) that would be an adequate (if boring) existence. However, we are not emotionless drones (thankfully), and even better choosing the tool which logically fits AND emotionally satisfies normally wins. The name "gimp" fails at the later. A cool name is not a crutch (regardless of what the creators of the application may think), but a bad name will kill a product (good or bad) almost every time.
I'm not seeing the problem here. Its clearly spelled out "Should you choose to accept an offer from a third party, We will pass your relevant Personal Information, which may include your name, address, and credit/debit card number, to that third party."
Lets be real here, business are not out to be your friend. They are created to generate income for some individual / group. Ask for and READ the contract before conducting any transaction. If the deal seems too good to be true, it probably is.
So I assume the Print selection I just enabled last night in Office Ultimate 2007 in the Quick Access toolbar doesn't count?
So basically your saying if Mozilla does it its good... and if Microsoft does it its bad.
I mean lets be honest here. I mean because it seems, anyway Microsoft goes, its bad, just because the "public" did not have a say so. Which to me is absurd but hey, lol this is Slashdot right.
Why? Parent is perfectly correct.
decide to charge you for thinking about their songs and decide that they want a broadcast fee...
LOL as much as I really want to mark this as "troll", I find I have to be objective here and agree. 1 is more than none, though...
(maybe this means Hell will really freeze one day...)
The only problem I can with this "pure sample" however, is that these students are also more than likely secluded in their living (i.e. limited to no exposure to the outside world). Which I guess makes for an interesting tangent question, can you live in the outside world and NEVER be exposed to porn?
"... and not one that's artificially restricted due to the limited vision of people like Steve Jobs."
As a Windows user, I feel I should defend Apple here (though I'm certain any number of Apple users and fanboys/girls will leap to their defense). First, I'm positively certain, Steve Jobs has more important things to do than to sit around and spot check every single application that gets run in his company's app store. However, assuming for a minute that he does, have you stopped and considered that the application that Vlingo's application or any other developer that gets disapproved may have been disapproved for a reason...perhaps a misalignment of either company's visions?
Don't get me wrong, your perfectly able to choose what you want to use (I'm fairly certain you will), but one does have to consider your comments suspect when you start throwing out terms such as "limited vision" since they are not doing what YOU want them to do. Apple doesn't create apps that I want them to do either, but I would never be so...rude, to say or accuse any particular person (e.g. Gates, Jobs, Torvalds, or even crazy RMS), of having a limited vision.
"Gross is not Net profit. Subtract out all the deductions and what are the numbers?"
At minimum DOUBLE what Apple pulls in per year, so yeah I think Apple would want a piece of that market.
I vote for Evony. (cause I already have a major account there. lol)
Ok, lets look at this from another perspective: once a individual personalized profile is built, one can tell how you think and act - your pattern of behavior, if you will. Taken one step futher, (admittedly this is a hypothetical scenerio, but one we seem to be fast approaching)... government (local, state, federal - you choose) sanctioned "behavior and thought police".
Hmmm Joe Schmoe based upon his profile may be a threat / menace to society, lets "reeducate" him. Technology developed like this is both scary and unethical. (While that may sound naive to some, I personally don't believe the government should have that detailed knowledge).
"This is data that people freely post to be read by all anyway. All this seems to do is aggregate it. If you post it in a public forum, you shouldn't care who uses it or how."
Because individualized personality profiles can be built of off seemingly innocuous data.
Apple ALREADY had a 160 GB IPod Classic. How about a 250GB?! Cause this is really stupid to remove it from the market and then bring it back again, because nobody wants the 120 GB. Of course they don't want the 120GB. As much as I like and respect Apple, this particular move just seems like a throwback to me.
Hate to disagree with you but not all of us in college (Full-Disclosure: I am currently student in Business Administration with a Concentration in Marketing) who go for business go just for the money. I personally, enjoy the various aspects of business, so just happens I enjoy marketing more, because it is both an art and a science. While it is true, that some in the business world are there exclusively for the money; (I should also mention that I'm an Infantry Marine-Enlisted, who has also a degree in Computer Science as well).
Painting all business and law majors with the same brush, and saying they don't like work, well... running a business is work.
At the risk of beating a dead horse ad infinitum whats it gonna be?
People complain when there IS backwards compatiblity.
People complain that there is NOT backwards compatiblity.
We get it. You don't like windows. Great, don't use it. I totally appreciate your standpoint. Don't complain however because I like and continue to like the dammed OS. No one is holding a gun to my (or your head). lol. For all of the arguments against Windows (choose your poison), I'm fairly certain the same can made for any other system (with the sole exception of being a convicted monopolist, although I'm certain Apple should be joining them, but that's an argument for a different day).
This reminds me of my purchase of a Dell Latitude D820 off of eBay (1) because Dell REFUSED to even sell me a Latitude, since I was not considered a "business user" (They tried to get me to purchase an Inspiron instead, which I personally think are junk machines, but thats off topic) and (2) because the eBay listing said the computer had the full 3 year warranty as it was a new Dell. I got the machine and the seller's info and attempted to do a ownership transfer. Had to deploy to Iraq the next week, so I didn't have a real chance of verifying the transfer, computer for reason died, I get in contact with Dell, via email / chat / Segovia IP Phone, no dice. Even though the information was verified TWICE, they still would not honor the warranty. I finally had to get it fixed from a 3rd Party repair center. When a company wants your business and is not willing to work with you or even give you a reasonable alternative, take your money elsewhere. (For the record, while I like Dell products, this will be my very last Dell Laptop).
See, this would be good, except that say I start a virtual business that somehow generates millions in real income, having to pay taxes on this would be insane (since it would deal across state and international borders). I'm not seeing that I would be doing anything but working for various governments and since that would mirror real life, I don't feel the need to assist the government in the taking of any more of my time and effort (much less money). On technical side though, this has some interesting possibilities...
Can you find a "single, highly successful person in IT", who would ADMIT TRUTHFULLY that his 'paranoia' is in fact reality? NONE, didn't think so either.