A) Public forum so anyone can respond to everyone and vice-versa.
B) Your post he was responding to is out of scope making whatever argument you are trying to make moot to the topic at hand.
C) It is the Internet. Most people attack other people's intelligence, particularly when their victim is wrong. Try to not let it get to you. At this point more people do it out of habit than anything else.
Fact of the matter is if it was his personal e-mail used for personal things no one would give a damn. Fact of the matter is this guy was using it for *official* government business. I don't know the laws in the UK, but in the USA that's a big no-no. A bigger no-no than actually gets enforced but then that's the USA for you; the Congress Critters and other politicians rarely get punished as they are supposed to unless its a hot button issue.
But you are doing it wrong. One of the best sayings of all time is actually relevant here: "Never attribute to malice that which could as easily be explained by stupidity."
The problem isn't that FireFox/Opera/Chrome/Safari are all superior and the market is being evilly manipulated. The problem is that IE is just good enough that the vast majority of people don't care enough to bother replacing it.
Or how about this: A while back Google was rumored to be making an OS (before we learned about android) and one of the rumors was that we'd be having a desktop that was deeply integrated with the Internet. It was a fun idea at the time. But the thing with the idea, it required Google to have a browser or use an existing one. This would have to be more deeply ingrained into the OS than even IE is. Do you think for a minute that you'd be able to use whatever browser you wanted for that, given they all work differently, and not the one Google chooses for you? Do you think for a minute that the EU would go after Google like they're going after MS and force Google to let you use IE for it if you wanted to?
MS fully deserves the reputation they've got and the negative assumptions people make of their business practices. But this really is a damn stupid argument to be making. I wonder how easy it is for your Average Joe Six-pack to use something other than Opera/Firefox on Ubuntu when it comes pre-installed? Last I knew, DELL only had offered Ubuntu w/ Firefox. Sure, you *can* get rid of Firefox and put something else on there but Average Joe Six-pack doesn't install something other than IE, why would he change the default? People think of PCs as appliances rather than what they are.
Truth. Run something like Belarc Advisor. You'll find you have a separate license key for IE and another for Windows. I'm not sure why you need a license key for a "free" application.
So no Steam for you. And if you have to use Kaseya ever you know that its buggy when used in a non-IE browser. Personally those are currently the only reasons I tolerate IE on my machine, though I'll be replacing Kaseya soon and hopefully our alternate solution will be Firefox/Chrome friendly.
But aside from you and a few of your fellow geeks, who cares? I personally avoid IE whenever possible. There are still websites used that require IE, there are corporate intranet sites that require the ActiveX tie-ins. Hell, I know people that are fully capable of installing an alternate browser but actually prefer to keep using IE for whatever reason.
Every OS needs a default browser. Linux is lucky because of the text based ones it has available to it. And while I'm not that big of a Microsoft fan, I really disagree with the EU's decision currently and it has got MS pinned. They can't just pull out of Europe, they can't comply with the demand without making a whole new OS and setting them back years potentially (say what you will, but Windows NT is fairly mature and IE is fully integrated into it). The other options are to *force* them to help their competitors, which also isn't right.
Someone said in this thread that the pertinent EU laws existed before MS. In that case, perhaps this is another time the laws need to catch up to the technology. But then, I thought the whole fiasco with Windows Media Player the last time around was utter crap as well. I would love to be able to fully uninstall some of this stuff on some of my machines, but I don't see how deliberately limiting an OS' out of the box capabilities makes any sense.
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Why is this guy modded troll? He's quoting what Bill Gates himself said (and was included in the submission over half a year ago) and then the point he makes is completely valid. Either Bill Gates was bad at his job (e.g. making things better by sending out e-mails like that) or the people working on Windows completely ignored all the complaints and negative feedback (which should be obvious, even to Windows fanboys which I typically get labeled as).
I'd fix it but I used my last mod points the other day. =/
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Why? What specifically is valuable about people who know me? How does who I know affect how well I can do my job?
Do you have soft skills? Do you have to work with other companies or service providers on a regular basis? It largely depends on what your company does, but there are a LOT of reasons why knowing people in a field is an advantage, and having someone you can work with to establish a relationship or you know has worked with someone (possibly difficult) before is an advantage.
Again, how exactly does who I know affect how competent I am at my job?
I suggest you talk to someone who makes a living getting people hired. Its about marketing your self. You could be the Stephen Hawking of computer programming but it means jack if you know no one and only have some very limited references.
Really, LinkedIn is a tool to use to your advantage if you need to. A very useful and underestimated tool. The advantages are fairly obvious and the drawbacks negligible. If you can't reason that out then again I suggest you speak with a career services professional to find out (provided you need to).
And if the answer is "it doesn't, but they might want to know anyway" - why isn't it possible that they might decide *not* to hire me, based on the people I know?
And that kind of arguing is called "self defeating". The vast majority of people will hire you despite who you know rather than not. If they think someone is a tool that's their problem. You don't have to let that become an issue. But if you are a medium sized business, knowing people is power.
YMMV, some states set limits or exclusions on what can be done orally.
And those states blow. Or rather, they don't. Which should be criminal. Ruined a guy's life. High School senior just graduated, gets this huge scholarship deal and everything and was going to be on his way to the NFL. Goes to a party, a junior or something goes down on him and BAM he's in the slammer for like 20 years.
They finally won the fight to get him out, but the scholarship and all the deals are all gone...
That's what happens when you limit/make exclusions on what can be done orally!
I wouldn't say "crazy" per se. But fundamentalists and fanatics of all religions are dangerous. They cause damage to society as a whole because they don't think things through reasonably. I would say they don't think things through logically, but they do. Provided you buy in to their beliefs first.
Why must cinema fade? That's a fun experience usually (depends where you go). I suppose I'm biased as we tend to go drinking afterwords but still. Give me cinema over theater any day.
That's a little redundant. IMO, "good enough" means doing everything you've said there, not necessarily as well as can be done but they do it. He wasn't saying "good" as in the white knight sense, as corruption is not the same thing as evil.
Is this true? I swear, whenever I think of going to a different OS for non-gaming stuff it seems to be more of a hassle in some way that directly affects me than I'd care for. Its almost as if Windows isn't all THAT bad...
Here is some info on SELinux. Some people apparently don't Google things they don't know about before posting (still, its only been a few years) and others like to not explain things so they appear to know what they are talking about.
The patches for SELinux have the same goal as UAC (and vice versa). That is, they provide a means of controlling what various applications can actually access on a PC. With UAC, MS makes it pretty intrusive and seems to punish the user but overall it is a good thing. If they can make it not so annoying it'll go a long way in making Windows more secure (for about a week).
By the way, the patches for SELinux are built in to the 2.6 kernel now so every Linux distro can or does do this.
Anyways, all they've done here is make it harder for UAC to be disabled without the user being aware. This is important since they've changed the default behavior of UAC so you won't see it as much since they found people only hate UAC when they see more than 2 prompts in a session.
I imagine in a week and a half someone will have figured out how to still disable UAC without the user being aware or just take the shortcut already suggested and have the programs piggy back on ones that already have admin rights.
It must suck being a large target that didn't start out secure. Securing Windows must be a right pain.
If I had mod points they would be yours. The job requires a politician (because of all the other politicians) and someone who knows the law. This guy fits the needs exactly, he just isn't the White Knight people were hoping for.
You're missing the point. Possibly on purpose. You're counter-arguments are invalid, they don't even apply to what he was saying. Read it again, he says Daschle was "nominated" in DEC before they really started scrutinizing people. As in Obama wanted Daschle before they found out other picks had tax issues and started checking on that.
Geither's deal was found out about on Jan 13. That Daschle's was nominated within a week of that leads me to suspect they didn't have time to find out right away about his issues, but when they DID they dropped him as a potential. So what is the problem?
No, they haven't. Check the DoJ's website if you don't believe me. The more popular video games have gotten, the lower *actual* violence amongst youths has gone down. In 2003-5 it was at a FORTY YEAR LOW, at the supposed "height" of video game violence controversy.
This has happened before. But it affected Cartoon Network at 3:00 PM for like two minutes in Vancouver WA. I was like 14 at the time and thought it awesome.
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It seems no one agrees with you or him. Never mind DRM is a waste of resources, you keep fighting to get your phone more locked down!
A) Public forum so anyone can respond to everyone and vice-versa.
B) Your post he was responding to is out of scope making whatever argument you are trying to make moot to the topic at hand.
C) It is the Internet. Most people attack other people's intelligence, particularly when their victim is wrong. Try to not let it get to you. At this point more people do it out of habit than anything else.
Fact of the matter is if it was his personal e-mail used for personal things no one would give a damn. Fact of the matter is this guy was using it for *official* government business. I don't know the laws in the UK, but in the USA that's a big no-no. A bigger no-no than actually gets enforced but then that's the USA for you; the Congress Critters and other politicians rarely get punished as they are supposed to unless its a hot button issue.
No, if only because that's not how the arguments are presented. Ever.
Oh if only I still had mod points! That was classic!
But you are doing it wrong. One of the best sayings of all time is actually relevant here: "Never attribute to malice that which could as easily be explained by stupidity."
The problem isn't that FireFox/Opera/Chrome/Safari are all superior and the market is being evilly manipulated. The problem is that IE is just good enough that the vast majority of people don't care enough to bother replacing it.
Or how about this: A while back Google was rumored to be making an OS (before we learned about android) and one of the rumors was that we'd be having a desktop that was deeply integrated with the Internet. It was a fun idea at the time. But the thing with the idea, it required Google to have a browser or use an existing one. This would have to be more deeply ingrained into the OS than even IE is. Do you think for a minute that you'd be able to use whatever browser you wanted for that, given they all work differently, and not the one Google chooses for you? Do you think for a minute that the EU would go after Google like they're going after MS and force Google to let you use IE for it if you wanted to?
MS fully deserves the reputation they've got and the negative assumptions people make of their business practices. But this really is a damn stupid argument to be making. I wonder how easy it is for your Average Joe Six-pack to use something other than Opera/Firefox on Ubuntu when it comes pre-installed? Last I knew, DELL only had offered Ubuntu w/ Firefox. Sure, you *can* get rid of Firefox and put something else on there but Average Joe Six-pack doesn't install something other than IE, why would he change the default? People think of PCs as appliances rather than what they are.
Truth. Run something like Belarc Advisor. You'll find you have a separate license key for IE and another for Windows. I'm not sure why you need a license key for a "free" application.
So no Steam for you. And if you have to use Kaseya ever you know that its buggy when used in a non-IE browser. Personally those are currently the only reasons I tolerate IE on my machine, though I'll be replacing Kaseya soon and hopefully our alternate solution will be Firefox/Chrome friendly.
But aside from you and a few of your fellow geeks, who cares? I personally avoid IE whenever possible. There are still websites used that require IE, there are corporate intranet sites that require the ActiveX tie-ins. Hell, I know people that are fully capable of installing an alternate browser but actually prefer to keep using IE for whatever reason.
Every OS needs a default browser. Linux is lucky because of the text based ones it has available to it. And while I'm not that big of a Microsoft fan, I really disagree with the EU's decision currently and it has got MS pinned. They can't just pull out of Europe, they can't comply with the demand without making a whole new OS and setting them back years potentially (say what you will, but Windows NT is fairly mature and IE is fully integrated into it). The other options are to *force* them to help their competitors, which also isn't right.
Someone said in this thread that the pertinent EU laws existed before MS. In that case, perhaps this is another time the laws need to catch up to the technology. But then, I thought the whole fiasco with Windows Media Player the last time around was utter crap as well. I would love to be able to fully uninstall some of this stuff on some of my machines, but I don't see how deliberately limiting an OS' out of the box capabilities makes any sense.
Why is this guy modded troll? He's quoting what Bill Gates himself said (and was included in the submission over half a year ago) and then the point he makes is completely valid. Either Bill Gates was bad at his job (e.g. making things better by sending out e-mails like that) or the people working on Windows completely ignored all the complaints and negative feedback (which should be obvious, even to Windows fanboys which I typically get labeled as).
I'd fix it but I used my last mod points the other day. =/
Why? What specifically is valuable about people who know me? How does who I know affect how well I can do my job?
Do you have soft skills? Do you have to work with other companies or service providers on a regular basis? It largely depends on what your company does, but there are a LOT of reasons why knowing people in a field is an advantage, and having someone you can work with to establish a relationship or you know has worked with someone (possibly difficult) before is an advantage.
Again, how exactly does who I know affect how competent I am at my job?
I suggest you talk to someone who makes a living getting people hired. Its about marketing your self. You could be the Stephen Hawking of computer programming but it means jack if you know no one and only have some very limited references.
Really, LinkedIn is a tool to use to your advantage if you need to. A very useful and underestimated tool. The advantages are fairly obvious and the drawbacks negligible. If you can't reason that out then again I suggest you speak with a career services professional to find out (provided you need to).
And if the answer is "it doesn't, but they might want to know anyway" - why isn't it possible that they might decide *not* to hire me, based on the people I know?
And that kind of arguing is called "self defeating". The vast majority of people will hire you despite who you know rather than not. If they think someone is a tool that's their problem. You don't have to let that become an issue. But if you are a medium sized business, knowing people is power.
YMMV, some states set limits or exclusions on what can be done orally.
And those states blow. Or rather, they don't. Which should be criminal. Ruined a guy's life. High School senior just graduated, gets this huge scholarship deal and everything and was going to be on his way to the NFL. Goes to a party, a junior or something goes down on him and BAM he's in the slammer for like 20 years.
They finally won the fight to get him out, but the scholarship and all the deals are all gone...
That's what happens when you limit/make exclusions on what can be done orally!
Wasn't that in a movie with a robot?
I wouldn't say "crazy" per se. But fundamentalists and fanatics of all religions are dangerous. They cause damage to society as a whole because they don't think things through reasonably. I would say they don't think things through logically, but they do. Provided you buy in to their beliefs first.
Why must cinema fade? That's a fun experience usually (depends where you go). I suppose I'm biased as we tend to go drinking afterwords but still. Give me cinema over theater any day.
That's a little redundant. IMO, "good enough" means doing everything you've said there, not necessarily as well as can be done but they do it. He wasn't saying "good" as in the white knight sense, as corruption is not the same thing as evil.
Hey man, a "temporary visectemy" is just what most men desire. Condoms DO reduce the pleasure a bit...
Is this true? I swear, whenever I think of going to a different OS for non-gaming stuff it seems to be more of a hassle in some way that directly affects me than I'd care for. Its almost as if Windows isn't all THAT bad...
Here is some info on SELinux. Some people apparently don't Google things they don't know about before posting (still, its only been a few years) and others like to not explain things so they appear to know what they are talking about.
The patches for SELinux have the same goal as UAC (and vice versa). That is, they provide a means of controlling what various applications can actually access on a PC. With UAC, MS makes it pretty intrusive and seems to punish the user but overall it is a good thing. If they can make it not so annoying it'll go a long way in making Windows more secure (for about a week).
By the way, the patches for SELinux are built in to the 2.6 kernel now so every Linux distro can or does do this.
Anyways, all they've done here is make it harder for UAC to be disabled without the user being aware. This is important since they've changed the default behavior of UAC so you won't see it as much since they found people only hate UAC when they see more than 2 prompts in a session.
I imagine in a week and a half someone will have figured out how to still disable UAC without the user being aware or just take the shortcut already suggested and have the programs piggy back on ones that already have admin rights.
It must suck being a large target that didn't start out secure. Securing Windows must be a right pain.
Um, he can use Firefox on Windows. Without some of the bugs. He also won't have any of the graphics issues. Where's -1, Useless when you need it?
If I had mod points they would be yours. The job requires a politician (because of all the other politicians) and someone who knows the law. This guy fits the needs exactly, he just isn't the White Knight people were hoping for.
You're missing the point. Possibly on purpose. You're counter-arguments are invalid, they don't even apply to what he was saying. Read it again, he says Daschle was "nominated" in DEC before they really started scrutinizing people. As in Obama wanted Daschle before they found out other picks had tax issues and started checking on that.
Geither's deal was found out about on Jan 13. That Daschle's was nominated within a week of that leads me to suspect they didn't have time to find out right away about his issues, but when they DID they dropped him as a potential. So what is the problem?
High latency is really going to get you killed now...
No, they haven't. Check the DoJ's website if you don't believe me. The more popular video games have gotten, the lower *actual* violence amongst youths has gone down. In 2003-5 it was at a FORTY YEAR LOW, at the supposed "height" of video game violence controversy.
This has happened before. But it affected Cartoon Network at 3:00 PM for like two minutes in Vancouver WA. I was like 14 at the time and thought it awesome.
Apparently you are doubly an idiot. One for thinking that screen means Win7 is Vista 2.0 and two for thinking that makes you "mean" and not a moron.