Please. It wasn't long ago that your nation was ruled by a single jackass who believed that God chose him, and his family, personally to rule everybody else. And now, centuries later, you still venerate those same people for no reason whatsoever.
American might have (some) more religious bullshit now, but at least we weren't FOUNDED on it.
I don't know what your motive in taking a world-wide problem and claiming it only happens in the US is, but if you want us to do your cheer-leading about how great you Brits are, as we Americans say, go piss up a rope.
I for one am sick of going into a nice business and seeing the restrooms vandalized by stupid rich white kids who think they're ghetto because they listen to M&M.
You must be the oldest, grumpiest, whitest guy around. It's spelled Eminem.
I flew a 737 in/out of San Jose last week. The airport is under construction, so some of the gates are out-of-order and they loaded the plane using a good old' fashioned stairway on wheels. The cool thing is that they put a stairway on both the front and back doors-- I was amazed how much faster an airliner can empty out or load when the back door is in-use!
Half the pain of windows background services isn't the fact that some program is constantly in RAM checking for updates. The pain is that 14 separate programs are constantly in RAM checking for updates.
Yeah, but Windows already has a feature to prevent that: Task Scheduler. It's not Microsoft's fault that third party developers aren't making use of it.
The point of the comic is that there's no *practical* difference between, say, 128-bit encryption and 4096-bit encryption because it is, and always will be, easier to just obtain the password somehow than to crack the encryption.
Meanwhile, crypto-nerds go around scoffing at your primitive WPA wifi encryption and go on to introduce 47 new layers of encryption, all bigger and better than the last, wasting tons of time and money in the process.
That message still applies, despite everything in your post.
Uh, you're making a big assumption here: that Slashdot carries timely news. You'd be better served to assume every single Slashdot story has at least one critical flaw to it before making any posts; it's almost always true.
These episodes have been on CBS.com's classics section for at least a year. I don't know where the hell the "friday" date in the article comes from, but I'm guessing it's either from an old news article (which isn't linked), or the submitter just pulled it out of his ass.
You don't know what you're currently paying in site licenses, and yet you're "in a position to transition to open source?" Either your university is completely mis-managed, or you have your head in the clouds.
The first step to coming up with a cost saving plan is to figure out how much you're currently paying. If you don't know that, then you're not in a position to transition your university to crap. Sorry to break the news, buddy.
The point of the post was that they're making an assumption, which probably isn't true, then asking a follow-up question based on their assumption being true. The summary is poorly-written, as are most.
Seriously, it's almost trivial to completely avoid spam now. All of the three major free email vendors, Yahoo, Microsoft and Google, all have excellent spam filters. Every mail client has excellent spam filters. In a world of streaming video being one of the most popular internet uses, the bandwidth consumed by spam isn't a huge deal anymore. (Bittorrent on the other hand...)
Point is, these "spam vigilantes" basically have to go out of their way to even see spam. They enjoy seeing the spam, because then they can get outraged and do stuff like this. It's basically a hobby at this point.
Being a Simpsons fan (at least of the old episodes), I use "unpossible" following the Ralph Wiggum example-- i.e. to describe something that's not only possible, but obviously apparent. "Me fail english? That's unpossible!"
So you're not being a grammar nazi, you're just being ignorant of pop culture and not recognizing tongue-in-cheek.
I figured a privacy group would say a product that tracks your position all the time would be a good thing, and a boon to humanity! That a privacy group would find it a "danger," that really shocks me to the core! Next thing you know, the NRA is going to start opposing gun control laws.
(dead or stuck pixels, color reproduction, viewing angle, brightness uniformity, etc)
When's the last time you tried a LCD? In fact, when's the last time you saw a LCD with a stuck or dead pixel? Or a less than 160 degree viewing angle? Seriously.
Microsoft can't even sneeze without getting in trouble with the courts. What makes you think they could pull something like this off? It has "antitrust" plastered all over it.
And it's entirely unpossible I want to download the file on my Mac, and run it on my Windows box? Maybe the problem it's freakin' solving relates to the Windows computer's network card or web browser?
This article is retarded. Anybody who thought about this "problem" for longer than 20 milliseconds would realize that MS is doing things the right way here.
That's why I buy Dell. From their small business site, at least.
All they pack in is a utility app to look up your computer's serial number for support issues, and that's it. Oh, and the Windows CD/DVD Dell gives you? It's *actually* the one from Microsoft-- even the small amount of stuff they add is on a different disk. HP's disk includes Windows + all the crap you're reinstalling to get rid of. And you have to pay extra to get the disk at all! (Which I did, because, being an idiot, I assumed it would be a OS-only disk and not a crapware disk.)
Anyway. My solution is to just never buy HP anymore. They have some nice hardware, but until they can manage decent software, what good is it?
Linux is just as easy, if not easier to use than windows. Just look at opening programs. In windows you go "start->all programs->adobe->photoshop->start photoshop". In linux you go "Applications->Graphics->Gimp Image Editor".
That's the best you can come up with? Seriously?
If you're actually surfing down the entire Start menu hierarchy to find Photoshop, you probably don't use it often enough to matter, benchmark-wise. Come to think of it, no matter how often you use Photoshop, your metric doesn't matter, but that aside for the moment. If you actually *used* Photoshop, you'd either place a shortcut to it in an easy-to-reach location (such as the Quick Launch toolbar or the desktop), or "pin" it to the top level of the Start menu. In fact, if Photoshop is one of your top 10 or so used apps, the OS'll "pin" it automatically for you. And I'm also leaving aside the "GIMP blows goats and has a terrible name" angle.
Have you ever had success at convincing anybody using that argument?
The author of this article apparently doesn't realize tons of devices require/ask for names now, not only the normal PC (Unix or not), but cellphones, music players, etc.
I don't run any servers, but I name my various computers/devices based on Kaiju movies roughly ordered by size and/or popularity.
My Vista desktop is Godzilla, natch. The Mac G5 media server is Gamera. The 13" Tablet PC is Mothra, the 10" MSI Wind is Rodan. The 80GB Zune is Gaos and the iPhone is Garuda.
It's actually pretty pathetic now that I think about it...
If the US citizens are good enough to bail out the US banking institutions, why are they not good enough to be hired by these same institutions?
People aren't interchangeable cogs. It's quite possible that the banks need to hire people with rare skillsets that they simply can't find in their local job market.
Look, the federal law is that H1B workers are paid the same as American workers in the same job. These companies are asking for H1Bs because they need the talent, NOT because they want to cheap-out on the payroll. If H1B employees are being paid less, then the company hiring them is in violation of the law. It's as simple as that.
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Well... ok, but OEMs *could* already do that right now and they're choosing not to. What makes you think a lawsuit would change anything?
Please. It wasn't long ago that your nation was ruled by a single jackass who believed that God chose him, and his family, personally to rule everybody else. And now, centuries later, you still venerate those same people for no reason whatsoever.
American might have (some) more religious bullshit now, but at least we weren't FOUNDED on it.
I don't know what your motive in taking a world-wide problem and claiming it only happens in the US is, but if you want us to do your cheer-leading about how great you Brits are, as we Americans say, go piss up a rope.
I for one am sick of going into a nice business and seeing the restrooms vandalized by stupid rich white kids who think they're ghetto because they listen to M&M.
You must be the oldest, grumpiest, whitest guy around. It's spelled Eminem.
I flew a 737 in/out of San Jose last week. The airport is under construction, so some of the gates are out-of-order and they loaded the plane using a good old' fashioned stairway on wheels. The cool thing is that they put a stairway on both the front and back doors-- I was amazed how much faster an airliner can empty out or load when the back door is in-use!
This is relevant to the topic in what way, exactly? Or is the topic actually "vague air travel stories".
Wow... wooooooosh. Did you even read my post? Past the first sentence?
Half the pain of windows background services isn't the fact that some program is constantly in RAM checking for updates. The pain is that 14 separate programs are constantly in RAM checking for updates.
Yeah, but Windows already has a feature to prevent that: Task Scheduler. It's not Microsoft's fault that third party developers aren't making use of it.
The point of the comic is that there's no *practical* difference between, say, 128-bit encryption and 4096-bit encryption because it is, and always will be, easier to just obtain the password somehow than to crack the encryption.
Meanwhile, crypto-nerds go around scoffing at your primitive WPA wifi encryption and go on to introduce 47 new layers of encryption, all bigger and better than the last, wasting tons of time and money in the process.
That message still applies, despite everything in your post.
Uh, you're making a big assumption here: that Slashdot carries timely news. You'd be better served to assume every single Slashdot story has at least one critical flaw to it before making any posts; it's almost always true.
These episodes have been on CBS.com's classics section for at least a year. I don't know where the hell the "friday" date in the article comes from, but I'm guessing it's either from an old news article (which isn't linked), or the submitter just pulled it out of his ass.
Yeah, no joke. I watched a few episodes of Trek and a lot of MacGuyver ages ago... was it in an unmarked "beta" or something?
You don't know what you're currently paying in site licenses, and yet you're "in a position to transition to open source?" Either your university is completely mis-managed, or you have your head in the clouds.
The first step to coming up with a cost saving plan is to figure out how much you're currently paying. If you don't know that, then you're not in a position to transition your university to crap. Sorry to break the news, buddy.
Whoosh.
The point of the post was that they're making an assumption, which probably isn't true, then asking a follow-up question based on their assumption being true. The summary is poorly-written, as are most.
That's why they do it.
Seriously, it's almost trivial to completely avoid spam now. All of the three major free email vendors, Yahoo, Microsoft and Google, all have excellent spam filters. Every mail client has excellent spam filters. In a world of streaming video being one of the most popular internet uses, the bandwidth consumed by spam isn't a huge deal anymore. (Bittorrent on the other hand...)
Point is, these "spam vigilantes" basically have to go out of their way to even see spam. They enjoy seeing the spam, because then they can get outraged and do stuff like this. It's basically a hobby at this point.
Being a Simpsons fan (at least of the old episodes), I use "unpossible" following the Ralph Wiggum example-- i.e. to describe something that's not only possible, but obviously apparent. "Me fail english? That's unpossible!"
So you're not being a grammar nazi, you're just being ignorant of pop culture and not recognizing tongue-in-cheek.
I figured a privacy group would say a product that tracks your position all the time would be a good thing, and a boon to humanity! That a privacy group would find it a "danger," that really shocks me to the core! Next thing you know, the NRA is going to start opposing gun control laws.
(dead or stuck pixels, color reproduction, viewing angle, brightness uniformity, etc)
When's the last time you tried a LCD? In fact, when's the last time you saw a LCD with a stuck or dead pixel? Or a less than 160 degree viewing angle? Seriously.
Considering how craptacular HP software is on Windows, I can only imagine how shitastic an entire UI built by them is.
Microsoft can't even sneeze without getting in trouble with the courts. What makes you think they could pull something like this off? It has "antitrust" plastered all over it.
And it's entirely unpossible I want to download the file on my Mac, and run it on my Windows box? Maybe the problem it's freakin' solving relates to the Windows computer's network card or web browser?
This article is retarded. Anybody who thought about this "problem" for longer than 20 milliseconds would realize that MS is doing things the right way here.
That's why I buy Dell. From their small business site, at least.
All they pack in is a utility app to look up your computer's serial number for support issues, and that's it. Oh, and the Windows CD/DVD Dell gives you? It's *actually* the one from Microsoft-- even the small amount of stuff they add is on a different disk. HP's disk includes Windows + all the crap you're reinstalling to get rid of. And you have to pay extra to get the disk at all! (Which I did, because, being an idiot, I assumed it would be a OS-only disk and not a crapware disk.)
Anyway. My solution is to just never buy HP anymore. They have some nice hardware, but until they can manage decent software, what good is it?
Linux is just as easy, if not easier to use than windows. Just look at opening programs. In windows you go "start->all programs->adobe->photoshop->start photoshop". In linux you go "Applications->Graphics->Gimp Image Editor".
That's the best you can come up with? Seriously?
If you're actually surfing down the entire Start menu hierarchy to find Photoshop, you probably don't use it often enough to matter, benchmark-wise. Come to think of it, no matter how often you use Photoshop, your metric doesn't matter, but that aside for the moment. If you actually *used* Photoshop, you'd either place a shortcut to it in an easy-to-reach location (such as the Quick Launch toolbar or the desktop), or "pin" it to the top level of the Start menu. In fact, if Photoshop is one of your top 10 or so used apps, the OS'll "pin" it automatically for you. And I'm also leaving aside the "GIMP blows goats and has a terrible name" angle.
Have you ever had success at convincing anybody using that argument?
The author of this article apparently doesn't realize tons of devices require/ask for names now, not only the normal PC (Unix or not), but cellphones, music players, etc.
I don't run any servers, but I name my various computers/devices based on Kaiju movies roughly ordered by size and/or popularity.
My Vista desktop is Godzilla, natch. The Mac G5 media server is Gamera. The 13" Tablet PC is Mothra, the 10" MSI Wind is Rodan. The 80GB Zune is Gaos and the iPhone is Garuda.
It's actually pretty pathetic now that I think about it...
If the US citizens are good enough to bail out the US banking institutions, why are they not good enough to be hired by these same institutions?
People aren't interchangeable cogs. It's quite possible that the banks need to hire people with rare skillsets that they simply can't find in their local job market.
No shit, this stuff is really pissing me off.
Look, the federal law is that H1B workers are paid the same as American workers in the same job. These companies are asking for H1Bs because they need the talent, NOT because they want to cheap-out on the payroll. If H1B employees are being paid less, then the company hiring them is in violation of the law. It's as simple as that.
Organ music?
What 2001: A Space Odyssey were you watching?