He's dada21. He's some kind of crazy anarchist who thinks all governments are evil and Ayn Rand is his personal God or something, I dunno. I'm sure he views voting as some vindication of the Federal Government's existence and therefore refuses on matter of principle.
Of course in the story, the huge supercomputer that ran the world just asked him a bunch of opinion questions and ran the world based on the random guy's answers. But same general concept.
This is the same Washington State that recently lost Boeing's corporate offices because of high taxes. Losing Microsoft as well would be another huge blow.
I've been BSed by IBM reps and other people whose livelihoods depend on Lotus Notes projects since version 5.0. "The next version is great! You should try it!" And it never is. IBM's called "wolf" on this one too many times, and I've already filed Notes into my "this product will always be crap" file.
I've heard stories (yes, yes, probably urban legends) that the US Navy was at one point technically able to tap into undersea fiber optic cables using a special chamber mounted on a support submarine. They could get the cable into the chamber, then pump the water out. Then they used a work area which reflected light in just the right way so that they could install their recorder on each cable without interrupt the data going through it.
Probably BS, but it would be technically impressive if true.
I lost my old domain because I had my old domain host use their registrar. And guess what happened when I didn't renew with they cuz they sucked? They re-registered it "for my convenience" and sat on. I had to go to.net instead! That should be soooooo illegal under monopoly/anticompetition laws.
Let me get this straight,
1) You registered a domain name through a web hosting company. 2) You didn't renew the domain name 3) You didn't transfer the domain name to a different registrar (not that it's really relevant in this case, since if you didn't renew in step 2 all bets are off.) 4) The web hosting company then re-registered the domain name
And this should be illegal... how? The critical step you're missing there is 2: if you didn't renew the name, you sent a message to the world saying "hey world! I don't want this domain name! Go for it!"
You're not allowed to complain if someone else takes it after you say you don't want it. The fact that it was the same web hosting company that registered it is irrelevant in this case, they're acting the same as every other registrar would in this situation.
Next time, if your host sucks, just transfer the domain name to another registrar and then cancel your account.
If you didn't bother to renew the domain, you didn't really want it that bad, right? What exactly would a law change in this area?
If I give away a coffeemaker to goodwill, then decide a week later that I want it back, should there be a law saying I can get it back? That's ridiculous.
I wrote to the FTC to complain because since Yahoo now owns Zimbra, this means that Microsoft will have the ability to kill the only serious competitor to their Exchange platform.
I know about the other solutions, but none are as feature complete IMHO as Zimbra. Two words: Blackberry integration.
Uh, Groupwise? Notes?
Ok, given, those two products suck. But IBM has had literally a decade to whip Notes into shape, and they haven't bothered to even try, so you can't really pin that one on MS. I've never seen an installation of Zimbra "in the wild", but I'd be interested in learning more about it.
In any case, before you write the FTC, do your homework. You look like an idiot if you post that the Exchange platform has no competition.
But one reason that I've allowed Yahoo! to gradually become such an important part of my life is that it's NOT Microsoft. The same sentiments are felt by millions
Do you honestly believe you speak for "millions?" I think that's a form of mental illness... or perhaps just really sloppy writing.
Look, I'll give you "hundreds" and maybe "thousands", but "millions" is ridiculous. And you should also take into effect the hundreds of thousands of people who will cheer on this acquisition for whatever reason.
And will the long, slow decline of Microsoft now drag Yahoo! down too?
Releasing a OS product that not everybody in the universe loves means Microsoft is in a "long, slow decline?" You read too much Slashdot, buddy. Microsoft's doing as good, or better, then they ever had.
Yahoo's power and success comes from multi platform awareness, using right tools for job without caring about what OS it runs (mostly FreeBSD), giving the same service to everyone with a recent browser regardless of OS, being open to all developers even including competitors...
Speaking as a Mac user a few years ago, Yahoo wasn't better than any other company at giving Mac users access to their products. (At least the ones that weren't entirely web-based.) For example, it used to be a complete crapshoot whether a particular Yahoo Game would run on a Mac or not, and if it didn't run their help file summarized to "tough crap."
In short, can you back that statement up? I don't see Yahoo as being any more or less multiplatform friendly than MS or Google. (Possibly less than Google.)
Look, you have a few choices: 1) You can type Microsoft like a normal non-cretin 2) You can type the stock-ticker abbreviation, MSFT 3) You can type the accepted acronym, MS
All three of those options work. M$ isn't any of them.
We should just convert all our OSes to run using a magical unicorn kernel. I've seen about the same number of microkernel OSes and magical unicorns, so switching to the unicorn system should be just as easy as switching to a microkernel, and it gives many additional advantages, such as immortality and a horn that can cure all wounds instantly.
I still don't get why you boot instead of hibernate. Why not save the boot time? Unless you have like 4 GB of RAM in that sucker, hibernate's going to be a lot quicker than booting it.
The one thing about Vista that has been DRIVING ME INSANE, is the fact my vista clock keeps going forward by 4 - 6hrs (it's random but at a minimum of 4hrs). I've tried everything to correct this issue and have even come across users who have the same issue and still no avail. fix. I've tried new drivers, confirmed the time zone, checked in other OS's, etc etc but Vista will not remember the time for the life of it.
A few possibilities: 1) Is Vista attempting to set BIOS time and failing? Boot into your BIOS config utility and check its time, see if it is what Vista thinks the time is, or if it's 4-6 hours ahead. If this is the case, I could see the time reverting to BIOS time on reboot. 2) Does the time jump happen after Windows attempts to sync with an internet time server? Try turning off the time server syncing and see if the problem remains. It's possible Vista has a bad timezone definition, and it thinks you're supposed to be 4-6 hours ahead.
That's off the top of my head, I suppose you've already checked both.
Gee, I would like the market leader to squander their advantage by breaking compatibility with old hardware and software.
At least Microsoft tries to maintain backwards-compatibilty. Apple's never given have a crap; you're lucky if they give you 5 years to get with the program before they cut your application off forever. Hell, I had programs that worked fine in System 6.0.8 that failed utterly in System 7. Windows will still run everything but 16-bit programs with something like a 95% success rate. OS X won't even run a OS9 application released in 2001.
I'm old too. My first domain was my last name.net. (I wasn't a non-profit, I wasn't a company, not educational or military,.name didn't exist yet... what was I supposed to use? Hah.) But if ICANN doesn't care and, in fact, nobody cares, why should you?
Hell, make it a.co.uk-- people think British accents are sophisticated, right?
4) Echo chamber. People who hear a lot of Vista complaints on Slashdot (many of which comes from beta versions, or are simply made up) will repeat them in other discussions. Most of these echo chambers have never actually *used* Vista to confirm or deny the complaints. That's why there's a large contingent of Slashdotters who honestly believe, for example, that Vista runs slower because of "DRM" (nevermind that they can't explain how, or quantify it in any way), and that UAC warnings come up for every single operation (which was the case of one single bad beta build.)
With Vista I got at least one error message every time I booted up, then another one every couple of hours.
What was the error?
I'm just curious. I had a friend who did the "upgrade install" for Vista, and he experienced error messages every couple of hours, just like you're describing. I think they were related to the registry, but I don't remember the exact text. In any case, he just re-installed from scratch instead of doing an upgrade and now everything works fine.
I have a laptop with an AMD 64 dual core processor, and 2 gigs of ram. It takes Vista at least 2 full minutes to boot from the time I type my password to the time I get a usable desktop. This is out of the box.
How much crapware was in the box? Vista took that long to book with all the crap HP loaded my laptop up with. Once I reformatted it and re-installed, it has boot times in line with XP. Not that I'm saying you're lying, but you should know that there's Vista installs out there that boot much quicker, and so the problem might be related to something other than Vista itself. (Perhaps crummy drivers?)
Of course the other question is, why are you even rebooting it? You shouldn't ever need to, unless you're installing new software... just sleep it, or hibernate if you're really low on battery juice.
Even so, shouldn't I at least have the ability to choose a generic name if I want? What is so wrong with having some general informatin about aspect ratios on a site called 'aspectratio.org' or 'aspectratio.info'? Why must I use some crappy name like 'aspect-ratio.org' (oh, how I LOVE saying 'dash' or 'hyphen' out loud when I'm talking to a human) or asprat.org (just sounds bad... almost like 'ass' plus 'brat')? Just because the name contains some of the original letters DOES NOT MAKE IT MORE MEMORABLE! Again, this is ALL ABOUT COMMUNICATING WITH HUMANS. "Hmm... was it asra.org? aspra.org? asprat.org? Asp + rat... snake and vermin... yeah, that just screams 'aspect ratio.'
And I should be able to own a house on Lake Washington if I want!
But, oh wait, all the land around Lake Washington was bought up in the 30s, and now I'm screwed. The domain name market is basically a real-estate market. I can't afford a house on Lake Washington, and I can't afford "trucks.com". Same difference.
The only real difference between the two is that there are still domains that are unclaimed, whereas there's not an inch of real estate that isn't owned by someone. The domain market is like the real estate market back when the government was still giving out land grants, but all the good land was already taken. There's your analogy.
To paraphrase Futurama: "I want aspect-ratio.com now!" "Then you should have registered it 10 years ago."
Tell you what, I own "annoyinglittlebastard.com". (And yes, it's currently squatted and listed on Sedo until the script for the site is finished.) It's in the format "wordwordword.com" so it's ideal for your purpose. Contact me and I'll give you a deal.;)
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He's dada21. He's some kind of crazy anarchist who thinks all governments are evil and Ayn Rand is his personal God or something, I dunno. I'm sure he views voting as some vindication of the Federal Government's existence and therefore refuses on matter of principle.
We were attacked due to our interventionist foreign policy in the Middle East.
... yet.
Why was Spain attacked by middle eastern terrorists? Or the UK, for that matter? Why was this man: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_van_Gogh_(film_director) murdered by an Islamic terrorist?
I'm sorry, there's a lot more to the issue than simply foreign policy.
Switzerland is free and propserous and Al Qaida didn't attack them.
It's a free service pack. It requires at least a reasonably legit copy of Windows Vista to run. Why would they care?
Wasn't that an Asimov story?
Of course in the story, the huge supercomputer that ran the world just asked him a bunch of opinion questions and ran the world based on the random guy's answers. But same general concept.
This is the same Washington State that recently lost Boeing's corporate offices because of high taxes. Losing Microsoft as well would be another huge blow.
I didn't say it did, in this case. I was replying to another poster's post.
Obviously if the Navy was engaged in tapping fiber lines they wouldn't:
1) cut them
2) cut THREE of them
I mean, duh.
I've been BSed by IBM reps and other people whose livelihoods depend on Lotus Notes projects since version 5.0. "The next version is great! You should try it!" And it never is. IBM's called "wolf" on this one too many times, and I've already filed Notes into my "this product will always be crap" file.
I've heard stories (yes, yes, probably urban legends) that the US Navy was at one point technically able to tap into undersea fiber optic cables using a special chamber mounted on a support submarine. They could get the cable into the chamber, then pump the water out. Then they used a work area which reflected light in just the right way so that they could install their recorder on each cable without interrupt the data going through it.
Probably BS, but it would be technically impressive if true.
I lost my old domain because I had my old domain host use their registrar. And guess what happened when I didn't renew with they cuz they sucked? They re-registered it "for my convenience" and sat on. I had to go to .net instead! That should be soooooo illegal under monopoly/anticompetition laws.
Let me get this straight,
1) You registered a domain name through a web hosting company.
2) You didn't renew the domain name
3) You didn't transfer the domain name to a different registrar (not that it's really relevant in this case, since if you didn't renew in step 2 all bets are off.)
4) The web hosting company then re-registered the domain name
And this should be illegal... how? The critical step you're missing there is 2: if you didn't renew the name, you sent a message to the world saying "hey world! I don't want this domain name! Go for it!"
You're not allowed to complain if someone else takes it after you say you don't want it. The fact that it was the same web hosting company that registered it is irrelevant in this case, they're acting the same as every other registrar would in this situation.
Next time, if your host sucks, just transfer the domain name to another registrar and then cancel your account.
If you didn't bother to renew the domain, you didn't really want it that bad, right? What exactly would a law change in this area?
If I give away a coffeemaker to goodwill, then decide a week later that I want it back, should there be a law saying I can get it back? That's ridiculous.
I wrote to the FTC to complain because since Yahoo now owns Zimbra, this means that Microsoft will have the ability to kill the only serious competitor to their Exchange platform.
I know about the other solutions, but none are as feature complete IMHO as Zimbra. Two words: Blackberry integration.
Uh, Groupwise? Notes?
Ok, given, those two products suck. But IBM has had literally a decade to whip Notes into shape, and they haven't bothered to even try, so you can't really pin that one on MS. I've never seen an installation of Zimbra "in the wild", but I'd be interested in learning more about it.
In any case, before you write the FTC, do your homework. You look like an idiot if you post that the Exchange platform has no competition.
But one reason that I've allowed Yahoo! to gradually become such an important part of my life is that it's NOT Microsoft. The same sentiments are felt by millions
Do you honestly believe you speak for "millions?" I think that's a form of mental illness... or perhaps just really sloppy writing.
Look, I'll give you "hundreds" and maybe "thousands", but "millions" is ridiculous. And you should also take into effect the hundreds of thousands of people who will cheer on this acquisition for whatever reason.
And will the long, slow decline of Microsoft now drag Yahoo! down too?
Releasing a OS product that not everybody in the universe loves means Microsoft is in a "long, slow decline?" You read too much Slashdot, buddy. Microsoft's doing as good, or better, then they ever had.
Yahoo's power and success comes from multi platform awareness, using right tools for job without caring about what OS it runs (mostly FreeBSD), giving the same service to everyone with a recent browser regardless of OS, being open to all developers even including competitors...
Speaking as a Mac user a few years ago, Yahoo wasn't better than any other company at giving Mac users access to their products. (At least the ones that weren't entirely web-based.) For example, it used to be a complete crapshoot whether a particular Yahoo Game would run on a Mac or not, and if it didn't run their help file summarized to "tough crap."
In short, can you back that statement up? I don't see Yahoo as being any more or less multiplatform friendly than MS or Google. (Possibly less than Google.)
In what way is "M$" perfectly legitimate?
Look, you have a few choices:
1) You can type Microsoft like a normal non-cretin
2) You can type the stock-ticker abbreviation, MSFT
3) You can type the accepted acronym, MS
All three of those options work. M$ isn't any of them.
We should just convert all our OSes to run using a magical unicorn kernel. I've seen about the same number of microkernel OSes and magical unicorns, so switching to the unicorn system should be just as easy as switching to a microkernel, and it gives many additional advantages, such as immortality and a horn that can cure all wounds instantly.
I still don't get why you boot instead of hibernate. Why not save the boot time? Unless you have like 4 GB of RAM in that sucker, hibernate's going to be a lot quicker than booting it.
The one thing about Vista that has been DRIVING ME INSANE, is the fact my vista clock keeps going forward by 4 - 6hrs (it's random but at a minimum of 4hrs). I've tried everything to correct this issue and have even come across users who have the same issue and still no avail. fix. I've tried new drivers, confirmed the time zone, checked in other OS's, etc etc but Vista will not remember the time for the life of it.
A few possibilities:
1) Is Vista attempting to set BIOS time and failing? Boot into your BIOS config utility and check its time, see if it is what Vista thinks the time is, or if it's 4-6 hours ahead. If this is the case, I could see the time reverting to BIOS time on reboot.
2) Does the time jump happen after Windows attempts to sync with an internet time server? Try turning off the time server syncing and see if the problem remains. It's possible Vista has a bad timezone definition, and it thinks you're supposed to be 4-6 hours ahead.
That's off the top of my head, I suppose you've already checked both.
Gee, I would like the market leader to squander their advantage by breaking compatibility with old hardware and software.
At least Microsoft tries to maintain backwards-compatibilty. Apple's never given have a crap; you're lucky if they give you 5 years to get with the program before they cut your application off forever. Hell, I had programs that worked fine in System 6.0.8 that failed utterly in System 7. Windows will still run everything but 16-bit programs with something like a 95% success rate. OS X won't even run a OS9 application released in 2001.
I'm old too. My first domain was my last name .net. (I wasn't a non-profit, I wasn't a company, not educational or military, .name didn't exist yet... what was I supposed to use? Hah.) But if ICANN doesn't care and, in fact, nobody cares, why should you?
.co.uk-- people think British accents are sophisticated, right?
Hell, make it a
There's also:
4) Echo chamber. People who hear a lot of Vista complaints on Slashdot (many of which comes from beta versions, or are simply made up) will repeat them in other discussions. Most of these echo chambers have never actually *used* Vista to confirm or deny the complaints. That's why there's a large contingent of Slashdotters who honestly believe, for example, that Vista runs slower because of "DRM" (nevermind that they can't explain how, or quantify it in any way), and that UAC warnings come up for every single operation (which was the case of one single bad beta build.)
With Vista I got at least one error message every time I booted up, then another one every couple of hours.
What was the error?
I'm just curious. I had a friend who did the "upgrade install" for Vista, and he experienced error messages every couple of hours, just like you're describing. I think they were related to the registry, but I don't remember the exact text. In any case, he just re-installed from scratch instead of doing an upgrade and now everything works fine.
I have a laptop with an AMD 64 dual core processor, and 2 gigs of ram. It takes Vista at least 2 full minutes to boot from the time I type my password to the time I get a usable desktop. This is out of the box.
How much crapware was in the box? Vista took that long to book with all the crap HP loaded my laptop up with. Once I reformatted it and re-installed, it has boot times in line with XP. Not that I'm saying you're lying, but you should know that there's Vista installs out there that boot much quicker, and so the problem might be related to something other than Vista itself. (Perhaps crummy drivers?)
Of course the other question is, why are you even rebooting it? You shouldn't ever need to, unless you're installing new software... just sleep it, or hibernate if you're really low on battery juice.
Does everything have to be a zero-sum game, a fight to the death, might-makes-right, winner-takes-all, pure-capitalism-roar-har?
Yup!
* and if I can't have aspect ratios or carbonated milk I'll learn to love caffeinated bacon or baconated grapefruit.
Why don't you just try some Admiral Crunch or Archduke Chocula?
Even so, shouldn't I at least have the ability to choose a generic name if I want? What is so wrong with having some general informatin about aspect ratios on a site called 'aspectratio.org' or 'aspectratio.info'? Why must I use some crappy name like 'aspect-ratio.org' (oh, how I LOVE saying 'dash' or 'hyphen' out loud when I'm talking to a human) or asprat.org (just sounds bad... almost like 'ass' plus 'brat')? Just because the name contains some of the original letters DOES NOT MAKE IT MORE MEMORABLE! Again, this is ALL ABOUT COMMUNICATING WITH HUMANS. "Hmm... was it asra.org? aspra.org? asprat.org? Asp + rat... snake and vermin... yeah, that just screams 'aspect ratio.'
;)
And I should be able to own a house on Lake Washington if I want!
But, oh wait, all the land around Lake Washington was bought up in the 30s, and now I'm screwed. The domain name market is basically a real-estate market. I can't afford a house on Lake Washington, and I can't afford "trucks.com". Same difference.
The only real difference between the two is that there are still domains that are unclaimed, whereas there's not an inch of real estate that isn't owned by someone. The domain market is like the real estate market back when the government was still giving out land grants, but all the good land was already taken. There's your analogy.
To paraphrase Futurama:
"I want aspect-ratio.com now!"
"Then you should have registered it 10 years ago."
Tell you what, I own "annoyinglittlebastard.com". (And yes, it's currently squatted and listed on Sedo until the script for the site is finished.) It's in the format "wordwordword.com" so it's ideal for your purpose. Contact me and I'll give you a deal.
You already have battlemaster.org, why would you bother with a .com?
.org sites are for-profit. For instance, the one I'm posting on right now.
In case you haven't noticed, tons of