I think I know what type of products you speak off. In our case it was Radiant panels. These panels replace your ceiling tiles (some of them depending on BTU requirements). The trick was taking the existing product that's just a aluminum extrusion and adapting it so it could be fastened to the T bar. his resulted in a partial re-design of the product since new extrusions had to be developed and manufactured. The extrusion being of lower purchase volume (custom to these types of jobs) resulted in higher cost per feet of extrusion.

Addition labor to install the panels also had to be considered since fastening the panels to the T bar wasn't standard practice. Our company also had to provide a certification which we had to pay for. That cost was obviously blended into the cost of the job.

My point is that we focus too much on the 0.01%. The real issue is the hoax call. That needs to be addressed first. Authorities can very easily be made accountable as suggested previously. Heck, why not pay for the equipment with the savings from not having to answer all those hoax calls?

I tend to see this as an exaggeration of reality. The media plays a great role at making it look worst than it really is.

No they aren't and at no point do I shell them from the truth but we need to determine if the ratio of failure to success is acceptable. At first glance it doesn't look that bad but we are also limited to what the media picks and chooses for us.

The company I work for manufactured heating products for projects in California. The changes we had to make to our heating equipment for it to meet the quake requirements was huge and the product ended up costing twice as much. I figure it's just part of the cost of building commercial and industrial buildings in California.

Yes but you are still blaming the wrong people for the incidents. It's like blaming the explosion on the explosive. The one who lights it up is the one that caused the explosion, no the chemicals. You're using the .01% rule as your argument and that's why it's not valid.

A good start would be making them 100% accountable by putting body cams. I've said this a million times. People keep saying the police has too much power. The power isn't the problem, it's the lack of accountability. Without the body cams their word will always rule in court hence why they do things they can get away with.

The real problem here is the hoax. The mistakes authorities make is a matter that needs to be dealt with separately. Fact is, there are numerous hoax that are responded to properly and the odd one that makes the news for being outrageous.

So instead of blaming the responders we need to blame the people pulling the hoax. There needs to be severe punishment and methods to capture the offenders. The hoax themselves are dangerous and a massive waste of resources.

Authorities needs to put better procedures in place to help weed out potential hoax while keeping the same level of response to critical calls.

That's is the one thing I have always despised about working with MS products. I hope the new leadership is as open as they appear to be. If not, the saga will continue and I don't think they will survive it much longer.

There are also special editions of Windows for the EU that do not include Windows Media Player. There are a dozen versions for the Windows installation media for the different target countries.

People often forget how complicated being big can get when dealing globally.

The problem is that crossing virtual borders should not be viewed any different than crossing real borders. The only difference here is that virtual borders aren't currently protected (in some countries they are). This is also why governments such as the Canadian government are starting to throw the idea of controlling in/outbound traffic. This is very bad for the internet and we can blame online criminals for this.

I wouldn't consider a ban on hacking to be an obscure law. Theft or vandalisms is a crime in every country where law enforcement exists.

I guess I can replace my 3 hockey games a week with EA Sports NHL 2015 on Xbox or PS.

Guess the kids can forget about going to the water park too. They can watch youtube videos of other kids enjoying the waterpark

So I guess Pfizer, Intel and Cisco must also be throwing out R&D money out the window since they spend higher percentages of their revenue than MS on R&D.

Please take the time to figure out what MS has actually achieved R&D wise before knocking it down with non factual information.

Lol

I guess a 10 second boot time is long by some standard. There isn't one PC at my work place that takes more than 20 seconds to be ready to work on. I only hear that excuse from bad IT people or IT people with little to no budget which means they are stuck with 7 year old PCs or even Macs. Blaming the OS or the hardware is often just an excuse for laziness.

Any poor integration of any type of hardware or software will always get this kind of response from it's users.

Malicious software and attacks will probably always exists but will become less of an issue with time. The FACT IS that credit card fraud has significantly declined in the last 5 years (even if the number of $$$ stolen has increased, the ratio of purchases to fraud is much lower). I was looking for the a report for VISA showing this but I could not find it. Please link it if you find it.

There's nothing wrong with trying things and stumbling across a working product, solution or theory. That's what humans have been doing for as long as we have existed. Every company I've worked for have tried to introduce new services or products not knowing ahead of time if they would be successful. Some were, some weren't.

On a side note, MS has always taken tons of feedback from their partners, big and small. What they have done more recently is actually listen to the end users, something they lacked to do in the past.

Their people love their culture and are willing to fight for it. There's nothing wrong with that. As long as I don't have to pay for them to keep their culture going, I don't care what they do.

As for the gambling, that's perfectly normal they would block other gambling sites. I can't believe this hasn't been done everywhere in Canada yet. The US blocked some of the Canadian gambling offerings for the same reason Quebec is looking at doing it.

With every improvement to defensive equipment/strategy you reduce the number of attacks you can receive.

It's the same with software. With every improvement you reduce the threat level. Just means a higher level of expertise is required and this means more time before the next break in. I remember in the 90s when everybody and their uncle could easily break into a web server using Telnet. You didn't even have to cover your tracks that well because many of the devices didn't log in/outs and if they did the log was short lived. Exploits will continue to get more complex and difficult to execute hence reducing the overall number of attacks.