Perhaps but a good company like the one where I work at will let me spend that 4 hours per week on company time . Essentially every Friday afternoon (hey like right now!) I am allowed to browse whatever tech sites I want to learn about technology. The company realizes that not only does this improve my own skills, but I will also discover new technologies, techniques, etc that can enhance our existing/upcoming projects. Do I learn something new every friday? No, but there has also been some gold nuggets that have greatly improved our internal processes and tools
Hey 21st century is calling. The WWW is no longer full of geocities/angel fire/myspace/other generic WYSIWYG webpage builders. Do you honestly think facebook is a bunch of html pages?
[quote] I suppose a buzzword compliant manager could have described me as "passionate" although I would have sued[/quote] WOAH WOAH WOAH. Sorry sir we are going to have to let you go, here take this (small) severance package!
Really? While some people abuse it, or come up with horrible designs, it can really add some nice sophistication to otherwise 'boring' websites. I am redesigning one of our internal tools. Since everyone internally is using the latest browsers I am able to use the latest tech. I am almost done the redesign and so far everyone loves the new look, and finds it much easier to use, as well as way nicer to look at which wouldn't have been as easily achieved without CSS3 and HTML5.
They're also the organization that sends regular emails to employees FROM AN OUTSIDE VENDOR.</p></quote>
I hate this SO much. Sometimes I can't even tell if it is a phishing email or not because they use some vendor never even heard of. What's even worse is if they don't even use your name / some other personable information so you can figure out if it might actually be legit or not. These aren't small companies either. I have received actual legit emails from EA, Dell, and some other huge companies that for some reason think they need to use an outside vendor.
Maybe because I dont want to deal with port forwarding, nor dynamic ips (sure I could sign up for a dns service) Just because we are on a geek website doesn't mean you need to do things in a more complicated manner than necessary. Logmein provided a nice centralized interface that got around those issues that I can use on any computer with a browser without installing any software. With RDP, change a computer? Great now I need to bring my IP/DNS list with me. No Thanks.
Out of the box? No, however I have been using 8.1 for a while now, I added a start menu mod, disabled charm bar etc. Now I literally can't even tell the difference between windows 8.1 and windows 7, it looks and acts exactly the same. I haven't even seen the metro interface in months.
That's not the point, if you are wanting to travel 1000 miles all at one time then you would rent a car becuase it would not be economical to do that. if you are doing a 1000 mile trip every 2 weeks, a tesla is not for you
I was going to mention that, but we sitll play quite a few video games, and I still do get excited about other "toys", but admittedly, not as much as 8 years ago
I remember when the previous gen released all my friends were extremely excited about picking up the xbox 360. This time around none of us actually gives a fuck. We might/probably pick one or the other once a few good games come out (maybe late next year) but definitely in no rush. It seems they are really pushing all this other shit when all I want are good fucking games. But neither console has even one game that is close to appealing...
This is definitely a viable option. My mother uses her tablet almost exclusively. She will occasionally use her computer for an occasional task (such as writing a complex document, or managing photos from her digital camera) but other then that she only uses her tablet.
Another option is Windows 8 which I have done for my grandmother. While I cannot stand the Winodws 8 interface it can actually make sense for certain people. My grandmother does 2 things, write documents and checks emails. So I have 3 tiles on the interface - Mail app, Open Office App, and Shut Down Computer icon. Also disable admin rights. When I did switch her to Windows 8 I suppose I could have switched her to linux instead, but didn't want to bother as I am sure it would have been a lot more support calls on my end.
Now I work for a small company, we used to colo two servers but our host sucked (a lot of downtime) although it was cheap, we then looked in more reliable hosts, but was going to be way more expensive We then looked at amazon. It was 1/3 of the price as our existing colo (not as much computing power but enough for us) and up time has been way better,. Our bill is now similar to what we were paying, but we also now have 8 servers running vs the two before. We use micro instances for 6 of our servers, and medium instance for the others. I do imagine with the bigger servers the cost would start going up.. but for a small company, cloud computing is extremely cost effective.
True, but I guess my issue is that I log into websites from home, work, multiple mobile devices, friends house. Now I haven't done very much (well any) research into these applications, but I would need something that is compatible with all of those device, and preferably one that I don't need to lug around on a usb key (which can be lost/stolen) I may decide to look into it, because I can't be the only one with these requirements, so I assume solutions exist
Yes but then they disclose it which means I can go and change the passwords on the other sites. I agree this isnt the best most secure method, but at the same time I need it to be reasonable where it doesn't take me a minute every time I want to log in. It's a shitty dance between convenience vs security.
Yup, UPS, Purulator, Canada Post, all leave on my doorstep, never anything missing. Hell I once left for a weekend, came back garage door was open (forgot to close it) and nothing missing, even though 3k worth of tools clearly visible from the street.
Here is the problem: You constantly hear about don't use the same password on every site. Ok, makes sense, except that a lot of people have login information to 100+ websites. Sure that are tools like keepass or lastpass or whatever, but then you just need to break 1 password to have access to them all Then you get redicoulous requirements on some websites, like can't use special characters, can't be longer than 10 chars. Why? You should be using a hashing algo which means special characters or max length shouldn't matter (within reason)
I have about 4 passwords My low security one where I do not give a shit if people hack my account eg slashdot/most forums Medium security - Password for sites I care a little about and that contain some personal information eg, some forums, some online shopping sites that don't store cc info, etc High security - Mostly used for sites that are used for purchasing things and that have linked CC info to it Very High security - Used for financial institutions
This way I always know when I go to a site which password it uses.
However, I have been thinking about changing slightly how I do my passwords... the base password will always stay the same, but I may prepend or append the the first 3 characters of the sites name or something (maybe not quite this obvious). This may increase security of password a little, as well as benefit of most passwords being unique.. but not sure how much it increases the security by
Well, why not buy them at $1000, when they will be $1800 next week? Because it is a huge gamble... What has actually changed that caused the massive inflation this past month?
I just went through this 2 weeks ago, my grandfather had a brain hemorrhage and doctors said he had 25% chance of making it, and if he did make it he would be in a vegetative state for the rest of his life. He had no gag reflexes so he was hooked up to an IV for fluids. The doctors advised pulling the IV which would result in his death within 3-7 days My grandmother made the choice of pulling the IV. So basically he died of dehydration 7 days later, he was in constant pain. How is this better than putting him down?
I decided to ask my friend (an MD) about his opinion
He said as a person I completely agree with having the option of being "euthanized". However, as a doctor I completely disagree with euthanasia as an option.
His reason for as a doctor was because he lives by the code of ethics and he is suppose to be healing people not killing them. He said even though obviously you cannot heal the people in this state, it is still quite a bit of a difference between passively letting someone die and actively killing them, and he doesn't want that responsibility.
I don't agree with what he said, but I understand, you could always have doctors that specialize in it...
ok, like I said I just started playing on the weekend so didn't know that (I did see you can convert white to magic items but wasn't sure how useful that is) How do you tell what the item level is? I didn't see any level thing on it, but I didn't look closely Ill have to check again
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Perhaps but a good company like the one where I work at will let me spend that 4 hours per week on company time . Essentially every Friday afternoon (hey like right now!) I am allowed to browse whatever tech sites I want to learn about technology. The company realizes that not only does this improve my own skills, but I will also discover new technologies, techniques, etc that can enhance our existing/upcoming projects. Do I learn something new every friday? No, but there has also been some gold nuggets that have greatly improved our internal processes and tools
Hey 21st century is calling. The WWW is no longer full of geocities/angel fire/myspace/other generic WYSIWYG webpage builders. Do you honestly think facebook is a bunch of html pages?
[quote] I suppose a buzzword compliant manager could have described me as "passionate" although I would have sued[/quote]
WOAH WOAH WOAH. Sorry sir we are going to have to let you go, here take this (small) severance package!
Really? While some people abuse it, or come up with horrible designs, it can really add some nice sophistication to otherwise 'boring' websites. I am redesigning one of our internal tools. Since everyone internally is using the latest browsers I am able to use the latest tech. I am almost done the redesign and so far everyone loves the new look, and finds it much easier to use, as well as way nicer to look at which wouldn't have been as easily achieved without CSS3 and HTML5.
They're also the organization that sends regular emails to employees FROM AN OUTSIDE VENDOR.</p></quote>
I hate this SO much. Sometimes I can't even tell if it is a phishing email or not because they use some vendor never even heard of. What's even worse is if they don't even use your name / some other personable information so you can figure out if it might actually be legit or not. These aren't small companies either. I have received actual legit emails from EA, Dell, and some other huge companies that for some reason think they need to use an outside vendor.
Nope, too expensive. $50/year/computer is way too much. Ill switch to an alternative.
You don't need to worry about NAT or dynamic ips
Maybe because I dont want to deal with port forwarding, nor dynamic ips (sure I could sign up for a dns service)
Just because we are on a geek website doesn't mean you need to do things in a more complicated manner than necessary. Logmein provided a nice centralized interface that got around those issues that I can use on any computer with a browser without installing any software. With RDP, change a computer? Great now I need to bring my IP/DNS list with me. No Thanks.
Out of the box? No, however I have been using 8.1 for a while now, I added a start menu mod, disabled charm bar etc. Now I literally can't even tell the difference between windows 8.1 and windows 7, it looks and acts exactly the same. I haven't even seen the metro interface in months.
That's not the point, if you are wanting to travel 1000 miles all at one time then you would rent a car becuase it would not be economical to do that. if you are doing a 1000 mile trip every 2 weeks, a tesla is not for you
Heard they got about $100 million to spare
I was going to mention that, but we sitll play quite a few video games, and I still do get excited about other "toys", but admittedly, not as much as 8 years ago
I remember when the previous gen released all my friends were extremely excited about picking up the xbox 360. This time around none of us actually gives a fuck. We might/probably pick one or the other once a few good games come out (maybe late next year) but definitely in no rush. It seems they are really pushing all this other shit when all I want are good fucking games. But neither console has even one game that is close to appealing...
This is definitely a viable option. My mother uses her tablet almost exclusively. She will occasionally use her computer for an occasional task (such as writing a complex document, or managing photos from her digital camera) but other then that she only uses her tablet.
Another option is Windows 8 which I have done for my grandmother. While I cannot stand the Winodws 8 interface it can actually make sense for certain people. My grandmother does 2 things, write documents and checks emails. So I have 3 tiles on the interface - Mail app, Open Office App, and Shut Down Computer icon. Also disable admin rights. When I did switch her to Windows 8 I suppose I could have switched her to linux instead, but didn't want to bother as I am sure it would have been a lot more support calls on my end.
Now I work for a small company, we used to colo two servers but our host sucked (a lot of downtime) although it was cheap, we then looked in more reliable hosts, but was going to be way more expensive
We then looked at amazon. It was 1/3 of the price as our existing colo (not as much computing power but enough for us) and up time has been way better,.
Our bill is now similar to what we were paying, but we also now have 8 servers running vs the two before. We use micro instances for 6 of our servers, and medium instance for the others. I do imagine with the bigger servers the cost would start going up.. but for a small company, cloud computing is extremely cost effective.
True, but I guess my issue is that I log into websites from home, work, multiple mobile devices, friends house.
Now I haven't done very much (well any) research into these applications, but I would need something that is compatible with all of those device, and preferably one that I don't need to lug around on a usb key (which can be lost/stolen)
I may decide to look into it, because I can't be the only one with these requirements, so I assume solutions exist
Yes but then they disclose it which means I can go and change the passwords on the other sites.
I agree this isnt the best most secure method, but at the same time I need it to be reasonable where it doesn't take me a minute every time I want to log in. It's a shitty dance between convenience vs security.
tell that to the people who have actually won.
Yup, UPS, Purulator, Canada Post, all leave on my doorstep, never anything missing.
Hell I once left for a weekend, came back garage door was open (forgot to close it) and nothing missing, even though 3k worth of tools clearly visible from the street.
and yes I butchered the spelling of ridiculous
Here is the problem: You constantly hear about don't use the same password on every site. Ok, makes sense, except that a lot of people have login information to 100+ websites. Sure that are tools like keepass or lastpass or whatever, but then you just need to break 1 password to have access to them all
Then you get redicoulous requirements on some websites, like can't use special characters, can't be longer than 10 chars. Why? You should be using a hashing algo which means special characters or max length shouldn't matter (within reason)
I have about 4 passwords
My low security one where I do not give a shit if people hack my account eg slashdot/most forums
Medium security - Password for sites I care a little about and that contain some personal information eg, some forums, some online shopping sites that don't store cc info, etc
High security - Mostly used for sites that are used for purchasing things and that have linked CC info to it
Very High security - Used for financial institutions
This way I always know when I go to a site which password it uses.
However, I have been thinking about changing slightly how I do my passwords... the base password will always stay the same, but I may prepend or append the the first 3 characters of the sites name or something (maybe not quite this obvious). This may increase security of password a little, as well as benefit of most passwords being unique.. but not sure how much it increases the security by
Well, why not buy them at $1000, when they will be $1800 next week? Because it is a huge gamble...
What has actually changed that caused the massive inflation this past month?
I just went through this 2 weeks ago, my grandfather had a brain hemorrhage and doctors said he had 25% chance of making it, and if he did make it he would be in a vegetative state for the rest of his life. He had no gag reflexes so he was hooked up to an IV for fluids. The doctors advised pulling the IV which would result in his death within 3-7 days
My grandmother made the choice of pulling the IV. So basically he died of dehydration 7 days later, he was in constant pain. How is this better than putting him down?
I decided to ask my friend (an MD) about his opinion
He said as a person I completely agree with having the option of being "euthanized".
However, as a doctor I completely disagree with euthanasia as an option.
His reason for as a doctor was because he lives by the code of ethics and he is suppose to be healing people not killing them. He said even though obviously you cannot heal the people in this state, it is still quite a bit of a difference between passively letting someone die and actively killing them, and he doesn't want that responsibility.
I don't agree with what he said, but I understand, you could always have doctors that specialize in it...
I have used one for past 6 years, 98% of the time it works great but that 2% it doesn't is a pain in the ass.
ok, like I said I just started playing on the weekend so didn't know that (I did see you can convert white to magic items but wasn't sure how useful that is)
How do you tell what the item level is? I didn't see any level thing on it, but I didn't look closely Ill have to check again