It is a way for them to feel special and unique, by coming up with a relatively amateurish back story, that probably hundreds of thousands of other people have came up with to make them feel creative.
Oh look a S/O name. Oh look a Native American/Asian/Celtic symbols. Oh look Goth stuff, the same goth stuff that every other goth person has. Oh a cartoon character you liked as a kid. Oh your favorite flower. Why don't kids today go old school and get an anchors, and join the navy.
Good old corporate Ego getting in the way of running business again.
When ever I hear the word Enterprise class, I tend to cringe, as an MBA myself, the term Enterprise class means, It is more expensive, so you should think it is that much better.
If they let their egos aside. And really look objectively at the specs you tend to find a bell curve in quality. The "enterprise class stuff" tends to be 1 Standard Deviation better in quality. However it price is exponentially higher. It is often cheaper to get 2 or 3 Middle Quality (MBA speak it is "Consumer Grade") and replace them when they fail. As you will probably be replacing drives about 25% more. However the difference in cost means you will have a lower total cost of ownership. Even with additional expensive staff.
However these organizations think they need the best. So they waste money on this stuff although it may not perform that much better.
I am not sure why you just don't test the device. Every device if security is that big of a concern. I mean it is a freaking man made computer not a Magic Box.
Plug it into an isolated network that looks like a Wan connection with some honey pots. And see what the heck it is sending with some simulated use. You can check the hardware to see what type of wireless transmitters it has installed. Put it in a Faraday Cage and monitor what stuff it is sending out wirelessly.
Also if security is a concern. Why would you leave the default image that came with the PC, you should do a clean install of your "trusted" OS with the software you want.
Besides if the Chinese wants to spy on us. They don't need to send us computers with hack in it. Most IT departments are so incompetent (Usually upper middle management who is unwilling to pay for the necessary upgrades until there is a problem) that they will leave gaping holes to get in.
While Think Pads are Black Boxes, there isn't anything magical about them. They are boxes that happen to be black, with normal PC stuff in them and compared to other models much easier to dissemble and have every part checked out.
I would be more worried about your smartphone. This thing has sends stuff wireless by design. And it relatively slow processor means security holes my be in the system as a trade-off to get a little extra performance out of it.
Rule 1 if you are going to get your blood drawn. DO NOT... I REPEATE... DO NOT GET IT DONE BY A DOCTOR, Get it done by a trained tech. a Doctor will screw up and you will have massive bruises. A tech will be in and out without much pain.
Of course you can design a robot to not go too far in case of a system failure. You know by putting a mechanical stop in the flexibility of the joint.
The thing is to properly test the equipment. You can have an improperly trained person cause just as much damage. The neat thing with robots, you can get it programmed to a particular degree of accuracy. then you can duplicate it over and over. For people it is like having to write a new program every time.
The issue is, Having people dressing up like Vikings is probably a few hundred buck. You look at it and you see that well it can't cost that much. Sure it may have cost tax payers money. But so does having you coffee pot filled daily. Or the refrigerator to keep their lunches cool.
Now you have NASA design a replacement shuttle, give them near impossible specs, have them create a bunch of working prototypes then cancel the project because they decide space is no longer politically interesting, is much different.
Muscle memory is still in your brain. However the real issue is you know Kung Fu. But your mussels haven't gotten their proper exercise. So you will probably end up hurting yourself.
The point of the USB was to make the Bus Universal (and Serial). It isn't like some of the older technology that reused incompatible ports that fit into each other. The USB was designed to be if it fits it should work.
The problem with Politicians and Empathy is that often they deal with issues that are more complex then the average Political internet ranter can rant about.
For example: Tax the rich 90%. That sounds good to me, it should solve a lot of problems... However... if these people are taxed too much they will move to more tax friendly areas, move jobs out of the area, and in general make things worse in the long run. Trickle down doesn't work when you give the rich more money. But it does work if you take it away from them. Then you have issues of what should and shouldn't be tax exempt. If you say nothing is Tax exempt, then you go well what about donations to charity...
Now the good Politician will actually try to find the right balance. But that takes smart people to work that out. Politicians are People-People, they are actually not so good about thinking but dealing with people. So chances are they will stick with the party lines, where the party may support the science that only backs up their main line.
If the Counterfeit charger was the cause, it was made to look like an Apple charger. So the crook who made the dangerous product, probably stepped on a slew of other copyright and trademark infringement issues as well. Saying you should use Apple chargers isn't going to help much.
You need a USB certified charger, purchased threw a reputable source. Not something that takes the AC from the wall and gets it to fit into a usb port. It should meet standard USB power output and type.
Unless apple is making a USB charger that doesn't follow USB Specs. Than Apple really should get their butts sued because they are making a misleading product. If I can fit a USB plug in it. It should give me the same power as with any other usb plug.
He could have stopped it politically if the Republicans had the senate too. Or if the democrats were in charge of the house. However if he did that now, it would look like he is trying to strong arm the republicans out of power... And that will just get them more polarized.
If he were to fix that, he could have done that back when he got elected... However he wasted his time and effort on a health care bill, that in order of priorities that the Americans needed, was lower in the list than a lot of other things.
The problem with the house is all the Jury Maundering.
Because of the majority, they will work to keep a hold of their majority, so they keep districts, where their threat of power isn't the other side, but people in your power who will claim you are not far enough into their camp. And because your district with a shape to hold your parties interest, means you can't even once vote across party lines.
In the House democracy has failed, in the area that is normal people, most direct say.
If you are watching live TV you will get the adds. I had a Tivo and I hacked it to skip adds. And you know what I still watched adds on TV, because I didn't want to watch TV with my hands on the remote every time.
Also with the Prerecorded stuff, we tend to watch more TV. (That is why I got rid of the TiVo because I had so much stuff recorded that I spent too much time watching TV) So there was more adds for me to try to skip, and failed.
Well much of windows Mediocrity is based on keeping backwards compatibility to the old 16bit DOS systems.
MS DOS - Microsoft Big hit. It started the PC Compatible Computer. There was a lot of software written for DOS Windows 1 - ME, Well it still needed to Run DOS apps. Windows NT-8 It needs to run the Windows 32bit (Win 3.1+ (Windows 3.1 while a 16bit shell to DOS, supported 32bit extensions))
The standard PC of the MS-DOS days would cringe from a system like Linux/Unix as it was more towards the mainframe systems. Once the hardware got to a point (the 386) Microsoft had too much backward compatibility to deal with to really make the OS stable.
It isn't as much Gates or Balmer or the developers, but the fact if MS lost its backwards compatibility, it would get eaten alive by its competition. Think Windows RT, Windows CE, NT for Alpha, NT for the Power PC.
I am sorry. I gave him points for what he did, but they were loss by how he is just hiding across borders, because he doesn't want to face the consequences for his action.
Good job man on following your morals. However you are dumb ass, for not standing up and realizing your actions have consequences. A real hero would gladly go to jail to prove his point. A politically radicalized scumbag would just run away.
Ah the criticism of "derivative" the most derived criticism of all, in essence it says I liked it, but I needed to find something wrong to make me look intelligent and cultured. Because only stupid people actually like anything. Intelligent and Cultured people will must be depressed and hate everything.
Big hit movies will not be thought provoking, you need to go to the indie theaters for that, but if you wan't to pay $12 bucks for a two hour show. it better have big special effects and large explosions so all your senses go into overdrive, that is why you go to them.
Movies haven't really changed that much over time. However you will probably see the golden age of movies are from the period you are 8-18. As you are now old enough to see a PG movie and know what is going on, and this is your first time seeing the normal formula, so it is new and exciting. After that decade is over, you see the pattern over and over again, the special effects are less interesting.
I Guess these guys should have used Windows. Bla Bla Bla...
Really Folks the OS or how the software is license doesn't equate to security or quality. Treat every system that is open to the outside world as potentially vulnerable to attack and make sure your logins and passwords are completely encrypted even in your database. If you can see then it is vulnerable. As well you better be sure you use some salting in your hashing as well
Microsoft and Intel got lucky back in the Mid 80's-Late 00's. IBM gave Microsoft a too sweat of a deal, so they were able to make 100% IBM Compatible clones which was good for Intel. This flooded the market with cheaper PC's. Hurting/killing off the likes of Apple, Amiga, Commodore, TI... Then they created a near software monopoly.
However the Web began to change things around. Many of the stuff that we use to do with Installed Software has been moved to the Web. Which can run on different hardware and OSs and browsers. Microsoft did a good job of slowing this down with forcing IE compatibility but due to a bunch of wide exploits and security issues, it allowed FireFox to get into the market again causing more Cross Platform Web development like it was attended to be. So more and more stuff we use to put on our PC got put on the web, and this stuff worked on different systems. This allowed Apple to get a foot hold again in the Mac Market, because they can show they do the same stuff you can do on your PC without the hassles combined with the popularity of the iPod it created more Mac sales and people got use to using Safari (Web Kit Based Browser). Which they used in the iPhone. This has allowed the consumer the freedom to choose what platform they want, without a massive drawbacks of installing all new software. So then Android came to the market, (revamped from its initial project goals) to compete on this market. So Microsoft is facing an issue of having competition and the fact they can't claim they have more software is putting them at a disadvantage. As there is too many bad feelings from when they were a monopoly.
Now Microsoft was lucky it took that long to happen. However we all knew something disruptive could happen, at the time the PowerPC was promising architecture, which could have disrupted the Intel control. So by having a PowerPC NT port, would have been a wise hedge into the future. It didn't pan out, but it could have if things went right, then you would be happy you did.
Although the quality of Microsoft Products have risen after gates left. When Gates left XP was just released and getting hammered by security issues. Compared to say Windows 7 and even Windows 8 which runs very stable and is a lot more secure than ever.
Microsoft who initially got its foot in the door because it's OS can run across multiple manufactures and not just one. Now is having huge problems in writing cross platform OS's.
They made.NET to compete with Java. However why doesn't.NET programs work for arm and Intel like java does, or even for 32bit and 64bit systems. Microsoft just hasn't kept up with cross system compatibility.
It is the most obvious and most thoughtless answer.
1. There is a trade off for everything we do. If we do not pollute we in essence will live back in the stone ages. However we will still be producing Bio Waste and without those polluting infrastructures we will create a hazardous environment that will kill millions of people and plants and animals, really messing stuff up. There is a reason why Stone age man life span was averaged at 35 years, and it wasn't getting eaten by a predator.
2. If too many people don't like the tradeoffs they will not follow them. You cannot expect people to live a lower quality of life, just because you said you should, to save the environment. People get pissed, when people get pissed they get violent, when they get violent people will die. So you are saying we need an oppressive regime to save the environment, we think we have loss too many right to the government already, wait and see when there is a man with a gun from the government making sure you don't burn your trash, or start up your vintage 1955 chevy.
In short there should be less stupid saber rattling and giving one sided answers and work to look at the tradeoffs and try to get a proper balance.
People need sleep to function well in society. If you wake up a large portion of NYC and break their sleep. They could be less alert during the day where they may affect the lives of others.
The alert system really should be information that you really should get kicked out of bed for. Tornado, Hurricane, Earthquake, Approaching Fire, Flood, Nuclear Explosion. You know stuff if you stay in bed and sleep in, you could be dead before your normal wake up time.
It isn't that Amber Alerts are bad, however it shouldn't be on the emergency, get the fuck out of bed alerts.
km/h is a rather well personally understood speed. So 10 million km/h gives us a better understand of the speed than 10 Gm/h only because we will need to convert back to km/h to get a good understanding of the speed.
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It is a way for them to feel special and unique, by coming up with a relatively amateurish back story, that probably hundreds of thousands of other people have came up with to make them feel creative.
Oh look a S/O name.
Oh look a Native American/Asian/Celtic symbols.
Oh look Goth stuff, the same goth stuff that every other goth person has.
Oh a cartoon character you liked as a kid.
Oh your favorite flower.
Why don't kids today go old school and get an anchors, and join the navy.
Good old corporate Ego getting in the way of running business again.
When ever I hear the word Enterprise class, I tend to cringe, as an MBA myself, the term Enterprise class means, It is more expensive, so you should think it is that much better.
If they let their egos aside. And really look objectively at the specs you tend to find a bell curve in quality. The "enterprise class stuff" tends to be 1 Standard Deviation better in quality. However it price is exponentially higher. It is often cheaper to get 2 or 3 Middle Quality (MBA speak it is "Consumer Grade") and replace them when they fail. As you will probably be replacing drives about 25% more. However the difference in cost means you will have a lower total cost of ownership. Even with additional expensive staff.
However these organizations think they need the best. So they waste money on this stuff although it may not perform that much better.
I am not sure why you just don't test the device. Every device if security is that big of a concern.
I mean it is a freaking man made computer not a Magic Box.
Plug it into an isolated network that looks like a Wan connection with some honey pots. And see what the heck it is sending with some simulated use. You can check the hardware to see what type of wireless transmitters it has installed. Put it in a Faraday Cage and monitor what stuff it is sending out wirelessly.
Also if security is a concern. Why would you leave the default image that came with the PC, you should do a clean install of your "trusted" OS with the software you want.
Besides if the Chinese wants to spy on us. They don't need to send us computers with hack in it. Most IT departments are so incompetent (Usually upper middle management who is unwilling to pay for the necessary upgrades until there is a problem) that they will leave gaping holes to get in.
While Think Pads are Black Boxes, there isn't anything magical about them. They are boxes that happen to be black, with normal PC stuff in them and compared to other models much easier to dissemble and have every part checked out.
I would be more worried about your smartphone. This thing has sends stuff wireless by design. And it relatively slow processor means security holes my be in the system as a trade-off to get a little extra performance out of it.
Rule 1 if you are going to get your blood drawn. DO NOT... I REPEATE... DO NOT GET IT DONE BY A DOCTOR, Get it done by a trained tech. a Doctor will screw up and you will have massive bruises. A tech will be in and out without much pain.
Of course you can design a robot to not go too far in case of a system failure. You know by putting a mechanical stop in the flexibility of the joint.
The thing is to properly test the equipment. You can have an improperly trained person cause just as much damage. The neat thing with robots, you can get it programmed to a particular degree of accuracy. then you can duplicate it over and over. For people it is like having to write a new program every time.
The issue is, Having people dressing up like Vikings is probably a few hundred buck. You look at it and you see that well it can't cost that much. Sure it may have cost tax payers money. But so does having you coffee pot filled daily. Or the refrigerator to keep their lunches cool.
Now you have NASA design a replacement shuttle, give them near impossible specs, have them create a bunch of working prototypes then cancel the project because they decide space is no longer politically interesting, is much different.
Muscle memory is still in your brain. However the real issue is you know Kung Fu. But your mussels haven't gotten their proper exercise. So you will probably end up hurting yourself.
The point of the USB was to make the Bus Universal (and Serial). It isn't like some of the older technology that reused incompatible ports that fit into each other. The USB was designed to be if it fits it should work.
While I see this as a joke.
The problem with Politicians and Empathy is that often they deal with issues that are more complex then the average Political internet ranter can rant about.
For example: Tax the rich 90%. That sounds good to me, it should solve a lot of problems... However... if these people are taxed too much they will move to more tax friendly areas, move jobs out of the area, and in general make things worse in the long run. Trickle down doesn't work when you give the rich more money. But it does work if you take it away from them. Then you have issues of what should and shouldn't be tax exempt. If you say nothing is Tax exempt, then you go well what about donations to charity...
Now the good Politician will actually try to find the right balance. But that takes smart people to work that out. Politicians are People-People, they are actually not so good about thinking but dealing with people. So chances are they will stick with the party lines, where the party may support the science that only backs up their main line.
If the Counterfeit charger was the cause, it was made to look like an Apple charger. So the crook who made the dangerous product, probably stepped on a slew of other copyright and trademark infringement issues as well. Saying you should use Apple chargers isn't going to help much.
You need a USB certified charger, purchased threw a reputable source. Not something that takes the AC from the wall and gets it to fit into a usb port. It should meet standard USB power output and type.
Unless apple is making a USB charger that doesn't follow USB Specs. Than Apple really should get their butts sued because they are making a misleading product. If I can fit a USB plug in it. It should give me the same power as with any other usb plug.
He could have stopped it politically if the Republicans had the senate too. Or if the democrats were in charge of the house. However if he did that now, it would look like he is trying to strong arm the republicans out of power... And that will just get them more polarized.
If he were to fix that, he could have done that back when he got elected... However he wasted his time and effort on a health care bill, that in order of priorities that the Americans needed, was lower in the list than a lot of other things.
The problem with the house is all the Jury Maundering.
Because of the majority, they will work to keep a hold of their majority, so they keep districts, where their threat of power isn't the other side, but people in your power who will claim you are not far enough into their camp. And because your district with a shape to hold your parties interest, means you can't even once vote across party lines.
In the House democracy has failed, in the area that is normal people, most direct say.
If you are watching live TV you will get the adds. I had a Tivo and I hacked it to skip adds. And you know what I still watched adds on TV, because I didn't want to watch TV with my hands on the remote every time.
Also with the Prerecorded stuff, we tend to watch more TV. (That is why I got rid of the TiVo because I had so much stuff recorded that I spent too much time watching TV) So there was more adds for me to try to skip, and failed.
Well much of windows Mediocrity is based on keeping backwards compatibility to the old 16bit DOS systems.
MS DOS - Microsoft Big hit. It started the PC Compatible Computer. There was a lot of software written for DOS
Windows 1 - ME, Well it still needed to Run DOS apps.
Windows NT-8 It needs to run the Windows 32bit (Win 3.1+ (Windows 3.1 while a 16bit shell to DOS, supported 32bit extensions))
The standard PC of the MS-DOS days would cringe from a system like Linux/Unix as it was more towards the mainframe systems. Once the hardware got to a point (the 386) Microsoft had too much backward compatibility to deal with to really make the OS stable.
It isn't as much Gates or Balmer or the developers, but the fact if MS lost its backwards compatibility, it would get eaten alive by its competition. Think Windows RT, Windows CE, NT for Alpha, NT for the Power PC.
I am sorry.
I gave him points for what he did, but they were loss by how he is just hiding across borders, because he doesn't want to face the consequences for his action.
Good job man on following your morals. However you are dumb ass, for not standing up and realizing your actions have consequences. A real hero would gladly go to jail to prove his point. A politically radicalized scumbag would just run away.
Ah the criticism of "derivative" the most derived criticism of all, in essence it says I liked it, but I needed to find something wrong to make me look intelligent and cultured. Because only stupid people actually like anything. Intelligent and Cultured people will must be depressed and hate everything.
Big hit movies will not be thought provoking, you need to go to the indie theaters for that, but if you wan't to pay $12 bucks for a two hour show. it better have big special effects and large explosions so all your senses go into overdrive, that is why you go to them.
Movies haven't really changed that much over time. However you will probably see the golden age of movies are from the period you are 8-18. As you are now old enough to see a PG movie and know what is going on, and this is your first time seeing the normal formula, so it is new and exciting. After that decade is over, you see the pattern over and over again, the special effects are less interesting.
I Guess these guys should have used Windows.
Bla Bla Bla...
Really Folks the OS or how the software is license doesn't equate to security or quality. Treat every system that is open to the outside world as potentially vulnerable to attack and make sure your logins and passwords are completely encrypted even in your database. If you can see then it is vulnerable. As well you better be sure you use some salting in your hashing as well
It is called Hedging your bets.
Microsoft and Intel got lucky back in the Mid 80's-Late 00's. IBM gave Microsoft a too sweat of a deal, so they were able to make 100% IBM Compatible clones which was good for Intel. This flooded the market with cheaper PC's. Hurting/killing off the likes of Apple, Amiga, Commodore, TI... Then they created a near software monopoly.
However the Web began to change things around. Many of the stuff that we use to do with Installed Software has been moved to the Web. Which can run on different hardware and OSs and browsers. Microsoft did a good job of slowing this down with forcing IE compatibility but due to a bunch of wide exploits and security issues, it allowed FireFox to get into the market again causing more Cross Platform Web development like it was attended to be. So more and more stuff we use to put on our PC got put on the web, and this stuff worked on different systems. This allowed Apple to get a foot hold again in the Mac Market, because they can show they do the same stuff you can do on your PC without the hassles combined with the popularity of the iPod it created more Mac sales and people got use to using Safari (Web Kit Based Browser). Which they used in the iPhone. This has allowed the consumer the freedom to choose what platform they want, without a massive drawbacks of installing all new software. So then Android came to the market, (revamped from its initial project goals) to compete on this market. So Microsoft is facing an issue of having competition and the fact they can't claim they have more software is putting them at a disadvantage. As there is too many bad feelings from when they were a monopoly.
Now Microsoft was lucky it took that long to happen. However we all knew something disruptive could happen, at the time the PowerPC was promising architecture, which could have disrupted the Intel control. So by having a PowerPC NT port, would have been a wise hedge into the future. It didn't pan out, but it could have if things went right, then you would be happy you did.
Although the quality of Microsoft Products have risen after gates left. When Gates left XP was just released and getting hammered by security issues. Compared to say Windows 7 and even Windows 8 which runs very stable and is a lot more secure than ever.
Yes we want to stick in a world of Apple and Google to be controlling everything. Having more competition is a bad thing... Right?
Most of this anti-Window nonsense, is decades old.
Microsoft who initially got its foot in the door because it's OS can run across multiple manufactures and not just one. Now is having huge problems in writing cross platform OS's.
They made .NET to compete with Java. However why doesn't .NET programs work for arm and Intel like java does, or even for 32bit and 64bit systems. Microsoft just hasn't kept up with cross system compatibility.
That and the people who visited the site are so Anti-Capitalistic, they never clicked on an add.
It is the most obvious and most thoughtless answer.
1. There is a trade off for everything we do. If we do not pollute we in essence will live back in the stone ages. However we will still be producing Bio Waste and without those polluting infrastructures we will create a hazardous environment that will kill millions of people and plants and animals, really messing stuff up. There is a reason why Stone age man life span was averaged at 35 years, and it wasn't getting eaten by a predator.
2. If too many people don't like the tradeoffs they will not follow them. You cannot expect people to live a lower quality of life, just because you said you should, to save the environment. People get pissed, when people get pissed they get violent, when they get violent people will die. So you are saying we need an oppressive regime to save the environment, we think we have loss too many right to the government already, wait and see when there is a man with a gun from the government making sure you don't burn your trash, or start up your vintage 1955 chevy.
In short there should be less stupid saber rattling and giving one sided answers and work to look at the tradeoffs and try to get a proper balance.
Well yes it could.
People need sleep to function well in society. If you wake up a large portion of NYC and break their sleep. They could be less alert during the day where they may affect the lives of others.
The alert system really should be information that you really should get kicked out of bed for.
Tornado, Hurricane, Earthquake, Approaching Fire, Flood, Nuclear Explosion. You know stuff if you stay in bed and sleep in, you could be dead before your normal wake up time.
It isn't that Amber Alerts are bad, however it shouldn't be on the emergency, get the fuck out of bed alerts.
km/h is a rather well personally understood speed. So 10 million km/h gives us a better understand of the speed than 10 Gm/h only because we will need to convert back to km/h to get a good understanding of the speed.