Just spent the weekend in Amsterdam with my wife. Found a great hotel, with good prices, via the web. (Tripadvisor, which I find to be a good resource). Everything was safe, clean, good breakfast etc.
Out of curiosity, I just checked airbnb for both AMS and my home tome.
The deals did not look good compared to genuine hotels.
This is an interesting story, despite the terrible summary.
For work & family, I have to juggle documents across Linux, Windows, BBerry, Apple and Android devices. Probably the same for many people here.
First of all, there's no need for this, since Apple (and others) already offer perfectly adequate apps for viewing, and even editing, MS Office documents on iPad and iPhone. But having tried it, I guarantee you'll only do it once. Sticking rusty nails in your eye is probably less painful. Well, OK, at least you can view PPT slides in (vaguely) something like their original format. But still best to send as a PDF...
MS have shot themselves in the foot by getting rid of LiveMesh, (which worked very well), and replacing it with Skydrive, which works well too, but is more complex and brings no extra benefit. Extra demerit points to the boys in Redmond for giving the web interface a Windows 8 style tiled look, which sucks. Extra, super idiot points for there being no online document editing abilities like Google Docs.
Apple's iCloud does not sync docs (why?), so Google drive, MS Skydrive, Sugarsync and Evernote to the rescue.
But there's no nirvana yet - I would love for Google to invest in the LibreOffice program... Imagine LibreOffice on all your devices, with instant shared access to all documents. Fsuk yes! Given iOS and Android's root, how hard could it be?
A: ALL domestic appliances are delivered in white...
P.S. you forgot the coffee and orange juice.
P.P.S. Before the "wimin" get up in arms, we've been happily married 20 years now, and every Sunday I bring my lovely wife a bouquet of fresh roses with her breakfast.
True. Having said that, IBM did not really help. While OS/2 was in many ways a 'better DOS than DOS', as they promised, it fatally lacked support for non-IBM devices in the early days... I remember trying to install on a very-standard config beige box, and sixteen disettes later getting nowhere.
Called up an ex-colleague in IBM, who got me through to a senior dev in the OS/2 team. "Ah, we've never tested it on a non-IBM machine...better buy a PS/2..."
Not a bad idea, and the one used by Google, et al.
The problem is, within a large organisation that will presumably be using directory and calendar services, you can end up making name lookup harder than it should be and/or confusing. In nearly every big company that I've worked with, 'jon.doe@xx.yyy' always ended up getting mail, and invited to meetings, that were intended for 'jon.doe1@xx.yyy'. (Outlook, Lotus Notes et al are all great at 'helping' you complete the 'to:' fields in this way)
In one notable example, *unnamed* sent a racy mail (including NSFW pictures, the fool) to his buddy, except that it went to a random guy that just happened to be a senior manager, legendary for his evil temper and lack of both sense of humour and perspective. As the saying goes, hilarity ensued.
So, do what you want, but make 'same' names 'very' different, I suggest. Probably worthwhile handling them on a case-by-case basis manually.
Can't find the story, but has this not already been discussed here, at length? I'm all for constructive criticism, but gratuitous MS, Apple, Android, *X bashing is just...boring.
Having said all that, >40GB taken up by 'system' files, WTF?
Interesting thought, which has probably occurred to other people, of course. I suppose the reason why we have not seen large-scale attacks on routers so far, (and maybe there are some out there already, undetected) is that it has just been easier to infect PCs and use them in botnets, with the tools widely available. Would probably take a little more time and ingenuity to setup a net of zombie routers, with the need to tailor the worm or whatever a little to each model/software stack. However, once it was in place, can you imagine the disruption? Most SOHO & home users don't know anything about their ISP modem/routers at all, and use them by default as their firewall. Imagine that *gone* tomorrow. An ISP trying to roll-out large-scale firmware updates via a non-tech-savy audience sounds like a recipe for disaster. (Although I suppose many of the later models support remote update...). Since many users have no choice in their selection of ISP device, it is surely the responsibility of the ISP to make them secure...yeah, like it's their responsibility to get us all IPv6-compatible stuff too...don't hold your breath.
Of course, sitting smug and secure behind your shiny new firewall box will not help if you cannot access the net except via your compromised POS router. If you can, buy a decent one to substitute for the ISP-supplied crap.
Agree. I loved my various Citroens, (2cv, SM, CX, XM), except for one thing. Apart from the 2cv, they broke down all the time. Extra points for the SM and the XM for being virtually impossible to fix yourself, (and I'm a decent mechanic).
In the end I gave up, and like most people with money and sense in France, my wife and I drive BMW and Mercedes...
From Wikipedia: After Fermi received the Nobel Prize in Stockholm, he, his wife Laura, and their children did not return home to Italy, but rather continued to New York City, where they applied for permanent residency. The decision to move to America and become American citizens was primarily a result of the racial laws promulgated by Mussolini in order to bring Italian Fascism ideologically closer to German National Socialism. The new laws threatened Laura, who was Jewish, and put many of Fermi's research assistants out of work.
Mod up. Parent is right that the Allies went out of their way to collect Nazi technology and the scientists who created it, (see operation 'paperclip' et al), but you are correct in saying than WVB and his colleagues deliberately headed for the West.
We then, of course, equally deliberately overlooked their deep involvement in the revolting Nazi program, as a whole, including their direct use of slave labour.
Well, not just an ass but also lacks imagination. Since many people pick up their Gmail via POP or IMAP then, regardless of whether it's from the same server or not, it still goes through the 'public' Internet, (not via VPN, but at least they support secure connection).
In another post somebody said that "most" people access Gmail via web interface...eh? Everybody, yes everybody, I know also gets their Gmail on their BB/iThing/Android/Outlook/whatever...
You really think that he was able to do all he did without the full knowledge and support of the establishment? (Yeah, I know that's not the "entire country" but it's what counts.)
OK, Samsung is the biggest player in Android right now, but seeing as how so many iOS and Andoid devs seem to have so much trouble making their apps scale to different resolutions, I wonder how many 'windowing' apps we will ultimately see.
I don't know anything about developing for those platforms; can anyone here say how hard or trivial it is? (Like, why did I get an update for virtually all my iPhone and iPad apps when the iPhone 5 came out, although they seemed to be just to cater for the different screen resolution of the iPhone 5, which i was clearly not using. Have not noticed this with my Andoid devices..)
Also, how hard for Google to just stick this feature back into 'base' Andoid? Real multi-tasking and windowing, that would really stick it to iOS, eh? The hardware seems beefy enough now...
Hmmm, well I've been in the industry for a long, long time...and many things have not so much surprised me as simply amazed me. Like the slow-motion cluster fuck that IBM made of the original PC-PS/2 & DOS-WIN-OS/2 Intel battlefield. The astonishing demise of DEC (Digital) and HP, innovative engineering-led companies absorbed by the former beige-box cowboys at Compaq, with the final blow dealt by the lovely Carla. Don't even get me started on Xerox, who actually marketed a full GUI system before Apple. Worked well too, but was a tad pricy, like the Lisa.
Given the above, I am not surprised that MSFT would invest in Dell. What interests me is that you seem to think that it's a smart move.
Microsoft does not need Dell. People who buy their products are not driven by hardware choice - in the PC world there is still plenty of that. Despite the various boosters, more than all the other platforms combined... If Dell went South tomorrow, plenty of hardware manufacturers would pick up the market share overnight, and others would be cutting their own throats to do the same for the enterprise support.
MSFT only bailed out Apple to pre-empt antitrust attacks, (a move that was partially successful, unless you use MS-Office on a Mac)
No, this report, if true, is just yet another sign that the boys in Redmond are running out of good ideas.
State-owned C-DoT also criticised the government's decision not to select a fibre technology developed by it for the Rs 20,000-crore initiative to lay optic fibre connecting all panchayats in the country, claiming this would undermine six years of research.
They're hardly thus impartial observers. Also, their recommendation seems entirely based on the US decision, no other sources or original work quoted. Personally, I've no problem if they say "we're spending a fortune on building our national infrastruture, so we're going to use that as an opportunity to develop our indiginous technology capability". This, after all, is what the Chinese have been doing for years, either by downright stealing of IP, or by forcing "partnerships" with foreign companies desperate to get access to their market.
But c'mon guys, just have the balls to come out and say it...
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Just spent the weekend in Amsterdam with my wife.
Found a great hotel, with good prices, via the web. (Tripadvisor, which I find to be a good resource).
Everything was safe, clean, good breakfast etc.
Out of curiosity, I just checked airbnb for both AMS and my home tome.
The deals did not look good compared to genuine hotels.
This is an interesting story, despite the terrible summary.
For work & family, I have to juggle documents across Linux, Windows, BBerry, Apple and Android devices.
Probably the same for many people here.
First of all, there's no need for this, since Apple (and others) already offer perfectly adequate apps for viewing, and even editing, MS Office documents on iPad and iPhone. But having tried it, I guarantee you'll only do it once. Sticking rusty nails in your eye is probably less painful.
Well, OK, at least you can view PPT slides in (vaguely) something like their original format. But still best to send as a PDF...
MS have shot themselves in the foot by getting rid of LiveMesh, (which worked very well), and replacing it with Skydrive, which works well too, but is more complex and brings no extra benefit. Extra demerit points to the boys in Redmond for giving the web interface a Windows 8 style tiled look, which sucks. Extra, super idiot points for there being no online document editing abilities like Google Docs.
Apple's iCloud does not sync docs (why?), so Google drive, MS Skydrive, Sugarsync and Evernote to the rescue.
But there's no nirvana yet - I would love for Google to invest in the LibreOffice program...
Imagine LibreOffice on all your devices, with instant shared access to all documents. Fsuk yes!
Given iOS and Android's root, how hard could it be?
No, you need a W.I.F.E.
Time for that old joke:
Q: Why do women get married in white?
A: ALL domestic appliances are delivered in white...
P.S. you forgot the coffee and orange juice.
P.P.S. Before the "wimin" get up in arms, we've been happily married 20 years now, and every Sunday I bring my lovely wife a bouquet of fresh roses with her breakfast.
Nah, real men reckoned the minimum was a 9370. What a POS!
Hmmmm, apart from printers, modems, network cards etc...yes
But I suspect you are referring more to the marketing issues, in which case I agree totally.
Yup, they fixed that with warp but it was too late
Yes, Please. Don't mod 'funny' guys, 'insightful' would be better.
True. Having said that, IBM did not really help. While OS/2 was in many ways a 'better DOS than DOS', as they promised, it fatally lacked support for non-IBM devices in the early days... I remember trying to install on a very-standard config beige box, and sixteen disettes later getting nowhere.
Called up an ex-colleague in IBM, who got me through to a senior dev in the OS/2 team. "Ah, we've never tested it on a non-IBM machine...better buy a PS/2..."
Not a bad idea, and the one used by Google, et al.
The problem is, within a large organisation that will presumably be using directory and calendar services, you can end up making name lookup harder than it should be and/or confusing.
In nearly every big company that I've worked with, 'jon.doe@xx.yyy' always ended up getting mail, and invited to meetings, that were intended for 'jon.doe1@xx.yyy'. (Outlook, Lotus Notes et al are all great at 'helping' you complete the 'to:' fields in this way)
In one notable example, *unnamed* sent a racy mail (including NSFW pictures, the fool) to his buddy, except that it went to a random guy that just happened to be a senior manager, legendary for his evil temper and lack of both sense of humour and perspective. As the saying goes, hilarity ensued.
So, do what you want, but make 'same' names 'very' different, I suggest. Probably worthwhile handling them on a case-by-case basis manually.
Can't find the story, but has this not already been discussed here, at length?
I'm all for constructive criticism, but gratuitous MS, Apple, Android, *X bashing is just...boring.
Having said all that, >40GB taken up by 'system' files, WTF?
Interesting thought, which has probably occurred to other people, of course.
I suppose the reason why we have not seen large-scale attacks on routers so far, (and maybe there are some out there already, undetected) is that it has just been easier to infect PCs and use them in botnets, with the tools widely available.
Would probably take a little more time and ingenuity to setup a net of zombie routers, with the need to tailor the worm or whatever a little to each model/software stack.
However, once it was in place, can you imagine the disruption? Most SOHO & home users don't know anything about their ISP modem/routers at all, and use them by default as their firewall. Imagine that *gone* tomorrow. An ISP trying to roll-out large-scale firmware updates via a non-tech-savy audience sounds like a recipe for disaster. (Although I suppose many of the later models support remote update...).
Since many users have no choice in their selection of ISP device, it is surely the responsibility of the ISP to make them secure...yeah, like it's their responsibility to get us all IPv6-compatible stuff too...don't hold your breath.
In the meantime, roll your own firewall box everyone, and while you're at it, do one for your friends and relations. It's cheap and fairly easy.
Here's a good place to start.
http://www.amazon.com/Building-Firewalls-OpenBSD-PF-2nd/dp/8391665119 (You don't have to use BSD, of course, most any flavour of *x will do)
Or just download a distro where pretty much all the work has been done for you.
http://www.techradar.com/news/software/applications/7-of-the-best-linux-firewalls-697177
Of course, sitting smug and secure behind your shiny new firewall box will not help if you cannot access the net except via your compromised POS router. If you can, buy a decent one to substitute for the ISP-supplied crap.
Or Russia...
Agree. I loved my various Citroens, (2cv, SM, CX, XM), except for one thing.
Apart from the 2cv, they broke down all the time.
Extra points for the SM and the XM for being virtually impossible to fix yourself, (and I'm a decent mechanic).
In the end I gave up, and like most people with money and sense in France, my wife and I drive BMW and Mercedes...
Owned a 2cv, and loved it, (in its designed-for environment, rural France).
But in a crash, (with roadside tree, for example), you really would be better off in almost anything...
I am sure you do. Welcome, and thanks for the post.
More a refugee, as was Einstein...
From Wikipedia: After Fermi received the Nobel Prize in Stockholm, he, his wife Laura, and their children did not return home to Italy, but rather continued to New York City, where they applied for permanent residency. The decision to move to America and become American citizens was primarily a result of the racial laws promulgated by Mussolini in order to bring Italian Fascism ideologically closer to German National Socialism. The new laws threatened Laura, who was Jewish, and put many of Fermi's research assistants out of work.
Mod up. Parent is right that the Allies went out of their way to collect Nazi technology and the scientists who created it, (see operation 'paperclip' et al), but you are correct in saying than WVB and his colleagues deliberately headed for the West.
We then, of course, equally deliberately overlooked their deep involvement in the revolting Nazi program, as a whole, including their direct use of slave labour.
Ah, the joys of Realpolitik...
Well, not just an ass but also lacks imagination. Since many people pick up their Gmail via POP or IMAP then, regardless of whether it's from the same server or not, it still goes through the 'public' Internet, (not via VPN, but at least they support secure connection).
In another post somebody said that "most" people access Gmail via web interface...eh? Everybody, yes everybody, I know also gets their Gmail on their BB/iThing/Android/Outlook/whatever...
Yeah, I hear the Pakistanis are REAL fans..
You really think that he was able to do all he did without the full knowledge and support of the establishment? (Yeah, I know that's not the "entire country" but it's what counts.)
OK, Samsung is the biggest player in Android right now, but seeing as how so many iOS and Andoid devs seem to have so much trouble making their apps scale to different resolutions, I wonder how many 'windowing' apps we will ultimately see.
I don't know anything about developing for those platforms; can anyone here say how hard or trivial it is?
(Like, why did I get an update for virtually all my iPhone and iPad apps when the iPhone 5 came out, although they seemed to be just to cater for the different screen resolution of the iPhone 5, which i was clearly not using. Have not noticed this with my Andoid devices..)
Also, how hard for Google to just stick this feature back into 'base' Andoid? Real multi-tasking and windowing, that would really stick it to iOS, eh? The hardware seems beefy enough now...
Get your point. Wonder how they'll control the rapid VC boys with only a minority shareholding, tho...
Hmmm, well I've been in the industry for a long, long time...and many things have not so much surprised me as simply amazed me.
Like the slow-motion cluster fuck that IBM made of the original PC-PS/2 & DOS-WIN-OS/2 Intel battlefield.
The astonishing demise of DEC (Digital) and HP, innovative engineering-led companies absorbed by the former beige-box cowboys at Compaq, with the final blow dealt by the lovely Carla.
Don't even get me started on Xerox, who actually marketed a full GUI system before Apple. Worked well too, but was a tad pricy, like the Lisa.
Given the above, I am not surprised that MSFT would invest in Dell.
What interests me is that you seem to think that it's a smart move.
Microsoft does not need Dell. People who buy their products are not driven by hardware choice - in the PC world there is still plenty of that. Despite the various boosters, more than all the other platforms combined...
If Dell went South tomorrow, plenty of hardware manufacturers would pick up the market share overnight, and others would be cutting their own throats to do the same for the enterprise support.
MSFT only bailed out Apple to pre-empt antitrust attacks, (a move that was partially successful, unless you use MS-Office on a Mac)
No, this report, if true, is just yet another sign that the boys in Redmond are running out of good ideas.
Indeed, looks something like that. FTA:
State-owned C-DoT also criticised the government's decision not to select a fibre technology developed by it for the Rs 20,000-crore initiative to lay optic fibre connecting all panchayats in the country, claiming this would undermine six years of research.
They're hardly thus impartial observers. Also, their recommendation seems entirely based on the US decision, no other sources or original work quoted. Personally, I've no problem if they say "we're spending a fortune on building our national infrastruture, so we're going to use that as an opportunity to develop our indiginous technology capability". This, after all, is what the Chinese have been doing for years, either by downright stealing of IP, or by forcing "partnerships" with foreign companies desperate to get access to their market.
But c'mon guys, just have the balls to come out and say it...
Great post, thanks.
Also, you can get a copy mighty cheaper...
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/01/02/2319258/the-copyright-battle-over-custom-built-batmobiles