Then why stay? I left my native land more than 20 years ago, and travelled around the world until I found a place which suited. Of course, it's not perfect, but it's my choice...try it!
.. what happened to "developers, developers, developers"?
Nothing. Balmer meant developers who worked for Ms, not in general. Remember, that infamous jumping monkey scene was @ an internal Ms venue. Non Ms developers? Well, you'll have to go through 'security' screening, I'm afraid... Still, no big deal. Plenty of non-Apple developers have made good money by doing apps for iPhone. I'm sure the same will be the case for WinMo7.
Meanwhile, Android continues to gain market share...
Shame on the organisation behind it for creating it.
Well, OK, it's kinda pathetic and tacky, I grant you that. But at least the poor people performing the service can be warm and safe at home, not risking their health, or worse, on the street. Most will be guys, anyway...
Shame on you, CmdrTaco, for posting this.
You've lost me there...this is supposed to be 'news for nerds', after all...
And every one of you assholes who immediately started joking about it, you disgust me.
Well, like I said, this is/. What do you expect them to do - climb out of the basement and spend the money on a real hooker instead?
Oh, and while we're on the topic of sanctimonious posts, many people would be upset by your blasphemy.
Still, I see you've been modded funny, so I guess I'm gonna get 'whooooshed' for this post!
Seriously. I've got small ones on my main machines, (just the OSes and pgms - plenty big enough) plus a bigger one on the laptop. Internal or external classic HDDs give plenty of cheap space. With SATA, even external drives are fast enough. Forget about springing for the latest multi-core gonzohertz CPU; these things have make a real difference to everyday usability. OK you only boot once per day, but application and big datasets load fast...laptops hibernate and reload fast too...nice.
Easy, my new friend. Please post here your social security number, bank account and credit cards details plus all logins and passwords and you'll be part of our network in no time!!!
Mod up, mod up... How many times do we have to repeat this? For those without Firefox and those extensions you point out, do your 'hosts' file: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file Good for Chrome lovers and, of course, non-Windows platforms. Yes - Apple and *Nix users are vunerable too...especially if in a mixed network with Windows boxen.
Nintendo tries more off the wall ideas than any other company in the industry.
Agreed, but Apple is up there... Wildly offtopic I know, but - anybody - why has Apple never gotten into this business? I suppose the closest they got was the Apple (i)TV, which was hardly a massive success...
In addition to the sound advice already give above, I'd suggest also regularly just re-installing everything. This sounds scary, but actually has a lot of benefits: 1. It forces you to get good at configuration management and massive deployment 2. You can schedule and apply security & application updates in one hit, hence avoiding cross- or retro-infection, and also ensuring that patches really are applied 3. It forces users to take responsibility for data backup & restore, (or at least makes sure you get your centralised system working reliably and transparently 4. All the crap that people install 'by accident' but then never use vanishes, and the security holes with them) 5. A lot of miscellaneous error reports will also vanish, as stuff that people had broken is reset, (slow PCs, random hangs, network glitches...)
It sounds like a lot of work, but since I've never found any security produce that detects, and then reliably removes, 100% of all known nasties, it's actually the only way to be sure your systems are 100% clean, (albeit probably only briefly). You'll also, ultimately, spend less time. NEVER waste time trying to disinfect a machine - reinstall...
Ahhhhh...right. I'll just run that down to the finance drones who have umpteen gazillion Excel macros, (representing an equally huge number of man-hours), doing 'vital' stuff.
What projects like this really need is someone, (hello IBM?) to come up with a smart way to migrate all this shit, (macro-laden Office Docx - it's not just Excel, guys) to FOSS. Don't get me started on ActiveX...
I'm a big fan of Ooffice, but all too frequently you'll open an (Office 2203, not even the latest..) Powerpoint presentation in Oo and all kinds of stuff is broken. So how far away are we from seamlessly migrating complex spreadsheets? A long way....
Which is, of course, what the boys in Redmond have always wanted...
I think it is more likely they would provide much less support and engineering resources for it going forward, leaving it to the community outside of Sun to keep it feature and bug competitive.
Pretty much what I meant...but a fork surely won't be as credible with the corporate suits as a product with Sun behind it. Shame, MySQL & Ooffice are both great products IMHO. Maybe a white knight (with a Red Hat?) will take it over, but I'm sure if they're too successful than Larry will find a way to stymie it...
OK, I guess we're all against the potentially creepy applications of this. But could there be useful ones? Most people carry cell phones, could this be used to monitor people with known history of health problems, such as heart disease, or the elderly? If my cell phone detected that I'd just had a stroke, or that one of my parents had just had a fall, and was unconscious at the bottom of a staircase, and informed the emergency services, then that would be the kind of intrusion that I could accept.
Agree. Wireless security was really broken from the start, and has got only slightly better, slowly... Interoperability between devices from different vendors is not so bad now. On the other hand, if you travel around the world you can actually enjoy the convenience of wirelessly connecting to the internet almost anywhere. (The other day I did a free conf call, via Wifi in some airport terminal, with three people in three different continents, using my bluetooth headset on a cheap laptop...could you imagine that 20 years ago?) So, better an imperfect solution that works, than no solution. Well done IEEE!
Seems rather extreme & lacking in imagination. Maybe just cut the wifi in the lecture halls? However, the interesting point for me is this one: "I don't want to know what's in your computer. I want to know what's in your head." In both business and teaching situations, I've found PCs can be incredibly helpful, or the reverse. If everyone's 'head's down' doing their emails (typical business meeting) or facebook, (typical kids scenario) then of course there's no real communication or interaction. But if you use PCs well, everyone gains. For example, teach your colleagues or students to use mind mapping software (try 'freemind', or the better but costly Mindjet) and they'll save masses of time taking and then reviewing notes. A mindmap takes little 'heads down' time to do, enabling people to think and participate in class, and then acts as a good revision tool. Give people a soft copy of stuff, so they don't have to take notes, but can add to yours, and/or follow on their screen if they have visual or other difficulties. Give 'em practical exercises...
I wonder how much difference there really is between the various counties? I've been in places in the Americas, Europe & Asia where 'remote' could be as little as an hour's drive away from a big city. Guess what? No broadband, & crappy cell coverage, (forget high bandwidth via cell). Why? Normally simple economics. Look at the cell maps; they all claim to cover '9x%' of the population, conveniently forgetting that that's != to '9x' of the inhabitated surface. Anyway, how much bandwidth do you really need? Is it really a handicap if you cannot run a call/data centre from some remote mountain or desert retreat?
Well, why not? The US essentially ended the first space race by making multiple landings on the moon. Still an extraordinary achievement, and frankly an amazing one given the technology available at the time. 1969, remember. Gentlemen, I salute you. (And no, I'm not American...) What do you do to top that? It's like gambling; sometimes it's better to get up from the table and keep your winnings. The shuttle program was - frankly - a disaster, financially but especially and unfortunately in human lives. Let the Chinese and others waste a fortune trying to do what NASA did, and save the cash for Medicare.
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Then why stay?
I left my native land more than 20 years ago, and travelled around the world until I found a place which suited.
Of course, it's not perfect, but it's my choice...try it!
Don't worry - you can then apply for 'free' cover! Oh wait....
FTA: "patent #7,679,604....belongs to Durham Logistics, a Las Vegas limited liability company about which I can find little information..."
>"What will happen if the company that owns the patent asserts it?"
My guess is Apple & Co deploy expensive lawyers & hammer Durham firmly into a small, smoking hole in the ground...
All the evil with none of the hipster kewl artsy metrosexual buzz.
Fantastic summary that made me smile; thanks!
.. what happened to "developers, developers, developers"?
Nothing. Balmer meant developers who worked for Ms, not in general.
Remember, that infamous jumping monkey scene was @ an internal Ms venue.
Non Ms developers? Well, you'll have to go through 'security' screening, I'm afraid...
Still, no big deal. Plenty of non-Apple developers have made good money by doing apps for iPhone.
I'm sure the same will be the case for WinMo7.
Meanwhile, Android continues to gain market share...
Shame on the organisation behind it for creating it.
Well, OK, it's kinda pathetic and tacky, I grant you that. But at least the poor people performing the service can be warm and safe at home, not risking their health, or worse, on the street. Most will be guys, anyway...
Shame on you, CmdrTaco, for posting this.
You've lost me there...this is supposed to be 'news for nerds', after all...
And every one of you assholes who immediately started joking about it, you disgust me.
Well, like I said, this is /. What do you expect them to do - climb out of the basement and spend the money on a real hooker instead?
Oh, and while we're on the topic of sanctimonious posts, many people would be upset by your blasphemy.
Still, I see you've been modded funny, so I guess I'm gonna get 'whooooshed' for this post!
Seriously. I've got small ones on my main machines, (just the OSes and pgms - plenty big enough) plus a bigger one on the laptop.
Internal or external classic HDDs give plenty of cheap space. With SATA, even external drives are fast enough.
Forget about springing for the latest multi-core gonzohertz CPU; these things have make a real difference to everyday usability.
OK you only boot once per day, but application and big datasets load fast...laptops hibernate and reload fast too...nice.
Easy, my new friend.
Please post here your social security number, bank account and credit cards details plus all logins and passwords and you'll be part of our network in no time!!!
Mod up, mod up...
How many times do we have to repeat this?
For those without Firefox and those extensions you point out, do your 'hosts' file:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file
Good for Chrome lovers and, of course, non-Windows platforms.
Yes - Apple and *Nix users are vunerable too...especially if in a mixed network with Windows boxen.
Peerblock is worth a look too...
http://www.peerblock.com/releases
Nintendo tries more off the wall ideas than any other company in the industry.
Agreed, but Apple is up there...
Wildly offtopic I know, but - anybody - why has Apple never gotten into this business?
I suppose the closest they got was the Apple (i)TV, which was hardly a massive success...
I spent my honeymoon in Hawaii. I don't think I ever left the hotel room, much less the hotel.
It was enjoyable, but did I really enjoy Hawaii?
Well, it sounds like you did...;-)
Next up, 'private' flights for those wishing to join the '68 mile-high' club?
(At least that's how high they're claiming it will go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceship_two)
1. Select some uninteresting Ubuntu-related stuff 'news' /.
2. Sensationalize
3. Get Taco to put on
4. Watch your admoney roll in
5. Proffitt!!!
And I'd be astonished if less than 5% of the spare parts sold for Cats were not used or reman sold as 'new', or just outright fakes...
In addition to the sound advice already give above, I'd suggest also regularly just re-installing everything.
This sounds scary, but actually has a lot of benefits:
1. It forces you to get good at configuration management and massive deployment
2. You can schedule and apply security & application updates in one hit, hence avoiding cross- or retro-infection, and also ensuring that patches really are applied
3. It forces users to take responsibility for data backup & restore, (or at least makes sure you get your centralised system working reliably and transparently
4. All the crap that people install 'by accident' but then never use vanishes, and the security holes with them)
5. A lot of miscellaneous error reports will also vanish, as stuff that people had broken is reset, (slow PCs, random hangs, network glitches...)
It sounds like a lot of work, but since I've never found any security produce that detects, and then reliably removes, 100% of all known nasties, it's actually the only way to be sure your systems are 100% clean, (albeit probably only briefly). You'll also, ultimately, spend less time. NEVER waste time trying to disinfect a machine - reinstall...
Ahhhhh...right. I'll just run that down to the finance drones who have umpteen gazillion Excel macros, (representing an equally huge number of man-hours), doing 'vital' stuff.
What projects like this really need is someone, (hello IBM?) to come up with a smart way to migrate all this shit, (macro-laden Office Docx - it's not just Excel, guys) to FOSS. Don't get me started on ActiveX...
I'm a big fan of Ooffice, but all too frequently you'll open an (Office 2203, not even the latest..) Powerpoint presentation in Oo and all kinds of stuff is broken.
So how far away are we from seamlessly migrating complex spreadsheets? A long way....
Which is, of course, what the boys in Redmond have always wanted...
I think it is more likely they would provide much less support and engineering resources for it going forward, leaving it to the community outside of Sun to keep it feature and bug competitive.
Pretty much what I meant...but a fork surely won't be as credible with the corporate suits as a product with Sun behind it.
Shame, MySQL & Ooffice are both great products IMHO.
Maybe a white knight (with a Red Hat?) will take it over, but I'm sure if they're too successful than Larry will find a way to stymie it...
Sadly, probably yes...
Expect Choogle to come online by the end of April, in direct competition with Google.
Well, it already exists; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu
The only problem is, a lot of people in China find Google better for some purposes, (including party members, according to a report I heard).
You'd better believe that if the Chinese Gov did not want Google to stay, they would have already thrown them out...
...And how am I rewarded at the end of the game?
Uh, with blindness?
OK, I guess we're all against the potentially creepy applications of this.
But could there be useful ones? Most people carry cell phones, could this be used to monitor people with known history of health problems, such as heart disease, or the elderly?
If my cell phone detected that I'd just had a stroke, or that one of my parents had just had a fall, and was unconscious at the bottom of a staircase, and informed the emergency services, then that would be the kind of intrusion that I could accept.
Agree. Wireless security was really broken from the start, and has got only slightly better, slowly...
Interoperability between devices from different vendors is not so bad now.
On the other hand, if you travel around the world you can actually enjoy the convenience of wirelessly connecting to the internet almost anywhere.
(The other day I did a free conf call, via Wifi in some airport terminal, with three people in three different continents, using my bluetooth headset on a cheap laptop...could you imagine that 20 years ago?)
So, better an imperfect solution that works, than no solution. Well done IEEE!
""The standard phrase is that the LHC is its own prototype," Dr. Steve Myers, director of the particle smasher, told the BBC today.
"Due to an unforeseen construction mistake"...
Wind it up to 11, guys! What could possibly go wrong?
Seems rather extreme & lacking in imagination. Maybe just cut the wifi in the lecture halls?
However, the interesting point for me is this one:
"I don't want to know what's in your computer. I want to know what's in your head."
In both business and teaching situations, I've found PCs can be incredibly helpful, or the reverse.
If everyone's 'head's down' doing their emails (typical business meeting) or facebook, (typical kids scenario) then of course there's no real communication or interaction.
But if you use PCs well, everyone gains.
For example, teach your colleagues or students to use mind mapping software (try 'freemind', or the better but costly Mindjet) and they'll save masses of time taking and then reviewing notes.
A mindmap takes little 'heads down' time to do, enabling people to think and participate in class, and then acts as a good revision tool.
Give people a soft copy of stuff, so they don't have to take notes, but can add to yours, and/or follow on their screen if they have visual or other difficulties.
Give 'em practical exercises...
C'mon guys, don't just BAN the things!
I wonder how much difference there really is between the various counties?
I've been in places in the Americas, Europe & Asia where 'remote' could be as little as an hour's drive away from a big city.
Guess what? No broadband, & crappy cell coverage, (forget high bandwidth via cell).
Why? Normally simple economics. Look at the cell maps; they all claim to cover '9x%' of the population, conveniently forgetting that that's != to '9x' of the inhabitated surface.
Anyway, how much bandwidth do you really need? Is it really a handicap if you cannot run a call/data centre from some remote mountain or desert retreat?
Well, why not? The US essentially ended the first space race by making multiple landings on the moon. Still an extraordinary achievement, and frankly an amazing one given the technology available at the time. 1969, remember.
Gentlemen, I salute you. (And no, I'm not American...)
What do you do to top that?
It's like gambling; sometimes it's better to get up from the table and keep your winnings.
The shuttle program was - frankly - a disaster, financially but especially and unfortunately in human lives.
Let the Chinese and others waste a fortune trying to do what NASA did, and save the cash for Medicare.