I have had a Palm Pre Plus since they came out. I WANTED a WebOS tablet, but thre is NO software for it. I look at the WebOs market at least once a week and its jsut shit apps . There are NO big 3rd party names, just a bunch of little bullshit apps. I was surprised when Angry Birds showed up on the market. Also, the WebOS tablet FEELS LIKE SHIT IN YOUR HAND compared to an ipad. Its a giant hunk of cheap looking plastic. I really wanted HP/Palm to come through here , but htey have failed very hard. If it drops to $250 i MAY consider picking it up, and thats coming from someone who uses WebOS every day.
And this points out why we should be able to have public and private personas, but they dont necessarily have to be embodied by the same service. Its FINE if Google+ insists on real names, use other services for your privacy needs.
And trolls DO serve a function, if nothing to remind everyone that not everyone else is interested in civil discourse. A troll is still a human, as it were.
THere is a place for anonymity and there is a place for disclosure. WE cant have everything straddle both sides. If you have a message that is sensitive, think long and hard about delivering it. While we like to think that freedom of speech as front line protection, its merely a last defense. If you piss off people in power, they will come at you, this is the natural order of the universe.
This is why biometrics are stupid. Not ALL humans have thumbs, retinas, etc. All humans that need access to perform tasks have minds that can store information.
A fair point. Regardless of how he got there, when the full realization of the Dark Army hit him, he crumbled, unable to be bolstered, going so far as to break his troops morale. When despair took Theoden, Aragorn was able to remind him of who and WHAT he was and they charged headlong in to glory. MIDs are here and user demands are going to be hard to ignore. You can despair about it or you can design a hardened network and robust data policies to serve your users. Taking a hard stance and being completely inflexible on this matter are going to become harder for I.T.
I am here to be Aragorn, to remind you that we are problem solvers at heart. Allowance HAS to be made for MID use, it cannot be ignored. Your concern should be 'how do i connect with my users securely using insecure devices. What tools do I have in my toolbox to accomplish this.' Its fine to say no, but only if you have alternatives you can point to.
If you're prepared for that, you'll be prepared for doctors trying to use poorly-secured IOS devices.
Sigh.
The proper response to the poorly-secured devices is to not let them onto the network. The entire argument going on here is that people who don't understand what they are doing want to simultaneously have a "secure network" while letting any random device that someone may bring from home onto it.
Now, can you set up a "walled garden" for guest-level devices to play in? Sure. But I can guarantee you, a "walled garden" won't touch the stuff that Mr. Gotta Have New Shiny Toy wants it to touch.
And we are telling you that saying no to everything IS NO LONGER VIABLE. The barbarians are at the gate, my friend. Will you be Denethor or Theoden? While you stand in your fortress or will you ride out to the Rohirrim?. It is fools like you i enjoy steamrolling in I.T. meetings. Your entrenched position is no longer safe. We are coming for YOU.
"Believe it or not, IT security concerns for a University, Hospital, or large-scale (or even smaller-scale) business, from a law firm to department store chain, make it so that they are a completely different environment from the knocked-together, wide open "home network" involving someone bringing a $25 router home from Best Buy, plugging it into a DSL modem, plugging their home PC in and setting their laptop to talk to a wide-open wireless network that has named itself "Netgear", and never bothering to configure the security setup or even make sure that their laptop's administrator password isn't blank."
Professional networks are professional, thank you for that wonderful insight.
And thus the cathedral mentality is exposed. have you so little faith in your network that you cant defend yourself from the users? A network is more then a collection of business systems. Its an ecosystem of users, functionality, security, admins, decision makers. Its not a cathedral but a living design that needs to change to reflect the changes in technology. No one is saying let any old cheap chinese crap android tablet on your network, but my question would be, where is your alternative you can point to when users demand more functionality? Where is your answer to their cries? Or are you waiting on Microsoft to swing into action.......
Most good I.T. departments consider their coworkers their customers. Its honestly a sign of respect. The real world of that is there needs to be some separation of I.T. and other departments, jsut like H.R. is usually insular too. Its a sensitive area of the company involving lots of privacy and control for often very good reasons. We address our coworkers as customers to reflect this distinction. Familiarity breeds contempt.
I don't understand this. Cant it do both? Can't it be both a cloud end point for some types of data and a data processor for others? Laptops suck. Plain and simple. They are 30 years of design kludge. I would rath focus on making useful tablets and software to bridge the gaps then continue to push the current desktop/laptop paradigm. I would rather we design tablets with great peripheral integration, and the ability to become desktop/laptop with accessories.
MIDS are going to march into corporate I.T. like a storm. A huge sea change in the way we develop and deploy solutions is coming. We are seeing the beginning of the end of MS as the corporate go-to solution, at least their current offerings. Sure people will still use MS infrastructure crap for decades, but the desktop as we know it is going to die. Your computer is going to be a MID that docks when you get to your desk and then syncs to the cloud storage (intra/inter-net). When it docks up it will be much like a traditional desktop you see now.
How you feel is dead wrong. A mouse is a completely superior input device versus a gamepad for FPS. Lets play TF2 on PC, you with Xbox controller, and me with my logitech G700 and see who wins. I will destroy you. try circle strafing a sentry with a gamepad without it hitting you and see how well you do. You sir are the hack.
SO glad someone else said Oblivion was dull. I never understood the appeal of that game. It was just honestly a terribly executed game, from massive bugs, to a terribly designed leveling system to being forever linked to 'horse armor'
AC II does work with the wireless Xbox pad, but by default some of the buttons are swapped from what the in-game context menu says. I havent gone back to remap yet so no word on that.
I ended up jsut using the Xbox controller on my PC for Dead Space. I can give EA a 'little' slack on this issue, but not Epic. Fuck them in the ass. THey have gone out of their way to piss off their original customers. CLiffy B is an asshole for no good reason. I own a physical retail copy of every Epic game made up to and including UT III. You couldnt pay me to play one of their games now.
Acknowledgment of a Creator is a BELIEF, a positive affirmation of the supernatural. It has no place in a Republic and it is absolutely in violation of the First.
This is it exactly. The Apple premium is exactly what Kutaragi (Father of the PS3) was describing when he said " It will be expensive... for consumers to think to themselves 'I will work more hours to buy one'. "
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Documents should be scanned and encrypted and uploaded to the cloud as well. ( in this case im using cloud a generic term for offsite backup storage medium.)
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I have had a Palm Pre Plus since they came out. I WANTED a WebOS tablet, but thre is NO software for it. I look at the WebOs market at least once a week and its jsut shit apps . There are NO big 3rd party names, just a bunch of little bullshit apps. I was surprised when Angry Birds showed up on the market. Also, the WebOS tablet FEELS LIKE SHIT IN YOUR HAND compared to an ipad. Its a giant hunk of cheap looking plastic. I really wanted HP/Palm to come through here , but htey have failed very hard. If it drops to $250 i MAY consider picking it up, and thats coming from someone who uses WebOS every day.
Speaking of Prey 2, im not sure why iuts called that. There are no Indians, no portals, no aliens from the first game.
You might regret being born into this world because of silly trademark law? talk about hyperbole......
The thing is he really WAS on something....
And this points out why we should be able to have public and private personas, but they dont necessarily have to be embodied by the same service. Its FINE if Google+ insists on real names, use other services for your privacy needs.
And trolls DO serve a function, if nothing to remind everyone that not everyone else is interested in civil discourse. A troll is still a human, as it were.
THere is a place for anonymity and there is a place for disclosure. WE cant have everything straddle both sides. If you have a message that is sensitive, think long and hard about delivering it. While we like to think that freedom of speech as front line protection, its merely a last defense. If you piss off people in power, they will come at you, this is the natural order of the universe.
This is why biometrics are stupid. Not ALL humans have thumbs, retinas, etc. All humans that need access to perform tasks have minds that can store information.
A fair point. Regardless of how he got there, when the full realization of the Dark Army hit him, he crumbled, unable to be bolstered, going so far as to break his troops morale. When despair took Theoden, Aragorn was able to remind him of who and WHAT he was and they charged headlong in to glory. MIDs are here and user demands are going to be hard to ignore. You can despair about it or you can design a hardened network and robust data policies to serve your users. Taking a hard stance and being completely inflexible on this matter are going to become harder for I.T.
I am here to be Aragorn, to remind you that we are problem solvers at heart. Allowance HAS to be made for MID use, it cannot be ignored. Your concern should be 'how do i connect with my users securely using insecure devices. What tools do I have in my toolbox to accomplish this.' Its fine to say no, but only if you have alternatives you can point to.
If you're prepared for that, you'll be prepared for doctors trying to use poorly-secured IOS devices.
Sigh.
The proper response to the poorly-secured devices is to not let them onto the network. The entire argument going on here is that people who don't understand what they are doing want to simultaneously have a "secure network" while letting any random device that someone may bring from home onto it.
Now, can you set up a "walled garden" for guest-level devices to play in? Sure. But I can guarantee you, a "walled garden" won't touch the stuff that Mr. Gotta Have New Shiny Toy wants it to touch.
And we are telling you that saying no to everything IS NO LONGER VIABLE. The barbarians are at the gate, my friend. Will you be Denethor or Theoden? While you stand in your fortress or will you ride out to the Rohirrim?. It is fools like you i enjoy steamrolling in I.T. meetings. Your entrenched position is no longer safe. We are coming for YOU.
"Believe it or not, IT security concerns for a University, Hospital, or large-scale (or even smaller-scale) business, from a law firm to department store chain, make it so that they are a completely different environment from the knocked-together, wide open "home network" involving someone bringing a $25 router home from Best Buy, plugging it into a DSL modem, plugging their home PC in and setting their laptop to talk to a wide-open wireless network that has named itself "Netgear", and never bothering to configure the security setup or even make sure that their laptop's administrator password isn't blank."
Professional networks are professional, thank you for that wonderful insight.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2387436,00.asp. If OnLive can do decent gaming over the net, im sure remote desktop wont be a problem.
And thus the cathedral mentality is exposed. have you so little faith in your network that you cant defend yourself from the users? A network is more then a collection of business systems. Its an ecosystem of users, functionality, security, admins, decision makers. Its not a cathedral but a living design that needs to change to reflect the changes in technology. No one is saying let any old cheap chinese crap android tablet on your network, but my question would be, where is your alternative you can point to when users demand more functionality? Where is your answer to their cries? Or are you waiting on Microsoft to swing into action.......
Most good I.T. departments consider their coworkers their customers. Its honestly a sign of respect. The real world of that is there needs to be some separation of I.T. and other departments, jsut like H.R. is usually insular too. Its a sensitive area of the company involving lots of privacy and control for often very good reasons. We address our coworkers as customers to reflect this distinction. Familiarity breeds contempt.
I don't understand this. Cant it do both? Can't it be both a cloud end point for some types of data and a data processor for others? Laptops suck. Plain and simple. They are 30 years of design kludge. I would rath focus on making useful tablets and software to bridge the gaps then continue to push the current desktop/laptop paradigm. I would rather we design tablets with great peripheral integration, and the ability to become desktop/laptop with accessories.
MIDS are going to march into corporate I.T. like a storm. A huge sea change in the way we develop and deploy solutions is coming. We are seeing the beginning of the end of MS as the corporate go-to solution, at least their current offerings. Sure people will still use MS infrastructure crap for decades, but the desktop as we know it is going to die. Your computer is going to be a MID that docks when you get to your desk and then syncs to the cloud storage (intra/inter-net). When it docks up it will be much like a traditional desktop you see now.
Bah, ill jsut play it on console. Was hoping to play it in a nice high resolution.
How you feel is dead wrong. A mouse is a completely superior input device versus a gamepad for FPS. Lets play TF2 on PC, you with Xbox controller, and me with my logitech G700 and see who wins. I will destroy you. try circle strafing a sentry with a gamepad without it hitting you and see how well you do. You sir are the hack.
For the record, on proper hardware, GTA IV looks pretty damn good.
SO glad someone else said Oblivion was dull. I never understood the appeal of that game. It was just honestly a terribly executed game, from massive bugs, to a terribly designed leveling system to being forever linked to 'horse armor'
AC II does work with the wireless Xbox pad, but by default some of the buttons are swapped from what the in-game context menu says. I havent gone back to remap yet so no word on that.
I ended up jsut using the Xbox controller on my PC for Dead Space. I can give EA a 'little' slack on this issue, but not Epic. Fuck them in the ass. THey have gone out of their way to piss off their original customers. CLiffy B is an asshole for no good reason. I own a physical retail copy of every Epic game made up to and including UT III. You couldnt pay me to play one of their games now.
Acknowledgment of a Creator is a BELIEF, a positive affirmation of the supernatural. It has no place in a Republic and it is absolutely in violation of the First.
This is it exactly. The Apple premium is exactly what Kutaragi (Father of the PS3) was describing when he said " It will be expensive ... for consumers to think to themselves 'I will work more hours to buy one'. "
.
Documents should be scanned and encrypted and uploaded to the cloud as well. ( in this case im using cloud a generic term for offsite backup storage medium.)