It would seem that if all saves are forced to the cloud, it would be pretty dam easy to control hackers and home brew. Sure..hack it all ya want..but when you want to save..umm not so much.
If you don't think they will play the network stability card and get a nod to tier the bandwidth you haven't really learned how govt and business work yet...
Its not the pic of my cat or that I had a great dinner... its the connection of the relationships that is worth having... Sure the big "They" monitor here and everywhere else..but not like that..
I had a daydream a few weeks ago about ok..what would someone like..ohh I dunno.. Nazi Germany do if they had the info that FB has.. then I looked at our govt lately and realized it was time to quit.
Is the fact that for the first time in my life, I am literally afraid of my Govt if I go to see a website and that I fully expect to be traced, put in a database, and labeled as some subversive. For going to a web address.
The vast majority of the "idea people" have unrealistic expectations of the programming reality as well as unrealistic expectations of the outcome of their great idea. I have been asked too many times to count if I would just take a percentage of the massive profits instead of my development fees. I got burned a couple times early and always, always just take the hourly/bid price and leave the "massive profits" to the idea people..and I am pretty sure I am way way waaay ahead of the game.
We dont have the skills we dont use.. as in.. it is almost a survival skill to scan a room or place for friendly faces but you could probably go a while without needing to multiply large numbers in most cases.
As an example.. when I was 20ish, I got a job at a 7-11 that was surrounded about 6 blocks deep by apartments. It was insanely busy 24 hours a day. After about a week, I started memorizing common groupings of items with their taxes. It started with a pack of smokes and a 12-pack of beer (which was like 8.49 back then). From there it mushroomed and in about 2-3 more weeks I could look at what people had in their hands, do the mental gymnastics and tell everyone in line what they owed including tax. First person with cash out got served. People with checks..you go over there with the pen for later, people who dont believe me got rung up on the register over there where I dont really ever recall a mistake. I think its more about necessity than capability.
"WiFi on Steroids' which allows a large number of users within a 50-mile radius to tap into a single high-speed broadband connection for the same price as a traditional WiFi router. "
Puuuhhleeeze make it so.. Im only a 20 miles from town and spending $80 a month for basically a little more than dial up with latency that makes baby jeebus cry...
After we all get through the "huzzahs"..anyone here think maybe, just maybe, this could be an inside job? As in, let the key loose and with the new business model of allowing lawfirms share in the John Doe suits lately it would seem to merely be a new revenue stream that would be enhanced by this release. Let the geeks have the key, let them share the files, and take the percentage from the lawfirms willing to file the suits in bulk a la Hurt Locker.
I thought the same thing and started looking for registrars, then looked at the procedure to move and decided Id ride it out instead of risking down time.
I have 20 or so domains registered there.. a lot for my personal biz stuff.. and any time you mess with the technical stack of bb's it makes ya nervous. Yes, their web interface is a gaudy heavy wtf nightmare, yes their hosting is hell in a handbasket, but I have never had a problem with their registrar services and once I set up or change a domain name it propogates usually in less than an hour and never has any problems afterwards and they have always always been one of the least expensive options for registering domains. It makes me terribly nervous to see this go up for sale.
As soon as you get the email notification someone has paid you get that money out of there. I never have more than 99 cents in my account for over 12 hours. Never.
I dont think apart from being on someone elses computer I have seen googles home page in a few years. I dont want googles home page, I want search results. Its built into the browsers I use so why am I supposed to take the extra step of going to their home page before typing in my search? Do whatever ya want on your homepage google..just leave the browser tools to do their job.
First off, starches will make you a lard-ass, young or not as many posters have mentioned. What goes hand-in-hand with this is that as our purchasing power decreases because of economy, lost job, shrinking value of the dollar, whatever, starches are the only affordable choice. You can feed your family for a month on rice and ramen, or have a few meals with meat and/or vegetables. It is almost a forced issue that in order to even survive many have to eat unhealthy amounts of starch.
Although not techy, I had a stint as a Home Healthcare director and had ~200 nurses to keep hired. At first I went through their resumees with a fine tooth comb, grilled them, tried various weighted systems etc.. but after hiring 10-15 people I began to realize, especially in this women-centric field, the ones who performed best were simply the ones who got along. I came to realize, you can teach skills and procedures, but you can't teach fitting in. As long as they had the basic skills to do the job, the personality weighed more than anything else. Do they smile, do they look you in the eye, are they happy, do they talk intelligently. I got pretty good at picking out who would fit in and who wouldnt and after hiring close to 100 nurses only had 2-3 who didnt work out after the first couple years. A smart happy employee, regardless of certs and degrees, will take you a lot farther than someone who is a master of their trade and pisses off co-workers.
In hiring programmers, I would ask for an example of their work as a way to judge their basic competency. What is it, what does it do, and how well does it work. If they have no examples or only 1/2 baked ones, they are not driven and wont be for you either. After that, simply, will they make your office a happier place.
I know.. hard to quantify.. still.. hire the person, not the paper.
I am in the process of building my own eco-house. The first step is to get some land outside the "rubber-stamp" "where's your permit" world because when the inspector shows up he will take one look at your creation and since it will not fit neatly in one of his stacks redtag it until it does. What we did was buy unimproved land a few miles from an unincorporated city of a few hundred people. The only regulations we are under are county which deal with water and septic, which is good all the way around. As for anything else.. I could build a match stick house on a gasoline foundation with a blowtorch door bell and no one would say squat.
Apparently the original poster got it wrong..
"Nokero is trying to replace traditional kerosene lamps in developing countries with its solar-powered N100 LED lightbulbs."
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It would seem that if all saves are forced to the cloud, it would be pretty dam easy to control hackers and home brew. Sure..hack it all ya want..but when you want to save..umm not so much.
If you don't think they will play the network stability card and get a nod to tier the bandwidth you haven't really learned how govt and business work yet...
Until....buffering......buffering..... pesky.....buffering...buffering.... Comcast et al does their dirty deeds.
Spawning up some WMP or Quicktime in the browser sounds like fun..not.
The people who want to bring their PC to work..you don't. The people you "might" want to bring theirs to work..know better and won't.
Its not the pic of my cat or that I had a great dinner... its the connection of the relationships that is worth having... Sure the big "They" monitor here and everywhere else..but not like that..
I had a daydream a few weeks ago about ok..what would someone like ..ohh I dunno.. Nazi Germany do if they had the info that FB has.. then I looked at our govt lately and realized it was time to quit.
The Interstate Commerce Clause is the "Bacon Factor" of how to make something Federal.
Here's how it works.
Law: Everyone must trim their toenails.
Toenail clippers are made of metal.
Metal comes from other states.
Constitutional.
Go ahead.. try and think of ONE thing you cant make a few skips to a state border. I did it with clippers in 2.
Is the fact that for the first time in my life, I am literally afraid of my Govt if I go to see a website and that I fully expect to be traced, put in a database, and labeled as some subversive. For going to a web address.
The vast majority of the "idea people" have unrealistic expectations of the programming reality as well as unrealistic expectations of the outcome of their great idea. I have been asked too many times to count if I would just take a percentage of the massive profits instead of my development fees. I got burned a couple times early and always, always just take the hourly/bid price and leave the "massive profits" to the idea people..and I am pretty sure I am way way waaay ahead of the game.
We dont have the skills we dont use.. as in.. it is almost a survival skill to scan a room or place for friendly faces but you could probably go a while without needing to multiply large numbers in most cases.
As an example.. when I was 20ish, I got a job at a 7-11 that was surrounded about 6 blocks deep by apartments. It was insanely busy 24 hours a day. After about a week, I started memorizing common groupings of items with their taxes. It started with a pack of smokes and a 12-pack of beer (which was like 8.49 back then). From there it mushroomed and in about 2-3 more weeks I could look at what people had in their hands, do the mental gymnastics and tell everyone in line what they owed including tax. First person with cash out got served. People with checks..you go over there with the pen for later, people who dont believe me got rung up on the register over there where I dont really ever recall a mistake. I think its more about necessity than capability.
No data where we are at.. :(
"WiFi on Steroids' which allows a large number of users within a 50-mile radius to tap into a single high-speed broadband connection for the same price as a traditional WiFi router. "
Puuuhhleeeze make it so.. Im only a 20 miles from town and spending $80 a month for basically a little more than dial up with latency that makes baby jeebus cry...
After we all get through the "huzzahs"..anyone here think maybe, just maybe, this could be an inside job? As in, let the key loose and with the new business model of allowing lawfirms share in the John Doe suits lately it would seem to merely be a new revenue stream that would be enhanced by this release. Let the geeks have the key, let them share the files, and take the percentage from the lawfirms willing to file the suits in bulk a la Hurt Locker.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/09/03/1330220/Hurt-Locker-File-Sharing-Subpoenas-Begin
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/05/28/2147239/The-Hurt-Locker-Producers-Sue-First-5000-File-Sharers
Followed by..
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/09/11/1357254/Judge-Allows-Subpoenas-For-Internet-Users
Maybe just the conspiracy theorist in me.. off to finish my Faraday Cage..
I thought the same thing and started looking for registrars, then looked at the procedure to move and decided Id ride it out instead of risking down time.
I have 20 or so domains registered there.. a lot for my personal biz stuff.. and any time you mess with the technical stack of bb's it makes ya nervous. Yes, their web interface is a gaudy heavy wtf nightmare, yes their hosting is hell in a handbasket, but I have never had a problem with their registrar services and once I set up or change a domain name it propogates usually in less than an hour and never has any problems afterwards and they have always always been one of the least expensive options for registering domains. It makes me terribly nervous to see this go up for sale.
As soon as you get the email notification someone has paid you get that money out of there. I never have more than 99 cents in my account for over 12 hours. Never.
I dont think apart from being on someone elses computer I have seen googles home page in a few years. I dont want googles home page, I want search results. Its built into the browsers I use so why am I supposed to take the extra step of going to their home page before typing in my search? Do whatever ya want on your homepage google..just leave the browser tools to do their job.
First off, starches will make you a lard-ass, young or not as many posters have mentioned. What goes hand-in-hand with this is that as our purchasing power decreases because of economy, lost job, shrinking value of the dollar, whatever, starches are the only affordable choice. You can feed your family for a month on rice and ramen, or have a few meals with meat and/or vegetables. It is almost a forced issue that in order to even survive many have to eat unhealthy amounts of starch.
If I didnt put down the railways first in Sim City, I was basically screwed.
And see if the kids still get sick.. Deetdeedeee Sigh...
"We don't have sufficiently bright people moving into this field"
Yet we have sufficiently bright people who can create a system that rapes the stock market.
Although not techy, I had a stint as a Home Healthcare director and had ~200 nurses to keep hired. At first I went through their resumees with a fine tooth comb, grilled them, tried various weighted systems etc.. but after hiring 10-15 people I began to realize, especially in this women-centric field, the ones who performed best were simply the ones who got along. I came to realize, you can teach skills and procedures, but you can't teach fitting in. As long as they had the basic skills to do the job, the personality weighed more than anything else. Do they smile, do they look you in the eye, are they happy, do they talk intelligently. I got pretty good at picking out who would fit in and who wouldnt and after hiring close to 100 nurses only had 2-3 who didnt work out after the first couple years. A smart happy employee, regardless of certs and degrees, will take you a lot farther than someone who is a master of their trade and pisses off co-workers.
In hiring programmers, I would ask for an example of their work as a way to judge their basic competency. What is it, what does it do, and how well does it work. If they have no examples or only 1/2 baked ones, they are not driven and wont be for you either. After that, simply, will they make your office a happier place.
I know.. hard to quantify.. still.. hire the person, not the paper.
I am in the process of building my own eco-house. The first step is to get some land outside the "rubber-stamp" "where's your permit" world because when the inspector shows up he will take one look at your creation and since it will not fit neatly in one of his stacks redtag it until it does. What we did was buy unimproved land a few miles from an unincorporated city of a few hundred people. The only regulations we are under are county which deal with water and septic, which is good all the way around. As for anything else.. I could build a match stick house on a gasoline foundation with a blowtorch door bell and no one would say squat.
Apparently the original poster got it wrong.. "Nokero is trying to replace traditional kerosene lamps in developing countries with its solar-powered N100 LED lightbulbs."