Case in point: my father was a mechanic until he was in his late 30’s, then he decided to pack it in & do a university degree in education & training. Now he's one of the foremost authorities in vocational training in Asia. Even now he's retired he still writes project proposals, tripartite reviews, & occasionally gives lectures.
The day you think you can't learn any more, is the day you've checked out from society.
In answer to the question posed, as Bettridge's law states: No.
As someone who runs the IT for an office that uses Office 2010, the biggest complaint is the Ribbon. Everyone hates it, they ask why they can't use the old system, blah blah blah. It drives me nuts.
Those that I've shown Windows 8 laugh at me & say "I just got used to the start menu, Microsoft can get fucked if they think I'll use this".
I'm not sure who committed to this interface, but they need to be publicly flogged. Some streaming would be good too during said flogging.
I am one of them. At work, I administer Windows servers, at home, I run Linux servers. I have had experience working with both in various environments, from small companies to large media organisations, & I don't think I've ever seen someone as less of a person because they can't administer *nix or Windows servers.
If I was to be interviewed by a condescending arshole like the OP, I'd walk out of the interview. Working for someone who looks down on you for having greater knowledge than them is far from ideal.
Let's face it, because the OP doesn't know how to administer both *nix & Windows, that makes them less of an admin than someone who does. Not only do they need to find someone, they need to pay someone who knows how to interview for the role.
The first thing I learnt in admin/support is that if you specialise, you limit your options, for both solutions & future employment.
This is why on aircraft that are licensed to allow cell phone use carry their own femtocell style access points. There aren't many airlines/aircraft that are licensed, but the trials have been in place for some time.
The main problem with cell phones on planes is a customer problem: the cost. They charge at international roaming rates, so it's not worth it unless you're making money off the call.
I don't think I ever "feel safe" on the ground with the nutbag drivers on the roads. So many people do so many dangerous things in cars. You may think it's safe, but it really isn't.
The only way to feel safer is to remove humans from the equation. Google's unmanned car: 300 000 miles, 0 crashes. There's not many cars that can claim those kind of statistics
I only live with my partner & there's many circumstances where I'm copying to/from my server while she's watching a video & vice versa. Then there's downloading a torrent on the server while both of us are accessing it. Even if it's one person, if you're watching a movie & even refresh the directory listing your movie would stop. This is probably the worst "Ask Slashdot" I've ever seen.
Written by someone with no grasp of technology & approved by someone with even less of a grasp on reality.
Exactly what I was thinking. Firstly, the tapes will be so slow it'll be quicker to wait for it to be on TV, secondly, the tapes will burn out from the constant seek/read/write.
Just spend the money on a decent case, a dickload of HDD's & a decent mbd/cpu/ram combo, add a tape drive for archiving, but don't even bother using it as a live storage system.
5 minutes of searching would give you the answer "DON'T DO IT".
In my whole time owning iPads & iPhones, I've never even thought about buying a controller for either. The only "controller" I've used is my iPhone as one for my iPad. I don't want to carry around another device just to make the one or two games I have that are designed for a controller slightly more playable.
We are in the touchscreen gaming generation for portables, even Sony admits this by adding a touchscreen to the Vita, but it's too little too late. As GP said, we all have smartphones/tablets that shit all over the Vita.
I actually see it more as a "fuck you" to Google. Do not track screws with anyone who's revenue comes from tracking people & their online interactions.
Not only this, the claims are at least 12 months out of date. SSD's are now less than $1/GB, & the average drive sold now is 120 or 128GB.
I upgraded my desktop with a cheap solution (AMD A8, 990FX, 16GB RAM, 128GB SSD, 2TB HDD) all for less than my last upgrade cost ($669 vs $955) 3 years ago. SSDs are definitely part of the norm now, we order many machines with dual 128MB SSDs in them, both laptops & desktops. The price difference is negligible, so this article seems more like a cry by someone attempting to hold onto the old way of doing things.
Regardless, I'd say he's pretty familiar with the gaming market with a better-than-average understanding of how viable the platform is.
Yes, because Carmack really hit the mark with critically panned Rage. These days I'd trust Newell's judgement more than I'd trust Carmack.
Carmack is living in the 90's, it's been at least a decade since he's made anything of worth, I rate him as useless as Romero. Fossils that tell us a lot about the past but nothing of the future.
There is no conversation to be had when a headline & story is so uninformed. It's just some writer trying to justify having their job. The article is wrong, the answer is no, nothing more can be said.
No it's not. There is no question that climate change will be horrendous. Living in a country that's just come out of 7 years of drought & about to be plunged into over an (estimated) decade of drought, there is no one who benefits from climate change. There may be periods where certain climates are more productive, but that will be short lived as the climate heads toward unlivable.
Ice caps melting, glaciers melting, etc, really aren't the worst parts of living on a planet with higher average temperatures. It's the droughts, heat waves, cyclones, tornados, blizzards, etc, that come with it that will make things worse off.
Posing that question is a clear sign you still trying to hold onto your denial of climate change.
Given that Ballmer became CEO in 2000, and prior to that he had been a division head for many different divisions, I think he had a lot to do with this cannibalistic culture that seems to be at the core of MS these days.
Even killing the right person can do nothing to break up an organisation.
Look at Hamas. So many of their leaders have been assassinated over the years that almost none of the top structure are original Hamas leaders. They are still strong, & still an effective guerrilla army.
The only way to make an terrorists lay down their arms is either with dialogue or to commit war crimes on a grand scale. Even then peace is not guaranteed.
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Life long learning is vital in any field.
Case in point: my father was a mechanic until he was in his late 30’s, then he decided to pack it in & do a university degree in education & training. Now he's one of the foremost authorities in vocational training in Asia. Even now he's retired he still writes project proposals, tripartite reviews, & occasionally gives lectures.
The day you think you can't learn any more, is the day you've checked out from society.
In answer to the question posed, as Bettridge's law states: No.
As someone who runs the IT for an office that uses Office 2010, the biggest complaint is the Ribbon. Everyone hates it, they ask why they can't use the old system, blah blah blah. It drives me nuts.
Those that I've shown Windows 8 laugh at me & say "I just got used to the start menu, Microsoft can get fucked if they think I'll use this".
I'm not sure who committed to this interface, but they need to be publicly flogged. Some streaming would be good too during said flogging.
Don't forget that Verizon FiOS is tiered, so not everyone is going to be on 300Mbps, in fact, very few customers will be.
It's still damning that very few customers can afford higher tiers when it doesn't cost any more to run than lower tiers.
That's not what the parent poster was stating, nice straw man.
It's amusing, because the shape they have come to is essentially the same shape as the warp field on the Enterprise.
Uhhh, that's what the "TED" system is doing. Seriously, read the fucking summary at least.
I am one of them. At work, I administer Windows servers, at home, I run Linux servers. I have had experience working with both in various environments, from small companies to large media organisations, & I don't think I've ever seen someone as less of a person because they can't administer *nix or Windows servers.
If I was to be interviewed by a condescending arshole like the OP, I'd walk out of the interview. Working for someone who looks down on you for having greater knowledge than them is far from ideal.
Let's face it, because the OP doesn't know how to administer both *nix & Windows, that makes them less of an admin than someone who does. Not only do they need to find someone, they need to pay someone who knows how to interview for the role.
The first thing I learnt in admin/support is that if you specialise, you limit your options, for both solutions & future employment.
This is why on aircraft that are licensed to allow cell phone use carry their own femtocell style access points. There aren't many airlines/aircraft that are licensed, but the trials have been in place for some time.
The main problem with cell phones on planes is a customer problem: the cost. They charge at international roaming rates, so it's not worth it unless you're making money off the call.
hahahahahaha... $1.9 million is rich now? Wikileaks don't pay their employees or for their datacentres?
Linking WSJ just shows how much you're willing to lap up the Murdoch propaganda.
I don't think I ever "feel safe" on the ground with the nutbag drivers on the roads. So many people do so many dangerous things in cars. You may think it's safe, but it really isn't.
The only way to feel safer is to remove humans from the equation. Google's unmanned car: 300 000 miles, 0 crashes. There's not many cars that can claim those kind of statistics
I only live with my partner & there's many circumstances where I'm copying to/from my server while she's watching a video & vice versa. Then there's downloading a torrent on the server while both of us are accessing it. Even if it's one person, if you're watching a movie & even refresh the directory listing your movie would stop. This is probably the worst "Ask Slashdot" I've ever seen.
Written by someone with no grasp of technology & approved by someone with even less of a grasp on reality.
Exactly what I was thinking. Firstly, the tapes will be so slow it'll be quicker to wait for it to be on TV, secondly, the tapes will burn out from the constant seek/read/write.
Just spend the money on a decent case, a dickload of HDD's & a decent mbd/cpu/ram combo, add a tape drive for archiving, but don't even bother using it as a live storage system.
5 minutes of searching would give you the answer "DON'T DO IT".
In my whole time owning iPads & iPhones, I've never even thought about buying a controller for either. The only "controller" I've used is my iPhone as one for my iPad. I don't want to carry around another device just to make the one or two games I have that are designed for a controller slightly more playable.
We are in the touchscreen gaming generation for portables, even Sony admits this by adding a touchscreen to the Vita, but it's too little too late. As GP said, we all have smartphones/tablets that shit all over the Vita.
I recently bought an ATi 6850... Do I still need to upgrade it? No.
I actually see it more as a "fuck you" to Google. Do not track screws with anyone who's revenue comes from tracking people & their online interactions.
Not only this, the claims are at least 12 months out of date. SSD's are now less than $1/GB, & the average drive sold now is 120 or 128GB.
I upgraded my desktop with a cheap solution (AMD A8, 990FX, 16GB RAM, 128GB SSD, 2TB HDD) all for less than my last upgrade cost ($669 vs $955) 3 years ago. SSDs are definitely part of the norm now, we order many machines with dual 128MB SSDs in them, both laptops & desktops. The price difference is negligible, so this article seems more like a cry by someone attempting to hold onto the old way of doing things.
2 factor authentication solves nothing if you have a good social engineer: http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/12/06/0321250/scammers-work-around-two-factor-authentication-with-social-engineering
Regardless, I'd say he's pretty familiar with the gaming market with a better-than-average understanding of how viable the platform is.
Yes, because Carmack really hit the mark with critically panned Rage. These days I'd trust Newell's judgement more than I'd trust Carmack.
Carmack is living in the 90's, it's been at least a decade since he's made anything of worth, I rate him as useless as Romero. Fossils that tell us a lot about the past but nothing of the future.
The lack of of a matchmaker was really a bad idea to launch without.
Shatner is batshit insane, but so are most narrators. Keeps it interesting.
There is no conversation to be had when a headline & story is so uninformed. It's just some writer trying to justify having their job. The article is wrong, the answer is no, nothing more can be said.
No it's not. There is no question that climate change will be horrendous. Living in a country that's just come out of 7 years of drought & about to be plunged into over an (estimated) decade of drought, there is no one who benefits from climate change. There may be periods where certain climates are more productive, but that will be short lived as the climate heads toward unlivable.
Ice caps melting, glaciers melting, etc, really aren't the worst parts of living on a planet with higher average temperatures. It's the droughts, heat waves, cyclones, tornados, blizzards, etc, that come with it that will make things worse off.
Posing that question is a clear sign you still trying to hold onto your denial of climate change.
Given that Ballmer became CEO in 2000, and prior to that he had been a division head for many different divisions, I think he had a lot to do with this cannibalistic culture that seems to be at the core of MS these days.
This aside, you can build pretty powerful quadrocopters that'll carry more than 2.6kg. Not that 2.6kg isn't enough to commit a war crime.
Even killing the right person can do nothing to break up an organisation.
Look at Hamas. So many of their leaders have been assassinated over the years that almost none of the top structure are original Hamas leaders. They are still strong, & still an effective guerrilla army.
The only way to make an terrorists lay down their arms is either with dialogue or to commit war crimes on a grand scale. Even then peace is not guaranteed.