Quick... go into your windows. find *.log and *.bak within the last 30 days only... yeah. you can't. How about all files that changed in the last 3 days.. not just media files... ALL files.. yeah.. can't do that either.
99% of users *do not want* to see log files in their search for "Fir" when expecting to find Firefox.exe. I don't, and I administer about a dozen systems.
If I'm looking at log files, I'd rather use command line or a dedicated log viewer.
This sounds like some old waterfall-model guy complaining about a modern "agile" programmer. If you're just doing web crap, quality doesn't matter. Time to market does.
Only if your technical debt doesn't pile up exponentially as a result of a fatal design flaw. Time to market matters a lot, but it's not everything, or we'd be building planes made solely out of duct tape.
That raises up the question of how can a supercomputer simulate what our species would do if it had access to a supercomputer that could simulate what our species would do if it had access to a supercomputer that could simulate... Out of memory [core dump] % rm -rf *
Which of course begs the question...
Questions I've posed to astrophysicist friends that have never gotten good answers: 1) Why should we not think of galaxies as simply accretion disks - ie, we're all circling the giant 10M solar mass black hole drain that's the center of the galaxy. 2) Why is it irrational for me to think of the big bang as basically the opposite of a black hole - and how do we know it's not continuing to spew matter?
On topic is the conversion of tablets to netbooks. A tablet with a bluetooth keyboard case is a netbook right?
Only in the original netbook (ie, OLPC-inspired linux ARM device running on an SSD) sense does an iPad or similar caliber tablet compare. And only if you disregard the excellent touch inputs on high-end tablets as compared to the substandard touchpads found on most netbooks.
And as soon as Microsoft+Intel got their mitts on the netbook, it pretty much became a small, cheap shitty laptop that invariably ran windows, poorly (designed to upsell the basic and high-end laptops). The only thing that remained from the original netbook was the lack of optical disk, and basic form factor.
Huh? What's a general purpose computer? Does it include netbooks? Does it matter if someone loads Android on their Windows netbook? What's the differnce between an Android netbook and Android tablet with keyboard? Where are you drawing the line on this mythical "gp computer?"
Is it a problem if I hook my phone up to a 60" TV and use a bluetooth mouse and keyboard to control it, playing games and movies in HD on a TV?
If you reread the GP comment, it's clear that commenter was focused primarily on Win8/Metro (and maybe, sort of, OSX 10.8) - which has been "mobile-ized". Asus Transformers were doing a tablet OS on a "netbook" for years, and that model seems to work decently.
I'll take the military actions that Clinton started any day - because they went without *one single US soldier killed in combat* and they ended with full success in less than a year. Honestly, why wouldn't anyone prefer those?
Some people would prefer insane war profits, you know. Do it for the defense contractors!
We can't get access to orphaned films that are not available for sale?
I believe that should be part of ANY copyright law. In order for copyright to be maintained. A work of art must be available for sale within a 5 year period. Stop selling it, and you lose your copyright.
When you have a kleptocracy ruling you, you don't get rights, you get thefts. Consider this a part of the current copytheft rubric, wherein the few connected players get to fleece the entire rest of the world.
Of course, the UK is late to this party - the USA had a kleptocracy for many years now and look at all the wonderful employment-free recovery we've had here!
they have several iPads per classroom in addition to their 1 PC per classroom
Oh, just rub it in why don't ya?
[. . . ] Nope. Georgia. I would bet that it won't be long in the future for most school districts. We're getting to the point where it is financially beneficial to get devices for each student.
To be honest I was surprised as hell in my last parent teacher conference to see it in my daughter's classroom. The big thing benefit, I think, other than cost, is the increased interactivity. I also think this is the wave of the educational future - tablets being interwoven into teaching styles, just like overhead projectors (now they use video-cams so students can see the book page being turned, etc) and the traditional books.
I still don't think it's a solid idea to send a tablet home with the kid - our child for example, goes to an after-school daycare, and who knows how well that sort of device would hold up there or even survive. We lose an article of clothing every month or so (some are recovered after a few weeks).
Well, sorry, we can't buy four Nexus tablets, we have to wait to get one more desktop.
Maybe my daughter goes to a more enlightened school and/or district because they have several iPads per classroom in addition to their 1 PC per classroom (not to mention a few Nexus 7s - but I heard mixed reviews from the teacher about those).
We're supposed to get tablets in the next few years for all the students, but those will be Microsoft as well at a much higher price point.
You don't perchance live in the Seattle metropolitan area do you?
...pretty much makes it impossible for Apple or some random patent troll (pardon the redundancy)...
Yeah, you had to get that in there, but Apple is at least a practicing entity (ie, they sell stuff htat uses those patents. The worst are the NPE shell companies that sue you for infringement of their IP, but you can't sue them back becase they will simply close up shop and open another front... oh and they have no assets nor sell anything so you can't extract anything at all.
No. That's what the telco monopolies told the FCC back in the day. And then they proceeded to serve their own needs first and keep dragging their feet on their competitors.
This is only possible because the telco monopolies were not quasi-governmental like the Post Office. It's only the "government is evil" crowd that's prevent the actual sane utility model from taking root where it should. Imagine if you had to get your electricity from the likes of AT&T or Verizon without the public utilities commission to beat the utilities into line - it'd be a nightmare.
Tiny difference. It's more like the dealer where you have that monthly plan going also has a fuel station and you'd have to use his fuel station for your fuel needs or the rest of the amount you owe is due tomorrow.
And all the other major dealers in the US have a monthly "fuel" plan for your car, but you can't switch "fuels", if you do, your car no longer works and you owe them a hefty prorated fee ( maxing at 75% of purchase price of the car). I still think t-Mobile comes out looking better given the competition.
Bittorrent Sync could be even more private than Dropbox - you can send out time-limited shares and restrict permissions, etc.
I think BTSync could completely take over the corporate space if it's well designed enough. I can already see exactly how this would supplant Sparkleshare, SFTP and/or Dropbox for working on large/sparse project teams with large relatively static datasets (e.g.: large report output files, XML interchange data, etc)
It's still not clear whether BTSync does binary diffs, and it definitely doesn't have versioning right now, so concurrently updated documents doesn't seem like a good use case. It's still unclear how sync status is made visible (Dropbox really shines here due to it's cloud intermediary). Perhaps some additional tool to integrate with BTSync?
Whatever they do...PLEASE start making the roadster again, put the battery in it, and get it down to the price level of a Vette.
We will buy it....in droves.
I'm the opposite of you - I was drooling for the Model S much more than I ever did for the Roadster. For each one of you, I'm betting that Tesla sees many more folks like me.
A Glass user walks to a restaurant for lunch and casually ends up scanning all the patrons. Google now can sell ads to competing restaurants and deals for that restaurant to all those people.
If this actually happens, how long until a restaurant (esp. a chain resto) finds out and then bans Glass from premises? How long until others follow suit? I seriously doubt Google wants even the above strategy.
Most folks don't have problems with advertising that helps them find what they're looking for.
Especially if those ads don't look like ads. Product placement, anyone? Prioritized search responses? How are you going to know, with the SEO blackhats vs. the Google algorithm?
More gimmicks equals more expensive ticket prices. Yep, we'll see this happen in the US for sure.
You'll see it happen, then fail as people are too cheap (or like me, too wary of gimmicks) to pay for it. I'd prefer an experience like http://drafthouse.com/ any day.
I'm getting the impression that LA, Chicago and NY are going to have a long wait for this.
Of course they will. Do those cities also have a municipal fiber setup that Google could snatch up for $1? When Google is looking at the FIBER_ROLLOUT_CITIES table, they aren't doing an ORDER BY population DESC. More like ORDER BY cost, legal_difficulties ASC.
Additionally, having 5 web browsers installed and triple-booting operating systems might mean you get board easily and won't stick around at the job as long. I mean, still being on IE6 does show incredible staying power and loyalty, right?
A tick also has incredible staying power and longevity while sucking down a lot of valuable lifeblood. They're also very difficult to remove.
Surely they could just opt to sync every folder except the "[Gmail]/All Mail" folder. Doing that, and syncing [Gmail]/Trash to the Yahoo! deleted mail equivalent would sort it all out.
I think you're right though. Sounds like the people handling the migration just aren't very familiar with the Google IMAP interface.
Which is ridiculous since one learns quite a bit about Gmail IMAP by having used it at all (just ask anyone having configured iOS+Gmail prior to Apple's adding the "Gmail" option for account setup) or reading the public documentation.
This is simply a case of the project team a) not reading very-available documentation on a very key part of the project b) not testing and uncovering this issue and c) doing a big-bang migration of all accounts. a+b+c = predicable clusterfuck.
Does core have the weird turnkey update scripts that I seem to recall from years ago?
From the link: "It includes custom automated backup and migration software, a web management interface, automatic daily security updates, live installer, configuration console, and all other common features. Take a look at some screenshots."
So... yes, probably. It also weighs in at 161MB, about 5x more than Ubuntu Core.
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Quick... go into your windows. find *.log and *.bak within the last 30 days only... yeah. you can't. How about all files that changed in the last 3 days.. not just media files... ALL files.. yeah.. can't do that either.
99% of users *do not want* to see log files in their search for "Fir" when expecting to find Firefox.exe. I don't, and I administer about a dozen systems.
If I'm looking at log files, I'd rather use command line or a dedicated log viewer.
You load it with plastic bullets, which are full of plastic gunpowder.
I've never heard of plastic gunpowder before. I never found any polymer that seemed to be explosive either. Is this some new invention
This sounds like some old waterfall-model guy complaining about a modern "agile" programmer. If you're just doing web crap, quality doesn't matter. Time to market does.
Only if your technical debt doesn't pile up exponentially as a result of a fatal design flaw. Time to market matters a lot, but it's not everything, or we'd be building planes made solely out of duct tape.
You live in a computer simulation.
And so does this supercomputer...
That raises up the question of how can a supercomputer simulate what our species would do if it had access to a supercomputer that could simulate what our species would do if it had access to a supercomputer that could simulate...
Out of memory [core dump]
% rm -rf *
Which of course begs the question...
Questions I've posed to astrophysicist friends that have never gotten good answers:
1) Why should we not think of galaxies as simply accretion disks - ie, we're all circling the giant 10M solar mass black hole drain that's the center of the galaxy.
2) Why is it irrational for me to think of the big bang as basically the opposite of a black hole - and how do we know it's not continuing to spew matter?
On topic is the conversion of tablets to netbooks. A tablet with a bluetooth keyboard case is a netbook right?
Only in the original netbook (ie, OLPC-inspired linux ARM device running on an SSD) sense does an iPad or similar caliber tablet compare. And only if you disregard the excellent touch inputs on high-end tablets as compared to the substandard touchpads found on most netbooks.
And as soon as Microsoft+Intel got their mitts on the netbook, it pretty much became a small, cheap shitty laptop that invariably ran windows, poorly (designed to upsell the basic and high-end laptops). The only thing that remained from the original netbook was the lack of optical disk, and basic form factor.
Huh? What's a general purpose computer? Does it include netbooks? Does it matter if someone loads Android on their Windows netbook? What's the differnce between an Android netbook and Android tablet with keyboard? Where are you drawing the line on this mythical "gp computer?"
Is it a problem if I hook my phone up to a 60" TV and use a bluetooth mouse and keyboard to control it, playing games and movies in HD on a TV?
If you reread the GP comment, it's clear that commenter was focused primarily on Win8/Metro (and maybe, sort of, OSX 10.8) - which has been "mobile-ized". Asus Transformers were doing a tablet OS on a "netbook" for years, and that model seems to work decently.
I'll take the military actions that Clinton started any day - because they went without *one single US soldier killed in combat* and they ended with full success in less than a year. Honestly, why wouldn't anyone prefer those?
Some people would prefer insane war profits, you know. Do it for the defense contractors!
We can't get access to orphaned films that are not available for sale?
I believe that should be part of ANY copyright law. In order for copyright to be maintained. A work of art must be available for sale within a 5 year period. Stop selling it, and you lose your copyright.
When you have a kleptocracy ruling you, you don't get rights, you get thefts. Consider this a part of the current copytheft rubric, wherein the few connected players get to fleece the entire rest of the world.
Of course, the UK is late to this party - the USA had a kleptocracy for many years now and look at all the wonderful employment-free recovery we've had here!
Oh, just rub it in why don't ya?
[. . . ] Nope. Georgia. I would bet that it won't be long in the future for most school districts. We're getting to the point where it is financially beneficial to get devices for each student.
To be honest I was surprised as hell in my last parent teacher conference to see it in my daughter's classroom. The big thing benefit, I think, other than cost, is the increased interactivity. I also think this is the wave of the educational future - tablets being interwoven into teaching styles, just like overhead projectors (now they use video-cams so students can see the book page being turned, etc) and the traditional books.
I still don't think it's a solid idea to send a tablet home with the kid - our child for example, goes to an after-school daycare, and who knows how well that sort of device would hold up there or even survive. We lose an article of clothing every month or so (some are recovered after a few weeks).
Well, sorry, we can't buy four Nexus tablets, we have to wait to get one more desktop.
Maybe my daughter goes to a more enlightened school and/or district because they have several iPads per classroom in addition to their 1 PC per classroom (not to mention a few Nexus 7s - but I heard mixed reviews from the teacher about those).
We're supposed to get tablets in the next few years for all the students, but those will be Microsoft as well at a much higher price point.
You don't perchance live in the Seattle metropolitan area do you?
...pretty much makes it impossible for Apple or some random patent troll (pardon the redundancy) ...
Yeah, you had to get that in there, but Apple is at least a practicing entity (ie, they sell stuff htat uses those patents. The worst are the NPE shell companies that sue you for infringement of their IP, but you can't sue them back becase they will simply close up shop and open another front... oh and they have no assets nor sell anything so you can't extract anything at all.
No. That's what the telco monopolies told the FCC back in the day. And then they proceeded to serve their own needs first and keep dragging their feet on their competitors.
This is only possible because the telco monopolies were not quasi-governmental like the Post Office. It's only the "government is evil" crowd that's prevent the actual sane utility model from taking root where it should. Imagine if you had to get your electricity from the likes of AT&T or Verizon without the public utilities commission to beat the utilities into line - it'd be a nightmare.
Oh and BTW Washington AG, the pay for you phone fee is not hidden, they're very up front about it.
He thinks they're hidden because he has his head up his ass (or perhaps Verizon's ass). Kinda hard to see anything from inside there.
Tiny difference. It's more like the dealer where you have that monthly plan going also has a fuel station and you'd have to use his fuel station for your fuel needs or the rest of the amount you owe is due tomorrow.
And all the other major dealers in the US have a monthly "fuel" plan for your car, but you can't switch "fuels", if you do, your car no longer works and you owe them a hefty prorated fee ( maxing at 75% of purchase price of the car). I still think t-Mobile comes out looking better given the competition.
Props for the Wayne Gretzky reference, eh.
Popularized in tech by Steve Jobs, who was obviously inspired by Gretzky:
http://archive.is/20120916/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/live-from-macworld-2007-steve-jobs-keynote
Bittorrent Sync could be even more private than Dropbox - you can send out time-limited shares and restrict permissions, etc.
I think BTSync could completely take over the corporate space if it's well designed enough. I can already see exactly how this would supplant Sparkleshare, SFTP and/or Dropbox for working on large/sparse project teams with large relatively static datasets (e.g.: large report output files, XML interchange data, etc)
It's still not clear whether BTSync does binary diffs, and it definitely doesn't have versioning right now, so concurrently updated documents doesn't seem like a good use case. It's still unclear how sync status is made visible (Dropbox really shines here due to it's cloud intermediary). Perhaps some additional tool to integrate with BTSync?
It might also be useful if your sharing scenario involves enough people that the efficiencies of bittorrent come into play.
I imagine that the next step for BitTorrent is to make a corporate play.
Whatever they do...PLEASE start making the roadster again, put the battery in it, and get it down to the price level of a Vette.
We will buy it....in droves.
I'm the opposite of you - I was drooling for the Model S much more than I ever did for the Roadster. For each one of you, I'm betting that Tesla sees many more folks like me.
A Glass user walks to a restaurant for lunch and casually ends up scanning all the patrons. Google now can sell ads to competing restaurants and deals for that restaurant to all those people.
If this actually happens, how long until a restaurant (esp. a chain resto) finds out and then bans Glass from premises? How long until others follow suit? I seriously doubt Google wants even the above strategy.
Most folks don't have problems with advertising that helps them find what they're looking for.
Especially if those ads don't look like ads. Product placement, anyone? Prioritized search responses? How are you going to know, with the SEO blackhats vs. the Google algorithm?
More gimmicks equals more expensive ticket prices. Yep, we'll see this happen in the US for sure.
You'll see it happen, then fail as people are too cheap (or like me, too wary of gimmicks) to pay for it.
I'd prefer an experience like http://drafthouse.com/ any day.
I'm getting the impression that LA, Chicago and NY are going to have a long wait for this.
Of course they will. Do those cities also have a municipal fiber setup that Google could snatch up for $1?
When Google is looking at the FIBER_ROLLOUT_CITIES table, they aren't doing an ORDER BY population DESC. More like ORDER BY cost, legal_difficulties ASC.
Additionally, having 5 web browsers installed and triple-booting operating systems might mean you get board easily and won't stick around at the job as long. I mean, still being on IE6 does show incredible staying power and loyalty, right?
A tick also has incredible staying power and longevity while sucking down a lot of valuable lifeblood. They're also very difficult to remove.
Surely they could just opt to sync every folder except the "[Gmail]/All Mail" folder. Doing that, and syncing [Gmail]/Trash to the Yahoo! deleted mail equivalent would sort it all out.
I think you're right though. Sounds like the people handling the migration just aren't very familiar with the Google IMAP interface.
Which is ridiculous since one learns quite a bit about Gmail IMAP by having used it at all (just ask anyone having configured iOS+Gmail prior to Apple's adding the "Gmail" option for account setup) or reading the public documentation.
This is simply a case of the project team a) not reading very-available documentation on a very key part of the project b) not testing and uncovering this issue and c) doing a big-bang migration of all accounts. a+b+c = predicable clusterfuck.
Does core have the weird turnkey update scripts that I seem to recall from years ago?
From the link: "It includes custom automated backup and migration software, a web management interface, automatic daily security updates, live installer, configuration console, and all other common features. Take a look at some screenshots."
So ... yes, probably. It also weighs in at 161MB, about 5x more than Ubuntu Core.