If you're going to cut costs, do so wisely. Get the employee something that won't break when she looks at it wrong, which will be performant enough to not get in her way, and which can be repaired quickly and easily. Any of the major business-notebook brands will offer that, but I tend to like buying from Dell's outlet. You can get good-as-new machines at Chromebook prices with - and this makes all the difference - same-as-new warranties with next-day on-site service. Get a decent Latitude with a 1080p display, recent-gen i5, 8gb of RAM, a 1-3 year next-day service contract, pop an SSD in it and you're out the door for under $800 for something that will last years.
An innocent-seeming toy leading to mind control? Sounds like "the game" from ST:TNG that hypnotizes many of Enterprise's youth (and some adults too) into sabotaging the ship's defenses.
Fiction before, fiction now. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, eh Russia-24?
This situation is only going to be made worse by the misinformation being spread among lower-knowledge users. An [Big Box Office Store] employee told me that a Microsoft rep told him that Windows 8.1 (thus Update 1 beyond it) is not a free update from Windows 8. Microsoft's in-your-face "time to upgrade!" dialog may make it clear that it's free, but some users will still refuse the update for fear they'll be charged.
Add more to the zombie horde...
Not experimenting with, implemented. Privacy Guard 2.0 in CM10.2 and up lets you get extraordinarily granular with permissions, beyond just location and ability to read contacts/SMS/phone state/etc. You can opt to have Privacy Guard on by default for all apps, which I have - it will then log all attempts to use sensitive operations.
This is exactly what T-Mobile does, except that once you leave, you owe the remaining balance, and can't continue paying on installment. Their "financing" is 0% APR. A Galaxy S4 is $20/mo for 24 months and $149 down, the same $629 as pay-up-front.
As much as I - as one of the Android world's major fighters of CIQ - and the rest of/. may like this, we all know it's not going anywhere. Regulatory capture, anyone?
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If you're going to cut costs, do so wisely. Get the employee something that won't break when she looks at it wrong, which will be performant enough to not get in her way, and which can be repaired quickly and easily. Any of the major business-notebook brands will offer that, but I tend to like buying from Dell's outlet. You can get good-as-new machines at Chromebook prices with - and this makes all the difference - same-as-new warranties with next-day on-site service. Get a decent Latitude with a 1080p display, recent-gen i5, 8gb of RAM, a 1-3 year next-day service contract, pop an SSD in it and you're out the door for under $800 for something that will last years.
An innocent-seeming toy leading to mind control? Sounds like "the game" from ST:TNG that hypnotizes many of Enterprise's youth (and some adults too) into sabotaging the ship's defenses. Fiction before, fiction now. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, eh Russia-24?
This situation is only going to be made worse by the misinformation being spread among lower-knowledge users. An [Big Box Office Store] employee told me that a Microsoft rep told him that Windows 8.1 (thus Update 1 beyond it) is not a free update from Windows 8. Microsoft's in-your-face "time to upgrade!" dialog may make it clear that it's free, but some users will still refuse the update for fear they'll be charged. Add more to the zombie horde...
Not experimenting with, implemented. Privacy Guard 2.0 in CM10.2 and up lets you get extraordinarily granular with permissions, beyond just location and ability to read contacts/SMS/phone state/etc. You can opt to have Privacy Guard on by default for all apps, which I have - it will then log all attempts to use sensitive operations.
This is exactly what T-Mobile does, except that once you leave, you owe the remaining balance, and can't continue paying on installment. Their "financing" is 0% APR. A Galaxy S4 is $20/mo for 24 months and $149 down, the same $629 as pay-up-front.
As much as I - as one of the Android world's major fighters of CIQ - and the rest of /. may like this, we all know it's not going anywhere. Regulatory capture, anyone?
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