IT departments are often run by people with the least amount of real world experience. They see the word "computer" and then insist that it must have antivirus, be monitored for application not approved by IT, have corporate approved configuration, etc. I swear I got a notice that my Macbook Pro was due to be upgraded to Windows 7. Do these people stay up worrying at night that their automobile's fuel injection system doesn't have malware protection, or that grandpa's pacemaker doesn't have the latest version of Office?
Having a Windows based medical system is stupidity in itself. Even having an antivirus scan in embedded software is ridiculous, they should be stand alone devices, not dependent upon some apathetic home consumer company, not connected to the internet, etc. And yet so many developers are so amazingly uneducated and inexperienced that they think Windows is the perfect solution to everything, managers love Windows because they can hire so many cheap ass developers for it and mistakenly think they can save time this way. Maybe Windows is not the flaw, but the Windows mindset certainly is.
Worst product that Microsoft ever invented. Worse than Vista. But somehow it is popular with IT directors because they keep rolling it out despite the user's cries of despair. It also has a complicated API that requires spending lots of money on Microsoft classes, so that anyone who's gone through the classes is compelled to claim that that SharePoint is useful and not at all a waste of money. It's main purpose seems to be the stifling of all office communication and collaboration, so that Microsoft appears to be a functional organization in comparison.
Except that yoghurt is primarily made from yeast, and any bacteria it has are very unlikely to be bacteria normally found in the gut. Any change in behavior or health is very often due to changing lifestyles. Ie, no one decides to suddenly eat lots more yoghurt while keeping every othe part of their lifestyle and diet the same, instead they stop being a couch potato, pay attention to what they're eating, and so forth. So 25 variables change but people feel that they have to say it was just that one variable with unproven medical benefits that was the only one that made the difference.
Reminds me of a jury panel I was on. We were all convinced the defendant was not guilty, except for one juror. He said "maybe he's technically not guilty of this crime, but he's probably guilty of something!"
And so there are tons of people out there that feel because Hillary has been accused of so many things that one of them at least has to be true.
It's like prosecuting a politician for misusing campaign funds - no other politician wants to see this happen because there just aren't enough jail cells for everyone (though maybe you could put a large wall around around D.C.).
Watching good players play a video game is boring. Watching inept players playing a video game is fun. For a few times. Then it runs into another episode of someone begging you constantly to watch the other videos, name dropping their other twitch/youtube friends, and the same old stuff.
How can you stream the BBC online? I've been looking for that for ages. They even yanked off Doctor Who off of all streaming services, with a hint that maybe they're going to have their own service. BBC News has not been streaming for a few years at least that I can tell. Really, the only thing I miss from satellite is BBC America.
Discovery has gone stupid a few years back, not much to see there ("How It's Made" is on netflix). History channel is now the Nazi Space Aliens channel. National Geographic is better as a magazine.
Never went to Hulu, never saw the need. There's so much on Netflix that when I finally run out of content then I'll worry about the few movies I can't see there. Ther'es always a movie service somewhere if I absolutely must see that movie now (I'm a few behind on the Marvel series, and yet my life hasn't ended).
The economics never made sense. There is no possible way they are getting $10/month out of me for advertising. By paying that much in subscription I am doing more to subsidize the content than by watching the commercials. Sure, there are idiotic marketing people that think my eyeballs are worth that much money but they're delusional. I'm buying no-name brands, whatever is the cheapest, or the same thing I bought last time, and then I make it last for as long as possible. And I skipped past most the commercials anyway as I had a DVR. I never even watched the superbowl commercials. Now maybe I'm unusual, but I think getting $10/month from me is pretty damn good.
Then look at it this way. If they did not have Netflix, then I wouldn't watch the TV. It is no longer an option of cable/satellite vs Netflix, it's nothing vs Netflix. TV companies are also delusional in thinking that everyone cutting the cord will be back if the streaming dried up. There is no mandate to watch TV, no mandate to listen to music, no mandate to watch movies, yet all those industries assume they have a captive audience.
Even if you are right, they should still not have to rely on my charity to stay in business. I'll make decisions that are good for *me* rather than decisions that keep some of the country's most hated corporations in power.
Except Macs are also designed for people with real computer knowledge as well. It's (real) Unix under the hood, the command line is there by default, emacs is there by default, etc. Granted they dumbed down the compiler and tools (hoping you get sucked into xcode), and they did dumb stuff to root, but it's more developer friendly than Windows by default (Windows assumes you're computer illiterate). There's a consistency on the Mac that you'll never see on Windows.
Agreed, Linux UI usability needs a ton of work. And every distribution is very different than all the others; which isn't necessarily bad but it does mean that the hour you spent trying to make a custom menu or icon is lost if you go to a different distribution.
You say it's a beautiful thing to go against the flow, then tell the people who go against the flow to keep their egos in check. So are egos are a beautiful thing?
Doesn't mean he's right though. He's dumping on Apple not because he necessarily thinks Apple is going to tank, but because Apple isn't giving him enough control on the board.
Icahn is a grumpy old man though. If a company he invested in doesn't make him enough money he sues it. Most of the rest of us instead say "you win some, you lose some."
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IT departments are often run by people with the least amount of real world experience. They see the word "computer" and then insist that it must have antivirus, be monitored for application not approved by IT, have corporate approved configuration, etc. I swear I got a notice that my Macbook Pro was due to be upgraded to Windows 7. Do these people stay up worrying at night that their automobile's fuel injection system doesn't have malware protection, or that grandpa's pacemaker doesn't have the latest version of Office?
Having a Windows based medical system is stupidity in itself. Even having an antivirus scan in embedded software is ridiculous, they should be stand alone devices, not dependent upon some apathetic home consumer company, not connected to the internet, etc. And yet so many developers are so amazingly uneducated and inexperienced that they think Windows is the perfect solution to everything, managers love Windows because they can hire so many cheap ass developers for it and mistakenly think they can save time this way. Maybe Windows is not the flaw, but the Windows mindset certainly is.
Ya, I goofed. Long noisy work day.
And it was 2013. Who cares what was on her server in 2013? The story is basically "hacker breaks into grandma's computer".
Worst product that Microsoft ever invented. Worse than Vista. But somehow it is popular with IT directors because they keep rolling it out despite the user's cries of despair. It also has a complicated API that requires spending lots of money on Microsoft classes, so that anyone who's gone through the classes is compelled to claim that that SharePoint is useful and not at all a waste of money. It's main purpose seems to be the stifling of all office communication and collaboration, so that Microsoft appears to be a functional organization in comparison.
Except that yoghurt is primarily made from yeast, and any bacteria it has are very unlikely to be bacteria normally found in the gut. Any change in behavior or health is very often due to changing lifestyles. Ie, no one decides to suddenly eat lots more yoghurt while keeping every othe part of their lifestyle and diet the same, instead they stop being a couch potato, pay attention to what they're eating, and so forth. So 25 variables change but people feel that they have to say it was just that one variable with unproven medical benefits that was the only one that made the difference.
Probiotics also come with disclaimers that their effects are unproven.
But was he speaking Ex Cathedra?
Reminds me of a jury panel I was on. We were all convinced the defendant was not guilty, except for one juror. He said "maybe he's technically not guilty of this crime, but he's probably guilty of something!"
And so there are tons of people out there that feel because Hillary has been accused of so many things that one of them at least has to be true.
It's like prosecuting a politician for misusing campaign funds - no other politician wants to see this happen because there just aren't enough jail cells for everyone (though maybe you could put a large wall around around D.C.).
I'd vote for a convicted criminal over Trump.
Watching good players play a video game is boring. Watching inept players playing a video game is fun. For a few times. Then it runs into another episode of someone begging you constantly to watch the other videos, name dropping their other twitch/youtube friends, and the same old stuff.
And the streaming doesn't work in the US... Legally anyway.
How can you stream the BBC online? I've been looking for that for ages. They even yanked off Doctor Who off of all streaming services, with a hint that maybe they're going to have their own service. BBC News has not been streaming for a few years at least that I can tell. Really, the only thing I miss from satellite is BBC America.
Discovery has gone stupid a few years back, not much to see there ("How It's Made" is on netflix). History channel is now the Nazi Space Aliens channel. National Geographic is better as a magazine.
Never went to Hulu, never saw the need. There's so much on Netflix that when I finally run out of content then I'll worry about the few movies I can't see there. Ther'es always a movie service somewhere if I absolutely must see that movie now (I'm a few behind on the Marvel series, and yet my life hasn't ended).
The economics never made sense. There is no possible way they are getting $10/month out of me for advertising. By paying that much in subscription I am doing more to subsidize the content than by watching the commercials. Sure, there are idiotic marketing people that think my eyeballs are worth that much money but they're delusional. I'm buying no-name brands, whatever is the cheapest, or the same thing I bought last time, and then I make it last for as long as possible. And I skipped past most the commercials anyway as I had a DVR. I never even watched the superbowl commercials. Now maybe I'm unusual, but I think getting $10/month from me is pretty damn good.
Then look at it this way. If they did not have Netflix, then I wouldn't watch the TV. It is no longer an option of cable/satellite vs Netflix, it's nothing vs Netflix. TV companies are also delusional in thinking that everyone cutting the cord will be back if the streaming dried up. There is no mandate to watch TV, no mandate to listen to music, no mandate to watch movies, yet all those industries assume they have a captive audience.
Even if you are right, they should still not have to rely on my charity to stay in business. I'll make decisions that are good for *me* rather than decisions that keep some of the country's most hated corporations in power.
Sort of like CNN, lots of people flapping their gums talking about something other than the news.
So they just need to add some sticky floors, loud teenagers, stale popcorn, a half hour of previews, and someone texting during the movie?
When you go far enough to the left or right you end up meeting the other side coming your way.
But it was state of the art modernity when it was new!
Except Macs are also designed for people with real computer knowledge as well. It's (real) Unix under the hood, the command line is there by default, emacs is there by default, etc. Granted they dumbed down the compiler and tools (hoping you get sucked into xcode), and they did dumb stuff to root, but it's more developer friendly than Windows by default (Windows assumes you're computer illiterate). There's a consistency on the Mac that you'll never see on Windows.
Agreed, Linux UI usability needs a ton of work. And every distribution is very different than all the others; which isn't necessarily bad but it does mean that the hour you spent trying to make a custom menu or icon is lost if you go to a different distribution.
You say it's a beautiful thing to go against the flow, then tell the people who go against the flow to keep their egos in check. So are egos are a beautiful thing?
Doesn't mean he's right though. He's dumping on Apple not because he necessarily thinks Apple is going to tank, but because Apple isn't giving him enough control on the board.
Icahn is a grumpy old man though. If a company he invested in doesn't make him enough money he sues it. Most of the rest of us instead say "you win some, you lose some."