Please show me how MOST have front and back cameras. Because that is a bold faced lie. I can find 4 that do an all of those are the newest top of the line ones.
No there hasnt. All of them have been really old versions of Android which makes them crap. Hopefully this china company did not phone it in like the rest of them have and has created at least a useful tablet that does not suck.
That is the problem with sub $200.00 tablets. the suck level get's up there because of the hardware being cheaped out on.
I do use mine as a glorified universal remote. I control my crestron processors for the theater, whole house audio and home automation daily on mine. It's great to simply enter the crestron app and turn on the lights, open the garage door, turn on the sirius radio to Octane her in the den, etc...
You dont know many people then. I know hundreds in business that use their ipad daily. for notes, PDF's Cad drawing review, presentations, etc... IT's used far more than laptops in the 20+ businesses I support. And everyone I know that has them for recreational uses them constantly. In fact I know that many people look to buy a second one to keep in the bathroom.
Ipad has the apps. Android tablet is only now becoming a reality at a cheap pricepoint. Maybe if you had actually touched them for the past year you would have known that.
People go where the apps are. MY daughter and her husband just bought iphones instead of android for ONE reason. facetime. Few androids have front facing cameras, and those that do are the same price or more than the iphone. this will change, but right now for that app, apple is the cheapest at $99.00 phone for a iphone 4.
Anyone smart will throw out ANYONE demanding anything if they dont have a warrant in hand. Most of the time the BSA shows up with rented local police so they look more official.
If they do not have a warrant, throw them out, and instantly call the lawyers.
Every small business I know that has survived a BSA audit has switched to OSS. I made a hefty salary doing that over the past 10 years helping small business do just that.
Changing out the backend to OSS is the most painless for them. switching to OSS apps under windows get them a taste. IT'w when you set up a single machine with linux and show them it works (and you have more control so elf bowling cant get installed, yes I know you can do this under windows) is when they go "oh really!" and jump on that bandwagon.
Some apps they cant walk away from windows, but their liability is significantly reduced by fixing the mess that Microsoft has with their server licensing. Most businesses are out of compliance with their server licenses, and that is where the BSA typically nails them.
You boss deserves it if the asshole wont pay for the software.
If your scumbag boss cant afford Windows Server and Exchange, he can install linux for free. There is ZERO excuse for piracy in business other than being incredibly lazy or just lecherous.
There is a free and open source application for EVERY PART of business. just because the business owner is too lazy to learn new software does not give them the right to steal it instead.
Mostly because the scouts were raided by the Mormons to become a recruiting agency. The Boy Scouts used to be a great organization. But recently it has became a utter mess pushing a religious agenda upon the kids.
I have NEVER met a CTO/CIO at a large corperation that knew anything at all about computers, the last one I Observed needed help in launching a Power point presentation... I turned to the guy sitting next to me and asked.... really? this is your CTO?
Maybe a 3 person shop that incorporated and they decided to make the IT guy CTO... they would actually know something. Just read CTO magazine, if that is how those guys think and if any of them take any of the BS in that rag seriously, the average CTO is pretty useless as far as IT is concerned... They might be goot at sales and negotiating with a vendor but useless at Operations.
AS a DB admin I HAD to peek as I was the one that had to fix the Piece of crap payroll and accounting software. I had to see all that fracking data daily. I also saw the disparity in pricing the customers had simply because they were brown nosing the executives.
Add to that that I had to come up with a query that looked for cheating sales people. any idea what it's like to be the guy that hands over data that will get 10+ people fired?
Couple that with getting plastered at the work Xmas party = you forget about who you are talking to and let things slip. IT's the bosses fault for hosting an unlimited open bar with everclear.
What is unprofessional is the Director of Finance stripping on one of the tables and puking all over the place.
an ipad to dump photos to is a pain in the ass. No thanks. I'd rather use my image tank to copy the cards while I continue shooting, and then hook up firewire to see them later in the hotel room at decent speed.
the only photographers I know that use an ipad in the way you speak is the amateurs that are playing around. I dont have time to wait a week for the ipad to copy all the photos off of a 32 gig card. And bog whoop it holds 2 cards. I fill a 500gig image tank in a single weekend event.
"Most laptops these days have an SD card reader built in anyway."
You mean a Low speed garbage SD card reader.
Photographers need a high speed SDHC reader. The external one I have reads a 32gig SDHC in less than 2 minutes. The reader in my alienware will take nearly 20 minutes to read it.
Tablets have there use for low impact computing. People that can get by without any real storage or power, like writers and executives can do this.
even a 128Gig iPad cant do what I need. I need it to store and process 24megapixel RAW images and have a full blown photoshop on it. as well as a full blown video editor.
It works great as a replacement for my clipboard and papers, and for RPG gaming it's the ultimate tool that makes it easy to carry everything with you and take up no space at the table.
For real computer work, nope, sorry. Call me when I can get 2TB of storage a 3.0ghz hex core processor, firewire input and a super fast SDHC reader as well as gigabit ethernet to get stuff off to the server at home.
Oh and comes in a 29" size so I can do After Effects and photoshop effectively.
When it comes to sniping, it's the gear and training, only a idiot would try to tell me that Iran has better gear or training. We outclass Pakastan's best by a huge margin.
So speaking of ignorance... Maybe you need to back off your political rant and re read?
They also are allowed to force that fee (Now $2.50) even if you buy the tickets at the venue.
It's why I dont go to see shows anymore. Horribly overpriced, everyone has to get an additional profit fee in there, and you end up with crap seats unless you pay 4 figures.
Screw it, it's not worth it anymore. And from the performance of the band at the last 3 concerts I was at, they suck live anyways. Beastie Boys utterly stunk live.
In an accidential move, all of Iranian military bases and government buildings have been nuked.
"a janitor leaned on the button, I knew we should have bought a cover for it.", says Bgd General Sam Weisse, "With the Military cuts the senat is making we cant afford a $0.29 plastic cover or even a hand written sign that says, Do not push".
Questions as to why it looked like a elevator button and was near the elevators went unanswered.
Not really. You can make a simple cipher that is obfuscated in such a way that many people will not get it.
Heck a simply letter substitution ciper used on a dead language will pretty much cull the number of people trying to crack it by a significant amount. I completely fooled my CS instructor by doing just that. Aramaic phrase that had a simple letter substitution applied and a xor of a passphrase that was 1/10th the length of the cipher.
Mine was un-cracked for a full semester with him, his undergrads and all the CS students crakcing at it. Nowhere in the challenge did he say we HAD to use english as the content of the message.
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Please show me how MOST have front and back cameras. Because that is a bold faced lie. I can find 4 that do an all of those are the newest top of the line ones.
No there hasnt. All of them have been really old versions of Android which makes them crap. Hopefully this china company did not phone it in like the rest of them have and has created at least a useful tablet that does not suck.
That is the problem with sub $200.00 tablets. the suck level get's up there because of the hardware being cheaped out on.
I do use mine as a glorified universal remote. I control my crestron processors for the theater, whole house audio and home automation daily on mine. It's great to simply enter the crestron app and turn on the lights, open the garage door, turn on the sirius radio to Octane her in the den, etc...
it works fantastic for home automation.
You dont know many people then. I know hundreds in business that use their ipad daily. for notes, PDF's Cad drawing review, presentations, etc... IT's used far more than laptops in the 20+ businesses I support. And everyone I know that has them for recreational uses them constantly. In fact I know that many people look to buy a second one to keep in the bathroom.
The iPood.
Head in the sand much?
Ipad has the apps. Android tablet is only now becoming a reality at a cheap pricepoint. Maybe if you had actually touched them for the past year you would have known that.
People go where the apps are. MY daughter and her husband just bought iphones instead of android for ONE reason. facetime. Few androids have front facing cameras, and those that do are the same price or more than the iphone. this will change, but right now for that app, apple is the cheapest at $99.00 phone for a iphone 4.
He is running an office of 300 on a single copy of Server 2010 small business edition and no extra CAL's.
Anyone smart will throw out ANYONE demanding anything if they dont have a warrant in hand. Most of the time the BSA shows up with rented local police so they look more official.
If they do not have a warrant, throw them out, and instantly call the lawyers.
Replace BSA with OSHA you you have the same thing about workplace safety.
Every small business I know that has survived a BSA audit has switched to OSS. I made a hefty salary doing that over the past 10 years helping small business do just that.
Changing out the backend to OSS is the most painless for them. switching to OSS apps under windows get them a taste. IT'w when you set up a single machine with linux and show them it works (and you have more control so elf bowling cant get installed, yes I know you can do this under windows) is when they go "oh really!" and jump on that bandwagon.
Some apps they cant walk away from windows, but their liability is significantly reduced by fixing the mess that Microsoft has with their server licensing. Most businesses are out of compliance with their server licenses, and that is where the BSA typically nails them.
You boss deserves it if the asshole wont pay for the software.
If your scumbag boss cant afford Windows Server and Exchange, he can install linux for free. There is ZERO excuse for piracy in business other than being incredibly lazy or just lecherous.
There is a free and open source application for EVERY PART of business. just because the business owner is too lazy to learn new software does not give them the right to steal it instead.
Mostly because the scouts were raided by the Mormons to become a recruiting agency.
The Boy Scouts used to be a great organization. But recently it has became a utter mess pushing a religious agenda upon the kids.
Amateurs do that with photoshop. use the right lens and it can look absolutely HUGE!
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Just because you have a old laptop without usb 3.0 does not mean us pros do.
IF I was not so cheap and bought higher speed SDHC cards it would be even faster.
I have NEVER met a CTO/CIO at a large corperation that knew anything at all about computers, the last one I Observed needed help in launching a Power point presentation... I turned to the guy sitting next to me and asked.... really? this is your CTO?
Maybe a 3 person shop that incorporated and they decided to make the IT guy CTO... they would actually know something. Just read CTO magazine, if that is how those guys think and if any of them take any of the BS in that rag seriously, the average CTO is pretty useless as far as IT is concerned... They might be goot at sales and negotiating with a vendor but useless at Operations.
AS a DB admin I HAD to peek as I was the one that had to fix the Piece of crap payroll and accounting software. I had to see all that fracking data daily. I also saw the disparity in pricing the customers had simply because they were brown nosing the executives.
Add to that that I had to come up with a query that looked for cheating sales people. any idea what it's like to be the guy that hands over data that will get 10+ people fired?
Couple that with getting plastered at the work Xmas party = you forget about who you are talking to and let things slip. IT's the bosses fault for hosting an unlimited open bar with everclear.
What is unprofessional is the Director of Finance stripping on one of the tables and puking all over the place.
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It does not tell you that the new IT guy hired is getting $5500.00 more a year than you are after 10 years though...
You have no choice but to trust us. we have admin rights which means we have more power than you do.
Why do we have more power? Because you will screw things up badly as you know nothing about computers, servers, or networks.
If you paid us what we were worth, you would be able to hire more trustworthy people, you get what you pay for.
No, they use it for portfolios to show clients.
an ipad to dump photos to is a pain in the ass. No thanks. I'd rather use my image tank to copy the cards while I continue shooting, and then hook up firewire to see them later in the hotel room at decent speed.
the only photographers I know that use an ipad in the way you speak is the amateurs that are playing around. I dont have time to wait a week for the ipad to copy all the photos off of a 32 gig card. And bog whoop it holds 2 cards. I fill a 500gig image tank in a single weekend event.
"Most laptops these days have an SD card reader built in anyway."
You mean a Low speed garbage SD card reader.
Photographers need a high speed SDHC reader. The external one I have reads a 32gig SDHC in less than 2 minutes. The reader in my alienware will take nearly 20 minutes to read it.
Tablets have there use for low impact computing. People that can get by without any real storage or power, like writers and executives can do this.
even a 128Gig iPad cant do what I need. I need it to store and process 24megapixel RAW images and have a full blown photoshop on it. as well as a full blown video editor.
It works great as a replacement for my clipboard and papers, and for RPG gaming it's the ultimate tool that makes it easy to carry everything with you and take up no space at the table.
For real computer work, nope, sorry. Call me when I can get 2TB of storage a 3.0ghz hex core processor, firewire input and a super fast SDHC reader as well as gigabit ethernet to get stuff off to the server at home.
Oh and comes in a 29" size so I can do After Effects and photoshop effectively.
You are talking government.
I am talking armed forces skill.
When it comes to sniping, it's the gear and training, only a idiot would try to tell me that Iran has better gear or training. We outclass Pakastan's best by a huge margin.
So speaking of ignorance... Maybe you need to back off your political rant and re read?
They also are allowed to force that fee (Now $2.50) even if you buy the tickets at the venue.
It's why I dont go to see shows anymore. Horribly overpriced, everyone has to get an additional profit fee in there, and you end up with crap seats unless you pay 4 figures.
Screw it, it's not worth it anymore. And from the performance of the band at the last 3 concerts I was at, they suck live anyways. Beastie Boys utterly stunk live.
If we wanted anyone in Iran dead, it would happen. If it's "failed attempts" then it was just to send a message.
In an accidential move, all of Iranian military bases and government buildings have been nuked.
"a janitor leaned on the button, I knew we should have bought a cover for it.", says Bgd General Sam Weisse, "With the Military cuts the senat is making we cant afford a $0.29 plastic cover or even a hand written sign that says, Do not push".
Questions as to why it looked like a elevator button and was near the elevators went unanswered.
Not really.
You can make a simple cipher that is obfuscated in such a way that many people will not get it.
Heck a simply letter substitution ciper used on a dead language will pretty much cull the number of people trying to crack it by a significant amount. I completely fooled my CS instructor by doing just that. Aramaic phrase that had a simple letter substitution applied and a xor of a passphrase that was 1/10th the length of the cipher.
Mine was un-cracked for a full semester with him, his undergrads and all the CS students crakcing at it. Nowhere in the challenge did he say we HAD to use english as the content of the message.