The #1 smartwatch.... well actually #2 after the iWatch but it still outsells all the Android wear watches put together, the Pebble is not giving up data.
Plus it is significantly easier to write software and faces for. Oh and that 5-7 day battery life that destroys all other smartwatches...
If you have a decent firewall and managed network you can make it secure if you have software that will not run on server 2008 or newer.
If your company is just being cheap bastards, then you deserve all the hacks, viruses, and spyware you get.
Most companies do not spend what they should on IT infrastructure or staff. It's not a luxury, it's a key part of your business. Business owners need to stop being drooling morons and spend the money.
Most modern electronics already do what this does. For example Xbox 360 and Xbox One controllers will suck nearly every last drop of power out of the batteries.
If your device shuts off when they claim, it's either from the 80's or is poorly designed.
What I do have to aim for is brain dead easy use. The average computer user has went down in education dramatically, so if you extrapolate that out it will be even worse in 40 years.
The chances that a normal person in the future that will understand what the 25 reams of paper in that box are for, because the top pages that explain it will disappear, are very very slim.
I actually am looking at getting some 45rpm records made and including a fold up record player where you have to spin the record by your finger. This bypasses all future technology problems but will limit playback to only a few times before the recording is destroyed.
I just want to send foreward to my grandkids Audio, Video, and photos in digital form. photos I can get printed, but video and audio has no formats that will last that long. we were lucky and had simple records to carry audio forward 100 years, and film lasted a while but is already falling apart.
Honestly Digital is going to cause a dark age. Very few people can read 9 track EBCDIC tapes from the 60's, who the hell is going to have a USB slot in 2065? even if my archival storage sandisk memory vault actually does last the 50-100 years it claims it's data retention is.
Just release 10 home for free to everyone. This will overnight solve a lot of problems and increase adoption back to the levels you want. I thought the new CEO was a smart guy, but it seems he just doesn't get it.
Like actually having long eaves, thick walls, real designs like a central solid brick or concrete wall for heat storage. Things that the idiot architects today seem to not do.
the new stuff will be home run all electrical to a lighting control panel from Vantage, Lutron, or Crestron (technically old tech as it's been around for 30 years) Conduit to all low voltage locations that all home run to a set of inset wall panels for easy infrastructure upgrades. (Again old 30 year old tech)
The only new-new tech would be fiberoptic lighting from solar light collectors on the roof. The light tube skylights are horrible at insulation and are just holes in the ceiling. The fiber optic stuff does not impact the roof insulation value. Plus it is a lot easier to run.
The last thing I would love that is a new-new thing. Aero-Gel as the wall and ceiling insulation.
Everything else is easy. Home theater, a real one not the lame tv in the living room "home theater" is simply a spare room set up with only a few grand of gear. Even good 4K projectors are only $3000 now. If your house is set up for easy upgrade, the tech can slide in and be upgraded regularly.
We used to use unidirectional ethernet cables. Basically the TX wires clipped out on the receiving end to the less secure network. You do need ethernet cards you can set to accept a link without having a full handshake going.
But it allowed us to set up the SCADA network to take the data stream we needed to get to the collection and reporting pc and UDP broadcast it. then the PC that can only receive set up to listen for and receive it, works great and is 100% hacker proof as hackers have yet to write code that can cause copper to grow back in a CAT-5e cable.
Now if we could keep the N00b SCADA programmers from bringing in their crap-tastic home laptops for programming changes and becoming the largest infection vector.
all of them will only offer one because of the rampant stupidity of the Consumers to want smaller and lighter.
Sadly most laptop consumers are weak waifs that can barely carry 3 pounds. Those of us that do real work on laptops want a 21 pound 21" laptop with at least 10 USB ports 2 serial and frigging lasers.
You are 100% correct. Although I went a step further. Relatives I have moved away from Linux to Chromebooks and ChomeBoxes. That way I have ZERO maintenance for the devices. I dont even have to do any updates at all. It's wonderful and my family members are all so happy they dont have to do any stupid windows tricks.
All companies are out to screw you. So you are a fool. A complete fool, if you give the company any loyalty.
Do not be afraid or feel bad to jump ship to another company that is offering something better. Also don't ever be afraid to ask for more money, because I guarantee you are underpaid.
I see your education on macs and OSX is so horribly outdated that your comment is essentially useless. Many do worry about it this is why several virus scanner companies are making products for OSX. Hell you can even get a free Avast for OSX. They would not even bothered if people were not asking for it.
"Just this space where you can hide and survive an OS wipe and reinstall." IF the user only put the unit to sleep and then woke it. Simply turning off the unit for a short time before OS wipe and reinstall defeats this potential hole.
I am betting that Windows, BSD, and Linux have a similar vulnerability lurking.
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The #1 smartwatch.... well actually #2 after the iWatch but it still outsells all the Android wear watches put together, the Pebble is not giving up data.
Plus it is significantly easier to write software and faces for. Oh and that 5-7 day battery life that destroys all other smartwatches...
I do, I let the crap fail and lose a shitload of company files.
when asked, i reply with the email where they denied my request for a backup server or storage.
Nothing get's you the IT budget like losing 6 years of accounting database and throwing the CTO under the bus with everyone else in the meeting.
I bet they dont even have a good backup system in place.
Stop cheaping out on your IT.
If you have a decent firewall and managed network you can make it secure if you have software that will not run on server 2008 or newer.
If your company is just being cheap bastards, then you deserve all the hacks, viruses, and spyware you get.
Most companies do not spend what they should on IT infrastructure or staff. It's not a luxury, it's a key part of your business. Business owners need to stop being drooling morons and spend the money.
Most modern electronics already do what this does. For example Xbox 360 and Xbox One controllers will suck nearly every last drop of power out of the batteries.
If your device shuts off when they claim, it's either from the 80's or is poorly designed.
Sorry but all of the administration staff in ALL colleges are grossly overpaid.
Also the sports coaches are disgustingly overpaid.
Fix those two problems and then come back with your "college cares about the students argument"
What I do have to aim for is brain dead easy use. The average computer user has went down in education dramatically, so if you extrapolate that out it will be even worse in 40 years.
The chances that a normal person in the future that will understand what the 25 reams of paper in that box are for, because the top pages that explain it will disappear, are very very slim.
I actually am looking at getting some 45rpm records made and including a fold up record player where you have to spin the record by your finger. This bypasses all future technology problems but will limit playback to only a few times before the recording is destroyed.
http://kellianderson.com/blog/...
Basically stealing this persons idea. I still have not found a technology proof method of sending video ahead in time.
I just want to send foreward to my grandkids Audio, Video, and photos in digital form. photos I can get printed, but video and audio has no formats that will last that long. we were lucky and had simple records to carry audio forward 100 years, and film lasted a while but is already falling apart.
Honestly Digital is going to cause a dark age. Very few people can read 9 track EBCDIC tapes from the 60's, who the hell is going to have a USB slot in 2065? even if my archival storage sandisk memory vault actually does last the 50-100 years it claims it's data retention is.
medium.com's definition of chaotic is getting the wrong coffee from the barista.
Stop being idiots.
Just release 10 home for free to everyone. This will overnight solve a lot of problems and increase adoption back to the levels you want.
I thought the new CEO was a smart guy, but it seems he just doesn't get it.
Why are these employees not telling disney, "Go stuff it in mickeys rear"? If you are not paying me I am not doing crap.
Earth's orbital vacuum cleaner.
And there you go. The "outrage" is only from developers that really suck at what they do and are hoping they can continue half assing everything.
Like actually having long eaves, thick walls, real designs like a central solid brick or concrete wall for heat storage. Things that the idiot architects today seem to not do.
the new stuff will be home run all electrical to a lighting control panel from Vantage, Lutron, or Crestron (technically old tech as it's been around for 30 years)
Conduit to all low voltage locations that all home run to a set of inset wall panels for easy infrastructure upgrades. (Again old 30 year old tech)
The only new-new tech would be fiberoptic lighting from solar light collectors on the roof. The light tube skylights are horrible at insulation and are just holes in the ceiling. The fiber optic stuff does not impact the roof insulation value. Plus it is a lot easier to run.
The last thing I would love that is a new-new thing. Aero-Gel as the wall and ceiling insulation.
Everything else is easy. Home theater, a real one not the lame tv in the living room "home theater" is simply a spare room set up with only a few grand of gear. Even good 4K projectors are only $3000 now. If your house is set up for easy upgrade, the tech can slide in and be upgraded regularly.
We used to use unidirectional ethernet cables. Basically the TX wires clipped out on the receiving end to the less secure network. You do need ethernet cards you can set to accept a link without having a full handshake going.
But it allowed us to set up the SCADA network to take the data stream we needed to get to the collection and reporting pc and UDP broadcast it. then the PC that can only receive set up to listen for and receive it, works great and is 100% hacker proof as hackers have yet to write code that can cause copper to grow back in a CAT-5e cable.
Now if we could keep the N00b SCADA programmers from bringing in their crap-tastic home laptops for programming changes and becoming the largest infection vector.
all of them will only offer one because of the rampant stupidity of the Consumers to want smaller and lighter.
Sadly most laptop consumers are weak waifs that can barely carry 3 pounds. Those of us that do real work on laptops want a 21 pound 21" laptop with at least 10 USB ports 2 serial and frigging lasers.
You are 100% correct. Although I went a step further. Relatives I have moved away from Linux to Chromebooks and ChomeBoxes. That way I have ZERO maintenance for the devices. I dont even have to do any updates at all. It's wonderful and my family members are all so happy they dont have to do any stupid windows tricks.
Yep Learn to say NO.
All companies are out to screw you. So you are a fool. A complete fool, if you give the company any loyalty.
Do not be afraid or feel bad to jump ship to another company that is offering something better. Also don't ever be afraid to ask for more money, because I guarantee you are underpaid.
Glad to see DICE holding strong on their scumware downloaders.
I see your education on macs and OSX is so horribly outdated that your comment is essentially useless. Many do worry about it this is why several virus scanner companies are making products for OSX. Hell you can even get a free Avast for OSX. They would not even bothered if people were not asking for it.
"Just this space where you can hide and survive an OS wipe and reinstall." IF the user only put the unit to sleep and then woke it. Simply turning off the unit for a short time before OS wipe and reinstall defeats this potential hole.
I am betting that Windows, BSD, and Linux have a similar vulnerability lurking.
Yes I am, as I work for the NSA and simply delete my own files...
Wait a minute, someone is knocking at my door...
Proven? when did they run that experiment? You have to get up to about 0.05% C to even get them to start working and nobody has launched a test craft.
The fault of that lies in Congress.
Spend Middle East War money on NASA and science and it goes a lot faster.