Many people will tell you not to upgrade old applications. It's not worth the trouble and it's much easier to just write a new one, right?
Wrong! (usually)
No one likes to endure the "learning frustration" of figuring out someone else's code. particularly several someone elses. But there is knowledge in that old code that no one else knows, and functionality that no one knows about. Except your customers, who will complain vociferously!
Writing a brand new Application will cause the loss of functionality. It will very likely cause the loss of operability, because there are things that you don't know, without which the app will not work.
In the last year, I have seen this happen to two separate hardware manufacturers, whose "smart" products we have to use. I have also had it happen to me once, a long time ago before I learned better. It has also caused more than one company to go out of business!
Be warned. The hard way is often the easy way, in the end.
"Officer: What I want to know is did you camp-fire get out of control or were you shooting guns? If it was your camp-fire you could be in serious trouble."
"Um... Yes officer, I was shooting!" That sounds like a possibility! 8-)
I have never actually heard a first-person account of normal bullets setting a fire. Lead and copper are relativly soft, and even hitting a rock is not likely to get hot enough.
Assuming, of course, that they were not shooting old surplus steel-core bullets, or tracer bullets. In which case, I think they should be charged with whaterver the campfire user would be charged with.
Hollywood movies, where everything explodes, don't tell the truth. So, don't base your opinion on what you have seen there... or on what the "gun ban" people say.
And yet everything you listed is typical of regular users and hotmail's target audience is regular users. The author may be a dolt because he failed to apply the expertise that is a requirement of his job, but when you have to be an expert to properly use a consumer-grade service, the real problem lies squarely with the service, not the user.
To some extent you are right... But, to quote a phrase: "You can make something fool proof, but you can't make it damn-fool proof!" (Or words to that effect.)
If they caught a real terrorist it could be dangerous! Doing theater is safer.
It's like the FCC used to visit the Amature Radio (HAM) operators,who would ask them in and give them coffee. Instead of visiting the outlaw CB operators that had illegal linear amps, who might shoot at them! They got the same benie points either way, I think.
... When they designed it, they thought of this and added a film over the windows that reduces reflected energy by 70%, according to TFA.
It still manages to raise temperatures by 20-30 degrees in the affected zone, and on a 110 degree day thats enough to melt plastics and people. -Taylor
So imagine what happens when some fool replaces the windows, and leaves out the film to save cost! 3 times as hot??
DSL is a dedicated line at constant speed. Oversubscribing doesn't apply. Of course if you have several of your own computers on your line, then they are sharing. But your speed is not being shared with your neighbors.
Cable, however, is shared with your neighbors. So on cable you are not going to get the max speed except in the middle of the night. Cable is not faster than DSL except every now and then. The ad's lie!
It was Mostly Alpha particles from the ic cases, but they fixed that pretty quick.
However, there remain a low level of Cosmic ray impacts. For most computers it was estimated at about once a year, and my experience was about the same.
Strangely enough, the empirical experience indicates that it is still about the same, even with the higher density memory chips used now days. Maybe the physical area of the chips is about the same?
Are you being funny, or are you serious? That's cell phones, of course.
Friends of mine, who were Amateur Radio operators (HAMs), were using base-tower linked duplex walkie talkies, that could call into the telephone system, in 1973. Some even had shared towers that they linked together.
That was long before any company started talking about "cell phones", after Hams who worked there convinced them to try it. Even then most didn't see any need for it.
Hams were involved in most of the tech inventions that we use today, in the companies where they worked.
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Urbmon Monad, here we come...
Right... indiscriminate disease is punishment from a deity.
Sounds like an asshole to me.
The disease was not punishment for not heeding warnings, it was what the warnings were about.
If I warn someone about a pothole in the road, that does Not make it my fault when he ignores me and runs into the pothole!
Many people will tell you not to upgrade old applications. It's not worth the trouble and it's much easier to just write a new one, right?
Wrong! (usually)
No one likes to endure the "learning frustration" of figuring out someone else's code. particularly several someone elses. But there is knowledge in that old code that no one else knows, and functionality that no one knows about. Except your customers, who will complain vociferously!
Writing a brand new Application will cause the loss of functionality. It will very likely cause the loss of operability, because there are things that you don't know, without which the app will not work.
In the last year, I have seen this happen to two separate hardware manufacturers, whose "smart" products we have to use. I have also had it happen to me once, a long time ago before I learned better. It has also caused more than one company to go out of business!
Be warned. The hard way is often the easy way, in the end.
Now, that is actually funny! 8-)
Meanwhile, the consumer market was flooded with inexpensive snapshot cameras
yes, the point I keep trying to make...
Um... Kodak -Invented- the cheap snapshot camera! But that was the previous generation... maybe that was their problem, all of the movers were gone.
"Officer: What I want to know is did you camp-fire get out of control or were you shooting guns? If it was your camp-fire you could be in serious trouble."
"Um... Yes officer, I was shooting!" That sounds like a possibility! 8-)
I have never actually heard a first-person account of normal bullets setting a fire. Lead and copper are relativly soft, and even hitting a rock is not likely to get hot enough.
Assuming, of course, that they were not shooting old surplus steel-core bullets, or tracer bullets. In which case, I think they should be charged with whaterver the campfire user would be charged with.
Hollywood movies, where everything explodes, don't tell the truth. So, don't base your opinion on what you have seen there... or on what the "gun ban" people say.
And yet everything you listed is typical of regular users and hotmail's target audience is regular users. The author may be a dolt because he failed to apply the expertise that is a requirement of his job, but when you have to be an expert to properly use a consumer-grade service, the real problem lies squarely with the service, not the user.
To some extent you are right... But, to quote a phrase:
"You can make something fool proof, but you can't make it damn-fool proof!"
(Or words to that effect.)
If they caught a real terrorist it could be dangerous! Doing theater is safer.
It's like the FCC used to visit the Amature Radio (HAM) operators,who would ask them in and give them coffee. Instead of visiting the outlaw CB operators that had illegal linear amps, who might shoot at them! They got the same benie points either way, I think.
... When they designed it, they thought of this and added a film over the windows that reduces reflected energy by 70%, according to TFA.
It still manages to raise temperatures by 20-30 degrees in the affected zone, and on a 110 degree day thats enough to melt plastics and people.
-Taylor
So imagine what happens when some fool replaces the windows, and leaves out the film to save cost! 3 times as hot??
DSL is a dedicated line at constant speed. Oversubscribing doesn't apply. Of course if you have several of your own computers on your line, then they are sharing. But your speed is not being shared with your neighbors.
Cable, however, is shared with your neighbors. So on cable you are not going to get the max speed except in the middle of the night. Cable is not faster than DSL except every now and then. The ad's lie!
I bet that the so-called satellite was actually three cinder blocks!
It was Mostly Alpha particles from the ic cases, but they fixed that pretty quick. However, there remain a low level of Cosmic ray impacts. For most computers it was estimated at about once a year, and my experience was about the same. Strangely enough, the empirical experience indicates that it is still about the same, even with the higher density memory chips used now days. Maybe the physical area of the chips is about the same?
Are you being funny, or are you serious? That's cell phones, of course. Friends of mine, who were Amateur Radio operators (HAMs), were using base-tower linked duplex walkie talkies, that could call into the telephone system, in 1973. Some even had shared towers that they linked together. That was long before any company started talking about "cell phones", after Hams who worked there convinced them to try it. Even then most didn't see any need for it. Hams were involved in most of the tech inventions that we use today, in the companies where they worked.