That just makes it easier to seize their data. Perhaps Uncle Sam can auction off some tasty intellectual property. If it's simply colocation or dedicated remote servers, I feel sorry for anybody else with a server in the same rack. I wouldn't put it past the Marshals to wheel the whole thing out the door indiscriminately.
IANAVS, but I don't think you could drill a hole large enough to release enough pressure. I'd (ignorantly) imagine you might risk creating a point weak enough to actually cause an early eruption.
This, this, a million times this. It's like they hate advanced users. I hear something different when they say "have in mind though that even very advanced searchers, such as the members of the search group at Google, use these features less than 5% of the time. Basic simple search is often enough." I hear "we really don't care about those. We'll do away with them when it makes sense to the doofus in charge of new shiny things."
I can agree that media corporations have become increasingly hostile to the consumer. They won't be satisfied until they've got advertisements on the back of your eyelids that they'll charge you for. I don't, however, feel that I'm entitled to pirate things. Have I in the past? Sure. Will I again? Maybe. I try not to pirate so much anymore, and I generally purchase the pirated content I really like. I feel there's a better option, though. Despite missteps, I feel that Netflix and other subscription services are the best way to flip the bird at content owners. Are they getting money from it? Sure, but they're losing something more important to them: control of distribution channels. I'm being optimistic, but I hope that this will make things more competitive, and ultimately more consumer-friendly. The only downside to this is that it does nothing to fix the bass-ackward copyright laws that seem to extend by twenty years every ten or so.
They certainly don't have a phone that fits the featureset you are looking for, but I wouldn't call the HTC Arrive a bad phone. I'm alright with the smaller screen in exchange for the slide-out keyboard (which isn't as important, now that I realize how good the on-screen one is). I also love how tough this phone has proven itself to be. I can't count how many times it's fallen on my stupid tile floor, yet you'd never know it unless I pointed it out. The phone just feels rock solid. I guess you could say it's a Ford Crown Victoria to your Toyota Camry.
This may be marketing speak, but I have heard that the latest VMWare stuff is supposed to handle things like that quite quickly. The salesman even streamed a Youtube video on a thin client. This is coming from the sales guy though; your mileage may vary. Watch out for those maintenance fees, too.
As much as I agree with you about the intelligence of young people being underestimated, I also feel that parents do in fact have the right to dominate children's lives. Wisdom and intelligence are two separate things and while there are plenty of young intelligent people, I've found that there aren't nearly as many wise ones. Admittedly, these unwise young people are often the product of coddling parents, but I wholly support a parent's right to discipline/etc. I do agree, however, that many child protection laws are a joke.
I'd feel more comfortable with this if they had some regulations to meet like HIPAA. I realize there are breach laws, but I don't know that they're strong enough, nor is there a federal standard.
This was one of my motivations in choosing an HTC Arrive over the Android affairs on Sprint. They can't put bloatware on there that can't be removed. You can even remove the silly Sprint software. I realize I could have rooted an Android phone, but I'd just as soon not. I remember the first time I had encountered this sort of behavior on a Blackberry Storm with Verizon. It angered me that they could push their stupid VCast software on me with no recourse whatsoever. It made matters worse considering they were doing something like that with a so-called "business" phone.
I always thought of normal scrolling as moving a window over your document. You move the mouse wheel down and you move the window/looking glass downward.
I agree that vehicles are in need of greater security of their electronic systems, I don't know that I want the US Government in charge of such an initiative. I'll just keep driving my car from 1989 until I can't afford the gas anymore.
I'll agree with you there. My organization has been evaluating third party solutions to give us some more manageability and support across multiple platforms.
There's a lot of hoopla on the mobile device management front. Apple has the iPhone configuration utility that allows you to create profiles you can use to lock the end user down. As long as you've got the policies down on paper, you can put safeguards in place to secure the data on end-user devices and remotely wipe it if said devices are stolen.
Why is cut, copy and paste represented with a gear icon? We're going to sidestep basic OS capabilities? Those functions are settings now? I'm very confused.
Do not track... I assumed this was a simple concept. "Don't track me, bro!" Admittedly, these companies have a vested interest in not wishing to honor such requests on technicality, to say that they need to due to certain functions seems only partially true. If it's technical issues, such as capacity planning or performance benchmarks, there are other metrics one can use. If it comes to business metrics... well... tough. Use server-side stuff and either accept the market change or innovate.
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And here I just escaped black friday with my specially priced Acer A500. I'm not going to lie, I want.
The best part is that you can play it with all three major browsers.
That just makes it easier to seize their data. Perhaps Uncle Sam can auction off some tasty intellectual property. If it's simply colocation or dedicated remote servers, I feel sorry for anybody else with a server in the same rack. I wouldn't put it past the Marshals to wheel the whole thing out the door indiscriminately.
IANAVS, but I don't think you could drill a hole large enough to release enough pressure. I'd (ignorantly) imagine you might risk creating a point weak enough to actually cause an early eruption.
This, this, a million times this. It's like they hate advanced users. I hear something different when they say "have in mind though that even very advanced searchers, such as the members of the search group at Google, use these features less than 5% of the time. Basic simple search is often enough." I hear "we really don't care about those. We'll do away with them when it makes sense to the doofus in charge of new shiny things."
I can agree that media corporations have become increasingly hostile to the consumer. They won't be satisfied until they've got advertisements on the back of your eyelids that they'll charge you for. I don't, however, feel that I'm entitled to pirate things. Have I in the past? Sure. Will I again? Maybe. I try not to pirate so much anymore, and I generally purchase the pirated content I really like. I feel there's a better option, though. Despite missteps, I feel that Netflix and other subscription services are the best way to flip the bird at content owners. Are they getting money from it? Sure, but they're losing something more important to them: control of distribution channels. I'm being optimistic, but I hope that this will make things more competitive, and ultimately more consumer-friendly. The only downside to this is that it does nothing to fix the bass-ackward copyright laws that seem to extend by twenty years every ten or so.
Sure. I agree with you on that point. It's very irrational to gauge safety that way, but those feelings still need to be taken into consideration.
Feeling safe isn't irrelevant to the humans purchasing the vehicles.
I thought it was a function of ACPI. I think the OS has some control over that... or something.
They certainly don't have a phone that fits the featureset you are looking for, but I wouldn't call the HTC Arrive a bad phone. I'm alright with the smaller screen in exchange for the slide-out keyboard (which isn't as important, now that I realize how good the on-screen one is). I also love how tough this phone has proven itself to be. I can't count how many times it's fallen on my stupid tile floor, yet you'd never know it unless I pointed it out. The phone just feels rock solid. I guess you could say it's a Ford Crown Victoria to your Toyota Camry.
This may be marketing speak, but I have heard that the latest VMWare stuff is supposed to handle things like that quite quickly. The salesman even streamed a Youtube video on a thin client. This is coming from the sales guy though; your mileage may vary. Watch out for those maintenance fees, too.
For every heavy DVD user like you, there are users like me that watch maybe 2 DVDs a month. It balances out.
As much as I agree with you about the intelligence of young people being underestimated, I also feel that parents do in fact have the right to dominate children's lives. Wisdom and intelligence are two separate things and while there are plenty of young intelligent people, I've found that there aren't nearly as many wise ones. Admittedly, these unwise young people are often the product of coddling parents, but I wholly support a parent's right to discipline/etc. I do agree, however, that many child protection laws are a joke.
I certainly hope this has limitations on what sort of turtles this accounts for. I foresee many claims by the foot clan if not.
I'd feel more comfortable with this if they had some regulations to meet like HIPAA. I realize there are breach laws, but I don't know that they're strong enough, nor is there a federal standard.
This was one of my motivations in choosing an HTC Arrive over the Android affairs on Sprint. They can't put bloatware on there that can't be removed. You can even remove the silly Sprint software. I realize I could have rooted an Android phone, but I'd just as soon not. I remember the first time I had encountered this sort of behavior on a Blackberry Storm with Verizon. It angered me that they could push their stupid VCast software on me with no recourse whatsoever. It made matters worse considering they were doing something like that with a so-called "business" phone.
Intel had already tried that with certain notebooks. You paid $50 to "unlock the extra power" of your CPU. In reality, you had to enter a key to use hyperthreading and a larger cache. http://www.tomshardware.com/news/pentium-g6951-clarkdale-upgrade-card,11320.html
I always thought of normal scrolling as moving a window over your document. You move the mouse wheel down and you move the window/looking glass downward.
I agree that vehicles are in need of greater security of their electronic systems, I don't know that I want the US Government in charge of such an initiative. I'll just keep driving my car from 1989 until I can't afford the gas anymore.
I'll agree with you there. My organization has been evaluating third party solutions to give us some more manageability and support across multiple platforms.
There's a lot of hoopla on the mobile device management front. Apple has the iPhone configuration utility that allows you to create profiles you can use to lock the end user down. As long as you've got the policies down on paper, you can put safeguards in place to secure the data on end-user devices and remotely wipe it if said devices are stolen.
Why is cut, copy and paste represented with a gear icon? We're going to sidestep basic OS capabilities? Those functions are settings now? I'm very confused.
Well, we all live in a world with other people. The little ones need to learn to deal with the bullies, loudmouths and the weirdos.
I don't want my copy and paste to have to work this hard.
Do not track... I assumed this was a simple concept. "Don't track me, bro!" Admittedly, these companies have a vested interest in not wishing to honor such requests on technicality, to say that they need to due to certain functions seems only partially true. If it's technical issues, such as capacity planning or performance benchmarks, there are other metrics one can use. If it comes to business metrics... well... tough. Use server-side stuff and either accept the market change or innovate.