People like you keep saying that, yet I'm not seeing it. I know a lot of people who work in tech and none have had their compensation increase dramatically in the last 15 years.
I did some googling and found the pwn2own vulnerability, but to do that you have to have a fake station in range of your phone, so it seems highly unlikely any given person would ever get hit by it. Are there any highly practical attacks that can dial a phone without someone knowing?
You have a point if this happens... I personally haven't heard of it happening. Plus I'm sure if it did happen, the phone company would refund the charge.
I don't really do anything with my phone that I need 'security' for, so I'll take the phone that doesn't wall me in and has more capability at 1/2 the price, thanks.
No silly, these will be out of a HUB not a dispatch call center! That's the difference! How many taxis today are there are operate out of a HUB? It's a totally different business!
Interesting article to read on a site that made it's name shortening full news stories to a paragraph; on which still only around 20% read the full article.
Yes and when I complain and tell him to hire someone to cover for me he just laughs. He has no control over it, his boss has no control over it. The people who have control over it are bean counters somewhere who no one in my group has met. The company won't pay for 50% of a person to be idle around waiting to cover for time off. Basically their attitude is increasingly that its a waste of money if everyone isn't 100% busy with important stuff all the time.
I work from home 100%.. 5x8. Problem is I'm also on call, which can add another day to my week without notice. My employer is fully supportive of me taking that time back but they've been making it more and more difficult to find replacements for myself when I do. They do not like me leaving accounts unsupported.
Some people are more in tune with what their CPU is capable of. Some people may be more willing to settle for slowness; after all it is an old device *pout*. These are the types of people Apple love. On the other hand, other people will look at the OS and what it is capable of and what it does and realize that there is really no valid justification for the slowness issues.
In other words, I think is is a 'willingness to settle' issue rather than an expectation issue.
Samsung Galaxy S3 here, still going strong. They said the USB port would fail, they said the plastic back was cheap or that the replaceable battery would make it break but they are all fine. I don't believe in replacing things that work, it's bad for the environment. Nor do I believe in artificially making things 'not work' through software.
My four year old laptop runs the newest OS, why shouldn't my four year old phone? I think the allegation here is that the phone is 'artificially' being slowed down. If that is the case it should be illegal, obviously.
"it recognized that individually selfish actions in a free market promote the "common good"."
I don't recognize that.. who recognizes that? I think it is more accurate to say that the free market sometimes produces a result that could be perceived as a common good but then so will a million monkeys at a million typewriters. In other words, it is a remarkably inefficient way to produce anything that is for the common good, and unless 'common good' is a unified goal it will only happen out of pure luck. Sometimes people will pay for something good, it happens but it can't be said that the market produces a common good.
"Yes, free markets suck, but they suck a lot less than all the known alternatives."
Which is precisely why we should be trying to modify the system we currently have to incorporate common objectives of a society that value the best outcome for as many people as possible.
We all bought into capatalism one way or the other. There is no 'sharing' in Capatalism and no sense of 'common good', so you're always going to end up with a few players at the top. There are mergers everywhere, not just in IT. Why do you think the wealth gap is happening in the first place?
In Capitalist theory the large companies are supposed to break up naturally as they become unsustainable but since the American government is more interested in keeping these companies going rather then giving someone else a shot at their market I'm afraid most of us are screwed.
This is why I cringe every time someone says 'Apple is an inventor'. All they do is take something that all the other guys are doing because it's the standard thing to do and make it different. They get away with it because enough of their fans thing it is a cool hipster way to do things. Yet to this day my macbook is the only system I have with a displayport and no VGA port. Even the Thinkpad I just purchased still works with my VGA monitors. I swear at them every time I can't connect my monitor because I lost my stupid displayport to VGA adapter.
None of the people that Linux needs to expand to understand the difference between a desktop manager, and OS, and a kernel. They're going to install a distribution that gets recommended to them and expect it to work out of the box.
It's not the same thing. People know that if they get around the nuisance of installing windows, that it will be fairly trouble free for some years after. On the other hand, if they install linux they're probably going to run into other nuisances after the original one of installing it. It's just the way it is with Linux. Currently my favorite flavor of unix is Mint with MATE, it's good and it's one of the leading ones out there but I'm dealing with all kinds of bugs every day. Here are some of the bugs I have been dealing with:
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1) Main menu crashes around 1/2 the time and has to be started on command line
2) Sound on some hardware can hit a level that the audio driver can't handle, which scrambles the sound until reboot (can be band-aided by installing a mixer and adjusting levels on the high and low end)
3) Keyboard and mouse freezes intermittently on one of my machines, needs reboot to fix
4) Clicking on a link in Thunderbird (as I did to get to this post) sometimes freezes an invisible firefox screen on the desktop which prevents manipulating windows, have to kill firefox on the commandline to fix
I put up with it because as a technical person I still get enough benefit out of linux to make it ok but these are ridiculous things to ever expect someone to live with. Furthermore I'd love to be a linux evangelist but until I do an update and all these things disappear I can't bring myself to install linux for people.
That's a pretty big assumption to make seeing as I didn't say anything that would indicate it was a hardware problem and I also said I had just installed Linux. The solution ended up being to install gconf-editor and turn off the flag for the desktop manager to track the location of the mouse, then everything worked again. By then though my mil was turned off of linux.
I'm really curious to know why I got modded down for that? It seems obvious if linux want to expand to other users, they should not piss off those users with stupid little issues.
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People like you keep saying that, yet I'm not seeing it. I know a lot of people who work in tech and none have had their compensation increase dramatically in the last 15 years.
I did some googling and found the pwn2own vulnerability, but to do that you have to have a fake station in range of your phone, so it seems highly unlikely any given person would ever get hit by it. Are there any highly practical attacks that can dial a phone without someone knowing?
You have a point if this happens... I personally haven't heard of it happening. Plus I'm sure if it did happen, the phone company would refund the charge.
Doesn't communism kill all desire to innovate? That's what the capitalists are saying..
I don't really do anything with my phone that I need 'security' for, so I'll take the phone that doesn't wall me in and has more capability at 1/2 the price, thanks.
Screw you.
On the last laptop I got, I ran the windows partition long enough to shrink the partition to nothing and make a linux mint USB install.
No silly, these will be out of a HUB not a dispatch call center! That's the difference! How many taxis today are there are operate out of a HUB? It's a totally different business!
Interesting article to read on a site that made it's name shortening full news stories to a paragraph; on which still only around 20% read the full article.
Yes and when I complain and tell him to hire someone to cover for me he just laughs. He has no control over it, his boss has no control over it. The people who have control over it are bean counters somewhere who no one in my group has met. The company won't pay for 50% of a person to be idle around waiting to cover for time off. Basically their attitude is increasingly that its a waste of money if everyone isn't 100% busy with important stuff all the time.
I work from home 100%.. 5x8. Problem is I'm also on call, which can add another day to my week without notice. My employer is fully supportive of me taking that time back but they've been making it more and more difficult to find replacements for myself when I do. They do not like me leaving accounts unsupported.
There are a million ways this could have been coded 'correctly'. Please let us not start going through them all.
Some people are more in tune with what their CPU is capable of. Some people may be more willing to settle for slowness; after all it is an old device *pout*. These are the types of people Apple love. On the other hand, other people will look at the OS and what it is capable of and what it does and realize that there is really no valid justification for the slowness issues.
In other words, I think is is a 'willingness to settle' issue rather than an expectation issue.
You always have the choice to go back if you don't like it. Apple users can't. Big difference.
Try being a developer, trying to keep macbook, OSX, xcode, and iOS versions in line.
Samsung Galaxy S3 here, still going strong. They said the USB port would fail, they said the plastic back was cheap or that the replaceable battery would make it break but they are all fine. I don't believe in replacing things that work, it's bad for the environment. Nor do I believe in artificially making things 'not work' through software.
My four year old laptop runs the newest OS, why shouldn't my four year old phone? I think the allegation here is that the phone is 'artificially' being slowed down. If that is the case it should be illegal, obviously.
"it recognized that individually selfish actions in a free market promote the "common good"."
I don't recognize that.. who recognizes that? I think it is more accurate to say that the free market sometimes produces a result that could be perceived as a common good but then so will a million monkeys at a million typewriters. In other words, it is a remarkably inefficient way to produce anything that is for the common good, and unless 'common good' is a unified goal it will only happen out of pure luck. Sometimes people will pay for something good, it happens but it can't be said that the market produces a common good.
"Yes, free markets suck, but they suck a lot less than all the known alternatives."
Which is precisely why we should be trying to modify the system we currently have to incorporate common objectives of a society that value the best outcome for as many people as possible.
We all bought into capatalism one way or the other. There is no 'sharing' in Capatalism and no sense of 'common good', so you're always going to end up with a few players at the top. There are mergers everywhere, not just in IT. Why do you think the wealth gap is happening in the first place?
In Capitalist theory the large companies are supposed to break up naturally as they become unsustainable but since the American government is more interested in keeping these companies going rather then giving someone else a shot at their market I'm afraid most of us are screwed.
This is why I cringe every time someone says 'Apple is an inventor'. All they do is take something that all the other guys are doing because it's the standard thing to do and make it different. They get away with it because enough of their fans thing it is a cool hipster way to do things. Yet to this day my macbook is the only system I have with a displayport and no VGA port. Even the Thinkpad I just purchased still works with my VGA monitors. I swear at them every time I can't connect my monitor because I lost my stupid displayport to VGA adapter.
A lot of distros have a live trial these days. I use Mint with MATE and you can try it off a usb key or CD as well.
None of the people that Linux needs to expand to understand the difference between a desktop manager, and OS, and a kernel. They're going to install a distribution that gets recommended to them and expect it to work out of the box.
It's not the same thing. People know that if they get around the nuisance of installing windows, that it will be fairly trouble free for some years after. On the other hand, if they install linux they're probably going to run into other nuisances after the original one of installing it. It's just the way it is with Linux. Currently my favorite flavor of unix is Mint with MATE, it's good and it's one of the leading ones out there but I'm dealing with all kinds of bugs every day. Here are some of the bugs I have been dealing with:
> 1) Main menu crashes around 1/2 the time and has to be started on command line
2) Sound on some hardware can hit a level that the audio driver can't handle, which scrambles the sound until reboot (can be band-aided by installing a mixer and adjusting levels on the high and low end)
3) Keyboard and mouse freezes intermittently on one of my machines, needs reboot to fix
4) Clicking on a link in Thunderbird (as I did to get to this post) sometimes freezes an invisible firefox screen on the desktop which prevents manipulating windows, have to kill firefox on the commandline to fix
I put up with it because as a technical person I still get enough benefit out of linux to make it ok but these are ridiculous things to ever expect someone to live with. Furthermore I'd love to be a linux evangelist but until I do an update and all these things disappear I can't bring myself to install linux for people.
That's a pretty big assumption to make seeing as I didn't say anything that would indicate it was a hardware problem and I also said I had just installed Linux. The solution ended up being to install gconf-editor and turn off the flag for the desktop manager to track the location of the mouse, then everything worked again. By then though my mil was turned off of linux.
I'm really curious to know why I got modded down for that? It seems obvious if linux want to expand to other users, they should not piss off those users with stupid little issues.