Well that's exactly it... it's a *drug* for crying out loud; it is supposed to be taken with caution. The problem is not the fact that it is available. The problem IS the fact that people take it like candy.
I don't really think alcohol should be taken off the market either. I was trying to make the point that both ideas are ludicrous. It's up to people to not abuse either one. If they hurt themselves then it's their own fault.
I'm saying I *did* buy unlimited data for $15 here in Canada. It's not a 'smartphone' so it was much cheaper. Frankly I don't think they even expected me to put a browser on it; but I did and it works fine.
We have a system in place to ensure that people are educated on drugs before they take them. Doctors, pharmacists, nurses.. It is their job to educate us on the medicine we are taking. Also we should take more responsibilities for ourselves and check the ingredients before taking something. If I have a cold and I took Tylenol, it says on the bottle of any combined cold medication what the medicinal ingredients are. Everything is standardized and it's not hard to check.
By the logic in this thread I would suggest that is is alcohol we should take off the market. After all, it damages your liver and all kinds of alcohol can be purchased WITHOUT the advice and guidance of a professional. Furthermore, it is understood that you need to take care when taking medicine; otherwise why would you need a prescription to take much of it. However, it is not the same for alcohol.
Don't you guys have problems with some websites? I tried Chrome when it first came out, dropped it, then gave it another chance a month ago, and dropped it again. I would go to a seemingly normal website that I had no problems with on either IE or Firefox and get something like (substitute various extensions):
'What would you like to do with file xxxxx.aspx? Open / Save'
It wasn't just one website either, it was several. And it didn't seem to be limited to MS technologies either.
Right now I am using FF 3.5 and it seems a bit snappier but mostly the same. I just wish it would load up a bit faster (like chrome).
Being Canadian *duck* I feel a need to respond to this. It absolutely sucks.
The thing is, I am usually fine with 'privacy invasions'. X-rays at the airport.. no problem, I don't carry a gun. Cameras on the street, no problem there either since I don't plan on mugging anyone.
Yet I hate the sounds of this. Why? Because there is WAY too much gray area because technology is new and the laws are still maturing. Furthermore, there are too many corporate hands in the pot. Either I am mugging someone or I am not. Either I am selling drugs on the street or I am not. However, if street cameras were run by ISPs I might have to be concerned with a company deciding that jay walking is infringing on their profits and having a police officer hunt me down and hand me a $300K fine every time I do so.
I hope everyone can follow this reasoning because I'm not sure if I can or not.
True enough.. In fact the 'VM' operating system for the current zSeries dates back to 1972. I used to work with it, it has ability to take snapshots, work on top of a base image, all that stuff. Not the VMware style either, we're talking true hardware level virtualization. In fact, when I first heard of VMWare I thought "neat, it's like PCs can do something like a mainframe can do".
C'mon, are people really that bad at typing that they can't enter one single word without seeing the characters? I mean really.. Why add the complexity of a checkbox? It is going to be implemented in client side javascript? With AJAX? Does it work on Firefox? IE? Opera? Chrome? Is it going to work when I need it?
I say keep it simple, keep the bullets. Let the people who can't blind-type 'passw0rd' use cut and paste from a text file.
I have not, but I have escorted technicians into our data center who cannot know our passwords. The screen is plainly visible but the keyboard never is. They could see a password in open text on the screen without trying very hard, but they'd have to be quite obvious to catch me tapping keys on the keyboard, especially at the rate I type.
There are a very limited number of symbols. Something in the order of 24 or 32 I think. So sure, out of the millions of possible passwords it divides the possibilities by 32 I guess, but in the grand scheme of things it doesn't really help anyone guess your password. In fact, the last two passwords I've had generated to the same symbols. Lotus notes still does this and I use it every day. I've often wondered why no one else does it because it seems brilliant.
Great! Then I suppose they will be following up their move with a drop in their battery prices so that no one has to worry about shelling out insane amounts of cash for batteries and they can enjoy their wonderful camera.
Actually that sounds pretty good. So just out of interest, how do they guarantee integrity and availability of files even if the company should suddenly get bought or dissipate for some reason?
And also, I assume, you are too old to care how dropbox scans your files, where they end up, or what they know about you by looking at your files or you wouldn't use it.
I find the topic of 'web' or 'internet' data centers very boring. Unfortunately, I guess because this is the 'internet' it is the type of data center that seems to be discussed. The other kind of data center with a real company and internal users, departments, groups, and projects is much more interesting. A 'web' data center usually consists of a large amount of homogeneous systems which is really dull; you really only need to worry about satisfying capacity and that's it. Servers need to be upgraded? Take one down in your array of twenty and upgrade it.
Then this begs a different question.. The UK police are seeking out a USB device.. but it sounds like they may have many pre-USB systems to search!
Furthermore, why not just automate imaging the drive and storing in some data vault somewhere with some tamper-proof security measures in place. Instead of a hardware device, you could just have software on a sizable server that scans the image and detects any 'bad stuff'. Seems much more efficient to do it this way.
I think this issue is even bigger then that. The internet has become big and popular and widespread enough to challenge the standard rules of the capitalist system itself. People don't have to be slaves to it any more, at least where any media that can be represented in a digital form is concerned. A fundamental law of the universe is that anything is that most objects/energy/lifeforms will take the path of least resistance and that is what is happening. Well, except for the person who cracks the software who becomes negligible in the grand scheme of things. They do it for the fun of allowing thousands to take the path of least resistance. The providers of the media are left floundering around trying to stick to the capitalist system but it is in itself obsolete.
Hey I'm the last guy to be touting Microsoft and I run Linux at home whenever I can, but face it Linux whiny crybabies.. Linux lost because it's very rough around the edges and it's a scary thing going into a piece of technology on a large scale when you are not 100% guaranteed it will work. When will you people understand that Microsoft continues to win again and again because as bad as it is, it supports all devices everywhere without question and with very little configuration and effort.
Linux must find a way to overcome this if they ever wish to become a major player. All I see are people saying 'we should have had a chance'. Well come to grips with the fact that life doesn't work that way! You need to prove you deserve a chance first!
If all you need is standard laptop tasks and you have the budget then for sure go with Mac. It will take the least fiddling around. Why would you want to expose yourself to any more pain then you have to. Windows would be more pain, and Linux would be more pain yet. A mac is only painful if you cut yourself opening the box.
That's just it though.. I know what a.tar.gz is, you know what a.tar.gz is, but no one who uses windows knows what a.tar.gz is. Heck, they probably don't know what a.zip file is. The point is that THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE TO and we keep expecting them to and there is the gap that keeps people from coming to Linux.
I'm positive I could get it to work but it's extra work and coupled with the likelihood that video will be choppy and/or jittery on Linux it just hasn't been worth my while to figure out.
The girls have a macbook and an ipod, and there are three other windows laptops around here and it worked automatically on them so I don't bother with the Linux machines.
My five year olds are pretty computer savvy.. And they can open windows, open tuxpaint, open a music player on both OSes etc.
However, they like watching clips of David Copperfield magic on YouTube. There is only one OS they can do that on; Windows. Similar case for many of the highly interactive websites they like to go through. This is because flash doesn't work in Linux and dad can't be bothered to make it work. They installed the flash plugin themselves on both the mac and windows.
They haven't tried to watch an xvid or a DVD on Linux either but I am guessing that they would have trouble.
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Well that's exactly it... it's a *drug* for crying out loud; it is supposed to be taken with caution. The problem is not the fact that it is available. The problem IS the fact that people take it like candy.
I don't really think alcohol should be taken off the market either. I was trying to make the point that both ideas are ludicrous. It's up to people to not abuse either one. If they hurt themselves then it's their own fault.
I'm saying I *did* buy unlimited data for $15 here in Canada. It's not a 'smartphone' so it was much cheaper. Frankly I don't think they even expected me to put a browser on it; but I did and it works fine.
I have a regular celphone with opera mini as my browser, and I went with an iPod touch.
Why?
iPhone = 2Gb data at $60 a month
celphone = unlimited data at $15 a month
Now, I am in Canada so maybe it is different here but to me it is a no-brainer.
We have a system in place to ensure that people are educated on drugs before they take them. Doctors, pharmacists, nurses.. It is their job to educate us on the medicine we are taking. Also we should take more responsibilities for ourselves and check the ingredients before taking something. If I have a cold and I took Tylenol, it says on the bottle of any combined cold medication what the medicinal ingredients are. Everything is standardized and it's not hard to check.
By the logic in this thread I would suggest that is is alcohol we should take off the market. After all, it damages your liver and all kinds of alcohol can be purchased WITHOUT the advice and guidance of a professional. Furthermore, it is understood that you need to take care when taking medicine; otherwise why would you need a prescription to take much of it. However, it is not the same for alcohol.
Don't you guys have problems with some websites? I tried Chrome when it first came out, dropped it, then gave it another chance a month ago, and dropped it again. I would go to a seemingly normal website that I had no problems with on either IE or Firefox and get something like (substitute various extensions):
'What would you like to do with file xxxxx.aspx? Open / Save'
It wasn't just one website either, it was several. And it didn't seem to be limited to MS technologies either.
Right now I am using FF 3.5 and it seems a bit snappier but mostly the same. I just wish it would load up a bit faster (like chrome).
Being Canadian *duck* I feel a need to respond to this. It absolutely sucks.
The thing is, I am usually fine with 'privacy invasions'. X-rays at the airport.. no problem, I don't carry a gun. Cameras on the street, no problem there either since I don't plan on mugging anyone.
Yet I hate the sounds of this. Why? Because there is WAY too much gray area because technology is new and the laws are still maturing. Furthermore, there are too many corporate hands in the pot. Either I am mugging someone or I am not. Either I am selling drugs on the street or I am not. However, if street cameras were run by ISPs I might have to be concerned with a company deciding that jay walking is infringing on their profits and having a police officer hunt me down and hand me a $300K fine every time I do so.
I hope everyone can follow this reasoning because I'm not sure if I can or not.
True enough.. In fact the 'VM' operating system for the current zSeries dates back to 1972. I used to work with it, it has ability to take snapshots, work on top of a base image, all that stuff. Not the VMware style either, we're talking true hardware level virtualization. In fact, when I first heard of VMWare I thought "neat, it's like PCs can do something like a mainframe can do".
C'mon, are people really that bad at typing that they can't enter one single word without seeing the characters? I mean really.. Why add the complexity of a checkbox? It is going to be implemented in client side javascript? With AJAX? Does it work on Firefox? IE? Opera? Chrome? Is it going to work when I need it?
I say keep it simple, keep the bullets. Let the people who can't blind-type 'passw0rd' use cut and paste from a text file.
I have not, but I have escorted technicians into our data center who cannot know our passwords. The screen is plainly visible but the keyboard never is. They could see a password in open text on the screen without trying very hard, but they'd have to be quite obvious to catch me tapping keys on the keyboard, especially at the rate I type.
There are a very limited number of symbols. Something in the order of 24 or 32 I think. So sure, out of the millions of possible passwords it divides the possibilities by 32 I guess, but in the grand scheme of things it doesn't really help anyone guess your password. In fact, the last two passwords I've had generated to the same symbols. Lotus notes still does this and I use it every day. I've often wondered why no one else does it because it seems brilliant.
Great! Then I suppose they will be following up their move with a drop in their battery prices so that no one has to worry about shelling out insane amounts of cash for batteries and they can enjoy their wonderful camera.
And everyone will be gloriously happy!
Actually that sounds pretty good. So just out of interest, how do they guarantee integrity and availability of files even if the company should suddenly get bought or dissipate for some reason?
And also, I assume, you are too old to care how dropbox scans your files, where they end up, or what they know about you by looking at your files or you wouldn't use it.
I find the topic of 'web' or 'internet' data centers very boring. Unfortunately, I guess because this is the 'internet' it is the type of data center that seems to be discussed. The other kind of data center with a real company and internal users, departments, groups, and projects is much more interesting. A 'web' data center usually consists of a large amount of homogeneous systems which is really dull; you really only need to worry about satisfying capacity and that's it. Servers need to be upgraded? Take one down in your array of twenty and upgrade it.
..something like Filenet or SAP. Sound like you have big corporation needs, get a big corporation solution.
Yeah I guess chasing down pesky armed robbers, rapists, and wife beaters was too hard.. Man even todays generation of DOGS has it easy.
..or maybe 101 * 35,000 = 3,535,000 Dalmatians?
Then this begs a different question.. The UK police are seeking out a USB device.. but it sounds like they may have many pre-USB systems to search! Furthermore, why not just automate imaging the drive and storing in some data vault somewhere with some tamper-proof security measures in place. Instead of a hardware device, you could just have software on a sizable server that scans the image and detects any 'bad stuff'. Seems much more efficient to do it this way.
I think this issue is even bigger then that. The internet has become big and popular and widespread enough to challenge the standard rules of the capitalist system itself. People don't have to be slaves to it any more, at least where any media that can be represented in a digital form is concerned. A fundamental law of the universe is that anything is that most objects/energy/lifeforms will take the path of least resistance and that is what is happening. Well, except for the person who cracks the software who becomes negligible in the grand scheme of things. They do it for the fun of allowing thousands to take the path of least resistance. The providers of the media are left floundering around trying to stick to the capitalist system but it is in itself obsolete.
Hey I'm the last guy to be touting Microsoft and I run Linux at home whenever I can, but face it Linux whiny crybabies.. Linux lost because it's very rough around the edges and it's a scary thing going into a piece of technology on a large scale when you are not 100% guaranteed it will work. When will you people understand that Microsoft continues to win again and again because as bad as it is, it supports all devices everywhere without question and with very little configuration and effort.
Linux must find a way to overcome this if they ever wish to become a major player. All I see are people saying 'we should have had a chance'. Well come to grips with the fact that life doesn't work that way! You need to prove you deserve a chance first!
What about a mesh network of 50 devices at 2.4 Ghz interfering with other devices? What have your tests shown for that?
..have run Cat 5e all over my apartment, even into my light switches and where I expect to put sensors in the future.
Well.. at least you no longer need to wear the aluminum foil hat, huh?
If all you need is standard laptop tasks and you have the budget then for sure go with Mac. It will take the least fiddling around. Why would you want to expose yourself to any more pain then you have to. Windows would be more pain, and Linux would be more pain yet. A mac is only painful if you cut yourself opening the box.
That's just it though.. I know what a .tar.gz is, you know what a .tar.gz is, but no one who uses windows knows what a .tar.gz is. Heck, they probably don't know what a .zip file is. The point is that THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE TO and we keep expecting them to and there is the gap that keeps people from coming to Linux.
I'm positive I could get it to work but it's extra work and coupled with the likelihood that video will be choppy and/or jittery on Linux it just hasn't been worth my while to figure out.
The girls have a macbook and an ipod, and there are three other windows laptops around here and it worked automatically on them so I don't bother with the Linux machines.
My five year olds are pretty computer savvy.. And they can open windows, open tuxpaint, open a music player on both OSes etc.
However, they like watching clips of David Copperfield magic on YouTube. There is only one OS they can do that on; Windows. Similar case for many of the highly interactive websites they like to go through. This is because flash doesn't work in Linux and dad can't be bothered to make it work. They installed the flash plugin themselves on both the mac and windows.
They haven't tried to watch an xvid or a DVD on Linux either but I am guessing that they would have trouble.