Seriously, for someone who's lived in so many different locations, I would have imagined you wouldn't immediately jump to such stupid conclusions, let alone publish your home phone and address along with those comments.
Being in IT I've seen this attitude for years. We have the proper guidelines for where to save data, and still high level management saves their work to their desktops.
Honestly, the few times I've seen everything disappear, I've always laughed inside. Then I let my boss know what happened so he can break the news. The only thing that will band-aid this enough is going to be vm desktops that are synced with a central file server. I can't wait for that day to come.
Man, I loved being the super annoying guy who decked his mech out with all LRM 5's and just ran around ducking behind hills, shooting 1 weapon at a time in an infinite row.
Didn't get much kills, but man did it piss people off. >.
IBM in no way forces a customer to use their systems. At any time, a customer could leave and move to another setup.
It sounds like the issue is competitors want IBM to release more details on how things are engineered, so they can design solutions for people who want to transition from IBM to other products.
IBM stuck with their investment and are positioned to make some great cash of this. The other companies need to make their own solutions that are good enough to win over customers. Lawyers have way to much time on their hands imo.
They just don't drop the plow to the road, they shave off the most they can without hitting gravel.
Yes, some of us do drive like bats out of hell on gravel roads in Michigan, irregardless of condition. When they end up in the ditch however, they have nobody to blame but themselves.
I live outside Lansing MI and have a few gravel / dirt roads around my family members. It's not a big deal really.
For all the people crying about plows, if your living in Michigan then you already know about driving in snow. They plow gravel roads just like any other road, just with a little higher gap of the blade to the road.
The biggest problem I see with the roads is the ice on gravel roads can become a pretty bad problem during the winter. The asphalt roads melt it much quicker, but the gravel / dirt roads become skating rinks for your commute.
In my old state of Wisconsin, we had semi-gravel back roads. Every few years they'd take machines and grind up the roads, add a little tar, and spit it right back down where to that same road. It was small gravel at first, but after a few months it was smooth enough to roller blade for miles. The benefit of that was during a really bad winter, you could just recycle the road you already had.
Michigan's budget has been pretty destroyed over the past few years. There's a lot of people who are gonna complain about their cars getting dirty, but changes like these are much better than laying people off.
Seems like most of the people here are just trolling on possible downsides, when they've never actually lived on dirt / gravel roads in heavy snow states like Michigan.
You seem to be confused. You are paying the school money for the ability to attend their classes. You are paying the school for the ability to use their network.
In no way do you have merit to dictate those terms. If you don't like it, then don't attend or try to convince them to change those terms. Either way, "Adults" should understand this is a contract, and you have very little negotiating power.
I would pay for Hulu if they let me download ad-free shows to watch later on.
Honestly, why doesn't Hulu develop a P2P service with a business model similar to Napster?
Imagine if Hulu would let you stream online for free with ads, or pay 7$-10$ a month to download the shows through a custom p2p application? I'd gladly pay to be able to take the shows with me on the road. Along with that, they could offset they're costs by using p2p.
This is how I see the future of television. A better version of netflix basically.
It's going to be at least 10 years before this is feasible to the masses. We're not streaming live high def content in real-time. If we were, then a central gaming server could stream your screen to you and your computer would just have to be strong enough to play it.
However, until that happens, gamers won't move to it. Until gamers make it usable, the general public won't move to it. By time this is possible, won't storage and processing power be so compact and powerful that it'll just be a silly argument anyways?
I can see virtual systems with the drives stored online and cached locally, so you can take your computer to any terminal and immediately pickup. But pure bios machines, no. This just isn't feasible for the masses currently, nor will it even be the best choice once it is.
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Seriously, for someone who's lived in so many different locations, I would have imagined you wouldn't immediately jump to such stupid conclusions, let alone publish your home phone and address along with those comments.
If this guy was any more pro apple / elitist, he'd be Steve Job's sex slave.
http://torrentfreak.com/automated-legal-threats-turn-piracy-into-profit-090628/
The company that sent those notices is very gray at best, quite illegal at worst.
Not that I'm a skeptic ... but I believe there is an evil, ulterior motive.
0.o
Actually, you don't have to pay to get the answers from that website.
Whenever it shows up in a google search, click on the cached link and scroll to the bottom.
That seems like an interesting first.
Hah!
Being in IT I've seen this attitude for years. We have the proper guidelines for where to save data, and still high level management saves their work to their desktops.
Honestly, the few times I've seen everything disappear, I've always laughed inside. Then I let my boss know what happened so he can break the news. The only thing that will band-aid this enough is going to be vm desktops that are synced with a central file server. I can't wait for that day to come.
Man, I loved being the super annoying guy who decked his mech out with all LRM 5's and just ran around ducking behind hills, shooting 1 weapon at a time in an infinite row.
Didn't get much kills, but man did it piss people off. >.
URICA!
Sorry, bad link, http://www.codesector.com/teracopy.php.
Terracopy is a great program for copying files inside windows. It does error checking and supports resume if your connection drops.
You can download the home edition at http://www.terracopy.com/ to give it a try.
I had issues with copying about 300gb of backups around different servers until I installed that, works great.
umm... AT&T does have a huge data network.
IBM in no way forces a customer to use their systems. At any time, a customer could leave and move to another setup.
It sounds like the issue is competitors want IBM to release more details on how things are engineered, so they can design solutions for people who want to transition from IBM to other products.
IBM stuck with their investment and are positioned to make some great cash of this. The other companies need to make their own solutions that are good enough to win over customers. Lawyers have way to much time on their hands imo.
Or you could be full of crap and are pushing all men into a category that only fits a smaller percentage.
man, i swear I'm developing an online speech impediment.
They just don't drop the plow to the road, they shave off the most they can without hitting gravel.
Yes, some of us do drive like bats out of hell on gravel roads in Michigan, irregardless of condition. When they end up in the ditch however, they have nobody to blame but themselves.
This doesn't change, paved or not.
1. You can't sue a state for modifying roads. If the state is in financial turmoil, there's no way you'd win the lawsuit.
2. The tax revenue stays the same value for some time before shifting down.
I live outside Lansing MI and have a few gravel / dirt roads around my family members. It's not a big deal really.
For all the people crying about plows, if your living in Michigan then you already know about driving in snow. They plow gravel roads just like any other road, just with a little higher gap of the blade to the road.
The biggest problem I see with the roads is the ice on gravel roads can become a pretty bad problem during the winter. The asphalt roads melt it much quicker, but the gravel / dirt roads become skating rinks for your commute.
In my old state of Wisconsin, we had semi-gravel back roads. Every few years they'd take machines and grind up the roads, add a little tar, and spit it right back down where to that same road. It was small gravel at first, but after a few months it was smooth enough to roller blade for miles. The benefit of that was during a really bad winter, you could just recycle the road you already had.
Michigan's budget has been pretty destroyed over the past few years. There's a lot of people who are gonna complain about their cars getting dirty, but changes like these are much better than laying people off.
Seems like most of the people here are just trolling on possible downsides, when they've never actually lived on dirt / gravel roads in heavy snow states like Michigan.
I'm interested in how this is going to further web development and online collaboration.
It seems to be a wiki like simplified database.
You seem to be confused. You are paying the school money for the ability to attend their classes. You are paying the school for the ability to use their network.
In no way do you have merit to dictate those terms. If you don't like it, then don't attend or try to convince them to change those terms. Either way, "Adults" should understand this is a contract, and you have very little negotiating power.
Living in Michigan near his college, tethering is available. It's just not cheap.
Microsoft has really done well with developing AD.
It's just honestly the best product out there currently.
I would pay for Hulu if they let me download ad-free shows to watch later on.
Honestly, why doesn't Hulu develop a P2P service with a business model similar to Napster?
Imagine if Hulu would let you stream online for free with ads, or pay 7$-10$ a month to download the shows through a custom p2p application? I'd gladly pay to be able to take the shows with me on the road. Along with that, they could offset they're costs by using p2p.
This is how I see the future of television. A better version of netflix basically.
Open-Audit is a great tool for helping document your network.
It's going to be at least 10 years before this is feasible to the masses. We're not streaming live high def content in real-time. If we were, then a central gaming server could stream your screen to you and your computer would just have to be strong enough to play it.
However, until that happens, gamers won't move to it. Until gamers make it usable, the general public won't move to it. By time this is possible, won't storage and processing power be so compact and powerful that it'll just be a silly argument anyways?
I can see virtual systems with the drives stored online and cached locally, so you can take your computer to any terminal and immediately pickup. But pure bios machines, no. This just isn't feasible for the masses currently, nor will it even be the best choice once it is.