whoever told you Apple does security well was selling you something. Wireless will *always* be inherently less secure than a wired. to suggest that this makes me "not good at my job" is like me being upset because my mechanic cant install a flux capacitor in my car.
i totally agree that workplace health is an important part to many things (including productivity) but the notion that an iPad is an adequate replacement for a desktop or even a laptop in terms of productivity absurd. If everything you do on a computer would be no less constrained by use of an iPad i serously doubt you need a computer at all. Its useful for reading email and reviewing documents and the like, but composition is really impractical, If its not a Mac or mixed OS environment already, setting that up can be cumbersome, et al. i mean, its a cool device, but lets not be fooled into thinking its going to be a good replacement for a desktop, ever.
Your job may be vital to your organization, and you may be "goddamned good" at it, but thats really besides the issue. Any corporate network contains mountains of proprietary data that is placed at risk when people who dont understand how to manage that data (you) attempt to hook up whatever you damn well fancy. Computers are not magic no matter how much you'd like to believe otherwise. Ethernet is not powered by unicorn blood an IT staff are not wizards (no matter how much some of us would like to believe otherwise). Getting a virus is only one potential problem, and truthfully the ability to not get a virus has no bearing on "knowing what you're doing"
At the end of the day, if your flashy electronic status symbol causes a network issue and then no one in your office can work, it really doesnt matter how 'goddamnded good' you are at your job, you cant do everyone elses too.
I've seen a number the power-suit, anger-management, "i'm a type-A", throbbing hard-ons; thinking they're the next Richard Branson. its a great wet-dream until you fuck up and get punted from your high horse by people that care about advancing the goals of the business over their own personal agenda.
Calling a Texas oilman a Yankee [anything] is mildly offensive. The north and the south of the US still dont play nice, the stereotype of the stuck up autocratic Yankee and the dimwitted racist southerner is alive and well and sadly theres enough people on both sides that fulfill the stereotype to keep it that way for a long time.
by slashdot standards i too could have a 4 (or possibly3) digit UID. and wot that i've left my 20's ifee pretty damn old. no, not taking geritol yet, but i certainly cant live like i used to.
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through an I/O bridge most likely. incidentally i thought it was cool that he didnt send a text or a tweet or a facebook update, it was nice they played true to the idea of the grid being stuck in the 80's
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i bet you rip on star wars for use of some mystical energy field controlling your destiny and glowing swords that somehow make photons stop dead after about a meter. do you also feel star treks ability to solve any problem with the main deflector dish troublesome? and that pesky holodeck too.
the neat thing about science fiction is that ITS FICTION. its based on science (which comes first) but in the end, you guessed it, its fiction.
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i'm *almost* willing to take back all my replies on this thread to mod this funny.
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in their defense, if it were easy, i'm sure they'd "get it"
thats because Mel Gibsons brain functions in a language consisting with fists, racial epithets and dislocated shoulders.
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though not explained in any way in the movie i think perhaps the ISOs ability may be why he has green beans and such. perhaps they can create organic things in a digital world and vice versa. wouldnt that be pretty badass, chick can make a light bike or a laser tank out of thin air? hence the cure cancer change government, religion etc etc.
at least thats how my mind fills in the details.
when did we all lose our imagination so badly that our only option for plot gaps is to criticize, rather than using the clay of our minds to smooth out the rough edges? such a jaded and bitter people we humans have become.
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actually i think its quite fitting to have the curves and whatnot. i mean Tron was just a representation of the state of the art at the time... there was no ray tracing, no vector based lighting no bump mapping, hell Mandelbrot sets only started making their way into computer graphics in 1981 and Tron was released in '82. in the same way, this Tron:legacy represents the cutting edge of what is available. Disney/Pixar is the tip of the spear when it comes to digitalization in movies. they give ILM a run for tis money. not to mention that even for the purpose of the story technology is so many light years from where it was in 1981. My Phone could likely have done all the "CG" work in the original Tron. we have the internet, now and things are measured in Gigabytes and Terabytes and even substantially larger orders of magnitude. the creation of a virtual world that is curvaceous and complex is almost necessary to the storyline. how could you justify the sheer number of FLOPS at your fingertips not representing a fundamental shift in the way the grid looks and feels?
thankyouthankyouthankyou! i've been telling everyone this but... i dont think my friends are geeky enough to get it... at least, not in a zen-digital-jazz kinda way.
i was surprised to see people pooping on the soundtrack, personally i think its an amazing testament to their versatility. i hear everyone crying for more "Better, Faster, Harder, Stronger" but the movie wasnt wall-to-wall action, any movie has an ebb and flow and an arc of a storyline, i think the key for them was to tone it down enough so that the music wasnt a distraction from the dialog which oftentimes overlaps. If you look at it as a Soundtrack first and foremost, i think in many ways it compares with some of Hans Zimmer and John Willams' best work. do i think that the track 'The Game Has Changed' is better than the Dark Knight theme, even though there is much similarity? yes. Would i put "End of Line" on equal footing with the Imperial March? yes. some my cry heresy, but if you look at the tracks side by side, its clear they belong in the same space. even the more traditional sounding tracks like Adagio for Tron are beautiful and organic and have a very timeless quality about them. what other artist can do such variety of work and still be unmistakably two French freaks in Cyborg costumes?
i think too many people were looking for Homework, when they should have been looking for Tron:Legacy OST.
makes me wish i actually signed up when i was reading this back in high school... its ok, i'll let the other old fogeys think i'm young and devilishly handsome, it gives me an air of superiority via vitality.
my thinking is that since the phone ties into Zune Pass and Xbox Arcade they probably had to honor their own agreements with their developers and provide DRM at the OS level a la XBox 360.
as i understand it the card is locked using the 2.0 spec and there is no software on Windows or Linux that i know of that can provide the low level command to flip the read/write switch to allow the card to be recognized, let alone formatted. anything you stick the card into wont recognize the card as even being there.
Right now its everyone *but* microsoft spreading FUD. the fact is that MS was always very clear about how they would support SD cards, they didnt want to, but their OEMs forced the matter. from the beginning MS said it would not be swappable and that it would create problems. this is why most OEMs didnt add slots for SD Cards. Additionally those that did, have them internally. all carriers consider anything beyond removing the battery "not user serviceable".
Additionally they likely did it this way to meet the needs of their content providers, i'm thinking specifically of the RIAA clauses that probably exist in all the Zune pass contracts they have. Also the DRM is likely a selling point for app developers.
not that i agree with the way its been done, but MS isnt really to blame here.
the SD card for the Samsung Focus is located by the SIM card slot and does not have any such labeling. i believe the only other phone that has an SD slot is the HTC Mozart, which has the slot buried deep unter the board and is stickered to void warranty.
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whoever told you Apple does security well was selling you something. Wireless will *always* be inherently less secure than a wired. to suggest that this makes me "not good at my job" is like me being upset because my mechanic cant install a flux capacitor in my car.
i totally agree that workplace health is an important part to many things (including productivity) but the notion that an iPad is an adequate replacement for a desktop or even a laptop in terms of productivity absurd. If everything you do on a computer would be no less constrained by use of an iPad i serously doubt you need a computer at all. Its useful for reading email and reviewing documents and the like, but composition is really impractical, If its not a Mac or mixed OS environment already, setting that up can be cumbersome, et al. i mean, its a cool device, but lets not be fooled into thinking its going to be a good replacement for a desktop, ever.
Your job may be vital to your organization, and you may be "goddamned good" at it, but thats really besides the issue. Any corporate network contains mountains of proprietary data that is placed at risk when people who dont understand how to manage that data (you) attempt to hook up whatever you damn well fancy. Computers are not magic no matter how much you'd like to believe otherwise. Ethernet is not powered by unicorn blood an IT staff are not wizards (no matter how much some of us would like to believe otherwise). Getting a virus is only one potential problem, and truthfully the ability to not get a virus has no bearing on "knowing what you're doing"
At the end of the day, if your flashy electronic status symbol causes a network issue and then no one in your office can work, it really doesnt matter how 'goddamnded good' you are at your job, you cant do everyone elses too.
I've seen a number the power-suit, anger-management, "i'm a type-A", throbbing hard-ons; thinking they're the next Richard Branson. its a great wet-dream until you fuck up and get punted from your high horse by people that care about advancing the goals of the business over their own personal agenda.
considering that one of the primary things these executives appear to do is "watch Netflix" i dont think you're being cynical at all.
lol, no worries, just thought i'd point out some useless information.
Calling a Texas oilman a Yankee [anything] is mildly offensive. The north and the south of the US still dont play nice, the stereotype of the stuck up autocratic Yankee and the dimwitted racist southerner is alive and well and sadly theres enough people on both sides that fulfill the stereotype to keep it that way for a long time.
by slashdot standards i too could have a 4 (or possibly3) digit UID. and wot that i've left my 20's ifee pretty damn old. no, not taking geritol yet, but i certainly cant live like i used to.
through an I/O bridge most likely. incidentally i thought it was cool that he didnt send a text or a tweet or a facebook update, it was nice they played true to the idea of the grid being stuck in the 80's
i bet you rip on star wars for use of some mystical energy field controlling your destiny and glowing swords that somehow make photons stop dead after about a meter. do you also feel star treks ability to solve any problem with the main deflector dish troublesome? and that pesky holodeck too.
the neat thing about science fiction is that ITS FICTION. its based on science (which comes first) but in the end, you guessed it, its fiction.
i'm *almost* willing to take back all my replies on this thread to mod this funny.
in their defense, if it were easy, i'm sure they'd "get it"
try listening to the Beatles with one headphone and you'll see how well his point stands. early days of stereo were VERY heavy handed with the effect
thats because Mel Gibsons brain functions in a language consisting with fists, racial epithets and dislocated shoulders.
though not explained in any way in the movie i think perhaps the ISOs ability may be why he has green beans and such. perhaps they can create organic things in a digital world and vice versa. wouldnt that be pretty badass, chick can make a light bike or a laser tank out of thin air? hence the cure cancer change government, religion etc etc.
at least thats how my mind fills in the details.
when did we all lose our imagination so badly that our only option for plot gaps is to criticize, rather than using the clay of our minds to smooth out the rough edges? such a jaded and bitter people we humans have become.
actually i think its quite fitting to have the curves and whatnot. i mean Tron was just a representation of the state of the art at the time... there was no ray tracing, no vector based lighting no bump mapping, hell Mandelbrot sets only started making their way into computer graphics in 1981 and Tron was released in '82. in the same way, this Tron:legacy represents the cutting edge of what is available. Disney/Pixar is the tip of the spear when it comes to digitalization in movies. they give ILM a run for tis money. not to mention that even for the purpose of the story technology is so many light years from where it was in 1981. My Phone could likely have done all the "CG" work in the original Tron. we have the internet, now and things are measured in Gigabytes and Terabytes and even substantially larger orders of magnitude. the creation of a virtual world that is curvaceous and complex is almost necessary to the storyline. how could you justify the sheer number of FLOPS at your fingertips not representing a fundamental shift in the way the grid looks and feels?
thankyouthankyouthankyou! i've been telling everyone this but... i dont think my friends are geeky enough to get it... at least, not in a zen-digital-jazz kinda way.
i was surprised to see people pooping on the soundtrack, personally i think its an amazing testament to their versatility. i hear everyone crying for more "Better, Faster, Harder, Stronger" but the movie wasnt wall-to-wall action, any movie has an ebb and flow and an arc of a storyline, i think the key for them was to tone it down enough so that the music wasnt a distraction from the dialog which oftentimes overlaps. If you look at it as a Soundtrack first and foremost, i think in many ways it compares with some of Hans Zimmer and John Willams' best work. do i think that the track 'The Game Has Changed' is better than the Dark Knight theme, even though there is much similarity? yes. Would i put "End of Line" on equal footing with the Imperial March? yes. some my cry heresy, but if you look at the tracks side by side, its clear they belong in the same space. even the more traditional sounding tracks like Adagio for Tron are beautiful and organic and have a very timeless quality about them. what other artist can do such variety of work and still be unmistakably two French freaks in Cyborg costumes?
i think too many people were looking for Homework, when they should have been looking for Tron:Legacy OST.
makes me wish i actually signed up when i was reading this back in high school... its ok, i'll let the other old fogeys think i'm young and devilishly handsome, it gives me an air of superiority via vitality.
wait, what? i seem to remember there being US troops in a part of the world that has its fair share of sand.
and yet for the sake of campaign contributions corporations are people, funny how that works, eh?
my thinking is that since the phone ties into Zune Pass and Xbox Arcade they probably had to honor their own agreements with their developers and provide DRM at the OS level a la XBox 360.
as i understand it the card is locked using the 2.0 spec and there is no software on Windows or Linux that i know of that can provide the low level command to flip the read/write switch to allow the card to be recognized, let alone formatted. anything you stick the card into wont recognize the card as even being there.
Right now its everyone *but* microsoft spreading FUD. the fact is that MS was always very clear about how they would support SD cards, they didnt want to, but their OEMs forced the matter. from the beginning MS said it would not be swappable and that it would create problems. this is why most OEMs didnt add slots for SD Cards. Additionally those that did, have them internally. all carriers consider anything beyond removing the battery "not user serviceable".
Additionally they likely did it this way to meet the needs of their content providers, i'm thinking specifically of the RIAA clauses that probably exist in all the Zune pass contracts they have. Also the DRM is likely a selling point for app developers.
not that i agree with the way its been done, but MS isnt really to blame here.
the SD card for the Samsung Focus is located by the SIM card slot and does not have any such labeling. i believe the only other phone that has an SD slot is the HTC Mozart, which has the slot buried deep unter the board and is stickered to void warranty.
considering the phone can sync with the USB cable or over WiFi i'd find the SD option to be the most cumbersome.