Okay so some "bad guys" use open source software to improve there destructive ability. How many "bad guys" use closed source software to improve there destructive ability.
Customer data should be destroyed. Whats stopping that data from containing credit card information, personal contact information or even business information. Newegg shipping drives that contain customer information is completely unacceptable. Granted it's the customers job to erase the data in the first place but it's Neweggs job to assure it's completely gone!
This is the same idea as crying to your mom at the age of 5 when someone's mean to you or when someone says a bad word. Just because some people offend WAY to easily shouldn't be Google's, Facebook's or anyone's issue. If your sensitive to religion that's fine, I'm not about to try and call anyone out for there person belief but realize that people have the right to mock or joke about any religion, if you can't handle that then it's not there problem, it's yours.
Go ahead, I don't use email for anything I need high security on. I can use an IM client with strong encryption enabled to provide me a secure communication medium.
I've used a number of entry level boards, some of them really bad and some really good. Do you have any idea what kind of language API you want the board to be based on? I ask because I know boards with C based API ( Handyboard ) and I know BASIC based API's etc...
You said you also have no programming experience so are you going to want to learn with them or go ahead and learn first then teach them? All of these things way into what I would recommend to you for a beginning board. However all that aside my big two recommenations would be:
1. Go PIC
2. Go Arduino
Both excellent entry names, next you just have to look at the choices and figure out what you want.
We have the same problem where I work. When I use to have to gather logs I had to run 7 tools and enable flags. The development team then went and wrote one application with a start button that gathered everything for us. If you want good bug logs then provide the users with good bug tools. The less they can do to get the log the better the log will be. In our case this tool grabs everything that the device can give you and zip's it in an easy to use file.
I'm sick of hearing people rip apart UI design and functionality. This is one of many post on slashdot about how the modern UI is impossible to use and counter productive and etc.. etc.. etc... If these UI's bother you so much then sit down and WRITE YOUR OWN! There is a saying "if your not part of the solution your part of the problem", well in this case I would tweak it to read, "If your not part of solution don't bitch about it".
Agreed, Write code as it logically makes sense and leave comments in the code so when you go back to it in 6 month it only takes a few minutes to figure out what you meant to do.
Actually to top that I was once told that comments make the code harder to read because it breaks the code up. That's not a joke and I'm going to say what company told me that but it's by fair the most insane thing I've heard. I had to take 20 comments out of my code in order for it to pass a code review.
The only real coding practices that mean anything are:
1) Does the program work
2) Can the program be maintained
3) Can a normal developer understand your program
4) Is your program acceptably bug free
When you start breaking down coding practices into line formatting and variable names and etc... etc... etc.... your no longer programming your doing document management and personally I'm not going to write my embedded systems firmware in word so let me program.
I know your not allowed to change the OS configuration but what if you wrote some kind of boot script that boot only certain services and then launch X and started the java terminal. You could cut off dhcp from running this way and at the same time leave the students with a very stripped down graphical interface if they did exit the application.
When the job is done just revert back to the old settings, it would be as easy as appending an option to the grub boot-loader.
He showed company executives derogatory images of the Prophet Mohammed as well as altered pictures of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress Party chief Sonia Gandhi that appeared on their platforms. He argued these images would offend “any reasonable person.”
Grow up is all I have to say. If you can't take a joke and little harsh humour then go find a rock and live under it, the rest of us will have a great time and party all night. The fact is to many people take offence to what aren't offensive situations. Just because you haven't grown up and matured to know the difference between what you think is offensive and what is actually offensive isn't my problem and it shouldn't be Facebook's, Google's or Microsoft's.
A reasonable person will understand this and just avoid these places on there own, if there really offended by it then why would they go looking in places they think will offend them? How is that reasonable?
Has anyone actually attempted to use the Verizon network, I test on it and it's a pile. I have never seen service and support worse then Verizon. The other carriers listed at least have some decent wireless service, Verizon barely has phone that's even work with there service.
Explain to management that the total fruit cake in the job before built the system in suspended failure and one wrong move or random move will bring everything to a halt.
Once you have there attention just start fresh, so rebuild the most broken part of the network on a new system and slowly rebuild and re-factor from there. It will be a lot of work but if done carefully it will save the current mess your stuck with.
It's about tablets, not just iPad's. The iPad is one of several, it doesn't matter if it's the Playbook, Galaxy or Asus Tablet. The fact is that there are a lot of people that wouldn't have any issue using a tablet as there primary computing platform.
I think a lot of computer users could get away using a table + keyboard for a computer. Tablets can do some activities really well due to the nature of the low computational power needed. For instance writing a blog, updating Facebook, going on MSN, listening to music and even watching videos all require low computational levels. When you do work that that requires a ton of computational power such as Matlab, Maple, Circuit simulation, Video Editing and such activities then a tablet just wont keep up.
It will be fun to see in 5 years just where tablet technology will be, Maybe in 5 years there will be tablets powerful enough to run really high demand computational software.
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Okay so some "bad guys" use open source software to improve there destructive ability. How many "bad guys" use closed source software to improve there destructive ability.
Customer data should be destroyed. Whats stopping that data from containing credit card information, personal contact information or even business information. Newegg shipping drives that contain customer information is completely unacceptable. Granted it's the customers job to erase the data in the first place but it's Neweggs job to assure it's completely gone!
This is the same idea as crying to your mom at the age of 5 when someone's mean to you or when someone says a bad word. Just because some people offend WAY to easily shouldn't be Google's, Facebook's or anyone's issue. If your sensitive to religion that's fine, I'm not about to try and call anyone out for there person belief but realize that people have the right to mock or joke about any religion, if you can't handle that then it's not there problem, it's yours.
Go ahead, I don't use email for anything I need high security on. I can use an IM client with strong encryption enabled to provide me a secure communication medium.
I've used a number of entry level boards, some of them really bad and some really good. Do you have any idea what kind of language API you want the board to be based on? I ask because I know boards with C based API ( Handyboard ) and I know BASIC based API's etc...
You said you also have no programming experience so are you going to want to learn with them or go ahead and learn first then teach them? All of these things way into what I would recommend to you for a beginning board. However all that aside my big two recommenations would be:
1. Go PIC
2. Go Arduino
Both excellent entry names, next you just have to look at the choices and figure out what you want.
I use what works, Firefox, Lynx, Links, Chrome. I use what will work when I need it.
haha Nice!
To branch out more, it's really complaining against using bulky languages and IDE's rather then good old C / Asm and a console window.
Real men use Vi
We have the same problem where I work. When I use to have to gather logs I had to run 7 tools and enable flags. The development team then went and wrote one application with a start button that gathered everything for us. If you want good bug logs then provide the users with good bug tools. The less they can do to get the log the better the log will be. In our case this tool grabs everything that the device can give you and zip's it in an easy to use file.
I'm sick of hearing people rip apart UI design and functionality. This is one of many post on slashdot about how the modern UI is impossible to use and counter productive and etc.. etc.. etc... If these UI's bother you so much then sit down and WRITE YOUR OWN! There is a saying "if your not part of the solution your part of the problem", well in this case I would tweak it to read, "If your not part of solution don't bitch about it".
It's time to make the switch to better speed, performance and reliability.
What point? I don't know what point were talking about at this exact point in the multiple convo's people have started.
Agreed, Write code as it logically makes sense and leave comments in the code so when you go back to it in 6 month it only takes a few minutes to figure out what you meant to do.
Actually to top that I was once told that comments make the code harder to read because it breaks the code up. That's not a joke and I'm going to say what company told me that but it's by fair the most insane thing I've heard. I had to take 20 comments out of my code in order for it to pass a code review.
I know you not joking, I've been told the same thing.
The only real coding practices that mean anything are:
1) Does the program work
2) Can the program be maintained
3) Can a normal developer understand your program
4) Is your program acceptably bug free
When you start breaking down coding practices into line formatting and variable names and etc... etc... etc.... your no longer programming your doing document management and personally I'm not going to write my embedded systems firmware in word so let me program.
I know your not allowed to change the OS configuration but what if you wrote some kind of boot script that boot only certain services and then launch X and started the java terminal. You could cut off dhcp from running this way and at the same time leave the students with a very stripped down graphical interface if they did exit the application. When the job is done just revert back to the old settings, it would be as easy as appending an option to the grub boot-loader.
Virtual Life != Life, So by this logic if my Sim eat's a virtual meal then as the game player I should feel full?
He showed company executives derogatory images of the Prophet Mohammed as well as altered pictures of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress Party chief Sonia Gandhi that appeared on their platforms. He argued these images would offend “any reasonable person.”
Grow up is all I have to say. If you can't take a joke and little harsh humour then go find a rock and live under it, the rest of us will have a great time and party all night. The fact is to many people take offence to what aren't offensive situations. Just because you haven't grown up and matured to know the difference between what you think is offensive and what is actually offensive isn't my problem and it shouldn't be Facebook's, Google's or Microsoft's.
A reasonable person will understand this and just avoid these places on there own, if there really offended by it then why would they go looking in places they think will offend them? How is that reasonable?
Has anyone actually attempted to use the Verizon network, I test on it and it's a pile. I have never seen service and support worse then Verizon. The other carriers listed at least have some decent wireless service, Verizon barely has phone that's even work with there service.
Explain to management that the total fruit cake in the job before built the system in suspended failure and one wrong move or random move will bring everything to a halt.
Once you have there attention just start fresh, so rebuild the most broken part of the network on a new system and slowly rebuild and re-factor from there. It will be a lot of work but if done carefully it will save the current mess your stuck with.
It's about tablets, not just iPad's. The iPad is one of several, it doesn't matter if it's the Playbook, Galaxy or Asus Tablet. The fact is that there are a lot of people that wouldn't have any issue using a tablet as there primary computing platform.
I think a lot of computer users could get away using a table + keyboard for a computer. Tablets can do some activities really well due to the nature of the low computational power needed. For instance writing a blog, updating Facebook, going on MSN, listening to music and even watching videos all require low computational levels. When you do work that that requires a ton of computational power such as Matlab, Maple, Circuit simulation, Video Editing and such activities then a tablet just wont keep up.
It will be fun to see in 5 years just where tablet technology will be, Maybe in 5 years there will be tablets powerful enough to run really high demand computational software.
With all that money at least 11 tickets I'll be able to buy 1 concert beer :-)