You know, all these sock puppets with the weird names are really very lame. If you're going to try to snow people with your wisdom, put a little thought into it.
So everything you need is within walking distance? Lucky you. Either you live in a very unusual place or your needs are very minimal. Either way, you're falling into the classic Slashdotter trap of "everybody in the world is just like me."
I moved into my current apartment because it was walking distance to a new job. I could go several days without needing any other form of transport, but not indefinitely. Maybe once or twice a week I had to go somewhere that just wasn't within walking distance. And then I lost the job.
Right now I have to commute 45 miles to work. It's a temporary gig, so it doesn't make sense to move. Even if it did, this is not a neighborhood I'd care to live in. And if it weren't for those urban rail systems you think so unnecessary, I'd have to drive all the way, at a high cost to my sanity.
Those systems are a pretty cool, but they're still less energy efficient than trains. Still, it's a step in the right direction.
But you're not thinking things through if think it's all about "not giving away lanes" and sensible planning. Those lanes aren't "given away": drivers demand them. Planning doesn't happen because it means restricting urban growth, which cuts into real-estate profits. If we had a social consensus that private cars and private profit were less important than livable cities and not wasting energy (as they appear to in Curitiba, or Portland Oregon for that matter) then there'd be no problem. But we don't, not in most places.
And if you only ever need to travel 4 miles a day, then you'd have a point. Consider: job, shopping, doctor, school... It adds up, assuming you live in the real world, which I guess you don't.
The current car oriented environment puts things too far apart, and that makes things harder. But even a dense urban zone needs some way for people to get around. Or are you proposing to limit cities to 16 square miles each?
That's fine for distances of up to a mile or so. Past that, walking may be good for you, but who has the time?
We'll always need some kind of urban transportation infrastructure to move folks short to medium distances. I doubt that moving sidewalks will ever make sense — imagine the cost and disruption of installing them! My ideal would be a dense network of passenger rail, perhaps supplemented by buses in low-density areas. Less disruptive and probably a lot more energy-efficient than moving sidewalks.
The big catch is that no really efficient urban transit system can reach critical mass as long as people have cars powered by cheap petrochemicals. (And yes, even at current prices, gas is absurdly cheap.) If only those stupid terrorists would stop blowing up buildings and airplanes and start destroying oil fields...
If anything, the fact that Avatar is unrealistic strengthens my argument. People don't want to go out and conquer the universe -- they want to veg out and fantasize about conquering the universe.
You're missing my point. I'm not saying that there are no Symbian apps in these categories. Of course there are. But I don't just want an app that does X, I want an app that does X the way I want it to be done.
Case in point: MP3 players. Every platform has them, but I keep trying them, and going back to my Cowan U2, because it was the only player I could find that let me dump a bunch of podcasts on to it and listen to them in chronological order, with automatic bookmarking.
The I got an Android phone. Tried a couple dozen different MP3 players before I found MortPlay. Which fortunately turned up just as my U2 died.
Tell me, are there even a dozen different MP3 players for Symbian? I'm guessing not. Which makes it unlikely that any of them have the feature set I'm looking for.
That was my point: that all those thousands of fartware apps may be useless, but they're signs of a platform that's popular with developers. And that popularity translates into the nice feature set I was looking for.
Oh for crissakes. This is a stupid article that draws together two unrelated events. The first is an interview with Al-Jazera which (surprise!) emphasizes NASA's importance to the Muslim world. Which isn't all that big, but what do you expect him to say?
Then the writer manages to tie in this interview with Obama's Cairo speechwhich doesn't even mention NASA. Since this happened at about the same time, it somehow "proves" that Obama is only interested in NASA for helping him make nice with the Arabs.
Pretty much. But doesn't that reflect society as a whole? People flock to movies about space (Avatar has already grossed a billion bucks) but I don't see any interest in real-life space exploration outside a few buffs.
He phrases the whole issue in terms of property rights. The idea that some evil liberal-big-government cabal is down on the concept of private property is at the core of all arguments by people fulminating against "socialism."
Sure, most iPhone and Android apps are useless and/or redundant. I can personally confirm this for Android, and there's no reason to assume iPhone is any different. But you're taking exactly the wrong lesson from this.
Ask yourself why thousands of losers bother to write and publish "fart" apps for these platforms. Because it's easy to do, that's why. And that easiness means there are a lot of gems amongst all those turds.
Let's see. (Pulls out HTC Hero.) I've got Evernote (notebook, automatically syncs to web and PC versions) MortPlay (the only MP3 player that suits my particular needs, had to sort through a couple dozen others to find it), StreamItRadio (MP3 streams, same comments), Weather Channel (automatically updates itself based on my current location) and Yelp (very handy when I'm in a strange neighborhood and feeling peckish). Not a lot of apps, but I haven't seen comparable apps on other platforms. Don't know about Symbian, but I'll bet not.
Oh yeah, and there are direct links on my Android desktop for Google Reader (never know when you might have to wait in a really long line) and for the web pages for the BART stations I use the most. Those last ones get updated once a minute with actual (not scheduled) train arrivals, which minimizes my stand-around time.
None of these features are life-changing, but I find them worth having. And I don't see anybody rushing to write similar apps on Symbian.
The biggest issue comes in dealing with multiple IT departments and setting up network access to our materials. Plus our images are so large that for these processed files (not the originals) we are opting for local storage instead of storage managed by our IT staff (who are wonderful but not cheap; we just purchased 4TB of local storage for 1/4 the cost of 1TB from IT).
Dude, there's a reason network storage is more expensive than local storage: it comes with the infrastructure that allows lots of people to access it. If you try to serve up these large files from your local network, you'll slashdot the thing, and wackiness will ensue.
Getting back to the privacy issue: I hope your privacy officer did due diligence, and isn't some overworked functionary who just said, "The data is anonymized? Well, that's OK then." You wouldn't be the first people to distribute data they thought was sufficiently anonymized, only to find that some clever data miner managed to connect the names with the data.
Oh yeah, don't put it on one 80gb disk drive, put it on forty 2gb thumb drives. Nothing can go wrong with that.
If these guys are going to be transferring a lot of 80gb files, they have to find a way to do it over the network securely and reliably. Not easy, I admit, but using sneakernet for this kind of data (even without the huge file sizes) is asking for trouble.
By "HIPAA Constraints" I assume you mean the privacy rule. I would think that this rule would prevent you from using sneakernet to transmit files. Unless you're encrypting your portable disks, and somehow it doesn't sound like you are.
Because only married couples are entitled to the deduction. I personally support same-sex marriage, but you may have noticed that there are one or two people who are less open to the idea.
Unlike most software instructional books, it starts way back in the often-unread Preface by listing 10 requirements a mythical customer is asking the reader to implement in Plone 3.
Which is extremely dumb. Not basing the book around 10 requirements, putting them in the Preface.
As you point out, people usually skip over the front matter: the legal stuff, the preface, the tables of this and that. Front matter traditionally contains a lot of stuff ("I wrote this book because all the other people writing books on this subject are retards... Thanks to Gigantic Software Corporation for not giving me anything to do so I had time to work on this") that people just don't care about. If you want to lay the foundations for the actual structure of the book, you need to write an Introduction, which goes after the front matter and is the first chapter of the book.
This is the first I've heard of Packt publishing, which appears to be a new output. If this is an example of the kind of editorial work they do, I don't expect they'll be around long.
Right, and sending lots of pictures to a friend in Moscow isn't going to arouse suspicion. An encrypted email sent from an account nobody knows you have is more to the point.
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You know, all these sock puppets with the weird names are really very lame. If you're going to try to snow people with your wisdom, put a little thought into it.
If I lived within 2 miles of work, I'd walk most days. But guess what? Most people don't.
Two words: get real.
So everything you need is within walking distance? Lucky you. Either you live in a very unusual place or your needs are very minimal. Either way, you're falling into the classic Slashdotter trap of "everybody in the world is just like me."
I moved into my current apartment because it was walking distance to a new job. I could go several days without needing any other form of transport, but not indefinitely. Maybe once or twice a week I had to go somewhere that just wasn't within walking distance. And then I lost the job.
Right now I have to commute 45 miles to work. It's a temporary gig, so it doesn't make sense to move. Even if it did, this is not a neighborhood I'd care to live in. And if it weren't for those urban rail systems you think so unnecessary, I'd have to drive all the way, at a high cost to my sanity.
Same two words.
Those systems are a pretty cool, but they're still less energy efficient than trains. Still, it's a step in the right direction.
But you're not thinking things through if think it's all about "not giving away lanes" and sensible planning. Those lanes aren't "given away": drivers demand them. Planning doesn't happen because it means restricting urban growth, which cuts into real-estate profits. If we had a social consensus that private cars and private profit were less important than livable cities and not wasting energy (as they appear to in Curitiba, or Portland Oregon for that matter) then there'd be no problem. But we don't, not in most places.
And if you only ever need to travel 4 miles a day, then you'd have a point. Consider: job, shopping, doctor, school... It adds up, assuming you live in the real world, which I guess you don't.
The current car oriented environment puts things too far apart, and that makes things harder. But even a dense urban zone needs some way for people to get around. Or are you proposing to limit cities to 16 square miles each?
That's fine for distances of up to a mile or so. Past that, walking may be good for you, but who has the time?
We'll always need some kind of urban transportation infrastructure to move folks short to medium distances. I doubt that moving sidewalks will ever make sense — imagine the cost and disruption of installing them! My ideal would be a dense network of passenger rail, perhaps supplemented by buses in low-density areas. Less disruptive and probably a lot more energy-efficient than moving sidewalks.
The big catch is that no really efficient urban transit system can reach critical mass as long as people have cars powered by cheap petrochemicals. (And yes, even at current prices, gas is absurdly cheap.) If only those stupid terrorists would stop blowing up buildings and airplanes and start destroying oil fields...
If anything, the fact that Avatar is unrealistic strengthens my argument. People don't want to go out and conquer the universe -- they want to veg out and fantasize about conquering the universe.
The issue isn't what was said. The issue is the total nonsense the Examiner article manages to infer from what was said.
You're missing my point. I'm not saying that there are no Symbian apps in these categories. Of course there are. But I don't just want an app that does X, I want an app that does X the way I want it to be done.
Case in point: MP3 players. Every platform has them, but I keep trying them, and going back to my Cowan U2, because it was the only player I could find that let me dump a bunch of podcasts on to it and listen to them in chronological order, with automatic bookmarking.
The I got an Android phone. Tried a couple dozen different MP3 players before I found MortPlay. Which fortunately turned up just as my U2 died.
Tell me, are there even a dozen different MP3 players for Symbian? I'm guessing not. Which makes it unlikely that any of them have the feature set I'm looking for.
That was my point: that all those thousands of fartware apps may be useless, but they're signs of a platform that's popular with developers. And that popularity translates into the nice feature set I was looking for.
Oh for crissakes. This is a stupid article that draws together two unrelated events. The first is an interview with Al-Jazera which (surprise!) emphasizes NASA's importance to the Muslim world. Which isn't all that big, but what do you expect him to say?
Then the writer manages to tie in this interview with Obama's Cairo speech which doesn't even mention NASA. Since this happened at about the same time, it somehow "proves" that Obama is only interested in NASA for helping him make nice with the Arabs.
Brainless.
Pretty much. But doesn't that reflect society as a whole? People flock to movies about space (Avatar has already grossed a billion bucks) but I don't see any interest in real-life space exploration outside a few buffs.
He phrases the whole issue in terms of property rights. The idea that some evil liberal-big-government cabal is down on the concept of private property is at the core of all arguments by people fulminating against "socialism."
So conservation == socialism? Why not, everything else does.
Sure, most iPhone and Android apps are useless and/or redundant. I can personally confirm this for Android, and there's no reason to assume iPhone is any different. But you're taking exactly the wrong lesson from this.
Ask yourself why thousands of losers bother to write and publish "fart" apps for these platforms. Because it's easy to do, that's why. And that easiness means there are a lot of gems amongst all those turds.
Let's see. (Pulls out HTC Hero.) I've got Evernote (notebook, automatically syncs to web and PC versions) MortPlay (the only MP3 player that suits my particular needs, had to sort through a couple dozen others to find it), StreamItRadio (MP3 streams, same comments), Weather Channel (automatically updates itself based on my current location) and Yelp (very handy when I'm in a strange neighborhood and feeling peckish). Not a lot of apps, but I haven't seen comparable apps on other platforms. Don't know about Symbian, but I'll bet not.
Oh yeah, and there are direct links on my Android desktop for Google Reader (never know when you might have to wait in a really long line) and for the web pages for the BART stations I use the most. Those last ones get updated once a minute with actual (not scheduled) train arrivals, which minimizes my stand-around time.
None of these features are life-changing, but I find them worth having. And I don't see anybody rushing to write similar apps on Symbian.
Shirley says that until you're up to date on the child support, she'll keep calling you.
Not true. You give a poor person money, they going to go out and spend it. People spending money is where jobs come from.
HIPPA mandates who can and should have access to the files. The method of storage (disk, tape, SSD, paper, whatever) is largely irrelevant.
Say what? You've never hear of a data breaches from lost or stolen portable hardware? See the link in the post you replied to.
The biggest issue comes in dealing with multiple IT departments and setting up network access to our materials. Plus our images are so large that for these processed files (not the originals) we are opting for local storage instead of storage managed by our IT staff (who are wonderful but not cheap; we just purchased 4TB of local storage for 1/4 the cost of 1TB from IT).
Dude, there's a reason network storage is more expensive than local storage: it comes with the infrastructure that allows lots of people to access it. If you try to serve up these large files from your local network, you'll slashdot the thing, and wackiness will ensue.
Getting back to the privacy issue: I hope your privacy officer did due diligence, and isn't some overworked functionary who just said, "The data is anonymized? Well, that's OK then." You wouldn't be the first people to distribute data they thought was sufficiently anonymized, only to find that some clever data miner managed to connect the names with the data.
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2007/12/securitymatters_1213
FAT32 was pretty fat when it came out 15 years ago. Nobody even had 2GB drives, never mind 2GB files.
Oh yeah, don't put it on one 80gb disk drive, put it on forty 2gb thumb drives. Nothing can go wrong with that.
If these guys are going to be transferring a lot of 80gb files, they have to find a way to do it over the network securely and reliably. Not easy, I admit, but using sneakernet for this kind of data (even without the huge file sizes) is asking for trouble.
By "HIPAA Constraints" I assume you mean the privacy rule. I would think that this rule would prevent you from using sneakernet to transmit files. Unless you're encrypting your portable disks, and somehow it doesn't sound like you are.
Fun reading:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9141172/Health_Net_says_1.5M_medical_records_lost_in_data_breach
Because only married couples are entitled to the deduction. I personally support same-sex marriage, but you may have noticed that there are one or two people who are less open to the idea.
Cue the Bill Murray riff...
Unlike most software instructional books, it starts way back in the often-unread Preface by listing 10 requirements a mythical customer is asking the reader to implement in Plone 3.
Which is extremely dumb. Not basing the book around 10 requirements, putting them in the Preface.
As you point out, people usually skip over the front matter: the legal stuff, the preface, the tables of this and that. Front matter traditionally contains a lot of stuff ("I wrote this book because all the other people writing books on this subject are retards... Thanks to Gigantic Software Corporation for not giving me anything to do so I had time to work on this") that people just don't care about. If you want to lay the foundations for the actual structure of the book, you need to write an Introduction, which goes after the front matter and is the first chapter of the book.
This is the first I've heard of Packt publishing, which appears to be a new output. If this is an example of the kind of editorial work they do, I don't expect they'll be around long.
This is Slashdot. You want context, go read a newspaper.
Right, and sending lots of pictures to a friend in Moscow isn't going to arouse suspicion. An encrypted email sent from an account nobody knows you have is more to the point.