I never trust a plumber who can't wire up a fuse box either. Same goes for a doctor that can't practice law. Fuck specialist skills, everyone should know everything
Which is why you only have one kidney, one eye, one lung, one arm and one leg - having sold off the other ones, I guess?
And who needs all those teeth, am I right, ha? Ha? Double high-five! Oh... right.
It's a looooooonnnnnggggggg stretch from physical contact with a stranger to amputation. But hey this is the internet after all, never let a logical fallacy get in the way of a good discussion.
working in a sweatshop starts looking less like slavery and prostitution is shown to be exactly that.
You know simply repeating yourself doesn't make your argument any stronger.
Slavery is when you have no choice. I know people who choose their line of work, therefore it cannot always be considered be slavery.
No authentication apart from needing to have the physical card to make the transaction, a stolen card could be used effortlessly by anyone. The bank covers any losses from theft as long as I report a lost card within a reasonable time frame, I can only assume they make so much in other fees that they can absorb the costs.
Agree.
If you read too much Slashdot you'd think you could cathc AIDs from a windows PC. I've got XP and no AV and haven't had dramas for quite a few years. Automatic updates does most of the work, and not clicking on obviously dodgy shit takes care of the rest.
If you think an unmarked police car's primary purpose is catching people "driving 5 mph over the speed limit" then you've been listening to too much...
TFA is about Australia. In Australia (especially Victoria and NSW - can;t speak for other states) there is zero tolerance for speeding. 1km/h over the limit and you get a ticket.
Google it, there are tons of stories about it, I've seen the tickets personally myself. A lot of the time the Highway Patrol (the cops dedicated purely to traffic infringements) use unmarked cars. They are mostly jerks, even regular cops hate them.
vCenter Appliance + web interface is the way to go.. Nice to see VMware finally ditching Windows..
VMware aren't ditching Windows, they are merely offering choice.
Most VMware engineers I've spoken to say their preferred solution is vCentre on Windows with MSSQL. I've been using Vmware since v2 and MSSQL was always the most supported configuration both natively and for third party tools.
Yes. But don't tell the Americans, they prefer to dream up excuses why it probably wouldn't work, than look to other more innovative countries where the concept has been implemented successfully (hello socialised medicine, weapon regulation etc etc). Hong Kong has had the NFC-type Octopus Card in mainstream use for 15 years.
Unless technology changes significantly and soon, making financial transactions via radio is just plain a bad idea.
I used to live in Hong Kong. The Octopus card is a contactless payment system which is the de facto payment standard for small payments for the 95% of the country. Here in Australia we've got contactless MasterCards so I can buy anything up to $100 by swiping my card. No pin, no signature, just scan swipe and keep walking.
NFC will replace the need for a card, and since the only thing in my wallet nowadays is credit cards, cash, ID and photo of the family, that can all be done on an NFC phone. Once all retailers get on board (Australia is not quite to the same level as Hong Kong yet) the wallet will become redundant.
I would argue it is quite possibly the best idea since sliced bread.
(And before you knock the concept, I've been using it for 10 years now with zero issues) That's a lot less issues than I've had with physical card/cash/ID etc)
Almost. The idea is that investors will have more money to invest in expanding existing business or creating new ones. This makes a certain amount of sense with a 50's style isolated industrial economy. If you wanted to make your money work for you, you pretty much had to invest in activities that created jobs in the US.
Unfortunately, it doesn't really work today.
Well it still does. Trickle down feeds the working class, who in turn prop up the upper class. Only nowadays that economies are global, so the working class is in China. With Globalisation it should really be called Trickle Away economics, which perfectly describes what has happened in the last decade or so.
Is Obama doing bad? The country is in the shit, but is it his fault? He inherited the worst train wreck of an economy, and had to find a way out of two unwinnable wars that the previous buffoon blundered into. Could Bush Jnr have left the country in any worse shape?
Crap. I've met a few ladies in my time. They choose their hours, the terms and conditions, and they generally earn above the average wage. This is more than most people can say about their jobs.
There is a whole world out there that people like you probably aren't aware of. Not everyone is afraid of sex with strangers, and if you can get paid for it and not have to work a shit house minimum wage job to pay the bills then that is about as liberating as you can get.
The act of prostitution deprives prostitutes of their freedom and of the control over their bodies.
Control of your body is over-rated. If you had the choice of working 60 hours a week in shit job that you hated, or 10 hours a week banging a few guys for 10 x times as much money, who has more control over their life? I which choice I'd make for my body if I had the natural talents.
If you find slavery to be a bit over the top, try thinking about what you'd rather admit to your friends and family - that you're working in a sweatshop or that you're getting paid to be fucked up the ass?
Not sure how you equate private matters with slavery? I don't tell my friends and family that I love wanking, or pick my nose, or scratch my bum and sniff it either. Does that make me a slave?
- Odds of most large corporations upgrading to Windows 8 any time in the next 2-3 years is slim to none. Windows 8 is a huge paradigm shift and there is simply zero reason for them to endure that kind of re-training cost.
I think you're not looking far enough ahead. MS is in this for the long term. I heard similar arguments with Win95, in 1995-96 everyone poo-poo'd the paradigm shift, a lot of people didn't agree with the change from DOS and 16-bit etc but 4 or 5 years later everyone agreed it was a good move. IMO by 2016-17 I think a lot of people will look back wondering what all the fuss was about.
- Odds of most large corporations allowing you to cloud-sync your work machine with your home machine is also slim to none. I can't even plug in my own USB thumb drive at work, you think they are going to allow me to cloud-sync my OS? Crazy town.
Ever heard of private cloud?
- Your company does not want you using the same 'identity system" at work as at home. You think my company wants me logging into Windows with my hotmail address?
I don't think you know even half the features Win8 will make possible. Yes it is a major shift from the Win2000/XP/7 way of life, but that is the point. You can't create next-gen platforms by doing the exact same thing as the last-gen.
The worst thing about Patch Tuesday is when Windows decides to reboot your system when you're not there, without your knowledge, and closes all your data logging programs, or unsaved files, etc.
It's not without your knowledge. If have to enable Automatic Updates, if you did this without understanding the consequences it no-one else's fault.
Have you ever thought of not allowing automatic installation of updates? You can download the updates and review them before install. Sounds simple I know but you seem to not be aware of this setting.
They don't know how to make software that doesn't assume that the user is some type of inept, mindless, or unimportant jackass.
Ever heard of control panel, policies or registry? If you're a numpty, Windows gives you the best settings for a numpty by default, if you know what you're doing you use the aforementioned tools to setup the OS how you want to behave.
So, make it easy for developers at the expense of users? Sorry, I don't have a windows phone, don't like tiles, and don't want to run a shitty tablet/phone interface on my desktop machine.
I write desktop apps for work, and use Visual Studio 2010 instead of 2012, because I don't care about the phone crap. At work, and pretty much everyone I know will be using Window 7 at least until 9 comes out.
What if your users want their apps to work seamlessly on their mobile devices? Sounds like yet another developer telling users what they should or shouldn't be doing...
Yes. But sometimes Managers don't listen to their Engineers.
Apparently it has more to do with making sure the budget is spent than any actual best fit solution.
How is it that so many on Slashdot don't see the potential in this?
....ONE DEVICE that's ALWAYS WITH YOU.
I had this 15 years ago, it was called a laptop and I've since moved on. Now I have a thin client at work and I leave my work at work, no need to carry anything ever again. If it doesn't fit in my pocket I don't carry it How's that for progress?
The assumption that you are making is that people will want to continue using the Microsoft software paradigm. As seen by the oodles of OSX, and now Linux users they can do just fine without Microsoft software.
You need to make a clarification between consumer and enterprise. Apple (and Google) have done a very good job of creating a consumer market that didn't exist before, but MS still own the enterprise. For corporate back-office functions, there is nothing that even comes close to the AD/GPO/Exchange/SQL/IIS/Office solution. When Apple and Facebook are mere footnotes of IT history, MS will still be chugging along making billions from its corporate market.
Most office desktop also do very little these days. For the general office worker, the idea is not so terrible... a docked tablet or phone will provide email, calendaring, web, and light word processing. That covers 90% of what 90% of what corporate office monkeys need to do.
You have clearly never worked in a corporate environment.
I've worked at a few places that went the whole tablet fad. Bought piles of toys for staff, spent a lot on apps and integration, and guess what? Most of them sit in drawers unused. You see the odd one in a meeting to take notes, but most people still prefer paper even though they have the option of a shiny new iPad.
And as for "corporate office monkeys", despite having a fully integrated iPad to use, not one single person has ever given up their desktop/laptop. Not one.
How does this get modded Informative?
Your post in summary is this:
China has really really bad standards. The govt should reduce regulation in the US to China-standards to make us competitive.
Having standards costs money. You can choose to have standards or save money, you can't have both.
Not only is worn out, but the irony seems to be lost on Americans who don't exactly have the best record in winning wars (Korea, Vietnam, Iraq twice an Afghanistan). And the biggest single victory in US military history (against England) was because they were saved by the French.
Some third world countries did build infrastructure, it then got destroyed because the people that live there predominately believe in magic. While they still believe in magic, they will forever be stuck in the dark ages.
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I never trust a plumber who can't wire up a fuse box either. Same goes for a doctor that can't practice law. Fuck specialist skills, everyone should know everything
Which is why you only have one kidney, one eye, one lung, one arm and one leg - having sold off the other ones, I guess? And who needs all those teeth, am I right, ha? Ha? Double high-five! Oh... right.
It's a looooooonnnnnggggggg stretch from physical contact with a stranger to amputation. But hey this is the internet after all, never let a logical fallacy get in the way of a good discussion.
working in a sweatshop starts looking less like slavery and prostitution is shown to be exactly that.
You know simply repeating yourself doesn't make your argument any stronger. Slavery is when you have no choice. I know people who choose their line of work, therefore it cannot always be considered be slavery.
No authentication apart from needing to have the physical card to make the transaction, a stolen card could be used effortlessly by anyone. The bank covers any losses from theft as long as I report a lost card within a reasonable time frame, I can only assume they make so much in other fees that they can absorb the costs.
Agree. If you read too much Slashdot you'd think you could cathc AIDs from a windows PC. I've got XP and no AV and haven't had dramas for quite a few years. Automatic updates does most of the work, and not clicking on obviously dodgy shit takes care of the rest.
If you can't do the time, don't do the crime.
Speeding isn't a crime, it's a misdemeanour.
If you think an unmarked police car's primary purpose is catching people "driving 5 mph over the speed limit" then you've been listening to too much...
TFA is about Australia. In Australia (especially Victoria and NSW - can;t speak for other states) there is zero tolerance for speeding. 1km/h over the limit and you get a ticket. Google it, there are tons of stories about it, I've seen the tickets personally myself. A lot of the time the Highway Patrol (the cops dedicated purely to traffic infringements) use unmarked cars. They are mostly jerks, even regular cops hate them.
vCenter Appliance + web interface is the way to go.. Nice to see VMware finally ditching Windows..
VMware aren't ditching Windows, they are merely offering choice. Most VMware engineers I've spoken to say their preferred solution is vCentre on Windows with MSSQL. I've been using Vmware since v2 and MSSQL was always the most supported configuration both natively and for third party tools.
Yes. But don't tell the Americans, they prefer to dream up excuses why it probably wouldn't work, than look to other more innovative countries where the concept has been implemented successfully (hello socialised medicine, weapon regulation etc etc). Hong Kong has had the NFC-type Octopus Card in mainstream use for 15 years.
Unless technology changes significantly and soon, making financial transactions via radio is just plain a bad idea.
I used to live in Hong Kong. The Octopus card is a contactless payment system which is the de facto payment standard for small payments for the 95% of the country. Here in Australia we've got contactless MasterCards so I can buy anything up to $100 by swiping my card. No pin, no signature, just scan swipe and keep walking. NFC will replace the need for a card, and since the only thing in my wallet nowadays is credit cards, cash, ID and photo of the family, that can all be done on an NFC phone. Once all retailers get on board (Australia is not quite to the same level as Hong Kong yet) the wallet will become redundant. I would argue it is quite possibly the best idea since sliced bread. (And before you knock the concept, I've been using it for 10 years now with zero issues) That's a lot less issues than I've had with physical card/cash/ID etc)
I think it's Avian. Everyone knows that birds make the best water.
Almost. The idea is that investors will have more money to invest in expanding existing business or creating new ones. This makes a certain amount of sense with a 50's style isolated industrial economy. If you wanted to make your money work for you, you pretty much had to invest in activities that created jobs in the US.
Unfortunately, it doesn't really work today.
Well it still does. Trickle down feeds the working class, who in turn prop up the upper class. Only nowadays that economies are global, so the working class is in China. With Globalisation it should really be called Trickle Away economics, which perfectly describes what has happened in the last decade or so.
Is Obama doing bad? The country is in the shit, but is it his fault? He inherited the worst train wreck of an economy, and had to find a way out of two unwinnable wars that the previous buffoon blundered into. Could Bush Jnr have left the country in any worse shape?
Crap. I've met a few ladies in my time. They choose their hours, the terms and conditions, and they generally earn above the average wage. This is more than most people can say about their jobs. There is a whole world out there that people like you probably aren't aware of. Not everyone is afraid of sex with strangers, and if you can get paid for it and not have to work a shit house minimum wage job to pay the bills then that is about as liberating as you can get.
The act of prostitution deprives prostitutes of their freedom and of the control over their bodies.
Control of your body is over-rated. If you had the choice of working 60 hours a week in shit job that you hated, or 10 hours a week banging a few guys for 10 x times as much money, who has more control over their life? I which choice I'd make for my body if I had the natural talents.
If you find slavery to be a bit over the top, try thinking about what you'd rather admit to your friends and family - that you're working in a sweatshop or that you're getting paid to be fucked up the ass?
Not sure how you equate private matters with slavery? I don't tell my friends and family that I love wanking, or pick my nose, or scratch my bum and sniff it either. Does that make me a slave?
This post is wrong on so many levels.
- Odds of most large corporations upgrading to Windows 8 any time in the next 2-3 years is slim to none. Windows 8 is a huge paradigm shift and there is simply zero reason for them to endure that kind of re-training cost.
I think you're not looking far enough ahead. MS is in this for the long term. I heard similar arguments with Win95, in 1995-96 everyone poo-poo'd the paradigm shift, a lot of people didn't agree with the change from DOS and 16-bit etc but 4 or 5 years later everyone agreed it was a good move. IMO by 2016-17 I think a lot of people will look back wondering what all the fuss was about.
- Odds of most large corporations allowing you to cloud-sync your work machine with your home machine is also slim to none. I can't even plug in my own USB thumb drive at work, you think they are going to allow me to cloud-sync my OS? Crazy town.
Ever heard of private cloud?
- Your company does not want you using the same 'identity system" at work as at home. You think my company wants me logging into Windows with my hotmail address?
I don't think you know even half the features Win8 will make possible. Yes it is a major shift from the Win2000/XP/7 way of life, but that is the point. You can't create next-gen platforms by doing the exact same thing as the last-gen.
The worst thing about Patch Tuesday is when Windows decides to reboot your system when you're not there, without your knowledge, and closes all your data logging programs, or unsaved files, etc.
It's not without your knowledge. If have to enable Automatic Updates, if you did this without understanding the consequences it no-one else's fault. Have you ever thought of not allowing automatic installation of updates? You can download the updates and review them before install. Sounds simple I know but you seem to not be aware of this setting.
They don't know how to make software that doesn't assume that the user is some type of inept, mindless, or unimportant jackass.
Ever heard of control panel, policies or registry? If you're a numpty, Windows gives you the best settings for a numpty by default, if you know what you're doing you use the aforementioned tools to setup the OS how you want to behave.
So, make it easy for developers at the expense of users? Sorry, I don't have a windows phone, don't like tiles, and don't want to run a shitty tablet/phone interface on my desktop machine.
I write desktop apps for work, and use Visual Studio 2010 instead of 2012, because I don't care about the phone crap. At work, and pretty much everyone I know will be using Window 7 at least until 9 comes out.
What if your users want their apps to work seamlessly on their mobile devices? Sounds like yet another developer telling users what they should or shouldn't be doing...
The article reminds me of that old US/Canadian joke that circulates every so often ...
And that joke reminds me of an old English joke that is exactly the same except it has neither Americans or Canadians in it.
Yes. But sometimes Managers don't listen to their Engineers. Apparently it has more to do with making sure the budget is spent than any actual best fit solution.
How is it that so many on Slashdot don't see the potential in this?
....ONE DEVICE that's ALWAYS WITH YOU.
I had this 15 years ago, it was called a laptop and I've since moved on. Now I have a thin client at work and I leave my work at work, no need to carry anything ever again. If it doesn't fit in my pocket I don't carry it How's that for progress?
The assumption that you are making is that people will want to continue using the Microsoft software paradigm. As seen by the oodles of OSX, and now Linux users they can do just fine without Microsoft software.
You need to make a clarification between consumer and enterprise. Apple (and Google) have done a very good job of creating a consumer market that didn't exist before, but MS still own the enterprise. For corporate back-office functions, there is nothing that even comes close to the AD/GPO/Exchange/SQL/IIS/Office solution. When Apple and Facebook are mere footnotes of IT history, MS will still be chugging along making billions from its corporate market.
Most office desktop also do very little these days. For the general office worker, the idea is not so terrible... a docked tablet or phone will provide email, calendaring, web, and light word processing. That covers 90% of what 90% of what corporate office monkeys need to do.
You have clearly never worked in a corporate environment.
I've worked at a few places that went the whole tablet fad. Bought piles of toys for staff, spent a lot on apps and integration, and guess what? Most of them sit in drawers unused. You see the odd one in a meeting to take notes, but most people still prefer paper even though they have the option of a shiny new iPad.
And as for "corporate office monkeys", despite having a fully integrated iPad to use, not one single person has ever given up their desktop/laptop. Not one.
How does this get modded Informative? Your post in summary is this: China has really really bad standards. The govt should reduce regulation in the US to China-standards to make us competitive. Having standards costs money. You can choose to have standards or save money, you can't have both.
That is a tired such a tired joke.
Not only is worn out, but the irony seems to be lost on Americans who don't exactly have the best record in winning wars (Korea, Vietnam, Iraq twice an Afghanistan). And the biggest single victory in US military history (against England) was because they were saved by the French.
Some third world countries did build infrastructure, it then got destroyed because the people that live there predominately believe in magic. While they still believe in magic, they will forever be stuck in the dark ages.