Made me go the other way. I've now canceled HULU and SLING leaving me with just Amazon and Netflix, and honestly netflix is next on the chopping block.
Thanks to all this stupidity I've simply stopped consuming most TV and I feel my life has improved as a result. As others have noted, I'm reading more then I use to and using "tv time" to do other useful things instead.
For a little bit I missed new episodes of things I was following... now that some time has passed, I don't even miss them anymore. Nor did I miss football (first season since I was.. well since I can remember that I did't watch collage and NFL football like it was my job) this year.
I'll keep amazon around for "The Grand Tour" (and the fact that I use prime shipping a lot still); but if they ever separate the two, I'll drop that as well.
when it started requiring a login to use it. I could see no reason to create a login just so I have slightly easier drive upgrades and notifications as to new versions.
So instead of creating useless account #3434309 I just said fuck it.
If your talking about PARCC, just use Firefox, it worked fine for us. (I setup portable firefox actually, and wrote a custom shell to replace explorer.exe; combined with some group policy magic I ended up with a testing environment that was locked down, auto-updated Java and the PortableFF shell, as well as having AIR and MAPS testing available.
Basically all it did was make us remove Chrome as an option for our users, well that and them dropping (and finally removing the work-around) for OpenModialDialog (which, unfortunately Outlook Web Access needs; and since that our email system, it was strike 2, and chrome's out)
Last night I got an update and you can no longer use google wallet to pay with. My initial reaction is to be pretty annoyed, however after thinking about it this is probably for the best... I'll stop binge buying comics through it now.
Seconded! After pandaland drove me from WoW I re-discovered EQ and have been playing it like the good - ol - days. However a word of warning, its just as addicting and time consuming as ever. If your not good at setting play limits you might find all your free time vanishing into this black hole:)
For everyone blasting me this is part of the problem; grant money bought the iPads, no one has money for a MDM.
Therefore we push profiles with the IOS Configurator, its the best we can mange with basically no money to support them. (though we are looking at the Meraki MDM; its free, so maybe things will improve in that regard)
Thank your legislators for cutting our budgets to the bone.
(also FWIW I'm the cisco / windows server / linux guy; one of my tech's does all the iOS stuff. But thanks for assuming I'm a total idiot.)
Basically I could have told them this was going to happen because of how iOS is designed. We have about 200 and they don't leave our buildings (most of them are in classroom sets/charging carts) and I'd say at least 5-10 a week have to be factory reset because the kids remove the profile and lock the devices.
How is it this easy? Well since iOS (Android has this same issue and more, sadly), unlike say, ChromeOS, isn't designed to be managed from an enterprise level. So everything we do with policies can simply be removed by the user. No password required.
We tried the carrot and stick approach, the main profile contains the WiFi password, which they don't know, so when they remove it the devices drop off the network and are basically useless. This probably stops most of the folks from messing with them too much but we still have a few that just want to watch the world burn.
However if you GIVE them to the kids, and let them take em home where they can use their own personal WiFi (even worse if they know the password for the school owned wifi) then the carrot is gone. There is little-no incentive for them to leave the iPad's locked down.
This is why we've stopped buying iPads and started buying ChromeBooks. I hope Apple (and Google's Android group, too) takes note, were far from the only district going this direction.
Different platforms users have different expectations basically. As a PC gamer, I expect my computer to always be connected. Console owners tend to expect they can play games wherever they take their console. They also expect to be able to lend and trade their games with friends. Something PC gamers also don't generally expect.
Microsoft tried to do something different and clearly people didn't like it. I think they went too far pulling back though, an offline mode like steam has would have worked (and when you were offline, your friends couldn't share your games).
Please; clearly explain to me how (making an example up here) that me downloading Adobe FooBar from a bit torrent network costs Adobe anything? I (as a hypothetical student here) cannot afford FooBar, so I there is no chance of me buying a copy.
Basically, if copying is stealing then me taking a PHOTO of you is stealing you.
Lets see, shashdotters, who's practice of linking to websites which then get absolutly flooded with traffic to the point that alot of servers go offline due to the traffic, is seriously defending this idiot?
Pot, meet Kettle. When Slashdot obtails permission before it links to any site, then you can act all high and mighty, until then your doing the exact same thing.
Proudrooster dosn't know you can use a usb network adapter on your tivo2 and "Dial-out" over your broadband connection? Well, you can;) list of supported nic's
They will be holding an online chat, I plan to e there to ask them a few pointed Questions. Please, If you do go, and ask, try to make your point concise, clear, and aviod flaming them. Statments like 'is this the final selling out of metallica, blach blah blah' probably won't even get asked to them.
Sorry if this was posted before, but I didn't have time to read all the comments.:)
I consider myself pretty "up" on tech, and I still find myself printing out a useful tidbit here, a comic there... printing somehting out is just way too useful a way to keep it handy. It also is the best way to hand someone something for later review... I just don't see it going away anytime soon...
Now, since we will be chewing up our forests so I can have the latest Dilbert cartoon on my cube wall, lets talk about alternitives. Recycling is a good first step, now we need to make paper out of something else! HEMP! (no anti-drug crap pls, I am talking about the fibers the plant makes, not the 'buds' that can get you baked) you can make 4 TIMES! the paper from 1 acre of hemp, as you can make from 1 acre of trees... and next year, that hemp will be ready to cut down and make paper (or clothing for that matter) out of again, while the trees will be just saplings.
"Knoledge is power, anyone telling you differant is a politician"
I would love to see Apple focus on hardware and get out of making MacOS. This would give Be Inc. a chance to make BeOS run on the G3/G4's!
However, I do not see this happening. Apple seems to aviod too much compitition within its own platform. If they stopped making the MacOS and thus opened the platform for other operating systems, how long do you think it would take M$ to write one? Now thats a Scary Thought (tm)
Not the same thing at all. If you Remove the shell you can still put ANOTHER SHELL IN ITS PLACE. None of the shells are integrated parts of Linux. A web browser is a program that lest your view HTML over a network. IT has no buisness being an integrated PART of the OS. Included/bundled with the OS, definatly. How would you like it if you biught your new car, and it cane with a built in Hanson CD that can't be removed without destroying the car, and auto-runs when you turn the car off? BLAH
Well, from what I understand, R3.2 isn't that great, R4 supports so much MORE hardware. I know findign a copy of R4 is hard, but try Http://www.bedepot.com its $69 for the full version or R4, each.x release is FREE and each major relase is just $25. I know Be has very limited hardware support now, but with only 80ppl working there, I am impressed with what they have support for.
IMHO the fact that Microsoft is pointing to BeINC and saying "LOOK LOOK!, they make an os!" is PATHETIC! It's a sure sign they are heading to their own destruction, and i for one will be there to help smash em apart;) I wonder what DRUGS the person at M$ was on when they came up with that defense. Be would be lucky to have sales of their os reach 1/20000 of the those of Windows. sheesh.
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Made me go the other way. I've now canceled HULU and SLING leaving me with just Amazon and Netflix, and honestly netflix is next on the chopping block.
Thanks to all this stupidity I've simply stopped consuming most TV and I feel my life has improved as a result. As others have noted, I'm reading more then I use to and using "tv time" to do other useful things instead.
For a little bit I missed new episodes of things I was following... now that some time has passed, I don't even miss them anymore. Nor did I miss football (first season since I was .. well since I can remember that I did't watch collage and NFL football like it was my job) this year.
I'll keep amazon around for "The Grand Tour" (and the fact that I use prime shipping a lot still); but if they ever separate the two, I'll drop that as well.
when it started requiring a login to use it. I could see no reason to create a login just so I have slightly easier drive upgrades and notifications as to new versions.
So instead of creating useless account #3434309 I just said fuck it.
If your talking about PARCC, just use Firefox, it worked fine for us. (I setup portable firefox actually, and wrote a custom shell to replace explorer.exe; combined with some group policy magic I ended up with a testing environment that was locked down, auto-updated Java and the PortableFF shell, as well as having AIR and MAPS testing available.
Basically all it did was make us remove Chrome as an option for our users, well that and them dropping (and finally removing the work-around) for OpenModialDialog (which, unfortunately Outlook Web Access needs; and since that our email system, it was strike 2, and chrome's out)
Last night I got an update and you can no longer use google wallet to pay with. My initial reaction is to be pretty annoyed, however after thinking about it this is probably for the best... I'll stop binge buying comics through it now.
Seconded! After pandaland drove me from WoW I re-discovered EQ and have been playing it like the good - ol - days. However a word of warning, its just as addicting and time consuming as ever. If your not good at setting play limits you might find all your free time vanishing into this black hole :)
For everyone blasting me this is part of the problem; grant money bought the iPads, no one has money for a MDM.
Therefore we push profiles with the IOS Configurator, its the best we can mange with basically no money to support them. (though we are looking at the Meraki MDM; its free, so maybe things will improve in that regard)
Thank your legislators for cutting our budgets to the bone.
(also FWIW I'm the cisco / windows server / linux guy; one of my tech's does all the iOS stuff. But thanks for assuming I'm a total idiot.)
Basically I could have told them this was going to happen because of how iOS is designed. We have about 200 and they don't leave our buildings (most of them are in classroom sets/charging carts) and I'd say at least 5-10 a week have to be factory reset because the kids remove the profile and lock the devices.
How is it this easy? Well since iOS (Android has this same issue and more, sadly), unlike say, ChromeOS, isn't designed to be managed from an enterprise level. So everything we do with policies can simply be removed by the user. No password required.
We tried the carrot and stick approach, the main profile contains the WiFi password, which they don't know, so when they remove it the devices drop off the network and are basically useless. This probably stops most of the folks from messing with them too much but we still have a few that just want to watch the world burn.
However if you GIVE them to the kids, and let them take em home where they can use their own personal WiFi (even worse if they know the password for the school owned wifi) then the carrot is gone. There is little-no incentive for them to leave the iPad's locked down.
This is why we've stopped buying iPads and started buying ChromeBooks. I hope Apple (and Google's Android group, too) takes note, were far from the only district going this direction.
Different platforms users have different expectations basically. As a PC gamer, I expect my computer to always be connected. Console owners tend to expect they can play games wherever they take their console. They also expect to be able to lend and trade their games with friends. Something PC gamers also don't generally expect.
Microsoft tried to do something different and clearly people didn't like it. I think they went too far pulling back though, an offline mode like steam has would have worked (and when you were offline, your friends couldn't share your games).
Please; clearly explain to me how (making an example up here) that me downloading Adobe FooBar from a bit torrent network costs Adobe anything? I (as a hypothetical student here) cannot afford FooBar, so I there is no chance of me buying a copy.
Basically, if copying is stealing then me taking a PHOTO of you is stealing you.
layman -a sunrise (or emerge layman && layman -a sunrise) :)
Then try:
emerge -pv democracy
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] media-tv/democracy-0.9.2.1 0 kB [3]
I'd like to know what Symantec has to do with open source, though. Maybe its just pity money since their software sucks.
Lets see, shashdotters, who's practice of linking to websites which then get absolutly flooded with traffic to the point that alot of servers go offline due to the traffic, is seriously defending this idiot?
Pot, meet Kettle. When Slashdot obtails permission before it links to any site, then you can act all high and mighty, until then your doing the exact same thing.
Proudrooster dosn't know you can use a usb network adapter on your tivo2 and "Dial-out" over your broadband connection? Well, you can ;) list of supported nic's
http://www.metallica.com/news/2000/000427.html
:)
They will be holding an online chat, I plan to e there to ask them a few pointed Questions. Please, If you do go, and ask, try to make your point concise, clear, and aviod flaming them. Statments like 'is this the final selling out of metallica, blach blah blah' probably won't even get asked to them.
Sorry if this was posted before, but I didn't have time to read all the comments.
I consider myself pretty "up" on tech, and I still find myself printing out a useful tidbit here, a comic there... printing somehting out is just way too useful a way to keep it handy. It also is the best way to hand someone something for later review... I just don't see it going away anytime soon...
Now, since we will be chewing up our forests so I can have the latest Dilbert cartoon on my cube wall, lets talk about alternitives. Recycling is a good first step, now we need to make paper out of something else! HEMP! (no anti-drug crap pls, I am talking about the fibers the plant makes, not the 'buds' that can get you baked) you can make 4 TIMES! the paper from 1 acre of hemp, as you can make from 1 acre of trees... and next year, that hemp will be ready to cut down and make paper (or clothing for that matter) out of again, while the trees will be just saplings.
"Knoledge is power, anyone telling you differant is a politician"
I would love to see Apple focus on hardware and get out of making MacOS. This would give Be Inc. a chance to make BeOS run on the G3/G4's!
However, I do not see this happening. Apple seems to aviod too much compitition within its own platform. If they stopped making the MacOS and thus opened the platform for other operating systems, how long do you think it would take M$ to write one? Now thats a Scary Thought (tm)
Not the same thing at all. If you Remove the shell you can still put ANOTHER SHELL IN ITS PLACE. None of the shells are integrated parts of Linux. A web browser is a program that lest your view HTML over a network. IT has no buisness being an integrated PART of the OS. Included/bundled with the OS, definatly. How would you like it if you biught your new car, and it cane with a built in Hanson CD that can't be removed without destroying the car, and auto-runs when you turn the car off? BLAH
Well, from what I understand, R3.2 isn't that great, R4 supports so much MORE hardware. I know findign a copy of R4 is hard, but try Http://www.bedepot.com its $69 for the full version or R4, each .x release is FREE and each major relase is just $25. I know Be has very limited hardware support now, but with only 80ppl working there, I am impressed with what they have support for.
IMHO the fact that Microsoft is pointing to BeINC and saying "LOOK LOOK!, they make an os!" is PATHETIC! It's a sure sign they are heading to their own destruction, and i for one will be there to help smash em apart ;) I wonder what DRUGS the person at M$ was on when they came up with that defense. Be would be lucky to have sales of their os reach 1/20000 of the those of Windows. sheesh.