That would be funny except that, if you're referring to Apple products such as the iPhone, you can plug the included wired headphones directly into the lightning port. My iPhone 8 also came with a 3.5mm to lightning adapter cable. I believe the "X" models don't come with that (extra cost accessory), so that sucks. But it's still an option if desired.
I can't speak to other brands that also removed the jack, however.
While I agree with you on the PR-speak, many of us in IT that need a load balancing solution know who F5 is. Even if ultimately another solution was chosen. We originally went with the OSS version of NGINX before switching to HAProxy.
Could very well be that. My current G700s is 4 years old next month and still runs perfectly. Even the button switches haven't given out on me (which would happen all the time on my old Razer Mamba's that I used before the G700s). The pads are a bit worn but that's expected and doesn't seem to impact anything.
Logitech also just so happened to use the exact same rechargeable AA's that I use (Eneloops). I have an external charger so I can always keep a set ready to go, and the ability to plug the mouse in in a pinch is also good (the G602 uses AA's but is wireless only, no cable or way to charge batteries in the mouse).
I tried an MMO mouse a while back and just couldn't get used to it. The G602 I have has 6 buttons and, even with that I find that I "fat finger" it and often hit two buttons instead of the one I wanted.
I should probably try a more recent MMO mouse and see how it goes. The last one I tried was a Naga, many years ago.
In recent years my favorite mouse has been the G700s. Just the right amount of side buttons for my needs. I bought a few spares back when they were still $40.
I'm not sure why just about every Logitech gaming mouse at this point only has 2 thumb accessible buttons. There is the G602 with 6 buttons, which I have as a backup, but it just isn't as good.
Java was an OK language to learn basics. I always had trouble with any Java library I found did 3/4 of what I needed it to do and I had to dig for another library that also did 3/4 of what I wanted and stitch the two together.
The same can apply for just about any programming language.
I've found that Spring, Apache Commons and Hibernate cover most of what I need that isn't worth just writing myself.
As for drugs - if drug lords are resourceful enough to build mini-submarines for example, then a wall isn't going to stop them.
We already know that now, as according to the DEA's 2018 report, the most common way for drugs to enter the country in the south is via the points of entry already. After that is tunnels, light aircraft, and then marine vehicles. Additionally, most of the fentanyl that enters the country comes from China. Sure some of it comes from Mexico, but its easier to use the postal service to send small quantities directly to buyers. $1.7mil worth of fentanyl was seized at the port in Philadelphia just this June. It came from China.
I got one on discount and it was pretty useful, though admittedly I really only used it to control my hue lights and entertainment system when I would misplace the remote. However, as soon as these issues started, I unplugged it and its been that way ever since.
It is a nightmare to upgrade and 80% the upgrade breaks the software and you have to work with the developer for a week to fix it.
My company used to be all PHP and we made the switch to mostly Java a few years ago (we still maintain some php stuff on the admin side). In our experience your statement applies more to PHP then Java. We started at Java 1.6 and are now on 11. It was slightly rocky going from 8->10 but it just involved adding libraries that were split out of the JDK (it took all of a few minutes on Google to figure this out, no where near a week of fixing). Even targeting the latest version was basically just updating the version number in our pom files and rebuilding. Sure some libraries had to be updated but that's pretty normal for any language. The biggest thing slowing us down was switching the GC from CMS to G1GC, and even that wasn't so bad. Just involved a bunch of testing to make sure performance wasn't hit.
I can understand the issue with purchasing software that may not get updated often and then not being able to update. We haven't purchased much, but of what we have, they all come bundled with their own JRE's which get updated as the software is updated, so that also hasn't been a problem.
No, but sorry. For the vast majority of kids there are still countless activities every day helping them improve their manual dexterity.
Maybe years ago, but I'm not so sure about now. I have a few friends that work at different school districts and they all say that students are losing the ability to write for periods of time. Everything is now typing and touch screens. Schools (around here anyway) have cut down on written aspects of their courses and don't do much in the way of pushing writing. Kids have laptops in class and submit homework online, and as a result they don't have as much manual dexterity as the older generation does.
I also see a lot of new parents just giving their kids ipads/iphones to keep them busy. Are children actually doing arts and crafts as we used to know it, or are they now just messing around on instagram and snapchat? (or whatever the app of the week is). From what I've seen and heard (also from those that work at schools), its all about the social media apps now.
You are correct. I didn't say I wouldn't give Congress credit, I said I wouldn't give Trump credit. The OP tried to claim that Trump, personally, is the only one trying to improve the climate.
Trump != Congress. Even if it is controlled by his party.
I'm all for advancing nuclear power technology, but I wouldn't give Trump any credit for it. The bill was passed by Congress. The Trump administration was only mentioned once in the article and even that was about nuclear being bundled with his attempts to save the coal plants.
What's to prevent me from taking a snapshot of the entire email and later doing whatever I want anyway?
Nothing, that works fine. I sent an a confidential email to an external account. Got a link to click (annoying) and wasn't able to get a print out as advertised (it printed "printing is not allowed"). I was however, able to take a screenshot using the built in macOS screen shot feature.
I suppose it can prevent the email from being viewed past the expiration date in the event someone gains access to the recipients email, but it doesn't do anything to protect you from the recipient keeping a copy.
The same can be done with VM's and automation. I do that now by spinning up a new VM with all the updates I want to test and then using automation tools (in my case, saltstack) to set it up exactly the same as my production VM (with any additional changes, if necessary). It takes a bunch of initial work in configuring the automation but once its there, its pretty easy to maintain.
Quite often when there's a lot of changes, rather then updating the production VM's, I'll just set up all new ones (via the same automation scripts) and flip over to using those and shut the old ones down.
I initially started using automation as a temporary way to keep sanity in maintaining many VM's, while looking into migrating to Docker. However, it wound up working so well, I just stuck with it.
Not only do they make you call, but they give you a hard time about cancelling. I have a tivo in every room. Whenever I replace one and cancel the old the agent is first astonished by how many I have and for how long I've been a customer. They they ask why I want to cancel a single tivo and if I hate them or something. I explain that I simply purchased a new one and want to get rid of the old.
Once they even tried to convince me to purchase a lifetime service for an out of warranty model that had a fried motherboard. They claimed I could sell it on ebay and there are people that will fix them up. Yeah ok, there were about 50 of them on ebay with lifetime service, and they were all selling for around the same price as they wanted to charge for the service. No thanks.
An online way to cancel service on a single unit would/will be welcomed.
That's part of the reason why at my company we opt'd to stick with a more traditional setup. Our own hardware sitting in a cage co-located at a local data center with multiple internet routes. We have our own named sales rep who gives us a call if there are any problems (strange activity, hitting an overage on bandwidth, blacklisting issues, complaints, etc..), or sometimes to just to say hi and see how things are going. We replicate our systems off-site in case of a problem.
We do have up-keep and maintenance costs on the hardware/software but after running the numbers and risks on running everything on a "cloud" provider, it came out better to keep going this way. We have thought about using EC2 potentially as additional capacity, but in the end we find it easier to just order up another server or two and add it to our vSphere cluster.
This is like, you order a burger at a restaurant, and instead of a burger, you get a plate with shit on it. And then the people here would say, 'well you should have expected that you might get shit on the plate you dumb-ass, why didn't you order five burgers from five different places!?' Uh, because no reasonable person expects that.
Another straw man argument.
I am in no way a Google defender, but it does sound like your a single cloud service defender. Why would you trust your entire business to a single provider? Regardless of whether they can host your VM on a thousand different locations, its still the same provider. One mistake on their end bring your entire business down.
For a small company that can't afford the multi hosting or staffing to manage it, I can see running on a single provider. But if the amount of revenue at stake is in the order that the TFA suggests ("millions" over a short period of outage time), then I would think you'd want to be as redundant as possible. At least have two locations run by different providers.
I'm all for blaming Google for a lot of things, but not if its due to my own poor choice in IT practices.
Relying on a single company no matter what their internal redundancy is, is not having a good DR plan. Especially when the amount of revenue involved his so high.
As others have pointed out, the other cloud providers do the same thing. You can have your stuff spread all across the country/world with a single provider and if a glitch in their system says you shouldn't have service, it will all be turned off (as is presented in the TFA and from others suggesting at least Amazon has done the same thing).
If an extended system outage can cause "millions of dollars in lost revenue" then you should have a DR plan. Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Have copies of everything at another site (EC2, Azure, Colo, etc) that you can turn on and switch to in this event. If millions of dollars are on the line, then it shouldn't be unreasonable to have such a plan and infrastructure established.
Think of these kinda of machines less like laptops and more like portable workstations. Its easier to transport one of these around then it is having to transport everything needed to run a similar desktop. More "on-location" work can be done rather then having to wait to get back to a studio, for example. The battery in heavy use cases can be thought of as giving the ability to move the machine from outlet to outlet without having to shut down/power off.
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Use the wired ones, instead.
Very funny! Find a place to plug them in...
That would be funny except that, if you're referring to Apple products such as the iPhone, you can plug the included wired headphones directly into the lightning port. My iPhone 8 also came with a 3.5mm to lightning adapter cable. I believe the "X" models don't come with that (extra cost accessory), so that sucks. But it's still an option if desired.
I can't speak to other brands that also removed the jack, however.
The reality of course is, nobody knows who F5 is
While I agree with you on the PR-speak, many of us in IT that need a load balancing solution know who F5 is. Even if ultimately another solution was chosen. We originally went with the OSS version of NGINX before switching to HAProxy.
Could very well be that. My current G700s is 4 years old next month and still runs perfectly. Even the button switches haven't given out on me (which would happen all the time on my old Razer Mamba's that I used before the G700s). The pads are a bit worn but that's expected and doesn't seem to impact anything.
Logitech also just so happened to use the exact same rechargeable AA's that I use (Eneloops). I have an external charger so I can always keep a set ready to go, and the ability to plug the mouse in in a pinch is also good (the G602 uses AA's but is wireless only, no cable or way to charge batteries in the mouse).
I tried an MMO mouse a while back and just couldn't get used to it. The G602 I have has 6 buttons and, even with that I find that I "fat finger" it and often hit two buttons instead of the one I wanted.
I should probably try a more recent MMO mouse and see how it goes. The last one I tried was a Naga, many years ago.
In recent years my favorite mouse has been the G700s. Just the right amount of side buttons for my needs. I bought a few spares back when they were still $40.
I'm not sure why just about every Logitech gaming mouse at this point only has 2 thumb accessible buttons. There is the G602 with 6 buttons, which I have as a backup, but it just isn't as good.
Absolutely better for you....
Perhaps a better way to put it would be "not as terrible for you".
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Java was an OK language to learn basics. I always had trouble with any Java library I found did 3/4 of what I needed it to do and I had to dig for another library that also did 3/4 of what I wanted and stitch the two together.
The same can apply for just about any programming language.
I've found that Spring, Apache Commons and Hibernate cover most of what I need that isn't worth just writing myself.
Thanks, I should have linked the report but didn't think of it for some reason.
As for drugs - if drug lords are resourceful enough to build mini-submarines for example, then a wall isn't going to stop them.
We already know that now, as according to the DEA's 2018 report, the most common way for drugs to enter the country in the south is via the points of entry already. After that is tunnels, light aircraft, and then marine vehicles. Additionally, most of the fentanyl that enters the country comes from China. Sure some of it comes from Mexico, but its easier to use the postal service to send small quantities directly to buyers. $1.7mil worth of fentanyl was seized at the port in Philadelphia just this June. It came from China.
I got one on discount and it was pretty useful, though admittedly I really only used it to control my hue lights and entertainment system when I would misplace the remote. However, as soon as these issues started, I unplugged it and its been that way ever since.
It is a nightmare to upgrade and 80% the upgrade breaks the software and you have to work with the developer for a week to fix it.
My company used to be all PHP and we made the switch to mostly Java a few years ago (we still maintain some php stuff on the admin side). In our experience your statement applies more to PHP then Java. We started at Java 1.6 and are now on 11. It was slightly rocky going from 8->10 but it just involved adding libraries that were split out of the JDK (it took all of a few minutes on Google to figure this out, no where near a week of fixing). Even targeting the latest version was basically just updating the version number in our pom files and rebuilding. Sure some libraries had to be updated but that's pretty normal for any language. The biggest thing slowing us down was switching the GC from CMS to G1GC, and even that wasn't so bad. Just involved a bunch of testing to make sure performance wasn't hit.
I can understand the issue with purchasing software that may not get updated often and then not being able to update. We haven't purchased much, but of what we have, they all come bundled with their own JRE's which get updated as the software is updated, so that also hasn't been a problem.
No, but sorry. For the vast majority of kids there are still countless activities every day helping them improve their manual dexterity.
Maybe years ago, but I'm not so sure about now. I have a few friends that work at different school districts and they all say that students are losing the ability to write for periods of time. Everything is now typing and touch screens. Schools (around here anyway) have cut down on written aspects of their courses and don't do much in the way of pushing writing. Kids have laptops in class and submit homework online, and as a result they don't have as much manual dexterity as the older generation does.
I also see a lot of new parents just giving their kids ipads/iphones to keep them busy. Are children actually doing arts and crafts as we used to know it, or are they now just messing around on instagram and snapchat? (or whatever the app of the week is). From what I've seen and heard (also from those that work at schools), its all about the social media apps now.
You are correct. I didn't say I wouldn't give Congress credit, I said I wouldn't give Trump credit. The OP tried to claim that Trump, personally, is the only one trying to improve the climate.
Trump != Congress. Even if it is controlled by his party.
It's ironic that Trump is derided for leaving the Paris accord, when he's the only one taking actions to significantly improve the climate.
You mean like rolling back pollution rules to help coal plants? https://abcnews.go.com/Health/...
I'm all for advancing nuclear power technology, but I wouldn't give Trump any credit for it. The bill was passed by Congress. The Trump administration was only mentioned once in the article and even that was about nuclear being bundled with his attempts to save the coal plants.
It's a very misleading, click-baity headline.
The phone still has a physical nano-SIM, so that if you travel you can purchase and use a SIM card.
The eSIM is what enables the second phone number.
You are correct. It has both a physical nano-SIM that can be swapped in and out, and the embedded eSIM.
The headline is misleading.
What's to prevent me from taking a snapshot of the entire email and later doing whatever I want anyway?
Nothing, that works fine. I sent an a confidential email to an external account. Got a link to click (annoying) and wasn't able to get a print out as advertised (it printed "printing is not allowed"). I was however, able to take a screenshot using the built in macOS screen shot feature.
I suppose it can prevent the email from being viewed past the expiration date in the event someone gains access to the recipients email, but it doesn't do anything to protect you from the recipient keeping a copy.
Would be nice if we could collectively be intelligent enough to form our own opinions.
Would be nicer if we could collectively be intelligent enough to not use social media as a source of news and information.
The same can be done with VM's and automation. I do that now by spinning up a new VM with all the updates I want to test and then using automation tools (in my case, saltstack) to set it up exactly the same as my production VM (with any additional changes, if necessary). It takes a bunch of initial work in configuring the automation but once its there, its pretty easy to maintain.
Quite often when there's a lot of changes, rather then updating the production VM's, I'll just set up all new ones (via the same automation scripts) and flip over to using those and shut the old ones down.
I initially started using automation as a temporary way to keep sanity in maintaining many VM's, while looking into migrating to Docker. However, it wound up working so well, I just stuck with it.
Not only do they make you call, but they give you a hard time about cancelling. I have a tivo in every room. Whenever I replace one and cancel the old the agent is first astonished by how many I have and for how long I've been a customer. They they ask why I want to cancel a single tivo and if I hate them or something. I explain that I simply purchased a new one and want to get rid of the old.
Once they even tried to convince me to purchase a lifetime service for an out of warranty model that had a fried motherboard. They claimed I could sell it on ebay and there are people that will fix them up. Yeah ok, there were about 50 of them on ebay with lifetime service, and they were all selling for around the same price as they wanted to charge for the service. No thanks.
An online way to cancel service on a single unit would/will be welcomed.
That's part of the reason why at my company we opt'd to stick with a more traditional setup. Our own hardware sitting in a cage co-located at a local data center with multiple internet routes. We have our own named sales rep who gives us a call if there are any problems (strange activity, hitting an overage on bandwidth, blacklisting issues, complaints, etc..), or sometimes to just to say hi and see how things are going. We replicate our systems off-site in case of a problem.
We do have up-keep and maintenance costs on the hardware/software but after running the numbers and risks on running everything on a "cloud" provider, it came out better to keep going this way. We have thought about using EC2 potentially as additional capacity, but in the end we find it easier to just order up another server or two and add it to our vSphere cluster.
This is like, you order a burger at a restaurant, and instead of a burger, you get a plate with shit on it. And then the people here would say, 'well you should have expected that you might get shit on the plate you dumb-ass, why didn't you order five burgers from five different places!?' Uh, because no reasonable person expects that.
Another straw man argument.
I am in no way a Google defender, but it does sound like your a single cloud service defender. Why would you trust your entire business to a single provider? Regardless of whether they can host your VM on a thousand different locations, its still the same provider. One mistake on their end bring your entire business down.
For a small company that can't afford the multi hosting or staffing to manage it, I can see running on a single provider. But if the amount of revenue at stake is in the order that the TFA suggests ("millions" over a short period of outage time), then I would think you'd want to be as redundant as possible. At least have two locations run by different providers.
I'm all for blaming Google for a lot of things, but not if its due to my own poor choice in IT practices.
No.
Relying on a single company no matter what their internal redundancy is, is not having a good DR plan. Especially when the amount of revenue involved his so high.
As others have pointed out, the other cloud providers do the same thing. You can have your stuff spread all across the country/world with a single provider and if a glitch in their system says you shouldn't have service, it will all be turned off (as is presented in the TFA and from others suggesting at least Amazon has done the same thing).
If an extended system outage can cause "millions of dollars in lost revenue" then you should have a DR plan. Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Have copies of everything at another site (EC2, Azure, Colo, etc) that you can turn on and switch to in this event. If millions of dollars are on the line, then it shouldn't be unreasonable to have such a plan and infrastructure established.
Think of these kinda of machines less like laptops and more like portable workstations. Its easier to transport one of these around then it is having to transport everything needed to run a similar desktop. More "on-location" work can be done rather then having to wait to get back to a studio, for example. The battery in heavy use cases can be thought of as giving the ability to move the machine from outlet to outlet without having to shut down/power off.