I consider myself one of the "techie" people and I don't use it. And none of my colleagues use it (nor have used it). Foursquare was a "fad" by all measures, and not a very successful one at that. My friends already know where I am, and so do the stores / establishments I frequent via receipts. The information is mostly redundant self-centered ego boost.
This is the same approach as Scaled Composite's White Knight approach. And they are well ahead of anything coming out of Europe. They are already testing prototypes while European version hasn't even started building a prototype.
I call the major difference between government and private ventures such as this the "pick a lane" problem. In Private, they typically pick a lane early on and stick with it until it fails. In government sponsored projects, they use multiple pathways approach, and fund them beyond their failure. This is the primary reason why Private Enterprise succeeds where government sponsored approach fails.
And if you look at SpaceX's approach, they picked a design early on, and have stuck with it. They are much closer to suborbital flight than anyone else. And they will get to full production while others are still in design mode.Right now, they are in beginning stages of getting certified for commercial flights. Government can't compete here, the approach is all wrong.
Consumer Routers don't oar barely offer IPv6 support. My router supposedly does IPv6, except it doesn't. There are no upgrades to the firmware to support it. Comcast (my ISP) supposedly offers IPv6 support. I suspect the consumer router companies are selling IPv4 routers now when we run out of IPV4 addresses, in hopes of selling the "upgrade" to IPv6 in a year or two, as that can be the only reason why IPv6 support isn't offered.
No, it is the Athiest Chinese government that is the cause of problems in China.
FTFY.
If some duche bag wants to drag religion into this, then it is fair game to point out that officially, China is Atheist (No God but the State). They don't like any religion, but tolerate some more than others.
I find having people make shit up as they go along to be a very poor method of creating laws. Having one guy in a black robe thinking he(she) knows better than everyone else to be just as offensive. We all believe in myths an fairy tales. You just happen to believe that man can rule over other men, even as man has proven he cannot even rule himself.
Show my work gets you to 177 Million. Those be the Direct Costs, the ones you can put pencil to paper on. The Long Term Costs are hidden but just as real. People are noticing PSN being down, People are noticing credit problems, The word is spreading. This is just might kill off PSN and possibly Playstation altogether. I was in Fry's just this weekend, and all the PS systems were in Discount Bins. I asked nearest clerk about that, and he mentioned "problems at Sony".
But for your information, my number is based off 3 times the known, immediate costs, which figures to be 531 Million, or over half a billion. Why three times? It seemed reasonable long term cost associated. I think the known costs are still climbing, as PSN is still not functioning as it should. Meanwhile XBOX 360 keeps chugging and Wii part 2 is due out shortly, possibly as early as in the next month or two.
And in the end, it isn't going to stop pirates from pirating to bypass DRM that doesn't work. It only pisses people off, just most people don't realize why they are pissed off, and if you tell them to pirate the movie and get better experience they look at you like you're a criminal. Until you explain to them, one of the main reasons people pirate, is because to bypass being pissed off.
Geeks offer solutions to problems others create. It is our nature.
No, he's saying that people with a rooted phone won't care about the restrictions placed on a marketplace by Google at the request of Big Entertainment (BE) conglomerates. They will get their movies anyways, just not pay for them.
What the BE guys don't realize is that they aren't stopping anyone, and in fact, may be encouraging the very behavior they are trying to punish. Rooted phones aren't the source of pirated media. DVD, and Bluray discs are. The only thing DRM does is break things for normal users. Pirates Don't have DRM issues, they've long since bypassed DRM.
My phone (DX) has HDMI out, but only runs at 720. Just because it is HDMI doesn't mean 1080p. Other phones may run at 1080i, however I would suspect that most do not.
Microsoft only for managing things that need Microsoft. Everything else will be open or standards base, running as tight as I can get away with. Mobile Device can connect to "cloud" based services and that is all. If they want mobile devices then they will get locked down versions that cannot hold any significant data and what little data they do hold can be wiped by IT at anytime.
And they will pay for via budget. I'm not saying "no". What I am saying is "yes, provided we can manage it". We in IT are paid to think about things nobody else wants to think about.
There would be no "change for the sake of change" or to go towards my "viewpoint". My viewpoint is flexible enough that I don't care if the right solution is MS, Linux or Apple, or some other solution.
FYI, the most insecure App is the one running between most people's ears. You can train ignorance, but you cannot fix stupid.
The estimate seems a tad "light". That might be direct costs (compensation, credit monitoring, lost revenue during outage etc), things that can be measured directly. However I'm sure that there is a a huge hidden cost that is not being included. I can't imagine it being anything less than half a billion in related losses. People think security is expensive. Lack of security is even more expensive.
Sony is no longer the paragon of technology they once were in the days of the Walkman.
User: "My personal info was stolen from my phone!" Carrier tech support: "Well your phone is rooted and you downloaded some nasty apps that captured your private data" User: "But you sold me a rooted phone."
This is the same exact conversation without the"rooted" part you'll get anyways. The whole Vendor Lockin is bogus to start with. How about the conversation I had...
User: "I don't want that app, how can I remove it because it is killing battery life" Carrier tech support: "Why would you want to remove it" User: "I told you, can it be removed or not?" Carrier tech support: "No"
Now tell me, does that app help, hurt or not affect "Corporate" ? They don't care about "corporate". They care about the occasional kickback they get from ad or purchases for having it pre-installed.
So, why can't I remove it? THERE IS NO REASON, and I can't.
If Malware is coming from Ads on websites, the someone ought to so the websites for the infections they are causing. Maybe if we hold the intermediaries accountable for the crap people are seeing while visiting their sites then we can slow it down.
Why is this even allowed (widget impersonation) is beyond me. The reason being, clicking the big X in the upper right should do one thing only, close a window, not install Super Deluxe Antivirus 2011, Doomsday Edition.
And wasn't anti-popup technology supposed to fix this?
The basis for social construct is that the collective does the work of the individual to prevent abuse. If the collective (police) won't do the work, then by default it returns back to the individual. But you're right, however the "they" you speak of is "us".
If you want to run Windows 7 on your PC, here's what it takes:
1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
It wasn't designed for that system. It isn't functional on that system (above). They say you can get it to run, and that is for sure. No resolution mentioned in the specs (That I saw)
You mean it is "free" if you buy the Windows OS. VMware is "Free" if you don't need infrastructure capable. Just run VMWare Player in Windows or Linux or whatever. Windows is great for VARs though. Sell Windows Solutions Cheap, and then rake in the dough through support. I'd sell Hyper-V all day long if I was a VAR. But I'm a user, and the low overhead of VMWare makes it easy choice.
I'd also like to see the performance comparison between the two.
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I consider myself one of the "techie" people and I don't use it. And none of my colleagues use it (nor have used it). Foursquare was a "fad" by all measures, and not a very successful one at that. My friends already know where I am, and so do the stores / establishments I frequent via receipts. The information is mostly redundant self-centered ego boost.
Best Advice on the thread. Nicely done.
This is the same approach as Scaled Composite's White Knight approach. And they are well ahead of anything coming out of Europe. They are already testing prototypes while European version hasn't even started building a prototype.
I call the major difference between government and private ventures such as this the "pick a lane" problem. In Private, they typically pick a lane early on and stick with it until it fails. In government sponsored projects, they use multiple pathways approach, and fund them beyond their failure. This is the primary reason why Private Enterprise succeeds where government sponsored approach fails.
And if you look at SpaceX's approach, they picked a design early on, and have stuck with it. They are much closer to suborbital flight than anyone else. And they will get to full production while others are still in design mode.Right now, they are in beginning stages of getting certified for commercial flights. Government can't compete here, the approach is all wrong.
Consumer Routers don't oar barely offer IPv6 support. My router supposedly does IPv6, except it doesn't. There are no upgrades to the firmware to support it. Comcast (my ISP) supposedly offers IPv6 support. I suspect the consumer router companies are selling IPv4 routers now when we run out of IPV4 addresses, in hopes of selling the "upgrade" to IPv6 in a year or two, as that can be the only reason why IPv6 support isn't offered.
Sad
FTFY.
If some duche bag wants to drag religion into this, then it is fair game to point out that officially, China is Atheist (No God but the State). They don't like any religion, but tolerate some more than others.
It depends on your perspective.
I find having people make shit up as they go along to be a very poor method of creating laws. Having one guy in a black robe thinking he(she) knows better than everyone else to be just as offensive. We all believe in myths an fairy tales. You just happen to believe that man can rule over other men, even as man has proven he cannot even rule himself.
(to the rhythm of Burma Shave)
I have no skills
I have no friends
I don't have much on LinkedIn
Haven't compared
Epic Fail
Pretty much, same way Triple damages are awarded in lawsuits of certain types.
Show my work gets you to 177 Million. Those be the Direct Costs, the ones you can put pencil to paper on. The Long Term Costs are hidden but just as real. People are noticing PSN being down, People are noticing credit problems, The word is spreading. This is just might kill off PSN and possibly Playstation altogether. I was in Fry's just this weekend, and all the PS systems were in Discount Bins. I asked nearest clerk about that, and he mentioned "problems at Sony".
But for your information, my number is based off 3 times the known, immediate costs, which figures to be 531 Million, or over half a billion. Why three times? It seemed reasonable long term cost associated. I think the known costs are still climbing, as PSN is still not functioning as it should. Meanwhile XBOX 360 keeps chugging and Wii part 2 is due out shortly, possibly as early as in the next month or two.
And in the end, it isn't going to stop pirates from pirating to bypass DRM that doesn't work. It only pisses people off, just most people don't realize why they are pissed off, and if you tell them to pirate the movie and get better experience they look at you like you're a criminal. Until you explain to them, one of the main reasons people pirate, is because to bypass being pissed off.
Geeks offer solutions to problems others create. It is our nature.
No, he's saying that people with a rooted phone won't care about the restrictions placed on a marketplace by Google at the request of Big Entertainment (BE) conglomerates. They will get their movies anyways, just not pay for them.
What the BE guys don't realize is that they aren't stopping anyone, and in fact, may be encouraging the very behavior they are trying to punish. Rooted phones aren't the source of pirated media. DVD, and Bluray discs are. The only thing DRM does is break things for normal users. Pirates Don't have DRM issues, they've long since bypassed DRM.
My phone (DX) has HDMI out, but only runs at 720. Just because it is HDMI doesn't mean 1080p. Other phones may run at 1080i, however I would suspect that most do not.
If I was CTO, this would be my decree.
Microsoft only for managing things that need Microsoft. Everything else will be open or standards base, running as tight as I can get away with. Mobile Device can connect to "cloud" based services and that is all. If they want mobile devices then they will get locked down versions that cannot hold any significant data and what little data they do hold can be wiped by IT at anytime.
And they will pay for via budget. I'm not saying "no". What I am saying is "yes, provided we can manage it". We in IT are paid to think about things nobody else wants to think about.
There would be no "change for the sake of change" or to go towards my "viewpoint". My viewpoint is flexible enough that I don't care if the right solution is MS, Linux or Apple, or some other solution.
FYI, the most insecure App is the one running between most people's ears. You can train ignorance, but you cannot fix stupid.
May Cthulhu strike you down for this heresy.
The estimate seems a tad "light". That might be direct costs (compensation, credit monitoring, lost revenue during outage etc), things that can be measured directly. However I'm sure that there is a a huge hidden cost that is not being included. I can't imagine it being anything less than half a billion in related losses. People think security is expensive. Lack of security is even more expensive.
Sony is no longer the paragon of technology they once were in the days of the Walkman.
This is the same exact conversation without the"rooted" part you'll get anyways. The whole Vendor Lockin is bogus to start with. How about the conversation I had ...
User: "I don't want that app, how can I remove it because it is killing battery life"
Carrier tech support: "Why would you want to remove it"
User: "I told you, can it be removed or not?"
Carrier tech support: "No"
Now tell me, does that app help, hurt or not affect "Corporate" ? They don't care about "corporate". They care about the occasional kickback they get from ad or purchases for having it pre-installed.
So, why can't I remove it? THERE IS NO REASON, and I can't.
If Malware is coming from Ads on websites, the someone ought to so the websites for the infections they are causing. Maybe if we hold the intermediaries accountable for the crap people are seeing while visiting their sites then we can slow it down.
Why is this even allowed (widget impersonation) is beyond me. The reason being, clicking the big X in the upper right should do one thing only, close a window, not install Super Deluxe Antivirus 2011, Doomsday Edition.
And wasn't anti-popup technology supposed to fix this?
The basis for social construct is that the collective does the work of the individual to prevent abuse. If the collective (police) won't do the work, then by default it returns back to the individual. But you're right, however the "they" you speak of is "us".
Resident Evil films clearly show zombies infection being world wide.
29.8 %
Free, as in Buy one, Get one Free.
Have you tried to RUN windows 7 at 800x600?
If you want to run Windows 7 on your PC, here's what it takes:
1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
It wasn't designed for that system. It isn't functional on that system (above). They say you can get it to run, and that is for sure. No resolution mentioned in the specs (That I saw)
You mean it is "free" if you buy the Windows OS. VMware is "Free" if you don't need infrastructure capable. Just run VMWare Player in Windows or Linux or whatever. Windows is great for VARs though. Sell Windows Solutions Cheap, and then rake in the dough through support. I'd sell Hyper-V all day long if I was a VAR. But I'm a user, and the low overhead of VMWare makes it easy choice.
I'd also like to see the performance comparison between the two.