In a world where more and more ISPs are moving away from unlimited bandwidth, downloading HD content becomes a crutch rather than the future. It's one thing to download a 4gig game on Steam every month or two, that hardly counts towards average caps, but when you're talking about 50gig BRD's for game rentals and movie rentals(ie short term), you're going to be advancing towards that cap much more quickly.
Except people are even less inclined to click on ads on mobile platforms than they are on PCs simply because mobile platforms are not conducive to concurrent browsing, fast latency, etc. So that 1% and 10% reverts back to being negligible. Not to mention that good mobile browsers don't even show ads in their zoomed in states because they zoom in on the necessary part of the screen smartly rather than forcing you to scroll around past ads.
I understand this. I was just making a semi-jest as this guy was complaining that he already did everything else, and you're telling him to do yet another thing.
Honestly, when you're the jack of all trades you're probably not making great documentation anyways as you end up making it up as you're going along regardless because you just aren't specialized enough in every field to properly make every decision to whatever enterprise level standards one should adhere to. You shoehorn what you know and what you got in to make it work even if you can't explain it. It's part of the job sometimes. Not to mention that if you're coding as well as acting as the IT manager, you're probably not "classically trained" anyways, so you're code doesn't conform to whatever coding standards may have been taught and enforced in upper division CS courses that grade you based on your form rather than your results.
Which is why LA County public safety(Fire, Sheriffs, etc) require everyone working with them to have all staff with access to the data(including the janitor at the datacenter) to have FBI type background checks done before you can work with access to their live data. This has present a problem for Google, as if I recall they were looking at Google Apps as a cheap alternative to Office with the added internet availability(why not just use OO.org I don't know).
Ultimately, if it's not within your network, you can't consider it as secure as you'd want, and businesses who use these "internet cloud" services to use corporate email and file storage are doing something that I'd generally consider against standard data security protocol because the only thing between your data and someone who wants it is a publicly accessible logon prompt rather than a firewall or two, additional domain credentials, etc.
As mentioned, this already occurs. For example, AMD's 3 core Athlon II's are 4 cores with the 3rd core disabled, either to meet a quota or because it didn't pass QA.
While my Rolleiflex may have a $600 lens, cell phone cameras do not. They have a 30c piece of plastic and/or film over a very basic lens. As others have mentioned, there is no point in 1080p recording because the optics are terrible.
IMHO, mobility is part of the problem. They'd like you to be mobile, but in order to be mobile you have to be a single renter without permanent transportation or long term leases. Once you get a family, you're screwed. Once you get a car loan, you're screwed(in the short term). Employers are allowed to increase unreasonable mobility expectations because workers are desperate enough to except the stipulations.
I'm SoCal based and went through that last year after I was laid off. It was ridiculous. I'm a 10 year industry veteran and I was being offered entry level wages for mid level to senior level work. I was making more on unemployment than what was being offered by some of these jobs. I am by no means "senior" level, but I don't warrant entry level wages either based on my experience, recs, and education. Unfortunately, that is most of the market out here in CA. I've been wondering if the companies get tax bennies by having openings, even if they are never filled.
Basically, the market was primarily one of two things: 1) Senior level work for entry level pay or 2) Mid level to entry level work for what I made stocking beer for Budweiser in college
IBM has changed their ways a little bit. Friend of mine was a 20 year project manager(application development) with them and got her walking papers last year. The offer was: relocate to Russia or a myriad of former Soviet states(unpaid relocation btw) and you can keep your job at a steep pay cut, or take this severance package and go away.
That's because you're requiring the piece of paper instead of a demonstration of skills. Instead of saying "oh, no CCNA on the resume, let's roundfile this one", take a deeper look at the resume and recommendations instead. I was a victim of that for nearly a year, until I got lucky and had someone read my resume and verify my credentials(and overlook the lack of certification despite the training being there). I can't afford the 4k for a VMWare class that's required in order to receive certification from VMWare, but that doesn't mean I don't have the skills.
Realistically, just keep a few different classes of passwords depending on the website. For Slashdot, Fark, your general BBS, etc, a less secure password is not that big of an issue, and I'll use one or two different passwords depending on the security restrictions of the website.
Then, you have websites like Woot that will allow you to use your Facebook, Yahoo, OpenID, whatever passwords, but Woot stores your payment information. That's not the kind of place that you want to use a universal password, and instead use a more secure password. Same goes for utility, banking, etc, except those get the highest level passwords.
I have about 10 primary passwords(and variations of them if there is a rotating password policy). Not difficult to remember, but then again I remember all of my locker combinations since jr high.
Single sign-on password management is just as stupid security wise as storing all of your personal and/or business documents on Google Docs. Never give someone a one stop shop for all of your stuff. Granted if OpenID used 30 second randomly generated passwords tied to an RSA Token on your person, I'd be more willing to adopt that type of single sign-on system.
Or they could have bundled it up and sold server software with varying degrees of support like other companies that sell free things(you know, linux distros, open source software, etc). There are other collaboration suites out there and businesses want to keep high security data off the public network, so I found it odd that they didn't bundle it up in the first place like the competitors(I guess they released some code, but not all of it apparently?).
Flashblock is on most desktop browsers.
And Opera will add it eventually. It's really one of the only things missing from their mobile browser, which is the best I've found for all other uses.
Bad? Streaming much of anything is bad on a mobile platform, at least OTA. As far as website use, Skyfire does flash on 3 different mobile platforms just fine.
I had 3 of those 4 games(no N-Gage for me).
Missing games would be Tomcat Alley/Sega CD(shiatty now, but great during its time), Iron Soldier/Jaguar(best game hands down on the Jaguar, AvP was nice but 2d sprites instead of polygons), Gex/3DO, Brutal Sports Football/Jaguar, and the Bonk series/TG16
That is an interesting article and reminds me of what helped me out learning C/C++ at age 17 in high school(~1999). We used Turbo 4.5 for development, and it was essentially a spiffed up notepad with a compiler thrown on. We learned the language-as-text as mentioned by necessity. Using advanced tools makes you sloppy because you never get that fine tuning that allows you to do things like debug(or optimize) code on your own. My first look at VB made me scream because I couldn't just write code from the getgo(at least as instructed in the lovely college courses on VB), I had to add objects and play with GUI's, properties, and parameters rather than writing classes and making function calls. It was so simplified that I felt like I was in kindergarten
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In a world where more and more ISPs are moving away from unlimited bandwidth, downloading HD content becomes a crutch rather than the future. It's one thing to download a 4gig game on Steam every month or two, that hardly counts towards average caps, but when you're talking about 50gig BRD's for game rentals and movie rentals(ie short term), you're going to be advancing towards that cap much more quickly.
Except people are even less inclined to click on ads on mobile platforms than they are on PCs simply because mobile platforms are not conducive to concurrent browsing, fast latency, etc. So that 1% and 10% reverts back to being negligible. Not to mention that good mobile browsers don't even show ads in their zoomed in states because they zoom in on the necessary part of the screen smartly rather than forcing you to scroll around past ads.
I understand this. I was just making a semi-jest as this guy was complaining that he already did everything else, and you're telling him to do yet another thing.
Honestly, when you're the jack of all trades you're probably not making great documentation anyways as you end up making it up as you're going along regardless because you just aren't specialized enough in every field to properly make every decision to whatever enterprise level standards one should adhere to. You shoehorn what you know and what you got in to make it work even if you can't explain it. It's part of the job sometimes. Not to mention that if you're coding as well as acting as the IT manager, you're probably not "classically trained" anyways, so you're code doesn't conform to whatever coding standards may have been taught and enforced in upper division CS courses that grade you based on your form rather than your results.
So you want him to be a technical writer, too?
And this is why I use NoScript. Sweet, sweet XSS protection with large, annoying warning when you come across one.
Which is why LA County public safety(Fire, Sheriffs, etc) require everyone working with them to have all staff with access to the data(including the janitor at the datacenter) to have FBI type background checks done before you can work with access to their live data. This has present a problem for Google, as if I recall they were looking at Google Apps as a cheap alternative to Office with the added internet availability(why not just use OO.org I don't know).
Ultimately, if it's not within your network, you can't consider it as secure as you'd want, and businesses who use these "internet cloud" services to use corporate email and file storage are doing something that I'd generally consider against standard data security protocol because the only thing between your data and someone who wants it is a publicly accessible logon prompt rather than a firewall or two, additional domain credentials, etc.
As mentioned, this already occurs. For example, AMD's 3 core Athlon II's are 4 cores with the 3rd core disabled, either to meet a quota or because it didn't pass QA.
Speex, motherfucker, do you use it?
While my Rolleiflex may have a $600 lens, cell phone cameras do not. They have a 30c piece of plastic and/or film over a very basic lens. As others have mentioned, there is no point in 1080p recording because the optics are terrible.
IMHO, mobility is part of the problem. They'd like you to be mobile, but in order to be mobile you have to be a single renter without permanent transportation or long term leases. Once you get a family, you're screwed. Once you get a car loan, you're screwed(in the short term). Employers are allowed to increase unreasonable mobility expectations because workers are desperate enough to except the stipulations.
I'm SoCal based and went through that last year after I was laid off. It was ridiculous. I'm a 10 year industry veteran and I was being offered entry level wages for mid level to senior level work. I was making more on unemployment than what was being offered by some of these jobs. I am by no means "senior" level, but I don't warrant entry level wages either based on my experience, recs, and education. Unfortunately, that is most of the market out here in CA. I've been wondering if the companies get tax bennies by having openings, even if they are never filled.
Basically, the market was primarily one of two things: 1) Senior level work for entry level pay or 2) Mid level to entry level work for what I made stocking beer for Budweiser in college
IBM has changed their ways a little bit. Friend of mine was a 20 year project manager(application development) with them and got her walking papers last year. The offer was: relocate to Russia or a myriad of former Soviet states(unpaid relocation btw) and you can keep your job at a steep pay cut, or take this severance package and go away.
That's because you're requiring the piece of paper instead of a demonstration of skills. Instead of saying "oh, no CCNA on the resume, let's roundfile this one", take a deeper look at the resume and recommendations instead. I was a victim of that for nearly a year, until I got lucky and had someone read my resume and verify my credentials(and overlook the lack of certification despite the training being there). I can't afford the 4k for a VMWare class that's required in order to receive certification from VMWare, but that doesn't mean I don't have the skills.
Secure it from you control freaks? Sure.
I agree with this sentiment.
Realistically, just keep a few different classes of passwords depending on the website. For Slashdot, Fark, your general BBS, etc, a less secure password is not that big of an issue, and I'll use one or two different passwords depending on the security restrictions of the website.
Then, you have websites like Woot that will allow you to use your Facebook, Yahoo, OpenID, whatever passwords, but Woot stores your payment information. That's not the kind of place that you want to use a universal password, and instead use a more secure password. Same goes for utility, banking, etc, except those get the highest level passwords.
I have about 10 primary passwords(and variations of them if there is a rotating password policy). Not difficult to remember, but then again I remember all of my locker combinations since jr high.
Single sign-on password management is just as stupid security wise as storing all of your personal and/or business documents on Google Docs. Never give someone a one stop shop for all of your stuff. Granted if OpenID used 30 second randomly generated passwords tied to an RSA Token on your person, I'd be more willing to adopt that type of single sign-on system.
Or they could have bundled it up and sold server software with varying degrees of support like other companies that sell free things(you know, linux distros, open source software, etc). There are other collaboration suites out there and businesses want to keep high security data off the public network, so I found it odd that they didn't bundle it up in the first place like the competitors(I guess they released some code, but not all of it apparently?).
So, Battlefield 2? Middle East Coalition is a barely veiled reference to Iraq & co
Flashblock is on most desktop browsers. And Opera will add it eventually. It's really one of the only things missing from their mobile browser, which is the best I've found for all other uses.
You get killed by the same people in America's Army and that is a free game made by the US Army, so what's the difference?
Bad? Streaming much of anything is bad on a mobile platform, at least OTA. As far as website use, Skyfire does flash on 3 different mobile platforms just fine.
I also forgot Keith Courage/TG16
I had 3 of those 4 games(no N-Gage for me). Missing games would be Tomcat Alley/Sega CD(shiatty now, but great during its time), Iron Soldier/Jaguar(best game hands down on the Jaguar, AvP was nice but 2d sprites instead of polygons), Gex/3DO, Brutal Sports Football/Jaguar, and the Bonk series/TG16
Dr Ian Malcolm approves!
Tell that to the Highlander
That is an interesting article and reminds me of what helped me out learning C/C++ at age 17 in high school(~1999). We used Turbo 4.5 for development, and it was essentially a spiffed up notepad with a compiler thrown on. We learned the language-as-text as mentioned by necessity. Using advanced tools makes you sloppy because you never get that fine tuning that allows you to do things like debug(or optimize) code on your own. My first look at VB made me scream because I couldn't just write code from the getgo(at least as instructed in the lovely college courses on VB), I had to add objects and play with GUI's, properties, and parameters rather than writing classes and making function calls. It was so simplified that I felt like I was in kindergarten