"According to law, any email older than 6 months on a server (example yahoo or google mail) is considered abandoned and available to investigative groups and agencies without warrant."
So you're saying all of the subfolders for my email account is full of abandoned messages even though it's an actively used account? Are you sure you don't mean email account?
You're still getting spam? I consider it a bad month if two spam messages slip through my filter for my personal addresses or one a month for my work address.
Maybe you should stop signing up for every midget mud wrestling site you can find.
I graduated high school in 2006, but that's basically how it worked for us. If we were going to get dropped off somewhere else or ride a different bus, we just had to give the main office a note ahead of time, which they passed to the relevant bus drivers. It was a simple system that worked well. We didn't need any school ID, every student had at least a dozen teachers that could vouch for their identity if it was necessary.
Could electric cars have rooftop solar panels to slowly charge the batteries while the car sits in a parking lot all day? It's too small of a surface to charge them to capacity, but it might make enough of a difference to be worthwhile, especially in sunnier areas.
Interesting idea with solar powered recharge stations... you could put automated recharge stations in the middle of nowhere where it's inconvenient to ship gas to, like long stretches of empty highway in the American Southwest. Of course, it will be a while before solar can keep up with the demand of anything more than a very low volume station but the potential is there.
But if they don't tell you what they will do, then who will invest? Who will be ready to buy as soon as they hit the market? It's a pretty stupid advertising strategy to roll your product out the door and then start telling people about it.
Did you actually read more than just the title? The first two lines of the summary alone convey that the title is a little tongue-in-cheek and that he's actually appreciative of the feedback from Slashdot because it pointed them in a different (and likely more profitable) direction.
You didn't read the summary or the linked articles?
Here's what happened: 1) They had an idea they needed funding for to make it cloud-based 2) Based largely on Slashdot feedback, they realized that the cloud was a no-go because people wanted to run it on their own machines instead 3) So they killed they the Kickstarter funding to make it cloud based and instead are making it available now to run on your own gear
To be fair, many people use a phone or tablet as their primary computing device in 2013, which wasn't the case in 2004. So if he's moving the goal posts, it's only to put them in a more relevant place. Also, I have seen very few tables running Linux, most tables are just solid wood or metal.
Every company I've worked with that has any sort of change control procedures generally has a specific policy for critical/emergency updates. Some of those policies are "apply now, ask questions later" whereas some have a specific policy of "it doesn't matter, ALL changes go the normal route and we'll take the risk." The key is having a policy that at least acknowledges the risk of delaying.
Are you taking into account testing time for software that may be used on thousands of different configurations? In my mind, that would account for the bulk of the time between notification of an exploit and release of a patch. Of course, this is only for critical exploits that are actively being used, so it's probably better to get out a fix that works for 60% of installs right away and then work on the patch that will work for 100% of installs.
In the time it took you to think up, type and submit the above post, you could have installed any of a dozen excellent start menu replacements (most are free). You can choose everything from Win 7 Start menu clones to entirely new and innovative designs with lots of options. Most of them include an option to boot directly to the desktop.
Businesses are in business to make money. There's not a lot of money to be made in standing by principal, so the best you can do is never use that vendor again. If enough customers do that, the bad vendor will suffer and fail. Of course, the exception is if your vendor is the only one that can deliver what you need, then it (usually) makes sense to fight with them. This really doesn't seem like one of those times as there are plenty of other solar panel vendors.
I used the generic iDevice rather than the specific iPhone because they use the same model for iPods and iPads. Although iPods have pretty much faded from the spotlight now, that's what Apple began the entire iDevice trend with long before the iPhone was even a rumor, much less a product.
Not only will it blend* the most hipster smoothie you have ever tasted, but the sleek iBlender can also play music** and videos***, make phones calls****, get you lost in your travels***** and more!
*Blades sold separately in the iTunes store. **Requires iTunes ***Requires AppleControl iMplants ****Requires monthly tithing *****Feature, not a bug. Just ask our lawyers.
It does when "Buy The iDevice++" is their business model. There's a lot of 3 to 5 year old iDevices out there that are still perfectly suited to what their owners actually need, but Apple has made a metric fuckton of money by convincing people to upgrade every year even if they don't need any of the new features. At it's heart, Apple has become a marketing company that happens to also sell what they market. Without that marketing power, iDevices would have all the popularity of the Zune.
Actually, I see switching from Photoshop to the GIMP to be a productivity killer. You'll be using all that extra money on new time-consuming hobbies like a new boat to take fishing, new golf clubs for those sunny afternoons, new hookers for those lonely nights, a new wife when the old one finds the golf clubs...
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Well, that's good to know. Time to back them up to a DVD and purge them from the mailserver.
"According to law, any email older than 6 months on a server (example yahoo or google mail) is considered abandoned and available to investigative groups and agencies without warrant."
So you're saying all of the subfolders for my email account is full of abandoned messages even though it's an actively used account? Are you sure you don't mean email account?
You're still getting spam? I consider it a bad month if two spam messages slip through my filter for my personal addresses or one a month for my work address.
Maybe you should stop signing up for every midget mud wrestling site you can find.
I suppose this means that Opera is that now the only one of the Big Five browsers that doesn't also have an OS (or several)
Reminds me of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo
Just ask little Bobby Tables, I hear he got new contacts.
I graduated high school in 2006, but that's basically how it worked for us. If we were going to get dropped off somewhere else or ride a different bus, we just had to give the main office a note ahead of time, which they passed to the relevant bus drivers. It was a simple system that worked well. We didn't need any school ID, every student had at least a dozen teachers that could vouch for their identity if it was necessary.
Could electric cars have rooftop solar panels to slowly charge the batteries while the car sits in a parking lot all day? It's too small of a surface to charge them to capacity, but it might make enough of a difference to be worthwhile, especially in sunnier areas.
Interesting idea with solar powered recharge stations... you could put automated recharge stations in the middle of nowhere where it's inconvenient to ship gas to, like long stretches of empty highway in the American Southwest. Of course, it will be a while before solar can keep up with the demand of anything more than a very low volume station but the potential is there.
But if they don't tell you what they will do, then who will invest? Who will be ready to buy as soon as they hit the market? It's a pretty stupid advertising strategy to roll your product out the door and then start telling people about it.
Just wait until the Tesla Tow Truck. Then you'll see a lot of Teslas pulling Fords.
Did you actually read more than just the title? The first two lines of the summary alone convey that the title is a little tongue-in-cheek and that he's actually appreciative of the feedback from Slashdot because it pointed them in a different (and likely more profitable) direction.
Let me get this straight...
You didn't read the summary or the linked articles?
Here's what happened:
1) They had an idea they needed funding for to make it cloud-based
2) Based largely on Slashdot feedback, they realized that the cloud was a no-go because people wanted to run it on their own machines instead
3) So they killed they the Kickstarter funding to make it cloud based and instead are making it available now to run on your own gear
To be fair, many people use a phone or tablet as their primary computing device in 2013, which wasn't the case in 2004. So if he's moving the goal posts, it's only to put them in a more relevant place. Also, I have seen very few tables running Linux, most tables are just solid wood or metal.
Aren't bug reports mostly just complaints about something not being/doing what you want it to?
Every company I've worked with that has any sort of change control procedures generally has a specific policy for critical/emergency updates. Some of those policies are "apply now, ask questions later" whereas some have a specific policy of "it doesn't matter, ALL changes go the normal route and we'll take the risk." The key is having a policy that at least acknowledges the risk of delaying.
Are you taking into account testing time for software that may be used on thousands of different configurations? In my mind, that would account for the bulk of the time between notification of an exploit and release of a patch. Of course, this is only for critical exploits that are actively being used, so it's probably better to get out a fix that works for 60% of installs right away and then work on the patch that will work for 100% of installs.
I think you have a bug that inserts random "@" symbols into your text. You have 7 days to fix this before I tell the world!
In the time it took you to think up, type and submit the above post, you could have installed any of a dozen excellent start menu replacements (most are free). You can choose everything from Win 7 Start menu clones to entirely new and innovative designs with lots of options. Most of them include an option to boot directly to the desktop.
Businesses are in business to make money. There's not a lot of money to be made in standing by principal, so the best you can do is never use that vendor again. If enough customers do that, the bad vendor will suffer and fail. Of course, the exception is if your vendor is the only one that can deliver what you need, then it (usually) makes sense to fight with them. This really doesn't seem like one of those times as there are plenty of other solar panel vendors.
I used the generic iDevice rather than the specific iPhone because they use the same model for iPods and iPads. Although iPods have pretty much faded from the spotlight now, that's what Apple began the entire iDevice trend with long before the iPhone was even a rumor, much less a product.
It's sort of like having a small child or a puppy. It's when everything is quiet that you start to wonder what they're up to.
Not only will it blend* the most hipster smoothie you have ever tasted, but the sleek iBlender can also play music** and videos***, make phones calls****, get you lost in your travels***** and more!
*Blades sold separately in the iTunes store.
**Requires iTunes
***Requires AppleControl iMplants
****Requires monthly tithing
*****Feature, not a bug. Just ask our lawyers.
It does when "Buy The iDevice++" is their business model. There's a lot of 3 to 5 year old iDevices out there that are still perfectly suited to what their owners actually need, but Apple has made a metric fuckton of money by convincing people to upgrade every year even if they don't need any of the new features. At it's heart, Apple has become a marketing company that happens to also sell what they market. Without that marketing power, iDevices would have all the popularity of the Zune.
Actually, I see switching from Photoshop to the GIMP to be a productivity killer. You'll be using all that extra money on new time-consuming hobbies like a new boat to take fishing, new golf clubs for those sunny afternoons, new hookers for those lonely nights, a new wife when the old one finds the golf clubs...