And waste food as well.
Setting up a recycle program to put waste food in a box that gets picked up, or even giving people a free (or cheap) blender for the sake of breaking down food to be flushed down the toilet and treated at a recycling plant that would be in your local sewage treatment.
Many houses already have "garbage disposals" which perform this function. If not, they're not all that expensive to purchase.
Disney already collects a ton of information about how their parks are running. It's just not noticeable during normal times. My wife loves WDW - a few years back we went the day after Labor Day and the part was practically deserted. The information collectors were much more visible without the big crowds to hide them. Twice going on the Haunted House ride we got the "wait-time measurement passes" from one of the information people. He gave it to us, and we handed it to the last attendant before the Doom Buggy started into the ride. On this occasion it basically measured our walking time and the delay in the little room.
We also got a chance to chat with one of the information collectors while waiting for a bus. He explained how most visitors felt the day's experience was good if they'd gotten on 6-8 major rides, and they do what they can to make sure everyone has a good experience. After all, that's what gets you back and spending money again.
Really that's their goal - to get you into the park, spending money, and feeling good about it so you'll do it again. (and again, and again,...)
Sounds like a solid business plan. Sell a product or service, do what you can to make your customer like it enough to become a repeat customer. Maybe even get some word of mouth advertising out of it. I think I may have heard something about that in a class somewhere...
The government no longer needs warrants to place trackers on your car and record all your communications. [Because, you know, Terrorism.] When it introduces national identity cards with trackers and a law requiring you to carry it at all times, resistance will have been weakened by people's acquiescence in these Disney style schemes.
"The safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts." - C.S. Lewis
You're right, we should have put a stop to computers long ago!
"And nothing of value was lost", said everyone at the Microsoft R&D center.
Yep. Regardless of how you feel about one company or another, an unreleased product from company A is almost certainly more valuable than a commonly available product from company B. My suspicion would be that the thieves were probably employees or contractors at the MS site (cleaning or other cheap labor crew or some such) and knew they could get a quick buck for the Apple products. They probably didn't even know what some of the other stuff was. Asserting the apple products were selected because of their superiority is about as silly as the tongue in cheek assertion that Steve Jobs is really responsible for NY Crime rates due to the theft of Apple products.
Also, if you follow the news here at all you'll see that missing development products from large companies attract great attention from law enforcement. Missing ipads get filed away as a report somewhere and if they happen to catch the guy, then everyone is happy. If not, MS is out, what maybe $2k that they can now write off? What missing ipads don't get are federally funded investigations.
Adobe has been used practically as a case study of the side-effects of piracy to ensure their lock-in. Students pirate Photoshop/CS because they can't afford it, and when they get into the workforce employers suddenly have legions of employees who know how to use Photoshop/CS, making it an attractive choice for licensing because nobody has to be trained. Thus Photoshop/CS continues its reign as the de facto standard, and Adobe gets to set their rates to target the businesses with money without having to worry about the hobbyist market (which is notoriously fickle on legal purchasing of software anyway).
The higher-ups (or the middle-ups) probably saw that the time was right to spike that userbase a bit, that's all.
The fact that adobe's products are usually superior to their competition (such as GIMP or paint.net vs photoshop) has nothing to do with it, right?
If your theory were correct, then Pro Tools would not rule the audio world - Adobe Audition or some other free or less expensive software would. Pro Tools has much greater copy protection mechanisms and is not frequently pirated while (as you have pointed out) CS is. Yet somehow Pro Tools is still the de facto standard. If you search for comparisons of the two you will find many comments from professionals even indicating that protools is inferior yet is the one to use. Just as photoshop is a de facto standard for image editing despite high prices, so is Pro Tools for audio. In both cases I would submit that it is because each was vastly superior to their competition for a very long time. In both cases, as time has gone on the competing software has come close to matching the capabilities of the leader.
My point is that your assertion that Adobe leads image editing due to high rates of piracy is not accurate. There are other far more obvious reasons for things to be the way they are.
Cheers to adobe for supporting customers who previously paid for a product and still want to use it rather than forcing those customers to upgrade. Other software firms could take a lesson in this regard.
I think they have a serious problem if they think a device costing anywhere near $1k will compete with the likes of Xbox 360, PS3 or Wii U. It would be a high end niche device only for folks that are also buying giant screen 4k tv's this year. I think they'll need to target $300 or less to have a chance of it taking off. People put $1k or more into PC's because you can (and most do) use them for a hell of a lot more than just video games.
anything can be thought of as imminent risk to security.
That's exactly what I was thinking. If the ISP is able to make the decision on their own, this won't prevent much other than the general monitoring of all traffic. It would still be very easy for them to see a large amount of traffic to one customer and decide that it might represent an imminent risk for one reason or another.
We've had very good results from Walgreens, but I'm sure it varies by location.
So what if they are no better than a $200 printer, you'll spend another $200 on ink in no time printing photos.
We only have a b/w laser printer at home and do all color photos at Walgreens. It's saving us so much money that I doubt we'll ever buy a color printer again.
It should be pretty straightforward to determine which is cheaper. I print photos rarely, and use the printer for more than just photos. For me, it makes sense to print at home on the rare occasion I actually want to print something. Usually only done if I produce something worth framing and hanging on the wall. I think I printed less than 10 photos last year. I did use the printer to send a number of faxes, scan a bunch of old photos, and print/scan various forms.
I think it's a great idea. You can't tell where black ice patches are, so maybe it'll help out by indicating High Risk areas.
I live in an area where we rarely see a night at freezing or below temps so I don't really know from personal experience - but I thought salt or other chems on the road could prevent icing fairly reliably?
This is very similar to the comments the last time this exact story was on slashdot. Also, it is a waste of money.
I guess that depends on the numbers. Not the least of which would be how much money you determine the lives lost due to accidents involving iced roads are worth. Of course that's going to be completely subjective... Then there's the cost of repairing or replacing damaged vehicles, road equipment, whatever else someone crashes into. Hey, if the value of a life is low enough it might make sense not to put guardrails on roads either!
Would you ban laptops at work for the same reason?
Many companies ban personal laptops at work locations already. My employer does. If I were making that decision for the company, I would do the same. Smartphones would be included as well. Even though they're slightly less powerful, they're connected directly to non corporate data networks and therefore probably a much greater risk than the laptops. Allowing them in would be negligent.
Unless you don't have any data that needs to be protected (such as customer or employee records).
If they don't want made-in-China equipment, what are the alternatives? I don't think that doing without is much of an option.
I think the concern was specifically with Huawei and the recent hubub surrounding that outfit. Probably only for the reason you are alluding to. If there are any switches manufactured in the US, then I think it would be prudent to use those for high value operations like this one. Actually, if there weren't any - I think the needs of this particular operation would warrant the government manufacturing their own. Control of our nuclear arsenal is somewhat important;).
an open-source tool for killing old Amazon Web Services (AWS) instances that began life as an in-house product
This is awesome! My other problem is that I've got a number of AWS instances that did not begin life as in-house products. Will NetFlix release a tool to kill those off as well?
Ba-dum-ching!
I'll be here all week, folks:)
So yeah they have a shot if it has actual customer service and decent prices, I know plenty of people that would love to have better than inkjet prints of their family photos but like me have gotten turned off by the attitude of the only 2 in town, so why not? After all its not like its gonna make the company worse off than they already are.
I don't think prints from walgreens or walmart (both of which I have used) are any better than the inkjet prints you can do at home with any reasonable (~$200) printer and quality photo paper. The only thing that typical home printers lack are the ability to print very large poster size images. You used to be able to get stuff like that at ritz... didn't seem to keep them in business, though.
Not everybody has what it takes to make a successful business. And starting a company because you can't find a job won't help. If you can't find a job, hardly you will find clients.
More to the point, OP is interested in networking tech rather than business management. If he started his own business and it was actually successful he's either have to pay someone else to be his boss or give up networking tech yet again to manage the business.
In my opinion, the only thing they have consistently done right is XBox but they keep making that slightly worse over time as they are making it all look, feel and act like Windows 8 as well.
It hasn't been done right consistently. The original Xbox (pre 360) was complete garbage. As you pointed out, changes to the 360 have been not so great. I'd say that's about as inconsistent as you can get at this point.
After all, a non American involved in US broadcasting is clearly beyond the pale.
The only people this will upset are the talking-heads journalists and folks who are too old (or too uninformed) to realize that the internet "does" TV.
Not coincidentally, these are likely to be the only groups to care at all. Precisely for the same reason you mention.
Er, nope after re reading I think I misunderstood. If it's tied to the users' account rather than the console hardware then the disk should work in every scenario you suggested as long as the person logged into the console with the same credentials.
Now Little Billy goes to his friends house for the weekend with the game to play it.
It won't work at his friends house unless he also brings the whole console
The next weekend Little Bobby goes to his friends house.
and the disc still doesn't work at his friend's house
The next weekend, Mr Smith brings it to a party.
...and Mr. Smith finds the game doesn't work at the party.
Who gets to play it where?
It sounds to me like the idea is that it would only be playable in the first system. I'm not saying I agree with it but it doesn't seem all that complicated to me.
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And waste food as well. Setting up a recycle program to put waste food in a box that gets picked up, or even giving people a free (or cheap) blender for the sake of breaking down food to be flushed down the toilet and treated at a recycling plant that would be in your local sewage treatment.
Many houses already have "garbage disposals" which perform this function. If not, they're not all that expensive to purchase.
We're basically just a living, breathing, seriously deformed donut.
FTFY.
(At any rate, that reminds me to get some exercise today...)
Maybe they got it wrong. Maybe they couldn't figure out what donuts were supposed to be shaped like so they just made all the donuts round.
Disney already collects a ton of information about how their parks are running. It's just not noticeable during normal times. My wife loves WDW - a few years back we went the day after Labor Day and the part was practically deserted. The information collectors were much more visible without the big crowds to hide them. Twice going on the Haunted House ride we got the "wait-time measurement passes" from one of the information people. He gave it to us, and we handed it to the last attendant before the Doom Buggy started into the ride. On this occasion it basically measured our walking time and the delay in the little room.
We also got a chance to chat with one of the information collectors while waiting for a bus. He explained how most visitors felt the day's experience was good if they'd gotten on 6-8 major rides, and they do what they can to make sure everyone has a good experience. After all, that's what gets you back and spending money again.
Really that's their goal - to get you into the park, spending money, and feeling good about it so you'll do it again. (and again, and again, ...)
Sounds like a solid business plan. Sell a product or service, do what you can to make your customer like it enough to become a repeat customer. Maybe even get some word of mouth advertising out of it. I think I may have heard something about that in a class somewhere...
The government no longer needs warrants to place trackers on your car and record all your communications. [Because, you know, Terrorism.] When it introduces national identity cards with trackers and a law requiring you to carry it at all times, resistance will have been weakened by people's acquiescence in these Disney style schemes.
"The safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts." - C.S. Lewis
You're right, we should have put a stop to computers long ago!
"And nothing of value was lost", said everyone at the Microsoft R&D center.
Yep. Regardless of how you feel about one company or another, an unreleased product from company A is almost certainly more valuable than a commonly available product from company B. My suspicion would be that the thieves were probably employees or contractors at the MS site (cleaning or other cheap labor crew or some such) and knew they could get a quick buck for the Apple products. They probably didn't even know what some of the other stuff was. Asserting the apple products were selected because of their superiority is about as silly as the tongue in cheek assertion that Steve Jobs is really responsible for NY Crime rates due to the theft of Apple products.
Also, if you follow the news here at all you'll see that missing development products from large companies attract great attention from law enforcement. Missing ipads get filed away as a report somewhere and if they happen to catch the guy, then everyone is happy. If not, MS is out, what maybe $2k that they can now write off? What missing ipads don't get are federally funded investigations.
Adobe has been used practically as a case study of the side-effects of piracy to ensure their lock-in. Students pirate Photoshop/CS because they can't afford it, and when they get into the workforce employers suddenly have legions of employees who know how to use Photoshop/CS, making it an attractive choice for licensing because nobody has to be trained. Thus Photoshop/CS continues its reign as the de facto standard, and Adobe gets to set their rates to target the businesses with money without having to worry about the hobbyist market (which is notoriously fickle on legal purchasing of software anyway).
The higher-ups (or the middle-ups) probably saw that the time was right to spike that userbase a bit, that's all.
The fact that adobe's products are usually superior to their competition (such as GIMP or paint.net vs photoshop) has nothing to do with it, right?
If your theory were correct, then Pro Tools would not rule the audio world - Adobe Audition or some other free or less expensive software would. Pro Tools has much greater copy protection mechanisms and is not frequently pirated while (as you have pointed out) CS is. Yet somehow Pro Tools is still the de facto standard. If you search for comparisons of the two you will find many comments from professionals even indicating that protools is inferior yet is the one to use. Just as photoshop is a de facto standard for image editing despite high prices, so is Pro Tools for audio. In both cases I would submit that it is because each was vastly superior to their competition for a very long time. In both cases, as time has gone on the competing software has come close to matching the capabilities of the leader.
My point is that your assertion that Adobe leads image editing due to high rates of piracy is not accurate. There are other far more obvious reasons for things to be the way they are.
Cheers to adobe for supporting customers who previously paid for a product and still want to use it rather than forcing those customers to upgrade. Other software firms could take a lesson in this regard.
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I think they have a serious problem if they think a device costing anywhere near $1k will compete with the likes of Xbox 360, PS3 or Wii U. It would be a high end niche device only for folks that are also buying giant screen 4k tv's this year. I think they'll need to target $300 or less to have a chance of it taking off. People put $1k or more into PC's because you can (and most do) use them for a hell of a lot more than just video games.
anything can be thought of as imminent risk to security.
That's exactly what I was thinking. If the ISP is able to make the decision on their own, this won't prevent much other than the general monitoring of all traffic. It would still be very easy for them to see a large amount of traffic to one customer and decide that it might represent an imminent risk for one reason or another.
We've had very good results from Walgreens, but I'm sure it varies by location.
So what if they are no better than a $200 printer, you'll spend another $200 on ink in no time printing photos.
We only have a b/w laser printer at home and do all color photos at Walgreens. It's saving us so much money that I doubt we'll ever buy a color printer again.
It should be pretty straightforward to determine which is cheaper. I print photos rarely, and use the printer for more than just photos. For me, it makes sense to print at home on the rare occasion I actually want to print something. Usually only done if I produce something worth framing and hanging on the wall. I think I printed less than 10 photos last year. I did use the printer to send a number of faxes, scan a bunch of old photos, and print/scan various forms.
Correction.WiiU can do 2 controllers, but there's no game that has any use for that, nor will there be for quite some time.
So no football titles are planned for it? Bummer. As GP mentioned, DC was great for those games because of the personal screen on it.
I think it's a great idea. You can't tell where black ice patches are, so maybe it'll help out by indicating High Risk areas.
I live in an area where we rarely see a night at freezing or below temps so I don't really know from personal experience - but I thought salt or other chems on the road could prevent icing fairly reliably?
This is very similar to the comments the last time this exact story was on slashdot. Also, it is a waste of money.
I guess that depends on the numbers. Not the least of which would be how much money you determine the lives lost due to accidents involving iced roads are worth. Of course that's going to be completely subjective... Then there's the cost of repairing or replacing damaged vehicles, road equipment, whatever else someone crashes into. Hey, if the value of a life is low enough it might make sense not to put guardrails on roads either!
Would you ban laptops at work for the same reason?
Many companies ban personal laptops at work locations already. My employer does. If I were making that decision for the company, I would do the same. Smartphones would be included as well. Even though they're slightly less powerful, they're connected directly to non corporate data networks and therefore probably a much greater risk than the laptops. Allowing them in would be negligent.
Unless you don't have any data that needs to be protected (such as customer or employee records).
Cisco switches are manufactured in China since 2011 per this press release: http://newsroom.cisco.com/press-release-content?articleId=442243
If they don't want made-in-China equipment, what are the alternatives? I don't think that doing without is much of an option.
I think the concern was specifically with Huawei and the recent hubub surrounding that outfit. Probably only for the reason you are alluding to. If there are any switches manufactured in the US, then I think it would be prudent to use those for high value operations like this one. Actually, if there weren't any - I think the needs of this particular operation would warrant the government manufacturing their own. Control of our nuclear arsenal is somewhat important ;).
an open-source tool for killing old Amazon Web Services (AWS) instances that began life as an in-house product
This is awesome! My other problem is that I've got a number of AWS instances that did not begin life as in-house products. Will NetFlix release a tool to kill those off as well? Ba-dum-ching! I'll be here all week, folks :)
It's open source, so fork it.
So yeah they have a shot if it has actual customer service and decent prices, I know plenty of people that would love to have better than inkjet prints of their family photos but like me have gotten turned off by the attitude of the only 2 in town, so why not? After all its not like its gonna make the company worse off than they already are.
I don't think prints from walgreens or walmart (both of which I have used) are any better than the inkjet prints you can do at home with any reasonable (~$200) printer and quality photo paper. The only thing that typical home printers lack are the ability to print very large poster size images. You used to be able to get stuff like that at ritz... didn't seem to keep them in business, though.
Not everybody has what it takes to make a successful business. And starting a company because you can't find a job won't help. If you can't find a job, hardly you will find clients.
More to the point, OP is interested in networking tech rather than business management. If he started his own business and it was actually successful he's either have to pay someone else to be his boss or give up networking tech yet again to manage the business.
In my opinion, the only thing they have consistently done right is XBox but they keep making that slightly worse over time as they are making it all look, feel and act like Windows 8 as well.
It hasn't been done right consistently. The original Xbox (pre 360) was complete garbage. As you pointed out, changes to the 360 have been not so great. I'd say that's about as inconsistent as you can get at this point.
So, Honolulu is in Kenya now? It's good to know.
Haven't you heard about republicans and "geography"? It not, ti will probably not surprise you to find they haven't heard about it either.
After all, a non American involved in US broadcasting is clearly beyond the pale.
The only people this will upset are the talking-heads journalists and folks who are too old (or too uninformed) to realize that the internet "does" TV.
Not coincidentally, these are likely to be the only groups to care at all. Precisely for the same reason you mention.
Er, nope after re reading I think I misunderstood. If it's tied to the users' account rather than the console hardware then the disk should work in every scenario you suggested as long as the person logged into the console with the same credentials.
So the Smiths get the new Medal of Duty 2012.
Okay.
Now Little Billy goes to his friends house for the weekend with the game to play it.
It won't work at his friends house unless he also brings the whole console
The next weekend Little Bobby goes to his friends house.
and the disc still doesn't work at his friend's house
The next weekend, Mr Smith brings it to a party.
...and Mr. Smith finds the game doesn't work at the party.
Who gets to play it where?
It sounds to me like the idea is that it would only be playable in the first system. I'm not saying I agree with it but it doesn't seem all that complicated to me.
How come HP has to ask the court to determine whether employment contracts were violated?
HP forgot to hire people to read the employment contracts, or what?
HP's legal department left for GM already.