Normally I'd avoid getting all "this one's better than that one", particularly since I come from an Army family, but it does seem like the NSA's team is the group you hear all the spook-ish stories about. And I assume they recruit reliable and talented people from the various branches.
That said, I'm sure there are smart people in all corners.
I don't know about that. I think law enforcement knows that's the sort of thing that would make any reporter think, "Oh man, I really am going to get an awesome story out of this."
If they've got multiple tails on this guy, it's surveillance. If they really wanted to scare a reporter off, I'd imagine it'd be a call to the publication or bringing the reporter in for questioning.
Yeah, there's something we don't know... legitimate or not.
It's San Jose. 1/3rd of the population is Latino or Hispanic. If they were looking to harass the brown people with gps trackers they'd run out of widgets pretty quick.
True, with vaccines and such, though I happened to remember a few schools mentioned and one Chicago theater I was in that had a thing on the wall about his donation.
Doesn't Canada have something like CAN-SPAM? It doesn't work in the US for most unsolicited email, but I haven't had any problems with a US company in years. Our authorities do act against domestic spammers, and when they do it isn't pretty.
I don't have a copy of his will or anything, but Gates, Buffett (whom Gates convinced) and something like 40 other billionaires all signed on to the Gates-Buffett Giving Pledge. IIRC, that happened after he'd already donated dump-trucks full of money to museums, theaters, schools and various other stuff through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. I know some people complain about how the foundation manages its charity, but there's no shirking the fact that the man has spent millions (billions?) on some really good things and pledged billions more on a schedule.
I can't figure out if it was oversight or intentional, but that thing was unusable. Oddly I had problems moving the pages too, iirc. Maybe I'm remembering it worse than it was... but it was definitely a bad experience.
Meh, tell that to my old iphone. It took 20-30 seconds to display text after I typed it. You can imagine what scrolling around webpages felt like. The thing was painful.:(
Some people are assholes anyway. But your point stands. If you can't trust an employee not to intentionally hurt you, they shouldn't be working there at all.
The primary goal of systems I build is to keep people from making dangerous mistakes, making a mess because they don't know better or looking through things they shouldn't just because the opportunity is there. No, I'm not building banking systems.;)
Ultimately, you'll never get to a point where you can employ someone that's totally untrustworthy and be able to sleep at night. Some things just aren't IT problems... they're administrative ones.
Regardless, Microsoft distributes a tool for Exchange Server that is specifically made to export exchange mailboxs out of an information store and into a PST for portability. No need to go hunting for local mailbox caches or run exports from the client unless that happens to be more appropriate in your use case.
Though as you said, not sure how that works if you have an archiving solution that uses stubs for old email. Most likely you'd have to export that data out separately.
Emo? I've been called a few things, but that one's a first.
So I guess I should clarify... I don't get suicidal or otherwise overly emotional when people piss and moan. Not sure where that came from. It's just the routine we go through every time someone overhauls something.
Constructive criticism is good. Bug reports are good. Even just disliking something is fine (I used to be a kde guy). But the childish tantrums, hateful nonsense and false accusations are both boring and worthless. Some people just don't behave like rational adults, and it's a problem.
So, cranky developer-type that doesn't tolerate wasteful noise drowning out constructive conversation very well? Maybe. Emo... not so much.
I'm running Gnome 3 on an ~7 (iirc) year old machine and it runs just fine. Maybe it's too much for anything older than that... I haven't tried. Oh, and while you probably don't really care, shutdown still works fine.
As for the rest, that's the kind of inflammatory stuff I'm talking about. The fact that you don't like it doesn't mean they're "juvenile". They're trying to do something better, and many of us feel that they have. Apparently that includes the people that sign checks.
So as I said before, go ahead and use something else. Nobody is going to stop you, or judge you. Though it would be cool if you didn't say things that aren't true.
And that's fine. Some people hate Gnome 3, while I happen to like it. I have no objection to anyone that wants to use older stuff, or new forks of older stuff.
But as is usually the case, the shouting is largely unidirectional. "Zomg, new shit sucks, it's totally unusable, I'm never going to use this, you're all jerks if you like it, get off my lawn."
It's a grating and juvenile process. Every time something gets an overhaul, everyone screams that "new isn't better", as if that's insightful. We all know that, and they are trying to make something better. If something is genuinely broken, file a bug report. If you just don't like it, that's fine too. There's no reason we can't be civil about it.
I don't know that it's about being pushed out so much as the cost of staying there. And if rumors of a next generation console are true, it complicates things. But you could certainly be right.
I do think it's fair to say they're trying to make money with it in every way possible. The current dashboard was basically an upgrade away from "your video game console" to an entirely ad-centric sales platform. They're pushing the zune media store on there like it's the cure for cancer, though nobody I know has ever used it (at like $7 per rental in microsoft money). Of course, there's the microsoft money itself... a version of the old arcade token scam. And obviously they're all about the digital game sales and delivery, paid advertising slots for non-gaming products and services, charging developers to make content for the device, etc.
But they're in a good position, that's true. And we'll see what happens. I don't love that the next dash update looks like it's going to get even more obnoxious with the in-your-face selling. Last screenshot I saw looked like 4 out of 5 screen elements were advertising. But there's not much one can do about it, I guess.
I completely agree, that was big mistake. But you'd think that a prototype-level device could've been made to fit the company vision before getting the axe.
When the courier leaked everyone I knew said something like, "Holy hell Microsoft. Finally an awesome widget... shut up and take my money." And maybe that's Microsoft's biggest weakness... not being able to hear what people are saying.
It's really pretty sad, and the brain drain at Microsoft over stupid stuff like this has got to be pretty demoralizing.
Ah, gotcha. And yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if they never entirely recoup what they've dropped.
Though I also wouldn't be surprised if they consider it successful (beyond sunk costs) as a defensive move. The defining lines between various computing devices gets blurrier every day.
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Normally I'd avoid getting all "this one's better than that one", particularly since I come from an Army family, but it does seem like the NSA's team is the group you hear all the spook-ish stories about. And I assume they recruit reliable and talented people from the various branches.
That said, I'm sure there are smart people in all corners.
I don't know about that. I think law enforcement knows that's the sort of thing that would make any reporter think, "Oh man, I really am going to get an awesome story out of this."
If they've got multiple tails on this guy, it's surveillance. If they really wanted to scare a reporter off, I'd imagine it'd be a call to the publication or bringing the reporter in for questioning.
Yeah, there's something we don't know... legitimate or not.
It's San Jose. 1/3rd of the population is Latino or Hispanic. If they were looking to harass the brown people with gps trackers they'd run out of widgets pretty quick.
True, with vaccines and such, though I happened to remember a few schools mentioned and one Chicago theater I was in that had a thing on the wall about his donation.
Doesn't Canada have something like CAN-SPAM? It doesn't work in the US for most unsolicited email, but I haven't had any problems with a US company in years. Our authorities do act against domestic spammers, and when they do it isn't pretty.
I don't have a copy of his will or anything, but Gates, Buffett (whom Gates convinced) and something like 40 other billionaires all signed on to the Gates-Buffett Giving Pledge. IIRC, that happened after he'd already donated dump-trucks full of money to museums, theaters, schools and various other stuff through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. I know some people complain about how the foundation manages its charity, but there's no shirking the fact that the man has spent millions (billions?) on some really good things and pledged billions more on a schedule.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giving_Pledge
I imagine NSA's red team, or "Vulnerability Analysis and Operations Group", is still around.
Extraordinarily capable, loyal, well-trained professionals that act as hostile foreign agents to expose security gaps in government systems.
Exactly right.
I can't figure out if it was oversight or intentional, but that thing was unusable. Oddly I had problems moving the pages too, iirc. Maybe I'm remembering it worse than it was... but it was definitely a bad experience.
Of course you're right, it's mostly marketing. But some companies do a good job of responding openly to criticism or simple questions on facebook.
Meh, tell that to my old iphone. It took 20-30 seconds to display text after I typed it. You can imagine what scrolling around webpages felt like. The thing was painful. :(
What's important is the appearance of a transparent and responsive government.
Of course that's no more true than it's ever been, but it's a brilliant show.
I hear that... I still have nightmares of dealing with > 2GB mailboxes, even just migrating boxes from IS to IS. :(
Some people are assholes anyway. But your point stands. If you can't trust an employee not to intentionally hurt you, they shouldn't be working there at all.
;)
The primary goal of systems I build is to keep people from making dangerous mistakes, making a mess because they don't know better or looking through things they shouldn't just because the opportunity is there. No, I'm not building banking systems.
Ultimately, you'll never get to a point where you can employ someone that's totally untrustworthy and be able to sleep at night. Some things just aren't IT problems... they're administrative ones.
Regardless, Microsoft distributes a tool for Exchange Server that is specifically made to export exchange mailboxs out of an information store and into a PST for portability. No need to go hunting for local mailbox caches or run exports from the client unless that happens to be more appropriate in your use case.
Though as you said, not sure how that works if you have an archiving solution that uses stubs for old email. Most likely you'd have to export that data out separately.
Emo? I've been called a few things, but that one's a first.
So I guess I should clarify... I don't get suicidal or otherwise overly emotional when people piss and moan. Not sure where that came from. It's just the routine we go through every time someone overhauls something.
Constructive criticism is good. Bug reports are good. Even just disliking something is fine (I used to be a kde guy). But the childish tantrums, hateful nonsense and false accusations are both boring and worthless. Some people just don't behave like rational adults, and it's a problem.
So, cranky developer-type that doesn't tolerate wasteful noise drowning out constructive conversation very well? Maybe. Emo... not so much.
I'm running Gnome 3 on an ~7 (iirc) year old machine and it runs just fine. Maybe it's too much for anything older than that... I haven't tried. Oh, and while you probably don't really care, shutdown still works fine.
As for the rest, that's the kind of inflammatory stuff I'm talking about. The fact that you don't like it doesn't mean they're "juvenile". They're trying to do something better, and many of us feel that they have. Apparently that includes the people that sign checks.
So as I said before, go ahead and use something else. Nobody is going to stop you, or judge you. Though it would be cool if you didn't say things that aren't true.
And that's fine. Some people hate Gnome 3, while I happen to like it. I have no objection to anyone that wants to use older stuff, or new forks of older stuff.
But as is usually the case, the shouting is largely unidirectional. "Zomg, new shit sucks, it's totally unusable, I'm never going to use this, you're all jerks if you like it, get off my lawn."
It's a grating and juvenile process. Every time something gets an overhaul, everyone screams that "new isn't better", as if that's insightful. We all know that, and they are trying to make something better. If something is genuinely broken, file a bug report. If you just don't like it, that's fine too. There's no reason we can't be civil about it.
I don't know that it's about being pushed out so much as the cost of staying there. And if rumors of a next generation console are true, it complicates things. But you could certainly be right.
I do think it's fair to say they're trying to make money with it in every way possible. The current dashboard was basically an upgrade away from "your video game console" to an entirely ad-centric sales platform. They're pushing the zune media store on there like it's the cure for cancer, though nobody I know has ever used it (at like $7 per rental in microsoft money). Of course, there's the microsoft money itself... a version of the old arcade token scam. And obviously they're all about the digital game sales and delivery, paid advertising slots for non-gaming products and services, charging developers to make content for the device, etc.
But they're in a good position, that's true. And we'll see what happens. I don't love that the next dash update looks like it's going to get even more obnoxious with the in-your-face selling. Last screenshot I saw looked like 4 out of 5 screen elements were advertising. But there's not much one can do about it, I guess.
I can't help but laugh a little at the "news for nerds" site over-analyzing what's "cool".
It sounds like the basis for another teen comedy flick.
Well if someone is just giving me bacon and filets, I'm gunna be their new best friend.
I completely agree, that was big mistake. But you'd think that a prototype-level device could've been made to fit the company vision before getting the axe.
When the courier leaked everyone I knew said something like, "Holy hell Microsoft. Finally an awesome widget... shut up and take my money." And maybe that's Microsoft's biggest weakness... not being able to hear what people are saying.
It's really pretty sad, and the brain drain at Microsoft over stupid stuff like this has got to be pretty demoralizing.
Ah, gotcha. And yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if they never entirely recoup what they've dropped.
Though I also wouldn't be surprised if they consider it successful (beyond sunk costs) as a defensive move. The defining lines between various computing devices gets blurrier every day.
True, and they've already done this on a few occasions. They used to have Office mobile (it was pretty sad), but they had it nonetheless.
A new mobile version, even if it were new software that spoke OWA and basic office doc formats, would have been fine.
It looks like the 360 became profitable back in 2008. That could have changed by now.
I do still have an ubuntu install on a laptop here, I'll certainly do that. Thanks.