But Michio Kaku is religious. Why would a deist not want to emulate him?
Mother Teresa is known for stuffing the suffering into flophouses to let them suffer. She didn't actually believe in helping people. A nice summary here: http://www.population-security.org/swom-96-09.htm
They increased the storage by a lot - previous generation's low-end model remains at the lowest price point. So $299 will presumably get you either a music player/PDA with lots of storage, or a 7.85" tablet with some storage.
Large-scale operations around the world run their clusters of servers/VMs managed by puppetd and version control. Test in the dev environment, check out to production when happy and push changes to all the slaves.
At least there's this: "Apps that offer routing information, such as turn-by-turn navigation services, can now register as a routing app and make those services available to the entire system."
Since iOS 5 they've added many little features for developers to integrate their apps more with other apps (see the results in apps like AudioBus). Hoping a full Maps replacement becomes possible too.
Yeah, getting out is the only sane option. I used to work at a place which implemented a tracking scheme like that, and after two weeks they had lost about two thirds of the people. Too many to have the remaining people work overtime. I was among the people who left, but heard from someone who stayed that they stopped that silliness only a month after introducing it.
So getting out will make one of two things happen: Either you are free from a horrible employment situation, or you help make them see the error in their ways. If you're in the US chances are the place of employment will do like usual: Apply more beatings until morale improves.
Alibaba is used by a lot of westerners too. A little saved up change nets you a lot of electronics/furniture/whatever for resale, and some of it isn't too shoddy quality. But a lot is...
Denmark uses NemID, which is a Java applet-based login system for all sorts of official things. Norway uses it for many banks. It's not nearly as bad as South-Korea's over-reliance on ActiveX, but there are quite a few services you can't use fully without frickin' client-side Java. I can't even get a bank statement without going through that Java login, as the mobile banking doesn't support more than looking at what's on the account and transferring money.
Ubuntu and Mint are almost perfect, but I found one major issue that I guess Americans won't notice: Setting the keyboard layout for the login screen has no graphical configuration tool. I thought this was fixed years ago, so maybe they unfixed it recently. Anyway, the only way I can get the keymap I need before reaching the logged in desktop is to edit a file in/etc/. We shouldn't have to that anymore, ever.
Linux passed the grandpa test years ago, but Wine is still too much of a hassle for newbies. Some people need to have an admin set up some things for them, like anything you need to run in Wine. But having seen videos of old people trying to use Win8, I'm expecting them to have trouble running Windows apps in Windows:P
I have good experiences from both ends. But that required a login system where identification is already handled. When the customer is logged in, the chat presents all the details the tech needs. Free for all chat is only useful for sales, and shouldn't be used for tech-support.
You should have clarified that. The Immortality Edition doesn't give people eternal life because of Apple being godlike, although they are, but because mobile providers find it a necessity with their eternal contracts.
Leopard was sold with several different licenses: Upgrade, Retail (full license) and Family Pack (3 or 5 licences of one of the aforementioned types, with additional software). The contents on the disc was the same for each. All versions since were upgrades, but you can do a clean installation on a supported system without ever reaching for a previous disc.
I know from experience that it isn't too picky about what you already had. There never was a serial for any version of OS X up to and including Snow Leopard, and from Lion on it checks your computer's serial number in some circumstances. I've also gone from Tiger to Snow Leopard, and the process did try to clean up old files (but not really that well). Clean installations are best, and every disk image lets you do that.
I wouldn't be surprised if this gained some popularity as the distribution format for digital cinema. It would be handier than shipping hard drives, provided the disc readers have enough bandwidth, or at least for copying to the theatre's drives. As a media for backup I imagine it would be very slow, but it would be great for archival use. Assured retrieval is more important than speed for that sort of thing.
I know at least MediaFire is being used by larger companies for legal purposes. A recently started company is using them as their main distribution method. Does the MAFIAA just want to shut down all competing digital distribution? What's next - Band Camp?
I know one of the accusations about Megaupload (which is very plausible, really) was that they simply removed the discovered links, not the actual files, when receiving a takedown notice. I doubt this is standard practice in the file hosting business, though. They should perhaps investigate WHY two users seem to have the same file, if they need to do anything special at all when two hashes match. Mostly they should just stay away from users' private files and nuke them from orbit if notified that the user doesn't have rights to distribute them. Use file servers with de-duplication if space is such a problem:)
We recently got a tax on downloads in my country. Well, we already had a tax on local products, but now foreign companies are supposed to add VAT to downloads according to the usual rates in the country. One problem is that this can't be enforced, and the government admits as much. Only big companies who want to play nice even care. I suspect they still pocket the extra money.
Apple add 25% to apps, music and books, but they really only pay 6% in Luxembourg and keep the rest. Amazon I'm not sure about; they do some calculations when you check out. I tend to stay under the limit so it's tax-free anyway.
These sort of taxes are supposed to "make it a fair market for local products". Except it of course doesn't. Downloadable books are now taxed at 25%, while physical books are duty-free! We also have no substitute for most popular authors.
It wouldn't be very usable in my country for long, because magnetic strip readers are being taken off the market (due to a large number of East-European criminals skimming cards). Smart cards have started to become a requirement, with legacy devices losing the functionality to read the strip. PayPal's solution is a bit too late to be that usable in Europe.
Yeah, and the Pogoplug isn't even the same class of device. The Pogoplug is a mini-server, while the Raspberry Pi is a client device with a decent mobile GPU. I wouldn't mind one of each. They'd be great together.
Or at least a YouTube video, which the appropriate extensions replace with your preferred video format if available! Embedded Flash self-hosted (or anywhere with only Flash as a video option) is a terrible idea these days.
Doesn't autoplay with the right browser extensions (using ClickToPlugin on Safari; similar should be available for other browsers). I recommend setting up your browser(s) to make avoiding work as painless and pleasant as possible:)
Hetzner seem better than LeaseWeb up to a point: http://www.hetzner.de/en/ LeaseWeb offer 100TB for relatively little, which is great, but Hetzner have better spec servers at 10TB/month. Multiple Hetzner servers might be better choice in *some* cases. Hetzner's servers are bog-standard consumer hardware for the most part, but they've recently added two Xeon offers with ECC RAM to the main range. I've used them for two years for all sorts of things, including bursts of high throughput. It's nice when you have the 1Gbit NIC option:)
That little asterisk next to LeaseWeb's two highest bandwidth options is a bit worrisome - it says "best effort". Hetzner give 10TB with all servers and have the data centre to back it up. Using more than the limit with them puts the speed down to 10Mbit/s, but each TB is 6.90 Euros monthly. That turns out cheaper than the top LeaseWeb server, so spreading 100TB/month across a number of Hetzner servers might turn out to be more reliable than LeaseWeb.
If gaming levels of latency aren't a requirement I'd always recommend European servers anyway. I'm not sure how Hetzner keep the prices so low, but I've heard it's because of the low cost of electricity. I've spent the past week trying to find a better option for me, but I've ended up back at Hetzner. Ordering an EX S4 soon, which will be nice when I'm only used to the old EQ range.
I favour 10 years, its a nice round number and most people can count that much on their fingers
For similar reasons, I'm in favour of 1 year:)
At the very least some sanity is needed in maximum copyright. Not more than a year beyond the lifetime of the creator, and no amount of rights transfers should change that. This could still be abused in a Mickey Mouse-like case, with constant spin-off products being created. Somebody smart finish this train of thought. I'm getting off at this station.
I just started digging into finding Servint's upstream provider today because of all the fuckers abusing their servers (1-3 spam mails a day from as many scam companies with changing names). In my findings I also ran across 11 years old threads about their completely disgusting business practices. When reporting spam to them back then they threatened the spam reporters with reporting THEM as spammers! See the Spamcop mailing list 2000-2001 for more miserable reading.
From what I've found about Servint it looks like Network Solutions would be one possible provider - no domain name would make continuing their business a little tricky. Not sure who provides the actual network, though. I'm sure a whole article's worth of dirt could be found on those bastards.
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They just required newer than Snow Leopard. I'm still on Lion. Apple support the two most recent OS versions.
But Michio Kaku is religious. Why would a deist not want to emulate him?
Mother Teresa is known for stuffing the suffering into flophouses to let them suffer. She didn't actually believe in helping people.
A nice summary here: http://www.population-security.org/swom-96-09.htm
They increased the storage by a lot - previous generation's low-end model remains at the lowest price point. So $299 will presumably get you either a music player/PDA with lots of storage, or a 7.85" tablet with some storage.
Or, put simply: Puppet.
Large-scale operations around the world run their clusters of servers/VMs managed by puppetd and version control. Test in the dev environment, check out to production when happy and push changes to all the slaves.
At least there's this:
"Apps that offer routing information, such as turn-by-turn navigation services, can now register as a routing app and make those services available to the entire system."
Since iOS 5 they've added many little features for developers to integrate their apps more with other apps (see the results in apps like AudioBus). Hoping a full Maps replacement becomes possible too.
Yeah, getting out is the only sane option. I used to work at a place which implemented a tracking scheme like that, and after two weeks they had lost about two thirds of the people. Too many to have the remaining people work overtime. I was among the people who left, but heard from someone who stayed that they stopped that silliness only a month after introducing it.
So getting out will make one of two things happen: Either you are free from a horrible employment situation, or you help make them see the error in their ways. If you're in the US chances are the place of employment will do like usual: Apply more beatings until morale improves.
Alibaba is used by a lot of westerners too. A little saved up change nets you a lot of electronics/furniture/whatever for resale, and some of it isn't too shoddy quality. But a lot is...
Denmark uses NemID, which is a Java applet-based login system for all sorts of official things. Norway uses it for many banks. It's not nearly as bad as South-Korea's over-reliance on ActiveX, but there are quite a few services you can't use fully without frickin' client-side Java. I can't even get a bank statement without going through that Java login, as the mobile banking doesn't support more than looking at what's on the account and transferring money.
No, Linux is Santeria. Just look at what it takes to get sound working when PulseAudio throws a fit ;)
Ubuntu and Mint are almost perfect, but I found one major issue that I guess Americans won't notice: Setting the keyboard layout for the login screen has no graphical configuration tool. I thought this was fixed years ago, so maybe they unfixed it recently. Anyway, the only way I can get the keymap I need before reaching the logged in desktop is to edit a file in /etc/. We shouldn't have to that anymore, ever.
Linux passed the grandpa test years ago, but Wine is still too much of a hassle for newbies. Some people need to have an admin set up some things for them, like anything you need to run in Wine. But having seen videos of old people trying to use Win8, I'm expecting them to have trouble running Windows apps in Windows :P
I have good experiences from both ends. But that required a login system where identification is already handled. When the customer is logged in, the chat presents all the details the tech needs. Free for all chat is only useful for sales, and shouldn't be used for tech-support.
There's also the Kindle app on the iTunes App Store. I hope somebody points that out to the app/ibook reviewers, because they're mighty inconsistent :)
You should have clarified that. The Immortality Edition doesn't give people eternal life because of Apple being godlike, although they are, but because mobile providers find it a necessity with their eternal contracts.
Leopard was sold with several different licenses: Upgrade, Retail (full license) and Family Pack (3 or 5 licences of one of the aforementioned types, with additional software). The contents on the disc was the same for each. All versions since were upgrades, but you can do a clean installation on a supported system without ever reaching for a previous disc.
I know from experience that it isn't too picky about what you already had. There never was a serial for any version of OS X up to and including Snow Leopard, and from Lion on it checks your computer's serial number in some circumstances. I've also gone from Tiger to Snow Leopard, and the process did try to clean up old files (but not really that well). Clean installations are best, and every disk image lets you do that.
I wouldn't be surprised if this gained some popularity as the distribution format for digital cinema. It would be handier than shipping hard drives, provided the disc readers have enough bandwidth, or at least for copying to the theatre's drives. As a media for backup I imagine it would be very slow, but it would be great for archival use. Assured retrieval is more important than speed for that sort of thing.
I know at least MediaFire is being used by larger companies for legal purposes. A recently started company is using them as their main distribution method. Does the MAFIAA just want to shut down all competing digital distribution? What's next - Band Camp?
I know one of the accusations about Megaupload (which is very plausible, really) was that they simply removed the discovered links, not the actual files, when receiving a takedown notice. I doubt this is standard practice in the file hosting business, though. They should perhaps investigate WHY two users seem to have the same file, if they need to do anything special at all when two hashes match. Mostly they should just stay away from users' private files and nuke them from orbit if notified that the user doesn't have rights to distribute them. Use file servers with de-duplication if space is such a problem :)
We recently got a tax on downloads in my country. Well, we already had a tax on local products, but now foreign companies are supposed to add VAT to downloads according to the usual rates in the country. One problem is that this can't be enforced, and the government admits as much. Only big companies who want to play nice even care. I suspect they still pocket the extra money.
Apple add 25% to apps, music and books, but they really only pay 6% in Luxembourg and keep the rest. Amazon I'm not sure about; they do some calculations when you check out. I tend to stay under the limit so it's tax-free anyway.
These sort of taxes are supposed to "make it a fair market for local products". Except it of course doesn't. Downloadable books are now taxed at 25%, while physical books are duty-free! We also have no substitute for most popular authors.
It wouldn't be very usable in my country for long, because magnetic strip readers are being taken off the market (due to a large number of East-European criminals skimming cards). Smart cards have started to become a requirement, with legacy devices losing the functionality to read the strip. PayPal's solution is a bit too late to be that usable in Europe.
Yeah, and the Pogoplug isn't even the same class of device. The Pogoplug is a mini-server, while the Raspberry Pi is a client device with a decent mobile GPU. I wouldn't mind one of each. They'd be great together.
Or at least a YouTube video, which the appropriate extensions replace with your preferred video format if available! Embedded Flash self-hosted (or anywhere with only Flash as a video option) is a terrible idea these days.
Doesn't autoplay with the right browser extensions (using ClickToPlugin on Safari; similar should be available for other browsers). I recommend setting up your browser(s) to make avoiding work as painless and pleasant as possible :)
Hetzner seem better than LeaseWeb up to a point: http://www.hetzner.de/en/ :)
LeaseWeb offer 100TB for relatively little, which is great, but Hetzner have better spec servers at 10TB/month. Multiple Hetzner servers might be better choice in *some* cases. Hetzner's servers are bog-standard consumer hardware for the most part, but they've recently added two Xeon offers with ECC RAM to the main range. I've used them for two years for all sorts of things, including bursts of high throughput. It's nice when you have the 1Gbit NIC option
That little asterisk next to LeaseWeb's two highest bandwidth options is a bit worrisome - it says "best effort". Hetzner give 10TB with all servers and have the data centre to back it up. Using more than the limit with them puts the speed down to 10Mbit/s, but each TB is 6.90 Euros monthly. That turns out cheaper than the top LeaseWeb server, so spreading 100TB/month across a number of Hetzner servers might turn out to be more reliable than LeaseWeb.
If gaming levels of latency aren't a requirement I'd always recommend European servers anyway. I'm not sure how Hetzner keep the prices so low, but I've heard it's because of the low cost of electricity. I've spent the past week trying to find a better option for me, but I've ended up back at Hetzner. Ordering an EX S4 soon, which will be nice when I'm only used to the old EQ range.
I favour 10 years, its a nice round number and most people can count that much on their fingers
For similar reasons, I'm in favour of 1 year :)
At the very least some sanity is needed in maximum copyright. Not more than a year beyond the lifetime of the creator, and no amount of rights transfers should change that. This could still be abused in a Mickey Mouse-like case, with constant spin-off products being created. Somebody smart finish this train of thought. I'm getting off at this station.
I just started digging into finding Servint's upstream provider today because of all the fuckers abusing their servers (1-3 spam mails a day from as many scam companies with changing names). In my findings I also ran across 11 years old threads about their completely disgusting business practices. When reporting spam to them back then they threatened the spam reporters with reporting THEM as spammers! See the Spamcop mailing list 2000-2001 for more miserable reading.
From what I've found about Servint it looks like Network Solutions would be one possible provider - no domain name would make continuing their business a little tricky. Not sure who provides the actual network, though. I'm sure a whole article's worth of dirt could be found on those bastards.
UFOs are real. Most of them are moved to the identified category eventually, though :)