They can't block "piracy sites" because they don't exist. I get my Linux images from these "pirate sites" so they're not pirate sites. It's user uploads that are the problem.
Yeeeeah, we're not all as rich as you. I got a very crappy paying part time head IT manager job (wooo $19.5K/yr USD with no benefits) 2 years ago because it was the only job I could get during the crap economy. My last car I got 5 or so years ago I paid $7300 cash for. Now that it's undriveable just yesterday I bought an 07 Vibe from a family member's dealership for a huuuuge discount but I still have to finance $5,000 out of the $8000 cost because I simply don't have the money. I've got no family, no girlfriend, no expensive hobbies, and a tiny apartment and my other part time job, owner of a computer repair shop, isn't paying much because it's fairly new and my prices are ultra-competitive. Still, no spare money. I can, however, afford the $111/mo loan and I do in fact need a car to drive.
I'm currently looking for a better job, most of which pay triple, and I crush the rest of the US on standardized skills testing in IT and have 2 degrees but HR departments are filled with non-tech people who don't understand that so I'm getting nowhere. So unless you were going to buy me a car, I used my flawless credit score to get a car loan. Deal with it.
What you're saying outlines the "repeating the past" problem that Facebook has. Myspace was invincible and going to last for all eternity and because of that, they pissed off their users daily with awful updates and horrible page layouts. Facebook came out and was slightly better so tada, everyone bailed. Now Facebook put themselves in exactly the same place and the only thing that is necessary is for a slightly less annoying and evil one to come along. So in other words, not Google+. Isn't there some open source style non-profit social networking site out there? Let's all go there.
I guess they don't realize that the move to mobile was as fragile as the "move" to netbooks, which of course collapsed. Using the internet on a tablet or phone is a gimmick and it dies very quickly when the user types a paragraph of text into a facebook text. That 5 minutes of frustration will drive anyone back to a real computer. However, MS themselves, anticipation this fake trend, made Windows 8 awful and caused vastly lower PC and laptop sales, thus causing people to jump to mobile and other OSes, and causing their fake reality to come true.
Maybe they should all get together, create a fake reality where Windows 9 is the best product ever and everyone hops back on desktops and laptops and then accidentally make that one come true too.
Except that's the gross sales. Net I think was actually a loss, fake inventory valuation write-offs or not. GTA made 1 billion and their product basically involves hitting copy and paste then burn. The tablets you actually have to manufacture and actually cost something to make each one.
This article is horribly misleading. Releasing the surface 2 as a second try isn't a terrible idea. All they have to do is make like 10x less inventory than the original to reflect accurate sales projections. Then they'll actually turn a profit on them while at the same time staying in the device market. Yes, they should have made it vastly better or something but whatever, it's better than pulling out of a market segment that's not going away.
But simultaneously they damn well better work on releasing a Windows 9 that isn't a piece of crap.
It would make for a hilarious whistle blower story though. If it was me, the first day I had access to anything related to what the NSA is doing, it'd be on every major news outlet's desk within minutes. Would they really prosecute me for doing my job? Or for also attaching a picture to the press release of me outside the NSA building flipping it off? Probably, but it'd make a horribly ironic headline: "Civil Liberties and Privacy Officer at NSA blows the whistle on civil liberties and privacy violations at the NSA"
I would have through drugs or alcohol are preventing him from holding down any job but you may be right too. I'm a very social, user-friendly IT manager that also does field work so I'd make one of the best car salesmen ever let alone someone selling TVs and computers and Best Buy or something. I totally don't want to do that though but if I got fired (for posting on Slashdot all day, loooool) I'd probably hop on that pretty quick.
I actually read part of TFA and wow, those idiots shouldn't even be allowed near a computer. There's so much marketing/lawyerish weasely BS in there to be misleading, I can't believe it. It has zero basis in science and is basically a showy theory to grab headlines. This is definitely tabloid level crap here.
There's one SSID called "secret government wifi" with inappropriate emoticons and such after it. While there is only one, I can tell you that in reality most of the other residents are douchebags too. So it's actually not that accurate of a method.
I don't see the point in a feature like this. Everyone has already either uninstalled Java by now or disabled the web plugin. Me turning it back on whenever a page legitimately needs to run a Java App is the ultimate whitelist.
I've had people accidentally install Windows 7 over Windows 7 and lose all their documents due to re-partitioning. So yeah, saying random citizens are qualified to make a full switch over to Linux themselves is ridiculous. Plus, then they end up with a printer that has no drivers or an unsupported or glitchy graphics card driver. Windows 8 is hell on Earth in UI form but at least it functions properly.
"It's one of those simple solutions that seems so obvious once someone came up with it"
Also it already exists and I've had one for years. It's called a "power-only" USB cable. There are many manufacturers of them in the world.
Since that's illegal, the FCC demanded that they provide, 100% free, a tuner that spits out a standard coaxial connection with "de-tuned" data. Time Warner has one that's basically a DTV converter but for cable.
So that's great for mobile chips for devices with batteries but they tend to go the same direction with their desktop chips. That opens the door for AMD to release a double or triple the wattage chip that's less efficient but faster overall and they price it at a far better "speed vs price" ratio that takes money right out of Intel's pockets. My advice to Intel is release some hyper-efficient but still 90W-ish 4.5-5.0GHz chip. AMD wouldn't get anywhere near that kind of performance.
Everyone hated Myspace so when Facebook popped up, they hopped on it. Everyone hates Pandora because of the "skipping" policy and obnoxious and repetitive ads. Apple doesn't release products that aren't annoying, overcontrolled, and generally a bad user experience to enable huge profits for themselves. Because of that, they will never go anywhere. Take their pathetic Facebook knock off mobile.me as an example. It was too "Appled up" for anyone to use it.
I bet they're seeing the tax dollar investment in chemical weapons as a bit of a waste now that they used them like twice and the entire world stepped in to force them to destroy them. SURPRISE, they're illegal on Earth. Do they not have history class there in Syria or what? I can't imagine them being particularly cheap to assemble and store.
That's like a guy in some certain state having spent money on 50 automatic rifles and then firing one at a target once only the have the police confiscate them all since they're illegal in that state. Hmmm, not such a smart monetary expenditure at that point, huh?
Do those shows just not know how to build a DVR computer? My gaming PC took about $150 in additions to make it an HD-capable, DTV-capable, satellite-capable, cable-capable DVR that can record 900 hours of video. I could have gone dual or quad tuners for not a whole lot more. Then the end result is an actual file, not some digital content floating around in a proprietary box with all custom parts and a custom OS. Take that, all DVRs everywhere.
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They can't block "piracy sites" because they don't exist. I get my Linux images from these "pirate sites" so they're not pirate sites. It's user uploads that are the problem.
Yeeeeah, we're not all as rich as you. I got a very crappy paying part time head IT manager job (wooo $19.5K/yr USD with no benefits) 2 years ago because it was the only job I could get during the crap economy. My last car I got 5 or so years ago I paid $7300 cash for. Now that it's undriveable just yesterday I bought an 07 Vibe from a family member's dealership for a huuuuge discount but I still have to finance $5,000 out of the $8000 cost because I simply don't have the money. I've got no family, no girlfriend, no expensive hobbies, and a tiny apartment and my other part time job, owner of a computer repair shop, isn't paying much because it's fairly new and my prices are ultra-competitive. Still, no spare money. I can, however, afford the $111/mo loan and I do in fact need a car to drive.
I'm currently looking for a better job, most of which pay triple, and I crush the rest of the US on standardized skills testing in IT and have 2 degrees but HR departments are filled with non-tech people who don't understand that so I'm getting nowhere. So unless you were going to buy me a car, I used my flawless credit score to get a car loan. Deal with it.
What you're saying outlines the "repeating the past" problem that Facebook has. Myspace was invincible and going to last for all eternity and because of that, they pissed off their users daily with awful updates and horrible page layouts. Facebook came out and was slightly better so tada, everyone bailed. Now Facebook put themselves in exactly the same place and the only thing that is necessary is for a slightly less annoying and evil one to come along. So in other words, not Google+. Isn't there some open source style non-profit social networking site out there? Let's all go there.
I guess they don't realize that the move to mobile was as fragile as the "move" to netbooks, which of course collapsed. Using the internet on a tablet or phone is a gimmick and it dies very quickly when the user types a paragraph of text into a facebook text. That 5 minutes of frustration will drive anyone back to a real computer. However, MS themselves, anticipation this fake trend, made Windows 8 awful and caused vastly lower PC and laptop sales, thus causing people to jump to mobile and other OSes, and causing their fake reality to come true.
Maybe they should all get together, create a fake reality where Windows 9 is the best product ever and everyone hops back on desktops and laptops and then accidentally make that one come true too.
Except that's the gross sales. Net I think was actually a loss, fake inventory valuation write-offs or not. GTA made 1 billion and their product basically involves hitting copy and paste then burn. The tablets you actually have to manufacture and actually cost something to make each one.
This article is horribly misleading. Releasing the surface 2 as a second try isn't a terrible idea. All they have to do is make like 10x less inventory than the original to reflect accurate sales projections. Then they'll actually turn a profit on them while at the same time staying in the device market. Yes, they should have made it vastly better or something but whatever, it's better than pulling out of a market segment that's not going away.
But simultaneously they damn well better work on releasing a Windows 9 that isn't a piece of crap.
Trying to find logic in Apple customers' actions is completely impossible.
Enjoy your parking ticket for parking on an open road.
It would make for a hilarious whistle blower story though. If it was me, the first day I had access to anything related to what the NSA is doing, it'd be on every major news outlet's desk within minutes. Would they really prosecute me for doing my job? Or for also attaching a picture to the press release of me outside the NSA building flipping it off? Probably, but it'd make a horribly ironic headline: "Civil Liberties and Privacy Officer at NSA blows the whistle on civil liberties and privacy violations at the NSA"
And yet this is the method they use to determine the exact makeup and temperature and earthiness of a planet lightyears away. Good job, guys.
Stay the **** off my phone, it's Windows 8 that should be his biggest regret. As for Windows on my phone, didn't want it, don't need it.
I would have through drugs or alcohol are preventing him from holding down any job but you may be right too. I'm a very social, user-friendly IT manager that also does field work so I'd make one of the best car salesmen ever let alone someone selling TVs and computers and Best Buy or something. I totally don't want to do that though but if I got fired (for posting on Slashdot all day, loooool) I'd probably hop on that pretty quick.
But he's got to be an EXTREEEEEEEME homeless guy. That requires Monster or Mountain Dew or Red Bull or Doritos.
I actually read part of TFA and wow, those idiots shouldn't even be allowed near a computer. There's so much marketing/lawyerish weasely BS in there to be misleading, I can't believe it. It has zero basis in science and is basically a showy theory to grab headlines. This is definitely tabloid level crap here.
There's one SSID called "secret government wifi" with inappropriate emoticons and such after it. While there is only one, I can tell you that in reality most of the other residents are douchebags too. So it's actually not that accurate of a method.
But will it help you remember those creepy guys in the suits from The Silence?
I don't see the point in a feature like this. Everyone has already either uninstalled Java by now or disabled the web plugin. Me turning it back on whenever a page legitimately needs to run a Java App is the ultimate whitelist.
I think that he actually thinks unlock means the NSA can spy on it
I've had people accidentally install Windows 7 over Windows 7 and lose all their documents due to re-partitioning. So yeah, saying random citizens are qualified to make a full switch over to Linux themselves is ridiculous. Plus, then they end up with a printer that has no drivers or an unsupported or glitchy graphics card driver. Windows 8 is hell on Earth in UI form but at least it functions properly.
"It's one of those simple solutions that seems so obvious once someone came up with it"
Also it already exists and I've had one for years. It's called a "power-only" USB cable. There are many manufacturers of them in the world.
Since that's illegal, the FCC demanded that they provide, 100% free, a tuner that spits out a standard coaxial connection with "de-tuned" data. Time Warner has one that's basically a DTV converter but for cable.
So that's great for mobile chips for devices with batteries but they tend to go the same direction with their desktop chips. That opens the door for AMD to release a double or triple the wattage chip that's less efficient but faster overall and they price it at a far better "speed vs price" ratio that takes money right out of Intel's pockets. My advice to Intel is release some hyper-efficient but still 90W-ish 4.5-5.0GHz chip. AMD wouldn't get anywhere near that kind of performance.
Everyone hated Myspace so when Facebook popped up, they hopped on it. Everyone hates Pandora because of the "skipping" policy and obnoxious and repetitive ads. Apple doesn't release products that aren't annoying, overcontrolled, and generally a bad user experience to enable huge profits for themselves. Because of that, they will never go anywhere. Take their pathetic Facebook knock off mobile.me as an example. It was too "Appled up" for anyone to use it.
I bet they're seeing the tax dollar investment in chemical weapons as a bit of a waste now that they used them like twice and the entire world stepped in to force them to destroy them. SURPRISE, they're illegal on Earth. Do they not have history class there in Syria or what? I can't imagine them being particularly cheap to assemble and store.
That's like a guy in some certain state having spent money on 50 automatic rifles and then firing one at a target once only the have the police confiscate them all since they're illegal in that state. Hmmm, not such a smart monetary expenditure at that point, huh?
Do those shows just not know how to build a DVR computer? My gaming PC took about $150 in additions to make it an HD-capable, DTV-capable, satellite-capable, cable-capable DVR that can record 900 hours of video. I could have gone dual or quad tuners for not a whole lot more. Then the end result is an actual file, not some digital content floating around in a proprietary box with all custom parts and a custom OS. Take that, all DVRs everywhere.