EXACTLY. You captured this better than my post below. Thanks! Security isn't a bunch of products, but nobody gets that. In shops lucky enough to have skilled security folk, the security team still buys stuff, because it is mandated by management, not because it is a good solution. In places without the skills, well, you spend money because you are too stupid to know any better. Lose/lose situation.
Why do people spend so much for these things that you can't use the way you need to again? I'm no zealot, but at least the google map / latitude on my blackberry is written as an app you can actually use. If only they'd integrate the todo list with google sync, I'd have most of what I need in a portable information device.
It's just that companies would rather buy something than use their highly-skilled security staff. Or maybe their security staff isn't so skilled, and that's why they require the expense of ridiculously expensive canned security software, vs. designing an infrastructure that makes sense and using the best of breed tools for the job mixing open source, in-house, and commercial stuff.
I just had an interesting idea: All protocols used on the Internet must be open and documented. So, any server providing any service, would honor valid requests from any client. Wouldn't that be a nice world to live in?
Hopefully, they won't. I don't *want* a world where I'm forced to use something like itunes to listen to my music, or where I have to use software to put things on the player vs. just mounting it as mass storage and dropping stuff on it. No thank you.
So what. If I were to buy a pre, that wouldn't be a feature I cared about anyway. Just like RIM's push towards the music in their advertising right now. I really don't care about that, and it's not why I bought my curve. Stupid feature war over things most people don't use anyway. For my own example, I wish RIM would focus on their messaging and gps stuff, since it's very good.
Pretty is ok. The problem is that this stuff is usually the opposite. Why do I need a bunch of different fonts other than the one I prefer to read pages in again? Another example: serif is better for print, sans is better for crt/lcd displays.
Just this past week, in order to maintain some rpm repositories from multiple sources, I needed to discard versions of a package older than the most recent. What a pain (think about it... mixed alphanumeric, usually numeric, but needing to sort numeric on arbitrary decimal and - boundaries).
Luckily I discovered the Sort::Version perl module. *whew*!
... for software that really isn't needed these days. Other than a one-off printed letter, what place does a word processing document have in today's world of Wikis and such? Same with spreadsheets. Great for high school and college labs, and quick what-if stuff, but outside of that, should they really be used (don't get me started on the number of spreadsheet 'databases' or printable tables are out there).
Yeah, really. I have a bad ankle too. I've broken it twice, multiple surgeries. It hurts pretty much all the time. I also tore my hip a couple of years ago, so I'm no stranger to serious arthritic pain. I'm heavier than I'd like to be (5'11", 240lbs), but far from obese. If not for the ankle problem, I'd definitely be lighter, since I'd be able to jog a bit. But life is what it is.
To the GP: Get a bike and tool around town each night. You might even want to try mountain biking. Good stuff. When active, take a couple of Aleve in the morning. Obviously eat less. That is easier when you are active, as exercise acts as an appetite suppressant.
Bummer on the trees. Comcast may have kept me as a cable tv subscriber if only they could have given me just one working DVR in the 5 I went through. Fuck comcast. I'm now a happy directv subscriber, and if the opportunity ever presents itself, my internet access will be moving ASAP.
If a domain name does not exist, I want my systems to receive an error telling them so, not be redirected to a system that they were not expecting to be directed to.
ATT doesn't charge you for the GPS (google maps works fine). But if you want turn-by-turn, they'll charge your $10/month for telenav (they call it AT&T navigator). Not sure what other companies do. I heard rumors that verizon or sprint disables the radio unless using their software?
I still use my garmin for laying down tracks in the woods while on the mtb. To do that with the blackberry I'd have to buy special software, and also buy a subscription to it. Screw that. The garmin is a bit more robust and waterproof too, and if I lose or break it, I'm out just a GPS vs. an expensive phone and primary means of communication.
Drawback is the old garmin downloads quite slow over serial cable. Maybe I'll look at the trimble outdoors after all, assuming I can upload tracks from it to gpsvisualizer.
You have a point, but I think the issue is turn-by-turn navigation. While if I print a google map, I pretty much know the route, and am aware of the general route I am going. If I'm using the turn by turn gps, I pretty much just listen and watch it, and fly blind. If things change, I'm kinda screwed as it goes into a 'rerouting' loop, or, better yet, demands I make a u-turn for the next 10 miles.
Both have their purpose. If using turn by turn, however, I don't think you really ever know where you are if in an unfamiliar area.
The labels should pay the stations for the free advertising without having to spend any of their own money on infrastructure. Oh, *that* would be payola and illegal. *sigh*.
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EXACTLY. You captured this better than my post below. Thanks! Security isn't a bunch of products, but nobody gets that. In shops lucky enough to have skilled security folk, the security team still buys stuff, because it is mandated by management, not because it is a good solution. In places without the skills, well, you spend money because you are too stupid to know any better. Lose/lose situation.
Why do people spend so much for these things that you can't use the way you need to again? I'm no zealot, but at least the google map / latitude on my blackberry is written as an app you can actually use. If only they'd integrate the todo list with google sync, I'd have most of what I need in a portable information device.
It's just that companies would rather buy something than use their highly-skilled security staff. Or maybe their security staff isn't so skilled, and that's why they require the expense of ridiculously expensive canned security software, vs. designing an infrastructure that makes sense and using the best of breed tools for the job mixing open source, in-house, and commercial stuff.
Really.
Their community is infected with crap all the time, which in turn attacks /b/. At least it typically only affects their own board.
I have a better solution. No more business method or software patents.
uh. that's the point the gp was making.
Yeah. Apple should stop using tcp/ip for itunes too. Those pesky open protocols.
I just had an interesting idea: All protocols used on the Internet must be open and documented. So, any server providing any service, would honor valid requests from any client. Wouldn't that be a nice world to live in?
Hopefully, they won't. I don't *want* a world where I'm forced to use something like itunes to listen to my music, or where I have to use software to put things on the player vs. just mounting it as mass storage and dropping stuff on it. No thank you.
So what. If I were to buy a pre, that wouldn't be a feature I cared about anyway. Just like RIM's push towards the music in their advertising right now. I really don't care about that, and it's not why I bought my curve. Stupid feature war over things most people don't use anyway. For my own example, I wish RIM would focus on their messaging and gps stuff, since it's very good.
Pretty is ok. The problem is that this stuff is usually the opposite. Why do I need a bunch of different fonts other than the one I prefer to read pages in again? Another example: serif is better for print, sans is better for crt/lcd displays.
At least my browser still respects "ignore site fonts and use those I specify". I guess this mess is progress?
Just this past week, in order to maintain some rpm repositories from multiple sources, I needed to discard versions of a package older than the most recent. What a pain (think about it ... mixed alphanumeric, usually numeric, but needing to sort numeric on arbitrary decimal and - boundaries).
Luckily I discovered the Sort::Version perl module. *whew*!
I thought that was porn?
... for software that really isn't needed these days. Other than a one-off printed letter, what place does a word processing document have in today's world of Wikis and such? Same with spreadsheets. Great for high school and college labs, and quick what-if stuff, but outside of that, should they really be used (don't get me started on the number of spreadsheet 'databases' or printable tables are out there).
Or, I dunno, not use friggin' RFID in the first place? WTF is wrong with mag stripes and bar codes?
Yeah, really. I have a bad ankle too. I've broken it twice, multiple surgeries. It hurts pretty much all the time. I also tore my hip a couple of years ago, so I'm no stranger to serious arthritic pain. I'm heavier than I'd like to be (5'11", 240lbs), but far from obese. If not for the ankle problem, I'd definitely be lighter, since I'd be able to jog a bit. But life is what it is.
To the GP: Get a bike and tool around town each night. You might even want to try mountain biking. Good stuff. When active, take a couple of Aleve in the morning. Obviously eat less. That is easier when you are active, as exercise acts as an appetite suppressant.
So you can patent a set of instructions for creating a set of instructions. Brilliant.
C, Shell, and Perl work well enough. What is this 'mono' and 'java' you speak of?
Bummer on the trees. Comcast may have kept me as a cable tv subscriber if only they could have given me just one working DVR in the 5 I went through. Fuck comcast. I'm now a happy directv subscriber, and if the opportunity ever presents itself, my internet access will be moving ASAP.
If a domain name does not exist, I want my systems to receive an error telling them so, not be redirected to a system that they were not expecting to be directed to.
ATT doesn't charge you for the GPS (google maps works fine). But if you want turn-by-turn, they'll charge your $10/month for telenav (they call it AT&T navigator). Not sure what other companies do. I heard rumors that verizon or sprint disables the radio unless using their software?
I still use my garmin for laying down tracks in the woods while on the mtb. To do that with the blackberry I'd have to buy special software, and also buy a subscription to it. Screw that. The garmin is a bit more robust and waterproof too, and if I lose or break it, I'm out just a GPS vs. an expensive phone and primary means of communication.
Drawback is the old garmin downloads quite slow over serial cable. Maybe I'll look at the trimble outdoors after all, assuming I can upload tracks from it to gpsvisualizer.
You have a point, but I think the issue is turn-by-turn navigation. While if I print a google map, I pretty much know the route, and am aware of the general route I am going. If I'm using the turn by turn gps, I pretty much just listen and watch it, and fly blind. If things change, I'm kinda screwed as it goes into a 'rerouting' loop, or, better yet, demands I make a u-turn for the next 10 miles.
Both have their purpose. If using turn by turn, however, I don't think you really ever know where you are if in an unfamiliar area.
The labels should pay the stations for the free advertising without having to spend any of their own money on infrastructure. Oh, *that* would be payola and illegal. *sigh*.