It doesn't detect my Palm Pre or Touchpad properly. Those both use the same webkit rendering engine as everyone else. Looks great, though! Please add WebOS to your detection.
So why don't media companies adopt a certificate-authenticated rss feed. This would work really well for television shows as well as for new DVD releases, whatever. If this existed, I'd cancel my DirecTV subscription today and go straight to the content providers.
Charge $5/month per feed.
The rss feed can then point to torrents, or the networks's own resources (if they can handle the traffic... remember, we don't want to spend 3 hours downloading a 20 minute TV episode).
Seems the best way to go to me. But what do I know. I'd pay this, as would many others. Especially if it was reliable and consistently labelled, and DRM FREE.
... for running my own mail servers at home, as the designers intended.
Sendmail/Mimedefang, Dovecot, and Roundcube make for a very nice solution.
For those who want something packaged, and don't mind the bloat and inability to stop things before they have to be analyzed by the antispam filters, there is Zimbra.
That's why you do this type of thing from the van in the parking lot after changing your MAC address...
All the other poor security aside, why in the FUCK is the guest wifi on the same subnet as that places friggin' servers? It should be firewalled off, allow NO packets inbound.
Hotels and airports are great with this stuff too.
Let me clarify... become a *nix sysadmin. These days, preferrably Linux.
You'll get to write all kinds of code. And the cool part is that it will be all to help YOURSELF with your job vs. some idiot committee's misguided notion of what they 'need'.
I use shell, perl, and package my own RPMs for use in my own YUM repositories all the time. You also get to play with systems monitoring solutions, like Nagios, and write your own plugins for the same. You can automate builds, configuration management, etc. If you like, you can even track your stuff in a SQL back end, and then write your own front end to it if you still have that LAMP itch. If you have junior staff, you can then write web front ends for them to use. You get to see your tools grow and evolve with your infrastructure. A lot better than developing for the PHBs, IMNSHO.
I write code all the time, and I do not have 'programmer' or 'developer' in my title, nor do I want it.
For everything else, there is the laptop and dock.
Since I don't game anymore, my tower became my server in the basement. Since I got a tablet, my laptop pretty much sits on the dock at all times now, and has become my 'desktop pc'. I spend most of my time browsing on the tablet in the living room. If I have to do real work, I set at the desk with the laptop.
I think the only situation you need a desktop these days is if you need the horsepower and cooling to play modern shooters.
A nice, distributed, client/server system already existed. It used open APIs, and allowed clients to have neat things called 'killfiles' and 'scorefiles' to organize the things/posters they were interested in. It could even interact directly with email.
Then why have an HR hiring/recruiting department at all? If they demand.doc, it's likely someplace I don't want to work anyway, as they seem to be fundamentally broken and not really interested in what I can do for them.
In the age of rapidly deployable LAMP solutions tailored specifically to your business, people still use 'office software'? The only time I use a word processor is for my resume, or for the time I made a rental agreement for my brother to sign. One off stuff every few years. Spreadsheets, same deal.
I think companies are hiring the wrong type of IT folks if we are still centering running a business on word processors and spreadsheets rather than wikis and databases. That there are still versions with new 'features' being added would be comical if it weren't so sad. For example, since everyone was using spreadsheets as databases, Excel now tries to behave like a spreadsheet.
OpenWebOS may make things interesting again soon. Unfortunately, the initial focus is on tablets. The UI, Unobtrusive notifications, Gesture navigation, synergy, cards, stacked cards, tabbed cards are still far ahead and more elegant than the other mobile OS's.
Subaru is working on some of this stuff. I'm actually looking forward to adaptive cruise control, and wish I had it right now. Having to conatantly turn it on, off, increase it, decrease it defeats the purpose. Set and forget and let the car automatically slow down because of the idiot in front of me will make long trips much more pleasant.
Patent the device, not what you do with it. There is absolutely no reason for software patents. Even less for where you put your control widgets in an interface, whether it be mechanical or digital. There is no temporary monopoly required while you gather the resources to build your software prototype, since those resources are virtual. Patents should be used to help inventors to get things prototyped. Software does not require that physical investment.
I would love directv more if the pigfuckers didn't encrypt the stuff stored on the DVR to force you to buy another box or use their crappy software to watch it. It's even a standard UPnP server. They just encrypt the files.
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It doesn't detect my Palm Pre or Touchpad properly. Those both use the same webkit rendering engine as everyone else. Looks great, though! Please add WebOS to your detection.
It's a better product.
So why don't media companies adopt a certificate-authenticated rss feed. This would work really well for television shows as well as for new DVD releases, whatever. If this existed, I'd cancel my DirecTV subscription today and go straight to the content providers.
Charge $5/month per feed.
The rss feed can then point to torrents, or the networks's own resources (if they can handle the traffic ... remember, we don't want to spend 3 hours downloading a 20 minute TV episode).
Seems the best way to go to me. But what do I know. I'd pay this, as would many others. Especially if it was reliable and consistently labelled, and DRM FREE.
linux *IS* the game. I'd rather be creative than just a consumer of content. But that's me.
... for running my own mail servers at home, as the designers intended.
Sendmail/Mimedefang, Dovecot, and Roundcube make for a very nice solution.
For those who want something packaged, and don't mind the bloat and inability to stop things before they have to be analyzed by the antispam filters, there is Zimbra.
... does it better. And chromeos is already moving along pretty quickly and will have a lot of apps from the gate.
Imagine all the cool and USEFUL things that could be made for the effort being put into this crap because of media lobbying groups.
That's why you do this type of thing from the van in the parking lot after changing your MAC address...
All the other poor security aside, why in the FUCK is the guest wifi on the same subnet as that places friggin' servers? It should be firewalled off, allow NO packets inbound.
Hotels and airports are great with this stuff too.
Let me clarify ... become a *nix sysadmin. These days, preferrably Linux.
You'll get to write all kinds of code. And the cool part is that it will be all to help YOURSELF with your job vs. some idiot committee's misguided notion of what they 'need'.
I use shell, perl, and package my own RPMs for use in my own YUM repositories all the time. You also get to play with systems monitoring solutions, like Nagios, and write your own plugins for the same. You can automate builds, configuration management, etc. If you like, you can even track your stuff in a SQL back end, and then write your own front end to it if you still have that LAMP itch. If you have junior staff, you can then write web front ends for them to use. You get to see your tools grow and evolve with your infrastructure. A lot better than developing for the PHBs, IMNSHO.
I write code all the time, and I do not have 'programmer' or 'developer' in my title, nor do I want it.
For everything else, there is the laptop and dock.
Since I don't game anymore, my tower became my server in the basement. Since I got a tablet, my laptop pretty much sits on the dock at all times now, and has become my 'desktop pc'. I spend most of my time browsing on the tablet in the living room. If I have to do real work, I set at the desk with the laptop.
I think the only situation you need a desktop these days is if you need the horsepower and cooling to play modern shooters.
If a website is able to send you your actual password, it is time to stop using that website. They are storing your credentials in the clear.
A nice, distributed, client/server system already existed. It used open APIs, and allowed clients to have neat things called 'killfiles' and 'scorefiles' to organize the things/posters they were interested in. It could even interact directly with email.
It was called 'usenet'.
See Subject.
I wouldn't mind moving closer to philly. I'm not dogshit either :-)
So how about we have a war on the CAUSE of crazy? By the time the crazy comes, it's too late. Remove the cause of the crazy.
Those aren't the jobs of a word processor. If you want document processing, that is what LaTeX is for.
Then why have an HR hiring/recruiting department at all? .doc, it's likely someplace I don't want to work anyway, as they seem to be fundamentally broken and not really interested in what I can do for them.
If they demand
In the age of rapidly deployable LAMP solutions tailored specifically to your business, people still use 'office software'? The only time I use a word processor is for my resume, or for the time I made a rental agreement for my brother to sign. One off stuff every few years. Spreadsheets, same deal.
I think companies are hiring the wrong type of IT folks if we are still centering running a business on word processors and spreadsheets rather than wikis and databases. That there are still versions with new 'features' being added would be comical if it weren't so sad. For example, since everyone was using spreadsheets as databases, Excel now tries to behave like a spreadsheet.
Then there's the ribbon...
I already left sprint for Straight Talk. $45/month with a Palm Pre 3 and 4G.
OpenWebOS may make things interesting again soon. Unfortunately, the initial focus is on tablets. The UI, Unobtrusive notifications, Gesture navigation, synergy, cards, stacked cards, tabbed cards are still far ahead and more elegant than the other mobile OS's.
Subaru is working on some of this stuff. I'm actually looking forward to adaptive cruise control, and wish I had it right now. Having to conatantly turn it on, off, increase it, decrease it defeats the purpose. Set and forget and let the car automatically slow down because of the idiot in front of me will make long trips much more pleasant.
Relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o5jpcTmcqk
An even better example: What if Internet RFCs were instead patents? Imagine where we would(nt) be today with that mess.
Patent the device, not what you do with it. There is absolutely no reason for software patents. Even less for where you put your control widgets in an interface, whether it be mechanical or digital. There is no temporary monopoly required while you gather the resources to build your software prototype, since those resources are virtual. Patents should be used to help inventors to get things prototyped. Software does not require that physical investment.
Not if you don't own that device.
I would love directv more if the pigfuckers didn't encrypt the stuff stored on the DVR to force you to buy another box or use their crappy software to watch it. It's even a standard UPnP server. They just encrypt the files.