This is like someone saying, "there are more VW's than Mercedes on the road, Mercedes should just give up already", it's fucking retarded. You don't attempt to compete by giving up. If you don't like windows mobile don't buy a fucking phone with windows mobile on it, it's that simple. I know a lot of companies who prefer windows mobile because the ease of integration and security when paired with a windows based network, there IS a demand for it, albeit a bit low.
^^^^ Exactly that, to "upgrade" the software and hardware they would need to get re-certified, and that costs quite a bit of money.
BTW : I've seen a Windows XP ATM myself.
Movie theaters are going to become the next video rental shops, as in they are going to die a slow and noisy death.
With home theater systems getting cheaper and better and better every day, it's practically inevitable.
They may not fade away completely (just yet at least) but location and pricing is going to become paramount, just like books shops are now.
I mean, I still browse through the occasional book shop, but I can't remember the last time I bought a physical book. Erm, nevermind, just remembered, the last couple books of Wheel of Time to finish off my collection, although I read the book on my kindle anyways, I wanted to finish off the series on my book shelf.
I think the change in driver model was a good move, it's just that it caused a lot of hardware to no longer work. That unfortunately could not be helped, since the onus was on third party vendors to make new drivers available (which a lot didn't do for legacy hardware). I disagree with your assessment of Vista's speed. I was running XP and / or Win 2000 (depending) at the time and Vista was more responsive than either.
I liked Vista *ducks*
Seriously, I liked it, where MS shot themselves in the foot was changing the driver model, most peoples biggest gripe about Vista was performance, and bad driver support. I was running it on a gaming rig, so I did not notice the performance issues, and I could understand about the lack of drivers due to the change in driver model, so I kept a VM with XP installed for the odd occasion I needed it, otherwise I made sure that any new hardware that I bought had Vista support BEFORE buying it. Actually now that I think about it, it's the only Windows OS I ever actually paid for. That being said, Windows 7 was/is much better and I doubt there are many Vista boxes around anymore (I'm sure there are some, but there can't be that many). People just like bashing shit that changes, I mean look at poor Windows 8.1, never had a chance once they changed the start menu.
Agreed, in any organization of sufficient size there is going to be back stabbing and stuffs.
If you can't be an asshole, you are going to get back stabbed a LOT.
I worked at a smallish company (as a lowly peon, thank god) but they gave REALLY good bonuses, the amount of back stabbing going on in middle to upper management was astounding.
They don't get "sick" because they went out till dawn, their parents may die, but they don't give a shit. They don't strike for more pay or because their boss is a dick. They don't get maternity leave or compassionate leave. They don't get weekends or public holidays off. You can work them till they break and no one (other than perhaps your supervisor) will give a shit. Damn straight it's inevitable. My sister works for a LARGE chain store (in the I.T. department) and they are busy with a trial of automating 90% of the picking in the distribution centers. No more theft (or shrinkage) no more go slows. Humans suck for manual labor, now that we have the technology to replace them (at a reasonable price) a LOT of companies are going to start doing it. It doesn't help that where I am striking for more wages (and getting violent whilst doing it) is a VERY common theme in our newspapers. There are going to be a lot more unskilled and unemployed people here shortly.
I couldn't agree more, the US and all their TLA organizations are running around hacking everything in sight, they should get sued shitless. But it's OK for the US to do it, just no one else is allowed. I would point out the double standards here, but that's pretty much standard operating procedure for the US.
What a lot of people on/. seem to forget, is that most people are not that computer literate. Hell, my brother in law is an IT manager and he prefers gaming on consoles, because after a tough day at work he doesn't want to come home and fight with yet another PC. It's vastly simpler to just switch on the console and start playing, which is what makes them so attractive to the great masses.
And therein lies the problem. Linux is a technical OS, for technical people who can solve technical problems. When my mother can use it without me walking her through changing her monitor resolution, it will be on par with windows as far as usability goes. That's the problem with Linux, only technical people (in general) use it, so the ease of use is not getting fixed, because everyone using it doesn't see the problem.
Heh, while not exactly security related, I worked for a company who dealt in millions of transactions totaling billions in value. All this shoveled back and forth through IBM MQ.... with no transactions. Every now and then the server would up and die, and since it was multi threaded messages would get lost. I suggested switching on transactions to at least stop losing messages while we hunted down the reason for the server croaking, and was told NO. It would be too expensive (it was like 6 lines of code to actually implement) but the TESTING with all the clients would have cost them millions. So as far as I know they are still losing messages. Managements call, I left shortly after.
My father worked at a power station, they used to rotate staff through duties in the switching yard (where they ramp up the voltage for transmission along power lines) otherwise they would start getting sick. You could walk through the yard with a neon tube and it would glow faintly. So no, I don't think I would like being inside this room.
Good god, just learn C instead of trying to force javascript into everything. It's like my wife trying to drive a nail into a wall with her high heel shoe. Sure, it would probably work eventually, but the right tool for the job is right there in the toolbox. Use it. Step outside your little javascript box and learn something new.
Yes eventually it did.
If you want to connect every lightbulb in a big building to the IoT it's going to cost a fuckton to do it on hardware which can run higher level languages. A small $1 6bit chip with 1k of RAM and things get a bit more affordable. There is definitely a need for C in the emerging IoT market, I agree it may change as per Moores Law, but it's not there yet, and may not be for a while.
Hell, ask them what the stack is first, most won't have a clue. I used to ask developers (for C# positions) what the difference between a value and a reference type was. Still have not got a correct answer, eventually stopped asking the question. The problem is only going to get worse as they force more and more people to "learn to code" when they actually don't have the inclination. Cut and paste coders, the lot of them.
I worked alongside one of the biggest consulting firms in the world, they might not be great programmers, but when you throw 300 of them at a project the project gets completed. Buggy as shit, convoluted (so you HAVE to go back to them) but it gets the job done. THAT is all management give a shit about, because it's their bonus on the line. Once they have their bonus they wander off and leave us to maintain the stinking pile of poo.
These are then consumed by amphipods and other deep sea creatures.
So "fish" that eat "fish' have bad stuff in them, what's new? I regulate my tuna consumption because of the mercury buildup, and I love tuna. I would bet their mercury levels were high as well, but then that would not make news I suppose.
Agreed, the last company I was at, it would have been a final written warning. Which is why I didn't tell anyone:-)
My current company is a lot more laid back about stuffs, can even go to youtube and facebook if you feel so inclined, so the server I rent in Chicago to tunnel is doing nothing much at the moment.
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This is like someone saying, "there are more VW's than Mercedes on the road, Mercedes should just give up already", it's fucking retarded. You don't attempt to compete by giving up. If you don't like windows mobile don't buy a fucking phone with windows mobile on it, it's that simple. I know a lot of companies who prefer windows mobile because the ease of integration and security when paired with a windows based network, there IS a demand for it, albeit a bit low.
^^^^ Exactly that, to "upgrade" the software and hardware they would need to get re-certified, and that costs quite a bit of money.
BTW : I've seen a Windows XP ATM myself.
So they MUST be doing something right, right?
The US is strong and going to go to war again because our economy won't support us doing anything else.
There, fixed that for you.
Movie theaters are going to become the next video rental shops, as in they are going to die a slow and noisy death.
With home theater systems getting cheaper and better and better every day, it's practically inevitable.
They may not fade away completely (just yet at least) but location and pricing is going to become paramount, just like books shops are now.
I mean, I still browse through the occasional book shop, but I can't remember the last time I bought a physical book. Erm, nevermind, just remembered, the last couple books of Wheel of Time to finish off my collection, although I read the book on my kindle anyways, I wanted to finish off the series on my book shelf.
I think the change in driver model was a good move, it's just that it caused a lot of hardware to no longer work. That unfortunately could not be helped, since the onus was on third party vendors to make new drivers available (which a lot didn't do for legacy hardware). I disagree with your assessment of Vista's speed. I was running XP and / or Win 2000 (depending) at the time and Vista was more responsive than either.
Agreed.
Cue a link to Kurt Vonnegut's short story.
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I liked Vista *ducks*
Seriously, I liked it, where MS shot themselves in the foot was changing the driver model, most peoples biggest gripe about Vista was performance, and bad driver support. I was running it on a gaming rig, so I did not notice the performance issues, and I could understand about the lack of drivers due to the change in driver model, so I kept a VM with XP installed for the odd occasion I needed it, otherwise I made sure that any new hardware that I bought had Vista support BEFORE buying it. Actually now that I think about it, it's the only Windows OS I ever actually paid for. That being said, Windows 7 was/is much better and I doubt there are many Vista boxes around anymore (I'm sure there are some, but there can't be that many). People just like bashing shit that changes, I mean look at poor Windows 8.1, never had a chance once they changed the start menu.
Agreed, in any organization of sufficient size there is going to be back stabbing and stuffs.
If you can't be an asshole, you are going to get back stabbed a LOT.
I worked at a smallish company (as a lowly peon, thank god) but they gave REALLY good bonuses, the amount of back stabbing going on in middle to upper management was astounding.
Treat them like Horses, I hate humans, we suck.
And there are too goddamn many of us anyways.
They don't get "sick" because they went out till dawn, their parents may die, but they don't give a shit. They don't strike for more pay or because their boss is a dick. They don't get maternity leave or compassionate leave. They don't get weekends or public holidays off. You can work them till they break and no one (other than perhaps your supervisor) will give a shit. Damn straight it's inevitable. My sister works for a LARGE chain store (in the I.T. department) and they are busy with a trial of automating 90% of the picking in the distribution centers. No more theft (or shrinkage) no more go slows. Humans suck for manual labor, now that we have the technology to replace them (at a reasonable price) a LOT of companies are going to start doing it. It doesn't help that where I am striking for more wages (and getting violent whilst doing it) is a VERY common theme in our newspapers. There are going to be a lot more unskilled and unemployed people here shortly.
Someone mod the above comment up.
I couldn't agree more, the US and all their TLA organizations are running around hacking everything in sight, they should get sued shitless. But it's OK for the US to do it, just no one else is allowed. I would point out the double standards here, but that's pretty much standard operating procedure for the US.
What a lot of people on /. seem to forget, is that most people are not that computer literate. Hell, my brother in law is an IT manager and he prefers gaming on consoles, because after a tough day at work he doesn't want to come home and fight with yet another PC. It's vastly simpler to just switch on the console and start playing, which is what makes them so attractive to the great masses.
Definitely the Russians, they hacked it!
And therein lies the problem. Linux is a technical OS, for technical people who can solve technical problems. When my mother can use it without me walking her through changing her monitor resolution, it will be on par with windows as far as usability goes. That's the problem with Linux, only technical people (in general) use it, so the ease of use is not getting fixed, because everyone using it doesn't see the problem.
Heh, while not exactly security related, I worked for a company who dealt in millions of transactions totaling billions in value. All this shoveled back and forth through IBM MQ.... with no transactions. Every now and then the server would up and die, and since it was multi threaded messages would get lost. I suggested switching on transactions to at least stop losing messages while we hunted down the reason for the server croaking, and was told NO. It would be too expensive (it was like 6 lines of code to actually implement) but the TESTING with all the clients would have cost them millions. So as far as I know they are still losing messages. Managements call, I left shortly after.
I am sure there a lot of people with poor internet access, personally I think my internet access sucks balls, but that's beside the point.
And THAT is why I don't use online password management sites, bloody stupid idea anyway, talk about putting all your eggs into one basket.
My father worked at a power station, they used to rotate staff through duties in the switching yard (where they ramp up the voltage for transmission along power lines) otherwise they would start getting sick. You could walk through the yard with a neon tube and it would glow faintly. So no, I don't think I would like being inside this room.
Good god, just learn C instead of trying to force javascript into everything. It's like my wife trying to drive a nail into a wall with her high heel shoe. Sure, it would probably work eventually, but the right tool for the job is right there in the toolbox. Use it. Step outside your little javascript box and learn something new.
Yes eventually it did.
If you want to connect every lightbulb in a big building to the IoT it's going to cost a fuckton to do it on hardware which can run higher level languages. A small $1 6bit chip with 1k of RAM and things get a bit more affordable. There is definitely a need for C in the emerging IoT market, I agree it may change as per Moores Law, but it's not there yet, and may not be for a while.
Hell, ask them what the stack is first, most won't have a clue. I used to ask developers (for C# positions) what the difference between a value and a reference type was. Still have not got a correct answer, eventually stopped asking the question. The problem is only going to get worse as they force more and more people to "learn to code" when they actually don't have the inclination. Cut and paste coders, the lot of them.
I worked alongside one of the biggest consulting firms in the world, they might not be great programmers, but when you throw 300 of them at a project the project gets completed. Buggy as shit, convoluted (so you HAVE to go back to them) but it gets the job done. THAT is all management give a shit about, because it's their bonus on the line. Once they have their bonus they wander off and leave us to maintain the stinking pile of poo.
So "fish" that eat "fish' have bad stuff in them, what's new? I regulate my tuna consumption because of the mercury buildup, and I love tuna. I would bet their mercury levels were high as well, but then that would not make news I suppose.
Agreed, the last company I was at, it would have been a final written warning. Which is why I didn't tell anyone :-)
My current company is a lot more laid back about stuffs, can even go to youtube and facebook if you feel so inclined, so the server I rent in Chicago to tunnel is doing nothing much at the moment.