It may be used alongside of traditional username/password to ease adoption.
It *should* be used alongside traditional username/password
I know it might boggle your mind but not everyone has (or wants) a smart phone
I love my smart phone to bits (sometimes literally) but I know plenty of people who have a cheap ass phone so they can.... make phone calls.
I also have a friend who leaves his smart phone at home when he goes to work, after having his beloved stolen when he turned around to study some blueprints, now he carry's a cheap ass second (or third) hand nokia - hasn't been stolen in a long while.
Couldn't agree more. I miss those late nights paging through a thick ass stack of continuous paper shunted out by the mainframe's printer, looking for that single ascii character in the memory dump that said there was an error code after it.
I miss the magnetic tapes too, and how they would mysteriously disappear out of the tape vault, never to be seen my man or beast again.
I miss having to sleep at work at month end so you are instantly available to fix any issues instead of the fancy shmancy VPN tunnels they use now so you can sit on the couch at home.
I miss only having one colour on your monitor, so late at night in a dim office it looks like you have turned green and started decomposing.
And the IBM keyboards, they don't make them like that anymore. When you were typing the whole office knew about it.
I miss having to pour over the same code day after day trying to get it to fit into limited memory, tweak, tweak, tweak
Progress sure does suck
Actually I really do miss the keyboard, you could beat a cubicle neighbour to death with one and then carry on typing, and they were so heavy it would probably only take a couple swings.
Same here, I would also happily pay 99c to watch a movie etc. But I can't. I would also not mind waiting for DVD releases of my favourite series, but then I would have to import them since they are unlikely to end up on any store shelves here, which basically doubles the cost.
So, I pirate them.
I would also like to mention that in my country the internet is slow and expensive, so I download low res versions which sucks ass on a big screen.
Actually now that I think about it, streaming a movie from Netflix to here would be like watching a stop motion movie. So even if it was available outside the US it would not be practical.
I don't see why, most body shops no longer actually do much panel beating. If a panel is damaged they replace the entire panel, which they ordered from the manufacturer. Long gone are the days when they used body putty etc. to repair damage.
Didn't stop your president in the last two wars. So legally speaking your president is a criminal AND should be tried for crimes against humanity for allowing drones strike on civilian cars, in which it was unknown if there were children inside.
I read so much that if I actually paid for all the books I read I would have no money for food.
That being said I do support my favourite authors by actually buying their books.
There are lots of ways to get books on the internet, and no not the crap in Project Gutenberg.
There's torrents but that is usually in a pack with ten ton's of crap you don't want to read.
Personally I use IRC, convert the book using Calibre (some tweaking might be required) and voila!
Free books on your kindle.
The people working there are probably not very qualified or intelligent, I mean anyone who was would not be there. These people probably can't find work elsewhere. I imagine the danger pay of being around that much radiation is very attractive to certain people, who are willing to take the risk of cancer in later life for money now.
And the good people walk out with all the system knowledge. I know of a bank that basically retrenched almost their entire I.T. staff and replaced them with more "cost effective" offshore solutions. I was called in for a meeting and they wanted me to "change one of the files" my company sends them. Me : We don't send ANYONE files, we do send SWIFT messages though.
Them : No, No, you do send us a file, every day it arrives, on this server, and then we process it, we just need you to make a change to the layout
Me: Ummm no dude, we don't send files.
Them : But then where does it come from?
Me : Ask your I.T. guys
Them : *Blink* *Blink* Ummm
So somewhere in their big ass corporate office was a machine quietly accepting our SWIFT messages and turning them into a flat file for their mainframe to crunch, and the only person(s) who knew about it had left the company.
I heard through the grapevine a while later that they went head hunting for the old staff members and were politely told to go forth and multiply.
You can rent a virtual Linux box for $30 a year.
Not much RAM or disk space, but more than enough to get around firewalls etc. and not just to get free wifi.
Comes in handy, trust me
I'm a programmer, I can't even count the number of times I have written a program (or even a script) which has reduced a departments workload to the point where one or two (or more) staff members are no longer required. Usually they are not retrenched but moved sideways out of the department, natural attrition does the rest.
I am still using my Dad's CRT TV in the garage, it must be at least 30 years old. Starts acting up, take it outside take the back off wash it down with paraffin leave it the sun for a couple hours to dry, put the back on and voila, right as rain for he next 5 years. In that time I have gone through 3 LCD TV's. (Well one was stolen, but still).
The don't build things to last anymore, it's bad for business.
I've got three
Using one in the garage for a remote camera with motion sensing on it (wireless dongle for network)
Hooked to the TV in the spare bedroom so any guests can check their mail and do some surfing
Was using one for messing around with for electronics but my media centre died and I'm using the PI for that, bit underpowered for the job but it works ok.
Probably going to order a couple more for other things I want to do.
IBM can start with building a decent search engine into their main website, I have more joy googling their website than using their crappy search engine. If that is what their search engine is going to be like google has nothing to worry about.
It was more than that. Timing was everything, the prevalence of wireless networking and the fact that a LOT more people were using the internet and would have a need for a tablet. Think about it, when MS first tried for a tablet most people didn't even have a PC or if they did they had one for the entire family.
You're fvcking retarded. Democracy is a bad form of government, it's just better than any of the others we've tried. What's worse is America sucks at Democracy. Having only two puppet parties to vote for is not a very good form of democracy. Switzerland would be a better country to align all policies to. They are not trying to unarm the populace, they routinely have referendums on important issues that would affect everyone and they have more than two parties to vote for.
Also having a president who can declare war on anyone without the will of the rest of the country is not democracy it's despotism.
While I agree with you about the half truth's, keep in mind that Sony also has a dodgy past as far as promises made and broken, along with root kits etc.
That being said if the advert is more entertaining to play than Gears of war than I say WTF, let's play. (Especially if it's longer than Gears of war was).
Steam's DRM is just less intrusive (to most degrees). I earn enough now that I don't bother pirating games anymore, but I remember when I used to that Steam games DRM was a bitch to get around. Also for older gamers Steam had a very bad name back in the day, it's a lot better now and personally I like it, but it left a bad taste for a lot of people in it's early days. Then there is also the always online requirement of some games that people automatically associate with steam when it's actually the game requirement and not steam itself. I have plenty of steam games which will happily play offline.
Using UID as a basis for judging a persons age is assuming everyone signed up when they started programming (or when they were born). It's lordwabbit2 because lordwabbit was linked to an (old) work email address and I forgot the password.
Besides that if we ran everything in a pseudo os/jvm (java, mono,.net) we would incur the additional overhead and drain on resources inherent with running a virtual machine as well as the application itself.
Don't get me wrong, I would love to write an application which would work on anything I wish to run it. It would make me literally giddy with delight. But we all know that even when writing a mobile app in java it works fine on 95% of phones but craps out on a cheap ass nokia (and sadly I have to cater for cheap ass nokia phones).
It comes done to how the JVM is calling the underlining hardware AND the ability of that hardware to correctly execute those calls. Considering how fast hardware changes (moores law and all that) it would be a huge task to accurately implement and maintain a 100% compatible set of portability libraries, which is probably why it has not been done (or at least not 100% in any case).
Maybe next weekend if you are not too busy you could write one or two, open source it, and get the ball rolling
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I thought the nearest black hole was in France
Actually they are known as ditchings if the landing on water is not intentional.
It may be used alongside of traditional username/password to ease adoption.
It *should* be used alongside traditional username/password
I know it might boggle your mind but not everyone has (or wants) a smart phone
I love my smart phone to bits (sometimes literally) but I know plenty of people who have a cheap ass phone so they can.... make phone calls.
I also have a friend who leaves his smart phone at home when he goes to work, after having his beloved stolen when he turned around to study some blueprints, now he carry's a cheap ass second (or third) hand nokia - hasn't been stolen in a long while.
Couldn't agree more. I miss those late nights paging through a thick ass stack of continuous paper shunted out by the mainframe's printer, looking for that single ascii character in the memory dump that said there was an error code after it.
I miss the magnetic tapes too, and how they would mysteriously disappear out of the tape vault, never to be seen my man or beast again.
I miss having to sleep at work at month end so you are instantly available to fix any issues instead of the fancy shmancy VPN tunnels they use now so you can sit on the couch at home.
I miss only having one colour on your monitor, so late at night in a dim office it looks like you have turned green and started decomposing.
And the IBM keyboards, they don't make them like that anymore. When you were typing the whole office knew about it.
I miss having to pour over the same code day after day trying to get it to fit into limited memory, tweak, tweak, tweak
Progress sure does suck
Actually I really do miss the keyboard, you could beat a cubicle neighbour to death with one and then carry on typing, and they were so heavy it would probably only take a couple swings.
Same here, I would also happily pay 99c to watch a movie etc. But I can't. I would also not mind waiting for DVD releases of my favourite series, but then I would have to import them since they are unlikely to end up on any store shelves here, which basically doubles the cost.
So, I pirate them.
I would also like to mention that in my country the internet is slow and expensive, so I download low res versions which sucks ass on a big screen.
Actually now that I think about it, streaming a movie from Netflix to here would be like watching a stop motion movie. So even if it was available outside the US it would not be practical.
Oh, and good bye independant body shops
I don't see why, most body shops no longer actually do much panel beating. If a panel is damaged they replace the entire panel, which they ordered from the manufacturer. Long gone are the days when they used body putty etc. to repair damage.
but none of it's an "issue" because I help them fix it
That's an issue right there. YOU have to fix it for them.
Didn't stop your president in the last two wars. So legally speaking your president is a criminal AND should be tried for crimes against humanity for allowing drones strike on civilian cars, in which it was unknown if there were children inside.
I read so much that if I actually paid for all the books I read I would have no money for food.
That being said I do support my favourite authors by actually buying their books.
There are lots of ways to get books on the internet, and no not the crap in Project Gutenberg.
There's torrents but that is usually in a pack with ten ton's of crap you don't want to read.
Personally I use IRC, convert the book using Calibre (some tweaking might be required) and voila!
Free books on your kindle.
But think about the children!
The people working there are probably not very qualified or intelligent, I mean anyone who was would not be there. These people probably can't find work elsewhere. I imagine the danger pay of being around that much radiation is very attractive to certain people, who are willing to take the risk of cancer in later life for money now.
And the good people walk out with all the system knowledge.
I know of a bank that basically retrenched almost their entire I.T. staff and replaced them with more "cost effective" offshore solutions. I was called in for a meeting and they wanted me to "change one of the files" my company sends them.
Me : We don't send ANYONE files, we do send SWIFT messages though.
Them : No, No, you do send us a file, every day it arrives, on this server, and then we process it, we just need you to make a change to the layout
Me: Ummm no dude, we don't send files.
Them : But then where does it come from?
Me : Ask your I.T. guys
Them : *Blink* *Blink* Ummm
So somewhere in their big ass corporate office was a machine quietly accepting our SWIFT messages and turning them into a flat file for their mainframe to crunch, and the only person(s) who knew about it had left the company.
I heard through the grapevine a while later that they went head hunting for the old staff members and were politely told to go forth and multiply.
You can rent a virtual Linux box for $30 a year.
Not much RAM or disk space, but more than enough to get around firewalls etc. and not just to get free wifi.
Comes in handy, trust me
I'm a programmer, I can't even count the number of times I have written a program (or even a script) which has reduced a departments workload to the point where one or two (or more) staff members are no longer required. Usually they are not retrenched but moved sideways out of the department, natural attrition does the rest.
I am still using my Dad's CRT TV in the garage, it must be at least 30 years old. Starts acting up, take it outside take the back off wash it down with paraffin leave it the sun for a couple hours to dry, put the back on and voila, right as rain for he next 5 years. In that time I have gone through 3 LCD TV's. (Well one was stolen, but still).
The don't build things to last anymore, it's bad for business.
I've got three
Using one in the garage for a remote camera with motion sensing on it (wireless dongle for network)
Hooked to the TV in the spare bedroom so any guests can check their mail and do some surfing
Was using one for messing around with for electronics but my media centre died and I'm using the PI for that, bit underpowered for the job but it works ok.
Probably going to order a couple more for other things I want to do.
IBM can start with building a decent search engine into their main website, I have more joy googling their website than using their crappy search engine. If that is what their search engine is going to be like google has nothing to worry about.
It was more than that. Timing was everything, the prevalence of wireless networking and the fact that a LOT more people were using the internet and would have a need for a tablet. Think about it, when MS first tried for a tablet most people didn't even have a PC or if they did they had one for the entire family.
You're fvcking retarded. Democracy is a bad form of government, it's just better than any of the others we've tried. What's worse is America sucks at Democracy. Having only two puppet parties to vote for is not a very good form of democracy. Switzerland would be a better country to align all policies to. They are not trying to unarm the populace, they routinely have referendums on important issues that would affect everyone and they have more than two parties to vote for.
Also having a president who can declare war on anyone without the will of the rest of the country is not democracy it's despotism.
While I agree with you about the half truth's, keep in mind that Sony also has a dodgy past as far as promises made and broken, along with root kits etc.
That being said if the advert is more entertaining to play than Gears of war than I say WTF, let's play. (Especially if it's longer than Gears of war was).
If you like having your crotch bursting into flames.
Steam's DRM is just less intrusive (to most degrees). I earn enough now that I don't bother pirating games anymore, but I remember when I used to that Steam games DRM was a bitch to get around. Also for older gamers Steam had a very bad name back in the day, it's a lot better now and personally I like it, but it left a bad taste for a lot of people in it's early days. Then there is also the always online requirement of some games that people automatically associate with steam when it's actually the game requirement and not steam itself. I have plenty of steam games which will happily play offline.
What's sad is I've looked at code before and thought WTF, who the hell wrote this cr@p, checked the change log and it was me :-(
> Attack pirate with harddrive
BSOD
Pirate dies
Using UID as a basis for judging a persons age is assuming everyone signed up when they started programming (or when they were born). It's lordwabbit2 because lordwabbit was linked to an (old) work email address and I forgot the password. .net) we would incur the additional overhead and drain on resources inherent with running a virtual machine as well as the application itself.
Besides that if we ran everything in a pseudo os/jvm (java, mono,
Don't get me wrong, I would love to write an application which would work on anything I wish to run it. It would make me literally giddy with delight. But we all know that even when writing a mobile app in java it works fine on 95% of phones but craps out on a cheap ass nokia (and sadly I have to cater for cheap ass nokia phones).
It comes done to how the JVM is calling the underlining hardware AND the ability of that hardware to correctly execute those calls. Considering how fast hardware changes (moores law and all that) it would be a huge task to accurately implement and maintain a 100% compatible set of portability libraries, which is probably why it has not been done (or at least not 100% in any case).
Maybe next weekend if you are not too busy you could write one or two, open source it, and get the ball rolling