... Going right back to their early TVs and radios.
Sorry to disappoint you, that ain't true. Their early radios and TVs came with a maintenance manual, full schematics and parts lists. That's how I was able to fix them when I was 35 years younger.
You, Sir, appear to be in dire need of a bridge. And it just happens to be your lucky day. I have a terrific one for sale, for a very reasonable price indeed!
It's of all times. Whenever a new hype starts (cloud, drones, apps, IoT), the one and only thing that counts is 'time to market'. Companies strive to stick the new hype label on anything and everything they have, and will stop at nothing to be FIRST! Never mind quality control. Never mind test phases. If it so much as compiles, shove it out the door and hope no-one finds out the cr*p you produced before you cashed.
IoT will be the worst failure of them all. And you must be a total idiot to connect your doorlock to the Internet
You are very right with this comment. We are creating a digital Dark Age. Just try to read WP4.2 files, old digital photo's, early digital recordings etc. Even if you have the equipement for it, decoding the format is near impossible unless it is a publicly documented format (on real paper..)
And if you think it is bad with recordings of 25 years ago, just imaging what happens when you throw today's desire to keep everything for 'the rightful owner' with DRM in the mix.
.. for not recognizing islam as the root of all evil, and for refusing to protect the modern Western sociëty against the atrocities of islam.
People in power should stop forcing islam down our throat and force it out of civilized countries. Islam is a mono-cultural ideology that by definition tolerates no other cultures on basis of equality. People in power should recognize this and act accordingly. Stop allowing mosques, islamic preachers and islamic education in the Western world. This who are still determined to believe in islam should move out. If that means dividing the world in two, so be it.
Regardless of your savings or lack thereof, you cannot afford to agree to such a clause. It simply means you are not 100% available for your next job. You would have to disclose this to any future employer and no-one in their right mind would hire you for the next two years because of it.
Yup, this really p*sses me off. I have recently bought a Samsung S5 Mini Duos. It runs Android 4.4.2. Samsung refuses to release an update for my phone even though it is less than 6 months old and the device itself was released less than one year ago.
They are not open source advocates, they are cheapskates who like the prospect of 'free' anything. No supported equipment, no updates, no training for their staff, they simply don't appreciate the value of their IT.
Let me guess, no decent backups either? No DR plan? Nothing of the sort? If you want to stay there, demand a decent budget ( = commitment) and build greenfield. If you don't get a decent budget, run.
Grab an Arduino and a display module and you'll have your complicated clock in less than half an hour.
I used to build illegal CB, FM and shortwave transmitters when I was his age (mid-70's). People around me thought it was pretty cool, or nerdy at best.
I can only shiver on the thoughts how my activities would have been judged if I did that today. Times have changed, and fear has changed society enough to make me believe the 'turrists' have won.
Our housekeeper had a Win7 laptop which ran so-so. Win10 downloaded automatically and nagged for install every boot. She finally clicked OK. Laptop thrundled for an hour, rebooted, screen went black, never came back. Each attempt to boot turns the screen black. No recovery, no backup.
She got a Chromebook and couldn't be happier. Thank you Microsoft.
Why are we humans entitled to dictate nature and kill species this way? Aren't we supposed to preserve nature and leave it alone? Nature has done just fine for millions of years, it needs no help from us to strike a balance.
If this works at all, then it would be interesting to apply a patch/mask to the good eye when coming out of the dark and wear that patch a few more days. Although I have no proof whatsoever, my hypothesis would be that this would train the brain to 'trust' the image from the amblyopical eye. After another week, release the 'good' eye and see if this balances out vision.
No, sorry, that no longer flies. The 'but there are so many good ones' argument is invalid.
When a wacko Christian does something wrong and claims his faith, Christians stand up and condemn that person. Just a week ago a nutcase Jew stabbed people at random at the gay parade. His community condemned that act and explicitly mentioned that their own fate was to blame.
No such thing happens with islam. Every day atrocities are committed in name of islam. There's a billion muslims out there who could stand up and show disgust for the atrocities. Doesn't happen. In fact, a disturbing number of young muslims agree with what IS does and are looking for ways to support or even join them. Until that big majority of silent muslims stand up and condemn their extremists, I lump them all together as followers of a very dangerous ideology that should be fought.
How about people keeping their darned drones out of any airspace and keep the skies clear. No rules, no fancy projects, no peeping Toms, no collision risks. Just stop any and all drone usage. Especially Amazon-package-delivery delusions, they are nuts.
Windows 10 upgrade tells me my CPU is not compatible. It's a Core 2 Q8400, and I can't find what's not compatible about it. There are descriptions on how to 'refresh' the detection system but so far no luck.
It's great to see how you responded to the failure and got services resumed pretty quickly. However, I'd rather like to see a follow-up sometime, describing a root cause analysis. With all the clustered, distributed servers and filesystems you use today, such an outage shouldn't be possible, right?
Can't agree more. Ubiquity has some nice and easy, open gear available. To make matters more interesting, they have added deep(ish) packet inspection which allows you to see general traffic per client. So if you want to see what your son is doing without actually wiretapping his traffic, Ubiquity will tell you he spent GB on Youtube, GB on Facebook etc.
The router supports both site-to-site as well as single client VPN, so no problem dialling in from remote and get access to any and all networks in your cloud.
That is the easy fix. If they stick power outlets on trains that are not meant for the public, then they should ensure it doesn't work for the public. For example by using a non-standard power outlet that does not accept standard charger plugs, and perhaps by supplying some unusable power level through it. Like 400V or so. That will teach the public really quick.
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... Going right back to their early TVs and radios.
Sorry to disappoint you, that ain't true. Their early radios and TVs came with a maintenance manual, full schematics and parts lists. That's how I was able to fix them when I was 35 years younger.
You, Sir, appear to be in dire need of a bridge. And it just happens to be your lucky day. I have a terrific one for sale, for a very reasonable price indeed!
It's of all times. Whenever a new hype starts (cloud, drones, apps, IoT), the one and only thing that counts is 'time to market'. Companies strive to stick the new hype label on anything and everything they have, and will stop at nothing to be FIRST! Never mind quality control. Never mind test phases. If it so much as compiles, shove it out the door and hope no-one finds out the cr*p you produced before you cashed.
IoT will be the worst failure of them all. And you must be a total idiot to connect your doorlock to the Internet
You are very right with this comment. We are creating a digital Dark Age. Just try to read WP4.2 files, old digital photo's, early digital recordings etc. Even if you have the equipement for it, decoding the format is near impossible unless it is a publicly documented format (on real paper..)
And if you think it is bad with recordings of 25 years ago, just imaging what happens when you throw today's desire to keep everything for 'the rightful owner' with DRM in the mix.
Sick comparison. The Jews were not killing anyone, they just happened to be Jewish.
.. for not recognizing islam as the root of all evil, and for refusing to protect the modern Western sociëty against the atrocities of islam.
People in power should stop forcing islam down our throat and force it out of civilized countries. Islam is a mono-cultural ideology that by definition tolerates no other cultures on basis of equality. People in power should recognize this and act accordingly. Stop allowing mosques, islamic preachers and islamic education in the Western world. This who are still determined to believe in islam should move out. If that means dividing the world in two, so be it.
Regardless of your savings or lack thereof, you cannot afford to agree to such a clause. It simply means you are not 100% available for your next job. You would have to disclose this to any future employer and no-one in their right mind would hire you for the next two years because of it.
Most wars have started from disagreement about what the right thing was..
Yup, this really p*sses me off. I have recently bought a Samsung S5 Mini Duos. It runs Android 4.4.2. Samsung refuses to release an update for my phone even though it is less than 6 months old and the device itself was released less than one year ago.
They are not open source advocates, they are cheapskates who like the prospect of 'free' anything. No supported equipment, no updates, no training for their staff, they simply don't appreciate the value of their IT.
Let me guess, no decent backups either? No DR plan? Nothing of the sort? If you want to stay there, demand a decent budget ( = commitment) and build greenfield. If you don't get a decent budget, run.
Grab an Arduino and a display module and you'll have your complicated clock in less than half an hour.
I used to build illegal CB, FM and shortwave transmitters when I was his age (mid-70's). People around me thought it was pretty cool, or nerdy at best.
I can only shiver on the thoughts how my activities would have been judged if I did that today. Times have changed, and fear has changed society enough to make me believe the 'turrists' have won.
Our housekeeper had a Win7 laptop which ran so-so. Win10 downloaded automatically and nagged for install every boot. She finally clicked OK. Laptop thrundled for an hour, rebooted, screen went black, never came back. Each attempt to boot turns the screen black. No recovery, no backup.
She got a Chromebook and couldn't be happier. Thank you Microsoft.
Go ahead, delete a record in Salesforce (*the* leading example of SaaS), and then try to get that record back.
Go ahead, I dare you.
Why are we humans entitled to dictate nature and kill species this way? Aren't we supposed to preserve nature and leave it alone? Nature has done just fine for millions of years, it needs no help from us to strike a balance.
I think 'research' like this is great. It shows that we need to grow more trees and bigger trees. The best way to do that is with more CO2.
Now where are the keys to my Hummer..
If this works at all, then it would be interesting to apply a patch/mask to the good eye when coming out of the dark and wear that patch a few more days. Although I have no proof whatsoever, my hypothesis would be that this would train the brain to 'trust' the image from the amblyopical eye. After another week, release the 'good' eye and see if this balances out vision.
I don't care what language they use. It could be BASIC for all I care.
What I do care about is what their QA process looks like. How did this not get caught in testing??
No, sorry, that no longer flies. The 'but there are so many good ones' argument is invalid.
When a wacko Christian does something wrong and claims his faith, Christians stand up and condemn that person. Just a week ago a nutcase Jew stabbed people at random at the gay parade. His community condemned that act and explicitly mentioned that their own fate was to blame.
No such thing happens with islam. Every day atrocities are committed in name of islam. There's a billion muslims out there who could stand up and show disgust for the atrocities. Doesn't happen. In fact, a disturbing number of young muslims agree with what IS does and are looking for ways to support or even join them. Until that big majority of silent muslims stand up and condemn their extremists, I lump them all together as followers of a very dangerous ideology that should be fought.
How about people keeping their darned drones out of any airspace and keep the skies clear. No rules, no fancy projects, no peeping Toms, no collision risks. Just stop any and all drone usage. Especially Amazon-package-delivery delusions, they are nuts.
Windows 10 upgrade tells me my CPU is not compatible. It's a Core 2 Q8400, and I can't find what's not compatible about it. There are descriptions on how to 'refresh' the detection system but so far no luck.
Surely he has a direct line to Al Gore who invented the whole thing, doesn't he?
This would be posted when Slashdot was still news for nerds:
"I wonder what a Beowulf cluster of these could do.."
It's great to see how you responded to the failure and got services resumed pretty quickly. However, I'd rather like to see a follow-up sometime, describing a root cause analysis. With all the clustered, distributed servers and filesystems you use today, such an outage shouldn't be possible, right?
Can't agree more. Ubiquity has some nice and easy, open gear available. To make matters more interesting, they have added deep(ish) packet inspection which allows you to see general traffic per client. So if you want to see what your son is doing without actually wiretapping his traffic, Ubiquity will tell you he spent GB on Youtube, GB on Facebook etc.
The router supports both site-to-site as well as single client VPN, so no problem dialling in from remote and get access to any and all networks in your cloud.
That is the easy fix. If they stick power outlets on trains that are not meant for the public, then they should ensure it doesn't work for the public. For example by using a non-standard power outlet that does not accept standard charger plugs, and perhaps by supplying some unusable power level through it. Like 400V or so. That will teach the public really quick.