I'll have to ask about that next time we're arguing about ARM vs X86. Although I know these guys well enough to extract tiny bits of proprietary information on occasion (such as the conversations I cited originally), I suspect the details of the thread scheduler may be more severely verboten to outsiders such as myself.
Not being an SDE myself, I wasn't aware of that fact - I assumed the point of the CLR and the entire managed code paradigm of.NET precluded such native dependencies.
Microsoft is making a terrible mistake by not trying their absolute hardest to optimize the heck out of the Common Language Runtime for ARM. I don't think anyone would expect a tablet to be an acceptable desktop replacement machine - nobody thinks that of an iPad - but the fact they're not leveraging an existing architecture to bring application compatibility to the RT is going to cause major consumer headaches. No "native" apps would be a fine limitation, but they really should have the.NET CLR available for developers.
I occasionally chat with a few Microsoft SDEs who are directly involved in the development of native RT apps, and it usually goes something like this: "ARM is fucking terrible, it's weak and powerless!" "How come other platforms, including Linux, can run on ARM successfully?" "ARM isn't powerful enough to run Windows applications, that's what we mean. That's why we have to rewrite everything to be more highly optimized for these few Windows RT apps." "So, the reason Windows RT can't run Windows apps is because most Windows software is so bad, it wouldn't perform acceptably on something being run at its limits?" "Pretty much."
I'd recommend running an XMPP server to provide instant messaging and more on the local network. I recommend Openfire for the server, it's fairly easy to get up and running and is Apache licensed; the server runs on Linux or Windows. It supports LDAP for authentication against an Active Directory network for user accounts so it will integrate well with your existing Windows domain. Functionality depends a lot on the client you select, but I'd recommend Jitsi (formerly SIP Communicator) which is very similar in many respects with Microsoft Lync; it is LGPL and supports enterprise features like voice/video calling, SIP integration, automatic provisioning via URL, encrypted connections, and a lot of other interesting features. It runs on pretty much anything, If you add Asterisk to the mix, you can tie Jitsi into that as well and get phone system integration and dialing from your desktop.
This does not solve the problem of Sharepoint, however.
If Google is intending to stamp out online anonymity entirely, patenting the process by which people can be more easily be made anonymous seems like it would be a good way to force the market in that direction. All they have to do is refuse to license the patent, and litigate infringing companies and competing social networks, and suddenly the Google and the NSA are handed a great gift in that everyone's online identity will be tied to their real one.
Moxie, who I'd say has made massive contributions to personal security with his "positive" security tools (WhisperCore, RedPhone, TextSecure, etc.) has just released a tool which effectively eliminates common security measures people have previously been taking, rendering them open to attack. Not just enterprises or nation-states, but Joe Laptopper at the neighborhood Starbucks.
This isn't a new issue, certainly, but the likelihood of being attacked at the neighborhood coffee shop's WiFi was indistinguishable from zero. Now there's an off the shelf tool and cloud service made specifically to break through the security people have been using. This means that even someone who was doing security "correctly" (i.e. using a VPN on a public wifi network) is now at risk from having credentials stolen over the wire.
Other than giving Microsoft the finger, this doesn't seem like it's contributing much to the discourse. I'm disappointed in Moxie, he's placed a whole lot of people at risk just to say he could.
You badly need an attitude adjustment. IT is a team effort, and it sounds like you've managed to rub your colleagues the wrong way by being something of a smug know-it-all. Unfortunately, this attitude is all too common in young technology professionals across the board.
I thought that project went under after an author committed suicide under the crushing realization that their start-up had failed after collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars of crowd-funded money based on a knee-jerk anti-Facebook backlash.
You nailed it about the risk. I'd love to grow in some ways the small company I'm with now just can't offer, but discovered with even a bit of checking into what's out there I'm making either above or on the very top end of all the pay scales for comparable jobs at larger firms - and that's through networking, not random job postings. While I'm not even strictly opposed to taking a pay cut if there's a good promise of future growth, it's the fact that the more exciting (in terms of responsibility) offers are both lower pay and with even smaller companies, or are on terms or with divisions that are historically subject to extreme staffing volatility.
So I stay where I am, even though it's a bit like being a fish in slightly too small of a tank. The economy just isn't in that great of a place and I'm developing some freelance stuff as a backup and eventual goal but it's nowhere close to the point of being even sustainable yet let alone approaching my current income. It's kind of depressing.
Does the Charter also apply to private entities? The Constitution only applies to the Federal Government's actions, private entities are largely free to do whatever they want as long as there isn't a specific law against it around here.
"Not Guilty" exists because people did exactly what you're saying no juror should do. Prior to that, the choices were "proven" or "not proven" - with no possibility at all for "what provably happened does not deserve punishment".
It's a corruption of the entire history of trial by jury to suggest jurors shouldn't consider the justness of the law along with the facts of the case they're trying, and also is a grievous insult to the personal capacity of jurors.
Windows is sufficient for my needs. It's fast enough, secure enough, powerful enough and I have a something like 15 years of experience as a power user and administrator on a variety of versions. I don't code, so most of free software's "Doesn't work the way you want? Fix it yourself!" isn't an option (and I don't care to learn to code, either) and the ideological underpinnings aren't a factor I consider in my use of technology.
This is another "accomplishment" in the style of most everything he's done for domestic policy: deliver some good speeches that change has happened, then order a fresh coat of paint applied to the status quo. A lot of big talk for a program with limited scope and impact...that was already passed into law, and is just being implemented earlier. It only applies to students who have not yet graduated, it only applies to Federally guaranteed loans (which, at most universities, do not cover the cost of attendance), and it offers a maximum of 5% of a payment reduction and a 0.3ish % interest rate reduction. And the unpaid balance of the loan expires five years earlier. In other words, this does nothing to help anyone who already has student loans, such as all of the people who graduated college into the depths of the recession or the non-recovery recovery, and are struggling to make payments or even find work.
A 1B3 (an early high-voltage rectifier) running a few thousand volts over spec cold-cathode will crank out enough X-rays for DIY x-ray photography and similar hobby experimentation, but they're not very high energy - I doubt they'd make it through the metal.
Is there a sensor that could detect if one of these technologies is in use? I'd love to outfit my vehicle with a TSA Detector so I can know when my rights are being violated on the go, so I could post a photo of the offending scannervan on the Internet.
Oh, and that's 7 ad-homs. Yours is one of the most direct, though. I was really hoping to have some debate about this topic, but it appears most everyone on here is either Machiavellian to an extreme or doesn't mind antisocial behavior.
Is that why I got a lot of negative replies? I don't actually play any online games, nor do I subscribe to pornography. Does that mean I can't have an opinion about those things?
The pre-"malicious criminal gangs running rampant on the Internet without fear or shame" era, the one we were in until a few weeks ago, was the one where porn was between me and my hand. It didn't take the Government to take away that privacy, it was a group of hackers seeking thrill in epicaricacy. The choice has been made for me, but I didn't even get to write an ineffective letter to my representative for this one.
Just because I'm not actually impacted by any of these break-ins or disclosures or anything else they've done, doesn't mean I shouldn't be outraged by it.
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I'll have to ask about that next time we're arguing about ARM vs X86. Although I know these guys well enough to extract tiny bits of proprietary information on occasion (such as the conversations I cited originally), I suspect the details of the thread scheduler may be more severely verboten to outsiders such as myself.
Not being an SDE myself, I wasn't aware of that fact - I assumed the point of the CLR and the entire managed code paradigm of .NET precluded such native dependencies.
Microsoft is making a terrible mistake by not trying their absolute hardest to optimize the heck out of the Common Language Runtime for ARM. I don't think anyone would expect a tablet to be an acceptable desktop replacement machine - nobody thinks that of an iPad - but the fact they're not leveraging an existing architecture to bring application compatibility to the RT is going to cause major consumer headaches. No "native" apps would be a fine limitation, but they really should have the .NET CLR available for developers.
I occasionally chat with a few Microsoft SDEs who are directly involved in the development of native RT apps, and it usually goes something like this: "ARM is fucking terrible, it's weak and powerless!" "How come other platforms, including Linux, can run on ARM successfully?" "ARM isn't powerful enough to run Windows applications, that's what we mean. That's why we have to rewrite everything to be more highly optimized for these few Windows RT apps." "So, the reason Windows RT can't run Windows apps is because most Windows software is so bad, it wouldn't perform acceptably on something being run at its limits?" "Pretty much."
I'd recommend running an XMPP server to provide instant messaging and more on the local network. I recommend Openfire for the server, it's fairly easy to get up and running and is Apache licensed; the server runs on Linux or Windows. It supports LDAP for authentication against an Active Directory network for user accounts so it will integrate well with your existing Windows domain. Functionality depends a lot on the client you select, but I'd recommend Jitsi (formerly SIP Communicator) which is very similar in many respects with Microsoft Lync; it is LGPL and supports enterprise features like voice/video calling, SIP integration, automatic provisioning via URL, encrypted connections, and a lot of other interesting features. It runs on pretty much anything, If you add Asterisk to the mix, you can tie Jitsi into that as well and get phone system integration and dialing from your desktop.
This does not solve the problem of Sharepoint, however.
If Google is intending to stamp out online anonymity entirely, patenting the process by which people can be more easily be made anonymous seems like it would be a good way to force the market in that direction. All they have to do is refuse to license the patent, and litigate infringing companies and competing social networks, and suddenly the Google and the NSA are handed a great gift in that everyone's online identity will be tied to their real one.
Moxie, who I'd say has made massive contributions to personal security with his "positive" security tools (WhisperCore, RedPhone, TextSecure, etc.) has just released a tool which effectively eliminates common security measures people have previously been taking, rendering them open to attack. Not just enterprises or nation-states, but Joe Laptopper at the neighborhood Starbucks.
This isn't a new issue, certainly, but the likelihood of being attacked at the neighborhood coffee shop's WiFi was indistinguishable from zero. Now there's an off the shelf tool and cloud service made specifically to break through the security people have been using. This means that even someone who was doing security "correctly" (i.e. using a VPN on a public wifi network) is now at risk from having credentials stolen over the wire.
Other than giving Microsoft the finger, this doesn't seem like it's contributing much to the discourse. I'm disappointed in Moxie, he's placed a whole lot of people at risk just to say he could.
You badly need an attitude adjustment. IT is a team effort, and it sounds like you've managed to rub your colleagues the wrong way by being something of a smug know-it-all. Unfortunately, this attitude is all too common in young technology professionals across the board.
I thought that project went under after an author committed suicide under the crushing realization that their start-up had failed after collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars of crowd-funded money based on a knee-jerk anti-Facebook backlash.
You nailed it about the risk. I'd love to grow in some ways the small company I'm with now just can't offer, but discovered with even a bit of checking into what's out there I'm making either above or on the very top end of all the pay scales for comparable jobs at larger firms - and that's through networking, not random job postings. While I'm not even strictly opposed to taking a pay cut if there's a good promise of future growth, it's the fact that the more exciting (in terms of responsibility) offers are both lower pay and with even smaller companies, or are on terms or with divisions that are historically subject to extreme staffing volatility.
So I stay where I am, even though it's a bit like being a fish in slightly too small of a tank. The economy just isn't in that great of a place and I'm developing some freelance stuff as a backup and eventual goal but it's nowhere close to the point of being even sustainable yet let alone approaching my current income. It's kind of depressing.
Does the Charter also apply to private entities? The Constitution only applies to the Federal Government's actions, private entities are largely free to do whatever they want as long as there isn't a specific law against it around here.
Yours sounds a little better.
"Not Guilty" exists because people did exactly what you're saying no juror should do. Prior to that, the choices were "proven" or "not proven" - with no possibility at all for "what provably happened does not deserve punishment".
It's a corruption of the entire history of trial by jury to suggest jurors shouldn't consider the justness of the law along with the facts of the case they're trying, and also is a grievous insult to the personal capacity of jurors.
Hey, this isn't a violin! It's a banjo with some molding tacked on! FAKE!
Pretty sure that's S/MIME, not PGP. Which in my opinion is the most correct of the email encryption options, and has the least support.
Very cool. Thanks for posting that write-up.
I can't imagine a single machine serving out over iSCSI to have performance acceptable to play any modern, intensive game. How's it all work?
Windows is sufficient for my needs. It's fast enough, secure enough, powerful enough and I have a something like 15 years of experience as a power user and administrator on a variety of versions. I don't code, so most of free software's "Doesn't work the way you want? Fix it yourself!" isn't an option (and I don't care to learn to code, either) and the ideological underpinnings aren't a factor I consider in my use of technology.
Why bother changing to anything else?
In most other countries, student debt wasn't institutionalized as a way of controlling the youth population like it was here after the 1960s.
This is another "accomplishment" in the style of most everything he's done for domestic policy: deliver some good speeches that change has happened, then order a fresh coat of paint applied to the status quo. A lot of big talk for a program with limited scope and impact...that was already passed into law, and is just being implemented earlier. It only applies to students who have not yet graduated, it only applies to Federally guaranteed loans (which, at most universities, do not cover the cost of attendance), and it offers a maximum of 5% of a payment reduction and a 0.3ish % interest rate reduction. And the unpaid balance of the loan expires five years earlier. In other words, this does nothing to help anyone who already has student loans, such as all of the people who graduated college into the depths of the recession or the non-recovery recovery, and are struggling to make payments or even find work.
It'd be a real shame if someone set off a truckload of marijuana in a crowded rest stop...think of the children!
A 1B3 (an early high-voltage rectifier) running a few thousand volts over spec cold-cathode will crank out enough X-rays for DIY x-ray photography and similar hobby experimentation, but they're not very high energy - I doubt they'd make it through the metal.
Is there a sensor that could detect if one of these technologies is in use? I'd love to outfit my vehicle with a TSA Detector so I can know when my rights are being violated on the go, so I could post a photo of the offending scannervan on the Internet.
Oh, and that's 7 ad-homs. Yours is one of the most direct, though. I was really hoping to have some debate about this topic, but it appears most everyone on here is either Machiavellian to an extreme or doesn't mind antisocial behavior.
Is that why I got a lot of negative replies? I don't actually play any online games, nor do I subscribe to pornography. Does that mean I can't have an opinion about those things?
Are gangs of punks something we're supposed to regard with admiration and esteem?
The pre-"malicious criminal gangs running rampant on the Internet without fear or shame" era, the one we were in until a few weeks ago, was the one where porn was between me and my hand. It didn't take the Government to take away that privacy, it was a group of hackers seeking thrill in epicaricacy. The choice has been made for me, but I didn't even get to write an ineffective letter to my representative for this one.
Just because I'm not actually impacted by any of these break-ins or disclosures or anything else they've done, doesn't mean I shouldn't be outraged by it.