This feels like a jobs program, hard to believe that this will be useful. Honestly, people should learn to build their own servers (or get their kids to do it). A server can cost as little as 50 bucks these days (Cubieboard). If he wants to do something useful, he should give every tenant their own static IP. Seems pointless.
Oh, but wait - point 2 doesn't pan out. In that scene, doesn't Perry introduce Clark to Lois? She couldn't have recommended him, they seem to be meeting for the first time. So confused. Point 1 still works, though.
How did Clark Kent end up working at the Daily Planet at the end of the movie? The story makes it look like he became a wanderer after high school or something. When did he get a journalism degree? Confused.
Oh, and while I'm at it - what was Clark Kend doing in the Arctic (where he met Lois Lane). How did that happen?!
The movie was a little weird. Didn't expect Superman to be learning how to fly a few days before his epic showdown. The soundtrack, especially the score played when he was learning to fly, was kind of weird. Russell Crowe's screen time felt artificially inflated. But I love Zack Snyder (especially Watchmen), so I will likely be picking this up on BluRay. Man of Steel is an example of a movie that can be a little left of center and still be enjoyable. But I'm still scratching my head over the experience.
Ever get the feeling that we'll look back at this period in history and be kind of astonished at how it turned into a race to see how quickly giant companies can spend billions aquiring no-names? Is this a trendy thing now? They're spending billions on "Waze"? What's a Waze?
Practically every IT manager I've worked with wasn't suited for the task, only a very recent one (who had left a couple of weeks ago, sadly) was the best manager I've ever had, period. The manager before him, however, was particularly awful. If you have a rough situation and you're looking to resolve it, you really have two effective choices;
1) Just have a meeting the the IT Manager's bosses and tell them straight up. However, some organizations have a problem with trruth, honesty, and straight-fowardness. If this is your company . ..
2) Send an anonymous email from an outside email account and, if you're particularly paranoid, send it from a public internet cafe or public wi fi. Be clear in the email why you feel you need to tell them anonymously and lay out a very simple case for why things are broken and how they won't be fixed until the manager's replaced. Give real world examples and put dollar amounts on the screw ups.
Most IT managers are not suited to be managers at all and many aren't even suited to be doing your work. I don't know how they get hired, but the good news is that it's much more difficult for managers to get away with torturing their departments than it used to be. If the rest of your organization is terrific but your only issue is with your manager, be glad - that's not a difficult problem to resolve. If the whole place is broken, you might want to save yourself the trouble and get a better gig.
I guess life is nice and uneventful when people right dumb articles like these. Cloud will not take over the world, thanks to privacy issues. Microsoft Lync will still be laughed at in telecom/communications circles. Snore.
Security will be a greater concern and IT departments start to use GNU/Linux more (as they should). And more virtualization. That's it. Enjoy your weekend.
. . . should always be unplugged or covered up when not used, period. I love Debian myself, but as long as you have any kind of proprietary software on there, you don't really know what all of its behavior is and what it can be set up to do. Even if your system is totally free of this nonsense, that's not to say that an upgrade won't change that. That on/off light that webcams have - they're starting to go away; an iPad camera, I'm sure you're noticed, doesn't have one. You won't even know if your device is being turned on in the future.
So, there are several very good reasons to not be especially delighted over Google Glass. Number one, it's an enabler for poor etiquette and behavior; ostensibly a person who is using it has a camera on their face at all times, no matter what they're doing. If you don't see a social implication with this, you're not thinking hard enough. Two, it's a reminder of horribly self-absorbed, desperate-for-adulation people who are a wreck and need a device on their face to feel good about themselves. Every person I know who buys an iPhone every year does it not because they need one but because they want a feel-good purchase. It reminds me of one of the last things I did before finally deactivating my Facebook account for good - practically all of my news feed was coming from members of my "friends" list who were in mid-life crises or were attention addicts. When I disabled their posts from my news feed, I stopped getting ANYTHING. These are the types of people who want Google Glass.
You can't build a constructive, intellectual society by focusing on "OMG, look at me". Google Glass caters to desperate people. We already have devices that can surf the net, take pictures, and allow us to communicate in all sorts of ways - a smartphone. And when you're not using it, put it in your pocket or purse and go on with your life if you have one. And if you don't have one, go get one. Don't stick a camera on your face.
Yeah, sorry, got completely turned off to social media by Facebook until I read this post. Glad someone made a site focused on information and not the monetization of user's information.
Not that it's technically impossible, but when people have a problem they want to speak to a person and not a machine. Even the simplest problems, like password resets, can be complicated if there's any kind of security policy in place. We have a choice of telecom LEC and CLEC in our area and the CLEC gets out business almost every time (they'd get ALL of our business except, as an organization, we prefer to have some diversification in vendors.) The CLEC gets so much of our business because every time we call them with a circuit problem (which is quite rare anyhow) we get a live person straight away who routes the call for us. No menus, no guessing. The CLEC knows what people expect and they give it to them. That CLEC, by the way, is Cox Communications.
Infosys might want to focus on the implementation of better processes so that fewer level 1 calls are made to begin with.
Not sure why I'm so underwhelmed. Specs are basically the same as PS3 but honestly if I cared at all about the upcoming Xbox, that feeling is gone now.
So, there's a school of thought that says that a system like this could only lead to trouble since people will abuse it. Even if it's totally effective, do they really have the staff to follow up on every tip?
I loved NewEgg plenty BEFORE this, but where I rated them a 9/10 in my mind before, now they're closer to a 15/10.
And now, a shameless testimonial from a real NewEgg customer - last year I built my first PC in almost 7 years and NewEgg made the experience really easy with good pricing and an awesome "wishlist" feature that let me compile a list of parts and tally cost as a I went. I would never consider building a PC without them, I had a really positive experience building my rig with them.
iTunes likes to make itself at home and installs quite a few services to run all of the time. Just like you, I've disabled the services from startup. I don't think there's a real way around it, unfortunately - if you want to rent movies on iTunes, you'll need an Apple machine, iDevice, or Windows machine with iTunes. I like to use a Windows machine for all the things I still don't have much choice about, like gaming and iTunes. But I never use it for surfing or banking - I personally don't trust the Windows or Apple platforms to do anything important.
By the way, I do believe you're incorrect in the statement, "The only thing that helps you to keep your communication private is encrypting it." If you're encrypting traffic to a hub which then relays it, then three parties will be aware; you, the hub, and the reciever. Encryption is private when the private key is unique and not shared.
Definitely. But even if you don't read the EULA ever, some common sense will tell you that it's their house and if you want to play in it, you have to play by their rules. And, by the way, reading and understanding the EULA for public networks is a waste of time if it's been violated and the damage has been done. Just assume that they can change anything in the EULA whenever they want (I think in most cases, they can after they notify you anyway) and that you should know that nothing you do in another guy's house is private.
True, all of it can be intercepted, but I'd rather the intercepted packets be encrypted and that I'm the one administering the server and not someone else. It's not a bulletproof solution because there aren't any bulletproof solutions in this world. BUT, it's leaps and bounds superior to using someone else's infrustructure.
I do not like to defend Microsoft, but I can see this as being the case. Skype's got quite a bit of problems with Messenger Spam, this may be a mechanism to review them.
By the way, if privacy is your problem, you're not fixing it by using someone else's infrustructure. You should expect, by default, that they're going through your information. Build your own server or forever hold your peace.
If McDonald is insisting on some familiarity with coding in order to maybe weed out a particular kind of applicant, then I can kind of understand where he's coming from. And by the way, a person can manage to have some familarity with coding and APIs by using CodeCademy (which is free. If just takes some time and effort). But if he believes that the individual should be able to contribute coding based on just this, yeah it's not really going to work I think.
I think what he's asking for isn't that unreasonable. Everyone should have some exposure to coding, even if it's not for them.
Good to see our tax dollars at work, focusing on the real issues.
I thought the Republican party was about getting government out of people lives? Maybe it's for everything but cable television. And women's rights. And marijuana. And indecency. And religion in school.
OTHERWISE, they're totally Live Free or Die.
And, by the way, no one should care about cable anymore. Seriously.
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They're not going to sacrifice space on floors that can be rented. Anyway, the whole idea is stupid.
This feels like a jobs program, hard to believe that this will be useful. Honestly, people should learn to build their own servers (or get their kids to do it). A server can cost as little as 50 bucks these days (Cubieboard). If he wants to do something useful, he should give every tenant their own static IP. Seems pointless.
In the absense of a clear, official explanation this apears to plug the plot hole sufficiently I think. Worthy of a No Prize.
Oh, but wait - point 2 doesn't pan out. In that scene, doesn't Perry introduce Clark to Lois? She couldn't have recommended him, they seem to be meeting for the first time. So confused. Point 1 still works, though.
Thanks. Point 2 is a little rough, but it's as good an explanation as I can expect to get.
How did Clark Kent end up working at the Daily Planet at the end of the movie? The story makes it look like he became a wanderer after high school or something. When did he get a journalism degree? Confused.
Oh, and while I'm at it - what was Clark Kend doing in the Arctic (where he met Lois Lane). How did that happen?!
The movie was a little weird. Didn't expect Superman to be learning how to fly a few days before his epic showdown. The soundtrack, especially the score played when he was learning to fly, was kind of weird. Russell Crowe's screen time felt artificially inflated. But I love Zack Snyder (especially Watchmen), so I will likely be picking this up on BluRay. Man of Steel is an example of a movie that can be a little left of center and still be enjoyable. But I'm still scratching my head over the experience.
Ever get the feeling that we'll look back at this period in history and be kind of astonished at how it turned into a race to see how quickly giant companies can spend billions aquiring no-names? Is this a trendy thing now? They're spending billions on "Waze"? What's a Waze?
Practically every IT manager I've worked with wasn't suited for the task, only a very recent one (who had left a couple of weeks ago, sadly) was the best manager I've ever had, period. The manager before him, however, was particularly awful. If you have a rough situation and you're looking to resolve it, you really have two effective choices;
.
1) Just have a meeting the the IT Manager's bosses and tell them straight up. However, some organizations have a problem with trruth, honesty, and straight-fowardness. If this is your company . .
2) Send an anonymous email from an outside email account and, if you're particularly paranoid, send it from a public internet cafe or public wi fi. Be clear in the email why you feel you need to tell them anonymously and lay out a very simple case for why things are broken and how they won't be fixed until the manager's replaced. Give real world examples and put dollar amounts on the screw ups.
Most IT managers are not suited to be managers at all and many aren't even suited to be doing your work. I don't know how they get hired, but the good news is that it's much more difficult for managers to get away with torturing their departments than it used to be. If the rest of your organization is terrific but your only issue is with your manager, be glad - that's not a difficult problem to resolve. If the whole place is broken, you might want to save yourself the trouble and get a better gig.
I guess life is nice and uneventful when people right dumb articles like these. Cloud will not take over the world, thanks to privacy issues. Microsoft Lync will still be laughed at in telecom/communications circles. Snore.
Security will be a greater concern and IT departments start to use GNU/Linux more (as they should). And more virtualization. That's it. Enjoy your weekend.
. . . should always be unplugged or covered up when not used, period. I love Debian myself, but as long as you have any kind of proprietary software on there, you don't really know what all of its behavior is and what it can be set up to do. Even if your system is totally free of this nonsense, that's not to say that an upgrade won't change that. That on/off light that webcams have - they're starting to go away; an iPad camera, I'm sure you're noticed, doesn't have one. You won't even know if your device is being turned on in the future.
Unplug that thing, just common sense.
Too true, mate.
So, there are several very good reasons to not be especially delighted over Google Glass. Number one, it's an enabler for poor etiquette and behavior; ostensibly a person who is using it has a camera on their face at all times, no matter what they're doing. If you don't see a social implication with this, you're not thinking hard enough. Two, it's a reminder of horribly self-absorbed, desperate-for-adulation people who are a wreck and need a device on their face to feel good about themselves. Every person I know who buys an iPhone every year does it not because they need one but because they want a feel-good purchase. It reminds me of one of the last things I did before finally deactivating my Facebook account for good - practically all of my news feed was coming from members of my "friends" list who were in mid-life crises or were attention addicts. When I disabled their posts from my news feed, I stopped getting ANYTHING. These are the types of people who want Google Glass.
You can't build a constructive, intellectual society by focusing on "OMG, look at me". Google Glass caters to desperate people. We already have devices that can surf the net, take pictures, and allow us to communicate in all sorts of ways - a smartphone. And when you're not using it, put it in your pocket or purse and go on with your life if you have one. And if you don't have one, go get one. Don't stick a camera on your face.
Yeah, sorry, got completely turned off to social media by Facebook until I read this post. Glad someone made a site focused on information and not the monetization of user's information.
I loathe Facebook to my very core.
Not that it's technically impossible, but when people have a problem they want to speak to a person and not a machine. Even the simplest problems, like password resets, can be complicated if there's any kind of security policy in place. We have a choice of telecom LEC and CLEC in our area and the CLEC gets out business almost every time (they'd get ALL of our business except, as an organization, we prefer to have some diversification in vendors.) The CLEC gets so much of our business because every time we call them with a circuit problem (which is quite rare anyhow) we get a live person straight away who routes the call for us. No menus, no guessing. The CLEC knows what people expect and they give it to them. That CLEC, by the way, is Cox Communications.
Infosys might want to focus on the implementation of better processes so that fewer level 1 calls are made to begin with.
Not sure why I'm so underwhelmed. Specs are basically the same as PS3 but honestly if I cared at all about the upcoming Xbox, that feeling is gone now.
So, there's a school of thought that says that a system like this could only lead to trouble since people will abuse it. Even if it's totally effective, do they really have the staff to follow up on every tip?
I loved NewEgg plenty BEFORE this, but where I rated them a 9/10 in my mind before, now they're closer to a 15/10.
And now, a shameless testimonial from a real NewEgg customer - last year I built my first PC in almost 7 years and NewEgg made the experience really easy with good pricing and an awesome "wishlist" feature that let me compile a list of parts and tally cost as a I went. I would never consider building a PC without them, I had a really positive experience building my rig with them.
Go NewEgg.
iTunes likes to make itself at home and installs quite a few services to run all of the time. Just like you, I've disabled the services from startup. I don't think there's a real way around it, unfortunately - if you want to rent movies on iTunes, you'll need an Apple machine, iDevice, or Windows machine with iTunes. I like to use a Windows machine for all the things I still don't have much choice about, like gaming and iTunes. But I never use it for surfing or banking - I personally don't trust the Windows or Apple platforms to do anything important.
By the way, I do believe you're incorrect in the statement, "The only thing that helps you to keep your communication private is encrypting it." If you're encrypting traffic to a hub which then relays it, then three parties will be aware; you, the hub, and the reciever. Encryption is private when the private key is unique and not shared.
Definitely. But even if you don't read the EULA ever, some common sense will tell you that it's their house and if you want to play in it, you have to play by their rules. And, by the way, reading and understanding the EULA for public networks is a waste of time if it's been violated and the damage has been done. Just assume that they can change anything in the EULA whenever they want (I think in most cases, they can after they notify you anyway) and that you should know that nothing you do in another guy's house is private.
True, all of it can be intercepted, but I'd rather the intercepted packets be encrypted and that I'm the one administering the server and not someone else. It's not a bulletproof solution because there aren't any bulletproof solutions in this world. BUT, it's leaps and bounds superior to using someone else's infrustructure.
I do not like to defend Microsoft, but I can see this as being the case. Skype's got quite a bit of problems with Messenger Spam, this may be a mechanism to review them.
By the way, if privacy is your problem, you're not fixing it by using someone else's infrustructure. You should expect, by default, that they're going through your information. Build your own server or forever hold your peace.
If McDonald is insisting on some familiarity with coding in order to maybe weed out a particular kind of applicant, then I can kind of understand where he's coming from. And by the way, a person can manage to have some familarity with coding and APIs by using CodeCademy (which is free. If just takes some time and effort). But if he believes that the individual should be able to contribute coding based on just this, yeah it's not really going to work I think.
I think what he's asking for isn't that unreasonable. Everyone should have some exposure to coding, even if it's not for them.
Good to see our tax dollars at work, focusing on the real issues.
I thought the Republican party was about getting government out of people lives? Maybe it's for everything but cable television. And women's rights. And marijuana. And indecency. And religion in school.
OTHERWISE, they're totally Live Free or Die.
And, by the way, no one should care about cable anymore. Seriously.