Although that Top Gear episode was funny. Until this year I don't think they gave electric cars any serious consideration. Now that Porsche has an electric car to make the Hamster happy - I'd expect we'll see more of them. He can drive that until his GT3 is re-delivered.
Yeah - that was my first thought. Kind of like when a bully is beating a weak kid with his own arms. "he was hitting himself"
Wasn't that the definition of "the letter" - the one that companies aren't allowed to acknowledge they received?! Maybe they aren't allowed to even say that they heard of the program.
I didn't interpret her words in that manner. She seems to be suggesting that we would NOT come to a common place for *all* interactions. Ever been to a company party with your parents? You probably don't know many of the other kids - and the adults are a bit different too from the ones who came to your house for a BBQ. We all interact differently, even with the same people, when the context is different.
When I was in college there was a bar/pub that "everyone" hung out at on Friday nights. There were two guys who played Irish songs in sing-along fashion - we'd all sing and drink and otherwise socialize. But after last-call we'd all head our separate ways - until the next weekend. Sunday morning I would meet other friends at a different location to play games.
Different places for different kinds of interactions - I believe that is her point. We don't all go to FB for everything.
Even now I use other web-forums for things like car racing, or software-architecture, or other hobbies. Gosh - that's almost the design of meetup.com - a board for like minded people to find each other - and then they meet externally in a place conducive to the theme of the meetup.
Last time I saw a company on the web try to be everything - we later laughed at it. It was called AOL.
Yes - Calculus can be taught visually, that's how my father taught it to me. I was a wiz at geometry, I can bisect lines and draw tangents in my mind.
Here's what I didn't understand though....what does the area under the curve have to do with anything? The line on graph paper was a line - what value was the area? To me the line was continuous - it didn't end, it was a function - so how could the area have bounds?
When I was given min-max problems in College the area/vol was always something concrete (e.g. land size, a rectangle, or a water bottle). I had a difficult time with Calc in college because I just couldn't relate these "areas under the curve" to anything real. I could do the mechanics (integrate, derivatives etc) and understood acceleration/speed. It wasn't until I was older that some of these area/volumes started to make sense (What is "work?":-D )
My suggestion - I can't be alone in this problem - is to relate these areas to things. Answer the question: why is the area equal/equivalent/describe X ?. I had to take it on faith - my Dad said so. Can this be shown or described and be shown to "be really the answer" -- Why is it that?! A bit more concrete evidence that this is true.
I may not be an abstract thinker in math. This is why I program computers;-)
Handsfree does not lead to less-distraction. The very conversation, hands-free or not, is still a problem. How much of a problem? I don't understand yet.
Most states that I've traveled are hands-free. Although a few are anti-texting only. Fewer yet have no restrictions. I haven't seen any that restrict usage in all-forms (except for specific classes of drivers, such as young/new).
Personally - it's the pushing of "buttons" that causes me pain. Using Google maps on my iPhone is a PITA (finding the "start route" button generally is hard). When hands-free I use Siri and Apple maps (for good or bad) - or having to Unlock the damn thing to make a modification (Siri, stop route, "sorry Dave, I can't do that") I bring my Garmin GPS with me whenever possible as it has the best UI - purpose built for in-car use (actually - navigation in general). I only use my phone for looking around or finding something very specific [planning phase]... then plug it into my Garmin and go. Plus, I tend to find myself in No-signal zones a lot. And of course - Siri has failed me multiple times with bogus routes or wrong address locations (arggg, sorry - breathe, breathe, take a slow breath)
NY has a rule that the driver may not operate a hand-held phone (although observationally few adhere to the law). When I went to CA last week the airport announcement was that CA restricts using any device that was not *specifically designed* for hands-free operation (or in car use?). I just remember the Specifically Designed statement.
VT has an anti-texting law (after a spate of joggers being run down & killed by folks texting and driving). Although they are currently considering upgrading that to hands-free because the Police have said that they can't tell if people are texting or dialing their phone, or using some GPS app. It all looks the same to them so enforcement is complicated. People under a certain age (17?) already may not use a cell phone at anytime in any manner while driving.
And WI or MI has restrictions on where the GPS unit may be mounted (must be mounted on the dash - not on the glass, I assume to keep it low in the field of vision). I can't remember which state - I just know that it caused me to buy a dash-mount for my GPS.
My null position is that I assume every state has a hands-free rule. Keeping with the spirit that Distracted is distracted. But commanding my phone to do my bidding seems like a fair risk to take.
So very inconsistent. I drove cross country a few years ago. My GPS came with a suction-cup window mount, and for a variety of reasons I also purchased a dash-mount. Good thing because one upper-mid-west state requires dash mount. They had a big sign as I crossed the border announcing that requirement along with their cell-phone rules. I think I Googled something like "GPS mounting laws" while prepping for my trip.
I now travel on business and bring the dash-mount with me everywhere I go because of that one restriction. Plus some rental car windshields are too short to use the suction-cup (angle too great) - such that the GPS hits the dash - or I have to place the suction-cup so high that it blocks my view.
Nobody stopped me in CA last week - I put the dashmount right in the middle of the dash above the radio.
I also rented a Ford (a small car) with the MSFT system. While the car was fine - I was infuriated by the MS system.
I opened the car door and the dash showed a popup "Engine is running" with an "Okay" button on it. Really? What purpose was this? And how do I press "okay" (it wasn't touch screen). Staring at the steering wheel later I noticed that there were two buttons labeled Okay (and each worked separately).
The worst part was the radio. I had gotten into some menu deep down and decided I didn't want to do whatever I had started. So I tried pressing the "FM" and "Radio" button - nothing would "exit" and return me to the top level. Many minutes of fumbling around through menus and deeper sub-menus the UI would sit idle and finally show "okay / cancel" on the screen. There weren't any buttons near the screen! Finally I discovered that way down low on the dash near the shifter were 4 decorative buttons with lines on them. Turns out they lined up with the UI (though 18 inches away).
Between the software of the UI and the physical UI I couldn't stand it. Nothing made sense.
Well - I'm not sure I agree with the inertia position. Granted old ideas take a long time to die - until a disrupting technology comes along. I was touring a Navy museum once and the guide (retired Navy veteran) said, sometimes its about having the big guns and parking it in the harbor. Simple intimidation. You won't use it - it just looks big.
The US strength - we can build a ship larger than yours and sail it into your backyard.
Back on topic - as others have pointed out already, the defense system is designed to repel realistic attacks. Some group that is starting out will unlikely get their hands on a hypersonic missile. First they start out with a battering ram, then a Yugo, move up to a Pinto, some rockets, old SCUDs, and finally ICBMs. Sure - the smart ones are building disruptors, but another branch is thinking of ways to protect against them.
It's MAD I tell you, MAD. It's a MAD MAD world. What, me worry?
Exactly how I see it playing out. There will be more traffic jams and crashes in the sky from all of these drones filling the air. Yes - parts will rain down from the sky and kill small children. The sky will go black from the flocks of drones. Did they get this idea from playing Call of Duty?
Next somebody will sell an accessory laser so your drone can shoot others out of the sky as a sort of crash avoidance system.
I'll give you the white space. It feels like we've all got pitchforks and are standing at the gates of the User Experience.
Maybe the UX designer got a deal on whitespace from the cloud vendor. Next will be pastel colors and strange thin outlined buttons that convey nothing to the user until they click them (cough... iOS7).
Sure - what can go wrong by allowing a device to track your every move?
Yes - some cars have black boxes in them. But I don't believe those are consulted until after the, eh, crime.
Although - I suppose my cell phone is already tracking my every move - in far more detail than my car ever would. Google certainly knows where I've been and even guesses where I want to go next. Friday at 5pm it pops up, "20 minute drive to [girlfriend] house with traffic"
I downloaded my insurance company's app and then took my car to a race track just to screw with their data.
I agree that this may be possible. But after reading the article there are several things that don't pass the sniff test. Hopefully this will get the peer review it needs.
My first thought was the website for this story was infected with a browser virus, and the incredible story was there as candy to draw us in.
Infecting multiple OS, using some common hidden/unknown USB feature seems difficult to believe. What is the commonality in chipsets? The virus would have to run at the BIOS level.. right? Under the OS? Injecting itself up into OS' that it supports? Sure, there are few motherboards. and I've also heard of viruses that live in RAM/GPU and survive reboots. I'll also forgive people for possible misusing "ultrasonic" when they might mean - higher/lower frequencies than humans can hear but the PC can generate. Also don't forget - video cards and other electronics make noises too - I had a video card that when drawing at high FPS made a very high pitch sound that could be manipulated (I'm one of those weirdos who can "hear" CRTs). Maybe the fan is sending Morse-code.
This is also an interesting network driver. I assume he was doing packet sniffing from within the OS. I can see the following - the OS sends data packets to the network card (which go nowhere because the cable is pulled out) - but the infected BIOS sees those and copies them out the speaker. However, he pulled the network card... so I would expect the OS to shutdown all connectivity features - so what was the sniffer attaching to? (or rather - what was he sniffing? - no pun) Either that or a software driver had to be installed (or hook the virtual loopback). All possible. Although on my laptop only the wifi/bluetooth can come out - the Ethernet is on the mainboard.
All of it may be hypothetically possible. I can't wait for an update and see the results. Need to think simple - those kinds of attacks tend to work.
Marketing or Business - either or both. Whether to enter those roles as a career is up to you. Either case, understanding them is key.
I'm a software engineer who understands and converses regularly with Marketing. By understanding "why" we are doing things, what the market wants, and what the customer wants, aids me in making design decisions. And because I understand more about the product and company has made me more than "just a software jock," and thus more valuable. Plus I can help influence decisions because I can bring my understanding of technology direction into the mix.
I hang out with, and made friends with, people in the business and marketing departments. We have general conversations as well as specific ones. We each teach each other about our areas of expertise. Sometimes you need to know people more deeply than posting automated "happy birthday" notices on Facebook;-) [sorry - showing my age]
Knowing what is going on outside your circle is always a good idea. Never stop learning.
I don't think American's care. They might ask: How does it affect my daily life? Is the NSA really spying on "me?"
I'm sure most people would think that the NSA is spying on somebody else - and hopefully the right somebody else.
Until somebody can link it back to how it impacts the average Joe, I don't think people will be outraged. Most are trying to pay bills and go on with their daily lives. Those without tinfoil hats probably can't believe the gov't coming to get them. I mean, like dude, seriously?! They can't see the slippery slope and are unable to relate to what it might mean in the future. And possibly the NSA et al have done a good job explaining that there is oversight and that only terrorists are being monitored.
Besides - as of late, Federal government has shown us that they are irrelevant, lost in some bugger flicking fight.:-P
I've noticed that the keyboard comes up on my iPad3 kind of jerky and there is a delay before I can start typing. It is no longer "instant"
Not so much on my iPhone5. There are a few things that pause - I've had a few time where I double pressed a button because it was slow to respond (so slow that I thought I missed the button). But for the most part everything works fine.
Generally yes, it is no longer "instant" - almost as if something is running in the background.
I also don't like the animations of the icons dropping in from above. Looks nice - but I need to wait for it to finish before I can use the device.
Also - what's up with the delay when pushing the power button? The screen now slowly gets brighter...which I need to wait for that too. The "getting darker" transition when locking the device is okay. But when I press On, I mean On...stupid dragon.
Overall I do like iOS7. Just a few minor kinks to work out.
As a long time user of Palm (Pre+), I was delighted to see the influences of WebOS on iOS7. Apple appears to have taken the best of the WebOS UI and used it in iOS7. The multi-tasking card interface, sliding inbox items side-to-side, and a few others.
These were some of the features that I enjoyed the most, and missed when I upgraded to a new iPhone.
I'm not saying "stole" - innovation and creativity requires looking at what others did and building upon it. So - good for them.
That parallax UI looks very "neat" - I wonder if it's gimmicky though. The share via bluetooth will be useful - if it works with non iOS devices. Unfortunately my friends use some unknown Android release.
Of course remembering to do that is "work". Many years ago I posted a comment about some training I took (actually, I wrote it on paper and the instructor typed it in). It was basic "loved the class" stuff. A few years ago I googled myself and that quote popped up...on some Russian website, it was a partial copy of the training company website. Some entity had started to create a catalog of some sort, more of a mishmash of info, and had made a partial copy of our comments (or it was the brochure or like...dunno it didn't make much sense).
I never would have guessed that my name existed on the web. It is as if my name appeared in a newspaper article and someone had copied it to the web.
So removing your name? Probably near impossible. Not wanting to put it there in the first place? Maybe out of your control.
Be careful what you say, "they" might be listening.
I bought an iPad last year and found that I rarely use my laptop anymore. It is a fair question, does she need a laptop or maybe won't miss anything?
I find the PC easier for certain things, plus not all websites have full functionality in the mobile browser or even in their apps. A few websites still use flash. I can't access my online bill for one website because it doesn't render properly. And sometimes inputting data on tablets is frustrating (bt keyboard maybe?)
It is almost possible. We're almost there, just not quite.
I don't know your budget, I like the chrome book idea suggested above. You could try a mainstream tablet and if that doesn't work out get a cheap laptop later. If that is out of budget, I'd still stick with a small laptop.
I've used many. I started with MS Virtual Server 2005 because it could create shared storage, which I needed to experiment with MS Clustering. Our corp IT infrastructure is VMware ESX/vSphere/vCloud, and now I use VMware Desktop for my local stuff. But on my office machine money isn't a concern, I have the "Ultimate" MSDN license.
At home, where money does matter, I use VirtualBox. I find it very easy to use, great UI, and has all of the features one needs. It has a virtual network - but I haven't used it yet. I use virtual networking in VMware to simulate different LAN configs, mostly to play around...I'm a software Dev...not IT.
My recommendation... Start with VirtualBox and learn the concepts. It is easy to setup, has all of the features you probably need, and has reasonable documentation. It also seems to be compatible with both the outside equipment/OS, and hosts everything inside that I've ever tried (including Win8). I think you'll spend less time farting around with silly stuff and be able to have success quickly.
Then if you want to try a bare metal config, I suggest looking at VMware ESX...it is free for a single machine, and its the real deal. It is well documented, both by VMware and the fanboy clubs;-). It is complex, so there is a lot of doc to read and get started. And as others have pointed out, it has hardware requirements.
You can be reading up while enjoying VirtualBox.
Also, I suggest learning about iSCSI. There may be times that you need shared storage. I keep a vm running Windows 2008 as my storage machine. It is simple. Remember, I'm just experimenting with different things, so quick and easy is what I'm looking for. In real life we have a NetApp.
There should always be an installation package. Not having instructions, or allowing the developer to hand-install stuff, leads to all kinds of problems (inconsistencies for instance, i.e. no two systems the same).
Another reason - simple scalability of a business. The installation must get to a point where it can be handed off to somebody else.
Installation and deployment generally doesn't get the respect it needs. Imagine buying an app for your phone - and somebody handed you a long text document detailing the 5 libraries that you needed to install first, and then they needed to make a few hand-patch configuration changes to the device? That wouldn't be acceptable - Enterprise software should be just as easy to install as consumer products. Customers see value in this and the installation tends to be the first encounter with your product and can set the tone for the relationship.
Somebody else posted something about dogfooding. Yes - engineers must know how "hard" it is to use the product (whether it be installation or usability). However, the engineers cannot be the ones responsible for installation.
Exception to the rule: brand new proof of concepts being delivered to the "partner" customer. By the time the "second" partner install comes up - there needs to be an installation package. I work for a large company and I generally cannot touch a customer system - so everything must be packaged and handed off.
In my line - the installation is easy. It is the configuration that is extremely complex. Although it doesn't require an engineer, it does require an "expert." But this too should be as easy as possible.
My Dad had the complete collection, including almost everything else from Don Martin and others from Mad. I read them all.
The Mad Adventures of Captain Klutz - I remember them well.
Silly, and certainly something a 3 year old can understand;-)
And old Peanuts too.
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Wait - stocks have real value?!
Wait - Audi created e-sound for their e-tron electric cars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Although that Top Gear episode was funny. Until this year I don't think they gave electric cars any serious consideration. Now that Porsche has an electric car to make the Hamster happy - I'd expect we'll see more of them. He can drive that until his GT3 is re-delivered.
Yeah - that was my first thought. Kind of like when a bully is beating a weak kid with his own arms. "he was hitting himself"
Wasn't that the definition of "the letter" - the one that companies aren't allowed to acknowledge they received?! Maybe they aren't allowed to even say that they heard of the program.
I didn't interpret her words in that manner. She seems to be suggesting that we would NOT come to a common place for *all* interactions. Ever been to a company party with your parents? You probably don't know many of the other kids - and the adults are a bit different too from the ones who came to your house for a BBQ. We all interact differently, even with the same people, when the context is different.
When I was in college there was a bar/pub that "everyone" hung out at on Friday nights. There were two guys who played Irish songs in sing-along fashion - we'd all sing and drink and otherwise socialize. But after last-call we'd all head our separate ways - until the next weekend. Sunday morning I would meet other friends at a different location to play games.
Different places for different kinds of interactions - I believe that is her point. We don't all go to FB for everything.
Even now I use other web-forums for things like car racing, or software-architecture, or other hobbies. Gosh - that's almost the design of meetup.com - a board for like minded people to find each other - and then they meet externally in a place conducive to the theme of the meetup.
Last time I saw a company on the web try to be everything - we later laughed at it. It was called AOL.
Yes - Calculus can be taught visually, that's how my father taught it to me. I was a wiz at geometry, I can bisect lines and draw tangents in my mind.
Here's what I didn't understand though....what does the area under the curve have to do with anything? The line on graph paper was a line - what value was the area? To me the line was continuous - it didn't end, it was a function - so how could the area have bounds?
When I was given min-max problems in College the area/vol was always something concrete (e.g. land size, a rectangle, or a water bottle). I had a difficult time with Calc in college because I just couldn't relate these "areas under the curve" to anything real. I could do the mechanics (integrate, derivatives etc) and understood acceleration/speed. It wasn't until I was older that some of these area/volumes started to make sense (What is "work?" :-D )
My suggestion - I can't be alone in this problem - is to relate these areas to things. Answer the question: why is the area equal/equivalent/describe X ?. I had to take it on faith - my Dad said so. Can this be shown or described and be shown to "be really the answer" -- Why is it that?! A bit more concrete evidence that this is true.
I may not be an abstract thinker in math. This is why I program computers ;-)
Handsfree does not lead to less-distraction. The very conversation, hands-free or not, is still a problem. How much of a problem? I don't understand yet.
Most states that I've traveled are hands-free. Although a few are anti-texting only. Fewer yet have no restrictions. I haven't seen any that restrict usage in all-forms (except for specific classes of drivers, such as young/new).
Personally - it's the pushing of "buttons" that causes me pain. Using Google maps on my iPhone is a PITA (finding the "start route" button generally is hard). When hands-free I use Siri and Apple maps (for good or bad) - or having to Unlock the damn thing to make a modification (Siri, stop route, "sorry Dave, I can't do that") I bring my Garmin GPS with me whenever possible as it has the best UI - purpose built for in-car use (actually - navigation in general). I only use my phone for looking around or finding something very specific [planning phase]... then plug it into my Garmin and go. Plus, I tend to find myself in No-signal zones a lot. And of course - Siri has failed me multiple times with bogus routes or wrong address locations (arggg, sorry - breathe, breathe, take a slow breath)
NY has a rule that the driver may not operate a hand-held phone (although observationally few adhere to the law). When I went to CA last week the airport announcement was that CA restricts using any device that was not *specifically designed* for hands-free operation (or in car use?). I just remember the Specifically Designed statement.
VT has an anti-texting law (after a spate of joggers being run down & killed by folks texting and driving). Although they are currently considering upgrading that to hands-free because the Police have said that they can't tell if people are texting or dialing their phone, or using some GPS app. It all looks the same to them so enforcement is complicated. People under a certain age (17?) already may not use a cell phone at anytime in any manner while driving.
And WI or MI has restrictions on where the GPS unit may be mounted (must be mounted on the dash - not on the glass, I assume to keep it low in the field of vision). I can't remember which state - I just know that it caused me to buy a dash-mount for my GPS.
My null position is that I assume every state has a hands-free rule. Keeping with the spirit that Distracted is distracted. But commanding my phone to do my bidding seems like a fair risk to take.
So very inconsistent. I drove cross country a few years ago. My GPS came with a suction-cup window mount, and for a variety of reasons I also purchased a dash-mount. Good thing because one upper-mid-west state requires dash mount. They had a big sign as I crossed the border announcing that requirement along with their cell-phone rules. I think I Googled something like "GPS mounting laws" while prepping for my trip.
I now travel on business and bring the dash-mount with me everywhere I go because of that one restriction. Plus some rental car windshields are too short to use the suction-cup (angle too great) - such that the GPS hits the dash - or I have to place the suction-cup so high that it blocks my view.
Nobody stopped me in CA last week - I put the dashmount right in the middle of the dash above the radio.
ah - now I know why I haven't been getting email all of these years.
I also rented a Ford (a small car) with the MSFT system. While the car was fine - I was infuriated by the MS system.
I opened the car door and the dash showed a popup "Engine is running" with an "Okay" button on it. Really? What purpose was this? And how do I press "okay" (it wasn't touch screen). Staring at the steering wheel later I noticed that there were two buttons labeled Okay (and each worked separately).
The worst part was the radio. I had gotten into some menu deep down and decided I didn't want to do whatever I had started. So I tried pressing the "FM" and "Radio" button - nothing would "exit" and return me to the top level. Many minutes of fumbling around through menus and deeper sub-menus the UI would sit idle and finally show "okay / cancel" on the screen. There weren't any buttons near the screen! Finally I discovered that way down low on the dash near the shifter were 4 decorative buttons with lines on them. Turns out they lined up with the UI (though 18 inches away).
Between the software of the UI and the physical UI I couldn't stand it. Nothing made sense.
Well - I'm not sure I agree with the inertia position. Granted old ideas take a long time to die - until a disrupting technology comes along. I was touring a Navy museum once and the guide (retired Navy veteran) said, sometimes its about having the big guns and parking it in the harbor. Simple intimidation. You won't use it - it just looks big.
The US strength - we can build a ship larger than yours and sail it into your backyard.
Back on topic - as others have pointed out already, the defense system is designed to repel realistic attacks. Some group that is starting out will unlikely get their hands on a hypersonic missile. First they start out with a battering ram, then a Yugo, move up to a Pinto, some rockets, old SCUDs, and finally ICBMs. Sure - the smart ones are building disruptors, but another branch is thinking of ways to protect against them.
It's MAD I tell you, MAD. It's a MAD MAD world. What, me worry?
Exactly how I see it playing out. There will be more traffic jams and crashes in the sky from all of these drones filling the air. Yes - parts will rain down from the sky and kill small children. The sky will go black from the flocks of drones. Did they get this idea from playing Call of Duty?
Next somebody will sell an accessory laser so your drone can shoot others out of the sky as a sort of crash avoidance system.
Available only to the rich.
Hey look - this is a comment input from the beta.
I'll give you the white space. It feels like we've all got pitchforks and are standing at the gates of the User Experience.
Maybe the UX designer got a deal on whitespace from the cloud vendor. Next will be pastel colors and strange thin outlined buttons that convey nothing to the user until they click them (cough... iOS7).
Sure - what can go wrong by allowing a device to track your every move?
Yes - some cars have black boxes in them. But I don't believe those are consulted until after the, eh, crime.
Although - I suppose my cell phone is already tracking my every move - in far more detail than my car ever would. Google certainly knows where I've been and even guesses where I want to go next. Friday at 5pm it pops up, "20 minute drive to [girlfriend] house with traffic"
I downloaded my insurance company's app and then took my car to a race track just to screw with their data.
Next stop, Orwellville.
I agree that this may be possible. But after reading the article there are several things that don't pass the sniff test. Hopefully this will get the peer review it needs.
My first thought was the website for this story was infected with a browser virus, and the incredible story was there as candy to draw us in.
Infecting multiple OS, using some common hidden/unknown USB feature seems difficult to believe. What is the commonality in chipsets? The virus would have to run at the BIOS level.. right? Under the OS? Injecting itself up into OS' that it supports? Sure, there are few motherboards. and I've also heard of viruses that live in RAM/GPU and survive reboots. I'll also forgive people for possible misusing "ultrasonic" when they might mean - higher/lower frequencies than humans can hear but the PC can generate. Also don't forget - video cards and other electronics make noises too - I had a video card that when drawing at high FPS made a very high pitch sound that could be manipulated (I'm one of those weirdos who can "hear" CRTs). Maybe the fan is sending Morse-code.
This is also an interesting network driver. I assume he was doing packet sniffing from within the OS. I can see the following - the OS sends data packets to the network card (which go nowhere because the cable is pulled out) - but the infected BIOS sees those and copies them out the speaker. However, he pulled the network card... so I would expect the OS to shutdown all connectivity features - so what was the sniffer attaching to? (or rather - what was he sniffing? - no pun) Either that or a software driver had to be installed (or hook the virtual loopback). All possible. Although on my laptop only the wifi/bluetooth can come out - the Ethernet is on the mainboard.
All of it may be hypothetically possible. I can't wait for an update and see the results. Need to think simple - those kinds of attacks tend to work.
Marketing or Business - either or both. Whether to enter those roles as a career is up to you. Either case, understanding them is key.
I'm a software engineer who understands and converses regularly with Marketing. By understanding "why" we are doing things, what the market wants, and what the customer wants, aids me in making design decisions. And because I understand more about the product and company has made me more than "just a software jock," and thus more valuable. Plus I can help influence decisions because I can bring my understanding of technology direction into the mix.
I hang out with, and made friends with, people in the business and marketing departments. We have general conversations as well as specific ones. We each teach each other about our areas of expertise. Sometimes you need to know people more deeply than posting automated "happy birthday" notices on Facebook ;-) [sorry - showing my age]
Knowing what is going on outside your circle is always a good idea. Never stop learning.
I don't think American's care. They might ask: How does it affect my daily life? Is the NSA really spying on "me?"
I'm sure most people would think that the NSA is spying on somebody else - and hopefully the right somebody else.
Until somebody can link it back to how it impacts the average Joe, I don't think people will be outraged. Most are trying to pay bills and go on with their daily lives. Those without tinfoil hats probably can't believe the gov't coming to get them. I mean, like dude, seriously?! They can't see the slippery slope and are unable to relate to what it might mean in the future. And possibly the NSA et al have done a good job explaining that there is oversight and that only terrorists are being monitored.
Besides - as of late, Federal government has shown us that they are irrelevant, lost in some bugger flicking fight. :-P
I've noticed that the keyboard comes up on my iPad3 kind of jerky and there is a delay before I can start typing. It is no longer "instant"
Not so much on my iPhone5. There are a few things that pause - I've had a few time where I double pressed a button because it was slow to respond (so slow that I thought I missed the button). But for the most part everything works fine.
Generally yes, it is no longer "instant" - almost as if something is running in the background.
I also don't like the animations of the icons dropping in from above. Looks nice - but I need to wait for it to finish before I can use the device.
Also - what's up with the delay when pushing the power button? The screen now slowly gets brighter...which I need to wait for that too. The "getting darker" transition when locking the device is okay. But when I press On, I mean On...stupid dragon.
Overall I do like iOS7. Just a few minor kinks to work out.
As a long time user of Palm (Pre+), I was delighted to see the influences of WebOS on iOS7. Apple appears to have taken the best of the WebOS UI and used it in iOS7. The multi-tasking card interface, sliding inbox items side-to-side, and a few others.
These were some of the features that I enjoyed the most, and missed when I upgraded to a new iPhone.
I'm not saying "stole" - innovation and creativity requires looking at what others did and building upon it. So - good for them.
That parallax UI looks very "neat" - I wonder if it's gimmicky though. The share via bluetooth will be useful - if it works with non iOS devices. Unfortunately my friends use some unknown Android release.
Of course remembering to do that is "work". Many years ago I posted a comment about some training I took (actually, I wrote it on paper and the instructor typed it in). It was basic "loved the class" stuff. A few years ago I googled myself and that quote popped up...on some Russian website, it was a partial copy of the training company website. Some entity had started to create a catalog of some sort, more of a mishmash of info, and had made a partial copy of our comments (or it was the brochure or like...dunno it didn't make much sense).
I never would have guessed that my name existed on the web. It is as if my name appeared in a newspaper article and someone had copied it to the web.
So removing your name? Probably near impossible. Not wanting to put it there in the first place? Maybe out of your control.
Be careful what you say, "they" might be listening.
I bought an iPad last year and found that I rarely use my laptop anymore. It is a fair question, does she need a laptop or maybe won't miss anything?
I find the PC easier for certain things, plus not all websites have full functionality in the mobile browser or even in their apps. A few websites still use flash. I can't access my online bill for one website because it doesn't render properly. And sometimes inputting data on tablets is frustrating (bt keyboard maybe?)
It is almost possible. We're almost there, just not quite.
I don't know your budget, I like the chrome book idea suggested above. You could try a mainstream tablet and if that doesn't work out get a cheap laptop later. If that is out of budget, I'd still stick with a small laptop.
Will I shop local?
I don't know, where does Amazon ship from?
I've used many. I started with MS Virtual Server 2005 because it could create shared storage, which I needed to experiment with MS Clustering. Our corp IT infrastructure is VMware ESX/vSphere/vCloud, and now I use VMware Desktop for my local stuff. But on my office machine money isn't a concern, I have the "Ultimate" MSDN license.
At home, where money does matter, I use VirtualBox. I find it very easy to use, great UI, and has all of the features one needs. It has a virtual network - but I haven't used it yet. I use virtual networking in VMware to simulate different LAN configs, mostly to play around...I'm a software Dev...not IT.
My recommendation... Start with VirtualBox and learn the concepts. It is easy to setup, has all of the features you probably need, and has reasonable documentation. It also seems to be compatible with both the outside equipment/OS, and hosts everything inside that I've ever tried (including Win8). I think you'll spend less time farting around with silly stuff and be able to have success quickly.
Then if you want to try a bare metal config, I suggest looking at VMware ESX...it is free for a single machine, and its the real deal. It is well documented, both by VMware and the fanboy clubs ;-). It is complex, so there is a lot of doc to read and get started. And as others have pointed out, it has hardware requirements.
You can be reading up while enjoying VirtualBox.
Also, I suggest learning about iSCSI. There may be times that you need shared storage. I keep a vm running Windows 2008 as my storage machine. It is simple. Remember, I'm just experimenting with different things, so quick and easy is what I'm looking for. In real life we have a NetApp.
Have fun.
There should always be an installation package. Not having instructions, or allowing the developer to hand-install stuff, leads to all kinds of problems (inconsistencies for instance, i.e. no two systems the same).
Another reason - simple scalability of a business. The installation must get to a point where it can be handed off to somebody else.
Installation and deployment generally doesn't get the respect it needs. Imagine buying an app for your phone - and somebody handed you a long text document detailing the 5 libraries that you needed to install first, and then they needed to make a few hand-patch configuration changes to the device? That wouldn't be acceptable - Enterprise software should be just as easy to install as consumer products. Customers see value in this and the installation tends to be the first encounter with your product and can set the tone for the relationship.
Somebody else posted something about dogfooding. Yes - engineers must know how "hard" it is to use the product (whether it be installation or usability). However, the engineers cannot be the ones responsible for installation.
Exception to the rule: brand new proof of concepts being delivered to the "partner" customer. By the time the "second" partner install comes up - there needs to be an installation package. I work for a large company and I generally cannot touch a customer system - so everything must be packaged and handed off.
In my line - the installation is easy. It is the configuration that is extremely complex. Although it doesn't require an engineer, it does require an "expert." But this too should be as easy as possible.
My Dad had the complete collection, including almost everything else from Don Martin and others from Mad. I read them all. The Mad Adventures of Captain Klutz - I remember them well. Silly, and certainly something a 3 year old can understand ;-)
And old Peanuts too.