That works for sales, managers and those who don't touch lots of data. Programmers are a good example of people who need a lot of arsenal when going on site. Customers DB, version of software, tools and more. All that amounts to lots of data. I usually recommend keeping the data on a removable USB drive that you backup when you aren't using it.
What do you expect? Maybe the message used isn't great but every single one of their customers is calling. No company can prepare for that. If you want a company that can answers 100% of calls in a situation like this you'll have to pay a lot more for your hosting solution.
This could just as well be happening to GoDaddy.com and you would get the same message when calling their number.
It's typical to see this. You take what you have for granted. I'd love see you farm your own food, crap in the streets, be lucky to live past the age of 40. There's so much you would not have day to day that you depend on today.
I bet if you go camping in the woods you bring toilet paper. You just don't know what you have.
As for lifestyle, the average household lives better than their parents did. I know I live about twice as well as my parents did and 5 times better than my grand parents did a the same age. I'm not sure where you live and how bad you have it but I know I've been seeing my life style go up and everyone around me as well.
In most countries the number of birth/1000 is decreasing and it appears to be tightly coupled with the economic state of each country. In addition, there is nothing new about humans being replaced by machines (Farmers, phone operations, lumber cutting...). It has been happening since before the 1800 yet we live hundreds of times better than they did in the 1800. Human kind has a way of making it work out. As long as we keep working on world issues we will make it.
My best advice is don't waste time and money trying to track it. Try to avoid theft in the first place. Leave your laptop unattended and it will get stolen. The value you put in the laptop is probably not worth the cost of tracking it. You may as well add it to your current insurance. It will cost less and will pay for a replacement if ever it's stolen.
If MS is going to do this they need to give me something in exchange. Free ads to support free services - Facebook to support the free social service - Google to support the free searches. - TV to provide low cost entertainment (debatable)
What is MS giving us to invade our lives outside our web searches?
The fact is that most people don't know why they hate IE. I've asked many and they don't even know why they use Chrome over Firefox or IE. I actually had a web developer tell me how much he hated IE because the pages he developed didn't work well in IE. I looked at his code and found out why his pages weren't rendering properly. It was a major mistake in his markup that Chrome wasn't affected by but all other browsers were. I call this stupid blind hatred.
Also, I hope the OS you refer to is not Apple's because if there's one tax avoiding mega corporation that is probably the worst one.
If your OS is Linux, well you argument doesn't hold much weight because its not an OS that is used by people outside the technical community (Aside from boxed Linux distributions like Android)
You opinion is clearly slanted or you don't live in the Enterprise world.
Companies that do not keep their OS updated within reason most probably don't give a damn about new features in browsers. Companies that seek an edge through technology not only keep their software up to date but they train their staff to use is efficiently. They also stream line their deployments and force applications on their staff. In some cases IE may be the #1 choice because that's what the web applications were tested with.
Many seem to forget that some applications that run ActiveX or other MS only platforms are still being used by companies. Heck, we just purchased a surveillance system from Samsung and it only works on IE.
The point is that the OS was out of date before the browser was. If you need to use the OS beyond it's expected life you have to install outside solutions like Chrome or Firefox. This doesn't mean IE is inferior. If MS was selling you a browser, they would package and support it accordingly. Instead, their strategy is to include it as part of a generation of software. They kept IE up to standards until XP was declared unsupported.
KingMotley, you can't argue with people who are sold to hate MS. It's like people who hate rich people until they become rich themselves. Then all of sudden poor people are the problem. Hypocrites I say.
People are way too serious about their browser selection and take it far too personal. Some of you Slashdotters are starting to sound like broken records or a bunch of red necks arguing whether Dodge or Ford has the best trucks.
Fact is that IE still fills a number of needs for enterprise and corporate customers. It has features Chrome and Firefox don't offer and don't plan on offering. Chrome and Firefox cater to WEB USERS and they do a very good job at it. IE is still a popular browser and will continue to remain one of the top 3 browsers for a long time so crying about it won't make them disappear.
FYI, I use both Chrome and IE. Whatever is on the box I work with is what I'll use because I just don't see a difference.
Yep. You nipped it in the butt. We now have a viable alternative. I've found BING to help me in searches where google failed. Google is still my #1 but I use Bing on average once a week which is tones more than before.
Don't know where you get your facts but I'm making a competitive salary as a programmer for a small company. I have had many offers the of same level from other companies of similar size.
I'm in my 30s and almost mortgage free and haven't had to do any of the things you suggested.
The problem is that your right maybe someone else's breach of freedom. That's always the issue.
E.g. You eat peanuts, the guy beside you is allergic. He has to leave the event because he can't be within 20 metres of peanuts...
Collection of information can protect citizens from crooks but also impede on said individuals privacy. Which one is more important? Is there a balance?
The news didn't result in protesting in the street because most people I believe have nothing to hide so they don't care if they are tracked.
Most people I talk to about this don't care if they are tracked as long as the information left in the hands of the right people (Something we can't always control)
I use my phone as a tool and I get 2 days of life with the battery. That's about 2 hours of talk time, two dozen emails, a dozen texts and map usage as well as reading the news. And all that on what I would call a heavy OS (Windows Mobile 8).
If you use the phone for gaming I understand why you only get 4 hours.
Watson is very logical, not creative. We are at least 10 years away from any reasonable logical AI in a form factor usable in a work place. The day AIs are good enough to replace programmers, they will replace not just programmers but engineers and every other intellectual role. This means the whole chain of management disappears and all there is left is company owners. The rest of us will have no way of surviving. Due to that last statement, I believe AIs are far from taking over otherwise it would be the end of society as we know it. AI is at least 100 years away from being able to replace us in our everyday role, not due to technology but due to how society works. The society will need a major overhaul before AIs are allowed to take over jobs, especially creative and service jobs.
Tablets will take over eventually. Probably not exactly in the form factor we see today but it will for sure take over. Input methods, lack of processing power and limited network connection speeds are holding back it's ability to completely replace the PC. The future of having 1 device handle all your computing needs is not that far away. You'll be able to project the device image on monitors and televisions with wireless access... Anybody doubting this probably also thinks earth is flat.
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That works for sales, managers and those who don't touch lots of data. Programmers are a good example of people who need a lot of arsenal when going on site. Customers DB, version of software, tools and more. All that amounts to lots of data. I usually recommend keeping the data on a removable USB drive that you backup when you aren't using it.
I second that. We are doing a large deployment next week. SP2 will be part of it to avoid excess online updating.
Thank you /. for posting this.
What do you expect? Maybe the message used isn't great but every single one of their customers is calling. No company can prepare for that. If you want a company that can answers 100% of calls in a situation like this you'll have to pay a lot more for your hosting solution.
This could just as well be happening to GoDaddy.com and you would get the same message when calling their number.
You forget the reserving of domains after you check for availability so that you can only purchase it from them.
kendo ui
Sorry, I did mean kobo. Kendo is a programming language of some sort.
Isn't Kendo a great alternative? I honestly don't know but I know lots of people who use them.
It's typical to see this. You take what you have for granted. I'd love see you farm your own food, crap in the streets, be lucky to live past the age of 40. There's so much you would not have day to day that you depend on today.
I bet if you go camping in the woods you bring toilet paper. You just don't know what you have.
As for lifestyle, the average household lives better than their parents did. I know I live about twice as well as my parents did and 5 times better than my grand parents did a the same age. I'm not sure where you live and how bad you have it but I know I've been seeing my life style go up and everyone around me as well.
In most countries the number of birth/1000 is decreasing and it appears to be tightly coupled with the economic state of each country. In addition, there is nothing new about humans being replaced by machines (Farmers, phone operations, lumber cutting...). It has been happening since before the 1800 yet we live hundreds of times better than they did in the 1800. Human kind has a way of making it work out. As long as we keep working on world issues we will make it.
My best advice is don't waste time and money trying to track it. Try to avoid theft in the first place. Leave your laptop unattended and it will get stolen. The value you put in the laptop is probably not worth the cost of tracking it. You may as well add it to your current insurance. It will cost less and will pay for a replacement if ever it's stolen.
If MS is going to do this they need to give me something in exchange.
Free ads to support free services
- Facebook to support the free social service
- Google to support the free searches.
- TV to provide low cost entertainment (debatable)
What is MS giving us to invade our lives outside our web searches?
The fact is that most people don't know why they hate IE. I've asked many and they don't even know why they use Chrome over Firefox or IE. I actually had a web developer tell me how much he hated IE because the pages he developed didn't work well in IE. I looked at his code and found out why his pages weren't rendering properly. It was a major mistake in his markup that Chrome wasn't affected by but all other browsers were. I call this stupid blind hatred.
Also, I hope the OS you refer to is not Apple's because if there's one tax avoiding mega corporation that is probably the worst one.
If your OS is Linux, well you argument doesn't hold much weight because its not an OS that is used by people outside the technical community (Aside from boxed Linux distributions like Android)
You opinion is clearly slanted or you don't live in the Enterprise world.
Companies that do not keep their OS updated within reason most probably don't give a damn about new features in browsers. Companies that seek an edge through technology not only keep their software up to date but they train their staff to use is efficiently. They also stream line their deployments and force applications on their staff. In some cases IE may be the #1 choice because that's what the web applications were tested with.
Many seem to forget that some applications that run ActiveX or other MS only platforms are still being used by companies. Heck, we just purchased a surveillance system from Samsung and it only works on IE.
The point is that the OS was out of date before the browser was. If you need to use the OS beyond it's expected life you have to install outside solutions like Chrome or Firefox. This doesn't mean IE is inferior. If MS was selling you a browser, they would package and support it accordingly. Instead, their strategy is to include it as part of a generation of software. They kept IE up to standards until XP was declared unsupported.
KingMotley, you can't argue with people who are sold to hate MS. It's like people who hate rich people until they become rich themselves. Then all of sudden poor people are the problem. Hypocrites I say.
People are way too serious about their browser selection and take it far too personal. Some of you Slashdotters are starting to sound like broken records or a bunch of red necks arguing whether Dodge or Ford has the best trucks.
Fact is that IE still fills a number of needs for enterprise and corporate customers. It has features Chrome and Firefox don't offer and don't plan on offering. Chrome and Firefox cater to WEB USERS and they do a very good job at it. IE is still a popular browser and will continue to remain one of the top 3 browsers for a long time so crying about it won't make them disappear.
FYI, I use both Chrome and IE. Whatever is on the box I work with is what I'll use because I just don't see a difference.
Thank you for the correction. My English gets better everyday.
Yep. You nipped it in the butt. We now have a viable alternative. I've found BING to help me in searches where google failed. Google is still my #1 but I use Bing on average once a week which is tones more than before.
Thank god they didn't hold back progress for FoxPro. .NET has made dev on MS much more compatible and maintainable.
Don't know where you get your facts but I'm making a competitive salary as a programmer for a small company. I have had many offers the of same level from other companies of similar size.
I'm in my 30s and almost mortgage free and haven't had to do any of the things you suggested.
You basically ended you statement saying exactly what I said.
The problem is that your right maybe someone else's breach of freedom. That's always the issue.
E.g. You eat peanuts, the guy beside you is allergic. He has to leave the event because he can't be within 20 metres of peanuts...
Collection of information can protect citizens from crooks but also impede on said individuals privacy. Which one is more important? Is there a balance?
The news didn't result in protesting in the street because most people I believe have nothing to hide so they don't care if they are tracked.
Most people I talk to about this don't care if they are tracked as long as the information left in the hands of the right people (Something we can't always control)
You gotta get rid of your 3GS IPhone.
I use my phone as a tool and I get 2 days of life with the battery. That's about 2 hours of talk time, two dozen emails, a dozen texts and map usage as well as reading the news. And all that on what I would call a heavy OS (Windows Mobile 8).
If you use the phone for gaming I understand why you only get 4 hours.
Watson is very logical, not creative. We are at least 10 years away from any reasonable logical AI in a form factor usable in a work place. The day AIs are good enough to replace programmers, they will replace not just programmers but engineers and every other intellectual role. This means the whole chain of management disappears and all there is left is company owners. The rest of us will have no way of surviving. Due to that last statement, I believe AIs are far from taking over otherwise it would be the end of society as we know it. AI is at least 100 years away from being able to replace us in our everyday role, not due to technology but due to how society works. The society will need a major overhaul before AIs are allowed to take over jobs, especially creative and service jobs.
Tablets will take over eventually. Probably not exactly in the form factor we see today but it will for sure take over. Input methods, lack of processing power and limited network connection speeds are holding back it's ability to completely replace the PC. The future of having 1 device handle all your computing needs is not that far away. You'll be able to project the device image on monitors and televisions with wireless access... Anybody doubting this probably also thinks earth is flat.