The 90's are gone - Microsoft has figured out that leasing their software in the cloud is the next giant pool of money to be had.
In a world where you don't run software or store data locally, operating systems are a low-value commodity item. It wouldn't surprise me if in the next few years Microsoft stops selling boxed software licenses entirely.
If you want to run Microsoft, you will pay the piper every month for the privilege.
Unchecked power - in any form - leads to bad things. Big government crusaders conveniently ignore much of human history where governments killed their own people.
Personally, I want both the anti-government and nanny-state government type crazies - and hopefully we end up somewhere in the sensible middle.
After years of trying a myriad of communication apps, I though Hangouts was the one. A cross-platform system that unified all of my communications. Coupled with Google Voice/Google Fi/ on my Nexus 5x - it was damn good.
It took me a year to get all the iOS users around me to install Hangouts. They didn't want to be bothered with yet another communication app - but I stuck with it and eventually everyone got on Hangouts.
Now Google wants me to do the same with two more apps - and then force me to be tethered to my phone? Screw that.
My new iPhone arrives on Friday. I can't keep up with the corporate A.D.D. that afflicts Google's management.
I've asked lots of cops about ticket quotas - and every one of them says they don't have quotas, but their chief wants them to meet or exceed "performance metrics" similar to other districts.
So yeah - that cop isn't "required" to write you that ticket, but if he wants his promotion - he will.
Do you honestly think the executive branch had no knowledge of the NSA's domestic spying activities? I'm willing to be ALL branches of government not only knew of these activities, but actively used them for their benefit.
There is no way anyone in government is going to pardon individuals that engage in actions that restrict government authority and power.
Native always gives a better user experience. I can't tell you how many responsive websites simply don't look right on tablets or are not optimized for the benefits of tablets.
Native apps are typically faster and easier to use - that's why most people want native apps.
Why would you buy a Microsoft phone over an iOS or Android device? Until Microsoft has a good answer for that question, it won't matter what they call the phone.
My wife works for a very large bank on an interaction design team. She recently bought a Windows 10 phone to get comfortable with the interface. Her boss asked "Why did you do that? Hardly any of our customers are Windows phone users - so we won't be working on that platform much longer."
If you can't get one of the worlds biggest banks to work on an app for that platform, the platform is doomed.
Your beloved government-run NASA pushed Thiokol to fly Challenger in conditions that were outside of the the tested design limits.
The free market does push for better, faster and cheaper. NASA, left to its own devices, has no motivation to lower the cost of space flight - frankly they have every incentive to be bigger and slower. NASA strategically located offices and subcontractors in various congressional districts, not for cost efficiency, but to encourage congress to keep the cash flowing.
Competition and free markets made the USA the biggest and most dynamic economy the world has ever seen. China's recent successes are due almost completely to opening of their markets - even their communist party was able to figure that out.
Hillary's supporters don't care about Hillary - they care about the cause. Hillary is just one soldier in the war for this cause.
The cause is to grow government way beyond it's constitutional bounds. The cause is forcing you to disarm "for the benefit of society". The cause is higher taxes and even higher spending. The cause is national debt that our great grand kids will never be able to repay.
The cause is "it takes a village to raise a child" or stated another way "government should raise my child because I can't be bothered to".
Liberals envision a world where government is big enough to solve all problems.
Unfortunately, a government big enough to solve all of your problems is big enough to take everything you have.
Geez people - if a 3.5mm analog jack built into the phone is so important, buy any one of the many, many, Android devices on the market - or any other iPhone that Apple still sells, or just use the stupid adapter that comes with the phone.
Audiophiles don't listen to music - they listen to music equipment. If you want to piss off an audiophile, find one with a really high end audio system. You can usually identify them by the $1000/foot "directional" audio cables connecting the equipment together - then tell them this:
Show them the cheapest XLR cable you can find and tell them everything they are listening to, most likely, went through those cables first.
If life in an Apple contracted factory is bad, it must be even worse working for lower margin companies. Where is the outrage about the working conditions in the factories that supply the thousands of other companies that source their manufacturing in China?
If the Chinese people are unhappy with their worker and environmental protections, the Chinese people need to make those changes. We, in the west, can not and should not change China to what we feel is the "right" way.
I have a 16TB array with about 3TB of data stored on it (Synology NAS device).
I backup to 3 external USB drives rotating them once a month. One is attached to the NAS device. One is stored in my fire-proof safe. One more is stored in a safe at work.
I also backup my data to Amazon's Glacier service just in case of a regional disaster (think a Katrina style event).
The only thing that is manually required in my setup is the external drive rotation and occasionally checking the backup disks to make sure the files are readable. Everything else happens automatically nightly.
Hillary Clinton co-mingled personal and official government communications on her private email server. All of those communications are subject to the Federal Records Act and the Freedom of Information Act.
Her personal emails ceased to be personal when she co-mingled them with official government communications. HRC and her lawyers were not authorized to decide what is relevant to FRA and FOIA and what is not.
HRC and her lawyers deleted 30,000 or so emails that are not recoverable - therefore she is in violation of both the FRA and FOIA.
HRC should be, at the very least, in front of a jury to answer for her actions.
I'm old enough to remember the LA smog in the 80s.
That doesn't really happen anymore. The way climate change people talk, it would seem like there has been no environmental progress since the start of the industrial revolution.
I've been helping out a school near me that is in the process of replacing their IT guy. He built the school a web-based student information system on a cloud-hosted LAMP stack. The position requires maintaining that application, and doing all the infrastructure/desktop support.
Over the summer I re-engineered their entire network - new firewalls, switches, access points, VLANs, and a new IP phone system.
I met their new "highly qualified" IT director. She has a masters degree in computer science. We did a walkthrough of the new network design and all the new components. During the review of the firewall rules she asked me a doozy:
"What's TCP and UDP?"
How on earth does a Masters Degree holder in Comp Sci get those credentials without understanding basic internet protocols?
School work only gets you so far in this business.
I didn't suggest that borders should be eliminated. Our world is not the panecea I spoke about - therefore borders are needed to separate people with different cultural values and systems.
Why is 0.2% the magic number? Clearly the program is being abused to artificially lower domestic labor costs - not to recruit rare talent as originally intended.
The H1b visa program is a prime example of an immigration policy that needs to be either reformed or eliminated. A good fix might be to set a minimum wage for any H1b visa position. I suspect $150,000 per year minimum salary would fix the problem overnight.
In an ideal world, the flow of labor, capital and ideas should be free and borderless - but we do not live in an ideal world.
Countries have differing laws, social programs and structures. To protect a country's citizens and its social programs and infrastructure, there needs to be sensible immigration control.
Flooding any nation with immigrants until social structures break benefits no one. Immigration is a noble thing (both of my grandparents were immigrants), but there are practical limitations that need to be enforced.
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Yes, yes - PPTP needs to go into the trash bin - but there are devices that do not yet support L2TP or IPSEC (I'm looking at you Ubiquiti).
is that his administration will succeed in burning BOTH the GOP and Democratic parties to the ground.
Neither party deserves to survive this election cycle.
The 90's are gone - Microsoft has figured out that leasing their software in the cloud is the next giant pool of money to be had.
In a world where you don't run software or store data locally, operating systems are a low-value commodity item. It wouldn't surprise me if in the next few years Microsoft stops selling boxed software licenses entirely.
If you want to run Microsoft, you will pay the piper every month for the privilege.
What happens when government itself is poisoning your water?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Unchecked power - in any form - leads to bad things. Big government crusaders conveniently ignore much of human history where governments killed their own people.
Personally, I want both the anti-government and nanny-state government type crazies - and hopefully we end up somewhere in the sensible middle.
After years of trying a myriad of communication apps, I though Hangouts was the one. A cross-platform system that unified all of my communications. Coupled with Google Voice/Google Fi/ on my Nexus 5x - it was damn good.
It took me a year to get all the iOS users around me to install Hangouts. They didn't want to be bothered with yet another communication app - but I stuck with it and eventually everyone got on Hangouts.
Now Google wants me to do the same with two more apps - and then force me to be tethered to my phone? Screw that.
My new iPhone arrives on Friday. I can't keep up with the corporate A.D.D. that afflicts Google's management.
Anecdotes abound. I know tons of people with iPhone 6/s phones and work with many, many more. I don't know of a single person that has this issue.
Without actual failure numbers, it's impossible to know if this is a widespread issue or not.
Could it be that this issue only affects a tiny percentage of the millions of phones in use?
Snowden did assist the enemies of the US Government - this is true.
The US Government believes its enemies are its very own citizens.
I've asked lots of cops about ticket quotas - and every one of them says they don't have quotas, but their chief wants them to meet or exceed "performance metrics" similar to other districts.
So yeah - that cop isn't "required" to write you that ticket, but if he wants his promotion - he will.
Do you honestly think the executive branch had no knowledge of the NSA's domestic spying activities? I'm willing to be ALL branches of government not only knew of these activities, but actively used them for their benefit.
There is no way anyone in government is going to pardon individuals that engage in actions that restrict government authority and power.
Native always gives a better user experience. I can't tell you how many responsive websites simply don't look right on tablets or are not optimized for the benefits of tablets.
Native apps are typically faster and easier to use - that's why most people want native apps.
Why would you buy a Microsoft phone over an iOS or Android device? Until Microsoft has a good answer for that question, it won't matter what they call the phone.
My wife works for a very large bank on an interaction design team. She recently bought a Windows 10 phone to get comfortable with the interface. Her boss asked "Why did you do that? Hardly any of our customers are Windows phone users - so we won't be working on that platform much longer."
If you can't get one of the worlds biggest banks to work on an app for that platform, the platform is doomed.
Your beloved government-run NASA pushed Thiokol to fly Challenger in conditions that were outside of the the tested design limits.
The free market does push for better, faster and cheaper. NASA, left to its own devices, has no motivation to lower the cost of space flight - frankly they have every incentive to be bigger and slower. NASA strategically located offices and subcontractors in various congressional districts, not for cost efficiency, but to encourage congress to keep the cash flowing.
Competition and free markets made the USA the biggest and most dynamic economy the world has ever seen. China's recent successes are due almost completely to opening of their markets - even their communist party was able to figure that out.
One of the two candidates in our upcoming presidential election has promised to fix the H-1B problem and the other has not.
I suspect IT workers in California will still vote "D" come November believing that Democrats actually care about the working class.
Hillary's supporters don't care about Hillary - they care about the cause. Hillary is just one soldier in the war for this cause.
The cause is to grow government way beyond it's constitutional bounds. The cause is forcing you to disarm "for the benefit of society". The cause is higher taxes and even higher spending. The cause is national debt that our great grand kids will never be able to repay.
The cause is "it takes a village to raise a child" or stated another way "government should raise my child because I can't be bothered to".
Liberals envision a world where government is big enough to solve all problems.
Unfortunately, a government big enough to solve all of your problems is big enough to take everything you have.
...that money can buy.
"Of the people, by the people and for the people" ended a long time ago.
Geez people - if a 3.5mm analog jack built into the phone is so important, buy any one of the many, many, Android devices on the market - or any other iPhone that Apple still sells, or just use the stupid adapter that comes with the phone.
This phony outrage is ridiculous.
You know the saying:
Audiophiles don't listen to music - they listen to music equipment. If you want to piss off an audiophile, find one with a really high end audio system. You can usually identify them by the $1000/foot "directional" audio cables connecting the equipment together - then tell them this:
Show them the cheapest XLR cable you can find and tell them everything they are listening to, most likely, went through those cables first.
If life in an Apple contracted factory is bad, it must be even worse working for lower margin companies. Where is the outrage about the working conditions in the factories that supply the thousands of other companies that source their manufacturing in China?
If the Chinese people are unhappy with their worker and environmental protections, the Chinese people need to make those changes. We, in the west, can not and should not change China to what we feel is the "right" way.
I have a 16TB array with about 3TB of data stored on it (Synology NAS device).
I backup to 3 external USB drives rotating them once a month. One is attached to the NAS device. One is stored in my fire-proof safe. One more is stored in a safe at work.
I also backup my data to Amazon's Glacier service just in case of a regional disaster (think a Katrina style event).
The only thing that is manually required in my setup is the external drive rotation and occasionally checking the backup disks to make sure the files are readable. Everything else happens automatically nightly.
Hillary Clinton co-mingled personal and official government communications on her private email server. All of those communications are subject to the Federal Records Act and the Freedom of Information Act.
Her personal emails ceased to be personal when she co-mingled them with official government communications. HRC and her lawyers were not authorized to decide what is relevant to FRA and FOIA and what is not.
HRC and her lawyers deleted 30,000 or so emails that are not recoverable - therefore she is in violation of both the FRA and FOIA.
HRC should be, at the very least, in front of a jury to answer for her actions.
I'm old enough to remember the LA smog in the 80s.
That doesn't really happen anymore. The way climate change people talk, it would seem like there has been no environmental progress since the start of the industrial revolution.
Rivers used to catch fire in this country:
http://clevelandhistorical.org...
That doesn't seem to happen much anymore either.
I'm sure back then, people argued against smog and water pollution controls as well. These changes take time - but they eventually happen.
I've been helping out a school near me that is in the process of replacing their IT guy. He built the school a web-based student information system on a cloud-hosted LAMP stack. The position requires maintaining that application, and doing all the infrastructure/desktop support.
Over the summer I re-engineered their entire network - new firewalls, switches, access points, VLANs, and a new IP phone system.
I met their new "highly qualified" IT director. She has a masters degree in computer science. We did a walkthrough of the new network design and all the new components. During the review of the firewall rules she asked me a doozy:
"What's TCP and UDP?"
How on earth does a Masters Degree holder in Comp Sci get those credentials without understanding basic internet protocols?
School work only gets you so far in this business.
I didn't suggest that borders should be eliminated. Our world is not the panecea I spoke about - therefore borders are needed to separate people with different cultural values and systems.
Why is 0.2% the magic number? Clearly the program is being abused to artificially lower domestic labor costs - not to recruit rare talent as originally intended.
The H1b visa program is a prime example of an immigration policy that needs to be either reformed or eliminated. A good fix might be to set a minimum wage for any H1b visa position. I suspect $150,000 per year minimum salary would fix the problem overnight.
A country without borders is no longer a country.
In an ideal world, the flow of labor, capital and ideas should be free and borderless - but we do not live in an ideal world.
Countries have differing laws, social programs and structures. To protect a country's citizens and its social programs and infrastructure, there needs to be sensible immigration control.
Flooding any nation with immigrants until social structures break benefits no one. Immigration is a noble thing (both of my grandparents were immigrants), but there are practical limitations that need to be enforced.