Chrome Remote Desktop works so well on the Chromebook, I haven't felt the need for a VM running on it - I just call up my desktop. But I'm doing that less and less, as the apps work really well, and the most important apps are almost all available offline now. In fact, I find the spreadsheet program to be more nimble and have some features that are missing in Excel, and I've been using it more than Excel recently.
I asked the guys at BestBuy that I bought mine from. They said they weren't getting returns. When I bought mine, they were pretty aggressive in making sure I knew that it was a web-based system, and not Windows or Mac.
There are a couple of apps, such as "imo messenger" that claim they will connect you to a skype call from within Chrome. I haven't tried them, but they get decent reviews. There's some instructions here on how to get a skype call going from a chromebook with imo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ArOPKoxE4Y
Na - I got mine from BestBuy. I walked in and asked for one - had to order it and wait for two days. The store guys said they can't keep the store inventory up with the demand, but they keep getting them in the distribution warehouses.
For either $200 or $300 you can get an Asus Chromebook with an Intel Celeron and a big hard drive. Or you can stick with the ARM devices. Lots of choices.
Yeah, it's pretty cool. Anyone can sign into it with their gmail account, so I pass it around to others a lot. Everyone loves the hell out of it. So small.
"That ROI for fraud investigation is wonderful". I've worked on several healthcare fraud cases that returned over $1 billion dollars to the US treasury (I'm not claiming credit - these things have huge teams of prosecutors and investigators working on them). Anti-fraud efforts are the most effective means of controlling rampant waste of government dollars. You are absolutely right - if we simply enforced the laws on the books, expenditures would be a fraction of what they actually are. And this applies to most countries in the world. In fact, in many countries, nepotism and bribery are much more the rule of the day than we see in the US, and the massive cost of corruption is actually built directly into the government's annual budgets.
With regard to these religious cases, keep in mind that most governments in the world won't commit to prosecuting a fraud case without being virtually assured of several million dollars in return. This is because of the enormous work required to overcome the heightened evidence pleading requirements for fraud cases in most court systems. If you think that the prosecutors of the world are going to unite and "strike down" some religion that you personally oppose, you are probably greatly mistaken.
So if my kid breaks my neighbor's window, that's not my problem either then, right? Little secret - that's not how it works in what we like to call the "real world".
France got a small fine against the bookstore after years of prosecution at huge public cost. There's no way a professional fraud examiner would pursue such a case without regard for the public treasury. To give you an example - in America, the typical Medicare fraud investigation returns $10 dollars or more to the public treasury for every $1 dollar of taxpayer money spent on the investigation.
like this with a 10-foot pole. Proving fraud has the highest level of evidence requirement of any criminal charge in most courts around the world. Numerous churches have beaten the FDA on the practicing medicine charges and have stared down many attempts by the IRS and others at charging them with fraud while sustaining minimal damage over the years. This will probably be another huge waste of time and of some government's taxpayer dollars spurred on by some locals. It's nothing new. However, higher courts almost always take the "freedom of religious expression" clauses in their constitutions very seriously and very literally, and it's almost impossible to meet the fraud pleading requirements in a case like this.
Pirated software is chock-full of malware. Are modern users too obtuse to observe this simple fact? Consider that much of what you are paying for with proprietary software is the QA process from the software maker, and the assurance that the software you install won't turn your computer into some 4chan script kiddie's zombie. Anyone who would pay the kind of ca$h required to obtain and use a new iPhone shouldn't be trying to stick pirated apps on there. Pay your five bucks - don't be a dumbass. At least you get some level of confidence (however small) that the app you install isn't going to infect your device.
Or, a better alternative is to only use devices that allow you to install free, open source software, where the community of users and developers work together to carry out the QA process. Open source solutions exist for nearly every software function.
Same experience here - I've never gotten a single comment from potential employers regarding my BS degree from UoPhx. I work with lawyers and fraud investigators all day long, and there are almost NO "fraud investigator" degree programs at any University in America. One of the only ones is at a competing online university (Utica College) and would have taken me an extra year to complete, so I stuck with finishing my program at UoPhx. As I said earlier, it is more expensive, but the competing online options are also expensive, and I would never finish a brick and mortar degree program with all the commute time without quitting work for a couple years. I'm halfway through law school now, and ultimately my BS degree won't even matter.
I agree - it was a ton of work - especially the constant study group research projects. My wife was taking a Masters at a major public university at the same time, and she would only have one large group project per class per semester (if that), while I usually had one every 1--2 weeks at UoPhx. I was writing more papers with harder grading criteria in 5-6 week classes than she was in her semester-long Master's level classes.
The extra ~$5K per year tuition was made up for by the fact I didn't have to commute 45 minutes each way to class several times a week. I already had 15 years experience, so the diploma was far more important than the school. Frankly, I wouldn't have had the time to finish at a brick-and-mortar school - I finished several of my courses while on assignment in Asia. This would have been impossible at a typical classroom. And some of my colleagues tell me UoPhx has the best online classroom technology. All-in-all, I would recommend online learning over classroom learning for any busy professional. At least you'll be able to finish, and you'll still be able to squeeze in some time for family life.
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Nah. It's just so lightweight, and it works real well. Nicely designed product.
Chrome Remote Desktop works so well on the Chromebook, I haven't felt the need for a VM running on it - I just call up my desktop. But I'm doing that less and less, as the apps work really well, and the most important apps are almost all available offline now. In fact, I find the spreadsheet program to be more nimble and have some features that are missing in Excel, and I've been using it more than Excel recently.
I asked the guys at BestBuy that I bought mine from. They said they weren't getting returns. When I bought mine, they were pretty aggressive in making sure I knew that it was a web-based system, and not Windows or Mac.
There are a couple of apps, such as "imo messenger" that claim they will connect you to a skype call from within Chrome. I haven't tried them, but they get decent reviews. There's some instructions here on how to get a skype call going from a chromebook with imo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ArOPKoxE4Y
Na - I got mine from BestBuy. I walked in and asked for one - had to order it and wait for two days. The store guys said they can't keep the store inventory up with the demand, but they keep getting them in the distribution warehouses.
For either $200 or $300 you can get an Asus Chromebook with an Intel Celeron and a big hard drive. Or you can stick with the ARM devices. Lots of choices.
Yeah, it's pretty cool. Anyone can sign into it with their gmail account, so I pass it around to others a lot. Everyone loves the hell out of it. So small.
Thousands of Android apps have already been ported to run under Chrome OS. Go to the store - it's a huge collection.
Mine rocks. For $250, can't beat it.
It is important for the nerds here to not have a circle-jerk over private space travel
What you ask is impossible. This is Slashdot.
I thought it was the year of the Linux Desktop. What the hell? We're all going to space instead of installing Ubuntu this year???
"That ROI for fraud investigation is wonderful". I've worked on several healthcare fraud cases that returned over $1 billion dollars to the US treasury (I'm not claiming credit - these things have huge teams of prosecutors and investigators working on them). Anti-fraud efforts are the most effective means of controlling rampant waste of government dollars. You are absolutely right - if we simply enforced the laws on the books, expenditures would be a fraction of what they actually are. And this applies to most countries in the world. In fact, in many countries, nepotism and bribery are much more the rule of the day than we see in the US, and the massive cost of corruption is actually built directly into the government's annual budgets.
With regard to these religious cases, keep in mind that most governments in the world won't commit to prosecuting a fraud case without being virtually assured of several million dollars in return. This is because of the enormous work required to overcome the heightened evidence pleading requirements for fraud cases in most court systems. If you think that the prosecutors of the world are going to unite and "strike down" some religion that you personally oppose, you are probably greatly mistaken.
So if my kid breaks my neighbor's window, that's not my problem either then, right? Little secret - that's not how it works in what we like to call the "real world".
France got a small fine against the bookstore after years of prosecution at huge public cost. There's no way a professional fraud examiner would pursue such a case without regard for the public treasury. To give you an example - in America, the typical Medicare fraud investigation returns $10 dollars or more to the public treasury for every $1 dollar of taxpayer money spent on the investigation.
But you'll probably agree that your experience may have been unusual in terms of avoiding malware with a random Asian pirate disc.
The term "theft" is the one that is not "legally" always associated with copying. The term "Piracy" has been associated with copying since the 1600's. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement#Colloquial_terminology.
Yes - that will work. Cause kids can't get their hands on a device from ANYONE except their parent/guardian - we ALL KNOW THAT.
like this with a 10-foot pole. Proving fraud has the highest level of evidence requirement of any criminal charge in most courts around the world. Numerous churches have beaten the FDA on the practicing medicine charges and have stared down many attempts by the IRS and others at charging them with fraud while sustaining minimal damage over the years. This will probably be another huge waste of time and of some government's taxpayer dollars spurred on by some locals. It's nothing new. However, higher courts almost always take the "freedom of religious expression" clauses in their constitutions very seriously and very literally, and it's almost impossible to meet the fraud pleading requirements in a case like this.
I'll amend my statement. "Average, non-technical computer users should assume that pirated software is chock-full of malware".
Pirated software is chock-full of malware. Are modern users too obtuse to observe this simple fact? Consider that much of what you are paying for with proprietary software is the QA process from the software maker, and the assurance that the software you install won't turn your computer into some 4chan script kiddie's zombie. Anyone who would pay the kind of ca$h required to obtain and use a new iPhone shouldn't be trying to stick pirated apps on there. Pay your five bucks - don't be a dumbass. At least you get some level of confidence (however small) that the app you install isn't going to infect your device.
Or, a better alternative is to only use devices that allow you to install free, open source software, where the community of users and developers work together to carry out the QA process. Open source solutions exist for nearly every software function.
Same experience here - I've never gotten a single comment from potential employers regarding my BS degree from UoPhx. I work with lawyers and fraud investigators all day long, and there are almost NO "fraud investigator" degree programs at any University in America. One of the only ones is at a competing online university (Utica College) and would have taken me an extra year to complete, so I stuck with finishing my program at UoPhx. As I said earlier, it is more expensive, but the competing online options are also expensive, and I would never finish a brick and mortar degree program with all the commute time without quitting work for a couple years. I'm halfway through law school now, and ultimately my BS degree won't even matter.
I agree - it was a ton of work - especially the constant study group research projects. My wife was taking a Masters at a major public university at the same time, and she would only have one large group project per class per semester (if that), while I usually had one every 1--2 weeks at UoPhx. I was writing more papers with harder grading criteria in 5-6 week classes than she was in her semester-long Master's level classes.
The extra ~$5K per year tuition was made up for by the fact I didn't have to commute 45 minutes each way to class several times a week. I already had 15 years experience, so the diploma was far more important than the school. Frankly, I wouldn't have had the time to finish at a brick-and-mortar school - I finished several of my courses while on assignment in Asia. This would have been impossible at a typical classroom. And some of my colleagues tell me UoPhx has the best online classroom technology. All-in-all, I would recommend online learning over classroom learning for any busy professional. At least you'll be able to finish, and you'll still be able to squeeze in some time for family life.
Kind of hard to say "the corrupt fear us" when you ARE "the corrupt".
Here you go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_(group)