F-35s won't be nearly in enough quantity or with enough distribution to make an effect and even if they were, I think we've pretty clearly established throughout the history of the U.S. technology alone don't win wars. And I do mean "win" I.E. conclude with no further conflict and the unconditional surrender of the enemy.
Only the North Koreans will win against North Korea.
I can think of at least three ways to get around this. And if I can, then you can bet people who've dedicated themselves to doing this have found at least fifty.
Useless purchases: You get a download link in the "Thank you" email for purchasing a useless app in the Android store or some other commonly used HTML/JS/Flash widget. If the company owns the product, it will seem like a genuine purchase for something else.
Donations to charity: Some out-of-the-way place has hapless children that need medical care and other services. You can be a generous donation to the cause and BTW, here's your complementary illegal download link to your email.
Hosting that doesn't: "We host web sites for businesses that don't need management, are purely HTML, completely secure and for a limited time. Think of a hosting carousel" and of course the hosting fee matches exactly the price of the download + operating costs
Tomato is a fruit, technically. But unless you're being needlessly pedantic, most people would put it in the vegetable category. Honey is technically produce, but etc... etc... Let's just admit few people were paying attention to the "produce" bit at all and you, along with most others were just, assuming too much.
If my Farmers' Market started selling netbooks, external HDs, motherboards and memory, yeah, I'd buy from them. Though NewEgg ships to me from Jersey usually, which is still kinda local (New York is a hop skip and a jump away). Books are harder to find outside Amazon, but Craigslist helped me to still buy local.
So far, the only electronics I've been able to buy local have been DIY stuff like PCBs that a friend prints for me and circuits I've asked to have assembled. All I don't have time and/or the skills to do myself. I still kept my old TV (a big-box Phillips) because it was good enough for what I watch and because the TV repair shop is just a short distance away in case I need it fixed.
Nerds these days do seem to have a worrying lack of attention to detail;) Besides you and ridgecritter below, everyone thought I was referring to only honey.
Don't know about your local market, but in our market, yes, it is twice as good... and then some. Plus if you're talking about produce, it hasn't been on a truck half way across the country before getting to the display shelf, so you can be sure it's fresh. You do taste a difference.
You should try to buy from your local Farmer's Market if there's one nearby, whenever possible. You will be supporting your local economy and you can be reasonably sure a local merchant isn't pumping poison into the product or the groundwater (or else someone will have noticed). Especially when it's their water too.
I stocked up on some excellent honey and combs (these are delicious!) past Summer from our local market and they hold one at least twice a week near the town square. It's a good way to meet people in your area the old fasioned way too as opposed to FB, Twitter et al.
You left out the Anti-Apple-Anti-Microsoft-Anti-Google folks or the Anti-Google-Pro-Apple... aaargh, there are too many Anti-* and Pro-* permutations to type and I'm tired.
Bottom line, I doubt any resonable person would have a problem with any *-Store as long as they don't stifle local shops. Really your choice of a brand name has less to do with shops and more to do with marketing (though effectively designed shops can add something, which Apple's did), innate appeal (which fanboys already have) and lack of choice, which Google isn't really barging into in the store front, only the search and maybe email front.
Stores are still not a problem as long as they stay at the sub-Walmart level.
AC is usually the same personality... just sometimes extra grumpy.
That said, I don't see how this is different than what Google has on their hands. Even FB shuts down fake accounts (which I don't really see happening with any regularity) those seeking anonymity are only slightly inconvenienced. Besides, FB doesn't need your approval to get you to like things anyway. They've even been doing it to dead people.
At home, I'm still on Windows for desktop work because a lot of my apps aren't so Linux friendly (I didn't upgrade to Win8 and don't plan to).
At work, some of our infastructure still depends on Windows, so this isn't an option us at the moment. But we've steadily started moving web stuff away from Windows 2008 R2 to CentOS and OpenBSD and desktops (not all, though) to Debian. I'd by lying if I said everyone was 100% comfortable at first, but like most things, a lot of it was just getting used to a new way of working. We've made the desktops as easy to use as possible and so far, 2 months into 2013, everyone's pretty happy.
For almost all our work, we had no hiccups. There are a few compatibility issues with Excel, especially.xlsx, but none are critical enough that we've seen corruption of values or formulas. The biggest problem at one time was opening slightly bigger.xlsx files sometimes caused crashes, I think around the 1000+ row mark, but they fixed it in the next update.
One of our clients was uploading inventory to Amazon and they had some issues with the provided templates, but we switched to CSV and had no problems since.
Doesn't affect us too much, since we've switched most of our internals to Libre Office, and it won't affect most of our clients who're quite happy with Office 2010 and a few who still use Office 2003. If your org needs new installations, there are better places to spend money than the office suite.
This is true, but if I had the resources to fork an existing project, then I may have had the resources to create something myself (with maybe a little extra time/effort) in the beginning as well, no?
Let's forget the stack for a while... Imagine it's just the OS. Say Ubuntu. Some of the things bundled and some of their decisions lately have been controversial, so if I've been using them for a while and maybe I don't agree with the direction... What now? Do I go with a Ubuntuesque distro that maintained what I liked before, but that may or may not be here in a year or two down the road or do I fork it myself? Or maybe dump the whole thing and go LFS completely tailoring it to my needs?
Imagine the amount of time and effort needed to do that and make sure everything I'm running currently will still work and I'll have no hiccups or at least fewer, more easily managed, hiccups.
Wouldn't I have been better off going with something custom in the first place? Or maybe even a less adventurous distro, like Debian? But then what would it take to switch to either option now that I'm already established on Ubuntu?
You see, it's easy to say fork it, and in principle I could, but doing so is rarely cake walk and seldom painless.
This. Also, there may be other applications/processes that may start up, suddenly demand resources or jump in priority, which inevitably result in a progress bar going backwards.
There's an important difference. One that's open to you is likely in-house-reinventing-the-wheel type thing (which I'm not necessarily opposed to), but will likely give you the most options if you've installed locally. After all, you'll be giving yourself those options.
The Open to Everyone Else is likely built by someone else, maybe lot of other people, and if the Rackspace controversy is any hint, you're still at the mercy of the developers and their sponsors. You're still faced with the same problem: Eucalyptus isn't controlled by me, therefore I'm still at their mercy should they decide to switch ethical gears.
If there's an emergency, I would sure hope there's a method to access it that doesn't involve a trudge through snow n' stuff, but at the same time, there ought to be someone on site if it's really important. If JJJJust is right and this is a Common Alerting Protocol system, then it should have been secured better. We just don't know what the system in question was that allowed access into the broadcast yet.
See, this is further proof, if there's an input of any sort, it needs be secured. Either by lock and key or through proper admin filtering (that's not taking into account social engineering, but I don't think they've come up with filtering for human thought yet... unless TV counts).
Those systems that were never meant to go on the internet were somehow available on the internet? It's too bad some broadcast stations don't know when to air-gap
1. Is sadly how a large number of shops turn out work. A lot of software is about brand name and marketing over quality. If it's closed source, you'll have no idea just how bad it is. Not saying open source is better, but at least someone can decide objectively whether it's rubbish or not when they can see the inner workings.
2. Happens a lot, but not as often nowadays with very popular players. And a lot less when practically the whole world is looking at you. ME with Microsoft was probably the big poster child for this, but since then, they've been better (we'll skip Vista, since its biggest problem was making things that used to work, not work anymore)
3. Is also what Google does. And frankly, it's a very good system. Provided the majority of programmers are still driven by ethos and bragging rights, the money's just icing on the cake. Of course, if they still value money more, then that's a problem for the original software makers since governments can afford to shell out more dough.
The black market is very lucrative and there are very successful programmers in that world I.E. The Grugq. Now we can debate the ethics of the business, but in the end, they're just catering to demand. Killing supply doesn't work (case in point, the war on drugs), so that leaves the demand to be worked on by companies that care more about security and clients who push for it.
This is very true. My biggest peeves were the fans which all had proprietary connectors and exorbitant prices for replacements. When I could get a regular 3 pin for less than $20 and still be quiet and efficient, why in the world would I pay more for a loud vacuum cleaner, that doesn't even vacuum properly?
"Dell". Well, there's your problem. Hindsight is 20/20, but if there's any chance at all you can move away from Dell, I would strongly consider that. You always have to balance short term expense with long term maintenance costs.
I can't speak for the RAID controller since I don't have experience there, but this response is really inexcusable.
Some companies do this: Create a public site/page somewhere and post a detailed story of how and what happened. Usually that gets a response from the company to mitigate bad PR and sometimes they may respond with a fix regardless of being out of warranty.
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They don't make CAT6a cables that long :/
F-35s won't be nearly in enough quantity or with enough distribution to make an effect and even if they were, I think we've pretty clearly established throughout the history of the U.S. technology alone don't win wars. And I do mean "win" I.E. conclude with no further conflict and the unconditional surrender of the enemy.
Only the North Koreans will win against North Korea.
I can think of at least three ways to get around this. And if I can, then you can bet people who've dedicated themselves to doing this have found at least fifty.
Tomato is a fruit, technically. But unless you're being needlessly pedantic, most people would put it in the vegetable category. Honey is technically produce, but etc... etc... Let's just admit few people were paying attention to the "produce" bit at all and you, along with most others were just, assuming too much.
If my Farmers' Market started selling netbooks, external HDs, motherboards and memory, yeah, I'd buy from them. Though NewEgg ships to me from Jersey usually, which is still kinda local (New York is a hop skip and a jump away). Books are harder to find outside Amazon, but Craigslist helped me to still buy local.
So far, the only electronics I've been able to buy local have been DIY stuff like PCBs that a friend prints for me and circuits I've asked to have assembled. All I don't have time and/or the skills to do myself. I still kept my old TV (a big-box Phillips) because it was good enough for what I watch and because the TV repair shop is just a short distance away in case I need it fixed.
Nerds these days do seem to have a worrying lack of attention to detail ;) Besides you and ridgecritter below, everyone thought I was referring to only honey.
Don't know about your local market, but in our market, yes, it is twice as good... and then some. Plus if you're talking about produce, it hasn't been on a truck half way across the country before getting to the display shelf, so you can be sure it's fresh. You do taste a difference.
You should try to buy from your local Farmer's Market if there's one nearby, whenever possible. You will be supporting your local economy and you can be reasonably sure a local merchant isn't pumping poison into the product or the groundwater (or else someone will have noticed). Especially when it's their water too.
I stocked up on some excellent honey and combs (these are delicious!) past Summer from our local market and they hold one at least twice a week near the town square. It's a good way to meet people in your area the old fasioned way too as opposed to FB, Twitter et al.
You left out the Anti-Apple-Anti-Microsoft-Anti-Google folks or the Anti-Google-Pro-Apple... aaargh, there are too many Anti-* and Pro-* permutations to type and I'm tired.
Bottom line, I doubt any resonable person would have a problem with any *-Store as long as they don't stifle local shops. Really your choice of a brand name has less to do with shops and more to do with marketing (though effectively designed shops can add something, which Apple's did), innate appeal (which fanboys already have) and lack of choice, which Google isn't really barging into in the store front, only the search and maybe email front.
Stores are still not a problem as long as they stay at the sub-Walmart level.
AC is usually the same personality... just sometimes extra grumpy.
That said, I don't see how this is different than what Google has on their hands. Even FB shuts down fake accounts (which I don't really see happening with any regularity) those seeking anonymity are only slightly inconvenienced. Besides, FB doesn't need your approval to get you to like things anyway. They've even been doing it to dead people.
At home, I'm still on Windows for desktop work because a lot of my apps aren't so Linux friendly (I didn't upgrade to Win8 and don't plan to).
At work, some of our infastructure still depends on Windows, so this isn't an option us at the moment. But we've steadily started moving web stuff away from Windows 2008 R2 to CentOS and OpenBSD and desktops (not all, though) to Debian. I'd by lying if I said everyone was 100% comfortable at first, but like most things, a lot of it was just getting used to a new way of working. We've made the desktops as easy to use as possible and so far, 2 months into 2013, everyone's pretty happy.
For almost all our work, we had no hiccups. There are a few compatibility issues with Excel, especially .xlsx, but none are critical enough that we've seen corruption of values or formulas. The biggest problem at one time was opening slightly bigger .xlsx files sometimes caused crashes, I think around the 1000+ row mark, but they fixed it in the next update.
One of our clients was uploading inventory to Amazon and they had some issues with the provided templates, but we switched to CSV and had no problems since.
Doesn't affect us too much, since we've switched most of our internals to Libre Office, and it won't affect most of our clients who're quite happy with Office 2010 and a few who still use Office 2003. If your org needs new installations, there are better places to spend money than the office suite.
Don't be Florida on your resume. Next...
Naturally. If there was a miscalculation during the flyby and there's an impact, it's a Small Bang.
This is true, but if I had the resources to fork an existing project, then I may have had the resources to create something myself (with maybe a little extra time/effort) in the beginning as well, no?
Let's forget the stack for a while... Imagine it's just the OS. Say Ubuntu. Some of the things bundled and some of their decisions lately have been controversial, so if I've been using them for a while and maybe I don't agree with the direction... What now? Do I go with a Ubuntuesque distro that maintained what I liked before, but that may or may not be here in a year or two down the road or do I fork it myself? Or maybe dump the whole thing and go LFS completely tailoring it to my needs?
Imagine the amount of time and effort needed to do that and make sure everything I'm running currently will still work and I'll have no hiccups or at least fewer, more easily managed, hiccups.
Wouldn't I have been better off going with something custom in the first place? Or maybe even a less adventurous distro, like Debian? But then what would it take to switch to either option now that I'm already established on Ubuntu?
You see, it's easy to say fork it, and in principle I could, but doing so is rarely cake walk and seldom painless.
People don't work on logic... especially when we're impatient :/
Honestly, I would welcome the demise of the progress bar if it were replaced with an activity animation along with Andy Rooney quotes.
This. Also, there may be other applications/processes that may start up, suddenly demand resources or jump in priority, which inevitably result in a progress bar going backwards.
There's an important difference. One that's open to you is likely in-house-reinventing-the-wheel type thing (which I'm not necessarily opposed to), but will likely give you the most options if you've installed locally. After all, you'll be giving yourself those options.
The Open to Everyone Else is likely built by someone else, maybe lot of other people, and if the Rackspace controversy is any hint, you're still at the mercy of the developers and their sponsors. You're still faced with the same problem: Eucalyptus isn't controlled by me, therefore I'm still at their mercy should they decide to switch ethical gears.
If there's an emergency, I would sure hope there's a method to access it that doesn't involve a trudge through snow n' stuff, but at the same time, there ought to be someone on site if it's really important. If JJJJust is right and this is a Common Alerting Protocol system, then it should have been secured better. We just don't know what the system in question was that allowed access into the broadcast yet.
Ha! Priceless!
See, this is further proof, if there's an input of any sort, it needs be secured. Either by lock and key or through proper admin filtering (that's not taking into account social engineering, but I don't think they've come up with filtering for human thought yet... unless TV counts).
Those systems that were never meant to go on the internet were somehow available on the internet? It's too bad some broadcast stations don't know when to air-gap
1. Is sadly how a large number of shops turn out work. A lot of software is about brand name and marketing over quality. If it's closed source, you'll have no idea just how bad it is. Not saying open source is better, but at least someone can decide objectively whether it's rubbish or not when they can see the inner workings.
2. Happens a lot, but not as often nowadays with very popular players. And a lot less when practically the whole world is looking at you. ME with Microsoft was probably the big poster child for this, but since then, they've been better (we'll skip Vista, since its biggest problem was making things that used to work, not work anymore)
3. Is also what Google does. And frankly, it's a very good system. Provided the majority of programmers are still driven by ethos and bragging rights, the money's just icing on the cake. Of course, if they still value money more, then that's a problem for the original software makers since governments can afford to shell out more dough.
The black market is very lucrative and there are very successful programmers in that world I.E. The Grugq. Now we can debate the ethics of the business, but in the end, they're just catering to demand. Killing supply doesn't work (case in point, the war on drugs), so that leaves the demand to be worked on by companies that care more about security and clients who push for it.
This is very true. My biggest peeves were the fans which all had proprietary connectors and exorbitant prices for replacements. When I could get a regular 3 pin for less than $20 and still be quiet and efficient, why in the world would I pay more for a loud vacuum cleaner, that doesn't even vacuum properly?
"Dell". Well, there's your problem. Hindsight is 20/20, but if there's any chance at all you can move away from Dell, I would strongly consider that. You always have to balance short term expense with long term maintenance costs.
I can't speak for the RAID controller since I don't have experience there, but this response is really inexcusable.
Some companies do this: Create a public site/page somewhere and post a detailed story of how and what happened. Usually that gets a response from the company to mitigate bad PR and sometimes they may respond with a fix regardless of being out of warranty.