That's unfortunate. Your friend is now responsible for any harm caused by not securing his gun. He'll never know it, and probably isn't evolved enough to care, but he's likely to be responsible for murder.
>If someone comes for your electronics specifically, it's an inside job. You can avoid that by screening your friends better.
His friends, or the hookers he's having over. As mythosaz points out, these things are almost always inside-jobs. When a friend who lived in a dodgy neighborhood was robbed, the first thing the cop asked was "have you had any broads over." Now I don't condone calling women "broads," but this tells us what the police are seeing.
Screening your associates, and having insurance to cover any potential loss is the solution to this situation. Applying technological solutions to a non-technical problem is a common mistake geeks make, the same as a man with a hammer seeing all problems as nails.
>Some sites such as the daily mail missed publication because of the outage, so it obviously wasn't minor to everyone.
Isn't the Daily Fail missing publication a huge win for anyone who cares about honesty?
Are you asserting that it wasn't minor for right-wing liars, and we should somehow be upset that the absurd propaganda didn't get out to the rubes on-time?
More seriously, pointing people to much less capable software is not going to help them do their jobs. If Adobe moving to a subscription model actually causes ongoing hardship, it'll open the way for a real competitor.
I'm OK with Amazon sharing info on someone who's obviously a mad bomber in the making. I'm not OK with them sharing data to prosecute people who's only crimes are violation of prohibitions that would be handled by a ministry of virtue and vice in an Islamic country, and are only prohibited because we've allowed Christian religious nutters too much power here. Drugs, gambling, and prostitution fall into this category.
>Out of three OCZ drives I have had two failures within the first two weeks of use.
Out of six OCZ SSDs, I've never had a single failure. They've only gone out of service when replaced by larger drives as they became affordable.
They seem to be fine in my environment, but I'm not pulling power cords out while the PC is on.
Cheap housing, easily available crack and crackheads to buy cheap electronics from, and loads of feral dogs for the kids to play with. What's not to like?
I guess the root of the problem is the submitter then. The charity needs to replace them with a less-biased person so the best decision can be made, whether that be OSS or a free-or-cheap charity license for Access.
Probably, but it's extremely dangerous to depend on any Google product for even a charity. You don't control availability or the update cycle, so they're really only suitable for personal use unless you pay to operate the Google apps in-house from your own server.
>That is only true until Microsoft changes the UI for access completely again and then nobody can use it.
Newer versions of Office do not download themselves and screw up a business like smart-phone apps do to their users.
The old version continues to work indefinitely. The user has to actually choose to buy the new version, and should understand any changes that will come with it.
There are plenty of real problems in the world. No need to make up imaginary ones.
>Agreed. If there is truly no IT expertise and _no budget_, then I'd say a spreadsheet is what will serve them best.
Since they have no budget, I think they should steal a pencil from a no-tech bowling alley, and log their info on the backs of junk-mail. No one has to buy a computer or pay for Internet to D/L Libre/Open.
>Star/Open/Libre Office are shit for anything more than the bare basics.
The Word Processors in those packages are very capable. I haven't needed MS Office at home for many years now thanks to those alternatives. What about them left you unsatisfied to such a tremendous degree that you label them "shit?"
No we don't. We're going to need more info to see if you're referencing associates of yours, or are maybe some kind of racist, since the ignorant conservatives use "thug" as code for black people, and we don't know if you're one of those awful people.
>it will be the first step in a slippery slope by which the phone grabbers
You either have a very weird sense of humor or mental problems.
>is quite obviously to increase software companies' control over users
No, it only increases Adobe's control over their own software. This does not give them control over you. You can still do pretty much whatever you want with yourself or your own property.
>and to get them used to a subscription model that provides those companies with a continuous income stream
Of course. Do you somehow believe that companies should not be able to determine their own business-model? The fact that Adobe once offered an unlimited license to their software was their choice at the time. It didn't entitle you to anything regarding their future business.
>The Cloud can NEVER fail. NEVER I tell you! Only we can fail the cloud.
It really can't as long as your architecture is sound. Depending on a single cloud provider is a design failure. This does not undermine the value of having a 3rd party manage servers and software so you don't need to do it in-house.
>Software as a service has only one thing to recommend it. When it fails, just like it has here, you'll have someone else to blame it on.
Your inability to see the benefits does not cause them to not exist.
> Of course your boss might not believe you, since he or she has been sold on the cloud and all it emcompasses is the zenith of civilization
If your boss doesn't believe his own eyes, you have a more serious problem than a software outage.
You come across a zealot who should never be taken seriously.
Probably not. Few people want to migrate to less-capable software. Learning new software is only worthwhile if the new software is more capable than the software you're currently familiar with.
You obviously know your post is that of a stupid person, or you would have put your name on it. Why be stupid in public when you're aware of the problem? Does insulting people help with your appropriately low self-esteem?
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That's unfortunate. Your friend is now responsible for any harm caused by not securing his gun. He'll never know it, and probably isn't evolved enough to care, but he's likely to be responsible for murder.
Say no to Dougs.
>If someone comes for your electronics specifically, it's an inside job. You can avoid that by screening your friends better.
His friends, or the hookers he's having over. As mythosaz points out, these things are almost always inside-jobs. When a friend who lived in a dodgy neighborhood was robbed, the first thing the cop asked was "have you had any broads over." Now I don't condone calling women "broads," but this tells us what the police are seeing.
Screening your associates, and having insurance to cover any potential loss is the solution to this situation. Applying technological solutions to a non-technical problem is a common mistake geeks make, the same as a man with a hammer seeing all problems as nails.
>Some sites such as the daily mail missed publication because of the outage, so it obviously wasn't minor to everyone.
Isn't the Daily Fail missing publication a huge win for anyone who cares about honesty? Are you asserting that it wasn't minor for right-wing liars, and we should somehow be upset that the absurd propaganda didn't get out to the rubes on-time?
Windows says that's an invalid command. ;>
More seriously, pointing people to much less capable software is not going to help them do their jobs. If Adobe moving to a subscription model actually causes ongoing hardship, it'll open the way for a real competitor.
I'm OK with Amazon sharing info on someone who's obviously a mad bomber in the making. I'm not OK with them sharing data to prosecute people who's only crimes are violation of prohibitions that would be handled by a ministry of virtue and vice in an Islamic country, and are only prohibited because we've allowed Christian religious nutters too much power here. Drugs, gambling, and prostitution fall into this category.
>Out of three OCZ drives I have had two failures within the first two weeks of use.
Out of six OCZ SSDs, I've never had a single failure. They've only gone out of service when replaced by larger drives as they became affordable. They seem to be fine in my environment, but I'm not pulling power cords out while the PC is on.
>Is Apple trying to learn how to embrace-extend-extinguish?
Pretty much, but iMessage does give Apple people some capabilities that SMS lacks, so it's not all bad. It probably ducks SMS fees too.
Buy a new iPhone, initialize it to your account, turn off iMessage, and sell the iPhone. Simple! (but insane)
> Personally, I can vouch for the rogueish good looks, sense of humour, and alcohol tolerance of Irish men.
Don't doubt this guy, he knows Irish men, but his spelling tells me it's not Irish-Americans he's talking about. I'll vouch for the Irish-Americans.
>Men should have jobs avoiding people.
I think you're projecting your social phobia onto other men. Many of us are fine dealing with people.
Cheap housing, easily available crack and crackheads to buy cheap electronics from, and loads of feral dogs for the kids to play with. What's not to like?
>Being a die-hard OSS geek
I guess the root of the problem is the submitter then. The charity needs to replace them with a less-biased person so the best decision can be made, whether that be OSS or a free-or-cheap charity license for Access.
Probably, but it's extremely dangerous to depend on any Google product for even a charity. You don't control availability or the update cycle, so they're really only suitable for personal use unless you pay to operate the Google apps in-house from your own server.
>That is only true until Microsoft changes the UI for access completely again and then nobody can use it.
Newer versions of Office do not download themselves and screw up a business like smart-phone apps do to their users.
The old version continues to work indefinitely. The user has to actually choose to buy the new version, and should understand any changes that will come with it.
There are plenty of real problems in the world. No need to make up imaginary ones.
>Agreed. If there is truly no IT expertise and _no budget_, then I'd say a spreadsheet is what will serve them best.
Since they have no budget, I think they should steal a pencil from a no-tech bowling alley, and log their info on the backs of junk-mail. No one has to buy a computer or pay for Internet to D/L Libre/Open.
>Star/Open/Libre Office are shit for anything more than the bare basics.
The Word Processors in those packages are very capable. I haven't needed MS Office at home for many years now thanks to those alternatives. What about them left you unsatisfied to such a tremendous degree that you label them "shit?"
>you know who I mean
No we don't. We're going to need more info to see if you're referencing associates of yours, or are maybe some kind of racist, since the ignorant conservatives use "thug" as code for black people, and we don't know if you're one of those awful people.
>it will be the first step in a slippery slope by which the phone grabbers
You either have a very weird sense of humor or mental problems.
>No, most phones don't have locks on them.
>They wouldn't be much use, as phones are intended neither to hold valuable objects
Are you posting from 1990? Of course phones hold valuable info and have locks on them.
>is quite obviously to increase software companies' control over users
No, it only increases Adobe's control over their own software. This does not give them control over you. You can still do pretty much whatever you want with yourself or your own property.
>and to get them used to a subscription model that provides those companies with a continuous income stream
Of course. Do you somehow believe that companies should not be able to determine their own business-model? The fact that Adobe once offered an unlimited license to their software was their choice at the time. It didn't entitle you to anything regarding their future business.
>The Cloud can NEVER fail. NEVER I tell you! Only we can fail the cloud.
It really can't as long as your architecture is sound. Depending on a single cloud provider is a design failure. This does not undermine the value of having a 3rd party manage servers and software so you don't need to do it in-house.
>Software as a service has only one thing to recommend it. When it fails, just like it has here, you'll have someone else to blame it on.
Your inability to see the benefits does not cause them to not exist.
> Of course your boss might not believe you, since he or she has been sold on the cloud and all it emcompasses is the zenith of civilization
If your boss doesn't believe his own eyes, you have a more serious problem than a software outage.
You come across a zealot who should never be taken seriously.
Probably not. Few people want to migrate to less-capable software. Learning new software is only worthwhile if the new software is more capable than the software you're currently familiar with.
>Adobe, incompetent? I wasn't aware that there was any doubt about that?
I'm sure there is. They've accomplished more than most companies. Have you written anything as useful as Premiere or Photoshop?
You obviously know your post is that of a stupid person, or you would have put your name on it. Why be stupid in public when you're aware of the problem? Does insulting people help with your appropriately low self-esteem?
When you post something insane, don't expect people to spend a lot of time on you. The only asshole here is you.