Desktop computing is confusing to many people, whether Windows or Linux or Mac or anything else.
"My document disappeared!" (no concept of files/folders)
"My application disappeared!" (user dragged the icon off its dock/start menu)
etc
Sure, you can teach them, but that illustrates the problem - you need training to do these things. A vastly simpler and therefore more obvious computing environment is preferred by these people.
Ubuntu or whatever else you're recommending may be a better desktop computing environment, but the iPhone/iPad experience is something else besides a desktop computing environment - which is why it's so reviled by many techies and loved by so many non-computer people.
They don't want a self-cleaning convection oven with adjustable racks and programmable start times. They want a toaster.
He mentioned NAS, not cloud storage - which probably means a fileserver in his house, on the same local network. His point was that you can have fast local storage, plus networked slow storage for things that don't need it. Even DVDs only need 10 Mbps; less if they're turned into MP4s, which will easily work over even 12 Mbps 802.11b. So stick all your MP3s, MP4s, and DVD rips on a RAID NAS in your house, and not on your desktop machine.
And yes, US broadband sucks ass. For comparison, I have 50 Mbps down / 20 Mbps up with no limits or throttling, for about $24 USD a month. No yearly contract either or else it'd be slightly cheaper ($22 USD).
I don't think you're looking far back enough either. The civil war is when corporations went from time-limited, specific-purpose vehicles to "anything to make a buck" that last forever. Shortly thereafter in 1886 corporations gained personhood. It's been all downhill from there.
In your post, you say "mere criticism isn't helpful" and "we have it so good". In your sig, you criticize the US, which isn't helpful according to you, and implies that we don't have it so good. Do you see the dichotomy now?
No, it is because bandwidth costs are seriously hurting them that's why.
Last I heard, they used peering to reduce their bandwidth costs for Youtube to near-zero.
For all this "In the cloud" dotbomb style stuff to work, we'll probably need a good 3-4 times the bandwidth we have now.
Google Docs is an "in the cloud" app and doesn't require any excessive amount of bandwidth. Neither will most other apps; they're just web pages to the user, and mostly text at that. Salesforce.com, one of the bigger cloud apps, is also mostly text. I'm not sure what you think is going to use up all this bandwidth.
Anyways most businesses pay by the 95th percentile of their usage. They're already metered. More bandwidth used = more profits.
>Also what about valet parking? Need to kill it and restart the car or the valet can go to jail for starting the car?
So don't use valet parking. The court lets you keep driving so you can do necessary functions (go to work, grocery shopping, taking kids to school/daycare, etc), not so you can eat out at a fancy restaurant.
You're on probation as an alternative to jail; yes, your liberties are curtailed.
>And why are the monthly fees + install why can you just buy this?
There's an associated monitoring service to make sure you're in compliance, and also to keep the thing calibrated. The service likes to get paid.
Data centers already provide power and network - why don't they also provide shared storage?
The data center can buy several big mean SANs, and then provision storage sets to customers. Customers then only have to pay for what they use, can add space without installing new hardware, and get speed and reliability.
So, you're able to hand in expenses using your personal card? (which contradicts the part about your company insisting on a corporate AMEX) Or you just don't get reimbursed?
At my old company, your choices were comply with the requirements, don't get reimbursed, or leave the company (voluntarily or not). With dozens of thousands of people, they just didn't care about your personal feelings on third party vendors.
These are rather rare in the US. Most cars from the last 30 years are front-wheel drive and automatic (trucks and sports models excepted). The back wheels tend to just hold up the car and aren't involved in power.
And yes, technically this means that any use of inline assembler is forbidden (e.g. to optimize part of a 3D engine, even the rest is completely written in C), which does not make any sense whatsoever either.
Using inline assembly ties you to that CPU architecture (and possibly that version of that CPU; your optimizations might not be beneficial on a later version of the CPU). Apple has switched architectures before, and may do so again.
What I can't conceive of is a conspiracy to bring down WTC 7 (Why?),
Several investigative government agencies were housed in WTC7 (Securities & Exchange Commission, US Secret Service, IRS). A good way to lose a big investigation and all the evidence associated with it is to blow up the building! Or, like the official story, it just was just collateral damage from the towers.
or them shipping explosives into the WTC to bring it down because, somehow, legally, someone isn't allowed to tear it down and wants to.
Pay $xxx to remove all the asbestos and do needed repairs, or blow it up and cash in the $4 to $7 billion insurance check. Insurance fraud should be readily understandable.
Is $4 billion enough of an incentive to kill a few thousand people? Maybe, maybe not - maybe the towers were going to be knocked over anyways and someone let their friend get in on the deal. Looking for just one motive and actor for everything that happened that day is naive.
If I remember correctly, the ReplayTV DVRs had an infrared emitter, specifically to change channels on cable boxes. Presumably this trick would still work.
It's actually like Earth Class Mail, which scans your mail, and has a government postal service outsource program. Notably, they do this for Swiss Post.
After reading Zumbox's site, I'm still trying to figure out why I would open an account there. It seems not only do I have to sign up for it, all my service providers do too. If my electric company is too dumb to offer e-bills, why would they offer this?
Username and password would've been just as effective as a certificate, and much less hassle. My guess is they had one user/pass for the company. Shared passwords are bad.
That was neither said nor implied. The grandparent was commenting on the intelligence required for a job, not the intelligence of the people actually doing it. Worth was not mentioned at all, until you brought it up.
If Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein worked at a taco stand together, that doesn't mean you have to be a genius to make tacos. Likewise, no matter how smart the janitors you've known are, nothing about pushing a broom or cleaning bathrooms requires great intelligence.
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Cool, so more vacation days won't hurt our GDP.
Desktop computing is confusing to many people, whether Windows or Linux or Mac or anything else.
"My document disappeared!" (no concept of files/folders)
"My application disappeared!" (user dragged the icon off its dock/start menu)
etc
Sure, you can teach them, but that illustrates the problem - you need training to do these things. A vastly simpler and therefore more obvious computing environment is preferred by these people.
Ubuntu or whatever else you're recommending may be a better desktop computing environment, but the iPhone/iPad experience is something else besides a desktop computing environment - which is why it's so reviled by many techies and loved by so many non-computer people.
They don't want a self-cleaning convection oven with adjustable racks and programmable start times. They want a toaster.
Pfft, 6-digiter.
Aside from the already-mentioned Expose, there's Command-Tab (switch between apps) and Command-tilde (~) to switch between windows of the same app.
He mentioned NAS, not cloud storage - which probably means a fileserver in his house, on the same local network. His point was that you can have fast local storage, plus networked slow storage for things that don't need it. Even DVDs only need 10 Mbps; less if they're turned into MP4s, which will easily work over even 12 Mbps 802.11b. So stick all your MP3s, MP4s, and DVD rips on a RAID NAS in your house, and not on your desktop machine.
And yes, US broadband sucks ass. For comparison, I have 50 Mbps down / 20 Mbps up with no limits or throttling, for about $24 USD a month. No yearly contract either or else it'd be slightly cheaper ($22 USD).
Just make one Windows VM with the vSphere client installed that all the admins can log in to, and run whatever OS you want elsewhere. Done.
I don't think you're looking far back enough either. The civil war is when corporations went from time-limited, specific-purpose vehicles to "anything to make a buck" that last forever. Shortly thereafter in 1886 corporations gained personhood. It's been all downhill from there.
In your post, you say "mere criticism isn't helpful" and "we have it so good". In your sig, you criticize the US, which isn't helpful according to you, and implies that we don't have it so good. Do you see the dichotomy now?
Last I heard, they used peering to reduce their bandwidth costs for Youtube to near-zero.
Google Docs is an "in the cloud" app and doesn't require any excessive amount of bandwidth. Neither will most other apps; they're just web pages to the user, and mostly text at that. Salesforce.com, one of the bigger cloud apps, is also mostly text. I'm not sure what you think is going to use up all this bandwidth.
Anyways most businesses pay by the 95th percentile of their usage. They're already metered. More bandwidth used = more profits.
>Also what about valet parking? Need to kill it and restart the car or the valet can go to jail for starting the car?
So don't use valet parking. The court lets you keep driving so you can do necessary functions (go to work, grocery shopping, taking kids to school/daycare, etc), not so you can eat out at a fancy restaurant.
You're on probation as an alternative to jail; yes, your liberties are curtailed.
>And why are the monthly fees + install why can you just buy this?
There's an associated monitoring service to make sure you're in compliance, and also to keep the thing calibrated. The service likes to get paid.
Data centers already provide power and network - why don't they also provide shared storage?
The data center can buy several big mean SANs, and then provision storage sets to customers. Customers then only have to pay for what they use, can add space without installing new hardware, and get speed and reliability.
So, you're able to hand in expenses using your personal card? (which contradicts the part about your company insisting on a corporate AMEX) Or you just don't get reimbursed?
At my old company, your choices were comply with the requirements, don't get reimbursed, or leave the company (voluntarily or not). With dozens of thousands of people, they just didn't care about your personal feelings on third party vendors.
It's not insane to not want to shift through stop and go traffic on hilly roads. A decent compromise is the 5-speed manumatic cars.
These are rather rare in the US. Most cars from the last 30 years are front-wheel drive and automatic (trucks and sports models excepted). The back wheels tend to just hold up the car and aren't involved in power.
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But the Sorenson Spark codec is equivalent to the requirements for the H.264 codec used in HTML5 and on the iPhone, so it should be allowed.
No, no it's not. H.264 is hardware accelerated on the iPhone.
And yes, technically this means that any use of inline assembler is forbidden (e.g. to optimize part of a 3D engine, even the rest is completely written in C), which does not make any sense whatsoever either.
Using inline assembly ties you to that CPU architecture (and possibly that version of that CPU; your optimizations might not be beneficial on a later version of the CPU). Apple has switched architectures before, and may do so again.
Several investigative government agencies were housed in WTC7 (Securities & Exchange Commission, US Secret Service, IRS). A good way to lose a big investigation and all the evidence associated with it is to blow up the building! Or, like the official story, it just was just collateral damage from the towers.
Pay $xxx to remove all the asbestos and do needed repairs, or blow it up and cash in the $4 to $7 billion insurance check. Insurance fraud should be readily understandable.
Is $4 billion enough of an incentive to kill a few thousand people? Maybe, maybe not - maybe the towers were going to be knocked over anyways and someone let their friend get in on the deal. Looking for just one motive and actor for everything that happened that day is naive.
When I make calls with Skype or Google Voice, I want the Caller ID to say my cell phone number, not the random outgoing phone line I get.
If you own/manage the computer you're working on, sure. If you're at a work site/friend's house/etc, browser apps may be your only choice.
If I remember correctly, the ReplayTV DVRs had an infrared emitter, specifically to change channels on cable boxes. Presumably this trick would still work.
It's actually like Earth Class Mail, which scans your mail, and has a government postal service outsource program. Notably, they do this for Swiss Post.
After reading Zumbox's site, I'm still trying to figure out why I would open an account there. It seems not only do I have to sign up for it, all my service providers do too. If my electric company is too dumb to offer e-bills, why would they offer this?
Username and password would've been just as effective as a certificate, and much less hassle. My guess is they had one user/pass for the company. Shared passwords are bad.
No, he's saying that the farm owners would rather not spend the money to rent (and more importantly clean and service) a porta potty.
Eh, they're not worried. There's a standard large-company tactic to deal with up-and-coming competitors - buy them out.
That was neither said nor implied. The grandparent was commenting on the intelligence required for a job, not the intelligence of the people actually doing it. Worth was not mentioned at all, until you brought it up.
If Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein worked at a taco stand together, that doesn't mean you have to be a genius to make tacos. Likewise, no matter how smart the janitors you've known are, nothing about pushing a broom or cleaning bathrooms requires great intelligence.