I know it may be taboo to throw a competitor's device into the fray (and possibly opening up yourself to litigation from them), but seeing as how the LG Prada (LG KE850) had already won a design award months before the extremely similar looking iPhone had even been announced I would imagine that Samsung would jump at the opportunity to show prior art for some of Apple's "design patents" just to get them eliminated.
SCO got on the shitlist of many a person and corporate entity with their senseless trolling. I'm surprised that it took this long for them to finally hit rock bottom.
Really, {add tfh}this kind of thing has been going on for decades and will continue for the foreseeable future without repercussions. It's the government, can we not all expect there to be some amount of collusion between the branches to keep this type of activity going in the name of "national security"?{remove tfh}
I went to high school in Detroit in the late 80's and, believe it or not, there was an official city-wide high school computer programming league much like the high school sports teams. We were given a list of individual tasks and had to write a program in BASIC on IBM XT's and the entire event was timed. Each working program was dropped onto floppy and handed to the judges to execute with their own data sets and we were scored based on time to execute (if it took too long it had to be rewritten) and if it actually worked.
I led my school's team to 3rd place three years in a row back then. I had often wondered if there were leagues like this in other cities. Not sure if it still exists either but it was great back then.
... unless you explicitly DELETE your local copies, trusting to a single copy in the cloud.
and this is what a great number of "average" people will do.
"I don't have to keep my music on my laptop anymore, I can just stream it from 'da cloud' on my iPhone/Android phone AND my laptop!!!"
There's people out there right now that do just this. Entire photo collections on FB or photobucket/fotki/flikr, music collections in the cloud, documents on Google Docs, nothing local on their desktops or laptops.
But you're only focused on docs, data implies much more than just that. Corporate application servers "in the cloud" are also subject to the same issues and it's been well reported on. You still don't have total control over your own data.
With local storage, you are only subject to failures in your immediate control (to a degree, hardware failures are not necessarily your fault, but can be mitigated in the event of one with proper planning). With cloud storage, you're no longer in control of your data. You have effectively handed complete control of your data to a third party and are pretty much at their mercy. Cloud provider has an outage? You're screwed until they're up and running again. Cloud provider decided to up their rates? They can pretty much hold your data hostage until you pay. Cloud provider wants to make extra money? For a price, they can/will/have allow(ed) governments to peruse your data for signs you may be a terrorist or have terrorist ties... At least this will be the justification the alphabet suits will give (i.e. FBI, CIA, NSA, etc.)
I've been running customized DSL implementations on my older PC's as well as the odd Puppy VM for a while now and JWM is quite fine for these mini distros (as is Flux/OpenBox which both include).
the rewrite is not that great (some fragmented data remains), but it's better than having just a wo-rm system. Personally, I prefer the solution based on compressed graphite.
Not to mention the fact that 20 years later you could still access the information in its original format without having to hunt down expensive converters for out-dated technology. There's a reason paper has been around for thousands of years and is still in use.
It's sad to think that many will read what you have said, yet not be able to fully grasp it until they need to refer back to something they did a decade or two later. It took me only a few minutes to look in the box that has all my old notebooks in it to find what I wanted. The papers I wrote using my old Atari 1040ST and later an Amiga 2000HD didn't fare as well.
... no matter what you say, or how you try to justify it, you're still giving it to them with no Vaseline or even so much as a reach around or peck on the cheek. The only reason you're still in business is because you found a sucker of a company and are milking them to make your BMW payments.
One can get an H1B Indian consultant to stand up an SAP BobJ instance on SUSE 10 for around $160/hr right now and he/she will sit in your office to do the job, you can get them for that much to do a wide range of things from writing your in-house applications to supporting and securing your networks. Companies like Robert Half, Modis, or Experis don't even bill remotely that much for a windows guy to come onsite for basic PC tech work (which is precisely what you're doing), I'll say $50-$60/hr where the consultant doing the work MIGHT get $20/hr of that.
Nope, you're pretty much a sheister that makes honest consultants look bad.
... enough to show me just how bad you are at your job. Your industry average of $250/hr is complete bs; a number pulled out of your ass to justify raping this company due to their own ignorance. I understand, it's your cash cow and you will do anything to protect your interests, but right now you look like a used car salesman from the 80's; lying to the customer just to make a buck.
I have a child about to attend college in the fall. I've already told her to take more notes on paper than with the laptop she's going to get soon. Why? I pulled out my chemistry, calc, and Pascal notes from college courses taken over 20 years ago and showed them to her. One look at them and she understood what I was talking about.
Drawings for chem experiments, flowcharts with notation for my programs, and clear notes with plenty of examples from calc made her understand. The stuff I did with paper and pencil back then would not be easy to replicate as quickly with a laptop. She understands now.
... sheesh, they could have found a guy on Craigslist that would have immediately jumped to the "gotta reinstall windows" solution for $40 a pop.
"Just the annual cost for this one company alone could justify extrapolating the seemingly over-inflated costs of cybercrime."
No, your overinflated $180/hr billing rate is as much to blame for this one as does milking the client for money. Seriously, as someone that does AV cleanup as part of my security duties for a large global company I gotta call bullshit on your 10-12 hrs. You were looking at 2 hrs tops to try a number of different solutions before throwing in the towel.
... Only what people classified as a real "Smartphone". Around the offices I've worked in, the default was either a BB, PalmOS, or Windows Mobile device. Symbian is great, but in the US market, you'll get more "what's that?" responses than you will actual people that know what it is. Honestly, the only Symbian phone I can remember being sold stateside is the old Nokia N-Gage, but I'm well aware of the platform and it's capabilities (even having seen an unlocked Nokia E5 in use by a former colleague, he gushed over it endlessly)
The last thing the market needs is a choice between only 2 platforms for smartphones. Yes, I know that Windows Mobile is still out there as is Symbian, but because Microsoft took entirely too long to bring Windows Mobile 7 to market and Nokia really didn't push Symbian as hard as they could have (i.e getting a major player like HTC or Samsung to build Symbian based phones early in the game) they're both pretty much niche players now instead of the former powerhouse enterprise/business players they once were. At one point, when you said "Smartphone", you could only have been referring to a Blackberry, Palm, or Windows Mobile/PocketPC based phone with Symbian being the underdog. Even after June 29, 2007, when the iPhone was released, these were still considered to be true smartphones by many in business with the iPhone being the poseur.
Palm is gone, RIM is facing tough times, and Symbian is nearly extinct. Windows Mobile 7 is not even a part of the public consciousness even though there is still plenty of advertising for it. This is sad since there's plenty of enterprise users out there that don't need/want "Robot Unicorn Attack" or "iApp For More Stupidity" alongside their messaging services.
wouldn "Windows"+"Ready" be a bit of an oxymoron?
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Windows is never "ready"... At least not in the sense of "It's fully functional and no, we're not missing anything crucial".
I already have a couple of small spycams for just this reason, but the video and still quality is pretty subpar unless the lighting is absolutely perfect (which it never is). This one is now on my shortlist of cams to buy.
I always arm a camera whenever I see cops around, having been on the receiving end of a cop beating about 20 years ago and have endured a lot of police harassment over the years. Devices like these are a godsend for those that live in communities where police regularly harass the citizens because of their age, appearance, or race.
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people in the office stared as I let out a hearty "guffaw"
I know it may be taboo to throw a competitor's device into the fray (and possibly opening up yourself to litigation from them), but seeing as how the LG Prada (LG KE850) had already won a design award months before the extremely similar looking iPhone had even been announced I would imagine that Samsung would jump at the opportunity to show prior art for some of Apple's "design patents" just to get them eliminated.
... not a single f_ck was given.
SCO got on the shitlist of many a person and corporate entity with their senseless trolling. I'm surprised that it took this long for them to finally hit rock bottom.
at one point have we, the people, been able to keep the government in check? I always thought it was the other way around.
Really, {add tfh}this kind of thing has been going on for decades and will continue for the foreseeable future without repercussions. It's the government, can we not all expect there to be some amount of collusion between the branches to keep this type of activity going in the name of "national security"?{remove tfh}
I went to high school in Detroit in the late 80's and, believe it or not, there was an official city-wide high school computer programming league much like the high school sports teams. We were given a list of individual tasks and had to write a program in BASIC on IBM XT's and the entire event was timed. Each working program was dropped onto floppy and handed to the judges to execute with their own data sets and we were scored based on time to execute (if it took too long it had to be rewritten) and if it actually worked.
I led my school's team to 3rd place three years in a row back then. I had often wondered if there were leagues like this in other cities. Not sure if it still exists either but it was great back then.
... unless you explicitly DELETE your local copies, trusting to a single copy in the cloud.
and this is what a great number of "average" people will do.
"I don't have to keep my music on my laptop anymore, I can just stream it from 'da cloud' on my iPhone/Android phone AND my laptop!!!"
There's people out there right now that do just this. Entire photo collections on FB or photobucket/fotki/flikr, music collections in the cloud, documents on Google Docs, nothing local on their desktops or laptops.
But you're only focused on docs, data implies much more than just that. Corporate application servers "in the cloud" are also subject to the same issues and it's been well reported on. You still don't have total control over your own data.
With local storage, you are only subject to failures in your immediate control (to a degree, hardware failures are not necessarily your fault, but can be mitigated in the event of one with proper planning). With cloud storage, you're no longer in control of your data. You have effectively handed complete control of your data to a third party and are pretty much at their mercy. Cloud provider has an outage? You're screwed until they're up and running again. Cloud provider decided to up their rates? They can pretty much hold your data hostage until you pay. Cloud provider wants to make extra money? For a price, they can/will/have allow(ed) governments to peruse your data for signs you may be a terrorist or have terrorist ties... At least this will be the justification the alphabet suits will give (i.e. FBI, CIA, NSA, etc.)
Buy a NAS, keep your data at home.
I've been running customized DSL implementations on my older PC's as well as the odd Puppy VM for a while now and JWM is quite fine for these mini distros (as is Flux/OpenBox which both include).
the rewrite is not that great (some fragmented data remains), but it's better than having just a wo-rm system. Personally, I prefer the solution based on compressed graphite.
Calling me a troll does nothing to change the fact that you're robbing this poor company blind.
Not to mention the fact that 20 years later you could still access the information in its original format without having to hunt down expensive converters for out-dated technology. There's a reason paper has been around for thousands of years and is still in use.
It's sad to think that many will read what you have said, yet not be able to fully grasp it until they need to refer back to something they did a decade or two later. It took me only a few minutes to look in the box that has all my old notebooks in it to find what I wanted. The papers I wrote using my old Atari 1040ST and later an Amiga 2000HD didn't fare as well.
I know there's plenty of people out there that will disagree, but for me a stylus would suck for something like this.
A lot of what you have described could be mitigated with open-source software. A good consultant would have made those recommendations.
... no matter what you say, or how you try to justify it, you're still giving it to them with no Vaseline or even so much as a reach around or peck on the cheek. The only reason you're still in business is because you found a sucker of a company and are milking them to make your BMW payments.
One can get an H1B Indian consultant to stand up an SAP BobJ instance on SUSE 10 for around $160/hr right now and he/she will sit in your office to do the job, you can get them for that much to do a wide range of things from writing your in-house applications to supporting and securing your networks. Companies like Robert Half, Modis, or Experis don't even bill remotely that much for a windows guy to come onsite for basic PC tech work (which is precisely what you're doing), I'll say $50-$60/hr where the consultant doing the work MIGHT get $20/hr of that.
Nope, you're pretty much a sheister that makes honest consultants look bad.
... enough to show me just how bad you are at your job. Your industry average of $250/hr is complete bs; a number pulled out of your ass to justify raping this company due to their own ignorance. I understand, it's your cash cow and you will do anything to protect your interests, but right now you look like a used car salesman from the 80's; lying to the customer just to make a buck.
I have a child about to attend college in the fall. I've already told her to take more notes on paper than with the laptop she's going to get soon. Why? I pulled out my chemistry, calc, and Pascal notes from college courses taken over 20 years ago and showed them to her. One look at them and she understood what I was talking about.
Drawings for chem experiments, flowcharts with notation for my programs, and clear notes with plenty of examples from calc made her understand. The stuff I did with paper and pencil back then would not be easy to replicate as quickly with a laptop. She understands now.
... sheesh, they could have found a guy on Craigslist that would have immediately jumped to the "gotta reinstall windows" solution for $40 a pop.
"Just the annual cost for this one company alone could justify extrapolating the seemingly over-inflated costs of cybercrime."
No, your overinflated $180/hr billing rate is as much to blame for this one as does milking the client for money. Seriously, as someone that does AV cleanup as part of my security duties for a large global company I gotta call bullshit on your 10-12 hrs. You were looking at 2 hrs tops to try a number of different solutions before throwing in the towel.
" If you like to read novels, nothing beets e-ink because its easy on your eyes and on the battery.
Personally paper + ink beats it all day, every day. No batteries needed and they can last for centuries.
... Only what people classified as a real "Smartphone". Around the offices I've worked in, the default was either a BB, PalmOS, or Windows Mobile device. Symbian is great, but in the US market, you'll get more "what's that?" responses than you will actual people that know what it is. Honestly, the only Symbian phone I can remember being sold stateside is the old Nokia N-Gage, but I'm well aware of the platform and it's capabilities (even having seen an unlocked Nokia E5 in use by a former colleague, he gushed over it endlessly)
I had already started a scathing rebuttal until I read this:
"Hell... a monopoly is great thing..."
no mutton for you this day troll...
The RIAA and MPAA both use similar voodoo-comic book math techniques to justify their "losses" to cybercrime (illegal downloads).
The last thing the market needs is a choice between only 2 platforms for smartphones. Yes, I know that Windows Mobile is still out there as is Symbian, but because Microsoft took entirely too long to bring Windows Mobile 7 to market and Nokia really didn't push Symbian as hard as they could have (i.e getting a major player like HTC or Samsung to build Symbian based phones early in the game) they're both pretty much niche players now instead of the former powerhouse enterprise/business players they once were. At one point, when you said "Smartphone", you could only have been referring to a Blackberry, Palm, or Windows Mobile/PocketPC based phone with Symbian being the underdog. Even after June 29, 2007, when the iPhone was released, these were still considered to be true smartphones by many in business with the iPhone being the poseur.
Palm is gone, RIM is facing tough times, and Symbian is nearly extinct. Windows Mobile 7 is not even a part of the public consciousness even though there is still plenty of advertising for it. This is sad since there's plenty of enterprise users out there that don't need/want "Robot Unicorn Attack" or "iApp For More Stupidity" alongside their messaging services.
Windows is never "ready"... At least not in the sense of "It's fully functional and no, we're not missing anything crucial".
I already have a couple of small spycams for just this reason, but the video and still quality is pretty subpar unless the lighting is absolutely perfect (which it never is). This one is now on my shortlist of cams to buy.
I always arm a camera whenever I see cops around, having been on the receiving end of a cop beating about 20 years ago and have endured a lot of police harassment over the years. Devices like these are a godsend for those that live in communities where police regularly harass the citizens because of their age, appearance, or race.