Yes, these "features" appear to be rather annoying flare rather than actually increasing productivity and usefulness.
Then again, I'm still not a fan of anything touch capacitive and only marginally tolerate touch resistive displays... Even if it means getting a crappier device, I'll take physical buttons and a QWERTY keyboard on a phone any day as I just feel more productive and less error prone having them.
I've been using Daemon Tools Lite, Cygwin with CDrecord or Power ISO for the better part of this decade now to get me what seems to have always been native under *NIX. It'll be nice to have such a feature, but just has useful it'll be in comparison to these other tools remains to be seen.
When Microsoft hosed their search utility in Windows 7, it was programs like Agent Ransack that came to the rescue for people such as me who HATE the Microsoft Indexing Service and horrid search engine in Windows 7.
Citing this as an example, I am willing to bet that other tools, perhaps the revival of Windows/Total Commander level tools will emerge post Windows 8 that will assist us "geezers" to maintain a similar level of keyboard shortcuts without Point-Click to achieve the same objective.
Remember, Microsoft doesn't listen to the people who service or administrate said systems, they listen to the masses who bring them the most money, the consumer.
I think anything Gnome 3 will ever try to do will be too complicated for users... it'll never amount to anything but rubbish. Gnome 2.32.1 http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.32/ was the last good version.
We have all read about the difficulty and expense of providing reliability in the cloud (the so-called five nines) as well as the fact that as more popular web services rely on cloud platforms, the more people rely on those services. As such, I cannot help but wonder what kind of fallout will happen after this latest event, but I do get the feeling that this "Lightening strike" may erode the vCloud marketing of 5x9's uptime just a wee bit more.
Jupiter has a mass of 1.8986×1027 kg, making it the largest body next to the Sun in our Solar System. So, why not take a stroll over there to see what kind of antimatter rings it has? THEN we might be able to talk about future fuel extraction (assuming we can even travel that reach on a regular basis without it taking 6 years, like it took Galileo).
The debt ceiling is directly related to the problem of endless borrowing and spending of both parties. Capitol Hill understands that it would be better to default, pay higher interest rates on borrowed money, in an attempt to slow down overall spending because it will cost more to do.
Defaulting is the best option because future borrowing costs would soar, forcing the govt to immediately begin to live within its means. Yes it means gloom, despair, and agony on all of us for an indeterminate period of time. Better that that implosion of the US when we can no longer use the dollar to buy imports because no one will accept it. When that happens you will wish we HAD defaulted.
I had a similar experience with it feeling a bit too much like Ubuntu... beyond that, GNOME 3.0 looks like a goddam MacOS X nightmare on my Linux desktop. I'll be sticking with Gnome 2.X or KDE 4.X for a while it seems.
When I originally submitted it, the post looked like this. However, the link was lost somehow when it was officially posted. Not sure why. In any case, the link to the story is at this link and originally from this site
Actually, the data gathering was in part carried out by the Nielson Company (was in the original ESA subscriber newsletter), but they did fail to list ALL of their sources within the document. However, next to the Baby Boomers, "Generation X" is the 2nd largest demographic of people in the USA and it does make rather obvious sense in what the ESA is saying. As I posted in another comment, the ESA's official public review of the data can be found here if you are interested.
I'm not sure why, but my original submission source link did not carry over to the actual post on/. for some reason. First time submitting, so I figure I'll figure it out next time.
In any case, all of these stories out there from C|NET and TIME originate from an ESA Subscriber document posted Monday with analytic data in it. However, you have to be a subscriber to see the raw data. Their official summary of the data is posted here if you are interested.
Personally, I found the data intriguing and since I too fit within their specified demographic (as do many of you), found it news worthy.
Obviously people that feel Apple has been successful with DRM have failed to see what the public is doing with such jailbreaking tools as Green Poison: http://greenpois0n.com/
While a jailbroken iPhone, iPod, or iPad prevents people from using the App store while in broken mode, the apps already purchased previously work just fine. Beyond this, a jailbroken device runs cracked drm-free applications just as well as the DRM polluted ones.
^This. I have been in IT for 12 years as a Sys Admin and I have turned to everything from heavy drinking to online gaming to reading to exercise. The "most" effective way, at least for me, to avoiding stress is just get out and exercise. It helps to calm the body AND mind in a way that no other can.
I would be curious to see if this could eventually be used to offset the effects of Brain Surgery as well.
Having gone through a waking craniotomy to remove a benign tumor from my left temporal cortex in 2006, I'd quickly come to realize that certain things I was capable of before surgery were very difficult, if not nearly impossible without re learning the process all over again. For me, the issue was a loss of linguistics. I was unable to pronunciate "B" or "V" for over a week and had to re-teach myself. Beyond that, I was no longer fluent at speaking both Spanish and English where I was before. None the less, I still consider myself lucky that I have my life and my memories still.
In any case, work such as this can only help foster a shorter recovery time for brain trauma patients or better yet, recover capabilities that could have been completely lost. Did I mention being a cyborg sounds cool too?
Next thing you know, someone will be dragging this into a parking space at work, raving about the ecological benefits, and simultaneously getting denied both life and medical insurance!
After my wife's father died a year ago, she asked her mother for one thing of his... a gold charm he worn on a necklace for most of her life.
She has not taken the pendant off since she got it and it has helped her not only to cope with his loss, but also provides comfort to her in rough times. I often find her grabbing it and holding it when under stress or when a memory of her father comes to mind. I find this type of memory to honestly be more therapeutic than any picture, video, or "digital" keepsake. It is something physical, substantial, and with that person at all times, which makes one tend to feel as though that deceased person is with them in the hardest of times.
If your wife does not have anything like this, there are options to make jewelry from her remains or other DNA. I'd consider it if I had the money to do it as it will last your daughters their entire lives (assuming it is never lost).
Sorry to burst your brainwash bubble, but Windows is not capable of handling these environments effectively for several reasons. Hardware and software are to blame just as much as the people who design and implement it.
If the LSE failed to implement a Windows solution with all of it's millions and Microsoft's top people being dumped into the project, that should an indicator of Microsoft's failures in these types of environments.
I've worked on the computer systems that many of these rigs run and they are generally done using one of the following Operating Systems:
Solaris 9/10 SPARC Windows 2003
None of them, at least none of the ones made by Seimens, Honeywell, Invensys, or Emerson run on Linux, BSD, or any other OS. The Solaris versions are being phased out in favor of Windows derivatives because developers for them and support/training personnel are cheaper to come by than those who can write code for or comprehend the workings of *NIX systems.
It is, in all honesty, a bit scary to think there are a growing number of both Power Plants (Gas, Coal, Oil, Hydro, and Wind) and Offshore Oil Rigs that run entire solutions based around Microsoft Windows platforms. While these companies state in their marketing that they offer full redundancy, options to run 2 or more "backup" stations, and even 5 x 9's SLA, both design control automation and system controls solutions are quite flawed.
The main issue here is that many of these companies offer products that have nearly no competition from others in the market. Each company has their strengths and weaknesses that a majority of the customers know about, so it's not a matter of bidding against competition so much as it is about "How quickly can you get it done and can you do it for this price?"
I hope that something good comes out of this for that Industry, they have been needing a shot in the foot for quite some time over it.
At my last job, the "boss" was too cheap to purchase a descent VPN solution (I later convinced him to buy a Cisco ASA5520), so I deployed a series of IPCop servers... one as a firewall and one as a VPN server. Between the firewall and VPN Server I had fronted an old Pentium 2 based Windows 2000 server in the DMZ to give the appearance that an attacker, had they gotten through, would have figured they hit the "honeypot". I ran this configuration for almost a year and had one attacker get through because I had not patched my IPCop firmware soon enough to cover a LAMP exploit running on it, but they none the less only stopped at the Windows 2000 server and loaded a bunch of mail relays on it. One quick re-format, an IPCop patch, and some E-mails to SORBS and I was good to go again.
Distributions such as Damn Vulnerable Linux will not only help students, they will be a great asset to SMB's wanting something to do front similar topologies as mine to keep the bad guys out. I am sure there are other uses for DVL out there.
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This just harkens back to the old Apple+Motorola CPU days of "Mac does more with less" attitude.
Yes, these "features" appear to be rather annoying flare rather than actually increasing productivity and usefulness.
Then again, I'm still not a fan of anything touch capacitive and only marginally tolerate touch resistive displays... Even if it means getting a crappier device, I'll take physical buttons and a QWERTY keyboard on a phone any day as I just feel more productive and less error prone having them.
I've been using Daemon Tools Lite, Cygwin with CDrecord or Power ISO for the better part of this decade now to get me what seems to have always been native under *NIX. It'll be nice to have such a feature, but just has useful it'll be in comparison to these other tools remains to be seen.
When Microsoft hosed their search utility in Windows 7, it was programs like Agent Ransack that came to the rescue for people such as me who HATE the Microsoft Indexing Service and horrid search engine in Windows 7.
Citing this as an example, I am willing to bet that other tools, perhaps the revival of Windows/Total Commander level tools will emerge post Windows 8 that will assist us "geezers" to maintain a similar level of keyboard shortcuts without Point-Click to achieve the same objective.
Remember, Microsoft doesn't listen to the people who service or administrate said systems, they listen to the masses who bring them the most money, the consumer.
I think anything Gnome 3 will ever try to do will be too complicated for users... it'll never amount to anything but rubbish. Gnome 2.32.1 http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.32/ was the last good version.
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I'd rather not lose brain cells to this coward's dribble... might end up like them if I do... idiotic.
We have all read about the difficulty and expense of providing reliability in the cloud (the so-called five nines) as well as the fact that as more popular web services rely on cloud platforms, the more people rely on those services. As such, I cannot help but wonder what kind of fallout will happen after this latest event, but I do get the feeling that this "Lightening strike" may erode the vCloud marketing of 5x9's uptime just a wee bit more.
Jupiter has a mass of 1.8986×1027 kg, making it the largest body next to the Sun in our Solar System. So, why not take a stroll over there to see what kind of antimatter rings it has? THEN we might be able to talk about future fuel extraction (assuming we can even travel that reach on a regular basis without it taking 6 years, like it took Galileo).
The debt ceiling is directly related to the problem of endless borrowing and spending of both parties. Capitol Hill understands that it would be better to default, pay higher interest rates on borrowed money, in an attempt to slow down overall spending because it will cost more to do.
Defaulting is the best option because future borrowing costs would soar, forcing the govt to immediately begin to live within its means. Yes it means gloom, despair, and agony on all of us for an indeterminate period of time. Better that that implosion of the US when we can no longer use the dollar to buy imports because no one will accept it. When that happens you will wish we HAD defaulted.
I had a similar experience with it feeling a bit too much like Ubuntu... beyond that, GNOME 3.0 looks like a goddam MacOS X nightmare on my Linux desktop. I'll be sticking with Gnome 2.X or KDE 4.X for a while it seems.
When I originally submitted it, the post looked like this. However, the link was lost somehow when it was officially posted. Not sure why. In any case, the link to the story is at this link and originally from this site
Oops! I linked Neilsen instead of the ESA document here: http://www.theesa.com/facts/gameplayer.asp
Actually, the data gathering was in part carried out by the Nielson Company (was in the original ESA subscriber newsletter), but they did fail to list ALL of their sources within the document. However, next to the Baby Boomers, "Generation X" is the 2nd largest demographic of people in the USA and it does make rather obvious sense in what the ESA is saying. As I posted in another comment, the ESA's official public review of the data can be found here if you are interested.
You need to be a subscriber to get the raw sample data information, but their summary is listed here: http://www.theesa.com/facts/gameplayer.asp
I'm not sure why, but my original submission source link did not carry over to the actual post on /. for some reason. First time submitting, so I figure I'll figure it out next time.
In any case, all of these stories out there from C|NET and TIME originate from an ESA Subscriber document posted Monday with analytic data in it. However, you have to be a subscriber to see the raw data. Their official summary of the data is posted here if you are interested.
Personally, I found the data intriguing and since I too fit within their specified demographic (as do many of you), found it news worthy.
My money is on him winning the fair and then selling the rights to it to a Pharmaceutical, never to be heard from again.
Obviously people that feel Apple has been successful with DRM have failed to see what the public is doing with such jailbreaking tools as Green Poison: http://greenpois0n.com/
While a jailbroken iPhone, iPod, or iPad prevents people from using the App store while in broken mode, the apps already purchased previously work just fine. Beyond this, a jailbroken device runs cracked drm-free applications just as well as the DRM polluted ones.
Where there is a will, there is always a way.
Quote: "TWO bull sharks have been spotted swimming past the McDonald’s restaurant in Goodna."
Can I have 20... raw... to go please... *gurgle*
That will be 77.81. Please swim up to your first window.
Wouldn't have even conceived the notion of this had I not read the article... lol.
^This. I have been in IT for 12 years as a Sys Admin and I have turned to everything from heavy drinking to online gaming to reading to exercise. The "most" effective way, at least for me, to avoiding stress is just get out and exercise. It helps to calm the body AND mind in a way that no other can.
I would be curious to see if this could eventually be used to offset the effects of Brain Surgery as well.
Having gone through a waking craniotomy to remove a benign tumor from my left temporal cortex in 2006, I'd quickly come to realize that certain things I was capable of before surgery were very difficult, if not nearly impossible without re learning the process all over again. For me, the issue was a loss of linguistics. I was unable to pronunciate "B" or "V" for over a week and had to re-teach myself. Beyond that, I was no longer fluent at speaking both Spanish and English where I was before. None the less, I still consider myself lucky that I have my life and my memories still.
In any case, work such as this can only help foster a shorter recovery time for brain trauma patients or better yet, recover capabilities that could have been completely lost. Did I mention being a cyborg sounds cool too?
Next thing you know, someone will be dragging this into a parking space at work, raving about the ecological benefits, and simultaneously getting denied both life and medical insurance!
After my wife's father died a year ago, she asked her mother for one thing of his... a gold charm he worn on a necklace for most of her life.
She has not taken the pendant off since she got it and it has helped her not only to cope with his loss, but also provides comfort to her in rough times. I often find her grabbing it and holding it when under stress or when a memory of her father comes to mind. I find this type of memory to honestly be more therapeutic than any picture, video, or "digital" keepsake. It is something physical, substantial, and with that person at all times, which makes one tend to feel as though that deceased person is with them in the hardest of times.
If your wife does not have anything like this, there are options to make jewelry from her remains or other DNA. I'd consider it if I had the money to do it as it will last your daughters their entire lives (assuming it is never lost).
I hope this helps you.
Sorry to burst your brainwash bubble, but Windows is not capable of handling these environments effectively for several reasons. Hardware and software are to blame just as much as the people who design and implement it.
If the LSE failed to implement a Windows solution with all of it's millions and Microsoft's top people being dumped into the project, that should an indicator of Microsoft's failures in these types of environments.
I've worked on the computer systems that many of these rigs run and they are generally done using one of the following Operating Systems:
Solaris 9/10 SPARC
Windows 2003
None of them, at least none of the ones made by Seimens, Honeywell, Invensys, or Emerson run on Linux, BSD, or any other OS. The Solaris versions are being phased out in favor of Windows derivatives because developers for them and support/training personnel are cheaper to come by than those who can write code for or comprehend the workings of *NIX systems.
It is, in all honesty, a bit scary to think there are a growing number of both Power Plants (Gas, Coal, Oil, Hydro, and Wind) and Offshore Oil Rigs that run entire solutions based around Microsoft Windows platforms. While these companies state in their marketing that they offer full redundancy, options to run 2 or more "backup" stations, and even 5 x 9's SLA, both design control automation and system controls solutions are quite flawed.
The main issue here is that many of these companies offer products that have nearly no competition from others in the market. Each company has their strengths and weaknesses that a majority of the customers know about, so it's not a matter of bidding against competition so much as it is about "How quickly can you get it done and can you do it for this price?"
I hope that something good comes out of this for that Industry, they have been needing a shot in the foot for quite some time over it.
At my last job, the "boss" was too cheap to purchase a descent VPN solution (I later convinced him to buy a Cisco ASA5520), so I deployed a series of IPCop servers... one as a firewall and one as a VPN server. Between the firewall and VPN Server I had fronted an old Pentium 2 based Windows 2000 server in the DMZ to give the appearance that an attacker, had they gotten through, would have figured they hit the "honeypot". I ran this configuration for almost a year and had one attacker get through because I had not patched my IPCop firmware soon enough to cover a LAMP exploit running on it, but they none the less only stopped at the Windows 2000 server and loaded a bunch of mail relays on it. One quick re-format, an IPCop patch, and some E-mails to SORBS and I was good to go again.
Distributions such as Damn Vulnerable Linux will not only help students, they will be a great asset to SMB's wanting something to do front similar topologies as mine to keep the bad guys out. I am sure there are other uses for DVL out there.
Good job DVL team!