The majority of youtube videos now created are made on mobile devices
Awesome! I can't wait for the new YouTube Video category at next year's Oscars.
Stick your head in the sand all you want: the sales numbers don't lie. The "traditional PC" sales fell 8% year over year last quarter, a trend that is predicted to accelerate over the next few years.
News flash: Most Americans don't lease a new car every year anymore, either. It must be because they're using mopeds now instead of cars.
The daily Microsoft shill still gets +1 Informative? Really?
I mean, Google docs is okay I guess, but why the fuck are things like strikethrough on the toolbar but not underline?
Why? Oh I don't know. Could it be because you're a fucking liar? In Google Docs, underline is right there on the toolbar or you can use Ctrl-U just like any word processor you've ever used since 1985. To get strikethrough, you either have to navigate to the Format pull-downs or press Alt-Shift-5.
Talk about epic usability fail, and that's before you consider the fact that sometimes it just breaks connection with Google's servers and just outright fucks up.
Why should Google be responsible for your crappy network? If your company is going to switch to cloud services, it should be sure its network doesn't fall down all the time.
Even all that's ignoring the fact it's apps are missing a fuckton of everyday features from Office.
Care to name any? I mean, it's obvious that Google Docs does not have all of the features that Office does, but Office is widely regarded to be rather bloated. Not everybody needs all of its features. So I was curious which "everyday" features you were missing.
Yadda yadda yadda, Visual Studio is the best, there's no replacement for Outlook or Visio, yadda yadda iOS is a much more terrible OS than Windows, yadda yadda, yay Microsoft, troll troll yadda yadda... There are so many of these posts on Slashdot these days that I'm surprised you guys still can't spot them.
If the adventure fails it won't be Postgresql's fault; it's a dandy little program. They should welcome some gotchas in the migration, it will give the PG dev. folks some more targets.
Hell, with any luck, Salesforce's "huge PostgreSQL project" will involve contributing patches and code upstream to the main project. But I'm not sure I'm ready to bet on it. Salesforce has never given me the impression of being a company that really gives a shit about technology. Their conferences are all about "sell, sell, sell!" and "transform your business!" and other management bullshittery. Whenever they announce that they're launching some amazing new technology that's an industry first, it's usually something that a dozen other companies have been doing for years, the only difference being that Salesforce's version is stuck running on Salesforce. Salesforce employees, on the other hand, tend to be zombified Believers, not totally unlike Scientologists. I can't really see this company attracting any really high-quality open source devs.
Acrobat and Reader have a long history of security vulnerabilities, as well. You maybe just haven't noticed because Adobe often issues patches for both technologies at the same time. That leads to news headlines like, "Adobe patches 18 new Flash and Reader critical vulnerabilities," so the only product name you parse is Flash.
Does Qualcomm even "dominate" the ARM space? Last I heard, Nvidia SoCs are showing up in quite a few "prominent devices," too, and there are numerous other vendors. Some of them target niche applications, but what does that matter? It just demonstrates that the ARM processor market is much less homogeneous than the x86/x64 market traditionally has been, so it's less likely that any single chipmaker will dominate. If anything, it's ARM Holdings that wins, not Qualcomm.
Well, sure, a brief dedication in a source code file that will never be seen by anybody is perfectly fine. It's probably even fine to put "Dedicated to so-and-so" in an "About this App" screen or something. But personally, if you and I were working on the same coding project and every time I opened one of your files I had to read some lengthy dedication to your dead grandmother talking about how much she meant to you, I would find that annoying. That's what I meant by "dragging your coworkers through it." I don't see any reason why I should constantly have to be reminded of your dead relatives and how much they meant to you when I'm in the workplace.
You need a CableCard, but you can get OTA channels in HD with basic Comcast service... although my understanding is there may be differences in some regions.
My local Comcast offers OTA channels in HD without a CableCard. I think what the OP was saying is that it's not "really" in HD, because Comcast's compression of the feeds sucks.
You don't have to feel the way other people feel, but if you think you're smart at all you should be able to at least recognize that most humans have emotions and a grieving process.
That's fine, but if you are even remotely socialized you should realize that there is a time and a place for your grieving process. Just like you don't go over to someone's dinner party and announce that your grandmother just died and you'd like everybody to spend some time grieving for her, dragging your coworkers through your grieving process -- and god forbid, your customers -- is inappropriate.
Few people use their cellphone for serious online use. Most of them use it because it is convenient and it is there.
You might be surprised. I've had people tell me they use their phones to stream music and podcasts while driving. They don't use the radio, they don't use the CD player, they just stream all day long.
That's the kind of user who's going to run into a phone bandwidth cap. Unlike with wired internet connections, it's not the techie types running BitTorrent that suck up the bandwidth. Geeks actually might be more likely to think, "Streaming music this way is wasteful and inefficient, and the sound quality isn't even that good." It's the less technically-minded types who just think, "They tell me I can do this, so I will."
Whatever you feel about Katz, those stories stand out as a true gem on this site, they shouldn't be overlooked
Haha! Different strokes, I guess. For me, "whatever you feel about Katz" means I feel those Hellmouth (WTF does that mean anyway? Is that even a word? Is it a reference to something? What?) stories were some of the most puffed-up, overly melodramatic, pointless, ridiculous emo whining I have ever seen on ANY site, let alone Slashdot. It was precisely those stories that alerted me that Katz was a hilarious, trollish buffoon with no talent, an over-inflated sense of his own importance, and a tin ear for the issues that actually matter in this world. And, just like I browse Slashdot at -1, from that moment on I looked forward eagerly to everything Katz posted.
Here I thought that thats EXACTLY what he was elected to do, as head of the executive and armed forces.
Then you need to go back to civics class and learn that there are two other branches of the U.S. government in addition to the executive. Furthermore, of the three branches of government, only one is empowered to write and pass laws, and it ain't the executive.
I tend to agree with that... how I read it is he was crying because he got caught, not because he realized his stalking was a bad idea.
I've had the misfortune to have dated a couple of people who I'd describe as sociopaths, and this is exactly how they act. Not having empathy for other people's feelings doesn't mean you don't have any of your own. When bad things happen to you -- like getting accused of something serious -- you get upset. In fact, I would suggest that a lot of the behaviors you see in sociopaths are actually complex coping mechanisms designed to help them avoid painful feelings. They're keeping themselves happy and it's up to you to do the same for yourself; it's not their concern.
Not really. The governments of the U.S., UK, and Canada do not recognize the current Myanmar government as being legitimate, so they still refer to the country as Burma.
Apparently you're new here. Let me fill you in. They're making it up as they go along.
Perhaps, but in this particular instance it seems much more likely that the ones making it up as they go along are Assange's lawyers -- who want the publicity -- and the reporters who write stories based on the slanted spin fed to them by Assange's lawyers.
Think about it. Just for starters, what is meant by "the U.S. military"? That's not really language we use in the U.S. Do they mean the Department of Defense? The Joint Chiefs of Staff? Which branch of the military are they talking about? There are five. If we're supposed to believe someone declared Assange "an enemy of the state," can't we at least know who it was?
Second, and more glaring: What would be the purpose of declaring someone "an enemy of the state" if you don't tell anyone about it? Apparently the only people who know about Assange's status are people who had access to some classified document that couldn't be read without filing a Freedom of Information request. Wouldn't it be more productive to, y'know, tell the military personnel that they are supposed to regard him as an enemy?
The only rational conclusion is that "the U.S. military" hasn't told military personnel that it has declared Assange an enemy of the state because it's simply not true.
As Intel is suffering considerable loss in the post-PC era, any lack of consumer confidence in their ability to produce a good tablet platform will result in significant decline in Intel's market share.
If Intel is weak in tablets, as you claim, shouldn't the fact that Intel is not suffering losses, "considerable" or otherwise -- it earned $2.8 billion in profits last quarter -- be evidence that maybe we aren't really in this "post-PC era" of which you speak?
Is that it updates itself via Windows update. So should it fail to get a virus database update internally, Windows update will fix it.
Actually, I believe MSSE only auto-updates via its own, internal mechanism. Virus databases do also show up in Windows Update, but they're always marked "optional," and they will go away once MSSE downloads that update itself. You can choose to apply the updates manually via Windows Update, though.
Google gives a comparable service away for 'free', making users into the product, as strange as it may seem to come out in favour of MS over google, I'd rather pay for software than have someone scanning my data for marketable keywords. Granted, Microsoft will probably try and do both, but we can always hope not.
Microsoft already does both. Whatever Google gives you "for free," Microsoft offers a comparable service.
Office 365 is not that, though. Office 365 is a subscription to the desktop Microsoft Office applications, plus some online service add-ons that arguably offer more value than what you can get on the web for free. Microsoft is also restructuring the licensing of the perpetual-license versions of the software so that the subscription license looks more attractive.
Bank of America offers two-factor. It will either text you, or for a fee, it will send you a card that generates the one-time codes.
I don't know if you can configure it to use two-factor for your primary login, though. Two-factor is only invoked for certain kinds of sensitive transactions, such as trying to reset your password, very large funds transfers, etc. You may be able to set different levels of security before two-factor kicks in, I forget.
Who in their right mind would trust anything sensitive enough to require a 16 character password to Hotmail?
It's not just Hotmail. To login to Hotmail these days, you use your Microsoft account. So it applies to anything you use a Microsoft account for, including Hotmail (or Outlook.com), SkyDrive storage, Office Web apps, calendaring, etc.
Also, some people like to use long password not just because they're more secure, but because they're easier to remember (for example, "My dog has fleas" is easier to remember than "2MnG7_0z").
Later it was revealed that AOL was just making a Hash of the first 8 characters of the users password, so it really didn't matter what you entered past the 8th char because it would be trimmed before computing the hash....
Believe it or not, I've noticed the same thing at Bank of America ATMs. I have a 6-digit PIN on my ATM card (or so I thought). I haven't tried it lately, but the last time I did, I found I could enter some number of digits of the actual PIN (maybe the first 4 or 5), and then after that I could enter any number of additional digits that I wanted. I could enter six digits or ten... the PIN would always work if I got the first few numbers right.
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Sorry, but sales is a one time event. It's the support team/engineers/subcontractors/employees that create "real work" and keep said work.
GP's point is that Marc Benioff doesn't sell software for those people, so why should he care?
The majority of youtube videos now created are made on mobile devices
Awesome! I can't wait for the new YouTube Video category at next year's Oscars.
Stick your head in the sand all you want: the sales numbers don't lie. The "traditional PC" sales fell 8% year over year last quarter, a trend that is predicted to accelerate over the next few years.
News flash: Most Americans don't lease a new car every year anymore, either. It must be because they're using mopeds now instead of cars.
The daily Microsoft shill still gets +1 Informative? Really?
I mean, Google docs is okay I guess, but why the fuck are things like strikethrough on the toolbar but not underline?
Why? Oh I don't know. Could it be because you're a fucking liar? In Google Docs, underline is right there on the toolbar or you can use Ctrl-U just like any word processor you've ever used since 1985. To get strikethrough, you either have to navigate to the Format pull-downs or press Alt-Shift-5.
Talk about epic usability fail, and that's before you consider the fact that sometimes it just breaks connection with Google's servers and just outright fucks up.
Why should Google be responsible for your crappy network? If your company is going to switch to cloud services, it should be sure its network doesn't fall down all the time.
Even all that's ignoring the fact it's apps are missing a fuckton of everyday features from Office.
Care to name any? I mean, it's obvious that Google Docs does not have all of the features that Office does, but Office is widely regarded to be rather bloated. Not everybody needs all of its features. So I was curious which "everyday" features you were missing.
Yadda yadda yadda, Visual Studio is the best, there's no replacement for Outlook or Visio, yadda yadda iOS is a much more terrible OS than Windows, yadda yadda, yay Microsoft, troll troll yadda yadda... There are so many of these posts on Slashdot these days that I'm surprised you guys still can't spot them.
If the adventure fails it won't be Postgresql's fault; it's a dandy little program. They should welcome some gotchas in the migration, it will give the PG dev. folks some more targets.
Hell, with any luck, Salesforce's "huge PostgreSQL project" will involve contributing patches and code upstream to the main project. But I'm not sure I'm ready to bet on it. Salesforce has never given me the impression of being a company that really gives a shit about technology. Their conferences are all about "sell, sell, sell!" and "transform your business!" and other management bullshittery. Whenever they announce that they're launching some amazing new technology that's an industry first, it's usually something that a dozen other companies have been doing for years, the only difference being that Salesforce's version is stuck running on Salesforce. Salesforce employees, on the other hand, tend to be zombified Believers, not totally unlike Scientologists. I can't really see this company attracting any really high-quality open source devs.
Acrobat and Reader have a long history of security vulnerabilities, as well. You maybe just haven't noticed because Adobe often issues patches for both technologies at the same time. That leads to news headlines like, "Adobe patches 18 new Flash and Reader critical vulnerabilities," so the only product name you parse is Flash.
Does Qualcomm even "dominate" the ARM space? Last I heard, Nvidia SoCs are showing up in quite a few "prominent devices," too, and there are numerous other vendors. Some of them target niche applications, but what does that matter? It just demonstrates that the ARM processor market is much less homogeneous than the x86/x64 market traditionally has been, so it's less likely that any single chipmaker will dominate. If anything, it's ARM Holdings that wins, not Qualcomm.
Well, sure, a brief dedication in a source code file that will never be seen by anybody is perfectly fine. It's probably even fine to put "Dedicated to so-and-so" in an "About this App" screen or something. But personally, if you and I were working on the same coding project and every time I opened one of your files I had to read some lengthy dedication to your dead grandmother talking about how much she meant to you, I would find that annoying. That's what I meant by "dragging your coworkers through it." I don't see any reason why I should constantly have to be reminded of your dead relatives and how much they meant to you when I'm in the workplace.
You need a CableCard, but you can get OTA channels in HD with basic Comcast service... although my understanding is there may be differences in some regions.
My local Comcast offers OTA channels in HD without a CableCard. I think what the OP was saying is that it's not "really" in HD, because Comcast's compression of the feeds sucks.
You don't have to feel the way other people feel, but if you think you're smart at all you should be able to at least recognize that most humans have emotions and a grieving process.
That's fine, but if you are even remotely socialized you should realize that there is a time and a place for your grieving process. Just like you don't go over to someone's dinner party and announce that your grandmother just died and you'd like everybody to spend some time grieving for her, dragging your coworkers through your grieving process -- and god forbid, your customers -- is inappropriate.
Few people use their cellphone for serious online use. Most of them use it because it is convenient and it is there.
You might be surprised. I've had people tell me they use their phones to stream music and podcasts while driving. They don't use the radio, they don't use the CD player, they just stream all day long.
That's the kind of user who's going to run into a phone bandwidth cap. Unlike with wired internet connections, it's not the techie types running BitTorrent that suck up the bandwidth. Geeks actually might be more likely to think, "Streaming music this way is wasteful and inefficient, and the sound quality isn't even that good." It's the less technically-minded types who just think, "They tell me I can do this, so I will."
Whatever you feel about Katz, those stories stand out as a true gem on this site, they shouldn't be overlooked
Haha! Different strokes, I guess. For me, "whatever you feel about Katz" means I feel those Hellmouth (WTF does that mean anyway? Is that even a word? Is it a reference to something? What?) stories were some of the most puffed-up, overly melodramatic, pointless, ridiculous emo whining I have ever seen on ANY site, let alone Slashdot. It was precisely those stories that alerted me that Katz was a hilarious, trollish buffoon with no talent, an over-inflated sense of his own importance, and a tin ear for the issues that actually matter in this world. And, just like I browse Slashdot at -1, from that moment on I looked forward eagerly to everything Katz posted.
You can split hairs all you want, but none of the above is what he was "elected to do" (your words).
Here I thought that thats EXACTLY what he was elected to do, as head of the executive and armed forces.
Then you need to go back to civics class and learn that there are two other branches of the U.S. government in addition to the executive. Furthermore, of the three branches of government, only one is empowered to write and pass laws, and it ain't the executive.
I tend to agree with that... how I read it is he was crying because he got caught, not because he realized his stalking was a bad idea.
I've had the misfortune to have dated a couple of people who I'd describe as sociopaths, and this is exactly how they act. Not having empathy for other people's feelings doesn't mean you don't have any of your own. When bad things happen to you -- like getting accused of something serious -- you get upset. In fact, I would suggest that a lot of the behaviors you see in sociopaths are actually complex coping mechanisms designed to help them avoid painful feelings. They're keeping themselves happy and it's up to you to do the same for yourself; it's not their concern.
Shouldn't that be Myanmar Shave, now?
Not really. The governments of the U.S., UK, and Canada do not recognize the current Myanmar government as being legitimate, so they still refer to the country as Burma.
Could you simply not see the "Edit post" button on your own stuff so you don't have to double-post like that, karma whore?
What site do you think you're on?
Apparently you're new here. Let me fill you in. They're making it up as they go along.
Perhaps, but in this particular instance it seems much more likely that the ones making it up as they go along are Assange's lawyers -- who want the publicity -- and the reporters who write stories based on the slanted spin fed to them by Assange's lawyers.
Think about it. Just for starters, what is meant by "the U.S. military"? That's not really language we use in the U.S. Do they mean the Department of Defense? The Joint Chiefs of Staff? Which branch of the military are they talking about? There are five. If we're supposed to believe someone declared Assange "an enemy of the state," can't we at least know who it was?
Second, and more glaring: What would be the purpose of declaring someone "an enemy of the state" if you don't tell anyone about it? Apparently the only people who know about Assange's status are people who had access to some classified document that couldn't be read without filing a Freedom of Information request. Wouldn't it be more productive to, y'know, tell the military personnel that they are supposed to regard him as an enemy?
The only rational conclusion is that "the U.S. military" hasn't told military personnel that it has declared Assange an enemy of the state because it's simply not true.
As Intel is suffering considerable loss in the post-PC era, any lack of consumer confidence in their ability to produce a good tablet platform will result in significant decline in Intel's market share.
If Intel is weak in tablets, as you claim, shouldn't the fact that Intel is not suffering losses, "considerable" or otherwise -- it earned $2.8 billion in profits last quarter -- be evidence that maybe we aren't really in this "post-PC era" of which you speak?
The first time you log in to you user account, you are given a short graphical tutorial which explains "Move your mouse into any corner"
But this is Windows 8 and I'm using a touchscreen like Microsoft told me I wanted to! Now I has a sad.
I'm not sure what his point was if he mentioned driver support.
He didn't.
The whole article is based on an anonymous source paraphrasing to Bloomberg. There are no direct quotes.
Is that it updates itself via Windows update. So should it fail to get a virus database update internally, Windows update will fix it.
Actually, I believe MSSE only auto-updates via its own, internal mechanism. Virus databases do also show up in Windows Update, but they're always marked "optional," and they will go away once MSSE downloads that update itself. You can choose to apply the updates manually via Windows Update, though.
Google gives a comparable service away for 'free', making users into the product, as strange as it may seem to come out in favour of MS over google, I'd rather pay for software than have someone scanning my data for marketable keywords. Granted, Microsoft will probably try and do both, but we can always hope not.
Microsoft already does both. Whatever Google gives you "for free," Microsoft offers a comparable service.
Office 365 is not that, though. Office 365 is a subscription to the desktop Microsoft Office applications, plus some online service add-ons that arguably offer more value than what you can get on the web for free. Microsoft is also restructuring the licensing of the perpetual-license versions of the software so that the subscription license looks more attractive.
Bank of America offers two-factor. It will either text you, or for a fee, it will send you a card that generates the one-time codes.
I don't know if you can configure it to use two-factor for your primary login, though. Two-factor is only invoked for certain kinds of sensitive transactions, such as trying to reset your password, very large funds transfers, etc. You may be able to set different levels of security before two-factor kicks in, I forget.
Who in their right mind would trust anything sensitive enough to require a 16 character password to Hotmail?
It's not just Hotmail. To login to Hotmail these days, you use your Microsoft account. So it applies to anything you use a Microsoft account for, including Hotmail (or Outlook.com), SkyDrive storage, Office Web apps, calendaring, etc.
Also, some people like to use long password not just because they're more secure, but because they're easier to remember (for example, "My dog has fleas" is easier to remember than "2MnG7_0z").
Later it was revealed that AOL was just making a Hash of the first 8 characters of the users password, so it really didn't matter what you entered past the 8th char because it would be trimmed before computing the hash....
Believe it or not, I've noticed the same thing at Bank of America ATMs. I have a 6-digit PIN on my ATM card (or so I thought). I haven't tried it lately, but the last time I did, I found I could enter some number of digits of the actual PIN (maybe the first 4 or 5), and then after that I could enter any number of additional digits that I wanted. I could enter six digits or ten ... the PIN would always work if I got the first few numbers right.