Agreed. The "Your computer may be at risk", "Download free scanner", and click to buy marketing is ripe with fraud. Those are the kind of links you stumble across at illegal streaming sites or p0wned and derelict websites. Even if they (have no idea if they do) had clean hands and stellar reputation, they have chosen to market their product in a way that makes it indistinguishable from malware or hackerware. If they really were reputable, they should dress up like Russian mafia, and then go all litigatious if someone points out that they look like Russian mafia.
It is perfectly possible to do good for the wrong reasons. While the faith-based parts of religion might be complete garbage to the enlightened mind, there is also a lot of ethics being thought, such as you shall not not kill, lie, steal. If preaching in a culture where murder and theft is prevalent, getting a thug to join the choir would be beneficial to society, even if it means there is one more idiot believing in nonsense. At least if the church is a moderate one, and doesn't the thug into a rotten jihadist. A lot of ex criminals and gang members in Europe were lured into mosques started dressing like fucking nomads and became jihadists within a year.
You can get perfectly good PC setups second hand for under $100. In form of a desktop or laptop. There are also many miniature computers that sell for under $50 in dongle or stick formats. What we might have considered programming in the old days is considered application use these days, such as writing formulas in a spreadsheet. Programming as a hobby, is best done on an i or android device, so that the app can be made av available and even make some money. Programminbg on pi seems about as useful and interesting for today's kids as as the assembler programming and EEPROM burning I had to do back in engineering school. That was 95% menial work, If I wanted to set up a kid for programming (mine are too young), I'd get them an old laptop to play with. What is this garbage talk about locked down android or iphone environments? You can get simple development environments for these straight from their app shops, and start writing apps. If they make something really cool to share with friends, that would be the platform. Do the same on a pi, and it will remain on that same device until next generation finds the contraption in the attic.
Agree 110% that PI is a hobby thing. Great if its your cup of tea. It might even be the cup of tea for certain ultra nerd kids. But to sell it as an educational programming environment, is just silly, and will for the most part only leave bad memories instead of generating future software engineers.
Tablets i do enjoy. A few examples, private web browsing while at work. My work machine is heavily loaded with corporate big brother-ware so I use it for as little as possible. Some companies will fire you just for talking to a recruiter. Reading email, web browsing, even movie watching in bed.
in my book. a MAC IS a PC. If I want an ipad i will get it on its merits. Same with surface. Although neither are likely in my world. I get by perfectly well with android devices both for my mobile and tablets. I get by perfectly fine with linux and windows-based PC's and laptops. For the most part I buy them refurbished or second hand. Can get 3 year old professional grade top performing laptops for $200.
But also plausible might be that the encryption has been cracked or breached lets say by white or black hats, and the site decides to let the customers get their data out and shut down before the breach is known across the the full hat population.
That's dirt cheap. You have to realize what it's used for. It's built for speed, not storage capacity.
What matters here is the IOPS per $. Your 2 TB spinning HD fro $100 might seem cheap, but it only gets some 200 IOPS. So lets say 2 IOPS per dollar. These puppies can do some 480k IOPS in a 75/25 read/write workload, which gives us 48 IOPS per dollar. So it is in fact 24 times cheaper than a regular HD. Then consider electricity, cooling, floor space, floor weight etc.
Well, it was more than one market. Mainframe, minis, open systems, embedded, home, small business (channel), office, manufacturing, supercomputing, etc. Some markets completely disappeared, other markets were overrun by players that expanded beyond their britches. Capacity and performance wise, x86 could have ruled the roost already in the 90's, the only reason the *Nix vendors still had market share was strongly held myths about performance, and that it is an expensive undertaking to move off legacy software. Many folks, including seasoned Unix vets kept claiming that only the older unix architectures could offer the needed performance and reliability. Now these have moved on to board rooms or retirement, and guys that grew up with linux in the 90's are the ones speccing out new data centers. Some get their decisions made for them, as the old vendor goes belly up or discontinues the product. If cloud transformation had happened a few years before, while AMD still held a significant performance edge over Intel, we might have had a duopoly instead of monopoly.
If only Oracle revised their licencing policies. It is impossible to build a cost-effective production ready system with industry standard components, such as proliant blades, vmware, etc, because of only 1 thing: Oracle's hostile licensing policies and metrics. First is the 25 users minimum per processor license. Then there is the fact, that you have to license the full physical server, unless you deploy on very specific Oracle VM hypervisor configuration. And these days, you can't get blades with less than 4 cores. SO if you need a few Oracle software products, you will easily spend more than half a million. So now we have all these shops, trying to streamline their IT into easy to provision private clouds, only to find out that they have to toss it all away.
Going back and changing the past never really worked. Those doing that are called revisionists, and are generally vilified as whacked out nazis, which they generally are. And those who have tried time travel know that rule number one, is don't change anything, because it can completely mess up the present (past future).
Besides that, once you send something out on the internet, it is FOREVER, no matter what the law says. A picture, an article, a saying, a clip - it could go out to millions of users, and many of those again likely to hoard information. Storage density and capacity is increasing exponentially, much faster than the population, so less and less will be thrown away. I am sure some folks will not only keep track of where they have browsed but also store all content they have ever accessed. If it taken down from public web sites, it will live on in underground web sites, it will circulate in chain emails, people will talk about it. If you are lucky, the story, film clip or picture was of so little interest, that only someone explicitly looking for it, such as a future employer would ever go looking for it. If these cases go though court, when for example an internet provider refuses to comply with the request, you can be assured that there will also be a small cottage industry of folks that aggressively collect exactly the kind of information you want to hide, trolling court records for targets. They will resell to private detectives, potential employers doing background checks etc. So in effect, trying to erase the info will have the opposite effect, the info will be marked as valuable, and indexed and made available to nobody, except exactly the people you wanted to hide it from. You would have been better off hoping for th e company storing the content to go bankrupt one day, or discontinuing the picture hosting service.
What is this american obsession with property. Privacy is someting you can expect, regardless of property. It in fact has nothing to do with property. Privacy is something you can excpect even in a public place. Even at the beach. Someone talking a picture of you without permission can not publish that. Whether you own thy beach or not.
If the drone pilots show up looking for their precious treasure, say they can have it back after some things have happened, They must bring you to their home so that you can gawk to your hearts desire at their family for a day. install a spy cam to check out their mom or wife or sister, etc. The creepier the better. They must [ay a 10% finders fee to get it back, and also sign a contract agreeing to pay some large sum if they ever are caught flying over your property again.
Eh, no, but if I found a spy cam in my shower, I would have no qualms against smashing it with a hammer and tossing it. Which would be the more appropriate analogy. The peeping Tom may bring the police for me destrying his property but I don't think I'm the one who would be going to jail. People with Drones need to be careful and respect other folks privacy, and failoing to do so, they shoud expect people to shoot them down, and consider themselves lucky not to be procecuted. It is enough with the NSA spying on everybody. Don't need a sky full of peeping tom drones.
It is truly an epic fail to believe that some random visitor to your website is going to want to install your app just to read a piece of content—particularly if that user got there through a Google search. Yet for some reason, just about every forum out there pops up one of these idiotic app interstitials when I try to view some random post on their site. I didn't go there because I want to be a regular visitor to the site, which means I sure as h*** don't want to install their app just to read the tiny piece of content that may or may not even contain the information I need to do whatever I'm trying to get done.
The right time to ask a user to install an app is when the user creates an account on the site. Up until that point, the user is probably an infrequent visitor and is unlikely to want to install the app. Even at that point, the user may not want to install the app, but at least there's some nonzero possibility that he or she might.
Of course, the real train wreck is that there's no standard for making websites' contents available for app use, which would allow a user to install one reader that can read content on any of the dozen sites that he or she might be interested in. There's really no chance of me installing an app that only lets me read content from one website, because A. it is unlikely to be much better than viewing the website (because probably the same people designed it), and B. I already have more apps than I can deal with anyway. But if every website I visit standardized on a feed scheme, along with a common authentication system and a common reply system, I could see myself installing a single app that worked with all of them.
And despite what you say, the facebook app is pretty much standard on every user's smart phone, and the app only shows content from facebook, So, don't walk about thinking you just wrote a new law of nature. A billion others just disproved your law. You're not so special, kid. If installing apps was the only way you could get to content you wanted, you would be installing apps left and right. We all fly our flags high, until we get trampled by the hordes and become part of it,
WHoa. Here we hAVE A LITTLE GENIOUS., buT lARRY eLLISON SAID THE CONMPUTER IS TEH NETWORK. sO AT LEAST CONNCTION IS A CONNECTION NOT JUST TO TH ENETWQORK BUT ALSO TO THE COMPUTER. quod erat demonstrandum
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Agreed.
The "Your computer may be at risk", "Download free scanner", and click to buy marketing is ripe with fraud. Those are the kind of links you stumble across at illegal streaming sites or p0wned and derelict websites.
Even if they (have no idea if they do) had clean hands and stellar reputation, they have chosen to market their product in a way that makes it indistinguishable from malware or hackerware. If they really were reputable, they should dress up like Russian mafia, and then go all litigatious if someone points out that they look like Russian mafia.
Nonsense If he wants to get paid a lot, then why is he stating that salary beyond $70k does not make poeple happier.
The man is a fraud. Straight up.
And the constant background radiation of the universe itself .
It is perfectly possible to do good for the wrong reasons.
While the faith-based parts of religion might be complete garbage to the enlightened mind, there is also a lot of ethics being thought, such as you shall not not kill, lie, steal. If preaching in a culture where murder and theft is prevalent, getting a thug to join the choir would be beneficial to society, even if it means there is one more idiot believing in nonsense. At least if the church is a moderate one, and doesn't the thug into a rotten jihadist. A lot of ex criminals and gang members in Europe were lured into mosques started dressing like fucking nomads and became jihadists within a year.
This rings very true.
You can get perfectly good PC setups second hand for under $100. In form of a desktop or laptop.
There are also many miniature computers that sell for under $50 in dongle or stick formats.
What we might have considered programming in the old days is considered application use these days, such as writing formulas in a spreadsheet.
Programming as a hobby, is best done on an i or android device, so that the app can be made av available and even make some money.
Programminbg on pi seems about as useful and interesting for today's kids as as the assembler programming and EEPROM burning I had to do back in engineering school.
That was 95% menial work,
If I wanted to set up a kid for programming (mine are too young), I'd get them an old laptop to play with.
What is this garbage talk about locked down android or iphone environments? You can get simple development environments for these straight from their app shops, and start writing apps. If they make something really cool to share with friends, that would be the platform. Do the same on a pi, and it will remain on that same device until next generation finds the contraption in the attic.
Agree 110% that PI is a hobby thing. Great if its your cup of tea. It might even be the cup of tea for certain ultra nerd kids.
But to sell it as an educational programming environment, is just silly, and will for the most part only leave bad memories instead of generating future software engineers.
Tablets i do enjoy.
A few examples, private web browsing while at work. My work machine is heavily loaded with corporate big brother-ware so I use it for as little as possible.
Some companies will fire you just for talking to a recruiter.
Reading email, web browsing, even movie watching in bed.
in my book.
a MAC IS a PC.
If I want an ipad i will get it on its merits. Same with surface.
Although neither are likely in my world.
I get by perfectly well with android devices both for my mobile and tablets.
I get by perfectly fine with linux and windows-based PC's and laptops.
For the most part I buy them refurbished or second hand. Can get 3 year old professional grade top performing laptops for $200.
Astutely put.
Basically the company has carved out a non-existing and non growable niche.
But also plausible might be that the encryption has been cracked or breached lets say by white or black hats, and the site decides to let the customers get their data out and shut down before the breach is known across the the full hat population.
That's dirt cheap. You have to realize what it's used for. It's built for speed, not storage capacity.
What matters here is the IOPS per $.
Your 2 TB spinning HD fro $100 might seem cheap, but it only gets some 200 IOPS. So lets say 2 IOPS per dollar.
These puppies can do some 480k IOPS in a 75/25 read/write workload, which gives us 48 IOPS per dollar.
So it is in fact 24 times cheaper than a regular HD.
Then consider electricity, cooling, floor space, floor weight etc.
God save us from developers that can't do basic math. Cost of Windows on VM !=0.
Wow, you are so special. Maybe they give out awards for that.
Nope it was not installed on my phone fore sure.
Well, it was more than one market. Mainframe, minis, open systems, embedded, home, small business (channel), office, manufacturing, supercomputing, etc.
Some markets completely disappeared, other markets were overrun by players that expanded beyond their britches.
Capacity and performance wise, x86 could have ruled the roost already in the 90's, the only reason the *Nix vendors still had market share was strongly held myths about performance, and that it is an expensive undertaking to move off legacy software. Many folks, including seasoned Unix vets kept claiming that only the older unix architectures could offer the needed performance and reliability. Now these have moved on to board rooms or retirement, and guys that grew up with linux in the 90's are the ones speccing out new data centers. Some get their decisions made for them, as the old vendor goes belly up or discontinues the product.
If cloud transformation had happened a few years before, while AMD still held a significant performance edge over Intel, we might have had a duopoly instead of monopoly.
If only Oracle revised their licencing policies.
It is impossible to build a cost-effective production ready system with industry standard components, such as proliant blades, vmware, etc, because of only 1 thing: Oracle's hostile licensing policies and metrics. First is the 25 users minimum per processor license. Then there is the fact, that you have to license the full physical server, unless you deploy on very specific Oracle VM hypervisor configuration. And these days, you can't get blades with less than 4 cores. SO if you need a few Oracle software products, you will easily spend more than half a million. So now we have all these shops, trying to streamline their IT into easy to provision private clouds, only to find out that they have to toss it all away.
Going back and changing the past never really worked.
Those doing that are called revisionists, and are generally vilified as whacked out nazis, which they generally are.
And those who have tried time travel know that rule number one, is don't change anything, because it can completely mess up the present (past future).
Besides that, once you send something out on the internet, it is FOREVER, no matter what the law says. A picture, an article, a saying, a clip - it could go out to millions of users, and many of those again likely to hoard information. Storage density and capacity is increasing exponentially, much faster than the population, so less and less will be thrown away. I am sure some folks will not only keep track of where they have browsed but also store all content they have ever accessed. If it taken down from public web sites, it will live on in underground web sites, it will circulate in chain emails, people will talk about it. If you are lucky, the story, film clip or picture was of so little interest, that only someone explicitly looking for it, such as a future employer would ever go looking for it. If these cases go though court, when for example an internet provider refuses to comply with the request, you can be assured that there will also be a small cottage industry of folks that aggressively collect exactly the kind of information you want to hide, trolling court records for targets. They will resell to private detectives, potential employers doing background checks etc. So in effect, trying to erase the info will have the opposite effect, the info will be marked as valuable, and indexed and made available to nobody, except exactly the people you wanted to hide it from. You would have been better off hoping for th e company storing the content to go bankrupt one day, or discontinuing the picture hosting service.
What is this american obsession with property.
Privacy is someting you can expect, regardless of property. It in fact has nothing to do with property.
Privacy is something you can excpect even in a public place.
Even at the beach. Someone talking a picture of you without permission can not publish that.
Whether you own thy beach or not.
With a net or something.
If the drone pilots show up looking for their precious treasure, say they can have it back after some things have happened, They must bring you to their home so that you can gawk to your hearts desire at their family for a day. install a spy cam to check out their mom or wife or sister, etc. The creepier the better. They must [ay a 10% finders fee to get it back, and also sign a contract agreeing to pay some large sum if they ever are caught flying over your property again.
Eh, no, but if I found a spy cam in my shower, I would have no qualms against smashing it with a hammer and tossing it. Which would be the more appropriate analogy. The peeping Tom may bring the police for me destrying his property but I don't think I'm the one who would be going to jail. People with Drones need to be careful and respect other folks privacy, and failoing to do so, they shoud expect people to shoot them down, and consider themselves lucky not to be procecuted. It is enough with the NSA spying on everybody. Don't need a sky full of peeping tom drones.
It is truly an epic fail to believe that some random visitor to your website is going to want to install your app just to read a piece of content—particularly if that user got there through a Google search. Yet for some reason, just about every forum out there pops up one of these idiotic app interstitials when I try to view some random post on their site. I didn't go there because I want to be a regular visitor to the site, which means I sure as h*** don't want to install their app just to read the tiny piece of content that may or may not even contain the information I need to do whatever I'm trying to get done.
The right time to ask a user to install an app is when the user creates an account on the site. Up until that point, the user is probably an infrequent visitor and is unlikely to want to install the app. Even at that point, the user may not want to install the app, but at least there's some nonzero possibility that he or she might.
Of course, the real train wreck is that there's no standard for making websites' contents available for app use, which would allow a user to install one reader that can read content on any of the dozen sites that he or she might be interested in. There's really no chance of me installing an app that only lets me read content from one website, because A. it is unlikely to be much better than viewing the website (because probably the same people designed it), and B. I already have more apps than I can deal with anyway. But if every website I visit standardized on a feed scheme, along with a common authentication system and a common reply system, I could see myself installing a single app that worked with all of them.
And despite what you say, the facebook app is pretty much standard on every user's smart phone, and the app only shows content from facebook, So, don't walk about thinking you just wrote a new law of nature. A billion others just disproved your law. You're not so special, kid. If installing apps was the only way you could get to content you wanted, you would be installing apps left and right. We all fly our flags high, until we get trampled by the hordes and become part of it,
The standard when it is the other way around is triple the damages, so tripe would be just fair.
Could be, I was using gv before it got that far, even scored a reasonable cool vanity number.
Maybe I'l try to check it out again.
Call quality was so much better than skype, but it was a real pain to set up and use on android, and i don't even remember how to get to it on chrome.
Sorry google, if you want to compete, you have to bring your A-game, not 5 of your B-games.
WHoa. Here we hAVE A LITTLE GENIOUS.,
buT lARRY eLLISON SAID THE CONMPUTER IS TEH NETWORK.
sO AT LEAST CONNCTION IS A CONNECTION NOT JUST TO TH ENETWQORK BUT ALSO TO THE COMPUTER.
quod erat demonstrandum