Great. A sandboxed environment with limited functionality and a vendor stranglehold on apps is "more secure" than a fully functional PC OS where the use can run any app (or even another OS) that they desire.
Big fricking whoop.
That's like saying that a car that spent the entirety of it's life parked in a little old lady's garage was safer to drive than another car that has spent the last 10-15 years as someone's daily driver.
You're a university. Great, fine and wonderful. You're one of the traditional areas Macs have always sold heavily into.
The problem is that once your students get out into the real world, unless they're in content creation, their primary platforms will be Linux or Windows.
You give the person a Civic to drive. It's quiet, sedate, cheap, and boring.
You don't want a delivery employee playing Formula 1 while on the job. It makes them, late for deliveries because they get targeted by the cops and pulled over for driving a sports car (see "Ticket for LOOKING fast")
Their antics cause a crash and hurt someone? Lawsuit.
They crash the car on company time, they (and their insurance) expect the company to pay out for repair/replacement. Repairs on a Maserati cost more than BUYING a new Civic.
At the heart, this is about control of one's network.
If I say a device doesn't get on the network, it doesn't get on. Period.
My "online presence" predates my AIM account by over a decade and a half. The only reason I wound up picking up AIM with Trillian was because one or two of my relatives have AIM accounts.
Sorry, but anyone who believes this is hopelessly naive and probably should never, EVER be exposed to the disgusting quagmire of depravity that is US politics.
They'd probably spontaneously combust if that happened.
*SNERK*
US Politics is FOUNDED on the principles of political pain and obstructionism!
No. I've been given direct orders NOT to root the phone. They don't want our carrier possibly cutting service to the phone or any other issues arising from it getting in the way.
Since it's technically their phone, I say jack and shit about it.
Well, I have a Nexus S. Unfortunately I'm on 2.2.1 at the moment. As my employers are paying my phone bill, including data overages, I kinda have to follow the order not to root the phone.
For a good chunk of the last decade now, the tattered remnants of the SciFi Channel have been badly BADLY mismanaged in an utterly wrongheaded attempt to "appeal to a wider audience and pull itself out of the niche it had so firmly defined itself as. It's programming director simply "didn't get" SciFi.
Hence the prevalence of "ghost hunter" shows with boobs standing around going "I imagined I saw something there! ITSAGHOST!" and John Edwards "I can talk to dead people" faux psychics. as well as *GAG* "rasslin".
The fact that they picked up and ran with some rather fine SciFi series, even as late as this year is a source of unending awe to me.
Simply throwing more money at them and going premium is NOT an option for them now though. They've gone on to define themselves as just another general content channel that happens to have a SLIGHTLY higher quotient of science fiction stuff. As such, they have nothing that makes them a worthwhile, marketable premium channel. And I mean NOTHING.
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You keep saying that word. But I do not think it means what you think it means. -- Inigo Montoya
Great. A sandboxed environment with limited functionality and a vendor stranglehold on apps is "more secure" than a fully functional PC OS where the use can run any app (or even another OS) that they desire.
Big fricking whoop.
That's like saying that a car that spent the entirety of it's life parked in a little old lady's garage was safer to drive than another car that has spent the last 10-15 years as someone's daily driver.
Oh my God! A chicken-shit AC poster being a complete troll-tard!
I know - I know, it's not as shocking as being into felching or coprophilia - but still.
You forgot choice #3:
Tell Apple to fuck the hell off and go get buy/build a PC (meaning Wintel/Lintel) that you actually have a modicum of control over.
that kind of bullshit is nucking futs.
That's a fairly accurate description of Apple culture.
Sorry, no Hynerians here. Just humans. All we produce is methane.
Sounds distinctly like a certain situational land scam to me.
Way to go Slashdot!
Because she'd look silly in a fedora and she can't handle a whip.
Up until now, this form of use has been an option for users. Whether they partook of it or not.
Now it is being removed as an option.
Therefore, if any given user of Skype attempts to exercise this option in the future, they're screwed.
Friends don't let friends Jumbo Jet Joust.
You're a university. Great, fine and wonderful. You're one of the traditional areas Macs have always sold heavily into.
The problem is that once your students get out into the real world, unless they're in content creation, their primary platforms will be Linux or Windows.
Translation: Hope these businesses don't want actual enterprise support from Apple. Rude awakenings to ensue.
You give the person a Civic to drive. It's quiet, sedate, cheap, and boring.
You don't want a delivery employee playing Formula 1 while on the job. It makes them, late for deliveries because they get targeted by the cops and pulled over for driving a sports car (see "Ticket for LOOKING fast")
Their antics cause a crash and hurt someone? Lawsuit.
They crash the car on company time, they (and their insurance) expect the company to pay out for repair/replacement. Repairs on a Maserati cost more than BUYING a new Civic.
At the heart, this is about control of one's network.
If I say a device doesn't get on the network, it doesn't get on. Period.
Wasn't this what the damn $30 "unlimited" plan was doing already?
Oh wait. Nobody likes when one points out the elephant in the room. Silly me!
My screen is only 100 pixels tall, you insensitive clod!
It's not about the size. It's about how you use it. .....
Nahhh! It's about the size.
(Posted from a 24" 1920x1080 monitor)
Apparently you missed "quoted an unnamed source".
I can "quote an unnamed source" who says that the moon landings were faked on a soundstage.
Thanks for playing!
Howsabout "no".
My "online presence" predates my AIM account by over a decade and a half. The only reason I wound up picking up AIM with Trillian was because one or two of my relatives have AIM accounts.
Remember the first rule of yellow journalism.
If there's no news to be had, generate an eye-catching, inaccurate headline.
Then make shit up.
"Kyodo news agency quoted an unnamed source"
This is essentially a license to freely spew anything. Regardless of the facts.
Now comes the time when they attempt to rewrite what actually happened, and replace it with a "nuclear horror" scenario.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
Oh wait... You were serious?
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
Sorry, but anyone who believes this is hopelessly naive and probably should never, EVER be exposed to the disgusting quagmire of depravity that is US politics.
They'd probably spontaneously combust if that happened.
*SNERK*
US Politics is FOUNDED on the principles of political pain and obstructionism!
No. I've been given direct orders NOT to root the phone. They don't want our carrier possibly cutting service to the phone or any other issues arising from it getting in the way.
Since it's technically their phone, I say jack and shit about it.
Well, I have a Nexus S. Unfortunately I'm on 2.2.1 at the moment. As my employers are paying my phone bill, including data overages, I kinda have to follow the order not to root the phone.
For a good chunk of the last decade now, the tattered remnants of the SciFi Channel have been badly BADLY mismanaged in an utterly wrongheaded attempt to "appeal to a wider audience and pull itself out of the niche it had so firmly defined itself as. It's programming director simply "didn't get" SciFi.
Hence the prevalence of "ghost hunter" shows with boobs standing around going "I imagined I saw something there! ITSAGHOST!" and John Edwards "I can talk to dead people" faux psychics. as well as *GAG* "rasslin".
The fact that they picked up and ran with some rather fine SciFi series, even as late as this year is a source of unending awe to me.
Simply throwing more money at them and going premium is NOT an option for them now though. They've gone on to define themselves as just another general content channel that happens to have a SLIGHTLY higher quotient of science fiction stuff. As such, they have nothing that makes them a worthwhile, marketable premium channel. And I mean NOTHING.
Basically anyone using a real computer with a real operating system. Toys and their vendors need not apply.
Then they weren't just stupid and security-lazy. They were criminally negligent.
If the attacks were able to successfully penetrate to such an extent that you're still down and cleaning 2+ weeks later, you done goofed. BIG.