Even tho people may not need to reboot these days, that's often considered as the first answer for any problem because people have been conditioned that way. And aside from that one example, i see countless situations where people show each other how to work around a problem rather than fixing it, people think the bugs are a normal and unavoidable fact.
I don't see it, i have a blackberry (curve) from work and an iphone for personal use... The calendar i don't really use, the contact list syncing doesn't seem to work properly (tho it also has the lookup feature, which works better)... I'm sure the iphone views pdf and office documents, tho i've never tried that, they seem to have their own icons.
In terms of security, i prefer the idea of a direct imap/ssl connection between my device and my server, the blackberry uses a proprietary third party protocol via a third party service so you can't be sure what's really going on.
The wireless synchronization of mail seems to work better on the iphone, the blackberry seems to update rather slowly when you delete something from the server.
Yeah, but it's turned on by default which means that millions of people will have it turned on... People who have a clue are more likely to be using other browsers too, and i don't believe any others have such a ridiculous "feature".
A windows port to ARM would bring very little to the table... Most windows apps are released as binaries for x86 so they wouldn't run on the arm version, and people wouldn't want to use the OS if it had no apps. The advantage with linux is that most of the apps come with source, so it's relatively easy for a distributor to compile a huge selection of apps for the arm architecture.
A direct port of windows 7 would be only one step up from the current windows mobile offerings, in that it would theoretically be possible to recompile an application rather than having to do significant porting work, but a lack of available source code for most apps will hinder it's adoption.
The very reason many commercial desktop/game apps are not ported to linux (small desktop market share means no ports, no ports discourages users) would severely hinder or scupper any attempt to port windows do a new architecture too.
There's nothing more annoying than a site that's "down for redesign"... Why can't they just leave the old site running until the new one is ready?
As for server costs etc, if it's hosted by sourceforge then you don't have any costs and can just leave it there, possibly place a statement on the page saying you no longer maintain it and offering to hand over the project to someone else if they're interested.
Yes, that's the thing with linux... Although you could do pretty much everything a user would want to using the gui, when you're trying to support someone else online or over the phone a command line is much easier because it is based on a back and forth flow of words, like a conversation. The user you're supporting only has to sit in the middle and relay the conversation between you and the computer. This gives people the idea that the command line is the only way, when in fact it's simply the better way in these cases. People would support windows in exactly the same way if the command line was usable enough.
Ofcourse, if you're using IE then someone could construct a malicious site that redirects to an smb address, IE will dutifully try to connect to the share and send the authentication details that you are currently logged on with.
Backwards compatibility and just plain shoddy design... Their passwords are typically hashed twice, once for backwards compatibility using a laughable algorithm and once for newer systems using a not quite so laughable algorithm. And it's not like unix where the only thing to interact with the password hash is the login service (xdm, ssh etc) the hashes are reused for all kinds of things like smb connections, so while on unix you can substitute in a new encryption cipher with ease on windows it would break lots of things.
That works so long as it's give and take... But many companies want you to be in the office 9-5 *AND* available at arbitrary hours. I have no issue being available for the occasional out of hours task, so long as i get some flexibility in return.
It depends on your contract... Most salaried employees have a fixed number of hours, and anything above that is considered overtime. If they want you to answer the phone in the middle of the night you just claim overtime pay for it..
The iphone communicates with exchange using activesync, which runs over http and therefore can be used over https... There is also an open source implementation of activesync called z-push which works with the iphone.
It's reliance upon exchange is what will ultimately kill blackberry or relegate it to a niche... While it does have support for Notes and Groupwise, most of the users run exchange, and MS will be pushing those users to run windows mobile based phones. Many of them will do so, as your company did, and if they don't want to MS will sweeten the deal somehow.
It doesn't matter that the windows mobile stack is theoretically inferior, it's cheaper and will be pushed heavily and blackberry can't really compete with MS, especially when those customers will be buying MS products anyway.
I have no issue with people who take a phonecall or two while having a beer... It's only annoying if there's just 2 of you there (and therefore you sit bored while the other uses the phone) or they spend all the time on the phone (thus defeating the point of going out for a drink together).
But a phone in the cinema is just unforgivable, it should be mandatory to keep your phone on silent in the cinema, punishable by being kicked out if it's heard making any noise. Modern movies even have a commercial at the start telling people to turn their phones off.
I have an 8100 and an 8310, and the browser on it is pretty lousy, certainly vastly inferior to safari on the iphone... Haven't used a newer version so can't comment on that... Will these devices support any newer version, and how difficult is it to update (and will doing so wipe out my settings?)
I stopped using a blackberry because of poor linux support, it's imap support is pretty poor and it has no support for caldav or ldap, plus to get all the features you have to run their proprietary server which is windows-only.
I moved to an iphone, which is a significant improvement (i have to configure it on a mac, but it can sync using activesync which has an open source implementation z-push, and it does imap much better)... And it's also unix based, so i can mess with the underlying OS and port some of my unix utilities to it.
But i am looking closely at the android based phones, one of which may well be my next phone when the current iphone contract expires.
Yes, so instead of bailing them out, nationalize them... That way, the shareholders are at risk of losing their investment completely, and they will keep the directors in check... Once nationalized, force them to play by new rules and fire the staff who caused the problems in the first place. Bring the business back to profitability, and then sell it off.
People should not be rewarded for irresponsible behavior which causes their business to fold, and certainly shouldn't be rewarded for the arrogance and greed which makes them take stupid risks while planning to hold customers to ransom to get bailed out.
The same as if he gets into a car wreck while driving his own personal car...
A company cannot force you to do anything illegal, if they tell you to drive in an unsafe manner then you are legally required to refuse and potentially report them for making such an illegal request. If on the other hand you chose to drive in an unsafe manner, then you are now breaking the law and if you cause an accident as a result should be duly punished.
But what the poster was talking about, was making those in charge of making decisions on behalf of a company responsible for them... If a company breaks the law, then take the people in charge to court, if they were found to have ordered the illegal activity, or been aware of it and not put a stop to it, then punish them as if they had committed the act personally. At the moment, all you can do is fine companies for breaking the law, so that company then just works out if the cost of the fine outweighs the profit made from operating illegally...
Look at the case between Microsoft and the EU, it's more profitable to pay the fines than comply with the ruling. Similarly, it used to be illegal for many shops to be open on sundays in the UK, however the fines were small enough to be insignificant to many of the larger stores, who simply paid them and opened on sunday anyway.
Also, corporations being punished for illegal activity should be treated in the same way as individuals... No spending months negotiating, one or more judges simply decide on a punishment and hands it down.
And prisons are even more expensive than the unemployed...
Make prisoners do hard labor, and other jobs that noone else wants to do... Make the unemployed work on less unpleasant tasks if they want to receive their benefits, that way the costs stay roughly the same but you can get some things done that would be economically infeasible otherwise due to labor costs. Also don't bother with fancy expensive tools, if the job takes longer then so be it.
They could do things like cleaning public areas of litter and graffiti, cleaning up wasteland and planting trees, sorting out recyclable materials from general rubbish... None of these things require any special training, and most don't get done at all normally because the labor costs outweigh the benefits. In this case the labor costs are virtually nothing.
Alongside the labor you could provide training, say 3 days labor 2 days training for better paid jobs.
This would discourage many people from claiming unemployment, as it would no longer be an easy option... And it would bring many benefits to the community as a whole.
Yes, but the linux option will benefit the kids more...
Linux gives them a system which is open, allowing those kids who are technically minded to learn about it in depth and provide support to their peers. When they grow up, those kids will be able to sell such services to others, while the non technical kids will be able to buy support services from the others. So you end up with an IT industry that's locally based, rather than having to pay for expensive foreign services and additional software (what seems like pocket change to people in the first world, is a months wages for people in these third world countries).
And if you train people in the third world sufficiently well, they will be able to provide services to people in the first world, and because the cost of living is so much lower they can live like kings while still undercutting the competition.
Not to mention the fact that although they may get the original OLPC laptops for free or very cheap, once they get older and require computers for business purposes they won't be free, and having the cost of software on top makes it hurt twice as much...
Also, whats the point in learning xp instead of linux? the false assumption that its what the kids will end up using when they go on to get jobs? xp is obsolete, and becoming increasingly difficult to obtain... By the time these kids are old enough to get jobs xp will be nowhere to be seen and they will have to use something significantly different.
Routing through a pbx does not necessarily strip the caller id... Companies should configure their phone switches to stamp their main inbound number on the callerid so that you know who's calling you.
My landline phone will play a recorded message saying it does not accept calls with blocked callerid, but i can't find a way to make my cellphone do this... Once i have such a facility on my sell i'll be set.
Some operators charge you to listen to the voicemail... You often can't tell who the voicemail is from until you've started listening to it, and even more infuritating is that some of the more unscrupulous operators force you to listen to a message for a certain length of time before you delete it (if you press delete too soon it plays a prerecorded message telling you to wait, then carries on with the message)...
I want to see who the voicemail is from before i listen to it (the iphone lets me do this) delete it without listening (iphone does this too) and i want to be able to automatically reject calls with a blocked number by playing them a message saying i dont accept blocked calls - cant do this on a mobile yet...
Sun will provide paid support for both staroffice and openoffice, other third parties will also provide paid support for openoffice, often as part of a larger bundle of software such as a linux distribution...
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Even tho people may not need to reboot these days, that's often considered as the first answer for any problem because people have been conditioned that way. And aside from that one example, i see countless situations where people show each other how to work around a problem rather than fixing it, people think the bugs are a normal and unavoidable fact.
I don't see it, i have a blackberry (curve) from work and an iphone for personal use...
The calendar i don't really use, the contact list syncing doesn't seem to work properly (tho it also has the lookup feature, which works better)...
I'm sure the iphone views pdf and office documents, tho i've never tried that, they seem to have their own icons.
In terms of security, i prefer the idea of a direct imap/ssl connection between my device and my server, the blackberry uses a proprietary third party protocol via a third party service so you can't be sure what's really going on.
The wireless synchronization of mail seems to work better on the iphone, the blackberry seems to update rather slowly when you delete something from the server.
Yeah, but it's turned on by default which means that millions of people will have it turned on...
People who have a clue are more likely to be using other browsers too, and i don't believe any others have such a ridiculous "feature".
A windows port to ARM would bring very little to the table...
Most windows apps are released as binaries for x86 so they wouldn't run on the arm version, and people wouldn't want to use the OS if it had no apps. The advantage with linux is that most of the apps come with source, so it's relatively easy for a distributor to compile a huge selection of apps for the arm architecture.
A direct port of windows 7 would be only one step up from the current windows mobile offerings, in that it would theoretically be possible to recompile an application rather than having to do significant porting work, but a lack of available source code for most apps will hinder it's adoption.
The very reason many commercial desktop/game apps are not ported to linux (small desktop market share means no ports, no ports discourages users) would severely hinder or scupper any attempt to port windows do a new architecture too.
There's nothing more annoying than a site that's "down for redesign"...
Why can't they just leave the old site running until the new one is ready?
As for server costs etc, if it's hosted by sourceforge then you don't have any costs and can just leave it there, possibly place a statement on the page saying you no longer maintain it and offering to hand over the project to someone else if they're interested.
Yes, that's the thing with linux...
Although you could do pretty much everything a user would want to using the gui, when you're trying to support someone else online or over the phone a command line is much easier because it is based on a back and forth flow of words, like a conversation. The user you're supporting only has to sit in the middle and relay the conversation between you and the computer.
This gives people the idea that the command line is the only way, when in fact it's simply the better way in these cases. People would support windows in exactly the same way if the command line was usable enough.
The difference is, known PDP-11 bugs are not being carried forward into current systems.
Ofcourse, if you're using IE then someone could construct a malicious site that redirects to an smb address, IE will dutifully try to connect to the share and send the authentication details that you are currently logged on with.
Backwards compatibility and just plain shoddy design...
Their passwords are typically hashed twice, once for backwards compatibility using a laughable algorithm and once for newer systems using a not quite so laughable algorithm.
And it's not like unix where the only thing to interact with the password hash is the login service (xdm, ssh etc) the hashes are reused for all kinds of things like smb connections, so while on unix you can substitute in a new encryption cipher with ease on windows it would break lots of things.
That works so long as it's give and take...
But many companies want you to be in the office 9-5 *AND* available at arbitrary hours.
I have no issue being available for the occasional out of hours task, so long as i get some flexibility in return.
It depends on your contract...
Most salaried employees have a fixed number of hours, and anything above that is considered overtime. If they want you to answer the phone in the middle of the night you just claim overtime pay for it..
The iphone communicates with exchange using activesync, which runs over http and therefore can be used over https...
There is also an open source implementation of activesync called z-push which works with the iphone.
It's reliance upon exchange is what will ultimately kill blackberry or relegate it to a niche...
While it does have support for Notes and Groupwise, most of the users run exchange, and MS will be pushing those users to run windows mobile based phones. Many of them will do so, as your company did, and if they don't want to MS will sweeten the deal somehow.
It doesn't matter that the windows mobile stack is theoretically inferior, it's cheaper and will be pushed heavily and blackberry can't really compete with MS, especially when those customers will be buying MS products anyway.
I have no issue with people who take a phonecall or two while having a beer... It's only annoying if there's just 2 of you there (and therefore you sit bored while the other uses the phone) or they spend all the time on the phone (thus defeating the point of going out for a drink together).
But a phone in the cinema is just unforgivable, it should be mandatory to keep your phone on silent in the cinema, punishable by being kicked out if it's heard making any noise. Modern movies even have a commercial at the start telling people to turn their phones off.
I have an 8100 and an 8310, and the browser on it is pretty lousy, certainly vastly inferior to safari on the iphone...
Haven't used a newer version so can't comment on that...
Will these devices support any newer version, and how difficult is it to update (and will doing so wipe out my settings?)
Who knows, some ridiculous windows problems are accepted as "normal" by the same people, like the idea of having to reboot every day and such.
I stopped using a blackberry because of poor linux support, it's imap support is pretty poor and it has no support for caldav or ldap, plus to get all the features you have to run their proprietary server which is windows-only.
I moved to an iphone, which is a significant improvement (i have to configure it on a mac, but it can sync using activesync which has an open source implementation z-push, and it does imap much better)... And it's also unix based, so i can mess with the underlying OS and port some of my unix utilities to it.
But i am looking closely at the android based phones, one of which may well be my next phone when the current iphone contract expires.
Yes, so instead of bailing them out, nationalize them...
That way, the shareholders are at risk of losing their investment completely, and they will keep the directors in check...
Once nationalized, force them to play by new rules and fire the staff who caused the problems in the first place. Bring the business back to profitability, and then sell it off.
People should not be rewarded for irresponsible behavior which causes their business to fold, and certainly shouldn't be rewarded for the arrogance and greed which makes them take stupid risks while planning to hold customers to ransom to get bailed out.
The same as if he gets into a car wreck while driving his own personal car...
A company cannot force you to do anything illegal, if they tell you to drive in an unsafe manner then you are legally required to refuse and potentially report them for making such an illegal request.
If on the other hand you chose to drive in an unsafe manner, then you are now breaking the law and if you cause an accident as a result should be duly punished.
But what the poster was talking about, was making those in charge of making decisions on behalf of a company responsible for them... If a company breaks the law, then take the people in charge to court, if they were found to have ordered the illegal activity, or been aware of it and not put a stop to it, then punish them as if they had committed the act personally.
At the moment, all you can do is fine companies for breaking the law, so that company then just works out if the cost of the fine outweighs the profit made from operating illegally...
Look at the case between Microsoft and the EU, it's more profitable to pay the fines than comply with the ruling.
Similarly, it used to be illegal for many shops to be open on sundays in the UK, however the fines were small enough to be insignificant to many of the larger stores, who simply paid them and opened on sunday anyway.
Also, corporations being punished for illegal activity should be treated in the same way as individuals... No spending months negotiating, one or more judges simply decide on a punishment and hands it down.
And prisons are even more expensive than the unemployed...
Make prisoners do hard labor, and other jobs that noone else wants to do...
Make the unemployed work on less unpleasant tasks if they want to receive their benefits, that way the costs stay roughly the same but you can get some things done that would be economically infeasible otherwise due to labor costs.
Also don't bother with fancy expensive tools, if the job takes longer then so be it.
They could do things like cleaning public areas of litter and graffiti, cleaning up wasteland and planting trees, sorting out recyclable materials from general rubbish...
None of these things require any special training, and most don't get done at all normally because the labor costs outweigh the benefits. In this case the labor costs are virtually nothing.
Alongside the labor you could provide training, say 3 days labor 2 days training for better paid jobs.
This would discourage many people from claiming unemployment, as it would no longer be an easy option... And it would bring many benefits to the community as a whole.
You forgot to write out the numerical value in textual form, eg:
USD$400,000 FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS
You also didn't have enough spelling or grammar mistakes in your post...
Yes, but the linux option will benefit the kids more...
Linux gives them a system which is open, allowing those kids who are technically minded to learn about it in depth and provide support to their peers. When they grow up, those kids will be able to sell such services to others, while the non technical kids will be able to buy support services from the others. So you end up with an IT industry that's locally based, rather than having to pay for expensive foreign services and additional software (what seems like pocket change to people in the first world, is a months wages for people in these third world countries).
And if you train people in the third world sufficiently well, they will be able to provide services to people in the first world, and because the cost of living is so much lower they can live like kings while still undercutting the competition.
Not to mention the fact that although they may get the original OLPC laptops for free or very cheap, once they get older and require computers for business purposes they won't be free, and having the cost of software on top makes it hurt twice as much...
Also, whats the point in learning xp instead of linux? the false assumption that its what the kids will end up using when they go on to get jobs? xp is obsolete, and becoming increasingly difficult to obtain... By the time these kids are old enough to get jobs xp will be nowhere to be seen and they will have to use something significantly different.
Routing through a pbx does not necessarily strip the caller id... Companies should configure their phone switches to stamp their main inbound number on the callerid so that you know who's calling you.
My landline phone will play a recorded message saying it does not accept calls with blocked callerid, but i can't find a way to make my cellphone do this... Once i have such a facility on my sell i'll be set.
Some operators charge you to listen to the voicemail...
You often can't tell who the voicemail is from until you've started listening to it, and even more infuritating is that some of the more unscrupulous operators force you to listen to a message for a certain length of time before you delete it (if you press delete too soon it plays a prerecorded message telling you to wait, then carries on with the message)...
I want to see who the voicemail is from before i listen to it (the iphone lets me do this) delete it without listening (iphone does this too) and i want to be able to automatically reject calls with a blocked number by playing them a message saying i dont accept blocked calls - cant do this on a mobile yet...
Sun will provide paid support for both staroffice and openoffice, other third parties will also provide paid support for openoffice, often as part of a larger bundle of software such as a linux distribution...