I've found similar, but a little digging showed that it came back to distributors locking the price similar to boxed product to not disadvantage their resellers.
I've found similar, but a little digging showed that it came back to distributors locking the price similar to boxed product to not disadvantage their resellers. Trust me, us Australians know about discriminatory pricing, especially on digital downloads.
I use http://www.steamprices.com/ and pay friends in alternate distribution zones to gift me games. I know a couple of people that use free VPNs to the US and UK to create gifting accounts purely for grey market purchasing.
Steam is treading the line between providing good pricing and not biting the arm that feeds them licenses...
I agree that there's appears to be a change in the motivation and thought processes after that *rough* age bracket. Last year our CTO and I were having the same discussion regarding new hires. Initially we thought it was a different mindset between age brackets that wasn't just related to how old they were. New hires were appearing to have padded their CVs more, less likely to take ownership of issues, less willing to apply basic troubleshooting logic (even when flowcharts, knowledge-bases, and internal Wikis are provided), little initiative, and less willing to push themselves.
In the end, we realised that there's just more people claiming IT proficiency now. In my day, I started on electronics, and moved to computers as an extension. Many of the others I know had a similar background of wanting to know how everything worked. Our claim of working with computers was either met with some admiration and a lot of recrimination (whether verbal or physical) and thats formed a perception of 'if you went through those years and still work IT you must be good'.
Now almost everyone has a level of IT proficiency but the background is now no longer required and the derision isn't there anywhere as much. Those that do have the background, different mindset, and critical thinking are now preened for promotion/succession and we don't see a lot of our competitors potential Level 3s changing companies since everyone's fearful of the job market. We do concentrate hiring during or after major contract reshuffles (like last months mining industry contractor bloodbath) or competing MSPs folding.
There's still the same amount of *good* IT people, but the quantity of mediocrity overshadows that. After that conversation, questions about how candidates push themselves outside of work have been added to the practical spot questions interviewees receive.
All said, we also had some issues with pre-1991-born employees having little initiative or feeling that surfing a news site during waiting for tasks to complete whilst onsite was acceptable. IT infrastructure, procedures, and documentation are never completely optimised, so there is no excuse for non-work related surfing (outside of lunches when employees are suggested to go outside get some fresh air, and surf there)
We don't care about a desolate place that will require sinking great wads of cash into it, unless there's oil, rare earths and minerals, or our IP has been infringed.
A perfect example of the "Ballmer Disconnect" is this little gem from earlier this year when it was announced they were pulling the plug on Windows Home Server "We have all those features in Windows SBS now so its not that we are leaving the market, I'm sure everyone will just switch to SBS"...hmmm...lets look at the numbers, shall we? Windows Home Server? $40, and that's OEM retail price, more like $25 to the OEMs themselves. Windows SBS? $400!!!! And that is for the OEMs!
And to further rub salt into the wounds, they knobbled SBS like Apple knobbled OS X Server. For example, there's no in-house email in SBS 2012 or OS X Server 10.7+ This forum post has a good comparison of licensing SBS 2011 over 2012 In fact, compare the feature sets of previous versions and current versions of these two Server OSs and it's all about extracting recurring income through cloud dependence.
I always bought nVidia until the 7950 / 8800 / 9800 dry solder issues. After that many RMAs and arguements with wholesalers and retailers, I bought AMD out of retaliation, and this 5870 has been rock solid. I'll be going back to nVidia for my next refresh, but for me, nVidia has not 'always just worked'.
In fact, I'd wager no one brand 'just works' these days, since extreme capitalism is in these days, and they'll shop around for manufacturing plants and methods.
Everyone here will have baggage from older versions, vendor bias, or a barrow to push.
As an example, I refuse to deploy Hyper-V in production ever since it mangled the VM XML configs on unexpected reboots, causing VMs to disappear from the management console. I've no doubt it somewhat fixed, but I still come across the occasional forum post bitching about a lost VM.
Also, I challenge you to come up with a symbol for saving files without using a diskette or something like that. These symbols have transpired from metaphors of real objects to metaphors of actions, and people who have never even seen a diskette learn their purpose by context. Granted, this creates a certain standard by convention, and you could argue that any symbol could be used for that. But again, that would dismiss the users who grew up with that symbol. Currently, everybody is happy, why challenge this?
Tell that to Apple's lawyers re Samsung's phone dock:P
For a private school, executive went for e-Safe (http://www.safenet-inc.com/data-protection/content-security-esafe/) on Mac and PC.
It a system that transmits a machine ID along with running a keylogger and screen capture. Key presses are filtered through a central filter that alerts on things such as IM preening, online bullying, self-harm indicators, and inappropriate search terms. Screen caps are thumb-nailed, identified by machine ID, and monitored by humans for inappropriate images or video, etc. The content filter blocks and logs URLs any websites we request or fit their blocklists..
The House Heads are emailed logs of inappropriate activities on a weekly basis, and self-harm or bullying activities are emailed or SMSed immediately.
My role is servers and I haven't seen any of the logs, I just provide login logs and supporting documentation. All devices on the "guest" or "mobile devices" SSID are have a school captive portal that requires their school login.
It seems to work well, in that people are educated post infringement. It has also alerted staff to possible at-risk students (including boarders) and a couple of webcam sessions involving minors. Since it's installed, it does have the vulnerability of being tampered with, but they also alert us to attempts to circumvent e-Safe.
Note: I can't verify it's effectiveness since I don't see Pastoral Care issues. You will need to decide whether it fits your situation. I have some moral objections, but I don't make those kind of decisions...
Because the Liberals (Conservatives) were blameless when they agreed to the US Free Trade Agreement that shoehorned US patent and copyright "treaties" into our body of Law.
Conjob doesn't deserve his job, but a change of government would be worse for IT and Technology in this country.
I don't see anything but "shitty replacement software for builtin thing" showing the AP you're currently connected to via CCX extensions (Intel, Broadcom), re-distributable WPA2 PSK profiles that are more immune to syphoning by regedit and a quick decrypt once applied (Intel), built-in multi-channel wifi survey and wifi interference measurements (Broadcom), inbuilt TDR for cable measurement and broken/crossed wire tests (Intel, Broadcom, Marvell and Realtek).
As for the shovelware? Yep. That definitely needs to go...
I'm currently contracted to a school with boarders. Torrenting is obviously QoS'ed into oblivion and "bad, mmmkay" sites are blocked at the firewall.
The students know about the file sharing sites that allow movies file to be played from any point. Think megaupload with the smarts to recongnise.AVI,.MKV, and.MP4 and show a flash player option of viewing. No names, as it'll drive students there / flag it for the next domain grab
"If I buy a game that 'fell of a truck', I get no access to online gaming, dlc like extra maps or weapons, support. If I buy that game legally, I get more than just the game, I get a lot of services on top of it."
I'm not trying to make a point, and I'm against eroding first sale rights (even though Australia doesn't have one). I'm just playing Devil's FTFY advocate.
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If you found a platform to be incredibly insecure why on earth would you continue to run it?
He never said TFA author ran Android and moved to iOS.
That said, I don't believe either of you made a persuasive point :)
I've found similar, but a little digging showed that it came back to distributors locking the price similar to boxed product to not disadvantage their resellers.
http://blog.greenmangaming.com/2012/12/australianew-zealand-pricing.html
Example for those wanting examples...
I've found similar, but a little digging showed that it came back to distributors locking the price similar to boxed product to not disadvantage their resellers. Trust me, us Australians know about discriminatory pricing, especially on digital downloads.
I use http://www.steamprices.com/ and pay friends in alternate distribution zones to gift me games. I know a couple of people that use free VPNs to the US and UK to create gifting accounts purely for grey market purchasing.
Steam is treading the line between providing good pricing and not biting the arm that feeds them licenses...
However Walmart iPads fly just fine. We have video proof...
1974 says you're wrong. :)
I agree that there's appears to be a change in the motivation and thought processes after that *rough* age bracket. Last year our CTO and I were having the same discussion regarding new hires. Initially we thought it was a different mindset between age brackets that wasn't just related to how old they were. New hires were appearing to have padded their CVs more, less likely to take ownership of issues, less willing to apply basic troubleshooting logic (even when flowcharts, knowledge-bases, and internal Wikis are provided), little initiative, and less willing to push themselves.
In the end, we realised that there's just more people claiming IT proficiency now. In my day, I started on electronics, and moved to computers as an extension. Many of the others I know had a similar background of wanting to know how everything worked. Our claim of working with computers was either met with some admiration and a lot of recrimination (whether verbal or physical) and thats formed a perception of 'if you went through those years and still work IT you must be good'.
Now almost everyone has a level of IT proficiency but the background is now no longer required and the derision isn't there anywhere as much. Those that do have the background, different mindset, and critical thinking are now preened for promotion/succession and we don't see a lot of our competitors potential Level 3s changing companies since everyone's fearful of the job market. We do concentrate hiring during or after major contract reshuffles (like last months mining industry contractor bloodbath) or competing MSPs folding.
There's still the same amount of *good* IT people, but the quantity of mediocrity overshadows that. After that conversation, questions about how candidates push themselves outside of work have been added to the practical spot questions interviewees receive.
All said, we also had some issues with pre-1991-born employees having little initiative or feeling that surfing a news site during waiting for tasks to complete whilst onsite was acceptable. IT infrastructure, procedures, and documentation are never completely optimised, so there is no excuse for non-work related surfing (outside of lunches when employees are suggested to go outside get some fresh air, and surf there)
Priorities.
We don't care about a desolate place that will require sinking great wads of cash into it, unless there's oil, rare earths and minerals, or our IP has been infringed.
A perfect example of the "Ballmer Disconnect" is this little gem from earlier this year when it was announced they were pulling the plug on Windows Home Server "We have all those features in Windows SBS now so its not that we are leaving the market, I'm sure everyone will just switch to SBS"...hmmm...lets look at the numbers, shall we? Windows Home Server? $40, and that's OEM retail price, more like $25 to the OEMs themselves. Windows SBS? $400!!!! And that is for the OEMs!
And to further rub salt into the wounds, they knobbled SBS like Apple knobbled OS X Server. For example, there's no in-house email in SBS 2012 or OS X Server 10.7+
This forum post has a good comparison of licensing SBS 2011 over 2012
In fact, compare the feature sets of previous versions and current versions of these two Server OSs and it's all about extracting recurring income through cloud dependence.
+1
Remember their imaginative lawyers are second only to their imaginative accountants - just ask the artists...
I always bought nVidia until the 7950 / 8800 / 9800 dry solder issues. After that many RMAs and arguements with wholesalers and retailers, I bought AMD out of retaliation, and this 5870 has been rock solid. I'll be going back to nVidia for my next refresh, but for me, nVidia has not 'always just worked'.
In fact, I'd wager no one brand 'just works' these days, since extreme capitalism is in these days, and they'll shop around for manufacturing plants and methods.
+1 DILLIGAF
Seriously, since when is this "News for Nerds"... This is just "Marketing for Plebs"
Yeah, cos that method worked well for IPv6
That would be because GFI bought them out, added useless code ("it's been GFIed") and got all metro-sexual with the interface.
I'll be looking for a different AV vendor come renewal time...
+1 for "Try them all."
Everyone here will have baggage from older versions, vendor bias, or a barrow to push.
As an example, I refuse to deploy Hyper-V in production ever since it mangled the VM XML configs on unexpected reboots, causing VMs to disappear from the management console. I've no doubt it somewhat fixed, but I still come across the occasional forum post bitching about a lost VM.
VCenter has an almost complete web interface that comes with version 5.x paid-for versions...
It's also installed on the VCenter VM Appliance.
Thanks for the clarification.
For a moment there I thought the AC was counting in binary
Also, I challenge you to come up with a symbol for saving files without using a diskette or something like that. These symbols have transpired from metaphors of real objects to metaphors of actions, and people who have never even seen a diskette learn their purpose by context. Granted, this creates a certain standard by convention, and you could argue that any symbol could be used for that. But again, that would dismiss the users who grew up with that symbol. Currently, everybody is happy, why challenge this?
Tell that to Apple's lawyers re Samsung's phone dock :P
For a private school, executive went for e-Safe (http://www.safenet-inc.com/data-protection/content-security-esafe/) on Mac and PC.
It a system that transmits a machine ID along with running a keylogger and screen capture. Key presses are filtered through a central filter that alerts on things such as IM preening, online bullying, self-harm indicators, and inappropriate search terms. Screen caps are thumb-nailed, identified by machine ID, and monitored by humans for inappropriate images or video, etc. The content filter blocks and logs URLs any websites we request or fit their blocklists..
The House Heads are emailed logs of inappropriate activities on a weekly basis, and self-harm or bullying activities are emailed or SMSed immediately.
My role is servers and I haven't seen any of the logs, I just provide login logs and supporting documentation. All devices on the "guest" or "mobile devices" SSID are have a school captive portal that requires their school login.
It seems to work well, in that people are educated post infringement. It has also alerted staff to possible at-risk students (including boarders) and a couple of webcam sessions involving minors. Since it's installed, it does have the vulnerability of being tampered with, but they also alert us to attempts to circumvent e-Safe.
Note: I can't verify it's effectiveness since I don't see Pastoral Care issues. You will need to decide whether it fits your situation. I have some moral objections, but I don't make those kind of decisions...
It'll be an Extravaganza!!
Oh, wait. That's RU Paul
Because the Liberals (Conservatives) were blameless when they agreed to the US Free Trade Agreement that shoehorned US patent and copyright "treaties" into our body of Law.
Conjob doesn't deserve his job, but a change of government would be worse for IT and Technology in this country.
50% discount to seniors when bundling, and their superior 3G/4G mobile networks.
Other than that, they exist because of the copper their wholesale department owns...
I'm pretty sure they run on OS X just fine...
I don't see anything but "shitty replacement software for builtin thing" showing the AP you're currently connected to via CCX extensions (Intel, Broadcom), re-distributable WPA2 PSK profiles that are more immune to syphoning by regedit and a quick decrypt once applied (Intel), built-in multi-channel wifi survey and wifi interference measurements (Broadcom), inbuilt TDR for cable measurement and broken/crossed wire tests (Intel, Broadcom, Marvell and Realtek).
As for the shovelware? Yep. That definitely needs to go...
http://www.steamprices.com/au/app/10180/call-of-duty
Call of Duty
Release: 11th November 2009 - Genre: Action
AUD $ 89.99
USD $ 19.99 $ 19.99 (-77.79%)
GBP £ 19.99 $ 32.14 (-64.28%)
EUR € 24.99 $ 32.14 (-64.28%)
Yeah, no distributor rip-off there...
Already happening...
I'm currently contracted to a school with boarders. Torrenting is obviously QoS'ed into oblivion and "bad, mmmkay" sites are blocked at the firewall.
The students know about the file sharing sites that allow movies file to be played from any point. Think megaupload with the smarts to recongnise .AVI, .MKV, and .MP4 and show a flash player option of viewing. No names, as it'll drive students there / flag it for the next domain grab
"If I buy a game that 'fell of a truck', I get no access to online gaming, dlc like extra maps or weapons, support.
If I buy that game legally, I get more than just the game, I get a lot of services on top of it."
I'm not trying to make a point, and I'm against eroding first sale rights (even though Australia doesn't have one). I'm just playing Devil's FTFY advocate.