I have dropped my caseless iphone 4 and 4s at least 5 times each (yes I am clumsy) without breakage. It is not fragile even with glass on both sides. The main way gorilla glass is broken is a drop on to concrete, even asphalt seems not to do it at hand height. Almost half the people I work with have the iPhone 4 or 4s, out of maybe 10 phones I have seen one broken from a drop. I have had Samsung phones that break on the first drop and Erikson that took only a few drops. None of my Moto's ever broke from droppage.
x2 on the motorola toughness. I'm inclined to stick with them for the duration, but the S3 is looking mighty fine...
I'd rather it were the same thickness as the old model if the battery would last longer. Who exactly is it that thinks so they're so horribly thick?
Everyone I've seen with an iPhone has a ridicilously huge rubber case protecting the fragile thing. You should see the one my girlfriends mom has. You would think she was using a phone from early 2000. Why is thin such a big deal when everyone has a case that makes it NOT thin?
I think for the most part the cases are like undercoating or paint sealing on a new car. Overpriced and unnecessary. I've got a droid3 that's lived in my pocket since new and there aren't any screen scratches. It's been dropped a few times and so on, works fine, looks fine except for a gash on the edge from where it was dropped down into a fold out couch.
Of course, I've seen similar phones that were simply trashed.
Personally I don't plan on ever treating my phones differently by putting it into some phone-condom. Just not the same... lol.
Yep. I predict a whole bunch of armchair engineers telling NASA how to unscrew a bolt on a trillion dollar space station.
Duct tape, WD40,... I think I'll skip this one.
You're right, this is actually a sticky situation. Break off the bolt = screwed. Plus a myriad of other risks and consequences I don't know about since I'm not an astronaut.
Also, it's a little trickier than the rusty bolt on the muffler of your 79 pinto, seeing as how it's on the side of a SPACE STATION that is IN SPACE.
But, since I do have an armchair and since I am an engineer I figure they will ultimately have to try some sort of lubricant or thread treatment, the risk of snapping off the bolt is too high.
Yep - I'm no fan of Samsung, I was misfortunate enough to have owned the "Rogue" cell phone. It was a total piece of useless crap.
That said, the S3 is really interesting and I'm (was) planning to look into it, assuming it's even available. The iphones are simply not even an option any more, their screens are just too small. Plus the idea of having to drink the coolaid is just not appealing to me. Ipad? Nope. Sorry. Asus has you nailed there. Ipod? Sandisk makes some nice products. Plus, my android phone with google music is pretty sweet.
This legal action is absolutely ridiculous. What, being the biggest company in the world, ever, isn't enough? Besides, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery....
What is the big need for insurance? I guess they could have tripped in the studio, or had a light fall on them.
Well, I only got a policy once I had a wife, kids, house. That's the only reason to have "real" life insurance. Keep your family afloat if you kick the bucket.
A stack of post-marked autographs would probably have been able to support their astronaut family lifestyle for a good while. Pay off debt, put little johnny through college.
If you're a single geek living in your mom's basement a simple cheap cracker-jack-box $20k policy is enough to stick you in the ground with. You might even be able to get that from where you work for nothing.
WAIT A MINUTE - I just got your thinly veiled joke re: faked moon landing. My bad. I'm a little under the weather today, the ol' melon isn't firing on all 16 cylinders. I'll go ahead and post my comment anyway because.... I spent the time typing it out.
Hopefully with these arrests and others a few months back, the keyboard warriors out there will start to realise that they're not untraceable
No, hackers are most definitely not "untraceable"
From TFA:
"The hacker after posting all the data onto Pastebin, announced the hack through a tweet. "Hey @Sony, you know we're making off with a bunch of your internal stuff right now and you haven't even noticed?" LulzSec tweeted. "Slow and steady, guys."
Especially when they brag about it.
I bet he even hacked from his own computer. Or, rather, his parents' computer.
I've said it before, I'll say it again - NEVER HACK FROM HOME. It will make your dad really mad when the FBI comes knocking.
(mock rage mode on) Why is it that the punks in the Non-USA countries always get to work the "normal" hours and those in the USA have to be the ones getting up in the middle of the night to call the "foreigners" during their day? huh? HUH?
And what is it with these EUROPEAN punks taking vacations all the time calling it HOLIDAY or something? Them Italian punks in their tight jeans and fancy hair taking off AUGUST. What's up with THAT? HUH? Where did all that slackin get you now, huh? You Europeans and all your Financial Crisis and whining. Wah Wah Wah.
Us 'Murricans working all the time never taking vacations, that's what real men do. See? Our country doesn't have any of them so-called financial problems. We just keep working and working and printing more money and we're just Fiiiiiiiine. Yep.
So the solution is obviously to make your own teamviewer-like solution since Teamviewer isn't free for commercial use. After much hairpulling I realized VNC is the answer but I wanted a use-anywhere-help-anyone solution. I then realized I needed a VNC repeater, this is basically what teamviewer et-al do. Otherwise YOU have to be behind a configured firewall.
Chunk VNC (you can google it yourself;-p) is a project that is imminently doable. I deployed a repeater on my own always-on computer, configured the firewall appropriately, and customized the appropriate files. After some patience I have a totally free and branded remote support solution that requires no more from the client than teamviewer instant-support does. And, it works AS GOOD AS vnc is rightly known for.
As mentioned elsewhere there are two main commercial solutions - non-foss. Teamviewer and Logmein. Logmein free is legal for commerical purposes and I put it on clients machines when I have them on my bench but it is limited. Teamviewer is just plain awesome but is not free for commercial use and they seem to watch. As is their right.
So the solution is obviously to make your own teamviewer-like solution. After much hairpulling I realized VNC is the answer but I wanted a use-anywhere-help-anyone solution. I then realized I needed a VNC repeater, this is basically what teamviewer et-al do. Otherwise YOU have to be behind a configured firewall.
Chunk VNC (you can google it yourself;-p) is a project that is imminently doable. I deployed a repeater on my own always-on computer, configured the firewall appropriately, and customized the appropriate files. After some patience I have a totally free and branded remote support solution that requires no more from the client than teamviewer instant-support does. And, it works AS GOOD AS vnc is rightly known for.
I saw a conspiracy theory book that claimed he succeeded in building his death ray and that's what the Tunguska explosion really was. It further claimed that Tesla had done it as a publicity gimmick intending to aim it at the North Pole and blow it up right before Admiral Peary could reach the North Pole, but his aim was off!!!
It then went on to claim that Tesla did not die, but instead was living inside the "face pyramid" on Mars with Marconi!!!!
bingo. security through obscurity. They might even have the tx/rx totally unencrypted with no credential challenge. Because you won't even know where or when to point your massively huge antenna you don't have.
...all of my vague acquaintances and high school classmates who I didn't like then will always need a place to tell me...
I always wonder... 1. what motivates people accept friends on facebook that they don't like? 2. how different these folks are from the other 85million fake people on facebook? ("these folks" being a deliberatly vague reference) 3. why people post anything on facebook at all given #1 and #2?
1) because to not accept would be "rude" and/or the requesters try to get as many "friends" as some sort of contest or because the only purpose of the account is for some "business" purpose 2) the stats on fake (various meanings of the word fake) accounts on FB is apparently not good 3) ego stroking in some weird "look at me" way
I've posted meaningful thought provoking status updates on FB and it was like crickets chirping and tumbleweeds. I once posted "I just had some ice cream!" having actually just had some ice cream. It was amazing how many people liked that I just had ice cream and were thinking about having their own ice cream or had in fact also just had ice cream or wanted to know what kind of ice cream I just had.
True - fb will see a big drop in their income if all their users stop showing up
But that will almost never happen - due to the fact of the sheer number of users fb has gathered
Once you achieved a critical mass, like what fb has gotten itself, it'll not be that easy to topple it --- Ask yourself if Microsoft going to close its door tomorrow, that Bill Gates is no longer on the helm, and Steve Ballmer still throwing chairs around
This is true - all of my vague acquaintances and high school classmates who I didn't like then will always need a place to tell me what they're making for supper tonight and... later... tell me how it tasted and how much they love their spouse / kids / pet.
If AOL is still around and kicking today, it's pretty hard to believe that Yahoo will just up and die. It's important to note that Yahoo still has 10s of millions of active email users, the best fantasy sports platform on the internet, a pretty solid website in Flickr, and a bunch of other random shit. AOL has much less, yet somehow stays alive.
AOL is only around because of all of the misinformed old folks who still can't set their VCR and also don't understand they don't need AOL to get on the internet anymore.
Yes, but Yahoo is not going to improve , unless something extraordinary happens Yahoo will die.
Yahoo won't die, they'll be absorbed by something and just be another redirected URL and email address. Probably google or microsoft or someone else who wants to pretend to be a search engine.
The survivors and thrivers will confront this challenge and exploit the opportunity for what it is... a chance to learn and grow.
You're right, this is the most critical time for FB right now. What happens now will affect the company irreparably for good or bad. They can either become the next myspace and AOL or the next.... Pre-IPO Facebook? Erm...
Why in the hell would you trust your QB to dropbox when they need to setup a proper offsite backup anyways?
Well, technically, drop box is off site... and then, the other computers the person has such as at home, that has drop box, will then get the copy of the qbw file. Again, off site.
Look man, I understand "Cloud" stuff is suspect around here. They can always implement some other backup scheme as well.
But for real, how reliable is DB anyway? What percentage of people's stuff have they lost? How often are they down? How many people's private data have they violated? How long have they been around? How popular are they?
What percentage of likelihood is it that a physical offsite backup scheme fails? Compare that with the likelihood that Dropbox will up and lose all of someone's stuff? Which is better odds?
What is the chance that DB loses someone's stuff and the 2 or 3 other PC's that a person uses that ALSO has their stuff on it, such as the QBW file we're talking about, ALSO fail, and the ORIGINAL at the restaurant is lost?
If that kind of scenario happens we're probably looking at the end of the world anyway.
Don't cheap out....get a good CPA to help keep you honest on your taxes....a good one will help you squeeze out every penny to keep for yourself legally, while being conservative enough to keep you off the IRS' radar.
This is business...and $200-$300 invested on this....will help you out in the long run...and hey, you can write the QB purchase off on your taxes.
I'll second this. Get quickbooks. Put it in a VM and do everything else in Linux if you want to. X2 on the accountant that will back you in an audit.
I have NEVER EVER seen any small business use anything other than quickbooks.
When you get QB back that shizzle up. Keep track of your QBW file(s). Have the default file location in Dropbox or something.
Don't update it right away either if it is working. I have seen updates break stuff beyond belief.
You can get a free version of QB as well, it is limited. I think it's called simple start. Not that you're looking for free.
I've tried GnuCash and the other Open Source financials. I couldn't make heads or tails out of it. I tried QB and that is what I use, and it is very intuitive and powerful (pun not intended). I don't know about the "Wave" online free accounting SW but it looks interesting.
Don't take any chances and mess around with the IRS, they will bust your kneecaps quicker than the local mob shaking you down for protection money - especially now that their take is down due to less economic activity.
You are in business to make money. QB helps you track your money and will SAVE YOU TIME. Owning a small business especially in FoodService is terribly time consuming. You don't want to spend hours DINKING AROUND trying to figure out some open source money software that was created with the sole purpose of making a money program and not with the purpose of tracking money.
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I have dropped my caseless iphone 4 and 4s at least 5 times each (yes I am clumsy) without breakage. It is not fragile even with glass on both sides. The main way gorilla glass is broken is a drop on to concrete, even asphalt seems not to do it at hand height. Almost half the people I work with have the iPhone 4 or 4s, out of maybe 10 phones I have seen one broken from a drop. I have had Samsung phones that break on the first drop and Erikson that took only a few drops. None of my Moto's ever broke from droppage.
x2 on the motorola toughness. I'm inclined to stick with them for the duration, but the S3 is looking mighty fine...
I'd rather it were the same thickness as the old model if the battery would last longer. Who exactly is it that thinks so they're so horribly thick?
Everyone I've seen with an iPhone has a ridicilously huge rubber case protecting the fragile thing. You should see the one my girlfriends mom has. You would think she was using a phone from early 2000. Why is thin such a big deal when everyone has a case that makes it NOT thin?
I think for the most part the cases are like undercoating or paint sealing on a new car. Overpriced and unnecessary. I've got a droid3 that's lived in my pocket since new and there aren't any screen scratches. It's been dropped a few times and so on, works fine, looks fine except for a gash on the edge from where it was dropped down into a fold out couch.
Of course, I've seen similar phones that were simply trashed.
Personally I don't plan on ever treating my phones differently by putting it into some phone-condom. Just not the same... lol.
He's on the Julian Assange show which may just be on Youtube. Cool show.
if they just cross threaded the beeeatch.
"Erm... Houston, we have a problem. Poindexter just cross threaded the space station."
Yep. I predict a whole bunch of armchair engineers telling NASA how to unscrew a bolt on a trillion dollar space station.
Duct tape, WD40, ... I think I'll skip this one.
You're right, this is actually a sticky situation. Break off the bolt = screwed. Plus a myriad of other risks and consequences I don't know about since I'm not an astronaut.
Also, it's a little trickier than the rusty bolt on the muffler of your 79 pinto, seeing as how it's on the side of a SPACE STATION that is IN SPACE.
But, since I do have an armchair and since I am an engineer I figure they will ultimately have to try some sort of lubricant or thread treatment, the risk of snapping off the bolt is too high.
Yep - I'm no fan of Samsung, I was misfortunate enough to have owned the "Rogue" cell phone. It was a total piece of useless crap.
That said, the S3 is really interesting and I'm (was) planning to look into it, assuming it's even available. The iphones are simply not even an option any more, their screens are just too small. Plus the idea of having to drink the coolaid is just not appealing to me. Ipad? Nope. Sorry. Asus has you nailed there. Ipod? Sandisk makes some nice products. Plus, my android phone with google music is pretty sweet.
This legal action is absolutely ridiculous. What, being the biggest company in the world, ever, isn't enough? Besides, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery....
Are rats Halal?
No. And rats are not kosher either.
Yeah, but the domesticated ones are cheap friendly pets for your kids. Better than the other pet-grade rodents IMO.
Will change things. Big time.
What is the big need for insurance? I guess they could have tripped in the studio, or had a light fall on them.
Well, I only got a policy once I had a wife, kids, house. That's the only reason to have "real" life insurance. Keep your family afloat if you kick the bucket.
A stack of post-marked autographs would probably have been able to support their astronaut family lifestyle for a good while. Pay off debt, put little johnny through college.
If you're a single geek living in your mom's basement a simple cheap cracker-jack-box $20k policy is enough to stick you in the ground with. You might even be able to get that from where you work for nothing.
WAIT A MINUTE - I just got your thinly veiled joke re: faked moon landing. My bad. I'm a little under the weather today, the ol' melon isn't firing on all 16 cylinders. I'll go ahead and post my comment anyway because.... I spent the time typing it out.
Hopefully with these arrests and others a few months back, the keyboard warriors out there will start to realise that they're not untraceable
No, hackers are most definitely not "untraceable"
From TFA:
"The hacker after posting all the data onto Pastebin, announced the hack through a tweet.
"Hey @Sony, you know we're making off with a bunch of your internal stuff right now and you haven't even noticed?" LulzSec tweeted. "Slow and steady, guys."
Especially when they brag about it.
I bet he even hacked from his own computer. Or, rather, his parents' computer.
I've said it before, I'll say it again - NEVER HACK FROM HOME. It will make your dad really mad when the FBI comes knocking.
(mock rage mode on) Why is it that the punks in the Non-USA countries always get to work the "normal" hours and those in the USA have to be the ones getting up in the middle of the night to call the "foreigners" during their day? huh? HUH?
And what is it with these EUROPEAN punks taking vacations all the time calling it HOLIDAY or something? Them Italian punks in their tight jeans and fancy hair taking off AUGUST. What's up with THAT? HUH? Where did all that slackin get you now, huh? You Europeans and all your Financial Crisis and whining. Wah Wah Wah.
Us 'Murricans working all the time never taking vacations, that's what real men do. See? Our country doesn't have any of them so-called financial problems. We just keep working and working and printing more money and we're just Fiiiiiiiine. Yep.
Wait a minute... never mind.
So the solution is obviously to make your own teamviewer-like solution since Teamviewer isn't free for commercial use. After much hairpulling I realized VNC is the answer but I wanted a use-anywhere-help-anyone solution. I then realized I needed a VNC repeater, this is basically what teamviewer et-al do. Otherwise YOU have to be behind a configured firewall.
Chunk VNC (you can google it yourself ;-p) is a project that is imminently doable. I deployed a repeater on my own always-on computer, configured the firewall appropriately, and customized the appropriate files. After some patience I have a totally free and branded remote support solution that requires no more from the client than teamviewer instant-support does. And, it works AS GOOD AS vnc is rightly known for.
As mentioned elsewhere there are two main commercial solutions - non-foss. Teamviewer and Logmein. Logmein free is legal for commerical purposes and I put it on clients machines when I have them on my bench but it is limited. Teamviewer is just plain awesome but is not free for commercial use and they seem to watch. As is their right.
So the solution is obviously to make your own teamviewer-like solution. After much hairpulling I realized VNC is the answer but I wanted a use-anywhere-help-anyone solution. I then realized I needed a VNC repeater, this is basically what teamviewer et-al do. Otherwise YOU have to be behind a configured firewall.
Chunk VNC (you can google it yourself ;-p) is a project that is imminently doable. I deployed a repeater on my own always-on computer, configured the firewall appropriately, and customized the appropriate files. After some patience I have a totally free and branded remote support solution that requires no more from the client than teamviewer instant-support does. And, it works AS GOOD AS vnc is rightly known for.
I saw a conspiracy theory book that claimed he succeeded in building his death ray and that's what the Tunguska explosion really was. It further claimed that Tesla had done it as a publicity gimmick intending to aim it at the North Pole and blow it up right before Admiral Peary could reach the North Pole, but his aim was off!!!
It then went on to claim that Tesla did not die, but instead was living inside the "face pyramid" on Mars with Marconi!!!!
Wow.
conspiracy theories are pretty fun, aren't they?
Heh, which way do I point the antenna again?
bingo. security through obscurity. They might even have the tx/rx totally unencrypted with no credential challenge. Because you won't even know where or when to point your massively huge antenna you don't have.
...all of my vague acquaintances and high school classmates who I didn't like then will always need a place to tell me...
I always wonder...
1. what motivates people accept friends on facebook that they don't like?
2. how different these folks are from the other 85million fake people on facebook? ("these folks" being a deliberatly vague reference)
3. why people post anything on facebook at all given #1 and #2?
1) because to not accept would be "rude" and/or the requesters try to get as many "friends" as some sort of contest or because the only purpose of the account is for some "business" purpose
2) the stats on fake (various meanings of the word fake) accounts on FB is apparently not good
3) ego stroking in some weird "look at me" way
I've posted meaningful thought provoking status updates on FB and it was like crickets chirping and tumbleweeds. I once posted "I just had some ice cream!" having actually just had some ice cream. It was amazing how many people liked that I just had ice cream and were thinking about having their own ice cream or had in fact also just had ice cream or wanted to know what kind of ice cream I just had.
I was thinking of that Jim Davis, too, since Dilbert had just been mentioned in the previous sentence.
Dude you're like all stealing my witty replies today. Stop it!
True - fb will see a big drop in their income if all their users stop showing up
But that will almost never happen - due to the fact of the sheer number of users fb has gathered
Once you achieved a critical mass, like what fb has gotten itself, it'll not be that easy to topple it --- Ask yourself if Microsoft going to close its door tomorrow, that Bill Gates is no longer on the helm, and Steve Ballmer still throwing chairs around
This is true - all of my vague acquaintances and high school classmates who I didn't like then will always need a place to tell me what they're making for supper tonight and ... later ... tell me how it tasted and how much they love their spouse / kids / pet.
Agreed. Compare, however, with FB who is essentially a one-trick pony. It's a pretty amazing trick, I'll grant you that, but still...
I heard they're (fb) are going to get into online gambling. I think in the UK maybe?
If AOL is still around and kicking today, it's pretty hard to believe that Yahoo will just up and die. It's important to note that Yahoo still has 10s of millions of active email users, the best fantasy sports platform on the internet, a pretty solid website in Flickr, and a bunch of other random shit. AOL has much less, yet somehow stays alive.
AOL is only around because of all of the misinformed old folks who still can't set their VCR and also don't understand they don't need AOL to get on the internet anymore.
Yes, but Yahoo is not going to improve , unless something extraordinary happens Yahoo will die.
Yahoo won't die, they'll be absorbed by something and just be another redirected URL and email address. Probably google or microsoft or someone else who wants to pretend to be a search engine.
The survivors and thrivers will confront this challenge and exploit the opportunity for what it is... a chance to learn and grow.
You're right, this is the most critical time for FB right now. What happens now will affect the company irreparably for good or bad. They can either become the next myspace and AOL or the next .... Pre-IPO Facebook? Erm...
Really. How about this:
http://www.securelist.com/en/weblog?calendar=2007-04%5D
Why in the hell would you trust your QB to dropbox when they need to setup a proper offsite backup anyways?
Well, technically, drop box is off site... and then, the other computers the person has such as at home, that has drop box, will then get the copy of the qbw file. Again, off site.
Look man, I understand "Cloud" stuff is suspect around here. They can always implement some other backup scheme as well.
But for real, how reliable is DB anyway? What percentage of people's stuff have they lost? How often are they down? How many people's private data have they violated? How long have they been around? How popular are they?
What percentage of likelihood is it that a physical offsite backup scheme fails? Compare that with the likelihood that Dropbox will up and lose all of someone's stuff? Which is better odds?
What is the chance that DB loses someone's stuff and the 2 or 3 other PC's that a person uses that ALSO has their stuff on it, such as the QBW file we're talking about, ALSO fail, and the ORIGINAL at the restaurant is lost?
If that kind of scenario happens we're probably looking at the end of the world anyway.
Don't cheap out....get a good CPA to help keep you honest on your taxes....a good one will help you squeeze out every penny to keep for yourself legally, while being conservative enough to keep you off the IRS' radar.
This is business...and $200-$300 invested on this....will help you out in the long run...and hey, you can write the QB purchase off on your taxes.
I'll second this. Get quickbooks. Put it in a VM and do everything else in Linux if you want to. X2 on the accountant that will back you in an audit.
I have NEVER EVER seen any small business use anything other than quickbooks.
When you get QB back that shizzle up. Keep track of your QBW file(s). Have the default file location in Dropbox or something.
Don't update it right away either if it is working. I have seen updates break stuff beyond belief.
You can get a free version of QB as well, it is limited. I think it's called simple start. Not that you're looking for free.
I've tried GnuCash and the other Open Source financials. I couldn't make heads or tails out of it. I tried QB and that is what I use, and it is very intuitive and powerful (pun not intended). I don't know about the "Wave" online free accounting SW but it looks interesting.
Don't take any chances and mess around with the IRS, they will bust your kneecaps quicker than the local mob shaking you down for protection money - especially now that their take is down due to less economic activity.
You are in business to make money. QB helps you track your money and will SAVE YOU TIME. Owning a small business especially in FoodService is terribly time consuming. You don't want to spend hours DINKING AROUND trying to figure out some open source money software that was created with the sole purpose of making a money program and not with the purpose of tracking money.