Just like Swiss watchmakers or German car manufacturers. When there is Indian Google, Chinese Apple or Vietnamese Facebook, their engineers will be paid well too.
Only they need to make equivalent technological breakthroughs for future technologies, not copy actual Google, Apple or Facebook. And, a country that wants to create their own Silicon Valley may discover that involves things they are not gang ho about. Like intellectual freedom and startups with unhealthy work hours that hurt diversity. This is hard to find simultaneously outside US.
Web pages are arbitrary software and can fingerprint you by your keystroke cadence, patterns of mouse movements and vocabulary choices. This, combined with detailed profile of your hardware and software, can be later matched when you enter your credit card on Amazon.
You can make big brother's life a bit more difficult by getting a second laptop, booting it from a live USB distro that never saves anything to disk and using it some distance away from home on a public WiFi hotspot. But make sure you dedicate it to just your secret web browsing and never use the same hardware to read slashdot.
All thing needs in a case that attaches to the bottom and provides a shitload of ports like Thunderbolt, USB 3, SD, HDMI and anything else that suits your fancy. Maybe even an extra battery. And then, when you just want maximum mobility and no peripherals, you still have an option of a thinner, lighter laptop then if it had to include all these ports. I think I could live with this.
Too many experienced programmers are complacent to stay in their current professional area, which is mostly server or mobile these days. But these technologies will be very important in future and even today present great opportunities to start your own company. There are plenty of wealthy folks in Silicon Valley who would cough up dough to have the smartest house on the block.
Imagine conservatives refusing to deal with a company because a female employee had an abortion. Why is the same behavior acceptable from the left. I consider myself to be part of the left and I am disgusted.
We already have Medicaid, food stamps and other kinds of aid for the poor. Short term, extending these services plus shelter to homeless is not fantasy or insanely costly, since there are many more generally poor than homeless. Long term, I would prefer daily dispersement of universal basic income.
I do not think we should limit ourselves to Roman Empire.
Anyone homeless needs to be offered reliable shelter, food, medicine, clothes and a plan to get out of their predicament towards a productive lifestyle. The places where these things are offered does not have to be in San Francisco. However, they should be close enough for an individual to be able to stay in touch with their friends and family.
But, this does not entitle one to sleep in a tent on a sidewalk and create obvious problems for the residents. Not that this is a great lifestyle for the homeless person either.
Liberals spend too much time on band aids for people in a bad situation, without providing a way out to a good situation. Doing something about that is good.
The point of RPI is to attach a breadboard to GPIO ports, experiment with sensors/servos and then solder up a project for personal use, or even ship a Kickstarter project.
This board does not have any GPIO ports, much less a massive support community. x86 vs ARM is irrelevant for this kind of custom code. You are not going to be running Microsoft Word or playing steam games on an embedded board.
If anything, an improvement on RPI would be better power management without sacrificing ability to develop software directly on a prototype device. Solar powered systems running on Linux would kick ass.
Rather than carrying a stick pf dynamite in my pocket, next to important organs that I would prefer to keep, I would rather have a little thicker phone that allows for bigger, less energy dense battery. And then optimize software to reduce power demands. An old fashioned alphanumeric pager used to last weeks on a pair of non-explosive AA batteries. When the phone is not in active use, it does not need any more functionality to display notifications and receive phone calls on a secondary e-ink screen. When I actually unlock it, feel free to spin up the CPU and 1080p screen and then download stuff over LTE.
Headphones do not come with 0% career financing like cell phones. Someone who owns one expensive wired pair to use at home and other for exercise may well be tempted to check out Android offerings rather than putting up with the hassle of two dongles to listen and charge at the same time.
Despite me advocating not migrating as OP, US military is not a model of financial efficiency and thrifty organizations can probably manage a lot less than $3500/year or in total. Painstakingly make everything look and work the same in a customized image, create simple in house software to provide any missing functionality, have early adoption enthusiasts that will be on help to provide peer support, and so on, Best done by gradually bringing in new systems when old ones need to be replaced anyway of course.
If surveillance by NSA is your biggest threat vector, I would still recommend a Chromebook over Windows 10. If it's casual crooks, the comparison is not even close.
Just locking down existing software can be conceivably done in 100K (say a month time for 3 engineers and support for 1% of users who had an unexpected problem). You already have ability to push group policies and remotely install software in bulk right?
If your company routinely accepts 5000% overspending, this will not be the only project when this happens and expenses add up. Doubly important for a police department or other entity running at taxpayer expense.
I am not necessarily suggesting downgrading new hardware to Windows XP. Gradual replacement provides a perfect opportunity to slowly roll out Windows 10 and resolve any problems without breaking all users at once. Once you are down to couple of thousand old PCs, by all means do a mass upgrade / potential hardware replacement to standardize.
IE8 is not for going online, it's for shortcuts to specific internal web apps, with address bar hidden. Actual web browser is a company-standard build of chromium auto-updated through puppet.
Say Microsoft is charing you $75 to upgrade each seat. Now ad in labor, troubleshooting, user training / support. Very optimistically real cost to just get built in functionality running to the same level will bring the total to $200/seat or 5.2 million dollars. I have no idea how much of your hardware will need to be upgraded, again with associated labor costs. Add in fees for upgrading Office and 3rd party apps that do not run well Windows 10. And cost of fixed in-house apps.
I will be happy to assist with locking down your existing workstations for a small fraction of what you think the total cost is going to be.
As long as firewall is on and you run a fixed set of apps from trusted sources, you are perfectly safe. So is IE if you only visit internal sites. And for external browsing, browser security is more important than OS security. There will be forked versions of recent Firefox and Chromium builds forever.
The whole upgrade hype is largely financially motivated on part of Microsoft and consulting agencies.
If you just need a Web apps, go with a Chromebook. Nothing is perfect, but there is just not much running to hack. If you just want Office, stay away from Ubuntu userland. It's another thing to maintain and update, and yes an additional exploit vector. In the meantime I am psyched that I can run various home servers on my gaming box rather than having to tinker with a separate old laptop stashed on some shelf.
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Just like Swiss watchmakers or German car manufacturers. When there is Indian Google, Chinese Apple or Vietnamese Facebook, their engineers will be paid well too.
Only they need to make equivalent technological breakthroughs for future technologies, not copy actual Google, Apple or Facebook. And, a country that wants to create their own Silicon Valley may discover that involves things they are not gang ho about. Like intellectual freedom and startups with unhealthy work hours that hurt diversity. This is hard to find simultaneously outside US.
Web pages are arbitrary software and can fingerprint you by your keystroke cadence, patterns of mouse movements and vocabulary choices. This, combined with detailed profile of your hardware and software, can be later matched when you enter your credit card on Amazon.
You can make big brother's life a bit more difficult by getting a second laptop, booting it from a live USB distro that never saves anything to disk and using it some distance away from home on a public WiFi hotspot. But make sure you dedicate it to just your secret web browsing and never use the same hardware to read slashdot.
All thing needs in a case that attaches to the bottom and provides a shitload of ports like Thunderbolt, USB 3, SD, HDMI and anything else that suits your fancy. Maybe even an extra battery. And then, when you just want maximum mobility and no peripherals, you still have an option of a thinner, lighter laptop then if it had to include all these ports. I think I could live with this.
Too many experienced programmers are complacent to stay in their current professional area, which is mostly server or mobile these days. But these technologies will be very important in future and even today present great opportunities to start your own company. There are plenty of wealthy folks in Silicon Valley who would cough up dough to have the smartest house on the block.
Come on, why stop here? Now that OSX has Siri, let's also remove screen, trackpad and keyboard. Looking forward to iEcho.
Imagine conservatives refusing to deal with a company because a female employee had an abortion. Why is the same behavior acceptable from the left. I consider myself to be part of the left and I am disgusted.
We already have Medicaid, food stamps and other kinds of aid for the poor. Short term, extending these services plus shelter to homeless is not fantasy or insanely costly, since there are many more generally poor than homeless. Long term, I would prefer daily dispersement of universal basic income.
I do not think we should limit ourselves to Roman Empire.
Anyone homeless needs to be offered reliable shelter, food, medicine, clothes and a plan to get out of their predicament towards a productive lifestyle. The places where these things are offered does not have to be in San Francisco. However, they should be close enough for an individual to be able to stay in touch with their friends and family.
But, this does not entitle one to sleep in a tent on a sidewalk and create obvious problems for the residents. Not that this is a great lifestyle for the homeless person either.
Liberals spend too much time on band aids for people in a bad situation, without providing a way out to a good situation. Doing something about that is good.
The point of RPI is to attach a breadboard to GPIO ports, experiment with sensors/servos and then solder up a project for personal use, or even ship a Kickstarter project.
This board does not have any GPIO ports, much less a massive support community. x86 vs ARM is irrelevant for this kind of custom code. You are not going to be running Microsoft Word or playing steam games on an embedded board.
If anything, an improvement on RPI would be better power management without sacrificing ability to develop software directly on a prototype device. Solar powered systems running on Linux would kick ass.
Frankly, I don't need data period. I am around WiFi most of the time and can download music to listen to while driving.
However, I want unlimited data and selling people the things that they want is how capitalism works. Enjoy seeing T-mobile erode your market share.
I don't have kids
No wonder you think public school system is workable.
Rather than carrying a stick pf dynamite in my pocket, next to important organs that I would prefer to keep, I would rather have a little thicker phone that allows for bigger, less energy dense battery. And then optimize software to reduce power demands. An old fashioned alphanumeric pager used to last weeks on a pair of non-explosive AA batteries. When the phone is not in active use, it does not need any more functionality to display notifications and receive phone calls on a secondary e-ink screen. When I actually unlock it, feel free to spin up the CPU and 1080p screen and then download stuff over LTE.
Ever heard of battery packs?
Headphones do not come with 0% career financing like cell phones. Someone who owns one expensive wired pair to use at home and other for exercise may well be tempted to check out Android offerings rather than putting up with the hassle of two dongles to listen and charge at the same time.
How will potential paying readers discover those websites? Could it be through... advertisement to likely audiences? You don't say!
The man bangs YOU!
Just that the product is secure. I just don't want to be compromised through a backdoor by some Russian hackers.
Despite me advocating not migrating as OP, US military is not a model of financial efficiency and thrifty organizations can probably manage a lot less than $3500/year or in total. Painstakingly make everything look and work the same in a customized image, create simple in house software to provide any missing functionality, have early adoption enthusiasts that will be on help to provide peer support, and so on, Best done by gradually bringing in new systems when old ones need to be replaced anyway of course.
If surveillance by NSA is your biggest threat vector, I would still recommend a Chromebook over Windows 10. If it's casual crooks, the comparison is not even close.
Just locking down existing software can be conceivably done in 100K (say a month time for 3 engineers and support for 1% of users who had an unexpected problem). You already have ability to push group policies and remotely install software in bulk right?
If your company routinely accepts 5000% overspending, this will not be the only project when this happens and expenses add up. Doubly important for a police department or other entity running at taxpayer expense.
I am not necessarily suggesting downgrading new hardware to Windows XP. Gradual replacement provides a perfect opportunity to slowly roll out Windows 10 and resolve any problems without breaking all users at once. Once you are down to couple of thousand old PCs, by all means do a mass upgrade / potential hardware replacement to standardize.
IE8 is not for going online, it's for shortcuts to specific internal web apps, with address bar hidden. Actual web browser is a company-standard build of chromium auto-updated through puppet.
Say Microsoft is charing you $75 to upgrade each seat. Now ad in labor, troubleshooting, user training / support. Very optimistically real cost to just get built in functionality running to the same level will bring the total to $200/seat or 5.2 million dollars. I have no idea how much of your hardware will need to be upgraded, again with associated labor costs. Add in fees for upgrading Office and 3rd party apps that do not run well Windows 10. And cost of fixed in-house apps.
I will be happy to assist with locking down your existing workstations for a small fraction of what you think the total cost is going to be.
As long as firewall is on and you run a fixed set of apps from trusted sources, you are perfectly safe. So is IE if you only visit internal sites. And for external browsing, browser security is more important than OS security. There will be forked versions of recent Firefox and Chromium builds forever.
The whole upgrade hype is largely financially motivated on part of Microsoft and consulting agencies.
If you just need a Web apps, go with a Chromebook. Nothing is perfect, but there is just not much running to hack. If you just want Office, stay away from Ubuntu userland. It's another thing to maintain and update, and yes an additional exploit vector. In the meantime I am psyched that I can run various home servers on my gaming box rather than having to tinker with a separate old laptop stashed on some shelf.