There's a bit of a lock-in to having a bunch of stuff already in the app-store/iTunes.
My fiancee has been looking at getting an iPhone 4. She's got a lot of apps she uses on the iPod, and was looking at a "Galaxy S2" VS "iPhone 4." I mentioned that the 5 is probably coming out, and would expect some features to include a multi-core processor etc in order to stay competitive with the newer Android phones. So does one consider iPhone5 as a competitor for the other phones, or mainly against the iPhone4? For those that are looking a "new iphone", it makes sense to at least wait until the 5 is out and then see if the full features list warrants an upgrade.
Actually, if you're running a system monitoring app, having a big screen in your monitoring/operations center does have an important purpose.
Most monitoring systems use some form of color-coded status, so green=good, red=bad. Now if your one of the important systems that monitoring depends on goes down (say your mail server or SMS gateway, whatever), you're not going to be getting those important alerts when stuff breaks. However, if you've still got the "big wall of status" up, then there's still a decent chance of noticing of a bunch of important stuff goes from green to red.
That assumes that you don't have a bunch of false alerts that are always red in the first place. Having the ability to acknowledge a known issue and shift it out of the alerts pool is also important,
I find it amusing that people talk constantly about the increase of a-hole'ish behavior online. No, there aren't more a-hole's online, there are just more people. Combined that with more people who are dicks in general... and, well, you get the picture.
Seriously, the current generation seems to be stuck somewhere between who gives a F*** and F*** you....
I hate to sound snobby, but I can often tell somebody who's gone to college VS somebody who hasn't... or at least somebody who follows what they learned in college VS somebody who hasn't.
I've worked with many intelligent people, but there's a certain way of working tends to be less frequent with those that have learned on their own, usually in regards to things like variable naming (variable names like $var1 VS $sFirstname, etc), code-commenting, documentation, and a general organization of workflow.
That being said, some of the best workers I've met have often been those that were self-taught, it was just often harder for others to follow what they'd done due to a lack of common structure. The self-taughts were often *BETTER* at thinking outside of the box and finding answers quickly, but not so good at structuring their work or workflow.
Now between those with diplomas, degrees, and masters... I haven't seen a lot of difference except perhaps in how they seemed to think of themselves.
Personally, if I had the time, money (or no mortgage to pay, etc etc) to go back and get a masters, I'd love to. That or just get my degree/diploma in some other branch of study. There are lots of things I've love to learn, and some I can't really see learning outside of some form of class environment, but unfortunately I have not enough resources to support my family and do so...
Interesting. Motorola similarly held off 2.2 for *YEARS* on the milestone. I eventually got custom firmware on it, but that was only once somebody figured out how to get past the locked down/signed bootloaders.
What *really* pissed off a lot of people was that the phone was advertised as being flash-ready, but that features wasn't even available until 2.2
Of course, it also ran like crap on 2.2 until I replaced the stock launcher with "Go Launcher Ex"
So what will happen, is that the new laws will make asking on facebook about how to "circumvent protection" or "access illicit material" just as illegal as linking...
I'm fairly sure you don't have to be living in a mansion to buy a latte or two (per-month, not per-day).
To be fair, the demographic of most net-steaming users with a computer and network connection good enough to stream is probably in line with the "latte or two" crowd, at least around here. I'm not really sure about the DVD shipment service as I don't know anyone who uses it (not even sure it's *offered* in Canada, where I live).
Most of my friends - even those in the lower-income brackets - still stop at Starbucks every now and then for an overpriced drink. After the first two you've already passed the price of netflix in a month.
A better comparison might have been "a movie rental" though, as even one of those at many video stores hits pretty close to the monthly cost of either netflix streaming/delivery services.
The day before or no, I believe in many places that attempting sex while one person is sleeping is illegal, as the sleeping person cannot give consent...
Not sure if the "all your content are belong to us" statements are worse than the "you agree that this is only a license, not a purchase" statements on items you've already purchased. For example, in a moment of weakness and nostalgia, had actually purchased Duke Nukem Forever. On the screen prior to play, it requires that you accept that you have not *bought* the game but are essentially renting a license. A nice little bit of bullshit for something I've already paid for and don't seem to have a viable means of refund....
At the very least, you can view the dropbox license before you drop cash on the damn service. I wish that somebody would draft a law against un-necessarily and uneven licensing/agreements though, as it's getting more and more crazy everyday.
Agreed. To add to that, it's a bit of a viral problem. In the past these "internships" were often only in a small number of fields. Nowadays they have freaking *requirements* that students as young as high school do unpaid work. In some cases doing the same type of work paid doesn't qualify, only "volunteer" work does, and plenty of the businesses in question make more than enough cash to not need the unpaid labour.
Unpaid internships not only create additional hardship for students, but for those seeking proper employment. Why hire full-time employees when you can have a revolving-door set of volunteers.
If they want volunteers, send people to local animal shelters, soup kitchens, or other non-profits where they're actually hard-up for a few extra hands. For other stuff, co-op (training pay, less than a fully-educated staff member, but better than nothing) makes much more sense.
Prank or vandalism? I'd have to vote for vandals if they used spraypaint, etc.
As a prank, it could have been done with a removable substance (chalk, water-soluble paint, whatever), but if it's a permanent (well, as permanent as regular spraypaint is) substance then it's a bit beyond prank level.
Anyone know of one that will do this on just wifi/ethernet? Probably not too hard to hack up a serial-console based one. I don't see a real reason for 3G, other than to avoid wiring, and wifi wouldn't require signing up with a cellular carrier.
Authentication? If it takes a SIM card, how about a small PROM or even a tiny miniSD with a file containing access-point details?
In most sane places, the guys making the "Javascript animated menus" and "Flash sliding widgets" ARE NOT those that should be maintaining the servers. Web devs probably shouldn't have root access to servers, and likewise server-admins tend not to be the best at creative.
On the other hand, if I had just spent several billion to buy a company and their primary service went down hard, I'd probably be a little unhappy about it.
Microsoft bashing is pretty lame though. It's like the idiots that blame [political party X] for every small problem in the world.
However, if people get half the number of requests I do, it's probably filled with a lot of cruft as well.
My most recent invites have all been from an ex-gf who seems to try and change her last-name/identity on a regular basis trying to find some social network that I can friend her on (most likely so she can spy on me). Most of the rest are people who don't really know me very well professionally.
When hardware fails en-masse beyond a warranty period, sometimes (good) manufacturers will still do a recall. See in particular the cases of automobiles etc with safety recalls. In other cases it's often the simple fact that most physical (and especially moving) components break down over time. Also, if the fan belt breaks on my car, or the hard-drive dies on my PC, then I have the often of self-service, repair, or replacement beyond the vendeo (of the card/PC).
With software, a lot of bugs are due to a mistake on the case of the vendor. Race conditions, buffer overflows, infinite loops etc can be prevented in many cases with proper coding care. However, in non-FOSS software, nobody can really fix the bugs except the vendor, and there's just like the "evil mechanic" stories there's also the stories of vendors who deliberately place bugs (or at knowingly leave them unfixed until future releases).
In code though, bugfixes are often time to future releases, which also contain additional (paid-for) features.
New features. How about current capabilities? Motorola milestone and flash support come to mind (requires Android 2.2, which for many countries didn't get implemented for YEARS, and others didn't get provided at all).
One of the many reasons my next phone will *NOT* be a Motorola. I'm thinking HTC for the next round.
The reason that these users were ever added to Local Admin was due to "Bad IT Admin" more than anything else.
Software needing admin permissions that comes to mind includes some of the older autodesk (AutoCAD) etc software. Most of the ways to get them to run as a non-admin user were - in themselves - hacks, and often generated as many issues as they fixed.
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There's a bit of a lock-in to having a bunch of stuff already in the app-store/iTunes.
My fiancee has been looking at getting an iPhone 4. She's got a lot of apps she uses on the iPod, and was looking at a "Galaxy S2" VS "iPhone 4." I mentioned that the 5 is probably coming out, and would expect some features to include a multi-core processor etc in order to stay competitive with the newer Android phones. So does one consider iPhone5 as a competitor for the other phones, or mainly against the iPhone4? For those that are looking a "new iphone", it makes sense to at least wait until the 5 is out and then see if the full features list warrants an upgrade.
Actually, if you're running a system monitoring app, having a big screen in your monitoring/operations center does have an important purpose.
Most monitoring systems use some form of color-coded status, so green=good, red=bad. Now if your one of the important systems that monitoring depends on goes down (say your mail server or SMS gateway, whatever), you're not going to be getting those important alerts when stuff breaks. However, if you've still got the "big wall of status" up, then there's still a decent chance of noticing of a bunch of important stuff goes from green to red.
That assumes that you don't have a bunch of false alerts that are always red in the first place. Having the ability to acknowledge a known issue and shift it out of the alerts pool is also important,
I find it amusing that people talk constantly about the increase of a-hole'ish behavior online. No, there aren't more a-hole's online, there are just more people. Combined that with more people who are dicks in general... and, well, you get the picture.
Seriously, the current generation seems to be stuck somewhere between who gives a F*** and F*** you....
I hate to sound snobby, but I can often tell somebody who's gone to college VS somebody who hasn't... or at least somebody who follows what they learned in college VS somebody who hasn't.
I've worked with many intelligent people, but there's a certain way of working tends to be less frequent with those that have learned on their own, usually in regards to things like variable naming (variable names like $var1 VS $sFirstname, etc), code-commenting, documentation, and a general organization of workflow.
That being said, some of the best workers I've met have often been those that were self-taught, it was just often harder for others to follow what they'd done due to a lack of common structure. The self-taughts were often *BETTER* at thinking outside of the box and finding answers quickly, but not so good at structuring their work or workflow.
Now between those with diplomas, degrees, and masters... I haven't seen a lot of difference except perhaps in how they seemed to think of themselves.
Personally, if I had the time, money (or no mortgage to pay, etc etc) to go back and get a masters, I'd love to. That or just get my degree/diploma in some other branch of study. There are lots of things I've love to learn, and some I can't really see learning outside of some form of class environment, but unfortunately I have not enough resources to support my family and do so...
The reason the superbowel winning football team
Sounds like a shi**y team. I've heard that their players are real crap...
Luckily for us all, the TSA is already ahead of terrorists by banning screwdrivers on planes :-)
For most people that know much about technology (and quality tech gear), not buying linksys is not a problem...
Interesting. Motorola similarly held off 2.2 for *YEARS* on the milestone. I eventually got custom firmware on it, but that was only once somebody figured out how to get past the locked down/signed bootloaders.
What *really* pissed off a lot of people was that the phone was advertised as being flash-ready, but that features wasn't even available until 2.2
Of course, it also ran like crap on 2.2 until I replaced the stock launcher with "Go Launcher Ex"
"does anybody know how to jailbreak an iPhone"
So what will happen, is that the new laws will make asking on facebook about how to "circumvent protection" or "access illicit material" just as illegal as linking...
I'm fairly sure you don't have to be living in a mansion to buy a latte or two (per-month, not per-day).
To be fair, the demographic of most net-steaming users with a computer and network connection good enough to stream is probably in line with the "latte or two" crowd, at least around here. I'm not really sure about the DVD shipment service as I don't know anyone who uses it (not even sure it's *offered* in Canada, where I live).
Most of my friends - even those in the lower-income brackets - still stop at Starbucks every now and then for an overpriced drink. After the first two you've already passed the price of netflix in a month.
A better comparison might have been "a movie rental" though, as even one of those at many video stores hits pretty close to the monthly cost of either netflix streaming/delivery services.
"but the fact they charged her with disorderly conduct is because they did not want to charge her with the other offence"
Or maybe they charged her with disorderly conduct because they couldn't find any other offense to use...?
The day before or no, I believe in many places that attempting sex while one person is sleeping is illegal, as the sleeping person cannot give consent...
Not sure if the "all your content are belong to us" statements are worse than the "you agree that this is only a license, not a purchase" statements on items you've already purchased. For example, in a moment of weakness and nostalgia, had actually purchased Duke Nukem Forever. On the screen prior to play, it requires that you accept that you have not *bought* the game but are essentially renting a license. A nice little bit of bullshit for something I've already paid for and don't seem to have a viable means of refund....
At the very least, you can view the dropbox license before you drop cash on the damn service. I wish that somebody would draft a law against un-necessarily and uneven licensing/agreements though, as it's getting more and more crazy everyday.
Agreed. To add to that, it's a bit of a viral problem. In the past these "internships" were often only in a small number of fields. Nowadays they have freaking *requirements* that students as young as high school do unpaid work. In some cases doing the same type of work paid doesn't qualify, only "volunteer" work does, and plenty of the businesses in question make more than enough cash to not need the unpaid labour.
Unpaid internships not only create additional hardship for students, but for those seeking proper employment. Why hire full-time employees when you can have a revolving-door set of volunteers.
If they want volunteers, send people to local animal shelters, soup kitchens, or other non-profits where they're actually hard-up for a few extra hands. For other stuff, co-op (training pay, less than a fully-educated staff member, but better than nothing) makes much more sense.
Try bank passwords. Of two banks I know, the passwords CANNOT have non-alphanumeric characters, and require passwords be 5-8 characters long...
Prank or vandalism?
I'd have to vote for vandals if they used spraypaint, etc.
As a prank, it could have been done with a removable substance (chalk, water-soluble paint, whatever), but if it's a permanent (well, as permanent as regular spraypaint is) substance then it's a bit beyond prank level.
Anyone know of one that will do this on just wifi/ethernet? Probably not too hard to hack up a serial-console based one. I don't see a real reason for 3G, other than to avoid wiring, and wifi wouldn't require signing up with a cellular carrier.
Authentication? If it takes a SIM card, how about a small PROM or even a tiny miniSD with a file containing access-point details?
It appears to be an "A" tag without the "HREF" portion...
In most sane places, the guys making the "Javascript animated menus" and "Flash sliding widgets" ARE NOT those that should be maintaining the servers. Web devs probably shouldn't have root access to servers, and likewise server-admins tend not to be the best at creative.
On the other hand, if I had just spent several billion to buy a company and their primary service went down hard, I'd probably be a little unhappy about it.
Microsoft bashing is pretty lame though. It's like the idiots that blame [political party X] for every small problem in the world.
However, if people get half the number of requests I do, it's probably filled with a lot of cruft as well.
My most recent invites have all been from an ex-gf who seems to try and change her last-name/identity on a regular basis trying to find some social network that I can friend her on (most likely so she can spy on me). Most of the rest are people who don't really know me very well professionally.
When hardware fails en-masse beyond a warranty period, sometimes (good) manufacturers will still do a recall. See in particular the cases of automobiles etc with safety recalls. In other cases it's often the simple fact that most physical (and especially moving) components break down over time. Also, if the fan belt breaks on my car, or the hard-drive dies on my PC, then I have the often of self-service, repair, or replacement beyond the vendeo (of the card/PC).
With software, a lot of bugs are due to a mistake on the case of the vendor. Race conditions, buffer overflows, infinite loops etc can be prevented in many cases with proper coding care. However, in non-FOSS software, nobody can really fix the bugs except the vendor, and there's just like the "evil mechanic" stories there's also the stories of vendors who deliberately place bugs (or at knowingly leave them unfixed until future releases).
In code though, bugfixes are often time to future releases, which also contain additional (paid-for) features.
New features. How about current capabilities?
Motorola milestone and flash support come to mind (requires Android 2.2, which for many countries didn't get implemented for YEARS, and others didn't get provided at all).
One of the many reasons my next phone will *NOT* be a Motorola. I'm thinking HTC for the next round.
The reason that these users were ever added to Local Admin was due to "Bad IT Admin" more than anything else.
Software needing admin permissions that comes to mind includes some of the older autodesk (AutoCAD) etc software. Most of the ways to get them to run as a non-admin user were - in themselves - hacks, and often generated as many issues as they fixed.
Okay, so then fat people and smokers want to tax your motorcycle
Ever seen the insurance rates for motorcycles? Depending on where you live, there's pretty much a built-in tax...