Who makes sure that they "limit their selection of tenants" if they are not licensed or regulated.
They are limiting their own selection of tenants by not providing a service that some of them may want. There's plenty of brick and mortar stores that don't have any parking. Why should hotels be required to have parking? If people want a hotel with parking they'll verify that it has parking before they book a room there.
Why not get call the police to report the crime and ambulance to get her to a hospital? Seems odd that somebody would leave their friend to sleep in a car after suspecting that they had been drugged. Sure the perpetrators may have gotten the dosage right, and she could just sleep it off, but they could just as easily have given her too much, and put her in danger.
Personally, I find that MS Office is much better than Libre Office or OpenOffice.org in almost every way. That being said, I use OpenOffice.org at home because it's free and I really don't need an office suite for home use more than a couple times a year. I used to use them a lot back in high school and university because I was doing a lot of school work. For professional work, as long as the price is reasonable (and I believe that for MS Office it is), than I will use the best tool for the job. Ideologies are great and all, but at the end of the day, I need to get my work done, and be able to interact with clients. If that means using closed source software, then so be it.
Also, office suite licenses are a drop in the bucket compared to all the other costs incurred by having employees. Most businesses and governments could probably save a few bucks using MS Office vs OpenOffice because that's what all their employees are used to using. I went for a week long course at a corporate training center (not for an office suite, but most courses were similarly priced), and the cost to my employer was over $2000. Just saving a single day of training would have easily paid for a copy of MS Office.
Don't get this confused with how government (and businesses too, but especially government) should publish documents for consumption by the public. Documents should be available to people in an open and easily readable format. But they can use whatever tools they want that would make them most effective at their jobs and cost a reasonable amount of money.
Are you paying taxes on the income? Do you have adequate parking for that tenant?
These are the kinds of concerns that really get to me. First, you basically have to report all income over a certain amount. I know there was a story a few years back where a bunch of people got busted for running businesses off of eBay and not paying their taxes. It doesn't matter how they run their business. That doesn't mean that people shouldn't be allowed to use eBay at all because their are some bad actors. There are businesses that are traditional brick and mortar businesses who don't pay their taxes either
Also, who cares if they have parking for the tenant. Maybe the tenant doesn't even have a car. I saw something like this on a real estate reality show a year or so back. Somebody wanted to rent out their basement to a tenant and had to get their driveway widened to allow there to be adequate room for parking or it wouldn't meet code for having a tenant. If they want to limit their selection of tenants by not having parking then that's their business. But hotels shouldn't be required to have parking for tenants, especially in a place like New York city, where nobody drives anyway.
Not only that, but how do handle sites that didn't have ads before the system is implemented? For instance, I don't have ads on my personal websites, because it costs me almost nothing to run them and I feel that it's a more enjoyable experience for everybody involved if I just don't have ads. But if none of the sites had ads, I would probably want a piece of the money that goes to sites without ads. It's only fair.
Personally, I don't own a car, and I know a few other people who don't own them as well. Between walking, bikes, public transit, taxis, delivery services, and rental cars, all my(and their) transportation needs are met, at a much lower TCO than owning a private car.
Exactly. And the limitations of an OS can very much determine how an application can perform and what it can do. With Windows tablets, both RT and Pro, any application that can read files can automatically read shard network folders and OneDrive, because it's been abstracted away properly from the application.
Contrast that with Android and iOS, where this functionality isn't abstracted away from the application, and any application that wants to access a network drive or the default cloud drive (Google Drive and Apple Cloud) has to implement the functionality themselves. iOS doesn't even present a traditional file system to the application which drastically changes how programs interact with data.
Android and iOS both (in stock configuration) don't allow mutliple applications on the screen at the same time, which limits how applications can behave. On a Windows tablet, the mail client will open links in a second window, leaving the user able to interact with both the page which has been opened, and the email client the same time. You can kind of emulate that with a part of the mail application that loads the web page, but that page doesn't get saved in your browser history, because it's not the actual browser that the user would normally use.
Yes. And compare that to a tractor from 100 years ago. There's way more difference between the two tractors and 2 cars that are as far apart in the timeline.
You might think a plane would be nice, but cars have their advantages too. Being on land means you can handle bad weather much better in a car than in a plane. Also, having a mechanical breakdown is less dangerous in a car than in a plane. Cars can usually carry much more cargo in their car too. You can tow a trailer if you really want. Most personal planes have very little room for luggage, and don't allow for a lot of extra weight. Along the same lines, most personal planes don't have a lot of room for oversize people. Sure you could design a with the intention of carrying extra weight and larger passengers, but then you need a bigger engine, which becomes less efficient and is quite wasteful when you only have a single passenger.
Exactly. Personally, I don't think there's anything wrong with the general idea of bots on twitter. Many of the bots will be of low quality, but so will a lot of the human users. I'm sure a lot of the bots out there do more to increase the popularity and usefulness of twitter than many of the non-bot accounts.
And home users aren't even close to getting on board. Most people's PCs and other devices will handle IPV6 just fine. Many new home routers are ready but a lot of people haven't bought a router in years, and their old one can't handle IPV6. And at least where I am, there aren't any home ISPs who even have IPV6 on the roadmap.
You're missing the biggest point. It has hardware h.265 support(not to be confused with h.264) which is a newer compression algorithm that allows for even smaller files while maintaining the same video quality, or better quality when using the same bitrate.
HDMI Micro is a standard cable and doesn't require any adapter because it's a straight through cable you can buy from any Audio/Video or computer store. Apple's solution uses a proprietary cable that they charge $55.00 for. I wasn't able to find any generic Lighting to HDMI adapters at my usual sources.Sure you may be able to hook up a cable to your iPad to connect it to your TV, but they make it pretty expensive to do so.
The Surface Pro 3 doesn't have a locked boot loader. And it's actually quite easy to install Linux on it if you so desire. There are some hardware compatibility problems, but there's no locked boot loader, and installing Linux on a Surface Pro 3 isn't much different from installing it on any other laptop.
And yet MS is coming up with new ways to license Windows that make it cheaper than ever to make sure people have proper Windows Licenses. They also have this which is what allows you to buy $99 refurbished (off lease) PCs and ensure that you get a proper Windows license. The last $99 refurb I bought came with such a license and also included an actual OS install CD.
I think they have a ways to go in terms of people building their own machines, or upgrading old versions. But it's not like they are charging ridiculous amounts of money for their software.
As long as you understand that it doesn't run Windows programs, just like Windows Phone doesn't run Windows Apps, then personally I think it isn't that bad of a device.
I got a Surface 2 (RT) and I think that it has some great advantages over the other 10 inch tablet offerings. It has expandable storage using Micro SD (or USB3) which the iPad lacks.
It has native access to network drives which means that any program that accesses files can also read files off network drives (SMB and OneDrive) without requiring special programming, which is something that isn't available on iPad or Android.
It has a full size USB3 port which allows you to plug in all sorts of devices like proper mice and keyboards, as well as an XBox controller, which is great for gaming. A hub can be used to plug in multiple devices.
It has HDMI out using standard Micro USB which doesn't exist on the iPad, and which seems to be missing from a lot of Android offerings. This is great if you just want to hook up the device to a TV or a secondary monitor. You can either duplicate or extend your display.
There are very few restrictions as to what kind of apps they will allow you to publish. There are many emulators which work great with the XBox controller. There are also bittorrent clients. Those are 2 things you can't do with an iPad. You can also program your own apps using the free version of Visual Studio if you have a desktop/laptop.
My wife has an iPad and personally I find that it's a real pain to do things that should be easily do-able. I've gone through 4 or 5 apps (some paid and some free) to try to find an app that will just play videos of various formats off a network drive and haven't found a single one that will play all my videos. With my Surface 2, the built in video player will play just about anything, and I had to get another app to play MKV and MPEG2. The iPad only has 12 GB free out of the box, and the upgrade to the 32 GB version costs an extra $100. The 32 GB Surface RT (which is $50 cheaper than the 16 GB iPad) comes with 18 GB usable storage out of the box, and allows you to easily get more storage using the MicroSD slot. You can get the 64 GB Surface 2 for $50 cheaper than the 32 GB version of the iPad.
The only thing that I don't like about my Surface 2 is the small selection of apps. But despite that, I can't think of anything I can't do that I'd want to do with a 10 inch tablet. The only real disadvantage is that there are fewer games to choose from. I don't see that as a huge disadvantage.
Not only that, but perhaps if they can't fill a stadium, it's because they are asking too much for tickets. I'm not sure what NFL tickets cost, but if it's going the same way as the NHL, then they are bordering on completely unaffordable for most people. When it's minimum $200 to take your family to a game, or closer to $500 if you want some good seats where you can actually see what's going on, then it's no wonder people don't got to the stadium. The only people who go are people who decide to treat themselves and go to one game a year, or people who have a lot of money.
The problem is that just switching yourself doesn't solve anything. You have to convince all your friends to switch so that they can send and receive encrypted messages too. That might actually be their plan. Get the techies to go for it, and they'll tell all their friends to go for it. It may possibly work but most people don't use email for anything confidential. Nobody cares if somebody else is reading the marketing emails or plans with family that are being sent to them. Plus, as pointed out by others, using webmail means that there could always be chance that the webmail provider is secretly keeping a copy of your private key, allowing them and the NSA to read your mail anyway.
Yeah, but from my understanding they have their own mayor and everything, are are a completely separate municipality from other parts of London. Tons of people work there but very few of those people actually get a vote as to what happens where they spend 1/3rd of their lives. This makes it quite odd.
It would be trivially easy to build a rainbow table anyway. And it couldn't even be salted, because the IRS and the communicating systems would have to agree on a salt, which would make any salt used useless. Once a rainbow table was created, any advantage you get from hashing the numbers would be useless.
That's quite interesting. In North America, the "in thing" is for cities to expand their borders as far as possible, amalgamating the suburbs and smaller towns into one giant mega city with a single mayor, and all services overseen by a single municipal government. This allows the city to collect more tax dollars, and get better deals on buying things because they are buying in larger quantities.
I think the problem is that web programming it actually one of the hardest things to do properly, and yet everybody seems to try to do it without really understanding what's going on. You can't just take a single class on web application security, because there's way too much information to cover. First, there would have to be a lot of prerequisites such as SQL databases, Actually understanding Javascript as well as at least one server side language (PHP,.Net, Java, etc). Understanding how HTTP works. And there's a bunch of other stuff you really should know before you even start to delve into the security aspects of it all. Then there's all the different vulnerabilities. Just getting people to understand what code runs where (javascript on browser, C# on server), where information is coming from (query string, form data, cookies, http headers) and how it is all able to be forged quite easily by the client. Web development is a whole specialization in and of itself, and couldn't even begin to be covered well enough without leaving out some other more important parts of a CS education.
By and large, programming still is something you have to figure out on your own time. The problem is that most graduates don't take their own time to learn it. They do the required assignments, write the exams, graduate, and expect that they will be able to work as a programmer. The actual amount of programming knowledge required to get CS degree is quite small. Even smaller if you consider that many students don't do the assignments completely on their own.
If somebody just goes to university and gets their computer science degree, odds are that they actually are very bad programmers. Anybody who has actual programming skills has most likely had paid internship, or has their own github account or open source project commits where they can demonstrate that they can product actual code. There isn't even required programming in CS courses to make somebody a good programmer by just doing the required assignments for their degree.
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They are limiting their own selection of tenants by not providing a service that some of them may want. There's plenty of brick and mortar stores that don't have any parking. Why should hotels be required to have parking? If people want a hotel with parking they'll verify that it has parking before they book a room there.
Why not get call the police to report the crime and ambulance to get her to a hospital? Seems odd that somebody would leave their friend to sleep in a car after suspecting that they had been drugged. Sure the perpetrators may have gotten the dosage right, and she could just sleep it off, but they could just as easily have given her too much, and put her in danger.
Personally, I find that MS Office is much better than Libre Office or OpenOffice.org in almost every way. That being said, I use OpenOffice.org at home because it's free and I really don't need an office suite for home use more than a couple times a year. I used to use them a lot back in high school and university because I was doing a lot of school work. For professional work, as long as the price is reasonable (and I believe that for MS Office it is), than I will use the best tool for the job. Ideologies are great and all, but at the end of the day, I need to get my work done, and be able to interact with clients. If that means using closed source software, then so be it.
Also, office suite licenses are a drop in the bucket compared to all the other costs incurred by having employees. Most businesses and governments could probably save a few bucks using MS Office vs OpenOffice because that's what all their employees are used to using. I went for a week long course at a corporate training center (not for an office suite, but most courses were similarly priced), and the cost to my employer was over $2000. Just saving a single day of training would have easily paid for a copy of MS Office.
Don't get this confused with how government (and businesses too, but especially government) should publish documents for consumption by the public. Documents should be available to people in an open and easily readable format. But they can use whatever tools they want that would make them most effective at their jobs and cost a reasonable amount of money.
Are you paying taxes on the income? Do you have adequate parking for that tenant? These are the kinds of concerns that really get to me. First, you basically have to report all income over a certain amount. I know there was a story a few years back where a bunch of people got busted for running businesses off of eBay and not paying their taxes. It doesn't matter how they run their business. That doesn't mean that people shouldn't be allowed to use eBay at all because their are some bad actors. There are businesses that are traditional brick and mortar businesses who don't pay their taxes either
Also, who cares if they have parking for the tenant. Maybe the tenant doesn't even have a car. I saw something like this on a real estate reality show a year or so back. Somebody wanted to rent out their basement to a tenant and had to get their driveway widened to allow there to be adequate room for parking or it wouldn't meet code for having a tenant. If they want to limit their selection of tenants by not having parking then that's their business. But hotels shouldn't be required to have parking for tenants, especially in a place like New York city, where nobody drives anyway.
Not only that, but how do handle sites that didn't have ads before the system is implemented? For instance, I don't have ads on my personal websites, because it costs me almost nothing to run them and I feel that it's a more enjoyable experience for everybody involved if I just don't have ads. But if none of the sites had ads, I would probably want a piece of the money that goes to sites without ads. It's only fair.
Personally, I don't own a car, and I know a few other people who don't own them as well. Between walking, bikes, public transit, taxis, delivery services, and rental cars, all my(and their) transportation needs are met, at a much lower TCO than owning a private car.
Exactly. And the limitations of an OS can very much determine how an application can perform and what it can do. With Windows tablets, both RT and Pro, any application that can read files can automatically read shard network folders and OneDrive, because it's been abstracted away properly from the application.
Contrast that with Android and iOS, where this functionality isn't abstracted away from the application, and any application that wants to access a network drive or the default cloud drive (Google Drive and Apple Cloud) has to implement the functionality themselves. iOS doesn't even present a traditional file system to the application which drastically changes how programs interact with data.
Android and iOS both (in stock configuration) don't allow mutliple applications on the screen at the same time, which limits how applications can behave. On a Windows tablet, the mail client will open links in a second window, leaving the user able to interact with both the page which has been opened, and the email client the same time. You can kind of emulate that with a part of the mail application that loads the web page, but that page doesn't get saved in your browser history, because it's not the actual browser that the user would normally use.
Yes. And compare that to a tractor from 100 years ago. There's way more difference between the two tractors and 2 cars that are as far apart in the timeline.
You might think a plane would be nice, but cars have their advantages too. Being on land means you can handle bad weather much better in a car than in a plane. Also, having a mechanical breakdown is less dangerous in a car than in a plane. Cars can usually carry much more cargo in their car too. You can tow a trailer if you really want. Most personal planes have very little room for luggage, and don't allow for a lot of extra weight. Along the same lines, most personal planes don't have a lot of room for oversize people. Sure you could design a with the intention of carrying extra weight and larger passengers, but then you need a bigger engine, which becomes less efficient and is quite wasteful when you only have a single passenger.
Exactly. Personally, I don't think there's anything wrong with the general idea of bots on twitter. Many of the bots will be of low quality, but so will a lot of the human users. I'm sure a lot of the bots out there do more to increase the popularity and usefulness of twitter than many of the non-bot accounts.
And home users aren't even close to getting on board. Most people's PCs and other devices will handle IPV6 just fine. Many new home routers are ready but a lot of people haven't bought a router in years, and their old one can't handle IPV6. And at least where I am, there aren't any home ISPs who even have IPV6 on the roadmap.
You're missing the biggest point. It has hardware h.265 support(not to be confused with h.264) which is a newer compression algorithm that allows for even smaller files while maintaining the same video quality, or better quality when using the same bitrate.
HDMI Micro is a standard cable and doesn't require any adapter because it's a straight through cable you can buy from any Audio/Video or computer store. Apple's solution uses a proprietary cable that they charge $55.00 for. I wasn't able to find any generic Lighting to HDMI adapters at my usual sources.Sure you may be able to hook up a cable to your iPad to connect it to your TV, but they make it pretty expensive to do so.
The Surface Pro 3 doesn't have a locked boot loader. And it's actually quite easy to install Linux on it if you so desire. There are some hardware compatibility problems, but there's no locked boot loader, and installing Linux on a Surface Pro 3 isn't much different from installing it on any other laptop.
And yet MS is coming up with new ways to license Windows that make it cheaper than ever to make sure people have proper Windows Licenses. They also have this which is what allows you to buy $99 refurbished (off lease) PCs and ensure that you get a proper Windows license. The last $99 refurb I bought came with such a license and also included an actual OS install CD.
I think they have a ways to go in terms of people building their own machines, or upgrading old versions. But it's not like they are charging ridiculous amounts of money for their software.
As long as you understand that it doesn't run Windows programs, just like Windows Phone doesn't run Windows Apps, then personally I think it isn't that bad of a device.
I got a Surface 2 (RT) and I think that it has some great advantages over the other 10 inch tablet offerings. It has expandable storage using Micro SD (or USB3) which the iPad lacks.
It has native access to network drives which means that any program that accesses files can also read files off network drives (SMB and OneDrive) without requiring special programming, which is something that isn't available on iPad or Android.
It has a full size USB3 port which allows you to plug in all sorts of devices like proper mice and keyboards, as well as an XBox controller, which is great for gaming. A hub can be used to plug in multiple devices.
It has HDMI out using standard Micro USB which doesn't exist on the iPad, and which seems to be missing from a lot of Android offerings. This is great if you just want to hook up the device to a TV or a secondary monitor. You can either duplicate or extend your display.
There are very few restrictions as to what kind of apps they will allow you to publish. There are many emulators which work great with the XBox controller. There are also bittorrent clients. Those are 2 things you can't do with an iPad. You can also program your own apps using the free version of Visual Studio if you have a desktop/laptop.
My wife has an iPad and personally I find that it's a real pain to do things that should be easily do-able. I've gone through 4 or 5 apps (some paid and some free) to try to find an app that will just play videos of various formats off a network drive and haven't found a single one that will play all my videos. With my Surface 2, the built in video player will play just about anything, and I had to get another app to play MKV and MPEG2. The iPad only has 12 GB free out of the box, and the upgrade to the 32 GB version costs an extra $100. The 32 GB Surface RT (which is $50 cheaper than the 16 GB iPad) comes with 18 GB usable storage out of the box, and allows you to easily get more storage using the MicroSD slot. You can get the 64 GB Surface 2 for $50 cheaper than the 32 GB version of the iPad.
The only thing that I don't like about my Surface 2 is the small selection of apps. But despite that, I can't think of anything I can't do that I'd want to do with a 10 inch tablet. The only real disadvantage is that there are fewer games to choose from. I don't see that as a huge disadvantage.
Not only that, but perhaps if they can't fill a stadium, it's because they are asking too much for tickets. I'm not sure what NFL tickets cost, but if it's going the same way as the NHL, then they are bordering on completely unaffordable for most people. When it's minimum $200 to take your family to a game, or closer to $500 if you want some good seats where you can actually see what's going on, then it's no wonder people don't got to the stadium. The only people who go are people who decide to treat themselves and go to one game a year, or people who have a lot of money.
Futurama already covered that issue.
The problem is that just switching yourself doesn't solve anything. You have to convince all your friends to switch so that they can send and receive encrypted messages too. That might actually be their plan. Get the techies to go for it, and they'll tell all their friends to go for it. It may possibly work but most people don't use email for anything confidential. Nobody cares if somebody else is reading the marketing emails or plans with family that are being sent to them. Plus, as pointed out by others, using webmail means that there could always be chance that the webmail provider is secretly keeping a copy of your private key, allowing them and the NSA to read your mail anyway.
Yeah, but from my understanding they have their own mayor and everything, are are a completely separate municipality from other parts of London. Tons of people work there but very few of those people actually get a vote as to what happens where they spend 1/3rd of their lives. This makes it quite odd.
It would be trivially easy to build a rainbow table anyway. And it couldn't even be salted, because the IRS and the communicating systems would have to agree on a salt, which would make any salt used useless. Once a rainbow table was created, any advantage you get from hashing the numbers would be useless.
That's quite interesting. In North America, the "in thing" is for cities to expand their borders as far as possible, amalgamating the suburbs and smaller towns into one giant mega city with a single mayor, and all services overseen by a single municipal government. This allows the city to collect more tax dollars, and get better deals on buying things because they are buying in larger quantities.
I think the problem is that web programming it actually one of the hardest things to do properly, and yet everybody seems to try to do it without really understanding what's going on. You can't just take a single class on web application security, because there's way too much information to cover. First, there would have to be a lot of prerequisites such as SQL databases, Actually understanding Javascript as well as at least one server side language (PHP, .Net, Java, etc). Understanding how HTTP works. And there's a bunch of other stuff you really should know before you even start to delve into the security aspects of it all. Then there's all the different vulnerabilities. Just getting people to understand what code runs where (javascript on browser, C# on server), where information is coming from (query string, form data, cookies, http headers) and how it is all able to be forged quite easily by the client. Web development is a whole specialization in and of itself, and couldn't even begin to be covered well enough without leaving out some other more important parts of a CS education.
By and large, programming still is something you have to figure out on your own time. The problem is that most graduates don't take their own time to learn it. They do the required assignments, write the exams, graduate, and expect that they will be able to work as a programmer. The actual amount of programming knowledge required to get CS degree is quite small. Even smaller if you consider that many students don't do the assignments completely on their own.
If somebody just goes to university and gets their computer science degree, odds are that they actually are very bad programmers. Anybody who has actual programming skills has most likely had paid internship, or has their own github account or open source project commits where they can demonstrate that they can product actual code. There isn't even required programming in CS courses to make somebody a good programmer by just doing the required assignments for their degree.