...into Excel so I can analyse the data correctly.
That is a phrase that sends chills down my spine. I have found Excel to be the cause of much bad financial analysis, not the solution. Not that I doubt that your $150M ERP system sucks, as I have found that to usually be the case as well. But I've found Excel's suckage to rival the suckage of the suckiest of sucky, expensive so-called, "Enterprise" software.
I was going to mod you up until I got to this point. Since I don't like encouraging poor attempts at moderation manipulation, I'll just refrain from moderating your comment at all.
After Compuserve and before the web, people communicated through USENET and IRC.
Then there was the very real reason why CompuServe was unaffectionately know as Compu$pend: The monthly bills that would be quickly racked up were mind-boggling. Fortunately, there was FidoNet for BBS's. It served as an adequate, almost always free, alternative. It wasn't perfect, but I vastly preferred it over CompuServe.
Frankly, I'm shocked that CompuServe lasted this long.
This is not, "an intriguing thought experiment" any more today than it was millions of years ago when the first active brain cell asked this very same question. The second active brain cell answered, "what the fuck have you been smoking?!"
Yes, it's a Pyhrric decision, to to sure. But it makes cleaning up the mess later that much less work. My point was that limiting your exposure to those avenues for which you have already surrendered is better than opening up a new one.
This article is a good explanation as to why it's best to avoid Blu-Ray altogether, though. Fortunately, as I said earier, Blu-Ray's improvement over DVD is marginal, at best, anyway.
But for mainstream business developers, I've never seen them able to test as well as QA does.
I've been developing complex software systems for about 30 years now, and I couldn't agree with you more. We developers are the absolutely worst people in the world to QA our own projects, as we develop tunnel vision towards how the software is used; and we develop an unconscious aversion towards doing things that will cause problems for our systems.
I test my code extensively during development, but am still absolutely amazed at how quickly my customers find errors that didn't occur during my testing. My workplace can't afford QA staff, so we developers must perform development and QA work. It works for us solely due to our customer structure, but it would be a nightmare in most other contexts.
The Blu-Ray player needs to connect to the internet for updates to be able to play the latest discs.
That's a good argument for not having a Blu-Ray player, and for using your game console as your player. Frankly, Blu-Ray's hype far exceeds its delivery. Having compared DVD and Blu-Ray side by side, Blu-Ray's improvements are merely marginal at the best of times, and completely insignificant the rest of the time.
Yes they will, because the people who are stupid enough to use this for important stuff are stupid enough to make this mistake over and over again.
I've said from the very beginning of the "Store your data on someone else's servers" (euphemistically called, "Cloud Computing") explosion that this is exactly what would happen. Despite all the counter-arguments from people saying that the Cloud is best used as a backup for your locally stored data, it's too much work for most people to duplicate their data locally; and the, "Store your data on someone else's servers" providers know this.
Actually, the article is exactly correct and properly representative of what the Blackberry CEO said. Your interpretation applies (to some insignificant extent) only to enterprise customers, who possess the encryption keys. For everyone else, Blackberry possesses the encryption keys. For the former, Blackberry has promised to not oppose a court order if it is properly formatted. For the latter, Blackberry has promised to turn over the decrypted data upon request by any properly formatted court order.
For Blackberry's remaining handful of customers, this should be very disconcerting. For everyone else, this is the nail in the coffin for any consideration they might have for using Blackberry.
As much as I may despise Apple and Microsoft's products and general business practices, I can give them credit for doing everything in their power to defend their users from Government overreach. Sure, it's only because it's in their best business interest, but at least they do it. Blackberry has promised to roll over on their customers without so much as a squeak in protest.
Looking back fondly to KDE 3. How integrated everything seemed.
We're going to have to agree to disagree on this. I started using both GNOME and KDE when they were both at version 1. For usability, I found that KDE absolutely disgraced GNOME. I have never used a version of either desktop that changed that relationship.
As good as KDE 3 was, it had some major deficiencies that would now be considered show-stoppers. When KDE 4's first end-user version (not the development version that so many people mistook for end-user suitability) was released, it was a bit rough around the edges, but it already functioned and performed better than KDE 3 in most ways. A few minor KDE 4 releases later, and KDE 3 became quite painful to use by comparison.
By far, the biggest brain fart inflicted upon KDE 4 users was the inclusion of Dolphin as the default file manager. As much as I tried to use it, it is an absolutely unusable piece of shit compared to Konqueror. But aside from that, KDE 4 has been heads and shoulders better and more pleasant than KDE 3.
Relax. The Linux Mint developers are chained to GNOME, which they mention in the article. They have inadequate resources to maintain two major desktops that require diametrically opposed skill sets, so they chose to drop the desktop for which they have inadequate skills and resources to maintain.
It's not a big deal, as there are several desktop distributions that either favor or at least maintain a KDE desktop.
I am glad, though, that I didn't waste time test-driving Mint. My preference to date has been Kubuntu, even though it has a few minor wrinkles. I try using GNOME from time to time, but it is as absolutely terrible for my workflow as KDE is absolutely awesome for it.
A June 2017 survey of 300 IT pros found that 80 percent said the cloud wasn't meeting their expectations due to problems with security, compliance, complexity and cost. According to a January 2017 survey by cloud management firm RightScale, from 30 to 45 percent of enterprise cloud spend is wasted.
No shit, Captain Obvious. The whole, "Giving The Keys to The Kingdom to Someone Else" idea (otherwise known as Cloud Computing) was idiotic from the start. Of course it was, is, and always will be, costly and inefficient. It boggles the mind that otherwise (presumably) smart people would be so stupid as to buy into that particular brand of snake oil.
The only surprising thing in this section is that RightScale stopped at 30 to 45 percent. In my experience, the waste (meaning absolutely no benefit for the dollars spent) is closer to 85 to 90 percent.
The intended audience of this seems like a footnote compared to overall users.
Regardless, this should once again be a wakeup call. Even if you can afford to absorb this price increase, you are still a lobster being slowly boiled to death. Some Microsoft nut-job can decide out of the blue tomorrow that you need to pay an additional ten thousand dollars per MHz, and there is nothing you can do about it unless you grow some brain cells and move to something that respects your Freedom.
And don't console yourself with the delusional insanity that would be required for Microsoft to make such a change, because Microsoft has already done insane things many times without any major consequences.
I laugh at the notion of, "this doesn't affect me, so it's not a problem." Some insane actions from Microsoft have and will affect you, even if this one doesn't.
All of those are half-assed, at best, and are carefully targeted to not overlap with Windows sales. In fact, they are targeted specifically to tie into required Windows licenses.
Also, it will take a century of full-bore apologizing to even begin to make up for Microsoft's past (and current) behavior.
Correct. Also, when Mitt Romney was about to leave the Governorship in Massachusetts, one of his final acts was to enact mandated universal healthcare that is shockingly similar to the (un)Affordable Health Care Act. It was applauded by Republicans, and panned by Democrats. Unfortunately, it was just as bad an idea then as the (un)Affordable Health Care Act is now.
This seesawing by Democrats and Republicans, based solely on who promotes any given idea, had gotten tiresome to me 30 years ago. Now, it's just so intolerable that I always vote third party for state and national positions (I don't even care about their qualifications). Locally, I vote for the person who does the best job -- regardless of party affiliation.
All I want is an Open, reasonably priced phone with reasonable specs on which I can install Plasma Active/Linux. That would take care of every other need I have.
Windows will alert you if you try to open a dangerous file type off of a SMB share. So the user would have to bypass this dialog.
That made me laugh. Most Windows users will answer yes to just about any question that stands between them and any malicious program they are trying to run.
This flaw is critical, and Microsoft's response shows how little it still cares about security.
Microsoft IS playing to its strengths. It knows that its customer base is too stupid to switch to something better, and is therefore squeezing said customer base for more control and profit.
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...into Excel so I can analyse the data correctly.
That is a phrase that sends chills down my spine. I have found Excel to be the cause of much bad financial analysis, not the solution. Not that I doubt that your $150M ERP system sucks, as I have found that to usually be the case as well. But I've found Excel's suckage to rival the suckage of the suckiest of sucky, expensive so-called, "Enterprise" software.
I think this is building up to an ADA claim (among others) against Google. And frankly, he deserves to win on all counts.
Mods, I await your flamebait scores....
I was going to mod you up until I got to this point. Since I don't like encouraging poor attempts at moderation manipulation, I'll just refrain from moderating your comment at all.
After Compuserve and before the web, people communicated through USENET and IRC.
Then there was the very real reason why CompuServe was unaffectionately know as Compu$pend: The monthly bills that would be quickly racked up were mind-boggling. Fortunately, there was FidoNet for BBS's. It served as an adequate, almost always free, alternative. It wasn't perfect, but I vastly preferred it over CompuServe.
Frankly, I'm shocked that CompuServe lasted this long.
So how exactly is this legal?
This is where you imagine Donald Trump telling Congress menacingly from under a dark cloak, "I'll make it legal."
This is not, "an intriguing thought experiment" any more today than it was millions of years ago when the first active brain cell asked this very same question. The second active brain cell answered, "what the fuck have you been smoking?!"
Yes, it's a Pyhrric decision, to to sure. But it makes cleaning up the mess later that much less work. My point was that limiting your exposure to those avenues for which you have already surrendered is better than opening up a new one.
This article is a good explanation as to why it's best to avoid Blu-Ray altogether, though. Fortunately, as I said earier, Blu-Ray's improvement over DVD is marginal, at best, anyway.
But for mainstream business developers, I've never seen them able to test as well as QA does.
I've been developing complex software systems for about 30 years now, and I couldn't agree with you more. We developers are the absolutely worst people in the world to QA our own projects, as we develop tunnel vision towards how the software is used; and we develop an unconscious aversion towards doing things that will cause problems for our systems.
I test my code extensively during development, but am still absolutely amazed at how quickly my customers find errors that didn't occur during my testing. My workplace can't afford QA staff, so we developers must perform development and QA work. It works for us solely due to our customer structure, but it would be a nightmare in most other contexts.
The Blu-Ray player needs to connect to the internet for updates to be able to play the latest discs.
That's a good argument for not having a Blu-Ray player, and for using your game console as your player. Frankly, Blu-Ray's hype far exceeds its delivery. Having compared DVD and Blu-Ray side by side, Blu-Ray's improvements are merely marginal at the best of times, and completely insignificant the rest of the time.
I guess they won't make that mistake again.
Yes they will, because the people who are stupid enough to use this for important stuff are stupid enough to make this mistake over and over again.
I've said from the very beginning of the "Store your data on someone else's servers" (euphemistically called, "Cloud Computing") explosion that this is exactly what would happen. Despite all the counter-arguments from people saying that the Cloud is best used as a backup for your locally stored data, it's too much work for most people to duplicate their data locally; and the, "Store your data on someone else's servers" providers know this.
The article is deceptive and clickbait.
Actually, the article is exactly correct and properly representative of what the Blackberry CEO said. Your interpretation applies (to some insignificant extent) only to enterprise customers, who possess the encryption keys. For everyone else, Blackberry possesses the encryption keys. For the former, Blackberry has promised to not oppose a court order if it is properly formatted. For the latter, Blackberry has promised to turn over the decrypted data upon request by any properly formatted court order.
For Blackberry's remaining handful of customers, this should be very disconcerting. For everyone else, this is the nail in the coffin for any consideration they might have for using Blackberry.
As much as I may despise Apple and Microsoft's products and general business practices, I can give them credit for doing everything in their power to defend their users from Government overreach. Sure, it's only because it's in their best business interest, but at least they do it. Blackberry has promised to roll over on their customers without so much as a squeak in protest.
One is the city tries to build the network. The private ISPs will sue and the project will languish for years, if it ever gets off the ground at all.
It can be done, and in a way that short-circuits the entrenched monopolies:
https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
Looking back fondly to KDE 3. How integrated everything seemed.
We're going to have to agree to disagree on this. I started using both GNOME and KDE when they were both at version 1. For usability, I found that KDE absolutely disgraced GNOME. I have never used a version of either desktop that changed that relationship.
As good as KDE 3 was, it had some major deficiencies that would now be considered show-stoppers. When KDE 4's first end-user version (not the development version that so many people mistook for end-user suitability) was released, it was a bit rough around the edges, but it already functioned and performed better than KDE 3 in most ways. A few minor KDE 4 releases later, and KDE 3 became quite painful to use by comparison.
By far, the biggest brain fart inflicted upon KDE 4 users was the inclusion of Dolphin as the default file manager. As much as I tried to use it, it is an absolutely unusable piece of shit compared to Konqueror. But aside from that, KDE 4 has been heads and shoulders better and more pleasant than KDE 3.
Biased much dude?
Relax. The Linux Mint developers are chained to GNOME, which they mention in the article. They have inadequate resources to maintain two major desktops that require diametrically opposed skill sets, so they chose to drop the desktop for which they have inadequate skills and resources to maintain.
It's not a big deal, as there are several desktop distributions that either favor or at least maintain a KDE desktop.
I am glad, though, that I didn't waste time test-driving Mint. My preference to date has been Kubuntu, even though it has a few minor wrinkles. I try using GNOME from time to time, but it is as absolutely terrible for my workflow as KDE is absolutely awesome for it.
A June 2017 survey of 300 IT pros found that 80 percent said the cloud wasn't meeting their expectations due to problems with security, compliance, complexity and cost. According to a January 2017 survey by cloud management firm RightScale, from 30 to 45 percent of enterprise cloud spend is wasted.
No shit, Captain Obvious. The whole, "Giving The Keys to The Kingdom to Someone Else" idea (otherwise known as Cloud Computing) was idiotic from the start. Of course it was, is, and always will be, costly and inefficient. It boggles the mind that otherwise (presumably) smart people would be so stupid as to buy into that particular brand of snake oil.
The only surprising thing in this section is that RightScale stopped at 30 to 45 percent. In my experience, the waste (meaning absolutely no benefit for the dollars spent) is closer to 85 to 90 percent.
You're WAY better off not using any of those voice assistants until:
1) An open standard is ratified and followed.
2) You can easily transfer your data from one to another.
Until then, you are willingly allowing them to squeeze your nuts in a vice while they demand that you plead for more pressure.
The reasonable stance is that if you have important trade secrets on your machines, you should choose your antivirus carefully....
The reasonable stance is that if you have important trade secrets on your machines, you shouldn't store them on anything accessible by Windows.
Or if you want to keep it, then don't complain when your files get reviewed by an invasive dictatorship.
And also don't complain when a non-U.S. country reviews your files.
The intended audience of this seems like a footnote compared to overall users.
Regardless, this should once again be a wakeup call. Even if you can afford to absorb this price increase, you are still a lobster being slowly boiled to death. Some Microsoft nut-job can decide out of the blue tomorrow that you need to pay an additional ten thousand dollars per MHz, and there is nothing you can do about it unless you grow some brain cells and move to something that respects your Freedom.
And don't console yourself with the delusional insanity that would be required for Microsoft to make such a change, because Microsoft has already done insane things many times without any major consequences.
I laugh at the notion of, "this doesn't affect me, so it's not a problem." Some insane actions from Microsoft have and will affect you, even if this one doesn't.
[examples snipped]
All of those are half-assed, at best, and are carefully targeted to not overlap with Windows sales. In fact, they are targeted specifically to tie into required Windows licenses.
Also, it will take a century of full-bore apologizing to even begin to make up for Microsoft's past (and current) behavior.
NEVER trust Microsoft. EVER!
Obamacare was originally a Republican proposal.
Correct. Also, when Mitt Romney was about to leave the Governorship in Massachusetts, one of his final acts was to enact mandated universal healthcare that is shockingly similar to the (un)Affordable Health Care Act. It was applauded by Republicans, and panned by Democrats. Unfortunately, it was just as bad an idea then as the (un)Affordable Health Care Act is now.
This seesawing by Democrats and Republicans, based solely on who promotes any given idea, had gotten tiresome to me 30 years ago. Now, it's just so intolerable that I always vote third party for state and national positions (I don't even care about their qualifications). Locally, I vote for the person who does the best job -- regardless of party affiliation.
All I want is an Open, reasonably priced phone with reasonable specs on which I can install Plasma Active/Linux. That would take care of every other need I have.
Windows will alert you if you try to open a dangerous file type off of a SMB share. So the user would have to bypass this dialog.
That made me laugh. Most Windows users will answer yes to just about any question that stands between them and any malicious program they are trying to run.
This flaw is critical, and Microsoft's response shows how little it still cares about security.
If you're not a raving moron, that place is in the trashcan of history (assuming it's not your own cloud or service).
Microsoft IS playing to its strengths. It knows that its customer base is too stupid to switch to something better, and is therefore squeezing said customer base for more control and profit.