I wished I had a 200db Air Horn handy for those times I'd bother to try to get a live body on the phone when this schmuck calls - one of those "My job sucks and this guy tried to deafen me - might want to consider a new job"
RIM (or Blackberry as they're known by now) rested on its laurels for far too long and let Android and iOS take over. I'm surprised they haven't just put the company up for sale and crossed their fingers someone would foolishly put in an offer.
Are you doing network images for the BDS install? My Precisions can usually get through the install from a network image in about an hour. The USB media is dog slow for some reason. I tried building a network image off the USB stick - it was faster for me to copy the BDS installer off the stick to local disk and build a base image than it was to run the image builder from the stick.
We tried that too, AC - Installing from our 1Gb backbone network was bad - and copying the image locally seemed to take anywhere from 30-45 minutes plus the painful install time.
Still fighting with that install I started, what, 6 hours ago. It's made it through Showcase, almost.
I wonder if we do business;)
Another gripe - must remember to strip off all your ANY runtimes if you need to install an older version, for the older versions (say if you have a project that requires say 2012) nothing like getting almost to the end and it starts its rollback and peering through the installer logs to find out that you have VC 2010 SP1 installed and it won't even talk to it - it wants unpatched VC 2010 to install... or it fails.
I work for a Medium sized GC and we have the pleasure of using their Building Information Modeling (BIM) suite.
13K PER SEAT for the product (BDS Ultimate) Crappy compatibility with previous versions (which are released yearly) - Everyone on the design and build teams basically all need to be on the same version. Does not like running Side By Side older versions so it's not like you can plant them all together. Holy Megabloat - Last year's installers came on Autodesk-monogramed 32GB USB3 sticks... and the installer damn near filled UP the stick. This year, they decided that all of us Subscription having clients wanted to download 32GB - all to save the cost of sending media, even if we've historically requested media (That's what I pay for your cheap @#(*^(@&*^) Frustrating at times - today I'm trying to install the 2014 version on a $6,000 Precision Workstation spec'd for Revit - I started at 10AM, it's still installing - very slowly, but moving along. Same on our M6700 workstations.
Not the least bit surprised that Autodesk software gets pirated... they gouge the legitimate license holders outrageous fees for this stuff....I can't imaging how Ma & Pa Construction Company could afford this.
Says it has a $500 MSRP and 400.00 on the street...I guess that doesn't include the street the link has to Amazon which is pushing them for ~ $770.00 USD with shipping.
I paid nearly $1100.00 for my 1st one in July 2010... figured two more won't hurt. Now I just need a pair of Nvidia's nuclear reactors to push the trio.
Wasn't this the same guy that killed single-player only games from EA?
Not quite - it was EA Labels president Frank Gibeau
"I have not green lit one game to be developed as a single-player experience," Gibeau said. "Today, all of our games include online applications and digital services that make them live 24/7/365."
Leonard Coleman -- from Heinz and baseball team owner (probably helps on sports licensing)
From his Wikipedia page.... Leonard S. Coleman, Jr. was the last, non-honorary president of the National League. He held the office until 1999 when it was eliminated by Major League Baseball.
He held a worthless title that was eliminated over 10 years ago.
Hopefully the laptop they provided you isn't some undockable consumer version unit but a business class unit that can be - Dell's laptop docks for their business class laptops can support two monitors, and I would assume HP's can to. Get a real keyboard, mouse, dock, use the 27 as the primary, and if you feel like it, get another monitor as a secondary.
I really hope they find some way to stick this guy with a lengthy sentence and find some nice PMITA prison for him - so he can be the victim... hopefully repeatedly.
Our company is moving from Sprint to AT&T and we looked at both flagship Android phones (the One X and the S3)... it was pretty simple - Samsung makes a better phone for our needs:
The whole non-user-replaceable battery deal (a first for HTC in this gen of phones) is beyond Apple-lame...why clone that feature? For the amount of use we put into our units, batteries need to be replaced...I already have an extended run battery in mine...
Lack of SD card. Portable is better, but I've heard AT&T was the driver on the lack of SD card slot the One X (since the Sprint variant does have one)... but they let/wanted the Galaxy to have it?
Dell, in its "infinite wisdom", have been providing both of these restore options for years now on a separate recovery partition.
This is why you DO NOT buy their Consumer Grade stuff - you ONLY have the option of recovery partitions - their business class hardware you have the $3.00 option (that's all it is) for each of the 3 CD's - Windows, Drivers, and their OEM'd apps like Roxio and PowerDVD.
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If a birdstrike can take down an Airbus A320 I'd be afraid to think what a medium sized drone can do.
Hey Beau,
Might want to fix your link - You're linking
https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
When you should be linking
https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
I wished I had a 200db Air Horn handy for those times I'd bother to try to get a live body on the phone when this schmuck calls - one of those "My job sucks and this guy tried to deafen me - might want to consider a new job"
Wonder what that final number would have been had they released it across all carriers and not just Verizon....
I'll start digging.
(and showing myself out)
The $146 million in fines from 2008 for fraud wouldn't dissuade them from sacking US IT workers, would it? http://tdworld.com/business/ca...
Guess not.
RIM (or Blackberry as they're known by now) rested on its laurels for far too long and let Android and iOS take over. I'm surprised they haven't just put the company up for sale and crossed their fingers someone would foolishly put in an offer.
Are you doing network images for the BDS install? My Precisions can usually get through the install from a network image in about an hour. The USB media is dog slow for some reason. I tried building a network image off the USB stick - it was faster for me to copy the BDS installer off the stick to local disk and build a base image than it was to run the image builder from the stick.
We tried that too, AC - Installing from our 1Gb backbone network was bad - and copying the image locally seemed to take anywhere from 30-45 minutes plus the painful install time.
Still fighting with that install I started, what, 6 hours ago. It's made it through Showcase, almost.
I wonder if we do business ;)
Another gripe - must remember to strip off all your ANY runtimes if you need to install an older version, for the older versions (say if you have a project that requires say 2012) nothing like getting almost to the end and it starts its rollback and peering through the installer logs to find out that you have VC 2010 SP1 installed and it won't even talk to it - it wants unpatched VC 2010 to install ... or it fails.
THIS IS WHERE YOU FAIL, BASS!
I work for a Medium sized GC and we have the pleasure of using their Building Information Modeling (BIM) suite.
13K PER SEAT for the product (BDS Ultimate) ... and the installer damn near filled UP the stick. This year, they decided that all of us Subscription having clients wanted to download 32GB - all to save the cost of sending media, even if we've historically requested media (That's what I pay for your cheap @#(*^(@&*^)
Crappy compatibility with previous versions (which are released yearly) - Everyone on the design and build teams basically all need to be on the same version.
Does not like running Side By Side older versions so it's not like you can plant them all together.
Holy Megabloat - Last year's installers came on Autodesk-monogramed 32GB USB3 sticks
Frustrating at times - today I'm trying to install the 2014 version on a $6,000 Precision Workstation spec'd for Revit - I started at 10AM, it's still installing - very slowly, but moving along. Same on our M6700 workstations.
Not the least bit surprised that Autodesk software gets pirated ... they gouge the legitimate license holders outrageous fees for this stuff....I can't imaging how Ma & Pa Construction Company could afford this.
the kernel might be open source but there is lots of non-open software on every android phone that can send data to NSA. carrier IQ for instance
You don't think iPhones had CarrierIQ on them? Look it up - Apple was just as guilty.
Says it has a $500 MSRP and 400.00 on the street...I guess that doesn't include the street the link has to Amazon which is pushing them for ~ $770.00 USD with shipping.
Better deal? Try this
http://www.logicbuy.com/deals/dell-ultrasharp-u2711-27-inch-lcd-monitor/18859.aspx
Dell U27711 Monitor With 3 yr Advanced Exchange warranty for $549.00 USD with free shipping.
I paid nearly $1100.00 for my 1st one in July 2010 ... figured two more won't hurt. Now I just need a pair of Nvidia's nuclear reactors to push the trio.
Still waiting for one/two....to play games on....
Basically "stop doing stupid things with your computer".
Why a firm needed Malware Bytes on it's servers in the first place is the real question here.
I was wondering this exact same thing. IT Manager Fail.
Wasn't this the same guy that killed single-player only games from EA?
Not quite - it was EA Labels president Frank Gibeau
"I have not green lit one game to be developed as a single-player experience," Gibeau said. "Today, all of our games include online applications and digital services that make them live 24/7/365."
http://www.gamespot.com/news/no-single-player-only-games-ea-labels-boss-6394663
Leonard Coleman -- from Heinz and baseball team owner (probably helps on sports licensing)
From his Wikipedia page....
Leonard S. Coleman, Jr. was the last, non-honorary president of the National League. He held the office until 1999 when it was eliminated by Major League Baseball.
He held a worthless title that was eliminated over 10 years ago.
Hopefully the laptop they provided you isn't some undockable consumer version unit but a business class unit that can be - Dell's laptop docks for their business class laptops can support two monitors, and I would assume HP's can to. Get a real keyboard, mouse, dock, use the 27 as the primary, and if you feel like it, get another monitor as a secondary.
I really hope they find some way to stick this guy with a lengthy sentence and find some nice PMITA prison for him - so he can be the victim ... hopefully repeatedly.
As an American, I find this comment disgusting .. besides, it's um...Liberia's fault.....or Burma.
Both companies' equipment is made in China. Cisco just sells their stuff.
Uhm my ASA 5505 says Made In Mexcio.
Our company is moving from Sprint to AT&T and we looked at both flagship Android phones (the One X and the S3) ... it was pretty simple - Samsung makes a better phone for our needs:
The whole non-user-replaceable battery deal (a first for HTC in this gen of phones) is beyond Apple-lame...why clone that feature? For the amount of use we put into our units, batteries need to be replaced...I already have an extended run battery in mine...
Lack of SD card. Portable is better, but I've heard AT&T was the driver on the lack of SD card slot the One X (since the Sprint variant does have one) ... but they let/wanted the Galaxy to have it?
lists like http://www.okean.com/chinacidr.txt are nice and hand to feed into your edge router.
Since Valve *is* stealing their business model....
The more I wish Gates would have pissed on Jobs back in 1997........
Mars? 300ms latency is getting into satellite territory.
Dell, in its "infinite wisdom", have been providing both of these restore options for years now on a separate recovery partition.
This is why you DO NOT buy their Consumer Grade stuff - you ONLY have the option of recovery partitions - their business class hardware you have the $3.00 option (that's all it is) for each of the 3 CD's - Windows, Drivers, and their OEM'd apps like Roxio and PowerDVD.