Android needs some sort of remote wipe software to make it even remotely feasible for most businesses. For example, the government requires remote wipe, and some sort of encryption. Until Android has a solution for these two, the VPN-less capability is moot.
A Spitfire Mk1 cost £12604 in 1939 according to Wikipedia. To translate that to dollars, the GBP bought 3.99 USD back in 1939 so it would have cost $50,289.96 in 1939 USDs... using an inflation calculator $50,289.96 in 1939 dollars translates to $818,496.23 in 2011 USDs. The F22 costs 150 million per unit so you could have purchased 183 1/4 Spit Mk1's for the cost of 1 F22 - 183 is just under 1% of the entire production run of Spitfires made during the war.
Doing a quick Google Search, a Spitfire Squadron around Battle Of Britian consisted of 20 aircraft and 2 reserves so you could effectively get just over 8.25 squadrons of Spitfire Mk1's using adjusting for inflation for the cost of one single F22.
(Dammit, an AC also did the homework too... learn to use an inflation calc AC!)
Have Oracle buy Facebook, and call OraBook... or Oracle, since Larry's still in charge. Pair those two up, and then we can have a company that EVERYONE hates.
As a medium sized customer with ~100 Sprint/Nextel lines, I am NOT happy with this idea at all. I'd rather they keep that shit fruit phone OFF the Sprint network - Sprint isn't exactly rolling in dough, but the 3G speeds and 4G speeds are pretty impressive, for what you're paying for. We have a handful of more expensive with less contractual value from AT&T (because the CxO's who travel needed true International usage, which Sprint doesn't do very well... and demanded FruitBars) I'd rather not see my 4G speed ramp down what we had under 1xRTT because all the fanbois had to have the newest new phone and mobbed the Sprint stores. Customer Service has gotten far better since since 2005 (because robocall you later and if you give the CSR great grades, they they spiff them) and I can't see that getting better if they double their size by Friday.
That means when you carry it around every day, it won't fall apart as fast. It WILL fall apart eventually - that's always been my experience with laptops in general - but the Latitude will reliably outlast the consumer class Vostro by a great amount.
Yes, but with the savings from the Vostro you can buy a new mid-range laptop when the current one breaks for the same per-time costs rather than being stuck with a well-built but dated machine for long enough to justify it's increased purchase price. Given how fast computer hardware accelerates, it makes more sense to replace often rather than sinking lots of money into a fast-depreciating asset. In 2 years, a $1000 laptop will be outspecced by entry level models at $500, so buying one of those twice as often (actually the current-dollars cost of a $500 laptop in 2 years is $470) makes tons more sense in a dollar/performance sense than buying the $1k model and holding on to it for 4 years.
Of course, for the average consumer breakage means a trip to newegg or amazon and a few days waiting for a new device while a suit on a business trip to kerbleckistan has different needs.
You failed business economics.
When you're on a 36-48 month depreciation schedule, the idea is they last that long. When you're a 15 year old kid, you need the $499.00 BoxPusher 100 - that you will replace in 18-24 months with another throwaway piece of shit.
Dell's Consumer brand line - including the Vostro - has all their support outsourced. The Lattitude, Optiplex, Precision, and PowerEdge support queues are based in Tampa, FL (if I recall)
Call me shallow, but I get really tired of trying to listen to what you and I know isn't your first language trying to walk through a problem that I already know is well over your head but I need to placate you for 20 minutes before you will transfer me to someone who may or may not know a little (or lot) more then you do.... and maybe might be in my lingustic zip code as an added bonus.
We looked at switching to HP business class hardware (so glad that didn't happen) but I was incensed to find out that their CAD/BIM class machines had outsourced support, and their business class laptops were 'currently' sourced in India however HP was setting up a US based call center. For a 5K workstation - good riddance HP.
Larry Ellison wants to be able to afford every organ transplant known to man... so that way, Jobs will run out of parts and croak off. He's living embodiment a 19th century robber baron....
If I were one of Jobsie's little crack-whores, why on Earth would last year's phone if Apple's set to release the iPhone 5 in 5-7 months? Just because they now finally figured out how to make a white shell....might as well save that for the next one Stevie, you missed it with this generation of phones....or maybe the white one doesn't need to be held this way.....or maybe it comes with a HumanCentiPad2....
The best scene was where Cleary (Lowe's character) holes up in a companion's cave in the middle of nowhere and this guy spouts off he has BONDED ISDN to his cave...which is in the middle of nowhere.
13 years later we still can't get broadband to rural nowhere, but the phone company really pulled copper to your cave?
I would have figured Swinburne (the tech oriented uni in Hawthorne, at least when I was attending in the late 90s) would have picked up on this....but Melbourne University did have a baseball team (rather important for a Yank who needed something familar to do...)
Oh wait, we're talking about Apple products... never mind...
We're between two big State Agency buildings and have some high density residential around us on surrounding blocks. One thing I notice is that the plans are sort of a mix between business of residential use.
Comcast says 100Mb - 1Gps - this field should obviously be labeled "100Mb or greater" - Comcast actually does offer business class DOCSIS 3.0 plans - but only the 50/10 plan for residential according to its website address drilldown. Moving over to their business class site address drilldown - NO cable whatsoever is available - even as I look at my Comcast/SMC gateway happily blinking away providing us a 12/2 link for our guest wireless and another building tenant has the same plan. WTG Comcast....Either way, we can't do better then 50, So 100Mb - 1Gb is wrong....but typical oversale/underprovide for Comcast.
DigitalPath - they claim 6-10 on fixed wireless but a network engineer friend who lives within 3 miles of my office had them for about a week - they couldn't provide any sort of stable service so he pitched them. Nothing larger then 2 story houses in his area, and we're surrounded by far larger buildings on 3 sides so I doubt their tower could even find us.
AT&T - 1.5 - 3 ADSL. This is verified acurate.
T-Mo supposedly brings 1.5 - 3Mb. Wouldn't touch these fools.
Sprint/Clear - they claim 768K - 1.5Mb which is actually wrong. Their 4G tower is 7 or 8 blocks away and my Evo pulls 4G service from it - it's certainly faster then this.
finally, Volcano Internet - I have no idea why they're showing up here, last time I checked, they were a tiny ILEC with a small footprint in the foothills...far away from my office. Maybe someone bought them, like VZ bought Roseville Telephone and Frontier Communications. Says they can bring terrestrial wireless here - I doubt that's the case, since I do know what WISPs are nearby (Zeta Broadband, last time I checked) that would have LOS on us.
The bottom line is this map thing doesn't mention any sort of REAL internet - our primary backbone is an AT&T 20Mb Ethernet handoff...
"....we'll forgive the older software because Kyocera had to do extensive customization to add dual-screen support to seven core apps like the browser, email, and messaging. The seven optimized apps can be run on each screen individually so you can have the browser up top and email below, and several of them include useful full-dual-screen views as well. There's also a new dual-screen app manager, which is brought up by tapping the two screens simultaneously. Unfortunately, third party apps can't be run in any of the new modes and just fill the entire display for now -- Kyocera and Sprint say an SDK is coming shortly".
Just what I DON'T want in my next Android smartphone: a Gimmicky dual screen that required a ton of customization to the Base OS guaranteeing that it will never see another carrier-supported OS upgrade during it's lifespan.
Hey Sprint, here's an idea to take back to the folks at HTC......
Make the EVO 2.0 the love-child of a stock EVO, the EVO Shift (with a decent keyboard, not that POS they stuck on the Epic 4G) and toss in a dual core processor. I was really looking forward to the Shift only to find out it was a very nuetered unit. Don't me wrong, I love my EVO, I have just decided virtual keyboards aren't for me.
You need a decently powered PC to push DICE software, ergo your average PC gamer is probably NOT living in his Mom's basement and has a real job to afford nice toys such as said PC and is probably not the typical 14 year old idiot you hear screaming obsenities at you over $ConsolePlatformOfYourChoice....
So 14 year old ADD kid or older person with disposable income - who do you think would get done first?
As a Network Manager with a 25K/year Open Value agreement with Redmond, I was rather disheartened to see what's changed in two versions since we skipped Vista and Office 2007 and went from XP/Office 2003 to W7/Office 2010. In that time Microsoft decided to go from easy to use Volume License Keys for Office (the ones that you inserted the magic 25 digits, auth it once, and never got bothered again) to this lovely piece of crap called Key Management System or KMS. KMS will ONLY run on Server 2003 or 2008R2, NOT standard 2008 - Microsoft came up with some bullshit excuse as to why it doesn't run on Standard 2008, so I'm sort of between a rock and a hard spot. All of our 2003 boxes are getting forklifted out and replaced with 2008R2 VMs sometime in the next 4-6 months and we have a grand total of ONE 2008R2 server in place now, so I didn't have much choice to install KMS on. NOW IF THE PIECE OF SHIT WOULD ONLY FUNCTION. I've gone round and round with trying to get it to activate our first 5 machines and it doesn't feel like it. I even bothered to call their licensing group for some assistance to try to figure out why our clients won't see the KMS server and in broken English I was told to reinstall Office. No Jack, that's not the problem. the online KB's speak of KMS is basically an install-and-go whereas Microsoft's KB's have you pulling up DOS Prompts to do all sorts of things to get it to do something....I only have a certain amount of MAK (basically VLK keys that phone home and actually keep count for you) before I need to call Licensing again and beg and plead for them to reauth my Office MAK key footprint....Few passes of images for trickling down our machines and we're out of MAK keys... Their VAMT tool isn't helpful either, other then telling me it can't talk to the KMS server.
Really, THIS IS PROGRESS? What happened to Trust, Steve?.....What was an afterthought before (install Office, patch, image, move on) has now turned into a nightmare of getting this authentication bullshit contraption to work and having to rearm my Office installations so they don't time out, is about the biggest headache I have to deal with. I've ALWAYS kept within my license footprint for years and you spring this hokey kludge on us? It's no wonder if organizations can leave the Office platform behind, they can and will (our vertical market software basically requires Windows and Office, so *NIX and XXXXoffice are out of the question)
My organization does not pirate ANY software....Yet Microsoft immediately assumes we do with this nonsense. And increases my workload on top of everything else....
When they kill off KMS and go back to Volume License keys like they had in 2003, let me know...EPIC FUCKING FAIL.
You're right - please stop making single player games.
Sincerely,
Bethesda Softworks / Obsidian Entertainment (you know, the people who brought you Fallout 3 which sold 4.7m copies in the first two weeks of release in 2008 and Fallout: New Vegas - which just happened to sell 5m copies in the 1st three weeks since release in 2010)
We have a large footprint of OfficeScan/ServerProtect/ScanMail and we renewed 6 weeks early in 2008 and suddenly we got shortchanged, that time. Now, I don't even schedule the order renewal until the week before it's due.
We have a large footprint of OfficeScan/ServerProtect/ScanMail and we renewed 6 weeks early in 2008 and suddenly we got shortchanged, that time. Now, I don't even schedule the order renewal until the week before it's due.
Someone please explain how this works. Is this some bizarre artifact of the signaling protocol, such that the only way to overcome a design flaw is to use some incomprehensible technique treating physical wires as virtual wires? How can that possibly be better than just natively signaling faster on the wires?
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Android needs some sort of remote wipe software to make it even remotely feasible for most businesses. For example, the government requires remote wipe, and some sort of encryption. Until Android has a solution for these two, the VPN-less capability is moot.
Like this?
Our userbase license cost us like $500.00 and some piddly amount for the support renewal ...
And hey look, they have an Education Edition too. http://www.ilient.com/education-edition.htm
And the best part? You don't have to do the bugfixes. Why you wanted to reinvent the wheel.....
I did the homework for you....
A Spitfire Mk1 cost £12604 in 1939 according to Wikipedia. To translate that to dollars, the GBP bought 3.99 USD back in 1939 so it would have cost $50,289.96 in 1939 USDs ... using an inflation calculator $50,289.96 in 1939 dollars translates to $818,496.23 in 2011 USDs. The F22 costs 150 million per unit so you could have purchased 183 1/4 Spit Mk1's for the cost of 1 F22 - 183 is just under 1% of the entire production run of Spitfires made during the war.
Doing a quick Google Search, a Spitfire Squadron around Battle Of Britian consisted of 20 aircraft and 2 reserves so you could effectively get just over 8.25 squadrons of Spitfire Mk1's using adjusting for inflation for the cost of one single F22.
(Dammit, an AC also did the homework too ... learn to use an inflation calc AC!)
Have Oracle buy Facebook, and call OraBook ... or Oracle, since Larry's still in charge. Pair those two up, and then we can have a company that EVERYONE hates.
Glad they do such great QA work, since like nobody uses FireFox.....
Sprint's is supposedly replacing their tower side gear to run EVERYTHING ...
http://newsroom.sprint.com/press_kits.cfm?presskit_id=19
As a medium sized customer with ~100 Sprint/Nextel lines, I am NOT happy with this idea at all. I'd rather they keep that shit fruit phone OFF the Sprint network - Sprint isn't exactly rolling in dough, but the 3G speeds and 4G speeds are pretty impressive, for what you're paying for. We have a handful of more expensive with less contractual value from AT&T (because the CxO's who travel needed true International usage, which Sprint doesn't do very well ... and demanded FruitBars) I'd rather not see my 4G speed ramp down what we had under 1xRTT because all the fanbois had to have the newest new phone and mobbed the Sprint stores. Customer Service has gotten far better since since 2005 (because robocall you later and if you give the CSR great grades, they they spiff them) and I can't see that getting better if they double their size by Friday.
Stay over there Apple...
That means when you carry it around every day, it won't fall apart as fast. It WILL fall apart eventually - that's always been my experience with laptops in general - but the Latitude will reliably outlast the consumer class Vostro by a great amount.
Yes, but with the savings from the Vostro you can buy a new mid-range laptop when the current one breaks for the same per-time costs rather than being stuck with a well-built but dated machine for long enough to justify it's increased purchase price. Given how fast computer hardware accelerates, it makes more sense to replace often rather than sinking lots of money into a fast-depreciating asset. In 2 years, a $1000 laptop will be outspecced by entry level models at $500, so buying one of those twice as often (actually the current-dollars cost of a $500 laptop in 2 years is $470) makes tons more sense in a dollar/performance sense than buying the $1k model and holding on to it for 4 years.
Of course, for the average consumer breakage means a trip to newegg or amazon and a few days waiting for a new device while a suit on a business trip to kerbleckistan has different needs.
You failed business economics.
When you're on a 36-48 month depreciation schedule, the idea is they last that long. When you're a 15 year old kid, you need the $499.00 BoxPusher 100 - that you will replace in 18-24 months with another throwaway piece of shit.
What you failed to mention is this:
Dell's Consumer brand line - including the Vostro - has all their support outsourced. The Lattitude, Optiplex, Precision, and PowerEdge support queues are based in Tampa, FL (if I recall)
Call me shallow, but I get really tired of trying to listen to what you and I know isn't your first language trying to walk through a problem that I already know is well over your head but I need to placate you for 20 minutes before you will transfer me to someone who may or may not know a little (or lot) more then you do.... and maybe might be in my lingustic zip code as an added bonus.
We looked at switching to HP business class hardware (so glad that didn't happen) but I was incensed to find out that their CAD/BIM class machines had outsourced support, and their business class laptops were 'currently' sourced in India however HP was setting up a US based call center. For a 5K workstation - good riddance HP.
Larry Ellison wants to be able to afford every organ transplant known to man ... so that way, Jobs will run out of parts and croak off. He's living embodiment a 19th century robber baron....
Botnet rental is still an expense....
CCP is moving to become Zynga? Are they going to rename the game to EVEville or EVEwars too?
as if the other creepies weren't enough....
it has an small "i" in front ... therefore it's Appleesque ... called their buddies at the DOJ and ICE ... coulda had it for free.....
If I were one of Jobsie's little crack-whores, why on Earth would last year's phone if Apple's set to release the iPhone 5 in 5-7 months? Just because they now finally figured out how to make a white shell....might as well save that for the next one Stevie, you missed it with this generation of phones....or maybe the white one doesn't need to be held this way.....or maybe it comes with a HumanCentiPad2....
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119318/
The best scene was where Cleary (Lowe's character) holes up in a companion's cave in the middle of nowhere and this guy spouts off he has BONDED ISDN to his cave...which is in the middle of nowhere.
13 years later we still can't get broadband to rural nowhere, but the phone company really pulled copper to your cave?
I would have figured Swinburne (the tech oriented uni in Hawthorne, at least when I was attending in the late 90s) would have picked up on this....but Melbourne University did have a baseball team (rather important for a Yank who needed something familar to do...)
Oh wait, we're talking about Apple products ... never mind...
We're between two big State Agency buildings and have some high density residential around us on surrounding blocks. One thing I notice is that the plans are sort of a mix between business of residential use.
Comcast says 100Mb - 1Gps - this field should obviously be labeled "100Mb or greater" - Comcast actually does offer business class DOCSIS 3.0 plans - but only the 50/10 plan for residential according to its website address drilldown. Moving over to their business class site address drilldown - NO cable whatsoever is available - even as I look at my Comcast/SMC gateway happily blinking away providing us a 12/2 link for our guest wireless and another building tenant has the same plan. WTG Comcast....Either way, we can't do better then 50, So 100Mb - 1Gb is wrong....but typical oversale/underprovide for Comcast.
DigitalPath - they claim 6-10 on fixed wireless but a network engineer friend who lives within 3 miles of my office had them for about a week - they couldn't provide any sort of stable service so he pitched them. Nothing larger then 2 story houses in his area, and we're surrounded by far larger buildings on 3 sides so I doubt their tower could even find us.
AT&T - 1.5 - 3 ADSL. This is verified acurate.
T-Mo supposedly brings 1.5 - 3Mb. Wouldn't touch these fools.
Sprint/Clear - they claim 768K - 1.5Mb which is actually wrong. Their 4G tower is 7 or 8 blocks away and my Evo pulls 4G service from it - it's certainly faster then this.
finally, Volcano Internet - I have no idea why they're showing up here, last time I checked, they were a tiny ILEC with a small footprint in the foothills...far away from my office. Maybe someone bought them, like VZ bought Roseville Telephone and Frontier Communications. Says they can bring terrestrial wireless here - I doubt that's the case, since I do know what WISPs are nearby (Zeta Broadband, last time I checked) that would have LOS on us.
The bottom line is this map thing doesn't mention any sort of REAL internet - our primary backbone is an AT&T 20Mb Ethernet handoff...
From the article:
"....we'll forgive the older software because Kyocera had to do extensive customization to add dual-screen support to seven core apps like the browser, email, and messaging. The seven optimized apps can be run on each screen individually so you can have the browser up top and email below, and several of them include useful full-dual-screen views as well. There's also a new dual-screen app manager, which is brought up by tapping the two screens simultaneously. Unfortunately, third party apps can't be run in any of the new modes and just fill the entire display for now -- Kyocera and Sprint say an SDK is coming shortly".
Just what I DON'T want in my next Android smartphone: a Gimmicky dual screen that required a ton of customization to the Base OS guaranteeing that it will never see another carrier-supported OS upgrade during it's lifespan.
Hey Sprint, here's an idea to take back to the folks at HTC......
Make the EVO 2.0 the love-child of a stock EVO, the EVO Shift (with a decent keyboard, not that POS they stuck on the Epic 4G) and toss in a dual core processor. I was really looking forward to the Shift only to find out it was a very nuetered unit. Don't me wrong, I love my EVO, I have just decided virtual keyboards aren't for me.
Hmmmm....Maybe Schmidt sees the handwriting on the wall, like he did with the last employer he left....
You need a decently powered PC to push DICE software, ergo your average PC gamer is probably NOT living in his Mom's basement and has a real job to afford nice toys such as said PC and is probably not the typical 14 year old idiot you hear screaming obsenities at you over $ConsolePlatformOfYourChoice....
So 14 year old ADD kid or older person with disposable income - who do you think would get done first?
As a Network Manager with a 25K/year Open Value agreement with Redmond, I was rather disheartened to see what's changed in two versions since we skipped Vista and Office 2007 and went from XP/Office 2003 to W7/Office 2010. In that time Microsoft decided to go from easy to use Volume License Keys for Office (the ones that you inserted the magic 25 digits, auth it once, and never got bothered again) to this lovely piece of crap called Key Management System or KMS. KMS will ONLY run on Server 2003 or 2008R2, NOT standard 2008 - Microsoft came up with some bullshit excuse as to why it doesn't run on Standard 2008, so I'm sort of between a rock and a hard spot. All of our 2003 boxes are getting forklifted out and replaced with 2008R2 VMs sometime in the next 4-6 months and we have a grand total of ONE 2008R2 server in place now, so I didn't have much choice to install KMS on. NOW IF THE PIECE OF SHIT WOULD ONLY FUNCTION. I've gone round and round with trying to get it to activate our first 5 machines and it doesn't feel like it. I even bothered to call their licensing group for some assistance to try to figure out why our clients won't see the KMS server and in broken English I was told to reinstall Office. No Jack, that's not the problem. the online KB's speak of KMS is basically an install-and-go whereas Microsoft's KB's have you pulling up DOS Prompts to do all sorts of things to get it to do something....I only have a certain amount of MAK (basically VLK keys that phone home and actually keep count for you) before I need to call Licensing again and beg and plead for them to reauth my Office MAK key footprint....Few passes of images for trickling down our machines and we're out of MAK keys... Their VAMT tool isn't helpful either, other then telling me it can't talk to the KMS server.
Really, THIS IS PROGRESS? What happened to Trust, Steve? .....What was an afterthought before (install Office, patch, image, move on) has now turned into a nightmare of getting this authentication bullshit contraption to work and having to rearm my Office installations so they don't time out, is about the biggest headache I have to deal with. I've ALWAYS kept within my license footprint for years and you spring this hokey kludge on us? It's no wonder if organizations can leave the Office platform behind, they can and will (our vertical market software basically requires Windows and Office, so *NIX and XXXXoffice are out of the question)
My organization does not pirate ANY software....Yet Microsoft immediately assumes we do with this nonsense. And increases my workload on top of everything else....
When they kill off KMS and go back to Volume License keys like they had in 2003, let me know...EPIC FUCKING FAIL.
You're right - please stop making single player games.
Sincerely,
Bethesda Softworks / Obsidian Entertainment
(you know, the people who brought you Fallout 3 which sold 4.7m copies in the first two weeks of release in 2008 and Fallout: New Vegas - which just happened to sell 5m copies in the 1st three weeks since release in 2010)
We have a large footprint of OfficeScan/ServerProtect/ScanMail and we renewed 6 weeks early in 2008 and suddenly we got shortchanged, that time. Now, I don't even schedule the order renewal until the week before it's due. We have a large footprint of OfficeScan/ServerProtect/ScanMail and we renewed 6 weeks early in 2008 and suddenly we got shortchanged, that time. Now, I don't even schedule the order renewal until the week before it's due.
Someone please explain how this works. Is this some bizarre artifact of the signaling protocol, such that the only way to overcome a design flaw is to use some incomprehensible technique treating physical wires as virtual wires? How can that possibly be better than just natively signaling faster on the wires?
Think of it as HyperThreading for the Tubez....