It seems that people have been making very similar arguments to this about all aspects of computing for decades. Until recently it was always with the amount of memory or CPU speed.
Basically it's summarised as "Why should we make X run Y faster when we can just optimise Y?"
It's just a ridiculous argument. Obviously you should always try and optimise the software, but why shouldn't everything else run faster as well?
I have never experienced repair service as bad as Apple.
I have Applecare, which I think is incredibly expensive, but it's lucky I do because the GPU on my laptop has broken for the second time in 2 years. Being the GPU that's broken it's pretty obvious what is wrong so I figure I'll just take it into the Apple store and drop it off. Oh No! It doesn't work that way. You have to book in with one of their "Genius" technicians to have a look at it. Unfortunately they are all booked out for the next 3 days with people who can't work out how to use their mouse. So that's the first delay to getting anything repaired by them.
So finally my laptop is taken to be fixed and they tell me, "Yes there is a problem, we have to replace the motherboard". Which is fair enough. That was over 3 weeks ago now and I still have no word on when it will be done. They quoted me 30 days to fix it. 30 DAYS!!
That is NOT acceptable. During this time I am unable to do any work at all. The equivalent Dell warranty is cheaper, and their service is light years ahead of Apple. That is something that should be causing Apple massive amounts of shame, and yet in the 12 months between services absolutely nothing has been changed.
That seems to be what the guy has done. The lawyer asked for proof that his client was ABLE to travel across two states and kill four people in the time that prosecutors had alleged. Not whether he actually did do it.
Dustin Kolodziej was able to make the journey in that time, and therefore provided evidence that Nelson Ivan Serrano also was able to make that journey.
And how many people can really be bothered to do that? Sure you might. But 99% of people certainly wouldn't.
At the very least the online solutions are an easy offsite backup without having to worry about which disk you have to remember to take to work with you.
I use Mozy. It's cheap and easy. They are also owned by EMC so I'm not too worried about them going under. I only use a laptop so I don't have to worry about having a usb disk permanently dangling from it, or having to remember to plug it in periodically. I get unlimited storage so no worrying about storage allotment. My broadband connection is fast enough that it will backup any large changes overnight at the longest.
It also gives you the added advantage of being off-site, which all reliable backup systems should have as a component. So no worrying about house fires etc. This brings us to the interesting use case they are currently milking where a guy who was on the Hudson river crash used Mozy and his data was perfectly safe, whereas another guy lost both his laptop and USB backup to the bottom of the river. (http://blogs.usatoday.com/technologylive/2009/03/when-your-lapto.html)
This *is* a one time pad. This is Quantum Key Distribution. The quantum part ensures your key has not been intercepted. Once the key is recieved by the other party the actual message is encrypted by using one time pad.
So the advantages of this over a courier is it's a hell of a lot faster and you guarantee the courier hasn't been mugged and had the pad copied.
I can't say I agree with the argument that Mules may not be alive because they cannot reproduce.
I may be sterile as well, I've never had children so I don't know. Does that mean I may not be alive? Of course not. I am made of cells, those cells are able to reproduce. I am a collection of living entities that happens to work in a symbiotic relationship to create a larger more complicated living entity. It's the same with a Mule.
Fire is a different argument. When I was at school I was taught that one the definition of life included 'Was made of cells' which immediately excluded viruses and fire. That has probably changed now though.
That's competition. If I ran a business I will not hire inferior employees just because they are the same nationality as me. I will hire the ones who will do the best work for my company. If the country I live in is not providing the best skilled workforce then tough shit. It is in my company's best interest to always hire the best no matter where they come from.
I would estimate half the employees in the company I currently work for are foreigners, including myself. It wasn't planned that way. No one was deliberately shipped in from overseas to work there, they just happened to be the best candidates.
You completely misunderstand me. As I said in another reply I am not talking about the cheap labour that has been out-sourced to india. This article seems to be about the people who are working in the US on a visa. In otherwords they are no cheaper than native US workers.
These people are being hired solely on their skill not on how much cheaper they are. That is where the competition is. So why should a company be forced to fire the more skilled labor just because they are not locals?
I thought this article was about firing the foreigners first, just because they are foreigners.
In other words they move to the country and get paid the same as what the local people get paid. This is not about out-sourcing the labor to a cheap country.
As an Australian living and working in the UK I would be pretty pissed off if I was fired while less skilled people get to keep their job just because they are English.
To link this back to my previous post I get quite annoyed when people say that immigrants like myself are 'stealing jobs' from the locals. I'm not. I was hired because my skills were better. That is what competition is about. If you can't compete then you should improve your skills, then the 'job stealing foreigners' like myself would not be able to steal your jobs.
Here I was thinking that our society is supposed to be built on competition. If you can create a scompany that can compete and be successful then that's good.
Why should it be different for a country? If they can't compete by providing the skilled labour necessary why should a company be forced into 'purchasing' the less skilled labor?
You are dangerous. You are the sort of IT person who has had their own limited set of experiences and believes that everything they know is a suitable solution for every situation.
You have read the reasons for the continued existence of tape. You can continue to believe what you want to believe. I hope for your sake you never end up in a situation like these Journalspace guys where you end up with a major problem because you thought you knew better, and you ignored other people's experience.
Beginning of last year we had a similar sort of problem, but they wanted the data to be kept as in sync between the sites as possible. With the amount of data we had Rsync and Unison was too slow.
The only tools we could find that would do almost everything we wanted were for windows. We ended up going for a Windows file server and using DFS-R.
I hate the mighty mouse, and not because of the right click or whatever. The problem I have is as soon as you lift the mouse you release the click. So trying to drag and drop means you have to do it in one long movement over the table and hope you don't have to reposition the mouse.
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It seems that people have been making very similar arguments to this about all aspects of computing for decades. Until recently it was always with the amount of memory or CPU speed.
Basically it's summarised as "Why should we make X run Y faster when we can just optimise Y?"
It's just a ridiculous argument. Obviously you should always try and optimise the software, but why shouldn't everything else run faster as well?
I have never experienced repair service as bad as Apple.
I have Applecare, which I think is incredibly expensive, but it's lucky I do because the GPU on my laptop has broken for the second time in 2 years. Being the GPU that's broken it's pretty obvious what is wrong so I figure I'll just take it into the Apple store and drop it off. Oh No! It doesn't work that way. You have to book in with one of their "Genius" technicians to have a look at it. Unfortunately they are all booked out for the next 3 days with people who can't work out how to use their mouse. So that's the first delay to getting anything repaired by them.
So finally my laptop is taken to be fixed and they tell me, "Yes there is a problem, we have to replace the motherboard". Which is fair enough. That was over 3 weeks ago now and I still have no word on when it will be done. They quoted me 30 days to fix it. 30 DAYS!!
That is NOT acceptable. During this time I am unable to do any work at all. The equivalent Dell warranty is cheaper, and their service is light years ahead of Apple. That is something that should be causing Apple massive amounts of shame, and yet in the 12 months between services absolutely nothing has been changed.
That seems to be what the guy has done. The lawyer asked for proof that his client was ABLE to travel across two states and kill four people in the time that prosecutors had alleged. Not whether he actually did do it.
Dustin Kolodziej was able to make the journey in that time, and therefore provided evidence that Nelson Ivan Serrano also was able to make that journey.
And how many people can really be bothered to do that? Sure you might. But 99% of people certainly wouldn't.
At the very least the online solutions are an easy offsite backup without having to worry about which disk you have to remember to take to work with you.
Or have them burn it to DVD and posted out to you in a couple days.
(http://support.mozy.com/docs/en-user-home-win/faq/tasks/dvd_restore_faq.html)
I would hope that their backup systems and failsafes are a hell of a lot more reliable than anything I could come up with.
I use Mozy. It's cheap and easy. They are also owned by EMC so I'm not too worried about them going under. I only use a laptop so I don't have to worry about having a usb disk permanently dangling from it, or having to remember to plug it in periodically. I get unlimited storage so no worrying about storage allotment. My broadband connection is fast enough that it will backup any large changes overnight at the longest.
It also gives you the added advantage of being off-site, which all reliable backup systems should have as a component. So no worrying about house fires etc. This brings us to the interesting use case they are currently milking where a guy who was on the Hudson river crash used Mozy and his data was perfectly safe, whereas another guy lost both his laptop and USB backup to the bottom of the river.
(http://blogs.usatoday.com/technologylive/2009/03/when-your-lapto.html)
Sounds like a digg user who keeps "accidentally the whole thing".
Looks like they have fixed that then
https://www.google.com/voice/about#
If you call your own number then it will give you your voicemail.
This *is* a one time pad. This is Quantum Key Distribution. The quantum part ensures your key has not been intercepted. Once the key is recieved by the other party the actual message is encrypted by using one time pad.
So the advantages of this over a courier is it's a hell of a lot faster and you guarantee the courier hasn't been mugged and had the pad copied.
I can't say I agree with the argument that Mules may not be alive because they cannot reproduce.
I may be sterile as well, I've never had children so I don't know. Does that mean I may not be alive? Of course not. I am made of cells, those cells are able to reproduce. I am a collection of living entities that happens to work in a symbiotic relationship to create a larger more complicated living entity. It's the same with a Mule.
Fire is a different argument. When I was at school I was taught that one the definition of life included 'Was made of cells' which immediately excluded viruses and fire. That has probably changed now though.
Maybe because they are not as good/qualified.
That's competition. If I ran a business I will not hire inferior employees just because they are the same nationality as me. I will hire the ones who will do the best work for my company. If the country I live in is not providing the best skilled workforce then tough shit. It is in my company's best interest to always hire the best no matter where they come from.
I would estimate half the employees in the company I currently work for are foreigners, including myself. It wasn't planned that way. No one was deliberately shipped in from overseas to work there, they just happened to be the best candidates.
And how successful would the US be without these businesses? That argument cuts both ways. It's a symbiotic relationship.
You completely misunderstand me. As I said in another reply I am not talking about the cheap labour that has been out-sourced to india. This article seems to be about the people who are working in the US on a visa. In otherwords they are no cheaper than native US workers.
These people are being hired solely on their skill not on how much cheaper they are. That is where the competition is. So why should a company be forced to fire the more skilled labor just because they are not locals?
I thought this article was about firing the foreigners first, just because they are foreigners.
In other words they move to the country and get paid the same as what the local people get paid. This is not about out-sourcing the labor to a cheap country.
As an Australian living and working in the UK I would be pretty pissed off if I was fired while less skilled people get to keep their job just because they are English.
To link this back to my previous post I get quite annoyed when people say that immigrants like myself are 'stealing jobs' from the locals. I'm not. I was hired because my skills were better. That is what competition is about. If you can't compete then you should improve your skills, then the 'job stealing foreigners' like myself would not be able to steal your jobs.
Here I was thinking that our society is supposed to be built on competition. If you can create a scompany that can compete and be successful then that's good.
Why should it be different for a country? If they can't compete by providing the skilled labour necessary why should a company be forced into 'purchasing' the less skilled labor?
Cmd-Tab to switch between application.
Cmd-~ to switch between windows of that application.
I was so happy when I found that one. :)
That isn't true.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/
http://www.amazon.de/
http://www.amazon.fr/
http://www.amazon.co.jp/
http://www.amazon.ca/
I only checked the first few, but they all have music stores.
That might work when travelling forwards in time, but you can't use your inertia to end up in the same place when travelling backwards in time.
You are dangerous. You are the sort of IT person who has had their own limited set of experiences and believes that everything they know is a suitable solution for every situation.
You have read the reasons for the continued existence of tape. You can continue to believe what you want to believe. I hope for your sake you never end up in a situation like these Journalspace guys where you end up with a major problem because you thought you knew better, and you ignored other people's experience.
He sounds like someone who has actually done his research.
Every technology has it's place and tape is still importatant.
How are you doing the replication?
Beginning of last year we had a similar sort of problem, but they wanted the data to be kept as in sync between the sites as possible. With the amount of data we had Rsync and Unison was too slow.
The only tools we could find that would do almost everything we wanted were for windows. We ended up going for a Windows file server and using DFS-R.
Were you able to find anything decent for Linux?
I hate the mighty mouse, and not because of the right click or whatever. The problem I have is as soon as you lift the mouse you release the click. So trying to drag and drop means you have to do it in one long movement over the table and hope you don't have to reposition the mouse.
Where are the ssh apps? I can't find them. Only found a Telnet client.
No I'm talking about the bad guy he got The Hat from. I recognised The Hat, and saw he was digging up stuff so I assumed he was Indy.
I didn't realise it was a flashback to his childhood.