People are sheep. Big marketing tells them to buy product X because there is none better. Most people will simply do that without ever thinking that there might actually be something better.
The book 2001 was actually written after the movie. Kubric had the initial idea for the movie and asked Clarke to help him write it. I found the book offered a better explaination of why Hal when mad.
Try explaining to a user how to simply backup their data files. Email, bookmarks, addressbooks and documents are all if different directories; some of which are hidden.
You make a good point. One could also argue that, if we lived a very long time people may stop looking at things so short term. Creating project X may take 80 years but we would all get to see it. Pollution and energy concerns would be taken seriously as they would indeed happen in our lifetime.
Wifi and VPN issues have plagued every pocket PC I've used so far (2 IPAQs and a Theora). The article states that Wifi performance was good but, I am skeptical.
If someone is planning to deploy an open source tool or any tool for that matter, they should know enough about to be able to help themselves. Having another entity to be 'responsible' harbours a false sense of security. Depending on another software company, should something go wrong, is a serous error in management. Have you read EULAs? They state expicitly that the software is supplied as is and that the vendor will not be responsible for data or revenue loss. Should you have a support contract with your vendor then perhaps there is some security but, do not assume that because you have purchased something the vendor is compelled to support you.
Plugins are the bain of the web. The web is about delivering content to the browser and enabling the user to view the content as desired. Plugins, are the realm of over zealous 'web designers' and marketing types who cloud content with branding dogma.
This isn't about the "oil industry": Apart from a few barbarians running around in a certain desert, everyone from Apache to Exxon has realized that when push comes to shove, they're not in the oil business, they're in the energy business.
Devil's advocate: Why should they be in the energy business? Fossil fuels pay well. By the time energy substitutes pay off those in charge of the oil companies will be long retired.
My Cisco support has been nothing but awful. I tried to get some security updates for some older routers. They were purchased long before I started working at this company. There were no records available about the reseller. Long story short, it took Cisco 10 days to give us the security updates.
I am hoping that, with Disney out of the picture Pixar may create more mature movies. I love what they have done so far but, I feel Pixar has so much more potential.
Interesting. One of the most common 'solutions' to any Windows problem, offered to users by Windows vendors is to ensure that all of the latest patches and drivers are installed.
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Perhaps they fired him because of poor writing skills. I didn't see a sinlge capital letter on the whole page.
People are sheep. Big marketing tells them to buy product X because there is none better. Most people will simply do that without ever thinking that there might actually be something better.
The book 2001 was actually written after the movie. Kubric had the initial idea for the movie and asked Clarke to help him write it. I found the book offered a better explaination of why Hal when mad.
Try explaining to a user how to simply backup their data files. Email, bookmarks, addressbooks and documents are all if different directories; some of which are hidden.
Read Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy for an understanding of what it might be like to live forever, if you can afford the treatment.
You make a good point. One could also argue that, if we lived a very long time people may stop looking at things so short term. Creating project X may take 80 years but we would all get to see it. Pollution and energy concerns would be taken seriously as they would indeed happen in our lifetime.
I'm not sure whether you should be moderated as, funny, insightful or 'sad but, true'.
I'm not sure that benchmarks are really an accurate simlation of how everyday people use their machines to surf the web and work with email.
How do we know they will offer updates to dectect new spyware any faster than they will offer OS patches?
Wifi and VPN issues have plagued every pocket PC I've used so far (2 IPAQs and a Theora). The article states that Wifi performance was good but, I am skeptical.
You are correct. The tiles cannot be crushed so easily. However, there is the constant danger of them falling off.
I believe there was a coldwar statistic that stated the life expectancy of a tank in a NATO-Warsaw pact land war was about 6 minutes.
Leave the accounts and passwords in your will. Seal them in a saftey deposit box.
If someone is planning to deploy an open source tool or any tool for that matter, they should know enough about to be able to help themselves. Having another entity to be 'responsible' harbours a false sense of security. Depending on another software company, should something go wrong, is a serous error in management. Have you read EULAs? They state expicitly that the software is supplied as is and that the vendor will not be responsible for data or revenue loss. Should you have a support contract with your vendor then perhaps there is some security but, do not assume that because you have purchased something the vendor is compelled to support you.
Translation: Someone else to blame.
Plugins are the bain of the web. The web is about delivering content to the browser and enabling the user to view the content as desired. Plugins, are the realm of over zealous 'web designers' and marketing types who cloud content with branding dogma.
How long will the battery last in 6 months?
Devil's advocate: Why should they be in the energy business? Fossil fuels pay well. By the time energy substitutes pay off those in charge of the oil companies will be long retired.
Jane: 1111
John: 0000
If there is a easy way they will take it.
At least half of that statement could describe most governments of the world. Which half is left to the reader to decide.
My Cisco support has been nothing but awful. I tried to get some security updates for some older routers. They were purchased long before I started working at this company. There were no records available about the reseller. Long story short, it took Cisco 10 days to give us the security updates.
Any offsite expainsion of the human race is welcome. We can't continue to depend of the Earth for everything.
Was the source code not stolen from inside? Thus the customer suffers for the company's own mistakes.
I am hoping that, with Disney out of the picture Pixar may create more mature movies. I love what they have done so far but, I feel Pixar has so much more potential.
Interesting. One of the most common 'solutions' to any Windows problem, offered to users by Windows vendors is to ensure that all of the latest patches and drivers are installed.