There are lots of groups who would love to have a copy of RSA's SecurID database. Frankly, I don't really care what part of the world the attackers came from. The bottom line is that RSA messed up big time with some very basic stuff. I don't see them as a victim and am a little disturbed that their chairman would have anything other than apologies for their incompetence and poor handling of the situation after the attack. It would be nice for him to also explain how this type of attack could not succeed again.
I enjoyed Crysis right up until the point that the frozen aliens showed up. That was where the fun ended for me. I found the zero-g stuff especially tedious.
No argument there. I just think that any 7" tablet should have significantly better battery life than Apples 10" screen. That doesn't seem to be the case though.
Same as Home Depot. I bought some things in Home Depot in Charleston, SC and they didn't even try to collect the sales taxes for the state and county I live in (Texas). Bastards!
If Apple can do it, all of these other companies can too. It blows me away that there are so many tablets being released lately with worse battery performance than Apple's original iPad.
I tether my laptop to my phone all the time and use Spotify that way with absolutely no problems. I really am not sure though if the mobile version uses P2P in the same way as their desktop program does.
My big gripe with Spotify is that you can subscribe for $5 / month and listen all you want on your desktop machine. If, however, your end point is your phone, they charge $10 / month. I really don't understand what difference it makes to them if the stream end point is my phone or a computer.
I jumped on the Spotify bandwagon and got an account as soon as they became available in the US. Since then, I've barely used it but I continue to listen to Pandora almost daily. A lot of times I don't know exactly what it is that I want to listen to and in these cases, Pandora is far, far more useful to me.
How about the army of lawyers who would love to sue the deep pocketed phone companies when they do nothing to fix well known security problems and somebody is harmed by their negligence.
A lot of times it boils down to familiarity and convenience, especially in a place that has a mix of Unixy and Windows servers. I don't think Powershell is missing anything except the ability to run bash scripts.
Compare this to Netflix. Call them up and tell them you have a damaged DVD. They will ask for your account details, look you up to confirm that this isn't something that happens often (I presume), then apologize and offer to send out another copy immediately.
I'm actually impressed by Microsoft making this move. At one time NT supported a bunch of different architectures and you had to compile for each of them. It sounds like they are getting back to their roots.
If you want your app to run everywhere, write to the virtual machine. If you want the advantages native code gets you, cross compile. None of this is new.
I'm sure somebody will make an x86 tablet to run Windows 8. The trade off will be a 3 hour battery life rather than an 8 hour battery life. Some people will be happy with that trade off, others will not. Lots of techies don't seem to understand that the iPad (and now maybe the Windows ARM tablet) are appealing precisely because they are simpler, well designed but constrained machines.
It isn't offensive and unless you know the backstory it does sound idiotic. Way back in the '90s, Blockbuster was very powerful and dominated my local market. They treated customers very poorly back then. They screwed me with bogus fees a couple of times and I finally vowed to never do business with them again.
These days I have an unbelievable number of options for entertainment, so the loss of Blockbuster doesn't worry me at all and in fact I'm happy to see them go.
If you are a Prime customer, you can also stream a bunch of movies from Amazon.
I have no interest in buying physical media anymore though. The last of my modest collection was donated to Goodwill last year. The library is a nice idea, unfortunately my local library isn't very local and there are lot more choices for movies that don't involve a 25 minute drive across town.
Blockbuster could be free and I still wouldn't do business with them. Watching all the Blockbuster stores in my area close over time has been pretty satisfying.
You're right that there are lots of other great options though. Other than Netflix, in the past year I've rented from RedBox a few times (including some games), from Directv, and from Vudu.
We also went streaming only. If Netflix doesn't have something I want to see, I can usually find it on a different service like Vudu.
I'm wondering if 1 million lost customers might ultimately help Netflix when negotiating for streaming rights. The copyright owners have an unrealistic (IMHO) idea of what their movies are worth and now Netflix has hard data to show that a significant number of customers will not pay more.
Have you seen the early reviews for the Windows 8 tablets? The fact that there is a fan and exhaust port blows my mind. They need to be launching with tablet hardware significantly better than the iPad. The iPad specs for weight, durability, and battery life should be the minimum for what they are willing to launch with.
I had never looked at RT. We aren't planning on using the forum part of Redmine, we just liked the simple UI and the fact that you could do things without having to click a never ending stream of submit buttons (I'm looking at you, JIRA). I think I should install RT and take it for a spin. I especially like the fact that you can buy support which is the one big problem with Redmine (IMO).
If you think JIRA is just a bug tracker, then you should probably pick up a copy of this book.
I'm looking for a bug tracker and JIRA seemed way too complicated. After reviewing lots of different systems, my coworkers and I agreed on RedMine. The most interesting thing is that cost had nothing to do with the decision (RedMine is free). My second favorite was YouTrack, but it was just a bit too basic (it really is just a bug tracker).
I've never had to import a Word document into Google, so I haven't experienced the problem. I suppose if I ever do run into a serious limitation with Google Docs, I would give something like zoho a try.
I have no interest in going back to running Office applications locally.
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I see you haven't tried the Windows 8 beta yet.
There are lots of groups who would love to have a copy of RSA's SecurID database. Frankly, I don't really care what part of the world the attackers came from. The bottom line is that RSA messed up big time with some very basic stuff. I don't see them as a victim and am a little disturbed that their chairman would have anything other than apologies for their incompetence and poor handling of the situation after the attack. It would be nice for him to also explain how this type of attack could not succeed again.
No doubt it would negatively affect Amazon, but how would the taxes be used?
Personally, I buy stuff at Amazon mostly for convenience and even if prices were higher than local stores, I would still shop at Amazon.
I enjoyed Crysis right up until the point that the frozen aliens showed up. That was where the fun ended for me. I found the zero-g stuff especially tedious.
Exactly. Everybody knows what to do, but they aren't doing it.
By the way, I think the cells are typical 18650's, not AA's.
No argument there. I just think that any 7" tablet should have significantly better battery life than Apples 10" screen. That doesn't seem to be the case though.
Same as Home Depot. I bought some things in Home Depot in Charleston, SC and they didn't even try to collect the sales taxes for the state and county I live in (Texas). Bastards!
I'm fine with a 7 inch screen. I just want a way higher resolution. Something with a similar DPI as the iPhone.
If Apple can do it, all of these other companies can too. It blows me away that there are so many tablets being released lately with worse battery performance than Apple's original iPad.
I tether my laptop to my phone all the time and use Spotify that way with absolutely no problems. I really am not sure though if the mobile version uses P2P in the same way as their desktop program does.
My big gripe with Spotify is that you can subscribe for $5 / month and listen all you want on your desktop machine. If, however, your end point is your phone, they charge $10 / month. I really don't understand what difference it makes to them if the stream end point is my phone or a computer.
I jumped on the Spotify bandwagon and got an account as soon as they became available in the US. Since then, I've barely used it but I continue to listen to Pandora almost daily. A lot of times I don't know exactly what it is that I want to listen to and in these cases, Pandora is far, far more useful to me.
How about the army of lawyers who would love to sue the deep pocketed phone companies when they do nothing to fix well known security problems and somebody is harmed by their negligence.
A lot of times it boils down to familiarity and convenience, especially in a place that has a mix of Unixy and Windows servers. I don't think Powershell is missing anything except the ability to run bash scripts.
Compare this to Netflix. Call them up and tell them you have a damaged DVD. They will ask for your account details, look you up to confirm that this isn't something that happens often (I presume), then apologize and offer to send out another copy immediately.
Maybe you don't.
I'm actually impressed by Microsoft making this move. At one time NT supported a bunch of different architectures and you had to compile for each of them. It sounds like they are getting back to their roots.
If you want your app to run everywhere, write to the virtual machine. If you want the advantages native code gets you, cross compile. None of this is new.
I'm sure somebody will make an x86 tablet to run Windows 8. The trade off will be a 3 hour battery life rather than an 8 hour battery life. Some people will be happy with that trade off, others will not. Lots of techies don't seem to understand that the iPad (and now maybe the Windows ARM tablet) are appealing precisely because they are simpler, well designed but constrained machines.
It isn't offensive and unless you know the backstory it does sound idiotic. Way back in the '90s, Blockbuster was very powerful and dominated my local market. They treated customers very poorly back then. They screwed me with bogus fees a couple of times and I finally vowed to never do business with them again.
These days I have an unbelievable number of options for entertainment, so the loss of Blockbuster doesn't worry me at all and in fact I'm happy to see them go.
If you are a Prime customer, you can also stream a bunch of movies from Amazon.
I have no interest in buying physical media anymore though. The last of my modest collection was donated to Goodwill last year. The library is a nice idea, unfortunately my local library isn't very local and there are lot more choices for movies that don't involve a 25 minute drive across town.
Blockbuster could be free and I still wouldn't do business with them. Watching all the Blockbuster stores in my area close over time has been pretty satisfying.
You're right that there are lots of other great options though. Other than Netflix, in the past year I've rented from RedBox a few times (including some games), from Directv, and from Vudu.
We also went streaming only. If Netflix doesn't have something I want to see, I can usually find it on a different service like Vudu.
I'm wondering if 1 million lost customers might ultimately help Netflix when negotiating for streaming rights. The copyright owners have an unrealistic (IMHO) idea of what their movies are worth and now Netflix has hard data to show that a significant number of customers will not pay more.
Have you seen the early reviews for the Windows 8 tablets? The fact that there is a fan and exhaust port blows my mind. They need to be launching with tablet hardware significantly better than the iPad. The iPad specs for weight, durability, and battery life should be the minimum for what they are willing to launch with.
I had never looked at RT. We aren't planning on using the forum part of Redmine, we just liked the simple UI and the fact that you could do things without having to click a never ending stream of submit buttons (I'm looking at you, JIRA). I think I should install RT and take it for a spin. I especially like the fact that you can buy support which is the one big problem with Redmine (IMO).
If you think JIRA is just a bug tracker, then you should probably pick up a copy of this book.
I'm looking for a bug tracker and JIRA seemed way too complicated. After reviewing lots of different systems, my coworkers and I agreed on RedMine. The most interesting thing is that cost had nothing to do with the decision (RedMine is free). My second favorite was YouTrack, but it was just a bit too basic (it really is just a bug tracker).
Speak for yourself. Lots of would be out of work if we ended up on a no-fly list.
I've never had to import a Word document into Google, so I haven't experienced the problem. I suppose if I ever do run into a serious limitation with Google Docs, I would give something like zoho a try.
I have no interest in going back to running Office applications locally.