I would say that I wouldn't want to be one of the first signing up, but that doesn't even matter. They already have everyone's data from the IRS, Homeland Security, etc available to them. This is an identity theft cracker's wet dream. I am glad they are giving so much attention to QA: One day. What a joke.
How about having some respect for the knowledge which may be gathered by your elderly counterparts? Not everything can be learned from college or between the pages of a technical manual. I think sometimes new grads tend to feel like they know it all because they typically are working from fresher learning of technical info. Your more senior counterparts are not dinosaurs. They have learned to navigate office politics and interface well with their business partners.
Whether you are aware of it or not you can learn a great deal from senior staff. To think otherwise it to cripple your own path.
Seriously, I don't entirely disagree with this ruling. Why should the bank pay for losses from these phishing scams? It is not like there was a breach of their systems. The breach was entirely on the client side. Am I missing something here?
I expect my bank will do what it can to protect me from scams, but they can't protect me from every stupid way I might be duped.
The TSA doesn't care if the backscatter scanner doesn't detect contraband. They don't even care if the terrorists know it. They don't want the general public at large knowing it because this kind of thing really messes up the security theater magic act. They also don't want to answer the accusations of exposing passengers to radiation for a less than perfect technology.
I saw a sign in the airport las weekend. "The backscatter scanner exposes you the same amount of radiation as you receive in two minutes in the airplane". Yeah but think of it this way; standing on a beach on a sunny day would you accept someone telling you that you were going to get a sun blast equal to two minutes in the sun in two seconds? Radiation doesn't always hurt bit it is always harmful to your DNA. There is a reason heath care providers put a limit on the number of X-rays you get in year.
I am guessing the reason for this is that Windows 8 is not really Windows and they don't want to re-create all the GUI stuff needed to make the GUI like real Windows? If so it is a double edged sword for Microsoft. If they think they have issues with version upgrades now, wait till they offer an OS with no GUI or a crippled GUI. Unfortunately improved stability may lose to knowledge deficit with a CLI.
I could be talking out of my arse, but a reasonably good intuitive GUI with a user base who is used to it is one thing that Microsoft has going for it in the server space. Imagine Active Directory and Exchange without GUI's to manage them.
Microsoft will find a way to do this without alienating their users unless they are complete idiots.
Does anyone know if the GUI in 8 is poor, or what the reason is for the GUI-less deployment recommendation?
All the things you mention still puts it in the realm of toy. Executives and doctors alike want to "find a use for it" as you state yourself. The rub comes when it is the wrong tool for the job. You understand the infancy of the tablet, doctors and executives don't and when you tell them it won't work well, they look at you like you must be woefully inadequate at your job.
I can't say that i am ready to jump on the tablet bandwagon, but if I did it wouldn't be an iPad. I know I risk being left behind by not being an adopter, but tablets just haven't proven themselves primarily because developers don't write important mission critical programs for touch screens, they write them for keyboards and mice.
We recently went live with an EMR (Electronic medical record) at our hospital. As slick as the EMR is, it is written for a keyboard and a mouse. Guess what the docs want, you guessed it; Can we get it work on an IPAD? Oh yes, while technically possible via Citrix it is about as about as practical as mounting a steering wheel on a horse. Can't you teach the horse to respect the steering wheel? Um, no.
We have tried tablets in the past for the EMR. The users get excited about them and once they have them, they collect dust. $2,000.00 state of the art spill proof made especially for hospital settings tablet PC's which never leave their docking bays. What a waste.
All tablets are currently toys, iPad included. If I want toy to play with and have an extra couple hundred bucks burning a whole in my pocket then maybe I will buy one, but why would I want a toy with limitations, like the iPad?
Tablets may some day be a respectable tool for some apps who's developers are willing to write to them, but that will be 10 years out. Then, they will be about as sexy as a Palm is today.
"No longer does an HTPC need to be shoehorned into the confines of the entertainment center."
Yeah but then you have still have IR remotes an IR blasters still keeping the HTPC pretty sticky to the entertainment center. The new tech is slick yes, but expensive for now and there are other limiting factors. It is a nice step in the evolution though.
Again, what efforts have we made to educate our representatives? If we leave it up to them they can only act on what knowledge they have. So isn't this partially our fault too?
It is easy to criticize officials who make blind decisions from the comfort of our keyboards, but we might as well yell at the TV during Monday night football. The problem is that we are not in the game. You could argue that we cannot get in the game, but have we tried?
...that is just insane. It is no wonder they have issues.
I currently work on and EMR for a health system and I can tell you that they are incredibly complex animals. The workflows in healthcare are complex. Successfully writing interfaces to and from these systems is near impossible (namely pharmacy systems). The best you can do is try to get a central homogenous vendor with good modules which use the same database. You need low turnover to establish and maintain EMR's and while consultants can be handy, that ratio should be flipped.
At any rate I am not dogging the McMaster's work, but there is a huge disparity between products out there. It is a little presumptous to say theirs would have been an alternative to save millions. It really has to do with the mission and the product features.
This seems to me to be just one botched project, or more likely doomed from the start.
I am afraid Hollywood would never allow a movie to be made painting NYCL as a hero.
And if that is to much for you to take then...
YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!
... they're giving the antivirus vendors a great opportunity to study these creations -- and therefore to be better able to protect against them.) It is so hard to sit on our laurels when these pesky programmers want to invent new stuff for us to work on...
The minute a user tries to open these retired formats and cannot is the minute they start looking for another solution to open their files. This will help the install base of a lot of alternatives, which may have some staying power once installed. Programs like Abiword, OO.org and Gnumeric are all waiting in the wings.
These measures seem a little extreme when compared to the lack of protection offered to children from adult content on the unfiltered internet. For once I don't really disagree with her, but this seems to me to be an extreme measure which really amounts to putting one's finger in the damn.
She supports a measure that sails safely past the first ammendment and rallies concered parents who aren't looking at the big picture. If this was really implemented it would do little to protect childeren and cause a whole lot of greif for the poor schleps who manage stores that sell games.
There should probably be similar protection on adult content games as there is on printed adult content. I guess at the retail level this is easier to control. Why is it that politicians can't seem to think past brick and mortar?
Ever hear the old adage: "Work expands to fill the time alloted." I suppose you could also say work compresses to fill the time allotted and that could lead to poor quality. I believe this is your point. However, if you have no deadline at all, development tends to languish and that negatively impacts quality as well.
"My guess is that the reason this never happened before is because the entire computer is normally returned not just the software."
Yeah, I thought this too. The only trouble with this is how can a third party software vendor dictate any agreement between a hardware manufacturer and a buyer. You wouldn't return an entire car if you did not agree to enter into a legal agreement about the use of the installed stereo.
Microsoft has been very good at getting people to think the OS and the computer are inseparable. It has been able to do this because for a long time, there was no other viable mainstream alternative. That is changing, and so are consumer's thoughts about the computers they purchase.
Assuming the EULA is the same in the US and elsewhere, I wonder why this has not been tried before, and if it has, does anyone know the outcome?
This has far reaching implications beyond HP. Any computer manufacturer would be affected, but the EULA seems to point heavily to the refunding procedure, not of Microsoft, but of the reseller.
It should be interesting to see how HP responds.
I see a lot of criticism about these telecoms cooperating without warrants with the government. I don't think it is as bad as ISP's cooperating with private agencies like RIAA without a warrant. One might argue that the government could at least have some shadow of the public good in what they do. The RIAA is completely self serving.
If the government is called into question for these activities, then maybe it will cascade down to privacy concerns that don't get as much press.
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Looking forward to this tech evening up arguments with my wife.
I would say that I wouldn't want to be one of the first signing up, but that doesn't even matter. They already have everyone's data from the IRS, Homeland Security, etc available to them. This is an identity theft cracker's wet dream. I am glad they are giving so much attention to QA: One day. What a joke.
Sounds like a winner. Are you suggesting that this individual is a representative sample of boomers? BTW, I am an X'er, not a boomer.
How about having some respect for the knowledge which may be gathered by your elderly counterparts? Not everything can be learned from college or between the pages of a technical manual. I think sometimes new grads tend to feel like they know it all because they typically are working from fresher learning of technical info. Your more senior counterparts are not dinosaurs. They have learned to navigate office politics and interface well with their business partners. Whether you are aware of it or not you can learn a great deal from senior staff. To think otherwise it to cripple your own path.
Yes.
Seriously, I don't entirely disagree with this ruling. Why should the bank pay for losses from these phishing scams? It is not like there was a breach of their systems. The breach was entirely on the client side. Am I missing something here?
I expect my bank will do what it can to protect me from scams, but they can't protect me from every stupid way I might be duped.
The TSA doesn't care if the backscatter scanner doesn't detect contraband. They don't even care if the terrorists know it. They don't want the general public at large knowing it because this kind of thing really messes up the security theater magic act. They also don't want to answer the accusations of exposing passengers to radiation for a less than perfect technology.
I saw a sign in the airport las weekend. "The backscatter scanner exposes you the same amount of radiation as you receive in two minutes in the airplane". Yeah but think of it this way; standing on a beach on a sunny day would you accept someone telling you that you were going to get a sun blast equal to two minutes in the sun in two seconds? Radiation doesn't always hurt bit it is always harmful to your DNA. There is a reason heath care providers put a limit on the number of X-rays you get in year.
I am guessing the reason for this is that Windows 8 is not really Windows and they don't want to re-create all the GUI stuff needed to make the GUI like real Windows? If so it is a double edged sword for Microsoft. If they think they have issues with version upgrades now, wait till they offer an OS with no GUI or a crippled GUI. Unfortunately improved stability may lose to knowledge deficit with a CLI.
I could be talking out of my arse, but a reasonably good intuitive GUI with a user base who is used to it is one thing that Microsoft has going for it in the server space. Imagine Active Directory and Exchange without GUI's to manage them.
Microsoft will find a way to do this without alienating their users unless they are complete idiots. Does anyone know if the GUI in 8 is poor, or what the reason is for the GUI-less deployment recommendation?
Red Chinese, Red Handed. Coincidence? I think not!
All the things you mention still puts it in the realm of toy. Executives and doctors alike want to "find a use for it" as you state yourself. The rub comes when it is the wrong tool for the job. You understand the infancy of the tablet, doctors and executives don't and when you tell them it won't work well, they look at you like you must be woefully inadequate at your job.
I can't say that i am ready to jump on the tablet bandwagon, but if I did it wouldn't be an iPad. I know I risk being left behind by not being an adopter, but tablets just haven't proven themselves primarily because developers don't write important mission critical programs for touch screens, they write them for keyboards and mice.
We recently went live with an EMR (Electronic medical record) at our hospital. As slick as the EMR is, it is written for a keyboard and a mouse. Guess what the docs want, you guessed it; Can we get it work on an IPAD? Oh yes, while technically possible via Citrix it is about as about as practical as mounting a steering wheel on a horse. Can't you teach the horse to respect the steering wheel? Um, no.
We have tried tablets in the past for the EMR. The users get excited about them and once they have them, they collect dust. $2,000.00 state of the art spill proof made especially for hospital settings tablet PC's which never leave their docking bays. What a waste.
All tablets are currently toys, iPad included. If I want toy to play with and have an extra couple hundred bucks burning a whole in my pocket then maybe I will buy one, but why would I want a toy with limitations, like the iPad?
Tablets may some day be a respectable tool for some apps who's developers are willing to write to them, but that will be 10 years out. Then, they will be about as sexy as a Palm is today.
"No longer does an HTPC need to be shoehorned into the confines of the entertainment center."
Yeah but then you have still have IR remotes an IR blasters still keeping the HTPC pretty sticky to the entertainment center. The new tech is slick yes, but expensive for now and there are other limiting factors. It is a nice step in the evolution though.
Domain keys? SPF?
Um, what are those?
Again, what efforts have we made to educate our representatives? If we leave it up to them they can only act on what knowledge they have. So isn't this partially our fault too?
It is easy to criticize officials who make blind decisions from the comfort of our keyboards, but we might as well yell at the TV during Monday night football. The problem is that we are not in the game. You could argue that we cannot get in the game, but have we tried?
...that is just insane. It is no wonder they have issues.
I currently work on and EMR for a health system and I can tell you that they are incredibly complex animals. The workflows in healthcare are complex. Successfully writing interfaces to and from these systems is near impossible (namely pharmacy systems). The best you can do is try to get a central homogenous vendor with good modules which use the same database. You need low turnover to establish and maintain EMR's and while consultants can be handy, that ratio should be flipped.
At any rate I am not dogging the McMaster's work, but there is a huge disparity between products out there. It is a little presumptous to say theirs would have been an alternative to save millions. It really has to do with the mission and the product features.
This seems to me to be just one botched project, or more likely doomed from the start.
I am afraid Hollywood would never allow a movie to be made painting NYCL as a hero. And if that is to much for you to take then... YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!
A $359 pocket protector? Now that is the ultimate geek accessory.
Nothing can kill a bad product faster than good advertising. You are right. Once the ad has done it's job, it is up to the product.
... they're giving the antivirus vendors a great opportunity to study these creations -- and therefore to be better able to protect against them.) It is so hard to sit on our laurels when these pesky programmers want to invent new stuff for us to work on...Hmm... Just what I always wanted.
So the shopping cart will beg me to buy something as I go near it.
My daughter already does this for me. I am good.
The minute a user tries to open these retired formats and cannot is the minute they start looking for another solution to open their files. This will help the install base of a lot of alternatives, which may have some staying power once installed. Programs like Abiword, OO.org and Gnumeric are all waiting in the wings.
These measures seem a little extreme when compared to the lack of protection offered to children from adult content on the unfiltered internet. For once I don't really disagree with her, but this seems to me to be an extreme measure which really amounts to putting one's finger in the damn.
She supports a measure that sails safely past the first ammendment and rallies concered parents who aren't looking at the big picture. If this was really implemented it would do little to protect childeren and cause a whole lot of greif for the poor schleps who manage stores that sell games.
There should probably be similar protection on adult content games as there is on printed adult content. I guess at the retail level this is easier to control. Why is it that politicians can't seem to think past brick and mortar?
Ever hear the old adage: "Work expands to fill the time alloted." I suppose you could also say work compresses to fill the time allotted and that could lead to poor quality. I believe this is your point. However, if you have no deadline at all, development tends to languish and that negatively impacts quality as well.
"My guess is that the reason this never happened before is because the entire computer is normally returned not just the software."
Yeah, I thought this too. The only trouble with this is how can a third party software vendor dictate any agreement between a hardware manufacturer and a buyer. You wouldn't return an entire car if you did not agree to enter into a legal agreement about the use of the installed stereo.
Microsoft has been very good at getting people to think the OS and the computer are inseparable. It has been able to do this because for a long time, there was no other viable mainstream alternative. That is changing, and so are consumer's thoughts about the computers they purchase.
Assuming the EULA is the same in the US and elsewhere, I wonder why this has not been tried before, and if it has, does anyone know the outcome? This has far reaching implications beyond HP. Any computer manufacturer would be affected, but the EULA seems to point heavily to the refunding procedure, not of Microsoft, but of the reseller. It should be interesting to see how HP responds.
I see a lot of criticism about these telecoms cooperating without warrants with the government. I don't think it is as bad as ISP's cooperating with private agencies like RIAA without a warrant. One might argue that the government could at least have some shadow of the public good in what they do. The RIAA is completely self serving. If the government is called into question for these activities, then maybe it will cascade down to privacy concerns that don't get as much press.