Try getting PCI compliance if you aren't using some form of network port control - 802.1x or otherwise. You won't pass the audit, and for the company that I work for, that's literally a billion dollar problem.
That's not about being user-surly, that's about being a responsible employee.
It's possible to do BYOD, but it requires having a shload of infrastructure in place first. Example:
- Only certify certain hardware as qualifying - basically the hardware compatibility list of: - run a bare-metal hypervisor on the hardware, like XenClient - have your corporate image as an image running on the hypervisor, with the user image running in a different sandbox side-by-side - have your corporate image authenticate with the network, and only talk to your corporate network (or a VPN concentrator). - have your corporate network only talk to your corporate VM image, and actively deny any connection that doesn't authenticate through provisioned TLS.
This would keep the company secure, as well as allow the user of the device their own place for their stuff.
1. Doing nothing means much worse damage, if not extinction. Under those circumstances, I don't see why sending lots of nuclear ordinance would be a bad thing.
2. Fragmenting a big rock means you get smaller rocks. Smaller objects that are fragments of one bigger object will have more surface area, which will mean more protection from atmospheric forces during entry. It also means less damage due to simple F = ma physics - reduce the mass, reduce the force to any specific area. I'd much rather have 200 smaller asteroids pepper the Pacific and maybe some farmland in China and the western US than one big ass rock land in the ocean and cause a tsunami that wipes out a third of a continent.
People smart enough to send a satellite into a martian orbit didn't know to convert standard to metric, so yeah, it's possible that they could overlook something in their calculations.
Also, breaking it up dramatically increases the surface area being affected by atmospheric entry forces. More is going to burn up, and more pieces are going to break off and go away during entry.
Yeah, because the current scheme of using proprietary playback plugins that have their own set of security flaws and performance issues, if they exist at all for your platform of choice, isn't an impediment to interoperability at all.
Hollywood isn't going to go DRM free (yet). DRM as a standard in HTML5 is a better place then where we are today. These things must change over time. See: all the stores now selling DRM free music, which would have never happened if the stores of yesteryear hadn't first gotten the RIAA comfortable with digital distribution, then weaned them off the DRM teat.
I was having fun until the difficulty scaled in a vertical line that was unsurpassable, and I had no desire to completely reroll a different class because it was the only way past due to the defects in design.
I played a Monk that was unkillable in Act 1 of Inferno, and then got completely smashed in 5 seconds by garbage bugs in the desert right outside the city in Act 2. No amount of retooling of abilities was going to get me by - it was going to be gear or quit.
Gear wasn't an option, because I couldn't farm anything better than what I'm already wearing, and anything better than what I had on the auction house was going to be for actual dollars, and an amount which totaled more than I paid for the game to begin with.
The challenge became one of how much I was willing to spend, rather than how much I was willing to alter my play to get past it. That's not fun - that's attempting to bleed your customer's wallet. Instead, I choose to have fun by playing other games from publishers that don't view me as a piggy bank to be cracked open whenever possible.
No, but it may be perfectly conceivable that they had a 5 year plan, and during that time they re-evaluated and saw reason to continue working at it, changing the original plan to account for market changes and increased competitive pressure, like every business ever has done.
You don't make a plan and then expect a binary result. Well, you don't if you live in the real world with the rest of us. Plans change.
I stopped playing when the money-for-bits scheme was patched in. It was obvious that all the good items were going to cost me real money that I'd much rather spend elsewhere, and all the sub-standard garbage items were going to end up on the in-game currency auction.
Between that, and the ridiculous balance issues that had one class easily wiping up the maps on the highest difficulty levels, and another class getting completely tooled in about 2 seconds by the exact same creatures, both equipped equally, I stopped playing and forgot D3 existed until just now.
Because clearly when you're writing a business plan, you are doing it with a crystal ball in the room? How would the business plan from the first Xbox have been able to predict defects in design of the successor product? Who accurately can predict what competition will do? Did RIM's business plan for BlackBerry predict the iPhone in 2008?
Sometimes you hit bumps in the road. Sometimes you get over the bump, and sometimes it cracks a wheel. They decided to go over the bump.
They actually didn't quit on tablets. They continued working with their OEMs to make convertible laptops with tablet-ized versions of Windows right up until... oh wait, they still are.
HP has consistently had a line of these devices as well, but I'm not as familiar with their models (as I don't have a shelf of them in my QA lab here at the office.)
Yes, they bombed in the retail space, but they are insanely popular within the medical services industry due to portable signature capture. Only because of the popularity of iPad has anyone even thought about switching, and only after the software they already use was ported and made available on Apple's app store.
And for those people, there is the age-old trick of running a cable through a wall, and using bluetooth control devices. Now all the noise and "out of place" look is in the office, on the other side of a wall.
Fixed, for a $20 HDMI cable and a bit of time with a drill.
Frankly this sort of advertising is far less intrusive then most offline advertising. Consider the omni-present ads on busses and taxis and billboards, the flood of intrusive ads on TV and radio. I would far prefer to substitute those for google's approach: show me something I might actually want in a very unobtrusive fashion.
Except it's additive - you get both at the same time. It's not like Glass magically makes the other outdoor advertising / broadcast media advertising go away. You just get more of the same.
I'm assuming that when you are riding your motorcycle, that you are wearing a helmet.
The last thing you want right in front of your eyes is something that can break into sharp pieces, rattling around inside your helmet, should it be used for something other than wind protection.
Think about it for a second please. It's the same concept as what I've told a friend that likes to ride with a handgun in his jacket inside pocket - what is that piece of steel going to do to your ribs, should you land on it?
Except the product is still an answer to a question nobody asked. It's a solution looking for a problem.
And I would have the same reaction to the same product from any other company. Much like I think the rumored "smart watch" concepts are stupid. We've had variations on that crap since the 90s when everyone didn't have an always-on connection in their pocket; and it's still a flawed concept - people don't need to look at that shit constantly, and when they do need to see it, it takes minimal effort to take the phone you already have out of your pocket.
So an American corporation takes a long view on a business proposition rather than playing the short con quarterly filing scams, and this is a bad thing?
Remember when that's the way business worked? Microsoft (at least, this division) is actually doing it right, and not bending to the whims of shareholders and 10Q filings with the SEC.
I couldn't read TFS because TFL was broken and behind a paywall anyway, and the summary was nothing but nebulous buzzwords that I couldn't bring myself to care about.
The good news is that all the "I've got to have the latest and best to make all my friends and e-buddies drool" crowd will start unloading their barely-used last generation cards on eBay, and those of us that want good performance at a good price will benefit.
I never said that Mac OS X is as open as Linux, but thanks for that. As I can't testify to the motivations of a multinational corporation, I can only take a guess at why they are developing the Linux drivers, and that guess would be that there was incredible room for improvement in what was pre-existing, and that Intel is the only developer that is going to do the work.
Besides, developing GPU drivers is hardly a business where you have to exclusively work on one platform or another. Who's to say that they don't have someone else working on a Mac OS X kext as well which just hasn't been released yet? I can't say that they don't, and neither can you. So there's another straw man that you're trying to stand up. They can work on all platforms at the same time, because they probably have more than one developer working for them.
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Try getting PCI compliance if you aren't using some form of network port control - 802.1x or otherwise. You won't pass the audit, and for the company that I work for, that's literally a billion dollar problem.
That's not about being user-surly, that's about being a responsible employee.
It's possible to do BYOD, but it requires having a shload of infrastructure in place first. Example:
- Only certify certain hardware as qualifying - basically the hardware compatibility list of:
- run a bare-metal hypervisor on the hardware, like XenClient
- have your corporate image as an image running on the hypervisor, with the user image running in a different sandbox side-by-side
- have your corporate image authenticate with the network, and only talk to your corporate network (or a VPN concentrator).
- have your corporate network only talk to your corporate VM image, and actively deny any connection that doesn't authenticate through provisioned TLS.
This would keep the company secure, as well as allow the user of the device their own place for their stuff.
Two things:
1. Doing nothing means much worse damage, if not extinction. Under those circumstances, I don't see why sending lots of nuclear ordinance would be a bad thing.
2. Fragmenting a big rock means you get smaller rocks. Smaller objects that are fragments of one bigger object will have more surface area, which will mean more protection from atmospheric forces during entry. It also means less damage due to simple F = ma physics - reduce the mass, reduce the force to any specific area. I'd much rather have 200 smaller asteroids pepper the Pacific and maybe some farmland in China and the western US than one big ass rock land in the ocean and cause a tsunami that wipes out a third of a continent.
People smart enough to send a satellite into a martian orbit didn't know to convert standard to metric, so yeah, it's possible that they could overlook something in their calculations.
Also, breaking it up dramatically increases the surface area being affected by atmospheric entry forces. More is going to burn up, and more pieces are going to break off and go away during entry.
Yeah, because the current scheme of using proprietary playback plugins that have their own set of security flaws and performance issues, if they exist at all for your platform of choice, isn't an impediment to interoperability at all.
Hollywood isn't going to go DRM free (yet). DRM as a standard in HTML5 is a better place then where we are today. These things must change over time. See: all the stores now selling DRM free music, which would have never happened if the stores of yesteryear hadn't first gotten the RIAA comfortable with digital distribution, then weaned them off the DRM teat.
You missed my point.
I was having fun until the difficulty scaled in a vertical line that was unsurpassable, and I had no desire to completely reroll a different class because it was the only way past due to the defects in design.
I played a Monk that was unkillable in Act 1 of Inferno, and then got completely smashed in 5 seconds by garbage bugs in the desert right outside the city in Act 2. No amount of retooling of abilities was going to get me by - it was going to be gear or quit.
Gear wasn't an option, because I couldn't farm anything better than what I'm already wearing, and anything better than what I had on the auction house was going to be for actual dollars, and an amount which totaled more than I paid for the game to begin with.
The challenge became one of how much I was willing to spend, rather than how much I was willing to alter my play to get past it. That's not fun - that's attempting to bleed your customer's wallet. Instead, I choose to have fun by playing other games from publishers that don't view me as a piggy bank to be cracked open whenever possible.
No, but it may be perfectly conceivable that they had a 5 year plan, and during that time they re-evaluated and saw reason to continue working at it, changing the original plan to account for market changes and increased competitive pressure, like every business ever has done.
You don't make a plan and then expect a binary result. Well, you don't if you live in the real world with the rest of us. Plans change.
I stopped playing when the money-for-bits scheme was patched in. It was obvious that all the good items were going to cost me real money that I'd much rather spend elsewhere, and all the sub-standard garbage items were going to end up on the in-game currency auction.
Between that, and the ridiculous balance issues that had one class easily wiping up the maps on the highest difficulty levels, and another class getting completely tooled in about 2 seconds by the exact same creatures, both equipped equally, I stopped playing and forgot D3 existed until just now.
Because clearly when you're writing a business plan, you are doing it with a crystal ball in the room? How would the business plan from the first Xbox have been able to predict defects in design of the successor product? Who accurately can predict what competition will do? Did RIM's business plan for BlackBerry predict the iPhone in 2008?
Sometimes you hit bumps in the road. Sometimes you get over the bump, and sometimes it cracks a wheel. They decided to go over the bump.
They actually didn't quit on tablets. They continued working with their OEMs to make convertible laptops with tablet-ized versions of Windows right up until... oh wait, they still are.
See: Lenovo ThinkPad X61 Tablet, Lenovo ThinkPad X200 Tablet, Lenovo ThinkPad X201 Tablet, Lenovo ThinkPad X220 Tablet, Lenovo ThinkPad X230 Tablet, Lenovo ThinkPad Twist, Lenovo ThinkPad Helix (launched last week).
HP has consistently had a line of these devices as well, but I'm not as familiar with their models (as I don't have a shelf of them in my QA lab here at the office.)
Yes, they bombed in the retail space, but they are insanely popular within the medical services industry due to portable signature capture. Only because of the popularity of iPad has anyone even thought about switching, and only after the software they already use was ported and made available on Apple's app store.
And for those people, there is the age-old trick of running a cable through a wall, and using bluetooth control devices. Now all the noise and "out of place" look is in the office, on the other side of a wall.
Fixed, for a $20 HDMI cable and a bit of time with a drill.
Because HDMI cables longer than 3 feet don't exist. Neither do Bluetooth wireless keyboard / mouse / gamepads.
Are you stupid?
Frankly this sort of advertising is far less intrusive then most offline advertising. Consider the omni-present ads on busses and taxis and billboards, the flood of intrusive ads on TV and radio. I would far prefer to substitute those for google's approach: show me something I might actually want in a very unobtrusive fashion.
Except it's additive - you get both at the same time. It's not like Glass magically makes the other outdoor advertising / broadcast media advertising go away. You just get more of the same.
I'm assuming that when you are riding your motorcycle, that you are wearing a helmet.
The last thing you want right in front of your eyes is something that can break into sharp pieces, rattling around inside your helmet, should it be used for something other than wind protection.
Think about it for a second please. It's the same concept as what I've told a friend that likes to ride with a handgun in his jacket inside pocket - what is that piece of steel going to do to your ribs, should you land on it?
Ok great.
Except the product is still an answer to a question nobody asked. It's a solution looking for a problem.
And I would have the same reaction to the same product from any other company. Much like I think the rumored "smart watch" concepts are stupid. We've had variations on that crap since the 90s when everyone didn't have an always-on connection in their pocket; and it's still a flawed concept - people don't need to look at that shit constantly, and when they do need to see it, it takes minimal effort to take the phone you already have out of your pocket.
Because we haven't had ways to hook a PC up to a TV for like 15 years?
So an American corporation takes a long view on a business proposition rather than playing the short con quarterly filing scams, and this is a bad thing?
Remember when that's the way business worked? Microsoft (at least, this division) is actually doing it right, and not bending to the whims of shareholders and 10Q filings with the SEC.
It's a lot easier to afford a $650 video card when you're selling last year's card for $350.
Yeah, it was "impossible to predict weather patterns on the US East Coast" for like 15 minutes until they took the backup satellite off standby.
Whew, that was close! Those hurricanes come out of nowhere!
However if some enterprising drug dealers entice you into breaking the law and film it somehow it's okay.
No, that's usually called blackmail, depending on the answer to "what if I don't pay?"
I couldn't read TFS because TFL was broken and behind a paywall anyway, and the summary was nothing but nebulous buzzwords that I couldn't bring myself to care about.
The good news is that all the "I've got to have the latest and best to make all my friends and e-buddies drool" crowd will start unloading their barely-used last generation cards on eBay, and those of us that want good performance at a good price will benefit.
I never said that Mac OS X is as open as Linux, but thanks for that. As I can't testify to the motivations of a multinational corporation, I can only take a guess at why they are developing the Linux drivers, and that guess would be that there was incredible room for improvement in what was pre-existing, and that Intel is the only developer that is going to do the work.
Besides, developing GPU drivers is hardly a business where you have to exclusively work on one platform or another. Who's to say that they don't have someone else working on a Mac OS X kext as well which just hasn't been released yet? I can't say that they don't, and neither can you. So there's another straw man that you're trying to stand up. They can work on all platforms at the same time, because they probably have more than one developer working for them.
Except that they do.
Nvidia publishes both drivers and CUDA for Mac OS X. AMD makes the ATI drivers that are in Mac OS X, but lets Apple do the distribution in point releases.
What else you got?