Is why Android is banned for all but app developers at my work and the only smartphone OS you are permitted for general use is ATM IOS. And why once we roll out android support it will only be with a mdm solution.
Is run by a bunch of morons who dont know anything about science doesn't mean all government agencies run like that. In fact many are run very efficiently, which is why when strives to privatize things are done they almost always end in being inefficient and always costing the government and the people massive amounts of money more than they would have had they remained government managed. Examples on a small scale would be public works and DMVs where when outsourced to private companies they have always ended up in being horribly cost ineffective and terribly run (NJ's privative DMV was so terrible that only in re-taking it over as the MVC did it become an effective organization again and lines go from 5-6 hours to 20-30 minutes max) On a large scale you have little else to look than the USPS which is only leaking money thanks to medaling by Republicans forcing them to pay for the pension and benefits of employees not even conceived yet.
That being said no government should ever regulate the internet. So while the argument is stupid and pointless, the truth is still the same.
A computer is a tool to do work, a car a tool to drive, a gun to kill. THATS ITS ONLY PURPOSE to kill. Equating guns to anything other than a weapon to harm mame or kill people or animals is a corrupt argument. The fact is GUNS ARE ONLY MEANT TO KILL AND THATS THE ONLY PURPOSE FOR THEM.
"Google ends up looking good, Apple takes pretty much all the PR damage.. and Google gets to remind Apple who is more powerful."
You know whats worse than a Apple Fanboi? A Google one.
I wouldnt say most. Most bad ones yes, but good ones have that have active player bases usually survive for a long time. I played FFXI for years before giving it up and even with the release of FFXIV they smartly did NOT kill the FFXI servers which turned out to be a good thing considering how poorly the newer game was received.
"Also we're at the verge of a netbook-caliber tablet crash where everyone realizes they all suck and stop buying them."
Nope not going to happen, and there is a VERY good reason. Netbooks sucked SPECIFICALLY for everything you listed, tablets dont specifically because they dont pretend to be a full computer. People who buy them know this isnt a computer replacement for real work, but a supplement. Netbooks were trying to bill themselves as a computer replacement but they are really just a POS.
That being said 99.9% of what most people use a computer for is easily handled by tablets. I do my email, surf the web, work on music, type papers and reports, and play some pretty good games on mine, all activities I did at home with my laptop but no longer need my laptop for. In fact since getting a iPad I literally ONLY use my laptop for work, and even there if in a pinch could SSH into my servers and work on them through command line if need be but would prefer my laptop over doing that.
So no, that crash isnt going to happen and anyone thinking it will is smoking some pretty good crack
Starz really fucked themselves by pullling out of their deal with Netflix. Now Netflix will have a good chunk of the popular movies starz airs while not letting all those exclusive series air for people who dont have cable.
They could have stayed in business by cutting costs because their product wasn't as in demand. But just like our wonderful country's population, the bakers union would rather lose everything that take a cut.
hey if the unions have to take a cut, the management should too, but the truth there was they were getting a 80% RAISE. If we want to be 100% honest here, we should drop the anti-union rhetoric because the truth is they had nothing to do with it. Hostess is owned by a group of venture capitalist firms who put their own people in charge of the company and completely tore it up from the inside out. They eliminated their distribution network, and increased profits by dismantling production to the point that it was impossible to go forward, then used the Unions as a scape goat as they go to scrap the whole company. The Unions had nothing to do with what happened as much of this was done before their contract even went up, including the scrapping of 9 of the factories. Anyone saying the Unions did this is buying the PR line and not looking at FCC filings for the last 3 chapter 11s they issued. I mean they had 7 CEOs in TEN YEARS from Christs sake.
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NJ CT and NY all pay more money to the US Government that they receive back, so the reality is, they are paying not only for those great views, but making sure the other states don't get sucked up in a tornado or break of the western seaboard in an earthquake too. You owe them, they don't owe you.
"The Galaxy S3 is a bigger seller than the iPhone."
Thats all well and good, but if you dont make any money off it (and Samsung doesnt) it doesnt mean shit to investors, Apple is still king and Samsung is still cheap plastic junk in their eyes.
Not only was Apple not using the UDID for user tracking (app developers were and against developer policies might I add) but specifically for iOS beta tracking, but IDFA specifically was mentioned by Apple as the legal way for app creators to do it in the future and is opt-outable.
But then you cant spook idiot users can you Sophos into buying your products if you are actually honest.
This really seems like it depends on WHAT your company does. Pushing to production a browser or a utility weekly or even daily is a lot easier and less disruptive than say a OS or a major software product thats used by hundreds of large companies.
I would say the biggest obstacle is to get rid of the paper process, bring in git or something else for changes that everyone can view, and limit the signing offs to production, QA, or gold master (or whatever your company calls them) while keeping the dev stuff out of it so that the dev team can be more flexible. Also have a pretty good test lab/suite that will enable you to test stuff on the fly on multiple machines and configuration. Case in point Apple has a testing lab of EVERY machine they have made for the last 3 years in multiple configurations for their software. Granted they are a closed ecosystem so its easy for them to do that, but generally you could get a good roundup of machines to use that span from the insane configs to the "are you fing kidding me you are using that???" type stuff.
DUH!!!!!!!
Version control numbers are completely beyond the need of the laymen when it comes to OS. All they care about is if its new or different from what they are running and thus why the OS has names like Win 8 or Mountain Lion.
I almost never refer to Lion as Lion except to users. To me its 10.7.# Build ##### thats all I need thats all I care about.
Only people foolish enough to think antisec actually cares about being truthful would think that. Lets face the facts here
12 million is a piss in the pond in terms of iOS UDID codes. Its less than half the iPhones sold LAST QUARTER. If the FBI was realistically trying to build a database of them, there is no way at this point they would ONLY have 12 Million.
12 million is more easily explained by being leaked from a developer, as up until half a year ago, developers were using the code to identify individual iPhones for various reasons like automatic sign-in to certain services like some of the multiplayer game services. Apple banned them from using it though half a year ago so at this point there was no reason to keep.
The data it's self was incomplete. Some had legit names and addresses while most were just a ID code. If this was from a official source then there would have been a lot more data on most of these. On the otherhand if it was stolen from a developer who let users opt out of giving their information but used the code for autologin purposes, then there would be clear reason why most of the data has no user info attached.
Antisec is still smarting from getting much of its higher ranking leadership arrested from a FBI plant
So really there is no reason AT ALL to believe antisec's claims that they stole the info. There is however a lot more reason to suspect they were trying to stir the pot in the tech community by stoking already present fears of FBI spying which they did a pretty good job at. It gets clueless script kiddies riled up and makes them look cool. Sure the FBI can be shady, but of the law enforcement agencies out there I would honestly have to say they are the least shady of the bunch and tend to release information without bending the truth too much, even when it has the possibility of embarrassing them. Not saying they ALWAYS do it, just saying they tend to be more forthcoming than other government agencies.
" Eventually, devs will move back to the PC because of its more open, less limited setup"
Don't bet on that. As long as there is more money in console development, and there are 3 brand new systems on the horizon in the next 2 years there is little point to move away from developing for them. Remember the current gens been out for years now. THATS the only reason they are having issues with the PS3 DLC, not the system it's self but its age.
Google beat them to the punch with Google Drive. Likewise with reports that after the Samsung spat Google and Apple are talking about sharing their IPs with each other, I dont think Apple has anything to fear with Redmond anymore.
oh god forbid you pay 5 dollars that goes to paying them for making it available for you.... Open doesnt mean Free. Geeks need to get that through their thick skulls that just because something is open for everyone to use DOESNT mean its going to be free.
"The jury was picked to ensure there was no tech skilled or knowledgeable people. I'm surprised they let this guy remain and be allowed to influence the others so quickly on such a massive trail. But then the judge was very much a homer in all her but most trivial decisions."
Last I looked the Jury was full of tech people, including 4-5 people who were IBM employees. And none of them used iPhones but a few used Androids.
I dont know this judge was pretty good in doing her job and thats being a judge. You might not like what she did during the trial, but she properly applied the law in her rulings including the ones that threw out prio-art claims by Samsung as they didnt properly follow procedures.
but its not being shoved down your throat. As long as you know the risks you can run all the unsigned code all you want. But for those of us who work in a managed corporate environment being able to tell users no is a HUGE deal.
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Is why Android is banned for all but app developers at my work and the only smartphone OS you are permitted for general use is ATM IOS. And why once we roll out android support it will only be with a mdm solution.
Is run by a bunch of morons who dont know anything about science doesn't mean all government agencies run like that. In fact many are run very efficiently, which is why when strives to privatize things are done they almost always end in being inefficient and always costing the government and the people massive amounts of money more than they would have had they remained government managed. Examples on a small scale would be public works and DMVs where when outsourced to private companies they have always ended up in being horribly cost ineffective and terribly run (NJ's privative DMV was so terrible that only in re-taking it over as the MVC did it become an effective organization again and lines go from 5-6 hours to 20-30 minutes max) On a large scale you have little else to look than the USPS which is only leaking money thanks to medaling by Republicans forcing them to pay for the pension and benefits of employees not even conceived yet. That being said no government should ever regulate the internet. So while the argument is stupid and pointless, the truth is still the same.
A computer is a tool to do work, a car a tool to drive, a gun to kill. THATS ITS ONLY PURPOSE to kill. Equating guns to anything other than a weapon to harm mame or kill people or animals is a corrupt argument. The fact is GUNS ARE ONLY MEANT TO KILL AND THATS THE ONLY PURPOSE FOR THEM.
"Google ends up looking good, Apple takes pretty much all the PR damage.. and Google gets to remind Apple who is more powerful." You know whats worse than a Apple Fanboi? A Google one.
Actually there a federal legal designation in terms of just using "assembled" in the US were most of the parts have to ALSO be manufactured here too.
I wouldnt say most. Most bad ones yes, but good ones have that have active player bases usually survive for a long time. I played FFXI for years before giving it up and even with the release of FFXIV they smartly did NOT kill the FFXI servers which turned out to be a good thing considering how poorly the newer game was received.
"Also we're at the verge of a netbook-caliber tablet crash where everyone realizes they all suck and stop buying them."
Nope not going to happen, and there is a VERY good reason. Netbooks sucked SPECIFICALLY for everything you listed, tablets dont specifically because they dont pretend to be a full computer. People who buy them know this isnt a computer replacement for real work, but a supplement. Netbooks were trying to bill themselves as a computer replacement but they are really just a POS.
That being said 99.9% of what most people use a computer for is easily handled by tablets. I do my email, surf the web, work on music, type papers and reports, and play some pretty good games on mine, all activities I did at home with my laptop but no longer need my laptop for. In fact since getting a iPad I literally ONLY use my laptop for work, and even there if in a pinch could SSH into my servers and work on them through command line if need be but would prefer my laptop over doing that.
So no, that crash isnt going to happen and anyone thinking it will is smoking some pretty good crack
Starz really fucked themselves by pullling out of their deal with Netflix. Now Netflix will have a good chunk of the popular movies starz airs while not letting all those exclusive series air for people who dont have cable.
They could have stayed in business by cutting costs because their product wasn't as in demand. But just like our wonderful country's population, the bakers union would rather lose everything that take a cut.
hey if the unions have to take a cut, the management should too, but the truth there was they were getting a 80% RAISE. If we want to be 100% honest here, we should drop the anti-union rhetoric because the truth is they had nothing to do with it. Hostess is owned by a group of venture capitalist firms who put their own people in charge of the company and completely tore it up from the inside out. They eliminated their distribution network, and increased profits by dismantling production to the point that it was impossible to go forward, then used the Unions as a scape goat as they go to scrap the whole company. The Unions had nothing to do with what happened as much of this was done before their contract even went up, including the scrapping of 9 of the factories. Anyone saying the Unions did this is buying the PR line and not looking at FCC filings for the last 3 chapter 11s they issued. I mean they had 7 CEOs in TEN YEARS from Christs sake.
Except its well know the value loss came from insider manipulation that people are demanded be investigated. http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/11/09/apple-its-mojo-and-doug-kass/
NJ CT and NY all pay more money to the US Government that they receive back, so the reality is, they are paying not only for those great views, but making sure the other states don't get sucked up in a tornado or break of the western seaboard in an earthquake too. You owe them, they don't owe you.
"The Galaxy S3 is a bigger seller than the iPhone." Thats all well and good, but if you dont make any money off it (and Samsung doesnt) it doesnt mean shit to investors, Apple is still king and Samsung is still cheap plastic junk in their eyes.
Not only was Apple not using the UDID for user tracking (app developers were and against developer policies might I add) but specifically for iOS beta tracking, but IDFA specifically was mentioned by Apple as the legal way for app creators to do it in the future and is opt-outable. But then you cant spook idiot users can you Sophos into buying your products if you are actually honest.
Who is a fuck ton more of a man than you are to not hide behind a gun when he spoke his mind.
This really seems like it depends on WHAT your company does. Pushing to production a browser or a utility weekly or even daily is a lot easier and less disruptive than say a OS or a major software product thats used by hundreds of large companies. I would say the biggest obstacle is to get rid of the paper process, bring in git or something else for changes that everyone can view, and limit the signing offs to production, QA, or gold master (or whatever your company calls them) while keeping the dev stuff out of it so that the dev team can be more flexible. Also have a pretty good test lab/suite that will enable you to test stuff on the fly on multiple machines and configuration. Case in point Apple has a testing lab of EVERY machine they have made for the last 3 years in multiple configurations for their software. Granted they are a closed ecosystem so its easy for them to do that, but generally you could get a good roundup of machines to use that span from the insane configs to the "are you fing kidding me you are using that???" type stuff.
DUH!!!!!!! Version control numbers are completely beyond the need of the laymen when it comes to OS. All they care about is if its new or different from what they are running and thus why the OS has names like Win 8 or Mountain Lion. I almost never refer to Lion as Lion except to users. To me its 10.7.# Build ##### thats all I need thats all I care about.
For what purpose. Its been pointed out many times the UDID has no real value to the FBI so why would they be taking them?
Only people foolish enough to think antisec actually cares about being truthful would think that. Lets face the facts here
12 million is a piss in the pond in terms of iOS UDID codes. Its less than half the iPhones sold LAST QUARTER. If the FBI was realistically trying to build a database of them, there is no way at this point they would ONLY have 12 Million.
12 million is more easily explained by being leaked from a developer, as up until half a year ago, developers were using the code to identify individual iPhones for various reasons like automatic sign-in to certain services like some of the multiplayer game services. Apple banned them from using it though half a year ago so at this point there was no reason to keep.
The data it's self was incomplete. Some had legit names and addresses while most were just a ID code. If this was from a official source then there would have been a lot more data on most of these. On the otherhand if it was stolen from a developer who let users opt out of giving their information but used the code for autologin purposes, then there would be clear reason why most of the data has no user info attached.
Antisec is still smarting from getting much of its higher ranking leadership arrested from a FBI plant
So really there is no reason AT ALL to believe antisec's claims that they stole the info. There is however a lot more reason to suspect they were trying to stir the pot in the tech community by stoking already present fears of FBI spying which they did a pretty good job at. It gets clueless script kiddies riled up and makes them look cool. Sure the FBI can be shady, but of the law enforcement agencies out there I would honestly have to say they are the least shady of the bunch and tend to release information without bending the truth too much, even when it has the possibility of embarrassing them. Not saying they ALWAYS do it, just saying they tend to be more forthcoming than other government agencies.
" Eventually, devs will move back to the PC because of its more open, less limited setup"
Don't bet on that. As long as there is more money in console development, and there are 3 brand new systems on the horizon in the next 2 years there is little point to move away from developing for them. Remember the current gens been out for years now. THATS the only reason they are having issues with the PS3 DLC, not the system it's self but its age.
Google beat them to the punch with Google Drive. Likewise with reports that after the Samsung spat Google and Apple are talking about sharing their IPs with each other, I dont think Apple has anything to fear with Redmond anymore.
oh god forbid you pay 5 dollars that goes to paying them for making it available for you.... Open doesnt mean Free. Geeks need to get that through their thick skulls that just because something is open for everyone to use DOESNT mean its going to be free.
"The jury was picked to ensure there was no tech skilled or knowledgeable people. I'm surprised they let this guy remain and be allowed to influence the others so quickly on such a massive trail. But then the judge was very much a homer in all her but most trivial decisions." Last I looked the Jury was full of tech people, including 4-5 people who were IBM employees. And none of them used iPhones but a few used Androids.
I dont know this judge was pretty good in doing her job and thats being a judge. You might not like what she did during the trial, but she properly applied the law in her rulings including the ones that threw out prio-art claims by Samsung as they didnt properly follow procedures.
I'm pretty sure the IEEE has worked pretty well also as its their standards you are using to be able to access the internet and post your comment
but its not being shoved down your throat. As long as you know the risks you can run all the unsigned code all you want. But for those of us who work in a managed corporate environment being able to tell users no is a HUGE deal.