If they're smart they'll actually use color, lots of color, but only a few colors each year and change them every year. They'll also mildly cut the fabric patterns differently every year and use thinner and thinner material, forcing people to pay for more and more clothing each year as they try to stay current year by year...
They aren't taxi drivers. They keep insisting on this.
For once I will actually agree with them, they aren't taxi drivers, as taxi drivers usually make a livable wage even if it's still on the lower end of the spectrum, and taxi drivers are not forced to take fares that take them so far from home that returning for the night isn't practical.
Why would you bother? If you're maintaining your images properly then you probably have a fresher, more up-to-date image for that particular model PC than what's on it anyway, so if you're going to spend so much time rolling-back you may as well instead deploy fresh. These are public terminals, by and large, user data on the local disk shouldn't be a factor at all.
Even for those users who have their own PC for themselves, if you're providing network storage and if the use of that network storage has been your corporate policy, then content lost on the local disk is their problem, not yours. Obviously try to be polite but don't commit to restoring data that was not properly saved.
Decision-makers at the top of organizations love Windows. They love Microsoft. They love all of the pretty graphs and charts and menus that make it look easy to administer a system or network. The problem is, they often start to think that they actually know how to do just that once they've been through the marketing experience meetings where the people from the vendor with a lot of knowledge make it look so simple, or else they hire people that do a very convincing job of sounding like they know what they're doing but don't. Worst, those people (either the bosses or the ignorant hirees) may be convinced that they know what they're doing far beyond reality.
Now, I will give it this much, sometimes the GUI tools can be useful. It's much easier to plot how network traffic is being passed among multiple interfaces to the WAN or to the ISP across multiple NAT firewalls with a GUI graph than it is on a text console. On the other hand, actually figuring out what's going on is often a function of the console, rather than of the GUI.
For each party's pet causes, the only difference that I see is that the Democrats don't pretend that they're not picking and choosing when to intrude. The Republicans seem to intrude just as much while claiming that they're not intruding.
Wind power in particular could also be a great way to ensure that grazing rights on lands are maintained, since there's no reason why a wind farm and ranching would have to be incompatible, and with the land already being several stages away from being pristine, no reason not to continue to leave grazing rights.
It would take a lot more material than that for a Dyson Sphere. It would take far more material than we have in the entire Solar System.
If you compare to the fictional Ringworld in Larry Niven's N-space universe, a strip that's 1,600,000 km wide, fans have estimated the mass to be the mass of Jupiter, which is just over 2/3 of the mass of the Solar System sans the Sun itself, without respect for composition of the Solar System.
To look at something more practical, in David Weber's Honor Harrington universe, a superdreadnought starship weighs a little under 9,000,000 metric tons. If the entire mass of 16 Psyche is usable then one could build over two trillion of those fictional starships, asteroids like that would make for a sound basis as natural resources for a space-based economy, assuming that one could manage to perform the materials refining needed without landing the mined ore on a planet's surface.
Heh. This actually is a good point in a humorous way. If a device has a fundamental flaw that makes it unacceptable, it doesn't matter what bells and whistles it has.
I'm not quite down there, but I started carrying Palm Pilots back in the late nineties, and those devices were used for address/contacts lists, some light-duty spreadsheet or document viewing and editing, some maps, some PDFs from time to time, some early ebook stuff.
I do look for the technology like a good web browser and other stuff, but I do not expect a phone to be a VR device or honestly, even a good camera. I need it for its ability to retrieve or display information.
I went to a thicker phone. Sure, it takes a little more room in my pocket, but it doesn't slip out of my hand while I'm trying to hold it up to my head either.
And if the phone is modular and was sold through a carrier that has a brick-and-mortar presence, you start by having the carrier send notifications to the handsets on its network to come in and exchange the battery. After that first round, you start being more insistent about it and you possibly disable a feature like high-speed data until they bring it in. For those that continue to ignore it, you brick the phone. You set up a means for the clerk to note that a particular phone's battery has been swapped so to exempt them from the various actions.
I watched Avatar on a friend's system. It admittedly was pretty badass, but as I understand it, Avatar is possibly one of the best 3D movies ever made, where 3D wasn't cobbled-in for just a few effects scenes (thinking of the snake in one of the Harry Potter films sort of thing) or where as you state, looking like cardboard cutouts placed at various intervals.
If they could get 3D TV to work without requiring glasses then perhaps they'd really have something. Until then it's just too cumbersome to be more than an interesting toy.
Now also having worked with SCADA systems for a long time. Most are rather poorly done. The software is usually bubblegum and duct tape with a shiny coat of gloss to make it look nice.
I supported several of these devices for about 10 years. Guess how many are supported now? None. They sit out there waiting for someone to exploit them. They will never see another patch. Ever.
But those older SCADA devices were not dependent on being cloud-connected, were they? There are probably a thousand SCADA devices on the network I deal with and they're all internal-only. They don't reach out to the Internet nor can the Internet reach into them. There's no need, so they don't get the option. Even if they are vulnerable to exploitation, the vectors that would allow for exploit are far fewer.
Well this is definitely an argument in favor of having some modular components inside of compact electronics like phones. It's understandable that the old PC model with sockets for the electronic parts like memory and microprocessors is not practical in miniaturized devices this small, but it definitely makes sense for devices like batteries, which are not nearly so integrated into the electronics as many other devices, to be removable.
Had the batteries been removable, Samsung could have recalled these units by correcting battery manufacturing problems and then shipping batteries to the carriers to distribute via store, or directly to consumers in cases where the store might not be an option.
A couple of coworkers had these phones and basically used them until they were bricked, they loved them so much. A lot of people would have been much less unhappy if a simple battery swap had been an option.
Colleges began as a place for the people that were going to run the country to get educations that enabled them to learn from the greater body of human knowledge in a multitude of fields. That's why there's an emphasis on humanities and other social aspects that seem out-of-step with the technical aspects, to try to instill a degree of social responsibility to those whose later decisions may have societal impacts far beyond their own households.
That's exactly what I mean by not understanding it. It's relatively easy to follow checklists to get something to operate. It's another matter entirely to get something into a secured network segment with only limited access to the rest of the internal network and basically no access to or from the outside network except where relevant.
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If they're smart they'll actually use color, lots of color, but only a few colors each year and change them every year. They'll also mildly cut the fabric patterns differently every year and use thinner and thinner material, forcing people to pay for more and more clothing each year as they try to stay current year by year...
Zardoz made us grow wheat.
I'm reminded of the line, "I owe my soul to the company store." from the song Sixteen Tons.
They aren't taxi drivers. They keep insisting on this.
For once I will actually agree with them, they aren't taxi drivers, as taxi drivers usually make a livable wage even if it's still on the lower end of the spectrum, and taxi drivers are not forced to take fares that take them so far from home that returning for the night isn't practical.
Why would you bother? If you're maintaining your images properly then you probably have a fresher, more up-to-date image for that particular model PC than what's on it anyway, so if you're going to spend so much time rolling-back you may as well instead deploy fresh. These are public terminals, by and large, user data on the local disk shouldn't be a factor at all.
Even for those users who have their own PC for themselves, if you're providing network storage and if the use of that network storage has been your corporate policy, then content lost on the local disk is their problem, not yours. Obviously try to be polite but don't commit to restoring data that was not properly saved.
That's not really it at all.
Decision-makers at the top of organizations love Windows. They love Microsoft. They love all of the pretty graphs and charts and menus that make it look easy to administer a system or network. The problem is, they often start to think that they actually know how to do just that once they've been through the marketing experience meetings where the people from the vendor with a lot of knowledge make it look so simple, or else they hire people that do a very convincing job of sounding like they know what they're doing but don't. Worst, those people (either the bosses or the ignorant hirees) may be convinced that they know what they're doing far beyond reality.
Now, I will give it this much, sometimes the GUI tools can be useful. It's much easier to plot how network traffic is being passed among multiple interfaces to the WAN or to the ISP across multiple NAT firewalls with a GUI graph than it is on a text console. On the other hand, actually figuring out what's going on is often a function of the console, rather than of the GUI.
For each party's pet causes, the only difference that I see is that the Democrats don't pretend that they're not picking and choosing when to intrude. The Republicans seem to intrude just as much while claiming that they're not intruding.
Wind power in particular could also be a great way to ensure that grazing rights on lands are maintained, since there's no reason why a wind farm and ranching would have to be incompatible, and with the land already being several stages away from being pristine, no reason not to continue to leave grazing rights.
It would take a lot more material than that for a Dyson Sphere. It would take far more material than we have in the entire Solar System.
If you compare to the fictional Ringworld in Larry Niven's N-space universe, a strip that's 1,600,000 km wide, fans have estimated the mass to be the mass of Jupiter, which is just over 2/3 of the mass of the Solar System sans the Sun itself, without respect for composition of the Solar System.
To look at something more practical, in David Weber's Honor Harrington universe, a superdreadnought starship weighs a little under 9,000,000 metric tons. If the entire mass of 16 Psyche is usable then one could build over two trillion of those fictional starships, asteroids like that would make for a sound basis as natural resources for a space-based economy, assuming that one could manage to perform the materials refining needed without landing the mined ore on a planet's surface.
Your Deathstar example would probably also work.
I claim this planet in the name of Mars! Isn't that lovely?
We're going to have to learn how to smelt in mirogravity if it's going to be worth anything off-Earth.
Get your ass to Mars.
Heh. This actually is a good point in a humorous way. If a device has a fundamental flaw that makes it unacceptable, it doesn't matter what bells and whistles it has.
I'm not quite down there, but I started carrying Palm Pilots back in the late nineties, and those devices were used for address/contacts lists, some light-duty spreadsheet or document viewing and editing, some maps, some PDFs from time to time, some early ebook stuff.
I do look for the technology like a good web browser and other stuff, but I do not expect a phone to be a VR device or honestly, even a good camera. I need it for its ability to retrieve or display information.
I went to a thicker phone. Sure, it takes a little more room in my pocket, but it doesn't slip out of my hand while I'm trying to hold it up to my head either.
And if the phone is modular and was sold through a carrier that has a brick-and-mortar presence, you start by having the carrier send notifications to the handsets on its network to come in and exchange the battery. After that first round, you start being more insistent about it and you possibly disable a feature like high-speed data until they bring it in. For those that continue to ignore it, you brick the phone. You set up a means for the clerk to note that a particular phone's battery has been swapped so to exempt them from the various actions.
How much thickness do you think the extra outer layer of plastic adds to the phone? If it has to be more than a millimeter I would be surprised.
I watched Avatar on a friend's system. It admittedly was pretty badass, but as I understand it, Avatar is possibly one of the best 3D movies ever made, where 3D wasn't cobbled-in for just a few effects scenes (thinking of the snake in one of the Harry Potter films sort of thing) or where as you state, looking like cardboard cutouts placed at various intervals.
If they could get 3D TV to work without requiring glasses then perhaps they'd really have something. Until then it's just too cumbersome to be more than an interesting toy.
Now also having worked with SCADA systems for a long time. Most are rather poorly done. The software is usually bubblegum and duct tape with a shiny coat of gloss to make it look nice.
I supported several of these devices for about 10 years. Guess how many are supported now? None. They sit out there waiting for someone to exploit them. They will never see another patch. Ever.
But those older SCADA devices were not dependent on being cloud-connected, were they? There are probably a thousand SCADA devices on the network I deal with and they're all internal-only. They don't reach out to the Internet nor can the Internet reach into them. There's no need, so they don't get the option. Even if they are vulnerable to exploitation, the vectors that would allow for exploit are far fewer.
Well this is definitely an argument in favor of having some modular components inside of compact electronics like phones. It's understandable that the old PC model with sockets for the electronic parts like memory and microprocessors is not practical in miniaturized devices this small, but it definitely makes sense for devices like batteries, which are not nearly so integrated into the electronics as many other devices, to be removable.
Had the batteries been removable, Samsung could have recalled these units by correcting battery manufacturing problems and then shipping batteries to the carriers to distribute via store, or directly to consumers in cases where the store might not be an option.
A couple of coworkers had these phones and basically used them until they were bricked, they loved them so much. A lot of people would have been much less unhappy if a simple battery swap had been an option.
Colleges began as a place for the people that were going to run the country to get educations that enabled them to learn from the greater body of human knowledge in a multitude of fields. That's why there's an emphasis on humanities and other social aspects that seem out-of-step with the technical aspects, to try to instill a degree of social responsibility to those whose later decisions may have societal impacts far beyond their own households.
That's exactly what I mean by not understanding it. It's relatively easy to follow checklists to get something to operate. It's another matter entirely to get something into a secured network segment with only limited access to the rest of the internal network and basically no access to or from the outside network except where relevant.
Or are you a one eyed monster
No, that was in the porn...
Just not the British though.
Why don't the British build satellites?
Because they haven't figured out how to make them leak oil yet!
The H4 was a partial failure?
Last time I was at the Royal Observatory, the H4 was not only on display, it was still running.