As a network admin, I despise JRE being installed on workstations. For one, users don't have local admin rights. Second, because of the first, JRE doesn't get updated. That leaves me with no choice. Either grant the user local admin rights to perform the JRE update (which they wont, too much of a PITA) only to hose their system with some form of malware. Or, let the version of JRE fester never being updated and eventually exploited by some nasty drive-by. And yes, I've personally witnessed an employee with non-administrative rights root a box. Obviously, the entire security paradigm within Windows and how applications interact at this level is fundamental flawed. Sandboxing should be enforced.
Excuse me! If MS ever pulled a stunt like that, it would be published on Slashdot with thousands of readers keel hauling Microsoft for pulling a reckless stunt like that! Microsoft has no business nor responsibility for patching a 3rd party application that may break existing functionality. Not even Apple does this in their walled garden. At least not to my knowledge as a MacBook user myself.
I wouldn't mind if Microsoft provided warnings and notifications to users to seek out their respective 3rd party vendor for updates. But to actually hold Microsoft accountable for updating someone elses applications is ludicrous! No wonder shit breaks under Linux when an update rolls along. In fact aside from a hardware failure, 99% of the Linux horror stories involves updates breaking shit. That update policy sucks ass!
Windows 7 does an exception job at utilizing RAM. Essentially, it will cache the last known application in RAM (standby) prior to flushing it out for something needed in real time. 4GB is enough in Window 7 for most users that need Outlook, Word, Excel and a browser or two open. 8GB for heavy power users and light AutoCAD. 16GB for serious workstation work with a potential VM running in the background. 32GB??? What do you have, a server under your desk?! Sheesh.
Some public sector (government) IT jobs *require* a degree in the related field. A CS degree will cover it. And no, it has nothing to do with experience or capability. It has everything to do with management in CYA mode and those above them along the ranks. So when IT fucks up, someone can simply say "but he has a degree. I trusted him. Not my fault".
I expect this mentality to trickle down the private sector as well. Companies may not get bank loans unless the banks are sure X amount of employees hold a degree. Risk mitigation and CYA mode for their investors. It's all bullshit, and that's the world we are headed towards. As for your 20 years experience? They won't fucking care.
Doesn't matter how wrong someone is. Nobody deserves to be subjected to a "reeducation camp". Unless of course you want something equivalent of the the German Stasi enforcing environmental regulation.
But how does bigger government help the Democrats?
Real easy, and a pleasure to answer. Democrats want to tax and spend more to create a nation of dependents. They don't want a middle class. They want a minority of rich and everyone else poor and dependent on the Goverment in indentured servitude. Food stamps, minimum wage, housing and education assistance all go away if you vote for that "other party". Yet, it's the Democrats who create this situation so they can at the same time act as the savior you can't live without. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
I can envision the Democratic party being elected in perpetuity. The American version of the CCP
Well, yes. That's why all mobile devices are headed towards the mysterious cloud. Drop or lose the thing, and you can quickly port over its identity via an online backup.
Mobile will dominate. Your "desktop" will be just be a fancy docking station for your phone (wireless perhaps with induction for power too). Wherever you sit down, your mobile device and the desk in front of you can pair for extended functionality. 10 to 20 years later, it will have AI like HAL 9000. As it is, IBM Watson comes close today.
Welcome to your personalized "symbiant" where in the future the vast majority of users will rarely touch a GUI and may never even have heard of the CLI. Eventually this symbiant turns into a mind numbing crutch for the mind as idiocracy takes us all to the abyss.
Supposedly the caps aren't hard cutoffs of service. Rather, you incur an additional charge of 10$ a month for every 50GB beyond the 150GB monthly limit.
It would end civilization as we know it. But there would still be patches of families and clans roaming about even if they're reduced to a nomadic lifestyle.
You will receive a notice the first time your usage exceeds the data plan. We will send you alerts if your usage approaches or exceeds the amount of data included in your plan. If you exceed your monthly data plan a third time we'll charge you $10 for each additional 50 GB of data provided to you that month. You'll be charged $10 for every incremental 50 GB of usage beyond your plan.
Actually, I don't think that's an absolute requirement. Take the black plague for example. Many people who died already had children. But, many of the survivors went on with their lives, married, and had additional children. These children now have the genetic benefits of their surviving parents. A benefit they wouldn't have had until after both their parents lost their previous spouse in a previous relationship.
The WTC towers should have been built in the exact same place better and possibly taller. We're a bunch of pussies in this regards. Instead of building the ultimate "fuck you" to them, we instead snivel in a corner and build a bunch of memorials. I'm sorry, but it's not worth all that for 3,000 people. Etch their names in stone someplace else. On the outside, a wall, or insides someplace. But there's no reason to create nothing short of a shrine that only symbolizes cowardice!
I got out of OCing mid-2003. Case modding was kinda cool, but OCing went insanely beyond the laws of diminishing returns. Effectively, it became a really expensive pissing contents of who could aim higher and farther. Never mind the fact these people are pissing for all the wrong reasons to begin with.
I'm looking to replace my current Q6600 CPU rig with one of these newer Ivory Bridge chips. I've got quite a few DVDs and BDs that I've been transcoding in batch jobs lately. I've also been doing it for friends and co-workers for all their "iDevice" units. Funny how I ended up becoming the go-to person for all this, but that's how it worked out. Anyways, I won't be OCing just as I haven't with my current setup. Over volting shortens the life, causes all sorts of random stability issues, and the slightest of timing changes of RAM will cause all sorts of data corruption once flushed back to disk. If you're lucky, the system starts throwing BSODs early so you can address the issue rather than being lead to believe an OCed system is running flawless (which they rarely if ever do). In fact, I haven't decided if I want an extra layer of protection and go with ECC memory. AMD would be the cheaper route far and away. Intel intentionally segments that market to require Xeons and a capable motherboard supporting ECC as well. That's the one area that really makes me angry about Intel.
Hairy is correct. The OCing scene is a lot like the PC version of street drag racing. Just as expensive too. OCing used to mean cheating the system. You cranked up a shitty little Celeron 300 with a better HSF and called it a day. Now, it's all about who's the better benchmark queen.
It's been known for a long time that there are distinct differences in quality control of a car depending on what plant they came out of. For example, anything that ships from Japan and Germany are the cars you want when shopping. Canada and USA are good too. But last I checked, anything coming out of Mexico has a horrible track record of issues. Be sure to check your VINs when looking for a new car.
Bedbugs used to be a thing of the past thanks to the wide spread use of DDT in the 50s. Their reemergence was only a matter of time now that it was banned. But, New York is a melting pot for people all over the world, and someone brought the bugs with them. Eventually they spread like wildfire and the rest they say is history.
60fps isn't a visual or motion problem for people, but a psychological one. Footage based on nature (wildlife, flyovers etc) or fast paced sports action is very pleasing at the 60fps rate. But, when you're having to watch people at those rates, it feels too realistic for people's comfort. For some, it's a feeling of invasiveness while for others it breaks the suspension of disbelief. Basically, their acting looks fake because now the temporal resolution is much higher for an actor than you're normally accustomed to. For example, if you suck as an actor at 24fps, that actor is really going to suck at 60fps. The subtle nuances become more prominent to us.
I live in Houston. Sales tax is different depending on what city you live in. What's to prevent the Texas, or any state for that matter, telling Amazing to collect texas based on the local sales rate of your resident. Or is that already happening? If not, there will be a lot of fights among cities as to who gets what percentage of the sales taxes collected by Amazon on the states government's behalf.
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As a network admin, I despise JRE being installed on workstations. For one, users don't have local admin rights. Second, because of the first, JRE doesn't get updated. That leaves me with no choice. Either grant the user local admin rights to perform the JRE update (which they wont, too much of a PITA) only to hose their system with some form of malware. Or, let the version of JRE fester never being updated and eventually exploited by some nasty drive-by. And yes, I've personally witnessed an employee with non-administrative rights root a box. Obviously, the entire security paradigm within Windows and how applications interact at this level is fundamental flawed. Sandboxing should be enforced.
Excuse me! If MS ever pulled a stunt like that, it would be published on Slashdot with thousands of readers keel hauling Microsoft for pulling a reckless stunt like that! Microsoft has no business nor responsibility for patching a 3rd party application that may break existing functionality. Not even Apple does this in their walled garden. At least not to my knowledge as a MacBook user myself.
I wouldn't mind if Microsoft provided warnings and notifications to users to seek out their respective 3rd party vendor for updates. But to actually hold Microsoft accountable for updating someone elses applications is ludicrous! No wonder shit breaks under Linux when an update rolls along. In fact aside from a hardware failure, 99% of the Linux horror stories involves updates breaking shit. That update policy sucks ass!
Windows 7 does an exception job at utilizing RAM. Essentially, it will cache the last known application in RAM (standby) prior to flushing it out for something needed in real time. 4GB is enough in Window 7 for most users that need Outlook, Word, Excel and a browser or two open. 8GB for heavy power users and light AutoCAD. 16GB for serious workstation work with a potential VM running in the background. 32GB??? What do you have, a server under your desk?! Sheesh.
Some public sector (government) IT jobs *require* a degree in the related field. A CS degree will cover it. And no, it has nothing to do with experience or capability. It has everything to do with management in CYA mode and those above them along the ranks. So when IT fucks up, someone can simply say "but he has a degree. I trusted him. Not my fault".
I expect this mentality to trickle down the private sector as well. Companies may not get bank loans unless the banks are sure X amount of employees hold a degree. Risk mitigation and CYA mode for their investors. It's all bullshit, and that's the world we are headed towards. As for your 20 years experience? They won't fucking care.
EPA. You know, the same group that wanted to "crucify" big-oil!
Doesn't matter how wrong someone is. Nobody deserves to be subjected to a "reeducation camp". Unless of course you want something equivalent of the the German Stasi enforcing environmental regulation.
FUCK HIM!
Real easy, and a pleasure to answer. Democrats want to tax and spend more to create a nation of dependents. They don't want a middle class. They want a minority of rich and everyone else poor and dependent on the Goverment in indentured servitude. Food stamps, minimum wage, housing and education assistance all go away if you vote for that "other party". Yet, it's the Democrats who create this situation so they can at the same time act as the savior you can't live without. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
I can envision the Democratic party being elected in perpetuity. The American version of the CCP
Ego. That's what's going on here. And the powers that be in Russia are willing to risk a complete throwback to the cold war era.
Well, yes. That's why all mobile devices are headed towards the mysterious cloud. Drop or lose the thing, and you can quickly port over its identity via an online backup.
Mobile will dominate. Your "desktop" will be just be a fancy docking station for your phone (wireless perhaps with induction for power too). Wherever you sit down, your mobile device and the desk in front of you can pair for extended functionality. 10 to 20 years later, it will have AI like HAL 9000. As it is, IBM Watson comes close today.
Welcome to your personalized "symbiant" where in the future the vast majority of users will rarely touch a GUI and may never even have heard of the CLI. Eventually this symbiant turns into a mind numbing crutch for the mind as idiocracy takes us all to the abyss.
Supposedly the caps aren't hard cutoffs of service. Rather, you incur an additional charge of 10$ a month for every 50GB beyond the 150GB monthly limit.
It would end civilization as we know it. But there would still be patches of families and clans roaming about even if they're reduced to a nomadic lifestyle.
AT&T capped my 6mb DSL account at 150GB a month.
AT&T.
While applying Just For Men on his graying beard.
provided that they die prior to reproducing
Actually, I don't think that's an absolute requirement. Take the black plague for example. Many people who died already had children. But, many of the survivors went on with their lives, married, and had additional children. These children now have the genetic benefits of their surviving parents. A benefit they wouldn't have had until after both their parents lost their previous spouse in a previous relationship.
Amen to that!
The WTC towers should have been built in the exact same place better and possibly taller. We're a bunch of pussies in this regards. Instead of building the ultimate "fuck you" to them, we instead snivel in a corner and build a bunch of memorials. I'm sorry, but it's not worth all that for 3,000 people. Etch their names in stone someplace else. On the outside, a wall, or insides someplace. But there's no reason to create nothing short of a shrine that only symbolizes cowardice!
I got out of OCing mid-2003. Case modding was kinda cool, but OCing went insanely beyond the laws of diminishing returns. Effectively, it became a really expensive pissing contents of who could aim higher and farther. Never mind the fact these people are pissing for all the wrong reasons to begin with.
I'm looking to replace my current Q6600 CPU rig with one of these newer Ivory Bridge chips. I've got quite a few DVDs and BDs that I've been transcoding in batch jobs lately. I've also been doing it for friends and co-workers for all their "iDevice" units. Funny how I ended up becoming the go-to person for all this, but that's how it worked out. Anyways, I won't be OCing just as I haven't with my current setup. Over volting shortens the life, causes all sorts of random stability issues, and the slightest of timing changes of RAM will cause all sorts of data corruption once flushed back to disk. If you're lucky, the system starts throwing BSODs early so you can address the issue rather than being lead to believe an OCed system is running flawless (which they rarely if ever do). In fact, I haven't decided if I want an extra layer of protection and go with ECC memory. AMD would be the cheaper route far and away. Intel intentionally segments that market to require Xeons and a capable motherboard supporting ECC as well. That's the one area that really makes me angry about Intel.
Hairy is correct. The OCing scene is a lot like the PC version of street drag racing. Just as expensive too. OCing used to mean cheating the system. You cranked up a shitty little Celeron 300 with a better HSF and called it a day. Now, it's all about who's the better benchmark queen.
It's been known for a long time that there are distinct differences in quality control of a car depending on what plant they came out of. For example, anything that ships from Japan and Germany are the cars you want when shopping. Canada and USA are good too. But last I checked, anything coming out of Mexico has a horrible track record of issues. Be sure to check your VINs when looking for a new car.
Bedbugs used to be a thing of the past thanks to the wide spread use of DDT in the 50s. Their reemergence was only a matter of time now that it was banned. But, New York is a melting pot for people all over the world, and someone brought the bugs with them. Eventually they spread like wildfire and the rest they say is history.
I say just give every fortune 500 their own TLD. Apple, Google, Intel, Exon, the list goes on.
ipad.apple
maps.google
investment.exon
cpu.intel
The Communist Manifesto. Authored by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
60fps isn't a visual or motion problem for people, but a psychological one. Footage based on nature (wildlife, flyovers etc) or fast paced sports action is very pleasing at the 60fps rate. But, when you're having to watch people at those rates, it feels too realistic for people's comfort. For some, it's a feeling of invasiveness while for others it breaks the suspension of disbelief. Basically, their acting looks fake because now the temporal resolution is much higher for an actor than you're normally accustomed to. For example, if you suck as an actor at 24fps, that actor is really going to suck at 60fps. The subtle nuances become more prominent to us.
I live in Houston. Sales tax is different depending on what city you live in. What's to prevent the Texas, or any state for that matter, telling Amazing to collect texas based on the local sales rate of your resident. Or is that already happening? If not, there will be a lot of fights among cities as to who gets what percentage of the sales taxes collected by Amazon on the states government's behalf.