To my knowledge you are correct. Stockholder and analyst views were never before an issue or the focus of tech stories. I think part of the change comes from the 'new' phenomenon of kickstarter/crowdsource financing which started fairly recently and part from the ridiculous way in which stocks now fluctuate based on some no-nothings comments to the media. I can see a future in which Bunsen Honeydews insights will affect the bottom line of venture capital/tech companies.
Sounds like a good idea. What I'd like to know is when has there ever been equal pay or equality in anything ? Even when it was just the 'good ole boys' club there were always the ins and the outs. Those that were part of the skull and bones frat scene and those that were not. The nouveau riche https://www.google.com/#q=nouv... vs. the old money vs. the working class. No matter which side of the tracks you were born on equality has always been a struggle.
I am not sure how old you are but that is the story of one of the first cable companies as well. When Channel 100 first came out it was advertised as a pay service where you could watch movies without ads. That model did not last long, soon they were showing ads only between movies, then they began having intermissions in movies for commercial breaks, and now we are at the point where TV commercials are shown at the theatre.
I agree but had the story not been published what do you think the chances they would have heard about the issue period ? I am certain the manufacturer would not have willingly acknowledged the possible issue without external pressure.
You can do the same to windows 7/8, and with a little research even to windows X, though admittedly not as easily. My point was the updates, should you choose to accept them come pre-packaged in a large bundle not a per patch system like M$ KB's used to come. The question was, and still is how do you deal with them if a large rollout causes an interruption due to H/W or S/W failure ?
Nor does windows 7/8. My point was the updates, should you choose to accept them come pre-packaged in a large bundle not a per patch system like M$ KB's used to come. The question was, and still is how do you deal with them if a large rollout causes an interruption due to H/W or S/W failure ?
Use a gift card and mail to a PO box service that is engaged under a pseudonym and paid for in cash. Gift cards can be purchased at most grocery outlets, again for cash and anonymously. If you are REALLY paranoid use a VM'd OS that you subsequently wipe on your local library Wi-Fi, or at McDonald's or even Starbucks. For the extreme tinfoil helmet, you can buy for cash a very cheap used laptop that you can dispose of AFTER the transaction, preferably in pieces in several different trash bins behind local grocery stores.
Not to nit-pick but how is Apples update process any different from the model M$ is moving to ? You get what they give, when they want to give it to you and how they choose to dish it out. I too like Apple's UI it is quick, slick and keeps several of my extended family members happy, while Windows 7 and 8 work for others that I haven't been able to pry from the platform. I have windows 10 working because I was curious and I know that eventually I am going to have to support it for someone. Other family members use Android and various flavors of *nix. Currently for the business customers I support I keep a pristine machine running their critical software that I load patches on and test run prior to updating the actual production hardware. The cumulative rollouts both eases this process and complicates it when a rare failure does occur.
Anyone who assumes the change was for the good obviously doesn't understand big business.
The ability to control the border width and color was already present. There are reasons to make changes, when new functionality arises, whether it is behind the scenes for H/W processing changes or to facilitate some S/W updates, but much of the change we see today is to facilitate a change in profit and try to convince people to spend more to increase a companies bottom line. I'm glad you feel free to provide your feedback but perhaps you should read and understand the statements you are replying to first. Everything is indeed a decision, some of them are for need, and some for desire, some are for functionality and some are purely profit driven.
Despite the industries' desire to convince us that change for change sake is a good thing, if it isn't broke don't fix it, and don't screw with things just to add a new paint job. That kind of thinking gets us a 'new' version of windows that is just a Botox job and contains no real functionality. That kind of thinking gets us an all 'new' car model or a brand 'new' iPhone model every year despite the fact that there is really nothing new to add, just a newer model with a minimally incremental H/W upgrade. I think you might be confusing stale with stable and dependable. Should you really care that your desktop manager isn't exciting ? I could never understand the drive to upgrade to the latest and questionably greatest bleeding edge technology. Stay a year or two behind the bleeding edge and don't get cut, or pay the top dollar for something that really does very little more for you. You should only upgrade when there is a clear and definitive reason to do so, when you can't perform a task that you need to do. Does an extra second or two really justify the expenditure of so much resources ? Money, and time to learn a new interface, not to mention wasted resources and increased trash ?
I predict we'll see a split of the internet along international lines shortly thereafter. Under the laws of each nation certain content will be unacceptable and each domain will begin by censoring those that interfere with their personal political agenda's on how things should be represented. Within a year half the net will not 'see' the other half and business and commerce will stutter and survive in certain regions and fail in others.
I'd like to give the appearance of cooperation. Whether right or wrong, I prefer not to spend the day in custody, and even if they are out of line, Customs and Border patrol are one of the last places where even if you are right, you will still lose fighting them in the short term for sure. I live in AZ and going to and from Mexico frequently has taught me that lesson the hard way. Four hours at the border getting vetted and undergoing repeated questioning, only to be released in the end is still a huge pain in the colon. If I had a 'password' that I could supply them at their insistence that appeared to work but actually wiped the device clean I could make a case for having cooperated to the letter of their request.
This just follows the old saying never volunteer anything. There are procedures and policies in place both to protect your rights and to ensure the validity of any investigation. Make sure that they are followed to the letter.
I back my device up everyday. I'd really like an app that would allow me to volunteer a 'password' that would institute a full device wipe should it be invoked, that way I could 'comply' with the demand while not compromising my data at all.
If we as avid gamers don't buy things expecting them to be rocky at the start and get better we'll never get anything worth having. What we need to do is make sure that we support the companies that DO make things right, and fail to support the companies that have a track record of failing to address issues. Another thing users need to do is take over the data gathering about bugs and features that need fixing by utilizing 3rd party forums and making links into the company support forums. Often less than responsible companies try and control 'official' support structures as if they were PR sources. By utilizing more open sources we can ensure that things don't get swept under the carpet or covered up. We as the end users need to be vocal in our support of said fixes and those companies that are most proactive, emphasizing responsive customer service and highlighting those that fail. The cost and procedures of making games these days has ensured that small companies will go under before they have a chance to fix things, or big companies will drop production houses if too much bad press comes out too early. You sort of have to grow a decent brand or it will wither and die on the vine and then everyone loses.
I use Ubuntu and Windows10 for differing tasks, but I really dislike Edge, and I have since the beginning been using IE11 on Win10. Not that I am disputing it happens but I've not had my defaults reset from what I chose when I 'upgraded' my laptop from Win7 to Win10. In favor of Win10 both the sleep and hibernate function work well now, whereas under Win7 they froze or locked up quite frequently.
Back in the early days of online/lan gaming we used to refer to people who came in and spoiled games just for the sake of spoiling them as Llamas. The term derived from lamers or lame gamers. Particularly when we played Heretic2 online or at large scale lan gatherings. In games that had dueling functions they would be the ones that refused to follow any sort of protocol, Much like the type who won't adhere to weapons restrictions in Battlefield games today.
There is a great deal of difference in recovering certain applications or having multiple sites running a subset of one facet of your operation. A full structure recovery requires the hardware, staff and FULL data, e.g. full application and user data available to recover from scratch. That kind of overhead is enormous. Recovering mission critical stuff is par for the course, but recovering everything in a DC needed to do day to day operations in the event of a full infrastructure failure is a different beast entirely.
Do they have a an entire recovery DC or space in someone else's DC ? Most business have plans to recover certain applications or move them to run on backup/development hardware. I worked for years in Contingency recovery and most places I've supported have space to recover applications should they fail, but few have the dedicated space or a plan to recover an entire infrastructure should a failure occur, and fewer have a plan to move BACK to the original space when the problem is fixed. The cost to maintain a duplicate hardware/space for everything, plus the people to recover it in an emergency is ENORMOUS, and the logistics to do so extremely complicated. Recovering the front end in a leased or rented space supported by another entity is very different than a full structure recovery move. Heck most places don't even have the offsite data e.g. full application code plus FULL data backups needed to recovery from scratch.
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To my knowledge you are correct. Stockholder and analyst views were never before an issue or the focus of tech stories. I think part of the change comes from the 'new' phenomenon of kickstarter/crowdsource financing which started fairly recently and part from the ridiculous way in which stocks now fluctuate based on some no-nothings comments to the media. I can see a future in which Bunsen Honeydews insights will affect the bottom line of venture capital/tech companies.
WWMD - What would Muhammad do ? Isn't odd that the letters WMD appear in that ?
*ducks
Sounds like a good idea. What I'd like to know is when has there ever been equal pay or equality in anything ? Even when it was just the 'good ole boys' club there were always the ins and the outs. Those that were part of the skull and bones frat scene and those that were not. The nouveau riche https://www.google.com/#q=nouv... vs. the old money vs. the working class. No matter which side of the tracks you were born on equality has always been a struggle.
Just a notice that Pinky and the Brain are back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I am not sure how old you are but that is the story of one of the first cable companies as well. When Channel 100 first came out it was advertised as a pay service where you could watch movies without ads. That model did not last long, soon they were showing ads only between movies, then they began having intermissions in movies for commercial breaks, and now we are at the point where TV commercials are shown at the theatre.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I agree but had the story not been published what do you think the chances they would have heard about the issue period ? I am certain the manufacturer would not have willingly acknowledged the possible issue without external pressure.
Unless you happen to have or have a family member that has one of the devices in question.
You can do the same to windows 7/8, and with a little research even to windows X, though admittedly not as easily. My point was the updates, should you choose to accept them come pre-packaged in a large bundle not a per patch system like M$ KB's used to come. The question was, and still is how do you deal with them if a large rollout causes an interruption due to H/W or S/W failure ?
Nor does windows 7/8. My point was the updates, should you choose to accept them come pre-packaged in a large bundle not a per patch system like M$ KB's used to come. The question was, and still is how do you deal with them if a large rollout causes an interruption due to H/W or S/W failure ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Just in case you were NOT trolling...
Use a gift card and mail to a PO box service that is engaged under a pseudonym and paid for in cash. Gift cards can be purchased at most grocery outlets, again for cash and anonymously. If you are REALLY paranoid use a VM'd OS that you subsequently wipe on your local library Wi-Fi, or at McDonald's or even Starbucks. For the extreme tinfoil helmet, you can buy for cash a very cheap used laptop that you can dispose of AFTER the transaction, preferably in pieces in several different trash bins behind local grocery stores.
Not to nit-pick but how is Apples update process any different from the model M$ is moving to ? You get what they give, when they want to give it to you and how they choose to dish it out.
I too like Apple's UI it is quick, slick and keeps several of my extended family members happy, while Windows 7 and 8 work for others that I haven't been able to pry from the platform. I have windows 10 working because I was curious and I know that eventually I am going to have to support it for someone. Other family members use Android and various flavors of *nix. Currently for the business customers I support I keep a pristine machine running their critical software that I load patches on and test run prior to updating the actual production hardware. The cumulative rollouts both eases this process and complicates it when a rare failure does occur.
You've obviously never worked in Craft services. That kind of money won't even buy the mustard to cut for 10 sandwiches :).
Anyone who assumes the change was for the good obviously doesn't understand big business.
The ability to control the border width and color was already present. There are reasons to make changes, when new functionality arises, whether it is behind the scenes for H/W processing changes or to facilitate some S/W updates, but much of the change we see today is to facilitate a change in profit and try to convince people to spend more to increase a companies bottom line.
I'm glad you feel free to provide your feedback but perhaps you should read and understand the statements you are replying to first. Everything is indeed a decision, some of them are for need, and some for desire, some are for functionality and some are purely profit driven.
Despite the industries' desire to convince us that change for change sake is a good thing, if it isn't broke don't fix it, and don't screw with things just to add a new paint job. That kind of thinking gets us a 'new' version of windows that is just a Botox job and contains no real functionality. That kind of thinking gets us an all 'new' car model or a brand 'new' iPhone model every year despite the fact that there is really nothing new to add, just a newer model with a minimally incremental H/W upgrade. I think you might be confusing stale with stable and dependable. Should you really care that your desktop manager isn't exciting ?
I could never understand the drive to upgrade to the latest and questionably greatest bleeding edge technology. Stay a year or two behind the bleeding edge and don't get cut, or pay the top dollar for something that really does very little more for you. You should only upgrade when there is a clear and definitive reason to do so, when you can't perform a task that you need to do. Does an extra second or two really justify the expenditure of so much resources ? Money, and time to learn a new interface, not to mention wasted resources and increased trash ?
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I'd strap on my 'tinfoil' hat but I can't get tinfoil anymore. It has been replaced by aluminum foil and that isn't effective.
I predict we'll see a split of the internet along international lines shortly thereafter. Under the laws of each nation certain content will be unacceptable and each domain will begin by censoring those that interfere with their personal political agenda's on how things should be represented. Within a year half the net will not 'see' the other half and business and commerce will stutter and survive in certain regions and fail in others.
I'd like to give the appearance of cooperation. Whether right or wrong, I prefer not to spend the day in custody, and even if they are out of line, Customs and Border patrol are one of the last places where even if you are right, you will still lose fighting them in the short term for sure. I live in AZ and going to and from Mexico frequently has taught me that lesson the hard way. Four hours at the border getting vetted and undergoing repeated questioning, only to be released in the end is still a huge pain in the colon. If I had a 'password' that I could supply them at their insistence that appeared to work but actually wiped the device clean I could make a case for having cooperated to the letter of their request.
This just follows the old saying never volunteer anything. There are procedures and policies in place both to protect your rights and to ensure the validity of any investigation. Make sure that they are followed to the letter.
I back my device up everyday. I'd really like an app that would allow me to volunteer a 'password' that would institute a full device wipe should it be invoked, that way I could 'comply' with the demand while not compromising my data at all.
If we as avid gamers don't buy things expecting them to be rocky at the start and get better we'll never get anything worth having. What we need to do is make sure that we support the companies that DO make things right, and fail to support the companies that have a track record of failing to address issues. Another thing users need to do is take over the data gathering about bugs and features that need fixing by utilizing 3rd party forums and making links into the company support forums. Often less than responsible companies try and control 'official' support structures as if they were PR sources. By utilizing more open sources we can ensure that things don't get swept under the carpet or covered up. We as the end users need to be vocal in our support of said fixes and those companies that are most proactive, emphasizing responsive customer service and highlighting those that fail. The cost and procedures of making games these days has ensured that small companies will go under before they have a chance to fix things, or big companies will drop production houses if too much bad press comes out too early. You sort of have to grow a decent brand or it will wither and die on the vine and then everyone loses.
I use Ubuntu and Windows10 for differing tasks, but I really dislike Edge, and I have since the beginning been using IE11 on Win10. Not that I am disputing it happens but I've not had my defaults reset from what I chose when I 'upgraded' my laptop from Win7 to Win10. In favor of Win10 both the sleep and hibernate function work well now, whereas under Win7 they froze or locked up quite frequently.
Back in the early days of online/lan gaming we used to refer to people who came in and spoiled games just for the sake of spoiling them as Llamas. The term derived from lamers or lame gamers. Particularly when we played Heretic2 online or at large scale lan gatherings. In games that had dueling functions they would be the ones that refused to follow any sort of protocol, Much like the type who won't adhere to weapons restrictions in Battlefield games today.
There is a great deal of difference in recovering certain applications or having multiple sites running a subset of one facet of your operation. A full structure recovery requires the hardware, staff and FULL data, e.g. full application and user data available to recover from scratch. That kind of overhead is enormous. Recovering mission critical stuff is par for the course, but recovering everything in a DC needed to do day to day operations in the event of a full infrastructure failure is a different beast entirely.
Do they have a an entire recovery DC or space in someone else's DC ? Most business have plans to recover certain applications or move them to run on backup/development hardware. I worked for years in Contingency recovery and most places I've supported have space to recover applications should they fail, but few have the dedicated space or a plan to recover an entire infrastructure should a failure occur, and fewer have a plan to move BACK to the original space when the problem is fixed. The cost to maintain a duplicate hardware/space for everything, plus the people to recover it in an emergency is ENORMOUS, and the logistics to do so extremely complicated. Recovering the front end in a leased or rented space supported by another entity is very different than a full structure recovery move. Heck most places don't even have the offsite data e.g. full application code plus FULL data backups needed to recovery from scratch.