It's really not a big deal. Call Air-Watch or MobileIron or one of the 20 other companies that build comprehensive MDM platforms, get a quote, then put it in his mailbox with a note that says "need this to get your e-mail on your iPad".
Apple now supports Mobile Device Management platforms (Air-Watch is my favorite, MobileIron is also popular, but more expensive) that allow easy end-user provisioning, think of something along the lines of Enterprise Activation using Blackberry Enterprise Server. It also allows a significant amount of control over the device, like what apps can be installed, password requirements, remote lock/wipe, etc.
As far as bulk purchasing apps, Apple now has the "Volume Purchasing Program" that makes it easy to buy multiple copies of each App. Basically you go buy X copies of the app, you're given X download codes, you distribute those to your iOS device users and they use them to purchase the app.
Regarding encryption, iOS devices are also encrypted with 256bit AES hardware encryption (warning, that's a PDF - see page 3). To be honest with the tools available today it's not very difficult to manage Android and especially iOS devices.
To play devil's advocate, if you bring in an unsupported device and start to conduct business on it, then it fails at a critical time, where does that leave everyone? And while you might be very tech savvy, the lady down the hall might decide she wants a shiny new iPhone too, but she still thinks the mouse is a foot pedal. Do I tell her "no sorry Mr McGibby is pretty sharp so he can have an iPhone, but you're a dimwit so you're not alllowed" ?
You also cannot install any App from the App Store without an iTunes account (that includes FREE apps). Not that it matters because it's easy enough to sign-up for a free itunes account (even without a credit card) but I just wanted to mention it for completeness sake.
It's always easy to tell when someone is uneducated on the subject of Israeli and Palestinian relations because they blame one side or the other when there is equal fault on both sides.
Because peace on earth is in everyone's best interest? We can argue over the how-and-what with regard to the details of the US involvement, but I think we should definitely be involved in some capacity if there's anything we can do to help.
But what happens in the next stage when China or Iran tries to do this to some other country?
Are you joking or is this your first day on slashdot? China has been on full scale assault mode for the last half a decade and that's being conservative. Put an IDS on the Internet sometime and just watch what happens.
Having 21 systems doesn't work. It's solving the same problem 21 times by 21 different teams. It's 21 different anti-virus vendors and 21 different spam filters and 21 different system failures is resolved 21 different ways. That's not even remotely close to "working" that's "barely treading water and costing us billions of dollars unnecessarily every year".
The only people who would find this "bug" are people who wanted the feature. Not the millions of other users who are perfectly content. Also filing a "bug" isn't really the appropriate forum. These guys are busy trying to solve ACTUAL bugs. Honestly, try to go convince anyone developing a web browser today to relocate their tabs. Good luck!
I had the same problem a few years ago, so I learned to use my left hand. Now I use my mouse with my left hand at work, and right hand at home. No more wrist pain! Took about 2 weeks of use to get to a point where it wasn't frustratingly slow, but it has paid off in spades.
Well I don't know if comparing film and digital video on a digital monitor really tells you much:) You'd need a film projector using "analog" film and a digital projector with a digital source to get a real comparison, right?
If AppleTV and GoogleTV are any indication, saying that there isn't much opportunity to advance the television might be the understatement of this decade.
#1 i don't know you
#2 i dont know how long you've worked on this
#3 we'll just have to agree to disagree that it is impossible to return a list of 40,000 elements without resorting to a java applet.
Why not just pull one screen of viewable data, show that, then in the background load the rest of the data? You could use Comet to slowly feed data into the app? Or what about just memcaching the entire catalog and spitting it out at them on an unfiltered query? There's lots of ways here just be creative!:) Also don't forget that browsers support compression.
mod this man up immediately. thats my problem exactly. if search was good I wouldn't sort them. when I use gmail I use search (along with tags+archive).
Searching on my exchange server takes days, I don't know what's wrong but it's awful. I organize into a few generic folders (vendors, projects, etc) then at least when I search those folders it takes hours instead of days. So a combination of sorting AND searching.
Why not build it in HTML5/JS/CSS? Then your application can run anywhere without any 3rd party addons like JRE. Even on smartphones and tablets. As someone who has had to manage JRE on a Citrix farm many years ago let me be the first to say "FUCK JRE." We'd end up running ~6 versions of it that had to be installed, in order, oldest to newest, everytime we built out a new node because we had 10+ java apps that REQUIRED different versions of JRE and would not function unless specific versions were installed. It was _miserable_.
. If these IT monkeys really wanted to remove the most targeted attack vector from their "users" machines they would replace "Windows" with something secure.
IT monkeys have software requirements dictated by forces beyond their control. Like that CRM software some random VP bought because some salesman got him drunk and took him to a strip club last week. Welcome to the real world.
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It's really not a big deal. Call Air-Watch or MobileIron or one of the 20 other companies that build comprehensive MDM platforms, get a quote, then put it in his mailbox with a note that says "need this to get your e-mail on your iPad".
There are several good tools for managing iOS and Android devices. Like Air-Watch and MobileIron.
Apple now supports Mobile Device Management platforms (Air-Watch is my favorite, MobileIron is also popular, but more expensive) that allow easy end-user provisioning, think of something along the lines of Enterprise Activation using Blackberry Enterprise Server. It also allows a significant amount of control over the device, like what apps can be installed, password requirements, remote lock/wipe, etc.
As far as bulk purchasing apps, Apple now has the "Volume Purchasing Program" that makes it easy to buy multiple copies of each App. Basically you go buy X copies of the app, you're given X download codes, you distribute those to your iOS device users and they use them to purchase the app.
Regarding encryption, iOS devices are also encrypted with 256bit AES hardware encryption (warning, that's a PDF - see page 3). To be honest with the tools available today it's not very difficult to manage Android and especially iOS devices.
To play devil's advocate, if you bring in an unsupported device and start to conduct business on it, then it fails at a critical time, where does that leave everyone? And while you might be very tech savvy, the lady down the hall might decide she wants a shiny new iPhone too, but she still thinks the mouse is a foot pedal. Do I tell her "no sorry Mr McGibby is pretty sharp so he can have an iPhone, but you're a dimwit so you're not alllowed" ?
You also cannot install any App from the App Store without an iTunes account (that includes FREE apps). Not that it matters because it's easy enough to sign-up for a free itunes account (even without a credit card) but I just wanted to mention it for completeness sake.
Yes, consumers might put up with that shit, but businesses won't.
If you say so.
Small army terror attacks? You need to learn a little history.
The reality is BOTH SIDES of done some awful shit. Anyone who tries to blame one side or the other is just ignorant to the entirety of the situation.
It's always easy to tell when someone is uneducated on the subject of Israeli and Palestinian relations because they blame one side or the other when there is equal fault on both sides.
Because peace on earth is in everyone's best interest? We can argue over the how-and-what with regard to the details of the US involvement, but I think we should definitely be involved in some capacity if there's anything we can do to help.
But what happens in the next stage when China or Iran tries to do this to some other country?
Are you joking or is this your first day on slashdot? China has been on full scale assault mode for the last half a decade and that's being conservative. Put an IDS on the Internet sometime and just watch what happens.
Having 21 systems doesn't work. It's solving the same problem 21 times by 21 different teams. It's 21 different anti-virus vendors and 21 different spam filters and 21 different system failures is resolved 21 different ways. That's not even remotely close to "working" that's "barely treading water and costing us billions of dollars unnecessarily every year".
More specifically the waste is a function of human greed and thus cannot be "fixed" anymore than one can fix human nature.
FUD.
The only people who would find this "bug" are people who wanted the feature. Not the millions of other users who are perfectly content. Also filing a "bug" isn't really the appropriate forum. These guys are busy trying to solve ACTUAL bugs. Honestly, try to go convince anyone developing a web browser today to relocate their tabs. Good luck!
Because it would seriously damage their carrier relationships.
I had the same problem a few years ago, so I learned to use my left hand. Now I use my mouse with my left hand at work, and right hand at home. No more wrist pain! Took about 2 weeks of use to get to a point where it wasn't frustratingly slow, but it has paid off in spades.
So if I use a "film camera" to shoot a television show does reality unravel?
Well I don't know if comparing film and digital video on a digital monitor really tells you much :) You'd need a film projector using "analog" film and a digital projector with a digital source to get a real comparison, right?
If AppleTV and GoogleTV are any indication, saying that there isn't much opportunity to advance the television might be the understatement of this decade.
#1 i don't know you
:)
#2 i dont know how long you've worked on this
#3 we'll just have to agree to disagree that it is impossible to return a list of 40,000 elements without resorting to a java applet.
Best of luck on your project
Why not just pull one screen of viewable data, show that, then in the background load the rest of the data? You could use Comet to slowly feed data into the app? Or what about just memcaching the entire catalog and spitting it out at them on an unfiltered query? There's lots of ways here just be creative! :) Also don't forget that browsers support compression.
mod this man up immediately. thats my problem exactly. if search was good I wouldn't sort them. when I use gmail I use search (along with tags+archive).
Searching on my exchange server takes days, I don't know what's wrong but it's awful. I organize into a few generic folders (vendors, projects, etc) then at least when I search those folders it takes hours instead of days. So a combination of sorting AND searching.
Why not build it in HTML5/JS/CSS? Then your application can run anywhere without any 3rd party addons like JRE. Even on smartphones and tablets. As someone who has had to manage JRE on a Citrix farm many years ago let me be the first to say "FUCK JRE." We'd end up running ~6 versions of it that had to be installed, in order, oldest to newest, everytime we built out a new node because we had 10+ java apps that REQUIRED different versions of JRE and would not function unless specific versions were installed. It was _miserable_.
. If these IT monkeys really wanted to remove the most targeted attack vector from their "users" machines they would replace "Windows" with something secure.
IT monkeys have software requirements dictated by forces beyond their control. Like that CRM software some random VP bought because some salesman got him drunk and took him to a strip club last week. Welcome to the real world.