You can be sued for listening to signals bombarding you without your consent?
Heres an idea... don't want people to hear your private conversations? STOP SHOUTING IT SO EVERYONE WITHIN 300m or more can hear you!
Whats next? They'll charge people with treason and throw them into the oven because someone over heard them standing in the middle of Berlin screaming state secrets?
I realize that its hard for young'ens to understand this but... people realized the government had issues before the Internet existed. They realized it before TV existed. They realized it before radio existed.
In fact... they realized it before the country existed and that was in fact part of the reason the USA exists in the first place.
The Internet hasn't really caused anything new, it just allows people to gather in groups across larger geographical areas to bitch about common points of contention. Other than that, its the same today as it was 200 years ago.
Having President Obama in office as opposed to Sen. McCain has made their job easier.
Easy to say but you can't prove it in any way.
No one, Obama included, who runs for president does what they said they were going to do during the election. Thank god, we'd be doomed if they did. The whole country would be like California.
If you actually look at what Obama's done, he has probably done more things that McCain was planning to do than McCain would have done himself. I'm 100% OK with this as its going far better than what I expected.
Yep, we probably would have lost WWII had all the idiots who now have the 'knowledge' about battles that they once didn't have would have been ranting, raving and protesting.
People are in fact, stupid. 90% of the population isn't capable of surviving on their own. 10% of the population props them up and keep things actually working well enough to sustain our current population.
You want people to be informed and make decisions about their governance... move to California and see how well it works.
Simple. Most of slashdot is just a bunch of angsty teenagers (even though they may be 40, they still qualify mentally as teenagers) who just want some new reason to bitch at and stick it to 'The Man'.
This decade, it looks like Apple is successful, so they are 'The Man'. 10 years ago, it was MS.
The rest of the world moves on, fanboys still don't get why they will never be nothing more than fanboys of something very few people give a shit about.
You can go ahead and mark me as a troll, I am. I never expect any 100% OSS or 100% closed/proprietary device. I care far more about getting a device that does what I want than putting retarded artificial constraints on something in order to stick it to the man or promote an agenda.
Well, I'll do anything to screw with people who don't make rational decisions.
What if Linux doesn't run the app they needed and Vista does?
I'm sorry, but in the real world, Linux simply can't replace Windows in a lot of cases. I didn't bother to RTFA, its pointless on this sort of discussion on slashdot, no one is rational here when it comes to Linux. Linux may be acceptable in this case, but the retarded 'upgrade to Linux' statement just makes you look... well, retarded.
Did you read it or just skim it for something to promote your political agenda?
Its a safe bet that Linux can be made to work (again, I didn't RTFA) but its also unlikely that when you actually consider ALL the costs, its going to be more expensive. Regardless to how much you just 'say' to the contrary, people know and are comfortable with Windows, Linux desktops don't act or feel the same and that costs a lot of man hours. Not for people like you who can transition to a new OS rather easy, but for all the low level grunts who don't 'know how to use computers', but 'remember the series of clicks' to get their job done.
If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times. The cost of a Windows license, even for a retail copy of Win7 Ultimate is a drop in the bucket compared to all the other costs associated with a user.
Yea, cause thats not easy to detect... you know... when you get a shitload of searches for kiddie porn with the same referrer... no one would ever figure it out.
Glad we've got clever people like yourself pointing out the ways to get around this stuff... the government doesn't stand a chance.
I've searched for child porn on Google. Just to see what would happen. I've searched for terrorist type stuff... just to see what would happen.
I've done some pretty stupid shit, just to see what would happen... and you know what? Nothing fucking happened, no one falsely accused me of anything, even saying I would kill the president on more than one occasion. Theres a little more too this stuff than your paranoid idea that they are going to come get you because you searched for something that might be construed by a couple people as 'bad'.
I agree with the idea of privacy in general, but the ludicrous idea that when you go do things on public websites that you should be able to have complete and total anonymity is just stupid.
You know how I deal with hiding the stuff that I REALLY don't want anyone else to know about it? I don't fucking use public services.
What the fuck is wrong with people now days? Is there some decease thats causing people to be born without one bit of common sense?
That Julian Assange is a fucking douche nozzle with a side of ass goblin.:)
Yes, mark me as a troll for assaulting the precious wikileaks, but really, he's a douche promoting what essentially amounts to corporate espionage in almost every case.
You plug it into your router, your traffic doesn't go through it, its a stand alone device just like another PC. If you use a real switch it will never know anything about your other traffic. Use a hub or a fake 'switch' and it might be different.
Sending an image of an email in outlook that takes half a meg EVERY time it gets viewed is hardly better than sending 15k of html to the client which is cached and displayed locally.
Theres a reason we don't use HTML instead of just sending prerendered images over the web.
Resending an large image every time you hit backspace in Word is hardly intelligent use of bandwidth.
Visual Studio 2003 was the last time you needed to do dev as an admin, and only for certain things where it was just far simplier to be a dev, like working with ASP.NET which used IIS and required admin to edit the metadata database.
Since they use Cassini or whatever the ASP.NET personal web server is now for dev rather than IIS by default there isn't a need anymore.
You need debugging rights, which is effectively as good as admin rights on older versions of Windows, not so much on NT 6.x kernels (I haven't yet been able to sneak around anything with the debugger yet, but I've not really made an effort either, just tried the old tricks which no longer worked)
You still need admin for driver work, but you're probably doing that in a virtual machine or on dedicated hardware with remote debugging, which is a special occasion where you can't really get around it on any OS.
Not nearly as surprising as you getting extra yourself.
An Ipad with a bluetooth keyboard would be a complete pain in the arse to use every day. Not to mention the tiny screen size, risk of theft and the fact that none of our software would work properly.
You mean like a netbook, sinces thats pretty much what it would become. People use them to do office work rather often, as dumb as it seems to me, it does happen.
There is no decent alternative to outlook. Yes outlook has a lot of functionality that many business users need, a user may only need 10% of it but each user uses a different 10%. Between all the end users in a 50 person org at least 80% of all functions are used in Word, Excel, Visio, Project and Outlook. Your experiences are not typical.
Outlook is the killer enterprise app sadly, of this I'm fully aware, I write Outlook plugins. About one in a thousand actually use Outlook for more than email, contacts and occasional note taking however. As for Word, Excel, Pages and Numbers will serve 99.9% of the world, Visio needs to disappear, as its just useful for idiotic middle mangers making retarded org charts in most places, I've met about 4 people who use it where appropriate and for appropriate things. Project... seriously? You use Project? I won't even bother with continuing past saying... there are viable alternatives.
Not to mention production software, ArcGIS wouldn't run, neither will Quickbooks nor will any of the other prod software we use.
You use ArcGIS and QuickBooks? You'd think you'd at least use real accounting software if you're going to pay through the noise for ArcGIS... of course you could also just use the online version of QuickBooks from your iPad, but yes, ArcGIS would be out of the question even if it ran on the iPad. Way to point out a rare piece of software that doesn't apply to hardly anyone.
What about printing?
There a litterally hundreds of apps that I know of capable of printing from an iPhone or iPad. God knows how many there really are. You simply don't know anything about the device you're arguing against.
Ipad's cant access file shares, are you seriously suggesting that everyone keeps all their work locally?
Again, you don't know what you're talking about, see above, the same is true for it.
Enterprise tools (auditing, communications and collaboration, content control).
Lets say it one more time... you don't have the slightest clue what you're talking about. Provisioning profiles can pretty much handle any need here, though they do need a few more things to make it truely enterprise friendly.
You cant even turn one on without another PC.
And you can't turn on your PC without contacting microsoft fairly quickly. You can't turn on the PC at all without power. So what? This isn't unique to the iPad it applies to exactly what you're talking about as well.
Finally we still have the gorilla arm problem when using the touch screen to do basic functions like open programs and scroll. Lack of multi-tasking is another big one, most users in a call centre open at least 3 programs (call tracking, inter-office IM and knowledge base).
Most users have never 'multitasked' in their life. Running multiple applications at the same time is not multitasking. You've listed nothing that requires multitasking other than IMs, everything else is simply task switching, not multitasking. Not unless you're using one hand to work in your ArcGIS system and the other hand to update your knowledge base. iPhone OS apps pretty much by nature have to be designed to task switch, there are some that don't handle it the way they should, but most
If they want your fucking finger print they can get it from any of the several thousand other impressions you make during the day. From the desk you were sitting at, the papers you turn in, the locker door you open, the toilet you flush.
You're finger print is hardly 'sensitive private information' considering you leave it ALL OVER THE PLACE.
If this scares you, you're retarded, ignorant, and stupid. Yes, paranoid is in there somewhere too, but the others rate far higher on the list of your issues than it.
Its just a different form of library card that doesn't require you to carry ANOTHER card with you since everyone one freaks out and is afraid that one card would make it easy to figure out what you do, we can't just use one card. Too bad you can just do a couple google searches and compile the list anyway.
If someone is going to 'watch you', they'll do it regardless of if you use a card, a signature, or a thumb print to check out your 'how to get laid on slashdot' rags from the local library.
No, the ObjC compiler is ass, like GCC in general when it comes to producing fast code. Stop blaming the language for a problem that is clearly determined by the interpreter.
Aren't you cute using the British pound sign for an L... almost as cute as the $ for Microsoft. Almost.
Reality is, Foxconn makes A LOT OF components, sure, call Apple out on it, but your just a troll if you dont' call everyone else out on it as well.
Show me USB connector, serial port, parallel port, VGA port in a computer that doesn't have FOXCONN stamped on it. Same goes for your TV, your monitor, your car/bus/train/motorcycle.
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You can be sued for listening to signals bombarding you without your consent?
Heres an idea ... don't want people to hear your private conversations? STOP SHOUTING IT SO EVERYONE WITHIN 300m or more can hear you!
Whats next? They'll charge people with treason and throw them into the oven because someone over heard them standing in the middle of Berlin screaming state secrets?
I realize that its hard for young'ens to understand this but ... people realized the government had issues before the Internet existed. They realized it before TV existed. They realized it before radio existed.
In fact ... they realized it before the country existed and that was in fact part of the reason the USA exists in the first place.
The Internet hasn't really caused anything new, it just allows people to gather in groups across larger geographical areas to bitch about common points of contention. Other than that, its the same today as it was 200 years ago.
Easy to say but you can't prove it in any way.
No one, Obama included, who runs for president does what they said they were going to do during the election. Thank god, we'd be doomed if they did. The whole country would be like California.
If you actually look at what Obama's done, he has probably done more things that McCain was planning to do than McCain would have done himself. I'm 100% OK with this as its going far better than what I expected.
Yep, we probably would have lost WWII had all the idiots who now have the 'knowledge' about battles that they once didn't have would have been ranting, raving and protesting.
People are in fact, stupid. 90% of the population isn't capable of surviving on their own. 10% of the population props them up and keep things actually working well enough to sustain our current population.
You want people to be informed and make decisions about their governance ... move to California and see how well it works.
Simple. Most of slashdot is just a bunch of angsty teenagers (even though they may be 40, they still qualify mentally as teenagers) who just want some new reason to bitch at and stick it to 'The Man'.
This decade, it looks like Apple is successful, so they are 'The Man'. 10 years ago, it was MS.
The rest of the world moves on, fanboys still don't get why they will never be nothing more than fanboys of something very few people give a shit about.
Troll mods in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...
Did I miss that part?
You can go ahead and mark me as a troll, I am. I never expect any 100% OSS or 100% closed/proprietary device. I care far more about getting a device that does what I want than putting retarded artificial constraints on something in order to stick it to the man or promote an agenda.
Well, I'll do anything to screw with people who don't make rational decisions.
What if Linux doesn't run the app they needed and Vista does?
I'm sorry, but in the real world, Linux simply can't replace Windows in a lot of cases. I didn't bother to RTFA, its pointless on this sort of discussion on slashdot, no one is rational here when it comes to Linux. Linux may be acceptable in this case, but the retarded 'upgrade to Linux' statement just makes you look ... well, retarded.
Did you read it or just skim it for something to promote your political agenda?
Its a safe bet that Linux can be made to work (again, I didn't RTFA) but its also unlikely that when you actually consider ALL the costs, its going to be more expensive. Regardless to how much you just 'say' to the contrary, people know and are comfortable with Windows, Linux desktops don't act or feel the same and that costs a lot of man hours. Not for people like you who can transition to a new OS rather easy, but for all the low level grunts who don't 'know how to use computers', but 'remember the series of clicks' to get their job done.
If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times. The cost of a Windows license, even for a retail copy of Win7 Ultimate is a drop in the bucket compared to all the other costs associated with a user.
Yea, cause thats not easy to detect ... you know ... when you get a shitload of searches for kiddie porn with the same referrer ... no one would ever figure it out.
Glad we've got clever people like yourself pointing out the ways to get around this stuff ... the government doesn't stand a chance.
Yes, because being not being #1 on Google trends means its very rare and not really something anyone looks up.
Really? Why do you have to be careful?
I've searched for child porn on Google. Just to see what would happen. I've searched for terrorist type stuff ... just to see what would happen.
I've done some pretty stupid shit, just to see what would happen ... and you know what? Nothing fucking happened, no one falsely accused me of anything, even saying I would kill the president on more than one occasion. Theres a little more too this stuff than your paranoid idea that they are going to come get you because you searched for something that might be construed by a couple people as 'bad'.
I agree with the idea of privacy in general, but the ludicrous idea that when you go do things on public websites that you should be able to have complete and total anonymity is just stupid.
You know how I deal with hiding the stuff that I REALLY don't want anyone else to know about it? I don't fucking use public services.
What the fuck is wrong with people now days? Is there some decease thats causing people to be born without one bit of common sense?
The moral is ... you missed what was probably your only chance this decade to get laid because you were being what you thought was clever.
A $5 half pound of coffee is generally not worth the $5, thats pretty shitty coffee.
So that means its going to get a fair amount of the smug assholes at Starbucks then ... thats the best news I've had all day.
That Julian Assange is a fucking douche nozzle with a side of ass goblin. :)
Yes, mark me as a troll for assaulting the precious wikileaks, but really, he's a douche promoting what essentially amounts to corporate espionage in almost every case.
You plug it into your router, your traffic doesn't go through it, its a stand alone device just like another PC. If you use a real switch it will never know anything about your other traffic. Use a hub or a fake 'switch' and it might be different.
Your Oracle apps sucked then.
Proper use of cursors and result caching will resolve those issues rather quickly.
I'm not denying your claim that bandwidth usage was better with VDI, but thats just because your apps were REALLY crappy.
Not.
Sending an image of an email in outlook that takes half a meg EVERY time it gets viewed is hardly better than sending 15k of html to the client which is cached and displayed locally.
Theres a reason we don't use HTML instead of just sending prerendered images over the web.
Resending an large image every time you hit backspace in Word is hardly intelligent use of bandwidth.
In the software industry, this is THE BEST sort of sale, they get the money from the sale and have absolutely no support cost.
Shelfware is the greatest thing on the planet for those of us who write software.
Visual Studio 2003 was the last time you needed to do dev as an admin, and only for certain things where it was just far simplier to be a dev, like working with ASP.NET which used IIS and required admin to edit the metadata database.
Since they use Cassini or whatever the ASP.NET personal web server is now for dev rather than IIS by default there isn't a need anymore.
You need debugging rights, which is effectively as good as admin rights on older versions of Windows, not so much on NT 6.x kernels (I haven't yet been able to sneak around anything with the debugger yet, but I've not really made an effort either, just tried the old tricks which no longer worked)
You still need admin for driver work, but you're probably doing that in a virtual machine or on dedicated hardware with remote debugging, which is a special occasion where you can't really get around it on any OS.
Not nearly as surprising as you getting extra yourself.
You mean like a netbook, sinces thats pretty much what it would become. People use them to do office work rather often, as dumb as it seems to me, it does happen.
Outlook is the killer enterprise app sadly, of this I'm fully aware, I write Outlook plugins. About one in a thousand actually use Outlook for more than email, contacts and occasional note taking however. As for Word, Excel, Pages and Numbers will serve 99.9% of the world, Visio needs to disappear, as its just useful for idiotic middle mangers making retarded org charts in most places, I've met about 4 people who use it where appropriate and for appropriate things. Project ... seriously? You use Project? I won't even bother with continuing past saying ... there are viable alternatives.
You use ArcGIS and QuickBooks? You'd think you'd at least use real accounting software if you're going to pay through the noise for ArcGIS ... of course you could also just use the online version of QuickBooks from your iPad, but yes, ArcGIS would be out of the question even if it ran on the iPad. Way to point out a rare piece of software that doesn't apply to hardly anyone.
There a litterally hundreds of apps that I know of capable of printing from an iPhone or iPad. God knows how many there really are. You simply don't know anything about the device you're arguing against.
Again, you don't know what you're talking about, see above, the same is true for it.
Lets say it one more time ... you don't have the slightest clue what you're talking about. Provisioning profiles can pretty much handle any need here, though they do need a few more things to make it truely enterprise friendly.
And you can't turn on your PC without contacting microsoft fairly quickly. You can't turn on the PC at all without power. So what? This isn't unique to the iPad it applies to exactly what you're talking about as well.
Most users have never 'multitasked' in their life. Running multiple applications at the same time is not multitasking. You've listed nothing that requires multitasking other than IMs, everything else is simply task switching, not multitasking. Not unless you're using one hand to work in your ArcGIS system and the other hand to update your knowledge base. iPhone OS apps pretty much by nature have to be designed to task switch, there are some that don't handle it the way they should, but most
Hidden agenda?
If they want your fucking finger print they can get it from any of the several thousand other impressions you make during the day. From the desk you were sitting at, the papers you turn in, the locker door you open, the toilet you flush.
You're finger print is hardly 'sensitive private information' considering you leave it ALL OVER THE PLACE.
If this scares you, you're retarded, ignorant, and stupid. Yes, paranoid is in there somewhere too, but the others rate far higher on the list of your issues than it.
Its just a different form of library card that doesn't require you to carry ANOTHER card with you since everyone one freaks out and is afraid that one card would make it easy to figure out what you do, we can't just use one card. Too bad you can just do a couple google searches and compile the list anyway.
If someone is going to 'watch you', they'll do it regardless of if you use a card, a signature, or a thumb print to check out your 'how to get laid on slashdot' rags from the local library.
No, the ObjC compiler is ass, like GCC in general when it comes to producing fast code. Stop blaming the language for a problem that is clearly determined by the interpreter.
Aren't you cute using the British pound sign for an L ... almost as cute as the $ for Microsoft. Almost.
Reality is, Foxconn makes A LOT OF components, sure, call Apple out on it, but your just a troll if you dont' call everyone else out on it as well.
Show me USB connector, serial port, parallel port, VGA port in a computer that doesn't have FOXCONN stamped on it. Same goes for your TV, your monitor, your car/bus/train/motorcycle.
They have their own internal distro, have for at least 2 years that I'm aware of.
I believe what you're looking for is called a PC.