If the CIO is making a decision on the OS to use, then get the hell out of that place now.
Well, companies have to make money, and that means doing their job and doing it better than the other guy. It's not that some top level management says, "We will use Windows 10!" but that in order to fulfill the business requirements and get a decent ROI, they will have to run certain software. That software will have to perform certain functions and will have dependencies, especially if coming from a vendor since most software is not written in house. Out of that, they're going to have to go with the most common denominator of an OS (sometime least common denominator) which will most likely eventually be Win10 because any other choice would cost more money that it would save.
But don't worry, I suspect that enterprise will be able to get out of a lot of the things we don't like about Win10 such as the spyware. There are simply too many legalities that MS would be susceptible to if there wasn't from things like SEC rules and HIPAA laws. Of course, the solution for such will be as it is with even many simple things that should be a check box for home users, "Go set up a group policy in your Active Domain".
It's as if a motorcycle mechanic had figured out how to replace the burnt out engine of a unimog with a new crated engine in record time by using engine hoist techniques usually reserved for motorcycles and not cars.
How do they know the earth was first fully formed and only then collided with something large causing the moon to form? I can imagine it was a bit of a jumble at the time but this claim seems a bit arbitrary. Why the need for a collision with something large? Was it something larger than the moon?
It comes basically from the various theories on the formation of the moon. It could have been created in place, spun off of the earth, captured while it passed by, the result of a collision with another object, etc. So there were lots of different theories, and then there was the actual evidence dealing with the chemical make up of the moon, the orbital mechanics, the conservation of angular momentum, etc. Some theories were better than others and explaining the various facts. Some were much worse than the others at explaining the observed facts. In the late 90's, computer simulation of an object hitting the photo-earth and then forming into the current earth and moon because possible and showed that it was possible. That theory then jumped to the head of the line as it at least came in with a C grade (this was in the college physics presentation I attended in the early 90's on the topic) in the various criteria where other theories all still had D and F grades in some of them. It showed that the collision could have resulted in the proto-earth capturing the other objects iron core to explain our large core and the moon's lack of similar amount, the general chemical composition of both, etc etc. So far it seems the theory continues to get stronger. From last I heard, current theory is that two "moons" formed in orbit, and a smaller one eventually collided with the larger and formed the far mountainous side in a fairly non-energetic collision. that was to explain some of the differences between the near and far sides of the moon as well as asymmetric features of the moon. I haven't read this article, but it sounds like this might be an alternate theory to explain similar things. Eventually the theories will continue to get refined till we have a fairly good idea of how it all happened.
... but Christensen was awful; wooden most of the time, delivering his lines like a Speak-and-Spell, and then finding the magic way to be wooden AND over-emotive in other scenes. It's little wonder he's done so little work since the Prequels. He's just unbearable.
Yes, but he does an excellent job of sounding just like an awkward teenager that just found out he has knocked up his girlfriend.
In the case of a taxi however, even if they're using a taxi app, there is no guarantee that they're coming to pick you up, because someone else could flag them on the way, they may get a more attractive offer of someone needing a ride to the airport
That is nonsense. Legally questionable, and what taxi business would allow that?
That would indeed be one way to terminate the organization. ISIS funds itself largely via its oil and gas business. Make these operations impossible for them.
While they do make a lot of money from oil and gas, before they held land, they still made plenty of money through protection. Much the money coming from Saudi Arabia and other countries is not coming from idealogical supporters but from protection rackets extorting money under threat of harm. Economically, they are essentially the mafia who has founded their own country but is still operating in all the surrounding countries.
Business really. Business just wants what they have and they want it to work till they decide it doesn't. They really don't like external vendors telling them they must upgrade at a cost to their business. However, every time there is a bug fix in vendor software, it is in an upgrade that has new features with new bugs because the vendors are in a feature war with their competition over new customers and it would cost them too much to maintain a stable version as well as a version with new features.
Well, as Chicago is cold, Texas is hot. It also gets cold, and then there are the tornados. I do miss the thunderstorms though. The chances of getting into a fight simply due to male macho bullshit posturing are much greater in Texas than most of the rest of the country. If you look weird, are weird, or deviate from the WASP norm in any way, this greatly increases your chances of getting into such a fight. One of the reasons Austin gets many of the people that live there is because it is the tolerant part of Texas. Then, it's one big FLAT landscape*. If you're used to mountains and forests, Texas probably isn't for you. Even the ocean experience may leave you wanting. It is very much a car and truck culture, even in the large cities. Expect to always drive everywhere for everything because nothing is in walking distance and there is no mass transit (as compared with the cities this article is contrasting to). Then there is the general southern conservative racist culture that Texas is known for. There are plenty of good people and you'll find people you like, but you'll also have to put up with everybody else.
*OK, I haven't been to Austin. My transmission blew out on my one trip there for SXSW and I never made it. I spent most my time in Dallas and Houston. And for full disclosure, I left 20 years ago.
Why does it have to be "cool", involved with research or a start up as long as it's an IT job that you find interesting?
You also left out the best things about Nashville: no state income taxes and it's not Memphis.
I read and article a few years ago exactly about that subject and Nashville. Simply put, as Nashville could encourage high tech companies to move to Nashville, the companies found that there wasn't enough suitable employees to make it worth their while no matter what the tax benefits. While some people follow the jobs, most people move to where they want to live and then look for a job. As it turned out, Nashville's research showed that getting those high paying jobs into the community was much more a function of encouraging young college grads to remain in the community than encouraging companies to move there. This involves making the city attractive, i.e. "cool", to said young college grads who are not yet worried about families, mortgages, and other stuff but will be after they have already settled down.
Something that looks and acts exactly like Win7 so the minimum amount of training, question answering, and redevelopment of programs and workflows will need to be done with the employees. Probably won't happen, but Corp IT can hope because the costs for such are rarely included in computer upgrades (as opposed to application upgrades) and are essentially a drain on resources.
The "mission accomplished" was in reference to defeating Sadam's regime. It had nothing to do with terrorism as a whole.
From Navy people I know, not even that. Every time the carrier comes into port from it's six month (?) tour, it flies the Mission Accomplished banner. It just so happened that this time the President decided to fly in, have a press conference, and take advantage of it.
Why are they attacking France? What do they hope to achieve?
One could say that Paris is the NYC of Europe. It's also much closer and easier to get to than NYC. Also, France has its hand in everything, especially North Africa, too. Who invaded Tunisia and decided to call it "France"? Who was pumping all of Saddam Hussein's oil? Who was really driving European intervention in the North African Arab Spring in Libya?
It's also a good thing that billions of people aren't needed in the work-force...
Billions of workers aren't needed, but currently billions of consumers are. Current demand for air travel, for example, seems barely enough to keep two world wide companies going which seem to be in a zero sum game and only still around and unmarked due to national interests. Remove the consumers and demand drops and there will be less demand for planes, so perhaps only one company will survive. Likewise, less flights needed, less airports, etc. At a certain point, their won't be enough demand for planes to even keep the infrastructure in place to build them any more. Many other industries are similar and without the demand and way for it to be fulfilled, the supply will disappear too. Eventually, it will be worth it to give everybody a basic income, or some other strategy for support, because not doing so will mean a drop in available technology even for the rich.
While we might get self driving trucks, I doubt if that will mean getting rid of "truck drivers" any time soon. I suspect it will be a long time before self driving vehicles will be allowed to go off on their own without a person to be responsible. Many trucks need a person to move stuff from truck to destination with the equipment on the truck. Somebody will need to make sure the manifest gets filled out, the truck doesn't get robbed, unload the truck, etc.
So how do I skew the evidence? I chose my nickname in 1986 when I was young, and I still use it today. Since it hasn't changed at all I wonder how they presume to associate any "age" data with that.
Probably, as like people's actual names, their self identified online names to through phases of popularity and change with time. What you chose as a teen in 1986 is not what a teen would choose in 2005. The common "cool words" and slang people use probably relate to their birthdates rather than their current age. Of course, this is all statistical. Your particular nickname might have no relation to your age, but study a hundred nicknames people still use that they chose in 1986, and many if not most might be indicative of their age.
A fingerprint scanner on your phone is what we like to refer to as security theater. It gives you that warm feeling of your stuff being secure without the hassle of your stuff being secure. Is it better than not having any password at all? Well, sure, but if someone can't be bothered to enter a PIN or swipe a line then they probably also don't want to be hassled with a fingerprint scanner. You either care about security or not. If you do, then you use a password or something similar (for a phone). If you don't, then I guess a fingerprint scanner still helps you feel like your stuff is secure, anyway.
But that doesn't mean you need to go around asking questions like "is a bare minimum of security more secure than no security at all".
I don't think you argument stands up as 99.99% of what everybody needs protecting against is "some random kid". It's the same with everybody's house, bike, and most cars. The locks most people use only keep out "some random kid" and are opportunistic in nature. People are able to get into your house easier than they can get into your phone with a thumbprint lock on it. You seem to be arguing that people should just not lock their houses if they aren't buried bunkers with steel doors. And forget securing your bike. The biggest, baddest NYC bike messenger chain and lock will still take second to break for someone that wants that bike enough to get the tools.
It was also dirt cheap, but I never felt quite like an adult until I moved into a place with an actual bedroom.
I lived in one of those too. Thing is, by time I lived in it, they had taken the murphy bed out and called the large closet it used to fold into a bedroom and started renting it out as a one bedroom rather than efficiency.
"People are warned to keep a safe distance from the airship and tether as contact with them may present significant danger."
(from the various armed alphabet agents closely following)
Besides just general boiler plate warning, it's quite conceivable that somebody coming across it might grab onto the tether. With an upgust they could be 50-100 feet off the ground before they realize how high they are and it's too late to let go. Then you just hope you can hold on longer than it takes for the thing to drift down again. Happened to a couple of zeppelin landing crew in the past as grabbing ahold of tethers and tying the things down is how you land a zeppelin.
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Only at incompetent companies.
If the CIO is making a decision on the OS to use, then get the hell out of that place now.
Well, companies have to make money, and that means doing their job and doing it better than the other guy. It's not that some top level management says, "We will use Windows 10!" but that in order to fulfill the business requirements and get a decent ROI, they will have to run certain software. That software will have to perform certain functions and will have dependencies, especially if coming from a vendor since most software is not written in house. Out of that, they're going to have to go with the most common denominator of an OS (sometime least common denominator) which will most likely eventually be Win10 because any other choice would cost more money that it would save.
But don't worry, I suspect that enterprise will be able to get out of a lot of the things we don't like about Win10 such as the spyware. There are simply too many legalities that MS would be susceptible to if there wasn't from things like SEC rules and HIPAA laws. Of course, the solution for such will be as it is with even many simple things that should be a check box for home users, "Go set up a group policy in your Active Domain".
I'd like a car analogy.
It's as if a motorcycle mechanic had figured out how to replace the burnt out engine of a unimog with a new crated engine in record time by using engine hoist techniques usually reserved for motorcycles and not cars.
How do they know the earth was first fully formed and only then collided with something large causing the moon to form? I can imagine it was a bit of a jumble at the time but this claim seems a bit arbitrary. Why the need for a collision with something large? Was it something larger than the moon?
It comes basically from the various theories on the formation of the moon. It could have been created in place, spun off of the earth, captured while it passed by, the result of a collision with another object, etc. So there were lots of different theories, and then there was the actual evidence dealing with the chemical make up of the moon, the orbital mechanics, the conservation of angular momentum, etc. Some theories were better than others and explaining the various facts. Some were much worse than the others at explaining the observed facts. In the late 90's, computer simulation of an object hitting the photo-earth and then forming into the current earth and moon because possible and showed that it was possible. That theory then jumped to the head of the line as it at least came in with a C grade (this was in the college physics presentation I attended in the early 90's on the topic) in the various criteria where other theories all still had D and F grades in some of them. It showed that the collision could have resulted in the proto-earth capturing the other objects iron core to explain our large core and the moon's lack of similar amount, the general chemical composition of both, etc etc. So far it seems the theory continues to get stronger. From last I heard, current theory is that two "moons" formed in orbit, and a smaller one eventually collided with the larger and formed the far mountainous side in a fairly non-energetic collision. that was to explain some of the differences between the near and far sides of the moon as well as asymmetric features of the moon. I haven't read this article, but it sounds like this might be an alternate theory to explain similar things. Eventually the theories will continue to get refined till we have a fairly good idea of how it all happened.
... but Christensen was awful; wooden most of the time, delivering his lines like a Speak-and-Spell, and then finding the magic way to be wooden AND over-emotive in other scenes. It's little wonder he's done so little work since the Prequels. He's just unbearable.
Yes, but he does an excellent job of sounding just like an awkward teenager that just found out he has knocked up his girlfriend.
In the case of a taxi however, even if they're using a taxi app, there is no guarantee that they're coming to pick you up, because someone else could flag them on the way, they may get a more attractive offer of someone needing a ride to the airport That is nonsense. Legally questionable, and what taxi business would allow that?
Seattle's Orange Cab from my experience.
That would indeed be one way to terminate the organization. ISIS funds itself largely via its oil and gas business. Make these operations impossible for them.
While they do make a lot of money from oil and gas, before they held land, they still made plenty of money through protection. Much the money coming from Saudi Arabia and other countries is not coming from idealogical supporters but from protection rackets extorting money under threat of harm. Economically, they are essentially the mafia who has founded their own country but is still operating in all the surrounding countries.
True, but IT will hope, and hope springs eternal.
Business really. Business just wants what they have and they want it to work till they decide it doesn't. They really don't like external vendors telling them they must upgrade at a cost to their business. However, every time there is a bug fix in vendor software, it is in an upgrade that has new features with new bugs because the vendors are in a feature war with their competition over new customers and it would cost them too much to maintain a stable version as well as a version with new features.
And that's bad because ...?
Well, as Chicago is cold, Texas is hot. It also gets cold, and then there are the tornados. I do miss the thunderstorms though. The chances of getting into a fight simply due to male macho bullshit posturing are much greater in Texas than most of the rest of the country. If you look weird, are weird, or deviate from the WASP norm in any way, this greatly increases your chances of getting into such a fight. One of the reasons Austin gets many of the people that live there is because it is the tolerant part of Texas. Then, it's one big FLAT landscape*. If you're used to mountains and forests, Texas probably isn't for you. Even the ocean experience may leave you wanting. It is very much a car and truck culture, even in the large cities. Expect to always drive everywhere for everything because nothing is in walking distance and there is no mass transit (as compared with the cities this article is contrasting to). Then there is the general southern conservative racist culture that Texas is known for. There are plenty of good people and you'll find people you like, but you'll also have to put up with everybody else.
*OK, I haven't been to Austin. My transmission blew out on my one trip there for SXSW and I never made it. I spent most my time in Dallas and Houston. And for full disclosure, I left 20 years ago.
Why does it have to be "cool", involved with research or a start up as long as it's an IT job that you find interesting?
You also left out the best things about Nashville: no state income taxes and it's not Memphis.
I read and article a few years ago exactly about that subject and Nashville. Simply put, as Nashville could encourage high tech companies to move to Nashville, the companies found that there wasn't enough suitable employees to make it worth their while no matter what the tax benefits. While some people follow the jobs, most people move to where they want to live and then look for a job. As it turned out, Nashville's research showed that getting those high paying jobs into the community was much more a function of encouraging young college grads to remain in the community than encouraging companies to move there. This involves making the city attractive, i.e. "cool", to said young college grads who are not yet worried about families, mortgages, and other stuff but will be after they have already settled down.
What exactly is a "proper windows"?
Something that looks and acts exactly like Win7 so the minimum amount of training, question answering, and redevelopment of programs and workflows will need to be done with the employees. Probably won't happen, but Corp IT can hope because the costs for such are rarely included in computer upgrades (as opposed to application upgrades) and are essentially a drain on resources.
The "mission accomplished" was in reference to defeating Sadam's regime. It had nothing to do with terrorism as a whole.
From Navy people I know, not even that. Every time the carrier comes into port from it's six month (?) tour, it flies the Mission Accomplished banner. It just so happened that this time the President decided to fly in, have a press conference, and take advantage of it.
Why are they attacking France? What do they hope to achieve?
One could say that Paris is the NYC of Europe. It's also much closer and easier to get to than NYC. Also, France has its hand in everything, especially North Africa, too. Who invaded Tunisia and decided to call it "France"? Who was pumping all of Saddam Hussein's oil? Who was really driving European intervention in the North African Arab Spring in Libya?
It's also a good thing that billions of people aren't needed in the work-force...
Billions of workers aren't needed, but currently billions of consumers are. Current demand for air travel, for example, seems barely enough to keep two world wide companies going which seem to be in a zero sum game and only still around and unmarked due to national interests. Remove the consumers and demand drops and there will be less demand for planes, so perhaps only one company will survive. Likewise, less flights needed, less airports, etc. At a certain point, their won't be enough demand for planes to even keep the infrastructure in place to build them any more. Many other industries are similar and without the demand and way for it to be fulfilled, the supply will disappear too. Eventually, it will be worth it to give everybody a basic income, or some other strategy for support, because not doing so will mean a drop in available technology even for the rich.
Intelligent people with firsts in physics, maths and engineering are apply for the same shitty jobs as those that struggled to get 3 low grade GCSEs.
Yep, we end up in IT.
What jobs are we going to find for truck drivers?
While we might get self driving trucks, I doubt if that will mean getting rid of "truck drivers" any time soon. I suspect it will be a long time before self driving vehicles will be allowed to go off on their own without a person to be responsible. Many trucks need a person to move stuff from truck to destination with the equipment on the truck. Somebody will need to make sure the manifest gets filled out, the truck doesn't get robbed, unload the truck, etc.
Same for Oklahoma.
So how do I skew the evidence? I chose my nickname in 1986 when I was young, and I still use it today. Since it hasn't changed at all I wonder how they presume to associate any "age" data with that.
Probably, as like people's actual names, their self identified online names to through phases of popularity and change with time. What you chose as a teen in 1986 is not what a teen would choose in 2005. The common "cool words" and slang people use probably relate to their birthdates rather than their current age. Of course, this is all statistical. Your particular nickname might have no relation to your age, but study a hundred nicknames people still use that they chose in 1986, and many if not most might be indicative of their age.
A fingerprint scanner on your phone is what we like to refer to as security theater. It gives you that warm feeling of your stuff being secure without the hassle of your stuff being secure. Is it better than not having any password at all? Well, sure, but if someone can't be bothered to enter a PIN or swipe a line then they probably also don't want to be hassled with a fingerprint scanner. You either care about security or not. If you do, then you use a password or something similar (for a phone). If you don't, then I guess a fingerprint scanner still helps you feel like your stuff is secure, anyway.
But that doesn't mean you need to go around asking questions like "is a bare minimum of security more secure than no security at all".
I don't think you argument stands up as 99.99% of what everybody needs protecting against is "some random kid". It's the same with everybody's house, bike, and most cars. The locks most people use only keep out "some random kid" and are opportunistic in nature. People are able to get into your house easier than they can get into your phone with a thumbprint lock on it. You seem to be arguing that people should just not lock their houses if they aren't buried bunkers with steel doors. And forget securing your bike. The biggest, baddest NYC bike messenger chain and lock will still take second to break for someone that wants that bike enough to get the tools.
It was also dirt cheap, but I never felt quite like an adult until I moved into a place with an actual bedroom.
I lived in one of those too. Thing is, by time I lived in it, they had taken the murphy bed out and called the large closet it used to fold into a bedroom and started renting it out as a one bedroom rather than efficiency.
UK != EU, especially when the UK's not even fully in the EU.
Yes, yes, France makes sure that everybody knows this.
Because we're all fed up with SJW bullshit?
Damned Straight! We want more social injustice!
At any given point, NASA is exactly what congress wants it to be, which is the problem.
and the linked article still doesn't tell you "how to build a secure burner laptop", only that some people can and do do it.
You were expecting actual knowledge from a vice.com article?
You see where it says "vice.com" in the header? You're supposed to click there.
Yeah, I don't want to either.
Sorry, I've learned that if vice.com is in the URL, it's not worth clicking on.
"People are warned to keep a safe distance from the airship and tether as contact with them may present significant danger."
(from the various armed alphabet agents closely following)
Besides just general boiler plate warning, it's quite conceivable that somebody coming across it might grab onto the tether. With an upgust they could be 50-100 feet off the ground before they realize how high they are and it's too late to let go. Then you just hope you can hold on longer than it takes for the thing to drift down again. Happened to a couple of zeppelin landing crew in the past as grabbing ahold of tethers and tying the things down is how you land a zeppelin.