I read somewhere that one country (I think its India) is simply blocking/making illegal all/any encrypted traffic on the basis that they can't conduct legal wiretaps on encrypted data.
I bet it doesn't make sense when you factor in the cost of wear and tear on the very expensive batteries (that have a finite life of useful charge/discharge cycles).
This is baloney (from your original post): >>> At the very least does it have the lock for the interior door on the outside of the plane so that the cockpit can't be opened during flight?
Really? you want the door between the flight deck and the rest of the cabin to be only unlockable from outside the plane? Are you aware of the many reasons why the pilot or first officer may need to leave the cockpit?
>>> There is no compelling reason that any of the "trusted" visitors that you name need to be passing back and forth between the cockpit and the passenger area while in flight. None. Zip. Zero....And you know this how? do you even have a pilots licence or work in the aviation industry? (Hint: I do)
Thats baloney. It is called the locked flight deck door policy. The pilot/first officer can open the door anytime they like. Furthermore company employees, CAA ops inspectors, ATC visits are all considered "trusted" and can enter the cockpit during flight.
what you're really asking is...should he compromise? If the reason he got a CS degree is because his real dream is to do software development, then No. He shouldn't compromise. If the reason he got a degree is because its easier to get a better job, and it just happened that he chose CS, then Yes he should take the Admin job. Actually it seems these days there are always way more sys/network admin jobs around than actual developer jobs so he's probably statistically better off going that route.
I really think this decision is so retarded that it will cause Joe Public en masse to finally wake up and wean themselves off of their Windows addiction.
Hopefully enough people will vote with their wallets that Microsoft will be moved so far along their own path of self destruction that they will reach their goal early.
I keep hearing "PC's are being replaced by tables/mobiles" mantra but its bullshit, especially for most techies.
Most of us still want/need a heavy-duty tool instead of some fetishistic wafer that is designed entirely on the incorrect premise that all people ever do is update their facebook status.
Wake me up when you can plug a top-end video card, a serious CPU and a raid array into a iPad.
I predict Quixter will get way more customers than Netflix. I hope this will be a clear message to the Netflix board to finally get rid of the clueless CEO (Hastings).
The reasons I don't, can't & wouldn't want to stream: * Netflix (still) don't support streaming to Linux * Streaming picture quality is significantly worse than DVD, let alone Blu-ray * Transient net lags often pause or even kill streaming mid-movie (I know this from both my neighbors who stream netflix) * Can't REW/FF with enough granularity (frame by frame) * The next thing will be compulsory-watch advertising in the stream
Hastings recently stated there will definitely be no more price rises, but I find it VERY hard to believe that the monthly outlay for a Netflix account + a Quixter account will not be together more expensive than a single Netflix DVD+streaming account.
*sigh* All this will mean is an even longer shutdown. Even before this new 'feature' gets added, WTF is all the work that windows is doing during shutdown? Surely all it really needs to do is kill everything that isn't actively writing to disk.
Lets have some differentiation. It may be a political statement but its not art.
How can this be put in the same category as a painting by a great master?
I long for a return to the time when great art and music means something produced by someone with a unique genius or at least a skill that took and decades to perfect, not something that is just all about an idea and not its execution. Where's the value in something that any of us could make in a few minutes?
I understand longer wavelength light (i.e. -> infra red) but blue photons have higher energy than green ones, so would a blue laser be better or worse than a green laser for burning/meltng stuff?
Given we know that exposing your eyes to any laser light is a bad idea, and that blue light has more energy but your eyes are way more sensitive to green, which color laser would potentially be a higher risk for damaging your eyes (say from specular reflections)?
> some of its best potential engineers are not even studying engineering, leaving us short-changed
I'm pretty sure I'm potentially the worlds best brain surgeon, although I don't know because I've never studied or practiced anything to do with medicine.So because of my actions there's now a shortage int the US of brain surgeons.
Pads necessarily having better battery life than laptops is highly debatable as there are endless different pads and laptops out there. The other things you mention and imply such as lighter weight, zero boot time and other touchy-feely stuff are marginally nice to have but secondary. Its not like boot time or the weight of the pad/laptop stops you using it. The lack of an efficient keyboard might. This whole weight thing that marketing types hype is more than a little ridiculous anyway. To be honest I don't even notice let alone care about the extra few grams caused by the inclusion of a keyboard in my laptop. See we have these things called muscles...
Pads are a fad. Trying to type anything on a touchscreen is horrible. Thats why a laptop is and will always be a better portable computing option for doing anything practical.
By far the biggest reason the iPad sold so many is that its an Apple product. On its release it plugged right into the existing market of rabid buy-anything-Apple-makes fanbois.
I know several people that have bought an iPad. They all have one thing in common: After the novelty wears off in about 2 weeks, they don't actually touch their iPads other than to play games.
They should make electric cars so that the battery pack itself can be quickly and automatedly changed out (at a properly equipped station), Think of driving onto a pad where a robot arm removes/inserts a big standardized slide-in cartridge. One size fits all. Maybe bigger cars and trucks have multiple slots.
Also The standard marketing model should be that you rent batteries, not outright own the batteries.
This addresses many problems: 1) Full electric cars get much cheaper to buy in the first place as you're no longer required to outright buy the most expensive single part... the batteries).
2) (at a properly equipped gas station) You could go from 0 charge to full charge in less time than it takes to fill a gas tank.
3) Assuming a network of such stations, you can go cross-country in an electric car, just like you can now in a gas-powered car. i.e. Without significant recharging delays or much fear of running out of charge in the middle of nowhere.
4) In an electric-only future, we can continue to make good use of existing gas station forecourts (by refitting them to battery swap-out stations) and gas station companies now have a business model even if gas goes away fully.
5) A few big gas station chains now each own literally millions of batteries, you can bet there will be a LOT of funding for the battery tech itself to get better and cheaper faster.
6) Electric car owners no longer need to worry about having to completely replace their battery pack every 7 years.
7) More efficient charging and maintenance, and more controllable/traceable recycling and disposal of batteries. (One issue is that repeated rapid-charging wears out batteries much quicker but today its unrealistic to think electric-only car owners won't trade off battery lifespan for time-saving convenience).
Microsoft disgust me. After decades of this sort of deceitful behaviour, it is evidently still too much to expect Microsoft to actually do the 'right thing' in the first place.
Even without any sort of ethics, they're also too stupid to actually learn their lesson that all these scams that Microsoft repeatedly perpetrate on their own customers always eventually get discovered and backfire with far more loss of face and therefore sales than presumably they gain from doing the thing in the first place.
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They're sending it at night to avoid heat issues.
I read somewhere that one country (I think its India) is simply blocking/making illegal all/any encrypted traffic on the basis that they can't conduct legal wiretaps on encrypted data.
I bet it doesn't make sense when you factor in the cost of wear and tear on the very expensive batteries (that have a finite life of useful charge/discharge cycles).
This is baloney (from your original post):
>>> At the very least does it have the lock for the interior door on the outside of the plane so that the cockpit can't be opened during flight?
Really? you want the door between the flight deck and the rest of the cabin to be only unlockable from outside the plane? Are you aware of the many reasons why the pilot or first officer may need to leave the cockpit?
>>> There is no compelling reason that any of the "trusted" visitors that you name need to be passing back and forth between the cockpit and the passenger area while in flight. None. Zip. Zero. ...And you know this how? do you even have a pilots licence or work in the aviation industry? (Hint: I do)
Thats baloney.
It is called the locked flight deck door policy. The pilot/first officer can open the door anytime they like. Furthermore company employees, CAA ops inspectors, ATC visits are all considered "trusted" and can enter the cockpit during flight.
Yeah good idea. We should seal the pilots in the flight deck like the Japanese did to their kamikaze pilots.
Oh wait....
what you're really asking is...should he compromise?
If the reason he got a CS degree is because his real dream is to do software development, then No. He shouldn't compromise.
If the reason he got a degree is because its easier to get a better job, and it just happened that he chose CS, then Yes he should take the Admin job. Actually it seems these days there are always way more sys/network admin jobs around than actual developer jobs so he's probably statistically better off going that route.
I really think this decision is so retarded that it will cause Joe Public en masse to finally wake up and wean themselves off of their Windows addiction.
Hopefully enough people will vote with their wallets that Microsoft will be moved so far along their own path of self destruction that they will reach their goal early.
I keep hearing "PC's are being replaced by tables/mobiles" mantra but its bullshit, especially for most techies.
Most of us still want/need a heavy-duty tool instead of some fetishistic wafer that is designed entirely on the incorrect premise that all people ever do is update their facebook status.
Wake me up when you can plug a top-end video card, a serious CPU and a raid array into a iPad.
I agree but they will get away with this.
The majority of people just buy a pre-built computer and don't/won't understand or even care about UEFI.
There are many opensource equivalents:
Zimbra, open-xchange, communigate pro to name but a few.
any linux distro's install disk.
Why struggle with the lame duck that is windows? just blow the whole thing away.
I predict Quixter will get way more customers than Netflix. I hope this will be a clear message to the Netflix board to finally get rid of the clueless CEO (Hastings).
The reasons I don't, can't & wouldn't want to stream:
* Netflix (still) don't support streaming to Linux
* Streaming picture quality is significantly worse than DVD, let alone Blu-ray
* Transient net lags often pause or even kill streaming mid-movie (I know this from both my neighbors who stream netflix)
* Can't REW/FF with enough granularity (frame by frame)
* The next thing will be compulsory-watch advertising in the stream
Hastings recently stated there will definitely be no more price rises, but I find it VERY hard to believe that the monthly outlay for a Netflix account + a Quixter account will not be together more expensive than a single Netflix DVD+streaming account.
meh. I'm waiting until Linux 95.
*sigh* All this will mean is an even longer shutdown.
Even before this new 'feature' gets added, WTF is all the work that windows is doing during shutdown?
Surely all it really needs to do is kill everything that isn't actively writing to disk.
Lets have some differentiation. It may be a political statement but its not art.
How can this be put in the same category as a painting by a great master?
I long for a return to the time when great art and music means something produced by someone with a unique genius or at least a skill that took and decades to perfect, not something that is just all about an idea and not its execution. Where's the value in something that any of us could make in a few minutes?
I understand longer wavelength light (i.e. -> infra red) but blue photons have higher energy than green ones, so would a blue laser be better or worse than a green laser for burning/meltng stuff?
Given we know that exposing your eyes to any laser light is a bad idea, and that blue light has more energy but your eyes are way more sensitive to green, which color laser would potentially be a higher risk for damaging your eyes (say from specular reflections)?
> some of its best potential engineers are not even studying engineering, leaving us short-changed
I'm pretty sure I'm potentially the worlds best brain surgeon, although I don't know because I've never studied or practiced anything to do with medicine.So because of my actions there's now a shortage int the US of brain surgeons.
Pads necessarily having better battery life than laptops is highly debatable as there are endless different pads and laptops out there.
The other things you mention and imply such as lighter weight, zero boot time and other touchy-feely stuff are marginally nice to have but secondary. Its not like boot time or the weight of the pad/laptop stops you using it.
The lack of an efficient keyboard might.
This whole weight thing that marketing types hype is more than a little ridiculous anyway. To be honest I don't even notice let alone care about the extra few grams caused by the inclusion of a keyboard in my laptop. See we have these things called muscles...
Pads are a fad. Trying to type anything on a touchscreen is horrible. Thats why a laptop is and will always be a better portable computing option for doing anything practical.
By far the biggest reason the iPad sold so many is that its an Apple product. On its release it plugged right into the existing market of rabid buy-anything-Apple-makes fanbois.
I know several people that have bought an iPad. They all have one thing in common: After the novelty wears off in about 2 weeks, they don't actually touch their iPads other than to play games.
They should make electric cars so that the battery pack itself can be quickly and automatedly changed out (at a properly equipped station), Think of driving onto a pad where a robot arm removes/inserts a big standardized slide-in cartridge. One size fits all. Maybe bigger cars and trucks have multiple slots.
Also The standard marketing model should be that you rent batteries, not outright own the batteries.
This addresses many problems:
1) Full electric cars get much cheaper to buy in the first place as you're no longer required to outright buy the most expensive single part... the batteries).
2) (at a properly equipped gas station) You could go from 0 charge to full charge in less time than it takes to fill a gas tank.
3) Assuming a network of such stations, you can go cross-country in an electric car, just like you can now in a gas-powered car. i.e. Without significant recharging delays or much fear of running out of charge in the middle of nowhere.
4) In an electric-only future, we can continue to make good use of existing gas station forecourts (by refitting them to battery swap-out stations) and gas station companies now have a business model even if gas goes away fully.
5) A few big gas station chains now each own literally millions of batteries, you can bet there will be a LOT of funding for the battery tech itself to get better and cheaper faster.
6) Electric car owners no longer need to worry about having to completely replace their battery pack every 7 years.
7) More efficient charging and maintenance, and more controllable/traceable recycling and disposal of batteries. (One issue is that repeated rapid-charging wears out batteries much quicker but today its unrealistic to think electric-only car owners won't trade off battery lifespan for time-saving convenience).
France is more convex than concave so more like a pile than a hole.
that the defendant not only wins the case but turns around and sues the pants off of Real Networks.
...or just tell them if they don't stop we wont make any more debt repayments.
Microsoft disgust me. After decades of this sort of deceitful behaviour, it is evidently still too much to expect Microsoft to actually do the 'right thing' in the first place.
Even without any sort of ethics, they're also too stupid to actually learn their lesson that all these scams that Microsoft repeatedly perpetrate on their own customers always eventually get discovered and backfire with far more loss of face and therefore sales than presumably they gain from doing the thing in the first place.