Well, if we're exchanging anecdotes. I worked in an environment with 200 machines, 8 of which were macs. I spent a good chunk of my support time with the mac users. Why?
1. iMac board blows out because Apple bought cheap knock-off capacitors. When I called to mail it in to Apple, the tech sounded shocked that I would attempt to mail them a computer. Instead, they informed my I would need to bring it in, in person, to the nearest Apple store. Wow, talk about corporate unfriendly.
2. Mac users tend to be worse than PC users. I dont know if its the whole chip on the shoulder thing or that Macs do a good job in discouraging tech curiosity, but they were just difficult people to deal with.
3. All the little things that go wrong with Macs all the time, which zealots ignore. Randomly spinning pinwheel of death came up pretty often.
4. Trying to work with documents made on PC versions of office. There's always an issue.
5. The endless parade of "shareware" that costs $25 dollars each that should have been bundled with the OS.
Meanwhile, the PCs were chugging away. All configured via group policy and locked down. Software pushed out via GP, WSUS doing updates, and Symantec doing AV.
Sounds like whoever decided to buy those garbage PCs for your helpdesk was simply incompetent. Comparing lowest bidding crap to a premium machine like an imac is also disingenuous.
Yeah, this is a manufactured controversy issue by the GOP. They are attacking the SEC because its attacking Goldman Sachs and trying to regulate the industry that almost took the economy down. Republicans have no shame.
Or upload a trojan into the hosted Apache installers.
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Funny thing is that 2000 workstation and server said the same thing, but if you pressed cancel they would just accept the new DNS settings. The code isnt smart enough to realize that you didn't change the IP address.
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Are you running Win7 64-bit? MS has some basic hot-swap update service that works better on 64-bit and a lot of things that would require a reboot in 32-bit or in the old XP days, no longer do so. Supposedly the x64 architecture allows for stuff like this in a safer way than 32-bit x86.
I've also been a little surprised at the lack of reboots sometimes.
as to how MS doesnt support their own file format, it because they're using a transitional version instead of the proper "strict" version. Wiki:
On 31st March 2010, Dr Alex Brown, who had been the Convener of the February 2008 Ballot Resolution Meeting, posted an entry on his personal blog[111] in which he complained of Microsoft's lack of progress in adapting current and future versions of Microsoft Office to produce files in the Strict (as opposed to the Transitional) ISO 29500 format: " On this count Microsoft seems set for failure. In its pre-release form Office(TM) 2010 supports not the approved Strict variant of OOXML, but the very format the global community rejected in September 2007, and subsequently marked as not for use in new documents - the Transitional variant. Microsoft are behaving as if the JTC 1 standardisation process never happened...
Right, except there's a logic to his madness. Murdoch loves the idea of people paying 15 dollars a month to read foxnews.com or the WSJ on the ipad. Its a tempting offer, I hear every new subscriber gets a free vial of Glenn Beck's tears and a used mustache comb once owned by Geraldo Rivera.
I live in Chicago and read quite a bit about the policing system and policies here and I fully agree with your assessment.
The police force needs to be seen as blue-collar guys who are most interested in their union and their own paycheck first than any kind of systemic change. I read a couple of policeman's blogs and its interesting to see how they oppose the existing camera system. Their big beef is that if this stuff costs money than thats money that can be used on raises, better perks, and more detectives.
While I dont know how well this system works, I do know that the CPD is biased and the assessment should come from a third party that is not affiliate with any union.
That said, the cost isn't low, but you'll only need it in some parts of the south side and some parts of the west side (garfield park, west humboldt park). I live in a neighborhood that borders Humboldt park and see some pretty bad things now and again. Chicago is in the middle of a crime/gang epidemic and we need new ideas and new technologies. Doubly so in areas where residents have bought into a 'dont snitch' philosophy and refuse to report crime to the police or answer any questions when they have been vicitiized, because of fear of gang retaliation. Cameras and microphones dont fear 'dont snitch'.
"With Geminoid F, the researchers embedded air servo valves and an air servo control system into its body, so the android requires only a small external compressor."
Oh yeah... I just wanna touch that small external compressor of yours. I also like your top, it really shows off your air servo valves... kind cold in here isn't it?
>Nothing in evolution prepared us for this much information about anything/everything/everybody all the time.
Evolution doesnt prepare us for much. Fighting, fucking, and the basics. The rest is learning and culture. Today's world is just as weird as the world 500+ years ago (agrarian society) and there hasn't been a significant change in the genome. In the world 500 years ago ADD would have been undetectable. No one would know you couldn't sit down and focus on a book for very long as you weren't expected to read. If they did then you were probably just written off as slow.
>All opinion, and I'm not arguing that ADD isn't a disease, just that our technological environment has a lot to do with it.
Well, you're kinda getting into some pseudoscience here. I seriously doubt ADD is some kind of learned response. If anything, ADD-like symptoms help in many contexts. Moving around from one item of focus to another can help in spotting predators, getting a superficial level of learning quickly, being creative, etc.
>Because, if we had an unregulated free market, all the little mom and pop operations would rise up against their corporate masters and we would immediately have a free and fair market in everything.
Or,you know, what would actually happen. Big companies would crush these little nobodies by selling with major losses until they go broke or other dirty tricks that are banned by regulation.
Its hilarious that you believe all regulation exists to further the largest companies and that a free market is a solution to all our economic woes. There's no such thing as a free market, its a fiction that is only able to exists because of government regulation else it becomes fraud and abuse central where only the biggest players win.
>Yelp is a sham. They'll soon be swept into the dustbin of unprofitable dot-com businesses
I imagine a better way to do a "review everything" site would be via a wiki or at least some kind of decentralized process with some kind of karma/voting on reviews. Sure, make money with ads, but dont try to make money with protection schemes and paid-for editing. Yelp is really a nightmare. I feel sorry for the small business person who can be destroyed by bullshit internet reviews and who is paying yelp $300 a month for protection. Shame people trust yelp so much. I guess we're still Web 1.0 naive here.
Didnt you hear? Stallman converted to scientology and Linus is accepting patches from NAMBLA!! Oh and the EFF finally released its spec for its homegrown DRM scheme.
Doesnt the SDK specify the ability to just use it on one phone for testing or can they distribute it to other phones without another $99 dollar development tax per phone?
Im kinda pissed my tax dollars are used to develop of this shit locked in platform, but to also pay for the privilege is ridiculous. If this is the new NASA mentality, then perhaps we are better off cutting them down to size and letting private enterprise move into their space monopoly.
>And not to mention that 40GB is barely enough to have Vista or 7 breathing, once Office installed. Don't ever think about installing Windows 7 SP1 on such a tight space.
Err, I have a 30gg SSD running Win7, Office 2007, Mass Effect 2, Battlefield 2, Bad Company 2, Red Alert 4, and about a dozen apps and random data (photos, documents) etc. I'm at 10gigs free now.
>As TFA says, For $125 you get a 40GB SSD. Today on Newegg I can pay 110 for a 1500GB hard disk drive - that's about 40 times more storage, for LESS!
Capacity is easy to get. I have a 500gig drive that I store stuff on and a 30gig SSD to run stuff on. I dont care about capacity, its a solved problem. I care about performance. My biggest bottleneck is my hard drive, that's pretty typical of most users. Its incredible what my SSD has done to my performance on a daily basis. Heck, once the price drops a bit on 60gb or 120gb SSD, I'm buying it and putting the 30gb in my laptop.
My Win7 boots up in just a few seconds, game maps load very quickly, apps load very quickly, latency is pretty much gone, etc. Its such an upgrade, I'm kicking myself for waiting so long. I'm not even one of those guys who is always upgrading. I have an old 1.8ghz C2D OC'd to 2.2ghz and an aging board to match.
I suspect once people get a taste for SSDs they'll consider spinning disks to be a pretty big downgrade. I never want to go back the same way I dont want to go back to single cores or 10mbps networks.
>I don't know, there was something about Gates that always struck me as boring.
Whats wrong with boring? Most things I love, most people would consider boring. "OMG you like writing code, rpg videogames, hacking hardware, and reading non-fiction?!?!" "OMG you dont use twitter?!?" etc.
I once heard Gates talk about how his foundation is partly seeking out "unsexy" goals. For instance, his foundation is doing a lot to find a workable vaccine for malaria. This is considered an unsexy problem. Malaria is mostly a poor country problem and pharmaceutical companies don't want to invest a few billion to get nowhere or if they make a workable product, they might never make their money back in this lifetime. Government of poor countries don't have the resources to subsidize this stuff either.
>Why do they always have to be villains? Tony Stark wasn't a villain.
The guy who flies to foreign countries and shoots people with sci-fi weapons? Extralegal murder of foreign nationals by a rich vigilante? Not a villain? Err, ok.
Theres a world of difference between having to patch an OS or one of hundreds of products and doing enough testing to push it out to hundreds of millions of customers than just getting a virus definition added to a scanner. Lets not trivialize the patch process for something as complex as windows. If MS's response time scares you then I'm guessing youre petrified by the response time of most vendors, especially Adobe (flash and reader are the most exploited apps currently).
If anything MS is in a good position to produce an AV. MS doesn't have the incentive the third-party AV companies do: that is, to compete on bloaty features and demand yearly subscription rates. MS cant do this to their free product because it hurts the OS if they suddenly get stingy or slow down machines with bloat. MS has show AV companies that users appreciate a lightweight approach. Sophos, Norton, AVG, and the rest can learn from this.
I also see shockingly poor decisions made by third-party AV vendors. The AVG url autofetcher thing, Norton's incredibly poor UI, Norton and Mcafee's shit firewall replacement for the built-in firewall, stupid heuristics that themselves become DOS exploits, etc. MSE doesnt generally engage in these things. Its a lightweight replacement for all of these for the home user. Heck, even the UI is dead simple.
I'd love to see these companies change their stripes and see WinClam advance to on-access scanning. The idea of an AV as a premium service for home users is a ridiculous one. Its basic functionality in the windows world. Even OSX ships with something that keeps a look out for those trojans in pirated copies of photoshop. The AV industry is a mess and MS's move into free home AV was much needed.
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Well, if we're exchanging anecdotes. I worked in an environment with 200 machines, 8 of which were macs. I spent a good chunk of my support time with the mac users. Why?
1. iMac board blows out because Apple bought cheap knock-off capacitors. When I called to mail it in to Apple, the tech sounded shocked that I would attempt to mail them a computer. Instead, they informed my I would need to bring it in, in person, to the nearest Apple store. Wow, talk about corporate unfriendly.
2. Mac users tend to be worse than PC users. I dont know if its the whole chip on the shoulder thing or that Macs do a good job in discouraging tech curiosity, but they were just difficult people to deal with.
3. All the little things that go wrong with Macs all the time, which zealots ignore. Randomly spinning pinwheel of death came up pretty often.
4. Trying to work with documents made on PC versions of office. There's always an issue.
5. The endless parade of "shareware" that costs $25 dollars each that should have been bundled with the OS.
Meanwhile, the PCs were chugging away. All configured via group policy and locked down. Software pushed out via GP, WSUS doing updates, and Symantec doing AV.
Sounds like whoever decided to buy those garbage PCs for your helpdesk was simply incompetent. Comparing lowest bidding crap to a premium machine like an imac is also disingenuous.
Yeah, this is a manufactured controversy issue by the GOP. They are attacking the SEC because its attacking Goldman Sachs and trying to regulate the industry that almost took the economy down. Republicans have no shame.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hOvd2ZHpLgAEKjwU87acksA24EDQD9F8SEUO0
Or upload a trojan into the hosted Apache installers.
Funny thing is that 2000 workstation and server said the same thing, but if you pressed cancel they would just accept the new DNS settings. The code isnt smart enough to realize that you didn't change the IP address.
Are you running Win7 64-bit? MS has some basic hot-swap update service that works better on 64-bit and a lot of things that would require a reboot in 32-bit or in the old XP days, no longer do so. Supposedly the x64 architecture allows for stuff like this in a safer way than 32-bit x86.
I've also been a little surprised at the lack of reboots sometimes.
as to how MS doesnt support their own file format, it because they're using a transitional version instead of the proper "strict" version. Wiki:
Right, except there's a logic to his madness. Murdoch loves the idea of people paying 15 dollars a month to read foxnews.com or the WSJ on the ipad. Its a tempting offer, I hear every new subscriber gets a free vial of Glenn Beck's tears and a used mustache comb once owned by Geraldo Rivera.
I live in Chicago and read quite a bit about the policing system and policies here and I fully agree with your assessment.
The police force needs to be seen as blue-collar guys who are most interested in their union and their own paycheck first than any kind of systemic change. I read a couple of policeman's blogs and its interesting to see how they oppose the existing camera system. Their big beef is that if this stuff costs money than thats money that can be used on raises, better perks, and more detectives.
While I dont know how well this system works, I do know that the CPD is biased and the assessment should come from a third party that is not affiliate with any union.
That said, the cost isn't low, but you'll only need it in some parts of the south side and some parts of the west side (garfield park, west humboldt park). I live in a neighborhood that borders Humboldt park and see some pretty bad things now and again. Chicago is in the middle of a crime/gang epidemic and we need new ideas and new technologies. Doubly so in areas where residents have bought into a 'dont snitch' philosophy and refuse to report crime to the police or answer any questions when they have been vicitiized, because of fear of gang retaliation. Cameras and microphones dont fear 'dont snitch'.
"With Geminoid F, the researchers embedded air servo valves and an air servo control system into its body, so the android requires only a small external compressor."
Oh yeah... I just wanna touch that small external compressor of yours. I also like your top, it really shows off your air servo valves... kind cold in here isn't it?
>Nothing in evolution prepared us for this much information about anything/everything/everybody all the time.
Evolution doesnt prepare us for much. Fighting, fucking, and the basics. The rest is learning and culture. Today's world is just as weird as the world 500+ years ago (agrarian society) and there hasn't been a significant change in the genome. In the world 500 years ago ADD would have been undetectable. No one would know you couldn't sit down and focus on a book for very long as you weren't expected to read. If they did then you were probably just written off as slow.
>All opinion, and I'm not arguing that ADD isn't a disease, just that our technological environment has a lot to do with it.
Well, you're kinda getting into some pseudoscience here. I seriously doubt ADD is some kind of learned response. If anything, ADD-like symptoms help in many contexts. Moving around from one item of focus to another can help in spotting predators, getting a superficial level of learning quickly, being creative, etc.
I'm sure Navy guys have a lot of practice shooting coded "information" at each other during long stretches at sea.
...they're shooting data beams at our Gibson! Release the Da Vinci virus!!!
>Because, if we had an unregulated free market, all the little mom and pop operations would rise up against their corporate masters and we would immediately have a free and fair market in everything.
Or ,you know, what would actually happen. Big companies would crush these little nobodies by selling with major losses until they go broke or other dirty tricks that are banned by regulation.
Its hilarious that you believe all regulation exists to further the largest companies and that a free market is a solution to all our economic woes. There's no such thing as a free market, its a fiction that is only able to exists because of government regulation else it becomes fraud and abuse central where only the biggest players win.
>Yelp is a sham. They'll soon be swept into the dustbin of unprofitable dot-com businesses
I imagine a better way to do a "review everything" site would be via a wiki or at least some kind of decentralized process with some kind of karma/voting on reviews. Sure, make money with ads, but dont try to make money with protection schemes and paid-for editing. Yelp is really a nightmare. I feel sorry for the small business person who can be destroyed by bullshit internet reviews and who is paying yelp $300 a month for protection. Shame people trust yelp so much. I guess we're still Web 1.0 naive here.
Didnt you hear? Stallman converted to scientology and Linus is accepting patches from NAMBLA!! Oh and the EFF finally released its spec for its homegrown DRM scheme.
Doesnt the SDK specify the ability to just use it on one phone for testing or can they distribute it to other phones without another $99 dollar development tax per phone?
Im kinda pissed my tax dollars are used to develop of this shit locked in platform, but to also pay for the privilege is ridiculous. If this is the new NASA mentality, then perhaps we are better off cutting them down to size and letting private enterprise move into their space monopoly.
Whoa, why is the DNS resolving dATP.dGTP.dCTP.dATP?!?
>And not to mention that 40GB is barely enough to have Vista or 7 breathing, once Office installed. Don't ever think about installing Windows 7 SP1 on such a tight space.
Err, I have a 30gg SSD running Win7, Office 2007, Mass Effect 2, Battlefield 2, Bad Company 2, Red Alert 4, and about a dozen apps and random data (photos, documents) etc. I'm at 10gigs free now.
>As TFA says, For $125 you get a 40GB SSD. Today on Newegg I can pay 110 for a 1500GB hard disk drive - that's about 40 times more storage, for LESS!
Capacity is easy to get. I have a 500gig drive that I store stuff on and a 30gig SSD to run stuff on. I dont care about capacity, its a solved problem. I care about performance. My biggest bottleneck is my hard drive, that's pretty typical of most users. Its incredible what my SSD has done to my performance on a daily basis. Heck, once the price drops a bit on 60gb or 120gb SSD, I'm buying it and putting the 30gb in my laptop.
My Win7 boots up in just a few seconds, game maps load very quickly, apps load very quickly, latency is pretty much gone, etc. Its such an upgrade, I'm kicking myself for waiting so long. I'm not even one of those guys who is always upgrading. I have an old 1.8ghz C2D OC'd to 2.2ghz and an aging board to match.
I suspect once people get a taste for SSDs they'll consider spinning disks to be a pretty big downgrade. I never want to go back the same way I dont want to go back to single cores or 10mbps networks.
>I don't know, there was something about Gates that always struck me as boring.
Whats wrong with boring? Most things I love, most people would consider boring. "OMG you like writing code, rpg videogames, hacking hardware, and reading non-fiction?!?!" "OMG you dont use twitter?!?" etc.
I once heard Gates talk about how his foundation is partly seeking out "unsexy" goals. For instance, his foundation is doing a lot to find a workable vaccine for malaria. This is considered an unsexy problem. Malaria is mostly a poor country problem and pharmaceutical companies don't want to invest a few billion to get nowhere or if they make a workable product, they might never make their money back in this lifetime. Government of poor countries don't have the resources to subsidize this stuff either.
>Why do they always have to be villains? Tony Stark wasn't a villain.
The guy who flies to foreign countries and shoots people with sci-fi weapons? Extralegal murder of foreign nationals by a rich vigilante? Not a villain? Err, ok.
>Is doomed to fail.
May I present to the court, exhibit A, The Homer.
gaming on Futurama's Neutral Planet would be.
"Banned for not being Neutral enough."
"I hate these filthy neutrals, Kif! With enemies, you know where they stand, but with neutrals - who knows. It sickens me."
with Everyone Loves Hypnotoad at #1 of course.
Theres a world of difference between having to patch an OS or one of hundreds of products and doing enough testing to push it out to hundreds of millions of customers than just getting a virus definition added to a scanner. Lets not trivialize the patch process for something as complex as windows. If MS's response time scares you then I'm guessing youre petrified by the response time of most vendors, especially Adobe (flash and reader are the most exploited apps currently).
If anything MS is in a good position to produce an AV. MS doesn't have the incentive the third-party AV companies do: that is, to compete on bloaty features and demand yearly subscription rates. MS cant do this to their free product because it hurts the OS if they suddenly get stingy or slow down machines with bloat. MS has show AV companies that users appreciate a lightweight approach. Sophos, Norton, AVG, and the rest can learn from this.
I also see shockingly poor decisions made by third-party AV vendors. The AVG url autofetcher thing, Norton's incredibly poor UI, Norton and Mcafee's shit firewall replacement for the built-in firewall, stupid heuristics that themselves become DOS exploits, etc. MSE doesnt generally engage in these things. Its a lightweight replacement for all of these for the home user. Heck, even the UI is dead simple.
I'd love to see these companies change their stripes and see WinClam advance to on-access scanning. The idea of an AV as a premium service for home users is a ridiculous one. Its basic functionality in the windows world. Even OSX ships with something that keeps a look out for those trojans in pirated copies of photoshop. The AV industry is a mess and MS's move into free home AV was much needed.