Well, I use google calendar, google search, google mail, google voice, google maps...
If google doesn't know what I'm doing by now, they are doing something wrong.
Or instead of kicking him out, you could...well... change the limit to a reasonable value so you did get the desired results.
I'd rather have a 10mbps connection I can use all day long then a 20 meg connection I get banned for using for more than an hour.
The ISP already limits my bandwidth. Say you purchase 'unlimited' 5mbps/768kbps service.
You have a 5mbps download limit and a 768kbps upload limit. If they can't support you using that at full blast, then they should lower the limit. Instead they punish you for using the allocation they gave you.
It would be like imposing a limit on your roommate, then kicking him out for using the limit every day.
You would rather I wrote 20 lines of javascript to get my point across?
I've used prototype, jquery, dojo, etc for a variety of things depending on the requirements. Most web developers can understand jquery quickly so it made a good choice for the example. If that was the only 'animated' event on my page, then yes I probably would not use jquery.
Lately I'm doing a lot of complex table/datagrid manipulation with tons of silly animations (I create the page, I don't make the requirements, my customers do). Jquery handles the ajax, the datagrid, the animations, the dialog windows, the modal windows, etc with just two fairly small libraries. Life is easy, customers are happy, I'm paid.
My favorite is when the ban the use of the word apple, or iphone, etc.
I mean they actually ban the use of an iphone image to show how to use the iphone to play a game. I mean if you wanted to show someone how to rotate an iphone to play an iphone game, wouldn't you want to well, use an iphone image to do that?
Apple is trying to make sure nothing feels intuitive. For example, one app showed a picture of a mac when connected to a mac, and a generic computer when connected to any other kind of computer. They banned them for using a mac image.
Yes, you can jailbreak your phone to install apps without paying apple 100 bucks. But I shouldn't have to install dubious (yes I know it's safe) software from a 3rd party source of hackers to use my phone.
I'm a apple fanboy. I love my mac. When i decided to finally get a smart phone I bought an iphone. I liked it a lot and I bought a 3GS when it came out. My wife got my old iphone and she loves it.
However, I've reached a point where I am now wanting to do things with my phone that my friends can do with theirs, for example, google voice.
I'm also a programmer and I've written a app for my phone that is useful only to me. I want to use it on my phone, but I can't. I have to pay apple a hundred bucks a year to do that. A 100 bucks a year to write and use software on my own phone. Not to sell it, or distribute it, just to use it. On top of that my company recently decided not to write a product for the iphone because we were afraid it might be rejected and didn't want to spend money only to be rejected.
I was really excited about the droid. I was letdown by the reality of the droid. The design choices are just not for me (the screen is nowhre near as fingerprint resistant as my 3gs, the shape is odd, keyboard and button placement strange, etc). But I'm watching. My contract is up soon. I'm going month to month until I find that open platform phone that fits me. Then I'm out of here.
The sad part is I'll probably replace my computer next year. Apple's iphone policies have made me start have a bad taste in my mouth for apple. I recently used bootcamp to play Dragon age and installed windows 7. It's a lot nicer then the last time I used windows. I'm also very comfortable with linux as my entire job revolves around managing linux and unix computers. So my next computer might be one of those.
So apple restricting my phone may lead to me not spending another 6000.00 (two computers) next year when I replace mine and my wife's computers.
And the everyday user is smarter then that. I mean that is why we don't need resident virus scanners. Users are smart enough not to click anything sent to them.
Of course you could send them a page that simply runs a little javascript hitting as many IP's as possible behind the scenes, or even a downloaded exe that scans the network to find good targets for attack.
I have AT&T and a iPhone. I want to get rid of my iPhone. I also want better 3g coverage.
I looked at verizon. I wasn't impressed with the Droid. I'm even less impressed with doubling my cancelation fee's if I want to leave.
Right now it would cost me less then 50.00 to get out of my AT&T contract. It was 175, but it drops each month. It will be 0 before my 2 year contract expires. With verizon, the same would happen except for it will not reach 0 before my contract expires.
Just more reasons for me to stay with AT&T.
I'd like to use T-mobile as their people are the most friendly I've talked to and I like their plans, but they have no 3g coverage in my area at all.
But why is the early cancelation fee not 0 by the end of the 2 year contract? This means it is a profit center, not a means to get you to stay the whole two years.
You really want to help push firefox in enterprise? Develop some nice patch management features for it that I can control.
I can't let firefox update itself without testing that new versions work with internal resources, and there is no easy tool for automating this from mozilla.
I'm left with 3rd party tools that cost money, or just keeping people using IE and managing them with our patch management software.
At the very least, come up with some kind of system that lets restricted users get security only related patches, and block new version patches. Even that will be tough though, I have over 800 computers that need to be kept up to date. I don't need 800 computers downloading updates from mozilla.
I also need a way to manage the browser settings remotely across all of my users. I need to be allowed to control what extensions the user can install, how often the cache is cleared, how long history is kept, etc.
I've pushed hard to get firefox to be the default browser on our computers. These are the reasons I get shot down.
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Well, I use google calendar, google search, google mail, google voice, google maps... If google doesn't know what I'm doing by now, they are doing something wrong.
Or instead of kicking him out, you could...well... change the limit to a reasonable value so you did get the desired results. I'd rather have a 10mbps connection I can use all day long then a 20 meg connection I get banned for using for more than an hour.
The ISP already limits my bandwidth. Say you purchase 'unlimited' 5mbps/768kbps service. You have a 5mbps download limit and a 768kbps upload limit. If they can't support you using that at full blast, then they should lower the limit. Instead they punish you for using the allocation they gave you. It would be like imposing a limit on your roommate, then kicking him out for using the limit every day.
Well, my problem with opendns when I used it was being redirected to search pages for invalid urls. That broke stuff for me.
Very interesting. Wish I hadn't already posted here or I would mod you up.
When I think armed, I think deck guns, not rifles. Forget shooting at them, sink their god damn boats.
Now if only we can get everyone onboard the same standard.
That's great for a hover, but can you say make a parapgraph disappear when it's clicked and stay gone? As far as I know, it can't yet be done.
You would rather I wrote 20 lines of javascript to get my point across? I've used prototype, jquery, dojo, etc for a variety of things depending on the requirements. Most web developers can understand jquery quickly so it made a good choice for the example. If that was the only 'animated' event on my page, then yes I probably would not use jquery. Lately I'm doing a lot of complex table/datagrid manipulation with tons of silly animations (I create the page, I don't make the requirements, my customers do). Jquery handles the ajax, the datagrid, the animations, the dialog windows, the modal windows, etc with just two fairly small libraries. Life is easy, customers are happy, I'm paid.
(jquery example)
$("p").click(function () { $("p").fadeOut("slow"); });
I'm not a javascript fan, but I have to use it daily for the tasks given to me.
Plus most of them bought the game anyways I'm sure.
I've just come to the conclusion I'm the only person on the planet who stuck to my guns and didn't buy this game.
When I was on call I got $50.00 just to answer the phone. Then I got an hourly rate to work the issue.
No calls, no money. Got 3 calls that each took a hour. I made $150 + 3 hours.
Honestly, I doubt apple would let them add that kind of feature to the iphone. They turn down every other good idea.
Maybe no one held a gun to your head....
You haven't seen how high sell the apple store is by my house....
My favorite is when the ban the use of the word apple, or iphone, etc.
I mean they actually ban the use of an iphone image to show how to use the iphone to play a game. I mean if you wanted to show someone how to rotate an iphone to play an iphone game, wouldn't you want to well, use an iphone image to do that?
Apple is trying to make sure nothing feels intuitive. For example, one app showed a picture of a mac when connected to a mac, and a generic computer when connected to any other kind of computer. They banned them for using a mac image.
Ekiga (default with ubuntu if I recall correctly)
Yes, you can jailbreak your phone to install apps without paying apple 100 bucks. But I shouldn't have to install dubious (yes I know it's safe) software from a 3rd party source of hackers to use my phone.
I'm a apple fanboy. I love my mac. When i decided to finally get a smart phone I bought an iphone. I liked it a lot and I bought a 3GS when it came out. My wife got my old iphone and she loves it.
However, I've reached a point where I am now wanting to do things with my phone that my friends can do with theirs, for example, google voice.
I'm also a programmer and I've written a app for my phone that is useful only to me. I want to use it on my phone, but I can't. I have to pay apple a hundred bucks a year to do that. A 100 bucks a year to write and use software on my own phone. Not to sell it, or distribute it, just to use it. On top of that my company recently decided not to write a product for the iphone because we were afraid it might be rejected and didn't want to spend money only to be rejected.
I was really excited about the droid. I was letdown by the reality of the droid. The design choices are just not for me (the screen is nowhre near as fingerprint resistant as my 3gs, the shape is odd, keyboard and button placement strange, etc). But I'm watching. My contract is up soon. I'm going month to month until I find that open platform phone that fits me. Then I'm out of here.
The sad part is I'll probably replace my computer next year. Apple's iphone policies have made me start have a bad taste in my mouth for apple. I recently used bootcamp to play Dragon age and installed windows 7. It's a lot nicer then the last time I used windows. I'm also very comfortable with linux as my entire job revolves around managing linux and unix computers. So my next computer might be one of those.
So apple restricting my phone may lead to me not spending another 6000.00 (two computers) next year when I replace mine and my wife's computers.
And the everyday user is smarter then that. I mean that is why we don't need resident virus scanners. Users are smart enough not to click anything sent to them.
Of course you could send them a page that simply runs a little javascript hitting as many IP's as possible behind the scenes, or even a downloaded exe that scans the network to find good targets for attack.
Users will run anything.
I have AT&T and a iPhone. I want to get rid of my iPhone. I also want better 3g coverage.
I looked at verizon. I wasn't impressed with the Droid. I'm even less impressed with doubling my cancelation fee's if I want to leave.
Right now it would cost me less then 50.00 to get out of my AT&T contract. It was 175, but it drops each month. It will be 0 before my 2 year contract expires. With verizon, the same would happen except for it will not reach 0 before my contract expires.
Just more reasons for me to stay with AT&T.
I'd like to use T-mobile as their people are the most friendly I've talked to and I like their plans, but they have no 3g coverage in my area at all.
But why is the early cancelation fee not 0 by the end of the 2 year contract? This means it is a profit center, not a means to get you to stay the whole two years.
You really want to help push firefox in enterprise? Develop some nice patch management features for it that I can control.
I can't let firefox update itself without testing that new versions work with internal resources, and there is no easy tool for automating this from mozilla.
I'm left with 3rd party tools that cost money, or just keeping people using IE and managing them with our patch management software.
At the very least, come up with some kind of system that lets restricted users get security only related patches, and block new version patches. Even that will be tough though, I have over 800 computers that need to be kept up to date. I don't need 800 computers downloading updates from mozilla.
I also need a way to manage the browser settings remotely across all of my users. I need to be allowed to control what extensions the user can install, how often the cache is cleared, how long history is kept, etc.
I've pushed hard to get firefox to be the default browser on our computers. These are the reasons I get shot down.
You can put this machine on the internet without it being just filled with infections?
Nope, but they will frequently write your ticket as showing you only going 5 over as a 'gift' to you when they pull you over going 15 over.
I've never understood how that legally works.
Yep, we had this problem. I wrote a quick script to delete these keys and regen new ones. The problem was quickly solved.