If they offered a similar level of service then I could understand but their service sucks.
I can't get an HBO Now subscription because I'm in Canada and they sold the rights for their shows to Bell's Crave TV. Ok so I'll get me a Crave TV subscription but I can't do that either because I don't have a cable or satellite subscription with one of the Crave TV partners. So if I want to stream the Sopranos I have to switch cable providers, but all new cable boxes and hope there isn't some some other exclusive I'm missing
Yeah..... Not gonna happen.
Using PostGIS and replication here, works very nicely. Out biggest problem was that be have billions of rows that can't be locked for a huge high traffic mobile app. Using a round robin load balanced pool of postgres servers in hot spare mode as read only DBs solved a lot of issues.
OS/2 was an IBM / MS joint venture until MS bailed and used it to form the base for NT. You think it is a coincidence that NT could run OS/2 1.1 software?
A simple thought experiment such as that starts to bring the data into question. If pressed, the climatologist may get frustrated because, in their mind, they've already accounted for that, but the full answer isn't simple to express. So what you get is, basically, "trust me, I'm a scientist", which is bollocks. For one, wearing the moniker "scientist" doesn't make you right; and two, if you're a scientist make some testable predictions. The ones mentioned in the original article sure didn't come true. That makes it bad science. The goal is not to make testable predictions, the goal is to convince people to act now. That's a religion. Or marketing. Either or, it's not science.
I agree with what you have said here, the basic truth is that nobody really knows anything for sure. We don't have really good historic data or a full understanding of how the climate system really works and so I don't think we'll see a really solid theory any time soon. The thing is though, we might not have enough time left to come up with that really solid testable theory. If we finally figure it out in 80 years but have done nothing in the mean time it could result in a dramatic change on our planet and possibly the eventual extinction of our species.
I'm not really sure about what needs to be done, or if anyone else really knows what needs to be done either. I'm just as uncomfortable as you are with what goes on in the current debate. You need to admit that waiting for the provable science to catch up might kick us in the ass too though.
I'm not able to comment from an American POV but as a Canadian I get more exposure to US media so maybe I can offer some insight.
American politics and it's media coverage are so completely polarized that trying to get a perspective on what is actually happening is impossible. There is left or right, a centrist view or politician doesn't exist. Although I struggle to think of one maybe Bush has done some good things but by the time it gets to the public the truth is so distorted that you will never know the difference. The conservative media trumpets any success no matter how insignificant so you learn to tune that out. The opposing side either tries to take some some obviously partisan counter point no matter how shallow or passes by the story completely so you tune them out too.
While I agree with your impression I have to say that American politics are so messed up that I don't think anyone knows for sure.
1) Expensive. Not just the ticket cost, but the cost of food is unbearable now.
The first movie I remember seeing as a little kid was Empire and I also remember my mom bringing bags of popcorn from home with us. I don't know if that was widely allowed at the time or not but I also rember being about 17 and having to throw out my g/f's doggy bag from dinner because the left over taco salad was "too greasy and would mess up the seats". So that's one change and I think a pretty bad one. I don't know if this is me getting picky as I get older or not but when I went to a movie a few weeks ago I was not just annoyed at the cost of my bag of popcorn but at the fact that it was bloody awful. If you're going to charge $5 for a bag of popcorn try and make sure that it isn't a soggy lump of half popped kernels, it was terrible.
3DO did that and it didn't go so well, it might not be the reason it didn't work but there are problems that it brought up.
Historically any game that requires an add on bombs. Anything that needed the gun for the NES, the power glove etc. OEMs building commodity consoles are going to look for a way to differentiate their products, you will end up with a bunch of consoles that are compatible in core features but that all have their own little add ons. Games that require or at least work better with these extra features are going to end up fragmenting the market and probably won't sell very well. You end up with the same problem you have now just on a different level.
I saw this thing on CNN a few years ago about how the Army was currently surrounding some shed in Iraq where their super sensitive detector equipment had found traces of nerve gas. After much hand wringing, BS punditry and wild speculation they found out that the barrels contained pesticide. Of course it all makes sense if you have a clue, most pesticides are nerve agents and the super sensitive detector found them as it is supposed to. The nice CNN anchor didn't understand that of course and kept going on about how he didn't understand while the detection equipment would make that mistake etc.
It is quite possible that the super sensitive detector in this case is finding traces of kitchen matches or barbecue ignitor or any other number of things.
That's the question that I've been wondering the whole time. As we can see Dell doesn't manufacture the batteries so not only was all this crapping on Dell not really fair but you can bet there are a bunch of other companies who use the same stuff. IIRC the batteries in the recall Apple did a few years back were Sony built as well.
Given how many batteries we are talking about here the chances of anyone having thier laptop fail like this are probably the same as having thier laptop getting hit by lightning. There's only been a couple of cases reported.
Another truly major new feature, Spaces lets you utilize multiple desktops, each of which can contain its own set of application. Multiple desktops have been around for decades, and even the earliest Linux versions had this feature. Microsoft even implemented it in NT-based versions of Windows, though the company curiously never made it easy to access this functionality until it shipped a free PowerToy for Windows, called Virtual Desktop Manager, in 2001. It works an awful lot like Spaces, frankly, though Apple's version is obviously more polished and, well, Apple-like.
Well obviously this guy is either so biased he can't help it or he has a really terrible picture of what virtual desktops actually are. I tried Virtual Desktop Manager and it's bloody awful, I honestly can't think of enough bad words to say about it. That is the difference between OSX and other OSs IME, the Apple stuff just works. Microsoft stuff especially you have to screw around with for 10 minutes first.
I don't exactly disagree with you. The language is appropriate to convey a certain depth of feeling however assigning that depth feeling to the friggin poster is pushing it a bit don't you think? The writer does that consistently throughout the article, the whole thing is just over the top.
I don't have anything to back this up but I bet that Hollywood either charges extra for the edited versions or for a license for the airline or network to do the editing themselves. As soon as these guys show up and start getting away with not paying extra for these "edit rights" the networks and airlines tell Hollywood to go piss up a rope which costs the studios money.
All lawsuits are about money, sometimes you just have to look for it.
Why is it assumed that the penis is dirty in the first place? Do you wash your hands after touching your leg?
I keep a pretty close eye on my penis, it doesn't come into contact with anything I consider dirty. It is I imagine a lot cleaner than either the tap or door handle in a public washroom. Who knows what kind of filthy things come into contact with those.
They also neglect to mention that Canadians pay a tax on blank media that is meant to compensate artists for downloads.
This is incorrect, the blank media levy was designed to compensate artists for people copying CDs and other recordings. The "Download Question" was not seriously considered at the time the levy was introduced and it is a matter of opinion if it applies to downloads.
It's just a collection of screenshots, there is no content that actually explains anything. The entire first page on explorer has 5 pictures of somebody doing a file copy! If you are going to take screenshots make them of something that has actually changed or is interesting.
Oh and typical Tom's 40 pages of screen shots means 40x the ad revenue [next].
In other words, everyone posting this crap learned their physics from Bugs Bunny.
It is exactly like the conspiracy nuts who insist that there was a problem with video of the moon landing. They say that there is no way the lander would not have kicked up more dust than it did when it touched down. When you point out to them the absence of an atmosphere that would have done the pushing they have nothing to say.
I used to run a 40 client Citrix network and while it has some big benefits it has it's drawbacks too.
You need to take a really good long look at what your users are doing and in your case it's going to depend what department you're in. I've consulted a bit for a uni too so I have an idea what you are looking at. Lab machines that are mostly used for preparing papers and such are a good candidate. If you can lock them down tight enough you will have much less work today distributing office app patches and such. Depends how the labs are used though, TS is not a good candidate for feature rich web surfing.
Your admin department's machines will be a bit harder. Take a walk around and get a really good idea how your users work and what apps they use. There may be a lot of little apps here and there that will cause you problems on thin clients, especially if they do accounting. Also take a look at what your users do with things like PDAs, sync software for a cell phone or something could turn out to be a major PITA. If you have more than 20% of your users that have special requirements it probably won't be worth doing. Laptops will be a major hurdle as well, if they are going to be useful away from the network they have to stand on their own.
Don't under estimate the potential for a prof to get uptight about "their machine" either, IME they don't take "no you can't do that" very well.
Did it because I could, and because it meant sales for my company, not because I thought it made me any better than I was at the time ('cause I thought I was hot stuff at the time... and, taking, and passing 9 tests, 3 at a time, to become a CNE, without studying, made me so - right? *grin*)
Later, I'd learn how much I didn't know about networking, as the Internet grew - but that's a story for another time:)
I did an interview a couple years ago with a guy that had knocked out all his MS certs in 3 weeks and was pretty proud of it. The guy did have a bit of experience was he was really proud of his what he had done with the certs. I just sat there an smiled while he was going through his spiel and I imagine he figured he's impressed the hell out of me.
Thing was, I was actually thinking back to when I did the same thing at 19 years old. I was pretty much decided that if this guy was only half as clueless as I was at that time he was nothing but a disaster waiting to happen.
ANY GENERIC RETAIL SALESFORCE IS CLUELESS! This holds for kitchen appliances (Target), or power tools (Home Depot), bicycles, televisions, etc. I re-realized this when I was shopping for a table saw: The Home Depot doesn't know shit, they sell volume; but the Contracter Tool Supply store spent two hours with two staff members teaching me everything, in explicit detail.
This is absolutely true. I took a little time out of IT and worked in my friend's aquarium shop. He specializes in high end and unusual fish as well as the standard ones you would see in big box pet store. This meant we had customers that were both rabid enthusiast types and average people.
What took me a while to realize was that I could do very well with the enthusiasts I was about 50/50 with the average people. Many people truly do not care about anything but price and don't even seem to want to understand what they are buying and why they need it. I could sell them the biggest piece of junk in the place, after telling them it is junk, as long as I stuck a 25% off sticker on it. Hell, I don't know how many times I managed to turn a sale by offering a 5% discount. It didn't matter if that was $2, if they could tell their buddies about the great deal they got it was sold. I hated doing it though, you can't keep customers if their only loyalty is to the price. It doesn't matter if they get advice from someone with 20 years experience or not if the guy across the street is $.50 cheaper.
You are probably a developer/sysadmin...this is for a company operating in 7 countries with 25,000 notebooks/desktops for specific purposes, like POS, specific apps, etc.).
I inherited a POS project like this a few years ago. It's a crappy idea in most some cases.
If you have say a home depot with redundant T3s then great, of course they already do this. If you have a chain of smaller stores in malls across the country with DSL connections it won't fly. The reliability isn't there.
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If they offered a similar level of service then I could understand but their service sucks. I can't get an HBO Now subscription because I'm in Canada and they sold the rights for their shows to Bell's Crave TV. Ok so I'll get me a Crave TV subscription but I can't do that either because I don't have a cable or satellite subscription with one of the Crave TV partners. So if I want to stream the Sopranos I have to switch cable providers, but all new cable boxes and hope there isn't some some other exclusive I'm missing Yeah..... Not gonna happen.
I still have the book for Zork 2. The pen is toast though.
Better? Yes but still not very good.
Using PostGIS and replication here, works very nicely. Out biggest problem was that be have billions of rows that can't be locked for a huge high traffic mobile app. Using a round robin load balanced pool of postgres servers in hot spare mode as read only DBs solved a lot of issues.
It works for me too although I am certain that MSG and derivatives were the root cause of my bowel problems rather than generic "IBS".
OS/2 was an IBM / MS joint venture until MS bailed and used it to form the base for NT. You think it is a coincidence that NT could run OS/2 1.1 software?
I agree with what you have said here, the basic truth is that nobody really knows anything for sure. We don't have really good historic data or a full understanding of how the climate system really works and so I don't think we'll see a really solid theory any time soon. The thing is though, we might not have enough time left to come up with that really solid testable theory. If we finally figure it out in 80 years but have done nothing in the mean time it could result in a dramatic change on our planet and possibly the eventual extinction of our species.
I'm not really sure about what needs to be done, or if anyone else really knows what needs to be done either. I'm just as uncomfortable as you are with what goes on in the current debate. You need to admit that waiting for the provable science to catch up might kick us in the ass too though.
I'm not able to comment from an American POV but as a Canadian I get more exposure to US media so maybe I can offer some insight.
American politics and it's media coverage are so completely polarized that trying to get a perspective on what is actually happening is impossible. There is left or right, a centrist view or politician doesn't exist. Although I struggle to think of one maybe Bush has done some good things but by the time it gets to the public the truth is so distorted that you will never know the difference. The conservative media trumpets any success no matter how insignificant so you learn to tune that out. The opposing side either tries to take some some obviously partisan counter point no matter how shallow or passes by the story completely so you tune them out too.
While I agree with your impression I have to say that American politics are so messed up that I don't think anyone knows for sure.
The first movie I remember seeing as a little kid was Empire and I also remember my mom bringing bags of popcorn from home with us. I don't know if that was widely allowed at the time or not but I also rember being about 17 and having to throw out my g/f's doggy bag from dinner because the left over taco salad was "too greasy and would mess up the seats". So that's one change and I think a pretty bad one. I don't know if this is me getting picky as I get older or not but when I went to a movie a few weeks ago I was not just annoyed at the cost of my bag of popcorn but at the fact that it was bloody awful. If you're going to charge $5 for a bag of popcorn try and make sure that it isn't a soggy lump of half popped kernels, it was terrible.
Historically any game that requires an add on bombs. Anything that needed the gun for the NES, the power glove etc. OEMs building commodity consoles are going to look for a way to differentiate their products, you will end up with a bunch of consoles that are compatible in core features but that all have their own little add ons. Games that require or at least work better with these extra features are going to end up fragmenting the market and probably won't sell very well. You end up with the same problem you have now just on a different level.
It is quite possible that the super sensitive detector in this case is finding traces of kitchen matches or barbecue ignitor or any other number of things.
Given how many batteries we are talking about here the chances of anyone having thier laptop fail like this are probably the same as having thier laptop getting hit by lightning. There's only been a couple of cases reported.
Another truly major new feature, Spaces lets you utilize multiple desktops, each of which can contain its own set of application. Multiple desktops have been around for decades, and even the earliest Linux versions had this feature. Microsoft even implemented it in NT-based versions of Windows, though the company curiously never made it easy to access this functionality until it shipped a free PowerToy for Windows, called Virtual Desktop Manager, in 2001. It works an awful lot like Spaces, frankly, though Apple's version is obviously more polished and, well, Apple-like.
Well obviously this guy is either so biased he can't help it or he has a really terrible picture of what virtual desktops actually are. I tried Virtual Desktop Manager and it's bloody awful, I honestly can't think of enough bad words to say about it. That is the difference between OSX and other OSs IME, the Apple stuff just works. Microsoft stuff especially you have to screw around with for 10 minutes first.
I don't exactly disagree with you. The language is appropriate to convey a certain depth of feeling however assigning that depth feeling to the friggin poster is pushing it a bit don't you think? The writer does that consistently throughout the article, the whole thing is just over the top.
I don't have anything to back this up but I bet that Hollywood either charges extra for the edited versions or for a license for the airline or network to do the editing themselves. As soon as these guys show up and start getting away with not paying extra for these "edit rights" the networks and airlines tell Hollywood to go piss up a rope which costs the studios money.
All lawsuits are about money, sometimes you just have to look for it.
Why is it assumed that the penis is dirty in the first place? Do you wash your hands after touching your leg?
I keep a pretty close eye on my penis, it doesn't come into contact with anything I consider dirty. It is I imagine a lot cleaner than either the tap or door handle in a public washroom. Who knows what kind of filthy things come into contact with those.
This is incorrect, the blank media levy was designed to compensate artists for people copying CDs and other recordings. The "Download Question" was not seriously considered at the time the levy was introduced and it is a matter of opinion if it applies to downloads.
Oh and typical Tom's 40 pages of screen shots means 40x the ad revenue [next].
It is exactly like the conspiracy nuts who insist that there was a problem with video of the moon landing. They say that there is no way the lander would not have kicked up more dust than it did when it touched down. When you point out to them the absence of an atmosphere that would have done the pushing they have nothing to say.
"Common Sense" does NOT trump physics.
I used to run a 40 client Citrix network and while it has some big benefits it has it's drawbacks too.
You need to take a really good long look at what your users are doing and in your case it's going to depend what department you're in. I've consulted a bit for a uni too so I have an idea what you are looking at. Lab machines that are mostly used for preparing papers and such are a good candidate. If you can lock them down tight enough you will have much less work today distributing office app patches and such. Depends how the labs are used though, TS is not a good candidate for feature rich web surfing.
Your admin department's machines will be a bit harder. Take a walk around and get a really good idea how your users work and what apps they use. There may be a lot of little apps here and there that will cause you problems on thin clients, especially if they do accounting. Also take a look at what your users do with things like PDAs, sync software for a cell phone or something could turn out to be a major PITA. If you have more than 20% of your users that have special requirements it probably won't be worth doing. Laptops will be a major hurdle as well, if they are going to be useful away from the network they have to stand on their own.
Don't under estimate the potential for a prof to get uptight about "their machine" either, IME they don't take "no you can't do that" very well.
My above remarks are taken totally out of context. 0xA
Later, I'd learn how much I didn't know about networking, as the Internet grew - but that's a story for another time :)
I did an interview a couple years ago with a guy that had knocked out all his MS certs in 3 weeks and was pretty proud of it. The guy did have a bit of experience was he was really proud of his what he had done with the certs. I just sat there an smiled while he was going through his spiel and I imagine he figured he's impressed the hell out of me.
Thing was, I was actually thinking back to when I did the same thing at 19 years old. I was pretty much decided that if this guy was only half as clueless as I was at that time he was nothing but a disaster waiting to happen.
This is absolutely true. I took a little time out of IT and worked in my friend's aquarium shop. He specializes in high end and unusual fish as well as the standard ones you would see in big box pet store. This meant we had customers that were both rabid enthusiast types and average people.
What took me a while to realize was that I could do very well with the enthusiasts I was about 50/50 with the average people. Many people truly do not care about anything but price and don't even seem to want to understand what they are buying and why they need it. I could sell them the biggest piece of junk in the place, after telling them it is junk, as long as I stuck a 25% off sticker on it. Hell, I don't know how many times I managed to turn a sale by offering a 5% discount. It didn't matter if that was $2, if they could tell their buddies about the great deal they got it was sold. I hated doing it though, you can't keep customers if their only loyalty is to the price. It doesn't matter if they get advice from someone with 20 years experience or not if the guy across the street is $.50 cheaper.
Truly a sad state of affairs.
I inherited a POS project like this a few years ago. It's a crappy idea in most some cases.
If you have say a home depot with redundant T3s then great, of course they already do this. If you have a chain of smaller stores in malls across the country with DSL connections it won't fly. The reliability isn't there.
With a border router nothing stops an infected laptop from attacking on the inside.
True enough but I would think that a laptop would automatically not be a trusted device in that kind of network.