Well, I guess you get what you pay for when you trust your data to a company that calls itself Nirvanix of all things... (the link to Nirvanix in the article is also very telling)
On a more serious note: According to TFA (yes, I actually read it) they had 20000 paying customers, no less. How ridiculously stupid do you have to be to run a business based on storing data for other people and not putting a working backup strategy into place?!
They should really be sue'd into oblivion for stupidity alone. In fact, they should be thrown behind bars and slapped with a big cluestick for the rest of their lives.
On a similar note: This futz about "the password problem" is getting really, really old.
Firefox Password Hasher exists. And for everything else you can just drop a similar program onto your cellphone, PDA or whatever gadget you carry around with you. Yes, it's not "perfect" security but it's probably the best tradeoff between convenience and security that we'll see in a long while. It won't get much better as long as human brains are involved.
Watch your words you naysayers. As it seems Paris Hilton will be president soon and I wouldn't be too surprised if the earth would be declared flat then - if only to "simplify things" a bit.
I don't own an iPhone and have no idea how that builtin shopping works but I highly doubt apple would be able to hold up a transaction (in fact, *any* transaction) that doesn't involve a written signature on dead tree or, at the very least, requires me to enter my password again.
Oh and while we're google bashing here: I would like if google groups would echo my own damn posts back to me like every other mailing list software does!
Totally offtopic but IMHO there are indeed good display cleaners and bad display cleaners. The bad stuff is the clear, soapy spraycans that you get most of the time.
The *good* stuff is a white foam that looks like shaving foam (also comes in a spraycan).
I have no idea what (other?) chemicals they put in the foam but that stuff works a thousand times better for me - no smearing at all.
Well, I can speak for Sun platinum support and that one has actually saved our ass once - and been extremely helpful on a few other occassions. And no, when shit hits the fan we don't usually talk on the phone but they send a qualified technician (sometimes 2) to our site within 4 hours.
Amen. As far as I am concerned you should be modded through the roof!
I proposed the exact same thing on multiple occassions. But my pessimistic outlook is still the same: VeriSign & friends won't allow that happen because it would invalidate their license to print money.
Cry me a river. If I was her I'd just take the money from the previous years and call it a life.
Regardless of the e-mail snooping (which should be punished regardless) I think you deserve what you get when you make 800 grand a year on your looks and manners, yet throw it all away by calling a Cop (of all people) "a f---ing dyke".
These kind of articles make me think that (owning lots of) money must seriously melt your brain. I mean just look at that chick's face in the photo. Blown up to 800 grand meets Darwin I say. Yes, pun intended.
Having written all my letters, thesis and pretty much everything that I needed to print in LaTeX over the last 8 years I can at least tell you what *my* problems with it are:
The syntax is really abysmal for tables and many other "advanced" constructs.
*Exact* placement of images is hard. The desired result can be achieved in most cases but only after you've gone through a painful trial/error process.
Customizing document classes is a nightmare. Everybody uses the existing and excellent classes (article, letter, etc.) but god forbid you want to adjust your letter-head a bit, insert an image, add page-numbers or something like that. If you want to use LaTeX for anything beyond the available document classes then you're in for a steep learning curve (cf. "Brick Wall").
PDF export is a hack.
The "Don't argue with LaTex"-problem. Sometimes I do know better than LaTeX and want to change a margin, avoid a page-wrap or something similarly blasphemous. Sometimes it just works but equally often such a "quickfix" turns into a real adventure.
Restoring the tool-chain on a new computer can be tedious. Depending on how many of your packages have been (incompatibly) updated or deprecated in the meantime you can easily spend a day or two on getting your more complex documents to render properly again.
Well, despite all these annoyances I'm still using LaTeX. Not because I like it so much but rather because I haven't found an alternative that produces equally excellent output. On a side-note: I strongly disagree with the people who said that there wouldn't be a market for a "modern LaTeX". I know quite a few people that would immediately jump onto a solution that "just works" (i.e.: one program to install) and uses a sane template language.
A surefire way to reveal the problems with LaTex is to when you try rebuild your toolchain on a new machine (e.g. a new laptop). You're pretty much guaranteed to spend at least half a day on debugging obscure error messages due to incompatible/missing packages or new quierks in the toolchain.
The whole thing is just old and rusty - and I, too, would love to see an alternative that can produce equally excellent output.
Well, I'm not sure about your definition of "decent" but a fairly decent color laser starts at roughly $150 bucks. That shouldn't be too much asked for an item that you'll probably want to keep for a few years.
Yes, a "decent" inkpisser can probably be had cheaper initially but it'll be more expensive per page and (by my expirience) is *much* more prone to early breakage, such as clogged printheads. Inkjets just don't like it when they're only rarely used, a laser doesn't care.
Well, so basically you're saying google is just idling around, enjoying their wealth and not doing much of anything? Sounds like an awesome position to be in (as an employee) to me!;-)
But on a more serious note: Let's assume for a moment that you are right and google is "sleeping" right now. I don't see a problem with that as long as they keep hiring the top notch personnel from all areas in computing. If their business takes a dive in the future because they have been so lazy, then what would stop them from activating all the brainpower that they have at their disposal just in time?
If google is idle right now then I'd say it is akin more to a "sleeping tiger" than a "sitting duck". It's not like they couldn't remove the pool tables, lear jets and massages at any time when they feel a need.
It even handed out night-vision goggles to exhibitors in Australia, where the film opened two days before its U.S. launch, to scan the audience for the telltale infrared signal of a camcorder.
Quote from "10 strong indicators that your business model is becoming obsolete":
Recently you began spying on your customers with night vision goggles
Oh, btw a friend just sent me an early bootleg of the next Warner Bros. Press-Release (to be announced tomorrow):
Warner Bros. now requires a cavity search before entering a theater. All theater staff has been equipped with sniper rifles to terminate "any suspicious activity" immediately.
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I think if your DR-plan actually involves the phrase "let's call Veritas" then, umm, you have bigger problems.
Great, a cluster of license-servers. How much more ridiculous can it get?
No wonder most would-be customers prefer pirate-bay retail...
Well, I guess you get what you pay for when you trust your data to a company that calls itself Nirvanix of all things... (the link to Nirvanix in the article is also very telling)
On a more serious note:
According to TFA (yes, I actually read it) they had 20000 paying customers, no less. How ridiculously stupid do you have to be to run a business based on storing data for other people and not putting a working backup strategy into place?!
They should really be sue'd into oblivion for stupidity alone. In fact, they should be thrown behind bars and slapped with a big cluestick for the rest of their lives.
Ah I see what you mean, mozilla is behind the times again.
The Firefox3 compatible version can be installed from the Password Hasher Homepage.
I'm quite sure it does because I'm using it right now, in Firefox 3.0.1. ;-)
On a similar note: This futz about "the password problem" is getting really, really old.
Firefox Password Hasher exists.
And for everything else you can just drop a similar program onto your cellphone, PDA or whatever gadget you carry around with you.
Yes, it's not "perfect" security but it's probably the best tradeoff between convenience and security that we'll see in a long while. It won't get much better as long as human brains are involved.
And he's amazingly versatile, too. Techno!
Your Head Asplode!
They also have exclusive video footage.
Watch your words you naysayers.
As it seems Paris Hilton will be president soon and I wouldn't be too surprised if the earth would be declared flat then - if only to "simplify things" a bit.
I don't own an iPhone and have no idea how that builtin shopping works but I highly doubt apple would be able to hold up a transaction (in fact, *any* transaction) that doesn't involve a written signature on dead tree or, at the very least, requires me to enter my password again.
Oh and while we're google bashing here: I would like if google groups would echo my own damn posts back to me like every other mailing list software does!
Totally offtopic but IMHO there are indeed good display cleaners and bad display cleaners.
The bad stuff is the clear, soapy spraycans that you get most of the time.
The *good* stuff is a white foam that looks like shaving foam (also comes in a spraycan).
I have no idea what (other?) chemicals they put in the foam but that stuff works a thousand times better for me - no smearing at all.
But what does this lawsuit gain them when they cannot actually track down the music-sharing terrorist?
The case will just be dismissed and that's it.
Spot on. The lack of clue within the RIAA is mindnumbing.
A MAC-Address is completely meaningless. As in:
ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:DE:AD:BE:EF:00
Entertaining lawsuit indeed.
But the sour point is that the RIAA apparently still has money to burn... Will it ever end?
Well, I can speak for Sun platinum support and that one has actually saved our ass once - and been extremely helpful on a few other occassions.
And no, when shit hits the fan we don't usually talk on the phone but they send a qualified technician (sometimes 2) to our site within 4 hours.
Amen.
As far as I am concerned you should be modded through the roof!
I proposed the exact same thing on multiple occassions. But my pessimistic outlook is still the same: VeriSign & friends won't allow that happen because it would invalidate their license to print money.
$800.000 per year?
Cry me a river.
If I was her I'd just take the money from the previous years and call it a life.
Regardless of the e-mail snooping (which should be punished regardless) I think you deserve what you get when you make 800 grand a year on your looks and manners, yet throw it all away by calling a Cop (of all people) "a f---ing dyke".
These kind of articles make me think that (owning lots of) money must seriously melt your brain. I mean just look at that chick's face in the photo. Blown up to 800 grand meets Darwin I say. Yes, pun intended.
Yea that and maybe for a drop of oil or two. Actually, ah well, forget about that right-to-live thing...
Having written all my letters, thesis and pretty much everything that I needed to print in LaTeX over the last 8 years I can at least tell you what *my* problems with it are:
Well, despite all these annoyances I'm still using LaTeX. Not because I like it so much but rather because I haven't found an alternative that produces equally excellent output.
On a side-note: I strongly disagree with the people who said that there wouldn't be a market for a "modern LaTeX". I know quite a few people that would immediately jump onto a solution that "just works" (i.e.: one program to install) and uses a sane template language.
Amen.
A surefire way to reveal the problems with LaTex is to when you try rebuild your toolchain on a new machine (e.g. a new laptop). You're pretty much guaranteed to spend at least half a day on debugging obscure error messages due to incompatible/missing packages or new quierks in the toolchain.
The whole thing is just old and rusty - and I, too, would love to see an alternative that can produce equally excellent output.
Well, I'm not sure about your definition of "decent" but a fairly decent color laser starts at roughly $150 bucks.
That shouldn't be too much asked for an item that you'll probably want to keep for a few years.
Yes, a "decent" inkpisser can probably be had cheaper initially but it'll be more expensive per page and (by my expirience) is *much* more prone to early breakage, such as clogged printheads. Inkjets just don't like it when they're only rarely used, a laser doesn't care.
Well, so basically you're saying google is just idling around, enjoying their wealth and not doing much of anything? Sounds like an awesome position to be in (as an employee) to me! ;-)
But on a more serious note: Let's assume for a moment that you are right and google is "sleeping" right now. I don't see a problem with that as long as they keep hiring the top notch personnel from all areas in computing. If their business takes a dive in the future because they have been so lazy, then what would stop them from activating all the brainpower that they have at their disposal just in time?
If google is idle right now then I'd say it is akin more to a "sleeping tiger" than a "sitting duck". It's not like they couldn't remove the pool tables, lear jets and massages at any time when they feel a need.
Quote from TFA:
Quote from "10 strong indicators that your business model is becoming obsolete":
Oh, btw a friend just sent me an early bootleg of the next Warner Bros. Press-Release (to be announced tomorrow):
Just curious, don't you breath in water when you try to breath "as it passes your mouth"?