In my organization, it's not the old dinosaurs that create security problems, it's the idiot 20 something that bypasses Sonic Firewall (the dipshit product that it is) to get to Facebook by using HTTPS and then proceeds to play Farmville for hours. Unless you can employ security experts in every slot in your organization you have these problems. Remember this is about SOCIAL engineering, not technical issues.
Conversations about difficult subjects mean that civilizations are going 'downhill'?
This isn't a television show about conversations. This is "The First Suicide on the Beeb! See it while it's being aired or you'll be the loser at the water cooler that didn't watch the legalized snuff film!"
"It will be the first time suicide has been broadcast on terrestrial television and has sparked a fierce debate over the right to die issue. "
Sounds like a discussion to me. Whether it happens at a water cooler (is that like a Coke machine?) or in Parliament, it's a mark of a civilization to engage in discourse.
Western civilization is going down fast; I remember a time when this very scenario was the nightmare end of a slippery slope argument...
Conversations about difficult subjects mean that civilizations are going 'downhill'? How is that again? Yes, there are some important moral, social, political and practical questions about assisted suicide but not discussing them doesn't help answer any of that.
It is trivial to make an install DVD (or USB stick) out of the downloaded version of Lion.
Whether or not Apple eventually decides to sell a DVD copy is another question. Given the ease that someone can put the installer on virtually any bit of memory they so desire, it may be a non issue except to the most technically challenged of people (who should probably just get an iPad).
PCB / SPICE software is lacking on OS X. That's rather an arcane edge case, but it's there. I use an old Windows program under Parallels which works fine but every once in a while I peek around to see if anyone has done a native OS X program. And it's my impression that Quick Books for the Mac is either non existent or a bit of a joke. Personally, I think QB sucks, but lots of people find it very useful. So the OP has a point - there are some programs that aren't available for OS X. I guess Steve will just have to forgo lightening the wallet of a couple of thousand people. Somehow, I don't think it keeps him up at night.
Got my mom an iPad - it hasn't been around a 'real' computer for 4 months (last time I visited). Works fine. You currently need iTunes to get started but it happily runs around on it's own. Flash hasn't been much on issue for her - I guess her gurus are more enlightened.....
How about light switches that are just thin boxes with a switch on them? You can hang them wherever you want and program your house to know which switch should control which power fixture(s). The switches are powered for about a year on a couple of watch batteries. If you don't like where a light switch is, you can easily move it....
Honey! Where did you put the hall light switch this time?
We're going to go through that phase where people find out what's useful..
Except that we've been there before. A couple of times. Except for a few edge cases, geeks and people with too much disposable income, home automation hasn't really made it big time. And it won't for the reasons you mention - it's too complex for every day use, too fragile, too expensive and has too limited a rationale behind it.
Now, if the rest of you would just get off our lawns, we'll just get out the manual sprinklers and wet the place down.
Or, as someone posted earlier, you could cut the military spending down to some reasonable multiple of the rest of the world, phase out the Bush tax cuts and work to keep the entitlements down to a dull roar. It certainly can be done, we just have to have the political will to simultaneously reign in both the Military Industrial Complex and Big Banking.
The idea of an Internet-wide search engine and a walled garden are opposing concepts. They could be made to work together, but never very well, and the costs of doing so, the limitation of thought and ideas, would outweigh the benefits (none of which I can see).
There are plenty of 'safe' zones for kids - just not on the Internet.
My parents left me alone at times. They just made sure I didn't have access to the acetylene tank (after that one little incident, anyway). Some things can be kid safe, the open Internet isn't one of them.
They don't for a lot of people. You know, the ones that bought a random Windows laptop a few years ago to do email / browsing / Farmbook and now have them so infested with shovelware / spyware / viruses that it's "broken". These are the people slurping up iPads - they need an appliance, not a general purpose computing device.
"We" are different and comprise a very small fraction of the consumer market. The market that powers the US economy for better or worse. THIS is Apple's claim to fame and fortune - the realization that everybody else was 'doing it wrong' in terms of the consumer computing experience. Now, Apple could have made it easier on "us" by having an expert mode in iOS and allowing sideloading. But they didn't (so the jailbreak community did). Sucks to be us but Steve don't care....
Haven't termite gut bacteria been known to digest wood for years?
Maybe. Sort of. Perhaps. I had thought so as well, but a quick Google search indicates that those bugs are not well characterized. Having a single organism with a defined enzyme is obviously an easier system to scale up than the stomach of an insect.
To this day, people claim that David Kernell's hack proved wrongdoing on Palin's part, even after Kernell told 4chan that he DIDN'T find anything interesting.
All I'm sayin' is if the media still have the energy and resources to root around in Mrs. Palin's old emails, air drop into Alaska back in the campaign to root around in her trash cans, etc. perhaps a little attention to the guy who actually IS president and appears to want to run for reelection might be worthy of the basic scrutiny the media would give a candidate for governor or senate. Or we might want to face the reality that the media already know Obama's story and are intent on the voters never learning it.
Well, go for it dude. Certainly there have to be a couple of more folks with your bent to get together and sort this out. Certainly the Fox News folks and persons of similar persuasion have the means and the motive to go look for dirt in his past. Perhaps they have done that and found he was a B+ student who wrote boring things, didn't do drugs and didn't get arrested -- basically a meh story. Who knows? Obama is your typical bog-standard Politician, no more no less. Not nearly as entertaining as an attractive batshit insane ex cheerleader with dubious command of history, geography and language.
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Pah. Poser. Cretin.
You want these puppies.
In my organization, it's not the old dinosaurs that create security problems, it's the idiot 20 something that bypasses Sonic Firewall (the dipshit product that it is) to get to Facebook by using HTTPS and then proceeds to play Farmville for hours. Unless you can employ security experts in every slot in your organization you have these problems. Remember this is about SOCIAL engineering, not technical issues.
Conversations about difficult subjects mean that civilizations are going 'downhill'?
This isn't a television show about conversations. This is "The First Suicide on the Beeb! See it while it's being aired or you'll be the loser at the water cooler that didn't watch the legalized snuff film!"
"It will be the first time suicide has been broadcast on terrestrial television and has sparked a fierce debate over the right to die issue. " Sounds like a discussion to me. Whether it happens at a water cooler (is that like a Coke machine?) or in Parliament, it's a mark of a civilization to engage in discourse.
Western civilization is going down fast; I remember a time when this very scenario was the nightmare end of a slippery slope argument...
Conversations about difficult subjects mean that civilizations are going 'downhill'? How is that again? Yes, there are some important moral, social, political and practical questions about assisted suicide but not discussing them doesn't help answer any of that.
I wish I had mod point. Seriously, this bitcoin spam is getting really old.
What? You want another Apple article?
There will be no DVDs for this one.
It is trivial to make an install DVD (or USB stick) out of the downloaded version of Lion. Whether or not Apple eventually decides to sell a DVD copy is another question. Given the ease that someone can put the installer on virtually any bit of memory they so desire, it may be a non issue except to the most technically challenged of people (who should probably just get an iPad).
PCB / SPICE software is lacking on OS X. That's rather an arcane edge case, but it's there. I use an old Windows program under Parallels which works fine but every once in a while I peek around to see if anyone has done a native OS X program. And it's my impression that Quick Books for the Mac is either non existent or a bit of a joke. Personally, I think QB sucks, but lots of people find it very useful. So the OP has a point - there are some programs that aren't available for OS X. I guess Steve will just have to forgo lightening the wallet of a couple of thousand people. Somehow, I don't think it keeps him up at night.
Got my mom an iPad - it hasn't been around a 'real' computer for 4 months (last time I visited). Works fine. You currently need iTunes to get started but it happily runs around on it's own. Flash hasn't been much on issue for her - I guess her gurus are more enlightened.....
Home automation enthusiasts need to admit that it's still in the hobby phase, much like early computing.
Beta. The word is beta. Remember, this Google we're talking about.
How about light switches that are just thin boxes with a switch on them? You can hang them wherever you want and program your house to know which switch should control which power fixture(s). The switches are powered for about a year on a couple of watch batteries. If you don't like where a light switch is, you can easily move it. ...
Honey! Where did you put the hall light switch this time?
We're going to go through that phase where people find out what's useful..
Except that we've been there before. A couple of times. Except for a few edge cases, geeks and people with too much disposable income, home automation hasn't really made it big time. And it won't for the reasons you mention - it's too complex for every day use, too fragile, too expensive and has too limited a rationale behind it.
Now, if the rest of you would just get off our lawns, we'll just get out the manual sprinklers and wet the place down.
I felt the same way when I saw that everything from apple has no buttons or a single button....
I suppose you want toggle switches for individual memory addresses?
Or, as someone posted earlier, you could cut the military spending down to some reasonable multiple of the rest of the world, phase out the Bush tax cuts and work to keep the entitlements down to a dull roar. It certainly can be done, we just have to have the political will to simultaneously reign in both the Military Industrial Complex and Big Banking.
We're doomed.
Is there anything the government can't keep it's paws out of?
Gundam?
The idea of an Internet-wide search engine and a walled garden are opposing concepts. They could be made to work together, but never very well, and the costs of doing so, the limitation of thought and ideas, would outweigh the benefits (none of which I can see).
BRING BACK AOL!!!!
There are plenty of 'safe' zones for kids - just not on the Internet.
My parents left me alone at times. They just made sure I didn't have access to the acetylene tank (after that one little incident, anyway). Some things can be kid safe, the open Internet isn't one of them.
You have no idea what a bank is or does.
That's OK. I'm convinced that my bank doesn't either.
Another Slashvertisement! Ready pitchforks!!!!
You seem like an angry young man. Perhaps this article has touched an unmet need that you are unconsciously rebelling against.
Would you like some Kool-Aid?
I guess all the PCs out there just don't work?
They don't for a lot of people. You know, the ones that bought a random Windows laptop a few years ago to do email / browsing / Farmbook and now have them so infested with shovelware / spyware / viruses that it's "broken". These are the people slurping up iPads - they need an appliance, not a general purpose computing device.
"We" are different and comprise a very small fraction of the consumer market. The market that powers the US economy for better or worse. THIS is Apple's claim to fame and fortune - the realization that everybody else was 'doing it wrong' in terms of the consumer computing experience. Now, Apple could have made it easier on "us" by having an expert mode in iOS and allowing sideloading. But they didn't (so the jailbreak community did). Sucks to be us but Steve don't care....
Haven't termite gut bacteria been known to digest wood for years?
Maybe. Sort of. Perhaps. I had thought so as well, but a quick Google search indicates that those bugs are not well characterized. Having a single organism with a defined enzyme is obviously an easier system to scale up than the stomach of an insect.
To this day, people claim that David Kernell's hack proved wrongdoing on Palin's part, even after Kernell told 4chan that he DIDN'T find anything interesting.
"Kernall told 4chan ... "
Do you see what you did there?
All I'm sayin' is if the media still have the energy and resources to root around in Mrs. Palin's old emails, air drop into Alaska back in the campaign to root around in her trash cans, etc. perhaps a little attention to the guy who actually IS president and appears to want to run for reelection might be worthy of the basic scrutiny the media would give a candidate for governor or senate. Or we might want to face the reality that the media already know Obama's story and are intent on the voters never learning it.
Well, go for it dude. Certainly there have to be a couple of more folks with your bent to get together and sort this out. Certainly the Fox News folks and persons of similar persuasion have the means and the motive to go look for dirt in his past. Perhaps they have done that and found he was a B+ student who wrote boring things, didn't do drugs and didn't get arrested -- basically a meh story. Who knows? Obama is your typical bog-standard Politician, no more no less. Not nearly as entertaining as an attractive batshit insane ex cheerleader with dubious command of history, geography and language.
What's not to like?
My wife came home and cleaned the kitchen. Women aren't always delicate little puffs.
I bet you got big brownie points for that one....
Where do I sign up?
Here.
What a shitty idea.