Can someone tell me what all the fuss about "LiFi" is?
It seems that everytime things hit a lull in the industry, there is a surge in old technology with new acronyms (re-post!). We've had optical communications in our remote controls (and the Linux kernel) for decades. Acoustic networking is older than I am yet the latest BIOS infector is being pushed as some kind of new magic-mystery-machine. It's unique for a virus to replicate acoustically, but the technology isn't new to anyone who has used a modem.
Many, if not most, IT initiatives with homebrew tech fails.
I've seen $15k home-brewed storage solutions outpace $50k vended ones as well as $2500 servers outperform $20k ones. Those home-brews rely on talented in-house labor however, so if you can't keep the good employees around, you had better go the $50k route. Oh, don't forget the $4500/year maintenance contract and 3-5 day tier 1 support callbacks from people with such thick accents the interpreter needs an interpreter. That's not fail though because it's a purchased product amiright?
Every time I hear news about Blackberry I hear that gurgling sound the loo makes when it gets a bit too full of water; not sure if it's slowly going down or slowly coming up.
Snowden broke the law, and is now a criminal evading law enforcement
Technically, yes, but technically so did the NSA; do we get to hold them to your same breed of logic? Snowden didn't leak pictures of the next supersekrit wizzbang gadget, or post Adobe Photoshop code on pastebin. He witnessed a system so out of control that there are no laws or legal system to contain it, or bring it back into balance. This isn't a matter of breaking an NDA agreement. Egregious breaches of the law need to be reported and the people who report them need to be given the freedom from legal consequence while those responsible need to be brought to trial.
Moving at those kinds of speeds, people don't have time to accurately judge merging time, lane changes, etc. You can be 1/4 mile away and be on someone traveling the speed limit before they've even finished changing lanes. Record or not "top-gun" dick moves belong on the race track, not public highways.
Kids -- keep the phones on vibrate. If you need to take an urgent call, excuse yourself and step outside but make it brief. Don't be an ass and do it in every meeting. It's distracting and just not considered courteous. You're obviously in the meeting because your involvement is important.
Old guys -- use the white board when possible. No, we don't want to hear your golfing digressions. There is plenty the rest of us need to get done and watching you fumble with your slideshow is annoying and not very respectful of OUR time. Get to the point. Ask everyone if they understand. If someone isn't getting it, or wants to argue, talk to them after the meeting. The rest of us don't want to referee for the jackass you're sparring with. It's OK if what you had to say only takes 20 minutes. It doesn't mean that what you had to say isn't important, interesting or pertinent.
"The utility, the Arizona Public Service Company (APS), outed itself as a funder of two secretive nonprofits fueling the anti-solar fightâ"and revealed that it had funneled its anti-solar money through a political operative associated with the Koch brothers and their donor network."
No, not off the OS, but the devices which run it are chewing up 80% of the global market. That's a big deal. That's a big deal to Apple because the bulk of their revenue stream is limited to North America. Much of Europe is not foolish enough to pay Apple tax so they go the "cheap" route. The cheap route is the niche Microsoft was supposed to fill with their abysma-phone and one they WOULD fill if Android, Samsung, HTC and others were slapped with trade embargoes due to "Patent infringement". Limits we've already seen put in practice by Lucy Koh and Apple.
He could fairly ask for a billion bucks a year as a salary and he would deserve it all!
Indeed. He owns the company, however Ellison is the epitome of tax dodging, corporate greed, corruption and elitism. When the part of your brain that says you're acting like a douche doesn't function anymore, everything you do becomes the product of a self-serving narcissist. Your actions and decisions are no longer a benefit to the people around you. Such as shareholders and employees.
IMAP? Presumably TFA has taken issue with cleartext, which is understandable, but IMAPS or TLS+IMAP is about as good as you can get. Even Exchange is basically an M$ regurgitated IMAP protocol.
FTFA: the Pentagon's Yoda has amassed a loyal following of supporters and protegesâ"sometimes called Jedi Knights. Not least is former Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld,
Aw, c'mon already. He's just another Bush crony. If he was any damn good, we wouldn't be fighting an endless money-pit war on terror to the tune of some 3,000 deaths or flying military drones all over our back yards. Is this his idea of 'future military threat?'
I bet his crowning glory among the given company has centered around how to strip tax dollars out of the budget and inject into privatized miltary for the past 40 years.
I think people want them, but Samsung tried to get the jump on Apple by pushing a half-baked product. I don't think Apple will nail it either because what people want in a smart watch is out of reach of current technology - the components are just too big. People want a smart watch which is indiscreet. It looks like a regular watch in both design, function and form factor yet magically can interface with your phone in a way which is neither cumbersome or frustrating. I think right now, people would be happy with a watch which simply vibrates when the phone in their pocket or backpack gets a text or phone call. Maybe scrolls an indiscreet caller id on the screen, or marquee of the text. Perhaps does a voice reply to a text message. That would be enough for now instead of trying to fit a phone on your wrist.
SysV init scripts just work. They are simple to create and easy to maintain. Debugging is a cinch when things go wrong -- and a lot of packages DO NOT get upstart init, nor SysV init correct. Upstart is only easier in theory. In practice it's made a complete mess of things and I have several Ubuntu systems to prove it.
FUD laws about radiation and all other things nuclear out to the FUD farm where they belong.
I know it's the popular internet "groupthink" to assume radiation poisoning/fallout/exposure is all BS because independent studies on the Fukishama disaster show nobody has died from it. A word of caution: radiation induced cancers can take a long time to develop. 40 years in some cases. That's long enough to completely screw up the planet for the course of your lifetime and many of your descendents lifetimes. Nuclear energy's biggest problem is that it leaves no room for error - and humans are full of error. There is no tenable way right now to make these energy facilities idiot proof when greed, corruption and power are in charge of the safety.
So... rewarding piracy is what makes a good company? Not sure I agree with that. The loss in sales is most likely offset in product pricing (you're paying more because of those who leech).
There's little point in bickering about the method when the decision has already been made that the criminal is too dangerous/incorrigibly evil to live in society.
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Dear NSA,
The fact that another country spies on the US doesn't make what you did any more legal, acceptable or less egregious.
Sincerely,
Most of the US population
Can someone tell me what all the fuss about "LiFi" is?
It seems that everytime things hit a lull in the industry, there is a surge in old technology with new acronyms (re-post!). We've had optical communications in our remote controls (and the Linux kernel) for decades. Acoustic networking is older than I am yet the latest BIOS infector is being pushed as some kind of new magic-mystery-machine. It's unique for a virus to replicate acoustically, but the technology isn't new to anyone who has used a modem.
Many, if not most, IT initiatives with homebrew tech fails.
I've seen $15k home-brewed storage solutions outpace $50k vended ones as well as $2500 servers outperform $20k ones. Those home-brews rely on talented in-house labor however, so if you can't keep the good employees around, you had better go the $50k route. Oh, don't forget the $4500/year maintenance contract and 3-5 day tier 1 support callbacks from people with such thick accents the interpreter needs an interpreter. That's not fail though because it's a purchased product amiright?
I thought conventional wisdom
..and backsupses. Precious backsupses.
Every time I hear news about Blackberry I hear that gurgling sound the loo makes when it gets a bit too full of water; not sure if it's slowly going down or slowly coming up.
Snowden broke the law, and is now a criminal evading law enforcement
Technically, yes, but technically so did the NSA; do we get to hold them to your same breed of logic? Snowden didn't leak pictures of the next supersekrit wizzbang gadget, or post Adobe Photoshop code on pastebin. He witnessed a system so out of control that there are no laws or legal system to contain it, or bring it back into balance. This isn't a matter of breaking an NDA agreement. Egregious breaches of the law need to be reported and the people who report them need to be given the freedom from legal consequence while those responsible need to be brought to trial.
Moving at those kinds of speeds, people don't have time to accurately judge merging time, lane changes, etc. You can be 1/4 mile away and be on someone traveling the speed limit before they've even finished changing lanes. Record or not "top-gun" dick moves belong on the race track, not public highways.
Kids -- keep the phones on vibrate. If you need to take an urgent call, excuse yourself and step outside but make it brief. Don't be an ass and do it in every meeting. It's distracting and just not considered courteous. You're obviously in the meeting because your involvement is important.
Old guys -- use the white board when possible. No, we don't want to hear your golfing digressions. There is plenty the rest of us need to get done and watching you fumble with your slideshow is annoying and not very respectful of OUR time. Get to the point. Ask everyone if they understand. If someone isn't getting it, or wants to argue, talk to them after the meeting. The rest of us don't want to referee for the jackass you're sparring with. It's OK if what you had to say only takes 20 minutes. It doesn't mean that what you had to say isn't important, interesting or pertinent.
The internet service in the country.. it's-- it's... It's too big!
The Tea baggin' Koch Bros...
"The utility, the Arizona Public Service Company (APS), outed itself as a funder of two secretive nonprofits fueling the anti-solar fightâ"and revealed that it had funneled its anti-solar money through a political operative associated with the Koch brothers and their donor network."
Nobody makes much profit off Android
No, not off the OS, but the devices which run it are chewing up 80% of the global market. That's a big deal. That's a big deal to Apple because the bulk of their revenue stream is limited to North America. Much of Europe is not foolish enough to pay Apple tax so they go the "cheap" route. The cheap route is the niche Microsoft was supposed to fill with their abysma-phone and one they WOULD fill if Android, Samsung, HTC and others were slapped with trade embargoes due to "Patent infringement". Limits we've already seen put in practice by Lucy Koh and Apple.
He could fairly ask for a billion bucks a year as a salary and he would deserve it all!
Indeed. He owns the company, however Ellison is the epitome of tax dodging, corporate greed, corruption and elitism. When the part of your brain that says you're acting like a douche doesn't function anymore, everything you do becomes the product of a self-serving narcissist. Your actions and decisions are no longer a benefit to the people around you. Such as shareholders and employees.
Remember when Slashdot used to have articles on circuit boards, programming languages, cool games and hardware?
What's next Ben and Jen's new baby (or whoever the f#ck is the latest tabloid bait)
IMAP? Presumably TFA has taken issue with cleartext, which is understandable, but IMAPS or TLS+IMAP is about as good as you can get. Even Exchange is basically an M$ regurgitated IMAP protocol.
The cop was obviously giving her a ticket for looking like a dork to other drivers.
Puts the caldera well into Montana and Idaho*
[*] - http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs100-03/
FTFA: the Pentagon's Yoda has amassed a loyal following of supporters and protegesâ"sometimes called Jedi Knights. Not least is former Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld,
Aw, c'mon already. He's just another Bush crony. If he was any damn good, we wouldn't be fighting an endless money-pit war on terror to the tune of some 3,000 deaths or flying military drones all over our back yards. Is this his idea of 'future military threat?'
I bet his crowning glory among the given company has centered around how to strip tax dollars out of the budget and inject into privatized miltary for the past 40 years.
EDIT: s/indiscreet/discreet/g
I think people want them, but Samsung tried to get the jump on Apple by pushing a half-baked product. I don't think Apple will nail it either because what people want in a smart watch is out of reach of current technology - the components are just too big. People want a smart watch which is indiscreet. It looks like a regular watch in both design, function and form factor yet magically can interface with your phone in a way which is neither cumbersome or frustrating. I think right now, people would be happy with a watch which simply vibrates when the phone in their pocket or backpack gets a text or phone call. Maybe scrolls an indiscreet caller id on the screen, or marquee of the text. Perhaps does a voice reply to a text message. That would be enough for now instead of trying to fit a phone on your wrist.
You could buy computers with backs that opened
Um.. nothing has changed dude. You still can. Perhaps you've been in the Apple monoculture too long.
SysV init scripts just work. They are simple to create and easy to maintain. Debugging is a cinch when things go wrong -- and a lot of packages DO NOT get upstart init, nor SysV init correct. Upstart is only easier in theory. In practice it's made a complete mess of things and I have several Ubuntu systems to prove it.
FUD laws about radiation and all other things nuclear out to the FUD farm where they belong.
I know it's the popular internet "groupthink" to assume radiation poisoning/fallout/exposure is all BS because independent studies on the Fukishama disaster show nobody has died from it. A word of caution: radiation induced cancers can take a long time to develop. 40 years in some cases. That's long enough to completely screw up the planet for the course of your lifetime and many of your descendents lifetimes. Nuclear energy's biggest problem is that it leaves no room for error - and humans are full of error. There is no tenable way right now to make these energy facilities idiot proof when greed, corruption and power are in charge of the safety.
Good job, Apple.
So... rewarding piracy is what makes a good company? Not sure I agree with that. The loss in sales is most likely offset in product pricing (you're paying more because of those who leech).
I sometimes forget how bad things were.
Not sure things got better. We basically flipped the sh#t sandwich over and are eating it from the other side now.
There's little point in bickering about the method when the decision has already been made that the criminal is too dangerous/incorrigibly evil to live in society.