You may be entitled to your opinions, but you're not entitled to your facts. Fanboi-ism aside, a jury voted 11-1 in favor of Novell's claims, a verdict that was overturned by a judge.
The same judge had ruled in similar ways for Microsoft, and had been overturned on appeal.
It depends on the density of cell towers and your relationship to them, but 20m in urban areas is not unreasonable. If a phone has gps on, you're screwed: you can be placed in a chair.
Or at least your phone, anyway. Reasonable inferences can be made with a lot of accuracy.
If you don't want to be tracked with your phone, turn it off and remove its battery. If you want to be tracked really well, any recent Samsung phone with GPS turned on can be very highly geolocated. This isn't to do a put-down on Samsung phones, but they're quite consistent in their firmware implementations.
The "right amount" is a nebulous description based on who's context you're speaking from. At about double your age, I've seen systems taken town in front of my eyes, seen incredibly novel attacks and take-downs, and have watched other systems pounded 24/7 until they should have been bleeding on the floor, but they did their job.
Sometimes, you'll find that nothing is foolproof, because fools are so ingenious. That's why diligence counts and efficiency is sometimes sloth or worse: whistling in the dark. Locks keep your friends out-- but your enemies have pick tools. Aphorisms aside, understanding the value of assets, and how assets can turn into enormous liabilities when they shift to the other side of the balance sheet can give you the paranoia needed to sleep at night, strange as that sounds.
It's not needless calvinistic diligence, rather, the best you can because you're trusted, no matter the price paid-- it was accepted within that constraint. Most of my world lives off LAMP stacks and variants, although the components used today are rapidly changing. I use interns; some succeed, others need a different career. I don't use fear as a motivator, rather the sense of responsibility for care of assets not my own. Sounds altruistic, but I also expect the same trust from my vendors; some earn and keep it, some have let me down.
These are tools. You choose the best one for the job.
If you use them for entertainment, then use whatever you want, because this is more like apparel. Be macho or hipster or whatever suits you.
I have used Macs as serious tools, and they behaved very, very well. I don't use a Mac any longer for reasons of my own.
You can consider these things jewelry, but they really do amount to just tools or entertainment devices. The Apple hypnotism is strong for a very good reason: they do good things.
Referential integrity is important. I know dbas that use the same complex password for all of their tables, triggers, queries, and apps. Tough password. Once broken, everything is omelet. Pass the cheese.
Elemental/atomic security, chain of authorities, referential integrity, are all important. There is a place between where your customer will offer you a "price" for something that you'll take, but it's up to par. If you accept that price and deliver substandard infrastructure, then your guilty of many bad things. If you refer them to another provider, and that provider is doing the right thing, great. Would you refer refer them to a provider that you can't vet? Your reputation is on the line.
US courts have recently raised the spectre of "best practices" regarding online bank fraud. The bar was recently raised. Liability for you, your client, and your provider have all changed-- and it's about time. "Efficient" can be a weasel word, a rationalization. You have to do the right job or everyone's data is in danger. That it's an "18+" datum used for audit doesn't diminish user privacy concerns, or the value of a breach, IMHO.
It was pocket change. This afternoon, they'll continue on their merry way, have lunch, fly in the corporate jets to some important location, and it will become history. No scar tissue.
It's the cost of doing business. Privacy? Google? It is their business model to invade your privacy, and sell you out like stool pigeon. Yet people pontificate them as a balance between Microsoft and Apple. Doesn't say much for the industry today, does it?
Trick? What of the formats? Usually this has to do with printer driver differences, and they way that they go together to make a doc transferrable.
Is Microsoft not compatible with Microsoft? Sure it is. Compatible in its format with other apps? The exceptions are few. Meta data tagging and formatting are usually dead-on between Office 2010 and LibreOffice. Document exchange ought to be do-able, but we're so far beyond formats like RTF that were supposed to be used for document exchange, that each new proprietary "feature" causes a ripple effect in compatibility. A simple text box should work the same way, and be interchanged the same way. Tricks? Not really. Commitment to document interchangeability? Certainly. We're the customers, they're the vendors.
I disagree with the first part; although my citation is anecdotal, the other observations are not--- Apple is penetrating organizations, and often whether the organization likes it or not.
That said, I also understand the need to enforce policies on machines, and that's WAY difficult with MacOS and iOS (less so with iOS but wait and watch).
Apple's corporate salesforce clearly understands Apple's philosophy, and they're largely order takers, and not integrators. The ability to manage Apple/MacOS infrastructure is illusive, but NOT iOS. That's why the two are merging together.
These facts have NOT stopped a lot of organizations from encompassing Macs into their mix. Add in the BYOD era, and the device-management era is reinventing itself.
How a printer interprets raster data varies; printer drivers affect the placement although you may not see this until, like the effects demonstrated above, you exchange the doc. It's a difference in methodology. How text boxes as opposed to vector boxes are rasterized is different between Word and window managers and Libre Office.
Why have they been laggards in so many market places?
Why must Ballmer declare he's going to take it back from Apple, when Apple has almost NO marketshare in the "office" software market? Because Apple has stolen the meme. They are the one to beat, whether you or I like it or not. Jobs and Gray outsmarted them, despite the almost 100% lack of business sales force at Apple. How? Paying attention to individuals.
Apple soundly sucks at business gear. Their RAID and server systems are as good as dead. They are clueless about dealing with businesses and aren't going to change. So let's look at the key values: how big is Apple in market cap, and how big Microsoft? Even without any meaningful business office or business focus AT ALL, Apple resoundingly trumps Microsoft's marketcap.
No one waits in line for new Windows releases-- they're anti-climatic. They used to. Now, the fanbois and grrls all line up for each tiny iddy-biddy release Apple does, fawning over it, and rumoring it for months.
Big share. Yup. Meaningless in the great scheme of things.
Tell me, how many non-iPad tablets do you see out there? I see a bunch of Kindles, but mostly iPads and a few rare Androids.
Microsoft knows how to sell to businesses. Apple completely sucks at not selling directly to consumers. But the licenses trend is still bad for Microsoft. Can they do better? Ballmer claims so, but he's now an apologist, not a thought leader.
But that's FUD. Microsoft Office works well on Macs. No one complains EVER when I send them one from LibreOffice. They can't be told form the original-- and NEVER has a document not opened or looked funny.
So you can share with about anything; Microsoft Office doesn't have document dominion anymore.
Then I went to the corner coffee shop. Nineteen Macs, two Dell notebooks, one huge whomping HP running Vista. The Point of Sale system they use is Linux running something on KDE.
Walk inside a public place these days. What do you see? Lots of Apples. Lots of coders (and not civilians in the US, anyway) run Linux on their desktops. I know, heresy.
Civilians usually don't run non-Windows stuff. Go onto a HS or university campus. What do you see? A sea of Apples. Microsoft has improved their stuff, don't get me wrong. But while Apple was paying deep attention to detail, Microsoft was pandering to Standard and Poor. I'm not a fanboi; I do not use Apple stuff. But I have a deep respect for Apple engineering and their ability to hypnotize their customers.
Microsoft has statistically ceded share in almost all categories. I got modded as troll. The truth is painful, especially during lovefests like the Microsoft Partner Conference, being held this week in Toronto. Microsoft typically finds ways to pound down criticism as their lovefest pounds fists on podiums. Ballmer has let his organization and his customers down, IMHO. He's allowed a variety of holes to be broken with the concrete hammers of success and innovation, sparse sometimes, as it is. Kool aid. With sugar.
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Probably for the same reason no one takes a baseball bat to rows of French wines in liquor stores. Violence (and arson) solves nothing.
You should examine your motives if you believe arson is a solution.
You may be entitled to your opinions, but you're not entitled to your facts. Fanboi-ism aside, a jury voted 11-1 in favor of Novell's claims, a verdict that was overturned by a judge.
The same judge had ruled in similar ways for Microsoft, and had been overturned on appeal.
What part of the facts are you unclear about?
Exactly.
But there's no fun in not writing a Huffington Post-like headline to whore pageviews. Must be a mild Monday.
It depends on the density of cell towers and your relationship to them, but 20m in urban areas is not unreasonable. If a phone has gps on, you're screwed: you can be placed in a chair.
Or at least your phone, anyway. Reasonable inferences can be made with a lot of accuracy.
If you don't want to be tracked with your phone, turn it off and remove its battery. If you want to be tracked really well, any recent Samsung phone with GPS turned on can be very highly geolocated. This isn't to do a put-down on Samsung phones, but they're quite consistent in their firmware implementations.
Your peaceful informative explanation brings clarity here. What were you thinking?
It's why I had to react.
The "right amount" is a nebulous description based on who's context you're speaking from. At about double your age, I've seen systems taken town in front of my eyes, seen incredibly novel attacks and take-downs, and have watched other systems pounded 24/7 until they should have been bleeding on the floor, but they did their job.
Sometimes, you'll find that nothing is foolproof, because fools are so ingenious. That's why diligence counts and efficiency is sometimes sloth or worse: whistling in the dark. Locks keep your friends out-- but your enemies have pick tools. Aphorisms aside, understanding the value of assets, and how assets can turn into enormous liabilities when they shift to the other side of the balance sheet can give you the paranoia needed to sleep at night, strange as that sounds.
It's not needless calvinistic diligence, rather, the best you can because you're trusted, no matter the price paid-- it was accepted within that constraint. Most of my world lives off LAMP stacks and variants, although the components used today are rapidly changing. I use interns; some succeed, others need a different career. I don't use fear as a motivator, rather the sense of responsibility for care of assets not my own. Sounds altruistic, but I also expect the same trust from my vendors; some earn and keep it, some have let me down.
How droll.
These are tools. You choose the best one for the job.
If you use them for entertainment, then use whatever you want, because this is more like apparel. Be macho or hipster or whatever suits you.
I have used Macs as serious tools, and they behaved very, very well. I don't use a Mac any longer for reasons of my own.
You can consider these things jewelry, but they really do amount to just tools or entertainment devices. The Apple hypnotism is strong for a very good reason: they do good things.
Referential integrity is important. I know dbas that use the same complex password for all of their tables, triggers, queries, and apps. Tough password. Once broken, everything is omelet. Pass the cheese.
Elemental/atomic security, chain of authorities, referential integrity, are all important. There is a place between where your customer will offer you a "price" for something that you'll take, but it's up to par. If you accept that price and deliver substandard infrastructure, then your guilty of many bad things. If you refer them to another provider, and that provider is doing the right thing, great. Would you refer refer them to a provider that you can't vet? Your reputation is on the line.
US courts have recently raised the spectre of "best practices" regarding online bank fraud. The bar was recently raised. Liability for you, your client, and your provider have all changed-- and it's about time. "Efficient" can be a weasel word, a rationalization. You have to do the right job or everyone's data is in danger. That it's an "18+" datum used for audit doesn't diminish user privacy concerns, or the value of a breach, IMHO.
I spoke of docs. There are no agreed upon formats for spreadsheets (.xls) and so exporting to another format is best. Yes, you can lose formatting.
It was pocket change. This afternoon, they'll continue on their merry way, have lunch, fly in the corporate jets to some important location, and it will become history. No scar tissue.
It's the cost of doing business. Privacy? Google? It is their business model to invade your privacy, and sell you out like stool pigeon. Yet people pontificate them as a balance between Microsoft and Apple. Doesn't say much for the industry today, does it?
There is a good reason why I'm not hiring you. Ever.
You do shoddy work, and rationalize it.
If your chain of authorities aren't clean, nothing is clean, and you risk all.
Trick? What of the formats? Usually this has to do with printer driver differences, and they way that they go together to make a doc transferrable.
Is Microsoft not compatible with Microsoft? Sure it is. Compatible in its format with other apps? The exceptions are few. Meta data tagging and formatting are usually dead-on between Office 2010 and LibreOffice. Document exchange ought to be do-able, but we're so far beyond formats like RTF that were supposed to be used for document exchange, that each new proprietary "feature" causes a ripple effect in compatibility. A simple text box should work the same way, and be interchanged the same way. Tricks? Not really. Commitment to document interchangeability? Certainly. We're the customers, they're the vendors.
I disagree with the first part; although my citation is anecdotal, the other observations are not--- Apple is penetrating organizations, and often whether the organization likes it or not.
That said, I also understand the need to enforce policies on machines, and that's WAY difficult with MacOS and iOS (less so with iOS but wait and watch).
Apple's corporate salesforce clearly understands Apple's philosophy, and they're largely order takers, and not integrators. The ability to manage Apple/MacOS infrastructure is illusive, but NOT iOS. That's why the two are merging together.
These facts have NOT stopped a lot of organizations from encompassing Macs into their mix. Add in the BYOD era, and the device-management era is reinventing itself.
Using a default format of .doc (better still: docx) has worked well for us. *Never* has anyone noticed, and we churn lots of docs.
How a printer interprets raster data varies; printer drivers affect the placement although you may not see this until, like the effects demonstrated above, you exchange the doc. It's a difference in methodology. How text boxes as opposed to vector boxes are rasterized is different between Word and window managers and Libre Office.
They do.
Didn't question that.
Where do they get their ideas?
Why have they been laggards in so many market places?
Why must Ballmer declare he's going to take it back from Apple, when Apple has almost NO marketshare in the "office" software market? Because Apple has stolen the meme. They are the one to beat, whether you or I like it or not. Jobs and Gray outsmarted them, despite the almost 100% lack of business sales force at Apple. How? Paying attention to individuals.
Apple soundly sucks at business gear. Their RAID and server systems are as good as dead. They are clueless about dealing with businesses and aren't going to change. So let's look at the key values: how big is Apple in market cap, and how big Microsoft? Even without any meaningful business office or business focus AT ALL, Apple resoundingly trumps Microsoft's marketcap.
No one waits in line for new Windows releases-- they're anti-climatic. They used to. Now, the fanbois and grrls all line up for each tiny iddy-biddy release Apple does, fawning over it, and rumoring it for months.
Big share. Yup. Meaningless in the great scheme of things.
You use inexact terms.
iOS and OSX and Linux and Android, together and individually are making lots of headway. Let me find statistics to numb you with.
Use an older Word format. Also check to make sure that you're using the same printer, preferably a Postscript or HP.
Kiss off.
I live in the midwest. Town of 40,000 people
And I travel frequently. Stop being an AC and shill and look around you.
Nice way to characterize people.
Tell me, how many non-iPad tablets do you see out there? I see a bunch of Kindles, but mostly iPads and a few rare Androids.
Microsoft knows how to sell to businesses. Apple completely sucks at not selling directly to consumers. But the licenses trend is still bad for Microsoft. Can they do better? Ballmer claims so, but he's now an apologist, not a thought leader.
But that's FUD. Microsoft Office works well on Macs. No one complains EVER when I send them one from LibreOffice. They can't be told form the original-- and NEVER has a document not opened or looked funny.
So you can share with about anything; Microsoft Office doesn't have document dominion anymore.
Just did. No blushing.
Then I went to the corner coffee shop. Nineteen Macs, two Dell notebooks, one huge whomping HP running Vista. The Point of Sale system they use is Linux running something on KDE.
Really, you need to get out.
Dude, what podunk town in S Mississippi do you live in? And do you get any sunlight?
Walk inside a public place these days. What do you see? Lots of Apples. Lots of coders (and not civilians in the US, anyway) run Linux on their desktops. I know, heresy.
Civilians usually don't run non-Windows stuff. Go onto a HS or university campus. What do you see? A sea of Apples. Microsoft has improved their stuff, don't get me wrong. But while Apple was paying deep attention to detail, Microsoft was pandering to Standard and Poor. I'm not a fanboi; I do not use Apple stuff. But I have a deep respect for Apple engineering and their ability to hypnotize their customers.
Microsoft has statistically ceded share in almost all categories. I got modded as troll. The truth is painful, especially during lovefests like the Microsoft Partner Conference, being held this week in Toronto. Microsoft typically finds ways to pound down criticism as their lovefest pounds fists on podiums. Ballmer has let his organization and his customers down, IMHO. He's allowed a variety of holes to be broken with the concrete hammers of success and innovation, sparse sometimes, as it is. Kool aid. With sugar.