Microsoft as of late has been shown to be a company that doesn't even seem to know what is going on inside the company let alone the outside world. From what I have read(and just my own experience working in an unrelated but huge company) there are a lot of "empire builders" at Microsoft, ie managers who only care about increasing their influence and power in the company, nothing else. And to do that they constantly try to undermine other managers at Microsoft and give their pet project top billing. You can see this in their mobile lineup(kin, multiple flavors of mobile windows that are largely incompatible etc) and even within products themselves. Windows settings and GUIs are incredibly inconsistent, you can tell that managers responsible for certain parts of the OS were unwilling to cooperate with each other and thus you get multiple different places where you can change the same system component(firewall being a prime example).
The big problem at Microsoft seems to be that they have totally unqualified people at the top(in both technical and managerial skills). Most of the senior management(including Balmer) at Microsoft were just people who sort of stumbled into the right place at the right time. If Balmer joined Microsoft a couple of years later I doubt he would be anywhere near the top. Ballmer has shown that he is either unable or unwilling to actually find a cohesive vision for Microsoft products and actually push it through. Despite Linux being developed by a large # of people(with an almost equally large # viewpoints behind them), I actually find the experience of using a Linux machine MUCH more cohesive than Windows. Looking at an out of the box Windows installation, you would find it hard to believe that it was actually put together by one company and is, in my opinion, the hardest OS to use of the big 3 desktop OSs.
No, executives make all the money while doing nothing useful(they spend more time trying to figure out how to enrich themselves than they do the company). Case in point, over the past 10 years executive pay has skyrocketed in the US while stocks are, at best, stagnant. This is why I always laugh whenever the Republicans complain about taxing the richest 10% is placing an unfair "burden" on the most "productive" people. Beyond a certain point the relationship between salary and productivity is tenacious, at best. Case in point, pretty much every single major bank in the US.
Actually it would be more useful if the actual archivers themselves had options to skip these files, that way you don't even waste any space with them and it makes the unarchivers more flexible, ie they don't have to worry about what the other os systems do, they just unarchive.
You obviously don't ride public transport then. A HUGE advantage of tablets over netbooks for people that do is that you can actually use the tablet standing up. You aren't going to be typing a novel on it, but it is in fact usable. Just try to use a netbook while standing up, my guess is that you won't be making very many friends.
No fuckwit, I don't watch Fox News, I actually read about the world and don't blindly say, "America lies all the time!". You know what, Fox News also complains about how bad life is in other countries where the reality is a lot different. As they say a broken clock is right twice a day. Fox News complains about how bad life is in Cuba, and yet in Cuba tourists can travel the country for themselves and you have a lot of INDEPENDENTLY verified information on the status of the country(which is not great, but not nearly as bad as a lot of other countries on the planet). Ditto for Iran, Iraq(before during and after the war) etc. Saddam actually let people into the country and they could move around with (general) impunity. The country was in better shape before than war than it was after it. You won't get that report on Fox News.
You CANNOT do that in North Korea, and I have read TONS of travel accounts(even the stuff on wikitravel) which concur, the only people that claim how wonderful North Korea is are either paid shills or just as fucktaded as you and are so convinced of how "evil" the west is that they will pretty much adopt any philosophy that opposes it, even if said philosophy is 1000000x worse than that of the west. North Korea suffered famine and still suffers severe food shortages, even the UN says that, but all but the most retarded of fuckwits, such as yourself, disagree.
I got that too, though I don't know how they determine who gets it and who doesn't right now. Both my desktop and my laptop are running the exact same OS and browser software and are connected to the same network. The desktop gets it but the laptop doesn't......
It may not be as bad as the US paints it but its certainly a lot worse than the North Koreans paint it. Your "trip" to North Korea consists entirely of an agenda planned by the government specifically designed to show off the few good parts of North Korea and keep you as far away from ordinary North Koreans as possible. You are forced to bow to a statue of Kim Il Sung. If you go out wandering on your own or say something that could be considered critical of the North Korean government you will get kicked out of the country and your guide will be in for a LOT worse. No other country on the PLANET restricts travel this much. Obviously there is something really, REALLY wrong with North Korea.
It's obvious you have an anti-US sentiment but you shouldn't let that cloud your judgement of North Korea.They It's a really, REALLY shitty place for those not lucky enough to be born into a wealthy, well connected family(irony!). Famine killed at least 10% of the population in the 1990s, the # of refugees willing to risk their life to escape to China where they pretty much know they will be treated as a slave is staggering, so obviously that tells you how bad it is in North Korea.
Not really, according to 'kipedia it seems that the actual core is the same BUT the A4 chip also contains an integrated GPU which seems to save a lot of power, again at least according to the article. While the core isn't exclusive, the "CPU" is.
I hope his experience taught him something about Islam. I know for a fact that pork and booze is plentiful in Japan, I suggest he consume both to excess.
are we sure the reason isn't just because a google search for Thomas Jefferson doesn't yield the result, "There never was such a person, now get back to church and vote Republican!"?
"Congrats, you have typed 50,000 words in your Word Processor." "Achievement: 20 different programs executed."
Dude, I think you have just found a new use for Clippy! Make your document concise, grammatically correct and well-written and clippy dies a very violent death, otherwise he won't go away. If that isn't motivation to write well I don't know what is.
That pretty much kills the device right there(at least for a lot of uses). If you are going to have a tablet with a software keyboard you are going to have to make it easy to type on, 7" just won't do it. Phones aren't that much smaller but are infinitely more portable. Looks like Samsung just figured they could split the difference between a phone and iPad and the product would be great, without actually realizing why each device has the form factor it does.
First if you RTFA it seems they are using the old "ad-supported" model, I highly doubt they would allow skype and the like. Secondly bandwidth isn't the only consideration for Voip, latency is actually a much bigger factor and I doubt a network like this would have latencies that would make having a phone conversation a possibility. Unless you hate your friends of course.
When was the last time you could turn 'color' off in a game?
God, this makes me feel old but have you ever actually played/owned an atari 2600? That console actually had a switch to turn off the color in the game. Now get the hell off my lawn before I turn your ass black and white.
Onion routing still doesn't prevent the authorities from eavesdropping communications between the isp and the spy, it would just make spying on anything after that incredibly difficult. Ultimately if you really want protection just buy a satellite phone that allows for end to end encryption, it's more expensive but worth every scheckel.
PGP does have one weakness that an encrypted blackberry server wouldn't have though. Namely that it's still possible to determine who a person is sending mail to. Now good spys would set up an elaborate relay system, but we have seen how clumsy "superspys" can be with technology on occasion....
And yet it gets hacked. It crashes constantly, it constantly needs virus updates etc. And yet there are a HUGE(before 2008 or so you couldn't actually totally disable autorun in Microsoft) security holes but they are just given a pass. The scrutiny applied to Windows is nothing compared to the amount applied to Linux because, and this is DoD policy, "Linux is open source and thus 'untrusted'". The level of logging required for Linux is insane and yet they really don't require the same level from Windows because you CANNOT log that much in Windows. Hosts.deny is required for Linux but no equivalent for Windows. nosuid has to be applied to every non-root drive for Linux, again nothing even close for Windows because Windows is simply incapable of such security. They allow NTLMv2 despite the fact that it is a proprietary protocol and thus incredibly insecure. Why, because it's really difficult to get Windows(esp. XP, which is still allowed) to authenticate with open, cryptographically secure protocols. They allow local and network users a lot more privileges on machines because it's impossible to actually get Windows operating smoothly without those privileges. The list goes on.
Quite simply put Windows lacks a lot of the basic security mechanisms that ALL other operating systems possess. And instead of doing the rational thing and banning Windows because of its shortcomings the DoD just brushes Windows' shortcomings aside(largely because Microsoft has a lot of lobbyists in high places in Washington). You can be sure as shit that the Chinese PLA isn't using Windows and when the cyberwar comes the Chinese are going to have a HUGE advantage because they aren't saddled with such a primitive OS. You think I am anti-DoD, I'm not. If I was I would be cheering their use of windows. If there is a cyber-war, I want my country to win which is why I think they need to BAN Windows ASAP. Microsoft has repeatedly shown that it is either unable or unwilling to fix their shit, so dump the motherfuckers already.
How about just getting rid of the main attack vector(Windows) altogether? The DoD "security" policies seem like they were written by Microsoft specifically to push Microsoft products. Windows is still the darling child of the DoD and anything else is considered "dangerous" and is subject to infinitely more scrutiny than Windows boxes are. And yet Windows is the most attacked(even if you scale the # of attacks to it's market share), most easily defeated OS out there. Hell even Google banned Windows after it got hacked(via Windows, what else!).
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Microsoft as of late has been shown to be a company that doesn't even seem to know what is going on inside the company let alone the outside world. From what I have read(and just my own experience working in an unrelated but huge company) there are a lot of "empire builders" at Microsoft, ie managers who only care about increasing their influence and power in the company, nothing else. And to do that they constantly try to undermine other managers at Microsoft and give their pet project top billing. You can see this in their mobile lineup(kin, multiple flavors of mobile windows that are largely incompatible etc) and even within products themselves. Windows settings and GUIs are incredibly inconsistent, you can tell that managers responsible for certain parts of the OS were unwilling to cooperate with each other and thus you get multiple different places where you can change the same system component(firewall being a prime example).
The big problem at Microsoft seems to be that they have totally unqualified people at the top(in both technical and managerial skills). Most of the senior management(including Balmer) at Microsoft were just people who sort of stumbled into the right place at the right time. If Balmer joined Microsoft a couple of years later I doubt he would be anywhere near the top. Ballmer has shown that he is either unable or unwilling to actually find a cohesive vision for Microsoft products and actually push it through. Despite Linux being developed by a large # of people(with an almost equally large # viewpoints behind them), I actually find the experience of using a Linux machine MUCH more cohesive than Windows. Looking at an out of the box Windows installation, you would find it hard to believe that it was actually put together by one company and is, in my opinion, the hardest OS to use of the big 3 desktop OSs.
can't we transport our Sphere around the universe collecting more and more stars?
Well, possibly, if we were all Italian plumbers from the Bronx....
What in the article even remotely hinted at that?
No, executives make all the money while doing nothing useful(they spend more time trying to figure out how to enrich themselves than they do the company). Case in point, over the past 10 years executive pay has skyrocketed in the US while stocks are, at best, stagnant. This is why I always laugh whenever the Republicans complain about taxing the richest 10% is placing an unfair "burden" on the most "productive" people. Beyond a certain point the relationship between salary and productivity is tenacious, at best. Case in point, pretty much every single major bank in the US.
Actually it would be more useful if the actual archivers themselves had options to skip these files, that way you don't even waste any space with them and it makes the unarchivers more flexible, ie they don't have to worry about what the other os systems do, they just unarchive.
Actually I live in Japan and I, and a lot of other people do use their tablets standing up. It's not as bad as you seem to think it is.
You obviously don't ride public transport then. A HUGE advantage of tablets over netbooks for people that do is that you can actually use the tablet standing up. You aren't going to be typing a novel on it, but it is in fact usable. Just try to use a netbook while standing up, my guess is that you won't be making very many friends.
No fuckwit, I don't watch Fox News, I actually read about the world and don't blindly say, "America lies all the time!". You know what, Fox News also complains about how bad life is in other countries where the reality is a lot different. As they say a broken clock is right twice a day. Fox News complains about how bad life is in Cuba, and yet in Cuba tourists can travel the country for themselves and you have a lot of INDEPENDENTLY verified information on the status of the country(which is not great, but not nearly as bad as a lot of other countries on the planet). Ditto for Iran, Iraq(before during and after the war) etc. Saddam actually let people into the country and they could move around with (general) impunity. The country was in better shape before than war than it was after it. You won't get that report on Fox News.
You CANNOT do that in North Korea, and I have read TONS of travel accounts(even the stuff on wikitravel) which concur, the only people that claim how wonderful North Korea is are either paid shills or just as fucktaded as you and are so convinced of how "evil" the west is that they will pretty much adopt any philosophy that opposes it, even if said philosophy is 1000000x worse than that of the west. North Korea suffered famine and still suffers severe food shortages, even the UN says that, but all but the most retarded of fuckwits, such as yourself, disagree.
I got that too, though I don't know how they determine who gets it and who doesn't right now. Both my desktop and my laptop are running the exact same OS and browser software and are connected to the same network. The desktop gets it but the laptop doesn't......
It may not be as bad as the US paints it but its certainly a lot worse than the North Koreans paint it. Your "trip" to North Korea consists entirely of an agenda planned by the government specifically designed to show off the few good parts of North Korea and keep you as far away from ordinary North Koreans as possible. You are forced to bow to a statue of Kim Il Sung. If you go out wandering on your own or say something that could be considered critical of the North Korean government you will get kicked out of the country and your guide will be in for a LOT worse. No other country on the PLANET restricts travel this much. Obviously there is something really, REALLY wrong with North Korea.
It's obvious you have an anti-US sentiment but you shouldn't let that cloud your judgement of North Korea.They It's a really, REALLY shitty place for those not lucky enough to be born into a wealthy, well connected family(irony!). Famine killed at least 10% of the population in the 1990s, the # of refugees willing to risk their life to escape to China where they pretty much know they will be treated as a slave is staggering, so obviously that tells you how bad it is in North Korea.
The Dude abides.
....Juche?
or at least the person who packaged it was, they didn't take the .DS_Store files out before packaging up the jar :P
Not really, according to 'kipedia it seems that the actual core is the same BUT the A4 chip also contains an integrated GPU which seems to save a lot of power, again at least according to the article. While the core isn't exclusive, the "CPU" is.
I hope his experience taught him something about Islam. I know for a fact that pork and booze is plentiful in Japan, I suggest he consume both to excess.
are we sure the reason isn't just because a google search for Thomas Jefferson doesn't yield the result, "There never was such a person, now get back to church and vote Republican!"?
"Congrats, you have typed 50,000 words in your Word Processor." "Achievement: 20 different programs executed."
Dude, I think you have just found a new use for Clippy! Make your document concise, grammatically correct and well-written and clippy dies a very violent death, otherwise he won't go away. If that isn't motivation to write well I don't know what is.
That pretty much kills the device right there(at least for a lot of uses). If you are going to have a tablet with a software keyboard you are going to have to make it easy to type on, 7" just won't do it. Phones aren't that much smaller but are infinitely more portable. Looks like Samsung just figured they could split the difference between a phone and iPad and the product would be great, without actually realizing why each device has the form factor it does.
First if you RTFA it seems they are using the old "ad-supported" model, I highly doubt they would allow skype and the like. Secondly bandwidth isn't the only consideration for Voip, latency is actually a much bigger factor and I doubt a network like this would have latencies that would make having a phone conversation a possibility. Unless you hate your friends of course.
Don't use the Lord's name in vain, man.
What are you talking about, I didn't even mention Shatner's name in my original post.
When was the last time you could turn 'color' off in a game?
God, this makes me feel old but have you ever actually played/owned an atari 2600? That console actually had a switch to turn off the color in the game. Now get the hell off my lawn before I turn your ass black and white.
Everyone knows that Gil Gerard created life by going back in time and ejaculating into the primordial ooze.
Onion routing still doesn't prevent the authorities from eavesdropping communications between the isp and the spy, it would just make spying on anything after that incredibly difficult. Ultimately if you really want protection just buy a satellite phone that allows for end to end encryption, it's more expensive but worth every scheckel.
PGP does have one weakness that an encrypted blackberry server wouldn't have though. Namely that it's still possible to determine who a person is sending mail to. Now good spys would set up an elaborate relay system, but we have seen how clumsy "superspys" can be with technology on occasion....
And yet it gets hacked. It crashes constantly, it constantly needs virus updates etc. And yet there are a HUGE(before 2008 or so you couldn't actually totally disable autorun in Microsoft) security holes but they are just given a pass. The scrutiny applied to Windows is nothing compared to the amount applied to Linux because, and this is DoD policy, "Linux is open source and thus 'untrusted'". The level of logging required for Linux is insane and yet they really don't require the same level from Windows because you CANNOT log that much in Windows. Hosts.deny is required for Linux but no equivalent for Windows. nosuid has to be applied to every non-root drive for Linux, again nothing even close for Windows because Windows is simply incapable of such security. They allow NTLMv2 despite the fact that it is a proprietary protocol and thus incredibly insecure. Why, because it's really difficult to get Windows(esp. XP, which is still allowed) to authenticate with open, cryptographically secure protocols. They allow local and network users a lot more privileges on machines because it's impossible to actually get Windows operating smoothly without those privileges. The list goes on.
Quite simply put Windows lacks a lot of the basic security mechanisms that ALL other operating systems possess. And instead of doing the rational thing and banning Windows because of its shortcomings the DoD just brushes Windows' shortcomings aside(largely because Microsoft has a lot of lobbyists in high places in Washington). You can be sure as shit that the Chinese PLA isn't using Windows and when the cyberwar comes the Chinese are going to have a HUGE advantage because they aren't saddled with such a primitive OS. You think I am anti-DoD, I'm not. If I was I would be cheering their use of windows. If there is a cyber-war, I want my country to win which is why I think they need to BAN Windows ASAP. Microsoft has repeatedly shown that it is either unable or unwilling to fix their shit, so dump the motherfuckers already.
How about just getting rid of the main attack vector(Windows) altogether? The DoD "security" policies seem like they were written by Microsoft specifically to push Microsoft products. Windows is still the darling child of the DoD and anything else is considered "dangerous" and is subject to infinitely more scrutiny than Windows boxes are. And yet Windows is the most attacked(even if you scale the # of attacks to it's market share), most easily defeated OS out there. Hell even Google banned Windows after it got hacked(via Windows, what else!).