And if you have RDP open to the Internet you're so retarded there's no saving you.
IMO, if you even need to use RDP as an admin, you are borderline retarded. In my network, RDP is the sole domain of execs and veeps that think they're so monumentally important to the company that they may need to RDP in at odd hours to do quaint document based stuff... or check email or add appointments to their calendar (do not bother trying to explain things to suits... just give them what they ask for and move on... and don't look at them in the eyes, they take it as a sign of disrespect that they fear more than wrinkled slacks).
Admins that rely heavily on RDP are sissy faery momma's boys. Real admins work on command line. sc. netsvc. psexec. dsquery. system info. tasklist. taskkill. whack whack.
From what I've seen of i-PADs, they are not multi-tasking OS's at all
You must be a Windows user. Windows users eternally confuse operating systems with interfaces. iOS and Android are true multi-tasking operating systems. The interface currently restricts focus to one app at a time, but backgrounding apps, as well as being based on BSD an Linux respectively, means that iOS and Android both are true multitasking operating systems.
Even with iOS 5's enhancements there's no true multitasking in it or any other tablet/phone OS
Technically incorrect. Both iOS and Android are TRUE multitasking operating systems, which iOS inherits from BSD, and Android inherits from Linux. So perhaps you only work with one app at a time, but there is far more going on than you realize... all those processes running on your phone in the background? Those are tasks. Even when you're not using it, it is probably multitasking away and you didn't even realize!
if major browsers were forced to add this feature, the tiny background randomizing auto browser baking cookies at incomprehensible rates... I wonder what the demographics would be understood as by trendspotters... would anyone notice?
This is why many people sincerely believe Apple has like 90% of the smartphone market, when in reality they only have about 15% - 20%.
Weird... I could swear when Jobs first announced Apple would release the iPhone, he said they were only interested in capturing 1% of the market. What the Hell went wrong?
e-reader
email
web browser
address book
calendar/appointments/alarm clock
I got an iPad first week released. Love it. For all the development Apple has poured into iPad/iOS, all I have ever used it for is listed above. I'm recommending TouchPad to anyone that wants a tablet.
Yeah... seriously. Mini jacks suck. 1/4" TRS are marginally better. Balanced XLR is ideal. If what you think was true, what would be the point of professional audio cabling (not talking about audiophile bullshit) . It matters immensely, especially in multi tracking, less so in consumer audio items, but it is noticeable in the 3.5mm TRS. There be noise there.
The jack comes after the DAC, thus what goes through the jack and plug is analog signal. The less surface area between connectors, the less analog signal, the more noise, the worse the audio quality. 1/4" inch TRS connections deliver better fidelity than 3.5mm TRS, and 3.5mm TRS will deliver better fidelity than this new scheme. Seems to me Apple would be better served perfecting (even over-engineering, and going (no!) entirely proprietary), the Bluetooth audio standards for fidelity and doing away with the jack altogether.
OH NOES WE MUST DUMP WINDOWS NAO BECAUSE IT'S NOT PERFECT
Annoy you does it? Well... what annoys me is: "hey, Microsoft 7 is out... we have to upgrade!! new version of office... we must upgrade!" Here's the thing... Windows 7 offeres NOTHING to the office user that Windows XP didn't give them. They do the same work, same productivity... but with some growing pains because 7 looks a little different. Company spends God knows how much pushing through this upgrade company wide... and there is zero effect other than a, hopefully, temporary slow down in productivity due to its newness. And 8 years of amassing howto fixes for the systems are thrown out, because now we have a new system, must begin building a new database of fixes. But oh... 7 is so much better. Shiny!! dipshits... 7 is New New Coke, nothing more.
I'm just going to ignore most of your rant... but this...
Every single office worker out there? they know how to run Windows and MS Office
This really is the main reason given that Windows is necessary, and the only thing that will work: users are familiar with it. But the notion is bullshit. All desktops have the same damn model now... lemmie give you a hint, its all pointer and mouse driven menus, windows and icons. Who gives a shit where the menus are or what the windows or icons look like? And why would a company make decisions based on what the lowest common denominator (the non-techi-user) can handle? Fuck the user. Put that bitch into submission. "Here is you damn machine, here are the three apps you use to work... figure it the fuck out or find another job."
What happened to IT? First, the bottom drops out in the early 2000's, lucky to find $10/hr pt.... and then IT workers become second class employees. Every lowly office worker at some point gets angry at IT... like they'd get angry at sanitation for not cleaning the bathrooms. The IT team has become a team of garbage men... not worthy of the common respect given to other workers (no offense to real garbage men... fact is, you guys get WAY more respect and earn more money than an IT specialist in a large corp environment).
Have you worked in a large corporate environment where IT *doesn't* lock down the PCs and control what users can do with them? It's total carnage..
I've worked at large corporations with slick IT teams where everyone seemed to believe they were impenetrable to attack, and no one would seem to notice that most of the machines crawled. And yes, I've worked at large corporations where IT does nothing, nothing whatsoever, that makes any sense... every lowly user (of hundreds and hundreds) is an admin, and all the pw are the same. I felt better at the former establishment only because the team and I were at least following sensible protocol, we were doing what afawk were best practices, but in fact there was little difference in performance between the two organizations. From what I can tell, with the Microsoft office model, you just can't win... though there is some statistical equilibrium that can be reached, such that no matter what the problem, the team can find some fix... even though they know it won't last.
Even though Microsoft has allowed me to earn some income, I resent the OS somewhat. Windows seems to work like a brand new car works... once set up on a new machine, it just goes without much help needed. But in very short time, a week, a month... that install becomes half as productive as when it was new. So, like a new car after a year of absolutely no maintenance, it breaks down... doesn't go as well. Thing is... these are computers, not mechanical cars with moving parts that break... the installs shouldn't ALL be breaking down. Sometimes, we can point to the user for doing stupid things. But more often than not, the issues defy all explanation... other than "goddamn fucking WINDOWS WTF!!"
Windows rot is just the most retarted thing. When you start to notice it you at first think... "ok, well, this user has used this machine well, or has not used it well, and this is just how it is... " but over time, you realize it has nothing to do with the user. By accident I discovered this: the team deployed 22 new machines for a department, all set up and tested, everything working well, new machines, everyone envious they got such zippy new tools... but there were only 21 users in the department, and the 22nd machine DID NOT GET USED. Well, oversight and all that... no one noticed and that resource was never collected and recycled. About 6 months later, in the department working on the rot on machines that had users... noticed the unused machine sitting there, networked and running for 6 months with no user. I was about to break it down when I just got curious... I logged in... wow, WAIT WAIT WAIT DISK DISK DISK SCREEN DRAW DISK BLINK finally... DESKTOP. Checking the logs confirmed that no one had logged into the thing since it was deployed. Start launching apps... crawl zzzz... slowly... slowly... finally... browser is loaded... but every single user event causes inexplicable disk accesses and there is more crawling... the machine is barely usable. Its this shit, Microsoft.... this fucking shit that makes me hate Windows. You can try this yourself if you have an extra machine... load up your corp image, do some cursory tests to satisfy yourself that the machine is usable, and set the machine aside for 6 months and let it run. Rot happens whether the machine is used or not, because after letting it sit unused, you will discover that it also has become unusable.
the pendulum is now swinging back in the direction of centralized control
Well, not now but for years they've been pushing the browser as the deliverer of this centralized control. It works, more or less, but everyone hates it except the browser app developers... and maybe they hate it too. I believe there have been some attempts at datacenter desktop consolidation, but you'd have to be at a very progressive company if you are seeing that... most companies will limp and drag for... well, forever, if they survive... with using the Microsoft model. Which, as we all know, is a real piece of work.
The reason you don't see innovation at corps on the PC is because the IT guys first lock the living shit out of it THEN put some really shitty AV that sucks resources like Norton. What you have is a machine that is painful to use that just screams drudgery.
Trust me, if you're talking about Windows, even when IT guys DO NOT lock the living shit out of it, you still end up with the same thing... a machine that is painful to use and barely works.
I have to completely disagree with the premise, that IT locking down the machine is causing the issue. I believe that IT choosing an architecture that is general purpose, and then removing most of its general purpose functionality, is a part of the problem. Has anyone noticed that 90% of corp workers use their computer for only company email and browser-based Corp apps? What is wrong with the idea of ditching the general purpose boat anchor and choosing an extremely limited architecture that does everything those 90% need... making THAT the defacto standard for new employees, and then giving the general purpose machine to the other 10% that need to do heavier (real computer necessary) stuff?
I think big IT issue in most corporations is not the lowly IT tech guys, but their management, especially the corporate architects, the directors and veeps, that have their head shoved so far up their asses they have no idea that they are allowed to and even required to innovate. Instead, they concentrate on doing the same thing today that they did yesterday, i.e. maintaining status quo, and keeping Microsoft in business. After all, if everything just worked all the time, what would be the point of even having an IT department? No, they must build "broken" into the infrastructure.
....misses all those things that make social network social.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. If you are interacting with anything other than another person, what you are doing is technically anti-social.
[users of social networks] misses all those things that make social social.
FTFY
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same thing happened with diabetes and insulin. Over 5 years ago, a Toronto lab found the cure for both types of diabetes... (basically, a shock to the pancreas resets it similarly to the way a shock to the heart resets the heart). But the treatment is so simple and inexpensive, and it is a cure, so no further maintenance required. Big Pharm will never allow governments to approve the treatment because the sale of insulin would be reduced to a trickle.
They weren't charged because there's simply no evidence. They said they paid $10,000, but the only evidence was a posting.
I don't think $10K can change hands without other available evidence existing (bank records, $10K check being cashed, or even if it was cash, there had to be a withdrawal). This would be circumstantial, because the money exchanged could have been for anything... except what you said, Gizmodo posted the story of their acquisition. But by the time the DA wants a deposition/testimony from the writers, I'm sure they're lawyered up and protected by the 5th Amendment from incriminating themselves. I suppose that was the deal they brokered, that if they give up their source they'll avoid charges.
I agree. The case appears to be a slam dunk for the DA. The idiot troll Gizmodo editors didn't even bother consulting an attorney, didn't even occur to them that there was any moral or legal issue with purchasing a stolen corporate secret prototype... fools.
I wonder though, with all the trouble and loss of revenue Gizmodo caused with the Antennagate BS, if Apple made some deal with Gizmodo to have the charges dismissed if the quasi-journalists' stop being such asshats. Doesn't seem likely... as Apple mercilessly killed ThinkSecret, and they never even approached the bullshit that Gizmodo pulled last summer.
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And if you have RDP open to the Internet you're so retarded there's no saving you.
IMO, if you even need to use RDP as an admin, you are borderline retarded. In my network, RDP is the sole domain of execs and veeps that think they're so monumentally important to the company that they may need to RDP in at odd hours to do quaint document based stuff... or check email or add appointments to their calendar (do not bother trying to explain things to suits... just give them what they ask for and move on... and don't look at them in the eyes, they take it as a sign of disrespect that they fear more than wrinkled slacks).
Admins that rely heavily on RDP are sissy faery momma's boys. Real admins work on command line. sc. netsvc. psexec. dsquery. system info. tasklist. taskkill. whack whack.
From what I've seen of i-PADs, they are not multi-tasking OS's at all
You must be a Windows user. Windows users eternally confuse operating systems with interfaces. iOS and Android are true multi-tasking operating systems. The interface currently restricts focus to one app at a time, but backgrounding apps, as well as being based on BSD an Linux respectively, means that iOS and Android both are true multitasking operating systems.
Maybe Apple has finally decided to support Flash?
What is Flash? You mean a flash drive? Get the Camera Connection Kit and that will give you a USB port, and it apparently supports flash drives.
Even with iOS 5's enhancements there's no true multitasking in it or any other tablet/phone OS
Technically incorrect. Both iOS and Android are TRUE multitasking operating systems, which iOS inherits from BSD, and Android inherits from Linux. So perhaps you only work with one app at a time, but there is far more going on than you realize... all those processes running on your phone in the background? Those are tasks. Even when you're not using it, it is probably multitasking away and you didn't even realize!
Awkward, off-topic and pathetic rabble. Troll credentials rescinded for immediate review by troll committee.
something like this?
if major browsers were forced to add this feature, the tiny background randomizing auto browser baking cookies at incomprehensible rates... I wonder what the demographics would be understood as by trendspotters... would anyone notice?
This is why many people sincerely believe Apple has like 90% of the smartphone market, when in reality they only have about 15% - 20%.
Weird... I could swear when Jobs first announced Apple would release the iPhone, he said they were only interested in capturing 1% of the market. What the Hell went wrong?
email
web browser
address book
calendar/appointments/alarm clock
I got an iPad first week released. Love it. For all the development Apple has poured into iPad/iOS, all I have ever used it for is listed above. I'm recommending TouchPad to anyone that wants a tablet.
Tablets, before and after
That isn't exactly cool, as I'm sure you would agree.
tia
Yeah... seriously. Mini jacks suck. 1/4" TRS are marginally better. Balanced XLR is ideal. If what you think was true, what would be the point of professional audio cabling (not talking about audiophile bullshit) . It matters immensely, especially in multi tracking, less so in consumer audio items, but it is noticeable in the 3.5mm TRS. There be noise there.
The jack comes after the DAC, thus what goes through the jack and plug is analog signal. The less surface area between connectors, the less analog signal, the more noise, the worse the audio quality. 1/4" inch TRS connections deliver better fidelity than 3.5mm TRS, and 3.5mm TRS will deliver better fidelity than this new scheme. Seems to me Apple would be better served perfecting (even over-engineering, and going (no!) entirely proprietary), the Bluetooth audio standards for fidelity and doing away with the jack altogether.
LMAO
OH NOES WE MUST DUMP WINDOWS NAO BECAUSE IT'S NOT PERFECT
Annoy you does it? Well... what annoys me is: "hey, Microsoft 7 is out... we have to upgrade!! new version of office... we must upgrade!" Here's the thing... Windows 7 offeres NOTHING to the office user that Windows XP didn't give them. They do the same work, same productivity... but with some growing pains because 7 looks a little different. Company spends God knows how much pushing through this upgrade company wide... and there is zero effect other than a, hopefully, temporary slow down in productivity due to its newness. And 8 years of amassing howto fixes for the systems are thrown out, because now we have a new system, must begin building a new database of fixes. But oh... 7 is so much better. Shiny!! dipshits... 7 is New New Coke, nothing more.
I'm just going to ignore most of your rant... but this...
Every single office worker out there? they know how to run Windows and MS Office
This really is the main reason given that Windows is necessary, and the only thing that will work: users are familiar with it. But the notion is bullshit. All desktops have the same damn model now... lemmie give you a hint, its all pointer and mouse driven menus, windows and icons. Who gives a shit where the menus are or what the windows or icons look like? And why would a company make decisions based on what the lowest common denominator (the non-techi-user) can handle? Fuck the user. Put that bitch into submission. "Here is you damn machine, here are the three apps you use to work... figure it the fuck out or find another job."
What happened to IT? First, the bottom drops out in the early 2000's, lucky to find $10/hr pt.... and then IT workers become second class employees. Every lowly office worker at some point gets angry at IT... like they'd get angry at sanitation for not cleaning the bathrooms. The IT team has become a team of garbage men... not worthy of the common respect given to other workers (no offense to real garbage men... fact is, you guys get WAY more respect and earn more money than an IT specialist in a large corp environment).
Have you worked in a large corporate environment where IT *doesn't* lock down the PCs and control what users can do with them? It's total carnage..
I've worked at large corporations with slick IT teams where everyone seemed to believe they were impenetrable to attack, and no one would seem to notice that most of the machines crawled. And yes, I've worked at large corporations where IT does nothing, nothing whatsoever, that makes any sense... every lowly user (of hundreds and hundreds) is an admin, and all the pw are the same. I felt better at the former establishment only because the team and I were at least following sensible protocol, we were doing what afawk were best practices, but in fact there was little difference in performance between the two organizations. From what I can tell, with the Microsoft office model, you just can't win... though there is some statistical equilibrium that can be reached, such that no matter what the problem, the team can find some fix... even though they know it won't last.
Even though Microsoft has allowed me to earn some income, I resent the OS somewhat. Windows seems to work like a brand new car works... once set up on a new machine, it just goes without much help needed. But in very short time, a week, a month... that install becomes half as productive as when it was new. So, like a new car after a year of absolutely no maintenance, it breaks down... doesn't go as well. Thing is... these are computers, not mechanical cars with moving parts that break... the installs shouldn't ALL be breaking down. Sometimes, we can point to the user for doing stupid things. But more often than not, the issues defy all explanation... other than "goddamn fucking WINDOWS WTF!!"
Windows rot is just the most retarted thing. When you start to notice it you at first think... "ok, well, this user has used this machine well, or has not used it well, and this is just how it is... " but over time, you realize it has nothing to do with the user. By accident I discovered this: the team deployed 22 new machines for a department, all set up and tested, everything working well, new machines, everyone envious they got such zippy new tools... but there were only 21 users in the department, and the 22nd machine DID NOT GET USED. Well, oversight and all that... no one noticed and that resource was never collected and recycled. About 6 months later, in the department working on the rot on machines that had users... noticed the unused machine sitting there, networked and running for 6 months with no user. I was about to break it down when I just got curious... I logged in... wow, WAIT WAIT WAIT DISK DISK DISK SCREEN DRAW DISK BLINK finally ... DESKTOP. Checking the logs confirmed that no one had logged into the thing since it was deployed. Start launching apps... crawl zzzz... slowly... slowly... finally... browser is loaded... but every single user event causes inexplicable disk accesses and there is more crawling... the machine is barely usable. Its this shit, Microsoft.... this fucking shit that makes me hate Windows. You can try this yourself if you have an extra machine... load up your corp image, do some cursory tests to satisfy yourself that the machine is usable, and set the machine aside for 6 months and let it run. Rot happens whether the machine is used or not, because after letting it sit unused, you will discover that it also has become unusable.
the pendulum is now swinging back in the direction of centralized control
Well, not now but for years they've been pushing the browser as the deliverer of this centralized control. It works, more or less, but everyone hates it except the browser app developers... and maybe they hate it too. I believe there have been some attempts at datacenter desktop consolidation, but you'd have to be at a very progressive company if you are seeing that... most companies will limp and drag for ... well, forever, if they survive... with using the Microsoft model. Which, as we all know, is a real piece of work.
The reason you don't see innovation at corps on the PC is because the IT guys first lock the living shit out of it THEN put some really shitty AV that sucks resources like Norton. What you have is a machine that is painful to use that just screams drudgery.
Trust me, if you're talking about Windows, even when IT guys DO NOT lock the living shit out of it, you still end up with the same thing... a machine that is painful to use and barely works.
I have to completely disagree with the premise, that IT locking down the machine is causing the issue. I believe that IT choosing an architecture that is general purpose, and then removing most of its general purpose functionality, is a part of the problem. Has anyone noticed that 90% of corp workers use their computer for only company email and browser-based Corp apps? What is wrong with the idea of ditching the general purpose boat anchor and choosing an extremely limited architecture that does everything those 90% need... making THAT the defacto standard for new employees, and then giving the general purpose machine to the other 10% that need to do heavier (real computer necessary) stuff?
I think big IT issue in most corporations is not the lowly IT tech guys, but their management, especially the corporate architects, the directors and veeps, that have their head shoved so far up their asses they have no idea that they are allowed to and even required to innovate. Instead, they concentrate on doing the same thing today that they did yesterday, i.e. maintaining status quo, and keeping Microsoft in business. After all, if everything just worked all the time, what would be the point of even having an IT department? No, they must build "broken" into the infrastructure.
....misses all those things that make social network social.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. If you are interacting with anything other than another person, what you are doing is technically anti-social.
[users of social networks] misses all those things that make social social.
FTFY
same thing happened with diabetes and insulin. Over 5 years ago, a Toronto lab found the cure for both types of diabetes... (basically, a shock to the pancreas resets it similarly to the way a shock to the heart resets the heart). But the treatment is so simple and inexpensive, and it is a cure, so no further maintenance required. Big Pharm will never allow governments to approve the treatment because the sale of insulin would be reduced to a trickle.
They weren't charged because there's simply no evidence. They said they paid $10,000, but the only evidence was a posting.
I don't think $10K can change hands without other available evidence existing (bank records, $10K check being cashed, or even if it was cash, there had to be a withdrawal). This would be circumstantial, because the money exchanged could have been for anything... except what you said, Gizmodo posted the story of their acquisition. But by the time the DA wants a deposition/testimony from the writers, I'm sure they're lawyered up and protected by the 5th Amendment from incriminating themselves. I suppose that was the deal they brokered, that if they give up their source they'll avoid charges.
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I agree. The case appears to be a slam dunk for the DA. The idiot troll Gizmodo editors didn't even bother consulting an attorney, didn't even occur to them that there was any moral or legal issue with purchasing a stolen corporate secret prototype ... fools.
I wonder though, with all the trouble and loss of revenue Gizmodo caused with the Antennagate BS, if Apple made some deal with Gizmodo to have the charges dismissed if the quasi-journalists' stop being such asshats. Doesn't seem likely... as Apple mercilessly killed ThinkSecret, and they never even approached the bullshit that Gizmodo pulled last summer.
that is awesome
for Windows Administrators... next to "it's just broken," that's the other half of the built-in job security