What did your support company say? [....] Oh; you set up a system without a support company?
No we have a support contract with a company who builds all of our servers and installs them. We've just finally had enough and when we needed to upgrade simply had them swap that storage pool for a Windows system. Since then my only interaction with that computer has been to turn it on after our power went out a couple months ago.
If you have 0 IT staff, I can guarantee you're using active directory incorrectly.
I have no idea what "incorrectly" means in this context. We have usernames and passwords, we have folders with different permissions, we can login over VPN from home, we can mange our computers through the SBS console, we have roaming profiles... that's what we want and it all works.
Good for you. If you want to come setup my Samba box then be my guest. All I know is that one set of file servers works great without any administration and one has been a non-stop headache.
We have a grand total of 0 IT staff. That's possible with AD. I haven't found that to be possible with any Active Directory replacements.
You're right. It is the administration not the software. We have a couple file servers running Small Business Server and a couple that were running Samba. The SBSs required no administration. We turned them on and they just kept trucking. Our samba box would have random drop outs where it would deny access unless you restarted the file server.
We also had trouble with user group permissions not getting picked up properly. We also had a problem where the clock would get out of sync and then deny access.
It seemed like there was a new unique "Administration" necessary every couple weeks.
As Apple's lawyers full well know, once you've been found guilty of trademark infringement--corrective action often has to be more substantial than a new design.
Similarly I would say if you've been required to apologize--and failed grossly to do that. The expectation for clarity should be higher than if you had simply complied initially. I say make them put a large banner now across the middle of the page in size 72 font.
I hate to be *that guy* but in the interest of fairness, while hydroelectric doesn't emit CO2 it does apparently emit a good bit of Methane from algae/sediment. I don't know however whether that's methane emission that is due to hydroelectric or no net increase in Methane from redistribution of methane that would have been released somewhere anyway. But it's something to consider.
Religious organizations can fire their employees for almost any purpose. It used to be that it was limited to people who directly teach or perform religious duties however if you give a 10 minute morning chapel or direct a class in prayer you are now considered a religious employee according to a recent supreme court ruling.
So even if you're teaching chemistry at a church affiliated school they can fire you for talking about carbon dating if they also require you to start your class with a prayer. In the US this has effectively eliminated anti-discrimination laws in religious institutions. If they say you failed to live up fully to their religious expectations and laws (presumably including if your religion had racist/sexist/homophobic views) you can't expect any protection legally.
For every one of them that drives off a cliff, it'll save 100 people who would have not noticed a stopped vehicle ahead while checking over their shoulder while merging or running a red light because were momentarily distracted, or looked down to check the stereo for a second and drifted into oncoming traffic.
Is it really going to happen if the "boosters" do not have to be taken often enough to keep the money flowing into the pharma industry?
Of all the vaccines I've received in my life I've only ever needed regular boosters of the Flu.
It would be a sudden reversal of every other vaccine which only requires occasional boosters. Also the 'financial' angle doesn't make any sense. They would just charge more. HPV vaccine costs $400. Flu vaccine costs like $10-$20. That's 20 bi-annual boosters.
If they had a 100% effective flu shot I would pay $1,000 for it. I would pay $5,000 for a cold vaccine. It would be the best $5k I had ever spent.
I would also point out as one more Apples to Apples perspective that DirectX supports a lot of things that OpenGL doesn't (e.g. hardware tessellation).
Valve's Windows vs Linux comparison was between more than 100fps for both platforms. I doubt the Khronos group or Microsoft are particularly interested in optimizing their APIs at that level. Much better use of your API is to start optimizing ease of development and adding features.
Furthermore people will define their identify by their group membership. So a Christian will tie up a large part of their identity with Christianity and when you say that Jesus' teachings are bad you're saying that they, by self identifying and wrapping up their identity with their beliefs are also bad.
The closest instance to this story is Brad Birkenfeld.
In 2007, Birkenfeld decided to tell the DOJ what he knew about UBS's practices. At the same time, he wanted to take advantage of a new federal whistleblower law that could pay him up to 30% of any tax revenue recouped by the IRS as a result of Birkenfeld's information. Birkenfeld also wanted immunity from prosecution for his part in UBS's transactions. In April 2007, Birkenfeld's counsel sent the DOJ a summary of the Birkenfeld's information. The DOJ responded that it was not part of the IRS's whistleblower program and that it would not grant Birkenfeld immunity.Nonetheless, Birkenfeld met with the DOJ. When communications between Birkenfeld and the DOJ stalled, Birkenfeld contacted the Securities and Exchange Commission, the IRS, and the U.S. Senate.In April 2008, Birkenfeld's lawyers told the DOJ that he would assist the DOJ in return for immunity. One or two months later, Birkenfeld was arrested. The DOJ's top tax lawyer said, "With regard to whistleblowers: those who seek to be treated as true whistleblowers need to know they must come in early and give complete and truthful disclosures.... Mr. Birkenfeld did not come in and give complete and truthful disclosures. Therefore, he is not entitled to whistleblower status." In September 2012, the IRS Whistleblower Office awarded Birkenfeld $104 million as a whistleblower.
I would spend 3 years in jail for $104 million dollars. I disagree with his prosecution and arrest, but he's hardly a victim, or if he is please make me a victim too.
Also they got more than $700 million in fines/taxes from his information. So the notion that they aren't following up on his information is false.
Xbox live is used for pairing. The actual interface is then negotiated over the LAN.
Or at least that's my understanding since I first connected over my phone's 3G connection (I had wifi turned off) and it gave me a notice saying something to the effect of "Please connect from the same network for better performance."
Both are Mature. The title and summary on slashdot *gasp* are completely wrong. Mature titles are fine in the US. The problem was that in Europe they use a different system in which US Mature titles were getting wound up in the equivalent of US's AO rating.
So M rated games were always fine, it's the European system which lumps the sex games in with the Mature games that caused the kerfuffle.
Yeah and 50 years ago people just dropped dead or 'walked off' injuries.
My mom just broke her wrist. Something like $25k in medical bills later she has full wrist mobility. 50 years ago she would have simply had it set and like my Grandpa would probably have pain and immobility the rest of her life.
Yep. I prefer people who are agnostic about Santa Clause too. All those Santa Deniers really get on my nerves... so full of certainty and dismissive of people who believe in Santa. Bunch of religiously anti-santa people if you ask me.
Yes. Because, it's not xenophobic, it's just plain good sense that critical infrastructure is a huge target. It's what every country should want their intelligence agencies doing. I hope every router sent to China has a backdoor in it that we can shut down in the event of a conflict.
Why do you think China is working so hard to create their own CPU? They know this would be a massive liability and with 10 Billion transistors its' easy to hide things now a days.
I'm usually dismissive of conspiracy theories because they don't actually result in any parties profiting. But this is exactly the sort of thing that countries not only would profit from--but have already done.
Imagine if every car in China could be turned off with a switch. That's a weapon I have absolutely no question our military would love to have. And one which *of course* the Chinese military would also want. If they could do it and get away with it--they will (just as we would).
This is why we can't have nice things in the US. Instead of doing something and possibly wasting some on corruption we spend 6x the budget debating minutia and auditing the auditors. In the end we have nothing and spend decades accomplishing nothing for fear of doing something wrong.
And the smart case for the ipad is nigh on mandatory. So you're looking at another $50 for the ipad. It's actually $50 cheaper than the ipad w/ a keyboard.
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What did your support company say? [....] Oh; you set up a system without a support company?
No we have a support contract with a company who builds all of our servers and installs them. We've just finally had enough and when we needed to upgrade simply had them swap that storage pool for a Windows system. Since then my only interaction with that computer has been to turn it on after our power went out a couple months ago.
If you have 0 IT staff, I can guarantee you're using active directory incorrectly.
I have no idea what "incorrectly" means in this context. We have usernames and passwords, we have folders with different permissions, we can login over VPN from home, we can mange our computers through the SBS console, we have roaming profiles... that's what we want and it all works.
Good for you. If you want to come setup my Samba box then be my guest. All I know is that one set of file servers works great without any administration and one has been a non-stop headache.
We have a grand total of 0 IT staff. That's possible with AD. I haven't found that to be possible with any Active Directory replacements.
You're right. It is the administration not the software. We have a couple file servers running Small Business Server and a couple that were running Samba. The SBSs required no administration. We turned them on and they just kept trucking. Our samba box would have random drop outs where it would deny access unless you restarted the file server.
We also had trouble with user group permissions not getting picked up properly. We also had a problem where the clock would get out of sync and then deny access.
It seemed like there was a new unique "Administration" necessary every couple weeks.
We finally switched out our last NAS that was running Samba. Too many small glitches. Not worth the hassle.
You screen captured in portrait view. So a 'proper' resolution now a days is a vertically oriented portrait screen?
As Apple's lawyers full well know, once you've been found guilty of trademark infringement--corrective action often has to be more substantial than a new design.
Similarly I would say if you've been required to apologize--and failed grossly to do that. The expectation for clarity should be higher than if you had simply complied initially. I say make them put a large banner now across the middle of the page in size 72 font.
I hate to be *that guy* but in the interest of fairness, while hydroelectric doesn't emit CO2 it does apparently emit a good bit of Methane from algae/sediment. I don't know however whether that's methane emission that is due to hydroelectric or no net increase in Methane from redistribution of methane that would have been released somewhere anyway. But it's something to consider.
Personally I'm a big fan of the Nukes.
Religious organizations can fire their employees for almost any purpose. It used to be that it was limited to people who directly teach or perform religious duties however if you give a 10 minute morning chapel or direct a class in prayer you are now considered a religious employee according to a recent supreme court ruling.
So even if you're teaching chemistry at a church affiliated school they can fire you for talking about carbon dating if they also require you to start your class with a prayer. In the US this has effectively eliminated anti-discrimination laws in religious institutions. If they say you failed to live up fully to their religious expectations and laws (presumably including if your religion had racist/sexist/homophobic views) you can't expect any protection legally.
For every one of them that drives off a cliff, it'll save 100 people who would have not noticed a stopped vehicle ahead while checking over their shoulder while merging or running a red light because were momentarily distracted, or looked down to check the stereo for a second and drifted into oncoming traffic.
Yep, I expect to see this thing +5 funny ASAP.
Is it really going to happen if the "boosters" do not have to be taken often enough to keep the money flowing into the pharma industry?
Of all the vaccines I've received in my life I've only ever needed regular boosters of the Flu.
It would be a sudden reversal of every other vaccine which only requires occasional boosters. Also the 'financial' angle doesn't make any sense. They would just charge more. HPV vaccine costs $400. Flu vaccine costs like $10-$20. That's 20 bi-annual boosters.
If they had a 100% effective flu shot I would pay $1,000 for it. I would pay $5,000 for a cold vaccine. It would be the best $5k I had ever spent.
I would also point out as one more Apples to Apples perspective that DirectX supports a lot of things that OpenGL doesn't (e.g. hardware tessellation).
Valve's Windows vs Linux comparison was between more than 100fps for both platforms. I doubt the Khronos group or Microsoft are particularly interested in optimizing their APIs at that level. Much better use of your API is to start optimizing ease of development and adding features.
Says the man who forgot that the book was an adaptation of the screenplay co-written by Clarke and Kubrick and released after the film.
Furthermore people will define their identify by their group membership. So a Christian will tie up a large part of their identity with Christianity and when you say that Jesus' teachings are bad you're saying that they, by self identifying and wrapping up their identity with their beliefs are also bad.
The closest instance to this story is Brad Birkenfeld.
In 2007, Birkenfeld decided to tell the DOJ what he knew about UBS's practices. At the same time, he wanted to take advantage of a new federal whistleblower law that could pay him up to 30% of any tax revenue recouped by the IRS as a result of Birkenfeld's information. Birkenfeld also wanted immunity from prosecution for his part in UBS's transactions. In April 2007, Birkenfeld's counsel sent the DOJ a summary of the Birkenfeld's information. The DOJ responded that it was not part of the IRS's whistleblower program and that it would not grant Birkenfeld immunity.Nonetheless, Birkenfeld met with the DOJ. When communications between Birkenfeld and the DOJ stalled, Birkenfeld contacted the Securities and Exchange Commission, the IRS, and the U.S. Senate.In April 2008, Birkenfeld's lawyers told the DOJ that he would assist the DOJ in return for immunity. One or two months later, Birkenfeld was arrested. The DOJ's top tax lawyer said, "With regard to whistleblowers: those who seek to be treated as true whistleblowers need to know they must come in early and give complete and truthful disclosures.... Mr. Birkenfeld did not come in and give complete and truthful disclosures. Therefore, he is not entitled to whistleblower status."
In September 2012, the IRS Whistleblower Office awarded Birkenfeld $104 million as a whistleblower.
I would spend 3 years in jail for $104 million dollars. I disagree with his prosecution and arrest, but he's hardly a victim, or if he is please make me a victim too.
Also they got more than $700 million in fines/taxes from his information. So the notion that they aren't following up on his information is false.
Xbox live is used for pairing. The actual interface is then negotiated over the LAN.
Or at least that's my understanding since I first connected over my phone's 3G connection (I had wifi turned off) and it gave me a notice saying something to the effect of "Please connect from the same network for better performance."
Except they released it two days earlier for Windows Phone and it runs great. But.. whatever.
"Poignantly contrary to what was expected or intended"
e.g. criticizing someone for a lack of transparency while yourself being non-transparent. The usage was correct.
Both are Mature. The title and summary on slashdot *gasp* are completely wrong. Mature titles are fine in the US. The problem was that in Europe they use a different system in which US Mature titles were getting wound up in the equivalent of US's AO rating.
So M rated games were always fine, it's the European system which lumps the sex games in with the Mature games that caused the kerfuffle.
Yeah and 50 years ago people just dropped dead or 'walked off' injuries.
My mom just broke her wrist. Something like $25k in medical bills later she has full wrist mobility. 50 years ago she would have simply had it set and like my Grandpa would probably have pain and immobility the rest of her life.
Yep. I prefer people who are agnostic about Santa Clause too. All those Santa Deniers really get on my nerves... so full of certainty and dismissive of people who believe in Santa. Bunch of religiously anti-santa people if you ask me.
Yes. Because, it's not xenophobic, it's just plain good sense that critical infrastructure is a huge target. It's what every country should want their intelligence agencies doing. I hope every router sent to China has a backdoor in it that we can shut down in the event of a conflict.
Why do you think China is working so hard to create their own CPU? They know this would be a massive liability and with 10 Billion transistors its' easy to hide things now a days.
I'm usually dismissive of conspiracy theories because they don't actually result in any parties profiting. But this is exactly the sort of thing that countries not only would profit from--but have already done.
Imagine if every car in China could be turned off with a switch. That's a weapon I have absolutely no question our military would love to have. And one which *of course* the Chinese military would also want. If they could do it and get away with it--they will (just as we would).
This is why we can't have nice things in the US. Instead of doing something and possibly wasting some on corruption we spend 6x the budget debating minutia and auditing the auditors. In the end we have nothing and spend decades accomplishing nothing for fear of doing something wrong.
Except that it's not more expensive.
...making the fully keyboard-equipped Surface tablet roughly $120 more expensive than the iPad...
Memory | iPad | Surface w/ Keyboard
16 GB | $499 | N/A
32 GB | $599 | $599
64 GB | $699 | $699
And the smart case for the ipad is nigh on mandatory. So you're looking at another $50 for the ipad. It's actually $50 cheaper than the ipad w/ a keyboard.
Where are they getting the extra $120?