Yeah, yeah, I know. People don't choose MS's business solutions, businesses do. Same deal with the Blackberry. I know a few people with one, but it seems everybody has an android or in iPhone now except my buddy who works for T-Mobile.
This problem can not be solved. I recommend reading "Reflections on trusting trust." Eventually you need to trust a person, somewhere, and if they are trusted and really clever they can hide what they are doing in a large system. The source code may be innocuous and completely inspected, but it has to be compiled or interpreted somewhere, and if the compiler or interpreter is rigged you'll never know.
How many people have understood the entirety of Firefox? How many of those also read and understood the source for GCC and all the libraries that Firefox uses? It's turtles all the way down man.
Any iPhone can hook up with a standard caldav calendar, which can be shared between arbitrary numbers of people. I have 4 calendars for various purposes, all perfectly coexisting at once. You can do your calendaring and email and shit just as easily as you can on any phone, and in fact maybe more easily. The iPhone is capable of using public folders, for example you can use the web browser and SSL, and when you download the file it will be handled by the appropriate application. Uploading the file may be a bit more complicated, but it can always be emailed.
As far as "sharepoint" goes, do you mean "can the iPhone use MS's proprietary vomitous mangled aborted mess of a replacement for a nice LAMP server?" I don't know, never tried myself. But knowing MS it probably checks the user agent and barfs if it's not from Internet Exploder on Windows.
iPhone usage in big business is growing, but of course those RIM jobbers are everywhere. Companies buy Blackberries because they can control their employees more easily with them, and it makes sense in a perverse way, if your employees are all mentally 13 years old.
I can kind of see your point, through your lens. Instead of using a nice caldav server somewhere that will talk to anything, you have to use an iCalendar attachment and you SMS it to somebody. If you're hooked into the whole proprietary software world with your Exchange servers and Sharepoints and all that garbage, hooking into the Blackberry is natural.
The "call quality" is fine on the iPhone, just like any other digital cell phone. The iPhone 4 is obviously fucked up, however simply sticking to an earlier model, which work great even still, is an option for everybody.
He's not complaining that HIS blackberry is making these calls, he is just saying that a lot of people don't rebind their convenience keys, and if you read that article you linked to you will see that "The default value in the Default IT policy is a null value."
So it's careless IT admins who are at fault, along with RIM for defaulting to no lock time. Most users only change their ringtones and wallpaper, they do not drill down and make security adjustments.
The iPhone is widely used in business. The Blackberry is useful in "large" businesses, but small and even medium sized businesses use the iPhone way more than they use Blackberries. Large businesses are discovering the iPhone as well.
This is just another classic "Only morons who like pretty things use the iPhone" troll, which somehow got modded up.
Oh yeah, there's tons of malware out there for Linux.
I know of concept pieces but genuine malware, even on ancient distros is really hard to find, especially the kid you'd pick up from just browsing web sites. Rooting incidents are much more common, but still rare enough that it's barely worth worrying about.
The *ONLY* people who are irritated at Apple's lack of flash are either flash "developers," Adobe employees, or internet marketoids. For just about everybody else it is merely a vector for free games, cheap porn, and eyeball-exploding advertising.
The trend among people I know has been to delete flash entirely, or use a flashblocker so it is more of an on-demand choice than something that gets thrust into your face.
The mere fact that the "downgrade" option exists is mere lip service to Microsoft. Most users would consider XP as an upgrade to Vista, and many I know would consider it to be an upgrade to 7 as well.
A bone stock Windows XP machine with 3.whatever gigs of ram is cheaper than a good toaster oven these days, and is sufficient for the uses of 99% or more of the folks out there today.
Using XP is not choosing to remain behind any curve to speak of. Sure you don't get whizzy 3D gadgets, but with a sane IT infrastructure there is nothing dated about XP, and new software for it continues to be offered and in fact dominates the market today. New games that require Vista or 7 are few and far between. Microsoft Office software from a decade ago is in fact functionally identical to today's versions. Exchange half-works in its pathetic usual way as poorly on Windows 7 as it does on XP.
Perhaps that's the saddest thing about Microsoft. They have been putting lipstick on a pig for so long, that they married the pig and are expecting their second litter.
For a lot of businesses, whether or not Microsoft officially supports XP is irrelevant. They have their IT infrastructure, it works, and that's that. Many companies furnished themselves with Windows XP based desktops from commodity providers like Dell and HP and did not partake in any corporate or volume licensing schemes at all. I know of many companies that simply buy new computers when old ones break, and in fact a large mass of "IT" workers are in fact secretarial, and have little desire to learn or run a new system at work. They just want to punch their data into the computer and go home at night.
Big companies are a different story, but small companies grow to become big companies and often retain the ad-hoc purchasing and upgrade strategy for the PCs that are deployed on desktops. The practical upshot of all this is that you have XP machines that will stay in deployment until they break. I am finding companies often prefer to take all their XP boxes, make VMs of them, and then work off dumb terminals. Ironically the performance is usually better, and these machines then last literally forever.
No doubt, a hundred years from now Windows XP will still be in use somewhere. Just as DOS, Windows 3, NT4, Windows 98, ME, and 2000 are all still firmly deployed even if somewhat rare on the OS surveys that go by user agent strings.
You may not think about gaming on a tablet, and to be honest, neither did I. I own an iPad and there are many gaming uses for it - xplane, wesnoth, and go are three that I use over the network actually. Nethack also exists in a nice port for the iPad.
I can't see playing Quake on it, but other games seem to fit the form factor nicely. How about RTS games? Mouse and keyboard is a fairly clumsy way of interacting with them, and I can imagine quite a few ways that touch interfaces will be making advances in how we play those games.
I think you have it wrong here. Microsoft's game is imitating the latest thing. Sometimes they do a decent job, sometimes they do an awful job, and sometimes they just announce a product that they never seriously intend to actually make, to try to capture a little flame from Apple or whoever.
Sadly after having a family member get shuffled from psychologist to psychologist, you're no far off the mark. I'm sure there are a few shrinks with a new boat now, though, due to the literally dozens of drugs that have been "tried."
You would need both excellent ears and a first-rate audio system to tell the difference between 128kb MP2 and 256kb MP2, if your program material is voice.
Probably the best thing they could do is license iOS from Apple. What are the other options? Put out the same exact Android phone that everybody else is?
Apple also has another power: the inherent anti-Chinese sigil. I don't know what it is about Macs, but I have been a Mac user for about 25 years and an owner for about 15 years, and I don't think I have ever seen Chinese software of any kind on any Mac, ever. I have seen lots of Chinese people at institutions of higher education using Macs, but I don't think I have seen Chinese software, from China, on a Mac.
I do believe they are probably pretty adept at exploiting Linux machines, though, because all day I get bombarded with probes and bad attempts on my SSH daemon, and when I nmap them they are usually running Linux and are usually in China.
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"CE6 and 7 are both incredibly powerful"
I'm sorry, but you are full of it.
They are both cut down and neutered.
Yeah, yeah, I know. People don't choose MS's business solutions, businesses do. Same deal with the Blackberry. I know a few people with one, but it seems everybody has an android or in iPhone now except my buddy who works for T-Mobile.
This problem can not be solved. I recommend reading "Reflections on trusting trust." Eventually you need to trust a person, somewhere, and if they are trusted and really clever they can hide what they are doing in a large system. The source code may be innocuous and completely inspected, but it has to be compiled or interpreted somewhere, and if the compiler or interpreter is rigged you'll never know.
How many people have understood the entirety of Firefox? How many of those also read and understood the source for GCC and all the libraries that Firefox uses? It's turtles all the way down man.
Any iPhone can hook up with a standard caldav calendar, which can be shared between arbitrary numbers of people. I have 4 calendars for various purposes, all perfectly coexisting at once. You can do your calendaring and email and shit just as easily as you can on any phone, and in fact maybe more easily. The iPhone is capable of using public folders, for example you can use the web browser and SSL, and when you download the file it will be handled by the appropriate application. Uploading the file may be a bit more complicated, but it can always be emailed.
As far as "sharepoint" goes, do you mean "can the iPhone use MS's proprietary vomitous mangled aborted mess of a replacement for a nice LAMP server?" I don't know, never tried myself. But knowing MS it probably checks the user agent and barfs if it's not from Internet Exploder on Windows.
iPhone usage in big business is growing, but of course those RIM jobbers are everywhere. Companies buy Blackberries because they can control their employees more easily with them, and it makes sense in a perverse way, if your employees are all mentally 13 years old.
I can kind of see your point, through your lens. Instead of using a nice caldav server somewhere that will talk to anything, you have to use an iCalendar attachment and you SMS it to somebody. If you're hooked into the whole proprietary software world with your Exchange servers and Sharepoints and all that garbage, hooking into the Blackberry is natural.
The "call quality" is fine on the iPhone, just like any other digital cell phone. The iPhone 4 is obviously fucked up, however simply sticking to an earlier model, which work great even still, is an option for everybody.
He's not complaining that HIS blackberry is making these calls, he is just saying that a lot of people don't rebind their convenience keys, and if you read that article you linked to you will see that "The default value in the Default IT policy is a null value."
So it's careless IT admins who are at fault, along with RIM for defaulting to no lock time. Most users only change their ringtones and wallpaper, they do not drill down and make security adjustments.
If you really need reliable voice communications you should get your amateur radio license.
Cell phone nets are often near or at capacity these days, even in rural areas. It's more profitable that way.
The iPhone is widely used in business. The Blackberry is useful in "large" businesses, but small and even medium sized businesses use the iPhone way more than they use Blackberries. Large businesses are discovering the iPhone as well.
This is just another classic "Only morons who like pretty things use the iPhone" troll, which somehow got modded up.
Oh yeah, there's tons of malware out there for Linux.
I know of concept pieces but genuine malware, even on ancient distros is really hard to find, especially the kid you'd pick up from just browsing web sites. Rooting incidents are much more common, but still rare enough that it's barely worth worrying about.
Even when they don't publish AP feeds directly, it is clear that they are just rewriting them. Usually they dumb the article down as well.
I can access the AP's feeds over the internet for free. Why pay to have them rolled onto a dead tree?
No, you're not wrong. To put something like this on the internet, only accessible through the god-awful Silverlight, is kind of a slap in the face.
We have HTML5 now, we don't need fuckin' Silverlight.
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Apropos to this, you ever notice who runs Hollywood?
Not the Gentiles...
The *ONLY* people who are irritated at Apple's lack of flash are either flash "developers," Adobe employees, or internet marketoids. For just about everybody else it is merely a vector for free games, cheap porn, and eyeball-exploding advertising.
The trend among people I know has been to delete flash entirely, or use a flashblocker so it is more of an on-demand choice than something that gets thrust into your face.
The mere fact that the "downgrade" option exists is mere lip service to Microsoft. Most users would consider XP as an upgrade to Vista, and many I know would consider it to be an upgrade to 7 as well.
A bone stock Windows XP machine with 3.whatever gigs of ram is cheaper than a good toaster oven these days, and is sufficient for the uses of 99% or more of the folks out there today.
Using XP is not choosing to remain behind any curve to speak of. Sure you don't get whizzy 3D gadgets, but with a sane IT infrastructure there is nothing dated about XP, and new software for it continues to be offered and in fact dominates the market today. New games that require Vista or 7 are few and far between. Microsoft Office software from a decade ago is in fact functionally identical to today's versions. Exchange half-works in its pathetic usual way as poorly on Windows 7 as it does on XP.
Perhaps that's the saddest thing about Microsoft. They have been putting lipstick on a pig for so long, that they married the pig and are expecting their second litter.
For a lot of businesses, whether or not Microsoft officially supports XP is irrelevant. They have their IT infrastructure, it works, and that's that. Many companies furnished themselves with Windows XP based desktops from commodity providers like Dell and HP and did not partake in any corporate or volume licensing schemes at all. I know of many companies that simply buy new computers when old ones break, and in fact a large mass of "IT" workers are in fact secretarial, and have little desire to learn or run a new system at work. They just want to punch their data into the computer and go home at night.
Big companies are a different story, but small companies grow to become big companies and often retain the ad-hoc purchasing and upgrade strategy for the PCs that are deployed on desktops. The practical upshot of all this is that you have XP machines that will stay in deployment until they break. I am finding companies often prefer to take all their XP boxes, make VMs of them, and then work off dumb terminals. Ironically the performance is usually better, and these machines then last literally forever.
No doubt, a hundred years from now Windows XP will still be in use somewhere. Just as DOS, Windows 3, NT4, Windows 98, ME, and 2000 are all still firmly deployed even if somewhat rare on the OS surveys that go by user agent strings.
You may not think about gaming on a tablet, and to be honest, neither did I. I own an iPad and there are many gaming uses for it - xplane, wesnoth, and go are three that I use over the network actually. Nethack also exists in a nice port for the iPad.
I can't see playing Quake on it, but other games seem to fit the form factor nicely. How about RTS games? Mouse and keyboard is a fairly clumsy way of interacting with them, and I can imagine quite a few ways that touch interfaces will be making advances in how we play those games.
I think you have it wrong here. Microsoft's game is imitating the latest thing. Sometimes they do a decent job, sometimes they do an awful job, and sometimes they just announce a product that they never seriously intend to actually make, to try to capture a little flame from Apple or whoever.
Sadly after having a family member get shuffled from psychologist to psychologist, you're no far off the mark. I'm sure there are a few shrinks with a new boat now, though, due to the literally dozens of drugs that have been "tried."
In the olden days, AM was all that existed. It wasn't as if there were many other options until what, the late 20s at the very dead earliest?
Marconi wasn't making civilian FM transmitters until after the war, I don't think.
You would need both excellent ears and a first-rate audio system to tell the difference between 128kb MP2 and 256kb MP2, if your program material is voice.
Nowhere did anybody do such a thing.
It may be behind the opposition in theory, and perhaps on paper as well. However nobody ever stood in line all day for any phone but an iPhone.
Probably the best thing they could do is license iOS from Apple. What are the other options? Put out the same exact Android phone that everybody else is?
If they paid Apple enough money it could happen.
Apple also has another power: the inherent anti-Chinese sigil. I don't know what it is about Macs, but I have been a Mac user for about 25 years and an owner for about 15 years, and I don't think I have ever seen Chinese software of any kind on any Mac, ever. I have seen lots of Chinese people at institutions of higher education using Macs, but I don't think I have seen Chinese software, from China, on a Mac.
I do believe they are probably pretty adept at exploiting Linux machines, though, because all day I get bombarded with probes and bad attempts on my SSH daemon, and when I nmap them they are usually running Linux and are usually in China.