There is no need to a replacement. What was there before already works nicely.
Tradition is the enemy of progress. Horse-drawn carts worked nicely and there were many vocal opponents to the rise of the automobile, but nobody today could credibly argue that we should abandon our use and development of motor vehicles.
You are too dumb to understand
Nice attitude. I suspect you locate your self-worth in your established expertise in what you consider your core competencies, and therefore feel threatened by anything that might disrupt the status quo. You see anything and everything beyond your own self-defined horizon as change for the sake of change.
Either that or you're just too lazy to learn anything new or experiment with new workflows.
my Linux runs fvwm (and has done so for now almost 30 years, without much change)
Some old dogs can learn new tricks, others should be sent to "live on a farm".
This is Nintendo we're talking about. Of course there will be new models. Switch XL or whatever will be announced in a few months, fixing most of the flaws with the original, while introducing a few more and - naturally - fixing any security exploits those evil pirates have discovered.
These days buying the first model of a console seems like a bad investment, or rather, an early-adopter cost.
I had a laptop that was Windows 7 for the longest time.
How long, exactly? Long enough to be out of warranty?
It decided to upgrade itself to Windows 10. Cool. For about a month then my laptop refused to boot windows again.
Correlation does not imply causation. Your HDD failed. That is why you could boot from USB but not install to HDD. It would have failed no matter what OS you were running.
Because I am an expert, I know I can install a new OS.
New definition of expert: someone who cannot diagnose a simple hardware failure. You don't mention any attempt to install any OS except Windows. If you had, you would almost certainly have found that any OS would have failed to boot from your HDD.
I tried to recover the system and ended up losing all my data.
"Expert."
But the fact that I cannot reinstall Windows (first reboot puts the system into a hung state) is telling.
"Expert."
It's not like I had time to send it in for warranty repair and twiddle my thumbs while they send me a new laptop.
Wait... so after purchasing a new laptop, which would of course mean you could send this one for a warranty repair, you didn't bother?
So it's entirely plausible and now I am going to resurrect that machine and maybe consider joining in on this adventure.
Since all of Microsoft's cloud services are intrinsically backdoored by the Three Letter Agencies, you might as well just email all your documents directly to them.
So people with these devices get an advantage. So what?
Players with TVs that have low processing latency have an advantage.
Players with a fast and stable Internet connection have an advantage.
Players living closer to the hosting servers probably have an advantage.
Players jacked up on caffeine probably have an advantage.
There are many factors that can influence your success in a multiplayer FPS. Let's not pretend that forcing console players to use a first-party controller makes everything fair.
Just because you scratced-the-surface on all those languages, network and sys-admin tech in college, doesn't mean you're even CLOSE to an expert and haven't done it in a professional setting at all where you need to give a shit about 10,000 other things besides 'getting it done and working'.
This. If you think that the biggest challenges in your career will be technical rather than political/organizational, you're gonna have a bad time.
The tomatoes sold cheaply in supermarkets here in the UK are almost universally watery, mushy garbage, grown fast and cheap under intensive conditions in Spain, Morocco, Senegal, etc. and yanked from the plant before they have a chance to develop any flavour at all.
Of course, all these supermarkets have their own brands of "premium" tomatoes - often domestically grown - and these are generally much better, but the cost is usually in the region of 150-170% of the standard fare, and even more if you want them organically grown. At this point, the tomatoes are more expensive, by weight, than "budget" (i.e. intensive farmed) chicken breasts.
You've heard it all before: we (and North America and parts of western Europe are the worst offenders here) don't accept that produce is seasonal any more, we want everything available all the time at rock-bottom prices. Something has to give, and sadly that thing is usually quality, which with food means flavour, aroma and texture.
I have no problem with GM as a technology. As a means for multinational bio-tech and agri-tech companies to control and extort money from farmers, I do have concerns. That, however, is another issue entirely.
Lolwut? They're not molding and etching these things by hand, they're using machinery to produce billions of coins very quickly and cheaply.
Example: A £1 UK coin is worth about £0.03 in materials. Even factoring in the cost of building and maintaining the minting machines, staffing the mint, designing the coinage, etc. many of which are historical costs, the actual cost of each coin is far less than its face value, and certainly far less than half a dollar, and that's for a relatively heavy coin.
I don't support a fully cashless society, for reasons stated elsewhere in this thread, but I do believe we should be reducing the number of coins and notes in the system, and eliminating the smallest denominations of coins. Unfortunately, for some reason, some people in this country have latched onto the penny as some kind of symbol of Britishness and the "good old days" (which is to say, some people are weird) so it won't go away without a pointless political battle.
On the other hand, I'm surprised they haven't thrown him in jail yet for "having knowingly simulated computer access without authorization or exceeding authorized access".
Really, these places should be like "off license" restaurants in England
What? I live in the UK and I don't know what you're referring to. In the UK, an "off license" is an establishment that sells alcohol for consumption elsewhere. It has nothing to do with restaurants.
Restaurants do need a license to sell alcohol, but they are not called "off licenses". Some restaurants - particularly small ones - don't bother with the license, so they cannot sell alcohol, but people are allowed to BYOB if they want (albeit usually with a corkage charge). These are still not called "off licenses".
Apart from that, restaurants must adhere to the Food Standards Agency hygiene regulations. If they fail, they can be temporarily or permanently shut down. No license needed here either.
Think you might be getting your terminology confused.
True, but that's because laws were introduced to modify both driver behaviour and car design. You can no longer have a few beers and drive legally, and steering wheels no longer leap into the driver's chest cavity when they have a fender-bender. These have reduced injuries and deaths.
In terms of safety features, you now have seat belts, crumple zones, strengthened chassis frames, airbags, ABS, traction and stability control, etc. These are all great, but they are mere mitigation of the #1 cause of vehicular accidents, which is human error.
With autonomous vehicles we can finally make progress in defeating the real enemy of road safety: road users.
(Side note: 40% of vehicle deaths in the USA are alcohol-related. Just getting the steering wheel out of the hands of people who have been drinking is major progress!)
We don't do BYOD here. All student devices are school-owned and monitored. We use a (fairly popular) combined firewall/email/web filter appliance that filters the web pretty aggressively, because we have to comply with both UK and Scottish legislation on child protection.
Under the new "Prevent" legislation, we even have a duty to monitor students use of web and email for signs of extremism! We're still waiting for the appliance vendor to roll out an update that will allow us to do this. If they don't, there's a good chance we'll have to switch to another provider.
We don't use any form of classroom management software. Teachers cannot see what the kids are doing on the computers. This is mostly because teachers are treated like royalty here, and we are not allowed to implement anything that might "increase their workload", even when classroom management is obviously central to their jobs!
We (the IT department) can connect to students and teachers' devices at any time and view and interact with their sessions, though they are notified when we connect. This is rarely used for policy enforcement, it just saves us having to hike between buildings when Prof. Forgetful has, for example, accidentally hidden his unread messages.
We have biometrics for the cashless canteen too. Same as yours, the fingerprint is stored as a hash, not an image, so the fingerprint records are only useful for this specific system. We previously allowed parents to opt out of this system, but recently it became part of the admissions process (we're an independent school). Now, if you want your kid in this school, you must consent to biometric registration. We only had a couple of parents ever opt out anyway.
All of these measures are enforced by our management teams and almost universally welcomed by parents. Obviously, all of this creates more work for our under-resourced IT department, but as GP points out we have absolutely no choice in the matter. None.
No, the engineer really did exist in another world. Not only was he incapable of understanding that a bridge costs more than a car or a truck, he didn't even understand that many people do not own the bridges they drive over. He even thought that customers would prefer his truck because it couldn't drive over this particular bridge.
Is it not possible that they got an order from a three-letter agency to make migration as difficult as possible?
If the other email providers are playing hardball with the Government (doubtful, I grant you) then maybe they're just trying to close this particular cage before all the rats escape?
I know this all sounds a bit tinfoilhattish, but I'd say that is a reflection of the zeitgeist. 2016 has been weird.
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There is no need to a replacement. What was there before already works nicely.
Tradition is the enemy of progress. Horse-drawn carts worked nicely and there were many vocal opponents to the rise of the automobile, but nobody today could credibly argue that we should abandon our use and development of motor vehicles.
You are too dumb to understand
Nice attitude. I suspect you locate your self-worth in your established expertise in what you consider your core competencies, and therefore feel threatened by anything that might disrupt the status quo. You see anything and everything beyond your own self-defined horizon as change for the sake of change.
Either that or you're just too lazy to learn anything new or experiment with new workflows.
my Linux runs fvwm (and has done so for now almost 30 years, without much change)
Some old dogs can learn new tricks, others should be sent to "live on a farm".
and also releasing a newer model Switch
This is Nintendo we're talking about. Of course there will be new models. Switch XL or whatever will be announced in a few months, fixing most of the flaws with the original, while introducing a few more and - naturally - fixing any security exploits those evil pirates have discovered.
These days buying the first model of a console seems like a bad investment, or rather, an early-adopter cost.
"71 tears old" sounds like an emo band.
+5 Funny for the assumption that most Slashdotters would start a conversation with a girl.
How on earth did this garbage comment get +5?!
I had a laptop that was Windows 7 for the longest time.
How long, exactly? Long enough to be out of warranty?
It decided to upgrade itself to Windows 10. Cool. For about a month then my laptop refused to boot windows again.
Correlation does not imply causation. Your HDD failed. That is why you could boot from USB but not install to HDD. It would have failed no matter what OS you were running.
Because I am an expert, I know I can install a new OS.
New definition of expert: someone who cannot diagnose a simple hardware failure. You don't mention any attempt to install any OS except Windows. If you had, you would almost certainly have found that any OS would have failed to boot from your HDD.
I tried to recover the system and ended up losing all my data.
"Expert."
But the fact that I cannot reinstall Windows (first reboot puts the system into a hung state) is telling.
"Expert."
It's not like I had time to send it in for warranty repair and twiddle my thumbs while they send me a new laptop.
Wait... so after purchasing a new laptop, which would of course mean you could send this one for a warranty repair, you didn't bother?
So it's entirely plausible and now I am going to resurrect that machine and maybe consider joining in on this adventure.
Oh, please do! Let us all know how you get on.
Since all of Microsoft's cloud services are intrinsically backdoored by the Three Letter Agencies, you might as well just email all your documents directly to them.
Ok, where have you hidden the spycam in my house?
So people with these devices get an advantage. So what?
Players with TVs that have low processing latency have an advantage.
Players with a fast and stable Internet connection have an advantage.
Players living closer to the hosting servers probably have an advantage.
Players jacked up on caffeine probably have an advantage.
There are many factors that can influence your success in a multiplayer FPS. Let's not pretend that forcing console players to use a first-party controller makes everything fair.
Last day is this Friday, and I am feverishly working to plug as many holes as I can.
Ugh. TMI, dude.
Just because you scratced-the-surface on all those languages, network and sys-admin tech in college, doesn't mean you're even CLOSE to an expert and haven't done it in a professional setting at all where you need to give a shit about 10,000 other things besides 'getting it done and working'.
This. If you think that the biggest challenges in your career will be technical rather than political/organizational, you're gonna have a bad time.
The tomatoes sold cheaply in supermarkets here in the UK are almost universally watery, mushy garbage, grown fast and cheap under intensive conditions in Spain, Morocco, Senegal, etc. and yanked from the plant before they have a chance to develop any flavour at all.
Of course, all these supermarkets have their own brands of "premium" tomatoes - often domestically grown - and these are generally much better, but the cost is usually in the region of 150-170% of the standard fare, and even more if you want them organically grown. At this point, the tomatoes are more expensive, by weight, than "budget" (i.e. intensive farmed) chicken breasts.
You've heard it all before: we (and North America and parts of western Europe are the worst offenders here) don't accept that produce is seasonal any more, we want everything available all the time at rock-bottom prices. Something has to give, and sadly that thing is usually quality, which with food means flavour, aroma and texture.
I have no problem with GM as a technology. As a means for multinational bio-tech and agri-tech companies to control and extort money from farmers, I do have concerns. That, however, is another issue entirely.
What he tweeted was:
"No. I was raised Jewish and then I went through a period where I questioned things, but now I believe religion is very important."
Of course, he was going to complete the sentence with "as a means to control people.", but that would have pushed him over the 140 character limit.
When it is law enforcement or security agencies spying on the public there is much more of a reaction than when a company does it.
This is, increasingly, a distinction without a difference.
Lolwut? They're not molding and etching these things by hand, they're using machinery to produce billions of coins very quickly and cheaply.
Example: A £1 UK coin is worth about £0.03 in materials. Even factoring in the cost of building and maintaining the minting machines, staffing the mint, designing the coinage, etc. many of which are historical costs, the actual cost of each coin is far less than its face value, and certainly far less than half a dollar, and that's for a relatively heavy coin.
I don't support a fully cashless society, for reasons stated elsewhere in this thread, but I do believe we should be reducing the number of coins and notes in the system, and eliminating the smallest denominations of coins. Unfortunately, for some reason, some people in this country have latched onto the penny as some kind of symbol of Britishness and the "good old days" (which is to say, some people are weird) so it won't go away without a pointless political battle.
On the other hand, I'm surprised they haven't thrown him in jail yet for "having knowingly simulated computer access without authorization or exceeding authorized access".
You know, just to be safe.
Really, these places should be like "off license" restaurants in England
What? I live in the UK and I don't know what you're referring to. In the UK, an "off license" is an establishment that sells alcohol for consumption elsewhere. It has nothing to do with restaurants.
Restaurants do need a license to sell alcohol, but they are not called "off licenses". Some restaurants - particularly small ones - don't bother with the license, so they cannot sell alcohol, but people are allowed to BYOB if they want (albeit usually with a corkage charge). These are still not called "off licenses".
Apart from that, restaurants must adhere to the Food Standards Agency hygiene regulations. If they fail, they can be temporarily or permanently shut down. No license needed here either.
Think you might be getting your terminology confused.
you have violated a crime
Uhhh.... what?
But making sure they could identify an effin' song? Well, that's of paramount importance!
To Shazam it is... that's their entire product. If they fail at the one thing they actually do they might as well pack up and go home!
Germany?
True, but that's because laws were introduced to modify both driver behaviour and car design. You can no longer have a few beers and drive legally, and steering wheels no longer leap into the driver's chest cavity when they have a fender-bender. These have reduced injuries and deaths.
In terms of safety features, you now have seat belts, crumple zones, strengthened chassis frames, airbags, ABS, traction and stability control, etc. These are all great, but they are mere mitigation of the #1 cause of vehicular accidents, which is human error.
With autonomous vehicles we can finally make progress in defeating the real enemy of road safety: road users.
(Side note: 40% of vehicle deaths in the USA are alcohol-related. Just getting the steering wheel out of the hands of people who have been drinking is major progress!)
What's wrong with that though?
Switch to the popular vote and what you have is ~320 million people voting and having their vote counted.
What relevance does their physical location within the geographical borders of the USA actually have? None.
I work in IT in a UK school too.
We don't do BYOD here. All student devices are school-owned and monitored. We use a (fairly popular) combined firewall/email/web filter appliance that filters the web pretty aggressively, because we have to comply with both UK and Scottish legislation on child protection.
Under the new "Prevent" legislation, we even have a duty to monitor students use of web and email for signs of extremism! We're still waiting for the appliance vendor to roll out an update that will allow us to do this. If they don't, there's a good chance we'll have to switch to another provider.
We don't use any form of classroom management software. Teachers cannot see what the kids are doing on the computers. This is mostly because teachers are treated like royalty here, and we are not allowed to implement anything that might "increase their workload", even when classroom management is obviously central to their jobs!
We (the IT department) can connect to students and teachers' devices at any time and view and interact with their sessions, though they are notified when we connect. This is rarely used for policy enforcement, it just saves us having to hike between buildings when Prof. Forgetful has, for example, accidentally hidden his unread messages.
We have biometrics for the cashless canteen too. Same as yours, the fingerprint is stored as a hash, not an image, so the fingerprint records are only useful for this specific system. We previously allowed parents to opt out of this system, but recently it became part of the admissions process (we're an independent school). Now, if you want your kid in this school, you must consent to biometric registration. We only had a couple of parents ever opt out anyway.
All of these measures are enforced by our management teams and almost universally welcomed by parents. Obviously, all of this creates more work for our under-resourced IT department, but as GP points out we have absolutely no choice in the matter. None.
Indeed. Comment 31 aka Codesquid's Bridge is truly awesome:
No, the engineer really did exist in another world. Not only was he incapable of understanding that a bridge costs more than a car or a truck, he didn't even understand that many people do not own the bridges they drive over. He even thought that customers would prefer his truck because it couldn't drive over this particular bridge.
They are crackers not researchers damn!
What has their skin colour got to do with it?
Also, the correct term is "economically-disadvantaged caucasians".
Who says it was Yahoo's decision?
Is it not possible that they got an order from a three-letter agency to make migration as difficult as possible?
If the other email providers are playing hardball with the Government (doubtful, I grant you) then maybe they're just trying to close this particular cage before all the rats escape?
I know this all sounds a bit tinfoilhattish, but I'd say that is a reflection of the zeitgeist. 2016 has been weird.