on the phone with my web host's tech support (M6.net) I have come to the conclusion that they have literally lost my database. Their "daily" backups have no record of my database (which they've hosted for 3 years). My db is nowhere to be found on any of their machines. Worst of all I was asking them to give me a backup of it. That's what they screwed up.
Any suggestions on what I could do to press the issue with them? I live in the USA and they are based in Australia. Any sympathy/advice would be appreciated.
would that fit with plants being green? It seems like it would if I'm understanding correctly.
Which reminds me of the theory that before the global flood (Noah's ark) most of the earth's water remained in the atmosphere. If the atmosphere was a super-thick water cloud it would make sense that the earth would be purple.
Yea, but what's the very first thing you do after the first boot? Right, get latest updates. So 1hr after first boot Mac is not beating the hell out of XP.
Are you crazy? This researcher obviously "doesn't get it.". Every Mac is inherently a flawless piece of art.
It's like talking about how the paint used on the Mona Lisa degrades in UV rays. People! It's The Mona Lisa! And all you can think about is how durable it is? Look, just go back to your cube you unsophisticated PC scum! You'll never understand . . .
So does VMWare's Virtual Infrastructure 3 perform much better? Or is it just more manageable setup and config wise? Sorry, I'm fooling around with VMWare Server and am a noob on the issue.
You act like you don't care about how long your system remains vulnerable. In a world where no security patches are ever created, yes, the only thing that matters is how severe the holes are. But frankly if I had an OS that had 200 "severe" vulnerabilities and each was patched 1hr after they were discovered, guess what? That OS would be the most secure. The simple numbers indicate that OSX remains vulnerable almost twice as much as Windows (even after weighting the severe vulns 5X).
I wonder what qualify as a "local artist." I could see radio stations running some cheesy "Have all your highschool friends call in and sing songs they made up during class" program. Which would not promote any real local or independent talent.
With your vast mac experience you should realize two important facts. Apple charges double for everything it sells. And Apple users are already used to mac software having fewer features than most comparable windows software. So the profit margin will be much higher and the development costs will indeed be lower. That 7% looks pretty rosy now.
Your grocery store analogy is a horrible way to justify not correcting an ongoing mistake.
If you are on a roadtrip and realize you've made a driving error what do you do? You figure out the road you should be on and then change your course immediately. You don't keep driving in the wrong direction.
I think it just says that those Windows users are perfectly content. People who use it like it and don't see any reason to switch. If somebody owned a certain make of car and liked it so much they refused to buy any other car, does that automatically "defeat their arguemnet" that it's a great car?
If people were so fed up with Windows, Apple wouldn't have to run commercials to try to make windows users feel uncool. Linux zealots wouldn't have to be zealots. There wouldn't need to be endless forking of distros trying to improve on something all the others didn't address.
It's like the kettle went into a coal mine before starting a fight with the pot.
Wow, that was aweful! I hate it when people make up their own version of a well-known cliche and think it is more effective than the one that's been perfect for over a 100 years.
It's more wordy. It's less clear. It stole from the original. Parent must be a windows user.
MS has a huge advantage in that they've already got the corporate world in the palm of their hand. The corporate world already has plenty of bandwith and the need for collaboration that web-based computing will grow from.
I think we will see MS win with the big customers and Google win with the individual. MS services will not be free (at first). Google will be free as long as you don't mind ads plastered all around the edges of your workspace.
Then Google will build in more corporate-grade features and lure larger customers. MS will create a free version that's merely a subset of it's existing functionality.
This competition will all be absolutely wonderful for the end users!
I totally agree with you! I want ALL of my personal data under my complete control. It amazes me that people don't mind in the least that they have passwords and bank account information emailed to them at their gmail account. Gmail has been hacked several times to where the hacker can look at individual inboxes.
And that's just email. If I used free Google web-based services for everything that I use Office for, sheesh, "identity theft" doesn't even begin to describe the headache that could turn out to be.
Good point! That's also the same reason why older bosses are more likely to pay older workers more. Imagine a 58 year old CIO making 100k paying a full-time 26 year old 90k for his superior IT expertise. Ain't gonna happen. In most cases HR wouldn't even allow that either. That boss only wants to pay a 26 year old about 60k max. And he'd be scratching his bald head all the way home wondering why he wasn't worth that much till he was age 45.
The fact is, theories about global warming are just that, Theories. So when people start teaching manmade global warming as fact - they are in the wrong. It's not fact. Skeptics of manmade global warming are merely saying, "You can't promote manmade global warming as fact."
Have you ever thought about how huge of a leap it would be for Windows to support multi-language speach recognition as a primary interface? Over 90% of the world's computer users use Windows. Think about how much money it requires to go through the painful learning process that's needed to develop a speach recognition engine that can handle the scope of languages Windows requires. And ease of use? For it to be able to handle not only hundreds of languages but hundreds of dialects and accents for each language really boggles the mind. If MS pulls this off with a success I'll be amazed.
One of the things I remember Gates talking about excitedly for the past 10 years is his R&D in Speach Recognition. He's been dreaming about the seamless and natural interaction of computers and humans for a long time. I wouldn't be surpised if Vienna really happened because it's the one thing Bill has poured his life and energy into for over a decade. Anybody who follows Gates knows that he has been serious about speach recognition for a long time.
So the trick for MS to get away with evil is to let Google do it first. Then just copy them. As long as Google does it first everybody will justify it as somehow being okay.
If you're starting out a career, and you have several bug fixes accepted into any big project, you can easily ask for $10-20k more per year.
Whaaaaat?! First of all you can ask whatever you want. It's what you actually get offered that counts. It makes sense that you can gain credibility by having your name in a few press releases. But I'd really like to read an article or few that describe the $10-$20k increase. It seems to make sense but I'd just like to read more about it. Do you have a couple links?
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on the phone with my web host's tech support (M6.net) I have come to the conclusion that they have literally lost my database. Their "daily" backups have no record of my database (which they've hosted for 3 years). My db is nowhere to be found on any of their machines. Worst of all I was asking them to give me a backup of it. That's what they screwed up.
Any suggestions on what I could do to press the issue with them? I live in the USA and they are based in Australia. Any sympathy/advice would be appreciated.
would that fit with plants being green? It seems like it would if I'm understanding correctly.
Which reminds me of the theory that before the global flood (Noah's ark) most of the earth's water remained in the atmosphere. If the atmosphere was a super-thick water cloud it would make sense that the earth would be purple.
Yea, but what's the very first thing you do after the first boot? Right, get latest updates. So 1hr after first boot Mac is not beating the hell out of XP.
Are you crazy? This researcher obviously "doesn't get it.". Every Mac is inherently a flawless piece of art.
It's like talking about how the paint used on the Mona Lisa degrades in UV rays. People! It's The Mona Lisa! And all you can think about is how durable it is? Look, just go back to your cube you unsophisticated PC scum! You'll never understand . . .
So does VMWare's Virtual Infrastructure 3 perform much better? Or is it just more manageable setup and config wise? Sorry, I'm fooling around with VMWare Server and am a noob on the issue.
Let's multiply the number of vulnerabilities by the average number of days unpatched.
Windows: 819 unpatched-days
Mac: 2,838 unpatched-days
Let's say that each "severe" vuln. is 5X as bad as a non-severe vuln. Here are the new numbers:
Windows: 1,827 unpatched-days
Mac: 3,102 unpatched-days
Windows still blows OSX away.
You act like you don't care about how long your system remains vulnerable. In a world where no security patches are ever created, yes, the only thing that matters is how severe the holes are. But frankly if I had an OS that had 200 "severe" vulnerabilities and each was patched 1hr after they were discovered, guess what? That OS would be the most secure. The simple numbers indicate that OSX remains vulnerable almost twice as much as Windows (even after weighting the severe vulns 5X).
More like $50,000 per chip today. But in years to come the chip will be available for mass market and it will be only $50.
I wonder what qualify as a "local artist." I could see radio stations running some cheesy "Have all your highschool friends call in and sing songs they made up during class" program. Which would not promote any real local or independent talent.
With your vast mac experience you should realize two important facts. Apple charges double for everything it sells. And Apple users are already used to mac software having fewer features than most comparable windows software. So the profit margin will be much higher and the development costs will indeed be lower. That 7% looks pretty rosy now.
Stealth coating. If I could coat my car with this stuff . . .
Who needs Fuzz Busters!
We like the climate model we have, thank you. Besides we're not going for accuracy. We want whatever model will shut down those wealthy big-oil pigs.
Your grocery store analogy is a horrible way to justify not correcting an ongoing mistake.
If you are on a roadtrip and realize you've made a driving error what do you do? You figure out the road you should be on and then change your course immediately. You don't keep driving in the wrong direction.
Good Point! We need to modify the Kyoto Treaty to include "lunar emissions"!
I think it just says that those Windows users are perfectly content. People who use it like it and don't see any reason to switch. If somebody owned a certain make of car and liked it so much they refused to buy any other car, does that automatically "defeat their arguemnet" that it's a great car?
If people were so fed up with Windows, Apple wouldn't have to run commercials to try to make windows users feel uncool. Linux zealots wouldn't have to be zealots. There wouldn't need to be endless forking of distros trying to improve on something all the others didn't address.
It's like the kettle went into a coal mine before starting a fight with the pot.
Wow, that was aweful! I hate it when people make up their own version of a well-known cliche and think it is more effective than the one that's been perfect for over a 100 years.
It's more wordy. It's less clear. It stole from the original. Parent must be a windows user.
MS has a huge advantage in that they've already got the corporate world in the palm of their hand. The corporate world already has plenty of bandwith and the need for collaboration that web-based computing will grow from.
I think we will see MS win with the big customers and Google win with the individual. MS services will not be free (at first). Google will be free as long as you don't mind ads plastered all around the edges of your workspace.
Then Google will build in more corporate-grade features and lure larger customers. MS will create a free version that's merely a subset of it's existing functionality.
This competition will all be absolutely wonderful for the end users!
I totally agree with you! I want ALL of my personal data under my complete control. It amazes me that people don't mind in the least that they have passwords and bank account information emailed to them at their gmail account. Gmail has been hacked several times to where the hacker can look at individual inboxes.
And that's just email. If I used free Google web-based services for everything that I use Office for, sheesh, "identity theft" doesn't even begin to describe the headache that could turn out to be.
Good point! That's also the same reason why older bosses are more likely to pay older workers more. Imagine a 58 year old CIO making 100k paying a full-time 26 year old 90k for his superior IT expertise. Ain't gonna happen. In most cases HR wouldn't even allow that either. That boss only wants to pay a 26 year old about 60k max. And he'd be scratching his bald head all the way home wondering why he wasn't worth that much till he was age 45.
The fact is, theories about global warming are just that, Theories. So when people start teaching manmade global warming as fact - they are in the wrong. It's not fact. Skeptics of manmade global warming are merely saying, "You can't promote manmade global warming as fact."
That's the issue here.
Have you ever thought about how huge of a leap it would be for Windows to support multi-language speach recognition as a primary interface? Over 90% of the world's computer users use Windows. Think about how much money it requires to go through the painful learning process that's needed to develop a speach recognition engine that can handle the scope of languages Windows requires. And ease of use? For it to be able to handle not only hundreds of languages but hundreds of dialects and accents for each language really boggles the mind. If MS pulls this off with a success I'll be amazed.
One of the things I remember Gates talking about excitedly for the past 10 years is his R&D in Speach Recognition. He's been dreaming about the seamless and natural interaction of computers and humans for a long time. I wouldn't be surpised if Vienna really happened because it's the one thing Bill has poured his life and energy into for over a decade. Anybody who follows Gates knows that he has been serious about speach recognition for a long time.
So the trick for MS to get away with evil is to let Google do it first. Then just copy them. As long as Google does it first everybody will justify it as somehow being okay.
If you're starting out a career, and you have several bug fixes accepted into any big project, you can easily ask for $10-20k more per year.
Whaaaaat?! First of all you can ask whatever you want. It's what you actually get offered that counts. It makes sense that you can gain credibility by having your name in a few press releases. But I'd really like to read an article or few that describe the $10-$20k increase. It seems to make sense but I'd just like to read more about it. Do you have a couple links?
It's never going to get better if OSS devs always pass the buck. Developers enjoy writing the new features. Not many people enjoy fixing bugs.
Whoever wrote the insecure code should be pointed out publicly and held responsible to fix his code.
OOo development is not keeping up. It's a sad thing when templates and clip art is a big news item in your new release.