Every single time any sort of media coverage comes up about a non-event (didnt affect real users, only affected organisations which delayed the installation of a critical update), fanboys leap on the opertunity to say how much better linux is.
Linux has its fair share of these, and runs on its fair share of critical infrastructure, and is run by its own fair share of idiots, but it is never really media worthy, because it isnt Windows and it isnt something the general public will relate to.
Is this even possible long term? What would have happened if you stored all of your information on PATA drives 10 years ago, its rare to find a motherboard with PATA on it now, yes there are converters and 3rd party PCI cards, but those are eventually going to dry up too.
Now, say you choose SATA, what happens when M2 becomes the defacto standard? So, why dont you choose M2? What happens when M2 is phased out?
It is not just the file system and the data you need to think about, its the physical hardware too. With the rate things change in hardware, and connecting that hardware to other hardware, its unrealistic that you could expect to be able to use your current storage media in 10 years, let alone 20, 30 or 40 years.
What makes me feel like this is just some bullshit marketng post is, how do you sell 0.4 of a phone, or 0.9 of a phone... All of those "units sold" should be whole numbers.
On my very first job as a programmer, got given a "special task", which i jumped at with it being my first job and wanting to impress.
Ended up being a fax machine robo-dial app which had a list of over 2 million fax machine numbers, would cycle them all sending them a fax with our marketing information, and then loop back to the beginning and start again on the next piece of material. Would even switch the numbers it came from to disguise it was coming from the same place. Sent 2 million faxes every 3 days or so (using 90 outgoing lines).
Was initially an internal app, but the company was so impressed with what i came up with, they packaged it and started selling it as a product.
If you get robo-dialed faxes in the UK, its probably my fault...
Replace "the cloud" in everything written with "some virtual machine(s) somewhere within an amazon data centre in a specified location", otherwise known as, a virtual private server.
The cloud is a fancy sales word for a set of scripts that a VPS provider uses to make it easier to deploy to and manage their VPS system. Nothing more, there is no more risk in putting medical info on a "cloud" server than there is on any other internet facing server, not that all cloud servers are cloud facing.
For example, i have several azure mssql cloud instances, none are internet facing, but still afford the scaling that "cloud" services give.
Aside from lack of privacy, the main problem i have with contextual ads is: Say i go to Halfords website to buy a few things.. Later that day, i will be inundated with ads for those particular products, from halfords. Why am i being targeted for things i have just bought a hour ago? When the analytics script should catch from the checkout page that i bought these. Contextual ads are always too late for me, I am constantly seeing advertisements for things i have already bought, or have already done.
You claim to be this morally upstanding guy who "fights the man" and lives a "bohemian lifestyle". Why are you of such a large physical dimension (fat)?
HMV, Game, Debenhams, JJB, DW, JD... just a few stores i can think of now that have the all glass front, the table and stool layout, currys use it, comet used to use it, asda use it in their electronics departments... seems prior art doesnt count for anything anymore, neither does "your patent cant be completely fucking retarded".
there is the small problem of the hundreds of millions of guns that already exist that do not already have this technology in them and convincing people their old guns arnt as good as the new guns
not entirely sure why you would need a slingshot to light something that you can usually buy with a rocket attached in any firework shop. just light the rocket and away you go. and as for "easily crashes through a card board box", the UK rockets will blow a hole through a window or blow the exhaust of a car.
which projects are now going to close their doors to full disclosure? this was posted on the ircd's own bug reporting systems and was publicly visible. if it were not, and only the developers and higher level users (such as the nodes of efnet or freenode) should be able to see reports of this nature, this sort of attack may not have happened and the ircd's could have been silently patched without anyone knowing.
on the other hand, if you close your doors, you obviously have something that requires hiding, drawing more attention.
Although this is completely off topic....You say Muslims spread to countries by just going there and settling there. Unlike the Christians, who originally spread with "be christian or we will kill you, your family, and everyone in the village...." and did that across pretty much all of Europe spreading out from Rome...
The average Pakistani probably has no idea about any blasphemy on youtube, the people who are viewing the most blasphemy on youtube in pakistan are the people looking for it within the government so that they can block it.
The response was justified, apple took away what most people use as their GPS device, and replaced it with one that doesnt work, and doesnt work in spectacular fashion.
4G was supposed to be a high speed standard that allowed all users with a 4G enabled phone to get those high speeds. but, turns out that there are at least 3 specifications in use, and major manufacturers are picking sides (apple with LTE), making your new phone incompatible with your current network, forcing you to switch.
iphone5, i wouldn't put it on as a flop, but still an embarrassment, an embarrassment that apple assumed that their customers were stupid enough to buy the 4S from them again, just because they changed the number from 4S to 5 and re-released the same phone, and the pain is, they were right, their customers are that stupid.
sorry, mis-read. Windows 8 i wouldnt say is a flop, its a flop in waiting, or a success in waiting. its too early to tell as of yet if it will or will not be a flop as its market share is still increasing. http://betanews.com/2012/12/03/like-it-or-not-windows-8-usage-rises/, its also increasing pretty quickly.
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"i want a telescope..." "is this big enough" "no you fool, i want it to cover a noticeable percentage of a desert..."... pretty fun way to spend money
Every single time any sort of media coverage comes up about a non-event (didnt affect real users, only affected organisations which delayed the installation of a critical update), fanboys leap on the opertunity to say how much better linux is.
Linux has its fair share of these, and runs on its fair share of critical infrastructure, and is run by its own fair share of idiots, but it is never really media worthy, because it isnt Windows and it isnt something the general public will relate to.
Give it a rest...
Regular rifles can permanently jam a radio signal to a drone too... If you hit it right... (in the receiver...)
A broken one?
Is this even possible long term? What would have happened if you stored all of your information on PATA drives 10 years ago, its rare to find a motherboard with PATA on it now, yes there are converters and 3rd party PCI cards, but those are eventually going to dry up too.
Now, say you choose SATA, what happens when M2 becomes the defacto standard? So, why dont you choose M2? What happens when M2 is phased out?
It is not just the file system and the data you need to think about, its the physical hardware too. With the rate things change in hardware, and connecting that hardware to other hardware, its unrealistic that you could expect to be able to use your current storage media in 10 years, let alone 20, 30 or 40 years.
What makes me feel like this is just some bullshit marketng post is, how do you sell 0.4 of a phone, or 0.9 of a phone... All of those "units sold" should be whole numbers.
On my very first job as a programmer, got given a "special task", which i jumped at with it being my first job and wanting to impress.
Ended up being a fax machine robo-dial app which had a list of over 2 million fax machine numbers, would cycle them all sending them a fax with our marketing information, and then loop back to the beginning and start again on the next piece of material. Would even switch the numbers it came from to disguise it was coming from the same place. Sent 2 million faxes every 3 days or so (using 90 outgoing lines).
Was initially an internal app, but the company was so impressed with what i came up with, they packaged it and started selling it as a product.
If you get robo-dialed faxes in the UK, its probably my fault...
Replace "the cloud" in everything written with "some virtual machine(s) somewhere within an amazon data centre in a specified location", otherwise known as, a virtual private server.
The cloud is a fancy sales word for a set of scripts that a VPS provider uses to make it easier to deploy to and manage their VPS system. Nothing more, there is no more risk in putting medical info on a "cloud" server than there is on any other internet facing server, not that all cloud servers are cloud facing.
For example, i have several azure mssql cloud instances, none are internet facing, but still afford the scaling that "cloud" services give.
Sounds like something that Code Kata were designed for.
Decent list of them can be found http://codingdojo.org/cgi-bin/...
"hmmn... havnt had any publicity in a while... i need a bit of attention... what do i do" ...
BINGO!
Another long-term study found that grass is green, sky is blue and water is wet....
Aside from lack of privacy, the main problem i have with contextual ads is: Say i go to Halfords website to buy a few things.. Later that day, i will be inundated with ads for those particular products, from halfords. Why am i being targeted for things i have just bought a hour ago? When the analytics script should catch from the checkout page that i bought these. Contextual ads are always too late for me, I am constantly seeing advertisements for things i have already bought, or have already done.
You claim to be this morally upstanding guy who "fights the man" and lives a "bohemian lifestyle". Why are you of such a large physical dimension (fat)?
Burn the worlds biggest ants... what else?
HMV, Game, Debenhams, JJB, DW, JD... just a few stores i can think of now that have the all glass front, the table and stool layout, currys use it, comet used to use it, asda use it in their electronics departments... seems prior art doesnt count for anything anymore, neither does "your patent cant be completely fucking retarded".
Didnt sheldon already come up with this in the big bang theory? surely he has the patent on these devices...
there is the small problem of the hundreds of millions of guns that already exist that do not already have this technology in them and convincing people their old guns arnt as good as the new guns
not entirely sure why you would need a slingshot to light something that you can usually buy with a rocket attached in any firework shop. just light the rocket and away you go. and as for "easily crashes through a card board box", the UK rockets will blow a hole through a window or blow the exhaust of a car.
which projects are now going to close their doors to full disclosure? this was posted on the ircd's own bug reporting systems and was publicly visible. if it were not, and only the developers and higher level users (such as the nodes of efnet or freenode) should be able to see reports of this nature, this sort of attack may not have happened and the ircd's could have been silently patched without anyone knowing.
on the other hand, if you close your doors, you obviously have something that requires hiding, drawing more attention.
what will projects do next?
Although this is completely off topic....You say Muslims spread to countries by just going there and settling there. Unlike the Christians, who originally spread with "be christian or we will kill you, your family, and everyone in the village...." and did that across pretty much all of Europe spreading out from Rome...
The average Pakistani probably has no idea about any blasphemy on youtube, the people who are viewing the most blasphemy on youtube in pakistan are the people looking for it within the government so that they can block it.
The response was justified, apple took away what most people use as their GPS device, and replaced it with one that doesnt work, and doesnt work in spectacular fashion.
4G was supposed to be a high speed standard that allowed all users with a 4G enabled phone to get those high speeds. but, turns out that there are at least 3 specifications in use, and major manufacturers are picking sides (apple with LTE), making your new phone incompatible with your current network, forcing you to switch.
iphone5, i wouldn't put it on as a flop, but still an embarrassment, an embarrassment that apple assumed that their customers were stupid enough to buy the 4S from them again, just because they changed the number from 4S to 5 and re-released the same phone, and the pain is, they were right, their customers are that stupid.
sorry, mis-read. Windows 8 i wouldnt say is a flop, its a flop in waiting, or a success in waiting. its too early to tell as of yet if it will or will not be a flop as its market share is still increasing. http://betanews.com/2012/12/03/like-it-or-not-windows-8-usage-rises/, its also increasing pretty quickly.
http://readwrite.com/2012/06/05/5-ways-to-tell-which-programming-lanugages-are-most-popular seems C# is one of the most popular languages in use at the moment. how would you put C# down as a flop?