Once the techie founders become "business suits" the decline is already being signalled to the employees
That usually happens right around the time the founders reach the unpleasant realization that they actually have to make money if they want their corporation to survive.
I don't need my appliances talking to the internet.
Last summer I was just driving onto the ferry to head to the cottage for a couple of weeks when I realized that I forgot to turn down the hot water heater. Sure would have been nice to have connected to the heater from my phone and dialed it down remotely.
I use handbrake, but it's certainly not "Dad Friendly." On Windows you've got to rip the disk first, then figure out which ripped folder to open in Handbrake. Then figure out which 'chapter' is the movie and figure out why it wants to give your MP4s an.M4V filename... and so forth.
Compare that with $20 solutions where you put in your disk, click 'rip movie' and then go walk the dog. When you come back there's a file in your 'my videos' folder waiting for you.
I'm very comfortable with technology, but in one sense I remain a Luddite: When it comes to video that we're going to shell out money for, I only buy it on DVD. If it's not available on DVD, we don't pony up the coin. I'll often rip the DVD and put it on my kid's iPods, but we still have the physical media. I accept that in a decade or so DVDs will go the way of the Dodo Bird and I'll have to make a change then, but for now it's plastic discs for me.
Pity they couldn't have landed in Mare Tranquillitatis. Would have been fun to have the rover trundle over to the Eagle's descent stage to take some pictures of the flag and Neil and Buzz's footprints. Take that, whack-job conspiracy theorists.
What I find disturbing though is that Jong-Un has displayed callous disregard for human life in recent months in order to maintain complete control over the population
No different than his father or grandfather in that respect. All of them shipped men, women and children off to gulags to suffer and die. His father feasted while children starved to death...
My phone gets switched off the moment I go through security. IT does not get switched on again until I'm waiting for my bags to appear.
60K flyer here. I find it useful to turn it on once we're wheels-down - The airline mobile sites are very useful to get gate and delay information for my connecting flights.
PS Surprised to hear that, as a 100K flyer you check bags. I probably only check 1/10 flights, when I'm gone more than four sleeps and need a suit - But perhaps you're more longhaul. My 60K was spread over 62 segments.
What's difference between talking on a phone and talking to someone I am traveling with as far as noise disruption?
Because of low (or absent) sidetone on cell phones, people tend to speak much more loudly than they would in a regular conversation. Additionally, if the connection is poor people tend to shout. This is why most people find cell conversations disruptive.
Boggles my mind that I can put a few pieces of paper in an envelope, put that envelope in a box half-a-block from my house, and then a few days later it will be pushed through a slot in someone else's house 4000 km away - All this for under a buck.
most religions don't believe god is magical, space-dwelling, or grant-wishing
Can't speak for Sikhs and Buddhists with any degree of confidence, but certainly many Christians believe God performs miracles ('magical') and answers prayers ('grant-wishing'). We often refer to outer space as "The Heavens," which is, apparently, where God hangs out.
The risks involved with ebay purchases are numerous and range from the "fuck you" you get from paypal to buyers demanding extra money and other ridiculous payment disputes
It really depends on what you're buying. A 'shrinkwrapped' version of Windows 7 from a seller in Hong Kong? For sure. A replacement brake cable for a Bugaboo baby stroller from a seller in Seattle? Odds are good the transaction will be seamless. eBay is really all about buying the right sort of thing.
Look you anonymous coward, if you just want to be confrontational I'd suggest you go take some anger management courses before you get back online. Suffice it to say we have contracts with our customers and if you're unable to negotiate contracts with your providers you need to go find new ones.
Our uptime is guaranteed; we are required to adhere to certain maintenance windows. If we don't, customers can (and have) penalized us. It's in the SLA - That's our "service level."
Cloud SLA's are not worth the paper they aren't written on.
I work for a SaaS company. Our customers hold us strongly to the SLAs. If your providers aren't, then you need a different provider, better lawyers, or both.
the only difference is you are assuming the "cloud" provider has ALREADY DONE THE WORK.
You're not 'assuming' it, you've written it into the contract in the form of SLAs. In most organizations I've worked with, there are rarely SLAs between IT and the departments they support, or, if there is, they are ignored. Not the case with an SLA between a cloud provider and an organization.
I grew up when music wasn't free. You had FM radio
Granted, with FM radio you had to listen to ads and DJs, but other than that it was by and large 'free,' and in urban areas if you didn't like the song you could change to another station.
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Once the techie founders become "business suits" the decline is already being signalled to the employees
That usually happens right around the time the founders reach the unpleasant realization that they actually have to make money if they want their corporation to survive.
People have been not forgetting to change their thermostats for probably 100 years now
I don't need my appliances talking to the internet.
Last summer I was just driving onto the ferry to head to the cottage for a couple of weeks when I realized that I forgot to turn down the hot water heater. Sure would have been nice to have connected to the heater from my phone and dialed it down remotely.
Luckily I can still get a region-free overseas import of Ishtar on DVD, so I'm good there.
You have got handbrake for free
I use handbrake, but it's certainly not "Dad Friendly." On Windows you've got to rip the disk first, then figure out which ripped folder to open in Handbrake. Then figure out which 'chapter' is the movie and figure out why it wants to give your MP4s an .M4V filename... and so forth.
Compare that with $20 solutions where you put in your disk, click 'rip movie' and then go walk the dog. When you come back there's a file in your 'my videos' folder waiting for you.
but I'm just as fine with non-DRM digital files
That's my DVD-ripped MP4s are
I'm very comfortable with technology, but in one sense I remain a Luddite: When it comes to video that we're going to shell out money for, I only buy it on DVD. If it's not available on DVD, we don't pony up the coin. I'll often rip the DVD and put it on my kid's iPods, but we still have the physical media. I accept that in a decade or so DVDs will go the way of the Dodo Bird and I'll have to make a change then, but for now it's plastic discs for me.
saying it was a space station
That's no space station! It's a moon.
Indiana wants me, Lord, I can't go back there
Indiana wants me, Lord, I can't go back there
I wish I had you to talk to
Red lights are flashing around me, good Lord, it looks like they found me
Indiana wants me, Lord, I can't go back there
Indiana wants me, Lord, I can't go back there
I wish I had you to talk to...
then let it drop like a rock
Well, drop like a rock if the rock was dropped on the moon. At 1/6 the earth's gravity, I assume the 'THUD' was more of a 'plonk.'
Pity they couldn't have landed in Mare Tranquillitatis. Would have been fun to have the rover trundle over to the Eagle's descent stage to take some pictures of the flag and Neil and Buzz's footprints. Take that, whack-job conspiracy theorists.
The question is "how long can they keep it up".
As long as the scumbags in China keep backing up this tyrant, he'll be able to keep it up.
What I find disturbing though is that Jong-Un has displayed callous disregard for human life in recent months in order to maintain complete control over the population
No different than his father or grandfather in that respect. All of them shipped men, women and children off to gulags to suffer and die. His father feasted while children starved to death...
My phone gets switched off the moment I go through security. IT does not get switched on again until I'm waiting for my bags to appear.
60K flyer here. I find it useful to turn it on once we're wheels-down - The airline mobile sites are very useful to get gate and delay information for my connecting flights.
PS Surprised to hear that, as a 100K flyer you check bags. I probably only check 1/10 flights, when I'm gone more than four sleeps and need a suit - But perhaps you're more longhaul. My 60K was spread over 62 segments.
What's difference between talking on a phone and talking to someone I am traveling with as far as noise disruption?
Because of low (or absent) sidetone on cell phones, people tend to speak much more loudly than they would in a regular conversation. Additionally, if the connection is poor people tend to shout. This is why most people find cell conversations disruptive.
[Insert standard Slashdot edge use cases explaining why THIS WILL NEVER WORK IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCE here.]
Remember, on Slashdot, perfect is, and must always be, the enemy of good.
Not cheap
Au contraire.
Boggles my mind that I can put a few pieces of paper in an envelope, put that envelope in a box half-a-block from my house, and then a few days later it will be pushed through a slot in someone else's house 4000 km away - All this for under a buck.
Seems ridiculously cheap to me.
most religions don't believe god is magical, space-dwelling, or grant-wishing
Can't speak for Sikhs and Buddhists with any degree of confidence, but certainly many Christians believe God performs miracles ('magical') and answers prayers ('grant-wishing'). We often refer to outer space as "The Heavens," which is, apparently, where God hangs out.
There were no 1963 Mustangs.
Yep - Appeared in Goldfinger in 1964 -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLuNstLjP1c
The risks involved with ebay purchases are numerous and range from the "fuck you" you get from paypal to buyers demanding extra money and other ridiculous payment disputes
It really depends on what you're buying. A 'shrinkwrapped' version of Windows 7 from a seller in Hong Kong? For sure. A replacement brake cable for a Bugaboo baby stroller from a seller in Seattle? Odds are good the transaction will be seamless. eBay is really all about buying the right sort of thing.
Look you anonymous coward, if you just want to be confrontational I'd suggest you go take some anger management courses before you get back online. Suffice it to say we have contracts with our customers and if you're unable to negotiate contracts with your providers you need to go find new ones.
Our uptime is guaranteed; we are required to adhere to certain maintenance windows. If we don't, customers can (and have) penalized us. It's in the SLA - That's our "service level."
Cloud SLA's are not worth the paper they aren't written on.
I work for a SaaS company. Our customers hold us strongly to the SLAs. If your providers aren't, then you need a different provider, better lawyers, or both.
the only difference is you are assuming the "cloud" provider has ALREADY DONE THE WORK.
You're not 'assuming' it, you've written it into the contract in the form of SLAs. In most organizations I've worked with, there are rarely SLAs between IT and the departments they support, or, if there is, they are ignored. Not the case with an SLA between a cloud provider and an organization.
I grew up when music wasn't free. You had FM radio
Granted, with FM radio you had to listen to ads and DJs, but other than that it was by and large 'free,' and in urban areas if you didn't like the song you could change to another station.