when a ruling power cannot effectively educate it's people, there are religious people doing it for them (for free!).
Bingo.
It'll never happen, but if the USA wants to end terrorism against them the solution is to fund secular schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Do that for 40 years and you'll end religion's stranglehold.
where are the cool people hanging out these days for "news for nerds" and "stuff that matters"?
I get most of my 'geek news' from my twitter feed these days. I follow many tech writers / aggregators, and I just click on the links for stories that interest me.
Hey Anonymous Coward, crack open a history book. In 1977 Mao had been dead for a year. I guarantee they weren't building TRS-80s in China. More than likely Texas.
Right, because private airport security before TSA was so much more effective, as demonstrated by the way they caught those al-Qaida operatives in 2001
Airport security didn't catch them because they weren't breaking any rules - In 2001 it wasn't against the rules to bring box cutters onto a plane (it shouldn't be today, either, but that's a different tangent). The 'operatives' should have been caught by law enforcement long before they turned up at the airport.
Oh, wait, you thought the iDevice belonged to you? Wrong
The *device* belongs to you - Unless you've stolen it, Apple can't stop by your house and take it away. It's the *content* on the device that is licensed. Perhaps it's semantics (the device is not very useful without content) but the fact remains that the device is yours.
I don't care whether you're travelling to San Francisco or Santiago - The same rules apply (in fact in some cases your stuff is safer in a police state). If this was the Kettles from Topeka travelling to Paris for the first time I think I would catch them some slack - But this guy is supposedly very bright and travels all over the place, so he should know better. I'm sorry, but there's no excuse for this sort of thing.
I'm sorry, but what kind of moron keeps all this stuff together in *one* bag? Your passport should always be on your person when possible. You should have backup credit and ATM cards separate from your regular cards, along with some emergency cash. This stuff is 'Travelling 101' for god's sake.
Since the relaunch of Friendster as a social gaming platform in June 2011, the number of registered users has reached over 115 million. Over 90% of Friendster's traffic came from Asia. The top 10 countries accessing Friendster, according to Alexa, as of May 7, 2009 are the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Sudan, South Korea, Bangladesh and India
It's all pretty moot anyway. If some DJ is spinning Loverboy at a wedding at The Legion in Moose Jaw on a Saturday night in February, how is Re:Sound gonna even know?
Except you don't need "the cloud" to achieve any of that.
No, you don't need the cloud, but it's appealing to the bean counters because it's cheaper than maintaining that stuff yourself. I happened to sit next to an exec on a flight a couple of months ago. He got to talking about IT, and for him, outsourcing to the cloud was appealing because of the cost savings and the fact that maintaining racks of servers was not a core competency for them. They outsourced their cleaning and vehicle maintenance - Why not IT?
You really don't need to be dependent on some outside company on the other side of the Internet that doesn't really care about you.
Many companies are of the opinion that their in-house IT doesn't 'care about them' either. Besides, 'care' is just an emotional construct. You define the SLA and that covers the 'care.'
Cloud computing doesn't eliminate the morons using computers
I work in the business of security software for endpoints. What I'm hearing from customers exactly matches Gartner's figures, and our declining business in that segment reflects it. If everyone has a thin client at their desk then all the support issues around the desktop largely go away - There are no drives to fail, no malware scans to run etc. If a hardware component does fail you just unlock the cupboard and swap in a new endpoint. The end-user could do this. As for application support, by 2020 the majority of users will have grown up with computers since they were toddlers. "Gladys in accounting not knowing how to boldface" will be a thing of the past. And if a user needs to know how to do something with an app, they'll as Mr. Google or their peers. Will there still be IT support staff? Yes - But, as the article says, there will be many fewer of them.
Good luck supporting it like HP, Dell or Cisco does.
This.
A number of years ago I was involved in supporting some hardware in a ski resort a few hours outside of Denver. One snowy night a piece of gear failed and the service contract said 'replace it in three hours.' Sure enough, 2.5 hours later headlights appeared on the snowy road as the tech showed up with the replacement part, which he installed.
What a lot of anti-tax folks don't realize (or choose to ignore) is the fact that a tax regime that creates a civil society (educated, healthy populous, rule of law) in turn creates an environment that allows companies like Facebook to flourish. It's much harder to create wealth in an environment where your employees are illiterate, hungry and sick and corruption is rampant. Sure, you can drill oil wells or mine for gold, but you can't really create companies with IP in those environments. I guarantee you the next Apple or Google is not coming in Nigeria. Why do you think India is working so hard to create institutional change?
I remember the day when you could build a Heathkit H89 PC
I remember when I was in Grade 7 I had a buddy with an older brother who had built one of these. We used to play with it all the time. I still remember the blinking cursor preceded by the words "Benton Harbor Basic."
Since when does socialism have to be all-or-nothing?
Because it's a term to describe something specific. You're a human. You're not a banana. It's all-or-nothing. Same deal with socialism - It's a term to describe a nation-state operation where the state ("the people") own the means of production.
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when a ruling power cannot effectively educate it's people, there are religious people doing it for them (for free!).
Bingo.
It'll never happen, but if the USA wants to end terrorism against them the solution is to fund secular schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Do that for 40 years and you'll end religion's stranglehold.
The LAST thing to do in that situation is pull up.
He may be confusing TCAS warnings although I think TCAS would say "TRAFFIC CLIMB CLIMB CLIMB"
where are the cool people hanging out these days for "news for nerds" and "stuff that matters"?
I get most of my 'geek news' from my twitter feed these days. I follow many tech writers / aggregators, and I just click on the links for stories that interest me.
If you're concerned about weight, just carry an iPhone or Droid with a full-sized folding bluetooth keyboard.
"Micro$oft?" Really? C'mon this is 2012. Enough with the tired cliches already.
(Sigh. Let the "troll" modding begin.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijackers_in_the_September_11_attacks#Pre_attacks
mass produced in a chineese sweatshop?
Hey Anonymous Coward, crack open a history book. In 1977 Mao had been dead for a year. I guarantee they weren't building TRS-80s in China. More than likely Texas.
Right, because private airport security before TSA was so much more effective, as demonstrated by the way they caught those al-Qaida operatives in 2001
Airport security didn't catch them because they weren't breaking any rules - In 2001 it wasn't against the rules to bring box cutters onto a plane (it shouldn't be today, either, but that's a different tangent). The 'operatives' should have been caught by law enforcement long before they turned up at the airport.
You have to prove that it was stolen
I work for a company that recovers 100+ stolen laptops per week. I can assure you're we're quite good at 'proving that it was stolen.'
Why can't the kid communicate these things?
Because the kid is DISABLED you insensitive clod.
Oh, wait, you thought the iDevice belonged to you? Wrong
The *device* belongs to you - Unless you've stolen it, Apple can't stop by your house and take it away. It's the *content* on the device that is licensed. Perhaps it's semantics (the device is not very useful without content) but the fact remains that the device is yours.
Someone from a civilized country.
I don't care whether you're travelling to San Francisco or Santiago - The same rules apply (in fact in some cases your stuff is safer in a police state). If this was the Kettles from Topeka travelling to Paris for the first time I think I would catch them some slack - But this guy is supposedly very bright and travels all over the place, so he should know better. I'm sorry, but there's no excuse for this sort of thing.
I'm sorry, but what kind of moron keeps all this stuff together in *one* bag? Your passport should always be on your person when possible. You should have backup credit and ATM cards separate from your regular cards, along with some emergency cash. This stuff is 'Travelling 101' for god's sake.
It wasn't the tax that reduced smoking.
It does around here - If you're a young person it's hard to come up with $300+ per month for smokes - So you stop.
Obviously both his shift keys are broken.
Friendster? Wow, you could influence, like, 300 people
American-centrist much, you insensitive clod?
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendster
Since the relaunch of Friendster as a social gaming platform in June 2011, the number of registered users has reached over 115 million. Over 90% of Friendster's traffic came from Asia. The top 10 countries accessing Friendster, according to Alexa, as of May 7, 2009 are the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Sudan, South Korea, Bangladesh and India
It's all pretty moot anyway. If some DJ is spinning Loverboy at a wedding at The Legion in Moose Jaw on a Saturday night in February, how is Re:Sound gonna even know?
Except you don't need "the cloud" to achieve any of that.
No, you don't need the cloud, but it's appealing to the bean counters because it's cheaper than maintaining that stuff yourself. I happened to sit next to an exec on a flight a couple of months ago. He got to talking about IT, and for him, outsourcing to the cloud was appealing because of the cost savings and the fact that maintaining racks of servers was not a core competency for them. They outsourced their cleaning and vehicle maintenance - Why not IT?
You really don't need to be dependent on some outside company on the other side of the Internet that doesn't really care about you.
Many companies are of the opinion that their in-house IT doesn't 'care about them' either. Besides, 'care' is just an emotional construct. You define the SLA and that covers the 'care.'
Cloud computing doesn't eliminate the morons using computers
I work in the business of security software for endpoints. What I'm hearing from customers exactly matches Gartner's figures, and our declining business in that segment reflects it. If everyone has a thin client at their desk then all the support issues around the desktop largely go away - There are no drives to fail, no malware scans to run etc. If a hardware component does fail you just unlock the cupboard and swap in a new endpoint. The end-user could do this. As for application support, by 2020 the majority of users will have grown up with computers since they were toddlers. "Gladys in accounting not knowing how to boldface" will be a thing of the past. And if a user needs to know how to do something with an app, they'll as Mr. Google or their peers. Will there still be IT support staff? Yes - But, as the article says, there will be many fewer of them.
it will be like in the 1950 where the commercial will be in the show
Do you watch "The Amazing Race?" Ads for Ford, Travelocity etc. are right in the show.
/. should just come clean and rename "Overrated" to "I disagree"
But they already have 'troll' and 'flamebait' for 'I disagree.'
Good luck supporting it like HP, Dell or Cisco does.
This.
A number of years ago I was involved in supporting some hardware in a ski resort a few hours outside of Denver. One snowy night a piece of gear failed and the service contract said 'replace it in three hours.' Sure enough, 2.5 hours later headlights appeared on the snowy road as the tech showed up with the replacement part, which he installed.
What a lot of anti-tax folks don't realize (or choose to ignore) is the fact that a tax regime that creates a civil society (educated, healthy populous, rule of law) in turn creates an environment that allows companies like Facebook to flourish. It's much harder to create wealth in an environment where your employees are illiterate, hungry and sick and corruption is rampant. Sure, you can drill oil wells or mine for gold, but you can't really create companies with IP in those environments. I guarantee you the next Apple or Google is not coming in Nigeria. Why do you think India is working so hard to create institutional change?
I remember the day when you could build a Heathkit H89 PC
I remember when I was in Grade 7 I had a buddy with an older brother who had built one of these. We used to play with it all the time. I still remember the blinking cursor preceded by the words "Benton Harbor Basic."
Since when does socialism have to be all-or-nothing?
Because it's a term to describe something specific. You're a human. You're not a banana. It's all-or-nothing. Same deal with socialism - It's a term to describe a nation-state operation where the state ("the people") own the means of production.