SPDY is encrypted by design. There is no option for middle-men, and frankly, that is the way I like it myself, as i would assume most people. I don't like when devices mess with my traffic.
As for most of the other complaints - given than Google is running SPDY just fine on all of it's servers, and they're basically one of the largest (if not the largest) hosts on the internet, I think they are all strawmen. If it is working for Google then it will work for others.
My experience using SPDY, as a user, is nothing short of spectacular. The performance gains in on Google properties with SPDY are incredible and very noticeable.
[QUOTE]The length of the copyright term isn't even the primary battleground - except for Disney, what company is still profiting from exclusive use of stuff created more than ninety years ago? The bulk of profit is made from content that was created in the last 10-20 years[/QUOTE] Marvel and DC would tend to disagree... although marvel is Disney now I guess.
- You propose a bunch of obtuse and/or manufacturer specific options, when Android has had full disk encryption available out of the box since 4.0
- Encryption is not your primary problem. Endpoint Management is. It doesn't matter a lick if your device is encrypted if it is swiped while it is unlocked, or if it gets malware inserted into it via an SD card or browser exploit. You need to be able to enforce what is installed on the phone so that you can force malware detection software. You also need to be able to remotely wipe and de-provision the phone on demand, including wiping the SD cards. There are solutions for this, like Tivoli Endpoint Manager.
Reading the first 100 comments on this post, I don't think a single person actually clicked-through to see the actual story and Google+ post being referenced.
The mistake is not a case of "bad grammar" *AT ALL*. It is a simple typo and is totally obvious to anyone reading it. I make typos in tweets and posts all the time - sometimes the spell-check catches them, sometimes it does not. A typo is not "bad grammar", it is a simple mistake.
It isn't the end of the universe because it's not a professional document.
The problem is, "rare earths" are actually NOT rare. They are all over the place and not hard to find. The problem is, they are scarce in the soil, which means you have to dig up and go through vast quantities of soil to get a small amount of the stuff. This kind of thing is a lot cheaper to do in China, where labour and permits are cheap.
The biggest problem with NVidia drivers right now is lack of Optimus support.
With every new laptop that has an NVidia chipset using this feature, this is not acceptable IMO, because it puts Linux users in a horrible position of having to choose between horrible battery life or horrible performance.
And yes, I have been trying out project bumblebee. But really, it is a giant hack and not a workable solution long term IMO, because it is the opposite of "seamless"
With US unemployment at a six month high and the global economy in the tank, a story comes out that people making > $11 / hour at the local Apple store have it hard off?
Pretty sure that there are 10 people waiting in the queue for every 1 job that opens up at one of these stores.
You think CS is bad for sexism - try being a teacher, where you not only have to worry about society judging you, but also potentially lawsuits.
The number of male elementary school teachers is declining exponentially, and a big reason is simply that men are worried (and rightfully so) that they could be subject to a lawsuit or a sex offense charge for any number of routine workplace occurrences.
It is a very sad state of affairs. At least women in CS don't have to worry about being placed on a state sex offender registry because of their career choice.
I don't know what you are talking about. Prefab homes (aka factory homes or modular homes) are incredibly common in North America and have been for at least a couple of decades. They have a lot of benefits, like climate controlled building etc. They are extremely popular.
They do have drawbacks though.. one of them is transport, which is sometimes difficult depending on where you are building. Another is acclimatization - when you build indoors, the materials are not acclimatizing to the local weather, and this can sometimes cause problems.
The whole point of enterprise social platforms is too TRY to get people to post drivel about work.
When you are a Fortune 500 company with hundreds of thousands of employees worldwide, who operate in silos and rarely communicate among eachother, communication platforms can be a huge boon to your company. They let people informally share knowledge that can directly impact your bottom line. If an employee in NYC has a non-time-sensitive issue with an application, maybe instead of calling the company help desk they can just post a question in a forum, and someone else in Malaysia who is just getting their morning coffee takes 5 seconds to answer it - boom, the person got their answer faster, and with less stress, and you just saved money. The multiplicative effect of that, if properly embraced, can be enormous.
The whole problem with these platforms, however, is they are usually not implemented properly. You can't just throw up a social platform on the intranet portal and expect 10/20/30 years of in-grained culture to change - there has to be initiatives driven from the top down to encourage employees to use the platform and educate them on why it is better both for them and the company.
Every person I know who has a Computer Engineering degree makes less money than I do. I also work with people who have nothing more than tech school diplomas who make more than I do and frankly can run circles around myself.
When you graduate you will realize your degree is not what is important to be successful in the workforce. It is all about hard work, connections, raw talent, and a bit of good luck sprinkled in.
You are partially right - but I can tell you here and now that advertising does indeed fill a role. Scenario - I have cable. A very close friend of mine does not - all he does is download his TV, ad-free. He's always going on about how great it is. Except for the fact that HE NEVER HAS A CLUE WHAT IS GOING ON.. he is constantly paying more for things since he doesn't know about sales, and he is always ignorant about new novel products on the market that I have to inform him on - things that he actually would probably want. There have been times where I had to tell him about a product that came out 8 months ago and was marketed to the 9s, because he never heard of it.
Why does it make you so upset that Google is not getting the targeting correct? From the reading of your post, it sounds like you want MORE tracking, not less - so that they can target the ads better.
I agree 100% with everything you posted. Privacy is only important to me in the context of the government. And Google ranks among the highest according to the EFF on government transparency - so I call that a good thing.
Why do so many people seem to get upset over targeted ads, is the thing I muse over constantly. I think the root of the problem is the ego. People get upset and disturbed at the thought that a company and/or it's collection of algorithms and research, might know more about their psychology than they know themselves - whereas I resigned myself to that fact a long time ago.
Once you realize you're just another sweaty sapiens on this planet and not really all that special compared to everyone else, you ARE NOT unique, and you CAN EASILY be profiled... then you can stop worrying about this kind of crap.
Yep - it would be a real shame to let the people who know the most about the everyday support-ability problems with software to be helping with the interfaces. Nope - much better to leave it to self-righteous UX "experts".
I have never met a member of the general population that liked the office ribbon. It confuses the hell out of my wife - which is a giant pain since it also confuses the hell out of me, who is usually her tech support. This results in routine 5-10 minute "find the option" sessions where we search for what used to be obvious. I predict a very similar reaction to Windows 8, just like Windows 7 confused the heck out of my wife and mom.
The whole problem with these UX designers is they forget that it is 2012 and EVERYONE ALREADY KNOWS HOW TO USE COMPUTERS, starting from 8 years old on!
It doesn't matter if something is "easy to use for a novice" to computers when there are no novices remaining on the planet. It is much more important to KEEP CHANGE TO A MINIMUM. People in general do not deal well with change in something they are used to. Anyone who has assisted in an office-wide rollout of a new software program will attest to this.
The whole point of this involves third party risk, not risk by the launch company or risk by the contractor.
If a commercial SpaceX launch goes horribly wrong, and they can't abort it, and it crashes into a nearby down and kills 10 people and causes tens of millions in property damage - who is responsible for compensation? The people in that town had nothing to do with the launch and did not sign up for that risk, so your commentary is meaningless.
See, just from your post it is obvious that you worked in a union or simmilar environment (such as the army), where people have things like "grades". Things do not work like that in the professional world. Someone can work at the same "grade", IE title, for a decade or maybe even much longer - in fact this is very routine.
That doesn't mean this person should never get raises during this time, or that this person deserves to be paid the same as someone fresh out of school, even if they are doing the same job "on paper". In a professional environment, pay should be relevant with respect to their experience AND ability AND dedication, not some arbitrary banding. And therein lies the problem if people talk about their pay freely - the only person who is really qualified to say if person X is worth more to the company than person Y, is those people's management. Of course Y is going to over-inflate their own value, such is the nature of human ego.
I don't know what to say other than you are simply 100% wrong.
I have first hand experience with this, and IT IS UNPLEASANT to know that a co-worker makes more than you, even when you KNOW in your heart it is justified due to their experience. There is no way I can sit here and say that this made working better in any way. And if it was another person it would probably have resulted in bad blood.
And this is why it is usually company policy to NOT discuss your salary with co-workers. It will lead to NOTHING but problems - not only for the company, but other workers.
Why? Because people in general are jealous and selfish. When person X find out person Y makes 10K more / year then them, for "the same job", they will want that 10K more as well - even if they do not deserve it, either because they do not have the same level of experience or because they simply are not a good performer in their job.
But if you tell them that, and do not equalize the pay, then now you have ruined the team dynamic since one person is now jealous of the other.. and now you have upset the MORE qualified person as well - so you have a retention issue for both!
But if you DO equalize the pay, and the MORE qualified person finds out, then THEY will be offended - and it is the same problem all over again.
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SPDY is encrypted by design. There is no option for middle-men, and frankly, that is the way I like it myself, as i would assume most people. I don't like when devices mess with my traffic.
As for most of the other complaints - given than Google is running SPDY just fine on all of it's servers, and they're basically one of the largest (if not the largest) hosts on the internet, I think they are all strawmen. If it is working for Google then it will work for others.
My experience using SPDY, as a user, is nothing short of spectacular. The performance gains in on Google properties with SPDY are incredible and very noticeable.
[QUOTE]The length of the copyright term isn't even the primary battleground - except for Disney, what company is still profiting from exclusive use of stuff created more than ninety years ago? The bulk of profit is made from content that was created in the last 10-20 years[/QUOTE]
Marvel and DC would tend to disagree... although marvel is Disney now I guess.
- You propose a bunch of obtuse and/or manufacturer specific options, when Android has had full disk encryption available out of the box since 4.0
- Encryption is not your primary problem. Endpoint Management is. It doesn't matter a lick if your device is encrypted if it is swiped while it is unlocked, or if it gets malware inserted into it via an SD card or browser exploit. You need to be able to enforce what is installed on the phone so that you can force malware detection software. You also need to be able to remotely wipe and de-provision the phone on demand, including wiping the SD cards. There are solutions for this, like Tivoli Endpoint Manager.
Reading the first 100 comments on this post, I don't think a single person actually clicked-through to see the actual story and Google+ post being referenced.
The mistake is not a case of "bad grammar" *AT ALL*. It is a simple typo and is totally obvious to anyone reading it. I make typos in tweets and posts all the time - sometimes the spell-check catches them, sometimes it does not. A typo is not "bad grammar", it is a simple mistake.
It isn't the end of the universe because it's not a professional document.
The problem is, "rare earths" are actually NOT rare. They are all over the place and not hard to find. The problem is, they are scarce in the soil, which means you have to dig up and go through vast quantities of soil to get a small amount of the stuff. This kind of thing is a lot cheaper to do in China, where labour and permits are cheap.
Asus has been making the transformer line for years. If Asus is not licensing required patents for Wifi, why has Nokia delayed on demands for so long?
Just went into my profile to try to remove / disable this POS and you are not even given the option to do so...
I am so close to closing my Facebook account it is not even funny anymore.
The biggest problem with NVidia drivers right now is lack of Optimus support.
With every new laptop that has an NVidia chipset using this feature, this is not acceptable IMO, because it puts Linux users in a horrible position of having to choose between horrible battery life or horrible performance.
And yes, I have been trying out project bumblebee. But really, it is a giant hack and not a workable solution long term IMO, because it is the opposite of "seamless"
With US unemployment at a six month high and the global economy in the tank, a story comes out that people making > $11 / hour at the local Apple store have it hard off?
Pretty sure that there are 10 people waiting in the queue for every 1 job that opens up at one of these stores.
You think CS is bad for sexism - try being a teacher, where you not only have to worry about society judging you, but also potentially lawsuits.
The number of male elementary school teachers is declining exponentially, and a big reason is simply that men are worried (and rightfully so) that they could be subject to a lawsuit or a sex offense charge for any number of routine workplace occurrences.
It is a very sad state of affairs. At least women in CS don't have to worry about being placed on a state sex offender registry because of their career choice.
I don't know what you are talking about. Prefab homes (aka factory homes or modular homes) are incredibly common in North America and have been for at least a couple of decades. They have a lot of benefits, like climate controlled building etc. They are extremely popular.
They do have drawbacks though.. one of them is transport, which is sometimes difficult depending on where you are building. Another is acclimatization - when you build indoors, the materials are not acclimatizing to the local weather, and this can sometimes cause problems.
The whole point of enterprise social platforms is too TRY to get people to post drivel about work.
When you are a Fortune 500 company with hundreds of thousands of employees worldwide, who operate in silos and rarely communicate among eachother, communication platforms can be a huge boon to your company. They let people informally share knowledge that can directly impact your bottom line. If an employee in NYC has a non-time-sensitive issue with an application, maybe instead of calling the company help desk they can just post a question in a forum, and someone else in Malaysia who is just getting their morning coffee takes 5 seconds to answer it - boom, the person got their answer faster, and with less stress, and you just saved money. The multiplicative effect of that, if properly embraced, can be enormous.
The whole problem with these platforms, however, is they are usually not implemented properly. You can't just throw up a social platform on the intranet portal and expect 10/20/30 years of in-grained culture to change - there has to be initiatives driven from the top down to encourage employees to use the platform and educate them on why it is better both for them and the company.
Every person I know who has a Computer Engineering degree makes less money than I do. I also work with people who have nothing more than tech school diplomas who make more than I do and frankly can run circles around myself.
When you graduate you will realize your degree is not what is important to be successful in the workforce. It is all about hard work, connections, raw talent, and a bit of good luck sprinkled in.
Signed, someone with a BCS degree.
You are partially right - but I can tell you here and now that advertising does indeed fill a role. Scenario - I have cable. A very close friend of mine does not - all he does is download his TV, ad-free. He's always going on about how great it is. Except for the fact that HE NEVER HAS A CLUE WHAT IS GOING ON.. he is constantly paying more for things since he doesn't know about sales, and he is always ignorant about new novel products on the market that I have to inform him on - things that he actually would probably want. There have been times where I had to tell him about a product that came out 8 months ago and was marketed to the 9s, because he never heard of it.
When was the last time you clicked on a Superbowl TV ad to buy a Pepsi? I guess those ads are all irrelevant.
Why does it make you so upset that Google is not getting the targeting correct? From the reading of your post, it sounds like you want MORE tracking, not less - so that they can target the ads better.
I agree 100% with everything you posted. Privacy is only important to me in the context of the government. And Google ranks among the highest according to the EFF on government transparency - so I call that a good thing.
Why do so many people seem to get upset over targeted ads, is the thing I muse over constantly. I think the root of the problem is the ego. People get upset and disturbed at the thought that a company and/or it's collection of algorithms and research, might know more about their psychology than they know themselves - whereas I resigned myself to that fact a long time ago.
Once you realize you're just another sweaty sapiens on this planet and not really all that special compared to everyone else, you ARE NOT unique, and you CAN EASILY be profiled... then you can stop worrying about this kind of crap.
Yep - it would be a real shame to let the people who know the most about the everyday support-ability problems with software to be helping with the interfaces. Nope - much better to leave it to self-righteous UX "experts".
For every 10 women who buy a GPS, or a phone, or a Kindle - there is a trusted geek they asked for advice before they bought it.
And those geeks are usually male.
Just because the overall market penetration skews toward women doesn't make them the influencers.
Posner is my new favorite judge. He also supports legalization of marijuana and LSD.
Read the ruling, it is only 1.5 pages, it is worth it :)
I have never met a member of the general population that liked the office ribbon. It confuses the hell out of my wife - which is a giant pain since it also confuses the hell out of me, who is usually her tech support. This results in routine 5-10 minute "find the option" sessions where we search for what used to be obvious. I predict a very similar reaction to Windows 8, just like Windows 7 confused the heck out of my wife and mom.
The whole problem with these UX designers is they forget that it is 2012 and EVERYONE ALREADY KNOWS HOW TO USE COMPUTERS, starting from 8 years old on!
It doesn't matter if something is "easy to use for a novice" to computers when there are no novices remaining on the planet. It is much more important to KEEP CHANGE TO A MINIMUM. People in general do not deal well with change in something they are used to. Anyone who has assisted in an office-wide rollout of a new software program will attest to this.
The whole point of this involves third party risk, not risk by the launch company or risk by the contractor.
If a commercial SpaceX launch goes horribly wrong, and they can't abort it, and it crashes into a nearby down and kills 10 people and causes tens of millions in property damage - who is responsible for compensation? The people in that town had nothing to do with the launch and did not sign up for that risk, so your commentary is meaningless.
See, just from your post it is obvious that you worked in a union or simmilar environment (such as the army), where people have things like "grades". Things do not work like that in the professional world. Someone can work at the same "grade", IE title, for a decade or maybe even much longer - in fact this is very routine.
That doesn't mean this person should never get raises during this time, or that this person deserves to be paid the same as someone fresh out of school, even if they are doing the same job "on paper". In a professional environment, pay should be relevant with respect to their experience AND ability AND dedication, not some arbitrary banding. And therein lies the problem if people talk about their pay freely - the only person who is really qualified to say if person X is worth more to the company than person Y, is those people's management. Of course Y is going to over-inflate their own value, such is the nature of human ego.
I don't know what to say other than you are simply 100% wrong.
I have first hand experience with this, and IT IS UNPLEASANT to know that a co-worker makes more than you, even when you KNOW in your heart it is justified due to their experience. There is no way I can sit here and say that this made working better in any way. And if it was another person it would probably have resulted in bad blood.
And this is why it is usually company policy to NOT discuss your salary with co-workers. It will lead to NOTHING but problems - not only for the company, but other workers.
Why? Because people in general are jealous and selfish. When person X find out person Y makes 10K more / year then them, for "the same job", they will want that 10K more as well - even if they do not deserve it, either because they do not have the same level of experience or because they simply are not a good performer in their job.
But if you tell them that, and do not equalize the pay, then now you have ruined the team dynamic since one person is now jealous of the other.. and now you have upset the MORE qualified person as well - so you have a retention issue for both!
But if you DO equalize the pay, and the MORE qualified person finds out, then THEY will be offended - and it is the same problem all over again.