hehe, you must not work in IT. Disconnected users, tinkerers, and a million more reasons make this just about useless. In a perfect world, it would be that simple... if you find that world, please invite me.
I'd love to switch our companies users to FF but having no way to centrally manage/monitor and update is a complete killer. There's no way we can have users with 10 different versions and different issues, etc. It's a nightmare. Give me a cool central control panel and have each browser be able to be hooked into it and it would be amazing.
When Google was down briefly today, I thought of using Bing, and then couldn't bring myself to do it... That speaks volumes when you won't use a free service.
I love how this is always said like it is a sign of a failed IT dept. We still run IE6, we have to for more than one essential business apps that will not run in any other browser. Because of buyouts upgrades are not possible and we aren't given any funds for anything but keeping things barely running. Sure, it sucks, in a perfect world, we'd have been long off of it. Eliminating positions (mine included) and the current state of the economy on many businesses make this a pretty minor issue as far as those in power are concerned. That's the reality of IT for many. Sad but true.
So I would basically last about 3 minutes in Ireland before being locked up. Look, I had a lovely dinner, and all I said was "that piece of halibut was fit for Jehova."
So grammar Hitler issues aside, if they would alter their pricing to make it less worthwhile to pirate they could still make buckets of money and make people happy. The CD market went this way right near the end, they finally gave in and lowered prices and offered some great deals... I had never bought so many CD's as I did then. They will fight this too until it is too late.
I worked in the game industry for about 10 years (PS1-PS2) and I've said it here for years, game companies are putting themselves out of business. The development and production costs have gotten so far out of hand that only "safe" games can be made. Sequels, franchises, licensed crap. No one can afford to take a chance any more, and almost every great game back in the day came from risk. The great games that have had massive support and funding end up having every corner rounded off in the name of wider appeal or time/money constraints. The only games that have managed to be risky and creative are the super small indie games which I think deserve the spotlight these days. It is a steady decline regardless of the profits and numbers. In another few years it is game over and the 1980's crash will come again. Consoles will disappear instead of arcades. It's sad, it's sad to see developers and designers get screwed even more than they already were, but this shake up will knock all of the garbage out of the system and bring it back down to reality and well designed games.
I've said from the very beginning, Wikileaks needs to be highly decentralized. Each time people cried out for donations and help, I continued to say that instead of dumping good money into a flawed model, we should be working toward decentralization. I was attacked and maligned, I believe my mother was even brought into the matter a few times... but still, here we are. If it is not the U.S. it's going to be some other gov't. For a bunch of intelligent geeks, we manage to miss some pretty obvious stuff.
We need IE elsewhere though, and from what I can find there is no way to run IE6 and IE8 on WinXP Pro machines. If there is, I'd love to know about it. Chrome/FF aren't options for us.
I'd love to ditch IE6, but we can't because of this one app. Our version is outdated, yes, but with the buyout by Oracle it's a mess and the costs and upgrade almost impossible. Our hands are tied. Large sweeping generalized comments always sound simple, but the reality is that we are not alone.
The fact that anyone isn't not only aware but put off by Jobs is amazing, he was the man who claimed the we as consumers didn't know what we really wanted, and that he did. Dude's a complete ass, and my main rationale behind not owning more than an iPod is their attitude towards me as a consumer.
I have thought about this, and from my experience I would actually have a very good case against in that Verizon themselves *requires* that I use WEP on *their* hardware which is known to be terribly insecure. There are two documented cases where I have tried to obtain better, more secure, hardware. And when no said CP is found on my HDD or any of my devices, I'd say they would be SOL.
I could just put one of my DD-WRT routers into the DSL modem and disable its wireless with little effort or cost, but I just won't do it on the principle of the matter. Like the OP said, the sad thing is that there are many VZ customers in more densely packed areas and they are being forced to use an insecure method when truthfully there is no reason. Really frustrating.
Look, I get it and all, if you were the next ridge over and pointed your Pringle can Yaggi antenna directly at my house and then decided to start cracking my WEP key you will gain access to my pron and all my base would belong to you! congrats:)
It's my freaking home DSL connection, with two iPod Touches a laptop and my torrent/media box. BTW the crappy VZ DSL router does do MAC filtering so you'd need my WEP key and spoof a MAC... and if you're ever out this way, just knock and I'll let you in, have some tea and you can use my wifi.
Yeah, I'm aware (I'm actually a network administrator) but I am a bit lucky in that I live in a very rural area so there is essentially zero chance of anyone even being in range. In a few mile radius, I have a total of 4 neighbors (all older people, no kids). Security through desolation.
Sadly I'm a VZ DSL customer and have been for years... when I called them to inquire about a more modern wireless router with WPA they stated mine was still the most recent model and that they only "support" WEP. I explained how asinine this was, they could not have cared less.
So recently I did an update to the newest firmware and buried way down under a ton of menu screens and advanced warnings, it is possible to turn on WPA. But it doesn't do WPA2 or anything useful, so I just stick to WEP HEX.
"In December 2004, France legalized cell-phone jammers in movie theaters, concert halls and other places with performances. France is finalizing technology that will let calls to emergency services go through. India has installed jammers in parliament and some prisons. It has been reported that universities in Italy have adopted the technology to prevent cheating. Students were taking photos of tests with their camera phones and sending them to classmates."
I accept apologies and monetary donations. You can take your hat off.
My only other gripe is that movie theaters should have lead roofs/Faraday cages. Either the entire theater or a few rooms where I'd gladly pay extra to watch a film. Place a free emergency land-line on each wall and one directly outside the room.There is ZERO reason to allow phones in a theater. Zero.
And, no, you are not as good of a driver while on a phone. You aren't. No, not even you. Seriously.
Umm, no. Google offers quite a few services through acquisitions and business/pay services. Postini for example, however, that service has some of the worst support ever. Gmail... oh, wait, that has terrible support too. Adsense... yep, constant fiascos and problems. Basically this company has NO track record of good service but everyone simply gives them a pass.
I do use some of their services, personally and in my company, but I know their service is trash. When I can replace them with another product/company I do. Gmail for Zimbra as an example.
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Umm... I work in IT Ubuntu isn't the defacto standard of business.
hehe, you must not work in IT. Disconnected users, tinkerers, and a million more reasons make this just about useless. In a perfect world, it would be that simple... if you find that world, please invite me.
I hadn't known about that.. I will look into it when I get some time. Thanks!
Way to think small dude! I mean if IE doesn't have it why make FF better in any way?... FFS. *facepalm*
I'd love to switch our companies users to FF but having no way to centrally manage/monitor and update is a complete killer. There's no way we can have users with 10 different versions and different issues, etc. It's a nightmare. Give me a cool central control panel and have each browser be able to be hooked into it and it would be amazing.
When Google was down briefly today, I thought of using Bing, and then couldn't bring myself to do it... That speaks volumes when you won't use a free service.
I love how this is always said like it is a sign of a failed IT dept. We still run IE6, we have to for more than one essential business apps that will not run in any other browser. Because of buyouts upgrades are not possible and we aren't given any funds for anything but keeping things barely running. Sure, it sucks, in a perfect world, we'd have been long off of it. Eliminating positions (mine included) and the current state of the economy on many businesses make this a pretty minor issue as far as those in power are concerned. That's the reality of IT for many. Sad but true.
So I would basically last about 3 minutes in Ireland before being locked up. Look, I had a lovely dinner, and all I said was "that piece of halibut was fit for Jehova."
So grammar Hitler issues aside, if they would alter their pricing to make it less worthwhile to pirate they could still make buckets of money and make people happy. The CD market went this way right near the end, they finally gave in and lowered prices and offered some great deals... I had never bought so many CD's as I did then. They will fight this too until it is too late.
I worked in the game industry for about 10 years (PS1-PS2) and I've said it here for years, game companies are putting themselves out of business. The development and production costs have gotten so far out of hand that only "safe" games can be made. Sequels, franchises, licensed crap. No one can afford to take a chance any more, and almost every great game back in the day came from risk. The great games that have had massive support and funding end up having every corner rounded off in the name of wider appeal or time/money constraints. The only games that have managed to be risky and creative are the super small indie games which I think deserve the spotlight these days. It is a steady decline regardless of the profits and numbers. In another few years it is game over and the 1980's crash will come again. Consoles will disappear instead of arcades. It's sad, it's sad to see developers and designers get screwed even more than they already were, but this shake up will knock all of the garbage out of the system and bring it back down to reality and well designed games.
'nuff said.
I've said from the very beginning, Wikileaks needs to be highly decentralized. Each time people cried out for donations and help, I continued to say that instead of dumping good money into a flawed model, we should be working toward decentralization. I was attacked and maligned, I believe my mother was even brought into the matter a few times... but still, here we are. If it is not the U.S. it's going to be some other gov't. For a bunch of intelligent geeks, we manage to miss some pretty obvious stuff.
Sadly, this isn't an actual Simpsons quote, but it is misquoted all the time... the actual quote: "Good work Lou, you'll make Sergeant for this."
We need IE elsewhere though, and from what I can find there is no way to run IE6 and IE8 on WinXP Pro machines. If there is, I'd love to know about it. Chrome/FF aren't options for us.
I'd love to ditch IE6, but we can't because of this one app. Our version is outdated, yes, but with the buyout by Oracle it's a mess and the costs and upgrade almost impossible. Our hands are tied. Large sweeping generalized comments always sound simple, but the reality is that we are not alone.
Everyone has, not surprisingly, missed the most important part of sarahbau's post... she's a girl! On Slashdot. This is a rare sighting!
The fact that anyone isn't not only aware but put off by Jobs is amazing, he was the man who claimed the we as consumers didn't know what we really wanted, and that he did. Dude's a complete ass, and my main rationale behind not owning more than an iPod is their attitude towards me as a consumer.
I have thought about this, and from my experience I would actually have a very good case against in that Verizon themselves *requires* that I use WEP on *their* hardware which is known to be terribly insecure. There are two documented cases where I have tried to obtain better, more secure, hardware. And when no said CP is found on my HDD or any of my devices, I'd say they would be SOL.
I could just put one of my DD-WRT routers into the DSL modem and disable its wireless with little effort or cost, but I just won't do it on the principle of the matter. Like the OP said, the sad thing is that there are many VZ customers in more densely packed areas and they are being forced to use an insecure method when truthfully there is no reason. Really frustrating.
Look, I get it and all, if you were the next ridge over and pointed your Pringle can Yaggi antenna directly at my house and then decided to start cracking my WEP key you will gain access to my pron and all my base would belong to you! congrats :)
It's my freaking home DSL connection, with two iPod Touches a laptop and my torrent/media box. BTW the crappy VZ DSL router does do MAC filtering so you'd need my WEP key and spoof a MAC... and if you're ever out this way, just knock and I'll let you in, have some tea and you can use my wifi.
Yeah, I'm aware (I'm actually a network administrator) but I am a bit lucky in that I live in a very rural area so there is essentially zero chance of anyone even being in range. In a few mile radius, I have a total of 4 neighbors (all older people, no kids). Security through desolation.
Sadly I'm a VZ DSL customer and have been for years... when I called them to inquire about a more modern wireless router with WPA they stated mine was still the most recent model and that they only "support" WEP. I explained how asinine this was, they could not have cared less.
So recently I did an update to the newest firmware and buried way down under a ton of menu screens and advanced warnings, it is possible to turn on WPA. But it doesn't do WPA2 or anything useful, so I just stick to WEP HEX.
Fucking ridiculous.
"In December 2004, France legalized cell-phone jammers in movie theaters, concert halls and other places with performances. France is finalizing technology that will let calls to emergency services go through. India has installed jammers in parliament and some prisons. It has been reported that universities in Italy have adopted the technology to prevent cheating. Students were taking photos of tests with their camera phones and sending them to classmates."
I accept apologies and monetary donations. You can take your hat off.
Then you buy a ticket for the non-blocked theater. There will always be exceptions, but this is done in other countries and they get by just fine.
My only other gripe is that movie theaters should have lead roofs/Faraday cages. Either the entire theater or a few rooms where I'd gladly pay extra to watch a film. Place a free emergency land-line on each wall and one directly outside the room.There is ZERO reason to allow phones in a theater. Zero.
And, no, you are not as good of a driver while on a phone. You aren't. No, not even you. Seriously.
Umm, no. Google offers quite a few services through acquisitions and business/pay services. Postini for example, however, that service has some of the worst support ever. Gmail... oh, wait, that has terrible support too. Adsense... yep, constant fiascos and problems. Basically this company has NO track record of good service but everyone simply gives them a pass.
I do use some of their services, personally and in my company, but I know their service is trash. When I can replace them with another product/company I do. Gmail for Zimbra as an example.