A.K.A. a slightly different take on thin clients. The only significant difference between The Cloud and the server-centric days of old is the willingness to trust critical data to third parties and the bandwidth to make it practical.
Oh give the guy a break. This is exactly the situation the "the cloud" buzzword was created for: people who are scared of the phrase "file server". There is absolutely nothing new about "the cloud" in any way but it's a nice fluffy word that people are comfortable with and it's acceptable to not have any idea what it actually is. I'd change the hostname of my home server to thecloud just for wiseassery's sake if it wouldn't hose my Trek shipname naming scheme.
The problem (like other things in the computer security world such as HIPAA, PCI etc) is that the banks will do the things that will make the lawyers happy and/or reduce the banks risk and not the things that will actually improve security.
You mean they'd put the same effort into covering their asses rather than securing the site, which would also cover their asses? I'll grant you there will probably be some portion of the budget devoted to largely useless but legally expedient pursuits but a good portion of it will also have to be actual better security. They may not particularly care about security but their lawyer is going to ask them "will it stand up to security experts scrutinizing the hell out of it?".
I honestly don't see how this is a problem. A bank's fundamental commitment is to be a safe place to stuff your money. They pay a pretty fair chunk of money to physical security experts to make sure nobody can walk in and take the money in their charge. They should take their online security just as seriously and if they don't they should be held liable.
Of course I have. Public roads are a damned fine and legitimate use of taxes. Everyone benefits from them even if they don't use them. Public schools... well, let's just not go there.
Clean air? Air is about the only thing that is free lately. Even then I still get robbed for fucktarded EPA regulations. And before you blah blah and light up some nag champa, have a look at the regs in practice. They make no damned sense as arbitrarily as they're enforced. Unfortunately they are not itemized out like healthcare is, so I can't easily refuse to pay them. Clean water? I pay for that, thanks much. Private capital to private entity but not governmentally compelled. Notice how I had a choice to pay or not there? It's fucking important.
Yes, people producing wealth is a "rising tide lifts all boats" situation. People squandering it into ever increasing bureaucracy or government enforced oligarchy doesn't lift a damned thing though. It weighs everyone except the insurance company stockholders and executives down. Fuck them and fuck you. If you want my money, give me a choice and offer me objective value in return. Or bring a gun.
Adding any serious amount of kit to it like it sounds like he wants, he's going to need a couple extra batteries. Also, not everyone has access to an oscilloscope to be able to tell when they've cleaned the power enough to justify hooking thousands of bucks of hardware up to it. Whatever he does, he needs to spec the wires to be able to handle the load and get the proper size fuse.
A side note from my own experiences in this, burnt caps stink.
Children have no responsibility to their parents for their raising. They had no prior say in the matter. That is a debt the parents made the decision and assume the responsibility for. The only thing they owe their parents is respect proportional to how well the raising was done.
Lung cancer is a fairly appropriate example because I do smoke, so let's do that. Many years ago I decided that my current quality of life was enough improved by smoking to roll the dice on lung cancer. I've seen family die of it but I've also seen family on chemo. The chemo was worse. I'll take the cancer, thanks all the same. Regardless, I won't ask the government to come to your house with a gun and take the money necessary for any treatment I decide I want. Which is essentially what is happening here.
Selfish, damn straight I am. What I've earned is mine by right of physical or mental effort and I will not give it away without receiving equal value in return. To do so would be me saying that my effort wasn't worth what I was paid for it and I do not cheat my employers. I'll take selfish over greedy any day. Make no mistake, thinking you deserve what you haven't earned is greed. Every. Single. Time.
Great, and what happens when you do contract some disease that will kill you within the week? Do you want us to just let you die if you don't have the cash on hand?
Depends. If it's something I could reasonably expect to pay back, I'd probably take the debt and get a loan or otherwise work out payments. If it's not? Everyone has to die of something. Better to do it as a man than as a leech begging for a handout.
I don't give a rat's fat furry ass if anyone else can afford to go to the doctor every time they have the sniffles. I did not take them to raise and they are not my responsibility.
I haven't been to the doctor since my parents paid the bills (decades ago) and I don't plan on going again for anything that won't kill me within the week. I don't feel the need to live to 150, pop two handfulls of pills a day, spend half of it with someone wiping my ass for me, and have to put up with entitled fucks like you breathing my air the whole time.
Or for the tl;dr people: Get a fucking job, hippie.
And that is exactly why you hear the anything goes crowd saying puritanical sexual hangups have harmed our nation. They may be wackos like any other extremist group but they're dead on regarding this issue. You can tell by how you don't want to teach your children something they absolutely need to learn.
If you want your kids to learn something, teach them. Acceptable values of any kind aren't just going to spontaneously spring into their minds. It doesn't matter if it makes you uncomfortable, it's your responsibility and no one else's. With any luck, you'll teach them well enough that they won't have the same hang-ups with teaching their own kids.
Seriously, it's just sex. Your sweet little white-haired grandmother did it. Thousands of times. And hopefully enjoyed most of them.
Your boy's not old enough to have hormones going wild and informing him that boobies are the greatest invention ever, so that software makes sense to avoid inadvertent stumbling upon. For the parents of kids just a bit older though, it's use is likely both useless and a symptom of bad parenting. As soon as they're physically able to reproduce, they need to be able to make decisions about it as a responsible adult; they will be in situations where they have the final say on the matter.
Me, I'd say both he and society are better off if he's wanking to a porn tube site and not knocking up the thirteen year old girl down the block. So, drop the net filter subscription and invest in either a damned good anti-virus or teach him to use Linux. Before it becomes an issue, because you've no idea when he's going to talk his way into his first set of panties.
It's not really an under the radar thing. That particular language is mostly a leftover from days of lower speed unlimited plans. Even going back to dial-up. Today, none of the major ISPs care if you run a website on a home server as its impact is insignificant compared to seeding one or two popular torrents.
I'm currently using a mix of Mate, Xfce4, LXDE, and Gnome pieces along with compiz, conky, and other misc bits. Why? Because I want the features I use and only the features I use. Given two programs that both have the features I want but one of them comes in at 1/4 the size and 4x the responsiveness, I'm going to go with it no matter how many features I'll never use the other one has. But that's why I use what I use rather than straight anything.
Why don't I use more bits of KDE given an otherwise even bloat to useful features ratio? Mostly because I don't like the look and feel of QT applications after so many years of using GTK applications. Though I will say k3b is probably the best GUI burning program by a damn sight, the rest of the KDE suite isn't useful enough to subject myself to constant QT usage.
I'm aware of all of the above. And yet, the default is to be less useful than prior versions of Windows. It amazes me that Microsoft's answer to making an OS more usable is to remove ways to use it. I expect within three versions both Windows and Gnome will be nothing but a Facebook button in the middle of the screen.
As for buried in folders? I prefer the term organized. You know, sorted into sub-folders according to function as opposed to dumped in a huge single directory. I don't have a problem installing a 3rd party program to extend the functionality of an OS but I do have a huge problem with the OS manufacturer removing functionality.
To anyone who actually knows anything, they're worth less than toilet paper because they're too stiff to use in anything but truly desperate situations. Unfortunately, management almost never satisfies the "knows anything" condition.
Dozens of times per day, yes. The super bar is shiny and pretty but it's cumbersome to use. The hands down most effective layout they've come out with yet is the quick-launch bar, the taskbar (without fucking window grouping), and the start menu.
I don't want the click area to launch a program to be the same as the one to switch to open instances of that window. It's a huge pain in the ass and extra clicks if I want another window of the same type open, which is extremely common for me.
I don't want multiples of the same window type to be grouped. I want them showing in the taskbar where I can see by the title which file is being edited in it and switch to it with a single click instead of having to guess at thumbnails or go through extra clicks for a list.
I especially want to be able to have a more or less complete list of installed programs in a hierarchical layout that's accessible from one place . I don't want to have to keep their names all in memory. I don't want to have a bazillion launchers cluttering the bottom of my screen.
I don't want shiny and pretty. I don't want minimalist to the point of uselessness. Pretty needs to stop the very instant before it starts impacting my ability to get shit done quickly. If it slows me down it can fuck right off.
The preceding was meant tongue-in-cheek but even having said that there'll probably still be Linux/MS fanbois who want to take it seriously and start a flamewar.
I got annoyed one Christmas and found the perfect tool for opening them, the band saw. Four quick passes and every sealed edge is removed with significantly less danger of injury despite the far more powerful cutting device.
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A.K.A. a slightly different take on thin clients. The only significant difference between The Cloud and the server-centric days of old is the willingness to trust critical data to third parties and the bandwidth to make it practical.
Oh give the guy a break. This is exactly the situation the "the cloud" buzzword was created for: people who are scared of the phrase "file server". There is absolutely nothing new about "the cloud" in any way but it's a nice fluffy word that people are comfortable with and it's acceptable to not have any idea what it actually is. I'd change the hostname of my home server to thecloud just for wiseassery's sake if it wouldn't hose my Trek shipname naming scheme.
Agreed. I won't believe it unless the Mythbusters can replicate it. Not a job for the digital high-speed camera though.
The problem (like other things in the computer security world such as HIPAA, PCI etc) is that the banks will do the things that will make the lawyers happy and/or reduce the banks risk and not the things that will actually improve security.
You mean they'd put the same effort into covering their asses rather than securing the site, which would also cover their asses? I'll grant you there will probably be some portion of the budget devoted to largely useless but legally expedient pursuits but a good portion of it will also have to be actual better security. They may not particularly care about security but their lawyer is going to ask them "will it stand up to security experts scrutinizing the hell out of it?".
I honestly don't see how this is a problem. A bank's fundamental commitment is to be a safe place to stuff your money. They pay a pretty fair chunk of money to physical security experts to make sure nobody can walk in and take the money in their charge. They should take their online security just as seriously and if they don't they should be held liable.
Of course I have. Public roads are a damned fine and legitimate use of taxes. Everyone benefits from them even if they don't use them. Public schools... well, let's just not go there.
Clean air? Air is about the only thing that is free lately. Even then I still get robbed for fucktarded EPA regulations. And before you blah blah and light up some nag champa, have a look at the regs in practice. They make no damned sense as arbitrarily as they're enforced. Unfortunately they are not itemized out like healthcare is, so I can't easily refuse to pay them. Clean water? I pay for that, thanks much. Private capital to private entity but not governmentally compelled. Notice how I had a choice to pay or not there? It's fucking important.
Yes, people producing wealth is a "rising tide lifts all boats" situation. People squandering it into ever increasing bureaucracy or government enforced oligarchy doesn't lift a damned thing though. It weighs everyone except the insurance company stockholders and executives down. Fuck them and fuck you. If you want my money, give me a choice and offer me objective value in return. Or bring a gun.
Adding any serious amount of kit to it like it sounds like he wants, he's going to need a couple extra batteries. Also, not everyone has access to an oscilloscope to be able to tell when they've cleaned the power enough to justify hooking thousands of bucks of hardware up to it. Whatever he does, he needs to spec the wires to be able to handle the load and get the proper size fuse.
A side note from my own experiences in this, burnt caps stink.
Children have no responsibility to their parents for their raising. They had no prior say in the matter. That is a debt the parents made the decision and assume the responsibility for. The only thing they owe their parents is respect proportional to how well the raising was done.
Lung cancer is a fairly appropriate example because I do smoke, so let's do that. Many years ago I decided that my current quality of life was enough improved by smoking to roll the dice on lung cancer. I've seen family die of it but I've also seen family on chemo. The chemo was worse. I'll take the cancer, thanks all the same. Regardless, I won't ask the government to come to your house with a gun and take the money necessary for any treatment I decide I want. Which is essentially what is happening here.
Selfish, damn straight I am. What I've earned is mine by right of physical or mental effort and I will not give it away without receiving equal value in return. To do so would be me saying that my effort wasn't worth what I was paid for it and I do not cheat my employers. I'll take selfish over greedy any day. Make no mistake, thinking you deserve what you haven't earned is greed. Every. Single. Time.
Great, and what happens when you do contract some disease that will kill you within the week? Do you want us to just let you die if you don't have the cash on hand?
Depends. If it's something I could reasonably expect to pay back, I'd probably take the debt and get a loan or otherwise work out payments. If it's not? Everyone has to die of something. Better to do it as a man than as a leech begging for a handout.
Troll fail. Tears are for little girls and hippies.
I don't give a rat's fat furry ass if anyone else can afford to go to the doctor every time they have the sniffles. I did not take them to raise and they are not my responsibility.
I haven't been to the doctor since my parents paid the bills (decades ago) and I don't plan on going again for anything that won't kill me within the week. I don't feel the need to live to 150, pop two handfulls of pills a day, spend half of it with someone wiping my ass for me, and have to put up with entitled fucks like you breathing my air the whole time.
Or for the tl;dr people: Get a fucking job, hippie.
Fuck em. They'll have to put me in prison cause they're not getting their fine out of me.
And that is exactly why you hear the anything goes crowd saying puritanical sexual hangups have harmed our nation. They may be wackos like any other extremist group but they're dead on regarding this issue. You can tell by how you don't want to teach your children something they absolutely need to learn.
If you want your kids to learn something, teach them. Acceptable values of any kind aren't just going to spontaneously spring into their minds. It doesn't matter if it makes you uncomfortable, it's your responsibility and no one else's. With any luck, you'll teach them well enough that they won't have the same hang-ups with teaching their own kids.
Seriously, it's just sex. Your sweet little white-haired grandmother did it. Thousands of times. And hopefully enjoyed most of them.
Your boy's not old enough to have hormones going wild and informing him that boobies are the greatest invention ever, so that software makes sense to avoid inadvertent stumbling upon. For the parents of kids just a bit older though, it's use is likely both useless and a symptom of bad parenting. As soon as they're physically able to reproduce, they need to be able to make decisions about it as a responsible adult; they will be in situations where they have the final say on the matter.
Me, I'd say both he and society are better off if he's wanking to a porn tube site and not knocking up the thirteen year old girl down the block. So, drop the net filter subscription and invest in either a damned good anti-virus or teach him to use Linux. Before it becomes an issue, because you've no idea when he's going to talk his way into his first set of panties.
It's not really an under the radar thing. That particular language is mostly a leftover from days of lower speed unlimited plans. Even going back to dial-up. Today, none of the major ISPs care if you run a website on a home server as its impact is insignificant compared to seeding one or two popular torrents.
I'm currently using a mix of Mate, Xfce4, LXDE, and Gnome pieces along with compiz, conky, and other misc bits. Why? Because I want the features I use and only the features I use. Given two programs that both have the features I want but one of them comes in at 1/4 the size and 4x the responsiveness, I'm going to go with it no matter how many features I'll never use the other one has. But that's why I use what I use rather than straight anything.
Why don't I use more bits of KDE given an otherwise even bloat to useful features ratio? Mostly because I don't like the look and feel of QT applications after so many years of using GTK applications. Though I will say k3b is probably the best GUI burning program by a damn sight, the rest of the KDE suite isn't useful enough to subject myself to constant QT usage.
Sure there will. I can even tell you exactly when. Febuary 23rd at 5:44am during the year of the linux desktop.
I'm aware of all of the above. And yet, the default is to be less useful than prior versions of Windows. It amazes me that Microsoft's answer to making an OS more usable is to remove ways to use it. I expect within three versions both Windows and Gnome will be nothing but a Facebook button in the middle of the screen.
As for buried in folders? I prefer the term organized. You know, sorted into sub-folders according to function as opposed to dumped in a huge single directory. I don't have a problem installing a 3rd party program to extend the functionality of an OS but I do have a huge problem with the OS manufacturer removing functionality.
To anyone who actually knows anything, they're worth less than toilet paper because they're too stiff to use in anything but truly desperate situations. Unfortunately, management almost never satisfies the "knows anything" condition.
Dozens of times per day, yes. The super bar is shiny and pretty but it's cumbersome to use. The hands down most effective layout they've come out with yet is the quick-launch bar, the taskbar (without fucking window grouping), and the start menu.
I don't want the click area to launch a program to be the same as the one to switch to open instances of that window. It's a huge pain in the ass and extra clicks if I want another window of the same type open, which is extremely common for me.
I don't want multiples of the same window type to be grouped. I want them showing in the taskbar where I can see by the title which file is being edited in it and switch to it with a single click instead of having to guess at thumbnails or go through extra clicks for a list.
I especially want to be able to have a more or less complete list of installed programs in a hierarchical layout that's accessible from one place . I don't want to have to keep their names all in memory. I don't want to have a bazillion launchers cluttering the bottom of my screen.
I don't want shiny and pretty. I don't want minimalist to the point of uselessness. Pretty needs to stop the very instant before it starts impacting my ability to get shit done quickly. If it slows me down it can fuck right off.
Head over to their local office. Find the boss. Pour molten cheese over his head.
Ease off. That was a huge step up from our normal First Posts.
Of course, it's running Windows.
The preceding was meant tongue-in-cheek but even having said that there'll probably still be Linux/MS fanbois who want to take it seriously and start a flamewar.
I got annoyed one Christmas and found the perfect tool for opening them, the band saw. Four quick passes and every sealed edge is removed with significantly less danger of injury despite the far more powerful cutting device.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, manage.