Having your employees stay in a emergency stricken zone that is flooded and carrying open canisters of diesel fuel to keep a data center running so that someone in California can share pictures of their cat is really not worth it IMHO.
I am sure some people were probably a little more worried about the lives of their families and themselves rather then some digital data.
I am not going to call someone a hero for this. At some point out there, people using cloud services and online storage are going to have to accept the fact that during emergency situations, their data just isn't accessible, period.
The basic fundamental problem I have about all this and what Sandy has highlighted is that the Internet was designed to be decentralized solely for the purpose of surviving natural or man-made disasters. Why is it then that a data center company creates a single centralized storage site instead of having an auxiliary site somewhere else, even on the other side of the country.
I think this is an epic fail in planning and execution. Anyone using Peer1 shouldn't be happy for putting people's lives in danger when common sense could have had them build in redundancy to their infrastructure allowing people to worry about their families more then your data.
Also, just like with Japan, don't build your backup generators at or below sea level.
Who thinks people are heroes when they come in and work 14 hour days and on the weekends all while they are sick and see taking sick days as a sign of professional weakness.
If your employer has this kind of mentality, come in while you are sick, do your job poorly, make everyone else sick, and then watch the company tank (in the meantime dust off your resume and look for new work).
This product will most likely cripple your device through countless security holes and performance robbing features. Nobody creates flash based websites anymore and desktop based flash applications were a pipe dream we once had before Apple destroyed them. In fact we are also not supporting older versions of this product and encourage people not to use any new versions of it. We are not responsible for anything that happens from using this POS, mostly because don't earn enough money to even be taken to small claims court. Lets put it this way, Flash is hated more then Oracle Java these days.
First, Apple doesn't' shut pioneers out unless the pioneers were too stupid to file proper patents. If Qi only filed patents for contact based "wireless" charging, then they themselves are only to blame for losing out in the over the air wireless charging market.
While I too am annoyed greatly with Apple the big question is why isn't any other company filing these kinds of patents? I mean you can complain all you want about Apple innovating marginally on other peoples inventions, but in the end its stupid companies like Samsung, Google and Microsoft being left in the dust for not focusing on protecting their bottom line through patent hoarding.
For instance Microsoft came out with a touch type based keyboard smart cover for Surface. Cool, they one-upped Apple. Apple comes along and then files a patent for all potential novel uses for "smart" tablet covers, such as second screens, solar charging and many, many other features, pretty much EVERYTHING Microsoft's touch keyboard cover doesn't do. It was VERY stupid for Microsoft to not protect their original idea by creating a patent to cover every conceivable use for a smart cover. Microsoft allowed Apple the opportunity to walk in and patent the Swiss Army Knife of smart covers. Now Apple can ensure that no other competitor will create a "smarter" tablet cover because even if Apple doesn't create a new smart cover, they can prevent other companies from creating smarter tablet covers.
Apple is a greedy patent whore, but the rest of the industry seems oblivious to protect themselves by filing just as many stupid patents themselves. If I was Microsoft or Google or Samsung I would not release a "new" idea until I have 100 patents filed that cover every conceivable potential use based on that one new idea.
Yeah, the way patents are used today sucks, but if you don't join the patent whoremongerers such as Apple, then you are going to fail, period.
Apple started talking about "real" wireless charging solutions way back when the original iPhone came out, well before Android and WP8 existed and long before they had Qi based "wireless" charging phones. Remember this is not "contact" charging, but over the air charging. All the claims Apple ripped this one off from Qi is based on ignorance, not fact.
The problem is if you don't like any of their agreements, you just can't use technology. Yes we have a right to choose which product we want to use, but we are not offered the ability to use anything without handing over some fundamental right in the long run. The only option is to become a Luddite and live in a cave. There is no Gypsy option yet for technology and associated cloud services.
PC gaming should be using ray-tracing by now, all these 1000 core GPU's and multi-card colutions should be able to process ray tracing calculations, yet there are no ray traced games out showing that there has been little innovation in PC gaming for the last 10 years. Who cares if you can run a game at 300 fps on a 2560 x 1600 screen?
I would return to PC gaming in a heart-beat if they started using ray-tracing in games and created some truly stunning and realistic graphics. You know, create a platform that game consoles can't touch. We really don't need Linux based Steam boxes playing Diablo clones and HL2 in the living room. I want to be excited about buying a $600 liquid cooled video card again. But when a $300 game console gives mostly the same graphics quality and performance as PC games, meh.
However I am also pretty sure that with the state of health "care" in Canada, nobody knows where your health data is anyways. They couldn't even send my health card renewal notice to the correct address. Psst, its the same address I have been paying excessive taxes from for the last 10 years.
I love using stuff like VNC and having a 15 second lag between my mouse or keyboard click and the screen refresh even on a Gigabit network connection running on an 8 core "thin" client. I mean its been a very long time since I could type faster then the screen can refresh. Its awesome the amount of CPU performance and network speed you need to make your workstation feel like its 1989 all over again.
Yes, there are a lot of examples of people becoming successful without a degree, but there is MORE examples of people living on the streets because they don't have a diploma and cannot find work, or are working their asses off just to barely scrape by.
To say that college is completely a waste of time and money is just plain irresponsible. There are far more career paths that must begin with a diploma then those that can start by being self taught. Even in software development just because you can code doesn't mean you are good at it, and there are far more skills learned in school then just how to code, such as better problem solving skills, social and organizational skills.
College is a 4 years sacrifice that prepares you for a 40 year career.
A generation of kids not going to school because of schmucks like this telling them they don't need a diploma to get a job will be the last nail in the coffin that is the decline of the USA into a 3rd world country. An entire generation of kids thinking they can get rich quick without education and instead saturating the welfare system and social assistance programs will bankrupt the government and force more American companies to use outsourcing solutions.
Sure, you can repair anything, provided you know how to graft nano-wires to microscopic structures. Nobody is taking your right to repair away, just that few people have the skills to repair whats made these days. I don't want a big huge brick phone in my pocket just because some old fogey wants to feel useful replacing the fist sized vacuum tubes every 10 years.
I have no problem with abandonware. Even if it ends up in the landfill we will eventually be mining our landfills for resources one day.
Nothing about Star Wars is art. Weak plot, dry acting, poor direction. Yes the visual effects are stunning and this is the one biggest contribution Lucas and LucasArts/Films has given the world, but even if it is art, its not the greatest produced this generation. Art should invoke more emotions then just sheer anger and utter disappointment.
This just proves that art criticism is nothing but vapid subjective commentary. I mean it is so obvious that this is a controversial statement only made to try and sell a book. I don't think anyone that is amazed by ROTS is worth reading though, IMHO, and I have already wasted too much time on this.
Anybody thinking Tim Cook should remain CEO of Apple needs their head read.
I think that is wasn't the man in charge of Maps that should have gotten the ax, but the guy that decided to drop a working product in favor of a broken product and then stood on a stage and claimed it was better then all the rest.
I know the decision to drop Google Maps all began with Steve Jobs, however after his passing and Tim Cook taking over certainly there should have been some review of the companies projects to determine if Apple should stay on the same course. At some point I am sure someone must have fired up the Maps app and realized it was no-where near ready for prime-time.
If Tim Cook is going to blindly follow in Jobs footsteps and not make any executive decision that didn't originate from something Jobs began then I think he should step down or be ousted. Any sane CEO should have yanked the Maps product from the iOS 6 release schedule for lacking to match the quality of the app it was replacing. Yes, maybe it would have looked like egg on his face for postponing a highly publicized new feature, but it would have been far less worse then issuing an apology for releasing the app in the first place.
And what the f*ck about iTunes 11? There is only 2 days left in November and Apple still proudly boasts it is coming in November. Just like they proudly boasted it was coming in October. I think iTunes 11 is another fiasco in the making.
You can't just keep firing your top exec's without realizing that that man at top needs to start taking responsibility for the state of the company he is supposedly running. Apple doesn't need a caretaker, it needs a leader, Cook is not a leader.
But the problem with New York is putting 2 million people next to the sea and crossing your fingers and hopomg that the hurricane of the century doesn't happen more often now. How about building a city like New Orleans under sea level?
Global warming is not a natural disaster its a political disaster because we all stupidly put 1/2 of the world's population next to the coastline and are now bitching about the waters rising.
Obviously they lived long enough to report on it, so I say all systems are green. Unfortunately this may not have been the first time someone created new matter, it just never made it to Sashdot.
If you rub my Large Hadron, it will produce new matter too.
BTW Apple already patented this new type of matter so they will release a marginally thinner iPad 5 in January. Users will report a problem when the iPad's phase in and out of existence repeatedly.
1) You can buy a fully functional Wii with 2 games for $150, why buy a crippled variant for $99 that won't allow you to transfer content from an old Wii to this one? 2) The market is already saturated with Wii's collecting dust. I doubt the number of people that have been waiting patiently for a cheap crippled Wii are significant. 3) Why make it butt ugly? If they came out with a nice slick mini version of the Wii that was fully functional I could see it people grabbing a second one in the house or cottage. Just because its red doesn't mean Canadians are going to want it. 4) Why now? Even the Wii U is not significantly more expensive then a $100 crippled Wii. Any kid opening up this POS will be very disappointing when all their friends are opening up a Wii U for only $200 more. 5) Canadians are rich (comparatively to the US), we do not need a cheap-ass version of the Wii this Christmas. I think Nintendo got Canada confused with the US which is headed for a financial ruin.
I think Nintendo has jumped the shark (or rather Mushroom). Was just at a Walmart and they had the Wii U in stock. Was at least 3 months before I started seeing Wii's on the store shelves. Nintendo is *****ked.
I'd feel much safer if you stopped driving your motorbike in between cars, cutting me off in traffic and then veering across 6 lanes doing 120 mph just to make an exit.
Bikers riding bikes is the leading cause of death of bikers.
Don't build data centers in a coastal city under sea level. Just like you don't build nuclear power plants in tsunami prone regions where the backup generator is next to the sea. We can all either fear global warming and its effects, or we can adapt to it and start thinking about how to plan for future technological advancement that doesn't leave us victims of bad weather.
There are no natural disasters, only disasters in human arrogance.
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Having your employees stay in a emergency stricken zone that is flooded and carrying open canisters of diesel fuel to keep a data center running so that someone in California can share pictures of their cat is really not worth it IMHO.
I am sure some people were probably a little more worried about the lives of their families and themselves rather then some digital data.
I am not going to call someone a hero for this. At some point out there, people using cloud services and online storage are going to have to accept the fact that during emergency situations, their data just isn't accessible, period.
The basic fundamental problem I have about all this and what Sandy has highlighted is that the Internet was designed to be decentralized solely for the purpose of surviving natural or man-made disasters. Why is it then that a data center company creates a single centralized storage site instead of having an auxiliary site somewhere else, even on the other side of the country.
I think this is an epic fail in planning and execution. Anyone using Peer1 shouldn't be happy for putting people's lives in danger when common sense could have had them build in redundancy to their infrastructure allowing people to worry about their families more then your data.
Also, just like with Japan, don't build your backup generators at or below sea level.
Who thinks people are heroes when they come in and work 14 hour days and on the weekends all while they are sick and see taking sick days as a sign of professional weakness.
If your employer has this kind of mentality, come in while you are sick, do your job poorly, make everyone else sick, and then watch the company tank (in the meantime dust off your resume and look for new work).
Although most non-tech people would be like who the hell is this guy.
not the quality of the password, but the quality of a service that allows 348 billion failed password attempts per second.
This product will most likely cripple your device through countless security holes and performance robbing features. Nobody creates flash based websites anymore and desktop based flash applications were a pipe dream we once had before Apple destroyed them. In fact we are also not supporting older versions of this product and encourage people not to use any new versions of it. We are not responsible for anything that happens from using this POS, mostly because don't earn enough money to even be taken to small claims court. Lets put it this way, Flash is hated more then Oracle Java these days.
You really want to use this?
[If you must] [Hell's No]
First, Apple doesn't' shut pioneers out unless the pioneers were too stupid to file proper patents. If Qi only filed patents for contact based "wireless" charging, then they themselves are only to blame for losing out in the over the air wireless charging market.
While I too am annoyed greatly with Apple the big question is why isn't any other company filing these kinds of patents? I mean you can complain all you want about Apple innovating marginally on other peoples inventions, but in the end its stupid companies like Samsung, Google and Microsoft being left in the dust for not focusing on protecting their bottom line through patent hoarding.
For instance Microsoft came out with a touch type based keyboard smart cover for Surface. Cool, they one-upped Apple. Apple comes along and then files a patent for all potential novel uses for "smart" tablet covers, such as second screens, solar charging and many, many other features, pretty much EVERYTHING Microsoft's touch keyboard cover doesn't do. It was VERY stupid for Microsoft to not protect their original idea by creating a patent to cover every conceivable use for a smart cover. Microsoft allowed Apple the opportunity to walk in and patent the Swiss Army Knife of smart covers. Now Apple can ensure that no other competitor will create a "smarter" tablet cover because even if Apple doesn't create a new smart cover, they can prevent other companies from creating smarter tablet covers.
Apple is a greedy patent whore, but the rest of the industry seems oblivious to protect themselves by filing just as many stupid patents themselves. If I was Microsoft or Google or Samsung I would not release a "new" idea until I have 100 patents filed that cover every conceivable potential use based on that one new idea.
Yeah, the way patents are used today sucks, but if you don't join the patent whoremongerers such as Apple, then you are going to fail, period.
Apple started talking about "real" wireless charging solutions way back when the original iPhone came out, well before Android and WP8 existed and long before they had Qi based "wireless" charging phones. Remember this is not "contact" charging, but over the air charging. All the claims Apple ripped this one off from Qi is based on ignorance, not fact.
The problem is if you don't like any of their agreements, you just can't use technology. Yes we have a right to choose which product we want to use, but we are not offered the ability to use anything without handing over some fundamental right in the long run. The only option is to become a Luddite and live in a cave. There is no Gypsy option yet for technology and associated cloud services.
Yeah, PC gaming ain't dead.
PC gaming should be using ray-tracing by now, all these 1000 core GPU's and multi-card colutions should be able to process ray tracing calculations, yet there are no ray traced games out showing that there has been little innovation in PC gaming for the last 10 years. Who cares if you can run a game at 300 fps on a 2560 x 1600 screen?
I would return to PC gaming in a heart-beat if they started using ray-tracing in games and created some truly stunning and realistic graphics. You know, create a platform that game consoles can't touch. We really don't need Linux based Steam boxes playing Diablo clones and HL2 in the living room. I want to be excited about buying a $600 liquid cooled video card again. But when a $300 game console gives mostly the same graphics quality and performance as PC games, meh.
http://www.airhogs.com/ has a test facility in Iraq. 7 year old boys are considerably more abusive on flying drones then Iran is.
However I am also pretty sure that with the state of health "care" in Canada, nobody knows where your health data is anyways. They couldn't even send my health card renewal notice to the correct address. Psst, its the same address I have been paying excessive taxes from for the last 10 years.
I love using stuff like VNC and having a 15 second lag between my mouse or keyboard click and the screen refresh even on a Gigabit network connection running on an 8 core "thin" client. I mean its been a very long time since I could type faster then the screen can refresh. Its awesome the amount of CPU performance and network speed you need to make your workstation feel like its 1989 all over again.
Because half of us had his software running on our boxes until a few weeks ago.
It's also not a single line of code, its two lines of code just without a line break. By their definition ALL software can be written on one line.
Yes, there are a lot of examples of people becoming successful without a degree, but there is MORE examples of people living on the streets because they don't have a diploma and cannot find work, or are working their asses off just to barely scrape by.
To say that college is completely a waste of time and money is just plain irresponsible. There are far more career paths that must begin with a diploma then those that can start by being self taught. Even in software development just because you can code doesn't mean you are good at it, and there are far more skills learned in school then just how to code, such as better problem solving skills, social and organizational skills.
College is a 4 years sacrifice that prepares you for a 40 year career.
A generation of kids not going to school because of schmucks like this telling them they don't need a diploma to get a job will be the last nail in the coffin that is the decline of the USA into a 3rd world country. An entire generation of kids thinking they can get rich quick without education and instead saturating the welfare system and social assistance programs will bankrupt the government and force more American companies to use outsourcing solutions.
Sure, you can repair anything, provided you know how to graft nano-wires to microscopic structures. Nobody is taking your right to repair away, just that few people have the skills to repair whats made these days. I don't want a big huge brick phone in my pocket just because some old fogey wants to feel useful replacing the fist sized vacuum tubes every 10 years.
I have no problem with abandonware. Even if it ends up in the landfill we will eventually be mining our landfills for resources one day.
Quick, where is James Cameron!
But seriously?!
Nothing about Star Wars is art. Weak plot, dry acting, poor direction. Yes the visual effects are stunning and this is the one biggest contribution Lucas and LucasArts/Films has given the world, but even if it is art, its not the greatest produced this generation. Art should invoke more emotions then just sheer anger and utter disappointment.
This just proves that art criticism is nothing but vapid subjective commentary. I mean it is so obvious that this is a controversial statement only made to try and sell a book. I don't think anyone that is amazed by ROTS is worth reading though, IMHO, and I have already wasted too much time on this.
Anybody thinking Tim Cook should remain CEO of Apple needs their head read.
I think that is wasn't the man in charge of Maps that should have gotten the ax, but the guy that decided to drop a working product in favor of a broken product and then stood on a stage and claimed it was better then all the rest.
I know the decision to drop Google Maps all began with Steve Jobs, however after his passing and Tim Cook taking over certainly there should have been some review of the companies projects to determine if Apple should stay on the same course. At some point I am sure someone must have fired up the Maps app and realized it was no-where near ready for prime-time.
If Tim Cook is going to blindly follow in Jobs footsteps and not make any executive decision that didn't originate from something Jobs began then I think he should step down or be ousted. Any sane CEO should have yanked the Maps product from the iOS 6 release schedule for lacking to match the quality of the app it was replacing. Yes, maybe it would have looked like egg on his face for postponing a highly publicized new feature, but it would have been far less worse then issuing an apology for releasing the app in the first place.
And what the f*ck about iTunes 11? There is only 2 days left in November and Apple still proudly boasts it is coming in November. Just like they proudly boasted it was coming in October. I think iTunes 11 is another fiasco in the making.
You can't just keep firing your top exec's without realizing that that man at top needs to start taking responsibility for the state of the company he is supposedly running. Apple doesn't need a caretaker, it needs a leader, Cook is not a leader.
You know you are in dire straights (Nokia) when they are anticipating competition from RIM.
But the problem with New York is putting 2 million people next to the sea and crossing your fingers and hopomg that the hurricane of the century doesn't happen more often now. How about building a city like New Orleans under sea level?
Global warming is not a natural disaster its a political disaster because we all stupidly put 1/2 of the world's population next to the coastline and are now bitching about the waters rising.
Obviously they lived long enough to report on it, so I say all systems are green. Unfortunately this may not have been the first time someone created new matter, it just never made it to Sashdot.
If you rub my Large Hadron, it will produce new matter too.
BTW Apple already patented this new type of matter so they will release a marginally thinner iPad 5 in January. Users will report a problem when the iPad's phase in and out of existence repeatedly.
I think they are smoking crack at Nintendo.
1) You can buy a fully functional Wii with 2 games for $150, why buy a crippled variant for $99 that won't allow you to transfer content from an old Wii to this one?
2) The market is already saturated with Wii's collecting dust. I doubt the number of people that have been waiting patiently for a cheap crippled Wii are significant.
3) Why make it butt ugly? If they came out with a nice slick mini version of the Wii that was fully functional I could see it people grabbing a second one in the house or cottage. Just because its red doesn't mean Canadians are going to want it.
4) Why now? Even the Wii U is not significantly more expensive then a $100 crippled Wii. Any kid opening up this POS will be very disappointing when all their friends are opening up a Wii U for only $200 more.
5) Canadians are rich (comparatively to the US), we do not need a cheap-ass version of the Wii this Christmas. I think Nintendo got Canada confused with the US which is headed for a financial ruin.
I think Nintendo has jumped the shark (or rather Mushroom). Was just at a Walmart and they had the Wii U in stock. Was at least 3 months before I started seeing Wii's on the store shelves. Nintendo is *****ked.
I'd feel much safer if you stopped driving your motorbike in between cars, cutting me off in traffic and then veering across 6 lanes doing 120 mph just to make an exit.
Bikers riding bikes is the leading cause of death of bikers.
Don't build data centers in a coastal city under sea level. Just like you don't build nuclear power plants in tsunami prone regions where the backup generator is next to the sea. We can all either fear global warming and its effects, or we can adapt to it and start thinking about how to plan for future technological advancement that doesn't leave us victims of bad weather.
There are no natural disasters, only disasters in human arrogance.