My bank uses a similar system, except as well as requiring a debit card for my account and pin, I have 3 different modes - identify, respond and sign which require different bits of information. In order to authorise a transaction to a new payee I have to enter both the amount and part of the recipients account number to generate the code I then enter into the banking site.
Few IT support departments will install FF4 or Chrome as they cannot be adequately (or easily) locked down. IE at least gives the impression you are locking it down, and provides easy to use tools to do so. Firefox can be locked down to a degree but it is non trivial to do so.
What about all the small internal apps that only work in older versions of IE?
I'm not sticking up for MS and old versions of IE, just stating that there are a lot of situations where companies simply cannot afford to upgrade at the moment.
We have Windows XP on our private LAN (and consider ourselves lucky). We have Win2k3 with IE7 for the Internet via Shitrix which then goes via proxy in another continent (slow).
We can't upgrade from IE7 because internal sites wont work in IE8. And no, apparently we can't have Firefox or Chrome too because they can't lock it down.
Thank God for allowing use of iPads and 3G in the lobby!
Except that with Windows XP you don't get prompted that a new OS is available - you have to consciously go out and buy Windows 7 (for an arm and a leg). With the iPhone 3G, iTunes prompts you to install iOS 4. And iOS 4 is not suitable for the iPhone3G - it's appalling that Apple offer it as the latest OS for that device when they clearly know it cannot support it (as I know from my own experiences), but other than that it is hardly surprising it doesn't work well on it.
Downgrading it to 3.x isn't that hard either though. This is really a non story.
23 minutes for 4x (as you'd expect) - not bad. 4x DVD is about 14 minutes - so it's approximately twice as long but 5 times the amount of data. And as other posters have said, 4x isn't exactly state of the art.
Betamax - the dominant professional video format, and *still* lives on as one of the popular digital mastering formats for pre-glass masters. Digital Audio Tape - the defacto standard for studios master mixes, radio archives, etc. Admittedly it is dying out now, but it ruled for 20 years. ATRAC - still used in PS3. Minidisc was also very popular here in the UK, and it was popular with radio stations for jingles etc. It is also the current standard for some of the audio books for the blind charities (try finding an MP3 player that blind people can use).
I'll give you MemoryStick (eugh) and Universal Media Disc though.
I disagree - the iPhone4 cpu is very good. Yes, there are more powerful phones on the market, but there are even more that are less powerful, and it is more than enough for 99% of the things people want to do at the moment on the device. Once there are more multi-core devices around then I'm sure this will change as expectations increase, but the reality is that the device is still faster in use than a lot of peoples home and office computers.
The camera is good enough to the point that I stop taking my DSLR to most places I visit. I know that sounds absurd, but 95% of the time I'm not taking photos to print at A3 or A2 to go on my wall, I'm taking nothing more than snapshots to view on the computer or printed at say 7x5 max. The built in GPS metadata is more use to me than a huge highly-resolved image file that contains generally sub-optimal lighting, composition, and people getting in the way, and I get to spend more time walking with my girlfriend than if I was fiddling with a tripod and multiple lenses. If I think something is likely to make a breathtaking shot then I can always plan a visit back when there will be better lighting - easy because it is already GPS tagged for me.
I'm sure there are android / other phones that are similar in specification too that I could do exactly the same with though, but I like iOS.
They did. They are. The cooling and secondary cooling failed. The plant was designed for a 5.7 earthquake and was hit with one of the biggest quakes ever experienced, followed by one of the worst tsunamis. Of course things fucked up - it wasn't designed to withstand it.
I was purely commenting on my parent and not on this story.
I fully agree with everything you are saying, and I feel this story is going to do nothing but fuel anti-nuclear movements which I don't think the world can realistically afford at the moment.
These reactors were old too, but this disaster (which was beyond what they were designed to withstand) is going to impact negatively on nuclear power for decades even though the overall impact is far less than any other power source we have available to us today.
Exactly. I'm a freelance consultant, currently working at a large UK company with a massive international parent. We are forced to use IE7 on our Shitrix thin clients for internet access. There are significant chunks of the web that don't work with IE7, but the IT department don't seem to care - as long as they can lock it down with Windows group policies it is fine with them.
Some days I have to leave the office and use my iPhone to access websites and then email myself files! Sigh!
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My bank uses a similar system, except as well as requiring a debit card for my account and pin, I have 3 different modes - identify, respond and sign which require different bits of information. In order to authorise a transaction to a new payee I have to enter both the amount and part of the recipients account number to generate the code I then enter into the banking site.
Shows how much I use it :-)
Few IT support departments will install FF4 or Chrome as they cannot be adequately (or easily) locked down. IE at least gives the impression you are locking it down, and provides easy to use tools to do so. Firefox can be locked down to a degree but it is non trivial to do so.
What about all the small internal apps that only work in older versions of IE?
I'm not sticking up for MS and old versions of IE, just stating that there are a lot of situations where companies simply cannot afford to upgrade at the moment.
I have opera mobile on iOS, so there is a choice...
IE8 breaks lots of commercial webapps, especially those used by small businesses.
So we should switch to IE8 and not worry about those apps?
Windows 7? Whut?
We have Windows XP on our private LAN (and consider ourselves lucky). We have Win2k3 with IE7 for the Internet via Shitrix which then goes via proxy in another continent (slow).
We can't upgrade from IE7 because internal sites wont work in IE8. And no, apparently we can't have Firefox or Chrome too because they can't lock it down.
Thank God for allowing use of iPads and 3G in the lobby!
My DVD player has a HDMI output and handles this no problem.
Mod parent up.
Except that with Windows XP you don't get prompted that a new OS is available - you have to consciously go out and buy Windows 7 (for an arm and a leg). With the iPhone 3G, iTunes prompts you to install iOS 4. And iOS 4 is not suitable for the iPhone3G - it's appalling that Apple offer it as the latest OS for that device when they clearly know it cannot support it (as I know from my own experiences), but other than that it is hardly surprising it doesn't work well on it.
Downgrading it to 3.x isn't that hard either though. This is really a non story.
23 minutes for 4x (as you'd expect) - not bad. 4x DVD is about 14 minutes - so it's approximately twice as long but 5 times the amount of data.
And as other posters have said, 4x isn't exactly state of the art.
Betamax - the dominant professional video format, and *still* lives on as one of the popular digital mastering formats for pre-glass masters.
Digital Audio Tape - the defacto standard for studios master mixes, radio archives, etc. Admittedly it is dying out now, but it ruled for 20 years.
ATRAC - still used in PS3. Minidisc was also very popular here in the UK, and it was popular with radio stations for jingles etc. It is also the current standard for some of the audio books for the blind charities (try finding an MP3 player that blind people can use).
I'll give you MemoryStick (eugh) and Universal Media Disc though.
I don't have Flash. I can use YouTube.
Like http://ubuntustudio.org/ ?
Units of measurement are constantly being adjusted...
I don't think bokeh means what you think it does.
I disagree - the iPhone4 cpu is very good. Yes, there are more powerful phones on the market, but there are even more that are less powerful, and it is more than enough for 99% of the things people want to do at the moment on the device. Once there are more multi-core devices around then I'm sure this will change as expectations increase, but the reality is that the device is still faster in use than a lot of peoples home and office computers.
The camera is good enough to the point that I stop taking my DSLR to most places I visit. I know that sounds absurd, but 95% of the time I'm not taking photos to print at A3 or A2 to go on my wall, I'm taking nothing more than snapshots to view on the computer or printed at say 7x5 max. The built in GPS metadata is more use to me than a huge highly-resolved image file that contains generally sub-optimal lighting, composition, and people getting in the way, and I get to spend more time walking with my girlfriend than if I was fiddling with a tripod and multiple lenses. If I think something is likely to make a breathtaking shot then I can always plan a visit back when there will be better lighting - easy because it is already GPS tagged for me.
I'm sure there are android / other phones that are similar in specification too that I could do exactly the same with though, but I like iOS.
They did. They are. The cooling and secondary cooling failed. The plant was designed for a 5.7 earthquake and was hit with one of the biggest quakes ever experienced, followed by one of the worst tsunamis. Of course things fucked up - it wasn't designed to withstand it.
The fuel rods are hot. There is still lots of heat. The system is designed to require sufficient water to cool the rods. The water has gone.
I was purely commenting on my parent and not on this story.
I fully agree with everything you are saying, and I feel this story is going to do nothing but fuel anti-nuclear movements which I don't think the world can realistically afford at the moment.
These reactors were old too, but this disaster (which was beyond what they were designed to withstand) is going to impact negatively on nuclear power for decades even though the overall impact is far less than any other power source we have available to us today.
“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who haven't got it.” -- Bernard Shaw
There is no iMac pro.
LOL I wish I had mod points and hadn't posted anything here :-)
You mean Linux Drizzle Apache PHP, surely?
LDAP...
Wait a minute!! DOH!
Exactly. I'm a freelance consultant, currently working at a large UK company with a massive international parent. We are forced to use IE7 on our Shitrix thin clients for internet access. There are significant chunks of the web that don't work with IE7, but the IT department don't seem to care - as long as they can lock it down with Windows group policies it is fine with them.
Some days I have to leave the office and use my iPhone to access websites and then email myself files! Sigh!
Failure.
Fail.