So what's the real value-added to calling out cloud services every time something fails?
Because we are hoping sooner or later PHB types will realize that vendor lock in is a bad idea, no matter how benevolent the vendor may be. With a lot of cloud apps, you either don't have the means to use the backup data if the vendor exits the business, you may not even have the means to make a backup (but have to export each individual record in a completely different format), or using the backup in a different app may mangle the formatting (in the case of text files, spreadsheets etc) or in extreme cases (SugarCRM enterprise) the service "licensing" may prevent you from using your backed up data in an alternative program.
I'm sorry, what? Windows is "safer" than OS X? "In fact"?
Of course it is; look at how many patches Microsoft releases to improve Windows security. If Apple were better at their job they would release more patches, would they not? Obviously if Apple isn't constantly in firefight modes releasing patches, they're just being lazy.;)
Obsessive-compulsive disorder leads to get another Windows "administrator" deploying policies to make the system less user friendly. Bravo!
Want the recycle bin cleaned up? Try doing it properly - deploy powershell and create a service similar to the temp cleanup script on better systems (like UNIX and UNIX clones) where temp files, or in your case, the recycle bin is cleaned up automagically after (n) days. Or, just leverage the cleanup utilities built into Windows. Or, better yet, if you want a single-step delete method for yourself, RTFM and discover the shift-delete method, which immediately deletes the file(s) rather than moving it(them) to the recycle bin.
In other words, become a better system administrator rather than forcing a user-hostile change down your users' throats.
A related term is Extreme Definition (or XD). This is a term used on the Internet[citation needed], referring to the 1440p - 2560x1440 - resolution. The term was formulated with Extreme High Definition in mind, since both standards share the 2560 pixel horizontal resolution. To avoid confusion between the two resolutions, however, the word high was left out.
For several months, the only device which output this as its native resolution was Apple's 27-inch iMac. As of February 10, 2010 Dell has introduced a 27" 1440p display.
No. There are mom & pops who get suckered into SEO promises on a daily basis. There are two kinds of customers who use SEO: those who don't know any better, or are unaware their "designer" is engaging in black hat SEO, and those who entertain the idea for a while and decide to take the risk.
Those who risk black hat SEO
Here's the situation: unless you are in a totally saturated market it is extremely easy to achieve high placement organic search results if you follow Google's guidelines. You don't have to cheat at all but you do have to pay careful attention to having relevant content, clean HTML, and following accessibility guidlines helps a great deal as well. Don't spam your META tags but don't ignore them either.
We've had a couple clients leave to go with SEO specialists who happen to also build web sites, because we do web development but take advantage of Google's recommendations in the process. One client in particular - we'll just refer to him as P. for now, kept asking us about SEO every time traffic power contacted him (always under a new and different operating name because as you know every time Google finds them they punt them from the index, along with all their clients). P. did listen to us about not going with that company but has been suckered by six or seven different independent "SEO consultants."
Now, P. is in a very competitive, saturated market but even so we had achieved respectable search results. We recommended he start submitting his product to third-party distributors and ask them to link back as part of the effort to increase distribution, maybe get a few contractors to exclusively rely on his products and link back to P.'s site, and maybe get a few independent review companies and labs (like Consumer Reports) to review his product, and they would of course link to his site in the review. We also recommended a good Google adwords campaign until his product achieved critical mass.
Another thing you need to know about P.: He is not frugal but he is cheap. He would phrase things like "can you do me a favor and. . . " or "how hard would it be to. . . " and try offering $100 or even as low as $25.00 for something that would require 20 hours or so to implement, test on a staging server, then back up the live server, deploy, and re-test. He just doesn't value anyone's time. I don't understand how but one of my partners had the patience to deal with him, but by the end my patience had long run out, and one time I asked P.: "Oh, you want that for $100? Say, can you come and $foo my $bar in three different $zags for $100.00? No? Then let me ask you this: why is it your time is so valuable, but no one else's is? (The truth is I wanted him gone since he kept one of our engineers on the phone hours each week picking his brain, under the guise of negotiating but unfortunately he was with us another two years. I also worded it a bit more diplomatically than that, but it was the general point). In fact it is my fault we ever got involved with P. in the first place. He suckered us and I believed he was having a hard time getting his product out there, so I convinced my partners to take him on and help him out, giving him a fully-populated web site for $1,200.00. It was based on OS Commerce to save ourselves time so the HTML output wasn't the cleanest but we explained the pros and cons to him up front, and he decided to go with it. Over time we cleaned up some of the HTML output but over the years he was with us he kept asking for better search results, and a nicer design. We would come back with a detailed quote including graphic design time, implementing the design and then development of the features he wanted, and even though we gave him a really good deal, he would come back with something about how the original site cost him only $1,200.00. (hint: don't ever do favors for a cheapskate; they never appreciate it)
Within a couple of years he was netting $360K per year. For a one-man shop doing what he is doing, competing
If you can burn through 13 trillion dollars in two years and end up with higher unemployment, a continued credit crunch, and devaluation of the national currency, what better way is there to seek reelection than to distract the people?
would about sum this latest boondoggle up. $5B we all pay to bring broadband to the people who chose, knowing the limitations, to live in the sticks?
Riiight, so everyone ought to move into the cities, driving up housing costs even higher than the already unreasonable rate.
Also, you do realize that agriculture and mining is nearly always done "in the sticks" as you put it. Show me where you can fit a 6,000 acre farm, or even a 60 acre farmette within your average city. Even if there were room, complaints about noise, smell and dust would cause the farm to close, and property tax rates would bankrupt the farm.
Around agricultural and mining industries you need infrastructure, farmers need stores to buy clothes and foods they don't produce (and off season), they need cars and trucks and tractors.
Not only that, but living in an urban area results in much higher stress, which can have an impact on one's health.
To suggest that everyone congregate in cities is ridiculous.
When I watched this earlier I had the following thoughts:
* How neat would it be if there were four cameras, one looking out each side?
* How about a down-facing cam with a 360 view (as opposed to a fish-eye lens)
* How about a night flight?
* How about a flight which directs the camera UPWARD with exposure set to capture the stars?
* How about a flight with a high end DSLR with a 10mm or 12mm lens?
The problem is, there are so many people doing this now with cheap webcam-quality cameras that it has become almost boring, because the videos are all the same; the camera is bouncing around giving a view from a really lousy angle, so the ground is not captured well, and when the dark sky is visible you can't see anything because exposure is set for the ground. I'd love to see someone do something genuinely different; even just higher quality video or maybe some sort of stabilization would make a big difference.
Well, folks have thought better of this and decided that they had to plan for the day where we develop nanotech medicine, and have an IP address available for each cell-nanotech pair for an entire family, plus enough overhead to give the same for each pet.
It is more efficient, especially when given small labels and a monospace font in a label maker. Of course, they could probably do the word "at" oriented 90 degrees relative to the rest of the price
The debt to GDP ratio may be the highest since the 1940s but in the 1940s the debt was OVER 100% of the GDP.
It did not ruin us only because we had the most massive manufacturing base in existence, and when WWII was raging over in Europe our factories shifted into producing weaponry and vehicles to support the war against the axis powers. In other words, the manufacturing base was able to rapidly expand and shift into producing much-needed hardware to prevent globalist agenda of three nations, and when the war was over, most of the factories that had been converted to wartime production and most new factories turned to consumer goods once again.
Contrast that to now, when "American" cars are manufactured in Mexico, Canada, Taiwan, China, Japan, and so on. Buying an American-made television, camera, wristwatch, computer (note: I realize most are "assembled" here but the parts are made in the far east or Canada), CD or DVD, appliance, and so on. Most shoes and clothing items are made in Asia - usually the far east but increasingly in India. We export very little now, and Wal*Mart, once THE place to go to shop for MADE IN U.S.A. goods is now one of the companies pushing for offshoring the hardest, to drive price down regardless of impact on durability, reliability, and so on.
We have whored ourselves out for a quick buck, and the time has come to pay the piper. American "investors" have become little more than gamblers, with the day-trading rather than a real investment mindset.
If you went through the trouble of keeping the categories on the left-top region of the page. why did you not put the threshold slider there as well? It only makes sense to put it where it is always accessible because when you find a meaty discussion or if you have mod points and need to change the threshold settings, you need to scroll to the top then search for the part of the page you were previously reading.
Please consider moving the slider to the left where it is always visible.
Good point. I can recognize that there are no sequels: there is only The Matrix. Reloaded and Revolutions were merely rumors, and 4 and 5 obviously cannot exist if 2 and 3 were never made.:)
How can they do The Matrix 4 and 5, when they never did a 2 or 3?
Let me explain: I did see Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions, but those movies seemed to be a cheap ripoff of The Matrix, with the same cast and amazing visuals but with crappy plot and dialog. So, I consider it like Higlander: I am still waiting for them to produce a sequel. Highlander II was never made. Likewise, there was no Superman III or IV, no Rocky IV or V, and there was no Star Trek IV.
Call me when we have mastered a sustained, controllable hydrogen and/or helium fusion reaction and harnessed the output as usable heat - I mean, for something besides removing cities from existence.
I find it highly unlikely that anyone could master sustained fusion of heavy metals which requires far more input energy to ignite than hydrogen or helium fusion, which we still haven't achieved. Hydrogen fusion is great because hydrogen is cheap and plentiful, and the product is helium, and a two-stage system where the second stage of helium fusion would be even better because the product is either carbon or oxygen depending on reaction pressure and temperature - both of which would be "desirable" waste.
I don't need it for my Saab, and obviously not my 'Vettes. It would have been nice with a truck I had where every time I stepped down out of the truck if my calf brushed against the body I'd get zapped.
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Because we are hoping sooner or later PHB types will realize that vendor lock in is a bad idea, no matter how benevolent the vendor may be. With a lot of cloud apps, you either don't have the means to use the backup data if the vendor exits the business, you may not even have the means to make a backup (but have to export each individual record in a completely different format), or using the backup in a different app may mangle the formatting (in the case of text files, spreadsheets etc) or in extreme cases (SugarCRM enterprise) the service "licensing" may prevent you from using your backed up data in an alternative program.
Of course it is; look at how many patches Microsoft releases to improve Windows security. If Apple were better at their job they would release more patches, would they not? Obviously if Apple isn't constantly in firefight modes releasing patches, they're just being lazy. ;)
Obsessive-compulsive disorder leads to get another Windows "administrator" deploying policies to make the system less user friendly. Bravo!
Want the recycle bin cleaned up? Try doing it properly - deploy powershell and create a service similar to the temp cleanup script on better systems (like UNIX and UNIX clones) where temp files, or in your case, the recycle bin is cleaned up automagically after (n) days. Or, just leverage the cleanup utilities built into Windows. Or, better yet, if you want a single-step delete method for yourself, RTFM and discover the shift-delete method, which immediately deletes the file(s) rather than moving it(them) to the recycle bin.
In other words, become a better system administrator rather than forcing a user-hostile change down your users' throats.
(recommendation: tag this article "ocd")
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_High_Definition
No. There are mom & pops who get suckered into SEO promises on a daily basis. There are two kinds of customers who use SEO: those who don't know any better, or are unaware their "designer" is engaging in black hat SEO, and those who entertain the idea for a while and decide to take the risk.
Those who risk black hat SEO
Here's the situation: unless you are in a totally saturated market it is extremely easy to achieve high placement organic search results if you follow Google's guidelines. You don't have to cheat at all but you do have to pay careful attention to having relevant content, clean HTML, and following accessibility guidlines helps a great deal as well. Don't spam your META tags but don't ignore them either.
We've had a couple clients leave to go with SEO specialists who happen to also build web sites, because we do web development but take advantage of Google's recommendations in the process. One client in particular - we'll just refer to him as P. for now, kept asking us about SEO every time traffic power contacted him (always under a new and different operating name because as you know every time Google finds them they punt them from the index, along with all their clients). P. did listen to us about not going with that company but has been suckered by six or seven different independent "SEO consultants."
Now, P. is in a very competitive, saturated market but even so we had achieved respectable search results. We recommended he start submitting his product to third-party distributors and ask them to link back as part of the effort to increase distribution, maybe get a few contractors to exclusively rely on his products and link back to P.'s site, and maybe get a few independent review companies and labs (like Consumer Reports) to review his product, and they would of course link to his site in the review. We also recommended a good Google adwords campaign until his product achieved critical mass.
Another thing you need to know about P.: He is not frugal but he is cheap. He would phrase things like "can you do me a favor and. . . " or "how hard would it be to. . . " and try offering $100 or even as low as $25.00 for something that would require 20 hours or so to implement, test on a staging server, then back up the live server, deploy, and re-test. He just doesn't value anyone's time. I don't understand how but one of my partners had the patience to deal with him, but by the end my patience had long run out, and one time I asked P.: "Oh, you want that for $100? Say, can you come and $foo my $bar in three different $zags for $100.00? No? Then let me ask you this: why is it your time is so valuable, but no one else's is? (The truth is I wanted him gone since he kept one of our engineers on the phone hours each week picking his brain, under the guise of negotiating but unfortunately he was with us another two years. I also worded it a bit more diplomatically than that, but it was the general point). In fact it is my fault we ever got involved with P. in the first place. He suckered us and I believed he was having a hard time getting his product out there, so I convinced my partners to take him on and help him out, giving him a fully-populated web site for $1,200.00. It was based on OS Commerce to save ourselves time so the HTML output wasn't the cleanest but we explained the pros and cons to him up front, and he decided to go with it. Over time we cleaned up some of the HTML output but over the years he was with us he kept asking for better search results, and a nicer design. We would come back with a detailed quote including graphic design time, implementing the design and then development of the features he wanted, and even though we gave him a really good deal, he would come back with something about how the original site cost him only $1,200.00. (hint: don't ever do favors for a cheapskate; they never appreciate it)
Within a couple of years he was netting $360K per year. For a one-man shop doing what he is doing, competing
Fuck Sony.
bread and circuses
If you can burn through 13 trillion dollars in two years and end up with higher unemployment, a continued credit crunch, and devaluation of the national currency, what better way is there to seek reelection than to distract the people?
Riiight, so everyone ought to move into the cities, driving up housing costs even higher than the already unreasonable rate.
Also, you do realize that agriculture and mining is nearly always done "in the sticks" as you put it. Show me where you can fit a 6,000 acre farm, or even a 60 acre farmette within your average city. Even if there were room, complaints about noise, smell and dust would cause the farm to close, and property tax rates would bankrupt the farm.
Around agricultural and mining industries you need infrastructure, farmers need stores to buy clothes and foods they don't produce (and off season), they need cars and trucks and tractors.
Not only that, but living in an urban area results in much higher stress, which can have an impact on one's health.
To suggest that everyone congregate in cities is ridiculous.
They are selling the app for $1.99 rather than giving it away. What do you think?
The problem isn't the joke. The problem is that he didn't wait for a sufficient period of time to make the joke. :-p
No they don't; haven't you ever watched a dog eat its own vomit?
When I watched this earlier I had the following thoughts:
* How neat would it be if there were four cameras, one looking out each side?
* How about a down-facing cam with a 360 view (as opposed to a fish-eye lens)
* How about a night flight?
* How about a flight which directs the camera UPWARD with exposure set to capture the stars?
* How about a flight with a high end DSLR with a 10mm or 12mm lens?
The problem is, there are so many people doing this now with cheap webcam-quality cameras that it has become almost boring, because the videos are all the same; the camera is bouncing around giving a view from a really lousy angle, so the ground is not captured well, and when the dark sky is visible you can't see anything because exposure is set for the ground. I'd love to see someone do something genuinely different; even just higher quality video or maybe some sort of stabilization would make a big difference.
Well, folks have thought better of this and decided that they had to plan for the day where we develop nanotech medicine, and have an IP address available for each cell-nanotech pair for an entire family, plus enough overhead to give the same for each pet.
RAM and storage, of course!
It is more efficient, especially when given small labels and a monospace font in a label maker. Of course, they could probably do the word "at" oriented 90 degrees relative to the rest of the price
I remember even from grammar school that @ is the "commercial at" and is shorthand for "at"
Like, 3 @ 50(imagine the cent sign here - & cent ; does not render on /.)
It did not ruin us only because we had the most massive manufacturing base in existence, and when WWII was raging over in Europe our factories shifted into producing weaponry and vehicles to support the war against the axis powers. In other words, the manufacturing base was able to rapidly expand and shift into producing much-needed hardware to prevent globalist agenda of three nations, and when the war was over, most of the factories that had been converted to wartime production and most new factories turned to consumer goods once again.
Contrast that to now, when "American" cars are manufactured in Mexico, Canada, Taiwan, China, Japan, and so on. Buying an American-made television, camera, wristwatch, computer (note: I realize most are "assembled" here but the parts are made in the far east or Canada), CD or DVD, appliance, and so on. Most shoes and clothing items are made in Asia - usually the far east but increasingly in India. We export very little now, and Wal*Mart, once THE place to go to shop for MADE IN U.S.A. goods is now one of the companies pushing for offshoring the hardest, to drive price down regardless of impact on durability, reliability, and so on.
We have whored ourselves out for a quick buck, and the time has come to pay the piper. American "investors" have become little more than gamblers, with the day-trading rather than a real investment mindset.
If you went through the trouble of keeping the categories on the left-top region of the page. why did you not put the threshold slider there as well? It only makes sense to put it where it is always accessible because when you find a meaty discussion or if you have mod points and need to change the threshold settings, you need to scroll to the top then search for the part of the page you were previously reading.
Please consider moving the slider to the left where it is always visible.
Thanks!
Why not? It worked for the war on drugs.
Oh wait. . .
Good point. I can recognize that there are no sequels: there is only The Matrix. Reloaded and Revolutions were merely rumors, and 4 and 5 obviously cannot exist if 2 and 3 were never made. :)
and I am thanking him right now!
Are there any carjackings which do not go bad?
How can they do The Matrix 4 and 5, when they never did a 2 or 3?
Let me explain: I did see Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions, but those movies seemed to be a cheap ripoff of The Matrix, with the same cast and amazing visuals but with crappy plot and dialog. So, I consider it like Higlander: I am still waiting for them to produce a sequel. Highlander II was never made. Likewise, there was no Superman III or IV, no Rocky IV or V, and there was no Star Trek IV.
Call me when we have mastered a sustained, controllable hydrogen and/or helium fusion reaction and harnessed the output as usable heat - I mean, for something besides removing cities from existence.
I find it highly unlikely that anyone could master sustained fusion of heavy metals which requires far more input energy to ignite than hydrogen or helium fusion, which we still haven't achieved. Hydrogen fusion is great because hydrogen is cheap and plentiful, and the product is helium, and a two-stage system where the second stage of helium fusion would be even better because the product is either carbon or oxygen depending on reaction pressure and temperature - both of which would be "desirable" waste.
I don't need it for my Saab, and obviously not my 'Vettes. It would have been nice with a truck I had where every time I stepped down out of the truck if my calf brushed against the body I'd get zapped.