Have fun if anyone accidentally swipe you droid screen with a permanent marker.
A quick wipe with a tissue moistened with isopropyl would take care of that. Anyone who knows how to care for flat screens will have 90% isopropyl on hand.
A fan was not acceptable either, of course. Thus form took precedence over good design and there were functional problems in the end.
Steve Jobs' hatred of fans has been the case since the original Apple. Wasn't the original Apple computer the one that had to be picked up and dropped onto the desktop from about 6" to reseat the chips which would "walk" out of the sockets due to thermal issues?
He kind of does have a point though; Mac Pros at 100% CPU utilization come close to the loudness of a SuperMicro chassis running full tilt.
Well I am sorry to inform you Apple just used generic hardened glass on the back and the front to save a few bucks having to pay Dow Corning a license fee.
Gorilla Glass was invented in 1962 so what license fee would Apple have to pay if they decide to have another foundry manufacture the exact same formulation? It's not like anything invented in 1962 would still enjoy patent protection. The only way Apple would have to pay any such licensing fee is if they wanted to use the trademark - but if they did choose Dow Corning(TM) Gorilla Glass(TM) they probably would not even have to pay that just to mention "hey our phones are now ruggedized with Gorilla Glass" - Dow would be happy to get the free PR in addition to selling Apple the components, I'm sure.
Are you suggested that by observing the actions, He changes the outcome?
* Horse race announcer: It's a quantum finish! And the winner is-(Man holds up a board with the winning horse on it)
Horse race announcer: Harry Trotter!
Professor Farnsworth: No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it!
I think if anyone wanted to spy on someone for copying commercially viable nuclear power plant technology, they would be spying on the French, not Iranians.
And, it is rather easy to go to any Linux distro site and now even commercial software developers' sites and find bittorrent links to legitimate product.
Sure it is in the minority now, but that is true of any kind of download technology.
* Fully scriptable
* Easy to back up and duplicate to backup server
* Backups are easy to restore
* Better, more complete logging
* Easy to administer remotely
* Easy to make self-healing with nagios
* No server license + client access license (no nickel-and-diming) and no worrying about whether to choose per-user or per-device
* disaster recovery is easy to be made 100% successful and repeatable in your staging environment - using BSD userland tools, not having to spend thousands to tens of thousands on buggy proprietary solutions
* It requires a sysadmin with a clue, which greatly increases your chances of continual uptime and avoiding the need for disaster recovery in the first place
* Easy to cluster without having to pay for an expensive "enterprise edition" of Windows
* Inexpensive to replicate to your staging environment - legally avoiding have to pay for additional server license for the one-time-use software
Disadvantages:
* You need to not be a mouth-breather to configure it (your average drooling paper-MCSE with no experience need not apply)
* The documentation sucks
I dunno. I rather fancy the idea of seeing scumbag lawyers (especially lobbyists, congressmen, senators, etc. - the whole lot of them) impaled on rebar.:)
I don't want to fly commercial any more, and it's not due to fear of ter'rists. It's out of anger that my government is not approaching this scientifically. They are ignoring forensic science and not profiling, out of fear of offending foreign nationals. Because they refuse to profile, I have to check luggage rather than carry it on (I usually bring tools with me), I can't bring bottle water or soup on the aircraft with me, and am stuck eating airplane food - which invariably makes me sick due to allergies. (They prohibit peanuts due to political correctness now, but every damn airplane snack and meal has soy in it. Go figure.)
Sooo, I drive whenever possible instead, and I will continue to drive long trips until I can earn a flight certificate and buy (or build) my own airplane.:)
Of course Homeland Security wants GA dead as well so in a few years even that may not be an option.
It is not about legitimate security concerns. as a SAM would hit the aircraft regardless of whether or not an app captured transponder data and superimposed it on a map or not. In fact this app would probably not help a terrorist very much at all, except possibly with identifying a specific aircraft - but don't you think that the terrorist would have receivers already, be listening to VHF transmissions between the cockpit and air traffic control, and so on?
This kind of app is most useful for aviation nuts who like to track weather, aircraft flights, and other trivia no one will care about a day later. It is good for GA to know what's in the air around you (ignoring FCC and FAA regs about cellphones in the air), and it's particularly good for seeing for yourself how busy air space is along your intended route as you plan.
What is this whole stink all about?
Homeland Security Theater. It's about time for the season premier episode and this seems to be it. It is all about a Wizard of Oz like production where we are supposed to watch the media rantings, and not seeing the puny man behind the curtain for the farce he is. It is all about continued existence of Homeland Security and the huge tax burden it creates to support that woefully inadequate charade while not doing what it takes to actually prevent terrorist attacks (e.g., profiling international flight passengers, deporting illegal aliens, stopping illegal immigration, I mean, invasion, at the borders). It is about forcing Americans to embrace the idea of big government, a nanny state, and a global government with no checks and balances.
It is not about real security at all. It's about a temporary apparent security for which we are exchanging our essential liberties.
Compare a machine running Vista to one running either XP or Win7 and you'll understand.
You can optimize Vista to be less of a RAM and CPU hog, but you need to turn off all the toys, and you'll have to patch it to fix that stupid DRM bug where if you are playing audio with Microsoft's programs, network throughput slows down by 90%. You need to turn UAC completely off because not only is it so obnoxious it can make the PC unbearable to use, but locks you completely out of certain configuration dialogs (the linkbuttons in some of the forms(dialog screens) don't work if you are not admin and UAC isn't turned off.
Contrast that to Windows 7; with the toys turned off it is as fast as XP. With all the toys turned on, with Aero fully enabled, etc. it's much faster than Vista, and still feels as responsive as XP UAC is actually not annoying in Windows 7, and it actually seems to protect the system better. Even with UAC enabled and running as a normal user, it is easy to configure "old and busted" apps which require Admin access to run with the required privileges, and there aren't any linkbuttons UAC completely disables. UAC is implemented a lot more intelligently than on Vista. It still isn't Mac OS X nor is it Linux (it's hard to beat OS X or YaST asking for the password once when required, and then remembering that password for a few minutes during the current session - and it is not a recent development on either *nix-type OS) but Windows 7 (and by extension Win2K8/2K8r2) was a tremendous improvement over any previous Windows release by practically any measure.
But, is Windows XP good enough? Is Windows 7's improvement alone worth the investment? It is doubtful. Even as much as Windows 7 has improved security, it is still very susceptible to viruses and malware. It is far too easy for user/social engineering to trick the typical Windows user into installing a trojan horse. You still need to slow down your new shiny with antivirus, antispyware, and other security software - at which point you may as well stick with your Pentium D or Core 2 which came with XP preinstalled until the PC gives up the magic blue smoke.
It is hard to build a new PC for less than the price of a new complete (albeit crappy) PC preloaded with malware and trialware. Just the cost of a good motherboard and decent i5 or lower end i7 will be about the same as the price of a brand new PC from a big box store.
You are obviously the racist since you are scouring the site looking for something to play the "racism card" over. If you actually read my post you will see that I very clearly posted 'William "Bill" Jefferson Clinton' - that is his full name, isn't it? Isn't "Jefferson" Slick Willie's middle name?
It's about time someone builds a hybrid car with gas turbines. I've been wondering for years when a car manufacturer will do it. Turbines burn very cleanly, are very efficient when used for appropriate applications, and let's face it: there are few things that sound as cool as a turbine spooling up.:)
There was also a format issue in the 80's the made them reuse tapes for a period. IIRC
Right, because Betacam and VHS recorders were not readily available, so they destroyed original footage of monumental achievements.
I understand the root cause: NASA has since the '70s been under-funded but still - they could have saved the footage by going to newer, superior and less expensive formats and preserve the original media.
And if a business gets so big it threatens individual liberties? Well that's the government's fault, somehow.
No, it's our own fault for constantly reelecting the same douchebags into office, or voting based on the color of one's skin (see: Duval Patrick, Barack Hussein Obama), or how handsome someone is (William "Bill" Jefferson Clinton), or how "texan" someone is (both Bushes). The truth is there isn't much of anything I like about the last four presidents as they have all seemed to be against growth of the American economy, and pro-offshoring.
And, oddly enough, that "evil" Democrat Bill Clinton's administration probably had the best economic policies out of the last four Presidents' (inclusive of the current one) administrations.
The truth is, we need good sound business management mentalities in the Oval Office and Congress now - people who are truly old-school thinkers who value long-term growth over the quick buck.
We need people with patriotic interests at heart, somewhat like H. Ross Perot and Ron Paul in office, but tempered with better communication and diplomatic skills. We need to vote for the best candidate for every regardless of faith color or creed, and regardless of whether or not the guy is "popular" in a celebrity sense. I don't care whether a candidate looks like Fabio or Steve Buscemi. I care whether or not that candidate recognizes that the making of an excellent leader is someone who is looking to serve rather than to be served.
With my luck, I'll get the automated car which decides not to obey the three laws. Besides I LIKE driving and I love performance cars. I'll keep it in manual mode, thankyouverymuch. Everyone else can take the automated lanes to clear the highways so I can go 185mph+.:)
Instance A: You buy a phone and own it outright. You wish to chance carriers. Oops. carrier lock. Jailbreak/root and unlock it. Interoperability!
Instance B: You buy a video game console and own it outright. You want to install Linux and use it as a cheap theater PC/media server. Jailbreak it and install what you want. Interoperability!
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Steve Jobs' hatred of fans has been the case since the original Apple. Wasn't the original Apple computer the one that had to be picked up and dropped onto the desktop from about 6" to reseat the chips which would "walk" out of the sockets due to thermal issues?
He kind of does have a point though; Mac Pros at 100% CPU utilization come close to the loudness of a SuperMicro chassis running full tilt.
Gorilla Glass was invented in 1962 so what license fee would Apple have to pay if they decide to have another foundry manufacture the exact same formulation? It's not like anything invented in 1962 would still enjoy patent protection. The only way Apple would have to pay any such licensing fee is if they wanted to use the trademark - but if they did choose Dow Corning(TM) Gorilla Glass(TM) they probably would not even have to pay that just to mention "hey our phones are now ruggedized with Gorilla Glass" - Dow would be happy to get the free PR in addition to selling Apple the components, I'm sure.
Are you suggested that by observing the actions, He changes the outcome?
* Horse race announcer: It's a quantum finish! And the winner is-(Man holds up a board with the winning horse on it)
Horse race announcer: Harry Trotter!
Professor Farnsworth: No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it!
I think if anyone wanted to spy on someone for copying commercially viable nuclear power plant technology, they would be spying on the French, not Iranians.
Xara Xtreme (aka Xara LX) is dead and has been for years. :-(
You accidentally the whole thing!
And, it is rather easy to go to any Linux distro site and now even commercial software developers' sites and find bittorrent links to legitimate product.
Sure it is in the minority now, but that is true of any kind of download technology.
Some of us use links, you insensitive clod!
mv $config-file $config-file.bk-`date +%G%m%d`
It makes rollbacks a cinch. You could optionally add %H%M%S if testing in a live environment.
Why use Win2K8 for a domain/active directory when you can use Samba4 instead?
http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4
Advantages:
* Fully scriptable
* Easy to back up and duplicate to backup server
* Backups are easy to restore
* Better, more complete logging
* Easy to administer remotely
* Easy to make self-healing with nagios
* No server license + client access license (no nickel-and-diming) and no worrying about whether to choose per-user or per-device
* disaster recovery is easy to be made 100% successful and repeatable in your staging environment - using BSD userland tools, not having to spend thousands to tens of thousands on buggy proprietary solutions
* It requires a sysadmin with a clue, which greatly increases your chances of continual uptime and avoiding the need for disaster recovery in the first place
* Easy to cluster without having to pay for an expensive "enterprise edition" of Windows
* Inexpensive to replicate to your staging environment - legally avoiding have to pay for additional server license for the one-time-use software
Disadvantages:
* You need to not be a mouth-breather to configure it (your average drooling paper-MCSE with no experience need not apply)
* The documentation sucks
Correction: after trolling like a sociopath you have trouble using /. from your own IP.
The fix: stop trolling, and participate in the discussion like a rational human being - even if you have to fake it! ;)
I dunno. I rather fancy the idea of seeing scumbag lawyers (especially lobbyists, congressmen, senators, etc. - the whole lot of them) impaled on rebar. :)
I don't want to fly commercial any more, and it's not due to fear of ter'rists. It's out of anger that my government is not approaching this scientifically. They are ignoring forensic science and not profiling, out of fear of offending foreign nationals. Because they refuse to profile, I have to check luggage rather than carry it on (I usually bring tools with me), I can't bring bottle water or soup on the aircraft with me, and am stuck eating airplane food - which invariably makes me sick due to allergies. (They prohibit peanuts due to political correctness now, but every damn airplane snack and meal has soy in it. Go figure.)
Sooo, I drive whenever possible instead, and I will continue to drive long trips until I can earn a flight certificate and buy (or build) my own airplane. :)
Of course Homeland Security wants GA dead as well so in a few years even that may not be an option.
It is not about legitimate security concerns. as a SAM would hit the aircraft regardless of whether or not an app captured transponder data and superimposed it on a map or not. In fact this app would probably not help a terrorist very much at all, except possibly with identifying a specific aircraft - but don't you think that the terrorist would have receivers already, be listening to VHF transmissions between the cockpit and air traffic control, and so on?
This kind of app is most useful for aviation nuts who like to track weather, aircraft flights, and other trivia no one will care about a day later. It is good for GA to know what's in the air around you (ignoring FCC and FAA regs about cellphones in the air), and it's particularly good for seeing for yourself how busy air space is along your intended route as you plan.
What is this whole stink all about?
Homeland Security Theater. It's about time for the season premier episode and this seems to be it. It is all about a Wizard of Oz like production where we are supposed to watch the media rantings, and not seeing the puny man behind the curtain for the farce he is. It is all about continued existence of Homeland Security and the huge tax burden it creates to support that woefully inadequate charade while not doing what it takes to actually prevent terrorist attacks (e.g., profiling international flight passengers, deporting illegal aliens, stopping illegal immigration, I mean, invasion, at the borders). It is about forcing Americans to embrace the idea of big government, a nanny state, and a global government with no checks and balances.
It is not about real security at all. It's about a temporary apparent security for which we are exchanging our essential liberties.
Here's an idea: How about protecting the borders and allowing ICE to deport illegal aliens who are already here? That would be a great first step.
Compare a machine running Vista to one running either XP or Win7 and you'll understand.
You can optimize Vista to be less of a RAM and CPU hog, but you need to turn off all the toys, and you'll have to patch it to fix that stupid DRM bug where if you are playing audio with Microsoft's programs, network throughput slows down by 90%. You need to turn UAC completely off because not only is it so obnoxious it can make the PC unbearable to use, but locks you completely out of certain configuration dialogs (the linkbuttons in some of the forms(dialog screens) don't work if you are not admin and UAC isn't turned off.
Contrast that to Windows 7; with the toys turned off it is as fast as XP. With all the toys turned on, with Aero fully enabled, etc. it's much faster than Vista, and still feels as responsive as XP UAC is actually not annoying in Windows 7, and it actually seems to protect the system better. Even with UAC enabled and running as a normal user, it is easy to configure "old and busted" apps which require Admin access to run with the required privileges, and there aren't any linkbuttons UAC completely disables. UAC is implemented a lot more intelligently than on Vista. It still isn't Mac OS X nor is it Linux (it's hard to beat OS X or YaST asking for the password once when required, and then remembering that password for a few minutes during the current session - and it is not a recent development on either *nix-type OS) but Windows 7 (and by extension Win2K8/2K8r2) was a tremendous improvement over any previous Windows release by practically any measure.
But, is Windows XP good enough? Is Windows 7's improvement alone worth the investment? It is doubtful. Even as much as Windows 7 has improved security, it is still very susceptible to viruses and malware. It is far too easy for user/social engineering to trick the typical Windows user into installing a trojan horse. You still need to slow down your new shiny with antivirus, antispyware, and other security software - at which point you may as well stick with your Pentium D or Core 2 which came with XP preinstalled until the PC gives up the magic blue smoke.
Isn't that free tech support good for only the first 90 days of ownership, and for installation only?
It is hard to build a new PC for less than the price of a new complete (albeit crappy) PC preloaded with malware and trialware. Just the cost of a good motherboard and decent i5 or lower end i7 will be about the same as the price of a brand new PC from a big box store.
You are obviously the racist since you are scouring the site looking for something to play the "racism card" over. If you actually read my post you will see that I very clearly posted 'William "Bill" Jefferson Clinton' - that is his full name, isn't it? Isn't "Jefferson" Slick Willie's middle name?
It's about time someone builds a hybrid car with gas turbines. I've been wondering for years when a car manufacturer will do it. Turbines burn very cleanly, are very efficient when used for appropriate applications, and let's face it: there are few things that sound as cool as a turbine spooling up. :)
Right, because Betacam and VHS recorders were not readily available, so they destroyed original footage of monumental achievements.
I understand the root cause: NASA has since the '70s been under-funded but still - they could have saved the footage by going to newer, superior and less expensive formats and preserve the original media.
No, it's our own fault for constantly reelecting the same douchebags into office, or voting based on the color of one's skin (see: Duval Patrick, Barack Hussein Obama), or how handsome someone is (William "Bill" Jefferson Clinton), or how "texan" someone is (both Bushes). The truth is there isn't much of anything I like about the last four presidents as they have all seemed to be against growth of the American economy, and pro-offshoring.
And, oddly enough, that "evil" Democrat Bill Clinton's administration probably had the best economic policies out of the last four Presidents' (inclusive of the current one) administrations.
The truth is, we need good sound business management mentalities in the Oval Office and Congress now - people who are truly old-school thinkers who value long-term growth over the quick buck.
We need people with patriotic interests at heart, somewhat like H. Ross Perot and Ron Paul in office, but tempered with better communication and diplomatic skills. We need to vote for the best candidate for every regardless of faith color or creed, and regardless of whether or not the guy is "popular" in a celebrity sense. I don't care whether a candidate looks like Fabio or Steve Buscemi. I care whether or not that candidate recognizes that the making of an excellent leader is someone who is looking to serve rather than to be served.
With my luck, I'll get the automated car which decides not to obey the three laws. Besides I LIKE driving and I love performance cars. I'll keep it in manual mode, thankyouverymuch. Everyone else can take the automated lanes to clear the highways so I can go 185mph+. :)
How is that?
Instance A: You buy a phone and own it outright. You wish to chance carriers. Oops. carrier lock. Jailbreak/root and unlock it. Interoperability!
Instance B: You buy a video game console and own it outright. You want to install Linux and use it as a cheap theater PC/media server. Jailbreak it and install what you want. Interoperability!
How is either not an explicit exception?