It's pretty bad when you have to evangelize a campus;)
Sorry, but on a related note, I've generally been impressed with NetBeans prior versions but they never picked up as much support as Eclipse did for plugins so I've been sticking with Eclipse. I think the last time I checked out NetBeans was when I wanted to fiddle with the Ruby plugin. Hopefully 7 will impress me before I end up removing it later.;)
Windows 7 has been less stellar on a machine that I had XP running fine on. I upgraded to an SSD and put Win7Pro64 on it, and have had nothing but issues.
My main complaint is with my sound card causing my machine to lock up hard if I'm launching/exiting a game and talking on Ventrilo at the same time.
I have a RAID array and Windows 7 keeps taking ownership of files inside folders on that drive causing issues when auto-patchers try to update content on that drive. (Permission denied!) Having to take ownership of the drive's folders every time the program updates is starting to REALLY get on my nerves.
I told Windows Update to ask me before applying updates and somehow it automatically applied a recent patch without asking.
There's also a curious condition occurring when I copy GBs of data off the SSD onto the RAID (and vice versa, but I know write speeds on SSD are not stellar) whereby Windows file copy slows to about 4KB/sec after 5 minutes. Canceling and restarting the copy where it left off speeds it up for about 5 minutes when it starts to crawl again.
I have none of those issues on my Linux partition on the same SSD (though, the games I run on Linux are not as resource intensive... so that issue cannot be compared, but the sole reason I have Windows is gaming.)
Is my ISP going to let me prepend to their domain name to find my computer? (I know that I had one ISP that let me do this back in 1997-ish and it was shortly disabled.)
This is one of my concerns with the numbers. (Granted, I have a dyndns account... but still) If I can connect to something like proteus.customer.rr.com (not my real ISP, or computer name [though, now I really want that for my computer name!]) then IPv4 is still easier to work with. Of course, they'd need some sort of name collision, and that could get messy. Even then, how long will services like dyndns remain free? Now you are looking at added possible cost for something that's not needed now (because ipv4 addresses are easy to remember) but is more of a convenience.
But, my primary concern is ISPs limiting the ability to have multiple computers connected through the broadband modem without an added up-charge like they do now with IPv4.
<caranalogy>That metric is like saying that traffic has picked up on the national highways, but <new car brand> hasn't been increasing at the same rate as Ford.</caranalogy>
Let's say we have 1 billion IPv4 computers active on the net using 1GB/month. Let's also say that we have 100 IPv6 computers active on the net using 1GB/month.
If you get +5% traffic on IPv4 it will be WAY higher (1GB * 1,000,000,000 * 0.05) than the +5% IPv6 traffic (1GB * 100 * 0.05) even though the actual counts have not changed. Using that metric, the IPv6 traffic would have to increase exponentially to catch up.
I've wondered if this was a limiting factor. Not too long ago (...not sure if it's still true) ISPs would charge for additional connections to the modem. This is why I think routers picked up more-so than necessity. I really only bought a router because I couldn't get more than one IP without paying extra for it.
I don't understand the love people have for One Note. I had it on my tablet a few years back. It was pretty bad at handwriting recognition and I just couldn't see the point of taking handwritten notes on a tablet when I could do it faster and more accurately on a keyboard.
Bullets don't just fly off in unwanted directions. If that were the case, they'd be terrible for what they are designed to do. Bullets fly in the direction you point the barrel. The fragments (frag) from the bullet striking an object and destroying itself is less likely to return in the direction the bullet was fired, but generally goes off in all kinds of directions with tremendous loss in velocity.
For some reason I just imagined rows upon rows of "slave camps" (drone camps?) made of your blocks. No individuality, everyone packed into blocks like sardines...
I'd argue that it's more about the capital/equipment.
I was never formally taught about tractors as a kid. While it's not "modern" by current standards, I learned from maintaining my grandfather and father's old John Deere tractors. What I learned is that there's probably only one complex part on the whole thing that takes little less than an hour to figure out (if you are slow.) The rest of the tractor is mechanically (and spectacularly) simple in design and operation. The interesting part is that we could still run those tractors on a regular basis and they work just fine even with some of them nearing 80 years old. They aren't extremely high horse power machines (The one I always thought was the most powerful [the 1940-1950s era Model 'R'] is only about 50HP) but they will pull a plow through a field or logs from a forest all day long. Heck, one tractor (a Ford N) was butchered by one of my now deceased relatives who made his own ad-hoc parts. Interestingly enough, the parts he added make it harder to work on than the stock machine. (My younger brother is currently in the process of rebuilding it back to stock.) The old tractors were pieces of art in how simple and productive a machine could be.
Point being: They don't need high end computer controlled machines to farm the land or learn how to maintain high end tractors. They just need simple machines that do the job, and the ambition to do it.
Give them a user account with no privileges. They can look at the command prompt all day if it makes them happy.
Besides, it shouldn't kill them to white list your server on one freaking port.
I certainly hope IT would hire someone smart enough to realize that you gave them no access. In fact, I'd hope they were smart enough to place that machine on it's own VLAN or outside the firewall so that you (the employee) couldn't grab whatever data was available on the internal network and broadcast it on whatever port you were given.
Yeah, what the worlds needs is some disgruntled employee putting a computer in their office that will dump client data out a particular port without IT knowing what is going on.
I'm not a Jehovah's Witness, but our family has pretty much never celebrated birthday's and other holidays (except Christmas). My parents (who are on again/off again Christian religious) visit me on mine and we go eat, but my brothers and I do not do anything besides Christmas... and that's good enough for me.
Actually, you could probably grief the PS3 player to hell and back simply by portal'ing them into things (like pits.) Heck, you could even treat them like companion cubes.
You don't have to store permissions information on the file system. Just create a symlink in the internal storage to the appdata folder on the SD Card. Heck, you could call the directory/external and when the dev needs to save something on the SD card they just save it to 'external' which would symlink to/sdcard/data/appname If the user ever decides to change where the app stores it's data, update the symlink.
The developer would then only have to do: FileWriter f = new FileWriter("external/myFile.txt");//...that would create the file on the SD Card.
If they store data on the small internal memory it's supposed to be private and only readable by a single app, but if you put the app on the SD card Google considers that data public: "The SD card system is intended to be a shared resource that all apps can access. The functionality you described is the purpose of internal (app private) storage." http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=16019
Which, of course, I think is poor security-wise... so feel free to add your own comments and star that if you think the same.;)
I imagine it's kind of like having a sumo wrestler (Microsoft) sitting on top of you. You flail your arms and legs around looking for something to grab hold of to try to get some leverage so you can at least attempt to get out from under it. The only problem is that the wrestler keeps shifting his weight around.
I'm not sure I've ever heard anyone say that consumer choice is efficient. In fact, I think I could argue that it's terribly inefficient. That's not to say that I want one company creating a particular product (because we all know how that ends up poorly.) As inefficient as it is, it's been proven that competition is always best for the consumer... and as a consumer, I support that.
Why is that the point? What could happen besides a fire or flood that could render your data unusable that you need a data-center on the other side of the globe to keep your data available 24/7?
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Damn, I finally thought I was going to "get some" by evangelizing.
It's pretty bad when you have to evangelize a campus ;)
Sorry, but on a related note, I've generally been impressed with NetBeans prior versions but they never picked up as much support as Eclipse did for plugins so I've been sticking with Eclipse. I think the last time I checked out NetBeans was when I wanted to fiddle with the Ruby plugin. Hopefully 7 will impress me before I end up removing it later. ;)
Windows 7 has been less stellar on a machine that I had XP running fine on. I upgraded to an SSD and put Win7Pro64 on it, and have had nothing but issues.
My main complaint is with my sound card causing my machine to lock up hard if I'm launching/exiting a game and talking on Ventrilo at the same time.
I have a RAID array and Windows 7 keeps taking ownership of files inside folders on that drive causing issues when auto-patchers try to update content on that drive. (Permission denied!) Having to take ownership of the drive's folders every time the program updates is starting to REALLY get on my nerves.
I told Windows Update to ask me before applying updates and somehow it automatically applied a recent patch without asking.
There's also a curious condition occurring when I copy GBs of data off the SSD onto the RAID (and vice versa, but I know write speeds on SSD are not stellar) whereby Windows file copy slows to about 4KB/sec after 5 minutes. Canceling and restarting the copy where it left off speeds it up for about 5 minutes when it starts to crawl again.
I have none of those issues on my Linux partition on the same SSD (though, the games I run on Linux are not as resource intensive... so that issue cannot be compared, but the sole reason I have Windows is gaming.)
Is my ISP going to let me prepend to their domain name to find my computer? (I know that I had one ISP that let me do this back in 1997-ish and it was shortly disabled.)
This is one of my concerns with the numbers. (Granted, I have a dyndns account... but still) If I can connect to something like proteus.customer.rr.com (not my real ISP, or computer name [though, now I really want that for my computer name!]) then IPv4 is still easier to work with. Of course, they'd need some sort of name collision, and that could get messy. Even then, how long will services like dyndns remain free? Now you are looking at added possible cost for something that's not needed now (because ipv4 addresses are easy to remember) but is more of a convenience.
But, my primary concern is ISPs limiting the ability to have multiple computers connected through the broadband modem without an added up-charge like they do now with IPv4.
<caranalogy>That metric is like saying that traffic has picked up on the national highways, but <new car brand> hasn't been increasing at the same rate as Ford.</caranalogy>
Let's say we have 1 billion IPv4 computers active on the net using 1GB/month.
Let's also say that we have 100 IPv6 computers active on the net using 1GB/month.
If you get +5% traffic on IPv4 it will be WAY higher (1GB * 1,000,000,000 * 0.05) than the +5% IPv6 traffic (1GB * 100 * 0.05) even though the actual counts have not changed. Using that metric, the IPv6 traffic would have to increase exponentially to catch up.
I've wondered if this was a limiting factor. Not too long ago (...not sure if it's still true) ISPs would charge for additional connections to the modem. This is why I think routers picked up more-so than necessity. I really only bought a router because I couldn't get more than one IP without paying extra for it.
I don't understand the love people have for One Note. I had it on my tablet a few years back. It was pretty bad at handwriting recognition and I just couldn't see the point of taking handwritten notes on a tablet when I could do it faster and more accurately on a keyboard.
Shouldn't it be:
We are waiting for another company to come up with something cool so we can buy it and put our name on it.
Pedant:
Bullets don't just fly off in unwanted directions. If that were the case, they'd be terrible for what they are designed to do. Bullets fly in the direction you point the barrel.
The fragments (frag) from the bullet striking an object and destroying itself is less likely to return in the direction the bullet was fired, but generally goes off in all kinds of directions with tremendous loss in velocity.
For some reason I just imagined rows upon rows of "slave camps" (drone camps?) made of your blocks. No individuality, everyone packed into blocks like sardines...
I'd argue that it's more about the capital/equipment.
I was never formally taught about tractors as a kid. While it's not "modern" by current standards, I learned from maintaining my grandfather and father's old John Deere tractors. What I learned is that there's probably only one complex part on the whole thing that takes little less than an hour to figure out (if you are slow.) The rest of the tractor is mechanically (and spectacularly) simple in design and operation. The interesting part is that we could still run those tractors on a regular basis and they work just fine even with some of them nearing 80 years old. They aren't extremely high horse power machines (The one I always thought was the most powerful [the 1940-1950s era Model 'R'] is only about 50HP) but they will pull a plow through a field or logs from a forest all day long. Heck, one tractor (a Ford N) was butchered by one of my now deceased relatives who made his own ad-hoc parts. Interestingly enough, the parts he added make it harder to work on than the stock machine. (My younger brother is currently in the process of rebuilding it back to stock.) The old tractors were pieces of art in how simple and productive a machine could be.
Point being: They don't need high end computer controlled machines to farm the land or learn how to maintain high end tractors. They just need simple machines that do the job, and the ambition to do it.
How would you manage to do that if the corrupt regime ran around burning all the fields in order to maintain their control of the food supply?
Give them a user account with no privileges. They can look at the command prompt all day if it makes them happy.
Besides, it shouldn't kill them to white list your server on one freaking port.
I certainly hope IT would hire someone smart enough to realize that you gave them no access. In fact, I'd hope they were smart enough to place that machine on it's own VLAN or outside the firewall so that you (the employee) couldn't grab whatever data was available on the internal network and broadcast it on whatever port you were given.
I would hope that computer is wiped before leaving the building. ;)
Yeah, what the worlds needs is some disgruntled employee putting a computer in their office that will dump client data out a particular port without IT knowing what is going on.
Just one cloud?
The only people I've seen complain about identity theft were on TV in a commercial for the company selling identity theft protection.
I'm not a Jehovah's Witness, but our family has pretty much never celebrated birthday's and other holidays (except Christmas). My parents (who are on again/off again Christian religious) visit me on mine and we go eat, but my brothers and I do not do anything besides Christmas... and that's good enough for me.
Actually, you could probably grief the PS3 player to hell and back simply by portal'ing them into things (like pits.) Heck, you could even treat them like companion cubes.
You don't have to store permissions information on the file system. Just create a symlink in the internal storage to the appdata folder on the SD Card. Heck, you could call the directory /external and when the dev needs to save something on the SD card they just save it to 'external' which would symlink to /sdcard/data/appname If the user ever decides to change where the app stores it's data, update the symlink.
The developer would then only have to do: // ...that would create the file on the SD Card.
FileWriter f = new FileWriter("external/myFile.txt");
Obviously, native means that it comes with the computer and you don't have to download it...
If they store data on the small internal memory it's supposed to be private and only readable by a single app, but if you put the app on the SD card Google considers that data public:
"The SD card system is intended to be a shared resource that all apps can access. The functionality you described is the purpose of internal (app private) storage."
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=16019
Which, of course, I think is poor security-wise... so feel free to add your own comments and star that if you think the same. ;)
It doesn't help that Google considers user settable security "would vastly increase the complexity associated with writing applications"
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3778#c44
I imagine it's kind of like having a sumo wrestler (Microsoft) sitting on top of you. You flail your arms and legs around looking for something to grab hold of to try to get some leverage so you can at least attempt to get out from under it. The only problem is that the wrestler keeps shifting his weight around.
I'm not sure I've ever heard anyone say that consumer choice is efficient. In fact, I think I could argue that it's terribly inefficient. That's not to say that I want one company creating a particular product (because we all know how that ends up poorly.) As inefficient as it is, it's been proven that competition is always best for the consumer... and as a consumer, I support that.
Why is that the point? What could happen besides a fire or flood that could render your data unusable that you need a data-center on the other side of the globe to keep your data available 24/7?