Perhaps, when you are finished with your bachelors at this school, you should consider a school with better professors for your masters.
This is such a shame when so-called "professors" actually hinder your learning experience. I'm sure they think they have your best interests in mind. Right NOW.net, VB, etc might be where all the paying jobs are but this isn't going to last. Eventually something else will come along (even from Microsoft) that will make these skills obsolete. Professors are, IMHO, under obligation to ensure you get an education, not training.
What kind of fucking idiot updates their laptop during a conference? You wait to do that shit until you get back home in case it screws your machine.
Let's see... At a conference your computer is connected to hostile networks nearly all the time. Depending on the conference, there are potentially a LOT of people that know about 0-day exploits and might want to try something dumb.
I dunno. I can see your argument but there may be very good reasons to patch your system ASAP. I used to work in an environment where NOTHING got patched because they were afraid of fucking-up production services. I argued until I was blue in the face that we needed to do something and have a plan for deploying patches. I even went so far as to make proposals explaining the benefits, the risks, and the costs. No one would listen to me because I was a UNIX admin on a Windows team. Eventually I was let go and no one else took-up my cause (perhaps the cause was a large reason I was let go). No one on the team, except me, felt that there was any risk because the networks were "isolated" behind three layers of firewalls. About three months after I left some nasty work managed to find it's way into this "isolated" network and wreak much more havoc than we ever could have patching the damned servers.
I know that this isn't exactly the same thing as updating your laptop while on the road, but sometimes the updates are just worth the risk.
Perhaps the hotels should consider a caching proxy for just these sorts of events. Let the first user wait for the the download to come down the pipe and everyone else can leach from the proxy.
Seriously... This person needs to read more about data storage technology and tailor what they can afford (and can afford to lose) with their situation.
Personally, I assign the whole thing to a volume group this way data is easy to move between drives and I get to use it anyway I want. I also backup my systems nightly using Tivoli Storage Manager so there's always a second copy of my data already on another disk somewhere. If that somehow fails, I also have a mirror copy on tape that is also updated at the end of the backup runs every night.
This configuration means I don't mess with mirroring, I get decent performance, and my data is restorable. Tape drives are really cheap these days. Lookup DLT drives on ebay, 40GB of enterprise-level storage gear for a relatively low investment.
I also don't consider "media" files as something worth having redundant. You already own the DVD/CD right? If so you have the master you can always re-rip. Still, I do consider my iTunes library worthy of a backup simply because of the volume of music I'd have to rerip (really). Otherwise, I don't bother backing up movies and stuff I might have ripped.
The poster's situation will probably be totally different and there's no way in hell anyone at/. can really tell this person what is best especially if they aren't inclined to do the research to answer the very basic questions posed.
You have good ideas but some stuff starts to fall apart at the end.
Plenum if you can, but not REALLY necessary unless fire codes really require it.
Why plenum? Just because it's (a lot) more expensive doesn't make it better than the standard PVC wrapper. Plenum is required if you are running the wire through air handling systems such as under raised floors in data centers that force cold air through the raised floor. This is because PVC emits nasty gases when burning or smoldering that you don't want mixed with your source for "fresh", breathable air.
As far as I know this is the only advantage of plenum (and a pretty darned good one if you run cables through your HVAC). Are there other advantages I'm not aware of that would make it worth the price? (As I recall, plenum ran about 3x the cost of similar quality PVC, perhaps this has changed?) Also, some argue that it's easier to crimp an RJ plug on the end of plenum, but, in my experience, these plugs don't handle the stress of being used as patch cables very well. With PVC you can make quality patch cables that will last as well as run through the walls/conduit/whatever-that-doesn't-handle-air.
Yes, put network and TV in your kitchen... the wife or girlfriend will thank you...
Yes, it's a good idea to make sure your kitchen is equipped with at least good coax and network-capable wiring. However, it's unbelievably sexist to assume your wife/girlfriend will thank you as if she spends all her free time in the kitchen making your dinner. It's *MUCH* more likely that you'll appreciate having those connections when your wife/girlfriend leaves your lazy ass and you find yourself in the kitchen a LOT more making your own damn dinner.;-)
I know (well, hope) this isn't what you were really thinking but remarks like these causes damage in very real, even if subtle, ways. Imagine if you were to say "the colored maid will thank you." Can you see the problem with that remark?
...when recessed monitors in counters with a transparent countertop become a reality, you're already set.
This is some great forward-thinking, perhaps you work for Microsoft? If that becomes a real necessity in the future, someone will work-out a wireless solution. Still, if you want to be 100% safe, make sure the bathrooms are wired equally well for when we all have toilets that report real-time urine and stool reports to your HMO.
I did this with a particularly nasty recruiter that wouldn't stop pestering me no matter what I said or did. I have VoIP with BroadVoice and simply setup any incoming calls from their numbers to call their own 800 number. Because toll-free calls are including as part of my call plan (BYOD even) this didn't cost me a thing. It was great watching my call detail records and see that they would call themselves 3 or 4 times in a row clearly confused about why they got their own PBX. It was especially gratifying knowing they were paying for both the outgoing call as well as the 800 termination.
I haven't read the RTFA but I have a hard time seeing how this is possible:
In their device, both the sender Alice and the receiver Bob have an identical pair of resistors, one producing high resistance, the other low resistance.
1) According to the FCC, it's perfectly legal to receive ANY BROADCAST TRANSMISSION. I can set up a radio receiver and pick up whatever happens to be in the air. This includes wifi broadcasts, which are really nothing more than a cordless phone combined with a MODEM.
While it might be legal to receive any broadcast transmission, it would be difficult to check email and surf the web without transmitting something.
This application of the law is, of course, ridiculous. The EFF or someone should really step-in and do something.
Personally, I would have fought tooth and nail over this law had it been me. I *might* could be persuaded into agreeing that it is wrong (morally though not legally) to sit outside someones house and mooch their unsecured wifi but this is a public business that, presumably, advertises (or at least provides) this service to the public in order to increase business.
The Gaggia Espresso is a respectable machine that can be had for $219 at Sweet Marias. The internals are the same as the $500 Gaggia units but the housing isn't a nice polished chrome. Would I be better off with a a Silvia? Maybe, but maybe not. See, I'd want to start dumping money into a Silvia by adding a PID and other junk that will just drain my wallet for marginal gains. I've been down this road with audiophile gear before and I just don't want do do it with coffee. With audiophile gear it got to the point where I was just hearing the noise and distortion in my system and not listening to the music. I don't want my coffee experience to be the same. (I can draw a LOT of parallels between audiophiles and espresso nazis.)
I haven't dropped the $250 on the Gaggia not because I haven't saved enough but rather because I don't see that making espresso at home is worth $250 let alone $500. However, I recently moved and now have a coffee shop about 3 blocks away and can see how my espresso habit is starting to cost me.
As for my grinder... I feel it is very capable of producing an excellent espresso grind. I got an exceptional deal on this old school Zassenhaus that looks as if it was used twice before I got it and stored somewhere with non-existent humidity. The burrs are in incredible shape for a 25+ year old machine. It produces an unbelievably fine and consistent powder. I will, however, concede that I will need to modify it a bit to keep the burr adjustment from moving around on in mid-grind at that fine of a setting but this is rather trivial and certainly worth the $100+ I save over even a new, decent quality entry-level grinder. If I'm not about to drop $500 on an espresso machine, I sure as hell am not going to drop $300 on a Rocky.
Another thing to keep in mind is that I enjoy mochas. When dropping the shots into a cup of hot chocolate, a good bit of that quality is muddled-up with the other flavors. I have no doubt that the Gaggia with my Zassenhaus would produce a higher quality mocha than what I can buy in town (especially when you consider that I roast my own).
First, start with quality beans. I prefer buying green beans from http://www.sweetmarias.com/ and roasting them myself. I use a medium-sized (14-16") stainless steel bowl with a wire mesh colander inserted inside and a $20 heat gun from the local hardware store to roast (stirring constantly with a wooden spoon that's nearly worn to the nub). It takes about 15 minutes to roast a 1/2 pound batch. I prefer beans from northern Guatemala or the neraby Oaxaca region of Mexico but this is a personal preference. This is, by far, the most important thing you can do for your coffee drinking experience. There's nothing as exquisite as a cup of joe made with freshly ground beans you roasted yourself. The beans are ready to brew about 12 hours after the roast and maintain good quality for a week.
The next thing is a good burr grinder. Burr grinders, unlike the whirly blades, make for a very even grind. A good burr grinder will allow you great flexibility in setting the grind size. I use a manual burr grinder I bought from eBay for under $20 shipped. I have been tempted to attach an electric screwdriver in place of the handle but haven't done so as of yet.
Once the beans are roasted and ground, I use a device called an Aeropress to actually brew and strain the coffee. It looks sort of like an upside-down french press but brews a totally different cup than a french press (which I also use on occasion). I don't use the paper filters that came with the Aeropress opting instead for a reusable nylon filter material commonly used to filter fish tank water. I can't recall for the life of me what size filter I use but I bought two sheets and cut out a filter. I bought enough material to make about 20 filters but I've found that these things clean-up well and I'm still using the first one I cut. I brew with 200 degree water for 2 minutes and dilute with left-over hot water. The Aeropress makes the best cup of coffee I've ever had outside of a machine known as the Clover (which, makes THE BEST cup of coffee you'll EVER have). While the Clover is very difficult to find and costs many thousands of dollars, the Aeropress costs like $25. I thought the price was a bit steep for a big plastic syringe but once I made a cup with it, I realized it was worth every penny. Just ignore the crap on the box that says it's an espresso maker... It makes an incredible cup of coffee but it is NOT an espresso maker by ANY stretch of the imagination.
The best thing you can do is ensure you have the freshest quality beans possible. If you start with Folgers or similar, the rest really doesn't matter.
I also use a french press on occasion and, every now and then, a small 4-cup Krups drip machine with a swiss gold #2 cone filter.
The trick with drip machines is to make sure the water temperature is at least 195 degrees and no more than 205 degrees before it starts brewing. I achieve this with the Krups by leaving the lid open with a small plastic cup from a hotel room with a slit cut down the side to place over the brew head to make sure the heated water is recycled back into the reservoir until the target temperature is reached. I started out with a thermocouple inserted into the tank but quickly learned that the machine started sputtering water a certain way when it got up to 200 degrees. It's more work than a high-end drip machine but it isn't that hard and the machine cost me something like $15 at Bed Bath and Beyond after their 20% off coupon. If the Krups broke tomorrow I'd easily buy another of the same model. Using it as it was designed makes a mediocre cup at best, but with my method I'd put it up against a $200 temperature-controlled machine any day of the week.
But all of this is for naught unless you start with FRESH QUALITY beans. If you don't want to or can't roast yourself (it really is easy though a bit messy) find a local shop that moves a LOT of coffee and buy from them. You're better off with a freshly roasted bean that might score an 85 over a bean that scores 98 but was roasted 3 months ago.
One of these days I plan on buying a decent espresso machine but a quality machine costs $250 at the low-end and the prices go up rapidly from there.
There is some speculation that the Leopard delay and the iPhone are completely unrelated except simply as an acceptable excuse to investors about why they are going to miss the originally announced ship date. The speculation is that there are severe show-stopping bugs with some yet-to-be-announced super-secret features in Leopard.
While all of this is pure speculation, as far as I'm aware, it is very Apple-esque to not show all their cards until it's time to ship and the speculation, while just that, does seem plausible.
I tend to agree that yanking resources from OS X to rush the iPhone to market doesn't make a whole lot of sense. First, how many resources (read people) have skillsets that work across both sectors? I'm sure there are a few but there can't be *that* many. Further, a company like Apple, and certainly Steve Jobs, had to have learned a long time ago that 9 women can't produce a baby in one month (unless, of course, one of them is already 8 months pregnant).
You make some interesting points but... You go off on an obscenity-filled rant that negates your stance to the extreme.
So far you've been modded up a bit but I expect this will drop down. If you had taken a few minutes and actually constructed an intelligent reply without so many expletives I would bet your comment would be modded to +5 insightful, instead it's likely to float between Insightful and Flamebait resulting in neutral karma.
If you really want to make a point, lay off the cursing. It just doesn't work unless, like Dennis Miller, you offset them with really large and obscure words and/or references that makes everything think you're reasonably intelligent instead of just being a whiny a douchebag.
You will catch more flies with honey than you will by calling them "freeloading jerkoffs" wishing they would "die in a fire and of anal rape" in addition to "ass cancer."
I setup YuSucker to yank my email from Yahoo! just a few weeks ago. I send it through tor and avoid the dreaded Error 99. Now I get my email delivered through my server, polled ever 5 minutes, with the added benefit of both the already excellent (IHMO) Yahoo! spam filter as well as a locally-configured spamassassin.
And for those naysayers that claim Yahoo's spam filter sucks... well, guess what? They all suck. Still, I've had my yahoo address as my primary email account for several years and their filter gets 99%+ of the junk. I get around 3000-5000 spams a week in my junk folder (really). It rarely has a false positive (when it does it's usually an automated message from a machine, totally understandable, IMO). What few yahoo misses (maybe 3-5 a day), spamassassin usually gets.
I'm annoyed that Yahoo! doesn't offer free POP/IMAP access. I understand the reason but it's still annoying. I have a few domains and used to use them for email but found the spam became unmanageable. When YoSucker stops working (and it will as soon as the Yahoo Mail Beta is forced down our throats), I'll either pony-up the $20/year or move to gmail.
"Maybe I'm thinking of a different Google apps, but how is running Google software more secure? Aren't google apps accessed from google servers? Doesn't that mean this government agency would be running applications from and storing data on servers they aren't maintaining?"
What it means is that the application security becomes someone else's problem. Granted everyone reading/. knows this isn't true, but management in every large organization I've worked for or with has this mindset.
I know for a fact (because I've supported at least 3 of them) that other government agencies do exactly this. In fact, I would be willing to say that most, if not all, government agencies rely on out-sourcing a pretty hefty portion of IT services to companies that specialize in IT management (IBM, EDS, HP, etc).
Sure, there's nothing to worry about when downloading movies, music and television shows using Bittorrent. It's not like the ??AA is running around suing people doing this kind of thing.
Instead of testing this on a passenger jet carrying a whole bunch of people, they opted to install it on a jet carrying, at most, 4 or 5 people and a shit-load of stuff.
I know us Americans are materialistic, but this is fucking ridiculous.
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Yup, he's going to be *really* popular in PMITA federal prison.
Perhaps, when you are finished with your bachelors at this school, you should consider a school with better professors for your masters.
.net, VB, etc might be where all the paying jobs are but this isn't going to last. Eventually something else will come along (even from Microsoft) that will make these skills obsolete. Professors are, IMHO, under obligation to ensure you get an education, not training.
This is such a shame when so-called "professors" actually hinder your learning experience. I'm sure they think they have your best interests in mind. Right NOW
Let's see... At a conference your computer is connected to hostile networks nearly all the time. Depending on the conference, there are potentially a LOT of people that know about 0-day exploits and might want to try something dumb.
I dunno. I can see your argument but there may be very good reasons to patch your system ASAP. I used to work in an environment where NOTHING got patched because they were afraid of fucking-up production services. I argued until I was blue in the face that we needed to do something and have a plan for deploying patches. I even went so far as to make proposals explaining the benefits, the risks, and the costs. No one would listen to me because I was a UNIX admin on a Windows team. Eventually I was let go and no one else took-up my cause (perhaps the cause was a large reason I was let go). No one on the team, except me, felt that there was any risk because the networks were "isolated" behind three layers of firewalls. About three months after I left some nasty work managed to find it's way into this "isolated" network and wreak much more havoc than we ever could have patching the damned servers.
I know that this isn't exactly the same thing as updating your laptop while on the road, but sometimes the updates are just worth the risk.
Perhaps the hotels should consider a caching proxy for just these sorts of events. Let the first user wait for the the download to come down the pipe and everyone else can leach from the proxy.
Seriously... This person needs to read more about data storage technology and tailor what they can afford (and can afford to lose) with their situation.
/. can really tell this person what is best especially if they aren't inclined to do the research to answer the very basic questions posed.
Personally, I assign the whole thing to a volume group this way data is easy to move between drives and I get to use it anyway I want. I also backup my systems nightly using Tivoli Storage Manager so there's always a second copy of my data already on another disk somewhere. If that somehow fails, I also have a mirror copy on tape that is also updated at the end of the backup runs every night.
This configuration means I don't mess with mirroring, I get decent performance, and my data is restorable. Tape drives are really cheap these days. Lookup DLT drives on ebay, 40GB of enterprise-level storage gear for a relatively low investment.
I also don't consider "media" files as something worth having redundant. You already own the DVD/CD right? If so you have the master you can always re-rip. Still, I do consider my iTunes library worthy of a backup simply because of the volume of music I'd have to rerip (really). Otherwise, I don't bother backing up movies and stuff I might have ripped.
The poster's situation will probably be totally different and there's no way in hell anyone at
Why plenum? Just because it's (a lot) more expensive doesn't make it better than the standard PVC wrapper. Plenum is required if you are running the wire through air handling systems such as under raised floors in data centers that force cold air through the raised floor. This is because PVC emits nasty gases when burning or smoldering that you don't want mixed with your source for "fresh", breathable air.
As far as I know this is the only advantage of plenum (and a pretty darned good one if you run cables through your HVAC). Are there other advantages I'm not aware of that would make it worth the price? (As I recall, plenum ran about 3x the cost of similar quality PVC, perhaps this has changed?) Also, some argue that it's easier to crimp an RJ plug on the end of plenum, but, in my experience, these plugs don't handle the stress of being used as patch cables very well. With PVC you can make quality patch cables that will last as well as run through the walls/conduit/whatever-that-doesn't-handle-air.
Yes, it's a good idea to make sure your kitchen is equipped with at least good coax and network-capable wiring. However, it's unbelievably sexist to assume your wife/girlfriend will thank you as if she spends all her free time in the kitchen making your dinner. It's *MUCH* more likely that you'll appreciate having those connections when your wife/girlfriend leaves your lazy ass and you find yourself in the kitchen a LOT more making your own damn dinner.
I know (well, hope) this isn't what you were really thinking but remarks like these causes damage in very real, even if subtle, ways. Imagine if you were to say "the colored maid will thank you." Can you see the problem with that remark?
This is some great forward-thinking, perhaps you work for Microsoft? If that becomes a real necessity in the future, someone will work-out a wireless solution. Still, if you want to be 100% safe, make sure the bathrooms are wired equally well for when we all have toilets that report real-time urine and stool reports to your HMO.
I did this with a particularly nasty recruiter that wouldn't stop pestering me no matter what I said or did. I have VoIP with BroadVoice and simply setup any incoming calls from their numbers to call their own 800 number. Because toll-free calls are including as part of my call plan (BYOD even) this didn't cost me a thing. It was great watching my call detail records and see that they would call themselves 3 or 4 times in a row clearly confused about why they got their own PBX. It was especially gratifying knowing they were paying for both the outgoing call as well as the 800 termination.
This company doesn't bother me any more.
Still, somehow, this passes my truthiness test.
While it might be legal to receive any broadcast transmission, it would be difficult to check email and surf the web without transmitting something.
This application of the law is, of course, ridiculous. The EFF or someone should really step-in and do something.
Personally, I would have fought tooth and nail over this law had it been me. I *might* could be persuaded into agreeing that it is wrong (morally though not legally) to sit outside someones house and mooch their unsecured wifi but this is a public business that, presumably, advertises (or at least provides) this service to the public in order to increase business.
The Gaggia Espresso is a respectable machine that can be had for $219 at Sweet Marias. The internals are the same as the $500 Gaggia units but the housing isn't a nice polished chrome. Would I be better off with a a Silvia? Maybe, but maybe not. See, I'd want to start dumping money into a Silvia by adding a PID and other junk that will just drain my wallet for marginal gains. I've been down this road with audiophile gear before and I just don't want do do it with coffee. With audiophile gear it got to the point where I was just hearing the noise and distortion in my system and not listening to the music. I don't want my coffee experience to be the same. (I can draw a LOT of parallels between audiophiles and espresso nazis.)
I haven't dropped the $250 on the Gaggia not because I haven't saved enough but rather because I don't see that making espresso at home is worth $250 let alone $500. However, I recently moved and now have a coffee shop about 3 blocks away and can see how my espresso habit is starting to cost me.
As for my grinder... I feel it is very capable of producing an excellent espresso grind. I got an exceptional deal on this old school Zassenhaus that looks as if it was used twice before I got it and stored somewhere with non-existent humidity. The burrs are in incredible shape for a 25+ year old machine. It produces an unbelievably fine and consistent powder. I will, however, concede that I will need to modify it a bit to keep the burr adjustment from moving around on in mid-grind at that fine of a setting but this is rather trivial and certainly worth the $100+ I save over even a new, decent quality entry-level grinder. If I'm not about to drop $500 on an espresso machine, I sure as hell am not going to drop $300 on a Rocky.
Another thing to keep in mind is that I enjoy mochas. When dropping the shots into a cup of hot chocolate, a good bit of that quality is muddled-up with the other flavors. I have no doubt that the Gaggia with my Zassenhaus would produce a higher quality mocha than what I can buy in town (especially when you consider that I roast my own).
First, start with quality beans. I prefer buying green beans from http://www.sweetmarias.com/ and roasting them myself. I use a medium-sized (14-16") stainless steel bowl with a wire mesh colander inserted inside and a $20 heat gun from the local hardware store to roast (stirring constantly with a wooden spoon that's nearly worn to the nub). It takes about 15 minutes to roast a 1/2 pound batch. I prefer beans from northern Guatemala or the neraby Oaxaca region of Mexico but this is a personal preference. This is, by far, the most important thing you can do for your coffee drinking experience. There's nothing as exquisite as a cup of joe made with freshly ground beans you roasted yourself. The beans are ready to brew about 12 hours after the roast and maintain good quality for a week.
The next thing is a good burr grinder. Burr grinders, unlike the whirly blades, make for a very even grind. A good burr grinder will allow you great flexibility in setting the grind size. I use a manual burr grinder I bought from eBay for under $20 shipped. I have been tempted to attach an electric screwdriver in place of the handle but haven't done so as of yet.
Once the beans are roasted and ground, I use a device called an Aeropress to actually brew and strain the coffee. It looks sort of like an upside-down french press but brews a totally different cup than a french press (which I also use on occasion). I don't use the paper filters that came with the Aeropress opting instead for a reusable nylon filter material commonly used to filter fish tank water. I can't recall for the life of me what size filter I use but I bought two sheets and cut out a filter. I bought enough material to make about 20 filters but I've found that these things clean-up well and I'm still using the first one I cut. I brew with 200 degree water for 2 minutes and dilute with left-over hot water. The Aeropress makes the best cup of coffee I've ever had outside of a machine known as the Clover (which, makes THE BEST cup of coffee you'll EVER have). While the Clover is very difficult to find and costs many thousands of dollars, the Aeropress costs like $25. I thought the price was a bit steep for a big plastic syringe but once I made a cup with it, I realized it was worth every penny. Just ignore the crap on the box that says it's an espresso maker... It makes an incredible cup of coffee but it is NOT an espresso maker by ANY stretch of the imagination.
The best thing you can do is ensure you have the freshest quality beans possible. If you start with Folgers or similar, the rest really doesn't matter.
I also use a french press on occasion and, every now and then, a small 4-cup Krups drip machine with a swiss gold #2 cone filter.
The trick with drip machines is to make sure the water temperature is at least 195 degrees and no more than 205 degrees before it starts brewing. I achieve this with the Krups by leaving the lid open with a small plastic cup from a hotel room with a slit cut down the side to place over the brew head to make sure the heated water is recycled back into the reservoir until the target temperature is reached. I started out with a thermocouple inserted into the tank but quickly learned that the machine started sputtering water a certain way when it got up to 200 degrees. It's more work than a high-end drip machine but it isn't that hard and the machine cost me something like $15 at Bed Bath and Beyond after their 20% off coupon. If the Krups broke tomorrow I'd easily buy another of the same model. Using it as it was designed makes a mediocre cup at best, but with my method I'd put it up against a $200 temperature-controlled machine any day of the week.
But all of this is for naught unless you start with FRESH QUALITY beans. If you don't want to or can't roast yourself (it really is easy though a bit messy) find a local shop that moves a LOT of coffee and buy from them. You're better off with a freshly roasted bean that might score an 85 over a bean that scores 98 but was roasted 3 months ago.
One of these days I plan on buying a decent espresso machine but a quality machine costs $250 at the low-end and the prices go up rapidly from there.
s/scientology/Catholicism/
s/scientology/Judaism/
s/scientology/Islam/
s/scientology/Satanism/
s/scientology/Mormonism/
ad naseum...
Okay. The Catholic Church and the Church of Latter Day Saints.
Wait, that's two. You're right, I can't name one other religion that does this.
Hmm... And here I am thinking the developers should take the blame for bugs.
Thanks for clearing this up.
I, for one, welcome our new female overlords!
There is some speculation that the Leopard delay and the iPhone are completely unrelated except simply as an acceptable excuse to investors about why they are going to miss the originally announced ship date. The speculation is that there are severe show-stopping bugs with some yet-to-be-announced super-secret features in Leopard.
While all of this is pure speculation, as far as I'm aware, it is very Apple-esque to not show all their cards until it's time to ship and the speculation, while just that, does seem plausible.
I tend to agree that yanking resources from OS X to rush the iPhone to market doesn't make a whole lot of sense. First, how many resources (read people) have skillsets that work across both sectors? I'm sure there are a few but there can't be *that* many. Further, a company like Apple, and certainly Steve Jobs, had to have learned a long time ago that 9 women can't produce a baby in one month (unless, of course, one of them is already 8 months pregnant).
The problem is finding a laptop capable of withstanding the enormous heat and pressure found in the sun! ;-)
It's about time...
I, for one, welcome our new Boethinian overlords.
Yeah, that will show em!
You make some interesting points but... You go off on an obscenity-filled rant that negates your stance to the extreme.
So far you've been modded up a bit but I expect this will drop down. If you had taken a few minutes and actually constructed an intelligent reply without so many expletives I would bet your comment would be modded to +5 insightful, instead it's likely to float between Insightful and Flamebait resulting in neutral karma.
If you really want to make a point, lay off the cursing. It just doesn't work unless, like Dennis Miller, you offset them with really large and obscure words and/or references that makes everything think you're reasonably intelligent instead of just being a whiny a douchebag.
You will catch more flies with honey than you will by calling them "freeloading jerkoffs" wishing they would "die in a fire and of anal rape" in addition to "ass cancer."
Seriously, who modded this crap as insightful?
I'm off to meta-moderate now.
I setup YuSucker to yank my email from Yahoo! just a few weeks ago. I send it through tor and avoid the dreaded Error 99. Now I get my email delivered through my server, polled ever 5 minutes, with the added benefit of both the already excellent (IHMO) Yahoo! spam filter as well as a locally-configured spamassassin.
And for those naysayers that claim Yahoo's spam filter sucks... well, guess what? They all suck. Still, I've had my yahoo address as my primary email account for several years and their filter gets 99%+ of the junk. I get around 3000-5000 spams a week in my junk folder (really). It rarely has a false positive (when it does it's usually an automated message from a machine, totally understandable, IMO). What few yahoo misses (maybe 3-5 a day), spamassassin usually gets.
I'm annoyed that Yahoo! doesn't offer free POP/IMAP access. I understand the reason but it's still annoying. I have a few domains and used to use them for email but found the spam became unmanageable. When YoSucker stops working (and it will as soon as the Yahoo Mail Beta is forced down our throats), I'll either pony-up the $20/year or move to gmail.
I refuse to use GoDaddy simply because I find their television ads offensive and degrading to women.
"Maybe I'm thinking of a different Google apps, but how is running Google software more secure? Aren't google apps accessed from google servers? Doesn't that mean this government agency would be running applications from and storing data on servers they aren't maintaining?"
/. knows this isn't true, but management in every large organization I've worked for or with has this mindset.
What it means is that the application security becomes someone else's problem. Granted everyone reading
I know for a fact (because I've supported at least 3 of them) that other government agencies do exactly this. In fact, I would be willing to say that most, if not all, government agencies rely on out-sourcing a pretty hefty portion of IT services to companies that specialize in IT management (IBM, EDS, HP, etc).
Sure, there's nothing to worry about when downloading movies, music and television shows using Bittorrent. It's not like the ??AA is running around suing people doing this kind of thing.
Surely Zonk means the Charlotte . The Carlotte Observer which is a trade newspaper for used car dealers.
Except this only fixes the problem of playing FairPlay files... Not fixing a corrupted iPod because Vista børked it.
I live in the mountains of Colorado just northwest of Boulder. It wouldn't surprise me if there are 10^24 snowflakes in my driveway right now.
Seriously, It's only January and I'd be fine if we didn't see another snowflake this year.
After the first 2 feet ALL snowflakes look the same.
So, let me get this straight...
Instead of testing this on a passenger jet carrying a whole bunch of people, they opted to install it on a jet carrying, at most, 4 or 5 people and a shit-load of stuff.
I know us Americans are materialistic, but this is fucking ridiculous.
As long as our economy is protected!