If I am running one of those rare examples you list, I'm sure I can install a PCI parallel port card. They took the serial cable off my laptop (that I used all the time to configure Cisco gear), but left the silly parallel port on the back that I have not used in 10 years.
You sound like one of the targets of this. Listening to your radio while looking out the side window enjoying the scenery, unable to see or hear the wreck your about to be part of. j/k
Had one pilot been on the radio and, you know, flown the plane, while the other was on the laptop, and they switched roles, there would have been no risk to the passengers. It would have violated company policy, but I'm pretty sure most of the people on Slashdot did that when they visited this non-work related site on their work computer today.
That's why I'm not upset that they have been fired. At first, I thought it was a bit of an honest mistake, but those kind of mistakes are not allowed with a jet full of people.
I think Steve Jobs' benevolent dictatorship is what has made Apple so successful
Yes, and no. I think this style of leadership has great strengths, but it opens Apple up to huge weaknesses. My iPhone is the only Apple device I have owned, and having had every other platform other than Android, I can say it is the best phone I have had.
However, it does have many faults. It does seem like it was created by one man. If that one person decided the iPhone should do something (play music, manage calls), it does it VERY well. If they either decided it shouldn't do something or didn't consider it (multitasking, syncing to multiple computers), then it can't be made to do it. With Windows Mobile, it never did anything well, but I could force it to do about anything half-assed. The iPhone is wonderful and worthless, depending on what you ask it to do.
Disney keeps a choke-hold on the sales of their DVDs. Sure, secondary markets exist for used items, but if this idea works for them, I think you'll soon see that they stop selling DVDs.
I'm an iPhone 3G S user, and I AM thankful for the Android.
However, this analyst doesn't see what you pointed out, reaction to pressure.
If Android starts offering things software-wise that Apple does not, Apple can (not sure they will) change their App Store policies pretty quick. Starting with getting out of the exclusive AT&T arrangement, I'm sure we'll see some changes between now and 2011
Thankfully, I'll be done with my 2 years in 2011. If Android has the same share of apps that iPhone has, I'll get to make a hardware and moral (F/OSS) choice. However, if developers don't embrace the Android, I'll be getting a iPhone 4GXXX
It isn't talking about "stop playing game and be forced to watch ad" type of ads.
This is talking about seeing an a billboard for Gatorade in a sports game on the walls of the arena, or walking into a "real" McDonald's while going on a murder spree in something like GTA. I agree with TFA that those add to realism, and so what if they make some more cash for the game devs?
It is important to note that IMHO, this does NOT include things like how Snickers "branded" about 100 terms in the latest Madden game, or any of the examples you mentioned. Yes, those are stupid and need to never be used.
You missed the part where I said move closer to work. If work is far away from other resources, they'll need to consider if they want to either pay their employees a large wage to pay for the commuting costs, or move their business closer to a larger town.
I'm currently in rural America as well, moving to a larger city soon. Living "in the country" is one of worst things for the environment.
Gas is only cheep because you're not forced to pay for the real costs of it.
$20-$25 per gallon gas would plunge the world into a new dark age. People like you who wish for this are sadistic bastards.
We are, or are the sadistic bastards the ones that drive everywhere, refuse to use public transit or relocate closer to their job, and are willing to KILL others to do it.
Cars directly kill thousands every year, the emissions kill, and both sides (democracies and terrorists) kill because oil is so valuable. $25/gallon gas (with the extra $22 going towards an Apollo type battery program) does not kill nearly as many people as cars driving on $2/gal gas does. It might make life harder on people for a while, but a hard life is better than no life.
Maybe you have a different definition of "sadistic".
Until I get impaled when some jackhole is texting behind me and I have to stop for a light, backed up traffic, etc. Jackhole hits my bumper at 70 mph and, assuming his car actually stops, my headrest hits the back of my skull at 60mph, and I die.
Darwin fails.
Although AAA release game is okay at $60, a game like "Darkest of Days" is not.
That is what makes things like Xbox Live Arcade and Steam great. I've bought a few $10 and $20 games that were worth between $5 and $60 IMHO. Use downloads for "snack" games, and use the $60 discs for "epic" games.
I work in the midwest, the last two locations I worked for had 20-40 locations. At each place (5 years at one, 4 at the next), I had an 8 hour power outage. The first place didn't have generators, so all of their retail stores lost a day's work of sales. The second place did have a generator, and everything worked fine. In both cases, the fiber optic service didn't fail. Since it was 100% underground, that was expected. Power lines just go down more than sonet fiber optic does, pure and simple.
I'd say that having an event like that every 5 years is enough to pay for a generator. At the second place, we used an HP Alpha for the core application. Because it was a crappy application, it took 10 hours to fail over to our DR site. A generator was critical.
I'll stand behind a few batteries for servers... Enough to keep them running until they can shut down properly... But actually staying up and running while the power is out? From what I've seen that's basically impossible
Many businesses have dozens or hundreds of remote offices / branches / stores. If those stores depend on the HQ site to be running (as many or most do), then having a very reliable generator is critical.
Sure, if you lose power for a single site, your customers at that single site will be forgiving and don't expect you to have a generator at every store.
However, if your HQ is in Chicago and loses power for 12 hours from an ice storm, your customers that can't shop at your Palm Beach location are going to be pissed that you are now closed nationwide.
While on the topic, it is important to note that now we do need to have generators when we're talking about more than a few minutes of UPS time. I've found that 30-60 minutes is the most you can go in a small datacenter without AC until the server racks turn into red pools of molten metal. You're not running A/C on battery, at least not for very long.
It isn't word games, routers and firewalls are not the same thing.
You sound like the same person that calls your monitor a "computer" and your computer case a "hard drive" or "CPU". You also thought the year 2000 was the first year of the 21st century.
Just because a majority or people are ignorant to facts doesn't mean that I'm going to start calling a firewall a router. The common name is only a router because common people don't know what the hell they are talking about.
Replace "router" with "NAT device" in your post. Not only does that still work, but it is more accurate.
You are not routing to your home network, the routing stops at the outside of your NAT device. From there, you are port forwarding, NOT routing.
Routing is a two-way street.
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If I am running one of those rare examples you list, I'm sure I can install a PCI parallel port card. They took the serial cable off my laptop (that I used all the time to configure Cisco gear), but left the silly parallel port on the back that I have not used in 10 years.
You're not familiar with Google voice. When you dial online, it calls YOUR land line. Most landlines allow for unlimited free incoming calls.
You sound like one of the targets of this. Listening to your radio while looking out the side window enjoying the scenery, unable to see or hear the wreck your about to be part of. j/k
Right, which is why I said "At FIRST I thought". Once I got the complete picture, I agreed that this was way out of line.
Had one pilot been on the radio and, you know, flown the plane, while the other was on the laptop, and they switched roles, there would have been no risk to the passengers. It would have violated company policy, but I'm pretty sure most of the people on Slashdot did that when they visited this non-work related site on their work computer today.
That's why I'm not upset that they have been fired. At first, I thought it was a bit of an honest mistake, but those kind of mistakes are not allowed with a jet full of people.
Yes, and no. I think this style of leadership has great strengths, but it opens Apple up to huge weaknesses. My iPhone is the only Apple device I have owned, and having had every other platform other than Android, I can say it is the best phone I have had.
However, it does have many faults. It does seem like it was created by one man. If that one person decided the iPhone should do something (play music, manage calls), it does it VERY well. If they either decided it shouldn't do something or didn't consider it (multitasking, syncing to multiple computers), then it can't be made to do it. With Windows Mobile, it never did anything well, but I could force it to do about anything half-assed. The iPhone is wonderful and worthless, depending on what you ask it to do.
Disney keeps a choke-hold on the sales of their DVDs. Sure, secondary markets exist for used items, but if this idea works for them, I think you'll soon see that they stop selling DVDs.
Yup, still true. In your example, Gizmo is the "phone service" the OP mentioned.
I'm an iPhone 3G S user, and I AM thankful for the Android.
However, this analyst doesn't see what you pointed out, reaction to pressure.
If Android starts offering things software-wise that Apple does not, Apple can (not sure they will) change their App Store policies pretty quick. Starting with getting out of the exclusive AT&T arrangement, I'm sure we'll see some changes between now and 2011
Thankfully, I'll be done with my 2 years in 2011. If Android has the same share of apps that iPhone has, I'll get to make a hardware and moral (F/OSS) choice. However, if developers don't embrace the Android, I'll be getting a iPhone 4GXXX
It isn't talking about "stop playing game and be forced to watch ad" type of ads.
This is talking about seeing an a billboard for Gatorade in a sports game on the walls of the arena, or walking into a "real" McDonald's while going on a murder spree in something like GTA. I agree with TFA that those add to realism, and so what if they make some more cash for the game devs?
It is important to note that IMHO, this does NOT include things like how Snickers "branded" about 100 terms in the latest Madden game, or any of the examples you mentioned. Yes, those are stupid and need to never be used.
Because if it doesn't bore the hell out of you, it sure can't be called literature, eh?
Here, read this: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TrueArtIsIncomprehensible
To be clear, I don't want to add a $23 tax today. However, a $1/gal tax every 6-12 months doesn't sound a bit out of line to me.
You missed the part where I said move closer to work. If work is far away from other resources, they'll need to consider if they want to either pay their employees a large wage to pay for the commuting costs, or move their business closer to a larger town.
I'm currently in rural America as well, moving to a larger city soon. Living "in the country" is one of worst things for the environment.
Gas is only cheep because you're not forced to pay for the real costs of it.
We are, or are the sadistic bastards the ones that drive everywhere, refuse to use public transit or relocate closer to their job, and are willing to KILL others to do it.
Cars directly kill thousands every year, the emissions kill, and both sides (democracies and terrorists) kill because oil is so valuable. $25/gallon gas (with the extra $22 going towards an Apollo type battery program) does not kill nearly as many people as cars driving on $2/gal gas does. It might make life harder on people for a while, but a hard life is better than no life.
Maybe you have a different definition of "sadistic".
Do you know where I can get F1 races online to download? That is one thing keeping me on pay TV.
Until I get impaled when some jackhole is texting behind me and I have to stop for a light, backed up traffic, etc. Jackhole hits my bumper at 70 mph and, assuming his car actually stops, my headrest hits the back of my skull at 60mph, and I die.
Darwin fails.
You're on to something here, better bookmark your comment and file a submarine patent, just in case someone can make it work!
That is what makes things like Xbox Live Arcade and Steam great. I've bought a few $10 and $20 games that were worth between $5 and $60 IMHO. Use downloads for "snack" games, and use the $60 discs for "epic" games.
No, they're allowed their stupid opinion too. It is when they try to pass laws that I'll show them the constitution.
I work in the midwest, the last two locations I worked for had 20-40 locations. At each place (5 years at one, 4 at the next), I had an 8 hour power outage. The first place didn't have generators, so all of their retail stores lost a day's work of sales. The second place did have a generator, and everything worked fine. In both cases, the fiber optic service didn't fail. Since it was 100% underground, that was expected. Power lines just go down more than sonet fiber optic does, pure and simple.
I'd say that having an event like that every 5 years is enough to pay for a generator. At the second place, we used an HP Alpha for the core application. Because it was a crappy application, it took 10 hours to fail over to our DR site. A generator was critical.
Many businesses have dozens or hundreds of remote offices / branches / stores. If those stores depend on the HQ site to be running (as many or most do), then having a very reliable generator is critical.
Sure, if you lose power for a single site, your customers at that single site will be forgiving and don't expect you to have a generator at every store.
However, if your HQ is in Chicago and loses power for 12 hours from an ice storm, your customers that can't shop at your Palm Beach location are going to be pissed that you are now closed nationwide.
While on the topic, it is important to note that now we do need to have generators when we're talking about more than a few minutes of UPS time. I've found that 30-60 minutes is the most you can go in a small datacenter without AC until the server racks turn into red pools of molten metal. You're not running A/C on battery, at least not for very long.
It isn't word games, routers and firewalls are not the same thing.
You sound like the same person that calls your monitor a "computer" and your computer case a "hard drive" or "CPU". You also thought the year 2000 was the first year of the 21st century.
Just because a majority or people are ignorant to facts doesn't mean that I'm going to start calling a firewall a router. The common name is only a router because common people don't know what the hell they are talking about.
Replace "router" with "NAT device" in your post. Not only does that still work, but it is more accurate.
You are not routing to your home network, the routing stops at the outside of your NAT device. From there, you are port forwarding, NOT routing.
Routing is a two-way street.
I wouldn't notice, I bought my last DVD a while back. I use Netflix downloads or purchases through my Xbox. Disc is dead. :)