Mouse/keyboard activity timeout works nicely for that.
I find it doesn't. My PC at work has to be configured to require a password be entered on exiting the screensaver, and my password has to be quite complex. If I'm working on something that's not the PC (yeah, we still use paper for things) for longer than the minute, I've got to enter my password to carry on, which is irritating.
It's less irritating when it kicks in when I'm reading or watching a video or something, but I'd still prefer it not to, and I really don't see the privacy angle on this. It's no idea where I am, just that there's something in front of it.
But, generally, I don't have much of a problem with my computer knowing all sorts of stuff about me, it's what it tells to who that I concern myself with.
The worrisome part about cloud computing is putting your trust in someone else's hands. But keeping your backup process internal to the company is no panacea either. Bad management practice is what led to the cloud screwing up, just like bad management practice led to in-house data losses at other companies.
How many of you guys generate your own power 24x7? C'mon, you're really going to place the face of your business in the hands of people running off the wire? Wire power. Feh! That wire could be going anywhere. Real men run their own generators!
These are not quite the same.
The kind of problem caused by poor backups is data loss, which is permanent.
The kind of problem caused by poor power supply is power failure, which is (generally) temporary
It can be a better way. It often *is* a better way. But it is not automatically a better way
So, no, there's not meant to be an inference that closed source is better, or that XFree86 is proof that OSS is a silly idea or any of that nonsense. XFree86 is just a good and well-known example of a project that was open source without being free of problems.
It's pretty difficult to read that post without seeing that as a point, and this is first thing in the morning for me, too.
I must say, the '+1 Informative' and '-1 Troll' have never been close enough for me to hit one when aiming for the other.
Security through obscurity never helped anyone in any context
Security through obscurity is nearly universally useful (provided you don't mind the obscurity). It's not something to entirely rely on, no, but it's difficult to argue that it doesn't help.
And many of those same people probably enjoy Wikipedia because they can modify articles as they choose (for good, bad and/or ugly), something this does not sound like it would allow them to do as it only transfers data internet-to-device. So I guess their market is toward that segment who believes that The Great Wiki is made up entirely of articles free from all forms of bias and subjectivity thus making it unconditionally gospel, and who have never heard of a "wireless connection" before.
Most people I can think of who'd like this, or have some other form of access to The Great Wiki in their pocket don't see it as unconditionally gospel. It's like the rest of the internet - about right, most of the time.
I don't recall ever having been wrongly informed through getting information from wikipedia - it can be (and more often than not is) ambiguous, over-complicated or over-simplified, lacking in detail, but it's very rarely wrong - there's too many anally retentive pedants on it.
If it was 'your father's printer...' it'd draw fire for blatantly implying that only men would have printers.
The third one I don't see as being that bad, really. I see it as being less derogatory towards women and more towards geeks. But maybe I'm just trying to explain it to the wrong women...
Yes, that would be sexist. Whatever the hell you're talking about isn't sexist
You clearly didn't read TFA. He said some _bad_ things:
"A release is an amazing thing; Im not talking about the happy ending.."
"Your printer, and your moms printer, and your grandmas printer"
"well have less trouble explaining to girls what we actually do"
It is quite amusing to read an entire page of comments by men who think that their gender doesn't limit their perspective on this issue.
Aren't we mostly talking about things aimed at men? A group of people united entirely and only by their gender? If the way our gender impacts on our perspective isn't being taken into consideration by whoever is doing the talking, they're doing it wrong.
MS has put an awful lot of time, effort and money into forging a reputation for generally being The Bad Guy. They're particularly known for their ulterior motives. Given this, I don't think anyone can claim to be surprised when MS do A Good Thing and it's generally viewed as a possible trap. Sure, we can't judge purely on these circumstances, but right now there's not a lot to suggest this is any different from the other times MS has done Good Things.
I hope it's not a trap, I really do want MS to become A Good Guy and for Samba to do AD and all the rest. But there's nothing here to particularly convince me that is the case, so the logical thing to do is assume it's history repeating itself.
The problem is that there's also all sorts of other forks, each with their own claim to being the first heir to MySQL.
Were Oracle to kill of MySQL and there to be One True Fork that everyone switches to, that'd be fine. But there isn't. There're several, and they seem to be multiplying.
No really. I think that all legal action against Microsoft should be created using only Linux and open source software. If there are really viable alternatives to Microsoft for the vast majority of home and small business users then there should be no problem for the governments, law firms and every other MS hater to divorce themselves of Microsoft products.
I imagine it'd be doable for Linux, but even if I'm wrong there, I'd suggest it's perfectly possible on OSX.
The issue isn't unfair competition.
It is. The issue is MS finding itself in a dominant market position[0], and then abusing that position. It's the abuse that's angering people, not the market dominance.
The problem with abusing the dominant position is it acts to stifle competition, which slows innovation. As long as MS is seen as the only viable option, and allowed to continue to strengthen it's position as such, there is no need for MS to put any effort into being the best option.
[0] Which proably was through having best-of-breed. Some would say this infers less than complimentary things about who was defining 'best' at the time. I'm not going to comment, I wasn't paying attention at the time.
From what I gather, BT neither discourages or is expected to discourage the use of their phone network for things like buying controlled substances and arranging burglaries. That's normally left up to the police.
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Yeah, I was a bit amused at this. From the summary I've inferred that the big selling point with this new device is that it's from Verizon...
I find it doesn't. My PC at work has to be configured to require a password be entered on exiting the screensaver, and my password has to be quite complex. If I'm working on something that's not the PC (yeah, we still use paper for things) for longer than the minute, I've got to enter my password to carry on, which is irritating.
It's less irritating when it kicks in when I'm reading or watching a video or something, but I'd still prefer it not to, and I really don't see the privacy angle on this. It's no idea where I am, just that there's something in front of it.
But, generally, I don't have much of a problem with my computer knowing all sorts of stuff about me, it's what it tells to who that I concern myself with.
These are not quite the same.
The kind of problem caused by poor backups is data loss, which is permanent.
The kind of problem caused by poor power supply is power failure, which is (generally) temporary
They need/want it for whatever they were doing before or will be doing afterwards.
Most of the times I go to the cinema I do so after work.
So, no, there's not meant to be an inference that closed source is better, or that XFree86 is proof that OSS is a silly idea or any of that nonsense. XFree86 is just a good and well-known example of a project that was open source without being free of problems.
It's pretty difficult to read that post without seeing that as a point, and this is first thing in the morning for me, too.
I must say, the '+1 Informative' and '-1 Troll' have never been close enough for me to hit one when aiming for the other.
http://www.androidx86.org/
Security through obscurity is nearly universally useful (provided you don't mind the obscurity). It's not something to entirely rely on, no, but it's difficult to argue that it doesn't help.
Most people I can think of who'd like this, or have some other form of access to The Great Wiki in their pocket don't see it as unconditionally gospel. It's like the rest of the internet - about right, most of the time. I don't recall ever having been wrongly informed through getting information from wikipedia - it can be (and more often than not is) ambiguous, over-complicated or over-simplified, lacking in detail, but it's very rarely wrong - there's too many anally retentive pedants on it.
You must be new here.
If it was 'your father's printer...' it'd draw fire for blatantly implying that only men would have printers.
The third one I don't see as being that bad, really. I see it as being less derogatory towards women and more towards geeks. But maybe I'm just trying to explain it to the wrong women...
(I've also not found any context yet)
You clearly didn't read TFA. He said some _bad_ things:
"A release is an amazing thing; Im not talking about the happy ending.."
"Your printer, and your moms printer, and your grandmas printer"
"well have less trouble explaining to girls what we actually do"
Aren't we mostly talking about things aimed at men? A group of people united entirely and only by their gender? If the way our gender impacts on our perspective isn't being taken into consideration by whoever is doing the talking, they're doing it wrong.
It's definitely of an american bent.
For example, the 'politics' banner is the stars and stripes, US-specific things generally aren't country-denoted, but foreign things are.
I'm not meaning to complain in the slightest, I'm just saying that to a non-american, this site is pretty american.
MS has put an awful lot of time, effort and money into forging a reputation for generally being The Bad Guy. They're particularly known for their ulterior motives. Given this, I don't think anyone can claim to be surprised when MS do A Good Thing and it's generally viewed as a possible trap. Sure, we can't judge purely on these circumstances, but right now there's not a lot to suggest this is any different from the other times MS has done Good Things.
I hope it's not a trap, I really do want MS to become A Good Guy and for Samba to do AD and all the rest. But there's nothing here to particularly convince me that is the case, so the logical thing to do is assume it's history repeating itself.
The problem is that there's also all sorts of other forks, each with their own claim to being the first heir to MySQL.
Were Oracle to kill of MySQL and there to be One True Fork that everyone switches to, that'd be fine. But there isn't. There're several, and they seem to be multiplying.
It's hardly as if Garter have a reputation for accurate predictions based on thorough research, though.
Because they already have this and it does what they want it to do. The same reason they stick with Windows and Outlook and Media Player and IE.
The Moon orbits the sun, too.
Either you misread the explanation or I did.
I imagine it'd be doable for Linux, but even if I'm wrong there, I'd suggest it's perfectly possible on OSX.
It is. The issue is MS finding itself in a dominant market position[0], and then abusing that position. It's the abuse that's angering people, not the market dominance. The problem with abusing the dominant position is it acts to stifle competition, which slows innovation. As long as MS is seen as the only viable option, and allowed to continue to strengthen it's position as such, there is no need for MS to put any effort into being the best option. [0] Which proably was through having best-of-breed. Some would say this infers less than complimentary things about who was defining 'best' at the time. I'm not going to comment, I wasn't paying attention at the time.
Not by your definition of 'monopoly', no. But it is by the EU's, and since they also write the laws, that's the one MS have to work to, too.
Sometimes it's appropriate to invoke Godwin.
You can? In the UK it's what keeps local government afloat.
From what I gather, BT neither discourages or is expected to discourage the use of their phone network for things like buying controlled substances and arranging burglaries. That's normally left up to the police.
Since we're being pedantic, that'd be Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs.