In the case of someone removing the battery from my phone, regardless of where they placed it afterward, I would punch them right in the mouth.
In the case of someone removing the battery from and subsequently reassembling my iPhone, I would punch them right in the mouth and then compliment them on their technical geek fu.
Thanks keyboard warrior but please try that with me. I dare you, I double dare you. The form of martial art I practice (Muay Thai) treats punches as distractions (that's if you're quick enough to even make contact, which is a pretty big if). After you finish picking yourself up from the floor, I'll be happy to give you instructions on how to set your phone to silent.
BTW, the last time I hit anyone was last Thursday in a sparring match. Last time I hit anyone in anger was almost a decade ago, a fact I'm quite proud of (also, people aren't normally dumb enough to try and punch me, I'm not a small bloke).
Building jails creates construction and guard jobs...
Then you can sort the skilled prisoners out from the worthless prisoners and sell them to corporations as cheap labour^W^W^W^W^W^W^W provide them with paying jobs so they can repay their debt to society. I mean it's been proven to increase productivity in early 40's Germany.
Best way to get a phone back. LOUD annoying ringtone.
If someone with an annoying ring tone left their phone at their desk NOT on silent, I would remove the battery and place the battery in the ceiling. In the case of Iphones, I would remove the battery, reassemble the phone and place the battery in the ceiling.
...paying for text messaging (which literally costs carriers nothing)...
You are using that word and I literally do not think you know what it means.
Perhaps he should have said "literally" next to nothing as once you have the infrastructure in place the cost of sending text messages through it is negligible, so you only have the initial cost of installing infrastructure. It doesn't cost your phone company A$0.25 per message (A$0.09 on a plan), it costs them A$0.00, as more messages are sent over existing infrastructure the cost of installing the infrastructure approaches zero.
In Thailand and the Philipines, having 100 THB (or just 1 PHP in the Phils) on a prepaid SIM gives you unlimited texts, in Australia they do this for A$45 per moth including other services such as voice calls and data (1.5-3 GB).
So text messaging really does literally cost next to nothing but if you're on pre-paid in Australia you pay up to A$0.30 for it.
The carriers won't agree, because it would eliminate or restrict the ability to get people to sign two-year contracts.
Not sure about US law but Australian law separates out a contract for service and a MRO (Mobile Repayment Option). Even if you buy the phone outright AND sign on to a plan, you are legally required to pay for the entire plan (unless the telco is unable to meet it's obligations).
I dont see how it will restrict their ability to lock people into a 2 year contract without the handset, people might start smartening up and refusing long term contracts (Yeah, a bit optimistic) but it doesn't stop telco's from trying.
Personally, I'd rather telco's weren't permitted to sell phones subsidised by contracts. It stops them from hiding the true cost of the services from the customer.
No, they are most certainly not a fad. It's just the technology is still in its infancy and there is a ton of development left to be done before this technology is as truly usable as is promised. It's going to be killer for sure.
Today we are basically reliving 1990 all over again, in terms of the state of today's mobile market compared to the PC market then. There is a lot of opportunity out there for people to try new and bold things.
Remember that the 1990's had a lot of fads, particularly electronic ones.
BTW, the computers infancy was in the late 70's. The 80's was the computers adolescence, the 90's was when they became commonplace. By the 1990's computers had sorted themselves out into a solid set of standards which enabled greater competition. Tablets aren't at this stage and will never reach it if Apple gets their way.
Tablets have a good chance of just being a fad, as I said, most people who buy them end up using them less then the computers they already had. Tablets will end up that way if they dont become capable of interacting with a live PC as a peripheral.
How ironic that it used to be Apple that was known for empowering the creative types.
Apple never empowered creative people, creative people used whatever canvas was available.
Apple empowered hipsters.
There is absolutely no difference between Adobe products on Windows and the same Adobe products on OS X in the last 5 years (well except that the Adobe products on Windows performed slight better) despite what the fanboys will tell you.
"If Windows 8 shifts in a form that people really want to buy the product, the company will have a great future."
From what I've seen, people will not be flocking to Windows 8 of their own free will. But the "good" news is that their will has little to do with it. New computes will come with Windows 8, and no doubt there will be some software feature tie ins that will require it. Much like Vista and DirectX.
Much like Vista, enterprises (the main user of Windows) will shun Windows 8, the "Good" news is that even though Windows 8 was a failure, enterprise will still buy Windows 7 licenses. Remember that MS couldn't even stop OEM's from shipping XP before Win 7 came along, I can still buy PC's running XP out of the box.
Windows 8 will flop, Windows 9 will look like Windows 7 with a few tweaks.
"Ozzie also thinks Microsoft's future as a company is strongly tied to Windows 8's reception."
They're doomed.
They may well be. It's funny - I've been reading/. since before moderation, and for many years every year was going to be "the year of Linux on the desktop - this time for sure!" Well, now that that's become more of a running joke, it might actually become true. General purpose home computers will likely revert to a hobbyist thing before too many more years, and of course Linux will dominate at that point.
Non-hobby home PCs are fading fast., and it's really just PC gaming keeping Windows on home-built rigs today, which is a shrinking niche. The release of the Steam phone apps (even though they aren't really selling games yet) heralds the end. Once the big MMOs shift their client focus to mobile platforms (and that's coming for sure), it won't take long before there's no real point in running Windows on your home-built PC except that virtualized XP instance you use for classic games.
But the home laptop market is still strong. I've had three friends "get rid" of their home PC's for tablets, 2 to Ipad 1 to Android (Asus Transformer). The 2 Ipad people lasted less then 4 weeks, the Transformer is the last holdout, 2 months but he's now looking at buying a cheap laptop so he can use a fully featured OS.
The General Purpose computer will remain in business and home for a long time because limited use systems are useless beyond a very small subset of features. Tablets are either going to become an acompanyment to that (Read: a peripheral we connect to our computers) or they will go away. I'm still not convinced that Tablets aren;t a fad, they're no more popular then Tamagotchi's, Bell Bottoms or Vanilla Ice so dont count on popularity to be permanent.
I agree. Strict functional naming conventions come with their own problems. For example, I just had to re-read for the umptyumpth time, the multiple re-sent emails, wiki pages, and web pages containing the corporate warnings about making sure you're logged into the correct server before executing changes. It seems that the policy of having systems assigned names like "mxyzptlkvm001" and "mxyzptlkvm010",
As I said, if you cant understand a naming convention in 15 seconds of it being explained to you (a sysadmin) the convention sucks.
The biggest problem with the above system is that it does not seperate important details. A good naming convention is very abbreviated. LON-EXC-01 (London, Exchange, iteration 01), you dont need to put every detail in there, just the ones that matter the most (arguably another issue with functional names that many people get wrong).
A bad functional name is not any better then calling the servers Phil or Rob, when you manage 40+ servers, you will forget what that little blade in the fourth rack named Gladys is doing, but not if it's named NYC-SQL-11.
Hint: Use CNAME and you can keep the fun server name, too!
CNAME's are great for client machines but when it comes to servers, the people managing them are professionals who should understand the naming convention. If any sysadmin cant understand the naming convention in 15 seconds, it's a bad convention. Users who have remote access to their machines have a functional name and an easy to remember CNAME.
Users should not need to connect to servers that aren't defined by Group Policy or login script, even beyond this it's easy to tell them LON dash EXC dash ZERO ONE then trying to remember if "Philbert" was a file or exchange server (OK, the file server should really be "Heifer", given the amount of storage inside).
2. It prevented the Soviets from seizing large parts of Japan by forcing a quick surrender to the Americans.
As early as 1944 the Japanese began sending out feelers for peace, a conditional surrender were the Japanese terms. The big mistake was sending their envoy's through the Soviet union which wanted no peace between the Allies and the Japanese.
I highly doubt it would have come to a prolonged attack on the Japanese home islands before a conditional surrender was hammered out. Japan had no desire to become part of the greater Soviet Union and would have surrendered to the Americans before that happened and the Americans did not want the casualties from a prolonged fight. Also, the Soviets were very reluctant to get involved in China. The Soviets only began their campaign against parts of Japanese held China and Mongolia on 8 August 1945, a major part of this was that it was a requirement for the Soviets to join the Pacific war in order to keep territories annexed in Eastern Europe (agreed to by Stalin, Churchill and Truman at Yalta, they cut up Europe before the war ended), The Instrument of surrender was signed on 8 September 1945, less then a month after the Soviets joined the war.
Not that I question the decision of the US at the time, The soviets prevented the Americans from even knowing that Japan was talking of surrender but the Soviets would never have been a real part of the Japanese invasion, for no other reason then logistics most of the transports the Soviets had were American Liberty ships and no landing ships to speak of.
Everyone should have code words like this. I have some and my family knows what they are. If I'm in Serious Trouble, I can drop one of the phrases into casual conversation and they'll know to get help.
Please dont tell me they are bomb, jihad, plutonium, assassinate, and anarchy?
As one said by the great Capt Jack Sparrow: "The deepest circle of hell is reserved for betrayers and mutineers."
Am I the only one who thinks it's really sad that people think that quote came from a bad fictional character in a bad fictional movie rather then from the Divine Comedies and the mythology it was based on.
An Iphone 4s in Australia starts at A$800 (US$840) outright or A$1800 (US$1890) on a contract. You might be able to get an Iphone 3GS for A$400 if someone has excess stock.
Needlessly, because we have homeless shelters for them to go to.
More over, we have programs to help them find work, education and so forth so they get off the street (or out of homeless shelters) and start looking after themselves.
The homeless problem in Australia is about 1/10th of that of the US (never seen the stats for the UK). You can never eliminate it completely as a lot of homeless are mentally ill and as such reject help even when it's offered (what's the alternative, lock them up).
Global, enforced, government run internet filters (vs Australia)
You do know that Australia hasn't got one of those.
Meanwhile, your lives are controlled by corporate interests. Corporations have put up as many CCTV cameras in US urban centres as London and there is no oversight on them what so ever. ACTA and SOPA are a lot more successful at restricting the internet then Conroy's aborted and non existent filter ever was or will be (CLUEBAT: it doesn't exist). You dont have government controlled media, you have media controlled government which is worse.
Whilst the RIAA/MPAA are allowed to sue people out of house and home for allegedly copying a file, you cant preach about freedom. At least the Australian courts have smacked the studios down for that.
ACTA and TSA-like body scanners are now being shoehorned into other countries via use of free trade agreements which bypasses the democratic process in those countries. So the TSA does not only violate American freedom, they're violating the freedom of other nations too.
And free press? We are in a country where you can write basically anything about basically anyone, label it an opinion piece, and noone can do jack about it.
So basically I can call you a paedophile, terrorist-loving, gay Nazi and you cant do jack about it (because you're a paedophile, terrorist-loving, gay Nazi).
Don't mistake lack of rules for freedom. Freedom is more about responsibility for yourself, less about being able to do whatever the fuck you want (that's anarchy).
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In the case of someone removing the battery from my phone, regardless of where they placed it afterward, I would punch them right in the mouth.
In the case of someone removing the battery from and subsequently reassembling my iPhone, I would punch them right in the mouth and then compliment them on their technical geek fu.
Thanks keyboard warrior but please try that with me. I dare you, I double dare you. The form of martial art I practice (Muay Thai) treats punches as distractions (that's if you're quick enough to even make contact, which is a pretty big if). After you finish picking yourself up from the floor, I'll be happy to give you instructions on how to set your phone to silent.
BTW, the last time I hit anyone was last Thursday in a sparring match. Last time I hit anyone in anger was almost a decade ago, a fact I'm quite proud of (also, people aren't normally dumb enough to try and punch me, I'm not a small bloke).
Yeah, try and do that with an iPhone!
Been there, done that.
Had one Iphone toting douchebag who thought he was safe, for once the fanboys were right about the Iphone, the battery isn't that hard to get out.
Also, thanks for reading my GP post because I'm sure you noticed the bit about how I already do this to Iphones.
Building jails creates construction and guard jobs...
Then you can sort the skilled prisoners out from the worthless prisoners and sell them to corporations as cheap labour^W^W^W^W^W^W^W provide them with paying jobs so they can repay their debt to society. I mean it's been proven to increase productivity in early 40's Germany.
Most politicians seem to be more fond of Matthew 22:21 "Render unto Caesar".
Or Ezekiel 23:21
Best way to get a phone back. LOUD annoying ringtone.
If someone with an annoying ring tone left their phone at their desk NOT on silent, I would remove the battery and place the battery in the ceiling. In the case of Iphones, I would remove the battery, reassemble the phone and place the battery in the ceiling.
(emphasis in the quote is mine)
...paying for text messaging (which literally costs carriers nothing)...
You are using that word and I literally do not think you know what it means.
Perhaps he should have said "literally" next to nothing as once you have the infrastructure in place the cost of sending text messages through it is negligible, so you only have the initial cost of installing infrastructure. It doesn't cost your phone company A$0.25 per message (A$0.09 on a plan), it costs them A$0.00, as more messages are sent over existing infrastructure the cost of installing the infrastructure approaches zero.
In Thailand and the Philipines, having 100 THB (or just 1 PHP in the Phils) on a prepaid SIM gives you unlimited texts, in Australia they do this for A$45 per moth including other services such as voice calls and data (1.5-3 GB). So text messaging really does literally cost next to nothing but if you're on pre-paid in Australia you pay up to A$0.30 for it.
The carriers won't agree, because it would eliminate or restrict the ability to get people to sign two-year contracts.
Not sure about US law but Australian law separates out a contract for service and a MRO (Mobile Repayment Option). Even if you buy the phone outright AND sign on to a plan, you are legally required to pay for the entire plan (unless the telco is unable to meet it's obligations).
I dont see how it will restrict their ability to lock people into a 2 year contract without the handset, people might start smartening up and refusing long term contracts (Yeah, a bit optimistic) but it doesn't stop telco's from trying.
Personally, I'd rather telco's weren't permitted to sell phones subsidised by contracts. It stops them from hiding the true cost of the services from the customer.
No, they are most certainly not a fad. It's just the technology is still in its infancy and there is a ton of development left to be done before this technology is as truly usable as is promised. It's going to be killer for sure.
Today we are basically reliving 1990 all over again, in terms of the state of today's mobile market compared to the PC market then. There is a lot of opportunity out there for people to try new and bold things.
Remember that the 1990's had a lot of fads, particularly electronic ones.
BTW, the computers infancy was in the late 70's. The 80's was the computers adolescence, the 90's was when they became commonplace. By the 1990's computers had sorted themselves out into a solid set of standards which enabled greater competition. Tablets aren't at this stage and will never reach it if Apple gets their way.
Tablets have a good chance of just being a fad, as I said, most people who buy them end up using them less then the computers they already had. Tablets will end up that way if they dont become capable of interacting with a live PC as a peripheral.
What then happens to Microsoft?
Nothing, businesses will keep buying Windows 7 and Office. As long as that happens MS can screw up as much as they like.
How ironic that it used to be Apple that was known for empowering the creative types.
Apple never empowered creative people, creative people used whatever canvas was available.
Apple empowered hipsters.
There is absolutely no difference between Adobe products on Windows and the same Adobe products on OS X in the last 5 years (well except that the Adobe products on Windows performed slight better) despite what the fanboys will tell you.
If they want me in Apple's (or anyone else's) walled garden, someone will have to drag my bloody corpse there. And even then I'll be fighting it.
Ray, you were supposed to remove the head before bringing the corpse here, you know that.
"If Windows 8 shifts in a form that people really want to buy the product, the company will have a great future."
From what I've seen, people will not be flocking to Windows 8 of their own free will. But the "good" news is that their will has little to do with it. New computes will come with Windows 8, and no doubt there will be some software feature tie ins that will require it. Much like Vista and DirectX.
Much like Vista, enterprises (the main user of Windows) will shun Windows 8, the "Good" news is that even though Windows 8 was a failure, enterprise will still buy Windows 7 licenses. Remember that MS couldn't even stop OEM's from shipping XP before Win 7 came along, I can still buy PC's running XP out of the box.
Windows 8 will flop, Windows 9 will look like Windows 7 with a few tweaks.
"Ozzie also thinks Microsoft's future as a company is strongly tied to Windows 8's reception."
They're doomed.
They may well be. It's funny - I've been reading /. since before moderation, and for many years every year was going to be "the year of Linux on the desktop - this time for sure!" Well, now that that's become more of a running joke, it might actually become true. General purpose home computers will likely revert to a hobbyist thing before too many more years, and of course Linux will dominate at that point.
Non-hobby home PCs are fading fast., and it's really just PC gaming keeping Windows on home-built rigs today, which is a shrinking niche. The release of the Steam phone apps (even though they aren't really selling games yet) heralds the end. Once the big MMOs shift their client focus to mobile platforms (and that's coming for sure), it won't take long before there's no real point in running Windows on your home-built PC except that virtualized XP instance you use for classic games.
But the home laptop market is still strong. I've had three friends "get rid" of their home PC's for tablets, 2 to Ipad 1 to Android (Asus Transformer). The 2 Ipad people lasted less then 4 weeks, the Transformer is the last holdout, 2 months but he's now looking at buying a cheap laptop so he can use a fully featured OS.
The General Purpose computer will remain in business and home for a long time because limited use systems are useless beyond a very small subset of features. Tablets are either going to become an acompanyment to that (Read: a peripheral we connect to our computers) or they will go away. I'm still not convinced that Tablets aren;t a fad, they're no more popular then Tamagotchi's, Bell Bottoms or Vanilla Ice so dont count on popularity to be permanent.
As I said, if you cant understand a naming convention in 15 seconds of it being explained to you (a sysadmin) the convention sucks.
The biggest problem with the above system is that it does not seperate important details. A good naming convention is very abbreviated. LON-EXC-01 (London, Exchange, iteration 01), you dont need to put every detail in there, just the ones that matter the most (arguably another issue with functional names that many people get wrong).
A bad functional name is not any better then calling the servers Phil or Rob, when you manage 40+ servers, you will forget what that little blade in the fourth rack named Gladys is doing, but not if it's named NYC-SQL-11.
Hint: Use CNAME and you can keep the fun server name, too!
CNAME's are great for client machines but when it comes to servers, the people managing them are professionals who should understand the naming convention. If any sysadmin cant understand the naming convention in 15 seconds, it's a bad convention. Users who have remote access to their machines have a functional name and an easy to remember CNAME.
Users should not need to connect to servers that aren't defined by Group Policy or login script, even beyond this it's easy to tell them LON dash EXC dash ZERO ONE then trying to remember if "Philbert" was a file or exchange server (OK, the file server should really be "Heifer", given the amount of storage inside).
Make it so.
As early as 1944 the Japanese began sending out feelers for peace, a conditional surrender were the Japanese terms. The big mistake was sending their envoy's through the Soviet union which wanted no peace between the Allies and the Japanese.
I highly doubt it would have come to a prolonged attack on the Japanese home islands before a conditional surrender was hammered out. Japan had no desire to become part of the greater Soviet Union and would have surrendered to the Americans before that happened and the Americans did not want the casualties from a prolonged fight. Also, the Soviets were very reluctant to get involved in China. The Soviets only began their campaign against parts of Japanese held China and Mongolia on 8 August 1945, a major part of this was that it was a requirement for the Soviets to join the Pacific war in order to keep territories annexed in Eastern Europe (agreed to by Stalin, Churchill and Truman at Yalta, they cut up Europe before the war ended), The Instrument of surrender was signed on 8 September 1945, less then a month after the Soviets joined the war.
Not that I question the decision of the US at the time, The soviets prevented the Americans from even knowing that Japan was talking of surrender but the Soviets would never have been a real part of the Japanese invasion, for no other reason then logistics most of the transports the Soviets had were American Liberty ships and no landing ships to speak of.
Everyone should have code words like this. I have some and my family knows what they are. If I'm in Serious Trouble, I can drop one of the phrases into casual conversation and they'll know to get help.
Please dont tell me they are bomb, jihad, plutonium, assassinate, and anarchy?
As one said by the great Capt Jack Sparrow: "The deepest circle of hell is reserved for betrayers and mutineers."
Am I the only one who thinks it's really sad that people think that quote came from a bad fictional character in a bad fictional movie rather then from the Divine Comedies and the mythology it was based on.
someone on the sun is shooting at us!
-I'm just sayin'
All yours buddy,
I'm too busy dealing with the guy with a hand cannon on the dell.
And the rest.
An Iphone 4s in Australia starts at A$800 (US$840) outright or A$1800 (US$1890) on a contract. You might be able to get an Iphone 3GS for A$400 if someone has excess stock.
Needlessly, because we have homeless shelters for them to go to.
More over, we have programs to help them find work, education and so forth so they get off the street (or out of homeless shelters) and start looking after themselves. The homeless problem in Australia is about 1/10th of that of the US (never seen the stats for the UK). You can never eliminate it completely as a lot of homeless are mentally ill and as such reject help even when it's offered (what's the alternative, lock them up).
You do know that Australia hasn't got one of those.
Meanwhile, your lives are controlled by corporate interests. Corporations have put up as many CCTV cameras in US urban centres as London and there is no oversight on them what so ever.
ACTA and SOPA are a lot more successful at restricting the internet then Conroy's aborted and non existent filter ever was or will be (CLUEBAT: it doesn't exist).
You dont have government controlled media, you have media controlled government which is worse.
Whilst the RIAA/MPAA are allowed to sue people out of house and home for allegedly copying a file, you cant preach about freedom. At least the Australian courts have smacked the studios down for that.
ACTA and TSA-like body scanners are now being shoehorned into other countries via use of free trade agreements which bypasses the democratic process in those countries. So the TSA does not only violate American freedom, they're violating the freedom of other nations too.
So basically I can call you a paedophile, terrorist-loving, gay Nazi and you cant do jack about it (because you're a paedophile, terrorist-loving, gay Nazi).
Don't mistake lack of rules for freedom. Freedom is more about responsibility for yourself, less about being able to do whatever the fuck you want (that's anarchy).
Reminds me of this Dilbert book I saw the other day, "It's Not Funny".
I would have just stopped the title there.
Luxury cars are cloaked too - which is why it looks like I drive an old minivan
Bah, I dont need a cloaking device, most drivers act like the cant see my car already.