Why? Because this is an example of what happens when they're not.
If I'm not mistaken, most keylogging programs can be kept out fairly easily with decent firewall rules and a good anti-spyware/anti-malware agent. The article does not report that this county's IT department (which I'll guess and say is non-existent or illusory) took preventative measures against these attacks.
Not only do they manage to be an excellent news outlet, they are also the word on business and financial matters (along with The Economist and Financial Times).
Having subscribed to WSJ for a year or so, it was definitely worth having. Their forums are also very, very informative.
While I agree with you, if you want to argue about locality, Thomson Reuter's headquarters are located right here in Times Square, and the company itself is broken up all over.
Zildijan, a very prominent manufacturer of drum cymbals, has been around for 400 years. Source: click
Sumitomo has been around since 1590.
IBM has been around since the early 1900s, and they are still hugely relevant today.
These are obvious exceptions to the rule, but it does show that if a company has a good thing going and can play its cards right, it can survive a long, long, LONG time.
There have been times where an approved application has locked up while closing or something and has caused the phone to run very slowly and suck battery faster than the Veyron. (Okay; maybe not, but still.) While killing the app via the Terminal does the trick fine, it would be nice to just have an easy-to-use task manager that takes care of that.
I really wish that Apple would approve an official Terminal and SSH client in the App Store. Having both services running on my iPhone (when I had one) made it a thousand times more useful, especially considering that I could NOT, for the life of me, find a task manager for it.
When I had AT&T, reliability was a problem. First, the 3G network wasn't as mature as it is now, so upload/download speeds were only slightly greater than EDGE (usually 400 kbps or so). Second, and most concerning, was that I frequently had issues getting HSDPA service; I was often on the EDGE (2G) network, which was disappointing considering how much I would have been paying for it.
Needless to say, I only had AT&T for less than the 14-day trial period. I tested all of this on a Treo 750.
Mod up.
Exercise should be something fun, not something "mandatory." I would bet that this is the reason why lots of people are unable to commit to any serious exercise plans; why do something that just isn't fun to do?
I've lost lots of weight and gained lots of physical form through cycling, and I *still* hate the gym. Plus, participating in cycling events and *being able to finish* is a lot of fun and a great way to meet other well-minded people.
Agreed. Your schedule makes it tough to get a good workout easily, but it is certainly not impossible. While I made significant gains in my physical and mental fitness (they are co-dependent on each other), the way I achieved it might not help you. However, I can tell you how my Dad did it.
My Dad works 12+ hour workdays daily, with some days being full day shits. After work, he hits the gym for 45 minutes. He keeps his food intake under control, and is usually somewhat active on his spare time. He's maintained a 32" waistline for several years now, and has weighed 160 or so for the same length of time.
As for me, I got on the bike and stepped away from the computer. Doing that dropped me to 164 from 185 and to a 32" waistline. Managing my diet has kept me between 155 and 160 with a 30" waistline, while feeling great and looking even better.
It's all about being active and eating healthy. There is no magic pill; any that claim to be will fuck you up.
Twitter is actually pretty handy.
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At first, I thought it was a waste of time and was kind of waiting for it to disappear. It was only after I attended many networking events that I realized how ingenious the idea really is.
Think about it: Everybody asks each other how they're doing. It's even customary business etiquette; even if the two parties could care less how they're doing, they ask each other anyway to relieve tension and make small talk. Sometimes, it remains just that, but there are other, much rarer, times where someone's day actually is quite interesting.
Maybe that person had some life-changing experience that could change one's life upon hearing about it. Maybe they learned of critical news that could change one's life for the better. If one never asks, one will never know. Hence the premise of Twitter.
For most people, Twitter is pretty useless; George Carlin put it best, "People are fucking boring." However, it's those other people that make it the amazing and highly informative service that it is. I've found out about exclusive parties, specials and news that can only be found through the agility and brevity offered by Twitter.
So if you don't see the value in it, make a couple of friends and try to find it. At worst, I can see it being bought out by a bigger Internet presence, like Google.
That's usually happened to me because a background task would burn up CPU resources. I would get a Task Manager for your iPhone, but you might have to jailbreak it to get it working.
I guess the US military and government infrastructure and mega-huge corporations are all in danger then. Also, Vista was the only OS to take 5 years to release. Every other version of Windows was released in around two.
If you observe the stats collected in this page of the article, one will see that Lenovo and Dell machines constitute a very high percentage of downgrades. However, the other manufacturers are starkly lower in comparison.
I can't help but believe that this is because Dell and Lenovo are the main suppliers of business laptops in the United States. It's a well-known fact that businesses are super slow at transitioning to new versions of anything significant, especially operating systems. If one is going to make this sensational claim, people in the server community might as well bicker about how adoption to Server 2008 is as slow as molasses right now.
This will naturally slow once Windows 7 comes to the forefront, but considering how the release dates between the two are so close (Vista came out in 2007, 7 is coming out late this year or next year) and how vastly improved 7 is to Vista, there's no net benefit for businesses to adopt to Vista on user machines.
It's not like this is new information; it's always been like this. The big difference is that Microsoft is now suffering from taking so goddamn long to release a "meh" operating system and then release the awesome so soon afterwards.
Is this only when you have lots of extensions? I use a vanilla version of Firefox, and have practically no memory issues. Additionally, when the occasional memory issue does arise, every other browser I try runs into the same issue.
As the post above mentioned, I don't think you need a book. You just need to get out there and do it. "Creatives" become creative by failing, over and over again. And when they're bored, they fail some more.
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It's not about stupidity; it would probably be a huge compliance violation for many companies.
How so?
Just like they forgot basic security measures, right?
Yeah, this isn't a Windows problem. You do know that Linux/UNIX boxes can get 0wn3d, right?
Why? Because this is an example of what happens when they're not.
If I'm not mistaken, most keylogging programs can be kept out fairly easily with decent firewall rules and a good anti-spyware/anti-malware agent. The article does not report that this county's IT department (which I'll guess and say is non-existent or illusory) took preventative measures against these attacks.
Basically, they had it coming.
Not only do they manage to be an excellent news outlet, they are also the word on business and financial matters (along with The Economist and Financial Times).
Having subscribed to WSJ for a year or so, it was definitely worth having. Their forums are also very, very informative.
While I agree with you, if you want to argue about locality, Thomson Reuter's headquarters are located right here in Times Square, and the company itself is broken up all over.
I don't know about you, but if he somehow became a billionaire entrepreneur, then he must have done something right.
Zildijan, a very prominent manufacturer of drum cymbals, has been around for 400 years. Source: click
Sumitomo has been around since 1590.
IBM has been around since the early 1900s, and they are still hugely relevant today.
These are obvious exceptions to the rule, but it does show that if a company has a good thing going and can play its cards right, it can survive a long, long, LONG time.
There have been times where an approved application has locked up while closing or something and has caused the phone to run very slowly and suck battery faster than the Veyron. (Okay; maybe not, but still.) While killing the app via the Terminal does the trick fine, it would be nice to just have an easy-to-use task manager that takes care of that.
Didn't know about the SSH clients, though.
I really wish that Apple would approve an official Terminal and SSH client in the App Store. Having both services running on my iPhone (when I had one) made it a thousand times more useful, especially considering that I could NOT, for the life of me, find a task manager for it.
Doesn't T-Mobile also use HSDPA in select markets?
ml_iPod for Winamp supports the iPhone and iPod Touch. Works VERY well.
I believe there are plugins for Thunderbird et. al that extend support to them as well.
If all else fails, the phone supports SSH transfers over a wireless network, though the transfer rates will probably be slower than USB2.0.
When I had AT&T, reliability was a problem. First, the 3G network wasn't as mature as it is now, so upload/download speeds were only slightly greater than EDGE (usually 400 kbps or so). Second, and most concerning, was that I frequently had issues getting HSDPA service; I was often on the EDGE (2G) network, which was disappointing considering how much I would have been paying for it.
Needless to say, I only had AT&T for less than the 14-day trial period. I tested all of this on a Treo 750.
Nah...this definitely wasn't going to happen..I mean, they only failed to try and silently change the default browser, ya know...
Mod up. Exercise should be something fun, not something "mandatory." I would bet that this is the reason why lots of people are unable to commit to any serious exercise plans; why do something that just isn't fun to do? I've lost lots of weight and gained lots of physical form through cycling, and I *still* hate the gym. Plus, participating in cycling events and *being able to finish* is a lot of fun and a great way to meet other well-minded people.
Agreed. Your schedule makes it tough to get a good workout easily, but it is certainly not impossible. While I made significant gains in my physical and mental fitness (they are co-dependent on each other), the way I achieved it might not help you. However, I can tell you how my Dad did it. My Dad works 12+ hour workdays daily, with some days being full day shits. After work, he hits the gym for 45 minutes. He keeps his food intake under control, and is usually somewhat active on his spare time. He's maintained a 32" waistline for several years now, and has weighed 160 or so for the same length of time. As for me, I got on the bike and stepped away from the computer. Doing that dropped me to 164 from 185 and to a 32" waistline. Managing my diet has kept me between 155 and 160 with a 30" waistline, while feeling great and looking even better. It's all about being active and eating healthy. There is no magic pill; any that claim to be will fuck you up.
At first, I thought it was a waste of time and was kind of waiting for it to disappear. It was only after I attended many networking events that I realized how ingenious the idea really is.
Think about it: Everybody asks each other how they're doing. It's even customary business etiquette; even if the two parties could care less how they're doing, they ask each other anyway to relieve tension and make small talk. Sometimes, it remains just that, but there are other, much rarer, times where someone's day actually is quite interesting.
Maybe that person had some life-changing experience that could change one's life upon hearing about it. Maybe they learned of critical news that could change one's life for the better. If one never asks, one will never know. Hence the premise of Twitter.
For most people, Twitter is pretty useless; George Carlin put it best, "People are fucking boring." However, it's those other people that make it the amazing and highly informative service that it is. I've found out about exclusive parties, specials and news that can only be found through the agility and brevity offered by Twitter.
So if you don't see the value in it, make a couple of friends and try to find it. At worst, I can see it being bought out by a bigger Internet presence, like Google.
That's usually happened to me because a background task would burn up CPU resources. I would get a Task Manager for your iPhone, but you might have to jailbreak it to get it working.
*forces.
Marketing and consumer ignorance are a force hard to stop.
I guess the US military and government infrastructure and mega-huge corporations are all in danger then. Also, Vista was the only OS to take 5 years to release. Every other version of Windows was released in around two.
If you observe the stats collected in this page of the article, one will see that Lenovo and Dell machines constitute a very high percentage of downgrades. However, the other manufacturers are starkly lower in comparison.
I can't help but believe that this is because Dell and Lenovo are the main suppliers of business laptops in the United States. It's a well-known fact that businesses are super slow at transitioning to new versions of anything significant, especially operating systems. If one is going to make this sensational claim, people in the server community might as well bicker about how adoption to Server 2008 is as slow as molasses right now.
This will naturally slow once Windows 7 comes to the forefront, but considering how the release dates between the two are so close (Vista came out in 2007, 7 is coming out late this year or next year) and how vastly improved 7 is to Vista, there's no net benefit for businesses to adopt to Vista on user machines.
It's not like this is new information; it's always been like this. The big difference is that Microsoft is now suffering from taking so goddamn long to release a "meh" operating system and then release the awesome so soon afterwards.
Is this only when you have lots of extensions? I use a vanilla version of Firefox, and have practically no memory issues. Additionally, when the occasional memory issue does arise, every other browser I try runs into the same issue.
As the post above mentioned, I don't think you need a book. You just need to get out there and do it. "Creatives" become creative by failing, over and over again. And when they're bored, they fail some more.
(although four years of college under a computer science major does equate to probably one or two years of real-world experience)
It absolutely doesn't. Four semesters of calculus, and three semesters of other maths completely wasted prove this.