Comment Re:Summary, someone? (Score 1) 1029
They didn't. It's a great movie. Go see it. I'm going to go see it again, but in IMAX this time.
They didn't. It's a great movie. Go see it. I'm going to go see it again, but in IMAX this time.
Maybe as a deterrent, but a random search is as likely to miss someone as it is to catch them. As an analogy, I think I'll only drop 50% of things on my firewall by things trying to get to restricted subnets. Should work just fine, right?
As much as people scream 'PROFILING!!", wouldn't it be better to hire competent screeners who know what suspicious behaviors, bag types, other triggers, etc to look for?
Oh, that doesn't send the money to the contracting company that gave the politician all of those campaign contributions. My bad.
For dangerous attachment types, you can quarantine them using MimeDefang. Then you provide a link for download after X days (notifying the recipient of the mandatory quarantine time), and a procedure for the helpdesk to pre-release 'known good/expected' documents. While in the quarantine area, you can do whatever you like to it
Netsol makes it difficult to add your own DNS records for your domain. So, I never pursued it. Regretting that now.
... is a big part of the problem.
You want it privatized? Force them to compete. No more employer-provided healthcare to drive up costs for those of us who would rather shop on our own. I don't have employer-provided car insurance, yet the majority of the mileage on my car is from going to and from work. Decouple healthcare from your job. Let us shop for the health insurance that best meets our own needs.
Or satellite orbital mechanics. Oddly enough, way back when, I had my AHA!!! moment in how to do 3d computer graphics (it was a hobby, this was in the time of future crew, renaissance, etc) when I took a spaceflight dynamics class. Yup, rotating and translating, to include 3d equations of motion and acceleration for spaceflight are EXACTLY the same thing you do to render the stuff on a computer (except you have to add the perspective, 2d screen and all that).
I'll focus on music.
I just drag/drop the stuff I want on my portable devices to my portable devices. Done.
The device itself then indexes its local collection in the background using subfolders and id3 tags. I use rockbox on my sansa and music player remixed on my Palm Pre, fwiw. On the palm, it's all done wirelessly via an ssh filesystem. I never connect it to anything, not even to charge (they've had inductive charging integrated since inception).
If you have to rely on some magic software to put music on your devices, you are doing it wrong. If you are locked into that ecosystem, then you are just stupid and deserve the pain that you have caused yourself.
Sftware and business method patents simply should not exist. Period.
That a 'tech writer' even cares what facebook does with their site is bad enough. That it affects him is even worse.
Computers are tools. What makes them useful is the things we tell them to do. We tell them to do things through code. Therefore, to properly use a computer, you should know a little bit about how to code, and a bit about how the thing works, shouldn't you? I'm talking about general-use computing here, not things you would do with a kiosk or point of sale system.
If a big part of your job is to use a computer, to analyze and share data, then yes, you should know how to code. I certainly expect people who work on my house, my car, etc, to know how to use their tools.
If you create content or processes on computers, you should know how to properly tell them how to do things. Not knowing this leads to spreadsheet 'databases', single images in powerpoint (or powerpoint at all), word attachments in email that state what could have just been written in the email itself, and all of the other associated idiocy that I'm sure you all deal with every day. I don't expect my mechanics to know these things. In this analogy, they are the computer drivers, not the ones building and fixing the car.
Remember, SQL was originally written to make querying and correlating data easy for managers and NON-PROGRAMMERS. That's why it is so english-y. Now, it is considered 'programming' to understand how to create a SQL query, and management has to rely on other people to use the tool for them so they can have a non-flexible set of buttons they can push rather than just tell the system what they need at any given point themselves. Let that sink in.
Relevant: http://www.xkcd.com/1172/
Tablets are for content consumption. The interface needs to be toned down, with larger buttons and/or gesture interfaces to interact and multitask (Like WebOS). The interface doesn't need to be as flexible, but it must be consistent.
Laptops/PCs are for content creation. You type a lot here. You don't reach out and touch the screen. You also don't want huge buttons and gestures, as they are a poor interface on these devices. The interface must be FLEXIBLE, but CONSISTENT. It must be adaptable to a workflow. The direction all modern interfaces are headed are failing miserably at this.
Ubuntu and Gnome3 don't get this either. It's annoying.
Always the visionary:
Now that Phones are more prevalent, and unlimited txt as well, I haven't used IRC, IM, AIM, Google Talk, Jabber, etc etc etc in several years now. Everything is done via SMS. Maybe it's just who my friends are, mostly outside the tech industry.
Systems programmers are the high priests of a low cult. -- R.S. Barton