I miss the Drafthouse so much! The prices were very reasonable, the food and beer was fantastic, the old-school advertisements that they played before the movie were fun to watch, and they often played movies that were worth watching... Of all the things I miss about Austin, the Alamo Drafthouse is at the top of my list.

Agreed... i would like to use it, but will not until the let my apps account work with it.

Funny thing is that alot less people would have noticed such a stunt had Facebook just left it alone... Thanks to their decision, I didn't even have to log into Facebook to see the ad, he doesn't have to pay for the impression of the ad to me, and Facebook doesn't get the money for it! ... Sweet Deal

I have held critical positions in IT within a small hospital as well... Unfortunately, there are times that the "could care less what happens at work when I'm not there" doesn't work in an environment where systems have to run 24x7 and system downtime = patient safety issues... There is a huge push for 100% electronic medical records, which just makes this more true. Yes, backup systems are great, but when your system is running on backup systems on Friday evening, you don't leave your primary systems down until Monday, because if those backup systems have issues the hospital and it's patients are now in a very bad place... This also assumes that your lucky enough to HAVE backup systems. In the Navy, they said "Choose your rate, choose your fate" ... It's very true here, if you want an IT job that works 40 hours 9 to 5 then work for an office building that has those business hours... Working in hospitals is great, I love it, but I knew going into that environment that it comes some extra responsibility that is not always convenient.

I really don't care what they do with my data that I *PUBLICLY* post on Google+ or Facebook, .... I posted it there because I'm not concerned about the privacy of that data. Ever heard the term nothing is free? Most users of Facebook, including myself, feel that we get enough benefit from using those sites that allowing them to use some useless data for some targeted advertising, or whatever they want to do, is ok. Privacy is easy, don't post shit you don't want to be sold, mined, or made available to anyone in the world...

"This is your pilot speaking, in Paris it is 15C and partly cloudy. We anticipate a bumpy approach so please remain seated with seat belts secured. Flight attendants, prepare the cabin for landing."

I have a work provided MS phone, on my second one. (granted not WM7) It crashes at least once per week, sometimes just drains my battery for no good reason at all, and is generally an annoying piece of crap... If those "features" were not enough, I can only sync with one of the two exchange servers that I use on a regular basis. Now lets look at my (cheaper) Android phone --- it runs well, doesn't do the equivalent of a BSOD when I try to answer a call, can sync to both of my exchange servers, as well as my goggle accounts (all with full calendar, contacts, and email), and still provides the needed wipe capability and forced time out password requirements. I don't find Microsoft's ability to make a phone that can work with exchange a feature lacking in other phones, hell, other phones do it better! I loose my windows phone this week, I can't wait --- and I will NEVER buy another WM phone --- I don't care what they promise... This comes from a person that uses MS products for almost everything I do.

I would agree with you if anyone calls themselves a network engineer (or even network administrator) they should be able to figure out CIDR without a tool, but you bet I use a calculator! Are you suggesting that I should pull out a piece of paper and write a bunch of ones and zeros when I can just pull up the CIDR app on my phone and be done with it? I subscribe to the "work smarter not harder" idea, which includes the use of tools I have available to make my life easier... And no, I am not a "newer network engineer", been doing this for a long time and welcome the tools. Nate

"upwards of $8000 a throw" --- Ok, and they can also be had much, much cheaper... It is not as though we are going to be putting enterprise datacenter equipment inside of a house for internet. Even if the rural home had to buy the $1000 router with fiber capabilities so that they could plug into the fiber internet run into their house, I'm pretty sure that many of those residents would be more than willing to front that cost for some decent internet. (Not like those dishes referred to earlier are cheap, and they suck!)

Well, actually, you can put a lot more restrictions in place when you use terminal services based environments vs. just allowing file system access over VPN. Another points in my post had to do with the ability to bypass email controls if users are allowed to access non-corporate accounts inside the corporate environment. Any way you cut it, Google Docs makes it easier to access documents outside of controls vs. a server in a corporate environment. The allowed IP and allowed account rules were available, it would be a big step in closing some of these issues.

I would love to use google docs, it would allow for much more functionality than my current budget allows for, and I would likely have a more reliable system while cutting cost at the same time.

That being said, I have two issues with google that they need to find a solution for before I could consider switching, they fix these and I would switch in a heart beat.

First, I want to be able to limit the IP addresses that are allowed to log into corporate accounts... I don't want people on their home computers logging into google and having direct access to all of our corporate data. I would prefer that users have to connect to our VPN, log into a terminal server, and then access the google docs. There is alot of controls that I can place on the corporate computers, and the terminal servers, which protect our data from just being downloaded onto personal hard drives and this is VERY important to me.

Second, I would like to be able to prevent any account that is NOT a corporate account from being able to be accessed on our systems, the risk for data leak is too high when myownfuzzylogin1979@gmail.com logs into google on a corporate machine. We have alot of sensitive information, and we take many steps to protect that information (i.e. our outgoing email is all screened and flagged if something is detected). As it stands today, google apps are blocked for this very reason.

Google, fix those two things and we are good to go!

It would not be possible to do this... A healthcare org has to refer to the patient records long after your visit is over. In a hospital, there is generally reporting that takes place which requires extensive reviews and audits of the care given, and alot of these audits can take place nearly half a year after you were seen. There is also the fact that after your visit, the record will be reviewed for medical coding, which is how you, your insurance, and or the gov't are billed for the care that you were given. The idea that when you leave, your record is locked, is just not realisitic. I can also say that the latest push by the federal government, with these EHR incentives, is pretty much going to do the opposite of what you are asking for.

I have seen medical practices on both ends of the security fence, and it is sad... I've been in practices that I would never, ever, visit as a patient because I have no faith in how things are run there from an IT security view point... At the same time, I have worked with other orginazations that do take security very seriously, and do everything possible to ensure that all data is kept private... The thing that really sucks is that you really have no way of knowing what type of office you are visiting until you see the report that your record has been leaked.

Someone else posted in here that most practices are afraid of HIPAA and will do anything to keep things safe... Unfortionately I have seen alot of practices that couldnt give a crap about HIPAA and won't listen to any reasons as to why they should not run bittorrent on their office computer. The bottom line is that until HIPAA and HITECH start producing more results, busting more practices, and making everyone aware that they do have teeth this is going to continue to be a problem. HIPAA has been around for a long time, but until HITECH came around it has been a joke, and only enforced in the worst of senarios. I still think that both of the policies are too loose, and enforcement on those policies today is still largely reactive, when it's too late.

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As a person that used to do alot of skydiving, the ultimate outcome of this would be strapping on one of these wings, taking off from the ground, fly up to 13,000ft altitude, go into freefall until ~ 3,000ft and land under parachute ... Awesome.

I agree --- I love opera, and I think one of the things I love about it is that it just works very well the way it is... The day Opera bloats like Firefox is the day I will stop using it.

I just broke down and loaded linux (ubuntu) on my wife and kid's computers because I got tired of reloading windows every time they downloaded every virus available on the internet.

- Although I did not run into the issues that you are stating, my wife is currently upset that her iPod got wiped and after doing a days worth of troubleshooting for some reason I can not get her iPod to work with anything in Linux, there has been some other issues with other things just not working properly that most users want to "just work"...

That being said, I was very impressed with how much stuff DID work out of the box, I did not have to hunt down any drivers for the laptop or desktop that I loaded, WiFi, Sound, Graphics, everything was perfect on install.

It's getting close, and I look forward to when i can actually load this and not have to tweak everything all of the time and, like windows, it will just work with the stuff that normal computer users expect their computers to do on a day to day basis.