Security companies are all snakeoil.
They never deliver from experience. They always bill though.
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They never deliver from experience. They always bill though.
personally I can't see why anyone would want to DDoS github unless they are just being an asshat.
Didn't work on NT4 which i had at the time :(
(really I do buy physical books and refuse to use ebooks until this sort of shit is in the past).
I don't own a toaster, dryer, kettle, microwave or massive television. I have LED lighting everywhere as well and have programmed my family to turn the lights off.
3 children, 2 adults, 2 guinea pigs = £230 a year in electricity!
Not bad for a tech family.
only problem is losses associated with 12v wiring.
I probably don't have to fish out €6000 either for my needs.
Tend to go for non chipboard and non UV sensitive plastic stuff now that you can actually clean and leave in the sun without destroying it.
Nope.
Slightly regretting writing that 450,000 lines of C# in the last 10 years...
But one security model is better than having two security models.
You misunderstand.
My beef is with NaCl, objects, Applets and ActiveX etc as well, mainly because they run outside of the browser's engine, sandbox, security model and conceptual model. you also have to ship them externally to the browser.
Canvas, video, webgl fine.
I've lived without Flash for a year now and all is good. We just need to break the crack addiction!
1. Noone will use Mir because xlib apps and non-ported toolkits will fail miserably.
2. It will not get tested properly.
3. Release+1 with XMir will be shipped and Mir will be turned on.
4. All hell will break loose.
If it doesn't happen, I'll cook and eat my laptop.
The only flag waving so far has been "shuttleworth installed it on his dell and it worked ok for a couple of weeks with some problems".
What I'm saying is that the web transcends all platforms so writing an app isn't necessary. Microsoft actually do get this hence the focus on IE and Windows Azure recently. They probably have the best web offering on the cloudy space as well.
Microsoft do everything literally.
as for embrace, extend, extinguish, what you say is true but they got stuffed by the EU so had to start making open specification documents which are now available on MSDN so they have been defanged there.
I travel without a smartphone. It's not hard and at least if you lose it (which has happened to me), you're not totally fucked. I really couldn't possibly depend on something like that for anything critical. So many horror stories from colleagues on that front as well. I carry a USB stick with truecrypt encrypted documents on it only.
As for conversion, it's not hard. Any old calculator app (even the s40 calculator) is usable for this. Even a pencil and paper is good enough. The base rate+commission is easy to calculate and is always available on hand. You don't need an app for that. Plus if you want to argue with them and barter which you can do in some places, it works better without a smartphone. In fact its fucking rude to whip one out on half of the planet.
It just sounds like you're justifying the use of a smartphone for these functions rather than specifying a platform advantage when the greatest advantage is gained from not using one.
Even if they ship X and Mir, people will just use X.
I can't think of a single long term advantage of using a language that high level to build system software. Sure it makes a cute research project but that's about it.
As for application level stuff, a big chunk of windows 8 is c#, mainly in the metro space as is windows phone.
Mir is just a square wheel like all the other crap I have to uninstall when someone installs Ubuntu.
I'm back on debian myself now.
Oh and no twirking or whatever it is.
Basically you can turn off most of the crap and use the start screen as a start menu and it's bearable. I'd take it over XP but not 7 (which it looks like I'll be using until 2020)
My particular perception switcher was when people started starting side conversations by forwarding JIRA ticket email notifications to me with comments etc and emails with ticket references in asking questions.
I rejected these with a simple filter [A-Z]{1,3}-[0-9]{1,6} with "write it on the damn ticket, peon" (in slightly friendlier language).
Everything turns up on tickets now and I get 4-5 emails a day compared to 80-100.
In real life it's even harder. To be blatantly honest I nearly cried once when a client ripped the shit out of two weeks of backbreaking work I did for them. Instead of crawling off and whinging I fixed it and the client was happy. This was in 1998 and they're still a client now.
Now try again :)
It isn't Microsoft's job to write the damn apps, even though they did write a lot to start with themselves to get a good value proposition to start with.
And let's apply your flawed logic to other things:
"It's really ironic that Windows is being bailed out on its lack of apps by the web".
Doesn't work then does it?
None of those have any real value for me personally so I can understand where Android might be more suitable but I really don't need an app for any of those.
As for trip advisor city guides, Nokia Here Maps does the same stuff offline (and a load more!)
The only missing point from above is that YouTube works fine in the browser. The press are full of shit about interoperability there. Not only that there are a multitude of quality youtube apps but you don't need them.
Everything that there isn't an app for you can do on the damn browser which is good as its the same as full desktop IE10.
This is a poor excuse and justification.
As for shoddy apps, Google Play has its fair share as well don't forget.
As a side point, I get a lot of people ask me what to buy after they threw £450 on a 4S and broke it (I'm the local informal tech advice guy for the school my kids go to's population of parents). The iphone doesn't have a great reputation in the UK after the first purchase from experience: it's expensive, unreliable (icloud is a piece of crap) and breaks easily and every repair place is dodgy including the apple stores here. This makes it a really bad investment. I don't suggest a solution in particular but people come back with Lumia handsets over new iPhones as they are much cheaper and are functionally equivalent. Either that or they buy a shit android and hate it.
Debian has fewer apps. Ubuntu has fewer apps. Does this mean anything? No.
I actually only use three "apps" that aren't built in on my WP8 device.