Re: One More reason to duump Windows...
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I would think that a surgury is a situation where you stay focused on a very limited amount of space. You're not driving a car, flying a plane or walking around town turning your head every which way.
So yeah, maybe for surguries this tech is good, and so much the better.
The funny thing is, humans tend to not like to have stuff stuck on their faces in order to just move around.
I like the idea.
Electric/hybrid vehicles are certainly nice, and it'll be a great thing for city dwellers when the noise of traffic is lowered to just the sound of tires on the road, but I've always been sceptical about the battery issue.
Not to mention that, if this is truly supposed to be a "green" solution, then we'll need to get rid of coal power plants - but okay, baby steps.
It will however be quite reassuring to know that batteries have become like aluminium cans - endlessly recyclable.
If we ever get there.
"If a software vendor's private repository that contains their source code and intellectual property was leaked or deleted, this could literally mean the end of that company"
The code I write goes on a company server and stays there. The code itself can only be modified by very few people, and they have specific IDs. There is zero risk of some random nobody reaching the server, much less accessing the database and even less deleting it.
The Notes/Domino world has a lot of advantages.
You don't have to have a product for people to shower you with money.
Then you can Magic Leap yourself into a life of wealth, even if you've got nothing to show for it.
NeuReality is going to be successfull - ML is already a thing so it can toy around with chip designs as long as the money keeps flowing in.
And when it stops coming, they'll just declare that the experiment was a brilliant success.
Well their range currently seems to be about 16 billion light-years. I'd say that's not too shabby.
They're also used in oceanic fiber lines, which span several thousand kilometers and are multiplexed to the max, so it's not the photons that are the problem.
Entangled photons, well that's another subject. And a quantum network is going to have to work with switches and other networking gear I don't even know about, so that's very likely going to be an issue.
But a photon's range is until it hits an obstacle, however distant.
They've been easy for a long time, development-wise. Heck, all the @functions from R3 (and probably from R1) are still there.
Notes/Domino has a long-established history of backwards compatibility, as far as developers are concerned. If you go to OpenNTF, you'll find plenty of apps written before R9 that still work. Maysoft has the Notes Document Viewer since forever (well, their copyright states 2002), and it is an extremely handy tool that I use regularly on R9 and R10 platforms. I'm sure it'll work fine on R12.
From a developer's perspective, I don't see what the problem is.
Of course, admins might have a different perspective, but I don't see that updating from R9 to R10 made any great difficulties in the companies I work with.
This announcement is just to remind Domino users that R9 is end-of-support. Well, okay then, but it won't prevent people from running their servers, no more than Windows XP has stopped running (and running, and running).
That said, R12 seems quite interesting, but obviously jumping from R9 to R12 is going to be a bit of a hassle.
Um, guys, you might have noticed that you gorged yourselves in 2020-2021 amid a global pandemic ?
Do you really think you're going to profit again when all those people who'd never bought a laptop now have one and are (mostly) physically going back to work ?
You can lower your prices, but the fact is that a whole bunch of people now have a laptop they use less and less. It will last them a looooong time (well, until the battery fails, at least), and during that time they won't be buying again, whatever your prices are.
You need to set your expectations back to 2019, before the panic. That's about the best you can expect now.
<user mode>What's Notepad ?</user mode>
I agree that checking is easy - when you know how a computer works.
Now tell me, when you order a laptop online, when you buy a smartphone, when you go to a store to buy a computer, does the personnel on site ask you if you know how to use it ? Do they require that you watch a training video ?
No, they don't.
So you know what Notepad is and how to use it. Good for you.
Unfortunately, I think that 99% of IT consumers don't, and have no idea of why it is important.
I think the hackers already know . . .
$256 billion isn't enough to offer a free service ?
I think that's called greed, pure and simple.
I'm sorry, but if I had €100 million in the bank, and suddenly found out that the bank's other customers had voted to liquidate my account, I would be pissed to the extreme.
As noted, it's hilarious to watch all these "decentralize" zealots suddenly rush to centralize when their feet go cold.
I love fireworks.
"Atos and the UK government have settled out of court in a case involving an circa $1 billion (£854 million) supercomputer contract for the UK's Met Office. The case brought by Atos was over claims that the Met Office and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) had breached procurement law and unfairly dismissed the Atos bid, awarding the contract instead to Microsoft"
So, Atos pulled a Bezos but actually won, and is getting paid for it.
Good for Atos.
Indeed.
And I fail to see how a "financial giant" doesn't have personnel sufficiently trained to set up a server.
Ten years ago I set up a website for the company I was an associate in. It took me all of an hour to find the data to understand and properly lock down the .htaccess file to ensure that the entire file structure of our server would not be accessible.
I'm not an engineer, just a University-level graduate. It's not rocket science.
Even more impressive : the fact that there are still some people intelligent enough - and dedicated enough - to actually understand how our computers work and build the environment to demonstrate it.
Back in the day, I purchased the Norton's PC Bible. It was a very enlightening experience, finding out how things actually happened at the hardware level. Thanks to that book, I toyed around with creating moving objects in graphics mode on my 4-colour IBM-PC 640*320 CRT screen (that was high-resolution, back then).
These days, there is no more PC Bible, there is a PC library, and it would take years for a newcomer to grasp all of it.
Kudos to the creator of this tool.
"patch promptly, run anti-virus software, log off when away from one's desk, and encrypt data before transmission"
We're talking about government. That means that there's an IT department that calls the shots on patching.
As for encrypting, that would be difficult if IT has not installed and configured the tools to do so. The user is not supposed to be able to do that on his own, now is he ?
And if you think I'm logging off to go take a piss, I have news for you : I'm pressing Windows-L to lock my session and not lose my work.
I appreciate the intent, but there's a lot here that doesn't really depend on just the user.
Well, there's this article.
Conspiracy much ? I don't think so.
Um, except you have.
In the Age of the Internet, it really is a bad idea to blatantly spout nonsense that can be proven wrong with a simple search.
Apparently, some companies really think that people are just going to trust whatever they say blindly.
Doesn't work like that, guys. It really doesn't.
Not even if your name is Apple.
Xi Pooh still doesn't get it : silencing dissent does not erase it, it just pushes it underground where you cannot see it anymore.
Xi will get his clear, shining landscape of beautiful, happy citizens, but underneath there will be a festering pile of hatred and malcontent which, when it explodes (and it will), will be swift and devastating.
I can see that and I'm not even a historian, much less a psychologist.
I disagree. Assange is not and never has been a journalist of any kind, let alone an investigative one.
He is an asshole, but that's beside the point.
All he did was recieve information and publish it. The US Government didn't like that, but that's not necessarily a reason to slam a foreign national into a US jail.
After all, the US jealously guards all its nationals that did hideous things in other countries, so what goes around should come around.
My wife has a Samsung Galaxy A3.
So do I.
Yet, because her model is a year before mine, she doesn't have the same connector.
I will readily admit that I am fed up with these shenanigans. I have been forced (business reasons) to use a mobile phone since 2006, and not a single one has come without a specific charger and cable.
If you want to plug a desktop PC, on the other hand, the same cable has been in use for the past twenty years.
Stop the insanity.
I have had my fill of the cattle class.
If I ever even think of taking a plane again, I'm paying a first-class ticket.
The price alone will be an incentive to stay put, but if I really, really want to get somewhere by plane, I will no longer be stuck in a seat next to a whale.
I'm 56 years old now. I'm done with putting up with constraints.
I want my comforts, and I'm ready to pay for them (just not rich enough to charter a private jet).
How long before people finally understand that there is no Nigerian prince, no free lunch and nobody begging to give you money ?
Wake up, people. Money is earned by hard work (unless you are a member of the 1%, in which case your money is earned just by you breathing).