Posts by Khaptain 4053 publicly visible posts • joined 4 May 2008
In France the same principal exists with Tu and Vous.
Tu = Informal ( When speaking to children , friends and usually parents).
Vous = Formal ( strangers, professionals, tutors, etc and sometime ones Parents).
There still remain times when it is uncertain but an unwritten principal goes along the lines of : When you have shared a meal together/got drunk together at least once, then you can begin to Tutoyer ( Use the Tu version).
Et voila....c'est tout
I can presume the due to the "Power of God", this thing won't need a battery or has an eternal charge.
I can imagine the scenario where the proverbial pair of Mormons come to your door holding one if these Holy Tablet's.
Will the Church hand them out for free, I might be worth turning up to Sunday School or whatever they call it.
Those of the Jewish faith I presume will know where to "get a good deal" on one.
We could have an animated bible , with the parting of the Red Sea on live, or the plague of Locusts, "as it actually happened".
What a wonderful marketing tool. ( Wait a minute ...............)
I think a better idea would be that an indication appears on the delivery note stating that it is acceptable to deliver to a neighbour. ( The neighbour's address would have to be present to avoid confusion). This could be predetermined when the purchase was made, where possible.
For parcels non marked then the defacto delivery mode should be used.
This would help avoid embarrsing yourself or the neighbour with unnecassary signs.
or otherwise you could mandate your neighbour on a permanent basis by filling out a little mandate form down at the local Post Office....
I sincerely hope that they don't completely fail. BES is an essential part of our company and for the moment there are no viable alternatives.
Alternatives :
Android = Not trusted.
MS = A little bit shaky - W8 isn't quite ready and appears to be a risk. Might be the eventual solution though.
Apple = C'mon guys get serious were talking corporate not Fanboi.
Definately agree with the above. For me the whole point of a smart phone/ 7" tablet is the fact that it is an independant internet connected device.
When I am on the tram in the morning i do not want to pull out the tablet AND my telephone, the faffing about setting up tethering.
I had the Galaxy Tab 3G and have subsequently moved on to the Galaxy Note, both very independant and capable devices. I would like the Nexus 7 for JB, but not if I have to tether it.
When a device becomes dependant on another device it , for me, it loses all interest.
Can we just stop with the cats names and use something else like "donkeys".
Dancing Donkey
The Happy Donkey
Donkey and a Pint
Why does Apple and Linux feel the need to publicly name their Operating Systems. I understand that internal projects often have names but that doesn't mean they have to become public knowledge.
Some pointy haired boss obviously that by naming them such that users would feel attached, like it was part of the family. Psychologically our users "identify" with our products. Makes you wonder what kind of namby pamby world we live in.
We only "need stuff" because the population is increasing at a rate which the earth can't sustain. And I believe that we have already passed the sustainability limit which means that the problems will truly start coming to light.
Obvioulsy you are quite happy to exacerbate the situation.
We have managed to pollute the land, the air and the space with our presence, so now we move into the last remaining sanctuary, the sea.
There really is no end to human destruction and it is always for some impossible dream of "making things better for everyone".
It's about time we stopped "moving forward" and took a step back, looked at the mess we have made, cleaned it up and then started living truly sustainable lives and not the corporate, "I want it know", lifestyles that we are permanently presented.
"- or just work out where the hell they want to be!"
I definately agree with what is stated above and just to add a litlle
Why the hell do we "need" to travel so much in the first place? There was a time when 20Kms was a long journey and today we are literally travelling 10s of thousands of kms per year. Is it all really necassary ?
Can't we have a Maglev system please. I love the idea of going to work in a landspeeder, it's a lot more enticing than public transport.
PS : For the pedants , I know that Landspeeders don't use Maglev but it is about the closest thing that I could find.
PPS : For the ultra-pedants : Yes, I know Landspeeders don't exist.
As well as Alcatel there are other companies such as Thales which easily have the know-how ( definately on a military level ) to create and provide all the required equipment.
I believe that the DGSE are already well equiped from within.
The French even have their own equivalant off Echelon which some clod apptly named named "Frenchelon.... cough, cough"..
"Surveillance equipment was sold to the Gaddafi regime by suppliers in France, China and South Africa"
This actually says as much about the suppliers as it does about the libyans.
The technology has been available for a long time, here's looking at you "Echelon", so there's nothing really new here.
As a side point : It's a bit like asking IT Geeks not to open the box marked "Contains Highly Sophisticated Material" in the corner of the room.
They have to be commended for choosing a pacifistic means in order to present the general public an alternative vision of what the governments and corporation are "deciding" for us.
George Orwell would have cried had he learned that his novel was to become fact.
* Dealing with people that don't have a clue what IT can provide but believe that solutions are just clicks on the keyboard away.
* Trying to explain that having IT knowledge has nothing to do with being able to repair personal material, being a Photoshop genius or counselling on how make thy personal website look "pretty".
* No, I do not have any good sources or information requiring the purchase of cheap material.
* Trying to run an IT department on an ever decreasing budget but with increasing demands..
* Endless reports to the upper echelons which will be used to further prove that the workforce can be reduced.
* The installation and maintenance of hardware OUTSIDE of office hours. No, the hours are not always paid.
* Being on call 365 days a year.
And what are the advantages.
* A free Blackberry so that you can be on call. - whoopy do.
* A non restricted Internet access - whoopy f***ing do.
* You get to choose your own laptop - as long as its a Dell, double whoopy f***ing do.
Yup, really looking great isnt it.
To be honest though there are some perks to the job but they are usually quite rare and far between.
You mean you have to decrypt or use the password on an existing keepass database, open an entry and paste or type a malicious URL without realising it. That's pushing things a bit far.
Ok, you could import an existing database but then it means you are importing from an "untrusted" source anyway. I dont know many people that habitually exchange password databases.
I agree it's excellent that the dev acknowledges and will repair the "very extremely minor, almost unfeasible error". Kudos to the dev.
Manpower Bod : And can you describe to me the details of your last employement.
Jobseeking Bod : Yes certainly, I was employed as a data furtler. I furtled both clients and company data and provided furtling estimation reports. I would occasionaly furtle with upper management but most of the time I furtled alone in my office.
I think that many programmers will agree that they actually "think" in pseudocode all the time. Sometime we write it down, sometimes we don't.
Pseudocode is a simplified process that helps us validate our thoughts more than anything else.
Maybe it should have been called PseudoThought.
Couldn't disagree more.
My 7inch tablet has been everywhere with me, it's been up mountains, kayaking, cycling, golfing and done lots of kms in the car. Yes 3G and GPS were an absolute requirement.
A 7inch tablet remains a very portable device, you may not use it that way but it is important to realise that others do or might.
( I have moved on to the Galaxy Note because the screen definition alows be to do all of the above, relatively confortably, in a slightly smaller package. )
Knowing Orange France, I would be a little worried about
* I would have to pay for this service. ( This is a presumption on my behalf)
* Support when payment transaction problems arise. ( Who would I contact, the Telco, Microsoft ; Visa, Mastercard, the shop owner) ?
* Being locked down to an Operator only SIM card and possibly long term contracts.
* The "inevitable administrative problems" when trying to change operator.
* Network unavailability.
* Orange is kind of a state owned affair.
( Some, if not most of these problems, would also apply to other operators)
Let's think for a moment what would be the "real" result if all of the "illegal content/copyright infringement" sites were to be made unavailable.
* Would those that use those sites suddenly start "buying" things with money they don't have in the first place ?
* Would artists start to get paid more with money that never existed ?
* Would the copyright holders magically start milking the imaginary cash cow ?
Of course they bloody wouldn't. All of the arguments held by the BMI, the MFIAA etc all involve an imaginary cash cow that will somehow magically re-appear and create an enormous flow of wealth for all concerned parties.
When will we see an end to this futile vision.
Security Experts and Malware writers are generally not the same beast. Their center of interest, financial gain, usually don't deal with the same people and not on the same level.
The only way to know if a system is more secure is to release it to the public and wait until it gains a large user base.
The OS itself is only one element in the equation, it is also necassary to test and verify applications and their integration, plugins, drivers and the stupidity of users ...
The malware writers and vxers have time on their hand to discover exploits, they will patiently plug away until they find something.
MS are continualy publishing security updates updates for all of their OS's, my WSUS server has updates almost daily . It is hard to believe that this trend will slow down in the immediate future.
Although I would be more than happy to be proved wrong.
Unless this guy can see into the future I think he should just wait a little.........
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