Posts by RTNavy

This was a demo for CORPORATIONS

Lest you forget, this presentation is for the WORK computer where your employer doesn't want you spending too much time tinkering with your desktop and, stock tickers, fantasy sports leagues, and Facebook/LinkedIn, Pandora, XBox etc.

They want you able to quickly, safely and productively etc. So this arguing over "tiles" and "icons" etc is really a moot point.

The desktop needs to be manageable, reliable and functional.... That is why there should at least be a 'PRO" version and a "HOME" version especially if they want Business to replace their Billion plus desktops world wide with any new Windows product.

Win8/Win7

Most business systems can be purchased with Win 8.1 licenses but have Win7 installed as a "downgrade". Of course there is no Win 7 ID Number on the device so you have to have a Volume License Win 7 key if you have to reimage the system (WIN 8 Key is held on board).

There are still several industries (Health Care) that weren't/aren't even certified on Win 7 let alone Win 8 so hence the delay in shifts. Either waiting for the Win 8 Certification move or buying the Win8/Win7 Licensed products as needed in the mean time.

Outside of large cities in the United States, the consumer doesn't have ANY choices when it comes to broadband providers anyway. You either have the Cable TV Provider (if one exists) OR (rarely is there an "and" to this option) the Telco both of which have "regulated utilities" designations which is little different than having a Monopoly to hire as a provider.

Oh sure, there is a "committee" of elected or appointed people to "regulate" the Utility but very seldom do they take the "customers" into consideration for rates and services thus bowing to the "needs" of the Utility first and foremost.

Iraq Civil War--Using No-IP DDNS to spread malware

Just take a look at a story where the use of DDNS and No-IP is being used specifically for "bad" http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/01/iraq_civil_war_malware/

Maybe this is Google's Snowden?

We didn't have "proof" of all the NSA spying and the content "they" found until Snowden started posting his data over time. Snowden strung it out over a very long time as well. Only time will tell if this is a scam, and localized individual action or a Corporate policy finally revealed.

What Cash?

Just bunches of 1's and 0's, no actual real paper, it can disappear just like your Bit Coin :)

Confused

I don't get it, Netflix pays for their advertised bandwidth and technology connections from their data centers (via Amazon et al) and consumers pay for their advertised bandwidth (to Comcast-Verizon-Time Warner et al) at the end of the pipe.

So if the ISP's don't have big enough pipes, doesn't that mean they have oversold their own capacity to both ends?

How Secure is Ground Labs?

Who will be monitoring the Vendor to make sure "they" don't use their own product, or allow their product to be hacked and then become the Attack Vector for privacy data breaches?

Citizenship

How about you can't become a citizen unless you have served the "Republic" in some fashion (Military, Medical Corps, Diplomatic Corps etc) and you can't get a license to have Children until AFTER your service is complete!

How many of you are old enough to "remember" who Authored this concept?

Of course you can still "live" if you have your own resources without Citizenship, you just don't get any say of Government's management.

Product Miss

They forgot that OS X Patch that physically broke Fire Wire drives, until a much later Firmware update for those same "broken" drives was made to prevent this failure...10.2.7..BTW the Firmware update didn't "revive" the broken drives, it only prevented existing drives not yet killed from failing.

Turnover

It doesn't help when I get a "new" Dell Sales Representative every month. When I do need to ask a question or speak to an Engineer for some recommendations, I have to wade through about 15 Different contacts to find the "current" guy because none of the "old" guys still are available to even redirect my call elsewhere.

So then I end up at a reseller like CDW (who only gives me a new guy every three months) to direct me to a Specialist (Microsoft, Virtualization, Storage, Networking, Desktop, Mobile etc etc etc) who doesn't do Dell.

If I can't spec it out at Dell online, I don't buy Dell.

Windows 7 Not by Choice

Microsoft may have a deadline to rid the world of Windows XP by April, but those of us in the US Medical Fields have some more stringent requirements to meet if we still want to get paid for the care we provide.

Affordable Care Act, Meaningful Use Stage 2, HIPPA Ombudsman Rules, ICD10 Deployments all have hard deadlines in 2014. All of which impacts the amount of money we are reimbursed by Medicare/Medicaid for our provided care (80% of our revenue stream).

There are still several Medical Software vendors that are still stuck on Internet Explorer 7/8, Java 1.6, Windows 2000 etc.

We're lucky we can even try Windows 7, let alone Windows 8.x.

Acme Products?

Was the charger and battery made by ACME?

Air Bender---Check

Fire Bender--Check

Water Bender--?

Earth Bender--?

New iPad is on it's way to becoming an Avatar to save us from our evils!

Choices?

Just remember, Microsoft would have ASSIMILATED RIM, not joined with or partnered with but ASSIMILATED! RIM didn't want Windows 8 (or any other later version), and Microsoft didn't want to try and "adapt" to RIM.

Sometime these comments about who should buy who, what team should have what coach etc is pure "craP", because the players have to be WILLING to work together, not everyone jumps for the fortune if they don't get to play the boss of their own destiny.

New Option

I just wish I could buy the OS and install it on the hardware selection I want instead of the "canned" hardware (as nice as it is). I prefer to do my cooking :)

Of course they would tell us they have us all "cracked", but they still can't find Waldo!

I will worry about this when X-Box One has a game I want to play in the first place! Right now, I don't need another $500 device plugged into my house!

Microsoft and Apple TV?

Didn't X-Box One just sign up for all of Time Warner's stuff to stream as well?

Government's Job

The Government wrote the laws and rules for these taxation regulations. Many of these International Corporations have the tax rules originally written in the various treaties between each of these Nations. So if the UK Government doesn't like the tax payments by International Corporations, they only need to change those laws themselves!

The media needs to stop making this look like a Corporate "DODGE JOB", and make it a Government FAILURE TO MANAGE job.

Safer Systems?

If only the old people know how to program in this system, then maybe these new script kiddies will never be able to crash such a system.

Reasonable, Compassionate People

It looks more like a story of some reasonable and compassionate people on both sides of this story. Interesting to see the path of a stolen laptop, and also interesting that he may have made some personal relationships across International boarders! Maybe some more reasonable people like this and our "conflicts" could lighten up.

More Laws?

We don't need ANY stinking new laws for or about the Internet!

Government(s) have never been able to make things easier and more open. Regardless of the name of the legislation.