Windows 7 and Windows 8 work just fine, actually the run better then XP. However the problem is Microsoft really bombed on the 16bit to 32bit to 64bit. There are a lot if old 16bit apps that will not run on a 64bit OS. As well mixing some 32bit and 64bit apps doesn't work as well. This has made the upgrade harder for businesses, as they need to check everything. Yes the can stick with a 32 bit version. But systems have been 64 bit for years.
Me. Me. Me. Your argument is full of data that is from your own experience. So what show me some real numbers. I live in the country so does my family, as well as everyone else I work with. So everyone must live in the country?
Do you realize, most of these news articles happen when they just change how things are measured. Oh let's decide to include this and exclude that, so we can "truthfully" get the results we want.
Running Linux as the OS is no big deal. It is just an OS they could use Windows or DOS if they wanted to. It is the custom software written is more important then the OS. Granted Unix based OSs makes it easier to communicate with hardware, but so what. It isn't like the mid 90s where Linux was new. Linux is widely used. I just never made it in the desktop.
High School Degree: General Education in a wide range of disciplined. Bachelors Degree: A focus in a particular discipline. However the focus is in the wide range of that dicipline. Masters Degree: Focus more into that discipline, into a particular area. PHD: You focus one part in great detail.
Now that is what normally happens. So by the time you get the PHD, your useful skills unless you can really focus on that area is limited, to your Masters or Bachelors education. However there are some programs that educate people differently. Where when you go from each on you still keep a general education and it says bawd. For example Getting you MD. A person who gets their MD is covered in a wide area of education, they don't focus until after they begin to practice. Passing the Bar for you law degree, you have a masters degree but you are not focused on a particular area of law you are generally qualified to handle all law. MBA, It is just more business school, you really don't grit down and focus on a particular issue. Now these are rather well known for getting jobs outside of academia. Because you are more flexible. Perhaps if other programs allowed for a more flexible PHD goals where students can take a more broad understanding in areas vs. just a strict focus, they would be better off, and not limited themselves to teaching. There is nothing wrong with teaching, however it isn't everyone's calling.
I am sure big oil would gladly shift to a new technology. Here is the problem... Gasoline offers the following advantages. High Energy Density. Can be stored and shipped easily, relativity safe (compared to other that would kill you at the first smell or explode more violently) Doesn't require a high infrastructure to deal with.
Now if we can get Hydrogen cheap and fuel cells cheap enough to make affordable cars that people will buy. I can see the big oil companies starting to shift to the hydrogen market. They already have ways of shipping, and retailers for their product. They will just switch products.
"It is my understanding that they require platinum series metals." So does the catalytic converter, in your gasoline care. which you wouldn't need if you had a hydrogen car.
There is battery life. But what we really need is recharge time. You can fill a hydrogen car in about as much time it takes to fill a gasoline car. If you can get 300 miles per charge, and fill it in under 5 minutes, and fuel costs is low enough, it would make it viable.
However if you travel and you go beyond the storage limit even, and it will take you 6 hours to recharge, you will probably not want that car, even though it is only a 5 times a year occurrence.
Because the shape would makes it difficult. You get a high population density in a roundish or square shape. You can support a rail system that in essence crosses all your population centers in a short travel to one to the other. The east cost population is a straight line. So Boston to DC is a long travel, While Boston to New York is much shorter. Then you need to figure how many people actually need to travel from each of those cities, to the other one... Not so much. The people who need to travel to the cities live in more rural areas. Buffalo or Albany to NYC, or Boston. Chariot to DC... If the major population centers in the US were group in a nice ball even with the same distance apart then it would make more sense. But in the US we have these Major Cities. NYC, LA, Chicago, and a lot of space between them. The High Population areas, are actually too highly populated for high speed rail.
1. We are now centralizing all the data to a single point, so hackers have one really good target to get such data. 2. What is to stop the government from further spying on people? Sure my data is spread out across a bunch of companies. But it is all a partial picture of me, so now there will be a spot that has the full picture of me. They can use to figure out where they should redraw the election maps, put me in a place where either I will be placed with the majority to keep them in power. Or place me so I am the minority where my vote would be drowned out. 3. California has a tendency to pass fad of the day laws. So overnight I become a law abiding citizen to a criminal, where the police will watch me break a law I didn't know I broke, because they see that I have a tendency to do something against the popular fad. 4. How are we going to pay for this. California has a lot of big data companies, that means California will need bigger data just to handle this all.
I am not a right wing nut, But good intentions aside, this could open the flood gate for massive abuse. Companies are easy to figure out, they want to make money. Governments and Not For Profits, have a lot of agenda all with different purposes.
Yes. You got "Environmentalists" not the actually scientists per say but average guy who feels the need to stop all things that are bad, not really realizing that most things has some sort of trade-off, So they just say NO NO BAD BAD all the time. Oddly enough these people side with the left leaning parties, thus influence their policies.
You got other energy companies who won't cry to see nuclear go away. These guys tend to side with the right leaning parties, thus influence their policies.
As a counterpoint you have the supporters touting Clean, Safe, too cheap to meter. Who are just pushing the opposing side.
Nuclear Energy is dangerous, it produces a lot of hazardous wastes. However it is manageable when you have all the sides playing fairly and stop trying to discredit each other.
Nuclear Energy is part of a complete energy plan. Hydroelectric, Wind, Solar, Fossil Fuels, etc. are needed to. As of right now we are using too much Fossil Fuels, its side effects are outweighing its benefits. So we should start dialing it back a bit and replace it with other sources, yes they have their own side effects too, but they are different and if you get the right balance you are good.
If you are a small Mom and Pop operations (Under 5 employees) you are going to jail. If you are a Small Business (Under 100 Employees) you will get massive fines. If you are a Medium Business (Under 1000 Employees) you will get a stern talking to If you are a Large Business (1000+ Employees) you are considered an innovator, any misuse of your product is not your fault.
World wide the 1% is anyone who makes over $35k USD a year. In the United States there is over 300 million people. 1% of that is 3 million people.
Do you think you can keep a conspiracy with 3 million people?
We (Americans) live in a Democratic republic. The problems we have are complex and the electorate wants easy sound byte answers. (It is the rich people's fault, tax them until they are poor. It is the governments fault get rid of all government services and regulations. Get business out of government. Get government out of buisness)
No one will run on a platform of, lets first organize these problems in order of importance. Then handle each one in order, seeing where the problem points are and how to fix them. Knowing quite well some problems will be fixed with more government and others with more commercial support. Some will just need public education or propaganda (in the good sense ) to get the public to change a destructive behavior. It is too Complex for average joe to see if they like the guy or not. Oddly enough some of the most corrupt leaders are the most affective for good. And some of the good politicians just can't get a single thing done, because they are risk adverse. So we elect sound bites, not leaders. We all know this and we hate it, but we still do it.
I have. It is just that most people with MySQL deployments or MS SQL deployments just use the Database as a basic CRUD system. So you install it and it let it go. PostgreSQL is a real DB system.
Having worked with many different SQL Databases. MySQL, Microsoft SQL, DB2, Informix.... I have found that PostgreSQL is actually a really damn good Database system. Its fast powerful and very configurable. Sure the other guys will have some advantages over PostgreSQL, but I found PostgreSQL has the advantages where I find it counts for my use, for heavy processing, not just storing and retrieving data.
Could it be that USPS has technology that handles non-labled packages easier then labeled packages.
A brown box with an address means less stuff for the OCR to pick up and try to figure out.
The Unites States especially in area that are considered more religious has a very low population density. Meaning smaller mail offices handling large areas, which probably don't have the best technology given to them.
To make this a good experiment. I would suggest Athiest Branding, Christian Branding, Generic Branding equally flashy similar colors and fonts, and see what happens.
Once every few years we get a really good movie. And we get a bunch that are either Crap or mediocre, Sometimes the really good ones don't make it big in the box office, however become popular later. So we come up with an example of 5 or 6 movies that you consider gems of the decade, with nostalgia filters on you say it was a great decade because of movies 3 or 4 out of 6. Not realizing how much crap was released then too, because we have forgotten the movie, because it was just that boring or never seemed to watch it then. Usually stuff you watched when you were a kid to a teenager was considered new and exciting and interesting, then by the time you get in your 20's it becomes more humdrum.
That is the problem. Back in them good old days, You can make a ass out of yourself, and only a few people or perhaps the town know. But after you left the town you had a clean slate.
Now today with Google and Facebook, are assitry is now shared across the globe and will stay embedded in peoples mines for a long time. Oh wait weren't you the Star Wars Kid, or that Girl who didn't know where Canada was.
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Windows 7 and Windows 8 work just fine, actually the run better then XP.
However the problem is Microsoft really bombed on the 16bit to 32bit to 64bit.
There are a lot if old 16bit apps that will not run on a 64bit OS. As well mixing some 32bit and 64bit apps doesn't work as well.
This has made the upgrade harder for businesses, as they need to check everything.
Yes the can stick with a 32 bit version. But systems have been 64 bit for years.
Me. Me. Me. Your argument is full of data that is from your own experience. So what show me some real numbers. I live in the country so does my family, as well as everyone else I work with. So everyone must live in the country?
They are aware. People just don't care. Just like OS X and iOS are off of Unix. It isn't about the OS but the apps, and the UI experience.
Do you realize, most of these news articles happen when they just change how things are measured. Oh let's decide to include this and exclude that, so we can "truthfully" get the results we want.
Running Linux as the OS is no big deal. It is just an OS they could use Windows or DOS if they wanted to. It is the custom software written is more important then the OS. Granted Unix based OSs makes it easier to communicate with hardware, but so what. It isn't like the mid 90s where Linux was new. Linux is widely used. I just never made it in the desktop.
High School Degree: General Education in a wide range of disciplined.
Bachelors Degree: A focus in a particular discipline. However the focus is in the wide range of that dicipline.
Masters Degree: Focus more into that discipline, into a particular area.
PHD: You focus one part in great detail.
Now that is what normally happens. So by the time you get the PHD, your useful skills unless you can really focus on that area is limited, to your Masters or Bachelors education.
However there are some programs that educate people differently. Where when you go from each on you still keep a general education and it says bawd.
For example Getting you MD. A person who gets their MD is covered in a wide area of education, they don't focus until after they begin to practice.
Passing the Bar for you law degree, you have a masters degree but you are not focused on a particular area of law you are generally qualified to handle all law.
MBA, It is just more business school, you really don't grit down and focus on a particular issue.
Now these are rather well known for getting jobs outside of academia. Because you are more flexible.
Perhaps if other programs allowed for a more flexible PHD goals where students can take a more broad understanding in areas vs. just a strict focus, they would be better off, and not limited themselves to teaching. There is nothing wrong with teaching, however it isn't everyone's calling.
I am sure big oil would gladly shift to a new technology.
Here is the problem...
Gasoline offers the following advantages. High Energy Density. Can be stored and shipped easily, relativity safe (compared to other that would kill you at the first smell or explode more violently) Doesn't require a high infrastructure to deal with.
Now if we can get Hydrogen cheap and fuel cells cheap enough to make affordable cars that people will buy. I can see the big oil companies starting to shift to the hydrogen market. They already have ways of shipping, and retailers for their product. They will just switch products.
"It is my understanding that they require platinum series metals."
So does the catalytic converter, in your gasoline care. which you wouldn't need if you had a hydrogen car.
There is battery life. But what we really need is recharge time. You can fill a hydrogen car in about as much time it takes to fill a gasoline car. If you can get 300 miles per charge, and fill it in under 5 minutes, and fuel costs is low enough, it would make it viable.
However if you travel and you go beyond the storage limit even, and it will take you 6 hours to recharge, you will probably not want that car, even though it is only a 5 times a year occurrence.
If you see it, it will drive you insane.
Roll a terror check.
Apple will release it standard with the iPhone 7
Because the shape would makes it difficult. You get a high population density in a roundish or square shape. You can support a rail system that in essence crosses all your population centers in a short travel to one to the other. The east cost population is a straight line. So Boston to DC is a long travel, While Boston to New York is much shorter. Then you need to figure how many people actually need to travel from each of those cities, to the other one... Not so much. The people who need to travel to the cities live in more rural areas. Buffalo or Albany to NYC, or Boston. Chariot to DC... If the major population centers in the US were group in a nice ball even with the same distance apart then it would make more sense.
But in the US we have these Major Cities.
NYC, LA, Chicago, and a lot of space between them.
The High Population areas, are actually too highly populated for high speed rail.
No, this is a stupid law!
1. We are now centralizing all the data to a single point, so hackers have one really good target to get such data.
2. What is to stop the government from further spying on people? Sure my data is spread out across a bunch of companies. But it is all a partial picture of me, so now there will be a spot that has the full picture of me. They can use to figure out where they should redraw the election maps, put me in a place where either I will be placed with the majority to keep them in power. Or place me so I am the minority where my vote would be drowned out.
3. California has a tendency to pass fad of the day laws. So overnight I become a law abiding citizen to a criminal, where the police will watch me break a law I didn't know I broke, because they see that I have a tendency to do something against the popular fad.
4. How are we going to pay for this. California has a lot of big data companies, that means California will need bigger data just to handle this all.
I am not a right wing nut, But good intentions aside, this could open the flood gate for massive abuse. Companies are easy to figure out, they want to make money. Governments and Not For Profits, have a lot of agenda all with different purposes.
Yes.
You got "Environmentalists" not the actually scientists per say but average guy who feels the need to stop all things that are bad, not really realizing that most things has some sort of trade-off, So they just say NO NO BAD BAD all the time. Oddly enough these people side with the left leaning parties, thus influence their policies.
You got other energy companies who won't cry to see nuclear go away. These guys tend to side with the right leaning parties, thus influence their policies.
As a counterpoint you have the supporters touting Clean, Safe, too cheap to meter. Who are just pushing the opposing side.
Nuclear Energy is dangerous, it produces a lot of hazardous wastes. However it is manageable when you have all the sides playing fairly and stop trying to discredit each other.
Nuclear Energy is part of a complete energy plan. Hydroelectric, Wind, Solar, Fossil Fuels, etc. are needed to. As of right now we are using too much Fossil Fuels, its side effects are outweighing its benefits. So we should start dialing it back a bit and replace it with other sources, yes they have their own side effects too, but they are different and if you get the right balance you are good.
If you are a small Mom and Pop operations (Under 5 employees) you are going to jail.
If you are a Small Business (Under 100 Employees) you will get massive fines.
If you are a Medium Business (Under 1000 Employees) you will get a stern talking to
If you are a Large Business (1000+ Employees) you are considered an innovator, any misuse of your product is not your fault.
World wide the 1% is anyone who makes over $35k USD a year.
In the United States there is over 300 million people. 1% of that is 3 million people.
Do you think you can keep a conspiracy with 3 million people?
We (Americans) live in a Democratic republic. The problems we have are complex and the electorate wants easy sound byte answers. (It is the rich people's fault, tax them until they are poor. It is the governments fault get rid of all government services and regulations. Get business out of government. Get government out of buisness)
No one will run on a platform of, lets first organize these problems in order of importance. Then handle each one in order, seeing where the problem points are and how to fix them. Knowing quite well some problems will be fixed with more government and others with more commercial support. Some will just need public education or propaganda (in the good sense ) to get the public to change a destructive behavior.
It is too Complex for average joe to see if they like the guy or not. Oddly enough some of the most corrupt leaders are the most affective for good. And some of the good politicians just can't get a single thing done, because they are risk adverse.
So we elect sound bites, not leaders. We all know this and we hate it, but we still do it.
I didn't. It is just my experience no matter how hard the guy works, it is not good enough for the wife. Sometime she is right.
I have. It is just that most people with MySQL deployments or MS SQL deployments just use the Database as a basic CRUD system. So you install it and it let it go. PostgreSQL is a real DB system.
Having worked with many different SQL Databases. MySQL, Microsoft SQL, DB2, Informix.... I have found that PostgreSQL is actually a really damn good Database system. Its fast powerful and very configurable. Sure the other guys will have some advantages over PostgreSQL, but I found PostgreSQL has the advantages where I find it counts for my use, for heavy processing, not just storing and retrieving data.
No your wife will not understand no matter what your job is. She will undoubtedly have worked more then you did, no matter what.
Could it be that USPS has technology that handles non-labled packages easier then labeled packages.
A brown box with an address means less stuff for the OCR to pick up and try to figure out.
The Unites States especially in area that are considered more religious has a very low population density. Meaning smaller mail offices handling large areas, which probably don't have the best technology given to them.
To make this a good experiment. I would suggest Athiest Branding, Christian Branding, Generic Branding equally flashy similar colors and fonts, and see what happens.
Once every few years we get a really good movie. And we get a bunch that are either Crap or mediocre, Sometimes the really good ones don't make it big in the box office, however become popular later.
So we come up with an example of 5 or 6 movies that you consider gems of the decade, with nostalgia filters on you say it was a great decade because of movies 3 or 4 out of 6. Not realizing how much crap was released then too, because we have forgotten the movie, because it was just that boring or never seemed to watch it then.
Usually stuff you watched when you were a kid to a teenager was considered new and exciting and interesting, then by the time you get in your 20's it becomes more humdrum.
That is the problem. Back in them good old days, You can make a ass out of yourself, and only a few people or perhaps the town know. But after you left the town you had a clean slate.
Now today with Google and Facebook, are assitry is now shared across the globe and will stay embedded in peoples mines for a long time. Oh wait weren't you the Star Wars Kid, or that Girl who didn't know where Canada was.
I haven't upgraded my CGA Eyes yet.
320x200 Black, White, Cyan, and Magenta is good enough for me, If I feel ambitious, I can switch to Black, Yellow, Green and and Red.
I thought it was a nuclear air craft carrier. Or the prototype shuttle.