Proponents of GMOs tend to focus on the opposition to GMOs based on perceived health risks but there are many other reasons that GMOs are problematic. A huge issue is that patents are being granted on life, on genes. The patent applicants did not invent these genes. Rather they stole them and now want to patent them so they can control the use and make money. All GMO work should be open source and open license. This doesn't solve the many other problems but it chips away at the problems. Of course, the GMO proponents will oppose this.
What may be going on is different people with different agendas are making different decisions that conflict at your company. This is why strong dictatorships are so much better. Whoops! That was so politically incorrect of me... Oops!:)
One very useful outcome is that this could prevent false accusations, false arrests, false inditements and false convictions. The focus tends to be on finding the bad guy but it is even more important to avoid convicting the innocent person. DNA testing does a lot to overturn the convictions of innocent people. This could stop the process of false convictions even earlier.
Employers do NOT want employees doing overtime because overtime costs time and a half just for the labor plus additional costs to the government. Employers studiously avoid having overtime be a regular thing if they can at all avoid it.
Employees LIKE overtime because they've already invested the time in getting to and from work, their overhead, and now they can spend an extra hour or two a day and get paid time and a half. That's a big bonus.
The struggling balance between these two objectives is that it is hard to bring on new employees who have the skills you need instantaneously when you have the work that needs doing. Conversely it is very hard to carry extra employees who aren't doing enough work and other employees don't like that because it means everyone may end up working fewer hours, which means a lower weekly paycheck.
The solution to this difficult balance is the smart employees make themselves valuable and available and the smart employers work to line up new workers as seasonal demands and such adjust. But it's very difficult.
In the 1980's and 1990's hard drives failed pretty regularly. In the 2000's less so. I have not had a single hard drive fail in the 2010's.
I don't have a huge sample set, just a few hundred drives, but it's big enough that I can see improvement in reliability over the decades.
So when will they fail? Maybe someday, maybe never. More likely it will never matter. I keep backups. Lots of backups. Hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly... Backing up is easy. Do it.
If an old backup drive fails then I trash it and replace it. If my main drive fails I restore from one of my backups.
My spam filters are very effective, but they're not on my ISP's servers. My email comes in through my own custom domain name sitting on an 'Nix Apache CPanel shared web host that I rent space on. I get to setup. This is very effective. Then my MacOSX Mail App does the next level of filtering. I have each level set for whitelists, blacklists, keywords so that there is very little in the way of false positives and only about 0.1% to 0.001% of spam is getting through (I have stats). There are surges where it rises to the 0.1% level when the spammers try something new but then the system adapts, recognizes them and zaps them.
Verizon is probably not a good choice for a spam filter as they do not have a lot of incentive to care.
The Placebo Effect is effective about 50% of the time according to some research. Merely getting people to believe they will get better helps. Out waiting the disease helps in many cases while the body's natural mechanisms come into play for healing. This may in part explain it. Just gotta believe.:)
Unfortunately this is being reported in the media as equivelant of the big past extinctions which is totally out of proportion. The past extinctions are a whole magnitude or two larger. Exaggeration like this is done to try and get the attention of people but in the end it turns people off because the end up going "Ho-Hum" and ignoring the lies. Stick with the facts. The facts are enough to make the point.
Plus the Slashdot editors edit off the rest of my original post which was the important part and they sensationalized the title into something totally different. What you, and probably most people don't realize, is submissions can, and do, get heavily edited by the Slashdot editors. It looks like the edit for sensationalism. A pity.
Apple really needs to write off the cost as part of their marketing plan. This three months free is their advertising cost and should not be shouldered by the performers.
One of the tricky things about these great extinctions is they call them "Events" which makes people think the extinctions happened quickly over short periods of time but often they were over tens of thousands or even millions of years. How that relates to our current one is an interesting point.
Poor translation between character sets. It was an apostrophe as in "it's" - no idea why that happened. Looked fine on my end until it posted on SlashDot.
Unfortunately SlashDot editors deleted the key take home paragraph and instead sensationalized my submission. Aibo and the 'child' robot are not the point. Murder is not the point. The point is product support. The last paragraph, which SlashDot editors deleted from the submission, was:
"This leads to the thought that it is time for all products that are discontinued to be forced into the public domain, to be open sourced. If a company is going to discontinue something then they need to release all the information for the production and support of the product so that others who want to do so can pickup the project and continue itâ(TM)s useful life. This should reach back retroactively and is needed to support all those systems that are in place as companies drop support or go out of business."
Unfortunately some people must use PCs for some tasks.
Fortunately there are Macs available for those who would rather not use PCs.
Even better, you can run Windows software on your Mac if you have Windows software that you must use. There are many solutions for doing this that work very well.
Windows is a limited environment that has a lot of problems. The MacOSX a larger environment that solves those and other problems and sub-sets the Windows environment within it.
Reality Check: You can install all the software you want on a Mac without having to go through the Apple Apps store. But since you've been drinking Windoze Koolaid for so long you probably are not aware of that. The vast majority of the software we use on our Macs did not come via the App store. The App store is just one of many ways to get software on the Mac. Chill out.
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Proponents of GMOs tend to focus on the opposition to GMOs based on perceived health risks but there are many other reasons that GMOs are problematic. A huge issue is that patents are being granted on life, on genes. The patent applicants did not invent these genes. Rather they stole them and now want to patent them so they can control the use and make money. All GMO work should be open source and open license. This doesn't solve the many other problems but it chips away at the problems. Of course, the GMO proponents will oppose this.
Because a PC user feels inferior so they used their mod points to make themselves feel big. It happens.
Get a Mac.
No Java.
Solved.
Easy.
What may be going on is different people with different agendas are making different decisions that conflict at your company. This is why strong dictatorships are so much better. Whoops! That was so politically incorrect of me... Oops! :)
It's a liberal thing. You wouldn't understand. Just wave as they go down the highway to Hell.
One very useful outcome is that this could prevent false accusations, false arrests, false inditements and false convictions. The focus tends to be on finding the bad guy but it is even more important to avoid convicting the innocent person. DNA testing does a lot to overturn the convictions of innocent people. This could stop the process of false convictions even earlier.
This article has it all bass ackwards.
Employers do NOT want employees doing overtime because overtime costs time and a half just for the labor plus additional costs to the government. Employers studiously avoid having overtime be a regular thing if they can at all avoid it.
Employees LIKE overtime because they've already invested the time in getting to and from work, their overhead, and now they can spend an extra hour or two a day and get paid time and a half. That's a big bonus.
The struggling balance between these two objectives is that it is hard to bring on new employees who have the skills you need instantaneously when you have the work that needs doing. Conversely it is very hard to carry extra employees who aren't doing enough work and other employees don't like that because it means everyone may end up working fewer hours, which means a lower weekly paycheck.
The solution to this difficult balance is the smart employees make themselves valuable and available and the smart employers work to line up new workers as seasonal demands and such adjust. But it's very difficult.
In the 1980's and 1990's hard drives failed pretty regularly. In the 2000's less so. I have not had a single hard drive fail in the 2010's.
I don't have a huge sample set, just a few hundred drives, but it's big enough that I can see improvement in reliability over the decades.
So when will they fail? Maybe someday, maybe never. More likely it will never matter. I keep backups. Lots of backups. Hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly... Backing up is easy. Do it.
If an old backup drive fails then I trash it and replace it. If my main drive fails I restore from one of my backups.
My spam filters are very effective, but they're not on my ISP's servers. My email comes in through my own custom domain name sitting on an 'Nix Apache CPanel shared web host that I rent space on. I get to setup. This is very effective. Then my MacOSX Mail App does the next level of filtering. I have each level set for whitelists, blacklists, keywords so that there is very little in the way of false positives and only about 0.1% to 0.001% of spam is getting through (I have stats). There are surges where it rises to the 0.1% level when the spammers try something new but then the system adapts, recognizes them and zaps them.
Verizon is probably not a good choice for a spam filter as they do not have a lot of incentive to care.
Political Survey equated with Reliable?
Ha, ha, ha, ha...
Never was. Never will be.
The Placebo Effect is effective about 50% of the time according to some research. Merely getting people to believe they will get better helps. Out waiting the disease helps in many cases while the body's natural mechanisms come into play for healing. This may in part explain it. Just gotta believe. :)
Unfortunately this is being reported in the media as equivelant of the big past extinctions which is totally out of proportion. The past extinctions are a whole magnitude or two larger. Exaggeration like this is done to try and get the attention of people but in the end it turns people off because the end up going "Ho-Hum" and ignoring the lies. Stick with the facts. The facts are enough to make the point.
You lost the bet.
Plus the Slashdot editors edit off the rest of my original post which was the important part and they sensationalized the title into something totally different. What you, and probably most people don't realize, is submissions can, and do, get heavily edited by the Slashdot editors. It looks like the edit for sensationalism. A pity.
Unfortunate confuse of terminology. Zombie computers is a term also used to mean those taken over by bot nets.
Apple really needs to write off the cost as part of their marketing plan. This three months free is their advertising cost and should not be shouldered by the performers.
It means a typo. But I think you should have already figured that out by now... :)
The problem isn't the statisticians but rather the people who abuse the statistics. Eat them.
I eat mean people.
It saves trouble.
One of the tricky things about these great extinctions is they call them "Events" which makes people think the extinctions happened quickly over short periods of time but often they were over tens of thousands or even millions of years. How that relates to our current one is an interesting point.
Poor translation between character sets. It was an apostrophe as in "it's" - no idea why that happened. Looked fine on my end until it posted on SlashDot.
Unfortunately SlashDot editors deleted the key take home paragraph and instead sensationalized my submission. Aibo and the 'child' robot are not the point. Murder is not the point. The point is product support. The last paragraph, which SlashDot editors deleted from the submission, was:
"This leads to the thought that it is time for all products that are discontinued to be forced into the public domain, to be open sourced. If a company is going to discontinue something then they need to release all the information for the production and support of the product so that others who want to do so can pickup the project and continue itâ(TM)s useful life. This should reach back retroactively and is needed to support all those systems that are in place as companies drop support or go out of business."
Unfortunately some people must use PCs for some tasks.
Fortunately there are Macs available for those who would rather not use PCs.
Even better, you can run Windows software on your Mac if you have Windows software that you must use. There are many solutions for doing this that work very well.
Windows is a limited environment that has a lot of problems. The MacOSX a larger environment that solves those and other problems and sub-sets the Windows environment within it.
Life is good.
Typical Windoze idiot comment there AC.
Reality Check: You can install all the software you want on a Mac without having to go through the Apple Apps store. But since you've been drinking Windoze Koolaid for so long you probably are not aware of that. The vast majority of the software we use on our Macs did not come via the App store. The App store is just one of many ways to get software on the Mac. Chill out.
I'm feeling a little chipper!
Sounds to me like the Russians are desperate for a distraction from their domestic problems and their international floundering.