The key to Microsoft's success had nothing to do with any of the people there, aside from their willingness to do anything in the name of profit. What made MS the powerhouse it used to be was MS Office, and the stranglehold it had over businesses. At one time, the inability to create or use Word or Excel documents was a huge detriment to any company who dared defy convention. This gave MS the monopoly power they abused to crush competition and force people to buy their products. Now, after numerous antitrust suits and technological advances, MS no longer has that advantage. There are too many other options, from competing office suites and compatibility tools to online competition, MS just can't strangle the competition anymore. They're still a huge company with a lot of power and influence, but they have to actually try to compete, and that's never been their strong suit. The decline is inevitable.
All security is about deterrence. As long as you're making your systems a less desirable target than others, you're doing enough. (There are some exceptions, e.g. those that are targeted for political reasons, who are going to be targeted no matter what. This may not apply to those.) Consider a bank vault: the classic example of real world security. The doors of modern bank vaults are so secure that it's generally easier to go through the wall of the vault than to try to "hack" the door. Technically, that wall's a security hole; someone could break in through it. But even though it's possible for someone to tunnel through a wall, it never really happens, because it's just too much trouble. There are easier ways to make a dishonest living. Computer security is the same way. It doesn't matter whether it would take a day or a week or ten thousand years to break encryption; as long as it's enough trouble that it makes you a bad target, it's enough. It's like what they say about escaping a bear: you don't have to outrun the bear, you just have to outrun your friend.
If you create a PBXes account, you can have it act as a client for Google Talk. Then you can connect to PBXes using any SIP client, and make and receive calls through your GV number.
If movies have taught us anything, it's that every colony ship ever is bound to encounter some form of intelligent life. Hollywood wouldn't lie to us, right?
I have a Droid X on Page Plus, a Verizon reseller. Since I'm almost always in a place with wifi, I don't need 3G data, so I turned it off in my phone's options. I don't really even need cellular phone service usually, I just use sipdroid. I put $10 on my account every four months, in case of times when I don't have wifi. I have a google voice number forwarding to both my cell phone number and my pbxes account (using gtalk). The only down side is that I had to pay full price for the phone up front, but I recouped the extra in less than a year.
I think you could do quicksort that way without being confusing. Have them come in as a line, with the first person (who happens to conveniently be 4) splits them into two groups. He then moves to the background while the two groups split again (on 1 or 2 and 7). This leaves only pairs, who reorder as necessary, then everybody comes back into one line. Quite simple, so long as you choose the initial sorting carefully.
Try pbxes.com. They have an integration with gtalk so you can use gvoice as a trunk without a separate service. If you have an android phone, you can download sipdroid and it will give you the option to automatically set up a pbxes account linked to your gvoice account. You can then point other sip devices to your pbxes account as well. Works great for me.
This could be an interesting test of evolution in progress. One possibility is that there will be a brief period in which the mosquitoes have shorter life spans, but over time the introduced trait will be bred out of the species. Another possibility is that this will trigger a period of change in accordance with the "punctuated equilibrium" version of evolution. I find it very unlikely in any case that the shorter lifespan will become the selected trait, unless they continue to release such "modified" males in an ongoing fashion.
"Five hours is safe for mental labor." - Sir Walter Scott (paraphrased)
Sir Walter felt that mental labor could be dangerous, yet insidious. Unlike physical labor, where excessive work brings obvious physical signs; mental labor can bring with it serious complications that are not quantifiable until it is too late. He concluded that it was safe to work up to five hours a day without fear of consequences. More than that was risky.
While there might be some disagreement about the amount of work that is safe per day, Sir Walter did have a point. Pushing people to work too much has a clear impact on not only their health, but also on their results. They might actually get less done over the long run; or they could get more done, but with more problems to deal with later. Like the tendency to try to hurry a project by adding more people (The Mythical Man-Month), the push to get people to work longer hours is likely to do more harm than good.
Sometimes, the only realistic option is to cancel or postpone features. Before you do that, try cutting any unnecessary meetings, and if possible, move any administrative tasks from your developers to someone else. Try to make the best of the hours you are working, rather than adding more hours that are inefficient.
<flamebait> Also, Joel Spolsky is a complete moron and should never be used as an example of anything. </flamebait>
Yes, I said less than $40 per year! I know you said you're interested in a tablet, but I think you might like this idea instead. Here's how to do it: First, buy an android CDMA phone at full price. I got mine from wirefly.com. Yes, that costs more up front, but you'll make it back in less than a year. So I guess that technically makes it more than $40/year, but it really depends on how long you keep the phone. In any case it's going to be a lot less than any of the other carriers.
Anyway, I use and recommend the Droid X, but any Verizon or Sprint android phone should work fine. Instead of activating with Verizon or Sprint, activate with Page Plus. They're a Verizon reseller, which means you get the Verizon network at a fraction of the price. Buy a $10 standard plan card. Be sure to turn off 3G data in your phone, or it will eat up your money really fast. You'll use wi-fi instead. Set up a google voice account if you haven't already, and set up that account on your phone. Download sipdroid from the market, and use it to set up a pbxes account. Set up your gv account to forward to both your phone and your gtalk account (which forwards to your pbxes phone, ie. sipdroid). Now you can make and receive free calls wherever you have wi-fi, and you can use your page plus account when you don't. Since most of your calls will probably be when you have wi-fi, the $10 will be good for 120 days, and as long as you activate another $10 card before those minutes expire, all of your minutes are good for another 120 days. You will only be able to use wi-fi (not 3G) for data, but I rarely find that to be a problem. You can also turn on 3G whenever you want, if you don't mind paying $1.20/MB. If you find yourself using up the minutes too often, they also have other options, including an $80 card that extends you account for up to a year, or monthly options that include a decent amount of 3G data. You can find out more details about this in howardforums' page plus section.
Prior to DADT, the rule was no gays in the military, period. If this were a repeal of the policy, it would mean returning to that. This new law goes further IN THE SAME DIRECTION as DADT.
So, because you happen to agree with what your current government says about one issue, you're fine with them silencing anyone who disagrees? Well, I hope you don't get what you deserve.
The problem here is the way the question is asked. It should be 4+3+2=X+2, solve for X. The students are not so likely to be misunderstanding the equals sign as the odd paradigm of using parentheses to denote a variable. They're forced to try to guess what the question is looking for, and it's not so odd that some of them got it wrong. The chain of expressions connected by equals signs is exactly what is generally used when reducing an equation, so that's a perfectly valid use of the equals sign, and a reasonable interpretation of what is being asked for, although it should be 4+3+2=7+2=9. Still, it seems to me that maybe Capraro is the one who doesn't understand the equals sign.
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The key to Microsoft's success had nothing to do with any of the people there, aside from their willingness to do anything in the name of profit. What made MS the powerhouse it used to be was MS Office, and the stranglehold it had over businesses. At one time, the inability to create or use Word or Excel documents was a huge detriment to any company who dared defy convention. This gave MS the monopoly power they abused to crush competition and force people to buy their products. Now, after numerous antitrust suits and technological advances, MS no longer has that advantage. There are too many other options, from competing office suites and compatibility tools to online competition, MS just can't strangle the competition anymore. They're still a huge company with a lot of power and influence, but they have to actually try to compete, and that's never been their strong suit. The decline is inevitable.
All security is about deterrence. As long as you're making your systems a less desirable target than others, you're doing enough. (There are some exceptions, e.g. those that are targeted for political reasons, who are going to be targeted no matter what. This may not apply to those.) Consider a bank vault: the classic example of real world security. The doors of modern bank vaults are so secure that it's generally easier to go through the wall of the vault than to try to "hack" the door. Technically, that wall's a security hole; someone could break in through it. But even though it's possible for someone to tunnel through a wall, it never really happens, because it's just too much trouble. There are easier ways to make a dishonest living. Computer security is the same way. It doesn't matter whether it would take a day or a week or ten thousand years to break encryption; as long as it's enough trouble that it makes you a bad target, it's enough. It's like what they say about escaping a bear: you don't have to outrun the bear, you just have to outrun your friend.
If you create a PBXes account, you can have it act as a client for Google Talk. Then you can connect to PBXes using any SIP client, and make and receive calls through your GV number.
If movies have taught us anything, it's that every colony ship ever is bound to encounter some form of intelligent life. Hollywood wouldn't lie to us, right?
I have a Droid X on Page Plus, a Verizon reseller. Since I'm almost always in a place with wifi, I don't need 3G data, so I turned it off in my phone's options. I don't really even need cellular phone service usually, I just use sipdroid. I put $10 on my account every four months, in case of times when I don't have wifi. I have a google voice number forwarding to both my cell phone number and my pbxes account (using gtalk). The only down side is that I had to pay full price for the phone up front, but I recouped the extra in less than a year.
Yes, but they were using inefficient algorithms. A quicksort, for example, would be much faster, and could also be done in parallel.
I think you could do quicksort that way without being confusing. Have them come in as a line, with the first person (who happens to conveniently be 4) splits them into two groups. He then moves to the background while the two groups split again (on 1 or 2 and 7). This leaves only pairs, who reorder as necessary, then everybody comes back into one line. Quite simple, so long as you choose the initial sorting carefully.
But can I get my RSS feeds delivered to me over RFC 6217?
Clearly this is a different meaning of the word "Ethical" than I'm familiar with.
Try pbxes.com. They have an integration with gtalk so you can use gvoice as a trunk without a separate service. If you have an android phone, you can download sipdroid and it will give you the option to automatically set up a pbxes account linked to your gvoice account. You can then point other sip devices to your pbxes account as well. Works great for me.
if his classmates didn't keep sticking "Disconnect my batteries" signs on his back.
This could be an interesting test of evolution in progress. One possibility is that there will be a brief period in which the mosquitoes have shorter life spans, but over time the introduced trait will be bred out of the species. Another possibility is that this will trigger a period of change in accordance with the "punctuated equilibrium" version of evolution. I find it very unlikely in any case that the shorter lifespan will become the selected trait, unless they continue to release such "modified" males in an ongoing fashion.
Because instead of making Wikileaks a place where people could anonymously blow the whistle, he made it about himself.
Dear Oracle,
As a long-time customer of both Oracle and Sun, as well as a professional Java developer and an Android user, I have a request to make of you.
Please stop being douchebags.
Sincerely,
Me
"Five hours is safe for mental labor." - Sir Walter Scott (paraphrased)
Sir Walter felt that mental labor could be dangerous, yet insidious. Unlike physical labor, where excessive work brings obvious physical signs; mental labor can bring with it serious complications that are not quantifiable until it is too late. He concluded that it was safe to work up to five hours a day without fear of consequences. More than that was risky.
While there might be some disagreement about the amount of work that is safe per day, Sir Walter did have a point. Pushing people to work too much has a clear impact on not only their health, but also on their results. They might actually get less done over the long run; or they could get more done, but with more problems to deal with later. Like the tendency to try to hurry a project by adding more people (The Mythical Man-Month), the push to get people to work longer hours is likely to do more harm than good.
Sometimes, the only realistic option is to cancel or postpone features. Before you do that, try cutting any unnecessary meetings, and if possible, move any administrative tasks from your developers to someone else. Try to make the best of the hours you are working, rather than adding more hours that are inefficient.
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Also, Joel Spolsky is a complete moron and should never be used as an example of anything.
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Won't help. Every time we try to make something more idiot-proof, the universe invents a better idiot.
Yes, I said less than $40 per year! I know you said you're interested in a tablet, but I think you might like this idea instead. Here's how to do it: First, buy an android CDMA phone at full price. I got mine from wirefly.com. Yes, that costs more up front, but you'll make it back in less than a year. So I guess that technically makes it more than $40/year, but it really depends on how long you keep the phone. In any case it's going to be a lot less than any of the other carriers.
Anyway, I use and recommend the Droid X, but any Verizon or Sprint android phone should work fine. Instead of activating with Verizon or Sprint, activate with Page Plus. They're a Verizon reseller, which means you get the Verizon network at a fraction of the price. Buy a $10 standard plan card. Be sure to turn off 3G data in your phone, or it will eat up your money really fast. You'll use wi-fi instead. Set up a google voice account if you haven't already, and set up that account on your phone. Download sipdroid from the market, and use it to set up a pbxes account. Set up your gv account to forward to both your phone and your gtalk account (which forwards to your pbxes phone, ie. sipdroid). Now you can make and receive free calls wherever you have wi-fi, and you can use your page plus account when you don't. Since most of your calls will probably be when you have wi-fi, the $10 will be good for 120 days, and as long as you activate another $10 card before those minutes expire, all of your minutes are good for another 120 days. You will only be able to use wi-fi (not 3G) for data, but I rarely find that to be a problem. You can also turn on 3G whenever you want, if you don't mind paying $1.20/MB. If you find yourself using up the minutes too often, they also have other options, including an $80 card that extends you account for up to a year, or monthly options that include a decent amount of 3G data. You can find out more details about this in howardforums' page plus section.
If you're going to make a robotic person, it should look like Summer Glau. Come on, people!
Prior to DADT, the rule was no gays in the military, period. If this were a repeal of the policy, it would mean returning to that. This new law goes further IN THE SAME DIRECTION as DADT.
He went to work for H. H. Gregg.
Who would have created a fake profile for him in 2006 (or before)?
So, because you happen to agree with what your current government says about one issue, you're fine with them silencing anyone who disagrees? Well, I hope you don't get what you deserve.
The problem here is the way the question is asked. It should be 4+3+2=X+2, solve for X. The students are not so likely to be misunderstanding the equals sign as the odd paradigm of using parentheses to denote a variable. They're forced to try to guess what the question is looking for, and it's not so odd that some of them got it wrong. The chain of expressions connected by equals signs is exactly what is generally used when reducing an equation, so that's a perfectly valid use of the equals sign, and a reasonable interpretation of what is being asked for, although it should be 4+3+2=7+2=9. Still, it seems to me that maybe Capraro is the one who doesn't understand the equals sign.
Because crime doesn't pay, but exploiting flawed laws pays big time!
Considering the Incredible and EVO are really just updated versions of the Nexus One, I'd say you are correct.