and if it was done the other way would you feel the same about it?
what if they had asked black people to vote on wednesday instead to prevent long lines?
a public broadcast medium making what appears to be a legitimate announcement (and yes i live in iowa and have heard their "parodies" which sound amazingly official) SHOULD be held responsible for their actions.
Just because you thought it was funny, doesn't mean it might not have disenfranchised many people.
Preventing people from casting legitimate votes, regardless of their political affiliation, race, religious background, or any other criteria covered under law, is both legally and morally irresponsible.
however, by stating they can access ALL of the internet, they are misleading customers.
Thus I have no problem with them being forced to pull and reword their advertisement.
it's no different than forcing companies who use speed as part of their broadband marketing to say "up to x many times faster" instead of point blank stating their maximum speed as if it were the absolute truth and everyone ALWAYS received it.
Most people won't know the difference, but if you're going to use marketing, at least use it properly.
funny, i drive from des moines iowa to raleigh north carloina several times a year, passing through illinois, indiana and ohio, and never once payed a toll.
and like a lightning bolt from a clear blue sky (thank you CS Lewis), the truth is revealed.
A lisc plate DOES NOT identify a person. It is as stated above, merely a proof of right to be on public roads for the particular vehicle to which it is assigned.
I think that there will be many additional jobs KEPT because of this.
Every construction project going on currently in Iowa of this magnitude has been on the books for at least 4 years.
Want to know how many new ones are coming up the pipeline? Here's a hint. There aren't that many.
So if you have no big projects, then people leave the area to go to other places and work, and take all of their wage tax dollars, their consumption tax dollars, and their discretionary spending tax dollars to otehr places, which is a net loss of tax dollars to the state which means that tax burden to the remaining in the state goes up since we fail to lower spending when tax income decreases.
Except that Iowa has, for years, been leaking good jobs to other places, and that for many years now, the best and brightest have left the state to seek better jobs elsewhere.
by enticing them to stay (by having good tech jobs located in the state) they are also ensuring that they are keeping the state moving toward a younger demographic which will spend more money becuase they have more money.
it's called economics, and as much as I hate the local poli's, they are actually thinking about this in this instance.
if you have a set amount of tax coming into the state coffer's. and you do nothing, that amoun (hopefully) stays the same.
If you offer slight discounts to new businesses, the total amount coming in goes up. Not as much as it could, but it does go up.
Add in all of the other taxes that go along with this, and you will see that overall, the amount of incoming tax dollars goes up, which is a win for the people living in the state.
not only that, but the cost for land, electricity, easy access to major telcom backbones from SEVERAL carriers (I-35 and I-80 cross in the middle of the state), makes the location also ideal.
I live in Iowa and the ability to easily deploy datacenters here, along with several local universities with decent MIS/CIS programs also means easy access to talent.
Now through in that the cost of living here is SIGNIFICANTLY lower than many places where data centers are traditionally located, and the lack of natural disaster opportunities (no hurricanes or seismic activity is a bonus) and you can see why Iowa, South Dakota, and Nebraska dominated a recent study on where to place your datacenter.
also throw in that many companies want to physically distance separate their data centers and putting one in the middle of the country along with one on each coast is a pretty good plan.
don't feel bad. i proved to our local election official that i can vote as my dead grandfather simply by walking up to his assigned polling station, saying i was him, verifying his address, and the signing his name (in my handwriting if i choose too).
since they do not, and will not ask for proper photo verification, they have no way of preventing this from happening.
I really hate when whiny posts like yours get modded insightful.
Maybe his post was modded insightful because he's not the only person wondering this?
Most "Gamers" are looking for the highest frame rates, and knowing if there is a large difference between the Windows frame rates and the Linux frame rates for the same games and same setup would be something most of them are VERY interested in.
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then there is this little thing called math......
say you work from the age of 20 until 65.
say you invest $6k / year during those working years.
say you get a measly 5% return on your investment and you have an investment that calculates it's interest once per month.
do the math.
that's $1,017,440.39 at the end of the run.
not very difficult to imagine.
yes the initial years of $6k year might be tough, but then again, so is not having any money at the age of 65
Don't like those numbers?
use $4k/year and work till 70.
you end up with $893,257.12
it's not rocket science.
it's compound interest.
and if you invest it wisely, you don't even have a tax load on the earned interest and principle.
you do understand how electricity work?
right?
just because it's a 750w PSU doesn't mean it's DRAWING 750W all the time.
It's not a light bulb.
That's because the great geek mantra when building from scratch is always to forget the OS and compare to a legally licensed Windows boxen.
and if it was done the other way would you feel the same about it?
what if they had asked black people to vote on wednesday instead to prevent long lines?
a public broadcast medium making what appears to be a legitimate announcement (and yes i live in iowa and have heard their "parodies" which sound amazingly official) SHOULD be held responsible for their actions.
Just because you thought it was funny, doesn't mean it might not have disenfranchised many people.
Preventing people from casting legitimate votes, regardless of their political affiliation, race, religious background, or any other criteria covered under law, is both legally and morally irresponsible.
The EULA also doesn't grant you the RIGHT to a refund from an OEM.
no. /., but then again, /. isn't the real world either.
most people simply don't care.
i realize that thought is blasphemous on
that may be.
however, by stating they can access ALL of the internet, they are misleading customers.
Thus I have no problem with them being forced to pull and reword their advertisement.
it's no different than forcing companies who use speed as part of their broadband marketing to say "up to x many times faster" instead of point blank stating their maximum speed as if it were the absolute truth and everyone ALWAYS received it.
Most people won't know the difference, but if you're going to use marketing, at least use it properly.
funny, i drive from des moines iowa to raleigh north carloina several times a year, passing through illinois, indiana and ohio, and never once payed a toll.
all interstate driving too.
seems like you went the wrong way to me.
and like a lightning bolt from a clear blue sky (thank you CS Lewis), the truth is revealed.
A lisc plate DOES NOT identify a person.
It is as stated above, merely a proof of right to be on public roads for the particular vehicle to which it is assigned.
Actually both are in the 1000 year flood plain.
but so is all of Iowa.
and most of the great plains as well.
based upon the locations already selected (and in use for the Google DC)if they are underwater, so is most of the great plains.
Both are statistically damn near impossible to flood.
there are many "High" areas in Iowa as it is bordered on both sides by two rather large river systems with rather large bluffs on both sides.
the center of the state also has some serious river systems which also have created large bluffs (though not as tall).
http://www.cosentry.com/post/news/The%20Best%20And%20Worst%20Cities%20For%20Data%20Centers%20Boyd%20Study%2008.pdf
Not even close.
MEth production is much higher than MJ, and both are pretty low down the totem pole.
Stop believing the hyped up bullshit.
They will most likely be connected to Alliant energy which is a consortium of several smaller companies (Intersate power, IES, etc)
they pay no taxes to the state on the electricity.
they pay for the electricity.
there is a substantial difference.
comprehension is huge.
i disagree.
I think that there will be many additional jobs KEPT because of this.
Every construction project going on currently in Iowa of this magnitude has been on the books for at least 4 years.
Want to know how many new ones are coming up the pipeline?
Here's a hint.
There aren't that many.
So if you have no big projects, then people leave the area to go to other places and work, and take all of their wage tax dollars, their consumption tax dollars, and their discretionary spending tax dollars to otehr places, which is a net loss of tax dollars to the state which means that tax burden to the remaining in the state goes up since we fail to lower spending when tax income decreases.
Ahh but since competing areas in the same basic geography also could be chosen, why not make your offer more enticing?
Thats what the state did to compare with South Dakota and Nebraska.
Except that Iowa has, for years, been leaking good jobs to other places, and that for many years now, the best and brightest have left the state to seek better jobs elsewhere.
by enticing them to stay (by having good tech jobs located in the state) they are also ensuring that they are keeping the state moving toward a younger demographic which will spend more money becuase they have more money.
it's called economics, and as much as I hate the local poli's, they are actually thinking about this in this instance.
if you have a set amount of tax coming into the state coffer's. and you do nothing, that amoun (hopefully) stays the same.
If you offer slight discounts to new businesses, the total amount coming in goes up. Not as much as it could, but it does go up.
Add in all of the other taxes that go along with this, and you will see that overall, the amount of incoming tax dollars goes up, which is a win for the people living in the state.
exactly.
not only that, but the cost for land, electricity, easy access to major telcom backbones from SEVERAL carriers (I-35 and I-80 cross in the middle of the state), makes the location also ideal.
I live in Iowa and the ability to easily deploy datacenters here, along with several local universities with decent MIS/CIS programs also means easy access to talent.
Now through in that the cost of living here is SIGNIFICANTLY lower than many places where data centers are traditionally located, and the lack of natural disaster opportunities (no hurricanes or seismic activity is a bonus) and you can see why Iowa, South Dakota, and Nebraska dominated a recent study on where to place your datacenter.
also throw in that many companies want to physically distance separate their data centers and putting one in the middle of the country along with one on each coast is a pretty good plan.
don't feel bad.
i proved to our local election official that i can vote as my dead grandfather simply by walking up to his assigned polling station, saying i was him, verifying his address, and the signing his name (in my handwriting if i choose too).
since they do not, and will not ask for proper photo verification, they have no way of preventing this from happening.
yeap. voting is a secure process in this country.
***Whoosh***
So similar to UAC affecting poor application coding.....
How do you feel about that?
Seriously.
If people want to poo poo things like this in FOSS software, they need to act the same way to non-FOSS software.
Do you feel the same way about UAC in Vista?
It serves the EXACT same purpose.
try installing using an nVidia 6150 onboard chip and then try to figure out where the mouse pointer is......
i abandoned Linux on one computer over this issue.
It wasn't worth the time to maintain on every new install.
switching to a computer with an ATI 2400 works nearly flawlessly.
I really hate when whiny posts like yours get modded insightful.
Maybe his post was modded insightful because he's not the only person wondering this?
Most "Gamers" are looking for the highest frame rates, and knowing if there is a large difference between the Windows frame rates and the Linux frame rates for the same games and same setup would be something most of them are VERY interested in.