Both seem to have a decent selection of channels so it's hard to fault them on the selection. Yes, they don't have quite as many channels as you might get with Comcast or TW, but lets face it a lot of those channels are very niche and were forced on the cable/satellite providers in order to get the channels they really wanted. (As with all of the extra VH1/MTV channels that very few people ever watch.)
Those are great options. Unfortunately it looks like everyone is signed on to forcing Metro on the world. Notice both Ballmer and Gates have given the same sort of speech about touch interfaces taking over the marketplace which is why Metro is necessary. That tells me that Microsoft is unlikely to change their mind unless the sales of Win 8 are severely impacted by the Metro interface. If that does happen then we might get a Win8 SP1 that gives the user options with regards to Metro.
Actually I would say it is part of his job. You find out why it isn't working and then bring that up to management. They get to decide is it worthwhile to change the settings on every new machine, to change the requirements for the vendor to change the settings, to look for a new hardware platform that won't have the problem, or to consider upgrading to Win7. It would not be his job to just go ahead and fix all of the settings on the new computers without bringing the issue up with management.
It tells me that they don't care about making as much money off of upgrades because they have new ways to monetize their customers. What with all of the apps they are providing customers for free in the hope of them using them instead of other apps (like Gmail.) Then you add in the integrated application store and there's a potential for making a lot of money. Apple certainly does quite well with their app store so Microsoft hopes to do the same. Especially if they can provide apps for their phones, tablets and PCs from the same source (where they get a cut of every purchase.)
It's entirely possible to join a swarm and never download a single file. I know I've done it before when I couldn't easily find out what files were in a swarm or if they were the same as what I already had. So I would bring up the swarm but choose the option to not download any files before actually starting the swarm. So I would have shown up as a member of the swarm but never downloaded any of the files.
Sounds like the sales person is a bit confused about the regulations. I'm surprised they didn't call over a manager especially when a film crew showed up, or maybe they did after reading the article. It looks like all involved are a bit confused about the regulations.
There was absolutely nothing preventing them from selling the Ipad to the teen since they were in America and said nothing (according to them) about sending it overseas. Now, it would be illegal for the teen to send the Ipad back to Iran, but that would be the responsibility of the teen and not the Apple store. It sounds like the manager and employees have carried the restrictions on shipping certain products to countries like Iran a bit too far as it isn't meant to prevent them from selling those products to people from Iran living in this country.
They did that at a company that I used to work at as they went through a series of layoffs. It was strange because many people didn't know what was going on. I know when I was finally laid off from that company I ended up talking to the IT guys and got my email turned back on and then about a half hour later I got called in to be told the news that I was laid off. So even the all of the IT guys didn't know what was happening.
I could have taken all of the software that we worked on with me but I can't see the point in doing that. No reputable company would take a risk on using that code, nor do I think they would want to hire an employee that they knew stole data/code from a former employer.
What I can see happening is employees that deal in sales taking contact data with them. That's suitably murky in terms of whether it should be truly proprietary or not in the eyes of employees that I can see many justifying it. After all they still have to make the contact and make the sale for their new company
All too true. I'm sure the authors will be taking that into account for their next version. Hopefully everyone will be on the lookout and catch it quicker than they did this one.
You are forgetting one important point. You are not a politician. A politician needs to be seen to be doing something to address issues that concern their constituents. Whether their actions will actually resolve the issues is beside the point. They just have to be able to tell the voters that they are taking action on their behalf.
I don't know if this politician has given any thought to the consequences of deploying these drones in his state or not. He may not care, or he may just have heard of a how supposedly successful the drones have been overseas and thought we can use them here. Spin their deployment as increasing safety and lowering costs to win votes (even if the drones do neither.)
Except for the fact that we already have EMP hardened electronics. Plus just the other day there was an article about nano-vacuum tubes that are immune to most (all?) electromagnetic interference. Clearly a long term probe with a human mind aboard would be protected against such storms if it is at all possible.
When did people involved in copyright infringement become gangsters? As others have said in the USA it's a civil matter since no physical property was actually stolen. No gangsters are involved. Just individuals looking for street credit, or trying to help out people they know, or some were trying to make money (off of the pay for download feature.) It's a bunch of individuals acting on their own and not some sort of organized gang.
The gist is that in Texas people have the right to use any beach even if it puts them close to a house, up to the vegetation line. The problem is when the vegetation line is moved by a heavy storm. Apparently one woman ended up having her home move from being on private property to being on public property because of this vegetation line marking the end of the public beach.
Actually it won't. I have my stock certificates here for some stocks that I bought that became penny stocks. I think the 40 shares are worth about $5 all together and it cost me nothing to get them.
Yea, I noticed that. He felt it was fine to potentially ruin someone's career by identifying him but isn't willing to put his own name behind his statement?
I think part of the problem is that we are dealing with different standards in different countries. I'm in the USA and while I think what they did was inadvisable I don't think it was completely wrong. The problem is that I think it is against the law over in Europe where they have much stronger data privacy laws. That's the sort of thing that could easily catch the engineers involved by surprise, but it appears that they covered that base by suggesting that the project be run by the legal team. It seems like that didn't happen which is likely a management issue, even though no one is admitting that because they don't want to take on that responsibility and the legal implications.
Take a look on Newegg. I see two open air racks that are at least 42U. One by Tripplite (45U) and the other by StarTech (42U). Both are under $400. If you want a full enclosure then you are looking at close to $1000 but you don't need that for many applications, especially in the home.
Maybe they do this but if the pitot tubes are likely to freeze up I wonder why they don't provide a warming system for those tubes. That would avoid the situation of ice forming on them and clogging them up. It seems like a reasonable addition when building these multi-million dollar planes.
I think they know this. They just aren't going to allow it to change their procedures because that would mean losing jobs and power. No agency is ever going to willingly give up power. The only way the TSA is really going to change is when the public demands it and Congress forces the TSA to change.
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Perhaps because you had only purchased a 10Mbit connection their system so he wanted to insure you used more than that?;)
I believe that this very argument has been used against gun companies in the past. I don't believe it actually worked but this is a slightly different situation in that the government has already taken over the servers.
Well, sort of.. If they actually had full control of the servers then they would have to pay the hosting company for the servers until such time as they release them. Instead they are abusing the hosting company by not letting them use the servers for anything else, not letting them provide them to Megaupload again (and get paid by them) and not paying for them while they are in this interim state. Depending on how much of the hosting companies business was due to Megaupload it could be putting the company at risk of going into bankruptcy even though no one believes they did anything illegal.
Good episode. I looked it up after you mentioned it and learned a thing or two. I know that Top Chef (US TV show) did an episode where the competing chefs had to make food that would be served on an airline. The main thing the airline (or maybe it was a catering chef for the airlines) told the chefs was that in preparing food for the airlines they needed to make sure their food was spicier than normal because of how the food would be prepared on the airplane.
It's certainly true that crappy food will taste crappy no matter how the airline treats it, but that isn't the only problem. If you watched the Heston Blumenthal video that was mentioned earlier where he worked British Airlines to see if he could improve their food they found that the biggest problem is that all of the food comes into the airline in decent shape but then goes into their limited ovens (only low and high temps.) That means food often ends up overcooked.
So the problem is likely just in how the food is treated once it gets on board. It's just that the airline has provided limited means of cooking and limited staff so they don't have the time to properly cook each meal. As shown in the video and as others have confirmed elsewhere in this forum the first class food turns out okay. That's because the flight attendants are given time to individually cook items so you are unlikely to be given food that's been cooked a few minutes too long.
Except that isn't always the case. It depends on the airplane and the length of the flight. No one is going to bother with those enhancements (bed/shower/closed off area) on shorter flights but for overnight flights it can make sense to provide such services as options.
I think the answer is that both types of thieves exist. The organized groups are more likely to do the smash and grab because they can hit multiple homes in a day and they know that they are unlikely to get caught due to the time it takes for police to respond. I know there were news reports of a group doing just that in my area a few years ago.
What you describe sounds more like a lone criminal and probably someone without much experience. I can't imagine an experienced criminal spending an hour trying to break into the average home but someone looking for his next hit might do it just to get enough goods to sell to get his drug of choice.
A dog (if it looks and acts threatening) might be enough to keep both types out since there are always less risky houses to break into. A somewhat smarter thief (or one that isn't high) might see an alarm sign and go to a different house but one that is high probably wouldn't even notice the sign, and an organized group would care. I guess that explains why the alarm companies are pushing the video systems so hard now in their commercials as it gives you a better chance of catching the thieves (even if it doesn't stop them from breaking in.)
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Both seem to have a decent selection of channels so it's hard to fault them on the selection. Yes, they don't have quite as many channels as you might get with Comcast or TW, but lets face it a lot of those channels are very niche and were forced on the cable/satellite providers in order to get the channels they really wanted. (As with all of the extra VH1/MTV channels that very few people ever watch.)
Those are great options. Unfortunately it looks like everyone is signed on to forcing Metro on the world. Notice both Ballmer and Gates have given the same sort of speech about touch interfaces taking over the marketplace which is why Metro is necessary. That tells me that Microsoft is unlikely to change their mind unless the sales of Win 8 are severely impacted by the Metro interface. If that does happen then we might get a Win8 SP1 that gives the user options with regards to Metro.
Actually I would say it is part of his job. You find out why it isn't working and then bring that up to management. They get to decide is it worthwhile to change the settings on every new machine, to change the requirements for the vendor to change the settings, to look for a new hardware platform that won't have the problem, or to consider upgrading to Win7. It would not be his job to just go ahead and fix all of the settings on the new computers without bringing the issue up with management.
You were lucky that you had a manager that actually cared about his/her employees. Many managers wouldn't give it a second thought.
It tells me that they don't care about making as much money off of upgrades because they have new ways to monetize their customers. What with all of the apps they are providing customers for free in the hope of them using them instead of other apps (like Gmail.) Then you add in the integrated application store and there's a potential for making a lot of money. Apple certainly does quite well with their app store so Microsoft hopes to do the same. Especially if they can provide apps for their phones, tablets and PCs from the same source (where they get a cut of every purchase.)
It's entirely possible to join a swarm and never download a single file. I know I've done it before when I couldn't easily find out what files were in a swarm or if they were the same as what I already had. So I would bring up the swarm but choose the option to not download any files before actually starting the swarm. So I would have shown up as a member of the swarm but never downloaded any of the files.
Sounds like the sales person is a bit confused about the regulations. I'm surprised they didn't call over a manager especially when a film crew showed up, or maybe they did after reading the article. It looks like all involved are a bit confused about the regulations.
There was absolutely nothing preventing them from selling the Ipad to the teen since they were in America and said nothing (according to them) about sending it overseas. Now, it would be illegal for the teen to send the Ipad back to Iran, but that would be the responsibility of the teen and not the Apple store. It sounds like the manager and employees have carried the restrictions on shipping certain products to countries like Iran a bit too far as it isn't meant to prevent them from selling those products to people from Iran living in this country.
They did that at a company that I used to work at as they went through a series of layoffs. It was strange because many people didn't know what was going on. I know when I was finally laid off from that company I ended up talking to the IT guys and got my email turned back on and then about a half hour later I got called in to be told the news that I was laid off. So even the all of the IT guys didn't know what was happening.
I could have taken all of the software that we worked on with me but I can't see the point in doing that. No reputable company would take a risk on using that code, nor do I think they would want to hire an employee that they knew stole data/code from a former employer.
What I can see happening is employees that deal in sales taking contact data with them. That's suitably murky in terms of whether it should be truly proprietary or not in the eyes of employees that I can see many justifying it. After all they still have to make the contact and make the sale for their new company
All too true. I'm sure the authors will be taking that into account for their next version. Hopefully everyone will be on the lookout and catch it quicker than they did this one.
You are forgetting one important point. You are not a politician. A politician needs to be seen to be doing something to address issues that concern their constituents. Whether their actions will actually resolve the issues is beside the point. They just have to be able to tell the voters that they are taking action on their behalf.
I don't know if this politician has given any thought to the consequences of deploying these drones in his state or not. He may not care, or he may just have heard of a how supposedly successful the drones have been overseas and thought we can use them here. Spin their deployment as increasing safety and lowering costs to win votes (even if the drones do neither.)
Except for the fact that we already have EMP hardened electronics. Plus just the other day there was an article about nano-vacuum tubes that are immune to most (all?) electromagnetic interference. Clearly a long term probe with a human mind aboard would be protected against such storms if it is at all possible.
When did people involved in copyright infringement become gangsters? As others have said in the USA it's a civil matter since no physical property was actually stolen. No gangsters are involved. Just individuals looking for street credit, or trying to help out people they know, or some were trying to make money (off of the pay for download feature.) It's a bunch of individuals acting on their own and not some sort of organized gang.
http://www.chron.com/business/real-estate/article/Critics-fear-ruling-for-beach-homeowners-will-1717985.php
The gist is that in Texas people have the right to use any beach even if it puts them close to a house, up to the vegetation line. The problem is when the vegetation line is moved by a heavy storm. Apparently one woman ended up having her home move from being on private property to being on public property because of this vegetation line marking the end of the public beach.
Actually it won't. I have my stock certificates here for some stocks that I bought that became penny stocks. I think the 40 shares are worth about $5 all together and it cost me nothing to get them.
Yea, I noticed that. He felt it was fine to potentially ruin someone's career by identifying him but isn't willing to put his own name behind his statement?
I think part of the problem is that we are dealing with different standards in different countries. I'm in the USA and while I think what they did was inadvisable I don't think it was completely wrong. The problem is that I think it is against the law over in Europe where they have much stronger data privacy laws. That's the sort of thing that could easily catch the engineers involved by surprise, but it appears that they covered that base by suggesting that the project be run by the legal team. It seems like that didn't happen which is likely a management issue, even though no one is admitting that because they don't want to take on that responsibility and the legal implications.
Take a look on Newegg. I see two open air racks that are at least 42U. One by Tripplite (45U) and the other by StarTech (42U). Both are under $400. If you want a full enclosure then you are looking at close to $1000 but you don't need that for many applications, especially in the home.
Maybe they do this but if the pitot tubes are likely to freeze up I wonder why they don't provide a warming system for those tubes. That would avoid the situation of ice forming on them and clogging them up. It seems like a reasonable addition when building these multi-million dollar planes.
Any reason why they don't do this?
I think they know this. They just aren't going to allow it to change their procedures because that would mean losing jobs and power. No agency is ever going to willingly give up power. The only way the TSA is really going to change is when the public demands it and Congress forces the TSA to change.
Perhaps because you had only purchased a 10Mbit connection their system so he wanted to insure you used more than that? ;)
I believe that this very argument has been used against gun companies in the past. I don't believe it actually worked but this is a slightly different situation in that the government has already taken over the servers.
Well, sort of.. If they actually had full control of the servers then they would have to pay the hosting company for the servers until such time as they release them. Instead they are abusing the hosting company by not letting them use the servers for anything else, not letting them provide them to Megaupload again (and get paid by them) and not paying for them while they are in this interim state. Depending on how much of the hosting companies business was due to Megaupload it could be putting the company at risk of going into bankruptcy even though no one believes they did anything illegal.
Good episode. I looked it up after you mentioned it and learned a thing or two. I know that Top Chef (US TV show) did an episode where the competing chefs had to make food that would be served on an airline. The main thing the airline (or maybe it was a catering chef for the airlines) told the chefs was that in preparing food for the airlines they needed to make sure their food was spicier than normal because of how the food would be prepared on the airplane.
It's certainly true that crappy food will taste crappy no matter how the airline treats it, but that isn't the only problem. If you watched the Heston Blumenthal video that was mentioned earlier where he worked British Airlines to see if he could improve their food they found that the biggest problem is that all of the food comes into the airline in decent shape but then goes into their limited ovens (only low and high temps.) That means food often ends up overcooked.
So the problem is likely just in how the food is treated once it gets on board. It's just that the airline has provided limited means of cooking and limited staff so they don't have the time to properly cook each meal. As shown in the video and as others have confirmed elsewhere in this forum the first class food turns out okay. That's because the flight attendants are given time to individually cook items so you are unlikely to be given food that's been cooked a few minutes too long.
Except that isn't always the case. It depends on the airplane and the length of the flight. No one is going to bother with those enhancements (bed/shower/closed off area) on shorter flights but for overnight flights it can make sense to provide such services as options.
I think the answer is that both types of thieves exist. The organized groups are more likely to do the smash and grab because they can hit multiple homes in a day and they know that they are unlikely to get caught due to the time it takes for police to respond. I know there were news reports of a group doing just that in my area a few years ago.
What you describe sounds more like a lone criminal and probably someone without much experience. I can't imagine an experienced criminal spending an hour trying to break into the average home but someone looking for his next hit might do it just to get enough goods to sell to get his drug of choice.
A dog (if it looks and acts threatening) might be enough to keep both types out since there are always less risky houses to break into. A somewhat smarter thief (or one that isn't high) might see an alarm sign and go to a different house but one that is high probably wouldn't even notice the sign, and an organized group would care. I guess that explains why the alarm companies are pushing the video systems so hard now in their commercials as it gives you a better chance of catching the thieves (even if it doesn't stop them from breaking in.)