Companies always want to milk the cow. Has it ever been any different in the history of man?
True, and companies have the right and motivation to try and make money anyway they can. However, when you are providing a service and you do not listen to the input of those people who subscribe to your service you will end up "drying the cow up" as the people who have been giving you their money suddenly stop.
Without knowing any of the details of the study (Witch the study maker would not disclose). This is completely meaningless. For all we know, of the 600,000 calls only 7 were for android an only one of those for hardware problems.
I'm sure that this is not the case but unless we can see some hard data there is no way to determine the real hardware problem rate of these devices.
The founders of Google are also the two principal investors in Nanosolar, a company that makes high efficiency low cost solar cells. They have been supporting solar development for year now so I don't know why this should be a surprise to anyone.
You have to understand. Who wants to buy an Apple product only to turn around and see some poor person with one. How are you supposed to feel superior to them if they have one too.
This is the opposite of a waste of public funds.
One of Cisco's biggest customers is the federal government. As such any spending of public money on cracking down on this... Saves the public money.
Then you need to keep medical staff away from both paper and computers. Data entry is for data entry specialists.
How would you propose to get the medical data to these data entry personnel if medical staff are not allowed to record it? Are they going to need to dictate it to the data entry personnel? I suppose you could argue that you could have the data entry personnel trained up on medical matters so they could collect the data too, but at that point they would kind of be "Medical staff."
The people banned in the unholy rage were ISK (in game currency) framers. They farmed ISK and sold it for real money. One of the reasons for CCP kicked them out without a second thought was because they expect a lot of that currency purchase to shift to their PLEX (Pilot License Extension) system. They allow you to buy PLEXs for real money and either use them to extend your game time by 30 days or more likely sell them, in game to players who have more ISK then they know what to do with. In this way players who make huge contributions to the player driven in game economy end up playing for free, and players who don't mind paying some extra cash get rich quick.
Also it seams that a lot of these ISK framers were using stolen credit cards and CCP never saw their subscription payments any ways.
Well that strengthens the case for home based power generation. You don't need big power plants (at least not as many) if you have a few homes in every neighborhood with solar panels or a wind turbine.
You could even optimize this further by using local power storage. There are many areas of Alaska that run giant UPS like facilities to carry power though outages. Power companies who find that they have a lot of customers generating power in an area could erect smaller version of these designs and not need to send any or hardly any power to those areas. If you add additional energy storage and saving tech to these homes like thermal storage or smart appliances you could defiantly have self sustaining neighborhoods that don't require any outside power.
When a customer generate electricity at their home, it goes directly onto the local grid in a residential area. That electricity can then be used by customers in the local area without the need for long distance transmission. So; that means that the power company does not need to generate or transmit that quantity of electricity out to that local grid.
One of the problems with our current electrical system is that most of the power generation facilities are located far away from the places where power is actually used. this means that elaborate and often inefficient long haul transmission systems are needed to move the power. If more local generation was used then the whole electrical grid could piss a lot less power away on transmission, resulting in lower costs for both power companies and consumers.
I decided to actually do some testing on this. I sat down with some supplies and stated make some cables. I averaged 5 min per cable and all of them certified to Cat6 using our fluke DTX. Even if you allow for a little slowdown and an occasional bad cable 10 cables per hour is still a reasonable estimate. Considering Belkin Cat6 cables usually run about $7 each on average that comes out to $70 of cables per hour; minus materials that's still about $50 per hour net result.
Also; I was using EZ-RJ45 Cat6+ connectors for this. They let you pull the twists into about a millimeter from the pins pretty much guaranteeing a certified cable every time.
I don't know about white house comm. But; in the Air Force we are beginning to have to support specially designed blackberry like devices that not only support all of your conventional on the go services but also classified voice and data, like this this one. I don't know why seemingly every Colonel General in the Air Force can have one of these but the president couldn't
I will give you that some Cisco applications are slow and cumbersome. You seem to use a couple of the worst ones. But Cisco does make a lot of other software that is very good. Take Network Compliance Manager (NCM); its interface uses no java (html only) and it is extremely responsive.
Cisco has been pushing into the data center for a long time. It seems to me this is a good move. They could build an enterprise class switch and a router right into the backplane of the blade server chassis and sell you a data center in a box. All you would need to do is plug a couple of fiber cables right into you backbone and be done.
The Telco has used the time that they have delayed the cities project to begin laying its own fiber network. This is the very same fiber network that the city original requested to be installed.
At this point, due to the legal delays, the Telco's network is now further along than the cities. I think that they are hoping that if they can keep the city tied up for long enough then the residents will jump on their network because it's done.
I personally hope that the residents can see the advantages of their municipal plan and how it can create grater competition leading to better service for consumers.
I grew up in Massachusetts and moved to Arizona when I was an adult. When I lived in Massachusetts, in the winter, it was dark when I got up and it was dark by the time I got home at night. Now that I live in Arizona I can't help but think; what the hell were those people thinking? I do not miss daylight savings time. THERE IS NO WAY TO SAVE DAYLIGHT; you get what you get. Alaska gets a 0-24 daylight swing; can anyone tell me if moving around the 4 hours of dusk they get in December makes them feel like they have more light? Probably not since they are trying to get rid of it on the 2008 ballot.
This isn't the huge threat to national security that the article would have you believe. The government does not use key based lock systems to secure anything of real high priority. They use digital combination (X-09) locks to secure any information that is classified at secret level or higher. These keys are used in the white house and pentagon, but they are office keys not keys to places where someone could do dire harm to our nation.
I had a similar experience to this. My last name is Snipes; when attempting to create a PSN login which contained my last name I was told I could not have it because "Snipe" is in inappropriate.
I ended up changing my username, but after reading this I think I should have pressed the issue. Then I could have gotten the name I wanted; a name that has nothing wrong with it.
Once car thieves catch on to this they can start carrying a clean plate with them. I doubt the reader can tell what kind of car the plate is on and determine if that is the right kind of vehicle like an officer doing the check could.
So in the long run this will not be used to combat car thieves; it will target mostly law abiding citizens who just screwed up.
But there is a difference between finding a gene that exists in nature and manufacturing one that nature never created.
Sure it's kind of an open and shut case when you're talking about parts of genes that already exist. The problem is that people now have the capability to make genes from scratch.
Why shouldn't someone be able to patent a gene they made that lets you grow five noses?
I find it kind of odd that congress told the Air Force that when a four star general flies to the AOR they cannot make use of a higher class accommodation on board a military aircraft but whenever a member of congress flies their they get their own personal high class commercial aircraft.
I'm not saying that the Air Force is right here, I don't think any of our public servants should be getting first class rides at taxpayer expense.
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Companies always want to milk the cow. Has it ever been any different in the history of man?
True, and companies have the right and motivation to try and make money anyway they can. However, when you are providing a service and you do not listen to the input of those people who subscribe to your service you will end up "drying the cow up" as the people who have been giving you their money suddenly stop.
Without knowing any of the details of the study (Witch the study maker would not disclose). This is completely meaningless. For all we know, of the 600,000 calls only 7 were for android an only one of those for hardware problems.
I'm sure that this is not the case but unless we can see some hard data there is no way to determine the real hardware problem rate of these devices.
I don't want to scare you (that's a lie, I do), but I work in IT for the Air Force, and we have SkyNet up and running at this moment.
I am not joking, the Air Force chose to create a computer system called SkyNet. I am not sure if this is in spite of or because of the movies.
The founders of Google are also the two principal investors in Nanosolar, a company that makes high efficiency low cost solar cells. They have been supporting solar development for year now so I don't know why this should be a surprise to anyone.
Steve jobs is probably to busy sticking an iphone up his gay lover's butt to care about this.
Nailed it!
I personally despise majour interface changes (Office ribbon, I'm looking at you!)
Thank You, I have been forced to use that god damn ribbon for 4 years now and I still hate it.
You have to understand. Who wants to buy an Apple product only to turn around and see some poor person with one. How are you supposed to feel superior to them if they have one too.
This is the opposite of a waste of public funds. One of Cisco's biggest customers is the federal government. As such any spending of public money on cracking down on this... Saves the public money.
Then you need to keep medical staff away from both paper and computers. Data entry is for data entry specialists.
How would you propose to get the medical data to these data entry personnel if medical staff are not allowed to record it? Are they going to need to dictate it to the data entry personnel? I suppose you could argue that you could have the data entry personnel trained up on medical matters so they could collect the data too, but at that point they would kind of be "Medical staff."
They can catch them when they come back to the store to buy chargers.
The people banned in the unholy rage were ISK (in game currency) framers. They farmed ISK and sold it for real money. One of the reasons for CCP kicked them out without a second thought was because they expect a lot of that currency purchase to shift to their PLEX (Pilot License Extension) system. They allow you to buy PLEXs for real money and either use them to extend your game time by 30 days or more likely sell them, in game to players who have more ISK then they know what to do with. In this way players who make huge contributions to the player driven in game economy end up playing for free, and players who don't mind paying some extra cash get rich quick.
Also it seams that a lot of these ISK framers were using stolen credit cards and CCP never saw their subscription payments any ways.
Well that strengthens the case for home based power generation. You don't need big power plants (at least not as many) if you have a few homes in every neighborhood with solar panels or a wind turbine.
You could even optimize this further by using local power storage. There are many areas of Alaska that run giant UPS like facilities to carry power though outages. Power companies who find that they have a lot of customers generating power in an area could erect smaller version of these designs and not need to send any or hardly any power to those areas. If you add additional energy storage and saving tech to these homes like thermal storage or smart appliances you could defiantly have self sustaining neighborhoods that don't require any outside power.
There is one problem with your logic.
When a customer generate electricity at their home, it goes directly onto the local grid in a residential area. That electricity can then be used by customers in the local area without the need for long distance transmission. So; that means that the power company does not need to generate or transmit that quantity of electricity out to that local grid.
One of the problems with our current electrical system is that most of the power generation facilities are located far away from the places where power is actually used. this means that elaborate and often inefficient long haul transmission systems are needed to move the power. If more local generation was used then the whole electrical grid could piss a lot less power away on transmission, resulting in lower costs for both power companies and consumers.
I'd just like to point out this quote from the article.
"We've made more virus definitions last year than we have in the last 10 years."
This is a physical and logical impossibility. It makes me wonder what else is made up in there.
I decided to actually do some testing on this. I sat down with some supplies and stated make some cables. I averaged 5 min per cable and all of them certified to Cat6 using our fluke DTX. Even if you allow for a little slowdown and an occasional bad cable 10 cables per hour is still a reasonable estimate. Considering Belkin Cat6 cables usually run about $7 each on average that comes out to $70 of cables per hour; minus materials that's still about $50 per hour net result.
Also; I was using EZ-RJ45 Cat6+ connectors for this. They let you pull the twists into about a millimeter from the pins pretty much guaranteeing a certified cable every time.
I don't know about white house comm. But; in the Air Force we are beginning to have to support specially designed blackberry like devices that not only support all of your conventional on the go services but also classified voice and data, like this this one. I don't know why seemingly every Colonel General in the Air Force can have one of these but the president couldn't
I will give you that some Cisco applications are slow and cumbersome. You seem to use a couple of the worst ones. But Cisco does make a lot of other software that is very good. Take Network Compliance Manager (NCM); its interface uses no java (html only) and it is extremely responsive.
Cisco has been pushing into the data center for a long time. It seems to me this is a good move. They could build an enterprise class switch and a router right into the backplane of the blade server chassis and sell you a data center in a box. All you would need to do is plug a couple of fiber cables right into you backbone and be done.
The Telco has used the time that they have delayed the cities project to begin laying its own fiber network. This is the very same fiber network that the city original requested to be installed.
At this point, due to the legal delays, the Telco's network is now further along than the cities. I think that they are hoping that if they can keep the city tied up for long enough then the residents will jump on their network because it's done.
I personally hope that the residents can see the advantages of their municipal plan and how it can create grater competition leading to better service for consumers.
I grew up in Massachusetts and moved to Arizona when I was an adult. When I lived in Massachusetts, in the winter, it was dark when I got up and it was dark by the time I got home at night. Now that I live in Arizona I can't help but think; what the hell were those people thinking? I do not miss daylight savings time. THERE IS NO WAY TO SAVE DAYLIGHT; you get what you get. Alaska gets a 0-24 daylight swing; can anyone tell me if moving around the 4 hours of dusk they get in December makes them feel like they have more light? Probably not since they are trying to get rid of it on the 2008 ballot.
This isn't the huge threat to national security that the article would have you believe. The government does not use key based lock systems to secure anything of real high priority. They use digital combination (X-09) locks to secure any information that is classified at secret level or higher. These keys are used in the white house and pentagon, but they are office keys not keys to places where someone could do dire harm to our nation.
I had a similar experience to this. My last name is Snipes; when attempting to create a PSN login which contained my last name I was told I could not have it because "Snipe" is in inappropriate.
I ended up changing my username, but after reading this I think I should have pressed the issue. Then I could have gotten the name I wanted; a name that has nothing wrong with it.
Once car thieves catch on to this they can start carrying a clean plate with them. I doubt the reader can tell what kind of car the plate is on and determine if that is the right kind of vehicle like an officer doing the check could.
So in the long run this will not be used to combat car thieves; it will target mostly law abiding citizens who just screwed up.
But there is a difference between finding a gene that exists in nature and manufacturing one that nature never created.
Sure it's kind of an open and shut case when you're talking about parts of genes that already exist. The problem is that people now have the capability to make genes from scratch.
Why shouldn't someone be able to patent a gene they made that lets you grow five noses?
I find it kind of odd that congress told the Air Force that when a four star general flies to the AOR they cannot make use of a higher class accommodation on board a military aircraft but whenever a member of congress flies their they get their own personal high class commercial aircraft. I'm not saying that the Air Force is right here, I don't think any of our public servants should be getting first class rides at taxpayer expense.