I'm sorry, but I don't see the current debate about climate change revolving around who to blame. There's certainly no one person/country/industry/activity to pin it on when you're looking at global patterns over centuries.
If other software companies are cutting 10% to shore up their bottom line, MS better come up with a plan to do the same or better, or the market will come knocking wondering what's up.
Unfortunately, the article mentions that in the 80s, female enrollment in CS was closer to parity with males. Something has changed since then and I doubt it's biological.
I think a much more interesting and insightful question would be why was the enrollment so high in the 80s, when traditionally (before and after) math, engineering and sciences were heavily male-dominated.
Along the same lines of thinking we have the "terrorists hate our freedoms" theory.
Which is complete BS.
Terrorists don't hate your freedoms. They don't hate democracy. They don't hate technological progress.
They hate your troops occupying and terrorizing their countries. They hate your bombs destroying their towns and homes.
But as long as in the eyes of "patriotic" Americans America can do no wrong, and to even attempt to question it is tantamount to heresy, the so-called "war on terror" is doomed to fail even more spectacularly than the wars on drugs and poverty.
It's the same with most other genres as well. Be it rock (from pop, to folksy, to hard, crossing into grunge, punk, metal and industrial), techno/electronic (dance, trance, space, tribal, minimalistic, speed/hardcore, vocal, progressive, beeps&bleeps, d&b, ambient), there is a lot of different types of music that would appeal to people who identify themselves as liking a particular type of music only. I say I don't like country, but that is not true, because I _DO_ like lots of types of country music, just not the types usually played on "country radio". If you limit yourself to just the narrow space you are familiar with, you will be missing out on a lot of good music that you will probably also like just as much.
I think the biggest real concern with recycled water (in a short loop, like we're discussing here) is the presence and build up of all the compounds that cannot be filtered out, such as hormones and drugs that we piss and crap and throw out, and then flush down the toilet. In many cities there are measurable quantities of the stuff coming out of the tap.
Because it takes 10 seconds to pop in a query in place, vs 10 minutes to do it with abstraction, even assuming the framework (libraries and includes) is built and in place for the web project.
That's great, and I'm sure there is an effect. But any visible measures being taken today are mostly at the individual consumer level... cutting vehicle emissions 20% will reduce total carbon release, what, 1%? It's probably not even measurable.
I'm not as much concerned about the CO2 in our atmosphere as I am about the even larger amounts of heavy metals, radioactive isotopes, and all manner of other poisons that are released into the air, ground and water all around the world by industrial activity. They are, immediately, much more harmful to all life, and literally nothing is being done about them.
But go ahead, displace your carbon intensive activities to other countries that don't care (or are not allowed to care by Kyoto), get whacked by a triple whammy of lost jobs, increased carbon release from those activities, and even more carbon release from transporting stuff back and forth.
And I bet those are also pre-discount prices (~ 60%) that anyone that seriously buys Sun hardware would get. At that point, it's entirely price competitive with FC attached storage units from, say, Hitachi.
1) It may get you interviews over someone else, due to brand name recognition, for example he might shortlist the one from MIT over a similar candidate from from U. of Minnesota. If he finds a satisfactory canditate from that short-list, you might never get the interview.
2) The more prestigious the school, the more prestigious the -other- students tend to be. And who you met there that you might not otherwise have met is usually far more valuable than what you learned there that you might not otherwise have learned.
At the end of the day, it's a piece of paper, that everyone is expected to have. A college degree used to be something prestigious that few people achieved, now they crank them out by tens of thousands.
University of Phoenix is doing pretty well, and it won't set you back with a 1 year loan. Similar to smaller regional colleges, where you will get an education just as good as at an Ivy League school.
Don't fool yourself, unless you're going for a post-graduate program, you're not getting anything better (and often much worse) than you would from the college in your home town.
The economic effects we are seeing today are in a large part caused by the radically inflationary policies employed by Greenspan, who reigned during the Clinton presidency. The housing bubble can be easily traced to the US Central Bank policies, and some critical changes to banking and investment regulations also took place during that time.
As I've posted elsewhere in this thread, this can easily be done already, depending on the state of the provider's level of automation on the consumer-side of the high speed and the kinds of software (and hardware) they use, and how it is configured.
For example, the aggregator device can put policies (ACLs basically) on your port that can control the traffic shaping profile, port and IP restrictions, and fowarding. There are systems that can automatically change these and they can interface with, say, a usage monitoring/collection system, that would tell it to shut off your access and direct port 80 to a web site that sells you additional usage.
This is hardly some far off future. It is being done today, and if your provider is not using this setup, they will have to soon anyways.
The way this works is that there is a trigger (from whatever) that tells some system to change the policy on a DSL (or cable, but I am familiar with DSL) aggregator that will restrict your port to do whatever, in real-time: reduce throughput, reduce burst, restrict ports, restrict destination IPs, redirect.
One possibility to do this automatically is to use a usage collection system to trigger a policy change when a usage threshold is exceeded that would redirect all port 80 requests to a "walled garden" (and shut off everything else) where the user is informed of their condition, and allowed to upgrade their access (on the fly) or buy additional usage blocks.
It's already happening, and is a key component of automating consumer and business service activation, and also to allow "bandwidth-on-demand" applications where a user can instantly purchase more speed on their existing connection.
Let's assume that I am a B2B kind of guy. (I don't want to deal with "end users", I want to deal with businesses - Business 2 Business)
So I set up a high-end network. I'm going to carry massive amounts of data, and peer with existing "tier 1" providers to shuffle data with/for them. Let's just assume that I have significantly more bandwidth than Sprint or Cogent, and for this argument, I'll be a "tier 0" provider.
If I peered with Sprint/Cogent/ATT/XO in order to provide service to them, how would I get paid?
I mean, here I am, shuffling terabits of data every second for all these "tier 1" providers, at significant cost to my company. How do I not close doors as soon as my venture capital runs out?
Peering points are only "free" if the give and take for the connection is fairly equivalent. When it becomes 1-sided, the "free" cost has to balance somehow, or my company example above would fail despite providing significant value to the marketplace.
No you would not, because you are charging the businesses (the "B"s) to provide the infrastructure for them to talk to each other, to be the middle man. You make your money there. The peering points are your cost of doing business better than your competitor.
And if you believe one of your peers is taking advantage of your other peering (paid or otherwise) arrangements, you can start charging them money for it.
Along the same lines, I would recommend Arecibo (Atmosphere label) and Bad Sector (Old Europa Cafe, Waystyx) fairly obscure, but inspired by "astronomic" phenomena.
Right, it really is 6 of one, half dozen of the other.
No one is immune to package dependency hell, and a corrupt package database is never pleasant to fix.
On my Fedora system I removed some package that was being a thorn in my side (having run the system since it was installed on some ancient version of RH, a decade ago, and just upgraded in-place over the years), and blindly clicking "Ok" caused half my packages to poof. I put them back from DVD and updated everything, and things are mostly back to normal (minus some desktop icons and menus).
But that certainly had nothing to do with the (in)sanity of packaging formats or tools.
It wouldn't have happened on Windows though (oh snap!)
The "real money" coming through TCG (the card game). There are already dozens of items in-game whose effect is purely cosmetic, that ultimately come from "real money", and no one bitches about them. If there are special hair styles that only come from codes from the cards, I don't see how that would be different.
Our income tax in Canada is actually less than 30% for the highest tier, and typically 15-22%, which isn't hugely different from that in the United States (actually, we're taxed less if you consider the dollars are more or less on par at the moment).
You pay much more in taxes than just income tax.
When is the "tax holiday" in Canada?
I would use a local place as well. Last thing I want is some 15 year old operating a thousand dollar machine "resurfacing" my disks. Larger independent (non-chain) rental stores or used cd/dvd stores are likely to have the same type of machine, and actually know how it works and what they are doing, beyond "put disc in, press button". They may also be cheaper.
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I'm sorry, but I don't see the current debate about climate change revolving around who to blame. There's certainly no one person/country/industry/activity to pin it on when you're looking at global patterns over centuries.
Where do you get this idea from?
No, they have to do it so they can cover their ass. If they don't, and whatever they prescribe is insufficient, they get sued.
But there IS external pressure.
If other software companies are cutting 10% to shore up their bottom line, MS better come up with a plan to do the same or better, or the market will come knocking wondering what's up.
Holy S^%$! Government cut taxes?! Where do you live?
Oh please, unionizing. The market is the market. You're not owed a job. If something is unprofitable, it gets cut.
No one was crying about unionizing 10 years ago, when "HTML programmers" were commanding 100k+ salaries.
When the newspaper sprawls over the entire table, it is easy to spill something on it. I doubt ereaders suffer from the same problem.
Unfortunately, the article mentions that in the 80s, female enrollment in CS was closer to parity with males. Something has changed since then and I doubt it's biological.
I think a much more interesting and insightful question would be why was the enrollment so high in the 80s, when traditionally (before and after) math, engineering and sciences were heavily male-dominated.
Along the same lines of thinking we have the "terrorists hate our freedoms" theory.
Which is complete BS.
Terrorists don't hate your freedoms. They don't hate democracy. They don't hate technological progress.
They hate your troops occupying and terrorizing their countries. They hate your bombs destroying their towns and homes.
But as long as in the eyes of "patriotic" Americans America can do no wrong, and to even attempt to question it is tantamount to heresy, the so-called "war on terror" is doomed to fail even more spectacularly than the wars on drugs and poverty.
It's the same with most other genres as well. Be it rock (from pop, to folksy, to hard, crossing into grunge, punk, metal and industrial), techno/electronic (dance, trance, space, tribal, minimalistic, speed/hardcore, vocal, progressive, beeps&bleeps, d&b, ambient), there is a lot of different types of music that would appeal to people who identify themselves as liking a particular type of music only. I say I don't like country, but that is not true, because I _DO_ like lots of types of country music, just not the types usually played on "country radio". If you limit yourself to just the narrow space you are familiar with, you will be missing out on a lot of good music that you will probably also like just as much.
I think the biggest real concern with recycled water (in a short loop, like we're discussing here) is the presence and build up of all the compounds that cannot be filtered out, such as hormones and drugs that we piss and crap and throw out, and then flush down the toilet. In many cities there are measurable quantities of the stuff coming out of the tap.
Because it takes 10 seconds to pop in a query in place, vs 10 minutes to do it with abstraction, even assuming the framework (libraries and includes) is built and in place for the web project.
That's great, and I'm sure there is an effect. But any visible measures being taken today are mostly at the individual consumer level... cutting vehicle emissions 20% will reduce total carbon release, what, 1%? It's probably not even measurable.
I'm not as much concerned about the CO2 in our atmosphere as I am about the even larger amounts of heavy metals, radioactive isotopes, and all manner of other poisons that are released into the air, ground and water all around the world by industrial activity. They are, immediately, much more harmful to all life, and literally nothing is being done about them.
But go ahead, displace your carbon intensive activities to other countries that don't care (or are not allowed to care by Kyoto), get whacked by a triple whammy of lost jobs, increased carbon release from those activities, and even more carbon release from transporting stuff back and forth.
lol, 60% after discount.
And I bet those are also pre-discount prices (~ 60%) that anyone that seriously buys Sun hardware would get. At that point, it's entirely price competitive with FC attached storage units from, say, Hitachi.
1) It may get you interviews over someone else, due to brand name recognition, for example he might shortlist the one from MIT over a similar candidate from from U. of Minnesota. If he finds a satisfactory canditate from that short-list, you might never get the interview.
2) The more prestigious the school, the more prestigious the -other- students tend to be. And who you met there that you might not otherwise have met is usually far more valuable than what you learned there that you might not otherwise have learned.
At the end of the day, it's a piece of paper, that everyone is expected to have. A college degree used to be something prestigious that few people achieved, now they crank them out by tens of thousands.
University of Phoenix is doing pretty well, and it won't set you back with a 1 year loan. Similar to smaller regional colleges, where you will get an education just as good as at an Ivy League school.
Don't fool yourself, unless you're going for a post-graduate program, you're not getting anything better (and often much worse) than you would from the college in your home town.
Well, correct, but misleading.
The economic effects we are seeing today are in a large part caused by the radically inflationary policies employed by Greenspan, who reigned during the Clinton presidency. The housing bubble can be easily traced to the US Central Bank policies, and some critical changes to banking and investment regulations also took place during that time.
As I've posted elsewhere in this thread, this can easily be done already, depending on the state of the provider's level of automation on the consumer-side of the high speed and the kinds of software (and hardware) they use, and how it is configured.
For example, the aggregator device can put policies (ACLs basically) on your port that can control the traffic shaping profile, port and IP restrictions, and fowarding. There are systems that can automatically change these and they can interface with, say, a usage monitoring/collection system, that would tell it to shut off your access and direct port 80 to a web site that sells you additional usage.
This is hardly some far off future. It is being done today, and if your provider is not using this setup, they will have to soon anyways.
The way this works is that there is a trigger (from whatever) that tells some system to change the policy on a DSL (or cable, but I am familiar with DSL) aggregator that will restrict your port to do whatever, in real-time: reduce throughput, reduce burst, restrict ports, restrict destination IPs, redirect.
One possibility to do this automatically is to use a usage collection system to trigger a policy change when a usage threshold is exceeded that would redirect all port 80 requests to a "walled garden" (and shut off everything else) where the user is informed of their condition, and allowed to upgrade their access (on the fly) or buy additional usage blocks.
It's already happening, and is a key component of automating consumer and business service activation, and also to allow "bandwidth-on-demand" applications where a user can instantly purchase more speed on their existing connection.
Let's assume that I am a B2B kind of guy. (I don't want to deal with "end users", I want to deal with businesses - Business 2 Business)
So I set up a high-end network. I'm going to carry massive amounts of data, and peer with existing "tier 1" providers to shuffle data with/for them. Let's just assume that I have significantly more bandwidth than Sprint or Cogent, and for this argument, I'll be a "tier 0" provider.
If I peered with Sprint/Cogent/ATT/XO in order to provide service to them, how would I get paid?
I mean, here I am, shuffling terabits of data every second for all these "tier 1" providers, at significant cost to my company. How do I not close doors as soon as my venture capital runs out?
Peering points are only "free" if the give and take for the connection is fairly equivalent. When it becomes 1-sided, the "free" cost has to balance somehow, or my company example above would fail despite providing significant value to the marketplace.
No you would not, because you are charging the businesses (the "B"s) to provide the infrastructure for them to talk to each other, to be the middle man. You make your money there. The peering points are your cost of doing business better than your competitor.
And if you believe one of your peers is taking advantage of your other peering (paid or otherwise) arrangements, you can start charging them money for it.
Along the same lines, I would recommend Arecibo (Atmosphere label) and Bad Sector (Old Europa Cafe, Waystyx) fairly obscure, but inspired by "astronomic" phenomena.
Right, it really is 6 of one, half dozen of the other.
No one is immune to package dependency hell, and a corrupt package database is never pleasant to fix.
On my Fedora system I removed some package that was being a thorn in my side (having run the system since it was installed on some ancient version of RH, a decade ago, and just upgraded in-place over the years), and blindly clicking "Ok" caused half my packages to poof. I put them back from DVD and updated everything, and things are mostly back to normal (minus some desktop icons and menus).
But that certainly had nothing to do with the (in)sanity of packaging formats or tools.
It wouldn't have happened on Windows though (oh snap!)
The "real money" coming through TCG (the card game). There are already dozens of items in-game whose effect is purely cosmetic, that ultimately come from "real money", and no one bitches about them. If there are special hair styles that only come from codes from the cards, I don't see how that would be different.
Telus used to be a government run telco. We never seemed to have any problems with the service and it was cheaper than it is now.
You don't say? When was that, 10 years ago? You know what else was cheaper 10 years ago? Everything.
Our income tax in Canada is actually less than 30% for the highest tier, and typically 15-22%, which isn't hugely different from that in the United States (actually, we're taxed less if you consider the dollars are more or less on par at the moment).
You pay much more in taxes than just income tax. When is the "tax holiday" in Canada?
I would use a local place as well. Last thing I want is some 15 year old operating a thousand dollar machine "resurfacing" my disks. Larger independent (non-chain) rental stores or used cd/dvd stores are likely to have the same type of machine, and actually know how it works and what they are doing, beyond "put disc in, press button". They may also be cheaper.