I did not even say that I was part of the evaluation process, but since you were rude enough to insult me unnecessarily, I work for a hospital, and with the requirements for EMR, along with doctors wanting to view scans, one of our VPs (who is quite the fanboy) wanted us to evaluate the capability of the IPad to do these things. Even he was not impressed.
Actually, my company has been demo'ing the IPad for about a month now, and we can not find anything useful for businesses to justify the expenditure. If this Cisco tablet offers more in the way of benefit for our core business, I am quite sure they will be purchased, even if the cost is ~1,000.00.
Because people with a true sense of history understand that this world is not black and white. It is several shades of gray at any given time. While, yes, Raytheon manufactures equipment used by the military, many of these technologies trickle down to civilian use, and make America, and its allies, a more comfortable place to live. Its two biggest competitors are good examples of this trickle down. Boeing and Lockheed Martin manufacture just almost as much commercial air equipment as they do military equipment. Today, most people do not even realize that Boeing is a defense contractor.
Why is this modded troll? This is actually, very likely the answer you would receive from the nuts at DHS if you brought this quote up to them. At the very least it should be modded funny, in a sick twisted sort of way.
Easy, if you are on Verizon (Droid Incredible), or Sprint (EVO), you do not have to. The Nexus One is not available for either network. I would love to have a Nexus One, since I would not have to wait on manufacturer/network decisions on when to upgrade to the next release of Android. Yes, I am aware that I can root my phone, but the average user is not comfortable with that.
Negative. Liberalism in acceptance of ideas is not what this particular professor is about. The only ideas he wants you to form are the ones he gives you. You missed what I wrote.
Actually, it is not completely an urban myth. The issue of whether Texas could secede does have basis in fact. Before the Civil War, that clause was in the Texas Constitution. Had Texas seceded and stayed on its own (not joined the Confederacy), the Union could have done very little to them. Since Texas threw its lot in with the CSA, however, it received the same punishment that the rest of the states in rebellion received, and that clause was stricken from the state constitution.
If I was a state governor, I'd pay the faculty of my state universities create textbooks for my k-12 curriculum. Instead of paying royalties to large publishers, my faculty would be better paid.
Ok. There is a Civics instructor at a local college here who requires his students to purchase his book for his class. His views about how the government should be run are all throughout the book. His bias is very, very liberal. He has been known to fail people who do not write papers conforming to his views. You are advocating that he should indoctrinate our children? I prefer to let them make up their own minds.
Who says that it is necessarily fake? While you, or I, may not agree with it, in part or whole, it still seems to be a part of history. History has been, and will be, biased towards the people in power. Many things I have read since I graduated high school have challenged what I was taught in school. Incidentally, I went to school in Texas, learning the curriculum you would prefer they stay with. That is not to say that what I learned was "wrong", but that important details were left out. Of course, when teachers are teaching a standardized test, and their pay, and even continued employment, are tied to that test, real teaching can not be done.
Your complaint with the educational system should be taken up with the people that instituted it: the people who decided that every kid, regardless of level of intelligence has the inalienable right to the same education. Unfortunately, the kid with an IQ of 80 and the kid with the IQ of 140 should not be even in the same school, but that is mandated out of Washington.
Actually, Jupiter is a Roman god, thus the name Jupiter is the English transliteration of the Latin name. Lucifer is the English transliteration of the Latin name for Satan. Zeus would be Greek. Therefore, depending upon one's perspective, Jupiter=Lucifer.
A bit beside the point of this argument, but I happen to use Ubuntu as my primary system because I support several people who I have migrated to it. These users are only concerned with a web browser and an email client. Using Ubuntu makes it easier for phone support, at least in my opinion. I usually open a shell when I am working on their systems directly. I run Slackware and Cent on a couple of "servers", but I, obviously, am most familiar with Debian-based Linux at this point.
The problem is that it is not "denialist's crap." I will not deny global warming for the same reasons that I will not agree with it. The scientific research that has been presented to me, coupled with the research I have done on my own confirms that we, as a population, have no clue what exactly is going on; therefore, we are just along for the ride on a planet that we happen to inhabit. Does this mean that we should not do what we can to take care of our "house"? No, it does not. It simply means that we are trying to solve a problem that may not even exist. Any speculation on what may have happened in the past is exactly that, speculation. All I can do, as an individual who respects the planet I live on, is take care of it because I should.
Actually, where I am located that could conceivably void the restraining order. A friend of mine voided the restraining order he had against someone by not enforcing it when encountering the person at a mutual friend's house. Not that it is quite the same thing, but if you do not complain about/enforce it all the time, then do you really feel threatened?
This has been how Apple has done business for years. How much more money could they make if they allowed OS X to be installed on any x86 PC? They do not because they like being in control. You do not purchase a Mac, or an Iphone, you purchase the experience, as regulated by Apple. Right or wrong, this business model is along the path they chose long ago so I doubt that they will change much now. If, as a developer, you do not want to play by their rules, then you can take your software elsewhere. Just as it is their right to do this, it is also your right not to develop for their platform.
IMHO, the government governs best when it is in gridlock.
I agree. In the best case scenario, in my opinion, the times things seem to get done (semi-positively) in Government, appears to be when one or both houses of Congress are in the control of a party (though a very slight majority) different that what the President is.
Not that this was directed at me, but I will respond anyway. I refuse to use Belkin cabling because it is overpriced and likely underquality. If I am doing cabling work, I go to the nearest electrical supply house that has datacom cabling, and buy the cabling wholesale. Patch cords run between 5 and 10 dollars a piece.
With what kind of cable, though? And what tests will it pass? I have done an extraordinary amount of cable installation, and, I can assure you, it is fairly common for hand made patch cords to fail on an impedance mismatch, which most test equipment will not test for. When you are dealing with Cat6 and above that impedance matching is quite important.
HP has had some poorly engineered printers come out (the Color LJ2500 series comes to mind), and they typically took care of them fairly. Though, again, being an warranty repair shop, that may have been because of our status, but I have been fairly impressed with HP since then.
The only time I have been unsure of an HP product was right after their Compac acquisition. Once they decided how the product lines were going to work out they have been fine.
I am guessing (hoping) that you pulled that off of Dell's website right before you posted it. Dell has only been in the business of selling to retailers for about a year or year and a half. If I get my computer from them directly, 3 days to a week is significantly different that sitting on a retailer's shelves for 60 to 90 days.
Though, I would likely be a little cross if it failed in the 3 days to a week in question.
I am not sure how Dell does it, as I have not dealt with Dell on a retail basis, but HP will honor a warranty in that situation with a simple phone call. All they require is proof of purchase date, which, as an authorized service provider, my company was allowed to verify with them over the phone.
Of course, I have not done HP warranty work in a few years so they may have changed their policy, but I doubt it.
If that "typical desktop environment" needs the transfer speeds that fiber optic cable allows, most companies see replacing patch cords as a cost of doing business. As more companies discover the need for that bandwidth, and start considering fiber to the desktop more seriously, the cost of fiber will continue to fall. This is especially true as the tolerances for abuse decrease significantly with copper patch cords above a CAT 6 rating.
Disclosure: I did start out working in IT/Telecom as a cabling/phone technician so I have seen firsthand how easy it is to ruin copper connections, inadvertently.
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I did not even say that I was part of the evaluation process, but since you were rude enough to insult me unnecessarily, I work for a hospital, and with the requirements for EMR, along with doctors wanting to view scans, one of our VPs (who is quite the fanboy) wanted us to evaluate the capability of the IPad to do these things. Even he was not impressed.
Actually, my company has been demo'ing the IPad for about a month now, and we can not find anything useful for businesses to justify the expenditure. If this Cisco tablet offers more in the way of benefit for our core business, I am quite sure they will be purchased, even if the cost is ~1,000.00.
It is not offered. It is a requirement, at least it was when I was in the Corps.
Because people with a true sense of history understand that this world is not black and white. It is several shades of gray at any given time. While, yes, Raytheon manufactures equipment used by the military, many of these technologies trickle down to civilian use, and make America, and its allies, a more comfortable place to live. Its two biggest competitors are good examples of this trickle down. Boeing and Lockheed Martin manufacture just almost as much commercial air equipment as they do military equipment. Today, most people do not even realize that Boeing is a defense contractor.
Why is this modded troll? This is actually, very likely the answer you would receive from the nuts at DHS if you brought this quote up to them. At the very least it should be modded funny, in a sick twisted sort of way.
Easy, if you are on Verizon (Droid Incredible), or Sprint (EVO), you do not have to. The Nexus One is not available for either network. I would love to have a Nexus One, since I would not have to wait on manufacturer/network decisions on when to upgrade to the next release of Android. Yes, I am aware that I can root my phone, but the average user is not comfortable with that.
Negative. Liberalism in acceptance of ideas is not what this particular professor is about. The only ideas he wants you to form are the ones he gives you. You missed what I wrote.
Actually, it is not completely an urban myth. The issue of whether Texas could secede does have basis in fact. Before the Civil War, that clause was in the Texas Constitution. Had Texas seceded and stayed on its own (not joined the Confederacy), the Union could have done very little to them. Since Texas threw its lot in with the CSA, however, it received the same punishment that the rest of the states in rebellion received, and that clause was stricken from the state constitution.
If I was a state governor, I'd pay the faculty of my state universities create textbooks for my k-12 curriculum. Instead of paying royalties to large publishers, my faculty would be better paid.
Ok. There is a Civics instructor at a local college here who requires his students to purchase his book for his class. His views about how the government should be run are all throughout the book. His bias is very, very liberal. He has been known to fail people who do not write papers conforming to his views. You are advocating that he should indoctrinate our children? I prefer to let them make up their own minds.
Who says that it is necessarily fake? While you, or I, may not agree with it, in part or whole, it still seems to be a part of history. History has been, and will be, biased towards the people in power. Many things I have read since I graduated high school have challenged what I was taught in school. Incidentally, I went to school in Texas, learning the curriculum you would prefer they stay with. That is not to say that what I learned was "wrong", but that important details were left out. Of course, when teachers are teaching a standardized test, and their pay, and even continued employment, are tied to that test, real teaching can not be done.
Your complaint with the educational system should be taken up with the people that instituted it: the people who decided that every kid, regardless of level of intelligence has the inalienable right to the same education. Unfortunately, the kid with an IQ of 80 and the kid with the IQ of 140 should not be even in the same school, but that is mandated out of Washington.
Or, aarghing aardvark. Subsequent naming will not quite work this way, unfortunately.
. . . they become complacent about safety and that 1 in a million mistake ends up biting them in the ass . . .
If you are complacent enough around a table saw that your ass comes in contact with the spinning blade, you deserve what you get.
Actually, Jupiter is a Roman god, thus the name Jupiter is the English transliteration of the Latin name. Lucifer is the English transliteration of the Latin name for Satan. Zeus would be Greek. Therefore, depending upon one's perspective, Jupiter=Lucifer.
A bit beside the point of this argument, but I happen to use Ubuntu as my primary system because I support several people who I have migrated to it. These users are only concerned with a web browser and an email client. Using Ubuntu makes it easier for phone support, at least in my opinion. I usually open a shell when I am working on their systems directly. I run Slackware and Cent on a couple of "servers", but I, obviously, am most familiar with Debian-based Linux at this point.
The problem is that it is not "denialist's crap." I will not deny global warming for the same reasons that I will not agree with it. The scientific research that has been presented to me, coupled with the research I have done on my own confirms that we, as a population, have no clue what exactly is going on; therefore, we are just along for the ride on a planet that we happen to inhabit. Does this mean that we should not do what we can to take care of our "house"? No, it does not. It simply means that we are trying to solve a problem that may not even exist. Any speculation on what may have happened in the past is exactly that, speculation. All I can do, as an individual who respects the planet I live on, is take care of it because I should.
Actually, where I am located that could conceivably void the restraining order. A friend of mine voided the restraining order he had against someone by not enforcing it when encountering the person at a mutual friend's house. Not that it is quite the same thing, but if you do not complain about/enforce it all the time, then do you really feel threatened?
Just out of pure curiosity, why repeal the 17th Amendment?
This has been how Apple has done business for years. How much more money could they make if they allowed OS X to be installed on any x86 PC? They do not because they like being in control. You do not purchase a Mac, or an Iphone, you purchase the experience, as regulated by Apple. Right or wrong, this business model is along the path they chose long ago so I doubt that they will change much now. If, as a developer, you do not want to play by their rules, then you can take your software elsewhere. Just as it is their right to do this, it is also your right not to develop for their platform.
IMHO, the government governs best when it is in gridlock.
I agree. In the best case scenario, in my opinion, the times things seem to get done (semi-positively) in Government, appears to be when one or both houses of Congress are in the control of a party (though a very slight majority) different that what the President is.
Not that this was directed at me, but I will respond anyway. I refuse to use Belkin cabling because it is overpriced and likely underquality. If I am doing cabling work, I go to the nearest electrical supply house that has datacom cabling, and buy the cabling wholesale. Patch cords run between 5 and 10 dollars a piece.
With what kind of cable, though? And what tests will it pass? I have done an extraordinary amount of cable installation, and, I can assure you, it is fairly common for hand made patch cords to fail on an impedance mismatch, which most test equipment will not test for. When you are dealing with Cat6 and above that impedance matching is quite important.
HP has had some poorly engineered printers come out (the Color LJ2500 series comes to mind), and they typically took care of them fairly. Though, again, being an warranty repair shop, that may have been because of our status, but I have been fairly impressed with HP since then.
The only time I have been unsure of an HP product was right after their Compac acquisition. Once they decided how the product lines were going to work out they have been fine.
I am guessing (hoping) that you pulled that off of Dell's website right before you posted it. Dell has only been in the business of selling to retailers for about a year or year and a half. If I get my computer from them directly, 3 days to a week is significantly different that sitting on a retailer's shelves for 60 to 90 days.
Though, I would likely be a little cross if it failed in the 3 days to a week in question.
I am not sure how Dell does it, as I have not dealt with Dell on a retail basis, but HP will honor a warranty in that situation with a simple phone call. All they require is proof of purchase date, which, as an authorized service provider, my company was allowed to verify with them over the phone.
Of course, I have not done HP warranty work in a few years so they may have changed their policy, but I doubt it.
If that "typical desktop environment" needs the transfer speeds that fiber optic cable allows, most companies see replacing patch cords as a cost of doing business. As more companies discover the need for that bandwidth, and start considering fiber to the desktop more seriously, the cost of fiber will continue to fall. This is especially true as the tolerances for abuse decrease significantly with copper patch cords above a CAT 6 rating.
Disclosure: I did start out working in IT/Telecom as a cabling/phone technician so I have seen firsthand how easy it is to ruin copper connections, inadvertently.