Exactly right. It's like when the rovers landed on mars years ago and one of them was down for nearly a month because NASA had never tested the OS on the rover for a full 30days and the bug that took it out only arose after it had been running 30days. It's an 80 billion dollar project and they didn't test the software for 30days? Sometimes you just have to wonder what the fuck people are thinking.
Just get rid of the Tax all together. Collect sales taxes and be done with it. Why do we need a tax on everything? The government should not be in the business of manipulating the people by taxing them at different rates based on their behavior.
Most of these attacks sources are either a. Idiots with DSL that click yes to everything b. Businesses that have no IT staff and let their nephew setup their network.
The traffic is easily detectable and easily shut off by locking their account. ISPs don't want to do that because in most cases the target is not a paying customer and the person whos computer is compromised is. Why would they potentially tick off a paying customer before the target complains? Moreover why would they invest time, energy and equipment into detecting attacks?
Fine the ISP. Then they'll have a reason to give a shit.
As usual bad stats are meaningless. So they polled how many companies had office installed? 1/3rd of them had office 2003? So that translates into open office failing and MSFT winning? wtf?
Maybe, just maybe, the days of business being done in word documents and spreadsheets are fading and we're now moving towards business getting done in specific applications and instead of documents we're storing things in a database. My current job is maintaining a Database and CRM. We basically get contacted by some department whos business processes are a mess, they've been using Excel and word to do everything for 10 years, and we build them a front end for the companies database. Now records are stored forever, or less, depending on the need. Required fields are actually required. We don't have one off versions of documents stored on someones hard drive only to be lost when they leave the company. We've even done away with most email. Federal regulations that specifically target email are nasty. Simply giving giving employees chat clients let them do their normal human chit-chat without leaving a messy legal trail should a court case arise. Now requests and such are logged IN the CRM. It's clear to the person using it that they shouldn't put their Banana bread recipe in there, so they go to chat.
If anything I'd say the stat regarding people using Office 2003 is very telling. They're only keeping it around for legacy purposes. It's not that open office is dieing, it's the entire concept of "documents as files" that is dieing.
Actually, I've been involved in projects where exactly that was required. That site isn't that complicated and there's nothing new and innovative on it. If they brought in the right people and busted ass for a few weeks they could have an open source alternative built and tested. The problem here is it's government and there's no way to just make the kind of executive decisions that would be required to pull it off.
My wifes a photographer, she does simple stuff like family portraits, the occasional wedding, etc...
I'm decent with Photoshop so I post-process all her work. I can make you look like a zit faced kid, wrinkled old grandfather, over tanned beach bum, whatever...
But a few years ago we adopted our son, and he's black. Touching up our own photos is no-longer nearly as easy. Pretty much everything you do to make a white persons skin look better makes a black person look near death. Getting black skin to show up correctly makes the whites in the picture look very pale and anemic.
Except Drug Dealers don't keep Bank Accounts. Its a cash and you are carrying business.
Funny, you clearly have no idea what you're talking about. The majority of "deals" are made between friends. Yes, Street corner guys can't use this, but if you're been buying from "John" for the past 15 years, you're not going to really worry about a paper trail. The quicker people realize that this isn't some secret underworld invisible to normal people, and that its really just all of US going about our daily lives, the better off we all will be. It's a lot like the common notion in the 50s that women didn't have children outside of wedlock. It's laughable now.
Apple was a pioneer of an accounting technique known as the “Double Irish With a Dutch Sandwich,” which reduces taxes by routing profits through Irish subsidiaries and the Netherlands and then to the Caribbean. Today, that tactic is used by hundreds of other corporations — some of which directly imitated Apple’s methods, say accountants at those companies.
As a user of both Open source software and Oracle products, I can say that, at least with Open source you're well prepared for the complete lack of support when a major issue arises. With Oracle, often you're not only surprised by the lack of support, but the fact that their support structure often leads you in the completely wrong direction, usually to squeeze consulting services fees out of you.
Prior to the arrival of European-Americans about one half of the United States land area was forest, about 4,000,000 square kilometres (990,000,000 acres) in 1600, yet today it is only about 3,000,000 square kilometres (740,000,000 acres). Nearly all of this deforestation took place prior to 1910, and the forest resources of the United States have remained relatively constant through the entire 20th century.
You're just flat out wrong. And this doesn't even take into account the heavy deforestation caused by Native Americans prior to Europe's arrival. There is significant evidence of terrible ecological problems caused by large populations of Native Americans and their changes to the environment.
It's core is a mixture of rock and metallic hydrogen. So it's "surface" is basically a hydrogen ocean over top of a carbon sphere that's likely been compressed into a huge diamond. Keep in mind that it's been getting hit with asteroids for a very long time. It's clearly got some rock down there somewhere.
If Wind, solar or geothermal could do it, we would be using it. Unfortunately they only make sense in unique areas. Also, production of all 3 cause great ecological damage. The amount of silver needed in solar panels is significant and silver mining is VERY toxic and produces a lot of CO2. Wind turbines are made from exotic alloys that, while not as bad as solar panels, again produce a lot of CO2 and toxins during mining. Both Wind and Solar would have a significant impact on the environment if they were used on a scale large enough to power a modern country. Lastly, geothermal has all the downsides of fracking and there are actual documented cases of geothermal plants causing earthquakes and having to be shut down.
MODERN nuclear power is extremely safe. Every failure we've had has been on 1st gen reactor designs and most have involved incredibly stupid mistakes by humans. There ARE melt-down proof reactor designs. There are even reactors that produce very little waste at all. The carbon footprint of uranium mining is smaller than all other forms of energy production other than fosil fuels (which then produce far more when you actually use them) So if your goal is less CO2, Nuclear power is the clear winner.
The current problem with 40 year old reactor designs and their waste is real, but we shouldn't get that problem confused with modern reactors which are entirely different. If we could move beyond nuclear to Fusion safely, that would be incredible and revolutionize the world. We could likely even reverse Global Warming if we so chose given how cheap energy could end up being.
I got a ford recently and holy shit does Microsoft Sync blow chunks. It had bluetooth but only in mono?!?! The phone quality was terrible and worst of all the entire damned thing was integrated into every electronic system in the car so when I wanted to rip the junk out and put in a decent head unit (cd player) I had to spend $130 on a small computer to translate everything and keep all my dash lights and steering wheel controls working. The only headunits compatible with MS Sync are $600 kenwood Nav systems.
I said PROFITABILITY scales with density. Your ISP charges what it thinks you'll pay. $40. If there are 5000 people within the reach of a given DSA, that's a VERY profitable area. On the other hand I know my company has exchanges with as few as 12 people within reach... there's even 1 that has a single customer (due to reasons beyond me) How interested do you think the ISP is in spending several million dollars upgrading that equipment?
This is very basic math. Fiber changes a lot, but it's also very expensive to instal.
Broadband costs are directly related to population density. Depending on the technology used, your ISP invests several million dollars on equipment that will service a FIXED distance from that equipment. The fewer people in a given area, the less money can be made in that area, yet the equipment still costs the same.
Australia: 2.8 people per km2 United States: 33.2 people per km2 South Korea: 504.5 people per km2
AMD/Radeon is dead. I was a big AMD/ATI guy for nearly a decade but their drivers and compatibility issues just kept getting worse and worse and worse. Their multi-monitor support is terrible. Their support for hardware accelerated video decoding took far to long to get straitened out. Their linux drivers dropped support for the majority of their older cards, which is silly as the majority of linux installs go on older computers. I have had ATI cards literally set 3 different motherboards on FIRE in the past few years due to compatibility issues... thank god for neweggs return policy. Finally I gave up, switch to Intel and Nvidea... no problems for 2 years now and thats on several dozen computer builds (I build computers for everyone I know basically, so much so that I have small business accounts with most retailers I buy from) Though intels recent switch to no OEM fan I found irritating.
All that combined with the all to obvious move by most people from PCs to tablets and I don't see AMD surviving the next decade. A friend of mine that works there says he sees the writing on the wall as well. I once spent $800 on an ATI card. I still have it, it's a work of art. But those days are long gone.
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Exactly right. It's like when the rovers landed on mars years ago and one of them was down for nearly a month because NASA had never tested the OS on the rover for a full 30days and the bug that took it out only arose after it had been running 30days. It's an 80 billion dollar project and they didn't test the software for 30days? Sometimes you just have to wonder what the fuck people are thinking.
Just get rid of the Tax all together. Collect sales taxes and be done with it. Why do we need a tax on everything? The government should not be in the business of manipulating the people by taxing them at different rates based on their behavior.
Most of these attacks sources are either
a. Idiots with DSL that click yes to everything
b. Businesses that have no IT staff and let their nephew setup their network.
The traffic is easily detectable and easily shut off by locking their account. ISPs don't want to do that because in most cases the target is not a paying customer and the person whos computer is compromised is. Why would they potentially tick off a paying customer before the target complains? Moreover why would they invest time, energy and equipment into detecting attacks?
Fine the ISP. Then they'll have a reason to give a shit.
Because now we can express our outrage without sounding like cooks.
As usual bad stats are meaningless. So they polled how many companies had office installed? 1/3rd of them had office 2003? So that translates into open office failing and MSFT winning? wtf?
Maybe, just maybe, the days of business being done in word documents and spreadsheets are fading and we're now moving towards business getting done in specific applications and instead of documents we're storing things in a database. My current job is maintaining a Database and CRM. We basically get contacted by some department whos business processes are a mess, they've been using Excel and word to do everything for 10 years, and we build them a front end for the companies database. Now records are stored forever, or less, depending on the need. Required fields are actually required. We don't have one off versions of documents stored on someones hard drive only to be lost when they leave the company. We've even done away with most email. Federal regulations that specifically target email are nasty. Simply giving giving employees chat clients let them do their normal human chit-chat without leaving a messy legal trail should a court case arise. Now requests and such are logged IN the CRM. It's clear to the person using it that they shouldn't put their Banana bread recipe in there, so they go to chat.
If anything I'd say the stat regarding people using Office 2003 is very telling. They're only keeping it around for legacy purposes. It's not that open office is dieing, it's the entire concept of "documents as files" that is dieing.
Actually, I've been involved in projects where exactly that was required. That site isn't that complicated and there's nothing new and innovative on it. If they brought in the right people and busted ass for a few weeks they could have an open source alternative built and tested. The problem here is it's government and there's no way to just make the kind of executive decisions that would be required to pull it off.
My wifes a photographer, she does simple stuff like family portraits, the occasional wedding, etc...
I'm decent with Photoshop so I post-process all her work. I can make you look like a zit faced kid, wrinkled old grandfather, over tanned beach bum, whatever...
But a few years ago we adopted our son, and he's black. Touching up our own photos is no-longer nearly as easy. Pretty much everything you do to make a white persons skin look better makes a black person look near death. Getting black skin to show up correctly makes the whites in the picture look very pale and anemic.
or stop using electrons
Cupcake pans are quickly going out of style. Thanks in part to all the shitty Microsoft cupcakes getting baked recently.
Except Drug Dealers don't keep Bank Accounts. Its a cash and you are carrying business.
Funny, you clearly have no idea what you're talking about. The majority of "deals" are made between friends. Yes, Street corner guys can't use this, but if you're been buying from "John" for the past 15 years, you're not going to really worry about a paper trail. The quicker people realize that this isn't some secret underworld invisible to normal people, and that its really just all of US going about our daily lives, the better off we all will be. It's a lot like the common notion in the 50s that women didn't have children outside of wedlock. It's laughable now.
"If court orders are legitimate..." -- see there Mr Judge, you've answered your own question.
In other words, put the business unit in charge of your programming department.
Apple was a pioneer of an accounting technique known as the “Double Irish With a Dutch Sandwich,” which reduces taxes by routing profits through Irish subsidiaries and the Netherlands and then to the Caribbean. Today, that tactic is used by hundreds of other corporations — some of which directly imitated Apple’s methods, say accountants at those companies.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/business/apples-tax-strategy-aims-at-low-tax-states-and-nations.html?_r=0
Apple literally invented the technique.
Others followed to compete.
Personally, I support any and all means of tax avoidance, so I don't count it against them. But I love bursting Apple Fanboys bubbles.
As a user of both Open source software and Oracle products, I can say that, at least with Open source you're well prepared for the complete lack of support when a major issue arises. With Oracle, often you're not only surprised by the lack of support, but the fact that their support structure often leads you in the completely wrong direction, usually to squeeze consulting services fees out of you.
Prior to the arrival of European-Americans about one half of the United States land area was forest, about 4,000,000 square kilometres (990,000,000 acres) in 1600, yet today it is only about 3,000,000 square kilometres (740,000,000 acres). Nearly all of this deforestation took place prior to 1910, and the forest resources of the United States have remained relatively constant through the entire 20th century.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_in_the_United_States
You're just flat out wrong.
And this doesn't even take into account the heavy deforestation caused by Native Americans prior to Europe's arrival. There is significant evidence of terrible ecological problems caused by large populations of Native Americans and their changes to the environment.
It's core is a mixture of rock and metallic hydrogen. So it's "surface" is basically a hydrogen ocean over top of a carbon sphere that's likely been compressed into a huge diamond. Keep in mind that it's been getting hit with asteroids for a very long time. It's clearly got some rock down there somewhere.
I think, by the end of the day, they WILL be available on bit torrent. So I wouldn't worry.
I fear my Government more than I fear terrorists.
If Wind, solar or geothermal could do it, we would be using it. Unfortunately they only make sense in unique areas. Also, production of all 3 cause great ecological damage. The amount of silver needed in solar panels is significant and silver mining is VERY toxic and produces a lot of CO2. Wind turbines are made from exotic alloys that, while not as bad as solar panels, again produce a lot of CO2 and toxins during mining. Both Wind and Solar would have a significant impact on the environment if they were used on a scale large enough to power a modern country. Lastly, geothermal has all the downsides of fracking and there are actual documented cases of geothermal plants causing earthquakes and having to be shut down.
MODERN nuclear power is extremely safe. Every failure we've had has been on 1st gen reactor designs and most have involved incredibly stupid mistakes by humans. There ARE melt-down proof reactor designs. There are even reactors that produce very little waste at all. The carbon footprint of uranium mining is smaller than all other forms of energy production other than fosil fuels (which then produce far more when you actually use them) So if your goal is less CO2, Nuclear power is the clear winner.
The current problem with 40 year old reactor designs and their waste is real, but we shouldn't get that problem confused with modern reactors which are entirely different. If we could move beyond nuclear to Fusion safely, that would be incredible and revolutionize the world. We could likely even reverse Global Warming if we so chose given how cheap energy could end up being.
No glare on a curved screen maybe?
I got a ford recently and holy shit does Microsoft Sync blow chunks. It had bluetooth but only in mono?!?! The phone quality was terrible and worst of all the entire damned thing was integrated into every electronic system in the car so when I wanted to rip the junk out and put in a decent head unit (cd player) I had to spend $130 on a small computer to translate everything and keep all my dash lights and steering wheel controls working. The only headunits compatible with MS Sync are $600 kenwood Nav systems.
I said PROFITABILITY scales with density. Your ISP charges what it thinks you'll pay. $40. If there are 5000 people within the reach of a given DSA, that's a VERY profitable area. On the other hand I know my company has exchanges with as few as 12 people within reach... there's even 1 that has a single customer (due to reasons beyond me) How interested do you think the ISP is in spending several million dollars upgrading that equipment?
This is very basic math. Fiber changes a lot, but it's also very expensive to instal.
so I'm seeing Super Nintendo / Game cube quality graphics there... so no, it's still retro.
Broadband costs are directly related to population density. Depending on the technology used, your ISP invests several million dollars on equipment that will service a FIXED distance from that equipment. The fewer people in a given area, the less money can be made in that area, yet the equipment still costs the same.
Australia: 2.8 people per km2
United States: 33.2 people per km2
South Korea: 504.5 people per km2
AMD/Radeon is dead. I was a big AMD/ATI guy for nearly a decade but their drivers and compatibility issues just kept getting worse and worse and worse. Their multi-monitor support is terrible. Their support for hardware accelerated video decoding took far to long to get straitened out. Their linux drivers dropped support for the majority of their older cards, which is silly as the majority of linux installs go on older computers. I have had ATI cards literally set 3 different motherboards on FIRE in the past few years due to compatibility issues... thank god for neweggs return policy. Finally I gave up, switch to Intel and Nvidea... no problems for 2 years now and thats on several dozen computer builds (I build computers for everyone I know basically, so much so that I have small business accounts with most retailers I buy from) Though intels recent switch to no OEM fan I found irritating.
All that combined with the all to obvious move by most people from PCs to tablets and I don't see AMD surviving the next decade. A friend of mine that works there says he sees the writing on the wall as well. I once spent $800 on an ATI card. I still have it, it's a work of art. But those days are long gone.