What model is it when people tell you they want something, you say "I can sorta do that" a while later you give them something, they say "I guess that'll work" and you're done? Cause that's the environment I'm in. Occasionally people come to my desk to say stuff and I just yell "SCOPE CREEP" really loudly and they walk away.
But ASCII has plenty of extra special characters that are never used. I think that all that would be needed is a new keyboard to make use of them or a UI that made it easy to select them.
Violence in the media has existed for thousands of years. If you actually read up on the subject you'll find that our media is FAR FAR less violent than it has ever been in history. The most obvious example would be gladiatorial bouts in roam. But there are many more. It used to be common to chain a bull and a bear together in the middle of town as a weekend sporting event for the locals to watch. Or even sicking a pack of dogs on a bull. All the parents and children would come to watch the animals tear each other appart. We used to burn witches at the stake in front of our children. Executions used to be family events in which children were encouraged to through garbage at the condemned.
Serial killers have always existed. It's a mental illness that's existed as long as humans have. The only reason the number found continues to go up, is because we are getting a lot better at catching them.
Also, the number of children killed on any given year by school shootings is dwarfed, by several orders of magnitude, by the number of children killed due to sports related injuries in schools every year. Ending sports programs and replacing them with an hour of Halo a day would save schools boat loads of money and reduce the amount of deaths and injuries in school quite dramatically over night.
In 2003 it was uncommon for people to port out their home number to their cell. Most polsters don't even know what's a cell and what isn't anymore. I can attest to this being in Madison Wi because Russ Fiengolds called me at least a dozen times this week in a desperate attempt to keep his seat.
It is completely legal for any child of any age to go out and buy the movie "Silence of the Lambs" and watch Hannibal lector cut the face off of someone and use it as a mask. For some reason Music and Video games are considered to have more influence with children. It's a silly distinction. 3 Million children are treated for sports related injuries every year: http://www.childrenshospital.org/az/Site1112/mainpageS1112P0.html
If you want to protect your children, lets start with the place they are most likely to be hurt. School sports programs.
It seems pretty clear that the Governments primary objection was to the fact that the servers providing service would have to be run by Google instead of by the government. Google simply said "you don't need to have the servers on site to be secure, don't worry about it!" I'm not sure that the RFQ was done correctly, but their true concerns are valid. I wouldn't want any government services hosted in anyones cloud, the chance for abuse is huge.
Also, the FCC gets $25mil out of the deal so it's a win/win situation. Verizon can then levy a "Bogus fee settlement fee" on all their customers to pay off the settlement. And if they accidentally collected more than the $25mil with their new fee, all the better!
I believe natives trading seashells and shiny stones as money predates your example by a couple of million years. Trading something that has no value for something that does, simply because we as a society have decided that thing is a virtual representation of wealth is the foundation of modern society. Money, by its very nature, is virtual.
That US troops didn't do the murder and torture? It's just being spun that way? That would certainly be mitigating. If the Iraqi government is torturing and murdering dissidents against the wishes of the US military, then we're just seeing them mature into the inevitable. It's the middle east, not Canada. How did we think things were going to work after we left? I'm just guessing here, but really, no ones see the documents as a whole yet. Wikileaks releases what they want the world to believe first and then bury everyone in a half a million documents so we're living with their spin for at least a week or two until people finally sift through it all and get some context on the few papers they selectively released at the outset.
It's too bad Wikileaks has such an obvious agenda. I like the idea of them, but that the same time, knowing they have such a clear agenda, makes me wonder what they decide not to release because it doesn't flow with what they want the world to think.
Basically my job revolves around operating and maintaining a database and front end that costs my employer no small amount of money. I came into my position between the last time the contract with this particular vendor was signed and now... when the renewal was due. Our account rep with this particular vendor sent their quote to my team to be forwarded on to our management, and as I read it I almost choked. They basically wanted to increase our rate by 1600%. Our IS department HATES software that we lease/rent/buy from 3rd parties. They are always of the opinion that they could do whatever the software we are using is doing, better, cheaper and faster. They are, of course, actually usually slower, twice the price and the application never works the way its intended. But when you take a quote to your managers that raises your rates 1600% they are inevitably going to head strait to the over paid script kiddies we consider our programming department to see what they can do.
After my initial shock I reviewed the quote and found that they were charging us for some of the most ridiculous things. $20 per gigabyte of storage. $300 per seat of logged on users as long as they don't exceed so many page requests per day. If they do exceed their allotted amount of request then they enter a higher billing rate. So our licenses have burstable rates? On top of these we get charged per table, per data point, even per API request. We get charged for backups, for custom fields, for upgrades for just about every action or even inaction we take with the software. The end result was a contract that was over a hundred pages long and took a team of lawyers several weeks to decode into human language.
So I thoroughly agree with the CEO of Redhat. I also hope I still have a job in the next couple of weeks.
So why are we all still using office? I don't get it. Open office can do just about everything worthwhile that office can do with the exception of Access (open offices DB sucks) but really, for most business's MS Office is a complete waste of money.
2 things keep Windows in the lead - Office and Games. Office is quickly becoming a non-issue. Gaming is another issue entirely. But PC gaming has been on the decline for a while. If the gaming markets moves away from PC's to consoles in a major way we could see a real shift away from windows. I build PC's for people all the time, and usually the cost of windows exceeds the amount I spent building the entire computer. At the very least THAT has to change. In the past there was no way I could have gotten anyone to try out Linux, but recently I've had 2 different people say "Sure, I'll try it out!" and no requests to switch back. Especially if the users only use for the computer is surfing the net and email, there really isn't any reason to waste money on Apple of M$FT.
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What model is it when people tell you they want something, you say "I can sorta do that" a while later you give them something, they say "I guess that'll work" and you're done? Cause that's the environment I'm in. Occasionally people come to my desk to say stuff and I just yell "SCOPE CREEP" really loudly and they walk away.
That's why you grow 100 of the little bastards and shove em in there.
But ASCII has plenty of extra special characters that are never used. I think that all that would be needed is a new keyboard to make use of them or a UI that made it easy to select them.
Violence in the media has existed for thousands of years. If you actually read up on the subject you'll find that our media is FAR FAR less violent than it has ever been in history. The most obvious example would be gladiatorial bouts in roam. But there are many more. It used to be common to chain a bull and a bear together in the middle of town as a weekend sporting event for the locals to watch. Or even sicking a pack of dogs on a bull. All the parents and children would come to watch the animals tear each other appart. We used to burn witches at the stake in front of our children. Executions used to be family events in which children were encouraged to through garbage at the condemned.
Serial killers have always existed. It's a mental illness that's existed as long as humans have. The only reason the number found continues to go up, is because we are getting a lot better at catching them.
Also, the number of children killed on any given year by school shootings is dwarfed, by several orders of magnitude, by the number of children killed due to sports related injuries in schools every year. Ending sports programs and replacing them with an hour of Halo a day would save schools boat loads of money and reduce the amount of deaths and injuries in school quite dramatically over night.
In 2003 it was uncommon for people to port out their home number to their cell. Most polsters don't even know what's a cell and what isn't anymore. I can attest to this being in Madison Wi because Russ Fiengolds called me at least a dozen times this week in a desperate attempt to keep his seat.
It is completely legal for any child of any age to go out and buy the movie "Silence of the Lambs" and watch Hannibal lector cut the face off of someone and use it as a mask. For some reason Music and Video games are considered to have more influence with children. It's a silly distinction.
3 Million children are treated for sports related injuries every year:
http://www.childrenshospital.org/az/Site1112/mainpageS1112P0.html
If you want to protect your children, lets start with the place they are most likely to be hurt. School sports programs.
It seems pretty clear that the Governments primary objection was to the fact that the servers providing service would have to be run by Google instead of by the government. Google simply said "you don't need to have the servers on site to be secure, don't worry about it!" I'm not sure that the RFQ was done correctly, but their true concerns are valid. I wouldn't want any government services hosted in anyones cloud, the chance for abuse is huge.
Or, when you can cheaply create hydrocarbons with electricity using CO2 from the atmosphere, you won't need an electric car.
Ok, so everyone agrees this is a stupid idea... but are there ANY pros? I just don't understand the premiss at all...
Also, the FCC gets $25mil out of the deal so it's a win/win situation. Verizon can then levy a "Bogus fee settlement fee" on all their customers to pay off the settlement. And if they accidentally collected more than the $25mil with their new fee, all the better!
What's a myspace?
Color me not impressed. The pictures in the article make it look like crap. I'm fairly sure I could have done better in my garage.
For about a month it'd be unique.
Lots of them actually:
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/company.asp?st=1&m=117
I believe natives trading seashells and shiny stones as money predates your example by a couple of million years. Trading something that has no value for something that does, simply because we as a society have decided that thing is a virtual representation of wealth is the foundation of modern society. Money, by its very nature, is virtual.
That US troops didn't do the murder and torture? It's just being spun that way? That would certainly be mitigating. If the Iraqi government is torturing and murdering dissidents against the wishes of the US military, then we're just seeing them mature into the inevitable. It's the middle east, not Canada. How did we think things were going to work after we left? I'm just guessing here, but really, no ones see the documents as a whole yet. Wikileaks releases what they want the world to believe first and then bury everyone in a half a million documents so we're living with their spin for at least a week or two until people finally sift through it all and get some context on the few papers they selectively released at the outset.
It's too bad Wikileaks has such an obvious agenda. I like the idea of them, but that the same time, knowing they have such a clear agenda, makes me wonder what they decide not to release because it doesn't flow with what they want the world to think.
I did the same thing, but the other driver wasn't slumped over the steering wheel... they were reading a book. They didn't thank me either.
Basically my job revolves around operating and maintaining a database and front end that costs my employer no small amount of money. I came into my position between the last time the contract with this particular vendor was signed and now... when the renewal was due. Our account rep with this particular vendor sent their quote to my team to be forwarded on to our management, and as I read it I almost choked. They basically wanted to increase our rate by 1600%. Our IS department HATES software that we lease/rent/buy from 3rd parties. They are always of the opinion that they could do whatever the software we are using is doing, better, cheaper and faster. They are, of course, actually usually slower, twice the price and the application never works the way its intended. But when you take a quote to your managers that raises your rates 1600% they are inevitably going to head strait to the over paid script kiddies we consider our programming department to see what they can do.
After my initial shock I reviewed the quote and found that they were charging us for some of the most ridiculous things. $20 per gigabyte of storage. $300 per seat of logged on users as long as they don't exceed so many page requests per day. If they do exceed their allotted amount of request then they enter a higher billing rate. So our licenses have burstable rates? On top of these we get charged per table, per data point, even per API request. We get charged for backups, for custom fields, for upgrades for just about every action or even inaction we take with the software. The end result was a contract that was over a hundred pages long and took a team of lawyers several weeks to decode into human language.
So I thoroughly agree with the CEO of Redhat. I also hope I still have a job in the next couple of weeks.
So why are we all still using office? I don't get it. Open office can do just about everything worthwhile that office can do with the exception of Access (open offices DB sucks) but really, for most business's MS Office is a complete waste of money.
Not that I want to ever agree with the recording industry or anything... but they really are dieing this time. And I'm glad.
2 things keep Windows in the lead - Office and Games. Office is quickly becoming a non-issue. Gaming is another issue entirely. But PC gaming has been on the decline for a while. If the gaming markets moves away from PC's to consoles in a major way we could see a real shift away from windows. I build PC's for people all the time, and usually the cost of windows exceeds the amount I spent building the entire computer. At the very least THAT has to change. In the past there was no way I could have gotten anyone to try out Linux, but recently I've had 2 different people say "Sure, I'll try it out!" and no requests to switch back. Especially if the users only use for the computer is surfing the net and email, there really isn't any reason to waste money on Apple of M$FT.
Movie ruined before the first frame was filmed. wtg guys.
I have a 2yr old and he thinks Train set is Sentient. So I don't really think this is any kind of breakthrough.
Unspoofable? Buahahahaha!