I base my projection upon the fact that U.S. corporations do not plan for "worst-case scenarios", as said planning costs money and would negatively impact shareholder value/executive compensation.
For instance, BP being totally unprepared for a requirement for working blowout preventers...or in the case of a telco, one of their worst-case scenarios is bandwidth saturation.
Rather than plan and build for it - plan and build for the future, that is - they instead turn to restricting their customers to the past.
Honestly, the future is not restricting and limiting what customers can do and what kind of new applications can be invented. The future is improving the technology and INCREASING bandwidth and making possible all kinds of new applications that people haven't even dreamed of yet.
Maybe Britain is different, but here in the U.S., our corporations do not let ethics, morals, or even the law stand in the way of their greed...let alone something that cannot be quantified in terms of either the bottom line or CEO compensation - such as the future.
Consciences impede the rate of wealth harvesting in some sectors of the American economy; games requiring cooperation which also reward betrayal could provide quite useful information for, say, someone contemplating the creation of a hedge fund or the next variation of the synthetic mortgage-backed financial instruments scam.
...or I could congratulate Google for making more people aware that just because they cannot visualize their wireless traffic does not mean that car or truck that is sitting outside isn't recording their "innocent" online chat with that hot babe they'd just as soon their spouse doesn't know about.
Then again, perhaps I'm jaded because my very first job out of high school involved...eavesdropping. I know it is possible; I know it happens; I know encryption is your only friend.
Somebody was so impressed (or ticked off?) with New Rome that they wrote a pretty good Wikipedia article about it. You might find the paragraph on Election Misconduct interesting, if you think Ohio has long be devoid of nepotism and cronyism.
lollll...but at least they weren't spending Worker's Comp money buying "antique" coins; that sort of behavior appears to be restricted to times when the Republicans hold Ohio's governorship.
The mayor's salary doesn't increase or decrease based on citations or how often he sits on the court and requesting a jury trial or appealing a decision, or attempting certain legal moves, will promptly take the case out of any mayors court.
Oh, but I am familiar with Ohio and with its "Mayor's Courts"; perhaps you have heard of New Rome - which was formerly an incorporated community on the opposite side of Columbus, Ohio from Reynoldsburg (West Broad Street/US 40, to be precise)? Until finally and permanently busted up in 2004, that tiny burg had a national reputation as a speed trap.
Mayors often have brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, friends etc. etc. etc. on the community payroll, you know; a payroll that can benefit from the funds harvested via a cooperative and often equally nepotistic local police force. Whether the mayor's salary is fixed or not is moot.
When newspapers decided that they should report only what their major advertisers wanted to see, newspapers effectively took a stance against the vast majority of the population that was buying their product. Wasn't too many papers that stood up against "flood-up/trickle-down" economics, deregulation, and inequitable free trade...all policies that benefited "Business-with-a-capital-B" at the expense - figuratively and literally - of the newspapers' readership.
Who wants to buy something that constantly advocates policies that further distort the nation's inequality curve, when you're on the losing side of that graph - so much so, that the newspaper is transformed into a luxury item?
Want to bet "or civil unrest" or words to that effect somehow sneak in there? Or that some President now or down the line issues an "Executive Order" modifying the "interpretation and application" of the new law? Say, when the nation finds itself scratching its collective head and muttering over the results of an e-ballot e-lection because nobody knows anybody who voted to reelect the signer of said Executive Order?
Never happen, right? At least, not until after they finish dismantling all of those WMDs they found in Iraq, eh?
...Those were the days...Windows, some programming capability, and a grasp of the problem at hand allowed you to just SOLVE it, instead of going through reams of paperwork back and forth with "the glass house", only to finally receive a reply that whatever you proposed was "not feasible" because of expense/complexity/the denizens of "the glass house" didn't like you/whatever...
Those were heady, surging, innovative...daring...days - but the MBAs didn't like "geeks"; they didn't like the fact that they could not comprehend programming and operating systems...they didn't like the fact that "the geeks" made things JMP when the MBAs preferred to be paid to NOP.
So we got outsourcing...then offshoring...and now, "the cloud": "The glass house", resurrected - and writ large. Back, again, to the stifling of change. At the behest of the MBAs, we - America - meekly surrendered...nay, intentionally transferred - our technological domination of the world.
lollll...now, Microsoft itself is trying to kill the desktop - the independent - paradigm; their "Azure", too, is "the glass house". We force America back into the 1960s...back to when change could not be driven from any and all directions; back to when change could only come from the top down, no matter what problems are faced and could be resolved at other levels; no matter what brilliance may lie untapped below the e-suite.
A reliable flow rate is important if you want to try to understand how a leak of as much as 100,000 barrels/day during a time when we are supposedly retrieving "only" 1,734,000 barrels per dayin total from the Gulf is related to declining oil prices.
Put another way: "Gee...how come just one leak is equal to 1/18th of the total amount of oil that is supposedly being pumped out of the Gulf of Mexico? When there are "nearly 4,000 active oil and gas platforms" in the Gulf of Mexico?"
lollll...a reputation for exaggeration, intellectual theft, and grandiose lying could be a very useful thing...if you do happen to have a top secret project running and somebody breaks security, nobody "outside" will believe it...until you demonstrate it, and that point is the far side of too late.
Strikes me as ironic that the people of the United States of America have a significant amount of money invested in ongoing research and development in Texas (Texas ranked 5th among the 50 states, District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico in terms of the amount of federal R&D dollars received annually in 2000).
Ironic, because as the Texas Board of Education makes obvious, many of the people of Texas are hellbent on returning to the Dark Ages...to those benighted and dangerous times when you could burn people who didn't have the "right" religious beliefs at the stake. (I do hope that people understand that the terms "religious" and "political" become interchangeable once the situation has deteriorated far enough...far enough, say, that the use of propaganda as a weapon becomes overt.)
I feel for the children of Texas...but they can - for the time being - find and learn the truth on the internet if they are so motivated. I do hope, however, that Texas' unabashed and expanding use of political indoctrination isn't catching...I really don't want to be forced to spend what little free time I have ensuring that the politicians of my state avoid the temptation to grant themselves the power of Kings - the power to rewrite history as they would have it.
We cannot tolerate government by an aristocratic elite convinced of their right to dictate what children shall believe. There is no avoiding it: To attempt to polish and spin the mistakes of history is to teach that those mistakes should be repeated.
I find it difficult to believe that the Texas Board of Education - and the Texas GOP - are unaware of what they are setting into motion.
...'cuz you know the insurance corporations would "somehow" have gotten access to this database, too, and absorbed the genetic predisposition information for future cover/no cover decisions.
Good job being an ass ignoring the established facts surrounding carbohydrates, cholesterol, dietary fats, etc. to make a snide remark. You are sooo cool!
Rather as you threw out the established facts surrounding the essential nature of exercise - the subject of this article? I would suggest that you consult a dietitian regarding your own food intake; there is no little evidence that both the cognitive process and emotional stability can be the casualties of a deficient diet and/or an inability to process essential vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients.
At least for too many urban kids...all the gangbangers, bodies, destruction, and poverty on the wii screen ain't real and can be turned off with a flick of a switch. The kid who lives in inner city America who wants to go down to the park first has be willing to run the gauntlet to get there, and then has to be willing to go the limit to defend their patch of the park.
If we wanted to combat obesity, we'd work to make it safe for kids to go outside again. But not we Americans...apparently due to unhappiness with the deadly efficacy of the gangbangers we can grow ourselves, we let new ones flood over the border.
you are attributing the unknown to a massive conspiracy that would be identified instantly
"Instantly", as in faster than the 8 years the synthetic mortgage-based instruments scam ran on Wall Street? "Massive", as opposed to the trivial $50 billion or so that one - just one - man (Madoff) stole? "Conspiracy", as in a cabal made even more devious by the prospect of harvesting billions and billions of dollars than that which got us into Iraq?
To rule out a possibility - particularly when those in question have no history of trustworthiness - because it is as yet undetected is to protect that possibility from discovery. I think that was, in fact, the modus operandi of the SEC under Bush.
Also, while the kernel of NT was based on VMS when David Cutler stole his old work from DEC...
A nice example of what the patent and copyright systems do to progress...DEC dropped Mica, and Cutler resurrected the concept to the later benefit of tens of millions of consumers...but at Microsoft. Although I believe that DEC erred in dropping it, they (or at least the people I knew from DEC in the '80s and '90s) still didn't deserve the fate of being consumed by...shudder...Compaq.
There are those who argue that the security issues that have plagued Windows arise from the Intel architecture (which is changing...almost all Core 2 and later Intel procs have some clue about the meaning of "trusted execution"). Perhaps more accurately, there are those who argue that Windows' - and all other operating systems' - entire problem was, is, and always will be the amount of O/S privileges the user routinely has. Windows was designed to be used by a single user who was all-powerful...in that paradigm, viruses/trojans are the de facto introduction of a malicious second user; the equivalent of handing your keyboard to a living, breathing asshole. Linux/Unix/VMS/OpenVMS were/are multiple user operating systems...with the operating system itself being a user who was all-powerful, and all other users being less so and thus incapable of harming the O/S. The more often the less powerful the user, the more secure. Now we see Windows adapting the multi-user paradigm, and consequently becoming more secure.
I won't say that I like it, in particular...too many years of being that all-powerful user on VMS, 'nix, and Windows systems, I suppose. Security is computational overhead.
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I base my projection upon the fact that U.S. corporations do not plan for "worst-case scenarios", as said planning costs money and would negatively impact shareholder value/executive compensation.
For instance, BP being totally unprepared for a requirement for working blowout preventers...or in the case of a telco, one of their worst-case scenarios is bandwidth saturation.
Rather than plan and build for it - plan and build for the future, that is - they instead turn to restricting their customers to the past.
Honestly, the future is not restricting and limiting what customers can do and what kind of new applications can be invented. The future is improving the technology and INCREASING bandwidth and making possible all kinds of new applications that people haven't even dreamed of yet.
Maybe Britain is different, but here in the U.S., our corporations do not let ethics, morals, or even the law stand in the way of their greed...let alone something that cannot be quantified in terms of either the bottom line or CEO compensation - such as the future.
Consciences impede the rate of wealth harvesting in some sectors of the American economy; games requiring cooperation which also reward betrayal could provide quite useful information for, say, someone contemplating the creation of a hedge fund or the next variation of the synthetic mortgage-backed financial instruments scam.
Paraphrased somewhat more concisely: "Sorry about ruining your life, your country, and your world, but hey - it's just business.".
...or I could congratulate Google for making more people aware that just because they cannot visualize their wireless traffic does not mean that car or truck that is sitting outside isn't recording their "innocent" online chat with that hot babe they'd just as soon their spouse doesn't know about.
Then again, perhaps I'm jaded because my very first job out of high school involved...eavesdropping. I know it is possible; I know it happens; I know encryption is your only friend.
Somebody was so impressed (or ticked off?) with New Rome that they wrote a pretty good Wikipedia article about it. You might find the paragraph on Election Misconduct interesting, if you think Ohio has long be devoid of nepotism and cronyism.
lollll...but at least they weren't spending Worker's Comp money buying "antique" coins; that sort of behavior appears to be restricted to times when the Republicans hold Ohio's governorship.
The mayor's salary doesn't increase or decrease based on citations or how often he sits on the court and requesting a jury trial or appealing a decision, or attempting certain legal moves, will promptly take the case out of any mayors court.
Oh, but I am familiar with Ohio and with its "Mayor's Courts"; perhaps you have heard of New Rome - which was formerly an incorporated community on the opposite side of Columbus, Ohio from Reynoldsburg (West Broad Street/US 40, to be precise)? Until finally and permanently busted up in 2004, that tiny burg had a national reputation as a speed trap.
Mayors often have brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, friends etc. etc. etc. on the community payroll, you know; a payroll that can benefit from the funds harvested via a cooperative and often equally nepotistic local police force. Whether the mayor's salary is fixed or not is moot.
When newspapers decided that they should report only what their major advertisers wanted to see, newspapers effectively took a stance against the vast majority of the population that was buying their product. Wasn't too many papers that stood up against "flood-up/trickle-down" economics, deregulation, and inequitable free trade...all policies that benefited "Business-with-a-capital-B" at the expense - figuratively and literally - of the newspapers' readership.
Who wants to buy something that constantly advocates policies that further distort the nation's inequality curve, when you're on the losing side of that graph - so much so, that the newspaper is transformed into a luxury item?
Never heard of a "Mayor's Court", eh? The General Fund is the General Fund....
Want to bet "or civil unrest" or words to that effect somehow sneak in there? Or that some President now or down the line issues an "Executive Order" modifying the "interpretation and application" of the new law? Say, when the nation finds itself scratching its collective head and muttering over the results of an e-ballot e-lection because nobody knows anybody who voted to reelect the signer of said Executive Order?
Never happen, right? At least, not until after they finish dismantling all of those WMDs they found in Iraq, eh?
[Linus] sustained that C++ is utter crap
I thought he said C++ is an overloaded piece of shit?
So feel free to ignore the paleontological, cosmological, geological, and archeological record, 'cuz God wants you to be ignorant all by yourself.
...Those were the days...Windows, some programming capability, and a grasp of the problem at hand allowed you to just SOLVE it, instead of going through reams of paperwork back and forth with "the glass house", only to finally receive a reply that whatever you proposed was "not feasible" because of expense/complexity/the denizens of "the glass house" didn't like you/whatever...
Those were heady, surging, innovative...daring...days - but the MBAs didn't like "geeks"; they didn't like the fact that they could not comprehend programming and operating systems...they didn't like the fact that "the geeks" made things JMP when the MBAs preferred to be paid to NOP.
So we got outsourcing...then offshoring...and now, "the cloud": "The glass house", resurrected - and writ large. Back, again, to the stifling of change. At the behest of the MBAs, we - America - meekly surrendered...nay, intentionally transferred - our technological domination of the world.
lollll...now, Microsoft itself is trying to kill the desktop - the independent - paradigm; their "Azure", too, is "the glass house". We force America back into the 1960s...back to when change could not be driven from any and all directions; back to when change could only come from the top down, no matter what problems are faced and could be resolved at other levels; no matter what brilliance may lie untapped below the e-suite.
Innovation? Dot...dot...dot...dead.
Methinks expecting China to do what we would do - or worse, to expect China to do what we have already done - is...myopic.
A reliable flow rate is important if you want to try to understand how a leak of as much as 100,000 barrels/day during a time when we are supposedly retrieving "only" 1,734,000 barrels per day in total from the Gulf is related to declining oil prices.
Put another way: "Gee...how come just one leak is equal to 1/18th of the total amount of oil that is supposedly being pumped out of the Gulf of Mexico? When there are "nearly 4,000 active oil and gas platforms" in the Gulf of Mexico?"
lollll...a reputation for exaggeration, intellectual theft, and grandiose lying could be a very useful thing...if you do happen to have a top secret project running and somebody breaks security, nobody "outside" will believe it...until you demonstrate it, and that point is the far side of too late.
Strikes me as ironic that the people of the United States of America have a significant amount of money invested in ongoing research and development in Texas (Texas ranked 5th among the 50 states, District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico in terms of the amount of federal R&D dollars received annually in 2000).
Ironic, because as the Texas Board of Education makes obvious, many of the people of Texas are hellbent on returning to the Dark Ages...to those benighted and dangerous times when you could burn people who didn't have the "right" religious beliefs at the stake. (I do hope that people understand that the terms "religious" and "political" become interchangeable once the situation has deteriorated far enough...far enough, say, that the use of propaganda as a weapon becomes overt.)
I feel for the children of Texas...but they can - for the time being - find and learn the truth on the internet if they are so motivated. I do hope, however, that Texas' unabashed and expanding use of political indoctrination isn't catching...I really don't want to be forced to spend what little free time I have ensuring that the politicians of my state avoid the temptation to grant themselves the power of Kings - the power to rewrite history as they would have it.
We cannot tolerate government by an aristocratic elite convinced of their right to dictate what children shall believe. There is no avoiding it: To attempt to polish and spin the mistakes of history is to teach that those mistakes should be repeated .
I find it difficult to believe that the Texas Board of Education - and the Texas GOP - are unaware of what they are setting into motion.
...but do include Gig ethernet and a big fat pipe to the 'net.
The sooner the employees get their porn downloaded and get back to work, the higher the productivity on that little dual core.
...'cuz you know the insurance corporations would "somehow" have gotten access to this database, too, and absorbed the genetic predisposition information for future cover/no cover decisions.
Might as well put your keyboard at the bottom of a six foot-deep vat of molasses...cold, cold molasses...and start training.
Good job being an ass ignoring the established facts surrounding carbohydrates, cholesterol, dietary fats, etc. to make a snide remark. You are sooo cool!
Rather as you threw out the established facts surrounding the essential nature of exercise - the subject of this article? I would suggest that you consult a dietitian regarding your own food intake; there is no little evidence that both the cognitive process and emotional stability can be the casualties of a deficient diet and/or an inability to process essential vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients.
So how long have you known the root cause of everything?
At least for too many urban kids...all the gangbangers, bodies, destruction, and poverty on the wii screen ain't real and can be turned off with a flick of a switch. The kid who lives in inner city America who wants to go down to the park first has be willing to run the gauntlet to get there, and then has to be willing to go the limit to defend their patch of the park.
If we wanted to combat obesity, we'd work to make it safe for kids to go outside again. But not we Americans...apparently due to unhappiness with the deadly efficacy of the gangbangers we can grow ourselves, we let new ones flood over the border.
you are attributing the unknown to a massive conspiracy that would be identified instantly
"Instantly", as in faster than the 8 years the synthetic mortgage-based instruments scam ran on Wall Street? "Massive", as opposed to the trivial $50 billion or so that one - just one - man (Madoff) stole? "Conspiracy", as in a cabal made even more devious by the prospect of harvesting billions and billions of dollars than that which got us into Iraq?
To rule out a possibility - particularly when those in question have no history of trustworthiness - because it is as yet undetected is to protect that possibility from discovery. I think that was, in fact, the modus operandi of the SEC under Bush.
Also, while the kernel of NT was based on VMS when David Cutler stole his old work from DEC...
A nice example of what the patent and copyright systems do to progress...DEC dropped Mica, and Cutler resurrected the concept to the later benefit of tens of millions of consumers...but at Microsoft. Although I believe that DEC erred in dropping it, they (or at least the people I knew from DEC in the '80s and '90s) still didn't deserve the fate of being consumed by...shudder...Compaq.
There are those who argue that the security issues that have plagued Windows arise from the Intel architecture (which is changing...almost all Core 2 and later Intel procs have some clue about the meaning of "trusted execution"). Perhaps more accurately, there are those who argue that Windows' - and all other operating systems' - entire problem was, is, and always will be the amount of O/S privileges the user routinely has. Windows was designed to be used by a single user who was all-powerful...in that paradigm, viruses/trojans are the de facto introduction of a malicious second user; the equivalent of handing your keyboard to a living, breathing asshole. Linux/Unix/VMS/OpenVMS were/are multiple user operating systems...with the operating system itself being a user who was all-powerful, and all other users being less so and thus incapable of harming the O/S. The more often the less powerful the user, the more secure. Now we see Windows adapting the multi-user paradigm, and consequently becoming more secure.
I won't say that I like it, in particular...too many years of being that all-powerful user on VMS, 'nix, and Windows systems, I suppose. Security is computational overhead.