That is a false comparison. The new model is basically identicle. They put like 1 MB more RAM in stick an incremented number on the model and ship.
A better comparison is the very first digital camera ever released. in 1990 it was the Dycam Model 1; Which was black and white, low in resolution, and cost nearly $2,000 in inflated dollars. You don't get new products for cheaper.
Ya, they are totally going to release a cheaper product that outperforms the competition in all areas and has added features. That is totally how Capitalism works.
This is the first ever light bulb of this type. It will probably suck ass and cost $80 per bulb.
Well considering that apparently f***en CHINA is DDOSing them and they are only experiencing intermittent downtime that is pretty impressive to me. More of reason to switch than a warning against it.
Still, no backups, no alternative plan, your coworker is an idiot.
Sure using the heat is great, but then use it to heat the corporate building it is housed in. A server needs a regulated environment not 110 degrees in the summer and -10 in the winter. It needs humility and dust control. And most of all it needs a room not filled with 5 yos and hot choco, and a teenager bouncing a ball off the outside of it. No competent insurer would even give insurance for commercial server in a residential house. There is no economical way to distribute servers into residential houses. If you want to distribute your servers and cut down on restate than find a why to house them in the back of Starbucks or some other business.
Even leaving aside the absolutely pathetic weight limit, that is not even an empty suitcase, or a single change of cloths, we already have these; They are called elevators.
I think the legislation shows that people accept that they must accept limitations of their freedom in the name of added security. If they were in denial people would not be so willing to accept any and all limitations.
By subject separates the distinct skills. If you suck at math and are still trying to pass grade 9 mathematics you can still take grade 12 English and history. This method would means that if you are slightly slower than the average at any subject you are floundering and cannot progress. And everyone has a subject they are slower at than the rest.
It sort of sounds like they might be getting rid of that customization. You just take the exact same courses of everyone else. There is no other way to run such a system.
There is a difference. Economics, geography, and history are intertwined and dependent on eachother. You need to understand the one to understand the other. Knowing the physics of trebuchets offers no further insight into history. In-fact since most of the people of those times did not understand them themselves it might actually make understanding that age harder. At the very least there is no benefit whatsoever in teaching projectile physics then as any other time before or after.
It makes a lot of sense to merge "economics, history, languages and geography" and talk about a slice of all of this while talking about really any event, organization, or nation. History is linked to all of these. But when do you teach calculus and chemistry? Even if you could find some reasonable time to intersperse them, it would never work. Some fields require current and indepth understanding of a whole host of concepts. Courses in Chemistry and mathematics are a constant ramping up of concepts. You cannot break it up without reteaching past concepts every time you do so.
How does that even work is the list millions of names long? It is not like any of this is highly guarded secret. If someone in america wants ti kill soldiers they would not need some random internet list to find any.
Mainframe computers (colloquially referred to as "big iron") are computers used primarily by corporate and governmental organizations for critical applications, bulk data processing such as census, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning and transaction processing.
A computer is a general-purpose device that can be programmed to carry out a set of arithmetic or logical operations automatically
By those definition I think the stuff they had by WWII would of qualified. " used primarily by corporate and governmental organizations for critical applications, bulk data processing such as census, industry and consumer statistics" is the perfect way to describe the products IBM put out well before and well after WWII. The only thing we are missing is where they computerized mainframes? And I think they were pretty close. They definitely carried out arithmetical operations. And they definitively would of been customizable/programmable to a large extent; I am sure the same machine could be programmed to track a bunch of different data types and perform different arithmetic operations.
I just traded hunting rifles to the Sierra Leone rebels for diamonds, so they could feed their families. Fully automatic, armor piecing, hunting rifles.
And Kim Jong Un told me he just wanted that Plutonium refined to build power plants with.
Well data tracking devices. Some of the first "computer" technology came about because of the governments wanting to track their populations (censuses). If I am remembering correctly IBM was founded by the guy who designed the "computer" capable to tabulating the yearly census at 1000x the speed of by hand (the population of America had grown at such a rate that it took considerably longer than the period between censuses to add up all the data). I think it is fair to label them mainframes, in reality it was something halfway between an abacus and a mainframe computer. It was of course even more important to keep track of the undesirables and their movements than of your entire population. So Head office (America) IBM did send the greenlight to produce some population tracking devices for the Nazis.
Not only does this give police a huge incentive to target people based on their income, but that does not give enough of a punishment to regular poor people. A $0 fine for a homeless person is not equivalent to a $50,000 fine for a millionaire.
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It is only a bad idea when the vast majority of people hate your business practices.
That is a false comparison. The new model is basically identicle. They put like 1 MB more RAM in stick an incremented number on the model and ship. A better comparison is the very first digital camera ever released. in 1990 it was the Dycam Model 1; Which was black and white, low in resolution, and cost nearly $2,000 in inflated dollars. You don't get new products for cheaper.
Ya, they are totally going to release a cheaper product that outperforms the competition in all areas and has added features. That is totally how Capitalism works.
This is the first ever light bulb of this type. It will probably suck ass and cost $80 per bulb.
Is that 10% better than LED? And longer lasting than LED?
Must of been some requirement of the merger.
Ya, because letterhead if a foolproof security measure.
That to use a simple, SINGLE, encoding algorithm like HEVC takes licencing thousands of patents?
That was seriously the worst part of Limitless (2011). Super Intelligence means you clean your apartment religiously and run for president.
Well considering that apparently f***en CHINA is DDOSing them and they are only experiencing intermittent downtime that is pretty impressive to me. More of reason to switch than a warning against it.
Still, no backups, no alternative plan, your coworker is an idiot.
You obviously have never worked for a school district. $128K is enough to buy like 50 refurbished windows XP computers, with 20 year warranties.
Well to be fair, surgeons actually get a lot of interaction with "robots" now. Well, at least robotic arms.
But then how would we have Robot Wars? Where robots are pitted against eachother in ultra-HD 3D coverage.
Which is a commercial enterprise. You are talking about dedicated government of business run installations, not installing them in residential homes.
Sure using the heat is great, but then use it to heat the corporate building it is housed in. A server needs a regulated environment not 110 degrees in the summer and -10 in the winter. It needs humility and dust control. And most of all it needs a room not filled with 5 yos and hot choco, and a teenager bouncing a ball off the outside of it. No competent insurer would even give insurance for commercial server in a residential house. There is no economical way to distribute servers into residential houses. If you want to distribute your servers and cut down on restate than find a why to house them in the back of Starbucks or some other business.
Even leaving aside the absolutely pathetic weight limit, that is not even an empty suitcase, or a single change of cloths, we already have these; They are called elevators.
I think the legislation shows that people accept that they must accept limitations of their freedom in the name of added security. If they were in denial people would not be so willing to accept any and all limitations.
By subject separates the distinct skills. If you suck at math and are still trying to pass grade 9 mathematics you can still take grade 12 English and history. This method would means that if you are slightly slower than the average at any subject you are floundering and cannot progress. And everyone has a subject they are slower at than the rest.
It sort of sounds like they might be getting rid of that customization. You just take the exact same courses of everyone else. There is no other way to run such a system.
There is a difference. Economics, geography, and history are intertwined and dependent on eachother. You need to understand the one to understand the other. Knowing the physics of trebuchets offers no further insight into history. In-fact since most of the people of those times did not understand them themselves it might actually make understanding that age harder. At the very least there is no benefit whatsoever in teaching projectile physics then as any other time before or after.
It makes a lot of sense to merge "economics, history, languages and geography" and talk about a slice of all of this while talking about really any event, organization, or nation. History is linked to all of these. But when do you teach calculus and chemistry? Even if you could find some reasonable time to intersperse them, it would never work. Some fields require current and indepth understanding of a whole host of concepts. Courses in Chemistry and mathematics are a constant ramping up of concepts. You cannot break it up without reteaching past concepts every time you do so.
How does that even work is the list millions of names long? It is not like any of this is highly guarded secret. If someone in america wants ti kill soldiers they would not need some random internet list to find any.
Mainframe computers (colloquially referred to as "big iron") are computers used primarily by corporate and governmental organizations for critical applications, bulk data processing such as census, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning and transaction processing.
A computer is a general-purpose device that can be programmed to carry out a set of arithmetic or logical operations automatically
By those definition I think the stuff they had by WWII would of qualified. " used primarily by corporate and governmental organizations for critical applications, bulk data processing such as census, industry and consumer statistics" is the perfect way to describe the products IBM put out well before and well after WWII. The only thing we are missing is where they computerized mainframes? And I think they were pretty close. They definitely carried out arithmetical operations. And they definitively would of been customizable/programmable to a large extent; I am sure the same machine could be programmed to track a bunch of different data types and perform different arithmetic operations.
I just traded hunting rifles to the Sierra Leone rebels for diamonds, so they could feed their families. Fully automatic, armor piecing, hunting rifles. And Kim Jong Un told me he just wanted that Plutonium refined to build power plants with.
Well data tracking devices. Some of the first "computer" technology came about because of the governments wanting to track their populations (censuses). If I am remembering correctly IBM was founded by the guy who designed the "computer" capable to tabulating the yearly census at 1000x the speed of by hand (the population of America had grown at such a rate that it took considerably longer than the period between censuses to add up all the data). I think it is fair to label them mainframes, in reality it was something halfway between an abacus and a mainframe computer. It was of course even more important to keep track of the undesirables and their movements than of your entire population. So Head office (America) IBM did send the greenlight to produce some population tracking devices for the Nazis.
Not only does this give police a huge incentive to target people based on their income, but that does not give enough of a punishment to regular poor people. A $0 fine for a homeless person is not equivalent to a $50,000 fine for a millionaire.