Calling IBM won't help. Unless you want an IBM BladeCenter . . . every kid gets his own blade. Or why not virtualize and consolidate everything to one 24/7 zSeries. The server will have a better attendance record than the school kids.
IBM doesn't sell PCs. But they will sell you a cloud of them, so that would be easier for the school kids to carry, because clouds are lightweight. Hey, no need to worry about theft! How do you steal a kid's cloud like his lunch money? And since the cloud is nowhere and everywhere, the kids can use it at school and at home.
Of course, the ultimate solution would be to buy an IBM Watson system. It is so smart, that you can get rid of those damn kids in your school altogether.
Some economists think that Greece could nonetheless avoid a sudden departure from the euro. The government could pay some of its bills by issuing its own IOUs direct to its domestic creditors. These notes (“scrip”) would start to circulate at a steep discount to euros. In effect, argues Thomas Mayer, an adviser to Deutsche Bank, Greece could create its own parallel and depreciated currency while still remaining in the monetary union.
Something similar happened in Argentina as it struggled to retain its rigid link between the peso and the dollar before the link eventually snapped in early 2002. Bankrupt regional governments started to pay their workers in scrip, such as the patacones issued by Buenos Aires Province. But these desperate measures were desperately unpopular because the patacones immediately fell in value. Within just a few months, the Argentine government restricted withdrawals of bank deposits, defaulted on its debts and broke the link with the dollar, allowing the peso to devalue.
Mario Blejer, who was Argentina’s central-bank governor in the middle of the crisis, says that resorting to scrip would be even worse than creating a new currency outright (which he thinks would be disastrous). It would create monetary chaos and generate inflationary pressure before the exit that would inevitably ensue.
So if you are in Greece, you seem to have a bad option for storing your cash, and an even worse one.
When discussing Ethics, Schrödinger's Quantum Cat should be applied (and at the same time, not applied). The issue is so quantumly entangled that you will end up being both simultaneously Ethical and Unethical.
You might as well conjure up an enraged Werner Heisenberg armed with an ethical/unethical electric mosquito swatter. Although he thinks he knows where that ethical/unethical mosquito is, every time he tries to swat it, the little bastard changes position, momentum, spin, polarization, etc.
So poor Werner needs to scratch his head again, and think over what is ethical and unethical again.
. . . or maybe he needs to scratch his head and not scratch it simultaneously.
. . . because both sides were scared enough not to even think about using them. Just a few isolated tests here and there in underground isolated places. No, or very limited, collateral damage.
With the Cyberweapons arms race, it seems to be like the wild west. Cyberweapons are being deployed and tested everywhere, and affecting innocent bystanders. Imagine having nukes tested in your backyard. Or Cyberweapons tested live on your Internet.
The "IBM Pollyanna principle" is an axiom that states "machines should work; people should think". This can be understood as a statement of extreme optimism, that machines should do all the hard work, freeing people to think (hence the reference to Pollyanna), or as a cynical statement, suggesting that most of the world's major problems result from machines that fail to work, and people who fail to think.
Instead of penny per ounce for sugar, a penny per pound being overweight? I don't see how building soccer fields and school gardens will help. Will kids drop their computer games and run off to play soccer and hoe the garden? Not if their parents don't kick their lazy assess to do so. If children are learning a poor nutrition life style at home, nothing will change that.
Instead this just seems like yet another attempt to push through a new tax by claiming it is good for something.
. . . injuries or property damage will go unnoticed.
Actually, launch locations in China and Russia might look more commercially attractive now. A rocket launch has destroyed your house? Your tough luck for living near a launch pad.
Unlike a girl, a good programming language is good for more than one thing.
If you have more than one girlfriend, then you run into the same problems as SMP and multi-threaded programming: resource contention, careful locking, semaphore signalling overhead, etc. Woe betides you if one finds cosmetics stuff from another on the wrong stack in the bathroom.
Did they question him, because he was a crypto developer? Or did they stop him for some other reason, and ask about his profession?
FTFA:
A developer of an encrypted chat program is making some dramatic claims. Nadim Kobeissi, developer of Cryptocat which “lets you instantly set up secure conversations.
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. . . does that add more latency to the line? Can you measure actual versus expected latency to see if your undersea lines have been tapped?
Call Dell, Call IBM
Calling IBM won't help. Unless you want an IBM BladeCenter . . . every kid gets his own blade. Or why not virtualize and consolidate everything to one 24/7 zSeries. The server will have a better attendance record than the school kids.
IBM doesn't sell PCs. But they will sell you a cloud of them, so that would be easier for the school kids to carry, because clouds are lightweight. Hey, no need to worry about theft! How do you steal a kid's cloud like his lunch money? And since the cloud is nowhere and everywhere, the kids can use it at school and at home.
Of course, the ultimate solution would be to buy an IBM Watson system. It is so smart, that you can get rid of those damn kids in your school altogether.
From The Economist, "Leaving the euro: My big fat Greek divorce" http://www.economist.com/node/21556583
Some economists think that Greece could nonetheless avoid a sudden departure from the euro. The government could pay some of its bills by issuing its own IOUs direct to its domestic creditors. These notes (“scrip”) would start to circulate at a steep discount to euros. In effect, argues Thomas Mayer, an adviser to Deutsche Bank, Greece could create its own parallel and depreciated currency while still remaining in the monetary union.
Something similar happened in Argentina as it struggled to retain its rigid link between the peso and the dollar before the link eventually snapped in early 2002. Bankrupt regional governments started to pay their workers in scrip, such as the patacones issued by Buenos Aires Province. But these desperate measures were desperately unpopular because the patacones immediately fell in value. Within just a few months, the Argentine government restricted withdrawals of bank deposits, defaulted on its debts and broke the link with the dollar, allowing the peso to devalue.
Mario Blejer, who was Argentina’s central-bank governor in the middle of the crisis, says that resorting to scrip would be even worse than creating a new currency outright (which he thinks would be disastrous). It would create monetary chaos and generate inflationary pressure before the exit that would inevitably ensue.
So if you are in Greece, you seem to have a bad option for storing your cash, and an even worse one.
Take your pick.
"The truck driver cut you off . . . while your breaks failed . . . while you were texting . . . "
"Yes, that was definitely a tech problem. It wasn't your fault."
You think you're a more moral man then Einstein?
When discussing Ethics, Schrödinger's Quantum Cat should be applied (and at the same time, not applied). The issue is so quantumly entangled that you will end up being both simultaneously Ethical and Unethical.
You might as well conjure up an enraged Werner Heisenberg armed with an ethical/unethical electric mosquito swatter. Although he thinks he knows where that ethical/unethical mosquito is, every time he tries to swat it, the little bastard changes position, momentum, spin, polarization, etc. So poor Werner needs to scratch his head again, and think over what is ethical and unethical again.
. . . or maybe he needs to scratch his head and not scratch it simultaneously.
So does this mean that the Chinese will be the ones who will invent the next Tang, Teflon and Velcro?
. . . and even more exciting urban legends?
I don`t want the generator in the palm of my hand! I want it imbedded in the sunglasses on my head!
Of, course, the DHS/TSA will have dibs on the first batch.
. . . because both sides were scared enough not to even think about using them. Just a few isolated tests here and there in underground isolated places. No, or very limited, collateral damage.
With the Cyberweapons arms race, it seems to be like the wild west. Cyberweapons are being deployed and tested everywhere, and affecting innocent bystanders. Imagine having nukes tested in your backyard. Or Cyberweapons tested live on your Internet.
really trying to decrease my dependence upon slave made and harvested products.
. . . I've stopped using anything from projects that I have worked on . . .
From Wikipedia:
The "IBM Pollyanna principle" is an axiom that states "machines should work; people should think". This can be understood as a statement of extreme optimism, that machines should do all the hard work, freeing people to think (hence the reference to Pollyanna), or as a cynical statement, suggesting that most of the world's major problems result from machines that fail to work, and people who fail to think.
Instead of penny per ounce for sugar, a penny per pound being overweight? I don't see how building soccer fields and school gardens will help. Will kids drop their computer games and run off to play soccer and hoe the garden? Not if their parents don't kick their lazy assess to do so. If children are learning a poor nutrition life style at home, nothing will change that.
Instead this just seems like yet another attempt to push through a new tax by claiming it is good for something.
. . . and anchor it in Boston Harbor. Your Internet taxes can be loaded the next morning, after your tea has been delivered.
. . . injuries or property damage will go unnoticed.
Actually, launch locations in China and Russia might look more commercially attractive now. A rocket launch has destroyed your house? Your tough luck for living near a launch pad.
Unlike a girl, a good programming language is good for more than one thing.
If you have more than one girlfriend, then you run into the same problems as SMP and multi-threaded programming: resource contention, careful locking, semaphore signalling overhead, etc. Woe betides you if one finds cosmetics stuff from another on the wrong stack in the bathroom.
Spin locks are, quite literally, a bitch.
Did they question him, because he was a crypto developer? Or did they stop him for some other reason, and ask about his profession?
FTFA:
A developer of an encrypted chat program is making some dramatic claims. Nadim Kobeissi, developer of Cryptocat which “lets you instantly set up secure conversations.
There is your answer right there.
Sound like a definite oxymoron to me. "Apprehensive Cloud" would be more fitting.
Well, finally I have an answer when all those pesky non-IT folks ask me what I do:
"I'm developing a more agile cyber workforce."
Delivered with an absolute deadpan face and voice. I will answer any follow up questions with:
"We are currently implementing plans to size the effort."
DHS, eh? Well, does this program make you feel more secure . . . ?
I had to email an ftp location to our major customers using !-notation.
Luxury! When I was a lad, it was paper punch cards with snail mail!
They bought Compaq to get DEC's class A IP address block.
"What Do You Care What Other People Think?"
Obviously, this is where this new technology can REALLY be useful . . .
. . . or hang yourself with it . . .
I refuse to read TFA
It's like Playboy. You don't read the articles, you just look at the pictures. And say you just read the articles.
And the pictures in this article are awesome looking.
Wow, your Kentucky Fried Cat gets flown to you, and you get to keep the delivery vehicle as a toy! Now that is innovation!
. . . but consumers are even dumber.