I understand your technical points, but it is not "the cloud" if they cannot provide those features. Amazon is just another generic hosting service, not a cloud service. You can build a cloud application that can withstand errors like this on top of AWS, but AWS itself is not the cloud.
I don't fault Amazon for implementing the services they way they do. They don't need to be in the cloud because their market isn't catering to people who need cloud-based services. Their market is the people who are building the cloud.
Any cable company that actually wants to make money should be working hard to get their content providers to allow them to stream because the first one to do that (and do it well) will win the market.
The cable providers are too busy adding caps and figuring out how to stop streaming to spend time on that one.
I don't think it records anything form the GPS. The points recorded on my device line up exactly with cell tower locations; none of which I have stepped foot under –and some located in places I have never been.
Why it is recording tower locations is another matter. The most logical reason is background location services. Firing up the radio or GPS to get your location is taxing on the battery. Looking at a file with your current location is not.
Games like angry birds, coded up in a month, art done in 3 months by a medicore artist. ALL DONE and even at dumb silicon valley pay rates you are still under $100,000
Not quite. According to the CEO, the first version of Angry Birds was estimated to have cost $128,000 US and they have spent hundreds of thousands more since.
I understand the need for physical availability zones, but the whole idea behind the cloud is that you, the end user, need not care about those details. It is up to the cloud provider to figure it out. The cloud represents a black box, of sorts. If they are having trouble in one zone, everything should automatically migrate to another without anyone outside of the operation knowing it.
I'm not saying Amazon's solution is bad, but I'm not sure it is in the spirit of what I would consider real cloud hosting. Really, they are providing the tools so that you can build a cloud service.
Digg never had much comment activity when compared to similar sites (Slashdot, Reddit, etc.). Which is a shame, because the comments are usually more entertaining than the actual links.
I didn't suggest lying. I did, however, suggest making your hobby sound awesome. Demonstrate how your hobby is applicable to real business processes. Remember, the only difference between a hobby and a job is who is paying for the time. A hobby is a job. If a HR person automatically discounts it, you have not explained it properly. That is where better marketing comes in.
Yes, I do. A hobby is a business is a job. There is no difference. If you market yourself in such a way that an HR drone can tell the difference, you might want to rethink your presentation.
If the job is something you love, how can you not have experience? It seems to me that you'd be already doing it as your hobby and therefore have tons of experience. If the job is not something you love, why would an employer choose you over someone who does love the job?
The real problem is people that own a home that they can ONLY furnish from Ikea.
Virtually all consumer electronic devices suffer from that problem. I don't see any easy way to change the software on my microwave, for example. I don't even see an easy way to install another OS on Android phones, which are supposed to be the most geek friendly of all.
I do agree it is a real problem, but I don't see how it is specific to Apple. The PC is one of the few consumer devices that can be "furnished" by other vendors.
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Sounds like you either don't want to or haven't learn to play the game.
My government doesn't pay subsidies for corn. Things have improved in the last couple of years, but it has been historically quite difficult to compete against farmers who are subsidized and will dump their product at any price.
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the government PAYS you to grow corn.
They don't pay me. And yes, I do grow corn. But you are right that some farmers are paid to grow corn.
Isn't that true of everything shown? Take the combine for instance: You can buy an even more modern combine for just the price of the scrap steel contained within. The resources are going to have to come from somewhere, so why not just utilize an old machine that nobody here wants anymore?
I started playing with Blender a couple of weeks ago. Being a software developer, I actually wanted to spend some time improving my skills working with 3D graphics. But what fun is that without some cool models to play with?
I started by downloading Blender 2.4 but couldn't figure out where to start. I was about to give up but the shiny 2.5 beta was calling my name. I thought I'd give it a try.
I went from virtually no 3D design experience to creating my first model over the course of a couple of days of periodic tinkering. It is far from perfect and I have learned a lot more since I created it, but for my first try I am very proud of it and I think it speaks to the ease of the new interface for beginners.
I don't think this thread had anything to do with subsidies. I was pointing out that there are good reasons for poor people to spend their mony on technology.
Ignoring that, the whole telecommunications system has been built on subsidies and other government programs. If we waited for business people to invest their money, we wouldn't be communicating at all right now.
I don't know about you, but my smartphone has allowed me to earn more income than I was able to before I owned it. Poor people should not be excluded from being able to make money. In fact, they need it more than anyone else.
A $100,000 marketing campaign will land you far more jobs than a $100,000 degree. If you are only in college to find a job later in life, you're doing it wrong.
I disagree with your first point if by education you mean formal education. Education itself is important, but nothing new. People have had to educate themselves since the dawn of time. While my day job is a big city skilled job, I maintain a hobby grain farm on the side. The farm is significantly more challenging and requires more education than the skilled city job could ever hope to need. My grandfather was able to maintain the same farm with just a grade eight education. I expect his forefathers had even less.
I do agree with your second. However, it has reached the point that everyone and their brother has a degree and it is no longer good enough to set yourself apart. I notice that all of my friends have at least masters degrees, and many have their PhDs because a bachelors wasn't good enough for them to do anything with.
When you are only using your degree as a marketing tool, I would argue that there are a million better ways to market yourself. For example, taking the money you would have spent on university and putting it into a marketing campaign will have the companies calling you.
The world is no longer a place where most people are labourers and an elementary education is all that is needed (if that). It is a complex, information based, place where people need to know more. That means more schooling for all.
If anything, higher formal education is less important now than it was in years gone by. Today, the complex, information based, place we live in allows one to learn about anything on demand, in seconds. Unless your interests are purely academic, you don't need the full background of a given study crammed into a short time period to solve problems in the real world. Like someone commented earlier, knowledge is just trivia; being able to think is all that matters.
What really happened is that the universities found the appeal in money. More students equals more income. The lure of higher incomes advertised on false premises attracted people in droves. One of the best marketing campaigns to date, in my opinion.
University is a fantastic place for one to pursue their passions in the study of a given topic, but to say more schooling is needed to survive outside of academia seems a little misguided. I do agree that you can never stop learning; if university is the only place you can learn, more power to you.
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I understand your technical points, but it is not "the cloud" if they cannot provide those features. Amazon is just another generic hosting service, not a cloud service. You can build a cloud application that can withstand errors like this on top of AWS, but AWS itself is not the cloud.
I don't fault Amazon for implementing the services they way they do. They don't need to be in the cloud because their market isn't catering to people who need cloud-based services. Their market is the people who are building the cloud.
We can all drive/fly to their climate controlled offices to pick up a pamphlet. Clearly that will use far less energy than the internet.
The cable providers are too busy adding caps and figuring out how to stop streaming to spend time on that one.
You are right, though.
The iPhone isn't a smartphone. It is a handheld computer with a cellular modem.
Installing a 56K modem in my PC doesn't put it in another class, so why should a little bit of phone hardware in a handheld device?
I don't think it records anything form the GPS. The points recorded on my device line up exactly with cell tower locations; none of which I have stepped foot under –and some located in places I have never been.
Why it is recording tower locations is another matter. The most logical reason is background location services. Firing up the radio or GPS to get your location is taxing on the battery. Looking at a file with your current location is not.
Not quite. According to the CEO, the first version of Angry Birds was estimated to have cost $128,000 US and they have spent hundreds of thousands more since.
I understand the need for physical availability zones, but the whole idea behind the cloud is that you, the end user, need not care about those details. It is up to the cloud provider to figure it out. The cloud represents a black box, of sorts. If they are having trouble in one zone, everything should automatically migrate to another without anyone outside of the operation knowing it.
I'm not saying Amazon's solution is bad, but I'm not sure it is in the spirit of what I would consider real cloud hosting. Really, they are providing the tools so that you can build a cloud service.
Digg never had much comment activity when compared to similar sites (Slashdot, Reddit, etc.). Which is a shame, because the comments are usually more entertaining than the actual links.
I didn't suggest lying. I did, however, suggest making your hobby sound awesome. Demonstrate how your hobby is applicable to real business processes. Remember, the only difference between a hobby and a job is who is paying for the time. A hobby is a job. If a HR person automatically discounts it, you have not explained it properly. That is where better marketing comes in.
Yes, I do. A hobby is a business is a job. There is no difference. If you market yourself in such a way that an HR drone can tell the difference, you might want to rethink your presentation.
If the job is something you love, how can you not have experience? It seems to me that you'd be already doing it as your hobby and therefore have tons of experience. If the job is not something you love, why would an employer choose you over someone who does love the job?
A computer is a computer. It doesn't matter what form factor it is in.
Virtually all consumer electronic devices suffer from that problem. I don't see any easy way to change the software on my microwave, for example. I don't even see an easy way to install another OS on Android phones, which are supposed to be the most geek friendly of all.
I do agree it is a real problem, but I don't see how it is specific to Apple. The PC is one of the few consumer devices that can be "furnished" by other vendors.
My government doesn't pay subsidies for corn. Things have improved in the last couple of years, but it has been historically quite difficult to compete against farmers who are subsidized and will dump their product at any price.
They don't pay me. And yes, I do grow corn. But you are right that some farmers are paid to grow corn.
Isn't that true of everything shown? Take the combine for instance: You can buy an even more modern combine for just the price of the scrap steel contained within. The resources are going to have to come from somewhere, so why not just utilize an old machine that nobody here wants anymore?
Your thoughts on digital currency sounds a lot like Bitcoin.
I started playing with Blender a couple of weeks ago. Being a software developer, I actually wanted to spend some time improving my skills working with 3D graphics. But what fun is that without some cool models to play with?
I started by downloading Blender 2.4 but couldn't figure out where to start. I was about to give up but the shiny 2.5 beta was calling my name. I thought I'd give it a try.
I went from virtually no 3D design experience to creating my first model over the course of a couple of days of periodic tinkering. It is far from perfect and I have learned a lot more since I created it, but for my first try I am very proud of it and I think it speaks to the ease of the new interface for beginners.
I don't think this thread had anything to do with subsidies. I was pointing out that there are good reasons for poor people to spend their mony on technology.
Ignoring that, the whole telecommunications system has been built on subsidies and other government programs. If we waited for business people to invest their money, we wouldn't be communicating at all right now.
I don't know about you, but my smartphone has allowed me to earn more income than I was able to before I owned it. Poor people should not be excluded from being able to make money. In fact, they need it more than anyone else.
A $100,000 marketing campaign will land you far more jobs than a $100,000 degree. If you are only in college to find a job later in life, you're doing it wrong.
I disagree with your first point if by education you mean formal education. Education itself is important, but nothing new. People have had to educate themselves since the dawn of time. While my day job is a big city skilled job, I maintain a hobby grain farm on the side. The farm is significantly more challenging and requires more education than the skilled city job could ever hope to need. My grandfather was able to maintain the same farm with just a grade eight education. I expect his forefathers had even less.
I do agree with your second. However, it has reached the point that everyone and their brother has a degree and it is no longer good enough to set yourself apart. I notice that all of my friends have at least masters degrees, and many have their PhDs because a bachelors wasn't good enough for them to do anything with.
When you are only using your degree as a marketing tool, I would argue that there are a million better ways to market yourself. For example, taking the money you would have spent on university and putting it into a marketing campaign will have the companies calling you.
How can there be too much traffic if nobody is driving?
Okay, we'll just increase the cost of food to cover it. No biggie.
If anything, higher formal education is less important now than it was in years gone by. Today, the complex, information based, place we live in allows one to learn about anything on demand, in seconds. Unless your interests are purely academic, you don't need the full background of a given study crammed into a short time period to solve problems in the real world. Like someone commented earlier, knowledge is just trivia; being able to think is all that matters.
What really happened is that the universities found the appeal in money. More students equals more income. The lure of higher incomes advertised on false premises attracted people in droves. One of the best marketing campaigns to date, in my opinion.
University is a fantastic place for one to pursue their passions in the study of a given topic, but to say more schooling is needed to survive outside of academia seems a little misguided. I do agree that you can never stop learning; if university is the only place you can learn, more power to you.