They spent ~20 years training a generation of business computer users that the lower left corner is where to go for the menu.
Their UI was so ubiquitous that they got a key added to almost every keyboard manufactured.
And then for no apparent reason they decided to change it. UI design shininess should really take a backseat to legacy. When will microsoft realize their real customers are businesses/governments/ large offices They aren't going to get the new OEM computer market that they have had in the past because people aren't buying new computers. They need to adapt to the changing market and their attempt to remake themselves as a integrated tablet environment has failed spectacularly.
Continuing a 3 year release cycle with drastic changes each time requiring huge amounts of emplyee training and modification of legacy apllications is going to kill the business market too.
Sometimes I feel a little sad watching the Redmond death spiral and waiting for the year of the linux desktop.
The most effective write in would be one that unambiguously shows your disdain for the process, this is normally done by voting for a cartoon character, say Micky Mouse or Donald Duck, but I think a more effective method would be to gather a large number of votes for a candidate that sends a very clear message to those in power who continue to violate the law in the execution of policies to increase their power.
It would be better if Universities, get out of the Educating Kids for Jobs market, but strict educational research path.
We need to get Organizations to recognize non-College degrees as valuable education for their work. And save your College education degree for career paths in research and education.
The Undergrad classes, should be taught not in a University setting but in a Schooling setting outside of research. Not Dumb it down, but teach it with the expectation that people will use it to go to work in industry.
Perhaps this outside of research schooling you suggest could be provided to all in a publicly funded manner, and to make it more effective should be done early in a childs life, oh wait I forgot public K-12 schooling in America has become so simplified because Johnny might feel bad about not being able to read.
A high school diploma used to be proof of basic reading and mathematics abilities needed for employment. The solution isn't to add more education later in life to prepare people for the world, if public schools were properly educating people, the HS diploma would regain value and colleges could become institutions of higher learning, instead of High School part 2 that many are becoming.
I'm guessing the northwest US. Electric costs in the $0.06-$0.08 / kWh range (lots of cheap hydro, which is pretty green already) Added to the incessant cloudiness/rain of the region and your PV generation rates go down too.
I ran the calcs as well and it was giving me about a 25 year break even time frame (with lots of pro PV assumptions) and most panels I saw were giving a 20 year lifetime (ie they would output less than 75% of their rated power after 20 years)
Bottom line it's not worth it in my area, unless you get some great subsidies.
"The simple fact of the matter, which so many refuse to accept, is this: you can NOT fix a corrupted system by working WITHIN that system...why? Because its corrupted silly!"
That's an assumption, not a statement of fact. If it were strictly true, then every government, everywhere, would simply slowly decline until the next revolution. I prefer to believe that the damage is not too deeply rooted to fix.
That sounds like an apt summary of history of world governments.
It's the Pax. The G-23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate that we added to the air processors. It was supposed to calm the population, weed out aggression. Well, it works. The people here stopped fighting. And then they stopped everything else. They stopped going to work, they stopped breeding, talking, eating. There's 30 million people here, and they all just let themselves die.
I actually RTFA and couldn't find a list of the "180 under connected countries" but as a satellite internet customer for several years the US should be on the list.
My Stats: ~900 ms latancy, 1.5 MBit, daily cap of 300 MB download, all for 3x the price of the lowest cable or DSL plan not available in my area.
It's amazing how all the telecom companies talk about providing great service until you live a mile and a half down a dead end road they have no plan to ever run lines down (Cable), or you are too far from the nearest DSLAM for DSL.
And this is the problem with virtually unlimited copyrights and DRM, it removes items of popular culture from general availability. Our culture has been monetized and taken from us, to be sold back to us.
"There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute or common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back." -Heinlein
As much as I hate HR, the reason they do this is because the US K-12 education is continuing to decline as 'no child left behind' and other administrative testing programs tied to funding drag down the average to the slowest student, so getting an employee who can do basic math/reading/writing requires a college degree in many circumstances.
You've got it all wrong, you're already a criminal... the system of laws is setup so that everyone is in violation of some law, that way those in authority can simply choose who they want to detain and they will be 100% justified everytime.
Are you crazy! Did you even think of how the extra costs would effect the quarterly stock price? Clearly you lack the business sense/experience necessary to be a C level executive.
They already tried this, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Beach_class_cruiser/ making a boat nuclear powered raises the maintenance costs through the roof, there's a reason only subs, where there is no other option for performance requirments, and carriers, where the scale makes it feasible, are the only types of nuclear boats still in service.
looking at their configuration all I think of is how much of a mess it will make when it blows of my roof. there's a reason people install panels flat to their roofs. not to mention the added weight and live load reaking havoc on a standard truss roof not designed for that load configuration.
the term your looking for is specific strength or breaking length http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_strength/, and this length can be overcome by not using a constant cross section i.e. tapering the cable. also this is assuming constant gravitational forces which diminish as you move away from earth and the cable will be rotating with the earth supplying it with a sizable centripetal force, eventually balancing out at 36000 km when you're in orbit.
I spent a few years of my life researching the physics ideas behind a space elevator in my teens, often cursing Arthur C Clarke's exercise for the student, learned bits of calculus, dynamics, material science among other things answering the question for myself, made a BS in mechanical engineering pretty easy though.
How about instead of Billion/Trillion dollar new technology, we do an unemotional risk assessment of the situation and go back to a more reasonable level of airport security.... except of course that doesn't make anyone any money which is all airport security is about these days, selling another machine using fear as a selling point. 9-11 should have resulted in some simple security fixes, locks on the doors and changes in passenger attitudes to hijacking, both of which have happened, everything else is CYA security theatre fundraising.
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Will they bring back the start button.
They spent ~20 years training a generation of business computer users that the lower left corner is where to go for the menu.
Their UI was so ubiquitous that they got a key added to almost every keyboard manufactured.
And then for no apparent reason they decided to change it. /governments/ large offices
UI design shininess should really take a backseat to legacy.
When will microsoft realize their real customers are businesses
They aren't going to get the new OEM computer market that they have had in the past because people aren't buying new computers.
They need to adapt to the changing market and their attempt to remake themselves as a integrated tablet environment has failed spectacularly.
Continuing a 3 year release cycle with drastic changes each time requiring huge amounts of emplyee training and modification of legacy apllications is going to kill the business market too.
Sometimes I feel a little sad watching the Redmond death spiral and waiting for the year of the linux desktop.
42 factorial... hmm.
1.4 x 10^51... yeah that ought to be enough gates.
Are those the things before youtube videos?
honestly who watches broadcast TV? I haven't since I built my first media center PC years ago.
Those bumps on the road are so the blind can safely drive.
The most effective write in would be one that unambiguously shows your disdain for the process, this is normally done by voting for a cartoon character, say Micky Mouse or Donald Duck, but I think a more effective method would be to gather a large number of votes for a candidate that sends a very clear message to those in power who continue to violate the law in the execution of policies to increase their power.
Vote Edward Snowden for all federal elections!
It would be better if Universities, get out of the Educating Kids for Jobs market, but strict educational research path.
We need to get Organizations to recognize non-College degrees as valuable education for their work. And save your College education degree for career paths in research and education.
The Undergrad classes, should be taught not in a University setting but in a Schooling setting outside of research. Not Dumb it down, but teach it with the expectation that people will use it to go to work in industry.
Perhaps this outside of research schooling you suggest could be provided to all in a publicly funded manner, and to make it more effective should be done early in a childs life, oh wait I forgot public K-12 schooling in America has become so simplified because Johnny might feel bad about not being able to read.
A high school diploma used to be proof of basic reading and mathematics abilities needed for employment. The solution isn't to add more education later in life to prepare people for the world, if public schools were properly educating people, the HS diploma would regain value and colleges could become institutions of higher learning, instead of High School part 2 that many are becoming.
I'm guessing the northwest US.
Electric costs in the $0.06-$0.08 / kWh range (lots of cheap hydro, which is pretty green already)
Added to the incessant cloudiness/rain of the region and your PV generation rates go down too.
I ran the calcs as well and it was giving me about a 25 year break even time frame (with lots of pro PV assumptions) and most panels I saw were giving a 20 year lifetime (ie they would output less than 75% of their rated power after 20 years)
Bottom line it's not worth it in my area, unless you get some great subsidies.
"The simple fact of the matter, which so many refuse to accept, is this: you can NOT fix a corrupted system by working WITHIN that system...why? Because its corrupted silly!"
That's an assumption, not a statement of fact. If it were strictly true, then every government, everywhere, would simply slowly decline until the next revolution. I prefer to believe that the damage is not too deeply rooted to fix.
That sounds like an apt summary of history of world governments.
It's the Pax. The G-23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate that we added to the air processors. It was supposed to calm the population, weed out aggression. Well, it works. The people here stopped fighting. And then they stopped everything else. They stopped going to work, they stopped breeding, talking, eating. There's 30 million people here, and they all just let themselves die.
Earth is clearly for the beatles. Do you know how many species of beattles there are ~400,000 thats about 25% of all known animal life-forms.
God must love beatles.
I actually RTFA and couldn't find a list of the "180 under connected countries" but as a satellite internet customer for several years the US should be on the list.
My Stats: ~900 ms latancy, 1.5 MBit, daily cap of 300 MB download, all for 3x the price of the lowest cable or DSL plan not available in my area.
It's amazing how all the telecom companies talk about providing great service until you live a mile and a half down a dead end road they have no plan to ever run lines down (Cable), or you are too far from the nearest DSLAM for DSL.
...buy lots of laser pointers.
This makes me soooo want to buy laser pointers I don't need, just because I may soon not be able to.
How unsafe would a cluster of these be...
now I just need some hydrogen balloons.
And this is the problem with virtually unlimited copyrights and DRM, it removes items of popular culture from general availability.
Our culture has been monetized and taken from us, to be sold back to us.
"There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute or common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back."
-Heinlein
I remember The Matrix it was a great movie, I always thought it was too bad they never made any sequels.
http://xkcd.com/566/
The correct answer is of course - everyone wins!
The world would be free from Zuckerberg and Apple would get back a new and improved zombie Jobs
As much as I hate HR, the reason they do this is because the US K-12 education is continuing to decline as 'no child left behind' and other administrative testing programs tied to funding drag down the average to the slowest student, so getting an employee who can do basic math/reading/writing requires a college degree in many circumstances.
You've got it all wrong, you're already a criminal... the system of laws is setup so that everyone is in violation of some law, that way those in authority can simply choose who they want to detain and they will be 100% justified everytime.
Are you crazy! Did you even think of how the extra costs would effect the quarterly stock price?
Clearly you lack the business sense/experience necessary to be a C level executive.
Is that an african or european swallow?
They already tried this, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Beach_class_cruiser/ making a boat nuclear powered raises the maintenance costs through the roof, there's a reason only subs, where there is no other option for performance requirments, and carriers, where the scale makes it feasible, are the only types of nuclear boats still in service.
looking at their configuration all I think of is how much of a mess it will make when it blows of my roof. there's a reason people install panels flat to their roofs. not to mention the added weight and live load reaking havoc on a standard truss roof not designed for that load configuration.
No you'll sleep during the day, did you forget that all of us cancer free zombies are nocturnal.
the term your looking for is specific strength or breaking length http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_strength/, and this length can be overcome by not using a constant cross section i.e. tapering the cable. also this is assuming constant gravitational forces which diminish as you move away from earth and the cable will be rotating with the earth supplying it with a sizable centripetal force, eventually balancing out at 36000 km when you're in orbit.
I spent a few years of my life researching the physics ideas behind a space elevator in my teens, often cursing Arthur C Clarke's exercise for the student, learned bits of calculus, dynamics, material science among other things answering the question for myself, made a BS in mechanical engineering pretty easy though.
How about instead of Billion/Trillion dollar new technology, we do an unemotional risk assessment of the situation and go back to a more reasonable level of airport security.... except of course that doesn't make anyone any money which is all airport security is about these days, selling another machine using fear as a selling point. 9-11 should have resulted in some simple security fixes, locks on the doors and changes in passenger attitudes to hijacking, both of which have happened, everything else is CYA security theatre fundraising.