You know this thread is heading the way of the argument of FreeBSD for servers and Linux for laptops and desktops.
This isn't the first time I've heard this in the last year.
But, it sounds awfully similar to the arguments that were being made 20 yrs ago about Windows and Linux.
If someone truly is addicted to WoW to the point where they are literally unable to tear themselves away from the game long enough to go to a therapy session in real life (and I would say the number of people in this situation is vanishingly small, approaching zero), then yes, this might be preferable, but as it is, it just sounds like something done to capitalize on the popularity of the game. It is, I suppose, an interesting thing to try this new avenue to test the efficacy, but I'm very strongly doubting that it'll be terribly effective.
My guess is that this has more to do with either control, or a lack of something to do. Since they can't find enough patients, they have to go save people who are on the fringe of society.
But folks in the 1950's traveled a lot more than we do today.
Are you freaking kidding me. Traveled using what, how? Do you know how many airlines there were in the 50's? How many passenger ships?
I can remember the 70's early 80's where plane travel overseas was a couple of grand minimum and a really good wage was 24K.
Now that same wage would be 60K and travel overseas is about $750. I've seen it as low as $400 during off-season.
Cruises used to be a luxury that only the very elite few would take. During the 70's you saw a few cruise ships in Alaska. Now I think you could play golf from ship to ship along the inland passage.
God I hope you're not going to UT, A&M, Rice,SMU or Baylor.
So where do you draw the line on insider trading with regards to time. I just don't see how it is possible and I don't think it can be regulated.
I've often wondered really where insider trading has a limit.
If company A buys feedstock from company B and company B just quadrupled their deliveries to company A. Would that be insider trading if I bought stock in company A.
How far down the rabbit hole do we go?
20 years, man you're a real optimist.
I give it no more than 2.
Basically I haven't seen anything that caused a restructuring of the way the financial industry does business, which is basically allowing them to build another bubble with the bailouts. In the next year or so we are going to find out nothings changed except more people are out of work. This time it's going to lead to a complete total lack of confidence in the government to do anything about it and absolute loss of confidence not just in the people running the financial industry, but in the industry itself.
There are a lot of people who believe that the market is based on good management and productivity of a company, when in reality a lot of these companies are propped up by marketing (product marketing, marketing of future expectations, pipe dreams...). And basically the real value is much less than current market.
------example---
Someone buys a computer 4GB of RAM , 2 hard drives, 26" LCD, 3GHz processor. $1100
But really all they need is something to read emails. A setup for that can cost less than $300
So the actual value of that computer to a company is $300, but because of marketing they went and bought a $1100 computer.
This is a micro example.
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Now apply this to a company who says their net is $24 billion. So are they actually producing $24 billion of worth. No because they sold $12 million of computers which really weren't needed and the actual end worth is $3million. So if you actually look at what their net worth of their end products is , it's actually only $15 million.
So now apply this industry wide. Most of you have been there and know how much is being wasted.
So a lot of the economy is still being propped up by marketing. And I'm not talking about just companies marketing, there are wall street financial interest and lobbiest, which are continuing a false economy.
But then again there is no telling how long a false economy can continue. Look at the number of tax attorney and accountants who would loose their jobs overnight if we went to a flat tax or a taxing scheme which was much less complicated.
What jobs this terrible economy isn't going to take, cloud computing is going take. Oh no, the sky is falling, the sky is falling.
I can't help you, no one can help you.
What a freakin claptrap article.
Cloud computing spending is going to increase from 12 billion to 46 billion in the next 3 years and there problably won't be any large scale movements to cloud for another 10 years. (From the FTA).
Do they really think they have a handle on what the hell is going to happen in the next 10 years? So much so that we should panic now. I think that there are some other things which may have a bigger impact on IT jobs in the near future.
Wish I had a job where I could sit down and make up shit about technology industry, write it down and then call it a day.
I think that Novel (NOVL) was there first, as far as being a company providing support for linux. I think that Oracle only started providing support a few years ago, when they had a schism with Red Hat and rolled their own distribution based on Red Hat.
So I think this would make their distribution, no less a distribution that CentOS.
Yes, the science is better. Because it gives an understanding (logical argument) of what happened over the last few million years and is probably an intelligent predictor of what will happen over the next few million.
Your argument against science goes back billions and trillions of years for an exclusion of science as a whole and therefore a repudiation of Natural Selection and evolution.
I believe that a higher power allowed us to evolve into a species with a brain and wish that more of this species would use it.
Oh, please. The entire DEA budget is only $1.9B, so I kind of doubt they spend $10B a year just on pot prevention. And where is the other $90B coming from?/rolleyes
Facts - your new best friend: http://www.usdoj.gov/jmd/2010summary/pdf/dea-bud-summary.pdf [usdoj.gov]
Makes you wonder how they can afford those spiffy jackets and caps.
A , if you are from the US, maybe you should look around. Cameras pretty much everywhere (inside though, in stores and malls), people handing over cards so they can get discounts, allowing stores to collect information about their purchases (medications and whatever else). Everybody I have talked to just says "So".
We are right behind them and maybe a little ahead of them. See article on wiretapping and internet surveillance.
1. This is Harry yelling at me to get up
2. This is Harry yelling at me because I'm dating his daughter
3. This is Harry yelling at me because I used the wrong drill..
I would normally agree with you here, but my wife (allergic to gluten) was told by a hospital nutritionist that oat meal would probably be okay. Well it wasn't and I had to listen to her all night barfing and moaning.
Plus it would also make it more difficult for anyone to figure out who was using the exploit.
If only a few people have the exploit, then it is a lot easier to catch the people who are using the exploit to extract money from banks. If everyone has it then it's difficult to figure out who was using it in past crimes.
But what will probably happen is the exploit will get out to the script kiddies and some stupid hacker wannabe is going to be nailed for a lot of crimes.
So if I had the exploit and was using it, I think now would be a good time to release it to the 2600 crowd.
There is one big failing with the GPS on a smartphone.
If you are out of tower range then the smartphone GPS does not work. I found this out last weekend. So there is still room for these other GPS systems.
Because you are the owner of the computer.
They have never gone after a said individual, but the owner of a computer. Remember the case where the ladies kids were downloading all the crap. She wasn't responsible because she was the guardian of the children, she was responsible because she was responsible for the computer.
So if your room mate uses your laptop to download a bunch of music via your computer, you will be held responsible, until you can prove that your roommate had equal access and usage of the computer.
Not necessarily. I would be out in a heart beat to buy one of these for my Mom, who currently only needs email, web browser and an office suite. I'm currently looking for a phone which will easily connect into a computer and give her internet access. And when I say easy, I mean absolute minimal problems.
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You know this thread is heading the way of the argument of FreeBSD for servers and Linux for laptops and desktops.
This isn't the first time I've heard this in the last year.
But, it sounds awfully similar to the arguments that were being made 20 yrs ago about Windows and Linux.
Excellent post you linked.
These is pretty much the advice I give when people ask about how you talk to upper level executives.
If someone truly is addicted to WoW to the point where they are literally unable to tear themselves away from the game long enough to go to a therapy session in real life (and I would say the number of people in this situation is vanishingly small, approaching zero), then yes, this might be preferable, but as it is, it just sounds like something done to capitalize on the popularity of the game. It is, I suppose, an interesting thing to try this new avenue to test the efficacy, but I'm very strongly doubting that it'll be terribly effective. My guess is that this has more to do with either control, or a lack of something to do. Since they can't find enough patients, they have to go save people who are on the fringe of society.
yes to the first 3.
No to the last, unless they are under the age of 18.
But folks in the 1950's traveled a lot more than we do today. Lots of driving and even overseas trips.
Read the whole line.
I always knew you were a knumb-nuts Anonymous Coward.
By the way Maxo-Texas and I have traded responses before. I said the last line more in jest. He really is sometimes pretty knowledgeable.
Which is more than I can say for you AC.
But folks in the 1950's traveled a lot more than we do today.
Are you freaking kidding me. Traveled using what, how? Do you know how many airlines there were in the 50's? How many passenger ships?
I can remember the 70's early 80's where plane travel overseas was a couple of grand minimum and a really good wage was 24K.
Now that same wage would be 60K and travel overseas is about $750. I've seen it as low as $400 during off-season.
Cruises used to be a luxury that only the very elite few would take. During the 70's you saw a few cruise ships in Alaska. Now I think you could play golf from ship to ship along the inland passage.
God I hope you're not going to UT, A&M, Rice,SMU or Baylor.
So where do you draw the line on insider trading with regards to time. I just don't see how it is possible and I don't think it can be regulated.
I've often wondered really where insider trading has a limit.
If company A buys feedstock from company B and company B just quadrupled their deliveries to company A. Would that be insider trading if I bought stock in company A.
How far down the rabbit hole do we go?
20 years, man you're a real optimist. ...). And basically the real value is much less than current market.
I give it no more than 2.
Basically I haven't seen anything that caused a restructuring of the way the financial industry does business, which is basically allowing them to build another bubble with the bailouts. In the next year or so we are going to find out nothings changed except more people are out of work. This time it's going to lead to a complete total lack of confidence in the government to do anything about it and absolute loss of confidence not just in the people running the financial industry, but in the industry itself.
There are a lot of people who believe that the market is based on good management and productivity of a company, when in reality a lot of these companies are propped up by marketing (product marketing, marketing of future expectations, pipe dreams
------example---
Someone buys a computer 4GB of RAM , 2 hard drives, 26" LCD, 3GHz processor. $1100
But really all they need is something to read emails. A setup for that can cost less than $300
So the actual value of that computer to a company is $300, but because of marketing they went and bought a $1100 computer.
This is a micro example. ------
Now apply this to a company who says their net is $24 billion. So are they actually producing $24 billion of worth. No because they sold $12 million of computers which really weren't needed and the actual end worth is $3million. So if you actually look at what their net worth of their end products is , it's actually only $15 million.
So now apply this industry wide. Most of you have been there and know how much is being wasted.
So a lot of the economy is still being propped up by marketing. And I'm not talking about just companies marketing, there are wall street financial interest and lobbiest, which are continuing a false economy.
But then again there is no telling how long a false economy can continue. Look at the number of tax attorney and accountants who would loose their jobs overnight if we went to a flat tax or a taxing scheme which was much less complicated.
So tell me: Why should I do business with your company? What do you do that your competitors don't? I mean, the cheap ones, in India or China.
We'll give you gift cards for hookers?
Just some marketing analysis for the future.
What jobs this terrible economy isn't going to take, cloud computing is going take. Oh no, the sky is falling, the sky is falling.
I can't help you, no one can help you.
What a freakin claptrap article.
Cloud computing spending is going to increase from 12 billion to 46 billion in the next 3 years and there problably won't be any large scale movements to cloud for another 10 years. (From the FTA).
Do they really think they have a handle on what the hell is going to happen in the next 10 years? So much so that we should panic now. I think that there are some other things which may have a bigger impact on IT jobs in the near future.
Wish I had a job where I could sit down and make up shit about technology industry, write it down and then call it a day.
I think that Novel (NOVL) was there first, as far as being a company providing support for linux. I think that Oracle only started providing support a few years ago, when they had a schism with Red Hat and rolled their own distribution based on Red Hat.
So I think this would make their distribution, no less a distribution that CentOS.
Wish I could have modded you funny, because it was.
Yes, the science is better. Because it gives an understanding (logical argument) of what happened over the last few million years and is probably an intelligent predictor of what will happen over the next few million.
Your argument against science goes back billions and trillions of years for an exclusion of science as a whole and therefore a repudiation of Natural Selection and evolution.
I believe that a higher power allowed us to evolve into a species with a brain and wish that more of this species would use it.
shit and I've already modified my facebook page.
"all-night party in Sowton, Devon, UK, be there."
catch me if you can, coppers.
Oh, please. The entire DEA budget is only $1.9B, so I kind of doubt they spend $10B a year just on pot prevention. And where is the other $90B coming from? /rolleyes
Facts - your new best friend: http://www.usdoj.gov/jmd/2010summary/pdf/dea-bud-summary.pdf [usdoj.gov]
Makes you wonder how they can afford those spiffy jackets and caps.
A , if you are from the US, maybe you should look around. Cameras pretty much everywhere (inside though, in stores and malls), people handing over cards so they can get discounts, allowing stores to collect information about their purchases (medications and whatever else). Everybody I have talked to just says "So".
We are right behind them and maybe a little ahead of them. See article on wiretapping and internet surveillance.
1. This is Harry yelling at me to get up 2. This is Harry yelling at me because I'm dating his daughter 3. This is Harry yelling at me because I used the wrong drill ..
My USB burned my homework.
I would normally agree with you here, but my wife (allergic to gluten) was told by a hospital nutritionist that oat meal would probably be okay. Well it wasn't and I had to listen to her all night barfing and moaning.
Jesus, what planet did you come from?
Plus it would also make it more difficult for anyone to figure out who was using the exploit.
If only a few people have the exploit, then it is a lot easier to catch the people who are using the exploit to extract money from banks. If everyone has it then it's difficult to figure out who was using it in past crimes.
But what will probably happen is the exploit will get out to the script kiddies and some stupid hacker wannabe is going to be nailed for a lot of crimes.
So if I had the exploit and was using it, I think now would be a good time to release it to the 2600 crowd.
There is one big failing with the GPS on a smartphone.
If you are out of tower range then the smartphone GPS does not work. I found this out last weekend. So there is still room for these other GPS systems.
Because you are the owner of the computer.
They have never gone after a said individual, but the owner of a computer. Remember the case where the ladies kids were downloading all the crap. She wasn't responsible because she was the guardian of the children, she was responsible because she was responsible for the computer.
So if your room mate uses your laptop to download a bunch of music via your computer, you will be held responsible, until you can prove that your roommate had equal access and usage of the computer.
This is one of the reasons which got us started uninstalling 2007.
Not necessarily. I would be out in a heart beat to buy one of these for my Mom, who currently only needs email, web browser and an office suite. I'm currently looking for a phone which will easily connect into a computer and give her internet access. And when I say easy, I mean absolute minimal problems.