I will take Amazon hassle free packaging where all I want to do is open up the box and review whatever item that I purchased. I haven't had one damaged item with this minimalist approach. I don't care about the box as I know that if thought went into the box then this more than likely drove up the cost of the item. Somebody has to pay for it and considering the cost of Apple products, I would say this is true.
This could have a negative impact on high school and collegiate sports that have similar options in the Olympics (e.g. Swimming, Track & Field, etc). These athletes could chose to simply dope up in their teens then if they get caught/banned, they at least have a financial avenue which is these Super Olympics. The financial avenue would derive from endorsement contracts which could end up in the six or seven figures depending on televsion ratings, etc.
I have enjoyed Amazon from the start and been a Prime subscriber for years. However, my purchases have declined greatly over the last two years due to third party sellers. Last year 90% of the items on my Christmas purchase list (Toys, Electronics) were from sellers marking up items to 50% so hopefully this will drive the availability up and prices down.
The majority of smartphones have cameras and more companies are not allowing employees who have access to important data to not have phones available w/ cameras. Companies are either not allowing phones in the work force or accept phones but they cannot contain a camera. I am sure that this factors low into the equation but somethign to consider.
In addition, smartphones aren't for anyone. Battery life takes a hit, data plans remain high especially on a family plan and personally the majority of the recent smartphone users are doing nothing more than Facebook and Twitter. Do those people really need a smartphone that a regular phone can't deliver?
You can only spot an issue when you see the issue. The problem with simply applying the tag of *Open Source will correct the problem* is garbage. Do you really think people will search through every single app available on any Market place looking for security flaws?
Windows 7 Phone/Marketplace will actually scan applications before they go live looking for patterns across the code. If they find that parts of the code is accessing secured data then they are investigated by the Development team or some other Level. Then it's up to that group to determine the risk.
In the Documentary Super Size Me, several Doctor's noted the same behavior and stated that Fatty Foods found in Fast Food restaurants (McDonald's in this example) were equal to cocaine in terms of addiction.
The issue with Panera is that they have limited the amount of time you can sit at their store during peak hours (lunch hours). So a person can't sit down and work all day until they start to charge and again, this is in select stores for testing purposes.
Personally, I think Microsoft should seriously consider buying a company like SPB Software or another Third Party company to continue the development of Windows Mobile. It's clear that Microsoft dropped the ball years ago and didn't realize the potential of Mobile devices and I am not sure Windows Mobile 7 will leap frog or even compete with the iPhone and/or Blackberry.
While new technology and general discovery has slowed, the depth of progress has continued to grow. If you use the old analogy of the iceberg where discovery of the last 50 years was the tip above the water line, we are now getting into a age where investigation is starting to happen below the line. This means that progress might be slower in terms of rate but the findings are greater and have more meaning.
Until Pluto can save the Economy, talking about whether it's a planet or not during these times is the last thing Illinois or the federal government needs discuss.
For one thing, I have seen more productivity coming from a mainframe based application than web or Client/Server based software. If you have two applications requiring the same input, 99% of the time, a system coded in say CICS will dominate user input much faster than the latter. Also when you factor in reliability, security, raw I/O speed and general processing power, mainframes can't be beat.
FTA: "The reason that ratings agencies and investors felt so safe with the triple-A tranches was that they believed there was no way hundreds of homeowners would all default on their loans at the same time."
The problem wasn't that the Triple A accounts were defaulting rather Moody's and other companies were stamping these ratings while they were combined with Triple B and other more riskier loans. All it took is several loans to fail while rotting the entire bushel and therefore the Investor is stuck with securities that have no value.
I knew a former employee that left a piece of code in an app that when a user entered a certain search string, it would give Chuck Norris facts. Leave your employer laughing, not disgruntled.
I don't envision a place where carrriers will allow anybody to download and install Android on any device. They will try to lock it down as much as possible by customizing to their liking then pass the fee to the consumers
Scheduling is batch processing. The reason that its superior because that is the fundamental design of mainframe processing. The PC World is event driven for the most part and doesn't rely on scheduling AS MUCH as the mainframe.
Mainframe development is great for churning out records in lightning speeds but do I really want to spend the day maintaining hundred's if not thousands of lines from a single program or copybook? Personally, it has been a pain in my side whenever I had to go back and perform maintenance on something.
And someone pointed out that one reason for the mainframe success is the scheduler. The reason that its top notch is because that is the bread and butter of mainframe development (BATCH processing!). Scheduling jobs using something like JOBTRAC is one of the fundamental designs of it. Most Windows and Java based environments are either transactional or event driven instead of batch processing.
Overall, I think more people should know wtf Autism is, how it affects people and how they live with it on a daily basis. But leave it up to/. posters to make a stab at their comedy on a serious topic.
With two nephews having Autism and knowing other families with kids who have it, its a disease no matter how you spin it.
The problem is that we live in a world where pyschological impairments aren't viewed as diseases.
-- Kids must be in the classroom. Distance learning for kids ages 5-18 can't happen as they have a much shorter attention span than most - Numerous studies have shown classroom education to be the most effective. Also - you shouldn't have to force parents to stay home with their children instead of working.
-- Why not emulate city bus stops where kids are dropped off by parents at a desingated spot that is monitored by an adult (enclosed shelter). The key is to minimize the routes which is a huge problem in rural communities who are already strapped with funding issues. Urban schools can seek the city for assistance in allowing them to use their busing systems (where available)....Or better yet, support your school through levies, student fundraising, etc, etc, etc.
I don't think blaming ITT or any other school regarding how they teach a CS degree is the answer/cause to the decline of mainframe/legacy programmers. Once I received my degree, I did end up getting a job in the mainframing world and received numerous ON THE JOB training. College is nothing more than a starting point.
Personally, I left the mainframe world simply due to burn out. Now I don't go to sleep thinking about why my 15,000 line program is complaining about my sort file or why a copybook of copybook from another copybook is not lined up correctly on my report.
I really don't think you will see alot of patents in video game industry. Some companies make alot of money by selling off their game engines which is why you have clones. How many times has a game implemented the Unreal and Quake engines? While this is typically FPS, they are often the most played games aside from the sports genre.
This fits into their current push of Microsoft Sharepoint (sharing doc's, backoffice solutions, E-Forms, etc, etc, etc). Some apps such as ActivePDF and LiquidOffice tries to implement a backoffice/E-Form solution but cost is another thing.
Last time I checked, its not cheap to update PDF's in a writeable format using Adobe's option. Yes, there are backoffice solutions, free software (pirated or not) and components that can plug into apps to create these files but again - not cheap and personally PDF's are just *another* format. Adobe is equal bloatware to Microsoft. XML is scalable, cheap, easy to develop and implement into any type of application running on nearly any type of OS.
The good thing about Adobe is that they have implemented XML schemas and Data Packages..
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I will take Amazon hassle free packaging where all I want to do is open up the box and review whatever item that I purchased. I haven't had one damaged item with this minimalist approach. I don't care about the box as I know that if thought went into the box then this more than likely drove up the cost of the item. Somebody has to pay for it and considering the cost of Apple products, I would say this is true.
This could have a negative impact on high school and collegiate sports that have similar options in the Olympics (e.g. Swimming, Track & Field, etc). These athletes could chose to simply dope up in their teens then if they get caught/banned, they at least have a financial avenue which is these Super Olympics. The financial avenue would derive from endorsement contracts which could end up in the six or seven figures depending on televsion ratings, etc.
I have enjoyed Amazon from the start and been a Prime subscriber for years. However, my purchases have declined greatly over the last two years due to third party sellers. Last year 90% of the items on my Christmas purchase list (Toys, Electronics) were from sellers marking up items to 50% so hopefully this will drive the availability up and prices down.
I stopped reading after seeing it was from John Dvorak.
The majority of smartphones have cameras and more companies are not allowing employees who have access to important data to not have phones available w/ cameras. Companies are either not allowing phones in the work force or accept phones but they cannot contain a camera. I am sure that this factors low into the equation but somethign to consider.
In addition, smartphones aren't for anyone. Battery life takes a hit, data plans remain high especially on a family plan and personally the majority of the recent smartphone users are doing nothing more than Facebook and Twitter. Do those people really need a smartphone that a regular phone can't deliver?
You can only spot an issue when you see the issue. The problem with simply applying the tag of *Open Source will correct the problem* is garbage. Do you really think people will search through every single app available on any Market place looking for security flaws?
Windows 7 Phone/Marketplace will actually scan applications before they go live looking for patterns across the code. If they find that parts of the code is accessing secured data then they are investigated by the Development team or some other Level. Then it's up to that group to determine the risk.
In the Documentary Super Size Me, several Doctor's noted the same behavior and stated that Fatty Foods found in Fast Food restaurants (McDonald's in this example) were equal to cocaine in terms of addiction.
That is not true. This book was first published in 1968 so it will be 95 years after the publication date. Source: http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm
The issue with Panera is that they have limited the amount of time you can sit at their store during peak hours (lunch hours). So a person can't sit down and work all day until they start to charge and again, this is in select stores for testing purposes.
Personally, I think Microsoft should seriously consider buying a company like SPB Software or another Third Party company to continue the development of Windows Mobile. It's clear that Microsoft dropped the ball years ago and didn't realize the potential of Mobile devices and I am not sure Windows Mobile 7 will leap frog or even compete with the iPhone and/or Blackberry.
While new technology and general discovery has slowed, the depth of progress has continued to grow. If you use the old analogy of the iceberg where discovery of the last 50 years was the tip above the water line, we are now getting into a age where investigation is starting to happen below the line. This means that progress might be slower in terms of rate but the findings are greater and have more meaning.
Until Pluto can save the Economy, talking about whether it's a planet or not during these times is the last thing Illinois or the federal government needs discuss.
For one thing, I have seen more productivity coming from a mainframe based application than web or Client/Server based software. If you have two applications requiring the same input, 99% of the time, a system coded in say CICS will dominate user input much faster than the latter. Also when you factor in reliability, security, raw I/O speed and general processing power, mainframes can't be beat.
FTA: "The reason that ratings agencies and investors felt so safe with the triple-A tranches was that they believed there was no way hundreds of homeowners would all default on their loans at the same time."
The problem wasn't that the Triple A accounts were defaulting rather Moody's and other companies were stamping these ratings while they were combined with Triple B and other more riskier loans. All it took is several loans to fail while rotting the entire bushel and therefore the Investor is stuck with securities that have no value.
I knew a former employee that left a piece of code in an app that when a user entered a certain search string, it would give Chuck Norris facts. Leave your employer laughing, not disgruntled.
I don't envision a place where carrriers will allow anybody to download and install Android on any device. They will try to lock it down as much as possible by customizing to their liking then pass the fee to the consumers
Usenet ftw...
The appreciation is paying their $150 per hour invoice.
Scheduling is batch processing. The reason that its superior because that is the fundamental design of mainframe processing. The PC World is event driven for the most part and doesn't rely on scheduling AS MUCH as the mainframe.
Mainframe development is great for churning out records in lightning speeds but do I really want to spend the day maintaining hundred's if not thousands of lines from a single program or copybook? Personally, it has been a pain in my side whenever I had to go back and perform maintenance on something.
And someone pointed out that one reason for the mainframe success is the scheduler. The reason that its top notch is because that is the bread and butter of mainframe development (BATCH processing!). Scheduling jobs using something like JOBTRAC is one of the fundamental designs of it. Most Windows and Java based environments are either transactional or event driven instead of batch processing.
Overall, I think more people should know wtf Autism is, how it affects people and how they live with it on a daily basis. But leave it up to /. posters to make a stab at their comedy on a serious topic.
With two nephews having Autism and knowing other families with kids who have it, its a disease no matter how you spin it.
The problem is that we live in a world where pyschological impairments aren't viewed as diseases.
Several thoughts:
...Or better yet, support your school through levies, student fundraising, etc, etc, etc.
-- Kids must be in the classroom. Distance learning for kids ages 5-18 can't happen as they have a much shorter attention span than most - Numerous studies have shown classroom education to be the most effective. Also - you shouldn't have to force parents to stay home with their children instead of working.
-- Why not emulate city bus stops where kids are dropped off by parents at a desingated spot that is monitored by an adult (enclosed shelter). The key is to minimize the routes which is a huge problem in rural communities who are already strapped with funding issues. Urban schools can seek the city for assistance in allowing them to use their busing systems (where available).
I don't think blaming ITT or any other school regarding how they teach a CS degree is the answer/cause to the decline of mainframe/legacy programmers. Once I received my degree, I did end up getting a job in the mainframing world and received numerous ON THE JOB training. College is nothing more than a starting point.
Personally, I left the mainframe world simply due to burn out. Now I don't go to sleep thinking about why my 15,000 line program is complaining about my sort file or why a copybook of copybook from another copybook is not lined up correctly on my report.
I really don't think you will see alot of patents in video game industry. Some companies make alot of money by selling off their game engines which is why you have clones. How many times has a game implemented the Unreal and Quake engines? While this is typically FPS, they are often the most played games aside from the sports genre.
This fits into their current push of Microsoft Sharepoint (sharing doc's, backoffice solutions, E-Forms, etc, etc, etc). Some apps such as ActivePDF and LiquidOffice tries to implement a backoffice/E-Form solution but cost is another thing.
Last time I checked, its not cheap to update PDF's in a writeable format using Adobe's option. Yes, there are backoffice solutions, free software (pirated or not) and components that can plug into apps to create these files but again - not cheap and personally PDF's are just *another* format. Adobe is equal bloatware to Microsoft. XML is scalable, cheap, easy to develop and implement into any type of application running on nearly any type of OS.
The good thing about Adobe is that they have implemented XML schemas and Data Packages..