For some items, the shipping cost outweighs any savings from manufacturing overseas. There are other things to look at too: cost of regulatory compliance (i.e. how many pounds of paperwork to prove you aren't hurting the environment), tax rates, etc.
With lower taxes, less regulation, and the cheaper shipping, it could be cheaper to manufacture in the US.
It's just amazing to me how effective the data from CA was during the primary that Hillary still lost despite having so much more money.
Hillary didn't lose the primary. Both Trump and Hillary won their primaries. That's why they were the Republican and Democrat candidates during the main election.
If you want to find out more of why Trump won, read Scott Adam's book Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter.
I'm not sure why this is a huge scandal now. The information about what Cambridge Analytica did has been out for over a year. They're not the first political group to data mine Facebook either. The Obama and Hillary Clinton campaigns were both in direct contact with Facebook, and from what I've read the Trump campaign only used them during primaries. Beyond that point, the RNC was able to provide him with better data.
Hard drives are quite slow for normal computer usage, and should be discouraged. I watched a computer boot Windows 10 to the desktop in 2 seconds while using an SSD. The spinning rust does have valid use cases, and places it excels. However, running Windows with a nice experience on standard applications isn't one of them.
Minimum wage in the US was originally $0.25/hr in 1933 (declared unconstitutional in 1935 and reestablished in 1938). If minimum wage kept pace with inflation it would have gone from $0.25 in 1933 to $4.64 today.
If you're working 40hrs/wk at federal minimum wage, then there are a lot of budgeting guides on how to live on the $1,000/month. The what I saw wasn't as detailed as I would like, but there's obviously people doing it. There are also gas stations all around me that start at 50% higher wages, but you'll have to at least be ambitious enough to be a better cashier than the ones at Walmart and McD's. If you have more ambition than being a cashier, it wasn't long ago that Mike Rowe was advertising jobs for CAT mechanics that started at $60,000/yr with training and no experience required.
I have my icons on home screens arranged in folders. It's faster that way, and the larger icons (compared to my computer start menu & quick launch) are good for my imprecise thumb. Your benchmark on a desktop being good is that is provides the same level of productivity as a poorly configured phone?
Problem 1: It's a single-tasking UI (not even my phone is as limited as Win8) Problem 2: The icons are not well organized (I expect KDE will fix this, where Microsoft never has) Problem 3: It requires more clicks/touches/actions to launch common programs vs my quick launch, which makes it objectively worse than my quick launch (hard data here!) Hard Data 2: Windows 3.1 had something close (or at least much closer) to a full screen launcher, Program Manager which was a full window launcher. The transition away went MUCH more smoothly. In fact, Windows 95 still supported the Program Manager from 3.1, but I don't remember hearing of anyone using it or wanting it back. Hard Data 3: You can get a start menu style program launcher for Android. Apparently people do want it back, even on a mobile screen.
I couldn't find a citation for Google having spent $28 billion so far. There was some sort of $20-28 billion cost projection for KC, but it was based on ignoring what Google said it costs to go with numbers closer to industry norms. Google said that building their own networking equipment isn't that difficult, and in return they get much better and cheaper equipment. I don't know of anyone else doing it, but then again, Google has a bigger customer facing network than anyone besides L3 (i.e. AT&T, Comcast, Cox, Time Warner, Verizon, etc.).
If you were rolling out a new service that you wanted to succeed, and had people bending over backwards to get your service, why would you start someplace difficult?
Congratulations on getting a product out in only 18 months that includes so many security holes that people were finding 13 per day. While not a good accomplishment, it's still quite a lot of work to create quite the impression. Unfortunately, it's not a good impression. It gets worse when you watch your programs break with security updates. Java was at least becoming more secure under Sun.
Java 8 may be the most vibrant and advanced release ever, but the language is still horribly limited and any benchmarks I've been able to put it under run slowly while being a memory hog. The number of top severity CVE's (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) still showing up in Java 8 also is staggering.
We already have some public financing of elections. The republicans and democrats have ensured that no one else can have it, and they keep pushing a remarkably similar agenda for all the disagreement they show us.
The standard in TFS is "high quality" video. 1Mbps upload isn't for video conferencing isn't high quality video, especially since it's real-time, single-pass encoding. With 4k TV's being so cheap ($340 on Amazon), I wouldn't really call 4Mbps a high quality video stream either, especially to watch something with high-motion like Football. The change won't force them to upgrade, just limit what they can keep marketing as broadband.
The broadband requirement is to stream high quality video, not "enough for a lot of people." Cell phones have already broken past 1080p screens, and in the US you can get a 4k TV for $350 (plus shipping). A 4Mbps video stream isn't enough to satisfy such screens, and 1Mbps upload is laughable as high quality video streaming when you consider there are services like Skype.
You can buy 4k TV's for under $350 (plus tax/shipping). I don't think 1080p should stand as high-quality video for much longer, since even cell phones are passing that mark.
I have a 23" screen that does 1080p, and I'm tired of seeing subpixel artifacts from the rgb arrangement (purples are quite odd with the gap in the middle). Don't tell me 720p is fine. Steve Jobs nearly started a war against high resolution screens based on studies of people with mediocre vision (see Why Retina Isn't Enough). With good vision 1080p is around the useful limit for a 23" display at 10 feet or a 1080p phone with a 2.3" screen, though there is some evidence to support that human vision can see quality beyond even these numbers that are based on Snellen tests.
BTW, I just checked Newegg, Target and Nebraska Furniture Mart (the most mainstream stores I could find to properly split 1080p and 720p inventory). At Target 1080p sets outnumbered 720p by 77 to 25. At Newegg 1080p/4k sets outnumbered 720p by 445 to 91. At Nebraska Furniture Mart, 4k televisions alone outnumber 720p by nearly 4 to 1. You can even pick up a 4k TV from Amazon for under $350. I'm not sure what you're calling modern, but it doesn't match what's in the stores. If we're coming out with new specification guidelines, it should at least be on par with what is being sold now (if not future sales). ATSC was foolish and short-sighted for not including 1080p.
I can especially guarantee you're not streaming high quality video to someone else over Skype w/ the upload speeds an ISP will provide on a 10-20mbps connection.
It didn't stop VeriSign from selling lower priced MD5 certificates when the algorithm had known vulnerabilities. They finally stopped when somebody publicly announced the ability to forge a verifiable certificate for any website in 1-2 days using a cluster of 200 PS3's.
You can download them as a Microsoft document. If the formatting is off, then just blame it on being a different version of Office. Everyone in business knows Microsoft Office is only partially compatible across product generations. In fact, I've wasted over 12 hours because an important Excel function stopped working correctly in 2013 (or possibly earlier), and I still have no fix.
Apparently the DMV missed the report that the only accident ever caused by one of Google's self driving car was due to human error while a person was controlling it. Actually, I'm hoping the requirement is for cases like one way streets or bicycle only paths that the car decides to drive down incorrectly. However, all you would need is a break pedal (because that's what panicking are used to) and some sort of correction interface (e.g. a couple of buttons on the UI).
Dora the Explorer's chant of "Swiper no swiping" doesn't work in the real world where evils actually exist. We do our best to raise people into good citizens, and it seems to be helping (rape peaked in 1992). However, I don't expect the world to ever stop having horrible people in it. Some places are always going to be safer than others (e.g. church singles mixer vs wild frat party). When I would visit my grandparents in small-town Mississippi a few years ago, we never locked the door because no one even knew where a key was, but it was never once robbed. If I go to someplace dangerous like Baghdad, Iraq; Mogadishu, Somalia; or Kabul, Afghanistan, then I would be quite foolish not to take extra precautions and expect things still may go badly.
I find it amazing that a group of men worked together to find a way for women to help protect themselves, and women get upset about it. *sigh* I would never blame the victim, but I miss the days when we read children stories about little pigs that got eaten because they were too lazy to protect themselves against any old wolf.
If burglary and child abduction are as common as rape, we would be having a MUCH DIFFERENT conversation.
Apparently not... According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, in 2008, there were 3,188,620 cases of household burglaries, another 13+ million cases of theft and 203,830 cases of rape/attempted rape/sexual assault. (www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cvus08.pdf) You have a study that cites 1.3 million women, which is MUCH higher (and I'm not disputing it), but still well below the number of burglaries. I'm aware that crime rates have been falling, but not by that much between 2008 and 2010.
I should point out that on multicore x86 machines Oracle counts 1 processor license needed per 2 processing cores. You're probably looking at 4-6+ CPU licenses for a dual processor system.
What about MySQL/MariaDB? Facebook doesn't even need a full time person for their production MySQL database cluster. It doesn't use shared storage, but if a shared storage system handles your workload, you're not all that big anymore.
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For some items, the shipping cost outweighs any savings from manufacturing overseas. There are other things to look at too: cost of regulatory compliance (i.e. how many pounds of paperwork to prove you aren't hurting the environment), tax rates, etc.
With lower taxes, less regulation, and the cheaper shipping, it could be cheaper to manufacture in the US.
Why should Trump be tied to a prison toilet? He isn't under investigation for criminal activity.
macOS has more CVE findings released that Windows 10. Why would using macOS as a base be more secure?
It's just amazing to me how effective the data from CA was during the primary that Hillary still lost despite having so much more money.
Hillary didn't lose the primary. Both Trump and Hillary won their primaries. That's why they were the Republican and Democrat candidates during the main election.
If you want to find out more of why Trump won, read Scott Adam's book Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter.
I'm not sure why this is a huge scandal now. The information about what Cambridge Analytica did has been out for over a year. They're not the first political group to data mine Facebook either. The Obama and Hillary Clinton campaigns were both in direct contact with Facebook, and from what I've read the Trump campaign only used them during primaries. Beyond that point, the RNC was able to provide him with better data.
Hard drives are quite slow for normal computer usage, and should be discouraged. I watched a computer boot Windows 10 to the desktop in 2 seconds while using an SSD. The spinning rust does have valid use cases, and places it excels. However, running Windows with a nice experience on standard applications isn't one of them.
How is this insightful? It's not even true.
Minimum wage in the US was originally $0.25/hr in 1933 (declared unconstitutional in 1935 and reestablished in 1938). If minimum wage kept pace with inflation it would have gone from $0.25 in 1933 to $4.64 today.
If you're working 40hrs/wk at federal minimum wage, then there are a lot of budgeting guides on how to live on the $1,000/month. The what I saw wasn't as detailed as I would like, but there's obviously people doing it. There are also gas stations all around me that start at 50% higher wages, but you'll have to at least be ambitious enough to be a better cashier than the ones at Walmart and McD's. If you have more ambition than being a cashier, it wasn't long ago that Mike Rowe was advertising jobs for CAT mechanics that started at $60,000/yr with training and no experience required.
I have my icons on home screens arranged in folders. It's faster that way, and the larger icons (compared to my computer start menu & quick launch) are good for my imprecise thumb. Your benchmark on a desktop being good is that is provides the same level of productivity as a poorly configured phone?
Problem 1: It's a single-tasking UI (not even my phone is as limited as Win8)
Problem 2: The icons are not well organized (I expect KDE will fix this, where Microsoft never has)
Problem 3: It requires more clicks/touches/actions to launch common programs vs my quick launch, which makes it objectively worse than my quick launch (hard data here!)
Hard Data 2: Windows 3.1 had something close (or at least much closer) to a full screen launcher, Program Manager which was a full window launcher. The transition away went MUCH more smoothly. In fact, Windows 95 still supported the Program Manager from 3.1, but I don't remember hearing of anyone using it or wanting it back.
Hard Data 3: You can get a start menu style program launcher for Android. Apparently people do want it back, even on a mobile screen.
I couldn't find a citation for Google having spent $28 billion so far. There was some sort of $20-28 billion cost projection for KC, but it was based on ignoring what Google said it costs to go with numbers closer to industry norms. Google said that building their own networking equipment isn't that difficult, and in return they get much better and cheaper equipment. I don't know of anyone else doing it, but then again, Google has a bigger customer facing network than anyone besides L3 (i.e. AT&T, Comcast, Cox, Time Warner, Verizon, etc.).
If you were rolling out a new service that you wanted to succeed, and had people bending over backwards to get your service, why would you start someplace difficult?
Congratulations on getting a product out in only 18 months that includes so many security holes that people were finding 13 per day. While not a good accomplishment, it's still quite a lot of work to create quite the impression. Unfortunately, it's not a good impression. It gets worse when you watch your programs break with security updates. Java was at least becoming more secure under Sun.
Java 8 may be the most vibrant and advanced release ever, but the language is still horribly limited and any benchmarks I've been able to put it under run slowly while being a memory hog. The number of top severity CVE's (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) still showing up in Java 8 also is staggering.
We already have some public financing of elections. The republicans and democrats have ensured that no one else can have it, and they keep pushing a remarkably similar agenda for all the disagreement they show us.
The standard in TFS is "high quality" video. 1Mbps upload isn't for video conferencing isn't high quality video, especially since it's real-time, single-pass encoding. With 4k TV's being so cheap ($340 on Amazon), I wouldn't really call 4Mbps a high quality video stream either, especially to watch something with high-motion like Football. The change won't force them to upgrade, just limit what they can keep marketing as broadband.
Shouldn't I get 6Mbps upload then? I'm not sure how many people have heard of webcams, but Video goes both ways now.
The broadband requirement is to stream high quality video, not "enough for a lot of people." Cell phones have already broken past 1080p screens, and in the US you can get a 4k TV for $350 (plus shipping). A 4Mbps video stream isn't enough to satisfy such screens, and 1Mbps upload is laughable as high quality video streaming when you consider there are services like Skype.
You can buy 4k TV's for under $350 (plus tax/shipping). I don't think 1080p should stand as high-quality video for much longer, since even cell phones are passing that mark.
I have a 23" screen that does 1080p, and I'm tired of seeing subpixel artifacts from the rgb arrangement (purples are quite odd with the gap in the middle). Don't tell me 720p is fine. Steve Jobs nearly started a war against high resolution screens based on studies of people with mediocre vision (see Why Retina Isn't Enough). With good vision 1080p is around the useful limit for a 23" display at 10 feet or a 1080p phone with a 2.3" screen, though there is some evidence to support that human vision can see quality beyond even these numbers that are based on Snellen tests.
BTW, I just checked Newegg, Target and Nebraska Furniture Mart (the most mainstream stores I could find to properly split 1080p and 720p inventory). At Target 1080p sets outnumbered 720p by 77 to 25. At Newegg 1080p/4k sets outnumbered 720p by 445 to 91. At Nebraska Furniture Mart, 4k televisions alone outnumber 720p by nearly 4 to 1. You can even pick up a 4k TV from Amazon for under $350. I'm not sure what you're calling modern, but it doesn't match what's in the stores. If we're coming out with new specification guidelines, it should at least be on par with what is being sold now (if not future sales). ATSC was foolish and short-sighted for not including 1080p.
I can especially guarantee you're not streaming high quality video to someone else over Skype w/ the upload speeds an ISP will provide on a 10-20mbps connection.
It didn't stop VeriSign from selling lower priced MD5 certificates when the algorithm had known vulnerabilities. They finally stopped when somebody publicly announced the ability to forge a verifiable certificate for any website in 1-2 days using a cluster of 200 PS3's.
You can download them as a Microsoft document. If the formatting is off, then just blame it on being a different version of Office. Everyone in business knows Microsoft Office is only partially compatible across product generations. In fact, I've wasted over 12 hours because an important Excel function stopped working correctly in 2013 (or possibly earlier), and I still have no fix.
Apparently the DMV missed the report that the only accident ever caused by one of Google's self driving car was due to human error while a person was controlling it. Actually, I'm hoping the requirement is for cases like one way streets or bicycle only paths that the car decides to drive down incorrectly. However, all you would need is a break pedal (because that's what panicking are used to) and some sort of correction interface (e.g. a couple of buttons on the UI).
Dora the Explorer's chant of "Swiper no swiping" doesn't work in the real world where evils actually exist. We do our best to raise people into good citizens, and it seems to be helping (rape peaked in 1992). However, I don't expect the world to ever stop having horrible people in it. Some places are always going to be safer than others (e.g. church singles mixer vs wild frat party). When I would visit my grandparents in small-town Mississippi a few years ago, we never locked the door because no one even knew where a key was, but it was never once robbed. If I go to someplace dangerous like Baghdad, Iraq; Mogadishu, Somalia; or Kabul, Afghanistan, then I would be quite foolish not to take extra precautions and expect things still may go badly.
I find it amazing that a group of men worked together to find a way for women to help protect themselves, and women get upset about it. *sigh* I would never blame the victim, but I miss the days when we read children stories about little pigs that got eaten because they were too lazy to protect themselves against any old wolf.
If burglary and child abduction are as common as rape, we would be having a MUCH DIFFERENT conversation.
Apparently not... According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, in 2008, there were 3,188,620 cases of household burglaries, another 13+ million cases of theft and 203,830 cases of rape/attempted rape/sexual assault. (www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cvus08.pdf) You have a study that cites 1.3 million women, which is MUCH higher (and I'm not disputing it), but still well below the number of burglaries. I'm aware that crime rates have been falling, but not by that much between 2008 and 2010.
Actually, one of the top hits is for this article. Apparently, it's mentioned in the comments.
I should point out that on multicore x86 machines Oracle counts 1 processor license needed per 2 processing cores. You're probably looking at 4-6+ CPU licenses for a dual processor system.
What about MySQL/MariaDB? Facebook doesn't even need a full time person for their production MySQL database cluster. It doesn't use shared storage, but if a shared storage system handles your workload, you're not all that big anymore.