Agree with you on the waste, but probably worth noting that the US also has extremely productive industry and agriculture... which both (IIRC) tend to use much more water than households.
As noted by others, RDP is actually where Metro gets in the way. If the super key is trapped in any way (such as by the host computer), you have to get the cursor into those few hot pixels in the corner to open the Start screen. It's not exactly convenient, so it's good to hear that an actual button has returned in R2. Shame I can't upgrade off of New Vista.
This has been my experience as well. It's an even larger pain with VMs.
I made a longer post about this a while back, but... agreed. I hate Metro on 8, hate 8 overall, but the interface on 2012 isn't a problem for me. It's easier than digging through multiple layers of the start menu.
Though Windows is not my specialty. I have to admin a few as part of my job, but if they tried to make me work in powershell I would just quit.
Yeah, fine her $100 and call it a day. I mean, after all, she already watched Monster-in-Law. Hasn't she suffered enough?
Most of those videos cost in the range of $10 - $25,000 dollars. Blu rays for Netflix can cost their company $100k each. Because the lifetime of the media can be re-used the initial overhead is fairly big.
You're telling me that Netflix pays $100,000 for new media every time a copy is lost in the mail... rather than having some term in their contract that allows them to purchase new media for $10? Sure.
With any luck, they'll be for self-driving cars. From the demos I've seen, it looks like you could squeeze a few lanes worth of human-driven traffic into one dedicated automated driving lane. If you don't let humans in, they can safely go 80 mph nearly bumper to bumper.
Perhaps I have a bias but I don't recall too many Republicans going to jail recently. I do recall quite a few Democrats sitting behind bars right now.
You have a bias (or two). Or maybe you're just reading news sources that are extremely biased? Recent memorable cases include: Bob McDonnell (R-VA) and friends, Michelle Bachmann's investigation, Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ), all those Republicans in New York, and now Chris Christie. 1994 Congressional Republicans may have been the most scandal and crime-prone in recent congressional history, but I don't have data to back that.
Maybe the Republicans are just better at covering their tracks. If that is true then that just means the Democrats are corrupt, and also stupid.
Or maybe Democrats are just more likely to target and oust corrupt politicians (there is some data to support this), while Republicans protect their own... do you think that would make the GOP less corrupt?
I'm not someone that is going to come running to defend the GOP. I'm also not going to stand by while someone tries to tell me with a straight face that Democrats are trustworthy. Democrats are notorious for election fraud. I'm just at a loss for words.
Notorious for election fraud? Now I know you're reading biased infotainment. Election fraud is both bipartisan and much less common than you believe. However, Republicans do prefer to use the state to disenfranchise, gerrymander, and rig electoral rules rather than engage in outright fraud.
For the record, I am not trying to claim that one party is more corrupt than the other. To my knowledge, nobody has found a way to collect sufficient data on the topic.
I would generally agree, but my own experience tells me that employers who already suspect you are smart will feel they have confirmed it when they see magna/summa cum laude from a top university.
I don't know how much longer that will help me, but I have had it mentioned in interviews.
Or, start using electronic cigarettes. You can keep the enjoyment of nicotine, (which is not harmful), without inhaling smoke, (which is harmful).
Not true. Nicotine is a vasoconstrictive agent, and that can often be harmful. In some people/situations, it could also be therapeutic.
While it is true that vapers do not inhale smoke, research has been showing much higher levels of nicotine in vapers than smokers. I am not an MD, and this is not my field, but I would expect vaping to be much more harmful in some circumstances.
I would argue that vapers simply enjoy inhaling, and don't particularly care about the nicotine. I would advise them to switch to 0% nicotine juice until the long-term health impacts are fully understood.
tbf, there is a large difference between 115856 and 996583.
My ID is in the low 6 digits, and I read regularly before I registered... so I must have gotten here around the time of 4 or 5-digit UIDs. I believe it was 98-99. Definitely later than you and all the people who pre-date the registration system, but what? 6 months later?
I agree with you completely, but it is worth mentioning the challenges this may pose. I suspect most of the car rentals will be holiday periods. Being able to meet higher peak demand during Christmas, Labor Day, etc. could require rental companies to maintain larger inventories.
I don't know much about their business models, so I could be wrong here.
You should read this post. I don't think you fully grok the nature of the problems involved with "fixing the legal system" such that simple regulation would not be a better solution. The legal system needs a lot of fixing, but it really isn't designed for this task.
Regulators can actively protect consumers from scammers while boosting the consumer confidence that enables our markets. Courts can, at best, provide retribution for the first round of victims and protection for the 2nd or 3rd.
The regulations on this are pretty straightforward. Complying should not be difficult. If you think that's onerous on a business, you should try going through a few lawsuits. Without regulations, everyone would need a full time attorney.
Oh gosh! How did nobody ever think of suing before? It sounds so easy! Somebody should tell all those poor, unemployed, indebted people that if they just pony up $50k for a lawyer, they can maybe win a case in a few years.
I just hope that people don't end up viewing "Open Source" as the problem reason as it will be nothing to do with that and entirely to do with yet another display of civil service incompetence.
I've been an open source proponent my whole life, but even I have to ask: How is OSS not the problem? The typical consumer-oriented open source program has a few dozen half-implemented features, lacks critical features its competitors have, and has a UI from ten years ago.
Most businesses I have worked with love their open source-based servers/storage, Filezilla, and Firefox. Everything else is proprietary stuff. They hate Office and Windows, and they still prefer ot to OOo or LO.
When you factor in the cost of living in CA, $70k doesn't go all that far....
Maybe not, but it beats the median household income in California by about $10k source. And it beats the median 1-earner income by $20k.
If teachers make $22k in Brevard, FL, that's pretty tragic, but this lawsuit is about teachers in California, who can be well compensated, depending on the district they're in. Also, as the post you responded to pointed out they get extremely generous benefits. It's easy to disregard them as you did, but the pension contributions and lifetime medical benefits are unimaginably expensive.
That's a bit disingenuous for multiple reasons. First, you are comparing an average to a median. Second, you are comparing salaries to median household income, not median income for people with a bachelor's or higher, a post-secondary credential, and no criminal offenses that would bar them from teaching.
Pulling from the original source, LAUSD's lowest offered salary was $39,788. That should be just enough money for a new teacher to afford a single bedroom apartment, unless they have to pay student loans or something... The average was ~$69k, and the highest $78k. In a place where modest 3-bedroom homes go for $400k or more.
Do you think initial CA teaching salaries are high enough to attract top talent? Good talent? Mediocre? Could your IT department attract good talent with salaries like that? It sounds more like the pay is low, and the only financial incentive to become a teacher is job stability. Which went away ca. 2009.
As for the benefits, I would agree. They are quite generous. But I would only favor cutting benefits and job stability if we boosted salaries drastically to make them competitive with the private sector. Real figures on total compensation would be far more useful in this discussion.
I know. I suppose I did not make that clear in my comment, but I wasn't commenting on this story in particular. Just replying to the GGP.
However, the GGP's position would still apply to this story. You are saying that this is blind government policy at work, we are saying that the policy should be different.
If the woman in the article had found a drunk man at the bar and taken him home for the night, never to speak to him again, he would be responsible for providing for the child. Even if she said she was on the pill. Even if he wore a condom (that she poked holes in). Even if he begged her to take Plan B, then begged her to get an abortion, then begged her to adopt. He has no choice, yet bears a large brunt of the responsibility.
While I understand the counter-arguments to this, I fully agree. I have long been a proponent of equality and women's rights. I don't believe a woman should be required to get the father's permission for an abortion. But I believe the necessary effect of this stance is that the father has minimal responsibility when he can not determine whether or not a woman will get pregnant, carry to term, etc.
I realize many other things in our society privilege men at the expense of women. I can't stand those, either.
I do agree that user needs have increased over the years. They always will. We're a long way from "needing" GigE. Like far enough where they could have deployed with 100Mb/s, and upgraded it to 150Mb/s in 5 years, which would still be overkill.
I think you're looking at it the wrong way. Your points are all valid, of course, but has nothing to do with utilization of current capacity. It's about things you can't or won't do with the current capacity, but might with increased capacity.
For me, 1000 Mb/s would enable serious changes in storage utilization.
I do a lot of photography, and have several TB of data that I want/need to have protected off-site. It has been a lot of work to ensure I never lose data, and I would gladly outsource this job to AWS, Google, or some other provider.
But with 1000 Mb/s, why would I bother keeping another copy locally? So there goes this big stupid external hard drive, and my internal spinning disks. Everything that can't fit on flash goes to the server.
Of course this says nothing of what other uses will be developed to make increased capacity worthwhile. Streaming 3D 4K porn? A consumer Citrix subscription for mom? Advances in online gaming?
So we have a service that the users aren't for whatever reason will to pay enough to support. That sounds to me like a service that wasn't worth the bother, at least being run by the Provo government.
You are completely ignoring some other [more likely] explanations:
1. Provo's costs may be too high (whether due to mismanagement, regulations, peering agreements, etc.). Google can probably do it much cheaper
2. A higher rate would be acceptable economically, but not politically
I haven't read enough about the situation in Provo, but I suspect both points apply in this case.
I'd rather have lawmakers understand the field they're making laws in. You can always get lawyers to help you write legal documents, that's their job, but good luck getting a lawyer turned politician to understand medicine, physics, environment, psychology or economics.
To be fair, we have to look at two other factors.
First, most lawyers have a BA/BS in something other than law. There are probably a few in Congress with hard science backgrounds, and I'd bet on economics. An intelligent politician with a good general education and a desire to learn can understand other fields well enough to legislate about them. Particularly with the help of good staff.
Second, American voters have a [completely irrational] disdain for the learned. They hate technocrats, and generally do not listen to experts. Why waste a doctor in Congress if voters are going to listen to Jenny McCarthy instead?
I do generally agree with you. And I'm not denying that the US legislatures are effectively worthless at this point. I just feel those two points are often overlooked.
While I agree with you, I actually really like the start screen on Server 2012.
I frequently use 10-20 applications on my 2012 systems. It's too many to reliably pin to the task bar (MS really needs to fix that), but not so many that they are difficult to locate. It takes me about one second to hit the Win/CMD key and click a tile.
Granted, I don't use powershell. And I prefer to admin every other OS through shell.
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Agree with you on the waste, but probably worth noting that the US also has extremely productive industry and agriculture... which both (IIRC) tend to use much more water than households.
Funny enough, I actually remember reading your post. You left out "PowerShell (like all of MS) has overly cumbersome syntax".
That said, the meaning of my comment was more of "I would rather be unemployed for a while than have to use PowerShell on a regular basis".
Agreed. And even more amusing to me, I've seen plenty of humanities-majoring college students using spaces.
Lack of workspaces is one of my main complaints with Windows.. and has been for about 10 years now.
How to remove all bundled Modern apps from your user account in Windows 8 in link form for the copy-paste impaired.
Thank you. I've been meaning to do this on a new base image.
As noted by others, RDP is actually where Metro gets in the way. If the super key is trapped in any way (such as by the host computer), you have to get the cursor into those few hot pixels in the corner to open the Start screen. It's not exactly convenient, so it's good to hear that an actual button has returned in R2. Shame I can't upgrade off of New Vista.
This has been my experience as well. It's an even larger pain with VMs.
I made a longer post about this a while back, but... agreed. I hate Metro on 8, hate 8 overall, but the interface on 2012 isn't a problem for me. It's easier than digging through multiple layers of the start menu.
Though Windows is not my specialty. I have to admin a few as part of my job, but if they tried to make me work in powershell I would just quit.
Yeah, fine her $100 and call it a day. I mean, after all, she already watched Monster-in-Law. Hasn't she suffered enough?
Most of those videos cost in the range of $10 - $25,000 dollars. Blu rays for Netflix can cost their company $100k each. Because the lifetime of the media can be re-used the initial overhead is fairly big.
You're telling me that Netflix pays $100,000 for new media every time a copy is lost in the mail... rather than having some term in their contract that allows them to purchase new media for $10? Sure.
Bollocks. Nuclear is artificially expensive due to a combination of idiocy, hysteria and perhaps some guidance from the petroleum and coal industries.
Bollocks. Nuclear is artificially cheap due to a combination of subsidies and liability exemptions.
With any luck, they'll be for self-driving cars. From the demos I've seen, it looks like you could squeeze a few lanes worth of human-driven traffic into one dedicated automated driving lane. If you don't let humans in, they can safely go 80 mph nearly bumper to bumper.
I disagree with the GP as well, but...
Perhaps I have a bias but I don't recall too many Republicans going to jail recently. I do recall quite a few Democrats sitting behind bars right now.
You have a bias (or two). Or maybe you're just reading news sources that are extremely biased? Recent memorable cases include: Bob McDonnell (R-VA) and friends, Michelle Bachmann's investigation, Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ), all those Republicans in New York, and now Chris Christie. 1994 Congressional Republicans may have been the most scandal and crime-prone in recent congressional history, but I don't have data to back that.
Maybe the Republicans are just better at covering their tracks. If that is true then that just means the Democrats are corrupt, and also stupid.
Or maybe Democrats are just more likely to target and oust corrupt politicians (there is some data to support this), while Republicans protect their own... do you think that would make the GOP less corrupt?
I'm not someone that is going to come running to defend the GOP. I'm also not going to stand by while someone tries to tell me with a straight face that Democrats are trustworthy. Democrats are notorious for election fraud. I'm just at a loss for words.
Notorious for election fraud? Now I know you're reading biased infotainment. Election fraud is both bipartisan and much less common than you believe. However, Republicans do prefer to use the state to disenfranchise, gerrymander, and rig electoral rules rather than engage in outright fraud.
For the record, I am not trying to claim that one party is more corrupt than the other. To my knowledge, nobody has found a way to collect sufficient data on the topic.
I would generally agree, but my own experience tells me that employers who already suspect you are smart will feel they have confirmed it when they see magna/summa cum laude from a top university.
I don't know how much longer that will help me, but I have had it mentioned in interviews.
Or, start using electronic cigarettes. You can keep the enjoyment of nicotine, (which is not harmful), without inhaling smoke, (which is harmful).
Not true. Nicotine is a vasoconstrictive agent, and that can often be harmful. In some people/situations, it could also be therapeutic.
While it is true that vapers do not inhale smoke, research has been showing much higher levels of nicotine in vapers than smokers. I am not an MD, and this is not my field, but I would expect vaping to be much more harmful in some circumstances.
I would argue that vapers simply enjoy inhaling, and don't particularly care about the nicotine. I would advise them to switch to 0% nicotine juice until the long-term health impacts are fully understood.
"Low 6 digit number". Cute :)
tbf, there is a large difference between 115856 and 996583.
My ID is in the low 6 digits, and I read regularly before I registered... so I must have gotten here around the time of 4 or 5-digit UIDs. I believe it was 98-99. Definitely later than you and all the people who pre-date the registration system, but what? 6 months later?
Great point, I didn't even think of that.
I agree with you completely, but it is worth mentioning the challenges this may pose. I suspect most of the car rentals will be holiday periods. Being able to meet higher peak demand during Christmas, Labor Day, etc. could require rental companies to maintain larger inventories.
I don't know much about their business models, so I could be wrong here.
You should read this post. I don't think you fully grok the nature of the problems involved with "fixing the legal system" such that simple regulation would not be a better solution. The legal system needs a lot of fixing, but it really isn't designed for this task.
Regulators can actively protect consumers from scammers while boosting the consumer confidence that enables our markets. Courts can, at best, provide retribution for the first round of victims and protection for the 2nd or 3rd.
The regulations on this are pretty straightforward. Complying should not be difficult. If you think that's onerous on a business, you should try going through a few lawsuits. Without regulations, everyone would need a full time attorney.
Oh gosh! How did nobody ever think of suing before? It sounds so easy! Somebody should tell all those poor, unemployed, indebted people that if they just pony up $50k for a lawyer, they can maybe win a case in a few years.
I just hope that people don't end up viewing "Open Source" as the problem reason as it will be nothing to do with that and entirely to do with yet another display of civil service incompetence.
I've been an open source proponent my whole life, but even I have to ask: How is OSS not the problem? The typical consumer-oriented open source program has a few dozen half-implemented features, lacks critical features its competitors have, and has a UI from ten years ago.
Most businesses I have worked with love their open source-based servers/storage, Filezilla, and Firefox. Everything else is proprietary stuff. They hate Office and Windows, and they still prefer ot to OOo or LO.
When you factor in the cost of living in CA, $70k doesn't go all that far....
Maybe not, but it beats the median household income in California by about $10k source. And it beats the median 1-earner income by $20k.
If teachers make $22k in Brevard, FL, that's pretty tragic, but this lawsuit is about teachers in California, who can be well compensated, depending on the district they're in. Also, as the post you responded to pointed out they get extremely generous benefits. It's easy to disregard them as you did, but the pension contributions and lifetime medical benefits are unimaginably expensive.
That's a bit disingenuous for multiple reasons. First, you are comparing an average to a median. Second, you are comparing salaries to median household income, not median income for people with a bachelor's or higher, a post-secondary credential, and no criminal offenses that would bar them from teaching.
Pulling from the original source, LAUSD's lowest offered salary was $39,788. That should be just enough money for a new teacher to afford a single bedroom apartment, unless they have to pay student loans or something... The average was ~$69k, and the highest $78k. In a place where modest 3-bedroom homes go for $400k or more.
Do you think initial CA teaching salaries are high enough to attract top talent? Good talent? Mediocre? Could your IT department attract good talent with salaries like that? It sounds more like the pay is low, and the only financial incentive to become a teacher is job stability. Which went away ca. 2009.
As for the benefits, I would agree. They are quite generous. But I would only favor cutting benefits and job stability if we boosted salaries drastically to make them competitive with the private sector. Real figures on total compensation would be far more useful in this discussion.
I know. I suppose I did not make that clear in my comment, but I wasn't commenting on this story in particular. Just replying to the GGP.
However, the GGP's position would still apply to this story. You are saying that this is blind government policy at work, we are saying that the policy should be different.
If the woman in the article had found a drunk man at the bar and taken him home for the night, never to speak to him again, he would be responsible for providing for the child. Even if she said she was on the pill. Even if he wore a condom (that she poked holes in). Even if he begged her to take Plan B, then begged her to get an abortion, then begged her to adopt. He has no choice, yet bears a large brunt of the responsibility.
Ahh, I did not interpret it that way. Fair enough.
While I understand the counter-arguments to this, I fully agree. I have long been a proponent of equality and women's rights. I don't believe a woman should be required to get the father's permission for an abortion. But I believe the necessary effect of this stance is that the father has minimal responsibility when he can not determine whether or not a woman will get pregnant, carry to term, etc.
I realize many other things in our society privilege men at the expense of women. I can't stand those, either.
I do agree that user needs have increased over the years. They always will. We're a long way from "needing" GigE. Like far enough where they could have deployed with 100Mb/s, and upgraded it to 150Mb/s in 5 years, which would still be overkill.
I think you're looking at it the wrong way. Your points are all valid, of course, but has nothing to do with utilization of current capacity. It's about things you can't or won't do with the current capacity, but might with increased capacity.
For me, 1000 Mb/s would enable serious changes in storage utilization.
I do a lot of photography, and have several TB of data that I want/need to have protected off-site. It has been a lot of work to ensure I never lose data, and I would gladly outsource this job to AWS, Google, or some other provider.
But with 1000 Mb/s, why would I bother keeping another copy locally? So there goes this big stupid external hard drive, and my internal spinning disks. Everything that can't fit on flash goes to the server.
Of course this says nothing of what other uses will be developed to make increased capacity worthwhile. Streaming 3D 4K porn? A consumer Citrix subscription for mom? Advances in online gaming?
So we have a service that the users aren't for whatever reason will to pay enough to support. That sounds to me like a service that wasn't worth the bother, at least being run by the Provo government.
You are completely ignoring some other [more likely] explanations:
1. Provo's costs may be too high (whether due to mismanagement, regulations, peering agreements, etc.). Google can probably do it much cheaper
2. A higher rate would be acceptable economically, but not politically
I haven't read enough about the situation in Provo, but I suspect both points apply in this case.
I'd rather have lawmakers understand the field they're making laws in. You can always get lawyers to help you write legal documents, that's their job, but good luck getting a lawyer turned politician to understand medicine, physics, environment, psychology or economics.
To be fair, we have to look at two other factors.
First, most lawyers have a BA/BS in something other than law. There are probably a few in Congress with hard science backgrounds, and I'd bet on economics. An intelligent politician with a good general education and a desire to learn can understand other fields well enough to legislate about them. Particularly with the help of good staff.
Second, American voters have a [completely irrational] disdain for the learned. They hate technocrats, and generally do not listen to experts. Why waste a doctor in Congress if voters are going to listen to Jenny McCarthy instead?
I do generally agree with you. And I'm not denying that the US legislatures are effectively worthless at this point. I just feel those two points are often overlooked.
While I agree with you, I actually really like the start screen on Server 2012.
I frequently use 10-20 applications on my 2012 systems. It's too many to reliably pin to the task bar (MS really needs to fix that), but not so many that they are difficult to locate. It takes me about one second to hit the Win/CMD key and click a tile.
Granted, I don't use powershell. And I prefer to admin every other OS through shell.