Actually Sharp is a component manufacturer as well - I buy a variety of Sharp components and I'm pretty sure they are made in Japan. I've got a Sharp 5V regulator sitting on my desk right now and it has "Japan" clearly (but very tiny) printed on it. Toshiba makes amazingly good components as well.
DesktopsOnDemand will be a different corporate entity. In otherwords MS can sue DesktopsOnDemand into the ground and tuCloud will be unscathed. The guy is setting up another company that CAN go down in flames and just be scrapped if needed. As someone who's been harrassed by MS in the past I have to say I love this idea and I find the whole thing intensely entertaining.
I had this exact issue for a while and it took a good half year to make my wife realize that sitting down in front of a screen does not mean I'm free to be called on.
Now I'm mostly uninterrupted when I'm working (unless I want to be interrupted) and I get to take sex breaks while the kids are at school.
Two things: 1. You need the big puffy headphones which block out sound - I've got a pair on now. 2. I went in to a Regus office once to check it out because I was under the impression something like that would be cheaper than renting a full office. At the time I had a group of 6 people and they offered us a walk-in closet for the price of a new sedan each month. We ended up renting a nicely sized (3 office rooms one common) place about 5 minutes away for 1/16th the price. I have no idea how Regus manages to swindle people - you'd think people successful enough at business to afford Regus would be smart enough to realize how awful a deal it is.
Though sometimes I must admit when the kids have they day off school I'll cheat and bring them out then pull an all nighter.
Also - lock on the office door and let everyone know unless someone is bleeding or the house is on fire locked = concentrating/on phone with clients/do not disturb.
The only point I was trying to make was that China and Japan own a fuck of a lot of US debt and that whoring out NASA to one of them could be an extremely productive measure.
And the US debt held by foreign nations IS chiefly heald by China and Japan.
I just looked it up - 47% of American debt is owned by foreign entities so you are technically correct in pointing out that the majority of American debt is in fact owned by Americans... though I certainly wouldn't call 3% a vast gap. I also wonder how much is owned by US subsidiaries of foreign corporations or purchased through American investment firms in conglomerate packages partially owned by foreign enteties.
Reguardless, that 47% is $4.45 trillion. You don't even have a net positive income! Look at this: http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/glance.htm . The only thing keeping the US Dollar alive right now is foreigners purchasing that debt. There is absolutely no way you'll be able to pay that off without cutting a lot of big international deals and if you are talking about cutting billion dollar deals I'd say space exlporation and development is a kick ass venue.
America also has a massive ammount of debt - owned cheifly by China and Japan. Maybe America should start thinking about partnering NASA with JAXA and doing something that actually matters and that people will care about. Collecting soil samples? Meh. Space Station? Ooh. Moon Missions? Warmer! Moon Missions with Future Moon Colony? HELL YEAH!
And I mean lets be honest - Mars is interesting and dreams of future colonization are great - but if we can't even develop the moon then continued surveys of Mars are realtively meaningless. Let's get things going on the moon and use that as a springboard towards Mars.
Actually I'll call bullshit on this and for a good reason: I recently purchased an Asus Zenbook UX21. Up untill this point I have never purchased Asus gear and have always gone for Toshiba and Fujitsu notebooks which have never let me down. But this Zenbook was preposteriously inexepensive, exactly the form factor I needed, and immediately available so I went for it. I'm so glad I did - I love the thing. It's well constructed and has killer hardware, the screen is nice, the keyboard is nice, it even looks nice. There are some small complaints about it sure but they are negligable unless I want to spend twice the price for a Toshiba Ultrabook (which looks fantastic, but basically the same specs + some minor polish and a few bells and whistles at 2x the price).
If anyone can pull off a great Android tablet on a budget it's Asus.
Done. And you can add MATE and Cinnamon easily with PPA. Personally I'm using Gnome Shell and I've grown to love it - but I can easily understand why people like Gnome 2 (which I myself didn't want to give up). Unity I don't like on the desktop but I'd like to try it out on a tablet at some point.
Posting because I tried to mod you "informative" but accidentally hit "redundant". Sorry.
But yes, THIS. The origin of the technology is "FeliCa" which started development in 1988 and was released in 1994. At this point here in Japan I have my train pass and cash on my phone and IC based systems are used in so many places now I could basically get by with nothing but my phone and drivers license.
That absolutely wasn't my point and I could care less about rehabilitation. My point was - and this is a blatant reality in the security industry - that the people who best know how to secure systems are the people who know how to break them. Many many security consultants are people who have been picked up by firms at "hacking" conferences like Black Hat and those are exactly the type of people I want auditing my network.
You're also comparing pedophiles to a group of hackers who, as far as I know, have not performed hacks that were particularly damaging and in some cases were executed specifically to draw attention to some flaw or social injustice. I'm not calling them heroes or anything but in a world with corrupt politicians and blatant exploitation I question why some unemployed guy with a family who pasted some fake news stories is going to go to jail.
And fuck yeah you don't give a paedophile a job in a nursery but if you can't see the difference between that and this there's something fucking wrong with you.
I'm sorry but I don't understand what you are trying to say. I was trying to point out that the people who know the most about how to protect a system are the same people who know how to break it. If anything my comment should be taken as a compliment to the lulz guys and to hacking groups in general - not for their principles (though lately many of thier actions against blatantly corrupt and anti-societal organizations have made me a bit of a fan), but for their ability and skill.
And I doubt they're out of lulz, but if the people arrested were truly some of their leaders then they are surely pissed off. The news in coming days should be interesting.
When Mitnick came out of prison he was out of the loop for a while so that's knid of an unfair comparison. Besides, Mitnick used his position to start his own company - and being a famous hacker is a damn good selling point. Still, in a strange twist he made awful decisions for his own company: http://www.2600.com/news/view/article/1531 . And if I was at all security related this is the first kind of person I'd be looking for. I mean think about it, who would you hire to do a security audit: someone who's broken into tons of systems or someone with an MCSE who took a weekend seminar about how to make IIS suck less?
Hey I'm just going off of information I got from searches pertaining to Chevy - it's not my fault Toyota uses superior technology and engineering! But I digress, what's the use in comparing the shiny and delicious apples of Toyota to the rotten oranges of Chevy?
And I'll have you know I'm smoking nothing - I'm currently saving up to buy a Toyota Vellfire Hybrid.
Now somebody with points mod Macman408 Informative.
Actually what you should do is register that on Wikipedia so that when other people search for it you get a hit from a source people generally assume to be reliable.
If you're not interested enough to check others facts then why bother asking for citation. Even if someone posts a bunch of links backing up their statements it doesn't mean they are true - that's up for you to judge. And if it's up to you to judge in the fist place you're better off NOT basing that judgement off of what someone [with an assumed bias or agenda] is providing you.
Also it's a pain in the ass to have to provide links because someone didn't take 2 minutes to type 4 words into a search box and read the previews of the first few links.
Can you not use google? Hybrids have expected need for replacement at 10 to 12 years, electrics seem to be estimated at 10* but I'd bet it will be less in reality (and Chevy took that into account because they set the warranty at 8 years). This is information you can get with a simple search for "chevy volt batter replacement". If you have to write [Citation needed.] because somebody didn't write a bibliography for their post then you fail at using the internet.
*assuming they don't burst into flame 2 days after you buy the damn thing.
I'm coding Ruby and CoffeeScript at this very moment and I know Python and Haskell (never learned Lisp). I've seen "this" context change differently on different browsers before so rules or not it's behavior is unpredictable, so I consider it's behavior to be random and take precautions. Avoiding "this" is often not an option and trying to use it as little as possible is a waste of time. This is why so many people do things like have the first line of their script assing the entrant context of "this" to a different variable and also why => in CoffeeScipt is nice.
Sorry I didn't write a dissertation validating each of the points I made. I also don't see how you can call me a troll and then basically validate my point.
Oh man that post was a disaster. It looks like I'm illiterate. I should have paid more attention and actually previewed. *I don't think -> I think *it does seem like a good choice -> ""
I don't think it's more of JS being a questionable solution to the problem. Particularly there are concepts that should be dealt with when learning to program that JS just doesn't do well. I wouldn't want to teach people how to deal with binary data in JS for example (a problem I've had to deal with before in JS and let me tell you it isn't pretty). As far as practicality goes it does seem like a good choice - and as long as the course isn't aiming to make people into programmers but rather just give them the skills to do a few neat things real quickly it's probably a good choice.
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Actually Sharp is a component manufacturer as well - I buy a variety of Sharp components and I'm pretty sure they are made in Japan. I've got a Sharp 5V regulator sitting on my desk right now and it has "Japan" clearly (but very tiny) printed on it. Toshiba makes amazingly good components as well.
DesktopsOnDemand will be a different corporate entity. In otherwords MS can sue DesktopsOnDemand into the ground and tuCloud will be unscathed. The guy is setting up another company that CAN go down in flames and just be scrapped if needed. As someone who's been harrassed by MS in the past I have to say I love this idea and I find the whole thing intensely entertaining.
I had this exact issue for a while and it took a good half year to make my wife realize that sitting down in front of a screen does not mean I'm free to be called on.
Now I'm mostly uninterrupted when I'm working (unless I want to be interrupted) and I get to take sex breaks while the kids are at school.
I don't mean to gloat but replace "scotch" with "coffee" and that's basically my daily routine.
I have a full service coffee shop just down the street from me which I use for meetings - clients LOVE it.
Two things:
1. You need the big puffy headphones which block out sound - I've got a pair on now.
2. I went in to a Regus office once to check it out because I was under the impression something like that would be cheaper than renting a full office. At the time I had a group of 6 people and they offered us a walk-in closet for the price of a new sedan each month. We ended up renting a nicely sized (3 office rooms one common) place about 5 minutes away for 1/16th the price. I have no idea how Regus manages to swindle people - you'd think people successful enough at business to afford Regus would be smart enough to realize how awful a deal it is.
I work from home and this is absolutely correct.
Though sometimes I must admit when the kids have they day off school I'll cheat and bring them out then pull an all nighter.
Also - lock on the office door and let everyone know unless someone is bleeding or the house is on fire locked = concentrating/on phone with clients/do not disturb.
The only point I was trying to make was that China and Japan own a fuck of a lot of US debt and that whoring out NASA to one of them could be an extremely productive measure.
And the US debt held by foreign nations IS chiefly heald by China and Japan.
I just looked it up - 47% of American debt is owned by foreign entities so you are technically correct in pointing out that the majority of American debt is in fact owned by Americans... though I certainly wouldn't call 3% a vast gap. I also wonder how much is owned by US subsidiaries of foreign corporations or purchased through American investment firms in conglomerate packages partially owned by foreign enteties.
Reguardless, that 47% is $4.45 trillion. You don't even have a net positive income! Look at this: http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/glance.htm . The only thing keeping the US Dollar alive right now is foreigners purchasing that debt. There is absolutely no way you'll be able to pay that off without cutting a lot of big international deals and if you are talking about cutting billion dollar deals I'd say space exlporation and development is a kick ass venue.
America also has a massive ammount of debt - owned cheifly by China and Japan. Maybe America should start thinking about partnering NASA with JAXA and doing something that actually matters and that people will care about. Collecting soil samples? Meh. Space Station? Ooh. Moon Missions? Warmer! Moon Missions with Future Moon Colony? HELL YEAH!
And I mean lets be honest - Mars is interesting and dreams of future colonization are great - but if we can't even develop the moon then continued surveys of Mars are realtively meaningless. Let's get things going on the moon and use that as a springboard towards Mars.
Nice one. I'll bet 90% of the slashdot populus doesn't get how good of a follow up joke that is - which is exactly why it's so good.
Actually I'll call bullshit on this and for a good reason: I recently purchased an Asus Zenbook UX21. Up untill this point I have never purchased Asus gear and have always gone for Toshiba and Fujitsu notebooks which have never let me down. But this Zenbook was preposteriously inexepensive, exactly the form factor I needed, and immediately available so I went for it. I'm so glad I did - I love the thing. It's well constructed and has killer hardware, the screen is nice, the keyboard is nice, it even looks nice. There are some small complaints about it sure but they are negligable unless I want to spend twice the price for a Toshiba Ultrabook (which looks fantastic, but basically the same specs + some minor polish and a few bells and whistles at 2x the price).
If anyone can pull off a great Android tablet on a budget it's Asus.
I'm Japanese and I can tell you we don't make octopus this way.
sudo apt-get install your_preferred_environemnt
Done. And you can add MATE and Cinnamon easily with PPA. Personally I'm using Gnome Shell and I've grown to love it - but I can easily understand why people like Gnome 2 (which I myself didn't want to give up). Unity I don't like on the desktop but I'd like to try it out on a tablet at some point.
Posting because I tried to mod you "informative" but accidentally hit "redundant". Sorry.
But yes, THIS. The origin of the technology is "FeliCa" which started development in 1988 and was released in 1994. At this point here in Japan I have my train pass and cash on my phone and IC based systems are used in so many places now I could basically get by with nothing but my phone and drivers license.
That absolutely wasn't my point and I could care less about rehabilitation. My point was - and this is a blatant reality in the security industry - that the people who best know how to secure systems are the people who know how to break them. Many many security consultants are people who have been picked up by firms at "hacking" conferences like Black Hat and those are exactly the type of people I want auditing my network.
You're also comparing pedophiles to a group of hackers who, as far as I know, have not performed hacks that were particularly damaging and in some cases were executed specifically to draw attention to some flaw or social injustice. I'm not calling them heroes or anything but in a world with corrupt politicians and blatant exploitation I question why some unemployed guy with a family who pasted some fake news stories is going to go to jail.
And fuck yeah you don't give a paedophile a job in a nursery but if you can't see the difference between that and this there's something fucking wrong with you.
I'm sorry but I don't understand what you are trying to say. I was trying to point out that the people who know the most about how to protect a system are the same people who know how to break it. If anything my comment should be taken as a compliment to the lulz guys and to hacking groups in general - not for their principles (though lately many of thier actions against blatantly corrupt and anti-societal organizations have made me a bit of a fan), but for their ability and skill.
And I doubt they're out of lulz, but if the people arrested were truly some of their leaders then they are surely pissed off. The news in coming days should be interesting.
You're making the assumption their activities have been interrupted.... hell this may just piss them off and increase their aggressiveness.
Like kicking a beehive.
When Mitnick came out of prison he was out of the loop for a while so that's knid of an unfair comparison. Besides, Mitnick used his position to start his own company - and being a famous hacker is a damn good selling point. Still, in a strange twist he made awful decisions for his own company: http://www.2600.com/news/view/article/1531 . And if I was at all security related this is the first kind of person I'd be looking for. I mean think about it, who would you hire to do a security audit: someone who's broken into tons of systems or someone with an MCSE who took a weekend seminar about how to make IIS suck less?
Hey I'm just going off of information I got from searches pertaining to Chevy - it's not my fault Toyota uses superior technology and engineering! But I digress, what's the use in comparing the shiny and delicious apples of Toyota to the rotten oranges of Chevy?
And I'll have you know I'm smoking nothing - I'm currently saving up to buy a Toyota Vellfire Hybrid.
Now somebody with points mod Macman408 Informative.
Actually what you should do is register that on Wikipedia so that when other people search for it you get a hit from a source people generally assume to be reliable.
If you're not interested enough to check others facts then why bother asking for citation. Even if someone posts a bunch of links backing up their statements it doesn't mean they are true - that's up for you to judge. And if it's up to you to judge in the fist place you're better off NOT basing that judgement off of what someone [with an assumed bias or agenda] is providing you.
Also it's a pain in the ass to have to provide links because someone didn't take 2 minutes to type 4 words into a search box and read the previews of the first few links.
Can you not use google? Hybrids have expected need for replacement at 10 to 12 years, electrics seem to be estimated at 10* but I'd bet it will be less in reality (and Chevy took that into account because they set the warranty at 8 years). This is information you can get with a simple search for "chevy volt batter replacement". If you have to write [Citation needed.] because somebody didn't write a bibliography for their post then you fail at using the internet.
*assuming they don't burst into flame 2 days after you buy the damn thing.
I'm coding Ruby and CoffeeScript at this very moment and I know Python and Haskell (never learned Lisp). I've seen "this" context change differently on different browsers before so rules or not it's behavior is unpredictable, so I consider it's behavior to be random and take precautions. Avoiding "this" is often not an option and trying to use it as little as possible is a waste of time. This is why so many people do things like have the first line of their script assing the entrant context of "this" to a different variable and also why => in CoffeeScipt is nice.
Sorry I didn't write a dissertation validating each of the points I made. I also don't see how you can call me a troll and then basically validate my point.
Oh man that post was a disaster. It looks like I'm illiterate. I should have paid more attention and actually previewed.
*I don't think -> I think
*it does seem like a good choice -> ""
And yes English is not my primary language.
I don't think it's more of JS being a questionable solution to the problem. Particularly there are concepts that should be dealt with when learning to program that JS just doesn't do well. I wouldn't want to teach people how to deal with binary data in JS for example (a problem I've had to deal with before in JS and let me tell you it isn't pretty). As far as practicality goes it does seem like a good choice - and as long as the course isn't aiming to make people into programmers but rather just give them the skills to do a few neat things real quickly it's probably a good choice.