...as you write the spec: $1.00...after you ship a few: $1,000,000,000.00
That should be:
Even more testing equipment, staff, and time to check for and fix every bug every time: $5B / revision Testing enough so this happens only once in a while: $1B / once in a while
Oh, it's tremendous fun to go through an automated toll with a rental car. First the toll authority sends a bill for $1 to the rental company. Then the rental company charges your card (that's still in their system) for $15 based on the fine print in the rental agreement. A run through a lengthy toll road with five or six toll monitors results in individual bills for each one and can get you a bill from the rental company for a hundred or more.
Shift some of the oil subsidies toward this initiative.
A subsidy is when the government gives you taxpayer's money. A tax break is when the government takes less of your money away. The article you linked to is about tax breaks, not subsidies. An example of a subsidy is the money given to large farming companies to not grow crops.
Ah, but it should be a trebuchet! They have a much higher trajectory arc than a mere catapult and that's a more desired feature since the smugglers are trying to get payload over a fence.
The same old tired promises we've been hearing since 2007. Where's the beef?
There's enough beef already, not to mention pork, with several mentions of "new investments" and the like, ie: more government spending of money that doesn't exist. I want to know 'where's the lean?' Small percentage cuts in the small percentage of the budget that is discretionary spending? Let me know when that adds up to a noticeable percentage of the whole of federal spending.
I used to use a firefox plugin to replicate the OMG Ponies layout but newer versions of both slashcode and FF broke it:( Every time there is an update, I hope for user selectable styles and that to be on the list.
We, as consumers, wholeheartedly support the FCC and net neutrality.
Maybe you do, but I don't. The federal agencies are lately (last 40 years or so and getting worse) running roughshod over we the citizens. Unelected federal employees from the EPA to the FCC to the NRO are making sweeping decisions based on their personal agendas (and with barely tacit consent of the chief executive) without legislative oversight or any recourse for complaint against them other than lengthy and expensive lawsuits. And the rules stand until the lawsuits are resolved in most cases! Beware that you applaud a federal agency's arbitrary ruling just because you like this particular one; the next one will just as likely bite you.
If the water were not cooled prior to putting it back in the local river or lake, the heat would kill all the fish and the algae would flourish like mad. The lake or river would be a nasty mess in short order.
You do realize Admiral Yamamoto was not in the Atlantic and he didn't use German Enigma machines, right? You do see how the AC responding to the Battle of the Atlantic and naval Enigma machines with a comment about Yamamoto is a total non sequitur, right?
Congrats; Your placement of Admiral Yamamoto using a German naval Enigma machine in the Battle of the Atlantic is the most non sequitur comment this week on/.
Or it could mean that since Yahoo Mail alone has 300M registered users (never mind their other services) then 1M having a problem is statistically insignificant.
To whom?
To the internet community as a whole which needs big providers like Yahoo to make the switch to 6 even if it means a relative few need to go buy new home routers or otherwise update their setups.
Or it could mean that since Yahoo Mail alone has 300M registered users (never mind their other services) then 1M having a problem is statistically insignificant.
People were saying the same things about the Japanese in the 1950,s and 1960's.
Except that Japan is a parliamentary democracy with regular and peaceful ruling party changes. Ask the latest Nobel Peace Prize winner if its just needless hand-wringing to worry about the Chinese authorities getting their hands on yet more latest tech.
Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it... see: software piracy, high speed trains, stealth fighters, aircraft carriers. Up next: commercial aircraft!
Wouldn't work. The company would always care about its own security.
Not only that but the company also cares about support costs. Ask your helpdesk manager how many more people need to hired to support not a handful of corporate images on a handful of corporate spec computers but to support every make and model that everyone will run out to buy. The first day of this new policy, what are you going to do about the people whose local shop $199 beige box came with Vista Home Basic that needs to connect to the corporate network? Sounds like a support nightmare to me.
Please re-read his and my post; he said Smith created the idea of a market economic system and I said that system already existed naturally and Smith just recorded it.
Adam Smith created a philosophy of economics based on the division of labour and laize faire capitalism
Smith didn't create anything other than his book; he observed and wrote down what he witnessed as economic activity in different countries around Europe. The practices he describes are what people do when left alone versus when government meddles in their business. Marx is the one who created a philosophy of economics by dreaming up what he thought would be fair.
Is this guy some sort of libertarian or pre-reagan-republican or something?
No, he's a Democrat. That's why he's fixing the $27B budget deficit by cutting $20M worth of cell phone bills. A libertarian would have the state declare bankruptcy and nullify the state employee union's contract and pensions. That would fix the budget problem in one fell swoop and probably get him assassinated by the next morning.
in an orbit 20 times closer than Mercury is to the Sun.
What am missing?
This is the part I don't get - does it mean 1/20th? I hate it when people write about "times", a word meaning multiples, to describe something as less! Isn't it much clearer to say Mercury is 20 times farther from our sun than this planet is from its?
So what you are saying is that slavery might be ok if we defined a contract, let people enter into it of their own free will and granted them a fair amount of compensation in return for their services.
ie: I think you missed the point.
Slavery made into voluntary contractual agreements with compensation for services bears more than a passing resemblance to 'going to work'.
That's also the problem with these projects. They include everything under the sun in one project budget, instead of splitting it out into multiple smaller budgets.
I'll bet the real problem is scope creep. It probably started out as a two year, $100M project ten years ago and every nine months the requirements are rewritten so that the current work is 50% scrapped and another year and a half and $100M are added. It stinks of poor executive management support and inadequate project management pushback to changes.
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Have to disagree.. Cloud is the most abused word, and also the most irritating.
Nah, "cloud" is just overused, not abused. "Cyber" is the most abused word.
...as you write the spec: $1.00 ...after you ship a few: $1,000,000,000.00
That should be:
Even more testing equipment, staff, and time to check for and fix every bug every time: $5B / revision
Testing enough so this happens only once in a while: $1B / once in a while
You do the math.
Oh, it's tremendous fun to go through an automated toll with a rental car. First the toll authority sends a bill for $1 to the rental company. Then the rental company charges your card (that's still in their system) for $15 based on the fine print in the rental agreement. A run through a lengthy toll road with five or six toll monitors results in individual bills for each one and can get you a bill from the rental company for a hundred or more.
Shift some of the oil subsidies toward this initiative.
A subsidy is when the government gives you taxpayer's money. A tax break is when the government takes less of your money away. The article you linked to is about tax breaks, not subsidies. An example of a subsidy is the money given to large farming companies to not grow crops.
Ah, but it should be a trebuchet! They have a much higher trajectory arc than a mere catapult and that's a more desired feature since the smugglers are trying to get payload over a fence.
The same old tired promises we've been hearing since 2007. Where's the beef?
There's enough beef already, not to mention pork, with several mentions of "new investments" and the like, ie: more government spending of money that doesn't exist. I want to know 'where's the lean?' Small percentage cuts in the small percentage of the budget that is discretionary spending? Let me know when that adds up to a noticeable percentage of the whole of federal spending.
I used to use a firefox plugin to replicate the OMG Ponies layout but newer versions of both slashcode and FF broke it :( Every time there is an update, I hope for user selectable styles and that to be on the list.
We, as consumers, wholeheartedly support the FCC and net neutrality.
Maybe you do, but I don't. The federal agencies are lately (last 40 years or so and getting worse) running roughshod over we the citizens. Unelected federal employees from the EPA to the FCC to the NRO are making sweeping decisions based on their personal agendas (and with barely tacit consent of the chief executive) without legislative oversight or any recourse for complaint against them other than lengthy and expensive lawsuits. And the rules stand until the lawsuits are resolved in most cases! Beware that you applaud a federal agency's arbitrary ruling just because you like this particular one; the next one will just as likely bite you.
Because those are mutually exclusive, huh?
Yes; one group is cost effective while the other is an affectation.
Then why do they have cooling towers?
If the water were not cooled prior to putting it back in the local river or lake, the heat would kill all the fish and the algae would flourish like mad. The lake or river would be a nasty mess in short order.
You do realize Admiral Yamamoto was not in the Atlantic and he didn't use German Enigma machines, right? You do see how the AC responding to the Battle of the Atlantic and naval Enigma machines with a comment about Yamamoto is a total non sequitur, right?
I think Admiral Yamamoto might beg to differ.
Congrats; Your placement of Admiral Yamamoto using a German naval Enigma machine in the Battle of the Atlantic is the most non sequitur comment this week on /.
Or it could mean that since Yahoo Mail alone has 300M registered users (never mind their other services) then 1M having a problem is statistically insignificant.
To whom?
To the internet community as a whole which needs big providers like Yahoo to make the switch to 6 even if it means a relative few need to go buy new home routers or otherwise update their setups.
Or it could mean that since Yahoo Mail alone has 300M registered users (never mind their other services) then 1M having a problem is statistically insignificant.
Whereas if you want to ship from Taiwan to the UK, you've got bits of India, the whole of Africa and a few bits of Europe in your way.
There's this amazing new invention called the Suez Canal.
And people say Americans are the ones who are poor at geography.
People were saying the same things about the Japanese in the 1950,s and 1960's.
Except that Japan is a parliamentary democracy with regular and peaceful ruling party changes. Ask the latest Nobel Peace Prize winner if its just needless hand-wringing to worry about the Chinese authorities getting their hands on yet more latest tech.
Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it... see: software piracy, high speed trains, stealth fighters, aircraft carriers. Up next: commercial aircraft!
Wouldn't work. The company would always care about its own security.
Not only that but the company also cares about support costs. Ask your helpdesk manager how many more people need to hired to support not a handful of corporate images on a handful of corporate spec computers but to support every make and model that everyone will run out to buy. The first day of this new policy, what are you going to do about the people whose local shop $199 beige box came with Vista Home Basic that needs to connect to the corporate network? Sounds like a support nightmare to me.
Please re-read his and my post; he said Smith created the idea of a market economic system and I said that system already existed naturally and Smith just recorded it.
Adam Smith created a philosophy of economics based on the division of labour and laize faire capitalism
Smith didn't create anything other than his book; he observed and wrote down what he witnessed as economic activity in different countries around Europe. The practices he describes are what people do when left alone versus when government meddles in their business. Marx is the one who created a philosophy of economics by dreaming up what he thought would be fair.
Is this guy some sort of libertarian or pre-reagan-republican or something?
No, he's a Democrat. That's why he's fixing the $27B budget deficit by cutting $20M worth of cell phone bills. A libertarian would have the state declare bankruptcy and nullify the state employee union's contract and pensions. That would fix the budget problem in one fell swoop and probably get him assassinated by the next morning.
Win Phone 7 is simply using "the cloud" for its virtual memory swap space.
What do you mean, "using" the cloud? With this much bandwidth I think the phones ARE the cloud.
in an orbit 20 times closer than Mercury is to the Sun.
What am missing?
This is the part I don't get - does it mean 1/20th? I hate it when people write about "times", a word meaning multiples, to describe something as less! Isn't it much clearer to say Mercury is 20 times farther from our sun than this planet is from its?
So what you are saying is that slavery might be ok if we defined a contract, let people enter into it of their own free will and granted them a fair amount of compensation in return for their services.
ie: I think you missed the point.
Slavery made into voluntary contractual agreements with compensation for services bears more than a passing resemblance to 'going to work'.
ie: I think you missed my point.
That's also the problem with these projects. They include everything under the sun in one project budget, instead of splitting it out into multiple smaller budgets.
I'll bet the real problem is scope creep. It probably started out as a two year, $100M project ten years ago and every nine months the requirements are rewritten so that the current work is 50% scrapped and another year and a half and $100M are added. It stinks of poor executive management support and inadequate project management pushback to changes.