Glad mine were only 5% and consolidated to 3% after I graduated a few years back (and then subsequently paid in full within 2-3 years)... I do have to admit, right now if I was graduating as an undergrad, I would probably be thinking stay in school another 2 years for that Masters or 3-4 more for that Doctorate. I was in on the tail end of the 2000-2002 dot-com bubble burst, but I had made my bets on Government/military contractors and had done co-op's at one of the large ones during my undergrad study. They hired me full time even before I completed my degree, in which I changed to a part time student to finish up my last few credits. A lot of my friends stayed for grad work because of the poor market at the time. The few that didn't stay on for graduate did other things to make ends meet (bartending, and even the dreaded big box store computer repair).
That is kind of what people need to do now as well. Find a way to go for a masters degree, or if you still have the time, do a co-op or internship at a company that isn't going to go anywhere anytime soon (think IBM... etc.). Yes, you won't be making the start-up kind of salary, but when you have that much loan dept, you need to be thinking steady work for a while. Your credit rating is really EVERYTHING. So you need to get in-coming cash to pay down that loan and do it on time without missing payments to keep your credit rating good (and growing). You are going to need that good credit within a few years to do things like buy a house...
How the hell can you trust a corporation to handle the military security? No really, who the fuck had this brilliant idea?
Do you have any idea of how the US military works at all? The military itself makes very few products. Just about everything from the bullets fired, the guns that fire them, the planes that carry the guns, the engines that power the planes, the radar that guides aims the guns, etc., etc., etc., was all designed and built by a "corporation", which simply met a spec that the military asked for. The military basically says, I need a plane that can go at least mach 2, can carry X number of pounds of air to ground or air to air weapons, has X% stealth capability, has a range of X miles, can land on a aircraft carrier, etc., etc... and costs about X dollars. Multiple designs are submitted by different companies that think they can meet or exceed spec, and the military then selects one or two to build a prototype and then selects one of those prototypes and then it has another contract bid to actually manufacturer the winning design.
ALL those things are being designed and built by a corporation that handles the military security. Even services for network design, and standard security policy and practices are usually designed and maintained by a corporation! Get a clue man.
They don't lose by default. You still have to prove your case to the Judge, which shouldn't be too hard to do, simply bring documentation about how the update is bricking/breaking PS3 units, documentation showing that your PS3 was affected, and documentation of the cost that Sony quoted you to fix the PS3 that their update broke. The Judge is smart enough to connect the dots, but you still need to show enough proof that your PS3 was affected and you simply are not someone trying to sue for a problem that some people experienced, but not you specifically.
Someone hasn't been keeping up with Apple's products it seems. After the outcry in the beginning of the year with the glossy only displays on the MacBook Pro's, Apple actually listened to their customers and brought the option back. You can get matte on the 15" now as well. The 17" has always had the matte finish option and never lost it even with the switch to the unibody design (unlike the 15" which did become glossy only). The 13" is the only one which does not have a matte option, but I don't see that model as being pertinent for the poster's requirements (aside from cost). For development work, you want that larger screen so you can have multiple files or applications open next to each other for writing code (like the program's design document, or API, or even a test window, etc.)
I still wouldn't call those 6 states/colonies as founded by "Puritans". They were founded by people and groups of people fleeing religious persecution. The actual founders simply had enough pull with the King of England to be given the grant to go found the new colony as long as they abided by English rule. The people that the founders brought with them initially (and advertised to in England and other British holdings/colonies) were mostly from one religious group or another which was being persecuted where they currently lived, which is what gave them the incentive to drop everything and go to the "frontier" where they would be the only people currently present, and thus, would not have some other majority of people who were already there to continue the persecutions.
And in fact, the definition of "Puritan" at that time was "any number of English religious groups which thought that the English Reformation had not gone far enough", in other words, you can IMMEDIATELY remove "Catholics" from that list, since the Catholics were completely AGAINST the Church and England to begin with and were and still are loyal to the Catholic Chruch and the Pope (which the Church of England was created because the King of England didn't like how the Pope had responded about getting a certain marriage annulled...).
As subject says. Brakes are still manually connected in case catastrophic failure occurs to the computer systems, you can still hit the brakes and the car will stop (maybe not as fast as when you had the computer still working, but the brake lines are hydrolic pistons which engage as you pressurize the line with the physical movement of the brake. There are only a handful of cars which do not have this manual system in place, basically, drive-by-wire cars, which are only in a select high-end vehicles, particularly the Mercedes-Benz E-class and SL models and Toyota Estima. If you happen to be in one of those vehicles, well, all you have left is to use engine braking (and hope the computer froze with the transmission clutch disengaged so that the drive chain is still engaged to the engine and let the force used in moving the engine pistons slow the car down. This is one of the reasons why I won't buy a car with brake-by-wire, yes it has redundant paths and other safety mechanisms like voting to determine if there might be a fault, but that does not help when there is a fault on all the electronic systems since all of them would be fried in this case.
I agree. We see it with any and all high thermal density chips. The old leaded solder was a much better product in terms of operating lifespan and conditions. The only problem was that there was no required recycling of products which used it. If that was the case, there would have been no problem with it at all since the lead itself was trapped in the medium and not able to be absorbed by humans or animals who were in contact with it in that form. It was only after it was sitting in a landfill with rainwater running down it when the lead would leech out and contaminate the local ground water supply. Again, nothing that mandatory electronics recycling would not fix. Heck, it would probably be worth it to for the amount of copper interconnected contained on the circuit boards would probably pay for the cost of recycling to begin with (especially the way the prices on copper have been going).
As the title says, vote with your wallet. Don't buy the game and send a letter, not an email, to the companies involved and let them know why you are not purchasing their game(s).
And also unfortunately, Parrallels does not have proper hardware level GPU access from systems running in the virtual machine. So no 3D hardware acceleration or CUDA programming support, which happens to usually be the reason(s) for me to try the other OS's.
And as I said, I don't use a Tivo, but a custom built DVR system... And I know I am not the only one out there who does it this way. Tivo is nice and good, but I still don't have control over my recordings with it. I can't make a DVD of the show, for instance, with a Tivo. You can't even transfer it to a computer in order to make the DVD there. So I said screw it with Tivo, and built my own solution, including three, 200 disk DL-DVD burner jukeboxes to easily store/archive anything that I really want to keep around (every now and then Sony engineering/hardware side gets a product past Sony Music/Movie side without them noticing and going ape-$@#^ over). With 4TB local hard drive space plus the 600 available DVD's, I can safely store and record my TV needs and watch it when I want to watch it. While I am no longer in the 18-25 group, I am still part of the large portion of people which advertiser's don't know how to reach.
Personally I use ClamXAV and always have. Mainly because I have a tripple boot system (not that I use much more than OS X, but every once in a while I need to use Windows or Linux for testing something). Because of the fact that there are other operating systems on my box, I wanted an anti-virus in case somehow it could affect the other instances on the system.
At least for my viewing habits. I maybe consistently watch maybe 1-2 shows live each week. Throw in a few hours of channel browsing, usually flipping between Discovery Channel, History Channel, Food Network, NatGeo, SciFi (SyFy), or Military Channel. That said, the shows I really watch, I am recording in HD on my custom built Home Theater PC (HTPC) for watching at my leisure, on my own schedule. It might be a week or two later before I watch a show, but I do watch them. And Neilson doesn't even count me. Probably one of the reasons why shows like Futurama were cut in the fist place, only to finally be put back into production from the out-cry and DVD sales numbers (which told them that Neilson's ratings for the show was complete utter BS).
DING DING DING DING!!! We have a winner! Tell them what they have won Bob.
Seriously, the only things that SCO has shown is in linux that was infringing to begin with was also part of their own linux distribution, and thus, as long as it is properly referenced as GPL'ed code, can be used in other GPL'ed code projects including other linux distributions.
Take your existing parking meter, add a smart card reader, poof, a much better solution to not needing to carry change. You can still use change if you want, but people who frequently deal with parking at meters will usually purchase a pre-paid smart card. Simply insert the pre-paid card into the meter and it will start to increment the time on the meter (deducting it from your card's value as you go). Once you have reached your desired amount of time (or the meter's max, or your card's max), simply remove the card and walk away to your destination. The cards can be purchased at many different locations, including the internet. No major paradigm shift in usage, which both the city and the car owner like (i.e. the city will still get to issue parking tickets (big revenue generator, just see "Parking Wars") for people who didn't put enough time on their meter, and the owner's don't have to worry about having enough change in their pockets).
There are relatively simple solutions to all these problems, and as any programmer knows, drastically changing the structure of your program is only going to introduce more problems.
But as any good programmer should also know, there is a time when you throw out the whole thing because you can't keep cramming in new features and designs on top of antiquated code. There is a point where you have to re-work the entire thing from scratch with all the ideas/features that you want in the design, not patched in on code which wasn't designed to handle or foresee a change like this.
I'm not saying that it won't introduce other problems. But there is a point where the problems of shoe-horning in something to a current design is not the write approach, and the whole system should get looked at.
I wouldn't touch the XBox360 due to this. Even if I got the system for free, unless they also give me a 10 year replacement plan for it, I won't deal with it. I still an original Intellivision I system which works just fine still to this day. As well as a first generation NES, first generation SNES, N64, Gameboy, PS2, all of which are 10 years old (or in the case of the NES 23). They all work perfectly fine, and I expect my consoles to run that long. And yes, I still do play the Intellivision, "Night Stalker", and "Tron Deadly Discs" are awesome games even today.
Only works if you always have the enough cash for all your purchases. While I would agree that it can help in many situations, the fact of the matter is, almost no one will have $250,000+ in cash to purchase a home, and only some will have the $15,000-50,000 to purchase a car. Other purchases may very well be fine, but for those few big ticket items, cash only would be very difficult for most of the population. Even getting the 10-20% needed for a down-payment on a house is difficult for the majority of people when houses cost in the $150,000+ range, and you can forget about it if you happen to be in New York City, San Francisco, or L.A., where even a tiny 1 room condo will be in the $350,000+ range, let alone a 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath house...
Now all they have time for is reading and math. And not really math, but memorization and defined, structured motions of arithmetic functions. What is the point of "reading" when no one is learning how to write, or think critically, or imagine? An memorized functions will only help so far when the real problem is not defined and you have to generate the formulas.
And even according to the current price listed on the linked website, diesel is currently cheaper. Not to mention the MPG savings, so if you do it cost per mile, diesel is much cheaper...
Well, to a point. I guess it depends on how your site is setup. We use a combination of domain and building number and then an incrementing number to get the hostname. It works great for us since we run a large majority of diskless workstations, which boot from a server(s) located within that particular building. Whenever the machine moves to a new location outside the building, we add it's services to the particular building's boot server and rename it (takes about 20 seconds to issue the command, followed by 5 minutes for it to complete and can be done from our desk, no physical involvement needed other then the normal setup of the workstation/network). As long as the gear is simply moving around within a building, nothing gets changed. If it moves between buildings, well, a bunch of other steps need to take place for that to happen, like equipment transfer requests, mover/material handler request, etc., and the 5 minutes it takes for us to process a building move is a pittance compared to the time the other steps take for the move to happen.
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Glad mine were only 5% and consolidated to 3% after I graduated a few years back (and then subsequently paid in full within 2-3 years)... I do have to admit, right now if I was graduating as an undergrad, I would probably be thinking stay in school another 2 years for that Masters or 3-4 more for that Doctorate. I was in on the tail end of the 2000-2002 dot-com bubble burst, but I had made my bets on Government/military contractors and had done co-op's at one of the large ones during my undergrad study. They hired me full time even before I completed my degree, in which I changed to a part time student to finish up my last few credits. A lot of my friends stayed for grad work because of the poor market at the time. The few that didn't stay on for graduate did other things to make ends meet (bartending, and even the dreaded big box store computer repair).
That is kind of what people need to do now as well. Find a way to go for a masters degree, or if you still have the time, do a co-op or internship at a company that isn't going to go anywhere anytime soon (think IBM... etc.). Yes, you won't be making the start-up kind of salary, but when you have that much loan dept, you need to be thinking steady work for a while. Your credit rating is really EVERYTHING. So you need to get in-coming cash to pay down that loan and do it on time without missing payments to keep your credit rating good (and growing). You are going to need that good credit within a few years to do things like buy a house...
How the hell can you trust a corporation to handle the military security? No really, who the fuck had this brilliant idea?
Do you have any idea of how the US military works at all? The military itself makes very few products. Just about everything from the bullets fired, the guns that fire them, the planes that carry the guns, the engines that power the planes, the radar that guides aims the guns, etc., etc., etc., was all designed and built by a "corporation", which simply met a spec that the military asked for. The military basically says, I need a plane that can go at least mach 2, can carry X number of pounds of air to ground or air to air weapons, has X% stealth capability, has a range of X miles, can land on a aircraft carrier, etc., etc... and costs about X dollars. Multiple designs are submitted by different companies that think they can meet or exceed spec, and the military then selects one or two to build a prototype and then selects one of those prototypes and then it has another contract bid to actually manufacturer the winning design.
ALL those things are being designed and built by a corporation that handles the military security. Even services for network design, and standard security policy and practices are usually designed and maintained by a corporation! Get a clue man.
They don't lose by default. You still have to prove your case to the Judge, which shouldn't be too hard to do, simply bring documentation about how the update is bricking/breaking PS3 units, documentation showing that your PS3 was affected, and documentation of the cost that Sony quoted you to fix the PS3 that their update broke. The Judge is smart enough to connect the dots, but you still need to show enough proof that your PS3 was affected and you simply are not someone trying to sue for a problem that some people experienced, but not you specifically.
Someone hasn't been keeping up with Apple's products it seems. After the outcry in the beginning of the year with the glossy only displays on the MacBook Pro's, Apple actually listened to their customers and brought the option back. You can get matte on the 15" now as well. The 17" has always had the matte finish option and never lost it even with the switch to the unibody design (unlike the 15" which did become glossy only). The 13" is the only one which does not have a matte option, but I don't see that model as being pertinent for the poster's requirements (aside from cost). For development work, you want that larger screen so you can have multiple files or applications open next to each other for writing code (like the program's design document, or API, or even a test window, etc.)
I still wouldn't call those 6 states/colonies as founded by "Puritans". They were founded by people and groups of people fleeing religious persecution. The actual founders simply had enough pull with the King of England to be given the grant to go found the new colony as long as they abided by English rule. The people that the founders brought with them initially (and advertised to in England and other British holdings/colonies) were mostly from one religious group or another which was being persecuted where they currently lived, which is what gave them the incentive to drop everything and go to the "frontier" where they would be the only people currently present, and thus, would not have some other majority of people who were already there to continue the persecutions.
And in fact, the definition of "Puritan" at that time was "any number of English religious groups which thought that the English Reformation had not gone far enough", in other words, you can IMMEDIATELY remove "Catholics" from that list, since the Catholics were completely AGAINST the Church and England to begin with and were and still are loyal to the Catholic Chruch and the Pope (which the Church of England was created because the King of England didn't like how the Pope had responded about getting a certain marriage annulled...).
As subject says. Brakes are still manually connected in case catastrophic failure occurs to the computer systems, you can still hit the brakes and the car will stop (maybe not as fast as when you had the computer still working, but the brake lines are hydrolic pistons which engage as you pressurize the line with the physical movement of the brake. There are only a handful of cars which do not have this manual system in place, basically, drive-by-wire cars, which are only in a select high-end vehicles, particularly the Mercedes-Benz E-class and SL models and Toyota Estima. If you happen to be in one of those vehicles, well, all you have left is to use engine braking (and hope the computer froze with the transmission clutch disengaged so that the drive chain is still engaged to the engine and let the force used in moving the engine pistons slow the car down. This is one of the reasons why I won't buy a car with brake-by-wire, yes it has redundant paths and other safety mechanisms like voting to determine if there might be a fault, but that does not help when there is a fault on all the electronic systems since all of them would be fried in this case.
I agree. We see it with any and all high thermal density chips. The old leaded solder was a much better product in terms of operating lifespan and conditions. The only problem was that there was no required recycling of products which used it. If that was the case, there would have been no problem with it at all since the lead itself was trapped in the medium and not able to be absorbed by humans or animals who were in contact with it in that form. It was only after it was sitting in a landfill with rainwater running down it when the lead would leech out and contaminate the local ground water supply. Again, nothing that mandatory electronics recycling would not fix. Heck, it would probably be worth it to for the amount of copper interconnected contained on the circuit boards would probably pay for the cost of recycling to begin with (especially the way the prices on copper have been going).
Too bad you don't live in New York. At least the AG there would LOVE to get his hands on something like this.
As the title says, vote with your wallet. Don't buy the game and send a letter, not an email, to the companies involved and let them know why you are not purchasing their game(s).
And also unfortunately, Parrallels does not have proper hardware level GPU access from systems running in the virtual machine. So no 3D hardware acceleration or CUDA programming support, which happens to usually be the reason(s) for me to try the other OS's.
And as I said, I don't use a Tivo, but a custom built DVR system... And I know I am not the only one out there who does it this way. Tivo is nice and good, but I still don't have control over my recordings with it. I can't make a DVD of the show, for instance, with a Tivo. You can't even transfer it to a computer in order to make the DVD there. So I said screw it with Tivo, and built my own solution, including three, 200 disk DL-DVD burner jukeboxes to easily store/archive anything that I really want to keep around (every now and then Sony engineering/hardware side gets a product past Sony Music/Movie side without them noticing and going ape-$@#^ over). With 4TB local hard drive space plus the 600 available DVD's, I can safely store and record my TV needs and watch it when I want to watch it. While I am no longer in the 18-25 group, I am still part of the large portion of people which advertiser's don't know how to reach.
Personally I use ClamXAV and always have. Mainly because I have a tripple boot system (not that I use much more than OS X, but every once in a while I need to use Windows or Linux for testing something). Because of the fact that there are other operating systems on my box, I wanted an anti-virus in case somehow it could affect the other instances on the system.
At least for my viewing habits. I maybe consistently watch maybe 1-2 shows live each week. Throw in a few hours of channel browsing, usually flipping between Discovery Channel, History Channel, Food Network, NatGeo, SciFi (SyFy), or Military Channel. That said, the shows I really watch, I am recording in HD on my custom built Home Theater PC (HTPC) for watching at my leisure, on my own schedule. It might be a week or two later before I watch a show, but I do watch them. And Neilson doesn't even count me. Probably one of the reasons why shows like Futurama were cut in the fist place, only to finally be put back into production from the out-cry and DVD sales numbers (which told them that Neilson's ratings for the show was complete utter BS).
DING DING DING DING!!! We have a winner! Tell them what they have won Bob.
Seriously, the only things that SCO has shown is in linux that was infringing to begin with was also part of their own linux distribution, and thus, as long as it is properly referenced as GPL'ed code, can be used in other GPL'ed code projects including other linux distributions.
Take your existing parking meter, add a smart card reader, poof, a much better solution to not needing to carry change. You can still use change if you want, but people who frequently deal with parking at meters will usually purchase a pre-paid smart card. Simply insert the pre-paid card into the meter and it will start to increment the time on the meter (deducting it from your card's value as you go). Once you have reached your desired amount of time (or the meter's max, or your card's max), simply remove the card and walk away to your destination. The cards can be purchased at many different locations, including the internet. No major paradigm shift in usage, which both the city and the car owner like (i.e. the city will still get to issue parking tickets (big revenue generator, just see "Parking Wars") for people who didn't put enough time on their meter, and the owner's don't have to worry about having enough change in their pockets).
As subject says. If there is a "Y" cromosome, well, you have a male then...
Damn speech recognition software. Above should be "right" not "write".
There are relatively simple solutions to all these problems, and as any programmer knows, drastically changing the structure of your program is only going to introduce more problems.
But as any good programmer should also know, there is a time when you throw out the whole thing because you can't keep cramming in new features and designs on top of antiquated code. There is a point where you have to re-work the entire thing from scratch with all the ideas/features that you want in the design, not patched in on code which wasn't designed to handle or foresee a change like this.
I'm not saying that it won't introduce other problems. But there is a point where the problems of shoe-horning in something to a current design is not the write approach, and the whole system should get looked at.
I wouldn't touch the XBox360 due to this. Even if I got the system for free, unless they also give me a 10 year replacement plan for it, I won't deal with it. I still an original Intellivision I system which works just fine still to this day. As well as a first generation NES, first generation SNES, N64, Gameboy, PS2, all of which are 10 years old (or in the case of the NES 23). They all work perfectly fine, and I expect my consoles to run that long. And yes, I still do play the Intellivision, "Night Stalker", and "Tron Deadly Discs" are awesome games even today.
Only works if you always have the enough cash for all your purchases. While I would agree that it can help in many situations, the fact of the matter is, almost no one will have $250,000+ in cash to purchase a home, and only some will have the $15,000-50,000 to purchase a car. Other purchases may very well be fine, but for those few big ticket items, cash only would be very difficult for most of the population. Even getting the 10-20% needed for a down-payment on a house is difficult for the majority of people when houses cost in the $150,000+ range, and you can forget about it if you happen to be in New York City, San Francisco, or L.A., where even a tiny 1 room condo will be in the $350,000+ range, let alone a 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath house...
Now all they have time for is reading and math. And not really math, but memorization and defined, structured motions of arithmetic functions. What is the point of "reading" when no one is learning how to write, or think critically, or imagine? An memorized functions will only help so far when the real problem is not defined and you have to generate the formulas.
Too bad the off-duty police officer who had to tackle/subdue the guy to keep him from continuing the attack would beg to differ with you.
And even according to the current price listed on the linked website, diesel is currently cheaper. Not to mention the MPG savings, so if you do it cost per mile, diesel is much cheaper...
Well, to a point. I guess it depends on how your site is setup. We use a combination of domain and building number and then an incrementing number to get the hostname. It works great for us since we run a large majority of diskless workstations, which boot from a server(s) located within that particular building. Whenever the machine moves to a new location outside the building, we add it's services to the particular building's boot server and rename it (takes about 20 seconds to issue the command, followed by 5 minutes for it to complete and can be done from our desk, no physical involvement needed other then the normal setup of the workstation/network). As long as the gear is simply moving around within a building, nothing gets changed. If it moves between buildings, well, a bunch of other steps need to take place for that to happen, like equipment transfer requests, mover/material handler request, etc., and the 5 minutes it takes for us to process a building move is a pittance compared to the time the other steps take for the move to happen.
Bus must not have been a school bus with no shocks, but one of those cross-country starliners with all the bells and whistles...