A 12"-ish fooBook with all-day battery life is "shut up and take my money" territory for me, and has been for the past decade, but so far nobody is biting
Macbook Air 13" 1440x900 with all day battery life. Tie to break out the cash
We had rifle ranges at two of my middle/high schools (we moved a lot). There were never any problems with firearms at either one.
For the other post down below, it was part of either PE or after school activities.
The nano doesn't have iOS functionality or at least it doesn't provide the iOS api for new apps. IMNHO he nano screen needs to be about twice as wide to be useful in any "more than nerd toy" way.
Inexplicably? The 2nd amendment is the only amendment affecting the profitability of a single specific industry. There is money in gun sales... Not so much in the other amendments.
The NRA is member funded. The NSSF is industry funded. Most NRA members don't care about exports. NSSF members do.
During the Clinton Administration , some of the firearms companies signed agreements with Clinton. Gun purchasers , NRA members, boycotted them until they deals were undone. NRA member goals do not always align with the "gun industry" goals.
Gun owner lobbying isn't like smoker or fuel lobbying. Smaller gun companies are often gun enthusiast created so large segments of the industry are small companies. The same cannot be said for big tobacco or big oil.
but while the ACLU pursues matters through leveraging law, the NRA advocates remedying government amok with a more pointed (or hollow pointed) approach.
The NRA is a citizen funded organization that takes on legal issues through legislation and litigation. I haven't seen any evidence that backs up your assertion the NRA advocates for violent resolution of issues.
School reform and improvement takes time. It takes more time than the 3-4 years your kid will be in the school. Heck even if it took 1/2 the time your kid is in school, your kid would still be behind. Then rinse/repeat at the next school. Parents , in bad schools, have to decide if they are going to sacrifice their kids to the school system in hopes that the kids after them will have it better.
One of the US political parties pushed for vouchers that let kids in bad school move to other schools. Motivated parents in bad schools liked it. The other party opposed vouchers because all the motivated parents would move their kids to better schools. It leaves the bad schools even worse. I understand the logic of opposition but I don't see how the anyone can look mid-poor parents in the eye and tell them that they have to keep their kids in crappy schools that may get better some day. People with money just pay and move.
VMWare Player is great and runs on both hosts you mentioned. VMs created with it can be used on all VMware products if you decide to get more sophisticated later. It also lets you migrate to VMWare Fusion on a MAC if that becomes your host of choice.
I agree. We have one linux laptop on the cocktail table that does nothing but browse the internet and create google docs. We don't need big local storage or an OS with a large security footprint. That is the machine we throw in a backpack when we travel.
$40K is a big quality of life difference in the short and long term. It affects the vacations you can take with your family, non-insured medical issues, the type of college your kids can go to and , the lifestyle you can have when your kids move out. Our schools are good and my kid can have a decent hearing aid because I put in the extra time.
The macbook air has best in class packaging and has a higher resolution display than almost all of the ultrabooks. It's also cheaper than the ultrabooks with similar features, including LCD.
I do reasonable size development on a macbook air with external monitor. It was fast enough to be my enterprise developer platform for java and now for.Net development when booted into windows 7. (Yeah it makes me sad.)
Nothing in your posting addresses the fact that these countries want to move "control of the internet" to the UN so that content can be restricted. People can complain all they want about corporate influence but it's countries that demand wide scale filtering of search results. The "great firewall of china" wasn't created at corporate behest. It was created because governments fear a loss of power and control.
A company like apple is bigger than one person. You don't create a company by yourself. You recruit and motivate the right people. Jobs was able to do that.
These techniques abuse and promote competition rather than cooperation. They train people to view their peers as somewhat benign threats rather than colleagues. I suspect that it's techniques like this that prevent societies from being able to effectively transition to collectivism.
It all depends how you structure the rewards. Most people do part-personal and part-team. We do want high-achievers to feel appreciated but we want to also encourage team work. I've seen this done well with agile teams. They are self organizing so encouraging the high productivity of a team can act as an additional reward.
Doctor and hospital ratings are public scores that we do check. The better the medical rating, the more likely I am to use them. The only caveat is that I expect the system to be policed in a way that it's hard to "game" the scores.
I agree with parent. What's up with the low vertical resolution in the business laptops?
The Macbook Air 1440x900 in a 13" package. Why is that higher than Dells standard 14" resolution?
I worked on a project about 6 years ago where we actually tracked work for the staff across days. The whole "middle of the bell curve" part of our team did significantly less work on their Friday "work at home days". Less email, fewer source code commits, fewer tickets closed. Someone is going to claim it was because they were more "heads down" but I don't buy it given the size repeatability of the differences.
Public speaking classes tell you that over 1/2 of the communication between you and an audience is through non verbal cues including tone and body language, mostly body language. Even regular conversations are better in person because your meeting is better conveyed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_language
If you're job can be done without communication then I can send that job to the cheapest place that can read the directions.
Yup, internet retailers should pay referral fees to the storefronts. People go open the packages and fondle the products in the brick and mortar and then save a couple bucks buying on line. Better staff means a better educated consumer means they can better buy online.
The idea behind the tax is to reduce the profitability high-speed transactions that are akin to gambling. The wall street argument used to be that the high volume/low-margin trades where something that made the market more stable by continually leveling the playing field, closing "errors" in pricing through arbitrage. It turns out that these high volume / low latency trades actually drive the market strongly in times of turmoil. They exaggerate swings moving the market into crisis situations when such situations might have been headed off in the past.
A small tax on financial transactions affects high volume speculators disproportionately does little to the average 401K holder.
Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are right. Buffet has been speaking about this for some time. Gates will probably start talking more since he's started taking the long view rather than the competitive view. Folks can whine all they want about MS competitive practices but Gates is putting his personal money where is mouth is. (See recent Malaria vaccine results)
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A 12"-ish fooBook with all-day battery life is "shut up and take my money" territory for me, and has been for the past decade, but so far nobody is biting
Macbook Air 13" 1440x900 with all day battery life. Tie to break out the cash
We had rifle ranges at two of my middle/high schools (we moved a lot). There were never any problems with firearms at either one. For the other post down below, it was part of either PE or after school activities.
The nano doesn't have iOS functionality or at least it doesn't provide the iOS api for new apps. IMNHO he nano screen needs to be about twice as wide to be useful in any "more than nerd toy" way.
Inexplicably? The 2nd amendment is the only amendment affecting the profitability of a single specific industry. There is money in gun sales... Not so much in the other amendments.
The NRA is member funded. The NSSF is industry funded. Most NRA members don't care about exports. NSSF members do. During the Clinton Administration , some of the firearms companies signed agreements with Clinton. Gun purchasers , NRA members, boycotted them until they deals were undone. NRA member goals do not always align with the "gun industry" goals. Gun owner lobbying isn't like smoker or fuel lobbying. Smaller gun companies are often gun enthusiast created so large segments of the industry are small companies. The same cannot be said for big tobacco or big oil.
but while the ACLU pursues matters through leveraging law, the NRA advocates remedying government amok with a more pointed (or hollow pointed) approach.
The NRA is a citizen funded organization that takes on legal issues through legislation and litigation. I haven't seen any evidence that backs up your assertion the NRA advocates for violent resolution of issues.
School reform and improvement takes time. It takes more time than the 3-4 years your kid will be in the school. Heck even if it took 1/2 the time your kid is in school, your kid would still be behind. Then rinse/repeat at the next school. Parents , in bad schools, have to decide if they are going to sacrifice their kids to the school system in hopes that the kids after them will have it better. One of the US political parties pushed for vouchers that let kids in bad school move to other schools. Motivated parents in bad schools liked it. The other party opposed vouchers because all the motivated parents would move their kids to better schools. It leaves the bad schools even worse. I understand the logic of opposition but I don't see how the anyone can look mid-poor parents in the eye and tell them that they have to keep their kids in crappy schools that may get better some day. People with money just pay and move.
The truth is the US is a country with low upwards mobility, .
Compared to what other country?
Its shrinking the say way as say the browser Silverlight plugin, the Adobe Flash plugin or the abomination called "Active X"
VMWare Player is great and runs on both hosts you mentioned. VMs created with it can be used on all VMware products if you decide to get more sophisticated later. It also lets you migrate to VMWare Fusion on a MAC if that becomes your host of choice.
I agree. We have one linux laptop on the cocktail table that does nothing but browse the internet and create google docs. We don't need big local storage or an OS with a large security footprint. That is the machine we throw in a backpack when we travel.
$40K is a big quality of life difference in the short and long term. It affects the vacations you can take with your family, non-insured medical issues, the type of college your kids can go to and , the lifestyle you can have when your kids move out. Our schools are good and my kid can have a decent hearing aid because I put in the extra time.
I do reasonable size development on a macbook air with external monitor. It was fast enough to be my enterprise developer platform for java and now for .Net development when booted into windows 7. (Yeah it makes me sad.)
Nothing in your posting addresses the fact that these countries want to move "control of the internet" to the UN so that content can be restricted. People can complain all they want about corporate influence but it's countries that demand wide scale filtering of search results. The "great firewall of china" wasn't created at corporate behest. It was created because governments fear a loss of power and control.
I'm not sure how someone is a titan when his last (and only real design) was some time in the 70s.
+1 I wish I had mod points for you.
A company like apple is bigger than one person. You don't create a company by yourself. You recruit and motivate the right people. Jobs was able to do that.
The company was rebuilt after Jobs returned. The new team and focus pretty much made the company what it is today.
These techniques abuse and promote competition rather than cooperation. They train people to view their peers as somewhat benign threats rather than colleagues. I suspect that it's techniques like this that prevent societies from being able to effectively transition to collectivism.
It all depends how you structure the rewards. Most people do part-personal and part-team. We do want high-achievers to feel appreciated but we want to also encourage team work. I've seen this done well with agile teams. They are self organizing so encouraging the high productivity of a team can act as an additional reward.
So its really about finding the right type of "gold star" or reward...
Doctor and hospital ratings are public scores that we do check. The better the medical rating, the more likely I am to use them. The only caveat is that I expect the system to be policed in a way that it's hard to "game" the scores.
I agree with parent. What's up with the low vertical resolution in the business laptops? The Macbook Air 1440x900 in a 13" package. Why is that higher than Dells standard 14" resolution?
I worked on a project about 6 years ago where we actually tracked work for the staff across days. The whole "middle of the bell curve" part of our team did significantly less work on their Friday "work at home days". Less email, fewer source code commits, fewer tickets closed. Someone is going to claim it was because they were more "heads down" but I don't buy it given the size repeatability of the differences.
Public speaking classes tell you that over 1/2 of the communication between you and an audience is through non verbal cues including tone and body language, mostly body language. Even regular conversations are better in person because your meeting is better conveyed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_language
If you're job can be done without communication then I can send that job to the cheapest place that can read the directions.
Yup, internet retailers should pay referral fees to the storefronts. People go open the packages and fondle the products in the brick and mortar and then save a couple bucks buying on line. Better staff means a better educated consumer means they can better buy online.
A small tax on financial transactions affects high volume speculators disproportionately does little to the average 401K holder.
Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are right. Buffet has been speaking about this for some time. Gates will probably start talking more since he's started taking the long view rather than the competitive view. Folks can whine all they want about MS competitive practices but Gates is putting his personal money where is mouth is. (See recent Malaria vaccine results)