Furthermore the business models assumes this, so I don't know why anyone should care. The submitter admitted these sites have very short lifetimes. He ad,kits that he registers several at a time. He admits to mass emails, even though it is 'best practices'. These are all indicators of a shady, yet perfectly legitimate business, and such firms are occasionally going to run into trouble. No one is going to say a wide reformation is necessary because a pawn shop Is closed for a day to sort out fencing issues.
This is unfortunate. The list may in fact be used by oppressed people looking for information and just not oppressed teens looking for naked people. But honestly, wouldn't it be easier just to register 10 more domains, not.info, and send out another email. If the proxy's are ad supported, then yes having them cancelled immidiately sucks, but that again is the cost of doing business.
Ultimately using spamhaus and filters is mostly a vole entry activity. If one does not lke affirm, the best thing to do is stop using them. Again, get a different tld. The only I reason this is on/. Is that it is a proxy.
If you remove risk from business, which means externalizing risk to the taxpayer, then taxes are going to go up and there will be less money to spend. In addition, it is very hard to reduce risk uniformly. It is really arguable that it is more effective top provide oppotunities so that everyone who has a proficiency at running a firm can do so. This means a transportation system that can deliver clients to firms, a legal system that will promote trust between not aquantinted agents, and funds that are directed at startups rather than building big bussiness. While some big bussiness is needed, it is the small business that builds employment by allowing individuals to directly employ themselves, something which should be a priority in a free market economy.
One thing that is often cited, and does make sense, it that perhaps the social safety net is too safe. This becomes evident when someone says that starting a business is too risky. More risky than not having food on the table? I don't think so. Now, a bank may think it is too risky to lend capital to someone without experience, and that is true, but to someone who wants to open a firm? I don't think so. Less safety net, less subsidies to banks that make large loans superior to a highly diversified portfolio, a tax system that makes employment a better situation than just hiding your money. all these will create jobs.
Unfortunately what we have are huge loans made to children of the already successful, small tax rate for those who do not real work, and those that do open their own firms, that do provide services, are taxed so high they can barely make a middle class living.
This really has nothing to do with open and not open, nor the freedom to develop of design. The phone is closed system. The number of people who buy a computer and actually tinker with the insides is small. The number of people who write code for their computer is tiny. This has to do with overall cost and easy availability of free applications, which is why MS beats *nix on the desktop, and Android beats iPhone on the mobile.
Writing code for the Mac has been free since around 2000. Visual studio express has been available only since 2005, and is still very limited. Yet the PC is considered more open than MS. The SCSI and USB and Firewire port has allowed driver free installation of common devices for ever, yet Windows XP which still needed to install a driver for USB drivers is considered more open.
I think if we have a free IDE and open standards, that is open. After that it is pretty much about whether you need every application one can imagine, or can live with a more limited selection. This is why a closed garden is a mistake for MS. MS customers do not expect limitation in choice, only limitations in what MS will let them install. Further, MS is not likely to do the job Apple does in vetting Apps, so it will be more likely that malware slips though, which negates the consumer benefit to the walled garden.
There is a push to give kids a more balanced life. In high school they are not to have homework because it interferes with their free time to volunteer, play sports, have sex. There was a time when a full time student might be expected to spend at least 60 hours studying and many of us would spend 15-20 hours working. In graduate school, many are paid to do work, so they have their classes, studying, studying for qualifications or writing thesis, as well do any whatever they are to do for their professors, such as research, teaching a class, etc.
The thing about being a graduate student is that it is a not an indentured position. Most people who would be graduate students could go into the work force and make a good or better living. Just like anyone in medical school could be a medical assistant in six months. One is a graduate student because the subject is intensely interesting and one want to spend one's young adulthood learning about it.
Now I don't know any graduate school that begs or tricks students into joining. In fact many programs require periodic payment to indicate continued interest. Most will only accept students based on willingness to learn, interest, and ability to work. I don't think any talks of making great sums of money. I don' think any says the path will be easy. This whole things reminds me of The Devil Wears Prada in which a privileged person who wants to break into a very competitive and lucrative field is surprised she has to actually work. Oh the humanity!
Just like most predictions, these missed what actually happened. Though we did automate many manual tasks, and we do have a robot that cleans floors, what was actually automated to lead to the future we are in was the computer, that is the people who would add numbers to other numbers to create the navigational table, the bank statements, the mathematical treatise. Because this, after all, is all the computer is. In much science fiction up until computer actually existed, these calculations were done by hand. Spacecraft were depicted with auto medical bays, but navigation was still done by hand with books.
Yes, these cards did predict robots, but saying they predicted the future would be like a person from the iron age building a cylinder and saying he predicted rockets. It is one thing to take current technology and extrapolate a straight line to the future. It is quite another to predict the divergent thought that will lead to what is the real future.
For instance, a sewing machine does not sew like a human, and have pictures of mechanical hands sewing does not predict the sewing machine. We use fixed wing aircraft that does not flap. Most computing machines did not do additions very quickly, the almost exception being the Difference Engine, and we can do calculus on a computer but still not iron a shirt.
Yes imagining a future is important to progress. But I no longer wish for a flying car, and can think no one that imagined the music industry has meet it's end when TI or Fairchild, take you pick, create the NAND gate.
Seriously, we do need to learn to take care of each other and not constantly be afraid that someone, somewhere, might be doing something we object to. It is like the HPV vaccine. There is a battle not to give it to young people because they might have sex. Might, really? I think that was the reason we give it to them. It is not like there are not already multitudes of excuses. When I was growing up it was that the bible commanded us to go forth and procreate. Who needs an excuse beyond this?
I must admit there is a wide range of maturity issues in boys, even those that are 18, and such a program while noble might not be feasible. If girls were treated equal and the male football or hockey or golf program were not treated as supirior to anything that girls did maybe we would have more success.
A few years ago I was talking to an educational consultant. She was talking about how she read a book stating how brain theory was revolutionizing education. Unfortunately for her thesis I had just read a report out an International metting of brain researchers saying the exact opposite, that while brain research was moving forward, it was still very speculative to apply such research to indicate specific educational practices. I gave her the paper, yet the book length opinion piece was still considered a superior source of information Unfortunately too many educational books suffer from the same fault as business books and self help books. They are often based on anecdotal personal experience and do not make an attempt to bring in varying viewpoints and make critical analysis of other points of view.
Much of my early education was a negotiation with the power base, sometimes the christians that only knew intolerance and force, sometimes the urban school that did not know what to do with me, sometimes the white that felt empowered to take their frustration out on me. It was painful and would have nice to stay at home where I had my books and chemistry set and microscope and library I could walk to, but then how would I learned to negotiate with the christian and white homogeny? Where would I have had a bible study before school? Where would I have learned to to take myself to far off places without my parents controlling me? I am still who my parents want me to be, but in a secure enough shell that I don't have to rebel.
When I was in college, I was with a geek crowd, mostly suburban, all well raised, all from good schools, all a students. First party they all got drunk on quite terrible beer. I was thankful for my exposure to bad habits, and my parents that taught me self control and good habits. I actually believe the most bad habits are developed in the community. Outside of my own neighborhood I spent time in two others. One was a place where violence and gang activity ruled the trailer parks. The other was an upper middle class place where drugs ruled. If I had been in either of those two communities, I probably would have been different. As it was I went to violent and drug infested schools, but the community I grew up based on earning a better life, did not let me fall to the trap of self pity.
I also grew up in a library. My local public library was useful until middle school. My middle school library was useful for a year. University libraries were useful since I left high school. There was little I could do during high school. Libraries are useful for educating a certain class of kid. It is not an education. We separate schools into grades because the mind has different cognitive abilities at different times, and requires different pedagogy. This is real research based. The one big problem with schools is that most school research is based on the pre-pubescent mind. We do not yet know nearly enough of what happens between puberty and adulthood. I know that in high school the academic books in the library were not what interested me, my parents though they new everything, literally, could not motivate me, and it was only school that forced to become someone better. They explicitly gave me the skills to be a life long learner.
I would rephrase the rules differently. A cognitive dissidence that forces.one to compare deeply held assumption against empirical data. A self esteem that is not based on an ability to do repetitive tasks, but toi create meaningful original product. A sense of self that, as one ages, is attached less to pleasing others and more on knowing that one can be emotionally and intellectually independent, without need to satisfy others or a mystical being. Being able to follow instruction when necessary to complete necessary work, such as the production of food, or building of houses that are safe, or driving in a manner that does not endanger others. A realization that one may not be a genius, and that is ok, because wh
You know it is interesting that when the government is taking land from hard working US citizens and giving it to the canadian government so they can move canadian oil into tthe US and increase the indebtedness and serfdom of US citizen to foreign entities, everyone says how wonderful that is. But when government spends money on trying to increase our independence and ability to choose for ourselves without having to consult the United Nations, everyone cry's foul. And if you think there is no link between federal spending and Ca spending, get a clue. Ca, along with New York, is one of the few states that has a net outflow of taxes to the fed. That means that when the US spends money not on anything other than sending it back to the state, Ca is one of the few states where that money is coming from. Not places like Texas where most of the money is given back t the state. Or places like Arizona and Alaska where money is given to the state. Therefore Ca has a great interest in developing technologies that wil make the US less dependent and thus reduce the expenditures.
I am not sure what you think happened with maps. Apple sold only 5 million phones instead of 10 in a saturated market. Dreadful, but iPhone 5 traffic is reported to exceed the Samsung galaxy 3, which means guess who is actually using their pohone? OTOH google lost huge amounts of data overnight and is soon going lose a large chunk of the money that funds adroid development. Goolge live and dies othe ability to mine user data? do you really think collecting personal data on the mapping cars was an acciddnet? iPhone users are buying mapping apps that are superior to google, if no other reason then data is stored locally so phone can get directions when the connection is not good. I bought mine about a year ago. It is good to have. When developers are selling product life is never bad.
You now, all arguments are based on often unstated assumption. The three assumptions for home schooling are that it is inherently preferable for a parent to stay home to be there for the kids if they are needed, and that school as it is now is a negative influence the children who parents want to bring them up in a morale world. The third, and more controversial, is that 12 years of schooling is overkill.
On the parent at home thing, I would argue this is already possible, though it does not happen because there is limited economic value. We no longer mend clothes, cook all meals from scratch, wash clothes by hand, or plant gardens to provide our families fresh nutrition. When I was a kid these things were mostly done, and were done with parents working. But even so, in this free market society people still want to stay home and take care of the house that takes care of itself, to watch soap operas and sports. But they need an excuse to do so. Home schooling is that excuse. And I have no problem with this. I just don't know how much the taxpayer should pay. If parent choose to keep the kids home, then cut expenses of the school proportionately and give back the money to the people who pay the taxes. To those that say we should pay parents to teach the kids, i say what is next, home nursing and pay a parent for putting on band aid, or giving an aspirin.
That said, I think we as a society can afford to make it possible for a parent to stay home. i know families where only one person works, the other parent uses the time to bring production in the house, or does work from home, in order to make ends meet. It can be done if one is willing to sacrifice. We have programs, such as the child tax credit, which makes it possible. Universal free health care for children will also make this more possible. I know parents who pay $500 a month for health insurance. So there are things we can do, that will help all families, not just those that want special treatment.
Second is the perceived immorality of public school. There is nothing that can be done about that. You either buy into the belief that it is ok for people you know to have differing beliefs or you don't. You either buy into the belief that a child is responsible for his or her actions, and if they get into a fight or do drugs that is a reflection on you and your child, or you believe that you have no control and have to do what everyone else is doing. You either believe that conflict resolution is best developed in a hotbed, or you don't. In any case alternatives already exists. One can home school, but, as stated, tax payers can't really pay for your private education. One can go to a private school, and most families can afford it if they want. A neighbor sent all three kids to private school a a very limited budget. Or a family can move elsewhere. Government cannot pander to every special interest, and families have to take some responsibility.
Third is the quality of education. Passing an SAT does not mean quality education. Not passing a state test does not mean a bad education. Again, this is mostly buy in. For instance, many high schools have an international staff which I think we all agree can help in college and work where top employers are now looking for the best employees, not the best americans. many high schools have advanced technological resources, above what many families can afford, and knowing how to use a computer to work, not just play games, is useful. Most parents are not going to have advance study in all subjects, so are not to be able to expose the children to specific questions that come from such study, i.e. teach instead of just show some movies. And I am not talking about the best schools. I am talking about even the well funded below average high schools. This again is buy in. Either deep learning and critical thinking is valuable or it is not. What I will say is that there are not very many manufacturing jobs, sales jobs do not pay as much as they used to, and paper pushing
This is the logic that MS used when trying to push server software. That is was useful for support and ROI to have the same OS running on all machines. Some people found it useful, some did not.
The reality was of course that MS Windows was not a single OS, but a number of related OS with similar user interface. In the days before MS WIndows XP took over the world, there was chaos. MS did two things to alleviate the chaos for developers and users. The first was Visual Studio, which provides what MS calls cross platform, meaning runs on various version of MS Windows, and cross language. The second was IE, which allowed a consistent application front end for the various versions of windows, and for a time Mac OS.
The both show what users want is run programs and a consistent user interface. MS has does a good job providing this. But Apple was also brought up, and the links between OS X and iOS are not as tight as the versions of MS WIndows 8. MS is radically changing the desktop experience to fit the mobile platform. OTOH, Apple is allowing the applications to be different, while focusing on the underlying data protocols, most of which are standard and open. The applications and user interface is different, but the data is the same. This is the lesson of the Newton.
You know it would have been nice to have a shuttle, but I was not so bummed about it. After all, we have had many shuttle views, we have been able to greet astronauts, and a lucky few of us have been in mission control working during a mission. Many of the places who are getting shuttles did not have such a deep connection with the shuttle. Sure, some may have built it, but they did not have the year after year experience, knowing astronauts, seeing the development as we grew up, even seeing launches in non public viewing areas.
Furthermore, where would we put it in Houston. At the joke of a Space Center Houston. It would be an embarrassment. At the Museum of Natural Science. The Musuem is more interested in bling that science. In the new exhibit space, bones are not labeled as real, cast, or other. In the old days, like the Diplodocus, these things were labeled. I know that no one wants to see a planetarium, but using it for a Mayan doomsday thing is just not so useful. And of course the space stuff, which has always been hidden in the basement, is even more relegated to obscurity. Artefacts do not seem to interest people, and the museum is a private foundation.
Not to mention transportation. Houston is not going to cut down trees.
Houston knew the shuttle was ending, and could have built a space museum around it. It did not. We did build a Soccer stadium. Nothing wrong with that, but that is the priorities.
Yeah, because that so well in other countries. We ask all the right wing fundamentalist in the US who just want to force their beliefs on everyone else to just turn off the TV, or better yet don't have a TV and play with your kids, but they instead invoke Sharia law and make us all pay for a V-Chip, including taxpayer money spent on educating people on the v-chip.
Then there are all the Sharia drinking laws. I barely have time to get off a second shift and grab a beer because the religious fundamentalists do not have the self control to moderate their behavior unless everyone else is moderated equally. I imagine that there are safety issues as well with everyone leaving at the same time, instead of a more leisurely and extended exit time.
That are many more examples of cost in human rights, human capital, and human treasure incurred by Sharia law imposed by religious fanatics. In many states we can't properly educate our children because the wingnuts are afraid of educated children. The court system is inundated with frivolous claims, such as when a piece of body jewelry was accidentally exposed at the superbowl. At the national level we cannot pass fiscally prudent policy because everyone is afraid the Pope is going to yell at them.
It is pretty to think that we could just ask the religious fanatic to stop being so sensitive, to just accept that others have different beliefs and priorities, but it just does not work. As long those that think religious law is appropriate in a civil society are allowed to have power, then our rights will be infringed and our treasure stolen.
And I would not be faulting him for that if were to be CEO for HP. But he wants to be President of what he would probably characterize as the greatest and most powerful country in the world. This requires a person that can handle these high pressure situations without appearing crazy. I can argue that i have friends involuntary twitch their heads, or cannot hold a conversation without getting confrontational, or need to pee every half hour. None of these things reflects on the person, but in some cases may indicate they are suited for a certain profession. For example, if Romney is going to smile every time he is asked to give condolences when a marine dies, that may not be good for morale.
Actually, given that Mitt Romney is a Massachusetts Republican, that he pushed universal health care as governor, that his kids are reported to have used fertility treatments that by Paul Ryan standards would involve the murder of babies, I figured it would not be as bad as say the second Bush. I figure a lot of what he is doing is because it is what he is paid to do, and the powers with money really aren't going to let the religious fanatic let the country devolve into a place where those fanatics are free to commit terrorist acts and thus impede commerce. At the end of the day I would, as a middle class person, have to pay more taxes and there may an issue with retirement, but the gloom and doom would not come.
That was until the picture of him smiling over the death of Americans. That is not cool. When people die, even if you don't like them, even if their death is going is going to bring you untold wealth and power, you don't smile. Obama was not caught smiling when he walked up and later down the hall to announce the death of Bin Laden. Someone who is so happy that someone is dead that he can't keep it to himself for even a second scares me more than anything.
It depends on the value and the worth to the company. The problem google had was not that it could not handle the volume of calls, but that it has little to no end use support experience so there resources were not apparently in place at all. As a corporation it needs to gain direct experience supporting end users which is not going to happen if it outsources to Islamabad.
In a not outsourced call center, there is at least the possibility of some being able to talk to a principle face to face for clarification. There is at least the possibility of directly observing the process and adjust the rules and scripts. After five years when the equipment is depreciated or the lease is up, and experience is gained, then the process can be outsourced. There is experience to know if the vendor is scamming you or if there a legitimate reason why 30% of the customers are complaining.
Not all companies can afford a local call center. Google can. End user service si not critical to all companies. It seems to be to Google. Or at least they say it is. By outsourcing what they are really indicating is that they need to have a customer service number so that competitors can't use that as a selling point.
Even as someone who is not a gamer, I would think that I might have heard about a 2 billion dollar company.
So where did the value come from. Facebook was worth gagillion dollars, but was offered for less than 100 billion and is now worth around 40 billion. Like so many people on this site, who believe a product is worth what it cost of what the seller believes it is worh, market realities are a harsh mistress.
I think MS is looking at companies like Google, whose market cap is the same as MS, and then Apple, whose market cap is over twice that of either, and asking why, as the granddaddy of the PC, is not approaching a the trillion dollar market cap. The answer, once again, is to copy Apple. I think this is a mistake. MS makes good products that run on generic machines, and there are many other firms who are willing to make slivers of profits to deliver those generic machines. If MS makes as good software as it says it does, them make software. Competing with those that already make almost no profit is likely not a good long term plan.
Here is why. MS can't make hardware. Sure they have a mouse and a keyboard, but who does not. They make a crap xBox 360 and their response to bad quality is just to replace all the bad machines. Hardware is not software where you can sell an release candidate to the public and fix it later. That is not how you make a profit and profit is what MS lacks.
The resellers are willing to put up with crap profit because MS is taking the risks and fronting the cash. But if MS becomes a competitor, and has the ability to undersell then what is the motive to continue to use MS products. Can you imagine what would happen if Dell, HP, Lenova all got together a funded a uniform XP like *nix desktop and a Wine like compatibility layer? XP is still widely used, and no one is going to be moving in hordes to Windows 8, In a year they could have machines that run MS software but not MS WIndows. What will happen to MS then? MS is counting that they resellers can't leave, and will have to deal with MS as a competitor, and in the short term I think they are correct. In the long term there are not going to be any big PC makes for MS machines, and most mobile is going to run Android.
I was thinking that hunters have the right idea in that a well placed clamore and 'keep out trespassers will be shot' would solve the problem. That solution is probably an overkill.
I wonder if the road can't be locked, at least the access that is in the property. Around town I see that emergency services can be given access to otherwise restricted roads. The only issue I have seen is when we wanted to block off two of four roads leading to a subdivision completely and could not because emergency services thought it would unduly restrict access. If several people need access, I have seen lock solutions, also for hunters, where each person has an individual lock.
In addition to hunting shops, spy shops also have a good selection of what you want. The advantage of these items is that they are made of be concealed, which may or may not be something that can be done in the outdoors. Another issue that you are going to have with vandals as opposed to deer is the threat of vandalism to the camera or simply removing the SD card.
I am also wondering if the purpose of the camera is deterrent of prosecution. If determent then a bunch of signs of video surveillance and a cheap well hidden motion activated camera with a spot light aim at the entrance(and cheap because it will be shot at) might be best. Put up the pictures of the miscreants. If prosecution then a grainy picture of someone dumping might be enough evidence. A well placed motion activated camera that will get the license of the truck and the occupants and another the act of dumping might work. These could be placed in unexpected places.
I think the biggest problem would be integrating the Nokia, a 140 year old company, into Apple. Running it an independent subsidiary would mean pushing unlimited amounts of cash into it to keep it afloat since it would no longer the selling phones and would unlikely liscense products to compete with Apple.
If Apple wants Nokia patents, then it can well wait for them. On the NYSE the stock is worth about what is was listed for twenty years ago. There may an auction soon and maybe the assets can be had for penny's on the dollar without all the overhead.
Another assumption is that Apple is really going to do maps. I think the split with google was more about removing a major revenue source for Google rather than Maps being antiquated. Maybe Apple can license data and software. Maybe they will map Apple Maps ok. Maybe everyone will use another App. What is clear is that Apple undercut google by taking software off the iPhone before Google was ready. Many will pay the $5-$40 to buy a superior product. Google is screwed in the deal.
Shortage of materials is really hard on direct to consumer retail. They have stock which they pay warehousing and interest on, so it usually costs more whcih consumers are are not buying at commercial quantities are willing to pay. OTOH, they expect for a retailer to have stock, so consumers get really annoyed and shop elsewhere. While commercials interests do have choice of where to buy product, most consumers are limited to retail outlets, and Costco is one of the few places that allow consumers a large discount. It is necessary for such retail outlets to do what they can to maintain stock.
This happened a while back in home improvement sector. The housing bubble was growing and had not burst. Everyone was building, and suppliers were having a hard time metting wholesale demand. Builders started going to retail outlets and buying all the supplies they could. Some retail had to limit quantities so that consumers would have selection. The idea was,IIRC, that if selection was not available they would go somewhere else.
One way for a commercial interest to protect themselves is to lock in supplies. Southwest did this with jet fuel and it gave them a competitive advantage for a number of years. Apple did this with several components and it has give then a competitive advantage. Sometimes firms just do not have the ability or courage to plan ahead, and they blame other people.
Despite what todays XKCD , we were really in place where a lack of corporate cohesion was about to lead us to a web that only worked with IE. Todays web has lead to a world where an always on connection means that one does not need MS Office, Bing is a reasonable alternative to Google, and Apple will either the get maps right or bring enough traffic to other map agents that they will.
Due to litigation and competition, we have an much more open web. We have many more options for cheap offline storage. Unlike the time when MS was about to control all our lives, we know have a vigorous interaction between powerful firms. They are not friends, and hopefully they never will be, but there know the values of standards.
Certainly that is the target market. Tell chicks in bars that one can be reached at BigD, or potential johns can dial YngnHrny.
Otherwise I copy numbers from somewhere, paste it into my address book, and magically they appear on my phone. Maybe this would have been big in 2005. I can see it being used for certain mass market sales venues, but seriously, I just touch my screen and the call happens.
In summer school during middle school we were introduced to basic on a teletype hooked up to some mainframe. It was good exposure, though taught me little, as a high school freshman we were taught how to break apart a problem into steps and then express them clearly. We did not touch a computer or six weeks, this to me is when I learned to program, we then learned to compile and link in fortan and developed some rudimentary programs. This was followed with some programming in basic on the apple, and some programming for embedded devices,
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This is unfortunate. The list may in fact be used by oppressed people looking for information and just not oppressed teens looking for naked people. But honestly, wouldn't it be easier just to register 10 more domains, not .info, and send out another email. If the proxy's are ad supported, then yes having them cancelled immidiately sucks, but that again is the cost of doing business.
Ultimately using spamhaus and filters is mostly a vole entry activity. If one does not lke affirm, the best thing to do is stop using them. Again, get a different tld. The only I reason this is on /. Is that it is a proxy.
One thing that is often cited, and does make sense, it that perhaps the social safety net is too safe. This becomes evident when someone says that starting a business is too risky. More risky than not having food on the table? I don't think so. Now, a bank may think it is too risky to lend capital to someone without experience, and that is true, but to someone who wants to open a firm? I don't think so. Less safety net, less subsidies to banks that make large loans superior to a highly diversified portfolio, a tax system that makes employment a better situation than just hiding your money. all these will create jobs.
Unfortunately what we have are huge loans made to children of the already successful, small tax rate for those who do not real work, and those that do open their own firms, that do provide services, are taxed so high they can barely make a middle class living.
Writing code for the Mac has been free since around 2000. Visual studio express has been available only since 2005, and is still very limited. Yet the PC is considered more open than MS. The SCSI and USB and Firewire port has allowed driver free installation of common devices for ever, yet Windows XP which still needed to install a driver for USB drivers is considered more open.
I think if we have a free IDE and open standards, that is open. After that it is pretty much about whether you need every application one can imagine, or can live with a more limited selection. This is why a closed garden is a mistake for MS. MS customers do not expect limitation in choice, only limitations in what MS will let them install. Further, MS is not likely to do the job Apple does in vetting Apps, so it will be more likely that malware slips though, which negates the consumer benefit to the walled garden.
The thing about being a graduate student is that it is a not an indentured position. Most people who would be graduate students could go into the work force and make a good or better living. Just like anyone in medical school could be a medical assistant in six months. One is a graduate student because the subject is intensely interesting and one want to spend one's young adulthood learning about it.
Now I don't know any graduate school that begs or tricks students into joining. In fact many programs require periodic payment to indicate continued interest. Most will only accept students based on willingness to learn, interest, and ability to work. I don't think any talks of making great sums of money. I don' think any says the path will be easy. This whole things reminds me of The Devil Wears Prada in which a privileged person who wants to break into a very competitive and lucrative field is surprised she has to actually work. Oh the humanity!
Yes, these cards did predict robots, but saying they predicted the future would be like a person from the iron age building a cylinder and saying he predicted rockets. It is one thing to take current technology and extrapolate a straight line to the future. It is quite another to predict the divergent thought that will lead to what is the real future.
For instance, a sewing machine does not sew like a human, and have pictures of mechanical hands sewing does not predict the sewing machine. We use fixed wing aircraft that does not flap. Most computing machines did not do additions very quickly, the almost exception being the Difference Engine, and we can do calculus on a computer but still not iron a shirt.
Yes imagining a future is important to progress. But I no longer wish for a flying car, and can think no one that imagined the music industry has meet it's end when TI or Fairchild, take you pick, create the NAND gate.
I must admit there is a wide range of maturity issues in boys, even those that are 18, and such a program while noble might not be feasible. If girls were treated equal and the male football or hockey or golf program were not treated as supirior to anything that girls did maybe we would have more success.
Much of my early education was a negotiation with the power base, sometimes the christians that only knew intolerance and force, sometimes the urban school that did not know what to do with me, sometimes the white that felt empowered to take their frustration out on me. It was painful and would have nice to stay at home where I had my books and chemistry set and microscope and library I could walk to, but then how would I learned to negotiate with the christian and white homogeny? Where would I have had a bible study before school? Where would I have learned to to take myself to far off places without my parents controlling me? I am still who my parents want me to be, but in a secure enough shell that I don't have to rebel.
When I was in college, I was with a geek crowd, mostly suburban, all well raised, all from good schools, all a students. First party they all got drunk on quite terrible beer. I was thankful for my exposure to bad habits, and my parents that taught me self control and good habits. I actually believe the most bad habits are developed in the community. Outside of my own neighborhood I spent time in two others. One was a place where violence and gang activity ruled the trailer parks. The other was an upper middle class place where drugs ruled. If I had been in either of those two communities, I probably would have been different. As it was I went to violent and drug infested schools, but the community I grew up based on earning a better life, did not let me fall to the trap of self pity.
I also grew up in a library. My local public library was useful until middle school. My middle school library was useful for a year. University libraries were useful since I left high school. There was little I could do during high school. Libraries are useful for educating a certain class of kid. It is not an education. We separate schools into grades because the mind has different cognitive abilities at different times, and requires different pedagogy. This is real research based. The one big problem with schools is that most school research is based on the pre-pubescent mind. We do not yet know nearly enough of what happens between puberty and adulthood. I know that in high school the academic books in the library were not what interested me, my parents though they new everything, literally, could not motivate me, and it was only school that forced to become someone better. They explicitly gave me the skills to be a life long learner.
I would rephrase the rules differently. A cognitive dissidence that forces .one to compare deeply held assumption against empirical data. A self esteem that is not based on an ability to do repetitive tasks, but toi create meaningful original product. A sense of self that, as one ages, is attached less to pleasing others and more on knowing that one can be emotionally and intellectually independent, without need to satisfy others or a mystical being. Being able to follow instruction when necessary to complete necessary work, such as the production of food, or building of houses that are safe, or driving in a manner that does not endanger others. A realization that one may not be a genius, and that is ok, because wh
You know it is interesting that when the government is taking land from hard working US citizens and giving it to the canadian government so they can move canadian oil into tthe US and increase the indebtedness and serfdom of US citizen to foreign entities, everyone says how wonderful that is. But when government spends money on trying to increase our independence and ability to choose for ourselves without having to consult the United Nations, everyone cry's foul. And if you think there is no link between federal spending and Ca spending, get a clue. Ca, along with New York, is one of the few states that has a net outflow of taxes to the fed. That means that when the US spends money not on anything other than sending it back to the state, Ca is one of the few states where that money is coming from. Not places like Texas where most of the money is given back t the state. Or places like Arizona and Alaska where money is given to the state. Therefore Ca has a great interest in developing technologies that wil make the US less dependent and thus reduce the expenditures.
I am not sure what you think happened with maps. Apple sold only 5 million phones instead of 10 in a saturated market. Dreadful, but iPhone 5 traffic is reported to exceed the Samsung galaxy 3, which means guess who is actually using their pohone? OTOH google lost huge amounts of data overnight and is soon going lose a large chunk of the money that funds adroid development. Goolge live and dies othe ability to mine user data? do you really think collecting personal data on the mapping cars was an acciddnet? iPhone users are buying mapping apps that are superior to google, if no other reason then data is stored locally so phone can get directions when the connection is not good. I bought mine about a year ago. It is good to have. When developers are selling product life is never bad.
On the parent at home thing, I would argue this is already possible, though it does not happen because there is limited economic value. We no longer mend clothes, cook all meals from scratch, wash clothes by hand, or plant gardens to provide our families fresh nutrition. When I was a kid these things were mostly done, and were done with parents working. But even so, in this free market society people still want to stay home and take care of the house that takes care of itself, to watch soap operas and sports. But they need an excuse to do so. Home schooling is that excuse. And I have no problem with this. I just don't know how much the taxpayer should pay. If parent choose to keep the kids home, then cut expenses of the school proportionately and give back the money to the people who pay the taxes. To those that say we should pay parents to teach the kids, i say what is next, home nursing and pay a parent for putting on band aid, or giving an aspirin.
That said, I think we as a society can afford to make it possible for a parent to stay home. i know families where only one person works, the other parent uses the time to bring production in the house, or does work from home, in order to make ends meet. It can be done if one is willing to sacrifice. We have programs, such as the child tax credit, which makes it possible. Universal free health care for children will also make this more possible. I know parents who pay $500 a month for health insurance. So there are things we can do, that will help all families, not just those that want special treatment.
Second is the perceived immorality of public school. There is nothing that can be done about that. You either buy into the belief that it is ok for people you know to have differing beliefs or you don't. You either buy into the belief that a child is responsible for his or her actions, and if they get into a fight or do drugs that is a reflection on you and your child, or you believe that you have no control and have to do what everyone else is doing. You either believe that conflict resolution is best developed in a hotbed, or you don't. In any case alternatives already exists. One can home school, but, as stated, tax payers can't really pay for your private education. One can go to a private school, and most families can afford it if they want. A neighbor sent all three kids to private school a a very limited budget. Or a family can move elsewhere. Government cannot pander to every special interest, and families have to take some responsibility.
Third is the quality of education. Passing an SAT does not mean quality education. Not passing a state test does not mean a bad education. Again, this is mostly buy in. For instance, many high schools have an international staff which I think we all agree can help in college and work where top employers are now looking for the best employees, not the best americans. many high schools have advanced technological resources, above what many families can afford, and knowing how to use a computer to work, not just play games, is useful. Most parents are not going to have advance study in all subjects, so are not to be able to expose the children to specific questions that come from such study, i.e. teach instead of just show some movies. And I am not talking about the best schools. I am talking about even the well funded below average high schools. This again is buy in. Either deep learning and critical thinking is valuable or it is not. What I will say is that there are not very many manufacturing jobs, sales jobs do not pay as much as they used to, and paper pushing
The reality was of course that MS Windows was not a single OS, but a number of related OS with similar user interface. In the days before MS WIndows XP took over the world, there was chaos. MS did two things to alleviate the chaos for developers and users. The first was Visual Studio, which provides what MS calls cross platform, meaning runs on various version of MS Windows, and cross language. The second was IE, which allowed a consistent application front end for the various versions of windows, and for a time Mac OS.
The both show what users want is run programs and a consistent user interface. MS has does a good job providing this. But Apple was also brought up, and the links between OS X and iOS are not as tight as the versions of MS WIndows 8. MS is radically changing the desktop experience to fit the mobile platform. OTOH, Apple is allowing the applications to be different, while focusing on the underlying data protocols, most of which are standard and open. The applications and user interface is different, but the data is the same. This is the lesson of the Newton.
Furthermore, where would we put it in Houston. At the joke of a Space Center Houston. It would be an embarrassment. At the Museum of Natural Science. The Musuem is more interested in bling that science. In the new exhibit space, bones are not labeled as real, cast, or other. In the old days, like the Diplodocus, these things were labeled. I know that no one wants to see a planetarium, but using it for a Mayan doomsday thing is just not so useful. And of course the space stuff, which has always been hidden in the basement, is even more relegated to obscurity. Artefacts do not seem to interest people, and the museum is a private foundation.
Not to mention transportation. Houston is not going to cut down trees.
Houston knew the shuttle was ending, and could have built a space museum around it. It did not. We did build a Soccer stadium. Nothing wrong with that, but that is the priorities.
Then there are all the Sharia drinking laws. I barely have time to get off a second shift and grab a beer because the religious fundamentalists do not have the self control to moderate their behavior unless everyone else is moderated equally. I imagine that there are safety issues as well with everyone leaving at the same time, instead of a more leisurely and extended exit time.
That are many more examples of cost in human rights, human capital, and human treasure incurred by Sharia law imposed by religious fanatics. In many states we can't properly educate our children because the wingnuts are afraid of educated children. The court system is inundated with frivolous claims, such as when a piece of body jewelry was accidentally exposed at the superbowl. At the national level we cannot pass fiscally prudent policy because everyone is afraid the Pope is going to yell at them.
It is pretty to think that we could just ask the religious fanatic to stop being so sensitive, to just accept that others have different beliefs and priorities, but it just does not work. As long those that think religious law is appropriate in a civil society are allowed to have power, then our rights will be infringed and our treasure stolen.
And I would not be faulting him for that if were to be CEO for HP. But he wants to be President of what he would probably characterize as the greatest and most powerful country in the world. This requires a person that can handle these high pressure situations without appearing crazy. I can argue that i have friends involuntary twitch their heads, or cannot hold a conversation without getting confrontational, or need to pee every half hour. None of these things reflects on the person, but in some cases may indicate they are suited for a certain profession. For example, if Romney is going to smile every time he is asked to give condolences when a marine dies, that may not be good for morale.
That was until the picture of him smiling over the death of Americans. That is not cool. When people die, even if you don't like them, even if their death is going is going to bring you untold wealth and power, you don't smile. Obama was not caught smiling when he walked up and later down the hall to announce the death of Bin Laden. Someone who is so happy that someone is dead that he can't keep it to himself for even a second scares me more than anything.
In a not outsourced call center, there is at least the possibility of some being able to talk to a principle face to face for clarification. There is at least the possibility of directly observing the process and adjust the rules and scripts. After five years when the equipment is depreciated or the lease is up, and experience is gained, then the process can be outsourced. There is experience to know if the vendor is scamming you or if there a legitimate reason why 30% of the customers are complaining.
Not all companies can afford a local call center. Google can. End user service si not critical to all companies. It seems to be to Google. Or at least they say it is. By outsourcing what they are really indicating is that they need to have a customer service number so that competitors can't use that as a selling point.
So where did the value come from. Facebook was worth gagillion dollars, but was offered for less than 100 billion and is now worth around 40 billion. Like so many people on this site, who believe a product is worth what it cost of what the seller believes it is worh, market realities are a harsh mistress.
Here is why. MS can't make hardware. Sure they have a mouse and a keyboard, but who does not. They make a crap xBox 360 and their response to bad quality is just to replace all the bad machines. Hardware is not software where you can sell an release candidate to the public and fix it later. That is not how you make a profit and profit is what MS lacks.
The resellers are willing to put up with crap profit because MS is taking the risks and fronting the cash. But if MS becomes a competitor, and has the ability to undersell then what is the motive to continue to use MS products. Can you imagine what would happen if Dell, HP, Lenova all got together a funded a uniform XP like *nix desktop and a Wine like compatibility layer? XP is still widely used, and no one is going to be moving in hordes to Windows 8, In a year they could have machines that run MS software but not MS WIndows. What will happen to MS then? MS is counting that they resellers can't leave, and will have to deal with MS as a competitor, and in the short term I think they are correct. In the long term there are not going to be any big PC makes for MS machines, and most mobile is going to run Android.
I wonder if the road can't be locked, at least the access that is in the property. Around town I see that emergency services can be given access to otherwise restricted roads. The only issue I have seen is when we wanted to block off two of four roads leading to a subdivision completely and could not because emergency services thought it would unduly restrict access. If several people need access, I have seen lock solutions, also for hunters, where each person has an individual lock.
In addition to hunting shops, spy shops also have a good selection of what you want. The advantage of these items is that they are made of be concealed, which may or may not be something that can be done in the outdoors. Another issue that you are going to have with vandals as opposed to deer is the threat of vandalism to the camera or simply removing the SD card.
I think this is kind of cool spy camera though really expensive.
I am also wondering if the purpose of the camera is deterrent of prosecution. If determent then a bunch of signs of video surveillance and a cheap well hidden motion activated camera with a spot light aim at the entrance(and cheap because it will be shot at) might be best. Put up the pictures of the miscreants. If prosecution then a grainy picture of someone dumping might be enough evidence. A well placed motion activated camera that will get the license of the truck and the occupants and another the act of dumping might work. These could be placed in unexpected places.
If Apple wants Nokia patents, then it can well wait for them. On the NYSE the stock is worth about what is was listed for twenty years ago. There may an auction soon and maybe the assets can be had for penny's on the dollar without all the overhead.
Another assumption is that Apple is really going to do maps. I think the split with google was more about removing a major revenue source for Google rather than Maps being antiquated. Maybe Apple can license data and software. Maybe they will map Apple Maps ok. Maybe everyone will use another App. What is clear is that Apple undercut google by taking software off the iPhone before Google was ready. Many will pay the $5-$40 to buy a superior product. Google is screwed in the deal.
This happened a while back in home improvement sector. The housing bubble was growing and had not burst. Everyone was building, and suppliers were having a hard time metting wholesale demand. Builders started going to retail outlets and buying all the supplies they could. Some retail had to limit quantities so that consumers would have selection. The idea was,IIRC, that if selection was not available they would go somewhere else.
One way for a commercial interest to protect themselves is to lock in supplies. Southwest did this with jet fuel and it gave them a competitive advantage for a number of years. Apple did this with several components and it has give then a competitive advantage. Sometimes firms just do not have the ability or courage to plan ahead, and they blame other people.
Due to litigation and competition, we have an much more open web. We have many more options for cheap offline storage. Unlike the time when MS was about to control all our lives, we know have a vigorous interaction between powerful firms. They are not friends, and hopefully they never will be, but there know the values of standards.
Certainly that is the target market. Tell chicks in bars that one can be reached at BigD, or potential johns can dial YngnHrny. Otherwise I copy numbers from somewhere, paste it into my address book, and magically they appear on my phone. Maybe this would have been big in 2005. I can see it being used for certain mass market sales venues, but seriously, I just touch my screen and the call happens.
In summer school during middle school we were introduced to basic on a teletype hooked up to some mainframe. It was good exposure, though taught me little, as a high school freshman we were taught how to break apart a problem into steps and then express them clearly. We did not touch a computer or six weeks, this to me is when I learned to program, we then learned to compile and link in fortan and developed some rudimentary programs. This was followed with some programming in basic on the apple, and some programming for embedded devices,