For what it's worth, my marriage was the same situation as yours(and my now ex-wife was just like yours). Not seeing eye to eye on simple things like this caused too many fights. I want my child to have up to date vaccines and be in public school, and I need my wife to have a decent job because of her lifestyle demands, etc.
After a long debate, we made the choice to move into a good school district and send our kid to school. This was a long fight, as she had family in rural Oregon who homeschool all of their kids, and based on the stories of the kids(dumb as bricks, pregnant by 16, etc), I did not want to send my kid down the same road. She also had separation anxiety(it was bad enough that she did not spend a day apart from him until he was 10[sleepovers] or travel without him until he was 13).
I went to private school for elementary and public school for the rest, and I was very satisfied with my experience, and I've made friends I otherwise would not have made. My time in private school prepared me academically and I was able to do extremely well in public school(entered a year ahead in some subjects), which was beneficial because doing well in public school in California gets you a great deal in state aid to state schools as well as guaranteed enrollment in state schools.
I don't think there is a replacement for the social education school brings(and public school was much more educational in that regard than private school), but I don't think that that is the only reason why. I also think that school provides the opportunities to advance just as much as if you were a real teacher homeschooling your kids.
This isn't the first time that IBM has done mass layoffs and it won't be the last. This is to be expected, to be surprised by it is to not learn from IBM's own history(Sure you can keep your job, but we need you to move to Southeast Asia and we're going to pay you Southeast Asian wages. Oh, you don't want that? Here's your severance package.).
Blackberry is all but dead in the corporate space. This leaves a hole that iPhone and Android are filling. Microsoft recognizes that Windows Phone isn't going to fill that gap, so they're finally moving their branding into those environments because of that. I'll assume that advanced features are/will be available that make it worthwhile to deploy the application in a corporate environment over the stock applications. The attachment integration with web based services already gives it a leg up on iPhone's Mail application. Not that I'm expecting it based on what's announced, I'd be very happy if there was a way to give it network folder integration within the network where Exchange is located.
That's part of it. The other part of it is just plain population density. Most of Southern California has access to more or less inexpensive high speed fiber service through FIOS or UVerse. Head out into the desert and you're lucky if you're on ADSL, though. But that's part of the problem with having one of the least dense countries in the world. You'll note that Canada is near the end of that list and they suffer worse than we do with Shaw and Rogers.
I think you're overthinking it. Look at what the FBI does. They find some dumb disillusioned guy down on his luck, maybe an ex-con or something but nothing serious, and try to ram bomb making components down his throat until he acquiesces and follows the plan they give him to fill a truck full of fertilizer to blow up city hall. The guy makes the purchase and parks the fake bomb, and when he gets out of the truck he's arrested and sent to prison... not because he would have blown up a building, but because he was so stupid that he didn't know not to trust the guys trying to set him up by badgering the hell out of him until he gives in. Counter-terrorism task force adds a notch to their belt, the President has a talking point about another averted attack, and the poor schmuck who was effectively harmless already because of his stupidity gets to die in prison
It is a reboot, actually, since they completely wiped all of the post-ep6 canon (Expanded Universe) and are starting from scratch. Different kind of reboot as the originating universe is the same, but that's no different than what's happening in the XMen movie franchise.
Yep. I'm all for a translucent HUD. I'd love to have a map up on my glasses while I'm driving rather than listen to Google Maps butcher the directions because I live in an area of the US where entire cities have foreign language street names.
Yep.. AEGIS sounds about right, at least for somewhat close range. I imagine that new laser technologies will probably end up being the most effective.
There's always something illegal to profit from. Take away drugs and you still have guns and human slaves(sex or otherwise). I don't hear you saying anything about legalizing more guns or slaves. Insanity is saying that "well, they're doing it, so we should just let them do it legally" and expecting that it will somehow end at the first thing you give in on.
I owned a Windows Phone. I liked it. It got less updates than Samsung has updated my Note 3. I went from 7 to 7.5(Mango) and then all future promised upgrades were canceled as they had moved to 8 for marketing purposes. Windows Phone isn't going to get you anything more in that regard.
This is still something that Google can control. I'm a fan of their open approach in general, but not giving consumers a direct line of critical patch support and upgrades and allowing manufacturers and telcos to control the flow of upgrades/patches is a godawful policy to have in place. It promotes a system of either being outdated in security or being forced to give manufacturers and telcos more money more frequently, or both. As someone who produces and markets software for a living, I'd say that is an awful way to do business.
Are you saying the journalist are cowards? If so I disagree. They are instead considering the fact that their staff (with no decision on content) may not want to risk their lives over this.
Not cowards. Rather, if you can't publish a political cartoon without fear of retaliation, then that's not a country any civilized person should desire to live in.
No. It's the case of Netflix lying to the media or the VPN provider shutting out service, that's all. If the "Media Mafia", as you say it, is up to no good then we wouldn't have access to tons of services that provide unlicensed copyrighted content, be it bittorrent, youtube, reddit, or something else. Now, if the VPN provider was sent a cease and desist letter from any of the various stakeholders, that may happen, but technically they're doing nothing illegal.
Basically all the top tech firms have offices outside of SV as well, as well as all the top Fortune 500 firms, all of which need software developers, all the top biotech firms, financial firms, aerospace firms, etc etc. All of them need software developers in one capacity or another. They're located all over the place.
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For what it's worth, my marriage was the same situation as yours(and my now ex-wife was just like yours). Not seeing eye to eye on simple things like this caused too many fights. I want my child to have up to date vaccines and be in public school, and I need my wife to have a decent job because of her lifestyle demands, etc.
After a long debate, we made the choice to move into a good school district and send our kid to school. This was a long fight, as she had family in rural Oregon who homeschool all of their kids, and based on the stories of the kids(dumb as bricks, pregnant by 16, etc), I did not want to send my kid down the same road. She also had separation anxiety(it was bad enough that she did not spend a day apart from him until he was 10[sleepovers] or travel without him until he was 13).
I went to private school for elementary and public school for the rest, and I was very satisfied with my experience, and I've made friends I otherwise would not have made. My time in private school prepared me academically and I was able to do extremely well in public school(entered a year ahead in some subjects), which was beneficial because doing well in public school in California gets you a great deal in state aid to state schools as well as guaranteed enrollment in state schools.
I don't think there is a replacement for the social education school brings(and public school was much more educational in that regard than private school), but I don't think that that is the only reason why. I also think that school provides the opportunities to advance just as much as if you were a real teacher homeschooling your kids.
This isn't the first time that IBM has done mass layoffs and it won't be the last. This is to be expected, to be surprised by it is to not learn from IBM's own history(Sure you can keep your job, but we need you to move to Southeast Asia and we're going to pay you Southeast Asian wages. Oh, you don't want that? Here's your severance package.).
FIOS is rolled out to plenty of whole cities in LA and OC. Lakewood, for instance, is a giant sprawling 50s era suburb... FIOS top to bottom.
AT&T only brings fiber to the door in new construction for the most part, though. UVerse sucks anyways.
Blackberry is all but dead in the corporate space. This leaves a hole that iPhone and Android are filling. Microsoft recognizes that Windows Phone isn't going to fill that gap, so they're finally moving their branding into those environments because of that. I'll assume that advanced features are/will be available that make it worthwhile to deploy the application in a corporate environment over the stock applications. The attachment integration with web based services already gives it a leg up on iPhone's Mail application. Not that I'm expecting it based on what's announced, I'd be very happy if there was a way to give it network folder integration within the network where Exchange is located.
I find the built in iPhone app lacking.. I'm willing to try any app that has Exchange support to see if it's better.
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I have 75/75 for $60 in metro LA. I don't find that unreasonable.
That's part of it. The other part of it is just plain population density. Most of Southern California has access to more or less inexpensive high speed fiber service through FIOS or UVerse. Head out into the desert and you're lucky if you're on ADSL, though. But that's part of the problem with having one of the least dense countries in the world. You'll note that Canada is near the end of that list and they suffer worse than we do with Shaw and Rogers.
Why is it illegal?
I think you're overthinking it. Look at what the FBI does. They find some dumb disillusioned guy down on his luck, maybe an ex-con or something but nothing serious, and try to ram bomb making components down his throat until he acquiesces and follows the plan they give him to fill a truck full of fertilizer to blow up city hall. The guy makes the purchase and parks the fake bomb, and when he gets out of the truck he's arrested and sent to prison... not because he would have blown up a building, but because he was so stupid that he didn't know not to trust the guys trying to set him up by badgering the hell out of him until he gives in. Counter-terrorism task force adds a notch to their belt, the President has a talking point about another averted attack, and the poor schmuck who was effectively harmless already because of his stupidity gets to die in prison
KJA and Brian Herbert were bad, but let's not pretend that Frank Herbert didn't start going off the rails himself starting with God Emperor of Dune
It is a reboot, actually, since they completely wiped all of the post-ep6 canon (Expanded Universe) and are starting from scratch. Different kind of reboot as the originating universe is the same, but that's no different than what's happening in the XMen movie franchise.
Yep. I'm all for a translucent HUD. I'd love to have a map up on my glasses while I'm driving rather than listen to Google Maps butcher the directions because I live in an area of the US where entire cities have foreign language street names.
Yep.. AEGIS sounds about right, at least for somewhat close range. I imagine that new laser technologies will probably end up being the most effective.
If the lens is great, I'm sticking it on my Rollei
There's always something illegal to profit from. Take away drugs and you still have guns and human slaves(sex or otherwise). I don't hear you saying anything about legalizing more guns or slaves. Insanity is saying that "well, they're doing it, so we should just let them do it legally" and expecting that it will somehow end at the first thing you give in on.
I owned a Windows Phone. I liked it. It got less updates than Samsung has updated my Note 3. I went from 7 to 7.5(Mango) and then all future promised upgrades were canceled as they had moved to 8 for marketing purposes. Windows Phone isn't going to get you anything more in that regard.
Galaxy Nexus ain't getting the patch, either.
This is still something that Google can control. I'm a fan of their open approach in general, but not giving consumers a direct line of critical patch support and upgrades and allowing manufacturers and telcos to control the flow of upgrades/patches is a godawful policy to have in place. It promotes a system of either being outdated in security or being forced to give manufacturers and telcos more money more frequently, or both. As someone who produces and markets software for a living, I'd say that is an awful way to do business.
Not cowards. Rather, if you can't publish a political cartoon without fear of retaliation, then that's not a country any civilized person should desire to live in.
If you're afraid of people in your own nation, then you have bigger problems than a political cartoon
Indeed. You fail at 100% of the risks not taken.
Yes, because media companies never lie to consumers, particularly in the face of legal proceedings.
No. It's the case of Netflix lying to the media or the VPN provider shutting out service, that's all. If the "Media Mafia", as you say it, is up to no good then we wouldn't have access to tons of services that provide unlicensed copyrighted content, be it bittorrent, youtube, reddit, or something else. Now, if the VPN provider was sent a cease and desist letter from any of the various stakeholders, that may happen, but technically they're doing nothing illegal.
Basically all the top tech firms have offices outside of SV as well, as well as all the top Fortune 500 firms, all of which need software developers, all the top biotech firms, financial firms, aerospace firms, etc etc. All of them need software developers in one capacity or another. They're located all over the place.