More or less, yeah. It's pretty easy to get a 3.8+ in high school. It basically requires attendance and effort, but not actual intelligence. Most of my teachers were throwing out extra credit like it was candy, so even if you didn't score perfectly on tests and homework, you could make up the difference.
So yeah, I imagine there's a lot of kids going to college with an inaccurate perception of their own personal abilities. Also probably explains why so many kids end up getting Psych degrees, which are easy to get, yet "sound smart." Of course it's usually later that the realize they need med school to make those degree's worth more than padding for some retail HR job...
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if they don't offer it because they know 80% of the population would probably lock themselves out of their own data at some point. And of course complain when they find out that dropbox doesn't have backdoor access or something.
No, but it's a good plan for convenience and possibly backups as long as you aren't stashing your bank records and private info unencrypted in the cloud without a second thought.
Established "vets" like the ones mentioned in the article are a real problem. Most only have one real success under their belt, with a whole string of mediocre or outright crappy games to follow. The idea that they are somehow the lone voice of quality in the industry is just crap. The fact is, these entrenched vets with name recognition are the ones sucking up funding so they can spend 2 or 3 years developing their current pet project that has no more or less chance of success than anyone else's. Setting up a school specifically to breed more of these kinds of people will only result in more "rockstar developers" who are convinced that they are the best qualified for create a new game, and publishers will probably throw money at them as a result.
I have no problem with Steam. They actually seem to realize that digital delivery means the customer can save money. When I'm buying fairly recent games for 60% off or whatever, I don't really care if I can't resell them. Steam makes purchasing and playing games pretty cheap and easy, so I like it.
Origin, is another story. Steam works precisely because it's publisher-agnostic. Origin will never gain that momentum because EA is just using it as a way to increase profits by cutting out the costs of physical distribution, without passing any savings to the customer.
What concerns me the most is just how aggressively the entire world seems to be against him, when all he's basically revealed is the existence of a high-level domestic spy program. Yeah, that's horrible and shit, but that alone wouldn't have the US government moving political mounts pressuring other countries not to harbor him.
What did he potentially have access to that's so damning to the government that it's strong-arming the entire world over the possibility that he could release it?
I've had a Technet subscription for for years now, and honestly have only used it for cheap access to Office and Win X licenses. Yeah, once in a while I'll need to do an install of something like Exchange for testing before deployment, but that's not why I kept renewing.
The fact is, MS products are really expensive. I used to pirate them because the costs were so high. When I started a business, and found out about Technet, I jumped on the chance to "go legit" without going broke (morally, more than technically). The question is, will I go back to pirating their software or will I fully migrate to open-source solutions? Either way, MS stops getting 200 a year from me.
I'm sad to see Technet go, because I felt it was a good value for me. I didn't hand out keys, and have legitimately used the service to stay on top of new programs, like running through various installs for server releases and such, so that I can recommend the products with confidence to my clients. What's really funny is that all of this push to the cloud has made migrating away from Office products much easier than it would have been 5 or 10 years ago. I can do 90% of my business-related work with Google Docs, now that I'm used to it. I use Debian for work, despite being a "Microsoft Shop." It's only going to get worse for them, while it gets better for the industry.
I would support this. Just have the mesh around the theater rooms, rather than the whole building, and let people go out into the hallway if they need to make a call. If they to be available to receive a call, in case of an emergency or for work, then maybe they should go rent a movie instead.
What's annoying is when you're watching the screen in front of you, only to have some idiot blind everyone around him (including you) with his phone as he checks for messages or something.
Read the article. It wasn't exactly an agreed-upon amount for his services or anything. As far as I can tell, he didn't even bother asking for anything until he got canned from wikileaks over setting up a website to sell wikileaks shirts for his own profit, and even then he just asked the FBI if they could help him out with some cash. Hardly a great position to be asking for compensation for services already rendered...
Exactly. Connect wasn't successful because of all the games that used it. It was successful because of the modding community that gave it a ton of buzz for being easy and fun to work with. I actually can't think of single game that benefited from having a connect sensor beyond a few generic dance games.
Understand that, up front, you are going to have some doors closed to you simply because your job experience is over a decade old. It may not seem fair, but it's reality. Having said that, your military experience may very well open doors for you that other civilians wouldn't have a chance at, especially with stuff in the defense industry. I'd just state your experience and education, and let your resume speak for itself. Electrical Engineering doesn't seem like one of those fields that's constantly changing every few years, like IT, so your skill set should still be fairly relevant.
It doesn't matter if DRM is built into the web or not. As long as there are no legal and fairly-priced methods to access media on the internet, someone will step in and provide it for free via torrent or whatever else can be used. By all means, build some DRM protection into HTML, and watch as every little entertainment publisher builds their own walled garden anyway.
I'd be fine with DRM if it didn't take away from the experience. Games that don't work, shows that aren't released until a year after they air, music that can only be played in certain devices and only as long as they can "check in" every once in a while, etc, are all examples of how to piss off your customers enough to turn them against you and your business model.
I was wondering the same thing. The only people I see buying and eating twinkies are the housewives or cat ladies. There seems to be a real media saturation about them, though, for whatever reason.
Probably not a whole lot. It's basically just cost of food, a treadmill, some basic computer equipment, and whatever the opportunity cost of losing that office space is for them.
I'd doubt they're flying in hookers and cocaine for him, so I imagine his life is incredibly boring and frustrating at the moment, with little real cost to the embassy.
Keep in mind that I was speaking in very general terms. Of course there can and will be variations to the whole process, which doesn't help the confusion at all. Yes, you can have a private cloud that's hosted on a local network, or maybe even through an MPLS or something, but anyone who's dealing with that configuration probably doesn't need to ask what cloud computing means in the first place.
Cloud computing is still very much a consumer term, and I don't know any admins who even use it unless they are talking to a client or manager. For most of us, it's all just "networking."
Cloud computing is less of a definition about what it is, and more about how it's used. The general idea of cloud computing is to offload storage and applications from your local setup (workstation, network, etc) onto something "in the cloud" which basically means the internet.
The industry does a really poor job explaining that not all cloud experiences are the same, however. I've seen some cloud providers basically just offering seats to a Windows RDP server, which may not sound all that special to you or I, but they've managed to carve a business out of it.
If he commits to getting back in shape big time, in the same way that Stalone has, he could have another 10 years of action films before he has to actually branch out into parts that fit his age. Yes, it would probably require steroids. No, I don't care.
Unfortunately, they'll probably just use him to draw crowds and either give him glorified cameo's or simply make him look younger with digital effects, neither of which would be a good thing.
Since the article is about datacenter equipment, I wasn't talking about 32GB drives. Look into the 1TB range or even 512MB and prices start to hit several thousands each.
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More or less, yeah. It's pretty easy to get a 3.8+ in high school. It basically requires attendance and effort, but not actual intelligence. Most of my teachers were throwing out extra credit like it was candy, so even if you didn't score perfectly on tests and homework, you could make up the difference.
So yeah, I imagine there's a lot of kids going to college with an inaccurate perception of their own personal abilities. Also probably explains why so many kids end up getting Psych degrees, which are easy to get, yet "sound smart." Of course it's usually later that the realize they need med school to make those degree's worth more than padding for some retail HR job...
And how many people honestly find themselves traveling to mainland China?
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if they don't offer it because they know 80% of the population would probably lock themselves out of their own data at some point. And of course complain when they find out that dropbox doesn't have backdoor access or something.
No, but it's a good plan for convenience and possibly backups as long as you aren't stashing your bank records and private info unencrypted in the cloud without a second thought.
Not all things 'cloud' are bad.
I think it can be argued that most popular doesn't always mean most implemented.
Established "vets" like the ones mentioned in the article are a real problem. Most only have one real success under their belt, with a whole string of mediocre or outright crappy games to follow. The idea that they are somehow the lone voice of quality in the industry is just crap. The fact is, these entrenched vets with name recognition are the ones sucking up funding so they can spend 2 or 3 years developing their current pet project that has no more or less chance of success than anyone else's. Setting up a school specifically to breed more of these kinds of people will only result in more "rockstar developers" who are convinced that they are the best qualified for create a new game, and publishers will probably throw money at them as a result.
I have no problem with Steam. They actually seem to realize that digital delivery means the customer can save money. When I'm buying fairly recent games for 60% off or whatever, I don't really care if I can't resell them. Steam makes purchasing and playing games pretty cheap and easy, so I like it.
Origin, is another story. Steam works precisely because it's publisher-agnostic. Origin will never gain that momentum because EA is just using it as a way to increase profits by cutting out the costs of physical distribution, without passing any savings to the customer.
No, it was originally just Star Wars, until it was re-released in '81. Lucas has never had a problem retconning his stuff.
What concerns me the most is just how aggressively the entire world seems to be against him, when all he's basically revealed is the existence of a high-level domestic spy program. Yeah, that's horrible and shit, but that alone wouldn't have the US government moving political mounts pressuring other countries not to harbor him.
What did he potentially have access to that's so damning to the government that it's strong-arming the entire world over the possibility that he could release it?
I've had a Technet subscription for for years now, and honestly have only used it for cheap access to Office and Win X licenses. Yeah, once in a while I'll need to do an install of something like Exchange for testing before deployment, but that's not why I kept renewing.
The fact is, MS products are really expensive. I used to pirate them because the costs were so high. When I started a business, and found out about Technet, I jumped on the chance to "go legit" without going broke (morally, more than technically). The question is, will I go back to pirating their software or will I fully migrate to open-source solutions? Either way, MS stops getting 200 a year from me.
I'm sad to see Technet go, because I felt it was a good value for me. I didn't hand out keys, and have legitimately used the service to stay on top of new programs, like running through various installs for server releases and such, so that I can recommend the products with confidence to my clients. What's really funny is that all of this push to the cloud has made migrating away from Office products much easier than it would have been 5 or 10 years ago. I can do 90% of my business-related work with Google Docs, now that I'm used to it. I use Debian for work, despite being a "Microsoft Shop." It's only going to get worse for them, while it gets better for the industry.
I would support this. Just have the mesh around the theater rooms, rather than the whole building, and let people go out into the hallway if they need to make a call. If they to be available to receive a call, in case of an emergency or for work, then maybe they should go rent a movie instead.
What's annoying is when you're watching the screen in front of you, only to have some idiot blind everyone around him (including you) with his phone as he checks for messages or something.
Read the article. It wasn't exactly an agreed-upon amount for his services or anything. As far as I can tell, he didn't even bother asking for anything until he got canned from wikileaks over setting up a website to sell wikileaks shirts for his own profit, and even then he just asked the FBI if they could help him out with some cash. Hardly a great position to be asking for compensation for services already rendered...
Exactly. Connect wasn't successful because of all the games that used it. It was successful because of the modding community that gave it a ton of buzz for being easy and fun to work with. I actually can't think of single game that benefited from having a connect sensor beyond a few generic dance games.
Understand that, up front, you are going to have some doors closed to you simply because your job experience is over a decade old. It may not seem fair, but it's reality. Having said that, your military experience may very well open doors for you that other civilians wouldn't have a chance at, especially with stuff in the defense industry. I'd just state your experience and education, and let your resume speak for itself. Electrical Engineering doesn't seem like one of those fields that's constantly changing every few years, like IT, so your skill set should still be fairly relevant.
It doesn't matter if DRM is built into the web or not. As long as there are no legal and fairly-priced methods to access media on the internet, someone will step in and provide it for free via torrent or whatever else can be used. By all means, build some DRM protection into HTML, and watch as every little entertainment publisher builds their own walled garden anyway.
I'd be fine with DRM if it didn't take away from the experience. Games that don't work, shows that aren't released until a year after they air, music that can only be played in certain devices and only as long as they can "check in" every once in a while, etc, are all examples of how to piss off your customers enough to turn them against you and your business model.
" They have even spawned the new sub-genre of crazy dog lady."
Those are just hippies.
I was wondering the same thing. The only people I see buying and eating twinkies are the housewives or cat ladies. There seems to be a real media saturation about them, though, for whatever reason.
Probably not a whole lot. It's basically just cost of food, a treadmill, some basic computer equipment, and whatever the opportunity cost of losing that office space is for them.
I'd doubt they're flying in hookers and cocaine for him, so I imagine his life is incredibly boring and frustrating at the moment, with little real cost to the embassy.
Keep in mind that I was speaking in very general terms. Of course there can and will be variations to the whole process, which doesn't help the confusion at all. Yes, you can have a private cloud that's hosted on a local network, or maybe even through an MPLS or something, but anyone who's dealing with that configuration probably doesn't need to ask what cloud computing means in the first place.
Cloud computing is still very much a consumer term, and I don't know any admins who even use it unless they are talking to a client or manager. For most of us, it's all just "networking."
Cloud computing is less of a definition about what it is, and more about how it's used. The general idea of cloud computing is to offload storage and applications from your local setup (workstation, network, etc) onto something "in the cloud" which basically means the internet.
The industry does a really poor job explaining that not all cloud experiences are the same, however. I've seen some cloud providers basically just offering seats to a Windows RDP server, which may not sound all that special to you or I, but they've managed to carve a business out of it.
This is why we can't have nice things.
200GB drives aren't at all big enough for most datacenters. Look up the cost of the 500GB or even 1TB+ drives.
But yeah, if you can get by with 200GB drives, then it's not so bad.
If he commits to getting back in shape big time, in the same way that Stalone has, he could have another 10 years of action films before he has to actually branch out into parts that fit his age. Yes, it would probably require steroids. No, I don't care.
Unfortunately, they'll probably just use him to draw crowds and either give him glorified cameo's or simply make him look younger with digital effects, neither of which would be a good thing.
Since the article is about datacenter equipment, I wasn't talking about 32GB drives. Look into the 1TB range or even 512MB and prices start to hit several thousands each.