"'This system is truly revolutionary,' Bob Smith, program manager at the Office of Naval Research (ONR), wrote"
"Revolutionary". I don't think that word means what they think it means considering "thanks to technology that has been saving business travelers billions since 1996"
I'm on Virgin Mobile, owned by Sprint. On an average month, I use less than 10 minutes for phone calls. I use it considerably more for email and texting, and fairly often for web and remote desktop. If Verizon or ATT offered anything remotely similar to Virgin's $45 unlimited data, I'd jump in a heartbeat just for the better coverage. But until they do, cost is king and I'll stick with Virgin.
Your barber shop savings are nothing compared to the savings of getting ibuprofen at Rite Aid compared to getting the same stuff at a hospital ($5 a bottle vs $10 a pill).
Then why do nurses and doctors bitch so much if the servers have so much as a hiccup? They spend more time on various software programs than they do with actual patients.
Specialist vs generalist is supply and demand. Specialists in any field cover a niche. If I have an issue with my Exchange server that no one on the IT team can figure out, I call in a specialist. He might charge twice what it would cost for the IT team to figure it out, but he can solve the problem much faster and give more confidence in his solution - which is exactly why he can charge more.
I'm also in IT in a healthcare facility. Our department has exploded in the last five years and IT staff has gone from one person ten years ago to nine people now. Likewise, our server rooms were getting packed to capacity before we started migrating everything possible to VMs within the past year. It's amazing the record keeping we're required to keep (by the state) for auditing... backup jobs, server updates, software updates, etc. I spend an average of five to ten hours each week just documenting crap that we might need for an audit. Working on getting some of that automated, but that takes back seat to other projects we need to do to stay in compliance.
And this is the same state that owes us six figures in back pay for medicare.
I have two barbers I like. One is an old guy who has been doing it forever. He does a good job, but only uses scissors and a comb so it takes about 30 minutes for him to cut my hair. He charges $18. The other guy is in his early 20's and has a nice selection of electric razors. The end result is just as good (maybe better), and takes less than 15 minutes. He charges $11.
The first guy is struggling because he's not willing to get the training or the tools to be more efficient, so he can't see as many people and he's already at the upper limit of what the market will bear in this area. The second guy has taken right off because he can deliver a cheaper, faster haircut with no loss in quality. I'd be surprised if he hasn't already recouped his investment several times over. I'd also be surprised if this didn't scale to the medical industry with prices is the three, four and five figure ranges.
Have you ever been to a hospital for any sort of procedure? The bill is broken down into about a billion items (including a line item for stuff like over the counter grade ibuprofen that you would expect to be free). They also happily charge anything you say or is said to you as a "consultation". All of that stuff is accounted for in addition to the fee for the procedure itself.
You could argue that; however, there is plenty of evidence that the Bible, Koran, Talmud, etc are mostly fictional. So while there's no evidence saying there is no God, there's plenty of evidence saying that even if there is a God, then we still have it mostly all wrong.
Most of that 200MB has nothing to do with drivers. Do what anyone in IT does if that 200MB download is the only driver package available... download it, open the executable up with your favorite ZIP program and extract just the folder containing the actual print drivers. You don't need the rest of the software for printing.
Just because there's no evidence doesn't mean something isn't true. There's no evidence of life currently on Mars, but that doesn't mean there definitely isn't life on Mars. A lack of evidence just means a lack of ability to prove something one way or another.
Windows can be very solid with some tweaking and only running trusted apps. It's when you open it up to third party software and drivers that haven't been thoroughly tested that you really run into issues. Sure, it's possible to get a BSoD regardless of what you do, but it's also possible for Linux or OSX installs to break too.
Having components from China is different from having the entire machine, or at least key parts that can phone home, from China is very different. They don't give a damn if your capacitors or even the entire DVD drive are from China.
Time is what's ending, not XKCD. Time is a single comic (one of the current 1,243) which itself has over 3000 frames. What makes it unique is that they were released one at a time (originally on the half hour, which later changed to hourly). The story itself isn't overtly interesting, but the way it was released one frame at a time kept people guessing. The official XKCD thread for 1190 is massive, mostly full of speculation and even odder than normal people.
You included a number of "white people" on that list, so it's not really "white people" vs "everyone else". It's "People already accepted vs new groups". As one group became accepted, they happily discriminated against groups that were not yet accepted. Skin color be damned.
The DOS line ended with Windows Me. For a while, MS had the home line based on DOS and the business line based on NT. At the turn of the century, they dropped the DOS lineage and just made different versions of the NT lineage (Home and Pro).
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2008 R2 has some nice improvements over 2008, and 2012 has a lot of nice new stuff, but I *hate* that they decided to use the Metro UI for Server 2012. I liked having the Windows Classic theme for 2003/2008. The Metro UI makes it more difficult to get to some basic settings. It's a server, make it simple and straightforward and aesthetics be damned.
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"'This system is truly revolutionary,' Bob Smith, program manager at the Office of Naval Research (ONR), wrote"
"Revolutionary". I don't think that word means what they think it means considering "thanks to technology that has been saving business travelers billions since 1996"
Seems like it would be evolutionary at best.
Yes... yes it does. Apparently in Soviet Sprint, gaining customers causes a loss.
I'm on Virgin Mobile, owned by Sprint. On an average month, I use less than 10 minutes for phone calls. I use it considerably more for email and texting, and fairly often for web and remote desktop. If Verizon or ATT offered anything remotely similar to Virgin's $45 unlimited data, I'd jump in a heartbeat just for the better coverage. But until they do, cost is king and I'll stick with Virgin.
Your barber shop savings are nothing compared to the savings of getting ibuprofen at Rite Aid compared to getting the same stuff at a hospital ($5 a bottle vs $10 a pill).
Then why do nurses and doctors bitch so much if the servers have so much as a hiccup? They spend more time on various software programs than they do with actual patients.
And you think doctors don't already prescribe medication based on which pharmaceutical company buys them lunch?
My mechanic never charges me extra hours, but damned if I don't need to have my flasher fluid changed every time I go there...
Specialist vs generalist is supply and demand. Specialists in any field cover a niche. If I have an issue with my Exchange server that no one on the IT team can figure out, I call in a specialist. He might charge twice what it would cost for the IT team to figure it out, but he can solve the problem much faster and give more confidence in his solution - which is exactly why he can charge more.
I'm also in IT in a healthcare facility. Our department has exploded in the last five years and IT staff has gone from one person ten years ago to nine people now. Likewise, our server rooms were getting packed to capacity before we started migrating everything possible to VMs within the past year. It's amazing the record keeping we're required to keep (by the state) for auditing... backup jobs, server updates, software updates, etc. I spend an average of five to ten hours each week just documenting crap that we might need for an audit. Working on getting some of that automated, but that takes back seat to other projects we need to do to stay in compliance.
And this is the same state that owes us six figures in back pay for medicare.
I have two barbers I like. One is an old guy who has been doing it forever. He does a good job, but only uses scissors and a comb so it takes about 30 minutes for him to cut my hair. He charges $18. The other guy is in his early 20's and has a nice selection of electric razors. The end result is just as good (maybe better), and takes less than 15 minutes. He charges $11.
The first guy is struggling because he's not willing to get the training or the tools to be more efficient, so he can't see as many people and he's already at the upper limit of what the market will bear in this area. The second guy has taken right off because he can deliver a cheaper, faster haircut with no loss in quality. I'd be surprised if he hasn't already recouped his investment several times over. I'd also be surprised if this didn't scale to the medical industry with prices is the three, four and five figure ranges.
Have you ever been to a hospital for any sort of procedure? The bill is broken down into about a billion items (including a line item for stuff like over the counter grade ibuprofen that you would expect to be free). They also happily charge anything you say or is said to you as a "consultation". All of that stuff is accounted for in addition to the fee for the procedure itself.
You could argue that; however, there is plenty of evidence that the Bible, Koran, Talmud, etc are mostly fictional. So while there's no evidence saying there is no God, there's plenty of evidence saying that even if there is a God, then we still have it mostly all wrong.
The official statement is as follows:
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Most of that 200MB has nothing to do with drivers. Do what anyone in IT does if that 200MB download is the only driver package available... download it, open the executable up with your favorite ZIP program and extract just the folder containing the actual print drivers. You don't need the rest of the software for printing.
"Made in the USA" does carry a specific legal meaning and is different than "Assembled in the USA"
http://business.ftc.gov/documents/bus03-complying-made-usa-standard
They're only worried about back doors, not back windows. There's no way the Chinese could sneak fat American secrets out through a window.
Just because there's no evidence doesn't mean something isn't true. There's no evidence of life currently on Mars, but that doesn't mean there definitely isn't life on Mars. A lack of evidence just means a lack of ability to prove something one way or another.
Windows can be very solid with some tweaking and only running trusted apps. It's when you open it up to third party software and drivers that haven't been thoroughly tested that you really run into issues. Sure, it's possible to get a BSoD regardless of what you do, but it's also possible for Linux or OSX installs to break too.
Having components from China is different from having the entire machine, or at least key parts that can phone home, from China is very different. They don't give a damn if your capacitors or even the entire DVD drive are from China.
And then we find out it was a nine line Python script that wrote, drew and uploaded the entire 1190 comic.
Time is what's ending, not XKCD. Time is a single comic (one of the current 1,243) which itself has over 3000 frames. What makes it unique is that they were released one at a time (originally on the half hour, which later changed to hourly). The story itself isn't overtly interesting, but the way it was released one frame at a time kept people guessing. The official XKCD thread for 1190 is massive, mostly full of speculation and even odder than normal people.
#1190 is ending, not XKCD is ending. #1190 is titled Time.
You included a number of "white people" on that list, so it's not really "white people" vs "everyone else". It's "People already accepted vs new groups". As one group became accepted, they happily discriminated against groups that were not yet accepted. Skin color be damned.
The DOS line ended with Windows Me. For a while, MS had the home line based on DOS and the business line based on NT. At the turn of the century, they dropped the DOS lineage and just made different versions of the NT lineage (Home and Pro).
2008 R2 has some nice improvements over 2008, and 2012 has a lot of nice new stuff, but I *hate* that they decided to use the Metro UI for Server 2012. I liked having the Windows Classic theme for 2003/2008. The Metro UI makes it more difficult to get to some basic settings. It's a server, make it simple and straightforward and aesthetics be damned.