Yeah. That's exactly it. Most single earner families making less than $60k (yeah, that's right - 60 grand - more than half the households in the US make less than that) pay less than 2% of their gross in Federal income taxes. The big chunk on the paystub is social security and medicare. And yet I haven't heard a single Republican (or Democrat, for that matter) suggesting that we eliminate those programs to save working class people the 7.5% - almost 4X what they pay in Federal Income tax.
Most of those people are the same ones that said if you leave the financial instruments market unregulated, all hell will break loose.
8% - that's quite revisionist. I believe they were talking "north of 10%, and possibly 15%" before the stimulus. But hey, believe whatever Rush tells you today.
One of the local clubs may have a contingent going somewhere internationally to help set up fresh drinking water, or fighting polio, or building a bridge, or starting a library (my club is doing the last two). It's a good way to help without having to get exceptionally bogged down with the administrative and political details of international assistance.
Look, senior centers and schools aren't THAT bad. Just remember to wash your hand frequently, don't put anything in your mouth that hasn't been washed, and don't leave any cut or scratch uncovered.
There is a big gap between what you data is "worth" and what you're willing to pay to guarantee your data's safety in a 4+ 9s environment. If it's lost, would you be willing to pay $100? $1000? $10,000?- remember, this is just personal mail history for the most part. Now, how much would it cost to guarantee that same level of service on a non-hosted solution (since you don't trust the cloud). Servers, software, local static IP, setup, maintenance contract to keep it up (we're not all net gurus), backup plan, including off site storage - I'm going to say between $8000 and $15,000 for setup (same as a small business) using local rates, plus $300-$500/mo retainer with a local shop, plus $150 for the cheapest static IP, add $20 in electricity to run the extra box, plus maybe $15-20/mo for offsite storage. If you managed to get all the services at the bottom of that scale, I see north of $125,000 for 18 years (hold that 18 year question).
Now, I ask the question again: how much is your data worth? To most people, the answer is "less than what I expect to pay to send one kid to college." So they take their chances.
People lost to the sands of time, some without a trace. I thought it was a reasonably appropriate re-use of the image, though entirely disconnected from the war implications.
You can on many services. Practically every host provider out there has email as part of a hosting plan (just buy a cheap domain). The costs to have real CS on a provider that is too big to get caught in the spamhous (and other) flagging services is fairly stiff. That kind of service is generally reserved for corporations who are willing to pay 3-10X that for each employee.
The advantages to a Google email (including Apps) account are: very little incoming spam and very few false positives by others flagging you as spam just because of your originating domain or IP range.
I moved to gmail (apps) about 2.5 years ago. I had a colo server hosted by a major reseller in one of the largest data centers in the US.
The previous setup (which I used for about 8 years) was because (a) I don't have the time to learn enough about and keep up with server patches and vulnerabilities to run one myself and (b) I didn't want to have to pay for a static ip. I switched to Google Apps for mail because three times in the previous two years I had been blacklisted by one (or two) of the major spam list trackers because I was on a group of IPs which got flagged for spam (the server farm was at The Planet). There is essentially no recourse when you get flagged on those systems (sound familiar?) so I switched to Google and haven't gotten bitten since then.
This does make me think I might want to use a throwaway gmail account for g+, though, instead of my personal account on an apps domain. I have such a small userbase that I don't pay for support (= I don't get support). Still, that email is my primary account, and functions for several charity boards I sit on. It would suck mightily to get locked out.
I expect the equipment to be as accurate on day one as it is on day 366. If it's a blow up of a very small area of the sensor, heavily processed to get a usable image, then say so in the write up. Don't tell me I spent $X millon for something off of $70 ebay pinhole spycam.
(FWIW, I worked for NASA in an area that did earth and remote sensing payloads for nearly a decade - I'm not blind to the limitations of optics and distance - but still I expect either (a) better results or (b) an explanation of why the first results look like crap).
No, the iPad really is very limited. I own one,and I like it, btw - but it's far, far more limiting that even the Acer laptop I bought for less money. Still, I have it because the form factor works very well for a limited set of things I do. In fact, I like it so much, that I would need something significantly more compelling to switch to another device. Pen and pressure sensitivity is one area where the iPad does not meet my needs in certain functional areas of my work (and play, for that matter). I'm not willing to give up the silky smooth capacitive experience, though.
One of the things I hate about Win based tablet computers is the horrific finger/touch interface. Icons are improperly sized/placed, the interface of many apps do not scale well to smaller screens, and applications are primarily written for a pointer/mouse interface. Those that can do finger input are still niche, and very expensive.
The next generation of tablets needs to bridge that gap - to be a tablet when I want to sketch, or surf, or read my music or books, or watch a movie AND be a laptop that can allow me to get real work done on the road when I need to. The processor power is just about there (I run full AutoCAD on a 1.2GHz ULV laptop - it ain't fast, but it is useful; I can imagine an A6 with that power). The OS and software need to play well with the hardware to be both machines. That is not on the table yet.
Maybe. Given that they had to shut down invites for a while, I don't think that's much of a draw. Google makes cool stuff, and they already have all of your email contacts (you have at least one google account, like the rest of the civilized world, right?), so they've got an actual chance to get enough people to hit critical mass. When they turn on apps access, it will open the next set of floodgates.
And, lets face it, Google+ is shiny to geeks and muggles alike - and shiny is the demographic for social networking.
Actually, no. It only works because Google has an enormous installed base of email users, and email is one of the original social network protocols on the internet. And for the most part, their free "services" they offer are all pretty damned good (maps, apps, email, voice). Neither Apple nor Microsoft couldn't have pulled it off with 10x the cash that Google is throwing at this. Remember the millions of real dollars Bing threw at store discounts two years ago trying to get people to use their search. Are they number one in the search engine field, or grabbing users from the search engine leader in great shovelfuls? Yeah, not exactly.
Google, because of their track record on other types of apps (yeah, buzz...everybody has a couple of duds), and the massive email base, are the only ones that have a real fighting chance to overtake FB in its current incarnation.
Look at how Amazon has deleted things people have purchased for the Kindle, with no warning and recourse.
You mean the single title which they found out (after the fact) that a partner did not have the rights to, so they pulled the book and refunded your money? Or are there a slew of others I just haven't heard about?
It can be argued that both sides use hyperbole and rhetorical speech to enflame the masses.
If you want to be pedantic, you could say that file sharing has the consent of both parties in the sharing (but excludes the third party of the content creation side). The content was, at some point, legally purchased from the creator. The collecting of history data by the advertiser is non-consensual. They're not claiming the third parties who purchase this information are stealing data, but rather the actual collector who has not received the consent at the initial "transaction" point of your browser.
You're not claiming copyright or intellectual property rights on your history data (you cant' - it's not copyrightable) - but someone is nonetheless forcibly retrieving otherwise private data without your permission.
Really, how many admins are actually fluent (at the competent network admin level) on more than one OS? No, I'm not talking about you, the first dozen child replies to this post who know three flavors of Linux, support Windows XP-7, and have intimate (CLI level) knowledge of the OSX network stacks - I mean one of the typical admins who's spent their entire career (sometimes exceptionally short) managing only a single OS environment.
How conducive are Apple admins to supporting the occasional Windows box? It's a royal PITA. Anything you learned to do in the GUI 3 years ago when you took that Windows networking class to get out of the server room for a day is utterly useless in the current version. Put an Ubuntu box on a network? WTF would I want to have to page through thousands of forum posts to find the nugget of information that my corporate router won't play nice with the OEM network card and the 2.XX.XX kernel the user wants to use. How many linux shops would want to have to fool with putting an OSX or a Windows machine on their system?
It has nothing to do with a particular OS - anything that isn't in the core competency of the net admin or IT shop is going to be a threat to the whole system, and every admin here knows it. If you can't manage it from the inside out, it becomes a drain on resources anytime you have to troubleshoot.
Does it have a capacitive finger-friendly screen that can also do pressure sensitive (512+ levels) pen input for more accurate stylus use or sketching?
And "8 or so hours in ideal conditions" - man I hope that's not directly from the marketing department. If your marketing guys are hedging their words like that, they know damned well that it's going to go 3 hours under full use, and probably have everything turned of and in active sleep mode for 3 of the hours to get 8 hours of runtime.
I've said it before - it's going to come down to software support. The OS and drivers are going to have to handle stuff seamlessly. Apple gets away with is 'cause they offer so little functionality, there's little to break/go wrong. I want to see this work, but I'm sure as hell not going to by the first version.
That's nice, but it means spanning multiple discs for a even a non-parity protected version. Three discs per project would be required. Not only time consuming, but kind of a pain in the ass.
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'Cause that would be reason enough to shove it off on an interplanetary trajectory. Just fill it up, and set them free.
Works better than the color-coded notification ball on the Nexus 1.
Yeah. That's exactly it. Most single earner families making less than $60k (yeah, that's right - 60 grand - more than half the households in the US make less than that) pay less than 2% of their gross in Federal income taxes. The big chunk on the paystub is social security and medicare. And yet I haven't heard a single Republican (or Democrat, for that matter) suggesting that we eliminate those programs to save working class people the 7.5% - almost 4X what they pay in Federal Income tax.
Most of those people are the same ones that said if you leave the financial instruments market unregulated, all hell will break loose.
8% - that's quite revisionist. I believe they were talking "north of 10%, and possibly 15%" before the stimulus. But hey, believe whatever Rush tells you today.
"you'll hate us less than Facebook" is the Google+ slogan, right?
It's this year's marketing paradigm. You know, like how animals and pre-humans selling insurance became so popular last decade.
One of the local clubs may have a contingent going somewhere internationally to help set up fresh drinking water, or fighting polio, or building a bridge, or starting a library (my club is doing the last two). It's a good way to help without having to get exceptionally bogged down with the administrative and political details of international assistance.
Look, senior centers and schools aren't THAT bad. Just remember to wash your hand frequently, don't put anything in your mouth that hasn't been washed, and don't leave any cut or scratch uncovered.
Oh, you meant Africa. Sorry.
There is a big gap between what you data is "worth" and what you're willing to pay to guarantee your data's safety in a 4+ 9s environment. If it's lost, would you be willing to pay $100? $1000? $10,000?- remember, this is just personal mail history for the most part. Now, how much would it cost to guarantee that same level of service on a non-hosted solution (since you don't trust the cloud). Servers, software, local static IP, setup, maintenance contract to keep it up (we're not all net gurus), backup plan, including off site storage - I'm going to say between $8000 and $15,000 for setup (same as a small business) using local rates, plus $300-$500/mo retainer with a local shop, plus $150 for the cheapest static IP, add $20 in electricity to run the extra box, plus maybe $15-20/mo for offsite storage. If you managed to get all the services at the bottom of that scale, I see north of $125,000 for 18 years (hold that 18 year question).
Now, I ask the question again: how much is your data worth? To most people, the answer is "less than what I expect to pay to send one kid to college." So they take their chances.
People lost to the sands of time, some without a trace. I thought it was a reasonably appropriate re-use of the image, though entirely disconnected from the war implications.
You can on many services. Practically every host provider out there has email as part of a hosting plan (just buy a cheap domain). The costs to have real CS on a provider that is too big to get caught in the spamhous (and other) flagging services is fairly stiff. That kind of service is generally reserved for corporations who are willing to pay 3-10X that for each employee.
The advantages to a Google email (including Apps) account are: very little incoming spam and very few false positives by others flagging you as spam just because of your originating domain or IP range.
Good luck boarding a commercial airline flight with that theory.
I moved to gmail (apps) about 2.5 years ago. I had a colo server hosted by a major reseller in one of the largest data centers in the US.
The previous setup (which I used for about 8 years) was because (a) I don't have the time to learn enough about and keep up with server patches and vulnerabilities to run one myself and (b) I didn't want to have to pay for a static ip. I switched to Google Apps for mail because three times in the previous two years I had been blacklisted by one (or two) of the major spam list trackers because I was on a group of IPs which got flagged for spam (the server farm was at The Planet). There is essentially no recourse when you get flagged on those systems (sound familiar?) so I switched to Google and haven't gotten bitten since then.
This does make me think I might want to use a throwaway gmail account for g+, though, instead of my personal account on an apps domain. I have such a small userbase that I don't pay for support (= I don't get support). Still, that email is my primary account, and functions for several charity boards I sit on. It would suck mightily to get locked out.
Yeah, but that's not really news, is it?
I expect the equipment to be as accurate on day one as it is on day 366. If it's a blow up of a very small area of the sensor, heavily processed to get a usable image, then say so in the write up. Don't tell me I spent $X millon for something off of $70 ebay pinhole spycam.
(FWIW, I worked for NASA in an area that did earth and remote sensing payloads for nearly a decade - I'm not blind to the limitations of optics and distance - but still I expect either (a) better results or (b) an explanation of why the first results look like crap).
No, the iPad really is very limited. I own one,and I like it, btw - but it's far, far more limiting that even the Acer laptop I bought for less money. Still, I have it because the form factor works very well for a limited set of things I do. In fact, I like it so much, that I would need something significantly more compelling to switch to another device. Pen and pressure sensitivity is one area where the iPad does not meet my needs in certain functional areas of my work (and play, for that matter). I'm not willing to give up the silky smooth capacitive experience, though.
One of the things I hate about Win based tablet computers is the horrific finger/touch interface. Icons are improperly sized/placed, the interface of many apps do not scale well to smaller screens, and applications are primarily written for a pointer/mouse interface. Those that can do finger input are still niche, and very expensive.
The next generation of tablets needs to bridge that gap - to be a tablet when I want to sketch, or surf, or read my music or books, or watch a movie AND be a laptop that can allow me to get real work done on the road when I need to. The processor power is just about there (I run full AutoCAD on a 1.2GHz ULV laptop - it ain't fast, but it is useful; I can imagine an A6 with that power). The OS and software need to play well with the hardware to be both machines. That is not on the table yet.
Maybe. Given that they had to shut down invites for a while, I don't think that's much of a draw. Google makes cool stuff, and they already have all of your email contacts (you have at least one google account, like the rest of the civilized world, right?), so they've got an actual chance to get enough people to hit critical mass. When they turn on apps access, it will open the next set of floodgates.
And, lets face it, Google+ is shiny to geeks and muggles alike - and shiny is the demographic for social networking.
Actually, no. It only works because Google has an enormous installed base of email users, and email is one of the original social network protocols on the internet. And for the most part, their free "services" they offer are all pretty damned good (maps, apps, email, voice). Neither Apple nor Microsoft couldn't have pulled it off with 10x the cash that Google is throwing at this. Remember the millions of real dollars Bing threw at store discounts two years ago trying to get people to use their search. Are they number one in the search engine field, or grabbing users from the search engine leader in great shovelfuls? Yeah, not exactly.
Google, because of their track record on other types of apps (yeah, buzz...everybody has a couple of duds), and the massive email base, are the only ones that have a real fighting chance to overtake FB in its current incarnation.
Bet you're just the life of every party!
Look at how Amazon has deleted things people have purchased for the Kindle, with no warning and recourse.
You mean the single title which they found out (after the fact) that a partner did not have the rights to, so they pulled the book and refunded your money? Or are there a slew of others I just haven't heard about?
It can be argued that both sides use hyperbole and rhetorical speech to enflame the masses.
If you want to be pedantic, you could say that file sharing has the consent of both parties in the sharing (but excludes the third party of the content creation side). The content was, at some point, legally purchased from the creator.
The collecting of history data by the advertiser is non-consensual. They're not claiming the third parties who purchase this information are stealing data, but rather the actual collector who has not received the consent at the initial "transaction" point of your browser.
You're not claiming copyright or intellectual property rights on your history data (you cant' - it's not copyrightable) - but someone is nonetheless forcibly retrieving otherwise private data without your permission.
Really, how many admins are actually fluent (at the competent network admin level) on more than one OS? No, I'm not talking about you, the first dozen child replies to this post who know three flavors of Linux, support Windows XP-7, and have intimate (CLI level) knowledge of the OSX network stacks - I mean one of the typical admins who's spent their entire career (sometimes exceptionally short) managing only a single OS environment.
How conducive are Apple admins to supporting the occasional Windows box? It's a royal PITA. Anything you learned to do in the GUI 3 years ago when you took that Windows networking class to get out of the server room for a day is utterly useless in the current version. Put an Ubuntu box on a network? WTF would I want to have to page through thousands of forum posts to find the nugget of information that my corporate router won't play nice with the OEM network card and the 2.XX.XX kernel the user wants to use. How many linux shops would want to have to fool with putting an OSX or a Windows machine on their system?
It has nothing to do with a particular OS - anything that isn't in the core competency of the net admin or IT shop is going to be a threat to the whole system, and every admin here knows it. If you can't manage it from the inside out, it becomes a drain on resources anytime you have to troubleshoot.
Does it have a capacitive finger-friendly screen that can also do pressure sensitive (512+ levels) pen input for more accurate stylus use or sketching?
And "8 or so hours in ideal conditions" - man I hope that's not directly from the marketing department. If your marketing guys are hedging their words like that, they know damned well that it's going to go 3 hours under full use, and probably have everything turned of and in active sleep mode for 3 of the hours to get 8 hours of runtime.
I've said it before - it's going to come down to software support. The OS and drivers are going to have to handle stuff seamlessly. Apple gets away with is 'cause they offer so little functionality, there's little to break/go wrong. I want to see this work, but I'm sure as hell not going to by the first version.
or Law school.
That's nice, but it means spanning multiple discs for a even a non-parity protected version. Three discs per project would be required. Not only time consuming, but kind of a pain in the ass.