With all the good, you can't get anything onto it except via wireless or a dongle (connector cable to a PC), and you can't expand the memory (no microSD or SD slot, no usb). The connector has promise (USB, audio, control, display port), but it's a rare beast right now, so if PDMI fails, it's an instant dead end.
It also lacks a GPS chip, which means you're reliant on the cell network location for crappy mapping location services, or location via wi-fi. Hell, if I have wifi, I can just ask the guy at the table next to me where I am.
This might be interesting if it comes in at under $300. Otherwise it's going to be a pretty big yawn-fest.
Everything I have is on an UnRaid box, so it's organized into shares (virtual drives)
Personal Files
Photos (actually, it might be called Images)
Music Archive (all my originals)
iTunes (my working volume/set, compressed to mp4)
Applications
Home Movies (Raw, In Process, & Finished folders)
Files (everything else goes here, organized by what it is - health, rockets, cooking, guitar...etc) Work Files
My business stuff Video
Separated by type (DVD, HD, Recorded TV, Youtube)
This lets me backup my Personal and Work volumes with very little fanfare - I use LiveDrive remote storage and local external drives with SyncBack Pro. I don't back up the Video directory. Sure, it'd be a bummer to have to re-rip 400 discs, and lose some old TV shows, but it wouldn't be the end of the word, and it's not worth building a separate box (or two) with 4TB of storage to back up what I own on commercial media. That may change in the next year or two, and when it does, I'll backup with SyncBack just like the others.
The files are organized enough that most files I need can be narrowed down to 2-4 folders, tops. (side note...I have another 2-3 levels under my Files share..but that's just a second level of organization) All my images are cataloged using Picasa. I don't subscribe to the "dump it in a folder and tag it for searching." Even in Evernote I'm relatively organized. I've found that you can never remember the tag you used 4 years ago to search for your stuff. I keep a running log of my work jobs - about 1200+ in the past 8 years - and I still have problems finding specific jobs from too long ago.
Occasionally I'll clean stuff out and reorganize, and having the folders makes it easy. The biggest thing is that the master set is in ONE spot, and all my other machines sync to that spot. Sadly, the LiveDrive engineers are a bunch of useless hacks with an inflated view of their servers, so I don't sync any of my personal stuff there. I use their sync for work because it's the only service that seems to work reliably for less than $200/yr, and I've modified my workflow to use their ass-backwards system. As a result, I have to manually sync things to and from my server if I go remote for a while, but that's rare for my personal stuff; usually if I'm away from home and not on business, I want to be away from technology.
You mean aside from the fact that he wanted to eliminate federal tax loopholes and this is a state tax condition over which has has zero authority?
It looks, by the results of the 2010 election cycle, that most Americans are all for keeping the tax loopholes. Or, at least, that's what the people they elected are saying.
It's unlikely that the system will collapse, or even have a hyperinflationary reset. That said, I am very selective about extending even minor credit (I'm in the US). I know several companies in my industry which have gone under. Although my losses due to bankruptcy are very low, I want to make sure they stay that way.
I am not in the financing industry, and I don't expect my clients to put me into that business. I regularly ask for funds up front. If they can't handle 50% of the job cost to get me started, they won't have the money to pay me 100% when I'm done.
Well , yes and no. See, when a large corporation comes into an area (town/state), they bring "jobs," aka hire locals. If you were to hire 1000 locals at (on average) 50k a year, that's $50,000,000 a year, every year, that comes into the state from somewhere else. If it takes $5,000,000/year in to get those people in, the state will probably break even in taxes, presuming that most of that money will get spent 3-4 times throughout the year, generating sales or income taxes, less deductible things and non-taxed payments.
But they've also put 1000 people on the roles as workers, taken them off the un-employed list, reducing the strife that comes with an idle population.
It's not a magic solution, but if the result is a net positive, it may make sense locally to make the deal. What is debatable is whether it is worthwhile for states to be racing each other to the bottom to attract these corporations.
It's a verification step. There are also some CC processors, I've noticed, that give lower CC rates for using zip codes as a verification. For a gas station, 1/4-1/2% is a big deal because the margins are so low.
Either that or they've been sued before, and their council recommended verifying certain conditions prior to accepting a customer. It's possible that they were sued by a former employee for something contracted from a client.
You're looking at it wrong. Right now, a game is budgeted for a $40 price point, and budgets for various departments are set based on anticipated sales. It's speculative market, so the budgets are set on a small fraction of the potential sales. The sales price only exists because they've tested higher points and have found resistance.
Sure, they're concerned. As concerned as music labels would be about selling the one hot track for $1 online vs capturing a $15-20 CD sale for the consumer to get the same hot track and 7-8 tracks of fluff. Their problem is they don't want to adapt their model for the new distribution method using lower price points. It can be done, but it requires a fairly significant shift in mentality. That, to quote Barbie on mathematics, is hard.
Steve has a better way: for a small fee, you can download a digital copy right to your device directly from iTunes. It's like magic, except that Steve gets 30%.
Now all you need to do is be a genius _and_ understand what every 95 IQ knuckledragger finds appealing. I've taken marketing classes, and they're great fun. But they're useless unless you actually identify with your target market. Ever watched Family Feud? Did you get all the top answers right off the bat? Then you're in. No? Might as well pocket that marketing info so you can manage the people who knew all the Feud answers.
The geniuses who make it "like" lots of the same stuff common people do, but are intelligent enough to understand both the technical and marketing (or business) end.
For the record, I'm not dissing knuckledraggers, marketing majors, or contestants on the Family Feud. I happen not to be an any of those categories, nor am I in the genius category, so you could say there's a bit of envy in there. But, mostly, it's just observation of lots of successful and unsuccessful people.
So it's like baseball, except the plays in baseball are shorter, there is no range of strategic plays - just a set of rules reacting to the ball flight and men on base - and the overall play time for a game is shorter, though the games take longer to complete.
Football:Poker::Baseball:Blackjack (It's a shame they took those off the SATs)
You need people willing to pay for those scientists salaries. If it doesn't have value in society, nobody is going to make that money appear for free. As science gets more esoteric, it gets less valuable at the consumer level. We are no longer a society with the budget for "pure research." Where did all that money go? I suspect it's been funneled off by the hucksters on Wall Street who take a small percentage of every transaction, but do it many times a day. What would you give to have 1% of the economy back in your pocket? It seems like a small amount, but all the yachts and island villas aren't doing any basic science.
The problem is that the hangers-on that the insurance, financial, and legal community have created is not conducive to scientific advancement. Well, that and the desire for the working man to not work 60 hours weeks for a pittance. There's a lot of money flushed down the tubes to ditchdiggers, too.
Pay them all more. Pay them Wall Street salaries - make them the highest paying jobs in every town and city. Eliminate the unions and fire any teacher who doesn't produce brilliant pupils. Let the teachers hand select classes so that they only have the smartest kids. Send the rest to work in the mines.
Well, sort of. They didn't announce pricing - everyone just assumed that all the services would be free. Tethering is an extra $20. For that $20, you only get 2GB of data to the tethered devices. It's only the internal usage that is "unlimited".
I mean, if you want to argue it, technically Verizon's internet isn't unlimited to begin with - you can only get 24x31x3600x()kbps per month - which isn't unlimited even if you got 10Mbps.
They saw AT&T take it up the rear by not limiting 24/7 streamers; they're not going to repeat that mistake.
On the flip side, unless you stream audio/video, it's really hard to hit 2GB. I'm on the iPhone 200MB plan with AT&T (in my area I get great service, fwiw). Except one month I was out of town, I've never been over 80MB in a month, and I use my phone for work and personal stuff. Of course, I have wifi at home and at the office (though I have a PC at the office, so rarely use data svcs there anyway). Facebook, email (2 accounts, ~100 emails a day), calendaring, evernote, looking up small (1MB) PDF files on the work server while at client sites, occasional mapping (I have a GPS in my car).
Not including streaming, I'm amazed that people manage to rack up 2GB/mo - you'd have to use in a single day what I use in an average month of daily usage. Even for audio/video, I've got about 25GB of music and video on my phone, accessible even when I'm not "on the cloud". If I'm going somewhere, I check off a couple of podcasts before I leave. When I was out every day, the phone would just sync up my "usual" podcasts the night before.
It's probably the 24/7 streamer that makes AT&T service such a clusterfuck in big cities. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
You may not use the word "engineering" in your business name, and you may not offer any recognized engineering services to the public as a professional engineer, any more than you can call yourself a Certified Professional Accountant, a Medical Doctor, a Lawyer, a Registered Architect, or a Licensed Beautician. If you work in industry, you don't need a license anyway - manufacturers bought their way out of the law long ago. Accountability for your actions isn't a strong suit of corporations, and they have the cash to make that kind of thing go away.
If you want to be called a software engineer, you have just as much right as the janitor has of being called a sanitation engineer.
You're probably fine, anyway, since I'm not aware of a software engineering field that is recognized for licensure.
As long as he is not purporting to be a professional engineer in the offering of the services, he may perform engineering. He may not seal the work, or offer to perform professional services, but he may perform research and write reports on technical topics.
Either way, there is nothing in the article that states Cox was suggesting he was a PE. Lacey needs a public reprimand as a disgrace to the engineering profession. It's that kind of engineer that gives us all a bad name. The goal of engineering is progress and safety, not bureaucratic parochialism.
If there are legitimate concerns, he should have the data to back up his studies. Have him open the calcs for the project and see if their contractor really did miss that stuff. It happens - engineers are human, too. Is he so obsessed with being right that he's willing to risk lives to make a point? If I make a mistake, I sure as hell want someone to point it out so that I can fix it before concrete goes into the ground. Even if you discount the public safety aspect, it's cheaper to build something right the first time than to have to build it twice.
An interesting aside is that PE boards can generally only tell him not to do it again, and refer the case to the AG for prosecution (which the AG usually ignores as not being interesting enough to prosecute) . My understanding (I'm a NC PE, as well as four other states, but do 99% of my services in Virginia) is that the PE board can only discipline and fine members (i.e. PEs), not the general public.
A browser, in this sense, is just an interpreter. It functions much as the shell does for interpreted command line programs. Hell, that's how most of us middle-aged folks learned to program - though an interpreter built into the shell.
A couple of decades before WW2, Robert Goddard suggested all of the rocket propulsion ideas to the US military, and they decided not to pursue it because they didn't believe the basic science which underlay his work. The Germans realized that he had, in fact, proven some basic concepts and expanded on his work.
$4T has mostly gone into production and reuse of a great deal of the original innovation, not the innovation itself, and it's still dicey to send a person into orbit, all things considered.
Technology has advanced an many areas surrounding the "other" options far more than rocket technology in the past 40 years. The problem is that there are limits to what we can do without radical advances which - based on our current knowledge - would likely violate some basic physical principles.
Extra data, no. Extra charges, yes. I've mentioned elsewhere that I've only come close to the 200MB limit once in 6-7 months of use. I got text messages three times before I hit either 90 or 95% of my usage, notifying me that I was getting close to my limit.
In practice, unless you happen to be in an area with per-MB metered charges(perhaps roaming?), this will affect the very small number of people who are right at their limit each month (190MB+/200 or 1990MB/2000), which if probably a pretty small number. It's still sucks, and they should still own up to the extra data they're using which is non-discretionary.
Oh, no, it was held. By an intern. For 10 days straight. At $250/hr. Along with the secretary at $150/hr and a junior partner at $350/hr to verify the test. All told, that's $180,000 in billable time right off the bat.
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With all the good, you can't get anything onto it except via wireless or a dongle (connector cable to a PC), and you can't expand the memory (no microSD or SD slot, no usb). The connector has promise (USB, audio, control, display port), but it's a rare beast right now, so if PDMI fails, it's an instant dead end.
It also lacks a GPS chip, which means you're reliant on the cell network location for crappy mapping location services, or location via wi-fi. Hell, if I have wifi, I can just ask the guy at the table next to me where I am.
This might be interesting if it comes in at under $300. Otherwise it's going to be a pretty big yawn-fest.
Everything I have is on an UnRaid box, so it's organized into shares (virtual drives)
Personal Files
Photos (actually, it might be called Images)
Music Archive (all my originals)
iTunes (my working volume/set, compressed to mp4)
Applications
Home Movies (Raw, In Process, & Finished folders)
Files (everything else goes here, organized by what it is - health, rockets, cooking, guitar...etc)
Work Files
My business stuff
Video
Separated by type (DVD, HD, Recorded TV, Youtube)
This lets me backup my Personal and Work volumes with very little fanfare - I use LiveDrive remote storage and local external drives with SyncBack Pro. I don't back up the Video directory. Sure, it'd be a bummer to have to re-rip 400 discs, and lose some old TV shows, but it wouldn't be the end of the word, and it's not worth building a separate box (or two) with 4TB of storage to back up what I own on commercial media. That may change in the next year or two, and when it does, I'll backup with SyncBack just like the others.
The files are organized enough that most files I need can be narrowed down to 2-4 folders, tops. (side note...I have another 2-3 levels under my Files share..but that's just a second level of organization) All my images are cataloged using Picasa. I don't subscribe to the "dump it in a folder and tag it for searching." Even in Evernote I'm relatively organized. I've found that you can never remember the tag you used 4 years ago to search for your stuff. I keep a running log of my work jobs - about 1200+ in the past 8 years - and I still have problems finding specific jobs from too long ago.
Occasionally I'll clean stuff out and reorganize, and having the folders makes it easy. The biggest thing is that the master set is in ONE spot, and all my other machines sync to that spot. Sadly, the LiveDrive engineers are a bunch of useless hacks with an inflated view of their servers, so I don't sync any of my personal stuff there. I use their sync for work because it's the only service that seems to work reliably for less than $200/yr, and I've modified my workflow to use their ass-backwards system. As a result, I have to manually sync things to and from my server if I go remote for a while, but that's rare for my personal stuff; usually if I'm away from home and not on business, I want to be away from technology.
Wouldn't that be 1 zebabyte=1024 exbabytes?
*ducks*
Fixed the subject line for you.
You mean aside from the fact that he wanted to eliminate federal tax loopholes and this is a state tax condition over which has has zero authority?
It looks, by the results of the 2010 election cycle, that most Americans are all for keeping the tax loopholes. Or, at least, that's what the people they elected are saying.
It's unlikely that the system will collapse, or even have a hyperinflationary reset. That said, I am very selective about extending even minor credit (I'm in the US). I know several companies in my industry which have gone under. Although my losses due to bankruptcy are very low, I want to make sure they stay that way.
I am not in the financing industry, and I don't expect my clients to put me into that business. I regularly ask for funds up front. If they can't handle 50% of the job cost to get me started, they won't have the money to pay me 100% when I'm done.
Well , yes and no. See, when a large corporation comes into an area (town/state), they bring "jobs," aka hire locals. If you were to hire 1000 locals at (on average) 50k a year, that's $50,000,000 a year, every year, that comes into the state from somewhere else. If it takes $5,000,000/year in to get those people in, the state will probably break even in taxes, presuming that most of that money will get spent 3-4 times throughout the year, generating sales or income taxes, less deductible things and non-taxed payments.
But they've also put 1000 people on the roles as workers, taken them off the un-employed list, reducing the strife that comes with an idle population.
It's not a magic solution, but if the result is a net positive, it may make sense locally to make the deal. What is debatable is whether it is worthwhile for states to be racing each other to the bottom to attract these corporations.
It's a verification step. There are also some CC processors, I've noticed, that give lower CC rates for using zip codes as a verification. For a gas station, 1/4-1/2% is a big deal because the margins are so low.
Either that or they've been sued before, and their council recommended verifying certain conditions prior to accepting a customer. It's possible that they were sued by a former employee for something contracted from a client.
You're looking at it wrong. Right now, a game is budgeted for a $40 price point, and budgets for various departments are set based on anticipated sales. It's speculative market, so the budgets are set on a small fraction of the potential sales. The sales price only exists because they've tested higher points and have found resistance.
Sure, they're concerned. As concerned as music labels would be about selling the one hot track for $1 online vs capturing a $15-20 CD sale for the consumer to get the same hot track and 7-8 tracks of fluff. Their problem is they don't want to adapt their model for the new distribution method using lower price points. It can be done, but it requires a fairly significant shift in mentality. That, to quote Barbie on mathematics, is hard.
Steve has a better way: for a small fee, you can download a digital copy right to your device directly from iTunes. It's like magic, except that Steve gets 30%.
Now all you need to do is be a genius _and_ understand what every 95 IQ knuckledragger finds appealing. I've taken marketing classes, and they're great fun. But they're useless unless you actually identify with your target market. Ever watched Family Feud? Did you get all the top answers right off the bat? Then you're in. No? Might as well pocket that marketing info so you can manage the people who knew all the Feud answers.
The geniuses who make it "like" lots of the same stuff common people do, but are intelligent enough to understand both the technical and marketing (or business) end.
For the record, I'm not dissing knuckledraggers, marketing majors, or contestants on the Family Feud. I happen not to be an any of those categories, nor am I in the genius category, so you could say there's a bit of envy in there. But, mostly, it's just observation of lots of successful and unsuccessful people.
...target practice!
(I kid, I kid. Just don't tell Sarah Palin.)
So it's like baseball, except the plays in baseball are shorter, there is no range of strategic plays - just a set of rules reacting to the ball flight and men on base - and the overall play time for a game is shorter, though the games take longer to complete.
Football:Poker::Baseball:Blackjack (It's a shame they took those off the SATs)
You need people willing to pay for those scientists salaries. If it doesn't have value in society, nobody is going to make that money appear for free. As science gets more esoteric, it gets less valuable at the consumer level. We are no longer a society with the budget for "pure research." Where did all that money go? I suspect it's been funneled off by the hucksters on Wall Street who take a small percentage of every transaction, but do it many times a day. What would you give to have 1% of the economy back in your pocket? It seems like a small amount, but all the yachts and island villas aren't doing any basic science.
The problem is that the hangers-on that the insurance, financial, and legal community have created is not conducive to scientific advancement. Well, that and the desire for the working man to not work 60 hours weeks for a pittance. There's a lot of money flushed down the tubes to ditchdiggers, too.
Pay them all more. Pay them Wall Street salaries - make them the highest paying jobs in every town and city. Eliminate the unions and fire any teacher who doesn't produce brilliant pupils. Let the teachers hand select classes so that they only have the smartest kids. Send the rest to work in the mines.
Oops...got carried away there.
downloading a windows 7 iso over my G1's...
That's just wrong.
Well, sort of. They didn't announce pricing - everyone just assumed that all the services would be free. Tethering is an extra $20. For that $20, you only get 2GB of data to the tethered devices. It's only the internal usage that is "unlimited".
I mean, if you want to argue it, technically Verizon's internet isn't unlimited to begin with - you can only get 24x31x3600x()kbps per month - which isn't unlimited even if you got 10Mbps.
They saw AT&T take it up the rear by not limiting 24/7 streamers; they're not going to repeat that mistake.
On the flip side, unless you stream audio/video, it's really hard to hit 2GB. I'm on the iPhone 200MB plan with AT&T (in my area I get great service, fwiw). Except one month I was out of town, I've never been over 80MB in a month, and I use my phone for work and personal stuff. Of course, I have wifi at home and at the office (though I have a PC at the office, so rarely use data svcs there anyway). Facebook, email (2 accounts, ~100 emails a day), calendaring, evernote, looking up small (1MB) PDF files on the work server while at client sites, occasional mapping (I have a GPS in my car).
Not including streaming, I'm amazed that people manage to rack up 2GB/mo - you'd have to use in a single day what I use in an average month of daily usage. Even for audio/video, I've got about 25GB of music and video on my phone, accessible even when I'm not "on the cloud". If I'm going somewhere, I check off a couple of podcasts before I leave. When I was out every day, the phone would just sync up my "usual" podcasts the night before.
It's probably the 24/7 streamer that makes AT&T service such a clusterfuck in big cities. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
You may not use the word "engineering" in your business name, and you may not offer any recognized engineering services to the public as a professional engineer, any more than you can call yourself a Certified Professional Accountant, a Medical Doctor, a Lawyer, a Registered Architect, or a Licensed Beautician. If you work in industry, you don't need a license anyway - manufacturers bought their way out of the law long ago. Accountability for your actions isn't a strong suit of corporations, and they have the cash to make that kind of thing go away.
If you want to be called a software engineer, you have just as much right as the janitor has of being called a sanitation engineer.
You're probably fine, anyway, since I'm not aware of a software engineering field that is recognized for licensure.
As long as he is not purporting to be a professional engineer in the offering of the services, he may perform engineering. He may not seal the work, or offer to perform professional services, but he may perform research and write reports on technical topics.
Either way, there is nothing in the article that states Cox was suggesting he was a PE. Lacey needs a public reprimand as a disgrace to the engineering profession. It's that kind of engineer that gives us all a bad name. The goal of engineering is progress and safety, not bureaucratic parochialism.
If there are legitimate concerns, he should have the data to back up his studies. Have him open the calcs for the project and see if their contractor really did miss that stuff. It happens - engineers are human, too. Is he so obsessed with being right that he's willing to risk lives to make a point? If I make a mistake, I sure as hell want someone to point it out so that I can fix it before concrete goes into the ground. Even if you discount the public safety aspect, it's cheaper to build something right the first time than to have to build it twice.
An interesting aside is that PE boards can generally only tell him not to do it again, and refer the case to the AG for prosecution (which the AG usually ignores as not being interesting enough to prosecute) . My understanding (I'm a NC PE, as well as four other states, but do 99% of my services in Virginia) is that the PE board can only discipline and fine members (i.e. PEs), not the general public.
A browser, in this sense, is just an interpreter. It functions much as the shell does for interpreted command line programs. Hell, that's how most of us middle-aged folks learned to program - though an interpreter built into the shell.
A couple of decades before WW2, Robert Goddard suggested all of the rocket propulsion ideas to the US military, and they decided not to pursue it because they didn't believe the basic science which underlay his work. The Germans realized that he had, in fact, proven some basic concepts and expanded on his work.
$4T has mostly gone into production and reuse of a great deal of the original innovation, not the innovation itself, and it's still dicey to send a person into orbit, all things considered.
Technology has advanced an many areas surrounding the "other" options far more than rocket technology in the past 40 years. The problem is that there are limits to what we can do without radical advances which - based on our current knowledge - would likely violate some basic physical principles.
Extra data, no. Extra charges, yes. I've mentioned elsewhere that I've only come close to the 200MB limit once in 6-7 months of use. I got text messages three times before I hit either 90 or 95% of my usage, notifying me that I was getting close to my limit.
In practice, unless you happen to be in an area with per-MB metered charges(perhaps roaming?), this will affect the very small number of people who are right at their limit each month (190MB+/200 or 1990MB/2000), which if probably a pretty small number. It's still sucks, and they should still own up to the extra data they're using which is non-discretionary.
Oh, no, it was held. By an intern. For 10 days straight. At $250/hr. Along with the secretary at $150/hr and a junior partner at $350/hr to verify the test. All told, that's $180,000 in billable time right off the bat.