Heard about this on the BBC this morning. One of the sites I get a lot of my info from, however even the BBC is under
certain strain these days after fallout from accusations of the Blair government (The Bush-Blair memo, Hutton Inquiry, suicide of David Kelly) and is being restructured, so
you never really know what your going to be left with. Cut-backs have certainly been visible in coverage.
I also visit Al Jazeera from time to time. Maybe there's some propaganda at work on the site, or maybe
that's what I've been trained to believe from american media. Either way, they seem to have the credibility I once associated
with CNN long before Ted Turner sold them out.
the younger generation is trusting internet news sources more and more.
I sure don't watch news on TV anymore. If I see something interesting I do my own digging, lest I get
trapped in a honeypot news site with propaganda all over the place.
The survey confirmed that media consumption is shifting online for younger generations, as 19 percent of those aged 18 to 24 named the Internet as their most important source of news compared with 9 percent overall.
Well, good, just take care where you read from and who you trust. I find a smattering of international sites gives a broader view and
avoids the pitfall of buying into one nation's "truth"
Also in the article is the factoid that Americans consider Fox News the most trustworthy national news program overall (coming in at 11%)
An interesting and very, very sad tidbit. The country is in a war it never should have entered, China is financing USA debt, which will give it tremendous leverage, while the president
continues to boost 'defense' spending at the expense of social programs, Iran is spearheading a move away from the Dollar for petroleum trading, and a lot more. It's only taken 5 years for some people to come around
to the facts that this is not a forthcoming or particularly well run government. Thanks Fox News, you've helped make that possible by bluring corporate interference in the news room, info-tainment and politics.
I wasn't aware that watching TV and listening to music constituted a life.
Some people, it is rumoured, thought watching Friends and discussing it at work the next day constituted a life. Small wonder they were so disappointed to see it finally end. They doubtlessly thanked their lucky stars for Suvivor, Lost, etc. Though I don't think any of these people actually play video games.
Let's see, if I get the PS2, the TiVo, a Motorola Slvr L7, home furnishings from Ikea, drive a black Scion with tinted windows, hang out at a trendy coffee place and pass off light insults regarding Starbucks, listen to culturally hip bands, watch only indy cinema, drink bottled water with a trendy name, eat strict vegetarian mediterranean themed food, wear clothing only from mens wear shops which never display a SALE sign of any kind and wear my hair in a pony tail, will anyone see I live an incredibly cool lifestyle?
Ah, heck with it, I'll play free games on the internet, drink reheated coffee from Costco, drive a wreck and tell people they can fsck off.
I wasn't aware people who sat on their a55 all day and played video games had a life. The Bob knows I didn't when that's all I did. I gave it all up, though, for my new calling
Ay-yiy-yiy-yiiii!
I am the Frito Bandito!
I love Fritos corn chips,
I do!
I love Fritos corn chips,
I take them from you!*
In the uk gardening newsgroup I was in a discussion several years back, regarding methods of storing solar power. I thought a neat idea would be to have solar cells drive a motor which raised a static weight through a gearbox. When the power is needed that energy could be used by reversing the gearbox to lower the weight and turn a generator. Expenses would be the solar panels, gearbox, motor and generator, plus perhaps some way of tapping it into the house circuit. Perhaps even a small wind generator could be added to further boost the system. Seems efficient and pittance compared to this sldegehammer approach.
holy crap. You must not live in Florida... for my little one-bedroom condo, my electric bill is $65 a month in winter months if I don't heat the place, and over $150 a month in summer when the a/c is on.
I live in Central California. I only run lights in the rooms I'm in. I use low wattage bulbs for everything. My fridge doesn't automatically make ice. The most current hungry device (besides the stove) is my PC and I just upgraded to one of those energy efficient AMD 64 bit doo dads.
In the winter I don't runn the heat, but just throw more blankets on the bed.
When I lived in Mid-Michigan, in a 3 bedroom house 2000+ sq ft., I kept my entire energy bill down to $75 a month even in the dead of winter, with temperatures below zeros for days at a time.
I'm sure if I were married and had kids it would go up quite a bit.
In theory - if this becomes popular enough, the power companies are likely to adjust their pricing schedules. Or they could change the schedule for any other random reason. Having an appliance that is able to pick up on this by itself is quite cool. Still overkill, as it takes a person a few minutes to do themselves, but at least it has a purpose.
I wrote this in another post somewhere in this thread.
Anyone wishing to look further should consider the example of the diesel automobiles the Big Three made to take advantage of inexpensive diesel fuel, back in the late 70's IIRC. Shift the demand the prices will adjust. People who don't get it never had Macro Economics.
What the hell? Why is it on slashdot that people feel the need to randomly attack *EVERYTHING* that is posted?!?!?!
I think my points are valid. And criticism is a good thing in discussing the perceived merits. You'd prefer nothing but positive feedback on everything? And why do you generalise "*EVERYTHING*"? Talk about flying off the handle.
Seriously, what the hell is wrong with you?!?! A low speed pentium chip doesn't take much power. Maybe the cost they saved by making it used standard off the shelf equipment is so great that you wouldn't recoup the costs as a customer over the life of the product from them using that, vs. a custom extremely low power chip. Really? WTF??
Seriously, do you think? Even the lowest power pentium is a considerable draw in the scope of the built-in inefficiencies of a power storage device. Especially when the power is flowing the other direction and it's still running on your lossy stored power. I've got a watch which runs code to do a vast array of functions and runs for 9 months on a 2032 3v lithium battery. The savings of off-the-shelf pentium hardware is to be believed? Gimme a break.
You call these guys nutweeds,
And I believe rightly so.
and manage to also attack microsoft.net in your post as well!
Where did I attack Microsoft.Net? Well? Go on, point it out. I'll be waiting. As far as I can recall I used it as an example of an off-the-shelf commodity developing tool and to further parody the idea of the application of a Pentium.
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?
Not a thing, what's wrong with you?
Do you attack any idea that comes along regardless of how much you know about it???
No. Do you attack every critical post with the same fervor and colourful language? You must have wowwed them on the debate team at prep school.
You are the kind of person that randomly attacks any idea that comes along, just because. You are the kind of person that attacks any kind of new technology for any reason they can regardless of if it makes any sense or is based on fact.
Talk about flaming nut. Such accusations. Don't take up law practice.
What is even sadder is that this got modded up as INSIGHTFUL! God, that is so frelling sad.
What does frelling mean?
News flash: it isn't insightful to randomly attack something you know very little about.
I certainly thought it was and apparently I wasn't alone. I applaud those who read past the first few words before bursting into flame. Obviously you immediately adopted a very rigid contrary stance, read what you wanted to, saw what you wanted to and went on the attack. Though where you draw these extreme views is beyond me. Prozac might help.
The fact is, this is a very neat idea. Taking the utility companies' exploitation and turning it around on them! AND YOU ATTACK IT! Seriously! Go get laid.
It would be a neat idea IF it wasn't such a transparent attempt to save people $1 at the cost of $5. I think it's rubbish. I didn't simply attack it in a rage of vitriol, either. I realised there is something inherently seedy in using a high consumption device to cut power bills. Go to the garden department of a DIY store and look at the marvelous timers for automated watering systems which can run for months on a nine volt battery. Built in timers, etc. Very neat little embedded systems and inexpensive, too.
I'm posting this logged in, and with +karma, I know I'll get modded down as a troll, but by god...I don't care.
You should be, more as flamebait than troll, but both elements are there. You should read, and if you disagree, read again and think through your response. All I see is someone in a flaming rage railing away with unfounded assumptions and personal attacks.
I don't see why this was modded a troll.. seeing them say they used a Pentium really shows how lame the design is..
It's modded as troll because the Anti-Anti-Anti(fill in a few more) Something Brigade has lept to action with the ruthless efficiency of the Monty Python Spanish Inquisition with about the same results.
Even one poster tossed out some VIA x86 compatible chip which only idles at 15W which could be considered. Think about that. 15W is still a lot of power, particularly after you have already gone through all the inefficiencies of turning household current into the voltage necessary for the thing -- which is exacerbated if the thing is running off your stored power, which you know is going to have a degree of inefficiency.
Reminds me of how blind people are regarding the costs of things. How much does a $1 candy bar cost you? Not $1, unless someone gave that $1 to you, gratis. It costs you the gross income necessary to have that $1. Depending upon taxes and various deductions it could have been $2 of income to net that $1.
Similar to this example, say 1000KVA of power comes in, 700KVA is stored, 15KVA is used to run your little monitoring device, then the stored power has leakage depending upon how much time it has been in storage, finally there's the loss of converting the remainder to output your house runs on.
I think it's hooey. More sucker bait for witless public. Simply use less power and use it in off-peak periods.
There's one last thing to consider. Several years back the automakers jumped on the badwagon of building diesel cars, because diesel fuel was cheaper than regular petrol. The increased demand drove up diesel prices (also impacting transportation industries) thus negating the percieved benefit (besides, many of these cars were utter disasters as most manufactures had little experience in small diesels and understanding the different demands between two classes of vehicles.) If enough were to buy these things the power companies would simply change the pricing structure again and people would be stuck with white elephants.
This is something that I believe is probably for businesses, not really a home-use thing. Plus, ya'll didn't have Enron fucking you over on your powerbill for a few years. California got ass raped....
Ah, how I remember the rolling blackouts. Our plant diesel generator would kick in shortly after we got a phone call telling us it was us on the next blackout.
Yes, I do live in California and I was working in San Jose when it was happening. You could tell the president of the US didn't give a rat's ass about the technology sector.
There are various small embedded operating systems, depending upon what's needed. But I still buy stuff with tiny 8bit CPUs chugging through complex code with plenty of D/A and A/D conversion and such. Why does this thing need something a big as a Pentium unless it's got large code to chew, i.e. Windows.
With intel inside, it's going to drain enough power to make the offest cost for the power about the same.
Just think about this thing for a moment... $10K for a home unit. How much power are you using to make that worthwile? Electric at that, not your gas bill for heat and hot water. My electric is about $20 a month and that includes running a fridge, computer (an hour or two a day, plus a few hours a day on weekends) and occasionally cooking up some sort of dinner (since I eat cereal for breakfast and eat lunch away from home on weekdays.)
I'm sure a family can make the meter spin, but still, that beast is going to take some serious effort to offset, particularly with it's own built in inefficiencies.
A built-in computer powered by a Pentium chip will make intelligent purchase decisions, buying when prices are low, then storing the electricity for later use.
Basically a PC. WTF happened to using small, simple processors which run on tiny amounts of power, rather than rely on something of this level of overkill? Oh, wait, they
probably decided to program it in Microsoft.Net which requires a big processor, a fair chunk of memory and all the trappings. All this in your power saving device.
Typical of a decision driven by some nutweed director who doesn't feel empowered unless he's got an 8lb. laptop and a Blackberry.
"we'll save a bundle using off the shelf commodity hardware and having some hack put this together in.net rather than hire expensive embedded systems designers and programmers. who cares if it sucks up the savings? once we've made a sale we're golden."
The article's argument: India has the most modern management system in the world."
Be that as it may, but as soon as you step foot outside the company door you encounter it's compliment, the most
moribund political-economic system in the world.
Wow, to be able to hold managers accountable. I've never really seen the like, heard about it, but never seen the like. Which probably explains
why there are so many bad CIO's out there.
This is Maundy Thursday and back in 2003 they reinstituted, at some churches, the washing of feet by the clergy.
Like the Anglican Church split from Rome and doesn't recognise the Pope, but the Queen as head of church, the US Constitution, though modeled on the Magna Carta, does not in any wording defer to it. I don't believe it defers from the Ten Commandments, but give Ralph Reed and George W. Bush time and it might.
If they don't update their products people will comment on how much they suck.
If they do update them people will claim instability due to the number of patches.
It's a matter of perception. Some people see ongoing updates as true support. Others simply hate anything Microsoft.
You decide.
I hate the fact I have to purchase anti-viral software even though I exercise great care in what I download, install, execute, etc.
I hate the fact that I have to download patches frequently, which are massive files and I'm still on a dial-up so they can take hours.
I hate knowing something is running on my computer, chewing up CPU time, but because the way the task manager works I can't really see everything that's in memory and running.
The Bob damn them and their monolithic view of the world.
Nothing New - This is nothing new, my health insurance has an online system and so do many others.
I broke my clavicle last year and have been swamped with bills. I've been able to track my account on-line, which was particularly helpful in finding one bill sent to me wasn't sent to my insurer, first.
Particularly distressing because when I was taken in to hospital I had my wallet with me and insurance card, which they took down. The depressing bit, however, is in a modern US hospital are many companies and they don't necessarily share information, such as your insurer, member number, etc. You don't realize this until you're getting bills and notices of payment to a half dozen medical companies.
I wonder if the reason for this is that the slow starters grow up thinking they are not that smart. So they don't close their minds,... Growing up I myself heard a lot of arguments against correct Ideas from the "Smart" students, arguments like I am the next Level class above you so your information is wrong and I am right. So they go on for the rest of their life with the wrong ideas about things while the "Slower" student goes along absorbing information and different ideas thus making their minds more agile.
One of the greatest challenges is getting past the pervasive attitude that certain subjects are "hard" People get to believing it. Hell, it's in television, movies, comics, etc. that you have to be a "brainy nerd" like, say Jason Fox or Francis Ottoman to be able to hack certain subjects. The reality is people buy into the "for super brains only" and "[subject] is hard" and tune out. Attitude and confidence are everything when studying.
I was about to drop a chemistry class in college because I just felt I couldn't do it. It was just too much. But I was also working a student job in the computer center and had interacted a bit with faculty and administration on a concept of "writing across the curriculum", in a nutshell, repeat in writing not what was just shoved into your brain, but what you thought of it, what it meant to you, plus any connections to any other areas it seemed to connect. It's a cognitive kickstart, which rather than focus on rote learning emphasized understanding of the concepts. Once you've got the concepts down and feel confident, you've got it made.
I decided to be fair to myself before dropping the class and admitting failure and sat down in the commons to write out what about inorganic chemistry I did know. Turned out I did know a lot, it was just a few things I didn't know that were defeating me. Why focus energy on learning what you already know? So I focused on what I didn't know and pulled an A in the class. It was a watershed moment and after applying it to a few other classes I realized I could do it all and do it all well.
All except that three pronger in music... ah well...
No... first posts are often made by people who don't have enough to do.
The shame is/. doesn't really rate posts by moderation, but by time. If higher rated threads rose to the top then frist ps0ters would look pretty silly.
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to keep chasing the carrot on the string.
I just put it down to lack of interest, but I had poor grades for most of my K-12 experience and first couple years of college.
At some points certain things suddenly connected and I "saw" what the goals where of several of my classes. I then carried a 3.92 for 2 years and hit the President's List.
I had always scored high on intelligence tests, even hitting 99th pecentile on 4 of 7 categories in HS.
There's probably an answer out there and, Oh, hello, who let you in here?
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Heard about this on the BBC this morning. One of the sites I get a lot of my info from, however even the BBC is under certain strain these days after fallout from accusations of the Blair government (The Bush-Blair memo, Hutton Inquiry, suicide of David Kelly) and is being restructured, so you never really know what your going to be left with. Cut-backs have certainly been visible in coverage.
I also visit Al Jazeera from time to time. Maybe there's some propaganda at work on the site, or maybe that's what I've been trained to believe from american media. Either way, they seem to have the credibility I once associated with CNN long before Ted Turner sold them out.
the younger generation is trusting internet news sources more and more.
I sure don't watch news on TV anymore. If I see something interesting I do my own digging, lest I get trapped in a honeypot news site with propaganda all over the place.
The survey confirmed that media consumption is shifting online for younger generations, as 19 percent of those aged 18 to 24 named the Internet as their most important source of news compared with 9 percent overall.
Well, good, just take care where you read from and who you trust. I find a smattering of international sites gives a broader view and avoids the pitfall of buying into one nation's "truth"
Also in the article is the factoid that Americans consider Fox News the most trustworthy national news program overall (coming in at 11%)
An interesting and very, very sad tidbit. The country is in a war it never should have entered, China is financing USA debt, which will give it tremendous leverage, while the president continues to boost 'defense' spending at the expense of social programs, Iran is spearheading a move away from the Dollar for petroleum trading, and a lot more. It's only taken 5 years for some people to come around to the facts that this is not a forthcoming or particularly well run government. Thanks Fox News, you've helped make that possible by bluring corporate interference in the news room, info-tainment and politics.
I've an Xbox, a PS/2, a Gamecube, a DS, an Xbox360 and a PSP.
You fool, the Xbox clashes with the PS2 and the Game Cube should never be in the same room as an XBox 360. Have you no sense of Feng Shui?!?
I'm apparently loyal only to the economy at large.
Could be. I'd hate to think there are those who use such a survey as a shopping list.
"let's see, to be a proper xbox maven I'll need spruce martha stewart bath towels..."
I think when I see a certain crowd prefers Nirvana that they are old farts, but that's just my 2 centavos.
Some people, it is rumoured, thought watching Friends and discussing it at work the next day constituted a life. Small wonder they were so disappointed to see it finally end. They doubtlessly thanked their lucky stars for Suvivor, Lost, etc. Though I don't think any of these people actually play video games.
Ah, heck with it, I'll play free games on the internet, drink reheated coffee from Costco, drive a wreck and tell people they can fsck off.
* Offer does not apply in Gondor.
In the uk gardening newsgroup I was in a discussion several years back, regarding methods of storing solar power. I thought a neat idea would be to have solar cells drive a motor which raised a static weight through a gearbox. When the power is needed that energy could be used by reversing the gearbox to lower the weight and turn a generator. Expenses would be the solar panels, gearbox, motor and generator, plus perhaps some way of tapping it into the house circuit. Perhaps even a small wind generator could be added to further boost the system. Seems efficient and pittance compared to this sldegehammer approach.
I live in Central California. I only run lights in the rooms I'm in. I use low wattage bulbs for everything. My fridge doesn't automatically make ice. The most current hungry device (besides the stove) is my PC and I just upgraded to one of those energy efficient AMD 64 bit doo dads.
In the winter I don't runn the heat, but just throw more blankets on the bed.
When I lived in Mid-Michigan, in a 3 bedroom house 2000+ sq ft., I kept my entire energy bill down to $75 a month even in the dead of winter, with temperatures below zeros for days at a time.
I'm sure if I were married and had kids it would go up quite a bit.
You'd get one.
In theory - if this becomes popular enough, the power companies are likely to adjust their pricing schedules. Or they could change the schedule for any other random reason. Having an appliance that is able to pick up on this by itself is quite cool. Still overkill, as it takes a person a few minutes to do themselves, but at least it has a purpose.
I wrote this in another post somewhere in this thread.
Anyone wishing to look further should consider the example of the diesel automobiles the Big Three made to take advantage of inexpensive diesel fuel, back in the late 70's IIRC. Shift the demand the prices will adjust. People who don't get it never had Macro Economics.
I think my points are valid. And criticism is a good thing in discussing the perceived merits. You'd prefer nothing but positive feedback on everything? And why do you generalise "*EVERYTHING*"? Talk about flying off the handle.
Seriously, what the hell is wrong with you?!?! A low speed pentium chip doesn't take much power. Maybe the cost they saved by making it used standard off the shelf equipment is so great that you wouldn't recoup the costs as a customer over the life of the product from them using that, vs. a custom extremely low power chip. Really? WTF??
Seriously, do you think? Even the lowest power pentium is a considerable draw in the scope of the built-in inefficiencies of a power storage device. Especially when the power is flowing the other direction and it's still running on your lossy stored power. I've got a watch which runs code to do a vast array of functions and runs for 9 months on a 2032 3v lithium battery. The savings of off-the-shelf pentium hardware is to be believed? Gimme a break.
You call these guys nutweeds,
And I believe rightly so.
and manage to also attack microsoft .net in your post as well!
Where did I attack Microsoft .Net? Well? Go on, point it out. I'll be waiting. As far as I can recall I used it as an example of an off-the-shelf commodity developing tool and to further parody the idea of the application of a Pentium.
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?
Not a thing, what's wrong with you?
Do you attack any idea that comes along regardless of how much you know about it???
No. Do you attack every critical post with the same fervor and colourful language? You must have wowwed them on the debate team at prep school.
You are the kind of person that randomly attacks any idea that comes along, just because. You are the kind of person that attacks any kind of new technology for any reason they can regardless of if it makes any sense or is based on fact.
Talk about flaming nut. Such accusations. Don't take up law practice.
What is even sadder is that this got modded up as INSIGHTFUL! God, that is so frelling sad.
What does frelling mean?
News flash: it isn't insightful to randomly attack something you know very little about.
I certainly thought it was and apparently I wasn't alone. I applaud those who read past the first few words before bursting into flame. Obviously you immediately adopted a very rigid contrary stance, read what you wanted to, saw what you wanted to and went on the attack. Though where you draw these extreme views is beyond me. Prozac might help.
The fact is, this is a very neat idea. Taking the utility companies' exploitation and turning it around on them! AND YOU ATTACK IT! Seriously! Go get laid.
It would be a neat idea IF it wasn't such a transparent attempt to save people $1 at the cost of $5. I think it's rubbish. I didn't simply attack it in a rage of vitriol, either. I realised there is something inherently seedy in using a high consumption device to cut power bills. Go to the garden department of a DIY store and look at the marvelous timers for automated watering systems which can run for months on a nine volt battery. Built in timers, etc. Very neat little embedded systems and inexpensive, too.
I'm posting this logged in, and with +karma, I know I'll get modded down as a troll, but by god...I don't care.
You should be, more as flamebait than troll, but both elements are there. You should read, and if you disagree, read again and think through your response. All I see is someone in a flaming rage railing away with unfounded assumptions and personal attacks.
It's modded as troll because the Anti-Anti-Anti(fill in a few more) Something Brigade has lept to action with the ruthless efficiency of the Monty Python Spanish Inquisition with about the same results.
Even one poster tossed out some VIA x86 compatible chip which only idles at 15W which could be considered. Think about that. 15W is still a lot of power, particularly after you have already gone through all the inefficiencies of turning household current into the voltage necessary for the thing -- which is exacerbated if the thing is running off your stored power, which you know is going to have a degree of inefficiency.
Reminds me of how blind people are regarding the costs of things. How much does a $1 candy bar cost you? Not $1, unless someone gave that $1 to you, gratis. It costs you the gross income necessary to have that $1. Depending upon taxes and various deductions it could have been $2 of income to net that $1.
Similar to this example, say 1000KVA of power comes in, 700KVA is stored, 15KVA is used to run your little monitoring device, then the stored power has leakage depending upon how much time it has been in storage, finally there's the loss of converting the remainder to output your house runs on.
I think it's hooey. More sucker bait for witless public. Simply use less power and use it in off-peak periods.
There's one last thing to consider. Several years back the automakers jumped on the badwagon of building diesel cars, because diesel fuel was cheaper than regular petrol. The increased demand drove up diesel prices (also impacting transportation industries) thus negating the percieved benefit (besides, many of these cars were utter disasters as most manufactures had little experience in small diesels and understanding the different demands between two classes of vehicles.) If enough were to buy these things the power companies would simply change the pricing structure again and people would be stuck with white elephants.
The $10K unit for home users isn't for Home Users?
What'll they think of next ...
But don't let that stop you from slinging the term "snake oil" around....
Wouldn't hear of it. my my my...
Ah, how I remember the rolling blackouts. Our plant diesel generator would kick in shortly after we got a phone call telling us it was us on the next blackout.
Yes, I do live in California and I was working in San Jose when it was happening. You could tell the president of the US didn't give a rat's ass about the technology sector.
There are various small embedded operating systems, depending upon what's needed. But I still buy stuff with tiny 8bit CPUs chugging through complex code with plenty of D/A and A/D conversion and such. Why does this thing need something a big as a Pentium unless it's got large code to chew, i.e. Windows.
Just think about this thing for a moment... $10K for a home unit. How much power are you using to make that worthwile? Electric at that, not your gas bill for heat and hot water. My electric is about $20 a month and that includes running a fridge, computer (an hour or two a day, plus a few hours a day on weekends) and occasionally cooking up some sort of dinner (since I eat cereal for breakfast and eat lunch away from home on weekdays.)
I'm sure a family can make the meter spin, but still, that beast is going to take some serious effort to offset, particularly with it's own built in inefficiencies.
Smells like snake oil, by YMMV.
But that's just me.
Bumper Sticker seen around Santa Cruz:
A built-in computer powered by a Pentium chip will make intelligent purchase decisions, buying when prices are low, then storing the electricity for later use.
Basically a PC. WTF happened to using small, simple processors which run on tiny amounts of power, rather than rely on something of this level of overkill? Oh, wait, they probably decided to program it in Microsoft .Net which requires a big processor, a fair chunk of memory and all the trappings. All this in your power saving device.
Typical of a decision driven by some nutweed director who doesn't feel empowered unless he's got an 8lb. laptop and a Blackberry.
"we'll save a bundle using off the shelf commodity hardware and having some hack put this together in .net rather than hire expensive embedded systems designers and programmers. who cares if it sucks up the savings? once we've made a sale we're golden."
For that matter, why even go to Vista?
The article's argument: India has the most modern management system in the world."
Be that as it may, but as soon as you step foot outside the company door you encounter it's compliment, the most moribund political-economic system in the world.
Wow, to be able to hold managers accountable. I've never really seen the like, heard about it, but never seen the like. Which probably explains why there are so many bad CIO's out there.
Like the Anglican Church split from Rome and doesn't recognise the Pope, but the Queen as head of church, the US Constitution, though modeled on the Magna Carta, does not in any wording defer to it. I don't believe it defers from the Ten Commandments, but give Ralph Reed and George W. Bush time and it might.
If they do update them people will claim instability due to the number of patches.
It's a matter of perception. Some people see ongoing updates as true support. Others simply hate anything Microsoft.
You decide.
I hate the fact I have to purchase anti-viral software even though I exercise great care in what I download, install, execute, etc.
I hate the fact that I have to download patches frequently, which are massive files and I'm still on a dial-up so they can take hours.
I hate knowing something is running on my computer, chewing up CPU time, but because the way the task manager works I can't really see everything that's in memory and running.
The Bob damn them and their monolithic view of the world.
I broke my clavicle last year and have been swamped with bills. I've been able to track my account on-line, which was particularly helpful in finding one bill sent to me wasn't sent to my insurer, first.
Particularly distressing because when I was taken in to hospital I had my wallet with me and insurance card, which they took down. The depressing bit, however, is in a modern US hospital are many companies and they don't necessarily share information, such as your insurer, member number, etc. You don't realize this until you're getting bills and notices of payment to a half dozen medical companies.
Yeah, looks like Apple is releasing a worm which allows the Microsoft virus to infect their computers, to me.
One of the greatest challenges is getting past the pervasive attitude that certain subjects are "hard" People get to believing it. Hell, it's in television, movies, comics, etc. that you have to be a "brainy nerd" like, say Jason Fox or Francis Ottoman to be able to hack certain subjects. The reality is people buy into the "for super brains only" and "[subject] is hard" and tune out. Attitude and confidence are everything when studying.
I was about to drop a chemistry class in college because I just felt I couldn't do it. It was just too much. But I was also working a student job in the computer center and had interacted a bit with faculty and administration on a concept of "writing across the curriculum", in a nutshell, repeat in writing not what was just shoved into your brain, but what you thought of it, what it meant to you, plus any connections to any other areas it seemed to connect. It's a cognitive kickstart, which rather than focus on rote learning emphasized understanding of the concepts. Once you've got the concepts down and feel confident, you've got it made.
I decided to be fair to myself before dropping the class and admitting failure and sat down in the commons to write out what about inorganic chemistry I did know. Turned out I did know a lot, it was just a few things I didn't know that were defeating me. Why focus energy on learning what you already know? So I focused on what I didn't know and pulled an A in the class. It was a watershed moment and after applying it to a few other classes I realized I could do it all and do it all well.
All except that three pronger in music... ah well...
No... first posts are often made by people who don't have enough to do.
The shame is /. doesn't really rate posts by moderation, but by time. If higher rated threads rose to the top then frist ps0ters would look pretty silly.
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to keep chasing the carrot on the string.
I just put it down to lack of interest, but I had poor grades for most of my K-12 experience and first couple years of college.
At some points certain things suddenly connected and I "saw" what the goals where of several of my classes. I then carried a 3.92 for 2 years and hit the President's List.
I had always scored high on intelligence tests, even hitting 99th pecentile on 4 of 7 categories in HS.
There's probably an answer out there and, Oh, hello, who let you in here?
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