I personally think that's something the free market can sort out.
I think that's something that the free market can sort out too, up until the market bumps up against illegal activities. A free market works best with proper rules and boundaries in place. If the law needs to change, great, let's change the law. But if someone in the free market is found breaking the law, they need to be tried before the law accordingly.
...except in so far as it allows the service provider to make a profit thereby enabling the customer to get access to the service for free.
Just because it's free doesn't make it right. Also, the other 'free' email service providers don't scan the content of the emails to create a profile of you.
I think, if it was that big of an expense, that the rating agencies were gouging, that the major banks would simply have combined together and chartered their own rating agency.
There's a slight technical problem with starting a new ratings agency. One of the laws passed after the great depression, was that the banks could only purchase securities which had a certain rating. The law mentioned that the rating had to come from one of the top three rating agencies. So while the law didn't specify which rating agency, it created a chicken and egg problem for any upstart rating agency to breaking into the top three.
One of the stories that get told around the financial crisis is how the relationship between Rating Agencies and Investment Banks changed because of Xerox. Before Xerox rating agencies would charge investment banks for copies of their data. But once Xerox copying machines came out, the rating agencies feared that they would only have one customer and investment banks would just make copies of the data and pass it around. So they made the data free for all intents and purposes and started charging the banks on how their products got rated. We all know how that turned out.
Having watched Final Fantasy: Spirits Within I'll let you know what people will do with this data: they'll convict you for sympathizing with the enemy. Go Privacy!
IMHO, Obama would get better support by requiring wireless providers to allow you to use your data plan on any device without having to cough up a monthly fee for each one.
I can tell you that moving your number around is a huge pain in the ass for the phone company.
It would have been nice if the way the law was written that you couldn't renew your contract in an area that didn't have your area code. It's screwed over people who have landlines who want to call local people, but none of the local people have local numbers.
I have almost never viewed any major site's overhaul as an improvement. It usually ends up just complicating (or even rendering impossible) the things I use it for. Invariably, there was nothing "wrong" with the site's functionality as it was that needed "fixing," but they decided to mess with it anyway. Maybe I'm an old fuddy-duddy, but when something works fine as it is, I'm a firm advocate for leaving well enough alone.
So every website was always at it's best only on the day of launch, and can never be better?
Ignoring your users is the new in thing for corporations.
It works when you want different users. If you feel that you want to grow the number of users and your current solution isn't cutting it, you need a different solution. There's a risk that you'll alienate a percentage of your current users, but if you can swap a small percentage of current users for a large number of new users, it's an overall benefit.
Why it makes headlines is that the squeaky wheels are going to be heard at the time of the change, but new users trying it out over the next few months don't generate the same amount of noise.
So, I wonder if JP Morgan's risk (and subsequent loss) of $6 billion should be considered an acceptable risk or not. It was a substantial risk, but ultimately it was their own business risk. Yet, we (the US) seemed to treat it like a national crisis.
Especially since the $6 billion loss meant that those they did deals with made $6 billion.
The more that comes out, the more convinced I am that his actions were planned and deliberate, and even more than the-person-formerly-known-as-Bradley Manning, this constitutes something approaching treason.
Yeah, like a George Washington or Thomas Jefferson level of treason. Can't have that, now can we?
After the latest Grand Theft Auto came out (I think it was Vice City) I was passenger in my addicted-to-GTA-roommates car and after a close call I remember him saying "I'm not so sure about this 'video games make you violent' thing, but I know my driving sure has gotten more aggressive since GTA came out'.
Could we correlate unrealistic driving video games with insurance premium increases?
That is fricking bad when the #1 OEM on the planet has to hack the shell just to get anybody to buy a PC with Windows 8 on it, I mean how piss poor do you have to be for sales to have the OEMs go out and buy a third party shell and bolt that shit on there just to move some units?
OEM's have always been installing third party software in an attempt to improve upon Windows and differentiate themselves from each other.
Guess it depends on what you consider a space heater. I had an Acer AspireRevo 3610, and currently have a Lenovo q180. Both have Atom processors and run cool enough that they don't need fans. Both could handle any high def resolution thrown at them. The q180 is - due to recently introduced young children - is locked in a cabinet with absolutely no air flow and it isn't over heating itself.
If you think that's still treds into "space heater" category, fine, but I don't. Some actions are obviously a bit sluggish due to the lower power CPU, but everything is certainly faster than any operation I've seen on my parents Samsung "smart" TV's.
My understanding was TPM became mandatory with Win 8, and in previous versions was optional.
Given that Microsoft has published upgrade paths from XP to Win 8 I don't see how it could possibly be mandatory for Win 8, given that XP didn't have TPM. Plus, my home machine is running Win 8 and it certainly doesn't have a TPM chip.
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They also almost certainly would have offered some type of enterprise management tools for the tablets from MS.
I know System Center and Intune can manage RT devices.
Surfaces don't need nice cases. Have you every handled one? They're weapons.
I personally think that's something the free market can sort out.
I think that's something that the free market can sort out too, up until the market bumps up against illegal activities. A free market works best with proper rules and boundaries in place. If the law needs to change, great, let's change the law. But if someone in the free market is found breaking the law, they need to be tried before the law accordingly.
What profile? Show me something I can read.
I think you have to work at Google to be able to read it.
NSA doesn't tap wires. They tap fibre.
In the US they tap fiber.
...except in so far as it allows the service provider to make a profit thereby enabling the customer to get access to the service for free.
Just because it's free doesn't make it right. Also, the other 'free' email service providers don't scan the content of the emails to create a profile of you.
I think, if it was that big of an expense, that the rating agencies were gouging, that the major banks would simply have combined together and chartered their own rating agency.
There's a slight technical problem with starting a new ratings agency. One of the laws passed after the great depression, was that the banks could only purchase securities which had a certain rating. The law mentioned that the rating had to come from one of the top three rating agencies. So while the law didn't specify which rating agency, it created a chicken and egg problem for any upstart rating agency to breaking into the top three.
One of the stories that get told around the financial crisis is how the relationship between Rating Agencies and Investment Banks changed because of Xerox. Before Xerox rating agencies would charge investment banks for copies of their data. But once Xerox copying machines came out, the rating agencies feared that they would only have one customer and investment banks would just make copies of the data and pass it around. So they made the data free for all intents and purposes and started charging the banks on how their products got rated. We all know how that turned out.
Having watched Final Fantasy: Spirits Within I'll let you know what people will do with this data: they'll convict you for sympathizing with the enemy.
Go Privacy!
IMHO, Obama would get better support by requiring wireless providers to allow you to use your data plan on any device without having to cough up a monthly fee for each one.
That's accomplished by tethering.
I can tell you that moving your number around is a huge pain in the ass for the phone company.
It would have been nice if the way the law was written that you couldn't renew your contract in an area that didn't have your area code. It's screwed over people who have landlines who want to call local people, but none of the local people have local numbers.
I have almost never viewed any major site's overhaul as an improvement. It usually ends up just complicating (or even rendering impossible) the things I use it for. Invariably, there was nothing "wrong" with the site's functionality as it was that needed "fixing," but they decided to mess with it anyway. Maybe I'm an old fuddy-duddy, but when something works fine as it is, I'm a firm advocate for leaving well enough alone.
So every website was always at it's best only on the day of launch, and can never be better?
Ignoring your users is the new in thing for corporations.
It works when you want different users. If you feel that you want to grow the number of users and your current solution isn't cutting it, you need a different solution. There's a risk that you'll alienate a percentage of your current users, but if you can swap a small percentage of current users for a large number of new users, it's an overall benefit.
Why it makes headlines is that the squeaky wheels are going to be heard at the time of the change, but new users trying it out over the next few months don't generate the same amount of noise.
So, I wonder if JP Morgan's risk (and subsequent loss) of $6 billion should be considered an acceptable risk or not. It was a substantial risk, but ultimately it was their own business risk. Yet, we (the US) seemed to treat it like a national crisis.
Especially since the $6 billion loss meant that those they did deals with made $6 billion.
It's very clear that Washington and Jefferson would have been hung if the American Revolution hadn't succeeded.
See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_André and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Arnold
Right, but would have that been a morally good thing, or bad thing?
Is treason against a bad government good for the overall state of society or bad?
The more that comes out, the more convinced I am that his actions were planned and deliberate, and even more than the-person-formerly-known-as-Bradley Manning, this constitutes something approaching treason.
Yeah, like a George Washington or Thomas Jefferson level of treason. Can't have that, now can we?
After the latest Grand Theft Auto came out (I think it was Vice City) I was passenger in my addicted-to-GTA-roommates car and after a close call I remember him saying "I'm not so sure about this 'video games make you violent' thing, but I know my driving sure has gotten more aggressive since GTA came out'.
Could we correlate unrealistic driving video games with insurance premium increases?
if the code isnt finished, it's beta software at best.
MICROSOFT, YOU ARE SELLING BETA SOFTWARE.
No where in there does it say that Microsoft thinks that the code isn't finished.
That is fricking bad when the #1 OEM on the planet has to hack the shell just to get anybody to buy a PC with Windows 8 on it, I mean how piss poor do you have to be for sales to have the OEMs go out and buy a third party shell and bolt that shit on there just to move some units?
OEM's have always been installing third party software in an attempt to improve upon Windows and differentiate themselves from each other.
Honestly, it isn't as bad as the Flickr redesign. That one was both uglier and far less functional.
There's no way I'd be using the new flickr if it wasn't for the redesign. That helped so much.
Spying is an act of WAR.
First time I've heard that. I'm pretty sure spying is par for the course when it comes to multi national relations.
I don't want to run a space heater to do this.
Guess it depends on what you consider a space heater. I had an Acer AspireRevo 3610, and currently have a Lenovo q180. Both have Atom processors and run cool enough that they don't need fans. Both could handle any high def resolution thrown at them. The q180 is - due to recently introduced young children - is locked in a cabinet with absolutely no air flow and it isn't over heating itself.
If you think that's still treds into "space heater" category, fine, but I don't. Some actions are obviously a bit sluggish due to the lower power CPU, but everything is certainly faster than any operation I've seen on my parents Samsung "smart" TV's.
What size of files are you talking about? I do such moves with no issue.
and why sometimes when I drag many large files into a new directory does Win 7 spend ages doing a copy then delete?
If it's on the same disk a move is a just a path rename and takes no time at all. If the data is changing hard drives a move is a copy and a delete.
My understanding was TPM became mandatory with Win 8, and in previous versions was optional.
Given that Microsoft has published upgrade paths from XP to Win 8 I don't see how it could possibly be mandatory for Win 8, given that XP didn't have TPM. Plus, my home machine is running Win 8 and it certainly doesn't have a TPM chip.