You're also missing the (or at least a) point. If that car saves you $10k/yr., then it's only worth it to you if you keep it into the third year. Likewise, employees are only worth the money if the company is willing to invest some time in them. However, in the current market, companies don't want to pay enough to retain employees long enough for them to be worth the investment, so they lose out. Unfortunately, the Market chose price over quality a long time ago.
One of the issues that I have seen cited as a problem with the high cost of education is the inability of graduates to take lower paying but socially beneficial jobs. For example, an attorney becoming a public defender vs. going to work for a big firm, or someone deciding to start a business or work for herself rather than take a corporate grind job, because she can't just live cheaply until the business makes it, having lots of debt with a deadline attached.
It sounds like this scheme has the same flaw, it just moves the issue from the person to the group, tragedy of the commons style. People who do take advantage of things and take lower paying jobs pay less into the system. This is a potential social benefit (more creativity and innovation, fewer corporate drones, better public defenders, better health care availability in underserved markets, etc.), but there's still that bill to be paid. What happens when the clock runs out on your "college tax" before you hit your stride professionally? What happens when that's even a significant fraction of students?
Risk doesn't need to be TBI from e.g. American Football; there are plenty of non-contact sports. Tennis, track and field, etc. all have a higher risk of injury (muscle strain, etc.) than normal daily activities like walking to the mailbox. I'm not saying I subscribe to Alioth's definition, but the "risk" aspect is certainly there for sports that require exertion.
Funny you should mention Symbian - my S^3 phones had the best battery life of any of my smartphones, regardless of platform, without having larger batteries than their iOS/Android/Windows Phone counterparts.
In what way are they obsolete? Yes, the custom ASICs can mine bitcoins much faster and more cheaply than general purpose CPUs, but if you're not paying for the resources to use them, that's irrelevant. Suppose I have a mine where I can pull $10,000,000 worth of gold out of the ground every year, and that operation costs me $9,999,000 to run (this would be crazy for real gold mining operations, but seems about right for BitCoin mining, and is by design). I make $1,000. By comparison, you can steal $100 worth of gold jewelry per month, and have no chance of being caught. In this situation, despite the fact that my operation generates far more currency, you come out ahead $1,200 vs. $1,000). ASICs obsolete paying for traditional CPUs to do the math, but if you steal the resources, you will still make a much larger profit.
A friend of mine (In the USA) had his car window smashed in by someone stealing his GPS. It was January, and he had a very uncomfortable ride home that night. The kicker? The doors were unlocked. The jerk who stole the GPS could've just lifted the handle, but smashed a window instead.
Because, as has been demonstrated here, the economics of producing bitcoins mean that there is a huge incentive to use stolen resources to produce them. Secure currency? No, just another incentive to create botnets.
Some industries used to have piece-work: you'd get paid a certain amount per part completed, assuming the majority of your parts were good (happened in electronics, clothing, etc.). Mechanized production tends to make this infeasible, these days, though.
HIPAA is a tool that hospital IT departments can use to make doctors use passwords (at all: if they weren't required, most MDs would never set a password on anything) and at least think about how their data is stored and accessed.
Will some of them still put patient data on DropBox, because "it's easier"? Of course they will, even if Legal tells them it violates ten policies and statutes and IT blocks access to DropBox, Google Drive, MS SkyDrive and iCloud. But it stands a chance of keeping maybe 50% of them following better practices, which is a huge improvement.
Management won't listen to anything regarding security until there's a personal fine associated with it. In fact, ignoring IT's comments allows them to claim ignorance. If you want upper management to pay attention to security risks, make them liable. Until then, IT is just another fall-guy when stuff breaks.
I've seen lots of comments about, "This is stupid, and can't possibly be legal." That said, legality of shooting down drones is irrelevant: this is about people who are willing to pay money to make sure drones aren't harassing Americans. I'd pay $25 for that. It's too bad it's not more money. For about $10bn., you could buy enough votes to actually start to change something.
Didn't you mean "iCloud is like DropBox, everyone else potentially has access to your stuff"?
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I need precise control of a lot of machines, for which I use a keyboard. The gestures on the Magic Trackpad do help in switching between virtual desktops and session windows, though.
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PowerShell aliases ls to whatever the PowerShell equivalent is (Get-Content? I don't know, I always type ls). Handy, that.
As for having to look for where to turn on and off certain features, I would suggest that settings have to be somewhere, and where we expect that somewhere to be varies from person to person, based on experience. And if you can't find it, there's a search box in the upper right corner of the System Preferences window.
This is a fantastic piece of literature that you've created. I want to turn it into a pamphlet or something, to pass out to people.
Actually, I'd make this part of the login/click-through screen for uploading anything to FaceBook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. Imagine what it could change!
Instead of VMs, could you use more physical boxes and a KVM? As an ancillary benefit, when management complains that you have six PCs under your desk you can say "Well, I could toss all of these if you buy me one new PC." Alternately, wait until another department tosses a better machine than you're using: four and five year old Dells were running Core 2 Duos and Core 2 Quads, so any day now you should be able to pick up a decent system off the discard pile.
When I was in high school, that sort of thing got us more homework. Or maybe it was the homework? The memory isn't entirely clear, but I did have a pretty cool AP Chemistry class.
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You're also missing the (or at least a) point. If that car saves you $10k/yr., then it's only worth it to you if you keep it into the third year. Likewise, employees are only worth the money if the company is willing to invest some time in them. However, in the current market, companies don't want to pay enough to retain employees long enough for them to be worth the investment, so they lose out. Unfortunately, the Market chose price over quality a long time ago.
If you're arguing that "queue" is not a verb, I suspect there are many Brits who would happily queue for the opportunity to correct your error.
One of the issues that I have seen cited as a problem with the high cost of education is the inability of graduates to take lower paying but socially beneficial jobs. For example, an attorney becoming a public defender vs. going to work for a big firm, or someone deciding to start a business or work for herself rather than take a corporate grind job, because she can't just live cheaply until the business makes it, having lots of debt with a deadline attached.
It sounds like this scheme has the same flaw, it just moves the issue from the person to the group, tragedy of the commons style. People who do take advantage of things and take lower paying jobs pay less into the system. This is a potential social benefit (more creativity and innovation, fewer corporate drones, better public defenders, better health care availability in underserved markets, etc.), but there's still that bill to be paid. What happens when the clock runs out on your "college tax" before you hit your stride professionally? What happens when that's even a significant fraction of students?
Yes. It's part of that "Regulatory Services Fee" that's tacked onto your phone bill.
Risk doesn't need to be TBI from e.g. American Football; there are plenty of non-contact sports. Tennis, track and field, etc. all have a higher risk of injury (muscle strain, etc.) than normal daily activities like walking to the mailbox. I'm not saying I subscribe to Alioth's definition, but the "risk" aspect is certainly there for sports that require exertion.
Funny you should mention Symbian - my S^3 phones had the best battery life of any of my smartphones, regardless of platform, without having larger batteries than their iOS/Android/Windows Phone counterparts.
Wow, that's less than $20/year! Such a deal!
In what way are they obsolete? Yes, the custom ASICs can mine bitcoins much faster and more cheaply than general purpose CPUs, but if you're not paying for the resources to use them, that's irrelevant.
Suppose I have a mine where I can pull $10,000,000 worth of gold out of the ground every year, and that operation costs me $9,999,000 to run (this would be crazy for real gold mining operations, but seems about right for BitCoin mining, and is by design). I make $1,000. By comparison, you can steal $100 worth of gold jewelry per month, and have no chance of being caught.
In this situation, despite the fact that my operation generates far more currency, you come out ahead $1,200 vs. $1,000). ASICs obsolete paying for traditional CPUs to do the math, but if you steal the resources, you will still make a much larger profit.
A friend of mine (In the USA) had his car window smashed in by someone stealing his GPS. It was January, and he had a very uncomfortable ride home that night. The kicker? The doors were unlocked. The jerk who stole the GPS could've just lifted the handle, but smashed a window instead.
Because, as has been demonstrated here, the economics of producing bitcoins mean that there is a huge incentive to use stolen resources to produce them. Secure currency? No, just another incentive to create botnets.
Some industries used to have piece-work: you'd get paid a certain amount per part completed, assuming the majority of your parts were good (happened in electronics, clothing, etc.). Mechanized production tends to make this infeasible, these days, though.
HIPAA is a tool that hospital IT departments can use to make doctors use passwords (at all: if they weren't required, most MDs would never set a password on anything) and at least think about how their data is stored and accessed.
Will some of them still put patient data on DropBox, because "it's easier"? Of course they will, even if Legal tells them it violates ten policies and statutes and IT blocks access to DropBox, Google Drive, MS SkyDrive and iCloud. But it stands a chance of keeping maybe 50% of them following better practices, which is a huge improvement.
Management won't listen to anything regarding security until there's a personal fine associated with it. In fact, ignoring IT's comments allows them to claim ignorance. If you want upper management to pay attention to security risks, make them liable. Until then, IT is just another fall-guy when stuff breaks.
I've seen lots of comments about, "This is stupid, and can't possibly be legal." That said, legality of shooting down drones is irrelevant: this is about people who are willing to pay money to make sure drones aren't harassing Americans. I'd pay $25 for that. It's too bad it's not more money. For about $10bn., you could buy enough votes to actually start to change something.
Didn't you mean "iCloud is like DropBox, everyone else potentially has access to your stuff"?
I need precise control of a lot of machines, for which I use a keyboard. The gestures on the Magic Trackpad do help in switching between virtual desktops and session windows, though.
PowerShell aliases ls to whatever the PowerShell equivalent is (Get-Content? I don't know, I always type ls). Handy, that.
Asked and answered - disabling the animations is item number 2 in the list:
http://www.maclife.com/article/columns/terminal_101_5_mountain_lion_ui_tricks
As for having to look for where to turn on and off certain features, I would suggest that settings have to be somewhere, and where we expect that somewhere to be varies from person to person, based on experience. And if you can't find it, there's a search box in the upper right corner of the System Preferences window.
And if vegetarians eat vegetables, shouldn't we be more worried about the humanitarians?
If there are fees that bring the wage below the local legal minimum wage, my understanding is that such a practice is illegal.
So, if someone is using Google Glass, make sure you hit him from behind? That sounds like what you're advocating, although you may not mean to do so.
This is a fantastic piece of literature that you've created. I want to turn it into a pamphlet or something, to pass out to people.
Actually, I'd make this part of the login/click-through screen for uploading anything to FaceBook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. Imagine what it could change!
Instead of VMs, could you use more physical boxes and a KVM? As an ancillary benefit, when management complains that you have six PCs under your desk you can say "Well, I could toss all of these if you buy me one new PC." Alternately, wait until another department tosses a better machine than you're using: four and five year old Dells were running Core 2 Duos and Core 2 Quads, so any day now you should be able to pick up a decent system off the discard pile.
In the United States, all you have to do is reside in a congressional district; you're automatically assigned one, plus two more in the senate!
When I was in high school, that sort of thing got us more homework. Or maybe it was the homework? The memory isn't entirely clear, but I did have a pretty cool AP Chemistry class.