First this is not a simple problem space. One need only compare Tivo to things like Dish and Comcast boxes to see how bad most are, and how much TiVo still needs to go. Which means, other than a check list, a Myth box as being useful, is still that a Myth. It is not ready for grandma yet. (Installation is only part of the problem).
That said, thanks to the bureacrats, the vast majority of possible solutions and implementations are locked in the patent portfolios of Creative/TiVo/and Microsoft. And if you get any traction at all, expect to be hauled into court and have your life made very miserable.
Seriously curious, isn't most of the stuff that causes trouble EM in nature, and if they are how come it takes a week longer than the light that made the image? Isn't this stuff travelling at the same speed?
I call Shenanigans! This is not a true story. Companies with millions of clients that ask ignorant IT people who have to look to Slashdot for answers. If it is done, the CTO should be fired, The entire IT departments should be retrained, etc.
Frankly this is a CTO level decision. One does not just get "sick" of Exchange. The fact is exchange given enough money and effort works very well for most people that use the system. Companies with millions of clients can put enough money and effort into it.
This is almost too dumb to talk about... Shenanigans I say, Shenanigans!
The entertainment industry is full of people that have very light workloads, and get paid the same no matter "how productive" they are. Therefor system license savings drop right to the bottom line.
But the writers and the execs are using macs or pcs, I guarantee you that, locked into place by the likes of Final Draft.
This is why election boards usually consist of members of both major parties. And why exit polling is often done, to provide a statisitical match. And why if there appears to be a descrepancy that the ballots, the paper trail remain as a public record to be examined by the press. (as happened in Florida).
First, votes are counted by counting the votes ON the paper, not in the machines that create the paper.
Secondly, you should have both machine readable and HUMAN readable votes on the same paper.
Third, Paper ballots should have an edge mark for each vote.
Four, Paper ballots should be of consistent weight, and size, and sturdy enough to stand recounting.
During recounts, only the human readable marks should be counted. (IE character scanners should be used).
Ballots should be sortable during recounts, in a fashion so that humans can rapidly verify the sorts by riffling stacks of ballots and eyeballing edge marks, and weighing ballots. (This will provide rapid verification that the machines are counting incorrectly).
From the hidden writings of archmides to the hidden messages found in the back of euro notes. Ancient tunnels under ancient cities open up to reveal secrets nobody has seen for millenia... Until NOW...
This will *NOT* be a Flat CRT. Which does it's magic with the use of a flyback transformer, and a shadowmask. When done really well with good content you get an image where you cannot distinguish the individual pixels.
This will have similar issues that CRT's have. It will have visible SDE and generally will not have good close-up performance characteristics compared to CRT or LCD.
I do welcome our 400 dollar pricetags, but it looks like it will be a direct race with Plasma which has already dramatically improved the phosphor half-life (to that of as good or better than CRT's), reduced and removed burn-in, and good brightness and viewing angles. LCD's have one last gasp with Lumileds which look to finally improve brightness and color so that TV doesn't look like watching a flourescent tube. I think you will see 42" 16x9 for $1000 next year. I think Plasma wins. FED are going to be too far behind the engineering curves.
And has NOTHING to do with not being able to skip through the ads.
ClearPlay has nothing to with DVD Consortium edicts, and has to do with the wishes of the creators of the copywritten material.
The no skip feature of the pre-menu stuff is a feature that makes a DVD player a DVD player. You cannot implement without it and have license from the DVD Consortium.
These are two entirely different things, and the law only deals with one of them.
Seriously, have you read the article? Google keeps personally identifiable search data on you, regardless of your account settings. ( do not want ANYONE to keep personally identifiable information on me on the Internet. If you don't understand this, then Orwell and Franklin were both right.
No it's not. It is a history of my behavior on the Internet. A behavior that because it now exists as a history that is personally identifiable to me. Means that I can now be *profiled*. Maybe because I like to look at DeCSS code, or lock smithing information, or how do you make a bomb out of fertalizer, and yeah maybe I did even search for some pr0n. Not that I did any of this, but lets say I did. I did nothing but search for information that exists.
One only needs to look at the Patriot Act if you do not believe that if this information is all neat and nicely packaged up that I would not recieve way more scrutiny in my life than I want. Sorry, I guess I use google via anonymizer, but no one asked me if I wanted them to do this. (And whose to say "opting-out" just keeps me from seeing what they are saving.
The last thing I want, is a subpoenable search history. I search for a lot of things. I honestly do not want to be accountable for the things that I might search for, whether I get results of not.
Are either paid for by thier employer or is personally deductable from your taxes.
The WSJ is one of a few unique publications that fall into that category.
This model will not work for straight news organizations. Ad performance *is* possible for these organizations online, but almost universally they have done an incredibly poor job of presenting ads.
Remember, a huge number of newspaper readers, read the ads. The weekly ads for thier grocer, Fry's, classifieds, Lowes, and the one day sale at Macy's.
The organizations have got to figure out, (and google text ads really aren't the way), to present the ads that consumers want to see. It is there, but there is almost *no* innovation being done in this area, which is wierd, since it doesn't really cost them anything to try.
Leasing is an Operating Expense. On many spreadsheets this goes directly against profits, and can be a "tax" advantage because it goes directly against profits.
Buying, (after a certain amount), is a capital expense, and does not go on the balance sheet against profits except as the equipment is depreciated. Transmografying cash to non-cash *assets* does not change the value of a company, the loss in value those assets have over time change the value of those assets.
Leasing in some sense is also having the company that is leasing the equipment to you, loaning you money or investing in your company.
Whether or not leasing makes sense, is not clear cut, and one of the reasons you have either a VP of finance, or a CFO to help you make that decision.
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Get Itunes, go to podcasts search on Tiki. Watch Tiki TV. Try episode 8 first then go find the rest. AWESOME!
First this is not a simple problem space. One need only compare Tivo to things like Dish and Comcast boxes to see how bad most are, and how much TiVo still needs to go. Which means, other than a check list, a Myth box as being useful, is still that a Myth. It is not ready for grandma yet. (Installation is only part of the problem).
That said, thanks to the bureacrats, the vast majority of possible solutions and implementations are locked in the patent portfolios of Creative/TiVo/and Microsoft. And if you get any traction at all, expect to be hauled into court and have your life made very miserable.
Inexperienced IT professionals find it frustrating setting up systems they have never set up before...
Dog Bites Man...
And the Sun will probably come up tomorrow... God willing.
Stayed tuned for more "News for Nerds... Stuff that matters."
Seriously curious, isn't most of the stuff that causes trouble EM in nature, and if they are how come it takes a week longer than the light that made the image? Isn't this stuff travelling at the same speed?
I call Shenanigans!
This is not a true story. Companies with millions of clients that ask ignorant IT people who have to look to Slashdot for answers.
If it is done, the CTO should be fired, The entire IT departments should be retrained, etc.
Frankly this is a CTO level decision. One does not just get "sick" of Exchange. The fact is exchange given enough money and effort works very well for most people that use the system. Companies with millions of clients can put enough money and effort into it.
This is almost too dumb to talk about... Shenanigans I say, Shenanigans!
It's called POT. Or Weed, grass, green, ganja, maui wowee, MJ, the viper. And since the discovery of BC bud, it works WAY beyond the quantum level...
The entertainment industry is full of people that have very light workloads, and get paid the same no matter "how productive" they are. Therefor system license savings drop right to the bottom line.
But the writers and the execs are using macs or pcs, I guarantee you that, locked into place by the likes of Final Draft.
You want to make 10 times the volume of stuff for hydrogen you need, and you end up with 9 times the volume of stuff as *waste*?!
You've got to be fricken' kidding me.
Ok here is a major hint to the world leaders of this planet...
Nuclear power plant, Gulf of Mexico == Hydrogen. Ship it to all the countries that don't want or have nuclear. Become new major energy provider...
This is not rocket science people! Stop making it harder than it is!
What is not-light about filemaker?
This is why election boards usually consist of members of both major parties. And why exit polling is often done, to provide a statisitical match. And why if there appears to be a descrepancy that the ballots, the paper trail remain as a public record to be examined by the press. (as happened in Florida).
A voting paper trail should have Four attributes.
First, votes are counted by counting the votes ON the paper, not in the machines that create the paper.
Secondly, you should have both machine readable and HUMAN readable votes on the same paper.
Third, Paper ballots should have an edge mark for each vote.
Four, Paper ballots should be of consistent weight, and size, and sturdy enough to stand recounting.
During recounts, only the human readable marks should be counted. (IE character scanners should be used).
Ballots should be sortable during recounts, in a fashion so that humans can rapidly verify the sorts by riffling stacks of ballots and eyeballing edge marks, and weighing ballots. (This will provide rapid verification that the machines are counting incorrectly).
Until your Tivo barfs on the 2 hour finale of 24, 20 minutes before the end.
Now what do you want me to do? You bastards!
involves those little hex drivers, and of course there is always one nut left over....
What are we talking about?
- International Treasure -
From the hidden writings of archmides to the hidden messages found in the back of euro notes. Ancient tunnels under ancient cities open up to reveal secrets nobody has seen for millenia...
Until NOW...
Coming soon to a theater near you,
Don't be such a cheap ass, and buy the extended warranty!
This will *NOT* be a Flat CRT. Which does it's magic with the use of a flyback transformer, and a shadowmask. When done really well with good content you get an image where you cannot distinguish the individual pixels.
This will have similar issues that CRT's have. It will have visible SDE and generally will not have good close-up performance characteristics compared to CRT or LCD.
I do welcome our 400 dollar pricetags, but it looks like it will be a direct race with Plasma which has already dramatically improved the phosphor half-life (to that of as good or better than CRT's), reduced and removed burn-in, and good brightness and viewing angles. LCD's have one last gasp with Lumileds which look to finally improve brightness and color so that TV doesn't look like watching a flourescent tube. I think you will see 42" 16x9 for $1000 next year. I think Plasma wins. FED are going to be too far behind the engineering curves.
It kinda sucked. Just a bunch of slashdot readers. I don't think I will go this year. Maybe next year after more people hear about it....
RMS is a lot funnier if you put "Bitch!" at the end of his quote...
And has NOTHING to do with not being able to skip through the ads.
ClearPlay has nothing to with DVD Consortium edicts, and has to do with the wishes of the creators of the copywritten material.
The no skip feature of the pre-menu stuff is a feature that makes a DVD player a DVD player. You cannot implement without it and have license from the DVD Consortium.
These are two entirely different things, and the law only deals with one of them.
Seriously, have you read the article?
Google keeps personally identifiable search data on you, regardless of your account settings.
( do not want ANYONE to keep personally identifiable information on me on the Internet.
If you don't understand this, then Orwell and Franklin were both right.
No it's not. It is a history of my behavior on the Internet. A behavior that because it now exists as a history that is personally identifiable to me. Means that I can now be *profiled*. Maybe because I like to look at DeCSS code, or lock smithing information, or how do you make a bomb out of fertalizer, and yeah maybe I did even search for some pr0n. Not that I did any of this, but lets say I did. I did nothing but search for information that exists.
One only needs to look at the Patriot Act if you do not believe that if this information is all neat and nicely packaged up that I would not recieve way more scrutiny in my life than I want. Sorry, I guess I use google via anonymizer, but no one asked me if I wanted them to do this. (And whose to say "opting-out" just keeps me from seeing what they are saving.
The last thing I want, is a subpoenable search history. I search for a lot of things. I honestly do not want to be accountable for the things that I might search for, whether I get results of not.
Used to be Dentist... Now it's IT Guy...
Are either paid for by thier employer or is personally deductable from your taxes.
The WSJ is one of a few unique publications that fall into that category.
This model will not work for straight news organizations. Ad performance *is* possible for these organizations online, but almost universally they have done an incredibly poor job of presenting ads.
Remember, a huge number of newspaper readers, read the ads. The weekly ads for thier grocer, Fry's, classifieds, Lowes, and the one day sale at Macy's.
The organizations have got to figure out, (and google text ads really aren't the way), to present the ads that consumers want to see. It is there, but there is almost *no* innovation being done in this area, which is wierd, since it doesn't really cost them anything to try.
Leasing is an Operating Expense. On many spreadsheets this goes directly against profits, and can be a "tax" advantage because it goes directly against profits.
Buying, (after a certain amount), is a capital expense, and does not go on the balance sheet against profits except as the equipment is depreciated. Transmografying cash to non-cash *assets* does not change the value of a company, the loss in value those assets have over time change the value of those assets.
Leasing in some sense is also having the company that is leasing the equipment to you, loaning you money or investing in your company.
Whether or not leasing makes sense, is not clear cut, and one of the reasons you have either a VP of finance, or a CFO to help you make that decision.