Um... 1.5% of a fund isn't going to ruin it. It'll take a big chunk out of the fund manager's bonus for this year, but not much worse.
Those with 6% or more are just reckless or lazy. Pension funds are supposed to be as safe as any stock vehicle can be: diversified and well hedged. I wouldn't berate them for losing 3% of their value because the economy tanked, but I would for losing 3% because one firm had a disaster of this magnitude and they didn't move out.
It isn't even a "pensions shouldn't be trading on short term movements" issue, because after a few weeks it was obvious this will be hurting BP directly for at least a year and indirectly for several until all the legal crap is worked through.
So, you're saying this is indicative of the average (or even of a significant minority of) iPad buyer? If not, then it's not clear how this is relevant.
I've heard similar gripes from people I know at other companies, but that isn't even 10 people so I wouldn't even claim there is a significant minority.
Why would it be any less effective than a laptop? If it's a large meeting, he can connect it to the same projector he would connect the laptop to. If it's a small, more personal meeting, the iPad is likely to be quite a bit better suited than a laptop, since it's going to be easier to handle and even be passed around.
The reviews of third party PDF apps I've generally complain that they are unresponsive and aren't 100% compatible. Perhaps the new PDF feature announced recently will work better. Passing it around would indeed be easier than a laptop, but I think having a paper copy that they can write on and take with them wins over anything.
Unless everybody gets tablets, which would actually be kind of cool, but isn't likely to happen in my industry. Some of our clients still track multi-million unit inventories using index cards.
I'm curious if you'd have promoted a netbook over an iPad for something like this, were it not for the blatant contradiction in that stance.
I wouldn't have recommended a netbook, even one of those Asus convertibles, for much the same reasons. If he really wants something light, expensive and from Apple, I would honestly rather buy him a Macbook Air. It has a slightly better screen, although worse in terms of pixels per inch, but it is at least a functional computer. Mostly.
I'm going to agree with you. Every game they want has a non-zero value, roughly equal to the cost of the electricity and bandwidth it takes to download it.
For the average DS game that is probably at least 50 million Zimbabwe dollars. Let's see what that is in US currency...
He might not got sued. He'll just be unable to drive anywhere in the town without getting pulled over by every cop that sees him, his garbage won't get picked up, and his house will be re-appraised.
Show me where I said I don't want the service at all. I responded to someone who thought that it would take "deep packet inspection" to prevent the printer from calling home to HP, and I pointed out the fallacy of that statement.
Considering this thing has to phone home to retreive the emails to print, preventing it from phoning home would cause it to stop working.(see the original post)
If you are completely preventing the printer from communicating with HP's email server, I assume you don't want to use their service. If you are selectively censoring the transmissions, I'm assuming you are doing some sort of inspection of the packets.
By the way, doesn't everyone have an email alias for printing already in their/etc/aliases?
Anybody who has an/etc/alias probably doesn't need this service:)
Apple had zero smartphones sold just three years ago. Now they have tens of millions. These people all bought iPhones because it was already a majority consumer brand?
I won't say all of them did, but as a complete anecdote: the marketing head at my company recently requested an iPad to display documents and presentations to customers instead of paper or slides. It only has a 10" diagonal screen, so any real text will be marginally legible unless we reformat all our material to fit in nearly half the square inches and a fraction of the resolution.
This is clearly not going to make his presentations more effective than a laptop, except for the "we're as awesome as those guys on the news who use an iPad instead of a written notes" factor
Natural corneas already block UV rays. People with current-gen artificial corneas, at least some of which are UV-transparent, can actually see a tiny bit of UV. Still looks purple, though.
Unless it greatly increases the risk of some kind of eye cancer, I'd probably stick with the UV-transparent ones for the "hey, did you know that UV led is still on?" trick.
It doesn't take deep packet inspection to stomp on every outgoing connection attempt from my printer. I can think of NO reason for a printer to make outgoing connections to anywhere, much less accept them from any site outside my own network.
Well, if you don't actually want to use the service at all, you probably want a different printer.
These printers presumably do not contain an email server, just a mail reader(once again showing that any project will eventually expand to read mail).
It'll phone home to HP's mail server, out of your control. Although I suppose you could use deep packet inspection to choke off any transfer you don't like, it'll probably just keep retrying, clogging your email print queue.
You can get impression based ads, but many advertisers are lured by the "effectiveness" of CPC ads, so never buy impression ads.
Plus, the Google ad system auctions off space such that CPM and CPC ads bid with the same "currency", so they end up costing the same.
I often wonder why my local newspapers sell tons of ad space to Yahoo, but never to Google. Going by the ads, I'm assuming it is because Yahoo has looser rules about annoying ads than Google.
But catching 1710 criminals is meaningful, for the slight inconvenience the others faced. What's wrong with catching criminals? Aren't terrorists criminals too?
If the number of criminals caught is barely over half of the number looking for them, we're paying 60-120k/year/criminal when we could just roll a d100 vs warrants check and do a better job for less.
How about: If I'm in my house and I'm yelling so loudly that I can be heard from the street, I no longer have any expectation of privacy to prevent my neighbor from recording it(perhaps as the basis for a noise complaint).
I can't hold the opposite position too strongly though, as I do find it objectionable to use thermographic cameras as a basis for search warrants, but that's just some people can't tell the difference between a sauna and a grow-op./has a sauna.
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Um... 1.5% of a fund isn't going to ruin it. It'll take a big chunk out of the fund manager's bonus for this year, but not much worse.
Those with 6% or more are just reckless or lazy. Pension funds are supposed to be as safe as any stock vehicle can be: diversified and well hedged. I wouldn't berate them for losing 3% of their value because the economy tanked, but I would for losing 3% because one firm had a disaster of this magnitude and they didn't move out.
It isn't even a "pensions shouldn't be trading on short term movements" issue, because after a few weeks it was obvious this will be hurting BP directly for at least a year and indirectly for several until all the legal crap is worked through.
And which sites, exactly, have taken the top spots?
Any pension fund so invested in BP that it would be significantly harmed by it dissolving is run by an incompetent manager.
BP's share price already halved in the last month.
I've heard similar gripes from people I know at other companies, but that isn't even 10 people so I wouldn't even claim there is a significant minority.
The reviews of third party PDF apps I've generally complain that they are unresponsive and aren't 100% compatible. Perhaps the new PDF feature announced recently will work better. Passing it around would indeed be easier than a laptop, but I think having a paper copy that they can write on and take with them wins over anything.
Unless everybody gets tablets, which would actually be kind of cool, but isn't likely to happen in my industry. Some of our clients still track multi-million unit inventories using index cards.
I wouldn't have recommended a netbook, even one of those Asus convertibles, for much the same reasons. If he really wants something light, expensive and from Apple, I would honestly rather buy him a Macbook Air. It has a slightly better screen, although worse in terms of pixels per inch, but it is at least a functional computer. Mostly.
I'm going to agree with you. Every game they want has a non-zero value, roughly equal to the cost of the electricity and bandwidth it takes to download it.
For the average DS game that is probably at least 50 million Zimbabwe dollars. Let's see what that is in US currency...
Perhaps s/he was being print-centric and meant a fraction of the resolution(dpi, not pixels) of paper. 600 dpi is a lot better than ~100 dpi.
Somebody is a showing their bias.
He might not got sued. He'll just be unable to drive anywhere in the town without getting pulled over by every cop that sees him, his garbage won't get picked up, and his house will be re-appraised.
Considering this thing has to phone home to retreive the emails to print, preventing it from phoning home would cause it to stop working.(see the original post)
If you are completely preventing the printer from communicating with HP's email server, I assume you don't want to use their service. If you are selectively censoring the transmissions, I'm assuming you are doing some sort of inspection of the packets.
Anybody who has an /etc/alias probably doesn't need this service:)
This small would be better.
I won't say all of them did, but as a complete anecdote: the marketing head at my company recently requested an iPad to display documents and presentations to customers instead of paper or slides. It only has a 10" diagonal screen, so any real text will be marginally legible unless we reformat all our material to fit in nearly half the square inches and a fraction of the resolution.
This is clearly not going to make his presentations more effective than a laptop, except for the "we're as awesome as those guys on the news who use an iPad instead of a written notes" factor
Probably not, but "DNS" has been a rising keyword in Turkey over the last 6 days.
What's Turkish for "proxy"?
And the corollary, from the same game:
Take control of the input and you shall become master of the output.
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Natural corneas already block UV rays. People with current-gen artificial corneas, at least some of which are UV-transparent, can actually see a tiny bit of UV. Still looks purple, though.
Unless it greatly increases the risk of some kind of eye cancer, I'd probably stick with the UV-transparent ones for the "hey, did you know that UV led is still on?" trick.
Well, if you don't actually want to use the service at all, you probably want a different printer.
Where do you get 20 inch monitors for $50?
Or, alternatively, wherever you are seeing 7 inch monitors for more than $100-ish, stay away... Well, unless they have touch.
While the ones I know of don't support linux directly, linux supports the ones built on DisplayLink controllers.
No, that'd be too expensive. Two girls, one thimble.
These printers presumably do not contain an email server, just a mail reader(once again showing that any project will eventually expand to read mail).
It'll phone home to HP's mail server, out of your control. Although I suppose you could use deep packet inspection to choke off any transfer you don't like, it'll probably just keep retrying, clogging your email print queue.
You can get impression based ads, but many advertisers are lured by the "effectiveness" of CPC ads, so never buy impression ads.
Plus, the Google ad system auctions off space such that CPM and CPC ads bid with the same "currency", so they end up costing the same.
I often wonder why my local newspapers sell tons of ad space to Yahoo, but never to Google. Going by the ads, I'm assuming it is because Yahoo has looser rules about annoying ads than Google.
Less company benefits and they start charging employees for the electricity used per workstation. Oh, and rent on the space, tools, etc.
What, you thought it would come out of CE*/BoD salaries or dividends?
Every article gets an Adword block, Google takes a smaller cut than usual, and the newspaper gets paid.
Shortly after that, the better independent writers will probably start publishing to Google directly.
Somebody has to oil our new robot overlords...
How about 12 USB mini-monitors, with USB->network adapters.
A fair bit cheaper, unless you want 15"+ frames.
Receiving wireless signal from the street does not require sensitive equipment.
If they were using cantennas from an airplane, you might have a point.
If the number of criminals caught is barely over half of the number looking for them, we're paying 60-120k/year/criminal when we could just roll a d100 vs warrants check and do a better job for less.
How about: If I'm in my house and I'm yelling so loudly that I can be heard from the street, I no longer have any expectation of privacy to prevent my neighbor from recording it(perhaps as the basis for a noise complaint).
I can't hold the opposite position too strongly though, as I do find it objectionable to use thermographic cameras as a basis for search warrants, but that's just some people can't tell the difference between a sauna and a grow-op. /has a sauna.