The primary author of the legislation, State Sen. Larry Mumper, told the paper the legislature never intended it to apply to individuals selling items over eBay. But Mumper, while vowing changes, couldn't say exactly who would or would not be exempt from the license requirement under any changes in the pending law.
Then, don't put the bill forward, you bone-smoker. When I used to submit meaningless equations and notations to my Calculus teacher and couldn't explain them, I got an F.
There is a reason my parents still have well water and a sceptic tank. Even in government, there are limits to what is considered an acceptable amount of service coverage. Even as free wireless becomes available in areas with large populations, I have sincere doubts that there will ever be blanket coverage across the US.
Somewhere else in the main thread, there was a link to a January press release from TiVo mentioning that specific technology for a cable-based, HD DVR. It was the first I had heard of it, obviously since my previous post, and it seems a natural progression for them. None of the cable companies will introduce a non-proprietary box, so TiVo is still in the best position to grab the largest chunk of market share.
I just think it's a bit too soon to say the company is dying. The fan base is far too rabid and any competitors are far behind or focusing on a much smaller audience.
Yes, I do love tv, but it's not the volume, it's the quality I enjoy. The price of the HD TiVo was steep, but Adelphia couldn't provide me with HD and the cost is a fraction of what my otherwise untapped HD TV cost. I weighed the TiVo against the time and money I would have paid to create a computer with the capability of recording HD from a DirecTV receiver or OTA HD receiver (with the ease and features of TiVo), and determined it was worth it. Besides, I got so much free DirecTV credit that the cost was probably closer to $600 and your mothly quote assumes I would have tossed the device after a year.
They have it. It's been available for about a year now through DirecTV and it supports OTA broadcast. They can't provide it for cable companies because TiVo would have to support their individual formats and they all want to introduce their proprietary boxes.
Lower the cost of subscription.
They did. Additional TiVo cost less than the original. Lifetime service is still available and pays for itself in a few years. Then, there's no monthly charge.
Innovate dammit!
They have HD. They don't prevent people from adding larger drives. They have DVD recorders. They're opening the API. Meanwhile, they're building name recognition outside of the tech world. Give it some time.
get your head out of Hollywoods ass Keeping off of Hollywood's radar has allowed them to survive where competitors have been sued into nonexistence.
Buy a HD Tivo for more than $1000 and then pay a monthly fee of something like $13.00
Yes and no. A DirecTV subscription is required for the HD TiVo and the additional DVR charge is only $5 for all the DVRs on your plan... on top of, of course, the monthly charge for DirecTV and additional $10 for their HD channels, should you choose to get them. There is no charge for TiVo beyond your DirecTV bill.
I patiently waited for the price to drop before I picked up the HD TiVo. When it didn't, I got it anyway. I have no regrets and cancelling my shitty, overpriced Adelphia service (which promised HD for years and never delievered) was quite pleasant.
MicroATX is so much bigger than what anyone would reasonably consider SFF.
Maybe now, but it was pretty damn small, then.
You also miss the point. The trend is towards smaller computers, which would be somewhat newsworthy, but hardly earth-shattering. Touting the Mac Mini or the empty Intel box as anything more than a step in this progression is ridiculous. There's no innovation here, just general evolution.
Mini-ITX boards and their tiny cases have been around for years. Nano-ITX, while relatively new, was announced many months before the Mac Mini or this empty box from Intel.
Getting excited because certain manufacturers suddenly uses an existing technology does nothing more than show bias toward a company. At the very least, the post could fake some credibility by talking about trends towards smaller computers.
I generally agree, but one of the common assignments for GUI development classes is to redesign an ATM. You would be amazed at the horrible interfaces that reasonably intelligent people can come up with and they all seem to keep the language selection. I'm thankful it's the only really irritating feature. Plus, the magnetic stripes have a fairly limited character count and getting banks to agree on a standard format would be a nightmare, so any customization would only work at one of your branches.
I'm waiting for the short-range, wireless solution that allows a consistent, custom interface on my phone, which can communicate with any nearby ATM. Choose your language once, make some shortcuts for common transactions, then key in transactions (safely) from your car and pass your phone over the cash slot to dispense. It has the added bonus of never having to touch those funk-nasty keypads.
The more unemployed people there are in IT, the lower the wages.
No, the more people unemployed IT workers, the more indication that employers are becoming wise to their own IT requirements. Now, more than ever, they are also capable of determining who can fulfill those requirements, not just spew some buzzwords and look busy most of the day. Many of those employers are also willing to pay out their nose when they find a good one.
Quite frankly, I have spent the last decade in sheer amazement at the money that several companies have been willing to pay me to do a job I very much enjoy. I know plenty of people, with degrees and without, who are in the same position. Don't get me wrong. The economy isn't always perfect. I've been laid off twice, but have also found good work quick and been able to move around when I choose to.
There is plenty of room in the IT industry, and there always will be... for competent IT workers.
43% of respondents were reluctant to give details to online sites Apparently filling out a survey about online security doesn't qualify. Perhaps, 57% of respondents don't mind giving info and the other 43% give it anyway.
Security isn't failing in most government agencies due to lack of attention or lack of aptitude. In fact, from what I see in the IT-heavy, defense agency I work for (as a contractor, thank God), the incredible bureaucracy of the process is what keeps them behind the times. There are several competent people, each capable of keeping an up-to-date, secure network running at full speed, but they are so strangled with the briefing, pre-approval, documentation, status reports, testing process, etc., etc., etc., that it takes them a week to get a simple patch approved and installed. All that leads to a apathetic, "I did everything that was specifically required of me" attitude.
There's a pretty high turnover rate for sys admins, which certainly doesn't make the overall maintenance any easier.
Some of the ranting on here about "scapegoats" seems to ignore that some of the people were guilty of security violations (an obvious cause for dismissal), but the violations were only found after an investigation was triggered on misinformation. It doesn't make those people any less guilty of their security violations.
The last two lines of the article should have made that clear, but I suppose most of the loud mouths never got that far.
On the surface, I like the idea of free wifi. Who doesn't want free service? I like that the government is building an infrastructure. However, I believe that the service itself should be privatized, keeping sure to maintain a competitive environment with several providers. Otherwise, the lowest bidder is awarded a fat contract, with minimal incentive to provide improved service, and the incredible inertia that is government contracting will insure that poor service never gets fixed.
"Of course, we didn't evaluate them with the network cables plugged in. We didn't want the Internet to skew our results. There's some dangerous shit out there."
The moment you require consistency, you introduce constraints. Constraints limit creativity. If a standard exists, it should be a result of evolution, not mandate. If the goal is to influence people to use certain applications together, you can call it whatever you want... it's still marketing.
Besides, the simple fact that OSS developers release their applications and code for free use already makes them a tight team.
Each person makes the best possible tool for the application and not stifle creativity or new solutions to the UI by trying to make things "marketable" as a package.
If it's good, users will use it. If it's not, making it part of a suite won't guarantee that they will.
It is significantly easier to get funding for a government project that already exists than to commission a new project. The scale or relative importance is immaterial. A simple example is occurring no less than 25 feet from my desk, at this very moment:
Two mid-20's support personnel are working on a 70's-era line printer and have been, all day, for the last eight days. They are working from original repair manuals, sitting amid piles of circuit board components and wiring harnesses, covered in toner to the elbows, and have recently dragged an oscilloscope over. Once in a while, I see a more senior individual giving them additional help. Assuming they are each paid $15/hr., the current bout of maintenance has already cost nearly $2000, ignoring parts or help from the higher-paid senior help.
Why is this especially horrible?
Because they aren't allowed to purchase a working, refurbished, identical printer on eBay for less than $50, let alone a couple hundred for a brand-new upgrade. That would require purchasing approval from several levels above and, until you work as a government employee or contractor, you can't understand how rarely that happens.
Nice try at a lame dig, Hope, but the logic course I took in college was an easy A (that would be the one I took for my Bachelor's, not my Master's).
Here's the breakdown:
Anime is an animated series of drawings. That makes it a cartoon. If you truly believe that humor is a required attribute, you should consider the humor the rest of the world finds when you try to pass it off as somehow superior because it has a kid with tiny monsters in his pocket, instead of a coyote chasing a bird.
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Dead pixels the size of my fist.
The primary author of the legislation, State Sen. Larry Mumper, told the paper the legislature never intended it to apply to individuals selling items over eBay. But Mumper, while vowing changes, couldn't say exactly who would or would not be exempt from the license requirement under any changes in the pending law.
Then, don't put the bill forward, you bone-smoker. When I used to submit meaningless equations and notations to my Calculus teacher and couldn't explain them, I got an F.
The plot was full of holes.
Bah-dum Dum!
There is a reason my parents still have well water and a sceptic tank. Even in government, there are limits to what is considered an acceptable amount of service coverage. Even as free wireless becomes available in areas with large populations, I have sincere doubts that there will ever be blanket coverage across the US.
Somewhere else in the main thread, there was a link to a January press release from TiVo mentioning that specific technology for a cable-based, HD DVR. It was the first I had heard of it, obviously since my previous post, and it seems a natural progression for them. None of the cable companies will introduce a non-proprietary box, so TiVo is still in the best position to grab the largest chunk of market share.
I just think it's a bit too soon to say the company is dying. The fan base is far too rabid and any competitors are far behind or focusing on a much smaller audience.
Yes, I do love tv, but it's not the volume, it's the quality I enjoy. The price of the HD TiVo was steep, but Adelphia couldn't provide me with HD and the cost is a fraction of what my otherwise untapped HD TV cost. I weighed the TiVo against the time and money I would have paid to create a computer with the capability of recording HD from a DirecTV receiver or OTA HD receiver (with the ease and features of TiVo), and determined it was worth it. Besides, I got so much free DirecTV credit that the cost was probably closer to $600 and your mothly quote assumes I would have tossed the device after a year.
To each, his own.
Get HiDef support NOW!
They have it. It's been available for about a year now through DirecTV and it supports OTA broadcast. They can't provide it for cable companies because TiVo would have to support their individual formats and they all want to introduce their proprietary boxes.
Lower the cost of subscription.
They did. Additional TiVo cost less than the original. Lifetime service is still available and pays for itself in a few years. Then, there's no monthly charge.
Innovate dammit!
They have HD. They don't prevent people from adding larger drives. They have DVD recorders. They're opening the API. Meanwhile, they're building name recognition outside of the tech world. Give it some time.
get your head out of Hollywoods ass
Keeping off of Hollywood's radar has allowed them to survive where competitors have been sued into nonexistence.
Buy a HD Tivo for more than $1000 and then pay a monthly fee of something like $13.00
Yes and no. A DirecTV subscription is required for the HD TiVo and the additional DVR charge is only $5 for all the DVRs on your plan... on top of, of course, the monthly charge for DirecTV and additional $10 for their HD channels, should you choose to get them. There is no charge for TiVo beyond your DirecTV bill.
I patiently waited for the price to drop before I picked up the HD TiVo. When it didn't, I got it anyway. I have no regrets and cancelling my shitty, overpriced Adelphia service (which promised HD for years and never delievered) was quite pleasant.
MicroATX is so much bigger than what anyone would reasonably consider SFF.
Maybe now, but it was pretty damn small, then.
You also miss the point. The trend is towards smaller computers, which would be somewhat newsworthy, but hardly earth-shattering. Touting the Mac Mini or the empty Intel box as anything more than a step in this progression is ridiculous. There's no innovation here, just general evolution.
Which was predated by the MicroATX and its respective basrebones cases. You're missing the point.
Why does this or the Mac Mini qualify as news?
Mini-ITX boards and their tiny cases have been around for years. Nano-ITX, while relatively new, was announced many months before the Mac Mini or this empty box from Intel.
Getting excited because certain manufacturers suddenly uses an existing technology does nothing more than show bias toward a company. At the very least, the post could fake some credibility by talking about trends towards smaller computers.
I generally agree, but one of the common assignments for GUI development classes is to redesign an ATM. You would be amazed at the horrible interfaces that reasonably intelligent people can come up with and they all seem to keep the language selection. I'm thankful it's the only really irritating feature. Plus, the magnetic stripes have a fairly limited character count and getting banks to agree on a standard format would be a nightmare, so any customization would only work at one of your branches.
I'm waiting for the short-range, wireless solution that allows a consistent, custom interface on my phone, which can communicate with any nearby ATM. Choose your language once, make some shortcuts for common transactions, then key in transactions (safely) from your car and pass your phone over the cash slot to dispense. It has the added bonus of never having to touch those funk-nasty keypads.
The more unemployed people there are in IT, the lower the wages.
No, the more people unemployed IT workers, the more indication that employers are becoming wise to their own IT requirements. Now, more than ever, they are also capable of determining who can fulfill those requirements, not just spew some buzzwords and look busy most of the day. Many of those employers are also willing to pay out their nose when they find a good one.
Quite frankly, I have spent the last decade in sheer amazement at the money that several companies have been willing to pay me to do a job I very much enjoy. I know plenty of people, with degrees and without, who are in the same position. Don't get me wrong. The economy isn't always perfect. I've been laid off twice, but have also found good work quick and been able to move around when I choose to.
There is plenty of room in the IT industry, and there always will be... for competent IT workers.
43% of respondents were reluctant to give details to online sites
Apparently filling out a survey about online security doesn't qualify. Perhaps, 57% of respondents don't mind giving info and the other 43% give it anyway.
Buy bigger fans and run them at lower speeds to quiet your PC. What an exciting tidbit of technology insight!
The next article will discuss how to increase visibility in your office environment... by adding a lamp! Who knew?
and maybe a little pocket money in punitive damages as well.
Yeah, stick it to 'em!
Who do you think "the state" is? Where do you think the money for those punitive damages would come from?
Security isn't failing in most government agencies due to lack of attention or lack of aptitude. In fact, from what I see in the IT-heavy, defense agency I work for (as a contractor, thank God), the incredible bureaucracy of the process is what keeps them behind the times. There are several competent people, each capable of keeping an up-to-date, secure network running at full speed, but they are so strangled with the briefing, pre-approval, documentation, status reports, testing process, etc., etc., etc., that it takes them a week to get a simple patch approved and installed. All that leads to a apathetic, "I did everything that was specifically required of me" attitude.
There's a pretty high turnover rate for sys admins, which certainly doesn't make the overall maintenance any easier.
Some of the ranting on here about "scapegoats" seems to ignore that some of the people were guilty of security violations (an obvious cause for dismissal), but the violations were only found after an investigation was triggered on misinformation. It doesn't make those people any less guilty of their security violations.
The last two lines of the article should have made that clear, but I suppose most of the loud mouths never got that far.
You might want to tape your W2 to your monitor.
On the surface, I like the idea of free wifi. Who doesn't want free service? I like that the government is building an infrastructure. However, I believe that the service itself should be privatized, keeping sure to maintain a competitive environment with several providers. Otherwise, the lowest bidder is awarded a fat contract, with minimal incentive to provide improved service, and the incredible inertia that is government contracting will insure that poor service never gets fixed.
"Of course, we didn't evaluate them with the network cables plugged in. We didn't want the Internet to skew our results. There's some dangerous shit out there."
Thanks, I did. You miss my point.
The moment you require consistency, you introduce constraints. Constraints limit creativity. If a standard exists, it should be a result of evolution, not mandate. If the goal is to influence people to use certain applications together, you can call it whatever you want... it's still marketing.
Besides, the simple fact that OSS developers release their applications and code for free use already makes them a tight team.
Each person makes the best possible tool for the application and not stifle creativity or new solutions to the UI by trying to make things "marketable" as a package.
If it's good, users will use it. If it's not, making it part of a suite won't guarantee that they will.
So, after realizing the 2600 games are no longer being produced, they chose OSX for it's extensive list of titles?
It is significantly easier to get funding for a government project that already exists than to commission a new project. The scale or relative importance is immaterial. A simple example is occurring no less than 25 feet from my desk, at this very moment:
Two mid-20's support personnel are working on a 70's-era line printer and have been, all day, for the last eight days. They are working from original repair manuals, sitting amid piles of circuit board components and wiring harnesses, covered in toner to the elbows, and have recently dragged an oscilloscope over. Once in a while, I see a more senior individual giving them additional help. Assuming they are each paid $15/hr., the current bout of maintenance has already cost nearly $2000, ignoring parts or help from the higher-paid senior help.
Why is this especially horrible?
Because they aren't allowed to purchase a working, refurbished, identical printer on eBay for less than $50, let alone a couple hundred for a brand-new upgrade. That would require purchasing approval from several levels above and, until you work as a government employee or contractor, you can't understand how rarely that happens.
Nice try at a lame dig, Hope, but the logic course I took in college was an easy A (that would be the one I took for my Bachelor's, not my Master's).
Here's the breakdown:
Anime is an animated series of drawings. That makes it a cartoon. If you truly believe that humor is a required attribute, you should consider the humor the rest of the world finds when you try to pass it off as somehow superior because it has a kid with tiny monsters in his pocket, instead of a coyote chasing a bird.