I'm amazed at this caveman way of thinking. "Lets get guns to protect ourselves..."
Gun control isn't about removing guns from law abiding people but to control what guns can be in these peoples hands. I've said this before and will say it again, someone that has an urge to kill due to mental dysfunction will grab the available weapon and go on a rampage. If this guy shows up with a 5 round riffle he will do much less damage than if he shows up with an AK47 he found in his own house.
Then you have the guy who plans a killing. Even if you have a gun, this guy is showing up far more prepared than you are and you will most probably die without a chance to pull out your gun. You stated that less guns will equal less gun related deaths. That alone should be enough incentive to start moving forward in a logical way. Baby steps is all that is needed.
I tell you this now. If your family is taken out by gun violence you will change you point of view.
No, it's not because of the closed system, it's because it was managed poorly. With the right people, proper project management and the right amount of planning they would have reached the objective with few to no glitches.
To blame open source or proprietary software for the failure is silly.
On a side note, what proprietary tech did they use? When I looked at the tech specs I didn't see anything that isn't open source other than the database and web hosting solutions. Sure they are closed systems but they are well established and have tones of support available for them.
The article is alright but not one I would use to pick a compiler. IMHO the resulting EXE is more important than the compiler processing time. I've dealt with large sized applications and if structured properly, your build times on a modern computer should not be an issue.
I disagree. The wow factor is gone from these devices and now it's just a matter of what you prefer to use. So many people have looked at my Windows phone and said: "Wow, that's slick. Looks very smooth and easy to use". These comments have mostly come from Android S3 users. One of these friends actually returned his S3 since he was still within the 14 day period they allow exchanges for.
As long as MS is willing to lose more money in the mobile market they will eventually break through. Their increase in the market mostly came from the recent Windows. The previous versions were garbage on both the hardware and software side.
I think this was just a "Friendly Termination". It's common at that level for them to be offered to leave on their own. They still get a package AND they leave with their dignity. In the end it's all about image and reading into it too much creates ridiculous amounts of comments on/.
Not sure where you got 3%. Numbers I've seen recently show 2% but still increasing. It's pretty obvious that users cling to what they know and Windows Phones isn't that. IF Windows phone makes it to 5% I suspect it will be a turning point for them but only if they make it there. I purchased a Windows Phone because I felt like trying something new and I was honestly surprised by the quality. The hardware is the same as the S3 (with minor changes). I would easily compare it to Android in it's usability and give it a better rating in presentation. Where it lacks is in the quality of the main stream apps but that's almost a non issue at this point.
One of my hockey buddies was caught by this. He gave them his credit card number. When he told me this I said that he should cancel his credit card immediately. Luckily they only had time to charge $300 on his credit card. He's a nice guy but damn his BS meter didn't work well that time.
May not look like much now but it's baby steps like this that makes these kinds of technologies eventually become much better. If they don't start somewhere there will be no R&D money to continue and improve.
The long term objective would be to enter your house and the darn thing starts charging regardless of where you are.
It's still very limiting. Why not have a laptop if you're going to carry a keyboard. And those half size keyboards aren't that great unless that's all you've used your whole life.
Wetter you train or not is irrelevant. The cost will either go in inefficiency or in training. Training is cheaper in the long run. Been there done that on a different level but it's all the same.
Just putting a new copier in an office is a nightmare if you don't provide a short training coupled with a reference sheet.
I would never write a document or manage an excel file on a mobile device (not included laptops). It's inefficient to say the least. I'd also love to see one do his taxes on a Galaxy S3 or Iphone 5. Even banking is still limited on mobile devices due to the companies not being completely cough up with all the feature that are available via a standard browser. CURRENT mobile devices aren't input friendly and that is one major reason they aren't crushing the PC market. And not sure who came up with the 95% figure but there's no way the PC market is still at 95%. Maybe 75% but not 95%.
I wasn't clear in my statement. I meant to say that it should be the long therm target (say 10 years). I realize that early on they cannot achieve this but in the long run there is no reason they can't. Otherwise it just won't matter that they released it in the first place. So at first you'll get the fanatics to buy it and eventually cost will come down (you hope) and real competition will start.
Funny how you say that too. I was watching a snippet about the F-150. It has the most sold trucks for the last 36 years in the USA and last 47 years in Canada. I don't know if the numbers are true but if they are that's a heck of a statement.
Nissan and Honda have tried to break into the truck market for years but the market is not the same as the car market. Truck buyers are hard to sway away from what they know, love and trust. Ford lovers don't buy Dodge and vice versa.
With electric engines torque won't be a problem but will reliability and durability be issues?
If Tesla succeeds at making a durable truck that gets at least 300 - 400 miles with a decent load capacity, a price tag to compete and more power, I can see some changing their preferred brand.
Lol!! Because that's what I want when I'm calling someone. Silence with a background of keyboard typing.
As far as I can see, this will be another feature that can be disabled. No harm done here. Now I need them to add this to Team Speak 3 so I don't hear the other players bash their keyboards cause they're tired of me killing them.
Yep. There was an interesting video released a few month ago that showed one of the tax expert working for Apple. He was payed massive sums of money to do this. He basically finds loopholes in the tax systems and uses them. Apple was known to be one of the best at it. I remember a figure of 1.9% tax paid on all revenues generated outside the USA.
You don't really know yet. These kinds of projects usually stem from customer demand. I'm no fan of this concept but depending how it's implemented I can see the potential for web development. Currently if I want to work from home I can either work remotely via RDC or I can reproduce the environment locally. Both solution are slow because we can't afford bigger bandwidth and the local solution requires more maintenance. God forbid I get a call about an issue with the live DB where I have to connect directly to the DB.
Funny how MS is evil (non ethical). All businesses are evil because they do whatever it takes to stay on top. Google was smart as they delivered a complete solution quickly that could not be overturned overnight due to the nature of it's business. If you are the first to make a blue pen and everybody sees your success, everybody else will make a blue pen and steal some or all of your business. This trend is fairly common at the retail level.
In the end the big guy often eats the small guy. Innovation combined with the right delivery to market is the only way to break through. It's not fair but it's capitalism and that's how things have been for a long time.
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I'm amazed at this caveman way of thinking. "Lets get guns to protect ourselves..."
Gun control isn't about removing guns from law abiding people but to control what guns can be in these peoples hands. I've said this before and will say it again, someone that has an urge to kill due to mental dysfunction will grab the available weapon and go on a rampage. If this guy shows up with a 5 round riffle he will do much less damage than if he shows up with an AK47 he found in his own house.
Then you have the guy who plans a killing. Even if you have a gun, this guy is showing up far more prepared than you are and you will most probably die without a chance to pull out your gun. You stated that less guns will equal less gun related deaths. That alone should be enough incentive to start moving forward in a logical way. Baby steps is all that is needed.
I tell you this now. If your family is taken out by gun violence you will change you point of view.
I don't think this one was karma but rather Darwinism. I'm sure the containers had plenty of warnings. They were crooked and DUMB.
No, it's not because of the closed system, it's because it was managed poorly. With the right people, proper project management and the right amount of planning they would have reached the objective with few to no glitches.
To blame open source or proprietary software for the failure is silly.
On a side note, what proprietary tech did they use? When I looked at the tech specs I didn't see anything that isn't open source other than the database and web hosting solutions. Sure they are closed systems but they are well established and have tones of support available for them.
The article is alright but not one I would use to pick a compiler. IMHO the resulting EXE is more important than the compiler processing time. I've dealt with large sized applications and if structured properly, your build times on a modern computer should not be an issue.
Who mods this garbage up?
I disagree. The wow factor is gone from these devices and now it's just a matter of what you prefer to use. So many people have looked at my Windows phone and said: "Wow, that's slick. Looks very smooth and easy to use". These comments have mostly come from Android S3 users. One of these friends actually returned his S3 since he was still within the 14 day period they allow exchanges for.
As long as MS is willing to lose more money in the mobile market they will eventually break through. Their increase in the market mostly came from the recent Windows. The previous versions were garbage on both the hardware and software side.
I think this was just a "Friendly Termination". It's common at that level for them to be offered to leave on their own. They still get a package AND they leave with their dignity. In the end it's all about image and reading into it too much creates ridiculous amounts of comments on /.
Not sure where you got 3%. Numbers I've seen recently show 2% but still increasing. It's pretty obvious that users cling to what they know and Windows Phones isn't that. IF Windows phone makes it to 5% I suspect it will be a turning point for them but only if they make it there. I purchased a Windows Phone because I felt like trying something new and I was honestly surprised by the quality. The hardware is the same as the S3 (with minor changes). I would easily compare it to Android in it's usability and give it a better rating in presentation. Where it lacks is in the quality of the main stream apps but that's almost a non issue at this point.
One of my hockey buddies was caught by this. He gave them his credit card number. When he told me this I said that he should cancel his credit card immediately. Luckily they only had time to charge $300 on his credit card. He's a nice guy but damn his BS meter didn't work well that time.
May not look like much now but it's baby steps like this that makes these kinds of technologies eventually become much better. If they don't start somewhere there will be no R&D money to continue and improve.
The long term objective would be to enter your house and the darn thing starts charging regardless of where you are.
I say tax write off.
It's still very limiting. Why not have a laptop if you're going to carry a keyboard. And those half size keyboards aren't that great unless that's all you've used your whole life.
Wetter you train or not is irrelevant. The cost will either go in inefficiency or in training. Training is cheaper in the long run. Been there done that on a different level but it's all the same.
Just putting a new copier in an office is a nightmare if you don't provide a short training coupled with a reference sheet.
I would never write a document or manage an excel file on a mobile device (not included laptops). It's inefficient to say the least. I'd also love to see one do his taxes on a Galaxy S3 or Iphone 5. Even banking is still limited on mobile devices due to the companies not being completely cough up with all the feature that are available via a standard browser. CURRENT mobile devices aren't input friendly and that is one major reason they aren't crushing the PC market. And not sure who came up with the 95% figure but there's no way the PC market is still at 95%. Maybe 75% but not 95%.
My father owned one. As much as he loved it when he first got it, it didn't take him 120 000 km to replace it.
I wasn't clear in my statement. I meant to say that it should be the long therm target (say 10 years). I realize that early on they cannot achieve this but in the long run there is no reason they can't. Otherwise it just won't matter that they released it in the first place. So at first you'll get the fanatics to buy it and eventually cost will come down (you hope) and real competition will start.
Funny how you say that too. I was watching a snippet about the F-150. It has the most sold trucks for the last 36 years in the USA and last 47 years in Canada. I don't know if the numbers are true but if they are that's a heck of a statement.
I guess we should have stopped taking flights in Boeing air planes after they had electrical fire issues right?
If everybody was as negative as you are towards progress we would still be trying to figure out how to contain fire.
Nissan and Honda have tried to break into the truck market for years but the market is not the same as the car market. Truck buyers are hard to sway away from what they know, love and trust. Ford lovers don't buy Dodge and vice versa.
With electric engines torque won't be a problem but will reliability and durability be issues?
If Tesla succeeds at making a durable truck that gets at least 300 - 400 miles with a decent load capacity, a price tag to compete and more power, I can see some changing their preferred brand.
Lol!! Because that's what I want when I'm calling someone. Silence with a background of keyboard typing.
As far as I can see, this will be another feature that can be disabled. No harm done here. Now I need them to add this to Team Speak 3 so I don't hear the other players bash their keyboards cause they're tired of me killing them.
Yep. There was an interesting video released a few month ago that showed one of the tax expert working for Apple. He was payed massive sums of money to do this. He basically finds loopholes in the tax systems and uses them. Apple was known to be one of the best at it. I remember a figure of 1.9% tax paid on all revenues generated outside the USA.
This article talks about the USA tax loopholes they used legally.
http://www.idigitaltimes.co.uk/articles/469528/20130521/apple-evades-taxes-shifting-profits-overseas-ireland.htm
They don't need a warrant if the information is publicly available.
You don't really know yet. These kinds of projects usually stem from customer demand. I'm no fan of this concept but depending how it's implemented I can see the potential for web development. Currently if I want to work from home I can either work remotely via RDC or I can reproduce the environment locally. Both solution are slow because we can't afford bigger bandwidth and the local solution requires more maintenance. God forbid I get a call about an issue with the live DB where I have to connect directly to the DB.
Funny how MS is evil (non ethical). All businesses are evil because they do whatever it takes to stay on top. Google was smart as they delivered a complete solution quickly that could not be overturned overnight due to the nature of it's business. If you are the first to make a blue pen and everybody sees your success, everybody else will make a blue pen and steal some or all of your business. This trend is fairly common at the retail level.
In the end the big guy often eats the small guy. Innovation combined with the right delivery to market is the only way to break through. It's not fair but it's capitalism and that's how things have been for a long time.
No difference. Just a matter of knowing what process to end.