Everyone gets the same computer, monitor, keyboard, mouse, and choice of supported OS so IT has a limited set of hardware/OS combinations to support. You break something, you get your ass to Fry's and buy the replacement on your own dime. You want something new and cool to try? You pay for it out of your own pocket. Need something different for a new project? You get your boss to budget it and work up a PO or buy it from Fry's and expense it on petty cash.
You can save buy not having vending machines and paying IT staff to supply trinkets.
Maybe FB can't fill their ranks because the talented software engineers that aren't already there realize that they've missed the opportunity to make the big bucks in stock options and that the work is ultimately unsatisfying as are most dot.com jobs IMHO. I did the Yahoo thing back when they were king and after a year it started to get really boring. I mean how many ways can you serve up gossip and narcissism and still keep it interesting?
You miss the point. I've been using Linux since the mid 90's. With each upgrade or change of distribution there is a period where I have to learn how to use it. But the changes weren't so radical that I couldn't be productive from the start.
Same with Windows since 95. With each each version, 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista (gag!), 7, I could at least navigate the UI well enough to start up apps, do some work, know where my files were, etc.without a manual.
But the Win8 UI is crap. Like the OP I tried a fresh install (in vmware) and found the most basic operations non-intuitive. I had resort to Google to find out how to do the most basic things like shutting down. If I had to get something done for work right away and didn't have Internet access I would have been hosed.
For downloading games from the Wii store and Netflix. Half the games my kids play are SNES/N64 classics. When not playing I'm catching up on movies and old TV shows on Netflix.
We have on Chick-fil-a here in Silicon Valley, just recently opened. Last time I went it was packed. Same with the ones I went to in L.A. this past Fall. People here didn't buy into the "lets villify and boycott Chick-fil-a thing". If anything, the boycott only increased business.
Despite this being a very blue state, most people around here generally have the same morals and tolerances as the rest of the nation.
So true. I worked at Y! around 2000 when they left the campus on Keifer Rd and moved to their massive complex near Moffett. Shortly there after they had several rounds of lay-offs. Then I move to Applied Biosystems in Foster City. While there they built a nice campus in Pleasanton which they never occupied. Then, like many other techs, they had several rounds of lay-offs.
Maybe they should tear down all those unoccupied buildings and reestablish the farming industry down here. Perhaps Del Monte might come back!
We had Uverse. Service was ok and the any room DVR is really nice but we cancelled because it was expensive and the primary consumer is my wife who was mostly watching OTA stuff anyway. Most of the cable only programming is crap reality shows anyway. So we put up an antenna and are recording using DVD recorders. It works but the DVD+RW's wear out after a few months and they are getting harder to find. And our DVD recorders only have SDTV tuners. And you can't watch something else while the recorder is recording.
A Boxee sounds like it would work for my wife. She would especially like to be able to stream her recordings to her tablet. Sure I could do roll my own with a spare Linux box but I have better things to do and *I* don't want to be the support tech when something doesn't record right. Now if the Boxee plan also let use the cloud for data storage to back up our stuff, it would pay for itself.
at least that is what Western intelligence agencies (not just the US) are saying.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_and_state_terrorism
BTW, although many governments have the bomb, the Iranian government is one that we DO NOT want to have nuclear weapons capability. They repeatedly call for the destruction of Israel (there's an annual parade to rally the masses against Israel) and considering their support for Hamas and Hezbollah they should be taken seriously.
Sacramento gives away money to a tiny company that makes expensive cars that nobody wants to "save or create" 1500 jobs.
Meanwhile, Jerry Brown claims we are broke and that if we don't approve the tax increases this coming election, hundreds to thousands of teachers, police, and firemen will have to be let go...
If they want to talk about human rights, they should be talking about the right to live in a democracy or republic, with a free economy, and with the right to free speech. Without that, broadband is meaningless as it will be essentially a heavily restricted private network with the eyes of the government always on you.
I read you got licensed in elementary school and built your own station. Have you thought about returning to the hobby? I miss the DIY days of early home computing and recently became a ham since there is still a lot of cool stuff you can do with discrete components.
Yggsdrasil -> Slackware -> RedHat 2.0 through RedHat 9 -> Fedora 1 through 4 -> Kubuntu 7.04 until KDE4 -> Xubuntu (currently 11.04).
If I was starting out now I'd start with Xubuntu. If was experienced and just wanted something that works for the desktop without alot of crapware, I'd run Xubuntu (which is what I'm doing now).
Get an infrared imaging system. Put it by the gate. Also at the gate, plaster it with those Dutch cartoons mocking Mohammad. Who ever shows up beet red on the monitor can't go aboard.
Apparently the TSA agents didn't know what a MoH is and were supsicious because the medal is the shape of a star and feared it might be used like a Japanese shuriken (throwing star)! Never mind that the guy they didn't trust was a WWII ace, a retired general, and form governor.
http://www.snopes.com/military/medal.asp
The meme used to be if you weren't smart enough to get into college, you could join the Army. I think now it's you can join the TSA.
Unless they rolled out something very recently, their wi-fi is only in Mountain view, about 10 square miles or so. I don't live near there. And it's not high speed like fiber.
Why KC and not near Google's home? I live only about 10 miles form Google HQ and my neighborhood can only get AT&T Uverse over copper. It's ok but you would think we'd have at least one fiber provider by now.
You can teach logical thinking at the elementary school level with word problems. You can't set up the problem to solve if you can't figure out which facts in a problem are pertinent and how they are related. You can also do the same with history by teaching and asking the "whys" of major events instead of just wrote memorization. But to do it you need a good teaching staff to guide the students and to force them to think beyond naive interpretations.
Sure, a computer can be a useful tool in the classroom but it won't make up for poor teaching. How many teachers, do you think, have any experience programming? And if they don't how useful will they be and how much will the average student actually learn beyond "Hello World"?
Not semantics. By logic, I meant logic as in the classical sense, also referred to as critical thinking. Or to put it another way, focus on the fundamentals first, build a good foundation on knowledge and critical thought, then programming becomes that much easier to learn a little later in life. Not to mention that the types of problems as student can solve with a program are much more interesting.
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You'll have fewer broken items if an employee has to pay for his/her carelessness. That's where the savings come from.
Everyone gets the same computer, monitor, keyboard, mouse, and choice of supported OS so IT has a limited set of hardware/OS combinations to support. You break something, you get your ass to Fry's and buy the replacement on your own dime. You want something new and cool to try? You pay for it out of your own pocket. Need something different for a new project? You get your boss to budget it and work up a PO or buy it from Fry's and expense it on petty cash. You can save buy not having vending machines and paying IT staff to supply trinkets.
Maybe FB can't fill their ranks because the talented software engineers that aren't already there realize that they've missed the opportunity to make the big bucks in stock options and that the work is ultimately unsatisfying as are most dot.com jobs IMHO. I did the Yahoo thing back when they were king and after a year it started to get really boring. I mean how many ways can you serve up gossip and narcissism and still keep it interesting?
You miss the point. I've been using Linux since the mid 90's. With each upgrade or change of distribution there is a period where I have to learn how to use it. But the changes weren't so radical that I couldn't be productive from the start. Same with Windows since 95. With each each version, 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista (gag!), 7, I could at least navigate the UI well enough to start up apps, do some work, know where my files were, etc.without a manual. But the Win8 UI is crap. Like the OP I tried a fresh install (in vmware) and found the most basic operations non-intuitive. I had resort to Google to find out how to do the most basic things like shutting down. If I had to get something done for work right away and didn't have Internet access I would have been hosed.
For downloading games from the Wii store and Netflix. Half the games my kids play are SNES/N64 classics. When not playing I'm catching up on movies and old TV shows on Netflix.
We have on Chick-fil-a here in Silicon Valley, just recently opened. Last time I went it was packed. Same with the ones I went to in L.A. this past Fall. People here didn't buy into the "lets villify and boycott Chick-fil-a thing". If anything, the boycott only increased business. Despite this being a very blue state, most people around here generally have the same morals and tolerances as the rest of the nation.
Big Brother is watching...
So true. I worked at Y! around 2000 when they left the campus on Keifer Rd and moved to their massive complex near Moffett. Shortly there after they had several rounds of lay-offs. Then I move to Applied Biosystems in Foster City. While there they built a nice campus in Pleasanton which they never occupied. Then, like many other techs, they had several rounds of lay-offs. Maybe they should tear down all those unoccupied buildings and reestablish the farming industry down here. Perhaps Del Monte might come back!
If you are sitting in a hide out with or travelling in a caravan with a known terrorist, are you truly a "civilian"?
We had Uverse. Service was ok and the any room DVR is really nice but we cancelled because it was expensive and the primary consumer is my wife who was mostly watching OTA stuff anyway. Most of the cable only programming is crap reality shows anyway. So we put up an antenna and are recording using DVD recorders. It works but the DVD+RW's wear out after a few months and they are getting harder to find. And our DVD recorders only have SDTV tuners. And you can't watch something else while the recorder is recording. A Boxee sounds like it would work for my wife. She would especially like to be able to stream her recordings to her tablet. Sure I could do roll my own with a spare Linux box but I have better things to do and *I* don't want to be the support tech when something doesn't record right. Now if the Boxee plan also let use the cloud for data storage to back up our stuff, it would pay for itself.
at least that is what Western intelligence agencies (not just the US) are saying. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_and_state_terrorism BTW, although many governments have the bomb, the Iranian government is one that we DO NOT want to have nuclear weapons capability. They repeatedly call for the destruction of Israel (there's an annual parade to rally the masses against Israel) and considering their support for Hamas and Hezbollah they should be taken seriously.
With a car that small you don't need power steering. Really don't need power anything...
Sacramento gives away money to a tiny company that makes expensive cars that nobody wants to "save or create" 1500 jobs. Meanwhile, Jerry Brown claims we are broke and that if we don't approve the tax increases this coming election, hundreds to thousands of teachers, police, and firemen will have to be let go...
If they want to talk about human rights, they should be talking about the right to live in a democracy or republic, with a free economy, and with the right to free speech. Without that, broadband is meaningless as it will be essentially a heavily restricted private network with the eyes of the government always on you.
I read you got licensed in elementary school and built your own station. Have you thought about returning to the hobby? I miss the DIY days of early home computing and recently became a ham since there is still a lot of cool stuff you can do with discrete components.
Yggsdrasil -> Slackware -> RedHat 2.0 through RedHat 9 -> Fedora 1 through 4 -> Kubuntu 7.04 until KDE4 -> Xubuntu (currently 11.04). If I was starting out now I'd start with Xubuntu. If was experienced and just wanted something that works for the desktop without alot of crapware, I'd run Xubuntu (which is what I'm doing now).
Mine was seeing 2001 at age 4. Still trying to figure that one out.
Get an infrared imaging system. Put it by the gate. Also at the gate, plaster it with those Dutch cartoons mocking Mohammad. Who ever shows up beet red on the monitor can't go aboard.
Apparently the TSA agents didn't know what a MoH is and were supsicious because the medal is the shape of a star and feared it might be used like a Japanese shuriken (throwing star)! Never mind that the guy they didn't trust was a WWII ace, a retired general, and form governor. http://www.snopes.com/military/medal.asp The meme used to be if you weren't smart enough to get into college, you could join the Army. I think now it's you can join the TSA.
And when the benchmarks spit out a bunch of NaNs, I don't think the supercomputing community will be impressed.
The suspicious activity list is just another sign of the decline of our society. Time to stock up...
Unless they rolled out something very recently, their wi-fi is only in Mountain view, about 10 square miles or so. I don't live near there. And it's not high speed like fiber.
Why KC and not near Google's home? I live only about 10 miles form Google HQ and my neighborhood can only get AT&T Uverse over copper. It's ok but you would think we'd have at least one fiber provider by now.
You can teach logical thinking at the elementary school level with word problems. You can't set up the problem to solve if you can't figure out which facts in a problem are pertinent and how they are related. You can also do the same with history by teaching and asking the "whys" of major events instead of just wrote memorization. But to do it you need a good teaching staff to guide the students and to force them to think beyond naive interpretations. Sure, a computer can be a useful tool in the classroom but it won't make up for poor teaching. How many teachers, do you think, have any experience programming? And if they don't how useful will they be and how much will the average student actually learn beyond "Hello World"?
Not semantics. By logic, I meant logic as in the classical sense, also referred to as critical thinking. Or to put it another way, focus on the fundamentals first, build a good foundation on knowledge and critical thought, then programming becomes that much easier to learn a little later in life. Not to mention that the types of problems as student can solve with a program are much more interesting.