Unless that's changed in the last month or so, the 360 will NOT read NTFS formatted drives. Pretty insane for them not to support their own format, but there you are.
Well, saving money on licensing fees is just one piece to consider. There's also training and support costs. The "software commons" are skewed towards microsoft, and other closed system vendors. It's relatively cheap and easy to find people versed in those products, either as a developer, administrator, or end user. Just think of generic office workers. It's not much of a bar to require applicants to be competent in MS products such as Outlook, word, and IE. Require the open office alternatives and firefox, and the pool of prospective workers shrinks considerably. The same goes for more specialized functions, such as developing (and support!) as well as administration. The pool is smaller, thus harder to fill and more expensive.
Perhaps the average cost might be lower, though most claims of that don't hold up well to scrutiny. However, and here's the key point, it's a minority of people (i.e. working professionals and higher) who pay the vast majority of taxes. That's the case in the U.S. as well, though it isn't quite as bad. So, that means a few ants paying for all the grasshoppers as per the old fable.
Sure, the cost is lower if you get somebody else to pay for it. Everybody likes to be subsidized, or even better, get freebies. That's on the backs of others, but the government takes care of that dirty business. Like a pauper with a gun, their need trumps your work.
NASA gets way too much credit for inventions that it had absolutely no involvement. Velcro is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velcro a prime example of that. It was being manufactured years before NASA even existed. Sure, NASA used Velcro, and popularized it to some degree, but any decent PR company could have done that.
I'm not so sure about that. Aluminum and paper have value, yet people still throw those away or actually pay to have them recycled. It's basically a matter of scale: ten plastic bags are garbage to a residential family, but 10,000 are a commodity resource.
It's everybody's "fault". The parents don't give a damn because education is a freebie the state supplies. The teachers don't give a damn, because they're government workers and if there's a problem, take it up with the union. The kids sure don't care, since it's just glorified babysitting anyway.
Those Seagate drives have been fraught with problems since their release. The model they quote is ST31500341AS. The reviews on both Amazon and NewEgg detail the history. Supposedly, Seagate finally got the firmware sorted out, but would you want to test it with a couple grand of drives? More to the point, would you want to support it? That choice has the air of penny-wise and pound foolish.
Only if roads only worked for one particular type of car. In this case, the "road" is applications, and if the cost of being successful was to develop on multiple platforms at the same time then we would see a lot less development occurring. Look at PC gaming. Even with a dedicated fanbase and enthusiastic support, Linux has never become a gaming platform. Why? Because it's not worth the cost of porting already existing games, let alone developing specifically for that platform. If there were many competing OS's, you'd see this problem across a broad spectrum of application classes.
I'll bite. The Interstate Highways, Marines, and post office are all in the constitution. The first is largely funded by the individual states, but promoting commerce is one of the main duties of the feds. Likewise, defense is written in there as well as the post office. All three are hugely expensive and mostly a waste of money, but at least there's a direct mandate for them in the defining document of this republic. Firefighters and police are local, nothing to do with the federal government at all. And neither should throwing money at idiotic ventures, but that's pork spending for you.
And people wonder how we got to have a trillion dollar deficit, and 13 trillion in national debt. Amazing.
Except California wasn't really deregulated, there were still caps on in-state kWh charges among other weird rules. They called it deregulation, but what they set up was a hodgepodge of conflicting laws that was just aching to be gamed. Or, in other words, the usual government incompetence in trying to set how a market works based not on sound supply/demand principles, but some social engineering agenda. We saw the same exact thing with the mortgage meltdown, largely caused by the effective requirement that banks make loans they wouldn't ordinarily make. This opened up the whole subprime market, which looked like a great investment when you just applied the historical default rates. Many lenders didn't care, since they were able to outsource the risk in the form of mortgage-backed securities, giving paper ROI estimates that were through the roof based again on historical default rates. Surprise, surprise, subprime borrowers default at a superprime rate, and the whole thing collapsed.
They did better than that. When I was in physics grad school in the late 80's, early 90's, commercial fusion was "20 years away" and had been that way for over 40 years.
You are inherently assuming that using IVF indicates genetic inability to conceive. This is not necessarily the case at all. Furthermore, if it's important to your son to be able to procreate, then he should ask and receive confirmation that his prospective mate is indeed fertile. Then he gets to choose options, including IVF, adoption, etc, no matter what his dad's opinion on the matter might be.
Heh. Yeah, well, there's been predictions of doom for several millenia, and so far so good. The latest ecodisaster ones don't seem that much different than Revelations, so I'm not too concerned. It is disturbing how comfortable some people wanting to control the lives of others, though.
So, you're comfortable telling a couple who have the demonstrated means for a child and who for any number of reasons cannot conceive on their own, that they can not use 30+ year old tech (IVF) to assist them?
By having a child they can afford? Do you upbraid the inhabitants of Africa, India, or China for their children? If not, why not, and if so, how's it any of your business?
Heh. True, but medicine pretty much exists to fix broken stuff. If a couple wants a biologically related child, and the technique exists to allow them to have it, why not do it?
Well, then, I guess you'd choose to adopt. Meanwhile, some people do care about being genetically related to people they call family, and they would go the IVF route.
The next logical step would be to cross-train bomb-sniffing and drug-sniffing dogs to detect pirated DVDs as well. I would imagine the training is similar, and I see no reason a dog couldn't be trained to react to three separate categories of smells.
If individuals want a service or item, they'll pay for it. If they don't, they won't. That's what "worth paying for" means. They'll also determine the cost/benefit ratio for their individual tastes. Many people subscribe to cable/FIOS/Dish whatever for content because they've determined the cost is worth it, while many others choose to do without or just use over the air broadcasts. Everybody gets to choose for themselves whether something is worth it without imposing Yet Another Tax (or fee or whatever they want to call it) to prop up Yet Another Failed Business Model.
Lack of an income tax is a VERY good thing. In addition to not paying as much to the government, there's also the privacy concerns of all the things one is forced to disclose on the forms. The feds are bad enough, why would anyone live in a state that required the same level of intrusiveness?
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Unless that's changed in the last month or so, the 360 will NOT read NTFS formatted drives. Pretty insane for them not to support their own format, but there you are.
Well, saving money on licensing fees is just one piece to consider. There's also training and support costs. The "software commons" are skewed towards microsoft, and other closed system vendors. It's relatively cheap and easy to find people versed in those products, either as a developer, administrator, or end user. Just think of generic office workers. It's not much of a bar to require applicants to be competent in MS products such as Outlook, word, and IE. Require the open office alternatives and firefox, and the pool of prospective workers shrinks considerably. The same goes for more specialized functions, such as developing (and support!) as well as administration. The pool is smaller, thus harder to fill and more expensive.
Perhaps the average cost might be lower, though most claims of that don't hold up well to scrutiny. However, and here's the key point, it's a minority of people (i.e. working professionals and higher) who pay the vast majority of taxes. That's the case in the U.S. as well, though it isn't quite as bad. So, that means a few ants paying for all the grasshoppers as per the old fable.
Sure, the cost is lower if you get somebody else to pay for it. Everybody likes to be subsidized, or even better, get freebies. That's on the backs of others, but the government takes care of that dirty business. Like a pauper with a gun, their need trumps your work.
NASA gets way too much credit for inventions that it had absolutely no involvement. Velcro is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velcro a prime example of that. It was being manufactured years before NASA even existed. Sure, NASA used Velcro, and popularized it to some degree, but any decent PR company could have done that.
I'm not so sure about that. Aluminum and paper have value, yet people still throw those away or actually pay to have them recycled. It's basically a matter of scale: ten plastic bags are garbage to a residential family, but 10,000 are a commodity resource.
Probably not very well, but they sure can get a job teaching.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.
It's everybody's "fault". The parents don't give a damn because education is a freebie the state supplies. The teachers don't give a damn, because they're government workers and if there's a problem, take it up with the union. The kids sure don't care, since it's just glorified babysitting anyway.
Those Seagate drives have been fraught with problems since their release. The model they quote is ST31500341AS. The reviews on both Amazon and NewEgg detail the history. Supposedly, Seagate finally got the firmware sorted out, but would you want to test it with a couple grand of drives? More to the point, would you want to support it? That choice has the air of penny-wise and pound foolish.
Only if roads only worked for one particular type of car. In this case, the "road" is applications, and if the cost of being successful was to develop on multiple platforms at the same time then we would see a lot less development occurring. Look at PC gaming. Even with a dedicated fanbase and enthusiastic support, Linux has never become a gaming platform. Why? Because it's not worth the cost of porting already existing games, let alone developing specifically for that platform. If there were many competing OS's, you'd see this problem across a broad spectrum of application classes.
I'll bite. The Interstate Highways, Marines, and post office are all in the constitution. The first is largely funded by the individual states, but promoting commerce is one of the main duties of the feds. Likewise, defense is written in there as well as the post office. All three are hugely expensive and mostly a waste of money, but at least there's a direct mandate for them in the defining document of this republic. Firefighters and police are local, nothing to do with the federal government at all. And neither should throwing money at idiotic ventures, but that's pork spending for you.
And people wonder how we got to have a trillion dollar deficit, and 13 trillion in national debt. Amazing.
Except California wasn't really deregulated, there were still caps on in-state kWh charges among other weird rules. They called it deregulation, but what they set up was a hodgepodge of conflicting laws that was just aching to be gamed. Or, in other words, the usual government incompetence in trying to set how a market works based not on sound supply/demand principles, but some social engineering agenda. We saw the same exact thing with the mortgage meltdown, largely caused by the effective requirement that banks make loans they wouldn't ordinarily make. This opened up the whole subprime market, which looked like a great investment when you just applied the historical default rates. Many lenders didn't care, since they were able to outsource the risk in the form of mortgage-backed securities, giving paper ROI estimates that were through the roof based again on historical default rates. Surprise, surprise, subprime borrowers default at a superprime rate, and the whole thing collapsed.
They did better than that. When I was in physics grad school in the late 80's, early 90's, commercial fusion was "20 years away" and had been that way for over 40 years.
You are inherently assuming that using IVF indicates genetic inability to conceive. This is not necessarily the case at all. Furthermore, if it's important to your son to be able to procreate, then he should ask and receive confirmation that his prospective mate is indeed fertile. Then he gets to choose options, including IVF, adoption, etc, no matter what his dad's opinion on the matter might be.
It's not rocket science, you know.
Heh. Yeah, well, there's been predictions of doom for several millenia, and so far so good. The latest ecodisaster ones don't seem that much different than Revelations, so I'm not too concerned. It is disturbing how comfortable some people wanting to control the lives of others, though.
So, you're comfortable telling a couple who have the demonstrated means for a child and who for any number of reasons cannot conceive on their own, that they can not use 30+ year old tech (IVF) to assist them?
By having a child they can afford? Do you upbraid the inhabitants of Africa, India, or China for their children? If not, why not, and if so, how's it any of your business?
So, should such people be prevented from having children by outlawing IVF?
Heh. True, but medicine pretty much exists to fix broken stuff. If a couple wants a biologically related child, and the technique exists to allow them to have it, why not do it?
Well, then, I guess you'd choose to adopt. Meanwhile, some people do care about being genetically related to people they call family, and they would go the IVF route.
Because that wouldn't be propagating ones own genes.
Well, the "talented programmer who isn't working for us" list probably isn't a good one to be on.
Or don't want to get on an NSA list.
The next logical step would be to cross-train bomb-sniffing and drug-sniffing dogs to detect pirated DVDs as well. I would imagine the training is similar, and I see no reason a dog couldn't be trained to react to three separate categories of smells.
If individuals want a service or item, they'll pay for it. If they don't, they won't. That's what "worth paying for" means. They'll also determine the cost/benefit ratio for their individual tastes. Many people subscribe to cable/FIOS/Dish whatever for content because they've determined the cost is worth it, while many others choose to do without or just use over the air broadcasts. Everybody gets to choose for themselves whether something is worth it without imposing Yet Another Tax (or fee or whatever they want to call it) to prop up Yet Another Failed Business Model.
Lack of an income tax is a VERY good thing. In addition to not paying as much to the government, there's also the privacy concerns of all the things one is forced to disclose on the forms. The feds are bad enough, why would anyone live in a state that required the same level of intrusiveness?