Dell support has been okay. They will send a person out same day to replace most things.
Most support that we use is provided by a 3rd party contract now. If they end up supporting Macs too then it will not matter what type of machines we have.
At one point a 27" IPS screen alone was about the same price or more than the 27" imac. If you wanted a screen of that size and quality it made complete sense to buy an imac and wasn't a waste of money at all.
They would and users were expected to virus scan before moving files. Since the networks are separate though a virus would not lead to information leaving the network.
I was one of a very small team that wrote a system (using Zip disks for storage) that pulled data from a mail server on our secure network and pushed it to a mail server on the Internet, and vice versa.
Are you sure this is how it worked? Who sanitized the data? Generally speaking any writable media that enters a secure network then also becomes secure and must be verifiably erased (commonly just destroyed) before plugging back into an nonsecure network.
So nonsecure -> secure is fine. Secure -> nonsecure big time no no requiring many signatures and approvals.
See my other comment about how great current reprocessing is.
Wow. You still haven't even ready the original article I posted.
Also, if coal is really as radioactive as you trying to fear monger, then nuclear power plants should actually use coal instead of uranium since it is far cheaper and much easier to mine.
I'm not sure what you're rambling about here, but once again I'll bring in some facts to the conversation. You'll probably just ignore these too.
And given the fact, that there has been a serious nuclear accident on average every 20 years, and that when nuclear power plants produce just tiny 2% of our current power needs. If there were so many nuclear power plants as there are coal power plants at the moment, we would have a meltdown every single year.
2% of who? the US? France produces 75% of their power from nuclear (from the first article that you have ignored twice).
Clearly you didn't read the article or even the quote I posted from the article. If the US reprocessed its waste like they should there would be very little waste to store or dispose of. In fact, I would prefer the waste from power generation in a compact form instead of what we have now - mercury levels so high in the oceans that it isn't safe to eat fish anymore. There was a recent scientific american article that detailed how much *nuclear* waste coal plants put out into the atmosphere. Guess what? It's more than nuclear plants.
Fear monger all you want about nuclear power. It's not perfect, but it's far cleaner than any other large scale method of power production we current have at our disposal.
What remains after all this material has been extracted from spent fuel rods are some isotopes for which no important uses have yet been found, but which can be stored for future retrieval. France, which completely reprocesses its recyclable material, stores all the unused remains -- from 30 years of generating 75% of its electricity from nuclear energy -- beneath the floor of a single room at La Hague.
The supposed problem of "nuclear waste" is entirely the result of a the decision in 1976 by President Gerald Ford to suspend reprocessing, which President Jimmy Carter made permanent in 1977. The fear was that agents of foreign powers or terrorists groups would steal plutonium from American plants to manufacture bombs.
Actually I like Apple and this is a huge complaint of mine. They apparently have zero clue about how to do diffs or patching. Every time they make a minor change to XCode it's time to download 4GB again.
In addition the xbox is a horrible device to use to watch movies because it's so damn loud. It sounds like a jet taking off which is fine during action flicks, but not something you want whirring in the background during dialog.
When my xbox live gold account ran out instead of spending $60 on it again, I just bought an apple tv 2 for $99. It streams netflix great and is much better from a usage standpoint (the remote is simple, the device is tiny, and it's silent). I assume a Roku or similar device would also work just as well or better if you have lots of random ripped movie formats that you also want to stream from your home network.
It's not too dangerous to use for something because the radioactivity is very useful. The US has archaic laws that prevent spent fuel in the US from being processed. France has no such laws, produces a large percentage of their power from nuclear and has very little unusable waste. Oh, you probably want a citation.
The problem with DUI laws in the US is that they are no longer about finding people who are impaired, but finding people who have had a drink and milking them for money. Notice the problem here? Lots of things can lead to impaired driving. Lack of sleep is a big one, along with altered mental state from anger etc...
Then we have this magical.08 number. Why.08? What was wrong with.1? Don't even go looking at how inaccurate breathalyzers can be with their +-.02 deviation. Oh, and if you do end up blowing and end up at trial good luck getting a breath sample that you can independently test (machines have the ability to save it, but police never do...why keep around exculpatory evidence?).
Then we have the laws themselves. I don't think there is any other time where someone can be arrested and then presumed guilty because they asked for a lawyer. ("Hey blow into this." "I want to talk to me lawyer about that." "No, blow into this or sign this stating your losing your drivers license."). And other evidence gather techniques? Yeah, most of the population cannot walk a straight line at night with blue lights flashing in their face and cars racing by at 60mph yet that works for evidence? Really?
I'm am completely against people driving impaired whether it be by alcohol, texting, or lack of sleep. The problem is that the campaign against DUIs led mostly by MADD is really a modern day prohibitionist movement and has little to do with stopping real DUIs.
Like nearly all drugs there is a difference between using and abusing. Drinking a glass of wine a day is using. Stashing a bottle of vodka in the car so you can slam it everyday at lunch is abusing.
Your wife was clearly abusing and likely had other psychological issues that the coke was helping her forget about or cover up. Obviously she would have been better off seeing a therapist instead of abusing drugs, but don't think that she was perfectly fine until the coke showed up.
The only reason the US has much nuclear waste at all is because of stupid laws that were made years ago because of unfounded fears. Here is a great article where the 'waste' is broken down.
Only when government is involved can you have something like this (from the article)
Of the remaining 5% of a rod, one-fifth is fissionable U-235 -- which can be recycled as fuel. Another one-fifth is plutonium, also recyclable as fuel. Much of the remaining three-fifths has important uses as medical and industrial isotopes. Forty percent of all medical diagnostic procedures in this country now involve some form of radioactive isotope, and nuclear medicine is a $4 billion business. Unfortunately, we must import all our tracer material from Canada, because all of our isotopes have been headed for Yucca Mountain.
We have this same system where I live. The tool booth takes a picture of both the front and back of the car. They send you a nice crystal clear picture even when driving 75 mph.
Here if you set up an account and get a quick pass they'll give you 20% off your tolls.
You're talking about an outlier situation. If you were working on a startup for 3-4 years then you are driven, smart, and likely a little lucky. I could probably argue that your 3-4 years in a startup was your advanced degree in entrepreneurship. Getting into that 'school' is very hard and those who succeed even if only for a little while would have likely succeeded at nearly anything.
It's like saying that since John Carmack didn't graduate college, then college is a waste of time for everyone.
I don't know if either party really supports education in the ways that would matter. Huge overhauls are needed and it's not just about more money. The entire public education structure is broken. When you look at detailed budgets from school districts (many have them online) you see a lot of administrators, and in some cases an admin type position for every single teacher. What are all these people doing? Teaching students no longer seems to be the goal of most public school systems.
Then we have the teachers themselves. A HS teacher should have at least an MS in the field they teach and not in education. On the teaching side HS should be more like college and less like grade school (more on that later).
Which brings us to HS students. There is still way too much plain old babysitting in HS. I think this is the main advantage of private schools. They simply kick out kids who don't want to be there. Since the parents are also paying extra for private school, they are more apt to provide outside discipline. Outside discipline severely lacks in public school.
Now, to touch on one of your points, the individual absolutely does matter. You can't deny that there comes a point where an individual must make their own decision to become educated or not. Right now we mostly push this decision point to college in an almost sink or swim scenario, but I would want to push this decision to HS in a more gradual fashion.
Speaking of individual education, I don't know how old you are, but kids today have access to more information than any other time in the history of humanity. When I was in HS if I didn't understand something I had to wait until class the next day. With the internet I could have figured out the problem and learned about it in excruciating detail on my own time. The resources that are now available to the individual are staggering, so much so that some of the blame must fall to them when they are not educated.
Like most research it's incremental. They do a lot in base computer science, publish a ton of papers, and seem to win a lot of awards for their research. You can read about all you want here:
Well said. I have been amazed at many normally intelligent people who think the way the poster that you responded to thinks. When politics enters the discussion I'm almost certain that most peoples IQs drop by half that instant.
Trying to blame anyone except the whacko who did the shooting is complete intellectual dishonesty.
Exactly. And treating every offense as something that puts people on the sex offender list only belittles the list. I've known people who have been threatened to be put on the list because they were caught peeing in corner of an alley way. Oh no, indecent exposure, oh no think of the children at 2am. Other oddity is how many women do you think would be threatened with the same thing if they were caught peeing in the same place? Um, zero.
While I'm on the topic, what other crime can you have the word of a single person be enough to ruin someones life? I certainly can't walk into a police station and say 'this guy hit me 8 weeks ago, and oh yeah I have no visible sign of it' and expect anything except to be told to go home. Rape and sexual assault is a horrible thing, but we need to balance that with a girl simply getting mad and trying to inflict revenge on someone. If we don't filter out non-offenses it waters down the very horrible severity of real assaults.
Still more expensive. Over Christmas the flights on SW were ~$100 more than equivalent Delta flights. Frontier is my first choice if they fly to where I'm headed it is usually much cheaper.
I also can't remember the last time I checked a bag so I would prefer not to pay for it.
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Dell support has been okay. They will send a person out same day to replace most things.
Most support that we use is provided by a 3rd party contract now. If they end up supporting Macs too then it will not matter what type of machines we have.
At one point a 27" IPS screen alone was about the same price or more than the 27" imac. If you wanted a screen of that size and quality it made complete sense to buy an imac and wasn't a waste of money at all.
They would and users were expected to virus scan before moving files. Since the networks are separate though a virus would not lead to information leaving the network.
Are you sure this is how it worked? Who sanitized the data? Generally speaking any writable media that enters a secure network then also becomes secure and must be verifiably erased (commonly just destroyed) before plugging back into an nonsecure network.
So nonsecure -> secure is fine. Secure -> nonsecure big time no no requiring many signatures and approvals.
Wow. You still haven't even ready the original article I posted.
I'm not sure what you're rambling about here, but once again I'll bring in some facts to the conversation. You'll probably just ignore these too.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste
2% of who? the US? France produces 75% of their power from nuclear (from the first article that you have ignored twice).
Clearly you didn't read the article or even the quote I posted from the article. If the US reprocessed its waste like they should there would be very little waste to store or dispose of. In fact, I would prefer the waste from power generation in a compact form instead of what we have now - mercury levels so high in the oceans that it isn't safe to eat fish anymore. There was a recent scientific american article that detailed how much *nuclear* waste coal plants put out into the atmosphere. Guess what? It's more than nuclear plants.
Fear monger all you want about nuclear power. It's not perfect, but it's far cleaner than any other large scale method of power production we current have at our disposal.
They actually produce very little waste (much less than the crap spewing from coal or from producing solar panels). Go education yourself here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123690627522614525.html
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Remains to be seen. Many think the Kindle app may somehow end up with an exclusion from the rule.
Bah! Don't let facts get in the way of a perfectly good conspiracy theory!
Actually I like Apple and this is a huge complaint of mine. They apparently have zero clue about how to do diffs or patching. Every time they make a minor change to XCode it's time to download 4GB again.
In addition the xbox is a horrible device to use to watch movies because it's so damn loud. It sounds like a jet taking off which is fine during action flicks, but not something you want whirring in the background during dialog.
When my xbox live gold account ran out instead of spending $60 on it again, I just bought an apple tv 2 for $99. It streams netflix great and is much better from a usage standpoint (the remote is simple, the device is tiny, and it's silent). I assume a Roku or similar device would also work just as well or better if you have lots of random ripped movie formats that you also want to stream from your home network.
It's not too dangerous to use for something because the radioactivity is very useful. The US has archaic laws that prevent spent fuel in the US from being processed. France has no such laws, produces a large percentage of their power from nuclear and has very little unusable waste. Oh, you probably want a citation.
The problem with DUI laws in the US is that they are no longer about finding people who are impaired, but finding people who have had a drink and milking them for money. Notice the problem here? Lots of things can lead to impaired driving. Lack of sleep is a big one, along with altered mental state from anger etc...
Then we have this magical .08 number. Why .08? What was wrong with .1? Don't even go looking at how inaccurate breathalyzers can be with their +- .02 deviation. Oh, and if you do end up blowing and end up at trial good luck getting a breath sample that you can independently test (machines have the ability to save it, but police never do...why keep around exculpatory evidence?).
Then we have the laws themselves. I don't think there is any other time where someone can be arrested and then presumed guilty because they asked for a lawyer. ("Hey blow into this." "I want to talk to me lawyer about that." "No, blow into this or sign this stating your losing your drivers license."). And other evidence gather techniques? Yeah, most of the population cannot walk a straight line at night with blue lights flashing in their face and cars racing by at 60mph yet that works for evidence? Really?
I'm am completely against people driving impaired whether it be by alcohol, texting, or lack of sleep. The problem is that the campaign against DUIs led mostly by MADD is really a modern day prohibitionist movement and has little to do with stopping real DUIs.
Like nearly all drugs there is a difference between using and abusing. Drinking a glass of wine a day is using. Stashing a bottle of vodka in the car so you can slam it everyday at lunch is abusing.
Your wife was clearly abusing and likely had other psychological issues that the coke was helping her forget about or cover up. Obviously she would have been better off seeing a therapist instead of abusing drugs, but don't think that she was perfectly fine until the coke showed up.
The only reason the US has much nuclear waste at all is because of stupid laws that were made years ago because of unfounded fears. Here is a great article where the 'waste' is broken down.
Only when government is involved can you have something like this (from the article)
You're assuming the current level of DNA comparison is completely accurate.
We have this same system where I live. The tool booth takes a picture of both the front and back of the car. They send you a nice crystal clear picture even when driving 75 mph.
Here if you set up an account and get a quick pass they'll give you 20% off your tolls.
You're talking about an outlier situation. If you were working on a startup for 3-4 years then you are driven, smart, and likely a little lucky. I could probably argue that your 3-4 years in a startup was your advanced degree in entrepreneurship. Getting into that 'school' is very hard and those who succeed even if only for a little while would have likely succeeded at nearly anything.
It's like saying that since John Carmack didn't graduate college, then college is a waste of time for everyone.
Cool, so Christians will quit pointing to Leviticus as proof that God hates gay people? Oh wait...
I always wondered when they were going to read their own bible, specifically the part about love thy neighbor.
I don't know if either party really supports education in the ways that would matter. Huge overhauls are needed and it's not just about more money. The entire public education structure is broken. When you look at detailed budgets from school districts (many have them online) you see a lot of administrators, and in some cases an admin type position for every single teacher. What are all these people doing? Teaching students no longer seems to be the goal of most public school systems.
Then we have the teachers themselves. A HS teacher should have at least an MS in the field they teach and not in education. On the teaching side HS should be more like college and less like grade school (more on that later).
Which brings us to HS students. There is still way too much plain old babysitting in HS. I think this is the main advantage of private schools. They simply kick out kids who don't want to be there. Since the parents are also paying extra for private school, they are more apt to provide outside discipline. Outside discipline severely lacks in public school.
Now, to touch on one of your points, the individual absolutely does matter. You can't deny that there comes a point where an individual must make their own decision to become educated or not. Right now we mostly push this decision point to college in an almost sink or swim scenario, but I would want to push this decision to HS in a more gradual fashion.
Speaking of individual education, I don't know how old you are, but kids today have access to more information than any other time in the history of humanity. When I was in HS if I didn't understand something I had to wait until class the next day. With the internet I could have figured out the problem and learned about it in excruciating detail on my own time. The resources that are now available to the individual are staggering, so much so that some of the blame must fall to them when they are not educated.
Like most research it's incremental. They do a lot in base computer science, publish a ton of papers, and seem to win a lot of awards for their research. You can read about all you want here:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/research/default.aspx
Well said. I have been amazed at many normally intelligent people who think the way the poster that you responded to thinks. When politics enters the discussion I'm almost certain that most peoples IQs drop by half that instant.
Trying to blame anyone except the whacko who did the shooting is complete intellectual dishonesty.
Exactly. And treating every offense as something that puts people on the sex offender list only belittles the list. I've known people who have been threatened to be put on the list because they were caught peeing in corner of an alley way. Oh no, indecent exposure, oh no think of the children at 2am. Other oddity is how many women do you think would be threatened with the same thing if they were caught peeing in the same place? Um, zero.
While I'm on the topic, what other crime can you have the word of a single person be enough to ruin someones life? I certainly can't walk into a police station and say 'this guy hit me 8 weeks ago, and oh yeah I have no visible sign of it' and expect anything except to be told to go home. Rape and sexual assault is a horrible thing, but we need to balance that with a girl simply getting mad and trying to inflict revenge on someone. If we don't filter out non-offenses it waters down the very horrible severity of real assaults.
The problem is you're wrong. AT&T spent billions on network upgrades last year.
Still more expensive. Over Christmas the flights on SW were ~$100 more than equivalent Delta flights. Frontier is my first choice if they fly to where I'm headed it is usually much cheaper.
I also can't remember the last time I checked a bag so I would prefer not to pay for it.