Everyone seems to think that a network outage is no big deal, until the network goes down. That's when people start thinking of the burn rate of an entire organization sitting on their thumbs while that network of off-the-shelf Linksys routers is replaced by some kid at Best Buy. Or how that 5k dollars per year for a backup external line suddenly pales in comparison to the 5k dollars per hour your organization is wasting because you were a cheap bastard.
Also, this can happen when you hire an external firm to manage something that you should be managing yourself. External managers for projects like this are motivated by extracting as much money as possible from you. Internal departments of technology, by comparison, are motivated by convincing co-workers to not shout at them.
what i would like to see is a law somewhere along the lines of "enjoy your free speech, just don't present yourself as an authority on something when you clearly are not an authority, just a bought and paid for huckster.
Upon passage of this law, both houses of congress chuckled uncomfortably, rustled some papers on their desks, and went out for an early drink.
It's even legal in the US to be Jeffrey Morris, though he will now go down in the internet archives as a complete prat whom you should never do business with.
"How do we secure this area from attack?" is not just a question of putting up standard safety procedures. It's about thinking how people would attack, and finding ways of stopping that. On a practical example "How would someone break into your house?" If you wander around it, find the weak points, and figure out how to do it, you can actually fix your security. "Oh, that second floor bathroom window that is always open is near a tree branch. The wood is rotting around this back door glass panel, and could be easily removed." That sort of thing. Even simple stuff, like "How would you attack someone on this street" can be quite useful. "Oh, there is a dark alley there, I'll walk in the street at that point. We need more lights at the park entrance. Let's keep people from parking at this spot, as it obscures the view of the corner."
If we don't get kids thinking realistically about how one could attack, they're never going to be able to anticipate and defend against real threats as adults. They'll just be standing around looking like fools when someone thinks to make bombs out of shoes, or drive a boat into the levees at New Orleans, etc. Or they'll live in fear of perceived dangers, which have little chance of turning into something real.
The Watchmen has an amazing DVD transfer, and is actually a movie worth watching.
Personally, I'm waiting for the shortened cut of Avatar. I bet there is an extremely entertaining hour-nineteen somewhere in that film. Trust me: massive edits will make it better.
Considering we're bombarded with messages of Armageddon all of the time, be it from global warming, peak oil, the collapse of the world economy, or universal healthcare, what would you expect people to do? "Oh, that's too bad. I hope it doesn't kill us before all this cancer stuff does."
It's an actively maintained and modified transmitter in a Russian military installation. I'm guessing "what the hardware attached to the transmitter does" is lure tourists to their deaths.
If you're printing a lot, get a continuous ink system. A CIS costs about as much as replacing both the black and color ink carts in your system, and these damned things are massive.
I don't know about you, but unless I know an area well myself I can't keep more than two or three steps of driving directions in my head. Potentially writing it all down works, but that presumes I know which bits of the information are the important ones. "Turn left at the red maple on elm where the speed bumps end" will probably get transcribed as "Left at maple - Elm bumps Stop." Ten minutes later, looking at that in a car, I might see a big red tree sail by, wonder which elm tree becomes the maple, and why I'm stopping for every bump.
I'm sure the person who lives there's directions are better. But they're not sitting in the car as I drive. All I get are my vague recollections of the person's directions, and those are terrible. They certainly won't shout "Go back, dummy, you missed it."
To be fair, Toyota is crippling it in one market, optionally, by the owner's choice. That's very different than a state requirement that must be met.
Of course, I've always wanted an option that wasn't quite horn, but wasn't just sitting-politely-waiting either. Keep the horn for the "Oh God We're All Going To Die" moments, and have some sort of sub-horn for "The light turned green: stop texting and drive" or "No really, we're in a right-turn-on-red state."
If we could hook the outside speaker up to a microphone on the dashboard, I'd be happy. Well, I'd be angry, and there would be a string of expletives that came out of it. But it would be satisfying.
They know the tags of the journalists with legitimate copies of the game. Anyone who brings a Halo console online, or gets offline achievements and then goes online is asking for a perma-ban.
As Halo is mostly about the multiplayer experience, I can't see this really substituting for the full game.
To be fair, audiobooks do involve a degree of work. Most audiobooks are abridged, so you need to edit the book and get the edits approved by the author. You need to hire a celebrity reader. You need to rent a studio to record the reading in, with an audio person present to make sure everything is warm and punchy. A producer needs to edit everything together. None of that is cheap. And all of that is chasing a niche within a niche.
Of course, text-to-speech is basically free. And means the old audiobook process is obsolete for most titles. But charging more for the audiobook version makes sense.
Don't forget iOS and Android as real platforms, and Chrome as a potential one. The phone boom has given us a splattering of new platforms, reminiscent of the server OS boom during the dot-com days.
Don't forget that portions of Israel in the past few weeks have been calling for an invasion of Iran. Attacking Israel might be stupid, but announcing new weapons systems might help counter the image that Iran has a backward, outdated military that would put up no threat. And co-incidentally, 620 miles just happens to be the distance between parts of Iran and Jerusalem.
That seems awfully propped-up. The US hasn't fought a major world power directly since World War 2, and it (well, we) failed to win in Korea, Vietnam, and the Bay of Pigs.
We're not some unstoppable monster. We have an over-reliance on ridiculously concentrated and expensive aircraft carriers, of which we only have about 11. Sink those, and our ability to project force drops way down. Similarly, our ground troops are quite vulnerable to hit-and-retreat tactics, especially in countries where they're not supposed to go randomly shooting everyone. And the burn rate for supplies is rather high: pinch the supply chain, and we'd be in more trouble than someone local who knows the terrain and population.
I'm not saying it would be easy. But we can't just rely on outspending every other country on our military, and presume we're invincible. We also have to think about tactics, counters to our power... and quite frankly ways of NOT just throwing our military at every problem out there. They're not just a swiss-army knife to be used when you need a toothpick or a fish scaler.
Can this UVA fly high or low enough to evade radar? If loaded with a nuclear bomb, could it be coursed in such a way that it can't be shot down before getting over a civilian area?
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Everyone seems to think that a network outage is no big deal, until the network goes down. That's when people start thinking of the burn rate of an entire organization sitting on their thumbs while that network of off-the-shelf Linksys routers is replaced by some kid at Best Buy. Or how that 5k dollars per year for a backup external line suddenly pales in comparison to the 5k dollars per hour your organization is wasting because you were a cheap bastard.
I love how people can determine a MTBF of 50 years after testing a piece of hardware for a month.
For my money, the only computer that should be able to claim a 50 year MTBF is the Univac. And that's really, really not accurate.
Also, this can happen when you hire an external firm to manage something that you should be managing yourself. External managers for projects like this are motivated by extracting as much money as possible from you. Internal departments of technology, by comparison, are motivated by convincing co-workers to not shout at them.
Does "free" count Ad-supported? Not everyone does, and that little problem (as there are ads everywhere) has caused such headaches.
what i would like to see is a law somewhere along the lines of "enjoy your free speech, just don't present yourself as an authority on something when you clearly are not an authority, just a bought and paid for huckster.
Upon passage of this law, both houses of congress chuckled uncomfortably, rustled some papers on their desks, and went out for an early drink.
It's even legal in the US to be Jeffrey Morris, though he will now go down in the internet archives as a complete prat whom you should never do business with.
"How do we secure this area from attack?" is not just a question of putting up standard safety procedures. It's about thinking how people would attack, and finding ways of stopping that. On a practical example "How would someone break into your house?" If you wander around it, find the weak points, and figure out how to do it, you can actually fix your security. "Oh, that second floor bathroom window that is always open is near a tree branch. The wood is rotting around this back door glass panel, and could be easily removed." That sort of thing. Even simple stuff, like "How would you attack someone on this street" can be quite useful. "Oh, there is a dark alley there, I'll walk in the street at that point. We need more lights at the park entrance. Let's keep people from parking at this spot, as it obscures the view of the corner."
If we don't get kids thinking realistically about how one could attack, they're never going to be able to anticipate and defend against real threats as adults. They'll just be standing around looking like fools when someone thinks to make bombs out of shoes, or drive a boat into the levees at New Orleans, etc. Or they'll live in fear of perceived dangers, which have little chance of turning into something real.
The Watchmen has an amazing DVD transfer, and is actually a movie worth watching.
Personally, I'm waiting for the shortened cut of Avatar. I bet there is an extremely entertaining hour-nineteen somewhere in that film. Trust me: massive edits will make it better.
Considering we're bombarded with messages of Armageddon all of the time, be it from global warming, peak oil, the collapse of the world economy, or universal healthcare, what would you expect people to do? "Oh, that's too bad. I hope it doesn't kill us before all this cancer stuff does."
It's an actively maintained and modified transmitter in a Russian military installation. I'm guessing "what the hardware attached to the transmitter does" is lure tourists to their deaths.
Or rather, if you're printing a lot and don't want to shell out for a laser printer....
If you're printing a lot, get a continuous ink system. A CIS costs about as much as replacing both the black and color ink carts in your system, and these damned things are massive.
So how are those anarchy regions of the world doing?
I don't know about you, but unless I know an area well myself I can't keep more than two or three steps of driving directions in my head. Potentially writing it all down works, but that presumes I know which bits of the information are the important ones. "Turn left at the red maple on elm where the speed bumps end" will probably get transcribed as "Left at maple - Elm bumps Stop." Ten minutes later, looking at that in a car, I might see a big red tree sail by, wonder which elm tree becomes the maple, and why I'm stopping for every bump.
I'm sure the person who lives there's directions are better. But they're not sitting in the car as I drive. All I get are my vague recollections of the person's directions, and those are terrible. They certainly won't shout "Go back, dummy, you missed it."
To be fair, Toyota is crippling it in one market, optionally, by the owner's choice. That's very different than a state requirement that must be met.
Of course, I've always wanted an option that wasn't quite horn, but wasn't just sitting-politely-waiting either. Keep the horn for the "Oh God We're All Going To Die" moments, and have some sort of sub-horn for "The light turned green: stop texting and drive" or "No really, we're in a right-turn-on-red state."
If we could hook the outside speaker up to a microphone on the dashboard, I'd be happy. Well, I'd be angry, and there would be a string of expletives that came out of it. But it would be satisfying.
It's more of a Woo Woo.
They know the tags of the journalists with legitimate copies of the game. Anyone who brings a Halo console online, or gets offline achievements and then goes online is asking for a perma-ban.
As Halo is mostly about the multiplayer experience, I can't see this really substituting for the full game.
So, do with it as you please. Go right ahead.
Oh, you want them to give you an unlock code. Ok. That's a little different.
If you're not going celebrity, you need to at least go VAG. And VAG work ain't cheap.
The US federal government spending 700 billion this year to destroy really, really old embryos. Why discriminate?
To be fair, audiobooks do involve a degree of work. Most audiobooks are abridged, so you need to edit the book and get the edits approved by the author. You need to hire a celebrity reader. You need to rent a studio to record the reading in, with an audio person present to make sure everything is warm and punchy. A producer needs to edit everything together. None of that is cheap. And all of that is chasing a niche within a niche.
Of course, text-to-speech is basically free. And means the old audiobook process is obsolete for most titles. But charging more for the audiobook version makes sense.
Don't forget iOS and Android as real platforms, and Chrome as a potential one. The phone boom has given us a splattering of new platforms, reminiscent of the server OS boom during the dot-com days.
Don't forget that portions of Israel in the past few weeks have been calling for an invasion of Iran. Attacking Israel might be stupid, but announcing new weapons systems might help counter the image that Iran has a backward, outdated military that would put up no threat. And co-incidentally, 620 miles just happens to be the distance between parts of Iran and Jerusalem.
That seems awfully propped-up. The US hasn't fought a major world power directly since World War 2, and it (well, we) failed to win in Korea, Vietnam, and the Bay of Pigs.
We're not some unstoppable monster. We have an over-reliance on ridiculously concentrated and expensive aircraft carriers, of which we only have about 11. Sink those, and our ability to project force drops way down. Similarly, our ground troops are quite vulnerable to hit-and-retreat tactics, especially in countries where they're not supposed to go randomly shooting everyone. And the burn rate for supplies is rather high: pinch the supply chain, and we'd be in more trouble than someone local who knows the terrain and population.
I'm not saying it would be easy. But we can't just rely on outspending every other country on our military, and presume we're invincible. We also have to think about tactics, counters to our power... and quite frankly ways of NOT just throwing our military at every problem out there. They're not just a swiss-army knife to be used when you need a toothpick or a fish scaler.
Can this UVA fly high or low enough to evade radar? If loaded with a nuclear bomb, could it be coursed in such a way that it can't be shot down before getting over a civilian area?