Which DC airport do you mean? Dulles calls itself a DC airport but is half a day away from DC.
I agree with you, all major and mid size airports in the US should have rail access and be ideally served by Amtrak or light rail connecting to an Amtrak station. That paired with high speed rail will allow for landing international flights e.g. at JFK and then take a connecting national flight from Stewart airport with a connecting train taking an hour transit or less. It will ease congestion at the major airports and make some connecting flights no longer necessary because taking the train straight from the terminal building will be as fast if not faster and by all means cheaper. Have the airport/train operators add luggage service so that passengers do not have to deal with it (unless they have to go through customs).
Lack of mainly political will. Replacing the entire system and have it then run fine for decades will cost a fraction of the money spent on highways in the Bay Area. The priorities are just wrong, rail and local transit is significantly more cost effective than maintaining a crumbling highway infrastructure.
...when it is not available nationwide? "We're sorry but this package isn't available in your area. Please select another package." That applies to ALL their packages. So why offer this service when they avoid any and all competition?
...for free and I will dispose of one of my five year old PCs. Probably not, because despite their age they still do a fine job and run rock solid. I doubt I can say that from an iPad that is in use 24x7 for five years...not that I know for sure, because iPads are just ridiculously overpriced.
The NSA is looking for needles and all they did is employ warrantless wiretapping to increase the size of the hay stack making their own work more difficult. I have the impression that the NSA and many other three letter agencies run these useless programs solely for the sake of running the programs. It is a self-fulfilling activity solely for the reason of asking Congress for more power and more money, essentially wrestling away any control Congress should have.
There is a fix for that: cut the budgets for the NSA, FBI, CIA and all the other dozens of security agencies in half. They refuse to cooperate due to turf fights and personal power trips of their top brass. Cutting funding drastically will force them to focus on those programs that produce results and sunset all the other waste. Would also be nice to charge back Bush/Cheney for their insane waste of tax payer money, they have enough dough put aside, but I doubt anyone dares to hold anyone in the administration or Congress personally responsible for utterly ruining the USA solely for personal gain.
Some use it and office automation is a big deal to some. What I do not understand is that an app macro engine has that easy access to the big knob of the OS. Other than saving files of specific types to designated and controlled areas an Office Suite needs no further resources aside from capturing keyboard and mouse entries and sending video data to the display driver. I think that the way Microsoft implemented macros, but also font handling and other functions is significantly flawed. The "fix" is the typical Microsoft non-fix, throw up a dialog that typically does nothing more than annoy the user and call it "patched". Besides that, the "fix" only goes into Office 2016, what about all the other supposedly still supported versions of MSO?
Nevertheless, you may be on to something. Neither OO nor LO or other alternative office suites have macro support, security might just be a reason for that.
It is labeled as "hate" because that is exactly what it is! Even worse, there are no reliable sources given for any of the claims and the claims totally ignore the economic impact on crime. The sole reason for that post is to spew out hate speech. As to why, I have no idea. About as bad is that/. still has that post listed. It clearly has nothing to do with the OP.
Most company managements are financially on the right track. DR costs more than dealing with the outcome of a breach or other system failure. That only changes when other entities levy hefty fines on corporations that don't care. Maybe then they can be convinced to invest in real DR. Apparently, doing right by their employees and customers is not enough of an argument. Rather sad.
Maybe it is time for organizations to at least install and maintain freeware AV solutions. The ones that I use on a few system detect and squash Locky as soon as it comes in. Same for the Microsoft Defender which usually does not detect anything.
The real problem is that way too many places still use Microsoft Office, it is grossly overpriced and severely bug ridden. How can it be that an app macro can get the keys to the system and lock the entire box down? Microsoft should finally own up and fix this. Same issues with TTF and other components that should have never ever even remotely have a means to access core OS functions. The hospital should take Microsoft to court for selling them an obviously defective product.
As in that about 98% of all radio stations are owned and operated by basically two for profit companies? The end of real radio is already here, NPR and affiliates are one of the few holdouts.
Maybe the dial slipped? Anyhow, NPR covers Trump, yes, but due to the nature of Trump's tirades not in a favorable light. They also cover all the other candidates still in the running. What they should do is extend the same to the several third party candidates, many people do not even know they are running because 3rd party candidates do not get invited to big televised debates or have the tax payer foot the bill for their primaries. The parties should organize and pay for their own primaries and rent all polling places. But I guess in this case even the ultraright is in favor of government handouts.
NPR as well as the local stations get less than 5% of their budget from the public (governments). Some stations such as WAMC, which is among the largest NPR stations, do not get a cent of public money. It was offered to them several times, but always with conditions to stop talking about certain issues and topics. WAMC's management thankfully declined...and we are talking a lot of money here. NY even passed a law that prohibits public money to be given to a radio station that does not also operate a TV station. A failed attempt to close down WAMC.
They are only stopping promotion of the podcasts and mobile app, they do not do away with it. I can understand the argument of the local stations who also offer their own programming. Having the NPR program push a tool that suggests people stop listening to their local NPR station is self-defeating. The local stations have fundraisers that bring in the donations from which they can pay for the national program...which is rather expensive, but so far of excellent quality.
Yes, BBC, NPR and WDR are gems of radio with stations worthwhile listening to.
And so far the Gates Foundation has not done much. If anything, they pushed money into projects that match their political views and with that effectively stifle competition and discourse in the scientific field.
Exactly! And above all, stay in NY. It is easy to demand the 1% increase and then pack up and leave when it becomes effective. The 400 millionaires could easily set up a foundation that accepts applications from local and state entities for funding infrastructure projects. I bet that would be way more efficient and quicker than paying more taxes and have the funds crawl through the dark and leaky channels in corrupt Albany legislature. But I guess that would require to really do something, would prevent them from firing 100 workers because taxes are too high in NY, and blaming the guvenment for all of this. And why only 1%? Rent a condo in the suburbs like those who make mid five digit salaries and put the rest of your riches to something worthwhile...what a concept, huh?
We can blame whoever, but it really does not help. There are many things that can be done with just a wee bit effort:
- limit the displacement and output of all consumer and commercial vehicles....means no more 400 hp SUVs or big fat V8 trucks for driving to the mall
- rebuild the railroad infrastructure using the often still available and barely overbuilt railway corridors with the intent to move more goods and people on rail....which is tremendously more energy efficient than trucks and buses, with sufficient volume it is also cheaper
- invest in much better infrastructure so that working from home is a common option even when the commute would be short
- pay for people to relocate closer to their place of employment and tax those who commute more than 50 miles one way
- get rid of the 9 to 5 work hours and stagger school bell times so that there is no more rush hour....In Europe many companies have floating work times with a core time where presence/availability is mandatory
- increase paid time off for all employees...less time at the job means less commuting and there is hardly a loss in productivity, chances are it will even increase
The price point is way too high. But the real killer are the ridiculously expensive data plans. Who has the money to drop 50$ or more per month and line? I mean, other than those who do this already and forgo food or rent or both for paying for their mobile plan.
Apple can move a lot more product if they start offering their own global cell service with truly unlimited data at 20$ or less per line with discounts for annual contracts. With that available the upfront cost of the hardware becomes secondary...assuming the phones will be supported for more than three years.
The key is to shift heavily from bare bones jobs such as driving a truck to brainy jobs such as designing and engineering product. Unfortunately, the US is in a very bad position: they dismantled their infrastructure in the 50s and 60s to focus entirely on an unsustainable system of roads and highways, they shifted higher education expenses away from academia to administration and college athletics (expenses for academia are flat through the past ten years while administrative expenses at universities rose by 300%!), they consolidated small high schools into big educational factories that consistently fail to deliver results and focus on everything other than core competencies, modern infrastructure such as power and telecommunication is old and error prone, traditional infrastructure such as water and sewer lines are often still original equipment from over 100 years ago.
There are gazillion public projects worth tackling, several of them in competition to commercial businesses such as municipal fiber networks. Sadly, most of the conservatives see spending money on these projects as "government handouts", "socialism", "not letting the markets do their thing". Likewise, much more effort needs to be put into R&D based on federal grants because companies won't do it since it is not guaranteed to generate positive cash flow within the quarter.
None of that will be possible with a conservative majority, but even more than that, it requires a significant shift in view and attitude across the nation. Until then, let's reactivate and rebuild rail links so that we do not have to dodge the autonomous trucks that are not smart enough to drive safely.
The fascist right-extremist Reps see themselves as mainstream as well. They even had their shot with the numerous Tea Party candidates that in the past years accomplished absolutely nothing other than destroy their own party. On top of that the Rep leadership is ridiculously stupid and detached from reality, clearly demonstrated by them allowing Trump to join and figuring he'd fizzle out like a wet balloon. The only thing that keeps me from dismissing the Reps entirely is that they so far did not dare to rally behind Cruz. They are better off with a moron like Trump than with a Christian terrorist like Cruz.
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Which DC airport do you mean? Dulles calls itself a DC airport but is half a day away from DC. I agree with you, all major and mid size airports in the US should have rail access and be ideally served by Amtrak or light rail connecting to an Amtrak station. That paired with high speed rail will allow for landing international flights e.g. at JFK and then take a connecting national flight from Stewart airport with a connecting train taking an hour transit or less. It will ease congestion at the major airports and make some connecting flights no longer necessary because taking the train straight from the terminal building will be as fast if not faster and by all means cheaper. Have the airport/train operators add luggage service so that passengers do not have to deal with it (unless they have to go through customs).
Lack of mainly political will. Replacing the entire system and have it then run fine for decades will cost a fraction of the money spent on highways in the Bay Area. The priorities are just wrong, rail and local transit is significantly more cost effective than maintaining a crumbling highway infrastructure.
...when it is not available nationwide? "We're sorry but this package isn't available in your area. Please select another package." That applies to ALL their packages. So why offer this service when they avoid any and all competition?
...for free and I will dispose of one of my five year old PCs. Probably not, because despite their age they still do a fine job and run rock solid. I doubt I can say that from an iPad that is in use 24x7 for five years...not that I know for sure, because iPads are just ridiculously overpriced.
The NSA is looking for needles and all they did is employ warrantless wiretapping to increase the size of the hay stack making their own work more difficult. I have the impression that the NSA and many other three letter agencies run these useless programs solely for the sake of running the programs. It is a self-fulfilling activity solely for the reason of asking Congress for more power and more money, essentially wrestling away any control Congress should have. There is a fix for that: cut the budgets for the NSA, FBI, CIA and all the other dozens of security agencies in half. They refuse to cooperate due to turf fights and personal power trips of their top brass. Cutting funding drastically will force them to focus on those programs that produce results and sunset all the other waste. Would also be nice to charge back Bush/Cheney for their insane waste of tax payer money, they have enough dough put aside, but I doubt anyone dares to hold anyone in the administration or Congress personally responsible for utterly ruining the USA solely for personal gain.
Some use it and office automation is a big deal to some. What I do not understand is that an app macro engine has that easy access to the big knob of the OS. Other than saving files of specific types to designated and controlled areas an Office Suite needs no further resources aside from capturing keyboard and mouse entries and sending video data to the display driver. I think that the way Microsoft implemented macros, but also font handling and other functions is significantly flawed. The "fix" is the typical Microsoft non-fix, throw up a dialog that typically does nothing more than annoy the user and call it "patched". Besides that, the "fix" only goes into Office 2016, what about all the other supposedly still supported versions of MSO? Nevertheless, you may be on to something. Neither OO nor LO or other alternative office suites have macro support, security might just be a reason for that.
It is labeled as "hate" because that is exactly what it is! Even worse, there are no reliable sources given for any of the claims and the claims totally ignore the economic impact on crime. The sole reason for that post is to spew out hate speech. As to why, I have no idea. About as bad is that /. still has that post listed. It clearly has nothing to do with the OP.
Most company managements are financially on the right track. DR costs more than dealing with the outcome of a breach or other system failure. That only changes when other entities levy hefty fines on corporations that don't care. Maybe then they can be convinced to invest in real DR. Apparently, doing right by their employees and customers is not enough of an argument. Rather sad.
Maybe it is time for organizations to at least install and maintain freeware AV solutions. The ones that I use on a few system detect and squash Locky as soon as it comes in. Same for the Microsoft Defender which usually does not detect anything. The real problem is that way too many places still use Microsoft Office, it is grossly overpriced and severely bug ridden. How can it be that an app macro can get the keys to the system and lock the entire box down? Microsoft should finally own up and fix this. Same issues with TTF and other components that should have never ever even remotely have a means to access core OS functions. The hospital should take Microsoft to court for selling them an obviously defective product.
As in that about 98% of all radio stations are owned and operated by basically two for profit companies? The end of real radio is already here, NPR and affiliates are one of the few holdouts.
Which tax money is used? Public radio gets next to nothing in public monies.
Maybe the dial slipped? Anyhow, NPR covers Trump, yes, but due to the nature of Trump's tirades not in a favorable light. They also cover all the other candidates still in the running. What they should do is extend the same to the several third party candidates, many people do not even know they are running because 3rd party candidates do not get invited to big televised debates or have the tax payer foot the bill for their primaries. The parties should organize and pay for their own primaries and rent all polling places. But I guess in this case even the ultraright is in favor of government handouts.
Depending on the station they have two broadcasts, one with classical music and one with talk/news.
I hear conservative view points regularly expressed on NPR...not sure which station you are listening to.
I think NPR is very mainstream middle. Just because some think that even the ultraconservative right is too leftist doesn't shift the spectrum.
NPR as well as the local stations get less than 5% of their budget from the public (governments). Some stations such as WAMC, which is among the largest NPR stations, do not get a cent of public money. It was offered to them several times, but always with conditions to stop talking about certain issues and topics. WAMC's management thankfully declined...and we are talking a lot of money here. NY even passed a law that prohibits public money to be given to a radio station that does not also operate a TV station. A failed attempt to close down WAMC.
Yes, they have Charmin and people as well as bears do not like to step into bear poop.
They are only stopping promotion of the podcasts and mobile app, they do not do away with it. I can understand the argument of the local stations who also offer their own programming. Having the NPR program push a tool that suggests people stop listening to their local NPR station is self-defeating. The local stations have fundraisers that bring in the donations from which they can pay for the national program...which is rather expensive, but so far of excellent quality. Yes, BBC, NPR and WDR are gems of radio with stations worthwhile listening to.
If anyone can pull it off, then the folks from Pale Moon. This project is one of the few FOSS projects that does not alienate its users.
And so far the Gates Foundation has not done much. If anything, they pushed money into projects that match their political views and with that effectively stifle competition and discourse in the scientific field.
Exactly! And above all, stay in NY. It is easy to demand the 1% increase and then pack up and leave when it becomes effective. The 400 millionaires could easily set up a foundation that accepts applications from local and state entities for funding infrastructure projects. I bet that would be way more efficient and quicker than paying more taxes and have the funds crawl through the dark and leaky channels in corrupt Albany legislature. But I guess that would require to really do something, would prevent them from firing 100 workers because taxes are too high in NY, and blaming the guvenment for all of this. And why only 1%? Rent a condo in the suburbs like those who make mid five digit salaries and put the rest of your riches to something worthwhile...what a concept, huh?
We can blame whoever, but it really does not help. There are many things that can be done with just a wee bit effort: - limit the displacement and output of all consumer and commercial vehicles....means no more 400 hp SUVs or big fat V8 trucks for driving to the mall - rebuild the railroad infrastructure using the often still available and barely overbuilt railway corridors with the intent to move more goods and people on rail....which is tremendously more energy efficient than trucks and buses, with sufficient volume it is also cheaper - invest in much better infrastructure so that working from home is a common option even when the commute would be short - pay for people to relocate closer to their place of employment and tax those who commute more than 50 miles one way - get rid of the 9 to 5 work hours and stagger school bell times so that there is no more rush hour....In Europe many companies have floating work times with a core time where presence/availability is mandatory - increase paid time off for all employees...less time at the job means less commuting and there is hardly a loss in productivity, chances are it will even increase
The price point is way too high. But the real killer are the ridiculously expensive data plans. Who has the money to drop 50$ or more per month and line? I mean, other than those who do this already and forgo food or rent or both for paying for their mobile plan. Apple can move a lot more product if they start offering their own global cell service with truly unlimited data at 20$ or less per line with discounts for annual contracts. With that available the upfront cost of the hardware becomes secondary...assuming the phones will be supported for more than three years.
The key is to shift heavily from bare bones jobs such as driving a truck to brainy jobs such as designing and engineering product. Unfortunately, the US is in a very bad position: they dismantled their infrastructure in the 50s and 60s to focus entirely on an unsustainable system of roads and highways, they shifted higher education expenses away from academia to administration and college athletics (expenses for academia are flat through the past ten years while administrative expenses at universities rose by 300%!), they consolidated small high schools into big educational factories that consistently fail to deliver results and focus on everything other than core competencies, modern infrastructure such as power and telecommunication is old and error prone, traditional infrastructure such as water and sewer lines are often still original equipment from over 100 years ago. There are gazillion public projects worth tackling, several of them in competition to commercial businesses such as municipal fiber networks. Sadly, most of the conservatives see spending money on these projects as "government handouts", "socialism", "not letting the markets do their thing". Likewise, much more effort needs to be put into R&D based on federal grants because companies won't do it since it is not guaranteed to generate positive cash flow within the quarter. None of that will be possible with a conservative majority, but even more than that, it requires a significant shift in view and attitude across the nation. Until then, let's reactivate and rebuild rail links so that we do not have to dodge the autonomous trucks that are not smart enough to drive safely.
The fascist right-extremist Reps see themselves as mainstream as well. They even had their shot with the numerous Tea Party candidates that in the past years accomplished absolutely nothing other than destroy their own party. On top of that the Rep leadership is ridiculously stupid and detached from reality, clearly demonstrated by them allowing Trump to join and figuring he'd fizzle out like a wet balloon. The only thing that keeps me from dismissing the Reps entirely is that they so far did not dare to rally behind Cruz. They are better off with a moron like Trump than with a Christian terrorist like Cruz.