The walled garden is designed specifically to make sure Microsoft makes money on every transaction, no matter how insignificant.
One way they do this is to enforce coding quality, preserving the reputation of the platform overall by punishing bad coders in this way.
This is also part of the logic behind putting in barriers to entry overall: the up-front costs are just as much a demonstration of the developers' commitment to the project just as it is a profit-making mechanism for the platform's manufacturers. Anybody can write a half-assed Flash game on the cheap, with all the reputation that entails.
Having half a dozen banners at the top of every article ("POV!" "Orphaned links!" "Proofread me!" "Locked article!") does not make a page "simple." And I suspect it discourages the "anyone can edit" thing, too.
With even Microsoft's own Outlook trying to migrate to online/cloud/browser-based solutions, who even cares about stand-alone email clients at this point? This program isn't intended for much more than checking your AOL email; even my POP-only ISP email account has more/better functionality through the web interface.
Don't forget that Vista's mail client was deprecated practically from day one, and 7 didn't even ship with an email client.
When a commercial airliner loses cabin pressure, everyone will still have a minute or so of consciousness, oxygen masks drop down for the passengers, and anybody who didn't have time to get one on will wake up soon enough after the pilot has finished the requisite emergency dive.
If a train cabin in an evacuated tube loses pressure, well...
Victims of the DNS Changer malware think they have better things to do than check their internet security
Victims of food poisoning think they have better things to do than check their food safety. Victims of STDs think they have better things to do than practice safe sex. Victims of car theft think they have better things to do than lock their car doors. Victims of lightning strikes think they have better things to do than to seek cover in a storm.
Humans have always engaged in risky behavior, and generally for the same old reasons. You can educate those willing to listen, but you can't force those who won't.
On the other side of the spectrum, I know plenty of kids straight out of college who expect to make $45k/year with their fresh MIS degree, and won't accept anything less.
Nor should they. According to the Office of Personnel Management (the agency in charge of hiring for the US government), "shiny new MS = grade 9" ($41k-$53k, before locality adjustment), regardless of field. It's only natural to expect at least as much in the private sector.
No they aren't, go find information in a place that isn't trying to propagandize you and you'll be smarter.
Then perhaps you can provide better sources of information than the lectures and materiel used in the business law and ethics class I took from a (red) state university.
What is the raison d'être of a corporation if not the profits of the investors?
Corporations are legally and ethically bound to increase investor profits in everything they do, including anything that might be construed as "speech." Show me a corporate message that can't be boiled down to something akin to "Buy our stuff!" and I'll show you an investor lawsuit.
Even when corporations like Target and Best Buy contributed to Minnesota Forward, their "speech" was intended as attempt to support a political candidate they believed would keep the price of labor down, thereby increasing the profit for their investors. The fact that said candidate also wanted to execute homosexuals "like they do in Iran" was completely inconsequential to their financial calculations.
Under the law, insurers are required to pay no less than 85 % of their premiums on health care, with any overage being refunded to the policy holders. This aspect of the law entered into force this year.
There is no difference between the two under the law, or in this case the complete lack thereof. The gun lobby is adamantly against any effort made to distinguish between "good" and "bad" gun owners.
Hard to say. The thing about red state gun laws is that anything that's not explicitly denied is implicitly permitted. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a blanket immunity statute on the books in Utah that would apply here.
They don't want more people in science, they specifically want more women. It's an effort to eliminate the embarrassing gender gap, a relative need, than to supply an absolute need.
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One way they do this is to enforce coding quality, preserving the reputation of the platform overall by punishing bad coders in this way.
This is also part of the logic behind putting in barriers to entry overall: the up-front costs are just as much a demonstration of the developers' commitment to the project just as it is a profit-making mechanism for the platform's manufacturers. Anybody can write a half-assed Flash game on the cheap, with all the reputation that entails.
The technical differences between 2000 and XP are much like the technical differences between Vista and 7: slim to none.
Only Microsoft can write apps that work on one but refuse to work on the other.
After getting the infamous YLOD on my 60 GB PS3 for the third time, I'm pretty wary of any heat dissipation product put forward by Sony right now...
(Or anything else that has "Sony" written on it, but this in particular.)
Having half a dozen banners at the top of every article ("POV!" "Orphaned links!" "Proofread me!" "Locked article!") does not make a page "simple." And I suspect it discourages the "anyone can edit" thing, too.
With even Microsoft's own Outlook trying to migrate to online/cloud/browser-based solutions, who even cares about stand-alone email clients at this point? This program isn't intended for much more than checking your AOL email; even my POP-only ISP email account has more/better functionality through the web interface.
Don't forget that Vista's mail client was deprecated practically from day one, and 7 didn't even ship with an email client.
When a commercial airliner loses cabin pressure, everyone will still have a minute or so of consciousness, oxygen masks drop down for the passengers, and anybody who didn't have time to get one on will wake up soon enough after the pilot has finished the requisite emergency dive.
If a train cabin in an evacuated tube loses pressure, well...
Victims of the DNS Changer malware think they have better things to do than check their internet security
Victims of food poisoning think they have better things to do than check their food safety. Victims of STDs think they have better things to do than practice safe sex. Victims of car theft think they have better things to do than lock their car doors. Victims of lightning strikes think they have better things to do than to seek cover in a storm.
Humans have always engaged in risky behavior, and generally for the same old reasons. You can educate those willing to listen, but you can't force those who won't.
On the other side of the spectrum, I know plenty of kids straight out of college who expect to make $45k/year with their fresh MIS degree, and won't accept anything less.
Nor should they. According to the Office of Personnel Management (the agency in charge of hiring for the US government), "shiny new MS = grade 9" ($41k-$53k, before locality adjustment), regardless of field. It's only natural to expect at least as much in the private sector.
No they aren't, go find information in a place that isn't trying to propagandize you and you'll be smarter.
Then perhaps you can provide better sources of information than the lectures and materiel used in the business law and ethics class I took from a (red) state university.
What is the raison d'être of a corporation if not the profits of the investors?
Corporations are legally and ethically bound to increase investor profits in everything they do, including anything that might be construed as "speech." Show me a corporate message that can't be boiled down to something akin to "Buy our stuff!" and I'll show you an investor lawsuit.
Even when corporations like Target and Best Buy contributed to Minnesota Forward, their "speech" was intended as attempt to support a political candidate they believed would keep the price of labor down, thereby increasing the profit for their investors. The fact that said candidate also wanted to execute homosexuals "like they do in Iran" was completely inconsequential to their financial calculations.
Because commercial speech isn't "speech" per se, but commerce, and all corporate speech is commercial speech, pretty much by definition.
Under the law, insurers are required to pay no less than 85 % of their premiums on health care, with any overage being refunded to the policy holders. This aspect of the law entered into force this year.
It should be disconnected from the means to pay for it?
Any chance that they will both lose?
A boy can dream...
You're confusing Daffy with Sylvester.
This is in no way similar to, say, my telephone number being sold or traded by businesses to telemarketers.
This isn't new, and this isn't unique to IT.
The settings updates you have to make are pretty straightforward.
Provided you know that you have to make the updates to begin with, what with the lack of any announcement and all...
There is a big difference between the two.
There is no difference between the two under the law, or in this case the complete lack thereof. The gun lobby is adamantly against any effort made to distinguish between "good" and "bad" gun owners.
In tinderbox conditions like this you can shoot safely, but you have to be careful.
Why? There's no legal obligation.
Hard to say. The thing about red state gun laws is that anything that's not explicitly denied is implicitly permitted. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a blanket immunity statute on the books in Utah that would apply here.
They don't want more people in science, they specifically want more women. It's an effort to eliminate the embarrassing gender gap, a relative need, than to supply an absolute need.
Compared to tuition it takes to become a postdoc, it is.
A cyber-security executive wants elections supervisors to go down a path that would require heavily investing in cyber-security.
The headline made me think "Fedora will start sending patches and updates on CD through the mail."
What kind of morals did you expect from a group calling itself "king of the world?"