or drive around with a window down with the phone held outside, and the AC on full:) I would be more pissed if I can't get my GPS to work on the dash. With manufactures already wanting to sell services like on-star, with cell & GPS locked to your car, they likely don't need much of a good excuse to block yours. I would likely replace one window with plain glass and a holder for the phone next to that, blue-tooth the remaining distance.
exactly we would hate to bring the US corruption to India./sarcasm While we hate the amount of corruption in US business, and Politics US is still better than what most people have to live with. The number of bribes, and in equalitys built into the Indian system is probably the only thing keeping the US standard of living better, Taking the "US MBA shit and wall street" types to india would make both countries less corrupt.
true enough. While it seams especially true of programming for a Apple or Microsoft platform, IE all of your profits are at their whim. If you ever start becoming too successful they will either A) cut you off at the knees B) steal your idea, then cut you off at the knees C) let you be if you aren't too successful and they can then use you as a marketing opportunity.
from what I have been told a trunk could easily be the worst place, if placed in their at the theater anyway. If they watch it go in, then usually the easiest part of a car to enter. IE a well placed screwdriver or small crowbar and a experienced theif can pop the trunk in one smooth motion raising no concerns to those around, and less likely to set off a factory alarm than any other entry point.
Still seams that very few computers are faster with Vista than XP. So sure Vista is now OK, if you can't get XP drivers, but for anything but gaming, XP still comes out faster. In our tests, Windows 7 was a few percent slower than XP SP3, but faster than Vista SP2. So on high end 64 bit hardware, 64 bit version of Vista is slower than the X86 version of XP. So it still seams very clear, anything less than a multicore 64 bit machine, forget about Vista, if you can.
Also with Vista being released in Dec 2006, but networking performance was not good until SP1, in February 2008. Even then SP1 still didn't fix network performance for VISTA to XP/2000, or over wireless. I know I finally gave up on Vista, 2 months past SP1. I still couldn't stream HD videos from a XP box over 100mB Ethernet link on a core duo laptop, that same video had no problems over a 11 mB wiFi link to that same network using a 800Mhz atom w/linux (of course no issue same laptop running XP, Vista had released drivers, XP didn't). So vista deserves it's reputation for taking over a year to be usable on networks.
According to wikipedia However, superconductivity is sensitive to moving magnetic fields Which would be the purpose of the magnets at LHC... Also since all electric current creates magnetism, the magnetism created by hundreds of amps would be much greater than the magnetism created by a few magnets. So I doubt any concern for the change caused by throwing in some small permanent magnets, unless they are being thrown around at high speeds as well. Concerns with how well any superconductor would work for power lines seams to be still in question though, hence the focus on other uses.
High paying industries are very difficult to quit, no matter if your a saver or a spender. IE a smart saver will not keep cash (especially@0.5% rates we have now) So either you make good investments and don't want to pull money out, or not good ones and you don't feel you have the money to take a cut. Spenders are addicted to new good stuff, and their is always more you will want. Also high paying industries are usually specialized, so try not to stay too long. IE anything more than 5 years experience in any development/programming technology is not adding much value. IE if a developer is desired for a web application for a Real estate site, and a choice is given between a developer with 15 years web experience at a gambling site, or a developer with 2 years of web development in reality, likely the 2 years wins, especially if at a lower salary requirement. I have found myself in a higher paying industry, it pays higher initially but you seam to hit a ceiling sooner than a more competitive industry. Thats (IMHO) because their are only 2 high paying companies in my instance, so I did bid up my salary with job changes but now I have gone from the one, to the other big player (started at a lower company). With 16 years, I am now likely too specialized to get a pay raise outside this industry as a developer, and their HR wont allow me to go back as such to my past employers. Now the only way up is to give up on doing something for a living, and go into management. Or take a initial cut to start over in a bigger pond.
I wouldn't grantee too much on AM/shortwave. To transmit efficiently you may want a good sized antenna but couldn't the small devices still transmit on higher frequencies, and receive on the lower frequencies with the base stations being huge still?
With the FDIC insurance limits at 250,000 I break my accounts up into several $200,000 chunks at different banks, gives a little room for the account to grow before I have to move it around a bit. Also if anyone of them gets broken into, I only lose a small portion of my assets.
Reminds me I need to go pluck my money tree, if I wait much longer I risk it breaking a limb. Last one that did that was then just too grotesque to look at, I had to have it thrown out.
their are side affects to the flu shot. Also their are costs (in $ and time.) Also the timing may not work out for you, you do not want the shot while already sick, or are doing something strenuous in the 2 days after the shot (it is a additional stress to your system.) Not saying it is a net negative, just that their are more than 2 legit reasons to pass. Oh one other reason, if you would rather be sick at home than go to work. And you too honest to just lie.;)
I agree, I personally have rented the use of 1000's of IPv4 addresses, I have also rented the use of 100's of gallons of beer, and a few hundred barrels of oil. I am now done using 99% of all of the above and have returned it, although only the IP addresses were returned in the same condition as before I rented them (although some of the uses were pretty darn disgusting.) Since IPv4 addresses are never used up, and infinitely re-assignable I am guessing you would always be able to purchase those, much like the beer I purchased. Not sure how that will be true of the oil though, I guess it should replenish in a few million years.
Guess I am not sure what "filled with legit music" means, but I think most studies seam to conclude that over 90% of ipods would have at least some portion of the music not purchased by that owner. US copyright law leaves great ambiguity as to "illegal" with the RIAA side has even claim ripped music as illegal, to the other extreme where if it isn't traded for profit, or played to a group of people as being OK.
The proportion of illegally downloaded tracks rises to 61 per cent among 14 to 17-year-olds. is that the "one small demographic"? Notice they went with "downloaded" tag, which still leaves some questions.
Often having a light weight laptop, and remote accessing a server to do all the heavy lifting for you can be lower power consuming, and lighter weight on networking, and even more convenient. But I agree not usually. VNC really doesn't take a "fast" network, but a low latency quality network. IE I would still much rather have my debugging tools on my laptop, and live on wireless using remote access to a computer connected to the gigabit backbone. Then again my job requires pulling up CAD models and compiling/etc against remote librarys and files at another facility. So remoting into a computer at the other end saves a bunch of bandwidth (since I never have to look at every part of the model, just zooming into a small section each time.) I can also just break my connection at the laptop, while the PC is in the middle of a job, take my laptop with me without fear I will run out of battery/network connection and have to restart the compilation.
They each have their place, but on low end hardware you would never choose vista over XP, so the only way to switch to Vista is buying new hardware also. I think most people who like Vista over XP either don't run IO intensive applications over a network or never had XP and Vista on the same hardware. I wouldn't mind Vista on a desktop where it's not too pricey to get the additional specifications required by Vista. And their is little doubt at the high end hardware front Vista can be better. I don't see why I want my dept to pay extra in power consumption, specifications, and OS price so that IT and Sony will have more control over our computers. (warning car analogy) then again I am one of the few that still drives a manual transmission because I don't want a little convenience at the cost of additional maintenance, lower economy, reduced reliability, and higher upfront price.
If you want a truthful, unbiased assessment of a company or any of its products and services, that company would be the very worst entity to ask.
I do disagree on that, assessment is about documenting facts about a product. The one delivering the product or service is the one with legal responsibility for being truthful about the product or service. So that is the first place I try to start, since if they make the claim they are required to back it up. If a 3rd party like Amazon, or a reviewer on Amazon makes a claim about a product, as long as it wasn't done in bad faith, they have no legal responsibility to back up that claim. When comparing how well the product/service truly matches up against a competitor, that is where the OEM/etc is not the final say. They are not required to tell you what features are missing or lacking the best implementation... That is where you want to find a 3rd party, but only after you have discovered what products should cover your needs, can you then evaluate which one is a better product. After all getting the best widget on the market does you no good if it doesn't meet your particular needs. This story doesn't explain why it is worthless, if it is worthless because it doesn't come with any backup software, or is slower than other NAS solutions at the same cost then I agree reviews should be blamed. If it is worthless because it doesn't do what it claims, then he should be going after the OEM as well.
their are also several articles pointing out their are many more reasons for palm to do this besides needing to develop and install additional windows&mac software. Several features, including synchronizing DRM'd songs to the palm pre cannot be done through third party apps, and that none of the third party apps developed so far would allow the same level of integration.
I suspect your example has identical results in most countries. for whatever reason any relation to Amsterdam is a automatic fisting in many countries. My own experience was in France where they looked at me and the cover of my US passport was enough, but traveling in the same train was a gut from Amsterdam he and bags was searched a couple time, and after providing all required documents was still escorted away. I don't argue with the article though, pre 01 our meetings were in Chicago because Canada was a pain, now my managers take the trips out of North America instead of the opposite. So it is not only Tourism it is likely hurting US business as well (closed our offices in Chicago, used to be the defacto international meeting headquarters.)
Bad business practices rarely run a business into the ground overnight (exception is Enron.) but legal suits can. And the examples above were not likely anything the CEO was ever aware of, so you as a stock holder in a mutual fund would need to verify the track record of every manager down to mid level? Besides the net affect would just be that Sony would just become a holding company for thousands of small "independent" businesses owned in a country without this liability. The only people made happy then are the extra accountants pushing paper in India.
I was about to add that I own no Sony stock (and never would because they are evil by my definition.) Then I looked up who does hold sony stock, and realized I do (my main retirement mutual fund choice is the single largest holder of sony stock) http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=SNE
So maybe 7% of your punishment would be directed at those who contributed to the neglect, and 93% would be directed at (mostly) innocent by-standers.
You do realize Sony stock (as with all NYSE/NASDAQ stocks) is held by lots and lots of people who have little to no say so or knowledge of they day to day activities, and very little disposable income, and thus many would lose a significant part of their retirement/savings/whatever. If it were to become common for some action of middle management to be able to transfer that kind of wealth, then the stock markets would be closed in short order. Business would go back to soley serving the rich (granted not a HUGE change.) and transferring this now un-sellable stock would be meaningless because they would get screwed out of it eventually for little. Not to mention the board members/ upper management would be able to see this coming better than the average stock holder and get out first, so then you would need a new lawsuit to track them down, sending all the small guys money to some lawyer.
not necessarily. Blue-tooth is around 0.1 watts, cellphone network is 1+ watt. Also using batteries (roughly) doubles the power cost over plugged in. So if we end up with a bunch of always connected smartphones allowing wired/home/cars to handle the big 1 watt jump, and using the 0.1 watt bluetooth first. the 0.25 watt 802.11 next, then finally the 1 Watt cellphone as a last resort, or if you have a powered device.
my current cell phone battery is 7W*hr, cell network uses transmit power in the ~1 watt while talking. Bluetooth is in the.1 watt category. So 7 hours of active use without this, or up to 70 hours of active use as part of a bluetooth hub. So if we have a bunch of smart phones wanting access, and one of them is plugged in and thus designated host, as long as a plugged in phone is within 10 bluetooth hops then it would be a huge net savings of power. Basically this would be really sweet if we can put a hop in a car, house, offices, laptops... then your smart phone battery can last 10* as long while in use (ie talking or networking) sure my phones standby time might decrease 10*, but my talking/email battery life goes up 10*. So a pure cell phone for a occasional talker it would be a net power drain. For the upcoming common use of phones, it is up to a 10* power savings. would be really nice if my laptop cell card is on, so my cell phone is real low power. The laptop has plenty of spare juice for repeating (and is not transmitting through my head.)
I like your interpretation better, unfortunately that's not the common interpretation. People are required to turn over evidence against themselves all the time. Evidence of where you have been, what you did/said/bought is all fair game (with just cause.) Heck if you recorded yourself, and the prosecutor hears about it you can be forced to turn that over. Your not even allowed to destroy it if you know it is evidence in a on going case. You are not required to tell anyone about the GPS/tapes/purchases... that you know about because of the 5th, and your not required to take the stand (and the prosecution is not allowed to use the fact you won't testify either.) But any actions you take can be used against you.
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or drive around with a window down with the phone held outside, and the AC on full :) I would be more pissed if I can't get my GPS to work on the dash.
With manufactures already wanting to sell services like on-star, with cell & GPS locked to your car, they likely don't need much of a good excuse to block yours.
I would likely replace one window with plain glass and a holder for the phone next to that, blue-tooth the remaining distance.
exactly we would hate to bring the US corruption to India. /sarcasm
While we hate the amount of corruption in US business, and Politics US is still better than what most people have to live with. The number of bribes, and in equalitys built into the Indian system is probably the only thing keeping the US standard of living better, Taking the "US MBA shit and wall street" types to india would make both countries less corrupt.
I left out option D the most successful option, D) let them buy you out before they do A or B.
true enough. While it seams especially true of programming for a Apple or Microsoft platform, IE all of your profits are at their whim. If you ever start becoming too successful they will either A) cut you off at the knees B) steal your idea, then cut you off at the knees C) let you be if you aren't too successful and they can then use you as a marketing opportunity.
from what I have been told a trunk could easily be the worst place, if placed in their at the theater anyway. If they watch it go in, then usually the easiest part of a car to enter. IE a well placed screwdriver or small crowbar and a experienced theif can pop the trunk in one smooth motion raising no concerns to those around, and less likely to set off a factory alarm than any other entry point.
Still seams that very few computers are faster with Vista than XP. So sure Vista is now OK, if you can't get XP drivers, but for anything but gaming, XP still comes out faster.
In our tests, Windows 7 was a few percent slower than XP SP3, but faster than Vista SP2.
So on high end 64 bit hardware, 64 bit version of Vista is slower than the X86 version of XP. So it still seams very clear, anything less than a multicore 64 bit machine, forget about Vista, if you can.
Also with Vista being released in Dec 2006, but networking performance was not good until SP1, in February 2008. Even then SP1 still didn't fix network performance for VISTA to XP/2000, or over wireless. I know I finally gave up on Vista, 2 months past SP1. I still couldn't stream HD videos from a XP box over 100mB Ethernet link on a core duo laptop, that same video had no problems over a 11 mB wiFi link to that same network using a 800Mhz atom w/linux (of course no issue same laptop running XP, Vista had released drivers, XP didn't).
So vista deserves it's reputation for taking over a year to be usable on networks.
suggesting we should use these for power lines.
According to wikipedia However, superconductivity is sensitive to moving magnetic fields Which would be the purpose of the magnets at LHC...
Also since all electric current creates magnetism, the magnetism created by hundreds of amps would be much greater than the magnetism created by a few magnets. So I doubt any concern for the change caused by throwing in some small permanent magnets, unless they are being thrown around at high speeds as well. Concerns with how well any superconductor would work for power lines seams to be still in question though, hence the focus on other uses.
High paying industries are very difficult to quit, no matter if your a saver or a spender. IE a smart saver will not keep cash (especially@0.5% rates we have now) So either you make good investments and don't want to pull money out, or not good ones and you don't feel you have the money to take a cut. Spenders are addicted to new good stuff, and their is always more you will want.
Also high paying industries are usually specialized, so try not to stay too long. IE anything more than 5 years experience in any development/programming technology is not adding much value. IE if a developer is desired for a web application for a Real estate site, and a choice is given between a developer with 15 years web experience at a gambling site, or a developer with 2 years of web development in reality, likely the 2 years wins, especially if at a lower salary requirement. I have found myself in a higher paying industry, it pays higher initially but you seam to hit a ceiling sooner than a more competitive industry. Thats (IMHO) because their are only 2 high paying companies in my instance, so I did bid up my salary with job changes but now I have gone from the one, to the other big player (started at a lower company). With 16 years, I am now likely too specialized to get a pay raise outside this industry as a developer, and their HR wont allow me to go back as such to my past employers. Now the only way up is to give up on doing something for a living, and go into management. Or take a initial cut to start over in a bigger pond.
I wouldn't grantee too much on AM/shortwave. To transmit efficiently you may want a good sized antenna but couldn't the small devices still transmit on higher frequencies, and receive on the lower frequencies with the base stations being huge still?
With the FDIC insurance limits at 250,000 I break my accounts up into several $200,000 chunks at different banks, gives a little room for the account to grow before I have to move it around a bit. Also if anyone of them gets broken into, I only lose a small portion of my assets.
Reminds me I need to go pluck my money tree, if I wait much longer I risk it breaking a limb. Last one that did that was then just too grotesque to look at, I had to have it thrown out.
their are side affects to the flu shot. Also their are costs (in $ and time.) Also the timing may not work out for you, you do not want the shot while already sick, or are doing something strenuous in the 2 days after the shot (it is a additional stress to your system.) ;)
Not saying it is a net negative, just that their are more than 2 legit reasons to pass.
Oh one other reason, if you would rather be sick at home than go to work. And you too honest to just lie.
I agree, I personally have rented the use of 1000's of IPv4 addresses, I have also rented the use of 100's of gallons of beer, and a few hundred barrels of oil.
I am now done using 99% of all of the above and have returned it, although only the IP addresses were returned in the same condition as before I rented them (although some of the uses were pretty darn disgusting.)
Since IPv4 addresses are never used up, and infinitely re-assignable I am guessing you would always be able to purchase those, much like the beer I purchased. Not sure how that will be true of the oil though, I guess it should replenish in a few million years.
Guess I am not sure what "filled with legit music" means, but I think most studies seam to conclude that over 90% of ipods would have at least some portion of the music not purchased by that owner. US copyright law leaves great ambiguity as to "illegal" with the RIAA side has even claim ripped music as illegal, to the other extreme where if it isn't traded for profit, or played to a group of people as being OK.
The proportion of illegally downloaded tracks rises to 61 per cent among 14 to 17-year-olds.
is that the "one small demographic"? Notice they went with "downloaded" tag, which still leaves some questions.
Often having a light weight laptop, and remote accessing a server to do all the heavy lifting for you can be lower power consuming, and lighter weight on networking, and even more convenient. But I agree not usually. VNC really doesn't take a "fast" network, but a low latency quality network. IE I would still much rather have my debugging tools on my laptop, and live on wireless using remote access to a computer connected to the gigabit backbone. Then again my job requires pulling up CAD models and compiling/etc against remote librarys and files at another facility. So remoting into a computer at the other end saves a bunch of bandwidth (since I never have to look at every part of the model, just zooming into a small section each time.) I can also just break my connection at the laptop, while the PC is in the middle of a job, take my laptop with me without fear I will run out of battery/network connection and have to restart the compilation.
They each have their place, but on low end hardware you would never choose vista over XP, so the only way to switch to Vista is buying new hardware also.
I think most people who like Vista over XP either don't run IO intensive applications over a network or never had XP and Vista on the same hardware. I wouldn't mind Vista on a desktop where it's not too pricey to get the additional specifications required by Vista. And their is little doubt at the high end hardware front Vista can be better.
I don't see why I want my dept to pay extra in power consumption, specifications, and OS price so that IT and Sony will have more control over our computers. (warning car analogy) then again I am one of the few that still drives a manual transmission because I don't want a little convenience at the cost of additional maintenance, lower economy, reduced reliability, and higher upfront price.
If you want a truthful, unbiased assessment of a company or any of its products and services, that company would be the very worst entity to ask.
I do disagree on that, assessment is about documenting facts about a product. The one delivering the product or service is the one with legal responsibility for being truthful about the product or service. So that is the first place I try to start, since if they make the claim they are required to back it up. If a 3rd party like Amazon, or a reviewer on Amazon makes a claim about a product, as long as it wasn't done in bad faith, they have no legal responsibility to back up that claim.
When comparing how well the product/service truly matches up against a competitor, that is where the OEM/etc is not the final say. They are not required to tell you what features are missing or lacking the best implementation... That is where you want to find a 3rd party, but only after you have discovered what products should cover your needs, can you then evaluate which one is a better product. After all getting the best widget on the market does you no good if it doesn't meet your particular needs. This story doesn't explain why it is worthless, if it is worthless because it doesn't come with any backup software, or is slower than other NAS solutions at the same cost then I agree reviews should be blamed. If it is worthless because it doesn't do what it claims, then he should be going after the OEM as well.
their are also several articles pointing out their are many more reasons for palm to do this besides needing to develop and install additional windows&mac software. Several features, including synchronizing DRM'd songs to the palm pre cannot be done through third party apps, and that none of the third party apps developed so far would allow the same level of integration.
I suspect your example has identical results in most countries. for whatever reason any relation to Amsterdam is a automatic fisting in many countries.
My own experience was in France where they looked at me and the cover of my US passport was enough, but traveling in the same train was a gut from Amsterdam he and bags was searched a couple time, and after providing all required documents was still escorted away.
I don't argue with the article though, pre 01 our meetings were in Chicago because Canada was a pain, now my managers take the trips out of North America instead of the opposite. So it is not only Tourism it is likely hurting US business as well (closed our offices in Chicago, used to be the defacto international meeting headquarters.)
Bad business practices rarely run a business into the ground overnight (exception is Enron.) but legal suits can. And the examples above were not likely anything the CEO was ever aware of, so you as a stock holder in a mutual fund would need to verify the track record of every manager down to mid level? Besides the net affect would just be that Sony would just become a holding company for thousands of small "independent" businesses owned in a country without this liability. The only people made happy then are the extra accountants pushing paper in India.
I was about to add that I own no Sony stock (and never would because they are evil by my definition.) Then I looked up who does hold sony stock, and realized I do (my main retirement mutual fund choice is the single largest holder of sony stock)
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=SNE
So maybe 7% of your punishment would be directed at those who contributed to the neglect, and 93% would be directed at (mostly) innocent by-standers.
all Sony stock is divided between the victims.
You do realize Sony stock (as with all NYSE/NASDAQ stocks) is held by lots and lots of people who have little to no say so or knowledge of they day to day activities, and very little disposable income, and thus many would lose a significant part of their retirement/savings/whatever. If it were to become common for some action of middle management to be able to transfer that kind of wealth, then the stock markets would be closed in short order. Business would go back to soley serving the rich (granted not a HUGE change.) and transferring this now un-sellable stock would be meaningless because they would get screwed out of it eventually for little. Not to mention the board members/ upper management would be able to see this coming better than the average stock holder and get out first, so then you would need a new lawsuit to track them down, sending all the small guys money to some lawyer.
imagine the hero status of the guy who throws a smoke bomb into the Hooters restaurant.
rip, rip, rip, ahhhhhh!!!!!!!!!
not necessarily. Blue-tooth is around 0.1 watts, cellphone network is 1+ watt. Also using batteries (roughly) doubles the power cost over plugged in. So if we end up with a bunch of always connected smartphones allowing wired/home/cars to handle the big 1 watt jump, and using the 0.1 watt bluetooth first. the 0.25 watt 802.11 next, then finally the 1 Watt cellphone as a last resort, or if you have a powered device.
my current cell phone battery is 7W*hr, cell network uses transmit power in the ~1 watt while talking. Bluetooth is in the .1 watt category. So 7 hours of active use without this, or up to 70 hours of active use as part of a bluetooth hub. So if we have a bunch of smart phones wanting access, and one of them is plugged in and thus designated host, as long as a plugged in phone is within 10 bluetooth hops then it would be a huge net savings of power.
Basically this would be really sweet if we can put a hop in a car, house, offices, laptops... then your smart phone battery can last 10* as long while in use (ie talking or networking)
sure my phones standby time might decrease 10*, but my talking/email battery life goes up 10*. So a pure cell phone for a occasional talker it would be a net power drain. For the upcoming common use of phones, it is up to a 10* power savings.
would be really nice if my laptop cell card is on, so my cell phone is real low power. The laptop has plenty of spare juice for repeating (and is not transmitting through my head.)
I like your interpretation better, unfortunately that's not the common interpretation. People are required to turn over evidence against themselves all the time. Evidence of where you have been, what you did/said/bought is all fair game (with just cause.) Heck if you recorded yourself, and the prosecutor hears about it you can be forced to turn that over. Your not even allowed to destroy it if you know it is evidence in a on going case. You are not required to tell anyone about the GPS/tapes/purchases... that you know about because of the 5th, and your not required to take the stand (and the prosecution is not allowed to use the fact you won't testify either.) But any actions you take can be used against you.