In fact, I find that Gnome-Shell is a much more natural way to interact with virtual desktop and window management. Having installed it on my main work laptop, I will use it to replace Gnome 2 on my desktop to see how multi-monitor support performs.
Over the past few years, I have a lot of fellow Linux users move to OSX in particular due to the fact they appreciate the user experience that Apple designed into it. Gnome-shell brings the Gnome desktop up to that level, and exceeds it in many areas.
It's not a finished product, and there are things that you can't do with Gnome-Shell. However, I think it's a move in the right direction. All that remains is fine-tuning and building upon the framework. That should solve 99% of user complaints right now.
In short, the problem with Gnome-shell isn't the design direction, but with an implementation that is only 90% complete before release.
Have you been to China? They are not like the Japanese, who do keep the best products in the domestic market (because Japanese consumers are extremely discerning and Japanese producers understand them best). Far from it.
Guess what, I don't work for a Cisco Partner, and doing the CCIE is for professional development as a network architect. The networks I work with are multi-vendor, including products from Juniper, Fortigate, Avaya, Siemens, Checkpoint, HP, F5, and many others including open source products. The skills that you learn from the CCIE are invaluable. The lab exam conditions you to understand all of the technologies in the blueprint (and all the corner cases and issues with interaction), rather than just knowing how to apply them. The only other vendor certification that is comparable is the JNCIE with it's 2 day lab (mirroring the original CCIE 2-day lab).
CCIEs, and people with Cisco certification in general, unlike people with Microsoft certification, by and large are not drones because they don't work in a vendor monoculture. Cisco makes some good products, they are usually expensive, and also some dud products, which are usually expensive.:) Sometimes a Cisco product is the best fit due to the features it support, other times it's Juniper, or HP, or even Vyatta.
The debt limit is a mechanism to satisfy the constitution - it is congress' explicit permission to issue new debt up to a certain limit, removing the need for congress to get involved into the details.
The real problem is that the budget hasn't been balanced for years, with the major growth in deficit due to tax cuts, military spending, and the massive bailout of the financial industry, and the republications seem to be in denial on how to balance it. We need spending cuts and also revenue increase to combat this, there is no other way. Effective tax rates on high earners and on corporations are at rock-bottom levels.
The fact that you state "politicians to actually have money before they spend it" tells us a lot about those that share your views -
1. Public finances don't work like your household finances (deficits drive economic growth when it's needed and is essential in modern economies) 2. Debt is the result of budgets, and should be corrected with a budget rather than by forcing the issue with a technicality. 3. If you take out the cost of the wars and the money that we put into the financial sector to bail them out, the problem we have with public debt is mainly the result of tax cuts.
As a CCIE, I can assure you that IPv6 is well supported on all network products, many security products, and all server platforms for 5-10 years now. The problem is the people making decisions in the enterprise. There is no hope if you look that way, cause the people that end up in those positions usually in the past have shoulders that look like Mount Everest - the risk aversion is unbelievable, even when they have to live with mediocre and often breaking solutions, they still find it easier just to patch on "workarounds" rather than doing the right thing of redesigning and reimplementing it.
When the IPv6 wave hits, it's not going to be driven from the enterprise, it'll be because we'll run out of IPv4 addresses on the Internet. Enterprise networks will still run IPv4 for the forseeable future, and it is all down to enterprises being reactive to deploying technology rather than pioneering.
Because raising the debt ceiling is a matter-of-fact. The fact that the TEA party is refusing this is what's new about the situation. This will not stand a judicial review.
The small loans that you state are, in public finance, no different than long term loans. Government issues debt for a fixed period in order to free up liquidity. Whether this debt builds up is a matter for congress, because it is them that is responsible for controlling the spending within government anyway.
What congress is doing right now is holding the country to ransom, plain and simple. They have approved and pass a budget, but they are also refusing to raise the debt ceiling which is essential to implement this budget. If this is the case, it appears that the supreme court and intervene to clarify the intention of congress one way or the other. If the debt ceiling stands, it means that the budget is essentially void. However, since the debt ceiling is pre-existing and that congress passed the budget knowing full well that the debt-ceiling must be raised to implement it, it is very likely that if the supreme gets involved in judging the intention of congress, they will find that the passage of the budget also carried an implied raising of the debt ceiling to implement the budget.
I don't think you fully understand the implication of a ratings downgrade of US public debt. It will be a downwards spiral and once it's happened, there is no way back. The US dollar will no longer be the worlds reserve currency, and the US will quite simply cease to be a superpower.
We are talking about a substantial realignment of the power balance between nation-states. And the result would not look good for the United States.
There are many ways to tackle the deficit and mounting public debt - The way this is happening is probably the worse way you can go about it. If it was good for economic stability, then you'd expect the markets to be happy. They are the opposite because most people with any understanding of macroeconomics and the money supply knows that once the government issuing the world's reserve currency defaults, it is basically all downhill from there for everybody.
I should also make it clear that the public debt obligations fluctuate on a day-to-day basis, which is why the government issues debt even in times of surplus - to ensure that there is enough operational cashflow.
In fact, almost all large corporations do this, as assets are usually tied up one way or another and they need access to liquidity.
The problem is that you don't have any idea of the mechanism of the government revenue and spending.
Each day, the government takes in revenue and takes out in spending. Sometimes, this when public debt is due, this requires the payment of both principle and interest, in additional to all of the other spending that has to be taken out that day. If the debt ceiling does not rise, it means that the government will run into issues servicing the debt as well as any discretionary spending required. There is no buffer - the debt ceiling is the buffer! It will require a significant decrease in spending across the board in order for the government to maintain enough of a buffer to meet public debt obligations.
The main effects are -
- All public sector contracts with the federal government will be severely affected as the government will likely miss payment on any monies due. This will have a severe knock-on effect on the economy (including armed forces contracts). - T-Bills and other federal bonds will likely have their ratings downgraded - This will mean that interest rates will rise and money supply will contract rapidly. Think house prices were bad for the last few years - think again.
The real problem is that these people have a hardline worldview spurred on by right-wing commentators that have a agenda to push, and they hold on to this worldview without any real knowledge or understanding of what the real world effects are. In effect, they are saying applying what they know about household finances and are applying it to the federal government without fully understanding that the real-world implications are. And this is dangerous, really really dangerous.
Yes, but scratching you own itch sometimes benefits others that have the same itch. Here, this Hyper-V driver is obviously self-serving (KVM, XEN and VMWare has their own infrastructure and will not benefit from this).
Actually, the "Nanny State" is more than that. It has to do with the idea of positive freedom, and where the line is drawn - ie. should we allow people to choose an alternative option if that option harms society, etc, etc.
Who's reign will soon end as Android devices catch up. Google is reporting 550k activations a day, and this doesn't include the devices that is only using AOSP and not Google's version.
Actually the middle classes in the UK is actually the not-so-fabulously wealthy everywhere else. The upper class in the UK usually involves some linage from aristocracy.
In the UK, most medical insurance only cover specialist, test and medical procedures. Primary care is still with the NHS (through self-employed or partnership GP, which get paid by the NHS through a contract for the patient care they give), which you can in theory choose at will.
Hence, it is ridiculously cheap to get private medical insurance. A plan with SimplyHealth for a family of four will cost around 28 GBP, or around 45 USD per month. Most bigger employers will cover this under a group policy - it makes sense as it cost them so little, it's a added selling point to attract new recruits and potentially the employee would be back at work sooner.
That is the other upshot of the NHS - ridiculously cheap health insurance if you can afford to pay a bit more to jump the queue.
Because the previous PM had the misfortune of presiding over a financial crises that deregulation in the US helped create.
(Not that Brown was a especially good financial decision maker with regards to the dumping of UK gold reserved back in the 2000s when the price was at a all-time low)
Well, that and a lot of the media properties in the UK is controlled by conservative interests, kinda like the US.
The very fact that the UK pays half of what the US pays in healthcare in terms of GDP (private + public expenditure) with similar medical outcomes shows you that the NHS+Private two-tier healthcare system works superior to what you have in the US.
In fact, most everybody I know are happy in the UK are happy with their healthcare options. Those that work in the bigger companies usually have "top-up" health insurance provided, this means that many specialist, tests and surgical procedures can be paid for by insurance, while primary care is provided by the NHS. When I used to work for an employer, I had this but never had to use it, even though I had to do a variety of medical tests throughout the years. The wait is less than 2 weeks usually at the local hospital.
Now as a self-employed consultant in a comfortable position, it never really crossed my mind to get any additional cover beyond what is provided by the NHS. The NHS has served my needs very well, especially with the specialists and consultants (ie. surgeons) managed by the NHS trusts (GP/Family Doctors in the UK are much more spotty as they are self-employed and partners and in effect the NHS pays them for seeing patients through a contract). In any event, getting medical insurance here is easy, and some plans are flexible for any pre-existing conditions that you might have.
BUPA is the worse of the the many private options in the UK. There are many other good options available (ie. SimplyHealth or Aviva) but BUPA I've never ever heard a good thing about.
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In fact, I find that Gnome-Shell is a much more natural way to interact with virtual desktop and window management. Having installed it on my main work laptop, I will use it to replace Gnome 2 on my desktop to see how multi-monitor support performs.
Over the past few years, I have a lot of fellow Linux users move to OSX in particular due to the fact they appreciate the user experience that Apple designed into it. Gnome-shell brings the Gnome desktop up to that level, and exceeds it in many areas.
It's not a finished product, and there are things that you can't do with Gnome-Shell. However, I think it's a move in the right direction. All that remains is fine-tuning and building upon the framework. That should solve 99% of user complaints right now.
In short, the problem with Gnome-shell isn't the design direction, but with an implementation that is only 90% complete before release.
Sudden withdrawal can be medically dangerous and life threatening.
Have you been to China? They are not like the Japanese, who do keep the best products in the domestic market (because Japanese consumers are extremely discerning and Japanese producers understand them best). Far from it.
Guess what, I don't work for a Cisco Partner, and doing the CCIE is for professional development as a network architect. The networks I work with are multi-vendor, including products from Juniper, Fortigate, Avaya, Siemens, Checkpoint, HP, F5, and many others including open source products. The skills that you learn from the CCIE are invaluable. The lab exam conditions you to understand all of the technologies in the blueprint (and all the corner cases and issues with interaction), rather than just knowing how to apply them. The only other vendor certification that is comparable is the JNCIE with it's 2 day lab (mirroring the original CCIE 2-day lab).
CCIEs, and people with Cisco certification in general, unlike people with Microsoft certification, by and large are not drones because they don't work in a vendor monoculture. Cisco makes some good products, they are usually expensive, and also some dud products, which are usually expensive. :) Sometimes a Cisco product is the best fit due to the features it support, other times it's Juniper, or HP, or even Vyatta.
It rubbed you the wrong way because you have a chip on your shoulder.
I was responding to the GP who said he was "IT professional to and a consultant for an MSP".. hehe..
The debt limit is a mechanism to satisfy the constitution - it is congress' explicit permission to issue new debt up to a certain limit, removing the need for congress to get involved into the details.
The real problem is that the budget hasn't been balanced for years, with the major growth in deficit due to tax cuts, military spending, and the massive bailout of the financial industry, and the republications seem to be in denial on how to balance it. We need spending cuts and also revenue increase to combat this, there is no other way. Effective tax rates on high earners and on corporations are at rock-bottom levels.
The fact that you state "politicians to actually have money before they spend it" tells us a lot about those that share your views -
1. Public finances don't work like your household finances (deficits drive economic growth when it's needed and is essential in modern economies)
2. Debt is the result of budgets, and should be corrected with a budget rather than by forcing the issue with a technicality.
3. If you take out the cost of the wars and the money that we put into the financial sector to bail them out, the problem we have with public debt is mainly the result of tax cuts.
As a CCIE, I can assure you that IPv6 is well supported on all network products, many security products, and all server platforms for 5-10 years now. The problem is the people making decisions in the enterprise. There is no hope if you look that way, cause the people that end up in those positions usually in the past have shoulders that look like Mount Everest - the risk aversion is unbelievable, even when they have to live with mediocre and often breaking solutions, they still find it easier just to patch on "workarounds" rather than doing the right thing of redesigning and reimplementing it.
When the IPv6 wave hits, it's not going to be driven from the enterprise, it'll be because we'll run out of IPv4 addresses on the Internet. Enterprise networks will still run IPv4 for the forseeable future, and it is all down to enterprises being reactive to deploying technology rather than pioneering.
Because raising the debt ceiling is a matter-of-fact. The fact that the TEA party is refusing this is what's new about the situation. This will not stand a judicial review.
The small loans that you state are, in public finance, no different than long term loans. Government issues debt for a fixed period in order to free up liquidity. Whether this debt builds up is a matter for congress, because it is them that is responsible for controlling the spending within government anyway.
What congress is doing right now is holding the country to ransom, plain and simple. They have approved and pass a budget, but they are also refusing to raise the debt ceiling which is essential to implement this budget. If this is the case, it appears that the supreme court and intervene to clarify the intention of congress one way or the other. If the debt ceiling stands, it means that the budget is essentially void. However, since the debt ceiling is pre-existing and that congress passed the budget knowing full well that the debt-ceiling must be raised to implement it, it is very likely that if the supreme gets involved in judging the intention of congress, they will find that the passage of the budget also carried an implied raising of the debt ceiling to implement the budget.
I don't think you fully understand the implication of a ratings downgrade of US public debt. It will be a downwards spiral and once it's happened, there is no way back. The US dollar will no longer be the worlds reserve currency, and the US will quite simply cease to be a superpower.
We are talking about a substantial realignment of the power balance between nation-states. And the result would not look good for the United States.
There are many ways to tackle the deficit and mounting public debt - The way this is happening is probably the worse way you can go about it. If it was good for economic stability, then you'd expect the markets to be happy. They are the opposite because most people with any understanding of macroeconomics and the money supply knows that once the government issuing the world's reserve currency defaults, it is basically all downhill from there for everybody.
I should also make it clear that the public debt obligations fluctuate on a day-to-day basis, which is why the government issues debt even in times of surplus - to ensure that there is enough operational cashflow.
In fact, almost all large corporations do this, as assets are usually tied up one way or another and they need access to liquidity.
The problem is that you don't have any idea of the mechanism of the government revenue and spending.
Each day, the government takes in revenue and takes out in spending. Sometimes, this when public debt is due, this requires the payment of both principle and interest, in additional to all of the other spending that has to be taken out that day. If the debt ceiling does not rise, it means that the government will run into issues servicing the debt as well as any discretionary spending required. There is no buffer - the debt ceiling is the buffer! It will require a significant decrease in spending across the board in order for the government to maintain enough of a buffer to meet public debt obligations.
The main effects are -
- All public sector contracts with the federal government will be severely affected as the government will likely miss payment on any monies due. This will have a severe knock-on effect on the economy (including armed forces contracts).
- T-Bills and other federal bonds will likely have their ratings downgraded - This will mean that interest rates will rise and money supply will contract rapidly. Think house prices were bad for the last few years - think again.
The real problem is that these people have a hardline worldview spurred on by right-wing commentators that have a agenda to push, and they hold on to this worldview without any real knowledge or understanding of what the real world effects are. In effect, they are saying applying what they know about household finances and are applying it to the federal government without fully understanding that the real-world implications are. And this is dangerous, really really dangerous.
Democracy is based on debating ideas, compromising and coming to an agreement.
The showboating that these congressmen are involved in right now is not democracy, and runs contrary to their duty to serve the nation.
You have no clue what you're talking about. In the Beijing accent, they start and end every word with a R sound.
You can chill out all you want, but what he said is true.
??? The only thing Google is doing here is removing the monopoly powers of copyright from the publishers and authors.
Yes, but scratching you own itch sometimes benefits others that have the same itch. Here, this Hyper-V driver is obviously self-serving (KVM, XEN and VMWare has their own infrastructure and will not benefit from this).
The really funny thing is, you're not that far off.
Actually, the "Nanny State" is more than that. It has to do with the idea of positive freedom, and where the line is drawn - ie. should we allow people to choose an alternative option if that option harms society, etc, etc.
Who's reign will soon end as Android devices catch up. Google is reporting 550k activations a day, and this doesn't include the devices that is only using AOSP and not Google's version.
I don't know where to begin.
Actually the middle classes in the UK is actually the not-so-fabulously wealthy everywhere else. The upper class in the UK usually involves some linage from aristocracy.
In the UK, most medical insurance only cover specialist, test and medical procedures. Primary care is still with the NHS (through self-employed or partnership GP, which get paid by the NHS through a contract for the patient care they give), which you can in theory choose at will.
Hence, it is ridiculously cheap to get private medical insurance. A plan with SimplyHealth for a family of four will cost around 28 GBP, or around 45 USD per month. Most bigger employers will cover this under a group policy - it makes sense as it cost them so little, it's a added selling point to attract new recruits and potentially the employee would be back at work sooner.
That is the other upshot of the NHS - ridiculously cheap health insurance if you can afford to pay a bit more to jump the queue.
Because the previous PM had the misfortune of presiding over a financial crises that deregulation in the US helped create.
(Not that Brown was a especially good financial decision maker with regards to the dumping of UK gold reserved back in the 2000s when the price was at a all-time low)
Well, that and a lot of the media properties in the UK is controlled by conservative interests, kinda like the US.
The very fact that the UK pays half of what the US pays in healthcare in terms of GDP (private + public expenditure) with similar medical outcomes shows you that the NHS+Private two-tier healthcare system works superior to what you have in the US.
In fact, most everybody I know are happy in the UK are happy with their healthcare options. Those that work in the bigger companies usually have "top-up" health insurance provided, this means that many specialist, tests and surgical procedures can be paid for by insurance, while primary care is provided by the NHS. When I used to work for an employer, I had this but never had to use it, even though I had to do a variety of medical tests throughout the years. The wait is less than 2 weeks usually at the local hospital.
Now as a self-employed consultant in a comfortable position, it never really crossed my mind to get any additional cover beyond what is provided by the NHS. The NHS has served my needs very well, especially with the specialists and consultants (ie. surgeons) managed by the NHS trusts (GP/Family Doctors in the UK are much more spotty as they are self-employed and partners and in effect the NHS pays them for seeing patients through a contract). In any event, getting medical insurance here is easy, and some plans are flexible for any pre-existing conditions that you might have.
BUPA is the worse of the the many private options in the UK. There are many other good options available (ie. SimplyHealth or Aviva) but BUPA I've never ever heard a good thing about.