Detroit? Yeah right, you need to have money to attract money.
I was previously part of a tech start-up that grew out of research at the University of Michigan. The founder tried like hell to get funding but no one would listen to someone based in the Midwest. And no VC in this state understood the industry well enough to risk the amount of capital we needed. Eventually he got the VC needed from a couple of places in the Valley, conditional that the corporate HQ be based there (so they could keep an eye on their money and handpick the leadership). So we had most of the engineering going on in Michigan while the sales/marketing/leadership rubbed elbows in Cali. It was a very inefficient system. But you had the engineers who refused to relocate to CA and the bigwigs who refused to move to the Midwest.
There was always this odd tension between the two offices. The Cali guys treated us like we were some backwater boys who didn't know how to run with the big dogs. We viewed them as pretentious mercenaries. Anyhow... I'm rambling. Point is that while I really dislike the Valley culture, I don't think that Midwest is ready to compete with it.
Newegg is the only store I've seen Verified by Visa used (and I buy a lot of stuff online). Having had my share of problems with it, I never even browse Newegg anymore. I guess they must have such a high incidence of fraud though that it's worth losing the occasional regular customer like me.
I don't understand how your reply adds to the conversation? The GP did not state that the parents shouldn't have the choice. He is, in fact, simply ridiculing them.
Yeah but the average Chinese is poorer than the average American. 1000 yuan is like the US government giving a citizen about $1100 for turning someone in.
Out of curiosity, how's the quality of the landlines in India? In the US, practically every household has access to a landline, regardless of how far out in the backwoods they live or how poor they are. US telecoms networks have built/maintained a physical network (with five nines of up-time!) across a huge geographic span for about 100 years.
I'm not saying that telcoms haven't squandered their profits to some extent. And it makes me sick to think about how they've abused their subsidies on the backs of the taxpayers. But anyone who's ever had to modernize a corporate LAN/WAN, or refactor an app written in a dead language knows how much, much easier it is to move quicker and cheaper if you don't already have a legacy platform to worry about. I can't imagine how much inertia a hundred year-old system has.
The US Navy released an RFI for a feasibility study of creating a virtual wargames platform. The intention is that some contractor will build an Internet-based RTS game to train people on piracy fighting strategies. Anyhow... in the RFI they mention a major reason that shippers don't hire security for each of their ships is that it puts them at an economic disadvantage.
Ocean freight companies are *really* hurting financially since the US isn't buying many widgets from China these days. If they hired a small security detail for each ship, they'd have to charge their customers more per shipment. However, the customer would just switch to a cheaper carrier. So it's better business sense for them to risk the occasional pirate attack (which is a very minor portion of the overall shipping traffic).
It's not all that interesting, IMHO. If you read the description, all network I/O is done using HTTPS. The comparison to Amazon's S3 is fair, but it's ridiculous to compare this to NetApp or any of the other SANs they have listed; no iSCSI, no fiber channel.
Props for making me fondly recall the olden days. I still remember the init string we used to give to customers when I worked tech support at an ISP in the mid 90's: AT&F1&C1&D2S7=60. About the only thing it's good for anymore is an awesome password.
Just as art is hollow when the artist cares only about money...
While romantic-sounding, what does that really mean? The world is filled with art (much of it famous) that was created by really talented artists trying to put food on the table. In fact, I can't think of a better motivator to produce good-quality art than the prospect of becoming another "starving artist." Michelangelo absolutely hated painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling. He was a sculptor and only did the frescos after being hounded into by the Pope. He complained incessantly about not having as much creative control as he wished over the project, about his aches and pains of doing uncomfortable work, the papacy rushing him, etc.
It was from the RAND study that the false rumor started claiming that the ARPANET was somehow related to building a network resistant to nuclear war. This was never true of the ARPANET, only the unrelated RAND study on secure voice considered nuclear war. However, the later work on Internetting did emphasize robustness and survivability, including the capability to withstand losses of large portions of the underlying networks.
pagerank has been around for a long time and it hasn't altogether changed much.
PageRank (the patented ranking algorithm that put Google on the map) may not have changed much in the past decade. However Google has a $2.1B annual R&D budget. PageRank is only one of many, many tools in their toolbox. IIRC, a webpage's ranking in their search results is determined by around 400 different variables--PageRank being just one.
Stardock is based in Plymouth, MI which is halfway between Detroit and Ann Arbor. Slashdot was originally founded in the same area (Dexter, MI IIRC). I live about 15 minutes north of Dexter and about 45 minutes from Plymouth. In case you haven't been following the news, Michigan doesn't have a whole lot to be proud of, economically-speaking. It's possible that the editors have a special fondness for Stardock. While independent game publishers are common in California, it's very rare to find a successful one in the Midwest. And honestly, Stardock produces some pretty top-notch stuff. I am consistently impressed about how close they get to EA in terms of production value. They also have a very progressive (customer friendly) stance on DRM and piracy.
A hobby of mine is woodworking. One piece of invaluable equipment is a jointer which is used for putting a parallel face or edge on a board. Along with a planer, a jointer is used to ensure that the boards are straight and square. It resembles a long table with a gap in the middle that contains a rotating cutter head.
While jointers produced today have newer bells-and-whistles, the machines produced 60+ years ago are generally considered superior and are highly sought after. This is primarily because they were made of solid cast iron, which is heaver and absorbs vibration better than the stamped steel machines made now (vibration is the enemy of smooth cuts). They also last forever and are rather easy to maintain since being able to easily fix your own equipment was more of a concern than the price tag back then.
There's also a similar situation with vintage Stanley hand planes and other woodworking tools. It's not simply a sense of nostalgia either. These old tools are genuinely better than most off-the-shelf stuff on today's market. I wonder if we'll ever look back on computers in the same way?
I don't understand why you keep spreading the blame around to the school system when your anecdote clearly places the blame on a parent. Teachers don't go into teaching because it is easy or it pays well. The overwhelming majority of freshly minted teachers are extremely idealist when they first start. They are excited to help children learn. However, they quickly realize that their function is just a babysitter paid for by the state. The parents don't demand much else, so that's what the system produces. No, I don't blame the teachers nor the school system itself. The responsibility is solely that of the parents, and by extension, the tax payers and voters.
From my understanding, lithium is used to counter the manic (irrationally and exceptionally happy) episodes of bipolar disorder. Other drugs are used to tame the corresponding depressive behavior.
I wish the article would have explained why MLB went with Silverlight in the first place. What kind of arm-twisting (or hooker-and-blow-providing) could MS have possibly done to convince a company to take such a major financial gamble? For the most part, Silverlight is largely unproven tech and--to add insult to injury--proprietary. Can someone explain the appeal?
Not necessarily. I'm sure Western scientists would love to know *why* it failed. It would be interesting to know if we have the capability to salvage it though (assuming North Korea didn't include an auto-destroy mechanism onboard).
Who's to say that Windows 7 is going to be much better than Vista? Sure, we can hope that MS learned from that misstep, but this is also the same company that also brought us Bob and Windows ME.
The part of civil disobedience that people always seem to leave out is that you have to willingly accept the consequences of your actions. The whole point is to demonstrate that the proscribed punishment is unfair. A bunch of legal ducking and weaving to avoid that punishment might eventually prove something in the courts, but it's not civil disobedience.
Heh... My first thought was "gee, I wonder how many (kilo)calories worth of nutrients these critters can remove from my blood?"::Pops open another can of Coke:: It would be the truly most geeky way of enhancing my Comic Book Guy physique.
I remember reading that whitepaper when it came out. One of the findings was that there was a significant difference in reliability between hard drive manufacturers. However Google decided not to name names in the report (I'm guessing because they didn't want to be sued). Has any more information about that come to light?
Maintaining the PKE infrastructure, the technical support staffing costs, plus the likely attrition of customers who "just can't get their online banking to work right" would dwarf any savings that they'd see from not just buying a certificate.
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Detroit? Yeah right, you need to have money to attract money.
I was previously part of a tech start-up that grew out of research at the University of Michigan. The founder tried like hell to get funding but no one would listen to someone based in the Midwest. And no VC in this state understood the industry well enough to risk the amount of capital we needed. Eventually he got the VC needed from a couple of places in the Valley, conditional that the corporate HQ be based there (so they could keep an eye on their money and handpick the leadership). So we had most of the engineering going on in Michigan while the sales/marketing/leadership rubbed elbows in Cali. It was a very inefficient system. But you had the engineers who refused to relocate to CA and the bigwigs who refused to move to the Midwest.
There was always this odd tension between the two offices. The Cali guys treated us like we were some backwater boys who didn't know how to run with the big dogs. We viewed them as pretentious mercenaries. Anyhow... I'm rambling. Point is that while I really dislike the Valley culture, I don't think that Midwest is ready to compete with it.
I've called 911 several times from my mobile. It acts like normal call.
Newegg is the only store I've seen Verified by Visa used (and I buy a lot of stuff online). Having had my share of problems with it, I never even browse Newegg anymore. I guess they must have such a high incidence of fraud though that it's worth losing the occasional regular customer like me.
I don't understand how your reply adds to the conversation? The GP did not state that the parents shouldn't have the choice. He is, in fact, simply ridiculing them.
Yeah but the average Chinese is poorer than the average American. 1000 yuan is like the US government giving a citizen about $1100 for turning someone in.
Out of curiosity, how's the quality of the landlines in India? In the US, practically every household has access to a landline, regardless of how far out in the backwoods they live or how poor they are. US telecoms networks have built/maintained a physical network (with five nines of up-time!) across a huge geographic span for about 100 years.
I'm not saying that telcoms haven't squandered their profits to some extent. And it makes me sick to think about how they've abused their subsidies on the backs of the taxpayers. But anyone who's ever had to modernize a corporate LAN/WAN, or refactor an app written in a dead language knows how much, much easier it is to move quicker and cheaper if you don't already have a legacy platform to worry about. I can't imagine how much inertia a hundred year-old system has.
Nitpick: But welding is most definitely a skilled trade.
The US Navy released an RFI for a feasibility study of creating a virtual wargames platform. The intention is that some contractor will build an Internet-based RTS game to train people on piracy fighting strategies. Anyhow... in the RFI they mention a major reason that shippers don't hire security for each of their ships is that it puts them at an economic disadvantage.
Ocean freight companies are *really* hurting financially since the US isn't buying many widgets from China these days. If they hired a small security detail for each ship, they'd have to charge their customers more per shipment. However, the customer would just switch to a cheaper carrier. So it's better business sense for them to risk the occasional pirate attack (which is a very minor portion of the overall shipping traffic).
It's not all that interesting, IMHO. If you read the description, all network I/O is done using HTTPS. The comparison to Amazon's S3 is fair, but it's ridiculous to compare this to NetApp or any of the other SANs they have listed; no iSCSI, no fiber channel.
Props for making me fondly recall the olden days. I still remember the init string we used to give to customers when I worked tech support at an ISP in the mid 90's: AT&F1&C1&D2S7=60. About the only thing it's good for anymore is an awesome password.
While romantic-sounding, what does that really mean? The world is filled with art (much of it famous) that was created by really talented artists trying to put food on the table. In fact, I can't think of a better motivator to produce good-quality art than the prospect of becoming another "starving artist." Michelangelo absolutely hated painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling. He was a sculptor and only did the frescos after being hounded into by the Pope. He complained incessantly about not having as much creative control as he wished over the project, about his aches and pains of doing uncomfortable work, the papacy rushing him, etc.
"A Brief History of the Internet", Internet Society.
PageRank (the patented ranking algorithm that put Google on the map) may not have changed much in the past decade. However Google has a $2.1B annual R&D budget. PageRank is only one of many, many tools in their toolbox. IIRC, a webpage's ranking in their search results is determined by around 400 different variables--PageRank being just one.
Stardock is based in Plymouth, MI which is halfway between Detroit and Ann Arbor. Slashdot was originally founded in the same area (Dexter, MI IIRC). I live about 15 minutes north of Dexter and about 45 minutes from Plymouth. In case you haven't been following the news, Michigan doesn't have a whole lot to be proud of, economically-speaking. It's possible that the editors have a special fondness for Stardock. While independent game publishers are common in California, it's very rare to find a successful one in the Midwest. And honestly, Stardock produces some pretty top-notch stuff. I am consistently impressed about how close they get to EA in terms of production value. They also have a very progressive (customer friendly) stance on DRM and piracy.
A hobby of mine is woodworking. One piece of invaluable equipment is a jointer which is used for putting a parallel face or edge on a board. Along with a planer, a jointer is used to ensure that the boards are straight and square. It resembles a long table with a gap in the middle that contains a rotating cutter head.
While jointers produced today have newer bells-and-whistles, the machines produced 60+ years ago are generally considered superior and are highly sought after. This is primarily because they were made of solid cast iron, which is heaver and absorbs vibration better than the stamped steel machines made now (vibration is the enemy of smooth cuts). They also last forever and are rather easy to maintain since being able to easily fix your own equipment was more of a concern than the price tag back then.
There's also a similar situation with vintage Stanley hand planes and other woodworking tools. It's not simply a sense of nostalgia either. These old tools are genuinely better than most off-the-shelf stuff on today's market. I wonder if we'll ever look back on computers in the same way?
I don't understand why you keep spreading the blame around to the school system when your anecdote clearly places the blame on a parent. Teachers don't go into teaching because it is easy or it pays well. The overwhelming majority of freshly minted teachers are extremely idealist when they first start. They are excited to help children learn. However, they quickly realize that their function is just a babysitter paid for by the state. The parents don't demand much else, so that's what the system produces. No, I don't blame the teachers nor the school system itself. The responsibility is solely that of the parents, and by extension, the tax payers and voters.
From my understanding, lithium is used to counter the manic (irrationally and exceptionally happy) episodes of bipolar disorder. Other drugs are used to tame the corresponding depressive behavior.
Any "smart developer" will tell you the first problem with that plan is that it assumes that users know what they want.
I wish the article would have explained why MLB went with Silverlight in the first place. What kind of arm-twisting (or hooker-and-blow-providing) could MS have possibly done to convince a company to take such a major financial gamble? For the most part, Silverlight is largely unproven tech and--to add insult to injury--proprietary. Can someone explain the appeal?
Not necessarily. I'm sure Western scientists would love to know *why* it failed. It would be interesting to know if we have the capability to salvage it though (assuming North Korea didn't include an auto-destroy mechanism onboard).
Who's to say that Windows 7 is going to be much better than Vista? Sure, we can hope that MS learned from that misstep, but this is also the same company that also brought us Bob and Windows ME.
The part of civil disobedience that people always seem to leave out is that you have to willingly accept the consequences of your actions. The whole point is to demonstrate that the proscribed punishment is unfair. A bunch of legal ducking and weaving to avoid that punishment might eventually prove something in the courts, but it's not civil disobedience.
Heh... My first thought was "gee, I wonder how many (kilo)calories worth of nutrients these critters can remove from my blood?" ::Pops open another can of Coke:: It would be the truly most geeky way of enhancing my Comic Book Guy physique.
I remember reading that whitepaper when it came out. One of the findings was that there was a significant difference in reliability between hard drive manufacturers. However Google decided not to name names in the report (I'm guessing because they didn't want to be sued). Has any more information about that come to light?
Maintaining the PKE infrastructure, the technical support staffing costs, plus the likely attrition of customers who "just can't get their online banking to work right" would dwarf any savings that they'd see from not just buying a certificate.