The Middle-Class is being redefined as people who can afford basic necessities like food, shelter, clothing and medicine. Want money to enjoy life beyond that? Tough luck!
The trend of omitting an SD Card slot so that people are funneled through cloud services is disappointing. I personally won't be buying any device where I am forced into being Cloud-walled.
I know how everyone loves to dump on the carriers but the "dumb pipe" idea is not feasible for a couple of different reasons.
The wireless network doesn't have practically "unlimited" bandwith like the internet. Because of this the carries are extremely interested in making sure that the devices running on their network do not consume excess bandwith.
Everyone phone that is made available for sale by the carriers is extensively tested to make sure it won't tank the wireless network.
The other issue is support. If you have everyone and their grandma using all variety of devices on your "dumb network" then how exactly do you train a customer service organization to support every phone known to man including one made in 1992?
The biggest reason carriers carry phones, is so they can limit the amount of trash on their network.
This is why I believe there is still some hope for a RIM comeback. A much as blackberries suck at multimedia and other "consumer" stuff, they have the lock-down mechanisms in place to make them perfect for the large enterprise.
If you are a person who values GPS, or simply having all of the features you paid for function in your new $500 purchase then you should head over to the XDA forums. Forum users are reporting that GPS locking is impossible to unreliable at best and it could have something to do with Asus' choice of using an aluminum back-plate.
I've already seen this movie...
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Apple's focus is on the consumer market. Period. I've met with Apple Sales representatives multiple times in technology purchasing roles at various companies I've worked for and they aren't shy about stating that you either play by their rules or leave
the discussion.
One of the biggest problems is that large companies want to see things like Product Road Maps. Apple makes it very clear they won't let you know whats going to happen 6 months ahead with any of their products. This really puts the enterprise off in many large companies because they like to know where technology is going in order to plan for it's impact on their infrastructure accordingly.
I don't care if an Indian developer is a genius and the reincarnation of Einstein. If the person can't speak fluent enough English to exercise basic communication skills then you are worthless to me in a business setting ! This isn't limited specifically to Indians but the growing trend of companies to hire extremely intelligent people from foreign counties for pennies that cannot speak but a few words of broken English infuriates me. They may have done well on some written acceptance test but then they throw these poor people into group situations where communication is key to getting any work accomplished and it freezes the entire process.
My job is to gather application requirements and pair new projects up to an appropriate data storage solution. Getting any sort of requirements out of some of these people is frustrating beyond all belief and driving a lot of very good people out of technology. I know it cannot be much better for the poor developers being taught to swim by being thrown into the deep end.
I believe this is a problem beginning to evolve out of the information age when people are now subject to being deluded with so much information that the easiest coping mechanism is to just become numb and tune everything out.
How often are we told that Red Wine is good for longevity only to have another expert state that alcohol consumption is responsible for disease XYZ. Multiple this by a hundred fold and all of a sudden our very state of existence is put into doubt. What do we do? What do we avoid? Maybe we should just not change anything - it's worked so far and is by far the easiest route.
When it was difficult to disseminate information (think print media) only the most important and worthy items were published and thus noticed with more impact creating more permanent neural imprints. Now we are bombarded with so many "facts" that trying to analyze the validity of them all is near impossible even for people you would ordinarily think of as intelligent people.
Is this the price that society has paid for the internet, for near-borg like collectivity? For subjecting ourselves to endless streams of mass media pumping data into our minds 24/7 at speeds computers were designed to handle but the average person is not?
Is brain shutdown and inaction for anything that isn't about to physically rip your leg off quickly becoming the new norm for a majority of people?
Perhaps global warming is just the next expert report on Wine consumption.. so I'll just do whatever I enjoy.
Tradestation is an automated trading platform where you program in routines that monitor the market in some near-real-time fashion and they make the decisions on when to buy or sell for you.
If you are an avid geek, up to learning a new programming language, and have some statistical analysis background, then this platform might be a good option. The goal is that you program your routines during relaxed off trading hours, back-test them against historical market data, and then once satisfied let them go to make all of the emotion-free decisions for you.
I personally don't know that I have the skill needed to protect my fortunes from what amounts to a complicated shell script but for others I'm sure it works fine, or at very least provides the allure of finding the "secret" algorithm to make millions.:)
What you don't understand is that in the sue-happy area of Atlanta peds are WANTING you to hit them so they experience the equivalent of wining the lotto!
I'm sure I will be in the minority here, but I left feeling empty because of the gaping holes in the plot. I left the theater feeling like I had taken about 6 restroom breaks and missed storyline, only I didn't leave once.
Here are the issues I had:
1) Where did the aliens come from, why were they in our galaxy? why did they leave? Would it have been so much to ask to piece together some of the back-story for the viewer so we could relate better to their plight?
2) WTF happened to all of the aliens who knew shit about how to run their starship? Why is it their population consists of 99.999-percent idiotic worker-class drones and what happened to their intelligent leaders? Why did precisely 1 intelligent alien survive this?
3) How believable can it be that this fluid has a very specific dual purpose of a) turning humans into Prawns, and being unleaded gasoline for your starships?
4) The gore was completely over the top and detracted from our enjoyment.
5) We made the mistake of sitting close to the screen and the shaky camera gave me a splitting headache.
I felt like this movie is a lot like the Defying Gravity series on ABC. The movie is trying so hard to tell a heart-wrenching story that the sci-fi aspects become a crappy afterthought for the writers.
Welcome to the Entitlement Culture where all you need to do is ride the system in order to survive. Perhaps this is what happens when Darwinian selection fails because everyone is kept alive not by their intelligence or physical prowess but by a boated government system that rewards the underachievers and celebrates stupidity in the form of Reality Television.
If "Going Green" in a big way will require a bunch of metals that are of finite availability and more scarce than oil, then how long can this mining be sustained before the
price of these "Green" solutions is so high that it makes more sense to return to oil ?
This entire situation appears to me as a mad resource rush due to the earth becoming less sustainable to humans after years of unbridled-growth
and mass consumption. This "doing more with less" mind-set is fine until a great number of first-world countries start to feel the backlash of starvation or forced to institute policies
like birth restrictions.
I just hope that at the very moment the masses start to realize that we've strip mined this rock we're on of all resources and need to look for another home, that we're technologically
advanced enough, and have enough resources left to be able to blast off and move elsewhere.
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The Middle-Class is being redefined as people who can afford basic necessities like food, shelter, clothing and medicine. Want money to enjoy life beyond that? Tough luck!
The trend of omitting an SD Card slot so that people are funneled through cloud services is disappointing. I personally won't be buying any device where I am forced into being Cloud-walled.
A CAR or TRUCK ran into a crowd will also do the same thing. Are you suggesting we ban driving?
Damn them whacky scientists. Me and my girl didn't come out some squirrel's butthole !
They will make a Sushi roll out of said Unicorn meat.
This is why it's called, "hot" mail. Because most of the active accounts are stolen.
I know how everyone loves to dump on the carriers but the "dumb pipe" idea is not feasible for a couple of different reasons. The wireless network doesn't have practically "unlimited" bandwith like the internet. Because of this the carries are extremely interested in making sure that the devices running on their network do not consume excess bandwith. Everyone phone that is made available for sale by the carriers is extensively tested to make sure it won't tank the wireless network. The other issue is support. If you have everyone and their grandma using all variety of devices on your "dumb network" then how exactly do you train a customer service organization to support every phone known to man including one made in 1992? The biggest reason carriers carry phones, is so they can limit the amount of trash on their network.
Endorsed by corporations everywhere in the name of "globalization".
This is why I believe there is still some hope for a RIM comeback. A much as blackberries suck at multimedia and other "consumer" stuff, they have the lock-down mechanisms in place to make them perfect for the large enterprise.
Oracle is aggressively marketing it's ZFA-SA (Storage Appliance) as a competitor to the likes of Netapp and EMC. http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/storage/nas/overview/index.html
If you are a person who values GPS, or simply having all of the features you paid for function in your new $500 purchase then you should head over to the XDA forums. Forum users are reporting that GPS locking is impossible to unreliable at best and it could have something to do with Asus' choice of using an aluminum back-plate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy
Apple's focus is on the consumer market. Period. I've met with Apple Sales representatives multiple times in technology purchasing roles at various companies I've worked for and they aren't shy about stating that you either play by their rules or leave the discussion.
One of the biggest problems is that large companies want to see things like Product Road Maps. Apple makes it very clear they won't let you know whats going to happen 6 months ahead with any of their products. This really puts the enterprise off in many large companies because they like to know where technology is going in order to plan for it's impact on their infrastructure accordingly.
GayDar is a much more advanced technology...
I don't care if an Indian developer is a genius and the reincarnation of Einstein. If the person can't speak fluent enough English to exercise basic communication skills then you are worthless to me in a business setting ! This isn't limited specifically to Indians but the growing trend of companies to hire extremely intelligent people from foreign counties for pennies that cannot speak but a few words of broken English infuriates me. They may have done well on some written acceptance test but then they throw these poor people into group situations where communication is key to getting any work accomplished and it freezes the entire process.
My job is to gather application requirements and pair new projects up to an appropriate data storage solution. Getting any sort of requirements out of some of these people is frustrating beyond all belief and driving a lot of very good people out of technology. I know it cannot be much better for the poor developers being taught to swim by being thrown into the deep end.
Wouldn't work for the likes of Cher and Heidi Montag. Their plastic surgeries change their identity every few weeks !
I believe this is a problem beginning to evolve out of the information age when people are now subject to being deluded with so much information that the easiest coping mechanism is to just become numb and tune everything out.
How often are we told that Red Wine is good for longevity only to have another expert state that alcohol consumption is responsible for disease XYZ. Multiple this by a hundred fold and all of a sudden our very state of existence is put into doubt. What do we do? What do we avoid? Maybe we should just not change anything - it's worked so far and is by far the easiest route.
When it was difficult to disseminate information (think print media) only the most important and worthy items were published and thus noticed with more impact creating more permanent neural imprints. Now we are bombarded with so many "facts" that trying to analyze the validity of them all is near impossible even for people you would ordinarily think of as intelligent people.
Is this the price that society has paid for the internet, for near-borg like collectivity? For subjecting ourselves to endless streams of mass media pumping data into our minds 24/7 at speeds computers were designed to handle but the average person is not?
Is brain shutdown and inaction for anything that isn't about to physically rip your leg off quickly becoming the new norm for a majority of people?
Perhaps global warming is just the next expert report on Wine consumption.. so I'll just do whatever I enjoy.
I think this falls into the TMI catagory.
Tradestation is an automated trading platform where you program in routines that monitor the market in some near-real-time fashion and they make the decisions on when to buy or sell for you.
:)
If you are an avid geek, up to learning a new programming language, and have some statistical analysis background, then this platform might be a good option. The goal is that you program your routines during relaxed off trading hours, back-test them against historical market data, and then once satisfied let them go to make all of the emotion-free decisions for you.
I personally don't know that I have the skill needed to protect my fortunes from what amounts to a complicated shell script but for others I'm sure it works fine, or at very least provides the allure of finding the "secret" algorithm to make millions.
What you don't understand is that in the sue-happy area of Atlanta peds are WANTING you to hit them so they experience the equivalent of wining the lotto!
I'm sure I will be in the minority here, but I left feeling empty because of the gaping holes in the plot. I left the theater feeling like I had taken about 6 restroom breaks and missed storyline, only I didn't leave once.
Here are the issues I had:
1) Where did the aliens come from, why were they in our galaxy? why did they leave? Would it have been so much to ask to piece together some of the back-story for the viewer so we could relate better to their plight?
2) WTF happened to all of the aliens who knew shit about how to run their starship? Why is it their population consists of 99.999-percent idiotic worker-class drones and what happened to their intelligent leaders? Why did precisely 1 intelligent alien survive this?
3) How believable can it be that this fluid has a very specific dual purpose of a) turning humans into Prawns, and being unleaded gasoline for your starships?
4) The gore was completely over the top and detracted from our enjoyment.
5) We made the mistake of sitting close to the screen and the shaky camera gave me a splitting headache.
I felt like this movie is a lot like the Defying Gravity series on ABC. The movie is trying so hard to tell a heart-wrenching story that the sci-fi aspects become a crappy afterthought for the writers.
so far everything seems to be working GREA NO CARRIER
Welcome to the Entitlement Culture where all you need to do is ride the system in order to survive. Perhaps this is what happens when Darwinian selection fails because everyone is kept alive not by their intelligence or physical prowess but by a boated government system that rewards the underachievers and celebrates stupidity in the form of Reality Television.
If "Going Green" in a big way will require a bunch of metals that are of finite availability and more scarce than oil, then how long can this mining be sustained before the price of these "Green" solutions is so high that it makes more sense to return to oil ?
This entire situation appears to me as a mad resource rush due to the earth becoming less sustainable to humans after years of unbridled-growth and mass consumption. This "doing more with less" mind-set is fine until a great number of first-world countries start to feel the backlash of starvation or forced to institute policies like birth restrictions.
I just hope that at the very moment the masses start to realize that we've strip mined this rock we're on of all resources and need to look for another home, that we're technologically advanced enough, and have enough resources left to be able to blast off and move elsewhere.
Maybe we should start using stimulus money to build some type of theme park, maybe on a remote island.