I guess the theory is that now the FBI can use your ssn to search and join on every database in the cloud that you have permission to, whether they own and maintain the data or not. I'm not real sure what the big deal is other than by offering a free 250MB of space to host Google can now mine the crap out of it nice and conveniently.
Do your job, don't be a prick, and remember that you are support staff and bring no money directly into the company. In a nutshell, your position garners no more respect than the people who clean the office, but at least you get paid better.
So no more little johnny getting his homework done in the car, or when he's stuck at grammas. And now we have to queue up behind his sisters and brothers while they do their homework on the one machine at home.
That being said, and I haven't read the article, but the only way this would make any sense is if the state basically buys less books with an option to use an electronic one, somehow encouragine more people each year. You can't deny kids book access, and there are still quite a few people that don't own a computer. Especially in California which has a lot of low income immigrant workers. Education should be the great equalizer, not a divider between the haves and have-nots.
This would actually be a great opportunity for the Kindle people to develop a cheap yet sturdy eBook platform. I would imagine that a massive sale like 'every student in california' be a pretty good bargaining to get a good deal. If they could sell it for ~$100/ea its probably well worth it. Or offer some sort of yearly lease or something else.
I always hated the extra dialogue that they had to throw in for lack of a narrative. Like Mancuso had to have what was happening explained to him. And that whole first scene with Jones and the new sonar guy was grueling. As if going through sub school and being trained he would have no grasp of simple concepts of his job.
They pay them a salary. And this whole thing is probably busy work to keep them from surfing porn in their down time. Or they consider it a training exercise.
Its a great little NAS, runs icecast, http, etc just fine. The one thing to keep in mind is that it does not have a math coproc, so anything needs to do floating point is dog slow. For example, I was looking to have it as a solution that would reencode all my mp3s realtime down to 128 or 64 for transmitting over the internet. I don't think this puppy can handle it.
Angelina has aged terribly and pretty much looks like a heroin junky at this point. She was really pretty revolting to even watch in Warrent, as if the movie wasn't bad enough.
I decided to give it a try while waiting for the next Malazan Book of Fallen (which i highly recommend) to be released and I have to say its definately kept my interest, I'm currently on Book 3. I would compare it to the first 3 or 4 books (pre over wordy and characters turning annoying) of WoT as far as story/character development and action. Could do without the softporn, I can do a lot better for free on the internet, but its really pretty sparse. If I haven't read through the series by time the next Malazan book comes out I'll have to make a decision which to do next. They are both two of my favorites.
Indeed. I always find that the best target for my shenanigans is a law firm. It's not like they have a bunch of people sitting around looking for people to sue. These transactions are not covered under the traditional currency/check laws. At least in the US, even a penny is legal tender and can't be rejected because of its denomination (although you can for other reasons. ie: the credit union at work has stopped taking change citing floor weight restrictions). But then these aren't using currency at all. After the first 1000 the law firm can easily figure out what is going on and either stop taking payment altogether, make a minimum payment requirement, or back charge the fee. After which they would then sick their lawyers on TPB, or those who make payment and ensure that they lost a heck of a lot more in legal fees.
At $60 a pop and 10s of hours to play, video games are all about entertainment. If they don't entertain they don't sell. This minimizes any insight into any sort of sensetive situation. No matter what choices people make it has to be made fun, whether you decide to be the hero or the villain. If its not fun, you fail. Compare this to movies where people often look for insight into a situation over entertainment. Take for example Schindler's List. People lined up and happily paid ~$10 for a 3 hour cry fest that delved into the human condition and tragedy. And even the most callis people walked out an emotional train wreck (for the most part).
Now try taking that same thing and making it into a $60 30 hour video game. You'll sell about 10 copies and halfway through people will start shoveling people into the ovens themselves looking for some fun.
Point is, all media is not equal in story telling. And all people are not good directors, so a build your own story line often fails. There's a reason Spielburg is rich, he's good at what he does.
Now I'm not anti video game. I simply take them as what they are and don't try to sell them off as anything more than entertainment. Not once in CoD did I think about the ramifications of flame throwing a dude, or shooting a dog.
Reality is that once a company takes over the infrastructure at a large company it is next to impossible to get rid of them. In the end, the ones who own every single machine that runs your entire business are the ones who have the other by the balls. Oh sure there are slaps on the wrist, but its a marriage with a prenup that neither party would ever be willing to pay.
How does a fortune 30 that doesn't own a single desktop/server/infrastructure/help desk dump their provider? They can't.
Did lockheed actually own these machines, or do they lease them? My guess is LM (like most larger companies) has a contract with someone like CSC/IBM/etc who actually owns, maintains, and replaces machines. This is probably where the ball was dropped. Every 3 years here CSC replaces 10s of thousands of PCs that they are itching to sell off before they depreciate into worthlessness. I can certainly see them taking short cuts, or missing a few. This is the problem with outsourcing IT infrastructure. They don't always really understand or care about the same thing as you.
I dunno. Still doesn't seem to make much sense as work is charged back by the hour, not by the year. Actually by the 6 minute. Nobody charges full time back to the government so the hour/yr makes no sense. The accounting rules are very specific as to what you can charge back and what you can't. For example, your weekly staff meetings go to overhead charge numbers, not back to the customer/government. Now I'm talking today, not 30 years ago which is when this apparently is from. A lot has changed since then I'm sure.
This guy doesn't work directly for the government. I'll assume its cost plus work that he's doing, so Rockwell charges his hours directly back to the government. However, they don't charge his hourly rate, they charge Rockwells hourly rate for his job position, which is more than his personal calculated take home (or Rockwell would be making no money on his work). So the real losers here would seemingly be Rockwell as they have to pay him out of their pool of money and the $0.02/hr would come out of their profits.
Employees don't have individual rates. It typically goes by job title/position, ie: assoc engineer time is worth $120/hr, senior is worth $200/hr (purely made up numbers, not sure on the actual rate or title names), etc.
If its not cost plus then this is even more confusing as Rockwell is working to a contract dollar value and any extra pay again would come out of their profits. The accounting doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Unless this is some special case in which the numbers of people it would affect would seem pretty small.
I care more about getting 10Mb for $40/mo. There is no way I'm forking over $1200/year for internet. I have no use for that kind of bandwidth, way overkill for me, and I'd imagine most people.
A 747 is huge and its pretty difficult to really guage its proximity and altitude. I can easily see peoples hearts jumping if you suddenly looked up and saw this. I work near an airport and when the light and angles are just right the eyes can play some pretty nasty tricks. I remember one time driving in and having my heart jump out of my chest simply because the angle that a 777 was taking off and climbing made it appear to almost stall in the air. For that split second I thought for sure it was crashing.
While I do agree this is a pretty difficult task, in a sense it will be easier for the computer. All of the questions are valid and parsable and correct for the answer. The computer won't get tripped up or chuckle to itself over the puns, etc. It'll just get to the answer.
I'm a little confused about how this makes a foreign flagged ship with arms on any different? This has nothing to do with whether they are secured and safe. It has to do with foreign flagged ships existing in US (or any other that deems things the same) territory with weapons. It's simply not allowed, whether they are secure or not.
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I guess the theory is that now the FBI can use your ssn to search and join on every database in the cloud that you have permission to, whether they own and maintain the data or not. I'm not real sure what the big deal is other than by offering a free 250MB of space to host Google can now mine the crap out of it nice and conveniently.
The real question is has it already.
Do your job, don't be a prick, and remember that you are support staff and bring no money directly into the company. In a nutshell, your position garners no more respect than the people who clean the office, but at least you get paid better.
So no more little johnny getting his homework done in the car, or when he's stuck at grammas. And now we have to queue up behind his sisters and brothers while they do their homework on the one machine at home. That being said, and I haven't read the article, but the only way this would make any sense is if the state basically buys less books with an option to use an electronic one, somehow encouragine more people each year. You can't deny kids book access, and there are still quite a few people that don't own a computer. Especially in California which has a lot of low income immigrant workers. Education should be the great equalizer, not a divider between the haves and have-nots. This would actually be a great opportunity for the Kindle people to develop a cheap yet sturdy eBook platform. I would imagine that a massive sale like 'every student in california' be a pretty good bargaining to get a good deal. If they could sell it for ~$100/ea its probably well worth it. Or offer some sort of yearly lease or something else.
The only memory we'll have of them is our inability to form proper sentences and actually spell words with more than 2 letters.
They can use their newfound love for math to keep track of the national debt.
I always hated the extra dialogue that they had to throw in for lack of a narrative. Like Mancuso had to have what was happening explained to him. And that whole first scene with Jones and the new sonar guy was grueling. As if going through sub school and being trained he would have no grasp of simple concepts of his job.
They pay them a salary. And this whole thing is probably busy work to keep them from surfing porn in their down time. Or they consider it a training exercise.
Its a great little NAS, runs icecast, http, etc just fine. The one thing to keep in mind is that it does not have a math coproc, so anything needs to do floating point is dog slow. For example, I was looking to have it as a solution that would reencode all my mp3s realtime down to 128 or 64 for transmitting over the internet. I don't think this puppy can handle it.
Maybe it was because audience size couldn't draw in the advertising to cover production costs and make a profit?
Angelina has aged terribly and pretty much looks like a heroin junky at this point. She was really pretty revolting to even watch in Warrent, as if the movie wasn't bad enough.
I decided to give it a try while waiting for the next Malazan Book of Fallen (which i highly recommend) to be released and I have to say its definately kept my interest, I'm currently on Book 3. I would compare it to the first 3 or 4 books (pre over wordy and characters turning annoying) of WoT as far as story/character development and action. Could do without the softporn, I can do a lot better for free on the internet, but its really pretty sparse. If I haven't read through the series by time the next Malazan book comes out I'll have to make a decision which to do next. They are both two of my favorites.
I much prefer the good old days where they would hang out in all the hotel bars looking for a John. Craiglist is too much work.
Indeed. I always find that the best target for my shenanigans is a law firm. It's not like they have a bunch of people sitting around looking for people to sue. These transactions are not covered under the traditional currency/check laws. At least in the US, even a penny is legal tender and can't be rejected because of its denomination (although you can for other reasons. ie: the credit union at work has stopped taking change citing floor weight restrictions). But then these aren't using currency at all. After the first 1000 the law firm can easily figure out what is going on and either stop taking payment altogether, make a minimum payment requirement, or back charge the fee. After which they would then sick their lawyers on TPB, or those who make payment and ensure that they lost a heck of a lot more in legal fees.
At $60 a pop and 10s of hours to play, video games are all about entertainment. If they don't entertain they don't sell. This minimizes any insight into any sort of sensetive situation. No matter what choices people make it has to be made fun, whether you decide to be the hero or the villain. If its not fun, you fail. Compare this to movies where people often look for insight into a situation over entertainment. Take for example Schindler's List. People lined up and happily paid ~$10 for a 3 hour cry fest that delved into the human condition and tragedy. And even the most callis people walked out an emotional train wreck (for the most part).
Now try taking that same thing and making it into a $60 30 hour video game. You'll sell about 10 copies and halfway through people will start shoveling people into the ovens themselves looking for some fun.
Point is, all media is not equal in story telling. And all people are not good directors, so a build your own story line often fails. There's a reason Spielburg is rich, he's good at what he does.
Now I'm not anti video game. I simply take them as what they are and don't try to sell them off as anything more than entertainment. Not once in CoD did I think about the ramifications of flame throwing a dude, or shooting a dog.
Can't wait to see the blog on 101 ways to turn your free piece of crap laptop into a crack pipe.
Reality is that once a company takes over the infrastructure at a large company it is next to impossible to get rid of them. In the end, the ones who own every single machine that runs your entire business are the ones who have the other by the balls. Oh sure there are slaps on the wrist, but its a marriage with a prenup that neither party would ever be willing to pay. How does a fortune 30 that doesn't own a single desktop/server/infrastructure/help desk dump their provider? They can't.
Did lockheed actually own these machines, or do they lease them? My guess is LM (like most larger companies) has a contract with someone like CSC/IBM/etc who actually owns, maintains, and replaces machines. This is probably where the ball was dropped. Every 3 years here CSC replaces 10s of thousands of PCs that they are itching to sell off before they depreciate into worthlessness. I can certainly see them taking short cuts, or missing a few. This is the problem with outsourcing IT infrastructure. They don't always really understand or care about the same thing as you.
I dunno. Still doesn't seem to make much sense as work is charged back by the hour, not by the year. Actually by the 6 minute. Nobody charges full time back to the government so the hour/yr makes no sense. The accounting rules are very specific as to what you can charge back and what you can't. For example, your weekly staff meetings go to overhead charge numbers, not back to the customer/government. Now I'm talking today, not 30 years ago which is when this apparently is from. A lot has changed since then I'm sure.
This guy doesn't work directly for the government. I'll assume its cost plus work that he's doing, so Rockwell charges his hours directly back to the government. However, they don't charge his hourly rate, they charge Rockwells hourly rate for his job position, which is more than his personal calculated take home (or Rockwell would be making no money on his work). So the real losers here would seemingly be Rockwell as they have to pay him out of their pool of money and the $0.02/hr would come out of their profits.
Employees don't have individual rates. It typically goes by job title/position, ie: assoc engineer time is worth $120/hr, senior is worth $200/hr (purely made up numbers, not sure on the actual rate or title names), etc.
If its not cost plus then this is even more confusing as Rockwell is working to a contract dollar value and any extra pay again would come out of their profits. The accounting doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Unless this is some special case in which the numbers of people it would affect would seem pretty small.
I care more about getting 10Mb for $40/mo. There is no way I'm forking over $1200/year for internet. I have no use for that kind of bandwidth, way overkill for me, and I'd imagine most people.
A 747 is huge and its pretty difficult to really guage its proximity and altitude. I can easily see peoples hearts jumping if you suddenly looked up and saw this. I work near an airport and when the light and angles are just right the eyes can play some pretty nasty tricks. I remember one time driving in and having my heart jump out of my chest simply because the angle that a 777 was taking off and climbing made it appear to almost stall in the air. For that split second I thought for sure it was crashing.
The Yahoo/MSN cam bot girls already do this pretty well. The correct question for everything is always, "want to see me naked on cam?"
While I do agree this is a pretty difficult task, in a sense it will be easier for the computer. All of the questions are valid and parsable and correct for the answer. The computer won't get tripped up or chuckle to itself over the puns, etc. It'll just get to the answer.
I'm a little confused about how this makes a foreign flagged ship with arms on any different? This has nothing to do with whether they are secured and safe. It has to do with foreign flagged ships existing in US (or any other that deems things the same) territory with weapons. It's simply not allowed, whether they are secure or not.