Detailed PDF's and CAD drawings are the WORST use of an ipad, it's sluggish as all get out. The ipad2 is slightly better but the performance was still bad enough that we altered our siteplan build process to create PNG's for ipad use. We're not talking mega-complex drawings here either, just stick outlines of shopping plazas with the parking lot layout shown.
I bought my kids an Arnova 10 G2 which is available with a capacitive screen for $191, not bad for a 10" tablet with a 1Ghz processor, 512MB of ram, 4GB of internal storage and an SD slot. The stock rom is a bit limited but there's a rooted ROM with Google apps available from the community. I'm looking forward to ICS since Archos has already shown it on tablets running the same processor. The battery life is pretty good too, probably 8 hours if you're not playing flash heavy content. I left it for a day with WiFi turned off and the battery only went down 1%.
Yes but about $16/month less. If you don't have a spouse then dropping cable might be an acceptable solution but mine wouldn't allow it as she is often like what the article describes, just wanting to veg out, plus you lose sports with your solution which might not matter for some geeks but it matters for me.
I can't imagine life without a PVR, being a slave to some executives scheduling decisions is no way to lead your life. It also helps that my PVR includes comskip so I spend 1/3rd less time watching tv and my kids aren't bombarded by relentless advertising.
Ah, but isn't it? Money is nothing more than stored work and work is of course energy. The real value of money can't grow any faster than we can do more work and that is ultimately limited by manpower and energy. That's why I think we need to move onto renewable source just as much as environmental concerns, basing our economy on a very small fixed supply of energy will ultimately fail.
You seem to idealize unbridled capitalism, it's far from a panacea. You had children losing limbs because it was cheaper to have them reach into machinery than buy auto-oilers, you had people quite literally die from exhaustion on the assembly line and be carted away and replaced so that production wasn't halted for even a minute.
Here's an interesting graph, the hocky stick change in rates happens to coincide with Reagen's second election, the first to involve large donations (Carter and Reagan both took only public funds in 80).
Best of all they borrow the money to buy the treasury bills at the fed's discount window so it's essentially free. Why the fed doesn't buy the t-bills directly and cut out the billions in payments to the banking middle men I don't understand, other than the fact that it's effectively another bailout that nobody talks about.
The market certainly thinks federal debt is really, really safe because the ten your T-bill currently has a yield below even our anemic inflation. People are effectively paying the government to hold their money in exchange for US debt.
Because the moneyed interests that started to control Congress in the late 80's are playing the long game. Very few people in the general population understand inflation (heck even Einstein said he didn't really understand compounding interest) and so even if when they are made aware of such legislation or rule making it doesn't sink in what the effect will be in a generation.
Intel has a major process advantage over everyone else in the industry and with the introduction of the 3D trigate they'll be able to bring leakage current down significantly. I imagine they'll be able to get similar battery life to ARM based solutions with significantly better burst performance. However I'm not sure how much that matters since quad core A9's are already pretty powerful for most users, especially with GPU cores available for the heavy lifting in games and video.
Sense is awesome, it genuinely adds to the user experience. When I'm up for a replacement on my EVO Shift I'm hoping Sprint has a new slider from HTC so I can get Sense again. The email app makes dealing with the large number of emails generated by our monitoring system as easy as it was on the Blackberry which no other phone I've used has been able to accomplish.
That's only true with very expensive solid state components that didn't exist when the decision to go AC was made and it also ignores the fact that DC branching is extremely complex so it only works when you are moving power from generation site to large single use site, a wider grid is much harder to do with DC.
No, there are no records requiring public companies to keep email for any period of time besides FRCP's provisions for reasonableness which 90 days certainly covers, but for custodians in a suit you must start retaining records as soon as you know about a lawsuit or should have known about a lawsuit. That being said certain business records must be kept for longer, but they need not be kept in the email system. We keep our business records in our enterprise content management system.
No, any backup tapes cannot exist longer than the retention period or they are open to discovery. Hell we had opposing council ask if we could produce previous backups on overwritten tapes, that was shot down as being technically unlikely and financially untenable.
The problem is they are allowing the infrastructure to crumble in the productive parts of the state all the while building bridges to nowhere because it's politically expedient. I have no problem with welfare, I DO have a problem with being against welfare but implementing it in another guise while kicking poor people in the nads because they happen to have a different skin color than you. I truly love this state, but I also truly despise most of the government in it (Democrats included, we have some of the most corrupt politicians outside Chicago).
That's not true at ALL, FRCP makes zero distinction between the media of communications, all relevant records need to be turned over. Likewise the SEC has required that all financial communications between traders and clients be kept no matter the media so financial institutions must not allow chat programs unless they go through a logging proxy.
That's nice, in Ohio they just tax the Democratic cities to pay for make work projects in the rural parts of the state. One project that really pissed me off was widening to 5 lanes a rural state route in the southeast portion of the state which quite literally sees less traffic than the road in front of my house which is also a state route but which was allowed to turn into a mad-max style pothole maze.
BS, the ROV Tiburon was only $6M and is MUCH more complex than you would need for a simple retrieval mission. Hell, they use ROV's for work on deep water drilling platforms all the time, they rent in the range of $10k per day plus technician travel and fees.
I meant restarted, but frankly for our VM's restarting the service and rebooting the machine take about the same amount of time and since the load balancers can just take the node out a rolling reboot isn't a big deal.
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No, I don't know that inexpensive Android tablets "suck bad". My kids are very much enjoying their $191 10" Android tablet.
Detailed PDF's and CAD drawings are the WORST use of an ipad, it's sluggish as all get out. The ipad2 is slightly better but the performance was still bad enough that we altered our siteplan build process to create PNG's for ipad use. We're not talking mega-complex drawings here either, just stick outlines of shopping plazas with the parking lot layout shown.
Uh, it runs the same OS, I really doubt they bothered to remove the hooks from the ipad build....
I bought my kids an Arnova 10 G2 which is available with a capacitive screen for $191, not bad for a 10" tablet with a 1Ghz processor, 512MB of ram, 4GB of internal storage and an SD slot. The stock rom is a bit limited but there's a rooted ROM with Google apps available from the community. I'm looking forward to ICS since Archos has already shown it on tablets running the same processor. The battery life is pretty good too, probably 8 hours if you're not playing flash heavy content. I left it for a day with WiFi turned off and the battery only went down 1%.
Don't throw words like free market around unless you know what they mean =)
No, a free market requires perfect substitute goods, proprietary storage is exactly the opposite of a free market!
Yes but about $16/month less. If you don't have a spouse then dropping cable might be an acceptable solution but mine wouldn't allow it as she is often like what the article describes, just wanting to veg out, plus you lose sports with your solution which might not matter for some geeks but it matters for me.
I can't imagine life without a PVR, being a slave to some executives scheduling decisions is no way to lead your life. It also helps that my PVR includes comskip so I spend 1/3rd less time watching tv and my kids aren't bombarded by relentless advertising.
Ah, but isn't it? Money is nothing more than stored work and work is of course energy. The real value of money can't grow any faster than we can do more work and that is ultimately limited by manpower and energy. That's why I think we need to move onto renewable source just as much as environmental concerns, basing our economy on a very small fixed supply of energy will ultimately fail.
You seem to idealize unbridled capitalism, it's far from a panacea. You had children losing limbs because it was cheaper to have them reach into machinery than buy auto-oilers, you had people quite literally die from exhaustion on the assembly line and be carted away and replaced so that production wasn't halted for even a minute.
Here's an interesting graph, the hocky stick change in rates happens to coincide with Reagen's second election, the first to involve large donations (Carter and Reagan both took only public funds in 80).
Best of all they borrow the money to buy the treasury bills at the fed's discount window so it's essentially free. Why the fed doesn't buy the t-bills directly and cut out the billions in payments to the banking middle men I don't understand, other than the fact that it's effectively another bailout that nobody talks about.
The market certainly thinks federal debt is really, really safe because the ten your T-bill currently has a yield below even our anemic inflation. People are effectively paying the government to hold their money in exchange for US debt.
Because the moneyed interests that started to control Congress in the late 80's are playing the long game. Very few people in the general population understand inflation (heck even Einstein said he didn't really understand compounding interest) and so even if when they are made aware of such legislation or rule making it doesn't sink in what the effect will be in a generation.
This was a direct response to Windows 8 on ARM.
Intel has a major process advantage over everyone else in the industry and with the introduction of the 3D trigate they'll be able to bring leakage current down significantly. I imagine they'll be able to get similar battery life to ARM based solutions with significantly better burst performance. However I'm not sure how much that matters since quad core A9's are already pretty powerful for most users, especially with GPU cores available for the heavy lifting in games and video.
Sense is awesome, it genuinely adds to the user experience. When I'm up for a replacement on my EVO Shift I'm hoping Sprint has a new slider from HTC so I can get Sense again. The email app makes dealing with the large number of emails generated by our monitoring system as easy as it was on the Blackberry which no other phone I've used has been able to accomplish.
That's only true with very expensive solid state components that didn't exist when the decision to go AC was made and it also ignores the fact that DC branching is extremely complex so it only works when you are moving power from generation site to large single use site, a wider grid is much harder to do with DC.
No, there are no records requiring public companies to keep email for any period of time besides FRCP's provisions for reasonableness which 90 days certainly covers, but for custodians in a suit you must start retaining records as soon as you know about a lawsuit or should have known about a lawsuit. That being said certain business records must be kept for longer, but they need not be kept in the email system. We keep our business records in our enterprise content management system.
No, any backup tapes cannot exist longer than the retention period or they are open to discovery. Hell we had opposing council ask if we could produce previous backups on overwritten tapes, that was shot down as being technically unlikely and financially untenable.
The problem is they are allowing the infrastructure to crumble in the productive parts of the state all the while building bridges to nowhere because it's politically expedient. I have no problem with welfare, I DO have a problem with being against welfare but implementing it in another guise while kicking poor people in the nads because they happen to have a different skin color than you. I truly love this state, but I also truly despise most of the government in it (Democrats included, we have some of the most corrupt politicians outside Chicago).
That's not true at ALL, FRCP makes zero distinction between the media of communications, all relevant records need to be turned over. Likewise the SEC has required that all financial communications between traders and clients be kept no matter the media so financial institutions must not allow chat programs unless they go through a logging proxy.
That's nice, in Ohio they just tax the Democratic cities to pay for make work projects in the rural parts of the state. One project that really pissed me off was widening to 5 lanes a rural state route in the southeast portion of the state which quite literally sees less traffic than the road in front of my house which is also a state route but which was allowed to turn into a mad-max style pothole maze.
BS, the ROV Tiburon was only $6M and is MUCH more complex than you would need for a simple retrieval mission. Hell, they use ROV's for work on deep water drilling platforms all the time, they rent in the range of $10k per day plus technician travel and fees.
I meant restarted, but frankly for our VM's restarting the service and rebooting the machine take about the same amount of time and since the load balancers can just take the node out a rolling reboot isn't a big deal.