I can hear the Audi, MB and Porsche engines revving already as the executives flee Switzerland. Who, pray tell, will manage these companies going forward?
What some of folks don't realize is its the seesaw nature of many power events that's primarily behind both data corruption and SSD failure. It's a rare rack system that has its own power conditioning and UPS these days (HP NonStop comes to mind) and without it you're subject to whatever the event provides in the way of under/over voltage, spikes, drops, etc. Many times these happen in timeframes too fast for power switching equipment to react and in some cases its that stuff that gets fried first.
When the compiler can show eventual protein expression in the resulting virtual organisms I'll be really impressed. Wonder what the output device will look like?
There's a shocker.. someone painting a rosy picture about green energy that turns out to be fiction. Politicians and scientists (or truth, for that matter) make for the ugliest of bedfellows.
So, I'm working in Grenoble France for a few weeks (US company) and I'm in the middle of some intense dev work so I go to the bistro and get a cary-out lunch and take it back to my desk. You'd have thought I'd grown an extra head the way my French co-workers looked at me. Eventually some guy from the site came and told me it was against the rules to eat at your desks and that in the future I was expected to use all 90 minutes at lunch away from my desk. Most of the French workers there were using 120 minutes of their 90 minute lunch regularly.
As the past head of the USPTO purportedly said, "Everything that can be invented has been invented." They should maybe take a que from him and actually research past patents for prior art. It's become less than a bad joke that you can patent anything these days as long as you make it sound new and obscure.
110% agreement here. Science *is* organized skepticism. Anytime something outside science questions that skepticism, science is ill-served and the subject of inquiry suffers from opinion, supposition and emotion. It morphs into popular culture, politics and (worst of all) "a movement."
You speak of "neutral science" as if there were such a thing. As soon as politicians (of all stripes) saw this as a means of seeing their power increase/decrease it became a political football, not science. Riddle me this; if there were no careers to be made and no funding to be won, as well as no shift in the existing economic power structure, how much would anyone care about this? How much would the warring factions spend? When the hysteria ends and more data becomes available, we can all make rational scientific decisions about this. Until then it's just a freak show on both sides.
A good number of Communications Service Providers (CSPs) still use these for HLR functionality, so you may be occasionally using one without knowing it. Likewise, Verizon FIOS uses them to manage the Network Elements in the FIOS distribution network. Old? Yes. Useless? Not quite yet - despite Oracle's "embrace" of Solaris licensing and Sparc. Kind of like a boa embraces a rabbit..
The textbook industry is the biggest scam in higher ed today. Schools (via bookstores) and authors (usually professors) make amazing margins on ever-changing textbooks when most of what's changing is cosmetic, at best. Just because these fossilized professors don't (or won't) see value in technology doesn't make them right. I'm over 50 and use a tablet for almost everything these days. I've frequently thought technology for technology's sake in education was silly and wasteful, but its time has clearly come. These folks are slouching towards irrelevancy in their fields and don't even want to know why. Dry-rot in the ivy is a much more prevalent problem than many think.
IOS devices are the leading cause of a deprecated Flash. As apple did to client-side Java, it's doing to Flash. Never underestimate the power of millions of Apple fanbois. It's just the way things are..
We'll have paperless offices sometime after the paperless toilet is perfected. People like paper. This will be a generational shift and the paperless generation isn't in power yet.
Is this the same ITU that wanted to charge me $1200 for a single binder of doc back in 2007? They view information as power and want to install themselves as the high priests. Control the Internet? I think not.
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I can hear the Audi, MB and Porsche engines revving already as the executives flee Switzerland. Who, pray tell, will manage these companies going forward?
What some of folks don't realize is its the seesaw nature of many power events that's primarily behind both data corruption and SSD failure. It's a rare rack system that has its own power conditioning and UPS these days (HP NonStop comes to mind) and without it you're subject to whatever the event provides in the way of under/over voltage, spikes, drops, etc. Many times these happen in timeframes too fast for power switching equipment to react and in some cases its that stuff that gets fried first.
Joe Biden says just shoot them out of the sky with a shotgun.
When the compiler can show eventual protein expression in the resulting virtual organisms I'll be really impressed. Wonder what the output device will look like?
There's a shocker.. someone painting a rosy picture about green energy that turns out to be fiction. Politicians and scientists (or truth, for that matter) make for the ugliest of bedfellows.
So, I'm working in Grenoble France for a few weeks (US company) and I'm in the middle of some intense dev work so I go to the bistro and get a cary-out lunch and take it back to my desk. You'd have thought I'd grown an extra head the way my French co-workers looked at me. Eventually some guy from the site came and told me it was against the rules to eat at your desks and that in the future I was expected to use all 90 minutes at lunch away from my desk. Most of the French workers there were using 120 minutes of their 90 minute lunch regularly.
Same planet, different worlds.
..to the new normal. Rapidly approaching the state where regulation complexity exceeds economic effort.
Obama won't like it because it's not made of fairy dust and rainbows. He wants a magical solution where the only output is spring water and sunshine.
Under 5k now..
Within striking distance folks. Sign. The. Petition.
Setup your own decoy and reel him in. It's not hard.
As the past head of the USPTO purportedly said, "Everything that can be invented has been invented." They should maybe take a que from him and actually research past patents for prior art. It's become less than a bad joke that you can patent anything these days as long as you make it sound new and obscure.
http://www.nitroplanes.com/projet-drone-2500mm-kit.html
And it flies. Be afraid, be very afraid..
110% agreement here. Science *is* organized skepticism. Anytime something outside science questions that skepticism, science is ill-served and the subject of inquiry suffers from opinion, supposition and emotion. It morphs into popular culture, politics and (worst of all) "a movement."
You speak of "neutral science" as if there were such a thing. As soon as politicians (of all stripes) saw this as a means of seeing their power increase/decrease it became a political football, not science. Riddle me this; if there were no careers to be made and no funding to be won, as well as no shift in the existing economic power structure, how much would anyone care about this? How much would the warring factions spend? When the hysteria ends and more data becomes available, we can all make rational scientific decisions about this. Until then it's just a freak show on both sides.
A good number of Communications Service Providers (CSPs) still use these for HLR functionality, so you may be occasionally using one without knowing it. Likewise, Verizon FIOS uses them to manage the Network Elements in the FIOS distribution network. Old? Yes. Useless? Not quite yet - despite Oracle's "embrace" of Solaris licensing and Sparc. Kind of like a boa embraces a rabbit..
Daughter going to a state university.
Semester Tuition (17 hours) $8500
Housing $2200
Books $1200
$1200 x 8 = $9,600
That's a lot of iPads and Macbooks.
The textbook industry is the biggest scam in higher ed today. Schools (via bookstores) and authors (usually professors) make amazing margins on ever-changing textbooks when most of what's changing is cosmetic, at best. Just because these fossilized professors don't (or won't) see value in technology doesn't make them right. I'm over 50 and use a tablet for almost everything these days. I've frequently thought technology for technology's sake in education was silly and wasteful, but its time has clearly come. These folks are slouching towards irrelevancy in their fields and don't even want to know why. Dry-rot in the ivy is a much more prevalent problem than many think.
IOS devices are the leading cause of a deprecated Flash. As apple did to client-side Java, it's doing to Flash. Never underestimate the power of millions of Apple fanbois. It's just the way things are..
MySQL is rapidly approaching "who cares?" status. Oracle kills another one.
We'll have paperless offices sometime after the paperless toilet is perfected. People like paper. This will be a generational shift and the paperless generation isn't in power yet.
Just another case of the Obama EPA running amok. Nothing new here, run along..
Kill them with fire!
Is this the same ITU that wanted to charge me $1200 for a single binder of doc back in 2007? They view information as power and want to install themselves as the high priests. Control the Internet? I think not.
Please test this out in Washington DC first. No shortage of ambitious psychopathic executive types there.