It's bad because the carot of working hard in a technical field is gone. When you work hard, go into debt... Then the top companies in the field get somebody slightly better overseas.
I've mentioned before, part of the problem is simple numbers. You have the top of the Chinese and Indian middle class sending their kids here because of political reasons (racism, etc). Those countries EACH have 4x the population, so their "top 5%" graduates outnumber our top 1% grads.
Being a medical device means it has a profit killing paper trail.
I suspect that warranty required is one reason the cost is "stepped on". The other reason would be that there is a lot of customer service involved in fitting, moulding for each customer. That makes a high raw material and staffing cost.
Microsoft doesn't make drivers, they repackage and sign what vendors send them.
I wouldn't give up on a service pack just yet. I would expect it after Windows 8 is released and any cross-version bugs are found. THEN it will be the last one.
Because those buildings were made so much safer being warned?
An earthquake warning would be days or months... Obviously, the town was not prepared for ANY quake, other than a warning to go outside while your house falls down???
The town didn't prepare for the quakes, they knew there WOUKD be one, even if it was 10 years away. The scientists are only "guilty" of not telling people to run and hide from something that might not happen today. Obviously, "spend ten years building safe buildings for everybody" wasn't heeded either.
You can predict that AN EARTHQUAKE will happen. We know San Francisco is GOING to get nailed... At this point with science nobody can tell you within a year... Till its already happening. Anybody claiming to know closer than that is just luck guessing.
Back to my point, they KNOW this place has severe quakes on a close timespan... Something that can be planned for like 20 years. They are CHOOSING to wait for warnings instead of fix or condemn buildings. THAT is the higher crime here.
Unless you are dealing with some very regular activity like Hawaii or Yellowstone, no scientist is going to give you warning from here to Halloween. Even if they gave a 7-day forecast... It would happen on day 8. Blame Murphy. Unless these people are going to evacuate the town until ALL structures are up to earthquake code NO AMOUNT of warning will be enough.
No credible scientist can give results more than a week our that are meaningful. The science of earthquakes might give us hous notice or years notice... But not a week... Anybody saying different is selling something. Even if they said there was an earthquake this year, would people refit their home to be safe???
The REAL PROBLEM is that these people live in an area known for severe earthquakes every 10-20 years. And yet nobody makes them build proper, safe dwellings. They KNOW their buildings are going to fall, and they rely on somebody to "cry wolf" in time?? That is far more careless.
Two comparisons. First, the PROBABILITY of being hit by lightening, in a thunderstorm, waving a gold-plated golfclub is still almost zero. Now will any scientist tell YOU to do that? Of course not because the lightening IS going to hit the ground somewhere, for sure.
Better example. Routine check of a bridge in daily use says its dangerous. It didn't fall down when the bridge didn't know it was dangerous. Why would it fall down tomorrow if nothing changes? Statistically, it's like asking if I can drive my truck acceoss the bridge one more time because I have an important delivery... Will it fall down? One day, five days... If it doesn't fall pretty soon, I get sued for wasting time, they take down the sign and six school busses drive over and crash horribly.
So was it "my fault" for letting a few more people drive across one time?
Most carriers are the ones footing the bill. I wonder how many stolen phones turn over to paying accounts?
My opinion is that most are either sold for money for drugs, or they are used by drug dealers until the phone is turned off... If "bad people" are using them, chances are law enforcement wants the phones left active to see where they go.
This is definately a "blame the victim" move... Pretty low for the courts.
I don't see what good it would do? Unless the kid was bragging about breaking into houses or getting into fights, there's not much gonna clear the guy. In fact, if the kid tweets about being followed once before, even if he's upset about it, then it's only going to backfire.
No, the TSA is above even the President ordering them around... They are their own special beastie now. Congress never had control of them.
Their mandate is TOTAL SECURITY. They pull old machines off the busy airports and move them to smaller, slower airports... Then they'll need to cover Trains (have you serm Galaxy Railways) and Busses (think of Speed) too.
And prior to "CPU WARS" power inflation, most home computers had under 150w power supplies unless you needed something different.
A better point is that an iPad full bore pulls 10 watts. Arguably, an iPad is as powerful as a PC from 5 years ago. So why aren't PCs keeping up.
I do almost all my computing on iPhone, iPad, and MacBook now. My power bill certainly likes it. My one desktop actually does power management under Ubuntu better than it ever did under windows. It's actually wakes up from true hibernate.
As a comparison, my work appointed 2010 HP eliteBook can't last a weekend with just closing the lid. My 2007 MacBook will last better part of a week.. And restart faster.
Of course my personal worst offender are XBox 360. They are hell on your electric bill... Like buying an extra deep freezer...
The mapping only covers the building. As a parent they SHOULD know where kids are. I know parents that would walk their kids to the door of the school... And then the kids would walk right out again. But it was all the parents fault the kid wasn't in school.
Of course on Texas the criminalize everything because that gives educators a free pass not to deal with social problems... And then the "lawbreakers" don't count in test scores and other metrics.
Also, this will give administrators a way to count kids in emergencies. At least to know where people are moving, combine with cameras can get kids out of the way.
Because we need a metric that can be measured with a daily KPI to show progress. This is what happens when you expect to apply "business rules" other places on society not based on monetary results.
Ironically, so many are drinking the "corporate" line that they would just blow it off.. After all KIDS aren't "citizen", college students, new employees, etc... They have to "earn" freedom. The fundies in the south are big on "earning" things... And corporations are foot at keeping that carrot just out of reach.
I agree. The power draw of video cards has gotten childish and wasteful. The last PC I built needed a 500 watt power supply just to be "stable" using lower end parts. ("Green" edition HDD, single slot non-vacuum cleaner video card, etc) That's just terribly inefficient. My laptops are all using 65 watt external supplies... And they are faster in everything but graphics.
It's time somebody nip these guys... When PCs are using more power than refrigerators, there's a serious problem with priorities. (XBox 360 is even worse)
This is like the Janet Jackson Wardrobe malfunction a few editions of the "professional pigskin championship" ago.
I was actually watching WHEN it happened and it was under 2 seconds. On a super long range shot. In the middle of a football field.
In short NOBODY in the stands could have identified what happened. Nobody without rewind, pause, and frame-by-frame could see it. It was only news because they made it news, and a bunch of people that NEVER SAW it when it happened made a bunch of noise.
You still have to have some ID number so the tower can find you and route your encrypted packets. The device has to "check in" and get the new keys for each tower... Thats what this attack is.
Unless you are going to use a device with pre-approved encryption keys, on pre-approved towers to create a "closed" network you are going to have to need some kind of ID that's visible. At which point you've entirely defeated the idea of sharing your device on multiple networks to get the best signal as you drive across town or the state.
This is specifically about buying things PUTSIDE the US that are comparable to here... Or the "gray market" items... Books, DVDs, TVs that have the generic "certification" but a different "model number" than what's sold at retail here.
Silly example, Sory TV 1a is sold for $200... Some guy in Hong Kong sells Sory TV 1b for $100 that is EXACTLY THE SAME, from the same factory even... Even has the same "FCC certified" sticker for customs.
Companies don't want "individuals" buying products at different prices overseas and selling them here cheaper.
This will be a boon to US "companies"... You know the "designed in California" "built in China" guys....
This is about books... So the company wants its USA copyright to apply everywhere, but sell the same book for $20 outside the US and for $100 inside the US. Basically they want "shrink wrap" license on books similar to region coding on DVDs.
I don't see how you think any ACTIVE radio transmitter can't be tracked? By definition, phones connect to towers and that gets logged for network purposes. All these people are doing is adding their own radio to the mix, which your phone happily pings to see if ithat "tower" useful. That's the whole definition of a network and "cellular" communication.
Next thing you know, they'll be telling me my IP address is in EVERY packet I send and receive on the Internet!!!!
The sheer amount of material needed to build a Dyson Sphere is fantastically unpractical. The earth covers 60 times its surface circumference in a day. That's 23,000 times the circumference just to build a "ring world"... Volume CUBES that number.
A space civilization would have to move MANY entire solar systems just for a simple "halo" size ring world....
I could see sol-centric orbiting stations to gather power as the earth visits each one throughout the year... But a Dyson Shpere is WAY say that... If they didn't want to be found, WE veritably wouldn't find them.
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It's bad because the carot of working hard in a technical field is gone. When you work hard, go into debt... Then the top companies in the field get somebody slightly better overseas.
I've mentioned before, part of the problem is simple numbers. You have the top of the Chinese and Indian middle class sending their kids here because of political reasons (racism, etc). Those countries EACH have 4x the population, so their "top 5%" graduates outnumber our top 1% grads.
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Medical Device
Being a medical device means it has a profit killing paper trail.
I suspect that warranty required is one reason the cost is "stepped on". The other reason would be that there is a lot of customer service involved in fitting, moulding for each customer. That makes a high raw material and staffing cost.
Microsoft doesn't make drivers, they repackage and sign what vendors send them.
I wouldn't give up on a service pack just yet. I would expect it after Windows 8 is released and any cross-version bugs are found. THEN it will be the last one.
Because those buildings were made so much safer being warned?
An earthquake warning would be days or months... Obviously, the town was not prepared for ANY quake, other than a warning to go outside while your house falls down???
The town didn't prepare for the quakes, they knew there WOUKD be one, even if it was 10 years away. The scientists are only "guilty" of not telling people to run and hide from something that might not happen today. Obviously, "spend ten years building safe buildings for everybody" wasn't heeded either.
You can predict that AN EARTHQUAKE will happen. We know San Francisco is GOING to get nailed... At this point with science nobody can tell you within a year... Till its already happening. Anybody claiming to know closer than that is just luck guessing.
Back to my point, they KNOW this place has severe quakes on a close timespan... Something that can be planned for like 20 years. They are CHOOSING to wait for warnings instead of fix or condemn buildings. THAT is the higher crime here.
Unless you are dealing with some very regular activity like Hawaii or Yellowstone, no scientist is going to give you warning from here to Halloween. Even if they gave a 7-day forecast... It would happen on day 8. Blame Murphy. Unless these people are going to evacuate the town until ALL structures are up to earthquake code NO AMOUNT of warning will be enough.
No credible scientist can give results more than a week our that are meaningful. The science of earthquakes might give us hous notice or years notice... But not a week... Anybody saying different is selling something. Even if they said there was an earthquake this year, would people refit their home to be safe???
The REAL PROBLEM is that these people live in an area known for severe earthquakes every 10-20 years. And yet nobody makes them build proper, safe dwellings. They KNOW their buildings are going to fall, and they rely on somebody to "cry wolf" in time?? That is far more careless.
Two comparisons. First, the PROBABILITY of being hit by lightening, in a thunderstorm, waving a gold-plated golfclub is still almost zero. Now will any scientist tell YOU to do that? Of course not because the lightening IS going to hit the ground somewhere, for sure.
Better example. Routine check of a bridge in daily use says its dangerous. It didn't fall down when the bridge didn't know it was dangerous. Why would it fall down tomorrow if nothing changes? Statistically, it's like asking if I can drive my truck acceoss the bridge one more time because I have an important delivery... Will it fall down? One day, five days... If it doesn't fall pretty soon, I get sued for wasting time, they take down the sign and six school busses drive over and crash horribly.
So was it "my fault" for letting a few more people drive across one time?
And you are much more likely to have other bad things happen to you while you are broke down on some back road wandering around for help.
Most carriers are the ones footing the bill. I wonder how many stolen phones turn over to paying accounts?
My opinion is that most are either sold for money for drugs, or they are used by drug dealers until the phone is turned off... If "bad people" are using them, chances are law enforcement wants the phones left active to see where they go.
This is definately a "blame the victim" move... Pretty low for the courts.
I don't see what good it would do? Unless the kid was bragging about breaking into houses or getting into fights, there's not much gonna clear the guy. In fact, if the kid tweets about being followed once before, even if he's upset about it, then it's only going to backfire.
No, the TSA is above even the President ordering them around... They are their own special beastie now. Congress never had control of them.
Their mandate is TOTAL SECURITY. They pull old machines off the busy airports and move them to smaller, slower airports... Then they'll need to cover Trains (have you serm Galaxy Railways) and Busses (think of Speed) too.
And prior to "CPU WARS" power inflation, most home computers had under 150w power supplies unless you needed something different.
A better point is that an iPad full bore pulls 10 watts. Arguably, an iPad is as powerful as a PC from 5 years ago. So why aren't PCs keeping up.
I do almost all my computing on iPhone, iPad, and MacBook now. My power bill certainly likes it. My one desktop actually does power management under Ubuntu better than it ever did under windows. It's actually wakes up from true hibernate.
As a comparison, my work appointed 2010 HP eliteBook can't last a weekend with just closing the lid. My 2007 MacBook will last better part of a week.. And restart faster.
Of course my personal worst offender are XBox 360. They are hell on your electric bill... Like buying an extra deep freezer...
The mapping only covers the building. As a parent they SHOULD know where kids are. I know parents that would walk their kids to the door of the school... And then the kids would walk right out again. But it was all the parents fault the kid wasn't in school.
Of course on Texas the criminalize everything because that gives educators a free pass not to deal with social problems... And then the "lawbreakers" don't count in test scores and other metrics.
Also, this will give administrators a way to count kids in emergencies. At least to know where people are moving, combine with cameras can get kids out of the way.
Because we need a metric that can be measured with a daily KPI to show progress. This is what happens when you expect to apply "business rules" other places on society not based on monetary results.
Ironically, so many are drinking the "corporate" line that they would just blow it off.. After all KIDS aren't "citizen", college students, new employees, etc... They have to "earn" freedom. The fundies in the south are big on "earning" things... And corporations are foot at keeping that carrot just out of reach.
I agree. The power draw of video cards has gotten childish and wasteful. The last PC I built needed a 500 watt power supply just to be "stable" using lower end parts. ("Green" edition HDD, single slot non-vacuum cleaner video card, etc) That's just terribly inefficient. My laptops are all using 65 watt external supplies... And they are faster in everything but graphics.
It's time somebody nip these guys... When PCs are using more power than refrigerators, there's a serious problem with priorities. (XBox 360 is even worse)
It's still the same thing... A bunch of zealots whipping up people into a frenzy that normally would never have known any better.
The righteous right would like nothing more than getting people in the streets stoning people.. But Americans are too fat & lazy to care.
This is like the Janet Jackson Wardrobe malfunction a few editions of the "professional pigskin championship" ago.
I was actually watching WHEN it happened and it was under 2 seconds. On a super long range shot. In the middle of a football field.
In short NOBODY in the stands could have identified what happened. Nobody without rewind, pause, and frame-by-frame could see it. It was only news because they made it news, and a bunch of people that NEVER SAW it when it happened made a bunch of noise.
That's the same thing happening here.
You still have to have some ID number so the tower can find you and route your encrypted packets. The device has to "check in" and get the new keys for each tower... Thats what this attack is.
Unless you are going to use a device with pre-approved encryption keys, on pre-approved towers to create a "closed" network you are going to have to need some kind of ID that's visible. At which point you've entirely defeated the idea of sharing your device on multiple networks to get the best signal as you drive across town or the state.
That singles you out as one of those IPV6 hipster kiddos!
This is specifically about buying things PUTSIDE the US that are comparable to here... Or the "gray market" items... Books, DVDs, TVs that have the generic "certification" but a different "model number" than what's sold at retail here.
Silly example, Sory TV 1a is sold for $200... Some guy in Hong Kong sells Sory TV 1b for $100 that is EXACTLY THE SAME, from the same factory even... Even has the same "FCC certified" sticker for customs.
Companies don't want "individuals" buying products at different prices overseas and selling them here cheaper.
This will be a boon to US "companies" ... You know the "designed in California" "built in China" guys....
This is about books... So the company wants its USA copyright to apply everywhere, but sell the same book for $20 outside the US and for $100 inside the US. Basically they want "shrink wrap" license on books similar to region coding on DVDs.
I don't see how you think any ACTIVE radio transmitter can't be tracked? By definition, phones connect to towers and that gets logged for network purposes. All these people are doing is adding their own radio to the mix, which your phone happily pings to see if ithat "tower" useful. That's the whole definition of a network and "cellular" communication.
Next thing you know, they'll be telling me my IP address is in EVERY packet I send and receive on the Internet!!!!
If the mob is tracking you, you have bigger problems than "privacy"
The sheer amount of material needed to build a Dyson Sphere is fantastically unpractical. The earth covers 60 times its surface circumference in a day. That's 23,000 times the circumference just to build a "ring world" ... Volume CUBES that number.
A space civilization would have to move MANY entire solar systems just for a simple "halo" size ring world....
I could see sol-centric orbiting stations to gather power as the earth visits each one throughout the year... But a Dyson Shpere is WAY say that... If they didn't want to be found, WE veritably wouldn't find them.