the minimum wage stayed fixed for almost 9 years. We did let inflation show! By the time the feds got around to changing it, it was so pathetic even McDonald's was hiring for nearly twice the old wage in major cities because local labor climate made that necessary, or state governments stepped up and raised their own minimum wages.
no, you're not using enough 3D models and technobabble. He's probably got a patent pending on this and will sue all mascots when he finds out!
But yeah, it's a FANCY Tee Shirt cannon, but it shoots 150 meters.... You'd have a hard time getting something as light as a flotation device shot that far without compressing it somehow.
I work at a steel maker... On the shop floor equipment is tucked away all over the place to keep it from getting hit by fork trucks, dropped steel, hot steel,etc. There are small "fanless" machines tucked inside electrical boxes, stuck in the rafters, or access panels of equipment. Even when you do get there they can be covered in 2 years of dirt and slime... because you put them "out of the way" and you wouldn't recognize them.
Any real terrorist has access to basic missiles that if you can see a civilian plane, it can it it. The US arms companies make these like candy... and lose a huge number... that's the real reason the governments are so afraid! They know just how many weapons are manufactured, sold, and can do the math for how many are really lose where a terrorist can get them.. and it scares them.
it's because it took a dozen people to kill 3,000 people in a few hours... that's far different than 100,000+ separate incidents involving just a few people and one or two criminals.
Still, a collision between airplanes is much more likely (much more common than you think) and is a bigger concern than somebody "might" shoot one down. Of course that doesn't stop countries like the US from making personal missiles that can shoot down planes in the first place and then "losing" them in the worst countries possible.
the question is what does this app do that you can't get from a budget radar package for a single-engine prop?
The main thing I would see is that it might be able to decipher the "anagrams" they use in the specification back to something like the airline reservations page.. that would be a bit more work for somebody to figure out, but again, it's all public information but this makes finding it a whole lot quicker.
OSS is really no worse that something like SAP installs... those have permanently damaged fortune 500 companies far more spectacularly than OSS projects.. yet SAP has suckers lining up around the block.
Really, implementing OSS (or ANY large scale Information Systems change) amounts to having a centralized understanding of what your business really uses computers for. As the users are more "empowered" by off-the-shelf software, management has no clue what's really going on. Most of the time management doesn't really care... but then they try to cut "business" deals rather than "Information Technology" deals without knowing all the facts.
It's the fact that the contract would seem to Exclude the government from running it's own choice of systems should departments want to. I would assume Microsoft would be attaching a strict SLA to the services and would not want to be responsible for the state's administrators screwing things up... that's how these contracts are justified to management in corporations when they sack the IT staff.
On the other hand it would be interesting to see if this is specifically open source, or simply "other" solutions being banned. The thing is that when other solutions are "banned" it's hard to get new things "approved". You can get the big ticket software packages approved easily, if you want Blackberry support, or IBM, Oracle, etc. Microsoft will be happy to take your money in license and consulting fees to hook you up. It's hard to include Open Source in that situation because the Microsoft support staff will simply refuse because there is not a big-ticket software firm involved for support. Add to that the fact that the original IT staff is "let go" or employed in different departments... either way they have no access to the "cloud" to implement anything for "everybody" anymore. But that's the whole reason Management and Outsource company make these deals.
on the other hand, how many programmers have done something after the fart apps? That would be the more interesting thing... the fart apps are just to get practice and that is what Android and Blackberry are going to have a hard time getting over. EVERYBODY has to write a good share of "fart" apps to get a feel for the platform.. Apple has first mover so they have more people over the initial break-in period.
but Apple in particular has a practice of picking VERY generic names... like iPhone when somebody ELSE already had that name and Apple camped the trademark office on a technicality to even contest the name.
Better yet, how about Apple's blatant grab for the term "ping"... even Microsoft wasn't stupid enough to go for that big of a grab and chose "bing" instead.
CS Lewis has a great series about this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Trilogy Granted, it was written before space travel was possible, but it has some clever twists on aliens that don't "violate" anything church would say. In his story, Earth is the "silent planet" and when the "devil" fell he took us with him. In his story "god" has many worlds, something which also applies to Chronicles of Narnia. It's a very clever take that we only know what we're "supposed to know", and other stuff maybe going on with angels, aliens, etc.
exactly, they take the "harder" line that because you know a fetus will become a human that you shouldn't interfere, kind of the backwards of Schrodinger's Cat in that it's not a human yet... we know that under normal circumstances it WILL be, so people shouldn't try to kill it.
Agricultural subsidies are necessary. It's such a small part of the over all budget that it's silly to even argue it. Realize only 5% of the US population works in actually making food for the other 95% to eat. That's putting our eggs in one hell of a basket. To be in line with most of the world, in the US we should be paying 25-50%+ of our pre-tax income just for food to eat, not including food for women and children. For all the crying about subsidies, nobody was wanting them backed out when the price of corn shot through the roof when it started being diverted for making ethanol... if you don't want farmers to find the BEST price for their goods, you can't have it both ways. In general the subsidies pay farmers to sell their goods below the cost to make them, because it's important for all the city folk... unless you own 100 acres (more if you want to eat any kind of red meat) and have an animal and plow to work the land, YOU cannot feed yourself and family without a great deal of government intervention to keep the food moving to your plate.
exactly, the Tea Party folks don't realize THEIR TEAM was directly responsible for the economic disaster... THEIR MAN exercised an Iron Fist on even Congressional REPUBLICANS... and outright hostile and boarding on violent (note how even mild dissenters around guys like Scooter showed up DEAD or framed for treason). The Republican top brass knew the election was going to Obama... they made no attempt to put in a vice president that was even clean enough to run for the big chair, and Bush didn't even ENDORSE any candidates to follow after him while running a WAR. That's what Tea Party fans don't get... "their man" did nearly anything to fix the war or the economy the entire last year he was in office... but they are quick to point the blame at Obama who jumped up to speed 3 months early. The whole point of the "Tea Party" is for the militant Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses that run the party to make as much of a mess as they possibly can for Democrats because they're sore losers, and even sorer winners. Most of the Tea Party folks don't realize they only have their neat little 401k, savings, jobs with bonuses, homes that are spared high taxes, etc, etc, because of the business rules put in place by Democrats and the fact that the government makes companies treat EVERYBODY equally as much as possible.
Google's tracking is very good. I have signed on to Slashdot or checked my gmail at work, done some quick news surfing, where I am very careful what I surf and search, and had my "auto guess" results on Google's home page start pulling up stuff I searched for at home, even after doing "logout" from any sites I had to log into.... it was quite freaky as it was stuff that there was "no way" should have been showing up because I don't use that machine for any NSFW activities at all. It had to be Google picking up my pattern of things like logging into slashdot, engadget, etc. Since then I am very careful where I go, and what sites I even use my login at, because I don't want certain stuff like all the searches for a certain actress and "hot grits" showing up, even accidentally.
in reality they are probably both owned by the same marketing firm under different names to keep people from freaking out.
On the other hand, that kind of link would be a good thing, because the firm running the kids pages would be able to track who shouldn't be there.... especially if they start seeing inappropriate content posted on the kids site, they would know who's 12-year olds being punks and who is adults and needs to be shut down.
The problem is that the people that "have a clue" will be calling up their marketing departments to ask why THEIR company is not collecting this critical information to justify the large cost companies have to pay for web hosting.
of course it will.... This is brilliant for Iran. Having spent a semester in college watching Kazakhstan, like Kazakhstan, Iran sits neatly between all the new development in the Eastern EU and the huge markets in China. I don't believe Iran has any interest in starting wars... most of the leaders spent 15-20 years fighting the Shaw and Iraq. Being connected will keep the US off their backs even more than trying to develop nukes. When they become a hub for telcom and transportation in the region, it gets a lot harder to justify to Russia and China (both UN Security Council veto members) to attack Iran and cut their OWN feet off for no good reason. Iran's government is still one of the most "secular" in the region... which is a good starting point. The guy at the top is not representative of what his people necessarily want (like our last guy that liked to pick fights) But, of course, when you have a "big stick" all but threatening to attack ANYBODY will get behind the leader.
These agreements are standard fair when companies sign contracts to do business. Intel has a contract to design parts for Apple, Apple had a contract to share services with Google, Apple would have a contract with Adobe to share things like PDF support and such, etc. Not poaching employees from another company under contract is a standard business contract. Pretty much any company that hires a "consultant" from another company has such agreements in place because close business relationships often mean the other company's employees are working at your offices, closely with your employees.... if companies couldn't make such agreements, nobody would be able to do business without worrying that the company with the upper hand would poach their best people. Employees of these companies have access to internal things like email addresses and phone lists... companies would NEVER share that stuff without assurances it doesn't end up in the HR office the next day.... it's basic business ethics.
It may be used to keep labor wages down, but the cost to companies is bigger than any "individual" wage being paid. You'll note who's NOT on the list... companies known for "collaborating" then sucker punching their partners out of contracts by swiping the key knowledge employees and renege on contracts. Every company I've worked at has these type of agreements when they use contractors, OEM services, or large purchasing agreements.
Apple Newton was a success, Apple just didn't know what to do with it. The rest were long before Steve was kicked out and came back. The Microsoft examples are from 2010.... big difference.
Who cares about Microsoft Research... we want Microsoft products! If we're not aware of it, then somebody isn't doing their job selling new, innovative software correctly (hint: he dances funny and throws chairs) Software is Microsoft's core product.. where's it at? They barely even sell Microsoft apps (not Windows, office or games) at stores anymore.
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don't call it an iPaddle... or Stevie J will sue you!
Call it the "board of education"... applied to the "seat of learning".
Microsoft has stock in Facebook too, for humiliation integration!
Now they just need tattoos, handguns, and tequila.
the minimum wage stayed fixed for almost 9 years. We did let inflation show! By the time the feds got around to changing it, it was so pathetic even McDonald's was hiring for nearly twice the old wage in major cities because local labor climate made that necessary, or state governments stepped up and raised their own minimum wages.
And they'll happily provide consultation and hardware... should be about $500 Billion by 2020.
no, you're not using enough 3D models and technobabble. He's probably got a patent pending on this and will sue all mascots when he finds out!
But yeah, it's a FANCY Tee Shirt cannon, but it shoots 150 meters.... You'd have a hard time getting something as light as a flotation device shot that far without compressing it somehow.
It "breaks" and you play Excel Doom while you're fixing it.. keeps you a way from the P.M.S. grenade.
I work at a steel maker... On the shop floor equipment is tucked away all over the place to keep it from getting hit by fork trucks, dropped steel, hot steel,etc. There are small "fanless" machines tucked inside electrical boxes, stuck in the rafters, or access panels of equipment. Even when you do get there they can be covered in 2 years of dirt and slime... because you put them "out of the way" and you wouldn't recognize them.
they already track the employees that way, equipment is already in place... wait.. move along...
Any real terrorist has access to basic missiles that if you can see a civilian plane, it can it it. The US arms companies make these like candy... and lose a huge number... that's the real reason the governments are so afraid! They know just how many weapons are manufactured, sold, and can do the math for how many are really lose where a terrorist can get them.. and it scares them.
it's because it took a dozen people to kill 3,000 people in a few hours... that's far different than 100,000+ separate incidents involving just a few people and one or two criminals.
Still, a collision between airplanes is much more likely (much more common than you think) and is a bigger concern than somebody "might" shoot one down. Of course that doesn't stop countries like the US from making personal missiles that can shoot down planes in the first place and then "losing" them in the worst countries possible.
the question is what does this app do that you can't get from a budget radar package for a single-engine prop?
The main thing I would see is that it might be able to decipher the "anagrams" they use in the specification back to something like the airline reservations page.. that would be a bit more work for somebody to figure out, but again, it's all public information but this makes finding it a whole lot quicker.
OSS is really no worse that something like SAP installs... those have permanently damaged fortune 500 companies far more spectacularly than OSS projects.. yet SAP has suckers lining up around the block.
Really, implementing OSS (or ANY large scale Information Systems change) amounts to having a centralized understanding of what your business really uses computers for. As the users are more "empowered" by off-the-shelf software, management has no clue what's really going on. Most of the time management doesn't really care... but then they try to cut "business" deals rather than "Information Technology" deals without knowing all the facts.
It's the fact that the contract would seem to Exclude the government from running it's own choice of systems should departments want to. I would assume Microsoft would be attaching a strict SLA to the services and would not want to be responsible for the state's administrators screwing things up... that's how these contracts are justified to management in corporations when they sack the IT staff.
On the other hand it would be interesting to see if this is specifically open source, or simply "other" solutions being banned. The thing is that when other solutions are "banned" it's hard to get new things "approved". You can get the big ticket software packages approved easily, if you want Blackberry support, or IBM, Oracle, etc. Microsoft will be happy to take your money in license and consulting fees to hook you up. It's hard to include Open Source in that situation because the Microsoft support staff will simply refuse because there is not a big-ticket software firm involved for support. Add to that the fact that the original IT staff is "let go" or employed in different departments... either way they have no access to the "cloud" to implement anything for "everybody" anymore. But that's the whole reason Management and Outsource company make these deals.
on the other hand, how many programmers have done something after the fart apps? That would be the more interesting thing... the fart apps are just to get practice and that is what Android and Blackberry are going to have a hard time getting over. EVERYBODY has to write a good share of "fart" apps to get a feel for the platform.. Apple has first mover so they have more people over the initial break-in period.
but Apple in particular has a practice of picking VERY generic names... like iPhone when somebody ELSE already had that name and Apple camped the trademark office on a technicality to even contest the name.
Better yet, how about Apple's blatant grab for the term "ping"... even Microsoft wasn't stupid enough to go for that big of a grab and chose "bing" instead.
CS Lewis has a great series about this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Trilogy Granted, it was written before space travel was possible, but it has some clever twists on aliens that don't "violate" anything church would say. In his story, Earth is the "silent planet" and when the "devil" fell he took us with him. In his story "god" has many worlds, something which also applies to Chronicles of Narnia. It's a very clever take that we only know what we're "supposed to know", and other stuff maybe going on with angels, aliens, etc.
exactly, they take the "harder" line that because you know a fetus will become a human that you shouldn't interfere, kind of the backwards of Schrodinger's Cat in that it's not a human yet... we know that under normal circumstances it WILL be, so people shouldn't try to kill it.
Agricultural subsidies are necessary. It's such a small part of the over all budget that it's silly to even argue it. Realize only 5% of the US population works in actually making food for the other 95% to eat. That's putting our eggs in one hell of a basket. To be in line with most of the world, in the US we should be paying 25-50%+ of our pre-tax income just for food to eat, not including food for women and children. For all the crying about subsidies, nobody was wanting them backed out when the price of corn shot through the roof when it started being diverted for making ethanol... if you don't want farmers to find the BEST price for their goods, you can't have it both ways. In general the subsidies pay farmers to sell their goods below the cost to make them, because it's important for all the city folk... unless you own 100 acres (more if you want to eat any kind of red meat) and have an animal and plow to work the land, YOU cannot feed yourself and family without a great deal of government intervention to keep the food moving to your plate.
exactly, the Tea Party folks don't realize THEIR TEAM was directly responsible for the economic disaster... THEIR MAN exercised an Iron Fist on even Congressional REPUBLICANS... and outright hostile and boarding on violent (note how even mild dissenters around guys like Scooter showed up DEAD or framed for treason). The Republican top brass knew the election was going to Obama... they made no attempt to put in a vice president that was even clean enough to run for the big chair, and Bush didn't even ENDORSE any candidates to follow after him while running a WAR. That's what Tea Party fans don't get... "their man" did nearly anything to fix the war or the economy the entire last year he was in office... but they are quick to point the blame at Obama who jumped up to speed 3 months early. The whole point of the "Tea Party" is for the militant Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses that run the party to make as much of a mess as they possibly can for Democrats because they're sore losers, and even sorer winners. Most of the Tea Party folks don't realize they only have their neat little 401k, savings, jobs with bonuses, homes that are spared high taxes, etc, etc, because of the business rules put in place by Democrats and the fact that the government makes companies treat EVERYBODY equally as much as possible.
Google's tracking is very good. I have signed on to Slashdot or checked my gmail at work, done some quick news surfing, where I am very careful what I surf and search, and had my "auto guess" results on Google's home page start pulling up stuff I searched for at home, even after doing "logout" from any sites I had to log into.... it was quite freaky as it was stuff that there was "no way" should have been showing up because I don't use that machine for any NSFW activities at all. It had to be Google picking up my pattern of things like logging into slashdot, engadget, etc. Since then I am very careful where I go, and what sites I even use my login at, because I don't want certain stuff like all the searches for a certain actress and "hot grits" showing up, even accidentally.
in reality they are probably both owned by the same marketing firm under different names to keep people from freaking out.
On the other hand, that kind of link would be a good thing, because the firm running the kids pages would be able to track who shouldn't be there.... especially if they start seeing inappropriate content posted on the kids site, they would know who's 12-year olds being punks and who is adults and needs to be shut down.
WSJ IS read by people that have a clue.
The problem is that the people that "have a clue" will be calling up their marketing departments to ask why THEIR company is not collecting this critical information to justify the large cost companies have to pay for web hosting.
of course it will.... This is brilliant for Iran. Having spent a semester in college watching Kazakhstan, like Kazakhstan, Iran sits neatly between all the new development in the Eastern EU and the huge markets in China. I don't believe Iran has any interest in starting wars... most of the leaders spent 15-20 years fighting the Shaw and Iraq. Being connected will keep the US off their backs even more than trying to develop nukes. When they become a hub for telcom and transportation in the region, it gets a lot harder to justify to Russia and China (both UN Security Council veto members) to attack Iran and cut their OWN feet off for no good reason. Iran's government is still one of the most "secular" in the region... which is a good starting point. The guy at the top is not representative of what his people necessarily want (like our last guy that liked to pick fights) But, of course, when you have a "big stick" all but threatening to attack ANYBODY will get behind the leader.
These agreements are standard fair when companies sign contracts to do business. Intel has a contract to design parts for Apple, Apple had a contract to share services with Google, Apple would have a contract with Adobe to share things like PDF support and such, etc. Not poaching employees from another company under contract is a standard business contract. Pretty much any company that hires a "consultant" from another company has such agreements in place because close business relationships often mean the other company's employees are working at your offices, closely with your employees.... if companies couldn't make such agreements, nobody would be able to do business without worrying that the company with the upper hand would poach their best people. Employees of these companies have access to internal things like email addresses and phone lists... companies would NEVER share that stuff without assurances it doesn't end up in the HR office the next day.... it's basic business ethics.
It may be used to keep labor wages down, but the cost to companies is bigger than any "individual" wage being paid. You'll note who's NOT on the list... companies known for "collaborating" then sucker punching their partners out of contracts by swiping the key knowledge employees and renege on contracts. Every company I've worked at has these type of agreements when they use contractors, OEM services, or large purchasing agreements.
Apple Newton was a success, Apple just didn't know what to do with it. The rest were long before Steve was kicked out and came back. The Microsoft examples are from 2010.... big difference.
Who cares about Microsoft Research... we want Microsoft products! If we're not aware of it, then somebody isn't doing their job selling new, innovative software correctly (hint: he dances funny and throws chairs) Software is Microsoft's core product.. where's it at? They barely even sell Microsoft apps (not Windows, office or games) at stores anymore.