Is that 700 mil taxpayer money?
If so, here is a solution:
Don't pay the contractor a penny until they produce a working production sample. Then buy them for the original contacted price, not any additional "cost overruns"
Say you can crack it, even if you can't. Security researchers around the world will try to figure out how you did it, and in the end, show you what to do.
Sort of like Reagan-era Star Wars. Drove the Russians crazy (and broke) trying to replicate non-existent technology because they took our word for it, that we had done it.
Did in being an introvert. SM (as opposed to S&M, which is for another topic) is the current be-all-end-all to a great many people. It's sort of like AOL was the internet back in the early 90s, SM is the internet. But for introverts, who don't feel like posting every aspect of their life for all to see (I am one of those) we are overlooked in this mad rush to get 10,000 "friends" or 20 million "likes" and I feel it's infecting schools as well. Not directly, but in the way of thinking that everything (learning) must be done in groups, or socially, or collaboratively, which is not the way we all think or learn.
For those of you around at the beginning, ads were static images, with a hyperlink to the place it was going. Ok, not bad, but I could deal. The came pop-ups, and that was frowned upon. It became so wide-spread, every browser in existence at the time had a built-in pop up blocker, and those that didn't, had to deal with external programs like Ad Muncher and the like.
But still, vexing, irritating, but not a serious problem.......until flash based ads. Then it went from bad, to nuclear.
On the desktop, ad blockers, whether plug-ins, or built-ins, proliferated and because, not just a good idea, but mandatory, if you wanted to browse the web sanely. It's been a chicken and the egg issue since day one. Did ad blockers force advertisers to escalate how they placed ads on websites, or did ad blockers come into existence because plain text ads weren't "good" enough?
Regardless or the origination, the end result is what we have now. While desktops are safe, mobile browsing is still problematic, I know on my Samsung Android phone I get ads on websites, enough to crowd out the information I'm looking for. So sooner or later, ad blockers will be like desktop browsers, mandatory.
There is a larger issue here, how websites are supposed to make money/survive/pay bills/etc. without ad-revenue stream, but I have yet to see a viable discussion on a working alternative.
What I do see is like it or not, ad blockers are here to stay, and will evolve with every new ad-pushing "tehcnology". I'm sorry the software creator in question here is uncomfortable with this concept, but I'm sure he put *some* thought into this problem before creating his software.
Note: the lack of (until this point in time) ad blockers was the primary reason I jumped ship from Apple.
Running Linux on it won't work. The modern Linux distro is every bit as resource demanding as Windows. The lightweight Linux distros that do exist, require a level of knowledge lacking in poor students.
I work for the State, a place where progress, innovation, unique thinking and independent action, go to die. But man are the perks awesome. As is (in my case anyway) the pay, it's obscene. Especially compared to the amount of work I am allowed to do.
Most of the day I am in an office, handling systems remotely, but when the systems properly locked down and managed, very little goes wrong.
So I write, read, and generally goof off. Sounds great, no?
Not really, anytime there is an actual issue (like out NAS running out of space) I have to get 15 different people involved before I am allowed to make a decision, and then my decision is sent around for review.
I've been waiting for a larger NAS for 8 months so far...
This part is especially funny, in light of the recent Ars Technica article about how Win10 continues to send stuff to MS, even after you tell it *not* to.
I used to be a republican, back in the Reagan days. But these days (hell, since Bush Jr.) my "traditional" views have all but been marginalized. The democrats aren't much better.
Although I don't (yet) feel ashamed of the D's, as I do about the R's like when shit like this occurs. Can they make it any more plain they're bought and sold??
Seems to me these two things are different. I was not aware (and feel free to correct me if I am wrong) that the voting program is a website with a friendly frontend. If this is the case, then the entire thing needs to be re-thought.
How hard is it to make a voting program? How easy would it be to "skew" results of said voting program one way, or the other? I'm not a conspiracy nutter, but it does make me wonder from time to time...
I'd argue that this one (from your link) is patently wrong:
"6. Batch processing through automated actions is far superior in GIMP. Because photographers often need to do repeatable actions to large groups of images, this feature alone is worth its weight in gold."
I am a photographer and although I use LightRoom heavily, I use the batch rules in PS for my concert work, I can get very detailed with little trouble in PS. I did try to switch to gimp (or more accurately, tried it out) and found this to be sorely lacking. Not to mention the batch actions in PS merge/link nicely with the plug-ins (specifically the Nik software for B/W work) so if I wanted to, and on occasion I have, I can do some *serious* transformations on a shot in PS with one click of a button.
The NSA, with apparent approval from our gov't, spies on its own citizens with impunity, and let seem to be caught flat-footed by events unfolding the Middle East and Ukraine (at least from what I have heard on the radio) The president twiddles his thumbs while our allies cry out for help. What in three hells happened to our country?
I quit (albeit accidentally) caffeine over 20 years ago, and I've never thought about the effects like you describe before, until you brought it up. Yes, going to sleep quickly is a piece of cake, and instantly awake is the norm for me. I'd like think there are health benefits from giving up caffeine as well, but overall I'm just glad to be done with the caffeine-related headaches.
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Is that 700 mil taxpayer money? If so, here is a solution: Don't pay the contractor a penny until they produce a working production sample. Then buy them for the original contacted price, not any additional "cost overruns"
I do it as a matter of course for a small business. I have about a 70-80% success rate. YMMV
HP = Has Problem HP = Hardly Perfect HP = Horrendous Products HP = Horse Puckey
Then you've never studied history, nor do you understand how humanity functions.
Say you can crack it, even if you can't. Security researchers around the world will try to figure out how you did it, and in the end, show you what to do.
Sort of like Reagan-era Star Wars. Drove the Russians crazy (and broke) trying to replicate non-existent technology because they took our word for it, that we had done it.
You took all the economists in the world, and laid them end to end, they'd point in different directions.
Did in being an introvert. SM (as opposed to S&M, which is for another topic) is the current be-all-end-all to a great many people. It's sort of like AOL was the internet back in the early 90s, SM is the internet.
But for introverts, who don't feel like posting every aspect of their life for all to see (I am one of those) we are overlooked in this mad rush to get 10,000 "friends" or 20 million "likes" and I feel it's infecting schools as well. Not directly, but in the way of thinking that everything (learning) must be done in groups, or socially, or collaboratively, which is not the way we all think or learn.
For those of you around at the beginning, ads were static images, with a hyperlink to the place it was going. Ok, not bad, but I could deal.
The came pop-ups, and that was frowned upon. It became so wide-spread, every browser in existence at the time had a built-in pop up blocker, and those that didn't, had to deal with external programs like Ad Muncher and the like.
But still, vexing, irritating, but not a serious problem.... ...until flash based ads.
Then it went from bad, to nuclear.
On the desktop, ad blockers, whether plug-ins, or built-ins, proliferated and because, not just a good idea, but mandatory, if you wanted to browse the web sanely. It's been a chicken and the egg issue since day one. Did ad blockers force advertisers to escalate how they placed ads on websites, or did ad blockers come into existence because plain text ads weren't "good" enough?
Regardless or the origination, the end result is what we have now. While desktops are safe, mobile browsing is still problematic, I know on my Samsung Android phone I get ads on websites, enough to crowd out the information I'm looking for. So sooner or later, ad blockers will be like desktop browsers, mandatory.
There is a larger issue here, how websites are supposed to make money/survive/pay bills/etc. without ad-revenue stream, but I have yet to see a viable discussion on a working alternative.
What I do see is like it or not, ad blockers are here to stay, and will evolve with every new ad-pushing "tehcnology". I'm sorry the software creator in question here is uncomfortable with this concept, but I'm sure he put *some* thought into this problem before creating his software.
Note: the lack of (until this point in time) ad blockers was the primary reason I jumped ship from Apple.
Running Linux on it won't work. The modern Linux distro is every bit as resource demanding as Windows. The lightweight Linux distros that do exist, require a level of knowledge lacking in poor students.
I work for the State, a place where progress, innovation, unique thinking and independent action, go to die.
But man are the perks awesome. As is (in my case anyway) the pay, it's obscene. Especially compared to the amount of work I am allowed to do.
Most of the day I am in an office, handling systems remotely, but when the systems properly locked down and managed, very little goes wrong.
So I write, read, and generally goof off. Sounds great, no?
Not really, anytime there is an actual issue (like out NAS running out of space) I have to get 15 different people involved before I am allowed to make a decision, and then my decision is sent around for review.
I've been waiting for a larger NAS for 8 months so far...
>>...and I knew I could trust them.
This part is especially funny, in light of the recent Ars Technica article about how Win10 continues to send stuff to MS, even after you tell it *not* to.
Trust, it's a two way street...
Picture this at a management meeting:
"Our stock is at an all-time low, profits are down, moral is gone, all our good engineers have left. What are we gonna do?"
"I know! We'll ban casual dress, that'll solve the issues."
(Boss) "That's brilliant! Raises for everyone!"
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Something like that perhaps? H and P must be spinning in their graves...
The faster that cess-pool of a circle-jerk self-congratulatory website goes away, the better off the web will be.
Or is it a punishment?
I used to be a republican, back in the Reagan days. But these days (hell, since Bush Jr.) my "traditional" views have all but been marginalized. The democrats aren't much better.
Although I don't (yet) feel ashamed of the D's, as I do about the R's like when shit like this occurs. Can they make it any more plain they're bought and sold??
(Well past) Time to find a new party...
So you'll send your kid to a school, spending who knows how much money and time in the process, based on one site?
I stand by my assertion.
without further fact checking, is a complete idiot.
Or as Ronald Reagan once said, "Trust, but verify."
So the NWO (once a tin-foil hat conspiracy theory) is coming true, only 25 years after it was predicted.
It's well past time for https everywhere, constant VPNs and full encryption for everything
Seems to me these two things are different. I was not aware (and feel free to correct me if I am wrong) that the voting program is a website with a friendly frontend.
If this is the case, then the entire thing needs to be re-thought.
How hard is it to make a voting program?
How easy would it be to "skew" results of said voting program one way, or the other? I'm not a conspiracy nutter, but it does make me wonder from time to time...
I grew up in Denmark. Tax was 60% flat, right off the top. There is a reason he makes 20$/hour...
they are as bad as PETA. Lego are children's toys, leave your goddamn petty politics out of them.
I'd argue that this one (from your link) is patently wrong:
"6. Batch processing through automated actions is far superior in GIMP. Because photographers often need to do repeatable actions to large groups of images, this feature alone is worth its weight in gold."
I am a photographer and although I use LightRoom heavily, I use the batch rules in PS for my concert work, I can get very detailed with little trouble in PS. I did try to switch to gimp (or more accurately, tried it out) and found this to be sorely lacking. Not to mention the batch actions in PS merge/link nicely with the plug-ins (specifically the Nik software for B/W work) so if I wanted to, and on occasion I have, I can do some *serious* transformations on a shot in PS with one click of a button.
The NSA, with apparent approval from our gov't, spies on its own citizens with impunity, and let seem to be caught flat-footed by events unfolding the Middle East and Ukraine (at least from what I have heard on the radio)
The president twiddles his thumbs while our allies cry out for help.
What in three hells happened to our country?
I quit (albeit accidentally) caffeine over 20 years ago, and I've never thought about the effects like you describe before, until you brought it up.
Yes, going to sleep quickly is a piece of cake, and instantly awake is the norm for me.
I'd like think there are health benefits from giving up caffeine as well, but overall I'm just glad to be done with the caffeine-related headaches.