it surely is possible to make it look sufficiently like Win2k or WinXP so no training required
Themeing is irrelevant, it's eye candy. Many things, such as the new security model, really are different. They cannot be "themed" away. This is especially true for those with the most hours invested in learning all the undocumented intracasies of XP - the admins.
If they screw up, it's your documents that are toast. Those documents mean a lot more to your company than they do to the 3rd party. You have to worry about patches as well, because if they have bugs those are going to get you. And you most certainly have to worry about security. You can't do much about it yourself of course becase it's now totally out of your control, but you have to worry that the 3rd party *IS* doing it right.
Sounds like a lot of good reasons to keep your money in your mattress instead of a bank.
Could somebody summarize why the story is good news for Sony? It reads like a blog entry. I caught something about dynamically updating ads within games, which sounds awful, and gave up.
The "Read the Bills Act" would also require that every piece of legislation be posted on the Net in its final form for a full 7 days before any vote could occur, giving the rest of us time to read and react...
That makes so much sense, I can't wait to hear how somebody will spin to make it sound like a bad idea.
What's so bizarre, spectacular, or disprespectful about a photo of an anonymous flag-draped coffin? The costs and benefits of any war are a vital matter of public discourse.
June 22, 2004, Tuesday By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG (NYT); National Desk Late Edition - Final, Section A, Page 17, Column 1, 554 words
Republican-controlled Senate votes to uphold Bush administration's policy of barring news photographs of flag-covered coffins of service members killed in Iraq; Democratic measure to instruct Pentagon to allow pictures is defeated in 54-to-39 vote; Republican Sens Olympia J Snowe and John McCain vote in favor of permitting news photographs of coffins; Sen Frank Lautenberg, who introduced measure, says majority of Senate is helping Pres Bush to conceal from American people true costs of war in Iraq
Ah, but you're neglecting the much cheaper Washington solution: for only a couple hundred $K, you can bribe some "experts" to determine that the liklihood of impact is negligible.
The statisticians calculated that doing the housekeeping, cooking, babysitting, chauffeuring, administration and other jobs involved in staying at home with a preschooler in Chicago would probably take around 91 hours a week and be worth about $146,000.
Only $146K? Dang it, I knew she was ripping me off!
Predicting the future is risky, but here's my 2 cents: audio has already reached the point of being easily streamable, but the download model still seems to be holding on strong.
I don't see why digitally distributing movies to theaters is any particular problem. They're already distributing millions of high-def digital movies to private residences (on Blu-Ray, DVD, cable, and satellite). The theaters are the least of their concerns.
I only wish Dvorak were right... it would mean WiFi is a viable threat to cellphone companies. I hate US cell service to the point that I don't have a cellphone. They seem diametrically opposed to the very idea of the Internet - provide a data link and the applications will follow. For some reason people who would never think of paying per email happily pay per SMS (which is email), and pay several dollars for a ringtone. And since cellphones are so useful and therefore profitable, the current companies and their crappy policies will never get out of the way for better ones.
Your comment has a strong tinge of "I had to do it so they should have to do it." But you ignore a key statement of the article:
"A University of Missouri study found high school students benefit tremendously from homework. In middle school, the results were not as strong, but homework was still found to be beneficial. But on the elementary school level, the same study found homework had no effect on students."
What is your rebuttal? And are you comparing yourself in highschool to kids in elementary?
Personally, I do think life is getting awfully institutionalized. And remember, we're not just talking about what's ideal, but what the state should force upon our kids. School is mandatory.
To count non-operational (powered off) hours in the MTTF is just as dishonest as any other lie. Do you think aircraft engine manufacturers could get away with that?
According to the google paper presented at the same conference, temperature doesn't matter nearly as much as people thought/assumed, and neither does read/write activity. (I don't think anybody has debunked vibration though!)
Except they didn't study what "people" thought, they studied "a number of large production systems, including high-performance computing sites and internet services sites" - in other words, the best case scenario in terms of user expertise.
Here's one that addresses the issue and describes some efforts in the "related works" section. It also cites, but does not discuss, IBM's "blue brain" project.
I run outside, too, in the summer. Used to in the winter as well, until one day I thought, "why am I out here in the blowing wind, in the dark, sweating in multiple layers of clothes, when I could be home in my underwear watching a movie on a treadmill"? So that's what I do now, in the winter. As a bonus my machine has arm bars whereas running seems to do nothing for the upper body.
I think your second point, especially, has validity. What troubles me, though, is that we do have clusters with thousands of nodes, some of them are overtly intended to be used for modeling brains. Yet all that's done with them is to solve larger instances of the same problems that can be solved on a laptop; the problems don't seem any different in character.
I think not. We didn't learn to fly by copying birds, and we didn't learn to go fast by copying cheetahs. So far, neuroscience and psychology owe much more to computer science than the other way 'round.
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The failsafe autopilot also disperses chloroform into the air supply. Just don't tell any terrorists, it's a secret.
Could somebody summarize why the story is good news for Sony? It reads like a blog entry. I caught something about dynamically updating ads within games, which sounds awful, and gave up.
What's so bizarre, spectacular, or disprespectful about a photo of an anonymous flag-draped coffin? The costs and benefits of any war are a vital matter of public discourse.
Irrelevant. It's clearly something that would harm the US in a rating of worldwid freedom of the press.
June 22, 2004, Tuesday
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By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG (NYT); National Desk
Late Edition - Final, Section A, Page 17, Column 1, 554 words
Republican-controlled Senate votes to uphold Bush administration's policy of barring news photographs of flag-covered coffins of service members killed in Iraq; Democratic measure to instruct Pentagon to allow pictures is defeated in 54-to-39 vote; Republican Sens Olympia J Snowe and John McCain vote in favor of permitting news photographs of coffins; Sen Frank Lautenberg, who introduced measure, says majority of Senate is helping Pres Bush to conceal from American people true costs of war in Iraq
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F
You're right, but after watching Microsoft dish it out for the last 20 years we can't help loving every minute of it. Karma, thy name is google.
Problem solved.
So how do you know mentioning a number didn't work to your disadvantage? In a negotiation getting the first deal you ask for isn't a great sign.
Predicting the future is risky, but here's my 2 cents: audio has already reached the point of being easily streamable, but the download model still seems to be holding on strong.
I don't see why digitally distributing movies to theaters is any particular problem. They're already distributing millions of high-def digital movies to private residences (on Blu-Ray, DVD, cable, and satellite). The theaters are the least of their concerns.
I only wish Dvorak were right... it would mean WiFi is a viable threat to cellphone companies. I hate US cell service to the point that I don't have a cellphone. They seem diametrically opposed to the very idea of the Internet - provide a data link and the applications will follow. For some reason people who would never think of paying per email happily pay per SMS (which is email), and pay several dollars for a ringtone. And since cellphones are so useful and therefore profitable, the current companies and their crappy policies will never get out of the way for better ones.
Your comment has a strong tinge of "I had to do it so they should have to do it."
But you ignore a key statement of the article:
"A University of Missouri study found high school students benefit tremendously from homework. In middle school, the results were not as strong, but homework was still found to be beneficial. But on the elementary school level, the same study found homework had no effect on students."
What is your rebuttal? And are you comparing yourself in highschool to kids in elementary?
Personally, I do think life is getting awfully institutionalized. And remember, we're not just talking about what's ideal, but what the state should force upon our kids. School is mandatory.
Aren't all emails through google's systems branded with advertising? I would find that extrememly annoying.
To count non-operational (powered off) hours in the MTTF is just as dishonest as any other lie. Do you think aircraft engine manufacturers could get away with that?
According to the google paper presented at the same conference, temperature doesn't matter nearly as much as people thought/assumed, and neither does read/write activity. (I don't think anybody has debunked vibration though!)
If you think "you get what you pay for" is sensible (and yes, a lot of people believe it). I'd say you get less than or equal to what you pay for.
Except they didn't study what "people" thought, they studied "a number of large production systems, including high-performance computing sites and internet services sites" - in other words, the best case scenario in terms of user expertise.
Here's one that addresses the issue and describes some efforts in the "related works" section. It also cites, but does not discuss, IBM's "blue brain" project.
I run outside, too, in the summer. Used to in the winter as well, until one day I thought, "why am I out here in the blowing wind, in the dark, sweating in multiple layers of clothes, when I could be home in my underwear watching a movie on a treadmill"? So that's what I do now, in the winter. As a bonus my machine has arm bars whereas running seems to do nothing for the upper body.
I think your second point, especially, has validity. What troubles me, though, is that we do have clusters with thousands of nodes, some of them are overtly intended to be used for modeling brains. Yet all that's done with them is to solve larger instances of the same problems that can be solved on a laptop; the problems don't seem any different in character.
I think not. We didn't learn to fly by copying birds, and we didn't learn to go fast by copying cheetahs. So far, neuroscience and psychology owe much more to computer science than the other way 'round.