Are the CEOs allowing HR to dictate who is their CIO, or does the board choose the CIO, or what? It seems like if anybody would be in the best position to put the right person in as CIO, it would be the CEO.
This is a super-common cause of car crashes - drifting off to sleep could kill you, but suddenly re-awaking with your car halfway off the road and swerving to get back on the road is what normally kills you.
How many baseballs can it track at one time? And once it has figured out which are the real baseballs and which are fake*, how quickly interceptors be launched after the real ones?.. Once you know what the SBX-1 is looking for, ICBM payloads can be updated inexpensively.
You're missing the point of catching the ICBM during the boost phase.
But what would the Internet look like if we start charging each byte by the number of hops it takes to get there?
Besides, the majority of bandwidth cost to the home is the last mile. The long haul is cheap. In this respect, the difference in cost between streaming from the nearest comcast datacenter vs. the nearest netflix datacenter should be close to the same.
Here we are quibbling about acquisition cost. The real costs are in operations and maintenance:
In 1996, the General Accounting Office disclosed that the USAF's B-2 bombers "will be, by far, the most costly bombers to operate on a per aircraft basis", costing over three times as much as the B-1B (US$9.6 million annually) and over four times as much as the B-52H ($US6.8 million annually). In September 1997, each hour of B-2 flight necessitated 119 hours of maintenance in turn. Comparable maintenance needs for the B-52 and the B-1B are 53 and 60 hours respectively for each hour of flight. A key reason for this cost is the provision of air-conditioned hangars large enough for the bomber's 172 ft (52.4 m) wingspan, which are needed to maintain the aircraft's stealthy properties, especially its "low-observable" stealthy skins.[30][31] Maintenance costs are about $3.4 million a month for each aircraft.
Yeah, maybe. But keep in mind that Ahmadinejad and Khamenei aren't beloved by even a majority of their own people.
Why do you think the protesters were the majority and not a sizeable minority? I see this self-serving assumption repeated over and over again. It might be true, but why do you think it is?
Some of know that in Washington a 'gaffe' is when someone accidentally speaks the truth.
So prove it. How much of the NASA budget ended up going to muslim outreach? The answer is almost precisely, none. All this is no more than whining about one empty statement somebody once made. It's absurd.
Perhaps more to the point, the Obama administration immediately corrected Bolden and a NASA spokesman confirmed that Bolden had misspoke:
"NASA's core mission remains one of space exploration, science and aeronautics," Michael Cabbage told SPACE.com. "Administrator Bolden regrets that a statement he made during a recent interview mischaracterized that core mission."
Anybody who still recites this incident as anything more than a gaffe induced by peer pressure, which was immediately retracted, is just trolling.
Whether it's "silly" or "you're lucky to be there" is subjective, right? Why not lean towards the more positive outlook?
When the Olympics came to Utah, where I have relatives, I didn't go because it's a day's drive away for me, it would be expensive for tickets, I hate traffic and crowds, yaddah yaddah... My relatives did go to a couple events and had a great time, and I've regretted not going ever since.
From the company's perspective it is astroturfing, but from the individual's perspective it is more accurately deemed shilling. Either way, reviewing something without disclosing your financial stake in it is dishonest - it is the very definition of conflict of interest.
I agree with you in principle, but I wouldn't take any dollar figure at face value. It would probably be more fair to compare the $80BN figure to the pre-war estimate of what Iraq would cost, which was, coincidentally, $50-$60 BN, with an "upper end of a hypothetical" at $200BN. (And unlike the estimate for fusion, the war estimate was based on a previous, seemingly comparable situation - the Gulf War in 1990).
Forget ala-carte channels, much less bundling of channels. The future isn't even in ala-carte series, but rather ala-carte episodes. It is insanely competitive, but with unicast now feasible (and catching on rapidly, e.g. netflix), it cannot be otherwise.
This will probably never happen, but I would like to see increased bandwidth allow the Internet to go back to being more decentralized. Simplified ways for people to host their own Internet presence instead of having facebook, gmail, and skype. It has all become too centralized. If we all had enough bandwidth to spare, who even needs the cellphone infrastructure and $100/mo+ bills? Give people an easy way to share their wifi and internet link (without exposing their LAN) so we aren't paying the cell co's for data plans anymore.
The point isn't to keep secrets (what would they be?) It's not the existence of an idea that matters, but rather the perceived prevalence of the idea, which emboldens others to embrace it.
But everybody has Apple products right now, so they feel an immediate tie-in to the Apple story, like they're part of it. Plus everybody loves a winner. Go Team!
I haven't used Ting but I agree it looks the best considering my needs are the same as the GP - basically I want a PDA (that can sync with Outlook) and occasionally a little phone service.
Unfortunately the price to get started with Ting is high - about $260 after buying a phone and paying a $35 activation. So technically there's no contract, but if you decided to leave two months you'd still have paid a lot for almost nothing. So I didn't sign up. My complaints would go away if they'd let you bring your own phone and eliminate or reduce the activation fee. That way I could get a phone cheaper from somewhere else and leave with it if I wasn't happy.
Wow, all they need to do is match the most dramatic comeback in corporate history, ever? You should write a book. I would have been a great athlete if I'd known all I need to do is whatever Michael Jordan or Wayne Gretzky did.
The cellphone industry is consolidating. The vast majority of competitors WILL die. It amazes me that we can sit here and speculate how easy it ought to be to sit atop the cellphone industry for a few decades.
This isn't about bitchiness, it's just another stupid sensationalist headline amplified by slashdot, as usual lately.
None of these things are banned from curriculum, nor are they banned from being spoken of our taught.
The purpose of avoiding emotionally-laden terms on standardized tests is prevent biasing the test against any students. It is amply proven that emotional influences interfere with what the test is supposed to be measuring - knowledge and ability. Since this impact would be different on kids with different cultural backgrounds, those questions would be biased one way or another. This is simply a matter of good test design by eliminating unwanted variables.
But whatever. Everybody go back to your ignorant whinging. No need to know anything about what you're commenting on when you've got "common sense" on your side.
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Are the CEOs allowing HR to dictate who is their CIO, or does the board choose the CIO, or what? It seems like if anybody would be in the best position to put the right person in as CIO, it would be the CEO.
This is a super-common cause of car crashes - drifting off to sleep could kill you, but suddenly re-awaking with your car halfway off the road and swerving to get back on the road is what normally kills you.
You're missing the point of catching the ICBM during the boost phase.
Ugh, exactly. We don't want to go (back) there.
Besides, the majority of bandwidth cost to the home is the last mile. The long haul is cheap. In this respect, the difference in cost between streaming from the nearest comcast datacenter vs. the nearest netflix datacenter should be close to the same.
(Wikipedia)
This is your (real) life. Don't even give a moment's thought to some sci-fi author's brainfart. That's just fiction.
Olds and Milner demonstrated (not fictionalized) direct electrical stimulation of rats' emotions in the early 1950s.
It was interventionism/activism that was tried and failed, from Germany and Japan's perspective.
Why do you think the protesters were the majority and not a sizeable minority? I see this self-serving assumption repeated over and over again. It might be true, but why do you think it is?
So prove it. How much of the NASA budget ended up going to muslim outreach? The answer is almost precisely, none. All this is no more than whining about one empty statement somebody once made. It's absurd.
Anybody who still recites this incident as anything more than a gaffe induced by peer pressure, which was immediately retracted, is just trolling.
When the Olympics came to Utah, where I have relatives, I didn't go because it's a day's drive away for me, it would be expensive for tickets, I hate traffic and crowds, yaddah yaddah... My relatives did go to a couple events and had a great time, and I've regretted not going ever since.
From the company's perspective it is astroturfing, but from the individual's perspective it is more accurately deemed shilling. Either way, reviewing something without disclosing your financial stake in it is dishonest - it is the very definition of conflict of interest.
I agree with you in principle, but I wouldn't take any dollar figure at face value. It would probably be more fair to compare the $80BN figure to the pre-war estimate of what Iraq would cost, which was, coincidentally, $50-$60 BN, with an "upper end of a hypothetical" at $200BN. (And unlike the estimate for fusion, the war estimate was based on a previous, seemingly comparable situation - the Gulf War in 1990).
So finish your story. Did that oh-so-insidious strategy work out pretty well for the Soviet Empire?
So?
Forget ala-carte channels, much less bundling of channels. The future isn't even in ala-carte series, but rather ala-carte episodes. It is insanely competitive, but with unicast now feasible (and catching on rapidly, e.g. netflix), it cannot be otherwise.
This will probably never happen, but I would like to see increased bandwidth allow the Internet to go back to being more decentralized. Simplified ways for people to host their own Internet presence instead of having facebook, gmail, and skype. It has all become too centralized. If we all had enough bandwidth to spare, who even needs the cellphone infrastructure and $100/mo+ bills? Give people an easy way to share their wifi and internet link (without exposing their LAN) so we aren't paying the cell co's for data plans anymore.
The point isn't to keep secrets (what would they be?) It's not the existence of an idea that matters, but rather the perceived prevalence of the idea, which emboldens others to embrace it.
But everybody has Apple products right now, so they feel an immediate tie-in to the Apple story, like they're part of it. Plus everybody loves a winner. Go Team!
Unfortunately the price to get started with Ting is high - about $260 after buying a phone and paying a $35 activation. So technically there's no contract, but if you decided to leave two months you'd still have paid a lot for almost nothing. So I didn't sign up. My complaints would go away if they'd let you bring your own phone and eliminate or reduce the activation fee. That way I could get a phone cheaper from somewhere else and leave with it if I wasn't happy.
The cellphone industry is consolidating. The vast majority of competitors WILL die. It amazes me that we can sit here and speculate how easy it ought to be to sit atop the cellphone industry for a few decades.
If they did the opposite by slashing engineers with no reductions to upper management you could spin that at least as badly.
None of these things are banned from curriculum, nor are they banned from being spoken of our taught.
The purpose of avoiding emotionally-laden terms on standardized tests is prevent biasing the test against any students. It is amply proven that emotional influences interfere with what the test is supposed to be measuring - knowledge and ability. Since this impact would be different on kids with different cultural backgrounds, those questions would be biased one way or another. This is simply a matter of good test design by eliminating unwanted variables.
But whatever. Everybody go back to your ignorant whinging. No need to know anything about what you're commenting on when you've got "common sense" on your side.