Could also be something like what is called a "marketer". Where I live, we have multiple gas companies to choose from. That doesn't mean each house as 4 lines coming into it. All the lines are serviced/owned by a single company, if there is a service call, it's that company's trucks that roll. But you don't buy from them, they are a wholesaler only. Instead you buy from one of the marketers whose job it is to provide front-line support, billing/payments, etc.
Could the two be on in the same? Sure, electricity is a good example of something usually municipal where it's owned and operated by the same company. The marketer concept allows some level of competition (there are price wars across companies for natural gas where I live, for example), where you also don't want redundant infrastructure.
What makes this author and others like him think he is entitled to a private college education in a low-paying career? Let's face it, liberal arts degree in writing is not going to bring home the bucks. His family started out with a loan, then more, then bankruptcy. Is it any surprise there was a default? The bank should have stopped after the first one and informed he should transfer to a lower cost school before giving more money. Those who have repaid their student loans are now financing this author and others like him. It's not free, we all pay.
Perhaps degrees should have something like is on appliances for energy ratings, an average time to repay.
"This degree and this institution will take on average 20 years to repay"
Loan processors can use that to assess whether to grant the loan.
I like how of Steven's 78 replies in the conversation, 36 of them were some sort of single word affirmative answer (Yes, Yeah, Right, etc.). Add 8 more in there if you count affirmative answers with 1-4 more additional meaningless words added on.
The first paragraph on Wikipedia is excellent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTLM
Also important to note this is only referring to NTLMv1 which is hella old. Also just because you are running Windows XP still doesn't mean you are using NTLMv1. It's a bit more complex than that.
So every once in a while Google regains a little bit of my trust. Actually, if you read the proposal you will see the Google recommends AGAINST this proposal.
From the article: "Recommendation Our board of directors recommends a vote AGAINST the stockholder proposal."
Who you really should be giving trust is The Office of the Comptroller of New York City who is submitting the proposal as a large stockholder.
From the article: "The Office of the Comptroller of New York City has advised us that it intends to submit the proposal set forth below for consideration at our annual meeting."
So it's the fault of Dell and their terrible ways of pricing computers low (also saving your school money) that they are all over your school? Nobody is forcing your school to buy Dell now or in the future, and your IT staff can easily put something besides Windows on the computers (or possibly buy them from Dell without Windows, depending on their agreement).
If there is somebody to blame is is probably a decision from somebody high up at your district that dictates everything run some version of Windows. That or it wasn't financially reasonable to go some other route due to a possible large discount received. Just a thought.
It actually has absolutely nothing to do with insider trading.
Insider trading is when a person who has inside (not public) information about a company acts on stock (buys or sells) because when the information becomes public they believe the stock will take a turn one way or the other. This person may or may not be an employee of the company and for the most part this is done with normal shares, not options.
As of now I have performed only a couple reinstalls in the past couple years but never have had an incident of getting "owned" before installing my patches. I have a Netgear MR314 router that I make sure to turn all port forwarding off before putting a "naked" box on the network. Sure, it isn't fool proof and I would not consider it a firewall, but the nature of NAT does a sufficient job of blocking unrequested packets from coming in. After Windows installs I turn of superfluous services (such as messenger), install anti virus software from cd, plug in the network connection and then update that and Windows.
Of course if your problem is most hardware routers will not work with your ISP, then this tactic is not going to work well.
The iPod and players like it are just glorified hard drives. According to the post from Apple's FAQ, the reason they are not cross compatable is due to hard drive formats. This is understandable.
What isn't understandable is that the device actually seems to break when you use it on the wrong system. If you insert a formatted disk/harddrive into a computer of another architecture, does your OS of choice a. read the data, b. not read the data, c. ask you to format the disk or d. completely mess up the data on the disk? I don't think any OS or software should perform choice d., but that appears to be what iTunes is doing.
iTunes for Windows may not work with Mac iPods (no big deal, understandable), but it should not break them. This is a bad design. I'd be interested to hear what the Mac version of iTunes does with Windows iPods. The FAQ post says you can reconfigure Windows ones to work on the Mac but I wonder if Mac iTunes messes up the data first.
I thought that seemed like a lot of money and wondered where it all went. I configured a PE1750 and PE2650 on dell.com. I could not find in this article or any other articles the exact configs of the computers so I guessed. Since the purpose of the system is raw computing power, I added 2 3.06 GHz Xeon procs to both (the most those servers will take), upped the RAM to a respectible 4GB and left the hard drives at stock (1 36gb 10k SCSI drive). Both systems priced out to just under $6k each. $6k*600 total systems (300 each according to the article) is $3.6M.
Heck, even maxing out these computers, 5 146GB SCSI drives, 12GB ram, all the fiber cards it can hold etc. puts them at about $24k each, *600=$14.4M.
I think without seeing an itimized list of costs for these two supercomputer clusters it is difficult to tell how much more one cost than another. The UT one might include things like racks, switches, cabling etc. that the Apple cluster doesn't include in main cost.
Something oddly was missing from the article, parental responsibility. I thought if parents left guns and ammo out in the reach of an underage kid they are held liable for what happens? Parents should also make reasonable attempts to monitor their child's use of mature materials, such as video games and let's not forget movies where frequently REAL guns are used in REAL life to fake killing and blowing up REAL people/stuff. So I want to know why a district attorney isn't suing the parents for negligence?
This whole issue is just sad but what I wonder is if the same notice was sent to other search engines? I believe Yahoo uses a lot of Google technology so that comparison isn't good but take AltaVista for example.
Search for Kazaa Lite there and you see the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and probably more (got tired of counting) links are links listed in the DMCA suit.
Why is this interesting? Google is a company whose business is to deliver the best results for any given search. If through the process of lawsuits, they no longer deliver the best results, users go elsewhere. So if all these companies target Google and only Google, in theory, eventually they could bring it down to a second rate service. I know you cannot selectively enforce patents (for this same reason), but not a clue about this lovely DMCA law.
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Could also be something like what is called a "marketer". Where I live, we have multiple gas companies to choose from. That doesn't mean each house as 4 lines coming into it. All the lines are serviced/owned by a single company, if there is a service call, it's that company's trucks that roll. But you don't buy from them, they are a wholesaler only. Instead you buy from one of the marketers whose job it is to provide front-line support, billing/payments, etc.
Could the two be on in the same? Sure, electricity is a good example of something usually municipal where it's owned and operated by the same company. The marketer concept allows some level of competition (there are price wars across companies for natural gas where I live, for example), where you also don't want redundant infrastructure.
This guy is off-base:
"By the end of my sophomore year at a small private liberal arts college..."
Private colleges are about 2.5 more costly than public (assuming in-state tuition):
http://www.usnews.com/educatio...
What makes this author and others like him think he is entitled to a private college education in a low-paying career? Let's face it, liberal arts degree in writing is not going to bring home the bucks. His family started out with a loan, then more, then bankruptcy. Is it any surprise there was a default? The bank should have stopped after the first one and informed he should transfer to a lower cost school before giving more money. Those who have repaid their student loans are now financing this author and others like him. It's not free, we all pay.
Perhaps degrees should have something like is on appliances for energy ratings, an average time to repay.
"This degree and this institution will take on average 20 years to repay"
Loan processors can use that to assess whether to grant the loan.
I like how of Steven's 78 replies in the conversation, 36 of them were some sort of single word affirmative answer (Yes, Yeah, Right, etc.). Add 8 more in there if you count affirmative answers with 1-4 more additional meaningless words added on.
Dell's fiscal year runs feb to jan and is 11 months ahead of calendar year by label. Last week it just finished FY13 and it is now in Q1FY14.
The first paragraph on Wikipedia is excellent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTLM Also important to note this is only referring to NTLMv1 which is hella old. Also just because you are running Windows XP still doesn't mean you are using NTLMv1. It's a bit more complex than that.
From the article: "Recommendation Our board of directors recommends a vote AGAINST the stockholder proposal."
Who you really should be giving trust is The Office of the Comptroller of New York City who is submitting the proposal as a large stockholder.
From the article: "The Office of the Comptroller of New York City has advised us that it intends to submit the proposal set forth below for consideration at our annual meeting."
So it's the fault of Dell and their terrible ways of pricing computers low (also saving your school money) that they are all over your school? Nobody is forcing your school to buy Dell now or in the future, and your IT staff can easily put something besides Windows on the computers (or possibly buy them from Dell without Windows, depending on their agreement).
If there is somebody to blame is is probably a decision from somebody high up at your district that dictates everything run some version of Windows. That or it wasn't financially reasonable to go some other route due to a possible large discount received. Just a thought.
It actually has absolutely nothing to do with insider trading.
Insider trading is when a person who has inside (not public) information about a company acts on stock (buys or sells) because when the information becomes public they believe the stock will take a turn one way or the other. This person may or may not be an employee of the company and for the most part this is done with normal shares, not options.
As of now I have performed only a couple reinstalls in the past couple years but never have had an incident of getting "owned" before installing my patches. I have a Netgear MR314 router that I make sure to turn all port forwarding off before putting a "naked" box on the network. Sure, it isn't fool proof and I would not consider it a firewall, but the nature of NAT does a sufficient job of blocking unrequested packets from coming in. After Windows installs I turn of superfluous services (such as messenger), install anti virus software from cd, plug in the network connection and then update that and Windows.
Of course if your problem is most hardware routers will not work with your ISP, then this tactic is not going to work well.
The iPod and players like it are just glorified hard drives. According to the post from Apple's FAQ, the reason they are not cross compatable is due to hard drive formats. This is understandable.
What isn't understandable is that the device actually seems to break when you use it on the wrong system. If you insert a formatted disk/harddrive into a computer of another architecture, does your OS of choice a. read the data, b. not read the data, c. ask you to format the disk or d. completely mess up the data on the disk? I don't think any OS or software should perform choice d., but that appears to be what iTunes is doing.
iTunes for Windows may not work with Mac iPods (no big deal, understandable), but it should not break them. This is a bad design. I'd be interested to hear what the Mac version of iTunes does with Windows iPods. The FAQ post says you can reconfigure Windows ones to work on the Mac but I wonder if Mac iTunes messes up the data first.
I thought that seemed like a lot of money and wondered where it all went. I configured a PE1750 and PE2650 on dell.com. I could not find in this article or any other articles the exact configs of the computers so I guessed. Since the purpose of the system is raw computing power, I added 2 3.06 GHz Xeon procs to both (the most those servers will take), upped the RAM to a respectible 4GB and left the hard drives at stock (1 36gb 10k SCSI drive). Both systems priced out to just under $6k each. $6k*600 total systems (300 each according to the article) is $3.6M.
Heck, even maxing out these computers, 5 146GB SCSI drives, 12GB ram, all the fiber cards it can hold etc. puts them at about $24k each, *600=$14.4M.
I think without seeing an itimized list of costs for these two supercomputer clusters it is difficult to tell how much more one cost than another. The UT one might include things like racks, switches, cabling etc. that the Apple cluster doesn't include in main cost.
Something oddly was missing from the article, parental responsibility. I thought if parents left guns and ammo out in the reach of an underage kid they are held liable for what happens? Parents should also make reasonable attempts to monitor their child's use of mature materials, such as video games and let's not forget movies where frequently REAL guns are used in REAL life to fake killing and blowing up REAL people/stuff. So I want to know why a district attorney isn't suing the parents for negligence?
This whole issue is just sad but what I wonder is if the same notice was sent to other search engines? I believe Yahoo uses a lot of Google technology so that comparison isn't good but take AltaVista for example. Search for Kazaa Lite there and you see the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and probably more (got tired of counting) links are links listed in the DMCA suit.
Why is this interesting? Google is a company whose business is to deliver the best results for any given search. If through the process of lawsuits, they no longer deliver the best results, users go elsewhere. So if all these companies target Google and only Google, in theory, eventually they could bring it down to a second rate service. I know you cannot selectively enforce patents (for this same reason), but not a clue about this lovely DMCA law.