Not understanding home theater doesn't make you dense. Their business isn't electronics, it's the law. A judge doesn't need to be an expert in a field that they are ruling on. They need to be able to find, understand and interpret the law as written by the legislature. In fact, you don't want a judge to be a subject-matter expert. When they start understanding every facet of a problem and make a ruling that is wise but contrary to the law, they are "legislating from the bench."
Here's the thing. Linux is free, but windows is cheap. Anybody that has ever looked at an IT budget can tell you that the line-item for licensing Windows is rounding-error compared to payroll. Sun knows it and tries to con people into thin clients. MS knows it, so they flooded the market with windows people to make their software cheap. I live in DC, so YMMV, but if I needed a linux person, I CAN'T FIND ONE. If I need a windows person, I can get one for $45k that will start next week. Quality is another issue, but don't underestimate the importance of availability.
Enterprise is not desktop. If you have requirements, you meet them. When the manufacturer of your networking gear says to use only intel Pro whatever network cards, you DO it. Mac Mini and iMac aren't that flexible.
I didn't even get into ADA compliance? (I'm not asserting that they cant be) Can my "Reasonable Accommodations" work on Mac? Do I have to go spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on new gear?
$300 is the price of a Sun Ray 2 system. That's the thin clients I'm referring to, not PCs.
Time to wake up from both fantasies. Enterprise Macs are a REALLY bad idea for three reasons, software diversity and knowledgeable support, and hardware cost.
"Enterprise" people often fall into the trap of assuming that windows is there only to provide a framework for a web browser and word processor. The fact is that an enterprise of 1000 employees probably has something like 500 applications that they rely on. Some bullcrap answer like "well just dual boot/emulate into xp for the things you need" doesn't fly with users, and doesn't work with all applications. (especially big industrial type apps) As your people get more specialized, so does your software.
Knowledgeable support is a biggie because there are farms churning out bajillions of windows support people. Finding somebody that already knows the Mac Infrastructure is difficult and costly.
Lastly, Macs are expensive. If I were going to introduce a new client into my enterprise, how do I pitch $3000 workstations against something like $300 thin clients or $800 PCs that already work in our environment? (another horrible idea, but I digress)
Guittard of course being an American company, like Ghiradelli, Scharffen Gerger, Richard Donnelly, and Dagoba. (like chocolate I do) In the world of high chocolate, the USA is number 1. It kills the swiss, but they know it's true.
The problem is that they'll charge $35 for the movie and call it a "combo" format. Seriously, whatever brainiac came up with putting 2 discs in a package needs to be drawn and quartered. (the problem being that that is the ONLY way i can get certain movies.
"Evil will always triumph over good because good is dumb."
Microsoft already has this in place, it's called windows update, and it was a HUGE leap forward. For the rest it has to do with legality and profit motivation, i.e. it's not legal and they can't make money off of it. Symantec and Microsoft make their money selling aspirin to the headaches you're describing. Google and Yahoo would be WAY out of their realm of specialty. Personally, I wouldn't mind ISPs doing it, assuming it was very up-front about what it was doing and told you how to prevent it.
That's not what they're going after, it people that make a living and pay no income taxes, in some cases getting paid (by you) to do so. Sales tax isn't the issue, it's income tax. If EB sells an Xbox, they have to report the revenue for their business income taxes. If you buy a lot of 100 Xboxes and sell them across state lines, you legally avoid sales tax. If you make 10,000 dollars doing it, that's income just like EB had, and you owe your share of that just like everybody else.
And your approval of what the government spends it on should be reflected in your voting, not tax fraud.
The power grid is fragile? On the US's three major grids (west, east, and texas) We've had something like two major outages (65 and 03) in the last 100 years not caused by natural disaster. The power grid SEEMS to be very reliable, fault tolerant, and capable of containing most major problems to a small area. Even the litany of small power outages that occur every day somewhere are repaired promptly.
There's a world of difference between a 94 saturn (2440 lbs) and a 85 CRX (1800 lbs) The difference is 640 lbs of safety and emissions equipment. Your car, like the CRX is perfectly capable of safely carrying 5x 200lb individuals.
While it's long been shown that when students are on campus, they surrender a number of their constitutional rights (free speech, search and seizure, right to bear arms, etc.)
This is a bogus understanding. Students in ANY school in the US still have ALL their constitutional rights. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom to disrupt class, freedom to incite a riot, etc. I even used to take my rifle to school for practice. You can't teach citizenship without retaining the fundamental values of our society in effect.
Methinks perhaps you are forgetting that "positive buzz" has a market value of $0.00.
There is no OS war, there is MS with their suite of OSes and everybody else. Vista will be the most popular OS ever, as will it's successor, and the one after that. It's inevitable.
Lots of people talk about their 1985 Honda CRX that got 57 mpg, but what they DONT tell you is that
1) The car was a total death trap, weighing just over 1800 lbs, it offered VERY little crash protection and poor traction in adverse weather. (even rain)
2) The way they achieved high mileage was to make it extremely polluting. By running the gas very lean, you don't get complete combustion, and emissions of NO2 and others were dangerously high.
To call it a practical car, you might not need 2 tons of steel, but you certainly need some heft to haul around an engine, 1000 lbs of people, emissions equipment, safety equipment, etc.
"To use older, pre-Katrina imagery when more recent images are available without some explanation as to why appears to be fundamentally dishonest
Google Earth/Maps are geospatial tools for navigation, data visualization, aggregation, etc. It is NOT a political weapon, and it is not an ELT for interpreting imagery. If you have imagery of flooded streets or debris covered areas, you DON'T USE IT for navigation. You use imagery that shows the streets and matches your vector data.
Writing a Win32/64 app that only works in one OS/browser/java version/etc seems to me to be sloppy coding. Blackboard is a *WEB* app, is it not? Why does the client matter? Usually the answer is because the Devs were lazy and took shortcuts by using the client to do something that the server could just as easily do. (Not necessarily the case here)
He is Vigo! you are like the buzzing of flies to him.
Obvious ridiculous hyperbole aside, Apple really doesn't compete with MS for anything aside from iPods vs Zunes. Apple is competing against HP, Dell, etc, not really against Microsoft. Sooner or later the tyrannical management of apple will face the music and stop selling computer hardware, that will be a great day when apple can start to compete with MS.
good answer, and I'll give you credit for it. However, what TBL did was to join two American technologies to create a new one. (Hypertext and the Internet) When microsoft does this, people scream bloody murder about how they never innovate anything and everything they do has been done before. The Japanese turned this into an art form by filling the US engineering gap, and leveraging American Innovation. (it continues today)
Countries were judged on technological advancements in general business, the infrastructure available and the extent to which government policy creates a framework necessary for economic development and increased competitiveness
This is bogus, and here's why. 1)technological advancements in general business. "General Business" is a really generic title, but should be read "companies using computers/internet etc." along with... 2)infrastructure available. Read "internet bandwidth available" How does bandwidth make you an "engine of technology innovation?" Easy answer, it does not. 3)...government policy creates a framework necessary for economic development. As pointed out, the US is the CLEAR winner here.
What I get from this is that the rankings are penalizing the US for fostering a healthy economic environment populated with many small businesses that do not need high technology to flourish. I've issued the challenge before, and I'll do it again. Name me a piece of technology that was invented after 1900 in a country besides the US. Certainly there are many, but it takes a while to think of one.
Of course not, media outlets are known for their "fair and balanced" coverage of news stories giving all the angles. In fact, your questioning of the veracity of this article tells me that you are an RIAA agent here to astroturf a media campaign while your nazi cronies arrest and beat this 10 year old girl. This is slashdot, home of the holier-than-thou-hypocrite.
Read the news, but make sure you keep your grain of salt with you at all times.
I would say that was ridiculous, but I know people that pay $65/mo for cable internet, and some with FIOS that pay even more. When I ask "And what do you do with a 30mbps connection?" The first answer is a blank stare of disbelief, then a bunch of crap about downloading TV shows. Well I too download TV shows, 100 channels, 24 hours/day. I can even keep them with a $5/mo DVR and watch them whenever.
$14/mo for DSL certainly isn't breaking my bank, but for the most part, I don't do anything on the net (says the man in a slashdot posting) that I couldn't live without. I have it at home because my wife needs it for grad school, and I do my time sheets for work. The net is what you make of it, but for many it seems too much like watching tv, twiddling away the hours until death.
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Not understanding home theater doesn't make you dense. Their business isn't electronics, it's the law. A judge doesn't need to be an expert in a field that they are ruling on. They need to be able to find, understand and interpret the law as written by the legislature. In fact, you don't want a judge to be a subject-matter expert. When they start understanding every facet of a problem and make a ruling that is wise but contrary to the law, they are "legislating from the bench."
Here's the thing. Linux is free, but windows is cheap. Anybody that has ever looked at an IT budget can tell you that the line-item for licensing Windows is rounding-error compared to payroll. Sun knows it and tries to con people into thin clients. MS knows it, so they flooded the market with windows people to make their software cheap. I live in DC, so YMMV, but if I needed a linux person, I CAN'T FIND ONE. If I need a windows person, I can get one for $45k that will start next week. Quality is another issue, but don't underestimate the importance of availability.
Sounds like something you would want to put in a grenade rather than use as a shield. Plasma Grenades...Schweet...
I didn't even get into ADA compliance? (I'm not asserting that they cant be) Can my "Reasonable Accommodations" work on Mac? Do I have to go spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on new gear?
$300 is the price of a Sun Ray 2 system. That's the thin clients I'm referring to, not PCs.
"Enterprise" people often fall into the trap of assuming that windows is there only to provide a framework for a web browser and word processor. The fact is that an enterprise of 1000 employees probably has something like 500 applications that they rely on. Some bullcrap answer like "well just dual boot/emulate into xp for the things you need" doesn't fly with users, and doesn't work with all applications. (especially big industrial type apps) As your people get more specialized, so does your software.
Knowledgeable support is a biggie because there are farms churning out bajillions of windows support people. Finding somebody that already knows the Mac Infrastructure is difficult and costly.
Lastly, Macs are expensive. If I were going to introduce a new client into my enterprise, how do I pitch $3000 workstations against something like $300 thin clients or $800 PCs that already work in our environment? (another horrible idea, but I digress)
Perhaps the "next-gen" is specialized coprocessors?
Guittard of course being an American company, like Ghiradelli, Scharffen Gerger, Richard Donnelly, and Dagoba. (like chocolate I do) In the world of high chocolate, the USA is number 1. It kills the swiss, but they know it's true.
The problem is that they'll charge $35 for the movie and call it a "combo" format. Seriously, whatever brainiac came up with putting 2 discs in a package needs to be drawn and quartered. (the problem being that that is the ONLY way i can get certain movies.
Microsoft already has this in place, it's called windows update, and it was a HUGE leap forward. For the rest it has to do with legality and profit motivation, i.e. it's not legal and they can't make money off of it. Symantec and Microsoft make their money selling aspirin to the headaches you're describing. Google and Yahoo would be WAY out of their realm of specialty. Personally, I wouldn't mind ISPs doing it, assuming it was very up-front about what it was doing and told you how to prevent it.
And your approval of what the government spends it on should be reflected in your voting, not tax fraud.
The power grid is fragile? On the US's three major grids (west, east, and texas) We've had something like two major outages (65 and 03) in the last 100 years not caused by natural disaster. The power grid SEEMS to be very reliable, fault tolerant, and capable of containing most major problems to a small area. Even the litany of small power outages that occur every day somewhere are repaired promptly.
There's a world of difference between a 94 saturn (2440 lbs) and a 85 CRX (1800 lbs) The difference is 640 lbs of safety and emissions equipment. Your car, like the CRX is perfectly capable of safely carrying 5x 200lb individuals.
This is a bogus understanding. Students in ANY school in the US still have ALL their constitutional rights. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom to disrupt class, freedom to incite a riot, etc. I even used to take my rifle to school for practice. You can't teach citizenship without retaining the fundamental values of our society in effect.
Have you ever used one of those phones? Shoot, even *rich* terrorists couldn't afford to talk much on those...
There is no OS war, there is MS with their suite of OSes and everybody else. Vista will be the most popular OS ever, as will it's successor, and the one after that. It's inevitable.
1) The car was a total death trap, weighing just over 1800 lbs, it offered VERY little crash protection and poor traction in adverse weather. (even rain)
2) The way they achieved high mileage was to make it extremely polluting. By running the gas very lean, you don't get complete combustion, and emissions of NO2 and others were dangerously high.
To call it a practical car, you might not need 2 tons of steel, but you certainly need some heft to haul around an engine, 1000 lbs of people, emissions equipment, safety equipment, etc.
Finish the install, drop back to W2K style "theme" and uninstall the crap they preload. Good to Go.
Google Earth/Maps are geospatial tools for navigation, data visualization, aggregation, etc. It is NOT a political weapon, and it is not an ELT for interpreting imagery. If you have imagery of flooded streets or debris covered areas, you DON'T USE IT for navigation. You use imagery that shows the streets and matches your vector data.
Writing a Win32/64 app that only works in one OS/browser/java version/etc seems to me to be sloppy coding. Blackboard is a *WEB* app, is it not? Why does the client matter? Usually the answer is because the Devs were lazy and took shortcuts by using the client to do something that the server could just as easily do. (Not necessarily the case here)
Obvious ridiculous hyperbole aside, Apple really doesn't compete with MS for anything aside from iPods vs Zunes. Apple is competing against HP, Dell, etc, not really against Microsoft. Sooner or later the tyrannical management of apple will face the music and stop selling computer hardware, that will be a great day when apple can start to compete with MS.
good answer, and I'll give you credit for it. However, what TBL did was to join two American technologies to create a new one. (Hypertext and the Internet) When microsoft does this, people scream bloody murder about how they never innovate anything and everything they do has been done before. The Japanese turned this into an art form by filling the US engineering gap, and leveraging American Innovation. (it continues today)
This is bogus, and here's why.
1)technological advancements in general business. "General Business" is a really generic title, but should be read "companies using computers/internet etc." along with...
2)infrastructure available. Read "internet bandwidth available" How does bandwidth make you an "engine of technology innovation?" Easy answer, it does not.
3)...government policy creates a framework necessary for economic development. As pointed out, the US is the CLEAR winner here.
What I get from this is that the rankings are penalizing the US for fostering a healthy economic environment populated with many small businesses that do not need high technology to flourish. I've issued the challenge before, and I'll do it again. Name me a piece of technology that was invented after 1900 in a country besides the US. Certainly there are many, but it takes a while to think of one.
Read the news, but make sure you keep your grain of salt with you at all times.
I would say that was ridiculous, but I know people that pay $65/mo for cable internet, and some with FIOS that pay even more. When I ask "And what do you do with a 30mbps connection?" The first answer is a blank stare of disbelief, then a bunch of crap about downloading TV shows. Well I too download TV shows, 100 channels, 24 hours/day. I can even keep them with a $5/mo DVR and watch them whenever.
$14/mo for DSL certainly isn't breaking my bank, but for the most part, I don't do anything on the net (says the man in a slashdot posting) that I couldn't live without. I have it at home because my wife needs it for grad school, and I do my time sheets for work. The net is what you make of it, but for many it seems too much like watching tv, twiddling away the hours until death.