I guess it really depends on what business you are in though. Take for instance a large company like Ford (picked because they aren't a computer/technology/web based, but large company). Their expertise has nothing to do with computers. Now, the question becomes, would it be cheaper for an organization of this size to host their own email? Most likely it would. But the real question is, do they want to devote any corporate time to even dealing with this kind of thing. Basically they would have to have a whole new division added on to their company to handle IT management, and they'd have all the fun stuff that goes along with it. It makes much more sense for someone like Amazon to host their own email because they already have a bunch of people managing servers anyway, so adding a few more servers isn't getting into uncharted territory. I mean, Ford probably uses enough keyboards that it might make sense to have their own keyboard factory. But that doesn't mean its a good business decision or that it's something they want their company to be doing.
The only case where it really made sense was when you had extremely variable load. It's nice for scientists that need to rent 100 computers for use with one project, but if you're going to be using the same resources on a day-to-day basis, then it makes much more financial sense to just own your own hardware, and rent space in an existing data center. It also makes sense if you use less than a whole server in resources, but VPS was already filling that need quite well before Amazon came along.
The difference is that a well designed cloud solution will have the necessary redundancy built in such that failure is less common and less catastrophic. The mere existence of loadbalancers (plural) shows that they are much better able to deal with a hardware failure than most in-house mail server solutions.
That's like saying that Canadian Tire Money is money because there are shops (and not just Canadian Tire) that will accept it as currency. My local bike shop takes old bike parts as trade ins for cash discount on new parts. Same as bringing in your old car for a trade in gives you cash value on the new car. That doesn't make these things "money".
Yeah, but capturing from the frame buffer and then trying to sync the result with the captured audio can be very problematic, and creates less than stellar copies. All this for stuff that's available on DVD anyway. There's much better ways to go about getting a good copy of whatever content is out there, especially since BluRay and DVD encryption have been broken for a long time.
Netflix should really just go native for all the platforms they support. There's no reason trying to force everything into the browser. Especially for something like Netflix, where more often than not it will be the sole app being used when it's running. They already have native apps for Android and IOS. There's an "app" for Windows 8, but I'm not sure if that's native or just some kind of wrapper around IE and Silverlight. All the other devices they run on (XBOX/PS3/Wii/Roku/Smart TV) don't use the browser with Silverlight to run Netflix, but instead use a "Native App".
Yeah, I bought Windows 8 when they first released it because it was only $40, and I knew that price wouldn't last forever. I have actually come to like it quite a bit. I really like the new task manager, and also like the way they have improved the UI for copying files. These may seem like little things, but they are things I see on a day-to-day basis. It's really nice to be able to see which program is monopolizing the hard disk, since that seems to be the #1 culprit for slowing down my computer. Overall it's been very stable, and has also performed very well. Which is nice considering I'm running it on a laptop that came out 2 years before windows 8 was released. If people would just stop harping on Metro, (honestly, you don't even see it 95% of the time) and just start using it.
This is my view of it as well. I haven't tried the Ouya yet, but I don't think the controller will be comparable to what you can get from just buying an XBox360 or DualShock controller and using it with any old Android MiniPC. Most non-console brand controllers (mad-catz and others) tend to be really low quality, and I question the likelyhood of the Ouya team being able to sell an Android mini PC and a quality controller for $100, while still being able to turn a profit.
You know what used to happen when people died? some information got lost. Scary isn't it. Seriously, this is just too complicated. Just make sure your spouse is listed as a joint account holder on all bank accounts, and that you have you will in order. Does it really matter if your email account is inaccessible? Who cares if your MP3's disappear? If your worried, just back them up on CD/DVD and call it a day. If I died, most of my online accounts would be inaccessible, but I don't think that really matters. Maybe I could ensure that my domain name stuff gets carried on, but I really don't care about my Twitter or Facebook accounts being accessible.
I agree. While $500 is a bit expensive if you want to use it for coding as a hobby, it's almost inconsequential if you're going to be using it for creating a product to sell. Most coders would probably make that amount of money in a day or two.Even as hobby, it's not that expensive. People spent more on the PS3 on release day. Pick most other hobbies, and it's easy to drop $500 on them.
Welcome to VB.Net. It's been there for ages. Mind you you have to pause the debugger to edit the code, but that's probably a good idea anyway. VB.Net also has some of the best pre-compile (it has a background compiler) syntax checking of any language I've ever seen. The only time you actually have to compile the program is when you want to run it, you never have to compile to make changes show up for auto-complete. And once you're running in the debugger you can edit the code anytime the code is stopped. There's a few limitations. I'm not sure if you can add a whole class while it's running, but you can definitely fix all those little off-by-one errors and continue running the program.
Actually, There is only 1 seeder. And if that seeder stops, it's all over. Bit-torrent is probably a better method of keeping certain things active than the Internet Archive. At least for things that people are about. I think it's noble that there's some organization willing to try to maintain an archive of everything, but I somehow I question the usefulness of keeping old copies of GetRight download manager lying around (Even though I may have loved it when I had a dial-up connection that would take an hour to download a megabyte, and would constant get disconnected).
I was wondering about this as well. If there isn't even enough bitcoins for each person in Canada to own one, then how is it to act as a widespread currency? Are things going to cost 0.0000000000001 bitcoins? think about this logically, if only 21 million bitcoins exist, and I wanted to sell a a house (which may be worth 1 million USD, and a gummy bear which may be worth 1 cent US, then there is either going to need to be a lot more than 21 million bitcoins or things are going to have to sold at very small fractions of a bitcoin.
It's odd, because I've used iTunes for a while, and I found it not that bad. You never even see the store unless you click on the tiny little store thing on the laft hand side. If you took someone who's never heard of iTunes and told them it was a music player, they probably wouldn't even find the store, assuming they were a standard computer user who doesn't explore the programs they use, and only clicks on the 3 things they really need. It's also nice that it can be used to sync to your iDevice because it knows where all your music is, and it knows all the playlists and which music you like. I'd hate it if I had to have that information somehow synced between 2 different programs just so I could copy music to my music player. Sure it has some shortcomings, and it isn't perfect, but having 3 different programs would be much worse.
Yeah, likely they'll end up like Nintendo. Sure they won't have the biggest chunk of the market, but they'll still be making money. The Wii is the only recent reception to this where they sold more units than the other guys. The N64, GameCube, and Wii U have low sales numbers, but Nintendo has remained profitable, while Sony and especially Microsoft fail to make money on their console divisions. Nintendo hasn't been making a ton of money in the last little while, and they may have reported some losses, but they'll still remain relevant for a long time.
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Not sure how accurate it is, but the information here says Amish life span is the same as the average American.
Actually a lot is being done, especially in regards to tobacco. Long gone are the days when you could smoke on a plane. In many places you can't smoke in restaurants anymore. They aren't even allowed to have a smoking section. Where I live, you can't smoke inside any building that's a place of work. You can basically smoke in residents, but that's it. You can't smoke in your car if you have a minor in the car. And in the case of many public buildings, public parks, and even outdoor transit stops, they have a 9 meter no-smoking radius.
I still look at people oddly when they talk on a blue-tooth headset, because it looks like they're talking to themselves. A lot of women I know won't even wear reading glasses because they don't like the way they look, even though they spent $700 on the designer frames. The conformity factor is quite high for most people.
There's already laws about driving while distracted. It's just that for most people "distracted" is something that is hard to define. So they have to come up with very specific laws about what exact kinds of distractions you aren't allowed to do. Personally I never felt that safe driving while talking one the phone. And it's not that I'm a bad driver, I just realize how distracted I get when I'm on the phone.
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Well, things can always be a little too simple, but that doesn't mean we should make them as complicated/not-simple/technological as possible. It's perfectly possible to have good health without being inundated with technology for our entire lives.
Won't be so difficult when they're out-gunned, out-trained, and very importantly, out-fed. While DPRK may have a lot of people enlisted in their army, they are ill equipped to deal with an actual war, especially when it involves invading another country. They might be able to fend off some incoming forces for a while, but they only have a very small border. It's not going to be easy for them to sneak over.
Not only that, but people who are actually interested in programming don't need a game to teach them how to do it. When I was a kid, I enjoyed going through the DOS command prompt tutorial on my computer. I enjoyed when we used logo in school. Taking computer class in highschool where we used Q Basic to write programs, and Netscape Composer to make web pages.
Do the calculation the other way. If the boat costs your $ 14 million, and you spend a total of 4 weeks a year on it, and you live for 50 years (after you bought it) that means you would have spent 4 * 50 * 7 days on the boat, or about 1400 days on the boat. Each day on the boat would have cost you $10,000. That doesn't even account for the fact that you have to pay a crew to man a boat of this size, as well as fuel, and pay for moorage (where the boat goes when you aren't using it) fees. Sure you may have the money, but you could easily charter a boat for way less than $10,000 a day. Here's one you can charter for $13,000 a week.
Whenever people wonder why the ultra-rich (movie stars, music stars, sports starts, CEOs, lottery winners, etc) end up going bankrupt, I point out stuff like this. There's no point in owning a boat like this unless you plan to live on it. For the number of times you'd actually be able to use the thing, it would make much more sense to just rent the boat. If you are going to own the boat, you should at least of some kind of business set up that rents it out while you're not using it. I'm all for people spending money if they have it, but this type of purchase is just completely ridiculous. You'll never in your life get $14 million worth of enjoyment out of a boat.
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I guess it really depends on what business you are in though. Take for instance a large company like Ford (picked because they aren't a computer/technology/web based, but large company). Their expertise has nothing to do with computers. Now, the question becomes, would it be cheaper for an organization of this size to host their own email? Most likely it would. But the real question is, do they want to devote any corporate time to even dealing with this kind of thing. Basically they would have to have a whole new division added on to their company to handle IT management, and they'd have all the fun stuff that goes along with it. It makes much more sense for someone like Amazon to host their own email because they already have a bunch of people managing servers anyway, so adding a few more servers isn't getting into uncharted territory. I mean, Ford probably uses enough keyboards that it might make sense to have their own keyboard factory. But that doesn't mean its a good business decision or that it's something they want their company to be doing.
The only case where it really made sense was when you had extremely variable load. It's nice for scientists that need to rent 100 computers for use with one project, but if you're going to be using the same resources on a day-to-day basis, then it makes much more financial sense to just own your own hardware, and rent space in an existing data center. It also makes sense if you use less than a whole server in resources, but VPS was already filling that need quite well before Amazon came along.
The difference is that a well designed cloud solution will have the necessary redundancy built in such that failure is less common and less catastrophic. The mere existence of loadbalancers (plural) shows that they are much better able to deal with a hardware failure than most in-house mail server solutions.
That's like saying that Canadian Tire Money is money because there are shops (and not just Canadian Tire) that will accept it as currency. My local bike shop takes old bike parts as trade ins for cash discount on new parts. Same as bringing in your old car for a trade in gives you cash value on the new car. That doesn't make these things "money".
Yeah, but capturing from the frame buffer and then trying to sync the result with the captured audio can be very problematic, and creates less than stellar copies. All this for stuff that's available on DVD anyway. There's much better ways to go about getting a good copy of whatever content is out there, especially since BluRay and DVD encryption have been broken for a long time.
Netflix should really just go native for all the platforms they support. There's no reason trying to force everything into the browser. Especially for something like Netflix, where more often than not it will be the sole app being used when it's running. They already have native apps for Android and IOS. There's an "app" for Windows 8, but I'm not sure if that's native or just some kind of wrapper around IE and Silverlight. All the other devices they run on (XBOX/PS3/Wii/Roku/Smart TV) don't use the browser with Silverlight to run Netflix, but instead use a "Native App".
Yeah, I bought Windows 8 when they first released it because it was only $40, and I knew that price wouldn't last forever. I have actually come to like it quite a bit. I really like the new task manager, and also like the way they have improved the UI for copying files. These may seem like little things, but they are things I see on a day-to-day basis. It's really nice to be able to see which program is monopolizing the hard disk, since that seems to be the #1 culprit for slowing down my computer. Overall it's been very stable, and has also performed very well. Which is nice considering I'm running it on a laptop that came out 2 years before windows 8 was released. If people would just stop harping on Metro, (honestly, you don't even see it 95% of the time) and just start using it.
This is my view of it as well. I haven't tried the Ouya yet, but I don't think the controller will be comparable to what you can get from just buying an XBox360 or DualShock controller and using it with any old Android MiniPC. Most non-console brand controllers (mad-catz and others) tend to be really low quality, and I question the likelyhood of the Ouya team being able to sell an Android mini PC and a quality controller for $100, while still being able to turn a profit.
Like the Ethiopians didn't have a big enough advantage already.
You know what used to happen when people died? some information got lost. Scary isn't it. Seriously, this is just too complicated. Just make sure your spouse is listed as a joint account holder on all bank accounts, and that you have you will in order. Does it really matter if your email account is inaccessible? Who cares if your MP3's disappear? If your worried, just back them up on CD/DVD and call it a day. If I died, most of my online accounts would be inaccessible, but I don't think that really matters. Maybe I could ensure that my domain name stuff gets carried on, but I really don't care about my Twitter or Facebook accounts being accessible.
I agree. While $500 is a bit expensive if you want to use it for coding as a hobby, it's almost inconsequential if you're going to be using it for creating a product to sell. Most coders would probably make that amount of money in a day or two.Even as hobby, it's not that expensive. People spent more on the PS3 on release day. Pick most other hobbies, and it's easy to drop $500 on them.
Welcome to VB.Net. It's been there for ages. Mind you you have to pause the debugger to edit the code, but that's probably a good idea anyway. VB.Net also has some of the best pre-compile (it has a background compiler) syntax checking of any language I've ever seen. The only time you actually have to compile the program is when you want to run it, you never have to compile to make changes show up for auto-complete. And once you're running in the debugger you can edit the code anytime the code is stopped. There's a few limitations. I'm not sure if you can add a whole class while it's running, but you can definitely fix all those little off-by-one errors and continue running the program.
Actually, There is only 1 seeder. And if that seeder stops, it's all over. Bit-torrent is probably a better method of keeping certain things active than the Internet Archive. At least for things that people are about. I think it's noble that there's some organization willing to try to maintain an archive of everything, but I somehow I question the usefulness of keeping old copies of GetRight download manager lying around (Even though I may have loved it when I had a dial-up connection that would take an hour to download a megabyte, and would constant get disconnected).
I was wondering about this as well. If there isn't even enough bitcoins for each person in Canada to own one, then how is it to act as a widespread currency? Are things going to cost 0.0000000000001 bitcoins? think about this logically, if only 21 million bitcoins exist, and I wanted to sell a a house (which may be worth 1 million USD, and a gummy bear which may be worth 1 cent US, then there is either going to need to be a lot more than 21 million bitcoins or things are going to have to sold at very small fractions of a bitcoin.
It's odd, because I've used iTunes for a while, and I found it not that bad. You never even see the store unless you click on the tiny little store thing on the laft hand side. If you took someone who's never heard of iTunes and told them it was a music player, they probably wouldn't even find the store, assuming they were a standard computer user who doesn't explore the programs they use, and only clicks on the 3 things they really need. It's also nice that it can be used to sync to your iDevice because it knows where all your music is, and it knows all the playlists and which music you like. I'd hate it if I had to have that information somehow synced between 2 different programs just so I could copy music to my music player. Sure it has some shortcomings, and it isn't perfect, but having 3 different programs would be much worse.
Yeah, likely they'll end up like Nintendo. Sure they won't have the biggest chunk of the market, but they'll still be making money. The Wii is the only recent reception to this where they sold more units than the other guys. The N64, GameCube, and Wii U have low sales numbers, but Nintendo has remained profitable, while Sony and especially Microsoft fail to make money on their console divisions. Nintendo hasn't been making a ton of money in the last little while, and they may have reported some losses, but they'll still remain relevant for a long time.
Not sure how accurate it is, but the information here says Amish life span is the same as the average American.
Actually a lot is being done, especially in regards to tobacco. Long gone are the days when you could smoke on a plane. In many places you can't smoke in restaurants anymore. They aren't even allowed to have a smoking section. Where I live, you can't smoke inside any building that's a place of work. You can basically smoke in residents, but that's it. You can't smoke in your car if you have a minor in the car. And in the case of many public buildings, public parks, and even outdoor transit stops, they have a 9 meter no-smoking radius.
I still look at people oddly when they talk on a blue-tooth headset, because it looks like they're talking to themselves. A lot of women I know won't even wear reading glasses because they don't like the way they look, even though they spent $700 on the designer frames. The conformity factor is quite high for most people.
There's already laws about driving while distracted. It's just that for most people "distracted" is something that is hard to define. So they have to come up with very specific laws about what exact kinds of distractions you aren't allowed to do. Personally I never felt that safe driving while talking one the phone. And it's not that I'm a bad driver, I just realize how distracted I get when I'm on the phone.
Well, things can always be a little too simple, but that doesn't mean we should make them as complicated/not-simple/technological as possible. It's perfectly possible to have good health without being inundated with technology for our entire lives.
Won't be so difficult when they're out-gunned, out-trained, and very importantly, out-fed. While DPRK may have a lot of people enlisted in their army, they are ill equipped to deal with an actual war, especially when it involves invading another country. They might be able to fend off some incoming forces for a while, but they only have a very small border. It's not going to be easy for them to sneak over.
Not only that, but people who are actually interested in programming don't need a game to teach them how to do it. When I was a kid, I enjoyed going through the DOS command prompt tutorial on my computer. I enjoyed when we used logo in school. Taking computer class in highschool where we used Q Basic to write programs, and Netscape Composer to make web pages.
Do the calculation the other way. If the boat costs your $ 14 million, and you spend a total of 4 weeks a year on it, and you live for 50 years (after you bought it) that means you would have spent 4 * 50 * 7 days on the boat, or about 1400 days on the boat. Each day on the boat would have cost you $10,000. That doesn't even account for the fact that you have to pay a crew to man a boat of this size, as well as fuel, and pay for moorage (where the boat goes when you aren't using it) fees. Sure you may have the money, but you could easily charter a boat for way less than $10,000 a day. Here's one you can charter for $13,000 a week.
Whenever people wonder why the ultra-rich (movie stars, music stars, sports starts, CEOs, lottery winners, etc) end up going bankrupt, I point out stuff like this. There's no point in owning a boat like this unless you plan to live on it. For the number of times you'd actually be able to use the thing, it would make much more sense to just rent the boat. If you are going to own the boat, you should at least of some kind of business set up that rents it out while you're not using it. I'm all for people spending money if they have it, but this type of purchase is just completely ridiculous. You'll never in your life get $14 million worth of enjoyment out of a boat.