Well then, how about we require Verizon and Sprint to convert to GSM. You know, like the REST OF THE WORLD. But that would be a bit unfair as well. Frankly Verizon has a better network in the US. But I do just enough traveling to the rest of the world that we AT&T at work. (And I have an iPhone).
Now 4G is pretty much supposed to be the same everywhere. So some of that will go away.
But personally I don't see what the big deal is. I know people who prefer verizon and got a blackberry storm. They seem perfectly happy. We were going to go with AT&T so I got an iPhone. I'm happy.
Multiply how many iPhone and iPods Apple have sold and let's just use a made up profit number of say $30 per unit. Let's see, 206 Million units * $30 is over $6B.
$500M seems like a drop in the bucket compared to the hardware.
Frankly, my dear, most people don't give a damn. They want it to be easy and work, even if it comes at a premium over other brands. Apple has done that. I deal with enough technical problems at work all day. Last thing I want to do is come home and monkey around with making X work with Y. I used to like that when I was younger and not worrying about careers and other real world problems. And now that I'm making a little money, I don't mind paying the Apple Premium to do it.
If you build breeder reactors and reprocess fuel, you're left with plenty of power for the next several hundred years and by the time it is all spent, what's left has a half life of decades instead of centuries.
More important is that Verizon's technology isn't used much outside of the US. Pretty much everywhere else is GSM, which is what ATT and T-Mobile uses. Why design a MacTablet or whatever that can only be used in one country or have to maintain two separate versions, one for the US and one for everywhere else.
Some kind of netbook or tablet I could be in the market for in the next year. I'm not really needing a new MacBook Pro as I primarily use Email, Google Docs, and our SVN/Bug Tracking tools (all web based). I don't really do that much coding anymore.
I've already got an iPhone and I've stopped carrying the laptop everywhere. In a few emergencies, I've been able to ssh into a server or a web-based control panel and reset servers. It is less than ideal, but works.
My dad's in his late 60's and I got him a TomTom for christmas. That's what he wanted. It's simple enough for him to use and he doesn't have any problems with figuring it out. The screen is large and easy for him to read. I also know a number of hunters and hikers who go to places were the GPS in cell phones won't work, but a GPS receiver still will.
I just add a Cell phone for him to my plan for fathers day. (He had a crappy pre-paid one in the car for emergancies, but he never used it because it didn't work on the farms.). It has turn by turn naviation, if you want to pay for the feature, but he's never going to use it. First off the screen is too small and he barely uses it now to make phone calls. I think I've called him more than anything.
Now take me. I have an iPhone. I use the turn by turn directions on a regular basis. I have no need to get a Tom Tom. I use my iPhone. There are different markets here that are served by different products. Now, they may not sell as many GPS systems, but they still have their uses.
more like I have a j. savage arms jr. scout breach loading single shot.22 from 1907 and a semi-automatic Ruger 10/22 from 2007. Both do the same thing, but the Ruger does it faster and with better accuracy at distance thanks to a longer barrel.
I remember reading those stories and I don't really doubt it because water is drying up in the west. You don't hear much about it, but water rights and who controls the water is going to be a deal and make someone very rich over the next 25 - 30+ years. Actually that goes for the entire world. Anyone take notice of how many dams have been built around Iraq in the past few years by Turkey and Iran?
This retired executive wasn't hinting at a conspiracy as much as, "This happened before until it reached XYZ tipping point and swung the other way." Now OPEC is a factor of that. They can only keep the price so high so long, but it is in their interest to take a short term hit, crash the market long enough to kill their competition and then go back to business as usual. Apparently that is what happened back in the 1980's and his prediction was it would happen again. He knew what was going on because he had been around long enough and saw it happen before. It wasn't the "Hey the CEO of Exxon and Price of Saudi told me...". It was just his personal experience.
Step 1: Reduce Refining Capacity through by-outs Step 2: Send out pundits to claim how high oil prices will go Step 3: Get price of oil/gas high enough that alternate energy starts to become profitable Step 4: Get people to invest lots of money on said technologies. Step 5: ???? Step 6: Let the oil bubble burst and take the alternative energy markets with it.
I'm not sure where profit goes in there, but this also happened in the late 1970's through early 1980's. Right when other means of fuel production came online and people had invested a lot of money in the new technologies, the price of oil suddenly dropped causing the alternatives to quickly go broke and effectively stifle competition for the next couple decades.
Funny about that history not repeating itself, but sure does rhyme thing.
This was told to me by a retired GM executive and friend of the family back in 2006/2007 when the price of oil kept going up. He even gave a prediction of that the price of oil would fall around 2008/2009 and when it did, any interest in alternate fuels would go with it. Seems like he may have known something.
Maybe because the point I was getting across was that the criminals likely used social engineering of some type to get access to the data. Doesn't matter if it's the bank manger or a civil service employee. Could be use email as the technical means. A lot of IT admins focus entirely on things like firewalls, anti-virus software, spam filters, and outside threats attacking the network that they often times fail to take into consideration what might happen if someone manages to get physical access to a machine from the inside.
Yeah, you could hire or bribe a cleaning crew. Plant someone in the cleaning crew, etc., but that leaves a human trail. There are people for the police to question, maybe video surveillance of them accessing the machine etc..
If you're careful and leave a couple thumb drives on the ground near the smoking area, an employees likely to take it inside. Afterall, it's in the smoking area. Maybe one of his/her colleagues had it drop out of their pocket. But instead it has a couple trojans set to autorun, and boom, you have control of a machine on the inside. Whether it's the right machine or can provide useful information maybe hit or miss. But once you're on the inside, you can gather intel on the inner workings of the network at the very least making your next attempt, if you're determined to hit a target for a specific purpose, that much more effective.
Why target smokers? Predictable habits. They are likely to go to the same place around the same time every day.
If the IT or police come back and do the audit trail, it leads back to the employee. They may have the drive still, they may not. At the very least, they've touched it a few times and contaminated the evidence and they've never seen you, talked to you or any proxy. They don't know anything. The human trail ends there. Now if you're phoning home, there is a whole 'nother set of issues to deal with, but you get the point.
I don't really see what the whole problem people have with Java these days. Especially for GUI desktop apps. Is it as fast as native code on any given platform? Maybe not from a technical perspective, but with todays hardware and ram it's fast enough. Plus it is, for the most part, write once run anywhere. Again, we're talking about things like business apps that maybe interfaces with a database. The companies I know that had built their internal apps in Java didn't have any problems when Vista came along. Those who were using.Net/C++/VB/etc. kept XP around.
We needed a desktop app to interface with our web platform. We really didn't want to code and maintain 3 versions of the code. If we went that route we would have supported Windows and maybe Mac. With Java, we wrote once, and it does run on Windows, Linux, Mac, and FreeBSD. (Granted with Mac you have to go into the command line and tell it to use Java 1.6 and it's intel only). We only have to maintain one set of code. Makes it a lot cheaper and easier for us.
In fact, I hope Google does support Java. It makes our lives much easier.
That being said, there are places and applications where JAVA fails miserably and it's not the magic hammer that works for every job. But what it does do, it does well enough to work.
Find out if the bank manger smokes, or his/her sectary smokes. Note when they go for a smoke and where. Get a few of those USB thumb drives from trade shows and lace them with trojans and place them near the smokers outside break area and wait for them to pick it up and place them back in their machines when they get back inside. Because usually they will just to see what was on the drive.
If you look at the ABM program, it was never designed to deal with more than a few incoming missiles. It was meant as a defensive system against North Korea and other countries such as Iran or Pakistan who may have a few missiles and nukes, but not hundreds. Also, the only effective system (the Navy's SM-3 platforms) is geared at the interception of MRBM and theater based weapons, not ICBM's.
The question is, what is 500 launchers? Are F-16's considered launchers? After all they can carry nuclear bombs.
I'm convinced whoever decided to eliminate the incandescent bulb never had kids. I know it's a small amount of mercury, but still, how many times do kids knock over a lamp and then not tell you because they don't want to get in trouble?
I replaced the lights that I could with CFL's a while ago. I'm not sure how much money it really saves me as my energy usage was not much above the minimum fee of $45 a month before most months and it's about the same. But there are a few places I've kept regular old light bulbs, like the closets. When I put a CFL in their it took long enough to power on that I was usually done before it became fully lit.
Maybe in a couple years LED bulbs will be a bit better price wise. Until then, I'll be stocking up on a case of old light bulbs every time I'm at Sams.
It's true. By far MSIE is the largest browser we see with almost 88% of our hits. Second Place is Safari and Safari Mobile both with 4%. The rest are FF & Opera. Most of the people using our site are ordering from larger businesses. They have no control of their browser and we still see a lot of IE 6. So we develop for IE first because if we don't and something doesn't look "right" in IE, we hear about it rather quickly.
Sadly, your sister school to the south (SIU-Carbondale) doesn't do this. I only took graduate school classes there, which was a lot more periodicals and article reading than books.
I had to do the same on our outside facing development/testing servers. We just used Kapersky since it was already there with Plesk and easy. I wasn't too concerned with performance. We crash or have to reboot those boxes at least once a week in development.
All our Production systems are either OpenBSD (httpd) or FreeBSD (mail & database servers). We did install Clam on the mail servers.
Frankly, I'm more worried about cracking attempts on those servers than viruses.
To that fact, the max cap on licensing H.264 is in the neighborhood of $5M. (at least it was the last time I looked at the licensing a couple years ago) Why can't the Mozilla Foundation license it the same way that the FreeBSD Foundation licenses Java from Sun.
What is this Real Browser(TM) to which you speak of? I use Safari because it works with my bank's website. Go to it with Firefox or Opera and you get an error message.
On a daily basis I use Safari and Opera.
Webkit is being used by others now (Google Chrome) and right now over 80% of our hits from mobile browsers are Safari/iPhone.
We've always used PostgreSQL for development when the plans were to move to an enterprise class HA cluster down the road. Usually if it worked well in PostgreSQL, things really worked well when we moved to DB2 or Oracle.
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Well then, how about we require Verizon and Sprint to convert to GSM. You know, like the REST OF THE WORLD. But that would be a bit unfair as well. Frankly Verizon has a better network in the US. But I do just enough traveling to the rest of the world that we AT&T at work. (And I have an iPhone).
Now 4G is pretty much supposed to be the same everywhere. So some of that will go away.
But personally I don't see what the big deal is. I know people who prefer verizon and got a blackberry storm. They seem perfectly happy. We were going to go with AT&T so I got an iPhone. I'm happy.
Multiply how many iPhone and iPods Apple have sold and let's just use a made up profit number of say $30 per unit. Let's see, 206 Million units * $30 is over $6B.
$500M seems like a drop in the bucket compared to the hardware.
Frankly, my dear, most people don't give a damn. They want it to be easy and work, even if it comes at a premium over other brands. Apple has done that. I deal with enough technical problems at work all day. Last thing I want to do is come home and monkey around with making X work with Y. I used to like that when I was younger and not worrying about careers and other real world problems. And now that I'm making a little money, I don't mind paying the Apple Premium to do it.
If you build breeder reactors and reprocess fuel, you're left with plenty of power for the next several hundred years and by the time it is all spent, what's left has a half life of decades instead of centuries.
yeah, according to them FreeBSD always seems to run about 30 - 40% of their top 10 uptime list month after month.
More important is that Verizon's technology isn't used much outside of the US. Pretty much everywhere else is GSM, which is what ATT and T-Mobile uses. Why design a MacTablet or whatever that can only be used in one country or have to maintain two separate versions, one for the US and one for everywhere else.
Some kind of netbook or tablet I could be in the market for in the next year. I'm not really needing a new MacBook Pro as I primarily use Email, Google Docs, and our SVN/Bug Tracking tools (all web based). I don't really do that much coding anymore.
I've already got an iPhone and I've stopped carrying the laptop everywhere. In a few emergencies, I've been able to ssh into a server or a web-based control panel and reset servers. It is less than ideal, but works.
My dad's in his late 60's and I got him a TomTom for christmas. That's what he wanted. It's simple enough for him to use and he doesn't have any problems with figuring it out. The screen is large and easy for him to read. I also know a number of hunters and hikers who go to places were the GPS in cell phones won't work, but a GPS receiver still will.
I just add a Cell phone for him to my plan for fathers day. (He had a crappy pre-paid one in the car for emergancies, but he never used it because it didn't work on the farms.). It has turn by turn naviation, if you want to pay for the feature, but he's never going to use it. First off the screen is too small and he barely uses it now to make phone calls. I think I've called him more than anything.
Now take me. I have an iPhone. I use the turn by turn directions on a regular basis. I have no need to get a Tom Tom. I use my iPhone. There are different markets here that are served by different products. Now, they may not sell as many GPS systems, but they still have their uses.
but I know this guy down in Texas with plenty of spare units to test...
51.2 LoC's
Assuming LoC is still = 20TB
more like I have a j. savage arms jr. scout breach loading single shot .22 from 1907 and a semi-automatic Ruger 10/22 from 2007. Both do the same thing, but the Ruger does it faster and with better accuracy at distance thanks to a longer barrel.
I remember reading those stories and I don't really doubt it because water is drying up in the west. You don't hear much about it, but water rights and who controls the water is going to be a deal and make someone very rich over the next 25 - 30+ years. Actually that goes for the entire world. Anyone take notice of how many dams have been built around Iraq in the past few years by Turkey and Iran?
This retired executive wasn't hinting at a conspiracy as much as, "This happened before until it reached XYZ tipping point and swung the other way." Now OPEC is a factor of that. They can only keep the price so high so long, but it is in their interest to take a short term hit, crash the market long enough to kill their competition and then go back to business as usual. Apparently that is what happened back in the 1980's and his prediction was it would happen again. He knew what was going on because he had been around long enough and saw it happen before. It wasn't the "Hey the CEO of Exxon and Price of Saudi told me...". It was just his personal experience.
Step 1: Reduce Refining Capacity through by-outs
Step 2: Send out pundits to claim how high oil prices will go
Step 3: Get price of oil/gas high enough that alternate energy starts to become profitable
Step 4: Get people to invest lots of money on said technologies.
Step 5: ????
Step 6: Let the oil bubble burst and take the alternative energy markets with it.
I'm not sure where profit goes in there, but this also happened in the late 1970's through early 1980's. Right when other means of fuel production came online and people had invested a lot of money in the new technologies, the price of oil suddenly dropped causing the alternatives to quickly go broke and effectively stifle competition for the next couple decades.
Funny about that history not repeating itself, but sure does rhyme thing.
This was told to me by a retired GM executive and friend of the family back in 2006/2007 when the price of oil kept going up. He even gave a prediction of that the price of oil would fall around 2008/2009 and when it did, any interest in alternate fuels would go with it. Seems like he may have known something.
Maybe because the point I was getting across was that the criminals likely used social engineering of some type to get access to the data. Doesn't matter if it's the bank manger or a civil service employee. Could be use email as the technical means. A lot of IT admins focus entirely on things like firewalls, anti-virus software, spam filters, and outside threats attacking the network that they often times fail to take into consideration what might happen if someone manages to get physical access to a machine from the inside.
Yeah, you could hire or bribe a cleaning crew. Plant someone in the cleaning crew, etc., but that leaves a human trail. There are people for the police to question, maybe video surveillance of them accessing the machine etc..
If you're careful and leave a couple thumb drives on the ground near the smoking area, an employees likely to take it inside. Afterall, it's in the smoking area. Maybe one of his/her colleagues had it drop out of their pocket. But instead it has a couple trojans set to autorun, and boom, you have control of a machine on the inside. Whether it's the right machine or can provide useful information maybe hit or miss. But once you're on the inside, you can gather intel on the inner workings of the network at the very least making your next attempt, if you're determined to hit a target for a specific purpose, that much more effective.
Why target smokers? Predictable habits. They are likely to go to the same place around the same time every day.
If the IT or police come back and do the audit trail, it leads back to the employee. They may have the drive still, they may not. At the very least, they've touched it a few times and contaminated the evidence and they've never seen you, talked to you or any proxy. They don't know anything. The human trail ends there. Now if you're phoning home, there is a whole 'nother set of issues to deal with, but you get the point.
I don't really see what the whole problem people have with Java these days. Especially for GUI desktop apps. Is it as fast as native code on any given platform? Maybe not from a technical perspective, but with todays hardware and ram it's fast enough. Plus it is, for the most part, write once run anywhere. Again, we're talking about things like business apps that maybe interfaces with a database. The companies I know that had built their internal apps in Java didn't have any problems when Vista came along. Those who were using .Net/C++/VB/etc. kept XP around.
We needed a desktop app to interface with our web platform. We really didn't want to code and maintain 3 versions of the code. If we went that route we would have supported Windows and maybe Mac. With Java, we wrote once, and it does run on Windows, Linux, Mac, and FreeBSD. (Granted with Mac you have to go into the command line and tell it to use Java 1.6 and it's intel only). We only have to maintain one set of code. Makes it a lot cheaper and easier for us.
In fact, I hope Google does support Java. It makes our lives much easier.
That being said, there are places and applications where JAVA fails miserably and it's not the magic hammer that works for every job. But what it does do, it does well enough to work.
Find out if the bank manger smokes, or his/her sectary smokes. Note when they go for a smoke and where. Get a few of those USB thumb drives from trade shows and lace them with trojans and place them near the smokers outside break area and wait for them to pick it up and place them back in their machines when they get back inside. Because usually they will just to see what was on the drive.
If you look at the ABM program, it was never designed to deal with more than a few incoming missiles. It was meant as a defensive system against North Korea and other countries such as Iran or Pakistan who may have a few missiles and nukes, but not hundreds. Also, the only effective system (the Navy's SM-3 platforms) is geared at the interception of MRBM and theater based weapons, not ICBM's.
The question is, what is 500 launchers? Are F-16's considered launchers? After all they can carry nuclear bombs.
I'm convinced whoever decided to eliminate the incandescent bulb never had kids. I know it's a small amount of mercury, but still, how many times do kids knock over a lamp and then not tell you because they don't want to get in trouble?
I replaced the lights that I could with CFL's a while ago. I'm not sure how much money it really saves me as my energy usage was not much above the minimum fee of $45 a month before most months and it's about the same. But there are a few places I've kept regular old light bulbs, like the closets. When I put a CFL in their it took long enough to power on that I was usually done before it became fully lit.
Maybe in a couple years LED bulbs will be a bit better price wise. Until then, I'll be stocking up on a case of old light bulbs every time I'm at Sams.
It's true. By far MSIE is the largest browser we see with almost 88% of our hits. Second Place is Safari and Safari Mobile both with 4%. The rest are FF & Opera. Most of the people using our site are ordering from larger businesses. They have no control of their browser and we still see a lot of IE 6. So we develop for IE first because if we don't and something doesn't look "right" in IE, we hear about it rather quickly.
that SonicWall blocks the article site from the current hotspot where I'm enjoying a cup of coffee and a bagel before work.
Sadly, your sister school to the south (SIU-Carbondale) doesn't do this. I only took graduate school classes there, which was a lot more periodicals and article reading than books.
I had to do the same on our outside facing development/testing servers. We just used Kapersky since it was already there with Plesk and easy. I wasn't too concerned with performance. We crash or have to reboot those boxes at least once a week in development.
All our Production systems are either OpenBSD (httpd) or FreeBSD (mail & database servers). We did install Clam on the mail servers.
Frankly, I'm more worried about cracking attempts on those servers than viruses.
To that fact, the max cap on licensing H.264 is in the neighborhood of $5M. (at least it was the last time I looked at the licensing a couple years ago) Why can't the Mozilla Foundation license it the same way that the FreeBSD Foundation licenses Java from Sun.
What is this Real Browser(TM) to which you speak of? I use Safari because it works with my bank's website. Go to it with Firefox or Opera and you get an error message.
On a daily basis I use Safari and Opera.
Webkit is being used by others now (Google Chrome) and right now over 80% of our hits from mobile browsers are Safari/iPhone.
We've always used PostgreSQL for development when the plans were to move to an enterprise class HA cluster down the road. Usually if it worked well in PostgreSQL, things really worked well when we moved to DB2 or Oracle.