and battery technology is still the most expensive and weakest link.
Toyota is doing well (business wise) with its regular hybrids. It just does not make sense to try sell something that is self-competitive and confuses the market.
This does not just apply to networks, it applies to just about everything. When Germany installed new phone systems after the war, guess what: they were the most up to date and automated systems in the world.
Sure it is not the right solution for everyone, but many businesses, particularly smaller businesses, can benefit a lot from the cloud.
If you have not got the in-house skills or time to run your own IT department, then storing all your data in a clod can make a lot of sense.
CloudBiz does all your back ups, web hosting,...
You, and your associates/sales reps/... can access your data on the road with no need to set up your own VPN servers etc.
Small business people want to focus on their businesses, not on setting up and maintaining IT. They don't service their own cars & delivery vans, so why should they run their own inhouse IT?
Sensible companies see this as a bit of give aqnd take and are flexible.
Why not provide two networks? The "dirty net" and the "clean net". On the dirty net you can plug in your personal stuff, chat, etc. On the clean net you can only use corporate sanitized equipment.
Almost everything here is about attitude. Turn the "curse" into an advantage.
Don't say:"I've had a crap job for the last 2 years doing tech support and now I want a real job."
Instead, say:"For the last two years I've been doing support and really getting to understand how **real** people interact with software. It sure has been an eye opener and I've learnt a lot about how to think about effective user interface design than I ever did reading books or in that 6 month college course...." Now that is something I just came up with in 3 seconds... sit down and think of at least 5 ways to present the tech support in a positive light and turn it to your advantage.
Oh, and remember, in this game that degree of yours is close to worthless. It might get your foot into the door but you still have to sell your product (ie. you). After a while nobody cares about your degree any more. In my last 4 jobs nobody even asked me about my degree and I did not even mention it on my resume.
Also, as a hirer, I seldom look at degrees or the number of As the candidate got. I look for the "bushy tail factor": someone that is keen and adaptable and can learn on the job. I once needed a C programmer but hired a person who only knew BASIC because he displayed the traits of a person that would quickly learn anything needed to get the job done.
Half the problem with these magic devices is that people with these fitted will drive more conservatively etc - measuring people changes the way they behave.
Half the reason my new fuel efficient car gets better mileage is because it has a fuel efficiency measurement and I try to improve it. Result: I drive differently than I do in the other car.
The only way to see if these devices really work is to see if they improve efficiency when the people don't know they are there.
Correction: Autotuning software or hardware. This can be implemented as a hardware-only feature that keeps tracking the station to correct for frequency changes as the receiver warms up etc.
It serves a very useful purpose in some receiver designs.
The white space between channels can be used by auto-tuning software to determine where the channels are by detecting energy levels. Fill the white space up and this sort of auto-tuning cannot work. Modern digital tuners probably don't need this, but older, cheaper designs probably do.
NASA= National Aeronautics and Space Administration NOAA=National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration Administrations are just that: administrations, run by administrators - primarily to the advantage of amdinistrators. Adding another level of administration won't fix that.
Who is this "we" you're talking about? You're a FOSS geek, not a typical user.
Typical users don't care if Google or MS or ATT have monopolies, so long as they get what they want at a reasonable cost. Nor do they care if their phones or sneakers are made in a sweat shop or whether the workers have the vote and have medical benefit, so long as they get them at a reasonable cost. Nor do they care whether Starbucks or Budweiser open sources their recipes so long as they get a drink at a reasonable price. Same deal with cars, etc etc.
Very few people really value freedom unless they are being personally hampered by it. Heck only around 50% of eligible Americans vote and they supposedly value democracy!
Still, even these Open Source phones are still closed at some level. Try to get the design files for the chips and GSM module.
They don't care whether these are free and open source or not - all they care about is getting what they want, at a reasonable price.
Taking the camera example, many people don't want to use a crappy (as many phone cameras are) phone camera to take a picture and then download it via a USB cable into their computer, or screw around with SD cards etc. Give them an end-to-end solution where they snap their pic and it automagically ends up in Picassa/whatever. That would make them happy so long as the cost of doing so is a few cents per picture.
Much better: write a log file/crash report file. The popup should just say that one has been written. That should be full verbosity so that the file is actually useful. Customers are completely useless at copying numbers/register dumps and manually reporting them, so make the problem easier for the user by packaging it up ready to send along with other useful info (version number, free memory,...)
Crash handling should be done as a framework function that can route the app to a debugger, perform a crash report etc.
It should be relatively easy to do some sort of image analysis to see if a browser is displaying something that looks like an OS pop-up and if it is then either mask it or repaint it with a skull and crossbones.
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Of course customers and shareholders might disagree, but MS has been blowing them off for ages.
Although designing for static safety is non-trivial, it is a very well understood field and should be part of any electronic design.
Unless you're running Vista
Toyota is doing well (business wise) with its regular hybrids. It just does not make sense to try sell something that is self-competitive and confuses the market.
This just shows that the whole thing is a crock.
This does not just apply to networks, it applies to just about everything. When Germany installed new phone systems after the war, guess what: they were the most up to date and automated systems in the world.
For many, if not most, Mom & Pops there is zero effective backup. A crashed server is the end of that data.
If you have not got the in-house skills or time to run your own IT department, then storing all your data in a clod can make a lot of sense.
CloudBiz does all your back ups, web hosting, ...
You, and your associates/sales reps/... can access your data on the road with no need to set up your own VPN servers etc.
Small business people want to focus on their businesses, not on setting up and maintaining IT. They don't service their own cars & delivery vans, so why should they run their own inhouse IT?
Sensible companies see this as a bit of give aqnd take and are flexible.
Why not provide two networks? The "dirty net" and the "clean net". On the dirty net you can plug in your personal stuff, chat, etc. On the clean net you can only use corporate sanitized equipment.
By a factor of 27 or so. That's why effluent processing plants will burn the stuff off (apart from the fact it gives them some power).
"probably warmer water"... Yeah, nothing to do with the fact we're sitting on a huge fucking lump of molten rock and metal.
Don't say:"I've had a crap job for the last 2 years doing tech support and now I want a real job."
Instead, say:"For the last two years I've been doing support and really getting to understand how **real** people interact with software. It sure has been an eye opener and I've learnt a lot about how to think about effective user interface design than I ever did reading books or in that 6 month college course...." Now that is something I just came up with in 3 seconds... sit down and think of at least 5 ways to present the tech support in a positive light and turn it to your advantage.
Oh, and remember, in this game that degree of yours is close to worthless. It might get your foot into the door but you still have to sell your product (ie. you). After a while nobody cares about your degree any more. In my last 4 jobs nobody even asked me about my degree and I did not even mention it on my resume.
Also, as a hirer, I seldom look at degrees or the number of As the candidate got. I look for the "bushy tail factor": someone that is keen and adaptable and can learn on the job. I once needed a C programmer but hired a person who only knew BASIC because he displayed the traits of a person that would quickly learn anything needed to get the job done.
And until recently she was living under it.
Half the reason my new fuel efficient car gets better mileage is because it has a fuel efficiency measurement and I try to improve it. Result: I drive differently than I do in the other car.
The only way to see if these devices really work is to see if they improve efficiency when the people don't know they are there.
Correction: Autotuning software or hardware. This can be implemented as a hardware-only feature that keeps tracking the station to correct for frequency changes as the receiver warms up etc.
The white space between channels can be used by auto-tuning software to determine where the channels are by detecting energy levels. Fill the white space up and this sort of auto-tuning cannot work. Modern digital tuners probably don't need this, but older, cheaper designs probably do.
"You can own this Transmeta chair. Linus might have sat in it."
But first get the fuck off my Golden Gate Bridge. I decided I own it this morning, so it is now mine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiley
NASA= National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NOAA=National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
Administrations are just that: administrations, run by administrators - primarily to the advantage of amdinistrators. Adding another level of administration won't fix that.
Typical users don't care if Google or MS or ATT have monopolies, so long as they get what they want at a reasonable cost. Nor do they care if their phones or sneakers are made in a sweat shop or whether the workers have the vote and have medical benefit, so long as they get them at a reasonable cost. Nor do they care whether Starbucks or Budweiser open sources their recipes so long as they get a drink at a reasonable price. Same deal with cars, etc etc.
Very few people really value freedom unless they are being personally hampered by it. Heck only around 50% of eligible Americans vote and they supposedly value democracy!
Still, even these Open Source phones are still closed at some level. Try to get the design files for the chips and GSM module.
No wonder they're not getting anywhere replacing aging shuttle fleets if they are playing with rubber ducks and earth climate modelling.
Faster does not mean better. I'd rather have less iterations per day on a good model than many of a crap model.
They don't care whether these are free and open source or not - all they care about is getting what they want, at a reasonable price.
Taking the camera example, many people don't want to use a crappy (as many phone cameras are) phone camera to take a picture and then download it via a USB cable into their computer, or screw around with SD cards etc. Give them an end-to-end solution where they snap their pic and it automagically ends up in Picassa/whatever. That would make them happy so long as the cost of doing so is a few cents per picture.
Crash handling should be done as a framework function that can route the app to a debugger, perform a crash report etc.
It should be relatively easy to do some sort of image analysis to see if a browser is displaying something that looks like an OS pop-up and if it is then either mask it or repaint it with a skull and crossbones.